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Power From The Sea
Afloat.ie: Scientists and Fishermen Join Forces on Fisheries Science
A study to record the wealth of knowledge possessed by fishermen for the better management of fish stocks is underway on the prawn grounds around the Aran Islands in Galway Bay. The study, which is led by Dr Brendan Flynn comes under the umbrella of the newly formed Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit (SEMRU) at NUI Galway.
The project is funded by the Marine Institute under the Sea Change Programme also includes partners from the Marine Institute’s Fisheries Science Services Team.
According to Edward Hind, a PhD student on the project, fishers and scientists have not always agreed on the best ways of sustainably managing fish stocks. As far back as the late 1800’s fishermen working around the coast of Ireland were already having concerns that stocks were showing depletion, which was greeted with the response that these stocks were “inexhaustible” by the great scientist Thomas Henry Huxley in 1883. More recently, fishermen were the first to notice a decline in the cod stocks on the Grand Banks of Canada but their observations were disregarded by fisheries managers of the time. “We founded the Newfoundland Inshore Fisheries Association because nobody was listening to the fishermen,” said fisherman Sam Lee. “We were complaining to the wind.”
Edward Hind points out that, while the Grand Banks fishers’ information was ignored in the 1970s, studies since then have shown these fishers did indeed have unique ecological knowledge about the fishery that the operated in.
“The goal of the Irish Fishers’ Knowledge Project,” says Hind, “is to investigate the knowledge which Irish fishermen have that could potentially be utilised in Irish/European fisheries management. So far we have found that Irish fishermen have potentially unique knowledge, not only of ecological conditions, but also of the social and economic environment in which they live. They also have many ideas that could shape marine policy and management.”
Hind and other members of the team have been working in the Galway and Aran fisheries for over a year now, talking to individual fishers for up to four hours at a time to learn about the history of the boats the fishers work on , the type of gear they use and their target species. They have also asked fishermen to draw the locations of fishing grounds on Admiralty charts and to indicate when fishing occurs on different areas of the ground and what changes might have occurred over time on these grounds.
Already the project has unearthed interesting view and observations on the behaviour of the fleet, the economic pressures that the fleet operates under and the preferred solutions to different problems that fishermen currently experience. Fishing strategy seems to be linked to the degree to which a fisherman has invested in capital. Fishermen with high investments have no option but to fish for volume while others have adopted a strategy of fishing for value and have scaled down investment and reduced costs to do so. Unearthing these strategies which evolve in response to difficult market conditions is useful in formulating management strategies for the fishery.
Additional work is starting under this project to study cod fisheries in the Celtic Sea. The Fisher’s Tacit Knowledge Project is funded by the Marine Institute through the NDP Marine Research Sub-Programme under the national marine research strategy Sea Change.
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Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.
Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.
The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.
Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.
Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.
In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.
In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.
It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.
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The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos and The Concession among Sundance Institute Latest Nonfiction Grantees
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Sundance Institute today named the global cohort of independent nonfiction film projects that comprise its latest Documentary Fund Grantees, including specialized grants administered by The Kendeda Fund and the Stories of Change Fund.
Unrestricted granting support, totaling $1.5 million, will be extended to independent nonfiction films across various stages of development, production, post-production and audience engagement; Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Fund granting is made possible by founding support from Open Society Foundations. This granting cycle’s supported projects come from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mexico, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S.A.
“These grantees comprise a snapshot of the boldest visions in nonfiction storytelling today,” said Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs, Director of the Documentary Film Program’s Film Fund. “From the intimate to the epic, their scopes and ambitions illuminate not only the world around us, but new ways of seeing, telling and showing.”
Today’s slate of grantees includes the latest cohort of the Stories of Change Fund, a creative partnership with the Skoll Foundation designed to connect independent storytellers with renowned social entrepreneurs, to foster story skills and networking among these communities, and to support compelling films that inspire and enlighten audiences with solutions to urgent social issues. Over eleven years, the Stories of Change Fund has granted $2.6 million across 49 projects from 94 filmmakers, and connected 90 social entrepreneurs with that community. Today’s Stories of Change Fund-supported projects are Awavena, The Concession, Cross My Heart, Decoding America, First Time Stories, Kiana’s Mission, Kokoly, The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos, The Mystery of Epilogue and The Pushouts.
Also among today’s announced projects are focused grants from The Kendeda Fund, providing specific support for projects addressing environmental themes and the challenges of gun violence. Those projects, detailed below, are Awavena, Landlock, Madidi, and Paradise.
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Riviera Beach Ransomware : Florida City Council Agrees to Pay $600,000 in BTC to Bitcoin Hackers
by Market News June 22, 2019, 1:46 am
Riviera Beach Ransomware : Florida City Council Agrees to Pay $600,000 in BTC to Bitcoin Hackers.
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A Florida city has agreed to pay a ransom of $ 600,000 to computer hackers who have taken control of its computer system. The latest is about thousands of attacks around the world aimed at extorting money from governments and corporations.
Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously this week to respond to requests from hackers, saying the suburbs of Palm Beach had no choice if they wanted to recover their records, only encrypted pirates. The council has already voted to spend nearly $ 1 million on new computers and equipment after hackers captured the city’s system three weeks ago.
Hackers apparently entered the city system when an employee clicked on an email link that allowed him to download malware. In addition to the encrypted recordings, the city was facing a number of issues including a disabled e-mail system, payroll and check-out employees and vendors, and 911 dispatchers who were unable to make calls to the computer. The city says there was no delay in the response time.
Spokeswoman Rose Anne Brown said on Wednesday that the city of 35,000 people was working with outside security consultants, who recommended payment of the ransom. She conceded that there was no guarantee that once hackers received the money, they would post the records. Payment is covered by insurance. The FBI website says it “does not support” the reimbursement of hackers, but Riviera Beach is not the only one: many agencies and government companies do it.
“We are counting on their advice (those of the consultants),” she said. Hackers demanded payment in bitcoin cryptocurrency. Although it is possible to track bitcoins as they are spent, account owners are not necessarily known, making them a preferred means of payment for ransomware attacks.
Many governments and businesses have been affected in the United States and around the world in recent years. Baltimore refused to pay $ 76,000 to hackers after an attack last month. The US government indicted two Iranians last year for launching more than 200 ransomware attacks, including the cities of Atlanta and Newark, New Jersey. The men, who have not been arrested, have received more than $ 6 million in payments and $ 30 million in computer damage, federal prosecutors said.
Last year, the federal government also accused a North Korean programmer of committing the “WannaCry” attack that had infected government computers, banks, factories and hospitals in 150 countries. He also reportedly stole $ 81 million from a Bangladeshi bank. He also stays in his home country.
The FBI did not comment Wednesday on the attack on the Riviera Beach, but said that 1,493 ransomware attacks were reported last year with victims paying $ 3.6 million to hackers, or about 2,400 dollars per attack. Some were against individuals.
Tom Holt, a professor of criminal justice at Michigan State University, said hackers often attack common and known vulnerabilities in computer systems. He said business technology managers should examine their systems to detect such defects and teach their employees not to open suspicious email or click on suspicious links. The FBI says companies must also back up their data regularly on secure computers.
Holt said most attacks originated in the United States, making them difficult to control. He added that many victims end up in Riviera Beach: they pay their attacker, because this is probably the only way to recover lost data.
“They might not pay the initial ransom suggested, but work with a third-party vendor to negotiate the ransom,” Holt said.
He added that in almost all cases, attackers deciphered computers after payment, allowing victims to recover their data. He said the WannaCry attacks were an exception: the hackers took the money, but often they did not disclose the data.
Some private attempts to decrypt WannaCry have been successful.
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Ramping Up Summer Reading
How school librarians can minimize the summer slide
By Ernie Cox | August 20, 2013
School librarians across the country participate in an annual ritual to mark the end of the academic year. They diligently distribute summer reading lists and encourage students to participate in their public library’s summer reading programs.This ritual is not without scholarly support. A 2010 Dominican University study, Public Library Summer Reading Programs Close the Reading Gap, assures school librarians that participation in high-quality public library summer reading programs helps students maintain or even expand their reading abilities over the bright days of summer. Yet, with poverty at an all-time high in the US, librarians need to be mindful of the study’s other finding—that students living in poverty do not share these great reading experiences.
As a teacher-librarian in a school serving an economically diverse student population, I find Richard Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen’s recent research a compelling approach to transforming the summer reading ritual. Summer Reading: Closing the Rich/Poor Reading Achievement Gap (2013) shares the results of a multiyear intervention aimed at stemming the effects of summer slide. No academic gains achieved during the school year can overcome the effect of three months without reading. Allington and his team offered a diverse selection of trade literature, helped students pick books that interested them, and provided independent reading time. The greatest challenge to our traditional ritual is that this approach goes beyond a resources list by supplying actual books for the kids to take home and keep. In Allington and McGill-Franzen’s study, building students’ summer reading home collections resulted in improved reading achievement.
This year, at Prairie Creek Intermediate School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, we are building on this research. We worked with our elementary educators to identify 4th graders “in the gap.” As the first group of students bounded up the stairs to browse the school-sponsored book fair, we immediately saw this was a fresh start. As kids selected their books, they informally conferred with principals, literacy coaches, and library staff about three key points:
Their book choices, through which we learned about their personal interests, families, and life experiences;
Whether they could independently read their selections, determined with a 90% comprehension benchmark as kids read aloud from a few of their choices;
Seizing the opportunity to discuss the library as a collection for the long-term reader if a book proved too difficult for the student who selected it;
Sending students off for the summer with a bag of 10 books and our encouragement to continue the conversation through social media (paradoxically, many of these kids have internet connectivity), journaling, phone calls, and home visits.
The average bystander watching the book-shopping spree would not have known that this group is the focus of our greatest professional concern. Selections tended towards SpongeBob SquarePants, WWE wrestling (3D version), and photo biographies of the pop band One Direction.
Yet, we must embrace them as the readers they are today if they are to become thriving, literate individuals in the years to come. Long-term success will require school systems and public libraries to collaborate around direct service to these readers most in need of our expertise.
This fall, we’ll surely hear about a trove of reading experiences. We also hope to see an early effect on standardized achievement among these struggling readers. Helping them build high-interest home libraries should become integral to school librarians’ end-of-year summer reading list ritual.
ERNIE COX is teacher-librarian at Prairie Creek Intermediate School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Jeffrey L. Wilson writes: “If you’re looking for a good PC game to play, you’ve come to the right place. There are a lot of video games in this roundup that will entertain you, and they’re neatly organized by genre. This is not a historical examination of the most groundbreaking PC games; rather, it is an ever-expanding collection of entertaining titles you should buy if you own a gaming desktop or gaming laptop. Any game that is still available and still considered excellent when ranked against the best of today is eligible.”
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On January 23, thousands of librarians and library workers will begin to descend on Philadelphia for the 2020 ALA Midwinter Meeting. And they will be searching for the best places to eat and things to do while visiting the City of Brotherly Love. In Episode 46, Dewey Decibel explores what to see and where to eat during Midwinter, featuring interviews with Linda August, reference librarian and curator of art and artifacts at the Library Company of Philadelphia, and Sarah Levitsky, marketing director at Reading Terminal Market.
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The Ohio University Libraries’ Don Swaim Collection, featuring more than 700 audio interviews of well-known authors from Book Beat, the nationally produced CBS Radio News program, is now available online—including digital transcripts of the syndicated news program. From 1982 through 1993 the program, hosted by OU alumnus Don Swaim, ran daily snippets of the candid taped interviews of famous authors such as Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, John Irving, Ray Bradbury, and many others. The full-length interviews, from which Book Beat broadcasts were created, are longer and more free flowing.
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Timothy Inklebarger writes: “When Mandel Public Library in West Palm Beach, Florida, started offering binge boxes—which it calls ‘binge bundles’—this year as part of its summer reading program, its DVD circulation more than quadrupled in a single month, jumping from 125 in June to 528 in July, according to MPL Library Supervisor Janet Norton. Mirroring offerings from Netflix and Hulu, libraries are seeing renewed interest in materials through the creation of binge box collections—sets of movies and television shows on DVD with related themes and titles to help sate patrons’ binge-watching needs.”
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Giovanna Centeno writes: “Marriage can be lovely and fulfilling, but it will always be a challenge. When those challenges come, or even before they do, the best marriage books are here to help. Everything from self-help, memoir, history books, and fiction can be found in this list of the best marriage books. The infinite wisdom of people who have already been through all of it will shine a light on whatever issues you might be facing. These are 15 of the best marriage books to help guide and you (and me) and, if need be, comfort you through the tough times.”
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday was celebrated at the main branch of the New Orleans Public Library with speakers, music, and cake. Shukrani Gray, of the library’s African American Resource Collection, and speaker Ausettua AmorAmenkum spoke to visitors and students during the January 15 birthday celebration, and Luther Gray, of Bamboula 2000, led students in playing drums. A special birthday cake was prepared for the occasion.
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A movement to withdraw books with LGBTQ characters from elementary schools in Loudoun County, Virginia, suffered a setback as officials voted to leave in place two books that some parents wanted removed. A few months ago, conservative parents launched a religion-driven campaign to banish LGBTQ literature from elementary school libraries in Loudoun County—with early success. School officials had removed at least five books with LGBTQ themes after parents’ complaints. Now a three-member subcommittee of the county school board voted 2–1 on January 15 to prevent the removal of Prince & Knight and Heather Has Two Mommies.
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Complicit In War Crimes – Canada Is Failing The People of Yemen
The crisis in Yemen continues to worsen as the Saudi-led coalition forces and Houthi rebels blatantly disregard the damage being inflicted on innocent Yemeni civilians. Famine and disease have spread through the country unchecked, due in large part to a Saudi-imposed blockade on [continue reading].
Canada 150th: Parliament Hill Celebration Spectacular Fireworks Show
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Canada 150th: PM Trudeau Recognizes Canadian Diversity In Speech
Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau brought a youthful exuberance to our country’s 150th Birthday party on Parliament Hill, July 1st, 2017. His message: It doesn’t matter how you got here, because once you arrive, and can proudly say, “I am [continue reading].
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Does this look like a jeep to you? Even on the rugged, back roads of Canada – THAT is NOT a JEEP! Back in 2014, the Harper government shook hands on a $15-billion deal to sell, what Trudeau later referred to as “lightly armed jeeps,” to Saudi Arabia. However, [continue reading].
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🍁 CDN: Justin, Barack And Enrique Work Towards A Better Everything!
Today, Canada is hosting the North American Leaders’ Summit in Ottawa, in order to take coordinated action that will create sustainable economic growth, help transition to a low carbon economy, and provide better opportunities for Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans alike. [continue reading].
🍁 CDN: Trudeau Restores Our Mexico Relations – Removes Visa Rule
The Government of Canada announced in a press release today, “that it has made it a top priority to re-establish and strengthen our relationship with one of our most important partners, Mexico.” Prime Minister Trudeau announced Canada’s intention to lift the visa [continue reading].
Canada: Colour of War Fundraising For Yemeni Orphans Exceeds Goal
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🍁 CDN: Harper’s Saudi Arms Deal Remains A Thorn In Canada’s Shoe
The onerous price tag for cancelling might help explain the resistance of the Liberal government to growing calls by critics to cancel the $14.8-billion contract reached by the Tories. The government of Canada would be on the hook for a multi-billion-dollar cancellation penalty [continue reading].
CDN: Story In Photos – The Rise And Fail Of Victoria’s Tent City
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The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau today issued a statement on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. However, his words ring hollow for me, ever since he and his cabinet made a deal with the devil (House of Saud), I feel as though our new Prime [continue reading].
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Global Warming Hysteria Over Trump: When has Mass Hysteria Ever Been Right?
Posted by Mish | June 2, 2017 6:14:29 | Economics
Corporate CEOs, French and German leaders, and the general crowd of Al Gore brainwashed global warming fearmongers are up in arms over Trump pulling out of the Paris Global Warming Accord.
The Financial Times reports G7 Allies Lead Anger at Trump’s Exit from Paris Climate Agreement.
French President Emmanuel Macron issued a video statement in English urging US scientists to relocate to France.
Heads of Germany, France, Italy Issue Joint Statement
The Heads of State and of Government of France, Germany, and Italy issued a Statement on the United States of America’s announcement to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.
It raised quite a diplomatic stir when Theresa May refused to sign the statement.
Collective Dismay
PRI reports World Reacts to US Climate Deal Withdrawal with Collective Dismay, Determination.
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said there could be “no backsliding” on the deal. Excuse me for pointing out the obvious, but “backsliding” just occurred.
Trump stated, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” In response the mayor of Pittsburgh Tweeted:
As the Mayor of Pittsburgh, I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy & future. https://t.co/3znXGTcd8C
— bill peduto (@billpeduto) June 1, 2017
Make Our Planet Great Again
In a TV broadcast both in French and English, French President Emanuel Macron told climate defenders to “make our planet great again.”
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— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 1, 2017
Arnold Schwarzenegger Delivers Video
BREAKING: Arnold Schwarzenegger has a blunt message for Donald Trump. #ParisAgreement pic.twitter.com/YI8fcxEeox
— ATTN: (@attn) June 2, 2017
Loyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO Chimed In
Today's decision is a setback for the environment and for the U.S.'s leadership position in the world. #ParisAgreement
— Lloyd Blankfein (@lloydblankfein) June 1, 2017
Allegedly, that was the first ever Tweet by Blankfein.
US Rivals Fear Uneven Competitive Field
The Wall Street Journal reports With U.S. Firms Freed of Paris Accord, Rivals Fear Uneven Competitive Field.
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The WSJ also states “Others say they see a risk that American firms may end up missing out on opportunities created by governments trying to get a handle on climate change.”
The Carbon Disclosure Project, a London research group that pushes for consistent emissions disclosure from companies, said that Mr. Trump’s decision opens the door for businesses and other world leaders “to act in order to protect their assets.”
The group warned that the U.S. may end up suffering competitively by pulling out, by leaving on the table billions of dollars in cost savings the group says is associated with climate-change reduction. Lance Pierce, president of the CDP in North America, said that 190 of the U.S.’s Fortune 500 companies have already saved $3.7 billion a year by focusing on climate-change-reduction measures like energy efficiency.
Unilever PLC Chief Executive Paul Polman, a longtime advocate of the commercial benefits of corporate sustainability efforts, said U.S. companies might miss out when it comes to new growth opportunities as governments accelerate their efforts to reduce emissions to meet the accord’s aspirations.
Tech Companies React
Supply Chain reports Technology Companies React to Trump’s Decision to Withdraw From Paris Climate Agreement.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Disappointed with today’s decision. Google will keep working hard for a cleaner, more prosperous future for all.
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) June 1, 2017
Apple CEO Tim Cook
Decision to withdraw from the #ParisAgreeement was wrong for our planet. Apple is committed to fight climate change and we will never waver.
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 2, 2017
“Withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement is bad for the environment, bad for the economy, and it puts our children’s future at risk. For our part, we’ve committed that every new data center we build will be powered by 100% renewable energy.
Stopping climate change is something we can only do as a global community, and we have to act together before it’s too late.”
Momentous Implications
The fearmongers at Climate Interactive on the U.S. Role in the Paris Agreement state the “implications of this decision will be momentous for the US and for the world.”
“The world would warm an additional 0.3°C (about one-half a degree Fahrenheit) by 2100,” according to the report.
Momentous Math
0.3°C over 82 years is .003658536 degrees a year. Donald Trump will likely be gone in 4 years, but let’s assume 8 years.
If Trump lasts 8 yrs, the temp will rise by .029°C. Mercy! Can the earth survive? Is mass hysteria ever right?https://t.co/M6KhZaNDMH pic.twitter.com/OdYkwHVviK
— Mike Mish Shedlock (@MishGEA) June 2, 2017
Mercy!
Can the earth take it?
This is all so stupid, it’s hard to know where to start, but here is my checklist.
Models cannot possibly predict anything to this degree of accuracy.
The shift to driverless vehicles alone will likely do far more for emission reductions than has been factored in.
The earth has gone through major cooling and heating cycles over hundreds of millions of years.
Attempts to predict the next 100 years are far beyond absurd.
The global warming fearmongers have changed their models and doctored the data so many times, no one in their right mind should accept any of their predictions.
For the record, I am in favor of reduced pollutants, especially from coal, for health reasons, not global warming. The focus on CO2 is a joke.
In case you disagree, I leave you with one final question: When has such mass hysteria ever been right?
212 thoughts on “Global Warming Hysteria Over Trump: When has Mass Hysteria Ever Been Right?”
Lots of money off the table now.
The Gallowglaich said:
Yes. It is about saving money and about helping Exxon, The Kochs and Russia. Perfectly understandable.
Dr. Strangepork said:
Actually, no. It is about the fact that most people don’t know the difference between government and society. Read the twitter posts again…Companies are going to continue to seek more efficient energy plans and continue to seek more efficient waste management and production means. This is the correct way.
But why are they doing so? Because it makes a great deal of economic sense for them. Efficiency can lead both to cost side savings and production side value when done right.
What is needed is not law and crony redistribution of taxpayer wealth–which is all the Paris thing is–but for companies and even cities to make decisions.
True liberty thrives where decisions are local. Corruption thrives where decisions are centralized. Liberty leads to wealth and wealth leads to a cleaner environment. Corruption leads to poverty which leads to Detroit or the Leipzig brown field.
Dr. Strangepork I do believe you have a point. So far I haven’t heard Trump say anything that would inhibit any of the crybabies from using their own money and initiative improve emissions of any sort they wish.
No Ob Wan Kenobe said:
Trump not participating with the Paris Accord was the right thing to do. He did it for the wrong reason, however. He made the decision based on renegotiating the terms in the future, not based on principle, i.e. that AGW and the long term effects have not been proven. I suspect he will capitulate and agree to something to appease the leftists and the heads of states.
ejhr2015 said:
The Paris Agreement is a dud already. From way before trump spoke
https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2017/06/01/the-paris-climate-agreements-failure-was-structurally-inevitable/
And again;
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/11/why-the-paris-climate-deal-is-meaningless-000326
Rebel yell said:
Hopefully pulling out of the Paris Agreement will r result in political climate change! These self important CEOs and politicians have led us down the wrong road every time without fail. The crazy thing is, the Paris Agreement if enacted may reduce US greenhouse gas emissions, which are currently at 15.6% of all global emissions, but would legitimize and legislate the increase of global greenhouse gas emissions! China is currently the largest polluter which emits 22.9% of global greenhouse gas emissions and the Paris Agreement will let them continue increasing emissions without punishment!
The Paris Agreement legislates the increased greenhouse gas emissions by allowing the 107 countries that it has deems in development to continue increasing their greenhouse gas emissions. China and India are included in the developing countries list.
The 42 developed nations, of which America is included in, would pay fines to a global governing body for not reducing their carbon emissions by 80% by 2050, which would transfer wealth to developing nations and also requires developing nations to finance the transition to renewable energy in developing nations, prior to transitioning to 100% renewable energy in our own country.
We can state with 100% certainty that we are unable to rely on our government and global institutions to tell us the truth. The almost 100% of our representatives and senators don’t even bother reading the legislation. They have admitted this. It is every Americans civic responsibility to read the legislation put forth by our government and global institutions such as the UN, IMF, WTO, and World Bank.
UN list of 107 developing 107 developing countries and 42 developed countries:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_current/2012country_class.pdf
https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09.pdf
http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions
Correction it requires developed nations to finance the transition in developing nations.
In full disclosure, I was a republican who abandoned the RNC after TARP, voted for Nader in ’08, Stein in ’12, campaigned independently for Bernie in ’16 and voted for Trump in the general election.
You’d probably be shocked how many Democrats voted for Trump.
The last time the government was in charge of climate change legislation we got the farm lobby ethanol mandate bill. Higher food costs and no CO2 reduction. Worthless PITA. Google, Apple, and Facebook will do a much better job of it.
The Permanent Weekend said:
I love your blog but feel you are missing the boat with regards to climate change. I guess some choose to follow science when it’s convenient. You would have been in the earth is flat camp back in the day.
OutOfNowhere said:
99 percent of the climate fearmongers do not even know that only a few thousands years ago the climate on Earth was way, way warmer than today. These idiots like to use the word ‘science’ but are completely ignorant of what hides behind it.
Actually, it’s because of climate scientists that we even know this factoid, and none of them are drawing the same conclusion.
Noah Boshi said:
Ha! good one. The like climate science when it proves their world view.
99 percent of the climate fearmongers think that CO2 is a pollutant. Brainwashed by CNN, MSLGBT, ect.
And Trump is tricking the right wing like Penn and Teller tricks the left, so what? All you proved is that people, like yourself, can be conned.
I’m conned?
Eyedoc said:
Just proves that gullibility knows no bounds and the left is way more guilty of it by far.
Charlie O said:
Guess you must have missed Mish’s point 5 above. Sums up your so-called “science” nicely.
Root Hog or Die said:
The Cubs couldn’t have played in Chicago 10,000 years ago because it was under a mile-thick glacier. It’s gone now so I am assuming that global warming made it disappear. There weren’t enough people to cause it so I’m assuming that the earth warmed for other reasons. Global warming means increased agricultural production among other things so I’m looking forward to more tomatoes per year and Monsanto is looking forward to more corn and soybean profits. In my view, if global warmers are so worried about sea-level rise, the sooner it happens the better. Otherwise, there will only be more people to relocate later on. The “science” of global warming is about controlling the masses, period. Whatever is going to happen will happen, we humans can’t do but very little one way or the other. Temperatures have been cycling since the earth’s crust cooled billions of years ago. If the earth is in a warming phase now, I say, bring it on!
Cubs win third World Series in 10,000 years.
@permanent weekend — where is this “science” you insist on quoting (without any source)?
If you ever pull your head out of Al Gore’s rear end, you might notice how often the local weather forecast is wrong … really wrong.
What kind of idiot puts faith in an unproven (and unprovable) **MODEL** of global temps 100 years from now, when the experts can’t even get the local forecast correct a few days in advance?
If you even took a science class in your life, where is the control for your so called experiment?
US companies can (and should) try to limit / eliminate pollutants. Better / smarter irrigation would be great. More efficient machines / engines are a good thing.
But taxing everything to fund expensive boondoggles for unelected bureacrats? WTF? Why do you hate your fellow Americans so much that you will put Americans out of work so you can hire some more useless unelected bureaucrats?
Paris accord (never ratified by Congress, so was never binding anyway) is about destroying US jobs. Its not even about the environment.
The unelected bureaucrats know that stupid people in the US won’t read beyond the headlines. It has the word “climate” in the title, and that is as much thinking as you can handle?
This is so ignorant and bogus. Weather is produced by the interaction of chaotic systems. That does not mean there are not trends. Winter follows summer, no matter how haywire the weather can act locally and temporarily. Putting more cars on the roads will lead to more traffic jams, even if you can’t predict in advance where and when those traffic jams will occur. Warmer oceans (which can be measured) will add energy and water to the atmosphere and weather patterns will shift.
Seriously MISH … you have a group of these Soros trolls that comment on here and just write absolute crap. Its one thing to have a debate on subjects (its a good thing), but it really lowers the intelligence level of your blog when you allow these Soros agents to constantly parrot bullshit.
Its your blog Mish, you should want to protect it
justaned said:
Actually, it runs in cycles. There are scientists who don’t believe in the AGW hypothesis. The guy who runs the UAH satellite data series is one of them. The IPCC itself says that the period of similar warming experienced between about 1880 (end of the little ice age) and 1940 was natural. This was followed by a 40 year cooling trend. we’ve only had planet-wide reasonably accurate temperature readings for 35 years; and the satellite readings are not surface readings, but atmospheric. We still don’t have full planetary land surface coverage, and ocean coverage is even worse. Since the 1880’s we’ve seen an increase in AVERAGE planetary temps of roughly 3 degrees Fahrenheit. This is conceding that the concept of an AVERAGE planetary temperature even has real meaning; which is itself debatable.
No one bothers to mention that in geologic terms we are still in an ice age (not glacial episode, but ice age) as we have permanent ice caps at both poles. Nor is it reported that both Greenland and Antarctica have both increased ice mass in the past decade. We are in an inter-glacial period of the Holocene ice age, which started roughly 2 million years ago. This inter-glacial is already about 10,000 years old, with prior inter-glacials lasting anywhere from 7 to 15,000 years. Peak temperatures for the current period are estimated to have occurred about 5,000 years ago.
The current fears are driven (or so I believe, anyway), by a combination of ego, group-think, and turf protection; aided by ideology and a messiah complex of some top climatologists.
One lart point. If CO2 is the driver, this implies that heating on the ground should be caused by a warming atmosphere. There is no evidence for this, though. A major prediction of AGW theory is that a hotspot would develop in the tropical Troposphere. We still don’t see that.
You are better informed than most here, but the ice sheets have lost mass, so say the grace satellites and other measures of mass. The total mass is hard to estimate, but recent data is rather more accurate and shows the oppositie trend to what you are saying. There is a hotspot at around 12km. The warming trend is 70-80% higher (0.25°C per decade versus 0.14°C at the surface). The hotspot is at the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere and is fluid, somewhat changeable with conditions, and varies (a lot) with latitude).
There are a number of markers for human-caused CO² as opposed to variation in the natural carbon cycle, and all have been discovered and reconfirmed by many parties: 1. Carbon isotopes; 2. Faster night than day time warming; 3. Faster warming at the tropopause.
Didn’t those vaunted climate models fail to predict the recent 17 year warming hiatus? Even though CO2 went up? And you expect them to be accurate for the rest of the century?
This is nothing more than a cover for getting control of the world economy. A ploy by the God Complexers to gain control of 70+ trillion dollars.
Liberal control freaks have no other way of doing it except this since their economics is an abysmal failure. They have almost reached their end.
The global warming models failed to predict the 17 year hiatus for the exact same reason the Fed’s economic models failed to predict every single recession since the Fed was created.
They are political models, not science.
There is no hiatus, that is just cherry picking dates to compare. The trend is warming since 1998.
Of coarse there was a hiatus. Dr. Jones at one point said, “where’s the warming?”
Lawrence Larson said:
We have terrestrial temperature records for about 150 years. The Earth is 4 billion years old. Just once I’d like a climate ninny to explain how they know that the climate of the last 150 years is the Earth’s optimal climate. Let’s dispense with the arguments over how all the temperature data sets have been corrupted by ‘scientists’ editing the raw data. Let’s ignore how ‘scientists’ have refused to reveal their methodologies. Let’s ignore that the ‘peer review’ process has been corrupted to exclude any scientist who is not on board with catastrophic climate change. Let’s ignore the fact that the climate models are designed to produce a hockey stick regardless of the inputs because they use unproven, highly debatable factors for system feedbacks. Let’s ignore the question of whether CO2 is a lagging or leading factor in warming (hint: CO2 levels were 10x higher in the past and lagged the temperature rise). Let’s ignore the fact that climate change is now a $1.5 TRILLION dollar / year business–dwarfing by a factor of 100x the amount of money spent by the carbon energy extraction industry–and yet we’re supposed to believe that all the government grants to researchers is not a rice bowl issue for these pure, altruistic people.
Climate has been changing for billions of years. Man made no appreciable contribution to climate change until 150 years ago. Man’s percentage contribution to change since record-keeping began is unknown. That much we know–and not much else.
Joseph Iozzo said:
Global warming reports are inaccurate. Current reports do not contain any data of heat reflected to the atmosphere from the mass amount of solar panels, glass buildings, roads,etc. that act like mirrors and magnifying glass. Carbon created from so called green electric cars needing massive batteries, and all other batteries that inefficiently use fossil fuel to to charge and redistribute gas, coal, oil and other blamed fuels that without these fuels there would be no batteries. These false reports are engineered and used by political bully groups, G7,g20 etc, to impose various carbon TAXES and so called green companies and organizations for profit. These groups are Ignorant or purposely producing misleading climatic lopsided reports.
I can go on & and on about these government paid hyped reports that use bios so called scientist that need to go back to school and not pick and chose the data they like.
I’m guessing none of you are actually scientist but I guess it’s fun to play one in real life. 😉
Phil R said:
Rare commenter and know you weren’t (aren’t) a big Trump fan, but this is spot-on. Can disagree with Trump on many issues, but his actions on the Paris Agreement and your summary are absolutely correct.
If Trump does nothing else ……. withdrawing from the Paris Accord, nominating Neil Gorsuch and keeping Hillary out of office ……. I have gotten all that I could ask for with my vote for Trump.
Dr J said:
themonosynaptic said:
When has mass hysteria ever been right?
Well probably during the days of the Black Plague, and the Spanish Flu, two name two. Probably when the Mongol Army had your city surrounded, just for another.
Of course this is just a pejorative question to make people who have actually read the science and talked to climate scientists stay away from this board or decline to comment because there are a lot of climate deniers around here.
I like your financial market observations Mish, but some of your conspiracy theories (I could have been pejorative and said “tin foil hat stuff” but didn’t, see how that works?) make me double check a lot of your financial ideas and propositions and I never feel 100% comfortable.
I guess you have to choose – is this the “Whole Mish” blog, or the “Financial Markets Mish” blog.
I’d vote for the latter.
I’ve “read the science” too. What is the science of “climate change”? seems the “mass hysteria” is all on the warmist/believer side. Michael Moore’s head is exploding now. You want to commit billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to a fr*udulent cause that he supports?
There is no science in this debate. Its 100% politics and taxes and wealth re-distribution by socialist thugs.
Any real science experiment would have to have a control to establish causality — there is no control here.
Real scientists are already embarrassed that they screamed hysterically in 1970s about the start of a mini ice age — writing endless reports and warnings sponsored by the UN (unelected bureaucrats).
Real scientists know the weekend forecast has an enormous error term, and any forecast for 100 years from now has an error term that dwarfs the base measurement. Any real scientist would have to admit the global warming forecast is +3 degrees +/- 15 degrees (at least).
As we discuss on this blog often, economic models developed by expert PhD’s are (ahem) often less accurate than flipping a coin. Now imagine trying to estimate economic “cost savings” 100 years from now, based on a weather forecast that is usually wrong even for shorter time periods.
This isn’t about science. This is corrupt socialists taking advantage of people who don’t or can’t read beyond headlines (the same scam victims who paid $100K per year for safe spaces and gender normative studies at “college”)
Could the Paris Accord supporters please comment on what they think science is.
I want to see the basis of your beliefs.
Search potholer54 on youtube for a fun high level intro, then read the peer reviewed papers cited in the credits. That will act as a starter.
I want to see what YOU think the Scientific Method is.
Daniel Bartsch said:
The so called scientific method is probably an invention of the government public school system that has been instituted for the purpose of turning inquiring minds into controllable cogs. Getting utility out of information probably has more with being able to weigh information under various states of emotions and being aware of what the emotions are than by using the state manufactured so called “scientific method”. For a look at the so called “scientific method” look in a dozen or so textbooks. I reviewed science textbooks to compare versions.
Did Einstein check off his mental process according to a list of “scientific method” steps? I doubt it.
Having just one or just a few states of mind “emotions” most of the time is an indication that an individual might come to biased conclusions.
Susan David has books and media on emotional agility and a book by the same name. Weigh concepts and variables while under the influence of various emotions and see what happens.
Climate science is about basic physics and chemistry. The jet stream was discovered by the Air Force in WW2 in the war against Japan. The Air Force applies such basic physics to make heat-seeking missiles which aren’t blinded by CO² absorbing radiation in certain spectra.
You are a limp dick socialist, and don’t deserve the respect that I would give a real human being.
@webej: Fully half of the CO2 absorption spectra (if not more) is also absorbed by water vapor; which is a far more geo-effective “greenhouse” gas due to it being far more than just a trace gas. I would also point out that whether the affect is to retain heat or reduce heat depends on just where in the atmosphere it is.
Clouds reflect heat, but far less than water vapour absorbs it. You are right, water vapour is a much more potent green house gas than CO², and having a little more CO² produces warming which puts a lot more water vapour in the atmosphere, amplifying the effect. At lower altitudes it is true that most (not all) wavelengths at which CO² absorbs radiation are saturated by water vapour, but not further up in the atmospheric column where there is little water vapour. This point was something that was a current issue in climate science around the turn of the century (before WW1).
“CO² produces warming which puts a lot more water vapour in the atmosphere, amplifying the effect.”
Yet California was supposed to be under a permanent drought.
Under a super El Nino there was supposed to be exceptional rain, yet there wasn’t, except way to the north. This last winter, which was a non El Nino year, L.A. got above average rainfall, which tends not to happen in non El Nino years and northern California had exceptional record rainfall. Climate did what it wanted to do, not what it was predicted to do.
After Katrina, the 2005 hurricane season was supposed to become the norm. Climate decided not to cooperate. There has not been a CAT3 or higher hurricane to hit the U.S. in a record 11 years and counting.
Tornado activity has dropped off as well, despite the claim that climate change causes extreme weather. But Warren Buffett has not raised his insurance rates, as there hasn’t been an upsurge in weather related damage.
Blacklisted said:
A little perspective, PLEASE – https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/noaa-continues-to-try-to-justify-its-criminal-activity/
Why is there no dispute that there is a 300 year Sun cycle? Where is the evidence and do you have any peer reviewed papers you can point to?
Also the Greenland chart – well Richard Alley was asked about that, and there were a couple of errors in the way this was presented that he’d like you (and your blogger) to know about:
1. Present: isn’t 2000, it is 1950
2. Present is the 1950 core reading, it takes about 100 years for snow to turn to ice, so this is in fact the reading from around 1855, and there has been a 1.4C climb since then to 2009 in the same area as the GISP samples.
You really need to dig in to these charts and read the papers behind them, and the follow up questions, etc. There are a lot of people motivated for reasons beyond me who are either inept or deliberately misleading in the climate arena.
But kudos for posting at least a reference.
Here is a corrected version of the Greenland GISP chart:
If that is a correct chart, we are at the lower portion of the temperature scale, which means that the current temperature is below average for that 10,000 year period. Temperature still needs to rise, just to get back to average, let alone above average.
Notice also that the temperature plot constantly zig zags up and down.
Climate is ALWAYS in the process of changing.
Nobody says that the climate is static. This is a red herring played out by the denier community. But you already know that and don’t want to believe the evidence.
The other graph in this article is the RSS feed that purportedly shows a “hiatus”. This is one measure modeled from the feed from a series of satellites. The UAH data use the same feed and their model is significantly different from RSS (remember this is like two people looking at the same thermometer and recording different values, but a lot more complex because they need a model to transcribe a series of readings into a resultant temperature). Just for fun, the satellites themselves disagree and need overlapping series to calibrate the next satellite from the last (they have a limited lifespan). They also switch from MSUs to AMSUs, have to correct for diurnal drift (UAH and RSS use different methods to compensate for this drift) and there is no way to calibrate the MSUs or AMSUs after they are launched (you can’t just send a repair man).
So every time you see somebody base their whole climate analysis only on RSS you know two things:
1. They cherry picked RSS because it is the closest to the end result they want to get to
2. They place far too much trust in a very complex model that already differs from another model that uses the exact same data
@themonosynaptic
And you put your faith in complex models based on incomplete information that cover a century?
I just gotta laugh.
Not really – the climate forcing model is pretty simple. You just don’t want to believe the evidence because Algore Liberals Hillary Obama Point-headed East Coasters, etc.
You live in your silly bubble, I’ll live in reality 🙂
Reality says that climate has always been changing and those who says that global warming of 2-3 Celsius degrees would be a disaster, is a sheer idiot. How do you know that today’s climate is best for mankind? Did you ever think of a huge landmass in Canada, Russia that would be available for agriculture because of global warming? All this climate fearmongering is nothing but alarmism, most stupid I’ve ever seen.
Er… apparently left comment before TPW’s comment showed up. Since “Climate Change” is a political and ideological policy to redistribute wealth from rich countries to poor countries and has nothing to do with science, the comment makes no sense.
Perhaps some would believe climate change if the scammers were not trying to use it to skim other people’s tax dollars. If the climate accord was such a good thing Obama would not have had to implement it by executive order. In my book this was the right move. Best indicator that this is the right move is all the grifters complaining.
Mox Nix said:
So let me get this straight. If the article is correct, now “the U.S. may end up suffering competitively by pulling out, by leaving on the table billions of dollars in cost savings the group says is associated with climate-change reduction.”
OK I thought that companies DO act in their own interest, and would LIKE to save big money. Unless of course the ‘cost savings’ means that the companies’ products are not slapped with a penalty for not following other countries rules.
Question: Has the Paris treaty ever been ratified in the USA? Is it the law of the USA? Of any country? Or is it just an agreement framework for now? Is China, the world’s biggest polluter part of this ‘agreement’? Is India? You know, they’ve been known to pollute a bit as well.
(1) The Paris accord was NEVER ratified. It never even went up for a vote. To give context, the other wealth distribution scam masquerading under climate change was the Kyoto accord, which was defeated in the US Senate 99-0 (one absent). Every single Senator present (both parties) shot the stupid thing down.
That is why the socialist Obama agreed to the deal PERSONALLY, not as president — because the president is not authorized to ratify a treaty. It must be ratified (or not) by the Senate.
Obama hates America, and wants to implement George Soros’ global socialist government. Good riddance to a horrible man.
(2) China signed on to the accord (or one government rep did anyway). Again, never ratified in the People’s Congress — although I don’t know if Chinese law requires it or not.
China has a pollution problem, as they admitted during the Beijing olypmics. China agreed to clean up their pollution problem — because it is in their self interest to do so.
China has zero CO2 obligations under the Paris accord — which is just more evidence that the accord is about stealing wealth from “rich western” nations (eg the USA) and transferring wealth to socialist countries.
If the accord was about the environment, China would have a lot of obligations — they have none. Instead, China is going to do what is in their own self interest
(3) India has few actual obligations under the paris accord — nothing to do with CO2. India is supposed to clean up the Ganges River and tributaries that feed into it — something they have to work on with or without the paris accord.
In short, no emerging economies face any obligations under Obama’s stupid agreement. They are supposed to “work on” things they were going to work on anyway. The unelected EU gets to claim their endless regulations are mandated by a different unelected body.
Meanwhile the USA gets a stiff bill, plus loses a lot of jobs. The pseudo-science is unproven, and unprovable (show us the control for this experiment or shut up). Even if global warming has more validity than the ice age the same “scientists” screamed about in 1970s — the economic models are beyond flimsy.
Think about Fed economic models. Now think about the weekend weather forecast. Now imagine the Fed building an economic model on top of a weather forecast 100 years into the future.
Only an insane person, or someone who absolutely HATES America, would have signed off on the paris accord.
Meanwhile, US companies were and still are completely free to innovate on pollution controls — they don’t need permission from unelected bureaucrats in a foreign country
Kiron said:
Medex Man,
I would add that China has a lot to gain from the Paris Accord.
1. They have fought to be considered a developing nation (and not an industrialized one). That gets them off the hook until 2030 (or 2035) during which time they can produce as much CO2 as they want.
2. They look good. They can cancel coal plants (that were not needed because they planned too many) and look like environmental rock stars.
3. The production of solar and wind facilities is carbon and energy intensive. They have created an industry to supply the first world with renewable energy systems at prices which have bankrupted companies in those countries. Recent examples are solar companies in the US and Germany.
4. They gain an economic advantage by being able to use cheaper energy without paying carbon taxes. Also, countries that move to higher concentrations of renewables have high energy costs and an unreliable supply. Australia’s mining and refining sector is threatening to pull out and European companies are being forced to move off-shore.
5. By ensuring that other countries shut down coal-burning facilities, they get a bigger portion of the world’s supply and at a better price.
6. By being classed as “developing” they get a piece of the annual $100 billion (or $4 or $6 trillion). They have been asking for their money.
In other news, their leader has said that not all climate scientists agree, and the situation might not be as dire as some say.
Actually, taking into account past history of fossil-fuel burning, the USA and the UK are bigger polluters than China to date,
Mor0n!
mega mike said:
The U.S. can’t quit the Paris climate agreement, because it never actually joined
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/01/the-u-s-cant-quit-the-paris-climate-agreement-because-it-never-actually-joined/?utm_term=.70b91553a6b5
John Gardner said:
If the U.S. didn’t join the Paris Agreement, were the $$ that Obama sent to the UNFCCC (or whatever) just before the end of his Presidency legal? If not, should Obama be called to account?
wrong question re mass hysteria. either fore or against . wrong question which leads lesser minds into a non discussion of value.
this smells like a “hey look over here” at climate change and forget the man behind the curtain….ie, Russia gate. well at least a respected version of diversion…but still a diversion.
I see it for what it is. yawn
who knows the definition of climate change? we do know we have been pumping carcinogens out of the earth(oil)(uranium) (coal) etc, making plastic to beat hell , dumping it in the land and waterways and dumping chrome by products, etc in the great lakes ponds and stream…and many more places.
in short pollution.
but we like to have our own car so we look the other way, heat or cool to our comfort and hope the truth doesn’t exist.
I think that is called denial. or stupidity or death wish.
this whole thing is so laced with emotion it misses the whole point
I think taking a side on this issues misses the point of intellectual thought. any time there are only 2 answers, that is black and white thinking ….which is less than intelligent thinking.
but it sells newspapers
You realize, I hope, that nitrosamines are carcinogens produced by the human digestive system. Hey, no matter, we just HAVE to eat those veggies. 🙂
Every time a socialist manages to force Europeans to shut down oil and coal plants, and shut down nuclear plants — it invariably means Europe has to buy a lot more Russian natural gas.
All the GE wind turbines that were installed with great fanfare (and tax subsidies) power less than 15% of Germany’s energy needs — and we all know German industry is what makes the EU possible. Germany might be a world leader in “renewable” bird killing machines, but given the poor economics that isn’t saying much at all.
Russia now controls western Europe, and we have France’s Hollande and Germany’s Merkel to thank. If the EU headquarters want to run their A/C, heating, document printers, or just turn on the lights — they use Russian natural gas to generate the electricity.
Western Europe shifting to cleaner burning Russian natural gas means that western Europe has made itself into a giant Gazprom annuity. And it wasn’t even Putin’s doing (something I imagine he laughs about all the time!). Western Europe surrendered to Gazprom without a fight, they even helped finance the north pipeline!
Put that in your Russian conspiracy theory file Beth. Merkel and Hollande (with Obama’s full approval) turned western Europe into a Gazprom annuity.
“we have been pumping carcinogens out of the earth(oil)(uranium) (coal)”
You forgot to mention when you prepare food. Such as charred, smoked or fried foods. Search PAHs in cooking. Thanksgiving day meal is a disaster.
Or that that possibly as many as 15,000 particles pass through your body every second.
See the picture below, read and question.
Ask questions – https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/18/ipcc-official-%E2%80%9Cclimate-policy-is-redistributing-the-worlds-wealth%E2%80%9D/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBO0RARXkAAO-mu?format=jpg
There is fear that anyone not signing up will gain a competitive advantage and that must not be allowed under any circumstances.
Mantra is: “We don’t want a race to the bottom”.
Question I have is simple.
If the economics of renewable are so go won’t they be adopted anyway?
If so, how can there be a race to the bottom as the impetus will be to adopt.
Keep hearing about the cost savings they offer.
Are they BS’ing about the savings?
There are a lot of savings (not to mention PR brownie points) to limiting pollution — which is why companies started building smoke stacks long before the socialists started building the EPA.
Smoke stacks were/are far from ideal pollution controls, but they were “state of the art” back when the private sector started building them — decades before the socialists at the EPA used quack science to raise more and more taxes to benefit themselves.
Pollution control makes sense in Beijing and in Pittsburgh — even though they don’t agree on a government system or food preferences or language.
Fake CO2 arguments are about tyrannical socialists taxing everyone under the false belief that they know better than everyone else — and they are going to eat 5 star catered meals (at taxpayer expense) behind a massive security screen (paid for by taxpayers also) while they arrogantly decide what is best for the people who did not vote for them.
The paris dictatorship tax accord is proof that Obama hates America. End of story. Good riddance to a horrible president and a horrible man who never liked the country that gave him opportunity.
Show me a government bureaucrat and I will show you a parasite.
No one has a job by professing how unnecessary they are.
Government is the ultimate scaremongering machine and it creates a LOT of jobs, most busily plugging holes in the dam that others were paid to drill.
If this was all harmless (which it is NOT) it would be one thing, but given it is an overhead burden that society must carry on its back, it is no different that slaves mining gold for their emperors vault while also paying for the guards to whip them to make sure they do so “efficiently”.
The climate always changes with great changes in time. Over 10,000 years ago the Earth was covered with more glaciers. Obviously the Earth is warmer because most of the glaciers in the past have melted. We are obviously in a time of global warming. But the Earth goes through times of warmer climate and glacial ages because the Earth has cycles of global warming and global cooling. We are in a natural global warming period which has nothing to do with carbon dioxide global warming lies. Carbon dioxide is 0.04 % of the Earth’s atmosphere which is a very small percent of the atmosphere. Milutin Milankovitch described the changes in the Earth’s tilt and changes in weather . “Today, the Earth’s axis is tilted 23.5 degrees from the plane of its orbit around the sun. But this tilt changes. During a cycle that averages about 40,000 years, the tilt of the axis varies between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees. Because this tilt changes, the seasons as we know them can become exaggerated.” This is the cause of global warming and global cooling, just as the Earth warms in the summer and cools in the winter due to the position of the tilt of the Earth in relation to the sun. The summer is not caused by increased carbon dioxide just as the winter is not caused by decrease of carbon dioxide.
Do you think that climate scientists have not taken into account Milankovitch cycles? Or the Sun? Or other drivers of climate? You are either saying that you understand science better than the climate scientists, or that the climate scientists are deliberately lying about their findings.
Disregard these questions, I’ve had enough of science deniers, I just wish Mish wasn’t one.
I wish Mish would grow a pair and ban you from commenting. You really are a loser
If he does, he does. Frankly, I’ll still read his blog for the financial insights. Interesting to see you don’t like free speech however.
Commenter J has revealed the degree to which he (mis)understands climate science. You’d think people would take the trouble of reading up a little before they decide they’re more clever than physicists and astronomers. By the way, in terms of Milankovitch cycles the climate should now be gradually cooling, not quickly warming.
Since you apparently can’t explain even the basics of “climate change” or define what constitutes a “climate scientist”, then yes, I think I do understand science better than climate scientists, and I think there is ample evidence (scientific term you may not be familiar with) that many (note, not all) are deliberately lying about their findings. The rest are just riding the gravy train.
We cite consensus when we lack FACTS. Consensus is the weapon used to convince us that what is NOT true actually IS. We see this in polling where questions are formulated to generate the desired answers that are in turn used to claim consensus. Note how policy is driven by polling and not actual votes.
This is for themonosynaptic:
Climate science is an interdisciplinary science. It includes atmospheric science, ocean science, biology, geology and branches of mathematics. It is difficult to have a deep knowledge of each field and keep track of advances in each one. There are many drivers of climate. Some are reasonably well understood and others are poorly understood. And by poorly understood, I mean that they don’t fully understand mechanisms or they don’t have good measurements that define the mathematical relationships.
Many of the climate models use similar assumptions. For example. they assume that the sun’s influence on climate is a constant and that ocean cycles have limited effect. There are many other simplifications. You need to simplify when producing complex models and it is difficult to do so without changing how the models work. There is some exciting science being done that is improving our understanding of some of the climate drivers–the effect of cosmic rays and cloud seeding being one of them. Being open to some of the new discoveries in science that challenge the assumptions of climate models, isn’t “denying” science. It is being open to discovery, which is science at its best. There will be a day when our models are much improved. Until then it is appropriate to question model projections that are out of line with current observations.
Many climate projections aren’t particularly alarming, and there are models (yes–by real scientists) that predict a period of cooling. There are those with vested interests who insist that we need to spend $100 billion, or $4 trillion, or $6 trillion a year (depending on who you ask) to avert certain catastrophe. When that kind of money is involved there should be more accountability than is now given about the assumptions being made, levels of uncertainty, where the money has gone and what it has accomplished.
BTW I have a PhD in Engineering and have worked with unsteady-state non-linear predictive models. I wish people who blindly rail against climate skeptics would take the time to understand some of the science they are looking at rather than mindlessly calling them science deniers.
Al Gore proposed spending $90 trillion to eliminate cars.
I should have referenced this
https://mishtalk.com/2016/12/08/global-warm-ongering-what-happens-if-trump-takes-us-out-of-paris-agreement/
Important clarification:
Al Gore proposed spending $90 trillion of OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY on his political opinion. Not is own money; other people’s money. And he further proposed that those other people should get no say in the matter.
Never trust a chef that refuses to eat his own cooking.
Write a paper documenting your claims with supporting points, submit it to a respected peer reviewed climate journal. If you are right and everybody else is wrong you’ll get a Nobel – no brainer.
Odd how all these experts litter comments around online boards instead of rigorously testing their ideas, isn’t it?
Cue theories claiming that the Journals are part of a giant conspiracy.
Nobel prizes are only won by extreme left wing academics, and sometimes extreme left wing politicians who spent 80 days in Congress and have yet to even warm the chair in the oval office.
People with jobs in the real world haven’t been considered for a Nobel prize in decades
If reducing co2 is critical, as quickly as possible, as cheaply as possible – why has the EU slapped tariffs on Chinese solar panels?
Shouldn’t they encourage the cheapest source of supply?
Hypocrits?
Thermosynaptic,
I am referring to peer reviewed science. I didn’t realized that for you I needed to be explicit. There is quality science being ignored in order to support a bias. Supporters of CAGW may also be ignorant about work being done in other fields. Ignorance and bias is as much of a problem in science as it is in other fields, even among smart people.
Peer review? You mean those people who are PAID for their opinions. Those people who only get funding if they are willing to pursue PROVING human caused climate change?
Please list the number of scientists who are paid to disprove it. When you do you will see a list of scientists who are disparaged for being in the pocket of industries like EXXON who strangely enough support the Paris accord.
This is a no win argument for the “deniers” as their science is dismissed because after all, it was funded by deniers, whereas those in support of climate change are pure as snow (yellow) because THEY are supported by government and PROGRESSIVE groups.
The whole conversation parallels our TRUMP scenario, where he can do things that the left has begged for and be murdered in the press for it….not for his policy choices but because he is evil, stupid, dangerous, insane……whatever. Policy, agenda, even MATH are dependent upon WHO is doing it.
Most avid climate change embracers rejected the Paris accord as ineffectual regarding CO2. They want a BETTER agreement. Trump ends it claiming he wants a BETTER, more fair agreement and they claim he is killing the planet, the children and ALL human progress. The Paris accord had virtually NO effect on climate except the massive wealth transfer to the rest of the world and handcuffs on domestic companies in competition. The large multinational corporations have no problem with wealth transfer as they can transfer those costs directly to the consumer and given competition is severely limited and their size affords them near monopolies, they have NOTHING to lose and everything to gain.
The rest of the world is appalled as they are seeing the profits under attack. America First means they are NOT. The nature of life on this planet has always been winners and losers and it is this battle, this competition, that makes us stronger, smarter and more sustainable. Surrender, suicide, take that evolution in reverse.
@ nosynaptic – wtf are we arguing here? Do you think in a comments section on economics we are going to resolve a piece of science? No. The problem that we are looking at is a global bureaucracy picking up one scientific viewpoint amongst several available, and forcefully applying a reaction to the conclusion of that viewpoint on society and the world. I deny them that route as stands, I don’t deny climate change as it is a given, but the results of the combined variables are beyond scientific conclusion, WITHOUT DOUBT. To even attempt the imposition you support you will have to come up with far stronger science than is available, and stop looking on society as idiot. Do you understand the negative that false or corrupt climate pursuit has on existing known environmental concerns? About the ONLY thing positive in all of this is that economy of scale was aided by legislation, BUT that would have occurred anyway and likely with far better detail if BUREAUCRACY had not ever sat on the sensible evolution of mankind’s adaptation to a cleaner and more efficient way of life.
You supporr the view that suits YOU. If you examined yourself honestly, you would understand WHY you choose that view. I am not here to listen to what a well meaning person you are, nor are many others who comment here.
Follow the money, not your emotions. I hate to burst your bubble, but many so-called scientist, academics, politicians, and many others will sell their souls to protect their lifestyles. Man would like to believe they can manipulate climate and business cycles. Fortunately, the cycles of the universe don’t give a damn about man’s self importance.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/noaa-continues-to-try-to-justify-its-criminal-activity/
No one likes pollution, and there are existing laws to combat violators. If we get rid of career politicians that are easy to bribe, the laws might get enforced.
Prosperity allows for a clean environment, which is why the poorest countries are the most polluted. Maximum prosperity comes with maximum freedom, which means the smallest govt. The globalist / Collectivist, that are in favor of Paris Con, want maximum govt.
The beauty of this is if the temperature falls they will claim success and if it rises they will declare crisis demanding even more draconian restrictions and TAXES.
Bill Nye, the Science Guy, recently said that if not for man, the current climate would be like it was in the 1,700’s. That makes Bill Nye, a science denier. It is false to assume Earth would be in the Little Ice Age, except for man pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Willy Nilly said:
There is no enforcement policy, no actual goals, no actual proof the “agreement” does anything except give a bunch of camera-hogging politicians an opportunity to congratulate each other. This much is acknowledged when the TV lights are turned off. There is no there there. So WTF exactly does acknowledging in public that the emperor has no clothes actually do that is sooooo bad outside of letting the deluded rubes who believed this POS agreement is “important” in on the secret that the emperor is naked? Well, maybe THAT is it, eh?
But if we comply, we pay and suffer. To NOT comply is to NOT agree to the commitments of the Paris Accord, which means we WITHDRAW, exactly what Trump said.
If we are to stay in and do NOTHING then how is that better that to demand a different and better deal?
Climate change is an emotional cause used to oppress OTHERS. ALL of these assholes pushing these themes are emitting massively more CO2 than the rest of us. Lets see a few of the butt-hurt assholes taking the train, or a commuter flight to Paris. MAYBE then, the rest of us MIGHT fall in with them. I believe in freedom and liberty and NOT force. If ideas have validity they should be led by EXAMPLE, not preaching, not force, not intimidation and denigration. I have heard of NONE of these people leading by example, not even in the smallest most transparent way. They are absolutely arrogant in their beliefs, much as the gold draped leader DEMANDS his subjects to sacrifice and submit for their deity. Wear rags among the people and maybe they will embrace, otherwise all you are left with is the religious zealots seeking to prove their superiority by crushing the infidels.
Love you Mish but you are in denial of 95 percent of scientists today and your own eyes. You are wrong and we are really destroying Mother Earth at unpresidential rate. Mish. our generation has destroyed 1/2 the animals on Earth so get with the facts. Cheers
That’s 97% of those scientist who self-identified as climate scientists and responded to one survey conducted by an Australian psychologist and a blogger. Considering only about 30% of those mailed the survey responded, I’d be careful about using that.
I should also point out that the Paris Accord wouldn’t have actually done anything except have signatories promise to strive for emissions reduction. OH, and provide money for bureaucrats.
LOTS and LOTS of money for corrupt bureaucrats.
How many tens of thousands of poor people in emerging countries could have been fed for a year on the food budget for the socialists gathered to “negotiate” taxes on people they don’t represent?
Without this tyrannical agreement between unelected socialists, companies are still free to innovate and implement pollution controls that make economic sense.
And western Europe can continue to shift to more and more clean burning Russian natural gas — Gazprom loves all the regulations the EU forces on European taxpayers!!!
Only a narcissist would believe they could destroy “mother earth”.
The “earth” has been destroying itself forever, and like it or not we humans are part of this planet, as much or more so than any other living thing. Simply retarded progressive thinking that ultimately asks us to seek our own destruction as the only means of saving “others”.
I’m beginning to think we have been secretly invaded by Martians, given we have a class of “people” among us who seemed dedicated to our demise. Look at who they are seeking to replace us with. Definitely not educated, definitely not the “progressive prototype”, so what gives? Seriously they will give preferential treatment to Muslims who mutilate women….the same people fighting everyday for women’s rights…like Kathy Griffin, flailing about a bloody president’s head while decrying oppressive “older white men”. You have to wonder if they EVER look at themselves. They are destroying humanity…civilization in the claims they are saving…or actually “advancing” our civilization. This requires far more DENIAL than any climate change denier could muster. The brainwashing is epic, almost to a hypnotic state where they are being induced by certain key words to harm themselves:
It looks just like when I whisper “SQUIRREL” to my dog just to see her reaction.
One hell of an omelette they are cooking, busily breaking lots of eggs.
Just the point Tim, climate change is a major distraction from dealing with so many other environmental problems – resources ARE limited.
Mark said:
Trump is right to remove the US from the Paris agreement.
There is very little scientific support for the AGW hypothesis. Many senior physicists and climate researchers reject the hypothesis.
AGW is interesting only as a case study in the manipulation of science, the manipulation of information dissemination, and in the phenomenon of the deliberate manufacture of a mass hysteria.
The costs of the Paris agreement far outweigh the benefit even if one believes in AGW. The costs are completely absurd if one looks at the data and draws the conclusion there is nothing to worry about in the first place.
If global warming is so directly related to CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, it is difficult to explain the twenty year pause in temperature increase. It is equally difficult to explain the increase in ice at the south pole, resulting a net equilibrium in ice at the poles.
It is laughable companies will leave “savings” on the table because the president backed out. Really?
Phil is a Soros paid troll. Nothing more
tony of ca said:
We have far larger problems than so-called global warming. I think a collapsing economy should take precedence.
You only say that because you don’t realize what a Canfield ocean would mean for the economy and the purchasing power of money.
Stuki Moi said:
But neither do you. Nor anyone else. Nor does anyone know whether the difference in fossil fuels burned, if restricted solely by extraction costs compared to some random Apparatchik Glorification Scheme like Paris; will cause a massive phase shift from unspoiled everything to the world morphing into battery acid. It’s all just wild speculation. At best. Purely imaginary hobgoblins, more realistically.
That’s not to say that “eco-awareness” is some bad thing. In general, there is a lot to be said for ancient rules of thumb about threading lightly and first doing no harm. Wantonly burning fuel just to flaunt one is a bigger hick than one has a dick, is unlikely to benefit anything. And much of CO2 reduction, does boil down to simply going about life in a more efficient and less invasive manner.
But there are other, much more insidious effects of the Western indoctrinati’s religious obsession with simple soda bubbles. Lots and lots of attempted CO2 reduction, ends up increasing emissions of much nastier stuff. Diesel particulates perhaps the most well known, right now. But DI gas engine particulates are starting to look less rosy as well. Ditto for interior climate in overtight and underventilated (to save on heating, hence CO2) buildings. Often trapping moisture transfer resulting in mold growth. In addition to basic offgassing from high R-value (insulation) building materials, due to less air circulation to dilute them.
Like everything else, while reducing CO2 emissions, all being equal, is probably laudable; all else is almost ever equal. There are always tradeoffs. And having the kind of self promoting yahoos that ladderclimb the highest in politics and bureaucracies make the tradeoffs for everyone else, is virtually guaranteed to lead to outcomes no less disastrous than back when the same cohort thought they understood what they, almost as fervently, believed was economic “science” well enough to plan others’ lives.
Instead of just letting people live and let live, as free people are supposed to. So that if some find their particular part of the globe has gotten too hot, they can move further from the equator. Or heck, barring that they can sit around and be boiled. Adding just one more way by which some decide to die, to the untold number of means already in popular use.
Rufus T Firefly said:
How exactly are driverless cars going to reduce carbon emissions? I might see it on an 18 wheeler because of a slightly reduced weight if there is no driver. But the vast majority are going to be transporting people to work, vacations, shopping etc while they play tic tac toe.
Whatever happened to the rainforest scare 30 years ago” dire consequences were suppose to happen in 20 years. Did they?
What happened to the “new” ice age that these very same global warming scientists warned the UN about in 1970s?
What happened to Al Gore’s ridiculous 3 degree temperature rise by the year 2005? The one where actual temps were 7 degrees COOLER than his bullshit model?
What happened to all the scientific evidence refuting global warming that the clown PhDs at Oxford omitted from their research publications? The quacks at Oxford got caught, but they still have their PhDs and are still accredited.
Global warming is about taxes and arrogant socialists dictating from their catered conferences.
Pollution is a real problem that companies try to solve whether socialists force them to or not (the companies, the shareholders and their customers do it because they want to — not because socialists force them)
Joyce said:
Using a term like “fearmongers” denigrates all the hard working scientists gathering data about our changing world. Those changes are happening now and calling it mass hysteria is disingenuous. Legitimate concern by those who study the reality of our effect on the planet’s climate is anything but hysteria. Scientists by nature are conservative and follow the data. The fact that they are so alarmed at what they are seeing should be a concern for us all. The data doesn’t lie. Major changes are happening whether or not you recognize them. Trump can put his head in the sand along with others of you, but it doesn’t change one iota what is in play here. I challenge those who deny that climate change is real to actually read the science – there’s plenty of it. Climate change is not a hoax, it is not hysteria, it is not fear mongering. It’s all too real. It is happening whether you “believe” in it or not. Are you a climate scientist? Do you study glaciers? Do you study the ocean? You get my drift. Then if not, it’s just opinion based on wishful thinking or propaganda from the oil industry and not actual fact. This is real, it’s occurring right in front of us and around us. It is the biggest issue facing us today. Ask the Inuit people who are watching permafrost melting or people living on islands who are increasingly inundated by the rising seas. Just because it isn’t happening in this moment to you, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. But why waste my breath on those who have already made up their minds void of actual fact? You pride yourselves on your financial acumen, why not use your intellect to investigate the climate data? Just saying.
Calling you socialists “scientists” is an insult
Go back to middle school and learn about establishing a baseline and having a control for your experiment. Until you have that, you are not a scientist at all.
Then stop telling everyone that the only solution to the problem YOU invented is higher taxes and bigger corruption.
You don’t deserve respect Ms PhD — you haven’t earned it, and you have lied to further your own politics.
Tinky said:
Ad hominem attacks like this, and others that you have launched, completely undercut any serious argument that you may have to offer.
So let’s get this straight, you have some of the most qualified academics, major political groups, large business, all working on reducing co2 for the last two decades, and yet mankind still extracts and uses all the fossil fuel he can find, without pause.
I think they failed, no ?
But they did create a lot of legislation, channel a lot of attention and money.
Who is stupid here?
Please explain where Trump has said he is withdrawing from the Paris Accord because he is denying Climate Change. He has gone mushy on this specifically to avoid these arguments, but it really doesn’t matter that most Climate Change activists saw the Paris accord as a big nothing-burger, empty rhetoric. But of course NOW, it was going to save the planet, right?
Simply because Trump said NO.
His SCOTUS choice was heralded by all until TRUMP spoke his name.
Comey was disparaged by all until TRUMP fired his leaking ass.
The six Muslim nations that were on Obama’s watch list as potential terrorist exporters were just THAT until Trump singled them out.
This is ALL SO MUCH BULLSHIT.
Mike Bravo said:
You don’t have to be a globalist to believe AGW is real and is a threat. But you should have sound scientific basis for reaching that conclusion. Despite the mantra that 97% percent of scientists believe that AGW will lead to catastrophic climactic events,
1) the statistic itself is false and based on unsound methodology;
2) while a large number of scientists would buy into the first part of the statement to a certain degree (mankind is changing the enironment … duh, that’s pretty much what all organisms do), the data is inconclusive as to whether mankind is causing unnatural warming, and there is nowhere near consensus that it could cause catastrophic impact to the planet.
3) at least 31,000 persons who purport to be scientists have flatly rejected that statement as you frame it. How many scientists are in the world?
If they were serious about the science of climate change, they would focus on reducing the emissions of water vapour. Carbon is only an issue because it is something the scammers can ably quantify, commoditise, trade, and use to fleece the proles by claiming it is their fault for generating it in the course of living. They can’t quantify and penalise water vapour with any reliability, and it is more certainly the greater threat.
Like “Bill Nye The Science Guy” I am/was an engineer; but I was an aerospace engineer; by contrast, he was a mechanical engineer, which is certainly a lower form of engineer and one less likely to appreciate the complexity of fluid and thermal dynamics. I would not trust Nye or the other clowns who are running the Climate Change kabuki theatre to correctly diagnose the problems of planet Earth, much less prescribe an appropriate course of treatment.
The fact that the entire EU high command and the global elite and their subsidised stooges, and particularly the Weather Channel, are aghast is a sure sign that Trump is moving in the right direction. What did Putin miss?
What should we do about it? Find good ways to reduce and diversify the by-products of human life so that they don’t cause irreversible damage, but do we really need a global accord and a grand Climate Politburo to help us figure out how to do that? Or do we let the little people tinker around the edges in the same way that we arrived at the industrial age and the electronic era and all the problems we have to this point identifed and to some extent already started correcting?
I’m not ready to wllingly submit to the Borg.
–> “The fact that the entire EU high command and the global elite and their subsidised stooges, and particularly the Weather Channel, are aghast is a sure sign that Trump is moving in the right direction. What did Putin miss?”
Putin didn’t miss anything. The head of the Russian Science Foundation has said (jn Russian and in English) that global warming is political theater and not science. But Russia’s diplomats will vote in favor of global warming policy initiatives because in practice it forces European countries to buy more and more nat gas from Russia.
Thanks to Hollande and Merkel, western Europe is nothing more than a giant annuity for Gazprom. Putin is laughing at Europe … all the way to the bank
What’s wrong with Trump. Everyone knows it is an established fact that the climate is changing. Unfortunately we cannot predict how it will change. Even three days from now. We need to stay in the accord to study and predict how the climate changes. That way somebody can tell me with some degree of accuracy if it is going to rain tomorrow. My local weather channel sure can’t.
Climate Change is a FACT.
The problem is that there has been a great deal of “evidence” presented by “scientists” paid with our tax dollars to prove a political agenda.
Yup, fake science.
Yet there is real science conducted by “Real Scientists” that explains the benefits and costs of CO2 and proving that Man Made CO2 is a real problem.
This short video explains a lot in a short time and changed my mind and should change yours:
Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Simple Explanation of Climate Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VUPIX7yEOM
Sorry Mish, but you need to understand the whole picture.
The good news is advances in renewable energy sources will end much of the problem as “clean” will be cheaper than “dirty”.
Neil Tyson is a socialist propoganda mouth piece… not a scientist
Telling us his left wing academic credentials, or listing the number of shows he has on socialist NPR or socialist PBS is not going to establish him as anything but a socialist mouth piece.
And if Tyson knew anything about science (he definitely knows about propaganda!!) he should be able to read past the headline.
Trump said he is opposed to kililng US jobs to benefit EU countries — and that is what the paris accord is about. Its a wealth transfer system and nothing else.
If YOU bothered to read past the headline, you ignoramous, you would have heard Trump say a renegotiated accord that focused on pollution should start right away. Naturally, the fascists running the EU want no part of an environmental accord or something that makes Europe pay its fair share. Not NATO, and not their silly paris tax accord.
Even Merkel the tyrant bothered to read that part, even though she claims there will be no renegotiation — kind of like she thinks England can’t leave the EU.
Socialism is evil, and you should stop lying about it
The sky is blue is a “FACT.” The sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening (curiously enough, no matter where you are on the earth except brief periods of time above the Arctic and Antarctic circles) is a “FACT.” Water freezes at 32 °F (0 °C) is a “FACT.” “Climate Change” is is at best an hypothesis that has very little supporting empirical evidence. If you can’t even differentiate between a “FACT” and an hypothesis, then there can’t even be a discussion.
Phil, please. in science fact are not “true” in the fact that it can never be changed. God you people need to read more than blogs and your own scrambled thoughts in your head,
Fact: In science, an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as “true.” Truth in science, however, is never final and what is accepted as a fact today may be modified or even discarded tomorrow.
Hypothesis: A tentative statement about the natural world leading to deductions that can be tested. If the deductions are verified, the hypothesis is provisionally corroborated. If the deductions are incorrect, the original hypothesis is proved false and must be abandoned or modified. Hypotheses can be used to build more complex inferences and explanations
Law: A descriptive generalization about how some aspect of the natural world behaves under stated circumstances.
Theory: In science, a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses.
Noah Boshi,
??? I don’t get your point. Everything I listed as a FACT exactly fits your definition as “…an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as “true.””
I never claimed they were “Truths,” but they are accepted scientific facts, even by your definition.
I also believe my calling “climate change” an hypothesis is correct, even by your definition. Please provide one deduction or prediction concerning “climate change” that has been correct or confirmed.
Tyson is an astronomer. Fact. Climate changes. Fact. How variable, and over what timescales, the current inter-glacial climate is, is unknown with any degree of certainty. Fact.
Tyson is a TV entertainer, and a self promoting book seller. That is where his income comes from, and that is why you have heard of him.
As for his claims of astronomy, I am quite certain his guesses about black holes are based on conjecture and unverified models …. because no one has actually visited a black hole, no one has ever seen a black hole in person. No one can even detect a black hole directly — even your entertainer friend Tyson will tell you astronomers THINK they know where black holes are IN THEORY based on radiation readings.
Neil Tyson is a self promoting entertainer, who makes a LOT of money off taxpayer funded public broadcasting (and a little money off taxpayer funded student loans).
Ever hear of photosynthesis? An equal amount of O2 is produced for each molecule of CO2 consumed by plants. All the carbon in our bodies comes from the plants we eat and the animals that also eat the plants. The globalist want to thin the herd, instead of planting more trees – https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/scientists-first-predicted-ice-age-not-global-warming-in-1971/.
Temps and CO2 levels have been oscillating like everything else in the universe. Whether it’s light, sound, our heart; or the business, civil unrest, and war cycles, everything oscillates. We don’t study and learn from history that has repeated over the last 300 yrs, it’s not surprising that the sheeple will not consider the cycles over millions of years?
Pollution is something different, which everyone cares about, after they have sufficient food, water, and shelter. Pollution has been significantly reduced through technology, which comes from improved prosperity, which flurishes with freedom and the rule of law, that allows ideas and capital to flow freely. Govt is the antithesis of freedom and equal enforcement of the law. Global govt puts this disfunctional structure on steroids.
Fortuneatly, socialism is in the process of collapsing under its own debt weight, as it has repeatedly done throughout history. It would be nice if for once we could proactively cushion the blow, instead of suffering through the trauma of a crash and burn. To make matters worse, the coming mini ice age from another Maunder Minimum in 10-15 years will produce greater famine than any warming cycle has ever done. The Pharoah understood the cycles of feast and famine, which is why he headed Joesph’s warning. Why is our educated society so dumb?
I think this is a baby and bathwater situation. I think you can continue to look at the more data based blogs from Mish, such as the “hard” data vs. “soft” data arguments, and the subsequent analysis of the growth numbers, etc. (the baby) from the dubious stuff (the bathwater).
However, as a fairly new reader of this blog, less than a year or so, it is telling that the community is so full of anti-science commentators, and that some think that opposing viewpoints should be shut down by Mish.
Perhaps there is a pattern of blocking commentators who don’t ascribe to Mish’s dubious viewpoints on climate and gold.
I guess I’ll find out.
There is no science to your political opinion … and THAT lack of science is why low quality propaganda needs to be blocked.
Your quack science does not establish a baseline reading or a control — so to be blunt you couldn’t pass my middle school science class. I don’t care how many left wing academics have awarded you a certificate of completion, I question your scientific credentials.
Show us how you established a baseline reading — what the “normal” temperature would be like without your political interference. Every real science measure shows the Earth’s temperature has been much higher AND much lower and fluctuates all over the place for reasons real scientists don’t fully understand.
And show us the control you used to establish causality. Show us the planet, without the CO2 changes, and show us how that planet’s temperatures are different… You don’t even know about Earth never mind a control planet? yeah, that is why you are not a scientist, and neither is that quack entertainer Neil Tyson
Papa-Nana Buckland said:
What is all the kerfuffle? Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t coal and auto emissions the leading cause of global warming? If so, then we ought to let technology and the free market do their thing.
1. California met its goal to produce about half the state’s electricity from renewable sources for three hours on March 11, a new estimate from the U.S. government shows.
2. But by 2030, a report from Argonne National Laboratory predicts, electric cars will make up 58% of the light vehicle market, and non-hybrid gas cars will only comprise 23%.
3. Bloomberg Energy Report: By 2040, zero-emission energy sources will make up 60% of installed capacity and wind and solar will account for 64% of the 8.6TW of new power generating capacity added worldwide over the next 25 years.
Gosh! We can generate electricity without emissions reliably for the entire grid? And we can create batteries to store this “clean” energy without creating pollutants in their production or disposal? Sweet!
NO, coal and auto emissions are NOT the leading cause of global warming. It’s the energy output of the sun, which oscillates like everything in the universe.
Well said Mish.
The surprising number of comments here from people who drink the climate change Koolaid is discouraging, as it evidences the number of folks who are unable to think objectively about even the data which the supposed “scientists” supposedly “agree” on (and that has been distorted beyond recognition).
If you’re concerned about 1/2 degree Fahrenheit changes over 100 years, you clearly don’t understand geology, the world’s physical history, or the difficulties of scientific models.
It would not surprise me that 100 years from now the earth might be 3 degrees C hotter OR colder.
Everyone ought to be concerned about air pollution, but the Paris “accord” is just one more exercise in very expensive (for the taxpayer) concentration of power in the global elites; most of whom I expect have never been close to a class on physics or other hard sciences.
And it is those global elites, and the lemmings which follow them, who feel their rice bowls are threatened along with their illusion of meritorious authority.
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Everybody knows that we will only do the “right thing” if we are forced and as the “right thing” can only be one thing (no debate allowed), then it naturally follows that there can only be ONE real decider, controller, GOVERNMENT, which these globalist interests seek to impose their mandates with, not through democratic elections but by exactly these type of “agreements” that impose globalist’s initiatives upon nations everywhere that have had ZERO input, say or approval in it. Our president (Obama) can commit us to pay trillions of dollars in taxes and impose restrictions on businesses that employ us, with the scratch of his pen….and NOBODY should complain. After all, we’re saving the planet….but for WHOM? Surely not our children who will be burdened with unimaginable debt and limited possibilities to prosper.
The vision of Utopia is unclear but for a very few at the top.
Utopia is NOT a vision of millions of people crammed into ever smaller (efficient) spaces sharing in lesser and lesser wealth while completely dependent upon the generosity of a government who sustains itself by force and theft. The unnecessary and useless eaters will NOT be sustained in the end. We KNOW this. So, the plan must be to collapse this in upon itself while the very few of us “winners” are standing on the top of the heap.
As Milton Friedman once said, if you put the government in charge of beaches, in ten years we would run out of sand.
Yup — socialist Obama put government in charge of health insurance, and now most insurance companies are dropping out while deductibles tripple and premiums are skyrocketing 30% per year
ned said:
What is a science ?
‘Is science based on empirical evidence?’
It should not be “science has shown” but “this experiment, this effect, has shown.” And you have as much right as anyone else, upon hearing about the experiments–but be patient and listen to all the evidence–to judge whether a sensible conclusion has been arrived at.
It is imperative in science to doubt; it is absolutely necessary, for progress in science, to have uncertainty as a fundamental part of your inner nature. To make progress in understanding, we must remain modest and allow that we do not know. Nothing is certain or proved beyond all doubt.
“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.” Richard P. Feynman
Science is done by people; people aren’t objective. Scientists are just like other professionals – to use a telling contemporary parallel, scientists are professionals just like the wheelers and dealers on Wall Street: not exactly dishonest, but looking out first and foremost for Number One.
“In this day and age it can be fairly dangerous to ones career if you are a climate scientist and express some vociferous objection to the concept of dangerous global warming.”
Speaking of ranking the various disciplines:
… Politicians think they are Economists.
… Economists think they are Social Scientists.
… Social Scientists think they are Psychologists.
… Psychologists think they are Biologists.
… Biologists think they are Organic Chemists.
… Organic Chemists think they are Physical Chemists.
… Physical Chemists think they are Physicists.
… Physicists think they are Mathematicians.
… Mathematicians think they are God.
how many computer models are there on AGW ?
Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) in the field of computer science or information and communications technology refers to the fact that computers, since they operate by logical processes, will unquestioningly process flawed, even nonsensical, input data (“garbage in”) and produce undesired, often nonsensical, output (“garbage out”).
Heh, that’s funny but true. Where do geologists fit in?
They don’t….they’re just “stoned”.
Diogenes said:
I’m putting the geologist in somewhere between the organic and physical chemists, but I’m just guessing.
uhm, the MIT scientists who made the study that Trump referred to have something to say. Maybe we should listen to them instead of all the non-researchers here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-trump-mit-idUSKBN18S6L0
“We certainly do not support the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris agreement,” said Erwan Monier, a lead researcher at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and one of the study’s authors.
“If we don’t do anything, we might shoot over 5 degrees or more and that would be catastrophic,” said John Reilly, the co-director of the program, adding that MIT’s scientists had had no contact with the White House and were not offered a chance to explain their work.
Isn’t MIT home to that con artist Jon Gruber? The man who Obama paid $500,000 to design Obamacare, and then tried to claim it wasn’t his doing? The man who belongs to a faculty that threatened to go on strike if they had to pay the same deductibles and premiums that Obamacare forced on the public? That MIT? That group of left wing socialists?
MIT, like many schools, used to be an institution of higher learning. But left wing faculty only allow other left wing faculty to get tenure — and the resulting intellectual incest (that’s what it is) has made academia into little more than a propaganda machine. And its customers (students?) into politically indoctrinated debt slaves.
Sorry, that is a logical fallacy.
Only if you are a left wing ideologue. Not the best group to tie you “logical” wagon to.
Nice rebuttal. Very factual with all kinds of links to back up your point. Well presented….Not
Intellectual incest is not logical — its why MIT can no longer be trusted as a neutral / objective source.
Sorry your public union schooling didn’t teach you reading comprehension; maybe they should have spent less time on safe spaces and gender norms and general left wing propaganda.
Some sanity.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5456566516001/?#sp=show-clips
Understand, all of the catastrophy talk is based upon climate models, not observations, that cannot even hindcast where we currently are…… most folks think there is a linear relationship between CO2 and Temps. Ain’t the case folks.
The Paris thing was irrelevant to the proposed problem regardless. It was indeed just a stepping stone for global governance in the end. Just sayin, the ones who support it most, know the least about it, and would be the most disappointed in the end once that Epiphany moment hit!
Come ON! All of their predictions have come true so far….er, well some of them….or at least a few.
Well I know it was warmer YESTERDAY damn it!
These are scientists….geniuses. Where the hell are we if we are going to question people who are certified by institutions as our superiors? The fact that they are paid to support a given theme and they and their administrations are actively disparaging and working to silence all those who do not agree, should in no way give us pause. These are men and women (definitional) of SCIENCE, infallible and unquestionable. What will it take for us to get with the agenda here? Damn IT, the debate IS over. We just need to shut UP and do as we are told.
I suppose we can’t really blame deniers as they have simply not been taught (indoctrinated) to the “new” definition of liberty and freedom. We have now “progressed” to have the liberty and freedom to AGREE.
Here, have a look at your renewable energy substitutes. Not just electricity, energy use.
http://joannenova.com.au/2017/05/matt-ridley-wind-power-makes-0-of-world-energy/
Here is the link to the summary data. You think wind and solar are real players? Think again.
PDF file, so ensure you know that.
https://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/KeyRenewablesTrends.pdf
The stats don’t lie.
georgephillies said:
There is overwhelming scientific evidence for AGW. However, $GNP/ton carbon has been improving. Photoelectric gets cheaper and cheaper, enough that neighbor covered his roof, not because he is a greenie but because he did the calculation, and has a nice return on investment. I have solar hot water heat, which is giving me a 3-9% (oil prices wander; there are error bars on the saving) ROI, no matter what the market and economy do.
Pulling out will surely not keep companies from doing things that save them money through energy efficiency.
Incidentally, “self-driving” and “all-electric” are independent issues in car design.
Is this math dependent upon any government or electric provider kickbacks? If so, he is being subsidized by taxpayers or other electric grid users.
His math skills may be better than mine, but when I looked into it, the scheme depends on generating excess electricity in sunlight and selling it back into the grid and buying it when the sun doesn’t shine. This all worked great until I factored in that selling to th egrid was wholesale and the buying was retail….about three times the price. For the math to work it requires some pretty extended timelines that can be pretty undefined. When I was looking into it, solar was more expensive, but then so was electricity.
Our principle issue today is that government has entertwined itself into our economy to the point that it is almost impossible to know what ANYTHING truly costs. Aside from transparent rebates are government subsidies, tax deals, grants and protected monopolies that alter market forces and any real understanding of costs. How would Telsa be doing without government “crutches”. What really sucks is Elon’s smugness about his success……quite literally….he did NOT build this by himself. We ALL kicked in.
CzarChasm Reigns said:
““it’s a colossal mistake—an abdication of American leadership.
The success of our foreign policy
—in trade, military, any other kind of negotiation—
depends on our credibility.
I can’t think of anything more destructive to our credibility than this.” —Nicholas Burns
“retired career diplomat and an undersecretary of state for President George W. Bush”
Selected quotes from “Trump administration announces US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement” http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/02/pari-j02.html
Is CREDIBILITY even “a thing” anymore?
I believe we have moved on to the unbelievable.
Clearly marked in time with the quizzical proclamation to all
“I’m President! Can you believe it?”
This was a non-binding agreement. Nothing controversial.
Similar to everyone agreeing not to pee in the pool.
Everyone but Syria and Trump, that is.
Nicaragua wanted to ban farting, so I was going to leave them out of this analogy.
Galbraith said:
A greenhouse effect is impossible without a glass enclosure around our globe. Earth’s climate is balanced between sunlight and radiation into space. A objects radiate heat at every frequency of light. This is well documented black body radiation. The warmer the object the more radiation goes into space. When carbon dioxide or more so water vapor in the atmosphere absorb a frequency of light then these molecules transfer their warmth to surrounding molecules at the speed of sound by collision. The other molecules radiate that extra heat to compensate for those that had absorbed and blocked some energy radiating into space.
Add to that the uncertainty monster the forcings and feedbacks associated with clouds and nucleation at high altitude of cosmic influence, land use, UHI, dams, and on and on.
There is NO real verifiable consensus on climate.
The talking points have been generated from a few ideologically driven surveys and studies from the Green socialism globalist monster.
Look up the Doran/Zimmerman, and the Cook 97% studies, and you will find they would never pass audits for quality and relevance as have been shown repeatedly.
In the end, it’s all about perpetuating the funding when it comes to CAGW!
The Karl paper, 2015, was a desperate attempt to hide the 20 years of no statistically significant change in temps. Even though we had a 10% increase in CO2 over that time.
The numbers don’t show any other trends aside from another natural and recurring ENSO event.
Just sayin,,,,,,,
As far as I can tell, all Trump did is publicly state that the United States is free to march to its own beat with respect to energy policy and CO2 emissions, and we are not necessarily willing to pay environmental reparations to other countries for past US emissions.
I know it is popular for many US citizens to scream that withdrawal from the Paris Accord is heresy, but lets not be too eager to sign away our sovereign rights and future to some unelected set of bureaucrats in a far off land who interpret the science of the day as they see fit, especially if their interpretation is likely to saddle the US economy with an undue burden relative to others.
The US declaring independence from this Gordian Knot is a good thing.
Its the “not willing to pay environmental reparations to other countries” part that has the media and socialists in an uproar. The paris accord was never about climate or environment — it was always about taking money from US taxpayers and giving it to unelected bureaucrats to spend on themselves.
That (stolen US taxpayer money going to bureaucrats) is also why the unelected EU is so upset about losing another gravy train. First the British refuse to underwrite anti-UK rubbish, and now the Americans are refusing to underwrite anti-USA rubbish? If this continues, the EU would have to pay its own bills! That is the heresy that keeps Merkel up at night.
Tiny increases in temperature involve huge increases in heat that is not felt at first as temperature. In physics heat and temperature are very different concepts but in common English they are used interchangeably. Because of the linguistic confusion publishing numbers such as concern about two degree temperature increase has confused a lot of people.
If you put heat energy into a cup of water that has ice in it the water will stay at the same temperature until the ice is melted. That is because the temperature gets “used up in order to melt the ice”. As the amount of ice in the world decreases to the point of being a small surface area will be little ice to absorb the heat. Then the temperature may soar far more than two degrees.
Unfortunately chemistry labs dealing with therms is no longer a part of most peoples education nor is chemistry. Chemistry has become an
“elective” instead of a requirement for citizenship. The government would rather force youth to take politically correct course work such as “political science” which of course is not a science at all but pure BS.
Chemistry has suffered from intellectual incest, like most of academia.
Chemistry is now part of the political “science” department, which has become nothing but an political indoctrination camp. Chemistry USED TO BE a science, not anymore.
And it was corrupt teacher unions (of college “professors”) that made those “mandatory” courses. It may have started with the best of intentions, but the left wing cult that is academia realized they could use “core” courses to guarantee their own employment.
Anyway, stop calling chemistry a science — it makes you sound out of date.
It does not matter because DT will soon be gone. Vlad has indicated that he is being dropped, probably because the job has been done now: https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/01/putin-changes-tune-on-russian-involvement-in-the-u-s-election/
foreign policy magazine is published by WaPo — the former newspaper that has been hyping up a Russian conspiracy theory for a year without even a shred of verifiable evidence.
And for all your low quality propaganda — you cannot escape the fact that France’s Hollande and Germany’s Merkel have turned western Europe into a Gazprom annuity. Every canceled nuclear reactor, every dim-witted regulation on oil/coal fired plants… it all points to more and more clean burning RUSSIAN natural gas.
WaPo is getting really really desperate to remain relevant, and if you are honest they would already be gone if Jeff Bezos wasn’t propping them up using Amazon profits
James Greenberg said:
One world government requires a global crisis.
I give you …. anthropogenic climate change.
What do the global elite want? One world government!
When do they want it? A decade ago!
President Trump has merely done what he said what he would do and who can blame him for that. However, the Mr. Mish Math for his 0.029 number is unaccountably “wrong”. The much discussed “Hiatus” post 1998 is also over. The prime reason for the coming boom in electric/hybrid vehicles and the clean energy transition is precisely because most people want to change what is happening. Calling it all a “Hoax” and using words like “Mass Hysteria” is silly and wrong: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
The only propaganda that compares to the foreign boogieman, is the continuous chant of man-made global warming. The poor countries of the world, which also have the least amount of freedom, get a twofer by blaming the US for global warming. The opportunist and sheeple that deny the climate has always changed, will realize man’s impotence against mother nature when we enter ANOTHER mini ice age in 10-15 years.
Unfortunately, the majority are easy prey for the propagandist and their globalist masters, who will continue their efforts to get rid of Trump so their corrupt system can continue. What they fail to realize is the anti-establishment movement will continue to grow as the economy declines, which is the direct result of govt desperately trying to hang on to power.
The establishment is fighting a losing battle, and they don’t care that it will lead to civil war, world wars, and the possible break up of the US. Career politicians are hopeless, which is why they must be voted out every election.
John Shannon said:
Thus it has ended…but the end of one thing is the beginning of another,
JanSalie said:
I just hope that Europe will follow this retreat from madness, the sooner the better. Maybe we a good economic downturn will help.
I find all this amusing. Can’t tell if science has become a religion or religion has become a science. Either way only a few seem to try and discuss their points without extreme emotion. Very funny.
While Macaroon is acting holier than Hades of the Paris Agreements, which are little more than vague suggestions and never had the force of law or treaty (like signing an absentee pledge to refrain from whatever sin is your choice), Most of France, even in Paris rely on firewood for heat in the winter. Germany still makes all those VW TDI diesels that are driven all over Europe in great numbers and still can’t our EPA emissions test (and I doubt any other car maker in Europe could, for that matter). And there are more contradictions indulged by the “New Leaders of the Free world” when it comes to pollution. Let us not start on Asia or Africa when it comes to climate agreements, ain’t never going to happen. And you climate alarmists want me to take your seriously, believe your ignorance is the solution to every possible question? Oh, please, spare me. If millions of climate alarmists died tomorrow from heart attacks or strokes if would be a great blessing for the world. We might be able to do about real pollution problems. We have a lot of water pipe that needs replacing, put the money there instead of constant increases in auto engine exhaust emissions. the internal combustion engine has reach its practical limits in that regard and future limits are like beating a dead horse, it won’t go anywhere. We still have a lot of old factory sites that need clean up. The list goes on and on. Ignoring these problems and pretending that we can magically solve all our pollution and climate problems by throwing a lot of money at them is never an answer. Unfortunately, for all those climate alarmists it is the easier answer even if it doesn’t work.
jim1m said:
Mish, you obviously have a short memory. Don’t you remember when millions of Americans starved to death in the 70’s, just as Paul Ehrlich predicted in his book, The Population Bomb? Or what about the worldwide crop failures that resulted from Global Cooling? Time Magazine predicted that. And Y2K? Remember when all the world’s computers imploded?
Doug Lavers said:
In 20 years’ time, the idea that a trace essential gas controls the climate cycle will be seen as bizarre.
For most of geological history CO2 levels have been far higher than today’s value, and still ice ages came and went.
Cecil Henry said:
The climate is changing, the climate is changing!!!’
‘So?? ‘
‘So Hands UP!!! Gimme all your money. ‘
Tax. tax. tax, You work. Government takes with a gun at your back. NO MORE.
Jeff Moskowitz said:
amen brother.. just unbelievable. if you’d the paris accord there is no enforcement mechanism anyway so everyone will cheat.. and 0.3 degrees to year 2100? i follow macroecon religiously and i can’t predict whats going to happen next month let alone in 2100
Winston said:
“When has such mass hysteria ever been right?”
The continuing trivial exercise of manipulating clueless sheep, 6 out of 10 of whom only read news -headlines-, and who chase imaginary creatures meant to entertain children on their “smarter than they are” phones.
Well, with Mattis declaring North Korea a “clear and present danger” …. DJT might single handedly stop … and reverse any global warming.
Nuclear Winter here we come …
Zuckerberg: “Stopping climate change is something we can only do as a global community, and we have to act together before it’s too late.”
Climate change cannot be stopped, as it is a continuous ongoing process.
Caterwauls On Paris
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=232098
Intro excerpt:
You can’t possibly be serious.
The screamfest over Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris accord is amusing beyond words. Among the complainers is Tim Cook who I remind you makes his iPhones in China which was immune from mandatory carbon emission cuts. If Tim Cook cared about carbon emissions he would make them somewhere else.
But he hasn’t and he doesn’t.
CW said:
So is the US going to join the flat earth society as well. When the rest of the civilized world believes one thing and you believe another maybe you need to look in the mirror and reconsider the basis of your understanding. I’m not sure how polluting the planet can ever be a good thing. As usual with the US it is all about money.
However, this is not simply about climate change. This is about global leadership. The US was the leader of the world in a lot of areas. The US was leading the world down a path on a key issue and suddenly made a left turn….and nobody is following.
This combined with what Trump did at the UN meetings leaves the rest of the world basically saying that we can’t count on the US anymore and the extension of this thought is the premise that it’s time for someone else to lead. The next leader will likely be the European Union or some country with in it.
This is a big change to everyone’s world view and that is what is behind some of the hysteria.
This does two obvious things however, it weakens the US and it strengthens Russia and China. It is called divide and conquer and maybe it is part of a larger plan.
I’m not sure if isolationism is putting America first or going to make America great again. Being the leader of the free world has a lot of advantages. But isolationism certainly seems to be where Trump is heading.
This is part of the reason that these big companies are not backing Trump. These companies have a world view because they operate worldwide. Isolationism is not a good thing for a multinational corporation. There will be a backlash against US companies trying to sell their product overseas as a result of these policy changes.
If US companies don’t have to pay a carbon tax and foreign companies do that will be seen as an unfair advantage for the US and then the import duties and trade wars will escalate.
I wonder when a major US corporation will move its head offices out of the US not for tax reasons but for ideological reasons.
I think we are witnessing a slow motion train wreck here
The ultimate reality TV show! Stay tuned.
Maybe what Trump IS doing is actually leading rather than following the corrupt herd.
How many “agreements” has America entered only to find it’s self the only one doing the work? NATO anyone? The terms we’re voluntary yet it is quite obvious from world reaction that ours was more mandatory. Why all of the sudden has it become necessary for America to lead when for years they have complained of our leadership, domination and interference…..at least until Obama. While he may not have been universally respected by the rest of the world, it is easy to see why so many loved him. Check’s in the mail.
To follow your reasoning, if all the other kids are jumping off a high bridge (without bungee cords or parachutes), does it make you any sanet or responsible to join them?
Ottmar Edenhofer, lead author of the IPCC’s fourth report. Speaking in 2010:
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”
UNFCC chief Christiana Figueres in February 2015:
Our aim is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
Lowering Co2 emissions without government prodding is being done by many individuals and corporations. Nature abhors a vacuum. If we dislike being ordered by government then DIY is an option.
Apparently you “chemists” don’t read?
No one said you enviro-terrorists can’t tax yourselves to death — go right ahead. You won’t effect global temps, but maybe you will stop trying to force yourselves on the rest of the world like tyranical losers that you are.
The problem is when you products of intellectual incest try to force everyone else to pay for YOUR dumb unproven idea.
When is academia going to pay ANY taxes at all? You ungrateful tax-evading deadbeats
Saying we need to belong to the Paris Agreement to combat environmental problems is no different than the EU telling its members that they have to belong to the EU to trade. Hogwash.
Mass hysteria vs. mass denial. Who will win?
There is a difference between global concern and mass hysteria.
Is it just me that notices our greatest threat is the least obvious or provable and those that just don’t believe it are ignorant deniers, yet the undeniable FACT of our financial disaster looming, with unimaginable debt, impossible entitlement liabilities is barely discussed and our learned financial scientists assure us that it’s never been better….no worries, just keep borrowing and spending. Our children and theirs face unprecedented debt and hardships while being denigrated if they are not worried so much about a 1 degree increase in temperatures. Somehow we are destroying the planet by “allowing” the earth to warm well within historical context.
Dummy me.
John Nash said:
Why do right wing US-Americans/Trump lovers…
– … claim that climate scientists are socialists who want to redistribute wealth? (What?!?)
– … deny everything that comes from government except when it means bombing other nations? Especially …
– … applaud Trump when he reduces “payments to Paris”, but do not call it “fear mongering” when he spends even more billions on defense?
Only a globalist would not see the difference between spending on OUR military, creating OUR jobs and handing over trillions to Europe while also encumbering our employers with regs that no one else has.
I’m a 100% pure panarchist and I think that the AGW true believers are as stupid and gullible (and dangerous) as the Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction true believers.
Why do lefties in general go crazy over something that is impossible to prove and unlikely to happen*. Is it because, perhaps, that thousands of years ago their cultural/moral ancestors didn’t produce wealth, didn’t have a sophisticated concept of property, and lived off of nature as hunter-gatherers since their sole method of survival was provided by – the Earth. Gaia is their Goddess and provider. Not the free market.
I deny the right of anyone to force their government on me. Unfortunately, government lovers are a large majority and show no chance of evolving beyond the alpha-male social model.
*Barring annihilation by nuclear war, the next 83 years will bring incredible technological change. If you can predict that change (zero percent chance) and incorporate it into climate models, you may have something.
“Why do lefties in general go crazy over something that is impossible to prove and unlikely to happen”
You prove my point. What does data on rising see levels, plants spreading more an more into northern regions etc. have to do with “lefties”? And if even Milton Friedman understands the relevance of a third party (government) – because the free market fails at pollution (defense by the way too – and any other public good) – what is leftie about that?
“Is it because, perhaps, that thousands of years ago their cultural/moral ancestors ..:”
Excuse me? You know that your (I assume US?) cultural ancestors are from European monarchies?
“I deny the right of anyone to force their government on me.”
Well then move to a region that does not have a government. Maybe Western Sahara. Yeah, these seem to work really well.
Go ahead, prove that the global temp in 2100 will be what you claim it will be.
As for government, society is deeply flawed because it is created by government and run in such a way as to create the need for government. Society cannot evolve past wars and savagery simply because of its governments.
What the hell does European monarchies have to do with anything? Foraging is how our ancestors lived until about 12,000 odd years ago when settlements and conservative values started appearing. Hunter-gatherism is the default setting for mankind. You are just up close and personal with your hunter-gatherer ancestral morality. I, on the other hand, am definitely not.
Western Sahara? Sorry, I much prefer modern technological society. You’re the one that worships nature, you’d be much more at home there.
Oren said:
Mish, I am so sorry to write this, but how can such a smart and far-seeing person in regards to so many economic trends be such an idiot when it comes to climate change a.k.a global warming?? So sad.
Because the reality is that he IS smart.
Unlike you.
not sure if this is hysteria, but Trump’s action hurt himself and future presidents in their ability to engage world leaders. from now on it would be very reasonable for world leaders to say to the u.s. don’t bother showing up unless you can submit this to congress and gain their approval
(1) You really need to take a look at the US Constitution. It says the Senate has to ratify treaties with foreign powers — and it said that from the very beginning.
Its not Trump, its the Constitution, and you sound double ignorant not knowing how the US government has worked from the beginning. Obama broke the law, not that liberals worry about such things.
(2) the EU is bankrupt — obviously it is financially bankrupt, but it is intellectually bankrupt too. They have no common goal anymore except to avoid Eurocrats from losing their jobs — that is not enough to hold anything together. Brexit was officially first, but many other countries already ignore the EU.
Trump telling Hollande/Merkel to pound sand was not a first — most of the EU has been saying that for years.
Michael Gorback said:
As a survivor of the Ice Age of the 1980s (predicted in the 70s) I remain skeptical, especially given the multitude of evidence of data fraud.
From an economic view, can someone please explain why we want people to burn less gasoline while simultaneously subsidizing it’s production?
Wow. Lots of interesting discussion. To answer your question Mish, I don’t believe that I can think of a time when “hysteria” helped anything. I also have a question: When was the last time we had over 7 billion humans affecting our planet?
Michael Musashi said:
When Obama signed the Paris Accord in 2015, he stopped in Malaysia before jetting off to Paris. Obama showed up in Malaysia one week after raining season had started. If he had shown up two weeks before, he would have seen the worst man-made natural disaster ever recorded.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/indonesia-fires-disaster-21st-century-world-media
In just a few weeks, Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian corporations released more CO2 into the atmosphere than the entire U.S. economy in one year.
Obama flew into Kuala Lumpur in 2015, played golf with the corrupt Prime Minister there, never mention a single word about the fires (at least anywhere in the press), and then flew off to Paris to try and cripple the U.S. economy.
I was there. It was a horrific time to be in that country. If anyone wants to experience the devastation, the fires heat up in July every single year. Not every year is record breaking, but bad enough for someone never to forget–especially for someone who is worried about CO2 and the planet.
Trump was right to drop this treaty. This was not about saving the planet. This was about the continuation of a wealth transfer from the 1st world to the 3rd world.
Obama and his ilk are following a post-modern equity and social justice agenda which is nothing more than affirmative action on steroids.
It is NOT a treaty for the US. It was never ratified by the US Senate, as required by the Consitution for the last 200+ years. Obama violated US law
Not even his own democratic party was going to ratify it (the Senate rejected the Kyoto accord almost unanimously — even John Kerry voted against the Kyoto accord).
Obama hates America and violated more US laws that Nixon. Shame on western media for looking the other way while Obama broke the law again and again.
Some very intelligent posts from many on the subject of climate change. Well researched and presented. Sadly, you are wasting your time. The climate change deniers on this site are not interested in science, logic, or even opening their eyes to what is actually happening in the world around them. They will rant and insult you and cling to their ridiculous conspiracy theories. They are like children, throwing a tantrum. And as islands disappear and coastlines get flooded, they will simply say that is all natural and probably a good thing! You can’t argue with stupid.
Musashi said:
Realist: I don’t believe in climate change. I believe there are too many humans on the planet and something needs to be done. It’s just that simple. And to try and paint it any other way is complete BS and spineless. This is why the Right and Left cannot find common ground. The Left, and their bleeding hearts, don’t want to hurt people’s feelings, especially the poor 3rd world, so they want to blame everything but the real issue. Moreover, the Left are self-loathing and self-deprecating, especially all the dimwits who make money from their face in Hollywood, so when you carry that burden you tend to like to dance around the truth.
The planet cannot withstand a hyper-active capitalist Asia. I’ve spent 20+ years in Asia, and the things I’ve seen would make anyone extremely scared for the future.
All that said, this is why that Paris Accord was thoughtless, useless, and pure evil on Obama’s behalf. His belief is to sacrifice the U.S. for Asia and this is utterly ridiculous and short-sighted. The U.S. with all of its dysfunction, and industrialism in the past, is nothing compared to the monster that is growing in Asia.
Mark my words, Asia will swallow the world within a decade if we continue on this path we’ve been on.
Even now, if we look at the chicken and palm oil markets in China, the distortions are incredible. Demand is so high that it’s fraught with corruption and price dislocations. This is starting to bubble over into every food product now in China. What happens in 5, 10, 15 years when Vietnam’s and Indonesia’s middle class start to grow? What happens when we add Cambodia/Laos, Myanmar, Philippines to this growing need? And then India starts to rev its engine again? (Jim Rogers is spot on when he says become a farmer.)
The answer is quite scary if we continue down this globalization path.
Globalization is the cancer, not the cure. Sustainability is localization, localization is sustainability. But you won’t hear progressives say this, because multi-national corporations are filled with these progressive left-wing lying nutjobs now, and for good reason, it’s the only thing left that justifies their international business model.
So, you want climate deniers on the Right to start listening?
Stop this politically correct BS climate change nonsense, and start talking straight forward. The Right doesn’t like West Coast progressive Newspeak, and the more they (you?) do it, the more you hurt your chances of finding solutions.
You are confused. Why am I not surprised. I am neither left nor right. I do not live on the US west coast as you imply. I do not live in the US at all. I am not political nor an apologist for big business. I don’t care if Trump drops out of the Paris accord. In fact I don’t really care much for the Paris accord.
I agree with you that we have more than 7 billion people on our shared planet. And they (we) are all affecting our planet. You are simply wrong to deny that climate change is occurring right now. But I doubt you will ever understand.
I am indeed a realist. I am also a scientist. My first degree was in Chemistry. I agree with the 98% of the scientific community and the evidence that climate change is happening and that it will get worse. However, I will listen to the 2% of the scientific community that has their doubts as I always keep an open mind. I haven’t seen anything convincing to make me change my mind.
I agree with you that localization is a positive. But unlike you, I am not against globalization, though I suspect we differ on exactly what globalization is.
I don’t expect climate deniers to listen. That was the point of my post. There isn’t much to be gained trying to convince the ill-informed. As I said, you can’t argue with stupid.
And I don’t want to hear your “solution” to what you say is overpopulation of the planet. I have an idea what you mean. I suggest you start with yourself.
I can tell you’re an unreasonable and unintelligent person simply by your last sentence. You’re assuming an awful lot about me, and my thinking, without ever meeting me or engaging in long conversations with me.
I’ve stated my solution: Sustainability via localization. This would solve many different issues, including the population problem.
I’ve been all over the world by plane, train, automobile, motorcycle, and even horse. I’ve spend 20+ years in international business and finance. I’ve been inside some of the nicest corporate HQ offices you have ever seen, and been on the ground of some of the most poorly run commodity producers in some of the poorest countries in the world. The one thing I know for sure is that “climate change” is a huge corporatist scam and wealth transfer. It’s just a way for these multi-national corporations to stay on top and to consolidate global business.
But, am I denying that the planet is being destroyed by man? Absolutely not!
But I do reject the term “climate change” and reject every single fraudulent person or company that peddles it. I’ve seen too much, and know too much, to believe in the smoke and mirrors being sold to the average person by governments and Fortune 500 companies.
Good day, sir.
As you assumed a lot about me. Good day sir.
JohnMc said:
An excellent retrospective. I do have to disagree on one point — driverless cars will not change the CO2 discharge rate. Passenger miles per year is based on travel demand not the number of vehicles.
There will be more carpooling to work
More people in cities will shed cars altogether
Cars will be electric, not gas
“Cars will be electric, not gas.”
Great, more reliance on a specific segment of national infrastructure. What will we do in the event of EMP attack or CME? This makes our system all the more fragile.
Kasper Pedersen said:
Electricity is only as clean as the powerplant that produces it: In US 64% of the powerplants run on fossil fuel.
Also note that only 30-40% of the energy can be converted to electricity.
So: An electric car running on energy from a coal powerplant, produces much much higher emissions than a diesel truck.
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NASA proclaimed 10 years ago that if ALL emissions of greenhouse gases were stopped immediately, the temperature would continue to rise for a number of decades. Since China and India are free to pollute at will under the agreement, it is obvious that the Paris agreement was doomed to failure with regards to temperature reduction within the term of the agreement.
However, it probably would have been highly profitable for Goldman, Tesla, Ford, etc. who would make a fortune on trading “carbon credits.” Of course, politicians who take money from Goldman, et al would probably also enjoy greater receipts from continuation of the Paris agreement.
Mises.org has a great story on this.
Studying the Climate Doesn’t Make You an Expert on Economics and Politics
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In response to the Trump administration’s announcement that it was pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, some of his critics declared that anyone who likes “science” would have supported the accord.
Not surprisingly, Neil deGrasse Tyson rushed to declare that Trump supported the withdrawal because his administration “never learned what Science is or how and why it works.”
But what does “Science” (which Tyson capitalizes for some reason) have to do with it?
We know that Tyson is of the opinion that there is global warming. We also know that many other physical scientists agree with him.
But, it does not follow logically that agreeing with Tyson on the matter of climate change must necessarily mean supporting the Paris Climate Agreement.
After all, the Paris Climate Agreement isn’t a scientific study. It’s a political document that lays out a specific public-policy agenda.
Agreement or disagreement with the accord might hint at one’s opinions about climate science. Or it might not. One can agree that climate change exists and that human beings have a large role in the phenomenon. Agreement on this matter, however, does not dictate that one must also agree with the political policies outlined in the Paris document.
The two are totally independent phenomena.
Science and Politics Are Not the Same Thing
An analogy might help illustrate further:
Scientific inquiry tells us that obesity is bad for one’s health. Let’s imagine then, that in response to rising obesity rates, a large number of politicians gather and sign an agreement â let’s call it the London Obesity Avoidance Deal (LOAD). The supporting politicians claim that the deal will reduce obesity and that failure to abide by the agreement will spell a health crisis for humanity.
Does this mean, then, that any politician who doesn’t sign onto the agreement is an “obesity denier”? Does a failure to approve of the agreement prove that the dissenters believe that obesity is not a real thing?
Those who refuse to sign the agreement may be of the opinion that the LOAD does little to actually reduce obesity. Or, the dissenters may feel that the deal fails to properly compare costs and benefits when imposing its directives. Opponents may feel that “the cure is worse than the disease.”
In any case, dissent from the deal has nothing to do with denying the existence of obesity or the science behind the studies on the matter.
The Problem with Paris
The same is true of the Paris deal. Those who disagree with it may very well be â and probably are â taking issue with the specific provisions of the deal which may actually prove to be more costly to people than the presumed global warming itself.
But, for physicists like Tyson â i.e., people who know nothing about economics or political institutions â public policy is like a magic trick. A group of politicians get together, declare that they’re going to solve problem X, and then problem X is magically solved, so long as everyone supports the “solution.”
But what if the policy prescriptions of the Paris politicians are wrong? Or, what if the cure is worse than the disease?
Presumably, the agreement is supposed to improve the lives of real-world human beings by improving their standards of living.
If this is true, then, the Paris agreement must accomplish several things:
1. It must rely on good science about the climate.
2. It must accurately predict the effects of climate change on standards of living.
3. It must endorse public policies that will do something to mitigate the negative effects of climate change on standards of living.
4. It must demonstrate that these public policies will in fact mitigate the effects of climate change.
5. The agreement must demonstrate that the costs of the proposed public policies themselves are lower than the costs of the climate change.
If the Paris agreement fails to do any of these things, it should be rejected. If the net effect of the agreement is to make people poorer, then the agreement is of no value.
Now, without making any judgment about climate science itself, we can see just from looking at the Paris agreement that it could easily be rejected on the basis of numbers two, three, four, and five in our list.
After all, the agreement is based on policy predictions that are wildly speculative. They attempt to make predictions about the global economy decades in the future (a notoriously unreliable endeavor) and they fail to honestly take into account the true costs of imposing far-higher energy costs on most of the world’s poor and working classes â which is what the agreement would do.
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In fact, the agreement doesn’t even mention the cost to households that would face higher energy costs under the agreement. The only costs mentioned are the costs of adapting to climate change. In other words, the agreement assumes that there is no downside for households in the agreement’s provisions. That’s a huge red flag right there.
Also ignored is the opportunity cost of adopting the agreement’s provisions. In real life, adoption of the agreement’s policy prescriptions will lessen growth by reducing access to basic energy resources. In addition to reducing household wealth, this will also reduce tax revenues. Money spent on higher energy costs is money that can’t be spent elsewhere â on things like health care, and research into better agricultural practices. Yet, at the same time, the agreement calls for massive redistribution of wealth and large amounts of government spending on various programs such as “emergency preparedness” and more government “insurance” to pay for the effects of natural disasters.
Thus, the agreement calls for more spending, while reducing the ability of both the public and private sectors to engage in that spending. It’s a self-defeating endeavor.
Other opportunity costs include the impact on the production of fresh water. As I noted in a 2015 article:
A second major factor here in the necessity of energy is fresh water. The California drought has reminded us that fresh water is a scarce resource, even if the government likes to treat it as if it were not. But even as larger populations demand more water, fresh water can be produced through the use of energy via desalinization and pump-based aqueducts.
Today, most such schemes are still uneconomical because the problem of water scarcity can usually be solved through cheaper means such as importing food from wetter climates and through cheaper aqueduct systems that are primarily gravity-based.
In the future, however, as water does become more and more scarce as populations grow, the most practical answer will indeed become more energy-intensive solutions.
By centrally planning and artificially limiting energy usage, however, what the global warming lobby wants to do is raise the price of water processing, and by limiting the use of such methods, also inhibit technological progress by preventing practical experience in the use of water processing and fresh water production.
The Paris Climate Agreement supporters will no doubt retort that the provisions of the agreement will somehow amazingly prevent the need for more spending on clean water in the future by reducing global temperatures. Based on what evidence? Based on a computer model for what will happen decades from now?
With such flimsy evidence, it’s easy to see that it might be wiser to stick with policies we have now that are likely to produce a bird in hand â rather than the two birds in the bush merely promised by the Paris agreement.
We already know we can help the poor now with cheap energy, more productive capacity, and a robust economy. The Paris agreement only promises to help hypothetical people in the future based on a theoretical and untried public policy regime.
Many prudent people will elect to go with the former.
Moreover, many of the global warming lobby’s own people deny that the Paris agreement does much of anything to reduce temperatures anyway. Thus, prudence would dictate a renewed interest in investing in technologies and poverty-relief measures (such as those that encourage more trade and capital investment) that we know will help the poor right now. Adopting policies that cripple our ability to invest in these measures â as the Paris agreement does â only makes matters worse.
Nevertheless, in the imaginary world of physicists and climate scientists who can’t comprehend the complicated realities of economics and public policy, simply wishing something to be so makes it so. If we just wish really hard that all our problems are solved, surely the good people in government will make it happen.
(from Mises.org, 6/2/17)
âThe difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time. â ~ Ayn Rand
Excellent post. I agree that the Paris accord is not a sufficient plan. But the world does need to plan to prevent the current and coming climate change impact. An ounce of prevention vs the pound of cure (assuming it even can be cured if we wait too long). And the cost won’t just be measured in hundreds of trillions of dollars, it will be measured in millions of lives.
Nonetheless, in the imaginary world of of economics and public policy, simply wishing for climate change to “go away”, won’t make it so.
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Men's Soccer Ends Regular Season at St. Joseph (Conn.)
St. Joseph (Conn.)
Albertus Magnus (9-8-1, 6-4-1 GNAC) 0 2 2
St. Joseph (Conn.) (11-5-1, 7-4-0 GNAC) 4 2 6
1st - 7:39 - Mergim Kutllovci (St. Joseph (Conn.))
1st - 10:57 - Anthony Delacruz (St. Joseph (Conn.))
1st - 18:34 - Hayden Burbank (St. Joseph (Conn.))
1st - 26:36 - DeAnte Anderson (St. Joseph (Conn.))
2nd - 47:08 - DeAnte Anderson (St. Joseph (Conn.))
2nd - 51:14 - Abdoul Aremu (Albertus Magnus)
2nd - 55:25 - Salah Oumorou (Albertus Magnus)
2nd - 87:55 - Benjamin Marchetti (St. Joseph (Conn.))
A: Tyler Saad - 1
Sv: Garfield Robinson - 8
G: DeAnte Anderson - 2
Sh: Mergim Kutllovci - 6
Sv: John Griffin - 3
Photo Credit: Kayla Gosselin
West Hartford, Conn. - The Albertus Magnus College men's soccer team was unable to overcome a five-goal first half by the University of St. Joseph in a 6-2 loss its 2019 regular-season finale on Wednesday afternoon. With the loss, the Falcons clinch the fifth seed in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Championship Tournament.
FINAL: Univ. of St. Joseph (CT) 6 | Albertus Magnus 2
RECORDS: Albertus Magnus (9-8-1, 6-4-1 GNAC) | Univ. of St. Joseph (CT) (11-5-1, 7-4-0 GNAC)
The Blue Jays took the lead, 1-0, with an eighth-minute tally. Mergim Kutllovci took possession of the ball in the box and sniped a shot into the upper 90 to beat Albertus' goalie.
St. Joseph went ahead 2-0 just over three minutes later with a goal from Anthony Delacruz. Delacruz buried a Hayden Burbank pass off of a corner kick right into the back of the net in the 11th minute.
The Blue Jays continued to apply pressure in the first half, scoring two more first-half goals to take a 4-0 lead into the break. Burbank scored a goal of his own in the 19th minute, while DeAnte Anderson found daylight in the 27th minute.
After St. Joseph took a 5-0 advantage to start the half, Abdoul Aremu (West Haven, Conn.) gave the Falcons their first goal. Tyler Saad (Shelton, Conn.) sent a corner kick into the box, where Aremu redirected it into the back of the net.
Albertus cut the deficit to 5-2 with a Salah Oumorou (West Haven, Conn.) tally in the 56th minute. Oumorou rocketed a ball from about 10 yards out past the opposing keeper to his left-hand side.
The Blue Jays added one more goal in the 88th minute to secure the 6-2 victory.
Albertus - Garfield Robinson (L, 6-6-1): Shots on Goal 14 | Goals-Against 6 | Saves 8
St. Joseph - John Griffin (W, 6-4-1): Shots on Goal 5 | Goals-Against 2 | Saves 3
• St. Joseph owned a 22-13 advantage in shots in the game.
• The Blue Jays also owned a 9-7 lead in corner kicks.
• Aremu and Oumorou paced the Falcons' offense with four shots apiece.
• Aremu also finished with a team-high three shots on goal.
• St. Joseph's Kutllovci led all players with six total shots and four shots on goal.
• Garfield Robinson (West Haven, Conn.) made eight saves in a complete-game effort.
• Both teams combined for 31 fouls.
• With the loss, the Falcons clinch the fifth spot in the GNAC standings.
• USJ evens the all-time series at 1-1.
• Oumorou ends the regular season with 48 points and 21 goals, both lead the GNAC.
• Oumorou is now one goal and two points shy of tying the single-season program record in both categories.
• With the goal today, Aremu crossed the 20-point plateau for the first time in his career with eight goals and four assists this year.
• Aremu is second on the team in points, goals and assists.
With today's result, the Falcons booked a rematch with the Blue Jays in the GNAC Tournament Quarterfinals on Saturday, Nov. 2, in West Hartford, Conn. The battle between the two aerial foes is slated to begin at 2:30 p.m.
GNAC TOURNAMENT PREVIEW & SCHEDULE
• The Falcons will be making their 24th appearance in the postseason.
• The Falcons will be making their 19th straight postseason appearance.
• Albertus is 16-20-4 in the postseason.
Saturday, Nov. 2 - Quarterfinals
Game 1: #8 at #1
Tuesday, Nov. 5 - Semifinals (at higher seeds)
Game 5: 4/5 winner vs. 1/8 winner
Saturday, Nov. 9 - Championship
Game 7: at the highest seed
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This glowing fictional tribute to the evolution of American feminism is deftly aided by narrator George Guidall. A midlife crisis for film scholar Felix means it's time to take a look at the turning points of his life. He's guided by former trailblazing film director Lois Weber and a magical movie screen as he reviews the influential women in his past. Guidall's talented portrayals of complicated and dramatic characters provide listeners with an entertaining guide to feminism in this fascinating fantasy. Guidall shines in his portrayals of a wide range of women as the seemingly random events of Felix's life coalesce into a heartfelt observation of the struggles and triumphs of the women who mean so much to him. R.O. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2016]
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Some people might think that in a world of free messaging apps like WhatsApp, Viber, Instagram, etc. there is no need for SMS. But the fact is that personal internet access like mobile data or free wifi is available to a very small part of the world’s population everyone else uses SMS texting and needs apps that have great features and offer a good user experience. This is why it’s very important to find the best SMS app for Android. Depending on what you are looking for there hundreds of texting apps that can meet your needs or be a total waste of your time. Want to watch a movie on your phone? Take a look at these movie apps.
It’s important to note that the best SMS app for Android has qualities that make it stand out. We will be looking at the layout, the user interface, the price, and extra features. It’s important that the app is user-friendly, easy to use, supports MMS, can be customizable to your needs. The extra features are what make the app stand out. So here is a list to help you find the best SMS app for Android on the market.
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Textra
It’s one of the most popular and best SMS app for Android. You can customize almost everything – emojis, bubbles, themes, backgrounds, notifications, and even the contacts. Besides that it allows for a dark mode, SMS blocking, mid-send delayed sending and it supports smart wear. The app is free and offers a payable pro version.
It’s Google’s SMS app that is pre-existing on Pixel and other phones. The layout is clean, it’s simple to use and allows for RCS messaging (Rich Communication Services). This means that you can group messages, read receipts, use stickers, etc. The app has also a web version, so you can text from your computer. It is free, easy to use and looks amazing. The only negative thing is that it is very battery draining.
EvolveSMS
When design and customization are in question, this is the perfect app. It looks amazing, allows for theme and notifications customization. Allows for quick reply pop-ups that appear over whatever you’re doing. Some features, like night mode or theme packs, need to be purchased, but most features are free.
Chomp SMS
Chomp is one of the oldest and best messaging apps. It’s customizable, compliant with smart wear and free (with some optional in-app purchases). It includes features like SMS blocking, pop-up reply, MMS, emojis, group messaging. You can even stop an SMS mid sending! Chomp SMS is really one of the best SMS apps for Android.
Pulse SMS
Pulse SMS works not only on your phone but on all devices like a PC or tablet (for a monthly fee). It allows for backup and number blocking. It is customizable and has dual sim support. The texting part of the app for your phone is completely free.
Mood Messenger
This is one of the newest apps that keeps it simple and has all of the necessary features. These include texting, MMS, themes, emojis, etc. Extra features include a dark theme and SMS blocking. The basic version is completely free. The app offers a premium version that is kind of pricey but offers an amazing experience and features like privacy locker, backup and restores, SMS encryption, etc.
Handcent
It’s one of the oldest SMS apps for Android that has stayed up with the development of new technologies. It has a lot of amazing features and settings like a private box for private conversations, emojis, SMS blocking, etc. You can also use it to send text messages from your computer or tablet. It is free, with some in-app purchases.
YAATA SMS
What makes this app stand out, besides its amazing looks and user-friendliness is the scheduled messaging feature. You can also backup conversations, auto-respond and blacklist numbers. For the most part, it is free but it includes some in-app purchases.
QKSMS
This is definitely one of the best-looking apps for messaging. It is also one of the fastest ones and it is very lightweight. It supports smart wear. It’s completely free and open source which adds to the list of things that are great about this app.
We know that a lot of people don’t like Facebook, but Facebook Messenger is a very practical way to have all of your conversations in one app. The app has a built-in SMS option that has the same features as the app. This is not a good option if you’re not a Facebook user, but a very practical one if you are one.
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Australian Photographic Society presents,
Mullins Australian Conceptual Photography Prize – 2020
Announcing a stunning new initiative by the Australian Photographic Society – a very special new photographic Prize, unlike any previously seen in Australia, the opportunity for Conceptual photographers to be recognised as the best in Australia – and to win significant prize money.
Click here for detailed information on this competition
APS Nature exhibition
Click here to ENTER MACPP 2020
Conditions of Entry & FAQs
Eligibility to enter
Entrants must be:
aged 18 years or over at the closing date for entries
an Australian citizen or resident (including Australian citizens who live overseas), or an overseas member of Australian Photographic Society (‘APS’)
Judges are not eligible to enter.
The entries
Each entry must be a still work that has been substantially produced by photographic means, including analogue and digital photography, collage and mixed media.
Each entry must be accompanied by an Artist’s Concept Statement of no more than 100 words. The statement must not identify the author.
Each entry must not have been previously selected as a finalist in a Prize or exhibited at a major public institution.
The entry title must not identify the author.
A maximum of four (4) entries may be submitted by any one entrant.
Entries must have been created in the twelve months preceding the closing date for entries.
Watermarked images will not be accepted.
Entrants must warrant that each work submitted is original and does not infringe the copyright, moral rights or other rights of any third party and that the entrant owns all rights and interests in the work submitted. All entrants must indemnify and keep indemnified the APS, Magnet Galleries and MyPhotoClub against any claim by a third party in relation to their entries.
Entries selected as finalists must not be used in promotional material for any other event or exhibition until the conclusion of the MACPP 2020 exhibition.
Entrants must warrant that their entries are their original work. They must be the sole copyright holder and intellectual property owner of their entries in accordance with Australian law and warrant that any intellectual property rights and moral rights of a third party have not been infringed. Intellectual property rights in entries remain with the entrant as the copyright owner. It is a condition of entry that the entrant grants to the acquiring gallery (Magnet) and APS without conditions, a perpetual royalty-free licence to use, publicly display, publicise, reproduce the entry or part of an entry, including in electronic form and broadcast, for publicity, promotional, educational and administrative purposes associated with the ACPP, in both digital and print mediums. For example, the work of previous finalists may be reproduced in publications promoting the MACPP in future years. It is a condition of entry that the entrant grants to APS and Magnet without conditions, permission in perpetuity to supply copies of entries to third parties for purposes associated with the MACPP.
Where required by law, entrants must warrant that they have obtained the consent of all persons whose likenesses appear in their entries. This includes the requirement that those persons understand their rights regarding the photograph being taken. Such consent must include use of the entry in perpetuity for all marketing, educational and publicity uses of such photographs and ensure that no additional consents or licences are required in respect of names, trademarks, designs, works of art or any other intellectual property depicted in the work. The persons must be informed that their image may be displayed in the exhibition and its tour, as well as featured in accompanying promotional and advertising material in print and online format. Where information is disclosed about any person in the artist statement, the entrant must also obtain permission for that information to be used in conjunction with the image. If a person is not able to legally give consent (for example, for reasons of age or administration), entrants are required to obtain the consent of someone who is able to give consent on their behalf. If an entrant’s work is selected for exhibition, APS might require them to provide written evidence of such consent.
Each entrant may submit up to four entries for selection for the MACPP.
Each entry must be accompanied by a fully completed entry form as part of online registration of entry.
Entrants must submit an artist statement of maximum 100 words as part of the entry form. Neither the artist statement nor the title of the entry may contain information identifying the entrant. APS may edit artist statements for consistency prior to publication.
The non-refundable entry fees are:
Number of entries APS Members Non-APS Members
1 AUD $40 AUD $70
3 AUD $60 AUD $110
Payments must be made with a debit/credit card using the MyPhotoClub payment portal. Entrants whose payments cannot be processed will be considered ineligible.
Each entry must be submitted via APS’s MyPhotoClub link as a digital file (maximum 5 Mb) saved as a JPG at up to 300 DPI, at least 2400 pixels wide or tall. Prints (hard copies) of entries will not be accepted for the judging and selection process. Entries will be accepted from 10 AM AEDT Friday 13 December 2019 until 11 PM AEST Friday 1 May 2020.
Meet the Photographer Events
Available finalists/exhibitors are encouraged to spend time at the Gallery during the exhibition on weekdays (Tuesday-Friday, 10AM-4PM) or weekends (11AM-4PM) for ‘Meet the Photographer Events’. Exhibitors will be asked to notify the Magnet Gallery of their availability. Having photographers at the Gallery is very beneficial and available exhibitors are encouraged to make the effort to spend a couple of hours at MAGNET at least once during the exhibition period – it’s also a good time to encourage friends/family to meet at the Gallery.
Q: What is Conceptual Photography?
A: Conceptual photography is photography that illustrates an idea. Conceptual photography means that you have a very specific idea you want to share with your audience. It can be something rather simple like happiness or sadness or something more complex such as gender identities, existential issues and so on. The ‘concept’ is both preconceived and, if successful, understandable in the completed image.
Q: I’d like to enter a series instead of a single photograph. If all the photographs in the series meet the criteria, is this possible?
A: A series of images could only be submitted as one entry if all images were contained within the one file uploaded and within the one print if selected as a finalist for exhibition. Multiple images intended to be presented as one work will be rejected if uploaded separately.
Q: Are diptychs/ triptychs allowed?
A: Yes. So long as they are uploaded as one file and, if selected as a finalist, printed for exhibition as one work.
Q: Can I enter 4 images that could be judged separately, rather than as a panel?
A: You can enter up to 4 separate images and each of them will be judged separately. In fact, you cannot have your entries judged as a panel.
Q: The rules state that “each entry must not have been previously selected as a finalist in a Prize or exhibited at a major public institution”. Does this include FIAP-approved Salons/Exhibitions or does it refer to prizes Head On or the National Portrait Prize? And is it a problem if the entries are entered in other competitions after the entry deadline (recognising that they may then go on to receive Awards or be exhibited after the entry deadline?)
A: The reference to Prizes or exhibition at major public institutions does not include FIAP-approved salons. It is about such things as the Head On Photo Awards, the National Photographic Portrait Prize, the Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, the Olive Cotton Photographic Portrait Prize, the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Prize, the MORAN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PRIZE, the William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, the Heritage Bank Awards, the Fremantle International Portrait Prize, and so on. Since the words in the Terms and Conditions say “must not have been previously selected” there is no barrier to entering the same images elsewhere after the closing date for the MACPP 2020.
Q: If I am an accredited photography judge does that mean I cannot enter?
A: It is only the judges of MACPP 2020 that cannot enter MACPP.
Q: Since a warrant is a legal document do I have to get a JP to confirm my statements?
A: No, the word warrant as used in the terms and conditions is a verb and simply means “to guarantee or provide assurance”.
Q: Can I use a courier to collect work from the Gallery after the exhibition concludes?
A: Yes, provided the gallery are advised that you have authorised the courier to collect your work.
Q: Does the finished work have to be paper based? Are prints on acrylic or metal allowed?
A: The choice of medium rests with the finalists.
Q: Do finalist’s prints have to use acrylic glazing or Perspex if they have been printed on acrylic or metal?
A: Not necessarily. The only issue is the exposed edges and particularly corners which are very vulnerable during transport. (http://magnet.org.au/printing/ can offer a special price for archival printing, framing, mounting , scanning for entrants. They can also mount conventional prints using archival materials on Aluminium panels.)
Awards – Prizes
The winners of the MACPP and the best entry in the MACPP competition by an APS Member (which may also be the winner of the MACPP) will be announced on Thursday 9 July 2020 at the 6.30 PM AEST opening of the exhibition of the finalists’ prints at Magnet’s Melbourne Docklands Gallery.
The winner of the MACPP will be awarded $8,000 cash. The winner of the best entry by an APS Member will receive $2,000 cash. If the winner of the MACPP is an APS member then that entrant will receive both cash amounts – totaling $10,000.
Another selected finalist will be awarded a $1,000 voucher generously provided by sponsor Emergent Designs.
All finalists who are not APS members will be granted free membership of APS for twelve months from the date the finalists are announced at the opening of the exhibition. The granting of such free membership will not qualify the finalist for “best entry by an APS member” in this MACPP.
Other prizes may be added as further sponsors are announced.
The MACPP is acquisitive; meaning the printed winning artwork that is awarded the MACPP immediately becomes the property of Magnet Galleries.
Sections – Definitions
There are no sections in this competition.
Submission of entries / fees
Entrants must submit an artist statement of maximum 100 words as part of the entry form. APS may edit artist statements for consistency prior to publication.
Each entry must be submitted via APS’s MyPhotoClub link as a digital file (maximum 5 Mb) saved as a JPG at up to 300 DPI, at least 2400 pixels wide or tall. Prints (hard copies) of entries will not be accepted for the initial judging and selection process. Entries will be accepted from 10 AM AEDT Friday 13 December 2019 until 11 PM AEST Friday 1 May 2020.
Finalists Exhibition Prints
Finalist images selected for exhibition must comply with the following format rules:
Works must be submitted as finished prints stable enough to ensure transport and installation.
D-rings must be attached to the reverse of the work and ready for hanging.
Multi-panel works are regarded as one work.
Prints must clearly bear the title of the work and name, address, telephone number and email address of the entrant on the reverse of the work.
Magnet will ask finalists to re-print, re-mat or re-frame works that it thinks are not suitable for display and to re-deliver them at the finalist’s own expense.
Delivery must be made in person, by a nominated representative (such as a friend, relative or artist’s agent) or by a courier/freight company by the date notified to the finalist. The work must be accompanied by printouts of the completed entry form.
Alternatively, entrants whose works are selected as finalists may (at their own cost) arrange to have their exhibition ready prints made (and framing arranged) by Photonet@Magnet, avoiding the need to deliver them. Printing for exhibitors must be finalized in the week commencing Tuesday 2 June 2020. Appointments necessary. (03) 8589 0371.
All entrants whose works are selected as finalists may also arrange (at their own cost) for Photonet@Magnet to print on demand as many copies at whatever sizes they wish for their personal use or to be offered for sale during the exhibition.
The organisers including Magnet will NOT pay for any costs incurred in the delivery of any entry, including freight, customs duty or import tax. Nor will they pay for any costs incurred in returning unsold prints to their authors.
Each finalist grants to the APS, Magnet, touring partners and sponsors a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide and royalty-free licence to use his or her image for advertising and promotion of the MACPP, APS or Magnet in any form of media now known or yet to be devised, both from the date the finalists are announced and in future years. Entrants acknowledge and agree that the APS, Magnet, touring partners and sponsors are not liable to pay the finalists any fee, royalty or other form of remuneration for this right.
Unless otherwise advised beforehand, finalists must arrange to have their work collected from Magnet@Docklands during opening hours (Thursdays to Sundays: 12Noon to 4PM) within the period Tuesday 4 August 2020 to Saturday 8 August 2020. Finalists will be reminded by email regarding dates and times when they can collect their work. It is a condition of entry that finalists are willing to sign a “Confirmation of dispose of artwork” form authorising APS and Magnet to dispose of work that is not collected within the collection period.
Interstate and overseas exhibitors are required to advise Magnet Gallery of the cost of delivery to Gallery by Australia Post or Courier. Unsold works will be returned by the same delivery method using same packaging as far as possible. Authors will be invoiced for return delivery costs including repackaging time/labour, new packaging materials if required. If method of return of works is to be varied (e.g. personal pick-up) the gallery must be advised as soon as possible.
APS reserves the right to exhibit or display finalists’ works at additional venues in other parts of Australia (to be determined) until 31 December 2021. This may change arrangements for collection/return of unsold works.
Finalists are advised to insure their works against loss or damage during the MACPP 2020 competition/exhibition period of travelling, handling, judging, exhibition and storage. All reasonable care will be taken with all entries, but the APS takes no responsibility whatsoever for loss or damage however caused to any works submitted.
All entrants agree to receive information and updates about the APS, Magnet Gallery and any other additional venues through their nominated email address.
Catalogues for this competition will appear here. This is the first year that this competition has been conducted.
The judges will have absolute discretion in determining the eligibility of an entry based on their interpretation of the Terms and Conditions of entry. The judges’ decision will be final and not subject to discussion or appeal. No correspondence will be entered into.
The judges will select a maximum of fifty finalist images from the digital images uploaded (“judging ready”).
Entrants whose work/s have been chosen as finalists will be notified by APS (by email or telephone) of their success by 18 May 2020. Unsuccessful entrants will not be personally notified.
All entries selected as finalists will be displayed on a-p-s.org.au and may also be displayed on social media at the discretion of the APS. They may also be displayed on the Magnet website and on social media at the discretion of Magnet.
All finalists must sign and return a confirmation of entry form that will be emailed to them when they are notified. If the artwork is for sale, additional information will also be requested.
The finalists must submit “exhibition ready prints” for exhibition and final judging by 3 PM AEST Saturday 20 June 2020.
The prizes will be judged from the digital images uploaded (“judging ready”).
Jacqui Dean
Dip Photog. APP.L, GM.Photog., FNZIPP, FAIPP, Hon FAIPP
www.deanphotographics.com.au
Jacqui Dean is an award-winning Sydney based professional photographer and artist.
Her commercial work focuses on architecture and form, while her art practice explores the natural world, hidden forms and processes of change and transformation.
In 2012 her show TRANSLUCENCE was a featured exhibition at Head On. In 2014 it was exhibited at the Maud Creative Gallery, Newstead, Brisbane, and was also a featured show in Shimmer Photo Biennale, Port Noarlunga Art Gallery where Translucence was voted the most popular photographic exhibition and earned Jacqui the Robert McFarlane inaugural prize. In 2015 Translucence was also exhibited at Inverell Regional Art Gallery and also recently shown at Black Eye Gallery Darlinghurst, Sydney.
In 2000 her critically acclaimed show WANDERLUST reflected a range of Jacqui’s international editorial assignments.
Her work has been featured in numerous national and international publications including: The Good Weekend, Australian Geographic, Architectural Review, InDesign, Monument, Black+White, Photofile, Nikon Life and Gourmet Traveller.
She became an AIPP Grand Master Photographer in 2012. She has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship and a Fellowship of the AIPP and is also a Fellow of the NZIPP.
Dr. Judith Nangala Crispin
www.judithcrispin.com
Judith Nangala Crispin is a poet and lens-based visual artist working between Yuendumu in the NT and regional NSW. Her photography is centred on Lumachrome Glass printing, a cameraless method she developed using elements of early photochemistry.
Judith has had a stellar academic career in music, winning international prizes for composition,
and teaching in Cairo, Paris and Berlin as well as in Australia. Moving to include photography among her avocations, Judith was invited to exhibit in the prestigious core programme of the 2011 Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB). She has also exhibited works in galleries in Melbourne, including MAGNET GALLERIES. She is a past Board member of MAGNET GALLERIES MELBOURNE Inc.
www.juliewilliams.art
Julie Williams is a photo-media artist living and working in the Central West region of NSW. Her art practice addresses our vulnerability as a species disconnected from nature. Across photography, video and installation, she utilises self-portraiture with multiple exposures; immersing herself deep within the landscape to highlight the search for reconnection and an ecological healing. When the artist appears in the imagery, it as a translucent figure displaced and searching. Her work queries the spirit of place and how humanity can inhabit a location more fully. Julie has exhibited widely: she has received commendations in national art awards, artist grants and sponsorship.
Internationally her work has recently been included in the 2018 Family of No Man exhibition and time capsule at Les Recontres de la Photographie, in Arles and the publication Dark Mountain Anthology issue #13 Being Human in the Thick of the Present.
The Mullins Story
In 2009, Barbara Mullins provided the APS with a bequest in memory of her husband, the late Doug Mullins, President of the Society 1964-1966. This bequest was part of the proceeds from the sale of Mullins Gallery, the former headquarters of the South Australian Photographic Federation of which Doug was Patron.
At that time the bequest was intended to support the regular publication of an APS book of members’ work. In 2011 the first edition of APS Gallery was published. In 2012, the APS celebrated its 50th anniversary and a second book was published. No further books have been created and the balance of the bequest has since grown through interest earned.
Seeking to ensure the long-term future of its new Australian Conceptual Photography Prize introduced in 2019, the Society approached the Mullins family with a proposal that would satisfy the intent of honouring both Doug’s and Barbara’s significant contributions to the APS. There was much synergy in the proposal with the style of Doug’s exhibition photography in the Prize, and in Doug and Barbara’s generous support of the arts and the Art Gallery of SA.
In early December 2019, approval was received to apply the balance of the bequest funds to the Prize. The Society has, therefore, retitled the prize as the Mullins Australian Conceptual Photography Prize (MACPP) and it will be a permanent reminder of Barbara and Doug Mullins.
Entries Open at 10 AM AEDT 13 December 2019
The 2020 MACPP competition portal will open for entries at 10 AM AEDT on 13 December 2019. This is the second MACPP following its very successful introduction in 2019 – a very special photographic Prize, unlike any previously seen in Australia, the opportunity for Conceptual photographers to be recognised as the best in Australia – and to win significant prize money.
The name of the Prize has been changed to the Mullins Australian Conceptual Photography Prize (MACPP), in permanent memory of Doug and Barbara Mullins. The availability of a bequest in their names will ensure the long-term future of the MACPP.
The MACPP is acquisitive; meaning the printed winning artwork that is awarded the MACPP Prize will immediately become the property of Magnet Galleries, which has partnered with the APS.
The winner of the 2020 MACPP will again be awarded $8,000 cash. The winner of the best entry by an APS Member will receive $2,000 cash. If the winner of the 2020 MACPP is an APS Member then that entrant will receive both cash amounts – totalling $10,000. An Emergent Designs voucher valued at $1,000 will be awarded to another finalist selected by the three judges.
The winners will be announced on Thursday 9 July 2020 at the 6.30 PM AEST opening of the exhibition of the finalists’ prints at Magnet Galleries’ Melbourne Docklands Gallery.
Each entry must be accompanied by an Artist’s Concept Statement of no more than 100 words.
Entries must have been created in the twelve months preceding the closing date for entries (1 May 2020).
Further enquiries:
Brian Rope, Management Team, MACPP, winfocus@ozemail.com.au
Roger Skinner, Management Team, MACPP, rojpix@ipstarmail.com.au
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AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega spotted at Facebook event
Cory Gunther
It should come as no surprise that we’re expecting not just an announcement of the new Facebook app for Android and Facebook Home, but also a smartphone. It will be gracing the hands of users at the Facebook Home press event this afternoon. With a few leaks already in the bag many assumed it would be AT&T, but we can now confirm AT&T’s own CEO Ralph de la Vega is in the building.
We’re here live for the Facebook event which will be getting started in another 30 minutes or so, but while roaming around we noticed AT&T’s own CEO strolling down the road 1 Hacker Way on the Facebook campus. He then proceeded into building 16 and disappeared. We’d love to see the phone he probably has in his suit jacket pocket, but that won’t be happening.
We know there will be a smartphone along with the Facebook Home announcement. All bets are off as we’ve seen enough leaks, evidence, and FCC filings to confirm the device. That being the HTC first (codenamed Myst) which recently passed the FCC with AT&T and 4G LTE on board. Now that we’ve seen AT&T’s own CEO live on site for the event, it’s all but confirmed.
Now all we need is for Mark Zuck to take the stage and fill the air with some usual words of Facebook’s awesomeness, and then let the announcements fly. We’ll be reporting live so stay tuned for details and pictures and more. It looks like the HTC first will be coming either first, or exclusively to AT&T in the near future. Now lets just hope it will be free.
HTC Myst FCC filing shows support for AT&T LTE
HTC Myst 'Facebook Phone' hardware details leak
Facebook Home: here's how Android gets social to the core
Facebook Phone 'HTC first' press image leaks
Facebook Phone user interface photos leak, looks snazzy
Facebook Phone leak reveals 4 color options coming soon
Facebook for Android
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Spotify adds Led Zeppelin to streaming ranks
Chris Burns
The one and only Led Zeppelin has been added to the extensive libraries of Spotify, allowing in a variety of albums over the next month. Starting today – December 11th, 2013, Led Zeppelin albums will begin to be ushered in with “Led Zeppelin” and “Led Zeppelin II”, both from 1969. After that it’s December 12th with the release of III and the untitled 4th album, these originally released in 1970 and 1971.
Down the line you’ll find December 14th bringing on Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti, then a whole dish up on the 15th. The final gush includes The Song Remains the Same, Coda, BBC Sessions, How The West Was Won, Mothership, and Celebration Day, bringing the collection all the way up to present day.
The announcement of this addition of Led Zeppelin music was made this week by Spotify CEO and Founder Daniel Ek in New York City. It was also made clear that the release of each of these albums would be made available at midnight local time – wherever you happen to be situated – for the next four days. This release includes the full (official) catalog of studio and live albums from start to finish.
This release includes the band’s Swan Song / Atlantic catalog, while a whole bevy of releases – unofficial, the most of them – including live albums and bootlegs – will still need to be sought out by you, the superfan. Keep at it!
This news also joins word that Spotify will be able to be used on smartphones and tablets now without cost. Have a peek at that release as well, and start streaming at your leisure.
Metallica arrives on Spotify
Google Play Music 'All Access' takes on Spotify for a monthly fee
Spotify update finally adds landscape mode, forgets notification controls
Spotify update brings notification bar controls and better radio streaming
Soundwave updates adds Spotify and Rdio syncing
Spotify Browse playlist feature coming to Android
Spotify tipped to offer free limited ad-supported mobile access next week
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Game Audio & Digital Art Blog
audio // blog
PLAY Expo Manchester
October 12, 2016 annesophiemongeauLeave a comment
On 8-9 October took place the PLAY Expo event in Manchester, where The Sound Architect organised and put together a full 2 days of presentations and interviews. I had the opportunity to attend and listen to the valuable insights shared by the guest speakers and interviewees, as well as discuss and socialise with fellow game audio professionals. It was overall a successful event and a lovely weekend, allowing passionate people to get together and exchange knowledge. Here is my brief summary of the event.
11:00 Presentation: Ash Read – Eve: Valkyrie
The weekend started with Ash Read, sound designer at CCP working on Eve: Valkyrie, telling us about his experience with VR audio.
We were first enlightened on some aspects in which VR audio differs from ‘2D’ or ‘TV’ audio, and briefly what the ‘sonic mission’ consists of in this context. Specifically in Eve: Valkyrie, a chaotic space battle environment where a lot is happening, constantly, everywhere, the role of audio includes:
Keep the pilot (player) informed
Keep the pilot (player) immersed
In a visually saturated environment, audio is a great way to maintain focus on the important gameplay elements and help the player remain alert and immersed.
What is also different in VR audio, is a greater level of listener movement, so that techniques need to be developed to implement audio in a context where the listener’s head doesn’t stay still. One of these techniques involves HRTFs (Head Related Transfer Functions).
Put shortly, the HRTFs help the listener locate where the sound is coming from and detail 3D positioning, but also more accurately portrays subtle modifications to sound while traveling.
For instance, the distance and positioning of an object is not only expressed sonically through attenuation, but also by introducing the sound reflections of a specific environment, and by creating a sense of elevation.
We then learned about how audio in VR may contribute to reducing the motion sickness often related with VR, while it helps the visuals to compensate for the feeling of disconnect, partly responsible for the motion sickness.
Since VR usually means playing with headphones on, the Valkyrie audio team decided to include some customisable audio options for the player, such an audio enhancement slider, which helps bringing focus onto important sounds.
The sound design of Valkyrie is thought to be rugged, to tell about the raw energy of the game, and to be strong in details. With that in mind, the team is constantly aiming to improve audio along with the game updates. For instance, they plan to breathe more life into the cockpit by focusing on its resonance and enhance the deterioration effects.
Ash’s presentation was concluded with a playback of their recently released launch trailer for PS VR, the audio for which was beautifully done by Sweet Justice Sound.
You can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZNff-of63U
12:00 Presentation: Simon Gumbleton – PlayStation VR Worlds
Technical sound designer Simon Gumbleton then followed to tell us about the audio design and implementation in Sony’s PlayStation VR Worlds.
The VR Worlds game is rather like a collection of bespoke VR experiences, each presenting a different approach to player experience. Over the course of the development of those various experiences, the dev and audio teams have experimented, learned, and shaped their approaches, while exploring uncharted territories and encountering new challenges.
1st experience: Ocean Descent
Being the first experience they worked on, it laid the foundation of their work, and allowed for experimentation and learning. The audio team then developed some techniques such as the Focus System, where the listener would start to hear accentuated details of what’s in focus after a short amount of time (of it being in focus). You could see it as a game audio implementation of the cocktail party effect.
They also developed a technique concerning the player breathing, where they introduce breathing sounds at first, and eventually pull them out once the player has acclimated to the environment, where they become somewhat subconscious.
Similarly, they explored ways to implement avatar sounds, and found that, while they usually reinforce the player in the world, in VR there is a fine line between them being reinforcing or distracting. In short, the sounds heard need to be reflected by movements actually seen in game. This means that you would only hear avatar sounds related to head movements which have a direct impact on visuals, as opposed to body movements which you cannot see.
2nd experience: The London Heist
In this experience, there was more opportunity to experiment with interactive objects. To design believable audio feedback and to improve the tactile one to one interactions.
In order to do so, they implemented the sound of every interactable object in multiple layers. For instance, a drawer opening won’t be recorded as one sound and then played back on the event of opening this drawer in game. This drawer can be interacted with in many ways, so its sounds are integrated with a combination of parameters and layers in order to playback an accurate sonic response for the type of movement generated by the player’s actions.
Another example is the cigar smoking being driven by the player’s breathing. The microphone input communicates with the game and drives the interaction with the cigar for optimal immersive experience.
A detailed foley of the characters also proves to be something that helps bringing characters to life. Every detail is captured and realised, down to counting the number of rings on a character’s hand and implement its movement sounds accordingly.
Dynamic reverb tells the player info about the space and the sounds generated in it. A detailed and informative environment is created with the help of physically based reflection tails, as well as material dependent filters, all processed at run time. It’s all about making the environment feel more believable.
3rd experience: Scavengers Odyssey
This experience was developed later, so they were able to take their learnings from the previous experiences and apply them, and even push the limits further.
For instance, since this experience is taking place in space and there is no real ‘room’ to generate a detailed reflection based reverb, they focused on implementing the sound as if it was heard through the cockpit.
Simon also emphasized on how detail is important, while in VR, the player will subconsciously have very high expectations of detail. The way this is achieved is through lots of layering, and many discrete audio sources within the world.
Such detail inevitably brings tech challenges in relation to the performance of the audio engine, which will require a lot of optimisation work.
The ambiences have been implemented fully dynamically, where textures are created without any loops and are constantly evolving in game.
In terms of spatialisation, they tied all the SFX to the corresponding VFX within the world for optimal sync and highly accurate positioning.
They also emphasized important transitions in the environment by adding special transition emitters in critical places.
As for the music, they experimented in regards to its positioning, whether it should be placed inside the world or not, and mostly proceeded with quad array implementation when in passive environments.
They did have some opportunity to experiment with the unique VR ability to look up and down, for instance in Ocean’s Descent where they accentuated the feeling of darkness and depths VS brightness and light when looking up and down in the water with adaptive music.
This interactive menu is an experience in itself. It is the first space you are launched into when starting the game, and sets up the expectations for the rest. They needed to build a sense of immersion already, and put the same level of detail into the hub as anywhere else in order to maintain immersion when transitioning from one experience to another.
Finally, this collection of experiences needed to remain coherent overall and maintain a smoothness through every transition. This was accomplished through rigorous mixing, and by establishing a clear code regarding loudness and dynamics which would be applied throughout the entire game.
PlayStation VR Worlds is due to be released on 13 October 2016, you can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFnciHpEOMI
13:00 Interview: Voice Actor, Alix Wilton Regan – Dragon Age, Forza, Mass Effect, LBP3
Alix Wilton Regan told us about voice acting in video games in the form of an interview, lead by Sam Hughes.
Some thoughts were share about career paths, working in games VS in television, and some tips were shared for starting actors.
Alix Wilton Regan has started a fundraising campaign, a charitable initiative to help refugees in Calais, check it out!
https://gogetfunding.com/play-4-calais/
14:00 Interview: Composer, David Housden – Thomas Was Alone
Another interview followed with David Housden, composer on Thomas Was Alone and Volume. The interview was held in a similar way, starting with some thoughts on career progression, following with some details about his work on past and current titles, and concluding with advice on freelancing.
15:00 Presentation: Composer & Sound Designer, Matt Griffin – Unbox
Composer Matt Griffin then presented how the sound design and music for the game Unbox was implemented using FMOD.
One of the main audio goals for this entertaining game was to make it interactive and fun. In order to do so, Matt found ways to make the menus generative and sometimes reactive to timing, such as the menu music.
We were shown the FMOD project and its structure to illustrate this dynamic implementation. For the menu music, the use of transitions, quantizations and multi sound objects was key.
For the main world music, each NPC has its own layer of music, linked to a distance parameter. Some other techniques were used in order to make the music dynamic, such as having a ‘challenge’ music giving the player feedback on progression and timing, and multiplayer music with a 30 seconds countdown double tempo.
In terms of sound design, the ‘unbox’ sound presented a challenge while it is very frequently played throughout the game. In order to not make it too repetitive, it was implemented using multiple layers of multi sound objects, along with pitch randomisation on its various components and a parameter tracking how many ‘unboxes’ were heard so far.
An extensive amount of work was also realised for the box impact sounds on various surfaces, taking velocity into account.
For the character sounds, a sort of indecipherable blabber, individual syllables were recorded and then assembled together in game using FMOD’s Scatterer sound object.
16:00 Interactive Interview: Martin Stig Andersen – Limbo
Martin Stig Andersen, composer and sound designer on Limbo and Inside was then interviewed by Sam Hughes.
Similarly to the previous interviews, some questions relating to career paths were first answered, relating how Martin started in instrumental composition, shifted towards electroacoustic composition (musique concrète), and later into experimental short films.
His work often speaks of realism and abstraction, where sound design and music combine to form one holistic soundscape.
Martin explained how he was able to improve his work on audio for Inside compared to Limbo as he was brought onto the project at a much earlier stage, and was able to tackle larger tech issues, such as the ‘death-respawn’ sequence.
More info on the death-respawn sequence in this video : http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023731/A-Game-That-Listens-The
Some more details were provided about the audio implementation for Inside, for instance the way the sound of the shock wave is filtered depending on the player’s current cover status, or how audio is used to communicate to the player how well he/she is doing in the progression of the puzzle.
We also learned more about the mysterious recording techniques used for Inside involving a human skull and audio transducers.
More details here: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/282595/Audio_Design_Deep_Dive_Using_a_human_skull_to_create_the_sounds_of_Inside.php
17:00 Audio Panel: Adam Hay, David Housden, Matt Griffin
The first ended with a panel with the above participants, sharing some thoughts on game audio in general, freelancing, and what will come next.
11:00 Interview & Gameplay: Martin Stig Andersen – Limbo
The day started by inviting Martin Stig Andersen again to the stage, where the interview was roughly the same as the previous day.
12:00 Interview: Nathan McCree, Composer & Audio Designer
At midday, the audience crowded up as the composer for the first three Tomb Raider games was being interviewed by Sam Hughes.
Some questions about career progressions were followed by some words about the score and how Nathan came to compose a melody that he felt really represented the character.
The composer also announce The Tomb Raider Suite, a way to celebrate Tomb Raider’s 20th anniversary through music, where his work will be played by a live orchestra before the end of the year.
More details here:
http://tombraider.tumblr.com/post/143228470745/pax-east-tombraider20-announcement-the-tomb
13:00 Presentation: Voice Actor, Jay Britton – Fragments of Him, Strife
Next, voice actor Jay Britton gave us a lively presentation on the work of a voice actor in video games, involving a demo of a recording session. He gave us some advice on how to get started as a voice actor in games, including:
There is no one single path
Start small, work your way up
Continually improve your skills
Get trained in videogame performance
Get trained in motion capture and facial capture
Consider on-screen acting
Speak to indie devs
Get an agent
He followed by giving advice on how to come up with new voice character with your own voice, while giving us some convincing demonstrations.
14:00 Interview: Audio Designer, Adam Hay – Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture
Sound designer Adam Hay was then interviewed about his work on both Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture.
He mentioned how the narrative journey is of crucial importance in both these games, and how the sound helps the player progress through them.
16:00 Audio Panel: Simon Gumbleton, Ash Read, David Housden
Finally, the weekend ended (before giving the stage to live musicians) with a VR audio panel, giving us some additional insight on the challenges surrounding VR audio, such as the processing power involved in sound spatialisation, and how everything has to be thought through in a slightly different way than usual.
Voilà, a very busy weekend full of interesting insights and and advice. A massive thanks to The Sound Architect crew for putting this together, hopefully this can take place again next year! 🙂
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Develop: Brighton Game Dev Conference
July 15, 2016 annesophiemongeauLeave a comment
I just came back from Brighton for the Develop: Brighton game dev conference. I was there only on Thursday 14 July for the Audio Day, and here are my thoughts and brief summary.
It.Was.Great.
Amazing.Instructive.Inspiring.
The Audio Track was incredible, lining up wonderful speakers with so much to say!
The day started at 10 am with a short welcome and intro from John Broomhall (MC for the day), and a showing of an excerpt from the Beep Movie to be released this summer. Jory Prum was meant to give the introduction but very sadly passed recently from a motorcycle accident.
The excerpt presented hence showed him in his studio talking about his sound design toys:
10.15 am – Until Dawn – Linear Learnings For Improved Interactive Nuance
The first presentation was given by Barney Pratt, Audio Director at Supermassive Games, telling us about the audio design and integration in their game Until Dawn.
We learned about branching narrative and adapting film edit techniques for cinematic interactive media, dealing with Determinate VS Variable pieces of scenario.
Barney gave us some insight on how they created immersive Character Foley using procedural, velocity-sensitive techniques for footsteps and surfaces, knees, elbows, wrists and more. The procedural system was overlaid with long wav files per character for the determinate parts, providing a greatly realistic feel to the characters’ movements.
He then shared a bit about their dialog mixing challenges and solutions: where center speaker dialog mix and surround panning didn’t exactly offer what they were looking for, they came up with a 50% center biased panning system which seemed to have been successful (we heard a convincing excerpt from the game comparing these strategies). Put simply, this ‘soft panning’ technique provided the realism, voyeurism and immersion required by the genre.
Finally, Barney told us about their collaboration with composer Jason Graves to achieve incredible emotional nuances, from techniques once again inspired from film editing.
For instance, they wanted to avoid stems, states and randomisation in order to respect the cinematic quality of the game, as opposed to the techniques used for an open-world type of game.
The goal was to generate a visceral response with the music and sound effects. After watching a few excerpts, even in this analytic and totally non-immersive context, I can tell you, they succeeded. I jumped a few times myself and, although (or maybe because) the audio for this game is truly amazing, I will never play it, as to do so will prevent me from sleeping for weeks to come….
11.20 am – VR Audio Round Table
Then followed a round table about VR audio, featuring Barney Pratt (Supermassive Games), Matt Simmonds (nDreams) and Todd Baker (Freelance, known for Land’s End).
They discussed 3D positioning techniques, the role and place of the music, as well as HRTF & binaural audio issues. An overall interesting and instructive talk providing a well appreciated perspective on VR audio from some of the few people among us who have released a VR title.
12.20 – Creating New Sonics for Quantum Break
The stage then belonged to Richard Lapington, Audio Lead at Remedy Games. He revealed the complex audio system behind Quantum Break‘s Stutters – those moments during gameplay when time is broken.
The team was dealing with some design challenges, for instance the need for a strong sonic signature, the necessity of being instantly recognisable, and convincing. In order to reach those goals, they opted to rely on the visual inspiration the concept and VFX artists were using as a driving force for audio design.
Then, when they came up with a suitable sound prototype, they reversed engineered it and extrapolated an aesthetic which would be put into a system.
This system turned out to be an impressive collaboration between the audio and VFX team, where VFX was driven by real time FFT analysis operated by a proprietary plugin. This, paired with real time granular synthesis, resulted in a truly holistic experience. Amazing work.
// lunch //
I went to take a look at the expo during lunch time and tried the Playstation VR set with the game Battlezone from Rebellion.
I only tried it for a few minutes so I can’t give a full review, but I enjoyed the experience, the game was impressive visually. Unfortunately couldn’t get a clear listen as the expo was noisy, but I had enough of a taste to understand all that could be done with audio in VR and the challenges that it can pose. Would love to give this try…
2 pm – The Freelance Dance
The afternoon session started off with a panel featuring Kenny Young (AudBod), Todd Baker (Land’s End), Rebecca Parnell (MagicBrew), and Chris Sweetman (Sweet Justice).
They shared their respective experiences as freelancers and compared the freelance VS in-house position and lifestyle.
The moral of the story was that both have their pros and cons, but mostly they all agreed that if you want to be a freelancer, it’s a great plus to have some in-house experience first, and not start on your own right out of uni.
3 pm – Assassins Creed Syndicate: Sonic Navigation & Identity In Victorian London
Next on was Lydia Andrew, Audio Director at Ubisoft Quebec.
She explained how they focused on the player experience through audio in Assassins Creed Syndicate, and collaborated with composer Austin Wintory to give an immersive, seamless soundtrack giving identity to the universe.
They were careful to give a sonic identity to each borough of Victorian London, both through sound (ambiences, SFX, crowds, vehicles) and music. They researched Victorian music to suit the different boroughs and sought the advice of Professor Derek Scott to reach the highest possible historical accuracy.
Very detailed presentation of the techniques used to blend diegetic and non diegetic music, given by a wonderfully spirited and inspiring Audio Director.
4.15 pm – Dialogue Masterclass – Getting The Best From Voice Actors For Games
Mark Estdale followed with a presentation on how to direct a voice acting session, and how to give the actor the best possible context to improve performance.
Neat tricks were given, such as the ‘Show don’t tell’: use game assets to describe, give location, and respond to the actor’s lines. For instance, use the already recorded dialogue to reply to the actor’s lines, play background ambiance, play accompanying music, and show the visual context. Even use spot effects if the intention is to create a surprise.
5.15 pm – Stay On Target – The Sound Of Star Wars: Battlefront
This talk was outstanding. Impressive. Inspiring. Brilliant way to end the day of presentations. A cherry on the cake. Cookies on the ice cream.
You could practically see the members of the audience salivating with envy when David Jegutidse was describing the time he spent with Ben Burtt, hearing the master talk about his tools and watching him play with them, including the ancient analog synthesizer that was used to create the sounds of R2D2.
Along with Martin Wöhrer, they described how they adapted the Star Wars sounds to fit this modern game.
They collaborated with Skywalker Sound and got audio stems directly from the movies, as well as a library of sound effects and additional content on request.
In terms of designing new material, they were completely devoted to maintain the original style and tone, and opted for organic sound design.
What this means (among other things) is Retro processing through playback speed manipulations, worldising, and ring modulation, like they did back in the days.
It was a truly inspiring talk, giving a lot to think about to anyone working with an IP and adapting sound design from existing material and/or style and tone.
The day ended with an open mic calling back to the table Todd Baker, Lydia Andrew, Rebecca Parnell, Chris Sweetman and Mark Estdale to discuss the future of game audio.
Overall an incredible day where I got to meet super interesting and wonderful people, definitely looking forward to next year!! 🙂
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State of Play 2016 – Dublin
June 9, 2016 June 10, 2016 annesophiemongeauLeave a comment
Yesterday (8 June 2016) I went to the State of Play event held in Dublin Institute of Technology.
It was overall a great event, many speakers with relatively short talks (10-20 minutes each) kept the evening dynamic and filled with a variety of sage advice and colorful demonstrations.
Among the speakers were (not in order)
Owen LL Harris (also MC for the night) – http://owenllharris.com/
Llaura NicAodh – http://dreamfeel.org/
Kieran Nola – http://kierannolan.com/
Robin Baumgarten – http://aipanic.com/
Evan Balster – http://imitone.com/
Charlene Putney – http://alphachar.com/
Jen Carey – http://www.ficklegames.com/
Sherida Halatoe – http://www.beyondeyes-game.com/home/4578546094
Kevin Murphy – http://www.retroneogames.com/
Unfortunately I didn’t take note of all the names and can’t find a complete list of speakers, so might be forgetting one or more.. sorry!
(Also William Pugh was meant to be there but unfortunately could not make it due to his recent leg injury. We wish you a quick recovery William!)
I strongly suggest you check out those websites, all of them had interesting things to say.
Among my favorites, definitely Robin Baumgarten and his ‘hardware experimental game projects’. He showed us a bit of his process while working on projects such as the Line Wobbler and A Dozen Sliders
It is always inspiring to see someone creating something entirely new from scratch. Makes you want to lock yourself in a studio and do the same, because why not!
I was also otherwise surprised (or maybe not) that many of the talks related to the topic of coping with stress and creative blocks, motivation and self-care. The games industry is one to attract passionate, talented people hoping to fulfill themselves working on a project they believe in. Most of the times I like to think that this is true, but it would be foolish to ignore the harsh reality of crunch times, crazy deadlines and immense amount of pressure that come with the job.
I can imagine that all of the speakers went through this realisation more than once in their career, and provided us with their tips and techniques to try to stay sane in these periods of high stress.
There was also some talk about the value of networking (Kevin Murphy), as well as advice on how to create game narratives starting from personal experience (Sherida Halatoe)
Llaura’s talk, which was more of a storytelling than a speech, was also very strong while she played an excerpt of her latest game If Found Please Return, which seems to be really promising.
The generally informal tone to the evening made it refreshing and quite friendly. The event continued in an even more informal manner at the Odessa pub for some social drinks.
Looking forward to State of Play 2017!
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Women's Fightback 21, Spring 2015
Women's Fightback 21
A feminist perspective on free education
Free speech is a feminist issue
Stop cuts in domestic violence services!
Published on: Wed, 25/02/2015 - 12:59
Kelly Rogers, Defend Education Birmingham, National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, personal capacity
On International Women’s Day women in NCAFC have called a mass occupation to force a discussion around a feminist perspective on free education politics.
This discussions needs to include a critique of the neoliberal university from a feminist perspective, and a critique on our own movement: sexist practices on the left, and the failures of feminist groups and organisations like the NUS Women’s Campaign, whose distorted application of safer spaces politics is leading us squarely towards inaction.
Let’s take a closer look at the demands that have formed the centrepiece of our occupations,
Pragna Patel
Southall Black Sisters have always organised autonomously as an anti-communalist, anti-racist, and progressive organisation. We’ve been going since 1979, as both a service provider to black and minority women, and an anti-racist and feminist organisation.
When we were set up, there was silence on race and gender in a range of social movements. We wanted to organise within those movements, autonomously, and at the same time calling on these movements to adopt what is now fashionably termed an “intersectional” approach to seeing the interconnections between race, class, sex, gender, and to
Becky Crocker
Women activists have set up a direct action group, Sisters Uncut, to protest against cuts to domestic violence services. Sisters Uncut held its first direct action on Saturday 14 February, to mark the spike in domestic violence that is usually recorded around Valentine’s Day.
Cuts to domestic violence services have reached a critical point. According to a recent Women’s Aid report:
• Between 2010 and 2014 (July) the number of specialist refuge services decreased from 187 to 155.
• In England, according to Council of Europe recommendations, there is a shortfall of 1,727 refuge bedspaces (32%)
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Good morning, this is Helen Sullivan bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Wednesday 18 September.
Josh Frydenberg overruled his department when he blocked two wind turbines on Lord Howe Island in 2017, forcing the world heritage-listed island to continue relying on diesel fuel for the bulk of its electricity. The former environment minister took the unusual action of blocking the project under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, deeming it “unacceptable”. It was one of only two projects that Frydenberg rejected while environment minister, both of which were criticised by the broadcaster Alan Jones. Many other projects, including Adani’s groundwater plan and the Abbot Point coal terminal, were approved with conditions.
The task of moderating Facebook continues to leave psychological scars on the company’s workers, months after efforts to improve conditions, the Guardian has learned. A group of current and former contractors who worked for years at the social network’s Berlin-based moderation centres has reported witnessing colleagues become “addicted” to graphic content and hoarding ever more extreme examples for a personal collection. They also said others were pushed towards the far right by the amount of hate speech and fake news they read every day.
A judge will today reveal her reasons for slapping a $140m asset-freezing order on the controversial businessman and political donor Huang Xiangmo, after an application by the Australian Taxation Office. At an urgent hearing in Sydney on Monday, federal court judge Anna Katzmann ordered Huang not to dispose of assets worth up to the $140.9m claimed by the ATO, including more than $6m worth of property in Sydney and an apartment in Hong Kong.
Jeremy Corbyn has set out his plans to secure a better Brexit deal from the EU. Photograph: Lesley Martin/PA
The UK Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has said he would “carry out whatever the people decide” in a second EU referendum, with remain as an option, if he became prime minister. Meanwhile the government declined to rule out a fresh suspension of parliament if it lost its supreme court case.
The United States government has filed a civil lawsuit against Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower, over the publication this week of his memoir.
Benjamin Netanyahu could be scrambling for his political survival over the coming days, after Israel election exit polls suggested he might struggle to form a governing coalition. Follow our live blog for the latest updates.
An MIT scientist, Richard Stallman, has resigned over emails that appeared to show him downplaying another academic’s alleged participation in the purported sex trafficking of minors by Jeffrey Epstein.
Air pollution particles have been found on the foetal side of placentas, indicating that unborn babies are directly exposed to the black carbon produced by motor traffic and fuel burning.
Michel Cohen, who disappeared with $50m swindled from the New York art world. Photograph: Unknown/BBC/Top Hat/Michel Cohen
For years, the documentary maker Vanessa Engle has been on the trail of a notorious swindler who escaped from prison and disappeared into thin air. Then one day, the phone rang. “You probably haven’t heard of Michel Cohen. Do a search and you get Michael Cohen, the Trump fixer who went to jail. Wrong one,” writes Sam Wollaston. “Though this one did go to jail, too. He’s French, born in 1953 on an estate in a poor suburb of Paris and his first job was to sell the Encyclopedia Britannica door to door, which he was very good at. Cohen later went to the US and started selling French paté, then prints. He got into the art world, became a dealer, sold Picassos, Monets, Chagalls. For a while he lived the dream … then he disappeared, having swindled the New York art world out of $50m.”
Perhaps we should explain climate change to politicians as we would to small children, writes hydrogeologist Emma White. “When I was an undergrad learning geology, the maxim that was thumped into me wasn’t how to build a mine or drill for oil and gas, it was simply: ‘The present is the key to the past.’ The thing that took a while to accept was that the past was really, really, long. It’s hard to comprehend the scale of geologic time: the timespan for continents to crash together and rip apart, for tiny sea creatures to live, die and condense into kilometres of limestone, or streams to carve epic canyons carrying mountains to the sea … Through all the corridors of conceivable time, evidence indicates the climate has never changed as rapidly as we see today.”
The England cricketer Ben Stokes has described a front-page article in the UK’s Sun newspaper about a family tragedy 31 years ago as “disgusting” and “immoral”. Stokes said the paper’s decision to publish the story, which described in detail events in New Zealand when his mother’s ex-husband killed their two children before taking his own life, would have “grave and lifelong consequences” for his family.
The biggest threat to the All Blacks’ World Cup supremacy could well be themselves, writes Matt McIIlraith. Or their discipline, to be exact.
Thinking time: A festival of double standards
Tamil asylum seekers Nadesalingam and Priya and their Australian-born daughters, Tharunicaa and Kopika. Photograph: hometobilo.com
The Biloela Tamil family case is heartbreaking and traumatic. It has also exposed several double standards, with the Coalition saying there can be no exceptions but it is happy to help au pairs, while Labor has chosen to fight on this case but ignore hundreds more, writes Helen Davidson. “When Priya’s final bridging visa expired, the family were detained in a now infamous pre-dawn raid on their home in the quiet Queensland town of Biloela. They were flown thousands of kilometres away to Melbourne’s immigration transit accommodation, and put in a compound for families, under guard and with strict visiting rules. The government suggests it is not really detention, yet refers to it as detention in literature, and the occupants are not allowed out.
“The denial of refugee status has legal explanations, however flawed or unfair they may be. But the family’s treatment, and the treatment of potentially thousands of others who have been rejected but are exercising their right to legal challenge, does not have a logical explanation. The Tamil family are not the only people in detention. They are not even the only people with children in detention. Over the past 18 months the family has been subject to a number of micro cruelties – such as denial of a birthday cake for two-year-old Tharunicaa, arbitrary rule changes around visits, the allowance and then withdrawal of external childcare, an alleged lack of vitamins and dental care leading to painful teeth issues for Tharunicaa, and the alleged delay in medication for Priya.”
Media roundup
The Australian says the ACCC is “seeking approval from Josh Frydenberg to conduct another inquiry into banks after persistent complaints that consumers are not being treated fairly”. The Sydney Morning Herald reveals the NSW government is moving ahead with plans to build a third cruise ship terminal in Sydney, despite fierce local opposition. And the Financial Review reports that BHP has brushed off the government’s complaints about big business “pandering to activist shareholders” and will press on with plans to take more responsibility for its carbon emissions.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce and Virgin boss Paul Scurrah will appear at the National Press Club in Canberra to argue for changes to airport passenger fees.
The Icac inquiry into an alleged plan by the ALP’s NSW head office to circumvent donation laws continues in Sydney, with the Labor party’s lawyer Ian Robertson appearing as a witness.
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Woke Polar Bear Apologizes For Being White
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SAN DIEGO, CA—A polar bear at the San Diego Zoo has apologized to black bears, brown bears, and all other mammals of color for his "problematic whiteness."
The bear "got woke" after a leftist protesting the zoo for keeping animals in captivity bravely leaped into the bear's exhibit. After eating the protester, the polar bear picked up the book on critical race theory the woman had in her pocket and devoured it, first figuratively, then literally.
"Wow," he said. "I never realized how problematic my existence was before. I really need to think about this."
Shortly after reading the book, the polar bear, whose name is Chad, held a press conference in which he apologized for his many years of not being "woke" to the struggle of non-white animals.
"I am so sorry for everyone I've hurt," he said. "I am hereby canceling myself. Please listen to black and brown bear voices." He also announced that he was donating his remaining walruses to minority bears in need. "The overwhelming whiteness of the polar bear community should give us all paws."
The bear escaped the zoo, devoured several people, and cast himself into exile on an ice floe for his crimes.
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B.C. students 'elect' NDP, no seats for Liberals in mock election
Kendra Mangione CTVNewsVancouver.ca producer
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Published Monday, October 21, 2019 7:40PM PDT Last Updated Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:11AM PDT
VANCOUVER - If students had the vote, they'd have elected a Liberal government, but in B.C., local kids leaned further to the left.
Student Vote Canada 2019, put on in part by Elections Canada, lets minors cast their ballots for election candidates running in their school's electoral district. Elementary, middle and high schools can sign up to participate at no cost.
The results are then posted when polls close.
Across Canada, the Liberals "won" 110 seats, while the NDP got 99 and the Conservatives finished with 94. The Greens won 28 seats, and the Bloc Quebecois had nine.
Broken down by popular vote, the results were slightly different, with the NDP in hot pursuit of the Liberals at 24.75 and 25.11 per cent of the vote, respectively.
But if the results were up to minors in B.C. alone, the NDP would have won. Nearly 60 per cent of seats went orange in B.C. high schools.
The NDP "won" 24 seats, Conservatives got 10, and the Greens got eight.
Interestingly, the Liberal party won no seats in B.C.
Looking at percentage of votes overall, the Greens actually had the second-largest support base at 24.5 per cent. The winning NDP had 29.45 per cent, Conservatives had 20.85 per cent, and the Liberals had 16.5 per cent.
Ridings that changed hands in the hypothetical race included Abbotsford, Burnaby North-Seymour, Cloverdale-Langley, Fleetwood-Port Kells, Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon, North Vancouver, Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge, Steveston-Richmond East, Surrey Centre and Surrey-Newton.
In the City of Vancouver, students chose to shake up Vancouver Centre, Vancouver Granville, Vancouver Quadra and Vancouver South.
Check out the results in your riding on the Student Vote website.
Follow along on CTVNewsVancouver.ca as the results of the real vote come in.
All graphics from Student Vote.
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Home > Journals > Journal of Economic Entomology > Volume 106 > Issue 1 > Article
1 February 2013 Sanitation Options for Managing Oak Wood Infested with the Invasive Goldspotted Oak Borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Southern California
Michael I. Jones, Tom W. Coleman, Andrew D. Graves, Mary Louise Flint, Steven J. Seybold
Michael I. Jones,1 Tom W. Coleman, Andrew D. Graves,2 Mary Louise Flint,3 Steven J. Seybold4
1University of California, Davis, Department of Entomology, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616.
2USDA Forest Service-Forest Health Protection , 333 Broadway Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102.
3University of California, Davis., Department of Entomology and Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616.
4USDA Forest Service-Pacific Southwest Research Station, Chemical Ecology of Forest Insects, HDH 001 Orchard Park Dr., Room 116, Davis, CA 95616.
J. of Economic Entomology, 106(1):235-246 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1603/EC12177
Movement of invasive wood-boring insects in wood products presents a threat to forest health and a management challenge for public and private land managers. The goldspotted oak borer, Agrilus auroguttatus Schaeffer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), is a new pest in San Diego and Riverside Cos., CA, believed to have been introduced on firewood. This beetle has caused elevated levels of oak mortality since 2002. From 2009–2011, we tested several sanitation methods, applicable to large and small land parcels, to reduce or prevent goldspotted oak borer emergence from infested oak wood. In most experiments, emergence of goldspotted oak borer adults from the positive controls demonstrated that the beetle could complete development in firewood-sized pieces of cut oak wood. In 2009, adult emergence from sun-exposed oak wood began and peaked 2- to 4-wks earlier at a low elevation site than at a high elevation site (late May to late June). However, there were no significant effects of elevation or host species on the emergence response of goldspotted oak borer by solarization treatment in this study. Solarization of infested wood with thick (6 mil) and thin (1 mil) plastic tarpaulins (tarps) did not significantly reduce emergence of adults despite recordings of greater mean and maximum daily temperatures in both tarped treatments and greater relative humidity in the thick-tarped treatment (all compared with nontarped controls). Grinding wood with a 3″-minus screen (≤7.6 cm) significantly reduced goldspotted oak borer emergence compared with control treatments, and this was the best method for reducing adult emergence among those tested. In a separate grinding study, no adults emerged when wood was ground to 9″-minus (22.9 cm), 2″-minus (5.1 cm), or 1″-minus (2.5 cm) screen sizes, but a low level of adult emergence from the positive controls limited any inferences from this experiment. Debarking cut wood pieces eliminated goldspotted oak borer emergence from the wood fraction, but adults emerged from the shaved bark and phloem.
Michael I. Jones, Tom W. Coleman, Andrew D. Graves, Mary Louise Flint, and Steven J. Seybold "Sanitation Options for Managing Oak Wood Infested with the Invasive Goldspotted Oak Borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Southern California," Journal of Economic Entomology 106(1), 235-246, (1 February 2013). https://doi.org/10.1603/EC12177
Received: 2 May 2012; Accepted: 1 November 2012; Published: 1 February 2013
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Michael I. Jones, Tom W. Coleman, Andrew D. Graves, Mary Louise Flint, Steven J. Seybold "Sanitation Options for Managing Oak Wood Infested with the Invasive Goldspotted Oak Borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Southern California," Journal of Economic Entomology, 106(1), 235-246, (1 February 2013)
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Economics and similar, for the sleep-deprived
A subtle change has been made to the comments links, so they no longer pop up. Does this in any way help with the problem about comments not appearing on permalinked posts, readers?
Update: seemingly not
Update: Oh yeah!
Welcome, thrice welcome, to the year 2010!
The year in which, realistically, it's all going to happen again
4 comments this item posted by the management 12/31/2009 02:05:00 PM
Why has the Fairtrade coffee minimum price only gone up by 6 cents in the last five years?
Five years ago, I was defending the Fairtrade organisation against various neoliberal ballbags making obviously silly arguments ("price support in coffee is stopping coffee farmers having the incentive to grow all those other profitable crops you can plan in the mountains!") or things that were visibly untrue ("they ban tractors!"). I still think I'm broadly right on those specific points.
On the other hand, Peter Griffiths makes some good points here, and given the massive growth of the Fairtrade marketing organisation over the last five years, I think it's pretty scandalous that the minimum support price has hardly risen, and the Fairtrade 10c premium (which is only paid to some growers) hasn't increased either. Most coffee merchants earn a lot more than 10c per pound on their marketing. There's something worth taking a look at here.
4 comments this item posted by the management 12/22/2009 01:48:00 AM
Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping
Just a note - I have seen this mistake being made on a few blogs now. Sudan has a complicated power-sharing arrangement in its government, which means that not all Sudanese government officials are war criminals alongside al-Bashir, and many of them hate the NCP more than you do. The Sudanese representative at the Copenhagen talks has a Congolese first name and the middle name of a Catholic saint, which means it is very likely (I can't find a proper biography) that he is from the South of Sudan. He's also Oxford-educated and a former McKinsey consultant, which means he may be a heck of a tool in many other ways, but he's not a war criminal and, particularly, there is nothing awful about Johann Hari and Naomi Klein interviewing him respectfully. He's also speaking for the G77, who haven't disassociated themselves from his remarks, so it's not true to say that "Sudan derailed the Copenhagen talks".
Risk-adjusted performance - a squib
It is, of course, a truth universally accepted that active money managers are timewasters and charlatans and that any occasional outperformance they ever generate is simply the result of excess risk-taking. This point has been belaboured so often by Nicholas Taleb on one side and the index-fund cultists on the other that I have long since given up arguing otherwise. However ...
The 2009 performance year is coming to an end, and some fund managers will have outperformed massively and some underperformed massively. In general, across the sector, whether you underperformed or outperformed will depend on one thing alone - whether you went long financials in mid-March. More or less nothing else will have made enough of a difference to move the dial compared to that - for quite a long period at the end of Q1/beginning of Q2, the underweight financials position would have been costing your average manager as much as 50bp of relative performance a day.
On the other hand, think back to March of this year. Would "men of prudence, discretion and intelligence manage their own affairs, not in regard to speculation, but in regard to the permanent disposition of their funds, considering the probable income, as well as the probable safety of the capital to be invested" really have gone all in on financials, the week after AIG announced the largest loss in corporate history at that time? What sort of risk were people taking who made what was objectively clearly the right decision? What would Taleb say about the big outperformers of 2009, and what does this imply about how one should judge the risk of the underperformers? Given what we know about the performance of people who invest in index funds (much worse than the funds themselves[1], because they tend to get scared at market bottoms and take their money out).
I think that March 2009 is clearly a reductio ad absurdum of the notion that risk can meaningfully be measured by standard deviations or that the CAPM alpha can ever be used as a metric of investment performance. By the way, although I certainly don't propose to discuss my own performance this year in blog comments, this is not sour grapes.
[1] And the funds themselves often have really quite terrible performance relative to the indices they are meant to replicate - one should be aware that when using the Vanguard SP500 tracker, this is basically the Warren Buffet of tracker funds, and if you believe that it can continue in future to generate the exceptionally good tracking-error result that it has generated in the past, then this ought to have implications for your beliefs about the possibility of persistent performance in other areas too.
26 comments this item posted by the management 12/22/2009 01:18:00 AM
Grasping reality with one hand and my wallet with the other ...
After the "first hundred days" in the term of a new Democratic President comes the next stage; the almost impreceptible transition among his supporters from saying
"of course, he's been hampered by all sorts of obstacles to date, but he's about to start delivering on all those promises he made to his supporters on the left"
to saying
"well, he never really promised anything and it's terribly naive to think he was ever going to deliver anything to his supporters on the left"
Apparently we've reached it. It's rather like, although not quite the same phenomenon as, that by which literally millions of people who all evidence suggests were highly likely to have been U2 fans in the past, have reconstructed a version of history in which they always hated U2 (I am entirely guilty of this last one myself).
Taliban pay, again
At least now it's fallen from the Times adverts' $15 a day to $350 a month, but still more than any other occupation in Afghanistan, apparently. I still, frankly, don't believe this.
Back in the day, I used to win bets against people who didn't believe that the most junior rank of full-time counter staff at a couple of UK high street banks were paid less than the most junior rank of full-time counter staff at McDonalds. (True at the time and quite possibly still). The trick was that McDs were, of course, big users of part time staff for the grunt-work, and so the most junior rank of full timers were still about halfway up the food chain. Maybe something similar is going on here, because I still don't see the sort of payroll logistics that would be needed to transport tens of thousands of USD in cash around Helmand.
34 comments this item posted by the management 12/13/2009 12:52:00 PM
Arseholes, a taxonomy
Number 12,052: The type of arsehole who waxes nostalgic about the particular kind of distortion introduced by the recording technologies of his own youth, while bemoaning that anyone else could prefer the type of distortion introduced by recording technologies of their own youth
Labels: more to come ...
Embarrassing questions, an occasional series
Now that we've got that matter of the Laboratoires Garnier (not real laboratories, have never produced any PhDs, no significant research carried out) sorted out, perhaps you can help me with another one.
"Popping a cap in your ass". Does this mean shooting someone specifically in the arse, or just generally shooting them?
Quotations relevant to investment and other matters
I think this insight was originally from Henry Kissinger, but I can't source it. The quote I can't find was on the effect on a politician of being elevated to power and attending confidential briefings for the first time. The experience of getting information that is not generally available tends to put up a barrier between the politician and others outside the circle - newly elevated politicians go through a period in which they stop listening to anyone without their level of clearance because they can't stop thinking "but you don't know what I know".
"Inside" information puts up a communicative barrier between you and other people; it makes you view the world in a different way from everyone else, and it impairs your ability to evaluate the reliability and importance of different sources. In other words, it has a similar effect to that of hallucinogenic drugs.
In general, it is a bad idea to make investment or foreign policy decisions while under the influence of psychedelic drugs.
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The son of the guitarist from the Kinks Update: he is apparently "balls-out motherfucking shit-dicked exxxstatic" to be included on a Kerrang magazine giveaway CD of Iron Maiden covers, which is nice.
"Fritz Gretel" from the Ramones film "Rock 'n' Roll High School"
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If you didn't like this "Daniel Davies" website, then don't give up on the Daniel Davies industry completely!
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these two might be the same guy ...
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Eagle Ford Fix
EIA releases new Eagle Ford Shale maps
By Jennifer Hiller on January 23, 2015 at 5:52 PM
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The Eagle Ford play has four major boundaries. The western border is the Rio Grande River. The southern boundary of the play traces the Sligo Reef Margin. The northeastern boundary roughly corresponds with where the carbonate-rich lower Eagle Ford tapers off and transitions into silica-rich rock units of the East Texas Basin.The northern boundary is defined according to the thermal maturity — the temperature range at which oil is generated from the source rocks — of the hydrocarbons within the Eagle Ford Shale. The oil window ends and the immature area begins above a minimum subsea depth of 3,650 feet in Frio County and counties east, and above minimum depths in Maverick and Zavala counties, ranging from 650 to 2,900 feet. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, DrillingInfo, Inc., Texas Natural Resources Information, U.S. Geological Survey, University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology. less
The Eagle Ford play has four major boundaries. The western border is the Rio Grande River. The southern boundary of the play traces the Sligo Reef Margin. The northeastern boundary roughly corresponds with ... more
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration and Drillinginfo Inc., September 2014 Note: EIA calculates the initial gas-to-oil ratio for each well using the second through fourth contiguous months of liquid and/or gas production. GORs are expressed as cubic feet per barrel (cf/bbl). The first month of production may not represent full production and thus is not included in the initial GOR calculation. less
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration and Drillinginfo Inc., September 2014 Note: EIA calculates the initial gas-to-oil ratio for each well using the second through fourth contiguous months of liquid ... more
This depth essentially represents the minimum drilling depth to reach the top of the Eagle Ford formation. The elevation map for the top of the Eagle Ford formation was constructed from both subsurface well data and above-ground outcrop elevation data. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, DrillingInfo, Inc., Texas Natural Resources Information and U.S. Geological Survey. less
This depth essentially represents the minimum drilling depth to reach the top of the Eagle Ford formation. The elevation map for the top of the Eagle Ford formation was constructed from both subsurface well ... more
Formation thickness maps provide rough estimates of the thickness of plays. Thickness is one key input used to estimate resource volumes, such as oil- or gas-in-place estimates, in combination with other information such as porosity, pressure and geologic history. The thickness contour maps for the Eagle Ford formation were constructed from subsurface point thickness data from individual well records that include both depth to the top and the base of the Eagle Ford formation. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, DrillingInfo Inc., Texas Natural Resources Information. less
Formation thickness maps provide rough estimates of the thickness of plays. Thickness is one key input used to estimate resource volumes, such as oil- or gas-in-place estimates, in combination with other ... more
The U.S. Energy Information Administration this week updated its maps of the Eagle Ford Shale, along with something of a geology primer for the oil and gas field.
The Eagle Ford was deposited in the Late Cretaceous period when most of Texas was a marine continental shelf.
The primary target of the oil and gas field is the mudrock of the lower Eagle Ford. It’s a “dark gray mudstone” that was deposited during a time when sea levels were rising, according to the EIA.
The upper Eagle Ford is light and dark layered calcareous mudrock deposited during a time when sea level was falling.
The Eagle Ford sits above the Buda Limestone and below the Austin Chalk.
Data sources include DrillingInfo Inc., the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Economic Geology, the Texas Natural Resources Information System (a division of the Texas Water Development Board), research papers and academic theses.
You can read more detail about the new EIA maps here.
Jennifer Hiller
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Oct 09, 2015 • Networking
Open-Source NFV Doesn’t Mean Cookie-Cutter NFV
By Charlie Ashton
We recently published a couple of posts about the use of open-source technology in NFV, one asking “Will OPNFV become the de facto standard for NFV compatibility?” and the second explaining that “Yes, you can beat your NFV competitors to market while still leveraging open-source”.
In these two posts, we discussed many of the benefits that developers of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions can derive from open-source projects like OPNFV. These benefits include the flexibility afforded by multi-vendor solutions based on open standards and the time-to-market advantage that results from pre-integrated platforms.
It’s important to note that a decision to implement solutions based on open-source code doesn’t mean that you’re restricted to achieving the same performance and deploying the same features as all your competitors. Differentiation is alive and well in NFV. In this post, we’ll illustrate this point with a couple of examples showing how the right platform choice allows you to leverage the benefits of open-source technology while delivering best-in-class Virtual Network Function (VNF) performance as well as critical service reliability.
Let’s talk first about the VNF performance and OPEX savings that are enabled by high-performance virtual switching.
In the NFV architecture, the virtual switch (vSwitch) is responsible for switching network traffic between the core network and the VNFs that are running in Virtual Machines (VMs). The vSwitch runs on the same server platform as the VNFs. Processor cores that are required for running the vSwitch are not available for running VNFs and this can have a significant effect on the number of subscribers that can be supported on a single server blade. This in turn impacts the overall operational cost-per-subscriber and has a major influence on the OPEX improvements that can be achieved by a move to NFV.
Wind River’s Titanium Server NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) platform is a commercially-available solution that addresses this challenge, thanks to its Carrier Grade Accelerated vSwitch (AVS), highlighted in this diagram.
Let’s look at a specific use case to demonstrate how Titanium Server’s AVS results in big OPEX savings for service providers, while remaining fully-compatible with all the relevant open-source standards:
To keep the analysis simple, we’ll assume that we need to instantiate a function such as a media gateway as a VNF and that it requires a bandwidth of 2 million packets per second (2Mpps) from the vSwitch. For a further level of simplification, we’ll assume that we’re going to instantiate a single VM, running this VNF, on each processor core. So we need to calculate how many VMs we can actually instantiate on our server blade, given that some of the available cores will be required for the vSwitch.
As the reference platform for our analysis, we’ll use a dual-socket Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 series platform running at 2.9GHz, with a total of 24 cores available across the two sockets. All our performance measurements are based on bidirectional network traffic running from the Network Interface Card (NIC) to the vSwitch, through a VM and back through the vSwitch to the NIC. This is a real-world NFV configuration, rather than a simplified configuration in which traffic runs only from the NIC to the vSwitch and back to the NIC, bypassing the VM so that no useful work is performed.
In the first scenario, we use the open-source Open vSwitch (OVS) to switch the traffic to the VMs on the platform. Measurements show that each core running OVS can switch approximately 0.3 million packets per second (Mpps) of traffic to a VM (64-byte packets). The optimum configuration for our 24-core platform will be to use 20 cores for the vSwitch, delivering a total of 6Mpps of traffic. This traffic will be consumed by 3 cores running VMs and one core will be unused. We can’t run VMs on more than 3 cores because OVS can’t deliver the bandwidth required. So our resource utilization is 3 VMs per blade.
What if we replace OVS with Titanium Server’s Accelerated vSwitch (AVS)? We can now switch 12Mpps per core, again assuming 64-byte packets. So our 24-core platform can be configured with 4 cores running the vSwitch. These deliver a total of 40Mpps to exactly meet the bandwidth requirements of 20 VMs running on the remaining 20 cores. Our resource utilization is now 20 VMs per blade thanks to the use of the AVS software optimized for NFV infrastructure.
From a business perspective, increasing the number of VMs per blade by a factor of 6.7 (20 divided by 3) allows us to serve the same number of customers using only 15% as many blades as when OVS was used, or to serve 6.7 times as many customers using the same server rack. In either case, this represents a very significant reduction in OPEX and it can be achieved with no changes required to the VNFs themselves.
Titanium Server’s AVS is fully-compatible with all the applicable open NFV standards. Software written to use OVS will typically work with AVS unchanged. And as described in more detail here, Wind River provides both an open-source Kernel-Loadable Module (KLM) and DPDK Poll Mode Driver (PMD) that can optionally be used by VNF vendors to fully exploit the performance features of AVS. These are both available free of charge at Wind River’s open-source repository.
AVS is a great example of how you can retain all the advantages of a platform based on open-source software and open standards, while leveraging its differentiating features to deliver compelling OPEX reductions in live networks.
Carrier Grade reliability is another area of differentiation that brings critical business benefits.
Over decades, telecom service providers have engineered an extensive range of sophisticated features into their networks, to the point where they guarantee “five-nines” (99.999%) reliability both for critical services (e.g. E-911) and also for enterprise-class services covered by stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Delivering five-nines reliability for these services means guaranteeing six-nines uptime for the underlying network infrastructure, implying a downtime of no more than 32 seconds per year.
Delivering this level of Carrier Grade reliability has broad and complex implications for network availability, security, performance and management. Meeting critical requirements in these areas represents a key business challenge for telecom service providers as they refine their plans to progressively introduce NFV into their networks. They know that they need to continue to meet expectations for reliability as they transition to NFV; otherwise they run the risk of losing their high-value customers and seeing increased subscriber churn. That would seriously impact their ability to reduce OPEX and increase subscriber revenues, which are after all the core business objectives behind the NFV initiative.
It’s extremely difficult to develop a network infrastructure platform that delivers Carrier Grade reliability. And NFV makes this even harder, because of the complex interactions between so many software elements within the platform. These include not only the Operating System itself (e.g. Linux) but also the hypervisor (e.g. KVM), the virtual switch, the management layer (e.g. OpenStack), the storage subsystem (e.g. Ceph) and the middleware functions.
There’s no way to meet the six-nines goal by using solutions designed for enterprise-class IT applications. Those solutions fall way short of meeting critical performance and functionality requirements.
You have to start from scratch, developing a platform specifically for this requirement and designing-in the reliability features from the start.
This requires not only a major engineering investment but also an in-depth technical understanding of the complex challenges that are involved. At Wind River, the Titanium Server engineering team leveraged their Carrier Grade experience gained from many years at telecom equipment companies and used the standard telecom TL9000 design methodology to guarantee the levels of reliability demanded by service providers.
The Titanium Server NFVI platform is based on open-source projects such as Carrier Grade Linux, KVM, OpenStack, Ceph Storage and Intel® DPDK. Our team was able to add the critical Carrier Grade reliability features while maintaining 100% compatibility with the relevant NFV standards, originally specified by the ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) and now being augmented by the OPNFV initiative. Our experts are frequent contributors to all these open-source projects, upstreaming hardened versions of a wide range of Open Stack and Linux components.
As in the case of virtual switching that we described above, the correct choice of an NFVI platform allows you to deliver the level of infrastructure uptime that is an absolute requirement for live telecom networks, while at the same time benefitting from a solution based on open-source projects.
Basing your NFV deployment on open-source software doesn’t have to mean that you end up with the same performance and reliability as your competitors. Choosing a platform that extends the open-source baseline with compatible, value-added enhancements allows you to differentiate yourself from the pack and grab market share during this exciting industry disruption.
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How offensive will Georgia’s offense be?
If it’s reasonable to expect Georgia’s defense to improve over last year’s results, based on the reasons elaborated here yesterday, what should we have grounds to expect from the offense?
It’s great that with Chubb and Michel back, the Dawgs are loaded at running back. The tight end position looks set. Eason’s got a year of the SEC wars under his belt. Jim Chaney’s had a year to feel his way around what he’s got and what Smart wants. There’s a noticeable infusion of new talent on the offensive line.
But it’s worth remembering how far offensive production has fallen in just two seasons.
But as a unit, the entire offense will seek added production after a couple of down years. From 2010-14, when Mike Bobo was Georgia’s offensive coordinator, the Bulldogs averaged no less than 32 points per game in a season. In 2014, Bobo’s offense averaged 41.3 points and 257.9 rushing yards per game, which helped him land the Colorado State head coaching job.
In 2016, Georgia averaged 24.5 points and 191.2 yards per game.
Remarkably, Georgia didn’t manage to achieve its 2014 scoring average in a single game last year. To expect a return to 2014 levels of offensive production, then, even with the areas of optimism detailed above, is an unrealistic stretch. Consider this, though: if the Dawgs had scored one more touchdown per game in 2016, they would have finished with a regular season record of 10-2. 31.5 points per game isn’t exactly a monster number, either. It would have been fifth best in the conference and 48th nationally.
If it’s likely the defense will improve, you’d have to think the team would be looking at a very productive season with an offensive scoring average of 31.5 points. Thinking is one thing, though. Attaining is a whole different matter.
98 responses to “How offensive will Georgia’s offense be?”
This is where coaching up needs to happen. I’m not sure Chaney’s that capable.
We’ll see for sure. I have zero confidence in our version of Jabba the Hutt.
Right. Everytime I see him, I think…if he doesn’t have the will power or isn’t disciplined enough to exercise a modicum of control something as vitally important as his own health, how can I be confident that he’ll have the discipline to do everything in his power to ensure the O will be successful? (be it through planning, self improvement/evaluation, etc.) Not to mention that being overweight/obese leads to greater fatigue, reduction in brain power, etc. Sounds harsh, but surely I’m not alone on this.
DoubleDawg1318
Lots of football coaches and ex-football players for that matter are overweight. Doesn’t mean they can’t get the job done.
It’s one thing to have a small paunch; it’s quite another to be very obese. How many top coaches, historically or present, look anything like him? Besides, if nothing else, being that overweight can only hurt you, not help you.
David H.
While they only had mixed success as head coaches (where physical appearance might be more relevant as the “face of the program”), Mark Mangino and Charlie Weis won a national championship and Super Bowls, respectively, as offensive coordinators.
I’m not saying that being obese is healthy. But it doesn’t preclude successful play-calling.
I never said that you can’t be successful; only that it doesn’t exactly give me confidence and that it certainly can’t help matters.
Damn Hutson Mason….only 41/game.
Only 18.5 ppg vs. Tech and UF.
Padding stats with 66 vs. Troy, 63 vs. UK and 55 vs. charleston southern doesn’t impress me.
And I’m still unimpressed with how the tech game ended that year. Time and time again our qbs have made big plays at the end of the tech game to win it:
Belue brought us from way back in ’78 including a gw td pass
Bobo had two game winning td passes against them
Hines converted 8 3rd downs in a row to set up a game winning FG
Greene came off the bench with an injury to seal a win when DJ struggled in relief
Stafford came through with a game winning TD pass
Even Lambert converted a big third and long with his back against our goal line to seal a win
Hutson threw a pick on an RPO instead of putting it in Chubb’s gut and it was over.
KornDawg
Joe Cox pulled one out, too, didn’t he? Touchdown Massaquoi!
Boy, I screwed that one up. That was Stafford in ’06, Cox did beat Tech in ’09 but that was the “We Run This State” year.
He also finished the year completing 68% of his passes, good enough for 6th in the country…..a QB rating of 155.75, 10th in the country and a 41.3 scoring average, 8th in the country and tops in the SEC….that also broke the school record. I sure could have used some of that last year. He did not look sexy, but he got the job done for the most part. He certainly did better than what I anticipated. Most every team plays a cupcake or two, it is all relative…..a DGD in my book.
He may be a DGD. He’s no DGQB. He benefits from what the offense has looked like since to be sure. People tend to forget that he nearly lost that job to Brice at home vs. Tennessee. Stats are all good and nice but it’s W’s that matter. In the big games and moments he was at best mediocre. Not one 200 passing day vs. a ranked team.
It was because he was doing what QB’s should do for the most part, get the ball to his playmakers….as evidence to the records that were broken that year (ppg). Agree on the W’s comment, but Mason sure as hell did better than what I expected….a pleasant surprise for me. He did not have the physical tools that Eason does….but our season and offense changes if Eason can hit 68% of his passes.
Greyson had 2 passes hit the ground in 120 minutes of football. Doesn’t make him a good qb. A guy hitting a high percentage against bad defenses is all good and well but we need a qb to be an asset in the big games. You don’t beat the top teams on your schedule with a tailback anymore: When your running backs have as many 200 yard games as your qb, something’s wrong.
The 2014 Clemson game proves otherwise. Alabama is famous for employing “game managers” at QB and they seem to be doing alright.
So famous that every qb that won a natty played in the league save Coker and that was due to injury.
Not sure what your point is…..but mine is, a QB that breaks the school records (PPG, completion % ? & etc) & finishes 9th nationally …..is a pretty good QB. Did not say he was great, but he was a good QB. We were better with him rather than without. I would love to see Eason step up and get the offense more involved like Mason did…to see the field better and etc. He has the potential, physical gifts that Mason did not have….if he does not, it will not get much better than last year imo (if we stick with him). Improved QB play, is the key to our season.
I’m just saying that you can’t win titles with that guy. He’s pretty good week 4 at mizzou. I suppose that’s worthy of a comment… or not.
I guess what you are saying is, if you can’t win a title or beat your rivals…you’re no good, right??
Peyton Manning was 0-3 against UF as a starter & 0-4 in games he played in…he could not win a title, but Tee Martin could.
Annnnnd, mic drop.
You are correct Puff. In the vernacular of the young folks, Derek has been owned, powned, roasted, toasted, and microwaved.
Find me a season in his last three where Peyton had zero 200 yard games passing vs. ranked teams and then we can talk about your Hutson = Peyton because both are .000% vs. uf as starters.
Peyton does have a SEC ring and two Super Bowls. But yeah neither beat UF so essentially they are the same guy.
Derek you act like the QB makes the schedule. He is playing who the school has schedules and both Hudson and Lambert were winners. They could have lost to Vandy and Tech but they didn’t. The team lost the games not the QB’s. We get it you will only be happy when we are undefeated, it just gets old when you Dawgrade an individual player because the team was not able to beat UF.
CMR’s teams were qb dependent. You can’t argue that.
All teams are QB dependent, dependent on getting the ball to their playmakers. Can you argue that??
Yeah, but sometimes those playmeakers need to be downfield rather than a few steps away.
If all you asked me to do was shovel pass I could complete 100%. It would be up to the coach to put a “playmaker” two steps in front of me I guess but stats!
Like when Florida couldn’t beat Georgia with 27 passing yards in 2014. Your QB just has to be a difference maker to beat the best teams on the schedule.
The Florida game was also Mason’s biggest passing day of the season in terms of completions, attempts and yardage. He didn’t turn the ball over. One might call what he had a good day. If he wasn’t so shitty, though, he probably would have filled in at outside linebacker and occasionally set the edge.
Right. The game that we could only win if the qb took it, we got beat badly. They took the run and said Mason can’t beat us. They were right.
Florida won because the Georgia defense was terrible. It had nothing to do with their brilliant defensive gameplan. If it had gone like a typical Florida game when they were overmatched that season, the defense would have kept them in it for a while until their complete ineptitude on offense got them beat. Instead, Georgia let them run for about 240 more yards than their average in their other 11 games.
It was brilliant enough to hold us to 13 points with 4 seconds to play.
Don’t blame Mason for the ’14 Tech loss. That was all on CMR (remember the “pooch kickoff” when kicking it deep would have won the game. Georgia was behind Tech late in the fourth quarter when Mason marched the team down the field to score what should have been the winning TD with only 30 seconds left in the game. At that point the game was a UGA win and Mason was the hero of the game. CMR lost it in usual CMR fashion with an idiot end of game decision which snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. I do NOT miss that guy.
I heard this argument so many times it makes me want to puke.
Who was in the Georgia dome when Ray kicked it deep under similar circumstances? I was. Didn’t turn out good for us.
We’ve kicked it deep and given up td returns and we’ve pooched and given up returns. The only good answer is to execute whatever play you call, kick it correctly and make a tackle.
The right call for Richt would have been to kick it deep and cover. You don’t surrender field position to a run-only offense who’s special teams had not made a decent kick return all day. I don’t normally jump on the armchair QB bus, but that one deserved second guessing.
I agree that there are times where you don’t want to kick it deep, but Tech didn’t have some phenom kick-returner back there. In fact, I’d be surprised if Tech had returned a kickoff for a touchdown that entire season, which is the kind of detail you would expect these coaches to know. I loved Richt (still do), wish him all the best at Miami, but that decision to pooch kick is hard to defend. And yes, I understand that the pooch kick wasn’t executed to perfection and we still had an opportunity to stop Tech on defense.
I agree it wasn’t a good call, but everyone misses sometimes. Had they run it back from deep, we would be saying he should have pooched it.
That ship sailed a long time ago.
That’s sort of the point, Ug. Tech WOULDN’T have run it back for a TD. They hadn’t done that all season.
The obvious answer is to have a leg that kicks it out the back of the endzone. Unfortunately Richt’s tenure was filled with directional kicking.
You are pissed because Mason did not pull off TWO game-winning drives to take the lead twice in the final minutes. Got it. Should have had you out there throwing those little short passes as you suggested earlier, since any pansy can do that. I am sure you would have the school completion record and a natty.
Go pound sand.
I blame John Madden (Madden Football)…..but I guess we all have a cross to bear.
Good points, Derek, but all SEC teams stats are padded from playing cupcakes..so if we adjust Georgia’s down, we need to do the same to everyone else…but by what percent? CMR was renowned for pulling back once a lead was safe. Most others (SOS for one) would run it up to a hundred if they could. So Georgia’s point padding is real but not as severe as most others.
And I’m not real certain CMR took the best approach to that. Cupcakes sacrifice their dignity for a paycheck..a fat one. So maybe it’s better to get all you can out of them. You’r paying for it. Hell, CMR even took a knee on the goal line against Auburn once.
Which is why stats are misleading and are never the whole story. If you want to know if someone is good, see how well they do vs. good competition. We thought we were ok at qb until bama rolled in. Then we found out Greyson was a stiff. He had two incompletions in the prior two games. Hell I think we may have been favored. Any way we showed up without a qb and got throttled.
(If you’re thinking of telling me you’re so smart you knew he’d fall flat vs. alabama, please save it. If you can date the comment to before the game, fine but I don’t need your belated expertise.)
No sweat. Nothing worse than someone being full of himself. I honestly didn’t know what to make of GL after the SC game. I never dreamed he’d have rigor-mortise, though. The coaches must have had at least a small idea about it…in fact I believe his record performance that night was a combination of the coaches realizing Lambert needed quick throws, and the SC coaches playing it too soft because of his reputation for a deep gun. It was a perfect storm that set us up with unreasonable expectations.
“all SEC teams stats are padded from playing cupcakes..”
All P5 team stats… FIFY
3 keys to whether the season is a boom or bust:
Chubb playing like he did before the injury in Knoxville
Vastly improved production from the WR group
Credible offensive line play
You check all of those boxes and we’re in Atlanta. Chubb has to be Chubb in the big games. We have to have WRs who can both get seperation AND block and catch and we need to stop getting whipped up front at the point of attack.
If all of those come through a 35ppg average is easily within reach.
. . . and i think we have to ready and willing to ride Sony when things are bogging down. Frankly, until I see clear evidence of 2014 Nick Chubb, I think Sony is the better back. Sometimes i feel like people think this is heresy even saying something like this but… JMO.
He’s the more natural runner but he’s not the battering ram that Chubb can be. Sony makes people miss. Chubb makes people pay. In today’s world of DB’s who don’t like contact, a guy like Chubb running in space can be invaluable. He demoralizes defenses when he’s right. That’s a big asset.
I think that’s why he said “until I see clear evidence of 2014 Nick Chubb”. Pre injury, he was one of the front runners to win the Heisman. Nobody’s arguing that. However, if you look at last year alone, no doubt Sony looked like the better back. I think Chubb knows that too. Nobody wants to Nick Chubb again more than Nick Chubb. With that injury nearly 2 full years behind him and a full season last year under his belt to get that confidence back, I think we get the old Nick Chubb back. Maybe even a better Nick Chubb, which is one scary thought for the defenses on our schedule.
Agreed. I want those Clemson 2014 endorphins firing off in my brain again.
Absolutely. If Chubb can return to his form of churning up defensive backs, he will de-moralize them even before the game starts. I personally believe he will be back, not in original form, but in even BETTER form. His determination, work ethic and drive will pay off. Hell, they could even put him at tight end occasionally to freak out the defense. Can you imagine what the LBkers and CBs on that side would be thinking if Chubb lined up at tight end inside the redzone? At the very least they’d have to waste a time-out. With this kind of an imagination, I should be an OC .
Gotta have some blocking first or Chubb will never even get to the DBs.
Damn dude don’t say this much but that is spot on . All the talk about Eason not holding up last year was bull . He had zero help.
With the wr’s, if we could just get some combination of consistency and upside (big plays/catches), it would go a long way. We had neither last year.
If the defense goes from good to great, wouldn’t you expect the offense to be better, just based on likely more and better opportunities?
This is where I am also, almost guaranteed that our offense will be better in 2017 with no improvement at all from Chaney’s group. That doesn’t mean it will be enough in a couple of key games to insure a W, but if we do improve on offense, this team will be excellent. Interesting game will be against ND, their defensive front will show us how much we have improved on the OL. We should also know about Eason before the end of September. I am more confident about improvement on the OL than I am with what Eason has to do, if he makes a couple of big steps forward this could be a 2002 like season for the Dawgs.
We’ll be better than 2016 at QB and WR and at least no worse at OL. I can only believe Chaney and the offense will at least be a little better. Either that or Kirby throws more of his players under the bus while we lose to Vandy as Tech.
And just think, people didn’t like Mike Bobo. SMH
Some people still don’t.
bulldogbry
I mean….wow. Just wow. Is that sad? Is it funny? Who can tell. That blogger just doesn’t like anyone.
Reipar
What in the world did you do to that guy??
LOL!…probably did not agree with him on something. For some, that is all it takes….
Bobo was probably the best OC UGA ever had. But he did have one shortcoming that I don’t see attributed to him. He didn’t do whatever he needed to do to get offensive linemen onboard. I don’t know if it’s because CMR had a totally different philosophy on what was needed, or if they just couldn’t get the bigguns to come to UGA…but either way, when he left us he left us without a SEC caliber O front.
I still remember him beating Texas in the Cotton Bowl with that late touchdown. One of the great moments of Bulldawg Glory!
DGD, that Mike Bobo!
That was John Lastinger …
Don’t let the facts get in the way……
Well….shit…it sure was Lastinger. Both DGD’s none the less.
Wait a minute..it was Tarkenton.
Zeke Bratkowski possibly?
Yes….what time is it in Texas?
H. Randolph Holder
It’s always 10 to 9 in Texas. 🙂
yEiGh!!!….BIL is a UT (Austin) grad, he helped tutor Earl one year. We always go back & forth with football….but he has nothing on the “10 to 9” thingy. All good natured…..
He was great in the 78 Bluebonnet Bowl too…
Ha! If he would just respond like that to all your posts, that would make for double my entertainment.
Gee thanks senator, I had forgotten that jerk.
That guy is obsessed with you, and his writing is about the quality of a 1st grader.
That was tough to read…
I am still not sure I get all the complaints on Chaney, he didn’t take over a loaded offense. The best player was returning from major knee injury, true freshman QB, poor OL play, no threat at WR. This year we should see improvement by a TD a game, if not, then yea Chaney may need to be replaced.
We are exerting our will. That has nothing to do with the OC.
I agree with this sentiment. OL was an absolute train wreck and Catalina may have been the least talented OL we have ever had. Freshman QB and very marginal WR talent. What was he supposed to do? When you can’t block, throw, catch, or run there are not a ton of plays in the playbook…
Are you talking about Tyler Catalina, the former Georgia Bulldog offensive tackle who is currently on the Washington Redskins roster having signed a 3 year contract for $1.66 Million. That Catalina? http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/12634/tyler-catalina Just wanted to be sure who you were discussing.
I don’t want to beat it to death but coaching, particularly coaching decisions, have hell of a lot to do with the success of players and the success of the team. The HC is supposed to use his players in such a way as to maximize their chances for success. When you, as a coach, have a finesse OL and you try to play smash mouth football with that OL, you get what you deserve. Unfortunately bad coaching decisions impact everyone, including players and the alums/fans. I get it that you are pissed off, Will. Rightly so. Just be pissed off at the right person.
Like others have said, I just keep telling myself, our ’17 offensive line can’t be worse than ’16. I hope we’re right.
Scary to start to true freshmen in the SEC, but that’s the way I see it playing out at this point.
So we have to replace multiple spots on the OL with guys that could not beat out players from an awful OL and we are hoping to see improvement. fThe influx of talent at WR is filled with freshman, inexperienced and unproven, yet we hope to see improvement. The running game is relying upon an RB that has yet to return to his pre-injury form, yet we hope he does. Our QB struggled with accuracy and field vision last season, and we hope that he is the real deal. Sure, I hope for improvement as well. Just not gonna happen this year.
LOL!!….Munson, is that you???
Greg..Munson was Barney the Dinosaur compared to Skeptic. But Skeptic is a very essential contributor to GTP’s balance. He keeps us from getting overconfident or even somewhat confident. Skeptic is the anchor that is solidly gripping the seabed and will rip the transom off the back of our the good ship “Enthusiasm” if we take off with too much slack in the chain..which I believe he dreads happening. So he allows us to drag him along as he tempers our speed. When and if Skeptic ever says, “Weigh Anchor! All hands prepare to make good time to ATL”, you better hurry out to Vegas and put every penny you can muster on the Dawgs winning it all. Skeptic actually does make me stop and wonder if we’ll even win 5 games. It’s a life philosophy that I have learned to often apply…if you expect a lot, you’re probably going to get disappointed, if you expect little, you may get a nice surprise! I can see it. In fact, I would be kind of sad to see him convert to the bright side. He’s a comfortable old shoe.
Oh I know, read plenty of his posts and love them….keeps us humble. Thanks!
If everything in your life is a turd then everything starts to look like a turd. Hence Septic….er….Skeptic Dawg
Speaking of Turds, what’s happened to Fergerson? Good poster.
yes, we signed more OL talent last year than Right signed in 15.
Reality check here
Phil Steele is kukewarm on Georgia but he predicts an improvement on offense to 30 ppg.
It sure as shit was offensive last year.
I would like to see us try Charlie Woerner out like Ole Miss used Evan Ingram. If we’re still not getting proper separation and / or Eason is struggling with tight windows, throw back shoulder lobs to Woerner and let him use his height. That back shoulder jump ball type throw Ole Miss used so frequently is devastating…..not only does the hybrid TE/Receiver have a height advantage but the smaller defender has even less of a chance at climbing the ladder if he has to reverse momentum, plant and then try and compete with somebody who already has the advantage. It’s like trying to out rebound an athletic power forward when he already has prime position.
In short, I’m going to be pissed if we are stagnant again, while still asking why we didn’t use [insert 1 of 4 freak tight ends who could play anywhere in America] more.
Yep, Woerner would be tough to cover split wide.
Get the ball to Mecole, Sony, Chubb and Nauta.
bootleg!
Has anyone bothered to check Chaney’s history? He’s a mediocre OC who’s bounced around cfb for a few decades now, never producing anything of note. At least a fellow overweight like Friedgen has shown a high level of expertise and some success in tough places. The day we dump Chaney is the day our offense immediately improves.
My point about Chaney is he has never gotten a sniff of a head coaching gig. People respond with Norm Chow except Chow would be on lists as a candidate but just didn’t get the job. Schools haven’t even looked at Chaney.
I’d love to see Chubb in pre-injury form, but honestly, I don’t think our offensive production is going to depend on this as heavily as others seem to think. If the OL is improved, Michel and Herrien will run all over people. But if the OL isn’t improved, not even Chubb will be successful. So Chubb isn’t the issue here.
My main concern on offense is Eason. Stafford-level talent. But between the ears, he’s basically the anti-Stafford. Stafford never saw a pass he didn’t think he could make, and as we all remember (and as those of us who are Lions fans still witness regularly), it gets him into trouble. Eason, on the other hand, seems reluctant to throw the ball unless his receiver is wide open, and so, he hesitates, hesitates, … and then starts dancing around as the DL closes in around him. Gunslingers aren’t supposed to be afraid to pull the trigger.
It was to-be-expected during his freshman season, as he adjusted to SEC play. But to be honest, it looked just as bad (if not worse) in the most recent G-Day game. So, unless he’s taken great strides this summer (or unless our receiving corps figures out how to get much more separation), I expect this to remain a liability on offense. But this time, it could get interesting, with a confident Fromm waiting on the sidelines.
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From our dear friend and colleague in Gaza 12th August 2014.
I’m writing now from my home, but I still feel dizzy from shock and nauseated by the sights and smells on my visit to Khan Younis and Khuza’a. Yesterday I decided to use the opportunity of the ceasefire to visit my family in Khan Younis. I especially wanted to see my sister who had open heart surgery before Israel’s assault. I hadn’t seen her for 36 days.
I’m lucky that I have enough fuel in my car to drive 24 kilometers (15 miles) so I struck out towards the south. I drove down Salaheddin Road and passed rubble from mosques, houses, and factories. Some buildings were destroyed completely and some partially. Later on in my drive, I saw dozens of big trees uprooted and smashed, fruit trees destroyed and farms and gardens decimated and ruined. The Israeli bombs were aimed to destroy the infrastructure, to destroy Gaza’s economy. Even the main cookie factory was targeted and destroyed. I passed UN trucks distributing food to people in long lines. This siege and assault by the Israelis has made everyone in the Gaza Strip live as a refugee, missing basic needs and struggling to survive.
When I drove up to my family’s place in Khan Younis, it was a very emotional moment. We’ve lost many family members and, excuse me, my friends, I’m not going to talk about this meeting because every family in Gaza is going through the same thing.
My sister and relatives decided they wanted to go to see Khuza’a, a village located east of Khan Younis. At first I didn’t want to go to Khuza’a. I didn’t want to be reminded of the massacre, to witness more horrors. But I decided to go so I could give you, my friends from MECA, and others living outside of Gaza my first-hand account. I know you are following the news closely but I also know the news might not tell you what has gone on and is going on in Gaza. As we set out to the east, my niece pointed out the devastation, “You can see where the Israeli tanks were—here and here.” When we came to the village Abbasan, there was an Israeli military vehicle destroyed. Palestinian flags were flying from it and Palestinian children were playing on it while their families stood watching them.
We continued toward Khuza’a. It was a model Palestinian agricultural village with open fields and green everywhere. They had fruit trees and vegetable fields. But there was nothing left of the village I remembered. The smell and the sights we saw were shocking. The moment we parked and I got out, a very strange smell hit us—the smell of dead bodies. That smell will never leave me; it is still stuck in my nose.
We saw totally flattened houses and other houses partially destroyed. It reminded me of pictures from war-torn areas where years of fighting erased a village. I could tell that something huge and terrible had happened here, the rubble and the destruction were extreme. Some villagers told us they had found two bodies in the rubble a couple of hours before we arrived. Still people were searching the ruins for their relative’s remains. Many times I had to stop myself from vomiting because the smell was so strong. This Israeli assault has hit the Palestinian people more deeply than the last two military attacks. This one is even more
deadly and destructive. Whole neighborhoods and villages have been wiped off the map. I ask myself now how can we start again?
From Gaza, with love,
Dr. Mona El-Farra
MECA Director of Gaza Projects
Support the Palestine BDS campaign
Below are some websites you can use to explore different ways of supporting the people of Palestine. They are supplied by Tanya from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
Medical Aid for Palestinians | 33a Islington Park Street | London | N1 1QB | United Kingdom | | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - MAP is a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered Number 3038352 England. Charity Registration No. 1045315
Sainsburys – this is the campaign website and under ‘action reports’ there are suggestions for starting and maintaining a campaign.
http://www.sainsburyscampaign.org/
HP – this website gives info about why to boycott HP.
http://www.coalitionforjerusalem.org/category/jerusalemites-testimonies/
Next are two petitions, one for individuals and one for organisations to sign
http://org.salsalabs.com/o/703/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=11587
BIN – this is the Boycott Israel Network website. They organise the annual conference which is great fun and a great way to gain support from other activists.
http://www.boycottisraelnetwork.net/
Finally,here is the website with the timeline of BDS successes.
http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/28282/BDS-Movement
Regards, Chris
National Demonstration for Gaza
London Saturday 9 August, Assemble 12 Noon BBC Portland Place
March to Hyde Park via US Embassy
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New RB Morris Record Titled "Going Back To The Sky"
New RB Morris record titled "Going Back To The Sky", coproduced by Bo Ramsey, is being released on January 10, 2020 on Singular Recordings...check it out!
New RB Morris Titled Record "Going Back To The Sky"
Bo Ramsey has completed work (production, guitar) on the new RB Morris record titled "Going Back To The Sky"
Watch for it!
Bo Ramsey to coproduce new record by RB Morris
Looking forward to heading South to coproduce a record with the Official Poet Laureate of Knoxville, TN, RB Morris
Bo Ramsey produces new Kelly Pardekooper record "50 Weight"
Bo Ramsey has just completed producing and playing guitar on the new record by Kelly Pardekooper entitled "50 Weight". The record is being released in October 26, 2018 on Leisure Time Records.
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“Bo Ramsey drips cool.”
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“Ramsey sets biting commentary against grinding instrumentation to create a dramatic musical tapestry that demands attention.”
— Dirty Linen
~ Bo Ramsey has just completed producing and playing on a new record for Kelly Pardekooper entitled "50 Weight" due out in October 26, 2018
~ No Depression reviews The Pines new album, "Above The Prairie", releasing Feb 5th, Red House Records. Coproduced by Bo Ramsey.
~ Bo Ramsey coproduced and plays guitar on Jeffrey Foucault's new record "Salt As Wolves", recently reviewed by The New York Times.
~ Bo Ramsey plays guitar on Kevin Gordon's album Long Gone Time which made many "Best of 2015" lists, including the Nashville Scene Critics Poll, Twangville, Broken Jukebox and No Depression. Produced by Joe McMahan.
~ Pieta Brown releases Drifters : 6 song "Tour Only" EP featuring out takes from her record 'Paradise Outlaw'. The EP is produced by Pieta Brown and Bo Ramsey and is entitled "Drifters" on Lustre Records (2015).
~ Bo Ramsey plays guitar on Lucie Thorne's new record, "Everything Sings Tonight" on Little Secret Records released June 1, 2015.
~ Bo Ramsey plays guitar on Iris Dement's new record, "The Trackless Woods" on Flariella Records, released August 7, 2015
~ No Depression review of The Pines new album, "Above The Prairie", releasing Feb 5th, Red House Records. Coproduced by Bo Ramsey.
~ From Jeffrey Focault's new record, "Salt As Wolves" on Blueblade Records. Coproduced by Bo Ramsey.
~ Democracy Now: Song Premiere: "Time Dreams" by The Pines with John Trudell from their forthcoming album "Above The Prairie"on Red House Records coproduced by Bo Ramsey.
~ Bo Ramsey played guitar on Kevin Gordon's album Long Gone Time which made many "Best of 2015" lists, including the Nashville Scene Critics Poll, Twangville, Broken Jukebox and No Depression. Produced by Joe McMahan.
~ Pieta Brown has just released a 6 song ep featuring out takes from her record 'Paradise Outlaw'. The EP is produced by Pieta Brown and Bo Ramsey and is entitled "Drifters" on Lustre Records (2015).
~ Bo Ramsey plays guitar on Kevin Gordon's new record, "Long Gone Time" on Crowville Records, released September 4, 2015.
~ The new film "Everything Will Be Fine", by acclaimed film maker Wim Wenders, includes two songs by Pieta Brown. The two songs are "Remember the Sun" and "I'm Gone". "I'm Gone" is from Pieta's album "Mercury" (2011 Red House Records) produced by Pieta Brown and Bo Ramsey. The song "Remember the Sun" is Pieta's song performed by her father, Greg Brown, from the album "Freak Flag" (2011 YepRoc) produced by Bo Ramsey.
~ Pieta Brown's album "Paradise Outlaw", coproduced by Bo Ramsey, is #1 on the Roots Music Radio Report this week for the Americana country chart!
~ Bo Ramsey plays his custom Island Instrument Manufacture limited ValcoCaster.
~ Pieta Brown's new album "Paradise Outlaw", coproduced by Bo Ramsey, released Sept. 30th on Red House Records, receives 4 stars and Editor's Choice from AllMusic. Thom Jurek says, "Paradise Outlaw stands out among Brown's recordings for its intimacy, musical generosity, and the restlessness of its vision."
"[Paradise Outlaw] album opens the door to forever..." -Bill Bently, October 2014
"Paradise Outlaw showcase's Brown's strengths while staking out fresh new creative territory." -No Depression
"Paradise Outlaw easily qualifies as one for the ages. It's simply that good" -Blurt
~ The Current premiere's Pieta Brown's "All My Rain" video from her new album "Paradise Outlaw", coproduced by Bo Ramsey, to be released Sept. 30th on Red House Records.
~ Mason Jennings Embraces Demons on 'Wilderness' - Song Premiere on Rolling Stone. Produced by Bo Ramsey.
~ Bo Ramsey has just completed work on the new album by Mason Jennings entitled "Always Been". Scheduled for release on November 12, 2013 on Stats&Brackets, distributed by Thirty Tigers, Produced by Bo Ramsey.
~ Mike Mangione and The Union's new release titled "Red-Winged Blackbird Man" (Rodzinka), produced by Bo Ramsey, receives 4 star review in American Songwriter Magazine.
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Ben Weingarten
Reader. Writer. Thinker. Commentator. Truth Seeker.
Iran Deal Wasn’t the Alternative to War — it was Essential to Iran’s Ongoing War
By Ben Weingarten
In Defense, Foreign Policy, Media, National Security, Politics
The Iran Deal Wasn’t An ‘Alternative To War,’ It Was A Continuation Of War
In the wake of the decision by the Trump administration to pull out of the Obama administration non-treaty known as “Iran Deal,” two narratives emerged from the hysterical Iran Deal echo chamber:
1) Iran Deal was the alternative to war;
2) Consequently, jettisoning it was the path to war, part of a “neocon” plot for another invasion, occupation and nation-building effort
Both elements of this narrative are patently false, as I argue in a new piece in The Federalist.
In fact, Iran Deal can best be thought of as the recapitalization effort for a war the Khomeinist regime in Tehran has been waging against all who refuse to submit to its totalitarian Islamic revolutionary rule since 1979.
This recapitalization effort in tandem with a Swiss cheese verification regime provided the funding and veneer of moderation under which Iran rapidly accelerated and expanded its Shia Crescent and malign operations globally.
Stated differently: We in the West bankrolled Iran’s worldwide march. The only thing the verification regime confirmed was the delusion of our purported leaders.
Exiting the deal represents the first step towards stopping Iran’s march, and thwarting its imperialist efforts. It is about stopping the flow of cash to jihadists and indicating a resolve to cease with the appeasement and reassert ourselves in the face of their goose-stepping.
The idea floated by the Iran Deal’s ardent defenders — many of whom shamefully raised the dual loyalty canard to try to browbeat American Jews into supporting the deal originally — that Israel’s defensive attacks on Iranian military assets in Syria immediately following the U.S. decision to pull out of the deal indicates a concerted plan for some long-sought war could not be more wrong.
Israel’s efforts are about defending its sovereignty against a metastasizing threat to its existence aided, abetted and enabled by the Iran Deal-istas.
Iran is not Iraq. It’s a once relatively pro-Western, secular, liberal, modern nation that has been hijacked by jihadists. In order to ensure America’s national interests, and those of our allies are served, there is no need for invasion, occupation and re-casting of a Sharia dictatorship as a Jeffersonian democracy. Rather what is needed is a concerted set of actions to bring down the jihadist regime through means peaceful and militant, overt and covert, enabling the Iranian people to end the Islamic revolution. Ideological warfare, as Michael Ledeen has convincingly argued, must play a significant role.
A fish rots from the head, one of the many reasons why Iran Deal wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on. But the necessity for regime change does not necessitate Iraq 2.0.
The Iran Deal echo chamber is, per usual, attacking straw men.
The Paradox of Silicon Valley Progressivism on Display in Compelling New Film ‘General Magic’
In Culture, Economy, Politics
Tribeca Film ‘General Magic’ Shows How Capitalism Pulls Big Success Out Of Big Failures
One of the great paradoxes of Silicon Valley is that while its denizens are monolithically progressive, its creatives and entrepreneurs illustrate in their own lives the virtues of the free enterprise system that progressives loathe.
While the propensity for risk-taking is in part cultural, the ability to create and bring new goods and services to the public requires favorable social, political and economic conditions. This is why a communist nation like China resorts to stealing intellectual property to compete. It’s why innovation in progressive Europe pales in comparison to what we see in America.
Innovation requires the protection of individual liberty, private property rights and free markets. But Silicon Valley’s progressive political allies are often hostile to these principles.
A compelling new film featured at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival reflects this tension. While the liberal audience at the world premiere for “General Magic” — a new documentary about the “failed” tech company of that name — might not have realized it, the movie is an exceptional story about capitalism that viewers of all stripes will appreciate.
I recently reviewed this documentary at The Federalist.
Here’s a taste from the piece:
My Interview with Leon Kass on Leading a Worthy Life in the Modern Age
In Books, Culture, Government, History, Podcast
For Encounter Books I recently had the opportunity to interview the eminent Professor Leon Kass on his latest book Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times.
During the interview [audio, transcript], Professor Kass and I discussed among other things how one defines a “worthy life,” finding meaning in this modern libertine (though often not libertarian) age, the decline but potential for rebirth of core values and principles of Western civilization, squaring scientific progress with ethics, rekindling a love of excellence and much more.
Disturbing Admission of Former CIA Director Inadvertently Illustrates Disastrous Politicization
In Foreign Policy, Government, National Security, Politics
Gen. Michael Hayden, the former NSA and CIA director, has inadvertently revealed the ultimate subtext for the political establishment’s antagonism towards President Trump.
He writes in a recent New York Times editorial:
When asked for counsel these days by officers who are already in government, especially more junior ones, I remind them of their duty to help the president succeed. But then I add: ‘Protect yourself. Take notes and save them. And above all, protect the institution. America still needs it. [Emphasis mine]
This is the buried lede in an essay adapted from Gen. Hayden’s forthcoming book The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies.
The focus of his piece is that we are moving into a new “post-truth era,” making it impossible for intelligence agencies to do their job.
But as I show in a new piece at The Federalist, this premise masks the true animating factor behind the words and deeds of the national security and foreign policy establishment in relation to President Trump from the 2016 campaign on.
The establishment has served under presidents before who have not been, to put it politely, paragons of truth and virtue — sometimes to the great detriment of our national security.
What really differentiates the current president from his predecessors is his willingness to speak one major inconvenient truth: The world has gotten progressively more dangerous and chaotic under establishment leadership in the post-Cold War era, in particular under the Obama-Clinton administration.
Calling out this failure, and challenging the worldview that has led to the actions that caused it, is what these individuals cannot abide because it represents an attack on their power, influence and credibility.
“[A]bove all, protect[ing the institution” is a sentiment that would suggest those in our bureaucracies would condone all manner of actions that undermine our constitutional order.
And what have we seen over the last two years in the national security and foreign policy establishment, as well as our justice system?
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The Democrat-Deep State-Media Cover-Up that Protected the Russiagate Narrative — Revisiting the Awan Cybersecurity Scandal with Luke Rosiak
Ben Weingarten Guest Hosts “The Buck Sexton Show:” Cohen Hearings, Congressional Kabuki Theater and the Rolling Coup Attempt on President Trump, Democrat Civil War, AOC’s Blacklist and 2020, China and North Korea Negotiations with Steve Yates, Future of Conservatism and Tucker Carlson’s Manifesto with Dr. Matthew Peterson
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Tag Archives: Marvel
February 18, 2014 by Steve Penfold in Film and Comics News, Guardians of the Galaxy, Movies and tagged Abnett, Andy Lanning, Annihalation, Benicio Del Toro, Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, Dan Abnett, Dave Bautista, Djimon Hounsou, Drax, gamora, Glenn Close, Groot, Guardians, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Movie, John C Reilly, Junk Heap, Junk Pile, Junk Yard, Karen Gillen, Kree, Lanning, Lee Pace, Luke Cage, Marvel, Nova, Peter Quill, Phalanx, Raccoon, Racoon, Rocket, Scrap Pile, Shi'ar, Skrull, Starlord, Thanos, The Collector, Trashpile, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana | Leave a comment
If there’s one thing both me and Dan agree on is that Peter Quill’s progression from 8os sci-fi Starlord to commander during the Annihalation crossover, leader of the cobbled together strike force against the Phalanx invasion and, finally, wise-cracking protagonist of Abnett and Lanning’s fully formed Guardians of the Galaxy was pretty much the best character development Marvel’s ever pulled off. He came from the edge of Marvel, teamed up with a Racoon and a Tree and put on a cool looking helmet.
Chris Pratt looking a little ill at ease at the helm as team leader Peter Quill
5 years later Marvel’s lack of choices in it’s next movie franchise led them to a popular fringe title named Guardians of the Galaxy and here we are now. In the unlikely situation in which one of the silliest titles Marvel has ever put out is on it’s way to the big screen. Great times!!
So it’s with some excitement that we present the best news we’ve had in a while!! Guardians of the Galaxy first 15 second shot-fest trailer is here and it looks like fun. Visibly sticking to Abnett and Lanning’s zany run in the Guardians (Gamora, Starlord, Groot, Drax all present and correct) instead of the unecesarily retrofitted Bendis run. Director James Gunn insisted that he was resolutely sticking to Abnett and Lanning’s version of the team for the big screen release. Abnett himself told us that he’d been to the set and was really happy with how it was all shaping up.
There’s one character conspicuously missing though between the bomb bursts, aliens and beasties…..
Zoe Saldana as Gamora, the world’s most dangerous woman
‘I AM GROOT!’: Not seeing the wood for the gunfire
Screenshot from new 15 second trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy
NZs Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer looking for his next victim
Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer asks the question many non-readers are probably asking
Iron Age: The Iron Man 3 Trailer
October 23, 2012 by Steve Penfold in Avengers, Film and Comics News, Marvel, Movies and tagged Avengers, Ben Kingsley, Cinema, Don Cheadle, Film, Footage, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hammer, Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Iron Man 3 Trailer, Jon Favreau, Manadrin, Marvel, Movie, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Rings, robert downey, Robert Downy Jr, Shane Black, Stan Lee, Trailer | Leave a comment
Hard to know how to follow up Iron Man 1 and 2 and the obvious triumph of Avengers (Assemble). Seems the people over at Marvel Entertainment have a clear idea. Smash everything to bits and start again. Reminiscent of Iron Man’s … um.. tangy.. story a little while back where Hammer and Norman Osborn took everything from him, someone looking suspiciously like Hammer and someone who would no doubt be Norman Osborn if someone else didn’t have Spider-man are taking everything from him…
And Gandhi’s forgotten his oath of non violent protest, found some rings and gone all heavily armoured Sexy Beast. Frankly, I can’t wait!! Great cast and a brilliant premise. The double whammy of two villains in the form of Iron Patriot and the Mandarin has rarely been done well but let’s see what happens here… please, please, please keep it up Marvel.
Practitioners 7: Joe Madureira
September 5, 2012 by Steve Penfold in Practitioners Reloaded and tagged 1994, 2008, 312, Archangel, Artist, Battlechasers, Calibretto, Capcom, Crimson, Danger Girl, Darksiders, fantasy, Gekido, Generation Next, Generation X, Genertaion Next, Greg Peterson, hiatus, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Humberto Ramos, J. Scott Campbell, Japanese, Jeph Loeb, Joe Mads, Joe Madureira, Manga, Mark Millar, Marvel, Marvel Comics Presents, Marvel Heroes, Mystic, Ninja, Northstar, Pencils, Playstation, Psylocke, Red Monika, Sabretooth, sci-fi, Sega Saturn, sTEAM pUNK, The Age of Apocalypse, Tim Donley, tri-lunar, Ultimates 3, Uncanny X-men, Urban Warriors, War, Western, Wolverine, XBox | Leave a comment
As a catch up for all new visitors to Beyond the Bunker, we’ll be representing the original Practitioners series 1-55 (Simon Bisley – Chris Bachalo and featuring the most influential comic creatives in history). Thoroughly incomplete but featuring legends like Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Frank Miller and Alan Moore already more will be hitting the site every two alternate weeks. For now though, sit back every Tuesday for a run-down of the men and women who created the comic industry we know today. (Or check the full list in the menus above). This week: 2000AD Legend and Judge Dredd creator Carlos Ezquerra.
A controversial choice this week with Joe Maduriera. Known to everyone as Joe Mad, Joe Madureira’s style combines Western comic book convention with the wildest and broadest Japanese manga style and has been creditted for helping the latter to influence the western comic book market in recent years – clashing the two in a way that has not been matched before or since. Most reknowned for his work on Marvel Comics Uncanny X-men he was a bold choice. His populist and cartoon-like visuals have made him a foil of ‘credibility-hungry’ critics throughout the years however the reason for his inclusion here is sheer, raw, distinctive talent, perhaps not his diligence on release of independent series as will be revealed below.
Few artists in the history of Comic Books (Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Frank Miller, Alan Silverstri all of whom will appear here) have had a bigger effect on the ebb and flow of the comic industry than Joe Maduriera with their own natural drawing style. He drew comics out of love of it and this is illustrated most clearly by how little there is to tell about his working history in the field. He arrived high up, splashed around – made his mark – and left.
Maduriera’s first published work was an eight page story for the anthology title Marvel Comics Presents featuring Northstar, a fringe character in the Marvel fermament. He became the regular penciller on Uncanny X-men in 1994 with issue 312, seeing through the formation of Generation X, the tenure of Sabretooth and the stuff of legend that is ‘The Age of Apocalypse’. His work even influenced the title itself. Archangel and Wolverine pitched headlong into an Eastern adventure in order to save the soul of Psylocke – an adventure that ran for three consecutive issues – involved none of the other characters, no Blackbird, no mansion and no other mutants. A complete departure from continuity that seemed in the reading as a neat excuse (as well as hinting at Psylocke’s oriental half-self’s mystical past) to showcase Maduriera’s distinctive and fun artwork.
Ultimates 3 (2008)
A hint at the effect his artwork would later have on the much later 2008 run of Ultimates 3 1-5 with Jeph Loeb. Critically and publically lambasted for its near total disregard for the conventions introduced and made popular by Mark Millar’s run on the series it was an enormous hit for Marvel. Its secret to longevity? The immersive and unabashedly shame faced comicdom taking place in every panel – the luxurious redesign of the character’s making the continuity jump worthwhile.
Battlechasers (2001)
It was his independent title, Battlechasers, published under the Cliffhanger label, which Madureira founded with J. Scott Campbell (Danger Girl) and Humberto Ramos (Crimson) that stirred the biggest fervour. Set in a high fantasy setting and utilising steam punk and sci-fi genres the story follows four central characters – most notably Red Monika and the outlawed War Golem, Calibretto. A simple enough premise but one that showcased Maduriera’s work faultlessly – which was exactly what he had in mind. It is this title’s production he has received the most criticism for, producing 9
Red Monika of Battle Chasers
issues in 4 years – constantly pushing up the value of the title rather than reducing it as fans anticipated the next instalment with ever increasing enthusiasm. He cancelled Issue 10 and placed the series on permanent hiatus after forming a game development company, Tri-lunar with Tim Donley and Greg Peterson.
Upon the announcement he would be returning to comics for Ultimates 3 he was asked about a conclusion to Battlechasers to which he replied ‘”one of those things that I think about every once in a while, and not having finished it bums me out… I would love to do it at some point, but it would be very far out.”
In July 2007, Vigil Games’ Darksiders was announced, of which Joe Madureira was creative director. It follows War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, on his quest to find out who prematurely triggered the apocalypse. It was released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on January 5, 2010 and September 23, 2010 on PC.
Madureira has also provided cover artwork for Capcom’s Marvel Super Heroes for the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation, and the Sony PlayStation game Gekido: Urban Warriors.
Battlechasers for Cliffhanger 2001
Marvel Announce their “Phase 2” Movies
July 16, 2012 by Dan Thompson in Comics, Movies and tagged Andy Lanning, Ant Man, Captain America 2, Captain America The Winter Soldier, Dan Abnett, Edgar Wright, entertainment, gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Marvel, Marvel Studios, Movies, New Armour, San Diego Comic-con, Scott Pilgrim, SDCC, Star Lord, Superhero Movies, Thor, Thor 2, Thor The Dark World | 1 Comment
Marvel released details of their next round of movies at San Diego Comic Con this weekend. For a start they ended the rampant internet speculation and announced that the line up for the Guardians of the Galaxy movie will be the modern team rather than the classic one. That’s right, in 2013 we’ll be seeing a film about Star Lord, Gamora, Drax The Destroyer, Goot and (of course) Rocket Raccoon. They also released this concept image which should be enough to get any Guardians fan salivating:
For the uninitiated, Guardians of the Galaxy (at least the version of it that we’re talking about here) is largely the brainchild of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (Nova, Warhammer 40K etc) and tells the story of a team of “heroes” who are tasked with keeping the entire galaxy safe from harm. It’s basically Avengers meets the dirty dozen…in space…with a talking raccoon. Trust me, this property has everything you need to make a fantastic movie. Be excited.
In addition to this, Marvel announced the titles for the rest of their “phase 2” movies. The most for me is probably the Captain America sequel (I’m an unashamed Bucky fan) but it’s great to see Edgar Wright’s Ant Man Movie finally getting the official green light. Despite it’s poor box office performance, I’m a huge fan of Wright’s work on Scott Pilgrim. With a Marvel Marketing budget behind him, this could be the break into the mainstream that he deserves.
Obviously feeling bad for Tony Stark about the fact that his sequel doesn’t get a tagline, Marvel went ahead and revealed the new Iron Man armour that he will don in the film. It looks like this:
You can see more pictures of the armour on Marvel’s website.
Exciting times!
BTB Investigates: Avengers / Guardians of the Galaxy Crossover Movie?
July 3, 2012 by Steve Penfold in BTB Investigates and tagged Avengers 2, Captain America 2, Drax, Drax the Destroyer, films, Giardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Movie, Iron Man 3, Marvel, Marvel Entertainment, Movie, Movies, Odin, popular culture, Rocket Raccoon, Thanos, Thor, Thor 2 | Leave a comment
There are times when something really different finds it’s way into popular culture. A fringe idea, never really intended to be anything particularly outstanding has an unlikely run of luck. Somehow, the guardians of the galaxy, a relatively new team consisting of a universal magician, a cosmic warrior, two master assassins, a former paraplegic, a wise cracking ex-galactic hero, a psychic dog, a transcendental psychokinetic, a walking tree king and a talking raccoon with a penchant for heavy weaponry look like they’ve found their way to the big screen alongside iron man, Thor, cap and the rest of the avengers.
Rumours spreading like wildfire across the internet is that Marvel is about to announce a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. If, as we expect it to, it turns out to be true, then Marvel are really intending to take risks and reap the benefits in the coming years. With a stall of literally hundreds of characters to reveal, from Nova to Namor they could’ve kept thing’s earth bound.
However, we here at beyond the bunker anticipate an Avengers / Guardians crossover for what would’ve been the next Avengers movie. The reasons behind this are numerous.
In terms of available content, Marvel still haven’t got control of many of their greatest and most famous creations. Spider-man still remains under contract with Sony and 20th Century Fox show no signs of releasing the now well established X-men franchise with separate Origins and First Class arcs remaining potential money spinners. Strangely, this means that while Marvel can’t present all of it’s most successful characters together (Wolverine and Spider-man unable to join the current Avengers) these things still mean that Marvel associated projects rule Hollywood. In the next three years we’re likely to see Spider-man, X-men, Wolverine, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Avengers and now Guardians of the Galaxy. There’s barely enough space in the movie calendar to sustain them and some Marvel projects will inevitably crossover. However, with the success of all of the Avengers movie and the fact that every adaptation has more than made it’s money back there is absolutely no sign of the marvel juggernaut stopping (even if he was played badly by Vinnie Jones).
However, this spread between film companies with Marvel franchises (of which Marvel is only one) leaves Marvel with a dearth of possible projects to bring to the big screen. Even the Avengers movie had to concede the use of Skrull warriors ( later to appear as the Chitauri in the film) – most likely because the Skrull copyright went over when the Fantastic Four were sold.
Blade’s been done beautifully (excluding part three) and will be hard to follow, Ghost Rider has met with considerable negative press but has made enough money to remain viably locked where it is, the Punisher never seems to work on the big screen after a couple of botched attempts but is unlikely to fall back into Marvel’s hands. Ant man remains in development and no one wants to try Howard the Duck again. The new warriors are a little too passé, X-factor, X-force, Excalibur, Cable and mystique belong to 20th Century Fox. So where do you turn…?
Marvel went cosmic immediately with Avengers. Natural plot devices that connected the characters inevitably led that way – cosmic cube in Captain America, pretty much every aspect of Thor, it was clear where they were going with it. The Ultimates (Marvel’s cinematic reinterpretation of the Avengers, central to the alternate Ultimate Universe) acknowledged the conscious plan to bring their one remaining credible franchise to the big screen, as X-men and Spider-man tore up the multiplexes elsewhere. The higher ups in Marvel would’ve known that the combined funds from licensing the Ultimate names was building coffers that would allow them to go alone as Marvel entertainment. The most amazing thing is the 20 year plan Marvel have demonstrated here. Mark Millar’s Ultimates revealed the Skrulls present in Nazi forces, crossing Cap’s timeline before presenting a big enough threat to justify the avengers 60 odd years later. This was the precursor to the films that have culminated the same way. However, it’s Thanos that it all hinges on.
Revealed at the very end of Avengers as the true threat, Thanos has represented the greatest danger to the Marvel universe throughout it’s history. Mythic and modern in equal measures, Thanos is an endearingly flawed demi- god figure and a logical threat for the Avengers to face. However, Thanos’ reveal at the end of the Avengers has made clear that the future for Marvel was space.
It’s most successful non- web/mutant/avengers franchise in comic books has been Marvel Galaxies, the culmination of many disparate races and characters developed in the background of other marvel titles. Having exhausted almost every popular earth- based creation they have Marvel had no choice but to look to the stars.
Following the surprisingly engaging Annihalation series and having the foresight to give editorial duties to Warhammer and scifi veterans (and friends to the Bunker) Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, the star spanning Marvel Universe has provided some of Marvel’s most engaging storylines in recent years. Through the Annihalation crossover and War of Kings storylines, one team stood out among all the others and absorbed all the best and most interesting figures in the Galactic Marvel section. Guardians of the Galaxy , brain child of Abnett and Lanning, kicked off with so much spit and gusto that it inevitably became a fan favourite.
This is here because we love this picture!!
With Thanos’ arrival in it’s pages, launching a further crossover that brought together the Annihalators – the most powerful figures in the galaxy – the relevance of Guardians of the Galaxy to the plot of the Avengers was cemented. Mostly killed off in that storyline, the notoriety of the Guardians has lost almost no momentum, rocket raccoon and Groot continuing to fight on in the back pages of the Annihalators.
Led by a disgraced and disillusioned galactic hero called Starlord – now a gun toting wisecracker, the Guardians represent the founding ideas that made comics great, combining it with Stan Lee’s philosophy for Marvel. Strong characters mix with unrelentingly uncompromising science fiction in a mix that is wry, exciting and fun.
With Iron Man 3, Thor and captain America 2 and Avengers 2 coming up in the next two years Marvel will be looking for a new card to play. We think that Marvel intend to make the Avengers movie another benchmark movie making it not only a repeat of an enormous crossover of successful films in their own right but are planning to add another to the mix. We anticipate that we are looking at a Guardians of the Galaxy / Avengers crossover in less than 3 years with an introductory movie for the star team appearing before hand.
All we need is Bob Hoskins to voice the part of Rocket Raccoon – to match the rugged cockney accent Marvel gave Rocket in the Marvel vs Capcom game and maybe Brian Blessed on Groot.
So when inevitably Thanos puts on his infinity Gauntlet to impress Lady Death in the next Avengers movie, two teams will ride out to face him. Don’t know about you but we can’t wait.
Tout L’Armour: Iron Patriot shots from Iron Man 3
May 31, 2012 by Steve Penfold in Avengers, Marvel and tagged Avengers, Ben Kingsley, Comics, Franchise, Guy Pearce, Iron Man, Iron Man 3, James Badge Dale, Mandarin, Marvel, Movie, Robert Downey Jr | 1 Comment
Yo and behold – Iron Patriot spangles up proceedings in Iron Man 3. These on-set shots from the new Avengers movie (already in production – good work Marvel!!) reveal a very starry eyed surprise for one Mr Anthony Stark. Interesting choice of Bad Guy that might’ve suggested that yet again, the Mandarin has been put on the back-burner for the new movie. But no…
While Ben Kingsley and Guy Pearce have already been confirmed to take on nemesis roles in the upcoming film, it seems that there is another villainous character on the scene.
The discovery of Iron Patriot as a potential third villain (played by James Badge Dale) suggests things might be getting a little crowded on set for part 3. Considering that no comicx book adaptation with more than one full-on super villain has ever truly worked it seems like a weird gambit on Marvel’s behalf but if anyone’s gonna pull it off… watch this space.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2152633/Iron-Man-3-villain-James-Badge-Dale-seen-Iron-Patriot-set.html#ixzz1wTVwUG8i
The First Gameplay Trailer for Marvel MMO
May 24, 2012 by Steve Penfold in Avengers, Games, Marvel and tagged Captain America, Colossus, Comics, Doom, Footage, Game, gameplay, Hulk, Iron Man, Marvel, MMO, Tony Stark, Trailer, Victor Von Doom, Von Doom | 1 Comment
So here it is!! Marvel have gone even closer to taking over the universe by introducing a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (note the lack of RPG at the end of the title). I had to look all those acronyms up and I’m uncertain as to how it’s Massively Multiplayer but not role play as I thought the Role Play part was pretty straight forward to add. Clearly you can’t dress Wolverine in a tutu or make Iron Man a mystic with a goat as a pet – but you kind of have to ask – why not? In spite of this, the idea of being able to be any of possibly hundreds of Marvel Heroes is pretty fun. Available on the PC, at some point…
Amazing Spider-man Trailer 2: Peter Parker Revealed as wise cracking as the real thing (also some Lizard)
May 6, 2012 by Steve Penfold in Marvel, Movies, Spider-man and tagged Amazing Spider-man, Andrew Garfield, Denis Leary, Emma Stone, Martin Sheen, Marvel, Peter Parker, Rhys Ifans, Spider-man, The Lizard | Leave a comment
There is a little retiscence in getting overly excited about the New Amazing Spider-man movie in me until now. The last thing anyone needs is another creation movie (everyone knows it; it’s the lore of the street now like Superman getting it on with Lois Lane and Batman’s an orphan; Peter Parker got bitten by a radioactive Spider). However, whatever initial fear was developed in the previous trailers and teasers, Andrew Garfield as Spider-man being one of them – this trailer begins to torch them.
Tobey Macguire was a great Spider-man but couldn’t knock out a Spider-quip in the way that Andrew Garfield clearly can. Oddly, it was almost an aspect of the wall-crawler many had forgotten following the first three movies. Spider-man is a wise-ass. To deal with the fear and insecurities, Parker always through out quirky one liners (something that has made other Marvel characters – notably fellow Avenger Wolverine – want to kill him).
But it was that detail that perhaps we missed in the Sam Raimi trilogy (excellent though the first two were). When the mask went on, it was only Spider-man.
If this trailer’s anything to go by we’ll be seeing Parker under the suit during the massively expensive fight scenes.
‘Aaah, you’ve found my weakness – really small knives!!’
Major (but awesome) Spoiler about the Avengers Villain
April 26, 2012 by Steve Penfold in Avengers, Film and Comics News, Movies and tagged 2011, 2012, ?, Avengers, Beyond The Bunker, BTB, cool, entertainment, films, Galaxy, Guardians, in, Is, Joss, Marvel, Movie, November, Shock, Thanos, Whedon | Leave a comment
Back in November, we wrote an article about whether or not Thanos was secretly the true Avengers movie bad guy. It was thrown together with ideas of Whedon’s natural layering of threats in previous projects, Marvel’s cavalier attitude to plots and introductions of unusual and exciting characters and Thanos himself being cool as all hell and associated with cubes. The whole article effectively gave reason after reason as to why it should be true then I crapped out in the last paragraph and said no probably not.
But word is beginning to spread that ol’ purple radiator face does indeed make an appearance in the Avengers movie. Also, that shots showing Loki working alongside the Avengers (Oh Loki, when will you ever learn) suggest that things go awry and that a dark force more powerful than the God of Mischief intervenes. This, I believe, ain’t Thanos but we have recieved a comment from someone fortunate enough to see the Avengers Assemble claiming that Thanos is right there at the end of the credits. Other sources are saying he’s perrenially involved in Loki’s plot though not the prevailing threat of the film.
Nevertheless, if Thanos is in the all important final reel at the end of the credits then Marvel is beefing him up for something. Io9.com was mentioning the other day a veiled reference by a Marvel Exec about a feature involving a Raccoon and a tree and Marvel Galaxies saw Thanos versus Nova, Gladiator et al just last year. This points to an incredibly promising possibility. That Marvel intend to move their new features further out perhaps than anyone would expect and push out a Galactic movie. Guardians of the Galaxy: the Movie anyone?
The worst part is we had Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning right in front of us just this weekend and all I talked to Andy Lanning about was what ink to use and I spoke to Dan and his lovely wife about embarrassing myself in front of Simon Pegg at a Star Wars Con I was working at. I was priding myself on my restraint after embarrassing myself in front of Quitely a year ago (something Dan brings up whenever he can and will glefully tell you if asked) but this time fanboy bloghead would’ve actually helped!! Mother f…
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Dorothea Ernestine Langille
F, #4742, b. 30 March 1900, d. before 20 April 199
Father David Fairweather Langille b. 28 Feb 1871
Mother Inez E. Davidson b. 1870
Relationship 4th great-granddaughter of Jean George Bezanson
Dorothea Ernestine Langille died before 20 April 199. She was born on 30 March 1900.1
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Greta Mildred Langille
F, #4743, b. 3 October 1902, d. 20 April 1997
Warren Russell Bell d. b 20 Apr 1997
Greta Mildred Langille was born on 3 October 1902 at Louisville, Nova Scotia.1 She married Warren Russell Bell.2 Greta Mildred Langille died on 20 April 1997 at Willow Lodge Home for Special Care, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, at age 94.2 She was buried in Bell Gift Cemetery, New Annan.2
Death Notice from The Halifax Herald, Online Edition (Halifax, Nova Scotia), 21 April 1997:
BELL, GRETA MILDRED - 95, Tatamagouche, Colchester Co., died April 20, 1997 in Willow Lodge, Tatamagouche.
Born in Louisville, Pictou Co., she was a daughter of the late David F. and Inez (Davidson) Langille. A graduate of Provincial Normal College, she taught school for many years in Pictou and Colchester counties. She was a member of Sedgwick Memorial Presbyterian Church, Tatamagouche.
Surviving are sister, Ardith, Whitby, Ont; Janet, Saskatoon, Sask, several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her husband, Warren Russell, stepson, Ralph; brothes, Allan, Malcolm, sisters, Dorothea, Elta. No vistation. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday in Coulter's Funeral Home, Tatamagouche. Rev. David Stewart officiating. Burial at a later date in Bell Gift Cemetery, New Annan.2
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[S2] Greta Mildred Bell Death Notice, The Chronicle-Herald (Halifax, Nova Scotia), 21 April 1997.
Malcolm Lester Langille
M, #4745, b. 23 February 1904, d. 19 August 1983
(?) MacDonald
Relationship 4th great-grandson of Jean George Bezanson
Malcolm Lester Langille was born on 23 February 1904 at Louisville, Nova Scotia.1 He married (?) MacDonald. Malcolm Lester Langille died on 19 August 1983 at Union Cemetery, Nova Scotia, at age 79.2
[S121] Frances (Dwyer) Hughes.
Ardette Gertrude Langille
F, #4754, b. 13 January 1906, d. after 20 April 199
Ardette Gertrude Langille died after 20 April 199. She was born on 13 January 1906.1 She lived at Whitby, Ontario.
Janet Elizabeth Langille
F, #4755, b. 4 October 1907, d. after 20 April 199
Kenneth Booth
Janet Elizabeth Langille died after 20 April 199. She was born on 4 October 1907.1 She married Kenneth Booth. Janet Elizabeth Langille lived at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Elta A. Langille
F, #4757, b. 27 January 1912, d. before 20 April 199
Elta A. Langille died before 20 April 199. She was born on 27 January 1912.1
Mary Langille
F, #4758, b. 1876
Father David Langille b. 15 Jan 1830, d. 14 Sep 1907
Mother Elizabeth Fairweather b. 12 Jan 1837, d. 27 Mar 1876
Peter Heighton b. 1870
Relationship 3rd great-granddaughter of Jean George Bezanson
Mary Langille was born in 1876.1 She married Peter Heighton on 18 August 1900.2
Peter Heighton
M, #4759, b. 1870
Father Edward Heighton
Mother Jane (?)
Mary Langille b. 1876
Peter Heighton was born in 1870.1 He married Mary Langille on 18 August 1900.2
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NASFAA Selects Winner of First Big Idea Policy Proposal Contest
The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) has selected the winner of its inaugural "Big Idea" policy proposal competition.
Mark Szymanoski, regulatory affairs manager for training and communications at Devry Education Group, won the competition with his "Student Aid Modernization Initiative" (SAMI), which aims to "improve the way federal financial aid is awarded, making the process simpler, more precise and more flexible," according to a news release. "By linking aid to each student's progress toward a degree, it would also make aid awards more equitable and reduce over-borrowing."
Szymanoski, whose plan was selected as the winner by an audience poll and a panel of judges, will work with NASFAA and researchers to further develop and refine his proposal.
"Besides being complex and inefficient, the current awarding method actually encourages excessive borrowing, enables overconsumption of grants, discourages accelerated study and is not equitable among students," Szymanoski said. "SAMI remedies this by awarding financial aid based on a student's actual progress toward program completion. The result is a financial aid package that is more precise, more equitable and much more efficient."
Anticipated benefits of SAMI include:
Improved efficiency in the use of federal funds as they would be tied to educational progress;
Year-round eligibility for Pell grants, rewarding students for accelerating their education;
A more equitable distribution of federal student aid;
Increased flexibility for students attending part-time, online, year-round and more;
Improvement of student management of grants and loans through increased understanding; and
Reduced administrative burden and improved precision owing to simplified student aid.
"NASFAA is excited about the potential positive impact SAMI could have on improving the student financial aid process for the future," said Megan McClean, managing director of policy & federal relations at NASFAA, in a prepared statement. "We applaud Mark Szymanoski for winning The Big Idea: NASFAA Policy Challenge and look forward to collaborating on the development phase of the initiative."
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Senators’ Pageau, Penguins’ Malkin fined after incident Monday – Sportsnet.ca
Pittsburgh Penguins centre Evgeni Malkin has been fined $5,000 for high-sticking Ottawa Senators centre Jean-Gabriel Pageau, who has been slapped with a $2,500 penalty for roughing, following an incident at the end of the two teams’ matchup on Monday.
After Senators winger Brady Tkachuk and Malkin exchanged pleasantries, the two teams came together in a scrum. Just as it looked to be settling down, Pageau swatted Malkin in the face, who responded by swinging his stick and making contact with the Ottawa native’s neck.
Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for High-sticking Ottawa’s Jean-Gabriel Pageau.
— NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) December 31, 2019
Ottawa’s Jean-Gabriel Pageau has been fined $2,500, for Roughing Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin.
Malkin has 38 points in 26 games for the Penguins this season, while Pageau has racked up 29 points in 40 games for the Senators.
Goaltending, power play still clicking for Canada entering medal round – Sportsnet.ca
Canada vs. Czech Republic final score: With dominating performance, Canadians finish atop Group B at 2020 World Juniors – Sporting News
Chiefs defeat Titans to advance to Super Bowl for first time in 50 years – Sportsnet.ca
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With his best imitation of a tightrope walker, Patrick Mahomes high-wired the Kansas City Chiefs into their first Super Bowl since 1970.
Oh sure, Mahomes did his usual superb job passing, but it was his 27-yard tap dance down the left sideline late in the first half that gave the Chiefs their first lead. From there, they outran the run-oriented Tennessee Titans and star back Derrick Henry for a 35-24 victory Sunday in the AFC championship.
At last, for the third time overall, the Chiefs (14-4) are Super Bowl bound.
In two weeks in Miami, they will play the winner of the NFC title game between Green Bay and San Francisco.
“I mean, it’s amazing. It really is,” said Mahomes, had 294 yards passing and three touchdown passes. “To be here, to be a part of Chiefs Kingdom and to be able to do it here at Arrowhead, these people deserve it. And we’re not done yet.”
Adding to the joy of the achievement, coach Andy Reid and owner Clark Hunt accepted the Lamar Hunt Trophy — named after his father — emblematic of the AFC title. It was handed over to them by Chiefs Hall of Famer Bobby Bell, with Mahomes and safety Tyrann Mathieu jumping for joy on the makeshift stage.
Next up: chasing the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
“Very excited and very emotional to win the trophy that has my dad’s name on it,” Hunt said. “Yeah, 50 years were too long, but we’re going to another Super Bowl.
“Chiefs Kingdom, we are going to the Super Bowl.”
The Chiefs lost in 1967 in the first AFL-NFL Championship Game — nope, it wasn’t called the Super Bowl yet — to the Lombardi Packers 35-10. Three years later, one year after the New York Jets shocked Baltimore to lay claim to the AFL being equal to the long-established NFL, Kansas City was back. This time, it was known as the Super Bowl — indeed, Lamar Hunt is credited with coming up with the name — and his Chiefs hammered Minnesota 23-7 with the typical Wild West offensive flair and a staunch defence. Those are characteristics that helped carry KC this season.
Reid isn’t as animated as Hall of Famer Hank Stram, who famously urged the Chiefs team to “keep matriculating the ball down the field, boys.” Caught up in the moment Sunday, Reid said, “It’s awesome,” before asking the crowd to chant “How about those Chiefs?”
Moments later, standout tight end Travis Kelce proclaimed, “You gotta fight for your right to party.”
There will be plenty of partying on South Beach for Chiefs Kingdom heading into the championship matchup.
“Fired up to go to Miami, got to get on a diet so I can fit into my clothes,” Reid said. “Very proud.”
THAT. WAS. INCREDIBLE.
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As they had done in their past three “elimination” games, the sixth-seeded Titans (11-8) got started quickly. The difference at Arrowhead as opposed to Houston, New England and Baltimore was that the Chiefs had Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, Sammy Watkins and Damien Williams on offence, and a vastly upgraded defence from when they lost in last year’s AFC title game. Henry was held to 7 yards rushing in the second half.
“They were doubling all these guys,” Mahomes said of his spectacular TD run on which he barely stayed in bounds. “I just ran it and got some good blocking at the end and found a way to get in the end zone.”
A week after they overcame a 24-0 deficit against Houston, the Chiefs had to rally again.
Down 10-0 and 17-7, Kansas City didn’t flinch, building a 35-17 lead while controlling the clock with a strong ground game. Naturally, Mahomes complemented that with sharp passing, spreading the ball on short and deep throws. The dagger came with a 60-yard completion to Watkins for the Chiefs’ 28th straight point midway in the final period.
Mahomes thrust both arms in the air as the crowd sang Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”
That somebody will be either the 49ers or Packers in two weeks. They were deciding the NFC crown later Sunday in California.
After taking a 3-0 lead on Greg Joseph’s first field goal — with Tennessee’s penchant for scoring in the red zone, he hadn’t been called upon in his previous four games with the team — the Titans got a huge break. Bashaud Breeland appeared to make a diving interception, but replay review showed the ball hitting the ground.
Helped by consecutive offside penalties and a a fourth-down pass to Adam Humphries for his first career playoff reception, the Titans converted on, what else, Henry’s 4-yard run.
Then the Chiefs got rolling, scoring on three successive series. Hill took it in on a shovel pass, later beat top Titans cornerback Logan Ryan for a 20-yard reception, and Mahomes finished the half with his brilliant jaunt down the left sideline with half the Tennessee defence seemingly expecting him to step out of bounds.
That gave the Chiefs a 21-17 lead. It went to 28-17 on Williams’ 3-yard run to cap a seven-minute drive. Then Watkins toasted Logan for the clinching long pass.
Henry was held to 69 yards on 19 carries after rushing for 588 yards in the past three games as an unstoppable force.
“I feel like our backs were against the wall the whole season,” Henry said. “But we kept on fighting and kept on believing in each other. I think it speaks volumes about the team we have. We just came up short.”
The Chiefs easily outrushed the Titans on Sunday. Mahomes led the way with 53 of those yards and also was 23 for 35 for 294 yards passing.
REID’S RETURN
Reid goes back to the Super Bowl for the first time since the 2004 season, when his Eagles lost to New England. That gap is second longest to Dick Vermeil’s hiatus.
“So much effort that went into this,” said Reid, who joined the Chiefs in 2013 after 14 years in Philadelphia. “It takes an army, it is not one guy at all. I appreciate the effort by everybody.”
Last week, Henry threw a jump pass for a touchdown against Baltimore. On Sunday, Dennis Kelly emulated his coach, Mike Vrabel. He sneaked free for Ryan Tannehill’s lob, falling back awkwardly but holding on for Tennessee’s second TD. The backup tackle is the only offensive lineman since 2000 with two TDs receiving in a season. He also had one against Jacksonville.
Vrabel caught 12 touchdown passes as a linebacker, including one in the Super Bowl when his Patriots beat Reid’s Eagles.
FOURTH DOWNS
Displaying the gambling nature of both coaches, fourth-down conversions were key on early scoring drives. Humphries, who missed the last six games with an ankle problem, caught a 3-yarder on fourth-and-2 at the KC 29. Two plays later, Henry scored.
On the Chiefs’ ensuing possession, they went for it on fourth-and-2 from the Titans 28. Travis Kelce’s 4-yard reception continued a march to Hill’s first TD.
Titans: Figuring out if they ran out of gas or were beaten by a more talented team as they head into the off-season.
Chiefs: The Tomahawk Chop will be heard at Hard Rock Stadium in the Super Bowl.
Maple Leafs head into all-star break on a wave of boos, jeers and ridicule after thumping by Blackhawks – The Globe and Mail
It took Drake Caggiula just 21 seconds to score the Blackhawks’ first goal and they led 3-0 after 20 minutes on Saturday as they routed the Leafs 6-2.
Cole Burston/The Canadian Press
The Toronto Maple Leafs headed into the all-star break on Saturday night amid boos and jeers and ridicule. It is not the way any team with postseason aspirations wants to enter its bye week.
Toronto played dreadfully in a 6-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks, and the crowd assembled at Scotiabank Arena voiced its dislike. Catcalls accompanied the players as they filed down the tunnel during the intermissions. In the second period, when Frederik Andersen stopped an easy shot, the crowd cheered to mock him.
Until then, shots had bounced off, and gone around and through the Maple Leafs goaltender, who has not looked like one of the National Hockey League’s elite netminders for weeks. He was credited with 28 saves, but most came when the outcome was already decided.
“I think it’s time now for everyone here to look in the mirror, myself included,” Andersen said. “It’s not a time to point fingers or anything like that.
“[We have] to use this week to reflect, and make sure we come with more intensity and more purpose after the break.”
Toronto lost two of three games last week and has only one victory in its past six. Thanks to this clunker, it no longer holds down a playoff position.
It took Drake Caggiula 21 seconds to score the Blackhawks’ first goal and they led 3-0 after 20 minutes.
“I didn’t have that vibe going into it, but clearly from the drop of the puck we just didn’t have a lot of life,” said Toronto head coach Sheldon Keefe. “Then we’re down, we’re down early and it’s a tough game.
“It’s frustrating. I think when you go through these types of things … it’s a sign of where you are and that you’re not where you want to be. We’re not performing or playing with any level of discipline or consistency. We were an immature team here today.”
Afterward, players exhibited the same hangdog look as when they stumbled out of the gate to start the season. They talked about a lack of attention to details and being unprepared to play. They seemed puzzled by their lack of energy and ineptitude.
That is a bad sign 49 games into an 82-game regular season.
“We were sloppy and we missed assignments, and were careless with the puck,” John Tavares, the team captain, said. “It put us behind and gave [the Blackhawks] a lot of confidence, and got them feeling good about themselves. We were not good enough.
“It is not a good feeling. We have to dig down and ask ourselves where we want to get to.”
Toronto has won 12 of 25 games at home. It is playing without its top defenceman, Morgan Rielly, and one of its next best in Jake Muzzin. The latter’s broken foot may be healed well enough for him to be back in the lineup when regular-season games resume on Jan. 27.
The Maple Leafs begin the grind toward April with road games in Nashville and Dallas. They don’t play at home again until the Ottawa Senators visit on Feb. 1.
After a poor start to the season, they regained ground and seemingly were on the right path. It is hard to say that with certainty now.
As per usual on Saturday, they were outhit and had more shots blocked by an opponent than they did themselves. They were outworked and Andersen failed to come up with a big save when it was needed.
Teammates go out of their way not to criticize him and blame themselves instead for his erratic play. That does not make it any less disconcerting. Forty-two shots have made it past him in the past dozen games. His save percentage has fallen to .909, the lowest of his career.
Andersen is on his way to the all-star game proceedings with Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner. There is not a lot of criticism that can be directed at them. Matthews leads the team with 34 goals and 57 points. Marner, who missed 11 games with an ankle injury, has 47 points.
While the all-stars are in St. Louis, the remaining players will be resting and girding themselves for the gruelling task of securing a spot in the playoffs. By no means is it guaranteed, and that would be a terrible disappointment for this team.
“I think we just hit the reset button and have a nice week to rest and recharge,” Matthews said Saturday night. “Hopefully guys that have been out with injury can get themselves back and ready to play, but there’s really no excuse for how we played tonight.
“It doesn’t really matter who we’re missing or what guys are out. The way we played wasn’t really good enough. I don’t really know what else to say.”
That has been said too many times this season.
Patrick Mahomes' incredible touchdown run adds to dominant postseason – Touchdown Wire
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The Titans had this one. They really had it. They put up a 17-7 second-quarter lead in the AFC Championship game over the Chiefs, thanks to a sleight-of-hand touchdown run by Derrick Henry and a tricky touchdown pass to offensive tackle Dennis Kelly. But when you’re the Chiefs, and you have Patrick Mahomes on the field, anything is possible.
Mahomes threw two touchdowns to Tyreek Hill to keep the game close, and then, with 11 seconds left in the first half, Mahomes did THIS from the Tennessee 27-yard line.
Was Mahomes helped by the rules and officiating perceptions that protect quarterbacks whether they’re in or out of the pocket? Perhaps. But Mahomes hasn’t needed any refs to put up the ridiculous numbers he has so far this postseason.
First, it was a five-touchdown performance against the Ravens in the divisional round, bringing Kansas City back from a 24-0 deficit. Now this, and the Chiefs went into the half with a 21-17 lead. No matter what happens in this game, Patrick Mahomes continues to define his legend as a player.
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Smithfield-Selma High student selected as Morehead-Cain Scholar semifinalist
Smithfield-Selma High School Senior, Valerie Davis, was selected as a semifinalist for the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholars Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With less than 15% of nominees selected to advance to this level, Valerie is certainly among a very distinguished group. She will go on to participate in regional selection interviews in January.
The Morehead-Cain is a four-year merit scholarship to UNC-Chapel Hill. It provides full tuition, fees, housing, meals, books, laptop, and supplies in addition to a four-year Summer Enrichment Program made up of diverse, customized experiences.
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F for Fake: The Ultimate Mirror of Orson Welles
Robert Castle
In which Welles deflates expectations of greatness – and transcends them
A key image in Citizen Kane appears after Susan Kane leaves Xanadu forever. First, Kane destroys her bedroom and, at the end of his eruption, he discovers the glass ball that evoked the film’s opening line and enigmatic coda: “Rosebud.” He walks from the room past stunned servants and, seconds later, a pair of mirrors in which he’s briefly reflected infinitely into nothingness. A key image for the film because it limns Kane’s elusive real self, but also a key moment in film and literature for the transition from the modern to the postmodern.
“Postmodern” is a slippery concept, so much so that the difficulty in defining it touches the very essence of its meaning. The transition from the modern to postmodern world represents a move from irony (which suggests some comprehension of our beliefs, as well as involvement in our present circumstances) to deadpan (a lack of surprise to, and increasing remoteness from, our world). Postmodern literature, art, and film detach the audience from the content of the artistic subject, with little or no pretense to re-engage the two. As a result, the individual’s place in the world, as well as in the artistic work, diminishes to a cipher as one gets lost amid a plenitude of realities — “realities” because, they increase in proportion to our inability to resist them (from our stance of weakened beliefs).
The postmodern world, thus, has little tragedy left in it — tragedy needs a heightened if not embarrassing measure of belief. Things must matter gravely. Charles Foster Kane nearly takes on a tragic dimension when we view his potential for greatness. Yet the more we ponder his greatness in Citizen Kane, that is, the more the film’s other characters reflect on Kane’s life, the less tangible his greatness becomes. At his most dynamic and grave, Kane shapes the news that people pay attention to; the Spanish-American War becomes “his” war; he collects great art from all over the world; and he becomes so important that he can run for governor (possibly on the way to a presidential bid). Paradoxically, his trivialization of the news (a prominent headline reads: SPANISH GALLEONS FOUND OFF THE JERSEY COAST) underlines the diminution of his character. While much is made of his inability to love, combined with a pursuit to replace or win back his mother’s love, the real tragedy may be that he’s creating a world that has no room for tragic men or gestures! Amidst the scandal of his love affair with Susan Kane, his losing the governor’s race, and his divorce, Kane’s character calcifies into a controlling, self-centered monster, beyond giving and receiving love, beyond all tragedy, at the entrance to postmodernity.
The infinite mirror images of Kane recall the many Kanes we had heard about throughout the movie, the many Kanes that would never coalesce into the substantial tragic figure he imagined himself as, complete with the key to the mystery of his ultimate failure (cf. article on Citizen Kane in this issue). Indeed, many of the characters played by Orson Welles in his movies — Michael O’Hara in The Lady from Shanghai (1948), Franz Kindler in The Stranger (1946), Sheriff Quinlin in Touch of Evil (1958), Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight (1965) — collapse upon themselves psychologically as their last illusions are stripped away. They aren’t the men they supposed themselves or had others believe them to be; their moral centers have weakened and don’t maintain the authority or power they once had.
When we get to a late film in Welles’ career, the documentary F for Fake (1976), he formulates his most explicit statement about contemporary reality, leaving little room for greatness, let alone tragedy. And if F for Fake seems a superficial film, we will then have experienced the first lesson of postmodernism: playfulness, conscious illusions, and an undisguised reflexiveness about making movies. Put another way, what is seen in the film that seems real is not as real as it appears — but most especially we can’t trust the filmmaker Welles himself, he will lie to us and deceive us, if only to get at the heart of the movie’s main contention: you cannot trust anyone, especially anyone who asserts his or her authority without any basis or proof.
And what seems at first glance an obvious point, we discover in practice that the more obvious it is the less we’ll get the point (precisely the lesson of the last part of the film, which deals with a story about Picasso and one of his mistresses). We are just watching a film, a bunch of moving images that represent a certain reality. The problem with movies as an art, the most difficult thing to understand, is that what we are shown and how we see what we’re shown have never been the same. However, the authority of the giant screen image is such that audiences have tended to view what they see literally. The image on the screen overwhelms us (Neal Gabler’s Life: The Movie, and other books by culture critics, have cited the movie image as the turning point for the preoccupying of the American mind), and Welles both takes advantage of this situation and tries to make us conscious of it.
The film image is only an image, and on this subtly unobvious premise Welles frames F for Fake and validates the fakery of film artistry by evincing the fakery of life/people, suggesting that movies have become the art of the 20th century precisely because of this innate mechanism to handle the unreal, the fake (again, Gabler rightly shows that the preponderance of movie fakery has been uncritically accepted by Americans; whereas artistic fakery might well be the antidote). The structure of F for Fake also plays out the meaning of the mirror imagery from his earlier films.
At its center, the film portrays two great fakers. If you’re over forty years old, you will remember Clifford Irving, who claimed to have had recorded interviews with Howard Hughes and published a biography based on these tapes. The hoax was finally exposed when Hughes allowed himself to be interviewed over the radio to disclaim any knowledge of Irving and the interviews. The episode caused a worldwide sensation, and Irving went to jail for a few years.
The challenge that Elmyr presented to experts and authorities (civil and artistic) must have infatuated Welles greatly. The fragile basis on which all authority in society rests and how easily it can be undermined couldn’t have been more poignantly developed. Also, Welles understood the average person’s distrust for artistic and intellectual experts and critics, and that nothing would cause him greater satisfaction than finding out that experts couldn’t tell fakes from real works. This might seem passé in a world that produces movies like The Matrix (1999), which bases its entire save-the-world plot on the fact that nobody can tell the real from an illusion. Welles delights at the proposition that a great faker, like Elmyr, is being written about by another faker, Clifford Irving. Further, Welles not only hammers home this point but starts to undermine his own sincerity (for instance, calling his acting vocation the ultimate fakery).
Chance and coincidence are also hallmarks of postmodern life, and one cannot but hesitate to believe Welles when he suggests that Howard Hughes, not William Randolph Hearst, was the initial model for Charles Foster Kane in an early script. It seems hard to believe because Welles co-writer Herman Mankewicz was a friend of Hearst and spent much time at Hearst’s Xanadu-like estate at San Simeon. How convenient that we should find out that Kane was originally based on the life of Howard Hughes after the Irving/ Hughes scandal was exposed.
Yet one must recognize these titillations: Welles and Hughes did have contact with each other before 1941; Hughes had distinguished himself as a film director (there’s also much of Welles in the Kane character, although Hearst was bitten by the Hollywood bug through his relationship with longtime mistress Marion Davies); Hughes was a recluse and saved and stored many objects from his life in many warehouses much like Kane does. Through serendipity (that the Irving biography of Hughes should collapse in the midst of the filming of F for Fake) and artfulness, Welles creates another succession of mirrored reflections that purposefully blur the real and the fake until we can no longer see which is which. The illusions proceed to a human vanishing point, Elmyr himself.
Elmyr also represents a most dangerous person. An original fraud. (In many ways, a mirror image himself to the celebrity: a person known for being known!) A criminal whose crimes don’t resemble real crimes; moreover, his crimes once detected must go unpunished. Or nearly unpunished. He must promise to make no more fakes. Although, Welles hints that the circumstantial evidence shows that when Irving needed a forged signature, Elmyr was the best candidate to provide it. In fact, I detected a melancholic (not quite tragic) note in F for Fake when Welles reflects on the fate of Elmyr’s talents being absorbed by his forgeries, as if his “real” talent suppresses real talent, possibly a talent Elmyr is afraid to test.
Welles further tweaks those in a position of expertise when journalists listen to Howard Hughes over a radio receiver telling them that he has never met Clifford Irving. The journalists had known Hughes twenty or twenty-five years before and were there to “authenticate” his voice. With great authority they inform the world that they were listening to the real Howard Hughes. (And one can’t help but think how fraudulent journalism has become lately as the news devolved into entertainment.) Yes, it probably was Hughes; yet, this “real” Howard Hughes had descended many steps into his personal unrealities and (according to the book Citizen Hughes by Michael Drosnin) addressed the media sitting naked with a long beard and fingernails several inches long. His reality was more bizarre than the story of real artistic forgeries!
Throughout F for Fake, Welles sustains a lightly detached air, as if the film were an artistic exercise or game, which might disappoint those anticipating the tragic failings of Welles’ “great” men; indeed, this film seems to be more of Welles coming to terms with everyone’s (including his own) expectations of his own greatness since Citizen Kane. Welles himself succumbed to celebrity in his later years, his girth beyond even Hank Quinlin proportions. Only within the infinity of mirrors that’s emblematic of his own artistic themes, Welles could at once deflate the expectations but also finally transcend them.
— Robert Castle
Robert Castle has been contributing to Bright Lights Film Journal since 2000, He has a monthly feature, started five years ago, "A Sardine on Vacation," appearing in Unlikely Stories. In 2006, his first and only books were published: The End of Travel, a memoir (Ravenna Books); Odd Pursuits, a collection of 16 stories (Wild Child Publishing); and A Sardine on Vacation, fiction based on the feature column (Spuyten Duyvil). Since then he has devoted himself to play writing. A couple one-act plays have been performed in NYC in 2008 and 2009. In 2007, he co-wrote a play that appeared in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. He is a Board Member for the Philadelphia Dramatist Center.
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BMTN Preview: Fabulous Five high school football games of the week
Did you know that after Friday night the high school football regular season will be half over? It's flying by and KFAN's Joe Nelson is bringing you another round of the best games on this week's prep schedule.
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Tune in Friday night from 9:00-10:00 p.m. as BMTN's Joe Nelson recaps all of the state's high school football action on FM 100.3 KFAN. After tonight the prep football schedule enters the second half of season. Next week' Joe Nelson will put together his "Teams of the First Half,", but for now here are is Fabulous Five games of the week.
5. Woodbury at East Ridge
A couple of big schools that aren't ranked in the top ten. I love putting battles between ranked teams in my Fab Five, but this game features a couple of schools that can compete with most schools in the state. I like East Ridge in this game. The Raptors started three sophomores on the offensive line last year, and that experience will begin paying off. Their two losses this season have come at the hands of 6A powers Cretin-Derham Hall and Mounds View. Keep in mind that East Ridge is a 5A school -- a very dangerous one at that.
4. Minnetonka @ Edina
Both schools feature solid football teams. Unfortunately, neither team is a favorite in the ultra-tough Lake Conference. This game will likely hold a lot of weight in deciding the third and fourth seeds in section six, 6A. Eden Prairie and Wayzata will likely claim the top two seeds in section six, but the Skippers and Hornets are solid teams capable of upsetting anyone. I expect this game to go down to the wire.
3. Eden Prairie at Hopkins
It's a battle of undefeated Lake Conference teams. Even though the Royals are 4-0, they're still a big underdog against the defending 5A champs. Last year when these teams met the Eagles cruised to a 56-7 victory. It's possible that it happens again, but don't count Hopkins completely out just yet.
2. South St. Paul @ Mahtomedi
Mahtomedi is back on track after an opening week loss to Chisago Lakes. Not only this this a big Classic Suburban Conference game for both teqms, but the Zephyrs also need to look at this as a tuneup for Class 5A opponent St. Thomas Academy next week. South St. Paul is coming off a shutout win over Irondale, so the Packers will be confident going into this one.
1. Glencoe-Silver Lake @ New London-Spicer
Huge game in the Wright County Conference. GSL is off to a 2-1 one start, with it's only loss coming to 4A power Hutchinson. NLS, meanwhile, was in the Prep Bowl just two years ago, and they're still very competitive. If NLS can upset the No. 8 team in Class 4A they'll be considered the favorites in the Wright County Conference - West division. Annandale is very good, as well, but the winner of the this game will hold the advantage.
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It's the third full week of high school football in Minnesota and the games are getting better and better. As teams close in on the midway point of the season, we're starting to define the contenders and pretenders. Check out FM 100.3 KFAN's Joe Nelson's "Fabulous Five" games of the week.
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Home Wildlife Winners and Losers Use these films to help save the planet
Wildlife Winners and Losers
And the Wildlife Winners are…
I’m wildlife filmmaker and producer Richard Brock. For many years I worked for the BBC’s prestigious Natural History Unit alongside David Attenborough. My series “Wildlife Winners and Losers” looks carefully with well-documented evidence at these changes – past, present and particularly the future.
Using previously unseen footage from the recent past we bring the story right up to date and try to look forward as to the winners and the losers we might expect – and why. As far as I know, no one has done this so deliberately around the world with so many species and places. In the 80+ shortish films recently finished in 2017 we find many examples of winners, or, at least those trying not to be losers!
The natural world is changing very quickly now. The clock is ticking faster and faster. Some species are winning, some are losing.
So, here FOR FREE are films to use as AMMUNITION to help save the planet.
I have had encouragement from many people working all over the world.
Harriet Nimmo, Former Chief Executive of Wildscreen, says “A laudable, applaudable and inspiring Initiative. Please let me know if I, or Wildscreen, can help in any way. Wishing you continued success.”
Do you feel, increasingly, that there’s a new need to explain to people the plight of wildlife, and the planet, which we all depend on?
Now’s your chance, for free, to get the message out there around the world. Help distribute hope and knowledge with Wildlife Winners and Losers – how to turn losers into winners.
These films are yours to view and, please pass on – see Brock Initiative YouTube
It’s a call to action! A unique opportunity to help the planet!
“We’ve been celebrating nature by bringing its wonders to the TV screen all over the world. Now that world is changing, faster and faster, and nature needs help. Films can do that, at a local level, be it with decision makers in the government or in the village.”
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Xbox Games With Gold: Inside, Big Crown: Showdown, Castlevania, and Meet The Robinsons
Rick Brown July 1, 2019 News, past, Xbox 360, Xbox One Leave a comment 677 Views
Summer is blazing ahead and July’s Games with Gold are here to beat the heat. Relish in the cold AC air with the following titles: Inside, Big Crown: Showdown, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and Meet the Robinsons.
Get Inside And Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Starting on July 1st, Xbox Gold Members can down Inside from Playdead. This 2D side scroller is a tale of mystery and suspense. For anyone who has not yet experienced Inside, players will start off a boy who wakes up in a strange place. He has no recollection of how he got there and who he is. Will you help this boy out so he can find out what is going on? Get ready for a crazy ride in Inside, which is available right now.
From the Xbox 360 library comes a classic, Castlevania: Symphony of Night. Originally developed from Konami for the Playstation, Castlevania: SoN tells the tale of Alucard ans he explores a magical castle on his quest to defeat Richter Belmont. While this is another oldie, it most certainly is a goodie. For anyone who has not had a chance to play this game, it is considered one of the entries in the entire series.
Big Crown: Showdown and Meet the Robinsons
What do you get when you cross a racing game with battle royal? Well, something like Big Crown: Showdown. This family-friendly party game looks like it can be good for a couple of hours of party play. Convince your friends to join you for a short round of a bunch of weird looking knights as they race to the finish.
The last game available from the Games with Gold is Meet the Robinsons. This movie tie-in from the popular movie title with the same name comes another family-friendly game. This title will be available starting on July 16th.
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How Purdue's PUP is helping fight fires in Africa: BTN LiveBIG
Matthew Wood, June 18, 2017
For years, Purdue's PUP has been treading where most other vehicles wouldn't dare to go.
Now, the three-wheeled off-road conveyance — formally named the Purdue Utility Platform — has a new task: Fighting fires in Africa.
The project came about when a group called the Africa Fire Mission contacted Purdue and Agricultural and Biological Engineering professor John Lumkes about using the vehicles.
The PUP's ability to go off road while carrying large loads and supplying power was the perfect solution to combating even small brush fires in countries like Cameroon and Kenya, where locals didn't have the means or the ability to put them out.
"They told us they had trouble getting down narrow streets in cities like Nairobi, as well as a lot of rural areas," Lumkes said. "They saw a real opportunity for a low-cost vehicle. You can imagine trying to get a pretty expensive piece of fire equipment, it can be pretty tough. This really filled a need."
The PUP vehicles have been roaming the countryside for nearly a decade, working as transportation for food, water and supplies, as well as serving as agricultural tilling and planting aides. The vehicle even works as a maize grinder and electrical generator. But this is its maiden voyage as a fire vehicle.
The task to make the conversion fell on former Purdue student Mark Rackish, who took it on as his senior design project last year. In a helpful coincidence, Rackish had experience as a volunteer firefighter while working on a different project, so he felt right at home.
"It was really great timing, really uncanny that my interests came together like this," he says. "I inherited a pretty well-started project. We had to finish up the vehicle, make it driveable and make it driveable with all of the fire equipment."
The PUP vehicle is built as different modules, making it easy to adjust to different needs. The firefighting portion of the PUP can even be extracted and put on something like a pickup truck.
"They are designed to certain specs that can be tweaked if need be," Rackish says. "We applied those same concepts to our module."
That's part of the lure of sending it to Africa. The goal is to be able to make the entire vehicle out of locally sourced material, meaning anyone can make it anywhere with minimal supplies.
Once Rackish was done turning the PUP into a lean, mean fire-fighting machine, he took the ultimate final exam — putting out a fire under the supervision of the Purdue Fire Department.
The team put together a simulated structure out of wooden pallets and let it burn.
"They were skeptical whether 200 gallons of water (what the PUP's tank can hold) could put out such a considerable fire load," Rackish says, "but it ended up working really well."
Now the first firefighting vehicle is on its way to Kenya, where the team hopes it can make a difference in keeping an entire continent a bit safer from burning blazes. Then the goal is to give the locals the keys to the PUP and let them tackle the fires themselves.
"We don't really want companies to make money off of this," Rackish says. "It's essentially a do-it-yourself project. If people want to see our plans, we're happy to show them how to make these."
They've also incorporated the mind power of students from African universities in order to bring about the best possible devices.
"From our students' standpoint it's a win-win because they learn so much about cultural relationships," Lumkes says. "We're gaining a lot of knowledge in return."
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Chamisa tells his supporters to forgive Mugabe
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MDC president Nelson Chamisa has told his supporters to forgive late former President Robert Mugabe, a day after youths aligned to the party expressed disappointment with the his soft stance on their former tormentor.
Chamisa told a press conference Tuesday that there was no need to be hard on the late Mugabe.
Mugabe died in Singapore on Friday aged 95. He ruled Zimbabwe or 37 years before he was forcibly removed by the army in 2017.
"Why would you call soft or hard, particularly on the dead? Do we look like we are foolish to want to revenge and focus on a dead Mugabe?
"As to our supporters I am one of them, all of us around the table have a story to tell but we have said bitterness will not move the nation forward, revenge and anger cannot be pillars to build a society. We want to be better not to be bitter," said Chamisa.
"We are in solidarity with everyone, ourselves and those who have suffered at the hands of the past but because we have suffered we cannot then continue to drink from that cup of bitterness. The cup of bitterness will get the entire nation drunk and we will not move together and forward as a country."
Mugabe's death has divided the opposition with party's youths questioning Chamisa celebration of Mugabe's legacy instead of highlighting his poor human rights record.
Chamisa chose to emphasise Mugabe's successes in the country's formative years which has been interpreted as downplaying his human rights record by the party's youths.
The opposition leader argued that it was un-African to celebrate the death of anyone.
"It is unAfrican, it is also not in line with our own values as a power, we are very clear that we had differences with Mr. Mugabe which are not supposed to be played up at this moment.
"This is not the time to re-hash our differences, yes we have scars some which are visible on our faces and our bodies, scars of the challenges that we faced on account of past commissions and omissions but we will not allow bitterness to drive and move us," said Chamisa.
"This is the time for us to be in solidarity with the family and relatives of Mr. Mugabe."
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Apps Alone Aren’t Problem; Apple iTunes Lockdown Hurts Creators, Consumers
Peter Kirn - September 18, 2008
Out of sync: iTunes integration was a selling point early on. But at what point is Apple’s own innovation upstaged by their desire to control distribution through the iTunes channel? .
Last week, Apple rejected a podcast management app because, to paraphrase Apple’s own policy, they want iTunes handling all podcasts for you and not any third-party apps. (Officially, “Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.”)
Over the past few days, that’s generated plenty of chatter on the blogosphere, mostly centering around technical and philosophical discussions of the way Apple manages its developer relations and application approval.
But let’s cut right to the chase. This time, it’s not about Apple’s App Store or approval process. That’s Apple’s model, and it’s their choice to continue to defend its merits against its competitors. (That’s not to say it hasn’t introduced some limitations; see Gizmodo for a good overview of that.) This is really about iTunes. A discussion of the way Apple is using the dominance of iTunes to control how music and media is consumed is long overdue.
I can think of no better time to have just that conversation. In one week, Apple has sent a strong message. They shipped iTunes 8, which delivered mediocre knock-offs of functionality in other tools, all intended to keep you inside Apple’s ecosystem and away from what should be an increasingly-vibrant set of alternatives. They delivered another iPod touch/iPhone firmware update that still doesn’t deliver basic connectivity to your computer — and, as a result, was hacked within hours by users wanting that functionality. And they then blocked a third-party app that delivered something they hadn’t, in order to protect their own more limited solution — the opposite of what building a developer platform is supposed to be about.
What makes this all so frustrating is they still make the best mobile music and video player in the world. So why are they clamping that player into a chastity belt?
It’s About Distribution
Ever since the launch of Napster and file sharing services, digital distribution has been at the forefront of conversations about digital media — and rightfully so. Apple did provide the first successful business model that allowed digital distribution to make money for producers, and for that they should be congratulated. But part of the dream of digital distribution was decentralization — a level playing field, without major labels and retail outlets tilted to big hits while ignoring niche interests and independent artists. iTunes, meanwhile, rose to be the single dominant player and store, coupled with the dominant mobile hardware. That’s a situation that was always ripe for abuse.
It’s interesting to re-read Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Music” essay from February 2007. At the time, many held it up as a bold statement by Apple advocating an end to DRM. Now, it’s tough to read it that way. Most of the “essay” is spent defending Apple for its integration of iPod and iTunes, and saying Apple wasn’t really creating “lock-in” to its store. Here’s my favorite part:
“Some have argued that once a consumer purchases a body of music from one of the proprietary music stores, they are forever locked into only using music players from that one company… It’s hard to believe that just 3% of the music on the average iPod is enough to lock users into buying only iPods in the future. And since 97% of the music on the average iPod was not purchased from the iTunes store, iPod users are clearly not locked into the iTunes store to acquire their music.”
You’ll notice Jobs never answered the original question, which was interoperability. He just changed the subject — effectively, he argued, interoperability beyond the MP3 format wasn’t necessary, and specifically interoperability of DRM wasn’t necessary. He also didn’t cover the question of interoperability of video formats. That number is likely to be far higher than 3%, even assuming as Jobs does that customers use all their storage capacity.
Jobs did convince major labels to drop DRM — but not to please him. On the contrary, the aggressive policy of releasing DRM-free music by labels seems to be an admission that the labels themselves were (rightfully) concerned about the business implications of Apple becoming their only vendor. They had to remove DRM in order to make their music compatible with iTunes and iPod.
More telling is what Apple chose to do next.
The lack of access to the device’s music database means that, in order to get cool features like tracking which songs you’re listening to on Last.fm, you have to jailbreak the device. Apple doesn’t want to let go of their control of the player, so they lock down the database on the device and the way in which it’s synced to your computer.
“The labels made us do it” argument about FairPlay and DRM doesn’t make any sense, because the same technology has resurfaced in the App Store. You’ll find that apps downloaded via iTunes — remarkably, even free apps — require authorization from an iTunes account, just like DRM-encoded music once had. That’s to say nothing of the company’s apparent plans to add DRM to your clothes.
Those protections may well protect application developers from piracy, so to Apple’s credit, FairPlay could help protect developers. (That doesn’t explain why free apps are included, of course, nor does it address the lack of demo downloads, but I’ll give credit where it’s due.)
What’s more troubling is the other sets of restrictions Apple has placed on iTunes and iPod/iPhone media consumption and playback. Let’s call it the iTunes Lock-Down.
What iTunes and iPod-iPhone Do Right
Before looking at the chains Apple has imposed, it’s important to note that they’ve done some really important things for digital creators. And you can only understand the iPod touch and iPhone at their worst if you look at them at their best:
iTunes is a vital distribution outlet: I have nothing against the iTunes store. It works well, it’s shown healthy growth, and its integration clearly provides a set of opportunities for getting your content out there.
iPod/iPhone is a damned good media player: People don’t buy these things because they’re trend-following sheep. The success of Apple’s devices really is because they’re well designed — not only on their shiny outsides, but how well they navigate and play media, which is the point.
Apps are awesome: Need a reason to buy the iPod touch over, say, a Microsoft Zune or Samsung or SanDisk or other media player? Fire up an app like Last.fm, which beautifully streams song recommendations. Note, of course, this is because they go outside what Apple themselves provide. That’s the whole point.
Computer Says No: iTunes Lock-Out
Alternative media players are having a tough time keeping up with Apple. Media Monkey was able to sync with 1.x firmware, but not 2.x firmware. That means Apple is able to obliterate choice when it comes to managing software, limit your options for managing your media library, and control the way music and media is distributed and consumed.
Let’s forget the philosophy or the politics here for a second. Those are interesting discussions, but most people buy an iPod or iPhone to use the thing. And we can avoid deeper, more abstract issues by looking solely at what the device does.
In this case, it’s about what you can’t do — not for technical reasons, but because Apple has decided to block certain functionality. An iPod touch, in particular, is basically a tiny computer, a flash drive, a screen, and a headphone jack. It’s a USB flash drive — something that, since the very creation of USB, normally allowed connecting to a computer. Then it’s got an Internet Wi-Fi connection, which under normal circumstances should let you connect to the Internet and do things. iTunes is a software player that manages media files on your hard drive. The files you’re playing, from audio to video to RSS-delivered audio and video (podcasts) should be playable anywhere.
Here’s where stuff starts to go wrong.
You can’t manage your iPod or iPhone using anything other than iTunes. This is a big deal, and I think it’s clear why when you try to use iTunes 8. Other players have continued to grow and develop while iTunes has not. Look at the open-source, Firefox-based, tri-platform Songbird, which integrates web browsing for music and other unique features. Look at Media Monkey, foobar2000, and Winamp on Windows. Look at Rhythmbox, Amorak, and Banshee on Linux. Any of these players ought to be able to use the iPod/iPhone as a normal storage device; up until firmware 2.x, many could. But the 2.x firmware devices are the most locked-down Apple has ever made. That means you’ve got a drive plugged into your computer that you can’t actually use without approved software.
You can’t manage files. Happily, some third-party apps have stepped in here, with over-the-air tools for file sync, transfer, viewing, and navigation. On the other hand, it’s unclear why Apple doesn’t use existing built-in mechanisms for connecting drives via USB tethering, or why you have to get an app to do this in the first place. And most importantly, these tools generally won’t work with music files (though I have been researching options for that and will report back — even if it isn’t Apple-sanctioned).
You can’t install apps outside iTunes. Enough has been said about this. But I’ll make one comparison: the only major equivalent here is the restrictions on running software on game consoles. Even on my Blackberry, I can choose what to install. I’ve never created a freak black hole by doing so.
Real Genius: The reliance on iTunes ignores the innovation happening on the Web. Apple’s Genius Playlist feature is an embarrassment. Smart recommendation engines have been around for years. They’re a joy to use, and they hook into real communities. The Genius Playlist suggests music extremely poorly, and cynically tries to make you buy more music from iTunes. Web alternatives, ironically, are probably better at that, too, because their recommendations actually work. There’s basic Last.fm compatibility for iTunes, but other computer players have open plug-in architectures iTunes lacks. iTunes, by contrast, seems like an app built before Web communities were popular, perhaps because it was. And to get real Last.fm scrobbling on my iPod touch, I had to jailbreak the iPod. (Highly recommended, by the way, but that only proves my point.)
The only choice for podcast management is iTunes. This brings us full circle. Now, Apple has done amazing work on their software and hardware. I don’t expect them to do everything I want. But that’s why I love development platforms. Apple did a brilliant job on Mac OS. Sure, installing an app might cause a crash. The UI might not be up to par. But that should be my choice. And by having that choice, third party developers can take things Apple missed and do a better job.
About Those Podcasts…
Are we having fun yet? Apple got over-the-air purchasing of apps and tunes working just fine. But when it came to podcasts — conveniently, the free distribution method, the one that is most important to independent creators — they dropped the ball. That means you’ll need to use their player and their cable to make the connection, even though you’ve got a player equipped with Wi-Fi and (on iPhone) mobile data.
The podcast issue is especially important, because it impacts distribution, and as a result those who create and consume content (read: us). When done well, when the format is open and flexible, creators and consumers win. If it’s done poorly, we lose.
The iPod touch and iPhone ought to be causing a revolution in podcasting, particularly the consumption of videos. I think some of this potential is stunted by being forced to go through iTunes. Think about it. You’ve got a beautiful device with a beautiful screen that’s completely portable and connects via Wi-Fi and (for the iPhone) mobile networks. Yet to put a podcast on it, you have to:
1. Load iTunes.
2. Get your Apple-proprietary cable.
3. Connect your device by cable to a computer running a copy of iTunes configured for that device.
4. Configure the podcasts you want to hear.
5. Download the podcasts on your computer.
6. Sync — an often painfully-slow process that often involves connecting to the App Store and molasses-like backups.
7. After you’re done listening again, sync again to refresh — and deal with iTunes’ poorly-conceived settings for storing and retaining files.
The whole point of podcast distribution is that it’s done online. It’s bad enough that Apple would miss the boat on this; it’s worse that they’d keep others from doing better.
And Podcaster is just one example. What other Web innovation will be stymied by Apple having a closed platform? Fortunately, I’m not waiting around to find out — for the time being, I’m taking advantage of the superior work being done on hacked and jailbroken platforms. I’ll be talking about how you can do the same on CDM in the coming weeks, as well as watching to see if competitors can get their act together and offer a strong alternative.
As content creators and publishers, we should be especially concerned. We’re living in an age that promises to be unparalleled in exploring new ways for people to discover and consume the things we make. We need to be able to get that content to people easily, so whether or not something like a podcast works the way it should is important. We also need to have access to tools as they evolve, which means openness matters, too. I’ve discovered all kinds of artists through Last.fm and other new services. If Apple alone had access to my music library for tagging, management, listening, and discovery, that experience would be far less interesting.
And I expect the dimensions of this need will only grow in time. The alternative is stagnation. We’ve already seen what happens when one vendor dominates a business: think Microsoft Office in the 1990s. It’s no accident that people have started calling iTunes the “Outlook” of media. iTunes 8 isn’t a bad release, necessarily, and I’m sure a lot of effort when into it. But when you have a major release that Apple flew press cross-country to demonstrate, you’d expect new features, not poor copies (Genius Sidebar, Album Cover view) of features already in competitive products for years. Most of the slicker changes in iTunes (Cover Flow, the new visualizer) have been acquisitions. But then, Apple shouldn’t have to give us everything — that’s why software choice is so important. I think some people would be more likely to buy a new iPod touch if they knew it wouldn’t refuse to talk to their copy of Winamp.
Expect a lot of the ongoing action to be on the hacked / “jailbroken” version of the device — free of the restrictions of the official SDK, and powered by open source technologies from libraries and development toolchain to Debian package distribution borrowed from Linux.
I do really care about Apple’s devices and the work they’ve done. Microsoft once had to backpedal when they went too far with their platform. I hope it wouldn’t take a legal crisis to get Apple to do the same. After all, Apple has already reversed position on development in general, from saying that applications destroy quality and threaten to bring down mobile networks, to saying web pages count as application development, to finally advocating development as a major selling point of the platform.
Apple could:
1. Ship their own over-the-air podcast management tool in a firmware update, and allow users to subscribe to podcasts from within Safari. After all, these are the technologies Apple championed and has traditionally implemented better than anyone else. There’s no reason Apple can’t again lead on podcasts. (The cynical part of me fears that they’re more interested in selling you entertainment from the iTunes store, but Apple, feel free to prove me wrong.)
2. Provide database access. What’s the point of apps for a media player if the apps can’t adequately complement the media player?
3. Stop blocking third parties just because they interface with the music playback parts of the device or compete with iTunes. These ought to be the best apps available for the platform, as they get to the heart of why people buy Apple mobile devices in the first place (particularly iPod). It’s clear that something like a podcast app isn’t a security or quality threat. And from a business perspective, keeping the media playback experience rich will reward Apple with still more loyal users.
3. Work with Adobe to deliver Flash support. The other major content distribution stream is the Web, and Flash remains important. Now that Flash supports MP4, there’s no reason we shouldn’t see services like Vimeo on the device and not just YouTube.
4. Give us normal drive access. This could let us use innovative new media players and make our iDevices more useful by storing our files on them, out of the box.
Of course, I’m not optimistic about any of these things. So, assuming Apple continues down this path, that leaves the solution to other groups. Developers are doing what they always do: they’re building solutions. Some are likely to turn to the open-source, hacked development chain. Others will look to competitive devices. Desktop computer player makers I hope will work really hard to hack Apple’s devices so they can sync with them. But we’re most dependent on competitors learning from what Apple does well (rich capabilities, well-designed UIs and hardware) while choosing different paths than Apple on lock-in (open development and interoperability instead of the closed Apple path).
Unfortunately, Apple’s best bet for a rival recently, Microsoft, chose to replicate the closed iTunes model with their Zune. Given that even big Zune advocates were quickly blogging about how to get around Microsoft’s restrictions on device access, my guess is that that helped contribute to the Zune’s unpopularity.
Other alternatives lie ahead, though, particularly with Linux and Google Android on the horizon.
What we can do as creators and consumers, though, is easier. For starters, we can stop taking no for an answer. Via Gizmodo, The Joy of Tech comic fought back brilliantly with humor. Bloggers have been vigorously calling Apple on their error on Podcaster. The underground iPhone development crews have done an incredible job of keeping up with hacks, and you can support their efforts by helping the develop and test or by contributing donations. We need advocates for useful tools (OGG codecs and Last.fm scrobbling) and not just pirating Nintendo game ROMs. Obviously, the latter makes a poor argument for the platform.
Certainly, I will continue to discuss alternatives to iTunes for listening to, managing, sharing, and discovering music. Stay tuned.
Apple’s Capricious Rules for iPhone Apps [New York Times]
Things That Podcaster’s Rejection From the App Store Is Not About [Daring Fireball]
And for a laugh, see Gizmodo on Joy Of Tech’s How Apple Picks Which Apps Make It to the App Store
Tags: Apple, development, distribution, DRM, editorial, industry, intellectual-property, iphone, iPod, ipod-touch, Linux, Mac, opinion, Podcasts, rants, rss, Software, trends, Windows
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Farmsafe Australia funding advances NFF's goal for zero farm fatalities by 2030
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Investment to safeguard agriculture's most important resource, it's people, has been applauded today by the National Farmers Federation.
Agriculture Minister, Senator Bridget McKenzie, today announced $1.9 million in funding for Farmsafe Australia, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to making farms safer places to work and live.
NFF CEO Tony Mahar said too many lives continued to be lost and life-changing injuries sustained, through preventable farm incidents.
"Farms are inherently dangerous places to live and work. The operation of machinery, exposure to chemicals and working with animals all carry a large degree of risk.
"When coupled with isolation and often limited access to reliable mobile phone services the consequences can be disastrous."
In 2017, 41 people were killed on Australian farms.
Mr Mahar said the NFF had a goal for farm fatalities to be zero by 2030.
"To ensure everyone working and living on farms returns home safely each night, it is vital we make farm safety a priority.
"To do this, our industry needs to foster a culture that embraces safety.
"We congratulate the Federal Government and Minister McKenzie for establishing the National Farm Safety Education Fund and for ensuring the work of Farmsafe Australia is enduring."
Through the National Farm Safety Education Fund, Farmsafe Australia will appoint a dedicated resource to expand the range and reach of its resources to help farmers improve the safety and wellbeing of their families and farm workers.
The agriculture industry is one of seven groups identified as national priority in the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-22.
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Wheat in focus as fierce competition, oversupply weigh on prices - Daily News Egypt
In Focus Wheat in focus as fierce competition, oversupply weigh on prices
Wheat in focus as fierce competition, oversupply weigh on prices
World consumption and trade expected to decrease slightly in 2018
Elsayed Solyman January 8, 2018 Be the first to comment
Analysts expect wheat prices to come under pressure in 2018, hit by fierce competition among top exporters and oversupply with the US Department of Agriculture’s latest USDA increasing its estimate for 2017-18 global wheat production to 755m metric tonnes—a new record high.
According to the report, 2018 would be the fifth consecutive year of increased global wheat production.
Wheat’s future prices for March delivery is hovering around their lowest level in two years, standing at $428 per tonne.
Analysts polled by Daily News Egypt said that the prices of wheat are expected to extend their downward trajectory in 2018 amid ample supplies and fierce competition among major producers, including Russia, Canada, Ukraine, France, and the United States.
A recent report issued by USDA said that wheat projected 2017/18 US ending stocks are raised this month by 25m bushels on reduced exports.
This reduction is primarily attributed to heightened Canadian competition expected from increased exportable supplies.
Canada and the United States compete in several of the same markets in Latin America and East Asia.
Global 2017/18 wheat supplies are increased, primarily on higher production forecasts for Canada and the European Union, more than offsetting production declines in Brazil, South Africa, and Yemen.
Canadian wheat production has risen 3.0 million tonnes to 30.0 million, largely on increased yields in the Prairie Provinces as reported in Statistics Canada’s Production of Principal Field Crops report, released on 6 December.
Meanwhile, the report said that EU wheat production is raised 1.0 million tonnes to 152.5 million, mainly on higher production in Romania, Poland, Latvia, and Bulgaria.
World 2017/18 trade is greater exports from Canada, Russia, and Ukraine, more than offset reduced US exports.
Projected imports are increased for Indonesia, China, and Brazil. Indonesia’s imports are raised 1.0 million tonnes to 11.5 million, primarily on higher expected feed wheat usage.
Total world consumption is projected 2.1 million tonnes higher, primarily on greater usage from Indonesia, Canada, and the EU.
Projected global ending stocks are 0.9m tonnes higher at 268.4m, which is a new record.
Bearish market outlook looms
With wheat global supply on the rise, a bearish market outlook is expected to hit prices in the mid-term, analysts said.
“We don’t expect wheat prices to improve too much in 2018, but there will be short-term rallies that will certainly prove profitable due to bad weather in the United States particularly,” said Garrett Baldwin, a senior commodity analyst at Farmlead Consultancy.
“This means selling into strength and making incremental sales as the price goes up,” he added.
Prices of the wheat future received a boost this week, rising to a two-week high level on bad weather conditions in the United States.
“Ever since the bumper crop of 2013, the market has slowly been working its way through stocks of higher quality wheat coming out of Canada. More specifically, Canada ended 2013/14 with almost 8.7m tonnes of wheat (or at least that wheat which was not durum). The stocks-to-use ratio that year in Canada was 33%,” Baldwin added.
The harvested area of US spring wheat was much lower than 2016. With 10.16m acres of US spring wheat combined, that was 16% below the five-year average and nearly 10% below last year’s total, according to a recent report.
From a production standpoint in the US, drier conditions in major spring wheat production areas meant lower yields.
More specifically, American spring wheat yields dropped 13% year-over-year to 41 bushels in 2017/18.
Russia, the fierce competitor, is another drag
The world’s top shipper is proving a fierce competitor as this year’s bumper crop drives even more exports.
As it makes inroads into the European Union’s traditional markets, Russia’s selling point is simple: good quality wheat at prices that many rivals just can’t beat.
“Everyone is watching Russia right now,” said Miroslaw Marciniak, a director at InfoGrain, a Warsaw-based adviser.
“In the past few years, Russia has been more and more aggressively fighting for new markets. The EU right now has one big problem—what to do with its grains surplus.”
In a world overflowing with grains, low-cost emerging markets from Russia to Latin America are challenging well-established suppliers such as the US and the EU. Russia, once home to a failing Soviet farm industry dependent on imports, has in recent years emerged as a wheat superpower.
That helped depress global wheat prices, with benchmark futures in Chicago down 11% in the past two years.
Russia surpassed the EU as the No. 2 exporter last season and is forecast to take the top spot in 2017-18.
Its booming agricultural output has helped expand its presence in markets around the world from Asia to Africa.
Russia’s export gains are bad news for the EU, and especially its top producer, France, which is trying to regain its market position following an abysmal harvest last year.
Russia took advantage of France’s stumble to gain a foothold with some of its most faithful customers.
Nations including Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, and Senegal all expanded purchases of Russian wheat last season and are coming back for more this year, according to consultant Strategie Grains.
“Last year opened the door to Russian wheat, and now we don’t know when this door will close,” said a recent research note by Strategie Grains in France.
Russia is also dominating imports by top wheat buyer Egypt, accounting for three-quarters of the country’s purchases so far this season.
The EU, represented by Romania and France, sold a combined 18%, according to official data.
Cutting the crop by half still not enough to boost prices
A recent report issued by Agriweb, a London-based consultancy group, said that cutting the crop by half isn’t enough to support prices at least in the mid-term, as higher production from top producers will weigh on prices in years to come.
“Demand could decline even more next year. Italy, Canada’s second-biggest buyer of wheat durum last season, is planning to introduce rules in early 2018 that may limit imports,” the report noted.
Wheat stocks will keep pressure on the market. Given that the 2017/18 marketing year world wheat harvest is nearly complete, and the 2017/18 marketing year wheat supply is known, changes in stocks won’t stampede the market.
A sign that wheat stocks are not an issue is that Australia is projected to produce 42% less wheat in 2017 than was harvested in 2016. Australia’s lower production had little impact on prices.
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M N Vyasa Rao To Be Cremated Today
rip, mn vyasa,
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M N Vyasa Rao who died on Sunday morning due to massive heart attack will be cremated today evening in Bangalore.
M N Vyasa Rao who was a bank employee made his debut as a lyricist with Puttanna Kanagal's 'Shubhamangala' in 1975. He had written 'Naakondla Naaku' and 'Suryangoo Chandrangoo' songs for the film and both the songs were huge hits. After that M N Vyasa Rao went on to write hundreds of songs. His other famous songs were 'Chanda Chanda' in 'Manasa Sarovara', 'Yugayugagale Saagali' from 'Hrudaya Geethe' and others.
Vyasa Rao died on Sunday morning. As his daughter resides in America, the cremation was scheduled on Tuesday and the cremation will be held, after Vyasa Rao's daughter arrives from America.
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Featured Artist: Um..
August 31, 2018 / Christian Recinos : Lifestyle Blogger / Leave a comment
Hey everybody! I’m back with another installment to my Featured Artist series, however this time I wanted to change things up a bit. It’s not secret I love house music, but what a lot of people don’t know is that I actually still am pretty into trap, bass and other non-124 bpm related genres. And so, today I wanted to present to you an artist from a different genre and expose my readers to music they might otherwise not listen to.
Some of you may know who they are already, but in case you don’t I’d like to welcome Um..! Unlike other artists I’ve presented to you, I actually met one of the members, Ben, of Um.. before Um.. was formed. Ben and I met after a show at Boston’s House of Blues right outside the venue. It was my 19th birthday and the headliner was Nero with an opener set by Dillon Francis haha. Ben is actually a hometown native to San Francisco and oddly enough, we both went to high school not too far from each other. Dylan is from Los Angeles.
Anyway let’s just on into this interview with the two gents, shall we?
What does music mean to you? Or how does it make you feel?
If you ever get a chance to watch a movie with the music taken out of it you’ll understand how important it is.
We were classmates at Icon Collective Production School in LA.
Ben, I remember meeting you in Boston in 2012 at a Dillon Francis & Nero show. Can you tell me how it feels to have come so far and what it’s like for both of you to be able to play all these festivals?
It’s pretty crazy to be honest. It’s hard to keep a good perspective on things when you’re actually doing it. It’s definitely not exactly how I expected it to be. Side note, I really want to play at the House of Blues in Boston where we saw Nero because I used to be a bus boy at the restaurant there when I was attending Berklee College of Music. It would be cool to come full circle on something like that.
What has been your favorite event or festival you have played thus far?
Definitely Shambhala. Not only is it a really awesome festival, but that opportunity was a huge turning point for our career.
Speaking of which, you two have both been announced on the lineup for Destructo’s new ship “Friendship”. How did that come about?
Our booking agent kills the game. Shoutout chad at UTA! We are excited for that one though. Will be a crazy experience for sure.
What’s one of the most difficult aspects about being in this scene?
The travel really wears on you. Getting pretty tired of not being able to sleep on planes let me tell you.
At this point in your careers do you feel like nowadays you can’t experience the music the same as you did when you were just a listener?
The project um.. spawned out of me (Ben) being tired of what was happening in the scene so I guess I’m sort of unique in that way. Though I do think electronic music is headed in a good direction now. I’m excited to see what happens with it all.
What are each of your favorite kinds of food?
PB&J and tacos.
How do you decide which one of you plays the first track?
We usually just make the call right before we start. We aren’t too concerned about that.
If you could collaborate with any artist of any genre, who would it be?
Skrillex.
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Mixed Mondays w/ Aries presents: Tech Hau5
August 27, 2018 August 27, 2018 / Christian Recinos : Lifestyle Blogger / Leave a comment
It’s Monday again! Another work week means another Aries mix to get you through it! For this week’s Mixed Mondays, Corey and I are bringing you a pure tech house mix.
Moving forward we wanted to know what you guys wanted to hear! Whether it’s certain tracks, artists, labels, or genres give us your feedback! Drop a comment at the bottom of the page or via SoundCloud / Facebook!
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Featured Artist: GAWP
Hey everybody! Can you believe it’s nearly September? Moreover, can you believe we’re nearly 75% through the year?
Anyway, today I’m happy to present to you an artist that goes by the name GAWP. GAWP and I initially started chatting through Twitter in the last few months of last year and we have kept in touch ever since.
I first heard of him through This Ain’t Bristol from an EP he released called “Clownbite.” It was a serious heater and I immediately followed him and perused through his discography.
We officially met at East Coast campout just this year in St. Cloud, Florida. We had been trying to meet up all weekend, but the reception was so poor and honestly, it’s so hard to meet up with someone at a festival, haha. Luckily for me, GAWP being the amicable person he is, hit me up on the last day when everyone was packing up and getting ready to head home to meet up. He’s currently on another US Tour and he’s killing it!
Music is life to me. It’s the only thing I’ve ever truly believed in, wanted to do and never given up on, apart from the saxophone after a year.
Where are you from? What were you doing prior to music?
Originally from Scarborough not too far from Leeds, I’ve always been involved in music from DJ’ing my youth club discos at 16, but career wise I left school and did women’s hairdressing since at the time there was no further education from my school into music. Also, the government forced you to sign up for further education. I continued to do hairdressing while playing open format clubs each weekend. I’ve always had a passion in electronic and sound tech, hence my studio gear addiction”.
What’s the music scene like in Leeds?
Amazing, it’s such a creative city with 5 universities and the majority of the students stay here once graduated. The scene and creative culture is thriving.
So, I recall being in contact with you via twitter to try to meet up during East Coast Campout this past year and if I’m not mistaken that was your first time in the US, correct? How was it coming to the states for the first time and into this really unique, weird and quirky festival?
Yeah, it was great to be over in the states especially after having spoke to so many people online whether it was releasing records with label A&Rs, talking to other producers, and fans. There’s so many house heads. The festival was very different compared to the UK especially because it was a very unique sound and Dirtybird’s label following is full of die hards. So like in the UK, festivals are usually very mixed from various music cultures and acts so it was nice to have a group of people all there for the same interest. I guess it’s similar to going to a concert where everyone is there to see a specific headline act.
Speaking of which, you’ve recently been traveling a lot for another US Tour, congrats on that! What has been your favorite stop so far?
So far, I don’t have a favourite, but I love LA, Seattle, San Fran, Chicago. They all have their own unique memories and identity to me. Ohh and Miami, the This Ain’t Bristol event for MMW was a sheer throw down.
How’d you come up with the name “GAWP”?
I made a track with some crazy sounds called drainer on Main Course and my friend Gawped at me I said “What you Gawping at?” he said “Gawping?” I said yes “GAWP?” the name was born.. I believe in the states it’s called “Gawk / Gawking”
The most frustrating thing is there’s not enough time. For example, I would love to have more time to spend making music with other people and hanging with them, but unfortunately when you do tours it’s usually a case of play an event then hop on a plane to another etc..
Do you feel like nowadays you can’t experience the music the same as you did when you were just a listener?
I feel it’s more exciting to hear music and experiencing it as an artist. The passion for music is intensified when you hear a piece of music. It inspires you to create rather than concentrating on your shuffle (jokes). In all seriousness, when you’re just on the dance floor you can just simply enjoy others’ selections and productions and chill. There’s no pressure about performing!
What’s your favorite kind of food?
Medium rare chicken skewers.
Favorite Artist or Favorite Track right now?
I love Kyle Watson‘s productions and he’s a top lad too!
Any other upcoming Artists and/or new Tracks we should know?
Morelia – Vibrate is a tune! Keep your ears peeled for that one. Also, Hood Rich is on my radar after doing a collab with him… but there’s so many to mention! I usually mention Steve Darko, but he’s on fire now so he needs water.. also if you’re into music, check out Berlocca for some more twisted techno edged stuff.
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Any mixes/tracks of your we should check out?
It’s been a huge honour to do a guest mix for Claude Vonstroke’s Birdhouse Radio Show, this is 30 minutes of all my own material. It’s exclusive content never heard and also a way to express the real GAWP. Stay tuned for the release on August 24th!
Also, I do a monthly radio show which can be heard on my website gawpmusic.co.uk. Or, you can grab it on iTunes and there’s some exclusive live sets on there. Evermix.com has a channel of my live sets, too.
One last thing, I’m sure you travel a lot doing what you do. What’s your favorite place you’ve been to so far?
This is correct, I have so many luggage inspection leaflets in my luggage to prove it! My favourite place would have to be either Seattle or In-n-Out.
Thank you for reading this interview. I guess i just want to thank everyone who has made it possible for me to come this far with my music! If artists, like myself, didn’t have such amazing fans, fans wouldn’t have amazing artists. Don’t forget to follow that GAWP guy on your socials especially Instagram where my world is easier to understand in pictures.
Stay connected with GAWP
Thanks again everyone, I truly hope you’re all doing well.
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Hey everyone! Busy day for me I nearly missed writing a post for this weeks Mixed Mondays w/ Aries ;)!This week’s mix is just me holding it down since Corey was partying in the Dominic Republic celebrating the birthday of a dear friend of ours. Corey and I kept in touch and he was telling me about this crazy sick underground rave cave (pun intended) he stumbled upon that was rinsing some killer house & techno.
While Corey was off doing all that, I was recording a mix for a UK radio show called “The Playground” hosted by my friend Carlos Montalvo. The mix I made was probably one of the best mixes I’ve made so far and I’m pretty proud of it despite some technical flaws.
Without further ado, I’m super pumped to premiere my newest installment of my The Essence of House series.
Enjoy! I hope you all have a great week too.
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Creator’s Spotlight w/ Christian ReciKnows: Carlos Montalvo
August 17, 2018 August 21, 2018 / Christian Recinos : Lifestyle Blogger / 1 Comment
Damn did anyone else feel like this week went by super fast? I’m not complaining, but I swear it was JUST Monday not too long ago haha.
Today, I’m bringing you a friend of mine named Carlos! Carlos and I met through the Bay Area DirtyBird page I moderate and we’ve seen each other at shows and other events. He’s got a knack for finding some real good tunes and all-around chill guy. We recently started hanging out more because he’s been kickin’ it with Corey a lot. Carlos had been listening to some of my mixes lately and was kind enough to offer me a slot on his radio show called “LocoLDN” that’s based in the UK.
To be perfectly honest, I was super intimidated and I had asked Corey to go b2b with me so I could have someone to get my back in case I messed up. Corey and Carlos eventually pushed me and told me to just do it and they said they believed in me so that was super sweet and I’m actually super proud of the finished product! It’ll be airing in the UK this Saturday at 2PM (6AM PST btw, but I’ll post it next Monday 😉 )
Anyway let’s jump right in on this Q&A with Carlos!
First of all, welcome! I love being able to showcase different sides of the music scene so I appreciate you doing this interview with me. Alright so the first question I love to ask is what does music mean to you?
Music makes me happy. It’s always been a part of my life ever since I was a little kid to beginning of my young raver life to where I am right now and even now to seeing the joy and happiness of seeing friends and strangers around me listening to the same genre I love at a concert or show. Every time I’m out or at a show, concert, festival, or even in front of a dj set up, you can always catch me smiling and dancing throughout my whole set and I always feel like my mind just lifts up with my body and takes control. Music just brings complete happiness to my soul that’s unexplainable unless you feel the same way as well.
Alright so where are you from? What do you do in your “regular” life?
Born and raised in the LBC aka Long Beach city just a little south of Los Angeles. Currently I am a server and bartender at a small restaurant/brewery in downtown San Francisco. Aside from the busy work life, I dj and produce music and enjoying my two kittens wrestling each other all over my apartment to keep me distracted.
Walk us through a day in the life of Carlos.
A little boring at the moment to be honest due to my work hours haha but I always wake up early in the am for work, get back home to take care of my 2 kittens before they start destroying more stuff around the house, then while they’re having their wrestling matches when I’m home; I’ll either get on my laptop or put on my headphones, and start either working on music or on my controller and just enjoy practicing and mixing.
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So you’ve been hosting your own radio show on LocoLDN called “The Playground”? Can you tell us what it’s about?
Of course! “The Playground” is a show that I created to pretty much show everyone what I can bring to the decks and show everyone what I love to do. Also, even though, I am the host of the show, I always have a guest to throw down a set to help someone get some exposure as well.
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How did this idea come to be? Have you always wanted to become a radio host?
The idea came from where I live. There used to be a big playground in the backyard and I even threw a couple parties there which were so much fun. I thought it was a fun (no so safe) idea to put the dj set up on the playground on top of the slide and just loved how it happened every time. Having the opportunity to have a time slot that is being aired outside of the United States is a huge opportunity for me and I took it regardless of the little to none experience to being a radio host, I decided to give it a shot and so far I been liking it ever since.
How’d you get connected with LocoLDN?
I was randomly on facebook one day and I had a friend who I would talk to about events and one day he told me that there was an invite for those who would like to have any exposure in the UK. Of course, I couldn’t say no and was introduced to LocoLDN and House Radio Digital. I started to do my research about it and began talking to the people who were running and hosting the whole website and told me if I was interested to join and be part of it that I would have to be wait for the right time for them to post up their information and signed up. You best believe I was constantly checking their pages and group pages for the information for me to sign up and luckily I was able to get a time slot.
How long have you been doing this?
For about 7 months now. Best decision I have made in a long time. It can be very fun and stressful at the same time but in the end I couldn’t be more proud of it.
So, you’re a DJ too, right? What’s your artist name? How’d you come up with it?
My artist name is “Nyctea”, pronounced “nick – tea – ah”. Funny how I always get people saying it as “nicetea” or “niktea”, I’ve heard it all. Nyctea came to me out of nowhere one day when I was at my apartment here in San Francisco and wanted to get a new dj name from what I had before (It was eternity by the way and that’s a different story). I started looking up different ways to say owl or night owl in either a different language or something that I haven’t seen before but once that name came out I decided to keep it and been using that name ever since I moved to the bay area.
If you could have any artist on your show who would it be? Why?
That’s a real tough one! There’s so many out there that I would love to have on there but I would have to say Will Clarke. He has always been a cool guy to be around, always fun seeing him at events and I would be so honored to have him throw it down!
Do you have any specific artist(s) that you are consistently listening to? (Or one of your favorite artists? Serves as a way to connect the artist w/audience by showing what they are into)
Have too many to say but I would say my favorite artist would be Carl Cox. He’s the main reason what brought me to the scene and has always been a huge motivation to continue working on music.
Any upcoming Artists and/or new Tracks you’d like to shed some light on?
He’s miles away from me but I would have to give props for my good friend Angel aka “Infamouz”. Even though I love my house and techno, this guy has been getting into some dirty, heavy trap and bass music lately and I am very happy to see a friend from my home town to be moving up from what he used to be.
What’s your favorite food?
Stuck between Mexican and Italian.
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Anything else you want to say?
I would have to say that these past 3 years living in the Bay Area has been nothing but life changing. I am very thankful and grateful for meeting everyone I have met now and became my friends. If it wasn’t for any of you, I probably wouldn’t be still working with music and being around in the scene instead of living a boring life so thank you all and hopefully you get to see me perform at any upcoming shows!
Thanks Carlos! Stay tuned for my upcoming mix on his radio show this Saturday that will air live at 2PM UK time / 6AM PST US time. Here’s the link!
Also stay up-to-date with Carlos aka Nyctea on SoundCloud as well as MixCloud
Music, for me, is a way for me to express myself and release a lot of built up emotions and/or tension.
For this mix I wanted to focus on a different kind of style and genre. I don’t want to just solely mix house or techno and be stuck within that realm.
Check it out! This is my first time mixing something other than House/Techno so I’ve definitely still got a long way to go!
Hope you’re all doing well 🙂
It’s Monday again! Corey aka Gem City and myself are currently watching Godzilla and he’s in love with Elizabeth Olson and won’t let me focus on writing.
How was everyone’s weekend anyway? I managed to go to Outside Lands Saturday and see Jamie XX, Florence and The Machine, Bon Iver. Jamie XX definitely stole my heart and it was the best set I’ve ever seen in my life.
Anyway today, we wanted to change things up a bit so we are presenting you guys with a techno mix! Gem City is practically made of techno so this was his breeding ground… but I was a bit out of my element… though I still managed to surprise him a bit 😉
Check out the mix below!
I’m actually going to record a mix for our dear friend Carlos aka Nyctea who runs a radio show in the UK on Saturday’s at 2PM (6AM PST). Check out his SoundCloud or MixCloud for some dope sets!
Also, stay tuned for this Saturday to catch our set on the air!
Cheers guys, hope you all have a great week!
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Environment Ministry says Jakarta air quality still acceptable for Asian Games athletes
By Coconuts Jakarta Aug 20, 2018 | 10:29am Jakarta time
Jakarta skyline. Photo: Coconuts Media
Despite all the glimmer and shine of the Asian Games opening ceremony on Saturday (especially the beautifully choreographed performance by 1,500 Saman dancers, wow), it seems the government can’t distract the media from the threat of air pollution in the games’ host cities, especially Jakarta.
One media report the government really seemed to take notice of was an Al Jazeera’s article published on Aug 17, titled, “Air pollution welcomes athletes in Jakarta for Asian Games”. The article pointed out that the Indonesian government failed to meet its target of reducing air pollution levels in Jakarta from 184 micrograms per cubic meter to 25 micrograms per cubic meter, in line with the World Health Organization’s standard, with air quality index scores reading 154 micrograms per cubic meter three days before the games.
The Environment and Forestry Ministry (KLHK) today straight up said the report’s data is false and argued that the government’s own air pollution readings says air quality in Jakarta, especially around venues, is still safe.
“It’s not bad. Yesterday at 3:30pm, the report for air quality and PM 2.5 pollutants around GBK was 23, in Kemayoran it was 19 and in Palembang 12. So it’s good,” KLHK Environmental Pollution and Degradation Director General Karliansyah told Detik today (PM 2.5 being the level of fine particulate matter measuring 2.5 micrometers or less in the air).
This particular PM 2.5 reading was taken by the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG). According to KLHK, by Indonesian standards, PM 2.5 only reaches dangerous levels when it goes over 65 micrograms per cubic meter.
Those readings, of course, were taken on a relatively quiet Sunday afternoon. BMKG’s air quality monitor, which you can view in real-time on their website here, shows that the PM 2.5 reading in Kemayoran has soared to as high as 54.6 micrograms per cubic meter this morning. Similarly, the area’s PM 10 reading (for particulate matter measuring 10 micrometers or less) has gone up as high as 121 micrograms per cubic meter, slightly below the 150 micrograms per cubic meter for unhealthy levels.
Jakarta has also intermittently appeared on rankings of cities with high levels of pollution on air quality monitoring site Air Visual and has even come out on top on numerous occasions recently. At the time of writing, Jakarta is fourth on the world’s major cities list with an AQI (air quality index) of 157, which is categorized as unhealthy.
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3DO games and homebrew
Started by gameblabla, September 16, 2015, 02:13:47 am
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September 16, 2015, 02:13:47 am Last Edit: September 16, 2015, 07:50:11 am by DJ Omnimaga
EDIT by DJ: Topic split from https://codewalr.us/index.php?topic=670.msg22107#msg22107
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2015, 01:24:29 am
Also I didn't know you made games for the 3DO. I think there are only 20 official games available for it but I didn't know that console had any homebrew programmers. EDIT Actually it's the Virtual Boy that only had 20 games. The 3DO seems to have many more, except that I heard that only one or two exclusives were good.
Well, i did 3DO homebrew games since 2013, i even ported a CHIP8 emulator to it.
3DO has many games : Sure, not all of them are good but there are some good games on it.
The 3DO, unlike the Sega Saturn and PSX, has no copy protection and it's protection for unlicensed games
has since been cracked. (it was a 256-bits RSA key)
A list :
Return Fire (my favorite), Road Rash (best road rash), Lucienne's Quest, Samurai Showdown (so good SNK cancelled future ports of Fatal Fury for 3DO), Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Starfighter, Wolfenstein 3D, Bust-A-Move etc...
That's far than "one or two exclusives were good" in my opinion.
(Hopefully my post was not too off-topic)
Re: 3DO games and homebrew
Nice. I should take a look at those at one point. I should also check if I can find a 3DO for cheap. They are close to $100 here IIRC.
Maybe we could make a 3DO topic
Also the thing is that Road Rash, Samurai Showdown, Street Fighter 2, Wolfeinstein 3D and Bust-a-Move were not exclusives. AN exclusive game is when that game only gets released on 1 single console (for example, Mario Kart 8 with the Wii U and Halo for Xbox). The games above were also available on multiple other consoles that were far more popular (SNES and Sega Genesis, most notably). Games that were only available on the 3DO and nothing else but still were good were rather rare. The lack of enough good 3DO-only games, along with the high price, are what caused the 3DO to sell poorly. It definitively had potential, though, because it had some impressive-looking games even if they were often available on other consoles.
Lionel Debroux
Quote The 3DO, unlike the Sega Saturn and PSX, has no copy protection and it's protection for unlicensed games has since been cracked. (it was a 256-bits RSA key)
The two 3DO RSA keys were 512 bits. We sieved them on RSALS.
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Woah I didn't know they used RSA keys back then. Wasn't the 3DO released in 1993?
Streetwalrus
Apparently yes. I guess back then 512bit keys were about as uncrackable as 2048bit keys are nowadays.
September 16, 2015, 04:49:55 pm #5
All keys are crackable, given enough time. RSA keys relies on the fact it takes a ridiculously long time to crack and people don't want to spend years and years to do so. A few years ago, it probably would have taken a century to crack a RSA-512 key, nowadays, thanks to our computers being more powerful, it's a matter of a few months.
Actually if you have a few machines you can crack a 512 bit key in days (the CSE app signing key was cracked very quickly).
The lack of enough good 3DO-only games, along with the high price, are what caused the 3DO to sell poorly. It definitively had potential, though, because it had some impressive-looking games even if they were often available on other consoles.
The 3DO Goldstar was much cheaper than the Panasonic ones though.
So cheap in fact that Goldstar at one point sold it for 199$ and lost 100$ on each unit sold !
The 3DO failed mostly because not enough people knew it,
though i agree that the lack of exclusives did not pushed people to buy it.
For example, the Sega CD was much s***tier than the 3DO.
It was quite expensive too but despite this, Sega managed to sold 3x times as much units as the 3DO.
Also the thing is that Road Rash, Samurai Showdown, Street Fighter 2, Wolfeinstein 3D and Bust-a-Move were not exclusives. AN exclusive game is when that game only gets released on 1 single console (for example, Mario Kart 8 with the Wii U and Halo for Xbox). The games above were also available on multiple other consoles that were far more popular (SNES and Sega Genesis, most notably)
The few exclusives by 3DO were not all good, i agree.
Blade Force looks awesome but its gameplay is... hmm.. i don't get it.
Captain Quazar (released very late in the 3DO's lifespan) plays pretty good from what i've seen but it looks like a SNES game.
Also, some games such as Road Rash, StarFighter, Need of Speed, The Horde, Po'Ed and Gex
were released first on 3DO before they were ported to other formats like the PSX and Saturn after the 3DO's demise.
In my opinon, this was a much better attempt to the video game market than the Virtual Boy was.
As for homebrew games on 3DO, i'm pretty much the only guy developping for it.
My best 3DO homebrew game is probably "Unlucky Pony". (the sega cd port i did was not as good as this one)
Yeah, factoring 512-bit RSA keys requires low computing effort nowadays, which is why TI switched to 2048-bit keys. No real need to set up an automatic work distribution system for a task that small: copying executables to multiple machines, manually triggering sieving jobs, and copying the output (raw relations) to the post-processing machine isn't that cumbersome, especially if using SaltStack / Ansible-type management infrastructure for running operations in parallel on a cluster of nodes, or leveraging e.g. Docker containers.
For larger tasks, a job server such as Gearman is an option when using a well-controlled set of reliable workers; for handling highly distributed, unreliable workers, BOINC (RSALS, [email protected], Tom Ritter's cloud-and-control) is the obvious solution.
Brute-forcing Nspire OS encryption keys is even easier than factoring 512-bit RSA keys, by a large margin. But that's another, even more off-topic story.
Quote from: Lionel Debroux on September 16, 2015, 05:22:47 pm
Now you got me curious. Would you mind expanding a bit on IRC or in a new thread ?
September 16, 2015, 05:59:18 pm #10
Yeah it would be a nice idea, unless it puts the Nspire at even higher risks of more lockdowns (IIRC that's why most Ndless development is no longer discussed publicly on forums, right?)
Anyway I'm as surprised that the 3DO even used RSA keys in the first place. I was sure that those started being used in the early 2000's or so.
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2015, 05:59:18 pm
You're kind of right. RSA was first described in 1977 and patented in 1983, then the patent expired in 2000. And just like MP3 and GIF, everyone must have started using it once the patent expired.
Ah right, patents. I remember someone claiming that we were not allowed to use MP3-based OST in our indie games before.
The MP3 patents are weird and there's a ton of them, some of them actively enforced. The last patent needed to make a MP3 decoder expires in 2012, or maybe it's next week, or even in 2017?
OGG Vorbis is way better, anyway.
Quote from: Juju on September 16, 2015, 09:04:59 pm
Yeah, it's a great compromise between lossless and high loss formats like mp3, since it allows higher bitrate and better compression ratios with better quality, and it's much smaller than flac.
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Cursed man Steve Harvey caught in the middle of another Miss Universe flub
And like 2015, it involved Miss Philippines
by Wren Graves
Steve Harvey at Miss Universe 2019
Steve Harvey has hosted the Miss Universe pageant every year since 2015, which is kind of remarkable if you remember what happened in 2015. The comedian had announced Miss Colombia as the winner, before sheepishly returning to the stage and saying that actually, Miss Colombia was first runner-up and Miss Philippines had triumphed.
In the spirit of “There’s no such thing as bad press,” the Miss Universe pageant has returned Steve Harvey every year since then. His hosting had been uncontroversial until this year, when the presenter found himself in the middle of another awkward flub. Again, it involved the Republic of the Philippines. This time the controversy centered on a National Costume contest, and as we learned later, it wasn’t actually Harvey’s fault.
Reading from the teleprompter, Harvey said, “Earlier this week, all the contestants competed in a National Costume contest. Here’s the look at the winner, Miss Philippines.”
A photograph of Miss Philippines flashed across the screen, and no harm would have been done, except for a truly indefensible decision by the producers. They had arranged for Harvey to say these words standing next to Miss Malaysia Shweta Sekhon. The understandably confused Sekhon gestured for the microphone.
“It’s not Philippines. It’s Malaysia,” she said.
Steve Harvey was quick to blame the teleprompter. “Let me explain something to you. I just read that in the teleprompter. Ya’ll got to quit doing this to me. I can read.” He continued, “Now, they are trying to fix it now. See? This is what they did to me back in 2015 — played me short like that.”
But the teleprompter was correct. Everything had gone to plan, and the only issue was that the plan involved a losing contestant standing on stage when the winner was announced. The producers later released a statement absolving Harvey of blame, although they stopped short of acknowledging their own role in Miss Malaysia’s confusion. Via Fox,
“Miss Universe Philippines Gazini Ganados is the winner of the Miss Universe 2019 National Costume competition. As part of the broadcast, we also featured Miss Universe Malaysia Shweta Sekhon’s national costume. Miss Sekhon wasn’t aware we’d be announcing Philippines first, so she jumped the gun when Mr. Harvey started with that news. Mr. Harvey made a joke of it so as not to embarrass her, but no mistakes regarding the national costume winner were made by him, the prompter or production.”
That was the biggest scandal of the night, but it wasn’t Steve Harvey’s only moment of controversy.
During the interview portion of the evening, Steve Harvey read out a question about climate change. After he was done, cameras caught him give an over-the-top eye roll.
Furthermore, when he announced that Miss Colombia made it into the final 20, Harvey made a joke about “the cartel” that some found stereotypical and offensive. Miss Colombia sarcastically asked if Harvey was sure he’d gotten it right this time, referencing the 2015 mixup. She then added, “You are forgiven.” Harvey said, “You’ve forgiven me… not the cartel.” Many on Twitter have criticized the joke and demanded an apology.
In the end, Miss Philippines Gazini Ganados won the costume contest, and Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi won the overall title of Miss Universe. We at CoS just hope that Miss South Africa can put these controversies behind her and get back to ruling the universe, or whatever it is that Miss Universe does. (Looks up what Miss Universe does.) Wait, they’re just ranking women by the way they look? In 2019? No, that can’t be right. Anyway, congrats to our new galactic overlord!
Damn, Steve Harvey fucked up again pic.twitter.com/ANL1AO7zkN
— adam ferrone (@_rone) December 9, 2019
Steve Harvey with an all-time eye roll after asking the climate change question #MissUniverse2019 pic.twitter.com/5bzwvoP8i9
— Paul Glenn (@pdglenn) December 9, 2019
Steve Harvey uses cartel joke with Miss Colombia.#MissUniverse2019 #MissColombia pic.twitter.com/D7ODZ21vlx
— JM🅥 (@ItsJM__) December 9, 2019
Chris Cornell’s widow is suing Soundgarden over royalties and rights to unreleased songs
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THE BEST FILMS IN ACTION, DRAMA, HORROR, AND MORE
Judd Apatow and Pete Davidson’s The King of Staten Island to open SXSW 2020 Film Festival
Other highlights include Spike Jonze's Beastie Boys Story and Alex Winter's Zappa doc
The King of Staten Island (Universal Pictures)
With Sundance around the corner, South by Southwest has announced its feature film lineup for 2020. Set to take place from March 13th to 22nd, the Austin-based festival will screen more than a hundred new features.
Among the many highlights are the world premiere of Judd Apatow and Pete Davidson’s The King of Staten Island, Michael Showalter’s The Lovebirds, Frank Oz’s In & Out Itself, Alex Winter’s Zappa, and Spike Jonze’s Beastie Boys Story.
“Judd Apatow has consistently provided transcendent, exhilarating experiences at SXSW, starting with Knocked Up, then Bridesmaids, Trainwreck, Girls, The Big Sick, and his documentary May it Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers,” said Janet Pierson, Director of Film. “This March, it’s our particular privilege to present his funny and deeply moving new feature — his first in five years as a director — The King of Staten Island, starring Pete Davidson leading a great ensemble, as our Opening Night Film.”
There are also a number episodic premieres in the television medium, including the highly anticipated series adaptation of Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, Loren Bouchard’s Central Park, and Greg Daniels’ latest Upload.
As expected, the lineup has a strong focus on music features, specifically Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne, Lydia Lunch – The War Is Never Over, a Foo Fighters-related doc dubbed We Are The Thousand, and St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein‘s Sundance-bound The Nowhere Inn.
“Every year we pore through thousands of submissions searching for the best films to present to the SXSW audience. We are astounded by the talent at every level, from the emerging micro-budget artist to those at the peak of their careers, and can’t wait to share their risk-taking, passion, and achievements in March,” added Pierson.
Consult the full lineup below. As if the following weren’t enough, a second wave of announcements will follow on February 5th, which includes all the horror fare in their Midnighters section.
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
Ten world premieres, ten unique ways to celebrate the art of storytelling. Selected from 1,305 narrative feature submissions in 2020.
Director/Screenwriter: Nicole Riegel
To pay for her education, and the chance of a better life, a young woman joins a dangerous scrap metal crew. Cast: Jessica Barden, Gus Halper, Austin Amelio, Grace Kaiser, Pamela Adlon, Becky Ann Baker (World Premiere)
I’ll Meet You There (Pakistan, United States)
Director/Screenwriter: Iram Parveen Bilal
A Muslim policeman goes undercover at his estranged father’s mosque while his daughter hides her passion for a forbidden dance, uncovering a shocking family secret. Cast: Faran Tahir, Nikita Tewani, Muhammad Qavi Khan, Sheetal Sheth, Shawn Parsons, Andrea Cirie, Nitin Madan, Michael Pemberton (World Premiere)
Lapsis
Director/Screenwriter: Noah Hutton
Delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. He turns to quantum cabling, a strange new corner of the gig economy, and faces a pivotal choice to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out. Cast: Dean Imperial, Madeline Wise, Babe Howard, Dora Madison, Ivory Aquino, James McDaniel, Frank Wood, Arliss Howard, Pooya Mohseni, Portia (World Premiere)
Pink Skies Ahead
Director/Screenwriter: Kelly Oxford
Life unravels for a wild young woman after dropping out of college, moving in with her parents, and being diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Cast: Jessica Barden, Marcia Gay Harden, Michael McKean, Henry Winkler, Rosa Salazar, Odeya Rush, Lewis Pullman, Devon Bostick, Mary J. Blige, Evan Ross (World Premiere)
Really Love
Director: Angel Kristi Williams, Screenwriters: Felicia Pride, Angel Kristi Williams
Set in a gentrifying Washington DC, a rising Black painter tries to break into a competitive art world, while balancing a whirlwind romance he never expected. Cast: Kofi Siriboe, Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing, Uzo Aduba, Mack Wilds, Naturi Naughton, Suzzanne Douglas, Jade Eshete, Blair Underwood, Michael Ealy (World Premiere)
Shithouse
Director/Screenwriter: Cooper Raiff
A homesick college freshman goes to a party at Shithouse and ends up spending the night with his sophomore RA who’s had a shitty day and wants someone to hang out with. Cast: Dylan Gelula, Cooper Raiff, Amy Landecker, Logan Miller (World Premiere)
Shiva Baby
Director/Screenwriter: Emma Seligman
A young woman struggles to keep up different versions of herself when she runs into her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend at a shiva with her parents. Cast: Rachel Sennott, Polly Draper, Molly Gordon, Danny Deferrari, Dianna Agron, Fred Melamed, Glynis Bell, Sondra James, Jackie Hoffman (World Premiere)
Teenage Badass
Director: Grant McCord, Screenwriters: Matthew D. Dho, Grant McCord
Set in 2006, Teenage Badass follows a band when they score a shot to play on the local news. But as all of their dreams start to become a reality, the band’s egocentric singer/songwriter threatens to make them lose everything. Cast: Mcabe Gregg, Evan Ultra, Madelyn Deutch, Dillon Lane, Elsie Hewitt, Karsen Liotta, Julie Ann Emery, Kevin Corrigan, James Paxton, Jim Adkins (World Premiere)
Directors/Screenwriters: Celine Held, Logan George
A five year-old girl and her mother live in a community inhabiting the tunnels beneath New York City, when a sudden police eviction forces them into the world above, throwing their lives into chaos. Cast: Zhaila Farmer, Celine Held, Jared Abrahamson, Fatlip (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Justine Bateman
A film development executive realizes that “guiding voice” inside her head has been lying to her about everything. Cast: Olivia Munn, Luke Bracey, Justin Theroux, Bonnie Bedelia, Zach Gordon, Erica Ash, Rob Benedict, Dennis Boutsikaris, Todd Stashwick, Laura San Giacomo (World Premiere)
Narrative Feature Competition Jury: Rebecca Keegan, Senior Film Editor, The Hollywood Reporter; Rodrigo Perez, Editor in Chief, The Playlist; Kim Yutani, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
Ten world premieres: ten real world stories that demonstrate innovation, energy and bold voices. Selected from 1,011 feature documentary submissions in 2020.
The Boy Who Sold The World
Director: Adam Barton
At age 15, Ben Pasternak dropped out of high school and moved to NYC. Leaving behind his family in Australia, Ben sacrificed his childhood to pursue his dream of changing the world through innovation. But things didn’t quite go according to plan. (World Premiere)
Director: Todd Chandler
What does it mean to be safe in school in the United States? Safe from what, and from whom? Bulletproof poses and complicates these questions through a provocative exploration of fear and American violence. (World Premiere)
The Donut King
Director: Alice Gu, Screenwriters: Alice Gu, Carol Martori
The rise, fall, and rise again of a Cambodian refugee who escaped genocide and overcame poverty to build a life for himself and hundreds of other immigrant families by baking America’s favorite pastry and building an unlikely empire of donut shops. (World Premiere)
An Elephant in the Room (Denmark)
Director: Katrine Philp
At Good Grief in New Jersey, groups of children meet to understand the passing of a parent or a sibling through play. Death may come suddenly or slowly, violently or peacefully, but it leaves a pain that the child has never felt before. (World Premiere)
Finding Yingying
Director: Jiayan “Jenny” Shi
After a young Chinese student is kidnapped on a university campus, her family travels to the US for the first time, first hoping to unravel the mystery of her disappearance, and then to seek justice, find closure and reclaim their daughter. (World Premiere)
For Madmen Only
Director: Heather Ross, Screenwriters: Heather Ross, Adam Samuel Goldman
Del Close, the hidden architect of modern comedy, sets out to smash open the creative process by writing an autobiographical comic book. (World Premiere)
Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide
Directors/Screenwriters: Malia Scharf, Max Basch
Kenny Scharf is surveyed through the eyes of his daughter — revealing a private struggle for identity and acceptance through the ups and downs of a prolific career driven by a passion for making his fantastical inner worlds a very public reality. (World Premiere)
Lights Camera Uganda
Directors: Cathryne Czubek, Hugo Perez
When “Africa’s Tarantino” casts a New York film nerd as his next action hero, it’s the beginning of a friendship that makes their no-budget studio world famous. But as their success grows, tensions flare and threaten everything they built. (World Premiere)
Directors: Lauren DeFilippo, Katherine Gorringe
Six people live for a year on “Mars” in a NASA experiment studying what happens to humans when they are isolated from Earth. (World Premiere)
We Don’t Deserve Dogs
Director: Matthew Salleh
A contemplative odyssey across our planet, looking at the simple and extraordinary ways that dogs influence our daily lives. People need dogs, and perhaps they need us, but what do humans do to deserve the unconditional love they provide? (World Premiere)
Documentary Feature Competition Jury: Bilge Ebiri, Editor and Film Critic, Vulture; Naomi Fry, Pop Culture Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Dino Ramos, Associate Editor and Reporter, Deadline
Big names, big talent: Headliners bring star power to SXSW, featuring red carpet premieres and gala film events with major and rising names in cinema.
Director: Kitao Sakurai, Screenwriters: Eric André, Dan Curry, Kitao Sakurai
From a producer of Jackass and Bad Grandpa, this hidden camera comedy follows two best friends as they go on a cross-country road trip full of hilarious, inventive pranks, pulling its real-life audience into the mayhem. Cast: Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish, Michaela Conlin (World Premiere)
Beastie Boys Story
Beastie Boys, Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz, tell you an intimate, personal story of their band and 40 years of friendship in this live documentary experience directed by their longtime friend and collaborator, and their former grandfather, filmmaker Spike Jonze. (World Premiere)
The King of Staten Island
Director: Judd Apatow, Screenwriters: Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson, Dave Sirus
Filmmaker Judd Apatow directs Saturday Night Live breakout Pete Davidson in a bracing comedy about a burnout stuck living with his mom (Oscar® winner Marisa Tomei) on Staten Island. Cast: Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr, Bel Powley, Maude Apatow, Ricky Velez and Steve Buscemi (World Premiere)
LA Originals (Argentina)
Director: Estevan Oriol, Screenwriters: Brian Maya, Omar Quiroga
An exploration of the culture and landmarks of the chicano and street art movement that cemented Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol’s status as behind-the-scenes hip hop legends.(World Premiere)
Director: Michael Showalter, Screenwriters: Aaron Abrams, Brendan Gall
A young couple (Issa Rae & Kumail Nanjiani) is pulled into a bizarre (and hilarious) murder mystery. Working to clear their names and solve the crime, they need to figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night. Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Issa Rae, Paul Sparks, Anna Camp, Kyle Bornheimer (World Premiere)
NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT
High profile narrative features receiving their World, North American or U.S. premieres at SXSW.
Director: Kevin Willmott, Screenwriters: Kevin Willmott, Trai Byers
The 24th is based on the true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry and the Houston Riot of 1917. The night of violence led to the largest murder trial in American History. Cast: Trai Byers, Aja Naomi King, Bashir Salahuddin, Mo McRae, Tosin Morohunfola, Mykelti Williamson, Thomas Haden Church (World Premiere)
Archive (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Gavin Rothery
2048: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. But his true goal must be hidden at all costs. Cast: Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover, Lia Williams, Toby Jones (World Premiere)
Directors: Michael Parks Randa, Lauren Smitelli, Screenwriters: Michael Parks Randa, Will Halby, Terra Mackintosh, Andrew Pilkington, Lauren Smitelli
A fresh and exhilarating take on the beloved teen musical genre featuring eight original songs and a fully integrated cast and crew of people with and without disabilities. Cast: Shannon DeVido, Rickey Wilson Jr., MuMu, Jacob Waltuck, Emily Kranking, Bradford Hayes, Eileen Grubba, Holly Palmer, Ajani A.J. Murray, Lawrence Carter-Long (World Premiere)
Castle In The Ground (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Joey Klein
A grieving teenager befriends the troubled woman across the hall just as the opiate epidemic takes hold of their small town in 2012. Cast: Alex Wolff, Imogen Poots, Neve Campbell, Tom Cullen, Keir Gilchrist, Kiowa Gordon, Star Slade (U.S. Premiere)
Director: John Leguizamo, Screenwriter: Dito Montiel
Based on a true story from 1998, five Latin and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance of their unconventional but inspirational teacher. Cast: John Leguizamo, Michael Kenneth Williams, Rachel Bay Jones, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Angel Bismark Curiel, Will Hochman, Corwin Tuggles, Jeffry Batista, Zora Casebere, Ramses Jimenez (World Premiere)
Cut Throat City
Director: RZA, Screenwriter: Paul Cuschieri
Cut Throat City is a powerful and hard-hitting heist drama by RZA, set in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina. Cast: Shameik Moore, Tip ‘T.I.’ Harris, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Kat Graham, Rob Morgan, Keean Johnson, Denzel Whitaker, Sam Daly, Isaiah Washington, Wesley Snipes, Terrence Howard, Eiza Gonzalez, Ethan Hawke (World Premiere)
I Used to Go Here
Director/Screenwriter: Kris Rey
Following the launch of her new novel, 35-year-old writer Kate Conklin (Gillian Jacobs) is invited to speak at her alma mater by her mentor and former professor (Jemaine Clement). Cast: Gillian Jacobs, Jemaine Clement, Josh Wiggins, Hannah Marks, Zoe Chao, Jorma Taccone, Forrest Goodluck (World Premiere)
Director: Rod Lurie, Screenwriter: Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
Based on the Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan, where fifty four U.S. soldiers held off 400 Taliban insurgents in the deadliest military outpost in the world. Cast: Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom, Jack Kesy, Cory Hardrict, Milo Gibson, Jacob Scipio, Taylor John Smith (World Premiere)
Director: Scott Teems, Screenwriters: Scott Teems, Andrew Brotzman
A mysterious fugitive kills a traveling preacher and assumes his identity, hiding out in a desolate Texas town. The congregation is quickly drawn to the man’s unorthodox sermons, but so is the local police chief, who has his suspicions. Cast: Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Soto, Bruno Bichir, Alvaro Martinez (World Premiere)
The Racer (Ireland)
Director: Kieron J. Walsh, Screenwriter: Ciaran Cassidy, Kieron J. Walsh
As the 1998 Tour de France kicks off its first three stages in Ireland, one rider faces what could be the last stage of his own career during what became known as the notorious “Tour de Dopage.” Cast: Louis Talpe, Tara Lee, Matteo Simoni, Iain Glen, Karel Roden (World Premiere)
The Show (United Kingdom)
Director: Mitch Jenkins, Screenwriter: Alan Moore
A new mystery from the extraordinary mind of legendary comic book writer Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen, V for Vendetta and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Cast: Tom Burke, Ellie Bamber, Siobhan Hewlett, Sheila Atim, Alan Moore (World Premiere)
Small Engine Repair
Director/Screenwriter: John Pollono
Blue collar childhood buddies Frank, Swaino and Packie meet off-hours one night in Frank’s out-of-the-way repair shop for suspicious reasons only he seems to have a handle on. Cast: Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham, Jordana Spiro, Ciara Bravo, Spencer House, John Pollono (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Prentice Penny
Elijah (Mamoudou Athie) must find a way to balance his dream of becoming a master sommelier with his father’s expectations for him to carry on the family’s popular Memphis barbeque joint. Cast: Mamoudou Athie, Courtney B. Vance, Niecy Nash, Matt McGorry, Sasha Compere, Gil Ozeri, Kelly Jenrette, Bernard David Jones, Meera Rohit Kumbhani (World Premiere)
DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
Shining a light on new documentary features receiving their World, North American or U.S. premieres at SXSW.
9to5: The Story of A Movement
Directors: Julia Reichert, Steve Bognar
In the 1970s, America’s secretaries took to the streets, fed up with on-the-job abuse. They created a movement called 9to5, which later inspired Jane Fonda to make a movie and Dolly Parton to write a song. This is the untold story of their fight. (World Premiere)
The Alpinist
Directors: Peter Mortimer, Nicholas Rosen
An elusive young climber explores the limits of solo mountaineering. (World Premiere)
And We Go Green
Directors: Fisher Stevens, Malcolm Venville, Screenwriter: Mark Monroe
Professional drivers on the international Formula E circuit race for victory across 10 cities in this white-knuckle documentary from filmmaker Malcolm Venville, Oscar-winning director Fisher Stevens (The Cove), and producer Leonardo DiCaprio. (U.S. Premiere)
Baby God
Director: Hannah Olson
For more than 30 years, Dr. Quincy Fortier covertly used his own sperm to inseminate his fertility patients. Now his secret is out. Baby God follows his children as they seek the truth about his motives and try to make sense of their own identities. (World Premiere)
Clerk (Canada, United States)
Director: Malcolm Ingram
A documentary on the career and life of filmmaker and raconteur Kevin Smith. (World Premiere)
Console Wars [title may change]
Directors: Jonah Tulis, Blake J. Harris
In 1990, Sega assembled a team of misfits to take on the greatest video game company in the world, Nintendo. Console Wars goes behind the scenes to meet the men and women who fought for both sides in this epic battle that defined a generation. (World Premiere)
Crazy, Not Insane
Director: Alex Gibney
Dr. Dorothy Lewis is a psychiatrist who’s spent her career examining violent people. Through the use of chilling never-before-seen inmate interviews, Crazy, Not Insane looks into the mind of a killer in an attempt to understand why people kill. (U.S. Premiere)
The Dilemma of Desire
Director: Maria Finitzo
The Dilemma of Desire explores the clash between the external power of gender politics and the equally powerful imperative of female sexual desire. How different would the world look if women’s libidos were taken as seriously as men’s? (World Premiere)
Hamtramck, USA
Directors: Razi Jafri, Justin Feltman
Through the exploration of daily life and democracy in America’s first Muslim-majority city, Hamtramck, USA examines the benefits and tensions of multiculturalism. (World Premiere)
Director: Steven Cantor
In a small Oregon community, a high school soccer team struggles to overcome class and racial divide in a quest for team success. They are torn between their individual commitment to the team and the expectations of the town itself. (World Premiere)
Director: Joshua Tsui
The oral history of a team of geeks and misfits in the back of a Chicago factory creating the biggest video games (Mortal Kombat, NBA JAM, and others) of all time. (World Premiere)
M For Magic
Director: Alexis Manya Spraic
M for Magic is the never-told story of the royal family of magic – four generations of the legendary Larsen family – and their tireless endeavor to save the art of magic with a private club for magicians – the world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood. (World Premiere)
One Man and His Shoes (United Kingdom)
Director: Yemi Bamiro
One Man and His Shoes tells the story of Air Jordan sneakers, depicting their social, cultural and racial significance, showing how ground-breaking marketing strategies created a multi-billion-dollar business. (World Premiere)
A Secret Love
Director: Chris Bolan, Screenwriters: Chris Bolan, Alexa L. Fogel, Brendan Mason
A moving and triumphant love story about two trailblazing women who break barriers and conventional norms, coming out to their conservative families as they face the difficulties of aging. (World Premiere)
We Are As Gods
Directors/Screenwriters: Jason Sussberg, David Alvarado
“We are as gods and might as well get good at it,” Stewart Brand wrote in ‘68. The legendary pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, and modern environmentalism now urges people to use our god-like powers to fight extinction by reviving lost species. (World Premiere)
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Directors: David Darg, Price James
In 2000, actor David Arquette infamously became the world wrestling champion as a promotion for his movie Ready to Rumble. He wasn’t prepared for the backlash. 20 years later, Arquette seeks redemption by returning to the ring… for real this time. (World Premiere)
Visions filmmakers are audacious, risk-taking artists in the new cinema landscape who demonstrate raw innovation and creativity in documentary and narrative filmmaking.
Director: Marnie Ellen Hertzler, Screenwriters: Marnie Ellen Hertzler, Corey Hughes
In the desert of Crestone, Colorado, a group of SoundCloud rappers live in solitude, growing weed and making music for the internet. When an old friend arrives to make a movie, reality and fiction begin to blur. (World Premiere)
Drunk Bus
Directors: Brandon LaGanke, John Carlucci, Screenwriter: Chris Molinaro
A directionless, young campus bus driver and a punk rock, Samoan security guard named Pineapple form an unlikely kinship as they navigate the unpredictable late shift shit show known as the “drunk bus.” Together, they break out of their endless loop. Cast: Charlie Tahan, Kara Hayward, Pineapple Tangaroa, Tonatiuh, Zach Cherry, Sarah Mezzanotte, Jay Devore, Dave Hill, Martin Pfefferkorn (World Premiere)
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Director: Frank Oz, Screenwriter: Derek DelGaudio
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I Will Make You Mine
Director/Screenwriter: Lynn Chen
Three women wrestle with life’s difficulties while confronting their past relationships with the same man. Cast: Lynn Chen, Yea-Ming Chen, Ayako Fujitani, Goh Nakamura, Joy Osmanski, Mike Faiola, Tamlyn Tomita, Ayami Riley Tomine (World Premiere)
Make Up (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Claire Oakley
After Ruth moves in with her boyfriend in a remote holiday park, tensions rise as she makes an unsettling discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession. Cast: Molly Windsor, Joseph Quinn, Stefanie Martini (North American Premiere)
Rare Beasts (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Billie Piper
An anti rom-com about Mandy, a career-driven single mother, who falls in love with the charming traditionalist Pete. Cast: Billie Piper, Leo Bill, David Thewlis, Kerry Fox, Toby Woolf, Lily James (North American Premiere)
Selfie (France)
Directors: Marc Fitoussi, Thomas Bidegain, Screenwriters: Giulio Callegari, Noé Debré, Hélène Lombard, Julien Sibony, Bertrand Soulier
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She Dies Tomorrow
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The series is set in an alternate, present-day America where witches ended their persecution just over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the burgeoning government to fight for and protect their country. Cast: Ashley Nicole Williams, Taylor Hickson, Jessica Sutton, Amalia Holm, Demetria McKinney (World Premiere)
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Showrunner: Pat Kondelis
In a small Texan town in 2014, star football player, Greg Kelley, was convicted of a child sexual assault case. In an outpour of support, his community bands together to prove his innocence and rectify a crime that ruined lives. (World Premiere)
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Le Choc du Futur (France)
Director: Marc Collin
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Set in a dystopian landscape, Scales is the story of a young girl who stands alone against her family and overturns the village tradition of sacrificing the female children. Cast: Ashraf Barhoum, Yagoub AlFarhan, Fatima Al Taei, Haifa AlAgha, Hafssa Faisal, Abdulaziz Shtian, Basima Hajjar
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Olivia Fernandes is a double leg amputee, the result of a rare condition called popliteal pterygium syndrome which she inherited from her mother, Shawn. As KABC reports, Shawn and Olivia have been fighting with their insurance company for years to get a new wheelchair for Olivia covered.
Wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs have always been a part of Olivia’s life, but she has been too big for her current wheelchair for years.
On top of that, the brakes didn't work, tires randomly fell off and duct tape held one of the tires together.
The family knew Olivia needed a new wheelchair, but their insurance wouldn’t cover it because Olivia also uses prosthetic limbs. But as Olivia explained, the limbs are not a 24/7 solution to her handicap.
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Dutch Populists Shock the EU with Election Victory
shadowkin March 24, 2019 in Geopolitics
shadowkin + 440
Dutch populists won the most votes in elections last Thursday. They will hold the largest number of seats in the Senate along with the ruling party of the Prime Minister. The government will now have to get outside support for Senate approval of laws passed by parliament.
The Forum for Democracy party is only 3 years old and their victory came on the heels of the latest Muslim terror attack on Monday in Utrecht when a Turk killed 3 people.
What do they believe? Here is their leader Thierry Baudet.
“We stand here in the rubble of what was once the most beautiful civilization.
“We won because the country needs us. We are being destroyed by the people who are supposed to be protecting us.
“Successive Rutte governments have left our borders wide open, letting in hundreds of thousands of people with cultures completely different to ours.
“I am ideologically against the EU, against the internal market, against the open borders, against the euro, against the whole thing.
Meredith Poor + 346
2 hours ago, shadowkin said:
“I am ideologically against the EU, against the internal market, against the open borders, against the euro, against the whole thing.
For every person killed by an Islamic extremist, hundreds of thousands are cared for by Muslim nurses, doctors, medical technicians, and clinic staff. This is particularly true in the US, where American hospitals have recruited vigorously in various parts of East Africa, India, Malaysia, Lebanon, etc.
Compare that complaint to the president of Hungary, who is complaining that all the talented young people are leaving. Look up the demographic statistics of Poland, Lithuania (and the other Baltic states), Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria (and the other Balkan states). Even the population of Germany is shrinking in absolute numbers.
"“I am ideologically against the EU, against the internal market, against the open borders, against the euro, against the whole thing." Kim Jong Un and Fidel Castro would heartily agree with these sentiments, or at least put them into practice.
1 hour ago, Meredith Poor said:
For every person killed by an Islamic extremist, hundreds of thousands are cared for by Muslim nurses, doctors, medical technicians, and clinic staff. This is particularly true in the US
Do you have any data to support this? I haven't even bothered to look and I can tell it's false, particularly in the US. About 400,000 killed in Syria by all flavors of Islamic terrorists. So Muslims treated (conservatively) 400,000 x 200,000 = 80 billion people? Ok. That's more than 10x the Earth's population.
Regardless it's a fallacious argument.
Look up the demographic statistics of Poland, Lithuania (and the other Baltic states), Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria (and the other Balkan states). Even the population of Germany is shrinking in absolute numbers.
So these countries should import Muslims so they can turn Europe into the ME. You underestimate automation as well. You don't need as many people in factories to make things. This will only increase. Clerical work being automated as well. Same arguments used by globalists to destroy sovereign nations. Didn't seem to work out so well for UK and their water situation did it.
“I am ideologically against the EU, against the internal market, against the open borders, against the euro, against the whole thing." Kim Jong Un and
So you went from being ideological opposed to open borders and the euro is tantamount to being Kim Jong Un.
I think you've outed yourself as a Paki here with your ridiculous arguments.
Perhaps I should have qualified this to mean Western countries with Muslim immigrants. The US definitely recruits medical providers from various Muslim countries. How that works in Europe I can't speculate.
I'm not sure what you intended from the first of the two above sentences. In any case, North Korea and Cuba are 'hermit states' - they aren't open to free trade, immigration (not that anyone would immigrate in any case), or 'foreign influences'. There are political movements that want to close borders and 'preserve cultural heritage'. Then there are a few countries that actually do it. Japan is another example.
It's not what countries 'should do', it's what happens whether they like it or not.
One of the results of building Crossrail in London was digging up various cemeteries from the 17th century. London, even at that time, had a vast collection of immigrants, including many from Africa and practically every country in the Mediterranean. Even Roman graveyards in Londinium had evidence of North Africans (of course, this predated Islam, and Christianity for that matter).
Automation is great for making widgets. So far it isn't working out for medical services, elder care, food service, residential maintenance, etc. As far as the 'water situation' goes, I'm not aware of the context of that assertion.
Tom Kirkman + 6,059
How exactly was this Dutch election 'shocking' in any way?
2 hours ago, Meredith Poor said:
Perhaps I should have qualified this to mean Western countries with Muslim immigrants. The US definitely recruits medical providers from various Muslim countries.
Yes US recruits Muslim medical professionals but not in the numbers you're suggesting.
This argument is still fallacious. 3000 killed on 9/11. 3k x 200k = 600 million treated (yeah they weren’t ‘immigrants’ but this would have made no difference). That’s about 2/3 of the combined population of the US and EU. I don’t think so.
Besides I don’t think this is a fruitful line of argument for you. In the US I would assert we recruit far more Indian and Filipino nurses than any Muslim medical professionals yet there has never been one, that I’m aware of, terror attack by them let alone one that is attributable to religious/political reasons.
The whole “well we saved more lives than we took” argument is unpersuasive. You don’t really want to get into an argument as to who did more for humanity anyway.
I'm not sure what you intended from the first of the two above sentences. In any case, North Korea and Cuba are 'hermit states' - they aren't open to free trade, immigration (not that anyone would immigrate in any case), or 'foreign influences'. There are political movements that want to close borders and 'preserve cultural heritage'. Then there are a few countries that actually do it. Japan is another example.
The sentence speaks for itself. You are equating someone who advocates control of their country’s border with Kim Jong Un. You actually made my point with the Japan example. Japan controls their borders and who can reside in their country and who can call themselves a Japanese citizen but visiting their country for tourism or trade purposes is not an issue unless you have a criminal record. Japan very much wants to preserve cultural heritage. South Korea would be another example.
They are strict about this but they are by no means a hermit nation, isolated from the world that wants to 'close their borders'. Controlling your borders or currency is not synonymous with being a totalitarian regime.
US cultural influence in Cuba is greater than you think.
London, even at that time, had a vast collection of immigrants,
Vast?
Even Roman graveyards in Londinium had evidence of North Africans (of course, this predated Islam, and Christianity for that matter).
Yeah they were called slaves. Yes it did predate Islam which is the motivator for terrorism in Europe today.
Automation is great for making widgets. So far it isn't working out for medical services, elder care, food service, residential maintenance,
Incorrect. It's working for the clerical aspect of medical services. It's creeping in to doctor consultations and surgery itself. I'll agree it doesn't work well with elder care. Food service? Well many startups deliver food nowadays. Residential maintenance? Used to be kids in the US would mow lawns and such. I did myself. Now it seems with HOAs it's contracted out to migrants.
There is no reason to limit this discussion to migrants to the West either. Muslims citizens/subjects have done far more damage to non-Western nations for far longer. One cannot only look at deaths either as a measure of this. A nation like Somalia, for example, simply has no chance at economically developing while it is paralyzed by a Muslim insurgency.
3 hours ago, Tom Kirkman said:
I was just coming to ask the same thing. I would have expected the EU to be beyond the easy shockability of a Victorian damsel in distress. it's a trend and it's growing. Also, it was long time coming.
Controlling your borders or currency is not synonymous with being a totalitarian regime.
And yet the dominant political narrative wants us to believe it is.
Jan van Eck + 5,184
15 hours ago, shadowkin said:
Controlling your borders or currency is not synonymous with being a totalitarian regime.
Sure it is, when the government doing the controlling is preventing you from leaving, or in the alternative "taxes" the money you are carrying when you attempt to leave. A good example of that is the USA, which has its "Homeland Security" people refuse to let you leave the country, even temporarily, even for vacation, without demanding you produce your cash for "inspection," where it is either taxed or confiscated by those border guards. The same "Security" people will grab you if you attempt to walk out of the USA on foot, and "inspect" you and "run" you through their computer data-bases to see if they can hold onto you for some other excuse. The "Border Patrol" stations men full-time at Roxham Road, and I invite you to view the wretched souls that are fleeing the USA for Canada, to surrender to the RCMP as refugees - from Donald Trump and what has rapidly become the US Police State.
I invite you to contrast the statements made by the Border Patrol Chief and the RCMP Chief, both interviewed spontaneously and live by TV camera crews as Roxham Road,New York State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuhjRSWsPwY . The US has become a society of Official Thugs, albeit with a certain slow-motion implementation that escapes the attention of the majority. "If you are in the Border area, we will stop you and question you." Who are these guys to stop and question anybody leaving?
The Castro regime will prevent you from leaving Cuba without a "Permiso de Salida," a special exit visa that they only issue after interrogating you- even if you arrive as a tourist. Uncle Adolf did the same thing with Europe's Jews, taxing them 97% of their wealth if they sought to leave. No money to turn over? You don't get to leave, especially for Switzerland. One-way train ticket to the East for you, pal. Just lovely.
Edited March 25, 2019 by Jan van Eck
Rasmus Jorgensen + 831
FVD got less than 15 % of the votes. Do you understand the different multi-party systems in Europe; how they function and how policy is made?
I have said it before and will say it again - FVP (and PVV; Geert Wilders' party) and all their counter are NOT the majority. They are a BIG minority that needs to be listened to. Moderation.
5 hours ago, Rasmus Jorgensen said:
I have said it before and will say it again - FVP (and PVV; Geert Wilders' party) and all their counter are NOT the majority. They are a BIG minority that needs to be listened to. Moderation.
Does it matter? Do you understand they won the most seats? End of story. As I said in another post you pretend to be interested in moderation and consensus now because you're losing.
15 minutes ago, shadowkin said:
They don't have the majority. So yes, it matters. The majority does not need FVP to make policy. The majority would be smart to listen, so that they don't lose. But they do not need the minority to make policy.
You are mocking a system without understanding how it functions.
52 minutes ago, Rasmus Jorgensen said:
They don't have the majority. So yes, it matters.
You miss the point. You're quick to point out they won less than 15% of the vote; yet they still managed to capture the most seats. So no, less than 15% doesn't matter. This is their system and they won. Doesn't say much for the opposition. The government no longer has the majority either.
The majority would be smart to listen, so that they don't lose. But they do not need the minority to make policy.
You are mocking a system without understanding how it functions.
They can and how did that work out for them in this election. You misunderstand the nature of political parties who have a tendency to adopt the policies of parties to whom they lose so that they don't end up losing power. You're making my point.
1 minute ago, shadowkin said:
You miss the point. You're quick to point out they won less than 15% of the vote; yet they still managed to capture the most seats. So no, less than 15% doesn't matter. This is their system and they won. Doesn't say much for the opposition. The government no longer has the majority either.
Pls take 5 minutes to study how multi party system functions. Parties come together in a coalition.
Also - do you know what the election was on and what function that branch of democrazy has in Dutch legislation? It doesn't seem like you do.
You fundamentally misunderstand how politicians and political parties work irrespective of whether it's a winner take all system or even a system like China's. An extreme example would be that the Nazis never won a majority in parliament (This is in no way an endorsement of Nazism). We all saw how that ended.
It's ok you can try to downplay this defeat, change the subject, and argue the Senate is irrelevant.
It's similar to your views on populists trending to win 30% of EU parliament seats. You tried to downplay it until someone called you on it. The fact is large minorities can and do influence policy whether or not they have actual levers of power. They even influence the political discussion hence your calls for listening to them. This works both ways by the way.
I don't think you grasp either what is occurring worldwide in terms of political trends. This isn't the end. This is the beginning.
NickW + 1,261
On 3/24/2019 at 6:50 PM, Meredith Poor said:
Primarily because the working and middle classes have been economically sterilised by high tax rates and property price bubbles.
Meanwhile we import on mass, people whose only real skill would be as an Uber driver - an occupation likely to be automated in a decade or two.
The fact is large minorities can and do influence policy whether or not they have actual levers of power. They even influence the political discussion hence your calls for listening to them. This works both ways by the way.
I never said it didn't. In fact I said this very proces is what gives moderation - even more so in a multi party system.
You fundamentally misunderstand how politicians and political parties work irrespective of whether it's a winner take all system or even a system like China's.
how do I misunderstand?
what I am trying to do is to bring realism to the "conversation". Your stance would be akin to me saying that because Dems have the house they control government.
Christians are now the most persecuted group in the world. Muslims, China, and communists are the biggest persecutors of Christians.
Religious Persecution https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dnCYHAYSmKztKhWYS-esLqlIw-b8RX9-pm_An5Yokh4/edit
Edited March 26, 2019 by ronwagn
On 3/24/2019 at 8:42 PM, Tom Kirkman said:
I was thinking exactly the same thing. See Conservatism Around the World https://docs.google.com/document/d/1twQ_yBtl-FPwhXf2mYA7qvGj1D8yts8El0m8nObWxuU/edit
On 3/24/2019 at 11:48 PM, Marina Schwarz said:
The populist conservative trend seems to be continuously gaining in strength. In America, Britain, Brazil, Germany, France, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden etc.
Conservatism Around the World https://docs.google.com/document/d/1twQ_yBtl-FPwhXf2mYA7qvGj1D8yts8El0m8nObWxuU/edit
Ok I admit 'shock' is a little strong but I imagine for leftists in their alternate universe, echoed non-stop by the msm, it is still a shock to see it become reality.
By this time, the scale of persecution is so severe that any one group claiming to be 'biggest' is pretty academic. There are more slaves now than at any time in human history, simply because there are more humans now than at any previous point in human history. Some of this is due to the presumption on the part of some people that other people, or groups, are 'inferior' or 'subhuman' and are only good for.... (generally euphemisms for grunt work or living on the dole). Religious conflicts are as old as the written record, and people in power describing themselves are Christians have been major actors in killing and enslavement over the last 2000 years.
and people in power describing themselves are Christians have been major actors in killing and enslavement over the last 2000 years.
It’s curious you want to single out Christians. If Muslims are being persecuted or killed it’s overwhelmingly by their own. I point out Syria once again as exhibit A.
The only place real slavery exists today is in the Arab Muslim world and North Korea. None in any Christian nations that I know. I’ll exclude human trafficking as these are done by criminal organizations who aren’t ‘people in power’ but here again many of these are non-Christians. You know this.
So, in order to indict Christians, you trot out the leftist argument that most people today are slaves to a system or a corporation (I gather this from your grunt work comment) because you know slavery, real slavery, where you are beaten or killed, has long ago been abolished in the West.
It’s a joke to compare some office worker drone in the West with some African being sold like chattel in a market by a Muslim in North Africa.
I don’t dispute Christian nations have in the past engaged in killing and enslavement. Same was true of Islam. Islam more so than Christianity was spread by the sword. Why no mention of that?
Edited March 27, 2019 by shadowkin
So if an Asian woman has been recruited into a brothel in New York City this isn't 'slavery' because US government policy and law outlaws slavery. I'm not sure she would be too sympathetic with the distinction.
Governments in many parts of the world simply ignore forced labor. This includes tea workers in India, garment workers in Bangladesh, fishing deckhands in Thailand, etc. Whether the purported slavery is 'legal' or not is of little materiality to the person stuck in the situation.
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Tesla Model 3 Pushes Norway’s EV Sales To New Record
Vlad Kovalenko April 2, 2019 in Technology
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Norway becomes first country to see more than half of all car sales accounted for by electric vehicles. Almost 60 percent of all new cars sold in Norway in March were fully electric, a global record as the country seeks to end fossil-fueled vehicles sales by 2025.
Tesla Model 3 is already taking over several European markets. The ramp up was especially significant in Norway where the automaker delivered a record number of vehicles in March, including over 5,300 Model 3 vehicles:
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Big Bang Theory is Finally Available on Netflix!
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By Abdullah Javed Last updated Sep 7, 2019
The modern sitcom, Big Bang Theory was launched in 2007. The show was initially criticized, where fans pointed out rip-offs from multiple shows. However, the show soon gained it’s original melody and displayed itself on the billboards of Hollywood. The story, which features 4 Physicists and their new neighbor. Penny (Kaley Cuoco), moves in near to Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki). The remaining two individuals, Rajesh and Howard are played by Kunal Nayyar and Simon Helberg. Another character is introduced later during the show, which happens to be Sheldon’s girlfriend, Amy. Amy is played by Mayim Bialik. The show is rated 8.1/10 on IMDb and achieved 81 percent Rotten Tomatoes.
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The sitcom ran for 12 years and bid farewell to the fans in 2019 with the last season. Season 12 proved too emotional for the fans as dreams were achieved, decisions were made and the show ended. The journey doesn’t end here. The fans have a streaming platform to binge-watch the show, no matter how many times they want. Big Bang Theory is now available on Netflix! The show signed a contract with Netflix in July of 2019 and is now streaming on Netflix. The initial plan as per the director was to stream it on HBO Max, but it looks as if the deal hasn’t pulled through. Initially, only a few seasons of the show were available in selected regions of the world, but now all the twelve seasons are available, all around the world.
Related: Jim Parsons Heartfelt Tribute To Big Bang Theory
It is unsure as to how long this contract is going to last. However long it may be, fans have an opportunity to finally enjoy the show in the best quality, with or without subtitles (however they prefer it) and where ever they want. So grab some popcorn. borrow your friend’s Netflix password and relax with some comedy.
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ARTISTIgli Jorgo
Born in 1965 in Tirana,
Albania.
Igli Jorgo is a modern artist who paints classically in spirit, modern in creation developing a new relation of forms and space. He gathers an abundance of figure elements from classical images and transcribes them with a descriptive efficacy, which is uncommon to all.
1985: Graduate, School of Art in Tirana, with Professor N.Bakalli.
1989: Degree in Painting and Design, Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana.
2008: Recognition of Degrees as equivalent with the ASFA Athens.
1992: «ESCAPE», National Gallery, Tirana.
1995: «Landscapes,» Hall “Parnassos”, Athens.
2000: «Passion», Gallerie Konti, ….. Athens
2000: «Ancient», Gallerie Lefakis, Kifissia.
2001: «Faces», Mykonos Art Gallery, Mykonos.
2005: «Labyrinth», Melina Mercouri Hall, Hydra.
2008: «Memories», Cultural Center of Alimos.
2012: «Little fairytale», Michael Cacoyiannis foundation (MCF)
1991: «Spring», National Gallery, Tirana.
1993: Cultural Center of Athens.
2002: Hilton Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2003: «2×2», Peristyle, Thessaloniki.
2009: «Nature and MAN», Technopolis, Municipality of Athens.
His works are in the National Gallery of Albania and in private collections in Greece and abroad.
Lives and works in Athens since 1991.
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Walk WAY off to the side or it may be hazardous to your health
Costa Rica’s highway safety department (Dirección General de Tránsito) statistics show that about a third of the people who die on the roads are pedestrians or bicyclists. Compare that to around one percent in the U.S. or Europe and combine it with the fact that accident rates are about fifteen times higher per kilometer driven and you come up with a scary estimation.
It’s roughly 500 times more dangerous per mile walked in Costa Rica.
The legislators are well aware of the dangers of walking along the roads but unfortunately their solution was to outlaw it rather than build sidewalks. Traffic code article 147 sets the fine at about $40 for pedestrians found walking on roads. We’ve never heard of the law being enforced because of course it’s ludicrous in a country where the entire rural population lives along roads without anywhere else to walk.
Peligro Poste Adelante (Danger Post Ahead)…Don’t they mean “Danger, Post Here!..In the middle of the freekin’ road!” Drivers have to dodge all sorts of unexpected hazards and they may dodge straight into pedestrians.
500 times more likely to die is an interpolation of the statistics and there are some mitigating factors – for example there are more people walking further because fewer people have cars – but there’s no question it’s extremely dangerous to be a pedestrian in Costa Rica.
On the Sidewalk
There’s an old bumper sticker that says “If you don’t like the way I drive stay the hell off the sidewalk.”
According to the highway safety department the majority of the fatalities are the fault of the pedestrians because they are not using sidewalks, cross walks, or pedestrian bridges.
Unfortunately sidewalks are a rare commodity in Costa Rica and not terribly safe where they exist.
The only time I’ve actually be hit by a car I was walking on a sidewalk in Tamarindo. Fortunately it was sandy and my feet just flipped out from under me as I flopped up on the hood of the car instead of breaking both of my knees like I would have if my shoes had traction.
Beware of Buses
The mother of a friend of ours was killed on a small road (speed limit 25 kph which is only 16 mph) in Brasilito. She was walking home with groceries when she was hit in the back of the head by the open door of a passing bus. They often leave the doors open (and sticking out two feet) for ventilation. We’ve met no fewer than three cyclists who’ve been hit by buses.
A friend of ours once told us that on a Friday or Saturday night after 8:00 p.m. that one out of five of the drivers on the road were drunk. When we asked how he could possibly know that he said because he knew the men behind the wheel and he’d watched them leaving bars since he was a little kid. “They used to be on horseback mostly, but now they have pickups and old Honda Civics.”
There are hundreds of startling incidents but a recent one stands out. In October of 2017 a drunk driver swerved around police blockades to enter the race course for an international half marathon and hit and killed a Venezuelan athlete.
National Tragedy
A protest in San Jose after 3 cyclists were killed a fourth seriously injured by a reportedly drunk driver in broad daylight. (photo Mike O’Reilly, ChepeCletas cycle club)
In early 2017 bicyclists made a huge effort to publicize the dangers and request changes after a particularly gruesome accident claimed 3 lives. In fact the two main causes – unfriendly infrastructure and aggressive, disrespectful drivers seem to be getting worse.
Twenty years ago we bicycled thousands of km around Costa Rica on roads we would never think of riding on today. Back then anyone careless or drunk enough to try to drive faster than about 50 kph (30 mph) on any of Costa Rica’s highways would snap an axle or collapse a rim in a pothole the size of a bathtub within a matter of minutes. The massive reduction in the number of potholes is a huge improvement for drivers but now speeds up to 120 kph are common with grim results for pedestrians and cyclists.
Nearly a year later the drunk driver accused in the cyclists’ deaths is free while prosecutors “prepare a case.”
What Can You Do to Stay Safe?
Don’t Walk or Jog on Roads
Seems sad that you can’t go out for a walk but save it for the trails.
If you do walk be very paranoid and never assume that the vehicle is aware of you and is planning to move over. If you choose to walk at night use lights, reflectors, and again a good dose of paranoia.
Don’t Drive
The only thing that might ruin your vacation as fast as being hit by a car, bus or truck while walking in Costa Rica is to be behind the wheel and accidentally hit a pedestrian.
In March of 2012 a vacationer from Connecticut named Michael Phillips slammed on his brakes and swerved to miss someone running across the highway to catch a bus. He avoided the runner, but unfortunately hit another man standing on the side of the road, or by some accounts in the road, fracturing the bystander’s leg.
There was no alcohol involved and no moving violation was cited – it was quite obviously an accident. Phillips’ insurance company immediately agreed to pay all the expenses for the injured man.
You might reasonably expect that would be the end of it, but things aren’t so simple in Costa Rica. After seven weeks of daily court appearances Phillips fled the country by illegally crossing the border into Nicaragua when a judge granted a request to imprison him for three months while an investigation was undertaken to determine if there might be some charges that could be filed.
A lawyer (who prefers to remain anonymous) explained to us that it’s common to use the court system as a tool for extortion. In Costa Rica individuals can hire their own prosecutor (to replace the impartial government prosecutor) and the prosecutor can request months or even years of imprisonment while they research the possibility of filing criminal charges. Corruption is rampant and often has more to do with the outcome than guilt and innocence.
It must have been a very difficult decision for Phillips to become an international fugitive when all he was trying to do was enjoy a week vacationing in paradise but the only sure way to avoid putting yourself in the same situation is not to drive.
When in doubt call a cab.
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The Iron Queen
Meghan Chase, who is half faery, half human, knows that the struggle against the Iron Fey is not yet over and that they will tear her away from the banished prince she loves and force her into battles she may not survive.
Characteristics: 358 pages ;,21 p.
Read more reviews of The Iron Queen at iDreamBooks.com
Age Suitability (3)
nidofito Nov 14, 2018
That was so good!
It had all the good fighting bits of The Lord of the Rings movies, cheesy but adorable love confessions, and many lovable new (and old) characters. I think my only gripe was how staid Oberon and Mab's characters were, but they're oldbloods fixated in their cultures so I doubt they would experience an overnight change. But overall, I was here for the action, and I got it, so I'm all good, and tbh, I am even more excited for the next arc.
Ranelle22 Jan 28, 2018
Okay I can sum this book up and tell you how I feel about Megan Chase .... I don't like you very much right now queen of iron for smashing Ash's ice heart what were you thinking !
TEENREVIEWBOARD Dec 12, 2016
This book was by far the most intense one yet! Being the third and last book of Meghan's adventures, we get to see a lot come to light in her perspective. I really shipped her with Ash from the first chapters, so I wasn't really antsy at all while reading this. The action was multitudinous and hardcore, so I really couldn't put this down. If I had the option to change anything in this book, I wouldn't change anything. I believe that my friend was very happy that I was enjoying the books. I haven't read any other books by this author, so I hope to get around to that soon. 5/5
- @Siri of the Teen Review Board at the Hamilton Public Library
LibrarySugdiyona Dec 08, 2015
i read the first two, so far its been a good journey. i hope the third one is as much as good. :)
I read it, there are no words to describe, i cried a lot, everyone would read it, u won't regret, i put a hold to Iron knight and waiting, hopefully its faster.
Laleh2000 Aug 22, 2015
Really good series. Not one of those that disappoint you after reading the third or fourth.
Nymeria23 Feb 01, 2014
So good. I can't get enough of this series, it's just amazing! Absolutely love it.
Stiefvater Jul 16, 2013
The ending was a little disappointing, the solution Meghan came up with seemed more than a little unrealistic. The ending left me frustrated as well.
The book isn't all too bad, but sort of a disappointment, I was expecting more after two really good books.
I'll still continue on in the series, hope it picks up a bit.
nyoomer3000 Jul 12, 2013
I cried. I cried a lot.
lati2003cb Jul 02, 2013
Not expecting the ending but it was a great book!!!
Alexandra_C_E May 13, 2013
Well, I really, really loved the first book. And then I was somewhat disappointed by the second (kinda how it went with The Hunger Games trilogy), but the third book….the final verdict – very enjoyable! Twists, magic, romance, sword fights – it’s got it all!
amolag Aug 16, 2012
amolag thinks this title is suitable for 13 years and over
OliviaSh Sep 05, 2011
OliviaSh thinks this title is suitable for 16 years and over
Mahala Jul 26, 2011
Mahala thinks this title is suitable for 15 years and over
ucblue Jul 06, 2011
"Oh, goodie," Puck said as I stepped forward. " I'm going to have a rash in the most uncomfortable places." - Puck
MaryBPL May 19, 2011
"I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending."
"Looks like nobody’s home,” Puck said, turning in a slow circle. “Hellooooooooo? Anybody here?”
“Be quiet, Goodfellow,” Ash growled, peering into the shadows with narrowed eyes. “We’re not alone.”
“Yeah? How do you figure that, prince? I don’t see anyone.”
“The cait sith has disappeared.”
“ … Crap.”
- PUCK and ASH
juliabrillinger Jun 24, 2011
Megan Chase is exiled to the human world, along with Ash, the former winter prince. I felt their relationship really evolved in this book; in the last two it was a forbidden love and he was the cold, mysterious prince who may like her... or not. In this one, he's a lot more friendly and open. He's willing to stop playing games, tell her how much he loves her, and then get down on his knees and declare himself her eternal protector. I never really liked the Puck-Megan-Ash love triangle that much, so I was glad that in this book he finally realizes that Megan's with Ash, and that he and Megan are only ever going to be friends. (In fact, I'm just kind of over love triangles in general; it seems like there's a rule that all YA novels now have to have them) ---See full review here: http://throughthebookvine.blogspot.com/2011/02/iron-queen.html
Violence: This title contains Violence.
Fairies — Fiction
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Feeding Wildlife Puts Everyone at Risk
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Colorado is fortunate to have a diversity of wildlife. Our elk population is larger than that of any other state or Canadian province. In addition, our state is home to an abundant, thriving deer population.
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife—whose mission is to protect and enhance the state’s wild creatures—knows how much people love Colorado wildlife. They love to watch the animals, learn about them, photograph them, hunt them and, on occasion, even feed them.
We know people mean well when they give tidbits to wildlife. What many don’t realize is that feeding big game is bad for the animals and dangerous for people. It’s also against the law. There are lots of good reasons why.
While putting out food for animals like foxes and deer seems harmless, repercussions can be disastrous. Please don't feed the wildlife!
Feeding Wildlife: More Harm Than Good
It is illegal in Colorado to intentionally place or distribute feed, salt blocks or other attractants for big-game animals. This problem is mainly associated with deer.
In the winter, deer herds tend to move to lower elevations closer to homes and businesses. Some people may feel the deer do not have adequate food sources in the wintertime and believe that supplementing their diets with grain, corn or hay is helpful. In fact, the contrary is true.
“People who feed deer do more harm than good,” says Trina Lynch, a district wildlife manager with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife launches controlled, emergency feeding of big-game animals only during extremely harsh winters when substantial numbers of animals are threatened. In all other cases, big-game animals are better off left to obtain their food naturally.
Unwanted and Dangerous Guests
According to Lynch, there are several reasons why a Colorado law passed in 1992 makes it illegal to feed big game animals. One important reason is that deer are the primary prey of mountain lions. “Concentrating deer by feeding can attract mountain lions well within the city limits. It may become necessary to kill these lions for public safety,” she says.
What’s dinner for the neighborhood fox family is also a meal for other wild animals living near your home. Normally reclusive and wary, black bears will leave the woods and become accustomed to finding a meal in your backyard if you leave them something to eat.
Over time, predators such as bears and mountain lions become less wary and more emboldened. They’re more likely to attack pets and people, and when that happens, it can spell death for bears and lions, which often must be destroyed to ensure public safety.
Disrupted Behavior
The normal feeding behavior of big game animals allows them to spread out as they graze or browse. Artificial feeding disrupts that behavior and prompts deer to crowd together in small areas where they are more likely to be chased by dogs and hit by cars.
You may delight in seeing a deer grazing in your yard. Your neighbor, however, may become irate seeing his rose bushes chomped to a stub. For farmers and ranchers, the losses can be costly from big game munching on crops or hay. Additionally, luring wildlife to your yard by putting out food could set the wild animals up for death if they have to cross highways to get to feeders or if they encounter harassment from domestic pets.
What’s worse, once wildlife stop using their historic ranges, that land could end up being developed, which means the animals lose valuable habitat forever.
Concentrating deer by feeding them can also increase stress on the deer and hasten the spread of disease. Diseases can spread between wildlife and livestock, as well as to domestic animals and people. CPW is most concerned about devastating diseases, such as brucellosis and tuberculosis, which can be transmitted to humans.
We all know junk food is bad for people, but it’s even worse for wild animals. Deer, elk, and pronghorn are ruminants. That means they have a four-chambered stomach that serves as a 'fermentation vat'. They can eat lots of vegetation and digest it very thoroughly.
“Habituation to artificial feeds that do not meet their nutritional needs often results in deer that are in poor condition,” explains Bob Davies, a wildlife biologist in Colorado Springs. Unlike natural foods, treats from people often cannot be digested properly by big game. In fact, "human food" can stop a wild animal’s digestive system, causing it to get sick and die.
Big game depend entirely on native vegetation, such as grasses, forbs, and shrubs. Those plants provide all the nutritional requirements the animals need to survive in Colorado, even through winter. Eating non-natural kinds of foods can result in nutritional problems for wildlife, or even death.
Although commercial feeds are available at many stores, Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists warn against using them. "Some of these products may indicate they will attract certain wildlife species, including deer,” says Davies. “People should be aware that if they place feed out and deer consume it, they may be breaking the law. Fortunately, once people learn about the negative impacts that occur when deer are fed, most stop doing it,” he says.
Deer and Garden Damage
People who attract deer to their neighborhood also run the risk of damaging their property and their neighbor’s property. “Some people are under the impression that if they supply a food source to the deer it will prevent the deer from damaging their ornamental plants. On the contrary,” says Lynch; “it usually results in greater damage to your plants.”
Instead, Lynch recommends:
• barriers
• repellents
• landscaping with native plants
Colorado Parks and Wildlife supports and encourages using backyard bird feeders to supplement natural food for song birds. Be sure that the food you provide song birds is fresh and clean, and clean the feeder periodically. Common bird foods include sunflower seed and millet; some birds also are attracted by fresh fruit. In addition to your feeder, be sure to offer a source of water for your backyard birds, year-round if possible. Remember, if you start a bird feeding program, some bird experts suggest you continue all winter and through spring. That way, the birds that become dependent on the feeder will still have a source of food.
A word of caution, however: If you live in bear country, be aware that certain bird foods, particularly hummingbird nectar, are very attractive to bruins. Put your bird foods and hummingbird feeders away if you don’t want to inadvertently create potentially dangerous conflicts with our state’s largest predator close to your home. For more information, contact your nearest Colorado Parks and Wildlife office.
Under Colorado law, intentionally feeding big game animals is illegal. The prohibition applies to deer, elk, pronghorn, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and bears. Violators face a $50 fine.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife hopes you won’t face such a fine and that we’ve explained why it’s best to simply let Mother Nature take care of wild animals. If you don’t, you quite literally could end up loving our wildlife to death.
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Garrett + Moulton’s modern dance celebrates the human spirit
Claudia Bauer July 25, 2019 Updated: August 1, 2019, 12:54 pm
Garrett + Moulton Dance will perform four contemporary works, including two world premieres, in a program titled “Four Acts of Light and Wonder.” Photo: RJ Muna Photo: RJ Muna
If your spirits need a lift, spend an evening with Garrett + Moulton Dance. The long-standing, award-winning San Francisco duo of Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton create modern dances that take the zeitgeist into account while always landing on the side of hope and unity, joy and optimism. A case in point is “Four Acts of Light and Wonder,” their summer season running Aug. 9-11 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Garrett’s world-premiere piece “The Over-Soul” takes its name from the Ralph Waldo Emerson poem and explores the human need for connection in the face of distance and struggle, while her “Gojubi” is a kinetic and colorful work for a dozen dancers. Former ODC/Dance artist Jeremy Smith joins the outstanding company dancers for “The Mozart,” an exuberant sextet accompanied by pianist Allegra Chapman. And it’s hard to top Moulton’s “Ball Passing” for sheer, gobsmacking wonder: In this iteration (since 1978, the work has been performed all over the world with casts from 9 to 3,000 people), 18 dancers and local folks will execute dizzying choreography that has them passing each other colorful balls left, right, up, down and sideways to the music of Jonathan Russell — it’s guaranteed to make you smile.
Garrett + Moulton Dance: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9 and 10; 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11. $25-$42. Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA, 700 Howard St., S.F. 415-392-4400. www.garrettmoulton.org
Claudia Bauer
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Live@5 at The Arts and Science Center for S.E. Arkansas - August 4, 2017
Dave Sadler will be playing at "Live@5" on Friday, August 4, 2017 at The Arts Science Center for Southeast Arkansas in Pine Bluff. Time: 5 pm to 7 pm... Ages 21 and up. $5 members, $10 non-members
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Toad Suck Daze Festival - Conway Arkansas - May 6, 2017
Dave Sadler will be playing an hour long blues, blues-rock and jazz set beginning at 1:45 pm on Saturday May 6, 2017 on the Main Stage (Kris Allen Stage) at the Toad Suck Daze Festival in downtown Conway, Arkansas.
Live at Laman - March 16, 2017
"Live at Laman" with Dave Sadler performing blues, blues-rock and jazz on guitar and vocals - Thursday, March 16, 2017 7 pm - 8:30 pm. Free admission!
"Live at Laman" offers an evening of musical entertainment every second Thursday…
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Dave Sadler – Matchbox
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Singer and guitarist Dave Sadler was raised in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, a town that was also home to blues…Read more
"Sweet Sounds of Downtown" at Saracen Landing- July 2, 2016
Live@5 at The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas
Dave Sadler will be playing at "Live@5" on Friday, Dec 4, 2015 at The Arts Science Center for Southeast Arkansas in Pine Bluff. Time: 5 pm to 7 pm... Ages 21 and up. $5 members, $10 non-members
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Free Six Track Album
Dave is giving away a free digital album featuring six popular tracks from previous releases. Get the free digital album download now by signing up for the mailing list. Album download link will be emailed to you. Get the free…Read more
Matchbox CD Now on Pandora Radio
The "Matchbox" CD is now available for listening on Pandora Radio. The online service is a free personalized radio service delivering related music to listeners based on their lkes. Discover new music and make your on stations!
More Video from the Studio
"You Put Me Out" from the "Matchbox" CD
Dave lays down a version of "Ain't No Sunshine" for a future release. Have a listen:
Matchbox Clip 2 0:17
Juniors Jam (clip) 1:46
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Aint No Sunshine 2:57
I Got All You Need 1:50
Fade to Blue 4:55
You Put Me Out (clip) 3:03
"Matchbox" (clip) 1:00
Cissy Strut (clip) 5:06
Satisfaction Guaranteed 3:42
Blue Reggae (clip) 1:13
Every Child (clip) 1:55
Girl from Little Rock (clip) 2:15
Wrong Turn (clip) 2:04
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Cycling In Sheffield or Insanity?
Welcome to the Sheffield cycling club with a difference... we don't race. We could race. Some of us have raced and even, very occasionally, failed to do the honourable thing and come last. But now we don't. We talk about it a lot (a LOT!) but the penalty for time trialling is a pump in the spokes when you're not looking! No, we don't race.
We don't race to the 30mph sign before every cafe stop. We don't race to the top of every flaming hill in Derbyshire. And we certainly don't race the top of Froggatt on the way home - when everyone's knackered and just wants a hot shower - oh no - not us - not ever. Well... maybe just occasionally... once a week perhaps!
So if you're seriously fit and want to go charging up and down the A1 with a number on your backside, or you're that postie who wants to race Chris Hoy round the Manchester ring road, don't come looking for help here. Try the Ratlanders or the Pee-Knicks. But if you're already out to grass and prepared to slow down a bit once in a while to let the rest of us look good, then come in and have look round.
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Sudan sentences 29 intelligence agents to hang for…
Zimbabwe says 200 elephants have died in drought
By Press Association November 12, 2019 0266
The agency said it plans to move 600 elephants, two prides of lions and other animals from the Save Valley Conservancy in the south east to less congested parks
More than 200 elephants have died amid a severe drought, Zimbabwe’s parks agency said, and a mass relocation is planned to ease the problem.
Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority spokesman Tinashe Farawo said at least 200 elephants have died in Hwange National Park alone since October and other parks are affected.
Animals including giraffes, buffalos and impalas are also dying, he said, and the situation can improve only after rains return.
“Almost every animal is being affected,” he said. “Of course, elephants are easily noticed during patrols or game drives, but some bird species are seriously affected because they can only breed in certain tree heights and those trees are being knocked down by elephants.”
Many animals are straying from Zimbabwe’s parks into nearby communities in search of food and water. The parks agency said 33 people have died from conflict with animals this year.
The agency said it plans to move 600 elephants, two prides of lions and other animals from the Save Valley Conservancy in the south east to less congested parks.
A pack of wild dogs, 50 buffalos, 40 giraffes and 2,000 impalas will also be relocated, Mr Farawo said.
The animals “have exceeded their ecological carrying capacity”, he said. “If the populations go unchecked, the animals will threaten the very ecosystem they depend on for survival.”
Zimbabwe has an estimated 85,000 elephants, second only to neighbouring Botswana with more than 130,000.
Zimbabwe says it is struggling to cope with booming numbers of wild elephants and wants to be allowed to sell its ivory stockpile and export live elephants to raise money for conservation and ease congestion in the drought-affected parks.
The country exported 101 elephants between 2016 and this year, mainly to China and the United Arab Emirates, raising more than £2 million for conservation efforts, according to the parks agency.
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The Miami Dolphins Make No Sense
Dom Cosentino
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With Thursday’s 40-0 loss in Baltimore, the Dolphins have firmly established themselves as the NFL’s most nonsensical team. Take stock of what Miami has accomplished through seven games:
Shut out twice
Only a garbage-time touchdown on the game’s final play kept them from being blanked a third time
A minus-60 point differential, which trails every team save the Browns (minus-66) and the Colts (minus-103)
A three-game winning streak
An offense that entered Week 8 ranked 29th in DVOA
A defense that ranks in the middle of the pack across the board, except for being third in third-down efficiency (32.9 percent) and 31st in the red zone (75 percent)
The Dolphins are totally unpredictable. Until he had a few ribs broken, quarterback Jay Cutler performed with all the alacrity one might expect from a guy who spent the offseason preparing to shrug away the year as a broadcaster. He has seven touchdown passes, five interceptions, a sickly average of 5.5 yards per attempt, and a pedestrian passer rating of 78.8. His record as a starter is 4-2.
Last Sunday, Cutler was 12-for-16 with two touchdowns, one interception, a 114.1 passer rating, and an average of 8.63 yards per attempt—and the Dolphins were trailing when he was injured early in the third quarter. The week before, Cutler spotted the Falcons a 17-0 lead before leading Miami to 20 unanswered points. The week before that, against the Titans, he netted 78 passing yards and completed 46 percent of his passes—and won.
Cutler was replaced Sunday by Matt Moore, who promptly averaged 8.95 yards per attempt and brought the Dolphins back from a two-touchdown deficit in the fourth quarter to win. Last night, Moore threw a pair of pick-sixes and the Dolphins crossed midfield just three times. After the game, head coach Adam Gase said Cutler would start again as soon as he’s able, which could be as early as next week against the Raiders.
In a bizarre season in which seemingly every team stinks, the Dolphins have truly made an effort to make their level of effort a mystery. Gase looks like a genius one week and an incompetent the next. Regression and luck carry no weight in Miami. This team is simultaneously inspiring and a letdown.
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Dom Cosentino is a staff writer at Deadspin.
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Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~
Springtime.
The season of the cherry blossoms, and a time of new beginnings, new encounters, and new people.
For Aoba Kyousuke, this new season marks the start of his second year in high school, and after taking a moment to reflect and looking at the friends around him...
All he can find is a dumbass too horny for his own good, and a weirdo who can't get over his strange fetish for lizard-humanoid creatures.
Sure enough, he enjoys hanging out with them, and he wouldn't ever think of giving it up,
but something feels missing. A precious, valuable part of everyone's adolescence, and something he might just miss out on at this rate...
What is that something? Why, love. So upon realizing this, he shouts out to the world--
I WANT A GIRLFRIEND!
He'll need to give it his all, of course, because he knows that love does not come to those who just wait.
Pure Love Story
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Dating Sim Elements: Conquer the heroines in interactive dialogues
Changeable hairstyles or clothes for heroines
Four adorable and cute heroine routes
Funny side characters and hilarious dialogue
30-50 hours of content
Windows XP or newer
4 GB available space
Springtime. The season of the cherry blossoms, and a time of new beginnings, new encounters, and new people. For Aoba Kyousuke, this new season marks the start of his second year in high school, and also the year he resolved himself to finally fulfill his long-cherished dream: finding a girlfriend.
Languages: English / Japanese
Developer: Smee
Publisher: NekoNyan Ltd.
Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole
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Nurse Love Addiction
Adventure, Simulation
If My Heart Had Wings
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10 Questions With… Matteo Thun
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Cala Beach Club at Hotel Cala di Volpe in Porto Cervo on Sardinia. Photography courtesy of Matteo Thun & Partners.
A holistic approach to nature and wellness drives Matteo Thun’s built projects. The award-winning Italian architect and Interior Design Hall of Fame member co-founded the iconic Italian design and architecture collective the Memphis Group with Ettore Sottsass in 1981, before striking out on his own, forming Matteo Thun & Partners in 2001. Thun’s happiest designing something new, he admits, and his firm’s creative eye, honed out of a headquarters in Milan and an office in Shanghai, is behind a long list of high-profile hospitality and healthcare projects spanning the globe.
Most recently, summer saw the reassembly of Thun’s temporary beach structure, Cala Beach Club on the breathtaking Emerald Coast of the Italian island of Sardinia. Situated at Hotel Cala di Volpe in Costa Smeralda, a playground for the rich and, at times, famous—many of them yachting enthusiasts—Cala Beach Club is an environmentally sensitive structure only accessible by foot or boat. In summer it hums with private parties, with clientele seduced by the stunning natural landscape. Interior Design sat down with Thun to hear more about the Cala Beach Club, what toy kicked off his imagination at a young age, and which project reachable solely by cable car he considers a career turning point.
Interior Design: What was your overall design goal for Cala Beach Club?
Matteo Thun: Cala di Volpe is a beautiful beach in Sardinia. We wanted to create a shady oasis just between the woods and the sea. Restaurant, bar, and treatment rooms have been designed to melt within the landscape, to respect the charm of this special place.
ID: What was particularly challenging about this project?
MT: This property is reachable only by boat or on a path through nature. Since it serves only for the season, we designed a removable structure that is easily to assemble and dismantle.
ID: What materials did you use and why?
MT: The structure unites with the beach vegetation, terraces value the inclination of the land, and views are open to the sea. We only used natural materials that integrate with the surroundings, such as chestnut wood and bamboo. All colors are natural and warm.
ID: What else have you completed recently?
MT: We like to bring nature inside and believe in concepts that emphasize an overall healthy lifestyle as a main approach. Healthy architecture and interior design guarantees physical and mental well being, allowing a relationship between humans and the environment. In Obbürgen, Switzerland, the Waldhotel at Bürgenstock Hotels & Resort, which opened at the end of last year, is a space for wellness and medical services. It’s made from local stone and wood, and nature will take over in a few years so that the building will melt with the mountain. As with most of our projects, we also designed the entire interior.
Another recent project is the new headquarters for Davines, an Italian beauty company dedicated to sustainability and based in Parma, Italy. Here, we grouped traditional rural shapes and innovative volumes around a greenhouse that serves as a restaurant for the employees. Maximum architectural transparency with a minimum amount of masonry elements provides every working station with a view of the green areas.
The Waldhotel at Bürgenstock Hotels & Resort in Obbürgen, Switzerland by Matteo Thun & Partners. Photography by Andrea Garuti, courtesy of Matteo Thun & Partners.
ID: What’s upcoming for you?
MT: The Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Spandau in Berlin at the largest university orthopedic center in Europe. Waldkrankenhaus means ‘hospital in the forest’ in German, and the new hospital building and rehab building connected to it will transform the hospital campus into a health center with a hotel character. This project represents our idea of a healing environment, an architectural and organizational structure that helps the patient and his relatives endure stressful situations caused by illness, operations, treatments, and sometimes pain.
Another hospitality project, a health bathing spa with medical treatments and maximum comfort, is underway in Bavaria, at Tegernsee, a resort town on the banks of Germany’s Tegernsee Lake. Nature is also the point of departure here and was key to the project. The landscape design integrates the existing flora and references the natural presence of water, allowing a direct communication with nature without interfering with the privacy of the patients.
The Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Spandau in Berlin by Matteo Thun & Partners. Photography courtesy of Matteo Thun & Partners.
ID: Is there a project in your history that you feel was particularly significant to your career?
MT: I designed the Vigilius Mountain Resort in South Tirol more than 15 years ago. It was one of the first design hotels, made from local larch wood and reachable only by cable car. The owner and I shared the same vision: to create a hotel that fuses with its surroundings, a place where you can breathe and relax instantly. Now, after all these years, the wood has a beautiful patina and the hotel a constant influx of international clientele.
ID: What are you reading?
MT: I very much like to read books in parallel: such as German philosopher Martin Heidegger with a novel or short story by Italian journalist and writer Italo Calvino.
The Vigilius Mountain Resort by Matteo Thun & Partners. Photography by Serge Brison, courtesy of Matteo Thun & Partners.
ID: How do you think your childhood influenced your design thinking?
MT: My parents took me regularly to the Venice Biennale, so I became familiar with art and architecture at quite a young age. I grew up in nature, in the mountains near Bolzano, Italy, where my mother worked with pottery. She gave me clay to play with—so I had to use my imagination to have fun with it. I was always very close to material and materiality.
ID: How do think the Italian design culture influences your overall approach?
MT: In Italy, architecture is approached holistically. Let me quote Italian architect and writer Ernesto Rogers: ‘From spoon to city.’ This means working on a chair, on a lighting product, and on a house at the same time. We’ve worked like this in my office since the beginning, and the different teams of architects, interior designers, and product designers perform across disciplines.
Another big strength is Italian craftsmanship. At Salone del Mobile 2019, we launched a wood chair collection produced by F.lli Levaggi, a small manufacturer in Liguria, Italy, and work regularly with the glassblowers from Murano, such as Venini, Barovier & Toso, and Seguso. We very much believe in ‘Made in Italy.’
The Vigilius Mountain Resort by Matteo Thun & Partners. Photography by Vigilius Mountain Resort, courtesy of Matteo Thun & Partners.
ID: Is there a person in the industry that you particularly admire?
MT: Ettore Sottsass, chief designer of Olivetti. I first worked for him as an assistant, then we formed Sottsass Associati and in 1981 we co-founded Italian design and architecture collective Memphis Group. Memphis had an important formative influence on my career, and provided a platform to experiment with the challenges of constant innovation. Ettore designed the first Italian computer—in the late 1950s.
Keep scrolling for more images of projects by Matteo Thun >
The Vigilius Mountain Resort by Matteo Thun & Partners. Photography by Florian Andergassen, courtesy of Matteo Thun & Partners.
The alpine suite at the Waldhotel at Bürgenstock Hotels & Resort in Obbürgen, Switzerland by Matteo Thun & Partners. Photography by Waldhotel, courtesy of Matteo Thun & Partners.
The pool at the Waldhotel at Bürgenstock Hotels & Resort in Obbürgen, Switzerland by Matteo Thun & Partners. Photography by Waldhotel, courtesy of Matteo Thun & Partners
The Davines headquarters in Parma, Italy by Matteo Thun & Partners. Photography by Andrea Garuti, courtesy of Matteo Thun & Partners.
The Nudes seating collection by Matteo Thun, launched at Salone del Mobile 2019. Photography by Marco Bertolini, courtesy of Matteo Thun & Partners.
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CT NAACP: Replace Jefferson & Jackson with Obama & Clinton
By Dennis House on 07/24/2015 • ( 41 Comments )
There has been much discussion this week about the dumping of two key historical figures by the Connecticut Democratic party. The names of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson will no longer be used in the party’s big annual fundraiser, now formerly known as the Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner.
The central committee voted to remove Jefferson and Jackson after a request by the Connecticut NAACP for the Democratic party to leave its “racist past.” Both Jefferson and Jackson owned slaves.
This Sunday on Face the State on WFSB Hartford (CBS) we talked with the president of the CT NAACP about the decision, which quickly made national news.
Esdaile explained in detail his reasoning for wanting the JJB dinner to be renamed, but what’s next? If Jefferson is too racist of a figure to be in the name of an event, then what about schools and streets in Connecticut named for him? What about other slave owners honored in our state? Should the town of Madison be called Hammonasset because President James Madison owned slaves?
Esdaile says we should open a dialogue about that and he would support a name change “1000” per cent.” He also wants a discussion on removing slave owners from U.S. currency.
watch the segment right here: http://www.wfsb.com/clip/11711636/ct-naacp-talks-about-decision-to-rename-jefferson-jackson-bailey-dinner
Esdaile’s suggestion for a new name for the dinner? The Obama Clinton Bailey dinner or the Obama Johnson Bailey dinner.
Tagged as: Andrew Jackson, Connecticut Democrats, CT NAACP, Jefferson Jackson Bailey Dinner, Madison Connecticut, Scot X Esdaile, Thomas Jefferson
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THEN ITS TIME TO CHANGE YOUR PARTY;
This is ridiculous and getting completely out of control.
Leave History alone!!!
Right on. This is part of our history unpleasant as it may be but it is history and should be left alone. The should not rename the JJB dinner–leave it alone.
Geraldine R. Ouillette says:
Andrea Kyles says:
More presidents than Jefferson and Jackson were slave owners. Also, from my understanding Jefferson was the composer of our Constitution. Everyone has known these facts for hundreds of years. I think it should be left up to each individual town, state on what they choose to do about events honoring former presidents that were slaveholders. My personal opinion is why change what we have become used to all these years? All that will be accomplished is dividing the people more than we already are. I think what is most important is how we handle fairly our every day dealings we have with each other so we don’t keep on committing the same old biased deeds of the past.
Joe Zabolusky says:
There are many unpleasant events in our nations history. What is seen as an abomination now, was an excepted practice over 200yrs ago. Let’s stop duelling in the past and look forward to make this country greater than it has ever been. Put this ugly part of our history behind us.It’s gone, never to return. Let’s not keep pulling it back to relive over and over again!
gina Bragdon says:
Amen to that. History is just that history. Leave the past behind. Learn from it. And make a better tomorrow. Or we will be so busy hateing that there will be no tomorrow.
If we look back this country will not move forward. Get real we have issues we need to deal with now!
Nicholas Capozziello says:
What’s next, removing their portraits from the White House? Our history is our history and is what shaped our country. You can’t change it nor erase so just move on.
Shari Trask-Santose says:
WTH ???? What is the matter with people today? Are we to have no history? People need to get a grip! Why aren’t they more concerned with the state of affairs and how we can rebuild this great nation ,,,, back to being the greatest nation on earth! In the words of the late John F. Kennedy, we should be asking what we can do for our country and not telling them what it can do for us. Wake up America!! You cannot change history, You can only move forward and make a better tomorrow! I fear for my grandkids! Hopefully they will not be part of this “ME, me. me” world.
Pete Koiva says:
Another predictable knee-jerk reaction from the Democrats. If it wasn’t for the words and deeds of Thomas Jefferson this country and the Democrat party probably wouldn’t exist.
Terri Davison says:
Judging historical figures by the standards of today is just plain stupid.
Changing the name of a park or school from Washington, Madison, or Robert E. Lee does not change the past nor does it erase racism. The NAACP needs to rethink its stance.
Or…let’s just take it further. I am a woman. Martin Luther King Jr. was a sexist. (Something quite common for men of his time, and accepted by society.) Should I start demanding that we rename the streets and memorials dedicated to MLK because he did not adhere to the social standards of today regarding women?
Jennifer Dowd says:
How true ! If we go back and look at the
history of women’s suffrage in this country we would have to change a lot of names ! And let’s face it women are still not as equal as men ,though we have come a long way.
Deb Golden Zapor says:
Why don’t we vote to re-name the entire United States “Russia”? That’s what we have become! Why do politicians give in to the demands of groups who are still debating the Civil War? That is part of our history, get it? HISTORY! Like it or not, our history made this country, although it’s become a matter of debate now. This country was built on the backs of hard-working people. Some were landowners, some were slaves and ALL were immigrants! It sickens me that these groups want compensation for something they did nothing to earn. How about compensation for the thousands of people who were denied jobs when they came into this country because they were Irish, Italian, Polish, etc.? Good God in Heaven, why can’t we just move forward and look toward the future instead of reliving the past? We can’t change the past, but we CAN work together for a brighter future.
I can thankfully say that few of Irish or Italian, etc., heritage are seldom mistreated – today – because of their backgrounds. I am sure that African Americans would gladly drop the debate if there still weren’t so many issues that make the continuing discrimination against them obvious. I would hope that there would be other ways to change the dialogue other than changing names of things, etc. But I understand the pain that makes people ask for these things…there’s a continuing hope that the pain of today can be obliterated with these actions.
The (white) man in Chattanooga who hosts regular get-togethers, attended by both black and white, to openly and honestly discuss the racial divide — what it is today and how to change it — has a marvelous idea. Most of us who are white have no idea what it means to walk in the shoes of a black person. Until we truly understand what it means for a man who works hard and is honest as the day is long to be followed around the store by security because he’s black, we can’t criticize their drive to try to erase today’s pain by erasing the history that still plagues us.
Anne Mondelci says:
This Democratic, NAACP driven controversy has now become asinine. History is history. Are we going to black out to Civil War or the Nazi regime as well from our history books and memories because they go against the grain of being, so-called ‘politically correct’? A dinner’s name perpetuates what?
There are too many more important things going on in our country about which to squabble than poor Washington’s and Jefferson’s choices to own slaves. It’s time for the rabble-rousers of all parties and colors to concentrate on working in unity to heal the ill-will created by those who feel they’ve been trod upon. Grow up, people.
History is history, good or bad, it’s something that has happened and can’t be erased. Historical figures don’t cause the race issues of today, that is caused by ignorant people. There is one thing i don’t understand about the NAACP. They say the are for equality but didn’t they themselves just have an issue with a spokeswoman, who had been with them for some time, because it was found out that she was not of African decent? Racism goes both ways. I have know both white and black racist people. I don’t understand people who think they are better than someone else because of the color of their skin. Instead of fighting with each other over things that none of us were even a part of why not try to stand together against the evils of the world today that we can do something about.
hsfred says:
I swear I’m in the twilight zone these days! That a society would continually keep digging back into what simply was part of history to keep matters of conflict stirred up – based on what WAS – to me falls under the definition of lunacy.
I don’t know a person today who relates to the names of past presidents or anyone else from the past when they read or hear a name.
All of this is merely trying to erase the facts of history, and if there is no reference to atrocities, mistakes, or wrong doings, how can anyone learn from past behaviors to prevent the same from occurring again?
And by giving such notice and effort to erasing the past – we are certainly taking our eyes off of the present – and today, that could prove to be a tragic mistake considering all matters at hand.
Get over it people – it is what it is. To do any community of people any justice you would be best to leave the reminders of the past available to protect you in the future.
These energies and efforts would be best used to get involved in current events and stop the decay of this nation. If we don’t step out of the past, there will likely be a very dismal future ahead for us all.
Whats next rewrite the constitution this is stupit move on
Sean Dwyer says:
Foolishness just foolishness, Next they will want to remove the Constitution of the United States because it was written and signed by people that owned slaves. Enough with the attempts to rewrite history . Look to the past to learn, to formulate a path for the future. All this fuss is creating a division between Americans at a time when we should be united against terrorism and the evil that exist in todays world.
Political correctness has reached a new low. Today’s values should be applied to today’s leaders, not those who lived in a different time where different standards of what was socially acceptable applied. There is a lot of hate, discord and ugliness in our society today. Let’s move beyond this attempt to pretty up the past and work to make TODAY a better world to live in for everyone.
john.klimczak@cox.net says:
You can’t change American History by wiping out a name but you can learn more by the mistack’s of other’s, These men did more then just own slave’s which at the time was exsepatable they shape this country …the fought for the freedom witch give’s you a voice in your own government. If it wasn’t for these men and other’s like them we might be slave’s today each of us.
Negative things seem to be recognized today, and good overlooked.
You are correct! They are totally overlooking the tremendous impact these men had in establishing this country and ensuring the freedom of its citizens.
Leaders today are doing everything they can to take away those freedoms.
That’s what American citizens should be collectively fighting – not attacking the past!
Leota Plonsky says:
This is just ridiculous. Let’s learn from history and not try to change it. Maybe the Democrats should concentrate on fixing what’s wrong with our government today instead of wasting time trying to erase or change the past. I’m tired of paying the politicians for doing nothing but talking out of their asses. Get to work and fix the things that really need fixing!!!!
We do need to fix things and move forward. But one of the broken things, in too many awful – and often insidious – ways is race relations. I believe there would be a lot less concern about negating history if there were positive signs that we learned from it and are moving forward in a positive way.
I think I’ll sue the Italian government, because the Romans threw Christians to the lions.
David Hyland says:
To take this to it’s (il)logical conclusion, all former slaves alive today and their descendants plus those aggrieved by the institution of slavery, but not actually descended from any former slaves, should be immediately repatriated back to their land of birth. That seems to be the moral course of action. I also agree that the name of the dinner should be changed to more accurately portray the present day Democrat party.Something like the Politically Correct Socialsts. Also, shouldn’t Jesse Jackson have to change his name?
Why is this jackass making the news? You politicians and journalists are in for a rude awakening and it won’t be this apocalyptic fable you’re creating, it will run much deeper than that. I think it’s time to wake, don’t you?
This is so illogical we can not change history . This is part of what made our country great . We can not “whitewash our whole history so that everything is politically correct and we don’t offend anyone . Our history books will be empty because they’re is always going to be something that will offend someone.
john rullan says:
why dont we get rid of the irs since obama uses it to go after people he doesnt like sounds racist to me
Hope Anderson says:
Does anybody have 2 change history. I think NOT.
I’m a dem but it shames me that the dems want this gone its our dam history u can’t erase our history we can learn from it and move on to better thinks but to try and erase who our presidents were is stupped our country is good ng to hell more and more this is why I hate politics isn’t our history part of learning or am I wrong
A line in the movie (The Kid) Bruce Willis acts.. Look it up. If I had a wish. Please let the dems and reps work on something that isn,t a waste of time and money??
All the socialists want to always rewrite history. History is what happened in the past. concentrate on today’s problems. If it keeps going this way nobody will know where we came from, let alone where we are going.
DavidH says:
What do you think is going to happen to Mt Rushmore, Jefferson Memorial- maybe rename in honor of Al (I should be in jail) Sharpton?I presume George Washington will be next. Since we are steamrolling down this path, shouldn’t we not dissolve the state of West Virginia- every(well, almost) state and federal building ,bridge, hiway, etc.in the state is named for Democrat Sen. Robert (sheets) Byrd, near lifetime member of …..wait for it…. The KKK?
Mary Ann Lenahsn says:
Rewriting history does not change history. You cannot change the past!
John schmidt says:
So what about the documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution those slave owners wrote? Do they want to get rid of them too? This is what Obama wanted. He hates the Constitution because it limits his power. This is way out of control. If the Democráts don’t like the names of our streets, towns and nations capital, they are welcome to leave our country. The PC garbage has gone too far. You can’t judge historical figures on the morals of today. You have condemned cultures going back to Hreece and further by this nonsense.
As I’ve read before the best name for the dinner would be the Barnum and Bailey dinner so the clowns in the Democráts party could all attend.
Chucky_D says:
When will William (formerly) JEFFERSON Clinton announce his new middle name?
Can you say reparations?
We need to do away with the Democratic Party, they fought for slavery, formed the KKK,wrote the JimCrow laws, did all the lynchings, backed segregation, ran a segregationist for president ,opposed the CRA and had a KKK in their senate until 2010…….today they use blacks for votes while dividing the nation by pitting black against white…….much worse than a flag!
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Daily Cougar
The Cougar, Vol. 6, No. 3, November 9, 1932
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Title The Cougar, Vol. 6, No. 3, November 9, 1932
Alternative Title The Cougar, Vol. VI, No. 3, November 9, 1932
Julian, James L.
Date November 9, 1932
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Transcript THE COUGAR PAGE THREE GIRL OUTDOOR CLUB SPONSORS OLD TIME BARN DANCE IN GYM Junior College's student body turned out en masse to the Halloween dance of the Outdoor Girls' Club. The affair was a masquerade party although many who came did not wear costumes or masks. Shortly after 9:30 the gym begai fill with students' and their friends who had come to celebrate, with littl thought that they were at a religious celebration, and that the masks that they wore were an outgrowth of the mummery plays that they used to have in England in the period between Chaucer and Shakespeare. Costumes of all countries and all eras were worn by the dancers. Tha costumes made the group look like an international convention of folk-lorists who had refused to give up the traditions of their respective countries. The grand march was started after there had been some attempted square dancing. It was led by Allen Marshall, the spieling master of ceremonies, and Evelyn Cochrane, one of those pajama clad twins. The costumes were judged by the members of the faculty who had been appointed by the members of-the club. The pri?:e winners wore Nora Louise Calhoun and Elmer Hamilton. Nora was dressed in a suit of men's underwear of the style in vogue about 1890 and over that she had n very old, glass-beaded dress. She wore heavy cotton stockings and some overshoes. The prize was a paper skeleton which was later presented to Mr. Hooker by Elmer Hamilton who seemed to have some idea of humor but could not put it over even enough to convince himself that it was humor. Elmer Hamilton received the prize for the most unique* boys' costume. He was dressed in whatever he had found when he cleaned out his closet. He had found a pair of spats (those he wore at the freshman dance last year), an old pair of shorts, a very loud and multi-colored pajama jacket of Chinese and Russian design, last year's freshman tie and a black tarn with a feather stuck in it. A mask with bells on it completed this cockeyed costume. Hamilton claimed that he was the League of Nations. He said. "The spats aro English, the jacket is Chinese, the green tie is Irish and the tarn is either Scotch or French, depending on the slant that I wear it." Music was furnished by the Old Timers, but it was at least an excuse and that was all that was needed for every one to have a perfectly g-r-a-n-d time. The girls sold popcorn and soda water. Two blackfaces wearing pe.iamas bought some of the fluffy stuff aTid couldn't get it through the small mouth openings of their masks. Someone remarked, displaying their usual intelligence. "Oh! doesn't that popcorn stand look pretty." "After all, when the old fashioned girl said (hat, she was only gold digging," remarked Donald Aitken. Izzy was another barker but couldn't find the right tree to bark up. And so on through the crowd, every one had a laugh that will probably continue for the next year anyway. CAN YOU IMAGINE— —Mr. French without his spats? —How old Leeds Bayless is? —Mr. Birney taking an assignment after the "dead line"? —Jimmy Cou'son with black hair? —Mack Douglas not snooping into your "personals"? —Paul N. acting like a saint? —The nerve of the Prof who give; test after a full moon nite? —H. A. Willrich rushing the ladies' —Helen Tomlin unshadowed by her B. F., Tom Barker? —Jesse Darling being anything else? —Where Ruth Sparks got the name "Spark Plug"? —An operation taking place in the conservatory? Ask Jack Blackburn and Buck Rogers. PHONEY LETTERS Dear Dad: You asked in your last letter what I was doing in school. Well, I guess reck and neck just about describes the actions of any college student? Hoping we all develop giraff-like, I am, Your son, HAROLD RENFRO. Paul Nordling: In reply to your note as to when beef was the highest, the answer is when the cow jumped over the moon. Economically yours, PROF. S. W. HENDERSON. Blanche Dekel, Chem. Student: In reply to your question as to why the earth is heavier in the winter than it is in the summer—the only an- sewer I can give is that in the winter time everybody has on an overcoat. Scientifically, SAMUEL L. BISHKIN. To The Cougar: Please publish this. Several psychology students have expressed a desire to know what the shape of their noses indicate. A sharp nose indicates curiosity. A flat nose indicates too much curiosity. A. L. KERBOW, Phychology Instructor. To the H. J. C. Students: After long and painful hours of research and study, we wish to announce the following statistics: Out of every 100 marriages, 50 per cent of the per- COUGAR BOARD OF STATISTICS. Mack Douglas, Editor "Burp": Please enter my subscription for 11 copies of the Burp. Your paper is very useful in my business. Before a football game I let every man on the squad read a copy. If he is in a good humor—it will make him fighting mad. Ti' he is already mad—it will make him madder. So that when the team takes the field they are in the right mood for destruction. Yours for more Burps, COACH A. W. FRENCH. Dean Dupre, H. J. C: Just a note to inform you that I am stopping my daughter, Nelda, from attending your horrid school. You mu.it have nothing but thieves enrolled—for 1 read in the last Cougar where some teacher had her face lifted. For honest schools, MRS. SMITH. Handsome Hamp Robinson, Houston Junior College: After one of our representatives saw iu at the Hallowe'en dance, we have proposition to make to you. As you should recall you won the prize for wearing the ugliest mask. When our igent found out that you didn't oven :nve on a mask, he wired us of your lossibilities. In short, we want you to ioss for Hallowe'en masks and funny ares. We feel that with your natural ability you should be able to "go over". That is, you should have no difficulty n being ugly. Some people are ugly, Jut vou seem to abuse the privilege. Also this job may lead to a better me, because anyone with your looks could easily get a job at haunting Yours for life-like masks, BOO-HOO SCAREM MASK CO. Field Hockey Will Be Added to Junior College List of Sport Events Interest in field hockey has been expressed by so many students of H. !. that the Athletic Directors have been considering including it in the list of athletic activies of he college. If this fast and interesting game is put in the school, the college will be introducing a new sport into Houston. Hockey is a fast, cold weather sport which nearly all the older men have played in the field, as it was a popular game several years ago. Ice hockey has grown out of the field game. The sport will not be introduced into the college until near the holidays. J. C. STUDENTS BLAZE TRAIL IN WOODS FOR JUNGLE PARTY Journeying far out into the midst of the dark and gloomy jungles last Sunday night, two score J. C. students drove wild animals from their lairs, built a huge fire, and turned the dangerous jungle into a happy playground. Of course the "jungle" was only the woods bordering the bayou off Mac- Gregor Drive and the "wild animals" were sleeping turtles and harmless birds. But plenty of "eats" were put away and a good time was had by all. Mary Lou Gaines did all the game suggesting and everything was played from football to "post office." George Gayle, Paul Sparks and Harold Renfro kept things hot by acting as chief "fire tenders-" Donald "Suitcase" Aitken did the path making, and thanks to his oversized brogans, several forest fires were "stomped" out. Naturally Bill Goggan had his Mar- jorie Cheek along and Hamp Robinson had his Mary B. "Woozy' 'Anderson. Why these two couples remained "lost" throughout the larger part of the night will often be a big mystery. Fairfax Moody took honors as the "All Sqwakie1' by keeping up a continual iine of chatter from start to finish. Carnes Weaver, San Jac student, had his hands full keeping care of Alice Claire "Popeye" Luckel. Some ferocious animal bit Janet "Shorty" Simpson, San Jac co-ed, on the head and for a while it was thought to be Bud Steeger. Later it was learned it was' learned that he spent most of the night pulling himself out of the bayou, so fcnet's "biter" must have been a "pink elephant." (Thanks to Guy Lombardo and his pink elephants.) Fred Aebi ate twice as much as any one except his date, Wilma Lindsey, who forgot all about her diet program. Wilma ate at least two quarts of olives. "When did you last coffee pot" and "truth or consequences" are two questions that came near spelling the doom for "Cisco" Kellogg and John Hill. Hill ^tagged the affair and sang to keep everybody happy and sad. After the "Bring Them Back Alive" part of the night was completed, the mob adjourned to the home of Mary Lou Gaines, where dancing kept up till early in the morning. Broken furniture, crushed ribs, smashed feet, empty heads, and gutter gossip were the chief casualties of the night. No fooling, it was one swell time and did we hav. a good time? "You're telling me." SHORTS AND SPATS BY ELMER HAMILTON ■■III!;; - IHHIH Seeded Tennis Players Named for Approaching Junior College Tourney Having watched Bud Seeger play tennis for several years, it looks like he is a good bet to add the H. J. C. boys' singles tournament to his list of trophies. Last year Steeger entered the tcurr.ament only to come out second place, losing to Vilbrey Karney, Humble Company singles ace. Steeger is a prominent figure in Houston's tennis world and takes part in all local tournaments. His game is that of a well rounded player. His backhand is as strong as his forehand and he is a dangerous man at the net, but slightly erratic is his service, which lacks consistency. San Jacinto sends a star in Al Gardner, who has been playing regularly and has defeated many prominent ten nis luminaries. Providing some dark horse does not show up, Gardner will play in the semi-finals, and it would not be surprising if he and Steeger battled for the title. Of course there is the possibility of a dark horse coming up from the bottom and smashing his way to the championship. And this is probable with such : as John Hill, Charles Walker, Willard Nesmith, F. V. Stough, and Nelson Hinton entered in the contest. Hamp Starred Hamp C. Robinson was a football player of reknowu ability. Hamp made a name for himself, playing quarterback on the Richmond High team. Of course a femme ended up with the sweater, but what else can be expected of the "Gigolo"? Prologue: There might possibly still be one or two readers of this journal who remember what an e/e- opener really is, or rather was; surely this panic hasn't completely ruined everybody. It is for those few fortunate individuals that this explanation is written. (Youse other mugs needn't read this if you don't want to.) So, you lucky dog, in this case the eye- opener is not something to drink, but it is merely the title of something the cat wouldn't even drag home. It might be added that anything printed in this column can be regarded as true until proved otherwise. Also, the soph English students will be glad to know that they are NOT required to memorize any of this prologue. Welton Lee Salm has been going here only a month or so, but he's already justified Mr. Kerbow's confidence in him. Just recently he "kept on talking until he said something." Frances Nesmith finally found out what that "six foot, four" kid's name is. She asked him, and did he blush! Grady Murdock doesn't like to blow his own horn, but somebody has to solicit work for that hand laundry of his. Jordan, the pride of Corsicana, still contends that the only reason the soph girls painted up the freshwomen like they did was to cut down the compe- Anothcr freshman girl who'll bear watching is Ellen Stewart. She would not deliberately lie to a boy, but she won't talk to ore either until she has her fingers crossed. Ever since this writer reported an interesting window "display" at a downtown store. H. J- C. boys have made a point of walking down Tevas Avenue when going from Main to Fannin or vice versa. There might still be three or four studes whom Ruth Depperman hasn't told about the perfect score she made on an Education test. If you veteran inmates of this institution wonder why George Snider no longer SITS out in front of the" building, it's because he "has to economize." And Pat Foby didn't act like he even wanted to be president of the sophomore class. That ends the lecture for today, but there's one more tip for you. Just remember, when buying your winter underwear, it's not the original cost; it's the upcreep. Junior College Students Extend Sympathies to Bereft J. C. Instructor Dr. J. H. Ledlow, father of J. H. Ledlow, auditor and instructor of Business Administration at the Houston Junior College, died -last Wednesday ■light at his home in Denton. At the time of his death Dr. Ledlow was the head of the Education Department at the North Texas State Teachers' College at Denton, Texas. The students and faculty of the Houston Junior College wish to take this oppoitunity in expressing their sympathy to Mr. Ledlow in his bereavement. "Woozy" Has Horse Mary Bradly Anderson or "Woozy," as she is called by many, is contemplating on entering the next horse show to be staged in Houston. And we do not blame her; for she is the proud owner of a large dark bay stallion that is "one of the finest riding horses in Houston. "Star," as her horse is called, s a five-gaited animal and is remarkably fast. At one time, its former owner, thought seriously of entering in some of the races in the Northern states. M. B. keeps her horse at the Gulf Coast Riding Acamedy and invites her friends to come out and "give him the" once over." Riding over the Hermann Park Bridle Path constitutes the main part of Mary B.'s exercise and this ride is made every morning. INTRODUCING ... Loretta Eslinger—Ambition is to be a deep sea diver. Favorite show is the Ritz . . . hobby is riding the Shetland ponies out on Main street. Thinks that Donald Aitken is by far the most handsome boy in H. J. C. Elmer Hamilton—Ambition is to be able to get the left door open on his speedy Whippet without the top falling in. Favorite pastime, believe it or not,-is learning to dance, and his hobby is wearing spats. Miss Ebaugh is Elmer's ideal prof, because she does not have to tell jokes to be humorous. Marian Kobinson—Says that her ambition is to drive a taxi. For a hobby she has chosen Warren Lemmon; consequently her favorite pastime is riding in an Essex. Has no partiality in regard to her professors. Her favorite movie actor is Charley Chase. Bill Stanford—His ambition is to be a policeman. His hobby is to stay in various jails, so he can get all of the information available in regard to his profession. States that his favorite prof is Mr. Miner on account of his lectures being so interesting. N. C. Jensen—Says that he has no ambit'on whatsoever. His hobby hap- pers to be blondes and brunettes, and eating is h's favorite indoor sport. When asked who his favorite prof was he sort of grinned and said "Mr. Birney, because I don't take anything from him." Christine Flanagan—The heighth of Christine's embition is to become a peanut vendress. Next to writing chain letters her hobby is riding on m e r r y-go-r ounds. For pastime, watches the people pass on Main street. Her favorite prof has always been Miss Ebaugh, because she attended Oxford. SNOOPING AROUND WITH RUTHIE llllilier It has just been since school has started in full swing that we have been able to find all of the new students and even some of the old standbys. . . . Girls, have you all met Billy Gandy (no relation to Mahat- ma)? He's the black-haired, blue- eyed lad from Louisiana. We're mighty glad to have you with us, Billy. . . . Seems like old times again seeing Fred Aebi bring Wilma Lindsay to school. . . . Another very attractive new student is Charlotte Steele. . . . Nelda Smith and H. V. Baker seem to be hitting it off pretty steady. ... It is impossible to get through the front entrance without being stopped by Harold Renfro trying to sell tickets for the Play-Boys' dance. . . . We've been watching Sis O'Neil, too—and believe you me, she is plenty cute. . . . Pat Foley is back with us again this year —don't be frightened, freshmen—he really isn't as vicious as he sounds. . . We hear that Alice Clare Luckel is going in for math in a big way—she says she really enjoys it. . . Billy Fitzgerald is a freshman you should all know—he's a mighty good kid. . . . I ask you was Donald Aitken's face red when he was told that he resembled a taxi going down the street with the two back doors open? Don't take it to heart, Donald, we think you have cute little ears. . . Glad, indeed, we are to find - Marian Robinson and Warren Lemmon still hitting off as smoothly as ever. . . Two very attractive sophomores are the inseparable Gaines and Kellogg. ... We find it hard this year not to be able to associate O. D. Brown's name with Nora Louise Calhoun's. . . . Lucille Black is who we term a likeable gal. EUROPEAN TRAVELS— (Continued from Page 1) places they visited during the sumiiier vacation. Mrs. Kenneth Oberholtzer of El Campo was a guest at the meeting. The club officers are as follows: Honorary chairman, Mrs. E. E. Oberholtzer; chairman, Mrs. W. H. Miner; vice-chairman, Miss Sue Thomason; and secretary, Mrs. L. T. Hooker. A Thanksgiving motif will be carried out at the next meeting which will be held at the home of Mrs. Miner.
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Art, architecture and artifacts connect present to past in Kalispell.
Even if you’re a history buff, you may not have heard of Frank Bird Linderman. I certainly hadn’t, until the day I wandered into Kalispell’s The Museum at Central School. But as I learned that afternoon, Linderman’s story is the story of anyone who comes to Montana seeking adventure or discovery, quiet solitude or cultural enrichment, love or money.
Linderman came to the Flathead Valley in 1885 from Ohio. After trapping for a few years, he began a pilgrimage across Montana and its infant economy: He worked as an assayer in Butte, a newspaperman in Sheridan, a politician in Helena, and finally a writer on Flathead Lake.
Today, objects from Linderman’s life make up one of four permanent exhibits at the Northwest Montana History Museum. Here you’ll find his banged-up assayer’s scale, a manual printing press and old traps. Here too are headdresses and other artifacts reflecting his deep friendships with members of the Flathead, Kootenai, Crow, Blackfeet, Cree and Chippewa tribes.
And all around are his writings: personal letters, poems and original copies of his numerous books. Linderman’s enduring legacy is found in these volumes, several of which chronicle the lives and legends of Montana’s First Peoples. Those books are now regarded as cornerstone texts in the study of Native American history.
Though he died nearly 80 years ago, Linderman nonetheless embodies the adventuresome hope and love of nature that brought me to Montana — and that continues to lure visitors and new residents to this place.
Across Kalispell, beautifully preserved architecture and absorbing artifacts echo that time, not so long ago, when Kalispell lay at the edge of the Western frontier. On that pristine blank slate, fascinating stories were written. Here are a few more worth reading:
A Library of Art
In 1901, the New York-based tycoon and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie granted $10,000 for the construction of a public library in Kalispell. It might not sound like a lot of money now, but what it bought stands today as one of the most beautiful buildings in Northwest Montana — a classical-revival-style building with a distinctive domed octagonal entry at one corner.
Beauty doesn’t stop at the front door. The old Carnegie Library is now home to the Hockaday Museum of Art, one of the finest collections of Western art in the state. The permanent “Crown of the Continent” exhibition features classic works by some of Montana’s best-known Western artists, including Charles M. Russell and O.C. Seltzer. The collection also captures the nostalgia of the early days of Glacier National Park and the Great Northern Railroad, including works from John Fery and Winold Reiss. Rotating exhibits at the Hockaday reflect a vision of the region as captured by living artists.
The Man Who Made Kalispell
One of the best-known names around these parts is that of Charles E. Conrad, a founder of Kalispell. Along with establishing the Kalispell Townsite Company and eventually the Conrad National Bank, Conrad had a gracious Victorian home built for his beloved family in 1895 in what was then a wilderness.
Today the Conrad Mansion Museum preserves the opulence enjoyed by its namesake, and offers visitors a sense of what it was like to live here more than 100 years ago. Inside you’ll find remarkable examples of high technology from a bygone era, including a bank of original Edison light bulbs (they still illuminate), a first-generation automatic dishwasher, a cleverly designed clothes drying rack and other custom-built creature comforts.
A Grand Place to Lay Your Head
Since 1912, the historic Kalispell Grand Hotel in downtown Kalispell has welcomed guests from loggers to international travelers. From its opening, the hotel served a wealthy crowd and famed guests often gathered around its famous fountain and sitting area.
In later decades the hotel fell into disrepair; but after coming under new ownership in 1989 it underwent extensive remodeling. It 1991 the Grand reopened, bringing the stately hotel back to its former glory — right down to the original oak stairway and pressed-tin ceiling. Today, guests can choose from rooms that bring the history of the hotel to life in modern convenience.
A Road Trip Back in Time
If you come here with a car, then make sure to pick up a copy of the Lower Valley Driving Tour, a 30-page booklet produced by volunteers with the local nonprofit History is Posh. Laid out as a 62-mile loop, the tour leads past notable landmarks around Kalispell. At each waypoint, the booklet offers fascinating historical context, along with some great old photos. Look for printed copies at local shops or the Kalispell Visitor Information Center, located at 15 Depot Park.
If you’re on foot, you can get up-close feel for downtown’s history thanks to a 40-page Historical Walking Tour guidebook. You’ll have a lovely stroll — and you’ll learn plenty about the architecture and commercial history of downtown. You can download a copy at this link.
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About Development
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The neurofibromatosis-2 homologue, Merlin, and the tumor suppressor expanded function together in Drosophila to regulate cell proliferation and differentiation
B.M. McCartney, R.M. Kulikauskas, D.R. LaJeunesse, R.G. Fehon
Development 2000 127: 1315-1324;
B.M. McCartney
R.M. Kulikauskas
D.R. LaJeunesse
R.G. Fehon
Neurofibromatosis-2 is an inherited disorder characterized by the development of benign schwannomas and other Schwann-cell-derived tumors associated with the central nervous system. The Neurofibromatosis-2 tumor suppressor gene encodes Merlin, a member of the Protein 4.1 superfamily most closely related to Ezrin, Radixin and Moesin. This discovery suggested a novel function for Protein 4.1 family members in the regulation of cell proliferation; proteins in this family were previously thought to function primarily to link transmembrane proteins to underlying cortical actin. To understand the basic cellular functions of Merlin, we are investigating a Drosophila Neurofibromatosis-2 homologue, Merlin. Loss of Merlin function in Drosophila results in hyperplasia of the affected tissue without significant disruptions in differentiation. Similar phenotypes have been observed for mutations in another Protein 4.1 superfamily member in Drosophila, expanded. Because of the phenotypic and structural similarities between Merlin and expanded, we asked whether Merlin and Expanded function together to regulate cell proliferation. In this study, we demonstrate that recessive loss of function of either Merlin or expanded can dominantly enhance the phenotypes associated with mutations in the other. Consistent with this genetic interaction, we determined that Merlin and Expanded colocalize in Drosophila tissues and cells, and physically interact through a conserved N-terminal region of Expanded, characteristic of the Protein 4.1 family, and the C-terminal domain of Merlin. Loss of function of both Merlin and expanded in clones revealed that these proteins function to regulate differentiation in addition to proliferation in Drosophila. Further genetic analyses suggest a role for Merlin and Expanded specifically in Decapentaplegic-mediated differentiation events. These results indicate that Merlin and Expanded function together to regulate proliferation and differentiation, and have implications for understanding the functions of other Protein 4.1 superfamily members.
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The Edelstein Center for the Analysis of Ancient Artifacts
Prof. Zvi C. Koren, Director
The Edelstein Center
Dr. Edelstein’s Biography
Prof. Koren’s C.V.
Ancient & Historic Dyes
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Welcome to The Edelstein Center at Shenkar
***The Place Where C.S.I. Meets Indiana Jones***
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This is the site of The Edelstein Center and it presents The Center’s research in the area of historic materials, especially in the analyses of the natural colorants – dyes and pigments – used in antiquity.
The Center’s research involves extracting the maximum information about the identities of ancient colorants, which necessitates the use of instrumental chemical analyses. Unfortunately, the analytical method employed virtually destroys the sample being analyzed. Hence, when examining culturally important heritage artifacts, only the minutest of quantities may be sampled. Fortunately, these high resolution analyses can detect even nanogram quantities of the substances investigated. These analytical methods employ forensic-science-style techniques, such as the ones highlighted in popular criminal-based TV shows, for example C.S.I., for studying the make-up of archaeological artifacts, perhaps the ones that Indiana Jones would have discovered. Television crew filming several episodes for an international series on archaeology and science. Prof. Koren is explaining to the producer of “The Naked Archaeologist” series, Simcha Jacobovici, several of the scientific discoveries made at The Edelstein Center.
The Center is one of the research centers of the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, located in the city of Ramat-Gan (near Tel-Aviv), Israel.
In this site, you will find information about The Edelstein Center, its Founders, and its Director. The articles published by the Director in various areas are listed, with some of them available to be downloaded. The various lectures presented at various meetings are also listed.
The academic PowerPoint lecture slides (as pdf files) for the college-level chemistry courses taught by Prof. Koren are also provided.
For any correspondence, please contact Prof. Koren at the email address given in the “contact info”, above right. All of your comments, questions, and suggestions are important to me, so please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Thank you for visiting The Edelstein Center website and looking forward to greeting you soon at The Center in person!
Site last updated: November 12, 2019
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Prof. Zvi C. Koren
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New Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport gets 425hp flat-six and 'hemp fibre' doors
Adrian Pawlik posted in Second Gear
The previous generation Cayman GT4 was a smash hit – a fast, fun and hyper-focused track car for the road which for a little over £66,000 was the bargain of the century. Now we have a glimpse into the new 718 generation Cayman GT4, thanks to the newly released GT4 Clubsport – an entry level track-only car aimed at the track day enthusiast and amateur racers.
The flat-six is back, baby!
While the standard 718 Cayman controversially lost its naturally aspirated flat-six engine in favour of a turbocharged flat-four, the 718 GT4 Clubsport managed to escape with its 3.8 litre naturally aspirated flat-six intact. It has more power too. Thanks to a new intake system it now develops 425hp – 40hp more than before. All this power is sent to the rear only, via a Porsche six-Speed PDK double-clutch transmission.
Oh – and it looks gorgeous.
But the most innovative bit of tech on the car lies in the the materials it's made off. The doors and rear wing are made of 'natural fibre', which according to Porsche is "an organic fibre mix, which is sourced primarily from agricultural by-products such as flax or hemp fibres, and feature similar properties to carbon fibre in terms of weight and stiffness."
The car weighs in at just 1320kgs which is 20kgs more than the previous model. Just like the old GT4, this one gets a front spring-strut suspension from the 911 GT3 Cup car and 380mm steel disc brakes all around. The rear suspension uses McPherson strut with adjustable blade-type adjustable anti-roll bar.
It's now available in 'Trackday' and 'Competition' flavour
Porsche offers the new GT4 in two flavours: a milder and cheaper option called the 'Trackday' for the enthusiast doing track days, and a more race suited 'Competition' variant for, well, competition use.
The 'Trackday' spec gets an 80 litre FT3 fuel cell and retains ABS, ESC and TC systems which allow more forgiving limit handling characteristics (although all that can be switched off). It also manages to get away with its air-con intact. You also get a hand-held fire extinguisher. The 'Trackday' spec is priced at 134,000 Euros plus country specific VAT.
The 'Competition' spec gets a few extra goodies, such as shock absorbers that can be adjusted in three stages, a larger 115-litre fuel cell, a brake balance adjustment system and fancy integrated air-jack system to help your pit crew out. You also get the steering wheel from the 911 GT3R and an automatic fire extinguisher. 'Competition' spec comes at a cool 157,000 Euros plus country-specific VAT.
Both versions get a fully welded-in roll cage, six-point harness and a roof escape hatch (all to FIA specification) and can be serviced at all Porsche Centres.
The cars are available to order now and are expected for delivery in February 2019.
“The new Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport possesses significantly more racing genes than its successful predecessor,” says Porsche’s head of motorsport Fritz Enzinger.
“The power of the engine has increased considerably. At the same time, we were able to increase the downforce and the cockpit is now even better suited to drivers’ needs.
"I’m confident that we can build on the excellent sales figures of the predecessor, of which we have delivered 421 cars.”
What does this mean for the road going GT4 Cayman? A lot of good!
The main problem people have with the new Cayman is the flat-four turbo engine. It's not a bad engine, it just lacks the spirit of the old naturally aspirated flat-six it had before. Luckily since the last gen GT4 Clubsport used the same engine as the road-going GT4, we can be near certain that the upcoming GT4 will come with the known and loved six pot lump. Which is a very good thing indeed. With great looks, lightweight construction and sharp handling it's almost certainly destined to be another smash hit for which demand will outstretch the supply. Let's just hope they will let it keep the six-speed manual and the bargain price tag.
Why do people hate the flat-4 and are they justified?
With the flat-six engine, light-weight nature and sharp handling the last Cayman didn't exactly feel nor look like a poor man's 911. It was a car of its own that in certain circumstances could rival its bigger brother. Maybe that's why Porsche decide to castrate it and chop off two of its cylinders. Yes it's more efficient, making the EU and polar bears happy, but without that flat-six spirit, it truly seems like a poor man's Porsche again. Personally, I just can't imagine a GT4 with anything less than a flat-six, but then again maybe I am being overly dramatic? After all History is full of awesome four-cylinder Porsches: the 356, the 914 and the 550 Spyder, so maybe the 718 isn't that bad?
Let me know what you think of 4-cylinder Porsches down below!
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E3 Spark Plugs >> Google?s Phone-Free Android Auto System Set for 2015 debut
Google’s Phone-Free Android Auto System Set for 2015 debut
Google debuts its Android Auto in-car infotainment system this year.
On the heels of Apple’s CarPlay infotainment system that debuted in 2014 model year cars, Google recently announced its own version called Android Auto, set for release this year.
Apple’s CarPlay is available for all iPhones that operate on iOS7.1 or later and connects via the Lightning connector to a vehicle’s dashboard console. Similarly, the current Android Auto software requires connection to an Android-powered phone to be connected to a car‘s dash console. But Google has bigger plans in store. Ultimately, the company aims to allow for installation of a coming version of the Android software directly into a vehicle’s infotainment system, making it the standard operating interface. Both systems feature voice-activated controls, allowing for safer, hands-free operation.
The move essentially will cut out the middleman, allowing drivers to access a range of internet functions including navigation and other apps without relying on a connection with a mobile device. No more u-turn skids and mad dashes back to the house/office/lover’s apartment upon the realization that you’ve left your phone somewhere.
While some are stoked about the new Apple CarPlay and Android Auto systems, some are concerned about the potential privacy violations and other legal ramifications of all that data being collected, including your vehicle’s speed, fuel level and location at any given moment. Neither system has been fully rolled out yet, so much of that concern might be for naught.
What do you think? Do you love the idea of a connected car or are you a bit leery of the potential privacy issues? Post your thoughts on the E3 Spark Plugs Facebook Fan Page.
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The Code was specifically created to be a child protection tool used by the industry to combat the commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC) of children in the context of travel and tourism activities.
The Code has been specifically developed to target child sex tourism. Often, tourists go out of their way to travel to countries where child prostitution is common so that they can have sexual contact with children. Other times, travelers spontaneously decide to experiment with children because they believe that this kind of behavior is more acceptable in certain countries.
The Code encourages the practice of responsible, sustainable tourism by tourism companies from around the world. By enacting responsible policies, members of The Code play an essential role in protecting children from the sexual exploitation that is particularly prevalent in this industry. In addition, The Code exists in order to inform travelers that child sex exploitation is never okay, no matter what country they visit.
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Keith A. Human Embryology and Morphology. (1902) London: Edward Arnold.
Contents: Face | Nasal Cavities and Olfactory | Pharynx and Neck | Organ of Hearing | Teeth | Skin and Appendages | Development of the Ovum | Connection between Foetus and Uterus | Uro-genital System | Pubo-femoral Region, Pelvic Floor and Fascia | Spinal Column and Back | Body Segmentation | Cranium | Sight | Brain and Spinal Cord | Circulatory System | Respiratory System | Organs of Digestion | Body Wall, Ribs, and Sternum | Limbs | Figures | Embryology History
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1 Chapter II. The Nasal Cavities and Olfactory Structures
1.1 Origin of the Olfactory Sense Epithelium
1.2 The Olfactory Lobe
1.3 The Nasal Cavities
1.4 Development of the Nasal Air Sinuses
1.5 Vestigial Turbinates
1.6 Nasal Duct
1.6.1 Reference
Chapter II. The Nasal Cavities and Olfactory Structures
In tracing the development of structures subservient to the sense of smell, the following elements have to be dealt with :
The olfactory sense epithelium and olfactory nerves ;
The parts of the brain concerned with the sense of smell, so far as we know them ;
The capsule which contains the olfactory epithelium ;
The respiratory tract of the nasal cavities.
Fig. 16. The Olfactory Pit and Nasal Processes in a 4th week human embryo (After Kollmann.)
Origin of the Olfactory Sense Epithelium
A small area of the epiblastic cells, lying under the fore-brain becomes demarcated on each side, to form the olfactory plates. Around these two plates the lateral and mesial nasal processes grow up (Fig. 16), the plates being depressed to form the olfactory pits. With the growth of the nasal processes the olfactory plates and pits are thrust into the roof of the stomodaeum, where they form the epithelial lining of the upper third or olfactory area of the nasal cavities. A small island is detached from each plate to form the basis of Jacobson's organ (Fig. 16). The sense epithelia send out nerve processes which form arborescences round the neural cells of the outgrowing olfactory lobe (Fig. 17). The olfactory nerves are thus formed. At first the olfactory plate is directly in contact with the neural tube, and it is probable that neuroblasts may migrate then to the olfactory plate and form the olfactory sense epithelium.
The condition of olfactory pits, a developmental phase in the human embryo, is the permanent form in fishes (Fig. 2 1 i?) ; in amphibians and all higher vertebrates the fundus of the pit breaks down and thus the olfactory pits come into communication through the posterior nares with the stomodaeum (Fig. 8).
The Olfactory Lobe
As the olfactory plates are being thrust downwards, the anterior part of the floor of the fore-brain grows out on each side as a hollow protrusion to form the olfactory lobes (Fig. 145, p. 178). At the end of the 3rd month the olfactory lobe has assumed the form shown in Fig. 17. Its cavity is at first continuous with that of the cerebral vesicle (lateral ventricle), but this connection is soon lost; it becomes solid and divided into anterior and posterior parts by a transverse fissure (Fig. 17).
Fig. 17. The Mesial aspect of the Brain of a human foetus, 3.5 months old, showing the Olfactory Lobe.
The anterior part, as is shown in figure 18, becomes (a) the olfactory bulb, (b) the olfactory peduncle or tract, (c) the trigonum olfactorium, lying between the lateral and mesial roots into which the tract divides, and (d) the area of Broca. The posterior part of the olfactory lobe (B in Fig. 17) becomes (a) the grey matter of the anterior perforated space, and (b) the gyrus subcallosus or peduncles of the corpus callosum (Fig. 18).
Termination of the Olfactory Tract. — As is shown in figure 18, the mesial root terminates in the supra-callosal gyrus and fornix, while the lateral ends in the uncus of the hippocampal convolution. Olfactory nerve fibres also terminate in the trigone and area of Broca. To the parts derived from the olfactory lobe together with the uncus, the fascia dentata, the supra-callosal gyrus, the fimbria, the fornix and septum lucidum (Figs. 18 and 172) the term Rhinencephalon is given because these" parts are concerned with the sense of smell, and represent the parts first and most highly developed in the brains of lower vertebrates (Elliot Smith). In man many of these parts are merely vestigial. The higher olfactory centre has been located in the hippocampal gyrus, but no evidence has been given showing any connection between the callosal gyrus and this sense. In animals with a highly developed olfactory sense (carnivora, etc.) these parts of the brain which form the rhinencephalon are well developed. The fornix in its greater part, and the longitudinal striae as association tracts, connect the brain areas which are subservient to the sense of smell (see Fig. 18).
Fig. 18 -Showing the parts formed out of the Olfactory Lobe in the brain of an Adult (After BlUot "mitlO olfilctol T Hoots in the Sub-callosal and Uncinate Gyri.' .
It is important, from a clinical point of view, to remember that the olfactory nerves are surrounded by prolongations of the arachnoid membrane and subarachnoid spaces, and through these spaces infections may spread from the nasal cavities to the meninges. Further, the olfactory tracts rest on the edges of the small wings of the sphenoid, and may be injured in falls on the forehead..
The Nasal Cavities
The separation of the nasal cavities from the stomodaeum by the downgrowth of the mesial and lateral nasal processes, and the ingrowth of the horizontal plates of the maxillary processes, has been already described (p. 3). These processes also form and bound the anterior and posterior nares.
Development of the Nasal Air Sinuses
The manner in which the nasal mucous membrane pushes its way through the lateral nasal cartilage into the maxillary process to form the Antrum of Highmore has been already described (page 12). The other air sinuses — the frontal, lachrymo-ethmoidal, anterior, middle and posterior ethmoidal, and sphenoidal sinuses — six in all, arise in the same way as the antrum but at a much later date. Although they begin to bud out about the 3rd year, they assume their active growth in the earlier years of puberty, and reach their full size before the 30 th year.
At birth, the lateral mass of the ethmoid is a thin plate, carrying the superior and middle turbinate processes, which almost fill the nasal cavity (Fig. 7). The entire ethmoid is narrow, and hence the proximity of the eyes in children. Beneath the middle turbinate is a thumbnail-like impression — the hiatus semilunaris (Fig. 19). The antrum buds out near its posterior end, arid the point at which the bud starts becomes its opening. The uncinate process of the lateral mass of the ethmoid forms the prominent lower margin of the hiatus.
From the upper end of the hiatus a bud of mucous membrane grows upwards to form the frontal sinus, gradually works through the ethmoid, and pushes its way into the frontal bone, separating the outer from the inner lamellae. As a rule, by the 25 th year it reaches outwards over the inner two-thirds of the orbital roof, and is an inch or more both in height and depth at its inner part. It is smaller in women than in men, but it may be, and often is, arrested at an early stage of development, or it may be absent altogether. The size of the glabellar prominence is no index to its development.
Fig. 19. A diagram of the Lateral Wall of the Nasal Cavity, showing the position of the Air Sinus. The parts beneath the turbinate processes are indicated by stippled lines.
The stalk of the frontal bud forms the infundibulum, which is narrow, half an inch long, and difficult of catheterization from the nose. Into it open (or sometimes into the hiatus) the lachrymoethmoidal and anterior ethmoidal cells which surround the infundibulum. They are developed as outgrowths from the infundibulum (Fig. 19). Occasionally the antrum of Highmore, as is frequently .the case in the gorilla, sends a process to form part of the frontal sinus, and hence there may be a communication between the sinus and the antrum.
The development of the frontal sinuses and supra-orbital ridges lead to a marked change in the face at puberty. By the formation of the frontal sinuses the basal area of the skull, to which the face is attached, is largely increased in extent. Such an increase is necessary to support the palate, which grows rapidly in size at puberty. Up to the fifth year the upper jaw has to carry only ten milk teeth ; in the adult it has to carry sixteen permanent teeth. To support these the face and palate grow rapidly in size. The formation of the frontal sinus gives the necessary increase in the area of the base of the skull for their support. It should be remembered that the growth of the brain and of the cranial cavity is comparatively slight after the fifth year.
Only the gorilla and chimpanzee show an arrangement of frontal and ethmoidal sinuses comparable to that of man.
Above the hiatus lies the bulla ethmoidalis, which is inflated by, and commonly carries the opening of, the middle ethmoidal cell (Fig. 19). The posterior ethmoidal sinus opens beneath the superior turbinate process, and is developed from the superior meatus. The ethmoidal sinuses are produced in the cartilage of the ethmoidal or lateral nasal plate (Fig. 7). They inflate the ossifying cartilaginous plate until it becomes a cellular mass, thus increasing the breadth of the intra-orbital septum. The .sphenoidal sinus (Fig. 19) is formed by the mucous membrane growing into and expanding the sphenoidal turbinate bone, which is a small, slightly ossified cartilage lying beneath the presphenoid at birth, and forming the uppermost (sixth) of the nasal turbinate processes. Latterly the sinus grows into and expands the pre-sphenoid and part of the basi-sphenoid, the sphenoidal turbinate remaining as its anterior wall (Fig 19). The •sphenoidal turbinate is a detached part of the ethmoidal (lateral nasal) cartilage.
It will thus be seen that all the nasal air sinuses are produced primarily by a budding outwards of the nasal mucous membrane into the cartilaginous basis of the lateral nasal processes. Disease may readily spread to these sinuses from the nasal cavities. By means of the sinuses the area of the face is increased to support the adult palate bearing the permanent teeth. Most of them open on the respiratory tract of the nasal cavity. They are ventilated with every breath. They act also as resonance chambers.
Vestigial Turbinates
There is frequently to be seen in the adult one, or even two, secondary meatuses above the superior ; these are constantly present in the chimpanzee and in animals with a keen sense of smell. In the human foetus of four months six turbinates are usually present, besides secondary processes in the meatuses beneath them. The uppermost of these, the sixth, becomes the sphenoidal turbinate ; the fifth disappears ; the third and fourth may remain separate or become united ; the first and second form the inferior and middle turbinate processes. The agger nasi (naso-turbinal, Fig. 19), in front of the attachment of the middle turbinate process, is a vestige of the naso-turbinal, a process well developed in most carnivora and animals with a strong scent. The uncinate process, which forms the lower border of the hiatus semilunaris, is continuous at its base with the naso-turbinal. Through the hiatus semilunaris acting as a gutter, the antrum may become a cesspool for a suppurating frontal sinus.
Nasal Duct
Although in no way connected with the sense of smell, the nasal duct is closely related to the nasal cavities.
Fig. 20. Showing on the inner wall of the Orbit (1) the position of the Infundibulum, (2) the pars facialis lachrymalis.
It is formed between the lateral nasal and maxillary processes (Figs. 1 and 7). Three bones bound it : the superior maxilla on the outer side, formed in the maxillary process; the inferior turbinate, formed in the cartilage of the lateral nasal process, and the lachrymal, formed over the lateral nasal cartilage, bound it on the inner side. The formation of the palate cuts the duct off from the mouth. The hamulus of the lachrymal varies much in size, and is the vestige of a larger process, which in lower primates enters into the formation of the inferior margin of the orbit. This pars facialis sometimes occurs in man (Fig. 20). The position of the infundibulum to the lachrymal is shown in Fig. 2 ; it is seen to lie entirely in the lateral mass of the ethmoid behind the lachrymal. Occasionally the frontal and superior maxillary bones may articulate in an interval between the lachrymal in front and lateral mass of the ethmoid behind.
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What’s Hot for Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is the one day each year when people express their love for others. Having grown well beyond just couples to include love for family and friends, young and old, Valentine’s Day has grown in spending too.
It’s estimated that in the US, around $19 Billion (that’s billion with a capital “B”) will be spent on Valentine’s Day gifts. Over $50 million will be spent on flowers, with nearly the same amount being spent on jewelry. Consumers run around trying to find the perfect gift to say “I Love You” (or at least “I Like You”) with Jewelry being the most lasting of gifts.
What’s most popular? It’s clear that diamonds are a girl’s best friend from the top internet searches. Start with Diamond Earrings, the most searched jewelry item on the internet for Valentine’s Day. This may be the perfect gift for your sweetheart when you’re not asking them to marry you. The next 3 top searches are engagement rings followed by “chocolate” diamonds (advertising clearly works) and Princess Cut Engagement rings. These next 3 are for those who didn’t go for the diamond earrings.
Some of the other top searches and choices for Valentine’s day gift giving include charm bracelets which can be customized to the individual receiving them, but also provide fresh ideas for future giving as you can add one or two charms on any special occasion. “Designer” bracelets like “Alex and Ani” are also popular choices, even without the lasting impression gold and silver jewelry provides.
Want to know what to give your loved one this Valentine’s day? Search history shows, jewelry is the way to your loved one’s heart.
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February Birthstone: Amethyst
Each month of the calendar is represented by a different birthstone that has cultural, historical, religious and sometimes even mythical significance. The month of February is represented by Amethyst, a purple colored quartz gem that radiates from a violet to a deeper purple reddish hue. In ancient Greece it was thought to ward off Bacchus, the Greco/Roman God of the grape harvest (note the purple color connection to wine). Even the name Amethyst actually comes from the Greek word for intoxicated. It was said that the Amethyst would keep the wearer clear headed and quick witted. During the middle ages, English royalty often used the Amethyst as part of their clothing and jewelry to represent their position in society. Amethyst is found all over the world but the finer specimens were often found in Russia but today much of it is found in Brazil and Zambia.
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The Parents Council is open to all parents and families who are interested in supporting the University’s mission of delivering educational experiences that enlighten, challenge and prepare students to lead lives of significance in complex global communities.
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In addition to recognizing the philanthropic efforts of Parents Council investors in the President’s Circle Annual Honor Roll of Donors, High Point University is pleased to be able to extend a number of opportunities to Council Investors through our Gratitude Program including invitations to select campus events and special messages announcing major University news and milestones.
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The Outreach Committee, led by Bob and Karen Bainbridge (Nick '21), helps each August with new student move-in, as well as, HPU Connects events, and spring Accepted Student Receptions in conjunction with the Office of Admissions across the country. Members may be asked to share social media messages from the University by being an advocate for HPU on social media in promoting University events, Panther pride and initiatives of the University to various personal networks. Follow, share, like and comment. This committee is open to all families.
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The Orientation Week for recently arrived international students was held between 5-9 September.
78 students representing 18 countries from three continents (Asia, Europe and North America) participated in the event. Besides the necessary enrolment administration to start studying at Károli Gáspár Universty, the Orientation Week included lectures about Hungarian history, language, customs and behaviour, a Budapest sightseeing tour, and an international lunch where the participating students prepared their national dish.
One of the highlights of the week was the presentation contest of the international students about various aspects of Hungarian life and culture.
We wish all our incoming students a very successful and pleasant stay at KRE!
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Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary started the new academic year with a record number of fresh students.
All in all 2 750 students were admitted for the academic year of 2015/2016, which means that 309 more students can start their studies at Károli University than the year before.
Since 2008, the number of fresh students admitted to the University has been continuously growing: their number has more than tripled during the last 7 years.
Signing the Magna Charta Universitatum
On the 18th of September Rector Prof. Dr. Péter Balla – among representatives of other universities – in the framework of a signing ceremony has formally signed the Magna Charta Universitatum in Bologna. Thus Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary has joined the international higher-educational organisation, counting almost 800 members in more than 80 countries.
Magna Charta Universitatum, the charter supporting the autonomy of higher education institutions and academic freedom, and its executive organisation were established in Bologna 1988, celebrating the 900th anniversary of the founding of the University of Bologna.
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The two-year long Hungarobox Learning Partnership project has been successfully concluded. The project brought together five institutions from Finland, Estonia, Germany, Hungary and Italy, each of them dealing with adult education and the teaching of Hungarian as a foreign language. Hungary was represented by Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary in the project.
The main goal of the project was to share and change experience and good practices among the partner organisations, especially in the field of teaching vocabulary, lexicography and terminology and to get acquainted with other educational institutions’ practices.
In the framework of the international cooperation a multilingual online glossary has been prepared as well, containing commonly used vocabulary and expressions of the topic of Information Communication and Technology in the languages of the partners, combined with an exercise package. In addition to partner meetings, workshops and seminars for teachers of Hungarian have been organised as well.
All achievements of the project will be available on the webpage of Hungarobox soon: www.hungarobox.eu
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(REFERENCE COPY - Not for submission)Modification of a DTV Station Construction Permit Application
Reference Copy
File Number:
Submit Date:
WTAP-TV
Facility ID:
Minor Modification 0000025208
Filing Status:
Application Sections
Fees, Waivers, and Exemptions
Contact Representatives
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Antenna Location Data
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Parties to the Application
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Are attachments (other than associated schedules) being filed with this application? Yes
Is the applicant exempt from FCC application Fees? No
Indicate reason for fee exemption:
Is the applicant exempt from FCC regulatory Fees? No
Does this filing request a waiver of the Commission's rule(s)? No
Total number of rule sections involved in this waiver request:
Are the frequencies or parameters requested in this filing covered by grandfathered privileges, previously approved by waiver, or functionally integrated with an existing station? No
Fee Code
Minor Modification MPT $1,110.00
Applicant Name, Type, and Contact Information
GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC
PARKERSBURG, WV 26101
+1 (304) 485-4588 robert.folliard@gray.tv Limited Liability Company
Authorization Holder Name
Check box if the Authorization Holder name is being updated because of the sale (or transfer of control) of the Authorization(s) to another party and for which proper Commission approval has not been received or proper notification provided.
Contact Representatives (2)
Joseph M. Davis , P.E. .
Chesapeake RF Consultants, LLC
207 Old Dominion Road
+1 (703) 650-9600 Joseph.Davis@RF-consultants.com Technical Representative
WILEY REIN LLP
+1 (202) 719-7438 JSTEWART@WILEYREIN.COM Legal Representative
1) Is the applicant a foreign government or the representative of any foreign government as specified in Section 310(a) of the Communications Act? No
2) Is the applicant an alien or the representative of an alien? (Section 310(b)(1)) No
3) Is the applicant a corporation, or non-corporate entity, that is organized under the laws of any foreign government? (Section 310(b)(2)) No
4) Is the applicant an entity of which more than one-fifth of the capital stock, or other equity or voting interest, is owned of record or voted by aliens or their representatives or by a foreign government or representative thereof or by any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country? (Section 310(b)(3)) No
5) Is the applicant directly or indirectly controlled by any other entity of which more than one-fourth of the capital stock, or other equity or voting interest, is owned of record or voted by aliens, their representatives, or by a foreign government or representative thereof, or by any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country? (Section 310(b)(4)) No
6) Has the applicant received a declaratory ruling(s) under Section 310(b)(4) of the Communications Act? No
6a) Enter the citation of the applicable declaratory ruling by DA/FCC number, FCC Record citation, release date, or any other identifying information.
7) Has there been any change in the applicant's foreign ownership since issuance of the declaratory ruling(s) cited in response to Question 6?
7a) Enter the File or Docket Number of the Petition for Declaratory Ruling that the applicant has filed for its foreign ownership in connection with this application pursuant to Section 310(b)(4) of the Communications Act. It is not necessary to file a request for a foreign ownership declaratory ruling if the applicant attaches a showing that the requested authorization(s) is exempt from the provisions of Section 310(b)(4).
8) Does the applicant certify that it is in compliance with the terms and conditions of the foreign ownership declaratory ruling(s) cited in response to Question 6?
9) In connection with this application, is the applicant filing a foreign ownership Petition for Declaratory Ruling pursuant to Section 310(b)(4) of the Communications Act? No
Revoked Application
Has the Applicant or any party to this application had any FCC station Authorization revoked or had any application for an initial, modification or renewal of FCC station Authorization denied by the Commission? No
State or Federal Convictions
Has the Applicant or any party to this application, or any party directly or indirectly controlling the Applicant, ever been convicted of a felony by any state or federal court? No
Proposed Community of License
Facility ID 4685
State West Virginia
City PARKERSBURG
DTV Channel 35
Designated Market Area Parkersburg
Facility Type Commercial
Station Type Main
Antenna Structure Registration
Do you have an FCC Antenna Structure Registration (ASR) Number? Yes
ASR Number 1239800
Coordinates (NAD83)
Latitude 39° 20' 59.8" N+
Longitude 081° 33' 55.4" W-
Structure Type TOWER-A free standing or guyed struct
Overall Structure Height 141.1 meters
Support Structure Height 140.2 meters
Ground Elevation (AMSL) 295.7 meters
Antenna Data
Height of Radiation Center Above Ground Level 134.9 meters
Height of Radiation Center Above Average Terrain 201.6 meters
Height of Radiation Center Above Mean Sea Level 430.6 meters
Effective Radiated Power 350 kW
Antenna Type Non-Directional
Do you have an Antenna ID?
Antenna ID 1001377
Antenna Manufacturer and Model
Manufacturer: DIE
Model TFU-18JSC/VP-R O4
Electrical Beam Tilt 0.75
Mechanical Beam Tilt Not Applicable
toward azimuth
Polarization Elliptical
DTV and DTS: Elevation Pattern
Does the proposed antenna propose elevation radiation patterns that vary with azimuth for reasons other than the use of mechanical beam tilt? No
Uploaded file for elevation antenna (or radiation) pattern data
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Information not provided.
Equity and Financial Interests
Applicant certifies that equity and financial interests not set forth by the applicant parties are non-attributable.
Other Authorizations
Does the applicant or any party to the application have an attributable interest in any other broadcast station(s).
Multiple Ownership
Is the applicant or any party to the application the holder of an attributable radio or television joint sales agreement or an attributable radio or television time brokerage agreement in the same market as the station subject to this application? No
Applicant certifies that the proposed facility complies with the Commission's multiple ownership rules and cross-ownership rules. Yes
Applicant certifies that the proposed facility: (a) does not present an issue under the Commission's policies relating to media interests of immediate family members; (b) complies with the Commission's polices relating to future ownership interests; (c) complies with the Commission's restrictions relating to the insulation and non-participation of non-party investors and creditors Yes
Does the Applicant claim status as an "eligible entity," that is, an entity that qualifies as a small business under the Small Business Administration's size standards for its industry grouping (as set forth in 13 C.F.R. § 121-201), and holds: (a) 30 percent or more of the stock or partnership interests and more than 50 percent of the voting power of the corporation or partnership that will own the media outlet; or (b) 15 percent or more of the stock or partnership interests and more than 50 percent of the voting power of the corporation or partnership that will own the media outlet, provided that no other person or entity owns or controls more than 25 percent of the outstanding stock or partnership interests; or (c) more than 50 percent of the voting power of the corporation that will own the media outlet (if such corporation is a publicly traded company)? No
Post-Incentive Auction Expedited Processing
It will operate on the DTV channel for this station as established in the post-incentive auction channel reassignment public notice. Yes
It will operate post-incentive auction facilities that do not expand the noise-limited service contour in any direction beyond that established by the post-incentive auction channel reassignment public notice. No
It will operate post-incentive auction facilities that match or reduce by no more than five percent with respect to predicted population from those defined in the post-incentive auction channel reassignment public notice. Yes
The antenna structure to be used by this facility has been registered by the Commission and will not require re-registration to support the proposed antenna, OR the FAA has previously determined that the proposed structure will not adversely affect safety in air navigation and this structure qualifies for later registration under the Commission's phased registration plan, OR the proposed installation on this structure does not require notification to the FAA pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Section 17.7. Yes
Environmental Effect
Would a Commission grant of Authorization for this location be an action which may have a significant environmental effect? (See 47 C.F.R. Section 1.1306) No
Broadcast Facility
The proposed facility complies with the applicable engineering standards and assignment requirements of 47 C.F.R. Sections 73.616, 73.622(i), 73.623(e), 73.625, 73.1030, and 73.1125. Yes
Character Issues
Applicant certifies that neither applicant nor any party to the application has or had any interest in, or connection with: (a) any broadcast application in any proceeding where character issues were left in unresolved or were resolved adversely against the applicant or party to the application; or (b) any pending broadcast application in which character issues have been raised.
Adverse Findings
Has the Applicant or any party to this application had an adverse finding or an adverse final action taken by any court or administrative body in a civil or criminal proceeding brought under any law related to the following: any felony; mass media-related antitrust or unfair competition; fraudulent statements to another governmental unit; or discrimination?
Program Service Certification
Applicant certifies that it is cognizant of and will comply with its obligations as a Commission licensee to present a program service responsive to the issues of public concern facing the station's community of license and service area.
Local Public Notice
Applicant certifies that it has or will comply with the public notice requirements of 47 C.F.R. Section 73.3580.
Auction Authorization
Is the applicant submitting an application to obtain a construction permit as a result of winning an auction?
If the applicant proposes to employ five or more full-time employees, applicant certifies that it is filing simultaneously with this application a Model EEO Program Report.
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The weird dreams continued, and the man did the only thing he could under such circumstances, the only logical thing: he kept on writing them.
In his masterpiece Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil states that one should live life as if it were a novel and as if we were all were characters (in fact, the core of that idea is first proposed by Shakespeare in As You Like It, where the Bard writes that "all the world´s a stage/And all the men and women merely players".)
So is the case with the second installment of the weird oneirorabilia collected by Jeff VanderMeer in his dreamtravels, and put to words in 2006, four years after City of Saints and Madmen. Shriek: An Afterword is a testament of sorts written by art critic Janice Shriek to his brother, the disappeared historian Duncan Shriek: characters {?} living as real people living by Musil´s standards as if they were indeed characters in a novel.
This longest of afterwords, though, is already something twisted, since Janice herself seems to have vanished before its publication, and a returned Duncan copyedits the original text, not cutting anything, but adding his comment in brackets. So we have an inversion here, a kind of addendum to an afterword. (Or "famous last afterwords"?)
During a party attended by the famous Mary Sabon, Duncan´s former lover, Janice takes refuge at her room and starts writing what will become a kind of biography of her, his infamous brother, and ultimately of a dark period in the history of Ambergris, the Silence - when, in the course of one night, all 25,000 inhabitants of the city were killed by the gray caps, the mysterious dwellers of the underworld. Or were they? The Silence becomes one of the obsessions in the life of Duncan Shriek - obsessions that will transform him deeply, not only in soul, but also in body.
The stream of consciousness narrative technique, just slightly interrupted by Duncan´s brackets {but not very much}, takes the reader through an wild, bumpy ride - being at times also a {very} bad trip, turned more weird due to the wide spectrum of literary references the occasional seeker can find inside its pages: for instance, the terrible diatribe of the editor L. Gaudy to Duncan is slightly reminiscent of Harlan Ellison´s in I have no mouth and I must scream. The vision of the gargantuan machine in the underground bears comparison only to the contraption devised by Samuel Beckett in his novella The Lost Ones.
{Now, to compare authors is something of a cowardice - but you must also remember that some reviews beg a metalinguistical approach, in which the reviewer, though cannot in any given moment try to best the author whose work he/she is reviewing, becomes sort of infected by his/her style, language- such is the case here. That is the foremost (though not the only one) reason of the use of comparison in this review.}
Duncan´s addiction and his fate, even though we know {do we?} we´re not going to see it to its end, attracts us as moths to a flame - and we allow the story to do that to us, for we want to. We don´t want the fungal embraces that took over Duncan´s body in the gray caps´s sinister underworld, but we shiver in anticipation anyway - maybe just because we will never be touched by its spores; maybe a little saddened because this is not the case nor it will ever be. All we have to guide us is words, and they will have to suffice. {At least for now, that is.}
You will also notice that this week will extend into the other one -- it is only fitting, for the Calabrian Calendar used in Ambergris is by no standards akin to ours.
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Individualized Management of Patients With Glaucoma: How Therapeutic Advances Will Improve Patient Care Supplement Part 1
By: Thomas Samuelson, MD – Moderator; Douglas Rhee, MD; James C. Tsai, MD, MBA; Murray Fingeret, OD, FAAO
Supplement Credits: 1
Glaucoma is a leading cause of preventable blindness in the United States, and at least 3 million Americans have a form of the chronic disease.1 Somewhat asymptomatic, patients may lose more than 40% of their optic nerve fibers before noticing a loss of peripheral vision and seeking medical intervention.2 Given the rapid increase in the aging American population, as well as increases in groups at high risk for glaucoma (most of which have an age component), the burden of disease related to this condition becomes more significant each year.
Expiration Date: Sunday, June 13, 2021
Supported through an educational grant by Aerie Pharmaceuticals.
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
• Discuss the chemical structure and mechanism of action of topical glaucoma medications and evolving neuroprotective medications.
• Explain the anti-fibrotic activity in novel drug classes.
• Evaluate novel therapeutics and classes of drugs and their potential for enhanced patient compliance.
Accreditation and Designation Statement
Evolve Medical Education LLC (Evolve) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
In cooperation with Evolve Medical Education LLC, the University of Houston College of Optometry has reviewed and endorsed this course.
Credit Designation Statement
Evolve Medical Education designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Evolve is an approved COPE Administrator.
This course is COPE approved for 1.0 hours of CE Credit for Optometrists
COPE Course ID: 58416-GL
COPE Event ID: 115738
Thomas Samuelson, MD – Moderator
Minnesota Eye Consultants
Adjunct Professor University of Minnesota
Murray Fingeret, OD, FAAO
Chief of Optometry
Department of Veterans Administration
New York Harbor Health Care System
SUNY College of Optometry
Douglas Rhee, MD
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
James C. Tsai, MD, MBA
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mont Sinai
Delafield-Rodgers Professor and System Chair
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The following faculty/staff members have the following financial relationships with commercial interests:
Thomas Samuelson, MD, has had a financial agreement or affiliation during the past year with the following commercial interests in the form of Consultant: AcuMEMS; Aerie Pharmaceuticals; Akorn; Alcon Surgical; AMO (Abbott Medical Optics) AqueSys; Bausch and Lomb; BELKIN Laser; Endo Optics; Equinox; Glaukos Corporation; and Ivantis; Ocular Surgery News; PolyActiva, Santen Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd; Shire Plc; Transcend Medical, Veracity Innovations, LLC; and Vindico/Slack. Stock Options: Equinox; Glaukos Corporation; and Ivantis.
Murray Fingeret, OD, has had a financial agreement or affiliation during the past year with the following commercial interests in the form of Consultant: Aerie Pharmaceuticals; Alcon, Allergan Plc; Bausch and Lomb; Carl Zeiss Meditec; and Diopsys; Speaker’s Bureau: Bausch & Lomb. Grant/Research Support: Carl Zeiss Meditec; Heidelberg Engineering; and Topcon Medical Systems.
Douglas Rhee, MD, has had a financial agreement or affiliation during the past year with the following commercial interests in the form of Consultant: Aerie Pharmaceuticals. Speakers Bureau: Bausch and Lomb; Grant/Research Support: Allergan plc, Glaukos Corporation, and Ivantis.
James C. Tsai, MD, MBA, has had a financial agreement or affiliation during the past year with the following commercial interests in the form of Consultant: Eyenovia, Nektar, and Shire Plc.
Editorial Support Disclosures
Erin K. Fletcher, MIT, director of compliance and education, Susan Gallagher-Pecha, director of client services and project management, Evolve; and Michelle Dalton, writer have no financial relationships with commercial interests. Jaya Kumar, MD, peer reviewer, has no financial relationships with commercial interests.
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Pretest
1. Please rate your confidence on your ability to apply updates in glaucoma management in the clinic. (Based on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being not at all confident and 5 being extremely confident.)*
2. Please rate how often you intend to apply advances in glaucoma management in the clinic. (Based on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being never and 5 being always.)*
3. What percentage of patients are noncompliant with glaucoma therapy?*
a. 30%
b. 40%
c. 50%
d. 60%
4. What is the current standard first-line therapy for glaucoma treatment?*
a. Laser trabeculoplasty
b. Prostaglandins
c. Beta-blockers
d. Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors
5. According to the panelists, which prostaglandin is the least expensive and the most well-tolerated?*
a. Bimatoprost
b. Latanoprostene bunod
c. Latanoprost
d. Travoprost
6. What is the most common reason patients may be hesitant to use alternative treatment options such as a sustained-delivery system?*
a. Perceived invasiveness of the procedure
b. Cost
c. Risk of complications
d. Unproven effectiveness
7. Is netarsudil a disease-modifying agent?*
a. Yes
b. No
c. Evidence suggests it is not, but it’s inconclusive
d. There’s not enough evidence to say either way
8. Is latanoprostene bunod superior to timolol and latanoprost?*
a. Yes; APOLLO, LUNAR, and VOYAGER all concluded latanoprostene bunod was superior.
b. No; real-world evidence has only shown minimal benefit
c. The data are inconclusive, and physicians need more time to evaluate
d. It’s only superior in previously untreated eyes
9. What is the definition of maximum therapy for glaucoma treatment?*
a. Two bottles and laser trabeculoplasty
b. Five medications
c. Four medications
d. Two bottles, Three medications
10. What glaucoma medications are considered effective for overnight use (24-hour efficacy)? (Select all that apply)*
a. Latanoprost
b. Brimonidine
c. Timolol
d. Bimatoprost
e. Dorzolamide
11. There are sustained-release devices in development that last for how long?*
a. 9 to 12 months
b. 6 to 9 months
c. 3 to 6 months
d. More than 1 year
12. All of the following are novel glaucoma therapies EXCEPT:*
a. Netarsudil
b. Sustained-delivery systems
c. Punctal plugs
d. Latanoprostene
Individualized Management of Patients With Glaucoma: How Therapeutic Advances Will Improve Patient Care PART 1
Glaucoma is a leading cause of preventable blindness in the United States.1 Often asymptomatic, patients may lose more than 40% of their optic nerve fibers before noticing a loss of peripheral vision and seeking medical intervention.2 In today’s real-life clinical settings, medical/topical therapy is the first-line choice for the majority of physicians. Yet these treatment options are not perfect, nor are they a “one size fits all” approach.
Patients are typically on multiple medications before successfully controlling their IOP, which leads to many challenges such as compliance issues and medication cost.
The good news is there are novel agents and combination treatments in the pipeline that may be more effective than current therapies, and disease-modifying therapy may not be as far afield as we once thought. The following roundtable discusses the mechanism of action for topical glaucoma treatments and evaluates novel therapies and classes of drugs for enhanced patient compliance.
—Thomas Samuelson, MD, Moderator
FIRST-LINE GLAUCOMA TREATMENT
Q THOMAS SAMUELSON, MD: What are your initial treatment steps for a treatment-naïve glaucoma patient? How often do you use pharmaceutical therapy, and how much do you use laser therapy as an initial treatment?
DOUGLAS RHEE, MD: I explain that the overall goal of glaucoma management is to lower their IOP. For every 1 mm Hg drop in IOP, the risk of disease progression drops by 10%.3 I then review the different IOP-lowering options available such as topical medications, laser trabeculoplasty, and incisional surgery. Topical prostaglandin medications are currently the standard first-line treatment,4 and my approach is no different. In my practice, we use laser as a first-line treatment in fewer than 5% of patients.
JAMES C. TSAI, MD, MBA: I agree with Dr. Rhee. I would say our initial percentage for patients undergoing laser therapy in the firstline setting is 5% to 10%.
DR. SAMUELSON: Why do you think laser hasn’t taken more of a foothold as an initial therapy, despite its safety and similar efficacy to prostaglandins?
DR. TSAI: I’m not sure why first-line laser therapy hasn’t taken off. The safety and efficacy of laser therapy has been widely researched.5,6 As far back as 1995, the Glaucoma Laser Trial showed that patients who had argon laser trabeculoplasty as a first-line therapy had better long-term outcomes than patients who started on topical medications.7 Today, selective laser trabeculoplasty lowers IOP by about 20% initially, but the efficacy is reduced after 3 to 4 years.
I think patients view laser treatment as invasive and permanent and view medications as the easier option. They may initially like the fact that there’s a reversibility with medications that they don’t see with the laser treatment.
That said, patients don’t seem to realize how challenging it is to take daily eye drops. Poor compliance is a huge issue—studies have shown up to 60% of patients with glaucoma are noncompliant.8-12 The reasons for this are multifold. Patients are forgetful. They don’t have support at home. They don’t feel sick and may not fully understand the nature and severity of their disease.
MURRAY FINGERET, OD, FAAO: A prostaglandin is my first-line agent as well. I tend to start with a generic latanoprost because of formulary considerations, and then move to other agents as needed if there are problems. To Dr. Rhee’s point, I will recommend laser treatment early on if a patient has difficulty instilling his or her drops. I practice in a veteran’s hospital, and many of my patients are elderly. There have been occasions where the patient can’t use drops because of dexterity. We also run into people who are forgetful and don’t have support at home.
DR. SAMUELSON: Does anyone differentiate between the different molecules within the prostaglandin class?
DR. RHEE: Yes, I do, but it’s usually not because of the molecule itself but the other aspects. Generic latanoprost is the least expensive option and is very well-tolerated. Travoprost is alternatively preserved, and talfuprost is preservative-free. Bimatoprost is an alternative to any of the others. My experience with latanoprostene bunod is still fairly limited.
All the prostaglandin molecules are agonists to the prostaglandin FP receptor.13-15 The FP receptor has activity in both ciliary body smooth muscle cells as well as trabecular meshwork. Activation of the FP receptor causes an alteration in the matrix metalloproteinase enzymes to tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloprostinases towards greater extracellular matrix turnover, ie decreasing extracellular matrix. The vast majority of the enhanced outflow following prostaglandin dosing is through the uveoscleral outflow system.
DR. TSAI: I go with generic latanoprost unless there is a particular reason not to. One of the challenges for those of us who treat glaucoma is keeping track of all the different copays, the different schedules, and the changes in drug pricing. I’ve found that it’s much easier to start with a generic agent, because I just don’t know what the copays will be across a varied group of patients.
NOVEL DRUG-DELIVERY SYSTEMS
Q DR. SAMUELSON: How will sustained-delivery devices change the glaucoma treatment landscape? Will some patients or treating physicians prefer an injectable sustained-delivery option compared to topical therapy? And if so, where do you see laser fitting in—why wouldn’t they choose to initiate treatment with a laser first?
DR. FINGERET: That’s an interesting question. I believe that selective laser trabeculoplasty isn’t used in the first-line setting because most believe that it’s not as effective as a prostaglandin. We often want that extra IOP reduction in the first-line setting. Still it has an important role as a primary agent when there are concerns about adherence, which include patient factors such as difficulty in instilling medications or forgetfulness.
Knight and Lawrence16 reviewed novel drug-delivery systems for glaucoma and found that nanoparticle-based formulations, drug-eluting contact lenses, punctum inserts, and bioadhesive matrices are all viable options that not only improve drug delivery but overcome some patient compliance issues. I’m not sure patients will take us up on the more invasive treatment options, however. A punctal plug, ring, or contact lens may be tried initially since they are reversible to some extent and less invasive. It may be difficult for a patient to consent to an eye injection as compared to an eye drop because of the perceived invasiveness of the procedure. If we can develop drug-delivery systems that are less invasive, those treatments may be more readily received. Sustained-delivery options in the future are going to present an option for patients, but I doubt they will easily displace eye drops as a first-line approach.
There are currently a host of agents in the pipeline, from contact lenses and the bimatoprost ring that sit either on the corneal surface or in the cul-de-sac that have the potential to provide therapy for several months. A punctal plug is also in development that will reside in the punctum, and also hopefully provide up to 90 days of therapy. There are some inserts in development that look like small pellets that contain medication and are injected into the anterior chamber. These may provide up to 6 months of relief. In addition, a stent containing a reservoir of medication is in development that is inserted into the trabeculum and may lower IOP for an extended period of time. The holy grail will be a drug-delivery device that is connected to an implanted IOP monitoring device so that the medication can be titrated and released based upon the patient’s IOP at that point in time.
DR. RHEE: I agree that sustained-delivery options all have potential use for first-line therapy but the invasiveness makes patients nervous. It may not make us nervous, but it makes the patient nervous. Regardless, I’m excited about the different possibilities because we need more than one tool in our armamentarium.
All sustained-delivery options have limitations. Contact lenses are not necessarily easy to put in. The rings come with cosmetic implications. Punctal plugs have a retention rate. Injections come with a risk of invading the wall of the eye. That said, they all have promise as tools to individualize treatment. All the different surgical tools, laser technologies, new molecules, and sustained-release devices are going to allow us to tailor the therapy to the patient sitting in front of you. We can now focus on personalized medicine and individualized therapy.
DR. SAMUELSON: How long does a sustained-delivery system have to remain effective to be considered a viable option?
DR. TSAI: It depends on the patient and the provider. There are sustained-release devices under development that last for 6 to 9 months, such as injectable implants that are placed externally in the sub-Tenon space or intraocularly in the anterior chamber. There are two in phase 3 development.17,18 Both provide up to 6 months of IOP control from one injection. I’d say 3 to 4 months is enough, as long as it provides even distribution and has great tolerability. Sustained release will be very helpful in the future to eliminate the challenges and barriers to medication adherence.
DR. SAMUELSON: Not only is it difficult to remember to take medicines or adhere to the dosing, but some patients are in denial. Sometimes patients believe disease progression and blindness won’t happen to them, so they tend not to comply early on. One of my favorite things to do is to show them their nerve fiber layer or their visual field progression to illustrate, graphically, how their disease has worsened. That seems to improve compliance.
DR. FINGERET: I do a similar type of education where I’ll show them their own optic nerve optical coherence tomography (OCT) or visual field to give the patient some perspective of what’s happening (Figures 1 and 2). I’ll then create a dosing regimen, talking in terms of their day-to-day lifestyle. I try to have them think about taking their eye drops as part of something else that they’re doing that day and integrate it into their life.
Figure 1. This image is the right eye Cirrus OCT Guided Progression Analysis (GPA) of a patient with primary open-angle glaucoma. The average retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness has decreased over time, from 2009 when it was 91 μm to the recent exam in which it is 80 μm, indicating progression. The slope of the average RNFL thickness line is going downwards with a rate of change of -1.18 μm/year. The inferior RNFL thickness rate of change is greater (-2.20 μm/year). This printout is helpful in explaining to patients the importance of using their medications and why therapy at times may need to be modified.
Figure 2. Seen here are the Humphrey GPA summary visual fields for the patient seen in Figure 1. The right eye has shown significant change with a superior arcuate visual field defect developing, requiring that the treatment regimen be modified. The change is also seen as the point on the Visual Field Index (VFI) trend line indicating the last exam has fallen below previous exam points. This case is illustrative of field defects showing up later in the course of glaucoma, with significant RNFL loss required.
NOVEL PHARMACEUTICAL AGENTS
Q DR. SAMUELSON: Two new agents have recently become available: latanoprostene bunod and netarsudil. What does the literature tell us about these two new agents and their utility? Will these new agents be better than prostaglandins as a first-line treatment in the future?
DR. RHEE: I think the next generation of molecules will be disease modifying. Right now, there is no known pathophysiology in the ciliary body. There’s senescence and there’s aging that occurs in the cellular body. Prostaglandins work by increasing the outflow of fluid from the eye. You can think of the prostaglandins as reversing aging or reversing senescence, but there is no pathophysiology. Therefore, we’re still forced to check pressures every 3 to 4 months and wait for the patient to need an additional therapy or progression of therapy.
I think we’ll start to see disease-modifying agents as our understanding of the pathophysiology of disease increases. Even if these disease-modifying agents don’t have the biggest impact on IOP, interrupting the disease will be the medical treatment of the future.
Netarsudil, the first rho-kinase (ROCK) inhibitor to be available in the United States, is affecting the tissue by relaxing the trabecular meshwork, which may lead to improved aqueous outflow.19,20 There is some evidence that indicates that trabecular meshwork cell and Schlemm canal cell stiffness are part of the pathophysiology. That’s what netarsudil aims to treat. IOP reductions have ranged from 2.9 mm Hg to 6.1 mm Hg with netarsudil. Another study found that netarsudil could be combined with prostaglandins to achieve an even greater IOP-lowering effect.21-25 Whether it’s solidly a disease modifying agent or not, I think is controversial. I’m not sure that it necessarily is able to be disease modifying.
DR. TSAI: Agents like netarsudil that enhance the trabecular meshwork outflow make sense from a pathophysiology standpoint. Gong et al suggested netarsudil creates a larger increase in effective filtration area in the episcleral veins than in the inner wall, suggesting a reduced resistance distal to the inner wall.26 Lin et al27 found netarsudil prevented steroid-induced elevation of proteins typically associated with fibrosis at the human trabecular meshwork.
Data for netarsudil are interesting, overall. In a double-masked,active-controlled, randomized clinical study (n=224), netarsudil 0.02% reduced mean diurnal IOP by 5.7 mm Hg and 6.2 mm Hg across all on-treatment time points. Comparatively, latanoprost reduced diurnal mean IOP between 6.1 mm Hg and 7.5 mm Hg. Netarsudil 0.02% maintained similar efficacy regardless of baseline IOP, whereas latanoprost was less effective in people who had baseline IOPs between 22 and 26 mm Hg.28 ROCKET 2, the phase 3 registration trial for netarsudil, achieved its primary 90-day efficacy endpoint of demonstrating noninferiority of IOP lowering for daily netarsudil compared to twice-a-day timolol.29
We don’t know what to make of all this yet because the approach is so novel. It takes time for these new agents to change minds and practice patterns.
DR. SAMUELSON: What does the nitric oxide donating moiety mean to you? And is there a patient profile that would benefit more from this type of medication than other patients? In other words, who fits the patient profile for this compound?
DR. RHEE: Nitric oxide donating has been shown to work at the endothelial cell level, which applies both to the trabecular meshwork and Schlemm canal cells. It induces a relaxation of the cell cytoskeleton, so both these new medications have that in common.
Phase 2 and phase 3 trials did show some advantage to the latanoprostene bunod over both timolol and latanoprost at certain time points, but I don’t know that you can say it’s superior. The phase 3 APOLLO study (n=420), for example, compared the efficacy and safety of 3 months of atanoprostene bunod with 3 months of timolol.30 To be eligible, patients had to have an IOP of ≥ 26 mm Hg, ≥ 24 mm Hg, and ≥ 22 mm Hg for at least one time point. They also required an IOP of ≤ 36 mm Hg at all three time points in both eyes at baseline. Mean IOP in the study eye was significantly lower in the latanoprostene bunod group (range, 17.8–18.7 mm Hg) than the timolol group (range,19.1–19.8 mm Hg). The phase 3 LUNAR study (n=420) had a similar design as APOLLO where safety and efficacy of latanoprostene bunod versus timolol was compared over 3 months.31 Mean IOP was found to be significantly lower in the latanoprostene bunod group versus the timolol group in all measured time points but one. Results from both these studies show that latanoprostene bunod reduces IOP by 7.5 to 9.1 mm Hg over 3 months of treatment.
The VOYAGER trial (n=413) was a phase 2 dose-ranging study that compared the safety and efficacy of latanoprost with four different doses of latanoprostene bunod (0.006%, n=82; 0.012%, n=85; 0.024% n=83; and 0.040%, n=81).32 Patients were dosed once a day for 28 days. All doses resulted in significant IOP reductions from baseline at all follow-up visits, but latanoprostene bunod 0.024% was the most effective dose, achieving a greater IOP reduction than latanoprost.
I’ve used latanoprostene bunod on patients whose pressures were not controlled on maximally tolerated medications. I’ve only had a very small minority of patients who achieved a lower pressure. That said, this is the most challenging situation to put an agent in because the patient is on their fourth medication at this point; a new agent is probably not going to work. I will say that the tolerability of latanoprostene bunod was quite good. I think it has promise and will be more successful as a first-line agent.
DR. TSAI: I have had more experience with latanoprostene bunod than netarsudil. I’ve used latanoprostene bunod on patients who have had some success with latanoprost, but ultimately the IOP was not at the level I desired for the patient. As a clinician, if you are considering recommending surgery, you will likely try a substitution from latanoprost to latanoprostene bunod to see if there’s any benefit. I have seen a couple millimeters of additional pressure reduction in some patients, but not enough to gain an overall sense of the benefits of this substitution. I believe that it’s still too early to determine the overall real-world efficacy of the medication.
DR. SAMUELSON: We speak of both drugs as being new, but they are new to different degrees. Latanoprostene bunod is a modification of an existing class of agent, whereas netarsudil is a brand-new category. Who do you recommend using these drugs on and what have the early results been so far?
DR. FINGERET: I look at latanoprostene bunod as an example of a prostaglandin somewhat more effective than latanoprost. I would use it in patients who need a little extra IOP reduction. In addition, there are some properties related to nitric oxide and enhanced blood flow that need further elucidation because they may have also positive properties for the therapy of glaucoma.
Netarsudil is a fascinating drug. I look at it as more of a second-line or adjunctive agent to a prostaglandin. Compared to other adjunctive agents, netarsudil has some theoretic advantages in that its systemic side effect profile is excellent. There are some side effects that we are learning about, however, such as small conjunctival hemorrhages found at the limbus, corneal verticillata, and hyperemia. It is also a once-a-day drug as compared to other second-line agents, which are taken up to three times a day. Having a once-a-day agent that can be taken a couple of minutes apart from a prostaglandin may help improve compliance.
DR. SAMUELSON: Some people say netarsudil has a trimodal mechanism of action. How novel is this?
DR. TSAI: I think it is quite novel. Netarsudil lowers IOP by inhibiting both ROCK and the norepinephrine transporter (NET). The ROCK inhibitor enhances trabecular outflow and reduces episcleral venous pressure, while NET inhibitors decreases aqueous production.20,23-25 The primary effect on the trabecular meshwork, enhancing outflow, is quite exciting. The other medication that has a trabecular meshwork effect is pilocarpine, and we all know it comes with significant challenges and side effects such as nausea, sweating,and diarrhea.33
I think there are instances where we may select netarsudil if we believe that it will be more effective than opening up the uveoscleral pathway, as prostaglandins do. It is great that netarsudil has proposed triple action, but I am looking for more studies that demonstrate that.
DR. SAMUELSON: If outflow enhancement is a well-accepted mechanism of ROCK inhibition, how real is the potential aqueous suppression and the lowering of episcleral venous pressure as possible adjunct mechanisms?
DR. RHEE: One of the great things about this class of medication is that the mechanism of action has been researched for at least 2 decades. In my mind there is no question about the relaxation and the effect it is having on the cell cytoskeleton of the endothelial cells. Its impact on blood flow and aqueous suppression has been less studied, and I think some secondary validation studies should be done. We need validation studies in human beings. Blood flow is a soft mechanism of action. Every commercially available medication has a paper showing a beneficial effect on either capillary dilation or velocity of flow. But how much benefit that actually provides our patients beyond IOP reduction hasn’t been shown. It’s great that netarsudil may have some blood flow capabilities, but I don’t think we know what the positive benefit of that is for this class, or any class, of medication.
DR. SAMUELSON: Do you think netarsudil will be used as an initial therapy more than prostaglandins in the future? If not, when would you add netarsudil to an existing prostaglandin?
DR. FINGERET: I cannot see netarsudil cracking prostaglandins as a first-line agent. Prostaglandins are a once-a-day drug also with few side effects and an IOP-lowering efficacy around 30%. Although netarsudil is a once-a-day agent, the IOP-lowering efficacy is closer to 25%, which is similar to timolol. I see netarsudil as a second-line agent. The beauty is that it’s a once-a-day drug, which enhances its value as a second-line therapy. One study found that netarsudil has a 24-hour efficacy, meaning it’s effective during the nocturnal hours as compared to the brimonidines and timolol, which are not.34 We are waiting for Roclatan, the fixed-combination agent containing latanoprost and netarsudil to be approved (it was recently filed with the FDA), which will be a first-line agent. This medication will contain the features of latanoprost and netarsudil and provide significant IOP reduction on a once-per-day use.
DR. TSAI: Our experience with netarsudil is still early. It took years for the prostaglandins to dethrone timolol. There’s no doubt that there’s great interest in it, but it’s going to take some time to learn how to use it effectively. The fact that it enhances trabecular meshwork outflow rather than opening up a new outflow pathway is pretty exciting. It may be a competing first-line agent in the future, but it will come down to the cost and the overall benefit. Prostaglandins are easily embraced these days because there are so many generic options.
DR. RHEE: If we are only reliant on lowering IOP, then yes, the prostaglandins are very effective based on cost and tolerability. When I start a patient on a prostaglandin, the odds are high that they will march through medications and require advanced therapy because the disease is continuing to progress. However, if we get a true disease-modifying therapy, as netarsudil may be, the patient could be on that therapy long term because the agent will interrupt disease progression. That’s when we will see cost savings and a better patient experience; the patient won’t need so many medications. It will take years to fully assess this, however.
DR. SAMUELSON: We all know that when patients are recruited to a drug study, the minimum entry pressures are usually mid-20s and higher. Those high pretreatment pressures are selected because t is easier to lower pressure on an individual with a higher pressure than it is to lower pressure on an individual with physiological pressure. How important is the clinical finding that netarsudil did better relative to latanoprost in patients with physiological pressures than it did relative to latanoprost in patients with elevated pressures? Might you select netarsudil specifically to try to lower pressures more when you’re at a physiologic starting point?
DR. RHEE: Yes, I would. I would be happy to have that tool. We all have patients who are progressing with pressures in the low to mid-teens. I will use whatever tools I have to potentially avoid doing a relatively invasive surgical procedure like a trabeculectomy to lower their pressure.
DR. SAMUELSON: One fascinating concept is pressure-sensitive outflow. That is, the trabecular meshwork outflow is pressure sensitive, whereas the uveoscleral outflow is not. It seems to me that another potential advantage of netarsudil and latanoprostene bunod, is because we’re augmenting pressure-sensitive outflow, it may be disease modifying because it may flatten out that diurnal. That’s conjecture right now, but is there a potential benefit to that or is this purely theoretical?
DR. TSAI: I am in that camp of glaucoma specialists who believe that IOP fluctuation is important. Therefore, drugs that could potentially flatten the diurnal curve or minimize diurnal fluctuation are very helpful. Konstas et al showed that IOP range had an average fluctuation of 4.8 mm of mercury in a 24-hour period in patients who were medically controlled.35 Then he showed that range was 2.2 mm of mercury in patients who were surgically controlled with trabeculectomy. We are clearly not doing a good job minimizing IOP fluctuation in patients who we think are adequately controlled. I’d love for investigators to explore if netarsudil blunts the fluctuation that we see in the real world.
DR. RHEE: I am in the same camp. There is evidence showing that diurnal fluctuation is important to disease control.36-40 Nouri-Mahdavi et al found that IOP fluctuation increased the odds of visual field progression by 30% for each 5-year increment in age and 1 mm Hg increase in IOP.38 Caprioli and Coleman found that long-term IOP fluctuation was associated with visual field progression in patients with low mean IOP but not in patients with high mean IOP.39 Rao et al found that long-term IOP fluctuation was the most important parameter associated with increased visual field loss.40
The literature is mixed with some studies showing that high circadian variations of IOP as well as intervisit IOP variability correlates to greater disease progression as measured by visual field. However, some studies show no correlation. In my opinion, the preponderance of the literature supports the assertion that high circadian variations of IOP and large fluctuations of IOP in between visits correlates to progression of disease.
I will take any tool we have to flatten the curve, especially if it’s additive. Aqueous suppressants on their own don’t flatten the curve well. We all know timolol doesn’t flatten the curve well, especially at night. Topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (CAIs) are better, and there’s some controversy about selective alpha-2 agonists or brimonidine. It’s the outflow agents that have the most potential to flatten the curve. The studies do not uniformly support brimonidine having a strong effect over diurnal IOP fluctuation.
It is great we have another mechanism to accomplish this in addition to prostaglandin analogs. There is ample opportunity to look at not just netarsudil’s effect alone, but what is the best additive to flatten diurnal variation?
DR. SAMUELSON: We currently have four dominant classes of pharmacotherapeutics: prostaglandins, topical CAIs, alpha-2 agonists, and beta-blockers. With the arrival of latanoprostene bunod and netarsudil, what does maximum medical therapy look like?
DR. FINGERET: I define maximum medical therapy as the amount a person can afford and remember to take without causing undue side effects. That tends to be two bottles, three medicines. On rare occasions, I may extend that to three bottles if the patient has undergone laser or another procedure, but I don’t see that as viable for compliance, affordability, or efficacy.
DR. RHEE: I completely agree that the definition of maximum therapy is whatever the patient can tolerate. Most of my patients will want me to prescribe all the different medications before we do anything they perceive to be invasive. In their minds, the advantage of medications is that it’s reversible, and it is a little more difficult for patients to accept other procedures. I actually do see the potential use for five medications. I don’t know how many patients will be open to taking five medications, but it doesn’t mean that some patients won’t want me to try.
DR. TSAI: I agree that patients want the maximum effect of medications prior to considering what they perceive as invasive surgery. However, I don’t agree that we will use five agents as maximum therapy in the future because I think we’ll have more combination agents available. A common complaint about the topical treatments is the toxic effects of their preservative formulation because they can lead to dry eye and other ocular surface issues. Pharmaceutical companies are attempting to address those issues by either removing/modifying preservatives or by combining agents in an attempt to improve patient compliance while also reducing the overall ocular surface exposure to preservatives. Outside the United States, there are combinations of timolol and prostaglandins dosed once daily, but these have not received US regulatory approval.41-43
Most recently, a fixed combination containing brimonidine 0.2% and brinzolamide 1% was approved in 2013; side effects are similar to those of the individual components while efficacy was similar to prostaglandins.44 To date, the only preservative-free prostaglandin available in the United States is tafluprost 0.0015%, approved in 2012. The combination dorzolamide hydrochloride 2%/timolol maleate 0.5% and timolol maleate 0.5% are also preservative free, but cost and convenience can be a limiting factor for many patients.45
In addition to the availability of combination agents, I think we will have sustained-release devices that will be personalized to the patient. We’ll have better diagnostic tools that will allow us to know when a topical beta-blocker is contraindicated because there’s a potential blood flow effect that is exacerbated by the topical beta-blocker agent. We’re not currently doing that in patients. I do see a day where we will be more selective in our drug selection.
I think the intriguing part about netarsudil is it may very well be a game-changer when you have a drug that could be disease reversing or disease delaying. The really effective agents—prostaglandins, netarsudil, beta-blockers—have three very different mechanisms of action, but they all lower IOP. In the future, hopefully IOP will not be the only thing we focus on as we treat patients.
DR. RHEE: For many patients, two bottles is the maximum amount of medication they can take. Once you start combining agents or implementing sustained release, suddenly you can give classes of medications with a minimum number of bottles. That’s the real wild card that has the potential to be a game-changer.
DR. SAMUELSON: When prostaglandins first came out, there was a lot of trepidation about some of the unfamiliar effects, like lash growth and iris pigmentation. Are there any similar concerns with either latanoprostene bunod or with netarsudil? Anything that the readers and clinicians should be aware of that they might have to monitor for?
DR. FINGERET: There are two things that stand out with netarsudil. One is the corneal verticillata. Although this appears to be mild, ophthalmologists are not used to seeing corneal deposits due to a topical drug. The corneal verticillata doesn’t appear to impact vision and, once the medicine is stopped, it appears it goes away. The other concern is the tiny conjunctival hemorrhages at the limbus that are variable and come and go. Both of these side effects will take some getting used to. Ophthalmologists will have to learn to become comfortable with them.
DR. SAMUELSON: Will these side effects cause someone to stop the medication?
DR. FINGERET: They are not cause to discontinue therapy. The hemorrhages are variable; they will last a couple of weeks and then go away. The verticillata will be present as long as the person is on the medicine, but it doesn’t continue to get worse. It reaches a certain level and then plateaus. I think it is more about the realization that these are side effects that can occur, but they should not be considered grounds to discontinue the medicine.
DR. RHEE: I agree. I would make note of the findings but not feel compelled to stop the medication unless the side effects were bothersome to the patient.
DR. TSAI: I also agree. I think that’s one of the reasons why it’s been easy to enroll patients on latanoprostene bunod clinical trials. That compound is very similar to latanoprost, which most of our patients are comfortable using. Latanoprostene bunod is essentially a nitric oxide moiety added to latanoprost. That said, whenever you start a patient on a new medication, you need to review the potential side effect profile so they aren’t alarmed if they hear about it or experience it.
DR. SAMUELSON: All things being equal, including cost and insurance coverage, would you prescribe latanoprostene bunod over a prostaglandin? Or would you require a specific reason to step up from standard prostaglandin therapy to nitric oxide donating?
DR. TSAI: After cost considerations, you’re left with two other variables: efficacy and tolerability. Efficacy, to me, is the most important factor that I look for, but I also consider tolerability. Latanoprost is very tolerable, but a preservative-free medication is even more well tolerated. That’s very attractive.
DR. SAMUELSON: Tafluprost is preservative free, yet is having a hard time getting significant market share. Is that because of cost? Is that because latanoprost is relatively well tolerated even though it’s got a fair amount of benzalkonium?
DR. RHEE: It’s both. Many patients aren’t able to afford it, and the generic is cheaper.
NOCTURNAL PRESSURE REDUCTION
Q DR. SAMUELSON: What drugs do we currently have available that work at night?
DR. RHEE: The literature is uniform in agreement that prostaglandins and topical CAIs work at night. There’s some controversy with selective alpha-2, but the preponderance of literature indicates that brimonidine works very poorly at night if at all.46-48
DR. SAMUELSON: When you dose some of the fixed-combination agents, do you have a strategy to try to get that second dose in but still avoid an “at bedtime” beta-blocker, for example? If a patient is on dorzolamide/timolol or brimonidine/timolol, how do you dose those?
DR. FINGERET: My concern with the brimonidine/timolol is that I’m not certain it’s effective during the nocturnal hours. I am not certain you’ll achieve adequate pressure reduction even if you dose twice a day, with one being at nighttime. That is why I like a topical CAIs; they have a little better nocturnal reduction. When combined with a prostaglandin, I tend to use it twice a day at nighttime. When I really need some extra pressure reduction, I’ll use it three times a day.
Work has been done using a sleep lab to measure IOP over a 24-hour period. The studies, done on different eye ranges and in healthy individuals as well as those with glaucoma, have shown that both brimonidine and timolol, while effective in reducing IOP during the waking hours, provide little if any IOP reduction during the hours when one is sleeping (nocturnal).47,49,50
When I use beta-blockers, I am always concerned that the IOP may not be adequately reduced during nighttime hours. Compliance is another issue with nighttime dosing; sometimes patients fall asleep and forget to take their medication. Therefore, I prefer my patients to use prostaglandins in the morning because I know they are more likely to remember the dosing.
DR. SAMUELSON: Do you dose your beta-blocker differently than the second dose of your fixed-combination beta-blocker CAI or betablocker alpha-2 agonist? How do you dose that second dose?
DR. RHEE: If it is a beta-blocker on its own, then I go with just morning dosing. We’re just not really sure if it works at night. I actually do not dose the combination beta-blocker agents differently. I tell my patients to use all their evening drops right after dinner, because I completely agree that many patients fall asleep before they use their second dose.
DR. TSAI: I tend to use a timolol combination agent. I only dose it once a day in the morning because the biggest concern with a timolol-based agent is the morning pressure spike the patient will have if it is not working at night. But if they already have a prostaglandin on board, I am more comfortable with that. I am also concerned about some of the nocturnal perfusion effects of beta blocker agents. We don’t have to be as concerned with dosing timolol agents twice a day (when used as an adjunctive agent to prostaglandins) since I believe the prostaglandin agent dosed nightly will blunt any potential morning pressure spikes.
DR. SAMUELSON: Do we expect netarsudil to work at night?
DR. TSAI: Yes, I do. With netarsudil, the triple action of increased trabecular meshwork outflow, the decreased episcleral venous pressure, and the reduction in aqueous suggests it will work during nighttime hours.
ADVANCES IN COMBINATION THERAPIES
Q DR. SAMUELSON: What have the data told us about combination netarsudil/latanoprost? Are they additive?
DR. TSAI: The combination would be a very valuable treatment option for patients as well as clinicians since the eye drop would have the traditional efficacy of a prostaglandin analogue combined with the trabecular meshwork outflow effects of a ROCK inhibitor.
DR. FINGERET: The combination provides at least 2 mm Hg of additional IOP reduction with side effect profiles similar as you’d expect for both medications, including conjunctival hyperemia.19 The agents work on different aspects of the outflow system. The phase 2 trial of latanoprostene bunod illustrated about 1.25 mm Hg greater efficacy than just latanoprost.51 Netarsudil/latanoprost provides an even greater IOP reduction, which is very exciting.
DR. SAMUELSON: And it is worth noting that it’s not easy to improve on latanoprost in a fixed-combination product. The fixed-combination of latanoprost/timolol was not approved in the United States because it failed to show adequate additivity to latanoprostene alone. On the other hand, latanoprost bunod demonstrated clinically significant greater efficacy than latanoprost alone. The fixed-combination of latanoprost/netarsudil will be a nice adjunct to try to simplify some of these complex regimens that we anticipate with now five classes of medications.
How does this pharmacologic renaissance marry to the surgical renaissance we’ve been experiencing? I have always felt that microinvasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) alone is not enough unless the glaucoma is very mild. For many patients, you need MIGS and medication, although patients may not need as many medications as they did pre-MIGS surgery. Considering that, what does glaucoma management look like 5 to 10 years from now?
DR. TSAI: I also believe in the MIGS/medication combination. MIGS will reduce pressure to a certain level, and you can lower it from there with medication. In order to get once-a-day dosing, the thought used to be that you’d have to add a prostaglandin to MIGS or prescribe a timolol-based agent. But netarsudil gives you a once-a-day alternative to a prostaglandin, especially in the setting of being used as an adjunctive agent to a MIGS procedure.
DR. SAMUELSON: I think we still need transscleral surgery, we still need trabeculectomy, and we’re still going to see very advanced disease either from noncompliance or late diagnosis. We will still be doing some version of transscleral bleb-forming surgery, but we’ll probably be doing less of it.
DR. RHEE: My experience with MIGS is that the majority of patients still require medication. As for the future of glaucoma management, it will be a tough sell to ask patients to take five bottles for maximum medication. There will be patients who do it, but many who won’t be able to or won’t be able to afford it. Sustained-release therapy and combination agents are very exciting. I think we will have a sustained-release delivery system within the event horizon of 5 to 7 years.
I do think there are some opportunities that we have to investigate like the efficacy of medications. Will prostaglandins be effective after a supraciliary shunt? In my anecdotal experience, they will be. Will netarsudil be additive after you’ve done a trabecular meshwork bypass procedure? We don’t know yet, but, based on what I’ve seen with the other medications, I think it will be.
Those questions will need to be solved but, in the event horizon of 10 to 15 years, I’m hoping to see true disease-modifying therapy where the disease process will actually halt or slow down so dramatically that additional therapies might not be needed.
DR. SAMUELSON: You brought up some interesting points about the added advantages or the synergies of some of the newer drugs with some of the surgical procedures we have. I think you can make a theoretical case at this point that cataract surgery is favorably improving the aqueous humor dynamics. It gives me pause to do canal-based procedures that cause a lot of tissue damage now that we have drugs that can improve trabecular function.
For example, I wouldn’t take a patient with very mild disease and do a gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy (GATT). I’m a GATT enthusiast, but I wouldn’t do it for a very mild disease or maybe even mild to moderate disease. But I might place a stealth device because I’m retaining 98% of the meshwork. This is all theoretical and unproven, but the more we can improve the ultrastructure of the canal and the trabecular meshwork, the less I’m willing to damage it in a significant way with surgical interventions.
DR. RHEE: I would agree with that.
DR. SAMUELSON: Thank you, gentlemen, for lending your thoughts and insights on glaucoma management in 2018.
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Ameesha Patel to Play a Femme Fatale in The Great Indian Casino
April 25, 2019 Anuj Radia News 0
Ameesha Patel is coming out with another movie The Great Indian Casino after her latest Bhaiyaji Superhit with Sunny Deol in an avatar she’s never played before on screen.
Ameesha is all set to overpower 4 crook men with a femme fatale character in an astonishing performance in the movie.
The actress has been a favourite amongst the audience since the start of her career with her debut performance in Kaho Na Pyaar Hai and has been climbing the ladder since then for her.
Since her debut, she has been a part of over 35 Bollywood movies and has surprised her fans with each and every one of them and continues to do so with The Great Indian Casino.
The film is also stirring up controversy as it is based on the impacts of Narendra Modi’s demonetization policy.
The story of the movie revolves around four crooks who use Indian ‘Jugad’ to tackle the ‘Notebandi’ in the Ameesha Patel starrer crime drama.
The movie is also dedicated to the ‘unknown number of people who died and five million people who lost job’ after demonetization.
“After my movie MY NAME IS RAGA and other political biopics were stalled as a part of Model Code of Conduct, the industry was scared to touch anything political.
Though THE GREAT INDIAN CASINO is not a political movie, it will show you how scammers do their job beautifully”, said Director Rupesh Paul.
Other members of the cast in The Great Indian Casino include:
Rajesh Sharma, Asif Basra, Pankaj Beri, Deepraj Rana plays the four Mumbai gangsters where Govind Namdev, Yateen Karyekar, Sanjay Gandhi, Anant Jog, Scarlett Mellish Wilson, Heena Panchal, Nisha Rasaily.
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Trade-Sensitive Sector ETFs in Focus on New Tariff Threat
Sweta Killa
Zacks May 6, 2019
After a calm of about five months, trade tensions have resurfaced with Donald Trump threatening to impose additional tariff, which were delayed in February on hopes of a positive deal. Trump intends to increase tariff to 25% from 10% on Chinese goods worth $200 billion this week and threatened 25% tariff on further $325 billion of Chinese goods "shortly."
The announcement came as a surprise as both the countries are involved in trade talks with the U.S.-China leaders slated to meet on May 8. The move has marked a major escalation in trade tensions between the world's two largest economies intensifying worries over global growth. This would result in a tailspin for the U.S. stock market, which has been flourishing on optimism over the productive trade deal since the start of the year (read: 5 Top-Ranked Stocks in S&P 500 ETF Up More Than 50%).
Tariff War Dents Economy
According to the latest study, some of the world’s leading trade economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Princeton University and Columbia University declared Trump’s tariffs to be the most consequential trade experiment seen since the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariffs blamed for worsening the Great Depression. The study found that tariffs imposed last year by Trump on products ranging from washing machines and steel to some $250 billion in Chinese imports were costing U.S. companies and consumers $3 billion a month in additional tax costs and companies a further $1.4 billion in deadweight losses.
Per the Wall Street Journal report, American consumers have been burdened with $69 billion in added costs because of the tariffs the U.S. imposed last year, including on $250 billion of Chinese imports as well as levies on steel and aluminum (read: US Q1 GDP Growth Trumps Expectations: ETF Areas to Win).
Market Impact
While most corners of the market are set to tumble, sectors, such as information technology, industrials, consumer discretionary and agricultural, are expected to be hit the most due to the fresh China trade tariff. In particular, chip stocks dominate the list of tech sector players with large sales exposure to China.
Below, we have highlighted a few ETFs from these sectors that are on investors’ radar following renewed U.S.-China trade spat:
VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF SMH: This fund provides exposure to 25 securities by tracking the MVIS US Listed Semiconductor 25 Index. It has higher concentration on the top two firms with a combined 21.3% of assets while others hold no more than 6.9% share. The product has managed assets worth $1 billion and charges 35 bps in annual fees and expenses. It has a Zacks ETF Rank #2 (Buy) with a High risk outlook (read: Chipmakers on Fire: ETFs & Stocks Soaring to New Highs).
Industrial Select Sector SPDR XLI: This is the most popular ETF in the industrial space with AUM of $10.4 billion and average daily volume of 14 million shares. The fund follows the Industrial Select Sector Index, holding 70 stocks in its basket with each accounting for less than 8.6% of the assets. More than one-fourth of the assets is allocated to aerospace & defense while machinery, industrial conglomerates, and road & rail make up for a double-digit share each. This ETF charges 13 bps in fees per year and has a Zacks ETF Rank #1 (Strong Buy) with a Medium risk outlook (read: 10 ETF Areas to Gain as Trump Delays Additional Tariffs).
VanEck Vectors Gaming ETF BJK: This ETF provides investors with exposure to companies involved in casinos and casino hotels, sports betting, lottery services, gaming services, gaming technology and gaming equipment. It follows the MVIS Global Gaming Index, holding 43 securities in its basket. It is moderately concentrated across components with each holding less than 8.5% of the assets. The product has AUM of $29.6 million and average daily volume of roughly 8,000 shares. It has a Zacks ETF Rank #3 (Hold) with a High risk outlook.
VanEck Vectors Agribusiness ETF MOO: This fund is by far the most popular choice in the space with AUM of about $780.9 million. It tracks the MVIS Global Agribusiness Index, which offers exposure to companies involved in agri-chemicals, animal health and fertilizers, seeds and traits, farm/irrigation equipment and farm machinery, aquaculture and fishing, livestock, cultivation and plantations, and trading of agricultural products. The fund holds 58 securities in its basket and charges 54 bps in annual fees. Volume is good as it exchanges nearly 78,000 shares.
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What Is SMA in Investing?
By: Victoria Lee Blackstone | Reviewed by: Ashley Donohoe, MBA | Updated May 17, 2019
1. How to Analyze a Prospectus
2. How to Find an Investment Portfolio Advisor
3. What Is a Retail Mutual Fund?
In the world of investing, separately managed accounts (SMAs) typically attract a sweet spot of investors who are bigger players than middle-income investors but smaller players than multi-million-dollar institutional investors. This middle investor category generally finds itself populated by wealthy investors who like the flexibility and greater control that SMAs offer them. Although SMA investments are managed by professionals, individual investors actually own the securities in their funds instead of pooling their resources in commingled funds.
According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), "a 'Separately Managed Account' or 'SMA' is a private portfolio of actively managed individual securities."
What Is an SMA Account?
An SMA account, which is managed by a professional financial manager or asset management firm, is a portfolio that may include different types of investments such as stocks, bonds, individual securities and cash. This portfolio is private, which means the assets it contains are not commingled with other investors, and it is separately managed. Its separate status allows an SMA manager to customize the portfolio according to its investor’s goals and preferences. SMA investors own all the securities in the account, and they directly negotiate the fees with the account manager.
SMA and Mutual Funds Difference
Pooled investment accounts, such as mutual funds, do not allow the customization that SMAs offer their owners. When you invest in a mutual fund, your assets are combined with those of other investors who invest in the same fund. But when you invest in an SMA, your funds are in a separate portfolio that is uniquely yours. This means that your asset manager tailors your investment as a customized portfolio for you as an individual instead of managing a blended portfolio for a group of investors, which defines the structure of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.
SMA Customization Benefits
Other than the benefit of flexibility in custom-tailoring an SMA account to an investor’s specific preferences and goals, SMAs also allows investors to control their investing decisions. For example, someone who wants to invest only in a certain market sector, such as the green industry, can direct the account manager to channel funds in this direction. And, likewise, an investor who strongly wishes not to invest in a certain market sector, such as a tobacco company, can steer clear of undesirable investments.
Investors who need to avoid conflicts of interest with their investment choices in certain companies or certain industries can cherry-pick which investments they want to be omitted from their SMA portfolios. Investors in mutual funds cannot do this.
Investments carry fees and tax implications. Investors in mutual funds join other investors with a pool of investment funds, the fees of which are also commingled for the “greater good,” so to speak. This means that individual investors in a pooled fund cannot exert control over the investment decisions. But SMA investors directly influence how fees are spent.
SMA Transparency Benefit
When you invest in an SMA account, you’ll be able to see exactly which securities you own, which is a feature that’s not always apparent if you invest in mutual funds. And you’ll also be able to watch trading activity with SMA investments in real-time instead of learning about it after the fact, which is characteristic of mutual funds. This insight and transparent bird’s-eye view of SMA holdings and transactions are what give you the facility to control your own investment decisions.
SMA Tax Efficiency Benefit
If you invest in mutual funds, you know that capital gains tax is a shared liability that's imposed on all the investors in a fund. But if you invest in SMAs, you’ll only be taxed on your personal portfolio’s realized gains. And since your SMA is composed of individual securities, you can offset capital gains tax by selling investments through a process called tax-loss harvesting.
Tax Loss Harvesting
Tax-loss “harvesting” is the practice of selling certain securities to minimize or eliminate your capital gains liability. Typically, tax-loss harvesting is directed at short-term capital gains, because you pay more tax on short-term capital gains than long-term capital gains. And since higher-income investors are the SMA demographic, they represent a tax-sensitive group that seeks to minimize capital gains tax wherever they find opportunities.
If, for example, you have two securities in your SMA portfolio that you purchased at similar prices, but the value of one has increased two-fold while the value of the other has fallen to half its purchase price. If you direct your asset manager to sell both of these securities, the capital gain of the one with the two-fold value will be offset by the capital loss of the security that’s now half-value, effectively netting you no capital gains tax. But then you can turn around and reinvest the proceeds from the securities’ sales, keeping the investment balance in your SMA.
No Embedded Capital Gains Benefit
Because mutual funds carry a shared tax liability on capital gains, and these capital gains are only paid once per year, some of the gains are actually embedded in the portfolio. For example, you may buy into a mutual funds portion in December without receiving any capital gains the fund produced between January and November. But you will incur the capital gains liability because these gains were embedded in the portfolio during the same tax year that you invested in it … even though you didn’t become an investor until December. If, however, you invest in an SMA, you are not tax-liable for any capital gains before the day that you invest in your portfolio.
The Price of Investment
You may imagine that you’ll need to be a high-dollar investor to invest in an SMA, and generally, you’re right. But many asset-management firms have significantly lowered their “price of admission” SMA investing threshold, which has historically been $1 million. You can find investing firms that have lowered this bar to $100,000, opening the gates for many investors who couldn’t previously touch an SMA without ponying up $1 million.
If you’re a retail investor with a high net worth, an asset-management firm may set a higher minimum balance, somewhere between $100,000 and $5 million. And if you’re a high-dollar institutional player, plan on a minimum account size between $10 million and $100 million.
SMA Fee Structure
Fees for an SMA are structured differently than the fees for a mutual fund. Mutual fund fees follow a certain structure based, in part, on the net expense ratio. Typical fees include the management fee, sales charges and certain expenses. These fees must be disclosed in a company’s prospectus, which establishes the fees and publishes examples of how the fees translate into dollar amounts over certain holding periods.
In contrast, SMA fees are determined between an asset manager and an individual investor. These fees are listed in a regulatory document (Form ADV) instead of being published in a prospectus. This fee schedule is negotiable, which is why you may not be able to download it as you can for a mutual fund prospectus. Another departure from mutual fund fees is that an SMA’s fee may be calculated on an incentivized scale in which the fee decreases as an investor’s volume of assets increases.
SMA's Form ADV
The SEC requires professional investment advisors to submit Form ADV (Uniform Application for Investment Adviser Registration and Report by Exempt Reporting Adviser) as a registration document for securities. Form ADV includes the names of key investment officers/advisors, investment styles and investment strategies, among other disclosure information for the investment firm.
Asset managers should freely offer Form ADV to any potential investors, and you may view it as a bit of a red flag if it’s not offered to you even after you request it. Financial firms must update Form ADV with any material changes to the firm that impact their business.
Two Types of SMAs
There are two general types of SMAs – single style, with lower investing thresholds, and multiple style, with higher investing thresholds. Asset managers work with investors to determine which SMA type is the best fit, not only based on their investment amounts but also on their risk tolerance preferences and investment objectives.
Although investment minimums vary among asset managers, and $100,000 is a typical low threshold, a single style SMA may allow investors in with as little as $50,000 for equity portfolios. Fixed-income portfolios typically require a higher minimum, which is usually $100,000. Single style SMAs are structured with a distinct style of investing in mind.
A multiple style SMA, however, is structured with a diverse investment style in mind. This type of SMA represents a diversified portfolio with investments across different asset classes and even among different managers, although one manager oversees all the investments. The minimum investment typically is $100,000 to $300,000.
SMA Performance Data Composite
Savvy investors want to see performance data of a potential SMA before investing in it. This data should include annual and quarterly returns of the SMA, which is compiled in a composite. The composite is typically organized into a table that shows the aggregate performance of all the fee-paying accounts in the SMA. Other than this at-a-glance review, investors may also want to find out if a third-party auditor (not an in-house auditor) has affirmed the SMA’s compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards.
These standards are established by CFA Institute, an international organization comprised of more than 70,000 members who have earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. This organization provides an ethical benchmark for promoting the high standards of conduct and behavior required of investment professionals.
New SMA Reporting Information
In August 2016, the SEC mandated a new SMA reporting amendment (with compliance required by Oct. 1, 2017). Part of this amendment increased the required reporting information to include more comprehensive data, including the types of assets held in SMAs, the use of borrowing and derivatives (for firms with regulatory assets under management in excess of $500 million) and the role of custodians.
Twelve SMA Categories
This same 2016 amendment required investment advisors to identify SMA assets into one of 12 categories:
Exchange-traded equity securities
Non-exchange traded equity securities
U.S. government bonds
U.S. state and local bonds
Sovereign bonds
Corporate bonds (investment grade)
Corporate bonds (non-investment grade)
Registered investment companies and business development companies
Pooled investment vehicle securities
SMA Due Diligence
When considering an SMA for a potential investment, you will ideally work with an investment professional who has a similar investment philosophy, style, risk-tolerant focus and approach to investing as you do. Don’t be hesitant to ask questions so that you can evaluate a manager, in addition to reviewing the firm’s ADV. After determining that a manager’s philosophy closely aligns with your own, ask questions about the firm itself – how decisions are implemented, how often the investment committee meets and even how the firm pays its professionals.
Investopedia: Separately Managed Accounts - A Mutual Fund Alternative
Legg Mason: A Guide to Separately Managed Accounts
RND Securities Brokerage Professionals: Form ADV Changes - Compliance Due October 1, 2017
TD Ameritrade: Money Smart - What are Separately Managed Accounts?
Charles Schwab: Managed Account Select
Investopedia: Tax-Loss Harvesting
Investopedia: CFA Institute
Investopedia: SEC Form ADV Overview
MetaQuotes Software Corp.: Technical Indicators
Forextradingzone.org: Simple Moving Average (SMA)
Victoria Lee Blackstone was formerly with Freddie Mac’s mortgage acquisition department, where she funded multi-million-dollar loan pools for primary lending institutions, worked on a mortgage fraud task force and wrote the convertible ARM section of the company’s policies and procedures manual. Currently, Blackstone is a professional writer with expertise in the fields of mortgage, finance, budgeting and tax. She is the author of more than 2,000 published works for newspapers, magazines, online publications and individual clients.
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Greece, Israel & Cyprus Sign Landmark EastMed Gas Pipeline Deal Despite Turkey’s Wrath
Via Zerohedge
Long in the works, but coming at a geopolitically sensitive moment for the region given expanding Turkish maritime claims, the East Med gas pipeline deal was signed this week between the countries of Greece, Cyprus and Israel.
The three signed the deal on Thursday to build a 1,900 km (1,180 mile) subsea pipeline to transport supplies from the rapidly advancing gas fields of the eastern Mediterranean to Europe.
A massive undertaking to supply energy-hungry Europe, the East Med pipeline project was first proposed by Greek energy minister Yannis Maniatis in 2014, and has since been hailed as “the longest and deepest gas pipeline in the world”. At an initial estimated cost of $6-7 billion, it will be financed by “private companies and institutional lenders,” according to prior Israeli Energy Ministry statements.
The energy ministers of Greece, Israel and Cyprus – Kostis Hatzidakis, Yuval Steinitz and Yiorgos Lakkotrypis – attending the signing ceremony on Thursday. Image source: Reuters.
The underground, sub-sea pipeline is proposed to connect Israel, via Cyprus, to Greece and Italy, in a massive construction project estimated to take five or six years to complete, and which once online is expected initially pump 10 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
The energy ministers of Greece, Israel and Cyprus – Kostis Hatzidakis, Yuval Steinitz and Yiorgos Lakkotrypis – attended a signing ceremony in Athens which finalized the project’s moving forward, according to Reuters.
Predictably, Turkey is actively opposing the project, given its own expanding oil and gas exploration claims which have now completely surrounded Cyprus (using the excuse of “rights” based on the contested so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) and have even cut into Greece’s Exclusive Economic Zone as well. Per Reuters:
Although Turkey opposes the project, the countries aim to reach a final investment decision by 2022 and have the pipeline completed by 2025 to help Europe diversify its energy resources.
Last month a Turkish official said there was no need to build the EastMed pipeline because the trans-Anatolian pipeline already existed.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry complained this week that the East Med pipeline “ignored the rights of Turkey and Turkish Cypriots” and thus would be doomed to failure.
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Via The Weekly Standard
“The most economical and secure route to utilize the natural resources in the eastern Mediterranean and deliver them to consumption markets in Europe, including our country, is Turkey,” Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said Thursday, just as the deal was being signed in Athens.
Turkey has lately angered countries like Egypt, Greece and Cyprus over its disputed maritime boundary agreement with Libya, which many see as a big and illegal maritime grab for drilling rights in the southern Mediterranean.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades shot back, however, saying “It (the agreement) … supports a common aim for peace, security and stability in the particularly vulnerable region of the Eastern Mediterranean,” underscoring that it’s actually good for the region’s security in a historically restive area where neighboring countries rarely get along.
Map via the AFP
The transformation of the eastern Mediterranean into an “energy hotspot” could have huge global geopolitical implications, especially given that currently the EU relies on Russia for a third of its gas.
It’s especially southeast Europe that’s been entirely reliant on Russian gas, given its lack of infrastructure. Thus Europe has greeted the project as part of a broader push for “energy diversity” that such other projects as the Nord Stream 2 Russia-Germany pipeline is meant to satisfy as well.
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Statement by FinTech Australia on comments by Ed Husic, MP
March 23, 2017 Fintech Australia Newsroom Press Release
FinTech Australia has always been, and remains, fiercely apolitical.
If we think a proposal hurts the fintech industry, then we will state it – irrespective of its origin.
For instance, we recently did this when we raised concerns about the Australian Governments changes to limit the ability of startup companies to claim for software under the Research & Development tax incentive.
We have also expressed our concerns about limitations in product scope for the current design of ASICs regulatory sandbox, though we recognise it is also an important step forward in policy development and better than standing still.
Equally so, we will express support for policies, such as the equity crowdfunding legislation, which helps the Australian fintech and broader community.
In regard to some of Mr Husics points made in his speech in the Australian Parliament on 22 March:
We think it would have been a bad outcome to refuse or delay this legislation for public companies while work was undertaken to extend it to private companies, given the strong pent-up demand for this legislation.
We of course strongly support the legislation being extended to private companies and urge the government to expedite this work
We have repeatedly argued that any form of cooling-off period – two or five days – could lead to people trying to unethically manipulate the equity crowdfunding market. However, we support the amended legislation as a necessary compromise to introduce equity crowdfunding to Australia.
The legislation contains a number of other investor protection provisions.
Overall, our sole aim is to help the Australian fintech industry to grow and we will seek to work with all industry players, including Mr Husic, to ensure this happens.
We are strong supporters of the work Mr Husic does for the startup community, and are hopeful that we might be able to work more closely with him as we continue to progress discussions concerning the extension of the equity crowdfunding framework to private companies
The $200,000 Australian Government grant is being used to promote the best and brightest in the Australian fintech industry to the world – which surely must have bipartisan support.
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Addition of "Play from Album/Folder" option on search result
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The two options one currently has at this date when looking for a song are very... bland? Let's look at the current options: "Play all" will play all songs in phone in alphabetical order: It does not take into account at all the fact that the next song is from a different album, by a different artist, in a different genre, etc. Ugh "Play filtered" will play the one, or the multiple, that popped up in the search query. Generally one, since generally only one pops up when you look for a song. Why the feature would be great: The way it works now makes up for a very frustrating search experience for a music lover: In order to play that song and the remaining from its respective album, you have to search for it first, see what album it is from, then manually navigate to the album, and play the song from there instead having this happen by default behaviour, or, by option really, which brings me nicely to the feature to be suggested itself: 1. I therefore suggest a "Play from Album", or "Play from Folder", or both as separate options. Why both? Because A folder can contain a mix of songs from different albums/artists: All (standard) albums are folders, but not all folders are albums. 2. If only one could be implemented, naturally the sensible choice is "Play from Folder". Again, All (standard) albums are folders, but not all folders are albums. 3. The default behavior for each would be: "Play from Folder" - would play the remaining songs in that folder after the song found in the search query, in order they are found in that directory: alphanumerically by definition. In the case of albums, of course this will end up happening by track number. "Play from Album" - would play the remaining songs in that album after the song found in the search query. If you think this would be a beneficial addition, I kindly ask you to upvote it.
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Village of the Slate
June 25, 2014 IndiaHimalayaFlat Tires Slow Boats
The Himalayas are constantly a source of surprise and intrigue and rarely if ever do they disappoint.
My experiences around India though, have led me to be wary of the sub-continents one two punch. This combination of pleasure and pain can be leveled upon you with accuracy and speed; at the most unexpected times.
No sooner are you immersed in the wonder of a colorful spectacle, completely bewildered and enchanted by one of the many cultural marvels, or simply wide-eyed at the sight of an elephant sashaying side by side with a camel in downtown Delhi, than you are dragged fighting and screaming into a state of total confusion brought on by abject poverty as you attempt to wrap your head around the latest immediate moral dilemma.
Our time in Daged would prove to be one of those times.
Veering left from the main road took us on a steep and muddy ascent into mountains. Narrow roads had at this point in the journey become familiar territory and barely an eye was batted traversing this latest one.
Even the clay slick road with a precarious cliff to one side got little attention. The landslides, the river, and the wreckage of the less fortunate failed to make an impact…we had seen it all before.
It is the Himalayan desensitization effect at play.
What did finally grab our focus was a bridge; a bridge with a man shepherding a trio of sheep. He also had a dog; an old man with a dog and three sheep crossing a bridge in the middle of rural India.
For this we stopped and took photos, chatted a bit and laughed. He spoke no English, we spoke no Hindi or Urdu but sign language is universal.
In the early evening we entered through a large open wrought iron gate. Dusk had begun to settle and the winding road ahead was darkened by the arch of trees cascading from either side.
The air had become moist and more akin to fog as we had climbed higher throughout the day. Now as we reached the zenith of this portion of the journey the clouds swallowed us and an ethereal air of doom or hi-jinks, depending on your mood, seemed to lay in wait.
Perched on each side of the entry portal was a single monkey; a kind of simian sentry, watching but refusing to acknowledge us.
The hotel proved to be a Godsend; hot showers, hot meals, heaters, beer, good company, and a peaceful night’s sleep. We ate and talked all night. For part of it we occupied the hotel dining room. We were warmed by the spicy Indian cuisine on offer. For another part we were in our rooms where the clinking of glasses had become a bedtime pre-requisite.
You see right at this moment we are all very happy and completely oblivious to the fact that Punch One had just landed; that’s the punch that fills you with a cozy warm satisfied feeling in order to camouflage the underlying false sense of security.
With morning came a view and drive along mountain tops flanked on either side by white cotton candy fog. The entire country lay below us yet we could not see any of it. We were basking in the deep blue of a crystalline sky that had absorbed everything above us and as we traipsed across our high altitude mountain islands we approached the village of Daged.
After an inspection of the local health clinic, which left some in horror and all others in disbelief, we set up camp outside. Three tents pegged to the ground each catering to its own specific kind of medicine; gynecology, pediatrics, dermatology, while inside the clinic catered to general complaints and minor surgeries.
The doctor in charge of the clinic, who had proudly given us the initial tour, was a shady character at best and portrayed few of the professional qualities seen in previous village doctors.
As the morning wore on, the crowds we had come to expect began to descend upon the clinic. A cliché it may be, but people walked for hours, through the night and over mountains, in order to be seen.
A young woman carried her son in her arms; he was frail, burnt from head to toe, and no more than five years old. We would soon find out that no fire had caused his injuries yet the flesh covering his small body appeared to be in a state of decay. Scabs and puss layered him; pain engulfed his cries for help.
Worse still was the expression of complete helplessness and distress authored across his mothers face. Even now, years after the fact I find emotions welling up inside me as I recall their visit and its aftermath.
Cleaning of the open wounds took hours and the excruciating pain endured by the boy was heartbreaking to all those involved.
He laid in the arms of his mother throughout the procedure but when it was over he found himself cradled by the head doctor and walked throughout the clinic; anything to take his attention from his own misery.
He was diagnosed with an extreme case of polymorphic light eruption; otherwise known as sun poisoning. So extreme was his condition that his expectancy for continued life was minimal to the point where it was assumed he had just a matter of days to live.
The local clinic doctor, so freaked out and unraveling by this stage, confessed to his part in the original misdiagnosis. His disclosure that he was not a real doctor but more a pharmacist set off alarms among the members of our party.
There was no real doctor in the village and no real doctor in close proximity.
This small hamlet was totally isolated from the rest of the world. They all mined slate. At every house the backyard was a quarry; increasing in size every day as the rock was removed.
Any and all illnesses were dealt with by the health center in the middle of the village by a doctor who wasn’t. The whole situation reeked; understanding how such a thing could happen seemed criminal yet we would learn that this wasn’t uncommon.
In order for a community as small and resource-less as this to obtain medications necessary to sustain life they had to put in place a person to play doctor. He would in turn complete the required government forms and be dispensed medicines. With no real training, misdiagnosis of illnesses was inevitable and this would sometimes lead to tragedy.
After learning this it came as no real shock that the village doctor, now a confessed pharmacist, was no medical professional of any kind. He had read a few books and kept some in the clinic for reference but mostly he relied on guess-work; trial and error. The cost of which, unfortunately, was about to be the life of the boy now nestled in the arms of his panic-stricken mother.
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43 thoughts on “Village of the Slate”
carolcolborn says:
How beautifully poignant…and sad.
It is a shame that us westerners have access to great health care while people in third world countries have to rely on people who have no real knowledge about medicine. People like the local “doctor” certainly have my respect for doing their best in helping their fellow man.
This is so heartbreaking. I remember visiting a clinic outside of Arusha full of children that had been badly burned in open fire cooking accidents in nearby villages. Luckily in that case the clinic was run by volunteer western doctors, so I left knowing they were well cared for. Seeing this in person must have been so hard!
You are right; there was a set of circumstances here that led to the whole experience being extra difficult as once we left we knew little was going to change.
Melody Pittman says:
Tim, you have such a remarkable way with your stories that I really feel as if I am there and the pain of seeing those horrific conditions. I am oversensitive and think that I truly cannot visit places like that just because of how savage the conditions. It is amazing how lucky we (especially Americans) are to have the health care we have and things we take for granted.
brmsimmons says:
I’ve felt the same “traveler’s guilt” when visiting Belize and Eastern Guatemala. Both the Mayan Temples and poverty were overwhelming and definitely left their mark on me. It made me realize how lucky I am to be born both when and where I was born, especially as a woman.
antonette - we12travel says:
Thank you for sharing this story Tim, it breaks my heart and totally puts things back into perspective for all of us readers …
I think perspective re-calibration is a good thing and travel is a good way to do it; this one was a heart-breaker for all involved.
SLioy says:
This story is terribly sad, and yet extremely well-written. One of those awful experiences on the road that stick with us as a reminder that not all is sunshine and rainbows, no doubt.
Husnaa says:
Literally feel like I was on the trip with you, what a sad post but informative. Amazing to see you’ve reached the Himalayas.
Love, Husnaa
tuhinmech says:
There are always two sides of a story.. It is sad that poverty and suffering exists in different parts of this country. But India is developing at a steady rate. Though it is extremely difficult to bring a significant change in a country as populated as this at a rapid rate, things are gradually changing for good.
Absolutely Tuhin; the differences I have noticed over the years of travel to India have been astounding.
Jason @ TheButlerJournal.com says:
I’m honestly speechless after reading this. The fact that the “pharmacist” has had to do trial and error with his patients doesn’t sit well with me at all.
It is amazing that we can just call 911 and an ambulance will be at our house. And if the ambulance were to take a long time, lets say an hour, people would be hysterical and livid. Where you were, people had to travel long distances to meet with a non-professional (not even a doctor). It really puts things in perspective. Very sad for the 5 year old boy, as well as everyone else who has to suffer through those circumstances.
Absolutely right Erica, it really does put everything into perspective and challenges the things we take as common place.
You’ve captured the extremes of the country well and it invites the reader to multiply the possibilities by India’s swelling population as a way to even begin to imagine what troubles they often face. Travel posts like this matter so much because they help build empathy.
Thanks Jeri, that is certainly the intention.
How sad. It made me cry Tim. In this age of technological advances, it’s hard to imagine that these conditions still exist. Remembering this must be very hard for you.
The difficult part for me, apart from the obvious, was reconciling just how good and easy we have it with them having so little. I am speaking in medical accessibility terms. The children with neurological disorders really got to me as they had no access to drugs, I know are available, that would enhance their quality of life 100 fold. All I have to do is get a prescription and have them arrive in the mail.
confusion2clarity says:
India certainly is a nation of extremes.This is a frightening situation offering a false sense of security. Timely as well, considering the recent devastation in Nepal and nearby regions. Thank you for sharing. I certainly feel your experience as though I am on the journey with you.
SafariOnTheBlog says:
This is so so sad! oh God
There is so much suffering and sadness in this world.
andleeb says:
I think that many of the doctors are not much happy to go to remote areas as now the situation in Indo Pak is like for doctors. Stay in big cities and have private clinic and empty the pockets. I think there must be some dr. in that are in the files of government but for sure he/she must have taken transfer somewhere else. This gives time and space to people like this “fake Dr.” to come forward and get the benefit. I am sad for the kid. I hope that someday there will be better health care facilities.
Pamela Chollet says:
I don’t know the entire story, but it seems the Pharmacist’s intent was honorable, he knew something about medicine, as opposed to nothing. Perhaps he couldn’t stand seeing the pain and not doing anything about it.I don’t understand why there isn’t a government program designed for lay people to be trained by physicians. Who then could go into impoverished areas and give medical care. We did it during the Viet-Nam War, the soldiers were trained for medical care to assist with the overwhelming number of injuries. In fact, that’s how the career of, “Nurse Practitioners” originated.
At the time I was, we all were, pretty upset by the “fake doctor” but you are right, he could well have had honorable intentions. That said, it is very easy to be skeptical, then and now, when in plain sight corruption appears to run rampant alongside abject poverty.
heraldmarty says:
I can certainly understand why this experience remains so vivid for you Tim, the photos you’ve shared only hinting at what you must have seen during your travels. My heart aches for that mother and her child, but I am a bottom line kind a gal so my thoughts immediately went to what – if anything – would it take to bring qualified medical help to the area in an ongoing basis so there is no longer a place for this kind of ‘role playing.’ The fact that the government apparently condones this behavior through the licensing and dispensing of medicines makes me that – right or wrong – the fake doctor is as close to fulfilling that need as they are going to come anytime soon. Another lesson in how much we take for granted.
There are so many places in the world where stunning natural beauty sits side-by-side with even more stunning poverty. It is one of the things that makes me feel ambivalent about travelling in certain areas. Your story is indeed heart-wrenching, as is the knowledge that it is likely played out far more often than we would like to think.
I saw this kind of thing more than once on this trip, although this was the most heart breaking, so in a country where the population tops 1.3 billion I can only imagine how many others suffer in a similar fashion.
Organisedlady says:
Thank you for sharing this. How awful it is that people are suffering like this. I have heard that the poverty in India is like no other and it lays side by side with the wealth of India. I would like to visit but do not think I am mentally prepared.
There is plenty to love about India but as with anywhere there is always another side. Travel in India definitely requires an open mind and a compassionate heart.
So terribly sad. I don’t know how you could bear it. Those poor people and the horrible suffering of the little boy.
This is more than sad…I am actually wiping away a few tears. The worst is knowing that in so many parts of the world these conditions still exist. I can only imagine how emotional you still become, just remembering this.
This was a tough one to recount Jacquie as I wanted to be respectful as well as factual. Life in these tiny villages in the middle of nowhere is so hard that it is almost impossible to make a comparisons between their quality of life and ours. At the very least we, in the west, can realize our good fortune and view the world from that perspective.
Oh this breaks my heart, and questions abound, but I expect that if there were good answers to them, your team would not have been needed. I don’t know how you can recover from a trip like that without some lingering effects of PTSD.
I hope that the one lingering effect for anyone taking on a journey like this one is compassion. It certainly broadened even further my perspective of the world and my appreciation for the benefits we have the luxury of often taking for granted.
Tim, my heart breaks for the mother. I have often thought that the worst thing that could happen to a parent would be serious illness or loss of a child. To think the best medical care they could receive was from a totally unqualified person is so wrong. You say this is not unusual – what is wrong with us that we allow things like this to go on. You can’t blame the ‘practicing doctor’ or the villagers – they are doing the best they can but where is the World Health Organization in this and why is it functioning if things like this are allowed to go on?
Sorry, that’s a rant but it is so wrong.
It is heart breaking Lenie and even though there are reasons or excuses why this goes on they do not make the tragedy any less.
What a heartbreaking story. Knowing that this situation is not a isolated incident in our world makes it even sadder. In Canada, we often complain about our healthcare and waiting times for certain surgeries, but overall we have pretty good care from real professionals. Sad to see such inequlity in our world.
galanda23 says:
So you’ve made it all the way to Himalaya, good for you, Tim. It’s an area that I’ve long dreamed of visiting. Thanks for sharing this information
Krystyna Lagowski says:
Well, you certainly need to have strength in many capacities to tour places like this. You’re brave to wander off the “road less travelled”!
This was definitely one of the tougher stops on the journey but being in a group with one goal made it a lot easier.
Jeannette Paladino (@jepaladino) says:
You write about your travels so vividly that I almost feel I’m there. So much suffering in the world. Your story made me feel guilty that I have access to great healthcare. I also feel blessed that I was born in the U.S.
There was a little bit of guilt from me as well regarding this Jeanette. So many benefits, bestowed or non-existent, simply because of where you are born.
Sad but true..
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by kgraf | December 7, 2017 · 11:56 am
Thesis Review and Interview: Tacos, Gumbo, and Work
Photograph: Fernando Lopez
Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent thesis or would like to review one, you can contact me directly: Katharina Graf (kg38@soas.ac.uk).
Tacos, Gumbo, and Work: The Politics of Food and the Valorization of Labor. Sarah Fouts. Ph.D. Thesis in Latin American Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans. 2017.
Emma-Jayne Abbots (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter)
Tacos, Gumbos and Work interrogates the economic and social interplays between migrant food vendors and construction workers – both commonly undocumented – in post-Katrina New Orleans, and situates this synergism within a broader political framework of regulation, law and migration policy. Fouts argues that taco trucks and loncheras provide migrant workers with ‘familiar and sustaining foods’ (p.4) and, as such, she examines the cultural work food vendors perform in the creation of their own economic and political spaces. The cultural work of food is a prevailing theme, but the key contribution of this rich ethnographic discussion lies in Fouts’s illumination of the ways that vendors look to navigate an intrinsically unhelpful and constraining bureaucratic system laden with structural inequities. The thesis highlights the multiple barriers food vendors face in terms of language, their status as undocumented, their access to social networks, and a licensing system entrenched in semantics that does not reflect the needs of the community. It thereby demonstrates how vendors’ economic and cultural capital, in association with their legal status, shapes their capacity for both social and physical mobility: this occurs not only in the sense that those who are documented can be more visible, but is also shaped by the extent vendors have access to knowledge and actors that can facilitate their navigation of ‘the system’. The theme of (in)visibility thus emerges in myriad ways and Fouts teases out the tensions that stem from vendors working in public spaces, whilst remaining in the shadows.
In capturing and comparing the voices and personal biographies of vendors with a range of economic and cultural capital, Tacos, Gumbo and Work successfully shifts its gaze between individual motivations and practices and the broader political and economic dynamics informing vendor actions and decisions. Many of Fouts’s participants are clearly vulnerable and structurally marginalized, yet they are not devoid of agency and Fouts’s sensitive representation stresses vendors’ creativity and entrepreneurial spirit, and their capacity to affect change within the constraints of living and working. This is particularly well illustrated by the manner that some vendors have rejected work in the formal economy in favor of the informal sector – an observation that also offers, as the thesis does more broadly, a seething critique of neoliberal policies and its resultant conditions.
Tacos, Gumbo and Work also raises questions regarding applied research, gender dynamics and social divisions within migrant communities. Below, I put these questions directly to the author, Sarah Fouts, currently a post-doctoral fellow at Lehigh University.
Emma-Jayne Abbots (EJA): Your ethical sensitivity and integrity are clearly evident throughout your discussion, not least in your methodology and in the volunteer work you undertook for your participants and the Congress of Day Laborers. How did you go about balancing your engagement with the community and applied practice with the academic analysis required when writing a PhD? What value does an activist approach bring?
Sarah Fouts (SF): Prior to my academic career, I was a Peace Corps volunteer and worked for a non-profit, so much of my worldview is in applied practice. As an academic I have done my best to extend this commitment to service. While it may seem that an unbiased analysis precludes close involvement, I’ve found that the two can work in concert, and I think it’s important not to take from the communities with whom I work without offering support or service. I was also fortunate to study in my field site, so logistically it was easier to balance the research and community engagement. With the community-engaged work, I had to learn when to say no to volunteer assignments, for instance during intense phases of writing or teaching, and I had a good enough relationship with those folks that they understood. Like I mention in the thesis, I never realized the degree to which my community-engaged work would impact my actual thesis. Once I realized that I could use it as the thread to connect my research, it was obvious that that was the organizing principle all along. An activist approach allows for more collaboration, particularly for people to be a part of telling their own story. For the researcher, accompaniment brings a first hand glimpse into how people navigate systems. But it does more than just understanding the barriers people face, it also helps them get through these barriers by interpreting for them, helping them access other resources, etc. As long as researchers are transparent about their involvement with communities, I think engagement can lend more valuable insight based on first-hand experience than just bird’s eye observation.
EJA: You mention that a possible direction for further investigation is the gendered dynamics at play in this context and, although your argument and analysis takes you in a different direction, there are certainly some interesting ethnographic observations on gender in your thesis. Given the ongoing critical debates about the feminization of food work, can I ask you to reflect upon how your own findings, as well as further scholarship on informal food vending more widely, could enhance our understanding of reproductive labor, especially its interplays with productive labor?
SF: The first five years after Katrina, it was mostly men that came to New Orleans. Women and children started to arrive after 2010, to reunite with their families and as a result of political instability across Central America. Oftentimes, it was the women who recognized the dearth of food options and the market for mobile food vending services. Women also continue to understand the flexibility of the street vending industry and the potential profitability. In many of these cases, reproductive labor directly intersected with productive labor in that women are able to prepare food for sale, while taking care of their children and completing other domestic work. In some of the more clandestine economies, women produce and sell food from their own homes; people would pick up foods directly from the home or someone, oftentimes men, would deliver the foods to construction sites. So in those cases, the women never had to leave home. Your question makes me realize a key part I left out in the case of the two dueling tamale vendors in Chapter Two. I fail to mention that there is free childcare at the Congreso meetings where the women sell food. So, the women could set up their booth and sell foods while their children played inside. This is so important. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2007) addresses this to some degree in her work, as does Lorena Muñoz (2013). The feminization of food work comes up throughout my thesis and as I continue on with the book project I plan to engage this concept more explicitly.
EJA: There are points in your ethnography where there are evident tensions between vendors, particularly in relation to battles over turf. In what ways do these dynamics reflect and intersect with hierarchies of economic and cultural capital within the community?
SF: The root of these tensions and turf battles between vendors reflect hierarchies that manifest in terms of access. Oftentimes, this access is connected to documentation status, because there is so much power or perceived power linked to having papers. Like in the case of Clara and Leonora, Leonora can access more spaces as a tamale vendor because she has legal status through her English-speaking husband. She was able to get licensing—albeit a catering license—when Clara was not. But based on the other cases, it is likely Clara could have gotten a license as well (if she called the right person), she just assumed that she could not due to being undocumented. Other examples of turf wars include brick and mortar establishments versus the food truck vendors, which isn’t exclusive to New Orleans. These types of battles usually depend on institutional support as part of the hierarchies of capital. Brick and mortar places received support from the Louisiana/National Restaurant Association to fight for policies limiting the mobility of food trucks. But as food truck popularity grew nationwide, New Orleans City Council increasingly backed more liberal food truck ordinances, yet even those policies had limitations as shown in Chapter Three. One argument I maintain is that many of these policies, even though they may attempt to be liberal, fail to take into account what is happening on the ground locally.
As I continue onto the book project, I draw in a more cross-racial analysis, which reflects integration of Latinx communities in a predominantly Black city and within a New Orleans food culture that is quite homogenous. So, I consider questions like how have Latinx foods been creolized into New Orleans food culture. Here, these hierarchies of economic and cultural capital definitely come into play, especially within a Bourdieusian theoretical framework. But my argument links back to my first statement, drawing in questions of access—documentation status, class, and race. Those issues are inherently linked to these hierarchical tensions.
Muñoz, Lorena, “From Street Child Care to Drive-throughs: Latinas Reconfigure and Negotiate Street Vending Spaces in Los Angeles,” in Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 2013, 133-143.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierette, Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring the Shadows of Affluence. Berkeley: UC Press. 2007.
Filed under anthropology, book reviews, labor, Latinx foodways, migration, New Orleans, reviews, United States, urban, work
Tagged as food, research, reviews, work
by foodanthro | August 11, 2013 · 3:17 am
Will Work For Food?
Food and Work
Special issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
Susan Levine (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Steve Striffler (University of New Orleans), co-editors
Food studies has become an important field for research as well as for activist-oriented students and faculty. A spate of new literature looks at foodways and identity, agricultural policy and the industrialization of the food system, commodity chains and globalization. What is missing from this new work is a historical look at food and agriculture as sites of work. The classic labor histories of meat-packing, restaurant work, or food boycotts, for example, have yet to be up-dated in response to this new research.
We will be editing a special volume of Labor focusing on the history of food work broadly defined. Possible topics include:
Cooking as domestic labor (slaves, servants, maids)
Agricultural labor in the context of globalization
The impact of fair trade on local agricultural labor
Food workers as political actors – eg, the anti-GMO movement in Mexico; the role of food workers in the Civil Rights Movement
Restaurant/food-service worker organizing
Working class diets – nutrition, malnutrition, and obesity as class issues
The work and industrialization in food service corporations
Agricultural policy (eg, the Green Revolution) as labor policy
Military rations – keeping soldiers healthy
Food politics – boycotts, food-strikes
Home Economics – gender and professional work/the de-skilling of cooks
Prospective authors should send abstract (300 words) and short CV to slevine@uic.edu andstriffler@hotmail.com by October 1, 2013. The editors will determine whether the proposed work fits thematically in the special issue. Articles will be due June 1, 2014. The special issue will appear as the Spring 2015 volume of Labor.
Filed under anthropology, Call for Papers, CFP, Food Studies, history, labor, unions, work
Tagged as Anthropology, Anthropology of Food, food, history, labor, unions, work
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October 1, 2015 September 30, 2015 ~ gotmeghan
If I am annoying you with these post about the new season of The Vampire Diaries I would suggest just skipping this post today!
Last week I gave out a small list of characters that will no longer see (unless they come back in flashbacks!) anymore. This week I thought i’d share who I have gushed at for the past six seasons! I’ve also decided to include a few of my favorites from their spin-off The Originals too. If you didn’t know by now, both TVD and The Originals will return next week October 8th starting at 8pm EST! Who is excited?!?!
Ian Somerhalder (who plays Damon Salvatore)
I have to be truthful here, if it wasn’t for Damon Salvatore’s entrance at the end of the first episode of TVD I probably wouldn’t be a big of a fan like I am! I remember hiding underneath my blanket because that scene just scared the shit out of me! Ian Somerhalder was my first vampire/guy in general that I’ve ever fell in love by looking into his piercing blue eyes! I’ve never been THAT impressed by his body but his sense of humor is another story!
Daniel Gilles (who plays Elijah Mikaelson)
When Elijah made his first appearance during season two, I was dumbfounded. This “old” dude dressed up in his suits in every episode. He’s got the best serious, don’t play any games tone that is so intoxicating! A girl could seriously get used it. There were two episodes that really changed my outlook of both the show and this character. The first was when he meets the Salvatore brothers for the first time as they were trying to save Elena, I remember that episode being VERY bloody. A little more than the whole first season actually! Then there’s the scene on The Originals where he’s fighting off infected vampires of werewolf bites. Just the words “gentleman, shall we?” and the way he unbuttoned his suit, I had to rewind that part like four of five times because I was so taken by it!
Steven R. McQueen (who plays Jeremy Gilbert)
Little Gilbert. When Steven’s character Jeremy left for “art school” this past season I was so sad, but I was also glad he wasn’t being killed either because then we’ll never see him again. He came back during the season six finale and had a small moment with his sleeping sister. I’ve always loved Jeremy, I think I’ve cried more for him and Tyler than anybody else on both shows!
Phoebe Tonkin (who plays Hayley Marshall)
I remember falling in love with Phoebe Tonkin while she was on The Secret Circle, I loved her as Faye and this darker role. When that show was cancelled and she appeared on TVD as Hayley, I was probably the only one who was happy to see her there. I was really Team Klayley during the first season of The Originals and I guess i still am, but it would never work out honestly. Especially after how this past season of TO ended. Excuse my language, but she fucked herself after trying to run away with Hope. I’ve grown to really love Phoebe as a person! She’s just gorgeous!
Joseph Morgan (who plays Klaus Mikaelson)
Joseph Morgan. Yummy man you are!! I remember reading a spoiler just before his first episode on TVD on a site that explained his past jobs in the UK but truth be told, I didn’t really care for him at first!! Once he came to the show though, man did he surprise the crap off me! And I mean that in a good way! That’s what you want the villain-y character to do. It was the first time I’ve ever been scared of a character on the show all throughout the show(s) but now we’ve seen him in a different light and that’s been nice to see that inside Klaus cares for certain things.
Paul Wesley (who plays Stefan Salvatore)
Stefan was the first one we got to meet during the first episode. The one we were the most curious about I think. I still remember falling in love with him and wishing he came into my school! No joke I did!! I am a die hard fan of Stelena! I did have a slip up at the beginning of season two, but I’ll always want him and Elena together. However, I’ve been leaning more and more to Steroline too! He deserves to be loved! He’s too cute not to love honestly!
Claire Holt (who plays Rebekah Mikaelson)
I remember when Claire made his entrance on the show. The 1920’s episode of when Stefan first met three of the Originals on his distant Rippah days. I always hated whenever Klaus would stake her on her decisions of wanting a normal life even though she is an immortal. The fact he trusted her enough to raise his daughter for six months of her life was really heartwarming. I really miss her playing Rebekah but I’ve grown to enjoy Maisie too! I like it whenever Claire makes those cameos though!
Charles Michael Davis (who plays Marcel Gerrad)
I was going to watch a spin off of TVD especially if it included the Original family of vampires. When we were first introduced to Marcel I was really intrigued on his role as king of the vampires in New Orleans. The fact he wasn’t going to let go of his power over the city when the Mikaelson family came back into town, but I like the friendship that was there between him and the whole family, especially the love connection with Rebekah. Charles’ smile makes me melt… like seriously!
Elyse Levesque (who played Genevieve)
Genevieve was a name that I could never spell before seeing it on The Originals thanks to closed captions! This was the first witch that I actually liked during the first season of the show. She was evil and had the right edge to get what she wanted but when she tried to kill Hayley and Hope I quickly flipped my direction. Elyse is a gorgeous woman, blue eyes and red hair! I’ve got a serious weakness for red heads thanks to my nana!
Nathaniel Buzolic (who plays Kol Mikaelson)
I was so sad when Kol got killed off TVD. I really was, I thought he was a strong character considering you had the two older brother Klaus and Elijah. When Matt was seeing the dead on the otherside he was sitting in the corner clutching anything he could to not disappear like everybody else he was really scared but who knew he’d be stupid enough to make a deal with mommy dearest herself and come back to befriend Davina, not to mention fall in love with her too in another body of course! I’ve already heard Nathaniel’s coming back for flashbacks in the new season of The Originals so that’s awesome!
Michael Trevino (who plays Tyler Lockwood)
Tyler Lockwood, man! During the first season he was an ass! I literally hated his guts and then he turned into a werewolf and fell in love with Caroline. Swoon! The episode that he’s got himself chained up as it was a full moon that night, I cried through that whole scene! I was eating dinner and I couldn’t finish my meal because I was crying so much. During the commercial my parents were making fun of me because I was reacting the way I was! I couldn’t help it! I’m too much like my mom in that way!
Who is your favorite?
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14 thoughts on “11 Hottest Characters On The Originals and The Vampire Diaries!”
Pierre Guerin says:
Definitely Phoebe Tonkin, however, if Nina Dobrev was still in the show the choice would be very easy;’)
Oh well of course!! Nice choice 🙂
Kol always. It’s wicked how cheeky he is. Which makes him hotter. Rebekah’s pretty hot too.
I agree, Kol has that little something that is intriguing and sexy all at the same time! 🙂
Hands down – Klaus, I bloody love him! He’s so bad but charming, I love him haha. Here’s to hoping my bf doesn’t see this lol.
Hahahaha! I won’t tell him! 🙂
I love Daniel Gilles! I know he isn’t most people’s favorite but his demeanor is just so sexy to me! Ian Somerhalder and Phoebe Tonkin are a close second and third on my list too 🙂
I don’t know so far everybody has been saying Daniel Gillies is their favorite! Not a lot have said Ian which kind of surprised me a bit!
Camille O’Connell. Stunner with those eyes.
Wendy Desouza says:
With out a doubt Klaus
The Sunday Mode says:
No idea who my favourite is because I feel like they all have their moments! I think I’ll probably always be a Stefan fan though…
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JOHN DENVERG says:
klaus is super ugly
KOL IS BEAUTIFUL
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