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Premium Day Trip to Colonia from Buenos Aires
Get to know the city of Colonia del Sacramento on a one day trip from Buenos Aires. Discover the colonial charm and history of this coastal city while exploring the cobbled streets with a professional guide. The tour includes a fast ferry, a 2-hour walking guided tour in Colonia with a guide and transfers in Buenos Aires and Colonia.
Languages Offered: Spanish & English
- Wheelchair accessible
- NOTE: Passport name, number, date of birth and country is required at time of booking for all participants
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- This is a kid-friendly tour
- This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
Stop At: Colonia del sacramento Uruguay, 70000 Colonia del Sacramento, Colonia Department, Uruguay
The historic city of Colonia del Sacramento, founded in 1680, evokes images of ancient Lisbon for its Portuguese-style architecture and winding streets. Colonia is located in the southwestern part of Uruguay, on the Río de la Plata, and in 1995 UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site. You can visit Colonia easily by ferry from Buenos Aires in just a day trip, and this is one of the reasons that make its beaches a popular destination of great tourist attraction for Argentines. Among its main monuments are the Church Matrix, which is the oldest in the country, the Municipal Museum and a port dating from the seventeenth century that merges harmoniously with the river.
Stop At: La Calle de los Suspiros, Colonia del Sacramento Uruguay
It is born in the Plaza Mayor and continues on a slope to the Río de la Plata. It is a narrow street with Portuguese characteristics, cobbled with a wedge and without sidewalks. The sides are tilted towards the center to form a drainage channel.
The houses, built in the first half of the 18th century, have stone walls, tile roofs and ceramic floors. The doors and windows are small and made of wood, although only houses with a gabled roof are preserved.
Stop At: Puerta de la Ciudadela, Barrio Historico, Colonia del Sacramento 70000 Uruguay
It was built in the year 1745 by order of the Portuguese governor Vasconcellos who at that time was leading these lands. In its origins the Door was the portico of entrance to Colony, protected at that time by a strong military of thick walls that were frequent target of pirate attacks, Spanish and English.
Stop At: Faro de Colonia del Sacramento, de San Francisco, Colonia del Sacramento 70000 Uruguay
It was built in January 1857. It has two red flashes every nine seconds. It is a circular tower of white masonry with a dome with white and red radial stripes. It has a unique structure with a square base and a cylindrical tower that reaches the lantern. It was built on one of the old towers of the Convent of San Francisco, whose ruins are at the foot of the lighthouse. Its height is 26 meters and has a luminous range of 7.8 nautical miles
Stop At: Basilica De Santisimo Sacramento, Calle Vasconcellos Centro Historico, Colonia del Sacramento 70000 Uruguay
The Basilica has a most unusual altar feature for its time and even now; an back lit semi-circular alcove that features a very large monstrance (receptacle for displaying the Sacred Host or Blessed Sacrament). The outside brickwork shows the Portuguese influence of its builders.
Pick up will be at your centrally located hotel in Buenos Aires (Palermo, Recoleta and Downtown area)
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The price we paid for our ticket included hotel transfers both ways, ferry ride both ways and an private guide. We really enjoyed the tour of Colonia with our guide. She was sweet and knowledgeable. She explained the history of the place to us well and gave is great recommendations during our free time. Well worth the money and worth the trip!
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Breakfast Gets a Break – US Foot Trends
With economic woes leaving dinner sales slumping, it may be breakfast's time to shine.
This article first appeared in the 15 April 2008 issue of Restaurants & Institutions (R&I).
R&I is the USA's leading source of food and business-trend information and exclusive research on operators and restaurant patrons. Editorial coverage spans the entire foodservice industry, including chains, independent restaurants, hotels and institutions. To find out more about R&I, visit its website here >>
By Christine LaFave, Associate Editor
Operators who have ramped up the variety of their breakfast offerings and the quality of their coffee program appreciate the effort that goes into persuading consumers to change their routine in this habit-driven daypart-and in 2008, consumers say they're keeping a closer hold on their wallet in a less-than-stellar economic climate. However, it may be just that economic uncertainty that offers operators a break at breakfast this year.
"A lot of things seem to be coming together in favor of foodservice breakfast right now," says Michele Schmal, vice president of product management in foodservice at Port Washington, N.Y.-based The NPD Group. "Consumers are really in a value mindset, [and] breakfast is a great value in restaurants relative to lunch or dinner." The typical foodservice breakfast, Schmal says, costs $4.30, whereas comparable costs for lunch and dinner are $6.40 and $8.60, respectively.
"Even if [a consumer is] going to try a little-more-expensive breakfast item, it's still less expensive [than lunch or dinner]," Schmal says. "Consumers are kind of winning."
A conscientious move by consumers to trade down to dining during a less-expensive daypart isn't exactly ideal from an operator's perspective. However, operations that take advantage of the chance now to lure in new customers for breakfast or brunch stand to build brand loyalty that can express itself in more-frequent visits. So how can foodservice capitalize on the moment and deliver a breakfast that boasts value, convenience and menu variety? Customization and combinations are two winning tools, operators say.
As They Like It
At Dallas-based Corner Bakery Cafe, more than 60% of morning customers take advantage of the opportunity to customize their menu selection, says Ric Scicchitano, the fast-casual chain's vice president of food and beverage. "I was amazed," Scicchitano says. "So many folks come in and say, ‘Hey, can I get fresh fruit with that, can I get something else,'" instead of standard breakfast-entrée accompaniments of oven-roasted potatoes and toast.
Offering the chance to opt for egg whites and no green onions in an Anaheim Scrambler recognizes consumers' demand for meals as personalized as their cup of coffee, Scicchitano adds. "[The customer attitude is], ‘I wouldn't have made that at home, that's why I'm buying it from you, but you're one ingredient too far for me, or you're missing one thing.'"
Hitting that recipe sweet spot of accessible but intriguing-and giving customers the freedom to add the final touches to make an item that is "just right" for them-was Burlington, Vt.-based Bruegger's Bagels' goal in developing its new omelet sandwich. "We really wrestled with things," says Executive Chef Philip Smith. "We felt that spinach and portobello was too gourmet, and then if you go down the line, you get a meat-lover's omelet. Somewhere in the middle seemed like the right thing."
In January, Bruegger's debuted the outcome of its efforts: the Spinach and Cheddar Omelet Sandwich, available on any of 14 bagel varieties. The sandwich is menued without meat, but customers can choose to add bacon, ham or sausage.
Of more importance, it offers weekend-type flavor in the portable, enthusiastically accepted format of a breakfast sandwich. (The Spinach and Cheddar Omelet Sandwich already is Bruegger's top-selling breakfast sandwich, says company spokeswoman Danielle Swift.) "Breakfast is sort of, ‘I've got to do it; it's fuel,'" Smith says. "We're saying, ‘Well, let's find a way to make it fun.'"
At Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pa., incorporating the fun of customized hot breakfast is do-it-yourself easy: Among students' breakfast options are omelets from a self-service omelet bar and make-your-own waffles. "Honestly, there definitely seems to be a bigger trend as far as students wanting a hot breakfast," Associate Director for Dining Services David Chase says. "They're looking for brain food, and they want to get up and have a hot breakfast."
Flex Time
For all of the buzz about breakfast-serving operations opening earlier to cater to crack-of-dawn commuters, morning foodservice purchases may be moving in the other direction. "Morning snacks are on the rise," Schmal says. Consumers have a tendency to graze in the morning, she notes, and whether they didn't have a chance to grab breakfast before starting their day or they're looking for something to tide them over until lunch, they're open to exploring their 10 a.m. foodservice options.
Corner Bakery Cafe's Scicchitano sees that played out during the week in a couple of ways. "We get that weekday brunchy meeting" of businesspeople, he says, adding that offering free Wi-Fi service has helped boost morning traffic. And it's not only the office crowd that fills seats in the hours leading up to lunch, he notes. "If it's not the business group, it's the church group that's meeting or the group of moms," he says.
On the flip side of the convenience coin, grab-and-go items remain invaluable options in the morning. Portable breakfast paninis and flatbreads are a hit at business-and-industry accounts of Charlotte, N.C.-based Compass Group, The Americas Division, says Southeast regional marketing manager Lucinda Roenicke.
Combine and Conquer
Breakfast "is a very price-sensitive daypart," says Paul Coletta, senior vice president for marketing and brand development at Emeryville, Calif.-based Jamba Juice. For a weekday breakfast, consumers are hesitant to spend more than $5, he observes; Compass Group's Roenicke puts the target price point for her operations at closer to $3. As a way to entice customers to try additional items and boost morning check averages, operators increasingly are offering breakfast value combos.
At Jamba Juice, one recently introduced promotion offers any baked item, regularly $1.95, for $1 with the purchase of fresh-squeezed orange juice. "We're going to be doing more and more bundling," Coletta says.
Indianapolis-based Steak ‘n Shake, which began serving a nationally known coffee brand and new made-to-order breakfast items in March, menus a combo of a bagel sandwich, hash browns and coffee for $3.99. Coupon-carrying customers can get the meal for $2.49.
Discounts and loyalty programs are crucial for boosting visits at Roenicke's 200 Compass Group accounts, which recently began offering a discount on a bottled beverage with the purchase of coffee or juice. Other incentives, Roenicke says, include a $2 coupon for every $20 spent. "It's very simple; it doesn't cost a lot; and it does create that return business," she says.
Bruegger's Spinach and Cheddar Omelet Sandwich is available with or without meat; Corner Bakery Cafe customers can have their Anaheim Scrambler (opposite) made with egg whites.
Bold(er) is Beautiful
Whether it's employed to describe a cup of coffee or a sausage-and-egg burrito, "bold" is a useful if ubiquitous menu descriptor, as Americans express an interest in more assertively flavored items. But more so than at other dayparts, at breakfast, there's a fine line between safe-adventurous and too-adventurous flavors. Striking the right note is often a matter of trial and error.
Breakfast dishes spiced up with Cajun chicken sausage are a hit at Tustin, Calif.-based Mimi's Cafe, says Lowell Petrie, the chain's vice president of marketing. Given their success, Mimi's decided to go a step farther and offer a chorizo-and-eggs dish. "That didn't do very well," Petrie says. "American palates have found that taste a little extreme."
The chain swapped out traditional pork chorizo for a chicken chorizo and found much better results. "When we tested that, it got a good trial and very, very good comments," Petrie says. "The chicken version is leaner, for one thing. And it's also less strong of a flavor profile."
Seeing the Lite
The NPD Group's Schmal knows operators' wariness of menuing more-healthful items-consumers "often have paid lip service" to health concerns, she notes. But now, she adds, "It does seem like they're making a few more healthy choices."
Jamba Juice's Paul Coletta is a believer. Coletta names Jamba's all-fruit smoothies, introduced in 2006, as one of the chain's biggest hits. In February, Jamba Juice launched several breakfast offerings, including Chunky Smoothies (a blend of soymilk, nonfat yogurt, organic granola and chunks of fruit).
Corner Bakery Cafe's Ric Scicchitano agrees that healthfulness is a greater priority for customers today. "There is that element of ‘Gimme the quality carbs, the quality fats,' " he says. "It's important to [consumers] now because they're educated."
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Street photographer Jesse Marlow tests out the new Leica Q2
Over six days, Melbourne-based street photographer Jesse Marlow explored Tokyo and Kyoto through the lens of the compact new Leica Q2 camera.
Following the release of the new Leica Q2 camera, Leica Camera Australia and Melbourne-based street photographer Jesse Marlow set off for Japan – one of the world’s most fast-paced environments, to slow down and observe.
Over six days, the internationally renowned photographer explored the lesser-known parts of Tokyo and Kyoto, Leica Q2 in hand, to capture his signature style of imagery.
The resultant 18-piece photo collection ‘Tokyo: Waiting’ was unveiled to VIP guests during intimate viewing events in Melbourne and Sydney this month.
Jesse Marlow at the ‘Tokyo: Waiting’ exhibition in Sydney
“For as long as I can remember, Japan, and in particular Tokyo, is a place I’ve dreamt of exploring,” Jesse explains. “From a distance, it’s always seemed so familiar yet so foreign, so serene yet so frenetic, and this contrast has always intrigued me.
“The challenge for me as a photographer, was to try and discover my own version of this iconic land.”
Having used Leica cameras for the past 20 years, Jesse was eager to see how the new Q2 compared against his current Q model.
“Spending six days exploring the streets of Tokyo and Kyoto with the Leica Q2 proved the ideal backdrop for my ongoing search for bold colour, graphic compositions and reflective moments,” he notes.
Jesse’s photographic process and craft was captured into an artistically directed short film, produced by Chris Hopkins, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Melbourne-based creative agency Lost Art.
“I was shooting from sunrise until midnight every day, and the Q2’s battery never once failed me,” Jesse continues. “By the end of the six-day trip, I’d taken 3,000–4,000 photos and the camera didn’t disappoint.”
Representing the next generation of the popular Leica Q, the Leica Q2 boasts a newly developed 47.3-megapixel full-frame sensor, a Summilux 28 mm f/1.7 ASPH prime lens and innovative OLED technology.
The compact camera incorporates special weather sealing to protect against dust and water spray, making it the only model in its class that can stand up to even the most unfavourable weather conditions.
‘Toyko: Waiting’ will be on public display over the coming months, with location details to be announced soon. In the meantime, you can view the collection online.
Discover more about the new Leica Q2 here.
By Holly JohnsonFull Bio
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Originally from the Gold Coast, Holly moved to Sydney to pursue a career in journalism. She worked across Signature Media’s five travel publications before joining The CEO Magazine, where she now creates digital content across the travel, lifestyle, business and luxury segments.
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HS girls soccer
LADY TROJANS
Varsity/JV Soccer
2019 Fall Schedule
AUGUST 17 - At Hamilton (Ohio) Badin, 10 a.m.
19 - FRANKLIN COUNTY *
22 - LAWRENCEBURG *
24 - At Beechwood (Ky.), 12:30 p.m.
29 - At South Dearborn, 5:30 p.m. *
SEPTEMBER 3 - FAIRFIELD (Ohio)
5 - At Connersville *
7 - TALAWANDA (Ohio), 11 a.m.
9 - BOONE CO. (Ky.) (V only), 6:30 p.m.
14 - MT. NOTRE DAME (Ohio)
17 - At Greensburg *
18 - RUSHVILLE *
21 - SEYMOUR, 10 a.m.
23 - At Ft. Thomas (Ky.) Highlands, 6 p.m.
25 - At Columbus North, 5:30 p.m.
30 - At Batesville *
OCTOBER 7-12 - 3A Sectional, TBA
JV matches at 5 p.m., varsity follows, unless noted
HOME MATCHES IN CAPS
* - Eastern Ind. Athletic Conference matches
LADY TIGERS
Varsity/JV Girls Soccer
AUGUST 20 - At Oldenburg Academy, 5 p.m.
22 - At East Central *
27 - At Rising Sun (V only), 6:30 p.m.
31 - Center Grove (at Indpls.North Central), 9 a.m.
31 - At Indpls. North Central, 12:30 p.m.
SEPTEMBER 4 - FRANKLIN CO., 6 p.m. *
7 - RUSHVILLE (V only), 10 a.m. *
10 - BATESVILLE, 6 p.m. *
12 - At Cin.Landmark Christian
14 - COLUMBUS NORTH, 10 a.m.
17 - At South Dearborn, 5 p.m. *
21 - HERITAGE CHRISTIAN, 2:30 p.m.
26 - CONNERSVILLE *
30 - At Taylor (Ohio)
OCTOBER 2 - ST. HENRY (Ky.)
7-12 - 2A SECTIONAL, TBA
AUGUST 19 - At Boone County (Ky.), 6 p.m.
24 - At St. Henry (Ky.), 11:30 a.m.
29 - EAST CENTRAL *
SEPTEMBER 3 - At Batesville *
6 - Hoosier Cup at Bloomington (V), 6:30 p.m.
7 - Hoosier Cup at Bloomington (V), 9 a.m. & 2 p.m.
10 - At Franklin County *
11 - CAMPBELL CO. (Ky.)
14 - CONNERSVILLE, 11 a.m. *
17 - LAWRENCEBURG, 5 p.m. *
19 - MILAN
23 - RISING SUN (V)
24 - At Rushville *
26 - At Oldenburg Academy (V)
1 - At Ft. Thomas (Ky.) Highlands, 6 p.m.
2 - GREENSBURG *
7-12 - 2A Sectional at Lawrenceburg, TBA
19 - 2A Regional at New Palestine, 10 a.m.
JV matches at 5:30 p.m., varsity follows, unless noted
HS boys soccer
Varsity/JV Boys Soccer
AUGUST 15 - At Jac-Cen-Del (Scrimmage), 12 p.m.
19 - At Oldenburg Academy (JV), 6:30 p.m.
20 - At Oldenburg Academy (V), 5 p.m.
22 - JAC-CEN-DEL (V), 6 p.m.
24 - At Connersville, 10 a.m. *
26 - RISING SUN, 5 p.m.
28 - LANDMARK CHRISTIAN
29 - At Batesville, 5 p.m. *
SEPTEMBER 5 - At Conner (Ky.)
7 - At Rushville (V), 10 a.m. *
11 - SOUTH RIPLEY (V), 6 p.m.
14 - At East Central, 10 a.m. *
17 - SOUTH DEARBORN *
25 - OLDENBURG ACADEMY (JV)
26 - At Richmond
28 - GREENSBURG (V), 12 p.m. *
OCTOBER 2 - HOLY CROSS (Ky.)
3 - At Taylor (Ohio)
7-12 - 2A Sectional at Rushville, TBA
19 - 2A Regional, TBA
AUGUST 19 - At Rising Sun (V), 5:30 p.m.
24 - At Rushville, 11 a.m. *
26 - MADISON SHAWE (V), 5:30 p.m.
27 - JENNINGS COUNTY, 5:30 p.m.
29 - At East Central, 5 p.m. *
SEPTEMBER 3 - BATESVILLE *
7 - CONNERSVILLE, 11 a.m. *
10 - FRANKLIN COUNTY, 5 p.m. *
12 - At Madison
14 - At Beechwood (Ky.) (V), 12:30 p.m.
17 - At Lawrenceburg, 5 p.m. *
19 - At Oldenburg Academy
28 - TAYLOR (Ohio), 10 a.m.
OCTOBER 3 - At Franklin County *
AUGUST 20 - At Seymour, 6 p.m.
24 - Cougar Cup at Greenfield (V), 9 a.m.
SEPTEMBER 4 - At Columbus East
5 - FRANKLIN COUNTY, 6:30 p.m. *
10 - At Union (Ky.) Ryle
14 - LAWRENCEBURG, 12 p.m. *
16 - COLUMBUS NORTH, 6 p.m.
18 - At Rushville, 5 p.m. *
21 - At Mt. Vernon Tourney (Fortville), 9 a.m.
26 - At Greensburg, 5 p.m. *
HS volleyball
AUGUST 19 - At Greensburg *
22 - At South Dearborn *
24 - At Southport Invitational, 9 a.m.
27 - RUSHVILLE, 5:30 p.m. *
31 - At Brownstown Central, 9 a.m.
SEPTEMBER 3 - FRANKLIN COUNTY *
5 - LAWRENCEBURG *
7 - MADISON, 11 a.m.
17 - BATESVILLE *
24 - At Lawrenceburg *
26 - At Connersville *
28 - At Muncie Central Tourney, 9 a.m.
OCTOBER 3 - At Springboro (Ohio), 7 p.m.
5 - SHELBYVILLE, 12:30 p.m.
9 - At Harrison (Ohio)
10 - GREENSBURG *
12 - At Union Co. Invitational, 9 a.m.
15-19 - 4A Sectional, TBA
Matches at 6:30 p.m. unless noted
Jr. Varsity Volleyball
14 - At Lawrenceburg, 9 a.m. *
21 - At Lawrence North Invitational, 8:30 a.m.
OCTOBER 3 - At Springboro (Ohio), 5:30 p.m.
5 - SHELBYVILLE, 11 a.m.
12 - EIAC JV Tourney at Greensburg, 9 a.m.
Matches at 5 p.m. unless noted
26 - Richmond (at Connersville) *
Varsity/JV Volleyball
AUGUST 15 - SOUTH DEARBORN (Scrimmage)
20 - At Connersville, 5:30 p.m. *
22 - NORTH DECATUR, 5:30 p.m.
26 - TAYLOR (Ohio), 5:30 p.m.
31 - At Madison Invitational, 9 a.m.
5 - At East Central *
9 - OLDENBURG ACADEMY
12 - SOUTH RIPLEY, 5:30 p.m.
14 - JV ROUND ROBIN, 9 a.m.
16 - At Union County, 6 p.m.
21 - L'BURG INVITATIONAL, 9 a.m.
26 - At Rushville, 5:30 p.m. *
OCTOBER 1 - At Milan
8 - RISING SUN
15-19 - 3A Sectional at Batesville, TBA
AUGUST 15 - At Lawrenceburg (Scrimmage)
19 - At Southwestern (Hanover), 6 p.m.
22 - EAST CENTRAL
26 - SWITZERLAND CO., 5:30 p.m.
29 - At Rushvile, 5:30 p.m.
SEPTEMBER 3 - SOUTH DECATUR, 5:30 p.m.
5 - RUSHVILLE, 5:30 p.m.
11 - GREENSBURG, 5:30 p.m. *
21 - At Lawrenceburg Invitational, 9 a.m.
24 - At Rising Sun, 6 p.m.
OCTOBER 1 - SOUTH RIPLEY, 5:30 p.m.
5 - At Rising Sun Invitational, 10 a.m.
8 - BATESVILLE, 5 p.m.
10 - FRANKLIN COUNTY, 5:30 p.m. *
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Perspectives on the Future of Medicine
Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP, Chairman and CEO, in conversation with Robert M. Wachter, MD
In just the past few years, the healthcare system has undergone a remarkable transformation from a paper-based system to a digital one. On top of that, healthcare organizations and physicians are under intense pressure to improve value—measured as safety, access, efficiency, cost, and patient experience.
Robert M. Wachter, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and bestselling author of The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, discussed this unprecedented change in the healthcare environment—and how it will affect both doctors and patients—during his keynote speech at our 2016 Executive Advisory Board. In the following conversation with Dr. Wachter, I asked him to share his thoughts on the challenges and opportunities ahead.
—Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP
Health technology, including mobile apps and wearables, has led to a large increase in the amount of patient data that doctors have to deal with. How will this new data play a role in healthcare?
Dr. Wachter: In the future, our healthcare system will be primarily digital, and there will be a far more fluid flow of information than there is today. The patient’s information will be available to the patient, to the family, and to the clinicians, whether the patient is at home or in a clinic or being seen in a hospital. Patients will have the information that they need to manage themselves. And clinicians will have the information they need. And so will the system—in fact, ours will truly become a learning healthcare system, one that makes itself iteratively better as it takes advantage of the experience of prior patients. Up until now, most of the investments have been in enterprise systems like EHRs in hospitals. I think the next big wave in healthcare investment is in consumer-facing technologies that allow patients to monitor their own health.
Startups in big cities have attempted to bring back house calls, although there is concern that this will not scale for large populations of patients, particularly in rural areas. Telemedicine has also exploded in use and popularity, although reimbursement and liability issues have not been resolved. How do you see these alternate avenues of care evolving in the future?
Dr. Wachter: If we can resolve these issues about telemedicine, I see patients getting most of their care from home, managing their chronic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart failure through information provided by the computer through a series of smart algorithms. And when they need to see clinicians, it will be largely through televisits. The idea that a patient would have to take off a day from work and drive to a hospital or to a doctor’s office, park, and then see a doctor for a 20-minute visit—people will look back at that and say, “You did that 15 years ago?” I think this vision is quite inspiring. I think that when we get to that place, we will be providing care that’s better and safer and cheaper and more patient centric than what we do today.
What do you think a hospital visit will look like in the future?
Dr. Wachter: First of all, just in terms of the national marketplace, there will be far fewer hospitals and those that exist will be fairly large, will be bristling with technology, and will really be one big ICU. The notion of a separate ICU will go away. Patients will have single rooms. When I walk into the patient’s room, the patient will see on their screen who I am, along with my background and bio.
The nature of consultation will also change. Right now, when I see a patient in the hospital, if the patient needs the help of a cardiologist or a nephrologist, I’ll call them for a consult and they may come and see the patient later in the day, and then they’ll leave a note for me and I’ll read it and go back and see the patient. In the future, I’ll go in and see the patient and if I need a nephrology consult, I’ll pull him or her up on the screen in the patient’s room and we’ll have a three-way conversation. That ability to integrate our care and talk to one another facilitated by technology will make things much better and more efficient than they are today.
The idea of patient engagement—encouraging patients to be actively involved in their healthcare—has become a common discussion in medicine. This concept, including ideas such as giving patients open access to doctors’ notes, nudges patients to be involved, but it also means that patients will be expected to live up to a different level of responsibility for their health. How do you see the patient role in future years?
Dr. Wachter: The role of the patient in their own healthcare is going to be utterly transformed. Patients have been passive in the healthcare system up to now. Technology democratizes everything, and it will elevate the role of the patient by giving them new tools and access to information. The doctor will no longer be the only expert in the room. We'll see patients who are able to partner with their doctors in ways that they're not able to today—through computer tools, smart algorithms, and linkage to online communities where they meet other patients with similar problems.
But we have to be careful because patients also may try to take care of themselves and be their own doctors. We have to figure out how to get this right—how to allow technology to permit our patients to manage themselves better on their own or with the assistance of the healthcare system, but also to recognize there are times where patients really need to see a doctor or someone that's part of the healthcare system.
While EHRs have brought many positives, they have also created new risks and frustrations for doctors and patients. The Doctors Company did a study of our closed malpractice claims in which EHRs were a contributing factor, finding that 64 percent of these claims were caused by system factors like lack of alerts or clinical decision support and 42 percent of claims were caused by user factors like inputting incorrect information. What are your thoughts on current EHR issues?
Dr. Wachter: EHRs are really important because we can’t possibly take care of patients using paper and pencil and fax machines. But today’s versions of EHRs are not very good, because they were built to serve too many masters. If they were built simply to help the doctor take care of his or her patients, they would look one way. But they weren’t. They were also built to make billing more efficient. They were built for malpractice prevention, to meet regulatory requirements, and for quality measurement. And the problem is that when you build a digital system for 10 different masters, you come up with something that isn’t very good for any of those goals.
We’ll have to do three main things to make the EHR the vehicle that we want it to be. First is promoting for more use of user-centered design. The second is dealing with too many alerts—alert fatigue is overwhelming and dangerous, and we simply have to figure out how to prevent it. And the third is interoperability, to ensure that patient medical records can be shared easily between doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers at any time.
Technology has brought great things to healthcare, but it always brings unanticipated consequences. It’s dangerous to believe that technology will solve all problems—we must instead view it as just another tool to help us improve how we care for patients.
We have partnered with Dr. Wachter to provide unique tools to help doctors stay current with digital trends in medicine. Visit www.thedoctors.com/digitalmedicine to access innovative digital medicine resources, including 12 short videos featuring Dr. Wachter.
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Dr. Wachter has published 250 articles and six books in the fields of quality, safety, and health policy. Dr. Wachter coined the term “hospitalist” in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article and is past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine. He is generally considered the academic leader of the hospitalist movement, the fastest-growing specialty in the history of modern medicine.
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In the director’s chair: Klaus Obermeyer on impossible logistics, growth with a vengeance and being related to Katharine Hepburn
By Charlotte McEleny-13 October 2017 08:38am
In the director’s chair: Klaus Obermeyer
For the latest director’s chair series, in which The Drum interviews directors on influences, passions and career highlights, Klaus Obermeyer discusses how Katharine Hepburn influenced his career and how important great stories are, including his own about his funniest moment on set.
An earlier interview in the series saw Andrew Lang discuss funny moments in an Ikea ad and documentary making, while Camille Marotte discussed why the best jobs come from asking to shoot anamorphic and how having many skills, including being your girlfriend’s photographer, can influence a director’s style in another. Mea Dols de Jong spoke about avoiding being pigeon-holed as a female director and making authenticity cinematic.
Who or what inspired you to be a director? (or who are your creative heroes and why?)
I would say that it was my calling from a very young age. I used to ditch school as early as second or third grade and sneak home to watch M*A*S*H at 2:45 most every day. I would get a strange feeling of adrenaline in my stomach when I would watch certain television shows or movies, it was like I was meant to be a part of it, it was my future. My Great Aunt was Katharine Hepburn and she had a profound influence on me. She was very hard to deal with in some ways, she was definitely not easy to impress, and she had zero tolerance for mediocrity or laziness. However, she pushed me not to accept average work or low standards. Her example impressed me the most, later in my life, when I realized the incredible accomplishment her career was, not because she won the most Oscars of anyone ever, but instead because she succeeded in Hollywood based solely on her wit and intelligence. She embodies unapologetic honesty, talent and an unmatched work ethic; she simply could not see herself as a victim ever, which gave her supreme power.
I was raised in Aspen, Colorado during the 80s and was exposed to a lot of wild creativity and characters who were living their lives in original and amazing ways. I was inspired by John Denver’s pure Love of nature and his ability to use his music to have a positive impact. As I grew up I became friends with John and our friendship had a profound influence on me personally, he showed me the power of art to create impact. The person who really made me into a filmmaker was Robert Fulton. Fulton ran the Harvard film department and had an editing studio in Aspen. One day his wife threw all of his film equipment into the swamp along with his saxophones and he ended up knocking on my door an hour later undeterred, nothing was going to delay progress on his film. His world was literally turned upside down and thrown into a swamp and his focus never flinched, that unwavering commitment is what makes a real filmmaker. I had just taken out a bank loan to buy the video production company that I had been working for and the local television station had heard about my purchase and sent Robert Fulton to my door. We partnered in Fulton/Obermeyer Prod. shortly thereafter and I had the incredible gift and life experience of learning filmmaking, flying, writing, music and philosophy from a true genius.
Outside of work, what are you into?
I love the ocean and kite surfing giant waves or free diving with whales and all kinds of sea creatures. I adore surfing, gardening, paragliding, acting and music. It is strange to think about answering this question because my work and what I do outside my work are all linked under one umbrella of passion and continually seem to pollinate one another. I love the adrenaline of competition and continually being forced to learn new things. I am a futurist and spend a lot of time studying tech innovation and science, biology and sustainability. You know, I find that it is all linked and I delight in discovering those connections.
How would you describe your style of commercial/film making? What are you known for?
I would say human storytelling with beautiful visuals, exotic locations, underwater, stunts, action, aerials, excelling at impossible logistics. I hate thinking about having to describe my style and what I’m known for because I’m constantly forcing myself to grow and shed my own preconceptions to evolve as an artist. I will chase down projects that represent an opportunity for growth with a vengeance. I am addicted to the challenge and basically believe that I can do anything I focus on.
Have you got an idea about what sort of projects you’d like to work on or are you quite open minded about what work comes your way?
I am totally open as I adore the unexpected and the challenges and forced growth that it brings. However, I am very clear on preferring projects that can have positive impact. Great stories, stunning execution and at the end of the day something that enriches people’s lives. Even if that is as basic as making them laugh or taking them on some brilliant journey. I believe that no matter what, we have the responsibility of giving people something in return for stealing their time. The very best work in my opinion is telling stories and sharing messages that inspire, I love work that forces me to think and evolve, art can have a lot of power to influence and we have the chance to channel that towards important stories and ideas. The things we create as artists can have a positive outcome that benefits people and I believe that it is the highest calling of our art and the ultimate thrill! I want that!
When you’re looking at scripts and projects that come in, is there anything in particular that you’re looking for?
I’m looking for awesome ideas and it is really that broad. I love storytelling and working with actors on subtle performances and building the details around their characters. I also like crazy logistics, radical action and exciting visuals. The most fun is when you have a great story to tell, one that will captivate people and accomplish something cool and positive. I try to do something revolutionary every time I shoot to evolve the art, so I’m always looking for ways and opportunities to do that.
What's your funniest moment on set?
Hmm, I think on my first big directing job for Fairmont hotels 18 years ago. The script called for a horse to run amongst Arizona cactus and cross in front of a giant sun ball at sunset. In an effort to save money my producer Lance had hired a rancher who guaranteed us that he could get a horse to go from A to B but for a really cheap price, unlike the perfectly trained and expensive horses from Hollywood that have to be hauled out with trainers but come promptly when they hear a whistle.
If you’ve ever shot a sunset with 1000mm lens, you know that you only have about five minutes before it’s over, so the reset has to be lightning fast. By the way, the rancher’s technique for getting the shot involved positioning a mare in heat at the desired location and then releasing the stallion to go directly to her. When we were ready to shoot, it really worked! Perhaps a bit too well as the stallion’s baseball bat-sized manhood swung into frame at 100 FPS, eclipsing the sun and swinging dangerously close to the ground as he headed for the mare and mounted her. At which point, Lance screamed desperately “back to one!” repeatedly screaming over the radio as the sun was setting. Needless to say, that was a pretty tall order, seeing as the stallion was already fully engaged. However, our grip Jackson made a Herculean effort to manhandle the stallion back off and out of the mare but was dragged across the sagebrush in the process and ended up covered in blood and semen. When it was all over Jackson b-lined for video village looking like he was headed to a Halloween party to kill everyone, the crew had to bearhug his arms so he wouldn’t punch Lance for screaming at him over the radio while he was being trampled and dragged, but the best part was, after the horse owner had packed up the stallion and was driving out, he casually rolled down the window to let us know, in complete seriousness, that he could also arrange that with a Water Buffalo if we wanted. I am not kidding. And in true Hollywood style the shot came out brilliantly after a few hours of rig removal.
What's your best piece of work?
I would say most recently my Emmy award winning CNN “Go There” spot.
CNN "Why We Go" from ROCKET.FILM on Vimeo.
Which ad do you wish you'd made?
I like the Samsung VR spot with ostriches. It’s overt product advertising with the product proudly at the center of the story, yet you are completely absorbed and transported by the journey, that takes skill. It was obvious that brilliant creative minds had worked on that.
How well does the information flow between client, agency and production company on a job?
I encourage a very open communication on set. I don’t believe that isolating yourself is an effective way to work. I like to create an environment onset in which anyone can feel free to make a good suggestion that will improve the work and make for a better end product. There’s a lot of dialogue going on with me and my crew and I have that same open-minded approach with the agency and client. I like to talk to them and understand their world, their challenges, the brand history and get a sense of who they are and exactly what they are trying to accomplish and why, because all of that information informs the art, it helps to shape the film.
What's been the biggest change to the industry during you career?
The biggest change is there’s no more barrier to entry. It used to be really hard and expensive to break in and build a reel just because of the cost of shooting 35mm film. Now anyone can get their hands on high-quality cameras and they are easy-to-use. It used to be much more of an art shooting film and not everyone could do it. The very positive side of that is many more people can share their ideas and many more great stories get told.
Have you worked on any client direct commercials (no agency involved)? What's been the difference?
The CNN spot I did was client direct. Whit Freise is a veteran agency creative who now runs all of CNN’s branding. CNN empowered him, and he empowered me to create the spot. I came up with the idea of using a refugee camp which was a completely different idea than their original script. Whit supported all my creative suggestions and allowed me to cut the spot alone with Marco Perez in Rome and then send it to him. It’s amazing what happens when we empower each other. The biggest difference with working client direct is often only one person has the power to make all the decisions, so there are fewer politics and the work can benefit. However, working with great people is the key weather you are working direct or not. The team is always the only thing that truly matters in the end.
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Better earnings ahead for CDL HT as it rides local hospitality market recovery
Broker's Calls
Samantha Chiew 30/01/2019, 11:42am
SINGAPORE (Jan 30): Analysts are keeping a positive stance on CDL Hospitality Trusts (CDL HT) following Tuesday results announcement.
The managers of CDL HT, a stapled group comprising CDL REIT and CDL Hospitality Business Trust, posted a 2.1% decline in 4Q18 distribution per stapled security (DPS) to 2.77 cents from 2.83 cents in 4Q17.
The DPS decline was mainly attributed to the absence of contribution from three properties – two Brisbane hotels divested in Jan 2018, and the Dhevanafushi Maldives Luxury Resort, which has been closed since June 2018 for renovations as it rebrands to Raffles Maldives Meradhoo (RMM).
Revenue for the quarter dropped 5.4% to $52.3 million from $55.2 million a year ago. Net property income (NPI) also dropped 5.4% y-o-y to $38.4 million.
See: CDL Hospitality Trusts 4Q DPS falls 2.1% to 2.77 cents on divestment impact & ongoing AEI
Maybank Kim Eng has a “buy” call on CDL HT with a target price of $1.80. The research house also has CDL HT as its top sector pick.
In 4Q18, Singapore’s hotels’ revenue was up by 1.6% y-o-y, while NPI was up 3.3% y-o-y, led by stronger occupancies.
In a Tuesday report, analyst Chua Su Tye says, “We see further improvement in its Singapore NPI to be led by stronger demand fundamentals – 11M18 tourism growth at +6.6% y-o-y is ahead of the +6.4% y-o-y in 2017 and Singapore hotel room occupancy has jumped to between 83% and 92%, the strongest showing since 2013.”
Elsewhere, revenue per available room (RevPAR) growth was stronger in Germany at +24.2% y-o-y and Japan at +7.3% YoY, on the back of growth in tourist arrivals.
However, revenue and NPI in Australia fell 33.4% y-o-y with the divestment of its two Brisbane hotels and a weaker AUD. Revenue for UK hotels was flat, while NPI dropped 19.2% y-o-y, on one-off operating expenses.
Meanwhile, RHB Research has kept its “buy” rating on CDL HT with a target price of $1.80, with the counter also being its top hospitality pick.
In a Wednesday report analyst Vijay Natarajan says, “Over the next three years, we expect a 4% CAGR DPU growth, backed by a positive outlook for Singapore and European hotels and a recovery of performance in the Maldives.”
The analyst expects a 3.7% growth for Singapore Hotel RevPAR in 2019-2020, on the back of favourable demand-supply dynamics. But some disruption is expected at the Orchard hotel in 1H19 due to upgrading works.
Hotel supply is expected to grow at a low CAGR of 1.5% from 2018-2021.
Leisure demand is also expected to continue its healthy growth supported by an increase in airline capacity and more attractions.
Contribution from resorts in the Maldives is expected to improve from 2Q19, with the renovation completion of RMM in early 2Q19. The new resort is expected to command a 20-30% increase in room rates.
In addition, management plans for a soft refurbishment of Angsana Velavaru, to strengthen product offering and market positioning.
Outlook for its Japan and European hotels (UK, Germany and Italy) remains positive, on the back of a better events calendar, despite supply growth. Australia is also expected to see a stable performance, while the performance in New Zealand is expected to moderate, after a strong growth in past years.
Similarly, DBS Group Research is also reiterating its “buy” recommendation on CDL HT with a target price of $1.85.
In a Wednesday report, analyst Mervin Song says, “We believe the projected upturn in the overall Singapore hospitality market, with RevPAR to grow by 3-5% per annum over the next few years should drive CDL HT’s share price higher.”
Along with the trust’s recent acquisitions, its DPU CAGR should be 3% between 2018 and 2021.
According to Song, consensus has a lower target price of about $1.70, but this implies that the trust’s portfolio is valued about $700,000 per key, below asking prices for hotel in Singapore which are in excess of $1 million per key.
“With a potential upturn in the Singapore market over the next three years, this is too conservative in our view. Thus, given the quality of its properties, CDREIT should rerate closer to our TP which implies price per key of about $800,000 or 1.2x P/B,” says Song.
Going forward, future accretive acquisitions will act at the counter’s re-rating catalyst.
“We continue to recommend investors position themselves in CDL HT to the expected multi-year upturn in the Singapore hospitality market which is further supplemented with expected growth from its Japanese operations and expansion into Italy,” adds Song.
As at 11.38am, units in CDL HT are trading 1.87% higher at $1.63 or 1.0 times FY19F book with a dividend yield of 6.1%.
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‘Transparency on investment issues is becoming more important,’ says Darren Coleman, a Toronto-based portfolio manager and author of a new book on financial management called Recalculating: Find Financial Success and Never Feel Lost Again.
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Published November 14, 2017 Updated November 14, 2017
Investors may know a lot about the virtues of exchange-traded funds, but for some, the fees can still be a mystery.
"Transparency on investment issues is becoming more important," says Darren Coleman, a Toronto-based portfolio manager and author of a new book on financial management called Recalculating: Find Financial Success and Never Feel Lost Again.
The general disclosure rules for investment fees have become more explicit since 2016, under an initiative called CRM2 (which stands for Client Relationship Model Phase 2), mandated by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC).
The new rules are helpful, says Mr. Coleman, who is also senior-vice president at Coleman Wealth, Raymond James Ltd. in Toronto.
"For many investors, this may be the first time they've actually noticed the dollar amount of fees they pay to have their investments managed," Mr. Coleman says.
Exactly what do the fees investors pay for ETFs represent, though? There are several aspects to consider, says Dan Bortolotti, associate portfolio manager at PWL Capital Inc. in Toronto.
The management expense ratio (MER) is the most obvious place to begin understanding the total cost of an ETF, Mr. Bortolotti says.
"The MER is made up of the fund's management fee, plus a couple of extra basis points for taxes," he explains. Typically, investors in Canada can expect that the MER for their ETFs will be 10 per cent higher than the management fee. (So if the management fee is 0.2 per cent, the MER should be about 0.22 per cent.)
"Most ETF providers include both the management fee and the MER on their websites," Mr. Bortolotti says.
Pauline Shum Nolan, professor of finance at York University's Schulich School of Business and CEO and co-founder of PW Portfolio Analytics, says, "I go directly to the websites of my investments to find out the fees. I simply Google the investment and look at their fact sheet."
Fees can also sometimes be found on online trading platforms, but not always.
"For the one I use, I don't get that information so I have to go directly to the ETF website," Dr. Shum Nolan says.
The other major element of ETF fees to note is the trading fee, Mr. Bortolotti says. Most online brokerages charge about $10 per trade, though some independents have lower commissions, and a few offer commission-free ETFs.
It may not sound like much, but, "if you trade frequently, this is certainly something to consider," Mr. Bortolotti says.
"Remember that if you're paying $10 per trade, that's 1 per cent on a $1,000 purchase, which is too high."
Trading fees are the main reason ETFs are not well suited to small accounts and don't work well for investors who make regular monthly contributions to their portfolios, Mr. Bortolotti says.
ETFs that are purchased through a registered financial advisor can also require investors to pay a "trailer" fee for management of the fund. "This is often about 1 per cent annually," Mr. Coleman says.
While this has always been disclosed as a percentage fee in fund prospectuses, 2017 is the first year that clients receive statements showing the actual dollar amounts for fees they paid, he adds.
Yves Rebetez, managing director of ETF Insight, noted on the Morningstar website that about 90 ETFs in Canada have advisor or trailer fees. This is out of at total of 495 ETFs with $133.8-billion in assets under management (as of early September, 2017, according to the Canadian ETF Association).
He notes that a study commissioned by the Ontario Securities Commission concluded that trailer fees inhibit the performance of investments.
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The difference between the price you pay to buy a share and the amount you receive when you sell one. "This can be as little as one cent for large, liquid ETFs. But for some other funds it can be three or four cents, or occasionally more. This isn't a huge concern if you are a long-term, buy-and-hold investor, but it's very important if you trade frequently," Mr. Bortolotti says.
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Currency conversion costs
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With just 18 days to go before the starting gun of the 2016 presidential election is fired at the Iowa caucuses, tensions that have been simmering beneath the surface exploded into plain sight.
And the rhetoric got hotter as candidates vied with one another to sound toughest on guns, fear of Muslims, immigration and American foreign policy. Liberal “New York values” were deplored by Cruz, while Florida senator Marco Rubio vowed to start sending more terrorist suspects to Guantánamo Bay.
However, a debate which lasted more than two and a half hours was dominated by Trump, the billionaire real-estate tycoon, and Cruz, the senator for Texas. After tiptoeing around each other for months as they compete for the ultra-conservative vote, they finally let their mutual disdain emerge at the sixth Republican debate in South Carolina.
As Trump and Cruz went after each other with new abandon, the North Charleston debate had the effect of appearing to further tighten the Republican contest. At the start of the debate, the number on stage had already been whittled down to seven – the fewest yet following the relegation for lackluster poll ratings of Rand Paul, the libertarian senator for Kentucky, and former technology executive Carly Fiorina.
Ted Cruz: Under extreme birthing rules, Donald Trump would be disqualified
By the end of the debate, the pool of serious contenders appeared to have been reduced to just four – the battling frontrunners Trump and Cruz, Rubio and Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey.
The remaining three – former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Ohio governor John Kasich and the once ascendant former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, spent much of the debate looking on from the sidelines.
The unofficial truce between Trump and Cruz, who are running essentially neck-and-neck in Iowa according to the latest local polls, was torn apart by the billowing spat over whether or not Cruz is a “natural-born citizen” and thus eligible to run for the presidency. Trump has been baiting Cruz in recent days, suggesting that doubts about the senator’s eligibility because he was born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father could present the Democrats with a legal and electoral gift.
Under the television lights at the North Charleston Coliseum, where Trump yet again took pride of place in center stage and Cruz stood right beside him in recognition of his second-place ranking, the senator accused the billionaire of peddling “extreme” “birther issues” that only four months ago Trump himself had dismissed as immaterial. “Since September the constitution hasn’t changed, but the poll numbers have, and I recognize that Donald is dismayed that his poll numbers are falling in Iowa,” Cruz said.
Cruz went on that under the most extreme birther theories, which suggest both parents of a president have to be born in America, “interestingly enough Donald J Trump would be disqualified because Donald’s mother was born in Scotland”.
“But I was born here. Big difference,” Trump shot back.
What’s wrong with ‘New York values’? Cruz’s charge against Trump misplaced
Asked why he had raised the citizenship issue at this point in the race, Trump replied: “Because now [Cruz] is doing a little better. I didn’t care before, he never had a chance. Now he has a 4-5% chance.”
Later in the debate, Trump and Cruz went at each other’s jugulars a second time – on this occasion over Cruz’s recent jibe that Trump subscribed to “New York values”. “I think most people know what New York values are … Not a lot of conservatives come out of Manhattan,” Cruz said.
Trump, looking theatrically irate, hit back with a long diatribe about how New York City had responded to the 9/11 attacks. “The people of New York fought and fought and fought. We saw more death, even the smell of death, it was with us for months. Everyone in the world watched and everyone in the world loved New York. I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made.”
The unrestrained fighting between the two frontrunners sucked much of the oxygen out of the debate, causing frustration among the others. At one point, Rubio blurted out: “I hate to interrupt this episode of Court TV.”
Donald Trump reacts to Ted Cruz’s comments on New York values
Rick Tyler, Cruz’s national spokesman shied away from describing Cruz as attacking Trump. Instead, he thought the campaign had entered the contrast stage. “They presented different points of view on different issues,” he said of the spat between the candidates. “That’s a contrast, I don’t consider those attacks, if there’s a difference on policy we’ll point out difference on policy. When we get attacked on silly things like birther conspiracies, we’ll respond.”
The clash at the top of the Republican pile was echoed in harsh exchanges between two more contenders who are struggling with one another – Rubio and Christie. The Florida senator and New Jersey governor are banking on a strong finish in New Hampshire, which Christie has made a focus of his campaign, in the hope of being crowned the “anyone-but-Trump” alternative to the tycoon.
Rubio turned on Christie, attacking him for what he characterized as a liberal record in New Jersey. “I like Chris Christie,” said Rubio, “but we can’t afford to have a president of the United States that supports gun control.”
The Florida senator then went on to attack Christie for donating to Planned Parenthood and for supporting the supreme court nomination of liberal judge Sonia Sotomayor. Christie insisted that “someone has been whispering in ol’ Marco’s ear” to encourage him to make such untrue negative talks.
“I didn’t support Sonia Sotomayor. I never wrote a check to Planned Parenthood.” Both of Christie’s statements are untrue. Christie said in 2009 of Sotomayor, “I am confident that she is qualified for the position of Associate Justice of the US supreme court.” Christie also said in 1994, “I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution” and said gun control was the issue that “energized him” to enter politics.
The New Jersey governor, though, went on to mourn the fact that Rubio attacked him. “Two years ago, he called me the conservative reformer that New Jersey needed,” said Christie “I’ve never changed my tune. Marco Rubio is a good guy and a smart guy.”
The rising temperature of the nomination race as Iowa fast approaches prompted a tone of debate that was sharper, more shrill than in the previous five televised engagements. In particular, the candidates tried to outdo each other in attacking Obama and the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in ever more lurid terms.
Christie took the prize, calling Obama a “petulant child” and vowing that the Republicans would “kick your rear end out of the White House from this fall”.
Rubio also took a notably more aggressive posture than he had in previous debates – dropping a more cerebral approach for caustic comments on Obama, Clinton and in regard to national security. He vowed if he were elected president to wage war against “radical jihadist terrorists”, saying “if we capture any of them alive they are getting a one-way ticket to Guantánamo”.
Yet again, Bush tried to take a shot at Trump after the frontrunner defended his call for an temporary ban on all Muslims entering the US. Bush argued that “this policy is a policy that makes it impossible” to fight Isis and noted “the Kurds are our strongest allies, they are Muslims”. In the former Florida governor’s view, Trump’s “rash statements” sent “signals of weakness” to the rest of the world.
Kasich sounded a more conciliatory tone on the issue of police shootings. The governor of a state that saw Black Lives Matter protests in the aftermath of the shooting death of Tamir Rice, said “protest is fine but violence is wrong” and insisted “the country needs to be healed”.
Jeb Bush supports putting NSA in charge of civilian data and cybersecurity
A further brutal exchange broke out late into the debate between Cruz and Rubio, whose similarities – both sons of Cuban fathers, both senators – cannot disguise their mutual hostility. Rubio hit Cruz on surveillance and his support of the USA Freedom Act by alleging the Texas senator acted in concert with Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and libertarian Republican Rand Paul on the floor of the Senate.
In contrast, Rubio maintained his national security bona fides insisting: “Edward Snowden is a traitor and if I am president and we get our hands on him, he is standing trial for treason.”
South Carolina congressman Trey Gowdy, a prominent Rubio supporter, thought the attack on Cruz was fair game for the Florida senator. “I think contrast is good if it’s done in context and it’s fair,” said Gowdy. “If you present yourself as being pure without any deviations, it is fair to have episodes of, shall we say non-compliance, pointed out to people” in what was a barely disguised slam at Cruz.
Carson, briefly a frontrunner, seemed flummoxed throughout the debate, and was a non-factor. The retired neurosurgeon’s campaign has been beset by high staff turnover and accusations of financial irregularities. Much of the money the campaign has raised has gone to direct mail vendors. After the debate, when asked by the Guardian if his campaign was a direct mail scam, Carson said: “Not that I know of.”
In the undercard debate earlier on Thursday evening, Fiorina, former senator Rick Santorum from Pennsylvania, and the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee also targeted their fire primarily on Clinton. In one of the more memorable lines from the hour-long discussion, Fiorina said: “Unlike another woman in this race, I actually love spending time with my husband.”
Paul had decided to boycott the early debate in protest at being ejected from the main primetime event. But he was represented in that main debate, after all, when a group of hecklers briefly interrupted proceedings with shouts of: “We want Rand! We want Rand!”
At the end of the debate, Clinton made clear her view of the event in a tweet: “2 1/2 hours of this? Imagine 4 years.”
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What are "energy" and "work" ?
The Champ (OP)
I can't get the actual concept or meaning of various forms of energies . Actually what is energy ? My textbook defines energy as capacity to do work.Most of the websites define energy in the same way. But i can't understand any thing from that definition. I also want to know what is work.
Actually, why do we need these quantities?
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« Last Edit: 08/09/2010 18:11:11 by chris »
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Re: What are "energy" and "work" ?
Energy "can" do work, but it can also be dissipated and do nothing useful.
For example, a given mass of fuel can be converted into thermal energy (heat) by burning it, but it won't do any work. However, if you burn it in an engine you can get it to do some work, although a significant amount of waste heat will also be produced in the process.
Work and energy are expressed in the same units, so you might prefer to think of work as mechanical energy or useful energy.
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The simple definition of work is work = force x distance, like you hanging up a painting, depending on the distance and weight you will exert more or less force to do it, and when done you have indeed 'done work'. But assume that this is a painting heavier that what you can move. You try and try but it won't budge at all. Well, no matter how much force you have expended in trying there will be no 'work done' from that exertion . So it's not the answer to what energy is, more a generalization describing how energy transforms into something else, and as all of this craves what we call 'energy' it have a direct coupling to that.
As for what exactly energy is? I don't know, as far as I can guess it just might be the kaaa, or kiii, or whatever primordial essence there might be empowering and powering SpaceTime. We can't isolate, and lift some shimmering essence saying 'this is it' it but we can see its transformations.
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Quote from: The Champ on 30/08/2010 16:23:08
Energy is ability to overcome resistance. Work is a victory of quantity of resistance.
Energy is reverse engineered inertia.
Yep ..
Ahem again.
It takes a bit of energy to do some work.
I like to conserve my energy, so I try to avoid work as much as possible.
Quote from: yor_on on 08/09/2010 22:15:52
Quote from: simplified on 13/09/2010 15:05:53
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Quote from: matterdoc on 25/09/2010 15:16:01
In believe in an all-encompassing universal medium that fills the entire space.
Therefore I would define ‘work’ as magnitude of distortions in universal medium about a matter body and define ‘energy’ as the stress produced in universal medium due to work, existing in any region.
You might believe that and define it so but I doubt anyone else would. Such ideas should be posted in the "New Theories" section of the site.
Please disregard all previous signatures.
Melvin900
Energy is the capacity of a system to do work. That system may be a jet, carrying hundreds of passengers across the ocean and Work is the application of a force over a distance. Work is equal to the product of the force and the distance through which it produces movement.
Farsight
I can't get the actual concept or meaning of various forms of energies . Actually what is energy? My textbook defines energy as capacity to do work.
That definition describes what it does, not what it is. As for what it really is, at the fundamental level: energy is a volume of stressed space.
That might sound unusual, but think about a steel spring. Steel is typically an alloy of iron and carbon, and the energy stored in a compressed steel spring isn't in the iron atoms or the carbon atoms. It's in the bonds between them, in the space between them. It's stored in what we call the electromagnetic field, but it is in the space. For nuclear energy the bonds involve the strong force, but it's the same principle. It always ends up like this, and this is why Einstein talked about stress-energy when he was talking about space and gravitational fields.
Voltage of an electric current shows energy of electric photons. Force of an electric current shows quantity(amount) of electric photons.
Simple question.
Assume that you walk across a room, from one wall to the other.
Was that 'work'?
Ok, as you walked you had your monocle balanced over your nose, to see that wall approaching so much clearer.
Was that work?
And lastly.
A book falls off the table.
« Last Edit: 29/09/2010 19:03:44 by yor_on »
Yes, yes, and maybe.
Quote from: Geezer on 29/09/2010 21:33:02
Just to be different: maybe, maybe, maybe. [ ]
I sense a tangent coming about biological work vs. physics work, air resistance, friction and the importance of specifying work done by what force on what object. Not that I would complicate the thread by suggesting such a tangent...
Quote from: JP on 30/09/2010 05:53:32
Not to be pedantic or anything, but you left out various acoustic waves, accelerated dust particles and probably a few more things I can't think of right now.
None of it matters anyway, since the uncertainty principle means we can't know for sure if work's been done! :p
(No, I'm not being serious.)
But to show its tricky, in the first two cases, the kinetic energy of yourself (and the monocle) hasn't changed, but you've clearly expended energy in walking. (I'm assuming that you were thinking of the case where you were already walking.)
In the last case, the book's kinetic energy has changed, so I think its clearer to see that work was done on the book (by gravity).
I agree with the first two. The geezer sort of did something useful, so we might say that work was done.
The third one is a bit more tricky. Potential energy was lost, but it was also converted into kinetic energy, and that was dissipated in a less than useful manner, so, it's not clear that work was actually done.
Also, some may argue that gravity ain't really a force at all, so if there was no force etc., etc.
I suspect "work" is a slightly outmoded concept. That's why I prefer something like "mechanical energy".
Yeah--usually physics textbooks phrase the question along the lines of "was net work done on ______?" In that case, there was no net work done on the person or the monocle, since their kinetic energy remained constant. If you phrase it as "was any work done on ____?" then it's yes, especially since walking isn't terribly efficient and requires constant pushing.
Ahh, from my view, yea, no, and ?
Work uses the definition of displacement I found out.
In the first case you can easily see the 'displacement'. In the second there are no displacement to be seen. In the third there is a displacement as the book travels a certain amount in the direction of the 'force' of gravity..
So the first was simple, all 'forces' pointing to the same direction.
The second becomes a little tricky, as we could imagine the guy also putting on his monocle f.ex. But according to what I understand the 'force' have to be in the direction of the overall displacement to be considered a such.
An easier example would be a waiter lifting a tray above his head, to then go to serve. As we are discussing the tray here then it would have no displacement as the force upon it was directed in a right angle to the general 'displacement'. This one you really need to think a little about to see what it means.
We are discussing two forces here, the one lifting the tray at a angle to the one making the overall displacement. Ignore the lifting btw.. Just consider the force applied, by holding the tray above his head. Then it becomes a little more understandable.
The third one is like JP said, Yes.. but it hurts my head thinking of gravity as a 'force' as the book expends no energy moving, and neither it seems does the Earth?
To me its just geodesics and the way matter adapt to them..
In a way everything seems to come back to 'displacements', like the difference between a 'speed' and a velocity. When you bounce a light-corn between two mirrors it will have its speed at 'c' but its velocity will be limited to the distance between the mirrors. And it's displacement will depend on if you count it 'odd or even' when counting the bounces. If there only is two bounces you will find its displacement to be zero. With three bounces the displacement will be the same as its velocity, all as I understands it.
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A Humble, Texas, mother is prohibited from seeing her 1-year-old son after apparently taking photographs of herself putting a plastic bag over the toddler’s head and putting the bag in the child’s mouth, along with other documented abuse.
Janelle Andrea Peterkin, 23, is facing charges of child endangerment after she was seen on video and in pictures abusing her son. She was arrested Thursday and made a court appearance Monday, the Houston Chronicle reports.
The protective order filed in the case forbids Peterkin from seeing the child or going near the residence where he is currently staying. She is currently free on $15,000 bail.
Prosecutors accuse Peterkin of sending photos and videos of herself to her child’s father to upset her ex.
“She sent the pictures to her ex-boyfriend to disturb him,” prosecutors claimed Friday.
According to the Chronicle, the disturbing footage surfaced after a family member, Ra’Neicha Broadnax, posted it to Facebook.
Broadnax, who is the sister of the child’s father, said that she posted the video after calling the Humble Police Department to report it, but was told that she had called the wrong department.
Broadnax told the news site that she thought she was being told that there was nothing that could be done about the case. However, Police Capt. Melinda Bradshaw of the Police Department emphasized that the case was not in Humble but in Harris County, which was under the jurisdiction of the Precinct 4 constable’s office.
“When she originally called us, she did not have an address,” Bradshaw explained. “We came up with an address based on the last name. We promptly contacted Precinct 4 and gave them the information. We can’t investigate something in somebody else’s jurisdiction.”
There was more footage than the one with the plastic bag, created over a period of maybe six months. Family reportedly did not know about the videos until Thursday, Broadnax said.
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Review of Land of Illusion Adventure Park Haunted Attraction
Land of Illusion Adventure Park
Land of Illusion Adventure Park is a Haunted Attraction located in Middletown, OH.
8762 Thomas Road, Middletown, OH 45042
Paid Parking, Restrooms/Porta Potties On-Site, Food/Concessions, Gift Shop/Souvenirs, Optional Games/Midway, Special Events, “Hi-Tech” Attraction, You will NOT be touched, Original Characters, Celebrity Appearances, Indoor/Outdoor Waiting Line, Indoor/Outdoor Attraction
Team Zombillies reviewed this Haunted Attraction on September 8, 2018.
Wow! Our 2018 haunt season kicked off with one Hell of a start! Stay with us on this one… we’ve got a lot of things to look at here. Once we get going, we’ll break down our findings one haunt at a time…
First of all, it seems as though a haunted house surgeon has been hard at work, operating on all the organs of Land of Illusion, including the name! These attractions are now collectively called “Haunted Nights at Land of Illusion Adventure Park,” and a lot of things were rocking during our visit!
This is definitely a “you should go” haunt and we’ll highlight some of the reasons why in this review. For those of you who’ve never been here before, Land of Illusion (LOI) is a large entertainment park and, during the fall season, what type of entertainment do they offer? Haunted Houses, of course! 4 of them to be exact… plus one of the best haunted trails in the tri-state. In addition to their scaretainment, they offer a full-on, live zombie paintball assault with authentic military trucks that haul you through woods, water and mud.
Hungry, thirsty, or stressed out? They got you covered there too with a full bar, food truck, cafe, and an assortment of food vendors. Feeling extra ballsy after a couple of drinks? Want to experience what it might feel like to plummet to your death (without the death part, of course)? There’s a 40-foot, free-fall “Demon Drop” tower that you can jump off of with your name on it! They even have… well, if we kept listing off everything they have, we’d be here for days. Regardless, we’re sure they’ve got something there for you to enjoy!
New for 2018 is their latest attraction: Phobia. This fear-targeter has taken the place of The Voodoo Bayou Shanty and brings a different haunt vibe to the assortment of scares offered here. But really, the whole park has undergone open-haunt surgery and there are so many changes that it would be impossible for us to write them all down! Kudos to this crew for all the hard work they put into the park this year.
Middletown Haunted Trail: 8.66
Phobia: 7.02
Killer Klowns: 8.27
Dr. Psycho’s Haunted Estate: 7.6
Temple of Terror: 7.89
(20% of Cast Score) Did it seem like there were enough actors?: 7.68
Trail: 9.4
Phobia: 6
Klowns: 9
Psychos: 7
Temple: 7
(30% of Cast Score) How believable / convincing were the actors?: 6.85
Trail: 8.75
Klowns: 8.5
Trail: 9
Psychos: 6.5
We were informed that an average of 180 paid actors work the haunts at Land of Illusion’s Haunted Nights
New management of the Trail this year provided a clear transformation in actor/actress quality, which left us wanting to give some high-fives most of the way through. Simply put, these guys gave us one of the most believable shows we’ve seen in a long time here. They’ve done some work on their characters and backgrounds and it really showed during our tour!
We typically visit LOI on their opening weekend, but this was the first time in many years that we’ve seen this many characters on the trail. We aren’t sure how common it is to see this many during the rest of the season, but we hope you experience all of them too. The Trail relies on them pretty heavily.
We actually wanted to run from this crew on several occasions. They were demanding, resilient, energized, and most importantly, they knew when, where and what they were supposed to be doing. They didn’t wander into scenes they didn’t belong in, the majority of them knew what to say that matched their characters, and they had good timing.
Some of the most memorable to our group include the mole, clowns, and scarecrow that were working the queue area, Kalamity the Kreator with her creepy whistle, the clowns in the vortex, the interactive chainsaw chasers, the pumpkin master and the dentist.
Only a handful of actors were encountered in Phobia during our visit. Due to its design, it really doesn’t require much of the living. But, unfortunately, the ones that were in there didn’t go out of their way to be in areas where they would have been greatly beneficial. Only a tiny bit of dialogue was used; it seemed like they relied on working with their surroundings and letting the phobias work their magic themselves, rather than doing what they could to make them even scarier. We did come across an intimidating voodooist, but he just stared at us as we walked by. On the flip side, at least one character stalked us in the dark a few times, and another did take advantage of some opportunities to steal what little bit of night vision we had.
Klowns: 8.05
The clowns gave the second best performance of the night, falling closely behind what we experienced on the trail. In previous years, there haven’t been all that many actors in this one, and the ones that were there had pretty generic dialogue.
Luckily, that was not the case this year! Quite a few clowns were on tap during our visit and many of them interacted with us on our way through. We aren’t sure if these guys got a new manager this year too, but it sure seemed as though they went through a similar training regime that the Trail did.
When you see the large “Killer Klowns” sign out front, it’s easy to think you’re going to meet a bunch of typical clowns inside, right? Well that’s what we thought too. Even though most of the characters were, in fact, clowns, not very many of them acted the same, which added some welcomed variety to the show. Some introduced themselves and menacingly showed us how they got their names, while others spat threatening dialogue at us. It was more obvious this year that these guys wanted to entertain more than some of the other haunts at the Park.
Dr. Psycho’s: 6.58
On several occasions, we found ourselves wondering where everyone was in this one. They were spread out to where we would come across two to four of them at a time and then there’d be several scenes without anyone at all, especially in the outdoor scenes. For the most part, they weren’t very believable or convincing, either. Not all of them were like that though. We’re convinced that some of them may have been plucked straight from the Trail this year, including Dr. Psycho himself! He was so convincing that we found ourselves backing up the stairs away from him! The the lady with a hillbilly abortion and the patient in the quarantine area were a couple of other notable stand-outs.
This attraction also seemed to be short-staffed during our visit, but the crew that was there mostly did what they could to keep the energy up. Some of them had good knowledge of the halls and secret passageways because they knew exactly where we all were and popped out when we’d least expect it. They mostly made realistic screeching or snarling noises at us rather than speaking, but of those that did talk, the Soul Collector was the most memorable. We’d suggest watching out for that one; she’s got many o’ soles trapped within the walls of her lair! Also, if you’re afraid of spiders, don’t let that show when you’re near the spider’s nest. One of our group members did and she regretted it for the rest of the tour!
(15% of Costuming Score) How complete / finished did the costumes appear to be?: 8.85
Psychos: 8.75
Temple: 8.5
(25% of Costuming Score) How creative / detailed were the costumes?: 6.95
(25% of Costuming Score) How appropriate were the costumes for their scene/s & theme/s?: 7.55
The Trail by far has the biggest variety of characters at Land of Illusion. It only took us a couple of scenes to figure out that a lot of creativity was put into their costuming department this season. From steampunk-style sewer scourers and bloody butchers to mutated insects and classic horror movie villains, there’s a little bit of everything to see here. By and large, most of the costumes were put together well, making it easy for us to figure out who was who. Attire ranged from full-body morph suits to highly-customized outfits that looked to be carefully crafted from the talented tormentors inside.
Only a few oddballs stood out to us on the night of our visit, namely the teddy bear-looking character in the catacomb area. Perhaps she was supposed to be some sort of imaginative, ghostly spirit in that form? Aside from that, everyone looked “at home” in the scenes we found them in. One of the best examples was the large guy in the pumpkin patch area wearing a straw hat. He didn’t even have a shirt on, but his entire chest and body was painted to look like a jack o’lantern, which mirrored the ominous orange orbs that surrounded him. Not to be discounted was the other character in that scene wearing an extremely large pumpkin mask that looked to be about 3 feet in diameter. THAT was impressive!
Speaking of masks, the Trail uses a good mix of those and makeup to enhance the characters’ faces. The masks appeared to be of professional-quality, as did most of the makeup applications. Victims were appropriately bloodied, but not so much that we couldn’t distinguish them from their assailants.
Phobia is a very dimly lit attraction for most of its length, so the costumes here really didn’t need much detail to be effective. Unfortunately, based on the costuming we could see, most of these characters milked that idea for all it was worth. The costuming here was very basic. Occasionally, an actor would shine a flashlight in our eyes to take away our night vision or some light would leak in from outside, which allowed us to catch glimpses of their entire costumes. When we could see them, it looked like black robes and masks (of varying quality) were the norm, with the exception of one morph suit and a very well put together Voodoo character.
An improvement was made in the costuming department for the Klowns this season too! While some costumes were more complete than others, they matched the circus-type scenes very well. Full polka-dot jumpsuits, hyper-realistic masks, tutus, and common clown makeup made up the majority of the costumes, with others having more customized creations for their attire. The most memorable was Pinball the Clown, by far. His full silicone mask and permanent ear-to-ear grin, combined with his larger body size, set him apart from his wiry minions as a force to NOT be reckoned with! Makeup colors were appropriately bright and bold, but nothing that was really overly-impressive.
Psycho: 7.59
Dr. Psychos had yet another wide variety of characters, second only to the trail. Most of the monsters here were appropriate for either the “hospital” or “estate” parts of the story (see Theme below for details). Mutilated patients and various versions of the mad doctor’s creations were abundant; they’ve even got the occasional, black-cloaked chainsaw chaser guy who was – albeit generic – able to blend in with the darkness exceptionally well. They’ve also got a butcher in the cafeteria, HAZMAT workers in the quarantine area, several nursing staff and rednecks in the woods… just for good measure.
The bulk of these characters ranked in at just above average-looking compared to the other haunts at Land of Illusion. another good mix of masks and makeup was used, though not as memorable as the ones we found on the trail. Among the most notable costumes were those worn by Dr. Psycho and the little girl who looked like a puppet.
The Temple is another dark (dimly-lit) haunt at LOI, so it’s hard to see many of the costumes in full detail. In addition, there were costumes in here that also didn’t match their scenes at all on the night of our visit. One guy was wearing only blue jeans, no shirt and a broken gas mask in the jungle area, while another was wearing a black and white mask. There were several plain white shirts as well, which allowed us to pick these characters off in the dark a lot easier. We couldn’t pick them all off, though, as some of them were nearly impossible to pick off until they moved and were right in front of our faces. Makeup mostly consisted of darkened facial features and bloody wounds. One of the best looking characters in the haunt was sporting a full realistic mask in the spider area.
(25% of CS Score) How easy was it to locate the attraction, park, and navigate the premises?: 9.75
(25% of CS Score) How professional, helpful and friendly were the staff members?: 9.5
(20% of CS Score) How easy was it to find their information before you arrived?: 9
From the time the searchlights guided us into the parking lot to the time we got in our car and left, we had no issues finding where we needed to go. Be aware that parking is $5.00 per vehicle, so have some cash ready when you get there. If you need to use the restroom, there are port-a-potties in the parking lot and nice permanent facilities once you get inside the gates.
The massive ticket booth facade is impossible to miss; just be sure to follow the signs so you get in the correct line. For those who didn’t bring enough cash (after paying for parking), plenty of ATMs can be found near the ticketing windows. Getting through the turnstiles is reminiscent of entering a high-end theme park, and a large digital park map will greet you once get inside to help you navigate the park.
All of the staff that we met were very friendly, welcoming, and able to answer any questions that we had. There are plenty of security guards that roam the property/parking area at all times and, when combined with a lack of trip hazards and generally smooth walkways, this attraction is one of the safest there is.
With the exception of Phobia, each of the haunts and ZSP had neon signs that show you where the start of each queue line is. While not quite as ‘flashy,’ Phobia’s entrance is labeled with a large banner, so it’s pretty hard to miss too.
(60% of Atmosphere Score) How obvious was it that you were at a haunted house before entering?: 9.25
(40% of Atmosphere Score) How well did the atmosphere prepare you for what you experienced inside?: 7
As soon as you pull in, you know this is where the spooky’s at! During LOI’s Haunted Nights, the ticket booth building is decked out with color-changing lights, scary scenes that are visible through the windows, and creepy sounds to accompany them. You can also hear music coming from the Stage of Rage before you even get to the ticket window! Once you get inside, there’s lots of monsters and large skeleton and creature statues that make for some great photo ops.
That warm and fuzzy stuff transitions more toward the creepy and scary side once you get into the queue areas for the haunts. Each attraction has its own unique facade – some decorated better than others – that let you know where the entrances are. Once inside, TV screens can be found here and there, usually showing movies to help pass the time. The walls, however, are mostly smooth and scantily decorated.
(20% of SFX Score) How effective were the sound effects?: 7.97
Phobia: 8.6
(20% of SFX Score) How well were the scenes detailed?: 8
(15% of SFX Score) How effective were the SFX at providing scares / entertainment?: 7.21
Temple: 6.75
If you’re looking for a high-tech haunted trail with a lot of detailed scenes, then you’ve found it at the Middletown Haunted Trail! Not only are there a lot of effects that bring this trail to life, but many of them have been created in-house. Returning customers will notice many of the same things that have been here for years, such as the half-buried busses and the aliens in Area 49. But, you’ll also see a lot of things that you won’t find anywhere else. This year, they’ve gone all-out in the Halloween department and created some giant sculptures! When we laid eyes on these, our jaws dropped open.
We also noticed a lot of effective sounds nearly all the way through the trail (which is pretty rare, really). From busted sewer pipes and water running under your feet to human cages, giant beasts, realistic guns, a bridge, an underground medical mishap, vampire corridors, and a double vortex tunnel, there’s a little bit of eye candy for everyone here. Oh! Speaking of those vortex tunnels, the actors that were on the trail knew exactly how to enhance the dizzy factor! Good luck with that one…
The effects in Phobia are quite a bit different than what you’ll find in the other attractions, which is intentional. There are times when you won’t see an actual “scene” for a minute or two as they work on your nyctophobia (fear of the dark). That being said, the same materials were used to make a lot of the walls between scenes. However, their texture helped the actors create some unique sounds in several areas too.
One of the high points here was actually the sound effects. Some of them were loud enough that there wasn’t really a need for anything else to go along with them… especially when combined with the darkness. They also seemed to intensify the closer we got to the exit, which was a nice touch. The end has a unique claustrophobia zone, which we’re sure you’ll appreciate if you don’t like confined spaces. Other scenes to be found here include some sketchy electrical work (in a good way), things in realistic nests that are waiting for you, and there “might” even be some creatures in there that are large enough to swallow you whole!
The sights and sounds of Killer Klowns were kicking ass too! A lot of creative ideas were implemented this year and we were, admittedly, surprised at how well they worked… even for a clown house! One of them included a giant game of pinball that you’ll need to see to believe, and another will have you holding onto some sadistically-flimsy handrails for dear life. We also enjoyed the addition of some fast-moving animatronics that kept us looking in all directions.
This is a 3D attraction, so be sure to put your glasses on to get the full effect. A lot of fluorescent paint adorns the walls and ‘pops’ out at you if you get fixated on it (sometimes literally)! Then, of course, what 3D clown house would be complete without a vortex tunnel?
Dr. Psycho’s has some of the the most detailed scenes at LOI, save for maybe 1 or 2 within the Trail. But, a lot of the mechanical effects didn’t seem to be working during our walkthrough, or at least weren’t used to their full ability. The various scenes will have you walking through the woods (sometimes indoors, mostly outdoors), shacks, a mausoleum, and all 3 levels of the hospital / estate itself. Highlights include a guillotine, swarming bees, a ghostly playground, a full-sized hearse, a huge werewolf, a human-slicing table saw, and a crematory (with real fire!) and funeral music.
The Temple’s setting has an “underground Egyptian temple” concept, so rock formations and block walls make up the bulk of the scenery. Some areas have ancient hieroglyphics, skull-clad tombs, toe-pincher coffins, a spider sanctuary (new for ‘18), and even a large jungle scene with a swaying rope bridge. Scene detail here is interesting because some areas, such as the jungle scene and rock formations, are incredibly detailed and realistic… while others, namely the block walls, looked to be flat and hand-painted. This, and the fact that we almost went into an open actor door, took away from some of the haunt’s realism for us.
Egyptian-style music, other loud sounds and fog can be noticed throughout the haunt. Large animatronic creatures guard various passageways on your way through and, you never know, you might just have the ceiling come crashing down on you without notice! Don’t say we didn’t warn you…
Trail: N/A
Klowns: 10
(50% of Theme Score) How well was the theme carried throughout the attraction/s?: 7.44
(20% of Theme Score) How well does their location authenticate the theme?: 6.5
Four of the five haunts at LOI’s Haunted Nights have their own unique theme, with the only exception being the Trail (which has no theme). The Trail has all sorts of different areas, including a new and unique “Patch,” a kitchen that would break health code rules in seconds, an underground hospital, some wastelands, a toxic Area 49, a spider-infestation and many others that are sure to chill you to the bones! The other haunts’ names give you a general idea of what you can expect inside. However, we recommend reading up on the actual stories from their website, and here’s why…
Phobia pits you against classic fears, such as darkness, spiders and snakes just to name a few. Even considering that this is a brand new attraction for 2018, the haunt just feels empty in some places. The lengthy dark hallways were cool at first, but we were ready to see some different transitions after the first 2 or 3 scenes. In Killer Klowns, you’ll collide with a creepy collection of clowns of all shapes and sizes. As with most clown- / fun-houses, be prepared to find just about anything here… as long as it’s bright and colorful. Dr. Psycho’s is about a deranged doctor who likes pitting his victims against their deepest fears so much that he started doing fear experiments inside his estate. The house itself is mostly transformed into makeshift laboratories and exam rooms, complete with a morgue and crematory. The journey starts off with your wayward group stumbling across the property and eventually finding the building itself, which is a nice touch. The story puts a lot of weight on the “hospital” aspect, though… and really, only about 1/3 of the haunt bears any resemblance of a medical institution. Temple of Terror takes you deep beneath the Earth into a mysterious, ancient Egyptian tomb. Filled with monsters of all shapes and sizes, you must find your way out alive… if you can!
(30% of Scare Factor Score) How scary was it?: 7
(15% of Scare Factor Score) How well did they provide scares to the entire group?: 7.65
Trail: 10
(15% of Scare Factor Score) How strong was the ending / finale?: 6
We definitely received the most frights from the Trail. They left no man behind on scares! We were paired with another couple, resulting in four of us (one in a wheelchair) and we were all targeted over and over. Within the first 30 seconds, they used a distraction technique on us, which got a nice yelp out of one of our members.
Many well-hidden hiding spots were used so be prepared to keep your eyes peeled in all directions. From demanding dialogue and loud noises to roaring (and fast moving) saws and intimidating aggressors, they had such a large variety of scares waiting on us that we just didn’t know what to expect. They would also build up just enough suspense in between scares so that, when we did trigger something, it got some choice words out of our group members. We would just be walking along, minding our business and some maniac would run over and try to staple our faces! We aren’t kidding! There’s body bags and a lot of blood out there boys and girls, and it was fresh and those bags aren’t full. Watch out and don’t become their next meal. Oh, and they like teeth, nice pearly white ones.
What are you afraid of? If it’s here, you’re going to know it because you will be forced to face it. If you’re petrified of the dark, turn back now because this house can smell it! Although… it can smell a lot of other fears too. We don’t want to ruin the surprises and tell you everything that’s inside, but we bet they’ll catch you off-guard at least once, if not more. Although there was a variety of different fears, phobias, and superstitions, there are a lot more that can be implemented in the future.
Don’t think that just because clowns are meant to be funny means that their haunt will be funny too because that’s not quite the situation here. Of course, what clown house would be complete without some wacky snippets and one-liners, right? The thing is, these clowns are out for blood and they’ve even made human cotton candy that they have displayed proudly, swinging from the ceilings!
We’ve learned not to trust these creatures over the years and this crew is no different. Along with their meanness, they do have some good hiding spots and tricks up their sleeves. There wasn’t a really big variety of scares, but they did focus on all of us as much as they could and, if you see them smiling, it’s time to run the other way!
Dr Psycho’s: 6.11
Dr. Psycho’s always gets a few good jumps out of our group. Our biggest qualm this year was that, even though the park wasn’t very busy and no one caught up to us in any of the other haunts, we ended up in a big bottle neck in this one. We caught up to a group that caught up to a group and then we had two groups behind us too by the time we reached the exit. Despite that, we still witnessed some effective scaring of other groups and even heard two “Oh sh!ts” from the same prop surprise. The finale of the attraction was pretty dead. One actor quickly walked past us and squeaked a mouse in some of our ears. That was it. So we walked out with a lot to be desired.
It’s a bit spookier in the Temple this year and there’s a lot of death in there, too! If you don’t want to end up as a skeleton on the wall like the others, then touch nothing! A larger variety of scares were used in here than some of the other attractions, which got more jumps from our group. The hiding spots in here are great. There are so many coffins and dark holes to hide in, it’s nearly impossible to spot them all before they spot you. We even watched some crouch down and seemingly disappear. They came at us from all directions in this one, including from above and below. Some spoke with a more intense tone of voice, threatening to “feed us to the homeless” and demanded we fork over our souls… so we didn’t stay in one spot very long. At times the soundtrack alone was utterly bone-chilling.
(30% of E&V Score) How satisfied are you with the entertainment received during the main attraction/s?: 10
(30% of E&V Score) How appropriate is/are the ticket price/s?: 10
(15% of E&V Score) Have they effectively used their available space?: 7
Haunted Nights at Land of Illusion offers all kinds of extra activities that you can take part in before you even enter the first haunted attraction! Some of these things are included with your admission into the Park and some require an extra fee.
First, there’s the large midway area that’s crawling with queue actors, large fires for keeping warm and plenty of awesome photo ops. They have the Stage of Rage, where an assortment of live performances will take place on different nights of the season. The DJ spins some upbeat R&B when there isn’t a band on-site for the night. There are also aptly-named concessions and a full bar (the “Creepy Cafe” and “Voodoo Bayou Lounge,” respectively) for refreshments of all kinds.
The multiple monsters that we noticed roaming the midway were doing a good job of amusing guests. We were even able to grab a couple selfies with some of them. Once we got to the head of the Trail line, a scarecrow on stilts escorted us to the beginning of the line where other actors preyed on us as we waited, which made our wait in line well worth it! We didn’t see anything to do while waiting to enter Phobia but the other haunt lines had TV screens playing horror movies and the Trail’s general admission line is accompanied by a large projector screen.
For those of you looking for that extra thrill and excitement, they have something for you too! Along with what’s included with admission, they also have thrill rides for an extra fee. These include a 40-foot free-fall tower known as the Demon Drop, a bucking bull, a 3-seater gyroscope, and they are home to Zombie Sniper Patrol – a live paintball shooting experience aboard real military trucks! There are also several photo-taking stations set up around the park. Each time your picture is taken, you are given a code that you can use to redeem at their gift shop, which also has lots of swag, candy and souvenirs.
Overall, our group spent just shy of one hour inside all 5 haunted attractions, not including wait times or Zombie Sniper Patrol. Guests are given tickets that are scanned at a turnstile entrance and, after those are scanned, you will have unlimited access to all of the regular haunts. You can build your own ticketing package and prices vary depending on which night you want to visit.
Our scores are based on the general admission price during our visit, which was $29.99 online for the 4 haunts and 1 trail. This is an absolute steal at nearly 1.97 MPD (MPD = minutes of entertainment per dollar spent), and that’s not considering re-entry! However, on busy nights you may want to opt-in for the Fast Pass. Tickets are cheaper online so we recommend buying them in advance, if possible. Tickets are also a lot cheaper if you visit on a Thursday or a Sunday. Lastly, season passes and group rates are available as well.
Without a doubt, this is a great place to go for an entire night of entertainment.
Trail: 26 mins
Phobia: 6 mins
Klowns: 8 mins
Dr. Psychos: 10 mins
Temple: 9 mins
MPD: 1.97
Promo Images:
Guest Average: 8 out of 10
Jason Ross – 10/10
Everything was amazing, great for the whole family and highly recommend a large group. There was a …show more concert going (acdc cover) that did extremely well and the concert was of high production. Sound, Attention to effects, cast, them park atmosphere all great. I have been multiple years and always excited to go back.
Tamara – 6/10
This haunt is alot different from your backwoods haunted attraction. They seemed like they had their …show more stuff together. The only thing I did not like was they claim to sell tickets until 2am but they close the lines down for some of the attractions at 1:30 or 1:45 but whoever was in line gets to go through. It was good from what we saw because we had gone to another haunt first so we didn’t have time to make it through all of the attractions we only went to 3 of them. Overall experience was good
Best Outdoor Scenes - Middletown Haunted Trail (Given by: Team Zombillies)
Actor Shout Out - Middletown Haunted Trail: Bubby - Mickey Jackson (Given by: Team Zombillies)
Actor Shout Out - Middletown Haunted Trail: Kalamity the Kreator - Beth Jones (Given by: Team Zombillies)
Actor Shout Out - Middletown Haunted Trail: Dr. CR33P - Christian Greschel (Given by: Team Zombillies)
Actor Shout Out - Middletown Haunted Trail: Jimmy Dawn - Justin Retherford (Given by: Team Zombillies)
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Colombia landslides leave at least 200 dead and many more injured after heavy flooding – with 220 missing
The mudslides first hit on Friday following days of torrential rains
By John Shammas
1 Apr 2017, 17:12
Updated: 3 Apr 2017, 5:53
AT LEAST 200 people have died and many more injured in southern Colombia, authorities have confirmed.
The mudslides first hit on Friday following days of torrential rains, with at least 190 feared injured and 200 more missing.
Soldiers carrying a corpse following mudslides caused by heavy rains, in Mocoa earlier todayCredit: Getty Images
More than 200 people are thought to be missing, as the death toll continues to riseCredit: AP:Associated Press
Several days of intense rain has resulted in tragedyCredit: AP:Associated Press
Local authorities said that "hundreds of families we have not yet found, and whole neighbourhoods missing"
Mudslides were caused by the rise of the Mocoa River
The surge swept away houses, bridges, vehicles and trees, leaving piles of wrecked timber and brown mud, army photographs from the town of Mocoa showed.
Governor Sorrel Aroca of the Putumayo department called the development "an unprecedented tragedy," telling W Radio there were "hundreds of families we have not yet found, and whole neighbourhoods missing."
Carlos Ivan Marquez, director of the National Disaster Risk Management Unit, said that the mudslides were caused by the rise of the Mocoa River and three tributaries.
President Juan Manuel Santos said he would travel to Mocoa, the Putumayo capital, to supervise rescue and assistance efforts in the heavily forested region.
His presence would "guarantee attention to the victims of this tragedy, which has all Colombians in mourning," he said in a Twitter message.
Mocoa, Colombia, has a population of 40,000Credit: EPA
The disaster has decimated the areaCredit: EPA
The army joins with locals to help in the rescue effortsCredit: EPA
Mocoa resident Hernando Rodriguez, 69, said: "There are lots of people in the streets, lots of people displaced and many houses have collapsed.
"People do not know what to do... there were no preparations".
"We are just scarcely realising what has happened to us."
President Juan Manuel Santos said he would travel to Mocoa, the Putumayo capital, to supervise rescue effort
An aerial view of the devastationCredit: AP:Associated Press
The authorities activated a crisis group including local officials, military units, police and rescue teams to organise the search for missing people and to begin removing hundreds of tons of debris.
The Red Cross aid group's rescue official Cesar Urena said: "We can report 92 people dead and 180 injured."
"The number is rising enormously and at considerable speed."
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Do touchscreens make driving more dangerous?
11:00 PM MYT
The familiar lever-operated handbrake has been replaced by an electronic version in many cars and the same thing is happening to a host of cockpit controls which have been around for almost as long as the automobile itself.
Touchscreens are common in everyday cars and the swathes of switches and buttons that once crowded the dashboard are giving way to electronic interfaces.
Consumers demand these gadgets, but road safety experts have their misgivings.
They argue that touchscreens can distract the driver from concentrating on the road. And what about computer bugs and viruses? Could these paralyse cars or even cause accidents? The long-term reliability of smart control systems is another grey area which needs to be examined.
The electric parking brake is a classic example of how electronic devices are relieving drivers of driving chores.
"On many new cars the handbrake is operated by so-called actuators," says Heiklo Wolframm from Germany's high-profile car club, the ADAC.
"A mere flick of a lightweight switch lever is all that is needed to apply maximum brake power at all four wheels and make the car immovable on steep slopes," says the ADAC man.
The familiar lever-operated handbrake has been replaced by an electronic version in many cars and the same thing is happening to a host of cockpit controls which have been around for almost as long as the automobile itself. — dpa
The electronic park brake (EPB) is reliable and it does away with the need to yank up a lever and push a button to retain it. It uses electronic modules rather than an old-fashioned steel cable to press the press calipers onto the brake discs and lock the brakes.
There was nothing wrong with the old system, which goes back to the early days of driving, yet manufacturers are always looking for innovations which declutter the cabin and save weight at the same time.
Digital displays have ousted analogue instruments like the analogue speedometer while air-conditioning can be operated via the car's entertainment system, making the rotating plastic switches or levers redundant. The ignition key is also on the way out. In an increasing number of cars a button starts the engine.
"Generally speaking the electronic elements in a car cockpit enhance driver comfort and safety," says Alexander Klotz of German automotive component and systems maker Continental.
Electronic aids and the possibilities they offer help to create a logical structure for the driver who can often let apps handle all the entertaining, navigation and climate control duties.
"If you wanted switches and knobs for all these functions you would need hundreds of them," says the expert. That is why modern cars often have a central touchscreen which combines and carries out all the necessary functions.
This is where potential risks come in: "Operating these displays can cause the driver to take his or her eyes off the road for too long," says the ADAC's Nina Wahn.
"Drivers process around 90% of road traffic information visually and it is very important that the displays are in what is called our peripheral field of vision," says Wahn.
Peripheral vision is the part of seeing that is beyond the centre of our gaze, and is the largest portion of the human visual field.
Experts are concerned about drivers using against smartphone key applications due to bugs. — dpa
The revolution in car controls has been fuelled by the smartphone boom of recent years. "Of course carmakers want to get the kind of controls into cars which customers already know from their mobile devices," says Markus Schaffrin of the eco Association of the eco Internet Industry.
This can also pose risks: "As long as the technical standards for these devices used in cars continue to converge and wireless connections are not secure it is only a question of time before cars are subject to the first hacking attacks," says Schaffrin.
These cyber assaults can immobilise a car completely. The expert meanwhile warns against mobile key applications using Google's Android software. Android is plagued by bugs, says the IT man. "On average a new one crops up every nine seconds."
Eckehart Rotter of Germany's powerful VDA carmakers federation has been lobbying for the industry to adopt a modular approach to car electronics which would separate entertainment from security functions.
At the same time, Rotter lauds the safety and comfort of navigation systems compared to drivers who were used to getting around by peering at an atlas perched on their knees. "Using a navigator is a lot less distracting than that," he says.
Meanwhile research is being carried out into the reliability of automotive electronic systems by scientists like Roland Jancke of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits.
"Many electronic elements were originally developed for domestic use and for smartphones," says Jancke. "The automotive context is completely different. The components have to last 20 years and are subject to strong temperature variations." — dpa
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United Flies the 787, American Awaits It, Delta Thinks It Over
United Airlines now flies the longest Boeing 787 route in the world, while American awaits its first 787 and Delta might not even want one.
Ted Reed
Oct 29, 2014 6:59 AM EDT
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- United(UAL) - Get Report on Monday flew a Boeing 787-9 on the new aircraft's longest route -- Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia -- underscoring the carrier's substantial lead among U.S. carriers in utilizing the next generation of widebody aircraft.
This week, Boeing(BA) - Get Report is painting American's(AAL) - Get Report first 787 in Everett, Wash., with delivery expected before the end of the year. Delta(DAL) - Get Report said on its third-quarter earnings call that it expects to make a decision on a widebody aircraft order during the current quarter.
Clearly, the three carriers are following different widebody strategies.
United has chosen to lead. It was first to take a 787 delivery, thanks to an order placed by merger partner Continental. In fact, for the moment, only former Continental pilots can fly the United 787s. In June, they flew San Francisco-Chengdu on the first non-stop flight ever between North America and China's interior. United used a 787-8 on the 6,857-mile route.
This week, United flew its first 787-9 on the 6,882 mile LAX-Melbourne route. The 787-9 has a range of 8,550 miles, compared with 8,200 for the 787-8.
United currently flies 11 787-8s and one 787-9. It has placed orders for 65 Dreamliners. Additionally, United has ordered 35 Airbus A350s, the largest U.S. order. United will be the launch customer for the A350-1000, with first delivery scheduled for 2018.
The 787 has enabled United to fly routes that its competitors cannot fly. "If you think about the things that we're doing with the flexibility of our fleet, the 787 San Francisco to Chengdu is a perfect example of that," Jim Compton, chief revenue officer, said on the carrier's third-quarter earnings call. "We're tapping into that growth in China in ways that, quite frankly, our competitors can't as we continue to match capacity and demand."
Compton said the Chengdu route's performance has been "better than expectations."
American is moving ahead more slowly, although aviation consultant Robert Mann said the carrier "is clearly champing at the bit to go with (its 787). They've been active on social media saying the plane is ready for the paint shop."
American has inherited 22 A350 orders from US Airways, which operates the world's largest Airbus fleet. American will become the U.S. launch customer for the A350-900, with deliveries starting in 2017. Also, American has firm orders for 42 Dreamliners, with options for 58 more. The firm orders include both 787-800s and 787-900s.
As for Delta, it is following a different course.
In a column posted Monday at Leeham.com, Leeham managing director Scott Hamilton wrote that Delta could surprise everyone with its widebody decision.
Delta "is supposed to make a decision on its request for proposals for 50 widebody aircraft before the end of this year, perhaps as early as next month," Hamilton said. "The competition is hot between the Airbus A330-900, the A350-900 and the Boeing 787-9.
"But there could be another wrinkle," he said. "On Delta's third-quarter earnings call, CEO Richard Anderson made some intriguing comments that could raise another possibility: acquisition of used Boeing 777-200ERs.
"To put this in context, recall that Anderson and Delta actively seek out inexpensive used aircraft which, while hardly competitive at high fuel prices (but) provide low capital acquisition costs and low ownership costs."
On the call, Anderson declared: "We're still working diligently on evaluating both the Airbus and Boeing option. They both have very strong viable options, as do the engine manufacturers Rolls-Royce and GE. And we are in the midst of a very heated competition to see which of those will bring to the table the best economics for our owners."
Then he added: "Remarkably right now, it's an interesting development in the widebody market because there is so many orders out there the used market is really heating up and the pricing for 10 year-old widebodies is about 30% of what you'd otherwise pay. So it's going to be a very interesting process because the most important thing about this for us is not operating cost it's ownership costs."
Hamilton noted that used Boeing 777-200ERs are starting to become available in large numbers. He said the aircraft can fly long range, has good capacity and is cheap to buy.
Who doesn't love a bargain?
-- Written by Ted Reed in Charlotte, N.C.
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Top 9 Best Prenatal Vitamins To Choose From
We love, and we do mean love, vitamins here at The Wellness Site. That's because we love to help readers of all walks and stages of life maintain a consistently healthy lifestyle. Of course, food is the best and most natural place to get the vitamins you need. That said, we also understand that in an age of heavily processed food, it can be especially difficult to get the vitamins you need by eating alone. Hence, we present to you our list of the very best prenatal vitamins!
table of comparison
Price
Nature Made Prenatal + DHA 200 mg Softgels
Buy on Amazon
One A Day Women's Prenatal Multivitamins
Garden of Life Vitamin Code RAW Prenatal Multivitamin
Vitafusion Prenatal Gummy Vitamins
New Chapter Perfect Prenatal Vitamins
Rainbow Light Prenatal One Multivitamin
Mama Bird AM/PM Prenatal Multivitamin
TheraNatal Complete Prenatal Vitamin & Mineral Supplement
SmartyPants Prenatal Complete Daily Gummy Vitamins
Prenatal Vitamins FAQ
1. What Are Prenatal Vitamins?
Prenatal vitamins are nutritional supplements containing vitamins and minerals intended to aid pregnant women before and during pregnancy. They are sometimes also taken after pregnancy while new mothers are nursing their young. Vitamins in America are a gigantic money-maker. Created with different people in mind, they often specialize for groups with unique nutritional needs, like seniors, for instance.
The focus on this article are those vitamins specifically designed for women who are pregnant or planning to get pregnant. Even though they are sometimes taken even after pregnancy, they are generally lumped in with "prenatal vitamins" to differentiate them from vitamins for senior men and other varieties.
2. What Do Prenatal Vitamins Do?
Pregnant women's nutritional needs are similar to others' in that even if pregnant women eat healthy diets, it's difficult to fulfill the body's ideal nutritional requirements through food. The purpose of prenatal vitamins is to achieve those ideal levels of key nutrients where even the healthiest American diets fall short.
What makes prenatal vitamins different from other vitamins is that they contain specific sets of nutrients critical to the conception, successful carriage to term, birth, and nursing of a child. They're designed to strengthen the parts of a woman's body that will be critical to a healthy, successful birth.
3. How Do Prenatal Vitamins Work?
Two of the ingredients that make the best prenatal vitamins so effective are iron and folic acid. New parents pray their children will not be afflicted with neural tube defect, which can have lifelong consequences for the child. That's why prenatal vitamins contain generous portions of folic acid, which help head off such problems.
The other key ingredient more plentiful in prenatal vitamins is iron. Whereas non-pregnant people want to be cautious about not taking too much iron, pregnant or soon-to-be-pregnant women may need more iron in their bodies because the iron helps counter the prospects of anemia. Anemia is a deficiency of working red blood cells, which are important because of their oxygen-carrying role in the body. In this way, the iron helps ensure that the baby develops well by keeping those oxygen-carrying vessels strong.
4. Where Can Prenatal Vitamins Be Purchased?
Prenatal vitamins can be purchased wherever food is sold, including most supermarkets and convenience stores. You can also generally pick them up at your local pharmacy. Online options abound as well, such as Walmart and Amazon. You may acquire some directly from the manufacturer.
How We Reviewed the Top 9 Best Prenatal Vitamins
As you know, The Wellness Site cares about keeping you well 24-7, and so our readers love to comment on our stories and report back to us on which prenatal vitamins work best for them. Our editors have years of experience in the science of complete wellness and are dedicated to sharing our expertize with you. We collected data for this review from hundreds and hundreds of prospects to come up with a list of only the best prenatal vitamins.
An Important Disclaimer
Please, please check with your doctor before considering nutrition for your present or future pregnancy, or if you're currently nursing. While the information here comes directly from the experts in the wellness field, it is not intended to take the place of advice from a medical professional such as a doctor, so please check with your doctor before beginning any nutrition or exercise program.
Overall Price Range of the Best Prenatal Vitamins
The top 9 best prenatal vitamins range in price from around $10 to around $75. Obviously, that's a gigantic price range; the outlier in this is TheraNatal at $75 which promises a complete prenatal vitamin and mineral solution. Most of the items on this list teeter between $10 and $30-ish. There are quality differences; but again you'd always want to check with your doctor to ensure that if you're paying more, there is a substantive increase in quality over the less-expensive product.
We would see that the higher-priced items on this list seem to offer a difference in value or quantity that justifies the price, however we do believe $75 is a little steep, and possibly a result of online retailers pushing for maximum price with minimum shipping cost to them.
One A Day Women's Prenatal Multivitamins
Garden of Life Vitamin Code RAW Prenatal Multivitamin
SmartyPants Prenatal Complete Daily Gummy Vitamins
9 best prenatal vitamins
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One of the biggest problems with multi-vitamins is that the body doesn't absorb all their nutrients. One of the great features of the Nature Made Prenatal + DHA 200 mg Softgels is that they have been proven clinically to absorb into your body. It's one prenatal nutrition solution that's easy to swallow!
key ingredients
Key ingredients include Folic Acid, Iron, Calcium, DHA, and Vitamins A, C, D, E, and B. (Check Label for Complete List)
Pros and Cons
Pros
High absorption rate
No fake colors
No starch or yeast
cons
New formula smells bad to some
One A Day Women's Prenatal Multivitamins
It's one of the most trusted brands of daily prenatal vitamins by OB/GYN's.
Vitamins A, C, D, E, B1, B2, B6, B12, Niacin, Folic Acid, Biotin, Pantothenic Acid, Calcium, Iron, Iodine, Magnesium, Zinc, and Copper are the key ingredients. (Check Label for Complete List)
Brand recommended most by OB/GYN's
Contains important Omega 3's
Good for fetus's eyes and brains
>100% recommended daily doses of vitamins
Versions for before, during and after pregnancy
Tablets and liqui-gels
Must be taken once a day
Garden of Life Vitamin Code RAW Prenatal Multivitamin
If you're pregnant, you've already cracked the "girl code" by finding the right guy. Now, it's time to crack the vitamin code to undergo a successful pregnancy. There's no better way to accomplish this than with Vitamin Code Raw Prenatal Multivitamin!
Folate, Iron, Vitamin D3, Ginger, Probiotics, and Other Immune System Support are among the key ingredients. (Check Label for Complete List)
No fillers
Great for baby and mom
Probiotics included
Vitamin D, zinc, and ginger support digestion
Made from whole, raw foods
Gluten-free and dairy-free
Contains vitex
Owner Nestle promotes breast milk substitutes & GMOs
Vitafusion Prenatal Gummy Vitamins
A high absorption rate compared with other vitamins makes this a big contenter for the top dog on our list of 9 best prenatal vitamins. Try it for yourself to see if Vitafusion is the way to fuse your busy lifestyle with the vitamins your body needs.
Key ingredients include Vitamins A, C, D, E, B-6, and B-12, as well as Biotin, Zinc, Sodium, and Iodine. (Check Label for Complete List)
Great absorption
No iron added
Fish oil tested for mercury
2018 ChefsBest Excellence Award Winner
Lack of iron problematic for some
New Chapter Perfect Prenatal Vitamins
It's a new day and a new dawn, so it's time to write another chapter of your life with the birth of your son or daughter. Why not make it a perfect chapter with New Chapter Perfect Prenatal Vitamins? They're perfect in every way; otherwise they wouldn't be called Perfect Prenatal Vitamins!
Key ingredients include Vitamins A, C, D3, E, K, B-6, and B-12, as well as Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Folate, Biotin, Pantothenic Acid, Calcium, Iron, Iodine, Magnesium, Zinc, Selenium, Copper, Manganese, Chromium, and Molybdenum. (Check Label for Complete List)
No sugar added
Ginger fends off morning sickness
Folate aids baby's brain growth
Some claim cyanocobalamin is unhealthy
Rainbow Light Prenatal One Multivitamin
You don't have to journey over the rainbow to bask in the benefits of the Rainbow Light Prenatal One Multivitamin, which eases some typical discomforts of bearing a child.
Key ingredients include Vitamins A, C, and D, along with folic acid and other nutrients that keep the pregnant woman more comfortable than she would be without this supplement. (Check Label for Complete List)
Supports bones, blood, and immune system
Aids baby's developing brain
Easy to digest
Updated formula skimps on nutrients
Causes unwanted side-effects in some
Mama Bird AM/PM Prenatal Multivitamin
If anyone knows what's good for you, it's Mama Bird. And while the thought of a bird regurgitating food and feeding it to her young may not be the most appealing thing to a pregnant mom, don't throw the product away with the brand name, because those who take it seem to love it.
Key ingredients include Biotin, Folic Acid, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Vitamins B and C, and more. (Check Label for Complete List)
Only methylated vitamins
Great investment for baby's neurology
Painstakingly allergen-free
Folate instead of Folic Acid
The brand plays pricing games
Company appears to be gaming online ratings
TheraNatal Complete Prenatal Vitamin & Mineral Supplement
The most important decisions, like having a baby, include big commitments. When you buy TheraNatal, much hyped by online retailers, be prepared to jump in with all four feet (get it?) for a full 13-week supply to keep you completely stocked up for the duration of your pregnancy and then some. That said, fear not, because it makes our list of best prenatal vitamins for a reason!
Key ingredients include Iodine, Vitamins B6 and D3, Folate, DHA, and Choline. (Check Label for Complete List)
Brags it's the most comprehensive
No artificial dyes
American-made
Independently certified by 3rd parties
It's an expensive commitment
Online retailers push it because of cost
SmartyPants Prenatal Complete Daily Gummy Vitamins
This supplement definitely appeals to the girl in every woman, figuratively and, if it's not a boy, literally! But these gummies aren't for the kids; they're for mom. So keep those nerves down by supporting baby's nervous system, and so much more, you Smarty Pants mom, you! After all, why shouldn't prenatal supplements be yummy?
Key ingredients include iodine, Vitamin D3, Omega-3 DHA and EPA Fatty Acids, and basics like Vitamin B-12. (Check Label for Complete List)
Fun to eat in "yummy" gummy form
Surprisingly allergen-free!
15 essential ingredients for healthy pregnancy
Non-GMO
Perceived quality control issues
Gummies aren't for everybody
May not provide needed iron
And the Best of the Best Prenatal Vitamins Is...
Some of the vitamins here that seem to garner the best reviews are gaming many online review systems. The main technique seems to be releasing one form of the product which is a great deal, which customers give rave reviews; and then after they've garnered a whole bunch of reviews, these potentially dishonest marketers reduce either the number of doses per package or make the same doses less potent in subsequent releases which online buyers confuse with the original, more valuable batches. So please beware what appears to be this common stunt.
From the info and survey data available to our editors, Mama Bird stood out initially because of the buzz word "neural" as in good for the baby's brain health, however we then began to see a trend regarding possible manipulation of the packaging to again attempt to fool the customer into buying less than customers thought they were getting. Again, we can't stress enough you should check with your doctor before deciding upon a prenatal dietary and vitamin supplement plan. While this is a tool, and we've only included the best prenatal vitamins, our list of the best prenatal vitamins is not intended as definitive medical advice you would get from a doctor.
Check, double-check, and triple check our list of the best prenatal vitamins, and anything else you consider putting in your body and, by extension, your developing baby's. After all, you're having a baby!
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Versatile adds La Patota to TIFF slate
EXCLUSIVE: Other new additions include Jerome Bonnell’s A Trois, On Y Va.
Paris-based sales agent Versatile has picked up Argentine Santiago Mitre’s social thriller La Patota about an idealistic lawyer who is attacked by a gang while doing charity work in an impoverished border-town.
Other additions to Versatile’s TIFF slate include France’s Jérôme Bonnell’s upcoming A Trois, On Y Va, a love triangle comedy starring Anais Demoustier, Sophie Verbeeck and Félix Moati.
Mitre’s second film after The Student, which won the Locarno’s special jury prize in 2011, La Patota has just started shooting in Misiones in north-east Argentina, with Argentine actress Dolorès Fonzi in the lead role.
Inspired by late compatriot filmmaker Daniel Tinayre’s 1960 classic, it revolves around lawyer Pauline who ditches a glittering career in Buenos Aires to help the inhabitants of her impoverished hometown on the Argentine border with Paraguay and Brazil.
Within days of her arrival, she is brutally attacked by a vicious, local gang. Rather than fleeing back to the city, she decides to remain and stand by her social convictions.
“We were very moved and impressed by the script, really felt something special. Combined with Mitre’s direction, which we discovered in The Student, we will surely have the honour of presenting a major Latin American film next year,” said Pape Boye, co-chief of Versatile alongside Violaine Pichon.
The film is produced by La Union de los Rios production – Mitre’s company with Agustina Llambi Campbell and Alejandro Fadel – and co-produced by Walter Salles’ Rio de Janeiro-based VideoFilmes and Full House, the Paris-based production house of Didar Domehri, Gael Nouaille and Laurent Baudens. Ad Vitam have already acquired French distribution rights.
Bonnell’s provisionally titled A Trois, On Y Va, which comes hot on the heels of his award-winning 2013 romantic comedy Just A Sigh, is produced by Edouard Weil of Rectangle Productions, whose recent credits also include Benoit Jacquot’s Three Hearts and Me, Myself and Mum.
“We’re very excited to start collaborating with Edouard Weil and Rectangle Productions and to be representing Jérôme Bonnell for the first time after his critically acclaimed Just A Sigh. With A Trois, On Y Va, Bonnell succeeds in renewing the love triangle exercise, giving his characters great vitality and precious touching moments.”
Other titles on Versatile’s TIFF slate include Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s child abduction drama Dearest which will screen as a Special Presentation at TIFF, Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby and Helene Zimmer’s coming of age drama Being 14, which are both in post-production, as well as festival favourites Gente de Bien and Blind.
Source: Screendaily
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Versatile Boards International Sales to ‘The Sound of Animals Fighting’
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$9.99 Victory Records Fan Pack at Best Buy
Monday, August 30 2010 Grab the VICTORY RECORDS Fan Pack exclusively at BEST BUY starting on 9/7. For just $9.99 you'll get a t-shirt and a 14 track sampler including A Day To Remember, Comeback Kid, Otep, Taproot, Close Your Eyes, Emmure, Carnifex, and more. Pre-order and discover more HERE!
AP.NET INTERVIEWS COMEBACK KID
Friday, August 27 2010 Click HERE to read an exlcusive interview with COMEBACK KID. The new album Symptoms + Cures will be in stores this tuesday (8/31).
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Friday, August 27 2010 Head over to Facebook.com/TheSleeping and listen to three preview tracks from THE SLEEPING's upcoming album The Big Deep.
MICK FOLEY HOSTS VicTorV #61
Thursday, August 26 2010 VicTorV is the only in-house, record label produced, monthly video program. VicTorV #61 begins a new era in the program's entertainment history. VicTorV now features rotating celebrity hosts. This month's episode is hosted by Hardcore Wrestling Legend: MICK FOLEY. Mick brings you exclusive interviews with COMEBACK KID, WITHIN THE RUINS and himself along with new videos from WITHIN THE RUINS, THE AUTUMN OFFERING and SISTER SIN. CLOSE YOUR EYES gives you an "Inside the Van" segment which ties in with Mick?s parallels between professional wrestling and independent music. Plus, Mick provides a "what happens to naysayers out there on the 'net" piece. Enjoy this great episode and the new era of VicTorV! Best of all, it is still FREE. (WATCH IT NOW)
FUSE TV - Tag Your Tune
Wednesday, August 25 2010 Starting today, A DAY TO REMEMBER's video for "Have Faith In Me" is a choice in FUSE TV's "Tag Your Tune". "Tag Your Tune" is a facebook application that allows you to dedicate music videos to friends on facebook, and will let you know if and when your dedication will air. To access the facebook application click here Confused on how "Tag Your Tune" works? Click here
"Uh Oh" Now available from THE SCENIC!
Tuesday, August 24 2010 The new single from THE SCENIC "Uh Oh" is now available for download! Buy it now at iTUNES / AmazonMP3
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Eleven UNLV graduate or graduate specialty programs were ranked among the nation’s top 100 by U.S. News & World Report in its annual Best Graduate Schools rankings.
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UNTITLED ART GALLERY
Animation Artwork • Modern Art
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Peter Pan, 1953
A great collection of original production animation cels and original production animation drawings for sale from the Walt Disney feature film.
Peter Pan Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Peter Pan from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 133 in ink lower right; Set over a lithographic background; Size - Peter Pan: 4 1/2 x 4", Image 10 x 12"; Unframed; $4,500 or Pay Over Several Months!
Peter Pan Drawing #29
Original production animation drawing of Peter Pan in red, brown, and graphite pencils from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 29 in pencil lower right; Size - Peter Pan: 9 1/4 x 6 3/4", Sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/2"; Unframed; $725 or Pay Over Several Months!
Peter Pan Drawing
Original production animation drawing of Peter Pan in red, blue, and graphite pencils from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 30 in pencil lower right; Size - Peter Pan: 9 1/2 x 7", Sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/2"; Unframed; $725 or Pay Over Several Months!
SOLD - Peter Pan & Tinker Bell Cels
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cels of 1) Peter Pan 2) Tinker Bell 3) Matching Wings from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background; Peter Pan cel numbered 19 lower right; Tinker Bell cel numbered A-18 lower right; Tinker Bell Wings cel numbered W-A-18 lower right; Size - Peter Pan & Tinker Bell: 8 x 4 1/2", Image 9 3/4 x 14 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Tinker Bell Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cels of Tinker Bell with matching Wings from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Set over a hand prepared custom background; Size - Tinker Bell: 7 1/2 x 3 1/2", Image 10 3/4 x 14 3/4", Frame 23 1/2 x 24 1/2"; Framed with a gold wood frame, two suede mats, gold wood fillet, plexiglass, and a custom engraved brass title plaque; SOLD!
SOLD - Hook & Tinker Bell Cels
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cels of 1) Captain Hook 3) Candle Stick & Left Arm and Hand 3) Tinker Bell 4) Matching Wings from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background with Candle Flame lithograph cel overlay; Production numbers in ink lower cel edges; Size - Captain Hook: 8 x 9 1/2", Tinker Bell: 3 x 1 1/2", Image 10 1/2 x 13 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Peter Pan Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Peter Pan from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 64 in ink lower right; Set over a custom hand painted background; Size - Peter Pan: 7 1/4 x 6", Image 11 1/2 x 15 3/4"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Tick-Tock Drawing
Original production animation drawing of Tick-Tock (The Crocodile) in red, brown, and graphite pencils from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 3 in pencil lower right; Animation ladder lower right edge; Size - Tick-Tock 4 1/4 x 12", Sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Tinker Bell Drawing #39
Original production animation drawing of Tinker Bell in blue and graphite pencils from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Signed Marc Davis and numbered 39 in pencil lower right; Size - Tinker Bell: 10 1/4 x 4", Sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/2", Mat 17 x 21"; Triple matted, gold wood fillet, and an inset brass label; SOLD!
SOLD - Wendy & Michael Darling Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Wendy and Michael Darling from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background; Size - Wendy & Michael Darling: 6 3/4 x 6", Image 7 1/4 x 9"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Peter Pan Drawing #31
Original production animation drawing of Peter Pan in red, blue, and graphite pencils from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 31 in blue pencil lower right; Size - Peter Pan: 9 1/4 x 6 3/4", Sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cels of Tinker Bell with matching Wings from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background; Size - Tinker Bell: 6 1/4 x 4", Image 9 1/2 x 13", Frame 20 1/2 x 24 1/4"; Framed with a gold wood frame, two linen mats, gold wood fillet, and plexiglass; SOLD!
SOLD - Captain Hook & Smee Cel Setup
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation four cel setup of Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, Thermometer, and Hook's Green Eyes from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background; Size - Captain Hook & Mr. Smee: 9 x 10 1/2", Image 10 1/2 x 15"; Unframed; SOLD!
Original production animation drawing of Peter Pan in a hammock in red, blue, green, yellow, and graphite pencils from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 54 in pencil lower right; Animation ladder right sheet edge; Size - Peter Pan and Hammock: 6 3/4 x 12", Sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - John, Lost Boys, Indians Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of John Darling, Lost Boys Raccoon Twins, and Two Indians set on a lithographic background from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Size - John Darling, Raccoon Twin Lost Boys, and Two Indians: 7 1/2 x 10 1/2", Cel 12 1/2 x 15 1/2", Image 11 1/4 x 15"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Captain Hook Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Captain Hook set on a lithographic background from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Size - Captain Hook: 8 1/4 x 4", Image 9 1/2 x 7"; Unframed; SOLD!
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Tinker Bell from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background; Numbered 18 in ink lower right; Size - Tinker Bell: 6 1/4 x 2 1/4", Image 11 x 14 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - John Michael & Lost Boys Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of John Darling, Michael Darling, and The Lost Boys: Slightly, Nibs, Raccoon Twins, Cubby, and Tootles set on a lithographic background from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Size - John, Michael, & Lost Boys: 4 3/4 x 13 3/4", Cel 12 1/2 x 15 1/2", Image 7 1/2 x 14"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Captain Hook & Tick-Tock Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Captain Hook and Tick-Tock with Water Effects cel from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background; Production numbers lower cel edge and lower right corner; Size - Captain Hook, Tick-Tock, & Water Effects: 6 x 7 3/4", Image 11 1/2 x 14 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Nana The Dog Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Nana The Dog over a lithographic background from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Size - Nana The Dog: 6 1/4 x 6", Image 7 3/4 x 9", Mat 13 1/4 x 14 1/4"; Double matted; SOLD!
SOLD - Indian Chief Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of the Indian Chief from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Set over a hand prepared custom background; With custom engraved brass title plaque; Size - Indian Chief: 6 3/4 x 9", Image 7 1/2 x 10"; Unframed; SOLD!
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Peter Pan from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 103 in ink lower right; Set over a hand prepared custom background; Size - Peter Pan: 5 1/4 x 2 3/4", Image 10 x 12"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Tinker Bell Drawing
Original production animation drawing of Tinker Bell in graphite pencil from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 9 in pencil lower right; Size - Tinker Bell: 8 1/2 x 8", Sheet 10 x 12"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Mr. Smee Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Mr. Smee from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background; Size - Mr. Smee, Tray, & Pirate Arm: 8 1/2 x 6 1/4", Image 8 3/4 x 8 1/4"; Unframed; SOLD!
Original production animation drawing of Peter Pan in pink, blue, yellow, purple, and graphite pencils from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 16 in pencil lower right; Size - Peter Pan with Present: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4", Sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Captain Hook set over a lithographic background of the deck of the "Jolly Roger" from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Size - Captain Hook: 9 3/4 x 7", Cel 12 1/2 x 14 1/2", Image 10 x 14 1/4"; Unframed; SOLD!
Original production animation drawing of Tinker Bell in blue, brown, and graphite pencils from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 44 in pencil lower right; Size - Tinker Bell: 6 3/4 x 5 1/2", Sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Tick-Tock Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Tick-Tock with Matching Water Effects cel from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background; Numbered 99A and W99A in ink lower right corners; Size - Tick-Tock & Water Effects: 8 1/4 x 13 1/4", Image 11 1/4 x 14 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Captain Hook and Tick-Tock with Water Effects cel from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Set over a hand prepared custom background; Size - Captain Hook & Tick-Tock: 11 1/4 x 5 1/2", Image 12 1/4 x 16"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Michael Darling Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Michael Darling from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background; Size - Michael Darling: 5 1/2 x 5", Image 8 x 8 1/4"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Framed Captain Hook Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Captain Hook over a matching lithographic background from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Size - Captain Hook 6 1/4 x 7", Image 7 1/2 x 8 1/4", Frame 16 1/2 x 17 1/2"; Framed using a black wood frame, a red mat, a black wood fillet, and plexiglass; SOLD!
SOLD - Peter Pan Triple Signed Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Peter Pan over a lithographic background from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; The cel is hand signed in ink by Frank Thomas, Marc Davis, and Ollie Johnston; Size - Peter Pan: 2 3/4 x 6 1/2", Image 9 1/2 x 13 1/4", Mat 16 1/2 x 20"; Triple matted, wood fillet, and inset plaque; SOLD!
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Captain Hook set over a lithographic background of the deck of the "Jolly Roger" from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Size - Captain Hook: 8 1/2 x 5", Image 9 1/4 x 12", Mat 16 17 1/2"; Triple matted with an inset brass title plaque; SOLD!
SOLD - Captain Hook Drawing
Original production animation drawing of Captain Hook in red, blue, and graphite pencils from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 122 in pencil lower right; Size - Captain Hook: 11 3/4 x 7", Sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of The Indian Chief from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background; Numbered K25 in ink lower right; Size - Indian Chief: 8 x 6 1/2", Image 11 1/2 x 16"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Wendy Darling Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Wendy Darling from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Size - Wendy: 8 1/2 x 4", Image 10 x 13", Frame 21 x 24 1/4"; Framed with a gold wood frame, two linen mats, gold wood fillet, and plexiglass; SOLD!
SOLD - Redheaded Mermaid Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of a Redheaded Mermaid set over a lithographic background from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Size - Redheaded Mermaid: 6 x 4", Image 8 1/2 x 9 3/4"; Unframed; SOLD!
SOLD - Brunette Mermaid Cel
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of a Brunette Mermaid set over a lithographic background from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Size - Brunette Mermaid: 6 1/2 x 3 1/4", Image 9 1/2 x 10 1/2"; Unframed; SOLD!
Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Captain Hook over a lithographic background of the deck of the "Jolly Roger" from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 145 in ink lower right; Outer mat hand signed "Best Wishes Marc Davis"; Size - Captain Hook 8 1/4 x 7", Cel 12 1/2 x 16", Mat 16 1/4 x 20 1/2"; Triple matted, wood fillet, and inset plaque; SOLD!
SOLD - Mr Smee Tiger Lily Cel Setup
Original hand inked and hand painted matching production animation cels of Mr. Smee and row boat numbered 90, Tiger Lily numbered 90-C, and Water Ripple Effects numbered E-90 all over a lithographic background of Skull Rock from "Peter Pan," 1953, Walt Disney Studios; Size - Mr Smee, Tiger Lily, and Water Ripple Effects 5 x 12", Cel 12 1/2 x 16"; Background 11 1/4 x 16"; Unframed; SOLD!
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Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cels of 1) Peter Pan 2) Tinker Bell 3) Matching Wings from "Peter Pan," 1953; Walt Disney Studios; Set over a lithographic background; Peter Pan cel numbered 19 lower right; Tinker Bell cel numbered A-18 lower right; Tinker Bell Wings cel numbered W-A-18 lower right; Size - Peter Pan & Tinker Bell: 8 x 4 1/2", Image 9 3/4 x 14 1/2"; Unframed.
The author J. M. Barrie first used Peter Pan as a character in a section of the adult novel "The Little White Bird" in 1902. He returned to that character with his stage play entitled "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up," which premiered in London on December 27, 1904. The play ran until 1913, and it was later adapted by Walt Disney for the animated feature film entitled, "Peter Pan," in 1953.
The main character of Peter Pan was animated by Milt Kahl and Eric Larson. Kahl did the majority of the animation sequences with Larson working mainly on the flying to London sequence, as well as some animation work on both Wendy Darling and Captain Hook.
Milt Kahl was not very excited about his assignment for Peter Pan. He had to animate both Peter Pan and Wendy Darling; two characters that had to be handled like real human beings and therefore would be a great challenge. “Peter was interesting in that you had to make him fly but after that was over he became a chore,” said Kahl. "Peter Pan's" supervising animator, Ron Clements, remembered that for years Milt Kahl resented the fact that animator Frank Thomas was assigned the character of Captain Hook instead of him. It is interesting to note that Peter Pan is one of the most interesting male protagonists of the early Walt Disney films because he is very heroic, opinionated, and has a zeal for life. Kahl’s animation of him totally embraces those characteristics as well as his great grace, expert timing, all combined with a very appealing artistic design.
Bobby Driscoll was the first actor Walt Disney ever put under contract, and was cast to play the lead character in the 1946 film "Song of the South." The film would introduce live action into an extensive animation based film. The film was very successful and turned Driscoll, and his co-star Luana Patten, into overnight child stars! The pair were even discussed for a special Academy Award as the best child actors of the year.
Driscoll went on to appear in a large number of specials and to star in some of The Walt Disney Company's most popular live-action pictures of that period, such as "So Dear to My Heart" in 1948, and in the role of Jim Hawkins in "Treasure Island" in 1950. This last role earned him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1953, he served as animation model and provided the voice for the title role in "Peter Pan," Driscoll's last major success. Driscoll was cast opposite Disney's "Little British Lady" Kathryn Beaumont, who was in the role of Wendy Darling. Driscoll was the model for all the close up Peter Pan scenes and the dancer and choreographer Roland Dupree was the model for the character's motion sequences. All the live action model scenes were played out on an almost empty sound stage with only the most essential props, and filmed for use by the animators.
Tinker Bell was designed and animated by Walt Disney veteran animator, Marc Davis (who supervised the animation and contributed to the design of: Cinderella, Alice, Wendy, Tinker Bell, Aurora, Maleficent, and Cruella De Vil). Without the aid of a vocal performance, he relied on Tinker Bell's facial and body expressions for the animation; taking inspiration from previous pantomime characters such as Mickey Mouse's dog Pluto and Dopey from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Once "Peter Pan" was released, Tinker Bell received critical acclaim and would continue to be one of Disney's trademark characters. She has become one of the main spokes-characters for The Walt Disney Company and one of its most popular and iconic characters since her creation. Many people remember the opening to the TV show "The Wonderful World of Disney," as Tinker Bell would fly towards the center of the screen with a thin wand in her hand, waving it, and causing fairy dust to fly out towards the viewer!
From veteran Walt Disney animator Andreas Deja:
"To me Tinker Bell is perfection. Her character arc in the story is very strong. Because of her affection for Peter Pan she is jealous of Wendy, which gets her into trouble. But toward the end of the film she saves Peter's life as well as the other kids. Her animation throughout is flawless. Occasionally based on live action reference, Marc animated her beautifully. She always feels like a small figure, but the acting has great range and subtlety. Marc said he really enjoyed the challenge of a mute character, where pantomime is the name of the game."
Because of the public's love of the character, DisneyToon Studios decided to create a series of films staring Tinker Bell; and the movies were extremely popular and very well received. The voices of Mae Whitman, Raven-Symoné, Lucy Liu, America Ferrera, Kristin Chenoweth and Pamela Adlon are featured in the series of films. Each of the first four films is set around one of the four seasons: "Tinker Bell," 2008 centered around Spring, "Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure," 2009 around Autumn, "Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue," 2010 around Summer, and "Secret of the Wings," 2012 around Winter. A fifth title, "Pixie Hollow Games," 2011 was supposed to be based on all four seasons, but it was released before "Secret of the Wings" and the film was scaled down. A sixth film, entitled "The Pirate Fairy," was released on April 1, 2014, followed by the release of a seventh film "Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast" on March 3, 2015. The film series was a spin-off of and prequel to the animated feature film "Peter Pan" and to its sequel, "Return to Never Land."
This is an exceptionally rare original production animation cel setup of both Peter Pan and Tinker Bell; but making the work even more extraordinary, is that Tiker Bell also has her matching wings cel. Production artwork of Tinker Bell (much less with their matching wings) is rare to the market, and it is really amazing that even in this small scale, there is a separate hand painted Wings cel created! This allows for Tinker Bell's body and wings to move independently on screen. A wonderful piece that would be a highlight to any Walt Disney animation art collection!
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'Star Wars': New 'Rise of Skywalker' character posters feature Rey, Kylo Ren
Wade Sheridan
Check out the brand-new character posters for Star Wars: #TheRiseOfSkywalker. See it in theaters in just 1 month! (1 of 2) A post shared by Star Wars (@starwars) on Nov 20, 2019 at 8:00am PST
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker posters were released on Instagram Wednesday featuring the film's main cast of characters including Rey and Kylo Ren.
Each poster features a space backdrop and highlights some of the changes the characters have gone through since 2017's Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Rey (Daisy Ridley) poses heroically as she looks off into the distance while wearing a new grey outfit. Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), meanwhile, is once again sporting his signature mask that appears to have been glued back together after it was destroyed.
Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) was also given a poster with the classic Star Wars character donning a blue cape and a new cane.
New characters featured include the mysterious and heavily armored Zorii Bliss (Keri Russell) and Jannah (Naomi Ackie), who is seen with a quiver full of arrows.
Check out the brand-new character posters for Star Wars: #TheRiseOfSkywalker. See it in theaters in just 1 month! (2 of 2)
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, from director J.J. Abrams, is set to arrive in theaters on Dec. 20.
Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Carrie Fisher (Leia Organa), John Boyega (Finn), Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron), Joonas Suotamo (Chewbacca), Lupita Nyong'o (Maz Kanata), Domhnall Gleeson (General Hux), Ian McDiarmid (Palpatine), Kelly Marie Tran (Rose Tico) and Billie Lourd (Lieutenant Connix) are also set to star.
The film will finish The Skywalker saga which was first kicked off with 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope.
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An Overview of SEO So Far In 2017
by Gil Datz | Aug 14, 2017 | SEO, SEO in Colorado Springs | 0 comments
As we’ve covered before, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an integral tool for digital marketers as it gives businesses a competitive edge.
In order to stay ahead of the curve and get a significant edge over competition, it is important to understand the changes in search engines. The SEO industry is evolving at a rampant pace, thus it is important to be aware of the changes.
According to an estimate, Google updates its search algorithm almost 600 times a year. As the search behemoth has decided to not announce the changes it makes to its algorithm, most SEO experts are left to speculate the changes in ranking and future SEO strategies.
Despite it’s typical level of secrecy, Google has made some major changes that we are aware of. 2017 proves to be a fascinating year in terms of SEO, and what follows is an overview of some of the changes and updates we’ve experienced so far, or will be experiencing soon.
Phantom Update – February 2017
If you’re involved in the SEO industry, you have probably heard about the seemingly big February 7th Google update, which could be described as a fairly significant Google algorithm ranking update. According to a study by Glenn Gabe, the update led to a substantial movement of many websites. Improving the quality of a website seems to be foremost in avoiding penalties like Phantom goes after.
Fred Update – March 2017
This update was first named “Fred” as a joke, but like many jokes, it stuck. In the SEO fraternity, Fred has gained significance since the past few months. Many SEO professionals faced a tough time in March as the SERP ranking of a number of sites dropped substantially. However, Google later clarified that it was a major update and Fred was targeting websites that catered to heavy advertisements and had insufficient content. The update essentially targets those sites that do not intend to provide quality content to readers, rather are more interested in click bait. Barry Schwartz also suggested that based on data and the evidence of over 75 sites affected, Google’s “Fred” update targets ad heavy, low value content, and affiliate sites.
Google has confirmed that Fred aims to target those sites that are ad-heavy. However, no other details have been revealed by the search engine giant.
Mobile Interstitial Penalties
Google is an advocate of advertising, considering it makes revenue via PPC. However, in terms of organic searches, Google is not willing to compromise on user experience. Ads affect the site speed and usability on small screened devices. As of 2017, Google will rank low quality advertorial sites like this lower.
Further, it also has the goal of improving user experience. Thus, it plans to get rid of such ads that force a user to perform operations they don’t intend to. For instance, sites that force visitors to sign up to newsletters while accessing may be in hot water now.
Popularity Of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs)
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs) is an open source tool that helps SEO professionals to load quickly on mobile devices. By making a few changes in the structure will help in reducing the loading time. Google has started to promote sites that make use AMPs by assigning a small icon and giving visibility in a carousel. Thus, sites using AMP are likely to gain further traction in 2017.
Rich Content
The internet is filled with content that offers no value to readers. Initially Google favored content that was bite-sized and digestible. However, Google now desires long-form content covering a topic comprehensively.
Machine Learning – RankBrain
With Google RankBrain, the search giant came up with algorithm based machine learning. As an enhanced version of Google Hummingbird, the search engine will take the pattern in which a user phrases conversational queries and then update the algorithm accordingly. Another update in this regard has not been observed as of yet. However, many webmasters anticipate it to come soon.
Google is likely to come up with more machine learning updates in 2017, where machine learning will be used in marketing automation and interpretation of data.
Mobile-First Indexing – Estimated 2018
While technically this won’t fall in 2017, it was slated to be, so we’ll discuss it. Mobile-first indexing is a major breakthrough in terms of SEO. However, the update was anticipated in 2017, but may not surface till next year. Despite the delay, it is increasingly important for web masters to align their assets and optimize them for mobiles before mobile-first indexing is introduced. In the past, Google crawled your site as a desktop user. Now, however, Google will crawl your site as a mobile user. That’s a distinction with a really big difference.
As a majority of users have switched to smartphones, some are calling this “the death of Desktop”.Google is tweaking its strategy and algorithm to facilitate marketers in capitalizing the mobile audience.
Help with your SEO? – Now 2017
If you need help with your SEO, it’s still one of the best was to push your marketing forward. Get in touch! At UZU, we’re well versed in what it takes to set up your site to rank well for your most profitable keywords. If you want to learn more about UZU’s being a top SEO company in Colorado Springs, click here for more!
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‘A Safe Place’ for Samantha
Jordyn Leal knows about a mother’s intuition. Her baby, Samantha, had three birthmarks during birth which suddenly increased to more than 50 marks by six months. She also knew it was odd little Sammy only gained five pounds during her first year. Despite the first pediatrician’s advice that there was nothing to worry about, Jordyn knew something was very wrong.
Jordyn changed to a new pediatrician who made a referral to the genetics department at Valley Children’s. Samantha was diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic disorder that affects 1 in every 3,000 people. An MRI revealed the disease caused an optic nerve glioma, a cancerous growth in the nerves of Sammy’s eyes. Dr. Clair Schmidt, Valley Children’s pediatric ophthalmologist, confirmed Sammy’s right eye was affected by the optic glioma.
“My husband and I were in complete disbelief. It shocked our entire world,” said Jordyn. “But we had full faith that the doctors - and God - would do what was needed for Sammy.”
Dr. David Samuel, Valley Children’s neuro-oncologist, presented a treatment plan that eased the family’s fears. At only 13 months, Sammy received chemotherapy every week for an entire year. After she stabilized during the first round, she came off chemo and continued with her speech therapy, occupational therapy and physical therapy.
But the disease is complex and chronic. NF1 not only caused a tumor behind Sammy’s eye, but also another tumor in her brain. Complications can cause vision problems, seizures, headaches, infectious diseases and learning disabilities. These complications are monitored and treated by multiple Valley Children’s subspecialties including neuro-oncology, genetics medicine, ophthalmology, neurology, infectious diseases and psychology.
“We feel very comfortable about the high level of expertise of all her doctors here at Valley Children’s. When I bring up questions, they always take the time to answer them. I know I will get honest answers because they genuinely show they care. And that’s a huge thing. The last thing I want is to feel that I can’t speak up in regards to Sammy’s care. I’m glad we have the comfort level we do.”
Finding Comfort and Confidence
Now 4 years old, Sammy is on a new chemotherapy plan. Her doctors continue to monitor any side effects from the medications and adjust as necessary until she is stable again.
Through her path to healing, Sammy has bonded with many Valley Children’s staff members. She even calls her child life specialist, Joy Johnson, “her Joy.” She affectionately calls her doctors her own. When she sees a picture of George the Giraffe in the mail, she knows it’s from her doctors.
“After three years of coming in for treatments and therapies, the staff becomes like family. It is our safe place,” Jordyn continues. “As we drive up to the hospital, Sammy gets excited and says, ‘mommy, it’s my doctors!’ She loves the staff here. It makes us feel that we are doing right thing, we are making the right choices.”
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As a stalwart global pharmaceutical company originating in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, the firm now operates in over 50 countries and has more than 5,000 employees worldwide, with the US market accounting for 63% of its revenues. The company’s products specialize in Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders and are targeted at the disease areas of depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.
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As a stalwart global pharmaceutical company originating in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, the firm now operates in over 50 countries and has more than 5,000 employees worldwide, with the US market accounting for 63% of its revenues. The company’s products specialize in Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders and are targeted at the disease areas of depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. With gamification/gaming receiving such a buzz in recent years, the US division wanted to bring it to its learners across its sales teams in the neurology division. Its goal was to support a continuous learning environment, encourage knowledge retention and identify skills gaps.
EARLY 2018 INITIATIVES
Two different learning “sprints” were set up in the Scrimmage mobile learning platform to support the neurology group, by utilizing its robust gamification capabilities:
• In February 2018, gamification was set around its national meeting for knowledge assessments, reinforcement and a team-building initiative.
• A second (different) game was set a few months later, “bouncing” off of the March Madness basketball tournament. It was pushed out to 300 sales personnel across the US, as a chance to conduct pull-through learning. This practice also served as a key Gap Analysis for knowledge, with the focus on the content to identify where new learning sprints, additional coaching needed to take place.
Five topics were configured within each game module. Competition was also supported on both games. Twenty-five badging opportunities were leveraged for either individual performance, or on the leaderboard. And, three different leaderboards were incorporated, along with the standard leaderboard reporting validation program to ensure all rules are setup correctly and points are flowing through as expected.
Reporting was a key factor and an extremely robust element with this gaming application. Several raw templates were created, along with a schedule for automatic distribution to key stakeholders and custom permissions/restrictions parameters. Activity summary reports offered additional data points, including extensive content utilization reporting. Additional reports were also centered around data on the games that each user played, who won and points earned. Dashboards, graphics, pie charts and other dynamic visuals were provided for easy inclusion in presentations, or other communication pieces. It should be noted a reporting needs assessment was conducted by the Scrimmage team, as well, during implementation to be sure the essential reporting needs were met for the client and to ensure the data was set-up and captured accurately.
Learning Stint #1 – Scrimmage’s Capture & “Brain Games”
First, in February 2018, at the National Meeting with an attendance of 500+ team members, Scrimmage’s Capture game was a showcase piece with thousands of interactions over a 5-day period. It was customized for the entire neurology group and aptly renamed, “Brain Games,” which tested knowledge on the company itself, as well as its products.
The Capture game is based on a schedule of pulses. Players work to complete pulses, in order to “capture” topics. Repetition in playing the game matters too, players capture a topic when they answer all of the questions related to that topic correctly, a pre-determined number of times. Moreover, speed matters, as players have a set amount of time to answer the given question - as time decreases, so do the number of points. However, another unique feature to this game includes life preservers that players can click on to temporarily escape a question.
While Capture is an individual game, leagues were created for this learning opportunity each with its own settings from: start/stop date & time; time available to answer each question; number of times a learner must answer questions correctly to “capture” the topic; what topic should be included in each Pulse; how players receive a notification that they’ve been invited to join a new league and the schedule.
In-game reporting was similarly robust with leaderboards, levels and rankings by leagues and individuals. Progress was also tracked to see how many times it took to answer a question correctly to capture it, capture the topic. Likewise, reporting showed any life preservers and the corresponding question(s).
Capture, particularly with its timed and life preserver elements, shows if the knowledge is known, or not. It can mirror real-world situations, as immediate answers show knowledge and demonstrate confidence in one’s knowledge. The Capture game allows the player to see where extra learning is needed in a practice situation vs. the real-world where one may not get a second chance. Likewise, it offers management a window into where gaps in training, knowledge and skills exist.
Learning Stint #2 – Scrimmage’s Rival Game & “March Madness”
Next, Rival (the head-to-head challenge game), dubbed “March Madness,” was implemented over the same 3 week period, as its namesake NCAA tournament. This tournament style game had over 300 participants with 14 teams from the neurology group based on different sections/ regions of the country (i.e. New York/New Jersey, Texas, Mountain West, Gulf Coast, Pacific Northwest, etc.). Its initiative was to create excitement, once again, following the national meeting and be able to pull through the learning.
Rival created participation by pitting all 14 area teams against each other to find a ultimate winner. The training managers were able to understand what they learned from the meeting, what they didn’t learn and, most importantly, what resources needed the most support and focus for the rest of the year. While the regions competed against each other, a leaderboard, along with full reporting on the backend showed individual performance from correct answers (and wrong answers) to the number of interactions.
How does Rival Work? Learners log-in to “Challenge” a colleague, if they had not already been challenged. If there are no challengers presently in the game, player one still plays the game, and player two plays when ready (an email alert is also sent to the player). Next, the player selects a topic from several options and the game begins. It is fast and it is timed with 7 questions (a variety of question types are supported). Custom images are included. Again, the pool of questions was large, so they were highly randomized. Upon completion of the challenge, the results of the game are shown to each player, once the second player finishes his/her game.
As the March Madness game was implemented specifically to identify and understand any knowledge gaps, the focus for management was more on the incorrect answers and question performance. The Reporting specifically offered insights into the content and how the questions performed.
At the same time, assessment summary views were set-up, as a reporting piece. They included real-time visual analytics on each of the assessments and were segmented by section, question, or individual response.
OUTCOMES: SKILLS GAP ANALYSIS, ENGAGEMENT & GAMES PLAYED
Gamification was chosen and was an ultimate success because it incorporated and met a number of goals including:
• It was mobile with quick spurts of learning, which limited time out of the field for the pull-through of key learnings.
• It made the learning fun and engaging.
• It was a pro-active tool to easily identify skill gaps and new learning opportunities.
• It identified the effectiveness of the overall training strategies.
As the Field Training Manager noted, “Scrimmage’s gaming platform works for learning because it is fun and engaging, as opposed to being imposed on the sales reps. And, it uses the competitive nature of sales people to our advantage in Sales Training.”
Further, the practice identified skills gaps. In fact, with them playing and completing the Rival games, management learned exactly where the gaps existed and was able to address them when the March Madness initiative ended.In the end, a vigorous 54,383 answers were submitted across all of the games for the full 3-week period, among its 200 learners. The engagement was simply beyond expectations. Bottom line, the feedback from the gaming program across all stakeholders was incredible. By far, it was much more effective, engaging and fun than other follow-up methods used in the past.
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Design Icon ‘Corpo’ – Raf Simons
Christophe De Schauvre
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Every other week, together with Sjiek / Het Belang Van Limburg, we present a Limburg design icon, or one that is well on its way to becoming one. This week it is Corpo by Raf Simons.
WHAT: A series of accessory cabinets with four upright metal tubes “dressed” with different materials.
Raf Simons (° 1968, Neerpelt) is well known as a fashion designer, but actually trained as an industrial designer. When he graduated from SHIKV in Genk in 1991, he presented this “Corpo”: a series of storage cupboards in the shape of a corset. Four upright full metal tubes with threaded tapes were each decorated with different materials: refined leather, metal mesh and even one with chain mail. It embodied Simons ’dormant desire for fashion.
“Corpo was presented as a fashion collection, in a row just like on the catwalk. The metal rods made it look like models with very long legs, ”said Jan Boelen, artistic director at Z33 and classmate of Raf Simons at the time, when the Corpo was part of the Form exhibition in 2016. Although the student Raf Simons had to do an internship at a beer crate manufacturer, he managed to work at Walter Van Beirendonck. A revelation. “I remember how Raf came to school with stories, for example about the Paris show of Martin Margiela, but he also always had collection samples with him …”, says Casimir, another classmate and today a gifted furniture artist. “Thanks to Raf’s acquisitions, we must have been the best dressed men in school when … ever.” That time at Van Beirendonck is definitely a turning point in Raf Simons’ career. As an hourglass is turned upside down, it was only a matter of time until his heart would fill itself with fashion.
RIBBEDEBIE
Hugo Duchateau – a teacher at the time – also once referred in an interview to the switching moment at which the student Raf Simons seemed to throw the corset of furniture design aside and started to explore. Although. Corpo was awarded prizes and the anecdote wants Raf’ parents Jaak and Alda Simons to be taken apart by the director for the graduation ceremony to learn firsthand that their son would win the province’s first prize. Something that should absolutely not come to his attention. “Otherwise he will be “ribbedebie” and then we make a fool out of ourselves. Just make sure he comes forward when asked.” ”Reluctantly Simons would climb the stage and the international fashion scene in the same way.
Although he immediately wanted to pass on the grand prize of 25,000 Belgian francs to father and mother, they saw it as his earned wages and support to look for the direction he actually wanted to go. That road already pointed towards Milan, but apart from a small gallery where his furniture was displayed, he never got there in the gallery of honor to leading producers genre Cassina or Cappelini. In the meantime his heart was completely filled with fashion and he was eager to study at the Antwerp Fashion Academy. Head Linda Loppa, however, showed him out. Not because she didn’t believe in him, quite the contrary. Rather from the reasoning: you don’t have to learn, but do… What he did, with his own collections and up artistic direction from Jil Sander to Dior and Calvin Klein, to where he stands today. Maybe again closer to Corpo than ever. Because, in the final analysis, that thesis was a prelude; on the tight straitjacket of fashion, in which Simons went through everything. Filled with fashion, furniture and art, he might once again turn the hourglass upside down.
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Man injured in crash with cargo train
Updated: 9:09 AM EDT Sep 7, 2012
Police in Havre de Grace said a man was injured when his car hit a cargo train around midnight Thursday.Police said the incident happened at a crossing at Lewis Lane and Revolution Street in the Harford County town.The victim was taken to Harford Memorial Hospital. His condition hasn’t been released.Officials said the Norfolk Southern Corporation train had minor damage, and the victim's car had extensive damage.Havre de Grace police and Norfolk Southern train officials are investigating the cause. There were no road closures or train delays as a result of the crash.
Police in Havre de Grace said a man was injured when his car hit a cargo train around midnight Thursday.
Police said the incident happened at a crossing at Lewis Lane and Revolution Street in the Harford County town.
The victim was taken to Harford Memorial Hospital. His condition hasn’t been released.
Officials said the Norfolk Southern Corporation train had minor damage, and the victim's car had extensive damage.
Havre de Grace police and Norfolk Southern train officials are investigating the cause. There were no road closures or train delays as a result of the crash.
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Jon Pardi's 'Heartache Medication' Offers A Healthy Dose Of Traditional Country
By Ken Tucker • Oct 31, 2019
Originally published on November 1, 2019 12:09 pm
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air.
TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. Country singer Jon Pardi says his new collection of songs isn't a throwback. It's just a different era of traditional. Pardi won the Country Music Association's new artist of the year award in 2017. Rock critic Ken Tucker has a review of Pardi's new album called "Heartache Medication."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HEARTACHE MEDICATION")
JON PARDI: (Singing) Same old dive, same old end-of-the-workweek drink. Bartender knows my name, but I don't mind. She kicks them up strong, serves me up right. And here I go again. I'm drinking one. I'm drinking two. I got my heartache medication...
KEN TUCKER, BYLINE: Do I really have to tell you that the magic elixir Jon Pardi consumes in his song "Heartache Medication" is the hard stuff - booze, hooch? Of course not. Pardi has the kind of singing voice you can easily imagine emanating from the soused depressive down at the end of the bar. He's the sort of barfly who's convinced himself he'd rather be drunk than in love.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TIED ONE ON")
PARDI: (Singing) She said, I'm tired of those boots being dirty all the time, all your hunting stuff and your three-day scruff you know I don't like. And then she started on all my friends and all my drinking. Well, speaking of my friends and speaking of my drinking - one, two, three, four - I cut her loose and tied one on, closed down my favorite honky-tonk. Don't know why I waited so damn long. I cut her loose and tied one on. Yeah, I was drinking like George Jones...
TUCKER: That's "Tied One On," which starts off a really nice ballad before shifting rapidly into country rock. When you add it to song titles on this album that include "Don't Blame It On The Whiskey" (ph), "Buy That Man A Beer," "Me And Jack" - the Jack being Jack Daniels - and the joyously awful title pun of "Tequila Little Time," well, you begin to feel grateful that John Pardi worked the recording sessions in around his drinking.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CALL ME COUNTRY")
PARDI: I'm a ghost on the radio, a needle on the vinyl, a country boy survival, the bottom of a bottle. I'm the fighting side of you and me, and my heart's down in Tennessee. And I sing songs about freight trains and prisons, heartaches and honky-tonks and cowboys and outlaws, good-hearted women. Boots and straw hats - all gone, just like that. They can't even recognize me. They used to call me country.
TUCKER: The press release that accompanied this new album quotes the artist as saying, there's a big void to fill in country music to be more country or traditional. This sounds like a stirring mission statement, but interestingly, Jon Pardi could not be more wrong, and I suspect he knows it. There's that ominous line in the song I just played, "Call Me Country," when he says, I'm a ghost on the radio. I think what he's doing is psyching himself up for an uphill battle with current country radio and fans who might not be quite as receptive to the excellent honky-tonk music he's making here.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "NOBODY LEAVES A GIRL LIKE THAT")
PARDI: (Singing) She's got the kind of eyes you want to get lost in. You're going to look twice when she gets to walking in a honky-tonk with them blue jeans on. She's a cold beer, a whiskey shot, a neon light, a Strait song on the jukebox, a dance all night, what a cowboy wants, a never-do-you-wrong. Nobody leaves a girl like that. Nobody walks away and never looks back.
TUCKER: The last time anyone talked seriously about a traditionalist movement in country music was the 1990s, when Randy Travis brought a baritone whose phrasing echoed George Jones to the top of the charts and radical throwbacks like Marty Brown and Joy Lynn White were making superb neo-honky-tonk albums that pretty much went nowhere. Ever since then, country's forward momentum has been toward pop. I'm not saying that's bad. I've liked the arena rock and pop kind of country made by Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift, and you can bet Lil Nas X's "Old Country Road" (ph) will be on my year end Top 10 singles list. But all this does leave Jon Pardi proclaiming a new era for a genre he pretty much embodies all by his lonesome.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "OLD HAT")
PARDI: (Singing) These days, they call you crazy if you hold the door for a lady. If you don't call her girl instead of baby, you're out of style, obsolete. If you seal a deal with a handshake, sit down for a meal and you still pray, if a promise is something you don't break, you're the last of a dying breed. When did old-fashioned become so out of fashion? When did we go out with the old, in with the new? And you can bet your ass there's a lot of us old cats wearing old boots and old hats that ain't ready to give old hat the boot.
TUCKER: Maybe you've been watching Ken Burns' history of country music on PBS and it's made you want to hear more country that's steeped in the genre's roots. Well, Jon Pardi's got you covered. His new one is what the old ones used to sound like at their best.
GROSS: Rock critic Ken Tucker reviewed Jon Pardi's new album, called "Heartache Medication."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TEQUILA LITTLE TIME")
PARDI: (Singing) Pardon me. I don't mean to pry. I saw the tears falling from your eyes, and I thought you're too pretty not to wear a smile. I hope you don't mind if I sit down for a while 'cause I want tequila little time with you. A little salt and a lime will do. Hey, bar man. Will you bring us two? I want tequila little time with you talking it all out, seeing what you're all about.
GROSS: After we take a short break, Justin Chang will review Martin Scorsese's new film "The Irishman," which stars De Niro, Pacino and Pesci. This is FRESH AIR.
(SOUNDBITE OF TODD SICKAFOOSE'S "WHISTLE") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Oklahoma police say officer got Starbucks with ‘PIG’ on cups
Posted: Sat 1:11 AM, Nov 30, 2019 |
Updated: Mon 7:54 PM, Dec 02, 2019
GLENPOOL, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma police chief says an officer bought Starbucks for 911 dispatchers working on Thanksgiving only to find that the word “PIG” was printed on the cups’ labels.
An Oklahoma police chief says an officer bought Starbucks for 911 dispatchers working on Thanksgiving only to find that the word “PIG” was printed on the cups’ labels. (Source: Johnny O'Mara / Facebook via CNN)
The officer notified Kiefer Police Chief Johnny O'Mara, who called the store and spoke to a manager. O’Mara says they offered to reprint the computer-generated labels, but he took to social media and posted the photo. It has since gone viral.
The officer told KTUL-TV that the employee reached out to him personally and apologized, saying it was a joke.
However, in a Friday statement, Starbucks said the worker who wrote the offending word on the cup “used poor judgment and is no longer a partner’’ after the violation of company policy.
“This language is offensive to all law enforcement and is not representative of the deep appreciation we have for police officers who work tirelessly to keep our communities safe,” the statement said.
In a separate joint statement, Starbucks and the Kiefer Police Department stated they are committed to using the incident as an opportunity to promote greater civility. Starbucks officials said they will be meeting with Kiefer police officials to discussing ways to work together, including a jointly hosted event that will allow local law enforcement to meet with baristas and community members “to discuss the critical role dispatchers and police offers play in keeping our communities safe.”
Last year, Starbucks closed stores and had employees undergo a anti-bias training after the arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia location. The coffee chain’s executives met with Arizona officers earlier this year after six officers were asked to leave a store because a customer felt unsafe.
Mother arrested after her baby dies from meth intoxication
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“Purple Puck Night” supports non-profits, cancer patients
Posted: Dec 6, 2019 / 11:59 PM EST / Updated: Dec 7, 2019 / 12:04 AM EST
Friday night three non-profits got together at Galactic Ice in Altoona, to raise money and support for locals battling cancer.
The Greg and Cathy Griffith Family Foundation say, it was important for them to continue to raise money and awareness for cancer throughout the year, not just during awareness months like October and November.
“There’s so many people out there with different kinds of cancer, but we’re all fighting, kind of the same battle, we’re trying to sideline cancer,” Cris Leighty, daughter of a cancer patient, said.
That’s Cris Leighty from Newry. Her mother, Darla Shaw, has leukemia and says it’s incurable.
Seven others who are either going through treatment, have beaten cancer or have lost a family member to cancer were honored Friday.
Their stories were shared at galactic ice in Altoona.
Two local cancer-related non profits, the Greg and Cathy Griffith Family Foundation, Easter for Eli and the Pittsburgh cancer non-profit, the Mario Lemieux Foundation, hosted Friday’s “Purple Puck Night” at the Penn State Altoona Men’s Hockey game.
“It’s a palpable night, of love, community and coming together to sideline cancer,” Cathy Griffith, President for the Greg and Cathy Griffith Family Foundation, said.
Each non-profit held raffles, sold merchandise and took donations.
Proceeds from the ticket sales of the game will be shared among the organizations.
Leighty says it meant so much to have their whole family there for her mother.
“She’s always taught us that family’s important, so for us to all be here tonight, Leighty, said.
The foundations will use the funds for things like cancer research and for famlies to pay medical and travel expenses.
The foundations hope to bring in more non-profits “Purple Puck Night” next year.
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Thomas Cook buyers pledge to save 555 shops and 2,500 jobs
John and Irene Hays run the business, set up 40 years ago
All 555 Thomas Cook shops are to be bought by rival Hays Travel in a move that could save up to 2,500 jobs.
The independent travel agent said the move gives it shops in areas where it had little or no presence, including Scotland and Wales.
John Hays, who set up the Sunderland-based firm 40 years ago, said he hoped the shops would reopen within days.
It had been an emotional day, he said, with many staff crying when they were told their jobs were saved.
He said it was difficult to give cast-iron guarantees about every Thomas Cook shop, because there would now be talks with individual landlords.
However, “it is certainly our intention to take on all the staff; to welcome them back,” he added. The shops will be branded under the Hays name.
All the Thomas Cook stores will be rebranded as Hays Travel
There is likely to be some overlap of stores, and the BBC estimates that there are more than 30 locations where there would be two competing High Street branches. In Yorkshire and the North East, for instance, there are branches just streets apart in Sunderland, Newcastle, York, Leeds , Doncaster, and at Morpeth, South Shields.
The acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, is a significant step for Hays, which has 190 shops, 1,900 staff, and last year had sales of £379m, reporting profits of £10m.
Mr Hays, who owns the business with wife Irene, said: “It is a game-changer for us, almost trebling the number of shops we have and doubling our workforce – and for the industry, which will get to keep some of its most talented people.”
‘It’s been emotional’
The takeover deal was struck with the travel industry regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority, after several days of negotiations. He said he was “elated to get the deal over the line. It’s been emotional”.
Many ex-Thomas Cook staff had cried when told they still had jobs, he said. “These people did nothing wrong. One day they were in jobs, and the next day they were locked out.”
He expected many of the shops to reopen on Thursday, “although probably with a skeleton staff”. There were some logistics problems – Hays had still to locate many of the shop keys, he said.
More than 100 new jobs will be based at the company’s Sunderland headquarters, with the rest in shops across the UK. The company has tweeted, urging former Thomas Cook staff to apply.
When Thomas Cook collapsed, it put 22,000 jobs at risk worldwide, including 9,000 in the UK.
It also sparked the biggest ever peacetime repatriation by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to bring more than 150,000 British holidaymakers back to the UK. The last flight to repatriate Thomas Cook customers landed at Manchester Airport on Monday.
Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she hoped the deal “will provide significant re-employment opportunities for former Thomas Cook employees, alongside the advice and support we will continue to provide to help people find a new job as quickly as possible”.
‘We’ve not been told anything’
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Samantha Kennedy, 34, from Alness in Scotland worked at an Inverness branch of Thomas Cook for six years.
She told the BBC that her WhatsApp chat group had been “going crazy this morning since the media started reporting” the deal.
“We’ve not been told anything. My manager hasn’t been told anything. It would be absolutely amazing if it was true,” she said.
Samantha said she was sad the Thomas Cook brand had gone, but she loved worked in the industry.
“To continue to work in the industry would be amazing and there’s not many travel shops in Inverness, so if Hays were to take over I think people would be pleased.”
‘Deal with landlords’
The Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) union, which had members in Thomas Cook shops around the UK and in its head office in Peterborough, welcomed the move.
Manuel Cortes, TSSA’s general secretary, said it offered “real hope of reemployment to former Thomas Cook retail staff, many of whom are our members.”
The business is thought to have a licence for six months to occupy Thomas Cook stores, giving Hays time to strike new deals with landlords.
What is Hays’ plan?
Ian Bell, head of travel and tourism at accountancy firm RSM, said it was a “shrewd move” for Hays, but would also represent a quadrupling of its travel agency stores at a time when customers are increasingly booking holidays online.
“Much may depend on the deals that Hays can strike with its new High Street landlords,” said Mr Bell.
As Hays bought the stores from the administrators, it means it will have bought them at a lower price than if Thomas Cook was still trading.
Julie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said that in waiting, Hays had got a “best price” for the stores.
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However, she questioned the logic for the transaction at a time when customers are turning away from High Street travel agents.
“You have to wonder what Hays’ plan is and how they can make it a success.
“Has the travel firm been gung-ho in trying to secure a cheap deal without assessing the viability of taking on these stores?,” she asked.
What does it mean for package holiday?
Hays Travel is not like Thomas Cook, which owned hotels and an airline. Pippa Jacks, group editor of Travel Trade Gazette, told the BBC: “They don’t have a [large] tour operating arm, they don’t have an airline, they don’t own hotels or cruise ships… so it makes them quite nimble in terms of what they sell”.
Hays is said to have beaten off other bidders, which she said suggested that the package holiday industry was not dead.
“If you’re spending a lot of money, if you’re not particularly confident and you want some personal recommendations, actually going to see a real human who will sit and listen and take time to understand your personal requirements is very valued by a lot of holidaymakers,” she said.
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One person taken to the hospital after crash near the Westmoreland Mall
Crash happened early Wednesday morning
Updated: 5:27 AM EST Jan 8, 2020
Nick Matoney
HEADQUARTERS, CHRIS LOVINGOOD. MICHELLE ONE PERSON IS HURT AFTER A BA CRASH IN HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP, WESTMORELAND COUNTY. IT HAPPENED JUST PAST THE WESTMORELAND MALL. IT LOOKS LIKE THE CAR SLAMMED INTO A CONCRETE BARRIER OF AN OVERPASS. WE SAW FIREFIGHTER
One person was taken to the hospital after an early morning crash on Route 30 in Hempfield Township.The crash happened a little before 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in the westbound lanes near the Westmoreland Mall.A vehicle crashed into a barrier on an overpass.The condition of the person taken to the hospital has not been released.
One person was taken to the hospital after an early morning crash on Route 30 in Hempfield Township.
The crash happened a little before 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in the westbound lanes near the Westmoreland Mall.
A vehicle crashed into a barrier on an overpass.
The condition of the person taken to the hospital has not been released.
WTAE Pittsburgh
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Rescue ship Ocean Viking stuck at sea with 104 migrants
by: COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press
Posted: Oct 25, 2019 / 11:30 AM EDT / Updated: Oct 25, 2019 / 01:36 PM EDT
The Ocean Viking rescue ship enters in the commercial port of Taranto in Taranto, southern Italy, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. The ship run by SOS Mediterranee rescued 176 migrants. (Ingenito/ANSA via AP)
MILAN (AP) — The humanitarian rescue ship Ocean Viking remained stuck at sea Friday with 104 migrants on board, a week after rescuing them off Libya despite an EU plan designed to resolve such cases.
French charities SOS Mediterranee and Doctors without Borders, which operate the ship, say they have requested permission to land in either Italy or Malta. But SOS Mediterranee said there has been no response so far.
The Ocean Viking was previously offered Libya as a place of safety, but refused to land there. SOS Mediterranee said that “no port in Libya can be considered safe according to international law.”
Only seven EU countries have agreed to participate in a “fast-track” plan, which would screen migrants, relocate asylum-seekers and return those who don’t apply or qualify within four weeks.
Seven humanitarian groups met on Friday with Italy’s interior minister, Luciana Lamorgese, pressing their case for organized rescues that put the primary responsibility on national governments.
The groups said that a system needed to be put in place that “is capable of guaranteeing respect for life and human rights, containing death and suffering.”
They urged an end to interceptions of migrant ships by the Libyan coast guard, which they called a violation of international law since Libya is not regarded as a safe port by the EU or the United Nations.
And they called on Europe to agree to disembark migrants in the nearest port, “avoiding days of waiting in physically and psychologically vulnerable conditions, as is happening today for the Ocean Viking.”
The groups participating in the meeting were Doctors without Borders, Mediterranea, Open Arms, Pilotes Volontaires, Sea Eye, Sea Watch and SOS Meditterranee.
Lamorgese’s office called the meeting “a first step towards launching an exchange between the parties,” the news agency ANSA reported.
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As Mentioned in Episode 78 – The Eye Killers and Other Cautionary Tales
October 11, 2015 As Mentioned, As Mentioned 8 comments
Listen to the episode here!
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/18/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
We missed you, hawk ‘hawk! (Uncanny X-Men #220)
Well, THAT can’t be good. (Uncanny X-Men #220)
It’s somehow creepier that he turns out to be a hologram. (Uncanny X-Men #220)
Mugging at the camera and grinning evilly is a big Naze thing. (Uncanny X-Men #220)
Mister Sinister’s full-page debut! (Uncanny X-Men #221)
Look at this glorious sonofabitch. (Uncanny X-Men #221)
“Spirit and soul” still counts. Take a drink. (Uncanny X-Men #221)
Madelyne Pryor is no one’s damsel in distress. (Uncanny X-Men #221)
Depictions of sound in visual media are really fascinating. This is one of the cooler effects! (Uncanny X-Men #222)
More sound and speech balloons. (Uncanny X-Men #222)
In case you need an additional reason not to masturbate with a cactus: apparently that’s how you get eye-killers. (Uncanny X-Men #222)
“Also, you’re lousy in bed and you’re never going to finish your dissertation.” (Uncanny X-Men #222)
Things more metal than this cover: NONE OF THEM. (Uncanny X-Men #223)
HI, MURDER GRAMPAS! We missed you! (Uncanny X-Men #223)
Well, shit. (Uncanny X-Men #223)
That time Storm caught a fish like a bear. (Uncanny X-Men #223)
One of my favorite weird details of this era is Wolverine wearing that cowboy hat all the damn time, and no one ever commenting on it. (Uncanny X-Men #223)
I’m gonna go ahead and say that Madelyne Pryor gets the rawest deal in X-Men, and this is only the first act. (Uncanny X-Men #223)
Oh, dear. (Uncanny X-Men #223)
SPOILER: This will not end well. (Uncanny X-Men #223)
Instead of a clever caption, I’m just gonna drop this link to Native Appropriations. (Uncanny X-Men #224)
The staging here is spectacularly classic-romance-comic. (Uncanny X-Men #224)
Even the happy moments in this arc are really damn depressing. (Uncanny X-Men #224)
Well, fuck. (Uncanny X-Men #224)
NEXT WEEK: X-Men vs. Avengers!
Links & Further Reading:
For more on Storm, Forge, and “Lifedeath: A Love Story,” listen to Episode 31 – Chekhov’s Raygun!
Navaho Religion: A Study in Symbolism, by Gladys Amanda Reichard
78 – The Eye Killers and Other Cautionary Tales
October 11, 2015 podcasts 54 comments
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In which we persevere in the face of adversity; Storm goes on a quest; Mr. Sinister makes his first appearance; Dazzler learns about teamwork (again); it still sucks to be Havok (but not as much as it sucks to be Madelyne Pryor); you should probably put down that cactus; the Murder Grampas join Freedom Force; Storm’s life is a metal-album cover; and the X-Men are doomed as hell.
X-Plained:
The Mr. Sinister / Summers family time loop
Uncanny X-Men #220-224
Actual and potential origins of Mr. Sinister’s name
How Longshot’s powers work in combat
Teamwork (again)
Representing sound and silence in a visual medium
A protracted fight
Forge (again)
Naze (kind of)
The Adversary
Eye Killers
One of many reasons not to masturbate with a cactus
The X-Men in San Francisco
Madelyne Pryor vs. fate
Storm vs. Forge
Character names vs. code names
X-Makeovers
NEXT WEEK: X-Men vs. Avengers
You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!
Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!
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As Mentioned in Episode 72 – Thrown Under the Plot Bus
August 30, 2015 As Mentioned, As Mentioned 3 comments
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/30/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
Mutant X Cyclops is the best Cyclops.
Surprise Walter Simons cover! YAYBO! (Uncanny X-Men #217)
The Opening Gimmick Who Cried Wolf. (Uncanny X-Men #217)
Banshee is good at adulting. (Uncanny X-Men #217)
“Seriously, guys, it’s like the whole theme of the book. I mean, aside from fighting to protect a world that hates and fears us.” (Uncanny X-Men #217)
Whether Douglas the Gentle Freak is the Doonesbury-universe version of Cypher remains a mystery. (We’d like to think so, though.)
Damn, Callisto. That’s cold. (Uncanny X-Men #217)
You do you, Alison. (Uncanny X-Men #217)
2/3 of Juggernaut fights begin with some variation of this scene (kilt negotiable). (Uncanny X-Men #217)
Um. (Uncanny X-Men #217)
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE (Uncanny X-Men #217)
I don’t know if there’s a word for what’s going on with Rogue’s hair, but it is AMAZING. (Uncanny X-Men #218)
AND THAT’S WHY YOU ALWAYS LEAVE A NOTE! (Uncanny X-Men #218)
“Y’all enjoy your group hug. I’m just gonna FLING THIS FUCKING ROCK INTO SPACE.” (Uncanny X-Men #218)
Aw, Longshot. (Uncanny X-Men #218)
I know this story is all about teamwork, but Rogue definitely wins MVP of Uncanny X-Men #218.
‘Kay. (Uncanny X-Men #218)
The really great thing about this reference is that there’s also a Brigadier Lethbridge Stuart running around UK-616. I bet they get each other’s mail all the time. (Uncanny X-Men #218)
Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted, Havok! (Uncanny X-Men #218)
Car Wreck Sex: The Alex Summers Story. (Uncanny X-Men #218)
This plotline will continue to dangle for like a year and a half. (Uncanny X-Men #218)
Take a drink. (Uncanny X-Men #219)
Damn, kid. (Uncanny X-Men #219)
Please let us know if you can work out the timeline here, because we’ve basically stopped sleeping, and it’s not pretty. (Uncanny X-Men #219)
I always figured Magneto would have way nicer penmanship than this. (Uncanny X-Men #219)
Lorna, you can FUCK WITH MAGNETIC FIELDS WITH YOUR MIND, AND ONE TIME YOU THREW AN ISLAND INTO SPACE. Are you really that surprised at a freak earthquake? (Uncanny X-Men #219)
If the X-line were a sitcom, they’d totally have cut from here to Scott arguing with hallucinations over in X-Factor. (Uncanny X-Men #219)
It’s okay. Everyone will be too distracted by your hat to notice the tights. (Uncanny X-Men #219)
Our heroes and yours! (Uncanny X-Men #219)
THAT. HAIR. (Uncanny X-Men #219)
NEXT WEEK: Origins of X-Men: Evolution, with Robert N. Skir!
FURTHER LISTENING:
Special thanks to the wonderful Adam Warrock for letting us sample his song “Teamwork” in this episode! You can listen to the full track here, and find more of Adam’s work at adamwarrock.com!
72 – Thrown Under the Plot Bus
August 30, 2015 podcasts 52 comments
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/6/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
In which Dazzler is not a team player; Longshot is the Zonker Harris of the X-Men; Juggernaut is That Guy; Rachel and Miles channel Statler and Waldorf; and Alex Summers is seriously never, ever going to finish grad school.
The only well-adjusted Scott Summers in the Multiverse
The Goblin Entity
The evolution of the X-Men’s lineup
Standards for a good twist
Several Dungeons & Dragons analogies
A dubious literary allusion
Flying jeeps
CrimeBros
The fundamental tragedy of Longshot
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and several homages thereto
Geordie and Rupert
Havok (more) (again)
Car-wreck sex
An unfortunate end to a camping trip
The Plot Bus
Several ways to stat Rogue up as a D&D character
Narrative-friendly power sets
The wonderful Adam Warrock, for letting us sample his song “Teamwork” in this episode! You can listen to the full track here, and find more of Adam’s work at adamwarrock.com.
Harrison Barber for his X-Pert D&D advice (not to mention nearly fifteen years of tolerating our nonsense at the gaming table)!
NEXT WEEK: X-Men: Evolution with Robert N. Skir!
As Mentioned in Episode 66 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 2
July 20, 2015 As Mentioned, As Mentioned 4 comments
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 7/26/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
If this week’s illustration reminds you of last week’s, that’s because they’re two parts of this rad panorama! Again, prints are available until 7/26/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
Mystique, what are you even doing? (X-Factor #9)
This, again. (X-Factor #9)
Passing privilege in action! (X-Factor #9)
That’s actually pretty clever. (X-Factor #9)
MOPPETS. (X-Factor #9)
Meanwhile in Apartment 3G… (X-Factor #10)
WRONG CHOICE, ANGEL. (X-Factor #10)
One horseman down, three to go. (X-Factor #10)
Damn, Jean. (X-Factor #10)
Ouch. (X-Factor #10)
There is never a worst time to be a Power kid than during an X-line crossover. (Power Pack #27)
Everyone hates X-Factor. (Power Pack #27)
It really does kind of cheapen Sabretooth’s menace when a bunch of kids can take him down–even these kids. (Power Pack #27)
COMICS FOR KIDS. (Power Pack #27)
And then everything was sad forever. (Power Pack #27)
BEHOLD THIS MAJESTIC THUNDER GOD AND HIS MAJESTIC BEARD! (The Mighty Thor #373)
No, but seriously, though. (The Mighty Thor #373)
Thor has frog friends. (The Mighty Thor #373)
Have we mentioned that we love Thor? We love Thor. (The Mighty Thor #373)
There’s a reason that Walter Simonson is the gold standard for epic dialogue. (The Mighty Thor #374)
Aw. (The Mighty Thor #374)
There’s a lot of straight-up killing on the hero side of this event. (The Mighty Thor #374)
(X-Men #9, specifically.) (The Mighty Thor #374)
Thor: Definitely the best dude you know. (The Mighty Thor #374)
It’s funny, because miscommunication. (X-Factor #11)
“Run! It’s a crossover issue!” (X-Factor #11)
X-Factor drinking game: Drink every time someone has to explain the relationship between X-Factor and the X-Terminators. (X-Factor #11)
Halfway there, Apocalypse! (X-Factor #11)
On the upside: Boom-Boom! (X-Factor #11)
NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants party like it’s 1299!
LINKS & FURTHER READING
Listen to Episode 65–The Mutant Massacre, Part 1–here!
You can find the Mutant Massacre reading order here.
Have you read Walter Simonson’s run of The Mighty Thor yet? You should really go do that. It starts here.
66 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 2
July 20, 2015 podcasts 25 comments
In which we wrap up our first official two-parter; Gambit ruins everything; Rachel has a theory about Mister Sinister; Marvel communication technology is behind the times; Trish Tilby is tired of your bullshit; Walter Simonson is the best of the best; X-Factor pulls it together; Power Pack gets uncomfortably dark; Miles has Thor feelings; and even more mutants die.
NOTE: This episode is the second of a two-parter! If you haven’t listened to Episode 65, where we cover the first half of the mutant massacre, you should probably do that before you listen to this one!
Tentacle disambiguation
More of the Mutant Massacre
A Sinister hypothesis
Several Marauder-related retcons
X-Factor #9-11
Power Pack #27
The Mighty Thor #373-374
Trish Tilby
Artie & Leech
Several awkward reunions
Walter Simonson
The fall of Angel
Apocalypse’s horsemen
Yet another crossover that will probably scar the Power kids for life
Franklin Richards
Thor, Donald Blake, and Sigurd Jarlson
The best issue of any comic, ever.
The Tunnelers
Ongoing repercussions of the Mutant Massacre
Rachel & Miles’s horseman identities
Which X-Men could and should wield Mjolnir
July 13, 2015 As Mentioned, As Mentioned 10 comments
Listen to the episode here.
And so it begins. (Uncanny X-Men #210)
Dazzler vs. Dazzler. (Uncanny X-Men #210)
We’d make a joke about taking a drink for every X-Men/X-Factor near miss, but you’d die of alcohol poisoning before the end of the crossover. (Uncanny X-Men #210)
Aw, Colossus. (Uncanny X-Men #210)
Not sure why Alanis Morisette didn’t bring this up in “Ironic.” (Uncanny X-Men #210)
Good job Kitty. (Uncanny X-Men #210)
Well, damn. (Uncanny X-Men #210)
There’s something really unsettlingly cheery and Silver-Age about this page. (Uncanny X-Men #211)
No idea who the purple individual is, which is a shame, because they seem awesome. (Uncanny X-Men #211)
STORM, NO! DON’T SPLIT THE PARTY! (Uncanny X-Men #211)
Whoa. (Uncanny X-Men #211)
This is the closest they’ll come to an actual conversation until Inferno. (Uncanny X-Men #211)
Whoops. (Uncanny X-Men #211)
So, THAT happened. (Uncanny X-Men #211)
Dani Moonstar’s powers are METAL AS FUCK. (New Mutants #46)
“My powers are limited to the counterculture.” (New Mutants #46)
Powerlessness and the sense of being able to accomplish too little too late are pervasive themes in the Mutant Massacre. (New Mutants #46)
Everything’s sadder when teenagers are reacting to it. (New Mutants #46)
Well, shit. (New Mutants #46)
How have they not learned to listen to Doug by now? He is ALWAYS RIGHT. (New Mutants #46)
Cold, Wolverine. (Uncanny X-Men #212)
In her defense, everything is in fact well and truly fucked. (Uncanny X-Men #212)
And again. See what I meant about the alcohol-poisoning thing? (Uncanny X-Men #212)
You can, however, take a drink when Storm takes off her clothes for no clear reason. (Uncanny X-Men #212)
First mention of the man with the plan! (Uncanny X-Men #212)
Well done, Wolverine! (Uncanny X-Men #212)
I don’t care who you are: Callisto is better at leadership than you. (Uncanny X-Men #212)
It’s cool. It’s just Thor; we’ll be covering that stuff next episode. (Uncanny X-Men #212)
Psylocke’s psychic projection is adorable and also super creepy. (Uncanny X-Men #213)
Betsy Braddock is hardcore. (Uncanny X-Men #213)
Two classic Claremontisms… (Uncanny X-Men #213)
…on a single page. (Uncanny X-Men #213)
Damn, Psylocke. (Uncanny X-Men #213)
How much do we love Psylocke’s totally femme-princess superhero costume? SO MUCH. (Uncanny X-Men #213)
Next Week: The Mutant Massacre, Part 2!
If you want to follow along with the crossover, you can find a guide to the reading order–and how we’re dividing it between episodes–here.
In which we hit the first big X-centric crossover; a lot of Morlocks die; X-Factor is a dark farce; Kitty Pryde talks down a mob without using racial slurs; when Doug Ramsey tells you there’s a problem, you listen; and Callisto should be one of the iconic leaders of the Marvel Universe.
Death by intellectual-property dispute
The Mutant Massacre
Mutant Massacres that might have been
New Mutants #46
The Marauders
The best way to guarantee the New Mutants’ involvement in a storyline
Limbo fashion
The responsibility of leadership
Wolverine vs. Sabretooth
Psylocke vs. Sabretooth
The evolution of crossovers
Characters we’d like to see more of post-Secret Wars
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Because It's About Time Someone Did
As Mentioned in Episode 280 – Business-Casual Basilisk
280 – Business-Casual Basilisk
As Mentioned in Episode 279 – Giant-Size Special #8
279 – Giant-Size Special #8
As Mentioned in Episode 278 – A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
Suleman on 280 – Business-Casual Basilisk
Podcast Roundup: Jan 17, 2020 – PDX Comic Arts on 279 – Giant-Size Special #8
Michael on FAQ
90sRF on 280 – Business-Casual Basilisk
Pat Gunter on 280 – Business-Casual Basilisk
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Lernlandschaften
Project Name Lernlandschaften Posted in Interior Design Year 2019
Contemporary school design has moved away from the traditional blueprint of identical, single-use classrooms embracing instead more fluid layouts and multi-functional spaces. This is all well and good for new educational projects but what about the existing school fabric? Enter Swiss design studio ZMIK whose latest endeavour, “Learning Scapes”, showcases the power of design to create modern learning environments even in age-old historic buildings like St. Johann primary school in Basel, Switzerland, which was built in the 1880s in the Neo-Renaissance style. Playfully integrated into the school’s historic building fabric, ZMIK’s intervention has transformed three corridors into open-plan, hybrid learning and recreation areas that cater to multiple types of pedagogy, from group exercises to individual work, and from activity-based learning to reading and discussions.
Based on both the teachers and students’ ideas and requirements, each corridor is divided into five zones: a central recreation area flanked on either side by a cloakroom and a “landscaped” learning zone which are separated by zigzagging timber partitions. Conceived as portals, the cloakrooms buffer the learning and recreation areas from the staircases, allowing the students not only to leave their coats, bags and shoes behind but also their troubles. Made out of slatted oak surfaces, the zigzagging partitions echo the material and herringbone pattern of the parquet floors, firmly anchoring the intervention into the historic building fabric.
The topography of the terraced learning landscapes shifts along the length of the corridors in order to create a variety of spaces on different levels. Slides, balancing beams and bouncy balls inject fun and games into the learning process, alcoves and niches with names such as the “perch” and the “cave” act as retreats, while various built-in work surfaces allow for individual and group study. This is not to say that everything is strictly designed for a particular use, on the contrary, the designers have opted for hybrid uses; the “lizard tail” for example can be used as a balancing beam, desk or back rest.
Unfolding alongside the building’s windows, the learning zones are blessed with plenty of natural light, supplemented by a dynamic lighting system integrated in the acoustic umbrellas that playfully hover above. Featuring a mix of textures such as linoleum, carpet and textiles in green, ranging from shades of pistachio through to lime, which perfectly complement the oxide-red wainscoting, the “learning scapes” certainly stand out chromatically against the stately elegance of the historic building, whilst spatially and conceptually updating the curriculum of contemporary school design.
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MAD Architects Revitalize Beijing's Historic Building Fabric with Futuristic Elan
Architecture 09 December 2019
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Microservices: The latest twist in distributed computing
We've always been trying to break down the monoliths, but now it's more urgent.
By Joe McKendrick for Service Oriented | May 16, 2017 -- 02:27 GMT (19:27 PDT) | Topic: Enterprise Software
There's a new wave of technology -- especially microservices and containers -- which seeks to break down all the monoliths and silos that have sprung up across enterprise systems over the years. But is this really a new mode of computing, or simply, as they say, old wine in a new bottle?
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This and other questions were explored at a panel, convened at the recent Voxxed Days Bristol conference, that looked at the issues and opportunities in today's IT environment.
"There's been this big movement toward decomposing monoliths into microservices, and sticking them into containers, or sticking them out into cloud," said Dan Hardiker, chief technical officer at Adaptavist.com and moderator of the event. "It looks like the future is .. more of this stuff. But aren't we just swapping one set of problems we're familiar with with one set of problems we're not?" he asked.
To Simon Ritter, deputy CTO for Azul Systems, microservices and containers are "just another distributed computing environment," with the added "novelty" of the "circuit breakers" in microservices.
"A lot of the problems you're going to have in microservices are the same as the problems we've always faced in computing," said Ritter. "Such as, how do you deal with reliability? All those microservices are cool because they make things smaller and easy to many chunks.. different pieces. However, when you push the balloon on one side and it bulges out the other side."
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Still, we're living and working in a different IT world than even existed a few years ago. "It's still the same old things were trying to solve," agreed Paul Jenkins, product manager for IaaS offerings for Oracle. "What has changed is that the technology and the infrastructure underneath that support it has taken on a lot of this stuff that you had to worry about before... It's actually about functionality and value add -- actually iterating and getting functionality."
Kate Stanley, software engineer at IBM UK, also sees a different world emerging that is quite different than the typical IT landscapes just a few years ago. "There are definite motivators for this -- including cloud," she said. "We are moving to cloud and pushing things into someone else's data center rather than our own."
Add to that the complexity of today's systems, combined with pressure to deliver. Previously, enterprises had to weigh the costs and aggravation of taking on the complexity of highly distributed systems versus the potential benefits of agility and flexibility. "The thing we haven't seen before is we're seeing more and more people iterate faster and deliver faster," said Stanley. "It's no longer a case of bring something new out every year. You need to bring out every week or every hour even. Maybe the complexity the system added wasn't worth the reward that it got for me to move faster. Now the rewards are greater. So it's worth taking on the complexity."
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Report: Apple's 21.5-inch 4K iMac launches next week, iPad Pro follows 3 weeks later
Apple's 4K iMac desktop didn't make it into last month's press event; expect to see it available next week from Apple with the iPad Pro during the first week of November.
By Kevin Tofel for Mobile Platforms | October 6, 2015 -- 20:19 GMT (13:19 PDT) | Topic: Apple
Apple's iMac with Retina 5K display has a resolution of 5,120 by 2,880-pixels. Image: Apple
Last month, Apple held a jam-packed press event where it launched the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPad Pro, watchOS 2 and Apple TV update. Perhaps it was too jam-packed because the 21.5-inch 4K iMac that has been hinted at for months didn't make an appearance.
That's set to change as early as next week, according to 9to5 Mac. The site's sources say the smaller iMac is ready for its upgrade with a 4096 x 2304 display and Mac OS X El Capitan pre-loaded. Indeed, it was code in El Capitan that provided the first clues of such a desktop.
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Don't expect a big launch event though.
Instead, I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple quietly update its online store and product page next week, along with sending out a press release on the new 4K iMac. Pricing is still an unknown, of course, so figure at least a $200 to $300 premium over the standard, current iMac desktops.
While Apple already announced the iPad Pro -- I'm still on the fence if I could use one full-time -- the company said to expect it sometime in November.
9to5 Mac says iPad Pro availability will follow the new 4K iMac by a few weeks, launching in early November. That's good: It gives me more time to consider my purchase options now that there's a new Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book in the mix so I can stop carrying a laptop and a tablet around.
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Police divided on whether Dayton gunman targeted sister
By DAN SEWELL and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press |
Updated: Tue 9:10 PM, Aug 13, 2019
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Investigators are split on whether the Dayton shooter intentionally killed his sister, who was one of the first nine he killed, the city's police chief said Tuesday.
Megan Betts, left, was killed in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. Her brother Connor Betts right, was identified as the suspect (Source: Moira Cofer Betts / Facebook)
Text messages show Connor Betts knew where his sister was when he began shooting, but what's not known is whether he could see her standing under an umbrella at a taco stand, Chief Richard Biehl said at a news conference.
The evidence is so far inconclusive on whether the 24-year-old gunman targeted his 22-year-old sister, Megan, two hours after they arrived with a friend at Dayton's Oregon entertainment district.
"If we can't seem to make that call conclusively — that we're divided about how, whether that was intentional or not — I think it's inconclusive," Biehl said.
Authorities have been trying to piece together a motive and other factors that led to the mass shooting Aug 4.
A video of pieced-together surveillance from businesses showed Betts before the shooting with his sister and their friend, and again after he went to his car and changed into a black hoodie, put on body armor and retrieved a gun from the trunk.
Betts was very familiar with the area and its night spots and had been there the night before, the police chief said. It's clear he had a plan for the mass shooting, although why he chose that place at that time is still being investigated, the police chief said.
Betts killed nine people and wounded at least 17 others before they killed him, police said. Previously, police and hospital officials said at least 14 people suffered gunshots.
The coroner's report will determine whether anyone besides the shooter was hit by police, Biehl said.
Authorities said Tuesday that a friend, Ethan Kollie, bought armor and a 100-round magazine for Betts, authorities said. But there was no evidence he knew what Betts planned, they said.
Kollie will appear Wednesday in federal court. His attorney said he has been cooperating with investigators.
"He was as shocked and surprised as everyone else that Mr. Betts committed the massacre," attorney Nick Gounaris said Monday.
Prosecutors accused Kollie of lying about not using marijuana on federal firearms forms in the purchase of a pistol that wasn't used in the shooting.
Police have said there was nothing in Betts' background to prevent him from buying the gun.
The weapon was purchased online from a dealer in Texas and shipped to another firearms dealer in the Dayton area, police said.
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Two state lawmakers Monday reintroduced legislation that would restrict access to guns. One bill would establish universal background checks. The second would raise the minimum age for all gun purchases to 21.
Seewer reported from Toledo.
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A towable backhoe is a type of backhoe that can be transported by a vehicle, such as truck. It is hitched or attached to the vehicle so that it can be moved from location to location by the vehicle that is towing the backhoe. For projects that require the backhoe to be easily moved, a towable backhoe may be an easier and more affordable option.
This type of backhoe tends to be smaller than a tractor or traditional backhoe. Its smaller size allows it to fit into smaller spaces, making it ideal for specific jobs. The smaller size of the backhoe also means that it can be towed by a tractor, riding lawn mower, or ATV, in addition to a car, truck or other vehicle.
Large and traditional backhoes may require transport on the back of a flat bed truck, for example. This can add additional cost to getting the backhoe where it is needed to complete digging projects. Purchasing a towable backhoe can alleviate the cost of renting a backhoe when there is an ongoing need for the use of backhoes, such as for construction companies and contractors.
Storage is also easier with a towable backhoe. Its smaller size allows the owner to store it in a shed, garage or covered area. In some cases, it can even be stored outside, covered with a tarp or completely uncovered. While traditional backhoes can be stored on a property, the mammoth size of some of these machines makes it difficult to find a space to store the machine, where it is not in the way.
A towable backhoe can be used while it is still attached to the towing vehicle. It is also usable after unhitching the machine from the towing vehicle. In other words, it is a versatile and flexible piece of machinery. For ripping or lifting, leaving the backhoe attached to the towing vehicle gives it stability. If the towing vehicle is needed elsewhere, however, the towable backhoe can easily be removed from the vehicle so that both pieces of machinery can be used when and where needed.
Almost all of the major manufacturers of backhoes manufacture towable models. Some sources even offer directions on how consumers can build their own towable backhoe and save money in the process.
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Tybee votes for new LED lights, but not in turtle nesting areas
Updated: 11:16 PM EDT Jun 23, 2016
Amanda Foster
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WJCL) - Tammy Smith of the Tybee Sea Turtle Project says sea turtles can be distracted by any artificial lighting at all."TV's inside of windows can be a distraction, lamps, computer screens, porch lights," Smith says.The new initiative to bring LED streetlights to Tybee Island targets residential areas, for benefits like safety and cost efficiency.When so many of the local sea turtle nests are close to residential areas, city leaders are working to make sure the lights do not harm those animals.That is why Thursday, city council passed approval for Georgia Power to install new LED lights in most areas only to the west of Butler Avenue.They want to keep the bright white lights away from the island's main beaches along and to the east of Butler Avenue.Smith says this is a good idea, as baby sea turtles can confuse bright white lights like those of the LED fixtures with the light of the moon, which they follow to get to the ocean."Anything that's close to the beach and casts a shadow on the beach can cause those babies to go in the wrong direction, ending up in pools, dunes, in the street, instead of in the ocean where we want them to go," Smith says.Georgia Power is now looking toward other improved, turtle-friendly lighting for Tybee's beaches. The city will be waiting to replace the lighting there until those are available.For now, the new lights will cost the city upfront about $15,000 more than the old ones, per year.
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WJCL) - Tammy Smith of the Tybee Sea Turtle Project says sea turtles can be distracted by any artificial lighting at all.
"TV's inside of windows can be a distraction, lamps, computer screens, porch lights," Smith says.
The new initiative to bring LED streetlights to Tybee Island targets residential areas, for benefits like safety and cost efficiency.
When so many of the local sea turtle nests are close to residential areas, city leaders are working to make sure the lights do not harm those animals.
That is why Thursday, city council passed approval for Georgia Power to install new LED lights in most areas only to the west of Butler Avenue.
They want to keep the bright white lights away from the island's main beaches along and to the east of Butler Avenue.
Smith says this is a good idea, as baby sea turtles can confuse bright white lights like those of the LED fixtures with the light of the moon, which they follow to get to the ocean.
"Anything that's close to the beach and casts a shadow on the beach can cause those babies to go in the wrong direction, ending up in pools, dunes, in the street, instead of in the ocean where we want them to go," Smith says.
Georgia Power is now looking toward other improved, turtle-friendly lighting for Tybee's beaches. The city will be waiting to replace the lighting there until those are available.
For now, the new lights will cost the city upfront about $15,000 more than the old ones, per year.
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Top 10 best-selling cigarette brands in Egypt
Cleopatra (soft pack) tops list with total sales of 120m cigarettes daily, while Cleopatra Box (hard pack) sell 60m cigarettes daily
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Locally made cigarette brands dominated the Egyptian market, selling about 191m cigarettes daily, compared to 92m cigarettes from foreign brands.
Daily News Egypt obtained a list of the best-selling cigarette brands in Egypt, in which Cleopatra Queen (soft pack) and Cleopatra King Size topped the list with 120m cigarettes daily. The two types are sold for EGP 16 and EGP 15.50 per pack, respectively, after the last price hike of EGP 0.75 following the implementation of the comprehensive health insurance law.
Cleopatra Box (hard pack) Gold, Red, and Blue came second with total sales of 60m cigarettes daily. They are sold for EGP 17 per pack. Egypt’s Eastern Company produces all types of Cleopatra.
Meanwhile, L&M Blue and Red, owned by Philip Morris, ranked third, with total sales of 45m cigarettes daily. They are currently sold for EGP 29 per pack.
British American Tobacco (BAT)’s Pall Mall was the fourth best-selling cigarette brand in Egypt, with total sales of 15m cigarettes daily. It is currently sold for EGP 24 per pack, followed by Marlboro Red and Gold, produced by Phillip Morris, with total daily sales of 12m cigarettes and priced at EGP 37 per pack.
Cleopatra Super seized the sixth rank, selling 11m cigarettes daily, priced at EGP 18 per pack, followed by Phillip Morris’ Merit with sales of 10m cigarettes daily, priced at EGP 40 per pack.
In the eighth rank came Winston, produced by Japan Tobacco International, which sold 5m cigarettes daily, at EGP 27 per pack. Viceroy produced jointly by the Eastern Company and BAT, ranked ninth with total sales of 3m cigarettes daily, priced at EGP 24 per pack. Rothmans, produced by BAT, came in the 10th place with total sales of 2m cigarettes daily, priced at EGP 27 per pack.
Egypt produces about 278m cigarettes daily, excluding weekends and official holidays, through the state-run Eastern Company, which monopolises the production of cigarettes in Egypt.
The Eastern Company accounts for 71-72% of the cigarette market in Egypt, producing most of the cigarette brands in the lower segment and some of the brands in the middle segment.
The company’s middle segment brands are produced in partnership with foreign companies, such as Pall Mall, which is produced jointly with BAT.
The Eastern Company sells about 62bn cigarettes annually, while its nearest competitor, Phillip Morris, sells about 19bn cigarettes.
Despite significant price hikes and taxes imposed in the past years, cigarette sales continue to grow, reaching 87.5bn cigarettes annually.
Cigarette companies seek to maintain their market shares in Egypt, which is the world’s eighth largest cigarette market, according to BAT.
The Eastern Company’s profits jumped by 161% in the first half of last fiscal year to reach EGP 2.3bn, compared to EGP 890m in the same period of the prior fiscal year. This increase in profits came in favour of the government plan to sell a stake of the Eastern Company on the stock market this year, as part of a larger plan to expand the ownership of a number of state-run companies.
The government intends to offer 4.5% of the Eastern Company, a subsidiary of Chemical Industries Holding Company, on the stock market, bringing the offered share to 49.5%, while the government holds the controlling stake of 50.5%.
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Stranger Things (Season 1 Review)
By Ben Wright (@iamzavagno | www.xgeeks.co.uk)
It has been one of the most hyped TV shows in recent memory, but does Stranger Things live up to the hype? Or is the show getting more praise than it deserves?
Stranger Things does not shy away from the fact that it is a Stephen King and Steven Spielberg ‘greatest hits’ mixtape of a show. Throw in The Goonies, Super 8, X-Files and E.T for good measure and you have a winning formula for a compelling series. But while you can identify certain traits and themes from other media, the way in which the Duffer Brothers have sewn these threads together to create such a magnificent show is outstanding.
The length of the season has a big part to play to ensure the show is as good as it can be. Eight episodes seemed the ideal number, ensuring that there wasn’t any padding or filler episodes to slow the storytelling down.
If this was a twenty episode series the quality may have took a dip in the middle. Instead we got the right amount of episodes to tell a great story that left you feeling extremely satisfied at the end. It also made the show much easier to binge watch! (We did it in one go).
The sets, props and clothing were all stunning and you truly felt like you were watching a true piece of 80s history. The attention to detail in every aspect of the show’s design and aesthetic was phenomenal.
Another aspect that really helped to give extra life to the show was the music. This was an original score of pure 80s synth goodness. The music was just as important to the show as the writing was, it helped to add an extra layer on top.
But when you strip away the heavy nostalgia and let those giddy feelings subside, you are still left with some tremendous storytelling and filmmaking of the highest quality. So for the naysayers who think people only like it because of the pop cultural references, you are so wrong. Stranger Things is as close to a flawless show as you will get.
The show has everything! Science fiction, horror, comedy, romance, drama and a plenty of heart and warmth. With so many elements making up the fabric of the show, there is such a mass appeal that the show has been able to find a much wider audience. As great as the Marvel and Netflix shows are, they are not able to reach out to a wider target audience like Stranger Things can.
You can have all the best props, sets and writing in the world, if you don’t get the casting right your show could suffer. This was not the case for Stranger Things.
The standouts in the adult cast were David Harbour and Winona Ryder. You feel like you have only just scratched the surface of Harbour’s character. There is so much story to be told there and his performance throughout the series was a joy to watch.
As for Ryder, she truly brought her A-game that is sometimes lacking in some of the projects she takes on. As a single mother going through such an ordeal you truly devoted your time and heart in to her character. She helped bring a level of gravitas to the show with such a mixed array of emotions and performances.
In terms of the child cast you could not have got it better if you tried. The ensemble of Finn Wolfhard (Mike), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas) and Noah Schnapp (Will) had a great chemistry throughout the show. There was highs and lows, fallouts and brotherhood. The dynamism between them was truly absorbing viewing.
The stand out star of the child cast was of course Millie Bobby Brown as 11 or El. The complexity of her character was fascinating. On the surface she seemed new to everything, but behind that lack of familiarity of the world lurked power and knowledge that most of us could only dream about. The striking contrast between her fragility and tremendous strength was such a joy to watch. Millie also produced some of the greatest eye acting you will ever see on screen. No. Seriously. Go back and watch it. The emotions she was able to express without even opening her mouth was remarkable.
So what about Season 2? While there has been no official confirmation from Netflix yet, you can fully expect that it will happen. The Duffer Brothers and cast have already been talking about their hopes and the themes that a second season will cover. And if it is anything close to being as good as Season 1 then Netflix might just have in their hands one of the greatest TV shows in recent times.
Stranger Things is a phenomenal combination of filmmaking and storytelling interspersed with nostalgia and a plethora of genres to create a simply outstanding piece of television. The horror and sci-fi is balanced with the heart and soul of childhood friendship and determination. With an exceptional cast and aesthetic, Stranger Things does not only live up to the hype. It exceeds it.
Stranger Things is available on Netflix now.
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by Xianna Michaels | Aug 1, 2018 | Books
I am utterly delighted to share that I received the advance copies of my new book, The Sorcerer Queen, scheduled for release on August 28th. It is such a thrill for me to hold that first copy of a new book in my hand.
Even though I have written the book, revised, revised and copy-edited till I know it almost by heart; even though I’ve done the artwork and worked countless hours with my art director on the layout; even though I’ve seen the galley proofs plus what’s called a cover dye-strike in advance—even though all of the above, to have that first copy hot off the press at last is always a sublimely joyful experience! And it’s an experience that actually gets more, not less, exciting every time I bring out a new book.
Perhaps that’s because each book begins as an ephemeral idea, like the proverbial gleam in the eye, or perhaps a whisper from a character from a time or place I never imagined, or a line or two that I find I’ve written without any conscious intention. And then as the days pass, the wispy, dream-like thoughts become more insistent, more coherent, and I realize there’s a story waiting to be told, and a book waiting to materialize. And when it finally does, it really is a dream come true.
So I held The Sorcerer Queen in my hands and looked over every page and laughed and cried at the same time. And then I did what I always do with the first copy of each new book: I set it on a tiny easel on an antique table framed by a gold-leaf mirror and two brass lamps with green hanging crystals and cherubs on the base. And suddenly I realized there were four books on the table and it was actually getting crowded!
And then it hit me—this is my fourth book in four years! I honestly did not realize that I’d been working that fast. But I love what I do and my work completely energizes me, so I keep going. And yes, I’m halfway through Book#5, but more about that later.
The Sorcerer Queen is one of several books that I have planned that I call medieval tapestries of verse. It’s a whimsical young adult fantasy about a kingdom cursed for nearly a century, the king who tries to undo the curse, and his mysterious, hidden adversary. I think the layout and artwork reflect the playful nature of the story, but it also has its serious side, since it can be read as a spiritual allegory about our necessary journeys through darkness into light. Stay tuned for more as the launch gets closer!
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25 years and the start of a new era
JP Shelburn, Managing Director
Yes, it’s been 25 years since the first XL utility service body rolled off the production line. Since 1991, Nick and Kerrie Korganow have built a genuine manufacturing icon. XL Service Bodies continues to be 100% Australian today and remains as committed as ever to producing world-class products using local materials and expertise and a fully local workforce. These are exciting times! Through numerous changes of government, XL has evolved and grown, defiantly bucking the trend to send manufacturing overseas. Instead, the company has focused on implementing cutting edge production methods and nurturing a culture of deep innovation.
Unending evolution drives growth
In everything we do, we are always moving forward. We are extremely proud of our unwavering commitment to improving safety, productivity and compliance for our customers. This, in fact, is one element of our business that keeps us head and shoulders above competitors. We have wholeheartedly embraced technology so that, today, we have our own internal web-based manufacturing program which has taken us from analogue to digital in the most exhilarating ways. Our ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system has enabled us to grow the business and what we offer beyond all previous expectations. Tablet devices have become critical tools across our manufacturing operations; they assist us in performing our QA and ISO certification diligence, help all team members stay abreast of output and keep us well supplied with the inventory we need to continue production on a daily basis.
A lot has changed
Over the last 25 years, the work vehicles space has seen tremendous change and a great deal of that has been led by XL. Where the focus used to be on “a place for everything and everything in its place”, much more sophisticated demands have come into play. Today, we address load restraint, payload adherence, OH&S, productivity, user-friendliness and so much more. At XL, we invest enormously in Research & Development and employ some of the best minds in the business to stay on top of changes to legislation, new and improved materials and manufacturing processes and economic fluctuations. Everything we do is designed to deliver the best possible product at any point in time.
A business that has remained true to the tradie
From its humble beginnings to the globally trusted supplier of service bodies that XL has become today, the company has never lost sight of the importance of serving the sole trader plumber or sparky through to major customers across mining, telcos, government, the military and more, both here and abroad. Our foundations were built upon the support of hard-working tradespeople who needed their vehicles to perform as a reliable team member, not just transport them and their tools from point A to point B.
What lies ahead for XL?
The short answer to that is “more of the same”. The long answer is explained in greater detail below. On behalf of the entire team at XL, I would like to humbly thank every customer who has ever entrusted their work vehicle to us, to equip them with service bodies that are built right here for the demanding Australian environment. Here’s to another 25 solid, productive and rewarding years!
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Family succession of the XL business
The other big story of 2016 is that my wife Jeanne and I bought the business from her parents, Nick and Kerrie Korganow. Since XL’s establishment, Nick and Kerrie have been inspiring leaders. Theirs is a business whose workforce features some very long-term employees, some of whom we fully expect to retire from here. Whilst it’s way too soon for Nick and Kerrie to retire completely, they did feel called to pass the baton and I’m very proud to say that Jeanne and I have inherited an exemplary organisation, culture and team.
A little back history
After completing University in California, I flew over to Fiji for a gap year and managed a restaurant and bar on a private surf resort. It was there that I happened to meet Jeanne Korganow, XL’s HR Director. We fell in love, I moved to Australia, we were married and I started out building architectural homes in southeast Queensland for about seven years. Nick and Kerrie approached us about five years ago regarding succeeding the business as they were planning ahead for their retirement. Ultimately, I joined XL in a sales and marketing function and after my first year, settled in as General Manager. I spent a great deal of time learning the ropes, studying and making the odd mistake here and there.
The establishment of SBA
What was glaring to me from the outset was that there was a huge market for larger truck bodies. The more I learned about compliance and overloading of vehicles, the more I realised that the market we’re in is pushing its limits. I set the wheels in motion to bring a whole new genre of manufacturing to our factory. Over an 18-month program, we developed a product called an LSB (Large Service Body), and made the decision to work closely with the market leader in trucks, Isuzu Trucks Australia (IAL). Not wanting to alienate our light vehicle market, we created a new arm called Service Bodies Australia. We even hired independent workers for SBA so that we wouldn’t divert resources or cannibalise our existing market.
Nick remains as a Chairman of sorts or, as he fondly puts it, ‘Old Boss’. (I happily wear the ‘New Boss’ hat.) He and Kerrie have been extremely supportive of all decisions I’ve made and his support gives me great confidence. Kerrie is still the company Bean Counter and is looking forward to retirement and spending more time with the grandchildren.
What will change under my leadership?
I’m already implementing improved business efficiencies and being more proactive in customer service. I’m keen to retain key staff but also to bring in more expertise. Overall, I believe in working towards more of a collaborative, open environment where everyone has some value to add.
What do I see as the direction for XL/SBA?
Undoubtedly, I see our business as dominating. We’ve led the way for two and a half decades and I don’t see that changing. Our direction is towards increasing business and reducing costs, minimising waste, moving even more towards lean manufacturing and delivering better customer satisfaction.
What won’t change is the core values that have seen XL (and now SBA) grow steadily and surely, while firmly gripping the leadership mantle and refusing to let go. We are determined to keep local people in gainful employment and to continue using Australian components absolutely wherever is possible. (You may be surprised to know that XL has purchased Blue Scope steel for the entire 25 years of manufacturing.) Under my leadership – as with Nick and Kerrie’s – there will be no compromise on quality, customer service or continuing innovation.
Service Bodies Australia has hit an all-time high with the development we’re putting into our large service bodies, in partnership with IAL. We’ve given their Servicepack program the green light on 5 different model trucks. By the way, the NLR Servicepack won Light Truck of the Year for 2016 in Delivery Magazine.
To sum up, I’d like to say that XL are currently exporting to 17 nations across the world, to customers in emerging economies to the United States Army. Our products have been copied in Asia and sold worldwide and whilst imitation is certainly a high form of flattery, they’ll never do it to the exceptional standards that we do. over the last 25 years, we’ve manufactured tens of thousands of service bodies. In excess of 2,000 XL service bodies are currently in warranty, doing field service work in every region of the country.
This has been quite the epic communication and I thank you for sticking with me to this point, however our two big news stories had to be told. We look forward to sharing more important news with you as XL and SBA head into the next phase.
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Macnaughton
Macnaughton Expression, Macnaughton Soul Urge, Macnaughton Inner Dream
Additional information Macnaughton:
Scottish Meaning: The name MacNaughton is a Scottish baby name. In Scottish the meaning of the name MacNaughton is: Son of the pure one.
Expression information Macnaughton:
People with this name tend to be passionate, compassionate, intuitive, romantic, and to have magnetic personalities. They are usually humanitarian, broadminded and generous, and tend to follow professions where they can serve humanity. Because they are so affectionate and giving, they may be imposed on. They are romantic and easily fall in love, but may be easily hurt and are sometimes quick-tempered.
Soul information Macnaughton:
People with this name have a deep inner desire to inspire others in a higher cause, and to share their own strongly held views on spiritual matters.
Books about Macnaughton:
Robin MacNaughton's Sun Sign Personality Guide: A Complete Love and Compatibility Guide for Every Sign in the... by Robin MacNaughton (Jan 1, 1997)
The MacNaughton Bride by Carolyn Faulkner (Dec 15, 2009)
Immediate Response. Mark Hammond as Told to Clare Macnaughton by Mark Hammond (Sep 1, 2010)
Macnaughton: Webster's Timeline History, 1755 - 2007 by Icon Group International (Mar 10, 2010)
Contemporary Authors: Biography - Macnaughton, William R(obert) (1939-) (Mar 8, 2005)
MacNaughton Family History by W R McLeod (2009)
R Macnaughton's Sun/ by Robin Macnaughton (Jun 1, 1983)
Wiki information Macnaughton:
Robert MacNaughton
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Robert MacNaughton is an American actor, best known for his role as Elliott's brother Michael in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, for which he won a 1982 Young Artist Award as Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Robert also played the lead...
Ian MacNaughton
TV Director, TV Producer, Award Nominee, Deceased Person, Award Winner, Film director, Person, Film actor, TV Actor
Edward Ian Macnaughton was a Scottish actor-turned-television producer and director, best known for his work with the Monty Python team. MacNaughton was director and producer for all but four of the forty five episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus...
Deirdre, Karina, Aya, Anisa, Nippy, Ife, Ronia, Revelin, Sara, Uchenna, Matthew, Daniel, Brendan, Freddy, Owen, Jacks, Mark, Colin, Wyman, Benjamin,
1928 - Rudy Boesch - American soldier
1929 - Jimmy Cobb - American drummer
Tabuteau Soulurge, Viny Expression, Nentwig Soulurge, Awaz Innerdream, Gastev Innerdream, Slomann Innerdream, Gaspart Expression, Yaka Innerdream, Ozy Innerdream, Meijuan Expression, Appo Innerdream, Madanmanjari Innerdream, Anseeuw Innerdream, Valod Soulurge, Tongkhan Innerdream, Janeea Soulurge, Willerding Soulurge, Arru Innerdream, Chodrow Soulurge, Perchard Expression,
Abega, Quamrul, Lacorazza, Haafiz, Scheinost, Manasvi, Muhameti, Zanti, Croushore, Sandhana, Ekho, Tessala, Decret, Uwa, Jeffr, Nimini, Hades, Haafner, Biencourt, Macnaughton,
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Titans of Media: Google vs. Facebook for Nonprofits
A News Non Profits Technology — 19 March 2018
By Chris Earp, Senior SEM & SEO Manager at Beaconfire Red
“Which media titan should be favored more heavily in your marketing mix?”
Digital marketing is a core strategy element for most nonprofits. Reaching users where they’re most engaged—with the right content, at the right time—is key. Consumer expectations evolve in concert with technology, and organizations that don’t adapt their messaging, fundraising, and list growth strategies will quickly be left behind by their competitors.
When deciding where to invest a digital marketing budget, the term “media mix” or “pie chart” usually enters the conversation. Which platforms will you be using and how much money will you be spending on each one? In order to create an effective media mix, it’s critical to understand your goals and your budget. Remember to set goals for each segment of your user base: donors, non-donor list members, sustainers, lapsed donors, etc. Don’t forget about distinct goals for lead generation and prospecting. Your media mix governs the creative plan you’ll need to generate, the different types of engagement available to users, how many distinct landing pages you need to create, and much more.
Along with email, two words will almost always show up in a media mix for large nonprofits: Google and Facebook. This is because these two titans dominate daily digital engagement for many audiences. Combined, these three channels probably account for most of your digital behavior too. Unfortunately, there are a lot of common misunderstandings about how best to employ the vast and diverse array of advertising solutions offered within these platforms.
Fundamentally, though, there are a few core differences between Google & Facebook as advertising channels:
Google Search owns a massive user base because users trust search results. The primary value of Google Search Ads is that Google is the most popular and trusted search platform. Reaching users in search can be an excellent way to curate an ROAS (Return On Ad Spend) positive, low-friction way for users to find and engage with your website. With the right landing page experience, it can also be an effective lead generation and prospecting tool. Google’s advanced automated bidding strategies, dynamic ad content, search audience segmentation, retargeting, and partner networks make it a must-try for most organizations that have the budget. Let’s not forget also about other search platforms like Bing, which can be highly successful in augmenting and extending Google Search campaigns.
Facebook offers extremely robust targeting based on demographic data, user interests, behavior, and (much) more. Advertisers can attach all kinds of visual collateral (images, slideshows, videos, gifs, cinemagraphs, and more) to their ads, making Facebook a powerful platform for messaging. These targeting and creative elements make Facebook a great way to target new audiences with content designed specifically for them. Compared to Google, Facebook might be an even better way to introduce your organization to potential donors. Additionally, Facebook is also used to reach CRM lists during key fundraising drives and critical periods in the news cycle (much like email).
Which media titan should be favored more heavily in your marketing mix? Which key features are going unused in your ad accounts? How do they work together? You’ll learn all of this and more at the “Titans of Media: Google vs. Facebook for Nonprofits” session at the 2018 Bridge to Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference.
Chris Earp is Beaconfire RED’s Senior SEM & SEO Manager and is skilled in creating campaigns engineered to foster cross-channel and cross-device experiences. He started his career in advertising technology and became the vice president of business development of a digital agency with a focus on SEM and Google products. Chris holds all Google certifications, including AdWords and Analytics IQ.
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Artist Dan Christian Graduates from Ani Art Academy Waichulis
Ani Art Academies would like to congratulate artist Dan Christian on his graduation from Ani Art Academy Waichulis! Upon his return to Wyoming, Dan will be participating in upcoming exhibitions with various galleries including Lovetts Gallery. We wish Dan continued success in his future artistic endeavors and look forward to seeing all that he accomplishes! To view Dan's work, please visit www.danchristianfineart.com
Chelsea Herron in South West Art Magazine
All of us at Ani Art Academies are so very proud of Chelsea Herron, soon to be graduate from the Waichulis Studio. Chelsea was chosen to be one of the 21 artists under 31 to watch in 2018! To read the full article, please follow the link: http://www.southwestart.com/featured/21-under-31-young-artists-to-watch-in-2018-chelsea-herron To find out more about Chelsea and her art, please visit: https://www.chelseaherron.com/
Ani Art Academy Anguilla Apprentices’ works are at the Ani Villas
We are excited to see Ani Art Academy Anguilla Apprentices works proudly hanging on the walls of the Ani Villas Anguilla. Academies and Villas are joined in their efforts to bring apprentices’ artworks on display for the guests to enjoy. We are looking forward to growing this collaboration and are excited about future teamwork. For more on Ani Villas, please visit: http://anivillas.com/
Rodney O’Dell Davis visits AAAW
Visiting us from tropical Thailand, Ani Art Academies Thailand Head Instructor Rodney O’Dell Davis joins the studio to immerse himself in his recent painting. All of us here at the Ani Waichulis studio are so very excited for him to be spending some time with us. We cannot wait to see what kind of work he produces in the near future! Here’s a little more about Rodney: Rodney O’Dell Davis followed his passion for fine art, to New York City, where he was accepted into the prestigious Grand Central Academy of Art core-program. After some years diligently studying representational art- he applied to the Ani Art Academy Waichulis, where he met and apprenticed under Anthony Waichulis. Upon completing this challenging and rewarding program, he was offered the position of Head Instructor at Ani Art Academies Thailand. Rodney is constantly inspired, invigorated and thankful for the community of talented individuals, who have leaned him support over the years. For more information on Rodney please visit www.theodellstudio.com
Ani Art Academies Sri Lanka host All Island Young Artist Show and Award Ceremony
June 30th, 2018 Ani Ar Academies Sri Lanka held first annual All Island Young Artist Show and Awards Ceremony. Young high school Artists across Sri Lanka got the opportunity to take part in the juried art show. 45 finalists were selected from a large number of submissions. There were top three prizes which received certificates, medals, cash prizes and school art supplies. The Dean of the School, Mr. Timothy W. Jahn: “What a wonderful event. The artists showed a great variety of work and so many came to the opening from across the country. We were all so happy to meet so many new creatives.” We are all looking forward to next year show!
The Diagnostic Painter: A Workshop Hosted by Anthony Waichulis
The Diagnostic Painter is a four-day painting intensive designed to optimize your painting process by analyzing the assumptions you start with and the choices you make. From palette content, brush loads and support choices to anchors, application dynamics, and finishing strategies—the Diagnostic Painter examines each applicable variable in your process to see how each factor moves your closer to, or further from, your goal.
Ani Art Academies Anguilla hosts primary school visit
This past week, Ani Art Academies Anguilla instructors Elizardo Mojica and Taffari Crawford hosted Omololu primary school students with their teachers. The kids had lots of fun trying out some of the Ani Art Academies curriculum exercises, and viewing drawings created by Ani instructors. The kids were asked a question: “What is art?”. And they gave some very thoughtful answers, some of them are: "It’s a way to express yourself to the world," "A way to escape," "To broaden your imagination." Maybe there were future Ani Apprentices in that group of kids... we will see!
Portrait Session Cocktail Hour at Ani Villas
Guests of Ani Villas Dominicana enjoyed a relaxing cocktail hour mixed in with a portrait sketching session by Ani Art Academies Apprentices. This event brought the artists of the academies and the guests of the villas together making it a unique experience that Ani Villas has to offer.
Mother’s Day Alla Prima!
Ani Art Academy Waichulis Apprentices are creating beautiful Alla Primas for their moms this week. All of us at the Ani Art Academies wishes Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms!
ARC Scholarship Competition Now Open
ARC Annual Scholarship Competition is now open! Entries will be received from May 1, 2018 through May 31, 2018 where the Art Renewal Center will once again give out $30,000 in scholarships to students attending ARC Approved Schools. This year scholarship applications will be received through our online entry system. Winners will be announced in August of 2018. The ARC Scholarship Competition is open to all students who are attending or enrolled in ARC Approved™ Ateliers. For more information follow the link: https://www.artrenewal.org/ScholarshipApplication/Application/Introduction
Imagine Exhibit opens this weekend
ImagineRehs Contemporary5 East 57th Street, 8th floor, NY, NY 10022April 28th - May 18th, with an opening reception on Saturday, April 28th from 1-6 PM.1-212-355-5710www.rehscgi.comAni Art Academies Apprentices, Alumni, and Associates team up with a contingent of contemporary icons to celebrate what happens when skill meets imagination. The selection of imaginative works by Ani Art Academies Artists that comprises the bulk of the IMAGINE show will be displayed next to the imaginative icons such as Boris Vallejo, David Palumbo, Donato Giancola, Eric Velhagen, Julie Bell, Michael Hayes, and Tenaya Sims. The show’s opening reception is Saturday, April 28th, 2018, 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. The show will be on display until May 18th, 2018.
Class is in Session at Ani Art Academies Sri Lanka
Classes have been in full force at the Ani Art Academies Sri Lanka since the official opening on February 19th, 2018. Locals of Sri Lanka and tourists are taking a significant amount of interest in the Academy since their doors have opened. Ani Art Academies Sri Lanka is under the instruction of esteemed artist and instructor Timothy W. Jahn. Mr. Jahn is very excited about the future of the second Ani Academy in Asia. Apprentices can immerse themselves in the peaceful seclusion while enjoying access to all that Sri Lanka has to offer. For updates and current news about the Ani Art Academies Sri Lanka or other academies, apprentices, and current artwork, please visit www.aniartacademies.org.
Ani Art Academies Instructors, Alumni, and Apprentices on BLOGINITY
Check out these interesting and informative interviews with Ani Art Academies Instructors, Alumni, and Apprentices on BLOGINITY. Bloginity.com launched in 2008 and celebrates recently discovered artists and established names equally. To read the interviews, please follow the link https://www.bloginity.com/
Ani Apprentices & Alumni Receive Awards for the 13th Annual Art Renewal Center Salon
This week, the Art Renewal Center announced the winners of the 13th Annual Art Renewal Center’s International Salon competition. The ARC’s 2017 International Salon competition showcases some of the best realist endeavors being created today. We are very proud to share that 18 Ani Art Academy Apprentices and Alumni were included in this renowned international Salon. We would like to congratulate all of our artists who received honors, awards, and much deserved recognition. Below is a list of Ani Art Academy Apprentices and Alumni who received honors:Publication Awards - PoetsArtists Award:Saul Martinez Rodriguez - Doña Maria is a Punk RockerCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 10x8”. Aristides Publication Prize for Drawing:Deborah Lloyd - Into the UnknownCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 8.5x8.5”. ARC & FWSD 2018 Award:Patricia Alonzo Diaz - Mind Over MusicCharcoal and Color Pastel on Paper – 10x8”. ARC Staff Award:Jason Brady – BloomCharcoal, Pastel, and Silver Leaf on Paper – 25.5x17.5”. Portraiture Finalist: Kevin Moore - The Soul That Sees BeautyOil on Panel, 41x32”. Imaginative Realism Finalists:Rodney O’Dell Davis – EternalOil on Panel – 19x16”. Victoria Steel - A Wheel Within Wheels, A Web Within WebsOil on Panel – 24x16”. Landscape Finalist:Deborah Lloyd - On Calton HillOil on Panel – 7x5”. Drawing Category:Third Place:Phil Kidd - The Fall of ManCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 14x23”. Drawing Category - Honorable Mentions:Elizardo Mojica - By Decree of CamelotCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 19x14”. Drawing Category – Finalists:Patricia Alonzo Diaz – Lost in a DreamCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 10x8”. Dan Christian - The GnomonCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 6x6.5”. Dan Christian - The OracleCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 20x15”. Ana de La Cruz - Anyi's AdventureCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 11x14”. Barbara Fox – Tree SpiritCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 9x8”. Elena Green - River LinesCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 27x18”. Elizardo Mojica – First JumpCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 24x18”. Nakorn Sriphet – DreamerCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 15x12.5”. Victoria Steel - OriginsCharcoal and Pastel on Paper – 25x19”. Still Life Finalists:Jason Brady – WithinOil on Panel – 16x11”. Edward Dillon - For NaughtOil on Panel – 20x24”. Stephen Sebald - Stamp ActOil on Panel – 5x4”. Da Vinci Initiative Finalist:Morgan Masters – ColaPastel on Paper – 12x12”.For a full listing of winners, honorable mentions, finalists, and additional awards, please visit: https://www.artrenewal.org/13thARCSalon/Home/Index
Art Renewal Center announces the Finalists of the 13th International Salon Competition
The Ani Art Academies is happy to announce Apprentices and Alumni who were chosen as finalists of the 13th International Salon Competition! This year’s competition had an approximate 3,750 entries from 69 countries! The ARC will announce the winners in each category in mid-February. Everyone at the Ani Art Academies would like to congratulate all of our artists who received much-deserved recognition in this prestigious competition. We are all so incredibly proud. For a full listing of finalists for this year’s salon competition, visit www.artrenewal.org. Below is a list of Ani Art Academy Apprentices and Alumni who received honors this year: Patricia Alonzo Diaz, Jason Brady, Roneidy Caraballo Bonilla, Dan Christian, Ana de La Cruz, Edward Dillon, Barbara Fox, Elena Green, Phil Kidd, Deborah Lloyd, Saul Martinez Rodriguez, Elizardo Mojica, Kevin Moore, Rodney O'Dell Davis, Stephen Sebald, Nakorn Sriphet, Victoria Steel, Susan Wallace.
Ani Art Academy Apprentices Receive Awards of Excellence and Distinction
Ani Art Academies would like to congratulate the Ani Apprentices who have received an award of Excellence and Distinction for their hard work over the past year. In recognition of their commitment, dedication, and performance to the Ani curriculum, the following artists were chosen: Ani Art Academy Waichiulis: Award of Excellence - Dan Christian, Award of Distinction – Alex Jove. Ani Art Academy Anguilla: Award of Excellence - Carmel Gumbs, Award of Distinction – Brandon Lavon. Ani Art Academy Dominicana: Award of Excellence – Ana de la Cruz, Award of Distinction – Kelvin Lugo Belen. Ani Art Academy Thailand: Award of Excellence – Ten Yamter, Award of Distinction – Johnny Sakda. All of the above artists were awarded a monetary prize, along with a certificate that expresses the organization’s sincere appreciation of their dedication. Once again, congratulations to all of these hardworking artists; we look forward to seeing what they accomplish in the year ahead!
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Beacon Sloop Club Broadside
Serving The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater With Pride for 33 years
GREETINGS SLOOPERS,
Winter doldrums got you down? Cabin fever creeping up? Some good boredom-busting activities will be happening this month, including the Sloop Club Candlelight Luncheon and Cleanup, as well as the annual Sailors of the Woody Guthrie Block Party.
Also, ambitious sloopers who show up to learn about the multrum could well end up as stars in the filming of our multrum training video...see the articles elsewhere in this newsletter for particulars. As with all BSC activities, wear comfortable old clothes and bring your sense of humor!
We have invited John Wenz of the Cornwall Baymens Association to be our guest speaker for the next general meeting.
See you all in April,
The Beacon Sloop Club Broadside is the official monthly newsletter of the
Beacon Sloop Club, Inc.
The Beacon Sloop Club, Inc. is a non-profit, volunteer environmental education/action and sailing organization dedicated to cleaning-up the Hudson River and it�s environs. Our main focus is the Beacon, Fishkill and Newburgh area.
Members meet the first Friday of every month at the Sloop Club Building located just across from the Beacon Train station. Look for the building with the pine tree growing out of the roof! A potluck dinner starts at 6:30, bring a covered dish to share and your own place setting. The general meeting starts at 7:30 and lasts about an hour or so. The meeting is followed by a sing-along.
NEXT EXEC. COM. MEETING IS TUESDAY, March 28th at 7:30
NEXT MEMBERSHIP MEETING IS FRIDAY, April 7th, 6:30 p.m.
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
-Syrus, Pubilius -100 BC
Spring Work Party - Sunday, March 19, at 12:pm (Noon)
Come for some Work and Food/Gourmet Lunch & Potluck
Featuring food prepared by famous (and not so famous) Beacon Sloop Club cooks, locally grown produce and live acoustic music by our very own...well, it's a surprise... So, come eat, drink...and spend a few hours working together. Bring a dish to share for 5-6, if you can...deserts and beverages welcome too. **Questions? Sue Altkin 845-239-1405
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I�m pleased to announce that we have successfully integrated the old Beacon Harbor site into the Beacon Sloop Club web site. Just as we started the project the old pages suddenly disappeared from the internet leaving us with only paper copies of what was there. Special thanks to Steve van der Merwe for his help in finding the electronic images and content through the magic of Google cache. You can see the newly integrated Harbor pages at <http://www.beaconsloop.org> by clicking on the Harbor button on the top right. We have added more images to the site. Hopefully, this will make it more interesting and fun.
In our on going effort to keep our site up-to-date and relevant, I once again ask if anyone has pictures of the Woody Guthrie or any Beacon Sloop Club activity to share; please email them to me at jbirmingham@hvc.rr.com <mailto:jbirmingham@hvc.rr.com>. Thanks, Jim Birmingham
Farmers Market is every Saturday from 10-5 at the BSC.
Buy local cheeses, eggs, bread, apples, cider, meats, mushrooms, pastries, milk, maple syrup, hand knits, ceramics and other items.
Affordable Manhattan Apartment Share.
Clean, quiet, and safe. Unusually large, furnished studio within a one bedroom apt. Portable screens divide off your bed and dressing area in your living room. Full kitchen privilege. Short walk to riverfront park. Supermarket and laundry in building; convenient to bus and subway. Mature, mellow male professional using the separate bedroom is often away on business, typically Tues-Thurs. Ideally you don�t need the place much yourself from Fri-Sun, but no problem if you do. No drugs, smoking, or pets. Cable TV and/or high-speed internet can be ordered. Available now. Reply to studioforyou@aol.com; include phone number. Reply by calling 646/942-0860 only if you have no easy access to email.
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The Broadside is always looking for interesting material pertaining to the Hudson River, local environmental issues and sailing.
Deadline: Please send your articles to Joyce Hanson, editor, at Joycehansonoss@aol.com by midnight the Monday after the monthly membership potluck.
Remember to submit articles one month in advance. For example, announce March events in the February newsletter. Deadline for the February issue is Monday, February 6, 2006.
Info: (914) 907-4928
Happenings and Thoughts from Lucille
Hi Sloopers,
We are still in Florida, and won't be back until after the April meeting. I've been back volunteering as a docent in a refuge, which is 220 square miles of Northern Everglades plus a cypress swamp (440 acres) run by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The boardwalk in the swamp, which was destroyed by Hurricane Wilma, has now been repaired. I am now also "docenting in two other wetland nature centers run by Palm Beach County water utilities department.
These are fascinating places (built on former farm land), which seek to replicate an Everglades environment (marshes, tree islands, and sloughs) for the purpose of polishing partially treated wastewater to use in watering lawns and golf courses. They excavated, sculpted the land, planted bulrush, fireflag and pickerelweed, cypress and other trees, and then sent the water in. They put in bream, catfish and gambusia (mosquito fish), some pig frogs and young alligators. The tiny gambusia fish have their mouths near the top of their heads to better eat mosquito larva near the surface. Boardwalks and a visitor center were built with great signage to educate the public about the importance and scarcity of fresh water on earth, and the value of wetlands and wilderness in recharging aquifers, cleaning the water, and preventing floods. The two new wetlands have substantially reduced the county's discharge of wastewater into the Atlantic (which has been harming the reef there). More needs to be done.
I�ve been having a great time guiding visitors and playing with my new toy- a digital camera. Wait till you see pictures of Great Blue Herons and Anhingas on their nests, with their adorable, gawky chicks. Yes, the herons, egrets, ibises, wood storks, swallows, terns and turtles have arrived and are flourishing. "Build it and they will come! The state of the real Everglades is a whole other topic. Perhaps next month. "Sound Bites will resume in May, I hope. Regards to all until then.
Nautical Word
of the Month
Last month's word challenge: Garland - A collar of ropes formerly wound round the head of the mast, to keep the shrouds from chafing. Also, a strap lashed to a spar when hoisting it in. Also, a large rope grommet, to place shot in on deck. Also, in shore-batteries, a band, whether of iron or stone, to retain shot together in their appointed place. Also, the ring in a target, in which the mark is set. Also, a wreath made by crossing three small hoops, and covering them with silk and ribbons, hoisted to the main-topgallant-stay of a ship on the day of the captain�s wedding; but on a seaman�s wedding, to the appropriate mast to which he is stationed. Also, a sort of cabbagenet, whose opening is extended by a hoop, and used by sailors to contain their day�s provisions, being hung up to the beams within their berth, safe from cats, rats, ants and cockroaches.
Next month's word challenge: Lubber's Hole
From "The Sailor�s Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, by Admiral W. H. Smyth, 1867.
Submitted by Tom LaBarr
Beacon Sloop Club Minutes, March 3, 2006
Phyllis Newman, President, presiding.
Opening Song: Pete Seeger and friends sang "Down by the Riverside (Study War No More)".
March for Peace - Phyllis Newham reminded us of the April 29, 2006 March for Peace, Justice and Democracy. Connie Hogarth handed out fliers regarding the particulars. Transportation will be discussed at the April 7, 2006 BSC meeting.
Sloop Woody Guthrie - Tom LaBarr reported that Woody Maintenance is taking place on Sunday�s at White�s Marina at 10:00 am. The work is indoors and the place is heated by a wood stove.
Strawberry Festival - Phyllis stated that things are coming alone and that the permits have been filed. Sol Rozinsky, Jay Armour & Henry are working on the ovens.
By-Laws Review Committee - Nancy Cahill met with a committee that was formed to review the bylaws. They will meet again soon and then give a report to the general membership regarding their findings.
Treasury - Jim Finnigan gave his report. Please refer to the report in the newsletter for account balances. He also handed out the proposed budget, which included an explanation of the line item for the Riverpool. Tom LaBarr moved to pass the budget and Dick Manley seconded for the motion. Discussion took place and was followed by a vote. The budget passed with 24 "yea and zero "nay". Jim informed us that the BSC has been delinquent with its NYS Charities Bureau reporting for the years 1999 through 2005. Folks were working on getting the information necessary to bring us back into good standing for our registration status as a charitable organization with the NYS Attorney General's Charities Bureau. This does not affect our IRS 501(c)(3) status.
Friends of Glenham - Tom LaBarr reported that F.O.G. was a local group in the Fishkill area working to protect the recreation area (90 acres) of the old Chevron Texaco Research Center. The current owners want to sell, but FOG and the Town of Fishkill want to make the recreation area into public park and access areas. He passed a petition for Fishkill residents to sign to support this.
Membership - Members were reminded that they have to pay their yearly dues. Make your check payable to the Beacon Sloop Club and mail it to the club at P.O. Box 527, Beacon, NY 12508.
Newsletter - All articles for publication in the newsletter must be e-mailed to joycehansonoss@aol.com mailto:joycehansonoss@aol.com by the Monday immediately after the general membership meeting.
Building - Pete Seeger reminded us that Sue Altkin was the Building Committee chairperson. She reminded us that the next Work Party will be held on 3/19/06 at 12 p.m. Lunch will be a mixture of pot luck and gourmet foods, to be served before the work begins. At that time there will be a discussion of future plans for building maintenance. She needs 4 - 5 people to volunteer to be at the Sloop Club building at 10:00 am to set up and to start the fire. Please contact Sue to volunteer. All volunteers should bring tools for working both indoors and outdoors, as well as rags and gloves. They need brooms, brushes, carpenter tools and the like. Firewood is also needed. Tom LaBarr stated that he had wood, but needed someone with a truck to volunteer to help bring it down to the club. Please contact Tom if you have a truck.
Multrum - Pete Seeger reported that Marie Young has been taking care of the routine cleaning of the multrum. She has not been feeling well lately and so we need additional volunteers to clean the rest room at least once a month about a week before the general meeting takes place. A sign up sheet was passed around.
Great River Sweep - While Scenic Hudson�s Great River Sweep takes place during the week of April 22 - 30, the organization has not yet given us an exact date for the BSC�s participation.
Riverpool at Beacon - Allan Zollner gave an update on the Riverpool. He stated that site drawings were submitted and that they were going before the Planning Board on 3/14/06 to get the plans approved. Allan was expecting that the Army Corps of Engineers permitting process would come through soon. The Department of Health was going through the group�s safety plan. Allan was interviewed by the publication, "Aquatics International for an article on Green Design. He reported that the IRS 503(c) application would be submitted soon and that it would probably take a year before we received tax free status. On a down note, Tallix, the company that had originally agreed to perform the pool fabrication at cost, was recently sold. The new owners are only engaging in high profit work and will no longer be participating. They have agreed to give the group guidance in finding some other company to perform the fabrication. With regard to the D.E.C. grant, Allan reported that a resolution was passed in 2004 with regard to the application, giving Sol Rozinsky (the BSC president at the time), authority to sign the project agreement. Once Sol was out of office, the D.E.C. said a new resolution was required. That was passed with Allan Zollner having the authority to sign the project agreement. D.E.C. now says it needs a re-write of the resolution, naming Phyllis Newham, or her successor as president, to sign the project agreement. Allan proposed the following resolution:
That Phyllis Newham, as President of the Beacon Sloop Club, Inc., or such person�s successor in office, is hereby authorized and directed to execute the project agreement, Hudson River Estuary Grant Contract No. C302733, with the Hudson River Estuary program in accordance with the provisions of the Hudson River Estuary Management Act (ECL 11-0306) of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for financial assistance in an amount not to exceed $75,000, to this Beacon Sloop Club Inc., and to direct and transfer all such granted funds to River Pool at Beacon, Inc, a New York State Not-For-Profit Corporation, for the purpose of constructing a floating, recreational wading pool from Riverfront Park, a municipal property in the City of Beacon New York, and be it further
That a copy of all future correspondence related to this grant be sent to Alan Zollner, President of River Pool at Beacon, Inc., at 396 Grand Street, Newburgh NY, 12550, or such person�s successor in office.
Mary Schmalz moved to pass the resolution and David Eberle made the second. A lively discussion ensued regarding the BSC�s liability and accountability as lead agency. It was decided that the Riverpool would enter into a separate contract with the BSC regarding its accountability to the BSC and its acceptance of liability, which would be discussed later. The original resolution passed 32 to 7, with 4 abstentions. Jim Finnigan requested that the minutes be amended to add: "Jim Finnigan, Treasurer, voted against the resolution."
- Reported by Michelle S. Marcus
Environmental Action Report
**THE CLEAN AIR ACT IS UNDER ATTACK**
The Bush Administration proposes to weaken the Clean Air Act's New Source Review program and allow 17,000 old dirty power plants and other facilities to emit more pollution by not installing modern pollution controls.
Specifically, the proposed changes will allow old power plants to perform major renovations and additions without complying with the Clean Air's emissions standards.
The New Source Review program is needed to bring these old plants up to date - to prevent more pollution-related disease and death and to protect New York's lakes and forests from acid rain.
**MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD**
On March 31, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold public hearings on the proposed changes in Albany, New York and four other cities. Please take this opportunity to speak on behalf of New York's environment.
**HEARING INFO**
The hearing is on Monday, March 31, 2003 beginning at 9:00AM at the Albany Marriott Hotel at 189 Wolf Rd., Albany, NY. If you would like to speak at the hearing, contact Chandra Kennedy at 919-541-5319 or kennedy.chandra@epa.gov mailto:kennedy.chandra@epa.gov no later than March 26, 2003.
**There will be a Clean Air Rally from 9:30AM-10:30AM on March 31 at the Marriott.**
**FOR MORE INFORMATION AND SAMPLE TALKING POINTS**
Visit: http://actionnetwork.org/ct/2dqqMu41UPDK/new-source-review or call Christine Vanderlan, EANY, at 518-462-5526 ext. 234 for more information.
If you don't live in New York and would like to see if there is a hearing closer to you, visit: http://actionnetwork.org/ct/27qqMu41UPDZ/epa-page .
If you would like to car pool from Beacon contact Tom LaBarr at (845) 831-4267.
Tom LaBarr
Can any body identify the other two persons in the picture.
If you can please call or send the names to Tom LaBarr.
labarrt@engr.newpaltz.edu mailto:labarrt@engr.newpaltz.edu
1347 Route 9D
If you have any old pictures of the old pictures of the Sloop Club or festivals, please send or email the to Tom LaBarr.
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The Bachelor Season 21 Premiere: Fourth Time’s a Charm?
January 3, 2017 UncategorizedNick Viall, The BachelorAlex
Nick Viall is back on the saddle for what America can only hope is his last attempt at finding love on national television after being canned like 12 other times… but for real, I was actually starting to miss spending every week with him for the past two years.
The night many have been waiting for for the sole purpose of having an excuse to drink wine on a Monday again has finally arrived. Honestly though, I don’t even feel that bad for Nick because if he doesn’t come out of this with a girl on his fourth attempt at conquering a reality television love, he’ll prob be able to submit himself into the Guinness Book of World Records… or just rehab.
Nick is screwed from the get-go when his so-called ‘pals’ from the previous seasons of The Bachelor literally shit all over him directly to his face. After pretty much admitting he has no hope, Chris Soules: Super Successful Bachelor Enthusiast, gifts Nick with a “Bachelor” survival kit courtesy of Target’s travel toiletries section. Ben Higgins tells Nick in preacher-tone that Nick isn’t as shady as he used to be, but still kinda a d-bag, because he’s clearly the center of all reason, considering the monstrosity of a show that is Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever Whatever.
Nick’s intro is filmed mostly shirtless in Chicago and in the shower, and I can’t decide if I’m more concerned that he’s incapable of saying the word “BASSHHHELOR” or that Jillian’s black censor box was bigger than his…
But the whole reason why we’re here is to watch 30 of America’s most eligible bachelorettes make us feel like we’re at least slightly normal while they attempt to make only themselves believe that Nick is the SOLE reason why they’re here… because every girl dreams of marrying a 3-time reality TV rejectee.
So here are the eight profiled women, not in order of Can-I-Just-Die-Now:
Rachel (Civil Defense Litigator and only one of age to rent a car): She gets the first impression rose so she’s safe for at least half the season. But the bummer about seemingly normal girls on The Bachelor is that they automatically get tossed into the ‘K so what the hell is wrong with you?’ category. In due time…
Vanessa (Special-ed teacher/actual angel): Is every man’s fantasy for multiple reasons: She speaks like 15 languages and also rocks the shit out of that Spiderman dress she wore.
Corinne (Owner of platinum vajine & actual in-house slave): Quickly claims her throne as this season’s Regina George when she Veruca Salt’s daddy into giving her his multi-million dollar company. She’s more oblivious than a cucumber and also apparently isn’t capable of cutting one herself. Just no.
Raven (By far the best dressed in Arkansas): May have needed subtitles to comprehend, but she lives by family, faith and football and making America great again.
Danielle L. (Probably another business owner): I literally remember nothing about her except that she brought her A-game, her D-cups and could SLAY in a Pantene commercial.
Danielle M. (Neonatal nurse from Nashville): Cute but far too normal and boring for Bachelor standards. Better luck with Prince Farming.
Alexis (Marine life challenged, grade-A nut job): My favorite act of the night by far, but mostly because of Katy Perry’s Left Shark with heels pairing. This also undoubtedly earns her at least a few more weeks, and the fact that she got blackout wasted and actually got in the pool AND got a rose makes her an all-around MVP.
Liz (ghost from Nick’s fuckboy past): In case it wasn’t clear, Liz had sex with Nick. Liz rejected Nick when he asked her for the pity phone number after said bone sesh. Liz thinks she has an easy ‘in’ because Nick might remember her. Nick whips out reverse fuckboy psychology on Liz saying she could’ve reached out if she were actually interested. Liz will still become Instagram famous after she’s canned next week.
“Nick doesn’t remember me, but I’m totally ok with it because MYSTERY.”
-A really sad untrue quote.
Animals seemed to be a popular choice last night when one girl rode in on a camel. The entire house seemed envious of the entrance, but it wasn’t until sweet Lacey opened her mouth, and everything went south. “I heard you like a good hump.” In her defense, it’s probably not entirely false.
A few other noteworthy mentions go out to Josephine, who presented Nick with a raw uncooked hot dog inside a book, and word-vomitted the line, “You’re a weiner in my book.” To make matters worse, she also made a straight man deep-throat dick-shaped food on national television.
Jamie used her septum nose ring as a prop to kick off her line, “I’ve got balls, just like you!” which immediately confused all of America because she may actually have a pair of testicles.
Another contestant was a mental health professional who put her heard-earned degree to good use by looking for love on the one show guaranteed to make every woman develop some type of mental illness over time.
Taylor relayed the message to Nick that all her friends think he’s a piece of shit, and Lauren attempted to win his heart over by saying that his last name was atrocious, but that it’s totally ok because together their two last names, Viall and Hussy, formed a ‘disgusting slut.’
The rose ceremony couldn’t have been more uneventful and predictable. Corinne and her sexual aggression went in for the awkward makeout, sending her farther down the shit list. The entire rose ceremony consisted of Liz regretting giving Nick a mediocre handy 9 months ago, and Kristina, who nobody cares about, crying because she somehow became so invested in Nick within 2 hours and probably won’t get a rose.
But shocker, she did which means RIP next week, Kris.
The Bachelorette REALLY, LIKE REALLY Wants To Meet Aaron Rodgers – Episode 7 Recap
July 19, 2016 UncategorizedAlex
Does anyone else think hometown dates are the absolute most boring week of the entire Bachelor franchise since Jojo’s mom set the bar real high with her wine bottle guzzling stint? Because this week, Jojo met all 4 of her guys’ families that looked exactly alike and said the exact same things each time.
I really don’t even need to recap all four dates, because I could sum up each one of the guys’ hometown visits in like four lines:
Jojo: I’m so excited, but so nervous.
GUY: Don’t worry, they’ll probably love you, you know, like I do.
*Jojo gets obliterated with all four moms*
Jojo to all moms: I have these red flags about your son, but what do you think?
Moms: When my son says he loves someone, it’s not just for the fame.
Jojo: I feel so much better now!
But I’m not going to stop there, because I’m really passionate about this show, and I whole-heartedly believe in true reality love ending up in sponsored Instagram post careers. #GOALS.
First up was Chase’s date, which should not have gone first, because it literally brought all of Americas’ moods to shit. There was obviously a whole mess of unfinished family crap dad and Chase didn’t have time to resolve prior to the show, but producers were all, ‘YASSS RATINGS.’
Chase brings Jojo to his own house which was most likely a vacant model home used in Colorado’s finest real estate market, and clearly unfinished because where are the stair railings…?
Chase’s dad comes over and in the most awkward encounter ever, the two blatantly disregard the fact that this is THE BACHELORETTE and NOT DR. PHIL, when Chase questions dad why his parents’ marriage failed when he was 8 years old, because where else than on reality television will you ever get good solid answers?
Chase’s dad said more words in his 3 minutes of camera time than Chase has the past 6 weeks, but that’s ok because his mom had a lot of solid things to say about Jojo:
Mom: “Great laugh. Loves dogs. Hates fish.” – things that are important when looking for ‘The One.’
Chase breaks down crying in front of his mom, when she’s all, “Sack up. Crying is not our style.” Clearly we don’t need Dr. Phil to find the root of Chase’ inability to open up now…
Next is Jordan’s hometown date in either Chico or Chino, I can’t remember, but they’re both places nobody from California ever wants to live.
Jordan takes Jojo to his high school, because it’s evident those were his ‘glory days’. His coaches still miraculously know who he is, but only because ABC paid them to stick his photos on their wall, to cover up the protege that is his NFL brother.
Jordan: You’re like the first girl I’ve brought home.
All of America:
Jojo: K so your brother Aaron won’t be here right?
JOJO LET IT GO. YOU DON’T GET TO MEET AARON AND YOU DON’T GET TO BE OLIVIA MUNN’S BEST FRIEND.
Jojo tries to pry the fabricated Aaron drama out of Jordan’s non-famous brother Luke, and it obviously goes nowhere. The whole family has some weird thing against Aaron Rogers, so WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED.
Jordan’s mom is getting all Grandmother Willow and super down for this whole ‘let’s make another son famous’ scheme, and is all “THIS IS YOUR DESTINY. THIIIISSS IS YOUR JOURNEY.”
Nothing changes at the end of Jojo’s hometown with Jordan, beacuse she’s just as insecure as she was with him on night one, but it’s nothing that an “I love you” can’t fix, right?
Shit hits the fan on Robby’s date, when all of America let out a unanimous “THE FUCK?” when Jojo revealed she has the best emotional connection with Robby? Hmm, she must be blinded by his white pants.
Jojo and Robby arrive at his house with a whole entire Santa’s sleigh full of shitty Hallmark gifts. Jojo gets wasted with Robby’s mom and grills her on his past relationship with his girlfriend OF 4 YEARS THAT ENDED 3 MONTHS AGO.
I’m no math whiz, but the show lasts a total of 8 weeks, which comes out to 2 months, which if they broke up 3 months ago, Robby was single for ONE MONTH, which comes out to one pathetic loser with too much hair gel.
Jojo confronts Robby about it, and he tries to play the victim by adding in ‘we broke up and then she slapped me.’ BIG WHOOP ROBBY, THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DUMP SOMEONE TO GET LAID ON NATIONAL TV.
Producers plan the same boring horse date for Luke, probably because riding a horse is the only thing he knows how to converse over. The only interaction Luke has ever brought to the table is a solid game of tonsil hockey.
Luke continues to tell Jojo he has all these surprises for her probably because producers have yet to tell him what they’re actually doing.
Jojo is shocked, but more like a ‘Christmas morning bowling ball gift’ kinda shock to see that Luke invited the whole fucking town of Texas to their date.
Luke: “In this town, we’re all family. Y’all.”
Luke takes all the credit for producer’s intricate heart-shaped flower garden, and they make out and ride off into the sunset. But seeing that Luke probably won’t break Jojo’s heart, she doesn’t see the excitement.
The rose ceremony was held in a random airplane hangar, probably the one that they’re about to fly out of to the next destination. Producers promised Luke he’d be in the running for the next Bachelor if he embarrassed himself by pulling Jojo aside and telling her he loves her.
Tears. Fake “I love you’s. EPIC cliff hanger. Awesome.
The Bachelorette Does Questionable Things With a Horse – Episode 7 Recap
July 12, 2016 Bachelorette, life, love, UncategorizedABCBachelor, ABCBachelorette, bachelor, bacheloretteAlex
Last night on The Bachelorette, we were promised that this week was going to be “HUGE” by Jojo, when really, the outcome was obvious two weeks ago after she handed out two pity roses to both Lord Farquad and Shrek the friendly giant, only to cut them both this week. GASP.
Chris Harrison starts off by blabbing some BS that I didn’t really listen to about Jojo having a really hard time choosing who’s going to meet her family… maybe because she’s dating like 6 guys.
Chris: “Jojo’s so torn between which guys her brothers won’t want to go straight OJ Simpson on next weekend, so bear with her, but you’d probs be better off getting the fuck outta here.”
Alex gets the one-on-one date of this week, because the producers are sick of hearing him constantly bitching, and it was evident he was getting the boot right off the bat after he stuck Pringles in his mouth, acting like a fucking duck. #FriendZone
He then tries some freestyle rap about him and Jojo hitting up a liquor store, or a “Lick-Oh Sto”. They arrive at some ranch where the gauchos actually laugh in his face, probs because he’s lacking like 3 feet. Alex and Jojo change into gaucho-inspired clothing, but instead Alex steps out looking like the wicked witch’s munchkin.
The rest of the guys, along with the hotel slippers Robby jacked, take a summer camp bus to their next hotel, where they also sing idiot raps about Alex, which is actually kinda funny. I wonder if they all think about the fact that they’ve all felt up the same girl…
Jojo: “I’m so glad I had this one-on-one date with Alex, because it reassured me that we have absolutely nothing in common, except our height.”
Meanwhile, PETA is shitting their pants after the real gaucho practically performs a live sex show with the horse. The poor horse is pinned to the ground when Alex and Jojo lay on top of it and start making out.
Alex: Yo soy tu goocho.
Jojo: I’m not going anywhere near your fucking goocho.
But really though, gaucho man has more chemistry with the horse than Alex and Jojo.
During dinner, Alex, who’s never even had a solo date with Jojo, pulls the “I love you” card because obvi he’s in the shitter at this point.
Alex: I’m falling in love with you.
Jojo: I’m good, thanks.
Alex doesn’t even look her in the eyes after saying goodbye, but tbh Jojo gives zero fucks.
Jordan gets the next one-on-one date, so we can watch them bone against a wall the entire time. They go to a vineyard, where they squish a bucket of grapes with their bare feet, skipping like 12 steps and 4 years in the fermentation process, and eventually ‘cheers’ over a glass of squashed grape juice mixed with sweaty sock residue.
After going to second base in a random jacuzzi, Jojo and Jordan talk about who she would meet if she were to go home to his family.
Jordan: You’ll meet my older brother Luke, and my mom, and my da-
Jojo: K, but like what about your rich NFL brother?
Jordan talks mad shit on Aaron Rogers on live television, saying that he doesn’t get along with the family, also leaving no subtlety in the ‘jealousy’ department.
“I could’ve kept playing, but I felt like football didn’t define me” – says every guy ever who gets sacked from the NFL.
Something’s telling me it was Jordan who fucked their relationship up.
Jordan also pulls the love card at dinner, and Jojo wets her pants on the spot.
Three guys get a group date with a rose on the date, so James Taylor, Chase and Robby meet in Jojo’s hotel to eat junk food and play truth or dare because ABC was probs sued for the disturbing horse-fucking date.
James Taylor tries to amp up his sex appeal by deep-throating a plateful of fries, only it backfires when he projectile voms all over the bathroom.
The slumber party-turned massage party quickly escalates to three dudes and Jojo laying on a bed together. Sick.
James Taylor tries the whole ‘get ahead by throwing everyone else down’ act by saying that Robby looked at another girl the other day, which probs means that James Taylor masturbates to his mother.
JUST BECAUSE HE’S ON THE JOJO DIET, DOESN’T MEAN HE CAN’T LOOK AT THE BRAZILIAN MENU, JAMES TAYLOR. LET HIM LIVE.
Robby reassures Jojo that he’s actually a shady fuck and that he’ll probably cheat on her because he promised his ex half his paycheck.
James: Why aren’t you attracted to me?
Jojo: I’m just not into guys that could potentially love me forever and not cheat on me.
To nobody’s surprise, Jojo gives Robby the rose, because he reassured her that he’s totally in this by saying, “I’m totally in this.”
I honestly think I fell asleep during Jojo’s one-on-one date with Luke, but it had something to do with horses and shooting things. They probably made out and she was also reassured by him with some sappy BS.
During the rose ceremony, Jojo tries to ease the tension, claiming that she totes remembers this ceremony when she was fighting for Ben’s heart.
Jojo: I remember this day because it was the day before my brothers fucked this whole thing up for me. Good luck.
America was TOTALLY speechless when Jojo dropped the two people we NEVER EVEN SAW COMING. We’ve officially learned that Jojo’s type is tight pants with a questionable career choice and a side of douche bag.
Best of luck James Taylor, keep doing what you’re doing… those poems ain’t gonna Bumble bio themselves.
Jojo, Meet Luke’s Tongue – Episode 6 Recap
June 28, 2016 UncategorizedAlex
Last night on The Bachelorette, Jojo and her producer-picked squad travel to the city of “Good Airs”, Argentina, where Jojo apparently can’t think of a better place to fall in love, only because producers told her to say that. By this week, we still barely know who Derek is, but that he’s fun to look at, and that Lord Farquad is hard to look at if you don’t have spectacles.
Wells gets the one-on-one date and is shockingly enough the only person Jojo hasn’t kissed, seeing that girl lays her lips on anything with a soft-serve cone cut with shaved sides.
Wells is flipping a bitch and sweating profusely, because they obviously lack everything from a short conversation to a human connection.
The deep convo while walking to the date:
Jojo: “It’s raining.”
Wells: “Yeah. It’s raining.”
They get to a water show/performing arts center, where people are swimming in a suspended pool of water. Before the anticipated kiss, they awkwardly cheek kiss and I’d rather drown myself in that shallow pool than endure the awkwardness once again.
Wells spends 5 min. making excuses for every possible missed opportunity and finally grows a pair and is all, “Let’s try it out I guess?”
IT’S A FUCKING KISS, WELLS, NOT ANAL BEADS.
They finally kiss and Jojo lets out something like “FUCKING FINALLY”. Then they’re forced to sit through an equally awkward dinner when Jojo asks about Wells’ past relationships and he starts sweating, talking about his ex whom he claims the two ended up being better as best friends, which translates to, “She only ever thought of me as a friend.”
Jojo quickly sticks Wells back in friend zone territory, when he goes home, and she books it to the club where everyone is rolling balls around her while she waits for the molly to kick in. All we get to see is her standing in the middle of the dance floor smiling, but what producers didn’t show was her “White Chicks” rave choreo and the Argentinian orgy she brought home.
JK. The next date is a group date with like 6 guys and James Taylor is hardcore boy-crushing all the other dudes.
James Taylor: “What am I doing here? These guys are really cool dudes.”
Jojo to the whole town: “These are all my boyfriends!”
The whole town: OK, whore…
They play soccer and Jordan scores a soccer goal and does an embarrassing touchdown victory dance he was never able to do standing on the sidelines in the NFL.
Jojo: “ONG, you’re stomach’s so hard.”
Jordan: “If you like that, you should see my ————”
Producers paid off the goalie so that James Taylor could score a goal and an annoying pity kiss. But then, still obvs threatened, shit talks Jordan for 15 min straight due to a poker altercation between the two. James has nothing interesting to say about himself, so he goes straight for the Jordan take down and also “Can I just kiss you?” Smooth.
Jojo brings Jordan out to set the record straight for the 12th time, and Jordan says it’s all a lie, so Jojo instantly falls in love again. The tension between Jordan and James reaches an all-time Jordan’s pants tight, when he aggressively swirls his wine, and I can’t decide if I’m more nervous for a bitch fight to break out or for the wine to be wasted.
Jordan: “Whatever you have against me dominated my whole one-on-one time with Jojo.”
James: “OMG SAME.”
Jojo’s all ‘fuck this’ and goes outside to get beaver bashed by Luke for a solid 20 min, and he earns himself the group date rose for not being a little bitch, but mostly for the exceptional foreplay.
Then comes the two-on-one date between Derek and Chase, which is the most entertaining. Chase bitches out Derek for not being serious about this. The three of them walk into a tango lesson when Chase proves to us that his dancing skills are about as solid as James Taylor’s poems.
Derek’s having a blast while Chase is bitching the entire time. The dinner comes and Jojo hits it off with Derek and questions why Chase has been acting like a bitch, but she picks Chase over Derek, because decent guys and The Bachelor franchise just don’t mix.
The dramatic Spanish music plays for Jojo and Chase and is also served as a soundtrack for Derek’s confessional in the car ride home, where he goes all Yoda on America.
“Derek I am. Derek imperfect.”
He’ll probs be engaged in like 3 months to his high school girlfriend. Isn’t that how this franchise works?
At the cocktail party, Jordan pulls out all the safe words, like ‘engaged’, ‘future’ and ‘do life with you’… you know, like a prison sentence. But Jojo is back at it again, in love. The rest of the group proves what actual douche bags they really are:
-Luke has a burning question he needs to get off his chest: “I want to ask you something… so where we going next week?”
-Alex spends his time bitching about not getting enough attention.
“I’m just feeling overlooked.”
Yeah, clearly.
-James Taylor still feels like chopped meat, “so I’m deciding to be the man and stay the course,” whatever the hell that means.
Jojo is down to one rose, when she pulls Chris Harrison aside saying she ‘can’t do this’, so he brings out an extra rose, and between Lord Farquad and male Taylor Swift, they both get to stay another week, only to both be eliminated next week, but hey… free vacation.
Alex: “This is some pity ass rose shit.”
Pretty much.
I wish they would just hire Chad to do commentary.
The Chad May Be Gone, But He’ll Forever Live On – Episode 5 Recap
So I’ve come back from a Bachelorette break, and this craphole of a season just goes to show that I literally did not miss one thing because what I’ve learned from the past two episodes is that Jojo (AKA producers) still has the dick doctor, the basement serial killer Canadian and bacne-Chad thinking they stand a chance, and that Jordan still thinks he’s hot shit for being a benchwarmer even though it’s clear he’s gonna get laid in the coming weeks. ABC, WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU FINDING THESE PEOPLE, CRAIGSLIST? MEGAN’S LAW?
Jojo’s presence (with the exception of her boobs) apparently hasn’t been given a crap about since the last three episodes seeing that Chad has officially run out of his daily roid dosage and become the ultimate shitstorm carrying the ratings and that he’s capable of deep throating an entire yam. See? All caught up now.
The ep starts off where it left off in Pennsylvania in a town that was so desperately publicized by ABC because it’s not even good enough to be a drive-through town. Chad gets the ‘Olivia’ by Jojo on the two-on-one and left in a deserted forest at night, where footage of him wandering through the forest will probs be saved for the next shitty J. Lo horror film.
At the house, Alex arrives back from the date, clearly more stoked about Chad leaving than that other thing called Jojo, and it’s like the scene in Wizard of Oz where they’re cheering on the munchkin that slayed the witch. The guys’ bromance heats up as they kiss each others’ asses and sing “Ding! Dong! The Chad is dead!” They even host a burial for Chad using his penis-enhancing powder, courtesy of Evan.
Chad to all the guys: When this show’s over, I’ll fuckin’ find you and hunt you down.
Chad to all of America: She thinks I’m too intense, or something.
Evan: AND I WANT MY PINK SHIRT BACK.
Chad: You’re rich, don’t you own dick companies?
The rose ceremony only gets worse when all the guys turn into a pack of hormonal seventh grade girls and start picking on each other. Chase somehow pulls giant blow-up balls out of his ass and makes Jojo get in one while wearing a floor-length ball gown. The only thing that would’ve made this better would be them going full-force toward each other, and she goes flying across the patio.
One guy: Jojo, I wrote you a poem.
Jojo: K can we hurry this up?
While all the guys are bitching about each other and losing at life, Jordan and Jojo are having sex on the other side of the wall. Smooth.
We say goodbye to some guy I don’t know and Damn Daniel the Canadian, who thinks that if this competition were based off looks, he’d still be there. Clearly he’s never watched The Bachelor before.
Daniel: “My body had nothing to do with this.” – It actually had everything to do with this.
Next stop is Punta de aeiojfjse in Uruguay, which looks like a city you’d see wells as the main water source and a mad trafficking problem. But nothing is worse than hearing a bunch of white guys (and Grant) trying to pronounce “Uruguay” for 2 hours straight.
To nobody’s surprise, Jordan gets the one-on-one date and they spend the whole day giving the yacht driver a soft core porn show, but then Jojo grills his ass at dinner, and he responds by chugging his drink while shitting his pants.
Jojo: “I randomly ran into your ex that talked the most shit on you, and I heard you were a cheat-”
Jordan: “No I didn’t.”
Jojo: I’m just so glad everything with Jordan is cleared up now.
Meanwhile, the guys are back home getting haircuts, courtesy of Vinny the barber, who ironically has the worst haircut of the group. They coincidentally come across American gossip magazines in Uruguay that reveal that Jojo is still seeing her ex. WHO LET THESE PEOPLE NEAR A MAGAZINE?! THIS IS BULLSHIT, ABC.
Jojo is on Cloud 9 after clearing everything up with Jordan, when the producer’s are all, “Chad’s gone now, so let’s just fuck with her.”
Guys to each other: That’s some shady shit she’s pulling. I’m rethinking everything.
Guys to Jojo when she confronts them: I can’t believe he would do that. you’re totally here for the right reasons.
Jojo takes the group date to the desert where Lace was abandoned two seasons ago and they go sandboarding. Derek, who crept up out of nowhere, gets the group rose and Alex goes into major bitch mode for no reason. Derek calls them out for being a bunch of cliquey bitches and Alex’s Napolean Complex reaches an all-time high at like 5 feet.
Alex calls Derek a ‘little bitch’ and should probably be careful tossing around the term ‘little’ when talking to all of America.
Jojo takes Robbie on the next one-on-one date where they grab some tacos that are banned by the FDA, right before the food cart stranger asks them if they’re getting married.
Robbie: BRB, I’ma go jump off that cliff.
Robbie, who’s obviously done his Jojo research, knows that the way to her heart is to pull the “I love you” card EVEN AFTER THE FIRST TIME YOU HANG OUT WITH HER.
Robbie: Jojo, I know that I’ve fallen in love with you.
Jojo: I love you too, Jordan.
Later on, Chris Harrison arrives at the rose ceremony and is all, “The cocktail party has been cancelled on account of Jojo not wanting to be put through another shitty poetry reading or crappy guitar serenade.”
We said goodbye to Grant the fireman and Evan AKA Todd from Wedding Crashers when he was all, “THAT PAINTING WAS A GIFT JOJO.” The real MVPs yet again, were Jojo’s boobs, who showed more face than Vinny the barber, who somehow cried hysterically after also being eliminated tonight.
I already miss Chad, but I can’t wait for Bachelor in Paradise.
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Second viewing thoughts and grades: NC State
This is the type of game that reinforces my belief that Addazio will never be a great coach. The way he manages and prepares for a game limits his upside. There won't be a season where everything goes way because much like TOB, he will make in game decisions that limit BC's ability to win. This was one of those games. There was plenty of bad luck -- like losing Brown -- but ultimately Addazio's approach cost the team. Watching it back was very frustrating.
Offense: C
I know Wade has not had consistent playing time, but how can his feel for pressure still be so bad? The game should be slowing down for him at this point. Not the other way around. I don't think the staff put him in good position to win, but he looked lost and unsure in the pocket. It was not pretty. Brown was okay before he got hurt. He got greedy on the INT pass. He was running well prior to getting hurt.
Dillon was very good again. Beyond pushing the pile or shrugging off tacklers, he is getting better at finding holes and reading blocks. This will lead to more and more big runs. Hilliman was not as good. If he is going to be in on passing downs, he needs to do a better job blocking. Levy had a nice catch. Maybe he should get a shot on passing downs.
Considering they were going against a great DLine, the Oline played well. They got good push most of the day. The sacks were mostly because Wade didn't get rid of the ball quickly enough or Hilliman didn't help. Lindstrom struggled he most, but also had the toughest assignment.
The WRs and tight ends blocked well. Sweeney had some nice catches. Thadd Smith's run was great. Jeff Smith made a tough catch in traffic. White was okay.
Where was the play calling from the Florida State game? This time it was Dillon, Dillon and then pray the QBs don't screw it up. Most frustrating was that when Wade came in, they didn't adjust to his strengths. Why have him sit in the pocket so many times? Why not do more of what worked against Louisville? And how could he looked so ill prepared? I usually don't want more jet sweeps, but there were so many that could have worked. NC State was not respecting the play and Thadd and Jeff Smith should have gotten more touches. I also don't know what was going on with the final possession, but get into that more in the Addazio section below.
Defense: B
The DLine played well. Allen had a big game. Merritt was also really disruptive. I was surprised by how many times they were blowing over NC State guys or worse getting tackled by a desperate NC State lineman. There should have been about four or five holding calls that weren't called. Ray was good. Smith played well too.
Schwab was great again. He is playing his best football right at the end of his career. He made good tackles and the INT was a nice heads up play. Lamont was really good too. He is reading plays well. Bletzer had some trouble in coverage, but his fumble pick up was nice.
Moore played well before the injury. Denis and Harris both missed some tackles. Yiadom played very well and was acknowledged repeatedly by Huard. Cheevers, Torres and McClary were fine as replacements.
I know the score was okay, but I didn't love the strategy. We brought plenty of pressure -- some as a blitz and some as just the front four. But the blitzing seemed to almost enable Finley. He handled it and converted too many 3rd downs. The D was good, but given the offense it needed to be perfect.
Special Teams: B
Knoll punted very well and placed the ball within the 20.
Walker bobbled on kick return but looked good on another.
The kickoffs were not as good. I assume the cold was an issue. The kick and punt coverage was ok. Not great.
Overall: C-
Aside from not adjusting when Wade went in, here are some of the really questionable approaches.
1. The jump pass from Hilliman. This was Addazio trying to be Urban Meyer and falling flat on his face. The reason is worked with Tim Tebow twice was in part because Tebow was enough of a passer that he could adjust and flip it midair. It also worked because Tebow was enough of a threat that no DBs stayed home. Hilliman is not that same guy. The NC State safety read the play right away and Hilliman never looked like he was trying to run for the first down. It was a terrible play on many levels. I would have preferred a FG, but if the weather had you worried about the FG attempt, why not run it with Dillon? Instead you put in a liability and run a trick play. Ugly and dumb.
2. The clock management before the first half. In general, I am against wasting possessions. However, you could sort of rationalize killing clock when you have your back up in the game. But once Doeren starts using his timeouts, you have to adjust your plan. Addazio didn't. On third down you need to call a bootleg with Wade and tell him don't throw an interception and down throw the ball away. Wade needs to roll, use a few more seconds and hopefully hit an open TE or WR. Instead we ran it right into their DL and let Doeren stop the clock. NC State's ensuing points were the difference and Addazio bungled another two minute situation.
3. Not using Dillon in the final drive. You have three minutes. That is an eternity in college football. Why is your most dynamic player on the bench? There was still time to run Dillon. Also, if he is on the field, NC State is focused on him and maybe that opens up another player or area of the field.
Doeren made some equally head scratching decisions. He nearly gave the game away, only Addazio wouldn't take it from him.
I am frustrated. For a few weeks it looked like we might have enough pieces to overcome Addazio's limitations. Now it doesn't seem that way. He's going to need a lot more talent to overcome how he manages close games.
UConn should be an easy win. If he blows this one, then a coaching change comes back into discussion.
Labels: BC vs NC State, grades, second viewing thoughts
Bravesbill said...
Don't know how special teams gets a B. There was a blocked punt and a botched snap on the game tying field goal attempt. Knoll's punts didn't have much distance and BC was called for a costly illegal formation penalty on a punt that was downed inside the 5. That has an F grade written all over it......again.
BCAlum2000 said...
Very bad loss. NC State is not a good team. I have said this consistently and the game on Saturday proved it. Wade is a bad QB. There is no other way around it. I feel for the kid as he has been through a lot, but like Flutie and Fadule and these other guys that BC has played in recent years, he is not a DI caliber QB. He has zero pocket presence nor awareness. The sacks were 100% on him ... both holding it too long and not stepping up into the pocket. BC is screwed if Brown is done for the year. As for the coaching, it was terrible. I recognize the coaches must know how limited Wade is as a player and hence went back into their shell, but we will not win that way. The play calling was terrible. The clock management was terrible. NC St did all they could to give BC the game ... BC just decided they didnt want it.
And special teams play was terrible.
Don't look now, but NC State has been elevated to the Top 20 after their close win over (lowly) Boston College.
NC State was "elevated" by default. They won and they were only ranked #23 previously. A ton of teams ahead of them lost as well including #20, #21, #17, #16, and #12. They are 7-3 in the ACC. They would have been ranked in the top 20 regardless of who they beat this week.
Every year, Daz's poor coaching costs BC one or two games. Do his apologists in this blog still wish to give him one more year?
BCEagles2014 said...
Addazio's right, the injuries to key positions are killer. Once AB went down, BC looked like the hopeless team we've seen for the past few years. But the fact that in his 5 years, Addazio has been unable to find even a sufficient backup to these positions is a huge indictment of how he is as a coach. This just shows me he's poor at managing a team and gets tunnel vision with the players he likes as his "guys." As Bill Parcells once said, "you are what your record says you are." 1-13 against ranked teams, losing record in the ACC, average at best overall record.
Yeah we've had some tough breaks along the way, but let's not let a surprising 3 game win streak against average at best opponents distract us from Addazio's limitations as HC. 8 wins is our absolute ceiling with 6-6 and 7-5 being the norm. You hire an average coach, you get average results. Let's hope Martin Jarmond sees this and absolutely nails the next hire (whenever that is).
Its become very tough. The fact that we are in year five of his tenure and dont even have a serviceable backup QB is damning. That said, look at what is happening at FSU and how they have tailspinned without their starting QB and it puts things into perspective. The fact that our leading passer, runner, and receiver are all freshmen and that our starting center is a freshman, is also a dichotomy of sorts. Its damning on Adazzio but also speaks to his recent recruiting. If we finish 1-1 and finish 6-6, without Brown, I think a lot will hinge on the bowl game. The perception between a winning and losing season is huge. That said, he now has a ready-made excuse and it might not be completely invalid. With Brown, I think BC would have run the table and finished 9-4 (depending on Bowl opponent) and ranked in the top 20. Barring Chip Kelly being locked down as a replacement, I think Adazzio is coming back ...
OB68 said...
I find it hard to believe that Dillon is on the bench for every 3rd and long situation. Without your best running back in the game, the defense has the opportunity to load up on the receivers and perhaps give some thought to Hilliman. At least have the sense to use Dillon as a decoy on play action in some 3rd down situations. Predictability is perhaps the greatest down side of the BC offense, always was, always will be.
ATL, why do you think Daz is calling plays? I assume its Loeffler.
Also, given Wade's obvious limits, the play book shrank massively once he took over.
I'd give the D a B+/A-
and let's not forget, if BC did make that missed FG, and the game was tied, NCSU would have tried to kick a FG on the last drive.
But overall, the game was BC of old. Lots of coulda-shoulda-but-didn't stuff.
Daz will always be mediocre. Yet, If BC beats UConn (duh) He'll be back even if BC loses to Syr..
Braves he kicked the ball inside the 3 yard line and it was called back. The snapper and blocking was weak. Not the kickers fault on Saturday.
At least we're not Rocky Top Tennessee. Those players all quit.
Our guys have fire in their bellies, and I just wish we could exploit their talents.
There's no question that when Dillon is summoned to the bench, the opposing defense can adjust to our limited options with Wade.
Our personnel packages tip off the defense and the announcers said as much. OB68 is correct IMHO.
Go BC - beat UCONN.
Figure out a strong offensive game plan and blow them out early.
The Tall One said...
A coaching change never left the discussion. It is just a question of when. The only question is whether it comes before or after a potential bowl game.
My old boss went to Tennessee and Tennessee MBA. Absolute maniac for their programs planes down every football weekend etc. There is some sneaky money at that place. Between Nashville and the underground moonshine industry (that is a joke for the idiots).
Erik said...
I haven't re-watched anything, luckily, but in my gradebook BC would get a D- at best for Special Teams.
We had a punt blocked which led to a NCSU field goal. (we lost by 3)
We had an opportunity to kick a FG to tie at the end and we don't even get to attempt the kick because of a bad snap. (we lost by 3)
I don't recall any great punt returns or kick off returns. Far less than we typically have had this season.
I don't recall many punts pinning NCSU deep in their own territory. Just ones with penalties.
The K says it all
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Vol. 13, Issue 66 - Thursday, March 6, 2008
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Hawaii doctors study cancer
By Helen Altonn
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Hawaii radiation oncologists are participating in a national breast cancer study to demonstrate the effectiveness of treating only part of a breast with radiation.
"It has been fairly well received by patients," said Dr. Paul DeMare, oncologist with Pacific Radiation Oncology Inc. and associate professor of radiation oncology at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii. "They seem to have less acute side effects and less skin reaction from the treatment."
DeMare will be among cancer specialists and researchers discussing advances in cancer treatments at the third annual Cancer Research Information Day from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Saturday at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii.
The free public event will begin with registration at 8 a.m.
The partial breast radiation study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, began about two years ago and has 3,000 or more patients nationwide, said DeMare.
He is principal investigator for the Hawaii study at the Queen's Medical Center. Ten patients are participating and "doing well," he said in an interview.
Normally after a lumpectomy, the entire breast is treated daily with radiation for about 6 1/2 weeks, DeMare said. The new radiation techniques generally involve treatments twice a day for one week -- 10 sessions instead of 30 to 33, he said.
"Certainly, it is a big timesaver for the individual patient."
He said partial breast radiation is being done two ways, with external and internal treatments.
With the internal method, intense radiation is delivered to the area where the tumor was removed. "You put a radioactive source inside the breast, essentially," he said.
With the external method, the radiation beam is concentrated on the affected area, but nothing is put inside the breast tissue, he said.
He said both methods are being tested in the study, and some patients are being treated with the internal technique who are not in the study.
"Long-term results are the key here," he said, explaining it will take at least five years and probably 10 years to determine whether partial breast radiation is effective.
He is still accepting patients for the study, but it is limited now to high-risk older women and pre-menopausal women.
Among other topics covered during Cancer Research Information Day will be colorectal cancer risk in Japanese Americans, complementary and alternative cancer medicines, prostate cancer and diet, soy foods and breast cancer risk, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic viral hepatitis and liver cancer.
Ten minutes of questions and answers will follow each presentation.
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Free exhibit booths with health- and cancer-related information will be open to the public.
Participating will be the American Cancer Society; AstraZeneca Oncology; Cancer Information Service, Pacific region; Eli Lilly and Co.; and the Hawaii Comprehensive Cancer Control Program.
The Information Day is supported by the Friends of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii and sponsored in part by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Reservations are recommended because a light lunch will be served. Call 275-3011 or e-mail infoday@brightlightmarketing.com.
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Bill To Block Same Sex Marriage Passes In House
[Updated] The Human Rights Amendment 2016 — which seeks to maintain marriage as being defined as between a man and a woman — passed last night [July 8] in the House of Assembly.
The Bill was originally brought to the House by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert back in February, and then voted on during last night’s debate after an Amendment by Attorney-General Trevor Moniz.
The first vote was held on the Amendment to the Bill, which passed with 21 votes for, 9 against, and 1 abstention, which was from Premier Michael Dunkley, who said he had arranged a meeting with the Human Rights Commission.
The second vote was then held on the amended Bill, with those speaking against the Bill prior to the vote including Mark Pettingill [OBA], Dr Grant Gibbons [OBA], Walton Brown [PLP], Glen Smith [OBA] and Shawn Crockwell [Independent], while those speaking in favour of the Bill included Wayne Furbert [PLP], Craig Cannonier [OBA], Wayne Scott [OBA] and Sylvan Richards [OBA].
The audio of the vote on both the Amendment and the amended Bill is below:
Update 3.28pm: The Bill will now head to the Senate, and Senator Jeff Baron has tweeted that he plans to “argue in Senate to defeat this hateful law.”
Premier: Important For Govt To Find Way Forward
HRC ‘Deeply Disturbed’ By Legislation Passing
Burt: ‘Reprehensible That Premier Would Abstain’
Bill To Stop Same Sex Marriage Fails In Senate
Video: MP Furbert On Human Rights Amendment
PM: HRC Is “Overstepping Their Boundaries’
#BermudaPolitics #HRA2016 #LGBTQI #SameSexMarriage
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Family Man says:
How hypocritical.
Those that voted to allow discrimination were exclusively black.
Ed Case says:
it was expected.
blankman says:
“Expected” doesn’t make it right.
Bible Thumper Bob says:
I see marriage as the union of 2 ppl who become 1; that 1 is the creation of a new person, a child. Forget any and everything that has to do with religion or man made laws, systems, policies, etc. Those 2 ppl are forever in “marriage” because of the child they created. No matter what happens in the world or what gets redefined, they will always be the creators of that person…and always connected. That connection, in my opinion, is a marriage…because it’s deeper than any other connection possible…this connection created life.
It turns out that, scientifically, this only occurs from a male and a female. If reproduction could happen any other way, then we’d be having a different conversation.
If a man and woman go through the process of getting married, but struggle to have a child, that is also a different topic.
Now to bring in religion…God’s whole purpose for creating Adam and Eve was to create a family to which he could share His love. That they would create more children and extend the love of God to them..and so on.
For Christians who wish to quote Leviticus…please stop. You clearly don’t know your religion and didn’t read the whole Bible. If you believe in Jesus, then you know that He is the new covenant, replacing the old covenant(laws of Leviticus)….hence the New Testament. Read the letter to the Hebrews where this is explained. But in Matthew 19, Jesus himself establishes part of his new covenant by reinforcing the 10 commandments from Exodus/Leviticus. In Matthew 19: 4-6, Jesus reinforces the view of Genesis where a man and a woman join and become one flesh. Further to the end of the chapter he also explains that many ppl do not understand the word “marriage” after being challenged by the Pharisees…and that still holds true today.
On another occasion from the Pharisees about marriage, Jesus explained that there is no marriage in heaven.
So those who resort to name calling, who slander others because of their beliefs, who use the term “bigot” to describe those who voted….to those who attack these types of ppl by name calling the name callers in order to defend their beliefs….your negative actions only exhibit your own negative character.
To Christians, just because you’re defending Christianity, doesn’t mean you’re doing it properly. Don’t let the devil bait you into sin with such things as primary school name calling. Let their own actions condemn themselves. Proverbs teaches us that the tongue of a fool is his own demise.
Just because they are loud on a social media comments page, doesn’t mean they are right or represent the majority…and if the majority choose to create a society that’s based on Christian values doesn’t mean they are wrong. Forget the business opportunities that we MIGHT be losing from LGTB business from the US, or the tourism opportunities…the decision should not be made on financial issues…because…as we all know…money is the root of all evil.
And if you prefer to live in a country where same sex marriage is legal…then try the USA! Look how well their degenerated society of Christian values is flourishing!
Mike Hind says:
I’m not sure you understand what marriage actually is.
Having a kid together is not a marriage, necessarily.
There is no requirement to be able to have kids together, or at all.
Not being able to have kids together is not a reason to bar a couple from getting married.
Your beliefs and religion are exactly that. Yours. They should have exactly as much influence on someone else’s life as a different religion should have on yours.
Or would you be ok with someone else’s religion’s rules and taboos being forced onto you?
As for the bigot label?
It’s not about someone’s beliefs. Folks have explained this time and again.
It’s about forcing other people, through this legislation, to follow their beliefs. It’s about denying people equal access to rights based on nothing BUT those beliefs.
It’s not fair to hurt people because of your own personal religious beliefs.
And, until, someone offers a valid, honest reason to continue denying people equal access to rights, that is exactly what you are doing. And it is wrong. And it is, in fact, bigoted.
Onion Juice says:
Common sense prevails.
Bigotry prevailed. Which, to you, seems like common sense.
hotcrossbuns says:
This is Neanderthal thinking. The world doesn’t care about what you think is “common sense”. As the economy recovers we could use all the visitors we can get. Hundreds of Bermudians are out of work and LGBT business out of New York and Boston could make a gigantic difference. We continue to hurt the people who need the help the most by these barbaric actions.
they can stay in boston and newyork don’t need their kind
brining their filthy lifestyle here we will not ever except their way of life they can f==r o==f
This is just outright hate speech…
Cirious says:
Thats called prostitution when you sell you principles and values for a dollar. not like they hire Bermudians anyway. Read the stats.
aluminati says:
Barbaric? Spoken like a person who has had all the protections and privileges life could afford – I pray you sir never to never whiteness true barbarism.
The only thing barbaric here is what you do to each other…
And please do not mention the economy because if you knew anything about it you would know we are far from a “recovery”. The global economy (of which we are intrinsically linked) is teetering on the edge of collapse – keep watching those left wing, socialist news outlets – that will do you a world of good…
That’s exactly what George Patton thinks LMAO
Onion Juice, do you believe you are superior to, inferior to or equal to a person who is gay?
Toodle-oo says:
OJ is wrong about everything . History revisionist and everything else . Why do you think his answer to your question will be honest , no matter what he types ?
Um got to much brains says:
Please , don’t give it a stage.
Baltic Fury says:
Jesus, so out of step with modern society.
Bermuda really is another world, full of the backward and the small minded.
One day you will see this differently.
Tell Jeff Deloreans were early eighties.
Maybe you missed the “Back To The Future” movies?
See, there was a DeLorean that was a time machine and Marty McFly went back to the 50s…
100 comments for SSM doesn’t speak for the majority who oppose it! Get over it and lets move on to more important things!!
Again, the majority didn’t actually vote in the non-binding, not-answered referendum.
Also, it is the role of Government to protect the minority against the oppression of the majority.
Oh, and? If this isn’t important to you, why even bother to post.
I can assure you that equality is very important to the folks that are denied it.
Detail how you or your “minority” are oppressed exactly?
Well, I’m not. I’m a straight, married, white man. I’m not oppressed.
But gay folks ARE oppressed by being denied equal access to rights and privileges that the rest of us share in.
Do you not get that?
Whistling Frog says:
There has to be a line drawn somewhere.. When you look brothers are going to want to marry their sisters and fathers their daughters and aunts their nieces.. I’m sure you get the big picture.. It’s all in the name of love.. This will soon pass.
No. That’s a slippery slope argument and it’s been debunked many, many times.
This hasn’t happened anywhere else. This isn’t a valid reason to continue denying people access to rights.
No response?
I guess you were just trolling.
Plants says:
In the public sessions they said that in exchange for civil unions they would amend the human rights act to specify marriage as between a man and a woman. It was meant to be a compromise!!! Absolute atrocity!
bluwater says:
Horse-trading Human Rights. A pathetic lack of leadership on both sides.
Jus' Askin' says:
wahoo says:
What a joke.
Bermy Abroad says:
These politicians should be ashamed of themselves. International corporations should start to boycott the island. Bermuda is becoming a complete embarrassment full of ignorant bible thumpers.
Check you later…you’ll have a fancy new airport to fly out of…
Just the Tip says:
Why is that always the answer you people give? “Don’t like it leave” why is that, why should i have to leave the place of my birth, the place of my family, the place of my schooling, the place of my history because of assholes like you who can’t see past your fucking religion? why is it that I should have to leave just to be happy and secure? why, tell me why and don’t use any religious quote or anything that echoes religious themes.
Tried this on the 9th, noe i’ve edited some words out
Why is that always the answer you people give? “Don’t like it leave” why is that, why should i have to leave the place of my birth, the place of my family, the place of my schooling, the place of my history because of people like you who can’t see past your religion? why is it that I should have to leave just to be happy and secure? why, tell me why and don’t use any religious quote or anything that echoes religious themes.
Real says:
You’re right, these polititions should be ashamed of themselves because every last one of them should’ve voter against SSM
Why? What possible reason could you give for them to vote against it?
Daylilly says:
International companies don’t boycott China or Dubai. International companies respect that the European Court of Human Rights has stated that SSM is not a human right and each country has the right to choose laws appropriate to suit its culture.
Here we go again with the misinformation.
Triangle Drifter says:
The cowards & the sheep won the day once again. You have done nothing but postpone the inevitable. Think of what future generations will say about you.
if a man gets married to man there will be no future generations
This is complete nonsense.
Allowing gay folks to get married will have absolutely no effect on people having babies.
That’s not how it works.
Come on. At least TRY to use your brain.
and we said no no hell no
And that question was unanswered.
Please try to keep up.
The majority didn’t answer the question, so… Bermuda didn’t actually say “no no hell no”
But you keep babbling gibberish.
THIS is who we’re supposed to respect and take seriously.
Umm says:
Majority of the people THAT VOTED said no no hell no
And? They were still not the majority of the island.
Plus, the referendum was a) Non-binding and b) not answered.
The majority of the people who voted saying no-no is irrelevant.
smh says:
Obviously they are very relevant for a law to be passed blocking ssm undercover brother (mike hind).
This makes no sense at all.
And are you actually trying to imply that I’m gay, like that’s an insult?
Being gay isn’t a bad thing, except for the fact that they have to deal with hatred from people like you.
GoodIdea BadIdea says:
It’s been debated a hundred times but a minority group is exactly that. So applying the “will of the people” in this case is clearly a flawed case when it comes to human rights.
We already understand how genetics can create a whole spectrum of visibly different people, how hard is it to understand that genetics can create a whole spectrum of internally different people? Fortunately being gay doesn’t amount to anything but a preference for same sex relations, but unfortunately a large portion of the community feels it’s ok to marginalize those whose only mistake was to be born different.
We have generally struggled to provide equal rights for those who are different than the majority while not being perfect, we have made significant advances either by quiet or not so quiet progress.
This case is different because of numbers, simple numbers. The minority isn’t strong enough to overcome and it’s certain that some remain silent knowing that despite the HRA protecting them, the majority community will not protect them. So it’s a lose lose situation in all cases, and again the church wins, top it with whatever you like, at the end of the day it’s just religious opinion and not human rights being legislated on here.
So saying that this is a victory for the majority only reinforces the acceptance of marginalization of the gay community and the reluctance to embrace all regardless of how they were born.
There is much discussion about being a minority. Being a minority doesn’t automatically designate anyone as disenfranchised or marginalized. Really rich people, really beautiful people, couples who can by a house in Bermuda with no money down are all a minority. So are really tall people or short people, so are people who want several wives or several husbands, so are people who enjoy eating Brussel sprouts or turnips.
Being a minority simply means there is a smaller number in comparison, it doesn’t automatically mean poor or disenfranchised.
SSM isn’t for Bermuda. Bermuda agreed to protect every citizen with the HRA, Bermuda also agreed to legislatively uphold marriage between a man & a woman.
As has been explained to you before, the last time you tried this nonsense, being a minority doesn’t mean you’re disenfranchised or marginalized…. but BEING DENIED EQUAL ACCESS TO RIGHTS FOR NO REASON DOES!
How do you keep missing that?
So you start with something nothing to do with the post, we all know that not every minority is disenfranchised or marginalized but by your actions and words the LGBTQ does exactly that. This legislation does exactly that so please don’t act as if it doesn’t disenfranchise and marginalize me.
Marriage Equality should be for everyone, for everyone in Canada, USA, Briton, Bermuda, even in places such as Iraq, Sudan, EVERY WHERE. But because of people like you it is not, people who feel it is their ‘right’ to discriminate against others who don’t ‘match’ what the feel is ‘norm’. Bermuda did not agree the legislation the majority did not turn out and vote in that farce of referendum. It should never have been held and this legislation should never have been passed as it violates the Human Rights Act. Which makes you comment about Bermuda agreeing to protect every citizen with the HRA laughable as it is clear that this legislation does the exact opposite of that.
Just out of curiosity are you a white straight male?
So irrelevant that you lost to the people you voted for. Lol
what does this even mean?
Are you actually gloating? Are you HAPPY that people are being hurt? Are you PROUD that we, as a society, are denying people rights for no reason?
thetruth says:
At one point the majority in one country voted in favour of Hitler.
Thinking says:
Mike you are a real idiot a real a$$$$$$ to keep saying this
I’M the idiot?
You post nothing but nonsense and lies and ignorance, but it’s me that’s the idiot.
Ooooh Kay.
Why are you so mad?
Is this hurting you in some way? Is this harming your life or happiness on some way? If so, how? How is marriage equality affecting your life?
Cuz if it isn’t? You shouldn’t be getting THIS mad about it.
Think About It says:
Such a moron. So if a man and another man are allowed to be married ALL MEN will stop reproducing?
I’m surprised you even have the mental faculties to use a computer.
Build a Better Bermuda says:
How do you think a homosexual is born… it does take a man and a woman to produce a child. What is also required is a strong and supportive family structure to raise that child to be successful and well adjusted to take on the realities of life, but over the last couple decades it has been shown that the family structure does not need to be exclusively man/woman, nor would that child become homosexual if raised by a same sex couple.
The human race is in no threat of becoming extinct through SSM, however, the one of the greatest and most imminent threats to our existence as a species (and for that matter, almost all other species on Earth) is in fact over population.
Point boy says:
Small minded and ignorant!
David T says:
Oh so you and all heterosexuals will turn gay then if this happens? What utter nonsense.
Frank now you talking mike going to hell soon
Soon? I’m not even 50 yet! What do you mean soon?
Oh, and I won’t be going to hell.
Firstly, I don’t believe in it. There’s no such thing. I’m as likely to be swilling mead with Thor in Valhalla as I am to be going to hell.
And secondly, even IF there was a heaven and hell, I am not a bad person, even according to your rules. Therefore…
You, however, who are using lies and dishonesty and cowardice to support our society actively hurting people for no reason?
You might have to do some quick talking to do at the Pearly Gates to get out of the ol’ Down Elevator.
Doesn’t this sound a little “Westboro Baptist Church”-like?
You gonna make up some signs like they do?
FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO HAVE A MOTHER AND FATHER _ THE WAY NATURE DESIGNED IT.
YOU ARE AN ABOMINATION TO NATURE THAT IS WHY YOUR GENES POOL WILL END.
Oh! You’re insane and have no idea what you are talking about. I thought you were actually interested in discussion.
Seems like you’re only interested in spreading hate and misinformation. Shame on you. You are bad for our society.
You’re no better than the Westboro Baptist Chirch.
Future generations will say thank you for protecting marriage and our future.
Future generations will look at the lies and misinformation and nonsense that you and your side have put out there as an argument against marriage equality and look on you with the same disgust as we do other bigots from the past.
This doesn’t protect marriage because marriage, as it exists now, will not be affected in any way, at all.
This “protecting marriage and our future” is a disgusting false narrative that you lot have made up to sound good, but it means nothing.
“Misinformation.. nonsense.. disgust.. bigots.. marriage equality” Your words. Lots of emotive terms, people know the truth, SSM is not a human right.
Odd that you say that they’re emotive terms, but not that I’m not right.
Or, if that’s the implication, WHY I’m not right.
You keep saying that it’s not a human right… but, when asked about the rights that people ARE, in fact, denied access to, you disappear and go silent.
As for the truth? You’ve shown that you don’t even have passing knowledge of it, given all the times that you have posted outright lies in order to push your agenda.
Don’t worry. I’m not expecting a response that makes any sense. You haven’t done so so far.
And Mike has never said that it was, it is a right and it is a human rights issue because rights are being denied on the grounds of sexual orintations and gender.
Longtail says:
I cry for my country………..
what the hell you crying for
Because bigotry and ignorance prevailed.
Our Government voted to continue to deny access to rights to Bermudians and offered no real reason to do so.
This is shameful and we should all be outraged about this blow to Human Rights.
What about my human rights to smoke my herb in my own house? or better still bake my brownies with it…
A completely different subject…
and one, I should add, that I would support, should you wish to organize and start making a movement towards legalization. However, no one has done that, not in a major, real way, have they?
You being denied the “right” to make pot brownies has nothing to do with marriage equality. How does that parse in your head? “Herb is illegal, so gay folks shouldn’t be allowed to get married”?
If you want to change the law, then make the effort. Don’t just whine when other people are fighting for their rights.
As I mentioned on this page, the two situations are very similar. Both involve denying access to rights for no reason.
Start a movement. Organize. You’d be surprised how much support you’d get!
This is disgraceful.
What possible argument could have been made for this?
Bigotry and discrimination won last night.
Youfools says:
You guys voted em in. Be ashamed of yourself.
Um. Do you actually think this is partisan? Have you not looked at the party makeup of the people who voted for this?
And the fact that Wayne Furbert put this forward?
I know you’re “Party all the way!”, but you can’t be serious with this, can you?
This is one of the most ridiculous, ignorant posts I’ve seen.
Rhonnda O says:
I’m not ashamed for voting for them because there simply was no alternative.
While I still believe that they are doing well in a great many areas, this decision… and the reality of who supported it … changes things. Bigotry is rampant in both parties and that is unacceptable.
We need an alternative to the two options we have. We need progressive independent thinkers who can work together.
Truly an embarrassing moment for Bermuda.
Embarrassing to whom? Most of the world who don’t agree with homosexuality?
Embarrassing for those of us who believe in equality and thought our elected officials did, too.
And ad populum arguments are ridiculous.
“C’mon! Everybody’s doing it!” is for teenagers, not society.
The ad populum argument is exactly the claim SSM proponents have used. We have been repeatedly bombarded with claims about what “every civilized” country is doing, when actually only 10% of the world has redefined marriage. Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Carribbean have mostly fortified marriage.
A powerful and loud minority is trying to force an entire country and the world to deny thousands of years of cultural roots.
Nothing in here is even remotely related to the truth.
You haven’t… not even once… offered a single valid, defensible argument to continue denying people equal access to rights.
You, yourself, keep pushing the “Most of the world doesn’t want it” nonsense.
And now, in trying to accuse others of your own behavior, you do it again!
“Thousands of years of cultural roots”? This is just gibberish? Which culture? There are hundreds, and all of them have different roots.
So, how about it, “Daylily”? Are you going to put your money where your mouth is and actually offer a reason that we should still deny people equal access to rights, or will this be par for the course and more nonsense, lies and misinformation?
I won’t hold by breath.
Ever considered where our tourists come from? Or where the majority of those that invest in international business come from?
pink sand says:
A very large percentage don’t like black people either….what’s your point?
Who jock says:
How ?…abstention…is it even legal to abstain in legislative affairs?
Alright but other arrangements must be made in reference to remainder of pensions lagality of partnership etc….
Make sure you all have wills people…also I recommend you go someplace and get married anyway…at some point it will come to be…and it will be as retro active ad govt. Itself was concerning confiscation of private pensions into that one they have that is far less dividend.
Good Morning Bermudian Minorities.
The Human Rights Act isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
The HOA is filled with ignorant cowards. Remember when it’s YOUR rights that are not upheld in the future.
I am a man and I like having sex with woman
is there something wrong with that
Nope. No one is trying to deny you rights based on who you sleep with.
Why are you trying to compare?
Are you that ignorant?
Kinnie says:
Pls. Youre the ignorant one. Where is your passion towards blacks continually being oppressed in Bermuda being you are so strong on your views on homosexuality. Go lay down until you become real about the impact of inequality for all on all levels .
First off, you’re wrong. Very wrong.
Secondly, even if I did not care about black folks – which again, is not true – it wouldn’t make my position on marriage equality wrong. I can back up everything I say and will answer any and all pertinent questions about my position, all the while doing so with my face and name out in the sunshine.
Sadly, you can’t say the same, instead relying on dishonesty and false personal attacks and nonsense you just made up in your hateful little brain.
But now they’ve opened the door that they can legislate against anyone having equal rights if they don’t agree with with something they do.
We know the first minority to be found unacceptable.
I wonder who is next?
Adkin says:
This is sick. The reason most people voted the way they did was not to protect your lusts but on religious principles. If gay marriage was legal in Bermuda it would not prevent you from sleeping with women. However, more correctly sex is between a husband and wife for the sole purpose of procreation. It’s suppose to be sacred, not pluralistic like your comment in which you like to have sex with women. Your comment is very very immature.
And their “religious principles” should trump people’s access to rights… why?
And “sex is between a husband and wife for the sole purpose of procreation” is YOUR religious principle and should apply solely to your life.
You don’t get to tell people what sex is for in their relationships.
Which part of focus on music until you perfect that art did you miss?
Are you seriously saying that I shouldn’t have a voice? And when was this said before?
Nothing in this posts makes any sense!
Ridiculous. Some married couples can’t have children. Does that make their marriage any less valid? Even if they never procreate, they’re still married right??
The only thing I actually relish right now is that so many of these bible thumping hypocrites are going to be in for a rude awakening on that great day when they don’t end up where they expected to be.
and no GAY OR LESBIAN couple can ever have sex and procreate…NOT ONE!!!
Procreation isn’t a requirement for marriage.
Its a requirement for life! No life no marriage!
This is simply not true! As mentioned, people who can’t create life together can already get married.
This isn’t a valid reason to continue banning couples from getting married.
It’s just insane ranting.
Yeah, keep it to yourself. I don’t care what you do in your bedroom, you don’t have to rub it in my face.
Cow Polly says:
Smh. I’m done with politics All these buffoons are morally corrupt and kim Wilson what were you thinking?
Shame on Kim Wilson.
Keepin' it Real!...4Real! says:
Kim Wilson knows what time it is…
i expected better from her. Future leader? Yes if it was 1985.
Politicans are less than SCUM. I hope God punishes you for your evil deed.
I don’t think God would punish them, God will bless them for protecting marriage. Marriage is for procreation of Children and the establishing of a family.
No. It’s not. It can be about “procreation of Children”, but that is not SOLELY what it is for. There is no requirement for procreation in marriage.
They didn’t “protect marriage”, they denied Bermudians access to the rights that marriage offers and did it for absolutely no valid, true reason.
Marriage equality will have absolutely no effect on “traditional marriage”, at all.
To say this “protects marriage” is ridiculous.
These people want to destroy family in the traditional sense – here is a quote from a prominent gay agenda architect for example…
“And after all, we are advocating the destruction of the centrality of marriage and the nuclear family unit… .” – Ryan Conrad
How about this for deception?
“… fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there—because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don’t think it should exist.” – Masha Gessen,
This is an outright lie. Ryan Conrad isn’t a “gay agenda architect”, he is an outspoken anti-marriage activist. And Masha Gessen, IN THAT QUOTE!, says that she’s anti-Marriage.
But for every two anti-marriage folks you can pull up, I can show you hundreds of LGBT folks who are very pro-marriage and only want to, in fact, just be married.
“These people” just want to share in the same rights the rest of us have and, unlike you, couldn’t care less about other people’s relationships.
The only person being deceptive here is you.
Not that you’ll respond to this with any sort of reason… or at all. That’s not how folks like you work, is it?
But a heterosexual couple, who are NOT religious can be married.
I wonder what God has to say about that.
EQUAL RIGHTS is for all.
I suspect he’s wondering why so many people are obsessed with other people’s genitalia and sexual practices when they could be putting the same time, money and effort into helping those in the community who need help.
Including you! BTW I do more for the community than you will ever do!!!!! FACT!!!!
Ride says:
An absolute disgrace. I did not realise there could be this much backwater in the middle of the Atlantic.
BDABOY says:
I realized it when I was growing up…happy I left the rock.
Pink sand and warm water isn’t really all that special.
Flap jack says:
Well done!! This vote will bring peace of mind to the majority in the island. Its not natural. Point. Blank. Period!
What isn’t? Marriage? Yes. We know. No other species gets married.
But homosexuality is. There are tonnes of other species that have it.
At least TRY to do some research and educate yourself before you go spouting off ignorance.
Oh please Mike. So just because no other species gets married we shouldn’t either?
Do gorillas have a courts system? Do rats have a police force? Do pigs have a house of assembly?…No.
So we shouldn’t have those either right??
You’re the one who said “It’s not natural”, not me.
Don’t argue against your own bleddy argument!
Please dude stop. You’re so ignorant. Dont try to switch this conversation around.
Are you even a little bit serious?
You said “Its not natural. Point. Blank. Period!”
Those are your words.
Now, you are either ignorant of the facts – that homosexuality exists in hundreds of different species, therefor IS, in fact, natural – or are saying that marriage ISN’T natural – which is why I asked.
Which is it? Are you standing by the ignorant false claim that homosexuality isn’t natural? Or are you pointing out that marriage doesn’t exist in the animal kingdom and, therefore, is unnatural?
He didn’t, he responded to the statement that ‘it’s not natural’ with a counter argument of what has been documented fact about what goes on in the natural world. Hundreds of species in nature, engage in homosexual behaviours for a multitude of reasons… but there aren’t any that have a concept of marriage. Monogamy, yes, marriage no. So tell me what’s natural?
Many species have unnatural sex?? Is that the reason why they are called ANIMALS??
Here we go again, this bizarre overreaction to someone responding to the “it’s unnatural” argument.
Why don’t you guys ever say anything about the idiots that say “it’s unnatural”? Why do you always freak out at the folks showing why that’s wrong?
If it happens in nature, how can it be unnatural?
” Do pigs have a house of assembly?…No.”
Uh, yes.
Then if marriage is so unnatural, why are same sex couples so anxious to get married? Homosexuality is not illegal – you should be satisfied.
Again, it wasn’t me that brought up the unnatural argument. I was pointing out that that argument is, in fact, invalid.
And same sex couples are anxious to get married for the same reason opposite sex couples are… because marriage conveys a whole load of rights and privileges that allow them to have a life and family together.
And I should be satisfied that homosexuality is no longer illegal?
Seriously? Oh, thank you, society, for not arresting my friends and family for being gay. You are a gracious and benevolent benefactor.
Do you seriously not get what this bill does? Do you not get how badly this is hurting people?
What family mike what family what do you call family mike ?
What on earth are you asking? This is gibberish.
THIS is who we’re supposed to be listening to.
Marriage is a legal standing, granting rights and protections under the laws as relates to medical, pension, hereditary, insurance, property, taxation… and other matters. The primacy of democracy is equality under the law so that all can engage in it on equal standings. Nobody is redefining marriage for anyone, how you define your marriage is entirely up to you, but the legal standings it provides to those who would engage it, must be provided without discrimination to others, and they can define their marriage as they see.
YADON says:
Lies Mike, No animal analy penetrates another, dry humping, raising offspring together and domimince displays are not the same.
You are incorrect. This has need shown to you many times. You are favtually incorrect. You are wrong.
And it’s irrelevant any way, as no other animal gets married, either.
This is just yet another distraction to avoid talking about the core point… That you and all the other anti-equality folks have NEVER given a real reason that we should continue denying Bermudians equal access to the rights and privileges offered by marriage.
Why don’t you just answer that simple question?
Guess what happens to the gay rat Mike?
What on earth are you talking about?
A marriage is not natural, you are absolutely correct. It was a man made legal agreement. Whether this man made law as written in Bermuda discriminates is easy to answer…it does.
People who want to discriminate are not good people they are bad people.
As for two men or two women it is completely natural, as it has occurred in nature. That nature was created by God if you believe in God.
Marriage is between a man and a woman. And if you want to bring up religion. God put a woman with Adam. Ps. If he had put another man there with him the human race wouldn’t have gotten too far…
That is a wedding!
Not a marriage.
You are making a religious argument. Do you think your religion should be followed by all people? Do you think that everyone should have to obey the rules and laws of your religion? Would you be ok with someone else’s religion being imposed on you and affecting your life, happiness and relationship?
Legalgal says:
Seems to be the very people who had human rights laws assist them against race discrimination that now discrimInate against others. Bigoted and hypocritical. But that doesn’t really matter, because those discriminated against are in the minority. Shame on you. The vast majority of Bermudians either voted for Equal rights on gay marriage or didn’t care enough to turn up and vote against.
Zevon says:
If you believe in the adam and eve story and hold it up as a good example, you support and admire the idea of incest.
Flap jack, you do realize that if god actually created Eve from Adam’s rib she would have been 46XY (basic genetics) so she’s have been transgendered?
what was the reason for noah to take m/f from every species?
What does that have to do with marriage?
@Flap jack. Yo bro do you need some butter or syrup with those pancakes? Your getting dry!
Don’t compare me to ANIMALS!! If that’s what gay people are comparing themselves too then I will call you ANIMALS from now on!
Oy. This is such a bizarre freak out, completely not getting what this conversation is.
How are we supposed to have a real, honest conversation when THIS is the kind of thing we’re faced with?
Positivity says:
Peace of mind? What! What were they afraid of? Utter ignorance.
aceboy says:
How is this part of any Human Rights Act? It is specifically excluding a minority. It is anti human rights.
What a absolutely disgraceful outcome…our Politicians are a bunch of narrow minded idiots who don’t deserve the position they are in Wayne Furbert since you are the instigator when you get to Pearly gates hope you have a real good explanation for obstructing Human Rights for all …..you may need to get a new ticket heading South…. you will definitely deserve it
I noticed we are ignorant but also very proud of it.
some poignant words from the 60s(where the brains of most of our politicians reside) -Bob Dylan “you better start swimming or you will sink like a stone for the times they are a changin” start sinking.
M.C. Beauchamp says:
Court challenges to follow. Nasty little place, innit?
You want some cheese with that whine
You want some cheese with that wine
The shameful 20 we’ll always be known for this disgrace this is a bigger bombshell for Bermuda than the immigration mess and they don’t realized it all led by the weak and cowardly Dunkley
You guys make me holla!…u weren’t satisfied with the majority vote…you wanted the half dozen opinions of parliament…you got it now your still crying because you didn’t get your way.
The majority didn’t vote.
How did you miss that?
Forethebest says:
Same sex marriage is not the business of the public, the House or the courts other than it is a basic Human Right for all people to make their own choice. The capacity of every person to love is great! Judge not lest you be judged Matthew 7:1-3
Jim bob says:
People who don’t even have the right to vote in Bermuda seem to be making the most noise about this issue.
Evidence of this claim? Or is this just more ridiculous, xenophobic nonsense?
Evidence to support your assertion Mike?
What assertion are you talking about. I didn’t make one.
Please keep up.
Mike didn’t assert anything. All he did was ask for evidence to support Jim bob’s claim.
Shut up idiot! The evidence was shown on the lawn of cabinet!! I know for a FACT that there were about 15 people I saw that have been on this island less than 3 years and work for the same company!!Someone always has to justify something or debate something with you….FREAK!!
So angry. Why do simple questions make you so mad?
By does the concept of debating something that is actually hurting people make you this unhinged?
Why not just explain yourself calmly?
HAHA That’s funny coming from you,THE HYPOCRITE, accusing someone of being angry.Almost Laughable! Have you forgotten about all the ANGRY and NASTY conversations you have had with people?? Look in the archives…..This ssm thing has given you selective memory.
Nope. Not true.
You’re just throwing another tantrum because, deep down, you know you’re wrong.
If you didn’t, you’d engage in a real conversation instead of making up lies like you’re doing here, Ina pathetic attempt to defame me, while hiding under the hood of anonymity.
I’d ask you to prove your claim, but a. You can’t because it’s an outright lie and b. You are such a coward and so dishonest, you don’t care about backing up what you claim, instead choosing to run away like a roach.
You are pathetic and so full of hate that you allow yourself to stoop to these lows. It’s sad and it’s bad for Bermuda.
Did you ever thing that it might effect them as well?
St George's Girl says:
Such a shame Bermuda votes against love just as the most iconic lover of all humans goes to the big roundabout in the sky. So contradictory
So Tired says:
Nobody voted against love. If the true goal of these persons is to get married because they love each other, it shouldn’t matter where they tie the knot. Move on from Bermuda’s rules. There are several neighboring countries that do recognize SSM, so go there. SS couples have the right and enjoyment of living here, and do so. Didn’t the judge rule that Non- Bermudians in a SS long-term relationship with a Bermudian gets the same benefits as if he were a Bermudian? That benefit was NOT extended to the like heterosexual couples but i haven’t heard slanderous remarks coming from them. Stop throwing your toys around because you can’t have your way. So typical! Oh, btw, I saw four SS couples yesterday vacationing here AND, HAVING A GREAT TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So stop the BS about that!
Wow. So you’re actually saying that Bermudians should have to leave their own country?
To get married, yes…to live, no
But… if they get married away and come back to live, they still won’t be married here.
The Bermuda Bred case gave a couple of rights to married couples who aren’t recognized here, but not all.
Their marriage won’t be recognized as a marriage.
Is it that you’re talking about weddings? The actual ceremony?
For SS to get married, yes…to live, no
I think the problem here is that you may be talking about a wedding – “to get married” – rather than having their actual marriage recognized by Bermuda, legally.
So tired
Go to sleep then
I know its disgusting that BERMUDIANS are leaving their country because they cant find work because foreigners are coming to the island and taking jobs away from BERMUDIANS!!! What do you think about that??
So, it’s only disgusting when that happens, but not when they’re being forced out because they are denied equal access to rights?
What do you think about THAT? Hm?
Why is it only bad when the one happens and not the other?
I asked you what do you think about that and I still didn’t get an answer to the question but you are always asking people for an answer to your questions….I see Mike! You’re entitled!
Amazing! You NEVER answer the simplest questions, but when I don’t, it’s outrageous? That’s just insane.
Ok. Let’s do this. One for one. I’ll answer yours, you answer mine. Deal?
If not, we’ll know that you know that you don’t actually have anything to back up your position and are, in fact nothing more than a bigot and a hater who thinks he’s entitled to have a say in someone else’s happiness, and that you are, in fact, completely wrong about this.
How do I feel about Bermudians having to leave the country in order to find other, better opportunities and that foreigners come down and g jobs and security?
I hate it. It sucks. It’s happening to me, too. I can’t find work from October to May. Not enough to live on.
This is unacceptable and needs to change and I’m working to make that change happen.
There. I answered your question.
Now, will you answer mine? Or will you prove that you have nothing to back yourself up?
Can you give one reason, one defensible, valid reason that stands up to simple questions that you will also answer, that we, as a society, should continue denying same sex couples equal access to the rights and privileges that marriage affords the rest of us?
I will await your answer.
And silence from “WOW”.
So much outrage when he thinks he’s got something. Scuttles off, tails between his legs when asked to step up.
He had time to post a cowardly personal attack, but not to stand up for what he wrote, that’s telling, no?
What?? says:
You are correct. The Bermuda Bred decesion created discrimination againt opposite-sex non-married couples. This would not have been the case if same-sex marriage was allowed. A court case is soon to follow. I guess to fix the mess they will use another “notwithstanding” the HRA clause. The stupidity of this cowardly act will reverberate for a long time.
Not even a little bit true!
Come on. You’re being ridiculous. Which points were great?
Where they imply that if Bermudians got married overseas, their marriages would be recognized here?
Or where they confused a wedding with a marriage?
Which points were great?
It truly amazes me that people are so worked over this, but are happy to allow people to be persecuted, incarcerated and fired, for using a plant. A much larger portion of our population smoke cannabis. Give me my herb, and then i may care your plight.
I think if you look, many folks that support marriage equality would support the legalization or decriminalization of pot.
Maybe if you organize and start getting out into the community, spreading your message, folks would show more support.
I do find it troubling that you put conditions on your support for equality. That’s weird.
You’ll only care about equal access to rights if you’re allowed to smoke herb?
The thing is, the two things are very similar:
Both involve denying rights to Bermudians – one, access to rights afforded by marriage and the other, the right to freedom, if caught – for absolutely no reason.
Start a movement. Give us something to support.
Why don’t you start the movement Mike if you want to be taken seriously….show us how passionate you are about human rights and support legalization and champion for the cause just like you have with SSM. Better yet I want to see you support equal pay, equal job opportunities for all!! Blacks are considerably underpaid compared to whites doing the same job!!You want people to take you serious?
Because I’m sober and have been for more than 25 years. It’s not my place to start a movement, just to support it.
As fr what you want to see? I couldn’t care less. Come out from under your hood, show me who you are and then I MIGHT care about what you “want to see” from me.
Until then, this is just more childish tantrum-throwing because you don’t have anything to back up your position.
Your equating the 2 is insulting.
This is a disgrace for Bermuda a major set back for the GLBT community but all is not lost we will stay strong Love will win the day,
Plus we have the power in our hands to make our voices heard :
Firstly the LGBT community all their family and friends need to vote out this disciminatory government at the earliest opportunity make no mistake michael Dunkley the unelected weakling his last days in political office are numbered .
VOTE THEM ALL OUT Send the message things won’t get better with the PLP but these jacked up bunch fools need to be rotated every 4 years remember Jennifer Smith (who’s silence is telling) was voted OUT by ONE VOTE.
We will use our buying and decision making to never spend a dime with any of the shameful 20 their business etc
Boycott anything to do with folks against the LGBT community they don’t care about us the reckon their sheep are all they need .
Lastly spread the word loud and clear in social media around the world tell one tell a hundred the BERMUDA DOES NOT WANT THE LGBT COMMUNITY
Lastly to the flip flop failed premier read your bible .
Father , forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
Talking to your dad?
There maybe 2 dads!
Get a defence fund together. Get some Human Rights advice, and the publicity that goes with it. Act quickly. This is not a LGBT issue. It’s not a religion issue. It is a Human Rights issue. The principle, and riding roughshod over the HR principle, affects everyone. The Queen (represented by the Governor) should not be rubber-stamping this.
If you want to vote out the people who say no to SSM and no to civil unions. You would have to empty bermuda so much that the population would be unsustainable. The members of parliament were brave enough to vote their conscience and on behalf of their constituency.
Well I guess the old adage is true…you can’t please all of the people all of the time…
Oh and stop calling people derogatory names because they don’t think like you…they were born that way maybe?…also don’t be a hypocrite in your own rite…remember what you stand for.
Calling someone who thinks it’s ok to deny access to rights to Bermudians for no real reason a bigot isn’t derogatory. It’s a description.
It’s amazing how anti-equality folks have such a problem with name-calling, but have absolutely no problem with ACTUALLY harming people by denying them access to rights.
Well when I call you stupid I’m not being derogatory. ..I’m just describing you…ok
OH. Ha! I get it. Your twisting my words to make a “clever” insult. Well done.
Difference is: I can point out why you and the rest are bigots.
Can you explain why you call me stupid?
I don’t think so, seeing as you’re reduced to schoolyard taunts.
exactly Bermuda is starting to look more and more like an old “adage”
stunned... says:
i’m stunned such bigotry, discrimination could still be legislated into law in this day. calling it a human rights amendment surely is an oxymoron. i thought the bill by its name would have expanded rights not decrease them for people of the same sex who wish to be married. how many people will be HURT because two people of the same sex want to commit themselves to one another. #dontunderstandthehatred
spare the religious justification because you just lost me.
Neither the Universal Declaration of Human Rights issued by the United Nations nor the European Court of Human Rights say that SSM is a human right. In fact the most recent rulings says quite the opposite. (See Chapin & Charpentier v. France June 2016) So the bermuda parliament is being progressive & following the most recent legislation in saying that SSM is not a human right, nor is it discriminatory to protect traditional marriage.
And what about the rights that these folks are currently denied access to?
Why do you never talk about that?
It ABSOLUTELY is discriminatory, as it denies access to rights, for absolutely no reason, based on sexual orientation and gender. There is no denying this. To say it’s not is malicious, willful ignorance.
And how does this “protect marriage”?
How would marriage equality have ANY effect on anyone else’s marriage?
You never seem to have an answer to these questions. Why is that?
Lois Frederick says:
Oh the irony. Just happened to visit Dockyard on Friday when the Breakaway was docking, on a special charter visit with Rosie O’Donnell, along with 4,500 gay friendly guests, including gay married couples! Guess what, Dockyard was no different than any other Friday when the Breakaway visits. Meanwhile, at the same time over in Hamilton, our leaders were determined to find a way to hold Bermuda back. To all who came on that ship, thanks for coming and know that there are many here in Bermuda, that will welcome you with open arms, as equals.
Up to d time!!
Devil’s Isle living upto its name!
This bie says:
I just don’t understand it. It boggles my mind. A woman is the most beautiful creation in life. From there soft skin, their sensual touch and sweet voice. Why in the entire f*** would a man want another man is beyond me
Have a great weekend folks.
The Lord works in mysterious ways…oh wait…your type doesn’t believe in that type of thing…
Very disappointing. And for the premier to abstain, where is the leadership in that!
I vote for you because there is no other option.
The Premier has always said that he never intended to vote in SSM. He most likely abstained not to offend SSM supporters. It should have been no surprise that he didn’t vote the bill down.
Anyway it was nice to see who in the house has a kind understanding heart when the human rights situation does not apply to them.
I’m sure adam agree with you steve?
wow-sorry i dont understand the question.Adam?
THIS is the level of discourse from the anti-equality side… this is what we get from people and, when we get frustrated with the nonsense being spewed, we’re “hateful” and “nasty”.
But this? No one says anything about it.
How are we supposed to have any sort of conversation about this subject when THIS is the level of intelligence we’re dealing with?
The Numbers Speak says:
If we take our individual views and put them aside and consider the statistics this decision, regardless of how we feel, makes sense. The non-referendum showed that that 2 to 1 did not want same sex marriage and even if everyone that voted was for it, the no’s would have still won. The majority of parliamentarians voted for the ban which simply reflected the majority view. The majority won. Is this not democracy?
Those who are crying loudly (with insults) against the majority of voters and fellow parliamentarians have no other party choices and could never win a seat again with the majority sentiment again SSM. Until public sentiment changes there cannot not be any change. If there was an election tomorrow, nothing would change. The ban would still be on as the majority voters would clearly support those who support the ban. Let’s get on with solving more important issues.
Or you could argue that the referendum showed that two-thirds of the people were in favour of SSM or didn’t feel the issue was important enough to object to.
But that aside, this should never have been put to any sort of vote – human rights should not be subject to the “tyranny of the majority”.
No, the referendum showed that the majority didn’t actually vote, so it was not answered. It was non-binding anyway. The majority didn’t win. The majority didn’t vote, as is their right.
The results of the referendum are irrelevant and using them to base a decision that denies people access to rights is wrong. You are misinterpreting the truth.
As for “until public sentiment changes”? You are incorrect. This is legislative. The minority must ALWAYS be protected from the whims and bigotry of the majority. Always.
And “more important issues”? If this is so unimportant, why not just let folks have these rights? Why work so hard to deny them access?
If you were being oppressed, wouldn’t that be pretty important to you?
Your privilege is showing.
HEY DOPEY! if 2 TO 1 VOTED AGAINST SSM, DO YOU HONESTLY BELEIVE THAT THE PEOPLE THAT DIDNT VOTE,FOR VARIOUS REASONS, WOULD HAVE FAVOURED SSM?? HAHA YOU ARE IN DENIAL!!
Yeah. It’s me that’s dopey.
Not the idiot that’s screaming in all caps about something he very obviously doesn’t understand.
The referendum was a) non-binding and b) not answered.
Therefore, Dopey, it is irrelevant and doesn’t count.
In addition, it doesn’t matter HOW many people vote against it.
This is about Human Rights and discrimination.
Just because the discrimination is popular, that doesn’t mean it’s right.
It’s still wrong, even if a lot of people think it’s ok to discriminate.
It’s not human rights it’s a sickness mike grow up its a mental problem and yes I agree they need help like you do too
Now you’re just ranting…
But let’s say it IS a sickness.
Is your position that people with diseases shouldn’t be allowed to get married?
Sad Day Really says:
Jeff Baron; ensure that this amendment does not pass in the Senate and you will have my admiration and my vote in the next election. Mr. Premier; did you not know this amendment was coming? Really!! You should have been prepared. Leah Scott; I am surprised to see you pass judgment on others, I have never passed judgment on you and your blunders before, well before this day. Thank you Mark, Shawn, Grant, Michael, Walton …….. for doing the right thing. Our laws must protect everyone, even the minority.
shutthemdown says:
wow… look at how nasty you lbgt ppl get. Its no wonder ppl don’t want to listen to you.
I am sure one day you will win in a court ….
Anyway until that day this is some funny sh.*.
Why the word marriage though?
What’s nasty about telling the truth??
As for the word “marriage” it comes with a host of legal rights (and responsibilities).
But we’ve been asking for a valid reason to oppose SSM for months and have yet to be given one.
The legal rights you are looking for are there as a civil union.
So again I ask why the word marriage?
Is it really because you hate the church so much that you want to destroy their “marriage”?
Seriously lbgt why the word marriage? We the public already know you would have the exact same “rights” with a civil union.
I think that we the general public should take a deeper look at why the lbgt community want to destroy the word marriage.
We’re not trying to do anything that you are saying that is massive misinformation right there. Having marriage equality wouldn’t destroy marriage at all, it wouldn’t affect any one who is already married.
we focus on the word marriage because that is what it is in the law. A marriage Certificate is need for a marriage to be legal recognized, thus allowing all the legal right to be given to the couple. That is why we ‘focus’ on the word.
Yes if it could be guaranteed that civil unions could give us the same exact rights a marriage we wouldn’t care, but it has been shown that in most other countries that rights are left out or civil unions are made to seem less legal leading to issues that usual end up with countries just adopting marriage equality for all since as I said it doesn’t affect any one who is already married.
But why do you seem to think Marriage Equality is destructive? What examples give you that view?
This is just… Ignorant.
A civil union doesn’t bestow access to the same rights. It jus doesn’t. Please do some research before you start freaking out.
Also, what does the church have to do with marriage? They do weddings.
The church isn’t a requirement for a marriage. It is not their word. At all. It’s a legal contract.
And how would allowing folks get married “destroy the word marriage”?
Nothing in this post is real.
It’s scary how people just make stuff up and offer it as fact.
Yup all their political careers and business took a bit hit today they have not realized it yet but they should start looking for alternative jobs as they will be voted OUT please call an election !
trust us on that on the OBA cannot be trusted with any issue if they messed up with this imagine the airport immigration jet gate on and on one confused bunch of amateurs an embarrassment to Bermuda
And the PLP is any better?
@shutthemdown. I spent quite a few minutes reading all the comments. Most off the nastiness came from those supporting the Bill.
How do you even know anyone posting here is LBGT? Quite a hypocritical statement from someone with the pen name shut-them-down.
Starting a comment with “you [insert demographic] people” is never good.
Never said I was a nice person, lol
But I am not after any “rights”
If I started on my personal views we could never have a discussion.
I don’t even go to church, but it is quite clear this is only about the word “marriage”. Why though? Hate God much?
What does God have to do with this? I’m married and don’t have anything to do with any gods…
A. Who is being nasty? And who on the LGBT side is being more nasty that the folks who are promoting the denial of rights to Bermudians for no reason at all? Who is being more nasty that the folks saying that gay folks are unnatural?
B. Why NOT the word marriage? That’s what it is. The church is not in intrinsic part of a marriage. It’s simply what we call the bestowing of rights on people who want to make a family together.
Why shouldn’t folks be allowed to get married?
Bermudians Matter says:
All u gays are siccckk in ya head… How the hell did you even get here…from a man and a woman nothing else….sicckk world we living in!!!
More outright, ignorant hate speech.
THIS is what is sick.
They cant MAKE a family together…do you mean adopt a child from a third world country that bears no resemblance of any of you? That family tree will have a lot of broken branches!
So… are you saying that my wife and I aren’t a family? That two people can’t make a family?
You’re wrong. And completely ignorant.
They absolutely CAN make a family.
You DO get that you’re actually arguing against adoption, right?
And… please tell me that same sex couples can use the same resources that opposite sex couples use to have kids if they want.
Oh, and this legislation? Isn’t going to stop them doing that. It just makes it more difficult for the kids.
But you keep spreading your hate. History will show you for the bigot that you are.
But does that mean you and yours have to answer with a rude comment also?
You guys don’t even like the church, don’t recognize it as even part legal. So why do you want the word marriage? It comes from the church.
As many of you have said many times you are after the Legal rights and that comes from the Gov.
Right now it is called a civil union. Can be called anything you like so why choose the one word that causes the most trouble?
Do you not get that the word marriage means the legal contract that conveys certain rights to people? And that a civil union is not the same thing?
It’s not the that is causing trouble. That is a misdirection.
But… Why shouldn’t they call it a marriage? My marriage doesn’t have anything to do with the church. At all. Many people’s marriages don’t. But we’re still allowed to call them marriages. Why is this different?
And, if rude comments are so bad, why not complain about them from both sides? Why is it only bad when one side does it in response?
ALso, where were my comments rude? Or at least ruder than what was said to me?
Have you not read some of the posts on this page?
As for not liking the church? I don’t dislike the church, it’s just not for me.
I DO have a problem with someone using their religious beliefs to hurt other people for no reason, which is what’s going on here.
As for the church being “even part legal”? I don’t know what that means.
The church ISN’T even part legal. It’s a whole different entity.
Civil Unions are NOT the same thing as a marriage. It’s not just the name.
the word ‘marriage’…exactly. why do certain segment of society ie. the religious – feel that they have a monopoly of that word and that it can only have one definition. the english language surely has many words that have multiple meanings, why not ‘marriage’?
years from now when society evolves, the historians will think how ridiculous this bill was; that just because several men aka politicians did not get turned on by the same sex, they voted that same sex couples should not enjoy the rights and privileges associated with marriage as they do…all this boils down to is legislating another form of discrimination.
quite simple I live in St Georges and my OBA vote will not get cast i cannot support anyone who wishes to obstruct simple Human rights ….I simply cant support either party so if the PLP win then i will get my fishing line and head to the rocks like everyone else ….but i will not support Dunkley and his road show
This is the most honest post from one of the anti-equality people.
It shows EXACTLY how little of an argument they have. There is NOTHING backing their position.
At least “Thinking” didn’t try to post lies to back it up.
Of course, they didn’t have the courage to explain why they should have a say in someone else’s relationship, but cowardice is par for the course.
God Truths says:
LoL @ Mikehind, you still haven’t woke up yet….. still praying for you
Hey are you laughing?are you happy to be hurting people for no reason?
That’s disgusting
Shame on the PLP for introducing this bill. Even more shame on the cowards who voted for it.
island home says:
@ Mike Hinds….sounds to me as if you wanna come out of the closet!!! You are fighting hard for something that is morally wrong….Point Blank Wrong!!
Marriage is supposed to be with a man and a woman. That’s FINAL. Now be quiet cause you are WRONG. All your doing is talking trash and hot air!!!
How is it morally wrong?
Nope. I’m not gay. I just believe in doing what’s right.
You, however, aren’t smart enough to transcribe my name correctly, let alone offer an intelligent argument to back up your position.
It’s not me that’s talking trash, that’d be you.
Seriously?!?! says:
You are obviously correct, because clearly EVERYONE who defends LGBT rights HAS to be in the closet. Clearly, we can only have the slightest shred of humanity if we are part of an oppressed group. And if he was, then do what? Why do you care? How would it affect you in any way? Would your life dramatically change if someone else was gay?
And your argument about homosexuality being wrong. Okay, fine. You’re wrong, but you’re entitled to be wrong about this because having an opinion is your human right. But:
1- just because you think something doesn’t mean that its actually true
2- just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean that everyone else has to do what you think is right. I may dislike carrots, but that does mean that NO ONE in Bermuda should be able to have carrots? Clearly not! Am I superior to anyone else in terms of my opinions about carrots?
No, so keep it to yourself!
I really hope you find a creative outlet for all of the pent up anger that you clearly have, rather than taking it out on a community that already has to fight ignorance like yours every single day, because some people think that their religion supersedes human rights.
Seapus was de winner for the guys !
Sandgrownan says:
What a f#@%ing disgrace. Ashamed to be Bermudian.
Here we have it again.
The anti-equality supporters show up, post falsehoods, irrelevant religious arguments, complete lies and misinformation, then disappear like roaches when the lights come on, as per usual.
How can a position that has absolutely NOTHING backing it up be so prevalent in this country?
They have nothing but lies, dishonesty and evasion to support their position, trolling like children, yet we’re supposed to respect them and not point out their behavior, lest we be tut tutted for “name calling” and “being nasty” – two things that are completely dishonest arguments themselves.
This is pathetic.
You are hurting people and you don’t even have the decency to explain yourselves.
I am kinda shocked by Kim Wilson, Wayne Scott,Leah Scott as I thought they felt differently and it makes me see them in a different light.
On the contrary Walton Brown and Michael Scott showed great leadership by standing strong for human rights despite the opposition of party and constituents. The remaining votes to pass the bill? good luck reconciling this historic vote with if not your children, certainly your grandchildren.
Kim Wilson was the worse standout yes vote to Bermuda and its people hardly standing STRONG for Bermudians and to think was in the dep of immigration and on human right talks ??? Shocking and beyond Beyond bizarre true colours show now for ALL Bermuda to see , we will NEVER forget her and the other Shameful 20 .and some then had nerve to parade their privileged happy marraige on Facebook while denying otherBermudians the same rights
Things happen when when folks get perceived power over other humans…… Oh wait that’s discrimination .
What was shameful was the deception behind getting the human rights act passed in the first place. No one seems to care that the changes to the human rights act were never supposed to affect the marriage act in the first place. If SSM proponents were going to get angry about fortifying marriage, why did the SSM proponents agree that they weren’t trying to change marriage when the Human Rights Act was passed.
Marriage Equality will have no effect on the Marriage Act.
Why do you keep pushing these lies?
Of the folks involved with Two Words and A Comma, only one of them has been outspoken about Marriage Equality.
This whole narrative you are trying to push is completely false.
And, even if it wasn’t, why does it matter? The Human Rights Act now – rightly – says that we, as a country and as a society, cannot discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation.
I have to ask again: If your position is so strong, so rooted in truth, why do you have to use such dishonest, false means to support it?
Just want to add my voice to those who are disgusted by this. I will remember the names of the MP’s who voted in favour of this ridiculous bill.
People on both sides came together to protect marriage and 2/3 of the population will remember the courage of the members of parliament who stood up to political correctness and instead stood for truth. Well done the world is watching and praying us through.
what 2/3 of the population are you talking about?
And what courage? It doesn’t take courage to give in to pressure from bigots.
It takes courage to stand up to hate and say “No. That’s not right!”
What amazes me is that, for all that you post, you STILL haven’t offered a single valid reason to continue denying these folks equal access to rights the rest of us share.
It’s just more and more desperate dishonesty.
The people did not “come together”. Nobody could be bothered to vote either way.
The truth is, a lot of people don’t care much one way or the other. People don’t care about “preserving” marriage. They’re still dropping multiple babies while single and having a baby in every parish. The Bermudian way.. That’s the scandal that Prevent Marriage should address.
I too am dusgusted by the MP’s who voted for this bill.
Plain and simple vote this shambles of a charlatan government OUT enough is enough Bermuda I mean please plus the most failed and weak Premier we ever had OUT OUT OUT OUT NO NO NO NO NO NO…..call an election PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE or can he even do that?
clearasamud says:
The worst part of this is the Premier who abstained. Why do we need a leader who is afraid to make decisions? Then tried to deflect by saying he need to talk to the HRC. really SAD
Don’t lay this on the OBA, they are split on this, so there is at least some hope with them. The overwhelming support, and the amendment itself, comes entirely from the PLP.
And there it is. OBA supporters trying to pass the buck for the cowardness and bigotry of their Party onto the PLP.
And there it is, partisan party hacks denying responsibility for what their party did.
We need to get rid of BOTH parties. Laying it on only one is false.
This was brought to the table by Wayne Furbert, who is NOT OBA.
Therefore, we need to, as you put it “vote this shambles of a charlatan government AND opposition OUT”.
Mark Perry says:
What a sad day in history for Bermuda!
Bermuda Politicans says:
SHAME ON YOU ALL
Remember the shameful 21 on election day remember it only takes ONE vote to lose in your constituency the election will go like the referendum a resounding NO to the OBA
This isn’t over. All the bigots have done is put off equality for a short period.
Shame on the “twenty” – utterly disgusted with you all and our spineless premier.
It was expected, Bermudians are known to be racists and intolerants. Immigration policies and SSM laws will change as the local population is declining.
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Their third album contains 19-track, five of which are bonus tracks, has a terrific booklet with the original artwork, full of lyrics plenty of photos, and great notes, It includes the band's finest Rockaway Beach; and Sheena is a Punk Rocker.
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Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny
Tenacious D is back with their latest rock installment and soundtrack to their motion picture, The Pick of Destiny. Jack Black and Kyle Glass deliver the same intense, aggressive, and pure rock sound in all 15 new tracks.
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AC/DC: Back in Black
Five months after the death of band member Bon Scott, the group released this album, which turned out to be one of hard rock's greatest achievements. Includes the hits You Shook Me All Night Long and Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution.
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Roberto Benigni: “They never produced such a scandal of beauty. Never, never, nobody.”
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Yesterday I wrote about Mario Biagini‘s exquisite reading of Dante. But he also praised someone else during that morning session – the Oscar-winning actor Roberto Benigni, of It’s a Beautiful Life fame.
A few years ago, Benigni held televised Dante readings in front of live audiences. They transfixed all Italy – “millions, for hours,” said Mario, “even non-Tuscans.” And he did it for years.
“It was amazing,” said Mario. “It means that people are not stupid.” The show toured America in 2009 as “TuttoDante.” The New York Times described it this way:
Roberto Benigni leapt up with a riff on the 26th Canto of Dante’s “Inferno,” in which fraudulent advisers are engulfed by flames that scorch them. “It’s like landing in Los Angeles or Manhattan, full of little lights like a skyscraper,” he exclaimed in his frenetically choppy English. “Dante describes the lights like fireflies, like a farmer who sees billions of fireflies. And every single firefly is hiding a fraud — people like Madoff. Very cunning, very shrewd. These people are hiding inside the flame because they are hiding in life. The Florentines, you know, they invented finances.”
Later, Benigni said in his Manhattan hotel, “We need to have the nerve to understand why a man with a big nose 700 years ago had the heroic shamelessness to write. Really this is the most daring, bold poetry ever. In 2,000 years of Christian poetry they never surpassed this. They never produced such a scandal of beauty. Never, never, nobody.”
Why do I remember Benigni now? We’re heading into Oscar week, and I happened to see that Benigni is the lead item in a Yahoo News column that asks “Where are they Now?”
I could have told them. He’s here, reading the same Inferno Canto V that Mario read earlier this week. (Frankly, though, I like Mario’s reading better.)
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Authors in Chelseaadmin2020-01-08T15:57:12-05:00
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An Evening with the Authors
Author Talks! Kids Q&A! Book Signing!!
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 | 6:30-8pm
Washington Street Education Center Board Rm.
500 Washington St., Chelsea, MI 48118
Get a Free Book! The first 20 families to arrive will receive a coupon for a FREE book from Just Imagine’s table in the lobby. Books will also be available to purchase.
Meet the 2020 lineup!
Every year, Authors in Chelsea endeavors to bring in authors that are engaging for both children and educators alike. Our goal is to encourage children to explore the art and craft of writing in order to better read and appreciate literature and explore the “power of writing.” Through close personal contact with award-winning authors, students work to improve their creative writing and reading skills and be inspired to excellence.
Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Alyssa Capucilli will be visiting North Creek Elementary School to give presentations to all students from Young Fives to second graders. Alyssa is the author of over 100 books for young readers including Biscuit, the popular bestseller used to launch the My First I Can Read series from HarperCollins. Once a professional dancer, Alyssa’s love of dance is embodied in her series, Katy Duck. Alyssa is the recipient of numerous awards including the Washington Irving Award, the Garden State Award, the Bank Street College Best Book Award, the Oppenheim Portfolio Gold Award, and the American Library Association Award. Find out more by visiting Alyssa’s website.
Kirby Larson
Kirby Larson will be visiting South Meadows Elementary School to give presentations to all students in grades 3–5. Kirby focuses on historical fiction and has written more than 25 books for children and teens including the 2007 Newbery Honor Book, Hattie Big Sky. South Meadows students will be reading Dash (recipient of the Scott O’Dell Historical Fiction Prize), Duke, and Liberty from Kirby’s Dogs of WWII series; and Audacity Jones to the Rescue; and Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle. When she’s not traveling the world in search of a new story to tell, Kirby calls Kenmore, Washington, home. More information about Kirby can be found here.
Susan Vaught
Susan Vaught has been writing and publishing books, essays, and poems for young adult and middle grade readers since 2004. These include the Edgar awarding-winning and Junior Guild Selection Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy, which all sixth grade students at Beach Middle School are reading this year; Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry; Super Max and the Mystery of Thornwood’s Revenge; and her newest release, Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse. Working as a psychiatrist specializing in helping people with persistent mental illness, traumatic brain injury, and intellectual disability has lent expertise to Susan’s other works for older teens. Visit Susan’s website to learn more about her work.
Authors in Chelsea – An Evening with the Authors
The whole community is invited to meet our 2020 Authors in Chelsea, hear them speak, and get books signed! Books will be available to purchase courtesy of Just Imagine.
6:30–8:00pm | All ages | Washington Street Education Center | Board Rm. | 500 Washington Street, Chelsea MI
During the day on March 17–18, Chelsea students in grades K-6 (including Young Fives) will attend presentations and workshops with the authors.
Click on each author’s name to visit their websites for teacher resources and more information.
North Creek Elementary — Alyssa Satin Capucilli
South Meadows Elementary — Kirby Larson
Beach Middle School — Susan Vaught
Learn about the History of Authors in Chelsea
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Lost On Franklin Boulevard: Sacramento Square and Garfield Square
View of original northwest corner of Sacramento Square, now part of the West Town Academy, from the Sacramento Boulevard east service drive. Gabriel X. Michael/Chicago Patterns
Sacramento Square
This square is situated at an important transition point in the Chicago boulevard system, where Humboldt Park’s Sacramento Boulevard to the north connects into Garfield Park to the west via Franklin Boulevard. There is little green space at this turning point for the boulevard system, historically overrun by intersecting roadways and industrial traffic. It only retains one of its original corners, the southwest at Whipple Street and the Franklin Boulevard south service drive, and has some nondescript, while pleasantly shady, clusters of trees and shrubs.
Although always a component in Jenney’s original West Chicago Park System planning, Sacramento Square’s design and borders have been altered several times in the past century. Especially of note was a 1909 redesign project for purposes of the Park District’s new acquisition of Sacramento Boulevard from the city, from south of the C & NW rail embankment at 400 North pictured in the previous part of this story, to Roosevelt Road at 1200 South.
This was to serve as another vital connector in the boulevard system to Douglas Park. But today it leaves much to be desired as a “boulevard”; it essentially serves as a 2-mile long, 4-lane expressway for cars, with little to no accommodation to pedestrians (decrepit sidewalks, crosswalks, and viaducts) nor cyclists (no bike lanes, degraded pavement markings and dangerous speeds) between these historic green spaces.
Viewing northwestern corner Sacramento Square and derelict concrete slab in April 2014, from Whipple Street and Franklin Boulevard north service drive. Note that this is the only remaining intact corner from the original 1903 design of Sacramento Square.
Pedestrian walkway across northwest area of Sacramento Square, connecting to intersection of Franklin and Sacramento Boulevards.
Viewing east along Whipple Street towards the largest space of Sacramento Square, with pedestrian walkway connecting Franklin Boulevard north service drive with Sacramento Boulevard.
View of the former northeast corner of Sacramento Square, now paved and privatized for industrial business, but original sidewalks from the square are still extant.
Viewing the southeastern part of Sacramento Square from Sacramento Boulevard. The curved drive connects eastbound Franklin Boulevard to southbound Sacramento Boulevard. West Town Academy and its brick clock tower are seen in the far background.
Garfield Square
On the west end of Franklin Boulevard sits Garfield Square at 300′ X 325′, connecting Franklin Boulevard to Central Park Boulevard directly into Garfield Park near the Conservatory and former stables. Pedestrian walkways in various states of neglect serve as connections between the boulevards and service drives.
The southern border of the square is the C & NW railroad embankment, where a “Central Park Station” railroad stop once existed (see 1910 map detail above). There are signs of this crossing’s history over the years, including wide, vacated east service drive in the underpass along with disused utility poles and sidewalk and stair fragments.
Unique from Sacramento Square is the presence of residential buildings bordering the square on West Garfield Square Drive and North Monticello Avenue to the west. The dominant type are 2- and 3-flat brick building, as well as a few well-preserved greystones and even single-family brick homes, all dating from 1900s-1920s. Most striking are the massive multi-unit developments sitting vacant across from one another at North Central Park Avenue and West Garfield Square Drive.
Newly erected street sign for “West Garfield Square Drive”, at approximately 510 N. Central Park Boulevard
View of the southwest area of Garfield Square and deteriorating pedestrian walkway connecting Central Park Boulevard and its western service drive.
Viewing northwest towards central area of Garfield Square and multi-unit residential buildings lining Monticello Avenue to the far left. Other residential buildings lining Garfield Square Drive can be seen behind trees to the right.
Viewing southeast at the west end of Franklin Boulevard where it becomes West Ferdinand Street. Central Park Boulevard is seen in the background.
A decorative obelisk installed in 1996 by the Chicago Park District on the northeast corner of Garfield Square along Central Park Boulevard. Multi-unit residential building under rehab is seen in the background.
Through this exploration of these squares as public spaces, their depiction and the development of the West Park System as a whole, there are certain patterns or symptoms of systemic neglect that reveal themselves. Patterns of delayed growth, drawn-out negotiation complicating each wave of construction, and organizational mismanagement of the boulevard all drastically limited the infrastructural and residential development that one sees on nearly every other Chicago boulevard segment.
Detail view of decorative quasi-historic obelisk installed by the Chicago Park District in 1996. The inscription reads “Chicago’s Historic Boulevards – Franklin and Central Park Boulevards”
Another inescapable issue, persisting today, is the overbearing influence of railroad and automobile traffic constricting the boulevard’s development and safety — essentially rendering them obsolete once roadways were carved through them. From the start a century ago, it seems Franklin Boulevard and Sacramento and Garfield Squares were doomed as successful public spaces.
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One response to “Lost On Franklin Boulevard: Sacramento Square and Garfield Square”
This was a great read (both parts). I live here and I’m happy to report Franklin Blvd. received a complete upgrade last year with some of the best (and currently pointless) bike lanes in Chicago! The bike lanes actually have a slab of raised concrete on their left as a safety measure. This area has so much potential.
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The Art of Cuphead bumped to March 2020
Jason October 22, 2019 Books, News Leave a comment 1,568 Views
Cuphead’s art book from Dark Horse Comics has gotten a bump into 2020, but the result will be a more fully featured edition.
Don’t deal with the devil
It’s probably safe statement to say that Cuphead is a gorgeous game that continues to be one of the best looking titles out there. Its retro 1930’s-animated look had never been done before, and still hasn’t been replicated a few years after its initial launch.
Earlier this year Dark Horse announced that it’d be producing an art book based on the title, set to hit this month. Well, the bad news is that that’s not going to happen.
If you’re looking for a reason you’ll have to keep searching as there’s no mention of one in today’s press release. Actually there’s no mention of that original October 22nd release date at all. Dark Horse simply issued a fresh release announcing the book as though it’d never been talked about before. Odd? Yes. But it’s not all bad news.
In addition to the (new) release date, Dark Horse also announced a much improved overall package. The Art of Cuphead will now sport a cloth slipcase, as well as “a set of acetate sheets in a portfolio breaking down the game’s classic start screen illustration”. It’s also much bigger. Originally, we reported that the book would be 160 pages, but it’ll now clock in at over 100 pages more, at 264 pages. It’ll also cost a bit more though, at $99 USD.
So when’s all this finally landing in stores? Not all that far into the future, as you can now expect the book to hit stores on March 17th, 2020. Pre-order it via Amazon and at your local comic shop.
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Sleeping in a Tiny Place
Rhizome | Wed Nov 13th, 2002 8 a.m.
It's not a pill, it's a capsule. New media and video installation artist Jeff Gompertz of Fakeshop.com exhibits 'Capsule Hotel' as part of New Hotels for Global Nomads at the Cooper-Hewitt in NYC. The exhibition focuses on the hotel as a design laboratory and fantasy-generator. 'Capsule Hotel' is comprised of three elements: two capsule units direct from Japan hooked up with surveillance gear so you can watch your neighbor in the next capsule; digitally processed security camera footage of a hotel in Osaka; and a field recording of a young woman's memories of her father's time in the capsules. Visitors are encouraged to enter the capsules, where they can experience the feeling of being contained in these shiny ultramodern units for themselves. Security camera footage offers gray images of anonymous businessmen in white robes. The field recording adds a more personal layer -- the woman recalls her own confusion, as she thought the capsules actual pills that her overworked father somehow slept inside. - Margaret Penney
I Have a Mood and I Have the Ring
Rhizome | Tue Nov 12th, 2002 8 a.m.
In Yael Kanarek's new extension to 'World of Awe,' the 'mRB,' she prototypes the traveler's favorite intelligent toy, the moodRingBaby (mRB), through a slick powder blue 3d web interface made in collaboration with Bnode (Judith Gieseler and Innes Yates). Originally, the moodRingBaby played the role of the traveler's sole companion, showing the twisted smarts of an advanced Tamagotchi with a mild case of Tourette's -- this combo provided some of the more entertaining albeit disturbed dialogue and stories in the Traveler's Journals. The new collaboration looks at the mRB more clinically, reducing it to its key components: skin, input, CPU, and output. The web interface, models, and drawings of the moodRingBaby are on exhibit as part of Beta-Launch at Eyebeam, in NYC, through December 1. -- Margaret Penney
Nino to the Nth
Rhizome | Mon Nov 11th, 2002 8 a.m.
Nino is Mexican, Italian, or Russian. He is an 8-year-old boy, a 45-year-old man. He wants a girlfriend. He wants a boyfriend. He loves his wife. He wears suits. He dresses like a homeboy. This showcase of multiplicity is 'Portrait of the Artist as a Homepage,' by Nino Rodriguez, a work included in the current Montreal Biennial. Click on Nino's picture, only to find a completely different Nino (the 'real' Nino is in there somewhere). Rodriguez's site celebrates the hybrid experiences of life, playing with the emblematic aspects of personal websites. -- Claire Barliant
Speedy Node Seeking
Rhizome | Fri Nov 8th, 2002 8 a.m.
The idea of warchalking spread like wildfire through the media and is, in turn, becoming reality. Warchalking takes its lead from a Depression era practice in which hobos marked friendly homes offering free food or housing. Now, folks chalk sidewalks with established symbols to indicate the presence of open wireless networks in an effort to transform who, how, and where we can access the net. Last August game designers Yuri Gitman and Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena with help from NYCwireless and Eyebeam turned the act of node seeking into a playful scavenger hunt. Teams raced to find the most number of wireless networks in a set amount of time. Digital cameras replaced chalk: at each node they were instructed to take a photograph and upload it to game headquarters as proof of connectivity. Log on to see the resulting images or start your own game and see for yourself how ubiquitous wireless networking has become. --Brooke Singer
Take on Borders
Rhizome | Thu Nov 7th, 2002 8 a.m.
PBS recently launched 'P.O.V.'s Borders' a web site showcasing commissioned and contributed materials dealing with border issues, both literal and figurative. The first installment of the series runs through mid-December, and its focus is migration. One commissioned work by Alex Rivera, 'Visible Border,' consists of footage from a surveillance x-ray used to prevent the smuggling of goods and bodies at border crossings. In the 'Stories' section, three teenagers from Elsa, Texas, a town near the U.S.-Mexico border, turn the camera on themselves as they embark on life away from home. These are 'Real World' stories for a teen audience, with a different take on 'real.'
Surveilling Official Art
Rhizome | Wed Nov 6th, 2002 8 a.m.
'History of Art for the Intelligence Community,' a new work by Vuk Cosic, appropriates classic paintings (like Kasimir Malevich's 'Black Square,' or Cezanne's 'Still Life with Plate of Cherries') to integrate them with RSG's 'Carnivore' technologies. Like in other 'Carni' clients, network activity makes the art. In Cosic's implementation, Carni opens up features of these canonized masterpieces. See Mantegna's St. Sebastian wounded by arrows, the number of which depend on LAN static. Or see a mutated Cezanne still life, in which the portion of cherries varies. Those who consider historical paintings to be dusty relics of official culture will like Cosic's vital redos. - Rachel Greene
South of the Digital Border
Rhizome | Tue Nov 5th, 2002 8 a.m.
Take a sledgehammer to the logic of linear time. OnRamp Arts' 'Tropical America' invites you to weave through 500 years of Latin American history, collecting sugar cane and speaking to the gods along the way. Save lives instead of ending them. Follow a narrative that's not only intriguing, but soaked in history. Hard to believe teenagers came up with this. A video game disguised as a puppet show, a woodcut for the Flash generation. Best of all become a Hero of the Americas, and help create a memorial to those that history has forgotten. -Cinqu
Be My Head
Rhizome | Mon Nov 4th, 2002 8 a.m.
The 'exquisite corpse' meme has assumed all sorts of subtextual meanings in the net art lexicon, but originally it described the children's game where different people draw parts of the same body without having seen the other parts. 'qaddawah' is an online version of the same game. Mix and match heads, torsos, and legs drawn by several different artists, or click the 'automate' button to generate an endless series of random combinations. You can even submit your own corpse for future dissection. The overall feel of the project is hand-drawn and commendably un-digital. - Curt Cloninger
Who Loves Sally and Johnny?
Rhizome | Fri Nov 1st, 2002 8 a.m.
'Black People Love Us!' uses the edges of media satire and fakery to raise critical consciousness of subtler forms of racism. About a couple who are enthralled by their acceptance by blacks, the site was executed as a collaboration by a group of actors, a designer, writer and programmer. 'Black People Love Us' balances a pithy, memorable URL with inconspicuous, easy design, and vital social content for maximal viral potential. That is, if its design was overdone, content over-intellectualized, or its URL complex, the project would mitigate its own impact. The recipe seems to have worked: in its first two weeks, 'Black People Love Us' has had over 250,000 unique visitors. Browse the letters section to see how and why people "love" this site, and how many "get the joke." -- Rachel Greene
Rhizome | Thu Oct 31st, 2002 8 a.m.
Imagine having a chat room conversation with the entire Internet. Gogolchat offers just such an experience. Gogol is a software that parses your chat room dialogue through a search engine, spitting back the random results as part of the chat. At a loss for words? Never mind, Gogol has no qualms about perpetually parsing its own dialogue. The overall experience is not unlike having an absurd conversation with the collective conscious. Gogolchat's dada-esque DHTML manipulations make it as visually disorienting as it is textually bizarre. - Curt Cloninger
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Circulation August 28, 2018 Issue 0
Do we finally now have a simple, evidence-based way to make a diagnosis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction? Well, today's feature paper certainly brings us closer to that goal and you must listen to the discussion coming right up after these summaries.
Bleeding is commonly cited as a reason for stopping oral anti-coagulants. However, what is the prognostic significance of minor bleeding events, or so called nuisance bleeding, in patients with atrial fibrillation on oral anti-coagulants?
First and corresponding author, Dr O'Brien from Duke Clinical Research Institute and her colleagues, identified 6771 patients with atrial fibrillation in the Orbit AF Prospective Outpatient Registry. They ascertained nuisance bleeding from medical records defined as minor bleeding that did not require medical attention. Overall, 20% had documented nuisance bleeding giving an incidence rate of 14.8 events per hundred person years. Nuisance bleeding was not associated with a higher risk of major bleeding, or a stroke and systemic embolism over the next six months.
These findings therefore suggest that the occurrence of nuisance bleeding or minor bleeding should not lead to changes in anti-coagulant treatment strategies in patients treated with anti-coagulants.
The next study sheds new light on mechanisms linking NLRP3 inflammasome activation to atherogenesis. Dr Westerterp from Columbia University, New York and colleagues studied mice with myeloid deficiency of ATP binding cassette transporters A1 and G1 and concomitant deficiency of the inflammasome components NLRP3 or caspase-111.
They showed that cholesterol accumulation in myeloid cells activated the NLRP3 inflammasome. NLRP3 inflammasome activation enhanced neutrophil accumulation and neutrophil extracellular trap formation in atherosclerotic plaques thus accelerating atherogenesis.
Patients with Tangier's disease, who had ATP binding at transporter A1 loss of function, had increased myeloid cholesterol content and showed markers of inflammasome activation. Thus, inflammasome activation may underline cardiovascular disease in these patients.
The next study identifies TPX20 as a novel transcription factor regulating angiogenesis. TPX20 is a crucial transcription factor for embryonic development and its deficiency is associated with congenital heart disease. However, its role in angiogenesis has been not been previously described. At least until today's paper from co-first authors Dr Meng and Dr Gu and co-corresponding authors Dr Cooke and Dr Fang from Houston Methodist Research Institute.
These authors use loss and gain function approaches to explore the role of TPX20 in angiogenesis both in vitro and in vivo. They showed that with VEGF stimulation, the transcription factor TPX20 upregulated PROK2 with is secreted from endothelial cells and gauges its receptor PROKR1 and thereby promotes angiogenesis in autocrine manner.
This novel signaling pathway appeared to be highly conserved as it functioned in zebra fish vascular development and the angiogenic response to ischemia in a mouse model of peripheral disease. The authors furthered showed the selective role of TPX20 in endothelial migration but not proliferation. Furthermore, treatment with recombinant PROK2 the critical effector of TPX20, improved blood profusion and functional recovery in the mouse peripheral artery disease model. Thus, these data highlight the therapeutic potential of PROK2 in augmenting functional angiogenesis for diseases associated with this regulated angiogenesis.
In patients with atrial fibrillation, left atrial appendage closure with the Watchman device, is known to prevent thromboembolism from the left atrial appendage. However, thrombus may still form on the left atrial face of the device, which then may potentially embolize. This next paper provides important data on the incidents, predictors, and clinical outcomes of device-related thrombus after left atrial appendage closure.
First author, Dr Dukkipati and corresponding author Dr Reddy from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York and their colleagues studied the device arms of 4 prospective FDA trials of patients undergoing the Watchman implantation. These were the PROTECT AF, PREVAIL, CAP, and CAP2 trials.
They found that following percutaneous left atrial appendage closure with the watchman device, the incidence of device-related thrombus was 3.7% and this was associated with a more threefold higher risk of stroke and systemic embolism. Predictors of device-related thrombus were a history of trans- ischemic attack or stroke, permanent atrial fibrillation, vascular disease, a larger left atrial appendage diameter, and a lower left ventricular ejection fraction.
Device-related thrombus was not associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular or all-cause mortality. Nearly 75% of patients that developed device-related thrombus did not experience a stroke. And ischemic strokes occurring in patients with device-related thrombus accounted for approximately 10% of all ischemic strokes, following left atrial appendage closure. Thus, given the ramifications of device-related thrombus, a judicious surveillance strategy using periodic transesophageal echo cardiography may be considered particularly when risk factors for device-related thrombus are present.
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction or HFpEF, notoriously difficult diagnosis to make, but do we finally have a validated diagnostic algorithm for HFpEF? Oh, you have to listen to our conversation today. I am so proud and pleased and thrilled frankly to have with me today the corresponding author of the feature paper, and that's Dr Barry Borlaugug from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota as well as editorialist Dr Walter Paulusus from VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam.
Thank you so much both of you for making it here. I want to dive straight into it. So, Walter, maybe could you please paint the background to this because you wrote I think the most highly cited diagnostic guidelines of HFpEF, but that was in 2007. Tell us how does today's paper take us forward?
Dr Walter Paulus: Thank you very much, Carolyn. It's quite an honor for me to give you comments about this paper, which I think is going to be a landmark event. Over the years we have seen multiple algorithms being proposed usually by professional societies like V and C or the American Society of Echocardiography for the diagnosis of HFpEF. The major drawback of all these algorithms is that they have never been validated in clinical practice. And the reason they have never been validated was that it was extremely difficult to establish a gold standard for HFpEF.
And Barry was so clever to already invest in an establishing a gold standard for HFpEF ten years ago, and he very vigorously subjected all his patients in whom he suspected HFpEF to an invasive stress test and could establish the diagonals of HFpEF using this as a gold standard. And then he used all these consecutive patients with subsequently used to devise some form of an algorithm that was immediately validated against a gold standard. I think this has been a giant leap forwards. And again, I want to congratulate him with this unique endeavor.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Barry, I want to echo Walter's words and congratulate you. Now, has it really been ten years in the making? Tell us about this, Barry.
Dr Barry Borlaug: It has. In fact, it was 12 years ago when we started doing this, in 2006. But, yeah, these patients were examined in our laboratory between 2006 when I joined the staff at the Mayo Clinic to 2016. And really just doing this work up, we kind of started out doing it on a few patients and then we realized how powerful the methodology was. We did the invasive exercise testing with hemodynamics and a larger number of patients and just through accumulating a large number, as Walter points out, with a gold standard assessment this allowed us to then determine which less invasive attributes could be used to identify the likelihood that heart failure was the diagnosis.
Dr Carolyn Lam: That's so great. But you know beyond just that it is such a precious data set and so on, your paper is just so beautifully written and so clinically applicable. You've got this HFpEF score now for diagnosis. Everybody's going to be talking about it. So tell us about it. What does HFpEF score? What makes you think it'll work? How do you apply it clinically?
Dr Barry Borlaug: Thinking about diagnosis a lot, you really have to go back to [00:19:19] thinking, estimating the probability of disease, and when you're able to do that then you can find people where you need to perform really more invasive testing like the exercise testing. So really, we started like we need to have a better way to define who needs that more expensive and invasive evaluation. So we have this large cohort of patients, over 500 patients, 414 in the initial cohort, and then another 100 in the validation cohort. And they had all undergone this work up, they'd all undergone very detailed clinical evaluation and pheno typing. And we hypothesized which characteristics we thought would be most relevant. And then we did logistic regression to identify all the predictors.
There were many things that are associated that you would expect with HFpEF, but there were only 6 factors in the end in a multi-variable model that were all independently associated. That provided the most parsimonious sort of model or score that we could develop. We included these six different variables. So there's two for letter H- heavy and hypertensive, and by heavy we define that as a body mass index above 30. Hypertensive is defined as two or more antihypertensive medicines. The F in the H2 HFpEF score is atrial fibrillation, either paroxysmal or persistence a. Fib. The P is for pulmonary hypertension as estimated by echo with an estimated PA systolic pressure on echocardiography of 35. We wanted all of these to be noninvasive criteria for this score. E is for elder. I specifically didn't call it elderly because that can be a pejorative term and its only 60 years which is not that old. So E is elder. And F is for filling pressures, again estimated by echo doppler cardiography as an EE prime ratio greater than 9.
All of the scores are not one point each. They were arranged based on the strength of correlation in the logistic model. So being obese, having a BMI above 30 was awarded two points because it has a strong correlation. Being in atrial fibrillation or having a history of atrial fibrillation was even stronger at three points. If you tally these up, the score can range from 0-9, and based on that score you can then estimate a probability that HFpEF is present, if you're evaluating a patient that meets the entry criteria of the study, which is basically normal ejection fraction, and exertional breathlessness.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Nice. Okay, Walter, I think I can safely say that you have been thinking about this syndrome longer than either Barry or I. So I'd love your perspectives on how do you think this will be put into practice clinically perhaps, and where is the key area that it will change practice compared to perhaps the old diagnostic algorithms were like?
Dr Walter Paulus: I think this is a very important point, Carolyn. I think this score is so easy to handle and it is so well validated that we can now go to general practitioners and cause a general awareness for the disease. What vies me is that many patients are still unreported. The reason is that general practitioners and even general internal medicine people do not realize the [00:19:19] heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Now with this score at hand, we can convince them that there needs to be an awareness when they see people that have value higher than six on the score, that they should be suspicious of heart failure being part of the symptomatology. I think this score mainly has its usefulness for general practitioners and general internal medicine.
Apart from the score, and it's more up to Barry to comment on this, but I want to highlight also, that he did not only develop the score, but he also had these very beautiful nomograms which is more of a find than a score, where he treated the variables in a continuous way. I think this is fairly useful for cardiologists and especially for people who want to have acute patients into trials because here we now have a very refined scale that goes from 0-160 and that allows you again to see what type of population you are addressing, what type of patients you are seeing that eventually what type of patients you are recruiting. I think for me the HFpEF score is of importance for general practitioners, general internal medicine, and especially I think we should also promote the nomogram. The nomogram, I think, are so refined that it would be useful tool, I think an excellent tool, for includement into trials.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Oh wonderful. Both of the simplicity and the cleverness, if I may, of this paper are precious to generalists and cardiologists. But Barry, I do have a couple of questions for you. Both you derivation and validation were in Olmsted if I'm not wrong. Now how am I supposed to apply it to my skinny HFpEF patients in Asia or elsewhere?
Dr Barry Borlaug: That's an important point, Carolyn. And it's a limitation of the paper. The people in Olmsted County, MN are not the same as they are in other parts of the United States or other parts of the world. I think that additional evaluation and other cohorts are important. We did the best we could with what we had. We did look at the patients carefully at Mayo Clinic. People think of it as quaternary referral center, but a pretty substantial number of the patients are from the local area, I think about 2/3 of them were. And when we looked in a subset in a sensitivity analysis of the people that were more local practice rather than coming from large academic medical centers, the HFpEF score, or as Walter pointed out, the continuous HFpEF model performed equally well. When we looked at people with so-called advanced HFpEF so high hemopressures at rest versus people at so called early stage HFpEF the people that have normal hemodynamics at rest but elevation during exercise. The model also worked well in that cohort.
But, like most studies that come out of where I work in southeastern Minnesota, it is mostly Caucasian people, the mean BMI was in the low 30s. So we need to look at other populations to make sure this works elsewhere as well.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Barry, let it go on record that I am your biggest fan. So thank you so much for this. I was just thinking even in other populations where the mean BMI may be lower for example here in Asia, we still definitely see an association with a higher BMI albeit at a lower cutoff with the presence of HFpEF. So it does raise this issue of do we need to maybe calibrate the score differently in different geographies or ethnicities. But that's not by any way take away from the tremendous input that you've made.
One other question is also the strength of atrial fibrillation in impacting the score. What are your thoughts on the possibility of misdiagnosis for example atrial fibrillation as HFpEF or the similar situation since they share symptomatology?
Dr Barry Borlaug: This is a great point, Carolyn. People still sort of argue about this. Somebody has breathlessness and effort intolerance and atrial fibrillation. Some doctors say they have symptomatic atrial fibrillation, but when we put catheters when we take these patients to the so-called table of truth and put catheters in and exercise them, we see hemodynamic arrangements that are diagnostic of heart failure. This led us to believe that this isn't just symptomatic a fib. It's really HFpEF. And that's why they have a fib. We published a paper earlier this year in circulation, more of a brief report, on the association between atrial fibrillation and HFpEF where we first reported this. That if you have normal EF, and especially permanent atrial fibrillation, you can pretty much take it to the bank that the patient probably does have heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, at least in the way that we have sort of defined it and the way that [00:19:19] initially defined it as an inability of the heart to pump blood adequately at normal filling pressures.
These patients almost all have that criteria for cardiac failure. I think that it is a really strong indicator and we probably are really just like in the general clinics, under recognizing HFpEF. I think probably in other clinics where people have atrial fibrillation and effort intolerance, we're again really under recognizing HFpEF in these people.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Indeed, and it's actually very consistent with Walter, your recommendations where atrial fibrillation played a big part too. Do you have any thoughts or advice?
Dr Walter Paulus: My idea is that atrial fibrillation and HFpEF are both manifestations of the same underlying process, which is systemic inflammation because of a metabolic disturbance. We used to think of atrial fibrillation as a consequence of left atrial dilatation, which itself was caused by the high filling pressures. I think that this does not hold, there is more to it. I think the atrium is as sick as the left ventricle and it undergoes similar pathological changes. That's why the presence of a fib becomes such a strong determinant of the presence of HFpEF in Barry's H of HFpEF score. All of this makes a lot of sense to me.
I just want to add something else. You spoke about the Asian population having less BMI and already having HFpEF. I think if you look at Barry's variables in uni-variant analysis, there's one which was presence of diabetes or prediabetes which did not make it in the multi-variant analysis on 0.06. It's my belief that if you got to the Asian population, that probably the BMI could be replaced with the presence of prediabetes and diabetes. Usually the insulin tolerance or insulin resistance is presence and the BMI is still low. I think there is need for some fine tuning, maybe in Asian populations, and I think this should be a challenge to go ahead with it. In fact, I'm leaving for Japan the day after tomorrow and I'm going to show the slides of Barry's paper. I'm going to try to set something up to also validate the score in Japanese populations.
Dr Carolyn Lam: We've got our work cut out for us, Barry! Let's get on to this too in southeast Asia.
Dr Barry Borlaug: I totally agree with Walter. I think that's great. And Carolyn, you, in a lot of papers, point this out, that the metabolic, cardio-metabolic associated with excess body mass, the way we define it with BMI, is shifted way down in southeast Asian population, and south Asian population, so I would agree with Walter's hypothesis that diabetes, prediabetes maybe that's the better way to go when we look at this in other patient populations.
Dr Carolyn Lam: You both absolutely made my day with this discussion today. Thank you so much. What a thrill to be on the same podcast with the people I admire most.
Listeners, I know you enjoyed this as much as I did. Don't forget to tune in again next week.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and it's editors. I'm Dr Carolyn Lam, associate editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore.
Can we get better at predicting clinical benefit of PCSK9 inhibition based on the severity and extent of coronary artery disease? Well coming right up after these summaries we have an important discussion of an analysis from the FOURIER trial, so stay tuned.
The first original paper this week suggests that targeting visceral adiposity may be the crucial step to limit age-related cardiac remodeling and to promote healthy cardiac aging. Co-first authors Drs Sawaki and Czibik, corresponding author Dr Derumeaux, from INSERM France, and their colleagues, hypothesize that since aging induces cardiac structural and functional changes, linked to increase deposition of extracellular matrix proteins including osteopontin, well osteopontin may play a role in myocardial aging.
To test this hypothesis, they studied osteopontin-deficient mice and their wild-type litter mates at two and 14 months of age in terms of cardiac structure, function, histology and key molecular markers. They found that during aging, visceral adipose tissue represented the main source of ostepontin and altered heart structure and function via its profibrotic secretome. Furthermore, interventions targeting osteopontin, such as visceral adipose tissue removal and osteopontin deficiency, rescued the heart and induced a selective modulation of fibroblast senescence. This work uncovers ostepontin's role in the context of myocardial aging and suggests that osteopontin may be a potential new therapeutic target for a healthy cardiac aging.
The next study shows that higher triglyceride rich lipoprotein cholesterol may be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and potential therapeutic target. First author Dr Vallejo-Vaz, corresponding author Dr Ray from Imperial College London, and their colleagues assess the relationship between triglyceride-rich lipoprotein cholesterol and cardiovascular risk and whether this risk was modifiable among patients receiving statins in the TNT trial. They found that higher levels of triglyceride rich lipoprotein cholesterol were associated with a significantly higher rate of cardiovascular events among coronary patients treated with statins. Statin therapy reduced triglyceride-rich lipoprotein cholesterol and to a greater extent among those treated with a higher statin dose.
Based on their post hoc analysis of the TNT trial, they found that more intensive statin therapy with atorvastatin 80 milligrams, compared to atorvastatin 10 milligrams, resulted in a significantly greater cardiovascular risk reduction among patients with higher triglyceride-rich lipoprotein cholesterol. These results were consistent for higher triglycerides and directionally concordant for non-HDL cholesterol. A higher percentage reduction in triglyceride-rich lipoprotein cholesterol was associated with lower cardiovascular risk independent of LDL cholesterol reduction. Thus, these findings suggest that triglyceride-rich lipoprotein cholesterol is not only a cardiovascular risk marker, but also potentially a therapeutic target.
Late gadolinium enhancement on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging represents fibrosis and is seen in 60% of adult patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. However, what about in children and adolescents with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy? First author Dr Raja from University of Copenhagen in Denmark, corresponding author Dr Ho from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and their colleagues looked at cardiac magnetic imaging data from 195 children and adolescents with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Late gadolinium enhancement was present in 46% of patients with overt hypertrophy as opposed to 60% typically represented in an adult population of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. On the other hand, late gadolinium enhancement was not seen in mutation carriers without left ventricular hypertrophy.
In patients who underwent serial imaging, increases in late gadolinium enhancement, left ventricular mass, and left atrial size were detected over two and a half years. Thus these findings in children provide additional insights into the biology and natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and confirmed that fibrosis is a significant part of the disease process in both children and adults.
Whether the adult mammalian heart harbors cardiac stem cells for the regeneration of cardiomyocytes is an important yet contentious topic in the field of cardiovascular regeneration. This week's paper adds to the growing knowledge in this area. First author Dr Li, corresponding author Dr Zhou from Chinese Academy of Sciences and their colleagues developed a new genetic lineage tracing system to label all nonmyocyte populations that contain putative cardiac stem cells. Using dual lineage tracing system, they assessed if non-myocytes generated any new myocytes during embryonic development, adult homeostasis and after myocardial infarction. Skeletal muscles were also examined after injury and acted as internal controls.
By using this stem cell marker free and dual recombinases mediated cell tracking approach, the author showed that new myocytes arose from nonmyocytes in the embryonic heart, but not in the adult heart during homeostasis or after myocardial infarction. As positive controls, the same lineage tracing system detected new myocytes derived from nonmyocytes in the skeletal muscle after injury. Thus, this study provides in vivo genetic evidence for non-myocyte to myocyte conversion in the embryonic but not the adult heart. This study also provides a new genetic strategy to identify endogenous stem cells, if any, in other organ systems for tissue repair and regeneration.
Well, that wraps it up for our summaries this week, now for our feature discussion.
Are there subsets of patients that derive greater clinical risk reduction with the PCSK9 inhibitors? Well we're gonna find out about that right now with a discussion of our feature paper entitled the “Clinical Benefit of Evolocumab by Severity and Extent of Coronary Artery Disease.” So pleased to have with us Dr Marc Sabatine from the TIMI Study Group, who is the first and corresponding author of today's feature paper, as well as our editorialist, Dr Roger Blumenthal from Johns Hopkins University. And of course, we have a familiar voice, a very important editor of our digital strategies and that's Dr Amit Khera from UT Southwestern.
Welcome everyone, I think I'd really like to start with maybe asking Roger to paint the background of the importance of this paper. Simply because I just love the title of your editorial, which is “Realizing the Value of PCSK9 Inhibitors: Are We Closer to Finding the Sweet Spot?” I think that really encapsulates it. So Roger, your thoughts?
Dr Roger Blumenthal: As Amit Khera knows, I'm a golfer, so when you think about the sweet spot on the club, and we know that PCSK9 inhibitors are a great story of translation from bench to bedside, and we also know that the high cost of the therapy presents a challenge. So what Dr Sabatine and colleagues did was to try to identify the sweet spot for its most effective use and that was a pleasure to comment on Dr Sabatine's excellent study.
Dr Marc Sabatine: I think taking a step back I would say from pure biologic perspective, we know that lowering LDL cholesterol will reduce events and that's true and primary and secondary prevention and so if you have therapies that were safe and inexpensive, then I think you wouldn't need to really look for that sweet spot cause it would be all sweet if you will to extend the analogy. But Roger's absolutely right that when you have therapies that are then expensive, then you have to decide, okay in which patients will I get the biggest bang for my buck? And that's a very legitimate question to ask.
And so in FOURIER, overall the trial was positive but as we look for subgroups we say, "Can we find individuals who enjoy a greater absolute risk reduction?" Because therefore the benefit cost ratio is gonna be particularly favorable. And so we approach that in a couple different ways. First you can look for just predictors of baseline risk, so if someone has twice the baseline risk and the same relative risk reduction, you should get about twice the absolute risk reduction and therefore the number needed to treat would be cut in half. And so based on our experience from other TIMI trials and other datasets, we looked at three features that have identified patients with higher baseline risks.
Amongst those with a history of MI which is in and of itself a heterogeneous group. And so those features were patients with a more recent MI, those with multiple prior MIs and those with known residual multivessel coronary disease. And all three features in the FOURIER dataset, not surprisingly, were predictors of risk with patients having an average about a 50% higher baseline risk. But what was particularly nice was that the subgroups also identified patients who had greater relative risk reduction. And so when you couple the two, the higher baseline risk with the greater relative risk reduction, that translated into greater absolute risk reduction then in each of these high-risk groups, the absolute risk reductions over three years or for CV death, MI, and stroke was around 3% versus around 1% for the low-risk groups.
And so that changes the number needed to treat by a factor of three.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Wow, that's so cool. Amit, do you think you could just give us a sneak peek into the editors’ discussions when you saw this paper?
Dr Amit Khera: This was an easy one, it's clearly a very important paper and if you step back 10,000-foot view, these drugs were initially approved based on LDL lowering and people were using them without knowledge of whether or not they actually lowered events. Marc's group and others have now shown us that certainly they do lower events, but really the next most important thing is application. Who should we use them in and when should they be used and where might they be most effective and I think it was said out in the introduction of this paper, this idea of personalized medicine. And I think this really is an important step forward, not just for PCSK9 field but in general, how we should be thinking about drugs, about balancing cost and benefits and who would benefit most.
So maybe one analogy, I think PCSK9 was not prescribed as much as they had been predicted given costs and other considerations and maybe with analysis like this they've hit it out of the rough back on the fairway, I threw that in for you, Roger. And I do have one question for Marc, which is this is clearly important to better define who would benefit the most and I guess in terms of action abilities, the goal here to provide guidance for clinicians where, you know, if I'm seeing a patient this morning I would take this into account or is this something larger where we recently saw with alirocumab, they changed pricing based on sub-group analysis of a higher risk group. How do you think we should move forward with this type of information?
Dr Marc Sabatine: I’ll get back to the point I raised earlier, I do want to underscore that I think that the true biologic notion is that all these patients, sub-types of secondary prevention or primary prevention all benefit from LDL lowering. So I wouldn't want people to walk out with the notion that it's the only subset that would benefit and really from a population level, obviously Roger's in a better position to speak about this, but sort of shifting the population LDL lower in general would have a huge impact on the risk for cardiovascular disease. But to your question Amit, looking in for a patient in front of you, I think it's quite fair to say right now there's this kind of tug of war back and forth between payers and clinicians.
Clinicians saying, "I have a patient in front of me, they have known atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, I wanna lower their risk, I wanna manage their risk factors and I wanna get their LDL cholesterol lower and I have a bunch of great tools in front of me." Statin for sure is the foundation, maybe acetamide and PCSK9 inhibitors. And then payers saying, "Well wait a minute, these are expensive drugs and so we're gonna try to restrict that and create a lot of hoops for clinicians to jump through." And so I would rather than wasting all that time back and forth, I think it is logical to say, "What are the high-risk groups?" Where we can agree there's the large enough absolute risk reduction that for a given cost, that makes sense.
Allow there to be alignment for that and have clinicians just be able to write a script and have it filled rather than wasting a lot of time with preauthorization and letters back and forth.
Dr Amit Khera: That's a great point, maybe I'll just take one follow-up, which is now trying to sift through all the high-risk groups and they end up maybe becoming a bit of a Venn diagram. I know in Roger's editorial he talked about the other FOURIER analysis with PAD and there's more groups to come or do we have enough of a starting place where we think we have enough for decision making?
Dr Marc Sabatine: I would say there are a variety of groups, there is some overlapping even in the paper then we looked at the union of those three high-risk features, which identified about two thirds of the patients who were enrolled in the trial with a history of MI. But you're right, the other slices of the data that will also identify high risk groups, PAD is a particularly good one because most of the therapy for those patients has focused on antithrombotic therapy, which always will have some downside for increased bleeding, whereas risk factor modification in this case has no downside. So that's a very high-risk group, it certainly is important to focus on. But I think within the MI subset, this is a great place to start the other analyses we're doing.
And probably after we've sort of finished the series of, if you will, these kind of univariant slices, then we'll try to put that together into a more comprehensive picture.
Dr Roger Blumenthal: We tried to say that we still need the formal cost-effective analyses in these specific high-risk groups, but it seems most reasonable to focus on engaging in shared decision making now with our patients about PCSK9 inhibitor use and those with a recent ACS and the basis of Odyssey Outcomes and we're awaiting the final publication of that. Symptomatic peripheral arterial disease, which Marc previously published in Circulation, and then looking at these high-risk features that was the subject of this article, those with a more recent MI within the past two years, multiple prior MIs and residual multivessel coronary disease.
And one of the things that we especially found interesting was among the more than 8,000 individuals without a high-risk feature, the event rates were nearly unchanged in the evolocumab versus placebo groups. So I think that's very important, but one other point that we have to keep in mind is that the focus of the last set of guidelines and probably the next cholesterol guidelines that likely will be out in November, will have a large component of the shared decision making and we need to see where the cost comes down, whether these companies that make these medications will be able to significantly lower the cost in a reproduceable manner and patients and clinicians will have to jointly decide what to do, do we add acetamide? Do we add a PCSK9 inhibitor?
But we finished our editorial saying that all clinicians and patients should currently pursue a comprehensive lifestyle and medical regimen for secondary prevention. We all have to remember that and if a person's LDL, a high-risk individual is at least 70 with high-risk features and certainly above 100 on maximum tolerated statin therapy, it's important to strongly consider a PCSK9 inhibition and it'll be very interesting to see what the final wording is when the ACC/AHA cholesterol guidelines come out in November.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Amit, would you like to add any further take-home for the clinicians listening in?
Dr Amit Khera: I just first want to congratulate both of these discussions today, I think the paper was so incredibly important and I think Roger's group really helped frame it well in the field. The one thing I'd say is this is a moving target, we have some early guidance now that I do think is actionable, so I actually have clinic in about an hour and I'm sure I'll be thinking about this as I think about how to apply PCSK9. Which groups might benefit most, so I do think this is actionable now, I think the points that were made about cost effective analysis, how do we bundle all these concepts or high risk patients into maybe an algorithm and how do the guidelines interpret this as a moving target. We'll wait to see, but I do think there's some important actionable information even now for our clinical patients.
Dr Carolyn Lam: I just love that, and you know that is just so much in line with the ethos of what Circulation is about now. We really, really love the papers that you have to pick up because they're of immediate applicability to your clinical practice.
Well audience, you heard it right here. Thank you so much for joining us this week and of course don't forget to tune in again next week.
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. I'm the one you usually hear chatting about all the papers in your weekly issue, however I am so delighted to be handing over the mic this week to two beloved colleagues, and they are Dr Greg Hundley and Dr Vlad Zaha, who will be taking us through this week's very special issue centered around cardio-oncology. Here they are.
Dr Greg Hundley: My name is Greg Hundley. I'm a professor at VCU Health Sciences in Richmond, Virginia. We also have Vlad Zaha, who is an assistant professor at University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas.
Dr Vlad Zaha: Hello, everybody.
Dr Greg Hundley: We're going to be talking about the field of cardio-oncology today. As we all know, there have been many advances in the treatment of cancer lately, such that cancer is now becoming in some regards almost a manageable disease or a chronic disease for many individuals. But unfortunately we're seeing the emergence of cardiovascular disease in many patients, so much so that for some cancers, for example breast cancer survivors, cardiovascular events have supplanted the occurrence of cancer-related morbidity and mortality overall.
And so emerging today is this new field of cardio-oncology, which is really a bridging discipline between oncologists and cardiologists that have been focused almost on examining the relationship between chemotherapies, radiation therapies, newer targeted immunologic therapies on the development of cardiovascular events. We as cardiovascular medicine specialists often become involved and then we are consulted to see a patient that might be scheduled to receive a cardiotoxic therapy and what should we do. Maybe they've already received, they're in the middle of the therapy, and we're asked to provide guidance to help the patient move through that therapy successfully.
We're examining survivors now, those that have gone on the therapy and are experiencing increased cardiovascular risk. And then finally, a new emerging field that examines the association of risk factors that seem to be common between cancer and cardiovascular disease.
In this issue of Circulation there are theories, really a miniseries of manuscripts, that are at this interface between cardiovascular and oncologic science and medicine. Following a similar miniseries that we published in 2015, this new block of manuscripts looks on some of the risk factors and mechanisms that may be common between these disorders.
We're going to start today and look at this particular issue and examine the original manuscripts, look at the letters, and then talk a little bit about the review articles. I will walk through some of the introduction and then Vlad Zaha, who is working in cardio-oncology at University of Texas Southwestern, will help interpret for us some of the results and the meaning.
The first study, an original manuscript by Simes et. al that's a subanalysis of the lipid study, and that's the Long-Term Intervention with Pravastatin in Ischemic Disease. The study is going to examine the relationship between D-dimer and the future development of cardiovascular events, but also importantly, cancer-related events. Remember, D-dimer is the degradation product of cross-linked fibrin markers of hypercoagulation and thrombosis. We use this a lot in the emergency department as an identifier of those at risk when we're suspecting one of CVT, pulmonary emboli, etc.
This particular study focused on individuals aged 31 to 75 years that had experienced previously a myocardial infarction. The patients were randomized to receive 40 mg of pravastatin versus a placebo and as part of the study they were followed for six years to identify cardiovascular events. But at the end of the study another examination, an extended review, was enabled so that the patients or participants could be followed for another ten more years and in addition to looking at cardiovascular events, they also looked at all-cause mortality and etiologies of that mortality and specifically cancer.
Vlad, can you tell us a little bit about some of the results and what did D-dimer predict?
Dr Vlad Zaha: D-dimer has been considered a rather non-specific product that was first introduced in clinical practice in the 1970s for diagnosis of venous thromboembolisms. It is really interesting in this study that the others identified D-dimer that it is an independent predictor of not only long-term risk of arterial and venous events but all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality, cancer incidents and mortality and non-cardiovascular disease and non-cancer morality.
It raises interesting questions that are further explored in an editorial in the same issue about what is a low and what is a high D-dimer and also what drives the D-dimer generation in these patients.
Dr Greg Hundley: And so, it's interesting as well that one is identifying those at risk of cardiovascular disease but also cancer. Do the authors and the editorialists speculate on what that connection may be?
Dr Vlad Zaha: The question that is discussed is a common area of etiology that is being more and more discussed nowadays as bridging the domains of heart disease and cancer, and that is information. Information resulting then in alteration of the clotting cascade and hypercoagulability that may then influence downstream both atherosclerosis and cancer processes.
Dr Greg Hundley: Very good. It's interesting that we're bringing up this whole area of thrombosis because that really follows in the next study, which is a large population cohort assessment that is collected from a Danish registry of 6600 subjects that had experienced a lower extremity arterial, not venous, but arterial thrombosis. In that study what did they uncover, Vlad, in terms of an association with cancer and previously experiencing a lower extremity arterial thrombosis?
Dr Vlad Zaha: Another interesting study where the patients uncovered an increased risk of cancer compared to the general population, especially during the first six months before, the investigators identified an association between lower limb arterial thrombosis and increased all-cause mortality in common especially for the smoking-related cancers. This is a very interesting study that brings up the possibility of opportunistic screening, again focused on cancer-related signs and symptoms during the diagnostic workup for lower limb arterial thrombosis.
Dr Greg Hundley: And so, in these first two studies, both large in number, were identifying issues related to thromboembolic events and cardiovascular disease that also appear related or associated with the future development of cancer. The next couple of studies now switch and address issues related to mechanism. The first is a relatively large complex translational study by Meijers and associates that were examining the relationships between heart and vascular injury and the future development of colon cancer.
In this particular study there were two separate experiments, one group performed in mice and the other performed in analyses of serum and plasma that were collected from human subjects that had experienced colon cancer. In the first series of experiments in mice, the mice were induced myocardial infarction and then they were a strain that were somewhat predisposed to development of colon cancer. What the investigators did is they examined in this strain predisposed to the development of colon cancer, the impact of inducing a myocardial infarction and promoting heart failure versus those that were not and they identified what looks to be some sort of association between an increased risk of development of colon cancer.
Vlad, what were your observations and thoughts in terms of these particular findings and results?
Dr Vlad Zaha: This is an interesting paradigm of bringing basic science observations and testing them in a translational fashion. It is a combination of really elegant studies in a mouse model that identifies potential targets of clinical relevance in a model of myocardial infarction. The authors evaluate the fact that such molecules in human cell line models and test the proliferation in that environment. The question is then: How does this reflect in a cohort of patients? That, I think, is really the strength of the study to be able to show that some of the biomarkers identified which events can have an implication at the bedside.
Dr Greg Hundley: It was really interesting in that in the animals, independent of the hemodynamic compromise, so the hypotension, the reductions in EF, these circulating biomarkers that you identified seemed more associated with the development of colon cancer and then in the human study, examining similar factors were observed in patients with colon cancer and heart failure from the circulating blood of those individuals. Very interesting relationship identified in a very elegant translational study that involved both animal models and human subjects.
The second mechanistic paper is by Li and associates and it's really addressing the issue of anthracycline-related cardiovascular injury. Remember, we still utilize anthracycline chemotherapy today as a fundamental curative component of the therapeutic regimen for lymphoma, leukemia and sarcoma, also in those with triple-negative breast cancer as an important component of that regimen for adjuvant treatment. In this particular study, the investigators were examining the implication of phosphoinositide 3-kinase. That is an important enzymatic regulator of tumorigenesis, but it also when it's expressed is up-regulated during cardiac stress and really impacts adverse remodeling and promotion of heart failure.
In this particular study, the investigators in a mouse model were looking at blocking this particular enzyme and they had some really interesting results pertaining to the development of heart failure and cancer. Vlad, what did you see in this study that looked unique in that perspective?
Dr Vlad Zaha: This is an especially interesting study for the perspective of the oncologists who still have to prescribe anthracycline, given the uncertainty of early toxicity that can manifest in some studies in five to ten percent of patients. Also, related to the late toxicity of anthracycline treatment in survivors of childhood cancer. What is particularly interesting about this isoform of phosphoinositide 3-kinase, the gamma isoforms, is that at the same time blocking this enzyme in macrophages increases the anti-tumor, I think it's the anthracycline therapy, and blocking it in the cardiomyocytes, suggests a potential cardioprotective mechanism.
Having a target that can be used both to enhance the anti-cancer effect of anthracycline and to enhance the cardioprotective mechanism is really a potential ideal intervention that would help maximize the anti-cancer treatment and at the same time protect the heart.
Dr Greg Hundley: Fantastic. Again, new research helping to come up with ways for those that continue to need anthracycline therapy that we may be able to attenuate some of the untoward cardiovascular effects, all the while preserving the antagonistic features associated with the treatment for cancer.
Let's switch to the other sort of prospective original research format that we have in Circulation, and that's our letter format. Remember, our letters are addressing a specific point that can be readily appreciated in 800 words or less. The first is a letter by Anquetil et al that examines individuals recorded in the VigiBase World Health Organization database. This is basically a database organized around treatment of cancer and cancer therapeutics and it is examining those individuals that received sort of a newer class of agents called immune checkpoint inhibitors. Remember, that is modulation of our immune system to help attack cancer.
In some rare circumstances, relatively infrequent, when these agents have been administered, the immune system has been unlocked and attacks the heart, promoting a myocarditis that if not recognized can be fulminant and lead to death. This particular group identified a new phenomenon that we need to be aware of and that's just frank myositis.
Vlad, what are your thoughts on now perhaps these agents being associated with the development of myositis in the skeletal muscle?
Dr Vlad Zaha: Often when adverse events, as you mentioned Greg, are an important concern for these new powerful tools for the oncologists and it has been pretty early in the process where some of the cases have demonstrated severe cardiovascular events. Fortunately it is a very low percentage, less than 1% of cases that can manifest with fulminant myocarditis, but this raises again a question of expanding the view towards other systems when we are applying one of these early novel molecular interventions.
In this context, the recognition of myositis in another small percentage of patients is an important observation and increasing awareness of both cardiologists and oncologists towards this side effect is important as not all fatigue is equal and sometimes that can be due to manifestations of cardiomyopathy and sometimes it can be a manifestation of oxygen extraction in the peripheral tissue than muscle contractility. It is an important hypothesis-generating piece that will allow people to appreciate more of the complexity of addressing the intrinsic molecular mechanisms in cancer and heart disease.
Dr Greg Hundley: It sounds that we need to be aware of another potential etiology of fatigue to put in an armamentarium of differential diagnoses for those patients that are not getting quite back to where they were from an exercise and activity level after treatment. The second research letter focuses on individuals that are receiving a Fontan procedure. Remember, Fontan procedures are surgical corrections for those primarily with single ventricles where we're diverting caval blood to the pulmonary circulation, since in some situations there's really no functional right ventricle. These patients over time experience chronic venous hypertension and have associations with liver disease.
In this particular research letter, the authors are examining the relationship between really for the first report in an aggregate form of the relationship between undergoing a Fontan procedure and the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. Vlad, any quick comments to highlight on this particular procedure? I thought something that was interesting is that these individuals experienced these hepatocellular carcinomas in their 20s and 30s.
Dr Vlad Zaha: That's right, Greg. This study confirms observations from previous case reports and the early occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma is raising still important hypotheses for future clinical trials. On one hand, either there is an increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma development in patients with non-cirrhotic livers after a Fontan operation, or the current screening modalities using imaging are insufficiently sensitive to identify early signs of cirrhosis in such patients and this stratifies them effectively at an early stage in their disease post-op Fontan procedure.
Dr Greg Hundley: Lastly, let's just briefly discuss here, Vlad, some of the other editorials and review article formats that we have in Circulation. A particular one, a perspective that was written by Peter Libby and Ebert and associates that highlights this phenomenon potentially implicating inflammation and the link between cancer and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. The topic of this perspective is really on something called CHIP, which stands for clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential.
What is this CHIP? As we age, basically what happens is we accumulate mutations of hematopoiesis stem cells in our bone marrow. Over time these little clones, they actually have within our bone marrow some survival advantages and they can spill out into the blood and actually can be associated with future leukemias. Those that have a large population of this particular clonal progeny, these CHIP-type cells, they have an increased risk of developing cancer, but also the levels of these are associated with increased overall mortality and it appears some risk of cardiovascular disease. How could that be? One characteristic of this particular cell line is they are associated with dysregulation of inflammatory genes that go on to produce, are associated with other inflammatory mediators.
Vlad, this is calling in question and helping us to examine the relationship between inflammation, cancer and cardiovascular disease. What are your thoughts here about these very important insights provided by Libby and Ebert?
Dr Vlad Zaha: This is a fascinating perspective, Greg. It really brings, again, in the offline novel molecular mechanisms that have been discovered recently and that are becoming a turning point into the molecular interventions, not only in cancer but potentially soon in cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment. Having a common root for a problem set involving such a prevalent cardiovascular problem as atherosclerosis and cancers reveals the connection between the different systems and the fact that integrating our understanding of the molecular regulation of cell proliferation results in an effective translation of leading to new targets and new approaches to treat disease.
It is striking that there are multiple areas where cancer and inflammation are interacting, one of them being at the cellular level and other ones at humoral levels, in a way reproducing other complex mechanisms that we see in regulation of inter-system interactions within the body.
Dr Greg Hundley: And so, summarizing this entire issue in Circulation, what a wonderful collection of a series of original manuscripts, both in the extended and the letter format as well as review articles, including a primer by Handy and associates that evaluates or draws attention to our screening tools that how we might examine the relationship between cardiology and the whole world or hematologic oncology related issues. And then this very unique perspective by Peter Libby and really is a continuation of the growth of this, as we called earlier, the bridging discipline of cardiovascular medicine and oncology as we work toward improving survivorship of all individuals with cardiovascular disease and cancer.
I want to thank you for the opportunity to be with you today and encourage you to follow these issues further with the journal. I'll turn this over to Vlad for any closing remarks.
Dr Vlad Zaha: Thank you, Greg. This has been a really exciting overview of important points that are emerging now at this nexus between cardiology and oncology that give us a broader view of the complex interactions that the future will materialize for us, emerging from a molecular intervention on cancer, heart disease, immunologic disease and probably metabolic endocrinology disease.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Thank you so much, Vlad and Greg. This is a tremendous issue and I'm sure, audience, you will be reaching for it right now, I would.
Please let all your colleagues know about this podcast and tune in again next week.
Circulation August 7, 2018 Issue 0
Can proteomic biomarkers distinguish between subtypes of aortic stenosis even years before surgery? Well, to find out more, stay tuned. That's coming right up after these summaries.
The first original paper this week adds to the evidence that smoke-free policies are associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. First and corresponding author, Dr Mayne from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and her colleagues linked smoke-free policies to participants of the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults, or CARDIA study, which has a follow-up of up to 20 years. They found that smoke-free policies in workplaces were associated with significantly lower risk of incident cardiovascular disease after controlling for a wide range of covariants. Results were weaker for bar and restaurant bans, but in the same direction.
Preventive fractions range from an impressive 24 to 46%. Thus, smoke-free policies may improve cardiovascular health through reducing population exposure to tobacco smoke. However, we should remember that much of the US population remains unprotected by smoke-free policies. Thus, taken together with prior ecological work, these results support the continued expansion of smoke-free policies in indoor public places.
Most phase-3 randomized control trials feature time-to-first event end points for their primary analysis. In chronic diseases, however, a clinical event can occur more than once and recurrent event methods have been proposed to more fully capture the disease burden, as well as to improve statistical precision and power.
However, is this really the case? This question was examined by first author, Dr Brian Claggett, corresponding author, Dr Scott Solomon, from Brigham Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and their colleagues, who sought to better characterize factors that influence the statistical properties of recurrent events and time-to-first event methods in the evaluation of randomized therapy.
They performed repeated simulated trials with 1:1 randomization of 4000 patients to active versus control therapy. Through simulation, they varied the degree of between-patient heterogeneity of risk as well as the extent of treatment discontinuation. They then compared their findings with those from the actual randomized control trials.
The authors found that the statistical power of both recurrent events and time-t- first event methods were reduced by increasing heterogeneity of patient risk, a parameter that's not usually included in conventional power and sample size formulae. Furthermore, data from real clinical trials were consistent with the simulation studies, confirming that the greatest statistical gains from the use of recurrent events methods occurred in the presence of high patient heterogeneity and low rates of study drug discontinuation.
The next paper uncovers a novel biomarker and therapeutic target of pulmonary arterial hypertension, and that is selenoprotein P. First author Dr Kikuchi, corresponding author, Dr Shimokawa, from Takaoka University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan and their colleagues performed micro-array analyses using pulmonary arterial hypertension, pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells, and found a 32-fold up regulation of selenoprotein P compared with controls.
Selenoprotein P promotes cell proliferation and apoptosis through increased oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction. Using five strains of genetically modified mice, the authors demonstrated a pathogenic role of selenoprotein P in the development of hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension.
Furthermore, sanguinarine, which is an orally active small molecule identified by throughput screening reduced selenoprotein P expression and pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cell proliferation and ameliorated pulmonary hypertension.
In summary, this study shows that selenoprotein P plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension and may be a useful and novel biomarker and therapeutic target in this disorder.
Familial hypercholesterolemia is known to be associated with a high risk of ischemic heart disease, including myocardial infraction, but what about the risk of ischemic stroke? Well, first author, Dr Beheshti, corresponding author, Dr Nordestgaard, from Copenhagen University Hospital and their colleagues examined the associations of familial hypercholesterolemia and high LDL cholesterol with ischemic stroke in both causal, genetic, and observational analyses using more than 106000 individuals from the Copenhagen General Population Study, and more than 10000 individuals from the Copenhagen City Heart Study.
They used a Mendelian randomization design to test whether high LDL per se had a causal effect on ischemic stroke risk using a combination of the familial hypercholesterolemia causative mutations and common genetic variants associated with high LDL.
The authors found that there was no association between familial hypercholesterolemia mutations and ischemic stroke risk. In the Mendelian randomization analysis, also including common genetic variants, there was also no causal effect of high LDL on the risk of ischemic stroke.
These findings imply that the predominant goal of targeting LDL lowering in those with and without familiar hypercholesterolemia is likely to reduce myocardial infractions, rather than ischemic stroke. Well, that wraps it up for our summaries. Now for our feature discussion.
Circulation publishes numerous papers regarding circulating biomarkers. We talk about biomarkers in the diagnostic, prognostic sense, but what about in a pathophysiologic sense, and especially in a disease as important as aortic stenosis? Well, that's what our featured paper this week is all about and I'm so excited to have with us corresponding author, Dr Stefan Söderberg, from Umeå University in Sweden, as well as our associate editor, Dr Peipei Ping from UCLA. We will be discussing the paper entitled “Proteomic Biomarkers for Incident Aortic Stenosis Requiring Valvular Replacement.” Stefan, could you tell us a bit about what made you look at this very interesting question, and perhaps the unique resources you had in Sweden to look at this?
Dr Stefan Söderberg: I'm a practicing cardiologist, and I have been working a lot with aortic stenosis over the years. It's frustrating that we can't do anything to stop the process. In many cases, the patients are old and frail, and if you could find the means to stop the process long before they need surgery, it will be of great benefit for the human and for the society.
Also, knowing that the interventions on the statins, for example, have been unsuccessful, we thought that there must be better ways or other biomarkers. Furthermore, that many of these studies, the phenotype of aortic stenosis has been very poorly described and there is probably much more behind just aortic stenosis than just, for example, calcium deposits in an X-ray, et cetera, et cetera.
Dr Carolyn Lam: You used some very unique resources in Sweden to therefore look at the proteomic signatures of aortic stenosis. Could you describe that and simplify perhaps the results so we can understand it?
Dr Stefan Söderberg: First of all, I got this idea from other studies done up in northern Sweden. If you have an absolutely unique setting, the combination of huge population-based studies in 30 years back, we have a huge biobank with examples of extraordinary good quality from each of these participants. For example, for each participant, the blood has been spun and put into freezer, deep freezer, within one hour for 30 years, and they are now, as I said, about 100000.
Furthermore, I'm working as a cardiologist at a university, and up here, you do all of the aortic surgery for the whole northern Sweden. That is, we can combine the names of the person undergoing surgery together with these population-based surveys and we can get details from all those who have participated in the surveys long before they did the surgery, and they can go and retrieve samples from cases and match controls from the freezers. It's a unique setup. Then, when we were designing the study, we got the chance to get these analyses done by our friends at the university to get the proteomic analysis via a unique data technique.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Wow. Could you describe your results?
Dr Stefan Söderberg: The results that we found in the first set of 334 patients who underwent surgery is 10 years after their first sampling, we found six proteins. Then, we got the question back from Circulation to establish a validation cohort, and we were able to do so to include all those new cases in the last 2 years, and there we could replicate five of these proteins.
The interesting thing that the pattern is completely different between those having coronary artery disease from those without. That kind of phenotyping has not been done throughout other aortic stenosis studies. Therefore, this study is unique. We have had two papers in the last year in the Journal of American Heart Association from the cohort, as well, showing the thing that happened.
For example, lipoprotein little A is only associated with future aortic stenosis valve replacement only in those with concomitant coronary artery disease. There are many unique things, the prospective design, and the phenotype differentiating those with and without coronary artery disease.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Yeah, and if I may just reiterate that the population base that you work with is just enviable and just so that the audience realizes, these are biomarkers that were collected 11 years before the aortic stenosis surgery, isn't it? You really had a long follow-up.
Also, just to let everyone know, it was a proximity extension assay that you used for the discovery, and the six proteins were growth differentiating factor 15, or GDF15, galectin-4, von Willebrand factor, interleukin 17 receptor A, transferrin receptor protein 1, and PCSK9, so very interesting. Peipei, you have a way of putting things into context so beautifully. Could you tell us your thoughts when you saw this paper?
Dr Peipei Ping: I thought this is a very high-quality study that actually benefited from the long-term established, well-controlled cohort in northern Sweden, as Dr Söderberg just shared with us. On the other end, it married a technology platform that's very well-established and -validated, and this situation targeted proteomics platforms using multi-proximity extension assays with carefully controlled markers and screened 92 cardiovascular candidate markers.
This is the kind of approach that provides semi-quantitative as well as quantitative outputs and is capable to offer validated screens on large population clinical subsets. A study of such with a high value cohort combined with a validated and well-controlled technology platform offered results that clearly have clinical significance, as well as setting up examples for other studies to follow. The enthusiasm from the editorial boards, as well as the reviewers, have been substantially high and supportive.
Dr Stefan Söderberg: Fantastic. I'm very glad to hear this.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Stefan, you also mentioned that a very unique element was the separation of aortic stenosis with and within coronary artery disease, or at least established or visible coronary artery disease. Could you explain how that provided pathophysiologic insights?
Dr Stefan Söderberg: First, I should say we were very, very strict. Our routine is that everyone was 100% undergoing, aortic valve replacement, they undergo a coronary angiogram before. If we saw any sign of atheromatosis, it was not enough that they had the significant stenosis, but any signs, they were put into the group of coronary artery disease. Those without, we couldn't see anything there. Radiograph here reported absolutely clean coronary arteries. Of course, we cannot exclude if there were aortic changes within them all, of course.
We believe that this is a very important message that in order to further study aortic stenosis, we should be very careful in phenotyping the disease. We hope the growing cohort will be able to do this further. For example, cuspid versus tricuspid valves, women versus men, et cetera.
My answer in short is phenotype. Let me take one example which I found very, very exciting. That is the finding of PCSK9, which is closely related not only to cholesterol symptoms, but also to lipoprotein little A emphasis. As you know, the first strong finding in aortic stenosis was the LP little A. This is related to that genetic finding, and that was in the huge study from Canada. They did not have the same phenotyping, so we had information to his important findings. That's one example.
Another example is the transferring receptor, where data has shown that bleeding acutely in the valvular tissue causes damage, and this relates iron metabolism to the formation of the aortic valve. Obviously, it seems that the process in the aortic valve is very much similar to the vessel arteriosclerosis. It seems to be different. This is the indication that when we formulate new studies or new drugs on aortic stenosis, we must be very careful to use the right drug for the right type of valvular disease.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Those are great points. Peipei, do you think that's the main clinical take-home message, beyond that great comment you made earlier that this paper's just a great example of the use of tools, modern tools, that we have in proteomic characterization like the proximity extension assay to provide pathophysiologic insights when you have a really well-phenotyped cohort? What's the critical take-home message, though? Is there one now?
Dr Peipei Ping: The take-home message is marriage of amazing high value cohort's data sets with that of the well-controlled clinical study using target proteomics approaches. In this particular study, one main critical innovation is the study is capable of providing insights regarding molecular signatures that have predicted values. As stated in the manuscript, the circulating proteins that found critically important, their alterations took place years before the surgery were associated with aortic stenosis. That is of value, clinical value, to many other clinical studies to follow.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Wow. That's wonderful. Thank you so much for putting these findings in context for us. Thank you, listeners, for joining us today. Don't forget to tune in again next week.
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Life And Education
Rainbow Sun Francks is a Canadian actor and songwriter who has starred on the television show Stargate Atlantis in the first season. Further, he has also worked as an on-air personality for the Canadian music channel called MuchMusic. Additionally, Rainbow is the brother of an actress Cree Summer.
Rainbow Sun Francks Bio/Wiki
Rainbow Sun Francks was born on December 3, 1979, in Toronto, Canada as Rainbow Sun Francks under the birth sign Sagittarius. Rainbow holds Canadian nationality, follows Christianity, and belongs to white ethnicity.
Rainbow Sun Francks was born to his father Don Francks and mother Lili Francks. Sun's father Don is also an actor and musician. Rainbow was raised by his parents along with his sister name Cree Summer who is a Canadian actress.
Additionally, Rainbow Sun Francks is also an educated man and had his graduation completed from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. Besides, no more info is attached related to his education.
Age, Height, and Weight of Rainbow Sun Francks
40-years-old Rainbow Sun Francks look very handsome and healthy on his current body statistic. He has an athletic build by having a height of 5 feet 10 inches or 178 cm and weighs around 52 kg. However, the measurement of his full body is not revealed. Likewise, he has dazzling light brown eyes.
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Personal Life of Rainbow Sun Francks
Rainbow Sun Francks is relishing on his single life. Maybe he is not dating someone right now. Nor he is seen on any type of dating history. He has kept his personal life details secret as he wanted to be safe from rumors and controversies.
Rainbow Sun Francks has claimed in several tweets that he loves playing the role of a gay character in movies and TV shows and this also may be the reason why many people started wondering if he is gay in real life.
However, Rainbow disproved the gay rumors when he disclosed that he had a girlfriend in a past, but they broke up when the Final Fantasy 7 for the Sony PlayStation came out.
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As of now Rainbow Sun Francks is happy with his successful career and is also working hard to make his future bright. Through his dedication and interest, it is fixed that he will get someone in his life soon.
Social Media Profile of Rainbow Sun Francks
Rainbow Sun Francks is also active on social sites. He has his Instagram account but it is private but also he is followed by 14.5 k people and is following only 3,204 people only. Likewise, his Twitter account is followed by 14.9 k people, 4,003 like on 40.7 k tweets. Similarly, his Facebook post is liked by more than 1,666 people and is followed by 1,630 people.
Net Worth and Total Earnings of Rainbow Sun Francks
From the professional acting and songwriting career Rainbow has garnered a huge sum of money and seems very happy in it. But the estimated net worth is not revealed anywhere. This shows Rainbow is quite secretive and did not want to reveal his personal data.
As per the sources, the average salary of an actor in Canada is $27,300 per year and we believe Rainbow is also earning the same as an average. Similarly, the average salary of a song-writer in Canada is $34428 per year and we hope Rainbow is earning the same.
Through the estimation, we get to know that Rainbow Sun Francks is earning well and struggling hard to earn more money and currently living a lavish life.
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Hallway Galleries (6)
Ada Slaight Youth Arts Mentorship Program 2019 November 22, 2018
Hallway Galleries: Dear Ayeeyo Photographs by Yasin Osman August 1, 2018
Announcing Jermyn Creed, Community Hub Manager June 15, 2018
Daniels Spectrum Fire Details June 5, 2018
We’re Closed Temporarily May 30, 2018
#RegentPark Ada Slaight Youth Arts Mentorship AGO alana bridgewater Alessandra Moretti art program Ashley McKenzie-Barnes Baquiat Basquiat Black History Month britta b Cabbagetown children community contest rules creativity Dear Ayeeyo Egbo-Egbo Featured Feminism Feminist Hallway Galleries History jackie richardson Jackie Robertson Jason Creed Jermyn Creed jeremiah sparks Mitchell Cohen Mustafa the Poet performance Raising Artists reception Regent Park community Spectrum of Hope steve harmony sweepstakes The Journey thompson egbo-egbo through generations Toronto Trevlyn trevlyn kay Yasin Osman Youth youth mentorship
The Journey Returns: Special FREE Community Presentation!
Regent Park, The Journey returns for an encore presentation!
The Journey is a spirited musical based on the story of three young people living in the Regent Park neighbourhood. Be electrified and transformed by this unique performance presented at Daniels Spectrum in Regent Park.
Using a powerful combination of spoken word, dramatic scenes, music and dance, The Journey highlights moments in Regent Park’s nearly 70-year history through the eyes of local residents.
Free Tickets!
FREE tickets for the performance on Friday, November 18 are available for people who live and/or work in Regent Park. The free tickets are available for pick-up at ticket centres while quantities last. Tickets will not be available at the door.
Tickets are only available in advance on November 1 until all tickets are claimed at the following times and locations:
12 PM – 4 PM @ Daniels Spectrum Artscape Office (585 Dundas St E, Toronto, ON M5A 2B7)
5 PM – 8 PM @ Regent Park Community Centre (402 Shuter St, Toronto, ON M5A 1X6)
Each person may claim up to 4 tickets.
When you attend The Journey performance, you’ll be automatically entered to win amazing prizes like Beats Headphones! Stay tuned for details.
Don’t miss the party!
There’s more to our special community presentation than just the show! Come to Daniels Spectrum early for a free pre-show reception at 6PM with snacks, refreshments and live music, and stay after the show for a free buffet at 9:15 PM for ticket holders.
Pre-Show Cocktail Reception 6 PM
Performance: 7:30 PM
Party: 9:15 – 10 PM
Running time is 80 minutes, no intermission.
Suitable for ages 13 and up.
FREE onsite CHILDCARE available throughout the evening from 6 PM to 10 PM.
Not only is The Journey inspired by the real-life stories of Regent Park residents, it also features award-winning Regent Park spoken word artists Trevlyn Kay and Britta B, with R&B singer-songwriter Steve Harmony, Regent Park School of Music graduate Stacy Darko and Dixon Hall Music School alumnus Thompson Egbo-Egbo.
Joining these local talents on-stage is the electrifying, award-winning, world-class performer Jackie Richardson (‘The Nina Project,’ ‘Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God’), in addition to vocalist, actor and musician Jeremiah Sparks (Mufasa in ‘The Lion King,’ and star of world renowned show ‘Drum’) and songstress/actress Alana Bridgewater (Dragon in the stage production of ‘Shrek’ and Motormouth in the Broadway hit ‘Hairspray’ at the Charlottetown Festival). The Journey will tug at your heartstrings and leave you wanting more.
See you at in November at The Journey 2016!
Songs and Script by Mitchell Cohen, with additional material contributed by Jackie Richardson, Jeremiah Sparks, Alana Bridgewater, Trevlyn K, Britta B, Steve Harmony, Stacy Darko and the cast of 2016.
Initially adapted for the stage by Anne-Marie Woods.
Creative Direction by Kate Fenton.
Music Direction and Arrangement by Henry Heillig.
Movement Direction and Choreography by Apolonia Velasquez and Ofilio Sinbadinho of Gadfly.
Photos courtesy of Linda Stella Photography.
The Journey: A Living History of the Regent Park Revitalization, Community Performance Sweepstakes, Official Contest Rules
1) HOW TO ENTER
The Journey: A Living History of the Regent Park Revitalization Community Performance Sweepstakes (“the Contest”) is open to all persons with a valid ticket to the community performance of The Journey Regent Park (“the Community Performance”) and who are present at the time of the draw on Friday, November 18, 2016. Winners will be drawn at random immediately before the Community Performance at approximately 7:30 PM.
2) ELIGIBILITY
The Contest is open to individuals who reside in Canada (excluding Quebec) that hold a valid ticket to the Community Performance. Winners must be present and present their winning ticket at the time of the draw to claim their prize or they forfeit their claim and a new winner will be drawn at random.
Employees and representatives of (i) Artscape (the “Contest Sponsor”) and (ii) its advertising and promotional agencies, affiliated corporations and other persons, firms or corporations involved in the development or execution of this Contest, are not eligible to enter or win a prize in this Contest.
3) THE DRAW
The draw will be held on Friday, November 18, 2016 at approximately 7:30 PM. The winner will be drawn at random from tickets received from the community performance audience at the door. Odds of winning are dependent on the number of eligible entries received.
4) THE PRIZES
Prizes will include 2 Beats by Dr. Dre urBeats In-Ear Headphones with Mic
Prizes must be accepted as awarded and no substitution of the prize is permitted nor will any cash equivalent will be paid.
5) ENTRY CONDITIONS
By entering this Contest, each participant agrees to abide and be bound by these contest rules. All decisions of the Contest Sponsor shall be final and binding upon the participant.
By participating in the contest, the winner or winners agree to have their name, voice, or likeness used in any advertising or broadcasting material relating to this contest without additional financial or other compensation
The Contest Sponsor reserves the right, exercisable in its discretion, to disqualify and ban any participant from this Contest if the participant is found or is believed to have been tampering with the entry process, or the operation of the Contest. The Contest Sponsor will not be held responsible for missing or damaged entries.
By entering this Contest, each participant agrees that the Contest Sponsor will not be liable for any injury or damage from whatever cause associated with or in connection with this Contest.
This Contest is subject to Canadian law and void where prohibited or restricted.
7) PRIVACY
Any personal information gathered from contest entrants in connection with this Contest will be kept in a secure and confidential database and will not be rented or sold. Personal information of the contest entrants will be used for the administration of this Contest for the purposes of this contest only.
The Journey: Special FREE Community Presentation!
As Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood undergoes the most ambitious urban transformation in North America, art will dramatically imitate life on The Journey stage. Using a powerful combination of words, music and dance, The Journey documents Regent Park’s nearly 70-year history through the eyes of local residents. Not only is the show inspired by the real-life stories of Regent Park residents, it is being performed by artists and young people from the local community.
The Journey is written by Mitchell Cohen, President of The Daniels Corporation, in collaboration with members of the Regent Park community, with adaptation by Creative Director Anne-Marie Woods and musical direction by Henry Heillig.
The Journey will tug at your heartstrings and leave you wanting more.
FREE tickets for the performance on Friday, June 19th are available for people who live and/or work in Regent Park. The free tickets are available for pick-up at these ticket centres while quantities last.
* Tickets are only available in advance from these ticket centres. Tickets will not be available at the door. The Journey is suitable for ages 13 and up.
CSI Regent Park: 585 Dundas St. East, 3rd floor
Open Monday to Friday (10 AM to 4 PM)
TD Centre for Learning: 540 Dundas St. East
CRC at 40 Oaks: 40 Oak Street
Dixon Hall: 58 Sumach Street
Daniels Presentation Centre: 500 Dundas St. East
Open Monday, Tuesday & Thursday (12 PM to 6 PM)
Open Wednesdays (12 PM to 8 PM)
Open weekends & holidays (12 PM to 5 PM)
Meet the Stars
The Journey showcases award-winning Regent Park spoken word artists Trevlyn Kay (5 Fingers 1 Fist) and Britta B (2013 Toronto International Poetry Slam Champion); R&B singer-songwriter Steve Harmony; emerging stars Itzel Julieta Velázquez Martínez, Simba Wetu, and Limees Riezig; Regent Park School of Music graduates Charlotte Siegel and Stacy Darko and acclaimed pianist Thompson Egbo-Egbo.
Joining these local talents on stage is the electrifying, award-winning, world-class performer Jackie Richardson (‘The Nina Project’, ‘Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God’), the amazing vocalist, actor and musician Jeremiah Sparks (Mufasa in ‘The Lion King’, and star of the world-renowned show ‘Drum’), and iconic songstress and stage performer Alana Bridgewater (Killer Queen in ‘We Will Rock You’, and Motormouth in ‘Hairspray’).
When you attend The Journey performance, you’ll be automatically entered to win prizes including:
Four tickets to see the Toronto Blue Jays this summer
Tickets to Toronto 2015 Pan Am & Parapan Am Games events
Electronics inclluding a 32” flat-screen TV, Android tablets, Beats by Dr. Dre™ headphones and more!
Gift certificates for Paintbox Bistro in Regent Park
There’s more to our special community presentation than just the show! Come to Daniels Spectrum early for a pre-show reception with snacks, refreshments and live music, and stay after the show for a FREE BUFFET for ticket holders provided by the Regent Park Catering Collective. Plus — there is FREE CHILDCARE available from 6 PM to 10 PM.
Observing Ramadan? The show will end in time for the Maghrib Prayer and Iftar Feast with prayer room available.
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Pharmacological studies
Study on a safety of drugs and chemicals
Immunotoxicity provided single and course administration of test chemicals
In last two decades an increasing number of publications about damaging action of environmental pollution factors and several drugs on immune system led to formation of independent scientific field – immunotoxicology.
Immunotoxicology was born in the second half of 70-ies of the 20th century. In 1979 the materials of the first symposium on this subject were published in the “Annals of New-York Academy of Sciences”, and in 1983 in the journal “Immunology Today” it was first formally declared about the emergence of a new scientific field – immunotoxicology, as a result of immunology and toxicology integration.
Immunotoxicology in a research field is determined as a science concerned with the identification and analysis of environmental agents, chemical, food and medicinal factors that cause immunity changes.
The first decade of immunotoxicology existence was inaugurated by the development of the studies in the following directions.
Proof that immune system of an organism may be a target for damaging action of xenobiotics.
Confirming that immunosuppression, hypersensitivity and autoimmune processes may be undesirable consequences of xenobiotic impact.
Developing a standard group of tests for studying immunotoxicity in rodents.
To date the field of research interests in immunotoxicology presents a clearly limited part of immunology based on toxicological principles. Since in the whole world in society there is increased understanding the importance of relations between immunity and general state of human health, the importance of immunotoxicology raises to a degree of vital interdisciplinary field.
Now immunotoxicology as a scientific field is rightfully represented in programs of most toxicological research institutions.
Unlike established Protocols of preclinical studying general toxic effects, the methodological and methodical problems of studying immunotoxic action of pharmaceuticals till now remain a subject of searching and discussions in the whole world.
In our country there was developed a range of the appropriate methodical recommendations that regulate the study of pharmaceuticals influence on immune system, study of allergenic and immunotoxic effects of potential drugs.
By immunotoxic action it is traditionally understood a modifying influence of xenobiotics and drugs on immunogenesis including immunosuppression and hyperstimulation of immunity which may lead to decreased resistance of an organism to infections, increased risk of oncology diseases, development of autoimmune pathology and allergization of an organism.
The main problem of preclinical study of the influence of potential medicinal products on immune system is to prove or exclude possibility of developing immunotoxic effect induced by a pharmaceutical or its metabolites during the experiment in animals.
This approach of assessing immunotoxic effect of pharmacological agents is to study a range of integral immunologic functions that allow evaluating a potential risk taking into account the results of hematological and morphological studies of lymphoid organs, when using new pharmacological agent.
General theses
Obligatory testing for immunotoxicity should be subject to new original pharmacological agents as well as the known drugs with no data on the immunotoxicity study that are recommended:
For use by the long repeated courses;
Use in pediatric practice as well as for treatment of pregnant females and in the appointment during lactation;
As preventive agents and contraceptives;
For use without medical prescription in the general population.
Individually may be discussed a question of studying immunotoxicity of the drugs:
For the treatment of malignancies;
Once or by a short non-repeated course.
Testing is non-obligatory for the drugs:
For the treatment of diseases that pose a direct threat to life;
For agents those safety of the use was studied in the framework of the research of specific activity;
Reproducible domestic and foreign medicines if in the literature there are enough well-founded data of experimental and retrospective nature confirming the absence of immunotoxic properties of an appropriate analogue.
2. Methodology of immunotoxic testing
The main goal of immunotoxicology is the development of the strategy of immunity state assessment that will allow accurately predicting the consequences of exogenous factor influence on the human immune system.
Questions of methodology of immunotoxicological study were discusses the most detailed and carefully in 1994 at a workshop held in Arlington (USA).
When testing on immunotoxicity a step approach is proposed to use, usually two- or three-level. While assessing of immunotoxicity the priority is given to the functional methods of immunological study, morphological and histological studies serve as an addition. At the workshop a great attention was paid to the method standardization: the method validity (selectiveness, specificity, sensitiveness, accuracy and reproducibility); animal choice (specific and genetic features); inter-laboratory verification of studies.
Existing ideas on the development process of defense reactions of the immune system show that in the experiment it is able to find the damages in the immune system under the influence of chemical and pharmacological agents more likely by the use of the model of antigenic stimulus, i.e. against the background of the development of a specific immune response which includes all stages of the immune reaction.
When discussing the conditions of the study on immunotoxic properties of pharmacological agents, the most debated questions are those of choosing methods, doses and administration schemes of test drug.
The accumulated 20-year experience of the study of immunomodulatory and immunotoxic effect of pharmacological agents determines the use of a complex approach. This approach includes the study of an action of the test compound both at a single administration in a wide range of doses differing by 3-4 orders of magnitude, and at a course administration at doses chosen at a single administration taking into account the dose recommended for clinical trial and LD50 of the drug.
Single administration of pharmacological agent with an interval of 1 hour from antigen administration allows finding out the direct action on immune reactions and cells of immune system. Course administration allows evaluating also the indirect immunotoxic action connected with disturbance of organs and systems of an organism which are conjugated with immune system (nervous and endocrine systems, liver and others).
For preliminary analysis of immunotoxicity of pharmacological agent there may be used:
Literature data of the influence on immune system of analogues or substances which are similar in chemical structure and action;
Results of studying general toxic action which were obtained during investigation of sub-acute and chronic toxicity.
Assessment of immunotoxicity of drugs is performed according to the Manual for conducting preclinical studies of drugs. Under the editorship of Mironov A.N., Bunatyan N.D. et al., M., publishing house “Grif and K”, 2012; FDA – Immunotoxicology Evaluation of Investigational New Drugs, ICH – S8, and based on the following tests:
1) Assessment of humoral immune response (determination of antibody titer against sheep erythrocytes in mouse serum using hemagglutination);
2) Assessment of cellular immune response (using the reaction of delayed-type hypersensitivity to hapten or sheep erythrocytes);
3) Assessment of phagocyte activity (phagocytosis of latex FITC-labeled particles by mouse peritoneal macrophages).
Microscopic assessment of phagocytosis of latex particles
Transmitted light microscopy, 100×
Fluorescent microscopy, 100×
(absorption – 495 nm, emission – 517 nm)
4) Assessment of the effects of test drug on adaptive immune response using proliferative activity test of T-and B-lymphocytes isolated from mouse spleen;
5) Analysis of immunoglobulin levels by ELISA method (in addition);
6) Analysis of cytokine levels by ELISA method (in addition);
7) Analysis of hematologic indicators (such as leukocyte count and leukocyte formula) (in addition);
8) Analysis of chemotaxis of neutrophils and macrophages (in addition);
9) In vitro studies on cell lines (inhibition/stimulation of proinflammatory cascade, analysis of cytokines such as IL-1β, TNFα, IL-6 and etc.) (in addition);
10) Assessment of the interaction with TLR receptors in vitro (in addition).
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Tag: Margaret Gray
(1) Esther Kaplan, Losing Sparta: the Bitter Truth Behind the Gospel of Productivity. This is a must-read piece that came out last week in the Virginia Quarterly Review. Yves Smith wrote about it at Naked Capitalism last week, and Doug Henwood did an (as-usual) terrific interview with the author on his radio show, Behind the News. It is the story of a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Sparta, Tenn., and how the Dutch multinational corporation Philips shut the plant down and moved production to Monterrey, Mexico, even though (as Kaplan documents) the company probably lost market share as a result of the move. It is a brilliant piece, shuttling back and forth between the stories of the town and the plant and those of various people involved, and then to the big-picture economic level to explore the logic (or illogic) of off-shoring.
(2) Doug Henwood, More New Segments. Besides the show with the Esther Kaplan interview, Doug Henwood posted a couple of other new shows last week–all three shows are great. The June 19th show features Jennifer Taub talking about her new book, Other People’s Houses, which traces the most recent financial crisis to the S&L crisis, in ways that go beyond what I knew from reading stuff by Bill Black. That show also includes an interview with Margaret Gray about her book Labor and the Locavore, about how the organic farms (she focuses on the Hudson Valley) from which the locavore movement “sources” its ingredients often exploit their migrant farmworker workforce. She covers a lot of ground about how farmworkers are covered by different, and weaker, labor laws. (This is a topic I used to do research and activism on; to hear me talking about many of the same issues, listen to the second hour of this episode of Unwelcome Guests, the radio show I used to co-produce.) The June 26 episode includes another excellent interview, of Sarah Stillman about her recent piece in the New Yorker, Get Out of Jail, Inc., about so-called “offender-funded justice.”
(3) Sean McElwee, Conspiracy of the Plutocrats, an interview at Salon with Piketty protegee Gabriel Zucman.
(4) Lew Daly, Our Mismeasured Economy, in last week’s New York Times, an excellent op-ed.
(5) Gideon Levy, Israel’s real purpose in Gaza operation? To kill Arabs. Doug Henwood posted a link to this on his Facebook page; it “pairs nicely” with Doug’s interview with Alex Kane on his 7/3 episode (after the Esther Kaplan interview).
(6) David Bacon, Debunking 8 Myths about Why Central American Kids are Migrating. Needed.
(7) Linda Marsa, The Longevity Gap. Via the always-awesome Too Much, by Sam Pizzigati (it comes out on Mondays, so my links will frequently draw on it), a piece from Aeon Magazine about what it would be like if current trends continue and the super-rich are able to pay for medical services that allow them to live to 120, while access to health care continues to decline for ordinary people, who will live on average to be 60. This reminds me of the excellent book Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart, in which the protagonist works for a company that helps the super-rich defy aging. (That book also predicted the Occupy movement.)
(8) Sarah Anderson, The State of Runaway CEO Pay Resistance. More great stuff from the Institute for Policy Studies (which sponsors Sam Pizzigati’s Too Much also). Though the titling suggests that it is the resistance to CEO pay is runaway–if only!
(9) Dan Read, The Homeless Spike, a report on effects of Britain’s “bedroom tax,” from sometime D&S author Dan Read.
(10) Bookstore Owner Takes On a Union, Shocking a Liberal Bastion. Hat-tip to TM. A great story, but we were annoyed (but not surprised) that the Times cast this as a human-interest story about those quirky Upper West Side liberals instead or a labor or business news story. The article fails to even tell readers that firing workers for signing up for a union is illegal.
That’s it for now,
–Chris Sturr
PS Happy Bastille Day!
Posted on July 14, 2014 July 14, 2014 Author Chris SturrTags bedroom tax, Dan Read, David Bacon, Doug Henwood, Esther Kaplan, farmworkers, Gabriel Zucman, Gideon Levy, homelessness, Lew Daly, Linda Marsa, Margaret Gray, offshoring, outsourcing, private probation, Sarah Stillman, Sean McElwee, Sparta Tennessee, union-bustingLeave a comment
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They Go - We Stay
Nina Davies - Alex Waterhouse-Hayward May 2009
In my years of teaching language (Spanish and English) and high school in Mexico or photography in Vancouver I eschewed the lesson plan. In Mexico City in one of the high schools I was teaching I had that terrible problem of having to hand in my lesson plan for the year at the end of the school year. I felt that a lesson plan made the teacher stay in one course that could become a rut. I remember having students tell me that I had already given them a version of “important” information.
More recently in teaching photography I discovered that I could give the same class twice without having my students notice. With open laptops (the school in question did not prohibit this) while munching take-out food and social networking or Photoshopping photographs for other classes they mostly did not pay any attention.
I have seen quite the opposite at dance classes at Arts Umbrella. The students seem to adore their instructors. They rarely misbehave or talk during these sessions.
While chatting with Arts Umbrella Dance Company Artistic Director Artemis (Arty) Gordon a couple of days ago we were discussing ex-alumnus Nina Davies’s retrospective essay of her days at Arts Umbrella. Arty said something like this, “Nina mentioned a talk I gave to her class, perhaps ten years ago. I think I gave the same talk to this class (the graduation students) just a few days ago!”
It is important in photography (at least I think it is important) that the idea of a model, a studio, a backdrop wall, a camera, a light and a photographer behind the camera is a formula for numbing failure. This is invariably the case unless a plan is thought out ahead of time, perhaps a theme of sorts. Important stuff has to be repeated and it will never go out of style.
I believe that Arty understands this and she was simply marveling with some sadness the march of time.
A few minutes after the chat with Arty I mentioned to the grads that they should read Nina’s essay. The blank expression on some of their faces was no surprise. Nina has been gone from Arts Umbrella since 2009. Who would remember her? And who would remember that other favorite Arts Umbrella dancer Kiera Hill?
I often run into perfect strangers who warmly greet me. My excuse for not remembering that they have been my students (when they tell me) is the joking remark that I have had too many drugs and alcohol in my past (not true).
While I have never taught dance I do have a thread of commonality with Arty. This is that as a teacher we watch students come and go. Sometimes they are youngsters who then leave when they are almost formed adults. They come and they go while we, the teachers remain where we are while getting older.
But there is a bittersweet measure of gratification every time one of those students returns with a smile or writes an essay like Nina’s. Yes we might have been richer had we chosen to be plumbers, but the pleasure of having helped to form a human being (perhaps for the better) is something that is most satisfying.
Link to: They Go - We Stay
Nuts & Bolts - It's A Hip Life
Kimiko Karpoff
Nuts and Bolts - it's a hip life
Kimiko Karpoff - Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
Fifteen years ago I was lying in a hospital bed thinking that I had just made the worst mistake of my life. At the age of 34 I had hip replacement surgery. In that moment as I lay in recovery I felt sick, in pain and, worst of all, couldn't move my leg at all. "You've done it now," I thought. I'd dreamed of being able to run with my three-year-old; here I was not even able to turn myself over in bed.
One year after surgery I could run with my son. I took up karate and earned my yellow belt. Ten years after surgery I travelled to west Africa, to the the village of Adexor-Kpodzi in the Volta region of Ghana. I travelled by airplane, trotro, taxi and boat. The final leg of the journey was a two hour walk along a dirt path, carrying on my back all that I needed for one month. The mere ability to do that walk was amazing to me.
Getting a joint replaced is an awesome thing. I know that I am fortunate and privileged to have access to the kind of medical technology and care that allowed me to walk again. As a story catcher, I also took it as an opportunity to capture a particularly poignant moment in my life. I asked local photographer Alex Waterhouse-Hayward if he would be willing to photograph the event. He suggested that we do before and after studio portraits. As well, he photographed part of the surgery. This is from my journal at the time.
Journal, June 11, day before surgery
Alex wanted me to come today for photos so I’d be nervous.
He’s right, I’m nervous. About the photos, about tomorrow.
Finn’s gone with my dad this morning. He seems singularly undisturbed by the closeness of surgery. “Bye Mom. See you when you get home from the hospital.”
Last night I dreamed about having the surgery. I don’t know what drug we used, but I want that one. No pain at all. I’ll tell the anesthesiologist.
Now that the time is here, I almost can’t believe it. I have no second thoughts, yet I wonder about the oddity of getting a part replaced. It’s almost like I’m, we’re, too laissez faire about this. There should be some sort of ritual like birth, death and marriage. Some way to honour the joint that has served me for 34 (nearly 35) years, as best as it could. Now it will be summarily tossed aside. Quite literally thrown in the incinerator I believe.
Perhaps these photos can be my ritual. A way to honour and immortalize this part of me that I’m saying good-bye to. I want them to be beautiful. After all, this is the hip that carried my child, that made love to my husband,that helped me win a track and field award when I was 14 even though every indication is that it was already damaged.
I can’t believe I’m getting nostalgic about a joint that has given me such grief. But, at least, I’ve cut through my confusion about what I’m feeling. I love my hip. The bad it brought was only physical pain. The joy it helped me carry was so much greater. I guess I just want to give it a proper and fitting good-bye.
So here I am fighting tears on the Skytrain, weepy, thinking about replacing my hip. Oh, my. I think Alex wants to show my fear and trepidation. Now I want a joyful thank you to a part of me that has been so important, although I’ve never even seen it.
Good-bye old friend, and thank you.
One of my ideas was that I would publish some magazine articles about the experience, but I was ultimately unsuccessful in pitching the story. Alex garnered some press with a triptych of the photos in a gallery show. Pete McMartin wrote a column in the Vancouver Sun and quoted me saying, "After they tell you what you'll go through you start thinking before the operation, 'This is terrifying; this is awful.' At the same time, there were all these emotions I couldn't quite recognize, until one day when I was riding on SkyTrain and I was writing in my 'hip' journal about how I felt about the operation. And I'm realizing that a part of me was almost in mourning for -- and I know this sounds ridiculous -- losing a friend. . . [My hip] wasn't perfect, but it did the best it could, and it seemed disrespectful not to recognize that."
Vancouver Sun - Friday December 1 2000
A hip is something that always travels with you, but eventually I put the story of it away and went on to other things. An anniversary, however, invites occasion for reflection.
When I first had the surgery I was told that an artificial hip lasts 15, maybe 20 years before wear and tear requires another replacement. About a month ago I saw a surgeon for the first time since having the staples removed from the surgery site. I was prepared to consider that after 15 years I would be looking at at least a revision to the surgery, which I thought preferable to a full new hip replacement. I dug my old film x-ray out of the closet and took it along for comparison to the new one. Before I even showed it to him, the surgeon commented that the old and the new would probably look a lot alike. The hip looks great, he said. Come back in 5 years.
This past year I took up hot power yoga. There are some things this new hip doesn't do. No lotus potion. No pigeon or frog poses. It's painful to do the kind of one leg balances where your body is not upright so not so much on the dancer's pose on the one side. But I can do a lot and in the year I've gained balance, strength and flexibility. Most people seeing me would not know that I have an artificial hip. A friend once commented that I could be the poster child for hip replacement surgery.
15 years ago I learned that sometimes situations that seem devastating, can, given time and nurturing, become life affirming. I learned that it's ok to need help. Following surgery I couldn't care for my son or myself. My husband, parents and friends were invaluable. Learning to ask for help was humbling, but a precious lesson. I have an understanding of living with a disability which was my life before surgery, as well as some of the trepidations that people feel as they are confronted by the possibility of needing surgery. This has made me more compassionate and, probably, a better pastor.
Now I have three hips to thank for the ways in which they have carried me through life. Thanks be to God.
No I can do side crow! Photo Linda Hubbard
I will not add to Kimiko's blog any of the pictures that I took of the surgery. This was one of the most awful moments I ever witnesed. Suffice to say that the noise of the miniature power saw cutting through bone and the smell of burning bone is enough. No photograph is necessary.
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward - June 12 2015
Link to: Nuts & Bolts - It's A Hip Life
Flipping Burgers - Opportunity - At Arts Umbrella Dance
Nina Davies - Dancer/Artist
Nina Davies - May 2009 - Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
I have recently been thinking about Arts Umbrella and how it has shaped me as an artist and when Alex asked me to write about my experiences as a student at Arts Umbrella I was excited to finally have an opportunity to share these thoughts.
It is hard to know where to begin explaining what a great program Arts Umbrella is as it is like trying to explain how your parents made you into the person you are. There are so many layers to Arts Umbrella’s practice and years after leaving the program I am still trying to deconstruct the effects that their method of teaching had on me. There has been a bit of press about the kind of dancer they produce that can meet the high standards of the dance industry today. But I feel as though there is a whole other side to this program, which is equally as important and applies to both the students who pursue a career in dance and those who do not.
“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.”
- Bill Gates
During a lunchtime discussion with some of my colleagues, we were talking about the value of humility and how it is an essential part of being an easy person to work with. Due to social media my generation has a false sense of self-importance and as a result makes us unbearable to work with. Plenty of students think there is the perfect job waiting for them after they graduate from high school or university, and for most this is just not the case.
I thank Arts Umbrella for teaching me from a young age to do anything that gets thrown at me to the best of my abilities and that no job is negligible. When we were preparing for a school show or coffee concert (both fairly small shows in comparison to the season finale at the Vancouver Playhouse) rehearsal director Emily Molnar was disappointed with our run-through in the morning. She told us that it did not make any difference as to the size of the audience or who was in it, because if one person in the audience enjoyed your performance then it was worth doing. We were probably 12 years old and no one had taught us these principles before. Those words still resonate with me and I apply this theory to almost everything I do.
I started studying at the Arts Umbrella Dance program in 2002 and left it in 2008 before I would have carried on into the graduate program. In my first year in the professional training program and Arts Umbrella Dance Company there was one thing that was made clear from the beginning, and that was to never let your parents fight your battles for you. Director Artemis Gordon told us that having our parents ask her why we were not given a specific part would not help our chances of getting the desired part in a performance. For the first time in my life I had to be reasonable for my own failures and learn from them in a professional way. This taught me about independence from an early age. For most, this kind independence is achieved in their early twenties and I was lucky and I’m sure I speak on behalf of all my peers that we were able to enter adulthood with a strong work ethic.
As well as attaining a professional work ethic from my dance training I left with certain knowledge of dance and the human body. My interest in dance has influenced the work I have been making on a broad spectrum.
After I left Arts Umbrella I moved to London to pursue a “career” in cabaret. I met a woman called Marisa Carnesky and got a job in a few of her shows as a contortionist. I then began work as a freelance performer, doing my acts around Europe. Fulfilling all my desires to be a showgirl, I decided that my interests lay within the realm of art after interning for artist Gavin Turk. With some encouragement from my colleagues I submitted an application to study fine art at Central Saint Martins. To my amazement I was accepted into the program without any fine art experience. The program at Arts Umbrella was so vigorous; there was no time in our day to take extra curricular classes like art in high school.
At the beginning of the course I felt pressure to make politically charged work. As a result of this the work I made was terribly cliché and I was not engaged with it on any level. One of my tutors told me to have a think about what I was interested in and I would find criticality within that. In a guest artist talk at the university the speaker mentioned that there was no way of writing dance. This comment intrigued me and this eventually formed the basis of my practice.
I have just graduated from my degree with an assortment of work that questions how we think of human motion in spoken, written, and notated language. Arts Umbrella (like many dance schools) did not teach existing forms of movement notation so I am not very familiar with how they work. Most schools do not teach these systems, as they are not widely used by dancers and choreographers. I really wanted (and still do) to understand why dance has difficulty existing in the written form. My first query was; how is it that music is notated and explained on paper when it is so hard to put a sound into words, while a series of body movements cannot? After making work surrounding this query I started playing around with movement in everyday language (written and spoken) and to my amazement people find the task of explaining movements like walking and running very difficult.
Enabling people to understand dance, as an art form is one of the many attributes of Arts Umbrella. My farther, knowing very little about dance before I started studying dance now attends almost every Ballet BC performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. This power that Arts Umbrella possesses is a quality I would like my work to have some day.
Nina Davies - a performance
Link to: Flipping Burgers - Opportunity - At Arts Umbrella Dance
Directing Bard's The Comedy Of Errors - How?
Scott Bellis - Director - William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
My writer friend Les Wiseman for years told me that you write about that which you know. Just this once I feel that by not having any idea about the subject it might help me to elucidate on something that most of us are completely ignorant about. What does a theatrical director do?
The world is divided (not evenly) between people who can read music and those that can’t. I would add the same applies to those who can dance and those who cannot. A couple of corollaries would be, “How do choreographers choreograph? How do actors remember their lines?" How do they act?
Watching someone play a baroque violin with virtuosity amazes me every time. Once, my granddaughter Lauren, 12 who dances at Arts Umbrella and plays the violin asked me to look at the music during the interval of a baroque concert. She looked at the music by Tarquinio Merula (1594-1665) and floored me when she said,”If I read this as fast as Arthur Neele was playing I would not be able to read it.” That somehow someone from this century could read and connect with someone from the 17th century left me aghast.
I have a similar ignorance on the workings of Artistic Musical Directors (we used to call them conductors). It was only a few years ago that I discovered that in operas you not only had a Musical Director but you also had an Artistic Director who was in charge of the gestures, acting and the approach to the libretto.
When I saw a few close circuit projections at the Vogue (on Granville) I was further amazed to suspect that the Artistic Director of the live opera performance at the Met could not also direct the camera work (film like closeups, etc). A third director would have to be involved.
With film I was confused, too. I have seen photographs of American director John Ford (with his tell-tale eye patch) looking through a huge camera. He was not looking through those little cylinders that many directors use. I asked my friend John Lekich (a writer who is an expert on movies and taught drama to a 16-year-old in Richmond, called Scott Bellis) if it was Kosher for the director to look through the cameraman’s Arriflex. His answer was short, “Certainly.” Then I asked him, “What’s the difference between the director of photography, the cinematographer and the chief cameraman?” His reply was almost as short, “All the same guy.”
All the above are a side board menu to prepare us to that question, “What does a theatrical director do?”
My English friend Ian Bateson on Skype from a small town near Manchester told me, “For a theatrical director the stage is his whole frame not like for a film director who sees stuff bordered by the confines of the film camera. What he sees and is in control of is precisely what the audience will see.”
That may sound self-evident but to me it opened my eyes a tad.
Even though the director must steer (we hope in a friendly manner) the choreographer, the fight director, the costume designer, the set designer, the lighting director and the person in charge of the music, the vision of the play, the interpretation of the play, the nuances of the play must all be the territory of the theatrical director. I would want to know if a theatrical director has indeed more on his/her plate than a film director.
Film directors have editors. Who edits the director? I might guess here that the dramaturg (that in-between diplomat who tries to keep the playwright and the director from having conflicts) would be the oil that keeps the director’s proceedings running smoothly. With Willie dead do you need a dramaturg? I would not know.
I would want to know how a director who has been and is an actor as Scott Bellis does his job. I have one lovely quote about Bellis from fellow actor Colleen Wheeler. She said,"Scott is a generous man."
My friend Malcolm Parry has often told me of the Privileged View. This is to see something that most people do not regularly see. I have many privileged views under my belt:
I have been in the dressing room (many times) of a strip club, I have been backstage for classical, new music and baroque concerts. I have been backstage for modern dance (with Crystal Pite) and ballet (with Evelyn Hart). I have been in film sets. I have been in the CBC trailer where the director of a Hockey Night in Canada directs (on multiple screens) a game. I have been in the locker room of the Vancouver Canucks. And most recently I watched Pacific Baroque Orchestra Musical Director Alexander Weimann, direct an unusual rehearsal of Handel's Water Music.I have been alone and alive in the morgue.
But I have never had the privilege of watching a theatrical director direct. I hope the remedy to that one comes soon (hint, hint Mr.Gaze!) The closest I have ever been to that was watching director Peter Jorgensen deal with entries and exits for the 2111 Patrick Street Production of The Light in the Piazza.
Before that ever happens I will attempt to see this coming Saturday (the official opening of The Comedy of Errors) little hints of the man's presence (director Scott Bellis) that I photographed a couple of weeks ago.
Link to: Directing Bard's The Comedy Of Errors - How?
Venice 2019 - The Lensbaby
Venecia - 2019
Once Upon a Time in the 20th Century
Flattering This Old Man
Jann of the Arden Heart II
Tango - Sobrio - Elegante - Lavalle y Florida
My Infrared Delights
A Sound Isolation for 2020
All I Had to do Was Dream
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The Kautz!
Last week I had the incredible opportunity to guide the Kautz Glacier on Mount Rainier. This was an unusual trip for a couple of reasons. First, I'd never climbed the route before. And second, a film team was supposed to follow us up the mountain.
After a bit of driving around, I picked up all three climbers from different locations around Seattle and made for Ashford, a small town just outside of Mount Rainier National Park. The diverse team included Dax, a geologist from Seattle; Peter, a scientist from Washington D.C.; and Virginia, a radiologist from Auburn.
Each of the climbers on the trip had already completed a fair bit of training ahead of time. Dax took a variety of courses over the years, the most recent of which was our Alpine Ice Course. Peter climbed in the Alps and on Mount Shuksan and Virginia completed all three parts of our Alpine Leadership series. It was a very skilled team.
Once we arrived in Ashford, we met the other guide for the trip, Dawn Glanc, and the camera people, Nick and Robert. Dawn has been guiding for six years and is slowly working her way up the climbing sponsorship food chain. She is currently sponsored by Mountain Hardwear and is being courted by a number of other companies. She's no small potato, she's on the cover of Alpinist magazine this month. And lastly, Nick and Robert were both Northwest climbers and filmmakers.
Nick and his Camera
Once the team was all together, we went through a thorough gear check and got everything together for the start of our ascent.
Nick videotapes as Dawn goes through the gear check
On the first day we hiked up to the base of the Nisqually glacier, made camp and reviewed some snow and ice climbing techniques. The filmmakers set-up their camera and went to work filming us while we went to work teaching. Both Dawn and I did our best to avoid stuttering or stammering as we taught in front of the camera. Both of us believe that we did a good job. I guess we'll have to see once they edit it together. Who knows, they can do a lot with footage. For all I know, they're going to make it look like Dawn voted me off the mountain...
Virginia and Dawn set-up a tent as Nick videotapes
Early the next morning, Nick -- the younger of the two filmmakers -- informed me that Robert had injured his back. This wasn't terribly surprising. The two were carrying nearly twice as much weight as the rest of us. Unfortunately, the injury forced the pair to leave.
Early on the second day of the trip.
We broke camp and made our way up to high camp. This was a difficult leg of the climb. We moved full packs up the mountain nearly 4000 feet under a searingly bright and hot sun.
At one point on the ascent, I attempted to chop a step in some hard glacier ice. Surprisingly, the adze of my ice axe bent completely over. Though the ice axe still worked, that particular tool had been on a lot of mountains with me. It was a sad moment in my climbing career. But it was only a moment, we still had a lot of mountain to climb with or without my nostalgia.
A broken ice axe -- like losing an old friend...
Peter and Dax working up toward high camp.
The author leading up a short rock pitch on the way to high camp.
Photo by Peter Kaskan
Eventually we established high camp in the rocks at 10,700 feet. This is the highest regularly used camp on the mountain and is normally a cold and desolate place. On this particular trip the camp was warm and inviting with water running out of the snowfields above. We quickly set-up our tents and began to refer to the location as home.
Peter and Virginia at High Camp
The following morning we got up well before the crack of dawn and grunted up to the first technical difficulty. We had to make a blind rappel down onto a shelf that worked itself into the Kautz Glacier proper. It's a little disconcerting to rap into complete blackness, but Dax, Peter and I each did it.
Unfortunately, Virginia and Dawn were forced to turn back at the rappel. Virginia was a trooper and an absolutely wonderful team member, but it wasn't in the cards for her that day. We have no doubt that the mountain will give her another chance in the future.
A climber leading up the ice pitches
Peter and Dax on the ice
After rappelling, Dax, Peter and I, quickly skirted below a series of ice cliffs to the base of a series of steeper ice pitches. Over the next couple of hours, we worked our way up the bulletproof ice by using steep ice climbing techniques. After completing four long pitches at altitude, it seemed like the rest of the climb was going to be a piece of cake.
The upper mountain -- of course -- had other ideas. What looked like easy French technique terrain, turned out to be steep and physical penitentes. Penitentes are snow or ice fins that stick out of the glacier late in the season. They are beautiful objects and give the mountain a lot of character, but they definitely require a tremendous of energy to climb through.
As we worked our way slowly toward the top, Peter asked for some help. "Jason, I need a little psych. Can you give me a little psych to motivate me?"
"Only a few hundred feet left," I responded. "We're going to make it. Only a few hundred more feet...a few hundred feet to the glory," I smiled.
The last few minutes to the summit were difficult, but both Dax and Peter held on. When they finally pulled up onto the highest point in the Pacific Northwest, there was no longer a deficit in psych...
Peter and Dax on the Summit
The view from camp the morning after we summited, before we descended.
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My Jesus and the Eyewitnesses summary
I've finally put it on my server so it can be downloaded as a pdf here.
I wrote this rather extensive summary and short critical reflection on Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses quite some time ago, largely adapted from my earlier blog series. I ended the essay with these words:
'Time will tell whether [Bauckham's] thesis comes to exercise a similar influence on New testament scholarship as the speculations proffered by Bultmann and co. Whether co-opted by conservative Christians in the cause of defensive apologetics-at-any-cost, or whether denounced or dismissed by critics as the work of intellectually dishonest confessionalism, the depth of Bauckham's scholarship is incontrovertible. His arguments are here to stay and, I hope, will profoundly shape the unfolding debate.'
Labels: Book Review, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
posted by Chris Tilling @ 12:01 AM 14 comments
At 2/22/2009 3:00 AM, Brian said...
Thanks for doing this Chris.
At 2/22/2009 11:05 AM, Steven Carr said...
I second the thanks.
'The historical argument (most of the book) is that the eyewitnesses of the events of the Gospel history remained,
throughout their lives, the authoritative sources and guarantors of the traditions about Jesus....'
BAUCKHAM
The tendency of Matthew and Luke to omit some of
these names can be explained as a result of a realisation that some of them would have become, ‘by the time Matthew and
Luke wrote, too obscure for them to wish to retain the names when they were engaged in abbreviating Mark’s narratives’.
Too obscure? Huh?
Isn't this like claiming that the names of Muhammad's wives could well have become too obscure for Muslims to be able to place them when they heard stories about them?
If Luke was writing an orderly account, then why did he not set about rescuing the name of Bartimaeus from the obscurity it was sinking into?
Isn't that the point of writing history - so that these people should not be forgotten?
From Acts 2 onwards, as soon as the church enters public record, and from Paul's Epistles on to Hebrews, 1 Peter, James, Jude, 123 John, the following people disappear from the story as though they had never existed, until the Gospels mention them.
the BVM, Joseph, Joseph of Arimathea, Bartimaeus, Nicodemus, Lazarus, Simon of Cyrene, Rufus, Alexander, almost all the disciples, the brothers of Jesus (*), Mary Magdalene, the other Mary, Joanna , Salome, Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.
(*) While Paul does mention brothers of the Lord, Luke/Acts give no hint that any James had ever even seen Jesus. Nor does the Epistle of James, and nor does Jude, which claims to be the brother of James, but gives no hint of any siblingship with any other name that might have rung a bell with early Christians.
And Paul does mention a 'Rufus', but it goes without saying that there is no connection made to any Gospel Rufus.
Bauckham claims these people went to various Christian communities, yet nobody has ever named himself as ever meeting any of them, and Paul talks about entirely different people being in various Christian communities - Andronicus, Priscilla, Titus etc.
I find Bauckham's claims extraordinary, and his basic thesis has no evidence for it.
At least Muslims produced isnads, claims of authority which allegedly go back to Muhammad or people with him.
The Gospels don't even have that. There are no claims that Lazarus recounted stories of his being raised from the dead, or claims that Mary M , told X who told Y who told Z who told Luke.
Furthermore, these women arguably remained
prominent in the early church and were associated with the transmission of these traditions.
'Arguably'?
In other words, Bauckham can produce no evidence of this prominence.
Where is the prominence in Acts of Joanna and Salome?
Where is the prominence in Paul's letters of Mary Magdalene?
Where is the prominence in 1 Clement of these women?
Where is the evidence?
Especially important in
establishing the inclusio of eyewitness testimony is the way in which Luke and John seem clearly to have
recognized Mark’s use of the device and to have adapted it to their own narratives and purposes’.
Which ancient reader ever described seeing this 'inclusio' device, and which ancient person ever indicated that it was a device that had ever been used by anybody to indicate eyewitness testimony?
What is the difference between Bauckham's discovery of inclusio to indicate eyewitness testimony and Michael Drosnin's discovery of Bible Codes?
At 2/22/2009 6:58 PM, James Orr said...
Steven – don’t follow your point about omission of mentions in non-Gospel writings for figures you list challenging historicity of the Gospel accounts themselves. Sequence of NT writings isn’t of course as simple as "Acts 2...123 John" followed by all four Gospels: the chronology is much more finely woven than that (I#m sure you know this but it wasn't clear to me from the way you phrased it). In fact, at least some of the non-Gospel writings post-date some of the Gospels, but no scholar would argue that failure of the former to corroborate the latter point-for-point undermines the Gospels’ claims to authenticity. Do you really think that the “silence” in the Pastoral Epistles about Joseph of Arimathea calls into question the reliability of Mark 15, Matthew 27 or Luke 24?
You need to show that each absence is a conspicuous absence – eg that “silent” writings share a similar function with the writings which do mention the names, or that they’re attempting to re-tell a Gospel story in a similar way etc. etc. & therefore there should have been a mention. Not sufficient to rely on mere omission – for each name you cite, we need to find the figure excluded exactly where we’d expect to find him/her included.
But it would be an uphill struggle even then – contemporaneous example taken entirely at random: why didn’t Tacitus mention key battles of Philippi & Actium in his summary of Augustus’ rise to power in Bk1 of Annales? Virgil is writing way before him and describes Actium in great detail in Aeneid 8. Both battles were absolutely critical world events and yet no mention of them in a work of precisely the kind of genre, function & context you would expect to find them in. No one then suggests that Tac isn’t totally familiar with their names, dates and consequences, nor that his narrative doesn’t presuppose the same level of familiarity amongst his readership.
Also, as a matter of general reasoning, how do your various arguments from silence actually support your case? ie. how in this particular case does absence of evidence logically demonstrate evidence of absence?
At 2/22/2009 7:38 PM, Steven Carr said...
'Steven – don’t follow your point about omission of mentions in non-Gospel writings for figures you list challenging historicity of the Gospel accounts themselves'
An entire cast of characterd disappear from Christian mention, both in Acts and the Epistles.
That does cast doubt on the historicity of them - surely some Christian must have thought of calling other Christians Judas.
But I was writing in the context of Bauckham claiming these people were prominent in the early church - ie the time of Paul's epistles and the time period covered by Acts 2 onwards.
I don't expect follow up details on all of these people, such as you sometimes find on the end of film credits 'Joanna went on to have a successful career as a seamstress, while Salome retrained as a washerwoman'.
But you kind of expect prominent people to be prominent, and to appear somewhere as doing something.
Being mentioned somewhere as doing something or being well-known is kind of a plus when it comes to being prominent.
An entire cast of people disappearing from view is what would be expected if myths lay at the core.
‘At the time when this tradition took shape in this form in the early Jerusalem church, this woman would be in
danger were she identified as having been complicit in Jesus’ politically subversive claim to messianic kingship.
Claudius Lysias, To His Excellency, Governor Felix: Greetings. This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him, but I came with my troops and rescued him, for I had learned that he is a Roman citizen. I wanted to know why they were accusing him, so I brought him to their Sanhedrin. I found that the accusation had to do with questions about their law, but there was no charge against him that deserved death or imprisonment.
As soon as the church gets involved with official letters, even Jesus disappears.
Apparently, Christians were in danger as being associated with a claimant to messianic kingship.
Yet, this letter has no mention of any such charge, and the whole dispute is about Jewish law.
Why didn't the Jews remind the Romans that there Paul was a follower of a recently executed Messianic pretender - who his followers claimed had mysteriously cheated death and was at large, directing their movement?
The Romans would hardly respond by saying that , while Christians claimed this Messianic candidate was still alive, the Romans knew Jesus had been killed and had now gone to Heaven.
The Romans would at the very least have charged Paul with something.
Being the follower of a Messianic movement was a 'politically subversive claim', to quote Bauckham, and not some obscure dispute about whether salvation in Jewish theology comes from following a heavenly Saviour figure rather than following Torah.
So where did the Jesus go? Why did the Jews not put Paul in deep doo-doo with charges that he was following a Messianic candidate who had escaped justice?
Where does Bauckham's claim come from - that Gospel characters were not named because they were in great danger, when even Acts has Paul in no trouble with the Romans, who can't think of a thing to charge him with, and who don't even seem to know who this Jesus was supposed to be.
It is all baffling to me.
At 2/22/2009 11:35 PM, James Orr said...
Ok - let's take your initial list and ask two simple questions:
"...the BVM, Joseph, Joseph of Arimathea, Bartimaeus, Nicodemus, Lazarus, Simon of Cyrene, Rufus, Alexander, almost all the disciples, the brothers of Jesus (*), Mary Magdalene, the other Mary, Joanna , Salome, Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all..."
(1) Can you find texts in extra-gospel NT writings which fits each of the genre, function and narrative sense of the relevant text and in which we would reasonably expect the missing character to merit at least a minor mention?
(2) If you can pull off (1), how does making an argument from silence out of a non-mention generate evidence of the calibre you're asking Bauckham for?
At 2/23/2009 8:52 AM, Steven Carr said...
Of course not. Where would you expect legendary people like Judas to be mentioned?
Judas didn't exist until Mark's Gospel was written.
It is like asking where Ned Ludd's diary would be kept.
Bauckham claims those people were prominent in the early church, from the time of Acts 2 onwards.
Where is his evidence?
At 2/23/2009 9:58 AM, James Orr said...
(1) I was actually more interested in the quality of your evidence and, in particular, its basis in logical reasoning. Thought you guys were supposed to be hot on reason?
(2) I don't want you to commit the further fallacy of appealing to authority, but for my peace of mind could you name me maybe one secular scholar who shares your scepticism about the existence of Judas?
Produce evidence that Judas existed.
You know, atheists could be wiped out in debate, if Bauckham produced some sort of evidence that ,say, Joanna, or Salome or Joseph of Arimathea existed and did what the Gospels claim they did.
They were supposed to be part of Christian communities, yet there is no record of them , even in Acts.
Bauckham has to resort to extraordinary claims that he has found all sorts of literary devices that have been lost for 2000 years until he discovered them.
Rather like Michael Drosnin's claim to have found Bible Codes....
At 2/23/2009 11:15 AM, James Orr said...
CARR: you are stepping into the arena of the lunatic fringe - for God's sake man, turn back while you still can.
At 2/25/2009 9:59 PM, Chris Donato said...
I look forward to reading your review, but I must chime in to agree with the last paragraph of your essay. It's here to stay, but we'll see how it shapes the debates (I'm not too hopeful).
And Carr, please go haunt the infidels forum with that inanity.
No arguments, just abuse coming from Christians.
No change there.
Any news yet on anybody who wrote that he had met somebody called Judas, or somebody who named himself as having met somebody who had met Judas?
Oh dear. I was hoping you had heeded that advice. Say an archaeologist discovered Judas' jock-strap with his laundry tag on them - why on earth would you be convinced by it? Please explain what constitutes for you sufficient evidence of a historical figure?
My apologies if I seemed abusive, but a thin skin is not going to get you very far in these discussions, especially if you don't raise your game a bit here. I meant to stress that you seriously undermine your credibility by going for something like this Judas point. Much stronger arguments exist against the historicity of the Gospels, so why waste your time with one of that calibre? How about going for the differing accounts of his death? You would then of course pre-suppose his existence but (i) bring yourself back into the fold of reasonable discussion and (ii) actually help your case against the Gospels.
You fairly stress the need for arguments, but you still haven't explained the logical basis (see supra) for the ones which you yourself are making. Until you do, there doesn't seem to be much one could respond to. Reason, Steven, reason...
There is no need to apologise for sounding abusive.
If you want to believe in characters who are less well attested than Ned Ludd, feel free to do so.
Great to see Carrier's Canard make a come-back - please do keep him quacking.
But any thoughts of your own on criteria sufficient for you to be convinced a figure - any figure - is historical?
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Beyond chickpeas to embrace beans, chickpeas, groundnuts and pigeonpeas
As a scientist who comes from the dessicated drylands of the unforgiving Kerio Valley, where severe drought can mean loss of life through loss of food and animals, what comes first is food security… I could start to give something back to the community… It’s been a dream finally coming true.” – Paul Kimurto, Senior Lecturer and Professor in Crop Physiology and Breeding, Egerton University, Kenya
As a son of peasant farmers growing up in a humble home in the Rift Valley of Kenya, agriculture was, for Paul Kimurto (pictured above), not merely a vocation but a way of life: “Coming from a pastoral community, I used to take care of the cattle and other animals for my father. In my community livestock is key, as is farming of food crops such as maize, beans and finger millet.”
Covering some six kilometres each day by foot to bolster this invaluable home education with rural school, an affiliation and ever-blossoming passion for agriculture soon led him to Kenya’s Egerton University.
There, Paul excelled throughout his undergraduate course in Agricultural Sciences, and was thus hand-picked by his professors to proceed to a Master’s degree in Crop Sciences at the self-same university, before going on to obtain a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship to undertake a ‘sandwich’ PhD in Plant Physiology and Crop Breeding at Egerton University and the Leibniz Institute for AgriculturalEngineering (ATB) in Berlin, Germany.
… what comes first is food security… offering alternative drought-tolerant crops… is a dream finally coming true!… GCP turned out to be one of the best and biggest relationships and collaborations we’ve had.”
Local action, global interaction
With his freshly minted PhD, Paul returned to Egerton’s faculty staff and steadily climbed the ranks to his current position as Professor and Senior Lecturer in Crop Physiology and Breeding at Egerton’s Crop Sciences Department. Yet for Paul, motivating this professional ascent throughout has been one fundamental factor: “As a scientist who comes from a dryland area of Kerio valley, where severe drought can mean loss of food and animals, what comes first is food security,” Paul explains. “Throughout the course of my time at Egerton, as I began to understand how to develop and evaluate core crop varieties, I could start to give something back to the community, by offering alternative drought-tolerant crops like chickpeas, pigeonpeas, groundnuts and finger millet that provide farmers and their families with food security. It’s been a dream finally coming true.”
And thus one of academia’s true young-guns was forged: with an insatiable thirst for moving his discipline forward by seeking out innovative solutions to real problems on the ground, Paul focused on casting his net wide and enhancing manpower through effective collaborations, having already established fruitful working relationships with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), the (then) Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in earlier collaborative projects on dryland crops in Kenya. It was this strategy that paved the way towards teaming up with GCP, when, in 2008, Paul and his team were commissioned to lead the chickpea work in Kenya for the GCP Tropical Legumes I project (TLI), with local efforts being supported by colleagues at ICRISAT, and friends down the road at KARI undertaking the bean work of the project. Climbing aboard the GCP ship, Paul reveals, was a move worth making: “Our initial engagement with GCP started out as a small idea, but in fact, GCP turned out to be one of the best and biggest relationships and collaborations we’ve had.”
…GCP is people-oriented, and people-driven”
The success behind this happy marriage, Paul believes, is really quite simple: “The big difference with GCP is that it is people-oriented, and people-driven,” Paul observes, continuing: “GCP is building individuals: people with ideas become equipped to develop professionally.” Paul elaborates further: “I wasn’t very good at molecular breeding before, but now, my colleagues and I have been trained in molecular tools, genotyping, data management, and in the application of molecular tools in the improvement of chickpeas through GCP’s Integrated Breeding Multiyear Course. This has opened up opportunities for our local chickpea research community and beyond, which, without GCP’s support, would not have been possible for us as a developing-country institution.”
Inspecting pod maturity with farmers at Koibatek Farmers Training Centre in Eldama Ravine Division, Baringo County, Kenya, in September 2012. Paul is on the extreme right.
Passionate about his teaching and research work, it’s a journey of discovery Paul is excited to have shares with others: “My co-workers and PhD students have all benefitted. Technicians have been trained abroad. All my colleagues have a story to tell,” he says. And whilst these stories may range from examples of access to training, infrastructure or genomic resources, the common thread throughout is one of self-empowerment and the new-found ability to move forward as a team: “Thanks to our involvement with the GCP’s Genotyping Support Service, we now know how to send plant DNA to the some of the world’s best labs and to analyse the results, as well as to plan for the costs. With training in how to prepare the fields, and infrastructure such as irrigation systems and resources such as tablets, which help us to take data in the field more precisely, we are now generating accurate research results leading to high-quality data.”
The links we’ve established have been tremendous, and we think many of them should be long-lasting too: even without GCP“
Teamwork, international connections and science with a strong sense of mission
Teaming up with other like-minded colleagues from crème de la crème institutions worldwide has also been vital, he explains: “The links we’ve established have been tremendous, and we think many of them should be long-lasting too: even without GCP, we should be able to sustain collaboration with KBioscience [now LGC Genomics] or ICRISAT for example, for genotyping or analysing our data.” He holds similar views towards GCP’s Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP): “IBP is one of the ideas which we think, even after GCP’s exit in December 2014, will continue to support our breeding programmes. My colleagues and I consult IBP regularly for a range of aspects, from markers to protocols to germplasm and the helpdesk, as well as for contacts and content available via the IBP Communities of Practice.” Paul’s colleagues are Richard Mulwa, Alice Kosgei, Serah Songok, Moses Oyier, Paul Korir, Bernard Towett, Nancy Njogu and Lilian Samoei. Paul continues: “We’ve also been encouraging our regional partners to register on IBP – I believe colleagues across Eastern and Central Africa could benefit from this one-stop shop.”
Yet whilst talking animatedly about the greater sophistication and accuracy in his work granted as a result of new infrastructure and the wealth of molecular tools and techniques now available to him and his team, at no point do Paul’s attentions stray from the all-important bigger picture of food security and sustainable livelihoods for his local community: “When we started in 2008, chickpeas were known as a minor crop, with little economic value, and in the unfavoured cluster termed ‘orphan crops’ in research. Since intensifying our work on the crop through TLI, we have gradually seen chickpeas become, thanks to their relative resilience against drought, an important rotational crop after maize and wheat during the short rains in dry highlands of Rift valley and also in the harsh environments of the Kerio Valley and swathes of Eastern Kenya.”
This GCP-funded weather station is at Koibatek Farmers Training Centre.
Having such a back-up in place can prove a vital lifeline to farmers, Paul explains, particularly during moments of crisis, citing the 2011–2012 outbreak of the maize lethal necrosis (MLN) disease which wiped out all the maize throughout Kenya’s Bomet County, where Paul, Richard, Bernard and their team had been working on the chickpea reference set. Those farmers who had planted chickpeas – Paul recalls Toroto and Absalom as two such fortunate souls – were food-secure. Moreover, GCP support for infrastructure such as a weather station have helped farmers in Koibatek County to predict weather patterns and anticipate rainfall, whilst an irrigation system in the area is being used by the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture to develop improved seed varieties and pasture for farmers.
The science behind the scenes and the resultant products are of course not to be underestimated: in collaboration with ICRISAT, Paul and his team released four drought-resistant chickpea varieties in Kenya in 2012, with the self-same collaboration leading to the integration of at least four varieties of the crop using marker-assisted backcrossing, one of which is in the final stages and soon to be released for field testing. With GCP having contributed to the recent sequencing of the chickpea genome, Paul and his colleagues are now looking to up their game by possibly moving into work on biotic stresses in the crop such as diseases, an ambitious step which Paul feels confident can be realised through effective collaboration, with potential contenders for the mission including ICRISAT (for molecular markers), Ethiopia and Spain (for germplasm) and researchers at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) for germplasm. Paul first established contact with all of these partners during GCP meetings.
By coming together, pooling skills from biotechnology, agronomy, breeding, statistics and other disciplines, we are stronger as a unit and better equipped to offer solutions to African agriculture and to the current challenges we face.”
Links that flower, a roving eye, and the heat is on!
In the meantime, the fruits of other links established since joining the GCP family are already starting to blossom. For example, TLI products such as certified seeds of chickpea varieties being released in Kenya – and in particular the yet-to-be-released marker-assisted breeding chickpea lines which are currently under evaluation – caught the eye of George Birigwa, Senior Programme Officer at the Program for Africa’s Seed Systems (PASS) initiative of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), which is now supporting the work being undertaken by Paul and his team through the Egerton Seed Unit and Variety Development Centre (of which Paul is currently Director) at the Agro-Based Science Park.
Yet whilst Paul’s love affair with chickpeas has evidently been going from strength to strength, he has also enjoyed a healthy courtship with research in other legumes: by engaging in a Pan-African Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) bean project coordinated by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Paul and his team were able to release and commercialise three bean varieties which are currently in farmers’ fields in Kenya.
Paul (left) in the field. The crop is chickpeas of course!
With so many pots on the boil, the heat is certainly on in Paul’s research kitchen, yet he continues to navigate such daily challenges with characteristic aplomb. As a proven leader of change in his community and a ‘ can-do, make-it-happen’ kind of guy, he is driving research forward to ensure that both his school and discipline remain fresh and relevant – and he’s taking his colleagues, students and local community along with him every step of the way.
Indeed, rallying the troops for the greater good is an achievement he values dearly: “By coming together, pooling skills from biotechnology, agronomy, breeding, statistics and other disciplines, we are stronger as a unit and better equipped to offer solutions to African agriculture and to the current challenges we face,” he affirms. This is a crusade he has no plans to abandon any time soon, as revealed when quizzed on his future aspirations and career plans: “My aim is to continue nurturing my current achievements, and to work harder to improve my abilities and provide opportunities for my institution, colleagues, students, friends and people within the region.”
With the chickpea research community thriving, resulting in concrete food-security alternatives, we raise a toast to Paul Kimurto and his chickpea champions!
Chickpeas – Project | Blogposts | Videos | Slides | InfoCentre
PHOTOS: An album on Flickr with photos from a GCP visit to Paul’s team at Egerton University
Paul’s slides on the data management of his research below
TLI 2012: Data management for chickpea breeding – Kenya from CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme
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Friendship and trust at the heart of sorghum research
…benefits to humanity are the real driver of the work.”
Andrew Borrell (pictured) is a man who loves his work – a search for a holy grail of sorts for the grain of his choice – sorghum.
Based at the University of Queensland, Australia, Andrew is co-Principal Investigator with David Jordan for a GCP-funded project developing drought-adapted sorghum for Africa and Australia. And Andrew is passionate not just about the potential of sorghum, but also about the cross-continental relationships that underpin his research team. These friendships, says Andrew, are the glue that hold his team together and make it work better.
The year 2013 was particularly exciting. After almost five years working with African plant breeders to improve genetic material, field trials were up and running at 12 sites across East and West Africa. Fastforward to 2015 and glad tidings for the New Year! Andrew and his team now have preliminary evidence that the drought-tolerant ‘stay-green’ trait enhances grain size and yield in some of the target countries in Africa for which data have already been analysed.
What Andrew hopes to see is more genetic diversity, not just for diversity’s sake but put to use in farmers’ fields to enhance yield during drought. This means more food, fodder and other sorghum by-products such as stems for construction. These benefits to humanity are, he says, the real driver of the work his team does.
So what are the wonders of ‘stay-green’? Waxing lyrical…
The sought-after ‘stay-green’ trait that Andrew and his team are so interested in describes the phenotype – what the plant looks like. It simply means that when drought strikes, sorghum plants with this trait remain leafy and green during the grain-filling period – a critical time when the plant’s water is channelled to developing healthy panicles of grain.
So, what makes these plants remain healthy when others are losing their leaves? Why do they wax while others wane? The answer, says Andrew, is twofold, and is all to do with water supply and demand, and more and less. Firstly, there is some evidence that the roots of the stay-green plants penetrate deeper into the soil, tapping into more water supply. Secondly, plants with the stay-green trait have a smaller leaf canopy which means less water demand by the plant before flowering, leaving more water for grain-filling after flowering.
Staying power and stover are also part of the story. According to Andrew, “Plants with the stay-green trait produce more grain in dry conditions, have stronger stems so they don’t fall over, and often have larger grains. And it’s not just about grain alone: stay-green also improves the quality of the stover left in the field after harvest, which serves as animal feed.”
Another key feature of the stay-green trait in sorghum is that it is not just a fair-weather friend: it works well in wet as well as dry conditions. “All the evidence we’ve got suggests that you get a benefit under tough conditions but very little penalty under good conditions,” says Andrew.
…the process is synergistic and we do something that’s better than any of us could do alone.”
Safari from Down Under to Africa: East and West, and home are all best
For Andrew and his co-Principal Investigator, David Jordan, the GCP project is the first time they have been involved in improving sorghum in Africa. The two scientists work with sorghum improvement teams in six African countries: Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger in the west, and, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan in the east. By crossing African and Australian sorghum, the teams have developed the lines now being field-tested in all the six countries.
A sampling of some of stay-green sorghum partnerships in Africa. (1) Asfaw Adugna (Ethiopian Agricultural Research Institute) assessing the genetic diversity of sorghum panicles produced from the GCP collaboration at Melkassa, Ethiopia. (2) Clarisse Barro-Kondombo (Institut de l’environnement et de recherches agricoles, Burkina Faso) and Andrew Borrell (Australia) visiting a lysimeter facility at ICRISAT in Hyderabad, India, as part of GCP training. (3) Clement Kamau (Kenya, left) and Andrew Borrell (Australia, right) visiting the seed store at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) in Katumani, Kenya.
According to Andrew, the collaboration with African scientists is “a bit like a group of friends using science to combat hunger. That’s probably been the biggest advantage of GCP,” adds Andrew. “Bringing people together for something we are all passionate about.”
There’s another collaborative element to the project too. As well as improving and testing plant material, the Australian contingent hosts African scientists on three-week training sessions. “We span a whole range of research topics and techniques,” explains Andrew. “We learn a lot from them too – their local expertise on soil, crops and climate. Hopefully the process is synergistic and we do something that’s better than any of us could do alone.”
Andrew says that working personally with plant breeders from Africa has made all the difference to the project. “Once colleagues from overseas come into your country, you develop real friendships. They know your families, they know what you do, and that’s very important in building relationships and trust that make the whole thing work.”
It wasn’t all work and there was clearly also time to play, as we can see here, Sidi Coulibaly and Niaba Teme from Mali visit the Borrell family in Queensland, Australia.
Golden sunsets, iridescent rainbows and perpetual evergreen partnerships
As Andrew and his team wait to see how their field experiments in Africa turn out, they know that this is not the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning. Once tested, the germplasm will provide genetic diversity for future breeding programmes in Africa.
And the research collaboration between Australia and Africa won’t end when GCP funding runs out and GCP sunsets. For example, in addition to the GCP project, David Jordan has secured significant funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for another four years’ sorghum research in Ethiopia. Plus, Andrew and Kassahun Banttea, a colleague from Jimma University, have also just been awarded a PEARL grant from the Foundation to assess the sorghum germplasm collection in Ethiopia for drought-adaptation traits.
We wish this ‘stay-evergreen’ team well in their current and future ventures. More sorghum ‘stickability’ and staying power to them! May they find the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
This enchanted rainbow-rings-and-sorghum photo is from Andy Borrell, and, contrary to the magical song, please continue under the rainbow for links to more information.
Sorghum – Stay-green project | Research Initiative | InfoCentre | Slides | Blogposts
A 2014 update on the sorghum stay-green project on page 39. Updates from previous years
Open-access drought phentoyping book, with a chapter on sorghum
Below are Andy’s slides at the 2013 and 2011 GCP General Research Meetings (GRMs)
Andy has been a constant star at our GRM poster sessions, winning several awards here, here and here, a mix of both the light & fun and educational & serious awards that have been the hallmarks of our poster sessions.
GRM 2011: Development and evaluation of drought-adapted sorghum germplasm for Africa and Australia from CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme
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Mission possible for ‘Generation Open’: open access and open attitudes for Open Access Week
Africa, Asia, Cassava, Crop breeding, Crop information and data management, Open Access No Responses »
By Eloise Phipps
Imagine the scene: it is the dead of night, and you are engaged on a dangerous mission. You are tense, alert for any noise. You must complete your task without being seen, or risk the shame and humiliation of failure… but it is not a pleasant undertaking!
Your mission? A critical matter of honour. To dispose of your family’s cassava peelings – not with the rest of your household waste, but smuggled into the murky depths of the pit latrine. Why?
“The stigma about cassava is mostly among the Kikuyu people of central Kenya,” explains Henry Ngugi, Kenyan scientist and former Maize Pathologist for Latin America at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). “Traditionally, the Kikuyu are very proud, and self-sufficiency in basic needs such as food is an important factor in this. That is, you cannot be proud if you cannot feed yourself and your family. Now, the other part of the equation regarding cassava is that, traditionally, cassava was eaten during seasons of severe food shortages. It is a hardy and drought-tolerant crop so it would be available when the ‘good food’ was not. This also meant that it was associated with hunger and poverty – inability to feed oneself.”
“Another factor that may have played a role in the way the Kikuyu view cassava is that some of the traditional cultivars produced high levels of cyanide and were toxic [if not properly cooked], so as a crop it was not very highly regarded to start with. Improved cultivars have been bred to remove this problem. But because of these issues, many people would not want their neighbours to know they were so hungry they had to rely on cassava, and would go to great lengths to conceal any evidence!”
The story is not the same everywhere: graceful and strong, this farmer tends her field of cassava, in the village of Tiniu, near Mwanza, northern Tanzania.
Opening up for Open Access Week
This year, 20–26 October is Open Access Week, a global event celebrating, promoting and sharing ideas on open access – that is, making research results, including both publications and data, freely and publicly available for anyone to read, use and build upon. Even more exciting for us, this year’s theme is ‘Generation Open’, reflecting the importance of students and researchers as advocates for open access – a call that falls on fertile ground at the Generation Challenge Programme (video below courtesy of UCMerced on YouTube).
We at GCP have been reflecting this week on different virtues of openness and transparency, and the perils of shame and secrecy. But before we go on, we’re sticking with cassava (carrying over from World Food Week!) but crossing the globe to China to celebrate the latest open-access publication to join the GCP parade. ‘Cassava genome from a wild ancestor to cultivated varieties’ by Wang et al is still practically a newborn, published on the 10th of October 2014.
The article presents draft genome sequences of a wild ancestor and a domesticated variety of cassava, with additional comparative analyses with other lines. It shows, for example, that genes involved in starch accumulation have been positively selected in cultivated cassava, and those involved in cyanogenic (ie, cyanide-producing) glucoside formation have been negatively selected. The authors hope that their results will contribute to better understanding of cassava biology, and provide a platform for marker-assisted breeding of better cassava varieties for farmers.
The research was carried out by a truly international team, led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences (CATAS) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Authors Wenquan Wang of CATAS and Bin Liu of CAS are delighted that their publication will be freely available, particularly in a journal with the prestige and high impact of the Nature family. As they observe, the open access to the paper will spread their experience and knowledge quickly to every corner of China and of the world where people have internet connections.
The work incorporated and partially built upon previous work mapping the cassava genome, which was funded by GCP in our project on Development of genomic resources for molecular breeding of drought tolerance in cassava (G3007.03), led by Pablo Rabinowicz, then with the University of Maryland, USA. This provides a perfect example of the kind of constructive collaboration and continuation that open access and sharing of research results can facilitate: by building on what has already been done, rather than re-inventing the wheel or working in isolation, we share, disseminate and amplify knowledge more rapidly and efficiently, with win–win outcomes for all involved.
Cassava farmers in Vietnam.
One thing that makes the latest research even more special is that it was published in Nature Communications, which marked Open Access Week by going 100 percent open access from the 20th of October, making it an open-access flagship within the Nature Publishing Group – a clear indicator of the ever-increasing demand for and credibility of open-access publishing. We congratulate all of our open-access authors for making their work publicly available, and Nature Communications for its bold decision!
A matter of perspective: turning shame to pride and fears to opportunities
No shame here: a little girl clutches a cassava root in Kenya.
Of course, human beings worrying about their social status is old as humanity itself and nothing new. Food has never been an exception as an indicator. Back in mediaeval Europe, food was a hugely important status symbol: the poor ate barley, oats and rye, while only the rich enjoyed expensive and prestigious wheat. Although our ideas about what is luxurious have changed – for example, sugar was considered a spice thanks to its high cost – rare imported foods were something to boast about just as they might be today.
But why are we ashamed of eating the ‘wrong foods’ – like cassava – when we could take pride in successfully feeding our families? Many of the things we tend to try to hide are really nothing to be ashamed of, and a simple change in perspective can turn what at first seem like weaknesses into sources of pride (and there are two sides to the cassava saga, as we shall see later).
Throughout its existence, GCP has been characterised by its openness and transparency. We have worked hard to be honest about our mistakes as well as our successes, so that both we and others can learn from them. The rewards of this clear-eyed approach are clearly noted in our Final External Review: “GCP has taken an open and pro-active attitude towards external reviews – commissioning their own independent reviews (the case of the current one) as well as welcoming a number of donor reviews. There have been clear benefits, such as the major governance and research reforms that followed the EPMR [External Programme and Management Review] and EC [European Commission] Reviews of 2008. These changes sharply increased the efficiency of GCP in delivering benefits to the poor.”
Transparent decision-making processes for determining choices of methods have also improved the quality of our science, while open, mutually respectful relationships – including open data-sharing – have underpinned our rich network of partnerships.
One aspect of this open approach is, of course, our commitment to open access. All of our own publications are released under Creative Commons licences, and we encourage all GCP grant recipients to do the same, or to pursue other open-access options. When exploring our research publications you will note that many are directly available to download. Our website will act as an archive for the future, ensuring that GCP publications remain online in one place after GCP’s closure in December this year. See our Global Access Policy and our policy on data-sharing.
“Open access journals are just terrific,” says Jean-Marcel Ribault, Director of GCP. “It’s great to enable access to publications, and it’s important to promote sharing of data and open up analysis too. The next big challenge is data management, and assuring the quality of that data. At the end of the day, the quality of the information that we share with others is fundamental.”
Proud in pink and polka dots: a farmer shows off a healthy cassava leaf in a plantation in Kampong Cham, Cambodia.
That’s a challenge that many other organisations are also grappling with. Richard Fulss, Head of Knowledge Management at our host CIMMYT is currently working on standards and approaches for the quality and structure of data, with the aim of implementing open access to all data within five years, meeting guidelines being put in place across CGIAR. “The issues to resolve are threefold,” he explains. “You have a licence issue, a technology issue – including building the right platform – and a cultural issue, where you need to build a culture of knowledge sharing and make open access publishing the norm rather than the exception.”
Our partners at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) already have a strong open-access policy, and are debunking some cherished open-access myths.
It’s good to talk: saying no to secrecy
Back to cassava, and of course not everyone feels the same way about the same crop, as there are many sides to any story. In China, demand for cassava is soaring – for food, for animal feed and most of all as a raw material for starch and biofuel production – making breeding of resilient, productive cassava varieties even more important. Even within Kenya, there are those who are quicker to see the crop’s virtues. The Luhya people of western Kenya often mix cassava with finger millet or sorghum to make flour for ugali (a stiff porridge or dough eaten as a staple food in vast swathes of Eastern and Southern Africa). As Henry explains “one reason was that such ugali ‘stayed longer in the stomach’ in literal translation from local parlance meaning it kept you full for longer – which is scientifically sound because cassava has a crude starch that takes longer to digest, and lots of fibre!”
Meanwhile, watch the delightful Chiedozie Egesi, Nigerian plant breeder and molecular geneticist, in the video below to hear all about the high potential of cassava, both as a food in itself and as a raw material to make flour and other products – something some farmers have already spotted. “Cassava can really sustain a nation… we’ve seen that it can,” he says. “You have in Nigeria now some of the Zimbabwean farmers who left Zimbabwe, got to Nigeria, and they changed from corn [maize] to cassava, because they see the potential that it has.”
The power of openness is already showing itself in the case of cassava, as well as other root, tuber and banana crops. Check out RTBMaps, an online atlas developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB), using ‘scientific crowdsourcing’ to combine data on a wide range of variables, shared by many researchers, in a single map. Putting all that information together can help people make better decisions, for example on how to target breeding, or where disease threats are likely to be strongest. And for a sweet serving, here’s our humble contribution from Phase I to a world-favourite dessert!
We leave you with one final thought. It is not just cassava that is plagued with pride and prejudice; many foods attract high or low statuses in different regions – or even just variations of the same food. People in Asia and North America, for example, tend to prefer yellow maize, while Africans like their maize white. In fact, yellow maize still carries a powerful stigma in many parts of Africa, as this was the colour of the maize that arrived as external aid in periods of famine, oftentimes perceived in Africa as animal fodder and not human food in the countries it was sourced from. And thus yellow maize became synonymous with terrible times and the suffering and indignity of being unable to feed oneself and one’s family. Consequently, some of the famine-stricken families would only cook the yellow ‘animal-fodder’ maize in the dead of night, to avoid ‘detection’ and preserve family pride and honour.
This might at first blush appear to be a minor curiosity on colour and coloured thinking, were it not for the fact that when crops – such as sweet potato, cassava, or indeed maize – are bred to be rich in pro-vitamin A, and so provide plenty of the vitamin A that is particularly crucial for young children and pregnant women, they take on a golden yellow-orange hue. When promoting the virtues of this enriched maize in parts of Africa, it’s vital to know that as ‘yellow maize’ it would fall flat on its face, but as ‘orange maize’ or ‘golden maize’ it is a roaring success. A tiny difference in approach and label, perhaps, but one that is a quantum leap in nutritional improvement, and in ‘de-stigmatisation’ and accelerating adoption. Ample proof then that sharing details matters, and that it’s good to talk – even about the things we are a little ashamed of, thereby breathing substance into the spirit of the theme ‘Generation Open’.
Do have some of these uncomfortable but candid conversations this Open Access Week and live its spirit to the fullest every day after that! As for us here at GCP, we shall continue to sow and cultivate the seeds of Generation next for plant breeding into the future, through our Integrated Breeding Platform which will outlive GCP.
A little girl in Zambia gets a valuable dose of vitamin A as she eats her orange maize.
Eyes dancing with past, present or future mischief, two cheeky young chappies from Mozambique enjoy the sweet taste of orange sweet potato enriched with pro-vitamin A.
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Decoding disease resistance in maize and rice
Africa, Asia, Crop breeding, Genetics, Genomics, Maize, Women in science No Responses »
Crop disease costs farmers billions of dollars each year in lost yields and inputs. For farming communities in developing countries, such losses can mean deepening poverty, food insecurity, and the resulting poor nutrition and health.
In Africa alone, it is estimated that crop pests and diseases lead to losing more than half the crops planted. Added to this, some fungal pathogens cause toxic compounds to accumulate in food. In extreme cases, crop diseases have led to widespread famine, social disruption and loss of life – the Irish Potato Famine in the 19th century is a case in point.
Overcoming this reality is what motivates plant pathologists like Rebecca Nelson (pictured below, and profiled here), of Cornell University, USA. For the past quarter century, Rebecca has worked across four continents to understand the ways in which plants defend themselves against diseases.
Rebecca Nelson
“Pesticides are the dominant way in which pests and diseases are managed, in spite of the many downsides to this approach,” says Rebecca. “For resource-limited farmers, this is often not an option. For those who use pesticides, the health impacts hit harder in the tropics, where protective clothing is not the norm. That’s why we’re trying to understand how plants naturally defend themselves, so that we can then tap into this, and learn from nature to breed crops that are resistant to disease.”
With this premise and funding from GCP, Rebecca collaborated with an interdisciplinary international team from USA, The Philippines, Indonesia and Kenya to identify genes associated with disease resistance in maize and rice. Although the project itself ended in 2009, that was far from the end of the story. In many ways, the end of the GCP project was in fact the beginning of life-changing chapters that followed. Thus far, the project has led to several locally developed disease-resistant varieties of rice in Indonesia and maize in Kenya.
We now already know quite a lot about the genetic architecture of several critical diseases, and this knowledge is enough for us to get started on improving the efficiency of resistance breeding”
Dissecting resistance – the genie in the genes
To understand the genetic reason behind resistance, Rebecca and her team used a range of genetic tools to dissect various forms of genetic resistance, understand the mechanisms that the plants use to reduce pathogen success, and identify the genes that provide resistance.
NILS explained: To create a near-isogenic line, a plant with the phenotype of interest is crossed with a standard line of the same plant. The F1 (1st filial) generation is thereafter selfed (ie, crossbred within itself) to produce the F2 (2nd filial) generation.
“There has been a lot of work done on sequencing the genomes of rice and maize, so we tapped into this work and combined our team expertise in genetics, pathology and plant breeding to help identify these disease-resistance genes,” says Rebecca. “We used recombination breeding and other genetic techniques to dissect the genomes and identify specific regions that convey disease resistance. We now already know quite a lot about the genetic architecture of several critical diseases, and this knowledge is enough for us to get started on improving the efficiency of resistance breeding. In addition, we’re identifying the genes and the ways they work, so as to interrupt pathogenesis [the manner in which a disease develops]. This involved breeding near-isogenic lines of rice and maize with the genes of interest, infecting these plants with a disease of interest, and monitoring their resistance in the field.”
Identifying genes responsible for resistance
Through this process, the team identified several genomic regions and specific genes responsible for protecting resistant rice plants against rice blast and sheath blight and resistant maize plants against northern and southern leaf blight, grey leaf spot and ear rot.
An underlying objective of the project was to also investigate if some of these genes were responsible not for just one specific disease, but for multiple diseases.
“We were intrigued by the idea of multiple disease resistance, because farmers face a range of diseases in their fields. In maize, we identified a gene associated with resistance to three diseases – southern leaf blight, northern leaf blight and grey leaf spot.”
While the team found several gene loci in both maize and rice that provide resistance to more than one disease, they have so far found little cross-benefit from the work on the two crops. But from their research they have ‘handles’ on the rich diversity of resistance loci in each of the two crops.
“Plant breeders will be able to use this information to breed crops for multiple disease resistance, increasing the security of the crop and farmers’ livelihoods,” says Rebecca.
A 2008 update: a slide from Rebecca’s presentation at the GCP General Research Meeting in September of that year.
Working with that great group of people and being a part of the larger GCP family, which comprises of an amazing talent pool, was really valuable.”
Collaborating with old friends, and new
Rebecca credits her collaborators and support from the GCP family for the success of the project, saying none of the outcomes could have been achieved without everyone playing their part. “Working with that great group of people and being a part of the larger GCP family, which comprises of an amazing talent pool, was really valuable. I really appreciated that GCP supported my work at a time when I was making a transition in my career. GCP gave me and my team time and inspiration to find our feet. All of our labs are now well established, and we have since been able to diversify our funding sources.”
Project scientists from the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and the Indonesian Centre for Agricultural Resources Research and Development (ICABIOGRAD) reflect the involvement of country agricultural research programmes. Other partners included the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and four universities: Bogor Agriculture University in Indonesia and Colorado State, Cornell and North Carolina State Universities, all in USA.
Masdiar Bustamam
A highlight of the project for Rebecca was reconnecting with old colleagues at IRRI, where she had previously worked for eight years. “It was great to involve my IRRI mentor, Hei Leung, and our collaborator Jan Leach, as well as several other IRRI people whom I worked with on several rice disease-resistance projects. It was also great to involve Masdiar Bustamam of ICABIOGRAD. My team at IRRI had worked with her laboratory as she was getting it started. It was such a pleasure to see how far she and her lab had come since our earlier collaboration. They were able to make a significant contribution to the project in advancing the understanding of inheritance of rice blast and sheath blast resistance, and they developed germplasm that has really good resistance to these diseases.”
Having a limited background in maize research before the project began, Rebecca was grateful for her close collaboration with KARI’s James Gethi, who was a lead researcher in Kenya. At the time of the proposal, James was a recent Cornell graduate who was returning home to contribute to his nation’s crop-research capabilities.
“James and I were both getting our maize programmes going and the support was terrific for our labs and for our collaboration. We’ve continued to work together since our GCP project wrapped up.”
A partnership of long standing: Rebecca (left) on a field visit to Kenya in September 2006. On the right is John Okalembo of Moi University, with James Gethi behind the camera.
You can’t see it, you can’t taste it, you can’t feel it. The population is being poisoned without knowing about it.”
Continuing projects, tracking a silent cereal killer, and spreading a positive epidemic
One such project, which Rebecca and James have worked tirelessly on, is understanding genetic resistance to aflatoxins in maize. “We were travelling through Kenya together in 2005 when there was an aflatoxin outbreak,” remembers Rebecca. “Ever since, we’ve been obsessed with the problem.”
Aflatoxin is the most carcinogenic natural substance known. It is produced by species of fungi, especially Aspergillus flavus, which can colonise and contaminate grain before harvest or during storage. Maize is particularly susceptible to infection during drought, or when it is attacked by insects, or improperly stored. In 2004, 125 people died in Kenya after eating maize with very high aflatoxin levels.
“This food-safety problem is rigorously and carefully managed in developed countries but less so in cash-strapped developing nations,” says Rebecca. “In tropical countries where maize and groundnuts are often grown under stress and stored under suboptimal conditions, it is a huge problem. Yet you can’t see it, you can’t taste it, you can’t feel it. The population is being poisoned without knowing about it.”
Rebecca and James spent years trying to get support for their work on aflatoxin – the silent cereal killer – and trying to get funding for a graduate student who could take a lead. They made headway while Rebecca was on sabbatical at the Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) Hub in Nairobi. BecA eventually received a major grant from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and Rebecca says a strong team is now tackling the issue.
We’re indebted to GCP for bringing us together to tackle cereal diseases”
“One of our big goals was to support a promising young talent named Samuel Mutiga. I’m delighted to say that he is just finishing his PhD at Cornell now, and has done some terrific work on aflatoxin in collaboration with James and BecA.”
Samuel is one of several PhD students at Cornell who are passionate about improving food safety in Africa by beating the aflatoxin problem. “One American students is working with a Kenyan student in Nairobi to develop an improved spectroscopic grain sorter for people processing their maize at small grain mills. This will allow them to remove the toxic kernels before they mill and eat the grain, something that cannot be done visually.”
Rebecca says it’s “exciting to see this new generation take on this huge challenge. There are more scientists who are coming on board and sharing their expertise. James and I are gratified that we helped ‘infect’ these people with the conviction that something needs to be done and can be done. We’re indebted to GCP for bringing us together to tackle cereal diseases.”
For more on Rebecca’s work, see her profile | Project Briefs 2008, p 10 | Project Abstracts 2008 p 18
For a snapshot of the beginning, flip to page 17 – A hopeful quest
See also Rebecca’s slides below in 2007 and 2008
ARM 2008: Dissection, characterisation and utilisation of disease QTL — R Nelson from CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme
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Earth's atmosphere
Atmospheric gases scatter blue light more than other wavelengths, giving the Earth a blue halo when seen from space.
Nitrogen 78.0842%
Oxygen 20.9463%
Argon 0.93422%
Carbon dioxide 0.03811%
Water vapor about 1%
Other 0.002%
File:Atmosphere layers.svg
Layers of the atmosphere (not to scale)
The Earth's atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth and retained by the Earth's gravity. It contains roughly (by molar content/volume) 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, trace amounts of other gases, and a variable amount (average around 1%) of water vapor. This mixture of gases is commonly known as air. The atmosphere protects life on Earth by absorbing ultraviolet solar radiation and reducing temperature extremes between day and night.
There is no definite boundary between the atmosphere and outer space. It slowly becomes thinner and fades into space. Three quarters of the atmosphere's mass is within 11 km of the planetary surface. In the United States, people who travel above an altitude of 80.5 km (50 statute miles) are designated astronauts. An altitude of 120 km (~75 miles or 400,000 ft) marks the boundary where atmospheric effects become noticeable during re-entry. The Kármán line, at 100 km (62 miles or 328,000 ft), is also frequently regarded as the boundary between atmosphere and outer space.
Temperature and layers
The temperature of the Earth's atmosphere varies with altitude; the mathematical relationship between temperature and altitude varies among five different atmospheric layers (ordered highest to lowest, the ionosphere is part of the thermosphere):
Exosphere: from 500 – 1000 km (300 – 600 mi) up to 10,000 km (6,000 mi), free-moving particles that may migrate into and out of the magnetosphere or the solar wind.
exobase boundary
Ionosphere: is the part of the atmosphere that is ionized by solar radiation. It plays an important part in atmospheric electricity and forms the inner edge of the magnetosphere. It has practical importance because, among other functions, it influences radio propagation to distant places on the Earth. It is located in the thermosphere and is responsible for auroras.
thermopause boundary
Thermosphere: from 80 – 85 km (265,000 – 285,000 ft) to 640+ km (400+ mi), temperature increasing with height.
mesopause boundary
Mesosphere: From the Greek word "μέσος" meaning middle. The mesosphere extends from about 50 km (160,000 ft) to the range of 80 to 85 km (265,000 – 285,000 ft), temperature decreasing with height. This is also where most meteors burn up when entering the atmosphere.
stratopause boundary
Stratosphere: From the Latin word "stratus" meaning a spreading out. The stratosphere extends from the troposphere's 7 to 17 km (23,000 – 60,000 ft) range to about 50 km (160,000 ft). Temperature increases with height. The stratosphere contains the ozone layer, the part of the Earth's atmosphere which contains relatively high concentrations of ozone. "Relatively high" means a few parts per million—much higher than the concentrations in the lower atmosphere but still small compared to the main components of the atmosphere. It is mainly located in the lower portion of the stratosphere from approximately 15 to 35 km (50,000 – 115,000 ft) above Earth's surface, though the thickness varies seasonally and geographically.
tropopause boundary
Troposphere: From the Greek word "τρέπω" meaning to turn or change. The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere; it begins at the surface and extends to between 7 km (23,000 ft) at the poles and 17 km (60,000 ft) at the equator, with some variation due to weather factors. The troposphere has a great deal of vertical mixing due to solar heating at the surface. This heating warms air masses, which makes them less dense so they rise. When an air mass rises the pressure upon it decreases so it expands, doing work against the opposing pressure of the surrounding air. To do work is to expend energy, so the temperature of the air mass decreases. As the temperature decreases, water vapor in the air mass may condense or solidify, releasing latent heat that further uplifts the air mass. This process determines the maximum rate of decline of temperature with height, called the adiabatic lapse rate. It contains roughly 80% of the total mass of the atmosphere. 50% of the total mass of the atmosphere is located in the lower 5 km of the troposphere.
The average temperature of the atmosphere at the surface of Earth is 15 °C (59 °F).[1][2]
Pressure and thickness
Main article: Atmospheric pressure
Barometric Formula: (used for airplane flight) barometric formula
One mathematical model: NRLMSISE-00
The average atmospheric pressure, at sea level, is about 101.3 kilopascals (about 14.7 psi); total atmospheric mass is 5.1480×1018 kg [3].
Atmospheric pressure is a direct result of the total weight of the air above the point at which the pressure is measured. This means that air pressure varies with location and time, because the amount (and weight) of air above the earth varies with location and time. However the average mass of the air above a square meter of the earth's surface is known to the same high accuracy as the total air mass of 5148.0 teratonnes and area of the earth of 51007.2 megahectares, namely 5148.0/510.072 = 10.093 metric tonnes, corresponding to 14.356 lbs (mass) per square inch, about 2.5% below the officially standardized unit atmosphere (1 atm) of 101.325 kPa or 14.696 psi.
Atmospheric pressure decreases with height, dropping by 50% at an altitude of about 5.6 km (18,000 ft). For comparison: Mount Everest is higher, at 8.8 km, which is why it is so difficult to climb without supplemental oxygen. Equivalently, about 50% of the total atmospheric mass is within the lowest 5.6 km. This pressure drop is approximately exponential, so that pressure decreases by approximately half every 5.6 km. However, because of changes in temperature throughout the atmospheric column, as well as the fact that the force of gravity begins to decrease at great altitudes, a single equation does not model atmospheric pressure through all altitudes (it is modeled in 7 exponentially decreasing layers, in the equations given above).
Even in the exosphere, the atmosphere is still present (as can be seen for example by the effects of atmospheric drag on satellites).
The equations of pressure by altitude in the above references can be used directly to estimate atmospheric thickness. However, the following published data are given for reference:- [4]
50% of the atmosphere by mass is below an altitude of 5.6 km.
90% of the atmosphere by mass is below an altitude of 16 km. The common altitude of commercial airliners is about 10 km.
99.99997% of the atmosphere by mass is below 100 km. The highest X-15 plane flight in 1963 reached an altitude of 354,300 ft (107,990.64 m).
Therefore, most of the atmosphere (99.9997%) is below 100 km, although in the rarefied region above this there are auroras and other atmospheric effects.
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Composition of Earth's atmosphere as at 1987.Dec. The lower pie represents the least common gases that compose 0.038% of the atmosphere. Values normalized for illustration.
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Mean atmospheric water vapor
Composition of
dry atmosphere, by volume[5]
ppmv: parts per million by volume
Nitrogen (N2) 780,840 ppmv (78.084%)
Oxygen (O2) 209,460 ppmv (20.946%)
Argon (Ar) 9,340 ppmv (0.9340%)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) 383 ppmv (0.0383%)
Neon (Ne) 18.18 ppmv (0.001818%)
Helium (He) 5.24 ppmv (0.000524%)
Methane (CH4) 1.745 ppmv (0.0001745%)
Krypton (Kr) 1.14 ppmv (0.000114%)
Hydrogen (H2) 0.55 ppmv (0.000055%)
Not included in above dry atmosphere:
Water vapor (H2O) ~0.25% over full atmosphere, typically 1% to 4% near surface
Minor components of air not listed above include[citation needed]
nitrous oxide 0.3 ppmv (0.00005%)
xenon 0.09 ppmv (9x10-6%)
ozone 0.0 to 0.07 ppmv (0%-7x10-6%)
nitrogen dioxide 0.02 ppmv (2x10-6%)
iodine 0.01 ppmv (1x10-6%)
carbon monoxide trace
ammonia trace
The mean molar mass of air is 28.97 g/mol. Note that the composition figures above are by volume-fraction (V%), which for ideal gases is equal to mole-fraction (that is, fraction of total molecules). By contrast, mass-fraction abundances of gases, particularly for gases with significantly different molecular (molar) mass from that of air will differ from those by volume. For example, in air, helium is 5.2 ppm by volume-fraction and mole-fraction, but only about (4/29) × 5.2 ppm = 0.72 ppm by mass-fraction.
Heterosphere
Below the turbopause at an altitude of about 100 km (not far from the mesopause), the Earth's atmosphere has a more-or-less uniform composition (apart from water vapor) as described above; this constitutes the homosphere.[6] However, above about 100 km, the Earth's atmosphere begins to have a composition which varies with altitude. This is essentially because, in the absence of mixing, the density of a gas falls off exponentially with increasing altitude, but at a rate which depends on the molar mass. Thus higher mass constituents, such as oxygen and nitrogen, fall off more quickly than lighter constituents such as helium, molecular hydrogen, and atomic hydrogen. Thus there is a layer, called the heterosphere, in which the earth's atmosphere has varying composition. As the altitude increases, the atmosphere is dominated successively by helium, molecular hydrogen, and atomic hydrogen. The precise altitude of the heterosphere and the layers it contains varies significantly with temperature. After loss of the hydrogen, helium and other hydrogen-containing gases from early Earth due to the Sun's radiation, primitive Earth was devoid of an atmosphere. The first atmosphere was formed by outgassing of gases trapped in the interior of the early Earth, which still goes on today in volcanoes. [7]
Density and mass
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Earth's atmosphere from space.
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Temperature and mass density against altitude from the NRLMSISE-00 standard atmosphere model.
Main article: Density of air
The density of air at sea level is about 1.2 kg/m³(1.2 g/L). Natural variations of the barometric pressure occur at any one altitude as a consequence of weather. This variation is relatively small for inhabited altitudes but much more pronounced in the outer atmosphere and space due to variable solar radiation.
The atmospheric density decreases as the altitude increases. This variation can be approximately modeled using the barometric formula. More sophisticated models are used by meteorologists and space agencies to predict weather and orbital decay of satellites.
The average mass of the atmosphere is about 5 quadrillion metric tons or 1/1,200,000 the mass of Earth. According to the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "The total mean mass of the atmosphere is 5.1480×1018 kg with an annual range due to water vapor of 1.2 or 1.5×1015 kg depending on whether surface pressure or water vapor data are used; somewhat smaller than the previous estimate. The mean mass of water vapor is estimated as 1.27×1016 kg and the dry air mass as 5.1352 ±0.0003×1018 kg."
Evolution on Earth
See also: History of Earth
The history of the Earth's atmosphere prior to one billion years ago is poorly understood and an active area of scientific research. The following discussion presents a plausible scenario.
The modern atmosphere is sometimes referred to as Earth's "third atmosphere", in order to distinguish the current chemical composition from two notably different previous compositions. The original atmosphere was primarily helium and hydrogen. Heat from the still-molten crust, and the sun, plus a probably enhanced solar wind, dissipated this atmosphere.
About 4.4 billion years ago, the surface had cooled enough to form a crust, still heavily populated with volcanoes which released steam, carbon dioxide, and ammonia. This led to the early "second atmosphere", which was primarily carbon dioxide and water vapor, with some nitrogen but virtually no oxygen. This second atmosphere had approximately 100 times as much gas as the current atmosphere, but as it cooled much of the carbon dioxide was dissolved in the seas and precipitated out as carbonates. The later "second atmosphere" contained largely nitrogen and carbon dioxide. However, simulations run at the University of Waterloo and University of Colorado in 2005 suggest that it may have had up to 40% hydrogen.[8] It is generally believed that the greenhouse effect, caused by high levels of carbon dioxide and methane, kept the Earth from freezing.
One of the earliest types of bacteria was the cyanobacteria. Fossil evidence indicates that bacteria shaped like these existed approximately 3.3 billion years ago and were the first oxygen-producing evolving phototropic organisms. They were responsible for the initial conversion of the earth's atmosphere from an anoxic state to an oxic state (that is, from a state without oxygen to a state with oxygen) during the period 2.7 to 2.2 billion years ago. Being the first to carry out oxygenic photosynthesis, they were able to produce oxygen while sequestering carbon dioxide in organic molecules, playing a major role in oxygenating the atmosphere.
Photosynthesising plants would later evolve and continue releasing oxygen and sequestering carbon dioxide. Over time, excess carbon became locked in fossil fuels, sedimentary rocks (notably limestone), and animal shells. As oxygen was released, it reacted with ammonia to release nitrogen; in addition, bacteria would also convert ammonia into nitrogen. But most of the nitrogen currently present in the atmosphere results from sunlight-powered photolysis of ammonia released steadily over the aeons from volcanoes.
As more plants appeared, the levels of oxygen increased significantly, while carbon dioxide levels dropped. At first the oxygen combined with various elements (such as iron), but eventually oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere, resulting in mass extinctions and further evolution. With the appearance of an ozone layer (ozone is an allotrope of oxygen) lifeforms were better protected from ultraviolet radiation. This oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere is the "third atmosphere". 200 – 250 million years ago, up to 35% of the atmosphere was oxygen (as found in bubbles of ancient atmosphere were found in an amber).
This modern atmosphere has a composition which is enforced by oceanic blue-green algae as well as geological processes. O2 does not remain naturally free in an atmosphere, but tends to be consumed (by inorganic chemical reactions, and by animals, bacteria, and even land plants at night), and CO2 tends to be produced by respiration and decomposition and oxidation of organic matter. Oxygen would vanish within a few million years due to chemical reactions and CO2 dissolves easily in water and would be gone in millennia if not replaced. Both are maintained by biological productivity and geological forces seemingly working hand-in-hand to maintain reasonably steady levels over millions of years (see Gaia theory).
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Before desulfurization filters were installed, the emissions from this power plant in New Mexico contained excessive amounts of sulfur dioxide.
Main article: Air pollution
Air pollution is a chemical, physical (e.g. particulate matter) or biological agent that modifies the natural characteristics of the atmosphere in an unwanted way. Stratospheric ozone depletion due to air pollution (chiefly from chlorofluorocarbons) has long been recognized as a threat to human health as well as to the earth's ecosystems.
Worldwide air pollution is responsible for large numbers of deaths and cases of respiratory disease. Enforced air quality standards, like the Clean Air Act in the United States, have reduced the presence of some pollutants. While major stationary sources are often identified with air pollution, the greatest source of emissions is actually mobile sources, principally the automobile. Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and fluorocarbons contribute to global warming, and these gases, or excess amounts of some emitted from fossil fuel burning, have recently been identified by the United States and many other countries (see Kyoto accord), as pollutants.[citation needed]
Aerial perspective
Air glow
Atmosphere (for information on atmospheres in general)
Atmospheric dispersion modeling
Atmospheric electricity
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) (in the US)
Atmospheric stratification
Historical temperature record
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
US Standard Atmosphere
↑ "Earth's Radiation Balance and Oceanic Heat Fluxes".
↑ "Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Control Run" (PDF).
↑ [http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2FJCLI-3299.1 The Mass of the Atmosphere: A Constraint on Global Analyses
↑ Lutgens, Frederick K. and Edward J. Tarbuck (1995) The Atmosphere, Prentice Hall, 6th ed., pp14-17, ISBN 0-13-350612-6
↑ Source for figures: Carbon dioxide, NASA Earth Fact Sheet, (updated 2007.01). Methane, IPCC TAR table 6.1, (updated to 1998). The NASA total was 17 ppmv over 100%, and CO2 was increased here by 15 ppmv. To normalize, N2 should be reduced by about 25 ppmv and O2 by about 7 ppmv.
↑ homosphere—AMS Glossary
↑ Vercheval, J. "The thermosphere: a part of the heterosphere". (offline, see Internet Archive copy)
↑ "Early Earth atmosphere favorable to life: study". University of Waterloo. April 7, 2005. Retrieved 2007-07-30.
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An interview with NME had Burgess explaining that the odd team-up is indeed for real, and he seems just as surprised that things came together as we are.
"They [Kellogg's] picked up what I'd said. It was just something that was funny and it just kept moving," he said.
Speaking to Adweek [via Rolling Stone], a representative for Kellogg's said, "We really try to make the most of Twitter here at Kellogg's, and when we saw the tweet, we knew we had to make something special for him."
Regrettably, it doesn't appear as if the cereal will hit retailers anytime soon, and thus far they've only produced one box for Burgess, but it will be available for sale at this July's Kendal Calling festival in the UK, where Burgess will peddle the product at his Tim Peaks Café. All proceeds will go to the David Lynch Foundation, which raises money towards providing stress-reducing and transcendental meditation programs for school children.
As you can see in the image of the cereal box above, which features a bowl-cutted cartoon Burgess proclaiming his product is "schhhweet," Totes Amazeballs is composed of "choco rocks and shortbread topped with raisins and squidgy marshmallows."
"We were thinking of something you'd eat at a festival that'd get you back on your feet," Burgess explained. "Something when you wake up a bit hungover will get you out of your tent -- it'd make sure you're raring to go! It's heavy duty and festival friendly. It's the Jazz Odyssey of breakfasts."
As for its wacky name, Burgess offered, "People have started to use that expression and it kind of gets up people's noses, but it sounded to me like something Willy Wonka would come up with."
In music news, Burgess is currently putting the finishing touches on a solo album he recently recorded in Nashville. His last solo effort was 2003's I Believe.
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NOMINATED FOR 2013 DRAMA DESK AWARD
We are extremely excited to announce that The Fazzino Ride was nominated yesterday for a Drama Desk Award for its achievement as “Unique Theatrical Experience.” This is an outstanding accomplishment that puts The Ride in league with this year’s finest theatrical events and as a co-nominee with Cirque du Soleil, amongst others. A special thank you to Charles Fazzino for trusting us with his internationally acclaimed art as a foundation for this tremendous journey.
The 58TH ANNUAL DRAMA DESK AWARDS
will take place on Sunday, May 19, 2013, at 8:00 PM
at The Town Hall in Manhattan.
Conceived and produced by Richard Humphrey, THE Fazzino RIDE features original content and videos of Fazzino’s universally recognized New York 3-D paintings that jump to life on the forty interactive screens aboard. Mr. Fazzino has designed an original wrap for the motor coach.
THE Fazzino RIDE also features original music composed by Patrick Noth and a new cast of specialty performers who entertain along the 4.2 mile journey through mid-town Manhattan. Sound has been designed by Brett Jarvis. The dazzling futuristic lighting design is by Ryan O’Gara. The state-of-the-art video content has been created by Rodger Acosta. The Fazzino Creative is by Leslie Meisel and Daryl Embry.
NOMINATED FOR 2013 CONCIERGE CHOICE AWARD
SWEET SIXTEEN PARTIES ON THE RIDE!
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Hamza Yusuf: Ensuring Models of Success
Wherever we are and in whatever time we happen to live, we cannot avoid asking the basic questions of who we are, where we came from, what we are doing here, and where we are going? In everyone's life, especially when one is young, these basic questions arise in the mind, often with force, and demand answers from us. Many simply push them aside or remain satisfied with established answers provided by others in their family or community. [...] But there have always been and still are today the few who take the question "who am I?" seriously and existentially and who are not satisfied with answers provided by others. Rather, they seek to find the answers by themselves, trying with their whole being to delve into the inner meaning of religion and wisdom. They continue until they reach the goal and receive a response that provides for them certitude and removes from them the clouds of doubt. In any case, how we choose to live in this world - how we act and think and how we develop the latent possibilities within us - depends totally on the answer we provide for ourselves to this basic question of who we are, for human beings live and act for the most part according to the image they have of themselves.
-Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Garden of Truth, pg. 4
Take off the sandals if you come
to this valley, for therein is Our Holiness.
Of the two world divest yourself,
and lift the veils of in-betweenness." (Aj).
-Ibn 'Arabī in TSQ, p. 791.
"His contemplativeness was inward,
while outwardly he had to face nearly every possible human situation. He experienced being an orphan, living the life of a merchant, suffering persecution. He grieved deeply the loss of his beloved wife Khadījah and his two-year-old son Ibrāhīm, but he also knew the happiness of family life and of final triumph in the world. He, who loved solitude and contemplation, had to deal with the affairs of men and women, with all their frailties and shortcomings. He had to rule over a whole society and to sit as judge in cases of one party's complaints against another. One might say that his mission was to sanctify all of life and to create an equilibrium in human life that could serve as the basis for surrender and effacement before the Divine Truth.
-Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity, p. 34.
O Author of the book of existence and of the Divine Word that is the Quran, we thank Thee for having given us the opportunity to live day and night for all these years with Thy Word and to be transformed by this indescribable experience. Whatever we have been able to achieve is the result of Thy Succor, and for whatever imperfection exists in our work we take full responsibility, asking Thy Forgiveness before the Throne of Thy Mercy. Absolute Perfection belongs to Thee and to Thy revealed Word alone, and no translation or commentary on Thy Word by human beings can share in a Quality that is Thine alone. Nevertheless, we pray that our efforts be acceptable in Thy sight and that this work becomes a guide for those who wish to navigate upon the ocean of Thy Word, which, although in human language, opens inwardly unto the infinite expanses of Thy Reality. Thou art the First and the Last, the Outward, and the Inward. Amen.
-The Study Quran, pgs. xlix-xlx.
Saudi Arabia to Build World's Tallest Tower..
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/30/world/meast/saudi-arabia-worlds-tallest-building-jeddah-tower/index.html
"وجعل كل قديم حديثاً في عصره."
فأما ابن قتيبة فقال: لم يقصر الله الشعر والعلم والبلاغة على زمن دون زمن، ولا خص قوماً دون قوم، بل جعل الله ذلك مشتركاً مقسوماً بين عباده في كل دهر، وجعل كل قديم حديثاً في عصره.
http://shamela.ws/browse.php/book-10909/page-1#page-73
Passing of Dr. Ahmad Sakr
http://msanational.org/tragic-passing-of-dr-ahmad-sakr/
Keynote address at New Approaches to Qur'an, Seyyed Hossein Nasr [2012]
Opening of Abdal-Hakim Murad's "Ishmael and the Enlightenment’s crise de coeur"
If the modern West is the civilizational climax of the profane and the material, then Islamic civilization, when it existed, was probably the civilizational climax of the sacred. This function need not be attributed to a spiritual eminence, which Muslims might wish to claim but which is certainly undemonstrable; nor can it be shown that any given Muslim artifact or text was more refined than a cognate production of, say, Hinduism. Rather, Islam's civilizational eminence stemmed from a spectacular plenitude. Of the other religions of the pre-Enlightenment world, only Buddhism rivaled Islam in massively encompassing a range of cultures; however Islam, uncontroversially, was the foundation for a still wider range and variety of cultural worlds. In particular, we may identify distinctive high civilizations among Muslim Africans, Arabs, Turks (including Central Asians), Persians (including, as an immensely fertile extension, Muslim India), and the population of the Malay Archipelago, radiating from the complex court cultures of Java.
-Tim Winter, ‘Ishmael and the Enlightenment’s crise de coeur: a response to Koshul and Kepnes,’ in Basit Bilal Koshul and Stephen Kepnes (eds.), Scripture, Reason, and the contemporary Islam-West encounter: studying the ‘Other’, Understanding the ‘Self’ (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 149-175.
Outer vs. Inner Modernity
This idea that Asia's failure to conquer Europe can be seen as a sign of its being more, not less, advanced than Europe is shattering to our materialist and militarist preconceptions. But if we go deeper, we can find a valuable consolation. For us to understand the nature of Tibet's inner modernity, we must analyze the five main transformations that Europe went through from Reformation to Enlightenment:
(1) the unification of the life-world by the process of removing the sacred as relevant to human purpose, leaving an all-absorbing secular realm;
(2) the disenchantment of the natural world, removing traditional concerns that had restrained its exploitation;
(3) the rationalization of all human effort in the goal of maximizing human comfort during the temporary existence in the secular realm;
(4) the absolutization of material progress; and
(5) the destruction of the channel of effort toward the sacred (represented by monasticism and its organized striving for perfection), which had been the institutional brake against materialism, industrialism, and militarism, leaving all human enterprise focused on those three pursuits.
Each of these strands in the Western process of outer modernization corresponds, in the reverse, to a strand in the process undergone by Tibet in its inner modernization:
(1) Instead of the life-world being unified by secularization, Tibet unified it by what we can call "sacralization" -- the sacred gradually absorbing the secular. The ultimate perfection of the individual the society, and even the buddhaverse became the prime concern of the whole society. The modernist unit of the sacred/secular dichotomy was achieved at the sacred, not the secular, pole;
(2) instead of disenchantment, the whole of reality became reenchanted. The magical/ordinary dichotomy was resolved by all becoming magical, opposite from all becoming routine and mechanical. Since the inner science of the Buddhist curriculum is based on a sense of the mind's natural power over nature, the transformation of the mind became the main avenue of progress toward the transformation of nature;
(3) actions and goals were totally rationalized in Tibet as in the West, but in Tibet the rational made everything in life instrumental for the individual's attainment of evolutionary perfection in buddhahood, perfect wisdom and complete compassion;
(4) spiritual progress was the goal of absolute concern--the development of human perfection was industrialized--turning the whole of society into one vast school for enlightenment; and finally
(5) while commercial materialism was always a part of the seminomadic Tibetan economy and lifestyle, monasticism became completely dominant over all other institutions, disarming the military, transmuting the warrior spirit of Tibetan militarism into the ascetical heroism of monastic and contemplative adepts.
-Robert Thurman, Inner Revolution, pgs. 245-7.
Notes from the the Introduction to the Essential Tibetan Buddhism by Robert Thurman
[From the wisdom of the terrible things that happened to Tibet in the second half of the twentieth century is] "to challenge the Tibetan Buddhists to let go of the trappings of their religion and philosophy and force themselves to achieve the ability to embody once again in this terrible era their teachings of detachment, compassion, and wisdom, and to scatter the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist teachers and disseminate their teachings throughout the planet among all the people, whether religious or secular, at this apocalyptic time when humanity must make a quantum leap from violence to peacefulness in order to preserve life on earth." (8)
[The Buddhist Enlightenment Movement] "is rational, guided by a critical inquiry into the nature of the reality of self and of the world, and experimental, proceeding from solid conclusions to the experiential verification of those conclusion." (11)
"He [Buddha] knew that the only means for beings to gain freedom was their individual understanding of their unique situation, He was forced to try to help them come to such an understanding. [...] Buddha was thus compelled to create methods of education for beings, "education" in the true sense of eliciting in beings the understanding of which they are capable, without indoctrinating or conditioning them....[Buddhas] do not transmit their understand into others' minds; They introduce beings to freedom by educating them about reality." (12)
"The monastic organization was a kind of inversion of the military organization: a peace army rather than a war army, a self-conquest tradition rather than an other-conquest tradition, a science of inner liberation rather than a science of liberating the outer world from the possession of others." (14)
"Atisha upheld the master's personal precept as the lifeline of the true Dharma, more important even than the authoritative canonical texts. He said that the "instruction of the Mentor" was more important than knowledge of all the Scriptures and their commentaries. This is because the authentic guru, lama, master, or spiritual mentor, is the representative of the immediate applicability of the teachings of an individual who needs methods to put into practice. General knowledge of doctrine is useful but does not automatically come with the skill to apply it. The mentor is the key element that makes the teaching practicable." (23)
"This rule of interpretation means the enlightened mentor is necessary to extract the instructional bottom line from the discourse or Scripture, since it is his or her job to decide which teaching applies to which practitioner." (23)
"It does a sick person no good to have a suitcase full of medicines if he does not know which one to take for his condition." (23)
-Robert Thurman, Essential Tibetan Buddhism (New York: HarperOne, 1995), 1-47.
You've found your own afflictions similarly
And from the mystics gained the remedy:
Often your limp would disappear again,
Your soul would also be relieved from pain.
Tie up you legs and feet, forgetful one,
Lest you become lost just as they have done--
Forgetfulness and lack of gratitude
Made you forget that you've gained special food.
The way is blocked now to keep you apart,
Since you've made weary every mystic's heart.
Find them and beg forgiveness desperately
Just as a heavy cloud weeps bitterly,
So that their roses bloom in your direction
And ripened fruits burst forth for your selection.
Rush there now! Don't act worse than dogs, you knave,
You fellow slave of that dog in the cave!
Since even dogs at times advise another,
'Attach your heart to your first home, my brother.
Cling to the door where you first ate a bone
And pay the debt for kindness that was shown.'
Don't ever break the pledge of loyalty.
Don't spread disloyalty so thoughtlessly.
It's through their loyalty that dogs earned fame,
So don't shame them and give them a bad name.
-Rumi, The Masnavi, Book Three, Trans. by Jawid Mojaddedi (New York: Oxford World Classic, 2013), pgs. 22-3.
55. The Benevolent One
In the name of God, the Benevolent, the Merciful
1. The Benevolent One
2. taught the Recital,
3. created man,
4. taught him expression.
5. The sun and the moon
follow calculated courses,
6. and *the stars and the trees bow down.
has raised the sky,
and set the balance,
8. so you would not
overstep balance.
9. So establish weight justly,
not letting the balance
give short measure.
10. And the Benevolent One
has set the earth for creatures,
11. with fruit there,
and date palms with spathes,
12. and grain with stalks,
and fragrant herbs.
13. Now which of the blessings
of your Lord do you deny--
14. having made man
from clay, like earthenware,
15. or having created the sprites
from a mixture of fire--
16. which of the blessings
of your Lord do you deny?
17. Lord of the two Easts
and Lord of the two Wests--
19. having loosed the two
bodies of water to meet
20. without overflowing
a barrier between them--
21. so which of the blessings
22. from them come pearls and coral--
23. owner of the ships
under sail over the sea
like mountains--
of your Lord do deny?
26. Every being on earth perishes,
27. yet there remains
the design of your Lord,
sublime and honorable:
29. All beings in the heavens and the earth
ask of the One who's in charge every day--
(The Qur'an, trans. by Thomas Cleary).
"Unfortunately, three negative forces retarded the founding of an Orthodox rabbinical college.
First in importance was the low prestige and the lack of power and economic security which plagued the East European Orthodox rabbis in America, largely a result of the poverty of their congregations. The rabbis were so harried with maintaining their positions that they lacked the time, energy and vision to create a uniting force. Because of their own personal insecurity, they were more critical than constructive and most hesitant to merge forces where the yielding of individual sovereignty was involved. The dissension that characterized their relationships was described by a prominent East European Orthodox rabbi in the following manner: "There is no unity and no agreement among them as to how and by what means to raise the prestige of religion....Each decides and acts as of he were the only one in the world." [43] [...]
The sorry position of the Orthodox rabbinate was further aggravated by a lack of aggressive, and imaginative leadership to rise above the sordid conditions of the day. There was no Orthodox rabbi with the perseverance and consecration to inspire a following, to create a movement, to evaluate a problem, and to devote his life to improving the status of his fellow immigrants. [...]
The second factor was the absence of an upper class that had the means and the leisure to sponsor a rabbinical seminary. [...] The main obstacle, however, was the absence of a proper organization and structure to sponsor and support such a school. [...]
To sum up, therefore, the efforts of East European Jews to create a rabbinical school were hampered initially by the weak position of its rabbinate, by the limited and undeveloped financial resources, and by the absence of a congregational union to sponsor and support such an effort.
-Gilbert Klaperman, The Story of Yeshiva University: The First Jewish University in America, (Toronto: The Macmillan Company, 1969), pgs. 46-47.
e: I wonder how far one could make the analogy with the Muslim community in America today. We certainly have a lot of scholars and folks who have studied and it perhaps remains to be seen if they can work together and muster their resources together, instead of each one trying to have his/her own institute/seminary.
On the other hand, Muslims in America are spread around the country and so all the scholars don't necessarily have to be tied to one specific institution in a single geographic area. However, in a certain region, shouldn't folks pool their resources together and collaborate, even if they have differences?
"This is an empty fancy, yet it is prevalent among most men.
Thus, whenever you trace back a statement and attribute it to a speaker of whom they have a good opinion, they accept it, even thought it be false; but whenever you attribute it to someone of whom they have a bad opinion, they reject it. even though it be true. This they always know the truth by men, not men by the truth--which is the ne plus ultra of error!"
-Al-Ghazālī, Deliverer from Error, p. 40.
Imam al-Ghazālī on Specialized Expertise
"A person skilled one one field is not necessarily skilled in every field. Thus a man skilled in jurisprudence and kalām is not necessarily skilled in medicine, nor is a man who is ignorant of the speculative and rational sciences necessarily ignorant of the science of syntax. On the contrary, in each field there are men who have reached in it a certain degree of skill and preeminence, although they may be quite stupid and ignorant about other things."
Shaikh Abdulhakim Murad Winter - Master Classes on Imam Al Ghazali - 1
AL-GHAZALI: REASON AND REVELATION, Zaytuna College 3rd Annual Islamic Higher Education Conference
"a politics of enlightenment"
Siddhartha left his throne to seek a precise understanding of reality in order to serve society better. After experiencing that comprehensive awareness which he called awakening or enlightenment, he did not float away on a cloud of bliss into some otherworldly realm. He stood up and began a sustained campaign of social action, offering all people in all nations a chance to improve their moral, emotional, and intellectual lives, while creating a greater world for future generations. By founding institutions of education, he initiated, on the cultural and social levels, a politics of enlightenment.
[...] A revolution that transforms the outlook and behavior of many individuals and thereby slowly transforms a society can be called a 'cool' revolution. It educates people to think critically, to enter that realm of nonconformity that has always been the source of change. When people have transformed their minds, they will naturally and cooly act to transform the society and eventually the polity. Shakyamuni turned politics on its head and proved that best way to build a healthy society was from the bottom up -- through the development of individual - not from the top down.
-Robert Thurman, Inner Revolution, pgs. 94-95.
"We are the savages of outer modernity."
We have imagined our world to be tamed, or civilized, since we live in cities and seem to have nature under control. It is hard for us to think of ourselves as wild and untamed. But 'civilized' should mean something more than just living in cities. It should mean that we are wise, gentle, just, and even artistic in our dealings with the world and with other animals and humans. Our civilization is what I call an 'outer civilization'; its modernity is an outer modernity. It is based on turning the full force of human reason on the enterprise of conquering and taming the outer universe -- the universe of matter and energy, lands and continents, materials and products--and on viewing people as resources to be managed and developed for production. [...]
And what we have not controlled? We have not tamed our own minds very much at all. Our religions did do something of a taming job up to the modern period. They kept our world picture wholesome and made it meaningful for us to restrain our more bestial impulses most of the time. [...]
We are the savages of outer modernity. We have reached the point where the lethal passions are emerging as planetary enemy number one. [...]
The middle way between the two extremes of authoritarian repression and self-defeating nihilism is to take our systematic and scientific cleverness, enthusiasm, and ingenuity and turn our attention toward the inner self the way we have turned in to so successfully on outer nature. Why not engineer spiritual balance and harmony? We can investigate the lethal passions and their institutional foundations, find out precisely how they work, how they take hold of us and use us as their instruments. Then we can devise technologies and arts to conquer them and to transmute them into useful energies. Or we can use the technologies of the adepts who have gone before.
-Robert Thurman, Inner Revolution, pgs. 216-218.
"Despite appearances, and the urgent but mistaken desire of many Muslims to engage in dialogue with purely secular thinkers and ideologies, we are primarily called to speak to the ‘People of the Book’."
"Religion is about truth, and unless truth be properly discerned and defended, nothing else will come right." -AHM
http://masud.co.uk/quicunque-vult-or-a-teenage-journey-to-islam/
The echo chambers of today...
This atomization and polarization have been exacerbated by the decline in the news audience share captured by the three major networks, which for decades at least tested against some standards the accuracy and completeness of the information we received, and which provided a common information template shared by Americans even of divergent views. Today, viewers have been drawn to niche channels, attractive to them precisely because they echo their preconceptions. A common canon of information has been supplanted by an echo chamber in which people pick a particular news source to fit their views, and their views then are validated and reinforced by the new information they receive, information tailored and targeted for them – and untested for its accuracy against any meaningful standard.
The general tendencies are reflected in the increasingly impoverished quality of what is said by our political leaders in the public forum. Candidates for public office now relentlessly employ slogans, talking points, simplistic messages and attack ads. We have moved far from the Athenian ideal of participatory, dialogic democracy. This led Fortune’s Matt Miller to write:
Is it possible in America today to convince anyone of anything he doesn’t already believe? If so, are there enough places where this mingling of minds occurs to sustain a democracy? The signs are not good. Ninety percent of political conversation amounts to dueling “talking points.” Best-selling books reinforce what folks thought when they bought them. Talk radio and opinion journals preach to the converted. Let’s face it: the purpose of most political speech is not to persuade but to win, be it power, ratings, celebrity or even cash. By contrast, marshaling a case to persuade those who start from a different position is a lost art. Honoring what’s right in the other side’s argument seems a superfluous thing that can only cause trouble, like an appendix. Politicos huddle with like-minded souls in opinion cocoons that seem impervious to facts.
"Dogmatism and Complexity"
"Rediger was a good writer.
He was clear and concise, and occasionally humorous, as for example when he derided a colleague--no doubt a rival Muslim intellectual--who had coined the phrase 'imams 2.0' to describe imams who made it their mission to reconvert French you from Muslim immigrant backgrounds. It was time, Rediger countered, to launch imams 3.0: the ones who'd convert the natives. Rediger was never funny for long; he always followed up with an earnest argument. He reserved his bitterest scorn for his Islamo-leftists colleagues: Islamo-leftism, he wrote, was a desparate attempt by moldering, putrefying, brain-dead Marxists to hoist themselves out of the dustbin of history by latching onto the coattails of Islam. Conceptually, he wrote, they'd stolen everything from the so-called Nietzcheans of the left. Rediger was obsessed with Neitzche, but I didn't have much patience for his Neitzchean mode--no doubt I'd read too much Nitzche myself. I knew and understood Neitzche too well to find charming. Bizarrely enough, I found myself more drawn to Rediger's Guénonian side. René Guénon is boring, if you try to read him straight through, but Rediger offered an accessible version-Guénon lite.
-Michel Houellebecq, Submission, pgs. 223-4.
"And I don't guess you're really an atheist, either. True atheists are rare."
"You think? On the contrary, I'd have said that most people in the Western world are atheists."
"Only on the surface, it seems to me. The only true atheists I've ever met were people in revolt. It wasn't enough for them to coldly deny the existence of God--they had to refuse it, like Bakunin: 'Even if God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.' They were atheists like Kirilov in The Possessed. They were humanists, with lofty ideas about human liberty, human dignity. I don't suppose you recognize yourself in this description."
No, in fact, I didn't; even the word humanism made me want to vomit...
-Michel Houellebecq, Submission, p. 204.
Guénon mentioned in Houellebecq's new novel
The two bottom shelves were full of bound photocopies. These were dissertations from various European universities. As I browsed the titles, my eye was drawn to a philosophy dissertation, presented at the Catholic University of Loivain-la-Neuve, entitled "René Guénon: Reader of Nietzche," by Robert Rediger. I was just pulling it from the shelf from Rediger came back into the room. I jumped, as if I'd been caught doing something wrong, and tried to slip it back in place. He walked over to me, smiling. "Don't worry, there are no secrets here. And besides, why shouldn't you be curious about the contents of a bookshelf? For a man like you, that's almost a professional duty."
Coming closer, he saw the title. "Ah, you've found my dissertation." He shook his head. "They gave me my doctorate, but it wasn't much of a thesis. Nothing like yours, anyways. My reading was, as they say, selective. In retrospect, I don't think Guénon was influenced b Nietzche especially. His rejection of the modern world was just as vehement as Nietzche's, but it had radically different sources."
-Michel Houellebecq, Submission, pgs. 199-200.
Upholding the Prophetic Character in a Divided World – Shaykh Abdal Haki...
"Chesterton and Belloc and their ideas appear in “Submission” as a kind of secondary sound, a Greek chorus."
Houellebecq takes very seriously the enterprise, in which Huysmans is also implicated, of rejecting Enlightenment modernity in favor of some kind of mystical-spiritual nation reëstablished on a foundation of faith. There is a passage in “Submission”—by Houellebecq’s own account the key scene in the book—in which the narrator goes south to contemplate the Black Madonna of Rocamadour and has a moment of blissful vision, one that he wishes to sustain but can’t. Islam rushes in to fill the absence. Houellebecq makes the entente of Islam and Catholicism attractive. “My book describes the destruction of the philosophy handed down by the Enlightenment, which no longer makes sense to anyone, or to very few people,” he said in an interview. “Catholicism, by contrast, is doing rather well. I would maintain that an alliance between Catholics and Muslims is possible.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/next-thing
"only religions can fight efficiently against other religions."
Q. Because a novel doesn’t have the power to do that?
A. Yes. People can read all the novels they want. That will never change political opinion. It’s striking. The response to jihadism — it’s a religious sect from start to finish, it’s a variation, a deviation of a religion — it’s never easy to fight against a religious sect. The police are useful, but in principle, only religions can fight efficiently against other religions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/books/the-submission-of-michel-houellebecq.html?_r=0
'To return, though, to Houellebecq.
For him, self-becoming requires separation from bourgeois false consciousness, and only two such separations are currently available: Islam and idealistic hedonism. His option is for the latter, but only because the former is alien to him. But perhaps in that very alienness lies an authentic Otherness, an option which would enhance our free separation from the monoculture. Another Frenchman, Rene Guenon (1886-1951), who during the period portrayed by Proust had experimented with a range of alternative lifestyles, exercised his own freedom in favor of the Islamic Other. Guenon entered Islam at the hands of an Egyptian Sufi, and spent the remainder of his life writing and praying as a semirecluse in Cairo. [28] In his numerous books, which constitute an absolute apostasy from the modern doctrines of progress and humanism, he advocated Islam as the most appropriate religious choice for Westerners who seek freedom from the monoculture, both because Islam is radically unsecular, and because it is spiritually proximate to the Christian genius which the Enlightenment had suppressed. "This Islamic civilization," he wrote, "with its two aspects, esoteric and exoteric, and with the religious form which the latter is clothed in, comes nearest to being like what a traditional Western civilization would be." [29]
-Tim Winter, ‘Ishmael and the Enlightenment’s crise de coeur: a response to Koshul and Kepnes,’ in Basit Bilal Koshul and Stephen Kepnes (eds.), Scripture, Reason, and the contemporary Islam-West encounter: studying the ‘Other’, Understanding the ‘Self’ (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 158.
Be Attentive
Many mistakes in reasoning are explained by the fact that we are not paying sufficient attention to the situation in which we find ourselves. This is especially true in familiar situations. That very familiarity causes us to make careless judgments about facts right before our eyes. We misread a situation because we are skimming it, when what we should be doing is persuing it. Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.
The phrase 'to pay attention' is telling. It reminds us that attention costs something. Attention demands an attentive, energetic response to every situation, to the persons, places, and things that make up the situation. It is impossible to be truly attentive and passive at the same time. Don't just look, see. Don't just hear, listen. Train yourself to focus on details. The little things are not to be ignored, for it is just the little things that lead us to the big things.
-D.Q. McInerny, Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking, p. 3.
We were blessed to read through this book in the first year of the Zaytuna seminary program with Imam Zaid, alhamdullilah.
Good training in logic and critical reasoning is essential to building independent people who think for themselves and are not just 'groupies.' Being critical doesn't have to mean having bad adab.
We should make sure we have spaces in which dissent and disagreement and alternative viewpoints are welcomed, if not at least tolerated.
The #GlobalPOV Project: "Will Hope End Inequality?" With Genevieve Negró...
Erdogan, Sisi and Western Hypocrisy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soumaya-ghannoushi/erdogan-sisi-and-western-hypocrisy_b_8476834.html
New book: Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of Al-Azhar, Al-Medina, and Al-Mustafa
Claims abound that Saudi oil money is fuelling Salafi Islam in cultural and geographical terrains as disparate as the remote hamlets of the Swat valley in Pakistan and sprawling megacities such as Jakarta. In a similar manner, it is often regarded as a fact that Iran and the Sunni Arab states are fighting proxy wars in foreign lands. This empirically grounded study challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic as well as policy circles about hegemonic power of such Islamic discourses and movements to penetrate all Muslim communities and societies. Through case studies of academic institutions the volume illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and the outcome of such efforts depends not just on the strategies adopted by backers of those ideologies but equally on the characteristics of the receipt communities.
In order to understand this complex interaction between the global and local Islam and the plurality in outcomes, the volume focuses on the workings of three universities with global outreach, and whose graduating students carry the ideas acquired during their education back to their own countries, along with, in some cases, a zeal to reform their home society.
About the series: Exploring Muslim Contexts seeks to address the salient and urgent issues faced by Muslim societies as they evolve in a rapidly globalising world, bringing together the scholarship of leading specialists from various academic fields, representing a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives.
http://amzn.to/1My0bHJ
New Book: "Arabs Without God"
In Arab countries, openly declaring a disbelief in God is a shocking and sometimes dangerous thing to do. Many have been imprisoned for it, some have been forced into exile and others threatened with execution. And yet, in a region where the influence of religion is almost inescapable, growing numbers are claiming a right to believe – or disbelieve – as they see fit. Social media have given them a voice and the uprisings that toppled Arab dictators have emboldened them to speak out. In this ground-breaking book, journalist Brian Whitaker looks at the factors that lead them to abandon religion and the challenges they pose for governments and societies that claim to be organised according to the will of God.
http://amzn.to/1RubogF
Also see: https://newhumanist.org.uk/4898/the-rise-of-arab-atheism
Robert Thurman: "Buddhist Ethics" | Talks at Google
"Few ideas are more foreign to modernity
and the Enlightenment than the idea of divine revelation. Subjectivity and individual freedom are usually celebrated as cornerstones of modernity. Claims that God created man and woman in His image, that He spoke authoritatively to mankind, and that human life and death have a transcendental purpose seem irreversibly outdated. The acid of criticism -- that essential ingredient of mankind -- has not only eaten away metaphysical certainty. It has also succeeded in abolishing metaphysical questions. Instead, modernity reflects its own continuously changing crisis in a form of self-criticism that tautologically installs this very permanently changing criticism as the essence of a never completely achievable modernity."
-Stefan Wild, "Why self-referentiality?" Self-referentiality in the Qur'an, (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2006), 1.
Imam Zahid al-Kawthari by Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad
Muhammad Zahid ibn Hasan al-Kawthari al-Hanafi al-Ash‘ari (1296-1371), the adjunct to the last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Caliphate and a major (mujaddid) of the fourteenth Islamic century. He studied under his father as well as the scholar of Qur’an and hadith Ibrahim Haqqi (d. 1345), Shaykh Zayn al-‘Abidin al-Alsuni (d. 1336), Shaykh Muhammad Khalis al-Shirwani, al-Hasan al-Aztuwa’i, and others. When the Caliphate fell he moved to Cairo, then Sham, then Cairo again until his death, where the late Shaykhs ‘Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda and ‘Abd Allah al-Ghumari became his students.
http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/misc/al_kawthari.htm
Gideon Levy: Does unconditional support for Israel endanger Israeli voices?
Thanks Sidi Namee Barakat
The Long Distance Revolutionary - Chris Hedges with Larry Hamm
In this episode of Days of Revolt, Hedges sits down with founder of the People’s Organization for Progress Larry Hamm to dissect periods of American resistance, and explain how shifts in political climate have and will shape new modes of community organizing.
https://youtu.be/DzZ9906Oicw
Right Mind, Right Heart
Friday November 6th after Isha 7:45pm
Saturday November 7th @ 1-6pm.
NBIC 1330 Livingston Ave, North Brunswick NJ
Iman is right belief. Islam is right action. Ihsan is right state.
Friday night Shaykh Salek will be discussing critical aspects of belief that need to be revived.
Saturday is a day-long lecture 1-6pm on ihsan. The science of tasawwuf is from the Quran & Sunna. All else is rejected. The culture of tasawwuf is sometimes it's own worst enemy. Shaykh Salek seeks to bring it back to its origins and fundamentals.
Shaykh Salek b. Siddna was born and educated in Mauritania. He is a master of fiqh, language, and many other sciences. He has been teaching between Mauritania and California for the past decade.
$10/child 3-13 (three or more children $25)
Child-minding will be provided.
Food vendors will be present at event.
To have a booth/table at the event, contact Khaled.Refai@SafinaSociety.org
http://www.safinasociety.org/events.html
Newly Discovered Letter from Malcolm X from Mecca dated April 25, 1964
In regards to the legitimacy of this letter, Zaheer Ali, an oral historian who served as the project manager and senior researcher of the Malcolm X Project at Columbia University, says it's likely this letter was actually written by Malcolm X.
"Based on everything I've seen, handwriting and context, I can confidently say that yes, this letter is his letter," he told the Huffington Post. 'The content is consistent, this isn't uncommon. He was very prolific."
Ali explained that the pilgrimage to Mecca had a profound effect on Malcolm X and that he often sent letters about it as a way to "broadcast" his message.
However, Ali doesn't believe this letter should be for sale. "I don’t think you can put a price tag on this," he explained. "Even though this is his personal correspondence, his intention was that this was to be made available to the public."
Regardless, Ali believes the letter's message, addressing race and religion, is particularly timely today.
"However this letter surfaced, it surfaced at the right time."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/malcolm-x-letter-found-and-now-on-sale_5624ee2fe4b0bce347013f14
http://momentsintime.com/the-most-remarkable-revelatory-letter-ever-written-by-malcolm-x/#.VinSDhCrRE5
"To put it bluntly,
Islamic civilization died quite some time ago, unlike Islam which is very much alive; we will thus be concerned with the wider civilization only when it is relevant to features of the enduring religious heritage. The other reason is that a major component--perhaps the major component--of pre-modern Islam was Ṣūfism. Today Ṣūfism is by no means dead, but it is not at the cutting edge of the developments that concern us; instead its role is mainly that of a target for movements that see themselves as propagating pure Islam."
-Michael Cook, Ancient Religions, Modern Politics, p. xiv.
Oliver Stone to Executive Produce Biopic of Algerian Leader Emir Abd el-Kader (Exclusive)
http://www.thewrap.com/oliver-stone-executive-produce-biopic-algerian-leader-emir-abd-el-kader-exclusive/
Diary of a Stuyvesant Teacher: A Muslim Point of View By Anthony Valentin 11 Sept 01
http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2001/oct01/oct01_articles/cover_diary.html
[for archival purposes]
Inspiral Design Nominated for British Book Design and Production Awards
"The British Book Design and Production Awards are one of the most prestigious and popular literary events of the year."
http://www.inspiraldesign.com/blog/nominated-for-british-book-design-and-production-awards/
The Passion of Imam Husayn: A Passion Play by Ustadh Ali Ataie
The oft-repeated statement “Every day is ‘Aashurah and every land is Karbala” captures succinctly the metamorphic and cosmic significance of Imam Husayn’s (al-Mazlum) stand against corruption and tyranny. His struggle is seen as transcendent and transhistorical; a reminder for the human consciousness that unless one is willing to suffer and die for the sake of his/her principles or beliefs, one has not really lived. Many in the Shi’a community understand the ta’ziyyah to function in exactly such a way, yet theological and/or jurisprudential concerns have severely limited Sunni experience of the passion narrative of the Ahl al-Bayt.
https://medium.com/ummah-wide/the-passion-of-imam-husayn-e51b9c956322
IN ISRAEL, DE BLASIO PARSES WORDS - Times's Michael Grynbaum:
"His 48-hour trip to Israel, which concluded on Sunday, was conceived as a standard-issue outreach to Jewish groups. It quickly morphed into a tricky political balancing act, as Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, found himself arriving here amid an outbreak of violence, casting his words and actions into an unusually harsh glare...I don't want to pretend to understand the nuances of the situation," said Mr. de Blasio, who visited with Mr. Netanyahu on Sunday. "I think it's important as an outsider to not claim to know more than I do. I think this is a larger human reality, that peace is necessary, attacks on civilians are unacceptable, and no civilian leaders should ever condone attacks on civilians." http://nyti.ms/1PAOvtc
via Azi Paybarah, Jimmy Vielkind and Mike Allen [newyorkplaybook@politico.com]
Chris Hedges and Cornel West in Conversation - Wages of Rebellion | The ...
Imam Zaid Shakir: Eid Al-Adha 2015 Sermon at Hartford Seminary
"In this age the truth is posited precisely
where the power structures of the day would say it is not; God is not to be found with the well-fed investment bankers but with the seemingly impoverished taxi drivers that drive them around. These are the inheritors to the Ishmaelite tradition, for God is with the outcast, the downtrodden, the despised.
-Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (Tim Winter)
http://cambridgekhutbasetc.blogspot.com/2011/10/come-dine-with-me.html
Dallal on 'Uthmān Ibn Fūdī (1754-1817) & Scholars
The religious scholars were also part of Ibn Fūdī's reform of the social disorder. It is through the spread of education that Muslims may recognize and apply the proper Islamic codes of social behavior. Well-educated and committed scholars recognized by Muslims are essential to this project. Ibn Fudi sharply criticizes those 'ulamā' who seek prestige and power in their teaching, and are interested only in increasing the number of their students while failing to teach their wives and children the basic tenets of Islam. [181] He is also critical of those scholars who neither study nor teach Arabic, and instead dedicate their efforts to justifying the abuses of pagan rulers. [182] Ibn Fūdī evaluates scholarship in terms of its social functions, and opposes the establishment of a class of elitist clerics who lack dedication to communal obligations. [183]
-Ahmad Dallal, "The Origins and Objectives of Islamic Revivalist Thought, 1750-1850," Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 113, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1993), p. 353.
The intellectual synthesis of Shah Wall Allah
Shah Wall Allah's formidable attempt to reconcile the conflicts between the different facets of the Islamic intellectual legacy, and to forge a new synthesis of gnostic, inductive, and transmitted forms of knowledge, was conducted with an eye on the community, its power and well-being. Perhaps the greatest achievement of this intellectual synthesis was in its ability to argue, without being reductive or simplistic, for the community's right to wrench the use of the intellect from the exclusive monopoly of the professional zealots of Islam.
Ahmad Dallal on Shāh Walī Allah on history
Walī Allah develops other unconventional readings of history. The superiority of the first community, he argues, is a functional concept, but not necessarily an exclusive one. For later generations to accept the transmitted tradition, they had to develop an idealized view of its transmitters. Later generations, however, are not doomed to be inferior to earlier ones, and they are capable of producing people who are, in some respects, better than their earlier counterparts. [80] This reading is clearly inspired by a strong commitment to the living community of Muslims.
-Ahmad Dallal, "The Origins and Objectives of Islamic Revivalist Thought, 1750-1850," Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 113, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1993), p. 346-7.
e: See discussion and commentary [by al-Mūnāwī for ex. in Fayḍ al-Qadīr] on ḥadīth:
(مثل أمتي مثل المطر لايدرى الخير في أوله أو آخره )
See some discussion about the takhrīj of this ḥadīth at http://www.ahlalhdeeth.com/vb/showthread.php?t=2188.
Ahmad Dallal on Shāh Walī Allah of India (1703-1762)
Although he [Shāh Walī Allah] was concerned with political division and disintegration, the solution he prescribed was to be found outside the immediate realm of politics. He believed that political authority is important for practical purposes, but what ultimately counts is society. While the outward caliphate (khilāfat al-ẓāhir) is in charge of implementing superficial order, the inward one (khilāfat al-bāṭin) is responsible for social order in all its details. [24] The guardians of the inward order are the scholars ('ulamā'), and it is their duty to ensure that daily life is conducted in harmony with God's created nature (fiṭra). [25] Political corruption is but an outcome of the scholars' neglect in performing their duties properly. [26] Extreme intellectualism or "profundity" (ta'ammuq), [27] severity, [28] false consensus, [29] opportunism, [30] and claiming monopoly over truth [3l] are some aspects of this neglect.
Ḥikam Ibn Ata 'Allah Resources
http://themathesontrust.org/library/al-hikam-aphorisms
Arabic: http://themathesontrust.org/papers/islam/ibnataallah-hikam-AR.pdf
Victor Danner translation: http://themathesontrust.org/papers/islam/ibnataallah-hikam.pdf
http://honoluluwaldorf.org/pdf/ibnataallah-hikam.pdf
Aisha Bewley translation: http://data.nur.nu/Kutub/English/Ibn-3Ajiba_Sharh-al-Hikam-al-3Ataiyya_transl-Aisha-Bewley.pdf
https://bewley.virtualave.net/hikam.html
http://www.whitethreadpress.com/?p=466
Shaykh Nuh commentary on Ḥikam # 1: http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/nuh/hikam1.htm
Wiki Entry on Author, Ibn Ata Allah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Ata_Allah
Book on the virtues and excellences (fadail) of the Prophetic Household, the Ahl Al-Bayt, from Sunni Hadith Scholars
Selections were made from the writings of only the best and most widely respected of hadith scholars including Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim, Imam Nasa'i, Ibn Shahin, Imam Nawawi, Hafidh Ibn Kathir, Imam Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and Imam al-Suyuti. The book includes an outstanding foreword by Dr. Mostafa al-Badawi about the importance of the Ahl al-Bayt.
https://www.meccabooks.com/1113-perfect-family-virtues-of-the-ahl-al-bayt-from-sunni-hadith-9781909460034.html
Thanks to David for referring me to this!
NYT Thursday Briefing: A monumental endangered list
The World Monuments Fund today announces its 2016 list of endangered architectural and cultural sites from around the world.
Its last watch list, two years ago, included the entire country of Syria, threatened by war; the city of Venice, at risk from cruise-ship tourism; and the St. Louis arch, in jeopardy because of corrosion.
NYPD Muslim Surveillance Case Reinstated: New Jersey Muslims Commend Ruling Affirming Their Constitutional Rights
http://www.ccrjustice.org/nypd-muslim-surveillance-case-reinstated
via Ibrahim
Scott MacLeod: "All-American Sheikh"
Religious scholar Hamza Yusuf discusses the arc of Islamic civilization, the causes of Middle East conflict, and running the first Muslim liberal arts college in the United States.
http://www.thecairoreview.com/q-a/all-american-sheikh/
June 4, 2015: CFR: A Conversation With Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah (with Shaykh Hamza translating) [Video and Transcript]
http://www.cfr.org/radicalization-and-extremism/conversation-shaykh-abdallah-bin-bayyah/p36726
Transcript of CFR event from 2007 Conference Call with Hamza Yusuf on Islamic Education in America
http://www.cfr.org/religion/religion-foreign-policy-conference-call-hamza-yusuf/p14289
Articles by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf in PDFs
https://sandala.org/multimedia/articles/
New Khutba by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad: The Fully Integrated Life
The Fully Integrated Life
Labels: Abdal Hakim Murad, balance, consciousness, Imam al-Ghazali, intention (niyah), Islamic Education, mindfulness, qist (justice), self-knowledge, sincerity (ihsan), society, taqwa (God-consciousness)
Jum'ah khutba - Sheikh Abdal Hakim Murad - Cambridge - 9 October 2015 - 25 mins 16 secs
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'Allah bears witness that there is no god except He, and the Angels and the ones endowed with knowledge, upright with equity (bear witness). There is no god except He, The Ever-Mighty, The Ever-Wise...'
(Surah al-Imran, Verse 18)
As the new academic year begins the Shaykh talks about how one should approach the balance needed in life, to put everything where it deserves to be put. How should one manage the different influences and complexity of life as a student. How does one find the right balance between what may seem Deen and what may seem Dunya. The Shaykh explains how we must strive for the fully integrated life and shares some useful tips from the works of Hujjat ul-Islam Imam Al-Ghazali.
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Video Recording of Schomburg Event on European Powers, Islamic Movements, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Thu, Oct 8 2015 7:00 PM EDT — Thu, Oct 8 2015 8:30 PM EDT
In the 18th century, Senegambia was bitterly contested by France and Great Britain for its slave-trading. But a third power, the Islamic theocracy of Futa Toro, rose to prominence and opposed both foreign powers while seeking to put an end to the slave trade and slavery. Please join Christopher L. Brown, Professor of History at Columbia University, and Rudolph Ware, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, for a fascinating conversation on this intricate story. This event, which will be held at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is presented in collaboration with The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
Watch the recording at: http://livestream.com/accounts/7326672/events/4249277
Dr Recep Sentürk brief bio
Dr Recep Sentürk is Director of the Alliance of Civilizations Institute at the Fatih Sultan Mehmet University in Istanbul. He is also Director of ISAR in Istanbul and was previously Professor of Sociology at Fatih University. He holds a PhD from Columbia University, Department of Sociology (1998), and specializes in sociology of knowledge, human rights and Islamic studies with a focus on the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Turkey. He authored in English Narrative Social Structure: Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505 (Stanford University Press, 2005), and in Turkish Sociology of Turkish Thought: From Fiqh to Social Science (2008); Islam and Human Rights: Sociological and Legal Perspectives (2007); Malcolm X: Struggle for Human Rights (2006); Social Memory: Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505 (2004); Sociologies of Religion (2004); Modernization and Social Science in the Muslim World: A Comparison between Turkey and Egypt (2006). He edited Ibn Khaldun: Comtemporary Readings (2009) and Economic Development and Values (2009). His recent book is Open Civilization: Cultural Foundations of Pluralism (2010). Dr Senturk was a visiting research fellow at Emory University Law School during the academic year 2002–2003 as part of Islam and Human Rights Project.
http://www.kalamresearch.com/~kalamres/staff.php?category=3&staffid=101
Seek Knowledge In China: Thinking Beyond the Abrahamic Box
http://www.nawawi.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Article5.pdf
Nietzche: "What has ever uplifted your soul"
On her great blog, Brain Pickings, Maria Popova quotes a passage from Nietzsche on how to find your identity: “Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?’ ” Line up these revered objects in a row, Nietzsche says, and they will reveal your fundamental self.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/opinion/david-brooks-the-big-university.html
A Multidisciplinary Conference on Islamic Theology, Law, and Biomedicine
Addresses the discursive and scholarly knowledge gaps impeding Islam and Science discourses through a 3-day multidisciplinary conference on the intersections of Islamic Theology and Law with Biomedicine.
Who: The Initiative on Islam and Medicine of the Program at the University of Chicago
When: Friday, April 15th - Sunday, April 17th
Where: University of Chicago - Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E. 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637
Link to promotional flyer (pdf)
The conference invites participants to share their work—be it using empirical, historical, theological, ethico-legal, social scientific, or other research methods—at the intersection of Islam and biomedicine. Papers will be grouped thematically into panels according to field of inquiry—scholastic theology (kalam), moral theology (usul al- fiqh), ethics/law (fiqh, adab, ahklaq), epistemology, empirical health research, and biomedical practice—and each panel will be brought to a close by a scholarly respondent commenting on the implications for cross-disciplinary dialogue and research that emerge from the presented work. While abstracts on any topic of relevance are welcome, presenters should consider the following two questions to be the primary focus of the conference.
How might scientific notions of harm and risk relate to, and work with, Islamic constructs of necessity and benefit in the context of biomedicine?
What is an Islamic ontology of the soul? How does it relate to, and how might it work with, modern neuroscientific data, in order to inform a better understanding of death and care for the dying?
CLICK HERE to submit an abstract. All proposals are due December 16, 2015.
Via Shaykh Omar Qureshi
The central Buddhist concept of emptiness or voidness
"In essence, Vimalakīrti clears up the confusions surrounding the central Buddhist concept of emptiness, or voidness--presenting it not as nihilism but rather, in the translator's words, "as the joyous and compassionate commitment to living beings born from an unwavering confrontation with the inconceivable profundity of ultimate reality."
-Robert Thurman (translator), The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti: A Mahāyāna Scripture (First published in 1976).
Zareena Grewal: When War Comes Close to Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/opinion/when-war-comes-close-to-home.html
cambridge khutbas etc. Muslim sermons and talks in English by Abdal Hakim Murad
http://cambridgekhutbasetc.blogspot.com/
Politico NYC: Activists urge de Blasio to avoid federal counterterrorism program
The signers, including officials from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Lawyers Guild, among others, said the program will "brand" Muslims as "inherently suspicious and somehow less American than others.”
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/09/8577559/activists-urge-de-blasio-avoid-federal-counterterrorism-program
Dr. Jamal Barzinji (1939-2015): In Memoriam by SAMI AL-ARIAN
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/29/dr-jamal-barzinji-1939-2015-in-memoriam/
Prof. Hallaq's Impossible State book in Arabic
https://bookstore.dohainstitute.org/p-561.aspx
AP: Aya Batrawy: The hajj journey of black Americans 50 years after Malcolm X (Oct. 2, 2015)
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/221c1a7c09b448fa8e1e40cd6b0c4168/hajj-journey-black-americans-50-years-after-malcom-x
Recording of Prof. Wael Hallaq's talk on "God’s Word: Between the Intentional and the Political"
http://ircpl.org/wael-hallaq-gods-word-between-the-intentional-and-the-political/
2015 AAR Annual Meeting • Atlanta, Georgia • November 21–24
https://www.aarweb.org/2015-annual-meeting-in-atlanta-nov-21-24
Vox: Deaths from gun violence vs. deaths from terrorism, in one chart (Oct. 1, 2015)
http://www.vox.com/2015/10/1/9437187/obama-guns-terrorism-deaths
Shaykh Bin Bayyah Statement on Nigeria Girls Kidnapping (May 13, 2014)
http://www.onislam.net/english/onislam-africa/english/472437-statement-from-bin-bayyah-on-the-kidnapping-girls-.html
NPR Report: 250 Americans Have Gone To Syria And Iraq To Fight
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/29/444398846/report-250-americans-have-gone-to-syria-and-iraq-to-fight
A congressional report scheduled for release Tuesday suggests some 30,000 people worldwide have gone to Syria to fight in recent years. That includes some 250 Americans who've gone there and to Iraq.
Bill Blum on Scalia, Thomas and Alito missing the Pope's address to Congress
How many pope watchers and admirers, I wonder, noticed that only four of the high court’s members—Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor—showed up to hear the pontiff address a joint session of Congress last week?
Among the missing were the tribunal’s three most conservative voices, all hard-core Republicans and ostensibly devout Catholics—Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. You might think they would have wanted in on the celebration to demonstrate their fidelity, to see history in the making, or perhaps just to receive a personal blessing or two. Then again, you might be wrong.
So what gives? Was the nonappearance of the three judges a coincidence or the result of unavoidable scheduling conflicts? Or was the right-wing judicial troika sending a message of disapproval to Francis? After all, they’ve done much the same in recent years to President Obama by boycotting his State of the Union addresses.
-Bill Blum, "Supreme Court Preview: The Pope Casts a Long Shadow Over the New Term," September 29, 2015, Truthdig.
Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah 2015 UNGA Speech (English)
Zoom in on the Birmingham manuscript of the Qur'anic page
http://vmr.bham.ac.uk/Collections/Mingana/Islamic_Arabic_1572a/Mingana_Islamic_Arabic_1572a_folio_2_recto/fullscreen/
Thanks to my classmate Andrew for this!
[This is from this chapter of the Qur'an.]
Earlier in the summer, news about this made 'a big splash' in the New York Times as Prof. Cook said in class today, as this article was featured on the front page. According to Prof. Cook, there is no reason to doubt the writing of this manuscript as one of the Uthmānī codexes. The doubt of the Saudi researcher about the dots could be explained as something that was added [at a later time] on top of the letters.
Human Rights Watch on Indian Prime Minister Modi
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/29/modis-baggage-obama-meets-indias-new-prime-minister
Text of Pope Francis’ address to Congress
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article36368676.html
Thanks Zeshan Zafar
Pope Francis Urges U.S. to End Arms Trade & Open Doors to Immigrants
Dr. West - the Matrix
While in Sydney for the movie shoot, Dr. West said he and the Wachowskis had bonded over ''wrestling with the meaning of life and the purpose of human existence.'' They share an affinity for plucking ideas from religion, philosophy, pop music, television and movies, and synthesizing them into a prophetic, liberating message. They want to make the world a more philosophical place. (The brothers even gave reading assignments to all of the principal actors in the movie.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/movies/film-and-the-oscar-for-best-scholar.html
"Interpretations of The Matrix often reference Baudrillard's philosophy to demonstrate that the film is an allegory for contemporary experience in a heavily commercialized, media-driven society, especially in developed countries."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix
~The Fear of God~
If you should rise from Nowhere up to Somewhere,
From being No one up to being Someone,
Be sure to keep repeating to yourself
You owe it to an arbitrary god
Whose mercy to you rather than to others
Won’t bear to critical examination.
Stay unassuming. If for lack of license
To wear the uniform of who you are,
You should be tempted to make up for it
In a subordinationg look or toe,
Beware of coming too much to the surface
And using for apparel hat was meant
To be the curtain of the inmost soul.
via Shaykh Hamza in "The Critical Importance of Al Ghazali in Our Time"
(Book) The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Search the full text of this book
Revised and Expanded Edition
George Lipsitz
Outstanding Books Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999
"[A] valuable resource for middle school, high school, and college level students."
—Multicultural Review
In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for minorities. Reaching beyond the black/white binary, Lipsitz shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.
Lipsitz delineates the weaknesses embedded in civil rights laws, the racial dimensions of economic restructuring and deindustrialization, and the effects of environmental racism, job discrimination and school segregation. He also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to U.S. culture, and perhaps most importantly, he identifies the sustained and perceptive critique of white privilege embedded in the radical black tradition. This revised and expanded edition also includes an essay about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on working class Blacks in New Orleans, whose perpetual struggle for dignity and self determination has been obscured by the city's image as a tourist party town.
Read the Introduction (pdf).
"Traversing a remarkably broad terrain of American social, political, and cultural history from the colonial period to the present, ... Lipsitz takes a variety of angles on the workings of whiteness... All of these discussions are productive; some of them are dazzling... This is a terrifically important book."
—Matthew Frye Jacobson, American Historical Review
"The Possessive Investment in Whiteness is the product of painstaking research and rigorous analysis.... [Lipsitz's] spirited writing recaptures a fire that has come close to being extinguished in this era."
—Brenda Gayle Plummer, The Annals of the American Academy
"If we could only take one book with us into the 21st century, this is the one I would choose. With lucidity and passion, George Lipsitz reveals that so-called 'color-blind' public policy actually contributes to the maintenance of racism; that white privilege and the demonizing of colored people are two sides of the same coin; and that whiteness is both a huge subsidy as well as a noose around the necks of working-class white folk. His insights into how the color line works in the realm of public policy, politics, and culture, and what we must do to destroy it, can save our lives."
—Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America
"George Lipsitz is one of the few historians of the U.S. who commands an audience eager to read what he writes on virtually any subject. What sets his work still more remarkably apart is the discipline never to abuse that trust...This book is a case in point. As rigorous as it is creative, this collection combines a firm grasp of the material roots and consequences of white supremacy with striking cultural criticism. Its extensive treatment of Asian-American and Latino/a experiences breaks decisively with the tendency of studies of whiteness to reduce race to a black-white binary. Few works on whiteness discuss past and present together with such subtlety, care and passion."
—David R. Roediger
"Lipsitz is best known for showing how popular culture and the changing fortunes of the working class and people of color transformed the United States after World War II. This new book brings together his fierce passion for racial justice with his talent for cultural analysis."
Also available in e-book
Introduction: Bill Moore's Body
1. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
2. Law and Order: Civil Rights Laws and White Privilege
3. Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics
4. Whiteness and War
5. How Whiteness Works: Inheritance, Wealth, and Health
6. White Desire: Remembering Robert Johnson
7. Lean on Me: Beyond Identity Politics
8. "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac": Antiblack Racism and White Identity
9. "Frantic to Join . . . the Japanese Army": Beyond the Black-White Binary
10. California: The Mississippi of the 1990s
11. Change the Focus and Reverse the Hypnosis: Learning from New Orleans
George Lipsitz is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition (Temple), Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s, Dangerous Crossroads, and Time Passages.
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1418_reg.html
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From Optimal Transport to Generative Modeling: the VEGAN cookbook
Bousquet, O., Gelly, S., Tolstikhin, I., Simon-Gabriel, C. J., Schölkopf, B.
2017 (techreport)
arXiv follow-up paper Project Page [BibTex]
Bousquet, O., Gelly, S., Tolstikhin, I., Simon-Gabriel, C. J., Schölkopf, B. From Optimal Transport to Generative Modeling: the VEGAN cookbook 2017 (techreport)
Cosmology from Cosmic Shear with DES Science Verification Data
Abbott, T., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Amara, A., Annis, J., Armstrong, R., Bacon, D., Banerji, M., Bauer, A. H., Baxter, E., others,
arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05552, 2015 (techreport)
Abbott, T., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Amara, A., Annis, J., Armstrong, R., Bacon, D., Banerji, M., Bauer, A. H., Baxter, E., others, Cosmology from Cosmic Shear with DES Science Verification Data arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05552, 2015 (techreport)
The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogs
Jarvis, M., Sheldon, E., Zuntz, J., Kacprzak, T., Bridle, S. L., Amara, A., Armstrong, R., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bonnett, C., others,
Jarvis, M., Sheldon, E., Zuntz, J., Kacprzak, T., Bridle, S. L., Amara, A., Armstrong, R., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bonnett, C., others, The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogs arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05603, 2015 (techreport)
97, pages: 191, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Springer, 2014 (book)
Kober, J., Peters, J. Learning Motor Skills: From Algorithms to Robot Experiments 97, pages: 191, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Springer, 2014 (book)
The Randomized Dependence Coefficient (UC Berkeley, MSKCC, MIT, Harvard, 2013)
Lopez-Paz, D.
2014 (talk)
Lopez-Paz, D. The Randomized Dependence Coefficient (UC Berkeley, MSKCC, MIT, Harvard, 2013) 2014 (talk)
Computational Diffusion MRI and Brain Connectivity
Schultz, T., Nedjati-Gilani, G., Venkataraman, A., O’Donnell, L., Panagiotaki, E.
pages: 255, Mathematics and Visualization, Springer, 2014 (book)
Schultz, T., Nedjati-Gilani, G., Venkataraman, A., O’Donnell, L., Panagiotaki, E. Computational Diffusion MRI and Brain Connectivity pages: 255, Mathematics and Visualization, Springer, 2014 (book)
Unsupervised identification of neural events in local field potentials
Besserve, M., Schölkopf, B., Logothetis, N. K.
44th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience), 2014 (talk)
Besserve, M., Schölkopf, B., Logothetis, N. K. Unsupervised identification of neural events in local field potentials 44th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience), 2014 (talk)
Quantifying statistical dependency
Research Network on Learning Systems Summer School, 2014 (talk)
Besserve, M. Quantifying statistical dependency Research Network on Learning Systems Summer School, 2014 (talk)
Using a population based Gaussian Mixture Model on fused [18]F-FDG PET and DW-MRI images accurately segments the tumor microenvironment into clinically relevant compartments capable of guiding therapy
Divine, M. R., Disselhorst, J. A., Katiyar, P., Pichler, B. J.
European Molecular Imaging Meeting, 2014 (talk)
Divine, M. R., Disselhorst, J. A., Katiyar, P., Pichler, B. J. Using a population based Gaussian Mixture Model on fused [18]F-FDG PET and DW-MRI images accurately segments the tumor microenvironment into clinically relevant compartments capable of guiding therapy European Molecular Imaging Meeting, 2014 (talk)
Causal Inference from Passive Observations
Janzing, D.
24th Summer School University of Jyväskylā, Finland, August, 2014 (talk)
slides_Monday slides_Tuesday slides_Wednesday slides_Thursday slides_Friday [BibTex]
Janzing, D. Causal Inference from Passive Observations 24th Summer School University of Jyväskylā, Finland, August, 2014 (talk)
Computationally efficient algorithms for statistical image processing: Implementation in R
(2010-053), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, December 2010 (techreport)
In the series of our earlier papers on the subject, we proposed a novel statistical hy- pothesis testing method for detection of objects in noisy images. The method uses results from percolation theory and random graph theory. We developed algorithms that allowed to detect objects of unknown shapes in the presence of nonparametric noise of unknown level and of un- known distribution. No boundary shape constraints were imposed on the objects, only a weak bulk condition for the object's interior was required. Our algorithms have linear complexity and exponential accuracy. In the present paper, we describe an implementation of our nonparametric hypothesis testing method. We provide a program that can be used for statistical experiments in image processing. This program is written in the statistical programming language R.
Langovoy, M., Wittich, O. Computationally efficient algorithms for statistical image processing: Implementation in R (2010-053), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, December 2010 (techreport)
Fast Convergent Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference
Seeger, M., Nickisch, H.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, December 2010 (techreport)
We propose a novel algorithm to solve the expectation propagation relaxation of Bayesian inference for continuous-variable graphical models. In contrast to most previous algorithms, our method is provably convergent. By marrying convergent EP ideas from (Opper&Winther 05) with covariance decoupling techniques (Wipf&Nagarajan 08, Nickisch&Seeger 09), it runs at least an order of magnitude faster than the most commonly used EP solver.
Seeger, M., Nickisch, H. Fast Convergent Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, December 2010 (techreport)
A PAC-Bayesian Analysis of Graph Clustering and Pairwise Clustering
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2010 (techreport)
We formulate weighted graph clustering as a prediction problem: given a subset of edge weights we analyze the ability of graph clustering to predict the remaining edge weights. This formulation enables practical and theoretical comparison of different approaches to graph clustering as well as comparison of graph clustering with other possible ways to model the graph. We adapt the PAC-Bayesian analysis of co-clustering (Seldin and Tishby, 2008; Seldin, 2009) to derive a PAC-Bayesian generalization bound for graph clustering. The bound shows that graph clustering should optimize a trade-off between empirical data fit and the mutual information that clusters preserve on the graph nodes. A similar trade-off derived from information-theoretic considerations was already shown to produce state-of-the-art results in practice (Slonim et al., 2005; Yom-Tov and Slonim, 2009). This paper supports the empirical evidence by providing a better theoretical foundation, suggesting formal generalization guarantees, and offering a more accurate way to deal with finite sample issues. We derive a bound minimization algorithm and show that it provides good results in real-life problems and that the derived PAC-Bayesian bound is reasonably tight.
Seldin, Y. A PAC-Bayesian Analysis of Graph Clustering and Pairwise Clustering Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2010 (techreport)
Sparse nonnegative matrix approximation: new formulations and algorithms
Tandon, R., Sra, S.
We introduce several new formulations for sparse nonnegative matrix approximation. Subsequently, we solve these formulations by developing generic algorithms. Further, to help selecting a particular sparse formulation, we briefly discuss the interpretation of each formulation. Finally, preliminary experiments are presented to illustrate the behavior of our formulations and algorithms.
Tandon, R., Sra, S. Sparse nonnegative matrix approximation: new formulations and algorithms (193), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, September 2010 (techreport)
Robust nonparametric detection of objects in noisy images
(2010-049), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, September 2010 (techreport)
We propose a novel statistical hypothesis testing method for detection of objects in noisy images. The method uses results from percolation theory and random graph theory. We present an algorithm that allows to detect objects of unknown shapes in the presence of nonparametric noise of unknown level and of unknown distribution. No boundary shape constraints are imposed on the object, only a weak bulk condition for the object's interior is required. The algorithm has linear complexity and exponential accuracy and is appropriate for real-time systems. In this paper, we develop further the mathematical formalism of our method and explore im- portant connections to the mathematical theory of percolation and statistical physics. We prove results on consistency and algorithmic complexity of our testing procedure. In addition, we address not only an asymptotic behavior of the method, but also a nite sample performance of our test.
Langovoy, M., Wittich, O. Robust nonparametric detection of objects in noisy images (2010-049), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, September 2010 (techreport)
Large Scale Variational Inference and Experimental Design for Sparse Generalized Linear Models
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, August 2010 (techreport)
Many problems of low-level computer vision and image processing, such as denoising, deconvolution, tomographic reconstruction or super-resolution, can be addressed by maximizing the posterior distribution of a sparse linear model (SLM). We show how higher-order Bayesian decision-making problems, such as optimizing image acquisition in magnetic resonance scanners, can be addressed by querying the SLM posterior covariance, unrelated to the density's mode. We propose a scalable algorithmic framework, with which SLM posteriors over full, high-resolution images can be approximated for the first time, solving a variational optimization problem which is convex iff posterior mode finding is convex. These methods successfully drive the optimization of sampling trajectories for real-world magnetic resonance imaging through Bayesian experimental design, which has not been attempted before. Our methodology provides new insight into similarities and differences between sparse reconstruction and approximate Bayesian inference, and has important implications for compressive sensing of real-world images.
Seeger, M., Nickisch, H. Large Scale Variational Inference and Experimental Design for Sparse Generalized Linear Models Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, August 2010 (techreport)
Cooperative Cuts for Image Segmentation
(UWEETR-1020-0003), University of Washington, Washington DC, USA, August 2010 (techreport)
We propose a novel framework for graph-based cooperative regularization that uses submodular costs on graph edges. We introduce an efficient iterative algorithm to solve the resulting hard discrete optimization problem, and show that it has a guaranteed approximation factor. The edge-submodular formulation is amenable to the same extensions as standard graph cut approaches, and applicable to a range of problems. We apply this method to the image segmentation problem. Specifically, Here, we apply it to introduce a discount for homogeneous boundaries in binary image segmentation on very difficult images, precisely, long thin objects and color and grayscale images with a shading gradient. The experiments show that significant portions of previously truncated objects are now preserved.
Jegelka, S., Bilmes, J. Cooperative Cuts for Image Segmentation (UWEETR-1020-0003), University of Washington, Washington DC, USA, August 2010 (techreport)
Fast algorithms for total-variationbased optimization
Barbero, A., Sra, S.
We derive a number of methods to solve efficiently simple optimization problems subject to a totalvariation (TV) regularization, under different norms of the TV operator and both for the case of 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional data. In spite of the non-smooth, non-separable nature of the TV terms considered, we show that a dual formulation with strong structure can be derived. Taking advantage of this structure we develop adaptions of existing algorithms from the optimization literature, resulting in efficient methods for the problem at hand. Experimental results show that for 1-dimensional data the proposed methods achieve convergence within good accuracy levels in practically linear time, both for L1 and L2 norms. For the more challenging 2-dimensional case a performance of order O(N2 log2 N) for N x N inputs is achieved when using the L2 norm. A final section suggests possible extensions and lines of further work.
Barbero, A., Sra, S. Fast algorithms for total-variationbased optimization (194), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, August 2010 (techreport)
Gaussian Mixture Modeling with Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models
Nickisch, H., Rasmussen, C.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, June 2010 (techreport)
Density modeling is notoriously difficult for high dimensional data. One approach to the problem is to search for a lower dimensional manifold which captures the main characteristics of the data. Recently, the Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model (GPLVM) has successfully been used to find low dimensional manifolds in a variety of complex data. The GPLVM consists of a set of points in a low dimensional latent space, and a stochastic map to the observed space. We show how it can be interpreted as a density model in the observed space. However, the GPLVM is not trained as a density model and therefore yields bad density estimates. We propose a new training strategy and obtain improved generalisation performance and better density estimates in comparative evaluations on several benchmark data sets.
Nickisch, H., Rasmussen, C. Gaussian Mixture Modeling with Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, June 2010 (techreport)
Generalized Proximity and Projection with Norms and Mixed-norms
(192), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2010 (techreport)
We discuss generalized proximity operators (GPO) and their associated generalized projection problems. On inputs of size n, we show how to efficiently apply GPOs and generalized projections for separable norms and distance-like functions to accuracy e in O(n log(1/e)) time. We also derive projection algorithms that run theoretically in O(n log n log(1/e)) time but can for suitable parameter ranges empirically outperform the O(n log(1/e)) projection method. The proximity and projection tasks are either separable, and solved directly, or are reduced to a single root-finding step. We highlight that as a byproduct, our analysis also yields an O(n log(1/e)) (weakly linear-time) procedure for Euclidean projections onto the l1;1-norm ball; previously only an O(n log n) method was known. We provide empirical evaluation to illustrate the performance of our methods, noting that for the l1;1-norm projection, our implementation is more than two orders of magnitude faster than the previously known method.
Sra, S. Generalized Proximity and Projection with Norms and Mixed-norms (192), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, May 2010 (techreport)
(189), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, March 2010 (techreport)
We introduce a problem we call Cooperative cut, where the goal is to find a minimum-cost graph cut but where a submodular function is used to define the cost of a subsets of edges. That means, the cost of an edge that is added to the current cut set C depends on the edges in C. This generalization of the cost in the standard min-cut problem to a submodular cost function immediately makes the problem harder. Not only do we prove NP hardness even for nonnegative submodular costs, but also show a lower bound of Omega(|V|^(1/3)) on the approximation factor for the problem. On the positive side, we propose and compare four approximation algorithms with an overall approximation factor of min { |V|/2, |C*|, O( sqrt(|E|) log |V|), |P_max|}, where C* is the optimal solution, and P_max is the longest s, t path across the cut between given s, t. We also introduce additional heuristics for the problem which have attractive properties from the perspective of practical applications and implementations in that existing fast min-cut libraries may be used as subroutines. Both our approximation algorithms, and our heuristics, appear to do well in practice.
Jegelka, S., Bilmes, J. Cooperative Cuts: Graph Cuts with Submodular Edge Weights (189), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, March 2010 (techreport)
From Motor Learning to Interaction Learning in Robots
Sigaud, O., Peters, J.
pages: 538, Studies in Computational Intelligence ; 264, (Editors: O Sigaud, J Peters), Springer, Berlin, Germany, January 2010 (book)
From an engineering standpoint, the increasing complexity of robotic systems and the increasing demand for more autonomously learning robots, has become essential. This book is largely based on the successful workshop "From motor to interaction learning in robots" held at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems. The major aim of the book is to give students interested the topics described above a chance to get started faster and researchers a helpful compandium.
Sigaud, O., Peters, J. From Motor Learning to Interaction Learning in Robots pages: 538, Studies in Computational Intelligence ; 264, (Editors: O Sigaud, J Peters), Springer, Berlin, Germany, January 2010 (book)
Information-theoretic inference of common ancestors
Steudel, B., Ay, N.
Computing Research Repository (CoRR), abs/1010.5720, pages: 18, 2010 (techreport)
Steudel, B., Ay, N. Information-theoretic inference of common ancestors Computing Research Repository (CoRR), abs/1010.5720, pages: 18, 2010 (techreport)
Learning an Interactive Segmentation System
Nickisch, H., Kohli, P., Rother, C.
Many successful applications of computer vision to image or video manipulation are interactive by nature. However, parameters of such systems are often trained neglecting the user. Traditionally, interactive systems have been treated in the same manner as their fully automatic counterparts. Their performance is evaluated by computing the accuracy of their solutions under some fixed set of user interactions. This paper proposes a new evaluation and learning method which brings the user in the loop. It is based on the use of an active robot user - a simulated model of a human user. We show how this approach can be used to evaluate and learn parameters of state-of-the-art interactive segmentation systems. We also show how simulated user models can be integrated into the popular max-margin method for parameter learning and propose an algorithm to solve the resulting optimisation problem.
Nickisch, H., Kohli, P., Rother, C. Learning an Interactive Segmentation System Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, December 2009 (techreport)
Machine Learning for Brain-Computer Interfaces
Mini-Symposia on Assistive Machine Learning for People with Disabilities at NIPS (AMD), December 2009 (talk)
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) aim to be the ultimate in assistive technology: decoding a user‘s intentions directly from brain signals without involving any muscles or peripheral nerves. Thus, some classes of BCI potentially offer hope for users with even the most extreme cases of paralysis, such as in late-stage Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, where nothing else currently allows communication of any kind. Other lines in BCI research aim to restore lost motor function in as natural a way as possible, reconnecting and in some cases re-training motor-cortical areas to control prosthetic, or previously paretic, limbs. Research and development are progressing on both invasive and non-invasive fronts, although BCI has yet to make a breakthrough to widespread clinical application. The high-noise high-dimensional nature of brain-signals, particularly in non-invasive approaches and in patient populations, make robust decoding techniques a necessity. Generally, the approach has been to use relatively simple feature extraction techniques, such as template matching and band-power estimation, coupled to simple linear classifiers. This has led to a prevailing view among applied BCI researchers that (sophisticated) machine-learning is irrelevant since "it doesn‘t matter what classifier you use once you‘ve done your preprocessing right and extracted the right features." I shall show a few examples of how this runs counter to both the empirical reality and the spirit of what needs to be done to bring BCI into clinical application. Along the way I‘ll highlight some of the interesting problems that remain open for machine-learners.
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Hill, NJ. Machine Learning for Brain-Computer Interfaces Mini-Symposia on Assistive Machine Learning for People with Disabilities at NIPS (AMD), December 2009 (talk)
PAC-Bayesian Approach to Formulation of Clustering Objectives
NIPS Workshop on "Clustering: Science or Art? Towards Principled Approaches", December 2009 (talk)
Clustering is a widely used tool for exploratory data analysis. However, the theoretical understanding of clustering is very limited. We still do not have a well-founded answer to the seemingly simple question of "how many clusters are present in the data?", and furthermore a formal comparison of clusterings based on different optimization objectives is far beyond our abilities. The lack of good theoretical support gives rise to multiple heuristics that confuse the practitioners and stall development of the field. We suggest that the ill-posed nature of clustering problems is caused by the fact that clustering is often taken out of its subsequent application context. We argue that one does not cluster the data just for the sake of clustering it, but rather to facilitate the solution of some higher level task. By evaluation of the clustering‘s contribution to the solution of the higher level task it is possible to compare different clusterings, even those obtained by different optimization objectives. In the preceding work it was shown that such an approach can be applied to evaluation and design of co-clustering solutions. Here we suggest that this approach can be extended to other settings, where clustering is applied.
Seldin, Y. PAC-Bayesian Approach to Formulation of Clustering Objectives NIPS Workshop on "Clustering: Science or Art? Towards Principled Approaches", December 2009 (talk)
Semi-supervised Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis of Human Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data
Shelton, JA.
Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML), December 2009 (talk)
Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis (KCCA) is a general technique for subspace learning that incorporates principal components analysis (PCA) and Fisher linear discriminant analysis (LDA) as special cases. By finding directions that maximize correlation, KCCA learns representations tied more closely to underlying process generating the the data and can ignore high-variance noise directions. However, for data where acquisition in a given modality is expensive or otherwise limited, KCCA may suffer from small sample effects. We propose to use semi-supervised Laplacian regularization to utilize data that are present in only one modality. This manifold learning approach is able to find highly correlated directions that also lie along the data manifold, resulting in a more robust estimate of correlated subspaces. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) acquired data are naturally amenable to subspace techniques as data are well aligned and such data of the human brain are a particularly interesting candidate. In this study we implemented various supervised and semi-supervised versions of KCCA on human fMRI data, with regression to single and multivariate labels (corresponding to video content subjects viewed during the image acquisition). In each variate condition, Laplacian regularization improved performance whereas the semi-supervised variants of KCCA yielded the best performance. We additionally analyze the weights learned by the regression in order to infer brain regions that are important during different types of visual processing.
Shelton, JA. Semi-supervised Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis of Human Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML), December 2009 (talk)
Detection of objects in noisy images and site percolation on square lattices
(2009-035), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, November 2009 (techreport)
We propose a novel probabilistic method for detection of objects in noisy images. The method uses results from percolation and random graph theories. We present an algorithm that allows to detect objects of unknown shapes in the presence of random noise. Our procedure substantially differs from wavelets-based algorithms. The algorithm has linear complexity and exponential accuracy and is appropriate for real-time systems. We prove results on consistency and algorithmic complexity of our procedure.
Langovoy, M., Wittich, O. Detection of objects in noisy images and site percolation on square lattices (2009-035), EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, November 2009 (techreport)
An Incremental GEM Framework for Multiframe Blind Deconvolution, Super-Resolution, and Saturation Correction
Harmeling, S., Sra, S., Hirsch, M., Schölkopf, B.
(187), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, November 2009 (techreport)
We develop an incremental generalized expectation maximization (GEM) framework to model the multiframe blind deconvolution problem. A simplistic version of this problem was recently studied by Harmeling etal~cite{harmeling09}. We solve a more realistic version of this problem which includes the following major features: (i) super-resolution ability emph{despite} noise and unknown blurring; (ii) saturation-correction, i.e., handling of overexposed pixels that can otherwise confound the image processing; and (iii) simultaneous handling of color channels. These features are seamlessly integrated into our incremental GEM framework to yield simple but efficient multiframe blind deconvolution algorithms. We present technical details concerning critical steps of our algorithms, especially to highlight how all operations can be written using matrix-vector multiplications. We apply our algorithm to real-world images from astronomy and super resolution tasks. Our experimental results show that our methods yield improve d resolution and deconvolution at the same time.
Harmeling, S., Sra, S., Hirsch, M., Schölkopf, B. An Incremental GEM Framework for Multiframe Blind Deconvolution, Super-Resolution, and Saturation Correction (187), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, November 2009 (techreport)
Efficient Filter Flow for Space-Variant Multiframe Blind Deconvolution
Hirsch, M., Sra, S., Schölkopf, B., Harmeling, S.
Ultimately being motivated by facilitating space-variant blind deconvolution, we present a class of linear transformations, that are expressive enough for space-variant filters, but at the same time especially designed for efficient matrix-vector-multiplications. Successful results on astronomical imaging through atmospheric turbulences and on noisy magnetic resonance images of constantly moving objects demonstrate the practical significance of our approach.
Hirsch, M., Sra, S., Schölkopf, B., Harmeling, S. Efficient Filter Flow for Space-Variant Multiframe Blind Deconvolution (188), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, November 2009 (techreport)
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The Eastern Pathology Alliance to offer Hepatitis C testing services to the wider NHS capitalising on next generation sequencing technology
o First and only laboratory in the UK to use equipment from Vela Diagnostics
o New testing process delivers huge patient benefits in terms of speed, accuracy and reliability yet with costs significantly reduced
August 12, 2019 – The Eastern Pathology Alliance (EPA) announces today that it is to offer Hepatitis C genotyping testing to the wider NHS nationally leveraging its investment in next generation sequencing assays.
Founded in 2012, the EPA has become a centre of excellence for pathology – particularly virology – providing centralised laboratory medicine for the Norfolk and Waveney region. It has selected state of the art equipment from Vela Diagnostics which incorporates Ion Torrent semiconductor sequencing to provide rapid turnaround of results for clinicians and their patients. It is currently the only laboratory in the UK to put this kind of a high tech solution into routine use.
Aimed at other acute NHS Trusts, CCGs and private healthcare providers, the new service will comprise a whole package involving fast testing, clinical interpretation along with guidance and advice about drug selection. Pricing will be based on a per test fee.
HCV infections a major public health threat in the UK
Mainly affecting the liver, Hepatitis C is the only blood born virus which is a curable infection with success rates of between 92-95%. Although a national data set is unavailable, most recent estimates by Public Health England (PHE) show that 160,000 people are living with chronic Hepatitis C virus infections in the UK.
The use of next generation sequencing assays enables detailed analysis of the genetic material of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) to confirm its strain – predominantly genotypes 1 and 3 in the UK – and the determination of resistance mutations. This information is crucially important for clinicians so they can then prescribe the optimum mix of drugs to treat the virus.
Dr Samir Dervisevic, a Consultant Virologist and the Clinical Lead for Virology at the EPA’s Microbiology Department explains, “In May 2016, the UK signed up to the World Health Organization strategy on viral hepatitis which commits participating countries to the elimination of Hepatitis C virus as a major public health threat by 2030. In England, HCV treatment is centrally funded and the NHS England direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment programme continues to be rolled out with several medications authorised. Given this, ascertaining the genotype strain before treatment starts is recommended especially as the duration of treatment among other factors depends on the virus genotype.”
Samples collected from patients in Norfolk used to be referred to a private laboratory for HCV genotyping. When drugs were prescribed but the treatment failed – which could be due to virus resistance to a particular directly acting antiviral drug – blood samples were then sent to the Reference Laboratory in London for resistance profiling. Due to the turnaround time, some patients actually had to wait a prolonged period in order to receive the results and be re-treated.
This time consuming and long winded process – often taking months - slowed down the effective delivery of clinical services. Furthermore, samples were split, testing was overly costly and – most importantly – there was a significant distress for patients given the time involved.
Dr Dervisevic adds, “We’ve opted out of referring samples to these two external laboratories and instead invested in the latest cutting edge solution of our own which gives us automated workflow from sample to results within just two days so that patients get the right treatment fast. We’re now happy to offer our clinical colleagues access to this modern technology so that they receive a quick, accurate and reliable diagnostic service combined with clinical backup and expertise.”
New HCV testing enabled by vendor neutral managed services
With a small physical footprint, the compact Vela Diagnostics technology – a combination of a Sentosa SQ Genotyping Assay and Sentosa ST401 instrument unit - is perfect for use in a busy space constrained laboratory setting. The EPA has installed both working in close collaboration with its established vendor neutral managed services partner, Genmed.
The use of a managed services contract (MSC) has meant that the EPA has been able to introduce the new test equipment rapidly and benefit from a pay-to-use approach.
Reenesh Prakash, EPA microbiology network manager explains, “The contract we’ve signed is an interesting one. We've agreed with Genmed and Vela Diagnostics the volume of work we’ll deliver over time and adopted a tax efficient MSC where we’re charged per reportable test.”
In addition, a MSC provides the EPA with a host of other benefits. First, it is able to reclaim VAT to give the organisation a 20% budget boost. Second, Genmed provides all administrative support related to arranging equipment maintenance and the ordering of consumables. And third, it minimises operational risk as Genmed takes responsibility for equipment uptime with a SLA set at 90% availability.
Robin Modak, Genmed’s chief executive officer, said, “We’ve been able to put in place the best, most modern laboratory equipment for the EPA with an innovative and flexible charging model. The EPA’s primary duty is assay performance and the provision of care. But it is the patient who is the real winner from all this - as one would hope - as the time from test to accurate diagnosis has been radically reduced.”
About Eastern Pathology Alliance (EPA)
Serving a catchment area of about 1 million patients, laboratory medicine in the Norfolk and Waveney area is managed by the Eastern Pathology Alliance Network (EPA) – a joint venture established in 2012 between Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, the James Paget University Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn. The creation of the EPA has centralised pathology across the three hospitals – with laboratories 0n each site - and a hub laboratory located at Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital. Employing 4o0 staff, the goal of the EPA is to provide a common pathology service across the network to deliver greater efficiency and cost benefits with procurement centralised for all.
For further information, visit www.nnuh.nhs.uk/departments/pathology/laboratory-medicine
About Genmed
Founded in 2007 and based in London and Wales, Genmed is a vendor neutral managed service provider specialising in the health sector. It works with 40 NHS Trusts and Health Boards around the country where, to date, it has 220 contracts supporting a variety of clinical disciplines such as pathology, surgery, endoscopy, imaging along with medical records, IT and facilities. Genmed’s asset finance requirements are funded by large blue chip partners including Societe Generale and GE Capital. Currently Genmed’s contract portfolio totals around £510 million.
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Masculine Men and Masculine Women Die Sooner
Children of Divorce Die Sooner
Optimism Can't Fend Off Death
Why Conscientiousness Leads to Long Life
We Killed Bin Laden the Right Way
Don't Rush to Sanctify Your Old Boss
Friedman and Martin use an ingenious measure of masculinity and femininity, which allows for some nuanced calculation of how these gendered styles relate to longevity.
To measure degrees of masculinity and femininity, they took the subjects’ preferences for specific occupations and preferred activities. Then they scored those occupations based on the actual ratio of men to women within them. Comparing preferences with actuality, the researchers could distinguish masculine men, masculine women, feminine men, and feminine women.
Which then led to this interesting finding:
The more masculine men and the more masculine women had an increased mortality risk, while the more feminine women and the more feminine men were relatively protected.
More masculine people do riskier things. More importantly, though, they make smaller and weaker social networks that might insulate them from life-shortening social risks.
Friedman and Martin's Longevity Project reached this somewhat surprising conclusion:
Children from divorced families died almost five years earlier on average than children from intact families. … In fact, parental divorce during childhood was the single strongest social predictor of early death.
Divorced kids die earlier of all causes. The sons of divorce were significantly more likely to die violently, by accident, suicide, or fighting.
One of the big factors in later life tied to earlier death is that the divorced kids were more likely to divorce themselves.
If the divorced kids made happy marriages and found work they liked, they lived longer than the other divorced kids, and almost as long as the children from intact families who also made happy marriages and found meaningful work.
The cheerful do not live longer. So conclude Friedman and Martin in The Longevity Project.
The cheerful are more likely to have better health in the short run. They are more likely to follow through with medical treatments and therapy regimens because they believe that things will work out well. Pessimists are more likely to quit early, or not even try, because they do not expect a good result.
Friedman and Martin speculate that optimists may be disheartened if things do not work out quickly, and so suffer worse stress or depression which negates the health advantage of cheerfulness.
I am in favor of cheerfulness. I believe, and teach to my kids and my students, that everything will work out just fine. I think Friedman and Martin make a mistake in conflating cheerfulness with optimism (and at one point with a "happy-go-lucky" attitude).
Optimists expect things to work out well. Cheerful people deal with reality with good cheer. Both attitudes help you get through illness better. But optimism can't fend off death. However, cheerfulness helps you deal with death better. SO optimism (which I think is what Friedman and Martin are really measuring) can have a good health effect without having a longevity effect.
I previously noted the main point of Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin's The Longevity Project.
The fruit of an eight-decade longitudinal study of talented kids, begun in 1921 by Lewis Terman, the book comes to this conclusion:
"Conscientiousness … turned out to be the best personality predictor of long life … The young adults who were thrifty, persistent, detail oriented, and responsible lived the longest."
Friedman and Martin offer three reasonable guesses about why this is so.
First, the conscientious are usually prudent, taking only sensible risks.
Second, they may be healthier in general - not just healthy living, but healthy basic constitutions.
Third, they create healthy relationships with other people, which not only makes us healthier, but also happier.
Go persistent prudence!
The September 11 attacks were a surprise mass murder of civilians designed to create terror. Fighting and killing the people who did that is about the clearest case of justified war I can think of.
The United States mobilized to find Al Qaeda, especially its leader Osama bin Laden, and capture or kill them. We asked the government that was harboring Al Qaeda, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, to help us, or at least get out of the way. They considered it, but decided to continue sheltering our enemy. That made the Taliban an enemy too. We removed the Taliban regime in order to get at Al Qaeda.
When bin Laden fled to Pakistan, we made the same request of the Pakistani government. They decided to help us find Al Qaeda. We learned, the hard way, that some Al Qaeda sympathizers within the Pakistani government were tipping off the enemy, so we cut back on what information we shared with the Pakistani government. Finally, after a long search and excellent intelligence gathering, we found Osama bin Laden. We sent in a small team of Americans who captured and killed the enemy. They did not kill civilians, and none of our guys were lost. Bin Laden's corpse was identified, given Muslim funeral rites, and buried at sea to prevent anyone making a shrine of his grave.
That is doing war the right way.
The many distractions that were added by opportunists to this basic story were huge costly mistakes, designed to serve personal or venal interests. But those mistakes should not distract us from the clear narrative of the right war fought the right way.
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Pope John Paul II was beatified yesterday by his successor and close ally, Benedict XVI. To do that Benedict had to suspend the normal five-year waiting period to begin the drawn-out beatification process. John Paul died six years ago, so the speed-up was not huge. Still, I think it imprudent.
I am a Presbyterian. The internal politics of the Catholic Church are their business. I think John Paul was a great man and a force for good, especially in the struggle against communism and other kinds of materialism. Nonetheless, I am not really commenting here on the whether John Paul II is worthy of religious veneration, and am not qualified to have an opinion on his qualifications for sainthood.
Rather, I think rushing to judgment for permanent honors is a bad idea for anyone. I think it is always good policy to wait some years for the passions of the moment to cool. I am particularly suspicious when those in power move to permanently honor their patrons and fellow partisans. That smacks of an attempt to sanctify current policies, not just former leaders. I think this is just as bad (and much more common) when practiced for secular political leaders. The Catholic Church's canonization process rarely involves people who were powerful in any ordinary sense. But in the case of John Paul II, it does.
I hope the church waits a long time, with much deliberation, and probably a new pope, before it decides whether to elevate the beatified pope to sainthood.
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At a college with a shady reputation, the new dean responded to investigations into the basketball team by suspending any basketball player who wasn't maintaining a passing average. Furious, the coach came storming into the dean's office, followed by one of his star players. "You can't keep him from playing!" the coach roared. "We won't win this weekend without him!" "I don't care," the dean said. "Things have gotten out of hand at this college." "What do you mean, out of hand?" the coach demanded. "I'll show you what I mean," the dean said. He turned to the basketball player and said, "Tell me,how much is six times seven?" The player thought for several seconds. Then he said, "Thirty- one?" The dean turned to the coach and said, "I rest my case." "Oh, come on now," the coach said. "Why are you making such a big deal of it? After all, he only missed it by one."
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Bones. These include the collarbone (clavicle), the shoulder blade (scapula), and the upper arm bone (humerus).
Joints. These facilitate movement and include the following:
Sternoclavicular joint. This is where the clavicle meets the sternum.
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Shoulder joint (glenohumeral joint). A ball-and-socket joint that facilitates forward, circular, and backward movement of the shoulder.
Ligaments. White, shiny, flexible bands of fibrous tissue which hold joints together and connect the various bones, including the following:
The joint capsule is a group of ligaments that connect the humerus to the socket of the shoulder joint on the scapula to stabilize the shoulder and keep it from dislocating.
Ligaments that attach the clavicle to the acromion
Ligaments that connect the clavicle to the scapula by attaching to the coracoid process
Acromion. The roof (highest point) of the shoulder that is formed by a part of the scapula.
Tendons. The tough cords of tissue that connect muscles to bones. The rotator cuff tendons are a group of tendons that connect the deepest layer of muscles to the humerus.
Muscles. These help support and rotate the shoulder in many directions.
Bursa. A closed space between 2 moving surfaces that has a small amount of lubricating fluid inside; located between the rotator cuff muscle layer and the outer layer of large, bulky muscles.
Rotator cuff. Composed of tendons, the rotator cuff and associated muscles hold the ball tightly within the glenohumeral joint at the top of the upper arm bone (humerus).
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Hindi TV Serial - Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha - Addu gets lost and Mohan is blamed
In recent episodes, the relationship between Mohan and Megha is getting very strange. Mohan has made it clear to Megha that he loves her and wants to marry her. It is also strange that the letter that Mohan wrote to Megha was found in the diary of Amar, and when the family read that letter (which did not have the name of Mohan), the letter seemed to indicate that Amar was actually telling the family that if something happened to him, Megha should re-marry. Based on this letter, the family thought of getting Megha re-married and she finally agreed. Bua, Nanhi, Guru and Mohan all thought that this meant that the marriage would be with Mohan and the behavior of Megha's father-in-law also seemed to indicate that, but this was all a misunderstanding.
Megha refused to marry Mohan, and for some time, Mohan agreed to his mother's demand for meeting a girl, at which point Bua and Nanhi came over to try and dissuade the other family from agreeing. However, they had agreed for the relationship. In the meantime, Renu's cousin Manav was brought in for the purpose of seeing Megha, and after some time, Manav agreed to the relationship. After being pushed by Mohan, Megha also protested and said yes to the marriage with Manav.
In order to try and get some support, Mohan agreed to get the family to meet Sanath Jayasurya (who was shooting for Jhalak Dikhla Ja), but in the return journey, Addu was going with Mohan and got lost. Just when Addu was on the verge of getting beaten up by some older kids, Mohan managed to save him, and then Manav turned up and took Addu home. At home, Megha was furious with Mohan, since it was his responsibility to take care of Addu and he failed at that one.
Posted by Ashish Agarwal at 6/29/2012 08:07:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: Children, Drama, family, Joint family, Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha, Re-marriage, Romance, Widow
Hindi TV Serial - Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon - Khushi getting closer to Shyam so as to defeat him
The serial is slowly losing its TRP's since they are dragging the story. Their lead actor went on a leave of 40 days for which they had to make do without him, and since the interaction between the lead male-female pair is the main part of this story, it made things very boring. So, there was a kidnap of the lead pair, with Khushi and then Mamiji hunting for where Arnav is. After some time however, you start getting bored with the same stuff happening over and over again.
Now, finally after what seems a long time, the story is reaching a climax. Khushi and NK have found and got confirmed that Shyam is the one behind the kidnap and are trying to get more information on what is happening. Shyam on the other hand is happy that he had managed to get Khushi to get Arnav to sign to the will where Shyam would be the sole executor of the will, in control of everything.
While doing this investigation of Shyam, Khushi and NK have an embarrassing moment when they are trying to get the password for a pen drive owned by Shyam, and realize that Shyam has the password as 'ILOVEKHUSHI'. NK did not know about this love that Shyam had for Khushi and is shocked, but she manages to explain it. Now, in order to unlock the drive, they need for Shyam to repeat the password, so Khushi goes to Shyam so that she can get him to repeat the phrase and they can see what is in the pen drive - which is a copy of the will.
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Hindi TV Serial - Saathiya - Separation between Ahem and Gopi after some harsh words by Ahem
The happenings in the serial seem somewhat strange. Due to a time when Ahem had bhang, he had sex with Gopi and as a result, because of that one encounter, Gopi is pregnant. The family is very happy since none of them expected this to happen, being unsure of the true nature of the relationship between Gopi and Ahem. Ahem, after the initial surprise, is very confused. Given the fact that on a running basis, there is no physical intimacy between Gopi and Ahem, he thinks that this talk of a father is very much forward and that he is not ready for being a father as yet.
This feeling is increasing in him, causing him to become more impatient and more edgy, and increasing the distance between him and Gopi. Gopi is unable to understand as to why Ahem is becoming more distant, why he seems more impatient. And then it happens, where at a havan, a kid is in the house and is causing Ahem to get more irritated. This irritation causes Ahem to finally declare that he does not want a baby, and this causes Koki to get extremely angry, who then separates Ahem and Gopi and says that from now on, there is no relation between Ahem and Gopi and between Ahem and the baby.
At the same time, Urmi realizes that if Gopi is the one bringing a baby into the household and Rashi does not have a baby, it will make the position of Gopi more powerful, so she starts urging Rashi to also get pregnant. Rashi is somewhat impatient with the speed expected out of her, but starts making some attempts under the guidance of Urmi. She is told to try the trick of using bhang, but in this case, the situation becomes reversed, with Rashi eating the laddu containing bhang rather than her husband.
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Hindi TV Serial - Pratigya - Tanmay finally admits his guilt in court
The court case has been ongoing now, with a shocker in the end when Krishna was convicted of the crime. However, based on the ongoing investigation where Adarsh's phone was located in the house, located with Tanmay, the investigation was given a fresh boost and the case was re-opened (however, not being a lawyer, I was not sure as to how the case was re-opened in the same court after a judgment was given). Now, the case is also trying to put Tanmay in the dock even though he is not an accused, and wonder whether all this can actually happen in a murder case.
There is some evidence against Tanmay, and he is also jailed. And then Pratigya comes to meet him and shows him a long twisted key chain, the same one which was used to strangle Adarsh. Further, the pathologist who gives the wrong blood report is called to court after being arrested and Komal's stolen jewellery is also found with him, further adding to the list of suspicions against Tanmay.
And then the finale where the defense lawyer presents the key chain which he claims is the weapon used to kill Adarsh, and Tanmay denies that this is his key chain, and then blurts out that the actual key chain was burnt, which is an admission of guilt.
Posted by Ashish Agarwal at 6/26/2012 11:28:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Court, Crime, Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Murder, Pratigya, Serial, Trial, TV
Hindi TV Serial - Pratigya - Krishna sentenced, but the truth about Tanmay starts to come out
Seems like a perfect crime. Tanmay wants to get all the money from the Professor, and also has a grudge against Adarsh and also against Krishna. So the perfect crime happens, where Adarsh is shown running away from Krishna and Krishna threatening Adarsh for harming Komal. Tanmay uses this as an excuse and strangles Adarsh and Krishna shows up soon after. He is then arrested for the murder, and since he is already a goonda and has threatened Adarsh, there is a lot of belief that he did the murder. He even has to convince Pratigya that he did not do the crime.
Now, the court case is on, and the evidence is against Krishna. However, there is the case of the missing mobile phone belonging to Adarsh and the police put surveillance on the photo (which is shut down). Adrash, crazily, still has the phone and has kept it in a suitcase. Arushi brings down the suitcase searching for something and then the little kid finds the phone, recognizes the phone as belonging to her dead father, and switches it on. The police surveillance detects that the phone is switched on and is now located inside the Professor's house.
Pratigya, along with the police team, raids the house and arrests Tanmay. In the police station, the police try to beat out the truth from him, but he does not give up so easily. His lawyer also advices on what to do in court, while Arushi tells Pratigya that she wants to find the truth, and that Tanmay had been behaving strangely for some time now. Now, Pratigya also has the instrument used to strangle Adarsh, will this be enough to convict Tanmay. And what will an angry Krishna do to Tanmay ?
Labels: Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Marriage, Murder, Pratigya, Romance, Serial, TV
Hindi TV Serial - Phir Subah Hogi - A girl trying to break free from a repressive tradition
For the past few years now, there have been some shows coming up on television that are breaking the traditional saas-bahu or reality series model on TV and highlighting some of the problems that are there in the country. For example, Balika Vadhu, even with all the dramatics still portrayed the problem of child marriage and other ills that are present in our society and also show from time to time, some actions that can break these customs.
Phir Subah Hogi is another such serial that showcases the problematic customs of some regions, such as in the Bundelkhand region of central India, where the original dance form of 'Raai dance' was meant to be for the gods, but over a period of time and due to the acute poverty, this got converted into a tradition meant for the rich people and then into the flesh trade, where a rich guy could do a custom called 'Sardhakai', meant to showcase the entry of the girl into the trade under the control of a rich thakur. It has been accepted for many many years now, but there are girls from time to time who want to break free and lead a normal life, have a normal marriage rather than be doing this trade.
So, Sugni (played by Gulki Joshi), is more educated than others from her community and cannot stand this custom. She is struggling against the customs, and is also attracted to the Thakur Vikram Singh (Varun Badola) who supports her and her family on many occasions, and then expresses his love for her. It is more difficult for her to express her love, but she does so, and now they have to face the expressions of many others in the community. Further, as per the show, eventually the Thakur Vikram Singh will turn negative, and will cause her more problems.
Labels: Drama, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Phir Subah Hogi, Serial, Social Cause, Social Evil, Society, TV, Women
Hindi TV Serial - Kya Hua Tera Vaada - Jatin woos Mona, and Pradeep plays the jealous role
The serial is going through a phase where they are showing the jealous nature of Pradeep. He left Mona and their 12 year old relationship for Anushka and the promises that she showed him, but still retails a strong possessive sense for Mona; so when he sees that Jatin has given a proposal for Mona, he is shocked. He is even more shocked when he sees his own father pushing Mona for meeting Jatin and for atleast considering the proposal; and foolishly, he scolds his own father for doing so. The result was that he got a thorough scolding from his own father for whatever happened, and for trying to interfere in Mona's life. Further, when he tries to act in front of Mona, she not only talks back to him but Anushka hears when he is trying to act possessive and he is only able to manage the situation with some difficulty.
Mona is still shocked about the proposal, and since her father-in-law was pushing her, she goes to the restaurant to meet Jatin, and to shock him and make him aware, she takes all 3 children along. However, Jatin handles the situation very well, taking care of the children, asking them for what they wanted and getting on a friendship term with them. Pradeep has also come to the restaurant to see what is happening (although Anushka does not know about this) and when Jatin sees him, he welcomes him and does not seem to care that even though he called Mona, she called her children as well as her husband.
On the other side, Tani is seen walking back from the engagement of Madhav with Jia, being further taunted by Madhav at the ceremony, and walking back in the rain where she faints. Now, typically, in hindi serials and movies, wherever there is a fainting happening of a lady like this, it is often meant to indicate that she is pregnant. One wonders what will happen in this case.
Labels: Affair, Divorce, Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Kya Hua Tera Vaada, Marriage, Romance, Separation
Hindi TV Serial - Pavitra Rishta - First Archana and then Purvi getting defamed and humiliated
Hindi serials have a unique sense of what is right and wrong. The right person can make one wrong move, and it is caught out and highlighted instantly while the wrong person can keep on doing wrong things, spoiling the life of other people and nothing happens - something you can have decades before something happens. In the current case, both Archana and Purvi have to suffer humiliation for actions that would not even be wrong, but characters such as Manjusha and Savita do not have to suffer for whatever they have done.
For many months now, Archana has seen her daughters getting closer to her, although she also knows that Savita has filled them so much with hate that they only hate her, and so she does not let them know about who she actually is. However, soon after Savita comes there, she lets them know about who Archana actually is, and the secret is out. Instinctively, both Teju and Ovi start to dislike / hate Archana for whatever she is, and it is difficult for Archana to stand this sudden hatred from somebody who she has come to love, ever since she has met them.
On the other hand, Purvi is in a far worse condition. She finally fell in love with Arjun, but Arjun never told her about his agreement with Ovi for marriage, and suddenly she gets to know about this once Ovi lands up in India. Her own cousin Punni is looking to take revenge on Purvi and tells Ovi about a girl who is in the way, and then finally tells Ovi in a roundabout way that Purvi is that girl, and Purvi then gets a slap from Ovi. Her parents are supporting her since they believe that Purvi can never do anything like this, but do they know everything ?
Labels: Divorce, Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Marriage, Mother, Pavitra Rishta, Separation, Zee
Hindi TV Serial - Bade Acche Lagte Hain - Priya sentenced to 14 years in jail
Sometimes the legal situation shown in serials can be right absurd. For one, within a few days of a situation, the trial happens and it concludes within a few days, and for people who have been involved with the legal situation, they know how absurd such depiction actually is.
In the case of Priya, it was her own sister who actually spoilt the case for her and did not understand what she had done, the only thing she knew was that she was in love with Sid, and hence was willing to lie for him in court to prevent him from going to jail; even though this meant that this would prove that Priya was responsible for everything.
Further, in court, whatever Nutz may have done, as long as she has not lied in court, her evidence should be believed and for her testimony in court to be dismissed as the prosecution lawyer wanted (and without any objection by the defense lawyer) seemed very strange.
In the end, even after all the testimony from everybody regarding how Priya had such a good character, the judge was convinced and delivered a judgment holding Priya guilty for the incident where fake medical supplies were provided and sentencing her to 14 years in jail. Mama, Sid and Niharika were happy over this, but everybody else was very devastated over all this.
After this, the scene shifts where Ram is trying to work out the legal ways of delaying the judgment / applying to the higher court. On the other side, Sid is doing his further planning of how to actually kill Ram in an accident, so that he gets all the property, and when Niharika initially objects to all this, he even threatens her to not get in his way.
Labels: Bade Acche Lagte Hai, Brothers, Crime, Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Serial, TV
Hindi TV Serial - Parichay - Tension between Siddhi and Kunal, Kunal takes the blame for the case
As usual, there is some amount of expressed tension between Siddhi and Kunal and this is because of the ongoing court case against Siddhi, for the death by car accident of Rohit. She did not want Kunal to take the case, and at the same time, Thakral promised that he will do whatever he can to ensure that the court case ends in a guilty case and Siddhi is punished.
However, in court, Kunal knows that right now things are against them, and that he needs more time to get more proof and evidence, and plays his gambit. He gets the court to accept that actually Siddhi was not the one who was involved, in fact, it was Kunal who was responsible for whatever happened, and hence he gets a one week time period for pleading the case. Things get more problematic when Siddhi is very angry over whatever has happened, and they do the usual drama about Siddhi wanting to leave the house, but does not (in fact, the auto guy finally leaves in disgust after they do the usual drama in front of him).
Siddhi even tries to get Vikram to say in court that Kunal was with him at that time so that Kunal would be freed and she would again be prosecuted, but Vikram refuses. On the other hand, Richa is remembering her time with Kunal and is distressed that Kunal has taken the blame rather than Siddhi getting prosecuted.
Labels: Accident, Colors, Crime, Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Parichay, Revenge, Serial, TV
Hindi TV Serial - Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha - Mohan fired upon, misunderstandings coming up
The serial suddenly is taking a different twist, trying to create a small diversion in the script (and one does not know whether this will be a small diversion or a change in the script). In the course of a new story research, the journalists at the paper are told that this is a very dangerous assignment, since the group at the other end is a drugs group, prone to violence and threatening people. Mohan is on the rebound from a rebuff that Megha gave him, coupled with a slap. On this rebound, he agrees for this assignment, and Megha is aghast. However, when she tries to stop him, he asks her the same question as earlier, with what right is she trying to stop him. She has no answer and he goes home and then leaves for the assignment. However, since Megha does have feelings for him, she goes after him. Mohan is now running for his life with the gang after him, after he managed to take a lot of hidden photos inside the location. They come across a marriage procession, where all 3 are present - Mohun, Megha and the goons. In front of Megha the goons fire into Mohan's chest and she hurries him off to the hospital. This quick action of stopping his blood flow and rushing him to the hospital saves the life of Mohan, with doctors also stating the same.
In the hospital, Mohan's mother berates Megha for not stopping him when she knew that he was going into danger, telling her that she should go away from Mohan's life and let him lead it away from her. In the meantime, at Megha's house, a letter written by Mohan is seen as coming from Amar, and the net result is that the household feels that Megha should get re-married, as per the wishes of Amar, and she also finally agrees. However, when Megha's father-in-law visits Mohan, he is going there to offer insurance without being explicit about it, and it is misunderstood that he is telling Mohan that he should get married to Megha.
Labels: Character, Drama, Joint family, Mother, Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha, Romance, Serial
Hindi TV Serial - Diya Aur Bati Hum - Meena's lies are exposed in front of Bhabho
For quite some time now, the various lies told by Meena have only increased trouble for Sandhya, such as the mystery about the police complaint (which was blamed on Sandhya) and also the contraceptive pills, and then also trying to poison the mind of Bhabho against Sandhya from time to time. Some times Bhabho would listen to these, many times she would not, but in the end, Bhabho already had negative sentiments about Sandhya and those came out in her tirades against Sandhya.
However, it was the trip by Vikram and Meena to Mt. Abu which caused them a lot of problems. In addition to being arrested by the police (for which Suraj went there and scolded them a lot of lying), Sandhya managed to solve the case of the police complaint and find out that it was Meena who did this. Finally when Meena comes back to the house from the police station, Bhabho questions her and the truth is out about the police complaint, and that leads to an incredible drama in the house.
Meena tries to deflect this anger by claiming that she should not be thrown out of the house because she has the next generation, that she is pregnant, and then make the next mistake by revealing that the contraceptive pills were actually hers, and she was blaming Sandhya for them. Now she is deep trouble, but Sandhya saves the day for her by talking to the others and telling them since she has the grand-child, she should remain in the house and even carrying food for her. Will this mean that Bhabho will now start liking Sandhya ?
Also, the serial seems to moving towards a time leap where Sandhya will finally achieve her dreams of becoming a police officer.
Labels: Diya Aur Bati Hum, Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Joint family, Saas Bahu, Serial, Star Plus, TV
Hindi TV Serial - Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon - Daljeet quitting, was playing Anjali
The show is seemingly a bit stretched nowadays. It took a number of episodes to indicate that Arnav, who was supposedly off to England and Scotland had not left, and was instead in the same city, having been kidnapped. It took Khushi some time to convince people in the house that Arnav was not where he was supposed to have been, and found out the location where he had been kept after being kidnapped. She was also caught in the same location, and both of them managed to escape from there, but were trapped again. In order to prevent Khushi from being caught again, Arnav gives himself up and goes back with the kidnappers.
In the meantime, Khushi, along with Mami reaches the spot again where Arnav is being kept, wanting to identify the people responsible, and especially the leader of the plot. By now Khushi suspects that the plot leader is Shyam, and finds some clues in the house that could lead to Shyam being responsible.
In the critical part, now Shyam is in front of the kidnapper and could find out who the person is, although the serial is taking its own time in showing who the kidnapper leader is. It is being speculated that in the future, Shyam will try to fire at Arnav, and it will be Khushi who will be hit. When Anjali gets to know, she will be horrified, and this will be her exit from the serial, not sure whether she will be replaced from the serial with another character, or her character will be removed from the serial.
Labels: Crime, Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon, Joint family, Kidnapping, Star Plus
Hindi TV Serial - Kua Hua Tera Vada - the confusion over Madhav, Jatin and Taani
Things can get very complicated in very little time. There is a boy coming to see Taani (the introduction of Hiten into the serial), but Taani in the meantime is meeting Madhav, her boyfriend, who is also there with his parents (and who are old family friends of the family). And then Mona is also present in the house, even though her connection with the family is through her marriage with Pradeep, but her inlaws treat her like a daughter. And then Mona is the only one who knows about the relationship between Taani and Madhav. And Madhav is the same guy who was rejected by Taani some time back when his parents had taken his proposal for Taani.
And so, in the confusion, Jatin (played by Hiten) finally goes back after the truth about Taani and Madhav is known; there is an attempt to criticize the role played by Mona in all this (since she is the only one who knows about the relationship between Taani and Madhav), and her inlaws are not very happy about her role, but Mona finally explains everything including why she was unable to tell them anything and asks them to go to Madhav's house taking the proposal.
However, at Madhav's house, things turn upside down when after some persuasion from Taani's parents, Madhav declares that he was never in love with Taani, instead she was helping him with meeting her friend. Taani, and also Mona are shocked at this turnaround of Madhav, and they all leave from there; outside when they meet Madhav, he tells them he was very insulted when Taani refused him, and wanted to take his revenge, and as a part of that, he also promised a job to Mona when she needed one.
Labels: Divorce, Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Joint family, Kya Hua Tera Vada, Marriage, Separation, Serial
Hindi tv serial - Diya aur bati hum - Finally Sandhya is exposing the truth to Bhabho
For quite some time, the relations between Bhabho and Sandhya have been poisoned with the belief by Bhabho that Sandhya was responsible for the police complaint of harassment that got Bhabho jailed. Even though now the relations between Bhabho and Sandhya are not so heavily strained, there are still a lot of issues in the relationship, and it needs the expose that Meena is responsible for this complaint to bring about resolution of the relationship. Now, this would be really traumatic for Meena, since Bhabho does not have a high opinion of Meena either.
However, things are getting even more complex for Vikram and Meena. They want to spend some time away from the home, but it would not be easy since getting to spend a holiday away can be problematic. So they make an excuse and decide to go to Mt. Abu. However, they make a wrong selection of hotel, selecting a hotel that is typically used for single night liaisons, or even by the hour. So, dutifully there is a police raid in which they are caught, while they are drunk, and spend the night in the police station. When they come to their senses, they realize the problem they are in, and are told by the police officer that they can be left off if they show their marriage certificate. Meena has a fit since she realizes that if Bhabho gets to know, there will be hell to pay. However, they call Suraj, since they do need help, and Suraj is angry at the lie, but comes to get them out of jail without telling the reason to anyone.
At home, when Sandhya gets to hear after they have lied about the place, she makes a connection with a name that was used the last time as well, and decides to do more sleuthing. All this investigation leads her to Meena's name, and she is angry at the fact that Meena filed a complaint against Bhabho and wants to punish her. On the other hand, Bhabho is angry that Sandhya spend a lot of time outside the house without telling her, and in the confrontation, finally Sandhya tells them that the complaint was filed by Meena, and it was Sandhya who talked to the magistrate and got the complaint dismissed.
Labels: Crime, Diya Aur Bati Hum, Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Joint family, Police, Relation, Saas Bahu, Serial, Star Plus, TV
Hindi TV Serial - Bade Ache Lagte Hain - Defeat from the jaws of victory
The serial has become very confused for the past few weeks. Priya was determined to stand up for Ram, and expose the wrong-doings done by his mother, Niharika. So, something very strange was happening in the serial. Using the time when Ram was shown to have acted wrongly by accusing Karthik of kidnapping Nuts and putting him in jail, Priya scolds Ram very strongly. This is increased by the fact that she and Niharika had a showdown where Niharika made it clear that she wants Priya out, and Priya agreed but with a condition that she wants money for her comfort. This was something that Niharika was easily able to understand, and hence the deal was made. Part of the deal was that Priya would move out of Ram's life, and Priya started acting very strangely against Ram, acting uncomfortable and somewhat hostile. She explained this to Vikram by stating that she wants to take as much money of Ram as possible so that his mother and brother have less to steal from him.
Things get more tricky when Priya wants to start exposing Niharika's history, by getting Niharika's ex-husband and Ram's estranged natural mother to be in the picture and slowly get Ram to understand. In the meantime, Sid starts acting on the company which is most profitable, wanting to ensure that the reputation of the company gets damaged.
Then, the showdown happens where Priya thinks she has evidence where Niharika talks about her past, but this does not work since the recording is incomplete, and then Ram does not believe this, asking his natural mother about why she left him; she is unable to answer completely. This is a complete victory for Niharika. However, soon after the police arrive to arrest Ram for wrong-doings in the pharma company that caused the death of people. It is here, that when Ram is told about wrong-doings by Sid, he tells the police. It is here that Niharika behaves unnaturally, since she loudly states that Ram is guilty, not Sid (she could have handled this in such a way that she would not have broken with Ram).
Priya steps in (having been called by Vikram), claiming that since Ram had handed over the company to her, she was the owner of the company, and hence the police action should be against her and not against Ram. The police arrest her, and Ram is baffled by her action, and incredibly in love with her for whatever she has done.
Labels: Bade Acche Lagte Hai, Crime, Drama, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Marriage, Relation, Romance, Serial, Sony, TV
Hindi TV Serial - Saathiya - Anita finally leaves from the house, but not before almost causing a tragedy
The incident with regard to Anita being in the house and causing problems for Gopi have dragged on in the serial for some time now. After the trick played by Rashi (where she managed to get Anita and Ahem shown in a compromising position at Anita's marriage), Anita's marriage was broken off and she fell ill. At that stage, the Modi household decided that she would be a guest in their house, since the reason for the breaking of the relationship was the compromising position that she was caught in along with Ahem. After she came to the house, Anita started feeling that Gopi was not the right kind of wife, that she was more suitable for Ahem, and after all, she was earlier in Ahem's life.
Based on this, Anita started make her stance, and Kokila along with Rashi pretty clearly understood what was happening, and since Koki knew that Gopi was so simple, she would not easily understand what was happening. But Koki understood and got Rashi on her side (for Rashi, Anita in the house as the elder daughter-in-law would be a far more difficult game than poor simple Gopi who was easy to manipulate). So Koki started the fightback, challenging Anita to multiple competitions where each time Gopi won even though Anita tried several tricks.
Bitter after all these fights, Anita went beyond the normal level, trying a tactic where Gopi would get burnt in the kitchen due to leaking gas. Like all well laid plans, this one went wrong, with Ahem being in the kitchen when the fire started. While everybody was just shocked, Gopi got a blanket and jumped into the kitchen and got Ahem out. After this, everybody was all praise for Gopi and then Koki remembered the circumstances and realized that Anita would be behind all this. She got Anita to admit to all this, and when Anita claimed that she did out of love for Ahem, Ahem strongly refuted all this, and said that he was now hating Anita. As a result, at the conclusion of all this, Anita decided to leave the house.
Labels: Crime, Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Joint family, Revenge, Saathiya, Serial, Star Plus, TV
Hindi TV Serial - Pratigya - Krishna arrested for the murder of Adarsh, protests his innocence
The serial did not have too much drama once the evil wife and mother of Shakti were kicked out of the house. Now, as you would know, if there is some boredom in a serial, the makers of the serial will add new drama to the serial. And so it has happened in the serial. The decision was taken to bump off one of the characters in the serial, in such a way that it would shake everybody else in the serial.
So, you had a sequence where Komal reached home with injuries on her face, turned out that she was assaulted by her husband Adarsh. Seeing these injuries on Komal's face made her brother Krishna and her father SS very angry. Though Pratigya tried to counsel some restraint, Krishna set out to avenge these injuries, with the stated intention of beating up and punishing Adarsh once he did find Adarsh.
In the meantime, Tanmay was up to no good. He had some bad intentions from last time, especially when he felt that Adarsh was not supporting him. Further, Tanmay also started wanting to inherit the entire property belonging to the Professor, and if Adarsh could be taken out from the scenario, it would make things much easier for him. So, Tanmay takes Adarsh to a remote location, planning the murder of Adarsh when Krishna could find him, and then when Krishna did find him, so did the police a bit later, accusing Krishna of doing the murder.
Everybody, even Pratigya believes that Krishna is guilty of the murder, although Krishna manages to persuade P that he was not responsible. However, the Professor forbids anybody from Sajjan Singh's family to be part of the funeral rites, and when Pratigya claims that Krishna was not responsible, her turns her out as well and forbids her from coming back. When Sajjan Singh shows up, his own daughter Komal gets angry, spits at her own father and turns him out. When Krishna gets to know, he is very saddened at these reactions; further, he is taunted by the police officer and replies rudely, at which the officer threatens him.
Labels: Brothers, Crime, Emotions, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Joint family, Murder, Pratigya, Relation, Serial, TV
Hindi TV Serial - Pavitra Rishta - Savita is back, and she throws Archana out of the house
For a long time now, the serial decided to show Savita staying in Canada while the stuff is happening here in Mumbai. So Savita does not know that Archana and Manav are staying together due to court orders and no one tried to tell her. The serial is now extremely complicated.
On the one hand, everybody is trying to find out who the girl is who could be in Arjun's life while Arjun is trying to find out who called Ovi to tell he about Purvi. Further, Sachin is playing his own guilt card, guilting Archana into doing something wrong to both herself and Manav, as well as to her daughters. It always seems like this in hindi serials, where somebody does wrong, and yet they do not show any kind of punishment for that (or show punishment after many many years - in the serial, Savita is the one responsible for the distances between Manav and Archana and for poisoning the attitudes of all the children against Archana).
Now, Savita, as soon as she saw that Archana was there, decided to kick Archana out of the house. Further, she refused to listen to anybody, least of all to Archana. It was only after Sachin and Manav managed to convince her that it was necessary for the divorce that she agreed that it is fine to get Archana back in the house, but not before she went to Archana's house and tried to force Archana to come back. On the other hand, when Manav went to get Archana back, Manav had to hear a lot, but finally Archana agreed to come back; and Purvi keeps on hoping that everything will be fine.
Labels: Divorce, Drama, family, Hindi, Hindi Serial, Hindi TV Serial, Pavitra Rishta, Saas Bahu, Separation, Serial, TV, Zee
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Mentor Day Makhaza
Some say that the beginning of the year is always daunting, whether you’re starting a new academic year, or even meeting new people. Well our matric class of 2015 begs to differ. Saturday, 24th January, our bright stars were at the branch bright and early, eagerly waiting to meet the people they aspire to be like one day, their mentors.
In asking one of the learners on their expectations of the day, Yamkela Fobosi said, “I am very excited to meet a person who has already accomplished the things I want to accomplish. I cannot wait for him to tell me all the things that I must do in order to achieve my dreams!”
Mentor Day kicked off with a welcoming from Zukile Keswa, the Branch Coordinator. In attendance were over 20 mentors, ranging from UCT students to working professionals. Tamara Stelma, the Mentorship Coordinator from UCT, introduced the programme to everyone and shared the schedule for the day. The mentors and mentees were paired according to the results of a questionnaire the mentees and mentors completed prior to the event. During the one on one session they signed a commitment agreement contract that stipulated the number of hours that they had to be in contact with each other. From the library, to the lab, to the office you could see the mentors and mentees engaged in conversation getting well acquainted and creating a timeline for the year. One mentor said that the day was productive and a great way of networking with other great minds (mentors) and is looking forward to the rest of the year, coaching and inspiring this exciting bunch.
The day concluded with a discussion with the Grade 12s led by Busiswa Dayimani, the Branch Assistant, on the prospects for the year. What is expected of them, what they should expect from the year and what steps to take from now onwards. “There is still quite a lot of work to be done but if we put in the necessary work we are destined for success…” Busi said to the learners as they attentively listened. Energies are high, expectations are high, and we cannot wait to see what this year holds for the matric class of 2015.
With this well integrated support structure, the sky is the limit for these young stars.
Year Beyond- Schools Coordinator
IkamvaYouth is partnering with the Western Cape Government to implement after-school programming to learners in township schools. The aim is to ensure significant academic improvement, assist learners with their subject selection and enable them to build the skills they need to take their futures into their own hands.
A range of academic, cultural, and physical activities will be offered every day after-school to learners in grades 8 and 9 at the chosen MOD Centres. The Year Beyond Schools Coordinator will coordinate the project and facilitate the delivery of the academic support component, ensuring the smooth and effective operation of these after-school programmes by working closely with the independent service providers and stakeholders.
Coordinating the implementation of after-school programmes in secondary schools in a township community in Western Cape;
Negotiate and manage schedule;
Ensure that IY model is being implemented; attendance tracking and kick-outs affected, tutor pedagogy, parents meetings, Branch Committees, Strategic Planning weekend, Winter School, Prize-giving;
Ensure literacy and numeracy partner programmes are implemented to a high standard and that analytics are tracked and reported accurately;
Manage programme delivery budgets and spending against budget,s; handle cash books and deliver accurate monthly financial report
Monitor increase in academic performance through measurement and implementation of strategies to achieve impact;
Manage the relationships between the volunteers, principal/teachers, and MOD Centre staff;
Submit quarterly narrative and excel reports capturing attendance, report collection, test results;
Ensure that volunteers and staff are regularly blogging and uploading to social media platforms;
Aid the project manager to plan and implement a successful training week and ongoing quarterly training with the volunteers alongside the schools coordinator;
Facilitate weekly de-briefs with volunteers; session planning, implementation and feedback
Minimum of three year degree or five years’ work experience (ideally in youth development; project planning, implementation and management)
Advanced management skills to manage sites, volunteers, donors, sponsors, funders, learners, and community expectations;
Highly organised and efficient;
Impeccable time management, data collection and reporting ability;
High level of attention to detail;
Ability to work alone, take initiative, and manage teams;
Adept at using computers (Microsoft Office, social media and internet);
Ability to work virtually (many discussions, meetings and document development occur collaboratively online);
Passion for working with young people, a pro-active energy and an outgoing personality will be most suitable for this role;
Driving licence and own transport
Gross Salary: R 12 650
To apply, submit a CV and motivation letter with “Year Beyond- Schools Coordinator” in the subject line to careers@ikamvayouth.org.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. No late applications will be accepted.
For more about IkamvaYouth, refer to http://ikamvayouth.org.www518.jnb1.host-h.net.
For more information about the Year Beyond programme, refer to http://www.westerncape.gov.za/yearbeyond.
Chesterville Open Day and Prize Giving
The main tutoring hall at the IkamvaYouth Chesterville branch was packed to the brim as we had our open day and prize giving ceremony. Amongst our guests were the parents, current Ikamvanites, aspiring Ikamvanites, our local librarian, and our dedicated tutors as well as staff from both the KZN branches of Umlazi and Chesterville. The guests were eager to know more about IkamvaYouth and to celebrate those Ikamvanites who performed well in the programme for the year 2014.
Our learners also participated in the programme, with two of our matric learners Lindokuhle Mbili and Lipuma Thabethe being our MC’s for the day. The speakers of the day were Thandazo Mkhize (Chesterville Branch Co-ordinator), and Zandile Dlamini (Chesterville Branch Assistant) who gave an overview of what IY is about as a whole.
Thankfully, IY has many talented learners some of which were able to provide us with entertainment for the day with poetry and rhythmic rap music. We also had speakers from different walks of life. One of our past learners, Andiswa Tshabalala, from the class of 2014 was one of our speakers, she gave a very heartfelt speech about her experience at IY as well as where she is currently in life and her studies. Our other special guest Mzwandile Majola, a librarian from the local library spoke very well about the importance of reading and also encouraged the learners to read and visit the library more often for information.
Speeches were not the only items on the program. Our special Prize Giving ceremony had to be the highlight of the day. Led by N’thabiseng Zwane, branch assistant at the Umlazi branch, certificates as well as prize gifts were awarded to learners that achieved 75% and above on attendance as green attendance, 90% and above as Gold attendance while others received certificates for successfully completing the operation fikelela programme in 2014. It would’ve been a shame to honor the learners and leave behind our tutors, so the most dedicated tutor of the year was also awarded with a certificate of appreciation, which went Nokukhanya Ngcobo who also delivered a lovely speech on behalf of the tutors.
In closing, S’bonelo Cele, branch coordinator at the Umlazi branch, gave us a closing remark and vote of thanks speech to everyone who availed themselves for the event and more especially to our special guests, who were given a small gift as a token of our appreciation.
IYKZN Matric 2015 goes to Stainbank Nature Reserve
One seldom finds the time to spend with nature, especially on a Monday morning. IkamvaYouth KZN Matric learners, staff and a few volunteers spent their Monday morning, 19th January 2015, embracing nature and its life lessons at the Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve and Wilderness Leadership School in Yellowood Park, Durban.
Before the trail walk began everyone was instructed to switch off their cellphones or any other device that might connect them to the outside world. This was simply done to ensure that everyone becomes fully immersed with life in the wild and does not get to miss out on anything important.
Our trail walk throughout the nature reserve was led by tour guides who have years of everyday experience of the wildlife. Along the trail we spotted a variety of wild animals, but not wild enough to eat us, thankfully. The animals seen at the nature reserve ranged from the Red and Grey Dykes, Springboks, Zebras, and although we were told to look out for snakes, we did not come across any. Some animals could not be seen but heard, such as the Purple Crested Lourie and the Sombre Bulbul birds. A lot was also learnt about the different trees we saw including our very own national tree the Yellowood, and the importance of treating natural habitats including the animals in order to survive in the wild and preserve nature.
After a lengthy walk of more than two hours, everyone was treated to delicious lunch which was sponsored by ABI. Visiting the Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve was a good exemplar of just how life’s lessons can also be learnt from outside the classroom and that nature also has a few stories to tell.
A lot can be said about the experience and lessons one gained from visiting the nature reserve, this is what some of the learners had to say about the trip:
“What I learnt is that respect is the most important thing in life,”-Slindile Ngubane
“It was my first time going Yellowood Parkand it was a great day. And I saw different types of animals like Zebra’s, snakes and chickens.” – Nobuhle Zulu
“…along the way we saw a Yellowood tree, our tour guide told us why the place was called Yellowood Park. He said because the Yellowood tree was the most available tree in that place.” – Anele Vezi
Hear from the Ikamvanites, parents and staff
Hear from the Ikamvanites themselves:
Beauty Komone: “I grew up in an Ivory Park Township in a disadvantaged family of seven where no one including my three siblings (who are out of high school) have gotten into tertiary. Tutoring and other programmes that are run by IkamvaYouth have boosted my performance and the way I perceive life. I am now going to University to study IT.”
Benny Matlou: “IkamvaYouth is not just an educational organisation, it is also an organization of personal growth and empowerment, which takes youth through a journey of self-discovery where one gets to build their personal values and learn the importance of respect, loyalty, dedication and self-discipline. IkamvaYouth has truly lifted me off the ground to new and better heights.”
Jabulile Khoza: “IkamvaYouth went the extra mile by organising winter school, educational trips, career guidance events at the convenience of our branch. Another amazing thing that IkamvaYouth did for me, my life and my career was to link me with an amazing mentor who now is still awesome. It is a blessing and a huge privilege to be an Ikamvanite.”
Nokukhanya Mdlalose: “I would like to thank IkamvaYouth for helping me. Because of them I have achieved a bachelor pass and now have a chance to go to university.”
Mapule Molebatsi: “I joined IkamvaYouth in grade 10 and since then my marks have improved. I now have a bachelor pass and I know that if it was not for the help and encouragement of IkamvaYouth, I would have never gotten this far.”
Nereth Vuma: “IkamvaYouth gave me help that I couldn’t get anywhere else; they did it with willingness and encouragement. I am grateful for the help I have received from IkamvaYouth.”
Mrs Mpangane (Mother of Tiyiselani who achieved 7 distinctions): “Thank you IkamvaYouth, I hope you continue to do the same for other children this year, next year and many other years to come.”
Shelton Chadya (tutor): “I feel very, very happy because seeing these learners do better than we did, we can’t celebrate enough. Most of the learners are people that I tutored. Well done guys!”
Cheryl Nzama (IkamvaYouth Staff Member): “We are very excited about the results coming out of IkamvaYouth. The standards have been set and we hope that IkamvaYouth Mamelodi will achieve the same standards to give learners the best possible opportunities and education.”
Felicia Mpande (Grade 12 learner 2014): “IkamvaYouth assisted me greatly by exposing me to career workshops, computer literacy and creative expressions and has been a second home to me. Thank you for all the help you gave me.”
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by Kellie Marieupdated on May 9, 2019 August 29, 2018 Leave a Comment on Will You Accept This Recap? | Bachelor in Paradise Week 4
Week 4, Part 1
Joe and Kendall’s face is basically how I feel about this season so far. In my opinion, I think there is far too much drama and it’s bad drama – not even the fun kind – it’s a whole lot of toxic masculinity and people getting hurt. Even last season, there wasn’t much focus on the actual love stories on the beach and it’s a little irritating. Sure, I expect some drama but not endless drama and two seconds of a couple being real.
New Arrival: Connor
The epitome of BDE walks down the stairs towards the beach with a date card in hand. He talks to a few of the women there, and one of them being Krystal. She tells him that she does have something with Chris so she’s not sure. Connor, unlike Chris, is respectful and goes to talk to the others. He eventually comes back around to Krystal and says that he understands and respects what she has going on with Chris, but he would like to take her on a date if she wanted to. She accepts. Chris freaks out.
It was funny because after Connor talked to Krystal the first time she went back to talk to Chris about it and said she was going to stay on the beach. Well, right after that Chris is running all around the beach saying how Krystal is staying with him and this and that only for him to look like the fool that he is when she comes back and is like, “just kidding, I’m going!”. Because I mean have you seen Connor in glasses? Why would you not go on that date?
I wasn’t shocked that when Krystal did tell Chris that she was going on the date that he was using his toxic masculinity and subtle manipulation to make her feel bad.
Connor & Krystal’s Date
So, Connor and Krystal go on the date to some prayer thing with leaves. I wasn’t really sure what was happening. But Connor did say in his ITM that he feels like they do have something special and that it went well.
Meanwhile back at the beach, Chris is still flipping out to everyone and I’m all for Krystal destroying his ego.
I also feel like they aren’t showing much of the dates this season, like at all, which probably adds to the reason why I’m not really seeing a lot of actual lasting relationships forming. Everyone is saying they want their Jade & Tanner and Carly & Evan love story but all they’re giving us is bad drama!
Oh, but when they came home Krystal talked to Chris and when they got up he hit his head on a lamp; it’s what he deserves and the first time I genuinely laughed this season.
Thoughts About the Episode That Don’t Fit into Their Own Category
Benoit having the happy flashback at the beginning of the episode probably means Jenna is going to dump him soon.
How is David still here? He really has no relationships or friendships really forming?
Jordan & Jenna
Jordan pulls Jenna to talk about where her head is at and I really appreciate him finally owning up to saying he’s not good at handling his emotions.
Said what he felt when he saw her was pretty close to love at first sight.
They make out.
Jenna & Benoit
When she leaves Jordan it seems like she’s going to break it off with him but as he keeps talking to her she said she’s confused again.
They make out, too.
Benoit & Jordan
Jordan pulls Benoit to talk and it’s awkward and I’m really not sure what he wanted to get out of this conversation.
Kenny decides to leave because he doesn’t want to miss his daughter’s recital and Annaliese is left alone once again.
In a quick recap, they show Jubilee leaving because John says he doesn’t’ see a future with her but he stays. I’m mad that they didn’t air this at all because it was so weird to just be like, “oh yeah, she left.”
Kevin and Astrid have a moment where he breaks up with her.
Astrid gets understandably upset and Kevin goes back to talk to her and they have one of the best and real conversations of the season.
He says that he got scared because it was going too well and he’s used to something always going wrong.
Kevin also talks about how he goes to therapy and it was really refreshing to have someone openly talking about mental health and therapy without a stigma attached to it.
They got back together.
Jenna breaks it off with Benoit.
New Arrival: Kamil
The 60/40 dude shows up and I am not happy about it because of that comment he made to Becca night one and then she sent him home and that’s why we love Becca in this house. But in all seriousness, I wasn’t excited to see another guy who pretends to be this tough man who acts entitled and plays the victim card just like so many other men on this season.
But you know who was excited about it? Annaliese. The poor girl literally gets so excited for any man that comes down the stairs in hopes that she’ll get a love story with him. I would much rather watch that then Chris or Leo.
Kamil & Annaliese’s Date
Kami takes Annaliese on the date and the girl who is afraid of dogs and bumper cars drives a huge dune buggy thing over a long and steep slope. I was terrified watching it. But like most dates, this was about all we saw.
The Canadian Hero America Doesn’t Deserve But Needs
After Monday’s episode, my opinion of Kevin has completely changed for the better. He’s someone I would love to have as a friend.
Kevin decides to tell Kendall that Leo kissed Chelsea on the night that they had their date. Like anyone would be, Kendall was obviously upset.
The next morning, someone tells Leo that Kendall knows. Leo starts acting literally like a 12-year-old about this whole thing. He said things like someone should tell Kendall that Jordan and Jenna were kissing and just really uncomfortable to watch. Kevin eventually gets fed up with Leo and tells him that he’s the one that told Kendall. Leo freaks out, again, and said that kissing is the equivalent to a handshake in paradise (uh, ew) and all this other nonsense about how it didn’t really matter and snitches are bad. Kevin yells back and basically said that it’s just the thing to do to tell the person you are “interested” in that you kissed another girl.
Instead of talking about how I was wrong in my actions, I’m going to freak out and blame her…
Kendall goes to talk to Leo and tells him that she heard he kissed Chelsea and that some red flags have been raised about him for her and she’s hurt. Instead of feeling bad that he hurt her or wanting to make it right, he turns it around on her, that she ruined his day, and said snitches are the problem. He calls Kendall an actress and a liar saying that her feelings weren’t ever actually there which is so heartbreaking. Even from Arie’s season, Kendall has one of the biggest hearts.
I’ve said it multiple times that I don’t like Leo. Didn’t like him on Becca’s season and I didn’t want him on paradise, and of course, we cannot forget about the sexual harassment accusations that he’s been deflecting on social media lately. Also, he just seems really terrifying.
And then amongst all Leo’s manipulation and playing the victim card, Joe comes to the rescue…
This episode? Too much. How many scary men? One too many. How many saints? A Canadian and a grocer. Amount of money John has to now Venmo me for all the emotions I’ve been put through with this season so far? Endless.
Grocery Store Saint
In the middle of Leo gaslighting and being his gross self with Kendall making her feel all bad about everything that she shouldn’t feel bad about because she didn’t do anything but express how she was feeling, Joe, comes to the rescue. He asks if they’re done and he takes Kendall away from him.
They go off on their own and they start talking about everything. Kendall said that she knows that Joe is a good guy and shouldn’t be pulled in and tempted by people like Leo (no one ever should) and that she’s going to invest her time and heart into Joe. I would take a bullet for Joe.
Joe is happy + Kendall is safe = my sanity restored
Eric & Angela’s Date
Eric gets his first date card and he and Angela go on a date to a hotel room. When they entered the hotel it was really weird. The lady led them to their room while dropping flowers in front of them as they walked.
They are given this massive bowl of ice cream and I’ve never been more jealous, and then they give each other paradise shell necklaces. Eric says it’s effortless with Angela and Angela says that she can really fall in love with Eric. I think this was the best date of paradise so far and one of the ones that they actually showed a decent amount of time of.
Benoit & Jenna
I actually really liked Benoit on Winter Games, but since he’s been here I haven’t been his biggest fan.
He kinda makes Jenna feel bad about her decision to go with Jordan and tells her that she can’t make his decision…whatever that means.
Jenna has a breakdown and says she doesn’t want to be responsible for other people’s hearts.
Jordan comes to comfort her and goes to talk with Benoit…again. Nothing really happened there.
The Passion Briefcase is something I aspire to have in my life.
The next day, Benoit is suddenly completely over Jenna and clearly only here for Chelsea. Not like he’s trying to just get her rose to stay another week or anything…totally pure intentions.
Chris has Krystal teach him yoga which was just gross to watch.
So after all the Leo drama, Kendall is all Joe’s right? Nope, in swoops John and they kiss and I was mad
She then goes to Joe to talk and she freaks out. They calmly talk and F I N A L L Y become boyfriend/girlfriend
Leo says in his ITM that paradise needs to burn to the ground. I find it really weird that more people weren’t talking about this because that’s scary.
I need more Wells commentary and his puppets from last season.
The night started off cloudy with a chance of Leo lashing out. I don’t remember exactly what he said to Kendall but it wasn’t nice and everyone told him to lay off, specifically Joe. So, of course, Leo walks away because literally no one is on his side and he tells Kendall, “good luck with Grocery Store B***h” and Joe starts standing up for himself and tells him to say it to his face. Leo walks off but Joe follows him. They get really close to each other, Joe ends up pushing Leo and Leo throws a drink in Joe’s face. They start to go at each other until all the guys and producers come to pull them apart. Leo leaves and everyone rejoices and makes some Tarzan jokes…but Tarzan would never.
Basically, Joe is and will always be a sweet and pure angel that needs to be protected at all times. Also, people like Leo better not ever be able to come on the show again. Not only did he do what he did on the show, but there are sexual harassment allegations toward him, and after last night’s episode he had threated Amanda Stanton from Ben’s Season and Tanner Tolbert from Kaitlyn’s season and BIP 2. ABC, do better.
After hurricane Leo subsided…
Moving on from the terrifying reality that men like this are able to get on the show, the rest of the party was rather quiet. Chelsea became the paradise bachelorette since she is the only one not in a relationship. She kisses John and Connor. I don’t blame her for being upset throughout the night because she knows, just like we all know, that these guys were really only talking to her because they wanted to be saved for another week.
Colton and Tia have this hot dog kissing moment – weird, but kinda cute. Then there’s Jordan and Jenna, and she’s opening up to him and saying how that she has a hard time accepting the fact that Jordan really likes her so much and had such strong feelings for her the moment he saw her. Jordan gets all sweet and says that he doesn’t want to go on any other dates and he doesn’t want to leave her side which melted my heart.
Rose Ceremony
Who Gave Roses: Jenna & Jordan | Astrid & Kevin | Chelsea & John | Tia & Colton | Krystal & Chris | Kendall & Joe | Annaliese & Kamil | Angela & Eric
Who Left: Connor, Benoit, and David
New Arrival: Olivia
Olivia from Arie’s season who went home night one arrives on the beach. She talks to Joe first and obviously, he’s not going. She then talks to John who tells her that he’s not involved with anyone or anything. I liked John on Becca’s season, but something about him is just rubbing me the wrong way now.
Olivia & John’s Date
Okay, was this not the most uncomfortable and weird date to watch? Olivia and John walk into this really quiet room full of strangers just looking at them. Several moments of this pass until someone finally comes and tells them that they’re at a Quinceanera. Weird date, again nothing happened, and they kissed.
New Arrival: Cassandra
This beautiful woman walks down the step to the beach and the women in relationships are holding onto their men hoping she won’t talk to them. It turns out Cassandra is from Juan Pablo’s season which is a fun throwback, but I honestly don’t remember her.
She talks to a couple of the guys but some of them tell her that they’re already in a relationship and don’t want to go on a date. Except for Eric. After telling Angela the night before that he was all in for her and wouldn’t want to go on date with someone else. Eric tells Cassandra that he’s open. I was really surprised that he did this, I would expect it from a couple other guys but not him. He talks to Angela before going on the date. He said that he woke up feeling differently and he wanted to go on the date. Angela’s look alone could end the man.
That’s where the episode ends and there was just way too much drama crammed into this week’s episodes. And based on the previews, what’s to come is even more dramatic and will probably make me feel a million emotions again.
Do you think any of the couples will get engaged at the end of this?
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Simple Fuzzy Rule Based Edge Detection
O.P. Verma, Veni Jain, Rajni Gumber, Journal of Information Processing Systems
Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 575-591, Aug. 2013
10.3745/JIPS.2013.9.4.575
Keywords: Edge detection, Edge improvement, Fuzzy Rules, Membership Function
Most of the edge detection methods available in literature are gradient based, which further apply thresholding, to find the final edge map in an image. In this paper, we propose a novel method that is based on fuzzy logic is a mathematical logic that attempts to solve problems by assigning values to an imprecise spectrum of data in order to arrive at the most accurate conclusion possible. Here, the fuzzy logic is used to conclude whether a pixel is an edge pixel or not. The proposed technique begins by fuzzifying the gray values of a pixel into two fuzzy variables, namely the black and the white. Fuzzy rules are defined to find the edge pixels in the fuzzified image. The resultant edge map may contain some extraneous edges, which are further removed from the edge map by separately examining the intermediate intensity range pixels. Finally, the edge map is improved by finding some left out edge pixels by defining a new membership function for the pixels that have their entire 8-neighbourhood pixels classified as white. We have compared our proposed method with some of the existing standard edge detector operators that are available in the literature on image processing. The quantitative analysis of the proposed method is given in terms of entropy value.
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O. Verma, V. Jain and R. Gumber, "Simple Fuzzy Rule Based Edge Detection," Journal of Information Processing Systems, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 575-591, 2013. DOI: 10.3745/JIPS.2013.9.4.575.
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Psychotronika in Practice 1-study by Evelyn Monahan
18 June 2016 by kahun
I find a variety of interesting facts and OT, found itself, as usual, another one. At The beginning I had a desire to write more at the outset. I was going to write something from each other about the power that each of us possesses. But Why? Everyone measures the world according to their needs and experiences. Really A pile of people have written many, many wise books, whose content should stall us with its greatness. Below you have one of these texts. For a bigger "fun" look at the books of Louise L. Hay and Joseph Murphy (at the moment only the two to the head came to me). Also Recall the Buddhist parable of the place where the gods hid the power before the man (he is in the citations). And finally, read again the 7 rules of the Huny. I'll just Add that the Bible is filled to the brim with the hunged writing. Ot even though: "If two of you on Earth are asking for something, they will all be used by my Father who is in Heaven" (Matthew 18.19). And This is a quote on the interaction of lower and middle me what would be higher worked:-) And How to call the things described here? Is it prayer, visualization, meditation, thirst or maybe some other charms of throwing? Is it important? It Is a tool that enables us to conscionate the creation of our own life. It'S like driving a car. You Can drive by car without being a mechanic. But you need to know what the pedals are and it's a big circle in front.
Another thing is the words you use. Do they have to be formulants passed by others? (and Fuj, but it would be monotony if everyone was just as talked…). And does the higher will listen to us only when we use the Popowienich words? Probably adequate must be, but feelings, what we have inside. No matter what words will be behind it. Words mean different things for different people. He Beautifully put this matter to Joseph Murphy-"There are so many prayers, how many people."
I will Add to the conclusion of the "miracle" firsthand, which is a native of those described later in this article and in the authors ' books mentioned above. The Story told me a friend. His friend's Sister was with her boyfriend in the Balkans during the last wars. They Avoided dangerous trails in order not to stumble upon the patrols filled with hostility of people in uniforms. But It happened what was so afraid and stumbled upon a group of armed people. The Girl saw 4 soldiers, and one of them was incredibly similar to her deceased brother. These People behaved very aggressively. They Told her to strip her boyfriend naked and took his all things. When They were going to get behind the girl, a man like her brother said something to the rest of the three in their tongue and went away without doing more difficulty. After returning home they told their experiences of a mother who had said that it had become so because she prayed daily to God for care for them. However, the most amazing is that the girl has seen 4 men, and boyfriend 3 and claimed that there was no one among them anyone similar to her brother.
I leave the Applications. If One of You treats these tips or examples of "miracles" for cartoons, sucked out of the finger tales, then his case, he has the right to judge so. But is it difficult for a month, three times a day to sit for 5 to 15 minutes and smile in the soul, thinking only of what he desires with the whole heart?
Tomasz Bartosiewicz
Evelyn M. Monahan suffered a tragic accident at the age of 22, as a result of which she was severely mutilated: she lost her eyes, got epilepsy, and after four years he joined the right arm paralysis. Epileptic Seizures were particularly common (12-14 daily). The Equine daily doses were reduced to 10. Evelyn felt very unhappy, she could not be reconcsted with her heavy disability, and for a long nine years she torted herself and the environment, and sacked rebellion and anger. Until It came to sedation, and perhaps nervous exhausting. She began to think about salvation for herself. And then she remembered a lot of interesting, strange stories still in childhood. In memory, there were cases of sudden healings of people who did not give the least chance of recovery to doctors. It Began to recall the rules of the so-called. Psychotronic treatment, which was then said to have been the source of all these miraculous healings. She Decided to try…
She initiated two friends and in three began using exercises, set in points by Evelyn himself. They Practiced three times a day with great accuracy and enthusiasm. It Was the last rescue board. After 10 days, E. Monahan reged sight. It Happened suddenly, Raptownie. At the Same time, the eye recovery stopped completely epileptic seizures, and in the week later gave way to paralysis. The Young woman was completely healthy. Medical Examinations showed no evidence of any disease. It Was Filled with happiness of returning to health, to normal life and a vast unrepressed desire to familiarize with this method as many sufferers as possible.
Evelyn had completed an annual study of experimental psychology at the University of Georgia, in Atlanta. She Decided to return to education in order to have constant contacts with people and to be able to give them his knowledge and experience in the field of psychotronic treatment. Her lectures on this university Were Blurred. The Fact that lectures from such an object never existed at any American university did not fright her at all. She made her call to the Secretariat, and she had her name and telephone number, and she was not deterred by the conventional assurance that if someone at the university would be interested in the problem, they would be contacted, Quietly waited, practicing, systematically his "wonderful" technique. It came out from the assumption that, since the power of "his higher Self", his Superconsciousness, was able to cure his own heavy disability, there is no obstacle to the solution with the same power of any other life situation. Jakoż after a month the director of Special Studies at the university there offered her lectures from parapsychology. He Willingly accepted the offer and became an instructor of parapsychology. Her lectures listened on average to 250 students in each semester.
Evelyn was pleased, but she wanted even more contact with people. She Dreamed about television, radio and press. In This intention, she continued to cultivated a psychotronic technique with immense enthusiasm. She Believed in her endless possibilities, she was sure that the obstacles would disappear, standing in the way of her ambitious plans. After a month, she asked her "Atlanta Journal" with a suggestion to write a reportage about her lectures. The Next week brought contact with the TV. It Was Proposed to participate in the "Georgia Today" programme, received by millions of spectators-supporters. The Reaction to the problem raised by E. Monahan was so great that after three weeks it was asked to reoccur on television. At that time she also had talks on radio, and her articles were applied to magazines such as "National Inquire", "Midnight" and "Time Magazin". E. M. Monahan's Books were published in Japan, England, GERMANY, Mexico and Italy. And so dreams come true.
In his book, whose original title reads "The Miracle of Metaphysical Healing" author in personal contact with the reader, without the rest, without reservation gives him all his knowledge, his experience, wishes to pour into him his own enthusiasm, Delight, your recovered joy of life and the happiness of helping others.
Psychotronic Therapy, this technique of an ellipsis checked, called by Evelyn ' "reliable", "wonderful" is incredibly simple, but the author repeatedly warns that not to disregard it, not to reject just because it is so very accessible to Each. And Indeed, Psychotronic treatment is not associated with any expenditure, does not require any props, no special education, only good will is required, perseverance, calm.
So what is The case?
Man is the essence of a wonderful, powerful by the limitless Laton forces with which he already comes into the world. Thanks to this power it is able to remove from his life illness, disability, change the unpleasant situations of life, etc., because by the nature of things he belongs to happiness, joy and excellent health.
For The disaster, man is unaware of his wonderful equipment in a mighty divine power. They Suffer, get sick, tire, complain, seek desperately to rescue, and guess that he himself possesses the power of healing. He Is like a king who has forgotten that he is king, that he has a royal mantle on his shoulders and a golden crown on his head, he considered to be a beak, so in the dust of the road sits and begging in passers-by for support. This consciousness of our own power, its own unlimited possibilities, is called Evelyn M. "Our higher Self", and the power of fulfilling wishes, satisfying the needs, changing even the unfavorable circumstances of life-a superconscious. The conscious Mind determines the author's awareness of the realities surrounding us. This conscious mind captures all our insights, sensations, events, he manages memory, he draws conclusions, plans etc. , and so on. He finally undergoes illness, suffering, joy, happiness, fear, despair, and so On. The conscious Mind is limited in its abilities, he too is "blind" – as Monahan expresses – on the existence of our "higher Self".
Well, to effectively use the technique of psychotronic action, you need to refer to its powerful "higher Self" and its own superconscious and… Request. Do not beg, pleadate and beg, and quietly, definitely command. In his instructions Evelyn M. Never gives the word "please" or "I beg", but "I Want", "I Wish", "I Command", "Administration". It Comes from the assumption that we reach out to you that they are a good programmed for us from the beginning of the world, lost by us through Inknowledge, limitation and our own weakness. In the trusting demand of all these favors, there is a cut off from the current erroneous, tragic position of humanity, and the return to the right place, which has been designated to us for centuries. A Prerequisite for success in life and a condition repeatedly underlined by the author is the absolute rupment of "negative thinking".
Negative thinking is not only pessimism, doubt, despair. It is also hostile, unkind feelings, envy, joy of someone else's misfortune, disaffection, hatred, etc. Negative Thinking, as the author claims, is a disease in itself, brings suffering, pain, mental illness and body, and even death. From These dangerous thoughts should be reversed, do not stop them in the mind, substitute others joyful, positive. "Never let negative thoughts lurk in your mind," he observes.
So When we decided to appeal to this power in us and we muted our minds, removing all negative thoughts, we can now proceed to the same psychotronic technique of treatment, in more detail given by the author.
Let US Remember, however, that the precision of execution comes over time. Patience and perseverance. Let us Not ask ourselves at the beginning of the perfect adaptation to the instructions of the author. It's about attitude, understanding and good intentions. Many people were reported To E. Monahan, they were distrustful, resistant, very critical. None of us think that he can immediately mute his mind, remove all negative thoughts, loosen the body in perfect relaxation, etc. And yet they achieved what they wanted so much.
The Technique of psychotronic treatment consists of three parts:
2. Appeal to your Superconscious
3. End
AND preparation and termination are breathing exercises, combined with deep relaxation. The Body and mind refreshed with deep breathing, deeply relaxed, express a condition free from physical and psychological tensions, a blittable state, worthy of contact with the Overconsciousness. If we were to think more deeply about it, we ourselves would conclude that, as beings created in the image and likeness of God, we are mighty in ourselves and that we must only be cut off for a moment from the stresses of everyday life, to silence ourselves internally, to Contact that higher strength in US Latin and… Communicate their desires. Fulfilling them by our "higher Self" does not underestimate E. Monahan's slightest doubt. To convince us of this gives a whole range of healings of people suffering from very different diseases. The Author kept the exact documentation of each case and chose some of them, of course with the consent of the interested parties.
"When Roy M. Appeared for the first time, I knew he was not only suffering, but that he was full of pessimism and skepticism. For years he suffered a cross, wore an orthopedic belt, barely moved, for 4 years he did not work,-"The Lady speaks a lot about this wonderful treat, but I am convinced that I personally will not help anything anymore." -Mr. M., with this kind of attitude, I would be sincerely surprised if anything helped the Lord. Your negative thoughts hold the Lord in a cage of suffering, as in prison. " When I patiently explained to him that his own negative thoughts are the main cause of the pains of the cross, he looked at me with the highest surprise and an apparent disapproval. In the end, however, he promised to follow my instructions and be with me in touch. After two weeks, he rang: he did not feel any pain, he threw the orthopedic belt, he could move freely. In a few weeks, he returned to work and gave himself a great deal of advice. He was a keeper at the department store and his duties were to climb the floors 2-3 times a day. He became enthusiastic propagator of the idea of psychotronic treatment. -"Everyone should know this wonderful method of treatment. When I think of so many years spent in pain, I'm Grinding with anger. Let The lady stop talking about this people. It would be a sin to stop something like that just for yourself. "
PSYCHOTRONIC METHOD IN PRACTICE
1. Choose a quiet place, lie down or sit on a chair with a backrest to comfortably resist your head. For beginners, it will be convenient to have a comfortable location.
2. Close your eyes and observe your breath peacefully without controlling it. Relax the muscles of the entire body, from the face to the toes.
3. Pull deep air through your nose, stretch your lungs and diaphragm. Observe the inner eye of your breath, imagine how the air flows through the body, ending in the vicinity of the brain. When Exhale (also only through the nose) relieve the abdominal muscles and plunge into the relaxation of the whole body and mind. Repeat this exercise three times, each time trying to deepen the relaxation.
4. Create a picture of the circulatory system in mind. Imagine all blood vessels, arteries, veins, capillaries. In a deep, even relaxation, they realize the flow of blood through the body. Repeat in the thought: "I Want my blood system to be in complete harmony with myself and with other systems of my body. I Want to remove all impurities from my body and bring new energy to all the cells of my body. "
5. Introduce your breathing system. Let it form a clear image of your lungs, let it expand and shrink, let your body supply oxygen. In The mind, repeat: "The Power of my superconsciousness I am ordering that my breathing apparatus be perfect to work and remain in perfect harmony with each other and all the other systems of my body."
6. Imagine your digestive system now. Create a clear picture of the stomach, thin and thick intestines. Repeat in the following words: "Through the power of the Superconsciousness, I want my digestive system to draw the maximum benefit from the food I accept and to remain in total harmony with myself and my whole organism.
7. In the mind, Look at the image of your heart and repeat it in your mind: "by the Power of Superconsciousness, I command that my heart will work efficiently, peacefully, without distraction. I Wish myself to remain in complete harmony with myself and my whole organism. "
8. Create in your mind the image of the proper skeleton. Let thy inner eye See all the bones and joints. Speak in your mind. "By the extraordinary power Of my Superconsciousness, I command that all calcification, thickening, and illness of my skeleton are immediately removed, and sick cells disconnected, replaced with healthy and excreted from the body as a burden, a burdensy harmony of my Body weight ".
9. Now look at yourself in the mind. Let this portrait reflect your perfect health. With this image, before the eyes, repeat the following words: "I Want all the systems of my body to remain in total harmony. By the power of my Superconsciousness I manage to make my body enjoy perfect health, and all diseases have been removed as disharmony. "
10. Breathe deeply, diaphragm. Let your mind accompany the breath through the body, ending in bringing it to the top of the head. Repeat this exercise three times, plunging each time into a deeper relaxation. Repeat in the thoughts: "I Am perfectly healthy on the body and mind."
11. Breathe quietly, without controlling your breath, while still keeping your body in a relaxed place.
12. Open your eyes and go to your daily routine.
This Technique, actually practiced, takes approximately 15 minutes a day. You can Practice one time a day, up to three times as much as possible at equal intervals, but life imposes different limitations and rigid frameworks cannot be introduced.
Psychotronic treatment can be applied not only to each other, and thus can be effectively assisted by others. The Distance of the space is no obstacle to the psychotronic treatment. Your Healing thoughts are rushing at the speed of light and are subjected to the most powerful force in the universe-the power of the Superconscious.
EXAMPLES OF PSYCHOTRONIC PRACTICE EFFECTS
"Bob C. was 15 years old. He suffered a car crash and suffered from it a distant wound: second and third degree of burns. In the first few weeks the suffering of a young man was mitigmed by drugs, but it was time when drugs were discontinued for fear of addiction. Wounds, far from healing, have given the patient a lot of pain, it is also the room that has filled moaning and pleaded for help. For help to me she reported to Bob the mother. Both parents immediately began to apply the psychotronic technique of treatment. In an hour later, Bob fell into a restful sleep, the first of four days. They also Began to visibly resolve the pains and sick quickly returned to health. Even before the use of psychotronic therapy, it was established on the medical consylium that the skin transplantation will be necessary, and this would entail a number of operations. Mrs. C. Gladly advised me that Bob was ultimately waiting only two, and maybe only one operation. "
"Linda J. was extremely interested in the technique of psychotronic treatment. She Attended lectures from parapsychology at the University of Georia State. She has been Acquainted with this problem by many of his friends, as well as friends of these friends. Only her sister, Judy and brother-in-law, who lived at 1000 km from Georgia, criticized Lindy's belief in "such stupidity." But It happened that Judy was very dangerously hurt the eye with sharp wires and the doctors considered them 95% lost. The Brother-in-law informed Linde about the accident by phone, and as it is in the face of danger, inattentive to the recent yet virulent criticism, he pleaded for the help of Linde, and through her and me. We Immediately joined the psychotronic treatment. We Agreed among ourselves that until the 10th hour the next day, when doctors decide whether to avoid surgery, we will send to Judy miraculous healing forces as many as four times. At Noon There was a joyful message: there is no need for surgery. He Telephed Bob, said that doctors with enormous surprise found that the injured eye overnight was regenerated. In This situation, contact lenses will be necessary. Linda knew that Judy was not wearing glasses and wanting to spare her this annoying she asked me to re-request, namely, I would together with her through psychotronic treatment rescued Judy from wearable lenses. OF course I agreed. After a week, because then I was supposed to be Judy on a control test, I had my phone again. Lindy's Voice was shaking with joy: "The Sister does not need to wear glasses The doctor has ruled that the eye is 100% healthy. He Attributed this improvement to wearing corrective lenses. Then Judy pulled out of the bag an unrealized prescription for glasses. A doctor's Hearing cannot be expressed in words. " Judy and her husband fell into the second extreme in this case. I Always say that psychotronic therapy should go in parallel with medical treatment rather than instead. That's not less I was very happy with them.
"Jean L. Has volunteed me tremendously, mentally. It was found in her breast tumor, which although mild, had to be operationalfully removed in the near future. The Operation meant a longer stay in the hospital, Jean had three small children (2, 4 and 6 years), and the husband was in continuous business trips. I Gave her a "point-by-point" technique printed on a piece of paper, explaining what psychotronic therapy is and how I usually asked for the news. After three days I had a phone: "I'm Back from the control overexposure. The Tumor disappeared. I am tremendvery happy. " Jean and her husband Martin remained in touch with me. They Not only practiced three times a day, but they taught the oldest child. "When They grow up some smaller children, they will join and they have to do these family exercises," they claimed with enthusiasm. "
All these diseases were cured with the same psychotronic technique of treatment. It Has its immutable rules, included in points and sub-points; (a) Differences in individual disease cases relate only to individual words and terms.
Psychotronic Treatment consists in recourse to his Higher Self, to the power of his own Superconsciousness, to the presentation of his desire and to perpeting them by the mental experiencing of the scenes of joy, happiness from recovered health, congratulation Coming and scenes in the doctor's office, who with Astonisher, but and happily finds an absolute cure from the disease. Simple, easy, and so much needed for us! It will be much easier to believe in waking up in your imagination for your own gendered health and joy.
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Reviewer: Zbigniew Zbiegieni Mgr.
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Japan Rui Oguri Shun Pairs up with Taiwan Domyouji Jerry Yan for Live-action Lupin III Movie
Posted on November 11, 2013 by ockoala
In a billion million gazillion years I never would have hoped or imagined for this, but this is honest to god happening. Taiwan’s Hana Yori Dango version of Domyouji Tsukasa (called Dao Ming Shi) played by Jerry Yan will be filming a Japanese movie with the Hanazawa Rui of the Japanese version of HanaDan which is of course played by the one and only Oguri Shun. Can we all have a moment here to bask in the cross-over glory of Meteor Garden Domyouji meeting up with HanaDan Rui. These two were my favorites from both cast, other than my personal love for Vic Zhou in his version of Rui (Hua Zhe Lei) but honestly Shun captured the aura better. The only thing better would be if this was for a new movie adaptation of HYD because these two would be ideally the older versions of their respective characters. I was never a fan of Barbie Hsu as Makino Tsukushi (called Shan Cai) and she’s retired from acting these days anyways so stick in Inoue Mao and the imaginary updated HYD would be perfect. Even though this new movie is not HYD, it’s still mighty exciting and tickles the manga fan in me. It’s the live-action adaptation of a famous shonen manga from the 60’s called Lupin III (Lupin the Third). The titular character Arsène Lupin III is the grandson of the fictional thief and himself following in the family trade. He can steal anything and always sends a calling card indicating his impending theft before striking. Shun will be playing the main character of the thief Lupin III while Jerry’s character is a new one to the franchise and is supposedly a rival equally as talented thief and it isn’t clear where his loyalties lie. The film is currently filming in Bangkok and will have other location shoots as well. Currently the main female lead and Lupin’s love interest hasn’t been revealed yet but lots of big name actresses are vying for the role. The movie is slated for a Spring 2014 release.
While Shun and Jerry are reportedly confirmed, the other non-confirmed members of the cast include Arashi‘s Sakurai Sho as Lupin’s right hand man the sharpshooter Jigen Daisuke, while Tsumabuki Satoshi is in talks to be the swordsman Ishikawa Goemon. This is shaping up to be a pretty gorgeous male eye candy cast.
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Japan Rui Oguri Shun Pairs up with Taiwan Domyouji Jerry Yan for Live-action Lupin III Movie — 24 Comments
czak on November 11, 2013 at 4:18 AM said:
OMG!!! did see this coming but OMG a cross over of my fave Hanayoridango live action stars…? OMG!!! then the’ll get Lee Si young as fujiko?
but its jerry yan. yay!
and Shun oguri… double and triple YAY!!!!
bebe on November 11, 2013 at 4:36 AM said:
Wow.didn’t see that one coming but me like.
Darcy on November 11, 2013 at 4:46 AM said:
Hyperventilating and cannot contain myself!!
trotwood on November 11, 2013 at 5:00 AM said:
*gasp* *wheez* *pant*
snow_white on November 11, 2013 at 5:03 AM said:
I recently watched RMPW and loved Oguri Shun in it….this was my first Jdrama and wow…such an amazing experience….he is soooooo good!!
Which are some other similar rom-com Jdramas that are good??
selma on November 11, 2013 at 2:28 PM said:
you can try horaru no hikari, my boss my hero, nodame cantabile,Galileo strawberry on the shortcake, zenkai girl …
and if your looking for some amazing jdrama to delve in apart from comedy he best are JIN (1+2) and Hanzwa Naoki
oozzeee on November 11, 2013 at 5:14 AM said:
Can’t they bring MatsuJun for a cameo role?.. teheeee…
Okay, now that I have recovered from being taken over by my 13-year-old fangirl self and am back to being a grown woman, I can say that I very excited about this pairing and the story sounds fun as well. A sharpshooter for a right-hand man AND a master swordsman in the mix? I’m in!!
Oh yeah; I was already in with the Shun-Yan pairing. Should I start printing Shun-Yan t-shirts now?
chocolander on November 11, 2013 at 6:20 AM said:
Yes! Petition for a MEN/GENTLEMEN over flowers! 🙂 hahaha, it’s so like F44 a la A Gentleman’s Dignity, but they’re not that old though…
…that one came entirely out of left field. But wow, never in my wildest dreams would I ever imagine such a crossover! Sounds interesting 🙂 One question, is Jerry Yan going to Japan to further his acting/singing career? Well, hope that a Taiwanese-Japanese pairing would be done better this time, as compared to Tsuki no Koibito….
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG *flails around*
I love Lupin.
I love Jerry Yan.
I love Shun Oguri.
I love potential, begrudging bromance.
Because there’s no way they’ll be rivals the whole movie, right? I bet my left kidney there’s a Big Bad that they’d have to team up against later in the story.
Mia on November 11, 2013 at 7:31 AM said:
Oh god jerry and Oguri together!!! jerry doing a japanese movie!!!! Oh my god, I just can’t, THIS IS FREAKING AWESOMEEEE!!!!!!!!
Sophie on November 11, 2013 at 10:12 AM said:
I just love Japanese fashion. Look at that cool mixing of prints. On the other hand Tony is dressed like a guido.
aishi16 on November 11, 2013 at 10:13 AM said:
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a HUGE fan of Inoue Mao but shouldn’t this be more apropos; Taiwan’s Domyouji Tsukasa, Japan’s Hanazawi Rui, and Korea’s Makino Tsukushi 😛
JG on November 11, 2013 at 10:17 AM said:
Excited!! My two faves from the HDY series. Inoue Mao joining would be awesome, but please, Go Hye Sun, stay away from this movie! Hehe.
AJ on November 11, 2013 at 10:36 AM said:
I have not been this excited for a movie in such a long time! I love both Jerry and Shun, both for their roles is HanaDan, and for other roles they have done as well. The only thing I am skeptical about is Jerry in a Japanese movie. Unless he has Japanese skills I don’t know about, good chances are his voice is going to be dubbed, which I have never liked.
trotwood on November 11, 2013 at 2:08 PM said:
Too much sadness going around in the world, so I keep coming back to this link to see all the flailing and the squeeing and the gasping. . . I think I might you guys as much as I love Shun-Yan. Thanks for putting a smile back on my face. Can you imagine us all on the red carpet for the opening of this movie? How many people would be having their passports looked by Japanese police officers that night? Hmm?
Most importantly, I realized that I forgot to thank Captain Koala for posting this news. (bowing respectfully–before going back to gasping and flailing and squeeling)) Thank you. Thank you so much.
dn’t like jerry yan much but Oguri Shun is one mighty good actor, I miss his dramas, cn’t wait for this movie, thx for the great news
justaviewer on November 11, 2013 at 2:40 PM said:
Double Oh my! Be still my heart.
tati on November 11, 2013 at 3:41 PM said:
thanks for the news, koala. you put a big smile on my face so early in the morning! to think i had just been googling jerry yan the other day, and now this. you will be keeping us updated on movie happenings, yeah?
xiaoSxin on November 11, 2013 at 4:43 PM said:
Exciting news! I love both separately and I love MG and HanaDan so I am looking forward to this project
Issa on November 11, 2013 at 5:08 PM said:
Woah! This is so epic I can’t even..
However, here’s to hoping they don’t bring out the worst of each other. Haha
Jomo on November 11, 2013 at 6:19 PM said:
THIS is a great idea!!!
kharleigh on December 11, 2013 at 5:21 PM said:
I was hyperventilating when I read this , it is not just these two ikemen from Japanese HYD Rui Hanazawa, Shun Oguri, and Taiwanese Meteor Garden Domyouji Tsukasa (Dao Ming Si), Jerry Yan; it also includes Kim Joon, South Korean Akira Mimasaka (Boys over Flowers) as part of the cast… What a very epic casting!! oh my gosh!!! can it be 2014 already?
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Gmail's New Version Is Now Available
The new version of Gmail I was talking about the other day is already available in some Gmail accounts. If you see a link to an "older version" at the top of the page, that means you can enjoy the new features: mail prefetching, updated contact manager and other small updates.
Gmail has a new architecture that improves the performance and the usability. Now you can use the back button in your browser and bookmark URLs from different Gmail views because the URLs change when you go to a different section. The messages are prefetched when Gmail loads so you don't have to wait too much until a message is displayed.
The new contact manager has inline search, better options to delete contacts or add them to a group, the address is now structured and you can enter usernames for different IM networks. You can also export the contacts in vCard format, export the contacts from a group and print your address book so you can use it offline. If you want to see the new contact manager and you don't have the new version of Gmail, don't worry. It's a separate application that can be found at this URL.
Gmail also added an option to create filters based on the current message and a mystery-meat "mute" that brings to the interface an already existing feature. When you hover over a contact name you'll no longer see only the picture, now Gmail shows a beautiful contact card that lets you view the recent conversations with one click.
There are more options for displaying Gmail chat and you can now select a photo for your profile from Picasa Web Albums. Gmail will probably use the same profiles available in Google Maps and Google Shared Stuff.
Here are some comments from those who have the new version.
Chris: "Just experienced the new interface. The load time for the inbox takes a bit longer, but my goodness are the instantaneous load times of the pre-fetched emails ever convenient."
Anonymous: "The new interface seems quite a bit slower to me. Prefetched messages do load more quickly, but switching to labels/folders that have many messages now takes quite a bit longer. (E.g. switching to All Mail or Sent Mail from the inbox seems to be quite a bit slower now.) The new contacts manager is surprisingly unstable for a Google web product as well."
Gmail's interface is almost identical, but the team promises to add more features in the future. "The Gmail team has been working on a structural code change that we'll be rolling out to Firefox 2 and IE 7 users over the coming weeks (with other browsers to follow). You won't notice too many differences to start with, but we're using a new model that enables us to iterate faster and share components."
Bottom line - Gmail 2.0
- limited testing: Firefox, IE 7 (only some users)
- new JavaScript architecture
- look for: permalinks, new contact manager, photo picker, mail prefetching
- there aren't many new features, but I think these are the first steps for the social Gmail
{ Thanks, Jason Persampieri. }
Posted by Alex Chitu at 10/29/2007 03:50:00 PM
Ibrahim Awwal October 29, 2007 at 4:41 PM
Hi, I got the new version without having to click a link. It feels a bit slower, but the way I noticed something was different was because the URLs were different, and now back/forward works properly in gmail and refreshing the page via browser actually refreshes that page instead of going to the Inbox. Can't say that I particularly like the new contacts system, but it's not bad. I'm just used to the vertical version I guess, although with the increase of widescreen monitors I guess it makes more sense.
Radoslav October 29, 2007 at 5:21 PM
nothing for me yet ;(
google doesnt love me.
Recoil October 29, 2007 at 5:41 PM
Now, assuming it prefetches all of your unread mail, I'm curious what that means to the loading time of someone like my mom, who never ever actually reads/checks/opens her mail unless she's specifically looking for something that someone has told her they sent over the phone, and therefore has at least a few hundred unread emails.
She already uses a slower computer to read Gmail, so I wonder, will this create an even greater usability gap between "power" users and "casual" users?
Ibramhim: Glad to hear back/forward finally works right, that always pissed me off in the currrent/old one.
Nothing for me too ;(
I am the heavy user using 65% of storage.
Zero October 29, 2007 at 6:29 PM
remember to change ur language setting to English (US).. This updates may only be available for English (US) version first. Then refresh.. If its still not updated, then I guess, just wait.
Joseph With Computer Maintenance October 29, 2007 at 6:59 PM
I received the update today without any notification. My BetterGMail Firefox extension no longer works unless I go back to the old version. Also the new contacts setup doesn't appear to work in my Firefox, although it does work in ie7, and I can say that I like it way better than the old setup. Seems a little buggy overall however, think I'll switch back over to the old version for a few months and let them fix all that junk.
Yah.. I think the contacts are still buggy. I guess we need to wait for all the bugs to be fixed.
Dominic DeFiore (dcd722@gmail.com) October 29, 2007 at 7:17 PM
Google must hate me. No IMAP, no new version, my YouTube account has been suspended for over a year...
Gimmie some love Google...
The best gmail so far is on iPhone (browser version and not the push e-mail). Absolutely love it. Cannot ask for more.
Alex Chitu October 29, 2007 at 9:34 PM
Gmail's Blog has a post about this:
"So recently the Gmail team has been working on a structural code change that we'll be rolling out to Firefox 2 and IE 7 users over the coming weeks (with other browsers to follow). You won't notice too many differences to start with, but we're using a new model that enables us to iterate faster and share components (we now use the same rich text editor as Groups and Page Creator, and the Contact Manager can be seen in several Google apps). A few other things you will notice are some new keyboard shortcuts and the ability to bookmark specific messages and email searches."
Christian Jasinski October 30, 2007 at 1:08 AM
What about an offline Gmail then?
Feh... I am still waiting for IMAP support to go live on my account. You'd think they would roll this stuff out to the older account holders first. You know, the ones that have been with GMail from the word "go".
Remko October 30, 2007 at 1:17 AM
The first few clicks are indeed a bit slower, but when the images are cached, it is lightning fast for me, including switching back & forth between folders.
Are H. October 30, 2007 at 1:29 AM
Hi. I've got the new version as well... It looks almost exactly the same. The "Loading" text is different, and the contact management "hover" box is different as well, easier to use. But the contact management functionality does not work for me. When I click on "Contacts" in the main menu, only an empty screen comes up.
I'm using Firefox as my default browser, but I decided to test it out in IE. The new version does not load (ui=1 in IE, ui=2 in Firefox). And the link to the "Newer version" in the upper right-hand corner is gone...
Matt October 30, 2007 at 1:36 AM
I don't have the new version yet, but I have noticed that when I right click on a message in the inbox it brings up a Snap style preview, quite useful.
what's new? i can type a group into to: field now, in the old interface :)
Secretary October 30, 2007 at 1:40 AM
I had it for the day, and now my privileges have been revoked. Weird... it was like a teaser, well it was good while it lasted. Managed to sort out many contacts which would have taken forever with the current contact manager.
I have the new version, but didn't notice (despite reading a GoogleOS article) until I saw the "Older version" link at the top of the page. After I started concentrating, I realized that the yellow boxes at the top after I performed actions felt different, and that new e-mails seemed to load faster (_too_ fast, actually. Scary. I don't like it when things load _that_ quickly, it's like something is wrong. For the same reason that, I assume, Gmail has a 'Refresh' link -- it is a placebo for people, like me, who assume that the Inbox hasn't updated for some other reason than I don't have new e-mail). Also, the "More Actions" drop-down box feels uglier now, but I don't remember what it _used_ to look like, so I can't give an objective comparison. Overall, no net change: some things, if I notice them, are different; but, MOST IMPORTANTLY, there were no backward-compatibility issues.
Oh, and I am at 3% usage: it's my primary personal account but I don't store huge files there or use it as a business address.
I can't see myself getting the interface update for a looong time, my account still hasn't been enabled with IMAP yet... will being in the UK affect this?
@Parapingu:
Not the location, but the language. Change the language in the settings to English (US).
Djill October 30, 2007 at 2:41 AM
I got it this new interface,what I can say:
- faster (despite some comments)
- clean (vertical display)
- easy to use
- drag-and-drop to attach file
- offline email reading
Go ahead your are on the right track..!
rich October 30, 2007 at 2:54 AM
Contact Manager is a mess in Safari 3, and I suspect Safari 2 as well :-(
Bob Churchill October 30, 2007 at 3:10 AM
Why why why isn't there an option to show all unGrouped contacts? It would help greatly with grouping them!
I noticed the change yesterday in the evening at home (Firefox). It happened without any notification.
But here, at work is still the old version (IExplorer).
Kostya October 30, 2007 at 3:34 AM
new version works much faster for me, so I 'd say it's a good update so far (gmail is so perfect as-is, that I am always worried new "features" and "updates" might just break something)
On the other hand, I think someone promised that mew version will be able to show message size; this hasn't materialized yet, has it?
Radoslav October 30, 2007 at 3:41 AM
@djill: "drag-and-drop to attach file" -> you must download a firefox extension then it works in every select file box
looks awesome . i am trying in and out
its great....
i got it today... :P
loading time is perfect..
greats josh
Vishal October 30, 2007 at 4:46 AM
I cant see in my account, its looks we are not priviliged yet...
Hopefully will get it in near future.
Welcome developemnt from Google
Philipp Lenssen October 30, 2007 at 5:27 AM
... one of your screenshots contains Matt Cutts' email address ... well, it may be a publicly known address anyway, I don't know ...
Fixed. Thank you, sir!
"CH1LL3V" October 30, 2007 at 5:55 AM
"Gmail also added an option to create filters based on the current message"
Thank you glorious developers!
Shawn October 30, 2007 at 6:02 AM
New version??!!??
I'm still on the edge of my seat waiting for IMAP on my account! :/
Max October 30, 2007 at 6:24 AM
Even if u don't see imap it works yet probably... just switch temporarly to us english and then wrote down the parameters. It should work even if then u change back to ur language
I still don't even have the IMAP option; nor do I have this new version of Gmail.
j_z October 30, 2007 at 6:52 AM
I WANT IT FOR GOOGLE APPS FOR YOUR DOMAIN!
cmon google, show us some love.
OK everybody i just wanna know ONE thing:
Does gmail still automatically adds contact behind my back...
Cause a "Contact Manager" has to be "Managed"...........BY ME!
Kraft October 30, 2007 at 7:34 AM
I haven't seen the new ver in Google Apps, however, I have the new contact manager (on two separate domains, one standard and one education edition) if I go to the direct link:
http://mail.google.com/a/DOMAIN.COM/contacts/ui/ContactManager?js=RAW
Also, note on the new contact manager: You can only check and delete 20 contacts at a time. Beware of this before you check over 100 contacts and try to delete them at once. ::grr::
@ Dave--Agreed. It'd be nice to rewarded with new features, considering how long I've been using this thing. Google's been doing more and more to disappoint me later, and this doesn't help at all. No new features at all.
michperu October 30, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Nice upgrade! because the actual contact thing... sucks!
I'm experiencing the same problem with Contact Manager in Firefox along with Better Gmail add-on not working with new version of Gmail.
Is there a way to switch back to Old Version and have that switch persist? Every time I go back to Gmail it loads the new version, so I have to click every time to get the old version.
Does anyone know why the new Gmail and IMAP only works with English(US) and not English(UK) (or other languages I suspect) then?
Switching works for me, but all the new stuff hids again when I switch back.
Still no birthday recording in the contact manager. Missed opportunity there.
Gary October 30, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Dude, just got this today...my mailbox loads much faster. Thanks for the awesome explanations! I was confused when I saw "old version" I was like WTF!
Alex Chitu October 30, 2007 at 12:52 PM
@Rick:
So you want birthday notifications in Google Calendar for your Gmail contacts. That's a very good idea and it's one of the many possible connections between Gmail and other Google services.
@Ionut Alex Chitu
Yup - letting me tag people as friends and family is a start, now I can add their address. Surely the next obvious thing is the GCal linked DOB. And then someone will write a Greasemonkey script that will automatically search Amazon to see if they have a wishlist, thus taking all the effort out of bothering to remember anything or come up with any ideas on my own.
No change for my account either....
When will Google let all users switch to the new UI?
In the coming days/weeks.
Works only with Firefox. Not with Opera or IE
Got it or not, only makes one feel ever more Google-lier great.
Shines brighter under my sky, gotta increase my tint density...
Aloha & Mahalo nui loa Google-nui's
Douglas October 30, 2007 at 7:38 PM
I too have to note that IE does not work, really interesting I have to say =], power to firefox!
shannou October 30, 2007 at 7:48 PM
Yes, it does indeed suck that the contacts do not show up at all in the newer version for Firefox on Mac OSX. This "glitch" seems to be a little bit extreme for a beta release to general public, so I guess that's why it is a limited release.
Contacts don't auto-fill in Safari 3. MAJOR BUG.
Mandini October 30, 2007 at 9:39 PM
Does anyone know if they removed the "auto-fill" of recipient names?
Since the new version showed up, I no longer have it fill in email addresses automagically from my address book contacts.
Kris R. October 31, 2007 at 4:01 AM
I want to know when the IMAP roll out will be completed. I am still waiting!
MCLipsco October 31, 2007 at 6:21 AM
with the new Gmail, can you now copy and paste images into rich text emails? I'm pre-smiling, just in case you can...
It is a shame you can't enter a contact's birthday address into a datetimepicker field. Seems such a simple and popular feature is really long overdue.
I love it! Works great for me in Firefix and IE! The load time was slower the first day but it is loading faster than the old version for me now. No bugs found yet although I agree with the previous comment of having the calendar and contacts integrated for birthdays. Kudos to the Google development team! To the rest of you...patience is a virtue it IS still in Beta.
Did anyone else notice that gmail lite stopped working when they were ported over to the "new" version? I can no longer access my e-mail through gmail lite because of this. Pretty frustrating.
Hello, I'm not sure whether this is related to the newer version of Gmail, but recently I got on the top right (near the settings link) a "Report bug" that links to http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?ctx=%67mail&direct=1
Does anyone got this kind of link as well?
P.S. for info, still dont have any new version thing on my gmail!
Erick Alvarado October 31, 2007 at 6:30 PM
I really don't like it, it runs slower for me and it does not show me any of my contacts
Overall, I like it! I hope they don't change the interface too much....I deSPISE the competitor's "new" versions they've released....
Google is modeling Gmail after a "web" application; while the competitors seem to be mocking up their webmail interfaces to look like actual desktop mail clients....
Emanuel November 1, 2007 at 8:35 AM
the Contacts don't load now in my Firefox :(
Jake November 1, 2007 at 10:41 AM
I got IMAP on day one, but I'm still waiting for this new interface :( Too bad there's no way for me to ask to be a "tester" type account...
Vikram Bailur November 1, 2007 at 10:53 AM
how do you default to the older version of gmail? the newer version has hung my firefox browser too many times - i have to go to the task manager and kill the process.
Mandini November 1, 2007 at 12:37 PM
To go back to the older version, you select the "Older Version" link on the top right of the window.
Either this update needs to be seriously revisited in the near future, or a option in settings to always default to the old version needs to appear. When I open my inbox, I expect it to start working right away, not sit there unresponsive while it loads emails I'm probably not even planning on opening. I'm normally in and out of my email in under 45 seconds- anything which slows me down during that time is entirely counterproductive, and just waiting for the page to wake up so I can hit the 'old version' link feels like an eternity.
Alex Chitu November 1, 2007 at 5:39 PM
Good points, although the link to the "old version" is just temporary. You can bookmark this page:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1
and use it to access the old version of Gmail.
It doesn't work with Opera, which is a real shame (however, I can use Opera to access my gmail account using Pop3)
I guess having a Better Faster Stronger Back Button is a nice feature, but it's one I don't really need.
So the end result for me is my gmail is currently broken so I can have a feature I don't want. Neat.
I'm forced to use a dial-up connection at home, and the new gmail is noticeably slower. I also couldn't find an option to completely remove the chat thing, only the option to put it below the labels. The "delete forever" link beneath emails for conversations messages in the trash doesn't seem to work either. I switched back to the old version.
For all Firefox users that cannot see the new contacts (empty screen), make sure you disable your "Better GMail" extension if you have it, as that's most likely what's causing the issue. I had it and once I disabled it everything was working fine.
They really need to fix Safari tho, it's a big mess. Or at least show the old version if people go in with Safari in the meantime.
new gmail seems to be crashing ie7. iexplorer process uses 100% of processor upon activating new version. Switching back to older version fixes the problem. It's incredible how software is not tested before released to the public!
none November 3, 2007 at 7:49 AM
gimme gimme more
I went back to the old version because rendering pages and scrolling was getting slow and jerky. I assume that's because of the prefetching.
With the old version I can watch tv on one monitor and check the mail on the other with no problems. But with the new version there was noticeable stuttering and jerkiness on both the tv app and on firefox.
Perhaps there should be an option as to how much prefetching should be downloaded so as to not impair the system.
The new version detected FireBug and told me how to disable it, haha.
Jagadish November 3, 2007 at 8:20 PM
New Version is amazing, especially on mouse hovering the contact we can get all recent conversations.
I'm using Safari, and it works good, but not bug free.
I'm completely surprised that Google puts GMail itself into a 2 year beta test, yet springs this buggy version on the public without notice.
Most people probably don't even know they are using a new version.
Ranganathan November 4, 2007 at 4:45 AM
Tried the new version in Firefox2.0. It takes a much longer time to open, though I have less than 10 mails in my inbox. Not sure what this "prefetch" does, but everytime, will it download more mails than I want to see? If so, I have to unnecessarily pay more for internet (yes, its volume based here). Also, the option: New / old version is not saved persistently.
No official help-page, no details too. No option to switch-back too. Google: Please test well before releasing! :(
BetterGmail Addon is not working too.
I didn't even notice I had the new version until my yahoogroups digests wouldn't work properly. Now when I click a digest entry, instead of dropping down to it, the page goes to a new, blank, tab. Very crummy feature. Also, it's slower than the old gmail.
Wish the new-version had a more polished user interface as well :(
JOKERz November 5, 2007 at 2:42 AM
new version always make my browser stuck when i try to return back to my inbox.
When I send out mail using the new version, my lines (text-body width) are shorter, and consequently my text-body height is longer. The older version sends out mail with longer text-body width. Is there an option to set this?
Woody November 5, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Well, its now more sophisticated than before. I like the new back and forward feature. It is definetly slower than the older version. Ill try to continue use this, but if i really find it slow, i might go back to the old version :(
So called 'new version' freezes my Gmail every time I sign in. CPU goes up to sky. All of that is going on in IE7. Ff I use Opera it's still an old version and it's fine. For now: Me no likey :(
Well... I got myself the new version by adding ?shva=2
Noticed the weird shva get variable and boom, here it goes. When you log in, look at the adress bar. Behind /mail/ there should be some variable with value 1 if you don't have the new version yet.
That's for those, who don't have new version yet. :)
Troy November 6, 2007 at 6:23 PM
I got the new Gmail look and feel and my only real complaint is that on my Firefox tab it now says Gmail - Inbox and my email address. It looks cluttered compared to the old Gmail - Inbox (1) (or however many new emails I had) I switch back to the Old Version every time just so it's not so cluttered up there since I usually have about 8 tabs open.
Kraft November 7, 2007 at 8:07 AM
Note re andris' post - FYI- The ?shva=2 tag does not work on Google Apps Gmail accounts. :-(
I found that it switched versions on me with no notice. All my firefox extensions like gmail checker and advanced options don't work with the new version. Hopefully they will be updated quickly, or another add on will be made that's compatible.
verry fskin' nice. they fsked up gmail so it won't work with konqueror now
EDIT* Yay gmail manager already has an update for firefox. now just need gmail skins
MilkyWhite November 7, 2007 at 2:47 PM
I don't like being "forced" into using the new version. Every time I click on "Older Version", when I come back into the mail box it's reverted back to the new version. And the newer version is crashing Firefox with me.
Sometimes you should just leave well enough alone. Stop trying to fix something that isn't broken!
Kelly Hughes November 7, 2007 at 4:50 PM
I'm not crazy about this new version. I love the simplicity of Gmail. This new Gmail has too many bells and whistles for me. Also, the greasemonkey script for gmail signature float doesn't seem to work with the new version.
I really can't stand the "beautiful contact card" thing when you hover over a contact name. If I want to know something about a contact, I should just *click* on it. This just gets in my way by obscuring portions of my screen with irrelevant material.
Also, when I set the Gmail view to "turn off chat", I *don't* want to use chat! I don't want the chat box; I don't want to invite people to chat; I just want it to go away!
Tried it for a day, but it got progressively slower to load, send, and receive emails in Firefox. Had to revert to the original, speedier version. I use gmail and gchat with my main clients for a large portion of the day, and I literally can't afford that kind of slowdown. Let's hope it improves soon.
google loves me lol... i got the g2.0
it definitely loads faster for me :S
but there arent many fetures,,though...
more like google 1.1
Gee Al November 8, 2007 at 12:29 AM
Those who didn't get the NEW Gmail,
!!!Upgrade to Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7).
Firefox 2 users should have it by now. It's not a random selection of accounts. All accounts have been UPGRADED.
Enjoy new Gmail. I LUV IT!!!
Here is the link to IE7
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx
If you are using XP+SP2 simply click "Download", otherwise choose your operating system then proceed.
The new gmail runs very slowly for me, which is surprising because i have IE7, and a brand new computer. So I am now back to using the old version. I'm sure once all of the bugs are worked out, it will be awesome!
vinnie November 8, 2007 at 3:05 AM
the new version is very Mac styled i feel.. the title bar where the google links are placed looks very 'block'y..
not impressed with the styling but the features look good.. the old version will do for me now.. hope to see the new version pick up some load speed..
not a fan of the new system. The new page description, with my email address in the page title, is annoying. I liked the older version, Gmail - Inbox. It's less intrusive on my tabs.
The back and forwardbuttons are not working properly, and aren't too exciting even if it were functional. I can easily click Inbox, I don't really need to use keyboard shortcuts for something as simple as a link.
Gmail, ya done screwed this one up.
I'm switching back to the old view.
Locks up when attempting to perform a search repeatedly using Firefox 2.0.9.
Woody November 8, 2007 at 11:36 AM
I prefer that you put a Poll on your blog, and see what people would say.
Personally, I didn't like the new version since it is too slow and the UI is still the same.
I hope you guys will work on it more, because I believe the old version is way better than this one.
I hope that you take our comments into consideration.
Wadih
www.wadih-ghsoubi.com
Steven Rogers November 8, 2007 at 3:21 PM
I have the new version, but I'm annoyed at having to see my email address listed in the firefox tab next to "Gmail - Inbox (1)." There is no need for that.
The box popping up unexpectedly when I happen to hover over an email name is maddening. Don't like it at all. I keep going back to the old version.
Why does the new version seem worse than the old one?...to everyone! And why is it nearly impossible to write gmail about it? worse than big bro.
The new version loads and runs really slowly - takes ages to check mail and switching to the old version -that takes ages to load up! Terrible at the moment.
jimmy November 9, 2007 at 1:34 AM
I really enjoyed reading messages by right clicking on it in the older version. it doesn't seem to work that way in gmail 2.0. I haven't used any of the new features so far, so I can't say it's great, but I definitely liked the older version better. You should create an option to permanently revert to the older version.
myonlyphoto November 9, 2007 at 8:06 AM
The new gmail is not working for me, it all started when I got the newer version few days ago. First everytime I click on Expand Email or Contacts, it goes to new pop up window and does nothing, so I would switch to older version, and today I cannot even login, as this pop up window from gmail starts with login and it is still loading. Not sure what to do next. Anna :)
I don't like new version and I don't like not being able to set the older version as a default. Each time I log in I see the new slow version.
If chat is turned off (via the link at the bottom of the page), then turn off the annoying popups when hovering over the sender's name, since that info is mainly for chatting.
gordon mei November 9, 2007 at 11:58 AM
The built-in chat in Gmail finally works with Safari 3. This is good news.
I'm NOT very happy with the newer version of g-mail as it's soo slow ... No one seems to be able explain why and or how to fix it ?! The older version runs very well , clearing my cache & browser have done nothing .... Downer.
Gani November 9, 2007 at 10:20 PM
Congratulations on wrecking gmail!
gmail new version is very slow and lags.. i feel it should have been tested more thoroughly with more browsers. it is not even beta stuff and if one visits gmail discussion group Gmail-Problem-solving , he will come to know that people r complaining about the buggy socalled "new version" of gmail.
the features promised r really great, the theory behind that is good but the execution or the planning has gone woefully wrong. i would say it is a disaster.it is not the standards usually associated with google.
i have tried with firefox 2 browser & ie 6 but it takes too much time to load and has lots of bugs.especially gmail chat is an eye sore with all the msgs displaying that gmail cant connect & has a temporary technical problem.
it is time google kickstarts gmail
Phil November 10, 2007 at 6:04 AM
The new Gmail is slow for me. There is a delay from when i mouse-over checkboxes or hyperlinks -and- when i can finally click it.
If this is a setting, I'd love to hear people's thoughts. For now, I've returned to the old version.
I have Windows Vista on a 2GB RAM Intel Core2 1.66GHz laptop.
Asos Illusionist November 10, 2007 at 9:07 AM
Sorry but i just don't like the new version. It may be faster, but, not customisable (yet). The only thing it misses it's html signatures. The only way to have'em is by using greasemonkey or better gmail extension for firefox, plus having a way to skin gmail unskinable interface..
I just don't use it.. and i hope gmail doesn't "hop" to the new version without asking us first..
Plus we'd like to have html signatures.. at least give us a break and make this dream happen!
Stefan November 10, 2007 at 12:26 PM
I like the new gmail. It is faster! The loading of the files and labels is a little bit slower, but the loading of the e-mails is faster, almost instantly! Unfortunately I cannot load up fotos from my Computer. I always get the message: "The file you selected could not be uploaded...".
I love Google, but there is always terrible support for the Opera browser. I can access the new version of Gmail in Firefox (which I don't use often), but as always, Opera gets neglected and so I can't use it. This on top of other problems I've had with other Google applications on Opera over the years is disheartening.
This is a real shame because Opera is dedicated towards web standards and Opera users are a mostly loyal, tech-savvy group. I think Google is missing out on a smaller but dedicated market that would latch on to Google services if only there was more support for their browser of choice. Instead Opera users are being alienated.
Also, if these problems exist on Opera Mini, Google had really better watch out. With Opera Mini being one of the most popular mobile web browsers, and the mobile web being an emerging market, Google should start paying attention to its compatibility with Opera or risk losing out.
Romann M. Weber November 11, 2007 at 9:28 AM
I'm glad I discovered that I was looking at new version of Gmail and not experiencing a computer virus. I regret to say that the new interface is very slow and a bit buggy. I had to revert to the old version. I'll check back in a little while to see if the performance has improved.
James George November 11, 2007 at 7:37 PM
Its awfully slow. Dont knw wat google has done, but its real slow. It used to be much faster than this and also the attachemnt uploads worked much better. But this is bad, I mean its real bad. Hey google are you guys listening to this?
SEND TO for Gmail Web pages not working for several days is a bummer...no improvement noted!!!
MoisheS November 14, 2007 at 10:27 PM
The new version is EXCRUTIATINGLY SLOW on my computer!!!
The annoying thing is that every time I sign in I have to switch to the older version as the default is the new one and it takes me like 2 minutes before I get it back to the older version because of how SLOW it is!!! My whole computer kind of FREEZES until I switch back!!!
I do not like the new version at all. There is not a single feature that would make Gmail better for me. Even the dreaded "forward/backward navigation" issue was not so important.
The worst thing about the new version is it's unresponsiveness. The _perceived_ response times to mouse clicks is just awful compared to the older version. In other words:
GMAIL DOES NOT WORK SMOOTHLY ANYMORE! THERE ARE "TIME GAPS" -- THE PREFETCHING FEATURE FREEZES THE UI AND IT "FEELS" HORRIBLE!
I do not know what this message prefetching is supposed to improve but it's not working. I want things to be reasonably quick the first time I view the page because in a webmail app I view the page usually once per session. The older version didn't freeze that much and showed the page even with some data missing.
The bleakening of colors was also a bad idea. WHY??????
The redesign of "Actions" dropdown menu is just .. well.. totally absurd. No improvement in functionality (for the end user) but instead of keep using plain HTML functionality some sort of Javascript DHTML widget has been implemented. The only "improvement" for the end user is performance degradation because of excessive JS.
GMail development team does not understand the user anymore.
Bonproducer November 16, 2007 at 7:18 AM
Very very slow. Usually locks up when I first start the program. If this keeps up, I'm afraid I will have to switch email providers; it's just too frsutrating. I was so happy with the older version. Is there no way we can choose to default to the older version when we start the program? Please give us another URL for the older version, or an option under Settings. A lot of customers, especially that use Gmail for business, need reliability and speed, rather than extra features that slow everything down or freeze it. Gmail, please do something for us, or you will lose us!
Alex Chitu November 16, 2007 at 7:28 AM
@Bonnie:
Bookmark http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1 or change the language to English(UK) in the settings.
It keeps crashing FireFox (2.0.0.9) on me when I do searches or go to delete spam. This is really annoying :(
I would like to make another suggestion to those who would like to use the older version of Gmail by default. Those who use the Greasemonkey extension with the Mozilla Firefox browser may find this suggestion interesting.
I have written a Greasemonkey script that redirects the user to the older version of Gmail after logging into Gmail. If you would like to use it, it can be downloaded and installed from here. And if you would like to read more about this script, then you may click here.
In the new version, copy/past or cut/paste of "rich content from a received email to a new one you're sending, does not work. It drops any pictures entirely and conversts rich text to plain text.
This seems like a step backwards.
The new version is a default for me now ... and I HATE IT. It is way too slow. I have anywhere from a 3 to a 10 second delay in almost navigation within gmail. I do like the new contact layout, but the wait/delay to get there makes it almost unusable. For now, I am switching to Older Version everytime I log in. What a pain.
It is difficult to distinguish the new version except for the fact that it is incredibly slower! It's almost impossible to browse through my inbox unless I switch to the "older version." Although I'm a fan of Google and its creations, I don't like the speed of the new version.
Your new version of Gmail is nice, but please fix it in a way that doesn't compromise SPEED. In today's hectic world, speed is everything.
Gmail User
The new version seems quicker in some places, but is a lot slower overall and crashes Firefox a lot more.
It's also annoying that when switching back to the older version via the 'Old version' link in the top right, that this setting is not saved and reverts back to the new version after each login.
Is there any way that this can be changed so that the user preference can be stored?
Overall though, the new GMail seems like a step back, and I hope that the old version is kept around for people who do not want to be forced into using the newer inferior version.
myonlyphoto November 24, 2007 at 7:09 AM
The new version is lot faster at the beginning and then I get error messages and keeps reloading and pop up window loads for some reason. Any one help and let me know why? Anna :)
sd November 24, 2007 at 7:57 AM
There are n number of issues with new gmail: it is awfully slow; most of times the clicking on mails does nothing, specially when clicking on search results; downloading a file takes to a different page and the existing page becomes blank; sometimes even older version also does not work, until i logoff and logon back...
plsss help me..
As suggested in other forums, i have been trying to use the url: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1 to login to gmail, but the mail not opening problem persists.
I am using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
sd I have exactly same problem and I am running IE latest version. Anna :)
i hate google. their new gmail sucks. They're too busy stuffing themselves with their free gourmet food and getting fat instead of testing their products....
Don't like the new version at all. Takes forever to load among many other things and I have very little stored. The long wait until screen allows me to re-select old version is an unwelcome inconvenience, but one I am forced to make. I once recommended gmail to others...won't now.
Ghosthree3 November 26, 2007 at 1:11 AM
If we don't have the new version yet (which i don't) when will we expect to get it?
I forgot to add that I did get this at 1 point I think or was this simply the update to the old version either way I don't have it now.
I think all Firefox users and some IE7 users have the new version, assuming they have the US-English interface for Gmail.
I went back to using the old version, this new version is too slow
Ghosthree3 November 26, 2007 at 10:51 PM
No I don't think so because I use firefox and it doesn't work.
Where I get the new version?? I don't had it yet....
I find the new version loads way too slow. The new version of contacts is OK, but I had the old version finetuned for sending to my contacts, the new version doesn't work the same. I've had to put a desktop shortcut to the old version, and probably won't use the new until the performace is faster.
Cenoura November 30, 2007 at 10:10 AM
Nothing new here too...
Google don't like me either :P
Jacob_Bye December 1, 2007 at 12:15 PM
I don't have the new gmail yet either and I been using gmail since the start.
It is wlow for someone like me who uses 50% of space and irritates me during all the waiting time.
No noticeable feature so far. Nothing out of the box.
Should have links (picasa, orkut etc) to show up just like google talk and the user should have to choice to add/delete these links in the inbox interface.
Nick December 3, 2007 at 4:12 AM
Has anyone else tried to look at old chatlogs using the new UI? For many (but strangely, not all) of my logged chats, I cannot load them using the new UI. It just stalls.
The new UI has some nice feature-improvements, but is clunky and broken. Google should have thought it through more. I'm going to have to stop using gmail because of it.
I truly can't believe how slow this version is. I actually didn't even know I had it, I recognized some of the new features, but thought that's just what they were. I was actually looking though the help section and found that people were complaining about the same thing. I think it is important to let people know they have a new version because I was tempted to use a different service, it's so slow I wanted to throw my computer accross the room! Not worth the new features
Still nothing new for Google Apps users... come one Google.. don't forget us ;)
Hi sorry I didn't have time to read through everything, but I'm pretty sure you need to switch to US English to see the new system, for now.
Thanks for the excellent post!
Jacob_Bye December 4, 2007 at 4:09 AM
Hey AndrewVos my settings is set for US English. I live in the US what else would it be set for, US Spanish? Try again!!
Alex Chitu December 4, 2007 at 4:19 AM
Here are the necessary conditions to get the new version of Gmail (they're not sufficient):
* language setting in Gmail - US English
* browsers:
- Firefox 2 (*** very likely)
- Internet Explorer 7 (** likely)
- Safari 3 (* not officially supported)
It's also a good idea to clear your Google cookies from time to time.
I have US English settings on I'm running on the latest Firefox and I clear all my cookies weekly. Still no new Gmail.
Yep. Just switch language to English(US) (was English UK) and WoW.. new Gmail here!!
Gee it's nice other's have switched to US English to get the new gmail however mine has been set to US English since I first signed up with Gmail years ago!!! This bites!
Well it hangs the browser like crazy ( both ie which is no suprise and ff ). However you might want to look at what i have done : http://www.tundrahost.com/demo
It is even seo.. and i did this 3 months back... Let me know if you find bugs
Jacob_Bye December 4, 2007 at 10:17 AM
What is strange is my friend has gmail 2.0 and he can access it from my computer and yet mine is still in version 1
I am yet to receive the newer version. How to do it?
myonlyphoto December 4, 2007 at 10:30 AM
I am running new gmail version in IE7 and since I changed to https from http in address bar, I have no further issues and the speed is great. Hope it will work out for all of you soon. I know how it feels, because until I had this issue it was really frustrating. Anna :)
Alex Chitu December 4, 2007 at 11:02 AM
@Kilrai_Wolf:
I think the availability of Gmail 2.0 is both account-dependent and browser-dependent. For example, I get the new version of Gmail in Firefox and Safari, but not in IE7 (the same email account, the same computer). Google should have enabled the new version for all the supported browsers.
Nothing changed on my computer when my friend checks his gmail. It's really annoying since I've had Gmail when it first came out and I have been using Google on a daily basis when it was first launched.
It's been over a month since the release, and still.... NOTHING.
How long does it take to roll out a realease? I've done all the things that are reported to block it, but more than a month out, still NOTHING.
* I've always had set "English (US)", but I even changed it to UK, logged out and back in, changed it back to US, logged out and back in, and nothing.
* I cleared all my cookies.
* Tried IE7 instead (usually Firefox 2.0.x)
* Used different computers, and tried all of the above
* Went through the settings and "Manage this domain" settings with a fine-tooth comb
* Pulled hair out
* Cleared cookies.... again....
* Fully logged out and back in again several thousand times.
Still, no new features.
How long does it take????
What the hey?!!?!
I like some of the things in the new version, but overall prefer the old. I've been using the new to try to get used to it, in case this was just a familiarity issue, but I've uncovered a real bug in the new version. For the record, I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.10 on an iBook running 10.4.11.
I've noticed on several occasions now that when I start to type an address I know is in my contacts list, I get no auto-fill at all. It doesn't happen with all addresses, just a few, but it's incredibly annoying. One address begins with "And" and pulls up nothing unless I type the person's name. Another address has no name associated with it, just the address, and the only way to get it to pop up is to switch to the older version, where it works flawlessly--pops right up from the first letter I type.
Something to look at, for sure.
TataTitán December 7, 2007 at 3:02 PM
Esperaría que a los usuarios con largo tiempo en Google, fuésemos los primeros en saber sobre nuevas versiones o nuevas aplicaciones generadas por Google. Pero la forma de enterarme es a través de Blogs Tecnológicos......¿no les suena raro éso? A mi al menos SI y lo encuentro muy mal llevado este tema.
I don't know if anyone else has this problem but ever since firefox upgrade to 2.0.0.11 I have been unable to access Gmail through it.
I prefer firefox but have to use IE or another browser to access Gmail now.....very sad
anjalirego December 10, 2007 at 3:10 AM
hi i am not getting the new version of gmail. wat shud i do?
Any insider information about when Google Apps for Domain users will have the pleasure to experience the new Gmail?
in new version when I move down or up the gmail page the browser alway stuck.
nilesh December 12, 2007 at 6:02 PM
I too had the new version of gmail and frankly because of the speed issue i hate it....n all the time i tend to switch back to older version...I need to know, is there a way to switch bac to older version permanently so that each time i login I can avoid clicking (n waiting) for gmail to open in older version? I prefer faster clicking over added unnecessary features.
Timothy December 16, 2007 at 4:53 PM
Liked old version better. I've been using http://mail.google.com/mail?ui=1 for the bookmark to get there immediately; I would, however, like to have a permanant switch.
Certain contacts won't autofill in the new version (BUG), and I don't like how it puts my email address in the history when I use a public computer. I also prefer the old style over the new, though the contacts manager seems more functional.
FX 1.5, various OS's.
myonlyphoto December 16, 2007 at 6:23 PM
Timothy, change http to https. That fixed all my problems in EI7, and the gmail is now running perfectly. Anna :)
BlueBird December 16, 2007 at 8:06 PM
I am not sure if I like this OS because I need a system that can be controlled by an administrator; not and operating system!
Let the admn person decide and intervene in discussion and screen out the people.
With the new version, when I forward an HTML-formatted email message, it loses the HTML formatting. I have not found a way to change that other than to go back to the old version before forwarding.
Has anyone else run into this? Anyone have a solution?
Marcel Lüthi December 21, 2007 at 8:27 AM
Still no new version for Google Apps for Your Domain users... :-(
This is very sad - especially since "Remember The Milk for Gmail" (http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/gmail/) would be such a nice thing!!!
Please, Google, go on and release it for us. It's Xmas time! ;-)
I have not got any new Gmail, google hates my account.
I'd like to add my "vote" for adding the new Gmail to Google Apps users.
Kraft December 27, 2007 at 6:59 PM
My Google apps domains have the new ver now!
Alex Chitu December 28, 2007 at 12:25 AM
Yes, there's a new option for Google Apps domain administrators:
[] Next generation (US English only)
New control panel features will be available to you a little earlier than with the current version.
I've had it since the beginning and I have a few things to mention. First, it's agonizingly slow. Everything takes minutes to boot up, and pages don't actually finish loading, ever. Second, the page looks cluttered. It's not Google's usual spare, sleek design. There's stuff all over. And finally, is there a way to default back to the old version all of the time? I don't use bookmarks, and when I go to gmail.com it redirects straight to the new look. There should definitely be a way to tell it to got straight to the old version every time.
I got the new interface but had all the problems previously reported. After selecting the old interface options a few times it seems to have defaulted me back to it.
My second time back to this post and I still don't like new version. I will admit that it seems to be loading a bit faster, but have come across a very frustrating 'bug' and that is with the spell check. It makes MANY errors...corrects words that are already correct. How annoying! Why oh why google have you given us something we didn't even ask for and on top of that it's fraught with problems?!!!
Alex Chitu January 3, 2008 at 4:42 PM
I think Gmail 2.0 uses the spell checker from Google Docs (the entire rich text editor is very close to the one from Google Docs).
Do you have some obvious mistakes? You can always use the spell checker from Firefox or the one from Google Toolbar.
Newer version automatically showed up. It will not scroll. Always have to go to older version. As of today it will not load older version. Gmail has becme useless for me. No way to ask Google how t crrect this problem.
I've been having so many problems with Gmail's new interface. The speed being the worst of it, which I think is the catalyst for the continual browser crashes (both IE7 and FF). I've tried on 3 different pc's with variable speeds, and it makes no difference. It enjoys taking 100% CPU. I just wish there was a way too default to the Older Version so I can actually check my mail...
Grey January 11, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Some nice new features, but not supporting cellspacing and cellpadding in HTML tables is totally lame. please fix it.
I'm still on the old-style! I hope it comes soon - don't like waiting!
Kae January 13, 2008 at 11:27 AM
I had the new version for months and suddenly I'm back on the old and my chat box is gone so I'm kinda confused..
Jonathan Metcalf January 14, 2008 at 8:20 PM
The new version completely disabled my inbox
Still on the old version. When is it expected to bring all GMail accounts into the new version?
Bob January 17, 2008 at 9:40 AM
I didn't even notice there was a difference. It looks just as crappy as the original. When are they going to add folders???
I still prefer the old version. Its fast and works for me on firefox. And lucky for me it doesnt have those annoying drop down boxes as well. Would like to stick to the old one :)
I am not having new version of gmail but I want it to explore it..how do I get it?
Gmail's new version is incredibly slow for me. Something that had been such an absolute joy for me to use in the past has become very much like a "Hotmail" experience for me. Please either bring back the old version or get some updates to fix the performance issues.
http://groups.google.gg/group/Gmail-Problem-solving/browse_thread/thread/f14fe7c6cca17f6d
A lot of people are experiencing difficulties with gmail new version, so do I. It takes a hug CPU usage when opened in IE 7 (in IBM thinkpad T61)
Interestingly, it does not do so, in my another computer. I would guess this is a Adware problem. But there are reports, that adware removal does not fix it.
crystaldragonwoman March 6, 2008 at 7:08 AM
I have a link for new version or some times new version is what shows up and I have to link to older version
which I prefer strongly,
the new version is harder for my eyes to literally see
something about the font spaces and lightness of print ink, seems grayer ... old version print seems denser and easier for my eyes to see, I hope I can keep using older version or I will have to drop gmail, which I have grown to like, I do not use firefox for same reason, harder for me to literally read ...
For those still waiting for the new version invitations, just upgrade your firefox or IE, you will see the goodies right away!
misty March 21, 2008 at 7:18 PM
I have the older version of Gmail and I want to go with enternet exployer 7, and use the newer version of Gmail, now if I go with exployer 7 will I loose all my e-mail? Which one do I do first, the new version of Gmail Or the internet exployer 7? Can you help?
krishnavikas April 14, 2008 at 6:37 AM
i have 3 gmail accounts, but only 2 of them have changed to the newer version..... wat shoul i do to change the other 1 to the newer version, i looks easy with invisible mode for chat n all
SuezanneC Baskerville April 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM
How do you turn off the info box that pops up when your cursor hovers over a senders name?
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Abstract: This study is undertaken to determine the blood concentration of micro (trace) minerals, particularly Zinc (Zn) and copper (Cu), in dairy goats as affected by the physiological status. Nubian goats were chosen because they are an important dairy breed in Sudan. The animals were divided into eight groups as follows: Young animals ( 4 - 6 months old), Adult animals ( 9 - 12 months old), Pregnant animals ( at first pregnancy), Up to 50 days after first kidding, up to 50 days after second kidding, Up to 50 days after third kidding, low yielders, high yielders. Each of the above groups consisted of 5 animals. The data analysis revealed that plasma Zn concentration decreased with increase of age while that of Cu increased with the increase of age. The plasma Zn level showed continuous increase through first pregnancy, after first kidding, after second kidding and after third kidding. It also increased in the lactating animals. The plasma Cu concentration fluctuated throughout the groups with different physiological status, it showed the same levels in the pregnant group, up to 50 days after second kidding, and up to 50 days after third kidding groups, while it showed a marked decrease in the group of up to 50 days after first kidding. No significant differences were observed between the low lactating and the high lactating groups.
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When you step into this haven of sorts in the busiest part of the city, it cuts out all the hustle and bustle associated with the area. Labisha Uprety discovers a marble-ous experience as she follows Udita Seksaria Golchha beyond the monstrous white façade that leads into her home.
While giving me directions to her place, Udita Golchha, the youngest of the daughters-in-law of the famed Golchha clan, tells me, ‘It’s the one next to Hotel Sunrise View”. I get out at the said place and peer through my glasses, looking at two houses sitting side by side; both white, large and with brown gates, and a uniformed guard standing outside one. A small black-and-white sign proclaims ‘Hotel Sunrise View’ unhelpfully in the middle. It takes me a while to find the house and am allowed entry, although the paley dai still seems unsure of me and keeps his eyes on the back of my head as I shuffle noisily towards the sprawling white house. Stretches of green grow on either side of the concrete walkway; tame here and there, and crunchy-looking from the sun.
A smattering of cars surrounds the house. A black Volkswagen sits under a white-painted concrete garage. I reach the front door. Ornately carved wood greets me. A sort of peacock-eye hangs twinkling from the upper side. A good luck charm maybe? The front door swings open easy but heavy and you enter into a marbled expanse. Two large carved chairs flank the door on either sides, complete with a coffee table and tiny gurgling fountains. You move in and stop at the stairwell right in the middle of the room and if you raise your eyes straight up, you will realize that it’s a circular staircase curving snake-like up to three levels of comfort and a glass roof overhead.
Udita descends the stairwell, clad in an off-white kurtha, looking homely.She greets me all-smiles and invites me upstairs to her room where hair and make-up people are busy bustling for her shoot. Three flights up and numerous painting-clad walls later, we are there. The walls are a light orange, one of which sports tiny printed block patterns. It is large and spacious; glass windows decorated with short curtains on the opposite side are flanked by connected glass shelves that support aesthetically placed bottles of empty Grey Goose vodka, diamond framed photos of smiles and hugs, some black-and white, some in color, a large black television right in the middle of it all and a smatter of iPods and earphones jammed into little brown boxes.
"Orange is my husband’s favorite color", answers Udita as I ask her about how she styled her living space. ‘I wanted a large space so that the bedroom wouldn’t look too cluttered’, she says explaining the expansion into walk-in closets and powder room stretching from her bedroom. A tower of economic reads lie piled in one corner and you can spot more than one Malcolm Gladwell peeping from under the stack. She laughs when I ask her if she reads a lot of Gladwell and she shakes her head. I was to later find her own pile of good-reads stashed in the shelves of her spacious bath: bundles of old Archie comics preserved in semi-mint condition and dating well before she became a Golchha.
A solid black marble bathroom makes its presence felt as the door adjacent to the glass shelves swings open when Udita Seksaria Golchha makes way into her powder room cum walk-in closet. Stacks of perfumery and body lotions hug the black marble on one side including half-used bottles of The Body Shop and Calvin Klein mists. The right has a gaping bathtub and a glass shower adjacent to it. The feel is powerful; inhabited. A connecting door will take you to her walk-in closet that introduces itself as a makeup station first; with color palettes and more perfumes lining the dressing table. As the day wears on, Golchha will magically produce piles of accessories from the small-looking drawers of the table; after all, every dress demands a twinkling companion.
Udita strides around welcoming us into her space. She then takes a turn and gives us an unblocked view of her immense closet. Piles of dresses, coats and kurthas hang top-down; the bottom shelves all neatly lined with shoes; peep toes, stilettos, flats, boots, kitten heels; you name it. Scrabble and Monopoly are rammed neatly on the top. “The shelves on either sides of the wall are fitted in accordance to the size of the object that they hold,” she explains. Her shoe rack has been made a certain height because that is the size of her highest heels. Talk about customizing!
"All furniture is from Fusion, which incidentally, is my husband’s", she says with a smile. ‘He calls me a shopaholic!’, she iterates, fondly pulling a face. A small pile of pink and white books on one of the hardwood shelves, which is wood made from waste, catches my eye. A number of books from Kinsella’s Shopaholic series is juxtaposed one atop the other; a fitting choice it would seem.
Udita now needs to get ready for her first ever feature shoot and sits back while hair and make-up artists bustle around her, pulling and tucking strands of hair and dabbing orange tint to her lips. I flounder about and discover a mini treasure trove; a wall of tiny shot glasses of every shape, size and color imaginable. I question her about it and she answers with her eyes on me on the mirror that her husband and she have a tradition of sorts collecting shot glasses from every new place they go to. I spot Hong Kong, New York, a windmill that most possibly is from Holland, Chinese characters on brown, one gilded with a coin and countless others adorned with skylines of cities. I ask her in jest if she is much of a drinker and she replies nonchalantly that she can keep her alcohol down like nobody’s business and that it had been years that anyone has seen her crumpled, sounding much like you would expect a Golchha to.
The mother of two is a frequent flier. She haunts Mumbai at least three times a year and admits to shopping for everything abroad. But before you get this idea that Udita Golchha is simply a rich housewife, think again. Udita is the owner and founder of ‘Happy Mamas’, a prenatal and postnatal fitness and nutrition center for women and ‘Parties R Uss’, the ultimate party store. She started with the former venture after she got pregnant and had nowhere to turn to for specialized maternity care; the latter came as an effort to glamorize the little existing party scene in the city, with all party accessories being shipped from Thailand or otherwise. Looking for a Bollywood themed party? Now you know where to go.
We get to moving downstairs for her first shot. She is dressed in a white pantsuit with a net overthrow by Anita Dongre. She stands carefully poised at the foot of the stairs while the light repeatedly flashes off her, illuminating both her and the surrounding marble. A door slightly ajar on the left of the staircase reveals a small mandir, strewn with incense sticks and photos of the Gods. The left side is home to a large TV room, complete with plush sofas and large coffee tables and an electric fireplace. As we move to the TV room for the next round of shots, with Golchha in a deep blue tunic, I notice a number of books on Vastu Shastra and Jainism stacked on a corner. In between breaks of the shot, Udita reveals that the home had been firmly rooted in the principles of Vastu Shastra and that furniture was repeatedly moved around in accordance to the books. She says this however, as someone who can remove themselves from the ideology being revealed as she iterates that she did not really believe in the idea that moving things around changed your luck.
‘Your luck is in your own hands’, she proclaims charmingly enough.
The mandir on the left then is also explained; the Golchhas are a Jain household but Udita, being a practicing Hindu, had brought with herself tokens of her practice when she got married at 21. The house in itself is tolerant of all forms of art, with tokens from South Africa lining corners to predominantly Hindu wall hangings; the icing on the cake being a large abstract painting on the second floor landing by Yusuf Arakkal.
Udita is an interested painter; she uses acrylic for ease but sends her work mostly home to her father along with pottery and art from Bhaktapur. She says she plans to hang her own work on her walls someday but really hasn’t gotten around to it. Small things around the house spell Udita; from the flower arrangements to color selections; she has an eye for the classy. She is trained in Ikebana among other arts which come alive in tiny corners of her home.
The next series of shots has us stepping out over to her gardens. It is almost dawn and orange flecks line grey clouds as Udita steps out in a lovely cream Mango dress. She poses against the sky when an artistically inked dove makes its appearance on her upper back. Beneath all that clothing then lies a free-spirited person. She smiles and the greens behind her seem to stretch further. A tiny stone walkway descends into further greenery; with small patches of land that have been used to grow organic food. Lower down the walkway you go, the more space the plot seems to hold. A large cap shaped metal umbrella provides shade a few feet away. The world outside is curiously absent. You would never think so much was to be had smack in the middle of Kathmandu as we know it.
Back in her home, we pass the spacious dining room on the first floor, with minimal rich brown furniture and an adjacent well-spaced kitchen. The second floor is home to her in-laws and a personal TV room of sorts; all leather sofas and comfy recliners. A large Victorian train clock announces the time from one of the walls. A lazy, homely feel embraces you.
Upstairs, her children’s room is adjacent to her own. Colorful prints line the wall as stuffed toys line up almost every corner. The room is furnished with a large attached bath of its own. Back in her own room, she dresses in green for the final shot in her bedroom when her 8-year-old son comes in from school and teases his mother for her glamorous avatar. She fusses about him as she is readied for the shoot while night descends into her room. The cream brown furnishings reappear as strategically placed yellow lights come to life, giving a sense of uncluttered peace. An oblong Bhaktapuri painting covers one of the walls. Comfort and space is underlined in bold.
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Boca Juniors – the kings of football in Buenos Aires
Some cities you visit to see the sights, learn about the history, or marvel at the architecture. Some cities you visit to experience the nightlife or higher elements of culture. When they don’t have that, you shop.
But Buenos Aires, you visit in order to come alive.
Buenos Aires vibrates with life. It breathes, sings and dances its way through the day and night, bathing its vibrant colours and rich history in sunshine…even when the sun isn’t out at all.
Buenos Aires blends its rich port city history with the cultural remnants of its would-be occupiers. It mixes up its architectural periods like they were always meant to go together, and infuses it all with the joy de vivre and confidence that comes from hard fought independence, creating a city like no other.
It’s unfair to compare Buenos Aires to other cities, but it’s hard not to. At times it felt as though we were walking the streets of London (although BA’s streets are much, much wider). Other times, BA was reminiscent of Paris with its abundance of neoclassical buildings, and most delightfully, it reminded me some of the old world of a port city like Havana (the clean parts of Havana at least.)
But for all of the comparisons, BA has a personality all its own that is just…Buenos Aires. It is colourful, musical, and proud.
And this city dances.
The colourful houses of La Boca
La Boca is one of those neighbourhoods that you’d never wander in to at night – in fact, the tourist guides all tell you not to. Bus in and taxi out is the advice. But under the protection of a Saturday morning among hordes of tourists, one becomes brave enough to venture in to the “risky area”
La Boca is where all of the port workers lived. It was always, and remains today, a rough around the edges working man’s barrio. But what makes it an attraction today are the vivid colours of the buildings, and vibrancy of Porteno life (much of it put on for the tourists). There are tango dancers and musicians on every corner. A craft market winds wits way through the barrio, and eager hawkers invite you to their street cafe promising meat and beer combinations at a special price.
The corrugated iron buildings are painted every colour under the sun, and it brings the air truly alive. The ship workers would bring the leftover ship paint home with them, and mix original colours with which to paint their homes, fences, and just about any other surface they could find.
We sat on stools facing a brightly coloured railroad track, enjoying the best choripan (grilled sausage sandwich) we had in all of Argentina. Washed down with a cold, cold beer, while sitting in the sunshine, amidst all of that life…it was a truly perfect moment. One you not only want to remember for the setting, but for the sounds, smells, flavours and the feeling as well.
La Boca hits all the senses in all of the best ways.
Leading off the main avenue were little side markets that were an absolute riot of colours, music, street art, and of course things to buy. It was like wandering around in an Alice in Wonderland meets Willy Wonka film set.
We finished the day with another choripan and beer at a blue and yellow bedecked parrillada opposite the Boca Juniors football club stadium. And then we got the heck out of dodge.
Sure La Boca today is put on for the tourists, but if I had to pick a theme park, this would be my choice.
Cementario Recoleta
The streets of Cementario Recoleta
We humans have a morbid curiosity about death. In our western Judeo Christian society, to experience death is to not experience it as humans. We can never really know on this Earth, in our present time, what death really is like and then come back to tell the tale. But something compels us equally to want to know, but not know at all.
It’s an odd thing to do while in holiday, to visit cemeteries. Yet we do. They make for good photographs, cause you to slow down, be quiet and calm for a while. And some of the best ones are spectacularly beautiful in their eerie stillness.
The Cementerio Recoleta is one of the best. It is a “city” of crypts laid out neatly along small streets and wide avenues. Some are lavish family mausoleums , adorned with statues and other tokens of memorial to their inhabitants. Others are simple, but evoke no less of the love their families showed them. Portenos have been buying their dead here for nearly 300 years, and continue to do so today. It is strangely beautiful, and eerily thought provoking.
Many had windows, showing ornate caskets draped with lace, their wood regularly polished, and adorned with flowers or photos. They were guarded by statues of angels, or even statues of the inhabitants themselves. Some were grand family crypts, with bronze plaques describing the lives of the various inhabitants. Many had stained glass windows set into the ceiling, hidden from view of the casual observer, but providing a spectacular window to heaven for those inside.
Other crypts showed the effects of time and neglect or even perhaps theft and vandalism.
Broken windows, crumbling plaster and cobwebs held the once lovingly cared for mausoleums together. And a far corner of the city of death smelled like – death. In the very last crypt on a little side “street” was a bashed in casket that was clearly the source of the smell.
There are a lot of terrible smells on this earth, but the stink of rotting flesh is the most abhorrent is them all. Perhaps it’s an unwelcome reminder of our own mortality. We so violently recoil against the rotting of those bodies we put so much effort in to preserving during life, and we can’t tolerate the idea that we’ll one day just be a heap of forgotten rotting flesh. Or perhaps it just stinks.
Sunday in San Telmo
Buenos Aires revealed her magic to us one layer at a time, and Sunday in San Telmo was city life as it was always meant to be.
We had rented a little flat above a cobblestone street in the historic district of San Telmo. Once a prosperous neighbourhood, its inhabitants fled to nearby Recoleta during a persistent cholera outbreak, and didn’t return.
This barrio has seen wealth come, go and come again, and it is made all the richer for it. But it’s not the gentrification, the bright Victorian remnants, decorative wrought iron, or even the charming cobblestones that stand San Telmo proud.
This street, Defensa, is where the Argentine militia beat the “bastardo British” back all the way down to the harbour and on to the boats they rode in on, giving the Argentines the confidence to go and drive out the Spanish too, for good measure. This street is where Argentina won its swagger, and Defensa has never forgotten it.
An interesting enough neighbourhood during the rest of the week, we woke on Sunday morning to the sounds of market stalls being set up next door in Plaza Dorrego, the oldest plaza in Buenos Aires after the Plaza de Mayo, where the presidential palace sits.
It was early for Latin America to be waking up…it was barely 9. But the industrious market sellers were steadily preparing for a day of trading. I’m no stranger to markets, and could possibly even write a decent guide book for London’s Markets, but even I was amazed when I went outside.
Stalls stretched as far as the eye could see down the long Defensa street, and the plaza was packed cheek by jowl with antiques sellers. I rushed back upstairs to our flat to tell Mark “oh my god, we are living on Portobello Road! (For those who don’t know Portobello, it’s antique shops do a roaring trade during the week, and it turns into a bustling market that stretches the length of the road on Saturday.)
The San Telmo market has been held here every Sunday since 1970, as the colourful banners over the plaza told us. The antiques market was king of the plaza, while craft sellers stretched out in both directions up and down Defensa.
There was music, laughter, street tangoes, sunshine, itinerant street cafes, and throngs of people out to breathe in the first warm Spring day that signals the end of winter.
The place was buzzing…alive and ascending. And then the soldiers came.
Thine enemy is mine
Re-enactors
We weren’t just there on any day. We were there on the 12th of August. The anniversary of the day they “drove the bastard British back to the port after stealing the Malvinas” (Falkland Islands to those from other parts, and if you don’t think Argentina is bitter about it, just take note of the road signs across the country that defiantly state “Las Malvinas son Argentinas”). I was told this very thing by a long haired, Jesus looking re-enactor dressed as gaucho militia.
A dozen or so men and women dressed in various military costumes from gaucho militia through to British, Argentine and Spanish officers took the crowd through the eras of Argentina’s military history.
First the gaucho fought each other with a wide range of swords, machetes, whips, and a type of lasso with three ropes weighted with heavy balls at each end. They were thrown at their enemy’s feet (or more likely the nearest wild cow) and promptly wrapped around their legs, leaving their prey unable to walk and vulnerable.
Then someone (perhaps the Argentines or the Spanish or both) fought a war against the gauchos. At first the gauchos had it over on them, but the soldiers figured out how to fight them and slaughtered them all. A few years later the Spanish and Argentines found themselves in a bit of a spot with the British, and made nice with the gauchos, convincing them to fight against the imperialists together, which was a successful plan. And then later they used the same alliance against the Spaniards, and won their independence for good. (At least I think that’s what was happening.)
The result was a festival of culture, sights, sounds, smells among the hive of activity that is a weekend market. We even found a weird children’s festival in former convent, complete with a 3 man rock band consisting of two teenagers on guitars, and a man who could only be their middle aged dad, rocking it out for all of his misspent youth and lost opportunities. He was killing it – in his own mind at least — and that’s the one that mattered most. We should all be that man at least once.
We then meandered toward a huge park at the outskirts of La Boca, that was filled to the brim with families soaking in the sunny day. There were picnics, canoodling couples and a massive playground piled high with kids of all ages. A flea market wound its way around the paths of the park, and it was clear this was a glimpse of real Porteno family life on Sunday.
The night was topped off with a slow moving procession of drums and dancers making their way down Defensa. We watched from the balcony of our flat while 30 or so dancers, drummers and hangers on twisted their hips, shuffled their feet, and banged out their song down the road, and eventually back again. Apparently they do it every Sunday night to keep in shape for Carnaval in the spring.
It was the perfect embodiment of Buenos Aires. It dances and drums it’s way through life, and reminds us to rock out to our own tune each and every day.
Creative street art
Choripan heaven
There’s no grill master like an Argentine Asadero
When time stands still: our time on a Patagonian Fundo
Has one comment to “Dancing through Buenos Aires”
Annette - January 19, 2019 at 11:48 pm Reply
Great to wake up and find another Post on the computer – have missed reading your adventures so really enjoyed this. Sounds such an interesting place, so colourful and certainly a photographers delight.
Just loved it Shalena, once again you made it so interesting to read.
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Sorority bake sale raises money for premature babies
Maiah Woodring, Staff Reporter|March 2, 2019
Members of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority promote their bake sale with posters. 100 percent of the funds raised supported the sorority's philanthropy.
Maiah Woodring/The Lion's Roar
Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority sold brownies, cupcakes, cookies and king cakes to support premature babies and their mothers as part of its philanthropy.
The “Pastries for Preemies” bake sale was set up on Feb. 27-28 in the War Memorial Student Union.
According to Chapter President Abby Knight, a junior kinesiology major, 100 percent of the proceeds went to the philanthropy.
Knight discussed the sorority’s reason for hosting the fundraiser for the past three years.
“It’s a lot to go through if you have a premature baby,” said Knight. “It’s a lot to take care of. They’re constantly in the hospital, so we like to raise money to support them.”
Abby Knight
Pastries for Preemies
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Be-Mondo Publishing is about telling multimedia stories to impact individual and collective change. How might we tell stories differently so that instead of deepening the grooves of a fragmented society, we shift the way we have conversations?
We navigate our lives through storylines. Our storylines shift all the time, but we can get into a rut that makes us think there is an impenetrable “us” and “other,” and one right answer to complex and messy issues. Being Mondo is about seeing things from new perspectives to help us get unstuck.
I am not a lifestyle coach, but a writer and facilitator of “conscious conversations.” I believe that improving the thought that goes into our communication — genuine (not glib), personalized (not generic), vulnerable (not packaged) — inspires evolution.
“If we proactively start with the notion that our universe is fundamentally connected, then maybe the ways we divide ourselves up politically, economically and socially will begin to seem so small and inconsequential that it no longer makes sense to fixate on them.”
— “On Visibility and Fragmentation,” talk given July 2016
Mikki Morrissette launched Be-Mondo Publishing in 2004, when she self-published Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman’s Guide. The book – in which she coined the now-popular term “Choice Moms” – continues to be a top-selling book on Amazon for women pursuing single motherhood by choice. Her ChoiceMoms.org website averages more than 13K visitors per month. Its discussion boards, newsletter, podcast, e-guides and workshops have inspired tens of thousands of women around the world.
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personally recruited by legendary editor Clay Felker, who met her in his magazine editing symposium at NYU;
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Mikki is developing “Attainable We,” a sandbox for a book of essays and talks about how individuals are part of interconnected systems, from micro to macro, whether we choose to recognize it or not.
She has focused attention on projects about sex trafficking, community sustainability and consciousness (ConnectedintheDeep.com). She wrote a monthly column for Southwest Journal (Minneapolis newspaper) called “Sustainable We,” now taking a wider lens about community building as the Attainable We column.
Future goals: Develop a transmedia project (Connected Chronicles), and finish two novels now in full rough draft form about human evolution. She has a particular interest in illuminating history, including the Humanist Pulpit blog project for First Unitarian Society.
Mikki led more than 25 workshops for the Choice Mom community around the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. She delivered a 40-minute talk about sperm to the directors of U.S. sperm banks, and has talked at conferences for mental health professionals and symposiums for law students.
Now she focuses on inspirational talks about community interconnection. Such as:
“What We Think Is Not What Matters,” (September 21, 2017, University retirement community)
“Reducing Man-Made Fragmentation and Human Arrogance” (July 22, 2017, Institute of Noetic Sciences conference, Oakland, CA) — Excerpt: “Our Living Web is not a linear story that begins and dies with one person. But a matrix of what we DO and feel and share and inspire. Our lives are so much more than what we think.”
Speaking to the Frailty of Human Arrogance (July 9, 2017, First Unitarian Society) — How our penchant for thinking we are individual entities in a linear structure is underestimating how the universe works. And why the inability to remember what we KNOW — as affects the speaker’s father with dementia — doesn’t change anything.
“On Visibility and Fragmentation: a discussion of science and social justice” (July 24, 2016, First Unitarian Society) — Excerpt: “If we tell stories in different ways – have new conversations of respect designed not to persuade but to help each other understand – my dream is that Einstein and Bohr will find each other at a cosmic party, ladle out a cocktail of neutrinos, and agree, with a wave of their invisible glasses, that ascertaining the ingredients in the punch bowl doesn’t matter. That we’re not simply physical matter that makes up our bodies and our cars and our plastics and our stars… but energy and vibration and sensation. That at our deeper level, matter is always moving and morphing and merging. And at our deepest level, we might not even be divided into matter at all.”
“Being the Collective Me” (August 16, 2015, Lake Harriet Spiritual Center, 40 min.)
“Evolving Into Non-Truth” (August 23, 2015, First Unitarian Society, 20 min.)
“Revealing the Real You: Like An Onion,” (2015, Lake Harriet Spiritual Center, 40 min.) — aspects of a storytelling career, mixed with epigenetics, Darwin and Spinoza. Here is a snippet from the beginning of that conversation.
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This is her 30-minute interview with the owner of Freethinking Forum about her combined interests in consciousness and sustainability.
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Sixty killed in Houthi attack on military camp in Yemen
Baby dies on flight from KL to Perth
by Wayne Curry | April 24, 2019 | 01:46
The two-month-old infant suffered a "medical episode" on board the nearly six-hour flight. "I just said to the stewardess, 'This is a medical emergency, this is not a baby in distress'".
"The parents offered the baby to me with desperation in their eyes I took her in my arms and immediately read Surah Fatiha (the first chapter of the Koran)".
"I had known when I looked at the baby's pupils and they did the light test that the baby had passed", she said.
"At the start of the flight, the baby (Farah) was really restless and cried continuously", Nadia Parenzee said.
For example, the UK National Health Service says babies younger than six months can not receive a vaccination against yellow fever because of the risk of developing encephalitis, while babies younger than two months can not take anti-malaria pills.
"I thought this is going to be a medical emergency".
She said Farah took a last breath and went limp in her arms.
A woman who watched a baby girl take her last breath on a flight to Perth, Australia has told of the haunting silence on the plane as passengers hoped for the child to be resuscitated.
They were halfway through the 51/2-hour flight and the decision was made to continue to Perth, rather than divert elsewhere.
9News has been told the family are from Saudi Arabia. He fell on the floor on his knees, crying. "They were just distraught and so, so heartbroken", Ms Parenzee said.
The Sydney Morning Herald, which also quoted an AirAsia spokeswoman, indicated that Radio 6PR's Breakfast programme reported that AirAsia had issued a statement regarding a "medical emergency involving an infant" on flight D7236.
"Upon arrival, the aircraft was met by a team of medical specialists and the relevant authorities, including the WA Police".
The flight was cleared to depart Tokyo on the night of April 22 and landed safely in Kuala Lumpur early this morning.
Australia's ABC News reported that a baby died during the flight and that the Western Australian Police confirmed there was nothing to suggest any suspicious circumstances surrounding the baby's death.
"We are unable to comment further on the infant's medical situation".
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The Bucks entered the postseason as the top seed in the East while the Celtics entered the playoffs as the fourth-seed in the Eastern Conference.
Lotte Championship: Brooke Henderson defends title to tie Canadian record
Henderson, though, is still just 21 years old and has the opportunity to obliterate the record with every start she makes. It's too early to predict what effect Henderson's win will have in her native country.
Pakistan asks Iran to act on militants behind Baluchistan killings
He also said, "Iran and Pakistan will not allow interference in their brotherly and friendly relations". He also said that Iran is ready to sell oil to Pakistan.
Let’s be very clear: Sarah Sanders lied to Robert Mueller
The report also notes that Sanders told investigators her misleading claims were simply a "slip of the tongue". A slip of the tongue is something you do by accident, unintentionally.
Harry and Meghan could move to Africa after baby born
Harry and Meghan reportedly fell in love on a trip to Botswana , where they returned for Meghan's 36th birthday in 2017. The formal separation came amid reports of "growing personal differences of approach" between the couples.
Sophie Turner's Video About Arya And Gendry's Sex Scene Deserves An Emmy
She said: "I remember it being really late and being exhausted but also being like... having a good time. Well, viewers certainly realised that after the latest episode where Arya gets intimate with Gendry .
Flyers cut ties with Kate Smith, remove statue outside stadium
Her statue was erected outside the Spectrum in 1987 and moved to the Xfinity Live! entertainment complex in 2011. CBS Philadelphia reports that the statue was initially covered with a black drape before it was fully removed.
Elon Musk, SEC get more time to resolve fight over Tesla tweets
The settlement was reached a year ago after Musk tweeted he had secured funding to take Tesla private even though he had not. As of Thursday's close, Tesla stocks were down 19.5percent up to now this year.
Ukraine poll: Comedian Zelensky 'wins presidency by landslide'
A voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the second round of a presidential election in Kiev, Ukraine April 21, 2019. Poroshenko's faction has the most seats in the current legislature and new parliamentary polls are due in October.
Maple Leafs have chance to close out series
In both Wednesday and Friday's games, Zach Hyman skated gingerly to the Leafs' bench and was bent over wincing in obvious pain. The Maple Leafs have gone 24-19 here at home and they have averaged 3.56 gpg and have allowed 3.05 gpg in those games.
House Dems to outline case for removing Trump from office
Airline passengers travelling from China screened for new coronavirus
China says New coronavirus is 'preventable and controllable'
Lev Parnas Has a ‘Serious Credibility Problem — CNN’s Jake Tapper
Sen. Sanders admits impeachment trial may hurt his presidential campaign
Dozens Killed As Avalanches Hit Pakistan-Controlled Kashmir
Top Iran leader: Trump is a 'clown' who will betray Iranians
US Supreme Court Chief Justice Swears In Senators For Trump Impeachment Trial
Germany to host Libya peace conference in Berlin on Sunday
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