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Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
by Richard Dowden - £10.99 Granta Books (2019)
Every time you try to say 'Africa is...' the words crumble and break. From every generalisation you must exclude at least five countries. And just as you think you've nailed down a certainty, you find the opposite is also true. Africa is full of surprises.
For the past three decades, Richard Dowden has travelled this vast and varied continent, listening, learning, and constantly re-evaluating all he thinks he knows. Country by country, he has sought out the local and the personal, the incidents, actions, and characters to tell a story of modern sub-Saharan Africa - an area affected by poverty, disease and war, but also a place of breathtaking beauty, generosity and possibility. The result is a landmark book, compelling, illuminating, and always surprising.
Updated for 2018, Africa remains one of the most comprehensive, intelligent and responsive works on the continent ever written.
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The ongoing use of Māori language at Ihumātao has done much to warm the hearts of those of us throughout Aotearoa who value and seriously care about Māori language. Photo: Getty Images
Peter J. Keegan
Dr Peter J. Keegan (Waikato-Maniapoto/Ngāti Porou) is from Te Puna Wānanga (the School of Māori and Indigenous Education), Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland.
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A reflection for Te Wiki o te reo Māori
To truly survive, the Māori language needs to be heard and used far and wide. Peter J. Keegan lays out some key areas in which it would need to happen.
The year 2019 will be remembered for Ihumātao, for raising awareness of events on that land, current and historical. It will be remembered for the wider currency it brought to land protest and protection of wāhi tapu/whenua Māori in South Auckland instigated largely by a young activist group, SOUL (Save our Urban Landscape), many whom are mana whenua, members of local iwi.
The action at Ihumātao, rightfully, has received a lot of media attention.
A key member of SOUL and somewhat reluctant leader, Pania Newton, has quickly become a media ‘darling’. Pania is young, educated, humble, unassuming, social media savvy, and, importantly, articulate in both Māori and English. This is in contrast (at least from what I have seen in the media) with some local kaumātua who are certainly not comfortable or competent enough to express themselves in Māori.
Other young SOUL members along with some supporters are clearly fluent speakers of Māori. Visitors to Ihumātao have reported being pleasantly surprised by the amount of Māori being used and that the Ihumātao site appears to be ‘te reo Māori friendly’ (I have no doubt others may have had different experiences). This atmosphere, whether deliberately cultivated or not, has appealed to rangatahi Māori who have flocked there in droves and followed closely events via social and ‘mainstream media’.
The ‘occupation’ of Ihumātao continues into Te Wiki o te reo Māori (Māori Language Week) which aims to raise awareness of the value of Māori language for all New Zealanders. Those with no knowledge are encouraged to learn basic greetings and useful phrases. Others, with some knowledge, are encouraged to increase what they know and attempt to use Māori in new and challenging situations. Equally importantly, fluent, highly proficient speakers are encouraged to use Māori more often and in situations where they may have used English in the past.
It is often is stated that if Māori language is to survive then it needs to be used in the home. Intergenerational transmission means parents, whānau and adults actively using the language with children, among themselves and with visitors. Children need language exemplars and cultural heroes; the language needs to be seen as the conveyor of cultural truth and a Māori world view. It should be fun, yet integral to identity and used across whānau, hapū and iwi and in cultural spaces like marae and hāhi. Unfortunately, urbanisation and the cost of travel means many young Māori have limited opportunities to get back to their whānau and marae so their exposure to their language can be somewhat limited.
A key complement to language in the home and cultural spaces is Māori language in education. Kōhanga reo, Māori-medium ECE, bilingual and immersion units, kura kaupapa Māori, kura-ā-iwi, whare kura that are well resourced with competent kaiako or whānau can reinforce and enhance students’ Māori language and culture. But regrettably, for many young Māori speakers, these educational locations are the only places where they can access significant amounts of Māori language and good cultural role models.
To truly survive, the Māori language needs to be heard and used far and wide, and that is why the media is so critical. Māori television has been available since 2004, Māori radio and Māori language reporting have much longer histories and are no less important. To see young Māori-speaking children totally enthralled by the Māori language version of the Disney’s Moana is a clear testament to the value of Māori. To talk with excited Māori-speaking teenagers who have just read the recently Māori-released translation of Anne Frank’s Diary (Te Hōtaka a tētahi Kōhine) shows the benefits of bilingualism and the value of having access to more than one view of the world.
Kapa haka, extremely popular among young Māori speakers, is another forum that provides language learning opportunities for performers and whānau supporters. It also provides the chance to interact with other speakers of Māori in a cultural space that is clearly Māori. Waka ama and occasionally other sports provide opportunities for Māori speakers to talk with each other.
The survival of any minority or endangered language always rests with the younger generation. If Māori speaking parents value the language, then it is more likely to be passed on to their children and then onto future generations so ultimately we have whole communities of Māori speakers.
The title used for this Māori Language Week reflection uses a Māori word play that will be readily understood by fluent Māori speakers, but doesn’t readily translate well into English. A literal translation is this: ihu means nose and mātao cold, therefore ‘cold nose’, transposed against waha which means mouth but also to carry, bear or shoulder and mahana which means warm. In other words, a situation that could be regarded as less than pleasant (ihu mātao) has carried much warmth and goodwill (waha mahana).
The ongoing use of Māori language at Ihumātao has done much to warm the hearts of those of us throughout Aotearoa who value and seriously care about Māori language.
Kia kaha tonu Ihumātao, kia kaha tonu tātou katoa ki tō tātou reo Māori.
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Monograph of Dendropemon (Loranthaceae)
Series: Systematic Botany Monographs Volume: 92
By: Job Kuijt
110 pages, illus
Publisher: American Society of Plant Taxonomists
ISBN: 9780912861920 Paperback Jan 2011 Usually dispatched within 1-2 months
The mistletoe genus Dendropemon (Loranthaceae), consisting of 31 species, is endemic to the Caribbean islands and the Bahamas. It is characterized by indeterminate inflorescences bearing paired monads; each flower is subtended by a bract and two bracteoles that are fused to various degrees, forming a cupule-like structure. A feature of Dendropemon unique in the family is the high degree of stamen dimorphism, involving alternate fertile stamens and staminodia. The genus seems most closely related to Passovia and Oryctanthus, both of which are continental in distribution, except for the presence of all three genera on Jamaica.
This monograph provides a synthesis of information on Dendropemon, including keys, diagnoses, and illustrations for all species. It includes the description and illustrations for seven new species, D. angustifolius, D. dimorphus, D. elegans, D. fuscus, D. oblanceolatus, D. polycarpus, and D. robustus.
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This award honors software, services and systems that help firms withstand an onslaught of state-of-the-art financial crime
Hoboken, NJ, May 17, 2018 – NICE Actimize, a NICE (Nasdaq:NICE) business and the industry leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, was named "Best Financial Crime Prevention Technology" category winner in Financial Technologies Forum / FTF News 2018 Technology Innovation Awards. The final award winners for this year's awards competition were determined by votes cast online by FTF News' readers and industry participants. In describing the profile of the category, FTF News stated, "The financial crime prevention technology award shines the light upon software, services and systems that help firms withstand an onslaught of state-of-the-art crime."
NICE Actimize was also shortlisted in the competition's new category, "Best Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Initiative" for its recently launched Autonomous Financial Crime Management approach. The category spotlighted those industry-leading participants which have done the most to advance operations via artificial intelligence and machine learning.
NICE Actimize's innovation and advancements in anti-money laundering and holistic surveillance also led to a shortlisting in the "Best Compliance Solution" category which acknowledged those suppliers that delivered distinguished offerings to help clients meet their critical compliance and regulatory responsibilities, as well as doing the best job of improving operational efficiency while meeting the demands of regulators, anti-money laundering laws, and the ever-changing domestic and international sanctions of global authorities.
Joe Friscia, President, NICE Actimize said, "We thank the readers of FTF News, along with our customers and partners, for demonstrating their continuing confidence in our commitment to Autonomous Financial Crime Management and our solutions and services in anti-money laundering, enterprise fraud and financial markets compliance. As we transform the industries we serve with advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning and the cloud, we work closely with our customers to optimize operations, lower costs and reduce reputational risk."
Maureen Lowe, Founder and President, FTF News said, "This year's competition featured more than 300 nominated organizations and 20,000 votes overall on behalf of our shortlisted firms – our largest awards event ever. Congratulations to those firms, such as NICE Actimize, that demonstrated leadership and innovation in their respective categories in a highly competitive ops field. Our winners should be proud of these accomplishments and their rankings in the field."
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Financial Technologies Forum, LLC (FTF) is the place to learn from, market to and interact with the people and companies that are driving the post-trade processing industry. As with all information-based industries, trade processing is in a state of rapid change. New regulations, market pressures, new types of securities — not to mention the accelerating changes in technology — have made it more and more difficult to keep current, much less get ahead of the curve. FTF is committed to being a timely and reliable source for thought-leading opinions and insights, valuable news and effective training for everyone in post-execution operations. For vendors to this industry, the forum provides an efficient, cost-effective platform from which to generate top-of-mind awareness among their target markets via content marketing, sponsorships, webinars, advertising and much more. .
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NICE Actimize is the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions for regional and global financial institutions, as well as government regulators. Consistently ranked as number one in the space, NICE Actimize experts apply innovative technology to protect institutions and safeguard consumers and investors assets by identifying financial crime, preventing fraud and providing regulatory compliance. The company provides real-time, cross-channel fraud prevention, anti-money laundering detection, and trading surveillance solutions that address such concerns as payment fraud, cybercrime, sanctions monitoring, market abuse, customer due diligence and insider trading. Find us at www.niceactimize.com, @NICE_Actimize or Nasdaq: NICE.
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Society at a Glance
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OECD's biennial stocktaking of social indicators of OECD countries, this unique publication has been revised to be structurally similar to OECD's annual Factbook. For each of the almost 40 indicators provided, a two-page spread shows on the left side definitions of indicators and commentaries on trends, while the right side shows tables and graphs highlighting key messages found in the data. This edition includes general context indicators such as income per capita, self-sufficiency indicators such as mothers in paid employment; equity indicators such as gender wage gaps; health indicators such as sick-related absences from work; and social cohesion indicators such as trust in political institutions. This edition includes StatLinks, URLs under each table and graph that link to Excel spreadsheets containing the underlying data.
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Packers and Bears reverse roles in NFL’s 100th season opener
By GENE CHAMBERLAIN Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — The NFL’s oldest rivalry takes on a different look to open the league’s 100th season.
It’s a role reversal for the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers.
A year after new coach Matt Nagy took quarterback Mitchell Trubisky and the Bears to Lambeau Field to kick off the season, the script flipped, with Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and new coach Matt LaFleur coming to Soldier Field.
“It was always big Chicago against little Green Bay,” Rodgers said. “We’ve held our own over the years and it’s always been a great rivalry.
“It’s one of the special ones in the history of professional sports.”
In Rodgers’ experience the Packers trust, even using a new offense for the first time since he became starter in 2008.
“He’s been there before, he’s got a lot of game reps,” LaFleur said of Rodgers. “The one thing you can always find comfort in is that you know the moment won’t be too big for him. He’s played in a lot of big games.”
Rodgers has been a particular problem for the Bears, beating them in 16 of 21 starts. Last year Rodgers shook off a 20-point deficit in the second-half and a knee injury to lead a 24-23 win over Khalil Mack and the Bears.
Chicago returned the favor in December and ended Green Bay’s five-game series winning streak to clinch the NFC North title en route to a 12-4 record.
Now it’s a matter for Rodgers of using an offense emphasizing more running and deception while facing the NFL’s top defense at intercepting passes (27).
“It’s so new, it’s so different than what we’ve done in the past,” Rodgers said.
The Packers ran less than any team in the NFL last year, and look to get running back Aaron Jones more carries.
“Now we’re throwing new things at them with personnel groupings and motions and alignments and movement and adjustments that they haven’t seen from us,” Rodgers said.
The Bears have revealed nothing offensively after sitting starters in the preseason, including Trubisky.
“He’s mentally grown, he really has,” Nagy said. “That’s what we look for, and now we have to do it on the field.”
The defense also sat out preseason, but inactivity failed to slow Mack in last year’s opener. With no training camp and only five practices after his trade from Oakland, Mack decimated Green Bay’s offense with a strip sack, fumble recovery, and a touchdown return after an interception.
He’s aching to face Green Bay again as the Bears seek their first season-opening win since 2013.
“Oh man, I’m so ready to hit somebody other than my teammate,” Mack said. “You know what I mean?”
The Packers will start free agent safety acquisition Adrian Amos, the former Bears safety, while his Bears replacement is former Packers safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix.
Clinton-Dix was traded by the Packers to Washington last year before signing for one year with the Bears.
“He’s come in and he’s been a great pro,” Bears defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano said. “All we ask these guys to do every single day — it doesn’t matter if they were here before or they’re new coming in — is what coach Nagy’s expectation was. You come in and earn your way. Every single day he’s done it.”
Amos is one of eight Packers starters on defense who are different than in last year’s opener.
CHESS MATCH
Elements of surprise are at work in this matchup.
The Bears had to watch tape on Tennessee from 2018 to determine how LaFleur’s offense operates. He was Titans offensive coordinator last year. Pagano, the former Colts coach and Ravens assistant, has altered the Bears’ defensive look somewhat.
“I’m sure they’re studying all the tape, just like we’re going back and looking at Chuck from all the way back to Baltimore,” LaFleur said. “So yeah, again, it just goes back to having plays that start off looking the same that are different to try and keep them off a little bit.”
CHICAGO GUY
Rodgers disagreed with the notion he has a hatred for Chicago.
“I have a lot of respect for the city of Chicago and their fans,” Rodgers said. “I grew up a fan of Michael Jordan and one of the channels we had on our 10-channel TV was WGN. So we got the Cubs games, as well.”
Trubisky expressed how little the NFL hype machine about 100 seasons means to players.
“It really doesn’t matter, all the hoopla, kicking off the NFL season, the 100th season,” Trubisky said. “If we get caught up in the moment and you let your adrenaline take over and you don’t do what the team needs you to do, then I think you could do things that are out of character and put your team in a bad spot.”
INJURY CONCERNS
The availability of Bears tight end Trey Burton will be a game-time decision due to a groin injury suffered last week. A groin injury also kept him out of last season’s playoff loss to Philadelphia.
The Packers likely will start rookie Ty Summers at inside linebacker due to a torn pectoral muscle to starter Oren Burks and a knee injury to backup Curtis Bolton.
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January 10th, 2020 OnRamp Networks
Surface is comprised of Microsoft’s top-of-the-line laptops and tablets built with touchscreen capabilities, allowing them to integrate with Office 365 in even more efficient ways than previously possible. Here’s what to look forward to.
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This new feature allows audio files to be uploaded into Word, which will then be broken down and transcribed on a side panel using Azure Speech Technology. If you want, you can also record directly on Word using the Dictate function. The app will automatically transcribe it. To review the accuracy of the transcription, simply select a piece of the transcribed text and the audio version of that part will be played back.
This technology will be available in Word for web in early 2020, and can be enjoyed on desktop and mobile in the spring. This feature isn't free, but researchers, students, and professionals will find that this feature is worth the cost. It can also be of help to people with disabilities.
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Ink Editor lets you edit and highlight documents by using your finger or a digital pen. Previously, you could already do simple commands with it, like delete and add words in a document, split a word, or link two words together. With Surface devices, the editing gestures become even more natural. When the technology arrives on web and desktop in Spring 2020, you will be able to insert comments anywhere in the document, as well as add graphs, drawings, or dictations.
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Microsoft takes advantage of the touchscreen capabilities in Surface devices by offering digital pen support for Excel. With this capability, you can now use your digital pen to write letters and numbers directly into Excel. This is perfect for people who are always on the go and those who want to save time when taking down notes.
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Surface Earbuds are wireless earbuds that allow you to control music and calls by using signature gestures and voice commands. And because it integrates with Office 365, you can also use these gestures and commands on Office apps, such as when controlling a PowerPoint slideshow. Go to the next slide on PowerPoint by swiping on your Earbuds, or play and pause a video with a single tap on your device. Access apps like Outlook calendar and email without a screen. You can also use its built-in mic for dictation in apps like Word and Teams. The possibilities are limitless.
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In keeping with its core values, Occidental is among the most diverse liberal arts colleges in the United States. Nearly half of our students self-identify as domestic students of color or international. We welcome first-generation students and veterans, and have been rated as one of the most economically diverse colleges. Inspired and enhanced by the diversity of Los Angeles, our community aims to engage and reflect the rich cultural and social resources of our hometown.
We believe that a college education is enhanced by social and intellectual interactions between people from a broad range of backgrounds. Our diverse community affords an invaluable experiential learning environment, one that will serve you now as well as in your future life and career. Our faculty and our curriculum embody a commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice. This allows students to develop their capacity to learn from and about difference, to understand inequality, and to apply these values in the wider world.
At Oxy, we challenge each other to be more accepting and respectful, and to develop a better understanding of our diverse world by learning from others. We’re guided by the shared aspirations of social justice, cultural competence, and engaged citizenship. From a network of student clubs and multicultural living communities, Oxy is a place for nuanced discussions about our differences, our similarities, and where we should go from here.
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Pack Less
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Do you know the expression, less is more? It has inspired our style.
AboutPACK LESS
Traditional pallets have always seemed to be something huge, exaggerated. Lots of raw material, high cost, high weight, high volume. In other words, low efficiency. So, instead of making pallets, Pack Less has decided to think about pallets. Pack Less has decided on how to improve and reinvent the product from the beginning.
Pack Less has developed a new pallet, very different and much superior from the options already existed then. After much research, technical tests at the IPT (Institute of Technological Research of São Paulo), prototypes and tests, the product, the manufacture and the machines were patented. The Pack Less pallet is lighter, with innovative design, 100% recyclable and totally made of polypropylene.
The market needed a product like this and its success was a consequence.
From the inauguration of the unit in Cotia / SP, in 2008, it was developed new support services, it has won innovation and export awards, it was set a partnership with Braskem. Branch offices in Rio Grande do Sul and Bahia were inaugurated and it has begun production in Asia, Europe, Middle East and the Americas.
Today, in addition to Pack Less pallets, it is also manufactured the Plus Pack that offers support to the supply chain, maintenance, inspection, reverse logistics, customized productions, focused needs of any niche and customer.
It is proud to say that the Pack Less pallet is patented in more than 30 countries. At this moment, the products and services are making a huge difference in large industries, ports and national and international distribution centers, bringing efficiency, sustainability and innovation from Brazil to the entire world.
Offer more efficient and sustainable solutions for the movement of loads and contribute to the systemic evolution of the logistic chain.
Be a reference in the world, present in all the continents and to be recognized for the innovation and partnership, bringing competitive and economic gains to the costumers with the reduction of environment impacts.
Do more with less. Always innovate. Social responsibility. Work with ethic and set true partnerships committed with the costumer business and the planet.
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Hitomishiri Onna ga Isekai de Seitenka shita Kekka
Web Novel (JP)
Fantasy Gender Bender Shounen Ai Tragedy
Female to Male Magic Misunderstandings Multiple POV R-15 Reincarnated in Another World Sickly Characters
2 10% (9 votes)
Aichinohito
30 Web Chapters (Hiatus)
Syosetu
Every 117.9 Day(s)
Saitou Yoshiko was a boring 24-year old woman. She had always hated her job, but due to her debilitating shyness never spoke out, leading to a suffocating lifestyle. Then at home she suddenly reincarnated?! And into that no less! She had become a man!
Thus, Yoshiko, now named Altis, lives her life in this other world, her shyness causing a whole mess of misunderstandings, unable to rectify them…
The Result of a Debilitatingly Shy Woman’s Genderswap in Another World
人見知り女が異世界で性転換した結果
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Cryarc rated it
WARNING this is R15 ボーイズラブ "boys love" a.k.a shounen ai D8
I read this without knowing that the author actually tagged this as R15 boys love since in NU someone put shoujo tag instead D8 (I'm the one added the tag+description straight from the author's title page just now...) Also the author is hiding the fact trough some sly means that I didn't realize it untill I read all the chapter and see the author's tag...
The author never used gender noun (男子・弟・兄・男・彼 /妹・ 姉・彼女・女--- he/she) for one of the... more>> character in the series while having ambiguous female/male name (フォルナ: which can be transliterated as Foruna/Folna/Forna/Vorna/Volna, take your pick) for god f*cking sake D8 In the raws the MC ALWAYS mentions the character with ONLY name, Folna this Folna that D8 After rereading again I realized that the MC never mentioned breast when fawning about Foruna's appearance...
Though it seems the translator choose to reveal his gender clearly with adding gender noun "him" to replace every "Foruna" the MC used. Well reading Foruna this Foruna that every single sentence without replacing it with simpler gender noun in English seems like a drag indeed, unlike in Japanese it's a little bit more natural to use name.
I have nothing against boys love, I'm not hating the genre or something, if guys can have yuri then girls can have shounen ai, it's just I feel tricked both by the author and the lack of tag in NU... I've added the proper tag now and I hope nobody got tricked again.
And also the MC is a mentally ill mature woman turned into a boy. It's grating seeing the MC self-hate and negativity. If in Forrest Gump it's about a mentally ill man that's striving with positivity we can put our emphathy and cheer for him, but with the MC in this series I feel that anything bad happening to her/him is none other than the consequences of her/his own inactivity, how can we cheer for the MC if the MC doesn't want to do anything? Well, there's a room for character growth/improvement indeed, but with the rate the series going there's not much hope...
Ah and that abrupt setting change. I don't know where to start with... He claim that he doesn't want to hurt his family but then he choose the best option on hurting their feeling by abandoning them.
He left his family and then completely forgetting them, not even a shred of phrase is spent to bother mentioning them again. Instead everything in his mind is about how he's fawning over random boy who saved her from random tugs, and surprise surprise the whole shyness tick is abandoned for lovey dovey acts. All the first part of the story is flushed out that you'll think it's a different series...
taptothebeat rated it
I gave up at chapter 16, perhaps it gets better. My problem with this LN's first arc,
1. All of the characters sound the same when they speak and think. It's painfully monotone.
2. The characters feel quite one-dimensional at times. And this gets emphasized more by the author's style of telling instead of showing. It feels like a character is introduced, "Character-A is the one who talks a lot" Then Character-A barely talks thereafter... But we know that Character-A is the rowdy one since we were just told so. And... more>> that's it, that's the only defining trait. As all of the characters sound the same, there's really no other defining characteristics to go by, hence why the characters feel one-dimensional.
3. The MC is un-relatable and unbelievable. If they said in her past life she had PTSD, Paranoia, Anxiety, Depression, Autism, and more then it would be slightly more believable as there is no way that the MC is just your average "boring" 24 year-old. The MC can't look at anyone in the eyes, has trouble speaking, is paranoid 24/7, acts as if she is 6 years old mentally despite being 24-30 years old at the time, etc. This becomes very easy to see when one looks at her 'problem solving' capabilities, which are non-existent. There are some basic things that a 24 year-old should be able to contemplate unless something is severely wrong.
The MC extremely selfish, but thinks that her selfishness is selflessness. This hypocritical and ignorant thinking leaves a sour taste in the reader's mouth.
The only thing the MC has going for her is extreme calmness under all situations, which seems to be linked to her maturity as a 24 year-old. But this is extremely wrong. Being 24 does not make you calm under all situations... rather her extreme calmness under all situations seems very disturbing, so probably add another mental disability to the list.
4. In relation to point 3, the MC's thoughts are honestly exhausting
In the MC's thoughts every other line is about how she thinks everyone hates her. If not that, then about how she suppresses her emotions for like no reason. She thinks if she smiles when someone does something that makes her happy, they will stop doing it. Like wth? Her logic makes zero sense and it isn't explained that deeply so we really can't figure out if there is a deeper cause.
HesheFell rated it
This is a slow but well thought out novel. POV does change within one chapter, but that just gives even more perspective and development. I don't want to put any spoilers b/c that would ruin the story but it does get a little heavy and explores serious issues and conflicts. Unfortunately, the author is slow to update and translations aren't much faster. I hope that the translation continues and the writer finishes the story.
11thAgent rated it
I adore this. This novel has so much heart in every chapter, from the light hearted fluff to a darker, heavier issue. My only complaint is the slow updates both in the original and the english translation. I even went to read a bit of the original, but could only understand about 60% of it. It's not often where I would go out of my way to attempt to read the Japanese version, so it really says something about how this story interests me.
ICDevil rated it
I love this story so much personally because of the close feeling of family, but if you dislike when the MC has a sad childhood while being bullied I advice you to be prepared. Both touching and sad, can't wait for there to be more chapters hopefully.
Kekate rated it
I like the personality of the main character and the premise of the story so far (a little sad but sweet at the same time). So far there's been no real shounen ai elements and although the MC doesn't exactly know it, he/she is loved very much by almost all the people in the story (except one, though that one person made all the difference for Altis's perception of how much he/she is loved which suck). The reason I gave it 3 stars though is similar to what Cryarc said... more>> about the abrupt change in plot (I think it's in chapter 19). I understand the author was trying to transition from one stage of Altis's life to the next but it wasn't smooth at all and left you having a "wtf Altis!" kind of feeling. Still it's one of my favorite stories so far because again I like the MC and what is translated already. Just wished the author went into things more in depth or took a little more time planning out how Altis gets from one situation to another. <<less
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In Touch: Fight brings mixed reactions
There you were, kicking back on the sofa, a piece of pizza in your hand, all settled in for a top game of footy on Friday night when BAM, you gripped the edge of your seat, your heart started to race and you yelled to everyone in the house FIIIIIIIIIIGHT!
Don’t even try to pretend you shook your head in disappointment. You didn’t feel disgusted by the behaviour of the players, you didn’t hope and pray that maybe one day we can all get along.
The massive majority of football fans love a fight, even if in our more enlightened age it’s usually just a few guys grabbing each other’s jerseys and trying to convey with their eyes what they’d be doing if permitted.
These are a few of the tweets that made the game trend around Australia on twitter:
@dubs741 Thanks Manly Storm for bringing back the biff maybe AFL should do the same thing as NRL then people might actually watch it.
@Raychi85 Watching YouTube footage of last night’s brawls, Blair v Stewart and then BAM Manly v Storm! I love my league!
@aliciagorey what about the biff in seaeaglesstorm! AFL hasn’t seen sideline action like it since the 80s #nrl #converted
I know that the NRL’s future depends on being a family-friendly game, a sport we want our children to enjoy and maybe even play, and I understand why we can never bring back the biff. We’re all supposed to be a little more sophisticated these days than we were back when the fists were flying, and the beers cans were raining down on the field.
And a very few of us are:
@tylerockit Are football players ever going to learn? Little kids are watching you fight each other like animals, grow up.
@simongreen_net we can’t condone what happened last night even though it was great entertainment
NRL CEO David Gallop doesn’t decide the punishment players receive but he certainly makes his feelings felt.
“I can understand that everybody is concerned with what occurred last night and is important that it will be looked at in an appropriate manner. Clearly this is serious and unacceptable. No one wants to see protracted fighting and the NRL has processes in place to deal with the issues,” he said.
Fair enough, actions must have consequences. The biff is history, but I just don’t want things to swing too far the other way.
When we put together a team of young men, and train them to play physically, aggressively and with passion, and to ram into each other dozens of times a game, we have to expect there will be occasions when it boils over into violence. There have actually been commendably few fights this season. But now, as we head into finals time the pressure is on, and tempers will flare.
Players are treated more harshly if they join a fight that’s already underway. But we’re not taught to leave a mate to look after himself should he be threatened, we’re expected to help him, even more so if he’s a family member.
In this case, there is a need for a deterrent, but also some understanding. That’s why I’m arguing that Friday’s fight should not mean the end of anyone’s season.
Back in 1985 when Greg Dowling traded blows with New Zealand prop Kevin Tamati as they made their way through the Lang Park tunnel, Dowling was suspended for one game.
He told AAP the Manly-Melbourne stoush brought back memories.
“It took me back, it certainly did.”
“I had a bit of a laugh at first but, when they went on and on, it was a bit of a shock.
“We’re talking 26 years since my incident and, back then, it was common for blokes to go toe to toe.
“(Brett) Stewart flying in over the top like he did, it wasn’t a good look.”
Of course, these days a one game suspension would probably be too light, but I wouldn’t call for any more than a two game ban. Punishing the players means punishing the fans too, and neither Melbourne nor Manly or their supporters deserve to have their season put on the line by the madness of a moment.
The views in this article are the author’s and not necessarily those of the clubs or the NRL.
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Heritage Health - Carlinville
Heritage Health - Carlinville Abuse and Neglect Attorneys
The incident rate of neglect and abuse in nursing facilities has become an all too common occurrence in America. Many senior citizens, the rehabilitating, ill and disabled become victims of mistreatment at the hands of caregivers, visitors, employees, and other residents.
If your loved one was mistreated, abused or neglected, the Illinois Nursing Home Law Center attorneys can provide immediate legal intervention. Our team of lawyers has successfully resolved cases just like yours. Contact us now so we can begin working on your case today. Let us work on your behalf to ensure your family receives adequate financial compensation that you deserve and those responsible for causing your harm are held legally accountable.
This Medicare/Medicaid-participating long-term care (LTC) center is a 95-certified bed "for profit" home providing services to residents of Carlinville and Macoupin County, Illinois. The facility is located at:
Carlinville, Illinois, 62626
In addition to providing long-term and short-term skilled nursing care, Heritage Health – Carlinville provides other services that include:
Occupational, physical and speech therapies
Illinois and federal nursing home regulatory agencies have the legal authority to impose monetary fines and deny payment for Medicare services for any nursing facility cited for serious violations of regulations and rules. Within the last three years, Heritage Health - Carlinville self-reported two serious issues that resulted in citations. Additional information about fines and penalties can be found on the Illinois Department of Public Health Nursing Home Reporting Website concerning this nursing facility.
Carlinville Illinois Nursing Home Safety Concerns
To ensure families are fully informed of the services and care that every long-term care facility offers in their community, the state of Illinois routinely updates their database system. This information contains a comprehensive list of safety concerns, incident inquiries, opened investigations, filed complaints, dangerous hazards, and health violations of homes statewide posted on the Medicare.gov website. This data can be used to make an informed decision before placing a loved one in a private or government-run facility.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including one out of five stars concerning health inspections, two out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures. The Macoupin County neglect attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center have found serious deficiencies and safety concerns at Heritage Health - Carlinville that include:
Failure to Provide an Environment Free of Unnecessary Physical Restraints
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated June 29, 2018, the state surveyors noted that the facility had failed to “assess and re-evaluate the use of bolstered mattress and side rails as a restraint with a risk for entrapment.”
The investigators reviewed the resident’s MDS (Minimum Data Set) Assessment and Brief Interview for Mental Status that shows the resident is “moderately impaired with cognition and decision-making.” The MDS also reveals that the resident “has no bed rails or restraint.” A review of the resident’s Electronic Health Record shows the resident has “cerebral infarction with right side weakness.
Observations were made of the resident on the morning of June 27, 2018. The patient “had a mattress with four built-in bolsters of the head and foot of the bed.” The resident “had partially padded half side rails in the middle of the bed [and] was up in a wheelchair, with right side weakness.” The resident “had difficulty expressing self, due to their [medical condition].”
Failure to follow physical restraint protocols according to state and federal laws – IL State Inspector
The patient was observed the following morning at 9:23 AM while asleep in bed on their right side. “The side rails remained in the middle of the bed with the bolstered mattress. Fall mats were on each side of the bed.” The resident “woke up and used [their] left arm and hand to grab the side rail and move [themselves] about in the bed. The risks documented in the consent [include] Incontinence/increase incontinence and reduced range of motion. There is no assessment or consent in [the resident’s electronic health record] for the use of the four-bolstered mattress.”
The state investigators interviewed the facility Resident Care Coordinator on June 28, 2018, and asked, “about the side rails and the mattress for [the resident].” The Coordinator said that the resident “was on another hall. I am wondering if they brought [the resident’s] bed from the other hall, Rosemont.”
The Restorative Nurse stated at that time, “I will have to assess that. [The resident] has no falls from bed [and] does not use the side rails and help to turn [themselves] over.” The Nurse said that the resident “has a right-side weakness from a CVS.” The nurse said, “I never considered [the patient’s] mattress or side rail as a restraint, more as enablers.” The nurse said they do “not assess the four-bolstered mattresses as a potential restraint.”
The investigators reviewed the facility’s policy and procedure title Restraint Program revised on November 10, 2015, that reads in part:
“It is the policy of this facility to provide appropriate care for residents in relation to restraint utilization. Prior to the use of any restraint, unless restraint is used in an emergency situation), each resident is assessed for potential alternatives by using the restraint pre-restraining and quarterly evaluation.”
In a separate summary statement of deficiencies dated May 22, 2017, the state survey team noted that the nursing home had “failed to assess the risks versus benefits for the use of restraint for one of six residents reviewed for restraints.”
The investigators observed the resident “sitting in her wheelchair in her room wearing a positioning vest” on the afternoon of May 15, 2017. “The front part of [the resident’s] positioning vest was up near the neck area and [the resident] was leaning toward the right. The positioning vest was attached to [the resident’s] wheelchair from the top near the handles with a plastic clip fastener and at the bottom of the seat.”
The following morning at 8:35 AM, the resident was observed “sitting in her wheelchair in her room wearing the positioning vest. The front part of [the] positioning vest was in her neck/throat area and [the resident] was leaning toward the right. At this time, [the resident] was interviewed and stated she has been in the facility for a long time and she wears the best because she does not walk good.”
The surveyors asked the resident “if she was able to take off the vest?” The resident replied, “she has never tried to take the vest off [stating that] the vest scratches and hurts her neck.” The resident “grabbed the front/top of the vest and pulled it outward away from her neck as she spoke.”
On May 16, 2017, a Registered Nurse (RN) and a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) transferred the resident “to her wheelchair. [The resident’s] positioning vest was attached to her wheelchair from the top near the handles with a plastic clip fastener and at the bottom of the seat.” At that time, both nurses put the resident’s “bilateral arms through the shoulder harness [and] proceeded to reposition [the patient] in her wheelchair with [her] arm still in the harness.” The RN “then zipped up the vest.”
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated May 22, 2017, the state investigators documented that the facility had failed to “supervise a steam table to prevent potential thermal hazards/burns. This [failure] has the potential to effect four residents at the facility.”
The investigative team documented that “this failure resulted in an Immediate Jeopardy which was identified to have begun on May 15, 2017, when the facility failed to supervise a steam table having a surface temperature of 160°F to protect residents from the potential injury from steam table’s surface temperatures and the hot water in the steam table.”
The surveyors removed the Immediate Jeopardy on May 17, 2017. However, the facility “remains at Severity Level 2 as the facility continues to in-service staff and update its policies and procedures as needed.”
In a separate summary statement of deficiencies, the state surveyors documented that the nursing home had failed to “provide fall prevention interventions including assistance in ambulation and gait belt for one resident reviewed for fall prevention.”
The investigators reviewed a cognitively impaired resident’s MDS (Minimum Data Set) assessment that shows the resident requires “extensive assist of one staff for transfers and ambulation in room and hallway. The MDS documents [the patient’s] balance for all transfers is unsteady and [the resident] is only able to accomplish them with staff assist only and a walker.”
The resident’s Care Plan documents that the patient “has a poor safety awareness and will attempt to sit on the furniture before looking at where he is. The goal is to minimize fall risk with interventions being: Assist with transfers and ambulation using a walker, encourage two uses walker and leave it on the floor, encourage restoratives. Pressure alarm to be under the resident when sitting or lying in bed, remind the resident to use the walker when seen ambulating without it.”
The investigators noted that the “Care Plan does not identify any falls that have occurred.” However, a review of the facility Falls Log documents that the patient “has had five falls in the past six months. The most recent fall was on March 16, 2016, at 6:40 PM when he attempted to sit on a chair and slid off. The fall was witnessed by [a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)], and the fall conclusion documents [the resident] was ambulating with a walker up and down the hallway and around the living room.”
The resident “was then observed to sit down in a chair but sat on the armrests of the chair and slid off the armrests to the floor before the staff could intervene to prevent a fall. There was no indication staff assist was being provided during this time as documented in the Care Plan and identified in the MDS (Minimum Data Set). The intervention at that time was for an alarm to be added but failed to identify whether or not [the resident] was ambulating about the hallway unassisted.”
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated May 22, 2017, a state investigator noted the nursing home's failure to “maintain proper hand hygiene practices for residents and blood changes to prevent the spread of infection for three residents.”
The state survey team observed a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) just after noon on May 16, 2017, while assisting two residents “with feeding. With the same hand, [the CNA] was touching cups, spoons and other items on [both resident’s] trays.” One patient “was observed touching her cup during the meal.” The CNA “did not sanitize their hands between residents.”
The investigators interviewed the Director of Nursing who said “as long as the staff is touching the resident’s bib, spoons or cup, and there is no skin-to-skin contact. I have no issues with it.” However, the investigators reviewed the facility’s policy titled: Hand Hygiene Technique dated March 1, 2010, that reads in part:
“To prevent the spread of infection. To decrease the risk of transmission of infection from person-to-person or from an object-to-person. Indications for decontamination using alcohol-based rub: If hands are not visibly soiled.”
“After contact with the resident’s intact skin. After contact with bodily fluids or excretions, mucous membranes, non-intact skin, and wound dressings if hands are not visibly soiled.”
The surveyors observed a resident on May 17, 2017, receiving “indwelling urinary catheter care. One CNA “reached in the basin containing multiple washcloths soap and water and peri-wash, removed the washcloth and cleansed [the resident’s] penile head, around his catheter.” The CNA “discarded that washcloth.”
Using the same gloved hands, the CNA “reached back into the clean water to get another washcloth to wash the same area again.” The CNA “repeated this process of reaching into contaminated water without changing gloves or perform hand hygiene while cleansing the penis, scrotum and inner thighs. With new gloves, [the CNA] removed another washcloth from the same basin, cleansed [the resident’s] rectum, with bowel movement noted on the cloth after the wipe. Without changing gloves, [the CNA] continue to go back to the same basin, removing washcloths two more times to cleanse the bowel movement from the rectum and again to cleanse the right and then the left buttock.”
The investigators reviewed the facility’s policy titled: Perineal Care Policy and Procedure dated November 2016 that reads in part:
“Following evidence-based practice, blood changes and the performance of hand hygiene during perineal care may be limited to, before initiating perineal care, anytime gloves are visibly soiled and at the completion of care.”
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Mosaic of Lakeshore Health Care Center Abuse and Neglect Attorneys
Placing a loved one in a nursing home can be a challenging and painful experience. Families must often entrust the care of a spouse, parent, grandparent, sibling or child in a facility to ensure that they are treated with compassion, respect, and dignity in a safe environment. Unfortunately, many nursing home residents are victimized through abuse or neglect.
If you suspect that your loved one was mistreated while living in a Cook County nursing facility, contact the Illinois Nursing Home Law Center attorneys for immediate legal intervention. Our team of attorneys has successfully resolve cases just like yours. Let us begin working on your case today to ensure your family receives adequate financial compensation to recover your damages.
Mosaic of Lakeshore
This Medicare/Medicaid-participating nursing center is a "for profit" home providing services to residents of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois. The 313-certified bed long-term care (LTC) home is located at:
Chicago, Illinois, 60626
In addition to providing 24/7 skilled nursing care, Mosaic of Lakeshore Health Care Center offers other services including:
Daily rehabilitation care
Drug management
Interdisciplinary clinical care
Wound Vac
Wound prevention
Physical, occupational and speech therapies
Neurological therapy
Memory support/cognitive therapy
Federal and state investigators can penalize any nursing home that has violated rules and regulations that resulted in harm or could have harmed a resident. These penalties include imposing monetary fines and denying payment for Medicare services.
Within the last three years, Mosaic of Lakeshore Health Care Center has received sixteen formally filed complaints due to substandard care. Additional information about penalties and fines can be reviewed on the Illinois Department of Public Health Nursing Home Reporting Website concerning this nursing facility.
Chicago Illinois Nursing Home Safety Concerns
A list of filed complaints, safety concerns, opened investigations, health violations, incident inquiries and dangerous hazards on statewide long-term care homes can be reviewed on database sites including the Illinois Department of Public Health and Medicare.gov. Many families use this data to determine the best facility to place a loved one who requires the highest level of skilled health care and hygiene assistance.
According to Medicare, this facility maintains an overall rating of one out of five stars, including two out of five stars concerning health inspections, one out of five stars for staffing issues and two out of five stars for quality measures. The Cook County neglect attorneys at Nursing Home Law Center have found serious deficiencies and safety concerns at Mosaic of Lakeshore Health Care Center that include:
Failure to Immediately Notify the Resident, the Resident’s Doctor or Family Members of a Change in the Resident’s Condition Including a Decline in Their Health or Injury
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated October 18, 2018, the state investigator documented the facility’s failure to “notify the physician that medications were not administered as ordered to one of thirty-five residents.”
The investigators reviewed a resident’s hospice Medication Administration Record (MAR) Assessment and Physician Order Sheet that confirmed that the resident was to receive multiple orders of eyedrops. However, there was no documentation the eyedrops had been administered.”
The surveyors interviewed the facility Director of Nursing who said “that if medications are unavailable, we need to call a pharmacy and let the physician know that the medication was missed. It would be documented in the MAR and Nurse’s Notes.”
The investigative team reviewed the resident’s Progress Notes. However, “there was no documentation that the physician was notified regarding the prescribed by medications that were not administered.”
The surveyors asked the physician if they were notified of the eye medications that were not administered as ordered. The physician stated, “I do not remember. I do not know for sure.”
The investigators then reviewed the facility’s policy and procedure titled: Medication Management that was revised in March 2016 that reads in part:
“If the drug is withheld, refuse or given in a time other than the scheduled time, the individual administering the medication shall document the circumstances and any notifications (as indicated).”
Failure to Allow Residents to Self-Administer Drugs if Determined Clinically Appropriate
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated October 18, 2018, the state survey team documented that the facility had failed to “assess two residents for the knowledge and ability to safely and accurately self-administer medication before permitting [the resident’s] to do so without supervision.” This deficient practice by the nursing staff applies to two residents who “were self-administering medication without [a physician’s] order or supervision.”
Documentation shows that at approximately 10:55 AM on October 15, 2018, a resident “was noted in the room sitting in the bed and on the overbed table was … an injectable pain medication.” The resident “explained that the physician from the community hospital prescribed the medication, and [they were] using it because at times the nurses do not come in to give [the resident] the medicine on time as ordered.”
The surveyors asked the Assistant Director Nurses what was going on. The Assistant Director said, “I am not sure that the medication was ordered [for the resident or that the resident] is on a self-medication program.” The Assistant Director “was unable to present any documentation for [the medication] and an order for the medication to be kept at the bedside.”
On the same day at 11:10 AM, the surveyors observed a resident’s “overbed table containing one bottle that was labeled artificial tears – alcohol 1.4% eye drops.” That resident said “Yes, it is mine and I use it all the time for my eyes. On the windowsill was also noted five tablets and a packet labeled Bonine [an antihistamine to treat vertigo and motion sickness].”
The surveyors brought the problem to the attention of a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) assigned to the resident’s care who said that the patient “wasn’t on a self-administration program and all the medications are in the medication cart.” The LPN said that the resident “muster brought those from the store and was using a without anyone knowing.” The resident had told the LPN “I use them, and they are mine.”
The surveyors reviewed the resident’s Physician Order Sheet that showed that artificial tears and the antihistamine “were ordered with no order instructions for the resident to keep at the bedside.” The investigators reviewed the resident’s Medical Record that “did not show any self-administration of medication assessment and none was presented.”
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated October 18, 2018, a state investigator noted the nursing home's failure to “follow standard infection control practices to prevent the spread of infection. This failure has the potential to affect two of thirty-five residents.”
The state investigators interviewed a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) on the morning of October 16, 2018, who said that the resident “was on contact isolation [for a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus] infection.” Observations were made of the LPN at that time who “donned a government-owned and entered [the patient’s] room.”
The LPN administered the 9:00 AM medications to the resident “without wearing gloves. The medication cup and the water glass were both handled by [the LPN] after being held by [the patient].” The surveyor inquired if the LPN “was wearing gloves.” The LPN stated “No. I thought it wasn’t patient contact.”
Failure to follow protocol to prevent the spread of infection – IL State Inspector
The surveyor then inquired “about the Personal Protective Equipment for contact isolation.” The LPN said “gloves and gown.” The investigative team reviewed the facility’s policy and procedures titled Infection Control and Prevention revised December 2015 and the Medication Management policy revised in March 2016 that read in part:
“Educating the staff about various aspects of infection control such a standard and transmission-based isolation precautions.”
“Staff shall follow established infection control procedures (e.g., isolation precautions, gloves) when these apply to the administration of medications.”
Failure to Ensure That There Is an Effective Pest Control Program That Prevents or Deals with Mice, Insects or Other Pests
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated October 18, 2018, a surveyor documented that the nursing home had failed to “resolve pest infestation to maintain pest control with its building. This failure has the potential to affect the 243 residents residing in the facility.”
The state investigative team interviewed a resident at 10:55 AM on October 15, 2018, who said “I have a rodent infestation. I have caught five mice in my room. The surveyors observed a road and trapped in [the patient’s] room.”
A couple of hours later, another resident said “we have mice in the rooms. If they could just get rid of those things, it would be great.” A third resident stated to the surveyors about thirty minutes later that “this place is infested.” A fourth resident said “we have got some mice running around. We have mousetraps in her room. We need new ones. This place is infested. We see them outside and receive them all the time.”
A few minutes later, the surveyor observed: “two dead mice in two separate traps under the event next to [a resident’s] room.” A fifth resident stated “I hear the midnight. The running along the baseboard. If they could do something about these mice. One night when the nurse brought my medicine in, she ran out screaming because she saw a mouse.”
The state investigative team reviewed the facility’s Resident Council Meeting Minutes dated August 13, 2018, that shows that a “2nd-floor resident stated she saw a mouse in her room. Trapped subsequently placed in the resident’s room.” A review of the Sentry Pest Control Service Inspection Report dated October 8, 2018 “documents that mice droppings were found in for rooms on the 4th floor and eleven rooms on the 3rd floor.”
In a summary statement of deficiencies dated January 25, 2017, a state surveyor documented that the facility had failed to “secured two portable oxygen tanks and failed to fill smaller oxygen tanks in designated areas for two of six residents reviewed for specialty care.”
The state investigator said that during an initial tour on January 22, 2017, a resident “was observed in the room of a large, blue topped liquid oxygen tank between the two beds in the room at the head of the beds.” The resident “also had an oxygen concentrator at the bedside and a portable oxygen-carrying unit hanging on [their] walker opposite of the foot of the bed.” The resident “was asked if all three oxygen tanks were used by [them].”
The resident said that “the large liquid oxygen tank is used to fill the portable oxygen-carrying units.” At noon the following day, the resident said “the large liquid oxygen tank had been there for about three weeks [saying that] nurses filled the portable oxygen-carrying unit from the larger unit in [their] room, which [they like] because it is hard to get the staff to help fill the portable tank when the big tank was down the hall.” The resident said that sometimes they were “not allowed to leave the room because of waiting to get the tank refilled.”
A Licensed Practical Nurse/Nursing Supervisor confirmed that “the portable tanks need to be secured or placed in a holder to avoid falling.” The supervisor “removed the tanks from the room. The investigators reviewed the facility’s policy titled: Fire Safety Precautions that reads in part:
“Oxygen cylinders must be stored in racks with chains, sturdy portable carts, or approved stands. Oxygen cylinders should never be left free standing. Oxygen cylinders shall not be stored in any resident room or living area. Oxygen cylinders in use shall be on approved carts or stands and must be attached to the residents’ beds.”
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Our seasoned attorneys provide legal representation to long-term care home residents who have been harmed by negligence and abuse. Our legal team has years of experience in successfully resolving claims for compensation against caregivers who must be held accountable. We accept every case involving nursing home abuse, wrongful death or personal injury through a contingency fee arrangement. This agreement postpones the need to make a payment to pay for legal services until after your case is successfully resolved through a jury trial award or negotiated out of court settlement.
Our network of attorneys offers every client a “No Win/No-Fee” Guarantee, meaning if we are unable to resolve your case successfully, you owe us nothing. We can provide legal representation starting today to ensure your family is adequately compensated for your damages. All information you share with our law offices will remain confidential.
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OARE GENERAL INFORMATION:
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Can We REALLY Scrap Taxes?
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Nations lose fortunes because of the taxes that penalize people who work and invest. Those taxes should be scrapped, argues Fred Harrison, with public services funded out of rent. Nobel laureate Milton Friedman explains why tax-dodging corporations cannot evade public charges on land rents. Winston Churchill also voices his support, but the Battle of the Budget was the one war he lost.
Fred Harrison Social Media Pages:
Fred Harrison is Research Director of the London-based Land Research Trust. He is a graduate of University College, Oxford, where he read Politics, Philosophy & Economics. He also studied for the MSc at Birkbeck College, London (1973-74).
His first book, published in 1983, The Power in the Land, introduced his concept of the eighteen year business cycle based on land value fluctuations.
His activities revolve around three core campaigns:
Truth in Politics
Fred campaigns for honesty in politics. In his forthcoming book, The Renegade Economist, he exposes the myths and falsehoods espoused by "experts" who claim to represent the people and the truth.
Truth in Economics
Fred was the only economist to (more...)
Related Topic(s): Budget; Land Grab; Land Value Tax; People; Public Adminstration; Public Debt; Public Money; Taxes, Add Tags
Rent is 50% of a Nation's Income. Time to Collect it?
Treason Part 1: Casino Capitalism
The Muting of our Minds
The Killing Fields (Documentary - Pricing for an eco-friendly society)
Treason 2: The Crucible of Terror
"Rob Kalls Bottom-Up: Tapping the Power of the Connection Revolution takes a very holistic view of bottom-up thinking and action, from changes in our psychology to our systems of work, living and governance. As someone who's been working to make bottom-up economics a reality for over 30 years, this book reinforces the need for and potential of redirecting our priorities-- and resources--from the few at the top to the many at the bottom."
Anthony Flaccavento, author of Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
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The Student’s Profile
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Alena has been a lecturer for the past 20 years, during which time she has delivered approximately 1,200 days of classes and presentations on topics related to communication, presentation, business, and speaking skills. She has experience in running her own company and many years of business experience.
2002–2003, The Open University Business School, Professional Certificate in Management (Management, Marketing, Financial Management Studies)
1982–1987, Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus), Faculty of History, Philosophy and Teaching of General Education Subjects
From 1987 to 1989, Alena worked as an educational assistant at Charles University in Prague, and later as a special assistant at the Ministry of Culture. From 1989 to 1991, she worked for a family-run food wholesaler. Following this, she was a business manager and internal lecturer for three years at Management Services International. In 1996, she became a regional director at VM Marketing; she held this position until 2018. She was also the company’s lecturer on communication, presentation, business, and speaking skills.
Alena spends her time with family and friends, reading, and going on trips. She enjoys Nordic walking. She is also involved in a group that holds social events for the residents of Barrandov.
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The Apple, The Green Tin Man & The Fox
A short review of Firefox OS
A closer look at the performance of applications and mobile sites in Firefox OS. The Firefox One Touch replaced a Nexus 4 for a week. Enjoy a trip to wonderland.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her green tin man on the bank, having nothing to do: once or twice she had bitten into her apple, but it had tasted dull that day. So she was considering, in her own mind, whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a red fox with black eyes ran close by her. Burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it disappear down a large fox-hole under the hedge. Throwing the apple away and waving her green tin man good-bye, down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
I’m feeling slightly sorry for butchering Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece like this, but running with Firefox OS for the first time certainly feels like a trip to wonderland.
We ordered an Alcatell One Touch Fire, the weakest Firefox OS phone yet available—not necessarily a bad thing if you want to test the performance of applications and mobile sites. It arrived two days after our first Nexus 5, making for quite an interesting comparison: Android’s latest and greatest flagship device versus the entry level newcomer. Barely a fair fight, so let's give the Fox a little headstart.
Unboxing & Hardware
The box is nothing less than boring and unexciting. You get basic headphones and an USB charger bundled, adding to the generic experience.
Picking up the orange phone from the box and unwrapping its plastic changes this impression. I definitely expected a less solid build quality from a 70,- Euro smartphone. It feels sturdy yet light and has a good grip in my hand. Don’t try to compare the plastic shell with the hardware quality of an iPhone 5 or Nexus 5. Still, after a couple of minutes I’m convinced that this phone will easily keep up with every day use and even survive being dropped on the street, at least once or twice.
The removable battery didn’t let me down in a week of testing. 16 to 24 hours at moderate use is generally fine.
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‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).
Dealing with the high-end spectrum of web-development and Android devices every day, we didn't buy a Firefox phone for the hardware or to call Mommy. We wanted to see for ourselves how the operating system would perform and have a look at the ideas that went into its development.
Booting up the device with the top left hardware button, we’re greeted with a basic setup tutorial and an introduction to basic gestures. Without going into detail, one can already notice familiar patterns from other mobile operating systems. At the bottom: a centered home-button, as introduced by the first iPhone. The lockscreen layout feels a lot like Android, with the option to slide up or go straight to the camera. Pulling down from the top finally reveals notifications and quick settings, and you get a sense of homecoming. The familiarity of all those elements coming together luckily does not feel like a blunt copycat; rather like the best of both worlds combined. Picking up the device for the first time and being able to use it within seconds is a manifest to standardized mobile patterns.
Unlocking the screen continues with established analogies. There’s a hot-seat bar at the bottom for your favorite apps. All other apps are revealed in an iOS-like grid by swiping to the right. Here, they can be rearranged and deleted with a long press. The most unique element you’ll notice is a prominent input field right on the home screen, called Adaptive App Search, which says “I’m thinking of...”. Typing anything into that field will offer multiple relevant apps and suggestions to those keywords, and change your wallpaper accordingly. A search for “breaking bad” instantly shows me Walter White in panties and access to IMDB, Serienjunkies, YouTube and more. Picking the first takes me straight to IMDB’s search results, as expected. While this feature might not be as innovative nor as polished as Google Now is, it’s a great way to help people who are new to smartphones dive into its possibilities.
Core apps
The Caterpillar was the first to speak.
‘What size do you want to be?’ it asked.
‘Oh, I’m not particular as to size,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘only one doesn’t like changing so often, you know.’
Like every solid operating system, Firefox OS comes with a decent set of core apps. Dialer and texting, gallery, clock and calculator are hardly more than the bare bones of what you would expect. Other applications like maps and the music player are further developed and offer quite a mature feature set.
Since the whole operating system is built on web technology, users can simply bookmark any website and call it an app, assuming there’s a permanent online connection. Mozilla has further established a marketplace, which promotes apps that are optimized for its OS with offline support and device-specific API capabilities. To date, this store offers over 200,000 apps, unfortunately many of those simply linking to the mobile website of its services. Digging through the featured apps and categories, one can find a good game or helpful app already, though the scope of highlights is limited. While users expect a certain quantity of well-known apps on a new platform, I found myself quickly bookmarking my favorite web services, and switching fluidly between native and online apps.
Now, this is something where plenty of opinions and criticism arises. We’re so used to perfectly consistent experiences and interfaces on our mobile companions that we forget the chaotic beauty of the web. While most Firefox OS core apps share a unified visual language and patterns, most additions don’t. One can quickly get stuck with an un-optimized app, leading to frustration.
After a full week replacing my Nexus 4 with the One Touch Fire, I am quite convinced that there’s a future for Firefox OS. Not only did the device work fine for most daily tasks, but I quickly started to enjoy the limitations. During that week I spent plenty of time focusing on the smaller things, instead of trying to manage the flood of constant information running through my hands.
While it’s obvious that Mozilla has quite a long way to go with Firefox OS, the One Touch Fire clearly shows that the vision is very strong and manageable. Having the overwhelming, chaotic web in your hand certainly feels different to the bottleneck ecosystems we’ve grown used to—challenging and frightening at times, but also empowering and limitless. Time will tell if the operating system will find its audience while Apple and Google nuke it out at the top of the market.
This device is definitely not for everyone. If you’re an iOS fanboy or Android addict, you might want to stay in your personal safety zone. If you remember the early days of Android and realize how far it has come, you should follow along. There might be adventures waiting in Wonderland.
The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: ‘No room! No room!’ they cried out when they saw Alice coming. ‘There’s plenty of room!’ said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table.
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Saint Anna (also Ann or Anne, from Hebrew Hannahחַנָּה, meaning “favor” or “grace”) of David‘s house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ according to Christian Tradition. St Anna is the Greek rendering of her Hebrew name Hannah. Mary’s mother is not named in the canonical gospels.
Christian view: According to the Gospel of James, a document of the New Testament apocrypha, St Anna and her husband St Joachim, after years of childlessness, were visited by an angel who told them that they would conceive a child. St Anna promised to dedicate the child to God’s service. St Joachim and St Anna are believed to have given Mary to the service of the Second Temple when the girl was three years old.
The story bears a superficial similarity to that of the birth of Samuel, whose mother Hannah had also been childless. Although St Anna’s cult receives little attention in the Western church prior to the late 12th century, dedications to St Anna in the Eastern church occur as early as the 6th century. In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, St Anna is ascribed the title Forbear of God, and both the Birth of Mary and the Dedication of Mary to the Temple are celebrated as two of the Twelve Great Feasts.
In Western iconography, St Anna may be recognized by her depiction in red robe and green mantle, often holding a book. Images may also be found depicting St Anna holding small Mary who in turn holds the Infant Christ.
St Joachim was St Anna’s only husband. Ancient belief, attested to by a sermon of St John Damascene, was that St Anna married once. Mary, mother of God, Mary of Clopas, and Mary Salomae, were first cusins. The sister of Saint St Anna was Sobe who was the mother of Saint Elizabeth.
The Orthodox Church teaches that Mary was conceived in the normal fashion, but that she was miraculously cleansed from original sin at the moment of Her Annunciation in order to make her fit to bear the incarnated Son and Word of God.
The iconographic subject of St Joachim and St Anna The Meeting at the Golden Gate fitted both views, and was a regular component of artistic cycles of the Life of the Virgin. The couple meet at the “Golden Gate” of Jerusalem and embrace. They are aware of St Anna’s pregnancy, of which they have been separately informed by an archangel. For those believing in the virgin birth of Mary, this moment stood for her conception, and the feast was celebrated on the same day as the Immaculate Conception. The Birth of Mary, the Presentation of Mary and the Marriage of the Virgin were usual components of cycles of the Life of the Virgin in which St Anna is normally shown.
St Anna is never shown as present at the Nativity of Christ, but is frequently shown with the infant Christ in various subjects. She is sometimes believed to be depicted in scenes of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple and the Circumcision of Christ but in the former case this likely reflects a misidentification through confusion with Anna the Prophetess. St Anna is described in Luke’s Gospel as a holy widow who recognizes Jesus as the Messiah at his Presentation, along with Simeon the Righteous and both frequently appear in artistic depictions of the story. There was a tradition that St Anna went (separately) to Egypt and rejoined the Holy Family after their Flight to Egypt. St Anna is not seen with the adult Christ, so was regarded as having died during the youth of Jesus. St Anna is also shown as the matriarch of the Holy Kinship, the extended family of Jesus, a popular subject in late medieval Germany. In modern devotions, St Anna and her husband are invoked for protection for the unborn.
Patronage: St Anna is the patron saint of housewives, grandmothers, cabinet makers, unmarried women, women in labor and miners.
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George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London
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In the year 1929 I spent several weeks in the Hôpital X, in the fifteenth arrondissement of Paris. The clerks put me through the usual third-degree at the reception desk, and indeed I was kept answering questions for some twenty minutes before they would let me in. If you have ever had to fill up forms in a Latin country you will know the kind of questions I mean. For some days past I had been unequal to translating Réaumur into Fahrenheit, but I know that my temperature was round about 103, and by the end of the interview I had some difficulty in standing on my feet. At my back a resigned little knot of patients, carrying bundles done up in coloured handkerchiefs, waiting their turn to be questioned.
After the questioning came the bath — a compulsory routine for all newcomers, apparently, just as in prison or the workhouse. My clothes were taken away from me, and after I had sat shivering for some minutes in five inches of warm water I was given a linen nightshirt and a short blue flannel dressing-gown — no slippers, they had none big enough for me, they said — and led out into the open air. This was a night in February and I was suffering from pneumonia. The ward we were going to was 200 yards away and it seemed that to get to it you had to cross the hospital grounds. Someone stumbled in front of me with a lantern. The gravel path was frosty underfoot, and the wind whipped the nightshirt round my bare calves. When we got into the ward I was aware of a strange feeling of familiarity whose origin I did not succeed in pinning down till later in the night. It was a long, rather low, ill-lit room, full of murmuring voices and with three rows of beds surprisingly close together. There was a foul smell, faecal and yet sweetish. As I lay down I saw on a bed nearly opposite me a small, round-shouldered, sandy-haired man sitting half naked while a doctor and a student performed some strange operation on him. First the doctor produced from his black bag a dozen small glasses like wine glasses, then the student burned a match inside each glass to exhaust the air, then the glass was popped on to the man’s back or chest and the vacuum drew up a huge yellow blister. Only after some moments did I realize what they were doing to him. It was something called cupping, a treatment which you can read about in old medical text-books but which till then I had vaguely thought of as one of those things they do to horses.
The cold air outside had probably lowered my temperature, and I watched this barbarous remedy with detachment and even a certain amount of amusement. The next moment, however, the doctor and the student came across to my bed, hoisted me upright and without a word began applying the same set of glasses, which had not been sterilized in any way. A few feeble protests that I uttered got no more response than if I had been an animal. I was very much impressed by the impersonal way in which the two men started on me. I had never been in the public ward of a hospital before, and it was my first experience of doctors who handle you without speaking to you, or, in a human sense, taking any notice of you. They only put on six glasses in my case, but after doing so they scarified the blisters and applied the glasses again. Each glass now drew about a dessert-spoonful of dark-coloured blood. As I lay down again, humiliated, disgusted and frightened by the thing that had been done to me, I reflected that now at least they would leave me alone. But no, not a bit of it. There was another treatment coming, the mustard poultice, seemingly a matter of routine like the hot bath. Two slatternly nurses had already got the poultice ready, and they lashed it round my chest as tight as a strait jacket while some men who were wandering about the ward in shirt and trousers began to collect round my bed with half-sympathetic grins. I learned later that watching a patient have a mustard poultice was a favourite pastime in the ward. These things are normally applied for a quarter of an hour and certainly they are funny enough if you don’t happen to be the person inside. For the first five minutes the pain is severe, but you believe you can bear it. During the second five minutes this belief evaporates, but the poultice is buckled at the back and you can’t get it off. This is the period the onlookers most enjoy. During the last five minutes, I noted a sort of numbness supervenes. After the poultice had been removed a waterproof pillow packed with ice was thrust beneath my head and I was left alone. I did not sleep and to the best of my knowledge this was the only night of my life — I mean the only night spent in bed — in which I have not slept at all, not even a minute.
During my first hour in the Hôpital X, I had had a whole series of different and contradictory treatments, but this was misleading, for in general you got very little treatment at all, either good or bad, unless you were ill in some interesting and instructive way. At five in the morning the nurses came round, woke the patients and took their temperatures, but did not wash them. If you were well enough you washed yourself, otherwise you depended on the kindness of some walking patient. It was generally patients, too, who carried the bed-bottles and the grim bed-pan, nicknamed la casserole. At eight breakfast arrived, called army fashion la soupe. It was soup, too, a thin vegetable soup with slimy hunks of bread floating about in it. Later in the day the tall, solemn, black-bearded doctor made his rounds, with an interne and a troop of students following at his heels, but there were about sixty of us in the ward and it was evident that he had other wards to attend to as well. There were many beds past which he walked day after day, sometimes followed by imploring cries. On the other hand if you had some disease with which the students wanted to familiarize themselves you got plenty of attention of a kind. I myself, with an exceptionally fine specimen of a bronchial rattle, sometimes had as many as a dozen students queuing up to listen to my chest. It was a queer feeling — queer, I mean, because of their intense interest in learning their job, together with a seeming lack of any perception that the patients were human beings. It is strange to relate, but sometimes as some young student stepped forward to take his turn at manipulating you he would be actually tremulous with excitement, like a boy who has at last got his hands on some expensive piece of machinery. And then ear after ear — ears of young men, of girls, of Negroes — pressed against your back, relays of fingers solemnly but clumsily tapping, and not from any one of them did you get a word of conversation or a look direct in your face. As a non-paying patient, in the uniform nightshirt, you were primarily a specimen, a thing I did not resent but could never quite get used to.
After some days I grew well enough to sit up and study the surrounding patients. The stuffy room, with its narrow beds so close together that you could easily touch your neighbour’s hand, had every sort of disease in it except, I suppose, acutely infectious cases. My right-hand neighbour was a little red-haired cobbler with one leg shorter than the other, who used to announce the death of any other patient (this happened a number of times, and my neighbour was always the first to hear of it) by whistling to me, exclaiming ‘Numéro 43!’ (or whatever it was) and flinging his arms above his head. This man had not much wrong with him, but in most of the other beds within my angle of vision some squalid tragedy or some plain horror was being enacted. In the bed that was foot to foot with mine there lay, until he died (I didn’t see him die — they moved him to another bed), a little weazened man who was suffering from I do not know what disease, but something that made his whole body so intensely sensitive that any movement from side to side, sometimes even the weight of the bed-clothes, would make him shout out with pain. His worst suffering was when he urinated, which he did with the greatest difficulty. A nurse would bring him the bed-bottle and then for a long time stand beside his bed, whistling, as grooms are said to do with horses, until at last with an agonized shriek of ‘Je pisse!’ he would get started. In the bed next to him the sandy-haired man whom I had seen being cupped used to cough up blood-streaked mucus at all hours. My left-hand neighbour was a tall, flaccid-looking young man who used periodically to have a tube inserted into his back and astonishing quantities of frothy liquid drawn off from some part of his body. In the bed beyond that a veteran of the war of 1870 was dying, a handsome old man with a white imperial, round whose bed, at all hours when visiting was allowed, four elderly female relatives dressed all in black sat exactly like crows, obviously scheming for some pitiful legacy. In the bed opposite me in the further row was an old bald-headed man with drooping moustaches and greatly swollen face and body, who was suffering from some disease that made him urinate almost incessantly. A huge glass receptacle stood always beside his bed. One day his wife and daughter came to visit him. At sight of them the old man’s bloated face lit up with a smile of surprising sweetness, and as his daughter, a pretty girl of about twenty, approached the bed I saw that his hand was slowly working its way from under the bed-clothes. I seemed to see in advance the gesture that was coming — the girl kneeling beside the bed, the old man’s hand laid on her head in his dying blessing. But no, he merely handed her the bed-bottle, which she promptly took from him and emptied into the receptacle.
About a dozen beds away from me was numéro 57 — I think that was his number — a cirrhosis-of-the-liver case. Everyone in the ward knew him by sight because he was sometimes the subject of a medical lecture. On two afternoons a week the tall, grave doctor would lecture in the ward to a party of students, and on more than one occasion old numéro 57 was wheeled in on a sort of trolley into the middle of the ward, where the doctor would roll back his nightshirt, dilate with his fingers a huge flabby protuberance on the man’s belly — the diseased liver, I suppose — and explain solemnly that this was a disease attributable to alcoholism, commoner in the wine-drinking countries. As usual he neither spoke to his patient nor gave him a smile, a nod or any kind of recognition. While he talked, very grave and upright, he would hold the wasted body beneath his two hands, sometimes giving it a gentle roll to and fro, in just the attitude of a woman handling a rolling-pin. Not that numéro 57 minded this kind of thing. Obviously he was an old hospital inmate, a regular exhibit at lectures, his liver long since marked down for a bottle in some pathological museum. Utterly uninterested in what was said about him, he would lie with his colourless eyes gazing at nothing, while the doctor showed him off like a piece of antique china. He was a man of about sixty, astonishingly shrunken. His face, pale as vellum, had shrunken away till it seemed no bigger than a doll’s.
One morning my cobbler neighbour woke me up plucking at my pillow before the nurses arrived. ‘Numéro 57!’ — he flung his arms above his head. There was a light in the ward, enough to see by. I could see old numéro 57 lying crumpled up on his side, his face sticking out over the side of the bed, and towards me. He had died some time during the night, nobody knew when. When the nurses came they received the news of his death indifferently and went about their work. After a long time, an hour or more, two other nurses marched in abreast like soldiers, with a great clumping of sabots, and knotted the corpse up in the sheets, but it was not removed till some time later. Meanwhile, in the better light, I had had time for a good look at numéro 57. Indeed I lay on my side to look at him. Curiously enough he was the first dead European I had seen. I had seen dead men before, but always Asiatics and usually people who had died violent deaths. Numéro 57’s eyes were still open, his mouth also open, his small face contorted into an expression of agony. What most impressed me however, was the whiteness of his face. It had been pale before, but now it was little darker than the sheets. As I gazed at the tiny, screwed-up face it struck me that this disgusting piece of refuse, waiting to be carted away and dumped on a slab in the dissecting room, was an example of ‘natural’ death, one of the things you pray for in the Litany. There you are, then, I thought, that’s what is waiting for you, twenty, thirty, forty years hence: that is how the lucky ones die, the ones who live to be old. One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think now, as I thought then, that it’s better to die violently and not too old. People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? ‘Natural’ death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful. Even at that, it makes a difference if you can achieve it in your own home and not in a public institution. This poor old wretch who had just flickered out like a candle-end was not even important enough to have anyone watching by his deathbed. He was merely a number, then a ‘subject’ for the students’ scalpels. And the sordid publicity of dying in such a place! In the Hôpital X the beds were very close together and there were no screens. Fancy, for instance, dying like the little man whose bed was for a while foot to foot with mine, the one who cried out when the bed-clothes touched him! I dare say Je pisse! were his last recorded words. Perhaps the dying don’t bother about such things — that at least would be the standard answer: nevertheless dying people are often more or less normal in their minds till within a day or so of the end.
In the public wards of a hospital you see horrors that you don’t seem to meet with among people who manage to die in their own homes, as though certain diseases only attacked people at the lower income levels. But it is a fact that you would not in any English hospitals see some of the things I saw in the Hôpital X. This business of people just dying like animals, for instance, with nobody standing by, nobody interested, the death not even noticed till the morning — this happened more than once. You certainly would not see that in England, and still less would you see a corpse left exposed to the view of the other patients. I remember that once in a cottage hospital in England a man died while we were at tea, and though there were only six of us in the ward the nurses managed things so adroitly that the man was dead and his body removed without our even hearing about it till tea was over. A thing we perhaps underrate in England is the advantage we enjoy in having large numbers of well-trained and rigidly-disciplined nurses. No doubt English nurses are dumb enough, they may tell fortunes with tea-leaves, wear Union Jack badges and keep photographs of the Queen on their mantelpieces, but at least they don’t let you lie unwashed and constipated on an unmade bed, out of sheer laziness. The nurses at the Hôpital X still had a tinge of Mrs Gamp about them, and later, in the military hospitals of Republican Spain, I was to see nurses almost too ignorant to take a temperature. You wouldn’t, either, see in England such dirt as existed in the Hôpital X. Later on, when I was well enough to wash myself in the bathroom, I found that there was kept there a huge packing-case into which the scraps of food and dirty dressings from the ward were flung, and the wainscottings were infested by crickets.
When I had got back my clothes and grown strong on my legs I fled from the Hôpital X, before my time was up and without waiting for a medical discharge. It was not the only hospital I have fled from, but its gloom and bareness, its sickly smell and, above all, something in its mental atmosphere stand out in my memory as exceptional. I had been taken there because it was the hospital belonging to my arrondissement, and I did not learn till after I was in it that it bore a bad reputation. A year or two later the celebrated swindler, Madame Hanaud, who was ill while on remand, was taken to the Hôpital X, and after a few days of it she managed to elude her guards, took a taxi and drove back to the prison, explaining that she was more comfortable there. I have no doubt that the Hôpital X was quite untypical of French hospitals even at that date. But the patients, nearly all of them working men, were surprisingly resigned. Some of them seemed to find the conditions almost comfortable, for at least two were destitute malingerers who found this a good way of getting through the winter. The nurses connived because the malingerers made themselves useful by doing odd jobs. But the attitude of the majority was: of course this is a lousy place, but what else do you expect? It did not seem strange to them that you should be woken at five and then wait three hours before starting the day on watery soup, or that people should die with no one at their bedside, or even that your chance of getting medical attention should depend on catching the doctor’s eye as he went past. According to their traditions that was what hospitals were like. If you are seriously ill and if you are too poor to be treated in your own home, then you must go into hospital, and once there you must put up with harshness and discomfort, just as you would in the army. But on top of this I was interested to find a lingering belief in the old stories that have now almost faded from memory in England — stories, for instance, about doctors cutting you open out of sheer curiosity or thinking it funny to start operating before you were properly ‘under’. There were dark tales about a little operating room said to be situated just beyond the bathroom. Dreadful screams were said to issue from this room. I saw nothing to confirm these stories and no doubt they were all nonsense, though I did see two students kill a sixteen-year-old boy, or nearly kill him (he appeared to be dying when I left the hospital, but he may have recovered later) by a mischievous experiment which they probably could not have tried on a paying patient. Well within living memory it used to be believed in London that in some of the big hospitals patients were killed off to get dissection subjects. I didn’t hear this tale repeated at the Hôpital X, but I should think some of the men there would have found it credible. For it was a hospital in which not the methods, perhaps, but something of the atmosphere of the nineteenth century had managed to survive, and therein lay its peculiar interest.
During the past fifty years or so there has been a great change in the relationship between doctor and patient. If you look at almost any literature before the later part of the nineteenth century, you find that a hospital is popularly regarded as much the same thing as a prison, and an old-fashioned, dungeon-like prison at that. A hospital is a place of filth, torture and death, a sort of antechamber to the tomb. No one who was not more or less destitute would have thought of going into such a place for treatment. And especially in the early part of the last century, when medical science had grown bolder than before without being any more successful, the whole business of doctoring was looked on with horror and dread by ordinary people. Surgery, in particular, was believed to be no more than a peculiarly gruesome form of sadism, and dissection, possible only with the aid of body-snatchers, was even confused with necromancy. From the nineteenth century you could collect a large horror-literature connected with doctors and hospitals. Think of poor old George III, in his dotage, shrieking for mercy as he sees his surgeons approaching to ‘bleed him till he faints’! Think of the conversations of Bob Sawyer and Benjamin Allen, which no doubt are hardly parodies, or the field hospitals in La Débâcle and War and Peace, or that shocking description of an amputation in Melville’s Whitejacket! Even the names given to doctors in nineteenth-century English fiction, Slasher, Carver, Sawyer, Fillgrave and so on, and the generic nickname ‘sawbones’, are about as grim as they are comic. The anti-surgery tradition is perhaps best expressed in Tennyson’s poem, ‘The Children’s Hospital’, which is essentially a pre-chloroform document though it seems to have been written as late as 1880. Moreover, the outlook which Tennyson records in this poem had a lot to be said for it. When you consider what an operation without anaesthetics must have been like, what it notoriously was like, it is difficult not to suspect the motives of people who would undertake such things. For these bloody horrors which the students so eagerly looked forward to (‘A magnificent sight if Slasher does it!’) were admittedly more or less useless: the patient who did not die of shock usually died of gangrene, a result which was taken for granted. Even now doctors can be found whose motives are questionable. Anyone who has had much illness, or who has listened to medical students talking, will know what I mean. But anaesthetics were a turning-point, and disinfectants were another. Nowhere in the world, probably, would you now see the kind of scene described by Axel Munthe in The Story of San Michele, when the sinister surgeon in top-hat and frock-coat, his starched shirtfront spattered with blood and pus, carves up patient after patient with the same knife and flings the severed limbs into a pile beside the table. Moreover, national health insurance has partly done away with the idea that a working-class patient is a pauper who deserves little consideration. Well into this century it was usual for ‘free’ patients at the big hospitals to have their teeth extracted with no anaesthetic. They didn’t pay, so why should they have an anaesthetic — that was the attitude. That too has changed.
And yet every institution will always bear upon it some lingering memory of its past. A barrack-room is still haunted by the ghost of Kipling, and it is difficult to enter a workhouse without being reminded of Oliver Twist. Hospitals began as a kind of casual ward for lepers and the like to die in, and they continued as places where medical students learned their art on the bodies of the poor. You can still catch a faint suggestion of their history in their characteristically gloomy architecture. I would be far from complaining about the treatment I have received in any English hospital, but I do know that it is a sound instinct that warns people to keep out of hospitals if possible, and especially out of the public wards. Whatever the legal position may be, it is unquestionable that you have far less control over your own treatment, far less certainty that frivolous experiments will not be tried on you, when it is a case of ‘accept the discipline or get out’. And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots. However great the kindness and the efficiency, in every hospital death there will be some cruel, squalid detail, something perhaps too small to be told but leaving terribly painful memories behind, arising out of the haste, the crowding, the impersonality of a place where every day people are dying among strangers.
The dread of hospitals probably still survives among the very poor and in all of us it has only recently disappeared. It is a dark patch not far beneath the surface of our minds. I have said earlier that, when I entered the ward at the Hôpital X, I was conscious of a strange feeling of familiarity. What the scene reminded me of, of course, was the reeking, pain-filled hospitals of the nineteenth century, which I had never seen but of which I had a traditional knowledge. And something, perhaps the black-clad doctor with his frowsy black bag, or perhaps only the sickly smell, played the queer trick of unearthing from my memory that poem of Tennyson’s, ‘The Children’s Hospital’, which I had not thought of for twenty years. It happened that as a child I had had it read aloud to me by a sick-nurse whose own working life might have stretched back to the time when Tennyson wrote the poem. The horrors and sufferings of the old-style hospitals were a vivid memory to her. We had shuddered over the poem together, and then seemingly I had forgotten it. Even its name would probably have recalled nothing to me. But the first glimpse of the ill-lit, murmurous room, with the beds so close together, suddenly roused the train of thought to which it belonged, and in the night that followed I found myself remembering the whole story and atmosphere of the poem, with many of its lines complete.
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Friso Kramer
Provenance of Collectible Items
Dutch University
Industrial, Vintage
AB-60455
Signs of use consistent with age and industrial use .
Enamel, Metal, Plywood
Blonde, grey
Innovative Dutch design icon Friso Kramer was an active member in many influential design associations and a driving force behind the development of the Dutch modernist aesthetic from the 1940s onward. Son of accomplished architect Piet Kramer (1881-1961), Friso Kramer was born in Amsterdam in 1922. He earned a degree in interior architecture from the Institute of Applied Art in Amsterdam under director and architect Mart Stam (1899-1986). After graduating, he sought positions to gain experience in the fields of architecture and industrial design, including work for Bureaus JP Kloos and Frans Paulussen. In 1948, Kramer began designing for the steel furniture manufacturer De Cirkel, a subsidiary of Ahrend, where he eventually became the Art Director (1971 to 1983).
During the 1950s, Kramer joined the Stichting Goed Wonen (Good Living Association), a design and industry partnership that was committed to postwar reconstruction and quality-of-life improvements through good design. The group forged many strong collaborations between artists, designers, architects, manufacturers, and customers, which resulted in widespread interest in modernist design principles and aesthetics in the Netherlands. Kramer, together with designers Wim Crouwel, Benno Wissing, and Paul and Dick Schwarz, founded the acclaimed Total Design Bureau in 1963. Their aim was to execute design ideas that would achieve “total design” or syntheses between the various design fields. This milieu had a profound influence on Kramer and inspired him to produce rational, minimalist furniture for the new age. Iconic designs from Kramer’s career include the Eames-inspired, steal and plywood Revolt Chair (1953), a true classic of midcentury Dutch industrial design and arguably Kramer’s most famous work; Straatlantaarn Streetlight (1960) for The Hague; Facet Table (1964); the ergonomic, modular MEHES office series (1972); AKD Chair (1973); and FKS Stackable Chair and Table (1998).
Throughout the course of his career, Kramer held many acclaimed positions, including member of the Amsterdam Art Council, the Dutch Industrial Design Council, and the International Design Consortium. Kramer’s designs have been exhibited in the Stedelijik Museum in Amsterdam and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. He is also the recipient of the title “Royal Designer for Industry” by the Royal Society of Arts in London.
About the Maker
Dutch manufacturer Ahrend De Cirkel is the union of two separate companies: Ahrend, founded by Jacobus Ahrend in 1896, and De Cirkel, founded by Jan Schröfer in 1934. In the postwar era, Ahrend De Cirkel produced furniture by some of the Netherlands’ most celebrated designers, most notably Friso Kramer and Wim Rietveld. Today, Ahrend De Cirkel originals remain highly popular on the vintage market.
In Amsterdam in 1896, Jacobus Ahrend founded Wed. J. Ahrend & Son and quickly established a niche in functional, ergonomic office furniture. In 1930, the company acquired a steel press and launched its steel furniture department. That same year, Jan Schröfer designed the Zitnrom-stoel (1931) for Ahrend. Later, in 1934, Schröfer founded the steel furniture company De Cirkel in Amsterdam, which later relocated with Ahrend to Zwanenburg. Somewhere between 1939 and 1941, Ahrend acquired a large stake in De Cirkel, and the furniture collections of each carried the stamp “Ahrend De Cirkel.”
In 1948, Friso Kramer (b. 1922)—son of accomplished architect Piet Kramer (1881-1961)—began designing for Ahrend De Cirkel. Kramer went on to become the Art Director from 1971 to 1983. Kramer’s work for Ahrend De Cirkel was crucial to its success, as he was an active member in many influential design associations and a driving force behind the development of the Dutch modernist aesthetic from the 1950s onward.
In 1953, Kramer designed the Eames-inspired, steal and plywood Revolt Chair—a true classic of midcentury Dutch design and arguably Kramer’s most famous work. An archetype of efficient industrial design, Kramer’s lightweight and affordable chair could be found in classrooms, offices, and homes around the world in the postwar era. The Revolt went out of production for decades but was reintroduced by Ahrend in 2004. The new polypropylene version won ‘Best Interior Design Product’ at the 2005 Dutch Design Awards.
In 1957, Dutch designer Wim Rietveld (1924-1985) in collaboration with his father, the legendary architect Gerrit Rietveld, designed the stackable Mondial Chair for Gispen—which was exhibited in Brussels at the World Fair in 1958. The prototype was realized in aluminum, but Gipsen preferred the chair to be manufactured in plastic. This prompted Rietveld to find a new manufacturer. In 1958, he left Gispen and moved to Ahrend De Cirkel, where he began a fruitful collaboration with Kramer that would last for many years.
Kramer and Rietveld produced a number of now-iconic designs for Ahrend De Cirkel, ranging from functionalist seating and tables, to storage and shelving systems. Kramer’s standouts include the Facet Table (1964); the ergonomic, modular MEHES office series (1972); AKD Chair (1973); and FKS Stackable Chair and Table (1998). Famous designs from Rietveld include the Result Chair (1958); Oase Chair (1958); Reply Drafting Table (1958), which received the prestigious Signe d'Or prize in Brussels in 1963; Pyramid Table and Chair (1960); and Revolve Chair (1961).
In 1967, Ahrend acquired the steel company ODA alongside De Cirkel, and the latter two became subsidiaries of Ahrend. Today, Ahrend focuses on innovative office furniture and sustainable working environments, while still producing many of the classics from Kramer and Rietveld.
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Eclipse – x.4
She regretted sleeping. There were businessmen and entertainers who could be up for seventy-two hours without sleeping, and she was pretty sure she understood why. She chased that. She liked to think of it as hibernating and storing energy for the days she needed to do more.
Sleeping was dangerous when every second counted.
Sleeping was a soft reset, and when things were working, a reset was the last thing she wanted.
But the body had its demands, and as she felt the aches and pains of the skirmish the night prior, a skirmish where she hadn’t even touched anyone, she had rationalized that she needed rest to let her body repair itself. She didn’t even remember the act of lying down.
Damsel didn’t feel any less sharp than she had the day before, but her mood felt like it rested at a different angle. She still had momentum, she had the ability to do this if she could keep her power under control, but her thoughts kept looping back on themselves.
Not second guessing. No, she was confident. She was also very aware of how any one person, situation, or even bad luck could pull the rug out from under her.
Very, very aware.
The others were standing around their car. Stocky brick buildings lined this street, and a path between two buildings led to a narrow strip of grass and sidewalk at the edge of a little river. She couldn’t stand still, so she walked around the block, traveling the line of the river. She paid attention to rooftops, and to the residential buildings with signs of being lived in.
Sleep was dangerous because she couldn’t know what it would take away. She had rolled the dice, and she counted herself lucky that she had woken up ready to safeguard her accomplishments.
She had minions, and she had an objective. Her triumphs from the night prior were stacking up with other recent wins. Evading the PRT, dodging the cops at the station, an intimidating show as she revealed her cape self to the local teens. They weren’t important, she hadn’t even bothered to remember their names or which one it had been that had invited her to dinner. The show had been the important thing.
Damsel knew she needed to eliminate someone important to make room for herself to step into the scene. She didn’t want a big neighborhood, not to start.
The Brothers were sounding like they wanted to cooperate with the Clockwork Dogs. That took them out of the picture. The Four might go elsewhere.
There were people in other areas, but she wanted Deathchester. That left two opponents, and they were in the area to look into one of them.
A little wooden bridge with railings that looked like they were made entirely of rust gave the residents of these row-houses and blocky apartments a way to get past the river and approach the water. Damsel approached the bridge and stood up on the middle bar of the railing, the top bar pressing into her shins.
With the higher vantage point, she could see a man by the water. He wore a costume that was predominantly an armor of interwoven branches in a Celtic knot pattern. Black and green cloth beneath covered most of the rest of him, with what might have been hints of black skin visible at the back of his neck and between where his sleeve stopped and his woven-branch gauntlet began.
He had his back to her, reaching up to trees and gathering leafless branches, or stooping down to pick things up off the ground. Now and then, he put a branch into a gap in his armor, so it stuck up and away. Some still had dry leaves on them.
One of Blastgerm’s capes. She turned away.
Even the simple act of pulling her hood down was something she had to calculate. It required use of her hands, which meant she had to calculate the risk against the reward. What was the chance she was seen and her white hair was recognized? Adjusting her hood to hide her hair and face reduced that chance, but it introduced the chance her power would activate.
What would happen if she accidentally used her power? People would notice the sound, and she could find herself in a fight.
If it came to that, she could deal with him.
Destroy the bridge, if he was slow. It would force him to jump over. If he was faster, she could go to the building.
If she could make enough noise and cause enough damage while getting away, it would draw the attention of the heroes. That, in turn, would make the Blastgerm group’s life harder.
She adjusted her hood, tense, and tucked her hair behind her ear.
The villain with the wooden armor continued to gather branches, stopping to pick up a dandelion, placing it in the pile.
J had arrived in the time it had taken her to walk around the block of buildings. Bar, Bar’s friends, and Angel were already there. Angel’s brother was absent.
J had brought food. Breakfast sandwiches and coffees.
“Help yourself,” J said.
Eating was risky like sleeping was risky. Eating was supposed to be a social thing, but for her it was a gamble, with the odds badly tilted against her. A loss meant embarrassment. A win meant ‘normal’.
“Why?” Damsel asked, instead of taking the offer.
“Why this? What’s your angle?”
“Angle?” J asked.
“Not everyone and everything has an angle,” Angel said.
Naive girl. Still, naivety was something Damsel could live with, if Angel remained competent elsewhere.
Damsel ignored the statement and stared at J, waiting for her answer.
J gave. “You’re paying me, hopefully. Them? They’ll probably have my back if we end up doing something risky.”
“Yeah,” Damsel said. It made sense. She could even respect it. Looking around, she asked, “See anyone or anything on your way in?”
“Sorry, I wasn’t looking,”
“Look next time,” she said. “This entire city is enemy territory. Everything matters.”
“Yes ma’am,” J said.
She turned her gaze toward him. There wasn’t any hint of sarcasm or irony in the ‘ma’am’.
The others looked serious. For now, at least, she had their respect. There’d be the one who questioned her- there always was in the movies and television shows. It was human nature, to push against authority. It stood to reason, then, that someone in the group was harboring seditious thoughts.
She would have to make an example of them, the moment they revealed themselves. For now she would work with her new subordinates.
“One of Blastgerm’s capes is on the other side of the building. There will be more,” Damsel said. “Are we expecting anyone else from last night to show up?”
“No,” Bar said. “I could call others if you want.”
Damsel shook her head. “Let’s get in the cars.”
Bar had one car, and J had another. Damsel got into the passenger seat of Bar’s car, and he started it up. Angel and one of his friends were in the back seat.
They made it a block before they saw more. A woman, tall and slender, had pointed ears and black hair that was ankle length even when braided. Her mask was a rounded plane with grooves etched into it, black beady eyes built in. Her costume was a skintight suit with lines on it in the same pattern as the grooves, running vertically and crossing into flourishes at the top and bottom. She had two other capes with her- a man in a skintight top and heavy pants with a pillar that he rested one hand on. His weapon. Rotten Apple was with them, talking or telling them something.
On a rooftop nearby, a cape with a green hood covering their head, stylized horns protruding, had wings or a cape that draped around them in a loose spiral or wrap, sufficient to cover ten people.
Blastgerm hadn’t been lying. They’d put out a call and they had more capes actively guarding or patrolling in their general territory than a lot of teams had in their whole roster.
Angel whistled, long and low.
“No need to whistle. This is nothing,” Damsel said.
People were hanging around in the general vicinity of the capes. It wasn’t a lot- one here, one there. But they were entirely too comfortable with the presence of villains to not be affiliated with them.
Not soldiers, at a glance, but people who ran errands and handled things beyond fighting, like J seemed to want to do for her faction.
“Blastgerm was always small,” Angel said. “Dealers you heard about in the news once a year. Sometimes it’d be just Blasto or just Poison Apple.”
“Poison Apple?”
“Or Rotten Apple. She changes it around sometimes.”
Ashley nodded. “They’re not small now. It’s fine.”
She spotted another one. There was a crowd of a type she recognized. Back in Stafford, there had been Kidney Stan’s group. Useless fuckheads, stoners, imbeciles. They’d been the point of failure for one of her jobs. She had her suspicions that they were the ones responsible for tipping off the heroes about her trip to Boston. The cops at the station, Edict at the truck raid.
The group was surrounding the cape that had been in the company of Blasto and Rotten Apple the night before. The half-lizard, half-snake creation with the wooden head had climbed up him, and was perched on his shoulder.
“See that?” she asked.
“Geez. Out of the woodwork,” Bar said.
“The names are so disappointing,” Ashley said. “Blastgerm? Blasto? Rotten Apple? Woodwork would have been better, wouldn’t it?”
“Yes,” Bar said.
“I like Damsel of Distress,” Angel said.
“Sucking up?” Bar asked. “I’m joking.”
Jokes? Ashley wondered. Where did she draw the line in a subordinate testing her limits of authority?
“No. I like the name, is all,” Angel said.
“That’s because you have good taste,” Ashley said. “Clockwork Dogs? Why not the Cogs of War?”
“They have names that mean peace and cooperation,” Bar said.
Ashley snorted. Her eyes scanned the surrounding area for more. A few minutes passed. When she didn’t see more, she indicated for Bar to stop.
The other car caught up with them as they climbed out of the vehicle.
Ashley paced a little, thinking. She was annoyed. They were so small, and all they had to do was send a message online to get that many people? How was that right or fair?
“That’s a lot,” one of Bar’s friends said. “Too much?”
“No,” Ashley said, stopping. “No. I could handle that, given a chance. I’ll have to. I will take over this area.”
“Blasto’s a tinker, you know,” Bar said. “He’s working on something big. He keeps pulling in resources.”
“You hear about that sort of thing,” J said. “Tinker keeps a low profile for a while, keeping busy, and then they do something big. Building penthouse folds away to reveal the death laser with city-wide range.”
“The building mounted death laser only ever happened one time,” Bar said.
J snickered.
Ashley wasn’t laughing. “Talk to me about Detente’s group. He’s established?”
“Newly,” Bar said. “He and Accord have a bunch of people with powers. They’ve put up a good showing. Smart, efficient, rich.”
“Where is he from? Where is Accord from?”
Bar shrugged.
“They come out of nowhere and they’re this prepared? They have this much money to throw around?”
“That’s them having mastermind powers, maybe,” Bar said.
“They’re strong?”
“They’re small fish,” J said.
“Nobody’s a small fish when they have powers,” Damsel said. “Everyone’s a threat. Everyone has to be dealt with.”
“Sure,” Bar said.
“What about Digger? The biker.”
“Less of a good showing.”
“The Four?”
“They’re around. They haven’t done much,” Bar said.
“They were active in New York for a bit,” Angel said. “They’re freaky.”
“I’m scary too,” Ashley said. “I’m not worried.”
“If they didn’t have any powers at all, I’d be scared of them,” Angel said. “They’re into bioweapons. Their mindset is to poison everyone, and have their guys recover faster. They use healing powers and equipment to reduce the damage to their side.”
J spoke up, “They’re weirdly popular, I think it’s the style. There are galleries of art online with them surrounded by their colorful plague clouds.”
The idea nettled Ashley. It made her want to go right after the Four.
It wasn’t a good impulse. She shoved it down deep inside her, and she looked in the direction of Blastgerm’s claimed neighborhood. Blasto and Rotten Apple.
“You have a plan?” Bar asked.
“Yeah,” she said. “For now, hang around Blastgerm’s area. Figure out where they’re going and where they hang out. If they’re selling anything, figure out where things come from and where they go.”
“How long?” Bar asked.
“Until evening. I don’t want to waste time.”
Bar nodded slowly. “I guess this is where I bring up money, then.”
Damsel stood up straighter. Her eyes narrowed.
“You haven’t paid us anything yet. You said you’d pay what Marrow was asking for. Two thousand or five percent.”
“This is part of that.”
“This is a full day of our time,” Bar said. “For promises?”
“I showed you what I can do last night. I’ll show you something tonight, and you’ll be glad you helped when it comes together.”
“I don’t get it,” he said. “This plan, the long-term goal.”
“You don’t need to get it. You need to listen,” she made her voice cold.
She watched as his expression rotated between three different emotions.
She couldn’t put a name to each emotion, but she could imagine what sort they’d be.
“Yeah,” Bar said. “Two thousand or five percent of the take?”
“And a better position when I take power and territory for myself.”
Bar’s eyes moved as he seemed to engage in some mental calculations. “Yeah. Okay, fine, we’ll go take a look around.”
He signaled his friends.
Damsel thought about making an example of him. She couldn’t be sure if he was leaving and not coming back or if he was going to go through the motions while putting little effort in.
She looked at the two who remained. J and Angel.
“Are you going to run too?” she asked. “You’ll regret it later.”
“I’m not going to run,” Angel said. She rubbed the back of her neck. “I’m not good at anything except punching people and being punched. I heard we can hang around the beach or the fighting pit at the south end, and sometimes people will round up helping hands for work. I’ll put on a stupid costume and be a henchman if it pays.”
“No need for a stupid costume,” Damsel said. She reconsidered. “Maybe a costume later on, but it won’t be stupid. I don’t do stupid.”
Angel shrugged. “I’ll do this, ‘cuz I don’t lose anything. I can learn stuff, seeing how they operate. You need me for a job later, I’ll do that too.”
“You’ll be rewarded,” Ashley said. She smiled. “Go. We meet at the same place as this morning.”
“I’ll pick you up if you want,” J told Angel. Angel smiled at him.
“Sure. But I’ll walk in,” Angel said. “We’ll cover more ground if we stay separated.”
“Good,” Damsel said.
Angel walked away. J remained, walking around his car. He held out the remaining sandwich for her. She took it.
“This needs to count,” he said. “Even for Angel, and Angel has low expectations.”
“How it counts is my business, not yours,” she said.
J nodded. “Sure.”
“It will count. Loyalty will be rewarded,” she said. “I think I understand what Angel wants. She makes sense to me.”
J nodded. “I’ve seen her around. She’s cool. Just don’t make her mad.”
“I don’t intend to. I think I know what will speak to Bar’s type. To others. Money.”
J nodded.
“What do you want?” she asked.
“Money,” he said, without hesitation.
She met his eyes, studying him. Brown eyes, a face covered in freckles, brown hair, and an expression with a measure of determination.
“Go earn it then. Gather information.”
Things threatened to crumble. One partial night’s sleep, and people had forgotten her triumph, doubted her power, doubted her. Her own doubts seeped in.
It was her against what seemed like a dozen people with powers.
This was what I was meant for, she thought. Excitement swelled in her chest as she considered the options, the idea of coming out the other side victorious.
Pyrokinetics thrived when there were nearby fires. Capes who could manipulate water could operate at peak efficiency when near a body of water.
So it went.
She wielded annihilation and chaos. If that was so, then she would do the equivalent of the pyrokinetic setting fire to the building they were in.
That she was doing this with no other powers on her side, against so many enemies?
Not a concern, she told herself, a cold sort of excitement setting up shop in her chest as she worked to banish the doubts. Not a concern. Everything has been preparation for this.
Even the fact that I’ve been completely alone for three years.
Ashley stretched as she left the court office. The patrol guard cleared his throat.
She didn’t stop stretching at the throat clearing.
The court office was in recess. People stood, stretched, and headed in the direction of the vending machines.
“That could have gone better,” Tristan said. “Rain got an easier set of proctors.”
“I didn’t expect to get it easy,” Ashley said.
Kenzie was fidgeting, distressed. Ashley put a hand on Kenzie’s shoulder, and her little friend looked up at her with a smile. The fidgeting stopped.
That fidgeting would be because of the video. Kenzie would want it to be shown and be anxious about it being shown at the same time. The group wouldn’t like it if the video came out, Kenzie would be dreading both the idea of the video coming out and the video not coming out.
“I don’t think they were being fair,” Sveta said. “You weren’t uncooperative.”
“She wasn’t,” Victoria said. “I’m really hoping they’re open to giving us a chance to talk at the end. I want to hammer that in. I had a letter from Gilpatrick, but they haven’t mentioned it.”
Ashley didn’t think it was fair either, but she kept it to herself. Going down that line of thinking was the kind of thing that set herself off.
Tristan added, “I took my letter for Ashley in after Rain’s tribunal, handed it to the one guy who looks like a mortician. He was pretty dismissive.”
“Could it have been process? Not wanting to seem biased?” Sveta asked, almost hopefully.
“No excuse to be rude,” Tristan said.
“Maybe he didn’t like your face,” Chris said.
“Then they have no taste,” Kenzie said. “I think Tristan and Byron have very nice faces.”
“I’m really not sure how to take that,” Tristan said.
“Is there a process, if this tribunal doesn’t handle things appropriately?” Sveta asked. “Higher court we can go to?”
“No,” Victoria said. “The purpose of this is to handle stuff without getting tied up in more complicated procedures. Weeding out the obvious cases before it gets put in front of the proper court.”
“There should be some process. Some emergency go-to,” Sveta said.
Ashley felt agitation creep over her. It was fear and conviction with an energy to it, and the anxiety, impulses, and restlessness could in of themselves generate more anxiety, impulse, restlessness and energy.
Left to run rampant, these feelings and experiences that multiplied themselves would grow in ways that formed constructions and ideas, like how a cloud could resemble a face or a dog.
Some of the therapy she’d had helped her to recognize it for what it was. Actually dealing with it was the harder thing.
“If it’s okay,” Ashley said, with more force than necessary, aiming the statement at nobody in particular. “I’d rather not talk or think about the tribunal right now.”
“Sure, sorry,” Sveta said.
“We can talk about anything you want,” Victoria said.
“Talk about anything,” Ashley said. “The noise of talking would be nice, so long as it isn’t about this.”
“I’m making a camera that takes pictures and video of the past,” Kenzie said. “It’s only twenty five pounds, and I’m slimming it down.”
There were overlapping responses. People sounded impressed, enthused.
“That actually sounds awesome,” Chris said.
“Kenzie is awesome,” Ashley said. “It’s about time you caught up with the rest of us, Chris.”
Kenzie looked up to her, then tipped over, head smacking into Ashley’s shoulder. She put her arm behind Ashley’s back in a one-armed hug.
“There are catches,” Kenzie said.
“Of course,” Chris responded. He made no mention of the hug.
“It takes a while to spin up. I’m still working on that. And it reads particles that don’t move in straight lines, so it gets fuzzy fast.”
“Fuzzy can be workable,” Victoria said. “In forensics alone, that kind of camera could be a lifesaver.”
“I’m still figuring out balances. Time is something I usually work around if I can,” Kenzie said. Her legs kicked below the bench. “I stole some tech.”
“Stole?” Chris asked.
“Tinkers can read powers and people and get data that they can then use for their tinkering stuff. A tinker who makes flamethrowers can use my blueprints and figure out how to do some targeting tech. Or, like, even if it’s not powers, I could do deep scans of a thinker and I could get power data I could use for my cameras. Which is where right now I wish I could talk to a really good precog or postcog, and see how their power works.”
“Don’t we all,” Victoria said.
“Anyway,” Kenzie said, “We saw some of this with Snag and the others, remember?”
“The Speedrunners,” Tristan said. “Yeah.”
“Yeah. Every tinker is different so it’s not every tinker that does it, but it’s most, I think. We all want our data and inspiration. When I went to pick up my big projector box, I sent some flying cameras in. Which was safe to do since Mama Mathers was gone, right?”
Ashley imagined that was the same time Kenzie had collected the image of the landscape where she’d killed Beast of Burden, for the falsified video.
“So I searched around to see if there was anything interesting. Some of the tinker throwing stars and junk were lying around. I had my camera grab that. Now I’m reverse engineering it.”
“That’s great,” Ashley said.
“Except the team’s falling apart, and I don’t have anyone to do this with. You might not be there to see it.”
“I might not,” Ashley said. She felt a pang.
She didn’t want this. Rain did, but for her, it was something she had to do, a necessary evil.
“But you didn’t want to talk about that. I’m sorry,” Kenzie said.
Ashley shook her head.
Victoria took the empty space on the bench beside Ashley. She showed her her phone.
It was a picture of Presley, hair dyed an inconsistent color that was more gray-white than pure white.
The freckles reminded her of Amy, which would have been a tricky topic to raise.
It reminded her of J, a memory from a past life. Trickier still to bring up or raise.
There was a low, deep rumble as her power did its work. She had to run to get away from the cloud of dust that exploded out in every direction.
She was already moving to the next point. She lashed out with a sweep of her warped darkness, targeting one corner of a building. Her arm raked out, trying to cover as much area as possible, to destroy as much brick and beam, insulation and strut. A blast of her power provided the kick to get her clear of the area as the wall came down.
She did the same to the other corner of the building. Where bricks were stacked atop one another, they started cascading down in sheets, crashing to the ground. Other things fell down, and the sound of the impacts and cracks had a beautiful sound to them, with the water magnifying some of the acoustics.
J’s car was a lawn and a sidewalk away from her, moving at a slow but steady clip as he tried to stay close to her and keep away from the rolling cloud of debris.
This was the distraction. They were near the water, not that far from where the bridge and the cape with the Celtic-knot wooden armor had been. Her power was taking down segments of old buildings with no lights on. A glance inside had verified they were empty.
Now- she felt the strain in her legs as she ran, catching up with the car. She didn’t hop in, but hopped on, standing at the edge and bracing her forearm against the door and the top of the car. Her power flickered but touched only the air.
On impulse, as they passed a large tree, she blasted it. It toppled behind her, and it made a hell of a lot of noise.
J stepped on the gas. The car peeled out.
This would help draw capes away from the center of operations. Others were out there- only some of Bar’s group, the ones that had been most curious about what they were doing, and Angel was out there, keeping watch.
The trick was to get enough speed that they could circle around and hit the target from the side or behind. Going straight there wouldn’t work, because it would mean running headlong into anyone coming to see what was happening.
One empty building toppled, another two with one exterior wall partially or wholly collapsed. One tree brought down to block a road.
They passed through an intersection, and she had the briefest of glimpses of the capes on the next road over. A larger group than she’d expected were on their way to investigate.
J stopped the vehicle. She hopped off, kicking the door closed, then broke into a run.
Lights streaked across the sky.
That would be phase two of the distraction.
Damsel had made Angel notify the heroes that Blastgerm were up to no good.
At worst, what? She was outnumbered thirty to one instead of twelve to one? Past a point, it didn’t matter.
At best? They were out of position and tied up with outside concerns.
Her power blasted the door open. A heavy thud behind her marked the arrival of a cape, a moment after she disappeared inside. A big guy- not one of the ones she’d seen during the day’s patrols. He had a metal helmet and painted skin, and walked with a hunched back.
Angel and J had independently come to the conclusion that this was Blasto’s headquarters. It was where the capes kept entering and leaving. Those who sold drugs apparently came and went from here as well.
Not bright, to shit where one ate, but he might have told himself that he had more than enough powered bodyguards.
The big guy was stampeding his way inside. She hit the stairs and she went up. The big guy followed, charging his way after her.
Time to burn this building down, she thought.
She blasted behind her, and she took out a chunk from the floor of the hallway. The angle meant she was thrown up and back, and it wasn’t her usual style. With the usual sort of blast, she could at least try to keep her balance. Here, she toppled and slid on the smooth laminate floor.
The big guy, catching up, had to stop to avoid falling in. He gathered himself together on the most solid ground, muscles standing out, and he leaped.
She wasn’t even fully to her feet as she stuck her hands out. A wide area blast, concentrated to get as much of the floor as possible, where he was due to land. It gave him less chance of finding some footing, and it kept pieces from raining down on the unsuspecting below.
He crashed into the edge of it, and he fell through.
She used her power with wanton abandon. Doors? Gone. Walls? Gone. One blast knocked out the power on her floor.
Empty rooms, offices, a room with bunk-beds and storage crates.
Nothing on this floor.
She blasted a hole in the floor and dropped down.
The big guy was on the floor below, in the midst of trying to scrabble up to the floor above. He slipped, fell, and spotted her.
Her power flared involuntarily, costing her a moment. She tried to make it look intentional by blasting the nearest wall, as if it was a prelude to the full maneuver.
The big guy barreled toward her, and she had to find traction amid dust before jumping into the hole she’d just made. Another hole in the floor made it hard for him to follow her.
Walls and doors were nothing. They were a gesture away from being an opening. She used that opening, navigating the floor, while the big guy gave chase. Somewhere along the line, he stopped running after her.
She cleared the floor, found nothing, and dropped down.
On this floor, she could smell the drugs. She followed the smell and found a conference room turned to nefarious purpose. Packaging, plastic bags, and mounds of green leaves were set out.
She didn’t have to go far to find the office with some of the money. She was careful with her hands as she picked up a stack of bills.
Something detonated just to the left of her. A cloud of noxious green gas surrounded her, and she stumbled away.
“That’s not yours.”
Rotten Apple.
Damsel smiled, walking around the room to avoid the expanding cloud of gas.
“This was a decent headquarters,” Rotten Apple said. A green sphere appeared in her hand, then levitated above it. “Now look at it.”
The ceiling in the hallway sagged in tatters. There were holes in quite a few walls, large enough for a person to walk through. The gas was thinning out at its periphery, giving the room a general green haze.
A second orb appeared, joining the first one that still orbited Rotten Apple’s hand. The costumed woman gripped it, drawing her arm back to throw.
Damsel brought her arm around, pointing at the money. “Do anything and I obliterate it.”
“You don’t want to do that.”
“You don’t want me to do it either. But I will if I think it weakens your group.”
Rotten Apple’s eyes narrowed.
“Surr-” Damsel started, before being interrupted with coughing. The gas.
“Surrender,” she said, succeeding on the second attempt at speaking. “Believe me, you don’t want me to keep going. You might have an army, but they have to get here first, and they’ll need to watch their footing. I can bring this whole building down, and I’m betting I can be the one that survives if we’re both inside when I do it.”
“Sure,” Rotten Apple said. She looked at the money. She flicked the ball and it flew through a hole in the wall to explode in another room. “There. I’m unarmed.”
“Hands up,” Damsel said.
“That doesn’t matter when it comes to parahumans.”
“Call it a token thing. I like my gestures of respect.”
Rotten Apple slowly raised her hands, until both were visible.
She’d had another orb, before. Where was it now?
Damsel looked, and she spotted it at the last second, almost invisible with the haze of gas in the room. It was on the ground, and it had rolled past her.
The orb detonated with some force, and the money was scattered into the air throughout the room. Damsel was forced to back away from it as the miasma visibly colored the air.
Rotten Apple was already preparing for another shot.
Damsel could have used her power to shoot the money, but it was so scattered that she would have hit a relatively small fraction.
Instead, she ducked through the doorway and blasted the floor of the hallway.
Down. Down to safer territory.
Rotten Apple followed. Another orb was thrown, and Damsel wasn’t quick enough to get out of the way. The detonation knocked her over, and the resulting fall was unexpected and hard. Gas swept over her as she worked to find her feet.
It felt like standing up took a lot of effort. Was that the gas?
As the gas burned at her nostrils and tickled her throat, threatening to force her into a coughing fit that would have her inhale more gas, she raised a hand.
The use of her power knocked her over and did force a resulting, involuntary intake of breath, but it also destroyed the gas that was touched, and it annihilated the very air.
Gas flowed into the resulting vacuum, where it could be blasted again.
It didn’t eliminate everything, but it thinned the gas, and it gave her a way to hold things off until she could find her feet properly again.
She saw Rotten Apple lob another sphere, and blasted, hoping to get the gas before it could expand too far. Instead, the power connected with the sphere. It was wiped out of existence, with no gas resulting.
Damsel made her way down to the floor below, putting another hole in the ground and jumping through before Rotten Apple could do anything.
The ceiling of the floor below, as it turned out, was a little higher than average. She had to use her darkness blast to break the velocity of her fall. Her landing was a hard one, all the same, knees banging on the floor.
A lab. Improvised, dirty, panes of plexiglas with whatever glue or caulk had been used to connect them together running in dribbles and gobs. Metal bands helped keep them from coming apart- which was good, because each seemed to be under pressure.
Damsel straightened, aware that Rotten Apple would be coming after her as soon as she could access the stairs.
Vats. A row of them against one wall, dirty and smeared enough that the contents weren’t immediately obvious.
Humanoid figures, each one different from the others.
Blastgerm’s large roster of villains from this online ad they’d put out. They weren’t real people.
Damsel smiled, looking at it all.
They’d cheated.
There was something else at the far end of the room. It looked like a boiler, but it had the same rushed, improvised feel that the vats did. Metal, welding, tubes winding around it, and a glass aperture, showing a sea of what looked like green moss on the other side.
“Step away from that,” Rotten Apple said. She was breathing hard.
Ashley extended a hand out toward a vat. The intention was to threat, but her power sparked out. It cut into thick glass, into water, and into the figure on the other side. She flinched back, holding her arm against her chest as she stumbled away.
She stood up straight, forcing a smile she didn’t feel. The remains of the body were tipping forward as the fluids emptied from the vat, and they were breaking apart like wet toilet paper as they brushed against the edges of the broken glass.
Rotten Apple wasn’t acting like Damsel had just killed someone.
“Of course Blasto isn’t around, at a time like this,” Rotten Apple said. “The asshole is probably doing something stupid like sleeping.”
“Can’t afford to sleep if you want to claim your piece of Boston,” Damsel said.
“You realize we’re going to come after you. If you fuck us on this Boston thing, we’ll make it a lifelong goal to come after you.”
“Don’t bother with threats,” Damsel said. “I don’t scare easy, and I hold the cards right now. I can do more damage to all of this than you can do anything to me.”
Rotten Apple shook her head. “The soldiers we sent out are due back soon. Blasto could wake up any time, and he could wake these guys up.”
“Or,” Damsel said. “You could give me a share of that room for the money, along with a pledge that you won’t take Deathchester, and I’ll keep silent about what you’re doing with these legions of false capes that are joining you.”
“Armsmaster against Bastion, who wins?”
The replies overlapped. People were amused, happy. Angel and her brother were here. There were a few scattered others that J had invited. Ashley wasn’t sure how to label the scene, even, where J and Angel both wore bathrobes, like they were some kind of honor. Drink was being passed around freely among the teenagers.
They’d opted for slightly less money and roughly equivalent value in the drugs. Ashley didn’t care about the drugs, didn’t want to be intoxicated, but she was content to let her immediate underlings take what made them happy.
Now they were being celebrated, if that was the right word. They were teenagers or men and women in their early twenties, and they’d wanted an excuse to party. Thin justification, but she wasn’t going to say no. They had provided the information, she had conducted the raid, and money had been collected and doled out. It helped that the excuse for the partying was that she’d succeeded. People were paying attention to her triumph.
It felt like a dream. She felt important, she felt good, and it wasn’t being poisoned or undercut in any way.
“Armsmaster has discipline,” Ashley said. “He has more tools.”
“The rules are important,” Angel’s brother said. “What location? How far apart are they to start?”
“Wait, wait,” someone said. “Who benefits from more distance?”
More replies overlapped.
She didn’t know how to deal with this. Her power had flickered a few times, even kicked once, and people were mostly ignoring it. There had been one question from a newcomer, and then there had been nothing.
She couldn’t bring people to her empty lair, so she had consulted J. J had provided some ideas, and she’d picked this. With some of the money, she had rented some hotel rooms. It was an easy way to have comfort, food, and a bit of luxury for Angel, who needed or wanted that. For some of these people, people in this age range who did this kind of work who hadn’t been around the other night, this was luxury, something that could draw them into her fold.
She’d tried and tried again. Sooner or later, she’d taken a risk and it had failed. She’d been sabotaged, by people or by her power.
Somehow… not this time. There had been a moment where Angel’s brother had walked past her, reeking of alcohol, and her eyes had watered very easily.
Fatigue threatened to catch up with her, and she couldn’t afford to sleep.
Instead, as the discussion got sillier, she took the opportunity to stand.
“Make sure you can work tomorrow night, because we have more to do,” she said. She smiled. “Enjoy yourselves. That’s an order.”
There were cheers. She felt like she was drunk, just from the emotional reaction to the cheer.
It wasn’t a far cry from this to being worshiped.
It felt like every thing she could do was the wrong thing. She had spent three years alone and now she finally had allies. They were people who understood her, and as she rode the emotional high, she retreated to her room to be alone again.
She felt like she could sleep for two straight days, and sleeping terrified her, because unlike the cliche, it was a very real possibility that she could wake up and the spell would be broken. She’d wake up from the dream. She could move her hands the wrong way, and the dream would be broken, as surely as anything was broken by her power.
She couldn’t even trust the success. It felt like a pressure, closing in on her, and the solitude of her room wasn’t enough. The room was almost too much, too white, too clean, the towels too fuzzy, the sheets too soft. All too easy to break and ruin, like so many other things in life.
She stepped outside. There was a danger she would destroy her key card, but she could always knock on the window of the others.
Ashley hoped it wouldn’t come to that, but she couldn’t be inside.
She might have spent a full hour of that cool summer night just outside the side door of the hotel, looking at nothing in particular, far from sleep and yet too tired to think.
The door opened, and J stepped outside.
“Need anything?” he asked.
“Want company?” he asked.
She shrugged.
He walked over, and he leaned against the wall beside her.
His arm touched hers as he stood there. He did nothing else.
She’d been right. He’d lied- it hadn’t been the money that had motivated him.
51 thoughts on “Eclipse – x.4”
Death flag! I call death flag!
The constant, neverending, UNCEASING dread that Ashley feels that her power will misfire and erase all of her progress is horrific. It’s a legitimate wonder that she lasted as long as she had until Riley did whatever it was she did to her hands to make it more controllable.
(But also: Kenzie building a Postcog Camera can have major consequences for law enforcement if she ever succeeds, unlike the teleportation project she mentioned to Victoria when showing off at her introduction)
Olivebirdy says:
Unless it’s found out that Kenzie had faked footage…
Doctoring the fake footage is what gave her the idea to actually grab the real footage after the fact, methinks. She’ll have to find a way to demonstrate authenticity, or it’s doomed to fail to begin with.
Pavlo says:
Ashley veto-ed showing that, so she’s safe.
Thief of Words says:
We already know hints of what Bone saw first did to remedy her power issues. It was described explicitly in the tea party scene referenced last chapter.
Presumably the current iteration 9f Ashley’s hands are an improvement or iteration on the previous design. And one that isn’t as jarring or disproportionate as foot long talons on a seven or nine year old.
Dainpdf says:
It will certainly lead to a debate about parahuman based evidence being admissible in court. If Dragon were around and in contact with the administration she could check the work over, but as it is and with parahuman perception this low, I suspect such evidence would be considered inadmissible.
ToastGhost says:
Even if the footage itself is inadmissible, it could potentially provide a lead for more traditional investigation. Which is, honestly, what I would prefer it to be used as.
Calvin Turner says:
Considering where we find Damsel in Worm, this does not bode well for J.
ZanyDuck says:
Good chapter–I like how this arc is simultaneously developing old characters and the new cast. (And I wonder if this affects the chances of Applegirl joining or supporting Team Therapy.)
Ashley’s mindset is *really* frustrating to put up with, but that’s part of why she is my favorite character. She has a lot of growing to do and it will be fascinating to see if she can pull it off.
It would be ironic if Bonesaw’s efforts to clone her as a murder-pet were also responsible for personality changes that allow for self-improvement.
Pazuzu says:
Bonesaw did mention that she corrected the clones’ worst personality traits in her interlude.
…Oh. Right. Thanks.
I guess that takes it out of the category of audience-reversal-of-expectation irony and puts it into the category of dramatic irony, then.
Glassware says:
Ah, so Ashley is aware that Amy and Victoria aren’t on speaking terms and is being polite and just not bringing up that she semiregularly sees both of them. Ashley is a good friend.
It seems like the minions she recruited in Boston were the closest thing she’d ever had to friends or companions. I’m guessing they all died or she convinced herself they were worthless. J is suuuuuper dead man walking.
I’m dreading him betryaing her, her thinking he betrayed her, or this.
J and Ashley are in bed.
J- “Ash there’s something I want to ask you. I mean I know you’ve got your villain career, and desire to rule the world, and I don’t want you to feel like this would interfere with it… But would you marry me?”
Ashley- “Oh J, of course I would!” Power misfires blowing a hole in his chest.
Empathetically Fare says:
bob and ash were secretly in love, but she could never get over J
stormking678 says:
J- “Ash you’re one dynamite ga-” *dies*
Does Armsmaster have prep time?
Either J’s going to betray Ashley, Ashley’s going to accidently kill him, or he’s going to set off Ashley’s issues.
were he was due to land.
-where
She was ginger as she picked up a stack of bills.
-Checked dictionary, this is not an accepted conjugation of ‘gingerly’.
Butagami says:
“worshiped” needs an extra p.
Wilbur typically uses American spellings.
Nobody’s perfect, sadly.
“Them? they’ll probably have my back”
“Not a concern. Everything has been preparation”
“They were a gesture away from being an opening, and she used it,”
Plural/singular shenanigans.
“it flew threw a hole”
> ‘through’, since it’s an unspoken description
Besagew says:
“The face of freckles reminded her of Amy, which would have been a tricky topic to raise.”
‘The face of freckles’ doesn’t work. Just ‘the freckles reminded her’ would be fine, I think.
Or the face full of freckles.
Pinkhair says:
Face of freckles is fine.
It’s a consistent wildbow conjugation of gingerly. Just go with it.
Nickhasawesomeproblems says:
“The thfreckles reminded her of Amy”
The “th” does not belong there.
Platinum Ship of Fools says:
>“It takes a while to spin up. I’m still working on that. And it reads particles that don’t move in straight lines, so it gets fuzzy fast.”
Kenzies technobabble is so much fun, it’s so weird and I love it
Quixaphid says:
Wow. This chapter is so good. Super captures Ashley both then and now. The sense of dread and menace she has with regards to her power is palpable.
It also gives a sense of how exceptional the undersiders were as villains. Most villains are going to be too broken by their life, or by their trigger, or by their shard to be effective or organized. Ashley has to deal with all three.
By contrast Taylor had queen admin shard so even with all her problems she was always focused organized and efficient. Tattle Tale has a power that lets her see connections and big picture as well as details so she was able to hold pieces together. So the Undersiders worked. But Ashley’s organization here is probably more typical.
gazeboist says:
For a substantial part of their rise, the Undersiders also had Coil’s power tilting things in their favor.
Warren Peace says:
“Taylor had queen admin shard so even with all her problems she was always focused organized and efficient”
I don’t follow all the WoG and everything, but you’re claiming Taylor’s shard *provided* those traits to Taylor? That’s a pretty wild claim, do you have equally wild supporting evidence? It seems far more likely that Taylor was just that kind of person (which we see before her first night out, with her notebooks, for example).
I didn’t think this is what you were referring to, but IMO the importance of her second trigger giving her the ability to multitask cannot be overstated. Most people don’t know that us norms (regular humans) literally cannot multitask, so that’s a legit – and very underrated! – superpower.
I think Taylor got the Queen Administrator shard because she was that kind of person.
Ashley got the shard the Worms use to blow up the planet on their way out. Wonder what that says about her.
Normal people can and do multitask. Ever been in a conversation and had something that was just on the tip of your tongue, but you couldn’t quite remember it? So you shrugged it off and went on with the conversation, and then twenty minutes later you were talking about something else entirely, and the thing you couldn’t remember just pops up in your brain? Your subconscious has been working on it as a background task the whole time.
Then of course there’s the classic example of being able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
But, yeah, doing it on the level and sheer scale that Taylor does is a superpower in its own right – and probably actually the most powerful one she has. At least up until the, y’know, thing. Even then, the thing would have been useless without the multitasking.
Teian says:
Ah, I do so love these vignettes. I love seeing this collection of caped antics pre golden morning to remind us of just how things’ve changed post golden morning. I could stand to read these all the time.
~Teian.
The past-viewing camera sounds like it could have some neat possibilities, both as a way to give the team super-investigatory capabilities, solving mysteries, figuring out mysterious powers, and for character development.
Depending on how far back in time it could go, or consistently go, it could be an excuse for everyone to revisit their points of origin. Or the origins of important events or people, as a research project. I could see someone becoming addicted to using it, sinking into nostalgia, or completely changing their views based on what they saw. It could certainly be dangerous in the wrong hands, too, and earn Kenzie a lot of attention from dubious sources.
It probably would get too fuzzy too fast to ever have that kind of potential.
I worry about how much time Kenzie’s spending on it, and how much progress she’s made.
Kenzie’s camera has terrifying potential. Consider:
“Cameras, show me Khepri, from her trigger event to lunchtime yesterday.”
Kristof says:
Maybe it’s just because I read a similar story, but I think it would have to be in a specific location to see what happened there. It’s still a camera after all. On the other hand, this is Kenzie.
Owesome says:
“It was old man Withers dressing up as Miner 49’er to drive away the owners so he could illegally mine the gold himself!”
“Um, Kenzie? We’ve only just met the monster, we usually just run up and down the corridor at this point.”
“But Fred, I made this new camera! It sees through masks!”
“The thfreckles reminded her of Amy, which would have been a tricky topic to raise.”
Looks like that should just be ‘freckles’
Abraham Golden says:
The freckles, I think.
Also, fuck. That’s a hell of a way to end a chapter. Also…
I kinda get Ashely after this. The idea of doing things right for once, having all my ducks in a row, and still just waiting for the other shoe to drop…
It’s grating, exhausting, and no matter what you never let it show because other people will just get in the way. On the other hand, you need them to help, so you feed them the minimum amount of information, never knowing when you’ve finally fucked the goose for the last time-
It makes sense.
Fsck, Imp’d
So much sadness for Damsel. I can see why you wanted to write about her. Such a compelling person.
I keep coming back to those capes delivering groceries, knowing she was hungry and alone.
ADifferentAnonymous says:
Loving these Ashley chapters. Tracking the time to say this because I recall the concept being pitched a little tentatively.
I’m reminded a bit of the high of Taylor’s meteoric rise, while still being a very different story.
Moon Cousin says:
Cool seeing Rotten Apple/Poison Apple/Fume Hood in a proper fight since we only got a small glimpse of how she fights in the opening arc.
Tree of Ignorance says:
Let you love for Ward motivate you. Vote for Ward;
Presumably the Manton Effect or something stops her from misfiring in her sleep, or have I missed where she sometimes wakes up in a crater surrounded by bits of room?
Hopefully that extends to intimacy or Ash is about to collect another whole subscription full of issues.
And here’s me about to jump on the good ship AshAngel, too.
Lumi says:
Pretty sure Ashley’s power is one of the few that ignores the Manton effect?
Gopher says:
The Manton effect is more than just the “only affects living/non-living things” split. It also covers capes not hurting themselves with their own power and other similar power behavior. Not activating in her sleep would be one of these cases.
|| RadiantLegacy || says:
Is this pre-S9 original Ashley or remaining clone Ashley? So confused as to where the Boston Games are on the timeline.
Silverblur says:
This is original Ashley, though I don’t know if these are the true events or bonesaw’s recreations.
Poudou says:
Perfect, the interlacing of stories and snapshots, the memories that are not entirely memories, the dread, the constant DREAD.
RazorSmile says:
Gods, I love this Boston Games arc so much. Like, you’ve made me want a Damsel-In-Distress-as-the-protagonist take on Worm. Plus, I lived in Boston for many many years and I get a small of frisson of ecstasy every time Hyde Park or somewhere else I know is mentioned.
And her power/power incontinence/personality synergy is absolutely nightmarish. Victories can never be enjoyed, losses can never be acknowledged; she’s like the living embodiment of I Meant to Do That. Just the all-consuming dread of the next disaster and the constant rumination of how to pass it off as deliberate, no matter the sacrifice. Better erratic than weak, better a monster than a moron and no relief EVER.
Also, I am utterly convinced that Detente is Coil and will hear nothing to the contrary.
> Ashley put a hand on Kenzie’s shoulder
Oh god no, don’t do that!
Seriously, that sounds like a ludicrously dangerous thing to be doing.
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News April 17, 2018 May 7, 2019
Trump’s Attorney’s Attorneys Hire Attorneys To Represent Their Attorneys
by James Schlarmann
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — The network of lawyers working on the various legal proceedings associated with the Trump presidency has grown once more. Trump attorney Michael Cohen‘s attorneys, who are representing him during the criminal investigation into his activities related to the Trump campaign in 2016, have reportedly hired a new team of lawyers that will represent the team of lawyers already hired last week to represent them as they represent Cohen.
“At this point, there are more hands on this than a dildo in a lesbian porn shoot,” one attorney at the firm representing Cohen told us on the condition of anonymity. “It’s probably a good decision though. Seems like every week there’s a new wrinkle. First it’s Stormy, then it’s Karen McDougal, then a third Playmate, and then the RNC guy, and now Sean Hannity. It’s one of those cases that can boomerang on you, and the next thing you know, you’re in hot water yourself. Who knew cases involving collusion with a foreign adversary and money laundering for their oligarchs would be so complicated, eh?”
For years, Mr. Cohen has served as President Trump’s personal attorney. Cohen shot to notoriety during the 2016 presidential campaign, when he could be frequently seen on cable news networks as one of Trump’s biggest supporters. Things have taken quite a turn for the dramatic in Cohen’s life, however, when it was revealed that the FBI has been investigating Cohen for possible criminal activity for months following the FBI’s raid his office last week.
The raid was an extraordinarily rare step by the FBI because they seized documents and communications between Cohen and three clients — Trump, a Republican National Committee finance executive, and Fox News host Sean Hannity. Communications between attorneys and clients are considered privileged and not admissible in court in most circumstances, however exceptions are made if an attorney is suspected of helping a client in the commission of crimes.
“The firm hired a team of lawyers when the whole Stormy Daniels story broke,” our sources tells us. “We had to cover our own asses when all the campaign finance violation talks started swirling. But the raid last week showed us we need to probably protect our lawyers with a team of attorneys themselves.”
Cohen’s firm thinks they have their staffing needs taken care of, but they worry if more troubling or damning allegations come to light that they could exhaust the pool of available lawyers to represent lawyers they’ve hired to represent the lawyers they hired to represent themselves as they represent Mr. Cohen.
“It’s a clusterfuck wrapped in an orgy buried in a circle jerk,” our source says. “But it’ll all work out in the end, I’m sure.”
This is a developing story.
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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Torment of Hades gameplay details revealed
By Jordan Aslett June 3, 2019
Today, Ubisoft revealed some of the details for the next episode in the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Fate of Atlantis story. Anyone who has purchased the Fate of Atlantis episode pack or has Odyssey‘s season pass will obtain access to the content starting tomorrow, June 4. If players have reached level 28 or higher, finished the Between Two worlds story quest, and beat The Fields of Elysium, they can jump right in. You can also start a new game specifically for Fate of Atlantis if you haven’t completed those prerequisites.
Ubisoft also unveiled a new trailer to show off the bleak new Underworld setting, some of the story beats, and the episode’s initial encounter with Cerberus itself. Check it out for yourself below.
The premise of Torment of Hades
The game starts with the player defeating Hades’ pet Cerberus, which understandably leaves him pretty upset. To make up for it, Hades sends the player to take care of some nefarious villains who have begun to escape from Tartaros, likely because Cerberus is now unable to guard it. To take care of some of these, the player will have to activate special Tartaros rifts, which makes the enemies vulnerable but also drops the player down to half health. Hades also beckons the player to recruit the fabled Greek heroes Perseus, Achilles, Agamemnon, and Herakles (which might explain some of the goodies in the May update). This, of course, can only be done by giving them a good old fashion whoopin’.
Players will also have to contest with enemies they have killed in the past who are now looking for revenge in the Underworld. Defeating these foes and progressing in the expansion will unlock the Armor of the Fallen. This new armor set acts as a sort of disguise, allowing players to enter areas they otherwise can’t. Some missions in the expansion will require the player to have this armor.
Hades, God of the Underworld.
New abilities
Returning from The Fields of Elysium are Keeper’s Insights. These unlock upgrades to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s abilities, giving Kassandra/Alexios more god-like powers. In Torment of Hades, there are three new Insights. Artemis’ Trickery lets players set a small area of effect trap by shooting an arrow at the ground. Kronos’ Time Shift shoots players up into the air where they can shoot enemies with their bow or come soaring back down with a melee attack.
Lastly, Second Wind upgrades to Ares’ Last Breath, which does a ton of new things. Players become invincible for 10 seconds, with any attacks they deal to enemies returning 5% health back to the player. It will also remove any status ailments and automatically parry incoming attacks. I’d pick that last upgrade first if I were you.
Kronos’ Time Shift in action.
You can play Torment of Hades starting tomorrow, June 4.
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Scott Stinson: A rental car robbery cost A-Rod $500K. Did he park it on the street because he always gets away with things?
The drugs cheat walked into plum jobs with ESPN and the Yankees as soon as he retired. He probably figured everything would be OK
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I have many questions about the story of Alex Rodriguez and the half-million-dollar car burglary.
The slugger-turned-pariah-turned-broadcaster is said to have lost valuables of at least US$500,000 when the rental vehicle he parked at Oracle Park in San Francisco was relieved of its contents.
Does Rodriguez handle the rental himself? It is fun to imagine that A-Rod, who made US$452-million playing baseball, and I, who has made rather less than that, could have a shared life experience of travelling somewhere to cover a sporting event and picking up a car to get to the stadium. Does he take the courtesy shuttle from the airport to the rental lot? Does he have the same pang of doubt when he declines the extra insurance coverage? Does he, standing there as one person with one suitcase, wear the same puzzled expression when asked if he wants a much bigger vehicle? Or does he just automatically get upgraded because he hit 696 home runs in the majors? Maybe the whole pariah thing cancels that out. Reports suggest the rental vehicle was an SUV, so maybe he did get the upgrade. Maybe A-Rod just likes to stretch out.
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So many questions, and we haven’t even gotten to what was in the vehicle. Did Rodriguez stick a diamond-encrusted Rolex in the centre console? Or several diamond-encrusted Rolexes? A local paper reports that the loot included a camera, laptop, electronics and jewellery. Even allowing for the possibility of some very valuable photo and computer equipment, Rodriguez must have left some serious bling somewhere in the car. Had he never seen a ‘Please Don’t Leave Valuables in Your Car’ sign? Even crazier: the vehicle was not left in a VIP lot at the stadium or even a regular lot with some kind of attendant. It was three blocks from Oracle Park. HE PARKED ON THE STREET. A-Rod, you sweet, dumb weirdo.
Perhaps this is all the somewhat inevitable result of a guy who has led a truly strange life since he was a teenager being suddenly forced to try to integrate into normal society. Professional athletes are sheltered from having to do such things as finding parking from a young age. But all kinds of them do manage to retire, find other jobs, and not immediately become laughing stocks.
Alex Rodriguez in action against the Blue Jays in Toronto, Ont., on Tuesday April 12, 2016. Craig Robertson/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network
Maybe Rodriguez just assumed that no one would break into his car because things always seem to have a bizarre way of eventually working out for him. This is a guy who somehow has been re-embraced by the upper reaches of Major League Baseball even though he is one of the sport’s absolute worst steroid cheats.
That is, admittedly, a subjective label. But it is worth reviewing the story. About a dozen years ago, he insisted in a soft-focus national television interview that he had never taken steroids, not even a bit, when rumours first circulated that he had been snagged years earlier in a random MLB drug test that was supposed to remain anonymous. A decade ago, as a member of the New York Yankees, he then admitted that he had taken drugs, but for just a couple of seasons, when he was young and naïve and had just signed a record-breaking contract with the Texas Rangers. He felt pressure to live up the contract, the poor soul, and also everybody was doing it so you couldn’t really blame him. But he swore up and down that he had been clean as a surgical instrument in the years since. He kept on insisting that even as the Biogenesis scandal unfolded in the middle of this decade, when MLB, using admittedly shady investigative methods of their own, discovered that a number of ball players had been on steroid programs administered by a Florida anti-aging clinic.
He felt pressure to live up the contract, the poor soul, and also everybody was doing it so you couldn’t really blame him
Rodriguez maintained his innocence, appealing his 211-game MLB suspension — by far the largest ever in any sport — and playing through the end of the 2013 season, while all of his co-accused took their suspensions and sat the hell down. At an arbitration hearing the following off-season, when it became evident that Antony Bosch, his steroid guru, was co-operating with MLB and had all the goods and then some on Rodriguez, he pitched a fit in the room, stormed out and went straight to a New York radio station, where he insisted that the whole thing was an outrage and a farce and a sham.
And then a couple months later he dropped his appeal (and a lawsuit against MLB) and sat out a reduced 162 games. Mere weeks after that, he co-operated with federal drug agents who were after Bosch and Biogenesis, and confessed everything. The whole wild story was told in the 2018 documentary Screwball, from filmmaker Billy Corben, in which Rodriguez proves to have been an enthusiastic steroid user and an even more enthusiastic liar.
A lot of ESPN footage is used in the documentary — it’s on Netflix in Canada now — to document Rodriguez’s fall, which is a bit of delicious irony given that ESPN would later hire him to join the booth for its flagship Sunday Night Baseball program. It’s that job he was doing when his car, and all that wealth, was stolen on the weekend.
Steroid users occasionally come off as sympathetic, victims of their own ignorance or momentary bad judgement. Rodriguez is at the absolute other end of the scale: he cheated early and he cheated late, and he insisted he was a victim right up until he needed the truth to spare himself prosecution.
This is the guy who then gets one of baseball’s biggest media platforms, and a job as an adviser with the Yankees. No doubt the man feels like nothing bad will happen to him. I wonder if he even locked his car.
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Published December 9, 2019 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Why isn’t Google’s stock more like Apple’s?
From Andrew Bary’s “Google’s Sundar Pichai Can Boost Alphabet’s Stock. These 4 Things Should Help” ($) in the Dec. 9 issue of Barron’s:
The executive shuffle [at Google], effective immediately, is getting Wall Street excited about the stock again. Alphabet (ticker: GOOG) shares rose nearly 4% in the days following last Tuesday’s announcement to a record close of $1,341 on Friday. The stock has advanced 29% this year, slightly ahead of the overall market but way behind the gains of other tech giants like Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB), which are up 70% and 53%, respectively…
No. 1: Boost the stock buyback. Third-quarter stock repurchases of $5.7 billion—more than double the $2.2 billion a year ago—are a start, but the company should increase the pace. Alphabet can sustain a $30 billion-plus annual buyback pace without denting its growing net cash position.
Apple, which has the most aggressive buyback program among the tech giants, has repurchased $67 billion in the past year and has been willing to draw down its cash holdings to do it. Alphabet’s buybacks, by contrast, have totaled $15 billion in the past four quarters.
While the number of outstanding Alphabet shares is down less than 1% in the past year, to 692 million, Apple’s is down 6%, to 4.5 billion. Since Alphabet began its buyback program in 2015, its share count is up 1%, while Apple’s is down 20%.
My take: Yes, Apple’s buybacks have been aggressive, something readers here appreciate, but which the general public might not. Didn’t Tim Cook tell Mad Money’s Jim Cramer that Apple’s repatriation tax windfall would be poured back into the U.S. economy?
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Peter Kropf said:
“Didn’t Tim Cook tell Mad Money’s Jim Cramer that Apple’s repatriation tax windfall would be poured back into the U.S. economy?”
You seem to be ignoring the economic impact of Apple’s rising share price. How many new cars and Christmas gifts have been upgraded because the stock has rocked from its last bottom?
You also are ignoring Apple developers’ revenue, the revenue paid to Apple’s supply chain, and Apple’s capital investments. Those positives lead directly to many new jobs.
Michael Thompson said:
I just bought a new house in La Jolla: Apple Did This.
No Apple shares were sold in the acquisition of the property.
Marc Bosch said:
PED did not ignore those. That is what he said (that Apple said)!
Joseph Bland said:
@ Mark:
Sorry to disagree. PED is clearly saying that, to the degree the newly freed up cash is being used to buy back shares, it’s not being “poured back into the U.S. economy”. Peter is making point that this technique for returning wealth to stockholders does in fact return some wealth to the economy.
Note, however, that the new wealth being given to investors can only be tapped into by selling AAPL. And as I have pointed out many times, AAPL trading volume percentages have shrunk much faster than share count, as the combination of dividends and buybacks decreases the relative pool of short term Apple stockholders and increases the relative pool of long term stockholders.
But wait a minute, PED. Are you saying that this cash should have been spent solely on building jobs in the US? That doesn’t seem fair to beaten down long term stockholders like myself, particularly those that are far from being wealthy,
Also, I don’t believe you have any support for the idea that Apple isn’t spending a considerable sum on building US jobs, both directly and indirectly.
Finally, the reason Donna and I have our AAPL retirement nest egg in the first place is that Donna was an Apple employee for about a decade, and Apple is very generous in it’s stock plans to all its employees. So you need to take into consideration all the money continuously flowing out of all those retired Apple employee’s retirement plans as well. And I can verify that the purse strings are loosened as the price of AAPL goes up.
And yes, buybacks do in fact juice the stock price, which I’ve shown many times principally follows EPS. And reducing share count increases EPS.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt said:
“But wait a minute, PED. Are you saying that this cash should have been spent solely on building jobs in the US?”
Solely? No. What I’m reporting is that rewarding shareholders is not what lawmakers say they expected when they passed the tax cuts. See, any number of press stories. First to come up in a Google search, from the AP:
“US companies’ tax windfall fuels record share buybacks”
“2017′s tax overhaul was trumpeted as a way to give companies more cash to invest to grow their businesses. But its timing coincided with signs that the global economy had begun to slow, an incentive for companies to instead give the cash back to investors.
“The practice has come under scrutiny by members of Congress, who criticized companies for using their extra tax benefits to boost the value of their own shares instead of investing in outside growth or their workers.”
@ Philip:
“…rewarding shareholders is not what lawmakers say they expected when they passed the tax cuts.”
Well, truth be told, that’s almost certainly what SOME lawmakers expected, although they definitely paid lip service to other possibilities, probably in order to get the tax cuts passed. I can’t even say many taxpayers expected anything other than what happened to happen. I certainly didn’t.
So really, we’re niggling about how much cash was returned to the economy, when it would be returned, and from who.
Jeff F said:
GOOG’s P/E is 29 and AAPL’s P/E is 23, so the headline should be “Why isn’t AAPL more like GOOG?” (Also, I wouldn’t put money in a company where shareholders take a back seat to owners Sergey and Brin).
Finally, I see the tax cuts more about aligning U.S. tax rates with international rates. But I get the windfall argument too in the context of stories attempting to justify the rate cut to 21% as a way to spur reinvestment, of which I’ve seen little. The end result is that U.S. multi-nationals have more cash, and in Apple’s case, to fund more stock buybacks.
The tax cuts were never going to fund themselves, and now we’ve got another trillion or so in national debt. When interest rates go higher, people will be reminded about the national debt, and how much the interest payments consume of the federal budget.
“ The tax cuts were never going to fund themselves…”
Of course not. It’s not hard to understand why the middle class is shrinking.
But let’s be honest. The real issue is with the capital gains tax, not the corporate tax. It needs to become a LOT more indexed, and that index needs to be linked to the inflation rate. Tax the spenders of wealth, not the generators.
Fred Stein said:
Addressing two threads:
1) Pouring wealth back into the US economy: Apple is doing this is in so many ways. Just a few: Direct job creation; Increasing wealth for employees and investors; Paying taxes at the corp level, the dividend level, employee payroll & employee gains when they sell stock, and various local real estate and sales taxes*; All the third parties in the ecosystems who pay taxes on their earnings; And Apple’s $2.4B into housing. That said, buybacks will tend to increase wealth for those who have wealth, and the savvy to have bought Apple. So the wealth disparity issue remains.
2) Different buyback strategies: Apple has a fiduciary responsibility to make good investments. Apple’s IRR is more that twice the 10 year t-bill averaged over the last year. Even at today’s higher stock price, buybacks pencil out. Apple has ramped up spending in R&D, and video content production, etc. By contrast, Apple wisely avoids large acquisitions, as especially in a world with $T’s of capital sloshing around pumping up valuations. It’s tough for Apple spend the capital. So far, they’re doing the best IMHO.
*In Apple’s home, the Bay Area, sales tax is 9%, paid for by us eager consumers and going into our local communities.
Disclaimer: Liberal, not progressive. In favor of wealth creation and wealth distribution.
Jerry W Doyle said:
If Congress’ intent truly was to direct repatriated companies’ overseas cash targeted to capital investments within the USA, then all that our good Congresspersons had to do was to insert a provision within the tax bill so that the final legislation passed prohibited the use of repatriated funds for stock buybacks. It’s that simple. Congressional staffers know that, too. Our good Congresspersons inserted no such prohibition.
It was no dirty little secret how companies would respond; and, it is no “eye-popping” revelation to Congresspersons (and those who are complaining) to also know that companies would most likely use those funds for stock buybacks, increased shareholders’ dividends, employee and executive pay compensation. This is not the case, though, for Apple.
In the scheme of things, I believe Apple did pretty good. They did build new plants and factories. I remember a few weeks past where Tim Cook and the president together showed off one of those new plants in Austin (that would have closed) after Tim Cook decided not to offshore manufacturing to Asia, but keep those jobs within the USA at dozens of plants across the nation for final assembling in the Austin facility.
Apple opened multiple new campuses across the country hiring new workers and spent $1B alone to build a second corporate campus in Austin where 15,000 employees will come aboard. This effort and others in use of repatriated funds did hire more workers in the USA. It also resulted in new equipment expansion that leads to more economic boost for USA workers.
Apple also is putting as much money into research as it believes that it needs. All this money has resulted in hundreds of other public and private companies who are benefiting from those off-shore recovered funds.
Also, the president’s Tax law has led to a plethora of M&As in multiple USA industries and Apple has acquired some companies’ operations, such as Intel bringing jobs to Apple; jobs that Intel would have jettison. Few can argue that M&As are not an excellent growth strategy. And growth leads to increased hiring.
It is true that Apple is a huge buyer of its own stock, but Apple also invests a humongous amount in R&D. Apple spent $14.2 billion in R&D for 2018 according to regulatory filings. Apple will spend over $16 billion in R&D in 2019. What you need to know is that Apple is spending more than ever on R&D.
Also, Apple is committed to spend $350B in the USA over the next five years, including $30B in capital expenditures.
The fact that Apple has repurchased massive amounts of its stock is because Apple produces profits as far as the eyes can see. Apple generates so much profits that they have to use it as efficaciously as possible, and the company is doing so.
It seems disingenuous for anyone to target Apple as not using its repatriated overseas funds consistent with the president’s Tax law; which by the way, has been a wild success in boosting the nation’s continued economic growth.
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Early up, and brought all my money, which is near 300l., out of my house into this chamber; and so to the office, and there we sat all the morning, Sir George Carteret and Mr. Coventry being come from sea.
This morning among other things I broached the business of our being abused about flags, which I know doth trouble Sir W. Batten, but I care not.
At noon being invited I went with Sir George and Mr. Coventry to Sir W. Batten’s to dinner, and there merry, and very friendly to Sir Wm. and he to me, and complies much with me, but I know he envies me, and I do not value him.
To the office again, and in the evening walked to Deptford (Cooper with me talking of mathematiques), to send a fellow to prison for cutting of buoy ropes, and to see the difference between the flags sent in now-a-days, and I find the old ones, which were much cheaper, to be wholly as good. So I took one of a sort with me, and Mr. Wayth accompanying of me a good way, talking of the faults of the Navy, I walked to Redriffe back, and so home by water, and after having done, late, at the office, I went to my chamber and to bed.
Mon 28 Jul 1662
Terry F. on 29 Jul 2005 • Link
"I broached the business of our being abused about flags, which I know doth trouble Sir W. Batten, but I care not."
L&M note: "The flag-makers were over-charging: below [ 13 August ]. John Young, a principal contractor, was a friend of Batten, and served later as an overseer of his will." Sam's quarrel as a proleptic Sir W.B., R.I.P.; also see Pauline's background post on John Young (b)
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/852/#c29848
Batten's response to this ambush seems to be what Sam awaits with relish: besides his known growing mastery of the nitty-gritty details of the affairs at the docks and yards at Deptford and Woolwich, his reading Hollond is probably not a secret; I wonder if his ace will prove to be his re-reading & annotating -- his superior understanding -- of the Duke's formal charge to the Naval Office ("Instructions").
A. De Araujo on 30 Jul 2005 • Link
"but I know he envies me"
Very conceited our man Sam!Is there a portrait of Sir William Batten?
Nix on 30 Jul 2005 • Link
Batten Portait --
http://sahibshrine.org/divan04.htm
(scroll to bottom right)
Wrong guy? According to the Oxford DNB, there are portraits in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) and the National Maritime Museum, but I couldn't find them on line.
Tony Eldridge on 30 Jul 2005 • Link
Batten portrait.
Oh God, Nix. For a scathing description of Shriners see Bill Bryson's book 'The Lost Continent'. Sir William, for all his faults, was not a prat.
Nix I said SIR William Batten.
Image of SIR William Batten's will in full, posted here as 4th image down. Whatever Sam or we might come to think of Sir W., "A servant named Mingo was made keeper of the Harwich lighthouse in the will left by his master, Royal Navy surveyor Sir William Batten."
The will is posted here to record Mingo as among Black "Alternatives" to "Servants and Ayahs": "Mingo - from Servant to Lighthouse Keeper (198KB)" Document | Transcript. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/black…
Already posted by vincent [cumgranissalis] on Tue 14 Oct 2003, 7:28 pm | Link
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/852/#c7837 [I leapt before I looked.]
more on This Admiral:
http://49.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BA/BATTEN_SIR_WI…
http://www.rickard.karoo.net/peoplemain6.html
Also posted by Sjoerd Spoelstra on Thu 29 Apr 2004, 9:35 am | Link http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/2575/#c139…
"Mingo is the black servant of Sir William Batten....But looking at Sir Battens will (http://www.pro.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/work_…) [same read as the site posted by vincent (cumgranissalis)]
the old sailor must have developed a genuine liking for his servant, providing him with a well paying job as lighthouse keeper in Harwich."
[Perhaps no person is of a single moral piece.]
Cumgranissalis on 30 Jul 2005 • Link
Sam be on a roll, while t'others be resting on their skates.
Security, he [Sam that be]has few quid in his sock, books, and house to fall back on, and has the renowned speaker Coventry [ he not be scared that he be sent to Coventry town, by the Sir Billies] who be giving Sam full rein in the tasks to run full tilt. [ where be the the windmill].
When one be short of cash and lack the means to be be clothed and housed and one be dependent on gracious hand outs of the Betters, it doth crimp ones ethical style. Then
yer 'and be always pulling the forlock when their be no farthings to give to urchin.
J A Gioia on 30 Jul 2005 • Link
Sir William, for all his faults, was not a prat.
now, now... for all their patent and enthusiastic silliness, shriners raise a great deal of money for children's hospitals.
Terry Foreman on 30 Jul 2005 • Link
"...walked to Deptford (Cooper with me talking of mathematiques),....Mr. Wayth accompanying of me a good way, talking of the faults of the Navy, I walked to Redriffe back..."
How often Sam walks while conversing with (being informed by) someone in the know. Today's examples -- esp. the first -- suggest to me a method therein --perhaps gleaned from experience: that learning while walking helps to remember. This was suggested to me by the matter of a poem by Mark Jarman, "The Rote Walker," in which he (pastor's son) memorizes/internalizes Scripture while walking (for that purpose) -- a technique he learned by experiment -- perhaps like Sam? (Was this why Aristotle taught as he walked, and for that has been known as "The Peripatetic"?) As we follow along, then, I will more closely attend to Sam's strolling or striding seminars with this in view.
The 2nd of 9 books of poetry by (full disclosure: friend since 1980) Mark Jarman _The Rote Walker_ (1981) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/091…
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/09156045…
Australian Susan on 30 Jul 2005 • Link
Sir William Batten's will.
Most interesting website terry F - thank you! What struck me as I read through the will was how generous Batten was to Mingo compared with the rest of the servants and even relatives: he really valued him. There were many other interesting bits of information on the site too. As a footnote: I used to live in Bristol and there is a road there called Blackboys'Hill which is where the little black boys so prized as pages were 'exhibited'(can't think of another word for this)having come on the ships from West Africa on the 'triangular trade' (slaves and sugar)between W. Africa, the W. Indies and Bristol. Even after the trade was abolished in Briain (which happened befopre slavery was abolished), likely little boys would be taken as 'servants ' from the W. Indian plantations into Bristol because of the demand for this type of servant or 'pet ' as the website Terry found refers to them as. An unpleasant part of Bristol's history.
sshervais on 31 Jul 2005 • Link
So far, no one has remarked on the fact that Sam has keeping the equivalent of L25,000 under his bed.
Robert Gertz on 31 Jul 2005 • Link
Careful on that cocky 'tude Sam, Sir Will B. has rolled with the punches and come up smiling a lot more than you. I can't help suspecting though we're being sold a slight bit of crap and that Sam is indulging his fancy here a little to impress Posterity. I believe he has the edge on Batten in the office but I don't believe his position is anywhere near as secure and superior as his boasting would suggest. One negative report from Coventry, one frown from Sir George C, and our boy would be clerk of the Acts, small c, at the very least. My guess is that in reality he's treading very carefully, undermining Batten and Penn steathily, leaking hints of their mishandling of office affairs to Coventry, shaking his head over Batten's deals at home with the vendors, etc while performing his own work (and increasingly as much of theirs as he can grab) with hyperefficiency, but that it's still very much "Yes, Sir Will...At once Sir Will..." to the Wills' faces and in the office. If nothing else Coventry, Carteret, and behind them, York, would never stand for open defiance and bypassing of the titled ones, much as they might like Pepys' diligence and chuckle at his tales of office mismanagement...
200 pounds coin of the Realm, would buy a coach and 6 great nags,[thanks to Liza Picard Restoration London. or nice a merc, and how much be a Merc today? trying to make equivalents be a waste of time. A nice country estate could be had for 500L. The building that Sam and Co lived in was bought by the Navy Office for L1800 in 1654. So real estate be a good Deal.
Sam could for 300L buy a house in a side street in 1668 new. Rest. London page 32
Tom Burns on 1 Aug 2005 • Link
...send a fellow to prison for the cutting of buoy ropes...
I assume these were channel markers, the absence of which could put His Majesty's ships in some danger, thus making tampering with them tantamount to sabotage.
Any naval historians out there who can shed more light on this?
Michael Robinson on 8 Feb 2008
Mingo In Batten's Will -- Reproduction & Transcript
"These extracts from his will reveal that Batten wanted his 'servante Mingoe a Negroe' to become lighthouse keeper upon his death. The servant was also left a legacy of £20 per year for life - a substantial sum of money at the time."
Reproduction:-
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/black…
Text transcript:-
Sasha Clarkson on 29 Jul 2015 • Link
At times Pepys called Batten a "knave", but unlike Penn, never "base".
BTW "knave" is a good word, deriving from the German "Knabe" (boy). It's use wasn't always derogatory. Knave was also the commonly used word for "Jack" in a pack of cards, immortalised in Lewis Carrol's poem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_of_Hearts…
Chris Squire UK on 5 Aug 2015 • Link
OED has:
‘knave < Old English cnapa . .
. . 3. a. A dishonest unprincipled man; a cunning unscrupulous rogue; a villain; (in early use also) †an unpleasant or disagreeable man (obs.). Often contrasted with fool. Freq. as a term of abuse.
Now the most common sense, but somewhat arch. in modern use.
. . 1668 S. Pepys Diary 29 Jan. (1976) IX. 41 The veriest knave and bufflehead* that ever he saw in his life . . ‘
* = ‘buffalo-head’
All diary entries from July 1662
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Citrix Profile Management 4.0
Profile management (formerly known as User Profile Manager) ensures that the user’s personal settings are applied to the user’s virtual desktop and applications, regardless of the location and end point device with best reliability and performance.
Profile management is enabled through a profile optimization service that provides an easy, reliable way for managing these settings in Windows environments to ensure a consistent experience by maintaining a single profile that follows the user. It auto-consolidates and optimizes user profiles to minimize management and storage requirements and requires minimal administration, support and infrastructure, while providing users with improved logon and logout.
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This version includes issues fixed since Version 3.0 was released. For the list of fixed issues, see CTX124164. In addition, this version includes the following new key features:
Offline profiles. This feature is aimed at laptop and mobile device users who roam. Citrix offline profiles have minimal configuration and reduce disruption when network connections are lost by caching files locally until the network (and therefore the user store) is available again. This feature works with domain-joined computers only.
Cross-platform settings. For several common applications, this feature allows you to migrate users’ profiles and to roam them when the users connect to the same application running on multiple operating systems. Without this feature, if users connect to an application that creates a Version 1 profile on one platform and a Version 2 profile on another, they would have to duplicate the application’s settings. For information on these profile types, see Version 1 and Version 2 Profiles.With this feature, users avoid duplicate settings. Common files and registry settings are identified, grouped together, and stored in the cross-platform settings store. When the user switches platforms, Profile management fetches the common items for the appropriate platform from this location (in addition to any platform-specific files and settings from the user store) so the user gets the same experience on both platforms. For a list of the applications and operating systems supported by this feature, see Operating Systems and Applications Supported By Cross-Platform Settings.
Support for prelaunched applications. The Session Prelaunch feature in Citrix XenApp enhances the launching of published applications by starting a session automatically when a user logs on to a farm. No configuration of Profile management is required.
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Profile management 4.0 includes the following major features from previous releases:
Support for folder redirection. This feature allows you to avoid duplicate items in local profiles when folder redirection is used. In addition, Profile management can mirror folders, allowing the correct processing of transactional folders. For example, mirroring the Internet Explorer cookies folder means that index.dat is synchronized only with the latest version of the cookies that it references, not earlier versions that are no longer required. Without mirroring, multiple copies of the referenced files (cookies from multiple sessions, for example) can cause profile bloat.
Deleting stale cookies. Profiles in some deployments can become bloated with stale browser cookies when Web sites are revisited. A setting in the ADM file can be used to delete the stale files.
Citrix streamed user profiles. This feature offers alternative options for speeding up logons and logoffs by fetching parts of users’ profiles from the user store only when they are needed. One of the options is to use the cache entire profile feature, which fetches all of the files but staggers their delivery in the background.
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Localization. The Profile management software and documentation are localized into French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.
Profile migration. Allows you to migrate profiles to and from physical computers and virtual ones. Depending on the configuration settings, Profile management can copy existing roaming profiles and local Windows profiles to the user store. Existing mandatory profiles can be used as the basis for Citrix user profiles when saved as a template.
Consistent user settings. Solves the “last-write-wins” problem that occurs when the last open session overwrites all of the profile data from previously closed sessions.
Easy integration. Profile management can be integrated easily into existing deployments. No new infrastructure or changes to logon and logoff scripts are required.
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Profile management addresses user profile deficiencies in environments where simultaneous domain logons by the same user introduce complexities and consistency issues to the profile. For example, if a user starts sessions to two different virtual resources based on a roaming profile, the profile of the session that terminates last overrides the profile of the first session. This problem, known as “last write wins”, discards any personalization settings that the user makes in the first session.
You can tackle the problem by using separate profiles for each resource silo. However, this results in increased administration overhead and storage capacity requirements. Another drawback is that users will experience different settings depending on the resource silo they access.
Profile management optimizes profiles in an easy and reliable way. At interim stages and at logoff, registry changes, as well as files and folders in the profile, are saved to the user store for each user. If, as is common, a file already exists, it is overwritten if it has an earlier time stamp.
At logon, users’ registry entries and files are copied from the user store. If a locally cached profile exists, the two sets are synchronized. This makes all settings for all applications and silos available during the session and it is no longer necessary to maintain a separate user profile for each silo. Citrix streamed user profiles can further enhance logon times.
Profile management helps to safeguard application settings for mobile users who experience network disruption (if the offline profiles features is configured) and users who access resources from different operating systems (if the cross-platform settings feature is configured).
Note: Profile management processes domain user logons not local accounts.
For a more detailed overview of Profile management, see http://community.citrix.com/x/AoEAAg.
Known Issues in Profile Management 4.0
The following known issues exist in this version.
With the cross-platform settings feature configured, your Windows XP wallpaper should be displayed when you roam from Windows XP to Windows 7, but instead the default Windows 7 desktop wallpaper is displayed when you first log on to that operating system. To work around this issue, reset your wallpaper after you first log on to Windows 7. Subsequent changes to the wallpaper are preserved and roamed when you next log on. [#27210]
With the cross-platform settings feature configured, the checkbox Prevent programs from suggesting changes to my default search provider (a search setting) in Internet Explorer 8 can be selected on Windows XP but the selection is not displayed when you roam to Windows 7. There is no workaround for this issue. [#33796]
If you upgrade Profile management on a computer when a user is logged on to it, the upgrade fails and data in monitoring systems (for example, Perfmon counters) might become unreliable. Always follow the documented upgrade procedure by ensuring all users are logged off first. [#35098]
Occasionally, when a user logs off from a computer, a stale profile folder with a domain-name suffix is created locally. This issue occurs even if Delete locally cached profile is enabled. For example, the folder C:\Users\folder-name becomes C:\Users\folder-name.domain-name. The issue may affect XenApp users and XenDesktop users with persistent virtual desktops but not those with pooled desktops. To work around the issue, delete all stale cached profiles from the system. [#47933]
Users may experience no wallpaper (a black background to their desktops) in two scenarios. Each has a different workaround. In the first scenario, a stale profile results in the same symptoms as issue #47933 but additionally no wallpaper is displayed. In this scenario, the same workaround for that issue can be employed. In the second scenario, which occurs only on Windows XP, there is no stale profile but users still experience no wallpaper because the required image file is not processed by Profile management. To work around the issue in this scenario, include the entry Application Data\Microsoft\*.BMP in the Files to synchronize policy. [#47935]
If you misconfigure the Folders to mirror policy, the system may inadvertently delete user data in the user store the second time this policy is applied. For example, if you add the same path twice or add two subfolders of the same parent folder. To avoid this issue, configure the policy according to the Profile management documentation. [#157322]
If the Path to user store policy contains a trailing space, the specified folder in the user store has no owner (on the Security tab of the folder’s Properties dialog box) and is therefore unusable. To workaround this issue, remove the trailing space and run a gpupdate. [#246793]
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PortaOne Announces Interoperability Of IP-Based PBXpress And Sangoma Telephony Cards
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High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics
Spontaneous symmetry breaking of gauge symmetries
Thread starter julian
gauge symmetries are redundencies of the description of a situation. Therefore they are not real symmetries. So in what sense does it mean to spontaneously break a gauge symmetry?
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malawi_glenn
How do you justify that it is not a "real" symmetry?
atyy
I don't really understand this, but I've seen discussions about it.
"...the 'gauge symmetry' is not a symmetry. ..........the 'gauge symmetry' can never be broken." Wen, Quantum Orders and Symmetric Spin Liquids, http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0107071
"...the true gauge is ... G* ...... there is no true breakdown of this gauge symmetry here. What is broken is the global part of the symmetry, corresponding to G/G*" Nair, Quantum Field Theory p268, http://books.google.com/books?id=J4BmTXo_RkEC&printsec=frontcover#PPA268,M1
It's not a real symmetry in the sense that, for example electromagnetsim can be done in terms of electric and magnetic fields with no reference to gauge transformations at all. Gauge transformations only come into it if you formulate the theory in terms of gauge potentials - there's no reason why you have to do electromagnetism this way, although it is sometimes convienient. This is what I mean by gauge symmetries being a redundency of the description - it's a fictious symmetry put in by hand.
blechman
You're right that you can formulate classical E&M without ever talking about potentials, but in QM it is not so obvious how to do this: topological effects such as Aharanov-Bohm Effect and Dirac monopoles (for what they're worth) are not easy to see without reference to vector potentials. It really is these potentials that get quantized, so in a sense, they ARE the physical thing...
[I want to avoid a philosophical outcry about what it means to be "physical" - I just mean that this is the object that contains the electodynamic degrees of freedom. that's all I meant by that last statement.]
The gauge "symmetry" would be better called the gauge "redundancy" perhaps, but now you're just arguing semantics.
I'm not quite sure why you say that they are not "real symmetries" though - any time you have a symmetry it is because some degree of freedom is redundant. That's what it means to be a symmetry!
I am on the same track as bleckman...
humanino
I think it was Dirac who emphasized it is not a real symmetry but rather, a convenient way to deal with contrained systems. It's just two different point of views, ways of thinking about a problem. People like to think in terms of symmetry. If you have rotational symmetry with a mass at a constant radius from a center, it is not very intelligent to use cartesian coordinates, and gauge out the radius. But yes, you can do it. :tongue2:
samalkhaiat
julian said:
there's no reason why you have to do electromagnetism this way, although it is sometimes convienient. This is what I mean by gauge symmetries being a redundency of the description - it's a fictious symmetry put in by hand.
How about; necessary law of nature! Without the gauge principle, I can not understand interactions. Can you?
weejee
I think this article may help, although it mainly discusses about superconductivity.
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503400v1
What suggested the question was the comment from thiemann's paper
"We stress, however, that the gauge symmetries of General Relativity have been
exactly taken care of in the reduced phase space approach. We are talking here about a symmetry group and not a gauge group. To break a local gauge group is usually physically inacceptable especially in renormalisable theories where the corresponding Ward identities find their way into the renormalisation theorems. However, it may or may not be acceptable that a physical symmetry is (spontaneouly, explicitly ...) broken. For instance, the explicit breaking of the axial vector current
Ward identity in QED, also called the ABJ anomaly, is experimentally verified."
I'm thinking there is a differenece between spontaneous and actual symmetry breaking: in spontaneous symetry breaking it is the vacuum state that breaks the symmetry whereas in actual breaking of symmetry one has an addition term to the action which breaks the symmetry - e.g an external magnetic field
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Riedel Expands Presence in Sweden Through Partnership With Semafor
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Better retirement outcomes with tax deductable advice
Allowing Australians to claim a tax deduction on financial advice will ensure better retirement outcomes and keep advice accessible and affordable, according to the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).
The Institute believes there is a strong case to support the tax deductibility for the costs associated with financial planning advice.
"We understand the tight fiscal environment so a capped limit on deductions would be a positive step forward for more Australians to access financial advice," said IPA chief executive officer, Andrew Conway.
Currently, a fee for service arrangement for the preparation of an initial financial plan is not tax deductible as it is not considered to be an expense incurred in producing assessable income. Recent changes to acceptable remuneration arrangements for the financial advice sector as part of the FOFA reforms will see advisers move from a commission based to a fee for service remuneration regime.
When advisors were paid via commissions these costs were deductible as they were paid by the product provider. Under the new remuneration model, end users must pay advisors directly so the government will be better off financially under the new arrangements if it continues to disallow certain costs associated with the provision of financial advice.
Hence, the cost to Government will not be significant (if at all) as these costs where previously fully deductible as commissions when paid to the financial planner.
"The tax deductibility of financial advice would considerably increase financial literacy, boost affordability and accessibility and reduce demands on public funding. It would encourage a larger numbers of Australians to seek financial advice.
"The costs of a capped tax deductibility limit for financial planning advice will be significantly outweighed by the longer term benefits of assistance provided to tax payers as they plan for independent retirement.
"IPA members are well positioned to assist Australians to organise their finances and plan for retirement by providing independent and non-product specific advice. Already more than 70 per cent of Australians seek the services of a tax agent," said Mr Conway.
The IPA has made this recommendation in its pre-Budget submission 2014-15.
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Razer Thresher Ultimate
The Science Behind Designing a Gaming Headset
What makes a gaming headset great? Let’s look behind the scenes and find out how Razer engineers and designers worked together to bring a vision of an amazing headset to life. Let’s start by breaking it down into a few categories that the development team goes through step by step:
Comfort and Durability
Dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s
Often Misused and misunderstood, Gaming audio often means inferior or excessively bass-heavy audio, something audiophiles frown upon. How did we get to this notion? In the past, gaming headset manufacturers wanted to accentuate weapons and vehicles in game so they over-extended the bass response for gaming headsets. Games nowadays are as complex in sound design as any blockbuster movie or musical performance. In-game weapons are designed to exhibit different characteristics and intentionally pitched differently. There are also vocals, music and environmental cues that gamers must consider. Interpreting sound correctly is key to effective gaming.
“Interpreting sound correctly is key to effective gaming”
The science that goes into designing great gaming audio starts with carefully selected and finetuned 50 mm drivers that give you extra power and strong bass. This is needed to create an immersive experience that allows you to both hear and feel the sound, thanks to the extra-wide frequency range it can put out. Extra-large diaphragms help move enough air for impressive bass, and the finetuned voice coils allow free movement to deliver clear and high frequencies.
But the next step is the important one: Finetuning the frequency response curve. Finetuning our drivers for gaming is a careful process of selecting important in-game sound effects for popular games and measuring their frequency range. What are the most important sound cues? We played without the monitor on and tried to still identify the skills of different characters, identified weapons by the gunshot sounds and of course, most of all, estimating direction and distance of footsteps.
We then proceeded to tune our gaming audio to highlight those sounds specifically.
To further enhance the positional audio, we’ve included Dolby Headphone technology – the most popular virtual 7.1 surround sound technology that includes both XboxOne & PlayStation 4 compatibility.
Now we have crystal-clear gaming audio, but the goal was to develop a great headset for console and living room, so removing cables was paramount. But with anything wireless, latency and reliability are always a concern, as any small interruption will undermine the experience. The wireless transceivers need to fulfill a few criteria:
1 As much as possible audio should be transferred as “lossless” to not diminish the quality in any way. The Razer Thresher Ultimate employs a chip that transmits the audio uncompressed, which can provide lossless audio in a good environment. If there’s interference from other sources, the algorithm automatically prioritizes core audio to ensure you get all sounds and only cuts off fine details, so you’ll never completely lose out on audio.
2 The 2nd equally important criteria is latency. With wireless you need to pay a certain price for latency compared to wired, but the goal is to achieve a latency that’s not perceptible to the human brain. The Razer Thresher Ultimate operates at less than 1/6th of Bluetooth Latency. To be imperceptible, it’s commonly understood that latency must be below 20 ms.
3 Lastly vulnerability to interference or wireless noise must be minimal. Think of wireless waves like ripples in the water. Unrestricted, the waves clearly emanate from the location and spread out evenly. However, once they bounce back from a wave-reflecting surface (a large metal surface, for example) these ripples can overlap each other and create noise leading to small temporary deadspots in the room. To avoid that, the Razer Thresher Ultimate utilizes a Dual Antenna system, constantly evaluating signal strength at each antenna and choosing the better one. The antennas are placed facing away from each other to always have at least one antenna with a strong connection. Walking around the room or sudden head turns will not cause any drops in transmission, and keeps your audio going even when moving around.
The other vital aspect of gaming audio is the microphone. Without a great microphone, team-based games are a nightmare and your teammates will despise you.
How much a microphone picks up in terms of frequency plays into how natural and lifelike your voice will be transmitted. A wide range can help to not only capture voice fundamentals but also the mids and highs in your voice that make you sound like you. As a reference, in telephony the usable voice frequency band that most people would be familiar with ranges from 300Hz to 3400Hz. The Razer Thresher Ultimate picks up sounds from 100-10,000Hz creating a much more lifelike reproduction of your voice.
A decision was then made between either ECM (Electret Microphone) or MEMS (Micro-Electrical-Mechanical System). The Razer Thresher Ultimate uses a MEMS microphone. ECM is cheaper but we’re designing for performance, not price, and there are many inherent advantages to MEMS. Specifically:
Higher performance density, which means size can be reduced compared to ECM
Less sensitivity to temperature changes or vibrations
Nearly identical performance across different units which allows for a more consistent experience
The key metrics we pay attention to when designing a gaming headset then are sensitivity and pickup-patterns. Sensitivity plays a role in how far away from the microphone sound sources will be picked up, whereas the pickup pattern will either be a cone in a single direction or all around it, depending on unidirectional vs omnidirectional design. The Razer Thresher Ultimate has a unidirectional mic boom design to avoid picking up noise from unwanted sound sources with a sensitivity finetuned to the maximum distance of the mic boom from the user at standard voice levels.
Unidirectional Pickup Pattern
Omnidirectional Pickup Pattern
Another major focus area is comfort. We, as gamers, can spend hours and hours gaming, and discomfort can easily get in the way of that. Comfort is, by and large, a result of the selection of materials and mechanical design, and highly subjective based on head and ear shape as well as a range of external factors such as temperature, humidity, noise and even stress levels. To ensure comfort for every scenario we do extensive stress-testing with both professional and casual gamers alike.
Let’s start with weight. The first objective is to reduce the weight as much as possible by minimizing unnecessary parts, creating efficient designs and using lightweight materials. The Razer Thresher Ultimate comes out at 402 grams (0.89 lbs). But a headset doesn’t just rest on your head. The right amount of clamping force can help distribute weight across a larger area.
Through a plethora of testing, our engineers finetune the clamping force to equally distribute force and weight across the full length of the headband and ear cushions, minimizing pressure on any particular part of your head.
Comfort also requires a good fit, so being able to adjust the headset to individual head size is crucial, because one-size-really-doesn’t-fit-all. To ensure a snug fit, the Razer Thresher Ultimate has three adjustable parts; the headband adjusts to height, while swiveling and rocking of the ear cushions adapts to specific head shapes.
Mechanically speaking any moving part is a durability risk, so with multiple important moving parts, it’s crucial to keep them separate to avoid the increased risk of breakdowns. Especially since the heat of battle can lead to less-than-loving-care of your equipment. The Razer Thresher Ultimate’s dual headband design spreads the moving parts across the headset to ensure maximum durability while catering to full individual adjustability.
Material selection is the last point that plays into both. Stainless steel 301 for the headband gives you the rugged strength and corrosion resistance required to withstand everyday wear and tear. To prevent buildup of heat and ensuring a smooth feel, the leatherette-wrapped memory-foam headband has breathable cloth on the bottom side resting on your head.
For the ear cushions itself, the Razer Thresher Ultimate comes with one of two possible choices. Straight up leatherette ear cushions that maximize sound isolation for the best possible performance, or cooling gel-infused cloth ear cushions that trade off on sound isolation and quality for the benefit of extended periods of comfortable gaming for hours. Choose based on your individual needs.
Both options come with an indentation in the foam that allows the foam to give in and be comfortable even when used with glasses.
Dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.
As much as possible we design our products to be provide incredible value and make your gaming experience better. While not specific to any of the aforementioned points, the following features help round off the Razer Thresher Ultimate.
Quick-Control buttonsAllows you to avoid having to go into game menus or console settings, and quickly adjust important audio settings with no interruptions to your gameplay; from Master Volume and Mic Mute (for Xbox One) to a quick dial to shift balance between game and voice volume.
Retractable MicrophoneHaving a microphone dangling around when you’re not using it is annoying, so it’s designed to stow away in the earcup, eliminating that headache.
Headset StandProvides a safe place to store your headset when not in use, and it keeps your desk tidy. Designed to accomodate the Razer Thresher Ultimate base station, the Headset Stand provides a safe place to store your headset when not in use, and it keeps your desk tidy.
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NMR Ensemble
3D View: Structure
Atom Count: 795
NMR Restraints (Text)
NMR Restraints (Text - gz)
NMR Restraints v2 (Text)
NMR Restraints v2 (Text - gz)
1WCJ
Conserved Hypothetical Protein TM0487 from Thermotoga maritima
DOI: 10.2210/pdb1WCJ/pdb
BMRB: 5976
Classification: STRUCTURAL GENOMICS UNKNOWN FUNCTION
Deposition Author(s): Almeida, M.S., Peti, W., Herrmann, T., Wuthrich, K., Joint Center for Structural Genomics (JCSG)
Method: SOLUTION NMR
Conformers Calculated: 20
Conformers Submitted: 1
Selection Criteria: LOWEST R.M.S.D. TO THE MEAN STRUCTURE
NMR Structure of the Conserved Hypothetical Protein Tm0487 from Thermotoga Maritima: Implications for 216 Homologous Duf59 Proteins.
Almeida, M.S., Herrmann, T., Peti, W., Wilson, I.A., Wuthrich, K.
(2005) Protein Sci. 14: 2880
DOI: 10.1110/ps.051755805
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The NMR structure of the conserved hypothetical protein TM0487 from Thermotoga maritima represents an alpha/beta-topology formed by the regular secondary structures alpha1-beta1-beta2-alpha2-beta3-beta4-alpha3- beta5-3(10)-alpha4, with a small anti-p ...
The NMR structure of the conserved hypothetical protein TM0487 from Thermotoga maritima represents an alpha/beta-topology formed by the regular secondary structures alpha1-beta1-beta2-alpha2-beta3-beta4-alpha3- beta5-3(10)-alpha4, with a small anti-parallel beta-sheet of beta-strands 1 and 2, and a mixed parallel/anti-parallel beta-sheet of beta-strands 3-5. Similar folds have previously been observed in other proteins, with amino acid sequence identity as low as 3% and a variety of different functions. There are also 216 sequence homologs of TM0487, which all have the signature sequence of domains of unknown function 59 (DUF59), for which no three-dimensional structures have as yet been reported. The TM0487 structure thus presents a platform for homology modeling of this large group of DUF59 proteins. Conserved among most of the DUF59s are 13 hydrophobic residues, which are clustered in the core of TM0487. A putative active site of TM0487 consisting of residues D20, E22, L23, T51, T52, and C55 is conserved in 98 of the 216 DUF59 sequences. Asp20 is buried within the proposed active site without any compensating positive charge, which suggests that its pK(a) value may be perturbed. Furthermore, the DUF59 family includes ORFs that are part of a conserved chromosomal group of proteins predicted to be involved in Fe-S cluster metabolism.
1H-, 13C- and 15N-NMR Assignment of the Conserved Hypothetical Protein Tm0487 from Thermotoga Maritima
Almeida, M.S.,Peti, W.,Wuthrich, K.
(2004) J.Biomol.NMR 29: 453
The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Joint Center for Structural Genomics, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
HYPOTHETICAL PROTEIN TM0487
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Wilder brands VAR ‘consistently inconsistent’ after controversial Shelvey goal
Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder is unrepentant over his criticism of VAR (Danny Lawson/PA)
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Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder called Jonjo Shelvey “an unbelievably good actor” as the VAR row over Newcastle’s controversial second goal at Bramall Lane rumbled on.
Shelvey ran through to secure a 2-0 win for Newcastle on Thursday night despite Andy Carroll having been flagged offside for his flick on.
The England midfielder said later that referee Stuart Attwell had told him before the game to play to the whistle in such circumstances.
Wilder criticised VAR after the game, saying he is “drained” and “saddened” by the technology, and he turned his attention to Shelvey’s role in the goal at his press conference for the weekend trip to Norwich.
“Jonjo is an unbelievably good actor if he’s telling me that he knew,” Wilder said.
“He strolled up to that ball and thought ‘I’ll take a little bit of a chance. I’ll just roll it in and see what happens’.
“That’s what he did. Don’t kid yourself that he was through and he knew he was going to be in.”
Wilder said Shelvey’s goal, which came 20 minutes from time, “sucked the life” out of his players and 30,000 Sheffield United fans.
The result ended the Blades’ seven-game unbeaten Premier League run and, having slept on the incident, Wilder admitted he is still nonplussed by VAR.
“It’s consistently inconsistent,” Wilder said. “That’s what it is, it’s still subjective.
“It’s every pre-match, every post-match. It’s on the box every morning.
“(Former referee) Dermot Gallagher must be getting a right few bob! He’s getting work (on Sky Sports), so he possibly needs a holiday.
“My comments after the game, that’s the frustration on the night, and the overall situation regarding VAR as well.
“It wasn’t just condensed into that one decision. You looked at the reaction of the players.
“I went through all the spiel of my career from 14 and 16 and bored everybody to bits.
“But these boys have played football from a young age and all of a sudden it’s changed for them, and it’s changed for the supporters. You just saw the reaction of everybody.”
Wilder has no new injury concerns for Sunday’s game at Carrow Road.
The in-form strike partnership of Lys Mousset and David McGoldrick could return after being rested in favour of Billy Sharp and Oli McBurnie against Newcastle.
The ninth-placed Blades, who were promoted alongside Norwich last season, have exceeded expectations during the first half of the campaign.
But Wilder says he still needs to strengthen the squad in the January transfer window.
“There’s always a short, medium and long-term plan for this football club,” he said.
“We’re going through that process at the moment, we have to.
“It’s important we cement our position in the Premier League, we cement our position in the table as it is now, and we’ll only do that by investing in January.”
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One year on: update on PCEHR facts and figures
Written by Kate McDonald on 24 June 2013 .
Consumer registrations for the PCEHR reached 320,865 as of last week, with up to 8000 new registrations occurring each day, figures from the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) show.
The department had hoped that registrations would reach 500,000 by June 30, but it seems that at the current rate, a total of 400,000 is more likely, one year on from the launch of the system.
The figures also show that there are 4022 healthcare organisations registered in the PCEHR system, along with 4684 individual providers (HPI-Is) for whom authorisation links have been established with one or more of these organisations.
That 4684 does not represent the total number of healthcare practitioners able to use the system, however, as the majority can do so through their clinical software.
A DoHA spokesperson said only healthcare provider organisations need to register to participate in the PCEHR, not the individual healthcare providers.
“Once a provider organisation, such as a GP surgery or hospital, registers with the eHealth record system, individual healthcare professionals are authorised to access the system on behalf of that organisation through their clinical system,” the spokesperson said.
Those who have been given authorisation links are clinicians that are accessing the system through the provider portal rather than directly through clinical software, the spokesperson said.
“The healthcare professionals who want to access the system through the PCEHR Provider Portal need to be linked to their organisation. Most professionals will use clinical systems, which is why the number of linked HPI-Is is low compared to provider registrations.”
Individual clinicians who can access the system through their clinical software are listed in the Healthcare Provider Directory (HPD), managed by the Department of Human Services (DHS).
A DHS spokesperson said that as of June 12, 12,598 individual healthcare providers and healthcare provider organisations were listed in the HPD.
The number of software vendors that have completed the necessary notice of connection and conformance, compliance and accreditation (CCA) processes and can access the production PCEHR system has also grown.
According to DoHA, there are now 26 vendors with authorisation, including 14 that market clinical information systems used by GPs. These are listed on NEHTA's ePIP product register.
There are also two pharmacy software vendors that can use the system – Fred IT and Simple Retail – and four aged care vendors.
A NEHTA spokesperson said iCareHealth, Leecare, DCA and EOS Technologies have passed NOC and CCA for read-only access to the PCEHR, while iCareHealth, Leecare and DCA have also done so for read and write access to the PCEHR.
EOS Technologies CEO Allan Turner said the company was in the process of certifying for CCA, which he hoped to have booked soon.
DoHA said six vendors that market systems used in a hospital setting have also passed their NOC and CCA. Pulse+IT is awaiting more information on which vendors are included in this group.
Close to 2000 shared health summaries have been uploaded to the PCEHR, along with approximately 450 discharge summaries.
# A/prof Terry Hannan 2013-06-25 10:54
I would like to reiterate my previously expressed views from direct observations in the foyer of my regional hospital and staff "straw polls". Form the straw polls there is 0% knowledge of the PCEHR! Today I again observed the registration of a patient with 5 children with age ranges from under to over 18 years during which the registrant had no idea what he was signing up for. The forms were being filled by the registering staff on paper with only one adult present (the father) whose educational level required more than "minimal guidance". It is obvious that these members of the community have no idea of what they are registering for and are very unlikely to have e-communication s available on a daily basis. Despite what was recently stated in the Senate Estimates Committee this local institution will NOT have ALL patients having their PCEHR being sent by the end of June.
# Dr Tim Berlyn 2013-06-25 11:50
320 865 registrations. Only 2000 shared health summaries (
# Dr Sarah Ahmed 2013-06-26 14:06
getting numbers registered was never going to be the big issue: getting meaningful use of the system for those registered was, and still is.
320 865 registrations. Only 2000 shared health summaries - a dismal 0.6% of total registrations. Only 450 discharge summaries - a dismal 0.14% of total registrations. Does this indicate an astonishingly low use of the PCEHR? Are there any other more 'favourable' metrics out there? Is this acceptable? Was this anticipated? A significant cause for concern which will need to be addressed. 320 865 registrations is NO cause for celebration if use is less than 0.6%.
# Mark McCartney 2013-06-26 16:38
They have commissioned something which does not appear to be working. Maybe worthwhile stopping to reconsider if anything better might be available, at a cheaper cost too?
Mark, the question you ask is correct but only one of which should be asked. Here are the criteria formulated from a SUCCESSFUL international e-Health implementation. Implementation will always INCREMENTAL (not a feature of the PCEHR) and look at the last criterium.
• COLLABORATION:
• SCALABILITY:
• FLEXIBILITY:
• RAPID FROM DESIGN:
• USE OF STANDARDS:
• SUPPORT HIGH QUALITY RESEARCH:
• WEB-BASED AND SUPPORT INTERMITTENT CONNECTIVITY:
• LOW COST:
• CLINICALLY USEFUL: feedback to providers and caregivers is critical. If the system is NOT CLINICALLY USEFUL it will not be used.
# Brett Dean 2013-06-28 16:54
$1 billion wasted on a complex system that is not user friendly and must have been designed by people who never use the internet - great potential but poorly thought through
# Jon Fox MD 2013-06-29 02:33
Why not develop a free cloud-based mobile app that meets Prof Hannon's criteria (#6 above)? For example, check out http://www.healthappconnect.com .
Jon, the following may be of interest to you to expand these concepts further. Terry
1. Braitstein, P., et al., "Talkin' about a revolution": How electronic health records can facilitate the scale-up of HIV care and treatment and catalyze primary care in resource-constr ained settings. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 2009. 52 Suppl 1: p. S54-7.
2. AMPATH Medical Record System (AMRS): Collaborating Toward An EMR for Developing Countries Burke W. Mamlin, M.D. and Paul G. Biondich, M.D., M.S. Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 2005 JAMIA 2010 17: 237-244
3.Martin C Were, Nneka Emenyonu, Marion Achieng, et al. Evaluating a scalable model for implementing
settings electronic health records in resource-limite d
The concept is wrong. We need a record that is only made when needed. With proper access controls etc the data could be extracted live from the various record sources to create a one off record that was up to date and useable, without the risks of huge data storage silos
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Tony Webeck NRL.com
Fri 18 Jul 2014, 12:15 PM
This article first appeared at www.nrl.com
World Cup-winning Jillaroos captain Karyn Murphy has answered an SOS from Queensland Rugby League officials in an attempt to continue their interstate stranglehold when they face New South Wales at Leichhardt Oval on Saturday.
The clash for the Nellie Doherty Cup that has been in Queensland's possession since 1998 will be played at 4pm following the VB NSW Cup match between Wests Tigers and Canterbury Bankstown with the Jillaroos team for a sole end-of-season Test to be chosen from this game.
Murphy has indicated that she will not make herself available for selection for the Australian team that won the World Cup for the first time last year but is making one last appearance for Queensland in order to usher the next generation of girls into the team.
Queensland coach Broad Donald has named eight debutants in his squad of 18 and said with Nat Dwyer, Theresa Anderson, Jo Barrett and Tahnee Norris all unavailable, he pleaded with Murphy to guide the crop of youngsters one more time.
"We've lost some girls who have played for Australia in key positions, some of them for 10 years, and that left a massive hole in the Queensland side," Donald told NRL.com.
"There are lots of young up-and-coming girls but we have realised being in camp the past couple of days that they are really green and we needed some experience around to show these young girls that it's not easy to step up."
Although playing locally in Mackay where she now works as a police investigator, Murphy first had to be enticed back to play in the state championships and then couldn't say no to one last Queensland jersey.
"For the last few years I've always wondered when the right time is to finish up. I never wanted to be one of those ones that hang on too long but in saying that I didn't want to go too early and miss the game and have regrets," Murphy said.
"For me, winning the World Cup in England was as good a time as any to hang it up and playing for Queensland again was never a thought, even though I knew I'd miss it greatly.
"We did lose a lot of experience and when Brad asked I did um and ah for a little while but I don't know how much convincing it took; I never want to knock back a Queensland jersey.
"I weighed up the positives and negatives and the only negative really was that I had said no, that was enough, but I got over that mental battle and thought that if I could contribute to the team in some way then I'll be happy with that."
In almost an exact replica of the Emerging Origin camps that have been so successful for the Queensland State of Origin team over the past decade, for the first time this week 12 girls on the fringe of the Queensland squad were brought into camp to experience what it is like to play for their state.
The squad prepared for the clash with NSW at RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast in a further indicator of the progress the women's game is making in Australia.
Last year's World Cup in England was the first time that the NRL had funded an overseas tour that enabled the Jillaroos to travel with the strongest squad possible, and defeat three-time champions New Zealand in the final.
It's a far cry from the days of a decade ago when in preparing for a Test match in Brisbane the Australian women's team was put up in dorm rooms at a south Brisbane backpackers and Murphy says the focus should now shift to greater media exposure.
In past years this fixture has either been played as a curtain-raiser to an Origin game or an NRL game and Murphy is convinced that if more people are exposed to the quality of the game, the barriers to future representatives will be significantly reduced.
"There a people who want to bag it or who are ignorant to the game but as soon as even your hard heads watch a game, they acknowledge that we can actually play," Murphy said.
"I said after the World Cup that if we could get one of these [interstate] games even just a couple of minutes on Fox Sports where they could play a few highlights because there are still so many people who don't know the product because there just isn't the exposure."
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Queensland: 1 Latisha Gary, 2 Kellye Hodges, 3 Annette Brander, 4 Jenni-sue Hoepper, 5 Kady Tinker, 6 Ali Brigginshaw, 7 Karyn Murphy, 8 Steph Hancock, 9 Brittany Breayley, 10 Heather Ballinger, 11 Renae Kunst, 12 Deanna Turner, 13 Tarah Westera. Interchange: 14 Talia Poutini-Lawrence, 15 Nicole Richards, 16 Teri Nukunuku, 17 Jazmyn Taumafai, 18 Aleasha Brider. Coach: Brad Donald.
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Stage set in Nevada as Earthlings arrive for Area 51 events
Hundreds descend on Nevada desert for music and space-themed entertainment
(John Locher/AP)
The stage was set Thursday for music and other space-themed entertainment as Earthlings descended on the Nevada desert for events inspired by an internet hoax known as “Storm Area 51.”
“It started as a joke, but it’s not a joke for us,” Alon Burton, guitarist and member of the group Wily Savage, said as he and several other men wrestled a tarp over a makeshift stage near the Little A’Le’Inn motel and cafe in Rachel.
Gusts of wind billowed the white canopy like a sailboat spinnaker as they tied it down.
“We know people will come out. We just don’t know how many,” Burton said.
By early afternoon, several hundred people had made their way to the site where secrecy surrounding Area 51 has long fueled speculation that it’s where the government studies space aliens.
As they arrived for the weekend events, campers in trucks and trailers staked out space on federal land across a highway.
Anticipating a big crowd, a beer company had produced alien-themed cans, and a brothel in offered discounts to “E.T. enthusiasts.”
Events were planned in Rachel and Hiko, a 45-minute drive away, the two towns closest to Area 51.
The festivities sparked by the internet joke inviting people to “see them aliens” could become a cultural marker, monumental dud or something in between.
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“This phenomenon is really a perfect blend of interest in aliens and the supernatural, government conspiracies, and the desire to know what we don’t know,” said Michael Ian Borer, a University of Nevada, Las Vegas, sociologist who researches pop culture and paranormal activity.
The result, Borer said, was “hope and fear” for events that include the “Area 51 Basecamp,” featuring music, speakers and movies in Hiko and festivals in Rachel and Las Vegas competing for the name “Alienstock.”
“People desire to be part of something, to be ahead of the curve,” Borer said. “Area 51 is a place where normal, ordinary citizens can’t go. When you tell people they can’t do something, they just want to do it more.”
Eric Holt, the Lincoln County emergency manager overseeing preparations, said he believed authorities could handle 30,000 visitors at the events in Rachel and Hiko.
Still, neighbours braced for trouble after millions of people responded to the “Storm Area 51” Facebook post weeks ago.
Joerg Arnu, a Rachel resident who can see the festival grounds from his home, said he installed outdoor floodlights, fencing and “No Trespassing” signs on his 30-acre property.
He also organized a radio-equipped night watch of neighbours who fear there won’t be enough water, food, trash bins or toilets for visitors.
“Those that know what to expect camping in the desert are going to have a good time,” Arnu said.
However, others won’t if they show up in shorts and flip-flops, he said.
“That doesn’t protect you against critters, snakes and scorpions,” Arnu said. “It will get cold at night. They’re not going to find what they’re looking for, and they are going to get angry.”
Some cellphones didn’t work Thursday in Rachel, and officials expect what service there was to eventually be overwhelmed.
The Federal Aviation Administration closed nearby air space, although Air Force jets could be heard in the sun-drenched skies, along with an occasional sonic boom.
George Harris, owner of the Alien Research Center souvenir store in Hiko, said the “Area 51 Basecamp” Friday and Saturday will focus on music, movies and talks about extraterrestrial lore.
Electronic dance music DJ and recording artist Paul Oakenfold is Friday’s headliner in Hiko.
The event also promises up to 60 food trucks and vendors, trash and electric service, and a robust security and medical staff.
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Harris said he was prepared for as many as 15,000 people and expected they would appreciate taking selfies with a replica of the Area 51 back gate without having to travel several miles to the real thing.
“We just want people to be safe,” Harris said. “As long as they don’t go on the desert floor and destroy the ecosystem, everyone will have a good time.”
Burton said he had promises from almost 50 performers to appear at the Rachel site, off a state road dubbed Extraterrestrial Highway.
The U.S. Air Force has issued stern warnings for people not to approach the gates of the Nevada Test and Training Range, where Area 51 is located.
Authorities in Nye County, home to a conspicuously green establishment called the Area 51 Alien Center, are discouraging Earthlings from trying to find extraterrestrials.
“We’re taking precautions and checking the back roads,” Sheriff Sharon Wehrly said.
Her deputies last week arrested two Dutch tourists attracted by “Storm Area 51.” The men pleaded guilty to trespassing at a secure U.S. site nowhere near Area 51 and promised to pay thousands in fines.
Arnu said the military added razor wire to barbed cattle fencing on the Area 51 boundary near his home, installed more cameras and battery-powered lighting, and erected an imposing spike barrier just inside a gate. He noted a new sign telling trespassers they’ll be arrested and fined $1,000.
Ken Ritter, The Associated Press
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Reds excited about future Super stars
2 Jul 2016 Super Rugby
The Reds have a host of exciting young stars for the future. Photo: Getty Images
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For a team that just lost their eighth game of the season and are out of Super Rugby finals contention, the Queensland Reds are surprisingly excited.
Skipper James Slipper and interim co-coach Nick Stiles liked what they saw in parts of Friday night's 43-24 loss to the Brumbies.
They heaped plenty of pressure on the Australian conference leaders early in the match despite the freezing conditions at GIO Stadium, before letting slip a game-changing try on the stroke of halftime.
Lock Kane Douglas made a successful return off the bench from a knee injury suffered during last year's World Cup, while backrower Leroy Houston impressed in his first game back with the Reds in five years.
But Stiles said he was more excited about the performance of Lukhan Tui against a Wallabies-rich pack of Sam Carter, Scott Fardy and Rory Arnold.
It was the 19-year-old's first start at lock, having only previously played 10 minutes off the bench.
"Gee, he stood up and he played physical and athletic," Stiles said.
"I'm really happy with him."
, aka the `Tongan Thor', also made his debut, playing a longer-than-expected 55 minutes.
"We know he can run, he's explosive - and he showed that," added Stiles.
"But to see him step up and scrummage the way he did for a 20-year-old footballer playing your first game against Scott Sio, Allan Alaalatoa, it's so exciting for us moving forward.
"We wanted to win, but if you cast your mind forward to next season and you look at the players we're talking about now, there's a lot of hope and optimism."
Slipper said the addition of world-class players like Douglas and Houston would only benefit the Reds going into their final two games against the Chiefs and Melbourne Rebels - both at home - and looking ahead to 2017.
"We're excited that we're getting a bit of experience back in the team," he said.
"They're both quality players and the more minutes they play, it's only going to help us."
The Reds will next year also gain Wallabies veterans Stephen Moore and George Smith.
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Quake damage in Bali, one person hurt
Balinese men check a damaged temple in Bali, Indonesia - AAP
Indonesia has had its second strong earthquake since Sunday, with a tremor shaking Bali and other islands on Tuesday, damaging homes and injuring one person.
Tuesday's magnitude 5.7 quake was centred at sea 82 kilometres to the southwest of Denpasar at a depth of 91 kilometres. the US Geological Survey said.
Indonesia's geophysics agency said the quake didn't have the potential to cause a tsunami.
The national disaster agency said one person was injured in Bali and 38 buildings including houses and a Mercure hotel had minor damage.
On Sunday, a quake in North Maluku province killed four people and damaged nearly 1,000 houses. About 3,100 people in the province are living in temporary shelters, disaster officials said.
After Tuesday's quake, the main hospital in Denpasar evacuated patients, some attached to intravenous drips, to the hospital grounds.
Numerous schools and hotels were also evacuated.
"While having breakfast suddenly everything in the room swayed very strongly," said George Stephen, an Australian holidaying in Bali's Kuta area.
He said guests fled the hotel in panic but returned after about 15 minutes.
Indonesia, with more than 260 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location along the Pacific "Ring of Fire." A powerful Indian Ocean quake and tsunami in 2004 killed a total of 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia.
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While visiting Charlotte, North Carolina, country music group Old Dominion stopped by Seacrest Studios at Levine Children’s Hospital to answer questions, talk with patients, and play some games. This was the group’s second time visiting the kids at LCH.
The visit was Halloween themed and started off with the band members putting on Batman and Frankenstein masks and doing their best impersonations of the characters. When asked about what they would be dressing up as for the upcoming holiday, the group said that they were still thinking about their costumes, but they are leaning towards being superheroes such as Iron Man or Superman.
With roots in Virginia, we decided to quiz the band on their Virginia state knowledge. They were able to guess the state’s nickname, which is where they got their band name, Old Dominion. Matthew Ramsey knew the most out of the members and was able to name the state capital and state bird as well. Another game we played was “Guess that country lyric” that the group did excellent at! Whit Sellers showed off his incredible Luke Bryan impression/accent during the game, and we even got everyone to sing a couple of country lyrics.
The patients asked the group a variety of silly questions. The group revealed that they all love to sing in the shower. They get hug attacks from fans sometimes at concerts or when they’re out and about. Brad, Matthew, and Trevor all admitted to snoring loudly in the middle of the night and proceeded to show us their snores.
Towards the end of the visit, the group gave patients their advice when they’re having a bad day. Brad said he loves to call his mom, dad, or friends when he’s having a tough day. Trevor said that getting hugs from anyone and everyone always makes him feel better and makes the rest of his day go better. Matthew concluded by saying when he’s feeling down, he goes to his music and likes to write things down or listen to his favorite songs.
The visit ended with patients taking pictures with Old Dominion. Even the Levine Children’s Hospital security guards and nursing staff got in on the action. We had so much fun with this energetic group and hope they come back soon to Seacrest Studios in Charlotte soon!
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Keller Williams Realty VanCentral 604-262-1581
ryan@ryanwindsor.ca
Ryan's Listings
Vancouver Westside Condos
Arbutus $0 - $399,999
Arbutus $400,000 - $499,999
Arbutus $800,000-$999,999
Arbutus $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Arbutus $1,500,000+
Cambie $0-$399,999
Cambie $400,000-$499,999
Cambie $800,000 - $999,999
Cambie $1,000,000 - $1,499,999
Cambie $1,500,000+
Coal Harbour $0-$399,999
Coal Harbour $400,000-$499,999
Coal Harbour $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Coal Harbour $1,500,000+
Downtown VW $0-$399,999
Downtown VW $400,000-$499,999
Downtown VW $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Downtown VW $1,500,000+
Dunbar $0-$399,999
Dunbar $400,000-$499,999
Dunbar $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Dunbar $1,500,000+
Fairview VW
Fairview VW $0-$399,999
Fairview VW $400,000-$499,999
Fairview VW $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Fairview VW $1,500,000+
False Creek $0-$399,999
False Creek $400,000-$499,999
False Creek $1,000,000-$1,499,999
False Creek $1,500,000+
Kerrisdale $0-$399,999
Kerrisdale $400,000-$499,999
Kerrisdale $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Kerrisdale $1,500,000+
Kitsilano $0-$399,999
Kitsilano $400,000-$499,999
Kitsilano $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Kitsilano $1,500,000+
MacKenzie Heights $0-$399,999
MacKenzie Heights $400,000-$499,999
MacKenzie Heights $1,000,000-$1,499,999
MacKenzie Heights $1,500,000+
Marpole $0-$399,999
Marpole $400,000-$499,999
Marpole $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Marpole $1,500,000+
Mount Pleasant VW
Mount Pleasant VW $0-$399,999
Mount Pleasant VW $400,000-$499,999
Oakridge VW
Oakridge VW $0-$399,999
Oakridge VW $400,000-$499,999
Oakridge VW $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Oakridge VW $1,500,000+
Point Grey $0-$399,999
Point Grey $400,000-$499,999
Point Grey $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Point Grey $1,500,000+
Quilchena $0-$399,999
Quilchena $400,000-$499,999
Quilchena $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Quilchena $1,500,000+
S.W. Marine
S.W. Marine $0-$399,999
S.W. Marine $400,000-$499,999
S.W. Marine $1,000,000-$1,499,999
S.W. Marine $1,500,000+
Shaughnessy $0-$399,999
Shaughnessy $400,000-$499,999
Shaughnessy $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Shaughnessy $1,500,000+
South Cambie $0-$399,999
South Cambie $400,000-$499,999
South Cambie $1,500,000+
South Cambie $1,000,000-$1,499,999
South Granville $0-$399,999
South Granville $400,000-$499,999
South Granville $1,500,000+
South Granville $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Southlands $0-$399,999
Southlands $400,000-$499,999
Southlands $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Southlands $1,500,000+
University VW
University VW $0-$399,999
University VW $400,000-$499,999
University VW $1,000,000-$1,499,999
University VW $1,500,000+
West End VW
West End VW $0-$399,999
West End VW $400,000-$499,999
West End VW $1,000,000-$1,499,999
West End VW $1,500,000+
Yaletown $0-$399,999
Yaletown $400,000-$499,999
Yaletown $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Yaletown $1,500,000+
Vancouver Westside Townhomes
Arbutus Townhouse
Arbutus Townhouse $0-$399,999
Arbutus Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Arbutus Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Arbutus Townhouse $1,500,000+
Cambie Townhouse
Cambie Townhouse $0-$399,999
Cambie Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Cambie Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Cambie Townhouse $1,500,000+
Coal Harbour Townhouse
Coal Harbour Townhouse $0-$399,999
Coal Harbour Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Coal Harbour Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Coal Harbour Townhouse $1,500,000+
Downtown VW Townhouse
Downtown VW Townhouse $0-$399,999
Downtown VW Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Downtown VW Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Downtown VW Townhouse $1,500,000+
Dunbar Townhouses
Dunbar Townhouses $0-$399,999
Dunbar Townhouses $400,000-$499,999
Dunbar Townhouses $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Dunbar Townhouses $1,500,000+
Fairview VW Townhouse
Fairview VW Townhouse $0-$399,999
Fairview VW Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Fairview VW Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Fairview VW Townhouse $1,500,000+
False Creek Townhouse
False Creek Townhouse $0-$399,999
False Creek Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
False Creek Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
False Creek Townhouse $1,500,000+
Kerrisdale Townhouse
Kerrisdale Townhouse $0-$399,999
Kerrisdale Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Kerrisdale Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Kerrisdale Townhouse $1,500,000+
Kitsilano Townhouse
Kitsilano Townhouse $0-$399,999
Kitsilano Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Kitsilano Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Kitsilano Townhouse $1,500,000+
MacKenzie Heights Townhouse
MacKenzie Heights Townhouse $0-$399,999
MacKenzie Heights Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
MacKenzie Heights Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
MacKenzie Heights Townhouse $1,500,000+
Marpole Townhouse
Marpole Townhouse $0-$399,999
Marpole Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Marpole Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Marpole Townhouse $1,500,000+
Mount Pleasant VW Townhouse
Mount Pleasant VW Townhouse $0-$399,999
Mount Pleasant VW Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Mount Pleasant VW Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Mount Pleasant VW Townhouse $1,500,000+
Oakridge VW Townhouse
Oakridge VW Townhouse $0-$399,999
Oakridge VW Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Oakridge VW Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Oakridge VW Townhouse $1,500,000+
Point Grey Townhouse
Point Grey Townhouse $0-$399,999
Point Grey Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Point Grey Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Point Grey Townhouse $1,500,000+
Quilchena Townhouse
Quilchena Townhouse $0-$399,999
Quilchena Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Quilchena Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Quilchena Townhouse $1,500,000+
S.W. Marine Townhouse
S.W. Marine Townhouse $0-$399,999
S.W. Marine Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
S.W. Marine Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
S.W. Marine Townhouse $1,500,000+
Shaughnessy Townhouse
Shaughnessy Townhouse $0-$399,999
Shaughnessy Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Shaughnessy Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Shaughnessy Townhouse $1,500,000+
South Cambie Townhouse
South Cambie Townhouse $0-$399,999
South Cambie Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
South Cambie Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
South Cambie Townhouse $1,500,000+
South Granville Townhouse
South Granville Townhouse $0-$399,999
South Granville Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
South Granville Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
South Granville Townhouse $1,500,000+
Southlands Townhouse
Southlands Townhouse $0-$399,999
Southlands Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Southlands Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Southlands Townhouse $1,500,000+
University VW Townhouse
University VW Townhouse $0-$399,999
University VW Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
University VW Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
University VW Townhouse $1,500,000+
West End VW Townhouse
West End VW Townhouse $0-$399,999
West End VW Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
West End VW Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
West End VW Townhouse $1,500,000+
Yaletown Townhouse
Yaletown Townhouse $0-$399,999
Yaletown Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Yaletown Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Yaletown Townhouse $1,500,000+
Vancouver Westside Detached
Arbutus House
Arbutus House $0-$2,000,000
Arbutus House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Arbutus House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Arbutus House $15,000,000+
Cambie House
Cambie House $0-$2,000,000
Cambie House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Cambie House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Cambie House $15,000,000+
Coal Harbour House
Coal Harbour House $0-$2,000,000
Coal Harbour House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Coal Harbour House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Coal Harbour House $15,000,000+
Downtown VW House
Downtown VW House $0-$2,000,000
Downtown VW House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Downtown VW House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Downtown VW House $15,000,000+
Dunbar House $0-$2,000,000
Dunbar House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Dunbar House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Dunbar House $15,000,000+
Fairview VW House
Fairview VW House $0-$2,000,000
Fairview VW House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Fairview VW House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Fairview VW House $15,000,000+
False Creek House
False Creek House $0-$2,000,000
False Creek House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
False Creek House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
False Creek House $15,000,000+
Kerrisdale House
Kerrisdale House $0-$2,000,000
Kerrisdale House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Kerrisdale House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Kerrisdale House $15,000,000+
Kitsilano House
Kitsilano House $0-$2,000,000
Kitsilano House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Kitsilano House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Kitsilano House $15,000,000+
MacKenzie Heights House
MacKenzie Heights House $0-$2,000,000
MacKenzie Heights House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
MacKenzie Heights House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
MacKenzie Heights House $15,000,000+
Marpole House
Marpole House $0-$2,000,000
Marpole House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Marpole House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Marpole House $15,000,000+
Mount Pleasant VW House
Mount Pleasant VW House $0-$2,000,000
Mount Pleasant VW House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Mount Pleasant VW House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Mount Pleasant VW House $15,000,000+
Oakridge VW House
Oakridge VW House $0-$2,000,000
Oakridge VW House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Oakridge VW House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Oakridge VW House $15,000,000+
Point Grey House
Point Grey House $0-$2,000,000
Point Grey House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Point Grey House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Point Grey House $15,000,000+
Quilchena House
Quilchena House $0-$2,000,000
Quilchena House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Quilchena House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Quilchena House $15,000,000+
S.W. Marine House
S.W. Marine House $0-$2,000,000
S.W. Marine House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
S.W. Marine House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
S.W. Marine House $15,000,000+
Shaughnessy House
Shaughnessy House $0-$2,000,000
Shaughnessy House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Shaughnessy House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Shaughnessy House $15,000,000+
South Cambie House
South Cambie House $0-$2,000,000
South Cambie House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
South Cambie House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
South Cambie House $15,000,000+
South Granville House
South Granville House $0-$2,000,000
South Granville House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
South Granville House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
South Granville House $15,000,000+
Southlands House
Southlands House $0-$2,000,000
Southlands House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Southlands House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Southlands House $15,000,000+
University VW House
University VW House $0-$2,000,000
University VW House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
University VW House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
University VW House $15,000,000+
West End VW House
West End VW House $0-$2,000,000
West End VW House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
West End VW House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
West End VW House $15,000,000+
Yaletown House
Yaletown House $0-$2,000,000
Yaletown House $2,500,000-$2,999,999
Yaletown House $10,000,000-$14,999,999
Yaletown House $15,000,000+
East Vancouver Condos
Champlain Heights $0-$399,999
Champlain Heights $400,000-$499,999
Champlain Heights $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Champlain Heights $1,500,000+
Collingwood VE
Collingwood VE $0-$399,999
Collingwood VE $400,000-$499,999
Collingwood VE $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Collingwood VE $1,500,000+
Downtown VE
Downtown VE $0-$399,999
Downtown VE $400,000-$499,999
Downtown VE $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Downtown VE $1,500,000+
Fraser VE $0-$399,999
Fraser VE $400,000-$499,999
Fraser VE $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Fraser VE $1,500,000+
Fraserview VE
Fraserview VE $0-$399,999
Fraserview VE $400,000-$499,999
Fraserview VE $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Fraserview VE $1,500,000+
Grandview VE
Grandview VE $0-$399,999
Grandview VE $400,000-$499,999
Grandview VE $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Grandview VE $1,500,000+
Hastings $0-$399,999
Hastings $400,000-$499,999
Hastings $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Hastings $1,500,000+
Hastings East $0-$399,999
Hastings East $400,000-$499,999
Hastings East $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Hastings East $1,500,000+
Killarney VE
Killarney VE $0-$399,999
Killarney VE $400,000-$499,999
Killarney VE $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Killarney VE $1,500,000+
Knight $0-$399,999
Knight $400,000-$499,999
Knight $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Knight $1,500,000+
Main $0-$399,999
Main $400,000-$499,999
Main $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Main $1,500,000+
Mount Pleasant VE
Mount Pleasant VE $0-$399,999
Mount Pleasant VE $400,000-$499,999
Mount Pleasant VE $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Mount Pleasant VE $1,500,000+
Renfrew Heights $0-$399,999
Renfrew Heights $400,000-$499,999
Renfrew Heights $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Renfrew Heights $1,500,000+
Renfrew VE
Renfrew VE $0-$399,999
Renfrew VE $400,000-$499,999
Renfrew VE $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Renfrew VE $1,500,000+
South Vancouver $0-$399,999
South Vancouver $400,000-$499,999
South Vancouver $1,000,000-$1,499,999
South Vancouver $1,500,000+
Victoria VE
Victoria VE $0-$399,999
Victoria VE $400,000-$499,999
Victoria VE $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Victoria VE $1,500,000+
East Vancouver Townhomes
Champlain Heights Townhouse
Champlain Heights Townhouse $0-$399,999
Champlain Heights Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Champlain Heights Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Champlain Heights Townhouse $1,500,000+
Collingwood VE Townhouse
Collingwood VE Townhouse $0-$399,999
Collingwood VE Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Collingwood VE Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Collingwood VE Townhouse $1,500,000+
Downtown VE Townhouse
Downtown VE Townhouse $0-$399,999
Downtown VE Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Downtown VE Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Downtown VE Townhouse $1,500,000+
Fraser VE Townhouse
Fraser VE Townhouse $0-$399,999
Fraser VE Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Fraser VE Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Fraser VE Townhouse $1,500,000+
Fraserview VE Townhouse
Fraserview VE Townhouse $0-$399,999
Fraserview VE Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Fraserview VE Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Fraserview VE Townhouse $1,500,000+
Grandview VE Townhouse
Grandview VE Townhouse $0-$399,999
Grandview VE Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Grandview VE Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Grandview VE Townhouse $1,500,000+
Hastings Townhouse
Hastings Townhouse $0-$399,999
Hastings Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Hastings Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Hastings Townhouse $1,500,000+
Hastings East Townhouse
Hastings East Townhouse $0-$399,999
Hastings East Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Hastings East Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Hastings East Townhouse $1,500,000+
Killarney VE Townhouse
Killarney VE Townhouse $0-$399,999
Killarney VE Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Killarney VE Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Killarney VE Townhouse $1,500,000+
Knight Townhouse
Knight Townhouse $0-$399,999
Knight Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Knight Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Knight Townhouse $1,500,000+
Main Townhouse
Main Townhouse $0-$399,999
Main Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Main Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Main Townhouse $1,500,000+
Mount Pleasant VE Townhouse
Mount Pleasant VE Townhouse $0-$399,999
Mount Pleasant VE Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Mount Pleasant VE Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Mount Pleasant VE Townhouse $1,500,000+
Renfrew Heights Townhouse
Renfrew Heights Townhouse $0-$399,999
Renfrew Heights Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Renfrew Heights Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Renfrew Heights Townhouse $1,500,000+
Renfrew VE Townhouse
Renfrew VE Townhouse $0-$399,999
Renfrew VE Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Renfrew VE Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Renfrew VE Townhouse $1,500,000+
South Vancouver Townhouse
South Vancouver Townhouse $0-$399,999
South Vancouver Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
South Vancouver Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
South Vancouver Townhouse $1,500,000+
Victoria VE Townhouse
Victoria VE Townhouse $0-$399,999
Victoria VE Townhouse $400,000-$499,999
Victoria VE Townhouse $1,000,000-$1,499,999
Victoria VE Townhouse $1,500,000+
East Vancouver Detached
Champlain Heights House
Champlain Heights House $0-$999,999
Champlain Heights House $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Champlain Heights House $5,000,000+
Collingwood VE House
Collingwood VE House $0-$999,999
Collingwood VE House $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Collingwood VE House $5,000,000+
Downtown VE Houses
Downtown VE Houses $0-$999,999
Downtown VE Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Downtown VE Houses $5,000,000+
Fraser VE Houses
Fraser VE Houses $0-$999,999
Fraser VE Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Fraser VE Houses $5,000,000+
Fraserview VE Houses
Fraserview VE Houses $0-$999,999
Fraserview VE Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Fraserview VE Houses $5,000,000+
Grandview VE Houses
Grandview VE Houses $0-$999,999
Grandview VE Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Grandview VE Houses $5,000,000+
Hastings Houses
Hastings Houses $0-$999,999
Hastings Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Hastings Houses $5,000,000+
Hastings East Houses
Hastings East Houses $0-$999,999
Hastings East Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Hastings East Houses $5,000,000+
Killarney VE Houses
Killarney VE Houses $0-$999,999
Killarney VE Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Killarney VE Houses $5,000,000+
Knight Houses
Knight Houses $0-$999,999
Knight Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Knight Houses $5,000,000+
Main Houses
Main Houses $0-$999,999
Main Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Main Houses $5,000,000+
Mount Pleasant VE Houses
Mount Pleasant VE Houses $0-$999,999
Mount Pleasant VE Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Mount Pleasant VE Houses $5,000,000+
Renfrew Heights Houses
Renfrew Heights Houses $0-$999,999
Renfrew Heights Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Renfrew Heights Houses $5,000,000+
Renfrew VE Houses
Renfrew VE Houses $0-$999,999
Renfrew VE Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Renfrew VE Houses $5,000,000+
South Vancouver Houses
South Vancouver Houses $0-$999,999
South Vancouver Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
South Vancouver Houses $5,000,000+
Victoria VE Houses
Victoria VE Houses $0-$999,999
Victoria VE Houses $1,000,000-$1,199,999
Victoria VE Houses $5,000,000+
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201 108 E 35TH AVENUE - MLS® #R2426838
[MLS®#: R2426838]Sophisticated living at Crest, a boutique building, mere steps from Queen E Park. Thi...Read More
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Entertainment aims to strike a chord at Big Festival Weekend
A selection of world music and one of the region's leading orchestras feature at Plymouth University event
Mr Alan Williams
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A performance by one of the UK’s top Bhangra bands and the premiere of a new piece for orchestra and electronics will be among the musical highlights of a weekend of festivities at Plymouth University.
The Big Festival Weekend, incorporating the Plymouth Respect Festival, is taking place on the university campus on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June.
It will feature a range of events for all the family, while aiming to give visitors a flavour of life at the University and the role it is playing in transforming lives locally and globally.
2015 marks the second time the Plymouth Respect Festival has been held at the University, and it will feature a range of entertainment from across the world.
The live music element of the festival will include a performance by RSVP Bhangra, one of the UK’s favourite live bands in the genre and nominated for a National Bhangra Award.
Other confirmed acts, with more to be added to the roster in coming weeks, include international musical collective The Turbans, energetic Eastern European brass band Fanfara, eight-piece African high life and funk act Yaaba Funk!, with support from , Cornish folk rock group Haunt the Woods, The Independent Flying Orchestra and Acoustic café and many more.
Dan Thompson, Artistic Director of the Plymouth Respect Festival, said:
“RSVP Bhangra mix traditional Punjabi folk songs and rhythms with Western influences of rock, reggae and gypsy guitar meaning they have a unique sound, the ultimate in celebratory music. With sell out gigs across the South West on a previous tour and a European tour coming up RSVP’s show is a performance not to be missed. They will add to the festival spirit at Plymouth Respect this summer, alongside a line-up that will captivate audiences from the city and beyond.”
Also during the weekend, Plymouth University’s £7million performing arts centre – The House – will play host to a stunning concert by the Ten Tors Orchestra.
Conducted by Peninsula Arts Director of Music Simon Ible, the event on Saturday 20 June at 7.30pm will feature works by Barber, Boyce and Mozart as well as the premiere of a piece by the University’s Professor of Computer Music Eduardo Reck Miranda.
Shockwaves is designed to be played by orchestra, percussion and electronics, with the solo violin part performed by PhD music research student Pierre Largeron, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music.
The Big Festival Weekend will include opportunities to tour cutting edge University research facilities and there will be showcases of prominent partnerships, while university graduates are also invited to return for a ‘Back to Plymouth’ alumni events programme. Innovative artwork will be showcased at HOT’15 – an exhibition of works by final-year students across a range of art and design disciplines – while events will also be staged in Drake’s Place Gardens and Reservoir, and there will be a host of family activities, such as campus trails and treasure hunts, a fun park, craft fairs and performances.
Musical entertainment at the Big Festival Weekend
Yaaba Funk
Yaaba Funk! are an eight-piece African high life and funk act
Fanfara
Fanfara are an energetic Eastern European brass band
The Turbans
The Turbans are an international musical collective
Ten Tors Orchestra
Simon Ible will conduct the orchestra in a concert in The House
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Samsung has previously hinted at the launch of a new compact system camera during its Photokina press conference next week and it is widely reported that this will be the Samsung NX1.
The company has already sent out invites to the event it is holding on 15 September, with vague glimpses at some of the elements of the new camera.
Now an unconfirmed source has sent Photo Rumors what are claimed to be a detailed set of specifications for the NX1 and if true it promises to have a lot going for it.
They claim that the mirrorless camera will sport a 28-megapixel APS-C CMOS ISOCELL sensor with a DRIMe image signal processor. There will be 154 cross-type sensors and an advanced hybrid autofocus system, with the second generation phase detection autofocus system.
ISO range will stretch from 100 to 51,200 and the rear of the camera will feature a 3-inch tiltable AMOLED touch display.
Thanks to Samsung's dedication in pushing Ultra HD 4K resolutions for its TVs, the camera will help record content to feed them. It is said to have 4K 3840 x 2160 video recording, albeit in just 30/24 frames per second. It can also record in Full HD at 60fps.
The Samsung NX1 will be water and dust proof, allegedly, and feature Wi-Fi and NFC connectivity. It will be made of a magnesium allow and have a weather-sealed body (which makes sense, considering the water and dust proofing suggested).
We'll find out if all of this is true come 15 September, when Pocket-lint attends the briefing as part of our Photokina 2014 coverage.
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Amazon Fire HD 8 review: Hitting that 8-inch sweet spot
Chris Hall · 8 November 2018
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Whether you're a globetrotter or a looking for an travel tablet or something to entertain your child with loads of controls, the Fire HD 8 is well worth considering, because at this price, there's very little that comes close.
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Great price point
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Respectable Battery life
Reflective display
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The tablet market has continued to polarise over the past few years and if you don't want to invest a considerable sum in an iPad, then Amazon's Fire tablets are the obvious affordable choice.
The Fire HD 8 sits in the middle of Amazon's offering, more portable than the HD 10 and more capable than the Fire 7. It hits something of a sweet spot, offering functionality and affordability.
Bright design and solid build
215 x 128 x 9.7mm; 363g
Plastic shell in black, blue, red or yellow
While high-end tablets offer glass or aluminium finishing, Amazon's Fire tablets opt for study plastic around the back. It's a simple and slightly understated design, but it's a solid result.
The plastics feel solid enough with ample texture to provide grip (Amazon is confident enough to say that it surpasses the iPad in terms of durability). They also withstand the occasional accidental knock and wipe clean easily enough, so if the Fire HD 8 finds its way into the sticky hands of a toddler, it will clean up easily enough.
With the 8-inch display on the front dictating this tablet's size, there's a fairly hefty bezel around the display. On one hand that gives a slightly dated look to things (especially considering the move in smartphones to destroy all bezels), yet this gives somewhere for fingers and thumbs to sit and not obstruct what's on the display. It also makes it easy to put in a protective case without obscuring the display.
The sides offer up all the connections on one end, including a conventional 3.5mm headphone socket, while retaining the older Micro-USB for charging - so if you're packing cables, be aware that this might no longer be the same as your up-to-date smartphone.
The power button and volume controls also lie on one end, leaving the microSD card slot on the side, neatly covered by a flap.
While a lot of tablets have opted for sombre colours - the inevitable black or grey - we like the bolder approach of Amazon. The Canary Yellow of this review device is a particular favourite. It's fun, it's vibrant, it's interesting and it gives you something a little different.
Which is the best Amazon Fire tablet?
A display that fuses good size with adequate performance
8-inch, 16:10 ratio IPS LCD display
1280 x 800 pixel resolution (189ppi)
Tablets are all about their display. Amazon has consistently stuck to a 16:10 aspect ratio for its tablets rather than flipping to 4:3 - which is becoming more common elsewhere - which we think makes for a good aspect to enjoy a lot of the content that Amazon offers, particularly for Amazon Video.
The HD in this tablet's name refers to the fact that it steps up to a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, or 720p, which is a step-up from the smaller Fire 7 tablet, and a step down in terms of resolution from the larger Fire HD 10 tablet (which offers Full HD).
It's a good compromise. Although it's not the sharpest tablet display out there - and it's nowhere near as sharp as the latest flagship smartphones - it's nothing to worry about, especially at this price. The important point is that it looks good once you start steaming your Netflix or Amazon Video content, and that will likely keep users happy.
It presents some other weaknesses though. Although the Fire HD 8 made improvements in the display compared to the previous version of this tablet, it still isn't the brightest, so can struggle to deal with reflections in bright conditions, and its colours aren't as punchy as you'll get from the best out there.
But let's put that in context: this is an £80 tablet that delivers perfectly acceptable visuals at that price. If you want a better display, or you're particular about display perfection, then you'll need to cough up a couple hundred more. If you do put it side-by-side with an iPad the admittedly, it looks weak.
As it is, the Fire HD 8 is responsive to the touch and acquits itself perfectly well when it comes to playing games or streaming videos when you're laying in bed, which is what you probably why you want to buy this tablet.
Amazon Fire HD 8 review: Hardware and performance
Quad-core 1.3GHz processor, 1.5GB RAM
12-hours battery life
16 or 32GB RAM + microSD
No fast charging
Amazon doesn't go to town telling us the suppliers of the hardware in its tablets, so you just have to accept that it's a quad-core chipset supported by 1.5GB RAM. Again, this slides into the space between the Fire 7 and Fire HD 10 tablets in terms of specification.
The performance therefore fits its price point. The important things happen fast enough, like smooth streaming of video or snappy page turning in books. Yes, there can be a little delay when it comes to opening larger apps and you'll feel the processor warming up around the back just above the Amazon logo when playing more demanding games, like Real Racing 3. That's to be expected and, importantly, it doesn't actually get in the way of what you're trying to do.
There's 16GB of storage at the lowest configuration (with about 9.6GB available to store apps and downloads) and the potential to expand storage via microSD card. In truth, 16GB of storage will fill pretty quickly, especially if you want to download a stack of movies to watch on a long flight, for example. Therefore it's well worth considering the larger 32GB version if that's how you're going to use it. One of the 2018 changes to this tablet is that it will now support cards up to 400GB - and yes a 400GB microSD card will cost more than the tablet itself.
The Fire HD 8 has an advantage over both the Fire 7 and the Fire HD 10 when it comes to battery life. Amazon cites that you'll get 12 hours of use from a single charge, which we've found to be typically true (it very much depends on what you're doing and how bright the display is set), but that's 2 hours more than the larger 10-inch tablet.
We've also found the HD 8 is great in standby and can hang onto its charge for a really long time - we're talking weeks rather than hours. We've used the Fire HD 8 on long haul flights for entertainment and found it to be a great performer.
The downside is that there's no fast charging. Unlike the move embraced by many smartphones, you're looking at a lengthy 6 hours of charging to get this Amazon full again. That can be frustrating if you're giving it to children: they probably don't have the patience to wait so long.
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There is some respite from this, however, with the availability of the Show Mode Charging Dock. This is an optional accessory that gives you a charging stand for the Fire tablet, along with a case that enables wireless charging. That then means you can dock the tablet on the stand and it will charge - as well as offering a whole range of new features we'll talk about below.
Show Mode, Alexa and content
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Show Mode
The Fire HD 8 is Amazon's tablet, so it's no surprise to find it's completely integrated with the Amazon ecosystem. That means Amazon Music, Amazon Video and Kindle Books are first and foremost, with other apps and services coming from Amazon's Appstore.
The tablet itself runs on Amazon's forked version of Google's Android operating system. If you're an Android user then you'll find the experience easy enough to master, with the same basic navigation. However, Amazon uses the home pages to offer up its content in tabs, so you can swipe over to video, books, music and so on, including shopping.
You'll need to sign in with your Amazon account and that'll give access to any Amazon content you might have bought over the years, as well as subscription content for Prime members. If you're all signed up then Amazon Video means access to series like Bosch and The Grand Tour, plus movies like John Wick.
On the books side of things, it seamlessly syncs with your Kindle, so if you're reading the latest blockbuster on your Paperwhite, you can pick it up on your tablet once you're bored of whatever else you're doing.
On the apps front you don't get the full Google Play service, instead you're offered Amazon Appstore. This is packed full of many of the latest games apps and services - Spotify, Netflix, BBC iPlayer, Instagram, Facebook and many more - although it doesn't mirror Android app for app. Occasionally you'll find something that's not available or not quite the latest version, which is an acceptable downside to this system. There's also Amazon's browser for surfing the internet.
Adding to the skills of this tablet is Alexa. This is the same Alexa voice control and answer assistant that you'll find in the Amazon Echo, with seamless integration to anything you might have setup with Alexa previously. You can access Alexa hands-free on this tablet, meaning it's another entry point into home control if that's what you want - and that goes hand-in-hand with Show Mode, which is enabled using the Show Mode Charging Dock.
Together, they basically turn your Fire HD 8 into an Echo Show, giving a lease of life to your tablet when it's not otherwise being used. You can dock it in a playroom to stream video, in your kitchen to use timers or access recipes, or anywhere in the house really. The Fire HD 8 isn't equipped with the same speakers or microphone skills that the Echo gets so it's uses and performance are a little more limited - but it does give you Alexa with a screen, which is a nice little bonus.
Amazon Fire HD 8 review: A word on parental controls
Fire for Kids Unlimited
Great parental controls
We'd not normally write a section specifically about parental controls, but the Fire tablets from Amazon are a first-class choice for children. Not only because of the sturdy build and resistant plastic finish, but because the software offers a considered range of options to give you really good parental controls.
There's a Fire for Kids option that lets you setup a profile for your child. This can be tailored to a child's age, with different options letting them do different things. Using Fire for Kids means your child has their personalised tablet experience with their own apps, games and content all synced - so you can have more than one child on a Fire tablet, or multiple Fire tablets.
This does sensible things like locking them out of the tablet's settings and controls, and won't allow access to the internet through the browser or the ability to purchase from the store. It also restricts apps and content so that it's age appropriate, while allowing the parent to set time limits and reading targets with rewards (read for 30 minutes before you can watch videos, for example).
There's also a parent dashboard you can access through your own Amazon account that will let you see how your child is using their tablet - is it all playing Minecraft? Probably, yes.
Tablets for kids: How to setup an Amazon Fire tablet for children
There is also a subscription side to Fire for Kids - called Fire for Kids Unlimited - and this allows access to a range of age-appropriate content via subscription, just like with Amazon Prime. This means they can download games or watch videos that are suitable for them. It's all ring-fenced, vetted and safe, so parents don't have to constantly micro manage every aspect of Fire tablet use. It's well worth looking at, as it's only £3.99 a month, or £1.99 a month if you're a Prime subscriber.
We'll also mention the camera - it's there, but it's pretty basic. Kids will probably use it all the time for fun, but in reality, it's not something you'll want to depend on. We can't deduct marks for that, because we never use tablet cameras.
The Fire HD 8 sits in a sweet spot between Amazon's incredibly good value Fire 7 and the larger Fire HD 10. While the performance and features of the Fire HD 8 betters those of the Fire 7, it also manages to outlast the Fire HD 10, making it a slightly more enticing proposition for those who want to travel with it. We also think the size is better than the 10, as this model will slip sweetly into a bag, while still giving plenty of space to play when you pull it out.
It's not the best performing tablet on the market and the display doesn't have the quality that you'll get from any of Apple's iPads. It's not as ambitious in trying to do everything for you either. Instead, the Fire HD 8 positions itself well for entertainment, especially for those who are Prime members, where the value for money cannot be disputed.
Whether you're a globetrotter, looking for a travel tablet, or just something to entertain your kids, the Fire HD 8 is well worth considering. At this price point there's very little else that comes close.
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Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry
LODT-EN039
ATK/2900 DEF/2000
[Winged Beast/Effect]
Both players Tribute Summon WIND monsters with 1 less Tribute than required. If you Tribute Summon this card by Tributing only WIND monsters, return up to 2 cards your opponent controls to their owner's hand. This card is treated as a Normal Monster while in your hand.
1 being the worst.
3 is average.
5 is the highest rating.
Date Reviewed - 06.10.08
Dark Paladin
Well, we're back after a nice little break, and continuing to review Light of Destruction cards. We open this week with Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry, a Level 8 monster, of the Wind attribute, with an impressive 2900 atk, and a not so great 2000 def.
Now, our Bird has a few effects. First, when on the Field, both players can summon Wind monsters with one less tribute than is required. I can think of one incredibly popular Wind monster that requies a tribute but you want to tribute for that card, or else you don't get its effect.
Secondly, if you tribute only Wind monsters to summon this card, you can return two cards from your opponent's Field to their Hand. So, it returns one more card than Raiza, but they both only return to the Hand.
Furthermore, the Bird is treated as a Normal Monster while it is held in your Hand, for whatever reason. In short, an all Wind Deck isn't competitive right now, although this isn't a bad card, just Raiza, at the very least, does the job better.
Traditional: 1.5/5
Art: 4/5 Sort of looks like the leader of an Indian-Bird tribe, or
General Zorpa Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry
I was so excited when I first saw this guy. But that was a case of mistaken identity. Dark Simorgh is the card we have all been waiting for, but this flashy avian has a few tricks up his sleeve. He is an 8 star 2900 ATK behemoth that gets over everything except for Judgment Dragon. Also WIND monsters get one less tribute if you want to play them EXCEPT for Simorgh, as he is not on the field yet to apply his effect. If you do tribute him by tributing ONLY WIND monsters you return up to 2 cards on your opponent's field to the hand. And also it counts as a Normal Monster in your hand.
Now there are a whole mess of cards that can help with Simorgh. Whirlwind Prodigy to get him to the field easy, Trade-In to discardxtra copies for a draw, Ancient Rules to get him to your hand, Birthright to revive him and many more. WIND attributes needed a good beater to help with the issue of ATK strength that many WIND monsters suffer from. Basically he gets your big beaters to the field quicker, but since Simorgh is the only decent big WIND monster, it is not quite worth it yet to go for a normal WIND deck.
Traditional-1/5
Advanced-2.5/5
Narchais
2900 attack: Beats DAD and Dark Magician of Chaos, but loses to Heraklinos. For a two tribute monster, its along the right lines.
2000 defense: You won't lose it to anything that didn't require some work to get to the field, so thats a relief. Still, I wouldn't put it in defense mode deliberately.
Two tributes: While there's nothing preventing you from special summoning it, that its effect only occurs when tribute summoned with particular monsters does hurt its usefulness a bit. Granted, a dedicated deck doesn't mind it, but it means you won't be borrowing trib bait from your opponent.
Effect: The first effect is not the most amazing thing I've seen. Of the few one tribute wind monsters we have, most of them prefer you to tribute summon them (Raiza, Swift Birdman Joe). Of the monsters that don't require it, only Spell Canceller and Armed Dragon LV5 really stand out as enjoying any benefit. Maybe Cyber-Tech Alligator if you've got some sort of normal monster deck going on (see its third effect), but otherwise... meh.
Its second effect is the real shiner. A single Wind Effigy can easy the summoning cost (again, see its third effect), making it a big brother to Raiza. Beyond that, though, the effect can at least break even. Thats what makes the Monarchs so loved, but then again... they aren't picky about their tributes.
Its third effect makes it a normal monster in the hand. Ancient Rules can drop it for free (without its effect), and Common Charity turns it into two possibly more useful cards. Oh, and Wind Effigy. Not a useless effect, but you have to want to work for it.
Wind/Winged Beast: A combination that works well with each other. Between Spirit Art: Miyabi and Icarus Attack, any attempt against this card'll make the effort almost painful. On top of Simorgh's own effect, its a rather impressive level of destruction.
Now then, this poor guy got hosed in its rarity. Why did the Deepsea King get an ultra rare status and this guy only got a rare? Robbed, I tell you, robbed.
A two tribute monster with the power to pay for itself is rare, but this guy is capable of it. A two-for-two that leaves you with a 2900 attack monster is pretty nice, and its combo work with other common Wind cards means that it can fit into current Wind decks that already see some play in the local tournaments. Harpies appreciate having someone with some real swing, and I can't help but find enjoyment in the notion of Ancient Ruling out Simorgh, and follow it with a free Cyber-Tech Alligator. Granted, not everyone is going to try out the Normal/Wind deck, but I like options.
Give it a shot. Seriously. Its better than it looks.
Traditional 2/5 (as much as I may like it, its still a two tribute monster...)
Advanced: 3/5 (the sheer level of destruction capable between this card and the cards it combos with is undeniable; dis not the bird)
Tuesday - Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry
After a long, long time of not reviewing cards with the crew, I'm finally back this week to review more cards for you guys with the rest of the COTD crew! Today we're reviewing a LODT regular rare monster that hasn't gained much populairity in top tier decklists. Let's follow the usual format of my COTD review, shall we?
Effect Explanation
Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry allows all WIND-attribute monsters that require a monster to be sacrificed to bring them onto the field as a Tribute Summon to be able to be Tribute Summoned with 1 less tribute while it's face-up on the field. For example, if the WIND monster was a six star monster, the monster could be Normal Summoned without a tribute. This means that the monster is never treated as if it was Tribute Summoned, and no monsters were sacrificed. If the WIND monster was a seven star monster, the monster could be Tribute Summoned with only 1 tribute. Also, if Simorgh was Tribute Summoned only using WIND-attribute monsters as tributes, then you can return up to 2 cards that the opponent has on his/her field to his/her hand. Lastly, Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry is treated as a Normal Monster card while in your hand.
If you control more than one Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry, the number of tributes required to summon WIND monsters are still only reduced by 1. During your draw phase, you may reveal Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry to the opponent to activate "Heart of the Underdog"'s effect. You can tribute 1 Simorgh to Tribute Summon a level 7 or higher WIND monster. Simorgh's second effect targets.
Stat Analysis
This monster is a WIND-attribute card, which isn't too great in the current format, especially with such little support cards available. Simorgh is an 8 star monster, meaning it can only be Tribute Summoned by sacrificing 2 monsters. It's a Winged-Beast, which is a type that doesn't have much support at all, either. The monster has 2900 ATK points, and 2000 ATK points, which is just higher than many of the top 8 start monsters we see today (DMoC and DAD).
When is Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry good and when is it bad?
Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry is only good when it's Tribute Summoned and it's bonus effect was activated. Even then, Simorgh is vulnerable to Spell and Trap cards. In my opinion, Simorgh isn't good in any situation, not even in a WIND deck, because it's too easy to destroy and its effect is too difficult to pull off. This card isn't handy in any situation and it won't be seeing competitive play until some crazy WIND support is released, and even then, it's not a definite inclusion.
Art: 1/5 - a little too plain for me
Djuricin
At this point in Yu-Gi-Oh’s metagame this card is far to slow and has no potential yet. However it may be a force to be reckoned with in the future, as well being a normal monster in the hand may have a huge advantage in the future.
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Keeping people engaged on your eCommerce site isn’t just important – it’s crucial. If visitors aren’t putting items in their shopping carts and making it to checkout, then you’re not going to stay in business very long. Conversion is the name of the game – and it all begins with the search experience.
How many times have you visited a retailer’s website, searched for something, scanned the results, and then said, “Huh? That’s not what I wanted.” Are you going to stick around on that site? Nope – if you’re like most people, you get frustrated and leave, which means the retailer loses the conversion, or the sale. Nobody’s happy.
Changing the game for end-users
Changing that scenario is exactly what’s behind a recent integration that Slatwall completed with Algolia, whose API makes searches faster and more meaningful. As Ashleigh Smith, Senior Customer Success Manager at Algolia, explains, better searches make for better business. “When you keep people engaged on your site and display search results that are meaningful and relevant to them, they’re not going to bounce off your site and end up on Google or Amazon,” she says. “They’re going to stay with you because they’re getting what they’re looking for.”
Think of Algolia as a searching superhero: Once the API is up and running on the Slatwall eCommerce platform, a powerful array of analytics, filterability, and sortability is at people’s fingertips. According to Izabela Baldyga, ten24’s client solutions manager, this functionality is particularly appealing to retailers who have hundreds or thousands of products on their websites. “By augmenting search capabilities, these retailers make it easier and more satisfying for visitors and customers to engage,” she notes. “Algolia allows you to drill down into search results.”
It’s an especially useful tool in scenarios where there’s a broad array of metadata, like a manufacturer with 1000's of SKUs. Imagine all the different ways visitors might want to search and filter the results. Depending on the retailers’ industries, people might be conducting searches according to size, color, texture, material, vintage, construction, or any number of parameters. The important thing is that when the search is powered by Algolia, the results are valuable and actionable.
The API’s analytics and conversion tracking features mean that retailers can leverage visitors’ activity and patterns to answer important questions and make decisions that encourage conversion and drive business. For instance, as Smith explains, “Merchandisers and marketers can see what the top searches are over the last 30 days – all the way up to 365 days depending on your plan. Based on what visitors are searching for most frequently, retailers can then tweak search results so that visitors start seeing other products that are relevant to those top searches.” In other words, visitors’ prior search habits are harnessed to provide ever more personal search results. Smith refers to the process as “configuring relevancy.”
Great for developers, too
So far, we’ve addressed what the Slatwall/Algolia integration does for retailers and the end-users who visit their sites. But it’s also equally impactful for the developers who implement the API. “Because the API configures so easily, it takes the pressure off developers to build searches from scratch,” says Jack Hoge, Senior Solutions Engineer at Algolia. “It’s very easy for developers to use and implement.” Without Algolia, he explains, it takes much longer to build a search. That’s because there are lots of moving pieces that developers need to get just right in order to ensure a good search experience.
Take typo tolerance and synonym handling, for instance. Both of these are easy to ensure with Algolia because they’re built right into the API. Accomplishing these feats without Algolia, on the other hand, is a significant undertaking that requires an awful lot of extra work.
“Algolia’s user-friendliness is definitely a big plus for developers,” agrees Gus Erickson, full-stack developer at ten24. “Because it’s so highly configurable, once it’s initially set up in the code, you can go in and customize it to your heart’s content.”
Let’s say there’s a keyword that people enter pretty frequently on your website – but entering that keyword also yields some search results that you know aren’t relevant to users. Developers can easily configure Algolia to suppress non-desirable search results, manipulate the order of search results, and influence search rankings. In fact, Algolia is purpose-built to be user-friendly and intuitive so that non-developers are able to make adjustments.
Transparent and powerful
So, how do you know if you’re visiting websites that feature the Slatwall/Algolia integration? You don’t – and that’s intentional. The whole experience should be seamless for the front-end users who are visiting the websites. You won’t know that Slatwall is enabling a site’s eCommerce or that Algolia is powering the search. What you will notice is a search experience that’s fully-featured, extremely responsive, and lightning-fast. “It’s all very ‘under the hood’ and that’s by design,” says Baldyga.
Is a Slatwall/Algolia integration right for your eCommerce site? Contact us and learn more!
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PA--2nd Catholic cleric commits suicide; Victims respond
For immediate release: Wednesday, July 1
Statement by Judy Jones of St. Louis, Midwest Associate Midwest Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (636 433 2511, SNAPjudy@gmail.com)
For the second time in less than three years, a Catholic cleric has committed suicide in a central Pennsylvania church facility run by the Third Order Regular Franciscans. We urge anyone who saw, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes or other misdeeds in the Altoona area to speak up, call police, protect others and start healing.
http://www.wjactv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/friar-commits-suicide-at-blair-county-province-6591.shtml
http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/8632412-74/diocese-attorney-abuse#axzz3eexR0yKk
The Altoona Mirror and WJAC TV report that Rev. David Kaczmarek died at the Immaculate Conception friary.
http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/8632412-74/diocese-attorney-abuse#axzz3e6io4LSN
In Jan. 2013, Brother Stephen Baker, accused of molesting dozens of boys, also took his own life at a similar facility, run by the same religious order, about three miles away.
Last week, the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office began searching this Catholic institution. We applaud that move. Current and former monastery staff and students – and local diocesan and parish staff – who have information or suspicions of wrongdoing by clerics should pick up the phone and call secular officials, not church officials.
I agree with SNAP Director David Clohessy who said “Altoona-Johnstown Bishop Mark Leonard Bartchak has a dreadful record on safeguarding kids, ousting predators and helping victims. We hope law enforcement officials at the local and state levels will more aggressively investigate crimes and cover ups in his diocese.”
http://www.snapnetwork.org/pa_victims_blast_altoona-johnstown_bishop_re_suspended_priest
Clohessy also said “Catholic officials quickly distance themselves from institutions like the St. Bernadine Monastery and Bishop McCort Catholic High School. But that’s disingenuous. Priests, nuns, brothers and other clerics at these institutions operate with the permission of the local bishop. So Bishop Bartchak should stop splitting hairs and start reaching out. He should care less about helping his reputation and more about helping his flock. Every Altoona-Johnstown church staffer and member should focus now on protecting the vulnerable and exposing the guilty instead of on preserving their comfort and ignoring these crimes.”
Remember: Silence helps only the wrongdoers. Please, if you know or suspect anything, now’s the time to call the independent, unbiased professionals in law enforcement.
NOTE – We have 12 statements on our website about Bishop Bartchak and how he deals with abuse and cover up cases. And a list of 27 accused Altoona area child molesting clerics is at BishopAccountability.org
Contact - David Clohessy (314-566-9790 cell, SNAPclohessy@aol.com), Barbara Dorris (314-503-0003 cell, bdorris@SNAPnetwork.org), Barbara Blaine (312-399-4747, bblaine@snapnetwork.org)
Friar commits suicide at Blair County province
Updated: Wednesday, July 1 2015, 11:22 AM EDT By: WJAC Web Staff
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. -- WJAC-TV is working to learn more on the details surrounding the death of another friar at the Immaculate Conception Province in Blair County. The state Attorney General’s Office is investigating the death, which authorities said was a suicide. The Blair County Coroner told the Altoona Mirror that Rev. David Kaczmarek died at the province’s friary Saturday evening. Kaczmarek was at the center of an investigation last week, but little details are being released on what the investigation was about.
A second member of the order, Brother Stephen Baker, also committed suicide . . .
Priest sex abuse allegations lead to Pa. AG agents' monastery search
By Andrew Conte and Brad Bumsted - Thursday, June 25, 2015, 3:24 p.m.
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The only way to stop Catholic clerics who abuse children is to prosecute the people who oversee them and let it continue, said an Altoona lawyer who has successfully represented dozens of victims across Pennsylvania.
Attorney Richard Serbin said he thinks agents with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office were pursuing a broader investigation Thursday near this Blair County borough when they raided St. Bernardine Monastery, where a Franciscan friar accused of molesting children killed himself two years ago.
“If they knowingly allow children to be abused or place them in situations where they were likely to be abused, they should be . . . .
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Main page » About us
How our company came into being
On 1 July 1990, in the days of the monetary union, our firm was established as a soletradership really consisting of only one person. Our company headquarters were still situated in Breitenbrunn/Erzgebirge in these days.
We started dealing in motor machines in a scantily equiped barn although we only had a quite small range of products. Soon, we added more and more articles to our range by adapting the assortment to our customers` wishes. In 1993, progress also came to Breitenbrunn. However, the improvement of the infrastructure lead to a number of problems, too. The main street`s total redevelopment made it almost impossible to be successful in doing business – we have almost been separated from the rest of the world.
So, we started looking for a new place and found it in Schwarzenberg near the sports ground across the street at the B 101. There, we established a "sales tent" of 100 m². For more than 2 years we have sold our products there, from April to October. During the winter months we still had to realize our sales as well as all services offered to our clients by us in our Breitenbrunn's outlet.
For the same moment, we were planning new company headquarters in Schwarzenberg (Neuwelt): On 15 May 1995 we finally made it – the opening of our new business building, which has a size of 200 m², could be celebrated.
As all these capacities were not sufficient enough to present all parts of our assortment, in 1998, we built up a “hall for tractors” of a size of 300 m² to reach a more convenient atmosphere for our customers.
In the year 2002/2003 we cultivated warehouses with an area of 500 m². In autumn 2005 we built up the basement for the expansion of the salesroom and the office. It will be ready at the end of 2006 or in the beginning of 2007. 10 employees are working in our company at the moment.
We import goods from Scandinavia, Canada, Dubai, Japan, China, Italy and Czech Republic. We are looking in a positive future. With an annual turnover of 3,5 millions in the year 2006, we belong to the biggest motor-appliances dealer of east germany.
The top floor (second warehouse) is completed.
The office is extended in this year.
We could end the year of crisis 2009 with a considerable sales increase.
The firm has a staff of 10 permanently employed an 6 casual workers at this time.
Our examples – Horch and Wanderer
Guiding principles for flexible business activity:
1. The market is our exclusive jurisdiction – it rules alone.
2. Be afraid, when die others are greedy, and be greedy, when the others are afraid. (Warren E. Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.)
3. It is very liberating, to give up the idea to can forecast the future. We have no choice but to acquire the ability to react to the sole certainty in the life, namely that it is uncertain. Any strategy comes to the acquisition of this ability. (Lord John Browne, BP, Group Chief Executive)
4. Who not moves with the times, goes in course of time.
5. The time...
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Visit to India
It is possible to be successful as regards business in India, but it is necessary to bother about it.
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The wild east – border crossing to the Ukraine. What happens now?
6000 kilometers away in search of new business partners.
The life purely.
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The company has 15 permanent employees and 5 part-time employees.
The year 2013 is 6 million in sales.
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Southwark NewsNewsGuy's Hospital, Jeremy Hunt, St Thomas’ Hospital, Dimbleby Cancer Care, Jonathan Dimbleby, Richard DimblebyHealth Secretary joins Dimbleby Cancer Care walk from St Thomas’ to Guy’s Hospital
Health Secretary joins Dimbleby Cancer Care walk from St Thomas’ to Guy’s Hospital
Admin (18 June, 2018) Health
The annual 50km walk raises money for the cancer charity set up in broadcaster Richard Dimbleby's name
Walkers at the start of the Dimbleby Cancer Care Walk
Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt were among more than 100 people to walk from St Thomas’ Hospital to Guy’s Hospital on foot to raise money for a cancer charity.
This is the fourth year the broadcaster has led the 50km walk, which raises money for Dimbleby Cancer Care – the charity set up in his father Richard Dimbleby’s name.
The fundraiser was also an opportunity for the charity to raise awareness of its recently-launched website www.cancercaremap.org which is a free, online directory of cancer support services which helps people across the UK locate care and support services near to them.
Names from the world of politics including Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth, and Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb were at the event on Friday, June 15.
For the first time this year there was also a 25km mid-distance and 12km family distance in addition to the 50km route.
(L-R) Jonathan Ashworth, Jonathan Dimbleby, Jeremy Hunt and Norman Lamb at the Dimbleby Cancer Care Walk
Mr Hunt, who took part in the 25km distance, said: “I lost my father to cancer in 2013, a year into my tenure as Health Secretary.
“Since then, I’ve been struck time and again by the fact that patients and families affected by cancer need much more than just medical care and treatment: they need practical and emotional care and support along the way, and Dimbleby Cancer Care is doing amazing work offering just that to people across the country.
“Their new Cancer Care map is a great example of this: a directory of services in each local area for families facing cancer, from NHS services to mental health support to practical assistance.”
Chair of Dimbleby Cancer Care Jonathan Dimbleby added: “Thank you to everyone for your support; we could not do it without you.”
Starting at St Thomas’ Hospital, the walkers headed west to Putney, on to Hammersmith Bridge before heading out to Canary wharf and down to Greenwich via the Greenwich foot tunnel, and finally heading back to the charity’s home at Guy’s Cancer Centre.
The event has raised £245,000 for Dimbleby Cancer Care since it began in 2015.
The charity was set up in 1966 in memory of broadcaster Richard Dimbleby and is based at Guy’s Cancer Centre in Southwark.
It provides practical and psychological support to people living with cancer and to their families and carers.
Additionally, the charity has funded over £2.7million in research grants since 2004 looking at all aspects of cancer care and support.
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Maddock Way surgery: Closure ‘would save £21,000 a year’
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Revolutionary wireless insulin pump is now available at King’s College Hospital
Shortage of male blood donors in Southwark causes concern
Strictly Come Dancing: Older patients at Guy's and St Thomas's start dancing to help fitness
War memorial at Guy's Hospital given Grade II listed status ahead of Remembrance Sunday
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New dialysis unit opens at St Thomas' Hospital
Neighbours kick up a stink over rowdy neighbour!
Night-time fundraising walk challenge to fundraise for cancer care charity
Ex-Bucks Fizz singer Jay Aston thanks staff at Guy's hospital after successful cancer operation
Dad embarks on 171-mile walk to raise money for St Thomas’ Hospital
Firefighters called to blaze outside Guy's Hospital
‘Decontamination tent’ set up at A&E after people sprayed with extinguisher by motorbikers
Crime Health Emergency services
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Nurses and doctors who treated London Bridge terror attack wounded tell their stories
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Holly Willoughby visits St Thomas’ hospital’s maternity ward
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Guy’s Hospital's new cancer centre to open doors on Monday
A&E HIV tests find 78 new cases in year as St Thomas’ automatically tests for virus
Orthopaedic surgery could be carried out in Kent as sites reduced from seven to two
St Thomas Hospital staff help heart patient get married in chapel
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Top of the docs: Junior Doctor takes aim at Health Sec Jeremy Hunt with protest tune and music video
‘Mini-zebra crossing’ plan for pavement cycle lanes after St Thomas' Hospital protest
Statue of UK's first named black woman unveiled today to honour Crimean war nurse Mary Seacole
Woman to do 50km charity walk weeks before starting brain tumour treatment
Mum takes on 5km-a-day challenge to raise money for cancer charity at Guys' and St Thomas'
Work on Guy's Hospital Cancer Centre officially finished
Evelina London Children’s Hospital rated ‘outstanding’ in first ever inspection
New book will explore life of Guy’s Hospital psychotherapist Margaret Branch who was former WW2 secret agent
Nearly 900 operations and appointments rescheduled at Guy’s and St Thomas’ due to strikes
Southwark hospitals braced for strike action over NHS reforms
Guy’s worker is in a Russia to finish charity cycle
Abseiling stunt 'just the start' of Southwark Mayor's fundraising year
First 'Cancer Survivors' Day' held in Guy's Hospital
Kidney-transplant patient donates artwork to Guy's Hospital
Guy's and St Thomas's Trust investigating Jimmy Savile 'visit'
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Some clear thinking about the price of gold.
Sovereign Valley, Chile
On April 2, 2001, the price of gold closed the market trading session at $255.30.
And that was the lowest price that gold has seen ever since.
In US dollar terms, gold closed the 2001 calendar year higher than it did in 2000. Then it did the same thing again in 2002. And again in 2003.
In fact, after reaching its low in April 2001, gold closed higher for twelve consecutive years– something that had never happened before in ANY financial market with ANY asset.
Then came a correction; the price started falling, and gold is now on track for 2015 to be its third down year in a row.
What’s incredible is that, despite its history of gains, and 5,000 years of tradition behind it, gold is rapidly becoming one of the most widely despised assets.
But before we pronounce it dead and write the final gold eulogy, however, let’s consider the following:
1) Nothing goes up (or down) in a straight line. After 12 straight years of unprecedented gains with any asset class, it’s not unusual to have a meaningful correction.
(Just imagine how severe the correction in stocks will be. . .)
And like all frantic booms which go way past sustainable levels, corrections also overshoot fair value.
This correction in the gold market could easily last for several more years, with prices potentially well below $1,000.
But then we could just as easily see another massive surge all the way past $2,000 and beyond.
That’s the nature of these markets– to be extremely fickle (and highly manipulated).
Even over a period of a few years, the market can show about as much maturity as a middle school lunchroom, complete with pubescent gossip and inane popularity contests.
But it’s rather short-sighted to completely lose confidence in an asset that has a 5,000 year track record because of a few down years.
2) The gold price shed nearly 5% after the government of China announced recently that they owned 1,658 metric tons of gold.
This amount was lower than what many investors and analysts had been expecting, and the price of gold dropped as a result.
My question- since when did anyone start believing official reports from the Chinese government?
Seriously. The Chinese have a vested interest in understating their gold holdings.
They know that doing so will push the price of gold LOWER, which is exactly what they want.
China is sitting on trillions of dollars in reserves right now, a portion of which they’re rapidly trying to rotate OUT of US dollars.
So it’s clearly beneficial to the Chinese government if they can sell dollars while they’re strong and buy gold while it’s cheap.
And if they can push gold to become cheaper, even better for them.
3) Remember why you own gold to begin with.
Gold is a very long-term store of value. Notwithstanding a few down years, gold has maintained its purchasing power for thousands of years.
Paper currencies come and go. They get devalued, revalued, and extinguished altogether.
How much would you be able to buy today with paper money issued by the 7th century Tang Dynasty? Nothing. It no longer exists.
Or a pound sterling from 1817? Very little. It’s barely pocket change today.
Yet the gold backing up that same pound sterling from 1817 is worth over $250 today (165 pounds).
Even in modern history, the gold backing up a single US dollar from 1971 is worth vastly more than the paper currency that was printed 44 years ago.
But even more importantly, aside from being a long-term store of value, gold is a hedge— a form of money that acts as an insurance policy against a dangerously overleveraged financial system.
How much will your dollars and euros buy you in the event of real financial calamity? Or if there’s a major government default or central bank failure?
No matter what happens in the financial system– whether it collapses under its own weight, or cryptofinance technology revolutionizes how we do business– gold ensures that you’re protected.
4) Resist the urge to value gold in paper currency. We all have this tendency– we invest in something, and then hope it goes up in value.
But that’s a mistake with gold. It’s a hard thing for some people to do, but try to stop yourself from thinking about gold in terms of its paper price.
(It’s also important to remember that there’s a huge disconnect between the ‘paper price’ of gold, and the physical price of gold.)
Remember, gold is not an investment; there are plenty of better options out there if you’re looking for a great speculation.
So the notion of trading a stack of paper currency for gold, only to trade the gold back for a taller stack of paper currency misses the point entirely.
5) Having said that, if you find it too difficult to do this, and you catch yourself constantly refreshing the gold price and checking your portfolio, you might own too much.
Listen to your instincts; if you’re always feeling frantic about the daily gyrations in the market, lighten your load.
Don’t love anything that won’t love you back. Stay rational. Own enough gold that, in the event of a crisis, you will feel comfortable that you have enough ‘real savings’… but don’t own so much that you’re constantly worrying about the paper price.
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Night Sky Comes Alive in Breathtaking Time-Lapse Video 'Ancients'
A stunning view from the Atacama region of Chile, taken from a time-lapse video created by Nicholas Buer.
(Image: © Nicholas Buer)
The pristine night sky — chock full of gleaming stars and awe-inspiring views of our Milky Way galaxy — comes to life in a magnificent time-lapse video shot from northern Chile.
The amazing time-lapse video of the cosmos above Chile traces the cycle of sunset to night to sunrise, with incredible shots of the starry night sky. The video was painstakingly created by filmmaker Nicholas Buer, who entitled it "Ancients."
"Time-lapse astrophotography is actually a fairly simple process," Buer told SPACE.com in an email. "With a little prior knowledge of the night sky and how the constellations move throughout the year, anyone can take successful time-lapse of our home galaxy."
A stunning view from the Atacama region of Chile, taken from a time-lapse video created by Nicholas Buer. (Image credit: Nicholas Buer)
The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the best places in the world for astronomical observations. The region's high altitude and extreme dryness, which ensure less moisture in the air to refract incoming light from the cosmos, provide excellent conditions for amateur and professional astronomers. The region is home to several telescopes and facilities operated by the European Southern Observatory because of its amazingly clear night sky.
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Buer captured the footage over 12 days, from San Pedro de Atacama, a small oasis town in northern Chile."Each second in this video is the result of 15 minutes of real time, but staring at stars for hours on end is a nice way to pass the time, if you ask me!" Buer said.
Editor's note: If you have an amazing night sky photo or video you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, please contact managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.
Follow Denise Chow on Twitter @denisechow. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on SPACE.com.
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In 1834, the United States produced the last of its Crown gold alloy coins, or coins with a gold content of .9167 (22 karat). Between 1837 and 1985, all US gold coins were minted using .900 gold. Each Proof Gold American Eagle coin is struck using .9167 gold, along with 3% silver and 5.33% copper to boost the coin’s wear-resistant features. By law, all coins produced in the series must use gold that is sourced from within the US.
The first year of production for Proof Gold American Eagle coins came in 1986. Although four weights are now produced, the 1 oz coin was the only weight in production during the first year of minting. The three fractional-weight coins were added in the next two years. First the ½ oz coin was introduced in 1987, and then the ¼ oz and 1/10 oz coins in 1988.
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EVO 2017 Preview: The 5 Storylines To Watch
The fighting game world's best are settling into Las Vegas for the weekend. Here's what to watch for from this year's Evo.
It's that time of year again for fighting game fans and casual viewers all around the world. The best players across the entire spectrum of fighting games are all converging in Las Vegas, NV for the annual Evolution Championship Series tournament. Nine games are being played across a three-day weekend and the only thing hotter than the Las Vegas weather will be the competition, first in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and then in the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
For the casual crowds, a lot has changed since last year's event. So here are the biggest storylines to watch for across the weekend's biggest games.
1. Tekken 7 blows up
It's hard to believe, but this is Tekken 7's third year at Evo. This year, however, will be its first since its home console release. With all the excitement that the arcade version has generated, Tekken 7 is boasting over 1,200 entrants for this year's tournament.
Few will be favored more than Echo Fox's Jin-Woo "Saint" Choi. On top of being the defending Evo champion, he's maintained his hot play throughout the year, which includes a win at December's Tekken Global Finals. His biggest competition is his Echo Fox teammate, Kim "JDCR" Hyun Jin, who has gone toe-to-toe with Saint on several occasions.
But also be on the lookout for Bae "Knee" Jae Min, a legendary Tekken player since the days of Tekken 4. Knee came within a single round of knocking Saint during last year's Evo Grand Finals and will look to finish the job this time around. His Bryan is one of the most dangerous in the game, but he can also whip out his pocket Akuma at any time, creating some potentially fun matchups.
2. Saturday Night for Smashing
After five years of taking the Sunday stage, Super Smash Bros. Melee will main event on Saturday night. The Melee scene started look like "Armada vs. The World," but Adam "Armada" Lindgren has started to show some slight chinks in his armor. He lost in Grand Finals at Royal Flush to Joseph "Mang0" Marquez and at Smash 'n' Splash 3 to defending Evo champion Juan "Hungrybox" DeBiedma and William "Leffen" Hjelte in the past couple of months.
Prior to that, though, Armada had been on the hot streak of a lifetime and was proving to be head and shoulders above the rest of the Melee field. In fact, before May, his biggest loss was at last year's Evo, where he narrowly lost in Grand Finals to Hungrybox. Armada comes into this year's tournament with a chip on his shoulder, as he'll look to avenge this loss and prove that he's the undisputed best in the Melee world.
Other names to watch out for include 19-year-old Justin "Wizzrobe" Hallett, who has taken the game's best players to the limit and is downright fearsome when he's playing at his best. There's also Leffen, who is rapidly catching up to the rest of the field and will look to cement himself as the world's best. There's Mang0, who has had his struggles at the start of 2017, but has noticeably picked up his level of play since Royal Flush. Finally, don't overlook Team Liquid's Daniel "ChuDat" Rodriguez. This Melee mainstay has been around for nearly 15 years, but is having a career year, which includes several wins over Mang0.
A handful of games will be completing their pools as Melee's Top 32 begins, but look for the crowds to congregate around Smash, as it's proven to be consistently entertaining year after year.
3. The end of a Marvel-ous era
The death of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has been predicted for years and each year, it continues to rise up like the Phoenix ("I can't control it!") and stay alive.
UMvC3 has consistently featured some of Evo's most feel-good moments and redemption stories. That includes Justin Wong bouncing back from a heartbreaking loss in 2013 to go full "Kill Bill" on the field a year later and win without a single set loss, Nicolas "KaneBlueRiver" Gonzalez passionately proclaiming UMvC3 to be the world's game after winning in 2015, or Christopher "ChrisG" Gonzalez finally reaching his full potential and holding the Evo trophy over his head just last year.
There appear to be no epic journeys or redemption tales left for UMvC3 to tell. No single player left to watch or specific drought or dominance to watch. All that's left is for one final champion to prevail. With Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite set to release in two short months, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will go out like a champion. But who will be the final face the Evo crowd sees before this cast of characters ride off into Infinite?
4. Smash 4 takes the big stage for the first time
It was an insane set of circumstances for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in 2016. The game had over a thousand registered entrants, neck-and-neck with Super Smash Bros. Melee for the second most behind Street Fighter V. Yet Smash 4 was given only 20 hours to complete its tournament. It led to some organizational chaos and while the Smash 4 tournament organizers did a tremendous job in keeping the ship afloat, the whole deal left a sour taste in the mouth of both players and fans. So this year, Evo is making up for that in spades by giving Smash 4 the coveted Sunday night semi-main event slot.
Smash 4 has one of the most passionate fanbases in all of esports, evidenced by the grassroots tournaments that have exploded with thousands of viewers, spectators, and competitors. But Evo will be the first time the game is exposed to a massive Mandalay Bay Events Arena audience, arguably the first time it has gone truly mainstream.
A lot of pressure will be on the game's best to turn in their best performance and the top 8 may not be as obvious as people think. Smash 4 is prone to major upsets, especially as the field grows larger. 2GGC Civil War, the biggest Smash 4 tournament to date, is a prime example of this, where many of the game's top players got bopped early.
Grace under pressure will be the name of the game this year, more than any other, for Smash 4 at Evo. Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios is the clear-cut best player in the world and he'll undoubtedly be favored to win it all again. However, Samuel "Dabuz" Buzby is carrying a lot of momentum from his Civil War win and last week's victory at 2GGC: ARMS Saga, where he defeated ZeRo for his first place win. Elliot "Ally" Carroza is also entering as the defending Evo champion and he'll be looking to make a statement after dipping from #2 to #5 on the Panda Global Rankings.
Five years of Melee has proven consistently exciting, but now let's see if Smash 4 can carry that same level of hype to its first Sunday night.
5. Can the U.S. maintain its momentum from Capcom Cup
In the world of Street Fighter, the United States was the land of the free for many years. That is to say, Japan often took everyone's lunch money and the U.S. was mostly shut out of the top 8. Things took a big turn at December's Capcom Cup when two Americans met in the Grand Finals, with Team Liquid's Du "NuckleDu" Dang taking home the championship over Evil Geniuses' Ricki Ortiz.
This has quickly proven to be no fluke, as not only have American players stayed on par with their Japanese counterparts, but new American faces started popping onto the scene. None of the faces have proven more dominant than Panda Global's Victor "Punk" Woodley, winner of ELEAGUE and current Capcom Cup points leader, who has taken sets over the game's best, including NuckleDu.
With that said, Japan's best will be ready to reassert its Street Fighter dominance. Echo Fox's Hanime "Tokido" Taniguchi, Keita "Fuudo" Ai, and Red Bull's Masato "Bonchan" Takahashi will all be on-hand looking to add to their Capcom Cup point totals.
Then there's the big wild card, Korea's own Seonwoo "Infiltration" Lee. The defending Evo champion has looked staggeringly mortal since December's Capcom Cup. He currently sits at 85th on the 2017 Capcom Cup standings and with him looking as vulnerable as he has, the time would appear to be right for somebody to make themselves famous at his expense. However, at the end of the day, he's still Infiltration and Evo has historically proven to be his event. The field, including the rising crop of American players, should underestimate him at their own peril.
So can America keep its Capcom Cup momentum alive? Given how much the American players have improved since the Season 2 patch and the introduction of new characters like Kolin and Ed, there's reason to believe so. If any players can take Evo for America, it's Punk and NuckleDu. But also keep an eye out for perennial threats like Justin Wong and Darryl "Snake Eyez" Lewis, along with other talent like Bryant "Smug" Huggin, Christopher "ChrisG" Gonzalez, and Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez, who have improved immensely since last year and all seem to be hitting their strides at the right time.
Looking for the brackets to these and Evo's other games? Be sure to visit Smash.gg before Friday's Evo action begins.
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TOnez
I hope Chris G can get UMVC3 again. I'm hoping SFV finals will be exciting.
frush
FGC is so entertaining, its like wrestling but good.
LoioshDwaggie
Man, great articles recently. Go you guys.
pyide
Serpico74
man i am excited!
bmacon
great recap. going to miss marvel as i think it had some of the best hype and storylines.
I'm so bad at fighting games but I love watching other people play. Cant wait for EVO!
Crabs Jarrard
I liked this. I don't really follow the tourneys during the year and now I have a loose idea of what to expect going into Vegas.
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7 Convincing Video Game Fan Theories
Skyrim is the future of Fallout? Donkey Kong has roots in American Imperialism? Here are some interesting fan theories to explain some of our favorite games.
Cassidee Moser
One of the more fun aspects of fiction is fan speculation. Not all questions can be answered, and this sometimes leads to surprisingly detailed and fascinating theories meant to explore the more unknown aspects of a story.
Video games are certainly not new to this, especially because of the way their visual nature can suggest even more than words. Since its early years, we’ve seen theories about video games arise from the depths of people’s curiosity, spiraling into a large number of ideas. Super Mario 3 is a stage play, Earthbound ends with an abortion analog, Squall is dead throughout Final Fantasy 8, and Majora’s Mask is meant to represent the 5 stages of grief are some of the most popular, but the list doesn’t stop there. Here are some theories from relatively recent games that suggest there’s more to the story than perhaps the main questline lets on. Be sure to share any theories you have in the Chatty!
Fallout and Skyrim Share a Universe
There’s one small easter egg in Fallout 4 that, if correct, could signify a massive connection between both Fallout and The Elder Scrolls.
Aboard the Brotherhood of Steel’s airship, you’ll find a hydroponics room containing a nondescript “experimental plant.” After reading the logs about the plant on a nearby computer, you’ll learn a handful of facts about it, including the fact it only grows by the water, makes an odd singing noise, is capable of healing, and has addictive properties. This also serves to describe Nirnroot, another plant from Skyrim with similar attributes.
The leading theory here is that even this small connection could prove to link the worlds of Fallout and Skyrim. But even more interesting is the theory’s most important detail: Fallout is, in fact, set in the past, while Skyrim is the future that has arisen from centuries of decay and radioactivity.
Limbo Never Ends
The indie darling Limbo is fostering secrets of its own. Once you’ve guided the boy through its noir grayscale world filled with all manner of horrors, you’ll reach the end, where you find the boy’s sister quietly playing in the grass.
But the end is in the same location as the beginning, with two distinct differences: in the beginning start screen of the game, we see the same scene, only this time the ladder in the right-hand side of the screen has rotted away significantly, and two clouds of flies have taken the places where the boy and the girl reside at the ending.
One theory posits the boy killed his sister and is meant to walk in this realm, re-living his horror on repeat for all eternity, while another instead suggests they both died simultaneously. Either way, this poor kid will be running away from a horrible spider for a long, long time.
Portal’s Chell is the Daughter of Cave and Carolyn
This theory references that the dialog of Portal 2 reveals a lot about a key handful of characters, including Aperture Science’s Cave Johnson and his assistant Carolyn, from whom GLaDOS inherited her personality.
The dialog shared between the two suggests their relationship developed into a romantic one, which may have envetually led to the birth of Chell, the silent protagonist in the Portal series. Poor Chell was eventually trapped in what remained of Aperture, now the toy in the hands of a malevolent AI obsessed with testing.
BioShock Infinite’s Booker DeWitt is Both Comstock and Andrew Ryan
BioShock Infinite’s ending is a somewhat confusing dump of info surrounding parallel universes, but one of the key things we learn there is that Booker DeWitt is also Comstock, the creator and ruler of Columbia. How? Within parallel universes, we can take many forms, whether we know it or not.
This theory is actually extremely credible. During BioShock Infinite, Elizabeth warps both herself and Booker to Rapture, the condemned underwater Utopia run by #1 Ayn Rand fan Andrew Ryan. In order to escape, Booker uses a Bathysphere, a mode of underwater transportation that can only be used by Andrew Ryan and anyone who shares a similar DNA code to his--like his son, Jack. If Booker was able to pull that off, it’s possible he also was preaching about the sweat of his own brow in another universe.
Mass Effect’s Shepard is a Reaper Pawn
Mass Effect 3 had a controversial ending. We know, we know. But this theory is so much larger than that.
The Indoctrination theory suggests everything Shepard does is completely out of their control, dictated by the very Reapers the galaxy worked together to banish.
One school of thought suggests this all began when Shepard was first exposed to the Prothean beacon on Eden Prime, which caused the Reaper’s influence to infect their mind. When finally faced with the final, fate-of-the-galaxy decision at the end of 3, you’re given three options, two of which are destroy the reapers or spare them. Oddly, the destroy option is colored red, while sparing them is marked in blue.
This seems like it should be a small, inconsequential thing, but red and blue have some significance in the Mass Effect universe. Paragon and Renegade morality options are labeled as such: blue for more valiant actions, red for rebellious, often violent. The fact that the reapers’ sparing is marked in blue, some argue, could suggest the Reapers have wormed their way into the mind of Shepard in an attempt to guarantee their success and survival.
Pokemon Takes Place in the Aftermath of a Great War
Ever noticed how there’s barely any middle-aged adults around in the Pokemon games? Especially men, who often show up as either very young or very old. And why is it there are so many single parents? Why are kids allowed to wander the world freely, without worry of school? And what, exactly, is Professor Oak studying?
There’s a theory here that explains everything. And although it’s barely mentioned in the game, it actually seems fairly possible.
This theory is built on the electric gym leader Lt. Surge’s comments about his Pokemon protecting him during the war. The thought is that a war between pokemon and humans (who also may just be more evolved pokemon themselves) took place in the not-so-distant past, explaining the high number of single parents and rarity of middle-aged adults, hospitals and training centers in every town, and why kids are able to roam freely and not attend school. Society is rebuilding in the aftermath of a great war, and Professor Oak is using children as tools to help him research which Pokemon survived the war.
Donkey Kong Country is a Commentary on American Imperialism
Bear with me on this one. Back toward the turn of the century, America engaged in what is known as The Banana Wars, named after America’s occupation, intervention, and attempts to control the formation and distribution of...bananas. It was one of the earliest examples of American imperialism, a land grab used for economic gain.
During this time, the United Fruit Company became one of the greatest offenders in the Banana Wars, leading to all manner of armed conflicts and spurring corruption in the name of bananas. No, I’m not joking.
Now, look at Donkey Kong Country, a game about a crocodile king stealing bananas from an unsuspecting family of apes. Why would a crocodile want bananas when they’re carnivores? Especially when King K. Rool eventually admits to hating the taste of them? Probably for his own economic gain, says this theory.
There’s further evidence to prove this is a game condemning America's actions in central America, including the gradual build to industrial levels in the game (industrial visuals are normally associated with American expansion), enemies wearing army fatigues, the King living on a pirate ship (there were gun boats often used during this time), and even the mine cart levels with broken railways (the American companies present during this time held a monopoly on transportation, including railways. When these railways were abandoned, they were always first destroyed so as not to be used again). Nintendo is never one to make a statement on politics, instead choosing a more one-size-fits-all stance of neutrality with their products. Still, the evidence that Donkey Kong Country is a playable political cartoon is pretty convincing.
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fire00f1y
I hadn't heard most of these. I think my favorites are Chell, Pokemon, and Donkey Kong even if the DK one sounds a bit farfetched.
DeBurgo
"humans (who also may just be more evolved pokemon themselves) " whaaat
that would be some evangelion type shit
also I like the idea of TES being future fallout but that leaves out where magic fits into the fallout setting (ie. it doesn't). unless you want to take some sort of Arthur C. Clarke "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" type cop-out.
one random winner
Could be future fallout universe develops gene altering nanotech that allows the manipulation of the forces of nature. Not so sure about DK, it seems to be looking for something that probably isn't there, at least not consciously.
I never liked the People are Pokemon theory, but I do believe there was a major war that turned human society in Pokemon to what it is in the games.
The Internet loves these "everything you know is wrong" theories for some reason.
DinK
Eh, many people like secrets and unexpected twists and turns.
The Mass Effect justification is silly. Blue was routinely used for merciful choices, and red for the opposite. No conspiracy theory needed.
And why a war against the pokemon? Why not just a war?
senor135
yea, i wondered about the pokemon one too. when the gym leader mentions his pokemon saved him during the war, i assumed it was humans and pokemon vs... other humans and pokemon? not just humans v pokemon, cause then his pokemon saving him would seem weird.
RaptorII
Well it was a little of both, right?
Pokemon obviously started as an invasive biological weapon, a successful one at that considering they've displaced almost all animal life to extinction and clearly even some plant life.
Either the discovery of how to willfully alter or a lucky random mutation that altered Pokemon into safer sub-species brought about the end of the war.
Suddenly the destroyers themselves could be used to fill into the gaping ecological holes to prevent a full collapse of the ecosystem.
This is exactly the shit I'm talking about when I say the Internet loves "everything you know is wrong" theories.
I don't actually know anything about Pokémon.
The Gorilla Bear
FF8 had a good one (spoilers if anybody still cares in 2016): http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Rinoa-Ultimecia_Theory
DasCracky
Typo at the beginning: Skyrim is the future of Fallout?
bolneze
Fun little theories
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St George's Day - Six Trips to Take in the Best of the English Countryside
As we approach St George’s Day on 23 April, it’s time to roll up your trousers and get out and about to explore England’s most beautiful corners.
For a small country, England offers a huge amount of variety when it comes to walking and cycling. Mountains, great lakes, dramatic coastlines and picture-perfect villages are all on offer as you choose your ideal way to explore the countryside.
Here are a just a few of our favourite holidays in England, now booking for 2019.
Coast to Coast Classic Walk
Described by Alfred Wainwright as “one of the world’s great walks”, the iconic Coast to Coast is widely considered nowadays as the most classic of all UK long distance trails. Nearly 200 miles and traversing three National Parks, this is the quintessential English hill-walking and long-distance trail experience. Typically taking two weeks to complete, the walk starts near the red sandstone cliffs of St. Bees Head in Cumbria, and finishes at the fishing village of Robin Hood’s Bay on the North York Moors coast.
We offer self-guided and guided Coast to Coast trips, with itineraries lasting 15, 16, 17 and 18 days, as well as shorter sections of the trail, and the Cyclist’s Coast to Coast.
Known for its beaches, pirates and Cornish pasties, Cornwall is very much a holiday county, enjoying the mildest climate in the UK. From Padstow to Land’s End through Lizard Point, the southernmost point on mainland Great Britain, this cycling journey takes you through a patchwork of landscapes, from inland heaths and downs to tumbling coastlines and sheltered coves. The daily rides are not that long, allowing plenty of time to see Cornwall the way you want to!
We also offer several self-guided walking holidays along the Cornish coast.
There is no dedicated way-marking throughout this route but that is part of its appeal. Covering 69 miles, The Richmond Way is a picturesque, yet unofficial, long distance trail along ancient trading routes that crossed the Pennines. From the medieval Lancaster Castle, passing through quaint villages, the trail traces the Lower Lune Valley before entering the Georgian town of Richmond, ending below the keep of Richmond Castle, one of the greatest Norman fortresses to be found in Britain.
Find out more about walking the Richmond Way
From Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Dorset has inspired generations of authors. Crossing unspoilt rural villages, this trip follows the coast as it stretches eastwards, along fossil-encrusted cliffs and the famed Golden Gap, a 190-metre headland of orange sandstone. Explore a timeless landscape of hidden valleys and hill forts before dropping down to the beautifully preserved village of Abbotsbury, which does not even have street lighting!
Find out more about walking our Dorset & Wessex Trail.
Hadrian’s Wall Trail
A British icon protected by UNESCO since 1987, Hadrian’s Wall today stands as the largest remaining artefact from Roman times anywhere in the world. A must-see for history aficionados, it can also be followed on foot along the adjoining 84-mile Hadrian’s Wall Path, taking hikers across the rugged countryside of Northern England, from Whitley Bay in the east to Carlisle in the west. The undulating, well-waymarked walk follows the ancient Roman Wall – with a largely a rural feel!
We offer 8-day and 10-day itineraries along the Hadrian’s Wall Trail.
Pick up your hire bike at the traditional seaside resort of Ryde, the largest town on the island, and let your holiday begin! Ideal for anyone looking for a short town-and-country cycling break, the circular route is undulating and distances are kept fairly short, giving you time to stop and explore. Highlights include sophisticated Cowes, world famous for its regatta; the astonishing brick-built Quarr Abbey; and taking the cycle path to Freshwater Bay, which follows an old railway line.
Find out more about our Isle of Wight Cycle trip. We also offer a coastal walking tour of the island.
April 6, 2019By Sherpa Team Channel Islands, Cycling, United Kingdom, Walking United Kingdom, Coast to Coast, cornwall, cycling, Richmond Way, Yorkshire, Dorset, Hadrian's Wall, Isle of Wight, walking 0 0 Comment Read More »
How Fit Do I Need To Be? Part 1 - UK
If you’re considering a walking holiday but you’re hesitating because you’re not sure if you’re fit enough – don’t worry! It’s an understandable concern – and whilst it’s true that some of our trips require an excellent level of fitness, others are much more gentle on the legs. We’ve picked out a few UK-based trips for different fitness levels to help you work out your own level and find the one that’s just right for you. All of our trips include a suitability guide on the main trip information pages.
Gentle Trips for First Time Walkers
Exploring the Cotswolds
The Cotswolds, as well as being picture-perfect, are an ideal introduction to walking in the English countryside. The terrain is hilly rather than mountainous, and you’re rarely too far from a pretty village in which to stop for a rest and refreshments. The walking days are generally up to around 20km – comfortable for most reasonably fit people. The Cotswolds are a designated Area of Outstanding Beauty, and as you meander through the countryside visiting medieval villages built in golden limestone, it’s easy to see why.
Although this trip is gentle on the legs, you will need to be a fairly competent map-reader.
This trip is available in 5-day and 8-day versions – and if you prefer wheels to feet, you can also explore the Cotswolds by bike.
Traditional Cotswolds houses
If walking in the Scottish Highlands sounds like the preserve of the super fit, then think again! Despite taking in some of Scotland’s most dramatic and breath-taking landscapes, most of the walking on The Great Glen Way is actually fairly straightforward – much of it along canal towpaths and forest tracks. The walking becomes a little more challenging on the last 3 days – but you can avoid a particularly steep climb on the last day by taking an optional taxi transfer. The days range from around 13km to 29km. This trip is a great way to sample the splendour of the Scottish Highlands without pushing your body to the limit.
Along the canals of the Great Glen Way
Moderate Trips for the More Active
If you’re looking for a trip in this category, you’re spoilt for choice, as the majority of our trips are classed as moderate. But here are a couple you might like to take a look at.
St Cuthbert’s Way
Although the daily distances on the St Cuthbert’s Way vary from 8.5km to 22.5km, the walk includes some steep ascents and descents, and some boggy terrain, which make it a little more challenging than the distances suggest. But with that little bit of extra fitness comes the reward of some delightfully unspoilt countryside and historic towns. Starting in Melrose in Scotland, and stretching across to the Northumberland coast and the island of Lindisfarne, this is a walk deep in historical and religious significance, as well as a route that takes in some beautiful countryside away from the hordes.
This trip is available in 8-day and 10-day versions.
Lindisfarne (Holy Island) at the end of St Cuthbert's Way
With some fairly long days (24 to 27km), and steep climbs and descents, not to mention some unpredictable weather, Hadrian’s Wall represents a moderate challenge – and you’ll need a bit of walking experience behind you to take it on. This is a walk rich in history – the Roman Emperor Hadrian began building the wall in 122AD to keep out his enemies to the north, and is now the world’s largest Roman artefact and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As you walk in the Romans’ footsteps, you’ll discover some of England’s finest landscapes, towns and villages.
Challenging Trips for Experienced Walkers
The sheer length of the entire Pennine Way (429km) makes it a pretty serious challenge, before you factor in the long days, remote sections, some fairly basic accommodation and lack of shelter from weather that can be very unpredictable. But this classic of British walking is rightly regarded as one of the world’s greatest – stretching through three national parks and encompassing fells, rivers, dales and waterfalls. The Pennine Way should be on the bucket list of any serious walker with a good level of fitness.
You can make the Pennine Way a little less challenging by doing just the Southern or Northern sections.
The Coast to Coast
Although the Coast to Coast is offered in extended versions (up to 18 days) for those that like to take things at a slightly slower pace, the classic 15-day version includes some long days (an average of 25km per day), with 6-9 hours a day of walking at a steady pace to cover the distances required. But the Coast to Coast is our most popular walk for a reason – three national parks, charming towns and villages, stunning landscapes, and the sheer achievement of crossing England from the Irish Sea to the North Sea has given this route legendary status.
We offer several versions of the Coast to Coast – both guided and self guided, ranging from 15 to 18 days, and you can also do shorter sections on their own.
January 9, 2019By Sherpa Team General, United Kingdom, Walking UK, England, Scotland, Fitness, Cotswolds, Great Glen Way, St Cuthbert's Way, Hadrian's Wall, Pennine Way, Coast to Coast 0 0 Comment Read More »
Hadrian’s Wall Walk: 7 Facts About the English Icon
Protected by UNESCO since 1987, Hadrian’s Wall today stands as the largest remaining artefact from Roman times anywhere in the world.
A must-see for history aficionados, this Roman wall in England can also be explored on foot along the adjoining 83-mile Hadrian’s Wall Path. The undulating, well-waymarked walk follows the ancient Roman Wall with a largely rural feel – we believe that the middle three days in the south Northumberland National Park are the most spectacular!
Below are 7 Hadrian’s Wall Walk facts you may not yet know about the celebrated British icon:
1. The history of the Hadrian’s Wall goes back to 122AD
The Hadrian’s Wall is a defensive fortification conceived by Hadrian, who ruled the Roman Empire for more than 20 years (117-138AD). It was constructed in the province of Britannia, which at that point marked the northernmost border of the Empire, to “separate Romans from Barbarians”.
2. The Roman Wall is built across northern England’s narrowest point
Hadrian’s Wall originally ran between the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea and the banks of the River Tyne, close to the North Sea; this is the narrowest point in northern England. It took 6 years to complete and, in its original form, it covered 80 Roman (73 modern) miles.
3. Post forts were built on every Roman mile…
…although Hadrian's Wall mainly served as a military construction: huge garrison forts were built at intervals, allowing for a counter attack or a raid to be organised at short notice. A deep ditch, known as The Vallum, was dug alongside it, while gatehouses would control access over the frontier forests and moors.
4. It was extended and enhanced with impressive stone defences over the years
Initially, stone was brought in on the Tyne by boat to supply those areas where it could not be cut locally. At later stages, much of the stonework was mortared, allowing the Wall to survive the centuries to become one of the oldest structures in the country today.
5. UNESCO describes Hadrian’s Wall as “a striking example of the organization of a military zone”
Hadrian’s Wall was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1987 as an “outstanding example of Roman military architecture”, protected for its “extraordinarily high cultural value”. According to UNESCO, much of it remains “in an exceptionally good state of preservation, surviving as part of a landscape which still contains significant visible traces of the Roman military presence”.
6. The Hadrian’s Wall Path celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2018
Classified as a ‘National Trail’ in the UK, the Hadrian’s Wall Path officially opened in May 2003 after many years of negotiations with landlords and farmers to finalise the exact route. A Hadrian’s Wall walk will take you to follow 83 miles across English town and country, forest and moorland, World Heritage Site and National Park.
7. It is often described as an alternative English Coast-to-Coast route
More than just tracing the history of England’s North, the Hadrian's Wall Path offers abundant scenic variety, from the modern cityscapes of Newcastle upon Tyne (North Sea) to the red sandstone hues of medieval Carlisle and from industrial Tyneside to the quiescence of Bowness on Solway (Irish Sea). With that, it can be seen as an alternative route to the famous Wainwright's Coast to Coast trail. Expect barren blustery heights in the Northumberland National Park and lime green pastoral scenes in the Eden Valley… omnipotent along the route, Hadrian’s Wall snakes its way!
If you feel inspired to walk the Hadrian’s Wall Path, at Sherpa Expeditions we offer two options to follow the Roman wall in England over 8 or 10 days.
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August 7, 2018By Sherpa Walking Team United Kingdom Hadrian's Wall, England 0 0 Comment Read More »
On Track – Q&A on A Hadrian’s Wall Walk
To give you a deeper understanding of our cycling and walking holidays in Europe, we like to introduce you to the On Track feature. This is a series of quick Q&A’s on a specific trip from the Sherpa Expeditions offer.
Today’s frequently asked questions are answered by resident guide John, who went on a Hadrian’s Wall walk himself.
Why was Hadrian’s Wall built?
We know from tablets that Emperor Hadrian wanted to keep "intact the empire", which had been imposed on him via "divine instruction." The wall was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 and used for around three centuries. The wall was built by 15,000 men in under six years and runs from the banks of the River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea. From here the Romans could command their resources and control the raiding skirmishes of the Northern Britons.
What is special about walking Hadrian's Wall Trail?
Hadrian's Wall is the finest surviving frontier construction of the Roman Empire. Although by no means continuous in its current state, the long-distance footpath that we know as Hadrian’s Wall Trail stretches for 83 miles from Newcastle Upon Tyne to Bowness on Solway. Over this distance, over hill and dale you will find milecastles, barracks, ramparts and forts, in ever changing scenery. If you have a good imagination you will enjoy a walk in history. There are plenty of museum sites and other things to see as well including mediaeval castles, old villages, the bridges over the River Tyne and a look round Carlisle.
Can you see much of the wall when you walk it?
People may have in their mind something that looks like the Great Wall of China; but the ravages of time and use of the dressed stone from the wall for urban building, stone walling and road construction have all reduced its size. The final third of the wall to the west, was a mud embankment originally. You only see a tiny section of wall in Newcastle, a bit more in Heddon on the Wall, and then the stone walling really takes off as we walk into the undulating central section of Hadrian’s Wall.
Do you actually walk on Hadrian’s Wall?
The wall is a UNESCO recognized monument and the path does not walk directly on it to avoid damage, although there are places where you cross it or walk on it to visit museums, milecastles etc. The ditch built by the Romans beside the wall is often associated with a modern road, so you do actually walk parallel with roads for much of the first couple of days and the last day especially. Apart from where these are quiet lanes however, you will be walking generally on a specially created footpath beside the road or beside the wall.
What impressed you about this trip?
I love the section between Milecastle 31 at the Temple of Mithras and Milecastle 49B, at Birdoswold. There are so many great views and classic landscapes such as looking over Crag Lough - a lochen at the base of crags. There is 'Sycamore Gap' where an iconic sycamore tree grows at a gateway in the wall. Other surprises include minor things: walking past rock crags and cliffs where they quarried the stone 2000 years ago and seeing holes where 'pincers' were used to lift cut rock. Also seeing the substantial foundations of the Roman Bridge at Chollerford, was quite a surprise.
Who would you recommend to go for a Hadrian’s Wall walk?
Anyone with a good level of fitness can enjoy this walk, but it will especially appeal to people with an interest in history. There will be good opportunities to make the most of the historical sites along the way. A Hadrian’s Wall walk is also an excellent first time long-distance path to take. The hike is well waymarked as it is a 'National Trail' and so navigation is rarely an issue. It is also another coast to coast walk as you start on the tidal River Tyne and finish by the Irish Sea. For some, it may be an alternative to well known 'Wainwright's Coast to Coast,' that takes two weeks to walk from coast to coast.
Is Hadrian’s Wall Trail very popular?
On large sections of the walk you will not see many people at all, but the middle section around Housteads Fort and the hills of Steel Rigg get a lot of walkers and day trippers who walk and visit the forts such as Housteads, Vindolanda (off route), Birdoswald and Chesters.
Are there extra costs involved when I want to hike Hadrian’s Wall?
We choose to exclude lunches and dinners on this trip as there are many options to choose from along the way. Also Visits to the museums, open air or otherwise, do add up and you should decide locally whether you have the time and energy to visit them. Admissions vary and apply to Segedunnm (£5.95), Vindolands (£11), Housteads (£7.50), Birdoswald (£6.50), and Chesters (£6.60) – prices valid at the time of writing. The last three are run by 'English Heritage' and it might be worth your while to become a member of them if there are more things you want to see that they run in England.
We hope this information has indeed answered some of the questions you may have had on doing the Hadrian’s Wall walk. If you have other queries, please get in touch with John and the Sherpa team via phone or email.
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October 20, 2017By Sherpa Walking Team United Kingdom Hadrian's Wall, England 0 0 Comment Read More »
This Year Only: Hadrian’s Wall Path & Cavalry Exhibition
New exhibition offers rare insight in the role and daily life of the Roman Empire’s cavalry forces
Walking Hadrian’s Wall Path this year will give you the opportunity to gain a rare insight in the role and daily life of the cavalry forces of the Roman army. Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site hosts a temporary new exhibition: Hadrian’s Cavalry, which launched in April 2017.
Hadrian’s Wall forms part of the ‘Roman Limes’, which represent the border line of the Roman Empire when it was at its greatest in the 2nd century AD. At present, remains of this border line can be found in Germany, Scotland, and of course England. Protected by UNESCO since 1987, Hadrian’s Wall today stands as the largest remaining artefact from Roman times anywhere in the world.
Hadrian’s Wall Walk
A must-see for history aficionados, Hadrian’s Wall can be followed on foot along the adjoining 84-mile (135km) Hadrian’s Wall Path. With Sherpa, you have two options, an 8-day and a 10-day version, that can take you on a self guided walking trip across the rugged countryside of Northern England, from Whitley Bay in the east to Carlisle in the west.
The undulating, well-waymarked walk follows the ancient Roman Wall with a largely rural feel. Enjoy stunning vistas from places like Newcastle Keep, Highshield Crags and Bowness-on-Solway and walk in the Northumberland National Park. At night, enjoy the hospitality of country B&Bs brimming with personality and local charm. Self guided Hadrian’s Wall walking holidays depart daily between April and October.
Hadrian’s Cavalry
Hadrian’s Cavalry exhibition celebrates the cavalry regiments that once guarded this famous North West frontier of the mighty Roman Empire. Ten museums and venues form a unique wall-wide exhibition that takes place from Saturday 8 April to Sunday 10 September 2017. Ornate helmets, shields, decorations and weapons have been collected from museums around Europe and are now on display in various locations. Spectacular re-enactment events at different places along the Wall will also be part of the exhibition. From July, a specially commissioned piece of contemporary art will be on display at English Heritage’s Chesters Roman Fort and Museum (day 5 or 6 on our walks).
For more information on Hadrian’s Cavalry and our Hadrian’s Wall Path walking holidays, contact our team of travel experts or browse information on Hadrian’s Wall, Classic Hadrian’s Wall 8-day walking holiday, or the Hadrian’s Wall Trail 10 day walking trip.
May 10, 2017By Sherpa Walking Team United Kingdom, Walking Hadrian's Wall, Walking, England 0 0 Comment Read More »
Best Pubs in the UK for Walkers
The UK is famous for its historic inns and pubs, and no matter what your choice of refreshment, relaxing in one at the end of a day’s walk is an essential part of a walking holiday in the UK. We’ve asked around the office and here is a list of our favourite pubs that you can visit on one of our UK walking holidays.
Old Dungeon Ghyll, Langsdale
Located in the Lake District, the Old Dungeon Ghyll is a famous climber’s bar that has offered accommodation and sustenance to weary fellwalkers and climbers in the midst of some of the highest mountains in England, for over 300 years.
Why we like it: Stunning location and a great place to rest up with other exhausted walkers and listen to their epic tales.
Visit the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel and more on our Cumbria Way walking holiday >>
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Smugglers Inn, Osmington Mills
This lovely old pub dates back to the 13th century and was once the home of the leader of the most notorious gang of smugglers in the area during the 18th and 19th centuries (Emmanuel Charles).
Why we like it: Cosy inn near the sea has some good ales and its location makes you feel miles from the real world.
Visit the Smugglers Inn and more on our Dorset and Wessex Trails walking holiday >>
Red Lion, Burnsall
The Red Lion in North Yorkshire was originally a Ferryman’s Inn from the 16th century and on top of some delicious real ales the pub also serves up a tasty selection of local game and produce. Image from Tip Advisor
Why we like it: Good old-fashioned pub with great food, nestled right by the old bridge.
Visit the Red Lion pub on our Dales Way walking holiday >>
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Glenmoriston Arms, Glenmoriston
Another pub that was originally a Drover’s inn, the original hotel built on the site dates back to 1740, six years before the battle of Culloden.
Why we like it: Great old bar with over 100 varieties of single malt Whisky, including some from extinct distilleries.
Fiddler’s, Drumnadrochit
This renowned whisky bar has a huge range of single malts to choose from and friendly bartenders who can talk you through the tasting of Scotland’s national drink.
Why we like it: Great food and whiskey (obviously) and a relaxing place for a meal after a visit to Urquart Castle.
Visit the Glenmoriston Arms, Fiddlers and more on our Great Glen Way walking holiday >>
Kings House Hotel, Glencoe
The Kings House hotel is one of the oldest (and most remote!) licenced inns in Scotland and offers an extensive bar with magnificent views of the hills. It even has a sneaky climber’s bar round the back.
Why we like it: Location, Location! This pub has one of the most famous backdrops in Scotland (Buchaille Etive Mor).
Visit the Kings House Hotel and more on our Great Glen Way walking holiday >>
Buck Hotel, Reeth
Originally a coaching Inn dating back to around 1760, the Buck in has been refreshing weary travellers for centuries. Inside you’ll find a cost bar with many of the original features still in tact.
Why we like it: Good range of well-kept beers/ales on draught and great zippy food.
Black Bull, Reeth
Older still than the Buck Hotel, the Black Bull dates back to 1680 and offers a wide selection of hand-pulled ales and good hearty food.
Why we like it: The Black Bull’s position on the village green makes for a great spot to rest in the sun (if you’re lucky!) and the pub is also amusingly famous for its ‘Old Peculiar on draught’; two pints of which apparently and you are anyone's!
The Lion, Blakey
The Lion Inn on remote Blakey Ridge is a 16th Century freehouse. Located at the highest point of the North York Moors National Park, it offers breathtaking views over the valleys of Rosedale and Farndale.
Why we like it: This cavernous old pub in the middle of nowhere has a great feel to it inside with open fires and low beams, and outside in the beer garden you have some great views over the dales.
Horseshoe Hotel, Egton Bridge
The 18th century Horseshoe Hotel sits on some stunning grounds on the bank of the River Esk, in the quaint English village of Egton Bridge. Catering to walkers it is a great place to relax and replenish your energy.
Why we like it: You always hit this old fashioned pub right about when you feel like a drink! It’s beautiful beer garden is a great place to rest your weary feet before you contemplate crossing the Esk on stepping stones!
Visit these pubs and more on one of our Coast to Coast walking holidays >>
Boathouse, Wylam
The Boathouse is a traditional pub, with low-beamed ceilings, stone floor and a dark wood bar decorated with tankards, pump-clips, and paintings.
Why we like it: Extraordinary range of 12 varieties of real ale or cider on hand-pulls and great home-cooked meals.
Twice Brewed Inn, Once Brewed
Overlooked by Steel Rigg, one of the best stretches of Hadrian’s Wall, the Twice Brewed Inn’s setting in rural Northumberland is quite unique. There are many theory’s surrounding it’s unique name that you can learn more about on your visit.
Why we like it: Once a brewery, this pub lives up to its name with a range of tasty ales.
Visit the Boathouse and Twice Brewed Inn on our Hadrian’s Wall walking holiday >>
Image credits: Some images used in this article were sourced from the pub's website, Trip Advisor or Visit Scotland.
June 11, 2015By Sherpa Walking Team Food & Drink, United Kingdom Scotland, Cumbrian Way, Dales Way, Great Glen Way, West Highland Way, Coast to Coast, Hadrian's Wall 0 0 Comment Read More »
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Chronic Hypoxemia with Ataxic Gait
Alissa Romano; Lyudmila Kirillova
Meeting: Hospital Medicine 2012, April 1-4, San Diego, Calif.
Abstract number: 97767
Case Presentation:
A 52–year year–old Caucasian female presented with history of wide based ataxic gait for four days. Head CT showed possible pontine stroke, however the MRI was interpreted as normal. Patient denied any dyspnea with pulse oxygenation of 79% and ABG revealed pH of 7.33, CO2 of 53, and HCO3 of 31. Her medical history included diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, pneumonia, hyperlipidemia, obstructive sleep apnea, multiple falls, cataract surgery, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, and thyroidectomy. Family history was significant for CAD. Physical exam was remarkable for hypoxemia, hyporeflexia in all extremities, temporal wasting, mild frontal balding, and mild bilateral ptosis. Her labs were normal except for ABG. A chest x–ray showed a right hemi–diaphragm elevation with markedly reduced lung volumes. Chest fluoroscopy showed bilateral minimal excursion of the diaphragm, and pulmonary function testing demonstrated reduced vital capacity at 34%. Neurology was consulted for evaluation of the bilateral diaphragm paralysis. Neck MRI was negative. Further questioning revealed family history of the recurrent falls, progressive weakness and ptosis of unknown etiology in siblings. Her myotonic reflex at both thumb pads and grip release test were positive. This warranted further work up for possible Myotonic Dystrophy(DM. EMG revealed widespread myotonic discharges, with prominence in the distal muscles consistent with DM. Subsequently genetic testing confirmed Myotonic Dystrophy Type I (DM1) with a full expansion size repeat of 695. Discussion: DM1 is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder due to an expansion of a trinuclotide (CTG) repeat on chromosome 19q13.3 with a prevalence of one in 8,000. It is a multisystem disorder that affects vision (cataracts), respiratory (chronic hypoxemia and hypercapnia due to diaphragmatic weakness, sleep apnea, aspiration) endocrine (diabetes, hypothyroid) cardiovascular (conduction disorders, cardiomyopathy) gastrointestinal (dysphagia, IBS, chronic infections) musculoskeletal (weakness, atrophy) and reproductive (uterine weakness, low testosterone levels) organ systems. Most patients present between 15 and 35 years of age. Genetic testing for the presence of CTG expansion repeat is a diagnostic gold standard, and EMG is helpful as an initial test. Presently, there are no disease modifying therapies for DM1 and treatment is symptomatic. Genetic counseling is crucial. Periodic respiratory function and cardiac assessments are recommended in clinical follow up as a complication preventive measure along with physical therapy.
This case demonstrates a rare etiology of a relatively common presenting problem in hospitalized patients. It also emphasizes the importance of a detailed history and physical exam. Early recognition of the disease creates an opportunity for preventive follow up and family genetic counseling.
Romano A, Kirillova L. Chronic Hypoxemia with Ataxic Gait. Abstract published at Hospital Medicine 2012, April 1-4, San Diego, Calif. Abstract 97767. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2012; 7 (suppl 2). https://www.shmabstracts.com/abstract/chronic-hypoxemia-with-ataxic-gait/. Accessed January 20, 2020.
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“Jake is exactly the type of director we are looking to work with,” says Cap Gun Managing Director Matt Abramson. “He’s genuinely excited to tell great stories with his cinematic eye and an amazing ability to get honest performances. And after spending so much time working in Canada, he really couldn’t be a nicer guy.”
Jake’s commercial work for clients like, Campbell’s, HP, Kraft, GQ and Taco Bell and agencies including BBDO, Cossette, Taxi, and Grip has been lauded by AdWeek, Strategy, Shots, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Mashable, One Show and Vimeo among others. His latest music video, for the X Ambassadors' single "Ahead of Myself" has more than 7 million views.
Born and raised in Rochester, NY, Jake graduated from the University of Toronto in 2007 with an honors degree and double major in cinema and philosophy. He has always been a bit of an adrenaline junkie (as the titanium plate in his collarbone can attest) and loves all board-sports, surfing especially, considering he surfs the f*cking ice-cold waters of the Great Lakes…year round. That was the subject of a documentary he made: “On Days Like These We Must Surf,” starring a particularly lovable and loco surfing buddy, Larry Cavero. The film received a Vimeo Staff Pick and went on to be featured in surfing magazines and festival screenings worldwide, ultimately gaining international syndication.
Inspired by travel, Jake most recently visited Morocco, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, where he directed and DP’d a series of spots for Alba Botanica. “I’m super excited to be sitting on such a high caliber roster,” says Kovnat of joining Cap Gun Collective. “I love the collaborative atmosphere of Cap Gun and their commitment to developing content outside of commercials, which is something I’m passionate about. But more than anything it’s about their commitment to finding truly unique stories and developing new perspectives. I’m stoked on our partnership and what we’re going to create together!”
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We have been busy bees here in Red Shoe over the past few months with the production of some fantastic programmes just in time for Christmas on TG4.
Our hugely successful traditional music series “Hup” will culminate in a very special episode from Kinvara, Co. Galway on Christmas Day at 21.15. Like the other episodes in the series, there is music and song pouring joyously from every nook and cranny in the town! Comedian Pat Shortt enjoys a few tunes on the Sax in local haunt “Tullys” while popular singer and songwriter Declan O’Rourke pops into his local cafe “The Gentian” for coffee, a cream bun and a song. Veteran concertina player Chris Droney welcomes his grandson Cathal into his Bellharbour house for a few tunes and Grammy winning banjo genius Bela Fleck, joined by his talented wife Abigail Washburn visit the nearby Clareen Banjo workshop where they give us a rendition of a traditional Bluegrass Christmas song. The Glackin family come together for a special one-off session in “Connolly’s”, while Mairtín O’Connor and friends with the Con Tempo Quartet pay a visit to nearby Dunguaire Castle for a performance of the beautiful Mrs. Crofton. Other musicians include Dermot Byrne, Floriane Blancke, Brendan O’Regan, The Lismorauhan singers, Mick Kinsella and Steve Larkin, Tara Howley, Bríd Ní Mhaolchiarain, Cathal Hayden and Garry O’Briain.
A very special edition of Imeall on Thursday 17th December celebrates one of Ireland’s most popular and successful bands of all time The Hothouse Flowers, who are celebrating their 30th anniversary this year. Having performed all over the world and reached number one in the charts as far away as Australia, the band have marked this year with a number of sell-out tours. They talk to Tristan Rosenstock about their musical journey so far and we are treated to a studio session with the band as well as a spontaneous busking session on Grafton Street.
On St. Stephen’s Night, the career of ceili musician Matt Cunningham will be celebrated. In 2015 Matt celebrated 50 years in music with a weekend of music, song and dance in his home town of Headford. We were there to capture this unique event which will be the backdrop to this captivating documentary, ‘Rí na Seite’. Matt has become a household name in the Irish music world and he is one of the most popular performers within the set & céilí dancing scene and a pioneer where his recordings for dancers are concerned. Matt’s recordings are responsible in their own way for the preservation and popularisation of set & céilí dancing across the globe and we talk to dance teachers and dancers alike about his influence.
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Can You Really Get Pregnant From Precum?
Story from Sex
Erika W. Smith
Photographed by Natalia Mantini.
It's one of those facts that sounds like it was made up just to make kids terrified of having sex: It's possible to get pregnant from penis-in-vagina sex — even if nobody orgasms. Surely not, right? But as it it turns out, the rumours are true. It’s rare, but still possible to get pregnant from precum, the liquid that comes out of the penis during arousal, but before ejaculation.
As Planned Parenthood explains, “Precum (also known as pre-ejaculate) is a small amount of fluid that comes out of the penis when you’re aroused, but before ejaculation happens. It doesn’t usually have any sperm in it. But some people’s precum does have a small amount of sperm in it, sometimes. This means sperm can get into the vagina and possibly fertilise an egg.”
Let’s talk numbers: One 2011 study found that, in a sample of 27 cis men, 41% had pre-cum that contained spermatozoa, and for the majority of those cases (37% of all the men in the study), “a reasonable proportion of the sperm was motile.”
There’s no way to tell whether an individual’s precum contains sperm at any one time, so, as Planned Parenthood puts it, “that’s one reason why the withdrawal method (pulling out) isn’t the best at preventing pregnancy.” In typical use, about 22 out of 100 people who use the pull-out method as their sole form of birth control get pregnant every year — that’s over 20%. (Besides the precum factor, it's also difficult to pull out perfectly every time.)
If you’re using the withdrawal method in combination with another form of birth control, such as the pill or condoms, your chances of pregnancy are much lower. As Planned Parenthood explains, it’s still technically possible to get pregnant from pre-cum while on the pill, but it’s very, very rare — your chances are a fraction of a percentage point.
If you’re trying to conceive, don’t count on precum. But if you don’t want to get pregnant and you’re having P-in-V sex, most other forms of birth control will be more effective than withdrawal.
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San Antonio mayor declares Aug. 30 ‘Manu Ginobili Day’
San Antonio mayor Ron Nirenberg has declared the city will pay tribute to a true local icon when “Manu Ginobili Day” is celebrated on Aug. 30.
Nirenberg made the announcement about how San Antonio will honor the recently retired Spurs star on Thursday via Twitter.
On Thursday, let’s honor a player who exemplified grit, sportsmanship, and the pure joy of the game. Join us, sports fans. #ManuGinobiliDay pic.twitter.com/gtgEIUKnvO
— Mayor Ron Nirenberg (@Ron_Nirenberg) August 28, 2018
Ginobili formally announced his retirement on Monday with a heartfelt tweet.
Today, with a wide range of feelings, I'm announcing my retirement from basketball. IMMENSE GRATITUDE to everyone (family, friends, teammates, coaches, staff, fans) involved in my life in the last 23 years. It's been a fabulous journey. Way beyond my wildest dreams. pic.twitter.com/3MLCUtmd6K
— Manu Ginobili (@manuginobili) August 27, 2018
“Today, with a wide range of feelings, I’m announcing my retirement from basketball. IMMENSE GRATITUDE to everyone (family, friends, teammates, coaches, staff, fans) involved in my life in the last 23 years,” Ginobili wrote. “It’s been a fabulous journey. Way beyond my wildest dreams.”
Ginobili spent 16 seasons with the Spurs and was last remaining member of the nucleus of the team’s dynasty headlined by himself, Tony Parker and Tim Duncan.
While Ginobili will be missed by the Spurs and the team’s fans in the San Antonio area, odds are it won’t take long for the organization to pay tribute to such a beloved player. Ginobili also mentioned upon his retirement announcement an openness to remaining with the Spurs organization in some capacity.
“What I made clear to Pop is that it’s not ‘Ciao, I’m leaving,'” Ginobili wrote in a column for Argentine newspaper La Nacion, per Tom Orsborn of the San Antonio Express-News. “My children have already started classes and while I’m in town I’ll be close to the team and the franchise. Maybe I cannot help (anymore) by taking a (charge) or (with a steal) or something, but I’ll try to add in what I can. I have a great appreciation for my teammates, for the staff and all the people on the team and I want it to go as well as possible. If I can help from the outside, I will do it with pleasure.”
While how everything will play out in that regard remains to be seen, Ginobili will be celebrated on Thursday by San Antonio residents who will never forget the profound impact he had upon the city’s sports scene.
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Provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of the current landscape of systemic and liver-directed therapy for malignant liver tumors Provides new insight into novel and evolving therapies in the areas of surgical technique and liver-directed arterial based and ablative therapies Written by experts in their fields
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The incidence of primary and metastatic liver tumors is rising and the therapeutic armamentarium for these tumors is expanding at a rapid pace. Surgery remains the primary treatment modality for these tumors. With improvements in our perioperative management and operative techniques a larger proportion of patients are able to undergo potentially curative liver surgery. In addition, indications and criteria for liver transplantation for both primary and metastatic liver tumors are constantly expanding. Unfortunately, many patients are not amendable to surgical resection or liver transplantation and therefore alternative liver-directed therapies are routinely being implemented as part of complex multidisciplinary treatment models. However, these models are continually evolving as these regional therapeutic options continue to expand. New embolization agents and techniques, as well as, improvements in radiation delivery, are all evolving in the background of improvement in systemic and targeted therapy options for these tumors.
This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of the current state of liver-directed therapy for malignant liver tumors. The book will serve as a valuable resource for not only surgeons and clinicians but for researchers with an interest in malignant liver tumors. The book focuses on the therapeutic approach to primary and metastatic tumors providing an up-to-date review on surgical liver anatomy and new imaging techniques as well as patient selection and technical consideration for resection and transplantation. In addition, the book provides new insight into novel and evolving therapies in the areas of transarterial therapy such as: (i) bland embolization, (ii) chemoembolization, and (iii) radioembolization; as well as new radiation techniques including SBRT and proton therapy. Furthermore, the expanding role of hepatic artery infusion therapy in primary malignant tumors is highlighted. Finally, integration of all these regional therapy options with upcoming and evolving systemic and targeted therapy regimens are integrated and discussed. This book will serve as a very useful resource for clinicians and researchers managing and treating patients with these challenging malignancies. It provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of the current status of the field that will help guide patient management and stimulate investigative efforts. All chapters are written by experts in their fields and include the most up to date scientific and clinical information.
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Gaming: Fate/Grand Order dominates Twitter; UK scores classic video game stamps; more
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The most talked-about video game on Twitter in 2019 wasn't Fortnite, but a mobile game from Japan called Fate/Grand Order, the social media website revealed today. According to The Washington Post, this is the second year in which Fate/Grand Order has topped the list.
Having launched in 2015 from developer Aniplex, the title is an anime-inspired, turn-based, Final Fantasy-esque RPG that is available to play on all smart Android devices. Based on a SuperData report from a few years back, Fate/Grand Order brought in $982 million of revenue in 2017.
Fortnite came in second, followed by Final Fantasy, Identity V, Granblue Fantasy, Ensemble Stars, Monster Strike, PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds, Minecraft, and Super Smash Bros.
Video of Fate/Grand Order Servant Class Trailer: SABER
Japan was also No. 1 on the list of "Countries Tweeting the Most About Gaming." The United States came in second followed by South Korea, Thailand, Brazil, France, Great Britain, Indonesia, Spain, and the Philippines.
“Twitter’s popularity in Japan continues to play a role in what games people talk about locally and globally,” Rishi Chadha, global head of gaming partnerships at Twitter, told The Washington Post. “The fandom from the region continues to drive conversation around many of the most tweeted about games in the world, showcasing that video games truly have no borders.”
Snail mail in the United Kingdom is about to get infinitely cooler.
England's Royal Mail just announced a line of retro stamps inspired by classic video game titles from the 1980s and '90s such as Tomb Raider and Lemmings.
"An action-packed collection celebrating classic UK-designed video games that put the ‘joy’ in ‘joystick’. A fun set of Stamps and Collectibles to get your thumbs twitching," reads the Royal Mail website's description of the stamps.
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The stamps are currently available for pre-order. Postcards are also available. For more details, click here.
Netflix's television adaptation of The Witcher may be receiving polarizing reviews from fans and critics, but there is one person who absolutely loves it: Geralt of Rivia.
No, we're not talking about Henry Cavill, who plays the famed monster hunter in the new show. We're talking about the video game voice of Geralt, Doug Cockle.
"Ok...finally saw all 8 episodes of @witchernetflix!" wrote Cockle on Twitter. "I LOVE IT. The time jumps are challenging, but it all comes together in the end. The main characters are wonderfully played by a talented cast and the world is lovingly realized. Bring on series 2! #witchernetflix #Witcher."
Cockle has voiced Rivia in three Witcher games since 2007 and even nabbed a Golden Joystick win for his performance in the Blood and Wine expansion pack for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
A second season of The Witcher is already in development at Netflix.
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Technology-focused approach to community feedback needed | Opinion
While Tallahassee has dabbled in these technologies with DigiTally, the platform does not yet provide a space to discuss opinions on local government.
Technology-focused approach to community feedback needed | Opinion While Tallahassee has dabbled in these technologies with DigiTally, the platform does not yet provide a space to discuss opinions on local government. Check out this story on tallahassee.com: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2019/05/11/technology-focused-approach-community-feedback-needed-opinion/1163406001/
Catherine Annis, Your Turn Published 9:35 a.m. ET May 11, 2019
Catherine Annis (Photo: Your Turn)
Local government leaders in Tallahassee care a great deal about building a strong community and are willing to dedicate resources to achieving this goal. Their commitment was evident in the research underlying the analysis of cost overruns associated with the Cascades Park and Trail complex.
These cost overruns, however, might have been mitigated more effectively with the adoption of innovative public participation mechanisms.
A case in point is the public dissatisfaction over the expanded scope and higher costs associated with the Cascades Park amphitheater. More effective resident input on the front end might have enabled public planning to be more deliberative and improve accountability during the project. The adoption of “smart technologies” could have broadened meaningful participation, increased public service quality, engaged residents and lessened the likelihood of error in the decision-making process.
The widespread use of smartphones has dramatically improved resident access to the internet, and new technologies can be used to harness their input to support more effective democratic decision making. Public bodies are now utilizing social networks for online discussions and to encourage civic discourse and debate. These tools include city mobile apps, forums, chat rooms, social media and feedback spaces on government websites.
More deliberative civic technology can capture resident feedback. For example, the U.S. Department of State uses a hashtag #AskState to conduct online town hall meetings via Twitter. Users directly respond and react as if being in a continuous conversation. This data can be analyzed to more fully understand resident concerns, track perceptions and trends, and then used to improve government efficiency, transparency and accountability.
While Tallahassee has dabbled in these technologies with DigiTally, the platform does not yet provide a space for residents to discuss their opinions on local government or invite them to share their ideas on what they wish to see from their city. In recent research conducted by Tang, Hou, Fay, and Annis from FSU’s Askew School, residents mentioned these as desirable features to be included in city management apps.
Local governments in North Florida could embed mechanisms for resident engagement within their app in the form of community forums. Both the city and residents could then create specialized community message boards and surveys to gather information related to upcoming meetings, city projects and events — or residents can go on just to chat and feel a sense of community. Connecting residents through social forums and frequently updated events calendars may even allow the city to conserve limited resources by encouraging volunteer efforts.
Local governments already do a lot to create transparency by posting minutes online, holding town halls, convening resident advisory committees and regularly publishing progress reports. However, these traditional engagement opportunities cannot fully and meaningfully capture resident input and can be inaccessible due to constraints on people’s schedules.
A more robust, technology-focused approach to resident engagement could help local governments act on public priorities and avoid the distrust and frustration experienced during the construction of the Cascades Park and Trail projects.
Catherine Annis, MPA, is a Tallahassee native, graduate of Florida State University, and pursuing her PhD in public administration at Syracuse University. She is co-author of “Cost Overruns and Public Infrastructure: The Case of Tallahassee’s Cascade Park and Trail” by the DeVoe L. Moore Center.
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Florida prisons can’t go on like this, new chief says
“The status quo is not sustainable, said Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Mark Inch in a Times/Herald interview. "We are now at the point that we must pay for the savings garnered in previous years.’’
Mark. S, Inch, Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, at the State Capitol, May, 1, 2019. [SCOTT KEELER | Tampa Bay Times]
By Mary Ellen Klas
Published Dec. 1, 2019
TALLAHASSEE — It’s hard not to notice the title of the book Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Mark Inch is delivering to every prison warden and legislator who will listen: The Devil’s Butcher Shop.
The book by Roger Morris chronicles one of the deadliest prison riots in American history at the New Mexico State Penitentiary at Santa Fe in 1980. For 30 hours on a February weekend, prisoners took 12 corrections officers hostage, mutilated and murdered 33 inmates, hacked some with knives, tortured others with blow torches, and raped and terrorized scores of others.
Inch, who came to Florida after a brief stint as head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, urges readers to turn to the chapter titled, “Foreshadow” because he says he believes the riot was not only foreseeable, it was preventable — and Florida should take heed.
“They had a lot of the warning signs that we have,’’ he explains during a meeting in his conference room in Tallahassee’s Farris Bryant building.
He points to a white board on the wall and a graph that shows how Florida’s prison system had “gone from excellence, to satisfactory to marginal” — just as New Mexico’s did.
Years of budget cuts and legislative indifference have led to an understaffed, inexperienced crew of corrections officers in command of a penal system stripped of educational programs. They operate out of aging facilities with an increasingly hostile inmate population — as many 70% of whom enter with a substance abuse problem — and a gang hierarchy that is powerful and growing.
“You should have an expectation that this will not happen in Florida — and if I think this is going to happen in Florida, trust me I’ll be screaming a lot louder than I am now,’’ he says. But he points to the dotted line on his chart that shows how outlier conditions that spawned the New Mexico riot could be replicated here.
He emphasizes: “The status quo is not sustainable .... We are now at the point that we must pay for the savings garnered in previous years.’’
It’s practically the same speech Inch has given to the Florida House and Senate Criminal Justice Appropriations Subcommittees, where he delivered carefully prepared remarks, peppered with jargon, but punctuated with warning.
“The status quo cannot continue because that’s, that’s — pick your metaphor — the death spiral, or the plane crashing into the side of a cliff or, you know, the tipping point,” Inch says.
The 1980 riot in New Mexico exploded from a cauldron of simmering dysfunction — substandard living conditions, a culture of brutality among both inmates and staff, and a staff so inexperienced that 80% had been there less than two years.
Fast forward 40 years, and that description fits much of Florida’s prison system, the third largest in the nation with 95,000 incarcerated and 166,000 on probation. Only 18 of the state’s 50 largest facilities have air conditioning, and conditions got worse in August as windows were boarded up for days at some prisons as Hurricane Dorian approached.
Brutality and abuse are common, and on the rise.
At the state’s largest women’s prison in August, four male officers attacked inmate Cheryl Weimar, who suffers from mental illness. They dragged her “like a rag doll’’ through the facility, taking her outside, away from cameras, then resuming the assault until she was near death, and now a quadriplegic, says her lawyer, Ryan Andrews. The four were not immediately fired but reassigned. The lawsuit could cost the state tens of millions.
Money is the root cause
Inch, who spent most of his career as a commander in Army prisons, speaks obliquely of an “issue of culture” within his department, but he focuses blame for the root of the dysfunction on one thing: funding shortfalls and staffing decisions that have proven to be “demonstrably counterproductive and exceptionally detrimental to the department’s ability to meet its mission requirements.”
The staff attrition rates in a high-employment economy tell the story: “fewer and fewer are willing to carry this burden.”
“The negative impacts cannot be overstated. They impact every facet of the department,’’ Inch told the House Justice Appropriations subcommittee in September, noting nearly half of the corrections officers had been there two years or less.
Since the change from 8- to 12-hour minimum shifts in 2012, Inch said, corrections officers with less than two years of experience increased by 67%; inmate on inmate assaults increased by 67%; inmate assaults on staff increased 46%; introduction of contraband increased 484%; inmate gang population increased 141%; use of force incidents increased more than 54%; and correctional officer overtime increased 549%.
As he spoke to a House committee in October, Inch put a trophy of an eagle on the podium and noted that Florida’s prison system was the recipient of a national award of excellence in 1981. It is time to return to those standards, he said, when “aberrant and substandard behavior was easy to identify.”
On the office white board, Inch has also written four bullet points he says are needed to repair the troubled system: “Reduce Staff Attrition and Vacancy Rates; Reduce Inmate Violence, Addiction, Idleness and Recidivism; Curb Rising Health Care Costs; and Address Aging Infrastructure.”
In this low-key way, Inch is delivering the same message two prison secretaries before him have given. Pay now or pay later, they warned. The state must raise prison salaries, fix deteriorating buildings, and give inmates something to do or the financial cost that is burdening taxpayers will take an increasingly human toll.
Will legislators listen? The track record isn’t encouraging.
Gov. Scott started cutting
The Legislature began extracting money from the prison system in 2011-12, when as part of a campaign promise to cut $1 billion from the prison system and use the money to fill holes in the state’s recession-weary budget, then Gov. Rick Scott advanced a budget that cut 3,700 prison jobs by transitioning corrections officers from 8- to 12-hour shifts.
The decision led to a 150% increase in officer turnover, and ravaged the ranks of talent and experience. But it also allowed legislators to shift money from prisons to other programs.
In 2016, after being hit by lawsuits and pummeled by reports of inmate abuse and agency coverups, Scott would attempt to reverse the failed idea. He called for $36 million to return to 8-hour shifts and the hiring of 734 new corrections officers. But the Legislature had little sympathy.
Lawmakers gave Scott only 215 additional positions and left other budget holes so deep that then-FDC Secretary Julie Jones had to hold 1,300 positions vacant in 2016 to pay $25 million needed in officer overtime.
Florida taxpayers ultimately paid the tab for the cost savings that never materialized. By 2018-19, 4,400 corrections officers left the agency that fiscal year — 15.7% of the 28,000 workforce — at a cost of $159 million. New hires were trained, stayed for a year and then left for other jobs — often in local law enforcement where starting salaries are significantly higher.
In the last year, expenses attributed to the 36% turnover rate cost $36,226 for each officer who started with the agency, more than the $30,050 starting salary for most newly hired guards. There are now more than 3,000 vacant positions in Florida prisons, and the overtime costs $77 million.
Only the Legislature can stop this waste.
Every year it asks agencies to submit their budgets and then decides how much to allocate to them. The Florida Department of Corrections is the state’s largest agency, the nation’s third largest prison system, and has a budget of about $2.8 billion. That’s about 3% of what is expected to be a $92 billion budget.
A healthcare crisis
The most recent low point, Inch says, was in 2017. That year the agency had to shift money from payroll and operations in order to pay its healthcare bills in the face of court orders.
The personnel shortage cost more than overtime: 428 inmates died in custody in 2017, a 20% increase from the previous year, as violence among inmates reached an all-time high. Corrections officers were stabbed and beaten, and prisoners were killed in clashes that erupted between the keepers and the kept.
In July 2017, about 20 inmates at Gulf County Correctional Institution took over several dorms and injured seven correctional officers. Two months later, to quell rumors of another riot, then-Secretary Jones ordered all facilities on lockdown.
Inch, who served as a battalion commander at the military’s maximum security prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, said one of his responsibilities was to “be responsible for putting down any type of inmate uprising.”
He is now asking the Legislature to fund “security threat group sergeants” at every Florida prison. They will be responsible for keeping track of the criminal networks in the prison and watch for warning signs of unrest “so that you can then take action before you lose a facility.”
After hearing Inch assess the problem, Gov. Ron DeSantis has endorsed ending the 12-hour shift rule and supports offering retention bonuses to attract a more mature and experienced officer corps for Florida’s prisons.
Last week, he proposed a budget that includes a pilot program to move one-third of Florida’s corrections officers from 12-hour shifts to 8.5-hour workdays, $60 million in bonuses to retain staff who stay for two and five years, and the hiring of 292 new full-time officers.
Inch is also aware of the “culture issues.” At a recent training for lieutenants and captains in the officer corps, the instructor asked them to do some self reflection and write down three negative personality characteristics they have developed since taking this leadership position.
He read down the list of answers: “low regard toward humanity and the world,” “inability to vent or relieve stress,” “started drinking,” “short tempered,” “no sleep,” “attitude change at home almost caused my divorce.”
“That’s what 12-hour shifts and vacancy rate result in real people’s life,’’ Inch told legislators.
Inch calls the lieutenants and captains the core of the prisons.
“They have the biggest impact on the ground, and frankly discipline of, of our correctional officers. And if that is what they are feeling and what they are experiencing ... any optimism I have will never make it to the line staff.”
Sen. Jeff Brandes, a St. Petersburg Republican who heads the Senate Criminal Justice Appropriations subcommittee, doesn’t want a pilot program — he wants to end 12- and 16-hour shifts now for all officers.
Inch said it would be “exceptionally challenging to do an entire system in one year.”
What about programs for inmates?
At a meeting in September, Brandes told Inch he also wants to see more programming for inmates so they have less idle time.
“You’re providing only 6% of the inmates any type of programming,’’ he said. “That means this is an organization that is not focused on rehabilitation, it is simply warehousing.”
But Brandes, who has long advocated for more prisons resources, put the blame directly on his colleagues who have resisted annual calls to steer more of the budget into prisons.
“The Legislature must have the courage to do the right thing and fund this entity at the correct levels,’’ he said. “We are frankly overstuffed with inmates and underfunded and under guarded, and this has become a pervasive issue that is department wide.”
“The simple truth is, without significant resources coming into this department over and above what you’ve requested, I don’t know that the trends will not stay the same or continue to get worse,’’ he said.
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In an op-ed written in December 2018, in the right-wing news and opinion website The Daily Caller, Inch spelled out his view of prison, which serves as a counterpoint to the viewpoint of many conservatives. He forcefully rejects the notion that “the threat of imprisonment serves as a deterrence to future crime” by saying he is “unaware of any research to support this position.”
“Retribution and incapacitation is just, and rehabilitation and restoration is an expression of mercy,’’ he wrote, before DeSantis appointed him to the job. “I call on those who focus on the first, at the exclusion of the second, to search your heart for mercy. I call on those that focus on the second, to remember the cost of crime to society and victims, and temper your advocacy in light of these facts.”
Meanwhile, Inch is asking each of the state’s 50 wardens to read the “The Devil’s Butcher Shop” and come ready to discuss any parallels they see in their facilities at a meeting with all wardens.
“They have to be prepared to discuss their facility in light of this historical example,’’ Inch said. “It’s hard to spiritually describe when humanity leaves. But certainly that happened there.”
Legislature’s legacy of prison oversight
The Florida Legislature asks agencies to submit budget requests each year, and then lawmakers decide how much of the annual $80 billion to $92 billion budget to allocate to them. The Florida Department of Corrections is the state’s largest agency, the nation’s third largest prison system, and has a budget of about $2.8 billion.
But after lawmakers and former Gov. Rick Scott failed at privatizing most of the state’s prisons in 2011, the agency has been rife with problems. Legislators have responded by withholding requested funds, leading to more problems. Here is the timeline:
▪ 2010: Gov. Rick Scott campaigns on cutting $1 billion from Florida prisons. He is elected.
▪ January 2011: Randy Ball, a former legislator who works as the governor’s top prison budget adviser, warns Scott that it is impossible to safely cut $1 billion from the corrections budget as Scott had promised. He is asked to resign 18 hours later.
▪ May 2011: House and Senate leaders quietly tuck proviso language into the state budget requiring FDC to privatize 29 prisons, work camps and work release centers. The move, which is neither openly debated nor voted upon, opens the door to an unprecedented private prison expansion that would result in the termination of about 3,800 state employees and first-year savings for the state.
▪ July 2011: The Florida Police Benevolent Association, which represents prison employees, files a lawsuit challenging the back-door approach to the privatization move as illegal. A court agrees, and the privatization plan is halted, putting the prison budget $11 million in the red.
▪ February 2012: Florida legislative leaders try again to privatize prisons but their efforts are stymied by a 21-19 vote in the Senate when a coalition of Republicans joined Democrats to kill the bill.
▪ March 2012: Legislators expand a program to transition all corrections officers from 8 to 12- and 16-hour work shifts, allowing them to earn more money but also reducing 3,700 positions and creating new staffing and overtime costs that are not in the budget.
▪ February 2013: New Corrections Secretary Mike Crews tells a Senate committee the prison system has a $95 million deficit, half of it due to prison privatization efforts, and he has instituted a hiring freeze.
▪ May 2013: FDC is forced to shift money out of personnel funds to pay for immediate expenses such as food contracts and vehicle and building repairs.
▪ September 2013: Crews tells a Senate committee that the budget austerity is contributing to high turnover. Overtime has ballooned to $2.9 million a month. Institutions are so deteriorated that their electrical, plumbing and security systems are constantly failing. Staffing levels are so dangerously low that some institutions aren’t able to keep count of inmates. Use-of-force has doubled, and attacks on corrections officers has increased.
▪ October 2014: At the urging of the governor’s office, Crews submits a budget request to the Legislature that includes only half the number of officers he needs to fill vacancies and bring staffing up to safe levels. Because he considers the budget request a false statement of the agency’s real needs, Crews refuses to sign it and retires from the job.
▪ December 2014: Crews is replaced as FDC secretary by Julie Jones. Jones, a Broward County native and Florida Atlantic University graduate, had earlier in the year retired after five years as executive director of the state motor vehicle agency.
▪ Jan. 28, 2015: Jones requests funding to fill 654 staff vacancies, but Scott agrees to ask the Legislature for only 300 positions. The governor also rejects requests for new money to boost the salaries of corrections officers, who have not received raises in six years.
▪ May 2015: Legislators give the agency $17.5 million to hire 300 additional corrections officers. Turnover remains so high that although the agency hires 2,200 officers in six months, it loses 1,400.
▪ September 2015: Three independent audits commissioned by FDC and the Legislature conclude the lack of staff is costing the state $18 million in overtime and nearly $1 million a year to train new employees who end up leaving. The reports say officers augment their pay with overtime and illegal smuggling of contraband into prison facilities.
▪ September 2015: The Florida Justice Institute files a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 2,000 inmates alleging that FDC and medical services contractor Corizon LLC, denied hernia surgeries to prisoners to save money, in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
▪ January 2016: Scott asks to increase the FDC budget by $82 million and hire 734 additional correctional officers to return officers to eight-hour shifts.
▪ January 2016: Disability Rights Florida sues FDC alleging it failed to provide inmates with disabilities access to its programs and services in violation of federal law.
▪ February 2016: Jones reports a 17% turnover rate among officers, a rise in inmate-on-inmate and inmate-on-staff assaults and an explosion in drugs, tobacco and other contraband infiltrating the prisons.
▪ March 2016: Legislators fund 215 additional corrections officers, less than a third of the need, but increase the base pay for the first time in more than a decade, including a one-time increase for those working in mental health units.
▪ April 2016: Jones announces the agency must hold 1,300 positions open because the budget doesn’t include $25 million needed for officer overtime.
▪ July 6, 2016: Members of the union representing correction and probation officers write Scott and lawmakers and ask them to convene an emergency legislative session to address what they say is a “ticking time bomb.” Neither Scott nor the Legislature respond.
▪ September 2016: FDOC agrees to pay $150,000 and its healthcare provider, Corizon, agrees to pay $1,950,000, in a settlement that also requires the agency to amend its healthcare policy on hernias to ensure that prisoners are referred to doctors for consultations and receive the recommended care.
▪ Jan. 2017: Jones tells legislators that the corrections officer turnover rate is now almost 30% and 2,500 jobs remain open. She blames the $29,000 starting salary, the 12-hour shifts, and the absence of training.
▪ Jan. 29, 2017: Scott asks for $46 million in increased pay for correction and probation officers.
▪ March 16, 2017: Jones testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee that the state’s inmate population has dropped by 3,000 in the last year, but she can’t keep corrections officers on the job and that more than three-fourths of all corrections officers have less than two years’ experience.
▪ May 2017: Inmates who have been suffering for years from hepatitis C file a class-action lawsuit against FDC and its healthcare provider alleging they were denied treatment.
▪ July 2017: FDC reports overtime pay increased from $58.4 million in 2016-17 to $69.3 million in FY 2017-18.
▪ September 2017: FDC agrees to a settlement with Disability Rights Florida to provide inmates with disabilities programs and services, including the construction of a $5.9 million mental health hospital in Lake City.
▪ May 2018: Legislators approve $2.7 billion prison budget, a 6% increase over the previous year’s but with a $28 million deficit. Mental health units are supposed to convert to eight-hour shifts but, absent salary increases to offset the lost pay, the union sues to stop it.
▪ January 2019: Gov. Ron DeSantis names Mark Inch new corrections secretary, replacing Jones. A retired two-star Army general, Inch formerly served as director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
▪ June 2019: Law to allow 18-year-olds to serve as corrections officers takes effect, reducing the age in an attempt to alleviate the chronic officer shortage.
▪ Sept. 2019: Federal court chastises FDC for continuing to neglect prisoners with hepatitis C, orders agency to implement testing for HCV, treat prisoners’ chronic HCV infection, and orders treatment for prisoners with level 1 and 2 infections within two years. FDC is appealing the ruling.
▪ October 2019: Inch reports that the annual cost of officer turnover has soared 36% to $159 million. The state spends $36,226 for every new officer that is trained and leaves, exceeding the starting annual salary of $30,050 for new hires.
▪ November 2019: Gov. Ron DeSantis recommends a pilot program to move one-third of Florida’s corrections officers from 12-hour shifts to 8.5-hour workdays. The change will require the hiring of 292 new full-time officers.
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Home Business £500 million Japan deal announced by Aston Martin
£500 million Japan deal announced by Aston Martin
THE producer of luxury handcrafted sports cars, Aston Martin Lagonda, will drive trade and investment between the United Kingdom and Japan worth up to £500 million over the next five years.
The investment program was announced by Dr Andy Palmer, Aston Martin President and Chief Executive Officer, during his visit to Japan as part of the UK delegation accompanying British Prime Minister Theresa May.
The trade and investment created by the company, signals the importance of the Japanese luxury car market to the global success of Aston Martin.
Included in the announcement is that Aston Martin exports from the UK, at Jaguar Land Rover, in Gaydon, and St Athan plants, worth over £400 million, boosted by new sports cars and the introduction of the company’s first Sports Utility Vehicle.
It has also been announced that Aston Martin will buy more than £70 million in components from Japanese suppliers including Bridgestone, Denso, Mitsubishi and Yazaki.
The creation of an Aston Martin Meta Technology and Luxury Accelerator office in Japan, is planned to be opened in 2018.
Investments in a flagship global brand centre in Tokyo, new Aston Martin Japan HQ and further growth of the Aston Martin dealer network across Japan.
The Prime Minister said: “As we prepare to leave the European Union, it is vital that we build on our existing ties with friends and allies.
“Aston Martin is a prime example of the innovative and world leading firms the UK is proud of and I’m delighted they are joining me on this important trade mission.
“Aston Martin’s £500m deal will directly benefit the Gaydon plant in West Midlands and the St Athan plant in Wales helping safeguard existing jobs and opening new possibilities for future deals with Japan.”
Dr Palmer said: “Last week we unveiled our half yearly results, which saw Aston Martin register its third successive quarter of pre-tax profit. Our improving performance reflects rising demand for our new and special products.
“As the world’s second largest luxury car market, Japan is key to our future plans as we completely revitalise and expand our product portfolio under our Second Century plan. We have long enjoyed a loyal following from Japanese customers and the public alike, with our new dealership in Tokyo set to become our largest worldwide by volume.
“To ensure we are focused on the needs of Japanese and Asian customers, we are creating a Meta Technology and Luxury Accelerator office in Tokyo, reporting directly to HQ, to develop insights into luxury customer behaviour in Asia. This advanced product planning office is being created specifically to tap into research and technologies in the electric and connected car areas as well as the innovations Japan is making in the luxury market.” continued Palmer.
Between now and the conclusion of the Second Century plan in 2022, Aston Martin sales will more than double, making Japan one of the companies top five global markets by volume.
Aston Martin currently exports a range of four sports cars to Japan including the new DB11 model. In late 2019, the company will introduce a sports utility vehicle built at the company’s second manufacturing facility at St Athan, in Wales.
More than 80 per cent of Aston Martin production is exported, a figure set to increase as it grows sales overseas, particularly in the United States and Asia.
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In June, NASA asked the public for ideas related to a plan to capture an asteroid and move it into a stable lunar orbit for study. Lori Garver, NASA’s deputy administrator, says the agency received more than 400 ideas relating to tracking, identifying, and exploring asteroids.
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A Accommodation Ladder - A term applied to a portable flight of steps suspended over the side of a vessel from a gangway to a point
near the water, providing any easy means of access from a small boat. Accommodation Ladders are usually supplied with two platforms, one at each end. Sometimes called gangway ladder. Adrift - Floating at random; not fastened by and kind of mooring; at the mercy of winds and currents; loose from normal anchorage. A vessel is said to be adrift when she breaks away from her moorings, wharfs, and so on. Aft, After - Toward the stern or the back of the vessel. Between the stern and the midship section of the vessel. Afterbody - The section of the vessel aft of amidships. Aframax Carrier - A tanker of approximately 80,000 to 120,000 dwt.. Agency Fee - A fee charged to the ship by the ship's agent, representing payment for services while the ship was in port. Sometimes called attendance fee. Air Draft - The distance from the vessel's water line to the upper most point on the vessel, usually the top of a mast or radar tower. When a vessel has to transit areas where there may be overhead obstructions (bridges, power lines, cranes, loading arms, etc.) it is vital to know what its air draft (draught) will be at the time of transit. The air draft of a vessel will vary depending upon the draft of the vessel and its trim. Aloft - Above the deck. Allowed Lay Time - The number of hours allowed for loading and discharging a cargo as stipulated in a Charter Party. American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) - A Classification Society. Under the provisions of the U.S. Load-Line Acts - it has the authority to assign load lines to vessels registered in the U.S. and other countries. Amidships (or 'Midships') - The middle portion of a vessel. API - The American Petroleum Institute, founded in 1919, was the first oil trade association to include all branches of the petroleum industry. The API scale is a scale used to define the specific gravity of a cargo. It is mainly used in the crude trades, with the product trades preferring the metric SG scale. API Gravity (Relative Density) - A means used by the petroleum industry to express the density of petroleum liquids. API gravity is measured by a hydrometer instrument having a scale graduated in degrees API. The relation between API gravity and relative density (formerly called specific gravity) is: API Gravity at 60 Deg. F. = 141.5 - 131.5\Relative Density 60F/60F
Articles of Agreement - The Document containing all particulars relating to the terms of agreement between the Master of the vessel and the crew. Sometimes called ship's articles. Atlantic Basin - The Atlantic Ocean and the ports and seas surrounding it, including the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada, the U.S. Gulf and Caribbean Sea, the northern and eastern coasts of South America, the North Sea, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Back to the top B Backhaul - A deviation to move cargo on the return leg of a voyage for the purpose of minimizing ballast mileage and thereby reducing transportation cost. For example, N. Europe/ E.Med./ USNH/ Carib., versus N. Europe./ Carib. Ballast - Seawater taken into a vessel's tanks in order to submerge the vessel to proper trim. Ballast can be taken into cargo tanks, double bottoms, fore and aft peak tanks and/or segregated ballast tanks, (SBT). Clean - Term applied to the seawater used for ballast when it is not contaminated by any oil and is carried in clean tanks. Dirty - Term applied to the sea water used for ballast when it is contaminated with the remnants or residue left in cargo tanks that previously carried crude oil or heavy persistent refined oils. Permanent - Ballast carried in ship's tanks that were designed to carry nothing else. Segregated/Dedicated - Ballast kept in tanks segregated from cargo pipes and tanks. Ballast Movement - A voyage or voyage leg made without any paying cargo in a vessel's tanks. To maintain proper stability, trim, or draft, seawater is usually carried during such movements. Ballast Passage - The "ballast leg" of a voyage as differentiated from the "loaded leg." Ballast Pump - A pump used for filling and emptying the ballast tank. Ballast Tanks - The tanks used to carry the vessel's ballast. They may be permanent, dedicated, or cargo tanks. Bareboat Charter - Bareboat charterers hire the vessel for a period of time, usually several years, and are responsible themselves for all operational matters including crewing, insurance and maintenance of the vessel. Barge - Also lighter. A general name given to a flat-bottomed craft specially adopted for the transportation of bulk cargoes. Barrel - A volumetric unit of measurement equal to 42 US gallons. There are 6.2898 barrels in one cubic metre. Note that oil tankers do not carry
oil in barrels (although ships once did in the 19th century): the term is used to define the volume only. Beam - The width of a ship at its widest part. Also called its breadth. Berth - Dockage space for vessel. Sleeping quarters. Also slang for having a crew position on the vessel. Bilge - The lower internal part of the hull where the vertical sides meet the bottom. This term applies to both the inside and the outside of the hull. The internal space can be the lower part of a ship's hold or the engine room and serves as a drainage area where accumulated water can run into and be pumped from. Bill of Lading - A B/L is the basic document between a shipper and a carrier and a shipper and consignee. It represents the contract of carriage and defines the terms and conditions of carriage. It is the final receipt from the carrier for the goods shown on it and for the condition of the goods. It describes the nature, quantity and weight of the cargo carried. It is also the document of title of the goods shown. BIMCO - Baltic and International Maritime Council Bitts - Cast steel heads serving as posts to which mooring lines and cables are secured on a ship. Boilers - Steam generating units used aboard ship to provide steam for propulsion or for heating and other auxiliary purposes. Boiler Room - Compartment in which the ship's boilers are located. Bonded Bunkers - Ship's stores that can be delivered under special arrangement direct from a bonded warehouse to the vessel without payment of the custom duties. Bonded Stores - Ship's stores that can be delivered under special arrangements direct from a bonded warehouse to the vessel without payment of the customs duties. Boom - A general name given to a projecting spar or pole that provides an outreach for handling cargo. Boston Beam - Boston can only accommodate vessels with a maximum beam of 90 feet. Vessels which can comply with this (usually under 40,OOOmt dwt) are referred to as 'Boston Beamers'. Bow - The forward most part of a vessel. This area usually houses gear lockers and is the end where anchors and mooring equipment are located. Breadth - See Beam Bridge - A general term referring to that area of a vessel where the wheel house and chart room are located. It is the navigating section of a vessel.
Bridge AFT - Vessels with no midship house. All quarters with Bridge are contained in one superstructure at after end of vessel. Bulbous Bow - A large protruding bow section designed to break water friction allowing the vessel to make better speeds. Bulk Cargo - Usually a homogeneous cargo stowed in bulk, and not enclosed in any container. Bulkhead - A partition in a ship that divides the interior space into various compartments in the walls of a vessel's tanks. Bum Boat - A small open rowboat employed in carrying supplies for sale to vessels in a harbor. Bunkers - Fuel for a vessel. The type will vary depending upon the propulsion mode of the vessel. Steamships will use a heavy fuel oil, diesels use a range of fuels from heavy to light, and gas turbines generally use kerosene. Buoy - A floating object employed as an aid to mariners to mark the navigable limits of channels, their fairways, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, telegraph cables, and the like. Butterworth Tank Cleaning System - A mechanical device used for the purpose of cleaning oil tanks by means of high pressure jets of hot water. The apparatus basically consists of double opposed nozzles which rotate slowly about their horizontal and vertical axis and project two streams of water through all possible angles against all inside surfaces of the space being cleaned. The tank washing machines can deliver sprays of water at various temperatures and pressures that are dictated by the type of cargoes carried and the reasons for cleaning (Quick bottom wash through gas-freeing and tank entry for hot work). Back to the top C Call Letters - The letters assigned to the ship's radio (station). Camber - The arching of the deck upward measured at the centerline in inches per foot beam. Calibration - The process of adjusting, or of measuring the performance of a device. Calibration Tables (Gauge Or Tank Tables, Innage/ Ullage Tables) Tables developed by recognized industry methods that represent volumes in each tank according to the liquid (innage) or empty space (ullage) measured in the tank. The tables are entered with linear measurements (for example, feet, inches, meters, centimeters) to obtain calibrated volumes (for example, barrels, cubic meters or cubic feet). Canceling Date - A stated date after which, if a vessel is not ready to
load, the intending charterers have the option of canceling the charter. The passing of the canceling date leaves the owner's obligation unimpaired unless the charterer releases him. Cancellation Clause - A clause in a charter party whereby the charterer reserves the right to cancel the charter if the ship fails to arrive, ready to load, on a specified date at a named port. Capacity - The volume of a container or tank filled to a specified level. Capacity Plan - A general plan or inboard profile which gives all data relating to the capacity of cargo spaces, tanks, bunkers and storerooms. Capping - Routing a vessel around the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Cargo Hose - A hose usually of 6 to 10 inches in diameter used for the transfer of cargo from ship to shore and vice versa. Cargo Plan - A plan giving the quantities and description of the various grades carried in the ship's cargo tanks. Cargo Pump - Pump used on tankers for discharging cargo and loading or discharging ballast. Located, at the bottom of the pump room, these pumps are usually of the common duplex type, or turbine type of which the centrifugal is the most common. Cargo Quantity Option Certificate - A certificate signed by vessel and shore representatives acknowledging the amount of cargo intended to load. Catwalk - A raised bridge running fore and aft from the Midship House, and also called "walkway." It affords safe passage over the pipelines and other deck obstructions. Centerline - A horizontal fore-and-aft reference line, dividing the vessel into two symmetrical halves. Center Tanks - Cargo tanks located on the vessel's centerline. Centrifugal Pump - A pump consisting of a shaft to which vanes are attached and which rotates in a circular casing. Water or liquid flows into the casing near the center of the rotating shaft and is propelled outward along the vanes by centrifugal force. It escapes through a discharge pipe at the circumference of the casing. Chain Locker - The compartment for storing the anchor chains, located near the bow of the ship. Charterer - The company or person given the use of the vessel for the transportation of cargo or passengers for a specified time. Charter Party - A document of contract, or agreement, by which a shipowner agrees to lease, and a charterer agrees to hire, an entire ship, or all or part of the cargo space to carry cargo for an agreed sum under
certain conditions. Bareboat Charter - Owner lets an unmanned ship for a long period at a rate that covers any depreciation and nominal return. Charterer mans the vessel and pays all operating expenses. To Fix A Charter - To reach final agreement on the terms of a charter party. Charter Rates - The tariff applied for chartering tonnage in a particular trade. Disponent Owner - Charterer who has sublet the vessel and is acting as the owner per the terms of the contract. Charter Types Contract of Affreightment (COA) - A service contract under which a ship owner agrees to transport a specified quantity of fuel products or specialty products, at a specified rate per ton between designated loading and discharge ports. This type contract differs from a spot or consecutive voyage charter in that no particular vessel is specified. (Rates are usually discounted below other forms of contracts.) Period Charter - Refers to consecutive voyage (C/V) exceeding four voyages, time charters (T/C) and bareboat charters. - Note: Loose term may have other connotations. Spot (Voyage) Charter - A charter for a particular vessel to move a single cargo between specified loading port(s) and discharge port(s) in the immediate future. Contract rate (spot rate) covers total operating expenses such as port charges, bunkering, crew expenses, insurance, repairs, and canal tolls. The charterer will generally pay all cargo-related costs. Time Charter (T/C) - A charter for varying periods of time, usually between two and ten years, under which the owner hires out the vessel to the shipper fully manned, provisioned, stored and insured. The charterer is usually responsible for bunkers, port charges, canal tolls and any crew overtime connected with the cargo. The charter rate (hire) is quoted in terms of a cost per month per deadweight ton. Classification of Petroleum - Classes "A-C" of petroleum are considered flammable and have a flash point of 80 F or below. Examples of these classes range from very light napthas (Class A) to most crude oils (Class C). Class D cargoes such as kerosene and heavy crudes are considered combustible and have a flash point above 80 F but below 150 F. Class E cargoes are the heavier fuel oils and lubricating oils and have a flash point above 150 F. Classification Society - The professional organizations which class and certify the strength and seaworthiness of vessel construction. Class and certification issued to each vessel may be required for insurance purposes. American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Lloyds Register of Shipping are two of the most well known classification societies in the world today. Clean Service - Tanker transportation of products lighter than residual fuels, e.g. distillates, including No. 2 Heating Oil.
Clean Ship - Refers to tankers that have their cargo tanks free of traces of dark persistent oils that remain after carrying crudes and heavy fuels oils. Clingage - The residue that adheres to the inside surface of a container, such as a ship's tank or shore tank, after it has been emptied. Closed Gauging System - A method of obtaining measurements of the tank contents without opening the tank. This may be accomplished by using automatic tank gauges or by taking measurements through a pressure/vapor lock standpipe. This type of gauging is done extensively on vessels with inert gas systems. Such a system that allows no vapors to be lost to the atmosphere is a true closed system while other types that allow minimum vapors to be lost to the atmosphere are called "restricted systems." Cofferdam - The narrow, empty space between two adjacent watertight or oiltight compartments. This space is designed to isolate the two compartments from each other and/or provide additional buoyancy. It prevents any liquid contents of one compartment from entering the other in the event of a bulkhead failure. In oil tankers, cargo spaces are usually isolated from the rest of the ship by cofferdams fitted at both ends of the tank body. Coils - These are the heating elements in the cargo tanks which are used to heat DPP cargoes on the laden voyage so that the cargo is fluid enough to discharge efficiently at the discharge port. Alternatively, some vessels are fitted with heat exchangers. Combined carriers, or combination carriers - Ships designed to be able to carry both oil cargoes or 'dry' cargoes such as iron ore or grain, in the hope that the vessel can maximise earnings by swapping between wet and dry cargoes and eliminate some of the time spent 'in ballast'. Note that the vessel alternates cargoes, and does not carry both oil and dry cargo at the same time. Consignee - The person to whom cargo is consigned as stated on the bills of lading. Consignor - The shipper of the cargo. Contamination - The result from commingling of a grade of cargo with a sufficient quantity of another grade to destroy the characteristics of the cargo. Contract of Affreightment, (COA) - A service contract under which a Ship owner agrees to transport a specified quantity of fuel products or specialty products, at a specified rate per ton, between designated loading and discharging ports. This type of contract differs from a spot or consecutive voyage charter in that no specific vessel is specified. (Rates are usually discounted below other forms of contracts.) Controlled Fleet - All ships owned and period chartered by affiliate(s).
CPP or clean petroleum products - Liquid products refined from crude oil, whose color is less than or equal to 2.5 on the National Petroleum Association scale. CPP's include Naphtha, let fuel, Gasoline, and Diesel/Gasoil. CST, or centistokes A measurement scale for the viscosity of a liquid. Crosshaul - Two ships on intersecting trade routes. This voyage pattern may indicate uneconomic vessel llocation. For example; Aruba/Fawley and Puerto la Cruz/New York. Crude Oil Wash (COW) - A method of cleaning tanks using oil from the ship's cargo. COW is normally used when a tanker is discharging. Oil is taken from the tanks and pumped through a special line to fixed or semifixed tank washing machines where it is sprayed against all inside surfaces of the tank. This procedure removes any cargo which is 'clinging' to the surfaces of the tank. Cubic Capacity - The inside measurement of a tanker's cargo compartments or tanks, usually expressed in barrels or cubic feet/meters. Cubic Limitation - Reaching cargo tank capacity before vessel sinks to its load-line. This is usually caused by loading a light crude (crude with a high API) or clean products. Back to the top D Davits - A set of arms on a ship from which its lifeboats are suspended. Deadfreight - Non-utilization of cargo carrying capacity on a vessel. Deadweight - Deadweight Tonnage (DWT) - The lifting or carrying capacity of a ship when fully loaded. This measure is expressed in long tons when the ship is in salt water and loaded to her marks. When loaded to her summer marks the value is for her summer deadweight (SWDT). It includes cargo, bunkers, water, (potable, boiler, ballast), stores, passengers and crew. 1 Long Tons = 2,204.6 lbs. Deadweight Scale - A table that is part of the vessel plans and indicates the draft the vessel will be down to at any particular phase of loading. Deck - A platform or horizontal floor that extends from side to side of a ship. The main deck is the highest complete deck on a ship (the one which runs the full length of the ship). Deck Log - Also called Captain's Log, scrap logbook or rough logbook. A full nautical record of a ship's voyage, written up at the end of each watch by the deck officer on watch. The principle entries are: course steered; distance run; compass variations, sea and weather conditions; ship's positions, principal headlands passed; names of lookouts, and any unusual happenings such as fire, collision, and the like. Deck Officer - As distinguished from engineer officer, refers to all officers
who assist the master in navigating the vessel when at sea, and supervise the handling of cargo when in port. Deck Stores - The spare gear and consumable stores provided for the upkeep and safe working of the tanker and her cargo, excluding stores used in engine room. Deep Water Route - A designated area within definite limits which has been accurately surveyed for clearance of sea bottom and submerged obstacles to a minimum indicated depth of water. Demise Charter- Also called bareboat charter in which the bare ship is chartered without crew; the charterer, for a stipulated sum, taking over the vessel with a minimum of restrictions usually for 10 or more years. See Bareboat Charter. Demurrage Amounts paid by charterers to the owners of a vessel under a spot charter for time used for charterers' business in port, over and above the amount allowed for in the Charter Party, according to the terms, conditions and exceptions laid out in the Charter Party. Demurrage calculations can often be very complex. Density - The density of a homogeneous substance is the ratio of its mass to its volume. The density varies as the temperature changes and it is usually expressed as the mass per unit volume at a specified temperature. Absolute Density - The mass of a substance per unit volume at a specified temperature. Relative Density - The ratio of the mass of a given volume of fluid to the mass of an equal volume of pure water at the same temperature and pressure. Relative density replaces the term "specific gravity". Relative Density At 60 - Fluid relative density measured against water with both materials at 60 degrees F and reference pressure of 14.696 psia (or equilibrium pressure). Equivalent to "RD 60/60". Deviation - A departure from a voyage pattern on either the forward or return leg of a voyage. Dirty Ballast - Applies to the seawater used for ballast when it is contaminated with the remnants or residue left in cargo tanks that previously carried crude persistent refined oils. Dirty Ship - Refers to tankers that have been carrying crude oil and heavy persistent oils such as fuel oil and dirty diesel oils. Dispatch - The function of issuing voyage instructions or sailing orders to vessels. Also an agreed amount to be charged by terminals for prompt vessel turn around. Dispatch Days - Days saved in the loading and discharge of a cargo vessel within the (lay) time allowed under the charter party. Note: Dispatch is not usually applied in the tanker business. Displacement Tonnage - Expressed in tons it is the weight the water
displaced by the vessel which in turn is the weight of the vessel at that time. The vessel's light displacement is the weight of the vessel only and the vessel's loaded displacement is the weight of the vessel and all cargo, stores, fuel, water, etc. on board. Disponent Owner - Charterer who has sublet the vessel and is acting as the owner per the terms of the contract. DOC. Document of compliance - This is a certificate issued to the operating company to attest to its compliance to the ISM (International Safety Management) rules. Double Bottom - A general term used for all watertight spaces contained between the outside bottom plating, the tank top and the margin plate. Double bottoms are usually sub-divided into a number of separate tanks and can be used to hold clean ballast, potable or boiler feed water, or fuel. They also provide a measure of protection for cargo tanks if bottom plating is damaged in the event of grounding. Chances of pollution may be diminished due to this protection. Double Hull Often referred to as double skin - A design of tanker which has double sides and a double bottom. The spaces created in the double sides and bottom are used for ballast, and provide a protective distance between the cargo tanks and the outside world. DPP or dirty petroleum products - Liquid products refined from crude oil, whose color is greater than 2.5 on the National Petroleum Association scale. DPP's will usually require heating during the voyage as their viscosity or waxiness would make discharge difficult at ambient temperature. DPP's include Fuel oil, Low Sulfur Waxy Residue (LSWR) and Carbon Black Feedstock (CBFS). Double Sided - Hull construction design in which a tanker has an inner and outer side. Draft - The depth of a ship in the water. This distance is measured from the bottom of the ship to the surface of the water. Draft marks are cut into or welded on the surface of a ship's plating. They are placed forward and aft on both sides of the hull and also amidships. At the midships draft we will also find the authorized Load Line markings which designate maximum drafts allowed for vessels under various conditions.
Dry Certificate - A document issued at the discharge port by a representative of the consignee indicating that each shipboard cargo tank has been completely discharged. Drydock, or d/d - Periodically all vessels must enter a drydock as part of the vessel's maintenance procedures and survey requirements to allow for various inspections and maintenance work. This will usually be conducted every 2 2.5 years although some more modern vessels are designed to go 5 years between drydockings DWT, or Deadweight The cargo carrying
capacity of a vessel, in metric tonnes, plus the weight of bunkers, stores, fresh water etc. Back to the top E Ensign - The flag carried by a ship as insignia of her nationality. "ETA" - Estimated Time of Arrival. Even Keel - The existing conditions of a vessel whose fore and aft drafts are equal. Back to the top F Filling Density - The ratio of the weight of liquid in a tank to the weight of distilled water at 60 F. the tank will hold. It is expressed as a percent. Fixing This is the term used for concluding a charter party negotiation. A charter party contract is often referred to as a 'fixture'. A vessel whose next employment has been arranged is referred to as 'fixed'. Flag State - Any state that allows ships to be registered under its laws. Flags of Necessity (or Convenience) - Flag states that provide lesser economic, financial, tax and/or regulatory burdens to ship owners registering their ships in those countries. Flame Screen (or Arrester) - A device comprised of a fine wire gauze that is fitted into the discharge end of a vent line. It prevents the passage of flame, but will allow vapor to pass through. Flame screens are also fitted to removable ullage plugs used to cover ullage holes on cargo tank tops. Force Majeure - Clause permitting contract to be broken in the event of uncontrollable events, e.g. war, strike government action, which preclude its fulfillment. Fore, Foreward - Toward the stem or the bow. The section of the vessel between the stem and amidships. Forepeak - The narrow extremity of the vessel's bow. Also the tank located in that part of the ship. Frames - The ribs of a ship. Free on Board (FOB) - Incoterm. The charterer is responsible for the cost of loading the cargo. Freeboard - The distance from the water line to the top of the weather deck on the side. Freight Rate - The charge made for the transportation of freight.
Fuel Oil - A name given to the heaviest grades of residual fuel used in marine oil burning boilers. Back to the top G Gangway (Gangplank) - A device by which persons come on board or disembark the vessel. Gas Free - An atmospheric condition in a tank when it is free from any concentration of inflammable, noxious or toxic gases and vapors. Gas Free Certificate - A certificate issued by a chemist after sampling the air in a tanker's cargo tanks after the cargo has been pumped out. It is endorsed with one of the following notations: (1) Safe for men, (2) Not safe for fire, (3) Safe for men and fire, (4) Not safe. Gauging - A process of measuring height of a liquid in a storage tank usually using a weighted graduated steel tape and bob. General Arrangement Plan - A drawing of a ship which lists all necessary statistics and operating information such as LOA, SDWT, cargo, water, fuel capacity, etc. The deadweight scale is also contained on this important chart which is usually posted outside the ship's office or mate's cabin. General Average - A general contribution of money paid by all parties concerned in a marine adventure in direct proportion to their several interests when a voluntary or deliberate sacrifice has been made of one or more of the party's goods in time of peril with a view to saving the remainder of the property. Gross Tonnage (GT, or GRT) - A measurement of volume including most of the confined spaces on board a vessel. The figure is often used as a basis for calculating port charges.
Back to the top H HW - High water in port as determined by tides which might affect the amount of cargo a vessel can load. Handy Size - Tankers of about 12,000 to 25,000 DWT. Handymax tanker Tanker of about 30 50,OOOmt dwt. Harbor Dues - Various local charges against all seagoing vessels entering a harbor, to cover maintenance of channel depths, buoys, and lights. etc. All harbors do not necessarily have this charge. Hawse Pipe, Hawse - The hole in the bow through which the anchor chain passes.
Hawser - A cable used in warping or mooring the vessel. Heating Coils - Coils located in the bottom of cargo tanks that steam passes through to heat cargo. The heat lowers the viscosity of the cargo and permits easier pumping of the cargo at the discharge port. Vessels in clean service normally do not have or need heater coils as the viscosity of the clean products (with the exception of some lube oils) is high enough to permit easy pumping at atmospheric temperatures. Hog (Hogging) - The condition of a vessel caused by the unequal distribution of cargo. When a vessel loads too heavily at the ends it causes an arching, or bending upward, of the hull at the midships area. This can also be caused by the vessel working in heavy seas with a large wave under the amidships section. Hull - The body of the vessel not including its masting, rigging etc. Back to the top I IMO - International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency that issues international trade standards for shipping. In Class - A vessel currently meeting all the requirements of its Classification Society is "in-class". Inert Gas (IG) - A gas used by marine tank vessels to displace air in cargo tanks to reduce oxygen content to 8 percent or less by volume and thus reduce possibility of fire or explosion. The inert gas used is usually nitrogen, carbon dioxide or a mixture of gases such as flue gas. Inert Gas System (IGS) - A mechanical method of introducing inert gas into a vessel's tanks. An inert gas is one which has little or no ability to react with other gases, or to heat. Examples of inert gases are nitrogen and CO2. Shipboard inert gas systems utilize CO2, either from flue gas sources or from inert gas generators. Inerting - A procedure used to reduce the oxygen content of a vessel's cargo spaces to 8 percent or less by volume by introducing an "inert" gas blanket such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide or a mixture of gases such as flue gas. Innage - The amount of space within a tank that is occupied by oil. Innages are sometimes called soundings or body gauges. Inshore Traffic Zone - A designed area between the landward boundary of a traffic separation scheme and the adjacent coast intended for coastal traffic. Inspector - A person assigned to determine the quantity and/or the quality of a commodity. Company Inspector - A Company employee given the responsibility of determining the quantity and/or the quality of a volume of oil being moved or stored.
Independent Inspector (Cargo Surveyor) - A person or organization of persons acting independently, but on behalf of, one or more parties involved in the transfer, storage, inventory or analysis of a commodity for purposes of determining the quantity, and/or quality of a commodity. They may also be assigned to the calibration of various measurement instruments and/or storage tanks ashore or on vessels. Intake Certificate - A document issued by the shipper indicating the amount of cargo loaded aboard the vessel as calculated from the shore tank gauges. Freight is paid on the basis of these figures. Intermediate Fuels - Light, residual-type fuel oils with characteristics between bunker fuel and marine diesel fuel, typically used in motor ships. It is quoted in terms of Redwood per second. International Loadline Certificate - A document issued by a classification society stating the minimum freeboard granted to a vessel and giving the position of the loading disc on the ship's side. Intertanko - International Association of Independent Tanker Owners. IP - Institute of Petroleum ISGOTT - International Safety Guide for Tankers and Terminals Isherwood System - A method framing a vessel which employs closely spaced longitudinals with extra heavy floors spaced further apart. Most tankers use this type of framing system. ISM. International Safety Management - A set of regulations that operators of tankers must comply with, which aims to improve the safety standards of the tanker industry.
Back to the top J Jacob's Ladder - A rope ladder with wooden rounds used for getting on or off a vessel not at a berth. Also referred to as a pilot's ladder because of its extensive use by vessel's pilots. Jettison - The act of throwing goods or pumping cargo overboard to lighten a ship to improve stability in an emergency. Back to the top K Keel - The backbone of the ship. It is a longitudinal beam or plate in the extreme bottom of a ship from which the ribs or floors start.
Knot - A nautical mile (6,080 ft.). Back to the top L Laden Loaded with cargo - The opposite is 'in ballast'. Laden/ballast ratio - A comparison of the time the vessel spends employed compared with the time spent without a cargo, which is sometimes used as a management tool to assess performance. Lay days - The period of time described in the charter party during which the owner must tender his ship for loading. The charterer is not obliged to start loading before the commencement of lay days. The charterer may cancel the charter if the ship does not tender prior to the expiration of lay days. Laytime On a spot voyage - laytime is the amount of time in port granted by the owners of the vessel under the terms of the charter party for the charterers to arrange for the loading and discharging of the cargo. The usual amount of total time allowed to charterers in the tanker trades is 72 running hours. Any excess time used will be paid for at an agreed rate. This is known as demurrage. In the tanker trades, any time saved (dispatch) will not be credited to charterers, however. Length Between Perpendiculars (LBP) - The length of the vessel measured between the forward part of the stem to the after part of the rudder post. Letter of Protest or Notice of Apparent Discrepancy - A letter issued by any participant in a custody transfer citing any condition with which issue is taken. This serves as a written record that the particular action or finding was questioned at the time of occurrence. Length Overall (LOA) - The extreme length of the vessel measured from the foremost part to the aftermost part of the hull. Lighter - 1) General name for a broad, flat-bottomed boat used in transporting cargo between a vessel and the shore. The distinction between a lighter and a barge is more in the manner of use than in equipment. The term "lighter" refers to a short haul, generally in connection with loading and unloading operations of vessels in harbor while the term "barge" is more often used when the cargo is being carried to its destination or over a long distance. 2) To load or discharge cargo to or from another vessel. VTBL vessel to be lightered. Lighterage - 1) Fee charged for conveying cargo by lighters or barges. 2) Area where vessels normally lighter. Lightering - Conveying cargo with another vessel known as a lighter from a ship to shore, or voyage. Lightweight - A measurement of mass representing the weight of the
ship when completely empty. Usually expressed in long tons (22401bs). Limited Liability - The law that permits a shipowner to restrict his liability to the value of this vessel after the accident plus the earnings for the voyage. Limber Holes - Holes in the bottoms of stringers through which cargo flows through to the suction strums. List - The leaning of the vessel to the port or starboard. Lloyd's Register of Shipping - British classification society. LOA - Length overall The length of the vessel from stem to stern. A handymax may have an LOA of 180m, a modern panamax 225m, a VLCC over 300m. Load Displacement - The displacement of a vessel when it floats at its loading draft. Load Line - The maximum draft to which the vessel may load. The line on a vessel indicating the maximum depth to which that vessel can sink when fully loaded with cargo. Also known as its marks. Load on Top (LOT) - is defined as both a procedure and a practice. Procedure: Load on top is the shipboard procedure of collecting and settling water and oil mixtures, resulting from ballasting and tank cleaning operations (usually in a special slop tank or tanks), and subsequently loading cargo on top of and pumping the mixture ashore at the discharge port. Practice: Load on top is the act of commingling on-board quantity with cargo being loaded. Loaded Passage - The passage during which the tanker is carrying cargo. Log - An apparatus for measuring the speed of a vessel through the water. Also, an entry made in a logbook to record any event e.g. to enter in the logbook the name of a seaman and his offense and the penalty attached to it. Long Ton - A unit of weight = 2,240 pounds or 1,106 kilos. LOOP - The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, a 19 mile-long underwater pipeline connecting Louisiana with offshore tankers. The LOOP provides VLCCs and VPLUSs with an alternative method of delivering crude oil to port rather than Caribbean transshipments and lightering. LRi and LR2 - Size of clean vessel equivalent to panamax and aframax, which see. LR stands for Long Range. LT - or long ton Imperial weight measurement equal to 22401bs. A long ton is 1.6% heavier than a metric tonne.
Lumpsum - The alternative to fixing on a'Worldscale' basis for spot charter parties, is to fix an agreed lumpsum freight amount for a specific voyage. Lumpsum fixtures are more common in the products trades than in the crude oil markets.
Back to the top M MARPOL regulations - A series of internationally ratified IMO regulations pertaining to the marine environment and the prevention of pollution. Marine Surveyor - A duly qualified person who examines ships to ascertain their condition, on behalf of owners, underwriters, etc. Also called "ship surveyor" or simply "surveyor". Maritime Law - That system of jurisprudence that prevails in courts having jurisdiction of marine causes. Also called marine or admiralty law. It is a branch of both international and commercial law. Mean Draft - The average of the drafts measured at the bow and the stern. Metric Ton - A unit of weight 2,204.6 pounds (1,000 kilograms). Midship Draft - The draft read at the midship markings. This draft can, and often does, differ from the Mean Draft due to hogging or sagging. Molded Breadth - The breadth of the hull at the widest part, measured between the outer surfaces of the frames. Molded Depth - The depth measured between the top of the keel, or lower surface of the frame at the center line, and top of the upper deck beam at the gunwale. Mooring Line - Any hawser by which a vessel is secured to a dock or mooring. It may be made of natural materials (manila), synthetics, (polypropylene), or wire. Under certain circumstances the anchor chain is detached from the anchor and a section of that is used to secure the vessel. MR - Another term for a tanker of around 25 50,000mt dwt (see handymax). MR stands for Medium Range. MT, or metric tonne - A unit of weight, one tonne being 1000kg. Note that one cubic metre of fresh water (SG 1.00) at 15C will weigh exactly one metric tonne. Back to the top N N/B - New building.
Net Capacity - The number of tons of cargo which a vessel can carry when loaded in salt water to her summer freeboard marks. Also called cargo carrying capacity, cargo deadweight, and useful deadweight. Net Registered Tonnage - The internal capacity of a vessel measured in units of 100 cubic feet less the space occupied by boilers, engines, shaft alleys, chain lockers, officer's and crew quarters and other spaces not available for carrying passengers or freight. Net registered tonnage is usually referred to as registered tonnage or net tonnage. Net Tonnage - The volumetric cargo capacity of a ship expressed on the basis of 100 cubic feet to the ton. On passenger vessels it also includes space used by passengers. Norske Veritas - Norwegian classification society. Notice of Readiness (NOR) - Notice served by the Master to inform the terminal/charterer the vessel is ready in all respects to load or discharge cargo. Back to the top O OBQ (On Board Quantity) - The material remaining in vessel tanks, void spaces, and/or pipelines prior to loading. On-board quantity includes water, oil, slops, oil residue, oil/water emulsions, sludge, and sediment. OCIMF - The oil companies' international marine forum is an organization of oil companies that own or operate ships. Off-Specification Product/Cargo - Refined products or other cargo that does not meet normal quality requirements and therefore require special handling and restraints to assure separation from specification products/cargo. Off-Hire Day - Each day, or part thereof, during which a tanker is not earning revenue from the charterer. OPA90, or US Oil Pollution Act of 1990 - Legislation passed in the USA which details, amongst other things, certain regulations regarding the age and hull type of tankers, and vessel operators' liabilities and responsibilities with regard to the US marine environment. OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Members include Algeria, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela. Operating Costs - The costs incurred by the shipowner during a voyage or time charter, and by the charterer in a bareboat charter. Comprised mainly of: crew wages and associated costs; insurance (hull and machinery, and protection and indemnity premiums); cost of lubricants and spare parts; repair and maintenance (routine maintenance, drydockings and classification fees).
Outage (Ullage) - The depth of the space in a tank not occupied by oil. Same as ullage. It is measured from the flange of the ullage hole to the surface of the oil. Also the space left in a petroleum product container to allow for expansion as a result of temperature changes during shipment and use. Out-Turn Certificate - A document issued by the receivers of cargo indicating the amount of cargo discharged. Back to the top P Panamax - The maximum size ship that can fit through the Panama Canal in terms of width, length and draft generally about 80,000dwt. Passage - A journey from one port or place to another, as distinguished from the term "voyage" which refers to a ballast and loaded passage. Also sometimes called trip. Peak Tank - Tanks in the forward and after ends of the vessel. The principal use of peak tanks is in trimming the ship. Per Calendar Day (Month/Year) Costs - Vessel's costs expressed as $ per day (month/year) for a calendar period during which the vessel was in service. The number of calendar days (months/years) are divided into the total costs incurred during the period. Per Operating Day (Month/Year) Costs - Vessel's costs expressed as $ per day (month/(year) during which the vessel actually operated. It includes the costs incurred while the vessel was idle for repairs or other non-operating reasons. The number of operating days (excluding nonoperating delays) are divided into the total costs. PCNT - Panama Canal Net Tonnage A measurement based on volumes in accordance with the Panama Canal Authority rules, which is used to calculate the charges for transiting the Panama Canal. Pilot House - The enclosed space on the navigating bridge from which a ship is controlled when underway. Plating - The steel plates which form the shell or skin of the vessel. Plimsoll Mark - The mark on the side of a classed vessel which indicates its safe load lines at varying seasonal conditions. Port - The left side of a vessel when an observer is facing forward looking toward the bow. Also a door on a ship. Port Charges - General term which includes charges and dues of every nature assessed against the vessel or its cargo in a port. It usually includes harbor dues, tub boat charges, pilotage fees, custom house fees, consular fees, etc.
Port of Registry - The port at which a vessel is registered and to which she is considered to belong. The port of registry is shown on the stern below the name of the vessel. Port State - A state that has ports to which ships call. The port state makes regulations the calling ships must adhere to. The port state control is the controlling authority of the port state on shipping such as the coast guard or naval authorities. Port Time (Two Types) - 1) Seabuoy to Seabuoy - The time elapsed between the vessel's passing the port's seabuoy upon entrance to repassing it upon exit. It includes time for steaming in and out of berth, delays, hose connections, anchorage time, clearing and loading or unloading time. 2) Port to Port - Includes only time for delays, hose connections, anchorage time, clearing and loading or unloading time. Use must be consistent with voyage mileage basis. Portable Measurement Unit (PMU) - A device designed to measure the ship's cargo when its tanks are closed to the atmosphere. It is used in conjunction with a vapor control valve. Portable Sampling Unit (PSU) - A device designed to sample the ship's cargo when its tanks are closed to the atmosphere. It is used in conjunction with a vapor control valve. Position Report (Position Sheets) - A summary of worldwide movements for vessel prepared by the Fleet Coordinators. Posted Price (Contract Price) - The price for marine fuel oils which appears on a price list published by marine fuel oil (bunker) brokers. Pour Point - The lowest temperature at which oil will remain liquid. Premium - Surcharge over general market rate level to compensate the vessel's owner for an unusually difficult trade, e.g. Lake/Aruba, or to correct for an imbalance in supply/demand conditions in a given area. Pressure/Vacuum Valve (P/V Valve) - An automatic dual purpose valve, commonly fitted in the vent lines of tankers. When in the closed position, the function of this valve is to relieve either pressure or vacuum in a tank. When in the open position it allows the passage of air or vapor into and out of the tank. Pressure - The amount of force exerted on a unit of area by a fluid. Absolute Pressure - The pressure referenced to a perfect vacuum as zero pounds per square inch absolute. Atmospheric Pressure - The pressure exerted by the atmosphere. Although this pressure varies with altitude, barometric pressure and humidity, the atmospheric pressure can be defined in custody transfer contracts, or by state and federal authorities. Atmospheric pressure is most often stated as 14.696 pounds per square inch absolute. Back Pressure - The operating pressure level measured upstream from a
control valve. Gauge Pressure - That pressure measured relative to atmospheric pressure as zero, usually designated psig. High Vapor Pressure - A fluid which, at the measurement or proving temperature, has a vapor pressure that is equal to or higher than atmospheric pressure. Low Vapor Pressure - A fluid which, at the measurement or proving temperature, has a vapor pressure that is less than atmospheric pressure. Reid Vapor Pressure - The vapor pressure of a fluid at 100 degrees Fahrenheit as determined by test method ASTM D 323-58. Static Pressure - The pressure in a fluid that is exerted normal to the surface. In a moving fluid, the static pressure is measured at right angles to the direction of flow. Protest, Notice of - A letter issued by any participant in a voyage citing any condition with which issue is taken. This serves as a written record that the particular action or finding was questioned at the time of occurrence. For example a declaration made by the Master before a notary public or consular official when through stress of weather, there has been or the master fears that there might have been, damage to the vessel or cargo. Copies are frequently demanded by insurance underwriters in the event of a claim. Protection & Indemnity Insurance - Mutual protection provided by an association of shipowners against liabilities not covered by insurance. Pumproom - An enclosed area on a tank vessel which houses main and stripping cargo pumps, ballast pumps, educators and the associated piping and valves necessary for their operation. Back to the top Q Quarter - A side of a ship aft, between the main midship frames and stern. Also a side of the ship forward, between the main frames and stem. Back to the top R Rate - The cost, or revenue, for a particular voyage based on a standard of reference, e.g. Worldscale, INTASCALE, ATRS. Reducer- A short section of pipe, having one end of smaller diameter than the other and having a flange on each end, for connecting a smaller hose or pipe to a pipe of constant diameter. Registry - A duty imposed on shipowners in order to secure to their vessels the privileges of ships of the nation to which they belong.
Re-Positioning - The movement of a vessel in ballast to shift it from one trading pattern to another. Restricted Measurement System - A measurement system designed to measure the ship's cargo when its tanks are closed to the atmosphere. During measurements a minimum amount of cargo vapors might escape to the atmosphere Relative Density - See DENSITY ROB (Remain on Board) - The material remaining in vessel tanks, void spaces, and/or pipelines after discharge. Remaining on board quantity includes water, oil, slops, oil residue, oil/water emulsions, sludge, and sediment. Rogue Wave - An ocean wave much larger than the current wave sequence. This wave may also be outside the current wave direction and may be 100 feet or more in height Route - See Deep Water Route, Traffic Route, Two-Way-Route. Means Whichever type is appropriate in the context unless otherwise specified. Routing - A complex of measures concerning routes aimed at reducing the risk of casualties; it includes traffic separation schemes, two-way routes, tracks, areas to be avoided, inshore traffic zones, and deep water routes. Rudder - The flat or shaped frame hung to the sternpost of a ship, which is used to steer the ship. Rules of the Road - The rules and regulations accepted by international agreement and enforced by law in marine countries which govern the movements of ships when approaching each other under such circumstances that a collision may possibly ensue. Back to the top S Safe for Men - A term signifying that the vapor content of a space so certified is less than 0.1 on a gas indicator. Safe for Men and Fire - A term signifying that the vapor content of a space so certified is 0.1 or less on a gas indicator and that the space contains no oil or sediment which could produce vapors. Sag (Sagging) - The condition of a vessel caused by the unequal distribution of cargo. When a vessel loads too heavily in the center it causes a bending downward of the hull at the midships area. This can also be caused by the vessel working in heavy seas with large waves under each end and no support under the center of the ship. Sag is the opposite of Hog. Sampling - The process of obtaining a sample of the material in the tank,
container or pipeline to use for testing or other purposes. This can be achieved by automatic or manual means. The following are the most common types of samples taken: All-Levels Sample - A sample obtained by lowering a weighted, stoppered bottle or beaker or bottle to a point 1 foot (0.3 meter) above the free water level and then, with a sharp jerk of the line opening the sampler and raising it at a rate that it is about 75% full (a maximum of 85% full) as it emerges from the liquid. Automatic Sample - A sample taken by automatic means. The two basic types of automatic samples are: Flow-Proportional Sample - A sample taken by an automatic sampler from a pipeline at a rate that is proportional to the liquid flow rate. Time-Proportional Sample - A sample taken from a pipeline at regular intervals during a batch transfer period. Bottom Sample - A spot sample taken from the material at the bottom of the tank. Lower Sample - A spot sample obtained at the midpoint of the lower third of the tank contents. Middle Sample - A spot sample obtained at the midpoint of the middle of the tank contents. Running Sample - A sample obtained by submerging an unstoppered beaker or bottle from the surface of the liquid to a point as near as possible to the shore tank draw off point or about one foot above the level of the free water in a ship tank, and then raising it without letting it rest, at a rate so that it will be about 75% full as it emerges from the liquid. Spot Sample - A sample taken at a specific "spot" within a tank using a stoppered bottle or beaker and lowering it to the level of desired sample then opening it and allowing it to remain at that level until full. A thief or a zone sampler may also be used to obtain spot samples. Tap Sample - A sample taken from a valve or connection on a tank or pipeline. Upper Sample - A spot sample obtained at the midpoint of the upper of the tank contents. Upper, Middle, Lower Samples - Spot samples taken from the upper third, the middle and lower thirds of the liquid in the tank. The samples so taken may then be composited or analyzed separately. Salvage - The property which has been recovered from a wrecked vessel, or the recovery of the vessel herself. Scupper - Any opening or tube leading through the ship's side to carry water away from the deck. Sea Trials - A series of trials conducted by the builders during which the
owner's representatives on board act in a consulting and checking capacity to determine if the vessel has met the specifications. Seaworthiness - The sufficiency of a vessel in materials constructions, equipment, crew and outfit for the trade in which the it is employed. Any sort of disrepair to the vessel by which the cargo may suffer; overloading; untrained officers; may constitute a vessel unseaworthy. Seaworthiness Certificate - A certificate issued by a classification society surveyor to allow a vessel proceed after she has me with a mishap that may have affected its seaworthiness. It is frequently issued to enable a vessel to proceed, after temporary repairs have been effected, to another port where permanent repairs are then carried out. Separation Zone or Line - A zone or line separating traffic proceeding in one direction from traffic proceeding in another direction. A separation zone may also be used to separate a traffic lane from the adjacent inshore traffic zone. Ship's Agent - A person or firm who transacts all business in a port on behalf of shipowners or charterers. Also called shipping agent; agent. Shipbreaker - A company that demolishes or cuts up vessels which are obsolete or unfit for sea. The steel is used for scrap. Ship Chandler - Particular merchants handling ship's stores, supplies, and sundries, etc. Sometimes handles spare parts as accommodation to ship operators. Shipper - The person for whom the master of a ship agrees to carry cargo. Also called consignor. Short Ton - A unit of measurement equal to 2,000 pounds. Sister Ships - Ships built on the same design. Skin - The plating of a ship. Slops - A mixture of petroleum and water normally arising from tank washings. Sludge - A mixture of petroleum and water, usually semi-solid, frequently containing sand and scale. SOLAS - Safety of Life at Sea Convention. Sounding - See GAUGING Special Survey - The survey requirement of a classification society that usually takes place every four years. At the special survey vital pieces of equipment are opened up and inspected by the classification surveyor. Spill - Oil getting into the sea in any amount for any reason. Spot Charter - See Voyage Charter.
Spot Market - The market for the immediate charter of a vessel. Starboard - The right side of a vessel when an observer is facing forward looking toward the bow. Stern - The after most part of a vessel. The stern will house the steering gear room and various stowage areas. It is that section of a vessel over the rudder and propeller. Stem - The upright post or bar of the bow. Stores - A general term for provisions, materials, and supplies used aboard ship for the maintenance of the crew, and for the navigation, propulsion and upkeep of the vessel and its equipment. Submarine Loading Terminal - A terminal where loading is carried out by means of an offshore hose run along the sea bottom. Suezmax Carrier - The maximize size ship that can sail through the Suez canal generally considered to be between 120,000-199,999 DWT depending on ships dimensions and draft. See also Vessel Sizes. Superstructure - Any structure built above the uppermost complete deck such as a pilothouse, bridge, accommodation house etc. Back to the top T Tackle - Any combination of ropes and blocks that multiply power. The equipment on a vessel used to perform working tasks on the vessel. Tank Washing - The cleaning of a vessel's tanks. It is divided into two types of activities: Water Washing - The use of a high-pressure water stream to dislodge clingage and sediment from the bulkheads, bottom, and internal tank structures of a vessel. Crude Oil Washing - The use of a high-pressure stream of the crude oil cargo to dislodge or dissolve clingage and sediment from the bulkheads, bottom, and internal tank structures of a vessel during the discharge operation. NOTE: Regulatory agencies require that a vessel's tanks be inerted before this tank cleaning method is used. Tender (TO) - A master tenders his vessel when he advises the charterer or supplier that he is ready to load. Time-Charter - The hiring of a tanker from a shipowner for a period of time. As operator, the shipowner is paid on a per-day basis and is responsible for providing the crew and paying operating costs. The charterer is responsible for paying the voyage costs, save for certain specific exceptions such as loss of time arising from tankers breakdown and routine maintenance. See "Voyage Charter" and "Bareboat Charter".
Thieving - Determining the amount of water at the bottom of a tank of oil. Ton - Typical unit of weight measurement used on tankers. See Long Ton, Metric Ton, Short Ton. Tonnage - See Deadweight, GRT and NRT. Tonnage Tax - Taxes, fees, harbor dues etc. paid on the vessel based on a tonnage calculation. Tonne - Metric ton. Tons Per Inch Immersion (TPI) - The number of tons required to change a vessel's draft one inch in the water. TPI varies with the draft and it's values can be found on a vessel's deadweight scale. The metric equivalent is known as TPC (Tons per Centimetre) Tonne- mile - Quantity transported multiplied by average voyage distance. Also Ton-mile. Topping-Off - 1) the operation of completing the loading of a tank to a required ullage. 2) Filling up cargo tanks which were only partially filled at the loading port because of port or canal draft restrictions. The filling up occurs outside the loading port via lightering activities, or at another loading port. Trim - The condition of a vessel with reference to it's longitudinal position in the water. It is the difference between the forward and after drafts expressed in feet/inches or meters/centimeters. Trim forward is called 'by the head' and trim aft is called 'drag'. Trim By The Head (By The Stern) - A vessel is said to trim by the head (or stern) when its draft forward (or aft) is greater than aft (or forward). Back to the top U Ullage - See Outage Ullages - Measurements taken with a steel tape from the lip of the ullage hole to the to the surface of the liquid; usually read to the nearest 1/8 inch. Underwriter - In marine insurance one who subscribes his name to the policy indicating his acceptance of the liability mentioned therein consideration for which he receives a premium. Unseaworthiness - The states or condition of a vessel when it is not in a proper state of maintenance, or if the loading equipment or crew, or in any other respect is not ready to encounter the ordinary perils of sea. U.S. Calls - Letter begin with "K". Liberian begin with numbers "A" or "E" or a numeral. Call letter must be used in cables after a vessel's name.
US Gulf - The Gulf of Mexico. Used Laytime - The amount of lay time that was taken by the vessel for loading and discharging on a voyage. VPLUS - Ultra Large Crude Carriers of above 320,000 DWT. See also Vessel Sizes. Back to the top V Vapor Control Valve (VCV) - This valves is used in conjunction with closed and restricted measurement equipment to allow measurements in ship's tanks that are closed to the atmosphere. Once a portable measurement unit (PMU) is attached to the VCV, the valve is opened and the PMU's probe is dropped into the tank to perform the required measurements. Vapor Recovery System (VRS) - Procedures and equipment for the collection of hydrocarbon vapors from vessel's tanks and the transfer to shoreside recovery equipment. Vessel Experience Factor (VEF) - A factor based on the compilation of the history of the total calculated volume (TCV) vessel measurements, adjusted for on-board quantity (OBQ) or remaining on board (ROB), compared with the TCV shore measurements. This factor if developed according to the latest industry standards may be used to obtain a better ship shore comparison of volumes. Vessel Sizes and Uses Tankers and barges come in all sizes from the small harbor/lake variety to the biggest things ever built by man that move. The size of any particular tanker depends on many factors. Use, cargo type, amount and demand, passage length and port restrictions at both loadport and the discharge port are among the most important of these. Tankers were generally classified as follows: Clean Tanker categories Under 16,500 DWT - Coastal, Small, Harbor/Lake Tankers 16,500 - 24,999 DWT - General Purpose Vessels 25,000 - 49,999 DWT - Medium Range Vessels 50,000 - 79,999 DWT - LR1 (Large Range 1) 80,000 - 159,999 DWT - LR2 (Large Range 2) Crude Tanker Categorie 55,000 - 79,999 DWT - Panamax Crude Carrier 80,000 - 119,000 DWT - Aframax Crude Carrier 120,000 - 199,999 DWT - Suezmax Crude Carrier
200,000-- 319,999 DWT - VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) 320,000 DWT & above - VPLUS (Ultra Large Crude Carrier) Coastal, Small, Harbor/Lake Tankers - Under 16,500 DWT These small ships supply terminals with a variety of products from heating oils gasolines and kerosene, to more exotic fuels and chemicals. They are predominantly product carriers and are also are used extensively for bunkering service in harbors and busy ports. General Purpose Vessels - 16,500 - 24,999 DWT On a worldwide basis, this class of vessel probably covers the largest range and variety of cargoes carried. This class of ship includes chemical carriers, special service product and crude oil vessels and serve mostly coastwise terminal trades. Medium Range Vessels - 25,000 - 49,999 DWT Medium sized tankers cover a broad range of vessel types. Ships of this size category are capable of carrying almost any kind of petroleum product. The smaller group will usually carry gasolines, jet fuels, chemicals and heating oils. The larger size of the group will carry heavier fuel oils and crude oils. LR1 (Large Range 1) - 50,000 - 79,999 DWT (Clean Products) LR2 (Large Range 2) - 80,000 - 159,999 DWT (Clean Products) Vessels in this class that are less than 100,000 dwt are divided into two basic categories namely, "Dirty " and "Clean". The "dirty" vessels carry the "black" or dirty cargoes such as crude oil , heavy fuel oils, asphalt etc. The "clean" vessels carry the refined "white" clean products such as gasoline, jet fuels, kerosene etc. Chemical carriers would also fall into the "clean" category. Because of the strict tank inspection requirements for clean products, most proprietary vessels or those on long term charter or do not routinely change their trading patterns from clean to dirty or vice versa. However market requirements and charter economics do require vessels to sometimes slip in and out of these clean and dirty trades. Vessels in this class that are over 100,000 dwt tend to be crude oil carriers only. Panamax - A tanker whose dimensions enable her to transit the Panama Canal where lock width is the determining factor. Ships are approximately 55,000 to 79,999 dwt. Aframax - A tanker of approximately 80,000 to 120,000 dwt. Suezmax - A tanker whose dimensions enable her to transit fully loaded through the Suez Canal. Ships are approximately 120,000 to 199,999 dwt. VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) - 200,000-320,000 DWT VPLUS (Ultra Large Crude Carrier) - 320,000 DWT and above
Because of their huge sizes these vessels have been almost exclusively only used for the carriage of crude oils. Only the smallest of this category has carried any type of refined products. Several of these VPLUS classed vessels were over 500,000 and the biggest of these ships had a deadweight of 564,939 tons. Vetting - The general process of approving a vessel for use. (From old English "To Vet" - to look at or review again.) Note: actual procedure varies from company to company. VLCC - Very Large Crude Carrier of 200,000 - 319,999 DWT. See also Vessel Sizes. Volume - The amount of space occupied by a fluid at certain conditions of temperature and pressure. Various types of VOLUMES used in marine custody transfer are defined as follows: Gross Observed Volume (GOV) The total volume of all petroleum liquids and sediment and water, excluding free water, at observed temperature and pressure. Gross Standard Volume (GSV) - The total volume of all petroleum liquids and sediment and water, excluding free water, corrected by the appropriate volume correction factor (Ctl) for the observed temperature and API gravity, relative density, or density to a standard temperature such as 60F or 15C and also corrected by the applicable pressure correction factor (Cpl) and meter factor. Indicated Volume - The change in meter reading that occurs during a receipt or delivery. Net Standard Volume (NSV) - The total volume of all petroleum liquids, excluding sediment and water and free water, corrected by the appropriate volume correction factor (Ctl) for the observed temperature and API Gravity, relative density, or density to a standard temperature such as 60F or 15C and also corrected by the applicable pressure correction factor (Cpl) and meter factor. On Board Quantity (OBQ) - The material remaining in vessel tanks, void spaces, and/or pipelines prior to loading. On-board quantity includes water, oil, slops, oil residue, oil/water emulsions, sludge, and sediment. Remaining On Board (ROB) - The material remaining in vessel tanks, void spaces, and/or pipelines after discharge. Remaining on board quantity includes water, oil, slops, oil residue, oil/water emulsions, sludge, and sediment. Total Calculated Volume (TCV) - The total volume of all petroleum liquids and sediment and water, corrected by the appropriate volume correction factor (Ctl) for the observed temperature and API gravity, relative density, or density to a standard temperature such as 60F or 15C and also corrected by the applicable pressure factor (Cpl) and meter factor, and all free water measured at observed temperature and pressure (gross standard volume plus free water). Total Observed Volume (TOV) - The total measured volume of all petroleum liquids, sediment and water, and free water at observed
temperature and pressure. NOTE: Where the term 60F or 15C is used, it is referring to two different reference standards and does indicate that the two temperatures are equal. Voyage Charter - A contract in which a charterer pays a shipowner for the use of a ship's cargo space for one, or sometimes more than one, voyage. The shipowner is the operator, responsible for paying both operating costs and voyage costs. Also Spot Charter. Voyage Costs - Fuel costs, port charges and canal dues (or tolls) incurred during the course of a voyage. Back to the top W Wall Wash Test - The procedure of introducing an appropriate liquid into a vessel's tank to test for hydrocarbon, color and other contaminants. This test is done by physically pouring the liquid down vessel's tank bulkheads and trapping a portion on filter paper. This test is also done on vessel's steam coils and sumps. Watertight Door - A door so constructed that, when closed, it will prevent water under pressure from passing through. Water/Cut Measurement - The procedure of locating the oil/water interface for the purpose of determining the volume of free water in a shore tank or vessel compartment. It is also used to refer to the line of demarcation of the oil/water interface. Wedge Formula - A mathematical means to approximate small quantities of liquid and solid cargo and free water on board prior to loading and after discharge based on cargo compartment dimensions and vessel trim. The wedge formula is to be used only when the liquid does not touch all bulk heads of the vessel's tanks. Wedge Table - A pre-calculated vessel table based on the wedge formula and displayed much like the vessel's usual innage/ullage tables. These tables, however, are for small quantities (on- board quantities, remaining on board) when the cargo or free water does not touch all bulkheads of the vessel tank. Wing Tanks - Vessel tanks located to the port or starboard of the centerline and designated port or starboard wings or wing tanks. Wipe Test - The procedure of physically wiping random interior areas and steam coils of vessel's tanks with absorbent white rags. This procedure is used to test the tank's coating for possible color contamination. Worldscale - The New Worldwide Tanker Nominal Freight Scale is a catalogue of theoretical freight rates expressed as US dollars per tonne for most of the conceivable spot voyages in the tanker trade. The final rate agreed will be determined as a percentage of the 'Worldscale' rate, based upon a guaranteed minimum quantity of cargo. This allows for charter
parties to cover a wide range of possible voyage options without the need to calculate and negotiate each one separately.
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Underwater Acoustic Transmission Umpe
Last Updated on Sat, 11 Feb 2017 | Shallow Water
No existing solutions
CORE [75] RDFFP [76] RD-OASES [77] RDOASP [78] RDOAST [79]
SAFRAN [80]
Parabolic equation
Use single environmental specification
AMPE/CMPE [81] CCUB/SPLN/CNP1 [82] Corrected PE [83] DREP [84] FDHB3D [85] FEPE [86] FEPE-CM [87] FEPES [88] FOR3D [89] HAPE [90] HYPER [91] IFD Wide Angle [92] IMP3D [93] LOGPE [94] MaChl [95] MOREPE [96] OS2IFD [97]
PAREQ [98]
PECan [101]
PE-FFRAME [102]
PESOGEN [103]
RAM/RAMS [105]
SNUPE [106]
Spectral PE [107]
TDPE [108]
ULETA [110]
UNIMOD [111]
3DTDPA [114]
Notes Ray theory
Range independent
1 CAPARAY simulates the effects of layering in the ocean bottom on the propagation of a broadband signal. The ocean bottom is characterized by a geoacoustic profile that includes compressional and shear velocities, density and compressional wave attenuation. Velocity profiles that allow the derivation of analytic expressions for a ray's range, travel time and attenuation are used in the ocean and in the bottom layers. A transfer function representing the total effect of the environment is constructed from the characteristics of each eigenray. The receiver time series is generated using a linear systems approach (Westwood and Vidmar, 1987).
2 FACT combines ray theory with higher-order asymptotic corrections near caustics to generate TL in range-independent ocean environments (Baker and Spofford, 1974; Spofford, 1974; Jacobs, 1982; McGirr et al, 1984; Holt, 1985; King and White, 1986a,b).
3 FLIRT provides estimates of bottom-bounce and CZ TL using linear ray-tracing methods (McGirr and Hall, 1974).
4 GAMARAY is a multi-frequency (broadband) extension to the ray-theoretical approach (Westwood, 1992).
5 ICERAY is an extension of CAPARAY that includes layers above the ocean surface to model propagation in the ice. Three types of ray paths are included in the model: (1) compressional rays; (2) shear vertical rays in the upper layer that are converted at the water-ice interface from (or to) compressional rays in the water; and (3) a ray form of the evanescent shear or compressional field in the upper layers (Stotts and Bedford, 1991; Stotts et al, 1994).
6 PLRAY is a ray propagation loss program applicable to a horizontally stratified ocean with a flat bottom. It contains a surface duct model based on a simplified approximation to mode theory, which replaces ray computations when the sources and receivers are located in a surface duct (Bartberger, 1978a).
7 RANGER is a package of acoustic ray propagation programs used as research tools for bottom-interaction studies. These programs assume an ocean environment that is horizontally stratified with respect to sound speed and water depth (Foreman, 1977).
Range dependent
8 ACCURAY uses complex ray methods to find the field due to a point source in the presence of a single plane, penetrable interface (Westwood, 1989b). This method has been applied to the Pekeris (flat, isovelocity) waveguide and to a sloping, isovelocity (penetrable wedge) waveguide.
9 BELLHOP computes acoustic fields in range-dependent environments (Porter, 1991) via Gaussian beam tracing (Porter and Bucker, 1987) [also see the updated summary of SACLANTCEN models by Jensen et al (2001)].
10 Coherent DELTA is an extension of a ray-theoretic algorithm developed by A.L. Piskarev, which computes acoustic intensity without calculating eigenrays or focusing factors in caustics. The original algorithm has been modified to sum ray contributions coherently in a range-dependent environment (Dozier and Lallement, 1995).
11 FACTEX extends the FACT model to range-dependent environments by adiabatic mapping of ray families over a sequence of sound-speed profiles with associated bathymetry (Garon, 1975).
12 GRAB computes high-frequency (10-100 kHz) TL in range-dependent, shallow-water environments. The model is based on Gaussian ray bundles, which are similar in form (but somewhat simpler) than Gaussian beams (Weinberg and Keenan, 1996; Keenan, 2000; Keenan and Weinberg, 2001). The US Navy standard GRAB model (under OAML configuration management) is a subset of CASS (Keenan et al., 1998).
13 GRASS utilizes a ray-tracing technique involving iteration along the ray path to compute TL in range-dependent ocean environments (Cornyn, 1973a,b).
14 HARORAY is a 2D broadband propagation model based on ray theory. This code was written to provide synthetic waveforms to simulate signals used in the Haro Strait coastal-ocean processes experiment (June 1996). The model uses a single point source and a vertical array of receivers. The speed of sound in the water column and bottom layers is homogeneous in depth but variable in range (Pignot and Chapman, 2001).
15 HARP O numerically integrates Hamilton's equations in three dimensions. Transmission loss is calculated by computing 3D ray divergence and complex reflection coefficients at the upper and lower boundaries, and by numerically integrating absorption (Jones, 1982; Jones et al., 1982, 1986; Weickmann et al., 1989; Georges et al. 1990; Newhall etal., 1990; Harlan et al, 1991a,b; Jones and Georges, 1991).
16 HARVEST is a general hybrid technique that solves the 2D acoustic-viscoelastic equations for bottom-interacting acoustics in water depths exceeding 1 km in the frequency range 100-500 Hz. The model comprises three methods: a Gaussian-beam method is used to propagate the source wave field vertically through the water column; a viscoelastic, finite-difference grid is used to compute the complex acoustic-anelastic interaction of the incident wave field with the rough sea floor; and the backscattered wave field is extrapolated to a distant receiver array using the Kirchhoff integral (Robertsson et al, 1996).
17 LYCH calculates TL on the basis of ray tracing in an environment where both sound speed and bathymetry vary as functions of range (Plotkin, 1996).
18 MEDUSA is a ray theoretical model intended for range-dependent, azimuthally symmetric ocean environments. The model uses modified cubic splines to fit the bathymetry and sound-speed profiles with smooth curves, thus eliminating false caustics and shadow zones (Foreman, 1982, 1983).
19 MIMIC is a wave-like ray summation model that treats propagation at low frequencies (< 150 Hz) and short ranges (<CZ ranges) in range-dependent ocean environments. The environment is modeled as a water column overlying a sedimentary seabed with an acoustically hard bottom (Ocean Acoustic Developments Ltd, 1999b).
20 MPC is a real-time model for engineering applications, particularly training simulators. Surface duct and CZ caustic calculations are performed by the FACT model while the methods of the RAYWAVE model are used to transition across ocean frontal zones (Miller, 1982, 1983).
21 MPP is a ray-theoretical model that accommodates range-dependent environments using constant-gradient sound-speed layers with a triangular profile interpolation system (Spofford, 1973a; Jacobs, 1974).
22 Pedersen is a ray-theoretical model that uses multiple sound-speed profiles above the sound channel axis, flat bathymetry and bottom loss inputs to compute TL as a function of range. The individual sound-speed profiles are fit by segments with continuous slopes (Pedersen et al., 1962; Gordon, 1964).
23 RAYWAVE generates long-range TL values in ocean environments where sound speed, bottom depth and boundary losses may vary significantly along the transmission path. RAYWAVE computes sound speed as a function of depth and range by using triangular regions between adjacent profiles. The prototype RAVE model of Bucker (1971) was the starting point for the development of RAYWAVE (Watson and McGirr, 1975).
24 RP-70 is a long-range ray-theoretical model that allows for changing sound-speed profiles and bottom depth over the propagation track. The TL routines utilize an adjacent-ray approach and provide loss values based on incoherent signal addition. An interpolation routine computes intermediate sound speed points, and a linearly segmented bottom-depth profile is used. Absorption can also be made to vary along the propagation path (Colilla, 1970; Harding, 1970).
25 SHALFACT is a special version of the FACT model designed for use in shallow-water environments by allowing for a sloping (flat) bottom (Garon, 1976). Contributions from surface-reflected and bottom-reflected paths are made using a rapidly computed analytic expression that represents the average acoustic field.
26 TRIMAIN is a ray-theoretical model that divides the range-depth plane into triangular regions (Roberts, 1974). Interpolation of sound speed (c) within each triangle is performed by making 1/c2 linear in depth and range. The rays are assumed to be parabolic in each triangle.
11 AP2 is a normal-mode model based upon the Pekeris branch cut in the complex plane, an infinite sum of normal modes and a branch line integral. AP5 is a normal-mode model similar to AP2 but with a geophysical bottom approximated by up to five sediment layers containing sound-speed and attenuation gradients overlying a homogeneous semi-infinite basement layer characterized by a shear wave speed (Bartberger, 1978b).
28 BDRM extends the WKBZ model to include beam-displacement ray-mode theory. These extensions permit calculation of pulse propagation in shallow water as well as extensions to elastic bottom boundaries (Zhang and Li, 1999; Liu et al., 2001).
29 COM ODE is a normal-mode model that treats bottom attenuation exactly using complex eigenvalues (Gilbert et al., 1983).
30 DODGE uses the effective-depth method to determine the normal modes in a shallow-water channel. Using equations developed from simple arguments, the grazing angle and phase speed of each propagating mode are easily determined (Ward, 1989). The effective-depth method (Weston, 1960) replaces the actual seabed (at depth H) with a pressure-release surface at an effective depth (He) below the surface.
31 FNMSS is a normal-mode model that computes boundary losses due to surface scattering (Gordon and Bucker, 1984). Empirical scattering tables for Arctic pack ice are optional.
32 MODELAB is an efficient and numerically robust algorithm for calculating acoustic normal modes in a fluid-layered ocean. Each layer has a sound-speed profile for which the mode functions can be expressed analytically in terms of Airy functions. Attenuation is included as a perturbation. The form of the propagator matrices avoids the numerical instabilities associated with evanescent fields (Levinson et al., 1995).
33 NEMESIS is a low-frequency model designed to compute eigenvalues and normal modes in a horizontally stratified deep ocean with single-channel profiles and multiple fluid sediment layers overlying a substrate. Sound speeds in the water and sediment vary with depth, although the density is constant within each layer. The last layer is a homogeneous, semi-infinite fluid or solid substrate in which the compressional and shear speeds (and density) remain constant with depth (Gonzalez and Hawker, 1980; Gonzalez and Payne, 1980).
34 NLNM is a normal-mode model for ideal layered media. User-assisted mode selection permits flexibility, but requires user familiarity with mode structures (Gordon, 1979). This model is an extension of the two-layer model of Pedersen and Gordon (1965).
35 NORMOD3 is a normal-mode model that uses a finite-difference algorithm (Blatstein, 1974). This model is based on the earlier model by Newman and Ingenito (1972).
36 NORM2L calculates the discrete normal modes and acoustic propagation loss for the Pekeris model of the ocean, a simple two-layer model in which the water and seabed have constant acoustic properties (Ellis, 1980). The user interactively enters the frequency, water depth, sound speed and density for the two layers, and the absorption coefficient for the bottom layer.
37 ORCA uses a normal-mode method to model propagation in acousto-elastic ocean waveguides. The model assumes horizontally stratified layers in which the sound speed (c) is either constant or varies linearly in 1 jc1. Multiple-duct environments are handled, and short-range propagation is accurately modeled by including leaky modes in the mode summation. Seismic interface modes such as the Scholte and Stonely modes are also computed. The model uses analytic solutions to the wave equation in each layer: Airy functions for gradient layers and exponentials for isospeed layers (Westwood et al., 1996) [also see the PROSIM model, which is based in part on ORCA. Tolstoy (2001) compared the performance of the ORCA, KRAKEN and PE models against a reference solution generated by the SAFARI model. All three models were highly accurate (mostly within 1 dB of the reference solution) for range-independent environments].
38 PROTEUS is a multi-frequency (broadband) extension to the normal-mode approach (Gragg, 1985).
39 SHEAR2 extends the standard Pekeris waveguide model (homogeneous layer of fluid overlying an infinite homogeneous fluid half-space of greater sound speed) to handle the case of a fluid overlying an elastic basement in which the shear speed is less than the compressional speed of sound in the fluid. This gives rise to leaky modes in which both the mode eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are complex (Ellis and Chapman, 1985).
40 Stickler is a normal-mode model that computes the continuous as well as the discrete modal contributions (Stickler, 1975; Stickler and Ammicht, 1980; Ammicht and Stickler, 1984). The determination of the continuous spectrum to the TL is performed using a uniform asymptotic method that avoids costly numerical evaluation. However, the improper eigenvalues must be found.
41 ADIAB is an adiabatic normal-mode program that conserves energy using a consistent boundary-condition approximation (R.A. Koch, unpublished manuscript). Milder's (1969) criterion is used to test the amount of coupling per mode-cycle distance.
42 ASERT uses the ASTRAL model, together with specialized databases, to generate multi-radial portraitures of ocean acoustic TL (Lukas et al., 1980a).
43 ASTRAL assumes adiabatic invariance in propagating mode-like envelopes through a range-dependent environment (Blumen and Spofford, 1979; Spofford, 1979; Dozier and White, 1988; White et al, 1988; White, 1992; White and Corley, 1992a, b).
44 CENTRO is an adiabatic normal-mode model that includes absorptive effects and elastic waves in the ocean floor (Arvelo and Überall, 1990). The source is located in the water column, while the receiver may be located either in the water or in the elastic medium.
45 CMM3D is a 3D, coupled-mode model (Chiu and Ehret, 1990, 1994) that is based on the earlier work of Pierce (1965). This model has been interfaced with data generated by an ocean circulation model to examine 3D environmental effects on sound transmission through intense ocean frontal systems.
46 COUPLE utilizes a stepwise-coupled-mode method that overcomes the failure of previous coupled-mode techniques to properly conserve energy over sloping bottoms. This method of stepwise-coupled modes avoids problems associated with sloping bottoms by using only horizontal and vertical interfaces. The full solution includes both forward and backscattered energy (Evans, 1983, 1986; Evans and Gilbert, 1985).
47 CPMS combines a conventional coupled-mode solution with perturbation theory to provide fast and accurate solutions of TL in range-dependent ocean environments. The efficiency of the coupled-mode solution is improved by removing the need to solve the depth-separated wave equation for the normal modes at each range step. Specifically, the normal modes are found by applying perturbation theory to the modes of the previous step (Tindle et al., 2000).
48 FELMODE is a standard normal-mode model that considers an ocean environment consisting of three layers: water column, sediment layer and homogeneous half-space. Density and attenuation in all layers are independent of depth, although attenuation is a function of frequency. The sound speed in the water column and sediment varies with depth while it remains constant in the half-space. Finite-difference discretization is used to solve the modal equation and its boundary conditions. Only discrete modes are calculated, omitting the continuous spectrum. Volume-attenuation losses in the water, sediment and half-space are incorporated by first-order perturbation theory. Shear in the bottom layers is ignored. Range-dependent ocean environments are handled by using the adiabatic approximation. The model was developed in MATLAB with a user-friendly GUI (Simons and Laterveer, 1995; Simons and Snellen, 1998).
49 Kanabis is a normal-mode model appropriate for low-frequency, long-range propagation in shallow-water regions (Kanabis, 1975, 1976).
50 KRAKEN is a normal-mode model that handles range dependence through either adiabatic coupling or full forward mode coupling between environmental provinces (Porter and Reiss, 1984, 1985; Porter, 1991). KRAKEN is recommended for more experienced modelers or for those requiring a 3D capability [the original KRAKEN algorithm was incorporated into the SNAP model, whereupon SNAP was renamed SUPERSNAP. Since 1984, SUPERSNAP became a standard model at SACLANTCEN and is now simply referred to as SNAP (Porter, 1991). Also see the updated summary of SACLANTCEN models by Jensen et al. (2001)].
51 MOATL computes TL on the basis of the discrete normal modes that propagate in the water column. The sound-speed profile in the water is arbitrary, and the ocean bottom consists of a sediment layer with arbitrary sound-speed profile and an underlying uniform fluid or solid sub-bottom (Miller and Ingenito, 1975; Ingenito et al, 1978; Miller and Wolf, 1980).
52 MOCTESUMA is a coupled normal-mode model developed by Thomson Sintra, Activités Sous Marines, France (Dr Alain Plaisant). There are two versions: one for 2D environments with fluid-elastic sediments and one for 3D environments with fluid sediments (Noutary and Plaisant, 1996; Papadakis et al., 1998).
53 NAUTILUS is a broadband, range-dependent normal-mode model based on the adiabatic formulation. This model is designed for use in shallow water and is currently under review by OAML for designation as a US Navy configuration-managed model. The mode-generating engine is derived from the MODELAB model (Koch and LeMond 2001 a-c; Koch and Knobles, 1995).
54 PROLOS is a normal-mode propagation loss program that uses the adiabatic approximation to model an environment in which the sound-speed profile, water depth and bottom properties vary slowly with range. PROLOS can handle up to ten layers in the bottom and used up to 500 layers to interpolate the sound-speed profile in the water column. The normal-mode equations are solved using a two-ended shooting technique borrowed from quantum mechanics and generalized to include the effects of density. Shooting from both ends results in a more stable algorithm and gives more accurate eigenfunctions than those obtained from conventional one-ended shooting methods (Ellis, 1985).
55 PROSIM is a broadband adiabatic normal-mode propagation model, the kernel of which is based on the range-independent normal-mode propagation model called ORCA. Using PROSIM, the calculation of broadband transfer functions at frequencies up to 10 kHz in shallow water is attainable in a few minutes on a modern workstation (Bini-Verona et al., 2000). [The PROSIM project was partly funded by the European Commission through the Marine Science and Technology programme (MAST3). Recent applications of the PROSIM model were reported by Siderius et al. (2001) and by Simons et al. (2001 ). Also see the updated summary of SACLANTCEN models by Jensen et al. (2001 ).]
56 SHAZAM is a normal-mode model with both adiabatic and coupled-mode solutions for application to shallow-water environments (Navy Modeling and Simulation Management Office, 1999).
57 SNAP is a normal-mode model based on a computer program originally developed at the US Naval Research Laboratory (Miller and Ingenito, 1975; Ingenito et al., 1978). Solutions are found only for the discrete part of the spectrum corresponding to the propagating modes. Losses are introduced in a perturbational manner. Slight range dependence is handled in the adiabatic approximation (Jensen and Ferla, 1979). C-SNAP is a coupled-mode version of SNAP (Ferla et al., 1993). The numerical solution technique for one-way mode coupling was obtained from KRAKEN. When the original KRAKEN algorithm was incorporated into the SNAP model, SNAP was renamed SUPERSNAP. Since 1984, SUPERSNAP became a standard model at SACLANTCEN and is now simply referred to as SNAP (Porter, 1991 ) [also see the updated summary of SACLANTCEN models by Jensen et al. (2001 )].
58 WEDGE calculates downslope propagation using a 2D representation of the continental slope and realistic environmental parameters (Primack and Gilbert, 1991). Numerical implementation is divided into two parts: (1) pre-calculation of local modes and (2) mode manipulation. This wedge-mode model is limited to geometries where the propagation can accurately be predicted using only trapped modes. Wedge modes are the intrinsic normal modes in the wedge coordinate system.
59 WKBZ is an adiabatic normal-mode model based on a uniform WKB approximation to the modes (Zhang et al., 1995).
60 WRAP uses adiabatic and coupled-mode theory for rapid computation of acoustic fields in 3D ocean environments (Perkins et al., 1990; Kuperman et al., 1991).
61 3D Ocean expresses the solution of the reduced wave equation for an almost stratified medium in the form of an asymptotic power series. The vertical structure of the solution is expressed as a linear combination of the normal-mode eigenfunctions whose coefficients satisfy 2D eikonal and transport equations (Weinberg and Burridge, 1974).
Multipath expansion
62 FAME is based upon the multipath expansion for acoustic propagation in a horizontally stratified ocean. The multipaths are expressed in terms of Fresnel integrals and effective range derivatives (Weinberg, 1981).
63 MULE is a multi-frequency (broadband) extension to the multipath expansion method (Weinberg, 1985a).
64 NEPBR modifies the RAYMODE model to account for frequency smearing in the narrowband spectrum (McCammon and Crowder, 1981).
65 RAYMODE is a hybrid technique combining elements of ray theory and normal-mode theory to compute TL in range-independent ocean environments (Leibiger, 1968; Yarger, 1976, 1982; Medeiros, 1982a, 1985a; Almeida and Medeiros, 1985; Naval Oceanographic Office, 1991a,c) (the RAYMODE model is discussed in detail in Section 4.8).
Fast field or wavenumber integration
66 FFP applies fast Fourier transform methods to acoustic field theory to obtain TL as a function of range (DiNapoli, 1971; DiNapoli and Deavenport, 1980).
67 Kutschale FFP is a rapid and accurate method for calculating TL in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean. Input parameters include source and detector depths, frequency, ice roughness bottom topography and the sound velocity structure as a function of depth in the ice, water and bottom. Computation is performed by direct integration of the wave equation derived from a harmonic point source located in a multilayered, interbedded liquid-solid half-space. The integration method introduced by H.W. Marsh employs the FFT for rapid evaluation of the integral solution (Kutschale, 1973).
68 MSPFFP, or multiple scattering pulse FFP (Kutschale, 1984), models bottom-interacting pulses corresponding to the coherent summation of many modes over a limited time interval. Specifically, MSPFFP decomposes the Kutschale (or pulse) FFP model (Kutschale, 1973; Kutschale and DiNapoli, 1977) into ray-path contributions. Each decomposed term can then be interpreted as the desired path contribution for a corresponding bottom-interacting pulse. The FFP algorithm directly integrates the full-wave solution. Temporal waveforms are computed by Fourier synthesis.
69 OASES is a general-purpose computer code for modeling seismo-acoustic propagation in horizontally stratified waveguides using wavenumber integration in combination with the direct global matrix solution technique (Schmidt, 1999). The OASES model is essentially an upgraded version of SAFARI. Compared to SAFARI (version 3.0), OASES provides improved numerical efficiency, and the global matrix mapping has been redefined to ensure unconditional numerical stability. OASES is downward compatible with SAFARI and the preparation of input files follows the format used by SAFARI [also see the updated summary of SACLANTCEN models by Jensen et al. (2001)]. (http://acoustics.mit.edu/arcticO/henrik/www/oases.html)
70 Pulse FFP is a time-marched fast-field program for modeling acoustic pulse propagation in the ocean (Porter, 1990).
71 RPRESS uses a high-order, adaptive integration method for efficient computation of the Hankel-transform integral for the wave field in a laterally homogeneous fluid-solid medium (Ivansson and Karasalo, 1992). This model has been used to investigate frequency-dependent propagation losses in shallow water caused by shear losses in the sediment (Ivansson, 1994).
72 SAFARI is based on the wavenumber integration technique (or fast field program) to solve the wave equation exactly for strictly range-independent environments (Schmidt and Glattetre, 1985; Schmidt, 1988). The model includes propagation of waves in fluid and solid media by discretizing the environment into layers with different acoustic properties. The Green's function is evaluated analytically within each layer and the boundary conditions are fulfilled at each layer interface by using a numerically stable direct-global-matrix approach. SAFARI consists of three independent models: FIPR to compute the plane-wave complex reflection coefficient due to an arbitrarily layered medium; FIP for general single frequency wave propagation; and FIPP for pulse propagation. An updated version of SAFARI called OASES (discussed above) is available on the Web [also see the updated summary of SACLANTCEN models by Jensen et al. (2001)].
73 SCOOTER is a finite-element FFP code for computing acoustic fields in range-independent environments. It is recommended for use when the horizontal range is less than ten water depths (Porter, 1990).
74 SPARC is a time-marched FFP model that treats problems dealing with broadband or transient sources (i.e. pulses) (Porter, 1990, 1991).
75 CORE is a coupled version of OASES for range-dependent environments. It belongs to the new spectral super-element class of propagation models for range-dependent waveguides. This approach is a hybridization of the FE and BEM. The ocean environment is divided into a series of range-independent sectors separated by vertical interfaces (Goh et al., 1997).
76 RDFFP utilizes a generalized Green's function method for solving the one-way wave equation exactly in an ocean environment that varies discretely with range. An explicit marching solution is obtained in which the source distribution at any given range step is represented by the acoustic field at the end of the previous step (Gilbert and Evans, 1986).
77 RD-OASES is a range-dependent version of OASES (Schmidt, 1999). RD-OASES extends to fluid-elastic stratifications the development of a spectral super-element approach for acoustic modeling in fluid waveguides using a hybridization of FE, boundary integrals and wave-number integration to solve the Helmholtz equation in a range-dependent ocean environment. The ocean environment is divided into a series of range-independent sectors separated by vertical interfaces. This model provides accurate, full two-way solutions to the wave equation using either a global multiple scattering solution or a single-scatter, marching solution.
78 RDOASP is a pulse version of RD-OASES (Goh and Schmidt, 1996). (http://acoustics.mit.edu/arcticO/henrik/www/rd_oases.html)
79 RDOAST refers to the specific combination of RD-OASES and VISA (Goh and Schmidt, 1996). The virtual source algorithm (VISA) uses the marching, local single-scatter approximation to the transmission and reflection problem at the sector boundaries; thus, a virtual array of sources and receivers is introduced on each sector boundary, (http://acoustics.mit.edu/arcticO/henrik/www/rd_oases.html).
80 SAFRAN uses a hybrid combination of wavenumber integration and Galerkin BEM to extend the fast-field theory technique to range-dependent ocean environments (Seong, 1990).
Use single environmental specification with range-dependent model.
81 AMPE was developed to solve global-scale ocean acoustic problems that are too large to solve with other existing 3D codes. The PE method was used to solve 2D wave equations for the adiabatic mode coefficients over latitude and longitude (Collins, 1993d). CMPE is a generalization of AMPE that includes mode-coupling terms. It is practical to apply this approach to large-scale problems involving coupling of energy between both modes and azimuths (Abawi et al., 1997).
82 CCUB/SPLN/CNP1 represent a family of higher-order, finite-element PE methods developed by the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Greece (Papadakis et al., 1998).
83 Corrected PE solves the PE using the split-step algorithm. (Perkins and Baer, 1978; Perkins et al., 1982). By assuming cylindrical propagation symmetry, it is possible to simulate a tilted acoustic array placed in the calculated complex-valued acoustic field.
84 DREP is a wide-angle PE based on an operator-splitting that permits the use of a marching type Fourier transform solution method (Thomson and Chapman, 1983; Thomson, 1990).
85 FDHB3D is a hybrid 3D, two-way propagation model for solving 3D backscattering problems. It is based on the IFD PE approach (Zhu and Bjorno, 1999).
86 FEPE computes the complex acoustic pressure in range-dependent ocean environments. The model solves higher-order parabolic equations using a numerical solution based on Galerkin's method, alternating directions and Crank-Nicolson integration (Collins, 1988a). The model allows arbitrary sound-speed, density and attenuation profiles. FEPE provides several options for the initial starting field including the Gaussian PE starter (Tappert, 1977) and Greene's (1984) PE starter.
87 FEPE-CM combines the FEPE code with the PERUSE surface scattering formulation to model the forward scattering from both periodic and single realizations of randomly rough sea surfaces. A conformal mapping technique converts the rough-surface scattering problem into a succession of locally flat-surface problems (Norton etal., 1995). Norton and Novarini (1996) used FEFE-CM to investigate the effect of sea-surface roughness on shallow-water waveguide propagation.
88 FEPES extends the FEPE model to handle range-dependent elastic media (Collins, 1993b,c). This energy-conserving, elastic PE model is applicable to a large class of problems involving waveguides consisting of both fluid and solid layers.
89 FOR3D implements the Lee-Saad-Schultz (LSS) method for solving the 3D, wide-angle wave equation (Botseas et al., 1987; Lee et al., 1988, 1992). The model is designed to predict TL in ocean environments that vary as functions of range, depth and azimuth.
90 HAPE implements the rational-linear approximation in a finite-difference formulation to provide accurate treatment of high-angle propagation to angles of about 40° with respect to the horizontal (Greene, 1984). A rational approximation to the square-root operator was first suggested by Claerbout (1976: 206). This approximation reduced the phase error problem inherent in the original, narrow-angle PE models that had been limited to about 15° [note: more recent, higher-order PE implementations have virtually eliminated the phase error problem and are accurate for propagation angles of nearly 90°].
91 HYPER is a hybrid parabolic equation-ray model intended for high-frequency applications (Tappert et al., 1984).
92 IFD wide angle implements an implicit finite-difference scheme for solution of the PE (Lee and Botseas, 1982; Botseas et al., 1983). This model can handle arbitrary surface boundary conditions and an irregular bottom with arbitrary bottom boundary conditions.
93 IMP3D extends the FOR3D model by including a simplified elastic impedance bottom boundary condition (Papadakis et al., 1998).
94 LOGPE uses a logarithmic expression for the index of refraction in the standard PE in order to closely approximate solutions of the more exact Helmholtz equation in weakly range-dependent ocean environments (Berman et al., 1989).
95 MaChl is a broadband, range-dependent acoustic propagation model based on the one-way form of the Maslov integral representation of the wave field. The one-way propagation assumption may be combined with a parabolic approximation (Brown, 1994).
96 MOREPE is an energy-conserving parabolic equation that can handle relatively large variations in the index of refraction (Schurman et al., 1991).
97 OS2IFD is a full-featured version of IFD parabolic equation that runs on personal computers (PCs) under the OS/2 operating system (Robertson et al., 1991).
98 PAREQ is a PE model based on the split-step algorithm (Jensen and Krol, 1975). This model is a modified version of the one developed by AESD (Brock, 1978) [also see the updated summary of SACLANTCEN models by Jensen et al. (2001)].
99 PDPE is a pseudodifferential PE model. The documentation contains a numerical algorithm for its implementation (Avilov, 1995).
100 PE is based on the original algorithm developed by Hardin and Tappert (1973) and Tappert (1977). The original US Navy version was implemented by Brock (1978). Upgrades have been reported by Holmes (1988) and by Holmes and Gainey (1992a-c). A version of this model can accommodate ice-covered regions.
101 PECan is an N x 2D/3D parabolic equation model for underwater sound propagation that was developed for matched-field processing applications (Brooke et al, 2001).
102 PE-FFRAME applies the FE method to produce a full-wave, range-dependent, scalar, ocean acoustic propagation model (Chin-Bing and Murphy, 1988; Murphy and Chin-Bing, 1988). The term "full wave" includes the continuous and discrete spectra, forward propagation and backscatter. The model can be given a long-range capability through super elements or marching frames.
103 PESOGEN is a special-purpose microcomputer model used to compute the acoustic field in a fully range-dependent environment over a wide range of frequencies for both deep-water and shallow-water regions with greatly reduced execution times (Nghiem-Phu et al., 1984).
104 PE-SSF (UMPE/MMPE): MMPE and its predecessors, UMPE (Smith and Tappert, 1993) and MIPE, are now collectively referred to as PE-SSF (parabolic equation-split-step Fourier algorithm). PE-SSF thus represents a wide class of PE models (Tappert, 1998).
105 RAM incorporates an improved elastic PE (Collins, 1998) together with a stable self-starter (Cederberg and Collins, 1997). A companion version called RAMS is available for acousto-elastic problems. Both RAM and RAMS use the split-step Pade solution, which is approximately two orders of magnitude faster than the Crank-Nicolson solution of the wide-angle PE (Collins, 1993a).
106 SNUPE achieves linearization of the depth-direction operator by expansion into a multiplicative Pade approximation. Galerkin's method is used for computational efficiency to approximate the depth-direction equation. Crank-Nicolson's method is used to approximate the range-direction equation. A numerical self-starter initiates the near-field solution (Seong and Choi, 2001).
107 Spectral PE extends the two-way PE to 3D problems involving a point source in a waveguide in which the acoustic properties vary with depth and range (Orris and Collins, 1994). This model presents an efficient approach for solving backscattering problems that are separable in one of the horizontal Cartesian coordinates, including backscattering from extended features such as ridges.
108 TDPE is the inverse Fourier transform of the wide-angle PE (Collins, 1988b).
109 Two-way PE generalizes the PE to handle backscattered acoustic energy in the ocean (Collins and Evans, 1992). The two-way PE is based on the single-scattering approximation and the approach of the two-way coupled modes in which range-dependent environments are approximated by a sequence of range-independent regions. The outgoing and incoming fields are propagated by two-way range marching.
110 ULETA is based on Tappert's (1977) PE model. ULETA generates transmission losses for single frequency (CW) or pulse sources in range-dependent ocean environments (Palmer et al., 1988b).
111 UNIMOD is a hybrid combination of PE (for waterborne energy) and FACT or MPP for bottom-interacting energy (R.B. Lauer, unpublished).
112 3DPE (NRL-1) solves the 3D PE using the split-step algorithm (Perkins and Baer, 1982; Perkins et al., 1983). The input sound-speed profiles and bathymetry need not be specified on a regular grid. However, interpolation schemes based on user-supplied triangularizations of the region are employed. Three graphic outputs can be produced: (1) TL versus range (with depth and azimuthal angle held fixed); (2) TL versus depth (with range and azimuthal angle held fixed); and (3) TL versus azimuthal angle (with range and depth held fixed). An additional program can simulate the performance of a horizontal acoustic array at given ranges.
113 3DPE (NRL-2) handles wide propagation angles in depth, narrow propagation angles in azimuth and rough boundaries (Collins and Chin-Bing, 1990).
114 3D TDPA uses one-way narrow-angle and wide-angle, 3D, time domain paraxial approximations to simulate pulse propagation in 3D ocean geometries characterized by volume attenuation and variable density (Orchard et al., 1992).
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Mon, Oct 1st 2012 1:31pm — Mike Masnick
A few people have sent over an interesting lawsuit, filed on behalf of a married NY couple, Brian Edwards and Thomas Privitere, along with photographer Kristina Hill, against a (in my opinion, misnamed) advocacy group called "Public Advocate of the United States," (PAUS) which advocates against any effort to allow gay marriage. Edwards and Privitere had Hill photograph them for their engagement photos, and among the photos taken was this one: Edwards and Privitere posted it to their blog, where it was apparently found by someone at PAUS, who apparently used the photo in a series of campaign mailers in election campaigns against candidates they wanted to attack as being in favor of gay marriage. The ad was used in at least two campaigns, as shown below:
Edwards, Privitere and Hill all found out about the use after there was an article in a NY newspaper about one of the campaigns in question, which showed the mailer. A friend of Edwards recognized him and passed along the news. Edwards told the others about it and posted about it on the couple's blog, where he noted:
“[The photo] represents my long term relationship with my best friend, my partner, and now husband – the love we share and obstacles we have overcome. It is a reminder of the happiness I felt the day he proposed to me and of the excitement I had throughout our engagement. It represents hope and it represents love. Or at least it did… Now I see it faded and brown with a big red, blood-emulating slash across our bodies. It cuts us in half just below our hearts. How do I feel? I’m in shock and I’m angry and I’m hurt and I’m flabbergasted and I’m livid.”
The image was used without permission by Edwards, Privitere or Hill, and all three are now suing PAUS over the use of the image. Hill is arguing copyright infringement, while Privitere and Edwards are arguing "appropriation of likeness or personality." I will admit that I have a vague acquaintance with one of the lawyers representing the three (in that I'm very familiar with his work, and met him once at a conference). I should also admit that I find PAUS's general position on this issue despicable, and find their use of an image that was created to celebrate love not just cynical, but insulting and obnoxious in the extreme. Emotionally, I want very much to look at this as a case where copyright makes sense and is being used wisely.
But I have concerns about its use here. Is this copyright infringement? Undoubtedly, under the law, it almost certainly is. The image is covered by copyright, and Hill registered it as well, giving her even greater ability to bring this kind of lawsuit. The photo was clearly used without authorization. Is there a fair use claim? In a pinch, I could see an argument for one (you could argue it's transformative, non-commercial use, political speech, etc.) but I'm not convinced it's a particularly strong fair use claim.
So, I am extraordinarily sympathetic to the plaintiffs here. And, at a gut level, I really, really want to support their position. But I'm worried about the implications here. Copyright in the US is an economic right, not a moral one. Other countries may have "moral rights" or "droit moral" on photographs, but we don't in the US. And it is clear that the copyright complaint is really entirely about the moral rights issue as it relates to copyright. There is no economic impact at issue here, because there is no economic interest in this image. There does not appear to be any plan or intent to license the image or exploit it economically in any way.
And, so, I worry when we start using moral rights arguments to defend a copyright claim, no matter how strongly I support the moral argument being advanced by the plaintiff.
I am somewhat less troubled by the appropriation of likeness argument, and this is one (rare) area where it feels appropriately applied: to a situation in which individuals who do not support a particular viewpoint are thrust into a debate on it. One could argue that this actually gives them a platform to speak out about such bigotry and raise greater attention to the issue -- but it seems like a stretch to think that this is okay in these circumstances. You could also argue that no one (absolutely no one) would look at the image and think that Edwards or Privitere support the politicians running on an anti-gay marriage platform. You could also argue that once the photograph is out in the world, it means that the public can comment on the photo. All of those arguments do feel a bit weak, however.
On the whole, I completely understand why this lawsuit was filed and recognize how ridiculous and hurtful this particular use is for all three plaintiffs. But, cases that create emotional responses quite frequently lead to bad precedents that can later be used in other cases. And establishing the ability to use the economic right of copyright as a catch all moral right potentially stretches the law too far.
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There is no economic impact at issue here, because there is no economic interest in this image. There does not appear to be any plan or intent to license the image or exploit it economically in any way.
I think there is an economic interest. If this image was not unlawfully appropriated, the producers of the ad would have had to stage such a picture. They easily could have meant actors or individuals who would have demanded compensation. If the producers had gone to the copyright owner, they'd probably have been denied use or made to pay a hefty sum.
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When the principal called Martha into the office, she knew what it would be about. He looked uncomfortable and unhappy because he felt guilty about making Martha feel like she might not ge the scholarship jacket.
Martha stared at him in shock, and a small amount of dismay escaped her throat. She hadn't expected this.
I was almost back at my classroom door when I heard voices raised in anger as if in some sort of argument.
First Person Limited
One day, my dad looked out at the endless desert and decided then and there to build a baseball field.
What do you know about the game of baseball?
Second Person Point of View
This novel is based on the life of a real person and her family.
The wind was overwhelming. It was like nothing Baden had ever known. He grabbed hold of a railing. For the first time, he was really scared.
The Mackinac Bridge is a suspension bridge that runs from one part of the state of Michigan to another.
My favorite ball skipped off the curb and some dumb kid disguised as me ran blindly across the street.
His leathery skin's like indigo ink, this rugged dude who some folks think looks fierce in clothes of midnight black.
A first person narrator is limited to whose perspective?
The character who is telling the story
A third person limited narrator can reveal whose perspective?
only the main character's perspective can be revealed.
Third person omniscient narrator can reveal whose perspective?
Many characters' perspectives can be revealed.
If there is a limited narrator, then how are the other characters' thoughts and feelings revealed?
Their thoughts and feelings are only revealed when they speak (dialogue).
How are the other character's thoughts and feelings revealed with an omniscient narrator?
The omniscient narrator can simply say what the characters are thinking and feeling or the characters will say it themselves.
How will the story change if you switch from the first person point of view to the third person omniscient point of view?
You go from only seeing one character's perspective to seeing the story through many characters' perspectives.
What happens if the point of view changes from the third person limited to the third person omniscient?
The narrator goes from revealing only one characters perspective to revealing many characters' perspectives.
How is the point of view switched? (1) One day, I'll be like Blue. (2) One day, Damon would like to be like blue.
First person is switched to third person limited
How is the point of view switched? (1) One day, Damon would like to be like blue. (2) One day, Damon would like to be like Blue. This would make Blue very happy. His mother would be happy too.
Third person limited is switched to third person omniscient
How does the point of view change? (1) Do you think he will succeed? (2) Yes, I think he will succeed.
Second person point of view is switched to the first person point of view
How does switching the point of view affect the theme of the story?
Different characters have different perspectives and might reveal a different lesson about the situation.
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Funeral services announced for Michael Cummins' family members
Funeral services have been announced for the mother, father and uncle of Michael Cummins, the suspect in the brutal killings of seven people in Sumner County earlier this week.
Funeral services announced for Michael Cummins' family members Funeral services have been announced for the mother, father and uncle of Michael Cummins, the suspect in the brutal killings of seven people in Sumner County earlier this week. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/sumner/2019/05/03/sumner-county-killings-funeral-services-set-michael-cummins-relatives/3661134002/
Amy Nixon, Nashville Tennessean Published 8:44 a.m. CT May 3, 2019 | Updated 9:11 a.m. CT May 3, 2019
WESTMORELAND - Funeral services have been announced for the mother, father and uncle of Michael Cummins, the suspect in the brutal killings of seven people in Sumner County earlier this week.
Services for Clara Cummins, 44, David Cummins, 51, and Charles Hosale, 45, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 8 at the Gilbert Funeral Home in Portland. Burial will follow at Forrest Chapel Cemetery. A visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday and from 9 a.m. until the time of the service Wednesday at the Gilbert Funeral home.
A memorial has been placed outside the Cummins home. (Photo: Submitted)
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the funeral home to help offset funeral expenses.
Funeral services for Rachel Dawn McGlothliln-Pee, her 12-year-old daughter Sapphire McGlothliln-Pee and her mother Marsha Elizabeth Nuckols will be held Sunday.
Seven bodies were discovered over the weekend in what the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is calling a string of homicides investigators linked to Cummins. An eighth victim remained in the hospital as of Friday.
The victims were found at two homes in a densely wooded pocket of the county.
Cummins, 25, was still in the hospital Friday and had been charged with homicide and theft. He likely faces several hearings and mental health evaluations before his case moves to criminal court.
The TBI on Monday identified the victims as:
David Carl Cummins, 51, the father of Michael Cummins
Clara Jane Cummins, 44, the mother of Michael Cummins
Charles Edward Hosale, 45, the uncle of Michael Cummins
Rachel Dawn McGlothlin-Pee, 43
Sapphire McGlothlin-Pee, 12, Rachel's daughter
Marsha Elizabeth Nuckols, 64, Rachel's mother
Shirley B. Fehrle, 69, a neighbor of the Cummins family
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help offset funeral expenses for the family. As of Friday morning, $2,000 of the $10,000 goal had been raised.
Regional Editor Amy Nixon can be reached at 615-946-7549 or anixon@gannett.com.
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John: Theater review by David Cote
Annie Baker’s follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick (also now playing) is built on a similar scale: John runs three hours and 15 minutes over three acts and two intermissions. I note the length not to warn you about potential boredom (in the ordinary sense), but because duration is key component of the experience, which lodges in your memory, emitting time-delayed puffs of meaning. In the hands of a lesser writer (or director, since both are staged by Sam Gold), either play might have emerged as 90-minute, single-set generic fare. In essence, The Flick is a workplace dramedy centering on three mismatched slackers in a movie theater. John is basically a fish-out-of-water comedy with haunted-house undertones.
Baker and Gold use ordinary settings and bottled-up characters to explore, in painstaking detail, the coded behavior of isolated people in highly charged spaces. That means a lot of superficially banal business unfolding slowly, full of cold, awkward silences. (It would be amusing/horrifying to see an amateur production that eliminated pauses in favor of perky, stage-sitcom velocity.)
In John, mutually mistrustful lovers Elias (Christopher Abbott) and Jenny (Hong Chau), check into a rural Pennsylvania bed-and-breakfast, but we only learn of their relationship woes an hour into the action. The tchotchke-filled place is run by the sweet but unnerving Mertis (national treasure Georgia Engel), who trembles with grandmotherly solicitude, offering a brownish delicacy known as “sailor’s duff.” Elias wants to see historical sites in Gettysburg. Jenny suffers from bad menstrual cramps. Mertis sits by the window, staring at the sunset and writing ravishing descriptions. In the second act, Mertis’s blind older friend, Genevieve (Lois Smith, hilariously bleak), drops by to talk about the time her ex-husband possessed her body. To indicate the passage of time between scenes, Mertis advances the hands of an antique grandfather clock. The lighting follows suit. Everyone seems to be hesitating on the threshold of the absurd.
That is the human landscape of the play, but there’s so much more going on in the background, in Mimi Lien’s spectacularly kitschy set. The floral-patterned carpet and furniture clash so loudly you might have to plug your ears. It’s a week after Thanksgiving, but already a Christmas tree winks in the corner. One wall’s filled, floor to ceiling, with cutesy model houses. As Baker catalogs in her stage directions: “There are gnomes and trolls on the shelves and glass menageries everywhere and tiny little porcelain angels playing the harp and tiny hand-sewn sayings in frames. There is an entire miniature wintertime railway and village.” All this would be mere cockeyed verisimilitude if Sam Gold and the designers for lighting (Mark Barton) and sound (Bray Poor) didn’t start animating the set in deeply disconcerting ways. And the way Mertis talks about the Jackson Room (“a little temperamental”) will prickle the hair on the back of your neck.
Baker has written a deeply mysterious drama, with a thematic patterning that seems to warp and dissolve as each act progresses. At times John seems to be a study of the inner lives of objects: Jenny obsesses about a creepy American Girl doll Mertis keeps near the staircase; a player piano comes alive and plays “Me and My Shadow”; the Christmas tree has a mind of its own. Suggestions of ghosts, possession and witchcraft are brought up, then dropped. The spirit of Conor McPherson or Edward Albee’s metaphysical puzzle-box Tiny Alice seem to hover over the proceedings. At the same time, this is a perfectly ordinary study of trust issues between a young man and woman. The final music cue (emanating from a CD player shaped like a 1950s jukebox) is Olympia’s aria “Les oiseaux dans la charmille” from Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. A mechanical girl with whom our hero has grotesquely fallen in love sings of love and sweet birdsong. Like much in the cozy yet unnerving world Baker has created here—her most formally experimental to date—I don’t quite get the significance. But if I lower the lights and wait, some glimmering form might appear around the corner.—David Cote
Pershing Square Signature Center (Off Broadway). By Annie Baker. Directed by Sam Gold. With Georgia Engel, Christopher Abbot, Hong Chau, Lois Smith. Running time: 3hrs 15mins. Two intermissions.
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Wiedmer: In spite of themselves, Titans still in the playoff hunt
December 22nd, 2019 | by Mark Wiedmer
Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel answers questions after Sunday's 38-28 loss to the New Orleans Saints in Nashville. / AP photo by Mark Zaleski
It has to end this way, doesn't it?
Even losing two straight games in December hasn't yet eliminated the Tennessee Titans from the NFL's playoff race. All the Many Hues of Blue Crew has to do is win at Houston next Sunday to reach the postseason for the second time in three seasons. But that's the honorable way in. If Pittsburgh loses at Baltimore and Denver beats Oakland — a very distinct possibility — the Titans are in regardless.
Certainly, winning at Houston is unlikely. But is it any more unlikely than the Titans racing in front of the New Orleans Saints 14-0 on Sunday inside a watery and nippy Nissan Stadium? Or after twice falling behind the sensational Saints by 10 points, owning the ball with just more than four minutes to play and down by but three?
Sure, the Titans turned the ball over the very next play. And perhaps that was karma for letting New Orleans run a fake punt play that should have gained a first down but did not because the receiver dropped the ball.
Then again, the Saints' defense hit Kalif Raymond about as hard as you can hit a guy and not get a penalty for it. Understandably, Raymond fumbled. Saints rookie C.J. Gardner-Johnson ran the ball back 38 yards. A minute or two later, Drew Brees hit Michael Thomas for the game-clinching touchdown.
It was the kind of effort throughout that makes New Orleans a legitimate threat to reach the Super Bowl — especially if it can wind up with home-field advantage, because the Saints are 7-1 in their past eight home playoff games inside the Superdome.
But the Titans deserve some credit, too. As has been their custom all season, they never quit in this one. Not even close. And if they do wind up missing the postseason for the 10th time in 11 seasons, it won't be for lack of effort.
It will, however, be for lack of judgment, though perhaps the front office should be forgiven for showing a bit of loyalty toward Marcus Mariota, the quarterback Tennessee drafted No. 2 overall in 2015.
Yes, if offseason acquisition Ryan Tannehill, the former longtime Miami Dolphins starting QB, had been made the starter by the Titans sooner, the team might not have lost four of its first six games, wasting a number of fine defensive efforts in the process.
But Tannehill hadn't exactly been compared to Dan Marino during his days with the Dolphins. And Mariota has always attempted to do everything asked of him, including putting on 10 pounds of muscle during the offseason.
For whatever reason — multiple offensive coordinators, a less than stellar receiving corps, his own pedestrian passing skills in an NFL that increasingly requires insanely accurate throws to succeed — it never really clicked.
At least for the past nine games, Tannehill has clicked. With the exception of their home loss to Houston a week before the loss to New Orleans, the Titans have averaged more than 30 points a game with the former Texas A&M quarterback as their starter.
Even in defeat against the Saints, Tennessee wound up with more total yards, 397-377.
Does this mean Tannehill deserves a long-term deal? If the money works, Titans general manager Jon Robinson should probably consider a short-term contract with huge incentives for offensive production.
He's currently on a one-year deal guarantee of $7 million with incentives that could hike that to $12 million. Given his production since becoming the starter in Week 7, he's probably worth at least $15 million a year. Given his age (31), perhaps an incentive-heavy four-year contract might work.
Whatever, it would seem that the Titans — who really haven't had an elite quarterback since the late Steve McNair — need to lock up Tannehill sooner rather than later.
That said, what they need to do this week is find a way to win in Houston. It's doable. The Texans held off the Buccaneers at Tampa Bay on Saturday, six days after they outlasted the Titans in Nashville. But with a playoff bid already locked up, it's also debatable how much the Texans will focus on the Titans.
And even then, there's still a chance the Titans are in the playoffs for the second time in three seasons and first time under second-year coach Mike Vrabel.
"We got a playoff game next week," Titans cornerback Logan Ryan told the Associated Press on Sunday. "A win-and-we're-in situation. Regardless of what our record, regardless of what division we're in, that's a great situation to have if you're a competitor."
Having lost two straight, it certainly beats the alternative.
Mark Wiedmer
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130 Friendship Disappointed Quotes and Broken Friendship Sayings
Ananya Bhatt | December 16, 2019 | Best Friend Quotes | 3 Comments
Got badly hurt with your close friend’s behavior? Looking for disappointed quotes about friendship? We’ve got a collection of the most heart touching friendship quotes, sayings, status messages (with images, pictures, wallpapers) for you.
A true friend is one of the most cherished bond which one created. You can share your deepest fears, secrets, and achievements with them.
They are your confidants and your strongest support system whom you trust blindly. When you get a setback or betrayal from such friends, it can be really heartbreaking.
When you look back at all the memories and time spent, you feel hurt, sad and cheated. The pain is unbearable and most difficult to put in words.
At this point, you are unable to trust people again. So always try and make honest friends, who will stand by you come what may. When it comes to friends, it’s often best to choose quality over quantity.
Let’s browse through these relatable quotes about disappointment in a relationship.
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“It’s not about who is real to your face.”
“Due to success,s I started losing friends.”
“One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go.”
“Most things disappoint until you look deeper.”
“Lovers have a right to betray your friends don’t.”
“Betrayal is universal for people with no principle.”
“I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it.”
“People can disappoint you or they can surprise you.”
“I’ve been stabbed in the back by those I needed most.”
“Be careful who you trust… the devil was once an angel.”
“The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.”
“Forgiveness doesn’t always lead to healed relationships.”
“It hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on.”
“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime.”
“Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.” – Sir Bayle Roche
“It is better to have an enemy who honestly says they hate you.”
“It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.”
“Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.” – Avis Corea
“Sometimes we create our own heartbreaks through expectation.”
“Assuming is the root of all disappointments.” – Rogienel Reyes
“A special friend is hard to find, hard to lose and impossible to forget.”
“Sometimes it’s not the people who change, It’s the mask that falls off.”
“I’m losing friends ’cause people are catching feelings I’m not catching.”
“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.”
“Don’t fear the enemy that attacks you, fear the fake friend that hugs you.”
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake
“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.”
“The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.”
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.”
“After being disappointed so many times, you start to lose hope in everything.”
“We must accept infinite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”
“We’re not friends, we’re not enemies, we’re just strangers with some memories.”
“Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet and I thought it was big.”
“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.”
“Life is not about who’s real to your face, it’s about who’s really behind your back.”
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
“The silence of a true friend always hurts than the rough words spoken by the enemy.”
“Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.” – David Rudisha
“It’s sad when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.”
“It’s funny how sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for are the ones behind the trigger.”
“Fighting for a relationship is worth but you should avoid it when you are the only one fighting.”
“I don’t hate you, I’m just disappointed you turned into everything you said you’d never be.”
“Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the person you thought would never hurt you.”
“Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them.”
“Don’t blame people for disappointing you, blame yourself from expecting too much from them.”
“Whether it was a friendship or a relationship, the truth is when it ends it gives you a heartbreak.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
“Disappointments are just God’s way to saying ‘I’ve got something better’. Be patient, live life, have faith.”
“Sometimes, just when I think I know people, they disappoint me in ways I never thought they could.”
“Save the excuses. It’s not about ‘having time’ it’s about making time. If it matters, you will make time.”
“Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
“Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation.”
“Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.”
“It’s hard to trust someone, especially when the ones you trusted the most were the ones that betrayed you.”
“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed
“People always change and sometimes friends turn to be strangers but all the memories never change.”
“Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappointed you.”- Anne Lamott
“Broken friendship can become either a full stop or a comma in your life, the choice is yours to make it either of the two.”
“I always had a mentality we would forever be friends but to my shock forever got very shorter than I ever expected.”
“I surely know we never talk anymore but I always wish that one of us could show courage and do something about it.”
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
“It’s amazing how quickly your mood can change, how deep your heart can sink, and how much one person can affect you.”
“The most harrowing thing about betrayal is the fact that it will never come from your enemies but comes from your friends.”
“After a long way, I came to realize that you should not keep friendship with people who do not ask you how you are doing.”
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elizabeth Foley
“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.” – Eric Hoffer
“You will end up really disappointed if you think people will do for you as you do for them. Not everyone has the same heart as you.”
“I’m sad, hurt, angry, mad, disappointed. But you know what? I will put on a happy face and move on. It will hurt but I will survive.”
“People always change and sometimes friends turn to be strangers but the all the memories never change.” – Martin Luther King Jr
“I really do not hate you but my disappointment is that you changed and became everything you had promised you would never be.”
“I have learned that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.”
“I’m never shocked when people let me down nowadays. I just hate the fact that I put myself in a position to be let down in the first place.”
“Try to let people go because every person in your journey is meant to be there but not all of them who are meant to stay in it until the end.”
“Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.”
“The moment your friends cease to share their complications with you, know that is the moment you lost your prime place in their hearts.”
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.”_ Haruki Murakami
“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”
“Everyone leaves footprints in your memory, but the ones that leave footprints in your heart are the ones you will truly remember.”- Nicholas Sperling
“Sometimes you try and ignore the obvious and shield yourself from the blunt truth that some people are truly clueless about how much they hurt you.”
“Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.” – Brad Warner
“A person wanted to know whether I knew you. So many memories flashed through my mind that time but all I did was to smile and I only said I used to know you.”
“It hurts me so bad whenever I recall all that you have done to me and I want to instantly leave you behind but am disappointed because I lack the courage to run.”
“Because once upon a time, we were best friends. And, yes, there’s been a lot of bad stuff in between. But none of that matters right now, okay? You need me, I’m there. Any time, any place, anywhere.”
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A Dash of Sugar – Daniel Pearse, Executive Pastry Chef
15-02-2019 / Savoy Team
For guests of The Savoy, indulging in delectable sweets is always at the forefront of their plans when visiting. Whether it is from the Savoy Tea Shop, where you’ll find homemade chocolate truffles and French macaroons, or in the Thames Foyer, where Afternoon Tea connoisseurs can enjoy an opulent setting coupled by hand crafted pastries.
The man behind it all is Daniel Pearse, Executive Pastry Chef for The Savoy. Having been raised in the Somerset countryside, Daniel quickly learned the importance of where food came from, and the work that went into producing it. It was this understanding, as well as knowing the comfort that food can bring, which made him appreciate the art of cooking and by the age of 9, solidified his aspiration in becoming a chef.
Daniel attended catering college and soon began working at a small country house hotel in Devon. It was here where he quickly took on the role of Pastry Chef, giving him full creativity and freedom which ultimately sparked his love for desserts. In 2005, he left for London and since then has held positions with Mandarin Oriental, The Langham, and most recently Hakkasan London, where he held the title of Executive Pastry Chef for a group that includes three one-Michelin-starred restaurants.
Daniel Pearse likes to stay current while remaining unique. He combines traditional flavours and classical techniques that add a modern twist, and yet remain balanced. For The Savoy, he aims to change the perceptions of desserts – sinful and filling – with the goal of having his guests leave the restaurant remembering the excitement of their final course.
Daniel is continuing to challenge the status quo in the culinary world, by consistently creating decadent treats for everyone who steps foot into The Savoy.
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Amid doc’s murder case, lawsuits reflect battle over blame
By Kantele FrankoThe Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio - In the year since an Ohio hospital system announced an intensive care doctor had ordered excessive painkillers for dozens of patients who then died, the allegations led to murder charges against him, lawsuits, firings and potential disciplinary action for some of his colleagues.
As the criminal case moves toward possible trial this year, related pending lawsuits reflect a battle over blame. A look at where things stand:
THE ALLEGATIONS
The Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System determined William Husel ordered excessive doses for nearly three dozen patients over several years, though it said the doses likely weren’t what caused six of those deaths. Reviewers found that in many cases, the drugs were accessed by overriding a dispensing system.
Husel was fired in December 2018, weeks after a concern was raised. Mount Carmel later said three patients died during those weeks after receiving excessive doses he ordered.
Last June, Husel was charged with murder in 25 deaths and pleaded not guilty in one of the biggest cases of its kind ever brought against a U.S. health care professional. He was charged only in cases involving 500 to 2,000 micrograms of the powerful painkiller fentanyl – doses so unusually large that prosecutors said it indicated an intent to snuff out lives.
His initial lawyer said Husel was providing comfort care to dying patients, not trying to kill them.
Husel’s current lawyers in the criminal case — including Florida-based Jose Baez, who is known for successfully defending high-profile clients such as Casey Anthony and Aaron Hernandez — haven’t said much publicly about his motives. Husel’s lawyers in civil cases contend that he provided appropriate care and that Mount Carmel misled the public about what happened.
Mount Carmel publicly apologized, tightened its drug policies, fired other employees and changed leadership but has stood by its investigation and subsequent decisions.
“There is nothing more important to us than our patients’ safety and their trust in us — and we will do everything in our power to continue to improve,” it said in an emailed statement Tuesday.
Trial for Husel, 44, is currently scheduled for June.
LOTS OF LAWSUITS
More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against Mount Carmel in the matter, and it has agreed to more than $13 million in related settlements so far. Husel and Mount Carmel unsuccessfully argued the remaining lawsuits should be put on hold until the criminal case is resolved.
Husel also has filed lawsuits. One against Mount Carmel and its parent company, Michigan-based Trinity Health, alleges defamation. Another against Trinity and its insurer seeks to force them to cover costs of his defence in the criminal case, just as in civil cases against him.
FORMER COLLEAGUES
Authorities aren’t prosecuting those who administered the drugs, though they have faced other fallout. Mount Carmel said it fired 23 nurses, pharmacists and managers after its internal investigation.
Ten of Husel’s former colleagues recently sued Mount Carmel for defamation and, in some cases, wrongful termination. The group of mostly nurses decried a “ false narrative of an evil rogue doctor and his complicit staff“ and said the spread of that narrative damaged their lives and livelihoods regardless of whether they were fired.
Three pharmacists and 25 nurses still face potential disciplinary action from their respective state boards and have administrative hearings scheduled in the coming months.
Husel is in line for one, too, after the Ohio State Medical Board suspended his license. It hadn’t previously disciplined him.
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City paves the wrong priorities
But it should probably stay away from the Art Van building.
City paves the wrong priorities But it should probably stay away from the Art Van building. Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: https://bwne.ws/2vUX0La
Editorial Board Published 12:10 a.m. ET Aug. 12, 2018
We realize it is no way to run a government, but a frustrated motorist prompted us to ask readers which were the worst streets in the city of Port Huron. They identified half a dozen spots, segments of 10th Avenue and 13th, Fort, Richardson, Moak, Kearney and Willow streets as the most battered and beaten in the city. An online poll, by no means scientific or good asset management, declared 10th Avenue between Holland and Pine Grove avenues the worst.
Fort Street downtown, between Quay and Beers street is third worst, according to the poll.
So, which downtown street is the city’s priority? Officials expect to start work on Michigan Avenue from Quay to Grand River and Quay Street from Huron to Merchant in early spring 2019.
The city agrees with readers about 13th Street between Water Street and Lapeer Avenue. Rebuilding that street could happen next summer.
More goes into street rebuilding decisions than which is lumpiest, both in Port Huron and elsewhere. Most of the city’s streets that have been rebuilt and repaved over the past decade were tied to the sewer separation project. That cost a lot of money, but also replaced a lot of crumbling pavement.
Rebuilding roads and streets costs is expensive, and governments have to weigh the costs and benefits before they pull out the checkbook. Replacing a few pulverized blocks of Kearney or Willow streets might not serve the greater good the way patching a heavily trafficked commercial corridor might, for instance.
But we have to think that choosing Michigan Avenue over Fort Street shows a clear disconnect. Except for the restaurants on the south end of the block, there is nothing on that stretch of Michigan — unless you count the former Art Van building.
We are not suggesting the paving project is motivated by the irrational enthusiasm for the pavilion proposal. There is no priority more misplaced than the latter, though. Spending $2 million on a park, farmers market, semi-outdoor event space or whatever the building could be while streets turn to dust is the worst kind of folly.
City officials will argue that it is not real money. City Manager James Freed said he expects a charitable foundation will donate almost half of the cost. We have no argument with that. The rest of the money will come from the downtown TIFA district and is another indictment of Michigan’s potholed system of development incentives.
Tax increment financing was supposed to be spent on infrastructure that supports and encourages development that adds to a community’s tax base — like building streets. Here, it will be spent to keep a building off the tax rolls. Tax increment finance districts that have outlived their purpose should be dissolved.
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Counting the cost of a cruise (Part 3 of 5)
Dining and sightseeing options: At what cost?
The all-in cost of a cruise will be greater than the price of the fare. In some cases, it can be significantly greater than the price of the ticket, taxes, fees and port charges. All this week, TheTravelPro is examining many of the options that add to the all-in cost.
In addition to the restaurants that serve the meals included in the cruise fare, most cruise ships offers specialty dining venues. Our ship, Princess Cruises' Ruby Princess, offered three every night, and a pop-up restaurant once during the cruise. They were SHARE, created in conjunction with a celebrity chef; a premium steak, seafood and chop house; a gastropub; and a Southern-inspired crab shack.
Dinner at Curtis Stone’s SHARE carried a cover charge of $39 per person and included one item from each of five courses: appetizer, main dish, side dish, a cheese course and dessert. Beverages were additional but can be covered by the beverage package as long as the beverage costs remain within established limits. For guests with a beverage package, dinner at SHARE added another $78 to the cost.
The "Ernesto" burger
Dinner at the Crown Grill steak and chop house was a minimum of $29 per person or about $58 per couple. Beverages were additional if not covered by a beverage package. Dinner at The Salty Dog gastropub was $19 per person, or another $38 per couple. We thought both venues offered excellent value.
A fourth option was breakfast or dinner catered to our stateroom. Different than simple room service, which is included in the cruise fare, the catered dinner is a four-course meal that includes champagne and is served in courses at a table set up on our veranda if weather permits, or inside the stateroom if we prefer. That option carried an additional cost of $100.
Cruise lines will occasionally offer specials, and we were able to take advantage of one that included the all-inclusive beverage package and one specialty dining for two at one of the three venues.
Specialty dining is truly optional. The ship has a main dining room that caters to those who prefer “traditional” cruise dining: a set time each day at the same table and the same servers. It also has two “any-time” dining restaurants where passengers can dine whenever they choose during the restaurants’ opening hours, as well as a half-dozen casual dining outlets offering pizza, burgers and dogs, café and bistro fare, and wine bars, all included.
The biggest surprises to me as a new cruise patron was both the number of shore excursions available and their cost.
Our cruise called on Ketchikan, Endicott Arm Fjord, Juneau and Skagway, Alaska and Victoria, British Columbia. We simply got off the ship and followed our noses in Juneau and Skagway, while we engaged an independent tour operator who was waiting at the waterfront when the ship arrived. For those who prefer not taking pot-luck with such entrepreneurs, our cruise line offered 33 tour options ranging from $35.95 per person for a local walking tour to $369.95 per person for a six-hour halibut fishing tour...and that was just for our first stop, Ketchikan.
The only option at Endicott Arm was to explore the fjord in a 130-passenger vessel, which got much closer of the fjord and glaciers than did the cruise ship. That excursion was $229.95 per person.
Options at the other ports of call were equally overwhelming, with 46 tours to choose from in Juneau (price range: $33 to $1,999.95 per person), 16 in Skagway ($39.95 to $299.95 per person) and 13 in Victoria ($29.95 to $169.95 per person).
If a couple was to take the most economical shore excursion at each port, that would add almost $750 to the total cost.
A closer look at more available on-board features in our next installment.
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Making the most of Dubai
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The most amazing thing about Dubai - the bustling, modern city on the Persian Gulf in the United Arab Emirates - is that as recently as 50 years ago, almost none of what is there today even existed.
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Experienced travelers know the benefits that come from traveling Business or First Class, particularly on long flights. More space to work or stretch out, better food and better treatment are but a few of the advantages. But passengers who travel in those upmarket cabins aboard U.A.E.-based Emirates enjoy some additional perks including complimentary chauffeur-driven transportation at both ends of their flight.
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The Geek x Vrv are coming to America (with plenty of electro-soul)
Interview by: Huff
This past year, we've been eagerly eating up each electro-soul delight released by French duo The Geek x Vrv, who were recently signed to Gramatik's Lowtemp label. Snatching up accolades and build steam like a runaway freight train the explosive growth of the duo has led to more opportunities, and a chance for the pair to prove their mettle in the US this spring. Huff got a chance to talk to Axel (The Geek) and Vincent (Vrv).
Congratulations on one of the biggest years in electronic music. You’re the new the princes of electro-soul from France! In addition to winning the Odesza remix contest, you played with everyone from Pretty Lights to Gramatik to GRiZ and collaborated with some of the biggest artists in America. What has this last year been like for you guys?
This year was completely insane, we met Derek (Pretty Lights), Denis (Gramatik), Grant (GRiZ), Dom and Jeremy (Big Gigantic), Clayton and Harrison (Odesza)—those guys are so humble and very cool! We have released 20 songs this year and the public give us so much good feedback, we'll continue to give our love for the music in 2015 for the pleasure of our fans, especially now that we are members of the Lowtemp label, and we are very honored to be on board with some very talented producers like Exmag, Russ Liquid, and Gibbz.
I am sure you it’s been a busy year between all the performances you guys have done, yet you seem to bust out a new music more than anyone in the electro-soul. How do you stay productive?
We are looking all the time for something new and fresh, we don't want to stay only in one genre, you know when you have a good sample you can do anything you want. Our goal is to share our emotions with the music.
What was one concert/tour/festival that really stands out to you guys from last year and why?
When we played just before Gramatik in Toulouse, the crowd was so awesome! Each time we dropped a new track they were like " YEAH YEAH OH MY GOD " it was a very good moment, and the energy in the club was so special.This night and the second one was at La Machine du Moulin Rouge with Derek [Pretty Lights], 70% of the crowd were from the U.S. This night was so special, we were like kids at Christmas.
Doing remixes for the biggest artists on the planet? I think everyone wants a remix from you guys? Who would you guys love to collab with right now if you had the opportunity?
For Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, DJ Premier, A Tribe called Quest, Jedi Mind Tricks it could be an awesome opportunity. We have a lot of requests but we can't accept all of them, we love when we can feel at the first second “yeah I see what can I do on it" we are looking for the emotions inside the music; music without emotion isn't music. We would love to collab with a French producer called 20syl (member of C2C, Hocus Pocus). We think he is an extraterrestrial. One day in studio with him could be the best day of our life, also with Pretty Lights, too.He has a good vision of the life and he knows how to transform a good sample in a beautiful thing you've never believed.
What got you two started together and how did The Geex x Vrv become the juggernaut that it is?
By a mutual friend. After we started, our first EP together, It's Because hit 500000 plays in only one month we were like "Oh my god " and our first fans asked us to never stop what we do, so this is what we keep doing now. After that we’ve started our first shows, and we has grown and we’re reaching a lot of fans from all around the world. We’ve made a lot of songs this year (Nostalgia, Lazy Love, Say It, The Way of Love…) and the public gave us such good feedback (and we’d like to thank everyone for their support).
What motivates you to start a new track, and can you give me a little glimpse into the process of how a Geek x Vrv track comes to fruition?
We start with a beats, then we choose a sample, build something around it, and voila.
You guys released BTOS Vol 3 This summer, which I thought was one of the most solid albums I heard the entire year. I feel it’s right up there with Odesza’s album for best electronica album of the year. What do you guys have in store for this year? New Album? What do you guys plan on changing the formula?
Thanks for your kind words on BTOS Vol 3 (special thanks to Philos Records).
We have a new ep in store called Electric City, 5 tracks + 2 remixes from Late Night Radio and CloZee and it will be released this spring. Are you ready for some future funk? We are always looking to create something new, sometimes you can't hear it but all of our song are different.
You guys have an American tour coming up right? Anywhere you guys are looking forward to performing having worked with many American artists at this point?
Our first U.S. tour is for this spring (April 2015). We'll present to you our new EP and some new unreleased gems. We don't know yet with whom we'll be touring, but we hope we can see a lot of our fans over there.
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Drummer Nigel Powell presents set of stripped-back songs
Nigel Powell.
Drummer Nigel Powell is presenting his set of intricate and emotional songs in Bristol, as part of his project The Sad Song Co.
Powell, a drummer for Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls, and ex-Unbelievable Truth, has worked with Jason Moulster to create a set of stripped-back songs.
Powell said: “It’s always interesting playing live because while I love producing records, this strips things down and gets to the heart of the songs.
“The new songs especially have many layers and it’s educational to peel them back and find what’s driving it all underneath.
“It’s also terrifying. I play hundreds of gigs every year as a drummer – confident in my abilities – but put me up front and it’s far more nerve-racking.”
The Sad Song Co will perform at Exchange, in Old Market Street, Bristol, on February 14 at 7pm.
Tickets, priced £6.50, are available from www.exchangebristol.com
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Small Charities Coalition appoints new chief executive
01 November 2012 by Andy Hillier
Alex Swallow, founder of Young Charity Trustees, will take over from Cath Lee
Alex Swallow
The Small Charities Coalition has appointed Alex Swallow as its new chief executive.
Swallow, the founder of Young Charity Trustees, will take over from Cath Lee, who is relocating to West Yorkshire with her family.
He will join the charity on 26 November and will work alongside Lee until 31 December, when she will leave.
The Small Charities Coalition merged with Charity Trustee Networks in March 2011. The combined charity acts as a support and networking organisation for trustees, staff and volunteers working in charities with income of less than £1m a year.
Debra Allcock Tyler, chair of the Small Charities Coalition, said: ‘‘We are delighted to welcome Alex on board as our new chief executive. He impressed us with his enthusiasm, and passion for and commitment to supporting the work of small charities and trustees – and his ideas and plans for the future are exciting."
Swallow added: "I am honoured to take on this role and to build on Cath's excellent work, with the support of the staff, the board and volunteers. I think the Small Charities Coalition/Charity Trustee Networks is particularly needed at this time and am looking forward to making my contribution."
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Nicholas McCarthy
Nicholas McCarthy is a young writer-director whose first feature, the low budget chiller The Pact is still playing in UK cinemas. This Is Horror’s John Llewellyn Probert tracked Nick down after being impressed by his horror debut (you can read John’s review of The Pact on his House of Mortal Cinema) to ask him a few questions:
When was the first time you watched a horror film, and how did it affect you?
NM: Though I don’t remember the very first horror movie I ever saw, as a kid I was addicted to a television programming block coming out of Boston when called ‘Creature Double Feature’. It was where this channel would dump all its old horror, science fiction and monster movies, most of them being from the 1950s. The one that made the deepest impression on me was a 1958 Universal B-picture called The Thing That Couldn’t Die, about a severed head that hypnotizes people (!). It scared and fascinated me and I still carry a lot of its images in my head today.
What was it that first attracted you to horror?
NM: I suppose if I was to psychoanalyze it was because I was raised a Catholic. I was the youngest and probably left in front of the television more, and the mixture of the blood and gore of the story of Christ with the hours spent watching movies about things like giant ants eating people kind of hard wired my brain. As I got a older and started to make films, I realized how cinematic the genre was. Atmosphere is so important to horror films, no matter how big or small the movie, and that really comes from a director versus anything else.
What achievement are you most proud of?
NM: I remember coming home from the first day of shooting The Pact. It had gone really well and I felt like we were going to make a really interesting little horror movie, which to me was important since I had spent my life being obsessed with interesting little horror movies. After finishing that day and getting everything I wanted, I was truly proud I had pursued my dream for so long to get there.
NM: After The Pact premiered I went and wrote another horror film. It channels some of the same ideas as The Pact and I think could be an incredibly dark and frightening movie. We will be shooting it in the fall.
Who do you admire in the horror world?
NM: There are a lot of people I admire in the genre, but the name that instantly comes to mind is David Cronenberg. His career has been fascinating. That first decade where he mined his own niche of personal genre films, producing masterpieces like The Brood and Videodrome, is endlessly inspiring to me. Even as a director for hire, he’s always engaged. I would be honoured to have a career even somewhat like his.
The Pact has quite a EuroHorror feel to it – was that ‘genre’ of film a conscious influence in its making?
NM: Although I didn’t fashion The Pact as any kind of homage, the influences of my favorite movies are obviously there in my choices as a director of the material. What I did really without thinking was channel a lot of Argento and Italian horror, I guess since that stuff has captivated me since I saw Suspiria when I was 16 years old. Ever since then I’ve watched a lot of European genre films and the influence is unavoidable. I remember early on in the shoot, asking my cinematographer Bridger Nielson to put the camera way up high, peering at the action through a light fixture. We were looking through the monitor and he just says “Wow. Very Italian.” I hadn’t thought of it — but he was right. It was just how I saw the thing.
Were the ‘flying’ effects in The Pact difficult to achieve? It almost looks as if you used a mechanical revolving room like in Wes Craven’s original Nightmare on Elm Street.
NM: The flying around stuff was what’s called ‘wire work’: the actor is put in a harness and pulled and dragged around with ropes. It’s one of the few places in the movie where we used CGI, we had a digital FX artist paint out the ropes. What was difficult was directing action like this – it’s easy to get carried away with what’s happening because it’s so crazy so you have to keep in mind that you want with each shot, keeping in mind you are trying to tell a story. For my actress, it was physically pretty brutal. The producer bought her a massage the next day since she was so banged up.
How did you go about casting The Pact?
NM: We cast the movie traditionally, holding auditions, which is a process I enjoy. There are so many interesting actors out there, and you always are looking for that moment when someone walks in the room and just transforms what you’ve written. It’s such a cool thing. It’s also unique because you work so hard together and afterward you have this exact starting date of your friendship – you know where you were when you met this person who’s now in your life.
Do you prefer gore or psychological horror?
NM: I prefer both! I think it’s all about whatever story is being told. I watch as many older, less explicit genre films as newer ones. It’s all interesting to me.
How important is it to unsettle a viewer?
NM: It’s funny, for whatever reason, that’s kind of been the hallmark of these little short films I made and now the feature, and the scripts I’ve written have that quality too. There’s something about nervous anticipation that I like, I can’t explain it.
How do you evoke fear?
NM: I always go back to mining the feeling of dread, which I think is something we learn in childhood. A fear of something unknown in the closet – or a fear that your parents will be angry at you. It’s a primal feeling.
NM: I think The Pact makes a point that ghosts are scary, but real people are scarier! Because the things people do to one another – physically emotionally – are where so much of horror seems to come from.
Why should people watch your films?
NM: My goal with The Pact was to make something absorbing and scary. If that sounds like a good time, give it a shot. Plus, every time someone watches The Pact, I will not kill one of these kittens.
How far is too far when it comes to horror cinema?
NM: There should be no limits. As viewers we just have to measure the voice of the filmmaker and decide whether we trust them or not. And even then, if we’re not sure, that can be an interesting experience, to see how far you can stretch yourself. Martyrs was the only film I felt the urge to fast forward, but I’m glad I didn’t. It felt cathartic at the end. I loved that movie. Would I recommend it to anyone? I’m not so sure. I think it’s a very personal experience that the movie provides.
How do you think horror cinema will evolve in the next ten years?
NM: I try not to think of the future because there are so many great films to discover that’ve already been made. Just because they are 5, 10, 70 years old doesn’t mean they aren’t relevant.
One positive thing that’s happened in the past decade is the market for horror has exploded and that means more voices, so we’re bound to get something interesting. I’m always excited to see something new.
Could you recommend a horror film that you think our readers should see?
NM: For some reason, the movie Last House on Dead End Street comes to mind. I hadn’t seen this until it was released on DVD a decade back and my friend Paul Gaita brought it over to watch. When it ended we were stunned – it really feels like a nightmare unfolding, there’s no film like it. It possesses a quality I love, which is a sense of the uncanny. Last House on Dead End Street almost feels like it was made by the devil himself, and that’s no small achievement. This lapsed Catholic is impressed!
JOHN LLEWELLYN PROBERT
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe … Don’t Go in The Old Dark House
TIH 268: Gabino Iglesias on Puerto Rico, Personal Training, and Writing Stories
News Round-up Week Ending 29 March 2019
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
New collaborative novel by Robert Ford and Matt Hayward, A Penny For Your Thoughts, available for pre-order now
Joe Openshaw is fresh out of prison and trying to turn his life around, avoiding the habits that led to his addiction and subsequent incarceration. When he stumbles upon a buried jar of old pennies, each with a hand-written note attached, he thinks it nothing more than a curiosity. That is, until the wishes on the notes begin to come true. A Penny For Your Thoughts is the new novel by Robert Ford (The Compound) and Matt Hayward (The Faithful) is released through Poltergeist Press on 1 June and is available for pre-order in kindle or paperback, here.
Dead by Dawn festival returns to Edingburh 18 – 21 April
For its twenty-sixth edition, Edinburgh’s Dead By Dawn film festival returns with sixty-four films from fifteen countries across four days of horror. This year’s event will feature the guest of honour, cult film director Jeff Lieberman (Blue Sunshine, Satan’s Little Helper) who will host a retrospective of his films. Aside from this, there will be a number of UK and Scottish premieres of films such as The Nightshifter and Cutterhead. Tickets are available now, along with much more information at the official website, here.
I’m Not Even Supposed to Be Here Today, debut novella by Brian Asman, out now
After a killer surf session, Scot Kring stops at the local Fasmart for a slushy. Once outside though, a homeless guy has a stroke, subsequently reciting a latin incantation which summons a demon Kevin Smith lookalike. Stephen Graham Jones says “I haven’t had this much fun watching terrible stuff happen in a long time.” I’m Not Even Supposed to Be Here Today is released by Eraserhead Press and is available right now, here.
KEV HARRISON
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The supercharged possibilities of a single set and two amped-up actors are explored in Hard Candy, a twisted cocktail with a poison kicker. After a flirtatious encounter in an online chat room, two people agree to meet for coffee: a 32-year-old man (Patrick Wilson) and a 14-year-old girl (Ellen Page). They quickly advance to his house, and just as quickly, the apparent pedophilic seduction morphs into something else entirely. After the tables turn, Hard Candy becomes a tale of revenge and torture that might have tempted a filmmaker like Park Chanwook. Here, first-time feature director David Slade opts for a slick look that stays close to the actors, and you can't really blame him--this…
movie is like a conceptual, more-than-slightly unbelievable off-Broadway play, a showcase for actors and "controversial" ideas. Those actors are strong: Patrick Wilson (Angels in America, Phantom of the Opera) is every bit as creepy as he needs to be, and Ellen Page has nothing short of a triumph. The Canadian actress was around 18 when she shot the film, but looks like an adolescent, which makes her authoritative wrath all the more shocking to witness. The provocations of Hard Candy sometimes seem arbitrary or forced, but Page's electrifying performance can't be denied, or dismissed. --Robert Horton
Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Actors: Patrick Wilson Ellen Page Sandra Oh Odessa Rae G.J. Echternkamp
Size: 7.4000" x 5.3000"
Weight: 0.5000 lbs.
Language: English, Spanish, English
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Frankly FIFA, I don’t give a damn
Veröffentlicht am 10. Dezember 2010 von Jacob Sweetman
Jacob hat nicht nur den besten Text zum Montagsspiel geschrieben, der geschrieben wurde. Nein, er hat noch davor einen Text über die Wahl der Austragungsorte für die Weltmeisterschaften 2018 und 2022 geschrieben, für dessen verspätete Publikation wir uns entschuldigen möchten.
Steffi & Sebastian
In Gone With The Wind there is a scene where, having lost all her former riches, Scarlett O’Hara tears down the beautiful green drapes that are all that is left of her furnishings to make a new dress. The idea is that she will be better able to get the 300 dollars she needs to save the family home if she has all the trappings and the appearance of wealth. It is a scene not disimilar to that of the English FA in Zurich last week as they desparately tried to impress the FIFA executive commitee members of the worth of their bid to land the 2018 World Cup. In the Guardian, David Conn pointed out that as David Cameron’s government slashed school sports funding back in the home of football, he was in a five star Zurich hotel, shaking hands with some of the most odious and dictatorial scumbags in the world.
But none of this was a surprise. Germany know very well about the morals of the FA when it comes to landing the biggest fish of all, the World Cup. When England promised Germany their full support for the 2006 tournament in exchange for Germany’s for EURO ’96 it was a deal made with crossed fingers. A gentlemans agreement only works between gentlemen, and the FA were certainly not that. They went for 2006 all the same, fuck the agreement. The obvious ending being that Germany became hosts and the English slunk home with their heads in their hands wondering why everybody thought they were so arrogant.
They always said that this time was different. The moral highground was there for the taking, and the bid had received the best possible reception. It was, finally, time for football to come home. To come home to a country where sport could help to eradicate society’s evils. Where Violence in the grounds had been all but banished and where the seeds of a new football had taken root in the fertile ground of that capitalists wet dream, the Premiership (“the Greatest League on Earth” SKY TV always tell us).
But, surprise, surprise, it didn’t work. I wrote a piece before the announcement of the winners saying how I didn’t want England to win the bid. It was just too unedifying to be cosying up to these guys who could make the Catholic Church look like a progressive, morally sound organisation. Where was the shame, the humility? To what ends would we go to win the bid, to make the big money? The BBC had broadcast a documentary on the eve of the decision accusing four further members of the executive committee of accepting bribes, but what was Cameron’s response to this? It was “irresponsible” of the BBC to harm the bid so. That two voters were already suspended because of similar accusations in the English press was seen as more than unfortunate. They could have been useful for the bid. For the BBC to be called unpatriotic and unhelpful was as fucking disgraceful as it was untrue. Although the previous experiment had shown that moral bankruptcy didn’t necessarily mean winning, why change now?
But the deal had already gone down. So it was with a huge surprise that I found myself seething with rage that Russia had won. Not because I don’t think that they equally deserve to host a World Cup (they do, and have never had one before…. no problem there) but because we looked like such pitiful losers. Apparently David Beckham is still a footballer, but he is closer to a handpuppet, let out of his Gucci leather lined box when hands need shaking, when Sepp wants to feel like royalty. The presense of “Dave” Cameron and Prince William was worse. These fuckers represent everything that is wrong with modern football in England, a representation of the gormless, money and celebrity driven Premiership that thinks football was invented in 1992, and they neither like nor know anything about the national sport other than the fact that to associate oneself with it lends a certain credibility.
I don’t need to spill more bile about the choice of Qatar to host in 2022. This was a decision that could only have come from FIFA, but the very fact that our elected leaders (not you, William. Sorry mate you don’t count as such) saw fit to hang the BBC out to dry was sickening. Could we not be proud of our press and it’s pursuit of the truth? Of course every good Conservative knows the BBC is a pseudo communist agency undermining the idea that morals and ability come second to the school one attended but it was just incredibly sad that it should have come to this. To feel the need to attack the countries most internationally respected body was inevitable, but it also still didn’t work as a tactic. Cameron still came home looking like a loser, and the FIFA executives are still happy now that it has been proved that their endemic corruption is deemed as being completely irrelevant. Life in their Swiss dream factory goes on unencumbered by trivial things like taxes and responsibility. So, let them have the World Cup wherever they like. Let it become even more bloated, and hang the consequences. Fuck them. To paraphrase Rhett Butler’s payoff line to Scarlett at the end of Gone With The Wind, “Frankly FIFA, I don’t give a damn”.
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