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Kyotokei - Video
by Nate — Mon, 08/15/2011 - 5:00am
Ikaruga knockoff
MtAMinutes to Action
Keep Playing?
Last year, when I checked out 3D Dot Game Heroes, I admitted my leniency regarding game copycats. Where some saw a sly attempt to cash in on the Zelda brand, I only saw a new adventure game in the same mold. The game's tone, both parody and homage, further erased any chance of disdain.
I'm having a tougher time excusing Kyotokei, a WiiWare game that came out last week. My five minute experience with Ikaruga is enough to tell me that Kyotokei is clearly a copycat game, stealing the novel color-coded bullet hell stylings of the cult classic shmup. And unlike 3D Dot Game Heroes, I'm not getting a tributary or tongue-in-cheek vibe from Kyotokei. Instead, the game seems to mimic the Touhou Project style, which replaces the classic shmup players and enemies (spaceships and mechs and whatnot) with cute little girls for whatever reason. I guess that's not a big deal: Hello Kitty Chess is still chess, right?
Mechanical and aesthetic burglaries aside, the game looks like it might be fun. And Wii could certainly use some decent software in a time where an above-par movie-licensed game is in the running for Game of the Year. I decided to throw $5 at Kyotokei and see if I could get my money's worth out of this downloadable doppelganger.
I played for an hour. Check out this video of the first stage. Try not to blink.
- As far as I can tell, it handles like an exact Ikaruga knockoff. The vertical shmup sensation's black-and-white dynamic is faithfully translated into this sidescroller, with one button to swap colors, another to shoot endless fury, and a third for the enemy-seeking lasers that are fueled by absorbing enemy shots that match your current color. Your score also increases faster when destroying enemies with their opposite color and by destroying chains of same-colored enemies.
- While the game replicates Ikaruga's basic functions well, Kyotokei doesn't quite have Ikaruga's relentless creativity and variety. Ikaruga constantly introduced new formations and enemies and hazards to your bullet nightmare. In Kyotokei, enemy formations are a bit more predictable, often repeating a pattern a few times before switching things up a bit (you can see this in the video above: my first time playing, and I killed plenty of enemies before they even made it onto the screen). But not every shmup needs to be as lean and wily as Ikaruga, I guess. And Kyotokei's challenge and variety do shift into a higher gear later on.
- Bullet hell doesn't need to be pretty: your eyes are too busy scanning the colorful dot chaos to appreciate any visual details. And it's a good thing, too, because Kyotokei isn't much of a looker. Bullet hell shooters are a popular niche among amateur game designers due to their heavily scripted nature and reliance on simple visual cues. Even among amateur games, however, Kyotokei's graphics wouldn't turn many heads.
- The game has a 2-player mode. Most shmups do, as they should.
- While downloading Kyotokei from the Wii Shop Channel, my TV died. Seriously. The screen flickered, the power cord crackled, and my monitor began to smell of smoke. I'm a little surprised they didn't find this fatal flaw while bug testing the game.
- I probably should have taken the hint when my faithful nineteen inch HDTV of six years died trying to warn me of Kyotokei's evil. I played anyway. And now, I haven't dared to sleep in days. These...things are responsible.
I don't know what they are or why they're on the title screen for this game. But I see them so clearly when I close my eyes...that row of Snickers bars atop his head...her vacant, noseless face...their unnatural postures, like hanged men with one-piece skeletons...I think I just stumbled on the video game version of the murderous videotape from The Ring.
Minutes to Action: 0
Would I keep playing? Sure. Shmups usually aren't very long, and I'd like to see the whole game through. That's assuming I can finish it: I believe there are only five stages in the game, but it took me an hour of retrying to get as far as the third level. And maybe this cursed game, which haunts my dreams and destroys my television, will spare my life if I finish it...
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Tag Archives: chinese auctions
Ethnic Irony
Posted on June 12, 2011 by Hannah Lee
By Hannah Lee
In our relatively enlightened times, it is the heedless individual who utters a blatant pejorative term, be it a racial, sexist, or any other challenging aspect of life. We have sensitized ears and it is unseemly to appear prejudiced. There is even an attempt to erase past grievances in the misguided campaign to replace the word, “nigger,” with “slave” in Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, although the climax of the story would be lost on the reader when the character of the black man, Jim, realizes that he’s been free all along. Good teaching requires putting history and culture into context with all its flawed and malignant chronicles.
There is a companion shadow world of indirect slurs, in which terms are coined with the negative traits attributed to a particular ethnic group. Amongst linguists, this usage is called “ironyms,” a compound word representing “lexicalized irony.” Researching this sordid aspect of language development, I came across the fairly unfamiliar terms of Dutch courage (bravado under intoxication), Welsh rabbit (a cheese dish made without meat), and Irish twins (siblings born within the same year). The more familiar ones in contemporary usage are notably all about monetary use: to gyp (cheat) someone, to welsh (renege) on a bet, and to jew someone down (bargain hard). The terms incorporating Chinese— Chinese ace, Chinese anthem, Chinese cigarette, Chinese fire drill, Chinese handball, Chinese landing, Chinese puzzle, and Chinese whispers— all connote items or events that are confused, disorganized, or difficult to understand, according to the British usage of the adjective during World War I.
I have long known that Chinese checkers were not really Chinese, but I have since learned that it is a game developed in Germany, whose original name referred to its star-shaped game board. When the Pressman company introduced it in the United States in 1928, they initially called it Hop-Ching checkers, later settling on Chinese checkers, presumably to refer to the erratic hopping allowed of the gaming pieces. Other usages of ethnic terminology are maybe less benign, but you could be sure no Frenchman would call his fried potatoes, French fries, (derived from the presumed custom of poor French-speaking Belgians who served fried potatoes instead of fried fish when the rivers were frozen) nor would a Dane refer to the breakfast pastry as a Danish (in actuality, of Austrian origin).
As an immigrant to the United States, I did not encounter Chinese auctions until I came into the Orthodox Jewish community. It seems to be a popular low-cost fundraiser amongst churches and synagogues. Not Chinese and not even an auction, it is a lottery in which the bidder purchases tickets for specific prizes within different categories. It has become my campaign to lobby against its usage, but by the time I hear of such events, the organizers have already spent money on the publicity and are loathe to change the wording. It’s inconceivable to me that any organization would allow itself to be perceived as prejudiced these days. Prejudice when it becomes commonplace is even more insidious, because well-meaning people become complicit.
http://blog.pjvoice.com/diary/533/ethnic-irony
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Weekly columnist Eric Erickson is a member of the New Braunfels Astronomy Club. Send questions to “Ask the Astronomer” at ewandnl@gmail.com.
Astronomy! OK, maybe not entirely, I suppose there are a few other things to do. Astronomy-wise, let’s see what 2020 has in the queue.
Tye Preston Memorial Library in Canyon Lake has another year of astronomy programs. Here is their schedule for the year: Jan. 18, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Feb. 15, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; March 14, 9-11 p.m.; April 18, 9-11 p.m., May 16 (Daytime Sun Party), 2-4 p.m.; NO PROGRAMS FOR JUNE, JULY, AND AUGUST; Sept. 12, 9-11 p.m.; Sept. 26 (International Observe the Moon night), 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Oct. 10, 9-11 p.m.; Nov. 7, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Dec. 5, 7-9 p.m.
As always, we depend on the sky’s cooperation so if it’s inclement there will be a presentation inside the library. When the sky is clear and before going to the observatory there will be a short update in the library on what’s going on in astronomy and what’s in the sky that night. The New Braunfels Astronomy Club will have members present to show off our night sky.
New Braunfels Astronomy Club meets the third Thursday of each month (no meeting in December) at 7 p.m. in TJ’s restaurant on Loop 337. Join the party!
NASA has a few notable launches planned for 2020: Feb. 5 with ESA (European Space Agency), Solar Orbiter will explore the Sun’s heliosphere; April, ISS Expedition 62 launch; July, Mars 2020 Rover; Artemis 1, the first mission (no crew) of their Orion spacecraft
Space X continues to test its mettle: Jan. 11 or later, test the flight abort capability of the Crew Dragon. It also plans additional launches of their Starlink satellites, 60 at a time until they have as many as 35,000 in orbit. The objective for Starlink is to make internet access available everywhere on Earth.
China’s CHANG’E 5 will attempt to collect and return material from the Moon. China also plans a Mars orbiter and rover mission combination.
ESA is planning a Mars mission called ExoMars 2020 including a rover
UAE (United Arab Emirates) is planning Hope Mars, a Mars orbital craft, their first spacecraft mission beyond Earth orbit
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner was tested in December 2019 and successfully landed after a couple of technical hiccups. Boeing is planning other test flights in 2020.
OneWeb is the European competition to Space X and their Starlink program. They plan to deploy 650 satellites initially. They have contracted with Russia to provide launches.
Texas Star Party is planned for May 17-24 at the Prude Ranch, near Fort Davis, Texas. This party draws over 400 participants each year and the location is just about perfect. Contact texasstarparty.org
Each month has a named full Moon, most months have a meteor shower going on, comets might be visible this year and the planets will tantalize. I will make every effort to keep up and keep you informed.
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Jan. 4; around 3 a.m.; northeast: The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks
Jan. 4; 45 minutes before sunrise; southeast: Mars is in Scorpius
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“I project confidence.”
Interview by Caitlin Stasey
Photos: Jennifer Toole
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Alexis McDonald.
Where did you grow up?
London, Canada about two hours southwest of Toronto.
Were you brought up religiously/secularly/other?
I was brought up Catholic and attended Mass every Sunday. Now my family is more what I would call ‘Culturally Catholic’ as my mother and I both have issues with the way woman are viewed and treated in the church. I loved going to church as a child. It sparked my interest in music and theatre. I am to this day very spiritual.
Was there turbulence throughout your childhood/adolescence?
My brother is autistic and that was difficult to deal with as a child. He was often bullied and I too was bullied but our home was a safe space with loving parents.
“Growing up Catholic I was taught sex was meant to be explored in the confines of marriage. I knew that it was something I wanted to experience before marriage. And rhetoric also dictated that bisexuality was ‘wrong’ so I had to come to a place of acceptance about what I wanted and what I believed to be right and moral.” -Alexis
Photo by Jennifer Toole
Were you ever embarrassed about your development/puberty? If so why?
I developed one C cup breast and one A cup breast. I had to wear a prosthetic to even them out under a blouse and had to be careful to not reveal the discrepancy when changing around other girls my age. I have since had plastic surgery to even them out.
Can you remember any key moments in your formative years that shaped you?
Having an autistic brother had a profound effect on me. It taught me to be patient. Our friendship also nurtured my desire to teach and entertain. My brother was a built-in audience for me. I remember one day setting him up alongside an audience of stuffed animals and putting on a concert for him. He clapped and cheered and I knew I wanted to be a performer.
Any that shaped your perspective of women?
I grew up with very strong women in my life. My one grandma’s story always captivated me. I learned very early on that she had lost her mother at an early age. Her second child was a stillbirth and her husband passed away when she was in her early 40s. I was inspired by her ability to persevere and at the same time was saddened at how she kept her tragedies close to herself. I only knew the details of her life through my father. It created a very complex perception of women and how they handle challenges.
Of sexuality?
Discovering masturbation.
When did you become aware of your gender?
When I was in kindergarten my mother told me I could invite any six girls from my class to my birthday party. I wondered why not boys. I felt a divide for the first time.
When did you become aware of your own sexuality, were there any key moments?
I was twelve when I first started masturbating. I was in the tub cleaning myself when I discovered my clitoris and realized it felt good to touch it. I started taking a lot of baths! (laughs)
What, if any, are the obstacles you’ve overcome on your path to womanhood?
From a physical perspective my asymmetrical breast situation made me very self-conscious about my body. From a mental standpoint, I was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder and I had to ride the wave of manic depression before getting properly medicated. From a spiritual perspective I had to reconcile my religious upbringing and my beliefs in the way I wished to live my life.
Have you ever struggled with your sexuality?
I’m not sure I’d call it a struggle. I realized fairly early on that I was sexually attracted to both men and woman. I didn’t have a name for it at first, but once I learned about bisexuality I identified with that.
Have you ever been embarrassed, burdened or ashamed of your sexuality? If so why?
Growing up Catholic I was taught sex was meant to be explored in the confines of marriage. I knew that it was something I wanted to experience before marriage. And rhetoric also dictated that bisexuality was ‘wrong’ so I had to come to a place of acceptance about what I wanted and what I believed to be right and moral.
What is the image you think you project every day?
I think people think I am a confident and somewhat attractive woman, but low maintenance when it comes to grooming myself.
How would you describe your personal experience, existing in the way you do, each day?
I feel I have a lot of privileges being an educated, well-spoken, literate and somewhat attractive woman and feel like it affords me a lot of opportunity.
What is the image you would like to project?
I am glad that I project confidence and attractiveness. I am happy with this projection. The truth is I don’t always feel confident or attractive, but I am a performer and can hide behind this persona on my worst day!
“I think all too often women make apologies for who they are.” -Alexis
What do you think the image other people perceive is?
I think people think I never feel insecure or unattractive, which is an impossible ideal.
What is your political stance on women’s reproductive rights?
I think ultimately a woman is in charge of her reproductive rights, but I think the men in their lives should be considered in decision making.
Are you pro-life or pro-choice?
I am pro-choice, but I think preventative contraception should be exercised when at all possible.
What are your feelings about contraceptives? Their availability, cost, stigma, usage?
In Canada we are very lucky. Many free birth control options are available by visiting doctors and clinics. I think all young women should be practicing contraception if they do not want to reproduce at any given time. Birth control options should be taught in school.
I am at a real peace over what is right for me.
What are your feelings on casual sex?
As long as you and your partners are all taking care of your (and their) sexual health I don’t have any objections to casual sex for others or me.
Are you in a relationship(s)?
Yes, I am engaged to a wonderful man in a monogamous relationship.
What are your feelings on marriage?
I don’t think marriage is for everyone.
What are your most positive relationships with other women?
Because of my sexual attraction to women, it has made connecting to women challenging, but no more than connecting to men on a platonic level is. I have a positive relationship with my mother, grandmother, my aunts, a few close cousins and girlfriends and my soon-to-be sisters-in-law.
What are your negative?
I had a traumatizing relationship with a former female boss that bordered on abusive.
What does the word ‘woman’ mean to you?
The first two words that come to mind are ‘beautiful’ and ‘mother’…not necessarily a biological mother role. I think women are very motherly in all senses, to others and to the earth.
What are your feelings on monogamy?
I think it is difficult but something I strive for because I believe it creates intimacy, not unparalleled intimacy but the intimacy I so crave.
On polyamory?
I think it works for some people and shouldn’t be taboo.
Do you feel your choice to participate or not participate in consensual sex is at all affected by societal influence?
I honestly feel I could confidently be in any type of relationship without societal pressure. I am at real peace over what is right for me not being influenced by negative energy.
How do you feel about products marketed to women?
I think our vanity is appealed to more than our actual requirements. We are sold an unrealistic perfect aesthetic.
How do you feel about feminine hygiene products’ portrayal in the media?
Well, I mean, we need those products, but I feel a little manipulated by the ads that I should feel ashamed of a natural thing. Not cool!
“I think our vanity is appealed to more than our actual requirements. We are sold an unrealistic aesthetic.” -Alexis
Were you always aware of what your body could do sexually & mechanically?
No, it was an evolution of discovery.
Do you feel your sexual education was sufficient?
Not in school. It took many talks with my mother and a lot of reading on my own part to really educate myself.
If not, what would you have done to make it so?
I think sexual education needs to be more thorough in our school systems and I think the stigma of masturbation being a negative activity needs to be lifted through frank discussion with young people.
Where do you feel unsafe as a woman?
Any isolated place.
Where is somewhere you can exist without fear?
Do women treat you differently than men?
Depends if there is sexual attraction or not. If someone, male or female, is attracted to me I think it makes our ability to connect platonically more difficult.
In what ways does being a woman make you vulnerable or exposed?
I’m not a very physically strong person so I feel that I could easily be assaulted, sexually or physically.
Would you consider yourself a feminist?
How do you define feminism?
I believe feminism is being a person who believes in equality between the sexes.
What do you think are positive ways the world views women?
As nurturers, strong, care givers, performers.
What are negative?
As controllers, weak, manipulators and performers…. I think gender is very performative. Both males and females perform roles and I think ‘the world’ often judges both men and women on how well they perform these roles.
“I hope I can make other women feel beautiful and confident about their bodies as well as their beliefs.” -Alexis
Do you think the world’s perception of women limits or benefits them?
I think that women need to define what being a woman means to them and if anything any limitations ‘the world’ puts on them can only serve to make them break through those preconceived notions.
What is your relationship to sex?
Positive.
What does a sexual relationship mean to you?
A relationship where physical intimacy is given or shared.
Have you found a balance of fulfillment with your partners?
With some yes, with others no.
Do you feel that your desires are marginalized in the bedroom or are less important, if so why do you think that is?
You have to remember I’ve agreed to marry the man. I’ve found a partner who respects my desires and who equally strives to please me. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be marrying him. Have I felt marginalized in the past? For sure. There’s a reason those relationships didn’t work out!
Are you fearful of being openly sexual for fear of judgement?
Have you ever been in a position where your sexuality was used against you?
The assumption that being bisexual means I will do a three-way with just anyone was an interesting assumption of one of my male partners.
Have you ever been physically or verbally threatened because of your appearance?
When I was at my heaviest, I was all dolled up for a job interview and a car full of men drove by. One screamed out the window ‘Hey fatty, why do you even try to look good at that size?!’ It was a very hurtful experience.
When you imagine sex, what is the visual/feeling you associate with it?
Tingling warmth.
What are your feelings on sex work(ers)?
It’s a profession that will always be around. Not something I would do or solicit but I don’t judge those who do it or use it.
Is sex empowering for you?
Absolutely. I like knowing I’m bringing pleasure to another while also deriving it myself. It’s the ultimate!
Is sex embarrassing for you to discuss?
No, I find it fascinating.
What do you seek through sex?
Intimacy. Empowerment. Pleasure.
Is there anyone in your world you undermine your principles for?
My grandma. I’ve never told her I am bisexual. It feels dishonest but she’s of another era and I feel she wouldn’t understand.
In which situations do you feel safe to speak your mind/stand up for yourself?
In most social situations but I do have issues with authority. I don’t tend to speak my mind at work or with employers.
I think all too often women make apologies for who they are. I am determined to live as honestly as possible and nothing is more honest for me than participating in this project and baring all, especially not being a typical woman depicted in the media. I hope I can make other women feel beautiful and confident about their bodies as well as their beliefs. ~
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS TO SOUTHERN UTAH 97-79
Southern Utah (8-4, 2-1 BSC) 35 62 97
Sacramento State (11-2, 3-1 BSC) 42 37 79
Pts: ROBBINS, Marissa - 16
Reb: MORELAND, Carli - 9
Ast: MANDELKO, Hailey - 6
Pts: Fantasia Hilliard - 13
Reb: Margaret Huntington - 8
Ast: Fantasia Hilliard - 6
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sacramento State led by as many as 15 points in the first half and was up seven at halftime before Southern Utah had a dominant 62-37 advantage in the second half to record a 97-79 win on Saturday in The Nest.
The Hornets (11-2, 3-1 Big Sky) lost for the first time at home this season and saw their program-record nine-game winning streak come to an end. Southern Utah (8-4, 2-1 Big Sky) completely dictated tempo in the second half in which it shot 66.7% from the field and made 24 free throws in the period.
"We didn't make free throws, we didn't make shots, we didn't rebound the ball, we did a horrible job defending the rim, and we didn't play with a sense of urgency," Sacramento State head coach Bunky Harkleroad said. "Bottom line is we didn't play well but Southern Utah is a good basketball team; they outcoached us, they outplayed us, and they deserve credit. Give them credit for dictating how the game was played."
The Thunderbirds were able to play the game at their speed, something that had been almost impossible to do against the Hornets during their 11-1 start to the season. The Hornets had season-lows in points, made field goals, field goal attempts, rebounds, assists, steals, and opponent turnovers in the contest as Southern Utah slowed the game down and took Sacramento State out of its rhythm.
"We just didn't really show up to play today like we should have," Hornet senior guard Alle Moreno said. "They outplayed us in every aspect of the game, and I guess this is what happens when that takes place. We hadn't experienced a loss in a while so there's not much you can do at this point but get ready for practice and get ready to play two tough teams on the road."
Sacramento State did have a sizeable lead through most of the first half, using a 12-1 run mid way through the half to take a game-high 28-13 lead. The Hornets were up 12 points with less than three minutes left in the first period before Southern Utah closed on a 7-2 run to cut its deficit to 42-35 at the break.
The Hornets made seven 3-pointers in the first half and were +7 in turnover margin, but in the second half made just four 3-pointers in 15 attempts and were -6 in turnovers. The Thunderbirds took a 52-51 lead at the 14:01 mark of the second half and never trailed again.
An 11-2 run put SUU up 61-53 but Sacramento State came back to get within a five point deficit with 8:11 remaining. The Hornets wouldn't get any closer as a quick 8-1 spurt extended the T-Birds to a double-digit lead that they would hold for the remainder of the game, going up by as many as 21 points in the final minutes.
Southern Utah shot 64.7% for the game, the highest field goal percentage the Hornets have allowed this season, as 30 of 33 made baskets for the visitors were 2-point shots and the team made 28 of 40 free throws. The Thunderbirds only had five turnovers during their impressive second half and limited the Hornets to just eight steals for the game after the team entered the contest leading the NCAA with more than 16 steals per game.
Just two Hornets finished in double-figures with junior Fantasia Hilliard leading the way with 13 points, six assists, and five rebounds and senior Sadie Clements scoring 12 points on 4-of-5 shooting. Southern Utah had six players score in double-figures and had one total nine points and one total eight in an all-around team effort. Southern Utah outscored Sacramento State 54-18 in the paint and had a 17-14 advantage in assists for the game.
The Hornets play their first Big Sky road games next week, at Portland State on Thursday and at Eastern Washington on Saturday. After playing seven of eight games at home with their only road game just 20 miles away in Davis, Sacramento State will now face significant travel for the first time since playing at Utah Valley Nov. 27.
May 27, 2014 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM CAMP COMING JUNE 20 AND 21
May 22, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SIGNS SEVEN FOR 2014-15 SEASON
May 1, 2014 HORNET STUDENT-ATHLETES EARN 35 WINTER ALL-ACADEMIC AWARDS
March 31, 2014 HARKLEROAD NAMED FINALIST FOR DIVISION I ROOKIE COACH OF THE YEAR
March 13, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS TO SOUTHERN UTAH 86-78 IN BIG SKY QUARTERFINAL
March 11, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEADS TO GRAND FORKS FOR BIG SKY TOURNAMENT
March 10, 2014 HILLIARD NAMED ALL-BIG SKY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HONORABLE MENTION
March 8, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS AT MONTANA STATE, ENTERS BSC TOURNEY AS #7 SEED
March 6, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL BREAKS NCAA 3-POINT RECORD BUT FALLS AT MONTANA
March 5, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CLOSES REGULAR SEASON IN MONTANA
March 1, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RALLIES TO BEAT IDAHO STATE, CLINCH BIG SKY BERTH
February 28, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CLOSES HOME SCHEDULE SATURDAY ON SENIOR DAY
February 27, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL GETS BY WEBER STATE 76-60
February 26, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HOSTS WEBER STATE THURSDAY TO OPEN FINAL HOMESTAND
February 22, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS 87-57 AT NORTH DAKOTA
February 20, 2014 COLD SHOOTING DOOMS WOMEN’S HOOPS IN 62-55 LOSS AT NORTHERN COLORADO
February 19, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEADS EAST TO FACE NORTHERN COLORADO, NORTH DAKOTA
February 15, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OUTLASTS PORTLAND STATE 84-80
February 13, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RALLIES BUT FALLS SHORT 79-73 VS. EASTERN WASHINGTON
February 11, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HOSTS EASTERN WASHINGTON THURSDAY IN PINK GAME
February 8, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOPPED BY SOUTHERN UTAH 93-74
February 6, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OUTLASTS NORTHERN ARIZONA 99-91
February 4, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPENS SECOND HALF OF BIG SKY PLAY ON THE ROAD
February 1, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOPS BIG SKY RECORD AGAIN IN 111-104 WIN AT WEBER STATE
January 30, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS 62-53 AT IDAHO STATE
January 28, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPENS ROAD STRETCH AT IDAHO STATE AND WEBER STATE
January 25, 2014 HILLIARD BREAKS ASSIST RECORD, WOMEN’S HOOPS TOPS NORTHERN COLORADO
January 24, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL BACK IN THE NEST SATURDAY VS NORTHERN COLORADO
January 23, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OUTLASTS NORTH DAKOTA IN 110-104 SHOOTOUT
January 21, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RETURNS TO THE NEST TO HOST NORTH DAKOTA THURSDAY
January 18, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL STIFLED IN 78-65 LOSS AT EASTERN WASHINGTON
January 16, 2014 LATE PORTLAND STATE RALLY DOWNS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 83-80
January 15, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL’S HILLIARD NAMED TO LIEBERMAN AWARD WATCH LIST
January 14, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HITS THE ROAD AT PORTLAND STATE, EASTERN WASHINGTON
January 11, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FALLS TO SOUTHERN UTAH 97-79
January 10, 2014 WOMEN’S HOOPS HOSTS SOUTHERN UTAH, SPORT CHALET KIDS DAY SATURDAY
January 9, 2014 HUGE SECOND HALF LEADS WOMEN’S HOOPS PAST NORTHERN ARIZONA 104-79
January 7, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HOSTS TWO MORE HOME GAMES THURSDAY AND SATURDAY
January 6, 2014 HILLIARD NAMED BIG SKY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
January 4, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TAMES LADY GRIZ 91-81, IMPROVES TO 10-1
January 3, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HOSTS DEFENDING BIG SKY CHAMPION MONTANA SATURDAY
January 2, 2014 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOPS MONTANA STATE 107-95 IN BIG SKY OPENER
December 31, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPENS BIG SKY AT HOME VS MONTANA STATE, MONTANA
December 30, 2013 DIVERSE GROUP OF COACHES LEADING WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TO RECORD START
December 28, 2013 BURSE POWERS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TO 84-78 CAUSEWAY WIN OVER UC DAVIS
December 27, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RETURNS WITH CAUSEWAY CLASH AT UC DAVIS SATURDAY
December 14, 2013 MORENO TOPS 1,000 POINTS, LEADS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PAST UC IRVINE 99-94
December 11, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CLOSES NON-CONFERENCE HOME SLATE VS UC IRVINE
December 9, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SENIOR MORENO EARNS MULTIPLE WEEKLY HONORS
December 7, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOPS SAN JOSÉ STATE IN SHOOTOUT, 103-99
December 6, 2013 WOMEN’S HOOPS HOSTS FORMER COACH CRAIGHEAD, SAN JOSÉ STATE SATURDAY
December 5, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL UPENDS PREVIOUSLY UNDEFEATED SAINT MARY’S 94-92
December 4, 2013 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL HOSTS UNDEFEATED SAINT MARY'S THURSDAY
November 27, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OUTLASTS UTAH VALLEY 87-84
November 25, 2013 DERRICK FLORENCE NAMED WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ASSISTANT COACH
November 25, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RETURNS TO THE FLOOR WEDNESDAY AT UTAH VALLEY
November 19, 2013 SMITH NAMED BIG SKY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
November 17, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL STUNS OREGON, DOWNS DUCKS 97-85
November 15, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL DOWNED BY OREGON STATE 102-80
November 13, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEADS NORTH TO FACE PAC-12 FOES OREGON STATE, OREGON
November 12, 2013 MORENO NAMED BIG SKY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
November 10, 2013 MORENO BREAKS 3-POINT RECORD, LEADS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TO 93-89 WIN
November 8, 2013 GENNETT LEADS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TO 92-71 WIN OVER CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE
November 6, 2013 FANS CAN WATCH FRIDAY’S BASKETBALL DOUBLEHEADER FOR THE PRICE OF ONE TICKET
November 6, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPENS AT HOME FRIDAY VS CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE
November 3, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ROLLS TO 119-71 EXHIBITION WIN OVER UC SANTA CRUZ
November 1, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPENS SEASON SUNDAY WITH UC SANTA CRUZ EXHIBITION
October 29, 2013 GET TO KNOW WOMEN'S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH BUNKY HARKLEROAD
October 22, 2013 SACRAMENTO STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 2013-14 SEASON PROSPECTUS
October 17, 2013 KIM STEPHENS NAMED WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ASSISTANT COACH
October 16, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PICKED SIXTH BY MEDIA, NINTH BY COACHES IN BIG SKY
October 8, 2013 BUNKY HARKLEROAD NAMED WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH
October 3, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL AND GYMNASTICS RECEIVE NEW LOCKER ROOMS
October 1, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL OPENS PRACTICE FOR 2013-14 SEASON
September 16, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH CRAIGHEAD NAMED SAN JOSÉ STATE HEAD COACH
August 8, 2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ANNOUNCES 2013-14 SCHEDULE
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A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Discussion in 'Asian Horror and Other Pleasures' started by Fistfuck, Jul 18, 2002.
I recently rented this movie based on a picture in one of my film school books. I knew absolutely nothing about the series and enjoyed the film mostly. I think I need to view it again though because I was watching it with my girlfriend's family and couldn't concentrate fully.
Does anybody have any comments or views on this series of films or any other Hong Kong gangland/John Woo movies to recommend?
Fistfuck, Jul 18, 2002
Good timing...the Asian Horror section will soon be expanding to cover the John Woo movies and "bullet ballet" films.
Must see Woo films include The Killer and Hard Boiled. Both are classic movies and really must be seen to be believed. I'd definitely also see A Better Tomorrow, Part 2 as it's an excellent movie with one of the best gunfights I've ever witnessed. Frenetic stuff indeed.
DefJeff Franca Stoppi's #1 fan
Hamden, CT
The Killer is the best action film EVER. EVER. Everything about this movie is great. espeically the music
i realllllly wish i had the Criterion edition of this dvd. but instead i have the Fox Lorber one, which i am still happy with, since i love this movie so much.
its my 2nd favorite movie of all time (beaten only by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
DefJeff, Jul 19, 2002
Trout Guest
I miss the old John Woo.
Trout, Jul 19, 2002
2D4EVER Guest
I want the old John Woo back also but I don't know if it'll happen. Definately see ABT2. It's a bit slow in the middle but it's worth it just to see the end. It's really awesome. Death everywhere. Don't bother with ABT3 though. It's shit.
Later all...
2D4EVER, Jul 19, 2002
Add to the growing list of must sees A Bullet in the Head, but see Hardboiled and The Killer first. They're more your action fantasys, where Bullet in the Head is "semi-autobigraphical" (no clue to what extent, but I've read that often) and gets more serious than the "Violence Ballets". Don't get me wrong, Bullet is violent as fuck, it just deals with the historical politics and cultural upheaval of Vietnam.
Also, don't stop at Woo, as Chow Yun Fat's non-Woo work is a must. You must see at least these...
Peace Hotel
God of Gamblers (God of Gamblers 2 is okay, but the first kicks ass)
Yeah Bullet in the Head is great also. Fairly sad movie. If you like John Woo movies you might also wanna check out Kitano's movies if you already haven't. Just don't see Woo's Once a Theif (US version). The real one is great but the US version (1996 as opposed to the original which was made in 1986 I think) is really shit. I bought it when it first came out thinking it was the old one. But I knew $9 was too good a deal. It's the shitty updated for american audiences version. Garbage. Stick with Woo's older movies. Hard Boiled is good but The Killer is better so I recommend seeing that one first. And if you're into action I recommend Shiri and Time and Tide. Although I've seen Time and Tide 2 times and I'm still not sure of the story. It's got a lot of nice action scenes (that setup with the grenades all over the ground was awesome) but I thought the story was eh. Also try Fudoh!!! It's got some fucked up shit in it but I really like the movie. I was just a bit disappointed in the ending...or lack thereof.
It's the shitty updated for american audiences version.
More to the point, it's the shitty made for television Canadian production. It's actually a very professional production, but does cmpletely lack any of the integrity of the original, due to the acting. It could have easily been an episode of VIP or something, lol.
I suppose I'm gonna have to give Woo's HK films another look. I saw A Better Tomorrow, and felt it got boring. I was glued to my seat at the beginning, but by the end, I'm thinking "oh....another gunfight...oh....everyone's dying...yawn...."
I do recommend City on Fire quite a bit though. Everyone says Reservoir Dogs "ripped it off", but that couldn't be further from the truth. City on Fire tells the Reservoir Dogs story from a COMPLETELY different perspective, which is how does a cop infiltrate a gang. RD gave that concept about 5 minutes of screen time, and concentrated more on the post-mortem.
A City On Fire/Reservoir Dogs double feature is one damn enjoyable evening.
Ditto what Paff said.
Dogs is no way a rip, City just sparked the idea in Quentin's noggin.
The R3 version of The Killer is available from...
... http://www.dddhouse.com/ for less than $4! If you've never seen this film, you know it makes sense....
Personally, I'm holding out for the ultimate Platinum version from HK Legends later in the year (hopefully October-time). Should be a good 'un!
Originally posted by Paff
City on Fire tells the Reservoir Dogs story from a COMPLETELY different perspective, which is how does a cop infiltrate a gang. RD gave that concept about 5 minutes of screen time, and concentrated more on the post-mortem.
Actually it would be the other way around.
A double feature would be cool. I'm hoping AB or some other company would get around to releasing some HK action films (like they did with ABT 1+2), seeing as how most asian DVD labels are lacking...
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Home 2014 December 26 After his cargo worth N33m was fraudulently auctioned by Nigeria Customs Service for N250k, man cries out
After his cargo worth N33m was fraudulently auctioned by Nigeria Customs Service for N250k, man cries out
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Having lived in Europe for 25 years, Siaku Elvis in September 2013, loaded a container with refrigerators, a car, a bus, jewelry and hospital equipment worth over
N33m and shipped it to Lagos.
That was all his years in Europe, his life savings, could buy. It was meant to be part of his retirement plan. He lost his goods after they were auctioned off in a process he described as shoddy and questionable. Angry and frustrated, he now regrets his decision to relocate to Nigeria.
He said: “My shipment got to Lagos on October 14 2013. At the time, my wife and I had some financial problems and could not raise the required funds to clear the container promptly and the container went into overtime. It was later shipped to the Ikorodu Lighter Terminal, enlisted and allocated to some else.
In an attempt to de-list and recover it back, the Area Controller of the ILT, Nasir A., then wrote to the Comptroller General of the NCS, Inde Abdullah, forwarding an application by Siaku’s wife. It read in part: “I hereby forward an application in respect of (1X40FT) container No. MSCU 934259/3. The container was transferred from Tincan Island Port to my command.
All documentations have been completed at Tincan Island Command; payments receipts, import duty waiver and other necessary documents are attached. I hereby recommend for the consignee to be granted overtime cargo clearance.” The document was stamped and received on April 14, 2014.
A letter dated May 28, 2014 and signed by Deputy Comptroller Abutu acknowledged the receipt of the application and gave approval for overtime clearance. But to Elvis surprise, when he presented the said document at the ILT, he was told that his container was no longer there.
While Elvis had been processing the delisting of his consignment, unknown to him, it was already allocated on March 31 2014, to one Isaac John of Ademola Street Lagos for N250k. Elvis now lives on charity from people…. Wt ds, I think Nigeria will conveniently move back to No1 on d list of d most corrupt countries in d world come next year….
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BOM finally explains! Cooling changed to warming trends because stations “might” have moved! »
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Big adjustments? BOM says Rutherglen site shifted, former workers there say “No”
The hot questions for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) mount up. Rutherglen was one of the temperature recording stations that was subject to large somewhat mysterious adjustments which turned a slight cooling trend into a strongly warming one. Yet the official notes showed that the site did not move and was a continuous record. On paper, Rutherglen appeared to be ideal — a rare long rural temperature record where measurements had come from the same place since 1913.
The original cooling trend of – 0.35C was transformed into a +1.73C warming after “homogenisation” by the BOM. To justify that the BOM claims that there may have been an unrecorded shift, and it was “consistent” with the old station starting further up the slope before it moved down to the hollow.
Today retired scientist Bill Johnston got in touch with Jennifer Marohasy, with me and with Graham Lloyd of The Australian to say that he worked at times at Rutherglen and the official thermometer had not moved. It was always placed where it is now at the bottom of the hollow. That information has already made it into print in The Australian.
The original thermometer records suggest a slight cooling trend. The adjusted ones (red) are very different.
From The Australian: “Climate records contradict Bureau of Meteorology ”
Retired scientist Bill Johnston, who has worked at Rutherglen, said a temporary thermometer had been put on higher ground near the office of the farm but it never provided temperatures to the bureau.
“Some locals thought the official data was not particularly inviting for winter tourists,’’ Dr Johnston said.
“So they established a second Stevenson screen near the office on a watered lawn, near fruit trees, so it was pretty useless as a weather station.”
That BOM explanation of the adjustment (again):
Rutherglen: the major adjustments in minimum temperature data are in 1966 and 1974. Both were detected through comparisons with neighbours. The nature of the change is consistent with the site moving from a location near the main experimental farm buildings (which are on a small hill) to its current location on low-lying flat ground (minimum temperatures are normally higher on slopes than on flat ground or in valley bottoms).
Graham Lloyd points out the official catalogue of the national temperature network claims that Rutherglen is 7km southeast of the town and was established in 1913 and “There have been no documented site moves during the site’s history”.
If our “best” thermometer data needs massive adjustments 70 years after temperatures are recorded the accuracy of the whole network comes into question (as I said yesterday). The BOM don’t mention how unreliable thermometers are when they tell us how many new extreme records we seem to be setting.
It’s not just one station. The adjustments over the whole network are not “neutral” as claimed. Ken Stewart showed they raise the raw trends on minima by as much as 50%.
Bill Johnston contacted a former colleague today who confirmed the site has been there since “year-dot”. Hopefully we will get some photos soon. Bill has a lot more to say, and I’ll be adding to this with more information or another post soon.
Who’s going to be sacked for making-up global warming at Rutherglen? – Jennifer Marohasy
Rutherglen — Jennifer Marohasy
BOM finally explains! Cooling changed to warming trends because stations “might” have moved!
The heat is on. Bureau of Meteorology ‘altering climate figures’
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149 comments to Big adjustments? BOM says Rutherglen site shifted, former workers there say “No”
Busted.
Yes I agree. Most Australians including fervent warmists will NOT like being duped. Maybe the AGW fraud will collapse sooner than we all thought. This will undoubtedly spread to the USA and other countries. Of course it was predictable after putting together all the adjustment stories everywhere except ironically Russia where no one believes in AGW, what a joke. BTW the NZ meteorological office will fall very hard for what they have done (erasing all temp records)
Use Climategate as your yardstick. It’s a political campaign. The warmist simply don’t care about facts and focus on the end result. They may miss a news cycle or so while they regroup but, for sure, it will NOT be repeated in the main news agencies. Go ahead, search the internet every day for the next 10 days, exclude all the blogs and focus on folks like the BBC, AP, Reuters, the Times, etc. What’s important for public opinion is the “repeating”, not the “reporting”. As the news folks say “does it have legs”.
Unless the political class jumps onboard, it will simply be another government mistake in a long, long, long list of government mistakes.
Tim Spence
They’ve already tried it on Russia
The “October” temperature data was in fact just a duplication of the September data, and of course this lead to the huge (anomalous!) anomaly for October. According to Steve McIntyre, this error occurred for 90 different stations, mostly in Russia but also some in Tunisia, Finland and the UK.
https://sites.google.com/site/globalwarmingquestions/giss
The Arctic and Iceland
http://notrickszone.com/2012/03/01/data-tamperin-giss-caught-red-handed-manipulaing-data-to-produce-arctic-climate-history-revision/
Norway and again Russia
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/iceland-adjustments-spread-to-norway-and-russia/
And South America
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/adjustmentgatesouth-america/
Proving an original offense against a government dept is usually difficult, but nailing them on the subsequent cover up is a lot easier. I wonder how many BOM ants are willing to take a bullet for their leaders’ fixation with global warming?
Will Janoschka
The big Roaches scatter leaving the blame to innocent offspring or not
luvthefacts
So sad. Australia’s credibility as a scientific nation was was earned through the hard work and honest reporting of our scientists.
It’s sad that the BOM is prepared to risk trashing this reputation just to appease the Global Warmers.
Also, CSIRO used to be considered a very worthwhile institution that contributed great advances to science.
Then they put a bureaucrat in charge, and now it is going down the gurgler.
It should have stayed away from the climate change junk, and stuck to what it was good at.
NielsZoo
I’ll respectfully disagree with you a bit. The travesty is based on the actions of people calling themselves scientists along with the politicians and bureaucrats who drive, enable and pay them. When you also have folks like Jo, Jennifer, Bill Johnston, his colleagues and others… plus the actions of some actual news reporters trying to keep things both real and honest. You’re showing the world that you won’t take that cr*p. They’re out there showing fellow Australians and the rest of the planet the script for the BoM’s “Kibuki Temperature Show” and how it was made up by those who’ve either forgotten how to do science or never knew.
In my book everything that’s happening now makes you all the leaders in the search for truth and I can only hope that the efforts here in the States can get as much traction as you have managed to get.
Niels, there is no truth only human opinion. As sad as that may be.
Physically some evidence may persist, only to be turned for political gain!
And let us not mention the cost to us all by these government funded fraudsters.
These records and how many others are being used to sell the fraud of global warming to us.
One can only be grateful for the diligent and scientifically educated people associated with blogs such as Jo’s that are willing to call them out.
These findings will snowball and reverberate around the world.
I’m just an internet “nut job” they can fob off.
It’s a hell of a lot harder to fob off so many of their peers with morals.
Rutherglen: the major adjustments in minimum temperature data are in 1966 and 1974. Both were detected through comparisons with neighbours.
BOM are looking for reasons to adjust the temperature records!
Note, this is at approximately the same time as the mythical adjustment due to site move at Amberley.
Just before the more reliable satellite data because available.
No “official” record before 1980 can be trusted because to the massive fabrications that appear to have taken place.
Not just here, but the US, NZ and anywhere the alarmista can get their grubby hands on it.. all to INVENT a warming trend.
Griss, it’s a lot harder to adjust temperature trends with satellites operating after 1979, and there aren’t that many people who remember the 1920s. All in all, it’s not surprising that the era from 1910 – 1970′s is where the big adjustments end up happening. And pre 1910 (remembered by everyone older than 120) simply disappears…
ghl
Thank God for old newspaper files.
Joanne, it will be another 10 years before the satellite folk have any concept of what was measured. Been there, done that. The measurements are pristine, never to be adjusted by any government official. But what was measured, fun time at the Steak and Ale, with much beer. No one knows, but by God those measurements are indeed the best measurements of whatever we were measuring at that time and place. You mess with my written numbers, you die!
Olaf Koenders
Haha.. just wait until the satellite somehow gets “moved”.. :Þ
Jo: re. your comment that “All in all, it’s not surprising that the era from 1910 – 1970′s is where the big adjustments end up happening. And pre 1910 (remembered by everyone older than 120) simply disappears…”
It’s my current entertainment to point out to the warmists that in 1900 the Central England Temperature record (CET,available online from the Met Office)gives the years’ average temperature as 9.56 degrees C. Which is exactly the same as 2013.
I always ask them to show me where the dangerous man-made global warming is manifesting itself in this data set. No-one’s been able to do so.
Note also that if it was a site change, there might be a shift up or down of data prior to that date, the trend in that prior data would not change.
but for the Rutherford data shown above, the trend in the prior data also changes from a negative trend to a positive one.
This looks more and more like outright FRAUD !!
It sure does look like willful alterations of a historical record to get a specific outcome.
If an engineer did that, he’d end up in prison.
If an accountant did that he’d end up in prison and the company get a huge fine.
If a historian did that, well I don’t know what would happen.
If a teacher did that for a student or class grades, they’d be sacked real quick.
If a minning company did that, they’d be hounded and fined by 20 different departments.
There absolutly has to be an enquiry into this.
Sorry, these people made sure no one is accountable. Not anywhere.
That is classical bureaucracy
Maybe some of these people coud be held accountable:
Climate Council
Gerry Hueston
Lesley Hughes
Will Steffen
Veena Sahajwalla
Andrew Stock
Amanda McKenzie
Sarah Perkins
However they are all privately funded now that the Climate Commission has been disbanded. Should that give them protection?
How about the Climate Authority which is still piublicly funded.
Bernis Fraaser
Ian Chubb
David Karoly
Heather Ridour
Clive Hamilton
John Quiggins
Anthea Harris
Most of them noisy exponents of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change Theory.
And lets not forget Dr David Jones of the BOM
You forgot the empress of smug, Anna Rose.
Correction: Heather Ridout.
Another correction: Bernie Fraser.
Streetcred
That’s why those “scientists” look so scared!
Sceptical Sam
Now that’s the self-identified list of amateurs. Karoly is on it.
Chubb doesn’t know what a cyclone is called in the northern hemisphere. Karoly can’t do statistics. Flannery doesn’t know what rain looks like. Hamilton gets it off on stuffed animals. Heather Ridout is an out and out green left Labor apparatchick. Bernie Fraser is a superannuation salesman. Gerry Hueston should have a brother called Tom – they’d known as Tom and Gerry, and they’d be a laugh a minute. Tom’s Terror.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9FhxoaARp8
And who has ever heard of what’s her name; McKenzie?
It was climate science that did it, so it’s not even going to get a mention on the ABC.
They will have worked out a media strategy by now, which will depend mainly on it being ignored until it is old news, and then, who knows what unlikely reasons they will give, to their total satisfaction.
Remember how they handled the hiatus- first it didn’t exist, then there were about twenty different reasons why “it’s even worse than we thought”, now it’s just old news and didn’t matter anyway, because 97%… And as a fall-back, it didn’t exist!
Someone ought to start a book on what it will take to get this news onto the ABC, or how long it will take the ABC to acknowledge it.
Siliggy
I am willing to bet that the icecaps meeting at the equator for fifty years may cause one or two of them at the ABC to question global warming. Most would still carry the faith to the grave.
First they were civil servants, then they became bureaucrats and now they is climate scientists.
In terms of integrity, it is kind of like watching evolution in reverse.
Jaymez
This is incredible. You would think that if the adjustments and homogenisation process was done as claimed based on peer reviewed, above world’s best standards, then you’d think BOM could pick any site and show detailed scientific reasons with calculations on justifying why and how the raw data was adjusted. Not just hopefully throw out that it is consistent with a move of the site even though there is none recorded.
This is classic data manipulation to achieve a desired outcome and it has been done shamelessly by teams of BOM staff for years. And when their procedures are questioned, rather than provide a sensible explanation, they say trust us, we used world’s best practice.
Well if this is world’s best practice then what state is the global temperature record in?
Anywhere the alarmistas have managed to get their mitts on it, they have CREATED a warming trend.
Combine them together, you get the massive wholesale fabrications called GISS or HadCrut !
I’d be looking for collusion with other agencies and intermediaries … some intelligent person might like to make a FOI request for relevant communications.
Simon at ACM, maybe?
It is fairly obvious that when BOM say their adjustment process has been peer reviewed, they are talking about the cosy club of NIWA in NZ and the Met Office in UK, all of whom have been artificially adjusting temperature records warmer. A new definition of “rotten institutions”.
I don’t see how they can determine one station is more accurate than another, and then decide the latter needs homogenizing. It is all relative unless they have metadata to suggest one needs adjusting. Anthony Watts’ project clearly demonstrated how dodgy stations can be due to a number of variables probably not accounted for by BoM. So we come back to the original question of how they determine one is right and the other wrong? Maybe they are both right, or wrong… who knows? Certainly not the BoM.
The peer reviewed papers probably give a cogent methodology for adjusting data, but I bet they don’t answer the question of which stations need adjusting, and why. That is the crux of the problem, not so much how they are adjusted. BoM has to be able to definitively justify the adjustments, or they are arbitrary. Simply saying a station may have moved is a bullsh*te answer.
I see that jackass Karoly said in The Australian yesterday Marohasy is an amateur, as opposed to himself. He then went on about peer review-gibber, gibber.
Hell, we all know what this homogenizing is about; it’s method of jacking up the temperature, nothing more nor less.
Now that they have been caught with their pants down, they will lie even more.
I think Mr Lloyd has caught on.
As a defender of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Professor David Karoly had defined himself as an amateur.
Does anybody have a list of all the adjustments made world wide? It would be interesting to see how many have been adjusted down and how many have been adjusted up. If it is a 50 to 50 split I would be very surprised.
— Yes, Frank Lansner looked at raw data worldwide. I wrote it up, and am planning to revisit it. – Jo
Nick Stokes
You can look them up in a Google Maps gadget here. This is GHCN adjustment, not BoM. You can select ranges to display. I’ve written a post with images for Australia here.
This will get to Abbot. There will be a thorough investigation of BOM and heads will not roll but retired or ask to move aside. Then it will occur in the US when Obama leaves and Rubio takes over.
Then and only then will the AGW scam terminate (Europe will just “retire AGW”) LOL
OriginalSteve
It seems to have doens its damage though – any country that limits vaccum cleaner power is plain nuts….
pattoh
It may be too little to late for some of the EU Warmies:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11054890/Eurozone-opens-doors-to-QE-as-Germany-and-France-stumble.html
Would it be impolite to say that some people (not Jo) may soon be owing Steven Goddard an apology?
The climate hysteria won’t collapse any time soon. The perpetrators of these lies will continue to find weasel words to cover their fraud and continue as they have. Those weasel words will be swallowed whole by the Leftist MSM and every effort to cover up these things will continue. Afterall, this is not about climate change, but about Leftist social engineering.
Correct…..
Moral people limit their actions if it seems wrong.
The Left however pursue a result, regardless of whats required to achieve, often with amoral means.
Its no wonder then that Communists crack down or outlaw religion and impose atheism, as it allows them to operate in a moral free vacuum.
It just another form of Jones-ville cultist behaviour.
They wont aplogise for their actions.
Neither will they ever admit they are wrong.
They are wedded to their CAGW religion as a death-cult, and will go down with their ship, still bleating their propaganda as the water consumes them…
It has been said by others that CAGW inflicts a form of psychosis on its adherents – normal people become almost pathologically incapable of reason and need to be de-programmed. I just dont understand how it happens.
Is this what happens to a nation that has an event 100 years ago that defines it but has nothing since to live for?
Rereke Whakaaro
Conditioning behaviour is relatively easy, when people are in their late teens or early twenties. Deprogramming them is considerably harder, if not impossible, once they are past thirty.
The good news is that the majority of people in their late teens and early twenties today, have grown up with their grandparents being sceptical, and cynical, and telling them to figure things out for themselves, and not to take anybody else’s opinion at face value, without some serious checking.
I would like to think you are right RW , but I’m not so sure. One of the things that new technology has done is make communication much easier and faster, as well all know. One of the effects of this is that when young ( and older people now) have a problem
(or read something) they don’t really have to think about it and try to solve it themselves. They can easily contact a friend or parents or anyone else almost instantly to get the answer. So this means their problem solving skills are not developed or used as much. Obviously I’m generalising here but it is more prevalent than some of might like to acknowledge.
My wife reckons the gen Ys are smarter than some previous generations – I dont agree with this. I think they are similar intelligence, but they have greater access to more data via the internet. One disadvantage is the development of the hive mind/borg mindset.
I always maintain this current generation are so heavily connected, they are as only as intelligent as their internet connection.
I also find them a bit too touchy feely/collaborative for me – I prefer the lone wolf approach, and collaborate as necessary ( and then only infrequently ), but hey, I’ a consultant so…
I find the whole need to sit around and compare knitting patterns a bit too effeminate for my liking, which also fosters an imbalanced view of thew world where they move as a pack of sheep and not daring to venture outside the group. This is fine if you’re a sheep, but not so for people who do need to be able to think independently. And worse still, if the group says CAGW is cool, then its a hard meme to break….
I guess I grew up building bolt bombs, fireworks, and blowing stuff up with crackers, rocking roofs and getting up to all sorts of mischief, building go carts, playing with shanghais and roaming the neighbour hood till all hours ( but never had a run in with the Plod…), I find the modern 20-30 something a bit underdeveloped in real world thinking for my liking.
What think-eth others?
Flames to usual email address please….
Well none of them has experienced any global warming yet.
Bemused:I disagree I believe now that there is too much anti-AGW momentum occurring.People in general have had enough, even mainstream media will see more money in the FRAUD story than IPCC parroting. Again follow the money. This time its going in the skeptics direction. Mark my words: In exactly 2 years time the fraud will be finished…. completely. LOL
tom0mason
Anti or pro CAGW hopefully the public do tire of it. That will mean politicians will pay less attention to it and pays more to what the voting public really need and want. This will go against the wishes of the UN-IPCC but who gives a darn what the UN elitists proclaim.
Measures to mediate against CO2, CAGW alarm, etc., is exactly what nations do not require, as it ensures national poverty.
Don’t think so? Compare and contrast economic performance of EU, or USA to say India or China.
No, the scam has to be exposed for what it is. We can’t let it die away forlorn and forgotten. Someone has to be put on display in the town square.
It has to be recorded as in the history books.
I do hope that it happens sooner, rather than later; however, I am sceptical as to it dying off in two years time. There are far too many vested interests in the scam, from science communities (universities), alternative energy industries, finance industries etc for them to let go easily. For these people it’s all about money and for the rest it’s about social engineering, getting us back to the Stone Age (or close enough).
The MSM etc are too supportive of the Left and not intelligent or motivated enough to really analyse things for themselves. If you look at some of the technology websites, where you would expect some higher level of intelligence (I said expect), every one of them supports catastrophic climate change claims and simply regurgitates what the likes of Flannery, Karoly etc spew out.
Robert O
It’s good that we now have satellite coverage of temperature which gives data for both land and sea and is less prone to human error and manipulation. Dismissal of earlier data coming from post offices, railway stations etc. taken by dedicated people is really an affront to their integrity. Olden mercury thermometers were not all that bad, just gave data with a greater standard error than modern equipment.
Unfortunately, there appears to be less integrity associated with climate science than there should be with examples of the “hockey stick”, withholding of unfavourable data in the Email scandal at the University of East Anglia, and a multitude of erroneous prediction by luminary scientists such as Flannery and Karoly. Why do we have all these unused very costly desalination plants other than politicians accepting their flawed predictions? What we really need to guarantee our water supplies are more large strategic dams to lessen the risk of flood and provide water for the dry years which are part of our normal climate. However, the greens are against them and its been a while since a large one was built. Can anyone imagine the Snowy Hydro scheme being able to be built again today?
Unfortunately, politics has stuck its nose into science, and the result is obvious for all to see, “the greatest threat to humanity” etc.
BOM BOMB?
bit chilly
all i can say is well done on getting this far to all involved. a word of caution though,the climategate emails should have opened the doors to a thorough investigation in the uk at least .instead policy makers at the time ensured a whitewash. phil jones would have folded like a cheap pack of cards if put under proper scrutiny and the politicians of the time made sure it never happened. keep the pressure on or the same thing could happen all over again.
True but now the whitewash is getting pretty thin.
The pathetic coverup by the bureaucrats, of the Climate Gate inquiries, only deepened public distrust of the politicians.
Very difficult to now start claiming that your scientific advisors mislead you.
These adjustment thingies remind me of McIntyre’s (or is its Watt’s) Starbucks Deficiency Principle in that Australian realclimate(t) scientists seem as avers to trekking into the wilds to actually SEE the instruments and sites as are the vaunted US realclimate(t) scientists. So much easier to sit in the office at the computer and compute the temps than research it. And no fear of not having a Starbucks nearby…..
Another Ian
Time to remind you of my suggested new descriptive word
“Empixellated” – to describe those who spend too much time looking at computer screens and not enough looking out of windows
Unfortunately climate science has grown to resemble medieval Aristotelian scholasticism in its appeals to ‘authority’; however this is a pivotal moment when ‘the authoritative literature’ of ‘best practice’ has run head long into an empirical fact and been found wanting.
I await further obfuscation on the part of BOM et al, however.
These types of slip ups always occur when bureaucratic overconfidence through years of easy funding and protection produces complacency in the wrong political environment, the damning evidence against them will be ignored by the accused as over time the true zealots have taken over positions of leadership that require good strategic decisions instead of the arrogant ill advised responses driven by the egotistical belief that their show of strong dedication to the cause/cult will garner protection from a higher power.
Let’s hope all CAGW driven government departments and NGO’s carry on ad usum, for all our sakes.
Between Jennifer and Joanne BOM certainly have their hands full.
This O/T but interesting——–
Interesting that Phil Jones agreed in 2010 that if evidence could be found for the Med WP in the SH it would change the AGW debate. IOW so called recent warming since the end of the LIA wouldn’t be unprecedented or unusual at all.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/14/phil-jones-momentous-qa-with-bbc-reopens-the-science-is-settled-issues/
Well here are a number of PR studies that show the Med WP in Antarctica as does the recent Pages 2K study.
http://www.co2science.org/subject/a/antarcticmwp.php And here are numerous studies that show the Med WP in the SH.
http://www.co2science.org/subject/m/subject_m.php Just scroll down to find S America, Australia and NZ and central America.
But will these fools now change there minds? This is easily the biggest con and fraud for the last one hundred years.
And what is the collateral damage to the Western nations?
What has the UN-IPCC changes done for the poorer nations?
TdeF
How much effort would be required to recreate a picture of Australian temperatures without the fiddles? Who could do this quickly? Then how much would it affect the world temperature, given Australia’s huge input into world temperature, 25% according to a recent comment. Any graph showing world temperatures not climbing as previously thought or even actually falling would be the end of the world for warmists.
You can only think that there has been a desperate rear guard action to shore up temperatures, create graphs showing climbing temperature by quietly fudging data, world wide. The alleged hiatus may be a miracle of modern manufacture, a pathetic tribute to the triumph of commercial need over truth.
The worthless excuses for Rutherglen and Amberley are enough to show that it is now about plausible deniability. At worst an administrative oversight perhaps, but it looks too systematic. After all, why would people push up temperatures and alter not just measurements but trends over many years? The problem is, we all know why. From the point of view of groups like East Anglia and the BOM, this has been nothing short of self preservation. With the vast monies involved and public service obligations for fairness and honesty, at what point does this become fraud and fraud becomes a criminal investigation?
What the Brits do with their own data is small stuff, after all you could homogenize all of the UK to one temperature with very little effect to the rest of the world, probably not even on the UK itself.
No, what is more sinister is HadCrut’s influence over other national agencies globally, and their ablility to persuade others to follow in homogenizing temperature data across vast (continental) areas of the globe.
IMO homogenizing is just a tool to provide dumbed-down climastrophy data to the hard of thinking. It is scientifically wrong as it hides the useful anomaly information. The abnormalities, these location specific exceptional particularities, are where the clues to a better understanding of our weather and climate would would be hidden, and/or (these clues) may appear there first.
With homogenized temperature data little research can be done in this direction – we have obscurred the pathway, hidden the light.
Note that the papers on “how to homogenize” appeared just in time for the CAGW hoax.
An instruction manual, on how to create positive trends.
Everywhere that gets “homogenized” the general change is always to create a warming trend from nothing.
Has there REALLY been any global warming at all ???????????
The cold slimy hand of Maurice Strong.
World Metrological Organization?
Precursor to the IPCC
CAGW Orchestrated, Promoted and protected from scrutiny.
By Our Bureaucrats.
I believe a lot of social damage and blatant theft of public treasure could be prevented by decreeing that no one may spend more that 5 years on the public teat.
Military and Police, possibly exempted
A C of Adelaide
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again
If records need adjustment by this amount – a;; its say6ing is that the uncertainty of any thermometer reading is greater than the trend they are trying to measure and so there is absolutely nothing they can realistically say about a trend.
That’s been my point for some time.
The size of some of the adjustments is more than double the total warming for the century. Some of the adjustments exceed not only the full agreed worst case scenario warming of 0.9c, they utterly obliterate the points of a degree in contention between AGW and natural variation.
I regard the BOM and their data as no longer able to meaningfully contribute to the debate.
EternalOptimist
I wonder what caused most storms
Well it certainly is not CO2 …
bobl
Actually it’s the BOM itself seeing tha cAGW is such a STORM in a teacup
The BoM is raping our intelligence !!
If you look at Wangaratta, Echuca, Deniliquin, Wagga Wagga, etc in Ken’s Kingdom (link is for Vic, next page for NSW)
…you will see that all these “neighbouring” stations have been given similar treatment to Rutherglen. Near zero or negative trends change to same amount of positive trend.
Would be interesting to look at say Shepparton, Tocumwal, Henty.. if records exist. Anything west of the ranges.
PS iirc Bendigo and Ballarat also get the warming treatment.
Are you baiting me or what?
I actually came across an old post on Woodwork forums.com 20/10/2008 where a local chap in Ballarat made his own Stevenson Screen recording the results, take note of the description of positioning of the screen vs the actual recorded official temperatures at the Ballarat Airport.
http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=81058
It also appears going by the posts that many were aware and skeptical of how temperature records were being taken worldwide even back then.
Its almost as if they choose one station with a warming trend then work outwards homogenising as they go !
Much like a virus spreading within it’s particular host range.
is the MSM taking notice of these revelations? probably enough to warrant another convenient LEAK to the CAGW-infested Bloomberg!
27 Aug: Bloomberg: Alex Morales: Irreversible Damage Seen From Climate Change in UN Leak
The draft was obtained by Bloomberg from a person with official access to it who asked not to be further identified because it hasn’t been published yet…
The 127-page document includes a 32-page summary and is filled with language highlighting the dangers from rising temperatures…
The surface air temperature is projected to rise under all scenarios examined by the IPCC. It expects a gain of 0.3 degrees to 4.8 degrees for this century, depending on what policies governments pursue. That range would lead to a sea-level rise of 26 centimeters (10 inches) to 82 centimeters in addition to the 19 centimeters already recorded…
***In a nod to skeptics who argue temperatures haven’t significantly warmed since 1998, the researchers said that climate models aren’t so good at explaining short-term fluctuations in the temperature and that “natural variability” may be part of what’s being observed…
The pace of temperature increases slowed to about 0.05 of a degree per decade from 1998 through 2012 from 0.12 degrees per decade for the longer period spanning from 1951 to 2012. The IPCC said 111 out of 114 climate models predicted a greater warming trend than was observed from 1998 to 2012. And for the period from 1984 to 1998, most models showed less warming than was finally recorded, they said.
Over longer periods, the climate models seem to be more accurate. From 1951 to 2012, “simulated surface warming trends are consistent with the observed trend,” the IPCC researchers said…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-26/irreversible-damage-seen-from-climate-change-in-un-leak.html
Graeme No.3
With all these weather stations being moved around all the time, may be our politicians should increase funding for rural roads to repair the wear and tear.
Seriously, the Acorn figures were supposedly based on sites selected for the completeness of their records. For the BoM to have to extensively ” adjust” the readings implies they are incompetent at selecting proper sites.
David Cooke
1966 or 1974 are “ancient history” to the smart youngsters who represent the BOM and other government agencies. They probably thought a hypothetical move of the Rutherglen thermometer “way back then” would be untestable and lost in the mists of time.
The memories of organisations, and government organisations in particular, are very short compared to the memories of individual human beings.
thingadonta
Homogenisation is being used to detect data which doesn’t fit the warming agenda, and changed to fit it.
The surprising thing is that the people working on these datasets seem oblivious to what is going on (if you read the independent report on ACORN-SAT). They are pawns in a larger political process.
The response of the BOM states that homogenisation is ‘standard practice internationally and used by many agencies etc’. Doesn’t it ever occur to them that whomever enforces the ‘standard’ might have an agenda?, knowing also that it can be an excellent opportunity to fudge the figures? Perhaps the push for homogenisation supports a political agenda? The naiveté is astounding.
Why don’t the public service officials working on these datasets attend classes to detect fraud and errors in methodology, instead of continually making reports which harp on and on about how wonderful everyone’s work in the BOM is.
Rud Istvan
I have assembled documentation from a lot of ‘amateurs’ and even some professionals (Joe D’Aleo of Weather Analytics, for example) on equivalent homogenization bias by NOAA, NASA, and BEST in the US, by HadCRU and Meteroschweiz in Europe, by NIWA in New Zealand, and even by NOCD for ocean heat inferred from ARGO data starting in 2003. Have provided it in explanatory essay form to Dr. Marohasy. Jo has an earlier version without Switzerland and the ACORN Rutherglen situation or the even more shocking nClimDiv change in thenUS ilistrated by the state of Maine. It will be a chapter in a forthcoming book on energy and climate. I trust Jeniffer to make good use of the information ‘Down Under’ if the opportunity presents.
I hope Jennifer SEES THIS POST BY RUD.
Joe Prins
If memory serves, there was quite a bit of a stir in 2008 or /9 regarding the Darwin station “adjustments” around the same time of the sixties. Willis E. did a good job explaining the discrepancies at WUWT. and I agree with the “Griss”: Aside the increase in global temps from the rebound out of the little Ice Age, is there any “man-made” warming at all? How can one possibly know??
So that’s where all the missing heat has gone. Into thermometers!
Just thinking. always a bad sign!
A number of significant items are now coming together that spells serious problems for the CAGW belief .ie ; it is collapsing as a scientific and therefore as a publicly promoted catastrophic meme
1 / It appears that the major players amongst the global temperature data keepers have been fiddling the books for quite some time now and that is just on the point of becoming a public embarrassment for those keepers of the climate data ie; BOM in Australia, NIWA in NZ, NCDC in the USA and who knows what else will surface as the downhill cascade gets underway for those organisations.
2 / An increasing volume of science papers are casting doubt at the very least on so many of the claims of a CO2 induced warming.
3 / An increasing volume of science papers and most importantly, are being published in high profile journals which are casting serious doubt on whether there has been much actual warming at all particularly over the last decade and a half.
4 / An increasing number of science papers are suggesting and even promoting other reasons such as solar output for the changes that have always occurred in both regional and the global climate.
5 / A number of science papers have started to analysis the validity and veracity of the climate models which are the entire basis for any and all of the hype about the dangers of global warming and have found the models to be almost useless.
6 / Climate modellers and more than the odd one, are now coming out and admitting as much about climate models; A Lead Author of IPCC AR5 Downplays Importance of Climate Models
7 / Some sections of the MSM are now and have already shown a very considerable shift in attitudes in their now increasingly sympathetic reporting of non warming climate related news and events.
8 / There is a major political shift well underway in OZ, Europe inc Germany and Spain and Italy, the UK, Japan and other nations that are starting to look at drastically winding back both the political underpinnings and the public largesse that has been showered on the global warming industry for the last two decades.
No doubt many other straws in the wind could be quoted but if both North America in the NE and eastern regions [ the SW is forecast to have a slightly warmer than normal winter ] have the very bitter upcoming winter forecast in some circles and Europe also has another hard winter, the global warming meme and ideology will be dead in the water.
Then watch as quite suddenly we will see an amazing number of prominent public figures who apparently had their serious doubts all the time about the catastrophic global warming meme emerge from the shadows to say how they were actually quite skeptical all the time about this stupid global warming belief.
If and when that happens we will all know it is finished, dead and buried except for a few fanatical die hard believers as any dying cult always has.
Bring on the treason trials.
i realise u r discussing weightier matters, but the tennis is over, & i want to document the following for the MSM & interested parties who continue to push “ethical” “green” investing:
26 Aug: Bloomberg: Zain Shauk: Investors May Find It Hard to Break Up With Oil and Gas
Investors seeking greener energy stocks will find it difficult to reproduce the returns offered by oil and natural gas producers, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
With a market value of $4.9 trillion, oil and gas investments offers a combination of scale, growth and dividends that can’t be readily found in other industries, the London-based research company said today…
Environmentalists have proposed fossil-fuels divestment…
The divestiture movement is backed by Bill McKibben, an environmental writer and co-founder of 350.org, a group that has identified 200 companies with the largest reserves of coal, oil and gas. McKibben warns that fossil fuel companies hold undisclosed financial risks as governments move to limit emissions blamed for global warming.
“If you are investing in fossil fuels, you are essentially betting that we won’t ever take climate change seriously,” Jason Kowalski, U.S. policy director for 350.org, said in an e-mail. Smart investors are moving “their money sooner rather than later.” …
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-26/investors-may-find-it-hard-to-break-up-with-oil-and-gas.html
***if only we could get those pesky pension funds to cough up the dough!
26 Aug: Reuters: Christoph Steitz: INTERVIEW-E.ON bets on investor help for wind power push
The group’s board member in charge of renewables told Reuters green energy was now growing as a source of profits for the utility, but that it needed help from investors for large wind power projects as its own investments were being cut to tackle its 29.7 billion euros ($39.2 billion) of debt.
“We have a big pipeline of developed onshore (wind) projects. But E.ON can no longer meet the capital needs for these projects on its own,” Mike Winkel said in an interview.
“Therefore, financial investors are very welcome to join and it turns out they see this market as being quite attractive.”…
***Last month, Denmark’s DONG Energy A/S agreed to divest 50 percent of a German offshore wind farm project to a group of Danish pension funds, freeing up capital to expand its offshore wind business…
E.ON’s smaller German peer RWE has also said it needs the help of external investors for big wind power projects, which swallow investments of at least 1 billion euros and carry greater risks when erected offshore…
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/26/e-on-renewables-idUKL5N0QW1D420140826
Some homogenisation of temperatures should be expected when estimating area temperature from point sources.
However; it is criminally wrong* to alter the original data, under any guise. When estimating the area from point sources there will be a smoothing of the temperature anyway, giving a proper area weighted average temperature for the land mass. There is no requirement to change the original values.
Certainly the complete change in temperature trend makes a lie of the claim to having had little effect on overall temperatures. Did the BOM think no one would check such a claim … I digress.
Imagine if you will a grid of point source temperature measurements, assuming they are in a nice regular square grid. In fact each of those measurements has a square of land around it that it represents (caveat: somewhat).
There are quite well established methods for weighting temperatures from the point/s inside and outside of the square to form the weighted temperature estimate of the square itself. Various Kriging methods come to mind.
If the BOM is calculating the temperatures of areas from the point sources, where are the papers showing how they are doing it, they would be non trivial explorations of geostatistics (I personally include temperatures as geostatistics as they are of the earth) applied in an interesting manner.
Where are the plots of the different shaped “squares” or areas of land estimated from the point sources, they are very important. Where are the variograms and explanations of how they were fit to give the weighting of samples.
I can only throw my hands up in frustration and wonder what passes for good science these days.
*(digression: why do I call it criminally wrong. That much money spent based on falsified statistics …. criminal misuse of public funds)
I think i heard somewhere that Rutherglen is in a wine producing area. In California some of the growers and wineries have better weather data than the government. Has anyone looked for private records that correspond to the time period the official record is being adjusted?
Some golf courses (!) have also kept detailed records.
Okay then, people, please don’t flame me here. I wasn’t sure whether to post this Comment here, or at the earlier Post, because that earlier Post dealt directly with Amberley, as does this comment. It is however dealing with areas of colder temperatures than some recordings, and how they may have been, umm, adjusted.
I had three Postings to Amberley in my time with the RAAF, 69/70, 80 to 86 and 91/92.
During that middle posting, I was still in my (relative) youth, and I was still playing cricket. I didn’t play for RAAF teams, as I really wanted to be associated with the wider community, no matter where I played, and those RAAF teams were always in lower divisions, not because they had lesser quality players, but because team turnover was always high due to postings.
On one Saturday, I got to talking to one of the older guys who was watching his son, who was playing on the opposing side. We were batting so I had some time, as I usually batted just before the roller came on, and we were having a good day with the bat, so I had at least an hour or more to talk with him.
Once he found out I was in the RAAF, the first thing he said was that we had a lot to answer for.
He was a farmer whose property was not far from the Base, well, ten miles or so anyway.
I was a little nonplussed really, and the next thing he said was how the base at Amberley had changed the local weather, especially since the mid 60′s, and this gentleman had been in the area for decades on his parent’s property, now his, and he was in his late 50′s early 60′s.
For the Bomber replacement, we got the F111 and in the interim, the Phantoms on loan. They had extended and widened the strip, the taxiways and included vast new hard stands across the whole base, and that’s even been expanded further since then. That turned the area into a monumentally huge source of rising heat, and in that time, the 80/81 Summer when we were talking, the thing I noticed most during the early days of that posting was the plethora of thunder storms, right directly overhead, monstrous storms and we would sit on our living in accommodation balconies, with some Stubbies, and just watch the violence of these huge storms, the thunder crack at the same time of the lightning bolt, and my first (and only) experience of Ball Lightning, frightening, as it rolled along the lines and then blew up the transformer on the pole, blacking us all out. These storms became as regular as clockwork over that Summer, and this gentleman mentioned that they would NEVER happen in earlier days.
This was the typical UHI, as those fronts rolled in, hit that vast area of a solid wall of rising heat and then burst, and it was always just localised over the Base itself. Reminded me almost of Darwin and the regular monsoonal downpours in the early mornings and late afternoons with clear hot weather in between them.
He also mentioned that Winters had become colder in that area at that time, so the question I’m asking here is if there is such a thing as the reverse UHI, causing those Winter’s mornings to be so much colder, and trust me, they were indeed cold, colder even than in nearby Ipswich.
Reverse UHI, c’mon Tony, you’re opening yourself up here.
Or it may just be that winter mornings got colder and it was an irregular summer, nothing to do with the base. !
So, from around 1980, there was more heat from the runway, near the temperature station…..
…. so temperatures AFTER 1980 should have been adjusted downwards.
Griss,this is omly the young female lizards showing off thighs, that will make you dump your Coff of Cuppy!
Some years the storms roll down from the great dividing range to the south of Gatton and through the scenic rim. Some years there are no storms. I spent almost a decade in the gatton area and all the grass died on the mountain tops where the storms used to run. It’s always been this way and to suggest that somehow the construction of an airport changed things is a bit far fetched. Before the airport these storms would have come barrelling down the Fassifern valley and hit the hot air from the flats around Amberley and the greater Brisbane area! It’s still the same today.
The record at Amberley at BOM starts in 1941 when the airfield was first built and I can find no record of a second site or a relocation of the recording equipment.
Well, yes there is. If the area was opened up to the west, and expanded then it’s possible a microclimate was removed that warmed the base, adding windchill to the area. Particularly in the west of Brisbane where I live (not too far west of Amberley) wind chill from westerlies create bitterly cold days. Westerlies in this region create the coldest winter days and hottest days in summer, changes in westerlies impinging on the base due to terrain changes are quite likely to change the microclimate, especially given the structures now built on that base and the expanded tarmac. That change would almost certainly bias the Amberley base climate toward being warmer in recent times, classic UHI style although greater exposure to westerlies might make winters colder. Winter in QLD is comparatively short however.
BTW homogenising Amberley with Brisbane is enormously stupid, the two places are in completely different climate zones, they may not be far apart but Ipswich is far from what I would call coastal, it’s protected to the east so it doesn’t get sea breezes. Brisbane airport OTOH is right on the bay. To the west Toowoomba is a km up on a mountain, it’s impacted from all directions and has a totally different aspect.
You could only really compare Ipswich with Gatton, but I don’t think the Gatton UNI record is very long.
Bobl … how do you then explain the downward trend at Brisbane Aero with its vast expanse of runways?
I want to take you back to 1937 here, and although this looks like my linking to a Post of my own, it has a special significance to weather.
It’s about Bernard O’Reilly, a name probably long forgotten now, but hugely famous at the time, as it was he who found the wrecked Stinson in the Lamington Plateau, when everyone was looking off Sydney.
It’s the last part of a 5 part series I did on this famous part of Australian air history.
This man was just a farmer on the Plateau, but he knew more about weather conditions then than some know now. Some of the things that he treated as matter of fact in 1937 only gained investigation in the 70′s and later.
O’Reilly’s At Green Mountains (Part 5)
Again, having lived here for 26 years, he knew the bush, and of necessity, he also had to know the weather. He knew of the cyclonic winds in the area. They roar up the face of the mountain on the Southern side, roll over the top, and then intensify on the way down, but now actually away from the side of the mountain, which is virtually in calm. He KNEW this because on the facing side the trees were disturbed and smashed by the weather, while at the top, there was virtually not a leaf out of place, which was also on the same on that down side. Then, when that fierce wind hit the bottom of the ravine, the trees and underbrush were all smashed again. All this he knew in 1937.
Tony, I am assuming that you are referring to this bit.
A brilliant analysis of airflow over a ridge by a bushman! I have not bushwalked in those areas. However I do know that it dangerous to fly on the downwind side of a ridge.
Randizzle
With respect to what other impact this may have, combined with other events such as climategate the momentum builds. The climategate warmists escaped because of cooked juries but the whole scene left a bad taste in the mouth of many, including some journalists. This Australian revelation will stoke the fire!
I wrote to the Bom at climatedata@bom.gov.au
and asked about the data, and they replied. I would be interested in what you think of their reply?
As you aware, their have been a number of reports associated with the altering of historical temperature records.
My enquiry was:
1: Are all the original data sets being protected, and if so how, and if not why not.
2: What is the methodology for defining the original and altered data sets and how are the original and altered data sets identified.
they replied:
The Bureau places a great deal of importance on the quality and transparency of its observations and analyses. The Bureau’s research is peer reviewed and published in high quality international journals.
The Bureau collects and publishes a broad range of weather and climate observations and data and produces multiple temperature datasets, all of which are publicly available. These include the basic raw station data, spatially homogenised gridded temperature data and temporally homogenised data based on a sub-set of the total temperature network.
As you have phrased your question, yes, the raw station observations are protected in our archives, and also freely available from the weather station directory on our website: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/.
The Bureau has put together an extensive package of information in relation to our homogenised temperature dataset. This information, including explanations of homogenised data and a range of scientific technical reports, can be found at the following dedicated website: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/acorn-sat/
Our analysis techniques are based upon best-practice scientific methods. The preparation of the homogenised temperature data has passed through four levels of scientific peer review, including two internal review processes and the external review process associated with the publication of methodologies and results in international scientific journals. The homogenised temperature dataset ACORN-SAT has been subject to an additional, dedicated international peer review. This review assessed the Bureau’s practices in collecting and preparing temperature data as amongst the best in the world. All material relating to this review can also be found at the link above. You can also find a comparison of temperature trends across the datasets in the methods section.
The homogenised temperature dataset is known as ACORN-SAT and is referred to as such in our products. The homogenised data is also freely available from the weblink above.
Climate Analysis Section
Well, with all of that “peer review” they should welcome an independent and transparent audit of the “work”.
any reply from a governmental organisation that begins with an appeal to authority
” The Bureau places a great deal of importance on the quality and transparency of its observations and analyses. The Bureau’s research is peer reviewed and published in high quality international journals ”
will always warrant close scrutiny. mentioning pal review does them no favours either.
None of the original data is ever avalible at that site, only the homoginized bull ****.
Somewhere a long time ago probably in one of the old gliding magazines of 45 or 50 years ago soon after I started flying in 1959 when a lot of the WW2 returned servicemen where still around, I read of an experiment or maybe only a proposed WW2 experiment somewhere in the NW or Western Australia if I remember right that laid down a square mile [ 2.59 square kilometres or 1.6 kilometres on a side ] of black seal to try and find out the effects for what reasons I can’t remember but maybe it was to try and ascertain the effects of such an area on the local weather patterns.
Some huge airbases were already existent or under construction so with all that black seal on those immense military runway systems, they might have wanted to try and ascertain the local weather effects on an undisturbed base line without having aircraft in large numbers like dozens or hundreds stirring things around.
North Field on Tinian by 1945 was WW2′s largest air base with four parallel 8000 foot long runways and hard standings for 265 B29 bombers.
That is a huge area of high emisivity in the 2-100 micron band. What were the temperature measurements?
Will, Can you help me with the absorption of greenhouse gases in the IR band, specifically CO2, CH4 and H20.
I am trying to formulate an experiment to test the Green House Gas Effect Theory.
My experimental temperature range is 80-95C.
What might be the % absorption of these gases?
Peter C The absorption of those gasses at every altitude and every slant path is within the HiTran data base, measured not computed. The big however, is that absorption is for modulation of flux to fast for thermodynamic equilibrium. Fine for determining what you can see at every wavelength over yonder. This attenuation has nothing to do with any thermal electomagnetic flux to a destination with higher or lower electromagnetic field strength. The static radiative equilibrium has no effect on EMR passing through it.
Peter, This is not for amateurs, like arrogant academic physics professors, It is quite precise, no handwaving!
I will look at Hitran then
coming from the RAAF, and being with 2 Fighter Squadrons with Mirages, (all through the 70′s) I went on numerous ‘exercises’ to other Bases. We’d do what they called Adex(es) and a flight of 4 Mirages would sit on the platform at one end of the Runway, hot, everything working on the aircraft, with DC and AC and Air cooling for the systems all plugged in, just needing the engine to fire up. He’d get the word, and they’d start the engine, unplug it all and he’d roll straight out onto his take off roll, usually between 30 and 45 seconds, what they used to call a Scramble in the old days.
As ground crew, the sitting and waiting was the worst, as it was so damned hot out there, right in that immense heat, even in Winter.
Being in such close proximity to the actual runway, you could see that immense heat shimmer, even in the cold of Winter, well, The Dry, as they referred to Winter at Darwin. That runway at Darwin was unique really, being a civilian base as well. You could (just) see the 747′s at the far end through the haze, starting their take off roll. There was a huge dip in the runway there, and those 747′s would virtually disappear from sight as they entered the dip, with just the tip of the tail showing. More often than not, they’d be almost at V1 as they exited the dip, so they’ just soar off into the air.
The runway at Learmonth, near North West Cape (and the, umm, Naval Comms base Harold E Holt) was better viewing, and you could watch the C141 Starlifters supplying the Americans come and go off that strip, and watch as the wings lifted from almost touching the ground at rest to all but horizontal as the lift kicked in, almost like they were flapping like a bird, only in slow mo.
That Learmonth runway still holds the record as being the runway that is closest to perfectly level throughout its 2 mile length, with less than a half inch from the lowest point to the highest, another feather in Australian caps as it was built by the RAAF’s 5ACS. It’s concrete, so to lay that much and have it as perfect as that is a feat of its own, and that strip was a source of RAAF pride at the time we were there in 1977, still only 4 years from becoming operational, still one of only three RAAF bare bases.
Tindal was a little like Darwin, heat haze all the time, as were the numerous bases I, umm, visited.
But, saying all that, you can see all of these as perfect examples of UHI. Looking at the runway from a safer distance, like everyone else sees it, you get no real perspective at all of just how much heat there really is, so it seems quite obvious to me that those bases must have an effect on the climate in that local area, so any temperature measurements would (imho) give false indications with respect to areas even close by, for example Amberley when compared to Ipswich, barely even a few miles away.
Only a country aerodrome with couple of 1300 metre sealed strips but I know what you mean when you talk about heat off those seals.
We have run an annual 8 day long gliding competition here at Horsham in the first full week of February each year since 1968 without a miss.
We use to get about 55 gliders competing plus half a dozen launch tugs back in the hey day of gliding in the 1970′s and 1980s but are now back to about 30 gliders each competition.
Gridding those gliders on the displaced threshhold at the ends of the runways and then waiting on that sealed strip in some of those stable mid summer 42 degrees plus days for an hour or so until the inversion broke and the thermals got going was a slightly toned down version of Hell.
I think the worst day was around 44C or 45C at the BOM’s station near the junction of the two runways so it probably passed well beyond 50C out there on that sealed black top runway. It certainly felt like it.
We were all near the human limits despite a lot of litres of water drunk by each of us by the end of the launch and as an about 70 plus year old at the time they gave me one of the easier jobs standing out in the middle running the launch sequences.
The ground crew hooking up the tow ropes to the gliders and generally moving often and fast had to keep doing that until all the gliders were launched and away and that takes about an hour or more.
So what with gridding pre launch, waiting for the weather conditions to break for lift to the safe thermalling height for competitions and then an hour or more launching we spend close to two hours each launch on that seal regardless of temperatures.
Of course once airborne the glider pilots cooled down and if they can get above say 5000 feet it can get quite pleasantly cool and above ten thousand feet it can get very cold even with 45C on the ground.
Been there. Done that many times.
That was one of that series of extreme heat days in the late 2000′s summers but there have been plenty of others like it over the last 50 years.
I’ve also been contract harvesting in the late 1970′s up around Hillston in central NSW when Hillston still had, according to the locals at the time, bushies that hadn’t seen civilisation and with 6 fingers and two thumbs on each hand emerging from somewhere way back in the scrub.
Completely different now with a small but well facilitated town surrounded by the huge irrigation set ups and cotton spreads and etc.
There were days up there during the harvest when nobody went more than about 5 paces without carrying his water container with him.
At one grain unloading siding with a pub they even stopped drinking beer and stuck to water for a couple of days until late at night as it was so hot and beer tends to dehydrate one.
Now that is serious heat indeed !
Got a nurse daughter up in Darwin and that main Darwin runway sure has a decent dip in it.
cementafriend
Yes, Tony airports do have have an UHI effect. Have been in the cockpit of a small passenger plane coming into Cobar you could see and feel the rising air stream over the bitumen runway and taxi strips. Have been in a glider getting a lift from the bitumen strip while circling to get height following a pelican doing the same. We then flew out over following a major highway for about 30 kms. Great experience. The Glider pilots can detect air movements and weather patterns by the type and position of the clouds. All the pilots I have met are scornful of the so-called scientists claiming alarm from CO2.
Doing a crossword, can anyone help me with a clue?
Three letters, “A group of clowns”, firms letter B, last letter M.
BOM comes to mind for some reason but surely not?
Maybe a BUM of clowns? I have heard the term ‘ass clown’ used before but never understood it.
There is much debate on the official term but an ‘Alley of clowns’ seems appropriate due to tradition http://www.allaboutclowns.com/clownalley.html and yes I don’t know why the hell that site exists either.
anthony had a thread on the following on 21 Aug and now, just when we are praising the Murdoch media in Australia for publishing details of the BOM data scam, the Murdoch media publishes this, complete with big, glam(?) pics. why oh why?
27 Aug: News Ltd: Charis Chang: Scientists reveal how they feel about climate change in handwritten letters and photos
SCIENTISTS can be a practical bunch, they deal with facts, data, hard evidence. But even scientists can lose their s*** sometimes and now they are revealing how they really feel…
One of the founders of the site, photographer Nick Bowers said the project was a labour of love that came about after conversations with two fellow creatives copywriter Rachel Guest and art director Celine Faledam.
“We were interested in environmental issues and discussed this constantly among ourselves, we all have young kids,” Bowers said.
“We wanted to try and bring authenticity and humanity to this issue.”
He said the scientists were photographed while they were being interviewed. This includes many prominent names such as mammologist and palaeontologist Tim Flannery…
While some critics have suggested climate scientists are motivated by grant money, Bowers said he got the sense that they just wanted the debate to move on so they could do other science.
“They want to get on with doing other stuff, they are sick of trying to spruik this stuff themselves.”…
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/scientists-reveal-how-they-feel-about-climate-change-in-handwritten-letters-and-photos/story-fn5fsgyc-1227038781108
Wow what a bunch of bed wetters they are. Its actually embarrassing to read and I couldn’t get any further than Will Stefan pretending to be sincere.
Someone should photoshop some big round targets, or the letter “L” on their foreheads !!
The BoM working on a stubborn temp record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4gnrSK5RvQ
This better, I think. BOM cooking up a trend !
Patrick Moore, John Coleman and Fred Singer at the Heartland Institute Conference. Spread it far and wide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lJQkYJ12JI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Patrick Moore, John Coleman and Fred Singer at the Heartland Institute Conference.
Spread it far and wide.
“So they established a second Stevenson screen near the office on a watered lawn, near fruit trees, so it was pretty useless as a weather station
I just thought I would ask. Why would it make it pretty useless as a weather station?
Met criteria call for the station to be located on mown grass. If it is not watered in Australia it will mostly be located on brown or red dirt. That does not meet the criteria, yet it is true of many of our stations.
Would fruit trees have a substantial effect? They are usually low and ,I would have thought, provide neither much shade nor transpiration.
richsrd
this is becoming a trend.
New Zealand temp tampering.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/27/more-on-the-niwa-new-zealand-data-adjustment-story/
Time for a Royal Commission. I doubt the climate science cabal would be so confident about the ‘facts’ when being grilled under oath by a QC.
So BOM originally claimed incorrectly that the site had moved down hill. While that claim has now been proven to be false, it is out there. So how long before we see claims by the usual suspects that the adjustment fraud has been “debunked”? Anyone keeping an eye out for that claim?
…On Jo’s last post Nick S said he’d done his own analysis, and I saw an interesting exchange over at his site:
AnonymousAugust 27, 2014 at 8:50 AM
There is NO RECORD of any site move at Amberley. You are adjusting the data using a whim and a fabrication.
The AGW way !
Nick StokesAugust 27, 2014 at 8:52 AM
There’s no record of a non-move either. The scientific way is to look at all the data and make the best estimate.
So, according to Nick’s twisted logic Amberley must have moved because their is no evidence of a non-move. Now that the Rutherglen ‘move’ has been shown to be a lie, will Nick admit his ‘analysis’ was worthless? Will he take back his claim that “The BOM got this one right” as the Rutherglen incident has shown the BOM to be wholly unreliable?
Also, Will C asked for sceptics to “Let us know when you’ve got something.” Well Will, we’ve got first hand evidence from Bill Johnston demonstrating that the BOM lied to show a move that hadn’t actually happened. What do you have to say now?
Nick and Will seem remarkably quiet…
Yep, That truly is a PATHETIC response from Nick.
Particularly as he then proceeds to use three station which are unlikely to bare any resemblance to Amberley Base.
Don’t like the data ????? … change it until you do.
That is, as anon says.. THE AGW WAY !!!!!
Its FABRICATION and FRAUD.
It is NOT SCIENCE !!!
You sound annoyed Gross, and I don’t blame you.
It also enrages me that despite all the many instances of corruption in the AGW industry, from climategate onwards, alarmist acolytes still shout their ridiculous mantra from the rooftops and govts continue to throw billions of dollars at them. Billions of our dollars.
It’s the biggest scam the world has known. Corporations, NGOs and individuals such as Gore have made billions out of the scam, helped along by ‘useful idiots’ such as Will and Nick.
Annoyed that someone advocating the changing of raw data on ZERO evidence can even think it is “scientific”
This Nick guy seems to have missed basic science ethics.. as have most of the AGW alarmistas.
Anthony VIOLI
Not forgetting too, that these years make up the BOMS dodgy baseline.
Keep adjusting it down and of course it looks warm!
This has gone on for too long, its time to make a stand.
Whoops – Griss.
Many apologies. Damn you autocorrect!
Sticks and stone……
I taught maths in the western suburbs for 10 years. I can take it.
I know what you mean – I’ve taught maths for 17 years now. You need to have skin as tough as tortoise shell!
incoherent rambler
Obviously the penalties for scientific fraud are inadequate.
Otherwise they would not persist with such an easily exposed scam.
Nice, I copied that to the White House, of course, with your permission!
OK. Enough is enough.
I am so sick and tired of living in a world in which lies, deceptions and hoaxes are the norm.
This is not just in “climate science” but in almost all current events especially those relating to conflicts and wars.
How much better would this world be without the [snip] who willingly lie to further their own agenda?
Roy Hogue
Well, well, well. Something shifted.
Could that possibly be bull shifting?
Sorry but sometimes I just can’t stop myself.
And anyway, there’s almost no use at all left in arguing the broken science or the broken record keeping.
All that’s left to us is ridicule. That’s how bad it’s become.
Sounds like there was more than Bull shifting over your way recently; the Earth shifted.
All OK?
from mighty ACORNS, little OKs are born
KK,
The quake was a bad one with a lot of damage but it’s 400 miles (about 600 km) north of us so we didn’t feel it.
Earthquakes are a daily risk in California. But you can go through the major ones without harm more often than being hurt by them. That’s no consolation to those who do get hurt — medically or financially — but the real risk isn’t so bad considering other risks like hurricanes where you’re virtually guaranteed to have them every year if you live in their path (like the Florida coast).
BallBounces
“…there may have been an unrecorded shift… “consistent” with the old station starting further up the slope before it moved down to the hollow.”
The scenario is plausible, and that is what climate science is all about — plausiblilty. The fact it may not cohere with reality does nothing to detract from its value as rock-solid climate science.
Once deniers get this last bit through their heads, they will find climate science models go down much more easily.
And you are running for what office?
Talking about temperature records in general one has to remember that records up until about 1960 were taken in degrees Farenheit, and would have been converted to Centigrade (Celsius)sometime afterwards.
The conversion being F-32/C = 9/5, roughly 2 degrees F is equal to 1 degree Celsius. 212 degrees F = 100 degrees C which is the boiling point of water, and 32 degrees F = 0 degrees C which is the freezing point of water. So when one converts from Farenheit to Celsius, say 60 degrees F, does it become 15, 15.5, or 16 degrees C? In view of the small figure for global warming of less than 1 degree C. this century, it’s 2 degrees F. I would say that this is possibly another source of error in the temperature records.
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Research reactor to officially open in December
By JT - Oct 31,2016 - Last updated at Oct 31,2016
AMMAN — The Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) is working to meet its commitments in order to obtain an operational licence for a research nuclear reactor in November, JAEC Chairman Khaled Toukan said on Monday.
After obtaining the licence, the nuclear reactor at the Jordan University of Science and Technology will be officially inaugurated under Royal patronage in early December this year, Toukan said, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra. Toukan announced that tests for operation at a capacity of 5 megawatts were successful.
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Jordan, Romania discuss cooperation in nuclear energy
A Romanian delegation, headed by Romanian Agency for Nuclear Energy and Radioactive Waste Chairperson Alice-Mariana Dima, visited the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) on Tuesday.
Kingdom looking for partners to fund nuclear project
AMMAN — Search is ongoing for resources to fund the first nuclear energy plant in the Kingdom, Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) Chairm
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Capital of Culture?
I’ve just returned from a work trip to Istanbul. I was there two years ago with Mark Thomas working on his book exposing the crimes of Coca Cola.
Whilst I was there I visited Sulukule, the oldest gypsy community in the world and a community facing forced eviction and demolition, the story appeared as eyewitness in the Guardian newspaper.
The Roma residents, famous for their traditional gypsy music, were fighting the ‘gentrification’ of their historic community, which was only to leave a handful of houses as museum artifacts and re-house the gypsies in anonymous blocks some way outside the city.
The community is now dispersed, destroyed and impoverished and as Istanbul celebrates its European Capital of Culture status it represents exactly the opposite in my opinion.
See Sulukule slideshow here
Images available to licence from www.reportdigital.co.uk
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Capital of Culture, gentrification, Guardian, gypsy, Istanbul, Mark Thomas, Rom, Roma, Sulukule, Turkey
For Police Eyes Only
This is enlarged from an image I took in 2004 which shows a police officer with named photo ID’s of individuals on a Stop the War coalition protest outside an election fundraising dinner where George Bush Senior was after dinner speaker (pic is used in the Guardian story related today)
Not only does it contain prominent peace activists but also outrageously, two journalists (names and faces have been blurred to protect the identity of individuals listed)
The spotter card is used by police to identify potential ‘trouble makers’.
See Guardian article; Police in £9m scheme to log ‘domestic extremists’ here
and Domestic Extremist blog piece here
Images available from www.reportdigital.co.uk
Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
civil liberties, database, Guardian, Mark Thomas, police, police state, press freedom, secret, surveillance
The Bay Tree Gets It
Comedian and political activist Mark Thomas and supporters hold hostage Margaret Morans MP’s Bay Tree on the Fourth Plinth. It faced execution by radical pruning unless she resigned over the expenses scandal. Trafalgar Square, London.
See Web Gallery here
Open letter from Mark Thomas here
Images showing in Mark Thomas’s Edinburgh show at The Stand.
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 at 2:49 am
bay tree, comedian, expenses, fourth plinth, greed, manifesto, Margaret Moran, Mark Thomas, MP, MP's, MPs Houses Open Day Society, political activist, resign, resignation
More Custard – Less Tax Dodgers
Mark Thomas, demonstrates against the offshore ownership of the Home Office and calls for more custard less tax dodgers. London.
Monday, March 9th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
comedian, custard, dodgers, Home Office, Mark Thomas, Ministry of Justice, offshore, tax
Middle Class Summer of Rage
Mark Thomas, comedian starts the Middle Class Summer of Rage by having a picnic outside New Scotland Yard. Westminster, London.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
comedian, Mark Thomas, middle class, New Scotland Yard, protest, protesting, Summer of Rage
The Pound Shop
Mark Thomas, comedian campaigns for The Bank of England to be renamed The Pound Shop. City of London.
Bank of England, banks, collapse, crisis, depression, financial, Mark Thomas, recession, The Pound Shop
Occupy the Treasury!
Mark Thomas calls for workers to occupy the Treasury and have a rent stike against the building owner who has his money off-shore. London.
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
comedian, comedy, demonstration, Mark Thomas, occupation, Treasury
Mark Thomas Pimps Peers
Lords calling cards left in public phone boxes advertising corruption, perversion of the political process and 100% discretion. Mark Thomas, comedian and other activists use stunt to highlight allegations that peers told undercover reporters that they were willing to use their influence to help to amend legislation in return for money.
All images available from www.reportdigital.co.uk
corruption, House of Lords, Lord, Lords, Mark Thomas
I’m A Photographer …Not a Terrorist
Seeing as the police don’t seem to recognise the legitimacy of press card these days. We thought we would make our status clear with our own badge..
We have seen artists arrested under the terrorism legislation.
A local historian stopped and searched for photographing a plaque on a bench.
I was also detained by police in the London Docklands before Christmas whilst covering a traveller wedding and accused of doing ‘hostile reconnaissance’. Read the Guardian and other related articles here
Monday 16th February 2009 will see the enforcement of Section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008. As the British Journal of Photography (BJP) wrote last month,
“The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest – and imprisonment – of anyone who takes pictures of officers ‘likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.”
Read the full BJP article here.
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has teamed up with Mark Thomas (writer, broadcaster, comic and political activist), Chris Atkins (the BAFTA nominated director and writer of the feature film documentary Taking Liberties), and many more for a “media event” outside New Scotland Yard on Monday 16 February 2009. The plan is simple, turn up with your camera and exercise your democratic right to take a photograph in a public place.
More info about the background to this “media event” visit the NUJ here
Please note: This is NOT a Protest!
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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Belching Out The Devil
Earlier on in the year I had the privilege of working with activist, journalist and comedian Mark Thomas on his new book Belching Out The Devil
We visited trade unionists in Colombia living under paramilitary death threat and Coca Cola workers and their families in Istanbul who were brutally attacked by the police in the company HQ.
This book is a serious investigation in to the activities of Coca Cola the global corporate brand, but it also makes you laugh out loud roughly every three pages.
A must get Xmas present for all the family!
Guardian : ‘John Pilger with laughs’
Image of Mark Thomas with Che Guevara in the Sinatrainal trade union offices, Bogota –
Read interview here
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 am
Belching Out The Devil, Che Guevara, Coca Cola, Mark Thomas
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Supersport Utd (@2.37) vs Cape Town CIty F.C. (@3.25)
Supersport Utd will win
Supersport Utd vs Cape Town CIty F.C.
Supersport Utd – Cape Town CIty F.C. Match Prediction | 15-09-2019 14:15
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Tinkler will be up against another Bafana legend in Benni McCarthy, who has gotten off to a decent start in his first senior coaching role having won seven of his first nine competitive games in charge. McCarthys sides journey to the final came courtesy of a 1-0 victory over Polokwane City, followed by back-to-back wins over league champions Bidvest Wits.
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Totally, Supersport United and Cape Town City fought for 6 times before. For the last 15 matches, Cape Town City got 5 win, 5 lost and 5 draw with 18 Goals For and 20 Goals Against. The average of Goals For is 1.2 per match and the average of Goals Against is 1.3 per match. Supersport United got 0 win, 4 draw and 1 lost with 2 Goals For and 4 Goals Against. The rate of Over Goals is 67%; The rate of Handicap Win is 47%; The rate of win is 33%; The average of corners is 5.2 per match and the rate of Over Corners is 75%. The rate of Over Goals is 63%; The rate of Handicap Win is 33%; The rate of win is 27%; The average of corners is 4.7 per match and the rate of Over Corners is 60%. For the last 15 matches, Supersport United got 4 win, 4 lost and 7 draw with 13 Goals For and 11 Goals Against. Except the history stats of Supersport United vs Cape Town City, ScoreBing also offers predictions and lineups of Supersport United vs Cape Town City, that may help you predict or replay the match. For this match, the initial Asian Handicap is Supersport United0.0; The initial Goals Odds is 2.0; The initial Corner Odds is 9. The match of Supersport United vs Cape Town City in South Africa Premier is started at 2019-1-6 02:35. The average of Goals For is 0.9 per match and the average of Goals Against is 0.7 per match. Over Goals occurred for 0 times and Over Corners occurred for 1 times.
Full predictions, stats & game poll for the SuperSport United v Cape Town City match are shown here - along with the latest match odds. Were therefore predicting a 1-0 winning score for SuperSport United at the conclusion of the game. Little in this one. Were envisaging that Cape Town City could find themselves struggling to breach the defence of this SuperSport United side who we reckon will be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.
Eric Tinkler, the man who was at the helm of the winning side on that occasion has since switched allegiance and will be on the opposite bench this time around, which gives this encounter that extra edge. It will be the second time in two seasons these two teams clash in a final, having met in last seasons Telkom Knockout final where the side from the Mother City prevailed, winning 2-1 in their first season in the top flight.
Cape Town City could make it two out of two in cup finals between these two sides.
On average in direct matches both teams scored a 1.89 goals per Match.SuperSport United in actual season average scored 1.67 goals per match. In 1 (50.00%) matches in season 2019 played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals. In 2 (100.00%) matches played away was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. In 2 (100.00%) matches played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. Below the text is a list of the direct games. 5 matches ended in a draw. Cape Town City FC won 3 matches. Teams SuperSport United Cape Town City FC played so far 9 matches.SuperSport United won 1 direct matches. In 1 (50.00%) matches played away team was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals. Below you will find a lot of statistics that make it easier Predict the result for a match between both teams. Cape Town City FC average scored 1.00 goals per match in season 2019.
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Even stats, standings, news and information on the football league South Africa Premier League and on teams Supersport United and Cape Town City.The prediction 1x2 or under/over or goal/nogoal, with odds of bookmakers comes complete with the correct score. With this, we always try to provide gratis all the tools you need to bet responsibly and we hope winning! Under you found the prediction processed by our proprietary software and reviewed manually by our editors of the football match Supersport United-Cape Town City, match of the championship South Africa Premier League.
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PhD Defense of Fabio GONCALVES PEREIRA
PhD Defense July 11, 2016 | Access map
Defense of a doctoral thesis of Fabio GONCALVES PEREIRA, for the University Grenoble Alpes , speciality "Nano Electronics & Nano Technologies ", entitled:
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«Advanced numerical modeling applied to current prediction in ultimate CMOS devices»
Fabio GONCALVES PEREIRA
Monday, July 11th, 2016 at 10:30
One of the most important device for semiconductor industry nowadays is the Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) which is hugely applied in the development of a vast number of electronic applications. The downscaling of MOSFET geometry has been a very successful process to improve the performances of Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) devices.
The scaling of transistors dimensions according to scaling rules enabled the performance improvements up to the 90 nm technology node, but the continuous shrinking of MOSFET dimensions faces both physical and economical limitations. In order to overcome these limitations and achieve the performance requirement, several “boosters” have been explored by the semiconductor industries, notably the use of alternative device structures such as “Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator” (FDSOI), whose architecture has been chosen to be explored in this work.
For advanced CMOS technology, robust and predictive electronic transport modeling is a major concern. This PhD work intended to improve the device modeling for ultimate FDSOI devices, with a particular focus on carrier transport. In this scenario, Technological Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) based on Density-Gradient and Drift-Diffusion models arise as a fast and powerful tool to support the technological development within the industry, however we have shown that their accuracy for predicting advanced nodes is often doubtful. In order to overcome this issue, we presented a two-dimensional simulation tool (UTOXPP) based on physical models which makes use of state of the art C++ architecture and accounts for a complete and friendly GUI. By means of Finite-Difference method, we describe a complete modeling strategy for the most important parts of the solver, namely 1.5D Poisson-Schrödinger, Quantum Drift-Diffusion and the mobility models from Kubo-Greenwood formulation and Nonequilibrium Green’s function (NEGF). Simulation results showed the efficiency of UTOXPP for solving electrostatics and the quantum effects for both carrier distribution and transport for the given devices. The objective of this PhD work has been achieved as UTOXPP delivers reliable results for advanced nodes in a timely manner, being an excellent choice for the industrial daily use.
Members of the jury :
Mr. Gérard GHIBAUDO, DR, CNRS Alpes: President
Mr. Arnaud BOURNEL, PR, Université Paris-Sud: Rapporteur
Mr. Marc BESCOND, CR, CNRS Marseille: Rapporteur
Mr. Raphael CLERC, CR, Université Jean Monnet: Examiner
Mr. Denis RIDEAU, ING, STMicroelectronics: Co-supervisor
Mr. François TRIOZON, ING, CEA-Grenoble: Co-supervisor
Mr. Marco PALA, CR, CNRS Alpes: Supervisor
Thesis prepared in the laboratory IMEP-LAHC, CEA-Leti and STMicroelectronics supervised by Marco PALA with Denis RIDEAU & François TRIOZON, co-supervisor.
Date of update July 13, 2016
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13 July, 2016 4:41 PM Drawing laughter and a few tears, David Cameron takes his final bow as British PM
London: David Cameron entertained parliament with a series of farewell quips on Wednesday in his last appearance as PM before making way for Theresa May to lead the monumental task of extricating Britain from the European Union. "This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. Other than one meeting this afternoon with Her Majesty 164
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Nebula nom's
Clarke shortlist
A.E. van Vogt
Best of '99:
Borders, SF Site
PKD Nomineess
OF 1999 TALLY
Links to News Elsewhere Online
• The success of the Harry Potter series is spreading to other fantasy books, according to this New York Times article. Booksellers provide lists of recommendations for what they call Harry Potter Deprivation Clubs; sales are up for Brian Jacques, C.S. Lewis, and others; and NYT is considering breaking children's bestsellers out onto a separate list.
(Mon 28 Feb 2000)
• Preliminary ballot for the 1999 Bram Stoker Awards —
(Fri 25 Feb 2000)
• SFWA reports that Bertelsmann has appointed a Chief Creative Officer.
— SFWA News
(Wed 23 Feb 2000)
• Editors' Choice '99 selections by Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association, put Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn at the Top of the List in the Adult Fiction category. Other selections in Adult Fiction include Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis, while several other SFFH titles, by Orson Scott Card, Michael Crichton, Neil Gaiman, and Stephen King, are included on the Adult Books for Young Adults list. J.K. Rowling's two Harry Potter books from 1999 are on the Books for Youth list. Neil Barron's Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet (Scarecrow) is on the Reference Books list.
— (Updated Best of '99 Summary)
(Tue 15 Feb 2000)
• Science Fiction Age will be discontinued after its May 2000 issue. Editor Scott Edelman will leave publisher Sovereign Media Co.; sister magazine Realms of Fantasy will continue. — SFWA News
• HarperCollins chairman Eddie Bell resigned Monday. He'll remain as an advisor for six months while a replacement is sought. — Yahoo/Reuters
• Daniel Keyes will be named Author Emeritus this year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He'll speak at the Nebula Awards banquet in New York City on May 20. — SFWA News 9 Feb
• Lambda Literary Awards nominees include, in the Lesbian & Gay Science Fiction category, books by Richard Bowes, Severna Park, Keith Hartman (a book also nominated in the mystery category), and others. Samuel R. Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue is nominated in the Gay Men's Studies category. — Lambda Literary Awards Finalists | SFWA News
(Wed 9 Feb 2000)
• Kurt Vonnegut taken off respirator, condition upgraded. — CNN 8 Feb
(Tue 8 Feb 2000)
• J.K. Rowling has won a British book award after all, namely one of the 11th annual British Book Awards, as Author of the Year. — BBC | CNN
(Fri 4 Feb 2000)
• The SF Site's Readers' Choice Best Books of 1999 are led by George R.R. Martin's A Clash of Kings; the Site posted Best Books of 1999 selected by its contributors last month.
(Thu 3 Feb 2000)
• Updated story on Kurt Vonnegut's condition following fire in his Manhattan home on Sunday. — CNN
• Reuters obituary of A.E. van Vogt includes comments from SFWA president Paul Levinson — Reuters; reposted on CNN
• Here's a tribute to van Vogt by Jesco von Puttkamer — space.com
January News Log
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Lone Sheep publishing was started in 2008 by Adrian Barnes and David Livingstone. From our origins as The Rossland Telegraph, we've grown into a network of five independently-owned and operated West Kootenay online newspapers: The Rossland Telegraph, The Trail Champion, The Boundary Sentinel, The Nelson Daily, and the Castlegar Source. We feel passionately that the future of local news is indepedent and online.
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SUBWAY JOINS RETAIL PARADE IN PENKRIDGE
Sandwich chain Subway opens a new store today (November 8 2019) at the newly extended Boscomoor Shopping Centre in Penkridge, Staffordshire.
It has completed works on a 950 sq ft adjacent unit and joins bakery chain Greggs, which opened its 1,270 sq ft shop last month.
Both occupiers have moved into newly built units, that LCP, the national commercial and investment company which owns and manages the parade, commissioned following a significant investment to meet growing demand for local convenience shopping.
Martin Wade, LCP asset manager, said: “We’re pleased that our new tenants have opened their doors at Boscomoor Shopping Centre. The extension to this popular local centre means that shoppers can enjoy a greater diversity of stores on their doorstep with the element of convenience.”
In addition to building the two new retail units, LCP also has available unit 7b, a 1,980 sq ft retail space that is shell specification with capped services and prominent roadside location with free onsite customer parking. Joint agents are Burley Brown and fhp.
The commercial property and investment company has also improved the green space around the centre, to make the parade more visible from the roadside. Boscomoor Shopping Centre now has 11 units, anchored by the Co-op. It benefits from a prominent roadside location off the A449, which runs through the heart of Penkridge, and there are 50 car parking spaces.
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The Xess, which was built in partnership with Alcatel's parent brand TCL and carries TCL branding, blurs the lines between a tablet and all-in-one computer, and comes preloaded with software for managing a household and working in the kitchen.
The 9 price gets the Xess, with its 17.3-inch, full HD display, dual 3-watt JBL speakers, 1.5GHz octacore processor, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage (with slot for Micro SD expansion), and a remote camera that can be placed anywhere in the house and monitored through the Xess.
Alcatel says the Xess was built with families in mind, and has preloaded the device with content from Nickelodeon, such as shows and apps.
The Xess also has integrated recipe and meal planning, making it ideal for kitchen use, while the remote camera can act as a baby monitor.
The One Touch Xess can also be used with a Smart Dock and wall mount for more viewing options.
XX is a new horror anthology with a gender twist - all segments will be helmed by female directors and will star female leads.
The directors have been given free creative rein within budget and time constraints, but all of the segments themselves will involve the horror genre.
They're generally small issues, and I expect the filmmakers to work them out for their next projects.
Narratives are disappointing, generally from the lack of resolution-- although inconsistent characterization and unimaginable motives plague the second, making it the weakest.
(The only thing that maybe stands out in the third is that none of the attractive young people decide to disrobe, as they do so often in similar films.)I'd say that the first film is probably worth watching, but I wouldn't bother watching past that. Still, there's no reason not to expect good things from the filmmakers in the future, as they find some better scripts and improve their techniques.
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Yusuf Uddin, PhD Joins Life Science Partner as Research Associate
June 5, 2019 /in Press Releases /by LSP Admin
Life Science Partner is proud to announce the addition of our newest team member Yusuf Uddin, PhD. Yusuf will be responsible for managing our search operations and firm operations, including our research programs and technology platforms.
Prior to joining Life Science Partner, Yusuf earned his PhD with a concentration in Biophysics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where his research focused on characterizing the structure and function of important membrane proteins including a highly active photosynthetic protein. While pursuing his graduate degree, Yusuf served as the Research Chair for the Bioengineering and Biosciences Unified Graduate Students group where he organized symposiums, workshops, and seminars for the Georgia Tech and Emory University communities.
“Yusuf’s technological expertise and leadership background gives him a strong foundation from which to push forward our research programs” notes Tom Callaway, MD, Founder and President. “We are pleased to have Yusuf join Life Science Partner as we continue to expand our highly specialized, executive recruiting service.”
Yusuf applies his rigorous scientific training to our search process and his unique technological expertise adds to the team’s wide breadth of knowledge that is unparalleled in the industry. “High-level recruiting begins with a fundamental understanding of the technologies and markets that are important to our clients which is why we hire scientific and medical experts like Yusuf” comments Tom Callaway, MD.
Yusuf earned his PhD and undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech with Highest Honors. Apart from work, some of his hobbies include competitive esports, racquetball, visiting new breweries, and spending time outdoors with his dog.
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The Resource Arrest-related deaths in the United States, 2003-2005, by Christopher J. Mumola
Arrest-related deaths in the United States, 2003-2005, by Christopher J. Mumola
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Mumola, Christopher J
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Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 2007
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"October 2007."
"During the 3-year period from 2003 to 2005, 47 States and the District of Columbia reported 2,002 arrest-related deaths to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP). The DCRP counts represent the first national measurement of all types of deaths that occurred in the process of arrest. The collection of these counts was mandated by the federal Death in Custody Reporting Act (Public Law 106-297)." - P. [1]
Arrest-related deaths in the United States, 2003-2005
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Arrest related deaths in the United States, 2003 thru 2005
Prisoners -- United States -- Death -- Statistics
Restraint of prisoners -- United States
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George Eastman : a biography
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Eastman, George, 1854-1932
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Photography -- History
This life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography. As a 23-year-old bank clerk, Eastman bought his first camera and began simplifying the cumbersome and messy wet-plate process. With only two years' experience, he patented a dry-plate coating machine and began selling photographic plates. Soon, the business was doing so well that he quit his job at the bank and started his own company. Eastman's success was based in part on his own inventions, but even more on his ability to raise capital, recruit technically skilled employees, sell his own products, and outmaneuver his competitors. More importantly, Brayer draws a vivid portrait of the man behind the money. Eastman worked hard at staying out of the limelight and even insisted that his donations be kept anonymous, prompting the Boston Globe to call him "America's most modest and least-known millionaire." His aggressive business personality was a sharp contrast to his personal life: Eastman once joked that it was his goal to take two six-month vacations in a year. He would regularly forsake the office to bicycle around Europe or ride a stagecoach through the snowy trails of Yellowstone Park. He was an art lover, who once bartered 60 shares of Kodak stock in the 1890s for a painting he felt he must have, and a classical music enthusiast, who built a school for the training of virtuosos. His contributions built a new campus for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a new medical school for the University of Rochester. Finally, he became the largest contributor to the education of African Americans during the 1920s and the Tuskeegee Institute's most important benefactor
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Determination of the formula of Hydrated Iron(II) Sulphate Crystals .Determination of the formula of Hydrated Iron(II) Sulphate Crystals . The heat was too strong and iron(III) oxide was formed with sulphur di- and trioxide:.formula of hydrated ironiii oxide,Hydrated Iron 2 (ii) Sulphate Formula | Essay Writing Service A+moles with the formula; moles = mass/molar mass. . Method 2: By performing a redox titration with the hydrated iron(II) sulphate mixed in dilute sulphuric .. The heat was too strong and iron(III) oxide was formed with sulphur di- and trioxide:.
How to Write the Balanced Chemical Reaction for the Rusting of Iron .
Apr 26, 2018 . The balanced equation for the process is: 4Fe + 3O2 + 6H2O → 4Fe(OH)3. . The Second Step: Formation of Hydrated Iron Oxide (Rust) . The iron(II) ions also combine with hydrogen and oxygen in the water to produce.
Iron(III) Hydroxide Fe(OH)3 Molecular Weight -- EndMemo
Iron(III) Hydroxide. Alias: Hydrated Iron Oxide; Ferric Hydroxide. Formula: Fe(OH)3. Molar Mass: 106.867. Fe(OH)3 is a dark orange crystal at room temperature.
Rust chemistry - Corrosion Doctors
Rusting of iron consists of the formation of hydrated oxide, Fe(OH)3, FeO(OH), or even Fe2O3.H2O. . The equations above tell only a small part of the story. . The iron(II) ions also react with hydrogen ions and oxygen to produce iron(III) ions:.
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In naming and writing formulas, what determines the order in which the elements ... If a sample of iron (III) oxide contained 26 g of iron, what was the mass of the .. A hydrate magnesium compound has a formula mass of about 174 g/mol and.
Iron III Oxide: Formula, Molar Mass, Uses & Solubility | Study
In this lesson, we will look at iron(III) oxide's chemical formula, its molar mass, . Rust is a hydrated form of iron(III) oxide and is not soluble in water, which is why.
Hydrates: Determining the Chemical Formula From Empirical Data .
Learn the definition of a hydrate and an anhydrate in this lesson. Discover how, when given experimental data, you can determine the formula of a.
Iron(III) oxide hydrated, crystalline, −325 mesh | Sigma-Aldrich
Iron(III) oxide hydrated, crystalline, −325 mesh; CAS Number: 20344-49-4; EC Number: 243-746-4; Synonym: Ferric hydroxide oxide; Linear Formula: HFeO2;.
Iron(III) oxide - Wikipedia
Iron(III) oxide or ferric oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Fe2O3. It is one of the .. + 2 H2O → 4 FeO(OH). The resulting hydrated iron(III) oxide, written here as Fe(O)OH, dehydrates around 200 °C. 2 FeO(OH) → Fe2O3 + H2O.
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Iron Oxide yellow: CI Pigment Yellow 42 and 43; CI(1975) No. 77492 . Iron Oxide Yellow: Hydrated ferric oxide, hydrated iron (III) oxide . Chemical formula.
The crystal structure of -iron(III) trifluoride trihydrate, -FeF3.3H2O - IUCr
Crystals of fl-FeFa.3tt~O were grown at 50 C from a solution of freshly precipitated iron(III) oxide hydrate in dilute hydrofluoric acid according to the preparation.
the structure of iron (iii) oxide-hydrate gels - Science Direct
Abstract--The iron (III) oxide-hydrate gels usually designated as "amorphous" are . have a cubic structure with a0 = 8.37 A. Powders consisting of these particles.
Diiron trioxide - Substance Information - ECHA
Apr 10, 2018 . . IRON OXIDE (FE2O3); iron oxide (III); Iron Oxide Molecular Formula . iron(3+);oxygen(2-);hydrate; Iron(II) hydroxide; iron(II) iron(III) oxide.
Nomenclature of Hydrated Ionic Compounds
Rules for Naming Hydrated Ionic Compounds . When the chemical formula for a hydrated ionic compound is written, the . calcium sulfur oxide dihydrate ?
Rust - Wikipedia
Rust is an iron oxide, a usually red oxide formed by the redox reaction of iron and oxygen in the . Rust consists of hydrated iron(III) oxides Fe2O3·nH2O and iron(III) oxide-hydroxide (FeO(OH), Fe(OH)3). Given sufficient . compound. As the atoms combine, they weaken the metal, making the structure brittle and crumbly.
What is the chemical formula for rust? - Quora
Aug 29, 2015 . Several forms of rust are distinguishable visually and by spectroscopy, and form under different circumstances.Rust consists of hydrated iron(III) oxides Fe2O3.
Diferric oxygen(2-) hydrate | Fe2H2O4 - PubChem
Diferric oxygen(2-) hydrate | Fe2H2O4 | CID 61560 - structure, chemical names, . AC1L1VHE; Diferric oxygen(2-) hydrate; Iron (III) oxide monohydrate More.
iron(2+) sulfate (anhydrous) (CHEBI:75832) - EMBL-EBI
Mar 26, 2015 . Various hydrates occur naturally - most commonly the heptahydrate, . Iron(II) sulfate (British English: iron(II) sulphate) or ferrous sulfate denotes a range of salts with the formula FeSO4·xH2O. . The element or compound in a reduction-oxidation (redox) reaction that donates an electron to another species.
Key to Practice Nomenclature Quiz
(D) calcium hydrate. . The formula of sodium vanadate is Na3 VO4 and that of calcium chloride is CaCl2. . the oxidation number of W in this compound is +7. (C) tungsten hydride would be WH7. 10. The correct formula for iron(III) sulfate is.
Iron(III) oxide hydrated, catalyst grade, 30-50 mesh | Sigma-Aldrich
Iron(III) oxide hydrated, catalyst grade, 30-50 mesh; CAS Number: 20344-49-4; EC Number: 243-746-4; Synonym: Ferric hydroxide oxide; Linear Formula:.
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Characterization of the Sol− Gel Formation of Iron (III) Oxide .
Iron(III) oxide/hydroxide xerogels are synthesized from hydrated ferric nitrate precursor salts via the addition of different weak bases (e.g., propylene oxide,.
How to Write the Formula for Iron (III) Oxide
May 18, 2018 . In this video we'll write the correct formula for Iron (III) Oxide. To write the formula for Iron (III) Oxide we'll use the Periodic Table, a Common Ion.
What is the formula for iron(II) oxide? | Socratic
The formula for the iron(II) ion is Fe2+ and the formula for the oxide ion is O2− . An ionic compound is neutral, so the positive and negative charges are equal.
Chemical and physical properties of iron(III)-oxide hydrate
THE STRUCTURE OF IRON(III)-OXIDE HYDRATE. 4.1. Crystallographic properties. 4.1.1. Introduetion . . . . . 4.1.2. Experimenta1 . . . . . 4.1.3. Results and.
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Gimme Shelter & City Lights BD reviews, new pre-orders & see Ladyhawke in L.A. with Richard Donner!
November 18, 2013 - 4:13 pm | by Bill Hunt
Anyone interested in some new Blu-ray reviews to start the week? Our own Tim Salmons has checked in today with a pair of them featuring a look at a couple of Criterion titles in high-definition, including David Maysles and Albert Maysles’ Rolling Stones concert film Gimme Shelter and also the new special edition of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights. Both are now available on BD, so enjoy!
Meanwhile, pre-orders are now on for Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips from Sony at this link on Amazon. Disney’s Thor: The Dark World and Summit Entertainment’s Ender’s Game are also both up for pre-order on BD on Amazon. [Read on here…]
In announcement news this afternoon, Scream Factory has set Witchboard for Blu-ray/DVD Combo release on 2/4.
Disney will release The Fifth Estate on Blu-ray Combo on 1/28.
Sony has set Lake Bell’s In a World for release on Blu-ray, DVD and digital on 1/21. Extras on the Blu-ray will include deleted scenes, a director’s commentary and a gag reel.
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STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES
THE ATONEMENT BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
STUDY IV
THE MEDIATOR OF THE ATONEMENT
THE UNDEFILED ONE
Seemingly Conflicting Scriptures Reconciled – The Roman Catholic Doctrine of Mary's Immaculate Conception Not Sustained – The Birth of Jesus Separate from Sinners Essential to the Divine Arrangement – Otherwise no Ransom Possible – The Latest Deductions of Science in re the Union of Life and Protoplasm – The Logos Made Flesh – Born of a Woman yet Undefiled – How the Imperfect Mother Could and Did Bring Forth the Undefiled One – This Same Principle Operating in Other Features of the Divine Plan, as Testified by the Scriptures.
"Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one." Job 14:4
"He was manifested to take away sins and in him is no sin." "Such an High Priest was suitable for us – holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners." 1 John 3:5; Heb. 7:26
ERE are Scripture statements apparently in conflict: the first declaring, in harmony with our experience, that all of Adam's posterity is affected by virus of sin from the poisoned fountain: the latter declaring that our Lord Jesus was as a man different from other men – unblemished, undefiled, spotless. And since the entire theory of the Atonement, presented in the Scriptures, demands that of necessity our Redeemer must be an unblemished man – of our race and yet separate from it – this becomes a very important point before the minds of the Lord's thinking people. How did God accomplish in our Lord Jesus' case what is impossible to man, according to all human experience and according to Job's testimony? To give ample proof of how the divine arrangement did accomplish this desired yet seemingly impossible thing of producing a member of the race, yet separate from its blemishes, to be its ransom – to give [E98] a corresponding price for the first perfect man whose sin and its curse blights the race – this is the pleasurable task of the present chapter.
Not that a knowledge of the manner is essential either to the faith or salvation of the true disciple taught of God; but that in the light of present-day destructive criticism (reasonable and unreasonable) it is expedient that this truth, so closely identified with the Atonement, the very center and foundation of true Christianity, should be solidly buttressed, to the intent that the faith of the Lord's people may be able to withstand the assaults of the Adversary against the doctrine of the ransom – from pulpit, press and pew. The Scriptural statement of the fact of our Lord's spotlessness was, thank God, quite sufficient for his saints for centuries; but now as "meat in due season" for the household comes the scientific and philosophic attestation to the possibility of all that is claimed in the divine Word on this subject – quite in harmony with "the laws of nature."
The Roman Catholic Church in its doctrine of "The Immaculate Conception" of Mary, attempts to establish faith in our Lord's mother, as immaculate, spotless, perfect; and thus to prove that Jesus could be born pure and separate from sinners: but this is not our claim. We admit that our Lord's mother was a member of Adam's race, in the same sense as all other members of it – that her life was derived from the Adamic stock, that she inherited human weaknesses and blemishes and unavoidably was, like all others, under the sentence of death. We claim that "the man Christ Jesus" was an exception – the only exception.
And it is well for us not to forget that God's providential care for the children of men is frequently manifested in the exceptions of nature. For instance, it is the rule of nature that heat causes expansion, while freezing causes contraction: but how fortunate it is for humanity that water is an exception to this principle – that water, contrary to the general rule, expands in freezing. Were it to follow the customary law of nature and contract with freezing, it would have the effect of making the ice heavier than the unfrozen water, [E99] and cause it to sink to the river bottoms, so that as a consequence our rivers would become solid ice, which even the summer heat would not dissolve. How fortunate, too, that antimony among the minerals is an exception to this law of nature also: otherwise it would be impossible for us to secure clear-cut edges on our printing types, secured by the mixing of this metal, which contracts, with other metals which expand under heat. So the one exception to sin-defilement in our race was its only hope – its ransom, its salvation under divine providence. With these thoughts we proceed to examine how the Logos was "made flesh," "born of a woman," "of the seed of Abraham," and yet was uncontaminated, and could therefore be a suitable and acceptable ransom for Adam and his race.
The Scriptures hold out the thought that all existence, living energy or being, comes from the father and not from the mother. The mother receives the sperm or seed of life from the father, furnishes it a cell-nucleus out of which a form or body is produced, and nourishes the germ of being until it is able to maintain an independent existence; i.e., until it is able to appropriate to its maintenance the life-sustaining elements which the earth and air supply – then it is born.
The word father has the significance of life-giver. Accordingly, God was the "Father," or life-giver, while the earth was the mother, of Adam, and hence of the human race. (Luke 3:38) Adam's form or organism was of and from earth (which therefore served as his mother); but his spark of life which constituted him a man came from God (who thus was his Father or life-giver): and in the male of the human species has since resided the power to communicate that spark of life or living seed to progeny.
In harmony with this principle, children are spoken of as being of or from their fathers, and borne by their mothers. (Gen. 24:47) Thus the children of Jacob, counted through his sons, were seventy when he came down to Egypt. All of those seventy souls or beings are expressly said to have come out of the loins of Jacob. (Gen. 46:26,27; Exod. 1:5) So of Solomon, it is said that he came out of the loins of David. [E100] (1 Kings 8:19; 2 Chron. 6:9) So also the Apostle Paul and Israelites in general claimed that they all came out of the loins of Abraham; and of Levi it is written that "he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him." Heb. 7:5,10
Thus also the whole race was in and sprang from Adam their father, by mother Eve but not from her. And thus it is written that "all in ADAM die," but not all in Eve. Because the race came of Adam, it was tried in his trial, condemned in his failure and included under his sentence.
This, which the Scriptures teach, is the latest deduction of science on this subject of progeneration, as applied to humanity and to all mammalia. Scientists find abundant and conclusive proof in nature that life or being comes always from the male. The simplest form of illustration is a hen's egg: of itself it originally contains no life, but is merely a cell-germ with its supply of nutriment ready to build up an organism as soon as vivified, fecundated or impregnated with the life-germ or life-seed from the male bird.
The egg contains not only the germ-cell but also the proper elements of nutrition and in proper proportion, adapted to the minute organism begotten in it by the sperm or life-seed; and under proper conditions that organism develops. The germ-cell, or "formative yolk," or protoplasm, receives the life-germ or sperm, and this becomes the embryo chick, which appropriates to its own development the "food-yolk" and the albumen, until it breaks the shell and is able to sustain itself by appropriating cruder elements of nutrition. The principles here involved are the same in human and other animals.
In view of these harmonious testimonies of the Bible and science, it is a reasonable deduction that if the father were perfect, the child would be perfect. Under even moderately favorable conditions a perfect sperm or life-seed in uniting with the female germ-cell would produce a living embryo so vigorous and healthy as to be capable of appropriating the proper elements of nutrition, and voiding, throwing off or neutralizing the unfit. And the perfect being thus produced [E101] would likewise possess the power of neutralizing or repelling, by its perfect functions and without injury or inconvenience to itself, all elements not beneficial. On the contrary, in proportion as the sperm or life-seed be imperfect, the living embryo will be weak and unable to overcome the unfavorable conditions of its environment, and will appropriate whatever its mother furnishes – good or bad – and will be the prey of disease. Being imperfect, it is unable to reject wholly the poisonous elements and the consequence is weakness and disease.
The old proverb, "One man's meat is another man's poison," rests upon the principle here enunciated. A person possessed of good digestive powers can eat and extract nutriment and strength from food which would speedily sicken and eventually kill another of inferior powers. The more rugged extracts the good and avoids the injurious elements: the weaker is unable to do this and is really poisoned, frequently to the extent of sickness. Yet let us remember that no member of our race is nearly perfect – none are able to defend their imperfect systems against the myriads of foes that assail through food and drink and air. Consequently none are born perfect and none can avoid the encroachments of disease for long. It preys upon the weakest organs first and soon all collapse.
From this standpoint it follows that had mother Eve alone sinned the race would not have died; for had Adam remained perfect, his life unforfeited and unimpaired, his offspring would have been born without blemish. And even had the death sentence passed upon mother Eve, bringing imperfections to her, these would not have impaired her offspring; being perfect, they would have appropriated good elements, and have neutralized, voided or passed off naturally and without injury, any unwholesome elements of nutrition supplied them.
On the other hand, suppose that Adam had sinned and Eve had remained sinless: Adam's condemnation and death would have affected the entire posterity just the same. However perfect the germ-cells and nourishment [E102] provided by mother Eve, only imperfect dying beings could be produced from diseased sperm or life-seed from Adam. Hence the appropriateness of the Scriptural statement that "All in Adam die," and "By one man's disobedience... death passed upon all." 1 Cor. 15:22; Rom. 5:12,19
How wonderful the correspondence here between the first and second Adams and their brides. As the death of the race depended not upon Eve but wholly upon Adam, and yet she shared in the bringing of it, so the restored life of the redeemed race depends not at all on the bride of Christ, but upon Jesus, the Redeemer, though by divine favor it is arranged that his bride shall share in the restitution of "that which was lost."
The fountain, Adam, having become contaminated by sin and death, none of his posterity can be free from contamination; for, "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one." The reference here must be understood as applying to the man, and not to the woman: none coming from or out of the contaminated fountain can be clean. Hence, "There is none righteous, no, not one"; none can redeem his own life, much less give to God a ransom for his brother. Rom. 3:10; Psa. 49:7
It is a well-recognized fact that the mind of a mother, during the period of gestation, has an important bearing upon the character and disposition of her children, for good or evil. There are many instances of mental as well as of physical "birthmarks." Whether at all or how much a perfect embryo, begotten of a perfect life-germ, might be injured by an evil mind in the mother, it would be impossible for humanity under present conditions to determine; for we have no opportunity for proofs along this line. Nor is it necessary to our argument to determine this proposition, for it was not under such conditions that the "man Christ Jesus" was born. The Scriptures explicitly point out: (1) That the Lord chose for the mother of Jesus a holy woman "blessed among women," who had "found favor with God" (Luke 1:28,30,42); (2) Mary was full of faith and the joy of the Lord, to be an instrument in his plan: and (3) not regarding fear of [E103] reproach from Joseph or the world, she lived rejoicing in God, saying – "My soul doth magnify Jehovah; my spirit rejoiceth in God my Savior." (Luke 1:45-47) Thus we perceive that the mind of Jesus' mother, instead of being antagonistic to his perfect development, cooperated to that result.
It follows, then, that the only obstacle to the generation of a perfect man of an imperfect, blemished, but well-willed mother is the lack of a perfect father to supply perfect spermatozoa. And hence the consistency of the teaching of Scripture, that in the case of Jesus a perfect life (not of or from the Adamic fountain) was transferred by divine power from a pre-existent condition to the embryo human condition, was born "holy" (pure and perfect), though of an imperfect mother. (Luke 1:35) That Jesus was thus uncontaminated with the imperfections, mental, moral or physical – which his mother in common with the entire human race shared, is entirely reasonable and, as we have just seen, in perfect accord not only with Scripture but also with the latest scientific findings and deductions.
Another fact which scientists are demonstrating to themselves, which seems to concur with the Scripture testimony, is, that though life or being comes from the father, form and nature come from the mother. The scientific proofs of this are more abstruse and less easily grasped by the ordinary mind; and this, because in wisdom God has not only separated the various kinds or natures, but in great measure has limited them, so that they cannot mix or blend beyond certain limits without losing the powers of fecundation. A common illustration of this is the mule, a hybrid which cannot propagate.
The old idea that form and nature came from the male is abandoned by modern students of nature, who now agree that the female furnishes organism as well as sustenance – in fact furnishes all except the life-seed or sperm which comes from the father or life-giver. Take as a Scriptural illustration of the foregoing claims the improper union between "the daughters of men" and those angels which kept not [E104] their proper estate or condition. (Gen. 6:2,4; Jude 6; 2 Pet. 2:4) The angels, when they assumed human form, being perfect in vitality, begat children far superior to the then greatly fallen race of Adam in mental acumen as well as in physical powers, so that the record is – "the same were men of renown." These wonderful men, let us remember, were born of imperfect, dying mothers, but begotten by vigorous, unimpaired fathers.
The dying race of Adam would have had hard masters in those superior Nephilim (Hebrew, fallen ones) which were never recognized by God, either by a trial for life, or by a condemnation to death. It was a mercy indeed which, not having authorized their existence, blotted them from existence in the flood, and sparing as a new beginning for the race Noah and his family, with the comment – "Now Noah was perfect in his generation," which implies that the majority of Adam's posterity had become greatly contaminated and more or less a new race by association with the angels in human form. We say a new race because of their new life and vigor coming from new fathers.
So great was the renown of these "Nephilim," that the dread of them is to be found with more or less distinctness in heathen mythologies to this day; and hundreds of years after their destruction in the flood, the false report that some of these were yet alive caused a panic among the Israelites while flushed with the victory of recent battles. (See Num. 13:33; 14:36,37.) No doubt there were some large men in Canaan, as other scriptures show, but never except in this "evil report" are they called Nephilim.
Another illustration of this principle that life (vitality) comes from the father, and organism (nature) from the mother, is found in the fact that Jehovah, himself of the divine nature has begotten sons of various natures. He is the father or life-giver to those sons of angelic nature (Job 2:1; 38:7; Heb. 2:9), as well as to sons of human nature (Luke 3:38), as well to the "new creatures" who, in the first resurrection, shall be made partakers of his own divine nature. (2 Pet. 1:4) The spirit or energy of Jehovah operating upon [E105] spirit-substances produced and developed angels; the same energy or spirit operating upon earthly substances produced man and the lower animals. (Gen. 2:7; 1 Cor. 15:47) And when God would give us a clear conception of the generation of the new creatures to the divine nature, he represents them as begotten of his word of promise in the womb of the Covenant which he made with Abraham, which Covenant was symbolized by a woman, Sarah, telling us that as Isaac was the heir of Abraham and child of promise (by Sarah), so we, as or like Isaac, are children of God, being children of the promise, or Sarah Covenant. See Gal. 4:23-31; 1 Pet. 1:3,23; 2 Pet. 1:4.
The same principle is illustrated in the fact that in the typical Jewish dispensation, prior to the Christian age, a child inherited blessings and privileges of its father, according to the favor and standing of its mother, thus again declaring that the mother's nature, rights, privileges and liberties attached to the child, though not of necessity the father's. See Gen. 21:10; Ex. 21:4; Gal. 4:30.
The foregoing arguments are clinched by the fact that our Lord Jesus was born of a woman. The "holy thing" born of a woman partook of the woman's nature, i.e., human nature – "of the earth, earthy." Though retaining all the purity and perfection of the pre-existent (spirit) state, the transferred germ of being (in harmony with this law we are examining) partook of the nature of the mother and was "made flesh" by being "born of a woman." Yet the "clean thing" came not out of the unclean race, but "proceeded forth and came from God" and was merely developed and nourished in Mary. John 8:42; Gal. 4:4
It is yet further in harmony with this same principle that though our Lord Jesus has since been highly exalted to the divine nature, and is no longer human, yet it is declared of him that he shall be the life-giver or "father" of the whole human race, while it is also shown that his work for the race is to restore the perfection of human nature, which was lost for all through Adam's sin. Thus, while their "father" or life-giver will be on the divine plane, his children will be on the [E106] human plane, born out of a Covenant of restitution, illustrated by Keturah, Abraham's third wife.
Reviewing our subject then, we perceive that the "miraculous" birth of our Lord Jesus, perfect, unblemished, of an imperfect mother, was not contrary to the usual procedure of the Creator's arrangements, but in full harmony with them: we see that similarly father Adam was born into being perfect because he was born of God, though his mother (the earth) was still imperfect except the specially prepared Garden of Eden. The Scriptural assurance then that our Lord had a prehuman existence, the life-principle of which was transferred to Mary's womb and born of her "holy," is abundant assurance that he was as the same Scriptures declare "holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners." Just such an one "became us" or was suitable to the necessities of our case – such an one as could be accepted by Justice as our ransom-price; and then being made humanity's High Priest in things pertaining to God, would be able to compassionate the weak and burdened – having been touched with a feeling of human infirmities when he himself compassionately took our sicknesses. Matt. 8:16,17; Heb. 7:26
We pass on now to the consideration of how he could be thus without sin and yet be "made like unto his brethren."
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Jennifer Reed April 4, 2013 At 5:01 am
I think all of the items would be useful but a favorite for my kitchen would be the Dry Dock mat.
Leslie L. Stanziani April 3, 2013 At 11:50 pm
I love the garlic press with power ratchet.
michelle koerner April 3, 2013 At 11:20 pm
i like the ice balls
Gaye M April 3, 2013 At 10:39 pm
I’d like to have a dry dock.
I like the Topper Chopper.
shirley zolenski April 3, 2013 At 9:25 pm
I like the dressing whiz
Leah Lucas April 3, 2013 At 9:16 pm
Dressing Whiz!
Theresa April 3, 2013 At 8:39 pm
I really like the Chef’s Basting Set
robyn paris April 3, 2013 At 8:18 pm
i like the dressing wiz
Emillie April 3, 2013 At 8:17 pm
love the topper chopper!
Alyce Poalillo April 3, 2013 At 6:44 pm
I can really use their trio three blade peeler and paring knife
Starletta Schipp April 3, 2013 At 6:26 pm
I don’t know how easy it would be to clean but the dressing whiz looks really fun!
Melanie Montgomery April 3, 2013 At 4:52 pm
the dressing whiz looks cool
Curtis McNelly April 3, 2013 At 3:33 pm
dressing whiz
Jennifer J April 3, 2013 At 2:34 pm
I like the Chef’s Basting Set. Thanks!!
Katie K April 3, 2013 At 1:33 pm
Like the roasting laurel
kathy pease April 3, 2013 At 12:27 pm
Caroline April 3, 2013 At 12:25 pm
My favorite product is the garlic press. Total time saver. No one has time to mince garlic!
Heidi G April 3, 2013 At 9:15 am
Herb Savor for me please
Elaine C April 3, 2013 At 8:26 am
I like the garlic press with power ratchet
Lesley F April 3, 2013 At 4:38 am
Briana April 2, 2013 At 11:59 pm
herb savor
Holly Kennedy April 2, 2013 At 7:39 pm
John Hutchens April 2, 2013 At 5:51 pm
topper chopper
melissa Resnick April 2, 2013 At 12:53 pm
the topper chopper
Courtney April 2, 2013 At 2:37 am
The brew over ice carafe.
Linna Turner April 1, 2013 At 10:15 pm
I like the Chef’s Center Cookbook Holder and the Herb savor mini Pods.
Veronique L April 1, 2013 At 9:21 pm
chef’s center cookbook holder
tanya devenney April 1, 2013 At 2:01 pm
the herb savour
Faith I. April 1, 2013 At 1:16 pm
Roasting Laurel
Karen April 1, 2013 At 12:13 pm
I’d like the brew over ice carafe.
Regina April 1, 2013 At 10:10 am
I like the Basting Set.
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Caitlin April 1, 2013 At 3:58 am
The super scoopers look awesome.
Cheryl Rahkonen April 1, 2013 At 2:10 am
My favorite product is the Market Fresh Colander Set in red/white.
Rhonda S. Phillips-Tenderholt March 31, 2013 At 9:17 pm
My sons like the topper chopper…I like the dry dock and the mini pod herb- savor.
I would love to own the herb savor. Nice product. Thanks.
Lewis March 31, 2013 At 6:49 pm
Herb Savor mini-pod
Brenda Witherspoon-Bedard March 31, 2013 At 5:28 pm
Nikki March 31, 2013 At 9:21 am
Aside from the herb savor? My favorites are the potato masher or the tabletop oil mister. Thanks for offering the giveaway!
Aaron March 30, 2013 At 11:36 pm
Marvin March 30, 2013 At 2:52 pm
The topper chopper.
Ken Ohl March 30, 2013 At 5:14 am
Melissa S March 30, 2013 At 12:37 am
The roasting laurel looks like an awesome product.
Sara Staffeldt March 29, 2013 At 7:16 pm
Definitely the herb savor! My husband and I are really big into gardening, and this would be awesome to have!
Mary I March 29, 2013 At 5:14 pm
amy rouse March 29, 2013 At 4:16 pm
Doug Denny March 29, 2013 At 3:04 pm
My favorite product is the garlic press with power ratchet. Thanks!
Lori Bazan March 29, 2013 At 2:07 pm
The Topper Chopper is my first choice!
Krista Grandstaff March 29, 2013 At 1:14 pm
I like everything!!! 🙂 The tabletop mister, the volcano fillable pops, the chef’s basting set…
deanna March 29, 2013 At 1:11 pm
fave:
julie murphy March 29, 2013 At 10:40 am
herb saver
deana c March 29, 2013 At 8:44 am
My favorite is the super scoopers
S March 28, 2013 At 11:38 pm
Deborah Grant March 28, 2013 At 10:42 pm
Joni Owada March 28, 2013 At 9:11 pm
I would love to have this
Deanna Barkley March 28, 2013 At 9:11 pm
I like the herb saver.
Shay Williams March 28, 2013 At 8:29 pm
I would love the herb-savor mini pod in the three pack so that I could sort my herbs.
Mac Anne March 28, 2013 At 8:21 pm
The dressing whiz is so cool! I would be so obsessed with that.
Desiree Dunbar March 28, 2013 At 6:46 pm
I like the Tabletop Oil Mister.
susan gibson March 28, 2013 At 6:39 pm
I like the garlic press
kim March 28, 2013 At 4:54 pm
pu yepu ye March 28, 2013 At 3:54 pm
I like the chef’s basting set
tina reynolds March 28, 2013 At 12:39 pm
I really think the chefs basting set would be nice
betty crawford March 28, 2013 At 2:04 am
Michelle Feliciano March 28, 2013 At 12:30 am
herb savor been wanting to for a long time
andie March 27, 2013 At 12:23 pm
The “power tip scoop” would be great – icecream is a favourite in our home.
Ellen C. March 27, 2013 At 10:43 am
I like the chef’s basting set. Thanks for the chance.
Sonia March 27, 2013 At 10:10 am
Do I have to choose only one favorite? Because there are many things on this site I’d love to have like the brew over ice carafe, collapsible veggie savors, and the ice balls.
Miki March 27, 2013 At 4:25 am
I used to be a barista and enjoyed making frappes with espresso year=round! It would be great to win an espresso machine to make mixed coffee drinks from home. Also, the green mountain coffee frappe mix is the best ever!
yenny March 27, 2013 At 12:08 am
patti lovecky March 26, 2013 At 11:47 pm
tHE tOPPER cHOPPER WOULD BE MY FIRST CHOICE.
The Topper Chopper is really cool!
Volcano fillable ice pops Great to make nutritious and delicious treats.
Enizete Lane March 26, 2013 At 3:34 pm
The brew over ice carafe would be perfect for summer… I love ice coffee!
danielle lima March 26, 2013 At 3:29 pm
the topper chopper is cute
Kat E. March 26, 2013 At 3:28 pm
My fave is their volcano fillable ice pops!
Josie March 26, 2013 At 3:23 pm
tabletop oil mister
Hoa Le March 26, 2013 At 3:15 pm
I like the brew over ice carafe.
amber carroll March 26, 2013 At 3:07 pm
garlic press with power ratchet
candess phillips March 26, 2013 At 2:43 pm
the volcanao ice pops
polly March 26, 2013 At 12:06 pm
like the brew over ice carafe
Francine Anchondo March 26, 2013 At 11:29 am
Danielle T March 26, 2013 At 10:31 am
i like the herb saver mini pod
Vera K March 26, 2013 At 7:53 am
The topper chopper is pretty cool.
I like the chef’s bottle kit.
martha March 25, 2013 At 10:28 pm
HERB SAVER MINI POD
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diane m March 25, 2013 At 3:59 pm
Michelle Tucker March 25, 2013 At 3:10 am
I like the dressing whiz.
Rachel G March 24, 2013 At 6:41 pm
I really like the topper chopper
Sara Zielinski March 24, 2013 At 3:51 pm
I would like the pairing knife
Laurie B March 23, 2013 At 9:23 pm
Diane Cooper March 23, 2013 At 2:31 pm
I love the topper chopper!
Felina M March 21, 2013 At 10:34 pm
Jennifer McLean March 21, 2013 At 9:11 pm
I have wanted the herb saver for EVER but if I can’t pick the giveaway item then it sure would be great to get the brew over ice carafe for making great iced tea for this summer!
I would love the tabletop oil mister
charmaine tavares March 21, 2013 At 1:25 pm
My fav product is the herb-savour
Stephanie Owens March 21, 2013 At 1:08 pm
The topper chopper!
Joshua Lanham March 21, 2013 At 1:07 pm
That herb savor and the mini pods are nifty. I wonder if the topper chopper would work with flax seed.
Deborah Rosen March 21, 2013 At 1:04 pm
My favorite is their potato flip masher. Not only is the masher the right shape for mashing, it flips flat for storage. Awesome!
Valarie Lee Gentry March 21, 2013 At 12:40 pm
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Lucy Nguyen March 21, 2013 At 4:37 am
I like the volcano fillable ice pops
Stephanie Hastie March 20, 2013 At 8:23 pm
Stephanie Hirsch March 20, 2013 At 10:31 am
I’d love to get the topper chopper
Terri March 20, 2013 At 2:36 am
I want the garlic press with power ratchet
kitblu March 20, 2013 At 1:38 am
The tabletop oil mister is my favourite.
Kristy - Savvy and Sassy March 19, 2013 At 9:13 pm
I want the power tip scoop!
Katy P March 19, 2013 At 6:52 pm
volcano ice pop set
latanya March 19, 2013 At 11:41 am
Jo-Anne Pfoh March 19, 2013 At 12:33 am
really like the salad prep set
shelby brigham March 18, 2013 At 9:20 pm
i love the topper chopper
JAMIE MENAKE March 18, 2013 At 1:58 pm
I like the herb savor mini pod
Samantha Howard March 18, 2013 At 1:46 pm
the trio three blade peeler and paring knife is my favorite!
Crystal Walker March 18, 2013 At 1:07 pm
dressing whiz, love this product
sandra March 18, 2013 At 8:40 am
love the topper chopper
Robert March 18, 2013 At 12:35 am
k-cup carousel
Penny Snyder March 17, 2013 At 9:26 pm
Love the market fresh colander set
[berry red / white] !!
Lori R March 17, 2013 At 8:11 pm
I love all things kitchen gadget, but if I had to choose only one I would have to pick the Roasting Laurel. How cool is that? I am always looking for a rack that fits a pan, and of course, I don’t have one that fits them all….this could be the one!
jennifer miescher March 17, 2013 At 8:03 pm
Daraya March 17, 2013 At 7:02 pm
I love the Dry Dock! 🙂
Kimberly B March 17, 2013 At 4:42 pm
I think the super scoopers are cool!
Debbie Petch March 17, 2013 At 4:38 pm
Carolyn Flanagan March 17, 2013 At 4:05 pm
natasha severson March 17, 2013 At 4:01 pm
Randy Millard March 17, 2013 At 3:37 pm
Oil Mister. Need one.
Katie AB March 17, 2013 At 2:20 pm
I like the super scooper
Cynthia C March 17, 2013 At 1:01 pm
I like the tabletop oil mister
Louis March 17, 2013 At 12:43 pm
Chef’s bottle kit.
Meryl March 17, 2013 At 12:42 pm
The Dressing Whiz.
Stephanie Heron March 17, 2013 At 10:37 am
Either the super scooper sets or the collapsible veggies saver 🙂
Shelia S March 17, 2013 At 10:05 am
I like the collapsable veggie savers.
Katherine Donovan March 16, 2013 At 9:42 pm
I love making my own salad dressing. The dressing whiz looks awesome!
Susan Broughton March 16, 2013 At 3:17 pm
I really like what you are offering but to choose another one I would choose the K-Cup carousel
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ELIZABETH C. March 16, 2013 At 2:11 pm
I really like the chef’s basting set.
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The dressing whiz looks like a good product for me
Peggy Hopkins March 16, 2013 At 1:31 pm
I make all my salad dressing homemade, so the dressing whiz would be a wonderful addition to my kitchen.
Ruby Yoshi March 16, 2013 At 12:54 am
FRANK S March 16, 2013 At 12:37 am
Steven McCuan March 15, 2013 At 11:32 pm
I like the herb-savor mini pod
Leslie Rigsby March 15, 2013 At 9:55 pm
I like/need the tabletop oil mister.
Jennifer L. March 15, 2013 At 9:24 pm
Michelle Little March 15, 2013 At 8:49 pm
My favorite item (gadget) is the Topper Chopper.
Danizilla March 15, 2013 At 5:21 pm
Sharon Kaminski March 15, 2013 At 4:58 pm
like the tabletop oil mister
Chrystal D March 15, 2013 At 2:16 pm
I like the collapsible veggie savors.
paulette schneider March 15, 2013 At 1:06 pm
whoever developed the collapsible veggie savors
is a freaking genius–I have to have them!!
jessica c March 15, 2013 At 10:19 am
volcano fillable ice pops – love making my own popsicles
Joana A March 14, 2013 At 11:42 pm
i like the collapsible veggie savers
ELIZA E March 14, 2013 At 11:16 pm
i like the veggie savers….and they are collapsible!!
Darlene Jones-Nelson March 14, 2013 At 11:11 pm
Frozen Ice Pop Maker
kelly mcgrew March 14, 2013 At 3:40 pm
i love the collapsible veggie savers!!!!!!!
MRWriter March 14, 2013 At 2:08 pm
I like the Salad Prep Kit and the Chef’s Bottle Kit.
Heather S. March 14, 2013 At 1:59 pm
I like the roasting laurel. Great idea!
Melanie March 14, 2013 At 1:25 pm
Well, I love the herb savor. But I also like the power tip scoop!
Jill D March 14, 2013 At 12:48 pm
I think I like the gourmet cruet the best!
darla March 14, 2013 At 12:02 pm
dressing whiz. It is also entertaining!
Stephanie LaPlante March 14, 2013 At 10:58 am
My favorite product is the Topper Chopper
Amanda Alvarado March 14, 2013 At 10:38 am
librarypat March 13, 2013 At 11:30 pm
I like the Roasting Laurel. I like things crispy and this will help.
jennifer wexler March 13, 2013 At 10:56 pm
brew over ice carafe
gibberish (Julie G.) March 13, 2013 At 7:35 pm
My favorite product is the Tabletop Oil Mister.
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Epidemiology Market Analysis and Reports | Germany Conference Series
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The worldwide Epidemiology advertise has been esteemed at USD 13.45 Billion out of 2016 and is required to develop at a CAGR of 10.2% to reach to USD 23.88 Billion by 2022. The development of the general market for epidemiology can be ascribed to the developing interest for the customized drug, developing ventures, allows, and supports by the administration; ascend in look into exercises in the field of Epidemiology and public healthcare; expanding a number of new businesses, and expanding utilization of genomic sequencing in the diagnostics. In the coming years, North America is relied upon to represent the biggest offer of the worldwide market. Base year considered for the report is 2016 and the estimated time frame incorporates 2017– 2022. he worldwide Epidemiology showcase was assessed around USD 10.06 billion in the 2012 and is relied upon to reach roughly USD 27.24 billion before the finish of 2022 while enrolling itself at a compound yearly development rate (CAGR) of 10.48% over the estimated time frame. Genomics is a division of science that incorporates the investigation of qualities and their works and actualizes bioinformatics, recombinant DNA, and DNA sequencing techniques to examine grouping and force together with the capacity and structure of genomes. It includes practical genomics, relative genomics, Pharmacogenomics, basic genomics, and epigenetics. Genomics has rendered various applications in a few fields like biotechnology, human studies, genomic solution, and different sciences.
The worldwide genomics advertise has encountered an ascent in industry potential attributable to mechanical developments as new informatics gets to that amalgamate different types of information with genomic information in ailment inquire about which allowing specialists to comprehend the hereditary bases of an assortment of medication reaction and infections all the more successfully. Also, an ascent in half or full pay for this industry by the legislature of specific nations, developing the event of lethal sicknesses like diabetes, growth, and others give the ascent in their necessity in the worldwide advancement. Heightening gets to for novel genomics instruments and procedures, ascertain their advantage to the patient and focus on ventures to execute it and rising genome profiling innovations are foreseen to grow the genomics business at the fast rate. The finely-dispersed system of restorative research facilities is adding to quicker and simple acknowledgment of genomics methods and items.
The worldwide Pharmaco epidemiology and clinical research market has been evaluated to reach USD 14.2 billion in 2016-2017 and is proposed to reach around USD 22 billion by the year 2021, rising at a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of 7.5%, throughout the estimated period 2016 to 2021. The clinical investigation includes the Clinical examination as an element of clinical research that follows a controlled convention. Clinical research is basically performed to assess the safety and efficiency of the newly developed sedate. Clinical test data is obligatory for additional endorsement of the drug and to bring it into the market.
An important epidemiologic premise is that individuals with the same disease entity have similar causes of the disease, and show similar natural history of the disease and similar responses to treatment or intervention. Under this important assumption, observations in a population study which contains a large number of individuals with a certain disease can be generalized to patients with the same disease in a different set of people in the same background population or in people in a different background population. In this context, traditional epidemiology has contributed to not only the successful identification of major etiologic factors even without molecular sub-classification but also the development of prevention strategies, such as smoking cessation programs.
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Miles on SEPTA
Miles on the MBTA
Weymouth Landing/East Braintree
by Miles Taylor | Nov 8, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA | 4 comments
I just reviewed an elevated station, so now let’s look at a sunken one! The next station over from East Weymouth, Weymouth Landing/East Braintree is right on the border of two towns. Also, it’s sunken. Did I mention it’s sunken?
Okay, so it’s not totally sunken. Sorry about that.
Yeah, when I said “sunken”, I basically just meant the ends of the platform, which are under roads. But still, the bright, textured walls of the sunken portions look really nice. As for the sheltered part of the platform, it’s what you’d expect from an Old Colony station: high-level, a bit bland, and with benches and wastebaskets.
The drop-off area.
Right outside the shelter, there are a few little amenities. A sheltered bike area is a nice touch, plus there are a few newspaper boxes out here. The station also has a small car loop for drop-offs and pick-ups, as well as benches under the station shelter facing the loop for people to wait.
The station’s smallest parking lot.
When I was at Weymouth Landing, I thought the small lot above was the only parking the station has. Turns out there’s quite a lot more. Along Quincy Ave (coincidentally where the 225, this station’s bus connection, runs), there’s a sizeable lot, while along Commercial Street, there’s an even bigger one. This all amounts to 290 spaces.
A train leaving the station…
…and heading ’round the bend.
Station: Weymouth Landing/East Braintree
Ridership: Weymouth Landing is the second least-used station on the Greenbush Line, with 375 average riders per weekday – one more person than the least-used station, West Hingham. My guess is that most people opt to use the 225 to Quincy instead, based on how much weekday ridership that bus gets. But that’s for another post…
Pros: There are a bunch of great things about this station. For one thing, the platform is high-level and accessible, and has multiple sheltered portions thanks to the parts that are under roads. The sunken bits of the station look great, with some nice-looking walls. Plus, there’s lots of parking here, a few bike spaces, and a drop-off/pick-up loop.
Cons: The only real con about this station to me is the fact that the parking could use better signage. The lots could be lettered A, B, and C, and there could be signs from the platform directing people to each. It might be easier to find your car that way.
Nearby and Noteworthy: South of this station is a nice-looking block of businesses lining Commercial Street. If you walk far enough, there’s even an independent bookstore! Yeah, this station has some great surroundings.
I guess my prejudice that all Old Colony stations are boring was wrong! Seriously, the shelter may be bland, but I love those walls on the sunken parts of the platform. And this place has some big parking lots, a drop-off/pick-up loop, bike spaces, and a bus shelter for the 225 to make all connections incredibly easy. The parking lots could be signed better, but other than that, this station is near-perfect.
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Anonymous on November 30, 2015 at 11:41 pm
OC line stations may be boring, but they definitely look so fresh and new compared to the ancient low platform stations smothered in rust and dirt
Miles Taylor on November 30, 2015 at 11:42 pm
That's true, but some of the buildings at the old stations are beautiful.
mibsphil on October 7, 2016 at 1:50 pm
I'm glad you like this station. I use it every day, and it's convenient, easy to navigate (unlike Braintree) and lots of parking. They also have quite a good number of handicap spaces in the platform level parking area.
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Muslim convert 'recruits' inmates
By Sally Chidzoy
Home affairs correspondent, BBC East
Whitemoor Prison has a high number of Muslim inmates
A former British National Party activist who converted to Islam in jail is trying to radicalise young prisoners, the BBC has learned.
Inmate Stephen Jones is being held in a segregation unit at Whitemoor Prison, Cambridgeshire, the BBC has been told.
The convicted murderer was put there after being suspected of recruiting for groups allied to al-Qaeda.
The case has raised concerns that some radical Muslims are using prisons as a recruiting ground.
The BBC has been told that Jones, who is serving a life sentence, has been held in segregation at Whitemoor for about three weeks with two other Muslim prisoners.
Sources have told the BBC he was caught attempting to radicalise a number of fellow inmates after he himself converted to Islam.
'Potential threat'
The BBC understands that intelligence sources believe that he is being paid by an al-Qaeda-influenced group.
It is thought to be the first time that an inmate has been punished by being held in segregation for activities of this kind.
When Whitemoor Prison opened in 1992, 14% of its prisoners were Muslim, now the figure is about 30%, the BBC has learnt.
Steve Gough, vice-chairman of the Prison Officers Association (POA), said the organisation had been worried about the situation for a number of years.
"This shows what we've been saying. If you can get someone that's so right wing converted then a normal prisoner is going to have absolutely no chance," he said.
"Those people come inside and they're dealt with as normal prisoners, kept on normal locations and they can radicalise."
The POA believes extremist Muslim prisoners should be kept apart from mainstream inmates who are often vulnerable to exploitation.
Youth worker Sulaiyman Matthews, an orthodox Muslim who is working against extremism, said he had talked to prisoners on their release and many of them were angry and had been radicalised.
Mr Matthews said the British public needed to know the "potential threat".
The government said it was working to improve its awareness and understanding of extremism and radicalisation to maximise public protection.
Stephen Jones, who is in Whitemoor Prison, is considered disruptive and dangerous
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Magic at the Gate
Devon Monk
Devon Monk / Jan 20, 2020
Magic at the Gate Allie Beckstrom s lover Zayvion Jones is a Guardian of the Gate imbued with both light and dark magic and responsible for ensuring that those energies don t mix But Zayvion lies in a coma his soul
Title: Magic at the Gate
Author: Devon Monk
Allie Beckstrom s lover, Zayvion Jones, is a Guardian of the Gate, imbued with both light and dark magic and responsible for ensuring that those energies don t mix But Zayvion lies in a coma, his soul trapped in death s realm And when Allie discovers that the only way to save Zayvion is to sacrifice her very own magical essence, she makes a decision that may have grave cAllie Beckstrom s lover, Zayvion Jones, is a Guardian of the Gate, imbued with both light and dark magic and responsible for ensuring that those energies don t mix But Zayvion lies in a coma, his soul trapped in death s realm And when Allie discovers that the only way to save Zayvion is to sacrifice her very own magical essence, she makes a decision that may have grave consequences for the entire world.
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About "Devon Monk"
Devon Monk is a national best selling writer of urban fantasy Her series include Ordinary Magic, House Immortal, Allie Beckstrom, Broken Magic and Shame and Terric She also writes the Age of Steam steampunk series, and the occasional short story which can be found in her collection A Cup of Normal, and in various anthologies She has one husband, two sons, and lives in Oregon When not writing, Devon is either drinking too much coffee or knitting silly things.
Jan 20, 2020 at 11:0 am
This is probably the first time I have finished a book in this series without the burning desire to rip into the next one. Not that it was a bad book. It wasn’t. But I didn’t connect with it as much as with some previous installments. And I think that had a lot to do with the gaping hole in the story where Zayvion Jones usually lives.Though Zay is a driving force in the story, his absence is a bigger factor than anything else. The story begins with Allie, her father, and her gargoyle Stone e [...]
This book starts right up where the last one left off, with Allie, her father, and Stone traveling into death's realm to rescue Zayvion's soul. She succeeds, but at a terrible price, having to sacrifice the magic that belonged to her soul. As dangerous as things are for her in that realm, those dangers pale in comparison to what awaits her when she returns. Some of the most powerful veiled have gotten a hold of the disks that were charged with the wild magic. These disks give them corporeal bodi [...]
Picking up from the massive cliffhanger at the end of book four, this one starts with Allie walking through the gate into death in order to find and retrieve Zayvion's soul. Recovering his soul and taking it back with her into the world of the living, however, has a price: Allie must give up the small magic she carries in her soul to get her lover back. Once returned from death, she is right back in the middle of the war that has broken out among the different factions of the Authority. While Za [...]
♆ BookAddict✒ La Crimson Femme
I am really hooked on this series. I kind of wish I had borrowed all of them at once so that I could keep reading one after another. It's good that I've only limited myself to read a few at a time otherwise I would never get any of my work done. I'd be reading all the time!In this one, Allie is pretty screwed. It's fascinating what happens to her and it's also exhausting. This was another page turner for me as I'm trying to figure out what bad thing will happen next. Each reveal makes me want to [...]
Naoms
While entertaining and a fairly easy read, I had a hard time reading this book. Why? Because I have come to really really hate the characters. Every single choice made by Allie in this book upset me. But what upsets me more is what happens to her. I honestly cannot think of a character I hate more than her father. WHAT IS DANIEL BECKSTROM UP TO? How can he do this to his own child? He is so evil it is ridiculous to me. I don't know what his goal is, maybe he wants to save the world, but his poss [...]
Jen (That's What I'm Talking About)
NOTE: I have not read the first four books in this series. At first, not having read the first four books didn’t bother me - the action was exciting and plot was pretty interesting. I didn’t feel lost and could infer the meaning of most of the magical terminology. I loved Allie right from page one she is snarky and sharp. She doesn’t take crap from her dad or anyone else. And although Zay wasn’t awake from most of this book, I got a sense of the love these two Soul Compliments share.But [...]
Review courtesy of All Things Urban Fantasy.When considering the Allie Beckstrom series as a whole, MAGIC AT THE GATE was my slow point, as so much of the book revolved around the relationship between Allie and her father. While, by design, we don’t get much Zayvion (and more Daniel Beckstrom than I'd like), Shaymus and Allie and Stone have more than enough gravitas to carry a story on their own, enough so that I eagerly await MAGIC ON THE HUNT in April.As you might have guessed from MAGIC ON [...]
Kathy Davie
Fifth in the Allie Beckstrom urban fantasy series and revolving around Allie, a Hound involved in too many problems.My TakeDang, this is so confusing. On the one hand, I despise Daniel for his greed, his hunger for power, the way he'll use anyone (and I MEAN everyone) for his end goal. On the other hand, he says things that make me think he MIGHT be a good guy, somewhere under all that. Things like "I am on magic's side. To see it whole — light and dark used equally…" I suspect it's the main [...]
Dangerous Romance Book Reviews
I don't think it is too spoilerish to say that I knew when reading the end of the last book, "Magic on the Storm", that Allie would face down Death itself to fight for and retrieve her lover, Zayvion Jones. I like that theirs is an interracial love story and that it is completely insignificant to the story line, as if saying his eyes were brown and hers were hazel. It isn't a pro or a con, it just is.I like that she doesn't always know what to do, who to trust, or how to fix things, she just kno [...]
You can view the review in its entriety here: yummymenandkickasschicks/?Warning – Slight spoilers for the previous book in this seriesMagic at the Gate is book five in Devon Monk’s awesome ‘Allie Beckstrom’ series. It starts off exactly where book four left us. Allie, her ‘dad’ and Stone (Love Stone!) are headed into death to retrieve Zayvion’s soul. Allie has to trust her father since he is the one who knows death and he can tell her what she needs to do in order to survive and go [...]
Meigan
After the events of the wild magic storm and the betrayal from trusted Authority members, most everyone escaped major harm. Battered, yes, as each member involved carries not only the memories of the battle, but some now carry small reminders of the events that transpired, mainly Shamus. The only member who didn't get so lucky is Zayvion. Now in a coma, his body may be here on the living realm, but his soul is trapped in Death. If his soul is recovered and brought back to him, there's a chance h [...]
The BookWhisperer
Allie Beckstrom is the kick ass heroine that keeps readers coming back for more. With such a talented author; Devon Monk writes this character as a powerful magical female that is not much different than you or me. Allie has more strength and endurance that imaginable, but Monk offers interpersonal characteristics that allow readers to really know her characters with stregnths and flaws. Allie is more powerful than she knows, but humble and modest to the core. The Allie Beckstrom series has had [...]
Jessica (a GREAT read)
Finished Devon Monk's Magic at the Gate today. I really couldn't put it down at all! Magic at the Gate picks up right where Magic on the Storm left off, which is a good thing, since Allie and her dad and Stone were just about to enter the other world, death! in order to save Zayvion's soul.They didn't stay for as long as I thought they would, this is only takes up the first 60 pages. And the rest of what happens is just as exciting!!I don't want to get too into what takes place but it's big and [...]
Lynsey (A Bookish Life)
A rather lacklustre entry to the series. I had high hopes that the new setting, the trip into Death, would revive my waning interest in this series. Nothing like a change of scenery to perk you up, right?Wrong!Well, in Monk's hands it's wrong, anyway. The descriptions of the World of the Dead were so unimaginative it was almost laughable. Crumbling buildings was about the extent of it. Wow. So very vivid, it's like I can taste it.y not.The great rescue attempt of her lover, Zayvion was completed [...]
Littlechoo
Again it’s Allies inability to trust or listen to her dad that grated a little in the first 1/3 of this book. It slowly got worse as the story unfolded. Yes I know she could end up being right eventually; that daddy dearest could very well end up hurting her and her friends, but there has been tender moments from his part, yet she doesn’t even acknowledge them. Even when she has memories of him missing meetings to be with her on her birthday (there were a few other memories that proves this [...]
"When the action was present, it rocked. Sadly, it took a long time for the book to pick up and become interesting. This seems to be a common theme in this series" That was my opening lines for the review of the last book Magic On The Storm, and it's how I felt about this book too.My thoughts about this book fall along the same lines as the previous books. Instead of repeating my self, I'll just break the stars down.Plot 3 stars Cover 3 stars Writing 3 stars Setting 3 stars Originality 4 starsC [...]
I finished this book today - I had been waiting a long time for it to come out - only to find out I have to drive out to SLC to buy it :( So I got it at the library - I had to wait 3 weeks for them to order it - but it was worth the wait - I LOVE this book! There is a lot of awesomeness in it! Stone is an awesome pet - I want a gargole so bad :) And Shame is my hero - I hope he and Terrik become friends in the next book - I can't wait for it to come out next Spring 2011 :) Hopefully things will [...]
Really enjoyed this one - listened to it and loved the narrator. On to the next
ARomanceLover
As Zay is in a coma, Allie tries to muster the troops to battle the veiled who are suddenly solid and powerful. This book felt like a filler and I missed having Zay in on the action.
Kerry Davies
Wow!! What more can I say? Roll around April 2011!
Loved it! Never knowing for sure who's good or bad or entirely what Daddy Dearest's intentions are makes for quite a ride.(4.5 stars)
Shannon Dyer
Slower than others in the series. Once it picked up, it was quite enjoyable.
Mrs. Badass
☀Rachael☀
Ah Allie-girl what will you get up to next!
More talk than action in this Allie Beckstrom mystery. It picks up where the cliffhanger ending of the previous novel left off, with Allie crossing through the gate to death, where her father materializes as her guide. He teaches her about the rift between light and dark magic five hundred years before, telling her that they were broken apart to separate all powerful Soul Complements, Leander and Isabelle, who were committing unspeakable atrocities. Daniel Beckstrom tells his daughter that his m [...]
The action and overall plot are getting better and are developing more sound,y, but ugh the whining from whenever Allie is insulted--the constant reiteration of how capable she is is really boring and exhausting when it is never quite demonstrated. Yes, it is frustrating that people doubt her, including her lover, but I'd be more sympathetic if she wasn't such an idiot about proving her abilities. Also exhausting is the whole Zayvion saving aftermath (I have Many Feelings about women sacrificing [...]
I'm going to make this short and sweet. I wasn't thrilled with this book. I'm not even sure why. Probably because Allie did really stupid shit, like NOT telling important facts in a timely manner to those that needed to know them. That tended to really dumb down the character on a whole other level.While the author did her best to keep up a fight scene and keep the pace of the book quick, it lagged in important detail and seemed choppy.Maybe it was a quickly written book? I don't know, but I did [...]
Well that was different. A difficult book to put down as the action never really stops. It is one thing after another.I enjoyed the foray into death and the details, particularly about Allie's dad that it brings. I thought the whole thing was an interesting concept. The new use for the disks was a different twist, one hard to say much about without spoilers. If I had the next book I would be reading it immediately as I want to know where this series goes next.
KarenF
As another review I saw mentioned this did suffer a little from lack of Zayvion. But still I enjoyed Allie with Shame & Terric and I like that we're getting answers about her memory issues. I literally "ooohed" when I got to that part. I like that this is a series were there is an overall arc that follows from book to book, with a bigger plot and also that each book gets wrapped up without a cliffhanger.
Quarkie Sparticle
nope, I'm done. thought so on the last one, now I'm sure
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Were there illegal 'shenanigans going on' in Shelton-Lambert divorce?
by Nolan Clay
Published: Mon, July 27, 2015 12:01 AM
SHAWNEE — State law was broken when Blake Shelton filed for divorce from Miranda Lambert in secret, the law's author says.
"There's some shenanigans going on," former state Rep. Aaron Stiles said.
The two country singers had been married four years and had a home together outside Tishomingo, in Johnston County.
Shelton's petition to dissolve the marriage was filed July 6, in Pottawatomie County. The decree officially dissolving the marriage was filed July 20.
A judge sealed the petition, decree and all other legal papers in the case from the public. The only record that is not secret is an online docket that shows the case as B.T.S. vs. M.L.S., the singers' initials.
The rest of the docket sheet is mostly a listing of the legal filings in the case.
Oklahoma legislators last year approved a new law requiring a judge to only seal civil, divorce and other normally public court records if a compelling privacy interest outweighs the public's interest in the records.
Under the law, the judge must make public any sealing order. That order in the Shelton-Lambert divorce is not public.
The new law also requires the judge to seal only the portions of the case subject to confidentiality and keep the remainder of the records open. The law went into effect last November.
"Oh, yeah, they're definitely not following the law on it," said Stiles, who wrote the law. "I can't imagine a scenario where you would ever seal an entire civil or divorce case."
Stiles is a Norman attorney. He said he wrote the law because he has seen cases where judges seal divorce records to protect their friends.
"The average citizen, they don't get their cases sealed. Their records are made public," Stiles said. "All it is is about protecting their buddies and cronyism. ... Somebody needs to put rogue judges in their place. They're not a dictatorship."
Other attorneys also said the case was mishandled.
Oklahoma City attorney Irven Box, who provided commentary last week on the case to the TV show "Access Hollywood," told The Oklahoman on Sunday, "I think it was a favor done ... because of their celebrity status. I'm sure that every Oklahoman getting a divorce would like to have their records sealed ... but they don't."
Box also said, "There were a lot of irregularities in that divorce."
The docket sheet shows a Pottawatomie County associate district judge, John Gardner, handled the case. Gardner is retiring as a judge in a few days, officials said. He did not respond to an emailed request for comment or to a message left Sunday with his wife.
The parties agreed a judge in Pottawatomie County could rule on the case rather than a judge in their home county, the docket sheet shows.
Shelton's attorney is shown on the docket sheet as Virginia Henson, of Norman. She declined Sunday to comment on Stiles' criticism. Lambert's attorney is not shown on the docket sheet.
The two singers revealed they were divorcing July 20, the same day the decree was filed.
"This is not the future we envisioned," they said in a statement released to the media.
"It is with heavy hearts that we move forward separately. We are real people, with real lives, with real families, friends and colleagues. Therefore, we kindly ask for privacy and compassion concerning this very personal matter."
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has repeatedly cautioned judges about sealing court records.
"Sealing a public record should be a very rare event that occurs in only the most compelling of circumstances,” Justice Steven Taylor wrote in 2013 when The Oklahoman sought access to an Oklahoma City mayoral candidate's sealed divorce records.
Taylor wrote again in January about the issue, reminding a divorce judge of his duty and responsibility to follow the new law.
"The law allowing a record to be sealed is clear, concise and quite simple," Taylor wrote. "The trial court cannot avoid the Oklahoma Open Records Act by simply relying on the parties' agreement to seal the record."
Nolan Clay
Nolan Clay was born in Oklahoma and has worked as a reporter for The Oklahoman since 1985. He covered the Oklahoma City bombing trials and witnessed bomber Tim McVeigh's execution. His investigative reports have brought down public officials,... Read more ›
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Entitlement philosophy and an earning based philosophy
Belchen, Germany (trekearth.com)
A. Quebec is more deserving than Winnipeg?
I still do not consider myself an NHL fan. I am a fan of European football, Manchester United, Arsenal, and the UEFA Champions League. I am an observer of the NHL and not a follower like I was when I was younger. I still am not impressed by how the League is run, especially in regard to franchise location, although I like how the League is seemingly being somewhat forced into reevaluating that philosophy and recently relocated Atlanta to Winnipeg which had lost its team in 1996. Winnipeg lost its team due to a variety of economic reasons and the fact it had an old outdated arena and no prospects for a new one, or a local owner that wanted to continue losing money. It now has a newer arena and a billionaire co-owner. The League also has revenue sharing and a salary cap. Quebec also lost its team one season prior to Winnipeg for similar reasons including an old outdated arena and no prospects for a new one, and no local owner that wanted to continue losing money. When Winnipeg received Atlanta via relocation the Mayor of Quebec reportedly stated in the Montreal Gazette:
'"Today we should be thrilled. The best thing that could happen to us is to see Winnipeg get its team. Usually, we could be next on the list," the mayor told reporters.'
The idea having been implied by the League which has also been discussed by the media in both Canada and the United States is that if Quebec, like Winnipeg builds a 15, 000 seats NHL size/type arena it will very likely be next in line to receive a franchise should one become available.
However, former Quebec Nordiques or Nordique great and member of the European Parliament Peter Stastny took a negative route according to the Winnipeg Free Press:
'BRUSSELS, Belgium -- With apologies to Winnipeg, former Quebec Nordiques great Peter Stastny says Quebec City should have been first to see the return of the NHL.
Stastny even admits he was less than thrilled to learn that the Manitoba capital got an NHL club before Quebec City.
"Personally, I was sad," Stastny said Wednesday, adding that Quebec was more deserving of the distinction.'
'Despite Stastny's assessment, Winnipeg had several advantages over its Quebec rival.
The Manitoba capital has a larger population and a completed, modern arena -- built mainly with private cash.'
My take is that, not knowing his heart (motives) of course, is that because he played for Quebec and because the NHL Quebec team, not the WHA team, did generally better than Winnipeg on the ice, he may think it sad that Quebec did not receive a franchise back first, and that Quebec should have received this distinction first.
This type of thinking comes across as entitlement philosophy as opposed to an earning based philosophy. Let us face it, entitlement philosophy it is often associated with both Canada and Europe more so than the United States, although it does exist there also. Winnipeg builds the 15, 000 plus seat/type NHL arena owned by suitable people that could own an NHL club in 2004 and in 2011 and Quebec still has not, although it is being planned and it does have suitable ownership. Winnipeg was in a position to purchase and properly support a franchise, Quebec was not.
Therefore, Stastny is philosophically mistaken.
Further, as side issues, I hope Quebec does receive either the next relocated franchise or the next one after that, if not Southern Ontario receives it. Actually when I a kid, I received Stastny's autograph, he was a nice man.
Political map of Canada, please click for magnification.
B. Rights
I tried to find a good definition of Entitlement in one of my philosophy texts but there was nothing suitable, and so I went to the 'Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy' which I used for my PhD and it is reliable and it uses the term entitlements is the context of defining rights. Rights are a type of entitlement by this definition and so I suppose are a useful example here.
'Rights are entitlements (not) to perform certain actions, or (not) to be in certain states; or entitlements that others (not) perform certain actions or (not) be in certain states.'
Chevreuse, France (trekearth.com)
The West? Is this tied to an attitude of entitlement too often?
C. The Work of Christ as Remedy to the Problem of Evil
From my MPhil (Wales) of 2003 Edited
I think, however, the philosophical discussion needs to be complemented by the theological remedy. I can understand Alister McGrath’s perspective on suffering as in many post-Enlightenment works the faith has been under attack because of the problem of evil. The attacks were of a philosophical nature and thus dealt with so, but ultimately the defence of Christianity comes down to divine revelation. McGrath stated in Iustitia Dei:
'The central teaching of the Christian faith is that reconciliation has been effected between and God and sinful man through Jesus Christ, and that this new relation between God and man is a present possibility for those outside the church, and a present actuality for those within its bounds. McGrath (1986: 1).'
Since to McGrath this is the central teaching, it makes sense in apologetics featuring the problem of evil, that the work of Jesus Christ in atonement which includes restoration and reconciliation, must be central. He thus thinks discussions on the problem of evil that do not deal with this in strong fashion, are lacking. Suffering was written to comfort those struggling with the problem of evil and to inform them that ultimate victory over suffering will be had through Jesus Christ.
McGRATH, A. (1986) Iustitia Dei, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
McGRATH, A. (1992) Bridge-Building, Leicester, Inter-Varsity Press.
McGRATH, A. (1992) Suffering, London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited.
Interestingly, those in Christ are entitled to punishment (Romans 1-3) but the atonement is for sin and the elect are in Christ (Romans 8, Ephesians 1), and those in Christ are saved by grace through faith unto good works.
D. Satirical look at career prospects
That job is in the tank...
Larry Potter?
Match I attended with Uncle Chucky
Thank you to Philip for sending this to me.
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April 1964 April 2018 World's Press News and Advertisers' ReviewRediffusion '64
This is what the editorial of World’s Press News and Advertisers’ Review had to say about the changes:
The new, competitive situation into which TV is entering, particularly in the London area where BBC-2 is no more than ten days away, is reflected in Associated-Rediffusion’s decision to become plain Rediffusion, to modernise their institutional-style station card and to make other significant changes in the manner in which they serve the metropolitan market.
The programme and presentation changes, listed in detail this week by Lord Windlesham, Chief Programme Executive, represent something of a metamorphosis for the organisation which pioneered commercial TV in Britain nearly nine years ago. Fleet Street has doubtless been interested to note that London’s Monday to Friday programme contractors are banking, among a whole lot of other things, on the ability of a different kind of spot news service to keep their flock from straying. Flashes, supplied by ITN and put out under the banner of ‘Newsdesk’ are supplementing the main nightly bulletin and should have the effect of helping to sustain interest in the evening’s fare, although Rediffusion have taken a plunge into more controversial waters by their decision to promote the use of the 24-hour clock in the screening of time checks. However the impact of the new ‘with it’ spirit, the force of the new ‘image’, ought not to be underestimated.
‘New name, new look, new programmes’ is how Rediffusion describe the transformation scene in which they are now starring. Moreover, in Lord Windelsham’s words, ‘a lot of changes will be taking place in the future’. From their key position in the ITA structure, the company are clearly determined to do everything in their power to maintain the viewing lead which Independent Television still has.
To what extent BBC-2 can trim the hours of viewing devoted to Channel 9 remains to be seen. Yet the lesson that competition must benefit the viewer as well as those who use and serve the medium is once again driven home. On the strength of their programme plans, outlined and hinted at, advertisers have every reason to feel confident in Rediffusion’s ability to go on delivering them the kind and the size of publics they seek.
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The Phantom Tollbooth - Gene Schmidt
Gene Schmidt
Written by Jamie Rake
Between his home base in the Dairy State, having a hand in the Christian songwriting community in Tennessee's capital and working in Eastern Europe, he certainly gets around.
Whispering Oaks Apartments Community Room
I confess. I attended for the food, too. What few handbills to be seen for Wisconsin-based Christian (market) singer-songwriter's performance at the commodious and finely-appointed community room at the newest artment building for residents aged 55 and older in my town announced there would not only be music, but grub as well. For my trip across town, it was worth the gratis supper of ham sandwiches, sloppy joes, baked beans, fresh celery (no fan of chlorine-soaked baby carrots, I), cookies galore, lemon fluff with strawberry sauce and-ironically?-deviled eggs.
But, yes, there was also music, thanks to Gene Schmidt-apparently also known as Geno, I've been told by a couple of locals-with an acoustic guitar and connections both locally, as some of his family live nearby, and to the cCm hub of Nash Vegas. It may be the closest in my experience the city has had to a Christian coffeehouse vibe since the late '70s Jesus hippie movement holdover hangout The Upper Room (yes, it was on a second floor, but no, I didn't understand the name's Acts 1 reference, newbie believer that I was).
Schmidt made his friendliness with renowned praise&worship singer Chris Tomlin known from the get-go, as he opened with a couple verses of Tomlin's reworking of John Newton's "Amazing Grace" with it's "My chains are gone..." bridge. He additionally assayed some of his "How Great Is Our God" and gave him commendation regarding the man's talent and usefulness to the Church.
What Schmidt's own work may lack in Tomlin's hooky immediacy, it possesses in abundant sincerity. He has a knack for equating the Lord with His creation, especially mountain vistas, as explicitly heard in "Smoky Mountain Time" and more implicitly in "Peace" and "Silence and Solitude." In a song he co-authored with his wife, "Speak To Me," he sings poetically of the wind as God's majesty, though the title might connote a reliance on revelation beyond that found in the Bible (here's hoping that's not the case, of course).
Beyond his songs of personal testimony and alone time with the Almighty, Schmidt has a gift for the occasionally anthemic melody that could find congregational use. Even if its declaration of having no regrets since salvation doesn't necessarily comport with the Pauline struggle articulated in Romans 7, "I'm Blessed" has the kind of sing-along chorus that could land Schmidt a genuine hit. If that and his subtler country/folk-sounding "As Long As I Have You" appear on either of his forthcoming albums, they should both receive sympathetic treatments from country-leaning former major label cCm'er Bruce Carroll, who is producing at least one of those upcoming long-players. It might also bear notation that Schmidt has his enlisted veteran guitarist/singer/songwriter Phil Keaggy for at least one of his CD's.
As might be expected for a mid-December Christianny concert, Schmidt engaged his unfortunately small audience in some Christmas songs. As might be expected per the subject matter of other of his tunes, "Go Tell It On The Mountain," or at least its chorus thrice over, came first. This he followed with "Silent Night" (with a smidgen of confusion as to how to proceed after its best-know-known first verse) and the first verse of "Joy To The World" a couple times through.
Though seemingly embracing a Pentecostal take on Christianity and presented this evening by one of the churches in the city leaning that way, Schmidt showed respect for hymnody from other traditions. "Good Enough For Me," following the lead of similar soul gospel medleys performed by everyone from The Dixie Hummingbirds to Smokie Norful, strings together a few older songs from the public domain and Albert E, Brumley's catalog;a rendition of Lutheran standard "Holy Holy Holy" followed in the same vein as his Christmas repertoire, with the second verse same as the first. And for a bit of a Jesus hippie throwback beyond the ambiance of the venue, he sang some of Carole King's "You've Got a Friend," one of the handful of early '70s general market pop hits to be recontextualized among the long-hair-and-hand-tooled-leather-Bible-cover crowd.
Not far from the end of his set, Schmidt spoke of his work with Hand Of Help Ministries, an organization aiding Romanian orphans founded by a Scripture smuggler who underwent an unreal amount of physical persecution for his faith and spreading it. Between his home base in the Dairy State, having a hand in the Christian songwriting community in Tennessee's capital and working in Eastern Europe, he certainly gets around.
Though Schmidt's date in this unique setting-a tween girl from the sponsoring church had to open the door of the secured apartment building to let in me and my friend-was sparsely attended, it's my hope that the lady living there who helped organize it takes to heart the words of Zechariah 4:10 and not despise that night of a small beginning (not eisegeting there, I hope). In a town with numerous churches of varying denominational stripes, it would be heartening to see a more fecund faithful music and arts scene to abet proclamation of the Gospel.
-Jamie Lee Rake
www.HandOfHelp.com
http://www.csminetwork.com/ (site for Christian Songwriters & Musicians International, of which Schmidt is a member)
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Category Archives: employability
When Dan was a wise man, Kate was a silly sheep and Joe was in the chorus
November 5, 2019 employability, social media, vocationalnativity, Virgin MediaSal
It’s that time of year when primary teachers are casting roles in the nativity play. This morning I received research results from www.GingerComms.com. According to their poll of 2,000 British adults (conducted on behalf of Virgin Media to mark their Christmas stars competition) there are clear links between the role played by children in the school nativity and their future life chances.
Who knew that oxen end up as the highest earners with an average £43,000 a year, more than twice as much as those who played a lamb or sheep? Who would have thought that Angel Gabriels have around 1,297 followers on social media? Or that they read three and a half books a month, whereas your average donkey just manages one.
‘If your child is playing one of the three wise men this year, they will most likely end up working in construction and enjoy gaming …are most likely to be introverted, with 67 percent admitting they are shy.’
To be fair, Dan did have a holiday job for a plumbing and central heating company. I think the consensus would be ‘tried hard but lacked ability,’ and he is noted neither for his DIY skills, nor for his bashfulness
Kate should be ‘working in healthcare, enjoy yoga and likely to be introverted’. Wrong again. As Little Slow Coach she changed the narrative so that the nativity became a ‘coming of age’ story about a lost and lonely lamb, with Mary and Joseph relegated to the stalls. Mind you, she has been working for Shelter for the last few years.
According to the Virgin Media research, Joe could all too easily have been one of the 9 percent who said, ‘missing out had been so painful that they never acted again.’
In his nativity play, nearly all the roles went to girls. I seem to remember that even the shepherds metamorphosed into shepherdesses, complete with sheep crooks and frilly dresses. Mrs R was not a feminist; she just hated boys.
Joe didn’t seem to care much at the time and years later got a degree in Performing Arts from Bretton Hall and acquired clowning and trapeze skills at Greentop Circus in Sheffield.
So, it just goes to show, early childhood experiences have no impact whatsoever on your children’s future life.
Use this summer to teach children a new – and useful – skill
May 29, 2019 BETT, dyslexia, employability, New technologies, softwaretouch typingSal
We are just coming to that time of the year when schools are planning holiday activities and their after school clubs for the Autumn term.
Now of course you want activities that are a bit more exciting than school curriculum subjects. Some schools opt for trips out, unusual sports, learning an instrument or a gardening club and I have been intrigued by stories of children learning the Glockenspiel, engaging in cheerleading and joining a Conundrum Club.
Often schools look for clubs as an antidote to technology promoting outdoor pursuits and a break from screen time. All good arguments but there is still a place for learning touch typing.
In the UK we don’t teach it in schools as part of the curriculum and yet it is an important skill for life – as important as learning to cook. Often the pundits claim that
digital natives need no instruction on basic computer skills, including keyboarding but this is not true. These students are using more digital media to make notes, do their homework and even take standardised tests so it is vital that they learn to use it efficiently.
There are different ways to teach touch typing but schools often choose learning online where the most popular programs are:
Touch-type Read and Spell https://www.readandspell.com/ an online-access typing course – Winner of the Education Resources Award – 2017, with 24 levels, each with 31 modules
Kaz https://kaz-type.com/ – shortlisted for the Bett Special Needs Award 2019 – an Accelerated Learning course that teaches the A to Z keys in just 90 minutes – using a multisensory approach that engages both sides of the brain – has the added benefit of a qualification, a City and Guilds badge too
Englishtype https://www.englishtype.com/ uses vocabulary content from the national literacy strategy word lists and follows key stages 1-3 of the national curriculum
The Three Rs are not enough!
Here is Allen Tsui’s account of using KAZ type in different schools. You can read the full case study on the KAZ site
I first encountered KAZ-Type in 2014 when working at a highly rated Independent
Preparatory School based in central London. The Head Teacher asked me to manage the school’s subscription as part of its computing curriculum.
The children I was working with at the time were very enthused by it, especially being able to challenge each other with their typing speeds. Many were also partly motivated by the fact that I had set them a personal challenge to exceed my typing speed.
The school I currently work for – Willow Brook Primary School Academy in East London, is an amazing school, recognised by the Mayor of London as being one of the top performing schools in London in school year 2018/19
Beyond the school timetable, Willow Brook also offers a wide programme of after school clubs which are free to all families to take up. I was hosting or facilitating KAZ after school club held on Friday afternoons. This was so well attended and over-subscribed, we had to hold two groups.
Invisible barriers to inclusion
March 16, 2019 disability, employability, technology, trainingemployment, technology, transport, workSal
Today March 16th 2019 is Disabled Access Day.
Our government has promised to get one million disabled people into work over the next decade. This will certainly be a challenge as many disabled workers will not be able to get to work using transport. Recently, BBC journalist Alex Taylor described finding himself stuck on a train in his wheelchair and apparently Govia, parent company of Southern Rail Thameslink Railway recently is putting profits before people by telling staff not to help passengers who are disabled on and of trains if it is going to cause delays.
If these newly appointed workers are using a website or any form of technology they may find the systems inaccessible. Hilary Stephenson, managing director of digital user experience agency, Sigma, has found that many websites still have barriers to access which make it difficult – or even impossible – for people with disabilities to use.
Her company found that a third of council websites in the UK are not accessible for disabled people. From booking travel to accessing vital health services, poor digital design is leaving millions of vulnerable users confused, alienated and often severely isolated.
‘Living with an impairment, disability or health issue of any kind should never exclude people from accessing the same online and digital services as everyone else,’ she says. ‘It is scandalous that there are still so many companies not willing to invest the time and money into making their sites inclusive to all.’
Accessible Spaces – Exploring access to public, leisure and event spaces By Simon Wissink | 24/09/2018
Not just a pretty picture
January 18, 2019 awards, BETT, dyslexia, employability, software, special needs, vocationallearning Englsih, mind mappingSal
An overview of a whole topic at a glance
Bett Award finalists Matchware offer top tips for introducing mind mapping into your school
Matchware (stand C142), a Bett Awards finalist in the Higher or Further Education Digital Services category, is looking forward to showing Bett visitors the latest version of their software MindView, the industry leader in mind mapping,
Often described as a visual thinking tool, MindView encourages learners and teachers to structure information in different ways so they can see the whole, the different parts and the connections in between.
It is well known that the visual approach of mind mapping can help the 10 to 15% of the population who have dyslexia or associated Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD), but it is also a wonderful tool for EAL students and those still to develop full fluency in English who will find that the visual representation of knowledge is so much easier for them to understand and recall.
To help schools and colleges not yet up to speed with mind mapping, Matchware’s manager David Kidd offers these top tips for introducing it into the classroom:
• Fire up your students: MindView is an excellent notetaking and idea generation tool classroom that encourages students to brainstorm and organise ideas for written documents and presentations. As a starting point choose a topic where students have prior knowledge or strong opinions and can collaborate.
• Think visual: Young people switch off if they are listening for too long. Mind maps often work better than linear presentation slides but for maximum effect incorporate pictures, colours, different fonts or text styles to make the ideas stand out.
• Expand and contract: Remind students that they need to crystallise their thoughts into a word or key phrase, a picture or symbol, a vital skill in an age where we are all overloaded with information. Then show them how to build on key words to create fuller accounts or more detailed work, gathering examples and evidence.
• Stretch the mind: Mind mapping helps us to gather, sort, structure and create in different ways. It also is a great aid to memory and learning. Once you have a fairly detailed mind map, switch off the screen and ask students to recall sections.
• Use MindView in the flipped classroom: It is often hard for students to evidence the work they have done before coming to the classroom and for students new to English it is a good way for them to process and interact with language and build their comprehension skills alongside curriculum learning.
• Try mind mapping as a planning tool: Teachers tell us that they use MindView to help with lesson planning, report writing and for curriculum planning, using the built in Gantt chart and Office integration. This gives them a clear visual overview of what needs to be covered.
• Make MindView a regular feature in the classroom: Mind mapping should not be a one-off. Plan to use it regularly for several weeks so it is seen as an accepted strategy in class and not as something special.
There are so many advantages to incorporating mind mapping into teaching and learning. Find out more from the MindView team on stand C142 at the Bett show https://www.matchware.com/mind-mapping-software
David Kidd
Matchware Ltd
E: david.kidd@matchware.com
Brain in hand smooths the path to employment
December 19, 2017 autism, employability, New technologiesSal
It’s not easy to get a job these day and doubly hard for those who struggle to follow instructions or to engage in day to day social interaction that most of us take in our stride.
Erica, 46 from the Wirral was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome when she was 32. She has been unemployed for the past six years. Erica finds social interaction at work hard, she feels people don’t always understand her and sometimes see her as being less intelligent, because of her facial expressions.
Alan, 26, lives in Nottingham and has high-functioning autism. He’s passionate about politics and one day would love to be a Green Party MP. For now, he is keen to find work in the political analysis field, yet despite gaining a degree he’s struggled to stay in work. Although he finds the work itself easy, he finds it hard to get past the interview stage.
They have been using an assistive technology support system called Brain in Hand which helps them to work on the things that he found difficult and find their own solutions. Brain in Hand Using is a smartphone app plus secure website and provides tools such as timetabling and a diary function.
The real strength is that users work with a support worker to identify stress points and work out possible solutions. This means that vulnerable people like Erica and Alan have strategies in their pocket and are less likely to panic.
See their stories here.
For more information about Brain in Hand see http://braininhand.co.uk/ .
Making it easier for students in Further Education to get funding
June 11, 2017 employability, FE, New technologies, software, trainingSal
With the election just behind us, we can see quite clearly that post-16 is going to be back on the agenda. Whatever happens with Brexit, we are facing a skills shortage in the UK because uncertainty has encouraged some migrants to look elsewhere for job opportunities.
Who knows what will happen to Philip Hammond’s proposals for new T-level qualifications? Indeed, at the time of writing, who knows what will happen to Hammond himself?
Bob Harrison FE champion
Bob Harrison, chair of governors at Northern College and education adviser for Toshiba Information Systems Northern Europe, said, “The new Vocational pathways to Technical qualifications will provide enormous challenges for all those involved in 14-18 education, not just for schools but also for the awarding organisations.”
Whatever happens longer term, there is likely to be an impetus to get more students to train for apprenticeships, for jobs and for university courses.
At present FE is a minefield, especially when it comes to getting funding. It can be a traumatic experience for those who are most reliant on funding, that vulnerable group of students who are already at a high risk of withdrawing from college.
At most colleges in the UK the task of applying for financial support is a complex, paper-based process. Often FE students come from non-traditional backgrounds and may be deterred by complex forms. Some will lack family support, many do not have the financial literacy skills needed to make decisions about whether they can afford to come off benefits or give up a job, while others worry about the impact on their dependants.
New software could simplify the process. CAMS software, developed by Scottish firm Inisoft, is now available to further education providers in England and Scotland.
CAMS helps FE providers to streamline their funding application and approval processes. Colleges have experienced significant cuts to their administration budgets and this is likely to get tougher as access to the European Social Fund, worth millions to UK colleges, will end when the UK leaves the EU.
The software will rationalise and manage the entire student funding application, saving time and resources for both students and college staff.
Oonagh McBride, Head of Inisoft
Oonagh McBride, Head of Inisoft, said: “Further Education colleges often find that they are overwhelmed by the volume of enquiries from potential students and hampered by incomplete information or applications that are likely to fail based on a mismatch between criteria and grades. This takes time for administrators and makes life very difficult for students. By streamlining the process, we can introduce certainty and a rapid conclusion to application processes, giving potential students clarity and enabling administrators to respond more promptly to applications.”
CAMS software is already being used by 80% of regional Scottish colleges, delivering real costs and efficiency saving while improving the student experience.
For further information: http://inisoft.co.uk/
Brain training boosts brain power
July 26, 2016 employability, Literacy, special needs, youth and communitybrain training, cognitionSal
Cognition does not sound very exciting but in fact it is the bedrock of learning. Cognition is the ability to plan and organise, problem solve, remember things, and focus, it has an impact on all aspect of peoples’ lives including their ability to learn, cope with everyday situations and their mental wellbeing.
It is one of those things that is noticeable by its absence for example Gena who turns up with all the wrong things in her school bag. We all do this from time to time but not every day!
I have written several articles about memory. This is another aspect of cognition and changes to exams by the government have put a premium on recall skills, project work and continuous assessment have been phased out in favour of end course externally marked exams. Literacy has become synonymous with spelling and for those pupils brought up on phonic it has proved to be a severe test of an 11 year olds’ memory.
With all these changes and challenges Peterborough City Council are to be commended for turning the tables and putting in the base skills instead of bemoaning results at the end of a key stage.
MyCognition, a leading cognitive assessment and training company, is working in partnership with Peterborough City Council to deliver personalised brain training to thousands of the city’s students and pupils in primary and secondary schools and City College Peterborough.
The three-year partnership, the first of its kind in the UK, will give students and young people in up to 70 of Peterborough’s primary, secondary, further education and special schools access to MyCognition’s online portal.
MyCognition’s science-based programmes work by assessing an individual’s cognitive function and personalising the online training games to focus on and help to improve areas of greatest cognitive need.
Areas covered include:
• Concentration (Attention) – Selectively focussing the mind on one task at a time, blocking distractions
• Speed & Accuracy (Processing Speed) – Ability to perform sequences of tasks with smoothness, accuracy and coordination.
• Calculation & Problem Solving (Working Memory) – Finding solutions to complex problems. Short term storage and the use of information
• Memory (Episodic Memory) – Recall of times, places, and contextual knowledge.
• Planning & Strategy (Executive Function) – Managing all cognitive abilities to plan for the future.
School pupils whose cognitive function scores are low, including many with special educational needs, will be given access to Unique, a personalised programme for children aged 8-18 years with learning and behavioural difficulties to boost their performance in the classroom. The 12 week programme can be used at school and at home and it is hoped that parents will get on board and encourage children to persevere.
As well as working with Peterborough Learning Partnership, MyCognition is currently developing programmes for Claydon High School in Ipswich, Royal Free Hospital Children’s School in London and Notre Dame Primary School in Greenwich.
Iain Simper, CEO, Peterborough Learning Partnership said: ‘As educationalists we need to look beyond subject specific difficulties and address underlying causes which could be associated with poor cognition. We believe that by improving the cognitive function of our students, we are also improving their life chances.’
For more information, please visit http://www.mycognition.comhttp://www.mycognition.com//
Thank you, Barclays!
March 14, 2016 disability, employability, New technologies, Politics, social media, software, special needs, training, UncategorizedSal
ATEC is coming! Barclays are sponsoring an Assistive Technology Exhibition and Conference (ATEC) to be held at Jury’s Inn in Oxford on May 17th.
It is fast becoming a Go-To event for those who assess and support people with disabilities in universities and the workplace and more importantly for people who need assistive technology for work, for study or to communicate with others.
T here is loads of good stuff for people with dyslexia: Debra Charles is doing one of the keynotes. She is
CEO of her own smartcard technology firm Novacroft, the company behind the Oyster Card, and believes that her success is because of, and not despite, her dyslexia.
Find out about the latest versions of Claro and TextHelp, mind mapping from Matchware and Inspiration, The C-Pen Reader which reads text from print books and Notetalker that lets users capture information from a lecture or a meeting.
As someone who uses Autocorrect on Word and types entirely in abbreviations, I am keen to see Global AutoCorrect which works with all programs from presentation software to emails, the web and social media. It frustrates me when I have to type every letter on Facebook. Maybe now I won’t have to.
There is some whizzy new technology. David Finch from Star College in Gloucestershire will be talking about a project called Ember. The idea is to reduce employer or mentor support and help trainees to work more effectively and more independently.
There is also an assistive robotic arm called JacoTM developed by The ACCESS Research & Development Department at Hereward College with charitable funding from Npower.
I am also keen to hear Abi James of University of Southampton and BDA New Technologies Committee. I often wonder why some people embrace technology while others reject it from the off. I used to think it was all about training and support in the early days, now I am not so sure. Abi is researching this area and will be leading a discussion on the role of professionals to improve the take up of technology.
Book your place now at http://www.ateconference.com/
Tuesday, 17th May 2016 Jury’s Inn 30 Godstow Road, OX2 8PG
Life changing technology
October 18, 2015 disability, employability, Literacy, New technologies, software, trainingClaro Software, Pete GustinSal
Technology used in the right way at the right time can change lives. it helps people to pass exams and get jobs. it also gives them back their self-respect and independence as this story shows.
Taken from All channels open: Inside The Inclusive Radio Revolution first published in Access magazine April 2015
http://www.accessmagazine.co.uk/all-channels-open-inside-the-inclusive-radio-revolution/
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DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1035.2012.01041
Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica (水生生物学报) 2012/36:6 PP.1041-1047
MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES ABOUT THREE NEWLY RECORDED THALASSIOSIRA SPECIES FOR CHINA
LI Yang 1 ZHAO Qiu-Lan 1,2 LÜ Song-Hui 3
1.Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Healthy and Safe Aquaculture, Key Laboratory of Ecology and Environment Science in Guangdong Higher Education, College of Life Science, South China Normal University,Guangzhou,510631,China
2.Department of Ceramic Technology, Hanshan Normal University,Chaozhou,521041,China
3.Research center for Harmful Algae and Aquatic Environment, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University,Guangzhou,510632,China
Thalassiosira Cleve is a very common diatom genus with high species diversity in coastal waters around the world. Up to now, nearly one hundred and fifty taxa belonging to this genus have already been reported. Thalassiosira is the main contributor to nano-phytoplankton assemblage because cell sizes of most species are below 20 μm. Previously, some Thalassiosira species were considered as model organisms of centric diatoms and Bacillariophyta, and many studies concerning genetics, sexual reproduction, feeding pressure, impact on egg producing and hatching of zooplankton, envi-ronmental indicator, etc, have been performed. On the other hand, some Thalassiosira species are also important bloom-causing organisms. And the blooms induced by T. curviseriata and T. diporocyclus have already been reported in the Changjiang River Estuary and along Hainan coast respectively. Due to their very small cell sizes, electron microscopy is needed for accurate identification. In order to characterize the species diversity and distribution of the genus Thalassiosira along Chinese coastal waters, water samples were collected from some locations. Thalassiosira specimens within these samples, as well as several clonal strains isolated from natural samples, were studied by light microscopy (LM) and scan-ning electron microscopy (SEM). All samples were fixed with Lugo’s solution and were concentrated to a final volume about 2—10 mL by settling overnight several times. The cultivated samples could be observed and analyzed under a light microscope. For observation under scanning electron microscope, sub-samples were taken and treated in several steps. Firstly, after dropped into the same volume of concentrated H2SO4, these samples were boiled in the water bath for about 10—15 minutes to remove the organic materials. Secondly, these samples were washed to neutrality with distilled water for several times. Then, these samples were coated with gold and were subsequently observed, identified and photographed under a scanning electron microscope. Three Thalassiosira species were newly recorded species for China, i.e., T. anda-manica Gedde, T. constricta Gaarder and T. duostra Pienaar. Along with LM and SEM photos, detailed morphological de-scription, habits and ecological distribution of these species were given in this paper. Simultaneously, taxonomic compari-son among resembling species were made. T. andamanica was very common in South China Sea coast, especially in Hong Kong waters. The morphological features of this species were represented by prominent external tubes of all fultoportulae and one rimoportula keeping a distance from the valve margin. For T. duostra, more patterns of valve fultoportulae and three marginal rimoportulae have been found, which were different from previous descriptions.
Key words：Thalassiosira,New records,China,Morphological description
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#CREATE COP 25
IMAGE BY JACK WALKER HEPPELL
“The point of no return is no longer over the horizon. It is in sight and hurtling toward us.” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres exclaimed as world leaders gathered in Madrid for the COP25 – The UN Climate Change Conference, which takes place December 2 – 13, 2019.
Discussions will undoubtedly be heated as new record highs of greenhouse gases have been recorded, delegates will be working to secure commitments as set forth in the Paris Climate Change Agreement. And with next year’s COP26 fast approaching, the mandate is to ensure developed countries resubmit effective strategies for achieving climate neutrality by 2050.
While the world watches and waits, artists are being activated to use their platforms to bring awareness to this crisis and the summit. #CreateCOP25, a contest founded by Art Partner, one of the world’s leading creative talent agencies, ‘called on young creatives and climate activists to submit artistic responses to the environment and climate emergency.’ #CreateCOP25 was born of the need to create a visual dialogue surrounding the climate crisis, resulting in a visceral and hopefully real reaction.
The jury – designer and entrepreneur Francisco Costa, Eco-Age Founder Livia Firth, fashion designer Gabriela Hearst, artist and writer Wilson Oryema, agent Giovanni Testino, Vogue Italia Creative Director Ferdinando Verderi, and photographer Harley Weir – reviewed hundreds of multi-disciplinary submissions from over forty countries, ranging from photography to fashion design to film. The following are the six most impactful works with winner Nicholas Bennet, receiving $10,000 and five runner-ups receiving $2,000 each to fund future projects that respond to climate change.
Follow @earthpartner for more updates
NICHOLAS BENNET, 19, NORTH YORKSHIRE
SUSTAINABLE TRADITIONS: FORMALWEAR
“I wanted a fresh view on the future and to rethink the importance of traditions that we take for granted but would miss if they were gone. I focused on daily rituals and products that can be overlooked but are a definite part of working life and overall well-being.
With this film I aim to rethink what’s most important to us: tradition, innovation or a mixture of the two. To look at different ideas for reusing products, maintaining well-being and living conditions in the threatening futures. Yorkshire’s recent flooding as an example. Testing whether you can overcome the problem without new ways of living. With increasing flooding, getting to work and staying dry would be difficult so I had to create simple waders that could be hidden and forgotten about.”
KAILASH BHARTI, 22, LONDON
AN EXTRACT FROM “HALF LIFE”
PHOTOGRAPHY + POETRY
“A sense of urgency has grown in me in response to the decline of our natural world, as well its multitude of repercussions. Poetry and photography allow me to navigate the emotions that arise from living in this age, communicate and navigate feelings around the concept of extinction and the weight of the current climate emergency. Equipping young people with the power to translate feelings of hopelessness into positive action. Starting from the small proposal of planting a seed with intention.”
ZHU OHMU, 25, AUSTRALIA
“THAT FEELING WHEN YOU FINALLY DECIDE YOU WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN ONE DAY, AND THE NEXT DAY YOU READ THAT CLIMATE SCIENTISTS ARE WARNING WE ONLY HAVE 12 YEARS BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN #2”
“Divulging the implicit nature of the internet as not only a place to disseminate information concerning environmental annihilation, but as a community where we awaken our awareness of our personal contribution and reaction to the fallout of our role within the destruction of the planet’s ecosystems.
12 years is also the length of childhood, and this challenges the artist to consider the personal uncertainty of climate change as an intimate politic. The mention of such a private thought as having children one day in the title, is not just the title – it’s a life. This is no longer just a temporal frame, the possibility of life – it is the consideration of if it is more loving not to bring a child into a world that is facing and contributing to an uncertain future.
The organic fluidity of these ceramic structures, their flow of form openly addresses the environmental crisis of the Anthropocene – of earth as a vessel that is slowly, then quickly losing its ability to hold.”
SIS GURDAL, TURKEY/ NEW YORK
“IN YOUR OWN TIME”
“I focus on the connection between mental health and climate action using a ‘Meditation Guide’ format, in which the guide attracts the listener to focus on the short-term self, ignoring any dangers and signs of global warming.
The format and core message merge in an unexpected sense; creating a duality of how our mental health is negatively impacted by the lack of focus, while drawing attention to the need for focus when it comes to climate change. By asking my audience to steer away from any thoughts about climate change, I call for the need to create clarity in the climate discourse.
I open these ideas as meditative questions rather than presenting them as complete statements.”
ANDREA SAUM, 25, NEW YORK
“In this video, the dancers have created an incoming tide that is disrupted by manmade pollution. Using physical bodies to embody the characteristics of environmental breakdown gives the audience a more personal and relatable experience to changing environments that otherwise may seem out of reach and unimportant to their day to day lives. Having humans embody the nature we are destroying also creates a paradox that hopefully makes the viewer slightly uncomfortable.”
DAPHNE GOMEZ, 18, PERU
“MI PEQUEÑO ESFUERZO” (MY LITTLE EFFORT)
A traditional Peruvian ‘Marinera’ dress from recycled materials, including used jute flour bags and bottle caps, and organised for the 2016 ‘Marinera’ world champion to wear it for a special performance in her community.
“‘My little effort’ is an initiative that seeks to pay tribute to all those attempts to improve the difficult environmental situation, no matter how small they may be. I was inspired by the ‘marinera dance’ for being a typical dance of my country that I have always liked. I thought that dance and culture would attract the attention of others and thus be able to deliver our message. The message is that we can all carry out climate awareness actions, regardless of our profession or daily activity.”
ONE TREE PLANTED SOMEONE: Tree planting worldwide upporting refore tation and environmental con ervation. Pre ented with a certificate and report highlighting the impact of your tree .PLANET: Protect biodiver ity, help refore tation effort globally. COMMUNITY: Help with water, energy, and food ...
“Anyone who is different, who has ever taken a stance for themselves, is taking a step toward diversity. My goal is to have diversity be the standard. It can’t just be a trend.” PHOTOGRAPHED AT DRIFT STUDIOS, NEW YORK www.driftstudionyc.com
Since 2012, when Cyrill Gutsch founded Parley for the Oceans, an organization that rallies the power of creative thinkers, scientists and innovators to proactively heal our ailing oceans—its message has grown exponentially, and so has its urgency.
A JOURNEY OF ONES OWN
The Tuscan sunlight is unlike any other, effortlessly transporting you to a place where reality looks and feels like the most surreal dream.
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If a fashion label can be a direct manifestation of one’s personal convictions and ethos, then Marine Serre the woman and Marine Serre the brand are an intimately intercon nected realization.
KIRSTEN X GUINEVERE
A farmer, a mother, a model. An escapist, a realist, a provider. A protector, a humanist, an iconoclast.
THE WANTS OF (WO)MANKIND
Artist Chloe Wise says that her role culturally “as a producer of images, of language, of rhetoric, of opinions, at the end of the day, my work is me navigating and negotiating a moment, not directly explaining but pointing to the direction of how I feel about it. My responsibility is to work through those ideas and philosophize on it.
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Hunter-Nin Files: Power In The Blood - Part 1
Yuri (as Mori), Tsiro (as Yari)
A mission assigned to an experienced Hunter-Nin and a newer Hunter-Nin leads them towards a dangerous part of the Land of Water not just for them but for anyone… But it is not to eliminate the rebel threat therein. Only to take back what is the Hidden Mist's property: blood and the power contain therein.
"Hunter-Nin Files: Power In The Blood - Part 1"
Rebel Camp - Land of Water
The forest that the Koumorite Renegades are using as a place for their training camps is just off the path that leads from the cliffs of the Koumorite Village and the more 'modern' stone roads in the 'civilized' parts of the Land of Water. Not that there has been much time to build up such civilization only 6 years after the end of the Clan Wars, but people are trying. The additional wars since then have not helped the economic state of the country much, but the Hozuki Clan have been working on building that infrastructure all the years. They have been working so quietly and discretely that many people thought the Clan was extinct.
Now, one of the new allies of Kirigakure has renegades within its otherwise extremely loyal population who seek to destroy all that the Land of Water's citizens and the ninja of the Hidden Mist have been working and fighting for. That's not why Hunter-Nin have been dispatched though. The reason has less to do with morality and a threat to society or any of that and more to do with these renegades being labelled Missing-Nin. They have a Kekkei Genkai that 'belongs' to Kirigakure now, and even those who cannot use their inheritance of genetic ability can be captured and dissected by an enemy or simply reveal all that they know to other interested parties.
Thus a male and female Hunter-Nin have been sent out. One of the camps was located by other agents, and that is where Suzaku Yuri, using the codename of 'Mori' (meaning 'Lance'), and Kaguya Tsiro, using the codename 'Yari' (meaning 'Spear'), are presently headed. They should have both received quite thorough briefings on the situation — at least as it applies to what they are up against and what they need to do — and need no further instruction. However, the location of the camp is troubling… It is very near to the 'cursed forest' known as the 'Road of Fear'. It is not quite within the boundaries of that dreaded place, with its permanent fog and unseen horrors, but most people wouldn't even go >near< it.
That a training camp has been established within only a dozen miles of the outer reaches of the Road of Fear may mean that these renegades are willing to use proximity to such a place to conceal their presence… And if they can tolerate being near, then they may be insane enough to go a bit deeper… After all, the location of the leader of this entire Koumorite Renegade movement remains unknown.
For now, though, it's a sunny day in most other places but overcast in this area. A gloomy feeling permeates the woods. Like just being >close< to the accursed forest is enough to make the weather worsen. Mori and Yari should be closing in on a position they can watch the camp from any moment now…
Yari was excited to be on his first mission as a Hunter Nin. The boy made sure his uniform was perfect and that his mask had been shined before wearing. He did not want to give his superiors the wrong impression. He was as prepared for the mission as he possibly could be. While he truly knew little of the Koumorite Clan that these missing nin were from, the briefing seemed to help him feel at ease. There were a few mixed feelings about going near the 'Cursed Forest' but in the end the boy felt it could not be too much more dangerous than the Blood Marsh.
There was also little known about Mori, his superior. She wore a mask like him and obviously had more experience doing this. He moves behind her, following her lead for the moment. Even as the camp comes into sight, he remains still and quiet. His eyes glance between her and the base waiting for an order.
Mori is dressed in a typical manner for a female Hunter-Nin. No particularly distinguishing characteristics other than a wire spool on her belt. Even her rather 'mature' build is down-played by her attire thanks to combat jacket, baggy hakama, etc. As she kneels behind a fallen log overlooking the camp's perimeter, the kunoichi wonders inwardly how much of this is a real mission and how much is 'field training' for a rookie. Still, this isn't the first time she has had to instruct a new Hunter, so she treats it professionally. She doesn't try to make it too hard or too easy. This isn't about challenging Yari nor about protecting him. This is about getting the job done right.
Mori's right hand is held up to get attention silently. Then she holds up two fingers on that hand, and points to her left — westwards. A look in that direction would reveal one guard semi-concealed in camouflage clothing kneeling next to a leafy bush and seemingly talking out of the side of his mouth. He doesn't appear to be aware of the presence of enemies just yet. Then one finger is held up, and she points upwards and to the east, at a tallish tree with enough foliage to hide someone in the branches from directly below or nearby it, but leaving a man in a dark-green bandanna and facepaint straddling a branch visible from their position about 12 feet up.
Then Mori turns her head to look at Yari through her mask's slitted eyeholes, and waits to see if he understands and what he intends to do if so. She knows what >she'll< do, but if this new Hunter has any skills or ideas of his own he should learn first-hand whether they're good ones or not.
Yari's attention is already on Mori. He follows her hand and understands there is a second guard in the first direction Mori pointed. He then gives a nod of the head to confirm he sees the one up above in the tree. There are at least three total guards around the camp. The one guard from above seemed to have a good vantage point. He was not worried about the two that seemed to be speaking to each other. They were probably trying to pass the time of a boring shift.
Yari looks across the ground and picks up a rock. He then makes a gesture towards the underbrush. The boy was trying to create a small distraction to draw the upper guards attention.
A distraction… And one that doesn't require jutsu use. An effective application of the basics against a guard that is clearly not trained to ninja levels. From the information available, mercenaries and civilians are the ones being trained. Actual ninja presence is minimal, though some of the mercenaries may also be left-over ninja from the Clan Wars. Mori approves of this simple tactic and nods her head to show such. After the stone is thrown, the guard in the tree turns his head when the rock thumps into the bushes, rattling them. He was previously just peering around, but now he is looking quite specifically in the direction of the noise, and doing his best to get the attention of his fellow guards who are far enough away that they didn't hear the rock and aren't looking in that direction. In order to get attention, the guard would have to call out.
Waving his arms isn't doing anything and his tentative 'hey! hey!' whisper-shouts is more revealing him to any nearby trespassers than drawing looks from his bored companions a good two-hundred feet away. Really amateurish perimeter guards they're dealing with. Though that makes the Queen of Paranoia become immediately suspicious. Maybe the guards are incompetent, but what about the one running this place? A trained ninja wouldn't necessarily put just some idiot guards out here to protect the others while they're training right? Experienced mercenaries to guard the ones who still need to learn would be better.
Does that mean the Koumorite Renegade running this camp is also a fool? Or is there some other layer of defense as-yet unseen? Mori decides to find out. She is one of those who has worked most closely with the Koumorite Clan in the past. She helped earn their trust and get their Elders to agree to join Kirigakure. She knows many of their preferences and abilities as a result…
But not all. However, they like to stay above-ground, in places where they can feel safe. Darkness. Foliage. Perches that have a good view of the surroundings. So she directs her attention upwards, and then while the guard in the tree is getting up from the branch in preparation to climb down to the ground, she heads the opposite direction, leaping up into another tree. She pauses on a branch and holds out a hand in a 'wait' gesture to Yari. Then she notices it. A network of trip wires, bells, tags, and more all strewn throughout the branches amidst the upper portions of the trees.
Clever. Put a bunch of incompetents on the ground and then have real defenses above for those attempting to bypass them. Though that leaves the problem that someone could try to just kill their way through the guards and hide the bodies or something. So Yuri then starts to worry about what >other< defenses may be in place.
For now, she is up on a branch about two dozen feet away from Tsiro, facing an intricate net of traps and warning bells and similar, while the guard that was in the tree finishes climbing down to the ground. Mori can't get back down now without drawing attention to herself, so she waits and watches what the now ground-bound camouflaged sentry does…
Which appears to be approach the foliage the rock was thrown at cautiously, with some kind of long-knife in his hand. Total. Freaking. Amateur. Mori gestures for Tsiro to just ignore the guy and proceed forward. One Hunter can probably stealth by on-foot, or just leap up to join Mori and then they can find a safe place to descend from there. But what other defenses may be in place? Something on the ground too?
Yari tossed the rock as soon as he had been given approval. His eyes remain on Mori as she moves into the tree while the man looked away. He watches how she moves and her body responds to moving up the tree. This was not her first time out on a mission like this. He spots her signal to remain where he is. Instead of nod, he simply obeys the command. By now he sees the man trying to get the attention of his people. Though Yari kind of wished to kill the guard and henge into him, it was not the best for the plan and risked letting others know they were there.
It seems that Mori spotted something above, though Yari has no idea what it is. Then the guard finally gets out of the tree and approaches where the rock landed. The eyes of Yari scan the area between the guard and his tree. His body gets up from the kneeling position. He is about to move forward when he spots what appears to be a tag with a seal on it. It's mostly covered by leaves. The eyes go wide behind the mask. He's now standing up but his plan will not work. Instead of remain paused, the boy moves up the tree towards Mori.
Now he knows why the guard who was so eager to get the attention of the others did not travel towards his friends once he was on the ground. He knew the section between the guards was trapped. Now he is simply glad he had not chosen to throw the rock into the center area. He would have gathered the attention of everything in the entire area. Now he waited for Mori to make a decision.
Mori gets the message when Yari joins her in the tree. Leaves concealing seals that wouldn't be visible from above-ground. So those who see them on the ground think to leap into the trees to bypass them, only to run into the aerial defenses. Those who see the aerial defenses first head to the ground to bypass them only to run into the ground-based traps. The guards may be amateurs, but the traps aren't nor is their planning. Mori can't really explain all that in-detail, but she does point out the wire network up here where the two are now. It will take quite awhile to work their way through it without setting anything off — assuming that's even viable — and while they are not exactly in a rush, and patience and endurance are definitely excellent traits in a Hunter-Nin, it would be better not to spend hours trying to get through this stuff.
She wanted to make it to the target with as little Ninjutsu usage as possible. So she'll just have to do something a bit reckless. If the one who sent out these guards knows they're incompetent… Then it shouldn't be too much trouble to…
Mori unwinds high-tensile metal wire from a spool in one of her ninja tool pouches and then attempts to hurl it out towards the guard who is presently anxiously looking around as he makes his way back to his sentry position, having found no sign of an intruder. If successfull, the loop of wire attempts to ensnare the man's throat and then squeeze tight to cut off his hair supply, keeping him from calling out. Then, because he's further away from the two Hunter-Nin and they are above-ground, heaving on the wire should be enough to pull him off his feet, causing him to swing towards the seal mine field… Where he would be dropped right on the edge.
The seals going off are likely to result in alerting people, but they'd just find the remains of the guard, assume he stupidly wandered into the kill-zone, and not be looking while two ninja sneak into the camp.
Now in the tree, Yari is able to see the network of wires and traps. The one in charge here was no slouch. He seemed to know full well what he was doing. For a moment, it seems unlikely that it could be someone from the Koumorite Clan. They were rumored to be less knowledgeable in the arts. That either meant this person was very smart or probably had help. Despite his thoughts now, they would find the truth out sooner or later.
Yari watches as the coil grabs the man and slings his body into the mine field. There is a split moment of confusion for the boy as he ponders why Mori would do this. No matter, she knew better than he did. So the boy turns the opposite direction on the tree to be covered from the blast. Once the blast occurs, Yari prepares to move quickly. He watches Mori to see which path she choses.
Mori leaves after that, rewinding what's left of her wire and then watching as both of the bored guards leap up and begin heading towards the edge of the seal field until they see the blood remains of their comrade. While they stare in shock and try to figure out what happened, the kunoichi performs a deft leap to a branch a distance away to the west, and then swings down to land on the ground on the side of the forest the two bush-sentries were previously kneeling at, pausing only long enough to ensure Yari does the same, and then moving on her way, on the look-out for more traps but more concerned about who will come to investigate the explosions. They will be the ones who reveal the safe path.
So once there is a significant distance between the Explosive Tag mine field and the two Hunter-Nin, Mori stops and hides behind some trees, where she then explains what's going on as quietly and succinctly as possible. Intentionally masking her voice by making it sound hoarse and raspy, Mori whispers, "You saw how inexperienced those guards were. Those traps weren't made elaborate because they had to be. They were there to cover the failings of those guards. With one of them seemingly blown apart by his own stupidity, a cursory examination won't reveal we're present. But I'm not sure that is the end of the traps. Whoever comes to investigate is going to have to take a safe route. So we watch for them, and then take the same path back to the camp. Further, because it will be awhile before they return with news of what happened, the man who died is still alive as far as they know. So the two of us should use the Transformation Technique to appear as the two guards who were stationed by that shrubbery. I'll have a stand-in for the tree-based sentry in a moment."
Just then, some ninja come dashing between a pair of trees close together about fifty feet away from the position of the two Hunter-Nin. They don't look fancy, aren't wearing any Village's crest, and just seem to have basic weapons, minimal ninja gear, and lack awareness of the two Hunter-Nin. Though one of them stops to look around the area briefly before then going after the others. The camp lies beyond that pair of trees. It seems to be a straight path from there, that then diverges into a 'Y' based on how the ninja curve around that center area where the seal tags are.
Are there more traps? Maybe or maybe not. But Mori withdraws a scroll from a pouch and then unrolls it enough to expose a single seal. She activates the seal and a dead body poofs into existence on the ground. She then uses Henge no Jutsu to appear to be one of the two guards by the bush to the best of her recollection of his appearance, and hopes Yari was paying attention to such details in a similar fashion. She then extends her Henge to cover the corpse and make it appear to be a wounded tree-guy. Slipping one of the dead guy's arms over her shoulder, the 'guard' turns to Yari and looks meaningfully at him while waiting for a similar transformation to occur before heading towards the camp.
Yari follows behind Mori, mimicing her movements as best he can. He was slightly surprised to make it past the two guards without them noticing him. Stealth was not his strongest point. He even stops where she stops. As she explains the plan to him, he nods his head. It made sense to draw them out and reveal their path. It was like making the enemy do half the work instead of shouldering it all themselves.
As the other side's shinobi pass over them, Yari remains perfectly still. He had no intention of giving away his own position or that of Mori's. Luckily he had gotten a good look at the shinobi that had been hiding in the bush. The boy places his fingers together and performs the basic henge jutsu.
Nodding once in acknowledgement with a stranger's face instead of her own (though that was covered by a physical mask before now instead of an illusory one), Mori then does her best to haul the dead man along the 'leg' of the 'Y-path'. The straight line from the Seal mine field towards the pair of trees is where those ninja travelled along… But… There are times when being a paranoid schitzophrenic is helpful and there are many more times it isn't. This Hunter-Nin may have learned how to use her paranoia in her work, to control her outwards expressions of her insanity, and so on, but she can't stop the worries from running around in her head. The fears. The idea that >everyone< is out to 'get' her. All of it combines to make her suddently start questioning the legitimacy of this path.
Those traps before were set up very cleverly by an experienced ninja. Would they really only have that one defense for that one direction? The fact the ninja passed between these two trees may indicate going around them is dangerous… But it doesn't mean that the path between them is >safe< either, does it?
She is very likely overthinking things. But that is her nature as a psychopath. Insanity is not something she can turn off and on like a switch. So she turns on the new Hunter-Nin who is along on this mission and says in the voice that belongs to the man whose appearance she has stolen, "You go through first. Your mobility should be less limited due to not having to carry this guy. Remember to act like a normal, untrained individual… But if you detect danger, don't be afraid to use what you know to deal with it."
Then she goes silent. The real reason she is sending Yari first? Incase the path isn't safe, he'll set off the traps first. And if he isn't good enough to get out of the way, then he clearly wasn't good enough to be a Hunter-nin either.
The reasoning of the insane isn't reasonable. However, various tents and temporary structures are visible starting just a few feet beyond that pair of trees. Once they're in they can get the target and get out. They've come this far. Too late to turn back now, right?
Yari followed behind Mori until she came to a stop before passing through the trees. He is a bit surprised when she decides to send him first. The entire area had been trapped and now she is sending him ahead. This was no doubt a test and Yari knew it. That or she was sending him to his death to try and protect herself. This was not a surprise nor something that upset him. They were both shinobi from Kirigakure. The weak did not survive the blood lust.
As Yari moves forward his eyes spot something sticking out from the other side of the tree. It was a tag of some sort but not one that he could see. His eyes then look towards the other side. He was sure there was one there as well. It may have been his mind playing tricks on him, but there was something there. The young Hunter Nin looks upwards but opts not to go that route. There would likely be some sort of trap there. One he might not have spotted before running into. Quietly Yari turns back towards Mori and holds up a finger for her to wait. They were working on a time frame here, so his decision had to be quick.
Now facing the trapped trees, Yari Yari places his left hand to the backside of the tree. He then produces a long piece of bone from his right hand. The edge of it is extremely thin. Now making sure that his hand does not cross the tag, he uses the bone to pry the tag off the tree and then place it off to the side. He then repeats the process on the other tree and places it out of their path before crossing between the trees.
Well, that worked out nicely. Yuri/Mori doesn't doubt that this young Hunter understands her sending him forward more than would be noticeable from casual observation. They are ninja of the Hidden Mist. Sacrifice is necessary, but so is self-preservation. Many see Kirigakrue as a Village of murderous psychopaths. While the place has its fair share of murderers and crazies, as Yuri herself proves, the mentality that actually is most prevalent is…
Survival. To be able to do what is needed to survive can also mean more than just one's own immediate existence. Preserving one's life is a priority, of course, but ensuring one's Village continues to survive to provide the long-term benefits is likewise important. And sometimes, one has to die to make sure that Village continues on — but generally it is preferred to avoid doing dumb things like just throwing oneself into a suicide mission for no reason other than 'honor' or 'good will'.
That is shown as Tsiro/Yari does as instructed but does not do so recklessly. He does what is needed to survive and ensure this two-person team survives, and that does not require that he die. But now forward motion is required. Mori nods in understanding with her borrowed face and then proceeds between the trees after the other Hunter does. She pauses long enough to place her own tags on the pair of trees to replace the ones taken off. They look the same but they are actually completely different. If they just left the tags missing someone would notice after all.
Some guards notice the trio quickly after they enter the camp, the light a bit brighter in this area than in the forest, thanks to gas torches and similar. The men seem rather ill-at-ease in this forest. This may not have been a wise place to train new ninja after all. "Oi! Miroku! Ebi!" one of the men calls out as he runs over. "What happened to Shuu!?" Not knowing which of the two of them is Miroki and which is Ebi, Mori just assumes the appearance of the henged corpse is that of 'Shuu' and answers, "This guy accidentally set off those exploding tags! Where's the doctor!?"
The man sighs and rubs his forehead as he mutters, "Clumsy idiot." Then louder he says, "Over to the north-west, same as always!" Mori nods and smiles embarassedly as she says, "Sorry, that explosion kind of rattled me." "Yeah, well, there's going to be a lot more of them in this line of work. Better get used to them."
Mori then turns to Yari, assuming he's doing his own bit of acting — though hopefully not too much. The more they interact with people who >know< those whose faces they're wearing, the higher the chances of slipping up and saying or doing something the real ones wouldn't have. "You should report to the boss about this," she offers with her borrowed voice, and then pauses to go, "Err… Where was the command tent again?"
The guard groans and rolls his eyes. "You forgot that too!? You're not cut out for fighting alongside ninja, Miroku!" Mori just nods and lets her false face sag a bit as she mutters, "Hai…" Then the man points out the command tent, near the center of the camp. That's where 'Ebi' (aka Tsiro aka Yari) should go. The fact the guard didn't say anything about 'the boss' not being there right now means he probably >is< there.
Mori, meanwhile, takes her ashen-faced buddy 'Shuu' towards the medic tent… To drop him off and make sure there's a surprise ready incase they need to leave suddenly.
Though Yari had originally planned to replace the old tags, he does not protest when Mori places her own. It was a better idea to use her own. At least that way he would not set off the tags while trying to place them. He also figured if they were different from the original there might be the possibility that those shinobi returning could possibly set the tag off. While it was not part of the mission, it would be one less group they had to face if this thing went south.
The boy is more than glad to have passed this portion of his test. More than that though, he is proud to be learning things that normally he would not had. Now that they were moving into the camp, they faced a whole new test. Yari hears the names shouted. It was easy to put together that 'Shuu' was the dying man, unless that was code for something. There was doubt that these people would be that paranoid with all those traps set up. The issue here was that they had not been able to observe their assumed identities before using them.
Yari simply lets Mori take the lead in the conversation. He seems surprised when Mori asks where the doctor is. Then again he was the conversation seems to go okay and she covers using the explosion as an excuse. Meanwhile Yari raises a hand to his head as if he had been rattled a bit by the explosion. He blinks his eyes a few times as Mori ask where the command tent is.
Now that it has been decided who is who by Mori being called Miroku, Yari now knows he is Ebi. Unless that is a trap too. Either way he is on his way to the command tent. Mori is on the way to the medical tent. He pondered just how well their acting was. If things were going well, they had plenty of time to do the mission. If not, speed would be the only way to progress forward.
However, after the two have parted ways, the man they spoke to is joined by another. The second man whispers to the first, "Wasn't Miroku acting a bit weird?" The first is scowling and says, "Yeah, he was way too apologetic and scatter-brained… Something's up. I'm going to go find the team that went out to check on that disturbance. You go tell the captain of the guard."
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VERLANDER CHANNELS VERLANDER
August 27, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized
By Mark Wilson
Justin Verlander was… Justin Verlander again.
For one sweet night in the Motor City, J.V. was motoring like his old Detroit Tigers’ self. He was wheeling, dealing and confusing LA Angels all over Comerica Park. 31,938 were in his corner all the way.
When he took the mound to start the 9th inning, Verlander was working on a no-hitter. He’s thrown two before Wednesday night; a third would put him in rarefied air. Only Nolan Ryan (7), Sandy Koufax (4), Bob Feller (3), Cy Young (3) and Larry Corcoran (3) had tossed more no-no’s.
The mere THOUGHT of another Verlander no-hitter seemed radical and preposterous the way this season has gone for the Virginia native.
He came into the game with exactly ONE victory to his credit. Oh, he was pitching better of late but still… even without run support, one win is… ONE win.
It’s late August for crissakes.
J.V.’s tailspin actually began following his amazing 2011 MVP/Cy Young campaign.
Even though he won 17 games in 2012, basically every one of his key stats were worse than the previous year. Ditto 2013. DITTO 2014.
When he came into 2015 as an injured 32 year old right arm, fear was in the eyes of Tigers’ management and fans. He had four years left on a contract extension that paid him a gaudy $28 million per annum.
Whether he threw one more pitch or not— Verlander was going to get that money through 2019.
Hell, there is even a peformance based option for 2020.
Thursday night was nothing real special; just another start against Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and the Angels.
Inning by inning, J.V. showed flashes of that 2011 J.V. By the fifth, I got my first text.
“Ok, guy. JV has the gem going in 5th.”
I responded back with a, “big deal. 5th inning is nothing.”
5th turned into the 6th which turned into the 7th. LAA was just not able to hit safely against the man who has worn number 35 in the Old English D for a grand decade now.
In fact, July 4th was Verlander’s tenth anniversary.
July 4, 2005 he debuted for manager Alan Trammell against the Cleveland Indians. He was freshly called up from Double-A Erie and promptly got shelled by the Tribe 6-0.
It was the second game of a doubleheader. The Tigers got swept that day at then-Jacobs Field.
Tram waited 19 days to stick Verlander back on the hill for a second MLB start.
Once again, it was the nightcap of a double dip against Minnesota. Detroit had won the opener 2-1. Verlander was even worse than his first effort (giving up five runs and eight hits in six innings). This time, it came at home and Tigers’ fans weren’t overly optimistic about their 2004 first round draft pick.
“He needs more work for sure,” Trammell told me in the clubhouse after. “We kind of stuck him in there a couple of times to see what he has but he’s not there yet.”
J.V. split minor league time in ’05 between Erie and Single-A Lakeland. He went 11-and-2 in those 20 starts with a microscopic E.R.A and boastful strike out numbers.
But, in 2005, same year that Comerica hosted the All-Star Game, Verlander looked far short of an all-star.
With Trammell gone after that season and Jim Leyland in place for 2006, Verlander went to spring training with a legit shot to grab a starting rotation spot.
He hasn’t left it since.
Outside of his first career injury, 309 times he’s answered the call and taken the ball. Add in 16 more post-season starts and you’re talking about 22-hundred hard-throwing innings of major league action. That’s not to mention the countless number of spring training games, practice tosses, warm-ups, etc.
It was no wonder he began ’15 on the disabled list. It was bound to happen.
Verlander is great, but he’s not Superman.
J.V. has still NEVER made a major league relief appearance. Guys like John Smoltz and Tom Glavine began their MLB careers the same way; going years before coming in to a game in relief. Verlander, like those two Hall of Fame hurlers, is a quintessential MLB starting pitcher.
Even his two rehab assignments at Triple-A Toledo were short and sweet. When he stuck a Mud Hens uniform on down the I-75 road, it was the first time he’d been around the bushes since ’05.
Eight innings and 12 strikeouts later, Verlander was back at his old Comerica locker.
Before toiling against the Angels, his numbers were pedestrian including that 1-and-6 record. Not all his fault, Verlander’s had tiny run support and a couple of blown games in there by the Tigers’ shaky-at-best bullpen.
As last night wore on, it was becoming obvious that manager Brad Ausmus would not NEED his bullpen.
After the seventh innning, it was reverberating around the baseball world that Verlander had a no-hitter going on. It started lighting up ESPN’s bottom line and The MLB Network started focusing in on what one analyst said could be, “the best no hitter of all the no hitters so far this season.”
There seemed to be general ROOTING for J.V. from all over.
Still a young man at 32, Verlander seems to be a lot older. Maybe its because he’s been around so long and through all the good times and bad with the Tigers since the breakout of ’06. He has been the one constant.
Remember, Miguel Cabrera didn’t show up in Michigan until 2008.
The past 24 months or so, J.V. has taken criticism on everything from his now-longtime girlfriend Kate Upton to his dastardly mega-bucks contract. Some believe it was one of the reasons Dave Dombrowski is outta here and doing work in Boston now.
Owner Mike Ilitch wanted J.V. to have every bit of that contract that Dombrowski did. I believe it was Ilitch’s IDEA to reward Verlander with the $28 mil per.
Kate Upton?
Neither Ilitch or Dombrowski had anything to do with that move. That was ALL Justin (lucky stiff!).
Back to Wednesday night.
30-thousand plus at Comerica really felt something special happening in the 8th inning when, after walking David Murphy, Verlander got Erick Aybar to ground into the Kinsler to Iglesias to Cabrera double play. C.J. Cron proceeded to dribble out to Kinsler and J.V. was three outs away.
Three outs away from that THIRD no hitter.
The first came at Comerica in 2007 against Milwaukee with Pudge Rodriguez behind the plate. His second came in Toronto versus the Jays in 2011 with Alex Avila catching.
One inning away from perfect symmetry.
A no hitter every four years!
Comerica was ready to do some serious celebrating. I mean, the way THIS season has gone, everyone needed to cheer like it was playoff baseball.
Verlander would face the bottom three in Mike Scioscia’s lineup.
Chris Iannetta was up first.
Bang zoom! Double down the left field line.
No hitter OVER.
Yep, just like that. No dramatics. No two outs in the ninth heroics. Nada.
A rip job two bagger that hit chalk on its way to the corner in left. The white from the chalk line actually kicked up as if to kick Verlander in the face saying, “Not tonight buddy, boy!”
Yessir, chalk… can talk!
Iannetta goes in the books as another dude who broke up a gem in the 9th inning. His teammates applauded wildly. Trout and Pujols had no interest in being no-hit by a guy with a semi-bum arm.
Hey, did I say that??
With that “bum arm” Verlander calmly disposed of Kaleb Cowart on a swinging strike three. He got much-traveled David DeJesus to pop out to Iglesias. For out number three? He wasted Kole Calhoun with a pitch that K.C. could only fly to Anthony Gose in center.
Gose squeezed it.
5-0 Tigers final. A complete game 1-hitter for Verlander. He walked two and struck out nine. His E.R.A fell to a respectable 3.45.
Only a lucky poke and even luckier drop on some chalk by a catcher hitting below Mendoza at .179 was the difference between a tremendous night and… a piece of baseball history.
Speaking to Fox Sports Detroit after, Verlander was visibly moved by the fans’ reaction to his performance all night long. He waved with misty eyes and thanked them greatly.
Upton tweeted, “Justin Verlander is so inspiring working so hard at the game he loves to play. I’m so grateful I get to be around his amazing energy!”
She’s a good girlfriend.
Hey, Justin? I’d marry that supermodel if I was you.
Was this a turnaround game for Verlander? Maybe.
We’ll see what happens in about five days when he has to start again. Pressure is more on him than ever with Fister, Scherzer, Porcello and Price all gone now. He and Anibal Sanchez are the high priced pitching amigos on this team that has been somewhat gutted to no longer be a true contender.
Not just a contender for a World Series but also a contender in their own division.
Kansas City is king now. Good thing they have those crowns on their uniform logos.
In short order, the Royals rule the Central DESPITE four consecutive divisional titles by the Tigers. K.C. barely bothered to acknowledge as they rolled past everyone including the defending champions.
We know Verlander has three more years guaranteed once this weird and wacky 2015 rodeo is strapped into the barn. What the Tigers will look like, who knows.
Hell, next time out? J.V. could get shelled. It wouldn’t be a surprise.
But for one night in late August, with the kids heading back to school, Verlander looked like a kid fresh OUT of school. He looked like the Verlander that used to top 100 miles an hour on his pitches and put fear in even the most veteran of opposing hitters.
He looked like the brash, confident Verlander that would answer all the questions post-game at his locker without a sweat bead or missing a beat. He always has that Cheshire Cat smile on him to indicate he may have more he’s NOT telling you.
Yes, he looked an awful lot like the Verlander of old. He had us on the edge of our seat again.
He has about 84 million reasons to try and make sure it’s not the LAST time we see that magic act.
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Dole and The Walt Disney Company Help Parents Encourage Healthier Eating through the Magic of Disney Characters and Storytelling | Business Wire
GLENDALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Walt Disney Company and Dole Food Company continue their multi-year
healthy living initiative with Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,
featuring consumer promotions, digital integrations, in-store activities
and Disney-branded fruits and vegetables. The ongoing collaboration
serves as part of a nutrition alliance aimed at helping parents
encourage their kids and families to make healthier food choices and
formally launched last fall with a successful campaign around Disney’s Moana.
The latest promotion, Disney Beauty and the Beast, features
Belle, Beast, Lumiere and other beloved characters on DOLE Bananas,
Pineapples and salads. Will continue through April 16. These
characters also serve as the inspiration for a host of healthy recipes,
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“Disney and Dole are working together to give parents high-quality,
nutritional food options that make it easier for families to make
healthy choices,” said John T. King, vice president-licensing, Disney
Consumables. “The new program will combine Disney’s characters and
stories with Dole’s fruits and vegetables to help inform and inspire
families to live healthier.”
“As one of the world’s foremost nutrition leaders, Dole is committed to
the idea that the best stories begin with healthy eating,” said Bil
Goldfield, director of communications for the Dole Food Company. “We’re
delighted to work with Disney to make fruits and vegetables more
accessible – and fun – for families in North America and around the
world, by sharing our nutrition messages through their iconic characters
and transforming our collective healthy living commitments into lasting,
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Disney and Dole will also debut healthy living programs themed to
Disney·Pixar’s Cars 3 this summer and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars:
The Last Jedi later this year. This mission seeks to help change
daily eating habits, one meal at a time, to create a lasting impact for
families in the U.S. and Canada.
Last year’s dual-branded announcement at the 2016 Produce Marketing
Association (PMA) Fresh Summit Convention in October promised the launch
of an assortment of fresh DOLE produce featuring iconic Disney, Pixar,
Star Wars and Marvel characters at grocery and retail stores nationwide.
In 2006, The Walt Disney Company became the first major media company to
establish a Nutrition Guideline Policy in North America to associate its
brands and characters with a more nutritious portfolio of foods and
beverages. The company has since marked every year of its Healthy Living
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introducing the Disney Mickey Check. The Disney Mickey Check is a quick
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For more than a century, Dole has served as a health and wellness
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G12: NCAA R1 - Stony Brook vs. SE Missou St.
Author Topic: G12: NCAA R1 - Stony Brook vs. SE Missou St. (Read 1762 times)
Re: G12: NCAA R1 - Stony Brook vs. SE Missou St.
Quote from: ecasadoSBU on November 19, 2018, 04:02:35 pm
Quote from: Chrissy D. on November 18, 2018, 06:10:21 pm
Lets acknowledge some of these seniors and the careers they have had. Guys like Haggert who came back from 2 acl surgerys to be a 4 yr starter and captain. Liotine who wasnt expected to do anything as a walkon from a small school, to one of the top backs in the CAA and in the top 5 at SB in rushing and all purpose yds. McGinty and Lawless both in top 5 in tackles. These kids are easy to root for. Stony Brook is not lucky to be in the CAA, they earned it by doing what they did in the big south. If you are an alumn and root for the school then do that and enjoy the kids who play for the team. Hard work goes into making the playoffs 2 yrs in a row. Home game wouldve been nice but lets not say that Heilibran screwed up the bidding process. The lose yesterday probably had to do with that. The only mention on this thread about this team is how Priore stole your lunch money. Coaches are coaches, the players make the engine run. The feeling of failing so the coach goes is really getting old. That is not supporting the players or the team. What hasnt been mentioned from yesterdays game was the lame flag thrown on Wheatley for taking his helmet off during the hailmary celebration. That moved the kick back and thus brought on the squib kick. Bottom line is this team is in the playoffs again so either get on board or jump off cause its getting old.
THANK YOU CHRISSY!
I couldn't have said it any better. This team is deserving of our support. We need to enjoy the moment. Half of the programs in the CAA would love to be in the playoffs right now. Guess what? We are in it, back to back years.
We are building success at Stony Brook little by little. Lets look at the bigger picture guys!!
And thank you to the players and Coach P for giving me at the very least one extra game to watch at home this Saturday! So excited!!!
Kumbaya time? ?
Wolfie_MD
I've taken great pride in the strides taken by seniors such as Julius Wingate who I have been waiting for since his freshman year. It's also been a blast seeing Donny Liotine become a stud FCS player after being hardly looked at coming out of the Stony Brook School. Carbone has also shown he has been more than capable in many games- we have a lot of uncertainty at QB going into next year which is going to be really interesting.
I'm firmly on the Stony Brook bandwagon- I'm looking forward to this next game. Hopefully Carbone gets back on track. This is a winnable game IMHO- I do worry about our guys going all the way to Missouri as its going to be a long trip- the place is >2 hours away from St. Louis. If we win that we then have a trip to Utah in the cards!
To finish the earlier debate, being a fan of this team/players and being critical of coaching are not mutually exclusive.
« Last Edit: November 20, 2018, 12:26:16 am by Wolfie_MD »
semosupporter
Hello from SEMO. Congratulations on making the playoffs. I see someone has brought up our bad defensive stats but not our good stats. To tell the truth our defense has driven me nuts all year. Let me list some of our better defensive stats for you. #1 nationally in turnover margin, #1 in turnovers gained, #1 in interceptions, #22 in fumbles recovered, we are also #1 in fumbles lost, #5 in turnovers lost, #7 in blocked punts, and #9 in blocked kicks.
Our rushing game is much better than our numbers, especially in the second half. We have a pre-season All-American running back (Marcuis Terry) who has been banged up all year. He went out in the first quarter of our last game but I think that was a precaution and expect him to play Saturday. We have a very balanced offense that will take what the defense gives us.
I expect our game to be one of the better ones to watch in the first round. I’m hoping for a good hard fought injure free game. Here is a link to our fan forum
http://www.semofans.com/forum/
I did not know your running back was that talented, though I stand by my comments on the defense. I'm curious how a team can lead the nation in interceptions, while also being last in the country (or very close) in passing yards allowed. Unless most of your interceptions are in the redzone, that's quite the feat!
I will admit you guys have a very good offense. Santacaterina is an FBS transfer from NIU who saw the field there, and is now lighting it up in the OVC. I have no doubt in your team's ability to move the football. SBU is 10th nationally in scoring defense, so the match-up of your offense against our defense will be what defines the game.
As far as our offense goes, I'm excited to see what happens when the Long Island Express comes to town. Liotine has over 1100 yards on the season, and Gowins has almost 1000 himself. They'd both be over 1000 yards, but Gowins missed a game due to injury. Both run behind a big offensive line that averages 314lbs up front. I somewhat expect this one to be a shootout as both offenses move the ball down field, though through primarily different means. That would be fun as we don't often find ourselves in that kind of game. I understand this is your first home playoff game, so enjoy it. Go Seawolves!
welcome semo- great to have you on board to balance out discussion. youll hopefully find that all of our fans, when posting, will be as classy as you are. good luck and looking forward to a great contest.
iBOsbu
Happy Thanksgiving fellow Seawolves!!!
It's GAMEDAY gentlemen. Playoff football!!
Game time weather is sunny with temp. expected to be 60 degrees with 60% humidity (that's very low humidity for our area) high single digit wind. A perfect day for football. As our head coach would say "it's time to get it on". Here's to a hard fought injury free game for both teams.
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Awesome start defensively. Three and out to begin with a sack already.
Triple Lindy
Great drive killed by Carbone fumble. Brutal.
Quote from: Triple Lindy on November 24, 2018, 02:34:30 pm
He clearly didn't know whether to keep it or hand it off and sure enough it causes a turnover. Don't need that against a team that forces enough of those on their own.
Defensive struggle so far at the end of the first quarter. I expected more offense in general, but this kind of game favors us and there was that fumble when we were moving the ball in their territory. We've shut down their run game so far and when Santacateria throws he's constantly under pressure which is great. This is happening while only rushing 3-4 guys too which is another great sign.
We just need to move the ball better offensively. We're a second half team offensively, so it'll be a struggle until we (hopefully) pull away in the second.
Saw a virtually identical fumble/turnover on the exchange during the Delaware game. it’s unfortunate to be having these kind of unforced turnovers this late in the season. All you can do is shake it off and get back at it.
Our defense will bail us out like it has all year. We'd be in Albany's shoes if we didn't have such a good defense.
The first pick was tipped, fine...
But that last one is on Carbone. Wildly inaccurate ball.
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Bali Hai: 65 years of serving a good time with a great view
by JILL DIAMOND San Diego Community News Group
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The present-day iteration of the Bali Hai Restaurant on Shelter Island. TRUE PHOTOGRAPHY
A swimsuit model poses next to Mr. Bali Hai, the large wooden headhunter sculpture that greets guests as they enter the restaurant.
Like a fine wine, some things get better with age. And as cliché as this may sound, it couldn’t be truer than when mentioning a local landmark still standing on Shelter Island: Bali Hai Restaurant.
Yes, before it was Bali Hai, it was “Christians Hut,” then “The Hut,” according to Larry Baumann, owner/GM and son-in-law to late founder Tom F. Ham Jr. It’s a somewhat long history, but worth telling.
Baumann explained that early on, restaurateur Arthur “Art” Gregg Wellington LaShelle owned the popular Christian's Hut on Balboa in Newport Beach. He based the tropical restaurant on the original Christian's Hut he had opened on Catalina Island in 1934 for the cast and crew of MGM's “Mutiny on the Bounty,” starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable (as Fletcher Christian).
In 1952, Baumann said LaShelle received approval from the Port of San Diego to build another of his tiki restaurants on the newly developed Polynesian-themed Shelter Island. The circular Tahitian “hut-shaped” building was designed by architect Robert Benedict Brout with Raymond Frazier and help from Boyle Engineering.
LaShelle's corporation reportedly spent more than $200,000 building the new restaurant, under the direction of Aline Hudson from Hollywood.
“She used hand-hewn, local timber's from San Diego and moved ‘The Goof’ down from the Newport Beach location to decorate the roof. Complete with a two-story birdcage inside the restaurant (where the main bar is located today),” Baumann recalled.
Christian's Hut opened in August 1952 but by the next month had dropped “Christian” in favor of simply, The Hut. The corporation spent more money than it took in, Baumann continued.
Then, Shelter Island Inc. filed for protection in bankruptcy court, asking for more time to pay some 139 creditors. That’s when Tom F. Ham Jr., a CPA, recommended it as a potential moneymaker to his client William Kirk.
Kirk purchased it only after Tom Ham agreed to operate it. Tom Ham requested and received a stock option because he was moving his family from Los Angeles, Baumann said.
In 1954, The Hut was formally re-opened as The Bali Hai.
“The name Tom Ham came up with was while looking out the large bay view windows. Bali Hai translates to both ‘your special island’ (from the musical ‘South Pacific’) and ‘top of the isle,’” he said. “The view today is still truly from the ‘top of the isle.’”
Under new management, with some upgrades-thick carpeting throughout, a kitchen upstairs for speedy service and an enlarged topside dining room, they had 400 reservations the first night.
To manage Bali Hai, Ham hired Adolph Rempp, a celebrity on his account (inventor of Adolph's Meat Tenderizer), who had managed Christian's Hut in Newport Beach. Also, chef Eyvind Oas (Rincon Springs, Del Mar Racetrack), served prime rib from the “Chinese oven,” steaks, seafood, Polynesian shrimp and chicken curry while head bartender A.D. Allen (Admiral Kidd) lead the beverage program, according to Baumann.
Baumann said it took Ham until 1963 to purchase controlling shares from Kirk.
“He hired Polynesian dancers and musicians for nightly floorshows, which became quite popular. Many celebrities danced and partied,” he said. “The Polynesian floor show ran Tuesdays to Sundays, two shows a night for almost 30 years, until the mid-1980s.”
More than 65 years and almost 3 million Mai Tai's later, Ham's family – Baumann included –continues to successfully operate the Bali Hai Restaurant, which remains one of the largest and most famous original “Tiki Temples.”
Sadly, Ham Jr. passed away quite suddenly in November 1973. His daughter Susie and husband Larry Baumann took over shortly after and now their son Tom Drake Baumann (Tom Ham's grandson) manages Bali Hai.
In 2010, the Baumann’s renovated the Bali Hai using the incredible talents of the late architect Graham Downs who was able to understand the Bali Hai is much more than a building too many, many people. He saved the feel, the magic, the “aloha spirit.”
They also signed a 40-year lease with the Port of San Diego.
“The Bali Hai is a special place to many people, locals bring their out-of-town guests to show off the city and show them the Mai Tai counter. The family feels blessed to be here and further blessed to be woven in the fabric of so many families' lives,” he said.
“Susie and I feel like the Bali Hai is one of our children. A great deal of our success is due to the fact and family is present much of the time,” he said.
Hollywood encounters
Shortly after Tom Ham took over Bali Hai the Half Moon Inn became a favorite of the Hollywood set that would come for the Del Mar racing season... the Bali Hai benefited greatly from that.
A fun story he recalled was a few years back when actress Annette Benning said in an interview that sitting at a window in Bali Hai was one of her favorite things.
And don’t forget the Mai Tais, which span generations ... to date almost 2.6 million served.
“Recently a regular lunch customer came in with a young man in tow for happy hour,” Baumann said, “I greeted and said, ‘we don't usually see you this time of the day.’
“She responded: ‘It is my grandson's birthday and I am buying him his first Mai Tai.’ My astounded look brought this response: ‘Oh, it's a tradition in our family.’ My first thought was where else would this happen?”
And in October they celebrated the Bali Hai's 65th anniversary with a grand party and the mayor giving a proclamation.
“We anticipate many more years of service to San Diego and beyond,” Baumann said. “People come here to have a good time; we just help them!”
As for what Tom Ham might think today if he saw his pride and joy: “My feeling is that Tom Ham would be pretty darn pleased with where we are today,” Baumann added. “The building with its unique timber is irreplaceable.”
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Strong Bones Are Healthy Bones
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As with the rest of our physical selves, we don't think about our bones until something goes wrong. Bones are just there, under the surface and unseen, normally never taking up space in our conscious thought processes. Trauma, of course, can injure a bone. But in most circumstances a bone bruise or a fracture heals on its own in due course. You might need a brace, sling, or cast to protect the bone while it's rebuilding, but within four to six weeks everything is back to normal.
On the other hand, many actual diseases can affect bones for a very long time, perhaps even for the rest of your lifetime. Some of these serious conditions are preventable. Some are not. Osteoporosis is a disorder which may have serious consequences, including disabling hip fractures and crippling fractures of the lumbar vertebras. For many people, however, osteoporosis is preventable, and it's very important to know how to do that.
Osteoporosis involves loss of bone substance and disorganization of bone structure. "Osteo" means bone and "porosis" means pores or passages. In osteoporosis the biochemical bony matrix is broken down and bony tissue itself is resorbed, creating "passageways" or holes in the affected bone. Metabolic factors involved in the process of osteoporosis include calcium levels and vitamin D levels, as well as the activity of bone cells - osteoblasts - which produce bone matrix.
As with everything else in the human body, if you don't use it, you'll lose it. Bone appears to be hard and durable, a finished product, but in fact bone tissue is highly dynamic. Bone is continually being built up in response to physiologic, weight-bearing stresses such as exercise. But bone is continually being broken down in response to metabolic needs elsewhere in the body. A dynamic tension exists between these two processes, and in osteoporosis the pendulum has swung to the side of breaking down bone tissue. The obvious consequences include weakening of bone's structural strength. Eventually, long bones such as the thigh bone or strategically located bones such as the lumbar vertebra have lost so much structural integrity that they break under pressure of previously normal weight-bearing loads.
Like the rest of the components of our bodies, our bones are a precious natural resource. Unlike gas or coal, our bones are a renewable resource. But we must pay attention to the need for these structures to renew themselves. If a bone isn't being used efficiently, higher-priority metabolic needs in other locations will cause important biochemicals to be taken out of the bone. The bone, such a thigh bone, will begin to lose its structure. The appropriate question is how can we ensure that our bones are being used efficiently. How can we ensure that our bones are in fact dynamic structures, rather than merely cages to protect our vital organs or coat racks on which to hang our muscles.
One of the main answers to these questions, which after all really are questions regarding how to achieve good health, is regular exercise.1,2,3 Bones will retain their metabolic structure if they are required to do so. The body is very smart and locates precious resources where they are needed. If weight-bearing loads are consistently placed on your spine and long bones, these dynamic structures will not only retain their shape and strength but in fact will build more bony layers and become stronger. And of course, if we want to have a lifetime of vibrant, vital health, we want to have strong, healthy bones that will help us make it so.
1Sundell J: Resistance training is an effective tool against metabolic and frailty syndromes. Adv Prev Med Epub Dec 13, 2010 doi:10.4061/2011/984683
2Bababtunde OO, et al: A meta-analysis of brief high-impact exercises for enhancing bone health in premenopausal women. Osteoporos Int Sept 28 2011 (Epub ahead of print) PMID: 21953474
3Ragucci KR, Shrader SP: Osteoporosis treatment: an evidence-based approach. J Gerontol Nurs 37(7):17-22, 2011
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IoT news of the week for Nov. 16, 2018
November 16, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment
The Netatmo Welcome camera was a game changer.
Smart home consolidation continues: French smart home startup Netatmo has been acquired by Legrand for an undisclosed amount. The two companies have already been working together for some time, and the deal will bring Netatmo’s CEO into Legrand as the CTO of Legrand’s R&D division. While terms weren’t announced, I was somewhat dismayed to see that Netatmo was only generating $51 million in annual revenue. Netatmo’s product price points range from $80 to $300, so a conservative estimate would be that Netatmo in on a path to sell a little more than 250,000 devices this year. That’s more successful than many smart home companies, but it’s still a relatively small amount for a consumer product maker.
However, Legrand and Netatmo fit together quite well. Both provide beautifully designed products, with Legrand having a long history in switches and outlets. Legrand has been working its way into the connected home for a few years, and I’d love to see it help bring Netatmo’s products into some of its commercial accounts. Netatmo’s innovations are really compelling. It’s Welcome camera was the first to offer facial recognition and the first to use it as a signal to arm or disarm the system. I think much of its awesome technology got lost in the hype over Silicon Valley’s darlings — and Netatmo’s higher price tags. I hope Legrand makes the most of this buy. (S.H)
Industrial IoT security firm gets $37 million: Dragos, which helps secure industrial control systems used in factories, utilities, and other critical infrastructure, has raised $37 million in additional funding. The round was led by Canaan, and included Emerson, National Grid Partners, and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. According to the article, venture firms originally passed on Dragos, believing that the ICS security market was too slow-moving and complex. They are right, but the need is critical. This attitude explains why Schneider Electric’s new fund may be able to make a real difference. (Fortune)
Mozilla’s terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad connected device gift list is out: I love Mozilla, but this year’s list of bad IoT holiday gifts frustrates me. There are several different sins a company can commit with its product that can land them on it; they range from a difficult-to-read privacy policy to a failure to use encryption. Some of those sins are less problematic than others, but committing any one of them can get a company added to the list. That being said, it’s an informative list, and I especially like how clearly Mozilla labels what it thinks is so bad about each product so that you can decide for yourself. (Mozilla)
The grid is under attack: A cyberattack on the electric grid may not have the fanfare of a Michael Bay movie, but this article describing a Pentagon test of the electric grid in New York is pretty exciting. And the exercise itself is also a necessary reality check in the face of more advanced attacks on critical infrastructure that’s connected to the internet. As nation states and well-funded groups seek to penetrate critical infrastructure, the need to figure out how to protect them grows. (NextGov)
Connected cukes and AI-powered greenhouses: I enjoyed reading how Microsoft, Intel, and Tencent are all participating in a contest to improve greenhouse operations in the Netherlands using artificial intelligence and connected tech. In many ways, this project epitomizes what I’m so excited about when I think about the internet of things. The contest is letting AI govern how a greenhouse runs in order to grow better cucumbers. The AI is going up against farmers, and it’s already doing really well. The goal of the experiment is to improve the use of indoor farms and to increase yields. (VentureBeat)
Early adopters, you are the beta testers: Tovala, the maker of a connected oven that sold last year for $399, now has a new product on the market selling for $349 that incorporates a bunch of new features that the company learned about by watching how the buyers of the initial oven used it. For example, the new oven is smaller and has more controls built into the app instead of the physical device. For manufacturers, the continued feedback and data the connected device delivers is a benefit, but as a user it’s beginning to feel like a bait-and-switch. As more connected devices enter the market, and as companies become savvier with their data-gathering, the early adopter tax is going up. Not only do early buyers pay more and have products with unknown reliability, they also are getting products that may differ substantially from the ones subsequent buyers will get. (The Spoon)
The first collaborative product from Rockwell and PTC is now out: Remember how Rockwell Automation took a big stake in PTC last summer? The first product to result from that collaboration is now out, and is known as the FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, powered by PTC. It makes it easier to connect factory equipment to the IT network and tries to bring the world of operational tech and informational tech together in the same dashboard. This modernizing of old-school factory automation software such as this CAM software that can automate a whole shop floor if needed, is a necessary step to advancing manufacturing into the next era. (Automation World)
The Amazon Echo is being called as a witness in another murder case: Or rather, the police are asking Amazon for the files associated with an Echo device that was in the kitchen of two murdered women. (Ars Technica)
There’s a new Pi in the world: Just in time for Thanksgiving in the U.S., we get a new version of the Raspberry Pi maker board. For $25, buyers will get the same computer that’s on a higher-priced device, but less RAM and no Ethernet port. Still, I have a few projects where this could make sense. (The Verge)
Robots get a grip: Robots are not generalists. They excel at doing a set task or a small number of tasks the same way again and again and again. Which is why Rosie from “The Jetsons” is still just a cartoon character. But this article showcases all the ways researchers are helping robots get better at manipulating objects. Along the way, you’ll learn a lot about the limits of what robots can and can’t grab. Perhaps it will come in handy when you’re being chased by Big Dog. (IEEE Spectrum)
Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Amazon, Dragos, intel, LeGrand, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netatmo, Pi, PTC, Rockwell, Tencent, Tovala
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Skylights featured nine times on Earth Science Picture of the Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 -- Full List Restored!
Photo of the Week. Blue sky.
Astronomy news for the week starting Friday, July 12, 2013.
It's rather a short week. In the metaphorical sense. It still has seven days in it (the number of days in the week probably coming from the seven moving bodies of the sky, the Moon and Sun plus the five bright planets). But not much is to happen, which is quite appropriate for lazy summer days. We do, however, get to see a convenient and bright Moon that begins as a fat waxing crescent that moves easterly against the stars toward first quarter, which is hit the night of Monday, July 15, when it will pass very close to Spica in Virgo The following evening, after the Moon has entered its waxing gibbous phase, it will glide three degrees south of Saturn. The growing gibbous then runs through the rest of the week, full Moon not taking place until next week, on Monday the 22nd.
Ever so slowly, Venus is working its way upward in the western evening twilight sky, but still sets half an hour before the sky is fully dark, making it yet a difficult find. On the other side of the sky, though getting higher in the east in dawn's light, Jupiter and Mars are still washed out by brightening morning twilight. So once again, we are left with Saturn, which of course is not so bad. Quite obvious in the southwest in early evening and still a dozen degrees to the east of Spica, the ringed planet is with us until it sets at local midnight (1 AM Daylight Time), following which the sky is planetless until dawn. That is, unless you count the two outer planets, Uranus and Neptune, plus Pluto, which bridge the gap. In Pisces to the east of the Vernal Equinox, Uranus begins its retrograde motion on Wednesday the 17th.
Look nearly overhead around midnight for bright Vega, the luminary of small but lovely Lyra, the Lyre or Harp, which is defined by an exquisite parallelogram to the southeast of the star. Lyra is sandwiched between Hercules to the west and Cygnus (with first magnitude Deneb) to the east, Vega, Deneb, and Altair (in Aquila, the Eagle, to the south) making the famed Summer Triangle. Dropping to the south of Hercules we pass through Ophiuchus (the Serpent Bearer) and then to Scorpius, the eponymous Scorpion, which in one legend killed Orion, who will not appear until Scorpius has gone down. In the other direction, the Little Dipper of Ursa Minor stands high in early evening while the Big Dipper of Ursa Major begins its descent into the northwest.
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Say It Right is a miserable cocksucker
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Say It Right is a miserable cocksucker Nov 7, 2018 18:45:43 GMT
Post by multiplesclerotis on Nov 7, 2018 18:45:43 GMT
I hate his guts. That is all.
Say It Right is a miserable cocksucker Nov 7, 2018 19:32:23 GMT via mobile
Post by mintyjackhole on Nov 7, 2018 19:32:23 GMT
Truly a total dickweed.
thisonehurts
Post by thisonehurts on Nov 7, 2018 19:44:18 GMT
No redeeming features that I've ever been able to discern.
Repackaged and presented to each new generation so the Fab music that will always be fresh and timeless will be packaged in a new and fresh way for the new kids.
Post by essayceedee on Nov 7, 2018 20:20:13 GMT
Any examples for those of us who don't frequent SHiT-Vee?
Sir Ringo
Post by graucho on Nov 7, 2018 20:39:44 GMT
He's an utterly humorless prick, who makes pronouncements and takes any opportunity to try and show he's superior. But mostly he's just monotonous and completely dull. Typical example of a Shite mentality who thinks he's above other Shites.
Last Edit: Nov 7, 2018 20:53:15 GMT by graucho
Nov 7, 2018 20:20:13 GMT essayceedee said:
Right. Because we have to provide you with examples. Because that's how it works. Here's a newsflash. They invented Google.
(That's what he's like, btw. With endlessly circular, pedantic opinions about King Crimson.)
Honestly, he's not even amusing in his dickishness. He's just a boring, humorless scold with horrible SHiTE tastes. He doesn't have the flare of a gRnat, Sondek or PaulBTK. Worth calling out, but you ain't missing anything poat-wise.
Anybody recognize his avatard?
Example from the thread Acoustic Sounds announces SACDs for Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd
:Can't believe that there are people posting here and not knowing that.
Alexlotl (sane shite)
Says more about the commercial failure of SACD as a format, to me.
Titles are still being issued. So not sure what's your point here?
Alexlotl
That the format is still sufficiently obscure after 20 years that even people on an audiophile forum aren't familiar with all its ins-and-outs. But I don't want to derail the thread, so let's move on.
That only proves that most posters are not audiophiles. Nevertheless, knowing about the characteristics of hybrid SACD's is basic stuff. A little research around the forum, or a visit to Music Direct should be enough, while on the subject of sufficiency.
Get the drift?
Post by bradman on Nov 7, 2018 21:02:46 GMT
He's the dude with Pacman Jones' mugshot for an avatar; you can feel the racism around the edges.
Thanks, I get all my SH updates here. I haven't looked at that shithole in years, other than following the occasional link over here.
Dude sounds like another jh901 elitist audiophool douche.
Post by COLA on Nov 7, 2018 22:13:58 GMT
Yeah, I've been annoyed by this asshole for the last couple of years. He was forced to tone down his racist posts, which were some of the most egregious I have ever seen at SH.tv — and that's saying something.
Post by aquaholic2017 on Nov 7, 2018 22:19:33 GMT
Nov 7, 2018 20:39:44 GMT graucho said:
That describes 98% of the people there.
ISTR he posted a photo last year of a King Crimson pre-show meet-and-greet (or Fripp lecture) somewhere, which was taken from the stage, and he said proudly 'I'm in this one'. And all you could see was row upon row of identical, bald, overweight guys stretching back to infinity.
Nov 7, 2018 22:30:10 GMT thisonehurts said:
That's funny. I know Julie Burchill talks a load of bollocks and her John Peel piece was a hatchet job, but the way she described rock in the 70s as being male and smelly..This guy has to be an ageing, overweight version of what she was talking about.
Post by Boozin' Susan on Nov 7, 2018 23:05:11 GMT
Ms. Burcholl is right. But, it's not just live music.
"Male and smelly" describes pretty much every used record store I've ever set foot inside in the USA.
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STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA (May 24, 2016) - For many years, Stockton 99 Speedway has hosted the Tri-Holiday Classic commemorating Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day weekends with large stock car showcases. That tradition continues Saturday night as the Pacific Challenge Series Super Late Models invade the historic quarter-mile speedway for 100 laps of action. They will be joined by the resurgent Stockton Late Models, Legends of the Pacific, and Bombers.
This is the 68th season of racing competition at the bullring on N. Wilson Way. The Pacific Challenge Series has carried the torch for the Tri-Holiday Series for several years now with local drivers challenging the touring stars. Modesto's Mike Beeler, a former weekly series competitor at the track, won the most recent Tri-Holiday feature on Labor Day weekend last year. The "Iron Man" John Moore won the July Tri-Holiday race last year en route to both the Tri-Holiday and overall PCS championships.
2016 Pacific Challenge Series points leader Jeremy Doss of Upperlake, CA won Tri-Holiday #1 last season. He leads all PCS competitors with three victories in six career PCS starts at Stockton. Beeler ranks second in PCS stats at the facility with five top-tens and a win in six starts.
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The local Stockton Late Models program opened up its brand-new season two weeks ago with former Stockton Western Late Model and Super Stock champion Chad Holman getting the win. This is the return of Late Models to Stockton with a combination of former Super Stock and Late Model teams. Drivers such as Justin Lovelace, Brandon Jones, Jeremy Tucker, and Teddy Haflich, Jr. are new to Late Models but have racing experience in other divisions at Stockton and at tracks across the region.
Legends of the Pacific make their first start of the year on Saturday night with drivers of all ages battling in identically prepared spec cars. The cars carry a throwback look to Fords and Chevys from the 1930s but in a half scale. Robby Czub and Luis Tyrrell are among the race winners so far in this touring division. John Medina won the season opener for the Bombers two weeks ago in the fan-favorite division.
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Give your Microsoft Xbox One S a style upgrade and stand out from the crowd. Each Microsoft Xbox One Console Skin kit is printed with super-high resolution graphics. All skins are protected with MightyShield. This gloss laminate protects from scratching, fading, peeling and most importantly leaves no sticky mess . Our patented advanced air-release vinyl s a perfect installation everytime. When you are ready to change your skin removal is a snap, no sticky mess or gooey residue for over 4…...read more
MightySkins Skin Compatible with Microsoft Xbox One - Purple Flowers | Protective, Durable, and Unique Vinyl Decal wrap Cover | Easy to Apply, Remove, and Change Styles | Made in The USA
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MightySkins Skin Compatible with Microsoft Xbox One S - Cherry Blossom Tree | Protective, Durable, and Unique Vinyl Decal wrap Cover | Easy to Apply, Remove, and Change Styles | Made in The USA
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Tales of Vesperia - Definitive Edition - Xbox One
A power struggle begins in a civilization dependent on an ancient technology, the Blastia, and the empire that controls it. The fates of two friends traveling separate paths intertwine in an epic adventure that threatens the existence of all. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Tales of Vesperia is one of the most beloved entries in the ‘Tales of’ series and returns with beautifully remastered full HD graphics, never before seen characters, expanded story, and much more!...read more
Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville: Standard Edition - [Xbox One Digital Code]
PLANTS VS. ZOMBIES: BATTLE FOR NEIGHBORVILLE Kick some grass in Plant vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, the wackiest shooter yet! Unearth 20 fully customisable character classes at launch in one social region, three free-roam regions, one PvE mode, six PvP modes, including Battle Arena, and more! Xbox Live account required to download and install....read more
MightySkins Skin Compatible with Microsoft Xbox One - Dolphin | Protective, Durable, and Unique Vinyl Decal wrap Cover | Easy to Apply, Remove, and Change Styles | Made in The USA
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MightySkins Skin Compatible with Microsoft Xbox One - Alien Battle | Protective, Durable, and Unique Vinyl Decal wrap Cover | Easy to Apply, Remove, and Change Styles | Made in The USA
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MightySkins Skin Compatible with Xbox One X - I Put Out | Protective, Durable, and Unique Vinyl Decal wrap Cover | Easy to Apply, Remove, and Change Styles | Made in The USA
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Sudden Strike 4: Complete Collection Xbox One - Xbox One
The Sudden Strike 4: Complete Collection offers fans the ultimate World War II strategy experience, containing the main Sudden Strike 4 game plus all five previously released DLCs: Battle of Kursk, Road to Dunkirk, Finland - Winter Storm, Africa - Desert War and The Pacific War....read more
Assassin's Creed Origins: Standard (Xbox One) - Digital Code
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 Gold Edition - Xbox One [Digital Code]
Squad up and breach in to explosive 5v5 PVP action. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege features a huge roster of specialized operators, each with game-changing gadgets to help you lead your team to victory System Requirements: * Supported Platforms:One - Microsoft Xbox Xbox account required for game activation and installation...read more
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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate: 24 Month Membership for Xbox One S All Digital [Instant Access]
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Garfield Kart: Furious Racing (Xb1) - Xbox One
Garfield, the famous lasagna-loving cat is back to take on Jon, Odie and company in a no-holds-barred racing game! Choose your character and kart according to their characteristics and your driving style, get off the starting line first and control skids to outrun your opponents. Use crazy bonus objects, like the Pillow or the Magic Wand, to gain an edge and get over the finishing line first. Are you lazy like Garfield? Take shortcuts to overtake the other racers with the Spring! Race your…...read more
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Plus Audio Unveils High-End All-in-One Record Player
SV Staff | Nov 3, 2017
Fresh off a successful Kickstarter campaign that more than doubled the company’s funding goal, London-based Plus Audio is unveiling a turntable-based all-in-one music system next week at the New York Audio Show. Created by Scandinavian designer Alexander Åhnebrink, The+Record Player aims to bring some respect to all-in-one record players, which aren’t exactly known for their sound quality. The system is distinguished by its custom-built Pro-Ject turntable, an “ultra-low noise” preamplifier, and a 100-watt bi-amplified audio section with two high-excursion 3.5-inch woofers and a pair of 1-inch soft-dome tweeters, each driven by its own dedicated amp channel. To overcome the lack of stereo separation due to speakers are less than 20 inches apart, Plus Audio developed a wide listening mode to expand the sound stage. The system supports Bluetooth so you can stream music from a smartphone or tablet and offers a host of connections, including an optical digital input, two-way USB port, analog line input and output, and a front-panel headphone output and minijack aux input. A 5-volt output is also provided for use with an outboard streaming device such as Amazon’s Echo Dot or Google’s Chromecast Audio. The+Record Player is slated to begin shipping in early 2018 with a retail price of $999 for the standard version, which is equipped with an aluminum tonearm and Ortofon OM10 phono cartridge, and $1,199 for the limited-edition Carbon, which is fitted with a carbon-fiber tonearm and Ortofon 2M Red phono cartridge. Both models feature a wood veneer cabinet with aluminum accents and the choice of a maple or walnut finish. For more information, visit plusaudio.com.
Microsoft Xbox One Game Console
Al Griffin | May 27, 2014
Performance Features Ergonomics Value PRICE $499 AT A GLANCE Plus Involving gameplay and graphics Powerful Smart TV features Wide range of remote control options Minus Features may be overkill for some No DVR control THE VERDICT Microsoft’s next-gen console is a home entertainment powerhouse. Games, movies, music—it’s got it all. Microsoft wants to take over the living room. OK, maybe that premise isn’t exactly new. About 10 years ago, tech pundits used the same words when discussing the Windows Media Center PC, an all-in-one solution that combined computing and home entertainment in a big, ungainly box. You don’t hear much about Microsoft’s Media Center PC ambitions anymore. What you do hear about is the Xbox One, the latest version of the company’s successful game console. And yes, Microsoft still wants to take over the living room, except now they plan to do so through the Xbox One.
Josef Sudek: How a One-Armed Advertising Photographer Became the Legendary Poet of Prague
“There is no approach, no recipe. Each thing has to be done differently.” – Josef Sudek Photographer Josef Sudek is called "The Poet of Prague" because in tens of thousands of luminous images he captured the timeless soul of this city that is known as “The Jewel of Europe.” Sudek ceaselessly photographed the city’s streets, its forests and its atmosphere. But unlike Eugene Atget’s photographs of Paris, Sudek’s images transcend place and time and are meditative visions of light itself. Sudek was a quiet man but truly indomitable, overcoming both physical hardship and war to produce his images. Born in 1896 in Kolin in Bohemia, his father apprenticed him at a young age to a bookbinder. But before he could become one he was drafted in 1915 into the Hungarian army and sent to fight in Italy. There in a bucolic country field he was wounded in the arm. Carried to a small rundown farmhouse, his wound went untreated and became infected. To save his life military surgeons removed his right arm at the shoulder and thus ended any possibility of a career as a bookbinder. Later while convalescing in hospital, a doctor, concerned about the young man gave him a camera and encouraged him to stay busy by photographing his fellow patients. After his recovery and discharge he returned to Prague and studied photography at a school for graphic arts. Living on his disability pension, he supplemented his income with advertising photography work done in the then popular Pictorial style. But he soon rebelled against Pictorialism’s soft focus and tinted imagery and in 1924 founded the Czech Photographic Society. Under its banner he gathered together maverick “modern” photographers and other artists for evenings of photography, philosophy and music. However Sudek’s life changed again when he went with the Czech Philharmonic on a concert tour of Italy in 1926 and one evening disappeared. “I had to disappear in the middle of the concert; in the dark I got lost, but I had to search,” he recalled. “Far outside the city toward dawn, in the fields bathed by the morning dew, finally I found the place. But my arm wasn't there - only the poor peasant farmhouse was still standing in its place.” Two months later Sudek turned up in Prague but he had changed. “…from that time on, I never went anywhere, anymore and I never will. What would I be looking for when I didn't find what I wanted to find?" Prowling Prague For the rest of his life Sudek lived in a small house in the shadow of the gothic Prague Castle a few blocks from the Vltava River. It served as both his home and his studio and he filled its wall with photographs, books and a monumental collection of records of modern music. With his return to Prague, Sudek began to concentrate on his cityscapes and in 1933 had his first one-man show, which established him in the city’s art scene. In 1940 he saw a 30 x 40 cm (12 x16-inch) contact print of an image of a statue in Chartres and was so taken by its long tonal scale and detail that he purchased his own large format view camera. Soon the one-armed photographer would be seen roaming the city’s streets, carrying this large heavy camera and its wooden tripod braced against his good shoulder. Then when he reached a location he would set up his tripod and sit next to it. Placing the camera in his lap, he would adjust it with his good hand and when necessary with his teeth. It was not the best of times to be photographing the city either. With the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1939, taking landscape photographs – any photographs – could easily get a photographer a train ride to a concentration camp. Despite the risks, Sudek continued to work but now his images were not of a sparkling “Jewel of Europe” but were moody images of a melancholic city under occupation. Communism followed Fascism and, as a friend of his Miloslav Saňko tells it: “In the 1950s, here in the Czech Republic the situation was problematic vis a vis culture. And here in his studio was a kind of cultural oasis. For example, every week, I think it was particularly every Thursday, there was some kind of musical soiree…He had some friends in the West, and they sent him some LPs of modern music. I have heard some of the memories of the Czech composer Jan Klusák, who came to these evenings a few times because they gave him the chance to hear some very modern music.” View Cameras and Panorama Cameras View cameras are about slow photography. They require the photographer to reflect long and hard about an image before snapping the picture. Charles Sawyer, a friend of Sudek’s, wrote about the photographer’s approach to picture making: “I remember one time, in one of the Romanesque halls, deep below the spires of the cathedral (St. Vitus) we set up the tripod and camera and then sat down on the floor and talked. Suddenly Sudek was up like lightning. A ray of sun had entered the darkness and both of us were waving cloths to raise mountains of dust 'to see the light,' as Sudek said. Obviously he had known that the sun would reach here perhaps two or three times a year and he was waiting for it.” In the 1950s, Sudek purchased a Kodak Panorama camera and began to photograph the city streets in this new wide 1:3 format. The Panorama was made in 1894 and had two shutter speeds—fast and slow. The lens of camera was spring driven and rotated during the exposure projecting a slit of light that traveled across the film to produce an image. The film was held against a curved film frame and in combination with the swing lens produced an image with multiple perspective lines. Armed with the Panorama would go out into early morning Prague to capture what cityscapes that were eerily devoid of people. In 1959 Sudek published a book of 52 10 cm x 30 cm (about 4 x12-inch) contact printed panoramic images of the city; it was an instant best seller. Sudek also produced several books of intimate and personal photographs taken in the crowded interior of his studio (the Labyrinths) and of the windows that looked out on the garden (The Window of My Atelier.) Although well known in his homeland, he didn’t have an exhibition in America until 1974 when his work was shown at the George Eastman House. Throughout his life, Sudek shunned public gatherings even the openings of his own photographic exhibitions. But he certainly was not a hermit; he mentored young photographers and continued throughout his life to host gatherings of friends. Josef Sudek died quietly in Prague in September 1976 in Prague and today his house has been refurbished and is the Ateliér Josef Sudek. It is a tranquil setting, the photo gallery illuminated by the wall of windows that face the garden and its the upstairs rooms are devoted to the collection thousands of Sudek’s negatives, prints and papers. “…with the photos of Sudek I have impressed in my mind the memory of a place where I have never been.” – Bernard Plossu, photographer (All photographs courtesy of the Josef Sudek Ateliér, Prague with special thanks to Jan Řehák)
Logitech Harmony One Universal Remote Control
Darryl Wilkinson | Jan 26, 2009
Price: $250 At A Glance: Exceptionally intuitive • Web-based setup procedure • Help function uses questions and answers to fix system problems • Programmable power-on, inter-key, inter-device delays Pretty and Pretty Smart I don’t know what they put in the water cooler at Logitech, but I want to start drinking it. The Harmony One is another in its long list of affordable universal remote controls. It looks great, is easy to program, and is sweetly simple to use. The Harmony One is as narrow as most single-device remotes, but it’s thinner and surprisingly light. It’s even easier to hold and use. At the business end is a bright 1.25-by-1.5-inch color touchscreen with enough resolution that you can easily recognize the tiny DVD logo on the DVD player icon. The backlit hard keys are distinctly grouped together by function (transport, numeric keypad, etc.). Although the individual keys are only slightly larger than those on an average remote, each has its own unique shape and is spaced far enough apart so that you can easily use the remote for basic operations without looking at it. The Harmony One includes a built-in motion sensor that’s supposed to wake the remote when you pick it up. It’s not super sensitive, though, so sometimes you’ll need to give the remote a quick shake to bring it to life. To recharge the battery, just place the remote in its horizontal charging cradle. My older Harmony 890 is sometimes finicky and refuses to make contact—and therefore doesn’t charge—when resting in its cradle. This one has a deeper well that ensures a solid connection between the contact points on the remote and the charging cradle. By the way, the rechargeable battery is removable and replaceable, much like a cordless phone’s battery. This makes it environmentally friendly, and it won’t force you to buy a new remote when the battery finally expires.
What's Better: One Subwoofer or Two?
Al Griffin | July 10, 2014
Got a tech question for Sound & Vision? Email us at AskSandV@gmail.com Q If I have a budget of $1500 to buy a subwoofer, should I buy one great sub or two good $750 subs? They would be used equally for both movies and music. Also, how do you connect more than one subwoofer to a receiver? —Raphaël Rainville, Montréal QC, Canada A That depends on what kind of listening experience you’re looking for. A big sub with a 15-inch driver should easily deliver deep bass extension and powerful dynamics. On the other hand, with two (or more) subs—even ones with smaller drivers—you can expect smoother, better-defined bass over a wider range of listening positions in your room. Why? Standing waves. The interaction of the subwoofer’s output with your listening room creates modes that boost bass at certain frequencies, and cancels it out at others. Adding a second sub will help to even out those response peaks and dips. Also, a single sub can usually be localized by ear—something that isn’t the case when using two or more subs. A few years ago, Sound & Vision published a listening comparison entitled Subwoofers: 4, 2, or 1? that attempted to gauge the sonic differences when listening with one big sub and multiple smaller subs. The tests used the same material to evaluate a single unit with a 15-inch driver, two 12-inchers, and four 8-inchers. The result? The 15-incher delivered the most authoritative low end, but its pitch definition was left wanting compared with the smaller sub configurations. It also found that while the quartet of 8 inchers failed to deliver muscular bass, the 12-inch pair was nearly as impressive as the 15-inch sub on that front. This lead the tester, Brent Butterworth, to conclude: “Two 12-inch subs in the front corners of the room is a damn good compromise for lots of situations.” So, if you’re looking for brute bass power and the lowest possible extension, go the 15-inch route. But a pair of good 12-inch subwoofers can get you close to the same experience—and also deliver better—balanced bass. Oh yeah—to connect them to a receiver, just use a Y-splitter cable adapter plugged in to the receiver’s subwoofer output.
SV Staff | Nov 13, 2014
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Phase One XF 100MP Medium Format Camera Review
The Phase One XF 100MP is a modular concept medium format camera. It offers 100MP resolution, very impressive dynamic range, nearly perfect color reproduction, and SLR-like handling, except for its weight and dimensions. (Editor's Note: Lab Review lab tests and comments are supplied by BetterNet, Shutterbug’s TIPA-affiliated testing lab and edited by George Schaub. Shutterbug is the sole US representative within TIPA, a worldwide association of photo and imaging magazines.) The Phase One XF 100MP is a medium format camera with extremely high sensor resolution. It is a modular concept comprised of the Phase One XF camera body, which was introduced in the summer of 2015, and the brand-new IQ3 100MP digital back. The body has a 90-degree prism viewfinder and includes a Schneider-Kreuznach 80mm LS f/2.8 lens. As expected, this does not come cheap: the total price for this kit is $48,990 USD, as of this writing, and is the most expensive camera system we’ve ever tested. The Phase One XF 100MP offers a 53.7x40.4mm sensor with 11,608x8707 pixels, a total of 100MP. This is the highest sensor resolution of all digital cameras up to now. (Note: There are medium format cameras with higher image resolution: The Hasselblad H5D-200c MS with 200MP, for example, uses a multi-shot and pixel shift system to create 200MP images by interpolating/merging several 50MP images to a final high-resolution result. And of course there are prototype sensors/cameras like Canon’s 120MP system, which was shown a few months ago.) On top the camera offers a touchscreen as a status display and control center to set up all image parameters. Function buttons allow the user to start the setup menu and to change image parameters. The Phase One XF 100MP has a large LCD screen on the back and shows the same setup menu as the status LCD on the top of the camera body. The screen on the back is touch sensitive, so settings can be done directly on the screen or with four function buttons. In addition, the setup dials of the camera are used for menu navigation and setting up image parameters. Camera Build, Layout & Performance Phase One’s XF camera is a very large and heavy system: a bit over three pounds with a 90-degree viewfinder and digital back, but without the lens. In combination with the 80mm lens (1.1 pounds) the photographer has to work with a system that has a weight of nearly four pounds. If the Schneider-Kreuznach 75-150mm LS f/4.0-5.6 lens is mounted, the weight is nearly seven pounds. This might seem like a very heavy load for those who shoot even with highly advanced pro DSLRs, but frankly we feel that medium format photographers are used to it. Due to its modular system, the XF 100MP uses two rechargeable batteries. The first battery powers the body, the second the digital back. Nevertheless, the whole system will also work when using only one of them. Using both batteries, we did the technical test shots during a three-hour shooting session with many switch off/switch on processes when checking single test shots on the PC. For the model shots (one hour) we used freshly recharged batteries and took about 80 images. After that the batteries still had enough energy for an additional hour of shooting. Phase One supplies the camera with a recharger that can recharge both batteries at the same time. Our test sample was supplied with four rechargeable batteries. The modular-built XF system is based on the camera body (center of this image), the digital back (right) with its 53.7x40.4mm sensor, the 90-degree prism viewfinder (left), and the lens. It can be used with 50, 60, and 80MP digital backs or with the new 100MP back. The total system, including the 100MP back, is called “XF 100MP.” The camera uses two touchscreens to set up all parameters. The status LCD on the top shows the same basic menu as the touchscreen on the IQ3 100MP digital back and allows the user to change exposure mode (P, S, A, M) via a fingertip control. The mirror lockup function can also be activated on the screen, but the camera offers an additional mode for shooting without any vibration. It uses a motion sensor (dubbed a “seismographic sensor”) to register and control even the finest vibrations. When using this mode and pressing the shutter release button the camera will detect these very fine vibrations and will wait until the camera is absolutely vibration free. After that it will start exposure of the image automatically. In this mode the mirror lockup function is automatically activated. The Phase One XF uses a lot of function buttons on the top (near the status LCD) and on the back. In addition, it has three setup dials. The dial on the front is used to change shutter speed while the dial on the back of the grip is used to change aperture. The third dial (on the back, near the black function button) is used for menu setup. The functions of the buttons and dials are customizable. For example, the photographer can use the shutter release button to start autofocusing (pressing the shutter button halfway down) or he can use the function button on the back to start the AF system manually. Compared to other medium format systems, the AF system of the XF 100MP is very fast, but can’t be compared to current AF systems of modern SLRs or CSCs. Compared to these cameras it is slower and doesn’t offer sophisticated focusing techniques like focus tracking of moving objects. Compared to the focusing system of the Phase One 645DF, however, the XF can be switched to a smaller area (dubbed “spot AF metering”). This can be used to focus on the eyes when shooting portraits. The camera supports “hyperfocal focusing” to choose the hyperfocal distance manually to maximize the depth of field. For manual focusing the camera offers a magnifier function on its live preview screen. The camera shoots in Raw mode and doesn’t offer a JPEG option. The photographer can choose 14- or 16-bit Raw files for maximum image quality. As of this writing, the Raw files can’t be converted in Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom. The camera is supplied with Phase One’s Capture One Pro 9 software, which allows the user to convert and optimize images. It can also be used for tethered shooting. The digital back offers a FireWire 800 and a USB 3.0 interface for recording images directly on PC or Apple Macintosh operating systems. Even very fine details like hair or the red fabric are reproduced without any aliasing or moiré effects. The total look is very crisp even though only standard sharpness settings were used for the Raw to JPEG conversion. Comments On Image Quality Color: The Phase One XF 100MP camera records images with very natural and neutral colors. The Raw image of our test chart was converted with the “neutral” setting in Capture One Pro 9 and showed a result with nearly perfect saturation (99.4 percent) and a very neutral white balance. The gray patterns of the chart are located exactly in the center. Skin tones are a little bit optimized by a higher magenta rate by the converter software, but nearly all colors show only minor aberrations from their given values, with only the yellow elements showing a slightly larger variation. Colors in our standard test shots are nearly perfect. The skin tones shown in the portrait are very natural and nearly perfect. Color differentiation is on a very high level as well. Sharpness: The camera created images with extremely high resolution. The test chart was reproduced with 8,645 of 8,708 lines per picture height and therefore 99.28 percent of its nominal sensor resolution. Even though resolution and sharpness are extremely high, the images have a very natural look. The sharpening effects are very low. We converted the Raw test images with the standard settings in Capture One Pro 9 and got images with only very minor over- and undershot effects. The overshot effect, for example, is 8.8 percent. In addition, the very high color differentiation supports the crisp and sharp look of the camera’s images. Fine details like the fabric of the model’s T-shirt are shown very clearly and are perfectly differentiated. There are absolutely no aliasing or moiré effects noticeable in our test shots. Even the extremely small figures in the two Siemens stars in the lower right of the standard test box images are readable. The standard test box shot illustrates the high sensor resolution. Every detail of the test elements is clearly visible. Both test shots were done in Raw mode because the camera doesn’t offer JPEG or TIFF mode. The conversion of both images was done in Capture One Pro 9. Noise: The camera offers ISO speed settings from 50 to 12,800. In lower ISO speeds up to ISO 200, noise artifacts are nearly invisible. The noise spectrum is very smooth and the aberrations of RGB pixels are very low, so noticeable noise effects in the images are on a very, very low level. In images taken with ISO 800 or higher, noise artifacts get visible because the noise spectrum rises. The camera is designed to take properly illuminated images in the studio or when making landscape and nature images. It should be used with ISO 50 to 800/1600, but shouldn’t be used for documentary or available light photography with higher ISO speed settings. Reducing the 100MP resolution images to 24MP size, for example, will obviously reduce noise artifacts (size of noise artifacts). The camera reproduced the test chart with 13.6 f/stops and even at higher ISO speed settings yielded more than 13 f/stops. Taking images of high-contrast scenes and using the “light” and “shadow” controls in Capture One Pro 9 shows details even in dark image areas that are underexposed or in totally blown-out highlights. This is breathtaking. Note: The Phase One XF 100MP camera isn’t able to record video files, so for this test we don’t provide charts and captions concerning video tests. Scorecard Pros › Sensor with very high resolution; very high-resolution results in test › Extremely high dynamic range results › Reliable and fast (for medium format) AF system › Two touchscreens, three setup dials, and context-sensitive function buttons for easy setup Cons › Extremely expensive › Shoots only Raw files (JPEG version for preview on the computer screen would be helpful) › Complete camera system is very heavy and bulky The Phase One XF 100MP has a list price of $48,990, which includes the Schneider-Kreuznach 80mm LS f/2.8 lens. For more information, visit phaseone.com. (Lab Review is where we publish web-exclusive lab reports on cameras. To read more Lab Reviews, click on the Reviews tab on the top navigation bar of this page. New photo gear reports are published frequently, so check Reviews for more equipment evaluations from Shutterbug writers.)
Aurora HDR Pro Software Review
#1: Loading photos opens this screen, which displays the bracketed shots that will be combined to create the final HDR image, as well as correction controls. All Photos © Howard Millard HDR, as most photographers know, stands for High Dynamic Range, allowing you to capture a wider range of highlight and shadow detail than you could in a single frame. You create an HDR image by shooting several identically framed shots of the same scene at different exposures, often with three brackets such as -2, 0, and +2 EV. The newest kid on the HDR block is Aurora HDR Pro from Macphun, currently for Mac only, but with a Windows version in the works. There’s a lot of quality competition in HDR software, so how does Aurora HDR Pro distinguish itself? The interface is clean and contemporary, but what really stands out is the plethora of controls at your disposal to fine-tune and personalize your vision. You can use Aurora as a stand-alone app and as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, and Apple Aperture. Created for the professional or advanced user, Aurora HDR Pro was developed with travel photographer Trey Ratcliff. The broad range of file support includes native Raw formats, JPEG, Photoshop PSD, 8- and 16-bit TIFF, PNG, and GIF. Advanced tools include an unlimited number of layers for selective application of effects and textures, an unlimited number of exposure brackets, layer blend modes, luminosity masking, chromatic aberration reduction, gradient masking, signature presets by Ratcliff, custom textures, a built-in de-noise tool, and more. All-In-One Solution Aurora HDR Pro is designed as an “all-in-one” start-to-finish software solution. You don’t need to do the tone mapping in one application, then switch to another tool for color enhancement, noise reduction, adding textures or anything else. Aurora HDR Pro offers over 40 presets with live previews that deliver striking results with a single click. Conversely, you can use Aurora solely to enhance a single photo, with or without adding an HDR effect. Opening Aurora HDR Pro brings up a splash screen, where you can drag and drop your HDR brackets or a single image. For a test run, you can click “Load sample images” to work with a set of three brackets of London taken by Ratcliff. For my trial, I loaded three shots of the interior of Grand Central Station, New York, which I had bracketed at -2, 0, and +2 stops, changing shutter speed while maintaining a constant aperture. Loading photos opens the screen seen in #1, displaying the bracketed shots that will be used to create the final HDR image. At the bottom, you can check boxes for Alignment, Ghosts Reduction, and Chromatic Aberration Reduction. I always check Alignment for a handheld series, but also when shooting on a tripod just in case it was jarred. Ghosts Reduction aims to eliminate blurs when a subject moves between one bracketed shot and the next. There are cases where this is indispensable, but for Grand Central Station, I wanted blurred multiples of the moving people to convey the sense of energy and motion emanating there. Different Looks Once you’ve checked the desired controls, click on the green Create HDR tab. This opens the main Aurora HDR Pro interface, #2. The default rendering is designed to be a natural look. I found it a tad dark with this subject. So I next chose the Basic preset category. You’ll find presets, #3, at the lower right of the main window, in these categories: Gift Pack, Trey Ratcliff Presets, Basic, Realistic HDR, Dramatic, Landscape, Indoor, Architecture, Favorites, User created, and All. #2: In the main Aurora HDR Pro interface, live previews of presets run across the bottom of the screen while a comprehensive set of tools appears in the right column. Clicking on the preview thumbnails along the bottom of the main window, you can quickly try many different interpretations of your photograph. From the Basic presets group, seen along the bottom of #2, choices include Realistic, Realistic Vivid, Bright—which I chose, HDR Look 1, HDR Look 2, Detailed, Dreamy, Romantic Glow, and Smooth. The Bright preset, #4, yielded a wide range of detail, opening up the very dark ceiling, giving a warm glow to the stone surfaces, and a lovely blue-purple hue to the daylight coming through the windows. Using the same brackets, I tried the Dramatic B&W preset to render a striking, moody, and detailed interpretation, #5, glowing with rich blacks and bright whites. The main window interface shows you the range of your brackets such as -2, 0, +2, the ISO you used, focal length and f/stop, and the pixel dimensions. The default HDR merge is to a 32-bit file. Many of the presets are stunning right out of the click, as it were. But if you like to finesse and fine-tune, Aurora HDR Pro has more sliders and controls than you can imagine. #3: Some 40 presets are grouped in these categories: Gift Pack, Trey Ratcliff Presets, Basic, Realistic HDR, Dramatic, Landscape, Indoor, Architecture, Favorites, User created, and All. #4: Applying the Bright preset from the Basic category to my bracketed series of Grand Central Station yields a wide range of detail, opening up the very dark ceiling, giving a warm glow to the stone surfaces, and a blue-purple hue to the daylight coming through the windows. #5: Using the same Grand Central Station brackets, Aurora HDR Pro’s Dramatic B&W preset renders a striking, moody, and detailed interpretation, glowing with rich blacks and bright whites. HDR Tools In the right-hand column of the main window, #2, you find a color histogram, Layers, and a long list of Tools, each with multiple controls: Raw Tone Mapping, Structure, and HDR De-noise. Next come Image Radiance (adds a dreamy glow to the entire image), Color, Details, and Glow (affects only the highlights). Scrolling further down the Tools column shows Top and Bottom Lighting, Tone Curve, and Color Filter. The Tools are rounded out with Color Toning and Vignette. To check out Aurora’s naturalistic options, I opened a fall river scene bracket of -1, 0, and +1 that I had shot under overcast light. Selecting the Realistic preset group, I chose Realistic Detailed, which did a nice job, albeit a tad oversaturated in color for my taste, #6. With Aurora, you can dial down the effect with a slider right inside the preview box, or you can use several of the color controls in the Tools column. Check out the crop of this fall image, #7, showing fine detail in the leaves, tree bark, and rocks. #6: To check out Aurora’s naturalistic options, I selected the Realistic preset group, then chose Realistic Detailed. #7: A significant crop of the fall image, #6, shows fine detail in the leaves, tree bark, and rocks. High-Octane Options Sorry, but I couldn’t resist the iconic HDR rusting old car shot, #8. I bracketed this aging Buick at -2, 0, and +2, then loaded the three original Raw files. From the Aurora HDR Pro presets, I selected Trey Ratcliff. By clicking on the eye icon at the top of the window, you can see your original, shown here—kinda drab, right? So I selected the “Party in My HDR Pants” option (you can’t make this stuff up, I didn’t name it, just used it). The Party option provided that surreal exaggerated HDR look, which I find appropriate for oxidizing metal and creaking architecture, #9. The detectives among you will notice that I removed the new red car behind the main subject with Photoshop CC 2015’s Clone tool. #8: No, I couldn’t resist the iconic HDR rusting old car shot. But the original, shown here, is underwhelming. To see your original, click on the eye icon at the top of the window. #9: From the Trey Ratcliff presets, I selected the “Party in My HDR Pants” option, which provided the surreal exaggerated HDR look I find appropriate for oxidizing metal and creaking architecture. Once you’ve got the look you want, you’ll select File>Save, right? Not so fast. If you choose File>Save, Aurora saves the file in its native .mpau format. One quirk about Aurora HDR Pro is that it does not have a Save button. It’s a minor issue, but you have to choose File>Export to Image. Then a choice of output formats and color spaces will be presented to you. Maybe we’ll get a one-click option in the next upgrade? Finally, I wanted to see what Aurora could do with a single image, one of those you wish you’d taken exposure brackets for, to do HDR, but didn’t think of it at the time. I chose a JPEG shot from an older point-and-shoot, taken in dim overcast light in Florida’s Fern Forest, and not superbly sharp, #10. From the Gift Pack presets category, I selected “Magical Sunset.” Under Tone in the Tools column on the right, I increased the highlights and added a bit to the blacks. Lastly, I used the Details tools to increase apparent sharpness. The result, #11, is indeed a magical transformation—rich color, dramatic mood. Aurora HDR Pro’s alchemy turned lead into gold. #10: To see how Aurora HDR Pro would fare with a single image (no bracketed exposures), I chose this JPEG shot from an older point-and-shoot, taken in dim overcast light in Florida’s Fern Forest, and not particularly sharp. #11: From the Gift Pack presets category, I selected “Magical Sunset.” Under Tone in the Tools column on the right, I increased the highlights and added a bit to the blacks. Finally, I used the Details tools to increase apparent sharpness. The result is indeed a magical transformation—rich color, dramatic mood. Conclusion Aurora has covered the full HDR spectrum from natural to painterly to high grunge. The program is effective and easy to use. Processing speed is comparable to the top HDR programs we’ve been using the last few years. And like the other top HDR offerings, there is some degree of repetition or overlap in the presets. By that I mean a preset in one category can look very similar to a preset in another category with a different name. Even so, there are an abundance of distinctive and different presets for every taste. During the eight weeks or so I was testing it, Macphun updated Aurora HDR Pro twice (free for all registered users), indicating that they are listening to users and want to make it the best that they can. What stands out with Aurora HDR Pro is the wealth of tools included for fine-tuning, color correcting, sharpening, masking, and layer capabilities. Try it for free and I suspect that you will find it a worthy competitor in the HDR software arena. Info * Pricing and availability: Aurora HDR Pro, $99. * System requirements: Mac OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks or above, 4GB RAM, Core 2 Duo processor from 2009 or better. * A version for enthusiasts, Aurora HDR, is available from the Mac App Store for $39.99.
Steven Wilson: Juke Box Jury of One
Sure, you know that Elliot Scheiner, Frank Filipetti, and other producer/engineers are fans of surround sound. But among artists, you'll find no bigger champion of multichannel music than Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson.
All-in-One Printers; Versatile, But Good Enough For Photographers?
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U.S. House panel slams former NSA contractor Snowden
Posted By: admin 5. October 2016
http://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hpsci_snowden_review_-_unclass_summary_-_final.pdf
Edward Snowden speaks via video link during a news conference in New York City, U.S. September 14, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
By Mark Hosenball | WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON A U.S congressional intelligence committee on Thursday issued a scathing report accusing former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden of leaking information that “caused tremendous damage” to U.S. national security, lying about his background and feuding with co-workers.
In a report endorsed by both its Republican and Democratic leaders, the House intelligence committee said Snowden was “not a whistleblower” as he has claimed.
Most of the material he stole from the NSA was not about invasions of privacy, but revealed intelligence and defense programs of great interest to America’s foreign adversaries, it said.
The committee said that while the “full scope” of damage caused by Snowden’s disclosures remains unknown, a review of materials he allegedly compromised “makes clear that he handed over secrets that protect American troops overseas and secrets that provide vital defenses against terrorists and nation-states.”
The committee released only a four-page summary of what it said was a 36-page investigative report that remains Top Secret, but the summary contained strong words about Snowden’s actions and background.
The report contains previously unreported allegations about Snowden and his possible motives for taking government secrets. It alleges that Snowden, who took refuge in Moscow after fleeing to Hong Kong, “was and remains a serial exaggerator and fabricator.”
It says his official employment records show that while he claimed to have left U.S. Army basic training because of broken legs, in fact he “washed out because of shin splits.” The report says Snowden claimed to have obtained a high-school graduation equivalent, but in fact never did.
It also says he claimed to have worked as a “senior advisor” for the CIA when in fact he was an entry-level computer technician.
While the report says Snowden “stole 1.5 million sensitive documents,” other sources who have examined materials he turned over to media outlets say that the total is between 200,000 and 300,000 documents.
Some U.S. officials involved in Snowden-related investigations acknowledge that the U.S. government does not know how many documents Snowden downloaded, and that the 1.5 million figure is an estimate.
The report also disputes Snowden’s motives for taking and leaking classified information, saying he got into a “workplace spat” with NSA managers in June 2012 over how to manage computer updates. It says a contracting officer reprimanded him for failing to follow proper grievance procedures, and he began downloading classified information two weeks later.
However, in 2013, Reuters quoted U.S. officials and other sources familiar with the matter as saying that Snowden began downloading such data in April 2012, almost a year earlier than had previously been reported at the time.
The issuance of the House committee report coincided with the release of “Snowden”, a movie directed by Oliver Stone that portrays him as a whistleblower and hero. On Wednesday, prominent human rights advocates urged President Barack Obama to pardon Snowden before leaving office in January.
U.S. officials have said Obama is not considering a pardon for Snowden, who is facing U.S. criminal charges for providing classified information to unauthorized persons.
Ben Wizner, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who represents Snowden, dismissed the House committee report as lacking substance.
Wizner said the report’s release a day before the Snowden film opens “is evidence that people in the intelligence community are taking us seriously, that they are concerned that Oliver Stone’s movie will help solidify Snowden’s image as a true patriot, which he is.”
(Reporting By Mark Hosenball; Additional reporting by Dustin Volz; editing by John Walcott and Alan Crosby)
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TOP IO Super Athletes Party 2018
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ARTICLES brought to you by
TOP IO SUPER ATHLETES – 2017
By Jerry Dietrich
with photos by Bruce Fisher
1/27/18 – Point Ruston
On Saturday, January 27th, Silver Striders with their family and friends gathered at Farelli’s in Point Ruston to pay tribute to an elite group of athletes. These athletes accomplished something amazing in 2017.
Out of thousands of runners over the age of 50 in the state of Washington, only 16 runners made the TOP IO at every distance: 5k, 10k, Half Marathon and Marathon. To do this, these athletes had to have both speed and endurance. This celebration was to honor their accomplishment. Only these few would be awarded the 2017 SUPER ATHLETE ring.
Betty and I began welcoming the first guests at 11:30 a.m. By 11:50 the private room at Farelli’s was filled to capacity. Those in attendance were:
Dana and David Crawford
Bob and Kris Baugher
Sandra Madden
Ed Heckard
Jerry Bronson
(l to r) Diane Martin, Tim Oguri, Mitch and Gwen Parker
Joan and Doug Beyerlein …..
Jerry and Betty Dietrich
Heidi Schultz and Judy Fisher
Dennis Zaborac
Kristen Mossman
Bruce and Judy Fisher
Jess and Barbara del Bosque
Larry and Nanci Larsen
Steve Ramsdell, Karen Lichtenstein, and Gretchen Ramsdell
Susan Hall and Donna Jackson
Charlea and Dave Sherman, with Larry and Carol Sexton
Linda and Mickey Allen
Debbie, Jason, Coralena, and Keith Lerew.
Elvin and Teresa Lerew.
Katie and Kent Sizer
Audrey Kirkwood
Following a delicious lunch, I introduced Bruce Fisher. Bruce does the photos we use in the top 10 rankings and now also does the layout. As of Friday, January 26th, the TOP IO had a new look thanks to Bruce.
Also, Bruce revealed his latest idea, Silver Strider cards. Bruce announced he would be distributing the cards at upcoming Grand Prix races.
I have been fortunate in finding help compiling the TOP IO rankings. I was pleased to introduce these contributors.Their efforts made the Top IO an accurate ranking of runners in our state.
The first contributor to be introduced was Ed Heckard. Ed is in charge of scanning the results of 5k races held on certified courses. From his search he maintains an accurate, up to date, ranking of 5k runners. I conveyed our thanks for the excellent job he does.
My next introduction was to be David Longmuir, who compiles the 10k rankings but David couldn’t attend the party due to family commitments. David’s work is much appreciated.
David Longmuir
That brought us to Judy Fisher and the marathon list. Judy has the task of researching results of Washington runners competing in marathons throughout the world. I commended Judy for her dedication to this work.
Judy Fisher
I am currently compiling the rankings for the half marathon and announced I was looking for a volunteer to take on the job.
In 2016 we honored 9 Super Athletes. I was very happy to report that, once again, all 9 had achieved Super Athlete status in 2017. This year we had 7 new Super Athletes. Of these 16 honorees, 13 were present. Not with us were Bob Hoekman, Arne Hales, and Huong Delabar who were unable to attend as they were traveling out of state.
All of the Super Athletes who were being honored had participated in the recent elite competition, the “Battle of the Boomers”. It was my pleasure to introduce Dennis Zaborac, sponsor of the Boomer races.
As the awards presentation began I announced that, in addition to the Super Athlete ring, each athlete would receive a gift certificate to South Sound Running. The rings and certificates were provided by the Silver Strider Rewarding Runners program.
I introduced Nanci Larsen who would be presenting the rings and certificates to the honorees and Bruce Fisher who would be taking each recipients’s photo.
Jess del Bosque
The first Super Athlete was new this year and I was especially proud to introduce him. He made his way into the TOP IO at each distance and was the final runner to qualify for 2017. Jess del Bosque, (del boo-skay) was a very strong runner. His rankings were a little higher in the longer events. Jess was ranked 9th in the 5k, 9th in the 10k, 7th in the half marathon, and 6th in the marathon.
Dave Sherman
Dave Sherman, our next Super Athlete, was a repeat performer. Dave ran consistently well at all distances. Dave won his age group, Men 60-64, in the Grand Prix Series for 2016-17. Last October, Dave was inducted into the Century Club Hall of Fame. Dave’s top 10 rankings were: 9th in the 5k, 7th in the 10k, 7th in the half, and 7th in the marathon.
Keith Lerew
The next Super Athlete was a new runner to qualify, Keith Lerew. I think it’s safe to say that Keith was the luckiest man in the room. He had 7 family members present to help celebrate his accomplishment. Keith competed in the Men’s 55-59 age group at age 59. He ranked 7th in the 5k, 4th in the 10k, 5th in the half, and 6th in the marathon. Keith recently turned 60 and was already doing heavy damage in his new age division.
Jerry Bronson was another new Super Athlete. Jerry had a very good year. I pointed out, that while the rest of us were slowing with age, Jerry showed lots of strength in the Men’s 75-79 age group, having a banner year. He was inducted into the Century Club Hall of Fame. He ranked 7th in the 5k, 3rd in the 10k, 4th in the half marathon and 4th in the marathon.
The next Super Athlete to be honored was Sandra Madden who was a repeat performer from last year. Sandra competed in the Women’s 65-69 age group. She impressed us with both her speed and endurance. Sandra ranked 2nd at the 5k, 2nd at the 10k, 10th at the half, and 2nd at the marathon. She was also inducted into the Century Club Hall of Fame.
Doug Beyerlein
Doug Beyerlein was a new Super Athlete who had a good year competing in the Men’s 60-64 age group. He performed with amazing consistency, exhibiting speed and endurance. He finished 4th in the 5k, 4th in 10k, 3rd in the half, and 4th in the marathon.
Carol Sexton
The next Super Athlete to be honored was a repeat performer from last year, Carol Sexton. Carol had the distinction of being the only runner present who had won her age group in the Final Battle of the Boomers. She won the Women’s 60-64 age division, defeating the top runners in the state. Her 2017 TOP IO rankings were: 2nd in the 5k, 2nd in the 10k, 4th in the half, and 1st in the marathon.
David Crawford
David Crawford, a new Super Athlete, was the next to be honored. David won the Battle of the Boomers championship race for Men 65-69. He finished the year ranked 1st in the 5k, 2nd in the 10k, 2nd for the half, and 2nd in the marathon. Very impressive!
Mickey Allen
Our next Super Athlete to be honored was another repeat performer, Mickey Allen. Mick competed in the Men’s 60-64 age group. Mick is an outstanding endurance athlete with speed. He impressed us, finishing 2nd in the 5k, 3rd in the 10k, 1st in the half, and 1st in the marathon.
Donna Jackson
Donna Jackson, a new Super Athlete this year, competed in the Women’s 65-69 age group. Donna is a real speedster finishing 1st at the 5k, 1st at the 10k, 2nd at the half, and 3rd in the marathon.
The next honoree was another repeat Super Athlete, Ed Heckard. Ed came close to a “sweep” in the Men’s 70-74 age group. A sweep consists of finishing first at all 4 distances. Ed took first place in 3 out of 4. He finished 1st at the 5k, 1st at the 10k, 1st at the the half, and 4th in the marathon.
Kristen Mossman was the next Super Athlete to be honored. Kristen was the Battle of the Boomers champion for Women 50-54. Last year, Kristen completed a sweep in the Super Athlete TOP IO. She came very close to doing it again this year. She ranked 2nd at the 5k, 1st at the 10k, 1st at the half, and 1st in the marathon.
The final Super Athlete to be honored returned for the second year. She was the Battle of the Boomers champion for Women 70-74. She just won top honors in her age group in the current Grand Prix Series. She was the first inductee into the Century Club Hall Of Fame. This year she was the only runner to complete a sweep and was ranked #1 at all four distances. Our top Super Athlete for 2017 was Judy Fisher.
Following the awards presentation, all 13 athletes stepped outside onto a deck overlooking the beautiful Puget Sound. Bruce took a group photo of the Super Athletes of 2017 displaying their rings and gift certificates.
But the celebration was not over. South Sound Running, located across the plaza from Farelli’s, hosted a reception for the Super Athletes and guests. Cookies, candy and drinks were provided.
Dennis Zaborac (on Right) unveils his Valentine’s Day shirt
I introduced Greg Klein of South Sound Running, sponsor of the TOP IO.
Greg did the honors for some prize drawings, pulling the tickets for the winners. The Silver Strider donated 2 free entries to the upcoming Seahawks 12 Run. The lucky winners were Judy Fisher and Doug Beyerlein.
Next was a drawing for a beer glass with beer provided by a nearby pub. The beer glass was won by Larry Larsen.
Everyone waited with anticipation for the final drawing of the day. The grand prize was a deluxe Garmin watch contributed by South Sound Running. The ticket was drawn and the very happy winner was Jess del Bosque.
It was a fine ending to a wonderful afternoon of food, fun, and camaraderie.
Judy wins free entry into Seahawks 12k
Doug wins free entry into Seahawks 12k
Larry wins a beer from a local pub with beer glass included.
Jess wins the Grand prize….A Garmin watch!
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China ‘harassment’ sparks RP diplomatic protest By Michaela P. del Callar and Mario J. Mallari 04/17/2012
China ‘harassment’ sparks RP diplomatic protest
By Michaela P. del Callar and Mario J. Mallari 04/17/2012
The week-long naval standoff between the Philippines and China in the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea heats up anew after Manila yesterday filed a diplomatic protest against Beijing when its ships and an aircraft allegedly harassed a local boat conducting marine research in the area claimed by the Philippines as part of its territory.
Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing received the protest from Foreign Undersecretary Erlinda Basilio, the assigned Philippine negotiator while Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario is on a week-long US trip.
“Such actions are in violation of the sovereign right and jurisdiction of the Philippines to conduct marine research in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone,” said Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez, referring to an international law stipulating that countries have the right to exercise jurisdiction over waters within its 200-nautical mile zone..... MORE
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By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo
Streetwise | BusinessWorld
It is quite easy for the Aquino government to arouse the people’s anger at China bullying in the South China Sea considering what appear to be clear encroachments on Philippine territorial waters and its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Couple this with the sense of frustration that the Aquino administration and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are undeniably militarily powerless in this recent confrontation over Chinese fishing poachers protected by no less than two Chinese warships, the inclination to run towards Uncle Sam and sic US might and firepower to make China turn tail appeals to many pundits, whether professional or of the barbershop variety.
And thoroughly misses the point. There is more to the conflict in the Spratlys and Scarborough Shoal than an assertion of sovereignty arising from rival territorial claims.
This is not the first time tension rose over alleged incursions in the Kalayaan Islands which are also being claimed by the Vietnamese and Malaysians aside from the Chinese. But while the news would hog the headlines for a few days, not without a large dose of sensationalism about the risk of a military confrontation, there had never been such open clashes between Philippine and rival armed forces, with each side eventually stepping down, resorting instead to diplomatic protests until invariably the controversy simmers down and fades away..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/20/thorny-sovereignty-issue/
US taxpayers shelling out billions for faulty weapons
The Pentagon has frittered away billions in taxpayer cash on not fully tested arms, a government watchdog report says. While the policy grants the military access to cutting-edge technology, the public can be left footing the bill for faulty weapons.
A report issued by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Friday shed light on the controversial policy of “concurrency” which approves untested weapons for production and use.
“While some concurrency is understandable, committing to product development before requirements are understood and technologies mature, or committing to production and fielding before development is complete, is a high-risk strategy that often results in performance shortfalls, unexpected cost increases, schedule delays and test problems,” said the report..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/weapons-pentagon-report-waste-927/
Toddler Terrorist: TSA threatens lockdown over 4-year-old girl
The much-maligned Transport Security Authority (TSA) is once again in hot water after it accused an innocent four-year-old girl of attempted gun smuggling as she hugged her grandmother in the security zone.
In a Facebook post that has since gone viral, Michelle Brademeyer describes the story of her family being detained as potential terrorists by the TSA on a flight out of Wichita, Kansas. The TSA is responsible for screening passengers as they board and disembark from planes.
Brademeyer was passing through security checks with her mother and her small daughter, Isabella. When the older lady triggered the metal detector, and was told to go for a pat-down, Isabella ran over to and briefly hugged her grandmother..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/tsa-us-girl-gun-869/
Death of 56-year old fisherman sparks more outrage against VFA, Balikatan
As long as the US military is treated ‘above the law’ by the government, their victims among the civilian populace will not be given justice.” – Bayan Muna-Southern Mindanao
In Zamboanga City, the progressive party-list Bayan Muna is calling for an independent inquiry into the death of a local fisherman killed by a speeding Boat manned by military forces of the United States. The group said the death of 56-year old Ahbam Juhurin, a local fisherman from Basilan should not be allowed to be swept under the rug.
Based on various media reports, US and Filipino troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) were conducting maritime exercises in Baluk-baluk, an island near Hadji Muhtamad Municipality in Basilan Province on April 19. A Mark V Special Operations Craft was returning to Zamboanga City when it rammed Juhurin’s fishing boat around 7 p.m. that same day. The elderly fisherman was killed while his 26-year old son remains in critical condition as of this writing. Colonel Ricardo Visaya, commander of the 104th Brigade and Joint Task Force Basilan said it was an accident and that no one is to blame.
VFA protects US troops from criminal prosecution
Ariel Casilao, Southern Mindanao Regional Coordinator of Bayan Muna, said it has only been days since the US – Philippine Balikatan Exercises formally started, but already a civilian has been killed. He said the blame should be placed at the door of the Aquino government and the militarist proponents of the Visiting forces Agreement (VFA).
“The US troops have immunity against prosecution from Philippine laws because of the VFA. They have committed heinous crimes against Filipinos and the Bangsamoro, but remain above prosecution. As long as the US military is treated ‘above the law’ by the government, their victims among the civilian populace will not be given justice,” he said..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/20/death-of-56-year-old-fisherman-sparks-more-outrage-against-vfa-balikatan/
A week before May 1, as P125 wage hike proposal nears Congress approval, the labor secretary and regional wage boards suddenly realized there is a need indeed for a wage hike.
By MARYA SALAMAT
MANILA – A week before May 1 Labor Day celebration, influential Senator Chiz Escudero declared support for a P125 across-the-board legislated wage hike. He said fears that a significant wage hike will cause inflation to rise and companies to close down are unfounded. In speaking thus, Senator Chiz joins the likes of Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao, a boxing icon and famous media personality, who has declared since last year his support for the substantial wage hike proposal.
Echoing the long-time criticisms of the labor groups of the apparent failure of the country’s regional wage boards, Escudero also criticized the wage boards for failing to give workers a “just wage.”
Some regional wage boards are currently deliberating on wage proposals submitted by moderate trade union groups. But so far, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has already dashed even the possibility that the said regional wage boards may break off from tradition and start granting wage hikes that are adjusted at least to regain lost purchasing power due to inflation. Even before the wage boards in the National Capital Region began holding public consultations, for example, Baldoz has announced that wage hikes may be granted but not higher than P21 ($0.49).
Escudero asserted the urgency of Congress stepping in to determine wages in the country.
The labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) immediately hailed last Friday Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero’s declaration of support for a P125 across-the-board legislated wage hike, saying the influential senator is a welcome addition to the ranks of legislators supporting the call. KMU hopes Escudero can draw in more supporters to the cause..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/24/workers-challenge-congress-to-set-wage-hikes/
Tuesday, 24 April, 2012 Written by Joyce Pangco Panares
THE Aquino administration has finally agreed to create an autonomous Bangsamoro political entity for the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front that will replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
In a deal signed by government chief negotiator Marvic Leonen and his MILF counterpart, Mohagher Iqbal, in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, both parties agreed that the new autonomous political entity will have a “ministerial form of government.
The powers to be reserved for the national government are as follows: defense and external security; foreign policy; common market and global trade; coinage and monetary policy; citizenship and naturalization; and postal service.
The power to enter into economic agreements, however, will be transferred to the new Bangsamoro entity..... MORE
Source: Manila Standard
URL: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/2012/04/24/govt-agrees-to-create-bangsamoro-state/
Noy, kin lose P5B hacienda plea By Benjamin B. Pulta 04/25/2012
AQUINO SC APPOINTEES SOUGHT REMAND OF COMPENSATION ISSUE TO PALACE
Noy, kin lose P5B hacienda plea
It’s final. Hacienda Luisita’s close to 5,000 hectares are to be distributed to the farmer-workers while the Cojuangco-Aquino family ends up with a compensation of a little less than P200 million, as against the family seeking a compensation of P5 billion for the hacienda.
True to form, President Aquino’s appointees, Associate Justice Lourdes Sereno, Estela Bernabe and Bienvenido Reyes voted to allow an agency under the control of Malacañang to determine the amount which the Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) is to receive as compensation for placing the sugar estate under the government’s agrarian reform program.
They were however, outvoted by the majority justices..... MORE
SC blocks Comelec’s P1.8-B purchase of Smartmatic’s PCOS By Benjamin B. Pulta 04/25/2012
SC blocks Comelec’s P1.8-B purchase of Smartmatic’s PCOS
A restraining order was handed down by the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday, freezing the Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s P 1.8 billion contract for the purchase of computers to be used for next year’s elections.
Speaking to reporters at the end of the high court’s summer session in Baguio City, Court administrator Midas Marquez said the tribunal consolidated the three separate petitions challenging the deal between the collegial body and the Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) to buy 80,000 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines.
Marquez also said the High Court will hear the cases in oral argument in a special en banc session to be held on May 2..... MORE
Noy seeks China-savvy envoy
President Aquino is still scouting for a suitable replacement for erstwhile ambassador to China Domingo Lee and hinted that his search may end outside of the realm of career diplomats as he would need an envoy who would have extensive knowledge of and contacts within the Chinese system and community — and preferably with Chinese blood.
“We’re reviewing. The criteria is really different. It’s not basically just career,” said Aquino as the Philippines continued to rattle diplomatic sabres with China over the disputed Scarborough Shoal.
He underscored that the next ambassador to China should be “somebody who understands the nuances of Chinese culture, how their system works, has developed contacts left and right to be able to reach the opinion makers and those whose opinions really matter.”.... MORE
Palea OKs CA mediation, calls on PAL to reinstate workers 04/25/2012
Palea OKs CA mediation, calls on PAL to reinstate workers
The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (Palea) has submitted a manifestation to the Court of Appeals (CA) expressing its willingness to participate in mediation with the flag carrier’s new management to seek a settlement to the long-standing labor dispute.
“The new management of Philippine Airlines (PAL) should recognize that the solution to the flag carrier’s woes involves not only a refleeting of its aging aircraft but more so the reinstatement of its skilled regular workers,” said Gerry Rivera, Palea president..... MORE
NBI, PNP to probe Paranaque demolition By Benjamin Pulta and Gina Peralta-Elorde 04/25/2012
NBI, PNP to probe Paranaque demolition
By Benjamin Pulta and Gina Peralta-Elorde 04/25/2012
Probers from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have been tasked to gather evidence for the possible filing of criminal and administrative charges against policemen who may have been involved in the violence that erupted during the demolition of a shanty colony in Silverio Compound in Paraaque City last Monday, an incident which left one person dead and 66 others injured.
Department of Justice (DoJ) Undersecretary Francisco Baraan III issued the order after residents accompanied by Bayan Muna Rep. Teodoro Casio sought the DoJs assistance in identifying the police authorities who participated in the demolition and in holding them accountable for the incident.
Baraan said charges of homicide with multiple physical injuries may be filed against the policemen should evidence warrant them..... MORE
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Power rot DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 05/11/2012
Power rot
Meralco files plea for 2013 rate hike,” newspapers announced this week. Former Misamis Oriental Gov. Homobono Adaza and Jojo Borja of Iligan Light and Power updated me on this latest attempt of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to pull a fast one on power consumers. This refers to the case filed against the Maximum Allowable Price (MAP) application of Meralco (Manila Electric Co.) before the ERC by octogenarian accountant and consumer advocate Mang Naro Lualhati — a case that is now filled with several anomalies.
First, the notice for the May 7 ERC hearing arrived anomalously late, at lawyer Adaza’s residence on the Sunday afternoon just before Monday. Thus, Adaza had to call Borja to fly from Bukidnon, where the latter had just alighted, back to Cagayan de Oro and then Manila overnight to catch the next day’s event.
At the ERC hearing, only a “hearing officer” presided. Upon arriving and entering his appearance, Adaza asked the “hearing officer” if he was “the” hearing officer. It turned out that the guy was only a clerk of court. Only after being informed that Adaza was there did the chairman of the ERC, Zenaida Ducut, suddenly decide to appear and preside — a basic legal requirement that has never been met in all past ERC hearings participated in collectively or separately by our advocacy groups.
Since the occasion was being used to formally accept so-called evidence that will buttress Meralco’s MAP petition, it was an evidentiary hearing that, according Adaza, was illegal since Jojo Borja also had a pending petition at the Court of Appeals questioning the continuation of the proceedings until prejudicial questions were resolved.
Adaza and Borja would have missed the ERC hearing, with Meralco already laughing all the way to the bank, if the obviously and deliberately late arrival of the notice wasn’t noted that Sunday. Adaza no longer made an issue of it as he had already averted the scheme. Still, he found the order for the hearing anomalous, as it was merely signed “for the ERC commissioners,” even when the law states that such orders need to be signed by all commissioners — an anomaly regularly committed by the ERC, but this time, protested by Adaza — compelling the entire proceeding to be delayed for another five days.
As such, five million Meralco customers got a reprieve, thanks to Adaza, Borja and Lualhati (who wasn’t able to attend due to physical infirmities).
But trust the ERC to continue frustrating consumer advocates’ questioning and exposés of Meralco’s predatory rate hikes.
Since 2003, Meralco and ERC have been having their way in running rings around, despite roadblocks placed by the Puno Supreme Court and the Commission on Audit. This time, they have finally met the determined team that will stop them.
When BS Aquino III stepped into Malacañang, the power oligarchs’ noose tightened even more around the Supreme Court with the appointment of BS Aquino III’s justices, including Justice Lourdes Sereno who has decided in favor of Meralco in the most crucial issue of rate increases and nitpicks on consumer protectionists.
Meanwhile, on the postponed Joint Congressional Power Commission (JCPC) meet that was supposed to be jointly chaired by Sen. Serge Osmeña and Rep. Dina Abad (who was conveniently out-of-town last April to avoid its convening), there is yet no official word as to when the shelved hearing is to be re-scheduled.
The latest reports from Mindanao say the power crisis there is getting worse. Brownouts are getting longer. The cause is supposedly the rehabilitation work being done at the Agus-Pulangi, which energy officials, particularly Department of Energy Secretary Rene Almendras, left undone for two years of the BS Aquino III government, despite calls from Mindanaoans in 2010 that it was desperately needed.
Clearly, the negligence was deliberate, as the delay of the rehabilitation directly led to the power shortfalls that created the power crisis there this season.
In the wake of Mindanao’s electricity woes, government was compelled to call for a summit and schedule a convening of the JCPC. Amazingly, Mindanaoans were even blamed for this by PeNoy while the JCPC was indefinitely postponed due to a lack of quorum — this, as government losses due to the crisis have already reached P15 billion, with Mindanao’s own economy experiencing losses of up to P60 billion.
The attitude and misdeeds of all those involved in the Philippine energy sector, private power companies and the agents they get appointed to government who are horrendously corrupt and rotten — promoting oligarchs’ interests and their own “golden parachutes” — constitute a clear betrayal of the people.
How these people continue to hold on to their posts can only be explained by the complicity of the top appointing power and the corruption of money-based elections of this country.
In all sectors of the Philippine power elite, such betrayal of duty and rot is evident, as when the Senate cavalierly dismisses the plea to inhibit compromised judges; or when media practitioners irresponsibly report false information; or when police officials get involved in the murder of protected state witnesses, ad nausea.
(Tune in to 1098AM, dwAD, Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m.; watch Destiny Cable GNN’s HTL edition of Talk News TV, Saturdays, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11:15 p.m., this May 12 on “Power, Manila, and Mindanao” with Bono Adaza, Al Tillah and Jojo Borja; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives)
Spinners FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/11/2012
It is amazing how much spin the prosecution propagandists put into impeachment trial developments.
But they really should realize that spins no longer serve the purpose when they become outright lies.
The prosecution is not likely to admit it, but the fact that the Chief Justice, Renato Corona, agreed to testify at his trial, after the testimonies from several of his accusers, namely Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales Riza Hontiveros, Walden Bello and Harvey Keh, to name a few, will shatter its case against Corona.
This is the reason one of the prosecution spinners, Neri Colmenares, questioned why these individuals served subpoenae by the Senate court should be made to testify, claiming that this move by the defense is yet another delaying tactic..... MORE
Loving the bomb: NATO to splurge billions on nuclear weapons overhaul
The US is planning to spend $4 billion to upgrade NATO’s Western Eruopean nuclear arsenal. The “unnecessary and expensive” initiative is likely to stir new animosity with Russia, a report says.
The alliance is preparing to replace “dumb” free-fall nuclear bombs with new generation of precision-guided nuclear gravity bombs, reveals a report by the European Leaders Network (ELN), a political think tank. The new bombs will also require new delivery aircraft, the Lockheed Martin F-35, each costing $100 million.
The report “Escalation by Default? The Future of NATO Nuclear Weapons in Europe” is authored by Ted Seay, a former arms control advisor to the US mission at the NATO headquarters in Brussels. It points to the fact that the upgrade will target such countries as Russia and Iran, who will be the most unlikely to be overjoyed with the prospect..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/us-nato-nuclear-overhaul-969/
British public sector rises up as 200,000 strike against cuts and reforms (VIDEO)
As many as 200,000 angry public sector workers staged a day of protest on Thursday, taking to the streets of London to voice their disgust at proposed government cuts.
Among the demonstrators were civil servants, lecturers, health workers, Ministry of Defence staff, and immigration officers – fueled by ministers' vows to press ahead with the controversial reforms, made clear in yesterday's Queen's Speech.
About 20,000 off-duty police officers from all 43 forces across England and Wales also took to the capital for the first police march there in more than four years..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/uk-strikes-public-cuts-946/
Apocalypse not now: Mayan relic says 2012 not end of time
The discovery in a Guatemala jungle of a previously unknown version of the Mayan calendar offers humankind a ray of hope: the world is not going to end on December 21, 2012 and could most probably last for another billion years – or more.
The ancient inscription is estimated to be the oldest Mayan almanac found so far. It dates back some 1,200 years, at least 600 years older than previous examples. In many ways, however, the new calendar corresponds with others.
The initial results of its study have been published in Science magazine by experts from Boston University. They say the calendar precisely describes solar and lunar cycles, as well as the motion of the brightest stars. Most probably it was used to conduct ceremonies and rituals, synchronized with the positions of celestial bodies..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/maya-calendar-guatemala-discovery-973/
It ain’t over yet NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 05/11/2012
It ain’t over yet
Just as I was about to do the second part of “On actors as National Artists, and Dolphy,” everything and anything to do the matter of Tulfo vs Santiago/Barretto at the NAIA Terminal 3 hit the fan Monday this week.
That it was headline news at the Philippine Daily Inquirer wasn’t surprising, for the aggrieved Mon Tulfo had been a long time columnist of the paper. That GMA Network’s 24 Oras, Saksi and Unang Hirit not only gave it extensive coverage but more than hinted the aggrieved Raymart Santiago and Claudine Barretto were not to blame was also no surprise, for husband and wife are regular talents of its soap opera department. That ABC-TV’s news and public affairs programs especially T3 were also on it was expected, as after all, wouldn’t the aggrieved Erwin, Raffy and Ben rush to defend their kapatid?
I tell you, lahat sila, aggrieved, and, hey Raymart and Claudine are said to be planning to sue Tulfo for “child abuse,” for his “acts” that allegedly “traumatized” their two young kids who were in the airport with them, when the incident took place..... MORE
Witness in the poll sabotage case vs GMA blinks 05/11/2012
Witness in the poll sabotage case vs GMA blinks
The electoral sabotage case that was slapped by the Comelec against the former leader suffered another setback as another witness appeared to have blinked, after admitting before the Pasay Regional Trial Court Thursday that she was not certain whether the voting results she had tabulated were different from those actually canvassed.
This as several hearings and more than six witnesses presented, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has yet to link former president, incumbent Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo to the crime of electoral sabotage.
At least four hearings had already been conducted on the bail petitions filed by Arroyo, her co-accused former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan and former provincial election supervisor Lintang Bedol while some six witnesses had already been presented but neither one pointed to any participation of the former president on the crime charged..... MORE
Beijing suspends RP tours, warns citizens on anti-China protest 05/11/2012
Beijing suspends RP tours, warns citizens on anti-China protest
BEIJING — China is suspending some tourism to the Philippines due to a tense territorial row between the two nations that has prompted state media to raise the possibility of war and growing anti-Chinese sentiment in Manila.
Chinese tour agencies, including Beijing’s biggest travel agency China International Tour Service (CITS), cited safety concerns for the suspension, just two days after Beijing said it was ready for “any escalation” in the row with Manila.
The month-long flare-up is one of the most high-profile incidents for years between the two countries over their competing territorial claims to parts of the South China Sea, which is believed to sit atop vast oil and gas deposits..... MORE
City hall employees complain to Erap over ‘delayed’ pays By Van C. Suarez and Pat C. Santos 05/11/2012
City hall employees complain to Erap over ‘delayed’ pays
By Van C. Suarez and Pat C. Santos 05/11/2012
Employees of the city government complaining about their delayed salaries and allowances greeted former President Joseph Estrada when he went to City Hall yesterday to obtain his Community Tax Certificate or cedula prior to filing his certificate of registration with the Commission on Elections as a voter of the City of Manila to comply with requirements on his planned bid to become the next Manila Mayor in next year elections.
The other day, Estrada formally announced that he is throwing his hat into the mayoralty race in Manila.
“I’m very particular with procedures. I want everything to be in order so I made the effort to go to City Hall and file my cedula myself,” Estrada said..... MORE
Luisita valuation issue may outlive Carper, Aquino regime 05/11/2012
Luisita valuation issue may outlive Carper, Aquino regime
The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) yesterday said the Supreme Court (SC) ruling provided President Aquino’s family, the Cojuangco-Aquinos of Tarlac, the opportunity to maneuver and maintain control over the more than 6,000 hectares Hacienda Luisita.
KMP deputy secretary general Randall Echanis said that “upon scrutiny of the decision, the Supreme Court has given the Cojuangcos the opportunity to further derail and even evade land distribution.
“The valuation issue alone on Hacienda Luisita could drag for years. It may even outlive the bogus Carper and even the Aquino regime. This case might even go back to the Supreme Court,” said Echanis..... MORE
CJ’s wife merely exercised right on libel case — counsel 05/11/2012
CJ’s wife merely exercised right on libel case — counsel
Branding as “downright malicious” the allegations of being insensitive to a deceased relative after the court awarded Cristina Corona compensation in a libel case she won against her uncle, one of the Corona’s lawyers said the wife of Chief Justice Renato Corona was merely exercising her rights.
“She just exercised her rights. That is the legal course of action of anyone whose reputation is intentionally damaged. She was the aggrieved party in this case and (she) did not go beyond the bounds of the law,” defense spokesman lawyer Tranquil Salvador III said on the various media commentaries that sprang out on the sidelines of Day 36 of the impeachment trial.
During Tuesday’s hearing, Quezon City Regional Trial Court (QC RTC) Branch 216 clerk of court Lucita Masangkay-Cristi took the witness stand and testified that the lower court ordered the late Jose Maria Basa III, Raymunda Basa, et al to pay Mrs. Corona P500,000 as damages for the two counts of libel the latter filed and won..... MORE
Gov’t lawyers uphold legality of diplomatic immunity granted to Panamanian diplomat accused of rape 05/11/2012
Gov’t lawyers uphold legality of diplomatic immunity granted to Panamanian diplomat accused of rape
Government lawyers have upheld the legality of diplomatic immunity granted by the government to the Panamanian accused of raping a 19-year-old girl.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima yesterday said the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) was merely complying with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations when it issued certification for immunity that led to the release from detention of Erick Bairnals Schcks.
“The DFA is the agency with primary competence or authority on the matter. The immunity from criminal jurisdiction accorded to Mr. Schcks under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations was indeed valid,” she told reporters in a chance interview..... MORE
Speaker calls for investigation into murder of witness under WPP By Charlie V. Manalo and Gina Peralta-Elorde 05/11/2012
DILG SECRETARY DISCLOSES YOUNGER BROTHER OF DOMINGUEZ CAR THEFT SYNDICATE LEADERS NOW A SUSPECT IN SUNDAY SLAY
Speaker calls for investigation into murder of witness under WPP
By Charlie V. Manalo and Gina Peralta-Elorde 05/11/2012
House Speaker Feliciano “Sonny” Belmonte yesterday expressed disgust over the killing of a witness under the protection of the government through the Witness Protection Program (WPP), saying a congressional inquiry into the controversy should be initiated by the appropriate legislative committee.
Belmonte said the murder of state witness Alfred “Bading” Mendiola and two other men is “something worth looking into as it raises serious problems in the way government is securing vital witnesses against the accused.
Mendiola was the government witness who had positively identified alleged carjacking syndicate kingpins Roger and Raymond Dominguez as the masterminds in the kidnapping and murder of car dealer Venson Evangelista last year..... MORE
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Prophecy Today - Top 10 Daily News Stories
Each Day Dr. Jimmy DeYoung picks the top ten news stories from around the world that are setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
* Obama's 'Not Bluffing' on Iran, Says Kerry U.S. President Barack Obama is not bluffing when he says he will stop Iran's nuclear program.
* Iran unveils uranium sites, renews defiant tone With words of defiance, Iran announced two nuclear-related projects Tuesday that expand capabilities to extract and process uranium.
* UN chief Ban: Korea crisis could become 'uncontrollable' UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned the crisis on the Korean peninsula may become "uncontrollable".
* Israeli takes over OpIsrael hacktivist website Israeli hackers took over OpIsrael.com on Tuesday, a website meant to coordinate the cyber-attacks on Israeli sites.
* In Auschwitz, Israeli army chief vows to prevent a 'second Holocaust' IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz on Monday led the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
* US Navy to deploy anti-drone laser in Persian Gulf The US Navy has developed a new anti-drone laser system, called the Laser Weapon System - LaWS.
* Al-Qaeda in Iraq confirms link with Syria's al-Nusra The al-Nusra Front, one of the major players in the Syrian opposition, and al-Qaeda in Iraq, the hard-line Salafist group responsible for scores of attacks against US forces and international aid groups in Iraq, are essentially one and the same.
* Egypt's Christian pope blasts Islamist president The leader of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church on Tuesday blasted the country's Islamist president over his handling of recent deadly sectarian violence.
* Deadly quake in south-west Iran's Bushehr province A 6.3 magnitude earthquake has killed more than 30 people and injured 850 in south-west Iran, officials say.
* North Korea to 'launch missile TOMORROW' after warning foreigners to evacuate South The worrying warning came as speculation heightened that North Korea is planning to pull its ambassador out of the UK.
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Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer
An Invention by a 15 year old
When Jack Andraka was 15 years old, he didn't know what a pancreas was. Now, this teenager has created a test for the early detection of pancreatic cancer that, while still in the preliminary stages, looks promising. So how did he become a health innovator?
Andraka tells the story.
Have you ever experienced a moment in your life that was so painful and confusing, you just want to learn everything you can to make sense of it all he asks.
For him, that moment came when a family friend, who'd been like an uncle to him, passed away from pancreatic cancer. In Andraka's Googling, he discovered startling statistics about this kind of cancer that in 85% of cases, pancreatic cancer is diagnosed late when a person only has a 2% chance of survival. As Andraka explains on the stage, this is because the same (very expensive) pancreatic cancer test has been used for decades, and is only given if a doctor already suspects you have the disease.
The 60-year-old technique thats older than my dad, says Andraka.
Andraka set out to develop a new test for pancreatic cancer thats inexpensive, rapid, simple, sensitive, selective and minimally invasive. He began by looking for a protein in the bloodstream that would be a biomarker for pancreatic cancer one that would be found in all cases, even in the earliest stages. The problem: there were 8,000 possible proteins. When Andraka was close to losing sanity on the 4,000th protein, he finally found one that could work mesothelin.
But then he found a whole new problem how would he go about detecting it?
My inspiration came from the most unlikely place for innovation high school biology class, that absolute stifler of innovation, says Andraka, to big laughs from the audience.
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HIDLightSaverTMhas potential to reduce energy use by 35% and generate savings of €14 million on street lighting in Ireland
Energy entrepreneurs based at NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at UCD, have won the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland’s (SEAI) inaugural Innovation Award announced on the opening day of the SEA Energy Show 2011. The winning product, the HIDLightSaverTM, is the result of research into the costs associated with lighting and High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps found in street lighting, floodlit arenas, motorways and retail outlets.
The Sustainable Energy Innovation Award winning product, the HIDLightSaverTM was developed and manufactured in Ireland and will help organisations reduce their energy costs and associated carbon footprint by as much as 35% and the technology has the potential to generate savings of €14 million on street light running costs alone. The new SEAI award entries were evaluated on three criteria: innovation, energy performance and environmental impact, and the business potential of each product. Shortlisted finalists underwent a public ‘dragons’ den’ style encounter with a panel of four judges. The award winners were chosen by judges: Terence O’Rourke, Managing Partner KPMG Ireland; Joe Harford, former Chairman ESRI; Niamh Boyle, Founder and Managing Director of Corporate Reputations; and Brendan Halligan, Chairman SEAI, with each member of the panel expressing their enthusiasm at both the variety and high standards of the eight finalists. The founders of Belfield Technologies are Dr Ger Devlin, Dr Kevin McDonnell, David Megan and Brian McDonnell, Bioresources Research Centre, UCD School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine. According to SEAI Chief Executive Professor J. Owen Lewis: “To see such high levels of creativity from all the finalists, and particularly from our winners, Belfield Technologies, is most encouraging as Ireland’s journey towards the creation of a fully functioning Green Economy gathers pace. Products like the HIDLightSaverTMare needed now more than ever and I commend Dr Ger Devlin and Brian McDonnell for all their work in the creation of this product. The Innovation Awards proved to be a great addition to this year’s SEAI Energy Show and I look forward to seeing many of the finalist products succeeding to commercialisation in the near future.”
On receiving the Sustainable Energy Innovation Award Dr Ger Devlin, co-founder, Belfield Technologies said: “We are delighted to have been presented with this prestigious award, as this endorsement is of vital importance in assisting us to attract customers for our innovative technology. Looking to the future, Belfield Technologies plans to launch into the UK and EU market later this year and plans to create at least 20 jobs in Ireland by 2013. Our vision is to become a successful Irish greentech company providing energy efficient and innovative cost savings solutions worldwide.” The Sustainable Energy Innovation Award winners will receive financial support towards their business development costs.
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3 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings 55
4 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly 43
5 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award 40
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7 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Owner 40
8 American Champion Older Female Horse 38
9 American Champion Female Turf Horse 37
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14 National Thoroughbred Racing Association Moment of the Year 30
15 European Horse of the Year 26
16 American Champion Male Turf Horse 25
17 Lester Award 23
18 Harness Horse of the Year 23
19 Sovereign Award 21
20 American Champion Sprint Horse 21
21 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer 20
22 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey 18
23 Canadian Horse of the Year 17
24 Canadian Champion Older Female Horse 17
25 Eclipse Award Trophy 16
26 Isaac Murphy Award 15
27 Avelino Gomez Memorial Award 14
28 Best Jockey ESPY Award 14
29 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey 13
30 Eclipse Special Award 13
31 Canadian Champion Three-Year-Old Filly 12
32 Australian Harness Horse of the Year 12
33 Kentucky Derby Trophy 12
34 Big Sport of Turfdom Award 11
35 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder 11
36 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Owner 11
37 Laffit Pincay, Jr. Award 11
38 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey 10
39 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey 10
40 Triple Crown Trophy 10
41 Virgil W. Raines Distinguished Achievement Award 10
42 Mike Venezia Memorial Award 9
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45 Scobie Breasley Medal 9
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52 Annapolis Subscription Plate 8
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Devices News Sony Xperia, Android, CES, Mobile phones, smartphones, Sony, Technology — January 7, 2014 11:47 — 0 Comments
Sony’s new Xperia Z1 Compact shows premium Android phones can be small
The Xperia Z1 Compact has a higher pixel density than Apple’s 4in iPhone 5S
Company bucks trend, squeezing all components from its larger flagship 5in phone into compact with 4.3in screen
This article titled “Sony’s new Xperia Z1 Compact shows premium Android phones can be small” was written by Samuel Gibbs, for theguardian.com on Tuesday 7th January 2014 01.00 UTC
Sony has decided that in the premium smartphone market, smaller can be more beautiful. Rather than competing with the ever-growing screens of rivals such as Samsung or LG, its new Z1 Compact phone has a 4.3in screen – far smaller than the 5in of the Samsung Galaxy S4 or 4.7in HTC One.
“With the Z1 Compact we have invented our own market segment: the premium compact Android smartphone,” Pierre Perron, head of Sony Mobile Europe told the Guardian.
Sony thinks that there is a significant market for a more manageable Android phone that fits smaller hands, compared to the 5in and larger screen size trend, while not compromising on specifications.
The company reckons the current trend for larger and larger screen sizes, as demonstrated by Samsung’s ever expanding Galaxy S and Galaxy Note line, is getting out of hand for consumers. There is some backing from data, collected by US research firm NPD, which suggests that 75% of smartphones in use in the US have screens smaller than 4.5in.
Sony has squeezed all of the components from its larger flagship 5in phone, the Xperia Z1, into the Z1 Compact’s smaller frame with a 720p high definition screen which, at 340ppi, has a higher pixel density than Apple’s 4in iPhone 5S with its 326ppi “retina display” screen.
Small, but not cheap
Sony’s biggest challenge with the Z1 Compact is persuading its target audience – the mainstream consumer – that a smaller phone doesn’t mean a poorer experience, something of which Perron is acutely aware.
“We have a strong opportunity to address a new, underserved segment with the Z1 Compact, something Sony did not target in 2013, but we must successfully make the point to the consumer in our marketing that this is not just another cheap, small Android smartphone,” Perron said.
It’s expected to go on sale for between £400 and £500, though Sony wouldn’t confirm a price ahead of the announcement.
The Xperia Z1 Compact features a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 – currently the most powerful ARM-based mobile processor available in smartphones and tablets – a 20.7-megapixel camera, NFC, 4G LTE and a solid, waterproof build that makes it feel every bit a premium Android smartphone, but smaller than the trend. It has a “class leading” 2,300 mAh battery, which Sony says should last a day of heavy usage. It runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, but with a promise from Sony to update it to the latest Android 4.4 Kitkat.
Sony argues that its rivals’ smaller-screened phones, such as the Samsung S4 Mini or HTC One Mini, are compromised by having slower processors and less RAM than their full-size siblings, meaning they offer poorer performance.
Taking aim at the iPhone
The Z1 Compact aims to take sales from Apple’s 4in iPhone 5S, which up until now has only been challenged by much larger 5in phones that are more difficult to handle, especially one-handed.
“To continue our growth year in 2014 to cement and move forward on our number three position in the UK and Europe, we need to compete with the likes of Samsung and Apple,” said Perron. “We are accelerating the pace of technological integration from the other parts of our company, such as our camera and television businesses, into Sony Mobile and the result is the premium experience offered by the Z1 and new Z1 Compact.”
To help Sony compete with Apple and allow easier switching from the iPhone to an Android phone, Sony has also launched a range of applications that automate the transfer of data between different phones using Wi-Fi or a USB cable. iPhone app and content bought from iTunes will still not be able to be transferred, of course.
“Xperia Z1 is a no-compromise feature-packed smartphone with a beautiful yet durable design. With Xperia Z1 Compact, we bring all of these premium features and performance into a smaller size to give you the ultimate compact smartphone,” said Kunimasa Suzuki, president and chief executive of Sony Mobile Communications.
The Sony Xperia Z1 Compact will be available in the UK and other markets in February, in a range of four colours: pink, yellow, black and white.
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Ep35: Greg Abbott versus The World: taking on pre-K programs, bathrooms, the Constitution and pro football
In just a week, Gov. Greg Abbott seems to be taking on all comers.
First, in an interview on Fox News, Abbott blasted the National Football League for, as he put it, trying to make Texas "come to heel" on enacting a so-called bathroom bill that will require Texans to use only the loo that corresponds to the sex on their birth certificate.
Now, he's not saying the measure will pass, and he's not endorsing it, but he thinks the NFL should stop criticizing Senate Bill 6. If they don't, he might just pass a bill requiring NFL players to stand and put their hand over their heart when the Star Spangled Banner is played.
He also wants the House to shape up and put additional funding into pre-K programs in Texas, just weeks after he implored lawmakers in his State of the State speech to either properly fund those programs or not fund them at all. Many lawmakers shrugged off that offer by saying they'd pass on funding them.
And while Abbott was making his opinions known on those issues known, his close ally, Attorney General Ken Paxton, under indictment and facing a May court date on felony securities fraud charges, was facing likely possibility of not one, but two, trials on the pending charges.
As the Paxton legal drama unfolded, the Senate approved an ethics reform bill designed to make officeholders more accountable, the San Antonio offices of state Sen. Carlos Uresti were raided by the FBI and IRS as part of a wide-ranging fraud investigation. State Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, is already facing criminal charges from a January indictment for alleged official misconduct.
Hear all about that and everything else going on under the Pink Dome on this week's Texas Take: The Podcast -- the leading political podcast in the Lone Star State -- where you get the inside scoop about what the Legislature is up to, in simple language every Texan can understand.
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Entry: Lone Wolf and Cub
I'm not industrious enough to double-check, but the plurality of my posts are related to movies. Why not, sounds good to me. It's one of the things that I really love to geek out about, to the point where I have to check myself to make sure I'm not solely using the term "film" and sounding like a complete gasbag.
Anyway, something that gives me great pleasure when browsing Wiki articles on films (see, there I go) is reading about subgenres, like chanbara, Japanese action flicks about samurai. Apparently a lot of these movies are serials featuring well-known characters. I had heard of Zatoichi the blind samurai (and by "head of" I mean "saw a parody of him on The Boondocks"), but the one that really caught me off guard with his sharp sharp katana was Lone Wolf and Cub: six films, four plays, a television series, and a 28-volume manga about a samuai, Itto, and his 3-year-old son, Daigoro, who he pushes around Japan in a baby carriage, all the while stabbing ninjas and seeking revenge for the murder of his wife.
One thing I'm not quite clear on: does Daigoro fight alongside his dad? There's a screenshot of him from one of the movies:
(D'awwwww, baby samurai!) He's holding that stick like a weapon, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's fighting. Besides, if my dad was the Shogun's grand executioner and all I got as a weapon was a lousy stick, I would be pissed. But how would they achieve that in the movies with a child actor? A midget stand-in? I found a trailer for one of them (NSFW):
which includes Daigoro brandishing the stick, but it doesn't really answer my questions. I don't speak Japanese, so I don't have the slightest clue as to what the dialogue is ("What are you, crazy? He's not even wearing armor! I should call child services.").
I'm interested in seeing these, partially because I like a good action flick, but also because the some of English names are the best titles ever given anything in recorded history:
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
How could anyone not want to see a movie subtitled "Baby Cart to Hades?"
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AiYume said...
The films are available with English subtitles from AnimEigo. They are quite enjoyable, especially if you like lots of fake squirting blood. There is also an edited English-dubbed version of the films that I have not watched called Shogun Assassin available from the same company.
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Re: Dragonball
by WeiWenDi » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:49 pm
Antiochus wrote: OMYGOD I JUST SAW THE TRAILER AND I MUST GOUGE OUT MY EYES BECAUSE IT IS SO BAD!
Ouch...
There should be laws against this kind of things. Someone is raping my childhood culture...
Yeah. I think the best thing I can find to say about it at this point is, 'the theme song is an improvement'. But it is Ayu doing it...
At the risk of traumatising you further, have you seen the new Shen Long screencaps from the movie? They have this humongous, epic, all-powerful wish-granting Chinese dragon and that's the best they could come up with? Sorry, 20th Century Fox, you fail. But that's the most disappointing thing in the new material - the rest of it seriously just looks like a cheesy chop-sock, and there's nothing wrong with a good cheesy chop-sock.
Full new trailer here.
Some more blood, Chekov. The needle won't hurt, Chekov. Take off your shirt, Chekov. Roll over, Chekov. Breathe deeply, Chekov. Blood sample, Chekov! Marrow sample, Chekov! Skin sample, Chekov! If I live long enough... I'm going to run out of samples.
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by dymlos timbre » Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:14 pm
why is it that everytime i look at the character who is playing goku, i feel this overwhelming hatred towards him? he just seems like such a bad person to play goku.
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by WeiWenDi » Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:30 pm
dymlos timbre wrote: why is it that everytime i look at the character who is playing goku, i
feel this overwhelming hatred towards him? he just seems like such a
bad person to play goku.
Probably for the same reason every time I look at Keanu Reeves playing Don John in MAaN, I have this overwhelming urge to dunk his head repeatedly in one of Messina's many, many fountains until he starts displaying some emotion - it is an urge I will probably also experience watching him in Cowboy Bebop, except replacing 'fountain' with 'airlock'.
Oh well. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.
by dymlos timbre » Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:15 pm
wait, bebop?? dont tell me.... are they going to ruin that too
by WeiWenDi » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:33 pm
Keanu with an Afro. Eeeehhhh...
by dymlos timbre » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:13 am
alright well.... consider two classic anime to be completely ruined by idiots.im sorry but you jsut cant replicate bebop in a live action film
by WeiWenDi » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:43 am
Well, there is actually reason to be cautiously optimistic about a live-action Bebop, since the production team includes Watanabe Shin'ichirou, Uchida Kenji and Nobumoto Keiko, and also Sunrise is going to be in on the ground floor of this project - as good a sign as we could hope for, really. (Let's just hope for good news about the directors there.) DBE is a whole different story, since Toriyama Akira never got too involved in it.
Also, why wouldn't you be able to do Bebop in live-action? I mean, it strikes me that Dragonball is far trickier to pin down with all of the visual-effects tweaking to get the auras, the qi blasts and the bukuujutsu right, but the anime Bebop tended to be more realistic even if stylised, kind of like V for Vendetta. Of course, for the space travel you'd have to use CGI and visual effects, but that's to be expected anyway.
But... Keanu Reeves?
And I don't mean that in a good way.
by dymlos timbre » Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:08 pm
the whole way the camra angle worked and fighting scenes happened in bebop, i just personally think they cant replicate the magic behind the characters. Another thing i guess i have a tick about these actors playing them is, well.....spikes voice Actor worked perfectly and keanu reeves.......just doesnt seem to have spikes additude. Well im certain dragonball evolution will flop (by fans of the series bashing it hard) hopfully bebop will a little better but i doubt it much better.
Im one of those people who strongly beleives that anime should probably stay anime.
i think instead of trying to make money off anime hollywood directors should focus more on some great books that could be potential great movies. For example R.A. Salvatores the crystal shard book or menzoberranzan series.
by WeiWenDi » Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:40 am
dymlos timbre wrote: the whole way the camra angle worked and fighting scenes happened in bebop, i just personally think they cant replicate the magic behind the characters. Another thing i guess i have a tick about these actors playing them is, well.....spikes voice Actor worked perfectly and keanu reeves.......just doesnt seem to have spikes additude. Well im certain dragonball evolution will flop (by fans of the series bashing it hard) hopfully bebop will a little better but i doubt it much better.
That's why I said cautiously optimistic.
And I agree that Reeves doesn't have Spike's attitude.
Or any at all, for that matter...
dymlos timbre wrote: Im one of those people who strongly beleives that anime should probably stay anime.
Aww, but then we wouldn't have had the sheer awesomeness that was the Matrix!
Okay, that's kind of a glib answer. Put another way - I think anime and traditional live-action film-making have had a mutually-beneficial relationship of artistic give-and-take thus far, but as the relationship is still somewhat new (as in, less than 25 years old, functionally speaking - going back to, well, Blade Runner really) we have yet to see where it will take us.
dymlos timbre wrote: i think instead of trying to make money off anime hollywood directors should focus more on some great books that could be potential great movies. For example R.A. Salvatores the crystal shard book or menzoberranzan series.
Now there's an interesting idea. It will be interesting to see if a film-maker decides to pick up on that.
I haven't read any of R A Salvatore's work yet (I'll get around to it sometime; I'm still on Lois Bujold); but from what I've seen of the attempts to adapt the genre of neo-sci-fi and -fantasy to the big screen, it's been about the same level of hit-and-miss.
From what I hear, live-action Twilight was an improvement on the original book, though (also from what I hear) that wouldn't take much. Starship Troopers was an improvement too, but that was because Paul Verhoeven was deliberately mocking Heinlein by populating his universe with stupid people.
by DynastyWarriors6 » Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:37 am
Thank you finally someone else who says anime should stay anime and should movies stay movies. It's not a hard concept but Hollywood has got to make a quick buck some how.
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A pig’s ear of a law
Ever since February’s elections failed to produce a clear winner, there has been talk of changing Italy’s current electoral law, the so-called Porcellum. On Friday, Italy’s Supreme Court also weighed in, calling on the Constitutional Court to review the law, in particular the system by which bonus seats are granted in the Chamber of Deputies.
In 2005, Roberto Calderoli of the Northern League, then Minister of Reforms in the Berlusconi government, was given the task of drawing up a new electoral law. This is the man who explained Italy’s victory in the 2006 World Cup final by the fact that France fielded a team of “negroes, Muslims and Communists”, and who told Italian Muslims to “go back to the desert and talk to the camels or the jungle with the monkeys.” I cannot bring myself to even translate his comments on gays.
The idea was presumably to strengthen Berlusconi’s position in the 2006 elections. Italy has a bicameral system. Under the Porcellum parties need to get 4% of the vote to gain seats, or 10% if they have formed a coalition prior to the election. If no one party wins an overall majority in the Chamber of Deputies, the party or coalition with the most votes is assigned a premium of bonus seats to reach a total of 340, a 54% majority. It is this element that may be ruled unconstitutional. There is certainly a case to be made that it is unfair. Coalitions come and go: the centre-left coalition that “won” in the Chamber of Deputies in February no longer exists. Beppe Grillo has a case when he argues that his M5S movement should now be awarded the premium as the largest individual party. The justification for the premium is that it ensures a workable majority, but since there is no premium of this kind in the Senate, it is perfectly possible for the two houses to have different majorities, as is currently the case. Since the houses carry absolutely equal weight, this makes the country virtually ungovernable. Thus the current law is neither “fair” in a strictly proportional sense, nor does it lead to stable government.
Another problem with the Porcellum, from the electorate’s point of view, is that it gives too much power to party leaders and not enough to voters. The parties draw up lists of candidates and, depending on their percentage of the vote, the top x number of candidates are elected. Voters have no say at all in which individual is elected. So there is no incentive for deputies to try to win their constituents’ respect by representing their interests; all that matters is currying favour with the party leaders.
In a 2006 TV interview Calderoli, with the finesse for which he is renowned, described his law as a “porcata”, a dialect word that in essence means “crap”. Porcata being a vulgar term, a political scientist later modified it to the cod Latin Porcellum. In case you think I am quoting the Minister out of context, here is a full translation of the relevant part of the interview:
Minister Calderoli: But see, I knew that this here law was crap, frankly.
Interviewer: Did I hear that correctly? It’s crap? You wrote it and you think it’s crap?
Calderoli: Yes, yes. When someone does something crap without realising it, it’s another type of… But when someone does it deliberately to cause trouble for the right and the left, which now have to take into account not how they handle power, but how they respond to the people, those who vote. And this time they’ll pay.”
No, it doesn't make sense in Italian, either. What is clear is that he is saying the law is crap, but explaining that it is all part of a cunning plan to cause problems for the political parties, including his colleagues in the centre-right government. Perhaps disguising himself as a smirking, racist, homophobe is also part of a cunning plan. If so, the secret aim of said plan has not yet been revealed. And Italy is still stuck with this pig’s ear of a law.
Tag: berlusconi, Grillo, M5S
Scritto in Italian politics | 11 Commenti »
Laura Friedman 22 May 2013 alle 18:01
che vergogna
che vergogna!
italiote 19 May 2013 alle 20:14
Italy’s Supreme Court addressed the question of constitutional legitimacy raised by the lawyer Aldo Bozzi on march 2008 in a legal recourse meant to safeguard the rights granted by the italian Constitution and EU's Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
The so-called Porcellum was supposed to be enacted along with the Constitutional Reform known as "Devolution"[1]
which amended 57 articles of Italian Constitution but was not approved by a two-third majority and it thus could be vetoed by means of a constitutional referendum [2],[3],[4]
Among other things, that Constitutional Reform deprived the Senate of such "absolutely equal weight" and provided for a "stable government" in ways that the naked Porcellum would never achieve.
Whereas Napolitano's working group on institutional reforms recently provided many (not unheard of) advises about such constitutional matters [5] and the current government is backed by a two-third majority, Italy may not be stuck with this pig’s ear of a law for much longer...
[1] http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Devoluzione_e_riforma_Costituzionale
[2] http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum_costituzionale_del_2006_in_Italia
[3] Art. 138 Cost: A referendum shall not be held if the law has been approved in the second voting by each of the Houses by a majority of two-thirds of the members.
[4] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/humiliation-for-berlsuconi-as-italy-rejects-devolution-405654.html
[5] http://www.quirinale.it/qrnw/statico/attivita/consultazioni/c_20mar2013/gruppi_lavoro/2013-04-12_relazione_finale.pdf
luottardi 19 May 2013 alle 12:38
Che spasso vedere gli italioti che si avventurano in un inglese approssimativo con la convinzione di essere 'cool'.
L'italiota si merita Calderoli e Berlusconi e tutte le porcate che gli piovono in testa, la sua presunzione
e' la sua condanna.
Rocco Crocitti 19 May 2013 alle 10:46
@ THE SUNSET, Eccone un'altro che cerca gloria con un inglese approssimativo e ridicolo. Purtroppo l'Italia é piena
di simili SEMIANALFABETI e COMPLESSATI. Basta ricordare Rutelli (MINISTRO DELLA CULTURA) o la marea di cosiddetti GIORNALISTI che hanno persino il coraggio (ho detto coraggio?) di "tradurre" in inglese quello che non sanno spiegare in italiano. Chi può sorprendersi se abbiamo un parlamento di ladri e incapaci se "controllati" da tale stampa e opinione pubblica?
The sunset 19 May 2013 alle 01:36
Unfortunately the Italian are so weak to change . and solo Parole Parole Parole .
The Legas are stupied this sentince approve this “go back to the desert and talk to the camels or the jungle with the monkeys.” how they mixed the monkeys with deserts .
This is Italy People they dont know any informations GOVERN COUNTRIES . Go to Santanchè ESTATA Sottosegretario di Stato alla Presidenza del Consiglio ,and others ........
Svizzero63 18 May 2013 alle 23:51
@Guido. By law (in the porcata) the votes abroad a not counting to determine which party will get the majority "price". Therefore due to the fact that the coalitions after voting are not respecting the pre-voting alliances M5S is the only one should really get "that bloody and undemocratic price" ... at least they are coherent
federico 18 May 2013 alle 23:32
"Porcata" does not mean "crap" but "a bad job" or, more relevantly, "a dirty trick": Calderoli called his own law "una porcata" while virtually admitting that it had been engineered in order to prevent the Center-Left from having a manageable majority of seats in the general elections of 2006 despite having good polls at the time. The plan might have not been cunning, but it was highly effective.
And the law was not rechristened "Porcellum" out of prudeness, which would have been silly: the term "porcata" is colloquial but not exactly shocking or obscene. It is a pun on the journalistic name given to the previous election law, the Mattarellum, from the name of his proponent, Sergio Mattarella.
Guido Vivolo 18 May 2013 alle 23:11
The world has numerous examples of countries that have elections and manage to form stable governments that actually manage to last more than a few months. Surely Italy can learn something from them.
Guido 18 May 2013 alle 23:05
It is not true that Grillo's movement has been the first party. That seemed true by the dates which came out on election night, but those excluded various voters, including all the Italians abroad. When all the votes are counted, the Democratic Party has been the first one in both chambers.
Bellissimo articolo. Basta vedere il tutto con gli occhi di qualcuno che viene da un paese normale e già diventa palese l'assurdità di tutto ciò che per noi è ormai pane quotidiano. Italia un paese in via di sottosviluppo.
Ma quando ci sarà una Norimberga per gente come Calderoli?
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MEETING/EVENT
North Maple Avenue
Ground Water Contamination,
Site update by NJ DEP
In 1993, sampling conducted by the Ocean County Health Department identified five private drinking water (potable) wells along North Maple Avenue that were contaminated with volatile organic compounds at levels exceeding NJ Drinking Water Standards. The primary contaminants were benzene and 1,2-dichloroethane. Two additional homes on Locust Street in Lakewood Township were found to be contaminated, primarily with benzene and 1,1,1-trichloroethane. NJDEP connected the homes to the public water system in 1994. Once that immediate environmental concern was dealt with the site was added to the "Known Contaminated Sites in NJ" list as a site with an unknown source of contamination. These sites are then investigated, as they become a priority for NJDEP. This source investigation was assigned in early 2005.
Summer/Fall 2005 - A resident on Ronda Road found that water from their new replacement potable well had a gas-like odor. This home originally had an 85' well; the replacement well is approximately 135'. Sampling indicated benzene at 125 ppb and 1,2-dichloroethane at 5.5 ppb. Ocean County Health Department contacted nearby well owners and sampled four neighboring wells; no contaminants were found in the other wells.
November/December 2005 - A resident on Fiddlers Run found benzene contamination upon testing their irrigation well and discussed their situation with the Citizens Action Committee on Childhood Cancer Cluster, which notified NJDEP. The resident also was aware of a neighbor having benzene contamination in their well. Those wells showed benzene at 33.8 and 5 ppb respectively.
March 8,2006 - NJDEP mailed letters and questionnaires to approximately 65 area property owners to identify potable wells to sample in April.
April 5,2006 - NJDEP sampled 28 potable and 2 irrigation wells. These properties are located primarily around Stare Road, North Maple Avenue and Route 9. No wells were found to contain contaminants exceeding drinking water standards. Sub-slab soil gas and indoor air samples were taken from two homes (Fiddlers Run and Ronda Road) which had elevated benzene in their wells.
April 7, 2006 - NJDEP mailed letters to approximately 75 area property owners to identify irrigation wells to sample later that month.
April 27 & 28,2006 - NJDEP sampled 36 irrigation wells. These wells are located primarily along North Maple and several roads leading off of it (Donna Dee Court, Fiddlers Run, Crystal Mile Court, Clover Hill Lane). Field screening through the NJDEP laboratory identified fifteen wells with elevated levels of benzene (up to 1086 ppb) and 1,2-dichloroethane (up to 46 ppb). The Ground Water Quality Standards for these substances are 1 and 2ppb respectively.
May 11, 2006 - NJDEP learned of an additional potable well just north of the study area. NJDEP sampled this well, located on Locust Street in Lakewood Township. Benzene was found at 124 ppb (subsequently 75.4). A whole-house water treatment system was installed through the NJDEP Spill Fund. May 15, 2006 - NJDEP collected sub-slab soil gas and indoor air samples were taken from one home on Donna Dee Court.
May 18, 2006 - NJDEP mailed letters to owners of 22 properties on Donna Dee Court and Fiddlers Run recommending they discontinue use of their irrigation wells until further investigation of the ground water can be completed.
May 31, 2006 - NJDEP collected sub-slab soil gas and indoor air samples at 16 homes which had benzene detected in their irrigation or potable wells. The NJDEP Office of Data Quality is currently reviewing the results. June 9, 2006 - NJDEP mailed invitations to June 27th public meeting to approximately 120 residents in the North Maple Avenue area.
Plans for additional work
Receptor Evaluation
• Delineate shallow ground water conditions in residential study area.
• Perform additional well and indoor air sampling if necessary to assist with evaluation.
• Work with NJ Department of Health and Senior Services, Ocean County Health Department, Dover Township and NJDEP Division of Science, Research & Technology to address potential health impacts from irrigation wells so that additional guidance on their use, restrictions or well closure can be provided.
Source Investigation
• In addition to investigating a potential source of contamination in the residential area, NJDEP's Bureau of Environmental Measurement and Site Assessment will investigate whether facilities along the Route 9 corridor in Lakewood Township may be the source of the contamination found in the wells along North Maple Avenue.
A workplan is currently being finalized and discussions for access continuing. Most of this work will utilize a Geoprobe to conduct vertical profiling of the ground water. Field work is expected to begin in July 2006.
Primary Ground Water Contaminants
Benzene is a colorless liquid with a sweet odor. It evaporates into the air very quickly and dissolves slightly in water. It is highly flammable and is formed from both natural processes and human activities. Benzene is widely used in the United States; it ranks in the top 20 chemicals for production volume. Some industries use benzene to make other chemicals which are used to make plastics, resins, and nylon and synthetic fibers. Benzene is also used to make some types of rubbers, lubricants, dyes, detergents, drugs, and pesticides. Natural sources of benzene include volcanoes and forest fires. Benzene is also a natural part of crude oil, gasoline, and cigarette smoke. Benzene is released to air primarily from fumes and exhaust connected with its use in gasoline. Other sources are fumes from its production and use in manufacturing other chemicals. In addition, there are discharges into water from industrial effluents and losses during spills.
1,2-Dichloroethane, also called ethylenedichloride, is a manufactured chemical that is not found naturally in the environment. It is a clear liquid and has a pleasant smell and sweet taste. The most common use of 1,2-dichloroethane is in the production of vinyl chloride which is used to make a variety of plastic and vinyl products including polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes, furniture and automobile upholstery, wall coverings, housewares, and automobile parts. It is also used to as a solvent and is added to leaded gasoline to remove lead.
Naphthalene is a white solid that evaporates easily. Fuels such as petroleum and coal contain naphthalene. It is also called white tar, and tar camphor, and has been used in mothballs and moth flakes. Burning tobacco or wood produces naphthalene. It has a strong, but not unpleasant smell. The major commercial use of naphthalene is in the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics. Its major consumer use is in moth repellents and toilet deodorant blocks.
Xylene is a colorless, sweet-smelling liquid that catches on fire easily. It occurs naturally in petroleum and coal tar. Chemical industries produce xylene from petroleum. It is one of the top 30 chemicals produced in the United States in terms of volume. Xylene is used as a solvent and in the printing, rubber, and leather industries. It is also used as a cleaning agent, a thinner for paint, and in paints and varnishes. It is found in small amounts in airplane fuel and gasoline.
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Islam in the UK
UK: FOR TWO DECADES AUTHORITIES IGNORED YOUTH WORKER’S REPORTS OF WHITE GIRLS BEING SEXUALLY GROOMED BY MUSLIM MEN……
Islam in the UK Rape Western Appeasement Western stooges
BLINDERS ON FOR RAPE JIHAD……
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“We’ll be talking about #WhitePriviledge in todays diversity class”.//t.co/1woVWtYZV9
— veli nikander (@VNikander) March 29, 2016
The Rotherham whistleblower: Youth worker reveals how for TWO DECADES the authorities ignored her reports of young white girls being groomed and raped by gangs of Asian men in a shocking new book
Youth worker Jayne Senior, 51, repeatedly alerted authorities to abuse
She was working a group set up to help vulnerable girls in the area
However, police, council and social workers ignored her reports
They accused the girls – some as young as ten – of lying
Senior eventually shared confidential documents to expose scandal
Up to 1,400 possible victims of abuse have now been identified
Senior has written Broken And Betrayed about what really happened
By SIOFRA BRENNAN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:10 GMT, 29 March 2016 | UPDATED: 07:46 GMT, 29 March 2016
It is a scandal that sent shockwaves across the UK. Cases of mainly white girls – some as young as 10 – being groomed, raped, forced into prostitution, beaten and even killed, by gangs of older Asian men.
These horrendous crimes were told by the vulnerable victims to Rotherham youth worker Jayne Senior on an almost daily basis for 20 years.
They were desperate pleas for help that fell on deaf ears for nearly two decades when the 51-year-old reported them to the local police, to the council, and to social services, all of which failed to believe what Senior was telling them.
Senior, a mother of three, has now written a book called Broken And Betrayed, revealing how she became the whistleblower who risked imprisonment to provide evidence to bring these cases to court.
Senior’s first ever referral was a girl of 14 who was in a ‘relationship’ with a man in his 30s. She quickly became privy to horrific incidents of abuse perpetrated against vulnerable young girls
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By Gleaner1 Mar 29, 2016
At 20-30 hours BST today, having read this piece, I forwarded a full page complaint about it to the editor and the Press Complaints Commission for refusing to name the ethnicity and religion of the perps. Having read Easy Meat by Peter McLoughlin about how the teaching unions and their members refused to inquire about what was evidence in front of teachers for 25 YEARS and the National Union of Journalists refusal to print it I felt I had to do something. The woman even claims “religion had nothing to do with it”. She and the reporter are still covering it up.
By paul Mar 31, 2016
Follow the money! It was not for free a blind eye was turned to the rapes. They even arrested fathers trying to get their daughters back.
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Nuts and Bolts: a big difference.
Yes, yes, I know that apostrophes have been used in varied ways over the centuries, but sometimes they do make a big difference.
Sir Robin Mountfield has died. He was a very senior civil servant, and also a grammatical stickler, who came up with my favourite example of how, occasionally, apostrophes really matter.
This example was a World War 2 headline, and it described a German army advance which had succeeded in surrounding part of the French army.
It said:
GERMANS' PUSH BOTTLES UP FRENCH REAR.
As Sir Robin pointed out so persuasively, without the apostrophe it could have had a rather different meaning.
Thing To Use Today: apostrophe. This word has come to us through Latin from the Greek word apostrephein, which, oddly, means to turn away.
Thing To Do Today. Or possibly not. Screeve.
Screeve is a lovely word, now sadly fallen into disuse.
It can mean to write quickly or continuously, which is surely something to be encouraged.
Or it can mean to ooze, which surely none of us ever aspires to do.
Or, if you're a horse, it means to fall with the legs apart while running on ice.
What a language, eh? How marvellous to have a word for that.
A screeve can be a piece of writing, a banknote, or a begging letter.
Whereas a screever is a pavement artist. This is a very fine thing to be as long as you work in something washable, like chalk.
So there we are: screeve. It's what I'd call a really generous word, too.
Thing To Do Today. Or possibly Not. Screeve. The ooze meaning comes from the Old French escrever, where it is used of wounds (lovely!). The reading-and-writing meaning comes from the Latin scrībēre, which means to write; and the falling-on-ice meaning comes from the Norwegian word skreva, to straddle.
Spot the frippet: fungi.
There are fungi wibbling all over the fields and woods of England at the moment - we have some lovely lilac blewits on our front lawn - but of course most of the fungi which exist around us (and inside us) are so small as to be invisible to the naked eye.
Pause to shudder with wonder, here, I think. Invisible fungi include yeasts, and antibiotics, as well as being part of what is rather spookily called gut flora.
Hey, and did you know that fungi are nearer to animals than plants?
That they are farmed, not only by people, but by ants and wasps and termites?
That fungi have cells made with chitin, which is the same stuff of which lobsters' skeletons are made?
That fungi are used to "stonewash" jeans?
That some fungi are utterly delicious?
(This is a stilton cheese, and the fungus which inhabits it is called Penicillium roqueforti. Yes, it's used in Roquefort cheese, too.)
Spot the frippet: fungus. If you can't find a mushroom-type thing then any piece of bread or any alcoholic drink will contain fungi - and anyone with a beard or moustache is sporting face fungus.
The word is Latin for mushroom, and before that it came from the Greek word sphongos, which means sponge.
Which brings us back to the wibbly woods rather beautifully. doesn't it.
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Sunday Rest: Word Not To Use Today: ubiquitous,
The dreadful thing about some words is that they're too useful. For instance, ubiquitous. It's a horrible, oily, orange-lamp-lights-on-wet-streets word, but it gets everywhere.
I suppose one could use omnipresent, instead, but omnipresent has a great lumbering hump at the beginning and a spit in the middle, and I think might be slightly uglier even then ubiquitous.
Basically, the world would be a better place if we avoided both of them. It's quite possible to do so. After all, I've written rather a lot of novels and I don't think I've used either ubiquitous or omnipresent in any of them.
Actually, I've just checked, and I haven't even used them in Goldkeeper - and that's all about God.
So I'm calling for a unilateral ban.
Thank you very much. I appreciate it, I really do.
Word Not To Use Today: ubiquitous. What have the Romans ever done for us? Well, they've given us ubiquitous. It comes from the Latin word ubīque, which means everywhere.
Saturday Rave: Rapunzel.
Ooh, there's a lot of misery in this story, and the plot gapes with holes at every turn.
But then putting characters somewhere where they have great trouble getting in or out will always cause trouble.
In some ways it's a shame the arch-plotter Agatha Christie wasn't around when the story was first being put together - though, I don't know, the whole thing has such an air of danger and strangeness and mystery that the holes serve to give us glimpses of mysteries and horrors yet more enticing than those before us.
Poor Rapunzel, anyway. Not only does she suffer horribly, but she's called after a vegetable - and not even a nice vegetable, but something, a rampion, which I understand has a root which tastes like a not-very-nice parsnip, and leaves which taste like not-very-nice spinach.
Oh, but I do wish the story was Scandivavian instead of German (or possibly French, or Persian, or Roman), because then she'd be a Swede, as well.*
Word To Use Today: rampion. Hm, the opportunities for chatting about obselete vegetables are, I must admit, few. It's a lovely word, though, and may be of use in such phrases as I'd rather eat a mouldy rampion. Or you could ask for rampions in your local supermarket and get a reputation for being...well, utterly bonkers.
The word rampion comes from the French raiponce and before that from the Old Italian raponzo, from the Latin rāpa, which means turnip.
*Sorry, this joke doesn't work in America - a swede is what I believe Americans call a rutabaga.
Word To Sing Today: cockle.
Mary Mary quite contrary
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.
But what the cockles mean in this nursery rhyme - if anything - is anyone's guess. If the rhyme is about being a Roman Catholic, then they're perhaps a symbol of pilgrimage; if it's about Mary Queen of Scots, then they might be a snide joke about her husband's not being faithful; if it's about the English queen Mary Tudor then they might even be a sort of instrument of torture - which is a horrible use of a lovely word.
Anyway, we're lucky enough to have another cockle song to sing, too, if we feel like it: there's an Irish one about Molly Malone, who:
wheeled her wheelbarrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussles alive alive-oh.
Now, this song seems to be about - well, a young lady who sold shellfish.
And thank heavens for that.
Now, cockles: they're not stupid, you know. They spend their lives lying about on sheltered sandy beaches, which surely proves it.
They have a sucking-in water hole, a blowing-out water hole, and a foot hole (they can jump about if they want to); and as the sea water in which they live is a sort of thin soup of their food, plankton, they never have to go shopping.
In England our ancient (1215) Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, gives everyone the right to gather eight pounds of cockles without a licence, hurray!
How nice to think of all those ancient barons worrying about the common people's need for shellfish. Why, it's enough to warm the cockles of your heart, that is.
What? Oh. Well, cockles are heart-shaped, which is possibly something to do with it.
Word To Sing Today: cockle. The word for the shellfish sort of cockle comes from the Old French word coquille, which means shell, and before that from the Greek word konkhulion, which means little mussel.
As for cockles of the heart, well the scientific name for a cockle begins Cardium, which is the Latin for heart. Little heart is coculum.
Or perhaps it's come from the scientific name for part of the heart, the ventricles, which is cochlea cardis.
Your word is your bond: a rant.
There are seventeen countries which use the sort of money called the Euro. Some of them are quite hard up, and these countries think it would be a jolly good idea if the others shared their money around a bit.
For some reason, however, the countries with plenty of money don't seem to agree.
Faced with this difficulty, I was charmed to see that Olli Rehn (whose job it is to keep the Euro countries friendly with each other) has come up with a cunning plan.
One way money could be shared around is by making things called Euro bonds, which, as you can tell from the sound of them, are a way of tying all the Euro-using countries together so that all their money is in the same pot.
And what is Mr Rehn's cunning plan? Well, he's suddenly started calling them stability bonds instead of Euro bonds.
Now, of course everyone wants stability: and all of a sudden instead of being ropes to tie people to their needy neighbours, the bonds have become guy ropes to prevent the whole caboosh blowing away in a storm.
Cunning, eh?
And, given the immense power words have over the human brain (which is the same sort of power that air has over the human lungs) it might even work, too.
All because of one small word.
Cunning. Devilish cunning.
Word To Use Today: stability. This word comes from the French word estable, from the Latin word stabilis, which means steady, from stāre, to stand.
Nuts and Bolts: molossus.
A molossus may sound slimy, large, and rather stupid, but that's not its fault at all.
A molossos is quite an innocent thing: it's three extra-loud or heavy syllables all in a row.
They're hard to use in English, but WS Gilbert used them marvellously in the Mikado when Pish-Tush, Ko-Ko and Pooh-Bah sing:
To sit in solemn silence in the dull dark dock
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock.
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.
Brilliant, isn't it?
And if that wasn't enough, a molossos is also a sort of dog, and several sorts of bat.
Thing To Use Today: molossus. This is a Greek word. It's always meant molossos, which is rather dull.
Still, you simply must admire its blunt moist sound,
Whether it's a squeaking bat or large-fanged hound.
Thing To Do Today: twinkle.
How I wonder what
All that twinkling is all about.
We'd see a star as a steady point of light, without all the romantic wobbling and blinking and colour-changing, if we didn't have all this air all over the place.
As you may have noticed, air's runny stuff. It's always being blown about, and when the light from a star gets bashed about by air currents it gets bent into a collection of very tiny rainbows, which we see as twinkling.
Now, I realise that you personally are unlikely to be able to exude rainbows, even fleetingly; but if you look at someone with affection then your eyes may well go twinkly.
Jewel-studded false eyelashes will help if you're having a hate-everybody day.
Or perhaps you could persuade your toes to twinkle, which in this case means to move lightly and delicately and very fast.
The great thing about twinkling is that you only have to do it for a... well, for a twinkling, which is the blink of an eye.
If you're in New Zealand, and you're feeling slow and you happen to hate everyone, then you can always twink out something, which means to delete it with correction fluid.
But still, do see if you can manage to be a bit of a star.
Thing To Do Today: twinkle. This word is from the Old English word twinclian, and is related to the Middle High German zwinken, to blink.
Spot the frippet: aglet.
This must be one of the most charming words of all time, and it's not very well known even though we live our lives surrounded by them.
No, though aglets may sound like a particularly endearing form of young animal (a newly furred, wide-eyed ag, obviously. Whatever an ag might be*) they're actually those things that are clamped around the ends of shoelaces to make them easier to thread through the holes.
As if that isn't a reason enough for the word aglet's existence, it's also a much easier spelling of aiguillette, which is one of those bits of metallic cord which soldiers like to wear across their chests to make themselves look more important.
If you're wearing Tudor costume, then you'll probably be using aglets to keep your sleeves on and your hose from falling down, too.
They can also be metallic spangles or studs sewn onto clothes, or catkins, or a corset-laces.
Spot the frippet: aglet. This word comes from the Old French word aiguillette, which means small needle.
*Apart from a much-used exclamation in South Africa and the chemical symbol for silver, naturally.
Sunday Rest: Word Not To Use Today: euro.
Yes, I know, I know.
I'm hugely fed up with the revolting little object, too, so I'll restrict myself to pointing out that giving a currency a name which sounds like either a dying car engine or a fluorescent 1950s washing powder was never a good idea.
I think it showed a lack of imagination: and without imagination, obviously, the future is bound to involve walking over rather a lot of cliffs.
Word Not To Use Today: euro. This word comes from Europe, the continent. Europe may be called after Europa, who was a Phoenician or Cretan princess abducted by Zeus (who was in the form of a big white bull at the time); or it could be from the Akkadian erebu, meaning to go down.
I'll just note two curiosities: in official documents the word euro must be used in the nominative singular at all times (a rule ignored, of course, throughout the continent); and that in the Greek language the word euro is indeclinable.
Saturday Rave: Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
This picture book is a work of genius.
It's savage and strange and full of monsters with big triangular teeth.
(Maurice Sendak based the monsters on his aunts and uncles. Being able to base monsters on your relations is possibly the best thing there is about being a writer.)
The cross-hatched illustrations are energetic and angry and full of fierceness and joy, and the text is sinewy and poetic and both full of mischief, and bursting with the frustration of being very young.
'Let the wild rumpus start!' orders Max.*
Oh, and who wouldn't be the better for the occasional wild rumpus?
Word To Use Today: rumpus. This wonderful word has been around since the 1700s, but unfortunately no one knows from where it came. The Oxford English Dictionary says probably a fanciful formation - which means that probably someone made it up because they liked the sound of it.
I'd tend to finger someone's aunt, myself.
*But do see the comments, below, to see How I Messed Up Big Time. Ah well!
Word To Use Today: sauce.
Here's a jaunty word to spice up a dull November day.
Traditionally in England we have only two sauces. Both of them came in bottles, and one is red (tomato ketchup) and the other brown (and, like its ingredients, nameless).
I'm delighted to report that now as a nation we've moved onwards and upwards, largely because the English are compulsive borrowers.
Yes, we've stolen recipes for sauces from all over the world, made them slightly less tasty, and claimed them for our own.
In some parts of the USA and Canada sauce can, oddly, mean stewed fruit - unless you're in the even odder parts of the USA, where it means vegetables eaten with meat.
In England we just call that a meal.
A few warnings:
You can't sail anywhere in a sauceboat.
Most saucepans aren't designed for making sauces (ALWAYS ask the cook first).
The function of a saucer is now completely different.
And a saucebox always was something completely different. (It's an out-of-date word for someone who's cheerfully rude, or saucy.)
Word To Use Today: sauce. This word comes from the Latin word salsus, which means salted. Saucer comes from the French saussier, a container for sauce.
Before what? A rant.
The trouble with these rants is that by the time I've done a bit of research I often find I've simmered down rather.
I was going to have a nice rant about the idiocy of changing the Western calendar system from AD/BC to CE/BCE. I still find it deeply irritating, but it seemed only fair to look at other people's calendars first to see how they work.
Well, for a start, there are over fifty different calendars used in the world today, and some of them are really bizarre.
A suprising number of them have years which aren't actually...well, a year long.
The Islamic calendar, for example, drifts through the seasons and comes back to where it started every thirty three years.
More or less.
There's a 360 day calendar used by prophets, and, oh joy, the financial markets, which involves sort of pretending some days don't exist.
The Akan calendar doesn't seem to bother to number years at all, as far as I can see.
The Buddhists have at least four different starting years. Mind you, because they count years-that-have-happened (as we count our own ages) they are all Year Noughts.
You know, suddenly the changing of a few initials seems a minor matter.
Still, while I'm here, can I make the point that if Anno Domini (AD: it means In the Year of Our Lord) and Before Christ (BC) have become embarrassing in a largely secular world, then how does it help matters to call everything that's happened since the birth of Christ (give or take a few years) common?
Common Era?
Before Common Era?
Hey, just who are they calling common, anyway?
Word To Use Today: calendar. This word comes from the Mediaeval Latin word kalendārium, which means account book. This in turn is from kalendae, which are the days when interest become due.
Rats! And I was hoping to get away from the financial crisis, too.
Nut and Bolts: the Elder Futhark.
The Elder Futhark...
Hm, sometimes words are so brimming with magic they're practically luminous, and the Elder Futhark is like that.
The Elder Futhark is the oldest sort of runic writing. It was invented somewhere near where Germany is now, and it probably started off as a secret language. It's based on Latin letters, so the inventor could well have been a soldier in one of the Roman armies around about the time of Christ.
One suggestion is that it was first used to write rude (but secret) graffiti. ROMANS HAVE KNOBBLY KNEES, that sort of thing.
The Elder Futhark spread widely, to Iceland, Scandinavia and England, where in the course of time it changed into the slightly less romantic Younger Futhark.
Soon the Elder Futhark, which probably started off as a secret language, became even more secret still, and no one could make head nor tail of it until 1865, when a Norwegian bloke called Sophus Bugge managed to decipher it.
The Elder Futhark looked like this:
It's still excellent for writing secret messages, too.
Words To Use Today: Elder Futhark. I can't honestly think of any occasion when anyone might want to say Elder Futhark, but it's still really cool. As you can see, the word futhark consists of the first six letters of this runic alphabet.
I don't know, though - I suppose Elder Futhork! might be quite useful if you stub your toe.
Thing To Do Today: be giddy.
The easiest way to be giddy is to whirl around in a circle a few times, but I'm not sure I'd recommend this to anyone over the age of...oooh, about seven.
If you're seventeen then you probably need a roller-coaster.
If you're seventy, then just getting up quickly may do the trick. Or even forgetting that you're wearing your varifocals.
The other sort of giddiness is much more fun, though. It means to be scatterbrained or impulsive.
Now, scatterbrained is Homo sapiens' natural state of mind (let's all stop for a moment to laugh at that sapiens, shall we? Because it means wise); and impulsiveness is full of delights.
What a lovely day to skip down the aisle of a supermarket.
What a lovely day to see how many people you can persuade to join you in a conga.
What a lovely day to...
...but this is no good. If I suggest something, then by definition I'm stopping you being giddy.
Anyway, I'm off to see if I can kick some leaves back up onto the trees.
Thing To Do Today: be giddy. This brilliant word is from the Old English gydig, meaning mad, or frenzied, or possessed by God.
Spot the frippet: a flying pie.
I wouldn't say my husband was a pessimist, but yesterday when we were out for a walk he saw two magpies, sighed heavily, and said: two for sorrow.
And when I pointed out it was actually:
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl
And four for a boy
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
And seven for a secret
Never to be told;
Eight a wish
And nine a kiss
And ten's a bird you're
Best to miss.
he just looked puzzled and said: so...it's not one for sorrow, two for even more sorrow, then?
Anyway, flying pies. If there are no magpies where you live (though there are magpies almost everywhere except South America and the arctic regions) then surely pies are everywhere, and can easily be made to fly.
Juggling a hot pie is, after all, an ineradicable human instinct.
You know, I'm hungry already.
Spot the frippet: a flying pie. No one's quite sure where the word pie meaning something-to-eat-wrapped-in-pastry comes from, but some people say it's from the word magpie, which has a habit of hoarding things in its nest, just as all sorts of odd things can end up in the pies you eat.
The word pie meaning magpie is to do with being black and white. It comes from the Latin pīca, which means magpie, and is related to pīcus, which means woodpecker.
The mag bit of magpie is from the girl's name, and implies chatterbox.
If you do see a magpie then it's supposed to be lucky to take off your hat and say good morning Mr Magpie, how are your wife and children?
Sunday Rest: Word Not To Use Today: gamboge.
I once had a book with a lovely story in it about the colours in a paintbox. I can't remember much about it, except that gamboge was the loveable but naughty one.
Even at the time this seemed perverse, when it was quite clear from his name that he was a depressive, self-pitying, flatulent - and the colour of sludge.
It wasn't until...oooh, about thirty seconds ago...that I Googled gamboge and discovered to my amazement that actually I LOVE gamboge.
It's this colour:
And, good grief, this whole blog is adorned with a colour very like it.
But of course that just makes the word gamboge even nastier: a grubby, sullen word which masks something joyful and sunny.
I would say don't use it - except, on reflection, it occurs to me that no one ever does.
So, that's all right, then.
Word Not To Start Using Today: gamboge. Gamboge is a sort of resin that you get from a gamboge tree. You use it to make lovely bright yellow paint. One of the places you find gamboge trees is Cambodia, and the word gamboge is a rather bruised version of that.
Saturday Rave: Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers.
Every Englishman loves a lord (or so they say) and the hero of Murder Must Advertise is Lord Peter Wimsey.
I must state here, however, that I do not, and have never, loved Lord Peter. In fact, he's often insufferable.
Dorothy L Sayers, though, is one of my great all-time literary heroes, and this book is a masterpiece.
It's set in an advertising agency in the 1930s. There's high-life, murder, drug-dealing, scandal, a wonderful cricket match, and a simply brilliant and hilarious account of office politics.
No doubt it was because agreement on any point was so rare in a quarrelsome world, that the fantastical announcements of advertisers announced it so strongly and so absurdly...In this place...the spiritual atmosphere was clamorous with financial storm, intrigue, dissention, indigestion and marital infedelity. And with worse things - with murder wholesale and retail, of soul and body, murder by weapon and by poison.
And you even get the painstaking Chief Inspector Parker, as well.
Word To Use Today: clamorous. This is a gorgeous word that should be used much more often. Clamour is an Old French word, and it comes from the Latin clāmāre, to cry out.
Word To Use Today: eleven.
It's the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the year two thousand and eleven.
At eleven o'clock there will be a minute's silence to commemorate the dead of all the wars.
Oh, this must be an awe-inspiring day for anyone with a trace of imagination in their bones.
Eleven is a strange number (as well as, obviously, being an odd one). It's a left-over from when we used to count in dozens, and that's why it doesn't follow the ten-plus-something pattern of thirteen, or fifteen, or nineteen.
But why is the eleventh hour the last possible opportunity for salvation before disaster strikes?
Why is it so many games - soccer, hockey, cricket - have teams of eleven players? (an elfmeter in Germany, which means eleven metre, is a name for a penalty kick at soccer).
Why does the sunspot cycle last eleven years?
Well, there are always more questions than there is time to consider them.
But today, at the hour when in less busy times people used to stop for their elevensies, for once we'll all have the opportunity to consider.
And we'll have time to remember, too.
Word To Use Today: eleven. This word comes from the Old English endleofan. There were similar words in Europe: Old Norse ellefo, Old Frisian andlova, Old High German einlif.
Mrs Malaprop - a rant.
Words are precious, and every single one deserves to be treated with care and love and respect (except groovy, obviously).
Only a bully, though, gets vicious when someone makes a mistake.
There's no need to get angry or disgusted, is there. No, because occasional slips are there to be savoured.
Take a recent offering from the Daily Telegraph journalist Tanya Aldred. I don't suppose that boosting tourism in the sadly declining English seaside resort of Blackpool:
was her intention when she wrote her piece about Blackpool Football Club.
But she might have done it by broadcasting the news that in Blackpool 'pound shops procreate on every corner.'*
Yes, now the curious crowds will surely surge back, and Blackpool will soon rise to its former glory.
You know, I think I might even go along myself.
Word To Use Today: proliferate (probably a wiser, though much less amusing, choice of word than procreate). Proliferate, meaning to increase rapidly in number, comes from the Mediaeval Latin prōlifer, having offspring, which comes from prōlēs, offsring, plus ferre, to bear.
*A pound shop is one where everything is sold for the very reasonable price of £1.
A 99p shop is, however, even better value.
Nuts and Bolts: Australia's finest.
The English Language isn't really all that English at all. It's full of words borrowed from all over the place (though when I say borrowed I suppose I really mean ruthlessly stolen, for few of them are ever returned).
But look at it this way: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, okay? And we English are prepared to flatter just about everyone.
Take the Native Australians.
The best-known example of a Native Australian word that's been borrowed by English is probably kangaroo (which DOESN'T mean there he goes! at all. It's a word used by one group of Australians for one particular and rather rare species of large jumping marsupial. The first Aborigine asked about it identified it correctly as a kangaroo, but the second, who happened to speak another language from the first, didn't recognise the word (or the beast). The legend was born in all the following confusion.)
Native Australians have given us wombat, cooee, boomerang and bunyip, too. They're generous guys.
Then there are the words which, in their slippery way, have come to us via Australia, but didn't originate there. Emu comes originally from the Arabic for big bird, didgeridoo is a description of the sound the instrument makes, and goanna was iguana to start with, which is an Arawak word.
Pleasingly, Kylie is a genuinely Native Australian word. It means throwing stick.
I could go on, but bearing in mind that other genuinely Native Australian word, yabber, I won't.
Have a g'day.
Word To Use Today: Australia. This word was first used of the legendary Roman Terra Australis Incognita, or unknown southern land. The word Australia itself was first used for a real place in 1625 - though it wasn't Australia itself, but an island in Vanuatu. Australia wasn't officially Australia until 1824.
Thing To Do Today: chuckle
I was planning to bring you a cheering joke or two, but having just Googled chuckle, I'm feeling a bit depressed.
The poor word is asked to do far too much. It's supposed to describe a gentle pleasure, not create jump up and down screaming hilarity all by itself
(And what are the people screaming? Well, look at me, mostly.)
Still, a chuckle is a lovely thing, and raising a chuckle isn't hard, really.
Have an arrange-your-dinner-in-the-shape-of-a-world-leader competition.
Watch an old lady in a supermarket being very suspicious of fruit.
Turn your socks into glove puppets and use them to act out your last school assembly.
Or, if you're desperate, you could always go on YouTube and search for pictures of cats.
Thing To Do Today: chuckle. This word was first used in the 16th century. It's probably a frequentative of chuck, from chukken, meaning to cluck.
Spot the frippet: leaflet.
Sometimes it seems as if we live under a permanent avalanche of leaflets.
They fall out of newspapers, and through the letter box; they are thrust upon us as we walk along the street; they lurk blandly by check-outs.
Leaflets for night clubs, cheap tyres, pizza parlours, window cleaners, estate agents, chair covers, insurance, hearing aids...
Even leaflets, bizarrely, about leaflet distributors.
Frankly, Vallombrosa* has nothing on it.
At this time of year, though, I have one small consolation.
Outside my window there is a very large ash tree. Now the leaves of ash trees are rather fern-like, and each section of each leaf is called, yes, a leaflet.
At this time of year every single one of those leaflets is letting go of its hold on the tree, swirling elegantly to the ground, and then DYING.
Which means I spend the whole winter looking forward to the tree coming into leaf again.
Spot the frippet: leaflet. This word means small leaf, of course. Leaf is an Old English word. It's related to the Gothic laufs and the Icelandic lauf.
By the way, there's a scrumptious word, unijugate, which means consisting of two leaflets, but I'm still looking for the chance to use that one.
*Vallombrosa is in Tuscany, and Milton mentions it in Paradise Lost: "autumnal leaves that strow the brooks in Vallombrosa".
Sunday Rest: Word Not To Use Today: ukase.
I'm afraid English is a terribly greedy language that'll chomp up more or less anything it can get its teeth into.
There are just a few words, though, which get stuck half-way down, like a railway bolt in an ostrich's neck.
Such a word is ukase.
Ukase means an order from on high. Originally a ukase had to come from the tzar or a patriarch*, but now it can come from anyone who doesn't have to bother about listening to arguments.
The Collins dictionary tells us to pronounce it yooKAYZ, but as far as I'm concerned using it in any way at all is cast-iron proof of having absolutely no taste at all.
And in any case, people should ALWAYS listen to arguments!
Word Not To Use Today: ukase. This word comes to us from the Russian word ukaz, from ukazat, which means to command.
*Orthodox Church religious leader.
Saturday Rave: Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones.
'I do not know, Nirupam Singh wrote musingly, how anyone manages to write much in their journal, since everyone knows Miss Cawallader reads them all during the holidays.'
Today is November 5th, which in England is traditionally Bonfire Night. We light bonfires and set off fireworks to commemorate the 1605 failed attempt by Guy Fawkes and his companions to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
Witch Week is a funny, tremendous, terrifying book. It's set in an alternative England in the week between Halloween and Bonefire Night.
On Bonefire Night, anyone who can be proved to be a witch is burned.
'The note said: SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH.'
That's the first line of the book. I really don't think there could possibly be a better one.
Word To Use Today: bonfire. This word was originally bone-fire, because people used to burn bones on them. It probably lost its middle e because of the French word bon, meaning good.
Word To Use Today: spiv.
I'd thought the word spiv was sinking into the grave, all but forgotten, and now here it is popping up again, bright as ever.
Hurray!
Spiv is a British slang word for a particular type of minor criminal. The term became popular in Britain during the Second World War, and it describes someone who sells illegal goods - usually, in those days, rationed ones.
A typical spiv was charming, and definitely a smart dresser. A spiv could get you anything, even nylon stockings, so you could stop drawing lines up the backs of your legs and pretending they were stocking-seams.
Someone a bit like this:
There have always been spiv-type criminals about, of course, but the term had fallen into disuse until just the last week, when the clever people in Brussels, trying to find a way to persuade people they've got more money than they really do, have come up with an idea called a Special Purpose Investment Vehicle.
Or SPIV.
Honestly, you couldn't make it up. No, really, you couldn't: if I put that in a novel everyone would mutter about its being contrived and unconvincing.
Still, it's great to see the word spiv getting a new lease of life.
Do enjoy it.
Word To Use Today: spiv. This word probably started off as racecourse slang. It might come from a dialect word, spiving, which means smart.
Other possibilities are that it comes from the Romany word spiv which means sparrow, or that it might be a back-slang form of VIPs, or a police acronym for Suspected Person and Itinerant Vagrant.
There was a character called Henry 'Spiv' Bagster in early 1900s London who was a small-time crook, and he might be the origin of the word, too.
Pomp and pies: a rant.
'I have not been at a prior meeting,' said the American economist Larry Summers recently, 'at which matters have had more gravity.'
Well, at least we all know what he means.
I, personally, though, would have been feeling a lot less inclined to hope that someone would push a custard pie in his face if he'd said: 'I've never been to a more important meeting.'
The trouble with this sort of pomposity is that it attracts attention away from the message and focuses it on the speaker.
But then that's often the intention all along.
Word To Use Today: gravity. This word comes to us from the Latin word gravitās, which means weight, and before that from gravis, which means heavy.
Nuts and Bolts: bahuvrihi.
These are all over the place. No, really, they are, and the only unusual thing about them is their name, which sounds like something from the menu of an Indian restaurant.
There's a good reason for that, too.
Anyway, bahuvrihi. People argue about exactly what makes something a bahuvrihi, but basically a bahuvrihi is a two-part word which describes a part of something but actually means the whole thing.
For instance, a sabretooth describes...well, all it really describes is the tooth of an extinct big cat. It doesn't give us the whole picture -but if you read he got attacked by a sabretooth you don't start imagining a single tooth slashing down out of thin air. (Well, you might if you're a creative type, but otherwise you accept that it's the whole cat doing the attacking.)
Other examples of bahuvrihis are hatchback, redcoat and bluebell.
Bahuvrihis are always two-part words like these, and they're everywhere: used not only by the highbrows, but by the halfwits and boneheads, too.
Type Of Word To Use Today: bahuvrihi. This is a Sanskrit word and, rather neatly, bahuvrihi is itself a bahuvrihi because the word is made up of bahu, which means much, and vrihi, which means rice. Put together they mean a rich man.
Thing To Do Today Unless You're Australian: perk up.
This must be easier for those in the Southern Hemisphere at the moment, because here in Europe the days are shortening and the nights are, naturally, lengthening, and quite honestly most of us are thinking wistfully about the possibilities of hibernation.*
So how to perk ourselves up? Well, if you're a coffee bean then all you need to do is to jump into a coffee percolator. If you're a human, then drinking the resultant fluid might do the trick.
If things are too gloomy to perk up properly then how about just perking up the ears? I admit this is easier for a dog or a horse than a human, but it can be done, with practice, and is said to be good for the jaw-line.
Or perhaps a trip to the wonderfully-named Perk Castle might help.
(It's in Belgium, in the equally wonderfully-named district of Steenokkerzeel.)
Your jacket can be perked up at the dry-cleaners. The stuff they use, tetrachloroethylene, C2Cl4, is also called perk. It was first made by Michael Faraday, and has been used to eradicate hookworm infestations, which surely must have perked up those concerned considerably.
If all else fails, then there are always perks to perk ourselves up. If you're a freeman of the City of London, you can, if you wish, drive sheep over London Bridge. A Freeman of the City of Dublin can graze his sheep on St Stephen's Green.
For those of us with our sheep already in the right place, then there are other perks to be had. A writer gets fan mail from time to time, and a piano teacher might even get the odd present.
Not that I'm hinting...
Thing To Do Today: be perky. This word appeared in the 14th century, and may have come from the Norman French word perquer, from the Latin pertica, a long staff.
Perks meaning benefits of a job is short for perquisite, from the Latin perquīrere, to seek earnestly for something.
* Having said that, you Ozzies had best ignore this one...**
**I'm afraid it's Ozzie slang for to vomit.
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Apollo 13: In Their Own Words
John A. Greene
Apollo 13: In Their Own Words (2020)
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Title: Apollo 13: In Their Own Words
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Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13 13 CST from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the service module upon which the Command Module depended Despite gApollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13 13 CST from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the service module upon which the Command Module depended Despite great hardship caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of potable water, and the critical need to jury rig the carbon dioxide removal system, the crew returned safely to Earth on April 17.The flight was commanded by James A Lovell with John L Jack Swigert as Command Module pilot and Fred W Haise as Lunar Module pilot Swigert was a late replacement for the original CM pilot Ken Mattingly, who was grounded by the flight surgeon after exposure to German measles.This book is the transcription of the technical air to ground TAG voice communications of the Apollo 13 mission Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon The introduction includes a review of the entire Apollo 13 mission with illustrations and photographs Contents is hyperlinked for easy navigation The transcript is divided into three columns time, speaker, and text The time column consists of four two digit pairs for days, hours, minutes, and seconds e.g 04 22 45 12 The speaker column indicates the source of a transmission the text column contains the verbatim transcript of the communications.
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- December 2019
Clint Walker got on and off a horse as well as anybody and better than most.
Will Rogers once asked John Wayne why he was so glum. Wayne said his career was going nowhere, just one crummy B-western after another. Will replied, “Duke, just keep gettin’ on and off that horse.” Duke, who wasn’t crazy about horses, said, “When you get on a horse 100 things can happen, 99 of which are bad.” But he kept gettin’ on and off that horse. So did Clint Walker.
Clint helped trail-blaze the way for over 135 TV westerns. He put Warner Bros. TV on the map. He never overdid, he never underdid—he just got on that horse and rode off to another adventure.
Like Cheyenne Bodie, Clint has the wanderlust. Got it from his dad, who was a restless hombre and kept the family moving from river town to river town. Clint began his own wandering at 16, when he quit school and began a long succession of jobs leading to “Cheyenne” and beyond.
Warner Bros. made the movie “Casablanca” and they tried to make a successful TV series out of it. Ditto “King’s Row”, “Conflict” and “Cheyenne”. Only “Cheyenne” was a hit. It was originally a feature western starring Dennis Morgan. Critics can be cruel. One wrote, “Mr. Morgan enters the saloon through the swinging doors, preceded by his stomach.” Ouch!
Well, you sure couldn’t say that about Clint Walker. Why, his abs have abs. Worked out with him once. He had put together a make-shift gym in the backlot in a dusty shed, brought his own weights. He took off his shirt—Cinemascope shoulders—he looked like a hairy wall. I kept my shirt on—never went back.
Boy, Clint was immense. Felt sorry for his horse. Felt sorrier for his leading ladies. There they’d be in the ranch house, puttering about. A knock at the door, enter Clint, camera tilts up. For the rest of the scene all you can see of the leading lady is her head, bobbing about at the bottom of the screen like a buoy in a storm.
Ol’ Clint made me feel right at home when I started “Sugarfoot”. Invited me out to his house and sold me his Vespa motor scooter. L.A. drivers are not unlike Kamikaze pilots, so I confined my scootering to riding out to the Warner backlot from the make-up department in the morning. Didn’t want Vespa services held in my memory, you know. Hard to start in the early cold. Had to push it most of the way before it revved up properly. Good exercise. Hmmm, yep, there was a smattering of the horse trader in Clint… There was a lot of the hero in him.
We’ve all heard the epic tale of when he survived a horrifying skiing accident. I asked him about it. He was skiing alone. Something happened. He found himself impaled in the chest by a ski pole. What saved him? His devout belief in the great Kahuna Polynesian religion. He felt his life draining out of his body and soul. With all his might and heart he summoned the Kahuna to help him restore his forces and get him back to base camp. The great Kahuna responded. ‘Course, Clint’s lifetime history of healthful living didn’t hurt either.
Clint’s not only a skier; he’s a hiker too. Why, he once took one of Hollywood’s most famous hikes out of Warner Bros.—during a dispute he repaired to California’s mother lode and prospected for gold in a river. Gold is where you find it, and he couldn’t find it at Warners. (Clayton Moore was lucky—he found silver—‘neath his saddle.) Money wasn’t all of it. Clint objected to the way the suits rewarded him for his success by cutting down on the budget of his show. Same thing happened to me. After the first five shows or so we started shooting down in the low rent district of the western street, and the scripts got pretty atrocious—but I was more than equal to the challenge—my acting was every bit as atrocious.
Later, Clint returned to the fold, and he, Ty Hardin and I made one of my favorite shows, “Duel At Judas Basin”, sort of like the Three Mesquiteers. I thought we had a good blendship. We three could do one of those TV reunion shows: “Cheyenne, Bronco and Sugarfoot Get Hip Replacements”.
Eventually, cabin fever hit all of us bargain basement buckaroos, and we went stir crazy out in that cramped back lot. We got on our horses and rode off in all directions. I see Clint Walker from time to time and think of him more often that that. Lonely man, Cheyenne, where will you be camping tonight?
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Love streaming with bonus tracks
Now streaming: Love
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of The Beatles "Love" by Cirque Du Soleil® at the Mirage Las Vegas, the award-winning Love album is now available for streaming worldwide. And, as a bonus, two songs that weren't on the original physical album release, "Girl" and "The Fool On The Hill".
The new "Twist and Shout" mix incorporated into the revamped "Love" show is nowhere to be found, other than in the show itself, though. However, a new, official Beatles video will be released through their Vevo channel and possibly also from their Vevo YouTube channel (for the countries where Vevo is unavailable) on June 29.
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Listen now on your preferred streaming service!
1. Because (LOVE Version)
2. Get Back (LOVE Version)
3. Glass Onion (LOVE Version)
4. Eleanor Rigby/Julia (LOVE Version)
5. I Am The Walrus (LOVE Version)
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand (LOVE Version)
7. Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing (LOVE Version)
8. Gnik Nus (LOVE Version)
9. Something/Blue Jay Way (LOVE Version)
10. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter Skelter (LOVE Version)
11. Help! (LOVE Version)
12. Blackbird/Yesterday (LOVE Version)
13. Strawberry Fields Forever (LOVE Version)
14. Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows (LOVE Version)
15. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (LOVE Version)
16. Octopus's Garden (LOVE Version)
17. Lady Madonna (LOVE Version)
18. Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (LOVE Version)
19. Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (LOVE Version)
20. Revolution (LOVE Version)
21. Back In The U.S.S.R. (LOVE Version)
22. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (LOVE Version)
23. A Day In The Life (LOVE Version)
24. Hey Jude (LOVE Version)
25. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (LOVE Version)
26. All You Need Is Love (LOVE Version)
27. Girl (Bonus)
28. Fool On The Hill (Bonus)
Posted by wogew at Friday, June 17, 2016
Labels: Beatles, Beatles music videos, streaming
I wonder if they will be streaming the long versions of "Back In The USSR" and "Revolution" that only came on the DVD soundtrack for LOVE?
After 10 years a Blu-Ray of the original show would be much appreciated for us not so wealthy but loyal fans....
Judemac said...
Why they ever bothered to ruin classic Beatles is beyond me, buts that's just me.
Ten years on and still only Las Vegas highrollers can see the show... Be nice of them to tour the bloody thing...
It would be interesting to hear other tracks that the late George Martin and his son Giles worked with but never released... Wonder if they did anything with Revolution 9?
Beach Boys Opinion Page said...
For those not aware, the two "bonus tracks" ("Girl" and "The Fool on the Hill") have been up on iTunes for several years now.
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Oliver Schmitz – Mapantsula (1988)
in 1981-1990, Drama, Oliver Schmitz, Politics, South Africa February 7, 2019 0 1,503 Views
From the Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum) :
Shot in Johannesburg and Soweto by Oliver Schmitz, a white South African, this radical 1988 feature offers a grittier view of the anti-apartheid movement than Cry Freedom or A World Apart, both from the same period. A petty thief (Thomas Mogotlane) winds up in jail, meets other blacks involved in protesting racism, and gradually becomes politically aware. Banned in South Africa upon release, the film conveys a volatile sense of both time and place–according to the South African censor, it had “the power to incite probable viewers to act violently.”
From the NY Times (Janet Maslin):
The insouciant lead character in the South African film ”Mapantsula,” a thief named Panic, is as talented as he is cool. Panic is such an unflappable pickpocket that he can steal a man’s wallet and then stand there, switchblade in hand, rifling through the wallet’s contents while silently daring the victim to challenge him. He’s such a skilled shoplifter that he can wrap each half of a man’s suit tightly around one of his calves, holding the merchandise in place with heavy socks. And Panic is good with the ladies, too. As ”Mapantsula” begins, Panic’s concerns do not extend much beyond these particular spheres.
This fine and caustic South African film, directed by Oliver Schmitz and written by him and Thomas Mogotlane, the actor who plays Panic, is the story of Panic’s transformation. All around him, in the black township where his neighbors are vigorously protesting rent increases, Panic sees the difficult conditions under which others live, but he initially feels himself to be immune. ”These people live in a dream,” he says contemptuously of those blacks who hold regular jobs in the white community.
And he does his best to see that his girlfriend, Pat (Thembi Mtshali), who works as a maid for a rude and patronizing white woman, will herself lose her job. Panic visits Pat at work, insults the mistress of the house and throws a rock through her window, not so much for political reasons as out of the sheer, unbridled rage that is his guiding emotion.
To depict the process whereby Panic is radicalized, Mr. Schmitz gives the film a dual time frame. ”Mapantsula” (the title means something like gangster) cuts back and forth between scenes of a freewheeling, unreconstructed Panic on the streets and a warier man who is now in jail, though the circumstances of his arrest are not explained fully until the film’s end.
In jail, Panic at first shares the camaraderie of his fellow prisoners, who are there for political reasons, and he shares their jailhouse humor. ”At least we have privacy, and we don’t have to worry about being arrested any more,” one prisoner says.
Panic is treated brutally and insultingly by the white police, but this is only one factor contributing to his conversion. The others can be found on the street as he gradually begins to see past his self-interest to the harsh facts of black South African life. In true renegade spirit, ”Mapantsula” was made semicovertly (the script shown to censors was for an ordinary gangster film), and it feels more authentic and less contrived than other South African films that have been shown here. The interaction between blacks and whites in street scenes, the day-to-day routine of life in a black neighborhood, and the galvanizing spirit of black South African music are all powerfully felt.
Mr. Mogotlane makes Panic much more than a symbol, treating him as a raffish, amusingly overconfident figure at first and a visibly shaken man as the film progresses, until at last he utters the single syllable that encapsulates the film’s final point. It’s a dashing performance, and a fierce one, too. ”Mapantsula,” acted by a good and forthright South African cast, is also filled with the buoyant, inspirational a cappella music that drives its political message further home.
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King's Quest 5 - Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
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In King's Quest 5 we have the return of King Graham on the spotlight as a much older man. After rescuing his wife-to-be in King's Quest 2, King Graham didn't have any more adventures. Instead his children were the main characters of King's Quest 3 and 4. As King's Quest 5 opens, Graham is taking a walk alone. When he returns, he finds his castle missing. There he meets a strange talking owl, named Cedrick, which tells him that his castle and family have been abducted by a wizard named Mordack. The owl and Graham, using a magic dust given by Cedrick's owner, fly to a far-away land in pursuit of this wizard.
As King's Quest 1 was the first animated graphic adventure, King's Quest 5 is the first 256-color adventure and the first adventure by Sierra using a new UI consisting of icons (walk, see, use etc) that later became common to all the classic adventure games by Sierra. The interface is very simple. You click on an action-icon from an icon-bar that appears on top of the screen when you move your mouse there (or your right click through the actions). It's a typical adventure game, but one, which excels in beautiful background art, and interesting locations. Indeed you will travel through forests (dark and light alike), a desert, a cold mountain and by the sea to find Graham's family. This game was voted the adventure game of the year (1990) by some groups and was also the first Sierra adventure to have a CD-ROM version, where speech was included.
This is a classic adventure game that pioneered the adventure game genre, much like its ancestor King's Quest 1. No more 16-color artwork and text parsers. Here Sierra follows LucasArts in making a fully point-and-click adventure game, but using the concept of icons instead of text-verbs. As a King's Quest game, it's the last game of the series featuring King Graham as the main character and provides the foundation for the better King's Quest 6.
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Mabini, Batangas: Historic and Folkloric Notes about some of its Barrios
March 02, 2018 Buhay Batangas
Anilao in Mabini, Batangas. Image credit: Google Earth Street View.
We return to the barrio histories of Batangas with this feature on the town of Mabini, located on the Calumpang Peninsula. The information contained in this article has been taken from documents required of all Department of Education districts around the Philippines in 1951 by the administration of President Elpidio Quirino to help reconstruct the nation’s history. These documents have been digitized and are filed under the National Library of the Philippines’ Digital Collections.
Not all of Mabini’s barrios are included. Some contemporary barrios were probably still part of other barrios back when the documents were written. It is possible that no documents were written for certain barrios or, if there were, these had been eroded or destroyed by time and could not be digitized.
Anilao
Anilao used to be one barrio with several sitios named Anilao Proper (also called Ilaya and a separate barrio in the present day), Bukana, Gulod, Lagundi, Perasan, Putol-na-Karsada, Taal-taalan and Tamauyanan. It was founded in the latter part of the Spanish regime and its original families were the Buenviajes, Evangelistas, Amboys and Anters. It used to be alternatively known as “Janao-Janao,” supposedly because of its topography. Alternatively, the barrio also used to be known as Dagatan, a name supposedly given by inland fish peddlers.
In 1901, there was an encounter in Anilao between US Army forces and Filipino freedom fighters. The “insurrectos” were under the command of one “Capitang” (Captain) Kiko Castillo. Many of the freedom fighters were killed. In World War II, the whole of Anilao was occupied by Japanese troops, forcing many of its inhabitants to evacuate to other barrios.
Source: History and Cultural Life of the Barrio of Anilao
Bagalangit
Because the barrio’s early settlers were very religious, they gave the place the name Bagalangit. Curiously, the explanation for this name is provided in the history of Pulong Anahao. According to folklore, anybody traveling to Bagalangit started to feel he was already in heaven even before he reached the place. The barrio’s original families were those of Andres Abrigonda, Doroteo Medina, Jacinto Matibag, Epifanio Abrigonda, Julio Abante and Serafin Medina. During the Philippine Revolution, the inhabitants of the barrio were driven away to Bauan by the Spaniards. Their poultry and livestock were seized and their houses burned. In World War II, Bagalangit was not reached by Japanese troops, which made the barrio something of an evacuation center for people from the poblacion or town center.
Source: Kasaysayan ng Nayon Bagalangit
Mainaga
According to folklore, in the old days there used to be in the barrio a narra1 tree which the locals referred to as “naga.” Whenever somebody who had been to the barrio was asked where he had come from, the reply always was “sa may naga” or “from the naga.” During the Spanish era, there were just a few houses standing in Mainaga on land mostly owned by people from Bauan. The owners would eventually purchase the lots over which the houses were built. In February of 1945, Mainaga was bombed by American aircraft. This was probably part of preliminary operations to liberate Batangas, because US Army forces would not move out of Nasugbu until the following month2. While the bombing runs razed all the houses in Mainaga to the ground, fortunately none of the barrio’s inhabitants were killed.
Source: Kasaysayan ng Nayon ng Mainaga
Mainaga was so named after a narra tree (above). Image credit: Plant a tree.
Malimatoc
Malimatoc was established during the Spanish era and was made up of the sitios Yong-yong, Karsada, Mangga, Parang, Looban and Matala. The source document failed to explain the origin of the barrio’s name. The original settlers of this barrio were the families of Pulgencio Bautista and Pedro Manibo. During the Fil-American War, US Army troops raised the Stars and Stripes at the summit of the hill in Malimatoc called Gulugod Baboy to claim victory over Filipino freedom fighters. In World War II, although no battles were fought in Malimatoc, many of its inhabitants fled in fear of the Japanese to the island of Maricaban or to Mindoro. While they were there, their houses were taken over by evacuees from other barrios of Mabini which the Japanese had occupied.
Source: Kasaysayan ng Nayon ng Malimatoc
Nag-iba
The name of this barrio literally means “changed,” although the source document failed to explain how it was given. The barrio’s original settlers were the Abrahans, Cabrals, Manalos, Dipasupils, Aranases and the Mañibos. The general belief back in the 1950s was that the barrio was first settled roughly a century before. Nag-iba was fortunate in that it was spared from any real atrocities during the Philippine Revolution, the Philippine-American War and World War II. [It is also possible that research for this barrio was not very thorough. Only one page was dedicated to the barrio’s history.]
Source: History and Cultural Life of the Barrio of Nag-iba
Pulong Anahao
The barrio’s name was supposedly given according to folklore by a labuyo3 trapper who used a tall anahaw4 tree as reference to determine where he caught many of these wild chickens. The barrio’s two original families were the Hernandezes and the Magsinos. These two families were responsible for the growth of the barrio, until it was assigned a first lieutenant, somebody who went by the name of “Kabesang” (head) Ulalio.
Source: Kasaysayan ng Nayong Pulong Anahao
Pulong Anahao was supposed to have been named after a specie of palm. Image credit: By Kumar83 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10752267.
Saguing
This barrio was believed to have been established during the Spanish era. As can be expected, the barrio’s name had something to do with “saging” or the banana. According to folklore, during the Spanish era, the area abounded with banana plants, which was the main source of income for the inhabitants. So much so that when the time came to give the barrio a name, the first thing that came to the inhabitants’ minds was “saging.” In Saguing were several sitios, several of which were also named after plants. These sitios were Matala, Duhatan, Sampalukan, Tulo, Katagbakan, Gasang, Ligaan, Balanga, Sili, Pilahan and Kawayanan.
The barrio’s earliest settlers were the families of Beti Villanueva, Ambrocio Baculo, Filiciano (Feliciano?) Adalia, Eleuterio Maranan, Sotero Manalo, Agustin Panopio, Rufino Escalona, Agustin Magtibay, Roque Alolod, Anastacio Alolod, Abado Bueno, Antonio Mañibo and Elalio Magtibay. During the Fil-American War, residents of the barrio had to flee because of the arrival of American troops, who burned their houses. In World War II, some residents of the barrio were killed by the Japanese as they retreated to the mountains as American troops approached from Nasugbu.
Source: Kasaysayan ng Nayon ng Saguing
This barrio was originally known as Nag-ilong, because the shape of its land was like that of a nose. It used to be part of Mainaga. The inhabitants would eventually rename the barrio after St. John out of religious fervor. The barrio was officially established in 1947, two years after the end of World War II. Its original settlers were the families of Everisto Silang, Silverio Silang, Roman Castillo, Lorenzo Gonda, Hermogenes Silang and Arsenio Villanueva. In World War II, the barrio was the site of a Japanese camp, and a fierce battle was fought in it upon the arrival of American troops. In the fifties, a hill in the barrio was being quarried with the material to be used for the construction of a facility being built by Caltex Corporation in Bauan.
Source: Kasaysayan ng Nayon ng San Juan
According to folklore, Solo (pronounced sulo or soolo) got its name because pirates approaching from the sea could never land on its shores and were always driven to the coral reefs where their boats were destroyed because they were blinded by the numerous lights emanating from the barrio. A large part of the barrio’s lands used to be owned during the Spanish era by the Yuson family of Taal, so perhaps it was no surprise that that barrio’s earliest settlers were immigrants from that town. These were the de Chavezes, Garcias, Mauros, Luistros, Napas, Adems and Abarintoses.
Source: History and Cultural Life of the Barrio of Solo
Talaga
This barrio was established during the latter part of the Spanish regime. Its name was supposed to have been given “due to the shallowness of water in every nook of the barrio.” The barrio’s sitios were Payapa, Kabulusan, Pungo, Bukana, Palanas, Rizal, Manggahan, Pulang Lupa and Pilahan. Its original settlers were the families of Vicente Garcia, Martin Castillo, Juan Ortega, Hilarion Balita, Laureno Ortega, Mariano Castillo, Francisco Gonzales, Ponciano Calangi, Fermin Gonzales, Placido Gonzales, Martin Calangi, Pedro Gonzales, Francisco Castillo, Dionisia Garcia and Catalino Calangi.
During the final years of Spain’s rule over the country, some of the barrio’s inhabitants were tortured and killed presumably by the Guardia Civil. During World War II, inhabitants of the barrio who were trained soldiers released from the concentration camp in Tarlac organized themselves into a guerrilla unit under the Fil-American Irregular Troops or FAIT. They were under the command of one Major Pedro Balita. Regrettably, Balita was captured by the Japanese and his guerrillas were demoralized and had to cease operations.
Source: History and Cultural Life of Talaga
A guerrilla group was organized in Talaga. Image credit: Marines in the Liberation of the Philippines.
Notes and references:
1 The narra is also known as the “Philippine mahogany,” Wikipedia.
2 “US Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific, Triumph in the Philippines,” by Robert Ross Smith, online at Ibiblio.org.
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Because I am commissioning and purchasing art for Chicago's new McCormick Place West Expansion I have been soliciting art from area galleries and artists. As much as I thought I knew, it has been an eye opener. I've looked at 1000's of presentations and realize more fully now how many artists are either thriving or surviving outside the gallery scene. Many make art that physically won't fit in a gallery and others choose to avoid them. There is much more talent out there than I knew. In fact there is more talent than can be shown at Chicago galleries necessarily focused on showing salable art. Look to the nearby and excellent Hyde Park Art Center on the South Side and the Evanston Art Center on the North Side - both exemplary supporters and definers of Chicago & Illinois art. Slightly further out the Rockford Art Museum and the Elmhurst Art Museum focus on art by Chicago artists that is of gallery quality or higher that just won't show up in a gallery. It has been good having my horizons broadened.
It hasn't even been a year since I've closed and Heidi Van Wieren who I used to represent is having a one-person exhibit at Roy Boyd Gallery opening Friday. I think the growth in the new work is significant. There are more subtle color shifts and a refinement of spatial depth. While a lot of the pieces succeed I was particularly taken by those in the tan/orange warmer mid-range. Heidi's doing well. She's pushing it; thinking, focusing concentrating and then going with the flow. The results are strong. When I was there no work had been hung yet but I could sense the temptation to overhang it; there was such an array of pieces, but if this show could just be limited to a selected few it could be incredible.
For years I've heard about the genius of Warrington Colescott, opening Friday at Perimeter Gallery, and for exactly that long I haven't understood the hoopla. He's no Reginald Marsh. These are salty, ribald pictures that don't convey much narrative to me though I think they want to. I just see cranky crowded space.
Carl Hammer has certainly done great working with a number of artists' estates and has brought to renown more than one recluse. It takes a great touch, a good eye, a good deal and a lot of confidence. Which makes me wonder how people will respond (opening Friday) to the vapid paintings of "newcomer" Joseph Garlock, who died in 1980. A good exhibition title and Carl's impressive track record make the art more "important" and therefore more salable, and I still don't think it's going to fly. (Your response is always appreciated - by email or especially on the Bulletin Board.)
I love how certain coincidences happen, like two shows about bugs, and both these exhibits are enhanced by being compared to the other. Wrapping up River North is Ann Wiens' bug photos and bug paintings at Byron Roche Gallery. I think these are a hoot, but I frequently see humor where others don't. Wiens has taken taxidermied bugs and mounted them on "sympathetic" fabric. Sometimes they stick out, sometimes they all but disappear. I like the counterintuitive relationships.
In River West Rhona Hoffman leads the way with a with a thoughtful, sensitive, odd look at obsession and corresponding beauty and indulgence (opens Friday). Kutlug Ataman had documented "Stefan's" obsession with moths on 5 creatively suspended video screens making this a walk-in, absorbing experience better to be viewed after the opening than during. Bugs.
Now that I think about it those creepy crawly faces upstairs at Gescheidle by Heather Cox are bugs, more human bugs, but still bugs. I'm starting to think I like shows about bugs.
Nicole Gordon's paintings downstairs at Peter Miller Gallery (opening Friday) are a fun look at art history and an examination of what happens when you screw with scale and context.
Across the street at the accelerating Bodybuilder and Sports man Gallery we see lots of legs in the sensuous watercolors of Tracy Nakayama. I suspect her choice of subject matter, these Pearlsteinesque neutrally rendered portraits of peers engaged in sex and pre-sex is calculated. I like them. I'd prefer them in my bedroom than Bellmer, but I don't know that I'd want to be an artist who aims for the boudoir.
There's an attractive show titled Black at Thomas McCormick Gallery in which all t he pieces by the 14 artists whose work are on exhibit are black. Some of these are important artists, some aren't. Seeing these works hanging side-by-side Robert Richenburg's pieces stand out to me. I'd never heard of him before.
There's good art out there. The pleasure is in the search.
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By Paul Klein on March 3, 2005 1:06 AM
Nothing is better than to see a Chicago artist's work acknowledged by one of Chicago's major institutions while that artist is alive. And as many significant pieces as he has made, I'm not sure than Inigo Manglano-Ovalle has even seen his prime. His pieces at the Art Institute are brilliant. I particularly like the iceberg; its structure and contradictory lightness. Being able to scale it so that the hand rail on the second floor is the waterline is wonderful. Very smart.
Over at the Museum of Contemporary Art I was disappointed by the Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye show. This is one of those shows that just irks me for its presumptuousness. Or maybe the curator's, Francesco Bonami. This is a show where the curator reinterprets every artist's intent to meet their own needs; in this case a glorification of globalization. I don't like how today's artists frequently end up subservient to a curator's agenda or even foolishly acquiescing to it. Fine if the artist concurs or supports the proposition, but no group show is as good as a good one-person exhibit, and a curator making a large statement is abusing his or her power.
Similar issue at Gallery 400, the University of Illinois at Chicago's aesthetic outpost. Interested Painting presents 9 artists whose work has nothing whatsoever in common beyond being by "a selection of painters whose work prioritizes the imagination of the individual artist rather than prescribed structure or conventional subject matter." (their postcard). This does not make for an interesting exhibit. University galleries need to aim higher. This is not specifically a critique of Gallery 400, but the vast majority of university galleries who are dumbing down to their students.
I'm not sure about a lot of the policies at some art schools either. Faculty at the School of the Art Institute are either underpaid or overworked depending on if they are freelance or full-time. I showed Carolyn Ottmers' work many years ago and though I saw great potential in her and her art I felt she was being held back by her commitments and dedication to her job at the SAIC. I don't know what her current work status is, but her current art status rocks. Strong, unique work, utilizing her abilities, breaking new ground, acknowledging predecessors like Nancy Graves (and I won't say Harry Bertoia) Ottmers had several large pieces at Carrie Secrist Gallery when I previewed the show, which opens this Friday. It looked like there were enough pieces scattered about to overcrowd the show. I hope they didn't.
The "baggage" of the Black American artist is cumbersome. Much more for them than it is for us. Its an issue the white American artist doesn't even have to contend with. Do I deal with my subculture as sociological artifact or do I overlook it? McArthur Binion at N'Namdi Gallery does it all by focusing inward on his person history. The rhythmic mark making of his paintings is reminiscent of childhood memories of picking cotton. I like this work. It has a sense of independent purpose to it.
Tragic Beauty, which I didn't get to preview also opens this Friday with Bucket Rider Gallery at Open End. This sounds really promising.
Aron Packer's enthusiasm for Tom Huck's woodcuts is palpable. His respect for the craftsmanship is appropriate, but the content feels old and dated for me, the same way Paul Cadmus does, except he is quite dated. There's a reception for Huck's show Friday.
Rena Leinberger's show at ZG Gallery is great. It's subtle, delicate, profound, sad, smart, dumb, reflective, humorous and slightly self-conscious. And it's all about potatoes. It is thoughtful, frugal, insightful and moving too. She works with sparse materials and multiplies their humble beginnings. This is one of those shows that is wonderfully installed, from the simple sand paper and wood Milton Avery-esque drawings, to the small photos of potato diaries and including the sculptures and the video - don't forget to look at the ceiling - you'll be amazed how much content is in this tight gem of a show. (Their really is more to this than just potatoes.)
That's it for now. A select few good shows. Seems like some galleries are projecting / experiencing their late winter doldrums. Might be self-fulfilling. On the other hand, if you go where the energy is the reward is waiting.
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I've dropped a few hints in the past about being a complete sucker for fairy tale reboots, what with buying any fairy tale reboot book I can get my hands on, regardless of genre, as well as writing a whole novel on my own reboot version of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale in order to suss out my conflicted thoughts on the Disney version as well as the original feminist text.
So obviously it was just a matter of time before I rented "Snow White and the Huntsman". And, well, color me underwhelmed.
There's not really much I can say on the consent issues and muddled message of the movie that hasn't already been said better here at Culturally Disoriented. As they point out in exquisite detail (and with screen captures!), there's not a single consensual kiss in this movie, which would be massively problematic in any movie but is especially problematic in the context of the larger movie message about whether men are socialized to care about women's consent or whether they are expected to just use them however they please and then crumple them up and toss them aside like so many human Kleenexes. A message which is then further fatally undermined by the female villain proceeding to then use up and toss aside some eleventy-billion young women like so many human Kleenexes, which is a shame because I was kind of intrigued there for about five minutes. OH WELL.
Nor was I even remotely pleased with the fact that the sleeping/death spell was broken by the Huntsman's kiss as (apparently) a True Love's Kiss rather than William's kiss, when William was the guy who Snow White attempted to consensually kiss. I don't think I need to go into here why it's totally problematic for a woman's romantic choice to be swept aside by some random Magic that totally knows better than the silly woman. And, yes, I realize that it's supposed to be romantic and a commentary on how she doesn't know her own heart and hasn't realized that she loves the commoner huntsman over her noble childhood friend and STAR-CROSSED LOVERS etc., but all this feeds into a toxic cultural narrative that we really shouldn't respect women's choices because they don't know their own minds 99% of the time, and it's for their own good to override their consent because otherwise how else will they learn they're wrong? And that is a serious problem.
I also want to take a moment to note here that I think it's really ridiculous that apparently this movie was considered enough of a ground-breaking epic saga that it's now apparently going to be a trilogy. Subjective opinions are subjective, as always, but if there was one thing I really liked about this movie -- and that's a question still up for debate in my mind -- then it was the fact that the movie didn't tie up everything neatly at the end, by which I mean the more-boring-than-usual love triangle business. Back when I still thought that this was a one-off movie and the choice was being left up to the audience to fill in the blanks at the end, I thought that was more than a little groovy: if you wanted Snow White to marry the drinking, brawling, so-of-course-they-gave-him-a-Scottish-accent Huntsman, then you could assume that she did; if you wanted to assume that she would marry Finnick Odair because she wanted to consensually kiss him and he's had some practice at the whole royalty thing and presumably would not be the least popular king ever, then you can assume that happens. And if you wanted her to dump both guys on the grounds that they kiss dead/comatose/unconscious women with whom they have no established romantic/sexual relationship whatsoever, then you could think that, too. EVERYONE WINS.
But. What I am instead going to talk about today is how tired I am of movie scenes where women apologize for not trusting every potentially damaging secret and/or minute corner of their heart to strange men they have no reason whatsoever to trust. Because I so tired of this trope. But first some backstory:
The Evil Queen has taken over the country via assassination and has kept Snow White locked in a tower for however many years it took for the child actress to grow up into Kristen Stewart. When the Magic Mirror reveals that Snow White is the secret to the Evil Queen's immortality, the Evil Queen decides that killing Snow White in her cell would be too grody and instead has her brought up to the royal sun-room. In the process, Snow White escapes and heads into the local Deep Woods which is totes evil and dangerous and whatnot. The Evil Queen correctly recognizes that her henchmen are worthless, so contracts out to the Huntsman to track and capture Snow White and bring her back to the palace. He manages the first part of the plan, and holds Snow White at axe-point for awhile, but the second part of the plan goes badly and the two end up fleeing the worthless henchmen together deeper into the forest.
The Huntsman doesn't know who Snow White is, nor that she's the rightful heir to the throne and the local figurehead du jour for the disaffected locals who are tired of the Evil Queen's evil reign. She will only tell him that she's "valuable" and that if he takes her to the castle of a nearby duke and resistance leader that he'll be rewarded. None of this is a lie, and frankly the fact that the Huntsman isn't able to make a logical leap from there to the conclusion that her value is political value doesn't really say much for his intuitive skills. But regardless we get this dialogue:
Snow White: Help me.
The Huntsman: Who are you?
Snow White: Maybe you should have asked the queen that.
The Huntsman: I don't trust you.
Snow White: I've given you my word.
The Huntsman: I still don't trust you. But you have a deal.
Which is, quite frankly, AWESOME given that he is the one who was holding her at axe-point five minutes ago and who she has no reason to believe isn't still working for the Evil Queen or wouldn't still turn her over if the price was right. But he doesn't trust her because she won't tell him her name, rank, and serial number. Stellar.
But you know what? Fine. Who am I to tell this guy who he should and should not trust? That's a decision that he needs to make on his own, and I totally respect that. Trust is complicated, and is something that needs to be left to individuals and respected as their choice and their right to make in accordance with their own comfort levels. This is, in fact, a pretty basic tenet of feminist doctrine, that people get to set their trust zones according to their needs and not according to the needs of others.
So the Huntsman gets to decide how much he chooses to trust Snow White, and whether or not he's willing to work with her in spite of not knowing the whole picture here. And Snow White gets to decide how much she trusts the Huntsman, and whether or not she's willing to work with him in spite of not knowing his motivation and whether or not he'd still deliver her to the Evil Queen given the right price. They both have these choices to make for themselves.
But because this is a Trope (and it is my firm belief that this trope needs to quietly slink off to die as soon as possible), as soon as a third-party overrides Snow White's wishes in order to inform the Huntsman of her royal status against her obviously-made choice to keep that information to herself -- and I want to note that this is YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE of the movie overriding a woman's choice because she just doesn't know the right thing to do and it's so obvious that the Huntsman should be told her secret because he's such a Nice Guy and probably her True Love and the woman who has known him for five minutes and makes the decision to strip Snow White's agency from her clearly knows the Huntsman better than Snow White who has been traveling with him for significantly longer and has already been honest-to-dog assaulted by him and there is a reason why we don't assume that Underdog Lovelorn Romantics cannot possibly also be rapists -- there is the obligatory Meek Apology Scene where Snow White meekly apologizes for not trusting the Nice Guy before her:
The Huntsman: Why didn't you tell me? Cause I'd think it was too difficult a task? You'd be right.
Snow White: I didn't trust you. I'm sorry.
And since I couldn't find a clip of the scene in question, you'll just have to take my word that her apology felt like it was supposed to be terribly sincere and not flippant.
This thing? I am tired of this thing. I'm tired of it being hunky-dory for hard-bitten drinking brawling wounded Nice Guys to not trust vulnerable heroines who have been locked up in dungeons and threatened with rape and violently assaulted and are a walking bundle of potential triggers but that when those same deeply-damaged heroines turn around and fail to trust the Nice Guy with every aspect of her heart and every potentially damaging secret in her possession then it is totally inappropriate of her to do so and absolutely worthy of an apology because could she not see he was a Nice Guy?!?
And once again we're back to the ridiculous notion that merely thinking that someone might potentially hurt you -- even if he's already hurt you once before -- is clearly way way worse than taking reasonable steps to protect yourself. But only if you are female and if the person you're failing to trust completely is a mopey Nice Guy. If you happen to be the Nice Guy in this scenario, then it's totally okay for you to openly not trust the heroine in general and particularly not with the specifics of your mopey backstory, even if said backstory is relevant to her interests because it drove you to physically assault her and nearly take her head off with a battle-axe. If you're a Nice Guy, you get all the privacy and space you require, and without a hint of blame. Naturally.
"Snow White and the Huntsman" doesn't really flog this issue the way some movies do. After the Huntsman abandons her -- thereby proving that Snow White was right not to trust him with her secret and that the local Fuck-Consent-I'ma-Do-What-I-Want woman who spilled her secret on her behalf is a certified jackwagon -- the village is attacked and the Huntsman comes barreling back to save Snow White and the movie labors onward. We never really speak of the issue again, if only because there are new depths of consent-overriding to descend to and we're on a schedule so off we go. But it's still another piece on the pile of movies that castigate women for their failure to trust Nice Guys and I'm quite done with the whole trope.
So here is a new rule: If a woman doesn't feel comfortable trusting her secrets to a man she feels threatened by, that is her right and she does not owe him an apology for making that choice.
That is not what agency is and that is not how agency works.
Yes, knowing she was a princess would have changed his decision. That doesn't mean he gets to know that on-demand because her right to privacy supersedes his right to All The Informations Forever. He had complete agency to decide whether to accompany her based on what he knew and what he knew he didn't know (Known Unknowns, in other words) or to decide that the Known Unknowns were a risk he didn't want to take and to leave. He had full agency in his decision.
There are people who might not want to hang out with me based on the fact that I'm a rape victim, or a liberal, or a blogger, or whatever. That doesn't mean that my failure to wear that information on my sleeve to inform the whole world at all times somehow removes their agency to act as they decide best. They can choose to interact with me or to not do so based on the fact that I might-or-might-not-be those things and the understanding that those items are Unknowns at the time of their decision.
The concept of agency and what constitutes removal of same is basic Feminism 101 and is not "an arguable point" in this space. Respectfully, I'm drawing a line under this particular point and declaring it off-limits for the remainder of this thread because I don't want to get into basic feminism 101 education right now. I do ask that you re-read the post and maybe look up "agency" on some feminism 101 posts, because it is very problematic to insist that a woman's failure to Share Everything (or, indeed, anything about herself) somehow removes a man's agency, particularly her failure to share everything with a man who has already physically assaulted her.
That's not what "agency" means, and I'm not going to host a "let's redefine basic feminist terms" discussion in this space. Thank you.
[CN: Rape, Slavery]
As I recall, I thought the movie had a lot of problematic and one potentially interesting bit that it never really went anywhere with.
Agreed. The whole backstory of the queen was a big mess of good ideas gone wrong, I thought. If I understand the flashback correctly, her village was raided and you have the standard grim-fantasy "all the women carried off" thing. So her mother, seeing what was coming, cast a magic spell to give the Evil Queen the kind of Powerful Beauty that got her upgraded from "just another slave girl" to "married off to the king" and possibly may have also influenced men to give her what she wants.
Which is already problematic, because we've talked about the fact that Beauty = Power is a very problematic trope because that kind of "power" is almost always a facade, since the genuinely powerful men can still/eventually be all "whoops, I didn't really need your consent after all", etc. And which gets muddled even further when it turns out she ALSO has the power to make magical armies, so it seems like her Beauty isn't even the Powerful thing here.
I echo your sentiments re: wanting them to do something more interesting with the scarred village. I was hoping Snow White would scar herself, but that didn't even seem to occur to her. (Possibly because she thought the queen wanted her for something else? But it would have been worth it to try, surely?) Or for them to say something about the fact that the women were still beautiful, but the magic didn't work on them because flurble-wurble-hand-wave. Or, I dunno, something.
Mostly I was just pissed that they were CLEARLY the most sensible people in the movie, but they were used for nothing more than a chance to further undermine Snow White's choices. "Oh, she didn't tell you who she is? LET ME FIX THAT FOR YOU."
CN: mention of rape
It's actually really damn weird to put your characters in a position where they have no reason to trust each other and then have one apologize for perfectly reasonable lack of trust. But I guess female characters are expected to know the title of the movie they're in.
In a world that made sense, he should've had to win her trust. On account of axes and working for the bad guy and all. Blargh, this trope!
As I recall, I thought the movie had a lot of problematic and one potentially interesting bit that it never really went anywhere with. (The whole concept of beauty and the evil queen's interpretation thereof, especially once we encountered the village of attractively scarred women. It's like it was going to have something to say about beauty but forgot.)
The evil queen's motivations were problematic and her actions didn't entirely make sense, if I'm remembering right*. Not only am I really iffy about rape (or attempted rape?) turning someone into a kingdom destroying villainess who ate other women's beauty (and beauty = youth or youth = beauty seems problematic on it's own) but I can't remember if we ever got an explanation for what she was doing, besides wanting to become immortal. I want to say there was something about revenge in there, but I couldn't swear to it.
I remember walking away feeling like there were things in the movie that could've been part of a really interesting movie, but for the most part what we got was somehow a really icky mess.
*And I want some good explanation for why villains always wreck the landscape. Okay, in a fairy tale realm, maybe that's just how the world reacts to illegitimate rulers but a) shouldn't that make illegitimate rulers really easy to find and b) shouldn't they do their damnedest to avoid it on account of a?
Yes. And I think the writers fail at this by empathizing more with the Huntsman than with Snow White.
The Huntsman has had a rough life, what with being (presumably) a member of the lower class and also his wife was killed under mysterious circumstances (he seems not aware that the Queen's Brother was involved in her death).
Snow White, by contrast, has been imprisoned since she was 7 (or whatever) after seeing her father murdered, and has been denied human companionship, and has been subjected to sexual assault (the Queen's Brother mentions that he 'watches' her, and she seems aware of this).
Honestly, the fact that Snow White isn't DEEPLY damaged by this lengthy seclusion kind of shocks me, but I'm willing to accept that she has a strong enough will that she managed to soldier on. Fine. But for the writers to be sensitive to the Huntsman's Widower Pain but not Snow White's Sexual Assault And Imprisonment Pain is REALLY problematic and underlines the issue that "manpain" is frequently treated as more important in fictional narratives.
The Huntsman doesn't trust Snow White because she won't tell him her name. She doesn't trust him because HE PHYSICALLY ATTACKED HER and nearly took off her head with a goddamn axe. These two things? Are not the same thing. The fact that the movie seems not to realize that because the audience/writers 'know' that the Huntsman is Good, is a Problem.
Considering that, frankly, Huntsman's Widower Pain isn't at all related to "oh noes, strange woman I was hired to kill won't tell me her name," this has to be one of the most obvious cases of Manpain Matters Most ever. Especially since we mainly know he's good because, hey, movie title! If the movie had bothered to sympathize with her, the question of trust would actually have been more meaningful and dramatic (at least if done well) because the situation has resulted in two people who need to team up having trust issues for understandible reasons. Well, her reason's understandible. What was his, again? Why does the person with the axe, the person hired to kill someone, need to have their trust won by the person they tried to kill again? I mean, really, the more I think about this, the more WTF the whole thing becomes.
I think it's the extreme power imbalance. You can write a scenario where the wanted person has to win the trust of the person hunting them, but this really isn't that scenario. Especially since the evil queen wore her "Hi, I'm evil! :D" nametag the whole movie.
If I may speak as a black female that went to see this movie in theaters?
The first thing I noticed, if you'll pardon me, was that none of the females the queen used for her beauty where females of color. Hell, there were no females of color in the entire world building/world canon, if I remember correctly. But then again, the title of the fairy tale has always been "Snow White", and not something like "Dark Ebony".
SuzanneF said...
OH GOD, yet another reason to seriously dislike this gross-gross movie.
One of the most frustrating things about the "Trust the nice guy" trope is that women are somehow supposed to have an INFALLIBLE RADAR that tells them who nice guys are. Snow White is magically supposed to know that the Huntsman is totally trustworthy, but also know that the Queen's Brother is totally untrustworthy, and should be hit in the head with a rock.
Because it's still a woman's fault if someone rapes her, right? She should have known not to trust that guy. He was an evil evil rapist. But she should also know to trust all the nice guys, because they're not rapists.
... honestly, do other women have this radar? And if so, where can I purchase it? Because *I've* never been able to magically tell the difference between "decent guy who won't hurt me" and "decent-LOOKING guy who will most definitely hurt me if given the chance."
Oh, come on. Just because he was hired to kill her doesn't mean she has... never mind.
It really is a super poisonous trope.
And, really, is it that hard to figure out how to get your characters to plausibly trust one another? I know, that takes actual thought and writing and stuff, but come on. (And I still think it's completely backwards that its the Huntsman who needs to come to trust SW and not the other way around. She has far more reason to be wary of him. Far. More.)
Brenda A. said...
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I had several cinematic objections to the movie, but reading the issues with consent and trust here helped me crystallize some of the reasons why I kept muttering at the television about the characters not being well-written and the story not cohering and the use of bladed weapons against glass creatures.
I think the "you have to trust me" scene like this was done much better and more accurately between Fezzik and The Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride, where the alternative to guarded trust is fairly certain death.
Mariah Dennison said...
My frustration with this movie (other than it being too dang long for the amount of material they had) centered on the fact that they couldn't seem to decide quite what to do with any of the characters, so they all ended up feeling kind of blah. I swear the only consistent character was the Huntsman and his angst, and *that* is such an overdone trope that he wasn't all that interesting, either.
I felt that Snow White could have worked as either the innocent dove OR as the bad-ass warrior girl...but they tried to make her *both*, which meant that neither worked. (I couldn't even listen to the speech she gave just after she woke up, because I was sitting there mentally screaming "What are you doing? Your character has not been set up to give this speech!") Then I wasn't even sure if there *was* a love triangle thing going on, it was done so vaguely and after-the-fact. *Then* there was the unexplained Christianity references and then the equally unexplained pagan folklore references, both of which completely threw me out of the story and made me want to give whoever did the (lack of) worldbuilding for this movie a good kick in the head.
On a somewhat related note about the portrayal of women in movies, I found this review over at tor.com that was interesting: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/06/sleeps-with-monsters-why-are-fantasy-films-all-about-the-men
Ncfan_1 said...
For this movie, I will say I got exactly what I was expecting. I was expecting a "standard" fairy tale remake with all that that implies, and by God I got one. It could have been so much more. The only things that really stood out to me was the possibility they left open for Snow White not being in love with either William or the Huntsman (that thought, while awesome to me--and it's sad that I should be this excited over being given a presumably heterosexual female movie character who isn't hopelessly in love with SOMEONE--is sadly unlikely), and the "Florence + the Machine" single at the end. It sounds like it was stolen from a much cooler movie.
As for Snow White's apology, it sounds to me much the same way most apologies given by female movie characters do: "Oh great, yet again I'm being forced to apologize for doing or saying something COMPLETELY RATIONAL given the information I had at the time." Only now it's layered on top with "Who the Hell told him I was a princess?!"
And I was really hoping the Stepmother wouldn't be evil. You really want to make an "edgy" remake, Rupert Sanders? Try THAT change on for size.
Lonespark said...
in addition to causing boners she can also summon glass armies
I read this as "summon boners."
I haven't seen this movie. I didn't think I'd enjoy it, from the previews - and it seems I was right. I did enjoy the other Snow White film, Mirror Mirror - you might consider reviewing that as well. I'm still new at, well, noticing things like this, but Snow White in that movie is definitely more empowered. I don't want to spoil it, but it's definitely better than this one sounds.
"I don't think I need to go into here why it's totally problematic for a woman's romantic choice to be swept aside by some random Magic that totally knows better than the silly woman."
I instantly thought of Mercedes Lackey's "Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms", a fairy-tale realm where stories have their own magic, and if a person's life starts fitting a particular pattern, the magic of Tradition will manipulate things to make them play out a familiar tale. Considering the unpleasant events in most of Grimms' tales, this is not a good thing. The books center around Godmothers (fairy and otherwise) who manipulate the magic to prevent tragedies and to try and give victims of the Tradition more control over their own lives. It's basically fighting against what you described there.
First book is The Fairy Godmother.
(I know some of Lackey's books are problematic, but these are pretty good.)
I don't want to derail this conversation, but can we have an open thread to talk about fairy tale adaptations in general?
EdinburghEye said...
But it's still another piece on the pile of movies that castigate women for their failure to trust Nice Guys and I'm quite done with the whole trope.
This sort of reminds me of a book that I suppose would be classed YA now, though back then it was just another fantasy children's novel. I can't remember the author's name, which is a shame because I'd like to resolve never to read anything by them again.
Anyway, the book was about a girl (aged 12-or-so, I think) who was sent by her family to go live with the reigning family of another country. There were desert landscapes and a salt inland sea, which was what drew me to the book in the first place: I love depictions of huge desolate landscapes. The girl had been sent in order to marry the age-appropriate (her age) son of the reigning family, and both she and son knew this, but the marriage wasn't to take place for years: the visit was meant to be a look-her-over and let-her-get-used-to-the-country sort of deal, I think.
Girl hates it. She hates the weather, she hates the desert, she hates the palace, she doesn't like the family, she's not sure she likes the boy she's supposed to marry. She keeps a journal, and in her journal, she writes down everything she hates about the reigning family, the palace, and the country.
The boy whom she's supposed to marry is equally unsure about liking her. There is clearly an Adventure coming up (thought juvenile me, reading) in which the boy and the girl will Save The Something, the girl will discover she quite likes the country, and girl and boy will discover they are now looking forward to getting married to each other. (I was a genre-savvy reader fairly young.) I didn't mind any of this, I was enjoying the author's depiction of huge desert landscapes and looking forward to reading about Adventures in landscape.
The girl stumbles across something that she finds suspicious. She decides that the only person likely to listen to her in this strange place is the boy she's betrothed to.
But, the boy has been reading the girl's diary. He discovers the girl has been complaining about his family and his home and his country. He confronts her, very angrily, about this "betrayal".
And the girl... and this is where I just stopped reading, most uncharacteristically for me...
...the girl apologises. She actually gets tearful over it and sorry. She begs the boy, even if he can't forgive her, to listen to the suspicious thing she's discovered. He concedes that he might. Adventure ensues....
Adventure ensues, but I stopped reading. I was ten or eleven, I suppose.
It is possible that, later on in the novel, the boy would have had it pointed out to him that you don't read other people's private journals. And obviously the girl for plot reasons wanted the boy to listen to her. But all I could think was; the boy had committed the most massive act of betrayal and treachery that I, age 11, could really imagine: he'd read her private journal. How could he ever suppose he could be forgiven for doing that, or trusted again after he'd proved himself so untrustworthy? Yet the boy's anger, and the girl's apology, appeared to have authorial approval. The most beautifully-written desert landscapes in fiction couldn't have held my attention after that.
(Though I will say: I have remembered this preposterous YA novel for thirty-plus years, just because I couldn't bring myself to finish it.)
Kristycat said...
My goodness, is that Angrish or Lovecraft?
All the lolz :-)
It's actually a rotation-13 cipher - folks use it to hide spoilers sometimes :-) You can translate it by copypasting to www.rot13.com, or I think there's a doohickey at the top of the page.
But when I see rot13 now, I'm going to immediately think someone's summoning Cthulhu!
Cthulhu -hates- spoilers.
My goodness, is that Angrish or Lovecraft? It sounds like you're summoning Elder Gods (Though I feel like that's probably justified).
(And yes, I know I've probably got Lovecraft all wrong; I've only ever read a couple of his works, not enough to have a "real" grounding.)
Leum said...
It's rot13, a way of quickly changing letters to avoid triggering people or spoilers.
[CN: rape, discussion of the "rape is love" trope]
I had issues with Fairy Godmother because I felt it played too much with the "rape is love" trope. SPOILERS for FG: Jura gur znva punenpgre vf encrq, fur qbrfa'g yvxr vg, naq vf ubeevsvrq, ohg bire gvzr fur obgu ersbezf naq snyyf va ybir jvgu ure nggnpxre. Naq V svaq gung fdhvpxl. Svefg bs nyy orpnhfr vg snyyf vagb gur "ersbez gur onq zna" gebcr juvpu V fgebatyl qvfyvxr, naq orpnhfr, nf V fnvq, vg srryf n ovg gbb zhpu yvxr "encr vf ybir." vs gur znva punenpgre unq ersbezrq ure nggnpxre naq frag uvz bss naq ur'q zneevrq fbzrbar ryfr, V'q unir orra bxnl jvgu vg, ohg sbe ure gb zneel ure nggnpxre jnf jnl gbb zhpu sbe zr.
I had a lot of issues with this movie, but I hadn't spotted the consent issues. The whole thing felt like it might have a lot of really cool potential, then couldn't decide what it wanted to be.
I kind of liked, weirdly enough, the idea of Beauty=Power in a tangible way instead of a way for a woman to stealthily get what she wants because of Men Being Seduced. But I liked the Evil Queen the best, even if the story really had no idea what to do with her. It was a problematic way for women to get power, but it was something she did despite men, not simply because of them. It also gave her a reason to want Beauty, instead of general cattiness.
I found this story to be a real mess at times, but I really thought someone loved it, and there were some yummy crumbs of what could be that tickled your tongue but was gone a moment later.
It seems like you could put the good pieces together into a rather different but much less garbage message movie. Though there are so many problematic tropes around beauty and female power that its really damn hard not to just stumble out of one bad trope and into another.
I do think if you're going to give your evil queen that kind of back story, you really do need to make her sympathetic. Or at least you need to address the problem of "whoops, avoiding rape turns you into a beauty eating monster." (But I generally prefer villains either be evil because "hey, I'm evil" (see also, power, wanting more of, mwahahah) or have understandable motives but be going about things in a problematic way. The evil queen here was a weird hybrid - lets give our card carrying evil villain a sympathetic back story for no reason, woo!)
I actually think over all, it would make the most sense if one de-eviled the queen, either completely or partially (well intentioned extremist, did what I had to do kind of thing). What if the old king, though good to his family, hadn't been good to his country? What if the queen hadn't actually killed the king, but the steps she took to secure power when he died made the daughter think she had? Or nine million other variations. You see, there's no reason for card carrying evil queen to keep Snow White alive until she comes of age. (At least I don't remember one.) But if she's not an evil queen, any number of reasons are possible. Hell, even if she's evil but understandable evil, there'd be reasons. What if she took Snow under her wing?
Also, adding an attractive powerful older woman who isn't evil (perhaps someone from the village of sensible scarred people?) would be a really good move.
And if I keep this up, I'll end up with not-actually-evil queen, sensible scarred woman, and Snow heroically protecting the kingdom from something completely different and all resemblance to the movie and the fairy tale will be buried under woo adventure! Because that is where my mind goes.
I was hoping Snow White would scar herself
Me too! It seemed so obvious - the women were safe because they didn't fit the evil queen's idea of beauty, and since Snow White fitting it was part of why she was in danger... (At least I assumed the flurble-wurble-hand-wave was that it was really about the evil queen's idea of beauty, but that never went anywhere, so hell if I know.)
The evil queen's powers also confused the heck out of me. Where did she get the magical army making powers, turn into birds powers, and all the other powers she showed? If her village's magic users had those types of powers, that messes up the backstory. If they didn't... where'd they come from? They don't seem to follow logically from Magical Beauty Power. I mean, did she study magic tomes, user her beauty powers to get someone to teach their tricks to her? What? And with those powers, why did she need her Magical Beauty Power? (Okay, wanting to live forever is a typical villain desire, but she acted as if her magic was all dependent on her looks, but it was kind of impossible to tell if that was true or not.)
Charles Scott said...
It's an arguable point. He did outright state that knowing that she was the princess (as opposed to potentially important in any number of other ways) would have changed his decision.
"...you'll just have to take my word that her apology felt like it was supposed to be terribly sincere and not flippant."
The funny thing is that when a woman makes an apology of this kind, usually it's, I won't say "flippant", but rather pro forma ; it isn't that the woman making it doesn't believe it but that she doesn't believe it the way she'd believe the catechism if she believed in God. So what this kind of apology usually means is: "I'm sorry you feel that way about it" or "I'm sorry that made/makes you feel uncomfortable", not "OMG I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I've seen the error of my ways and I'll never never never do that again I swear!!"
Sometimes when a young or impressionable man finds this out he's led by his discovery to the conclusion that women are, um, untrustworthy. But that's a conclusion not necessarily supported by the evidence at hand. Women are operating inside a different set of parameters, that's all. It would be cool if Snow White and the Huntsman had some kind of exchange of views about this issue (although such an exchange would be difficult to dramatize) but if they did it might come across as somewhat out of place. I'm saying that b/c this movie impressed me as pure eye candy without a brain in its head, such that not only would it be an inappropriate vehicle for the conveyance of ideas, but is almost insufficient to sustain dialogue.
Super gorgeous, though...
I find it worthy of note that he actually said "You'd be right". To me, that should translate as "the correct thing to do in your current situation where desire for survival overrides respect for my own agency was not to trust me, but I still get to be angry over having my agency overrode."
That, if we want to be charitable, *could* have her not appologizing for the lack of trust, but for denying him important information and risking his own life.
But, then there's the general context of the rest of the movie, so in this case charity is somewhat a choice against evidence.
Tigerpetals said...
I hate this trope. And the related one of 'damaged' women just have the problem of needing to trust more. It's very gender role enforcing, and of course mostly at women's expense.
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Bartender Salary : Are You Getting Paid Enough? Find Out Now
Are You Getting The Right Amount Of Pay?
Probably not, Let's take a look at the issue of Bartender Salary.
Let's face it, sometimes its hard work and sometimes it's easy work. When it is hard work though, having the best bartender salary available to you makes everything that little bit more worthwhile.
You know the moment that you are cleaning up something that you shouldn't be cleaning up unless you have a newborn. And the slightly intoxicated guy asks you if you "get paid enough money for doing that?" Well now you can finally answer them.
There are probably questions that you have all the time about your pay such as;
How much does my bartender salary compare to everyone else's?
Should I really be putting this insane amount of effort in for these guys?
Am I getting paid what I deserve?
So, how much SHOULD you be earning?
What we are going to do for you is to take a look at Australia, USA and The UK and the current bartender salary stats that will give you a better understanding of where you are at financially at the moment, why do some of us do this job if it isn't for the money? And, perhaps most importantly, how to increase your bartender salary if you need to.
Bartender Salary: Australia
Australia with its big cities and long beaches really does have a treasure trove of cocktail bars and pubs that are not only incredibly cool but are expertly run in most cases. With Melbourne just been voted once again the most liveable city in the world and Adelaide taking the number 5 spot there is no reason for a bartender not to settle here and have the time of their lives. Lets take a look at what Australia pays it's bartenders.
Now as we can see above. Australian bartender salary on a whole sits at an average wage of around $19ph. It doesn't matter how experienced you are as a bartender, if you take the bartender position you will be earning around the same amount as the newcomer.
Bummer we know, but there as to be a reason for us to want to do it when the average wage of a full time Australian earner in any profession stands at a little over $75k a year as you can see in the image below.
Okay so we know that the average wage of a bartender on a whole here is grossly less than the national average but what happens to that bartender salary when you get the promotion and become a bar manager?
We both know that because you are following this site you will all hopefully get a promotion at one point and step closer to a pay that matches your talents and commitment.
Australian Bar Managers have an average national salary of $49K AUS still short of the overall national average.
Remember that this amount is spread out across the whole country so lets take a look at which regions have a higher pay difference from the $49K AUS.
So as you can see here being a Bar Manager in Perth is going to reward you with 7% more overall than the national average which equates to around $52.5K AUS. Sydney at around $50K AUS. And Brisbane $49.5K AUD
Whilst Melbourne sits on the national average
So if Melbourne hits the national average bar manager salary how does it sit on the average bartender salary? Well let's take a look below.
Even though we would argue that Melbourne's bar scene is one of the best in the world we can see from the stats that the average bartender salary is less that that of the national average bartender salary of $19.28ph AUD
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Bartender Salary: USA
Bartending in USA is for many the holy grail, a chance to earn a great wage from tips and move up very quickly within the industry.
There was a time when being a bartender was considered a stepping-stone career. “I was behind the bar, and people would ask me, ‘So what do you want to do eventually?’” - “Now, we’ve come to a place where bartending is respected and a chosen profession.”
This is all according to Julie Reiner who is the beverage director and co-owner of the Clover Club in Brooklyn, New York, and founder of the consulting firm Mixtress Consulting.
So it seems that the USA is a great place to learn the trade and become the bartender you want to be. But how does the bartender salary stack up across the board?
We can see here that the hourly rates differ so much throughout the country dependent on your geographical location. But one constant stays the same no matter where about you choose to work and ply your trade, that is that your wage will be heavily supplemented by tips.
In fact more than half of the average American bartender salary is made up by Tips alone.
But what does this equate to when we look at it as a yearly salary?
That's an average of around $25,000 USD for a bartender per year. But the difference between bottom and top learners is so large compared to that of the Australian and UK Bartender.
It comes down to two major aspects that effect a bartenders salary in the USA - The aspects are Location and Experience and it heavily changes how much you get paid. But in what way? First lets take a look at experience and how that can effect your bartender salary.
But why are we seeing this trend in America but not elsewhere?
We believe it to be based on the attitude that others have towards bartenders in general. As Steven Poland says on abarabove.com, the difference between British bartending and American bartending is "Being able to tell people you are a bartender".
He argues that outside of America working 60 - 70 hours a week 5 days a week as a bar manager or bartender isn't seen as a valid profession.
Whereas within the American system bartenders have an opportunity the reach there full potential through experience and further training.
It's this great attitude towards the profession in The USA that allows bartenders to flourish therefore making experienced ones more valuable to a company or independent bar and in turn they are paid more for their services.
However in other countries where this attitude towards the profession isn't shared you will see a lot less make it to this level of experience and pay before dropping out of the profession.
So a bartender salary changes from state to state, but why? Rob Doherty believes there are a few giant reasons for this to be the case.
Minimum wages: The laws differ from state to state. Some employers in some states have to offer a fixed wage next to the tips that the bartender already earns whereas some states the bartenders can work just for tips.
Whereas in the traditional conservative regions bartenders can earn considerably less than the more liberal states.
Lower minimum wages: Most employers in areas compared to the big cities pay less because they make less
Lower population density: This ultimately leads to lower tips due to less custom
This image below shows the average wage of a bartender throughout the USA. Put simply, the darker the blue the more the average bartender salary is.
We can take a look at this in another way here below. Let's take a look at the Top paying Metropolitan and NonMetropolitan areas within the USA. Are you working in one of these areas? If so are you earning at least the average?
Comparison to national average:
Fox Business took a look at some of the average salaries in the USA that you can see in the image below. We know already that the average bartender salary (the whole of the USA) is around $25,000 USD. So where does this fit in on the scale? Well we can see that a bartender with limited experience can make more than an experienced cashier, as well as keeping up with all the other professions in terms of a competitive salary when you take into account that you do not need a university degree to bartend and so you can spend that time building experience to ultimately make you same amount of money as a fresh graduate who as taken a course in Business Administration.
Interestingly enough as well we found some differences in how much different companies actually pay on average for their bartenders. Take a look at the graph below to see where your employers sit on the generosity scale when it comes to your salary.
Bartender Salary: UK
Let's jump straight in with a look at how much the average wage is.
And as a yearly Bartender Salary:
Now as we can see above. The UK bartender salary on a whole sits at an average wage of around 6.35GBP per hour or around 14k per year with the median hitting nearer the 14.5k per year mark.
Experience doesn't play a huge part in determining how much you get as we can see here on this image below;
In fact it has an opposite correlation between experience and pay to what everyone would expect. A mid career bartender actually earns more than the experienced bartender.
But what does play a huge part is;
Age (not to be confused with experience when it comes to the UK)
The age of the employee plays a huge role in a bartenders starting salary in the UK. We also know that experience doesn't change the wage structure by very much so we can presume that a lot of the bartenders working today in the UK are in there first jobs or at least in the first stages of their working lives. Lets see below exactly what is the minimum wages based on age alone for any industry
And when we take a look at the levels of experience on average in the bartending industry we can see that it is true that most bartenders, in fact a whopping 78% of all of them are in the first stages of their working lives.
Which means that the Minimum Wage will play a large part in how much people are being paid.
If the minimum wage for 21 and over is 6.70 GBP and over 18 - 20 is 5.30 GBP
and you have to be over 18 to be a bartender in the UK.
Then the average wage for a 50/50 mix of these two ages is 6.00 GBP per hour. The average wage for the UK as we know is 6.35 GBP per hour (though these figures are pushed higher with the average London wage). And we know that most employees are in there first jobs where minimum wage is most likely the pay they receive.
How is it possible for you guys to push for more pay if you are earning more than the national average?
Is this the reason why people feel as though this isn't a feasible career option? employers can't 'reward' their staff with monetary incentives like they can in other countries because the wage they recieve will periodically go up over time with their age
Does the minimum wage mean that employers are only employing inexperienced 18 year olds? just so they can save money?
As the minimum wage actually made it harder to move up further within the industry? or at least removed the intensity?
As you would expect the average wage of a bartender in the capital is higher than elsewhere. In fact the average bartender salary in London is largely responsible for pushing up the national average. But are you getting paid enough if you live there? Let's take a look
Okay so you should expect to earn 7% more than the national average. Better illustrated in the image below;
But does this average actually mean you are earning less than other bartenders in other cities? This is a question of the average living costs and London falls pretty highly on that ladder.
London's living wage is a incredible 9.40 GPB per hour on average which leaves the average bartender salary falling very short of making a comfortable wage.
The Secret Bartender as gone even further and argued that the Bartending wage is actually a lot lower than what it seems on the face of it.
When you look at it that way, are you really happy with how much you are being paid? If you are interested in what the Secret Bartender's solution is to this problem, then see here .
Where abouts on the monetary level do you sit?
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Use the data as a tool in order to be more clued up on pay within your region and ultimately country. Its not all about the money in the end.
But now you know how much statistically you should be getting.
Always remember that you are only worth how good you are and more importantly how hard you try.
So what drives people to work if it isn't the money?
Why every week do millions of bartenders start their jobs when others are starting their nights out?
We can only speculate - So we held a small poll and these are the top 4 results that came in.
Feeling of no way out / scared of change
Love for the job and a passion for service
At a loss on the job front (transferable skills etc..)
Some of these are quite interesting and also quite surprising in their own way.
There is a very fine line between work life and social life when you are a bartender and in most cases you have the amazing opportunity to work with your friends and your weekend isn't on the weekend so you don't know what it is like to queue at a bar
We have all worked those awkward corporate Christmas parties where a group of non-people get together and excruciatingly engage in small talk for 4 hours.
Be thankful that's not you
Feeling of no way out - Scared of change
We really did not expect this to feature so highly in the poll. But it is a serious issue that we could do a whole post on and shouldn't be taken lightly so in light of that we will link to some further reading;
How to let some one know that you are feeling this way
Some on the job strategies to help you deal with the feelings
Burnout Behind the Bar: Why It Happens and How to Avoid It
Forbes Take on How To Find A Job Whilst You Are Already Employed
We believed that this would rate higher in the poll. It is also worth noting that this passion cannot be taught.
There is a direct correlation between this passion and the bartenders that make it into stars within the industry and also ultimately make the money.
At a loss on the jobs front
These are the people who are actively looking for new jobs or they may be studying and plying the bartending trade just as an in-between job until they have finished their studies.
In short these are the people that don't see it as a career and so are doing it for the money that it is bringing in at the moment.
Nothing wrong with this - Our bars wouldn't run without these people.
In fact there are many transferable skills that you can take into any industry after being a bartender
What we want to know is why you guys go to work?
Do you have any pay horror stories that you wish you could of avoided?
We're also interested in knowing if you are being paid correctly or not, stats are great but they can’t rival real life first hand experience.
This is where you guys come in...
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The relative density is between 1.5 and 2.0, only 1/4 to 1/5 of carbon steel, but the tensile strength is close to or even higher than that of carbon steel, and the specific strength can be compared with that of high alloy steel. Therefore, it has achieved remarkable results in aviation, rocket, spacecraft, high pressure vessel and other products which need to reduce self-weight. The tensile, bending and compressive strength of some epoxy FRP can reach more than 400 Mpa.SS304 High Quality Food Grade Steel Pipe Fitting Elbow
FRP is a good corrosion-resistant material. It has good resistance to atmospheric, water and general concentration of acids, alkalis, salts as well as a variety of oils and solvents. It has been applied to all aspects of chemical anticorrosion, and is replacing carbon steel, stainless steel, wood, non-ferrous metals and so on.
Good electrical properties
It is an excellent insulating material for making insulators. It can still protect good dielectric properties at high frequencies. Microwave transmission is good and has been widely used in radar radome.
Good thermal performance
FRP has low thermal conductivity, 1.25-1.67 kJ/(m.h.K) at room temperature and only 1/100-1/1000 of metal. It is an excellent insulation material. It is an ideal material for thermal protection and ablation resistance under instantaneous ultra-high temperature. It can protect spacecraft from high-speed airflow at temperatures above 2000 (?)
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(1) Various structural products can be designed flexibly according to the need to meet the use requirements, which can make the product have a good integrity.
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The modulus of elasticity of FRP is twice as large as that of wood, but 10 times smaller than that of steel (E=2.1*105). Therefore, the rigidity of FRP is often insufficient in product structure and it is easy to deform.
It can be made into thin shell structure, sandwich structure, high modulus fibers or reinforcing ribs.
Long-term poor temperature resistance
Generally, FRP can not be used for a long time at high temperature. The strength of general polyester FRP decreases obviously above 50 C, and generally only below 100 C. The strength of general epoxy FRP decreases obviously above 60 C. However, high temperature resistant resins can be chosen, so that long-term operating temperature is possible at 200 ~ 300 C.
Aging phenomenon
Aging is a common defect of plastics, and FRP is no exception. Under the action of ultraviolet radiation, wind, sand, rain, snow, chemical medium, mechanical stress, etc., it is easy to cause performance degradation.
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Vegas-Inspired Pinpop VEGAS: Extreme Pinball Offers Fast-Paced Pinball Gameplay and Competitive Multiplayer for Pinball Gaming Madness on Mobile
Seoul – Dec. 19, 2016 – Competitive pinball fanatics can now challenge friends from around the world as NEXON Korea Corporation releases its latest competitive mobile game, Pinpop VEGAS: Extreme Pinball. Pinpop VEGAS is a fast-paced, real-time multiplayer pinball game for fans on iOS and Android – available now to download on mobile devices in Western territories, including the US, and Europe, Canada and South America.
As one of the first real-time multiplayer pinball battle games, Pinpop VEGAS reimagines pinball with a unique twist as players tap and aim their way through forest, mine, desert, and ocean stages, which change according to the weather. Real-time player-versus-player pinball battles elevate the intensity of Pinpop for gamers vying for the top spot on the leaderboard with opponents from around the world.
With Pinpop VEGAS : Extreme Pinball, players will experience:
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Pinpop VEGAS is now available for free download via mobile devices in the App Store and on Google Play.
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PA Spotlight – Lane Bower, MHSc, PA-C, DFAAPA
Question: A patient presents complaining of severe pain and "burning" in an extremity. You note that the extremity is pale and cool to the touch, with mottled skin and without a palpable pulse. Which of the following diagnostic modalities will identify the source of this patient's problem in most of cases?
A. Chest x-ray
B. Echocardiogram
C. Aortic angiogram
D. Abdominal flat plate
E. Aortic ultrasound
Answer Explained
C. Aortic Angiography is the answer
Contrast angiography remains the criterion standard, most accurately revealing detailed vascular anatomic information. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1241088-workup
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This year, in celebration of our PA professions 50th anniversary, Certified Medical Educators would like to honor 50 exceptional PAs for their professional accomplishments, passion, and dedication. It is with great excitement that we spotlight Lane Bower, MHSc, PA-C, DFAAPA
Lane Bower, MHSc, PA-C, DFAAPA
Ms. Bower currently serves as Assistant Professor at Lock Haven University, where she has dedicated the past decade of her career to educating future PAs. Prior to which she has practiced in a variety of specialties including emergency medicine, gynecology and general surgery. Ms. Bower however has been in PA education for over 35 years and considers it her passion and calling. Preceding her career as a PA, she worked as an OR tech for several years in New Jersey. Based upon her dedication to PA education and profession, Ms. Bower has been awarded the 2014 Educator of the Year by the Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants, AAPA House of Delegates Outstanding Service Award in 2016 and Distinguished Fellow Award from the AAPA in 2009.
Birthplace: Williamsport,PA
PA Program graduated from: Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, now known as Drexel University
Favorite Sports Team: Pittsburgh Steelers
Mentors who had an influence on you: “When I was an OR tech and as student, the head of our group was a nurse, major in air force, said to us, when you get to a point and do everything the same and not really getting raises and done everything you can do, get the hell out” and that’s helped push me towards PA school. Additionally, later on in my career as an OR tech, there was a Surgeon at the hospital in NJ, whom would take PA students from Rutgers. We were doing a case one day and he said to me, “Lane you should go and be one of them” and he also really encouraged me and pushed me to apply for PA school. Lastly, my advisor, mentor and teacher at school, whom I emulate, Earl Fraley. He would always say, you have to do it right or have to take care of the patient”
Interesting fact: “I was a carhop as a kid, and that was my first real interaction with other people”
PA Interview Questions:
What are you most proud of from you career: “I think, part of it is becoming a PA, as it took me three years because I had an injury and had to start over, having that don’t give up attitude and being around when there were less than 2,000 PAs and watching how we’ve grown and going from no one knowing what we are to here people recognizing and acknowledging us I think I am really proud of that. Certainly being involved in a lot of activities and teaching students”
What advice would you give current PA students: “I think that depends, but I think there has been a lot of changes and there are going to be a lot more. You are the future, get involved in the profession. Don’t ever give up, its going to be tough, its going to be hard but don’t give up and every now and then step back and breathe, its going to be alright”
What book would you recommend every PA student should read: Boards and Wards – Carlos Ayala, M and Brad Spellburg, MD
Where do you see our PA profession in another 50 years: “Being more autonomous, not necessarily individually but having patient centered care and team approach to medicine. Having fewer insurance or legislative issues. Additionally I would like everyone to know about PAs, know what we do, and be a household name”
Certified Medical Educators salutes Ms. Bower for being an incredible leader, teacher, and PA.
Amish bride invites Physician Assistant to wedding 10 years after being shot in the heart with a .22-caliber bullet
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"Antigone" by Theatre Coup d'Etat at SpringHouse Ministry Center
Sitting in the lounge at SpringHouse Ministry Center (a venue I was familiar with from this year's Fringe), waiting to see Theatre Coup d'Etat's new adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone, I read the Wikipedia plot summary, as I often do before I see a really old play. The story of the sister who is condemned to death for giving her brother a proper burial started to sound familiar to me, and I realized I had seen it before, only it was called Burial at Thebes, and it was a sort of gospel retelling by Irish poet Seamus Haeney. Sophocles' trilogy of this ancient doomed family begins with Oedipus the King (you know Oedipus, the guy who was cursed by the gods to kill his father and marry his mother), continues with Oedipus at Colonus (which also has a gospel retelling called Gospel of Colonus), and ends with the story of Antigone, Oedipus' daughter. Also related is Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, which tells the story of Antigone's two brothers who fought over control of Thebes after their father's death (which I experienced as a "hip-hop musical comedy-tragedy in Ten Thousand Things' The Seven). All of this preamble is just to say I was more familiar with the world of Antigone than I thought, and felt comfortable jumping right into this intense 90-minute adaptation. It's a story, or rather a piece of a story, that's been told many many times over the last few millennia. But a story that's still worth hearing, especially this version, which focuses on a strong female heroine standing up for her family and doing what she believes is right, no matter the consequences.
Don't worry if you don't know the background or anything about Antigone's story; adapter and director Meagan Kedrowski nicely sets it up with a short intro explaining that we're about to see Chapter 3 of the story, and briefly telling us about the first two chapters. The sisters' nurse serves as the storyteller, snapping her fingers to breathe life into the figures onstage (who stand motionless for several minutes as the audience files in), and occasionally taking us into flashbacks that further illuminate the characters. Our story begins when Antigone's uncle King Creon declares that Polyneices will not be allowed a traditional burial due to his treason against Thebes. Antigone argues with her sister Ismene that they need to bury their brother; no matter what he's done, he deserves that much. She goes forward with her plan alone, knowing that the punishment is death. She pleads for mercy from her uncle when he finds out what she's done, but he's unrelenting, even when his son Haemon, Antigone's betrothed, adds his pleas. There's no happy ending to this story, only difficult choices.
Lauren Diesch as Antigone (photo by Craig Hostetler)
The story is staged in a sanctuary at the SpringHouse Ministry Center in an almost Ten Thousand Things sort of way, i.e., just two rows of chairs on three sides of a square. The church-like feel of the room and booming acoustics provide a somber, regal feeling to the story. The cast walks through and behind the audience, at times speaking or murmuring from behind, making you feel surrounded by the story and immersed in it. Musicians Sarah Dewhirst (piano) and Steve Modena (guitar and percussion) add a soundscape to the story. Morgan Groff's costumes have a Project Runway feel (in a good way) and all relate to each other, while quickly letting us know who's who. Also cool and character defining are the mohawk-like hair styles and intricate face and body paint.
This is a very physical performance, with several thrilling and intense fight scenes (choreographed by Adam Scarpello). Highlights in the strong cast include Lauren Diesch as a strong and compelling Antigone, Jayme Godding as her sister Ismene, Jeff Groff as her sympathetic fiance, and Kelly Nelson, Franklin Wagner, Patrick Webster, and Antonia Perez as the guards/fates, who do a lot of the heavy lifting (literally) and provide a bit of humor or creepy atmosphere when called upon.
Antigone continues through October 17.
Labels: Antigone, Antonia Perez, Franklin Wagner, Jayme Godding, Jeff Groff, Kelly Nelson, Lauren Diesch, Meagan Kedrowski, Patrick Webster, Sarah Dewhirst, SpringHouse Ministry Center, Steve Modena, Theatre Coup D'Etat
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"GOD AND MAN'S WAGES"
An address given by the Christ messenger Zodiac through the deep trance mediumship of Miss Winifred Moyes,
at the Ealing Common Christian Spiritualist Church, 10, Hanger Lane, Ealing, London, W5, on Sunday, October 14th, 1945
(Note: This message was edited for a more general readership)
"I have been sent into your presence to speak to you on that which I name: 'God and Man's Wages'. Today there is much taught about recompense, and the world, it seems to you, is filled with tumult – man warring against man, seeking to cut into family life, to destroy friendship and comradeship, to bring into this happy land of yours that discord which inevitably must produce a black harvest.
"There are some who argue this and others who acclaim that, but we will think upon wages on a higher plane of thought. And I want, if I can, to give a little explanation about that beautiful story in the Holy Book when the householder and his vineyard was likened unto Heaven.
"You will remember how the story goes: that the Lord of the vineyard engaged at certain times of the day different labourers, and he stipulated that they should work for that which he was prepared to give; and at the close of the day the ones who had toiled from dawn demurred because those who had worked but an hour or two received the same wages.
"Over the generations, dear children, that story has roused a certain amount of criticism. Viewing it from the purely surface side it sounds unfair, but the one who chronicled it had not the deep understanding to pass on the Master's meaning, and so today, by Divine Grace, I want to expand your imagination in regard to that parable, as to its meaning for you and for the world at large.
"The recompense which God gives in sweet equality to all His children is the gift of Eternal Life, and the point is this: There are those who desecrate their lives and the vehicle of flesh, there are many who spurn everything that relates to Divine Law, and yet, dear children, their wages from God are precisely the same as the faithful worker – they are given the gift of Eternal Life.
"Let us analyse the story a little further and we shall find that there is no mention of anything beyond the actual wage which was given to one and all in the same degree. I ask you to consider this point in regard to physical life; there are those who live upon the earth plane until old age is reached, there are others who stay but a year or two and then pass into another state, and there are those who toil only to get personal power, but they are all given the same wages by their Lord - Life Everlasting - and they all have the same degree of Divinity within them. That is but one aspect.
"Then we think of the workers in spiritual employment. There are those who over the years have had their churches or have acted as ministers representing the Christ, but you know, dear children, it is not the number of years a man or a woman may acclaim Christ, but the degree of the sacrifice which has been forthcoming during them. And may it not be that one who has come into the Light of active service but a short span has, during that short span, done more than the one who has acclaimed himself a Christian worker over the many years of his earthly life? You know that all who claim the Name of Christ are not Christians. You know also that all those who are supposed to represent the Master in their churches and chapels and temples do not represent the Master: they represent something built up by generations of earthly authority and personal pride.
"So it is quite logical to say that men and women who in the past had no opportunity of working directly for God, sometimes in a very short time accomplish more than those who have named themselves Christians over the years, and thus the 'first shall be last and the last shall be first.'
"I want you in thinking of this parable to apply it to the things of daily life. No story in the Bible would have been worth chronicling if it did not concern you today as much as it concerned those of two thousand years ago. The religion of the Christ is essentially a modern religion; it is only some, blinded by their own conceit, who feel that it is old-fashioned and they want a new cult, something that shall allow their imagination greater exercise and their powers fuller expression. These are the blind and the lame, the ones who are deaf to the Spirit of God which is speaking through human life, through Nature, aye, even through dumb animals.
"Take, for instance, material wages. You know it is not always the best workers who gain the most. Very often it is the man who steals his employer's time who makes the biggest success of human life; he has learnt how to be clever, how to defy certain laws which govern employment and to safeguard himself so that there is no redress from those he has cheated. What are his wages? Some may say: 'A comfortable life, the things he craves for most, he has a 'position' - whatever that may mean.
"But the wages of God are not touched by man's defiance of Divine Law, and he, too, has the gift of Immortal Life and also he can continue to exercise free-will. Yet is it not true that the wages of sin is death - the death of idealism, of real happiness, certainly of progression? The God or Christ within man is in fetters, there has been a dying away of those holy qualities which mark man from the beast, there has been so great a thwarting of the Spirit's desires that they seem to exist no more; physical life itself symbolises death.
"But you know, dear children, that there is no death, it is only sleeping, and such as these must awaken, however much they cling to the thought that after the physical stage life is finished, and their awakening should indeed wring your hearts with pity, for they are forced to witness that which they have done.
"God does not punish, God gives to each and everyone, however much the individual may hate Him, the same unlimited love, the same wide resources to obtain freedom, the same sweet inclusive gifts; but the difference is this: man, through erecting his own prison, cannot see and cannot catch those beautiful things which might have been his own. Feebly through the darkness he peers, with a trembling hand desiring to find the strength to tear out the bars so that freedom might be his own. But where is his strength? He finds his body of flesh is no more, his cunning, clever mind has been laid aside; rather he represents an imbecile with no vitality at all; and there in his self-appointed tomb he lies until, by suffering, something of strength in a spiritual sense is made his own.
"There are those who complain of injustice, many who point to illustrations upon the earth plane of God being defied and man scoring over his Creator; but how long do these things last, and what of the future?
"I ask you, dear children, as you pass among those materially minded, to seek to open the gate which has shut them in, for physical consciousness alone has been exercised by them here and now; but Divine Justice never wavers. The frail and the sick are pushed to the wall or are trampled upon, and the old, who have been faithful workers, fear the dark cavern of poverty. But slowly public conscience is awakening. God's Hand has been shown by the compassion which has directed that such as these shall not starve - and you applaud, you feel a sense of relief for the responsibility is ever great.
"But have you ever thought, dear children, that when this physical life is over there is the Law in operation that man must work or starve? It is useless then to try devious means to circumvent the Law of the Spirit spheres, it is useless then to borrow the ideas and the work of others; for God's Law is that each man, each woman, have their own foundation alone to stand upon. And while I speak thus I want you to realise that there are always those who are the genuine article in physical life and those who copy, those who imitate - not the sacrifices of others but the results.
"Again I remind you that this is impossible after the transition. Man is ordained by God to be the originator of his own home, to be a creator of his own equipment; and although - as I have explained - there is borrowing in the Spirit World, everyone knows that it is borrowing, and no one can retain that which has been borrowed and claim it as his own. You see the difference?
"I beg you to exercise the physical mind to the uttermost, to get these things in their right proportion, not to take up the holy Book and then put it down with a sigh because it seems that God is not that God of justice you hoped to find.
"Always remember that the chroniclers – wonderful though the work they accomplished – knew so little in comparison with the great truths the Master sought to pass on to waiting man. But had man searched and suffered over the generations to find the Truth, not one of those mistakes could have remained, for within man there is power and truth, and through the Holy Spirit those tiny discrepancies would have been swept away, and man could have gained his emancipation from the limitations of the human mind.
"Yes, God's wages to man are the same everywhere and for everyone, but when we are in the Spirit World, there is one fundamental that makes all the difference between our happiness and our distress, between our activity or having to stand back and see others do what we desire to do, and that one thing is Experience.
"What today can be produced without the gift of experience? It segregates man from man, for those who are untrained, those who are undisciplined, cannot be trusted with important work. But when you are free from the body, how your heart will rejoice over the struggles of daily life, over the combats with pain, over the heartaches which were so hard to resist. Dear children, you have the gift of Eternal Life; but when you enter the next state you have also something which makes the thought of Eternal Life an everlasting glory - you have training, you see the working out of the law that as a man sows and suffers, so he gathers around him the tools to create in conditions where physical things no longer have an existence.
"I want to comfort you, I want to enlarge your vision. When you find on either side such terrible illustrations of injustice, of whole families suffering from the selfishness of one, of little children being born into this physical world in such distorted bodies that there is no chance of earthly happiness at all - when you think of such things, remember Divine Law, God's wages, and all that man can earn by man bringing his will into harmony with the Will of the Father.
"It is the only way, dear children. Many in the body who are inexperienced think that they can teach those who have been in the work for years. When they are tested they find they must produce the same will, the same endurance and the same high faith. Blessed are the triers, blessed are they who are not discouraged by the obstacles upon the path; blessed are the ones who are content to be as pupils until they have mastered those difficulties which must be grappled with and overcome.
"It is the way into the Kingdom - not into Everlasting Life bereft of Divine gifts which should have gained the right of expression - but into the Spirit World knowing that God or Christ will be able to set you to work anew, for in your little way, with the equipment at hand, you have done what you could.
"I would come amongst you to bless you. I ask those who have gathered in to realise that the holy ones can be drawn to them by the desire to release the Holiness within. Dear children, no one is favoured, no one has preferential treatment; that is of the earth alone. God has called you into His Vineyard. If you have had the strength to work over the years, rejoice, for not only do you have the wages that every child of God shall receive, but you have something that you have bought by your own individual effort, and that is Experience. No longer are you a servant in the sense that you cannot be entrusted with important work; you are a missionary, you can represent the Master as an ambassador if you have purchased, by the only way it can be purchased, the gift of experience.
"I ask you as you take your daily way to seek to analyse the words of the Christ, to bring to bear upon them the Light of His Everlasting Love, when all these things shall be made clear, and you shall be the one to bring Light to those who sit in darkness and under the shadow of death."...
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10002 Zip Code (New York, NY)
10002 Zip Code (New York, NY) Detailed Profile
County: New York County, NY
Renter-occupied apartments: 29,210
March 2019 cost of living index in zip code 10002: 171.1 (very high, U.S. average is 100)
Land area: 0.9 sq. mi.
Population density: 89,911 people per square mile
(very high).
0.6% ($4,214)
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2017: $4,316 (0.5%)
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with no mortgage in 2017: $4,070 (0.7%)
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Graduate or professional degree: 11.9%
Divorced: 7.6%
Median household income below state average.
Median house value significantly above state average.
Black race population percentage below state average.
Foreign-born population percentage above state average.
Renting percentage above state average.
Length of stay since moving in above state average.
Number of rooms per house significantly below state average.
37,73944.5%Asian
20,61924.3%Hispanic or Latino
5,2576.2%Black
1,2001.4%Two or more races
1430.2%Some other race
1080.1%American Indian
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According to our research of New York and other state lists, there were 19 registered sex offenders living in 10002 zip code as of January 20, 2020.
The ratio of registered sex offenders to all residents in this zip code is much lower than the state average.
New York median age:
Net capital gain/loss in AGI: +$20,227 (reported on 12.6% of returns)
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 0.4% for AGIs $50k-75k, 0.5% for AGIs $75k-100k, 1.4% for AGIs $100k-200k, 18.4% for AGIs over 200k)
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 16.7% for AGIs below $25k, 4.7% for AGIs $25k-50k, 3.5% for AGIs $50k-75k, 3.6% for AGIs $75k-100k, 3.5% for AGIs $100k-200k, 3.2% for AGIs over 200k)
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 2.6% for AGIs below $25k, 6.2% for AGIs $25k-50k, 9.8% for AGIs $50k-75k, 13.7% for AGIs $75k-100k, 15.5% for AGIs $100k-200k, 14.1% for AGIs over 200k)
Taxes paid: $14,766 (reported on 20.0% of returns)
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 0.8% for AGIs below $25k, 2.0% for AGIs $25k-50k, 4.5% for AGIs $50k-75k, 7.8% for AGIs $75k-100k, 9.7% for AGIs $100k-200k, 10.5% for AGIs over 200k)
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 9.0% for AGIs below $25k, 1.0% for AGIs $25k-50k)
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 87.1% for AGIs below $10k, 76.9% for AGIs $10k-25k, 89.0% for AGIs $25k-50k, 87.3% for AGIs $50k-75k, 82.9% for AGIs $75k-100k, 68.6% for AGIs over 100k)
Taxable interest for individuals: $929 (reported on 43.1% of returns)
(% of AGI for various income ranges: 38.2% for AGIs below $10k, 12.3% for AGIs $10k-25k, 3.1% for AGIs $25k-50k, 2.2% for AGIs $50k-75k, 3.1% for AGIs $75k-100k, 3.7% for AGIs over 100k)
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(% of AGI for various income ranges: 2.3% for AGIs below $10k, 3.7% for AGIs $10k-25k, 8.9% for AGIs $25k-50k, 13.3% for AGIs $50k-75k, 15.3% for AGIs $75k-100k, 15.5% for AGIs over 100k)
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Household received Food Stamps/SNAP in the past 12 months: 10,066
Women who did not have a birth in the past 12 months: 18,367 (5,911 now married, 12,521 unmarried)
Notable locations in zip code 10002: Essex Street Market (A), Pier 36 (B), Seward Park Branch New York Public Library (C), David Sarnoff Building (D), Bialystoker Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation (E), Louis Abrons Arts for Living Center (F), Seventh Precinct Station House (G), Lower East Side Tenement Museum (H), University Settlement House (I), Hamilton Fish Park Play Center (J), New York Satellite Company 1 (K), New York Ladder Company 6 (L), New York Engine Company 17 (M), Fire Department New York Engine 15 Ladder 18 Battalion 4 (N), Fire Department New York Engine 9 Ladder 6 Satellite 1 (O), Hamilton Fish Park Branch New York Public Library (P). Display/hide their locations on the map
Churches in zip code 10002 include: Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church (A), Norfolk Street Baptist Church (B), First Presbyterian Church of New York (C), Market Street Reformed Church (D), Sea and Land Church (E), First Chinese Presbyterian Church (F), Primitive Christian Church (G), DeWitt Reformed Church (H), Mision Guadalupana (I). Display/hide their locations on the map
Parks in zip code 10002 include: East River Park (1), Seward Park (2), Sarah Roosevelt Park (3), Peretz Square (4), Hamilton Fish Park (5), Luther Gulick Playground (6), Corlears Hook Park (7), Vladeck Park (8), Henry M Jackson Park (9). Display/hide their locations on the map
Tourist attractions (not listed on the city page) : ABC No Rio (Museums; 156 Rivington Street), Asia Vacations (Tours & Charters; 37 Bowery).
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Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in New York, NY (10002)
1,8501 bedroom
Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in New York, NY (10002)
4,138no bedroom
11,5882 bedrooms
Cars and other vehicles available in New York, NY (10002) in owner-occupied houses/condos
Cars and other vehicles available in New York, NY (10002) in renter-occupied apartments
24,087no vehicle
2,394$200,000 or more
9$15,000 to $19,999
627$1,000,000 to $1,499,999
1,523$200 to $249
3,518$1,000 to $1,249
588$3,500 or more
Asian householders: $1,380,622
Hispanic or Latino householders: $1,010,014
Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $510,454 - $978,012
Townhouses or other attached units: $765,748
In 2-unit structures: $764,737
In 3-to-4-unit structures: $971,531
In 5-or-more-unit structures: $1,014,548
Mobile homes: $287,305
Occupied boats, RVs, vans, etc.: $920,651
One, detached: 240
5 to 9: 1,905
10 to 19: 5,501
50 or more: 20,210
Mobile homes: 1
5.5%1,904Drove a car alone
3.0%1,032Carpooled
5.9%2,042Bus or trolley bus
0.1%36Streetcar or trolley car
46.4%15,944Subway or elevated
1.4%470Railroad
0.2%73Ferryboat
1.7%597Taxi
4.4%1,515Bicycle
25.3%8,683Walked
5.5%1,873Worked at home
1,12590 or more minutes
Neighborhoods in zip code 10002:
Bowery neighborhood
Chinatown neighborhood
Civic Center neighborhood
Downtown neighborhood
East Village (Alphabet City) neighborhood
LoDel neighborhood
Lower East Side (LES) neighborhood
Two Bridges neighborhood
9,753 spouses, 17,896 children (17,272 natural, 363 adopted, 263 stepchildren), 3,112 grandchildren, 1,334 brothers or sisters, 2,574 parents, 1,887 other relatives, 973 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 21,875 (7,800 male householders (6,434 living alone)), 9,260 female householders (8,064 living alone)), 4,809 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 8,236 2-persons, 4,084 3-persons, 2,707 4-persons, 1,410 5-persons, 135 6-persons, 276 7-or-more-persons
Size of nonfamily households: 14,500 1-person, 1,944 2-persons, 513 3-persons, 48 4-persons, 37 5-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons
21.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% very well, 14% well, 16% not well, 7% not at all).
3.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% very well, 12% well, 10% not well, 2% not at all).
39.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (23% very well, 15% well, 32% not well, 29% not at all).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (88% very well, 10% well, 2% not at all).
Foreign born population: 34,228 (43.3%)
8%Dominica
4%China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan
1%Afghanistan
1%Belgium
1%Colombia
1%Laos
2%Italian
1%Polish
1%French
5,6682010 or later
17,858Before 1990
There are 142 Social Workers 74 Internal Medicine Specialists 481 Other Medical Specialists in Zip Code 10002.
CHO S BRITE CLEANER (219 EAST BROADWAY in NEW YORK, NY)
STATE MASTER (New York facility tracking) - AIR PROGRAM
Business SIC classification: DRYCLEANING PLANTS, EXCEPT RUG CLEANING
Business NAICS classification: DRYCLEANING AND LAUNDRY SERVICES (EXCEPT COIN-OPERATED).
Organizations: NU-BRITE CLEANERS (LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTY) , CHO S BRITE CLEANER INC (LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTY)
Alternative names: CHO'S BRITE CLEANER, NU BRITE CLEANERS
CLEANTECH 47 CLEANERS (47 COLUMBIA STREET in NEW YORK CITY, NY)
Organizations: B W S CORPORATION (LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTY) , SNK CLEANERS CORP (LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTY)
Alternative names: CUSTOM CARE CLEANERS
145 STANTON STREET SCHOOL - JHS 25 (145 STANTON ST in MANHATTAN, NY)
Business SIC and NAICS classification: ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Organizations: NYC BOARD OF EDUCATION (CONTACT/OWNER) , NYC DEPT OF EDUCATION (LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTY)
Alternative names: NYC BD OF ED - JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 25
BELMONT & SON INC - 151 BOWERY (151 BOWERY in NEW YORK, NY)
Organizations: JOEL BELMONT (CONTACT/OWNER)
IS 131 DR. SUN YAT SEN SCHOOL ( in NEW YORK, NY)
(National Center for Education Statistics) - STATE ID-310200010131
Organizations: NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (SCHOOL DISTRICT)
COMP MODEL SCHOOL PROJECT ( in NEW YORK, NY)
GOMPERS HOUSES SENIOR CENTER (80 PITT STREET in NEW YORK, NY)
Business SIC classification: CIVIC, SOCIAL, AND FRATERNAL ASSOCIATIONS
CON EDISON - MH 28571 (243 CAMA; ST in NEW YORK, NY)
Organizations: CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NY, INC. (CONTACT/OPERATOR)
CON EDISON - MH 40252 (ORCHARD ST. AND GRAND ST. in NEW YORK, NY)
CON EDISON - MH 59213 (STANTON SUFFOLK in NEW YORK, NY)
177 E. BROADWAY (177 E BROADWAY in NEW YORK CITY, NY)
CONSOLIDATED EDISON (156 RIVERSIDE DRIVE in NEW YORK, NY)
Alternative names: CON EDISON - RIVERSIDE DRIVE
CHEVRON USA INC (90 E BROADWAY in NEW YORK, NY)
24.8%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
3.2%Other fuel
Population in 1990: 84,143. Population change in the 1990s: +727 (+0.9%).
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in New York.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 10% moved from abroad.
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,420
123,529Legal occupations
82,545Law enforcement workers including supervisors
Companies with federal contracts located in this zip code:
STEVEN P COHEN (268 E BROADWAY FRNT in NEW YORK, NY; small business) : $106,100 in 4 contracts from 2005 to 2006
$80,600 with Army for Other Medical Services. Taking place in DC. Signed on 2005-10-19. Completion date: 2006-09-30.
$78,000 with Army for Anesthesiology Services. Taking place in DC. Signed on 2005-04-04. Completion date: 2005-09-30.
$0 with Army for Other Medical Services. Taking place in DC. Signed on 2005-10-19. Completion date: 2006-09-30.
-$52,500 with Army for Anesthesiology Services. Taking place in DC. Signed on 2006-03-13. Completion date: 2005-09-30.
ETRONICS INC (37 ESSEX STREET in NEW YORK, NY; small business) : $32,251 in 13 contracts from 2002 to 2006
Contracts for Radio and Television Communication Equipment, Except Airborne, Navigational Instruments, Photographic Projection Equipment, Electrical Control Equipment, and more by Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - civil program financing only, Peace Corps, Navy, and others
Signed by year: 2000: $0; 2001: $0; 2002: $3,240; 2003: $4,129; 2004: $3,569; 2005: $16,111; 2006: $5,202.
$9,071 with Army for Radio and Television Communication Equipment, Except Airborne. Signed on 2005-12-23. Completion date: 2006-01-23.
$4,915 with Army for Navigational Instruments. Signed on 2006-05-04. Completion date: 2006-06-02.
$4,129 with Army for Photographic Projection Equipment. Signed on 2003-09-10. Completion date: 2003-10-14.
$3,573 with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - civil program financing only for Electrical Control Equipment. Signed on 2005-09-16. Completion date: 2005-08-15.
MACHPELAH CEMETRARY ASSOCIATIO (201 EAST BROADWAY in NEW YORK, NY; small business)
$9,800 with Army for Care of Remains and/or Funeral Services. Signed on 2003-01-24. Completion date: 2003-02-06.
Accommodation and Food Services: Full-Service Restaurants (50-99 employees: 4 establishments, 20-49 employees: 10 establishments, 10-19 employees: 25 establishments, 5-9 employees: 36 establishments, 1-4 employees: 132 establishments)
Health Care and Social Assistance: Home Health Care Services (over 1000: 1)
Health Care and Social Assistance: Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (100-249: 3, 50-99: 3, 20-49: 2, 10-19: 7, 5-9: 2, 1-4: 3)
Health Care and Social Assistance: Child and Youth Services (500-999: 1, 20-49: 3, 10-19: 2, 5-9: 1, 1-4: 3)
Accommodation and Food Services: Limited-Service Restaurants (50-99: 3, 20-49: 2, 10-19: 5, 5-9: 13, 1-4: 153)
Health Care and Social Assistance: Child Day Care Services (100-249: 1, 50-99: 3, 20-49: 8, 10-19: 6, 5-9: 2, 1-4: 2)
Health Care and Social Assistance: Nursing Care Facilities (250-499: 1, 100-249: 1, 50-99: 1, 20-49: 1, 5-9: 1)
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing: Lessors of Residential Buildings and Dwellings (50-99: 2, 20-49: 2, 10-19: 6, 5-9: 6, 1-4: 134)
Health Care and Social Assistance: Other Individual and Family Services (100-249: 2, 50-99: 2, 20-49: 2, 10-19: 4, 5-9: 1, 1-4: 2)
477 people in emergency and transitional shelters (with sleeping facilities) for people experiencing homelessness
235 people in other noninstitutional facilities
188 people in residential treatment centers for adults
27 people in workers' group living quarters and job corps centers
265 people in other nonhousehold living situations
177 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
26 people in religious group quarters
17 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
9 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
(Based on 17 full and 2 partial tracts)
LOANS ORIGINATED 126 $410,547 339 $341,535 7 $257,576 25 $1,251,261 19 $741,613 0 $0
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 25 $646,610 28 $397,559 1 $160,000 2 $4,415,000 3 $311,937 0 $0
APPLICATIONS DENIED 46 $389,151 133 $403,789 20 $68,218 4 $8,160,820 16 $176,183 2 $19,970
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 20 $541,461 53 $377,572 6 $263,968 1 $500,000 8 $426,811 0 $0
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 17 $355,446 22 $358,149 1 $60,000 0 $0 6 $434,950 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 196 $468,676 151 $333,298 11 $169,599 33 $1,910,307 23 $382,238 0 $0
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 45 $507,439 26 $301,387 3 $135,000 4 $2,552,798 7 $263,404 1 $140,000
APPLICATIONS DENIED 104 $478,865 46 $375,078 31 $97,308 8 $4,236,229 19 $440,192 1 $10,000
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 43 $410,707 15 $412,519 2 $1,499,550 3 $3,949,600 0 $0 0 $0
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 21 $468,251 10 $309,376 6 $461,112 0 $0 2 $293,000 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 319 $453,749 114 $523,882 17 $111,519 36 $3,688,646 41 $609,505
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 59 $481,073 16 $433,353 10 $442,497 10 $2,616,414 4 $391,500
APPLICATIONS DENIED 77 $489,884 48 $412,092 32 $272,237 5 $740,480 13 $377,966
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 37 $490,787 17 $451,481 4 $75,000 7 $3,604,666 8 $714,250
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 17 $476,769 7 $173,416 4 $131,523 0 $0 6 $426,165
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 74 $397,263 13 $291,846 7 $283,571 2 $798,720 12 $379,071
APPLICATIONS DENIED 120 $535,730 35 $320,556 28 $208,520 9 $2,109,108 33 $542,536
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 83 $403,398 15 $322,389 4 $191,478 10 $2,475,086 20 $431,426
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 30 $393,682 12 $184,293 3 $56,667 0 $0 0 $0
APPLICATIONS DENIED 83 $390,629 58 $325,002 28 $51,164 3 $641,667 31 $261,056 1 $2,000
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 38 $497,473 33 $288,707 1 $682,670 6 $33,954,018 11 $427,220 0 $0
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 24 $334,370 6 $292,000 3 $115,000 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 34 $308,406 16 $563,041 6 $84,497 2 $849,745 5 $368,532
APPLICATIONS DENIED 58 $347,920 46 $309,477 14 $65,308 6 $2,516,407 10 $295,391
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 38 $327,792 19 $231,913 2 $303,500 10 $1,243,456 9 $300,213
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 11 $295,455 6 $228,497 0 $0 0 $0 1 $190,000
LOANS ORIGINATED 365 $227,905 353 $197,115 5 $30,874 70 $1,601,142 34 $229,574
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 39 $271,730 36 $175,741 2 $52,500 4 $1,099,670 8 $182,083
APPLICATIONS DENIED 54 $264,178 79 $275,966 17 $43,045 3 $699,740 18 $204,728
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 26 $276,830 22 $226,828 0 $0 5 $1,514,820 2 $495,000
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 12 $226,917 23 $164,537 2 $99,000 1 $1,600,000 3 $187,333
LOANS ORIGINATED 2 $100,500 298 $202,974 155 $188,462 5 $18,040 52 $1,397,774 29 $178,545
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 0 $0 53 $251,348 21 $143,169 0 $0 2 $649,610 4 $132,910
APPLICATIONS DENIED 0 $0 62 $172,511 48 $182,880 18 $32,834 14 $1,145,096 13 $70,838
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 0 $0 21 $175,108 22 $187,148 2 $139,775 9 $974,313 3 $192,000
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 16 $170,533 10 $111,444 0 $0 0 $0 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 0 $0 220 $186,594 90 $188,055 5 $32,250 41 $1,447,665 19 $158,418
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 0 $0 33 $175,720 20 $165,148 2 $19,970 3 $633,213 4 $207,435
APPLICATIONS DENIED 0 $0 39 $211,984 31 $179,086 31 $26,023 5 $950,000 8 $202,466
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 4 $299,820 22 $175,420 28 $165,691 3 $43,297 2 $965,000 6 $159,928
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0 14 $207,518 8 $133,731 3 $53,333 0 $0 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 186 $135,973 68 $126,452 66 $9,401 33 $1,526,282 9 $131,103
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 37 $179,575 4 $66,750 2 $21,000 0 $0 1 $230,000
APPLICATIONS DENIED 36 $147,146 33 $124,792 22 $32,544 5 $791,792 0 $0
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 23 $269,395 31 $75,871 2 $55,000 1 $37,000 0 $0
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 11 $122,030 5 $133,742 3 $35,000 0 $0 1 $120,000
LOANS ORIGINATED 2 $380,600 118 $114,435 61 $129,068 160 $2,345 33 $656,656 11 $265,749
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 0 $0 15 $141,783 14 $84,824 3 $33,727 0 $0 4 $136,823
APPLICATIONS DENIED 0 $0 26 $115,484 23 $87,301 12 $14,688 10 $1,051,169 4 $76,905
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 0 $0 5 $111,654 11 $68,216 3 $29,793 12 $1,749,133 0 $0
(Based on 4 full tracts)
APPLICATIONS DENIED 2 $416,875 1 $260,000
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 2 $346,500 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 8 $324,858
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 4 $568,883
APPLICATIONS DENIED 0 $0
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 0 $0
FILES CLOSED FOR INCOMPLETENESS 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 13 $292,154 0 $0
APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 0 $0 0 $0
(Based on 15 full tracts)
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 12 $201,229 1 $200,000
LOANS ORIGINATED 5 $200,400 0 $0
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 3 $235,390 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 4 $233,625 4 $243,750 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 15 $199,333
APPLICATIONS DENIED 1 $147,000 0 $0
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 12 $112,898 0 $0
LOANS ORIGINATED 13 $112,219 1 $86,170 1 $239,590
APPLICATIONS APPROVED, NOT ACCEPTED 3 $62,667 1 $39,560 0 $0
APPLICATIONS DENIED 3 $75,707 0 $0 0 $0
Joseph 467 73.8 years
Rose 342 81.3 years
Anna 321 80.4 years
Louis 272 75.4 years
Harry 268 77.8 years
Maria 241 76.5 years
Morris 222 79.7 years
Lee 405 76.6 years
Wong 404 78.0 years
Chan 217 75.0 years
Rodriguez 209 66.7 years
Chin 172 77.2 years
Ng 166 76.3 years
Rivera 154 65.0 years
Cohen 152 79.3 years
Gonzalez 109 67.7 years
Eng 100 78.1 years
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Ascend Collection 1 Nike 10
AutoZone 1 Popeyes 1
Baskin-Robbins 2 Rite Aid 1
Blockbuster 1 SAS Shoes 1
CVS 1 Sprint Nextel 2
Comfort Inn 2 Subway 4
Domino's Pizza 1 True Value 2
Dunkin Donuts 2 UPS 2
FedEx 4 Whole Foods Market 2
H&R Block 1 YMCA 1
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Imperial pastimes
Amongst the subjects discussed in the friendliest PMQs in history was 'What are we going to about Egypt?'
Hopefully nothing.
Warning: Obscure History post.
Egypt is in Britain's Imperial past. Since sinking Napoleon's fleet in 1798 and then building the Suez Canal in the 1850's the British have ruled in the desert. Isma'il Pasha The Khedive of Egypt borrowed huge sums from Britain and France, and when he couldn't pay them, Britain got the Suez canal. Later the French ran out of cash fighting the Germans, so Britain took over completely the whole of the Suez canal zone, and , effectively, Egypt and Sudan. Lord Cromer was the most famous administrator.
He ruled on and off as consul General from 1887 until 1907. Charged with sorting Egypt's chaotic finances {the country was way beyond bankruptcy} Lord Cromer , formerly Eveyln Baring of a certain famous banking family, put the country on its soundest financial footing for probably a 1000 years. Egypt, still nominally part Ottoman Empire was really ruled by the British. That Suez control agreement allowed Britain to keep military forces in the country to protect the canal. And Britain kept plenty of forces in this most strategic of strategic regions.
Lord Cromer fixed the economy, but only by working exclusively with the ruling elite and shutting everyone else out. This caused great resentment and led directly to the growth of Egyptian nationalism. When WW1 broke out in 1914, Turkey was on the wrong side, and Egypt becomes completely taken over by the British Empire. Not as a colony, but a protectorate.
{It had long been such, but never openly admitted to.} In 1918, Britain decides against giving Egypt independence, locks up anyone calling for such, and carries on.
Situation got very tense. Eventually in 1922, The British Empire agreed to an independent Egypt, with its own government and King, and promised to leave very soon, as soon as the situation stabilised.. Britain to remain in control of the canal, and really, the entire country, and although promising to move out almost every week never does. In 1936 the situation is formalised when Britain agrees to leave by 1950.
When war breaks out, the British in the middle east are in a neutral country, with Italian enemies on the borders. Axis success with Rommel leave the German and Italian armies at the gates of Cairo, with the British army defeated yet again and in full retreat.
The British ambassador, noticing that a large number of swastikas are appearing on the balconies of Egyptian slums decides that its time for a change of ruler..
The British army surrounded the Abdeen palace {photo is of dining room }of the very unpopular king Farouk. The King lived a Hollywood, playboy lifestyle and was despised by Egyptians and his British masters.
Ambassador Lampson pretty much took it on himself, whilst reminding the king that Britain was fighting for democracy, to insist the king either dismiss his government and sack his Prime Minister and appoint a new one, 'the Wafd party' of Lampson's choosing. Or abdicate immediately so that his heir could carry out the instructions, or get shot accidentally.
The miserable 'fatty' Farouk, as he was called by commonwealth troops in every bar and brothel in Cairo, dumped the government, for the Wafd, which Lampson thought much more pro-British. A major incident, a coup in a neutral country, passed off without too much bloodshed, apart from the usual settling of scores as the new ruling party took revenge on the old.
However.. The effect on the people of Egypt was dramatic. There was an enourmous amount of sympathy for King Farouk and his humiliation by the British. Instead of a joke figure he was a hero. The Egyptian military was particularly incensed and a groundswell of nationalism
took hold that remains to this day.
Eventually Farouk and the Wafd party lost support whilst the military gained, resulting in the officer's coup of 1952 led by Gamal Nasser of the Egyptian military, that forced Britain out of Egypt.
'We were leaving anyway,' the British said...before trying to get back in with a truly illegal war that totally failed when America said it would call in all debts if UK and France didn't get out immediately. In gratitude for saving his country Nasser made a speech about how American had sent 200 jets to bomb the Abdeen place with him in it.
This story was believed across the Arab world despite the fact there were no American planes or carriers in the Middle east and America was incensed by the invasion and brokered the peace.
It was believed because America had backed Israel in the 1948 war, which Egypt had humiliatingly lost.
So what should we do about Egypt?
Leave it well alone. We'll only make it worse.
Posted by Bill Quango MP
Labels: History Corner
Interesting piece. The asia times has run some thought provoking articles on Egypt. Looks like Chinese demand for wheat is locking the middle east poor out of the wheat market. Expect many revolutions for years to come.
"promises to leave very soon, as soon as the situation stabilises... and although promising to move out almost every week never does"
This sounds awfully familiar. Can't quite put my finger on why.
hovis said...
@Anonymous - interesting especially when you remember Egypt was the bread basket of the Roman empire.
Bill Quango MP said...
anon/Hovis: As CU said in his piece below its drought/floods + world oil prices driving world food prices.
We are going berserk at a 30p rise to a loaf. Imagine if it rose beyond our ability to pay for it. Imagine if a mother's pride rose in price by £9.50 and your wages hadn't increased to pay for it.
Revolution indeed.
BE: Our Iraqi adventure was not illegal.
Incorrect premise - yes
Mis-sold..Yes.
Unwise..definitely, but we had a UN fig leaf backing, previous UN resolutions and a cause that could make a case for war.
Suez, on the other hand, was a completely illegal war where we fabricated the evidence for the invasion. Then we secretly agreed with Israel that they could invade,we would step in and 'drive them back', and take over the country for ourselves to protect them in a ploy worthy of the old USSR.
It fooled no-one and achieved the exact opposite of the UK government's intentions..
Actually..see what you mean..very familiar!
Wise, very wise.
Which unfortunately means you'll be ignored and we'll do precisely the opposite.
anotheranon said...
Fair enough Bill.
But lets not pretend the USA had Egypts best interest at heart.
The USA at the time had a policy of ending what was left of the British empire and were only too happy to see Britain in a mess.
And didn't want us controlling Suez.
Since those times, America has been responsible for supporting and proping up some of the most unpopular figures in the region.
I find it extreme hypocrisy that Americans today are claiming to be standing with the people against the govenment that they have bankrolled for years.
Agree that we should not interfere. But at the same time, other countries should stop interfering with Britain.
Laban said...
America didn't do much supporting in 1948. But American Jews did raise millions of dollars, which was spent (mostly in Czechoslovakia, although some in the States) on arms, starting in the days of the british Mandate with 10,000 rifles and 450 machine guns. They then started buying field guns and ME109s from the Czechs, flying them via Corsica until the Septics put pressure on the French to stop them - at which point they switched to Yugoslav airfields.
The Czechs sold to all sides. One cargo of 8,000 rifles destined for Syria on the shop 'Lino' was sunk by a Haganah limpet mine in Bari. When the cargo was salvaged and reloaded onto the Argiro/Algiro, the ship was hijacked off the Dodecanese and the arms seized by the Israelis.
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Judicial Review Reforms Unlawful But Government Ignores The Courts
Posted by clp-admin 5th June, 2015 23rd January, 2017 News
The effect of the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 was that solicitors and counsel on a legal aid funded judicial review would receive no payment for the period between issue and permission unless permission was granted.
There is a discretion on the part of the Legal Aid Agency to pay those costs if a case ended before permission but that had to be applied for and was wholly a discretion. In the case of R(Ben Hoare Bell and Others) –v- The Lord Chancellor the High Court has decided that these regulations are unlawful see (link here – Ben Hoare is already on website under ‘News’)
Despite this powerful judgment, the Government have simply re-introduced the regulations with slight adjustments (see the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015). There is a link to the regulations here:- http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/898/made
Once again a Legal Aid provider will only be paid by the Legal Aid Agency if either permission is granted or, if the matter settles before permission is granted without the other side agreeing to pay the costs, at the discretion of the Legal Aid Agency. The changes are that the Government have now stated that there will be payment in three other circumstances and these are circumstances that were given as examples by the Court in the Ben Hoare Bell case of why the regulations were unlawful – they were clearly not intended as the only instances when the regulations were unlawful. The three circumstances are:-
(a) the defendant withdraws the decision to which the application for Judicial Review relates and the withdrawal results in a court – (i) refusing permission to bring judicial review proceedings, or (ii) neither refusing nor giving permission;
(b) the court orders an oral hearing to consider- (i) whether to give permission to bring judicial review proceedings; (ii) whether to give permission to bring a relevant appeal, or (iii) a relevant appeal, or
(c) the court orders a rolled-up hearing.
No doubt further challenges will now come forward in the face of this cynical move by the Government.
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When God Took Sides: Religion and Identity in Irish History: Unfinished History
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"I am very conscious in this book that I will often be privileging the negative and the extreme, and my excuse is that this is because that is how religious identity has played out in Irish history, and the religion of one’s upbringing continues to influence one’s thinking, even if long abandoned. It is diffcult to articulate confusion or to make everyday living, and the acts of neighbourliness it calls for, the stuff of drama, and too often the compelling simplicity of the one-story-fits-all has prevailed. Today the whole of Ireland—even the North—is hard to recognize from that of the 1970s, and there is an understandable wish to move on. I do not subscribe to the trite belief that if you do not understand the past you are compelled to repeat its mistakes. But I have always wanted to know why things are as they are and believe passionately that such knowledge is liberating. It is in this spirit that this book is presented."
- Marianne Elliott, Introduction
Dame Marianne Elliott is an historian, who, in October 2000, was awarded an OBE for services to Irish Studies and the Northern Ireland peace process and in 2002 was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. When God Took Sides is a study of the ways in which religious myths have become entrenched over the centuries and shaped Ireland's historical destiny right through to the 21st century.
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Interview with Marianne Elliott, Times Higher Education Supplement
Patrick Geoghegan, The Irish Times
Gladys Ganiel, www.gladyganiel.com
Maria Luddy, History Today
Mike Bowling, Englewood Review of Books
Marianne Elliott's essay "New Light on Dissent", Dublin Review of Books
The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland (essay collection ed. by Elliott)
Elliott's top 10 Irish history books, chosen for The Guardian
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