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José Andrés and his ThinkFoodGroup will set up an America Eats Tavern, replacing Old Glory Bar-B-Que at 3139 M St. NW. Georgetowner photo; Google images.
José Andrés and his ThinkFoodGroup will set up an America Eats Tavern this summer in Georgetown, replacing the just shuttered Old Glory Bar-B-Que at 3139 M St. NW., the Andrés-led company announced today.
While some lament the demise of Old Glory, which closed Sunday after 26 years, rumors swirling about Andrés meeting with Capital Restaurant Group — which owns J. Paul’s, Paolo’s, Georgia Brown’s and more — proved true.
“We’re excited to bring America Eats Tavern back to the District, where it all began, especially to historic Georgetown where we’ve been wanting to open for a long time,” said Andrés. “We know what makes America great is in no small part its rich and diverse culinary heritage and that is just what we invite everyone to come in and enjoy!”
“In addition to the American classics that guests know and love, Andrés will be introducing barbeque to the restaurant’s menu to add to the culinary experience, as well as a more casual ambiance,” according to ThinkFoodGroup. “Andrés and his culinary team have conducted extensive research to identify the best products available, highlighting local meats, seafood, wines, cheeses, beers and other products from the mid-Atlantic region.”
Added the company: “Originally launched in 2011 in collaboration with the Foundation for the National Archives, America Eats Tavern was first conceived as a pop-up in the former Café Atlantico space. From there, Andrés and his team brought the concept to the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner, just outside Washington, D.C., in McLean, Virginia. In its newest incarnation, the restaurant will be a partnership with longtime Georgetown restaurateur Bechara Nammour of Capital Restaurant Group.”
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The preservation of the ancient camp and especially of the camp chapel of the barbed wire seminary in Le Coudray near Chartres (Biography of Franz Stock, Barbed Wire Seminary) has been, for a long period of time, an aspiration of the three Franz Stock committees in Germany and France. It has been their aim to purchase the premises, to restore the old camp chapel, a monument to be protected, and to create an European Meeting Place in the spirit of the German-French friendship treaty. The project was deadlocked for a longer period of time pending clarification of the future ownership title for the (former) military area as well as the question of a joint concept for its use and in particular its overall financing:
Our French partners have now succeeded in obtaining the assistance of Mr. Villeroy de Galhau as driving force for the realization of this plan. As former president and director of Messrs. Villeroy & Boch in France he disposes of enormous experience and far reaching personal contacts which make us confident to carry out our plan within an acceptable period of time.
At this juncture you are cordially invited to make your comprehensive acquaintance our project.
With the moral support of the honorary committee, which comprises personalities of different social groups, we wish:
– after purchase of the building and its direct surroundings to prepare for an access road.
– to restore the building.
Precedence is given to maintain its essential structure and to present the history of this camp/seminary; In its type a unique memorial would be created. This should be achieved by construction of an „explanatory road“, on which one would traverse the most important living quarters of the camp, bordered by exhibition of documents and reminiscences of past events.
To provide adequate facilities for visitors and pilgrims or researchers, to wit a modern conference hall, a foyer, simple lodging accommodations.
A library and an archive hall will be on hand for students and researchers.
The object will be to create this place in a lively manner, i.e. by events suggested and accompanied, for example, by:
Visits, especially of young people (pupils, students)
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Pilgrimages of reminiscence and forgiveness
Conferences for information and further education about:
the German-French culture in their actual dynamics
philosophical and religious research for to-day and to-morrow
reinforcement of mutual historic knowledge
the different cultures and their wealth
command of technical development serving all men
reconciliation of conflicting economical and social spheres of life in the context of the XXI. Century.
Conferences, which are the object of peace in Europe and the world and the solution of conflicts in the XXI. Century.
Foundation of an European Franz Stock award.
A „political“ meeting place in the actual sense of this word, to become a center of reflection, culture and reminiscence, all this aimed at for the former „Seminary behind barbed wire“, in order that at long last a „Europe of the spirit“ can take shape in the service of civilization for peace, as desired by the „most significant foundation personalities“ of the seminary, like Edmond Michelet or the apostolic nuncio, Monseigneur Roncally and last but not least also by Franz Stock.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] KAI-MEI FU: Hello. My name is Kai-Mei Fu, and I’m an experimental
physicist in the University of Washington physics department here, and I’ve been given
the honor of introducing tonight’s guest, David Wineland. I’d first like to thank everyone for joining
us for our fourth Frontiers in Physics public lecture. As you may know, this series was started to
provide our community inspiring, free lectures on the latest advances in physics given by
the people who directly contributed to these advances. The broad range of topics that we have heard
over the past two years mirror the broad impact that physics has on how we view the world,
and also how we impact and affect our world. In our last lecture we learned from Dr. John
Preskill how the spooky and nonintuitive nature of quantum mechanics may lead to unprecedented
computational power. And in the spring, stay tuned. We will hear from leading particle theorist
Dr. Lisa Randall who’s well-known for her work showing that extra dimensions can help
solve some of the fundamental problems in physics. Today we are excited to hear from Dr. David
Wineland, our third Nobel laureate in this series, on his contributions to the measurement
of time. Before introducing David, I would like to
first take a moment to thank Dr. Patrick O’Hara and his wife Dr. Catarina Randolph, who unfortunately
can’t be with us here tonight. It was their vision to start this series. They approached our department thinking that
what our community needed was a public lecture series, bringing the public to learn about
what’s happening in physics today. And because of their generosity it has become
a reality. I would also like to think Phil Ekstrom, who
wrote the program that you all now have on a short history of time keeping. Phil was a PhD student of Hans Dehmelt and
overlapped with David Wineland during his time as a post-doc at the University of Washington. On that note, I would actually also like to
add that if you’re interested in getting involved in the physics department, we would love to
hear from you. There is contact information on the back of
your program. So getting involved with physics can be attending
a lecture. It can be getting added to an email list so
you can hear about all the colloquium that we have and other public and outreach events
that we have going on. And also it can be helping to support our
students’ individual research projects and outreach events that we have for community. And so now onto the introduction. David Wineland– he grew up in California
and graduated from Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in physics. He then completed his PhD with Norman Ramsey
at Harvard before joining us at the University of Washington for his post-doctoral work with
our own Nobel laureate, Hans Nobel– or, Hans Dehmelt. This was before– [LAUGHS] This before Norman
Ramsey and Hans Dehmelt would later be awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics. And so if you could say one thing, you could
say that David really knew how to choose an adviser, since both of his advisors were chosen. After leaving University of Washington, Dr.
Wineland joined the now National Institutes of Standards and Technologies, and for the
next decade pioneered precision techniques to measure and control individual atoms. The main motivation for this work was precision
time-keeping. But in 1995 there was a theoretical proposal
by Cirac and Zoller on a new way to process information, quantum information processing
of ions. And because of this very fundamental work
on clocks that he had been performing, within months of that proposal he was able to demonstrate
a quantum gate with single– or two ions. This seminal work, this high-precision control
which led to his work in clocks and quantum information processing was honored in 2012
with the Nobel Prize. As some of you know, David Wineland spent
his post-doc here at University of Washington with Hans Dehmelt. And Hans Dehmelt passed away this past year. It is fitting that we’re able to hear today
about new scientific results that, in part, were influenced by Dehmelt’s work. Just as one day in the future we’ll hear of
discoveries that are enabled by David Wineland’s work, which he’ll discuss today. Thanks. [APPLAUSE] Well, thanks for the introduction, Kai-Mei. And first of all, thanks for all of you coming. I mean, one of the nice things about giving
this kind of lecture is to see the large-scale interest from the public. And so I can’t teach you everything about
what we do, but I hope to give you an impression of what we do and some of the simple ideas
that will hopefully come across. So you can see my outline there, what I’ll
talk about. And so I can start by saying, well, what’s
the use of clocks? And throughout history it’s been primarily
for navigation. And that application is still true today. So just going back on a little bit of time–
I’m not a sailor, but any sailor will know what I’m talking about here. And the basic ideas for navigation is you
want to determine your latitude and longitude, and therefore your position on the Earth. And the easy part is the latitude, where the
basic idea is if there’s some distant star– in this case, the North Star– if you measure
the angle of the direction of the star relative to the level, the tangent of the earth, you
can easily determine the latitude that you’re at. The harder part is longitude. And there you need time. And the simple reason is because the Earth
is rotating. So the principle is the same. You’re going to be looking at some distant
star that’s relatively-speaking fixed in your view, and you determine where you are by measuring
the angle between the star and the tangent on Earth where you are. The problem is, because the Earth is rotating,
you need to know time to know exactly what the angle– how the angle corresponds to your
position and longitude. And I’m not going to– I won’t go through
this simple math. The scientists out there will understand this. But the idea is, what are the errors due to
the error in time. And just a simple example I show here. And the idea is that– so a relative distance,
say, the error in the angle can be related to the error in time. And so this section of distance in latitude
is given by this simple formula here. And so the idea, of course, this angle is
changing in time and there’s an imprecision given by the imprecision in time. So in this simple expression, where we’re
rotating at once per day, the radius of the earth is about 4,000 miles. And so for an error of one second in time,
that gives a relative error in latitude position of about a half a kilometer. And so just a little history. Of course, sailors going back many centuries
relied on time to tell, to be able to navigate. And there was several incidents in the early
1700s where the Brits lost ships at sea. And so the British parliament decided to sponsor
a prize, the so-called “Longitude Act,” and the prize was given to someone who could demonstrate
a clock which would allow navigation to about 30 nautical miles, which translated to an
error in time of about two minutes. And there’s a famous story that– many of
you may have read the book. There’s a couple of good books about this–
John Harrison, who came up with the clock. It was actually like a large pocket watch. It was a mechanical clock that he came up
with. And he was able to demonstrate that it was
within the errors that were required by this to win this prize. And part of the story is that the parliament–
you know, they wouldn’t give him his money. And I think it was a couple decades before
he finally– the King stepped in and got him his money, and then I think he died a year
later or something like that. But anyway, it’s a good story. There’s a couple of good books. It’s a good story to read. But of course these days the way we navigate
is via GPS. We kind of take it for granted these days. And the positions can be much, much higher. And the basic idea there is that, to give
you the idea, you want to determine your distance from some satellite. And again, I won’t go through the math, but
the basic idea is that because clocks are so precise, that basically you can think of
a simple protocol. It’s a little bit more complicated than this. But if you agree that this satellite is–
that first of all your clocks have to be synchronized. And if you establish a protocol, say, where
the satellite emits a pulse of radiation every second tick, then there will be a delay because
of the speed of light before it reaches you. And so to give you an idea of the precisions
that are involved, for an error in time of about a nanosecond, 10 to the minus 9 seconds,
that gives an error in distance here of about 30 centimeters. And where clocks come in is, basically we’d
like the clocks to be autonomous, at least over extended periods. And so if we have an error of a nanosecond
over one day, that corresponds to a relative frequency uncertainty of the clocks of about
one part in 10 to the 14. And these are the kind of numbers we’re able
to reach today. Of course, it’s a little bit more complicated
to get three dimensional navigation. There’s a network of satellites. And, in fact, there’s enough redundancy in
the system that the satellites can not only know their position, but the clocks can be
synchronized together so we can get three dimensional position at this level of precision. So anyway, a bit about clocks. I think most physicists’ notion about time
is very similar to the non-scientists. It’s just sort of a measure of the progression
of events. And the basic idea of making a clock then
is, we have some periodic event generator and a counter. And with that then we can generate time. And traditional event generators are, of course,
the rotation of the Earth. And also later the pendulum clocks were invented,
and the precision was quite a bit better than given by the rotation of the Earth. But that’s basically it. So these days though we think of using oscillations
and atoms, and a simple picture you can think about is, say, an electron orbiting around
the nucleus. That’s a pretty good picture. Quantum mechanically it’s a little bit more
complicated. What we think about is, say, an electron orbiting
around the nucleus. The quantum mechanics tells us that the electron
can’t be– its position can’t be precisely defined. But nevertheless, there’s a very precise timing
of the orbit of the electron around the nucleus. And this picture over here is meant to show
a dipole where the electron is actually oscillating through the nucleus. But the basic idea then is that we establish
this oscillation in the atom. And the key part is that, as the early quantum
mechanics told us, is that atoms don’t exist in any arbitrary kinetic energy state. There is this certain discrete energy levels
associated with a electron orbiting around the nucleus. And what the basic idea is, that the frequency
of the oscillation is then given by the energy difference between these two quantum states
divided by Planck’s constant. So one simple mode of using these oscillations
is called a maser or a laser, and we’re more familiar with the laser, actually. The first devices that operated on this principle
were called masers. M stands for “microwave” versus “light.” And the simple picture is, we have atoms that
we stick them inside of a cavity which contains the radiation. We sample a little bit of that, and then we
have a counter to generate time. So a little bit of personal history. I was a graduate student at Harvard with Norman
Ramsey, who’s right here. And Norman and his colleague, Daniel Klepner
had recently invented and demonstrated the first hydrogen masers. So the basic idea of what I showed on the
previous slide. So this was the group in 1967. I started in 1965. That’s me getting to the boss there. You can see us there. [LAUGHTER] Anyway. So Norman wanted to have precise measurements
of all the hydrogen isotopes, the maser oscillation frequency of all the isotopes. So my project turned out to be to make a maser
based on the deuterium isotope. And the experiment wasn’t anything very astounding,
but it taught me a lot of nice techniques in atomic physics. And so this was the result of my thesis here. I’m probably the only one that has this number
memorized. [LAUGHTER] But anyway. But certainly, what came into play all through
my career and the things I’ll talk about that we did later, was basically that the name
of the game here is there’s– although the atoms are inside this cavity, there’s various
perturbations that they can undergo. And so one of the requirements is to precisely
control the environment they’re in. The other thing is that, as they were radiating–
the atoms live in so-called superposition states where they’re radiating. And these superposition states are actually
rather long on the grand scale of superpositions. They lasted about a second. So I’ll give you– there’s another mode of
operation. I showed you the laser or maser mode of operation
of a clock. And the other is where we actually, say, would–
again, here’s the energy structure. And what we’d do in this case is we would
apply radiations to atoms, say, in a cell here. And basically we just look for the condition
where the atoms absorb the radiation maximally. Then we know that the frequency of this oscillator
is equal to the frequency given by the energy level separation. So a recipe for an atomic clock is very simple. The basic idea is, we have some oscillator
here which supplies radiation. And in the previous example we had looked
for the condition of the frequency of this oscillator where the absorption is maximum. And we can think of– I won’t describe the
electronics here, but we can think of a simple servo system that feeds back that forces the
oscillator frequency to be equal to the frequency given by the energy difference. And when we reach that condition we just count
cycles of the oscillator. Now, in fact, a little subtlety here is that
we get a curve that registers this sharp absorption. It’s not infinitely narrow. There’s– one of the reasons it’s not is that
the atoms in the excited state will decay, and that limits the resolution we have with
this absorption feature, we say. And so the only other ingredient to actually
the way we work it is, if we sit right on the top we’re not very sensitive to small
changes. The top of this curve is flat, basically. So the only difference that we do is, we actually
do it in a stepwise section where we’ll first probe on the left side of this absorption
feature, and then we’ll step over to the other side and probe on that side. And when we get an equal response then we
know that the mean of those two frequencies is equal to the resonance frequency. So that’s the only wrinkle beyond what I said
before. But it’s actually no more complicated than
that. So again, a bit more common mode of operation. That was sort of for looking for continuous
absorption. The way most clocks work is just slightly
different. We basically start the atom in the lowest
energy level, and then we apply radiation for a short time. And it’s basically the same idea, is that
when the radiation frequency of the oscillator is equal to the resonance frequency of the
atom given by this expression here, then we know we’re on resonance. And of course we step from side to side of
the absorption feature. And basically then to measure this absorption
we just– ideally, we could look at the maximum absorption probability. But of course we step from side to side of
the line. So it’s just a slight difference from what
I said before. So why atomic clocks? And there’s a couple of strong reasons why
atoms are nice. And in this view graph I’m going to compare
to the pendulum clock, which actually is still a very– good pendulums are extremely good,
almost as good as quartz crystals. But you can think of quartz crystals like–
they have the same conditions– or, some of the same conditions we have to worry about. But let’s take the pendulum clock. So the frequency of a pendulum clock, as students
in physics learn early in their careers, is given by this simple formula where this is
the acceleration of gravity and this is the length of the pendulum bob. And so what are the sensitivities? What can cause the frequency of the oscillation
to change? And one is, say, temperature. The temperature is not precisely controlled
and can be fluctuating. So what happens in this example of the pendulum
is that most suspension rods are a metal usually. And, of course, with temperature changes the
metals usually expand and contract as the temperature cools. And again, I won’t go through the details
of this simple derivation, but the basic idea is that even with materials of very low expansion
coefficients– so this represents the fractional change in the length of the pendulum versus
temperature. We get to about– anyway, we work through
this simple expression here and we get to sensitivity that’s expressed fractionally
of about a part in 10 to the 8th per degree C frequency change of the pendulum clock. Now to atoms. What it’s nice is that– we still have to
worry about temperature effects. And actually, one of the more interesting
one is due to Einstein. And that is the fact that, typically in this
container that we’re holding, the atoms aren’t at rest. They’re moving around. And what Einstein told us was that with two
frames of reference that move relative to each other, time runs at a different rate. It’s not just as simple as saying the clock
here based on the atoms runs at a different rate, but actually time runs at a different
rate. So this was, I mean, an amazing revelation
that changed our notion about nature. And it was due to Einstein. So anyway– but to give you an idea of the
size of the effect, we do have to worry about this in our high-precision clocks. And again, I won’t go through the simple math
here. But for a cesium atom which has a mass of
133 mass units, the frequency of the oscillation will change due to this relativistic time
dilation. And the fractional change per degree C is
given by– is about a part in 10 to the 15th. So many orders of magnitude smaller sensitivity
to temperature changes then this pendulum. And there’s a simple– of course we’re more
familiar these days with quartz crystals in our watches. But also in that case the temperature sensitivity
of those is quite a bit larger than what we can get with atoms. OK. So the other thing we have to think about
is if we make different– if we realize different versions of the clock, how reproducible are
they? And of course with a pendulum clock we have
manufacturing tolerances to worry about. The length of this pendulum for different
realizations can be different, which gives a different oscillation frequency. Of course there can be wear of the pendulum,
the bearing on the pendulum may wear a little bit which will effectively lengthen the distance
of the length of the pendulum bob. And, of course, it depends on the local value
of gravity, which can change around the world and also fluctuates with Earth tides and things
like that. So the nice thing about atoms is that all
atoms of a particular kind– as far as we know so far– they’re absolutely identical. So if we can agree on an atom whose frequency
we measure then we, in principle, can get exactly the same frequency within these environmental
perturbations that we have to worry about. And the other thing is, atoms don’t wear out. I mean, we can take the same atom and repeat
this absorption process, in principle, an infinite amount of times and then they preserve
their properties throughout. So these days, actually starting– the first
cesium clocks– which measured the so-called hyperfine transition at a frequency of about
9 billion cycles per second– it was developed in the early ’50s. And by the mid-’50s, by international agreement,
we used that to the oscillations of the cesium hyperfine transition to define the second. And this definition still holds true today. What I’m going to show you is at least the
performance of the clocks we can make now are better than we can realize with the cesium–
measuring the cesium transition. Of course, cesium was always getting better
through the decades, so it was like a moving target. But we finally were able to overtake their
performance about 10 years ago. So why atomic optical clocks? And one of the simple reasons is that the
oscillation frequencies of electrons around the nucleus are much higher than this so-called
hyperfine transition. In this case, compared to cesium the oscillation
of a typical optical oscillation are about 100,000 times faster than the oscillations
of the cesium clock. And so what that means very simply is, we
get more ticks in any given interval of time, say, the second. So we can define that interval– divide that
interval of time into finer and finer increments. So that’s the simple reason we want to think
about high-frequency. The other thing is that, for certain transitions–
and I’ll say a little bit more about that in a minute– these transitions– the frequency
over which they absorb can be extremely narrow compared to the actual frequencies. So we get a very high relative precision. For most of the cases I’ll talk about, this
width then– which is not infinitely narrow– is given by the lifetime of the upper state
and the transition. So is it a new idea? And the answer is no. And, in fact, actually a colleague at NIST
in Boulder– he did some research, and he published this paper in the early ’70s. And he dug up a text from Thompson Lord Kelvin
and his colleague Peter Tate. And in their paper they acknowledge this idea
was due to Maxwell, the kind of the inventor of the formalism of electromagnetism a long
time ago. Anyway, they wrote this couple of sentences
here. And their idea was basically what we’re talking
about with these atomic clocks. And they basically said, well, there’s recent
discoveries that are seeing the different wavelengths of emission of different atoms. You know, so they had the idea of, well, you
could really– atoms such as hydrogen or sodium, which are relatively available and in nearly
infinite numbers, they’re alike in every physical property. So this was what I was saying. They’re absolutely identical. So they had that idea. And so they were actually thinking about the–
when they say vibration of sodium particles– this was actually optical oscillations that
we’re thinking about. So the basic idea here has been around for
an extremely long time. And, of course, it’s the technology that had
to catch up to be able to realize this idea. Actually, one interesting thing in this same
paragraph– they say, this oscillation of these modes is known to be absolute independent
of its position in the universe. And they can be excused because this was before
Einstein came along and said no, that the rate of time is not absolute. But anyway, they certainly had the basic idea
many, many years ago. So anyway, after my graduate career I came
to the University of Washington and I worked with Hans Dehmelt. And his main interests– I was mostly attracted
by– I’ll say this in a minute. But anyway, he and his colleagues had done
spectroscopy on helium ions, and I was interested by that, and potentially the application in
atomic clocks. But anyway, Hans wanted to focus on an experiment
to measure the electron magnetic moment. And the basic idea there is an electron, in
addition to its charge, has the property that it behaves also like a little magnet. And the reason this experiment was so important
was that the theory of quantum electrodynamics can predict the value of this magnetic moment
to a precision of about– uncertainty of about a part in 10 to the 12th. And so this experiment was very important
because eventually it was able to measure this precision to about that level. And that’s a whole separate story. But anyway, two things to say here is that–
actually, Bob Van Dyke, who’s in the front row down here was the person that actually
led the experiment starting at the time I was here. And I actually didn’t stay around for the
actual important measurements. So these first very precise measurements were
done by Bob Van Dyke and other colleagues here at University of Washington. Another thing to say is that, because Hans
was developing these techniques to confine, in this case, electrons– and previously the
ions– he shared the Nobel Prize with Wolfgang Powell, who invented a slightly different
kind of ion trap, we say, that we actually used for our clock experiments. And I won’t say anything very much about actually
how the trap works. You can see this electrode structure that
I’ve drawn in cartoon form that looks pretty much like this, for the non-technical people
in the audience. A very simple analogy is it’s like this–
when we apply electric fields to this electrode structure we create– for a single ion in
the trap, it’s like a marble in a bowl. We create a so-called harmonic potential. But this analogy to a marble in a ball that
rolls back and forth is actually very good. So the other thing was that I mentioned that
I was attracted– earlier on, actually, Hans and his colleagues– one being Norvell Fortson
who was a post-doc before my time. He’s actually a Ramsay student before my time,
too, but he came to work for Hans. And they were measuring the same kind of so-called
hyperfine structure in helium. And the resolution was very high, so this–
in some sense people gave the ideas and I was certainly interested in how these ideas
might be applied for atomic clocks. So what I’m going to show here is one exper–
focus on one experiment we’ve done in our lab. And I have to say, and I’ll repeat it later,
that this kind of work goes on in many labs throughout the world, and I’m going to focus
on just this example of how we used a mercury ion to realize an atomic clock. And I should also say, we did many different
kinds of experiments with these ions. But this project here, making a frequency
standard out of the mercury ion, was led by Jim Burgquist in our group. So I’ve been a colleague with Jim for the
last 42 years, and so we’ve done a lot of things together. Anyway. So the basic idea here is, again, coming back
to this simple picture. I mentioned before that basically we start
the atom in the ground state, and then we apply radiation for a short amount of time. And then the idea is, we measure whether the
ion has made the transition up to the excited state. And we look for the condition where it does
with the frequency of the laser where it makes that transition with highest probability. This transition is actually in the ultraviolet,
which is a bit of a technical problem. But we can make radiation at that frequency. Anyway, the idea– one of the issues is, how
do we do we detect when this atom has made the transition? Well, let me first say, these experiments
we’ve done for quite a while have been just with a single atomic ion in the trap. So why do we focus on one ion? And there’s one reason– with mercury it turns
out the upper level in the mercury ion– it kind of has– the shape of the electron cloud
around it is kind of like a football. And it turns out that the the inhomogeneous
electric fields on one ion as seen by the other ion interact with this football-shaped
charge distribution and can give a frequency shift. And it’s actually fairly large compared to
the resolution we’re trying to achieve. So that’s one of the reasons, at least our
experiments mostly up until now, have used just one single ion. In any case, the way we detect is to look
at another transition. And this one I should have mentioned here
the lifetime of the upper state in this mercury ion for this clock transition is about a tenth
of a second, which gives this very high resolution we can achieve. So the way we detect our ions– or, at least,
first of all to even identify that they’re in the trap– is we would use another transition
in mercury. And this one can scatter photons at a very,
very high rate, on the order almost– several hundred megahertz per scatter rate. And the nice thing about that is we can not
only identify atoms– and, in fact, in these experiments we can, with a camera that works
in the ultraviolet, we can actually make pictures of our single ions. And actually Dehmelt and his colleagues–
this was after I left, but– they also were working on single-ion experiments. And most of the ions, because there’s one
electron removed to be able to excite the next electron, the transitions are out of
the visible spectrum in the ultraviolet. But there’s a couple ions, and one of those
barium. And so Dehmelt and as colleagues– they actually
made fluorescence of a– or could see it make an experiment like this. And the light that was scattered was in the
blue part of the spectrum. But in these experiments you can actually
see with your eye a single atom, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. It kind of looks like a faint star, but you
can actually see it with your eye. So one of the issues we had to think about
is that– in fact, in the early experiments on helium that I described that had been done
by Norval Fortson and Dehmelt and their colleagues, was that the atoms were actually moving fairly
quickly and bouncing around fairly quickly inside this trap. And so one of the limitations was this time
dilation shift that Einstein told us about. So one of the messages from that was, it would
be nice to have a way to slow down the motion of the ions then to cool them, basically. And this was, again, to suppress this time
dilation effect. So the way this simple form of laser cooling works is the following. And actually when I was here as a post-doc
with [INAUDIBLE], we published a little paper on how this would work. And at the same time, independently, two colleagues,
Ted Haensch and Art Schawlow, who later also won Nobel prizes. Anyway, we had basically the same idea. And the idea, if you’ll bear with me a little
bit– it’s not too complicated. And the basic idea is that I’ve already told
you that atoms, rather than the energy of, say, the electrons rather than existing in
a continuous spectrum of energy states, the energy is confined to discrete energies. So that’s a key part of this. And then, as I said, just for a clock, I haven’t
said much about the motion, but if the atoms are absorbed then when the lasers tune to
this so-called resonance frequency given by the energy difference, then they absorb maximally
at that condition. Now of course what we have to think about
is, in general even though the atoms are confined in this trap, we say they’re moving around
with some amount of kinetic energy. And the idea is that, if the atom is moving
against the laser beam, one thing we have to worry about is this so-called first-order
Doppler shift. And the common example that we all experience
is if a, say– in my day the example was a train that would go by. And the train whistle, as it approached you
would be higher pitch than it was receding from you. And, of course, the same effect with a car
going by or a motorcycle going by, that you hear this change in the pitch of the sound. And the same idea applies to light. So the idea here is that when the atom is
moving against the photons from this laser beam, they actually absorb. But not the frequency they absorb at with
the rest, but the frequency they absorb at is shifted by the velocity divided by the
speed of light. And we can take advantage of that because
the idea is, then what we do is we– a laser comes in from this side and we tune the frequency
lower than the frequency it would absorb at at rest. And the idea is, then when the atoms move
into this resonance condition here the atoms will absorb the light. And when they absorb the photon they get a
momentum kick which, in this case, is against their motion. And then when they re-radiate, generally do
it in all directions. So on average every time they absorb and re-emit
a photon, the momentum is reduced by the momentum of the photon. And so we can repeat this process, do many
scattering events, which gives the slowing process, which allows us to cool the atoms
down. And so– OK. That’s what I just said. And so this has become a standard technique
now in all atomic clocks, because the precisions are high enough that if the atoms are at room
temperature the shift is just too big from this time dilation effect. So we have to invoke this cooling idea. So anyway, a little bit of personal history
is that after my post-doc position in Dehmelt’s lab I got a position at what was then called
the National Bureau of Standards, now called this NIST, the National Institute of Standards
and Technology. And my first job there when I went there was–
there was a cesium beam clock. That’s what this is here. Basically cesium atoms are made to go travel
down this tube, which has a vacuum, and make a stream of cesium atoms. And when they go down this tube we measure
the radiation of this so-called hyperfine transition. But anyway, my group leader at that time,
the person that hired me, had a vision for NIST that we should be doing more research. So luckily he got us some money to try this
idea of laser cooling. And sort of an interesting personal aside
was the fact that– so after Dehmelt and I had this idea– and Dehmelt had taken a sabbatical. It was after I left. And he went to work in Peter Toschek’s lab. He was then in Heidelberg. And I knew they were going to try to demonstrate
this cooling. But we got some money at NIST to try this
experiment. And so they didn’t know about our experiment,
but I knew they were trying to do this. So we were racing, at least. And so what’s interesting is basically without
any– I knew they were working on it, but I had no idea where they were in terms of
their progress. But, interesting– the papers on these first
demonstrations were published about the same time. You can see that ours was published a little
bit earlier. But to be fair, if you look at the dates these
were received at the journal, they beat us by one day. So anyway, as most of you know, I think–
I mean, these experiments are relatively long-term. And if you do it within a few months of each
other it’s certainly a tie. So anyway, both groups got credit for doing
this at the same time. But this was an amazing near coincidence here. So OK. So I’ll say a little bit more about this. So I have already alluded to this. For this mercury ion optical clock we’re going
to use this transition here in the ultraviolet at about 282 nanometers. And how do we measure the transition? So one way we describe this process– again,
we start the atom in the ground state. We applied this radiation for a little while. And then we make what’s called a superposition
state. So the atom is– this is kind of a standard
notation for wave functions, but the wave function in this case after we apply this
radiation, is that the atom is in, we say, a superposition of a lower state and the first
excited state. And the one nice thing– we have a very good
way of measuring when the atom makes the transition. And it’s the idea of the following. When we turn on this other laser then we tend
to– this superposition state that we made– it can, we say, “collapse” into either the
ground state or the excited state. And it does it with a probability that’s related
to these coefficients in front of these components of the wave function. But the key idea is that, when the atom–
suppose we try to drive this transition, and suppose that the frequency of the laser is
a bit off, then the atom remains in the ground state. And we can tell when that happens because
then when we turn on this laser here we’re going to see scattering like in the picture
I showed. And we can pick a bit of that up in, say,
a photomultiplier, some detector. On the other hand, if we’re close to resonance
then there’s a high probability that when we turn on this– [COUGHS] pardon me– this
laser here, that the atom will actually collapse into the upper state. And when that happens we don’t see any scattered
light when we turn on this laser here. So the nice thing is that we can easily discriminate
which state the atom has been detected in. So, for example, this data here is– we were
causing transitions, but the data that we took we would average the fluorescence for
about a millisecond. That you can easily see that if we put a discriminator
here we can tell with essentially 100% efficiency what level the atom is measured to be in. So there’s a lot of details in this. But anyway, some of the interesting ones in
this mercury ion experiment was, basically the electrode structure I showed in cartoon
form– it’s a little hard to see here, but that’s this same structure that I showed in
the cartoon. In this case one of the unfortunate things
is that with mercury the way we would create the ions is, we’d just leak in a little bit
of mercury vapor, and then in those days we’d– very crude experiment– we would just make
a crude electron beam with a homemade filament, and stream electrons through that ring electrode
in the trap. And then when the neutral mercury atoms were
inside, occasionally one would be ionized by this electron beam. And when that would happen the ion would be
trapped. But one of the problems we had was that, it
turns out mercury– if you leak it into a metal vacuum system, which you can see that
this is– the container without the lid– is that the mercury, it turns out, when you
leak it into a vacuum system like that what it does is it amalgamates with copper. But on the other– so what it has, it basically
diffuses into the copper. But the problem is there’s always– even if
we try to pump all the mercury away, the mercury is effusing out of the vacuum. And the problem that made was it turns out
that when the mercury ions were in the excited state, if they collided with a neutral mercury
atom in the background, they would [INAUDIBLE] associate, we’d say, and it would make a mercury
molecule, a dimer, a two-atom molecule. And basically that was the end of our atomic
ion cubits– or ion for the clock. And so it was just a horribly-annoying problem,
because we’d get all the lasers tuned up, and then after 10 [INAUDIBLE] this collision
process would happen and we’d have to reload the ion and tune everything up again. So basically we just hit it with a sledgehammer. And that is, we would we put our ion trap
in its enclosure. We attached it to a liquid helium reservoir,
and basically the liquid helium temperature under normal conditions is at about 4 Kelvin
absolute. So basically everything freezes out, except
for maybe some helium. But helium is not a problem. So literally we went from storage times–
we could keep the iron earlier for only about 10 minutes. And we went for– we could literally increase
the lifetime to about six months. And that was just due to that we’d do something
stupid, which would kick the ion out. But there’s other advantages to going to low
temperature. One is that– I’ve already alluded to. We’d basically freeze out most of the background
gas so the collisions are almost reduced to nothing. Another subtle thing is that it turns out
the clocks are perturbed by thermal radiation, so-called black body radiation. And I was always– when we were first thinking
about this, it turns out the thermal radiation in the room, the electric fields due to that
radiation, are not insignificant. They’re about 10 volts per centimeter. So they’re actually fairly strong fields. And we’re all bathed in this radiation. Anyway, this radiation could shift the frequency
of the clock, and so it would be nice to reduce that. And one way to do it is to put an atom at
a very cold temperature. OK. So there’s other issues. Now, the way I mentioned that the absorption
range of this mercury ion– it would be about 1 Hertz, one cycle per second wide out of
about a million billion cycles per second. So it gave very high resolution. But one of the problems we had going into
this– everybody had– was the laser– although we knew how this should work, the lasers were
not stable enough. In other words, the wavelength– the frequency
and wavelength of the radiation would fluctuate around. So the standard technique that people used
for many decades– and it’s still the way people do these experiments– is basically
we form a resident cavity with two mirrors. And what we do is we shine our laser radiation
in there. And, for the physics students here– they
know this problem– is, basically the cavity will only transmit– will build up radiation
and only transmit radiation through when there is an integer number of half-wavelengths of
this radiation given by the distance between– that fit inside the distance spanned by these
two mirrors. And so basically we can– although there’s
many frequencies that can happen, we basically stabilize our lasers to one of these transmission
conditions, and then this stability is governed just by how well we can control the distance
between the mirrors. And actually, this has a lot of similarities–
you know, this last year with the big splash in the last year or two was to be able to
detect gravity waves by looking at the oscillations of these mirrors. And we’re not nearly as sensitive as those
instruments, but the idea is very much the same. We can stabilize our lasers as long as the
spacing between these mirrors is very precise. So anyway, Jim Bergquist and I had the idea
very simple idea to get rid of mechanical vibrations, as he basically supported. What this cartoon is meant to show here is
one mirror. Another mirror is hidden, but there’s a class
spacer here that’s very rigid and provides a rigid distance between the ends of these
mirrors. One thing– again, it’s no comparison to the
sensitivity of the gravity wave detectors, but what I always found interesting was that
when we’d set this down on the floor to tune up the optics on the small optical table,
is we’d always see some noise very close to the center frequency where the laser would
be locked to this resonance given by the spacing. And we always see some noise on the side at
much less than a Hertz, about a seventh of a Hertz. And that turns out to be the waves crashing
on the beach in California that gives this broad sort of noise spectrum at one seventh
of a Hertz. Anyway, the state of the art these days–
we’re still bothered by vibrations. And this is– we’re now affected by the same
things that, in part, limit the detection sensitivity of the gravity wave detectors. We still have to worry about mechanical vibrations. But what it comes down to now is, we do have
to worry about the spacing of the mirrors, but the main thing we’re left with is actually
the coatings on the mirrors that give the reflectivity. They’re also mechanical systems. They vibrate and they give some noise, which
limits how well we can stabilize, in our case, the lasers to this cavity. OK. We’re coming back– I’m just going to summarize
the many years of work. And first of all, the fact that we’re trapping
the ions– their average velocity is 0, so we get rid of what’s called this first-order
Doppler effect. And what we call the second-order Doppler
shifter time dilation is suppressed highly by this idea of laser cooling. And I’ve already mentioned we suppress several
other effects by going to low temperature in this apparatus. So the one thing that we felt proud about–
and it’s mainly due to Jim Bergquist– was that we had been chasing the performance of
cesium for decades. And so in about 2006 then this was the first
clock that could demonstrate that an optical clock was actually better in terms of performance
than the cesium clocks. And so nowadays all the standards labs for
sure– we’ve all gone to optical clocks. Some of the other ions that people are using–
we’re actually using aluminum these days. It’s a bit better performance than mercury. But there’s many choices. And of course there’s many neutral atom choices. One of the interesting possibilities that
people are looking towards is the thorium nucleus is– has a nuclear transition which,
by coincidence, [? their ?] energy levels, which are separated by close to an optical
transition, as time evolves it appears it’s pretty far in the ultraviolet. But nevertheless this is an interesting idea. Rather than using atomic transitions, to be
able to use nuclear transitions. So let me just come back to these so-called
systematic effects, the environmental effects that cause frequency issues. I’ve told you about the first-order Doppler
shift where we– because the atom is trapped, its velocity goes to zero. And then there’s this so-called time dilation,
or second-order Doppler shift. Now, I lied to you a little bit. Although the atoms is trapped, and it’s true
that its average velocity goes to 0, one thing we have to worry about is that the laser will–
we have an optical table that the laser sits on, and then our trap is, say, at the other
end of the optical table. And what we have to worry about is that the
temperature in the lab changes, the table is shrinking and contracting a little bit. And with the velocities we’re sensitive to
at the level of precision we’re at now are about 3/10 of a nanometer per second. So we have to stabilize the distance between
the laser and the the clock atom in this trap. And what we do there is we actually borrowed
a technique from satellite ranging where basically the satellite ranging is done by sending a
signal out reflecting it off– effectively reflecting it off the satellite. And the signal that comes back is shifted
by the Doppler shift, by basically twice the first-order Doppler shift. And from that we can measure the velocity,
in that case, of the spacecraft. We do the same thing here, only the velocities
are quite a bit smaller than the velocity of a satellite. Or rather, in this case, a deep-space probe
that’s– But anyway, we use exactly this same technique to get to subtract out this Doppler
shift. And I’ve also talked about the time dilation
shift, this famous so-called twin paradox by Einstein. And we suppress that with laser cooling. There’s another effect which is also– well,
anyway. So the net result of our experiment so far
is we’re down to a real fractional precision, which is how we characterize all the clocks. Because doing it that way it’s only– the
real measure of the performance is the relative precision. So we’re down to a level of about 8 parts
in 10 to the 18 with these experiments. So one of the effects we have to worry about
is this so-called– again, due to Einstein’s so-called gravitational potential redshift. And in addition to the time dilation shift
due to movement [? at the ends, ?] Einstein also showed us that clocks run at different
rates in different gravitational potentials. And so when– one example I can give you is
that, suppose you had a twin brother or sister and you were separated at birth and suppose
your twin lived in Boulder, Colorado where we are, about a mile above sea level, and
you lived at sea level. It turns out that there is an effect, but
it’s nothing to really worry about too much. And in fact after 80 years your twin will
be about a millisecond older than you are due to this potential. So it’s a very small effect. Nevertheless, we can see this effect. So kind of as more of a stunt, but kind of
a fun thing to do is to demonstrate this effect on kind of a more everyday scale. So just to kind of show this effect, this
is our optical climate clock. This one is based on aluminum, but the principles
are very much the same on what I described for mercury. And so obviously this is not the one you wear
on your wrist yet. But nevertheless we made a clock like this
in one lab, and in an adjacent lab we had another clock based on aluminum which was,
as far as we could, tell was identical. Anyway, we measured the ratio of the frequencies
of those two clocks, and it was about– I forget how many– on the order of 17 digits,
anyway, that they were running at the same frequency. And then it just says that, as a demonstration,
we– James Chou, who is running this experiment, is basically– you can see he’s put some jacks
under the table here, and he raises the table up by about a foot, 33 centimeters, and we
could actually see that we could resolve this so-called gravitational potential redshift. So the precisions now are such that we do
have to worry about these very small effects, including this gravitational potential redshift. So where are we at these days? So I showed the number we achieved, this fractional
precision, that is taking account of all the environmental effects. So we actually had the lead for a few years,
but now there’s many other– there’s always been many other groups working on that. And so these results have been superseded
more recently by– first of all, we had some colleagues in basically the German version
of NIST where they’ve made a clock based on ytterbium ions, and the precision in their
clock is a little more than a factor of two smaller than in ours. The other thing I haven’t talked about but
it’s important is that– I’ve been talking about single ions. And we, for the reason I mentioned, that we
do want to scale up the number to larger numbers. And it’s simply, we get more signal with more
ions, and so we can improve the time it takes to reach a measurement [INAUDIBLE] precision. So we’re making traps that don’t look the
same, but basically can make strings of ions and therefore increase the numbers that we
can play with. And also, there have been a number of experiments
done with neutral atoms, and they don’t use the same kind of traps, but they’re able to
make traps by using laser beams. And kind of a cartoon version in two dimensions
is kind of like an egg crate that can hold individual atoms, and they can do this in
three dimensions. And so this work first started– the first
high-precision measurements were done by a group of Katori in Japan, but the leader in
more recent years has been Jun Ye and the group at JILA. And they’re down now to where the so-called
systematic precision is down about four times lower than we’re able to do. And the other thing is they can hold quite
a large number, a few thousand, atoms in their so-called egg crate structure. So they can much more quickly reach a high-precision
than we can with our single ion. So we have some catching up to do now. But anyway, so the best precisions are very
close to a part in 10 to the 18th. And just another thing to compare back to
this gravitational potential redshift. They shift due to this gravitational potential
redshift is about one part in 10 to the 18 for a centimeter rise in position. So we’re getting down to these very sensitive
values. Actually, coming back to this one problem
we have, is that if we can– because of this gravitational potential redshift, one of the
problems we have is that in order to compare two clocks, the problem is that– we can make
measurement comparisons between clocks, say, one at sea level and one in Boulder, Colorado. The problem is, we’re limited in precision
because we don’t know the height of Boulder in terms of this gravitational potential redshift
to only about 30 centimeters. So, in fact, with these higher precisions
we’re limited in precision simply because we don’t know the gravitational potential
redshift between sea level and Boulder. So the only way we can make precise comparisons
of these really accurate clocks is we have to bring them together where we know they’re
in the same gravitational potential. So this is kind of a headache. Right? But of course we tried to take the high road
and so one view is, in the future, is to take these very accurate clocks and be able to
map what’s called the geoid, the gravitational potential around the Earth. And I’ve just mentioned some of the groups. There’s many more around the world working
both on ions and neutral atoms pursuing these ideas. So what’s the future? And so navigation is still one of the main
applications. The other is in synchronization. So, for example, in network synchronization,
timing signals, we need these higher and higher precisions. But we still continue to think
about navigation. So at the centimeter scale you’d think, well,
who really cares. And one application that people talk about
is that, for example, a precursor to earthquakes is usually– an earthquake is preceded by
strain in the earth, meaning two relative locations that might be separated by kilometers–
they’re going to their relative height compared to the center of the Earth will change. And this strain– and eventually the strain
will cause the earth to let go and they’ll readjust. And so this– measuring this strain at this,
perhaps, centimeter level can be, maybe not a predictor, but it can be a signal that an
earthquake is building up, or the probability of an earthquake is increasing. And so we think about doing this. And I already mentioned this idea of mapping
the gravitational potential redshift around the world. There’s also a bunch of fun things we can
think about doing. And one of the interesting things is if we
take clocks that are made on different elements, it turns out that the frequencies that they
run at in general depend on different ratios of the fundamental forces, say, the so-called
strong nuclear forces and electromagnetic forces, which– the ratios of the contributions
of the frequencies different basic forces will vary. And so if we measure– if we measure the frequency
ratio of clocks based on two different elements over time, one of the interesting things to
think about is, are the fundamental “constants,” quotes, that govern the frequency of these
transitions, are they changing in time? So we’ve been able to put limits on that. And this continues on. There’s still a lot of motivation to do that. We’re always– as a popular game we’re always
trying to see deviations of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and so far he’s doing
just fine. But nevertheless, we still try to probe with
higher accuracy to see whether there might be variations. So with that I’d like to thank the real people
doing the group. This is just our group working on these experiments. And there’s many groups around the world working
on these problems. I want to also acknowledge our laboratory
director, Katharine Gabbie, who was laboratory director, meaning the larger group of divisions,
like the Time and Frequency Division. And she was very supportive of some of these
basic ideas. For example, this idea of laser cooling. I mean, we just wanted to do it because it
would be kind of nifty to demonstrate this effect. But it became very important for clocks. And, in fact, it’s used in all high-accuracy
clocks. And she was very supportive of this kind of
exploratory work. Unfortunately she passed away a year or so
ago. But nevertheless, she made a great environment
for us. And I’m going to– for those who might know
a few people there, a list of people– actually, how much time– AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] DAVID WINELAND: [LAUGHS] So just– I mean,
often– and maybe you’ve seen these things before, but I’m going to say a little bit
about the Nobel Prize here. So I think most of you know that– [CLINKING] Oops. The prize is– oh. I’ll find that later, I hope. Anyway, the prize is announced around October
10th or so. And, I mean, the whole thing is very surreal
because, you know, it gets so much attention. But anyway, so they announce the prize in
early October. And then the ceremony is actually coming up
within days here. I think it’s on the tenth of December– anyway,
on the date of Nobel’s death. And anyway, so we go there in early December. And this is– what’s nice– and Stockholm’s
a very charming city and, actually, even during the dead of winter here. You can see the snow on the ground. It was very cold. But they have these open-air markets, and
so– I mean, really, they do a Christmas in a very charming way, I must say. But anyway, actually one thing about this
figure– so we get to spend time wandering around a little bit. And one interesting thing about this figure–
I mean, Sweden is pretty far north, so this picture was at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon,
and you can see the sun has already set. So it’s getting pretty dark pretty early there. So anyway, everything is just way over the
top in these ceremonies. And so this was the awards ceremony, and the
laureates over several disciplines were all lined up in this first row here. And here is the royal family. And so basically the way the ceremony goes
is, each person– a little bit is said about the person, and they walk up and receive the
award from the King. And so you can see everything is very well
organized. We have a rigid uniform. And part of that uniform for us was that we
had– of course we had to wear tuxedos, but also we had to wear patent leather shoes. And these patent leather shoes were– this
was a firm carpet, but walking on this carpet was like walking on ice. And the whole time when I was going up to
receive my award I said, just don’t fall. Anyway. So I made it through OK. This is me receiving the award from the King. And anyway, after this very fancy ceremony
the royal family had a few people over for dinner. [LAUGHTER] And all of this is– I mean, it’s just– everything
is so much over the top. Actually, one thing I didn’t know before going
there is, Nobel actually favored the physicists out of the chemist and the other disciplines,
and so we were the ones that got to sit with members of the royal family at these different
events, which was somewhere here in the middle of this table. The other thing to say is that there’s about–
I forget– I think it was like 1,200 people here. And so what you learn is that, the Nobel laureates
and their guests enforced were only, you knows– at these fancy official events we could only–
each laureate could only invite 12 people, and there were, I think, eight of us– and
now I’m forgetting– eight of us that year to receive the prize. In these different disciplines. And so that’s about 100 guests. And so there was about 1,400 people at this
thing. And what you learn is that this is a big deal
for not only Swedish society, but officialdom. You know? It’s a big deal to go to this event. And it’s also nice they invite some students
from the local universities. But anyway, it’s this very fancy thing. And so the dinner there is extremely well-organized. So there was one of these guys here was, like,
an orchestra conductor. So, you know, there was– I don’t know– 100
or more servers, and they each would serve a few people, but he would wave his wand and
everything would be done in synchrony. And anyway, it was just, as I say, a very–
it was really a surreal thing. But of course very, very fun. So one of the nice things was that the person
I shared the award with was Serge Roche whose lab is in Paris. And I’ve gotten to know Serge– oh gosh, 35
years ago. I first knew him through the literature because
he had done some nice work. And then I got to know him personally about
25 or 30 years ago, and gradually our wives became friends as well. So it was a great pleasure to share with him. And I think we both feel the same way that–
and I think most laureates do– that, you know, the one thing to say is that the probability
of receiving this award, extremely small. And I think we both felt we were lucky to
have it happen. But there’s many qualified people and we more
feel like we represented our field rather than our individual accomplishment. But nevertheless, it was a great, real thrill
for us to share with my friend Serge. Anyway, with that I will stop for the final
time. And this– of course these are the people
in our lab doing the work. [APPLAUSE] KAI-MEI-FU: OK. So thank you very much for that wonderful
talk. I think we have time just for a couple of
questions from the audience. Are there any questions? Yeah. Come on up. There’s a mic right here in the aisle, in
both aisles. AUDIENCE: Hello. Is this mic on? OK. No? Yes. OK. I was curious how you keep time on your person. On your person, out and about, how do you
keep time? DAVID WINELAND: I have a watch here, and it’s
good to about, maybe two minutes. [LAUGHTER] So not very well. AUDIENCE: Thank you. DAVID WINELAND: But probably more seriously,
like all of you I have my cell phone and I rely on that these days to give me a better
time. AUDIENCE: So, another easy question. When you lifted the table up and then moved
it back down, did you get back to the same difference of zero? [LAUGHTER] DAVID WINELAND: Yeah. It was reproducible within our precision. You know? Actually, I must say that this was– you know,
it was a demonstration, but there’s been much more accurate demonstration of this gravitational
potential redshift. And I mentioned– I gave a reference when
we talked about compensating for the Doppler shift due to the expansion and contraction
of our table. The experiment I quoted there was one where
it goes back– it had a rocket which was suborbital. So this rocket went over. I forget where it was launched from but it
went up in this arc and then crashed into the sea. But during this– I don’t know. I forget– roughly an roughly an hour that
it was in this orbit or this trajectory, of course the gravitational potential changed
significantly. Anyway, they were able to measure the gravitational
potential redshift to about a part in 10 to the 6. And ours was only– this thing that I showed
you was about 10%. So just kind of give the the basic idea. And so this rocket on board had a hydrogen
maser, actually. And that was done quite a while ago, I think
in the late ’60s. And that’s still the most accurate measurement
of the gravitational potential redshift, was this early experiment that was done with the
hydrogen maser. AUDIENCE: I was wondering– is the mic on? OK. I can’t hear myself. What makes an atom a good candidate to be
used for an atomic clock? DAVID WINELAND: OK. I mentioned this briefly, but I mentioned
a lot of things. But again, the basic idea has to do with the
fact that all atoms of a given kind, as far as we know, are exactly identical. So we have things that perturb the frequency,
one being these esoteric things like the gravitational potential redshift. But if we bring– if we have two atoms that
undergo the same environmental perturbations, as far as we know, they should run at exactly
the same frequency. And so, as I was trying to make the case there,
for example for a pendulum clock we have to worry about these things like the pendulum,
the length of the pendulum can vary in production. But there isn’t that difference with atoms. As far as we know they’re exactly identical. So– AUDIENCE: I guess my question was, which elements? DAVID WINELAND: Oh. I see. Yeah. There’s no simple answer. In fact, there’s– I don’t know how many. There’s probably 25 different atoms or ions
that people consider. And they all have advantages and disadvantages. And some may be good for reducing some environmental
effect, and others are better for other reasons. So there’s no big winners. I would say nobody has come up with an atom
where this is the choice everybody should be using. One interesting sidenote about that, what’s
amazing is that the cesium clock I mentioned was first demonstrated in the ’50s. And then about the mid-’60s it was decided
it would become the standard for the length of time, the second. And what’s amazing to me is that it was the
best clock from basically in the mid-’60s to about 2006 where we did this optical clock
experiment. So it’s just remarkable that it was the best
choice for this very long length of time. Of course, you know, they were always working
to improvement it, but still it was amazingly good choice. It was the best clock for that length of time. KAI-MEI-FU: So it’s getting late, so unfortunately
it’ll have to end this evening. But I’d like to thank you all again for attending
this lecture. DAVID WINELAND: Yeah. Thank you! [APPLAUSE] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING]
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The future of Fall from Heaven
Discussion in 'Civ4 - Fall from Heaven' started by Kael, Apr 17, 2010.
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Link, Jul 29, 2010
Kael Deity
I had an opportunity to join Soren and the guys on the Three Moves Ahead podcast. You can listen here: http://c4.libsyn.com/media/18940/ThreeMovesAhead076.mp3?nvb=20100803184324&nva=20100804185324&sid=2047b1b2c714bc8575e442bcdcb6d05a&t=00a7e8f75545f894f9d64
They also ask about upcoming FfH projects but I can't answer their questions either. So there isn't any new FfH news in it, but its worth listening to just to hear Soren's take on modding.
Civ4: Fall from Heaven II (forum) (webpage), FfH: Age of Ice
Civ5: Queen of the Iceni, Legions, Modders Guide to Civilization V
Current Project: Fallen Enchantress
Kael, Aug 3, 2010
Azhral Let's get Tactical!
Play it backwards at exactly 186.03% speed and you can heal Kael explaining everything. Or maybe its just Hemah dreaming again, I'm not sure. The tentacles lodged in my brain make it hard to think...
Azhral, Aug 3, 2010
Avahz Darkwood Emperor
Behind You!!!!
Kael said: ↑
I had an opportunity to join Soren and the guys on the Three Moves Ahead podcast...
This does tell us who is not involved with the super secret project!! So it does tell us something...
My little Modmod for Fall From Heaven Modular Expanded Civ Flavor Mod
Link now includes a Wild Mana Version!
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Avahz Darkwood, Aug 3, 2010
Morkonan Warlord
That was a great round-table interview!
I thought there were a few key points of interest: (Hope this isn't too much of a derail..)
I thought Kael's mention of keeping complete control of the code in the best interests of continuity of development was excellent. If there is anything more destructive than having alien code in a program without the alien who wrote it being present to debug it, I don't know what would be. Something like that could completely halt development and stymie the efforts of the rest of the hard-won Team. Keeping code flowing through one channel, that is presumably permanent, prevents that from happening.
Someone made the comment regarding video games versus games that lent themselves to "House Rules" that was along the lines of "Video games locked us down into one set of rules." I loved that comment because it's so true. Traditional video games come with a static set of rules. What can be done with the game and how it can be played are locked. There is little room for player input and resulting diversity within the game. Modding breaks that mold and puts video gaming more into the family of "house rules" games. The obvious enthusiasm of all those who commented on this is... obvious, isn't it? After all, nobody wants to see a "You're in our world now!" splashscreen... They want to be in "Their World." You can't buy or code that kind of enthusiasm. But, you can foster it by allowing players to insert their own House Rules (Mods) into a game. A game with a Moddevpack is a fertile field waiting to be seeded by enthusiastic players. A game without one, in these times, will surely end up being a fallow field.
I liked Kael's comment regarding "playing with the game." I'll blatantly expand on it - Sometimes, playing with the game is a lot more entertaining than playing the game. Playing with the game makes it personal. It's no longer an "entertainment app" on your computer - It's YOUR entertainment app. If you aren't a modder, some modder may create a mod that simply fits your style and allows you to have a personal interest in a game. That's something a developer can't buy, create or code. The player has to do that for themselves by either modding the game the way they want it or happening upon another modder who has created something that "speaks" to the player and realizes their own dreams for what the gameplaying experience can be. Often, the player can end up playing the game "the way it should have been" for them instead of the way the developers envisioned it for them. The two are not always the same thing. When they aren't the same and can never be made to be, the game will fail. There is no longer a "Generic_Player_00" that devs can target. That model is dead as last week's a_dead_rat_048.
Soren's comment regarding mods and the dilemma they place on developers was particularly pertinent, I thought. Paraphrased: "So, if a modder comes up with an addition, what happens to our expansion?" IOW, what happens when the modders are given tools that enable them to produce expansion-like mods? Modding-in Babylon to a Civ game that didn't offer that Civ was given as an example. If that is done, what happens to the developer's content in the expansion? What will "sell" the expansion? One solution he suggested was that developers end up having to put constraints on the modding community. I think that's only fair. Leave the big engine enhancements to the developers.
But, I also think that the devs simply have to be better at designing their own game than their mod community if they expect to compete with the mod community. That's not always possible. As an example, the many former forum goers and players who are now employed by the developer... What is the dev's solution to the Expansion Pack dilemma? Either you restrict the original code that can be modded, you have to add to the basic game elements or you have to add additional, moddable content.
However, there comes a point when developers shouldn't see themselves in competition with their mod community. I think CivIV's expansion of BTS shows that developers are willing to partner with the mod community and even offer them more tools with which to tell their own stories or present their own mechanics to the playerbase. A developer that works with the mod community has a better chance of being a successful developer. One that does not will never be able to take advantage of the additional benefits and strengths an active and enthusiastic mod community can bring to the table.
An expansion that is simply "You can now play SideX" is neat, but not really breathtaking. But, an expansion that lets you "Mod the previously unmoddable" or "Introduces a brand new game element" is exciting. If Starcraft II's expansion elements only introduce additional SP sides and storylines without introducing new game elements, it's only going to be a fanboy driven sales spree. Graphics is nice, 3D animation is cool, storylines are "killer"... but, in the end, it's the gameplay that counts. When that loses its luster, the game's Uninstall button gets pushed no matter how many expansions there are.
The subject of DLC (Downloadable content) came up. I think DLC is here to stay. Companies that embrace the idea without forcing DLC on their customers are going to produce the best products. Companies that release titles that depend on DLC are simply not going to survive. Everyone wave goodbye to Flagship's Failboat...
Anyway, I'm sure I was too verbose above. But, I obviously think that a lot of really great issues were discussed concerning player-generated content, mods and DLC's. Anyone interested should definitely grab a drink, sit back and listen.
PS- Oh, and on House Rules. In my decades of playing D&D/AD&D, I have to say that I do not know of any group of dungeon crawlers and DMs that did not have their own House Rules on certain things. Inevitably, everyone one of them, including mine, had all sorts of wonderful charts they would be more than happy to show you, brag about and tell you all the real-life backstory behind why it was created. That's the kind of enthusiasm and connection that the game inherently brought to its players. Everyone was always more than happy to let you role on their Critical Failure Results Tables.... If every game could engender that kind of enthusiasm and encourage that kind of morbid fascination, we'd all be completely addicted to video games. Then again, that might not be a great idea in my perfect universe... /roll
Morkonan, Aug 3, 2010
Very interesting interview.
Link, Aug 3, 2010
Pickly Prince
Azhral said: ↑
On my computer (not sure about anyone else's), the playback of that podcast often skipped/jumped. Clearly, instead of being random results of poor enough quality internet or speakers, these skips represent a coded message about Fall from Heaven, which decoded, either says "I can't tell you more", or is complete gibberish.
Bunch of civilization game ideas here.
Pickly, Aug 3, 2010
Pickly said: ↑
During the skips, in between what was being said in the interview, did you hear a disturbing Whisper...?
Jenaelha fields of Elanor
Morkonan said: ↑
But, I obviously think that a lot of really great issues were discussed concerning player-generated content, mods and DLC's. Anyone interested should definitely grab a drink, sit back and listen.
Agreed. One thing troubled me, Soren, the developer, had a hint of uncertainty on the viability of modding. Even if he seemed to fully appreciate the enthusiasm, feedback and talent to be found in mods he balked at some worries over profitability. He was concerned there may be no market for expansions if a wealth of mods were available for the taking. I personally think BTS proved that there is a way to find a market in that environment, but concede it isn't certain.
Battle? There's always a desire for breathing space motivating it somewhere.
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Jenaelha, Aug 4, 2010
Valkrionn The Hamster King
Honestly: In a game where modding is accepted, encouraged, and commonplace, the best bet for guaranteeing an expansion's success is to make the modders like it. If they switch, the players who play their mods will as well.... How many of us here bought BtS for BtS? I frankly bought it specifically for FfH.
Introduce new capabilities with the expansion, new mechanics. Not just more of the same; If you try that, you will either fail, or have to limit modders.
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Valkrionn, Aug 4, 2010
Grey Fox Master of Points
I can honestly say that I bought BtS for BtS first, FfH was a very nice bonus.
BtS is still more of a polished and functional game than FfH. I say functional cause it's not as bloated in content. Which FfH is in a way, and our mod Rise from Erebus is even more. It's a streamlined, fun, challenging (even if much of that is just AI handicaps), etc.
Sometimes many of the issues with the mods get to me and I break down and just play a standard game. It's refreshing really.
Grey Fox, Aug 4, 2010
Jheral Prince
Grey Fox said: ↑
Same here, though I rarely play vanilla BtS anymore.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Jheral, Aug 4, 2010
And I can honestly say, I have NEVER played a game of vanilla BtS, and only around 5 or 6 of vanilla Civ4.
The mods are all that keep me playing the game, and buying the series. Without them, I would not play Civilization, as I rapidly lose interest in the game. It is too simple, the different factions too similar, for my tastes.
Broken Hawk Emperor
On a hill
Valkrionn said: ↑
I agree. Any vanilla Civ release quickly becomes boring without mods. I never did embrace Civ III because of it's lack of mod-ability, at least in my opinion.
Broken Hawk, Aug 4, 2010
Jenaelha said: ↑
I think that concern over the marketability of expansions is very real. After all, if the player has cool mods they can play or even mods that might BREAK due to an expansion, how does that effect the purchase of the expansion?
I think the only way to go is to bundle additional tools and new game content-based mechanics into expansions. For instance, look at BTS. It came with a bunch of mods and some pretty decent additions to the game mechanics. CIVIV's modability went up and people had a chance to really see some nifty mods.
Expansions for content are great, don't get me wrong. But, if the dev has worked in a significant modability into their game, they are already targeting for the re-playability/longevity factor of adding those, right off the bat. If they're adding in the possibility for releasing expansions, they either have to limit the toolset in the base game(As Soren suggested) or they have to add additional tools and modable content in the expansion. Which, basically, is the same thing... The end result is that expansions "need" to equate to bonuses for Mod developers to maximize the chance they will be purchased.
IMO, one thing they have to try to do is limit the negative impact on mods in previous versions. That's very difficult. CIVIV does this, somewhat, by compartmentalizing everything and allowing you to hotload mods. So, you can have a great number of mods that don't mess with the base executables and they can still be radically different. (Thank you python.) With being able to opt to play CIVIV vanilla +mods or CIVIV+BTS+Mods, they broaden the field as wide as possible without breaking mods with expansion packs. Patches, on the other hand, are simply unpredictable and are necessary.
Soren's concern is real. But, the bonus they get for having a very active mod community that will attract new players because of some cool mod the kid down the street is playing more than makes up for them having to come up with some interesting mechanics to throw to modders in an expansion. A loyal player base is worth its weight in gold pieces.
I've played some vanilla BTS (not a full game) but plenty of vanilla CIVIV. I found vanilla CIVIV to become boring after awhile. Granted, it's a heck of a lot better than most games on the shelf. But, re-playability suffers after awhile... that's what mods are for!
I bought BTS solely because of the FFH2 Mod for it. I would not have bought it otherwise even with friends who wanted me to buy it so we could MP it together.
Wheres the love for BtS gone? Its a great game, with or without mods.
Breunor Deity
link16 said: ↑
Agreed. I loved BtS and I still think it is an outstanding game. However, I enjoy FfH so much more that I doubt I'll ever play BtS again, especially related to replayability.
Breunor
Breunor, Aug 4, 2010
I still play BTS on occasion, though I'm currently playing a bunch of other mods. I recommend HOTK to anybody who hasn't played it yet, freaking awesome.
Essentially what I'd said, just more thought out.
I completely agree. Making a game easily moddable allows players the satisfaction of being able to play the game they want; It adds a near endless replayability to the game. Yes, it makes it more difficult to produce expansions, and means that the expansion must introduce interesting new mechanics (Or, in the case of micro-purchases, excellent art; That is one area that mods are traditionally lacking, and can make the official version of a civ worth purchasing over a mod), but IMO it is well worth it in the end.
Modding is what differentiates PC gaming from System gaming, what keeps people coming back. Removing or limiting it would be a very bad move IMO.
Eh. Civilization is a good game. For a few games. Then I just lose interest; There are not enough differences between factions, so in the end the game is the same each time.
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In conjunction with the launch of its new On the Air magazine, which is aimed at those just beginning their journey in amateur radio, ARRL is reconfiguring its podcast lineup.
Heading up the new schedule will be a free companion podcast to the bimonthly On the Air magazine. The monthly On the Air podcast will take a deeper look into select features and projects from the magazine. Each month, host and On the Air Editorial Director Becky Schoenfeld, W1BXY, will offer additional resources, techniques, and hints to help less-experienced radio amateurs to get the most from the magazine’s content.
In addition to the podcast, ARRL Product Development Manager Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, will curate a free On the Air blog featuring content from the communicators and makers who are the driving force of amateur radio today. The blog will highlight opportunities and activities available to new licensees. The On the Air blog is intended as an entry point into the world of amateur radio for those seeking original voices and perspectives. Readers will be invited to take part in the conversation by sharing their stories and experiences.
ARRL’s current So Now What? podcast will cease production in January, as the full complement of On the Air content is rolled out. The catalog of So Now What? episodes is available for listening or downloading.
In addition, The Doctor is In podcast, which has served more-experienced amateurs since 2016, will conclude its 4-year run with its December 19 episode. Eclectic Tech, a new biweekly podcast designed to appeal to experienced amateurs, will launch in February.
Hosted by QST Editor Steve Ford, WB8IMY, Eclectic Tech will highlight technical topics involving amateur and non-amateur technology, offer brief interviews with individuals involved in projects of interest to amateurs, and include practical information of immediate benefit to today’s hams.
The Doctor is In co-host Joel Hallas, W1ZR, is selecting some of his favorite podcast episodes for re-broadcast in the interim between the end of production for The Doctor is In and the debut of Eclectic Tech. The complete The Doctor is In archive is available on the ARRL website. Hallas will continue to answer questions about amateur radio in QST’s “The Doctor is In” column.
The ARRL Audio News podcast will continue to provide a weekly summary of news and activities within the amateur radio community.
FCC Formally Adopts Proposals to Remove Amateur 3 GHz Band, Invites Comments
The FCC’s plan to remove “existing non-federal secondary radiolocation and amateur allocations” in the 3.3 – 3.55 GHz band and relocate incumbent non-federal operations already has begun drawing fire. The Commission formally adopted the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in WT Docket 19-348 on December 12 and invited comments on appropriate “transition mechanisms” to make the spectrum available for mobile and fixed wireless broadband use. ARRL plans to oppose the move. The amateur 9-centimeter allocation is 3.3 – 3.5 GHz.
“By proposing to delete the existing non-federal secondary allocations from the 3.3 – 3.55 GHz band, we are taking an important initial step towards satisfying Congress’s directives and making as much as 250 megahertz of spectrum potentially available for advanced wireless services, including 5G,” the FCC said in the Introduction to its NPRM.
Some comments arrived before formal adoption of the NPRM, which was circulated ahead of the December meeting. Kevin Milner, KD0MA, the secretary/treasurer of the Ski Country Amateur Radio Club in Colorado, argued that the club’s equipment cannot be re-channeled below 3.4 GHz, and the club is seeking relocation costs. Devin Ulibarri, W7ND, told the FCC that amateur networks in the current band cannot move easily into other amateur allocations because there is no readily available commercial equipment to support the bandwidth, the FCC said in a footnote.
Currently, the entire 3.1 – 3.55 GHz band is allocated for both federal and non-federal radiolocation services, with non-federal users operating on a secondary basis to federal radiolocation services.
With respect to amateur operations, the FCC invited comments on whether sufficient amateur spectrum exists in other bands that can support the operations currently conducted at 3.3 – 3.5 GHz. The 3.40 – 3.41 GHz segment is earmarked for amateur satellite communication. The FCC said if non-federal licensees are relocated to the 3.1 – 3.3 GHz band, it proposes to have them continue to operate on a secondary basis to federal operations, consistent with current band allocations.
Also at its December 12 meeting, the FCC considered another NPRM in WT Docket 19-138 that would “take a fresh and comprehensive look” at the rules for the 5.9 GHz band and propose, among other things, to make the lower 45 MHz of the band available for unlicensed operations and to permit “cellular vehicle-to-everything” (C-V2X) operations in the upper 20 MHz of the band. The FCC is not proposing to delete or otherwise amend the 5-centimeter amateur 5.650 – 5.925 GHz allocation, which would continue as secondary. The NPRM, if approved, would address the top 75 MHz of that amateur secondary band. Although no changes are proposed to the amateur allocation, an anticipated increase in primary use could restrict secondary amateur use.
The Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN) has offered its voice in challenging the FCC proposals on both 9 and 5 centimeters, saying their adoption would “eliminate our use of the most-effective resource hams have to build its networks.”
“The AREDN Project is able to leverage low-cost commercial devices solely because they are designed to operate on adjacent allocations,” AREDN said on its website. “Moving to other allocations would be difficult if not impossible without a complete redesign, manufacture, purchase, and installation of new custom amateur hardware and software...raising the price out of reach for the typical ham.”
FCC Proposes Largest-Ever Fine for Unlicensed Broadcasting
The FCC has proposed fining an alleged pirate broadcaster in the Boston, Massachusetts area more than $450,000. According to the FCC, Gerlens Cesar, who operated Radio TeleBoston, used three separate transmitters for his broadcasting enterprise, resulting in three separate violations of the law.
“The Commission proposed imposing the statutory maximum forfeiture amount for each of these three apparent violations,” the FCC said in a Notice of Apparent Liability (NAL) released on December 12. Under the Communications Act, it is illegal to transmit above certain low-power levels, defined within FCC Part 15 rules, without an FCC license.
“Such pirate radio broadcasting can interfere with licensed communications including public safety transmissions,” the FCC said. The FCC said Cesar apparently simulcasts Radio TeleBoston on three unauthorized transmitters on two different frequencies. “His operation thus had the potential to cause interference in various locations in and around Boston and at different channels on the FM dial,” the FCC said. “As a result of the scale of this operation, its potential impacts, and its continuous nature, the Commission proposed the maximum penalty for all three transmitters.”
The FCC reported receiving complaints from Boston-area residents of an illegal station operating at both 90.1 and 92.1 MHz. One complaint identified Cesar as the operator of Radio TeleBoston. The FCC said it had issued multiple warnings. — FCC Media Release
The Doctor Will See You Now!
The Doctor will open the mailbag for the last time in the final (December 19) episode of the ARRL The Doctor is In podcast. “Best of The Doctor is In” episodes will be released every other week until a new podcast, Electic Tech,” debuts in February.
Sponsored by DX Engineering, ARRL The Doctor is In is an informative discussion of all things technical. Listen on your computer, tablet, or smartphone — whenever and wherever you like!
Every 2 weeks since 2016, your host, QST Editor-in-Chief Steve Ford, WB8IMY, and the Doctor himself, Joel Hallas, W1ZR, have discussed a broad range of technical topics and answered listeners’ questions.
Enjoy ARRL The Doctor is In on Apple iTunes, or by using your iPhone or iPad podcast app (just search for ARRL The Doctor is In). You can also listen online at Blubrry, or at Stitcher (free registration required, or browse the site as a guest) and through the free Stitcher app for iOS, Kindle, or Android devices. If you’ve never listened to a podcast before, download our beginner’s guide.
AztechSat-1 CubeSat to Demonstrate Intra-Satellite Communication
The AztechSat-1 CubeSat, which traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this month on the 19th Space-X Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-19) mission for NASA, will listen for emergency messages in the 439 MHz range and retransmit them for amateur radio operators to copy on its 437.300 MHz downlink using the Winlink protocol, once the CubeSat has been placed into orbit. The satellite is a project of Mexico’s Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP). Aztechsat-1 is set for deployment from the ISS in late January.
“The primary objective of the project is to establish communication with the commercial GlobalStar satellites in order to improve data transmission to Earth,” a UPAEP news release said. AztechSat-1 will create a saturation map of 435 – 438 MHz by listening for the whole orbit and returning captured data to the ground station on the 437.300 MHz amateur radio downlink (9k6 GMSK or FSK) plus a 1600 MHz GlobalStar link. Emergency messages received via Globalstar to the AztechSat-1 ground station will be shared on the project’s website.
A certificate will be available for amateur stations receiving the emergency message(s) and reporting these for confirmation by the AztechSat-1 team.
Details are on the AztechSat-1 website and on the IARU Amateur Radio Satellite Communication page.
The project is part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, which offers universities, high schools, and nonprofit organizations the opportunity to fly small satellites. “Innovative technology partnerships keep down the cost, providing students a way to obtain hands-on experience developing flight hardware,” a NASA report said.
NASA explained, “The investigation demonstrates communication within a satellite network in low-Earth orbit. Such intra-satellite communication could reduce the need for ground stations, lowering the cost and increasing the number of data downloads possible for satellite applications.”
The K7RA Solar Update
Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: It’s been 36 consecutive days with no sunspots. Geomagnetic conditions were quiet until a minor solar wind stream hit on December 18, driving the planetary A index to 13 from the low single digits earlier in the week.
The average planetary A index for December 12 – 18 rose to 4.6, from 3.7 over the previous 7 days, while mid-latitude A index increased from 1.9 to 4. Predicted solar flux over the next 45 days is 70. The predicted planetary A index is 10, 8, and 8 on December 19 – 21; 5 on December 22 – January 4; 8 on January 5; 5 on January 6 – 8; 8 on January 9 – 10; 5 on January 11 – 13; 12 on January 14; 10 on January 15 – 17; 5 on January 18 – 31, and 8 on February 1.
Because of weak solar activity, the ARRL 10 Meter Contest last weekend was rather slow. QST’s “The World Above 50 MHz” editor Jon Jones, N0JK, in Kansas said he encountered a strong opening to Argentina and Chile on Sunday. He said the propagation mechanism appeared to be sporadic E. More details in the weekly bulletin on December 20.
Sunspot numbers for December 12 – 18 were 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, and 0, with a mean of 0. The 10.7-centimeter flux was 70.5, 68.9, 70.3, 71, 70, 70.5, and 70.2, with a mean of 70.2. Estimated planetary A indices were 4, 4, 3, 5, 1, 2, and 13, with a mean of 4.6. Middle latitude A index was 3, 3, 2, 5, 1, 2, and 12, with a mean of 4.
A comprehensive K7RA Solar Update is posted Fridays on the ARRL website. For more information concerning radio propagation, visit the ARRL Technical Information Service, read ”What the Numbers Mean...,” and check out K9LA’s Propagation Page.
A propagation bulletin archive is available. Monthly charts offer propagation projections between the US and a dozen DX locations.
Share your reports and observations.
Just Ahead in Radiosport
· December 20 — AGB-Party Contest (CW, phone, digital)
· December 20 — Russian 160-Meter Contest (CW, phone)
· December 21 — Feld Hell Sprint
· December 21 — OK DX RTTY Contest
· December 21 – 22 — Padang DX Contest (Phone)
· December 21 – 22 — Gedebage CW Contest
· December 21 – 22 — Croatian CW Contest
· December 22 — RAEM Contest (CW)
· December 22 — ARRL Rookie Roundup, CW
· December 25 — SKCC Sprint (CW)
· December 26 — DARC Christmas Contest (CW, phone)
· December 28 — RAC Winter Contest (CW, phone)
· December 28 – 29 — 1.8 Stew Perry Topband Challenge (CW)
· December 28 – 29 — Original QRP Contest (CW)
· December 30 – 31 — QCX Challenge (CW)
· December 31 — Bogor Old and New Contest (Phone)
· January 1 — Straight Key Night
· January 1 — AGB New Year Snowball Contest (CW, phone, digital)
· January 1 — SARTG New Year RTTY Contest
· January 1 — AGCW Happy New Year Contest (CW)
· January 1 — AGCW VHF/UHF Contest (CW)
· January 1 — QRP ARCI New Year’s Sprint (CW)
· January 1 — 3.5 UKEICC 80-Meter Contest (Phone)
· January 2 — NRAU 10-Meter Activity Contest (CW, phone, digital)
· January 2 — SKCC Sprint Europe (CW)
· January 4 — ARRL Kids Day (Phone)
· January 4 — PODXS 070 Club PSKFest (Digital)
· January 4 — RSGB AFS Contest, CW
· January 4 – 5 — WW PMC Contest (CW, phone)
· January 4 – 5 — ARRL RTTY Roundup
· January 4 – 5 — EUCW 160-Meter Contest (CW)
· January 6 – 12 — All IQRP Quarterly Marathon (CW, phone, digital)
· January 7 — ARS Spartan Sprint (CW)
· January 8 – 12 — AWA Linc Cundall Memorial CW Contest
See the ARRL Contest Calendar for more information. For in-depth reporting on amateur radio contesting, subscribe to The ARRL Contest Update via your ARRL member profile email preferences.
Volunteers Celebrate 98th Anniversary of ARRL Transatlantic Tests at W1AW
A group of radio amateurs gathered on December 11 at W1AW to mark the 98th anniversary of the successful ARRL Transatlantic Tests. On December 11, 1921, a message transmitted by a group of Radio Club of America members at 1BCG in Greenwich, Connecticut, was copied by Paul Godley, 2ZE, in Scotland. Reporting on the accomplishment, ARRL Secretary Kenneth B. Warner, 1EH, declared “Excelsior!” Clark Burgard, N1BCG — who lives in Greenwich and styles his call sign as “n1BCG” to honor the original 1BCG — was among those on hand at the Maxim Memorial Station.
“We completed a successful special event yesterday at W1AW commemorating the 98th anniversary of the Transatlantic Tests,” Burgard recounted. “This was particularly important historically to amateur radio as it was originally organized by ARRL in 1921 to determine if low-power amateur radio stations using shortwave frequencies could actually be heard in Europe. Until then, it was thought impossible.”
Burgard pointed out that the 1921 event changed radio history, was covered in three issues of QST, and opened the door to the first two-way transatlantic tests a couple of years later. The 1921 transatlantic success marked the beginning of what would become routine communication between US radio amateurs and those in other parts of the world — literally the birth of DX.
Those pitching in to take part in the day-long anniversary celebration included (L-R) Michael Pfaeffle, K3FEF; Lisa Kress; Brian Kress, KB3WFV; Bob Allison, WB1GCM; Blaine Morin, N1GTU, and Clark Burgard, N1BCG; Chris Codella, W2PA; Glenn Cooper, W2BK, and Greg Fiozzo, KD2HRD.
NTIA Spectrum Manager Stephen Veader, N4DXS, SK
Stephen Veader, N4DXS, of Dale City, Virginia, a major behind-the-scenes player in the effort that led to creation of amateur radio’s 60-meter band in the US, died on November 5. An ARRL Life Member, he was 67.
As a spectrum manager for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Veader was deeply involved on the behalf of NTIA in the effort to secure a new amateur band at 5 MHz. According to Ross Merlin, WA2WDT, when it became clear that a proposal for a 15 kHz band would not be approved, Veader was instrumental in fashioning the compromise that led to the authorization of the five discrete secondary channels radio amateurs have today, and other countries copied that template for their 5 MHz amateur allocations. Today, these spot frequencies serve as “interoperability channels” for federal and amateur stations to share in emergencies and exercises.
Veader was active within the SHARES HF radio community as the representative for NTIA. A native of Boston, Veader was a US Air Force veteran. During his years at NTIA, he also provided regulatory guidance on the use of SHARES for federal and non-federal radio users.
“Steve was a good friend to SHARES and to amateur radio,” Merlin said. Veader was also an avid RTTY enthusiast and was active in many contests throughout the year. A service was held on November 15. — Thanks to Ross Merlin, WA2WDT
Bar Code Lead Developer George Laurer, K4HZE, SK
The lead developer of the bar code system that became the now-ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC), George Laurer, K4HZE, of Wendell, North Carolina, died on December 5. He was 94. While an electrical engineer with IBM in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park in the early 1970s, Laurer led the effort to develop the bar code system. The UPC, composed of 30 unique black bars and a 12-digit number, allows retailers to identify products and prices as they are scanned. It was used for the first time in a retail setting in 1974.
Laurer also later patented one of the first handheld UPC scanners, according to his obituary. As The Washington Post reported, “The bar-code concept had originated in the 1940s, when N. Joseph Woodland designed a bull’s eye-shaped system of concentric circles, inspired by the dots and dashes of Morse code.” Woodland became a colleague of Laurer’s at IBM, and Laurer considered him “the father of the supermarket scanning system.”
A native of New York, Laurer served in the US Army during World War II after being drafted while he was still a junior in high school. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1951 and spent 3 decades working for IBM. Accounts describe Laurer as an inveterate tinkerer, even up to his final years.
IBM never patented the bar code system, but made it publicly available in order to sell the associated hardware.
In Brief...
Kids Day is Saturday, January 4 The first Saturday in January is Kids Day — the time to get youngsters on the air to share in the joy and fun that amateur radio can provide. Kids Day gets under way on Saturday, January 4, at 1800 UTC and concludes at 2359 UTC. Sponsored by the Boring (Oregon) Amateur Radio Club, this event has a simple exchange, suitable for younger operators: First name, age, location, and favorite color. After that, the contact can be as long or as short as each participant prefers. Kids Day is the perfect opportunity to open your shack door and invite kids over to see what amateur radio has to offer. Details are on the ARRL website.
ARRL Lifelong Learning Manager to Keynote Ham Radio University 2020 in January ARRL Lifelong Learning Manager Kris Bickell, K1BIC, will be the keynote speaker at Ham Radio University 2020 (HRU 2020). The annual event, now in its 21st year, will take place on Saturday, January 4, in the Hillwood Commons Student Center at Long Island University-Post, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville, New York. HRU 2020 is billed as, “A day of education to share ideas, experiences, knowledge, and fellowship among amateur radio operators.” Doors open at 7:30 AM. A Newcomer’s Meeting and HRU Orientation, geared toward first-time visitors, gets under way at 8:30 AM. Thirty forums are on the schedule, with topics such as typical HF antennas, ham radio logging programs, satellite operation, and more. Hands-on workshops will cover such topics as cables and connectors and electronic test equipment. Admission is free, although a $5 donation is suggested. Special event station W2HRU will be on the air. Amateur radio license examinations will be given starting at 1:30 PM. Food and refreshments will be available.
SAQ, Sweden’s Alexanderson Alternator, Announces Scheduled Christmas Eve Transmission SAQ, the call sign of the 1920s vintage Alexanderson transmitter in Grimeton, Sweden, is set to be on the air for its annual Christmas Eve transmission. SAQ transmits CW with up to 200 kW on 17.2 kHz. Tune-up is scheduled to begin at around 0730 UTC, with the holiday message transmitted at 0800 UTC. SAQ will livestream the event. SAQ has introduced a new reception report form for listeners and has asked listeners not to send SAQ reception reports via email. The SK6SAQ amateur radio station will be active on 7.035 kHz and 14.035 MHz CW or 3.755 MHz SSB, with two stations on the air most of the time. Given its age, the Alexanderson alternator does not always function as intended. The transmitter experienced a failure during its scheduled UN Day transmission on October 24.
FCC Invites Comments on Digital AM Broadcasting Proposal The FCC has invited comments on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), that would allow AM broadcasters to transmit an all-digital signal using the HD Radio in-band on-channel (IBOC) mode, known as MA3.1. “We tentatively conclude that a voluntary transition to all-digital broadcasting has the potential to benefit AM stations and provide improved AM service to the listening public,” the FCC said. “We seek comments on proposed operating standards for all-digital stations and the impact of such operations on existing analog stations and listeners.” The proceeding was initiated by a March 2019 Petition for Rulemaking (Petition) filed by Bryan Broadcasting Corporation. “This proceeding continues the Commission’s efforts to improve and update the AM radio service to provide a better listening experience for consumers and enhanced service offerings, as part of our continuing effort to revitalize AM broadcasting,” the FCC said in the introduction to the NPRM. Comments are due 60 days after the NPRM appears in The Federal Register.
Getting It Right!
In the article, “Collegiate QSO Party 2018 and 2019 Plaque Recipients Announced,” the 2018 second-place alumni low-power winner was incorrect. The winner was Frank J. Maynard, NF8M.
Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions
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· January 24 – 26 — Puerto Rico State Convention, Hatillo, Puerto Rico
· January 25 — ARRL Midwest Conference, Collinsville, Illinois
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On December 16, NYU filed its comments in reply to ARRL with regard to RM-11831, RM-11828, Docket 16-239, and NYUs PDR:
"So many technical experts in the record have explained, time and again to both the ARRL and FCC that Winlink uses decades-old technology that could easily be made to conform to the basic tenets of amateur radio – through the use of unobscured transmissions that can be readily monitored by others over the air – by simply abolishing its use of a dynamic compression table and issuing a software update and the use of a published static compression scheme. Simple clarification of 97.113(a)4 would not hamper further digital communication progress in amateur radio nor would it decrease capabilities in amateur radio in any way.Rather, adoption of the NYU petition for declaratory ruling and adoption of RM-11831 would comply with the six key points mandated by vote for Item 31 in the July 2019 ARRL Board of Directors meeting, would comply with the basic tenets of the hobby, and would fix the “toothless” language and “no intent to obscure – wink wink” loophole that prevents self-policing that some at ARRL and ARSFI/Winlink continue to seek, despite long-standing and well documented opposition over the past two decades."
"NYU asks the Commission to carefully review the record and consider the wisdom and technical acumen of so many engineering leaders, experts, educators, and pioneers who have provided analysis, opinions, and expertise that directly counter ARRL’s, ARSFI’s and RRI’s claims regarding the NYU PDR, WT Docket No. 16-239, and RM-11828. Please follow the advice of so many who have made important technical contributions and who were inspired by amateur radio to lead our country in so many fields, and consider the hopes expressed by young amateur radio operators who represent the future of our hobby and our country. Preserve the virtue of the amateur radio service by clarifying its stated purpose for our country. Enact NYU’s petition for declaratory ruling, Enact RM-11831, and reject RM-11828 and WT Docket No. 16-239 in their entirety."
https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/12171957124241/NYU Reply to comments Dec 16 2019.pdf
Re: FCC Proposes Largest-Ever Fine for Unlicensed Broadcasting
H. R. 1625—750: Public Law No. 115-141
SEC. 511. DISCLAIMER FOR PRESS RELEASES REGARDING NOTICES OF APPARENT LIABILITY.
The Commission shall include in any press release regarding the issuance of a notice of apparent liability under section 503(b)(4) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 503(b)(4)) a disclaimer informing consumers that—
(1) the issuance of a notice of apparent liability should be treated only as allegations; and
(2) the amount of any forfeiture penalty proposed in a notice of apparent liability represents the maximum penalty that the Commission may impose for the violations alleged in the notice of apparent liability.
https://tinyurl.com/PL115-141
https://tinyurl.com/Ray-Baum-s-Act
Commissioner's Remarks:
Geoffrey Starks, former Assistant Bureau Chief in the Enforcement Bureau, said the NALs represent a “disheartening realization” of the impact of not enough focus being put on diversity at the FCC. Apparently referring to the fact that recent, impoverished immigrants have no hope of obtaining licenses to address their growing inner city populations, he continued, “I cannot help but think about what impact the Commission’s long-standing abdication of our diversity obligations has had on the development of unlicensed stations serving immigrant communities,” said Starks. He noted that many of the pirate stations are programing for Haitians and other Caribbean communities in cities like Miami, New York and Boston. “Representatives of the communities have largely turned to pirate radio,” said Starks. “Opportunities to obtain licenses are few and far between, and even when they open up opportunities remain severely limited in the highly-urban populated centers.”
But FCC Chair Ajit Pai stated, “Those eager to get on the air have other legal avenues, such as collaborating with existing stations,” said Pai. “Internet streaming has become a very popular and accessible platform distributing audio programming without an FM license. We could have the best of both worlds, the rule of law and diverse programming on the air.”
FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly said, "Today, we consider two NALs affecting the greater Boston radio market that have been several years in the making – yes, years in the making." While apparently admitting the actions represent a costly investigation and long process, without hope of culmination in a trial, and without ultimate payment, he vowed to continue to persevere, "While we may never see one dollar from these illegal operators under future forfeiture actions if we go that far, our goal must be to use our enforcement authority to help shut down the perpetrators, those aiding and abetting, and any landlord willing to house such activities."
https://www.fcc.gov/about/leadership/geoffrey-starks
https://www.fcc.gov/about/leadership/jessica-rosenworcel
https://www.fcc.gov/about/leadership/mike-orielly
https://www.fcc.gov/about/leadership/ajit-pai
N1FM, Dec 19, 2019
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NYU professors of science have a track-record of deliberately manipulating trusting and unsuspecting lesser technically informed authorities to achieve their personal agenda through submitting official yet flawed propositions.
Ironically the most famous example was from the son of a well known and respected engineer and FCC licensed radio amateur.
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity by Alan Sokal - Professor Emeritus of Physics, New York University
Commentary - (NYU) "Scientist takes academia for a ride with parody"
W0PV, Dec 20, 2019
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Woohoo, I got mentioned in the newsletter and not for a bad thing!
KD2HRD, Dec 20, 2019
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N1FM said: ↑
Geoffrey Starks, former Assistant Bureau Chief in the Enforcement Bureau, said the NALs represent a “disheartening realization” of the impact of not enough focus being put on diversity at the FCC.
"Diversity"? Horse hockey! Assimilate FTW.
WN1MB, Dec 21, 2019
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W0PV said: ↑
Substitute ARRL for NYU and you have RM-11306, RM-11708, and WT 16-239. Now there's a multi-layer track record of misrepresentation and manipulation to benefit a small minority of the amateur community. What does NYU have to gain?
K0IDT, Dec 24, 2019
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K0IDT said: ↑
NYU attempts to project control, simply through ego and clout, over licensed wireless messaging techniques for which as an org they have little legitimate standing and plenty conflict of interest, but lose integrity and credibility by sponsoring obviously technically flawed and deceptive arguments. What opposition to their stated position did or does is irrelevant to that. Ends do not justify means in respect to academic institutions with a mission to be taken seriously.
ARRL is so far behind the curve, they can't even see the bend in the road. I thought Mike Marcus, Tedd Rappaport, and NYU, et al, made it clear what their interest is:
1. Open comms for security and enforcement.
2. Clarification of rules.
3. Ending petty fiefdoms, balkanization, and 'served agency' BS and propaganda.
4. Promotion of STEM and coding -- For example: If you can't copy it, you're not going to be interested, and if you're 12 years old, you're not going to buy an expensive modem.
E.E. Prof. and founding director of NYU WIRELESS, Dr. Ted Rappaport, with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.
The Godfather of wifi, Dr. Marcus won the inaugural IEEE Electrotechnology Transfer Award for "his pioneering work in the conception, drafting, and enactment of the Federal regulations that legalized commercial spread spectrum radio under FCC Part 15, the rules governing unlicensed devices."
https://www.rfvenue.com/blog/2014/12/15/leasing-spectrum
The following might inform the STEM philosophy in the NYU position:
Courses @ CIMS-NYU
CSCI-UA.0480 Special Topics: Open Source Software Development (OSSD)
s20 (tentative), s19, s18
This course prepares students to become active participants in open source projects. It begins with an overview of the philosophy and brief history of open source development, followed by an in-depth look at different types of open source projects and the study of various tools involved in open source development. In particular, it covers the collaborative nature of open source projects, community structure, version control systems, licensing, intellectual property, types of contributions (programming and non-programming) and the tool-chains that enable such contributions. The students are expected to contribute to existing open source projects.
CSCI-UA.0480 Special Topics: Algorithmic Problem Solving (APS)
s20 (tentative), s19
Many of the top firms in the technological and financial sectors are using algorithmic problems as interview questions for assessing candidate skill. In this course we take this idea one step further and use algorithmic problem solving as way to hone programming skills. Students will use the material covered in the data structures and algorithms courses and learn new algorithmic techniques to solve challenging problems quickly. Each week will be devoted to a particular type of algorithm. Weekly problem sets will reinforce the lecture, and require students to implement their solutions in Java or C++.
CSCI-UA.0201 Computer Systems Organization
s20 (tentative), s19, s18, s17, s16, s15
Covers the internal structure of computers, machine (assembly) language programming, and the use of pointers in high-level languages. Topics include the logical design of computers, computer architecture, the internal representation of data, instruction sets, and addressing logic, as well as pointers, structures, and other features of high-level languages that relate to assembly language. Programming assignments are in both assembly language and other languages.
CSCI-UA.0102 Data Structures
f19, f18, s18, f17, s17 f16, s16, f15, s15, f14, s14
The course is intended primarily as a second course for computer science majors but also suitable for students of other scientific disciplines. The students learn how to use and design data structures which organize information in computer memory. Data structures covered: stacks, queues, linked lists, trees (how to implement them in a high-level language, how to analyze their effect on algorithm efficiency, and how to modify them).
CSCI-UA.0101 Intro To Computer Science
s16, f15, s15, f14, s14, f13
The course is intended primarily as a first course for computer science majors but also suitable for students of other scientific disciplines. The students learn how to design algorithms to solve problems and how to translate these algorithms into working computer programs. Experience is acquired through programming projects in a high-level programming language.
CORE-UA.0109 Quantitative Reasoning: Math and Computing
f19, f18, f17, f16
This course teaches key mathematical concepts using the new Python programming language. The first part of the course teaches students how to use the basic features of Python: operations with numbers and strings, variables, Boolean logic, control structures, loops and functions. The second part of the course focuses on the phenomena of growth and decay: geometric progressions, compound interest, exponentials and logarithms. The third part of the course introduces three key mathematical concepts: trigonometry, counting problems and probability. Students use Python to explore the mathematical concepts in labs and homework assignments. No prior knowledge of programming is required.
Independent Study Projects
Wearable Electronics, f19
Contributing to Humanitarian Open Source Software Projects, f18
Free Open Source Software, f15
Joanna Klukowska
Computer Science Department,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Open_Source_Software_Development,_NYU,_Klukowska
BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, December 18, 2019 – The Update Framework (TUF), an open-source technology that secures software update systems, has become the first specification project to graduate from the Linux Foundation’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). TUF has become the industry standard for securing software update systems, and is now utilized by the leading providers of cloud-based services, including Amazon — which recently released a customized open-source version of TUF — Microsoft, Google, Cloudflare, Datadog, DigitalOcean, Docker, IBM, RedHat, VMware, and many others.
https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/op...ates-graduates-protect-leading-cloud-services
OSS in Education
Open source in education — Colleges and organizations use software predominantly online to educate their students. Open-source technology is being adopted by many institutions because it can save these institutions from paying companies to provide them with these administrative software systems.
One of the first major colleges to adopt an open-source system was Colorado State University in 2009 with many others following after that. Colorado State Universities system was produced by the Kuali Foundation who has become a major player in open-source administrative systems. The Kuali Foundation defines itself as a group of organizations that aims to "build and sustain open-source software for higher education, by higher education." There are many other examples of open-source instruments being used in education other than the Kuali Foundation as well.
"For educators, The Open Source Movement allowed access to software that could be used in teaching students how to apply the theories they were learning". With open networks and software, teachers are able to share lessons, lectures, and other course materials within a community.
OpenTechComm is a program that is dedicated to "open access, open use, and open edits- text book or pedagogical resource that teachers of technical and professional communication courses at every level can rely on to craft free offerings to their students." As stated earlier, access to programs like this would be much more cost efficient for educational departments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source-software_movement#Evidence_of_open-source_adoption
Adoption of free and open-source software by public institutions:
The use of free software instead of proprietary software can give institutions better control over information technology. Therefore, a growing number of public institutions started a transition to free-software solutions. This does not only grant independence but can address the often argued need for public access to publicly funded developments. In addition, this is the only way that public services can ensure that citizen data is handled in a trustworthy manner since non-free software wouldn't allow total control (or even knowledge) over the employed functions of the needed programs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_free_and_open-source_software_by_public_institutions
FOSS Movement
"Free and open-source software" (FOSS) is an umbrella term for software that is simultaneously considered both Free software and open-source software. FOSS (free and open-source software) allows the user to inspect the source code and provides a high level of control of the software's functions compared to proprietary software. The term "free software" does not refer to the monetary cost of the software at all, but rather whether the license maintains the software user's civil liberties ("free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”). There are a number of related terms and abbreviations for free and open-source software (FOSS or F/OSS), or free/libre and open-source software (FLOSS or F/LOSS—FLOSS is the FSF-preferred term).
Four essential freedoms of Free Software:
To meet the definition of "free software", the FSF requires the software's licensing respect the civil liberties / human rights of what the FSF calls the software user's "Four Essential Freedoms".
0. The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.
1. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
2. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others.
3. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Open Source Initiative
Open source: The open-source-software definition is used by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to determine whether a software license qualifies for the organization's insignia for Open-source software. The definition was based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines, written and adapted primarily by Bruce Perens.
(incidentally, did K6BP comment?)
In 2005, Bruce Perens represented Open Source at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, at the invitation of the United Nations Development Programme. He has appeared before national legislatures and is often quoted in the press, advocating for open source and the reform of national and international technology policy.
Perens is also an amateur radio operator, with call sign K6BP. He promotes open radio communications standards and open-source hardware. In 2016 Perens, along with Boalt Hall (Berkeley Law) professor Lothar Determann, co-authored "Open Cars" which appeared in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
In 2018 Perens founded the Open Research Institute (ORI), a non-profit research and development organization to address technologies involving Open Source, Open Hardware, Open Standards, Open Content, and Open Access to Research. ORI facilitate worldwide collaboration in the development of technology that would otherwise be restricted under national laws like ITAR and EAR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Perens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software#Adoption
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The numbers behind Jill Abramson and Steven Brill’s new media venture don’t add up
Mathew Ingram Nov 4, 2014 - 3:38 PM CST
Credit: Thinkstock / Selen Sergen
At a recent journalism conference, former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson dropped a minor bombshell when she said she was working on a startup with veteran media entrepreneur Steven Brill that would pay journalists $100,000 to write longform investigative pieces. More details have since emerged about the project, which Brill says will be subscription based, and involve an online magazine. But it’s safe to say that many media industry observers are skeptical of the pair’s ability to turn the idea into a financial success.
According to an interview Brill gave to Capital New York magazine, the venture — which doesn’t have a name yet — will be run by Abramson and himself, and will commission articles on a variety of topics that will be longer than a typical magazine piece but shorter than a book-length manuscript usually is.
Brill said that writers will earn an average of $100,000 per piece, but suggested that they could stand to make even more than that by sharing in the revenues generated by the project’s subscription business (this sounds a little like the model that crowdfunding platform Beacon Reader uses, where revenue is pooled among all the writers, but I’m pretty sure they don’t pay $100,000 per piece). Said Brill:
“The point is that writers (or producers in the case of more video-oriented material) of serious, quality stuff will be paid really, really well — and they will also have an upside if what they produce does better than expectations. Everyone who writes something is going to have some skin in the game.”
Subscription models are challenging
The founder of CourtTV and the paywall-management company known as Press+ — which was sold to RR Donnelly in 2011 and later bought by Slovakian paywall operator Piano Media — said that he expects subscriptions will generate the majority of the company’s revenue, although both he and Abramson have said that they are also looking for venture financing or other forms of financial backing.
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Each story, Brill said, will make up a single issue of a monthly online magazine whose name hasn’t been divulged yet. As an example of what the company might produce, he cited his own 24,000-word article on American health care, which ran in Time magazine after The New Republic reportedly turned it down.
The central question for the venture — and the reason why so many are skeptical — revolves around whether there is enough revenue available from subscriptions to pay a significant number of journalists an average of $100,000 for a single longform article. For the most part, subscriptions for journalistic content are in the $10 to $20 per month range, with the exception of sites like the Financial Times or The Information, which cater to a hard-core business audience and charge upwards of $40 a month.
If the Brill/Abramson venture charged $10 or $20 a month, it would need between 400 and 800 subscribers just to pay for a single commissioned piece at an average of $100,000 each. Even if Brill’s venture was to charge the same as The Information right out of the gate, it would still need over 200 subscribers just to pay for one article — and if it wanted to commission dozens, which it presumably does, it would need anywhere from 2,500 to 5,000 subscribers just to break even.
Running a media company is expensive
Even those numbers don’t include all of the overhead costs of setting up a company, of course, or renting office space or hiring office staff, or handling the administrative tasks of finding and paying writers to turn out these longform articles. And most subscription-based ventures — the New York Times included — see a huge amount of “churn” or turnover as subscribers leave and have to be replaced.
Where's the sign up for the Jill Abramson writer lottery thing?
— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) November 4, 2014
To get an idea of what kind of challenge Brill and Abramson are facing, we only have to consider that a well-established writer like Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish — who has one of the most successful personal paywalls in the industry — spent a year and barely managed to get to $1 million in revenue. Byliner, whose model was to commission longform work and then sell it on the Kindle, eventually failed and shut down, and so have other ventures aimed at the same market.
I should note that I wish both Brill and Abramson well with their venture. The media landscape needs all the ambitious journalistic projects it can get, and I’ve already said that I would prefer to see experiments like Vox and First Look Media occur — even if they ultimately fail — than see none happen at all.
Obviously, Brill and Abramson have some name recognition in the industry, and no doubt have plenty of contacts in journalistic circles. Their ability to find people who can write compelling longform journalism isn’t in question, nor is their ability to sell media outlets like Time on the value of those articles. Whether they can do all of that and be financially successful, however, is a much harder question.
Post and thumbnails courtesy of Thinkstock / Selen Sergen
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2 Responses to “The numbers behind Jill Abramson and Steven Brill’s new media venture don’t add up”
Joshua White November 5, 2014
As someone who tracks, measures and optimizes journalism economics for a living, I actually see this model working out fine. Brill and Abramson will have, in theory, a relatively low editorial budget for their monthly magazine: $1.2m. Assume that they have more than 12 stories going per year, they could actually have a budget closer to $2m per year. (Or, they might want to hire more journalists to write follow ups on the main monthly article.) Still, I would be that a lot of new journalistic enterprises have budgets bigger than $2m/year.
cas127 November 5, 2014
I agree that $1.2 million is not an unreasonable annual budget…but where are you going to find hundreds of people willing to cough up $120 to $240 per year for a mere 12 articles (per *year*)?
Without knowing the subject of said articles?
This isn’t a mass audience endeavor.
This *is* perhaps a sandbox effort trading upon the Rolodexes of two connected players and the overstuffed wallets of their friends, acquaintances, cronies, acolytes, hangers-on, etc.
It is midtown Manhattan, media incest Kickstarter.
The average *free* short-form internet news item might get a couple thousand views (if packaged together/linked with hundreds/thousands of other pieces) – and there are plenty of well-deserving pieces that get absolutely no play.
The same stats would apply to this project if freely available (a few thousand hits per average piece with perhaps one or two pieces hitting a 100k+ views…over a *year*).
And given the collapse in CPMs due to the ubiquity of free internet content, a free version of this project would be utterly doomed.
(12 articles a *year* doesn’t even match the *hourly* output of HuffP0…we aren’t talking quality here – but rather economic sustainability).
And it is hard to call something “media” when it is only *maybe* addressing itself to a couple of hundred Facebook friends guilted into paying for it.
There are tinfoil-hat newsletters that have more than a few hundred subscribers…but their proprietors aren’t midtown players.
Going for the split
5 questions for… Auddly, targeting the source of music creation
Jon Collins May 4, 2018 - 8:48 AM CDT
Expertise and provenance
Trust in media is collapsing. Is that such a bad thing?
Jon Collins Jan 26, 2018 - 4:02 AM CST
The Rise of Ad Fraud
Will 2017 be the Armageddon for Online Ads?
Frank J. Ohlhorst Jan 3, 2017 - 5:34 PM CST
Business on Display: Making a Statement with Digital Signage
Jon Collins Jan 14, 2016 - 12:00 PM CST
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Doja Cat unleashes sophomore album “Hot Pink”
American rapper, songwriter, songwriter, and record producer Amalaratna Dlamini, known professionally as Doja Cat, has unleashed her sophomore album under Kemosabe Records / RCA Records.
“Hot Pink” – featuring singles “Juicy,” “Bottom Bitch” and “Rules” – is now available via Apple Music and all other digital streaming outlets.
The follow-up to 2018’s “Amala” boasts contributions from Yeti Beats, Tyson Trax, Dr. Luke, Kool Kojak, Theron Thomas, Salaam Remi, Ben Billions, Kurtis McKenzie, P2J, Ari PenSmith, Blaq Tuxedo, and Troy NōKA.
See the tracklisting for “Hot Pink” below.
(1) Cyber Sex / (2) Won’t Bite / (3) Rules / (4) Bottom Bitch / (5) Say So / (6) Like That / (7) Talk Dirty / (8) Addiction / (9) Streets / (10) Shine / (11) Better Than Me / (12) Juicy
Tags: Allan Grigg, Amalaratna "Doja Cat" Dlamini, Amalaratna Dlamini, Ari PenSmith, Ben Billions, Benjamin “Ben Billions” Diehl, Benjamin Diehl, Blaq Tuxedo, Doja Cat, Dr. Luke, Kemosabe Records, Kool Kojak, Kurtis McKenzie, Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, Lukasz Gottwald, P2J, RCA Records, Salaam Remi, SME, Sony Music Entertainment, Theron Thomas, Troy NōKA, Tyson Trax, Yeti Beats
Snoh Aalegra liberates new single “Situationship”
Snoh Aalegra has liberated her new single online.
“Situationship” is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
The track was written by Aalegra alongside Ari PenSmith (Sinead Harnett, Lily Allen) and Nathaniel J. Warner (Mahalia, Wretch 32).
Production duties on “Situationship” were handled by P2J (real name Richard Isong), who is also responsible for Beyonce’s “Brown Skin Girl,” Tanika’s “No Man is An Island,” Chris Brown’s “Covered In You,” Tiwa Savage’s “Hold Me Down,” and Mario’s “Mirror.”
As mentioned in earlier posts, Aalegra’s upcoming debut album, tentatively entitled “Ugh, those feels again,” featuring previous single “Find Someone Like You,” is expected to arrive on August 16 via Artium Recordings.
The highly-anticipated project boasts further contributions from Joel Compass (Tinashe, FKA twigs), George Moore (Kwabs, Paloma Faith), Jonah Christian (Normani, Anderson Paak) and Kurtis McKenzie (Khalid, Lauren Jauregui).
Stream the audio clip for “Situationship” below.
Tags: Ari PenSmith, Ariowa "Ari PenSmith" Irosogie, Ariowa Irosogie, ARTium Recordings, George Moore, J Warner, Joel Compass, Jonah Christian, K9, Kurtis "K9" McKenzie, Kurtis McKenzie, P2J, Richard "P2J" Isong, Richard Isong, Snoh Aalegra
Snoh Aalegra confirms details for new single “Situationship”
Snoh Aalegra has confirmed the details for her new single.
The Swedish singer/songwriter dubbed “Situationship” as her next promotional cut and will release it on August 2nd via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
The track was written by Aalegra alongside J. Warner (Mahalia, Wretch 32), Ari PenSmith (Tiwa Savage, Chris Brown) and P2J (Beyonce, Lily Allen).
Aalegra’s upcoming debut album, tentatively entitled “Ugh, those feels again,” featuring previous single “Find Someone Like You,” is expected to arrive on August 16 via Artium Recordings.
Stream the audio clip for “Find Someone Like You” below.
Lauren Jauregui drafts Ollie Green for new collaboration
Lauren Jauregui has enlisted Ollie Green for a new collaboration.
The British record producer and songwriter previously worked with artists including Jones (“Indulge”), Gavin James (“Always”), Freya Ridings (“Lost Without You”), Alex Newell (“Devilish”), Hamzaa (“London”), Jamie Lawson (“The Answer”) and Frances (“Love Me Again”).
Meanwhile, Jauregui’s upcoming debut album – featuring singles “Expectations” (produced by Kid Harpoon) and “More Than That” (co-written by Prince Charlez and Hue Strother and collectively produced by Charlie Handsome and Murda Beatz) – is expected to arrive later this year via Columbia Records.
The still-untitled project reportedly yields additional alliances with Alexandra “Shungudzo” Govere, D’Mile, Ed Drewett, Fred Ball, Nija Charles, Kurtis “K9” McKenzie, Tre Jean-Marie, Dayo Olatunji, Oak Felder, Rob Knox, Tushar Apte, Mayila Jones, DannyBoyStyles, Rami Yacoub, and The Rascals.
Stream the audio clip for “More Than That” below.
Tags: Alexandra "Shungudzo" Govere, Charles "Prince Charlez" Hinshaw Jr., Charles Hinshaw Jr., Charlie Handsome, Columbia Records, D'Mile, Daniel “DannyBoyStyles” Schofield, Daniel Schofield, DannyBoyStyles, Dayo "Dyo" Olatunjo, Dayo Olatunji, Dernst "D'Mile" Emile, Dernst Emile, Dyo, Ed Drewett, Fred Ball, Hue Strother, K9, Khristopher Riddick-Tynes, Kid Harpoon, Kurtis "K9" McKenzie, Kurtis McKenzie, Lauren Jauregui, Leon Thomas, Mayila Jones, Murda Beatz, Nija Charles, Oak Felder, Ollie Green, Prince Charlez, Rami Yacoub, Rob Knox, Robin “Rob Knox” Tadross, Robin Tadross, Ryan "Charlie Handsome" Vojtesak, Ryan Vojtesak, Shane "Murda Beatz" Lindstrom, Shane Lindstrom, SME, Sony Music Entertainment, The Rascals, Thomas “Kid Harpoon” Hull, Thomas Hull, Tre Jean-Marie, Tushar Apte, Warren "Oak" Felder, Warren Felder
Snoh Aalegra delivers new single “Find Someone Like You”
Swedish singer/songwriter Snoh Sheri Nowrozi, known professionally as Snoh Aalegra, has delivered her new promotional single online.
“Find Someone Like You” is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
The track was written by Aalegra alongside Marcus James (Ryan Trey, Bryson Tiller), George Moore (Yebba Smith, Paloma Faith) and Jonah Christian (Normani, Anderson Paak).
Aalegra’s upcoming debut album – featuring previous singles “You” and “I Want You Around” – is scheduled to arrive on August 16 via Artium Recordings.
On the highly-anticipated project, Aalegra has worked with Joel Compass (Tinashe, FKA twigs), P2J (Mario, Sinead Harnett), Ari PenSmith (GoldLink, Chris Brown) and Kurtis “K9” McKenzie (Khalid, Lauren Jauregui).
Tags: Ari PenSmith, Ariowa "Ari PenSmith" Irosogie, Ariowa Irosogie, ARTium Recordings, George Moore, Joel Compass, Jonah Christian, K9, Kurtis "K9" McKenzie, Kurtis McKenzie, Marcus James, P2J, Richard "P2J" Isong, Richard Isong, Snoh Aalegra
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COLL 6
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COLL 6.4.1R 01/07/2013 RP
This section applies to an authorised fund manager and a depositary of an AUT or ACS.1
COLL 6.4.9 (Plan registers) also applies to the ACD, any other director and the depositary of an ICVC.
COLL 6.4.2G 01/07/2013 RP
The aim of this section is to protect consumers, by setting out the requirements for a register of unitholders for an AUT or ACS1 and for a plan register for an authorised fund, so a proper record of ownership of units is maintained, whether held directly or indirectly through a group plan.
Explanation of this section
3This section deals with matters relating to the register of unitholders of units in an AUT or ACS including its establishment and contents.
3The authorised fund manager or depositary may be responsible for the register.
3In any event, the person responsible for the register must be stated in the trust deed or contractual scheme deed and this section details what his duties are.
3The provisions relating to documents evidencing title to units 3are dependent on the provisions in the trust deed or contractual scheme deed and their operation should be set out in the prospectus.
For an ICVC, requirements as to the register of holders and transfer of units are contained in Schedule 3 of the OEIC Regulations (Register of shareholders).
COLL 6.4.9 makes provision to ensure that if the cost of the plan register is borne by the scheme, plan investors have the same rights in respect of notice and disclosure as unitholders on the main register.
Register: general requirements and contents
Either:1
the manager or the trustee (as nominated in the trust deed); or1
the authorised contractual scheme manager or the depositary of the ACS (as nominated in the contractual scheme deed);1
must establish and maintain a register of unitholders as a document in accordance with this section.1
The manager or trustee or the authorised fund manager or depositary1 in accordance with their duties under (1) must exercise all due diligence and take all reasonable steps to ensure the information contained on the register is at all times complete and up to date.
The register must contain:
the name and address of each unitholder (for joint unitholders, no more than four need to be registered)3;
the number of units of each class held by each unitholder3;
the date on which the unitholder was registered for units standing in his name3; and
the number of units of each class currently in issue3.
No notice of any trust, express, implied or constructive which may be entered in the register is binding on the manager or trustee or the authorised fund manager or depositary1, but this does not affect their obligations under COLL 6.4.9 R (1) (Plan registers).
The register is conclusive evidence of the persons entitled to the units entered in it.
The person responsible for the register in (1) must:
take reasonable steps to alter the register on receiving written notice of a change of name or address of any unitholder;
in relation to a change of name in (a) where a certificate has been issued, either endorse the existing certificate or issue a new one;
make the register available for inspection free of charge in the United Kingdom by or on behalf of any unitholder (including the manager or authorised fund manager1), during office hours3;
supply free of charge to any unitholder or his authorised representative a copy of the entries on the register relating to that unitholder on request;
where a unitholder defaults on paying for the issue or sale of units, make an alteration or deletion in the register to compensate for the default after which the manager or authorised fund manager1 becomes entitled to those units (until those units are either cancelled or re-sold and paid for); and
carry out any conversion of units allowed for by COLL 6.4.8 R (Conversion of units) after consultation with the manager or trustee or the authorised fund manager or depositary1, as appropriate.
The authorised fund manager as unitholder
Subject to (3), if1 no person is entered in the register as the unitholder of a unit, the authorised fund manager1 must be treated as the unitholder of each such unit which is in issue3.
Where units are transferred to the authorised fund manager1, they need not be cancelled and the authorised fund manager1 need not be entered on the register as the new unitholder.
In the case of a limited partnership scheme, unregistered units may be held by the authorised contractual scheme manager as the agent for the scheme provided the authorised contractual scheme manager is not entered in the register as the new unitholder.1
Transfer of units by act of parties: AUTs and ACSs
Every unitholder of an AUT1 is entitled to transfer units held on the register by an instrument of transfer in any form that the person responsible for the register may approve, but that person is under no duty to accept a transfer unless it is permitted by the trust deed or prospectus.3
(1A)
Provided:1
the requirements in COLL 6.4.6A R (Transfer of units in an ACS) are satisfied; and
transfers of units are allowed by the contractual scheme deed and prospectus in accordance with the conditions specified by FCA rules;1
every unitholder of an ACS is entitled to transfer units held on the register by an instrument of transfer in any form that the person responsible for the register may approve, but that person is under no duty to accept a transfer unless it is permitted by the contractual scheme deed and prospectus.1
Every instrument of transfer of units of an AUT or ACS1 must be signed by, or on behalf of, the unitholder transferring the units (or, for a body corporate, sealed by that body corporate or signed by one of its officers (or in Scotland, two of its officers)) authorised to sign it and, unless the transferee is the authorised fund manager1, the transferor must be treated as the unitholder until the name of the transferee has been entered in the register.
In the case of an AUT or ACS, every1 instrument of transfer (stamped as necessary) must be left for registration, with the person responsible for the register, accompanied by:
any necessary documents that may be required by legislation; and
any other evidence reasonably required by the person responsible for the register.
In the case of an AUT or ACS, the1 details of instruments of transfer must be kept for a period of six years from the date of its registration.
In the case of an AUT or ACS, on1 registration of an instrument of transfer, a record of the transferor and the transferee and the date of transfer must be made on the register.
Transfer of units in an ACS
COLL 6.4.6AR 01/07/2013 RP
1Where transfer of units in an ACS is allowed by its contractual scheme deed and prospectus in accordance with the conditions specified by FCA rules, the authorised contractual scheme manager of the ACS must take reasonable care to ensure that units are only transferred if the conditions specified by the FCA under (2) are met.
The FCA specifies that for the purposes of (1), and for the purposes of COLL 3.2.6 R(27G) (ACSs: UCITS and NURS transfer of units) and COLL 4.2.5 R(5B) (ACSs: UCITS and NURS transfer of units), units in an ACS may only be transferred to a person that is a:
professional ACS investor; or
large ACS investor; or
person who already holds units in the scheme.
COLL 6.4.6BG 01/07/2013 RP
1The FCA recognises that some transfers of units arise by operation of law (such as upon death or bankruptcy of the unitholder, or otherwise) and are accordingly outside the control of the authorised contractual scheme manager. The authorised contractual scheme manager is expected to comply with its responsibilities under COLL 6.6.3B R (Redemption of ACS units by an authorised contractual scheme manager) in such cases by redeeming such units.
Following the sale of units or as a result of COLL 6.4.6 R (Transfer of units by act of parties: AUTs and ACSs1) a document recording title to those units may be issued in such a form as the trust deed or contractual scheme deed1 permits.
The person responsible for the register must issue any document in (1) or provide relevant information in a timely manner where the procedures for redeeming units require the unitholder to surrender that document.
[deleted]3
Bearer certificates may not be issued for AUTs or 3ACSs.1
Conversion of units
Where there is more than one class of units offered for issue or sale, the unitholder has a right to convert from one to the other, provided that doing so would not contravene any provision in the prospectus.
Plan registers
The ACD and any other directors of an ICVC or the person responsible for the register of an AUT or an ACS1 may arrange for a plan register to be established and maintained.
Where payments are made out of scheme property to establish and maintain a plan register, plan investors must be treated as unitholders for the purposes of COLL 4.3 to COLL 4.5 and COLL 6.4.4 R (Register: general requirements and contents).
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IN Focus: Braun, Brooks, Carson react to State of the Union
Posted 9:29 AM, February 10, 2019, by Dan Spehler, Updated at 09:47AM, February 10, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a divided Congress for the first time, President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Washington to reject “the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution.” He warned emboldened Democrats that “ridiculous partisan investigations” into his administration and businesses could hamper a surging American economy.
Trump’s appeals for bipartisanship in his State of the Union address clashed with the rancorous atmosphere he has helped cultivate in the nation’s capital — as well as the desire of most Democrats to block his agenda during his next two years in office. Their opposition was on vivid display as Democratic congresswomen in the audience formed a sea of white in a nod to early 20th-century suffragettes.
Trump spoke at a critical moment in his presidency, staring down a two-year stretch that will determine whether he is re-elected or leaves office in defeat. His speech sought to shore up Republican support that had eroded slightly during the recent government shutdown and previewed a fresh defense against Democrats as they ready a round of investigations into every aspect of his administration.
“If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation,” he declared. Lawmakers in the cavernous House chamber sat largely silent.
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Looming over the president’s address was a fast-approaching Feb. 15 deadline to fund the government and avoid another shutdown. Democrats have refused to acquiesce to his demands for a border wall, and Republicans are increasingly unwilling to shut down the government to help him fulfill his signature campaign pledge. Nor does the GOP support the president’s plan to declare a national emergency if Congress won’t fund the wall.
Wary of publicly highlighting those intraparty divisions, Trump made no mention of an emergency declaration in his remarks. He did offer a lengthy defense of his call for a border wall, declaring: “I will build it.” But he delivered no ultimatums about what it would take for him to sign legislation to keep the government open.
“I am asking you to defend our very dangerous southern border out of love and devotion to our fellow citizens and to our country,” he said, painting a dark and foreboding picture of the risks posed to Americans by illegal immigration.
Throughout his remarks, the 72-year-old Trump harkened back to moments of American greatness, celebrating the moon landing as astronaut Buzz Aldrin looked on from the audience and heralding the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. He led the House chamber in singing happy birthday to a Holocaust survivor sitting with first lady Melania Trump.
The president ticked through a litany of issues with crossover appeal, including boosting infrastructure, lowering prescription drug costs and combating childhood cancer. But he also appealed to his political base, both with his harsh rhetoric on immigration and a call for Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the “late-term abortion of children.”
Trump devoted much of his speech to foreign policy, another area where Republicans have increasingly distanced themselves from the White House. He announced details of a second meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, outlining a Feb. 27-28 summit in Vietnam. The two met last summer in Singapore, though it garnered only a vaguely worded commitment by the North to denuclearize.
As he condemned political turmoil in Venezuela, Trump declared that “America will never be a socialist country” — a remark that may also have been targeted at high-profile Democrats who identify as socialists.
The president was surrounded by symbols of his emboldened political opposition. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was praised by Democrats for her hard-line negotiating during the shutdown, sat behind Trump as he spoke. And several senators running for president were also in the audience, including Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey.
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Speaking from Atlanta, Abrams calls the shutdown a political stunt that “defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people, but our values.”
Trump’s address amounted to an opening argument for his re-election campaign. Polls show he has work to do, with his approval rating falling to just 34 percent after the shutdown, according to a recent survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
One bright spot for the president has been the economy, which has added jobs for 100 straight months.
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The diverse Democratic caucus, which includes a bevy of women, sat silently for much of Trump’s speech. But they leapt to their feet when he noted there are “more women in the workforce than ever before.”
The increase is due to population growth — and not something Trump can credit to any of his policies.
The president also defended his decisions to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan over the opposition from national security officials and many Republican lawmakers.
“Great nations do not fight endless wars,” he said, adding that the U.S. is working with allies to “destroy the remnants” of the Islamic State group and that he has “accelerated” efforts to reach a settlement in Afghanistan.
IS militants have lost territory since Trump’s surprise announcement in December that he was pulling U.S. forces out, but military officials warn the fighters could regroup within six months to a year of the Americans leaving. Several leading GOP lawmakers have sharply criticized his plans to withdraw from Syria, as well as from Afghanistan.
Trump’s guests for the speech included Anna Marie Johnson, a woman whose life sentence for drug offenses was commuted by the president, and Joshua Trump, a sixth-grade student from Wilmington, Delaware, who has been bullied over his last name. They sat with Mrs. Trump during the address.
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JUVENILES ON REMAND: TRENDS AND PRACTICES IN MALAYSIA
By Abd Wahab Bin Kassim*
Social problems, particularly social deviance, should not be used as an indicator that there are shortcomings in the social system and the family institution in the process of nation building, the core of which is based on humanitarian principles and aesthetic values. Social problems are viewed as the negative behaviour of members of the society, which do not contribute to the strength of the system, economy, culture and society of a nation. The economic indicator is often used as the basis for evaluating social problems. This is owing to the fact that social problems are considered to be synonymous with and have a symbiotic relationship with poverty. Although there are other variables related to social problems particularly the inter and intra processes of migration, urbanization, cultural shock and the fluidity of the family institution, the increase in the poverty rate remains the main indicator for the increase in social problems. However, there is no specific or accurate indicator that can be used as the main gauge for evaluating and defining social problems. Apart from that, although various parties particularly the government and non-governmental bodies have taken relentless and integrated steps to overcome the problem, there is no effective approach to date. Social problems are most common among adolescents, the future leaders of the nation.
This paper will focus on social problems particularly criminal misconduct among adolescents (juveniles) who are under remand in prisons, from the aspects of the trends and rehabilitation practices implemented by the Prison Department of Malaysia.
II. DEFINITION OF JUVENILE
From the legal point of view there are various definitions of juveniles depending on their group and age.
2.1 According to the Prison Act 1995, a juvenile or a young offender is defined as “a prisoner who is under the age of 21 years”. The Prison Department of Malaysia detains juveniles aged between 14 and 21 years in prison as young prisoners or in Henry Gurney School (approved school) as students.
2.2 The Child Act 2001 defines a child as “a person under the age of 18 years and below” and the age of criminal responsibility at the age of ten.
2.3. The Child Protection Act 1991 defines a child as “a person under the age of 18 years and below”.
2.4 The Children and Young Persons Employment Act 1996 defines a child as a person aged between 10 and 14 years, and a young person as one aged between 14 and 16 years.
From the legal point of view the definition for juveniles can be concluded as a group of adolescents under the age of 21 years and who have criminal responsibility at the age of 10 years. This paper focuses on adolescents aged between 14 and 21 years.
III. BACKGROUND
The nation has long been plagued by juvenile delinquency. Although much has been said and debated, the issue has not received its due attention. The problem of delinquency among juveniles is reported to be on the rise from time to time. The actual number of cases is estimated to be much higher than that reported.
Social deviance among juveniles starts at school age. At the initial stage this delinquency is in the form of abuse of school rules such as truancy, smoking and vandalism. The absence of effective measures to curb and overcome this problem is a catalyst to more serious criminal misconduct such as bullying, injury to others, rape, theft and murder. Effective preventive and rehabilitative measures must be implemented in an integrated and widespread manner at the family and community levels, school and rehabilitation institutions in view of the fact that the younger generation will inherit the nation’s wealth, place, profession and
* Head of Human Resource Headquarters, Malaysia Prison Department, Malaysia.
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leadership. It is our duty to ensure that the future generation is one that is prepared and responsible for the continuity of life, peace, harmony and the development of the nation.
IV. THE JUVENILE MISCONDUCT FACTOR
The rise in social deviance among adolescents can be viewed from various aspects. Throughout 1995, 4012 adolescents (remanded in prison and Henry Gurney School) were involved in crimes where 96.2% were male adolescents. The phenomenon is rather alarming and should not be viewed lightly as there are more male detainees in rehabilitation centres and under remand. Although there is an increase in the number of male adolescents involved in criminal misconduct, statistics show that the involvement of female juveniles in crime has also increased 161.5% from 325 cases in 1974 to 850 cases in 1995.
The statistics of the Prison Department of Malaysia show that of the 2964 juveniles who are serving prison sentences: 1231 (41.6%) are Malays; 110 (3.7%) Chinese; 314 (10.6%) Indians; 197 (6.6%) other races including the Bumiputera in Sabah and Sarawak, and 1112 (37.5%) foreign juveniles. The increase in criminal misconduct among adolescents is influenced by several factors particularly involving those directly involved with adolescent development such as parents, the school, the family, social institutions, the community and the government.
A. Family Ties
The family is the most important institution in the formation of a human who is physically and mentally healthy. The functions, form and role of the family institution changes owing to the current physical and communication developments in the country. The obsession in pursuing material gains has caused a rift in family ties. Spiritual ties among family members have become eroded and as a result some members suffer from emptiness in life and this will result in more serious social problems.
B. Family Residence
The size of the family residence is another contributing factor to juvenile misconduct. Based on the experience and factors collected at Henry Gurney Schools, a majority of the social degradation cases among adolescents are those who live in small and overcrowded homes which have an insufficient number of rooms. The discomfort of living in such a residence causes the occupants to seek comfort outside the home particularly in shopping complexes and places of entertainment which encourage the freedom to mix among adolescents. The Government has made it a policy that housing projects of either medium or lower projects must have three rooms.
C. Religious Education
A staunch belief in God is the main instrument in managing lustful drives. This can be achieved through the internalisation and practice of religious values as every religion demands its followers to do well and to avoid all evils. Based on the experience with and observation of juvenile detainees, the Prison Department of Malaysia found superficial religious knowledge to be a contributing factor to juvenile misconduct, where 80% of the juveniles have a weak foundation in religious knowledge, 18% have secondary level religious education and 2% tertiary level religious education.
D. The Individual
The individual factors, namely attitude, low self-esteem, mental and physical health problems, a low level of education, the inability to cope with stress and to solve problems, drug abuse and pornography are contributing factors to social deviance among adolescents. This is due to the fact that adolescents require guidance and support in the process of developing their identity and in determining their goals in life.
E. The Environment
The environment refers to a wide area. Individuals live and depend on the environment in determining their way of life. The environmental factors which encompasses the high rate of poverty, weak social support system, community tolerance of crimes, limited social amenities, peer group influence, social rejection and the influx of criminal sources, particularly pornography, are contributing factors to criminal behaviour in society.
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F. Poverty
Poverty is closely connected with criminal misconduct. The strain of financial burdens is often used as an excuse by offenders to commit crimes such as stealing and snatching. The experience and observation of young prisoners and juveniles who are serving prison sentences shows that a majority of them come from families with a monthly income below RM1000 and with four to seven siblings.
G. Peer Group Influence
Peer group influence is another contributing factor to social deviance among adolescents and juveniles. The urge to try something new and provocation from the peer group often result in adolescents being involved in criminal activities. The habit of imitating a certain culture, for example the punk and skinhead cultures, without evaluating the good and bad of the culture concerned, can also lead adolescents to involve themselves in social deviance. In the process of searching for their self-identity, adolescents often err in their choice of a role model. They are more inclined to be influenced by their peer group and treat advice and criticisms from their family as something that restricts and bores them.
H. Academic Background
Statistics at the Henry Gurney schools and the Prison Department of Malaysia show that 122 (30%) of the inmates received a primary education and 410 (70%) received a secondary education. Of the total, 310 of them left school after lower secondary education.
V. TREND OF JUVENILE MISCONDUCT UNDER DETENTION
The trend in juvenile misconduct under detention can be viewed from the socio-economic and legal aspects. The socio-economic trend is in turn influenced by the family background, citizenship, place of residence, level of education, household income, age, ethnic group and religion. The legal trend can be viewed from the aspect of the type of crime committed and the length of sentence they serve. Statistics from the Prison Department of Malaysia show that there is an increase in the number of juveniles in prison. The increase is closely related to the socio-economic and legal aspects.
Statistics of Juveniles at the Prison Department of Malaysia
YearYear
YoungYoung PrisonersPrisoners
JuvenileJuvenile DDetaineesetainees
JuvenilesJuveniles
Source: Prison Department of Malaysia.
A. Socio-economic Trend
1. Ethnic Group
Crimes and the criminals do not identify with a particular ethnic group for all ethnic groups are involved in juvenile criminal misconduct. According to the statistics of the Prison Department of Malaysia, Malay juveniles comprise the largest number involved in criminal activities i.e. 1,231 (41.6%), followed by the Chinese 110 (3.7%), 314 (10.6%) Indians and 197 (6.6%) other races (including the indigenous people in Sabah and Sarawak) and 1,112 (37.5%) are foreign juveniles.
Juvenile Statistics according to Ethnic Group
RRaceace
YoungYoung DetaineesDetainees
IIndianndian
OOthersthers
ForeignersForeigners
Source: Prison Department of Malaysia, 15 November 2004.
2. Religion
From the aspect of religion, the statistics of the Prison Department of Malaysia show that of the 2,964 juveniles detained in prison, 1,784 (60.3%) of them are Muslims, 372 (12.5%) Buddhists, 483 (16.3%) Hindus, 268 (9.0%) Christians and 57 (1.9%) of other religions.
Juvenile Statistics according to Religion
PercentagePercentage
IslamIslam
BuddhismBuddhism
HinduismHinduism
ChristianityChristianity
100%100%
3. Age
The statistics of the Prison Department of Malaysia show that there is a significant difference in the ages of the young prisoners, and the detainees and juveniles. For young prisoners and young detainees the age trend shows that more of those between the ages of 18 and 20 years i.e. 2,115 (91.4%) are involved in crimes compared to those between the ages of 14 and 17 years i.e. 199 (8.6%). As for the young detainees between 18 and 20 years, the number stands at 77 (65.3%) compared with 41 (34.7%) of detainees aged between 14 and 17 years.
The age trend for juveniles shows that more of those aged between 14 and 17 years i.e. 385 (72.4%) are involved in crimes compared to those aged between 18 and 20 years i.e. 147 (27.6%). It can be concluded that the rate for criminal misconduct among young detainees is higher among those aged 18 years and above while for the juveniles the rate is higher among those aged 18 years and below.
Juvenile Statistics according to Age
JuvenileJuvenile CategoryCategory
AgeAge
DetaineesDetainees
TTotalotal
((1.9%)1.9%)
(4.1%)(4.1%)
(16.7%)(16.7%)
4. Level of Education
The success in one’s career is often said to be connected to the success in one’s education. Those who hold high posts either in the government or private sector are usually the high achievers. Having to drop out of school often results in the individuals being involved in social deviance. The statistics of the Prison Department of Malaysia show that 1,376 (46.4%) juveniles who are prison detainees received only a low level of education and of the total 434 (31.5%) have never attended school while 1,588 (63.6%) received a secondary education whereby 1191 (75%) of them received lower secondary education. The statistics show that criminal misconduct among juveniles is greatly influenced by their level of education whereby adolescents with a low level of education or who have never attended school are more inclined to be involved in social problems and their chances of becoming criminals are high.
Juvenile Statistics according to Level of Education
EducationEducation LLevelevel
StdStd 1-31-3
FormForm 1-31-3
FormForm 66
SchoolingSchooling
AndAnd AboveAbove
DDetaineesetainees
*92% are Foreigners. Source: Prison Department of Malaysia, 15 November 2004.
5. Household Income
Poverty is often linked with criminal involvement. Poverty is also often used as an excuse for committing a crime in order to support oneself. The statistics of the Prison Department of Malaysia show that 2,089 (70.5%) of juveniles who are detained in prisons come from families with an income of below RM1000 while 875 (39.5%) come from families with an income of RM1000 and above. The statistics also show that the trend of criminal misconduct among adolescents or juveniles is greatly influenced by poverty or low household income.
Juvenile Statistics according to Household Income
HouseholdHousehold IIncomencome
<<RMRM 10001000
RMRM 11000-RM000-RM 22000000
RMRM 2000-RM2000-RM 33000000
>RM>RM 30003000
(7105%)
((70.5%)70.5%)
6. Family Status
A rift among family members is a contributing factor to social deviance. However, there is a no strong relationship between family status and criminal misconduct among adolescents to justify such a claim. Of the 2,964 juveniles who are serving prison sentences only 571 (19.3%) come from broken homes while 2,393 (80.7%) of them have families.
Juvenile Statistics according to Family Status
FamilyFamily SStatustatus
WWholehole FamiliesFamilies
DivorcedDivorced PParentsarents
JJuvenilesuveniles
23932393 ((80.7%)80.7%)
571571 ((19.3%)19.3%)
7. Number of Family Members
There is a significant relationship between social deviance and the number of family members. Adolescents who come from a large family are more inclined to be involved in criminal misconduct. A large family often causes discomfort at home particularly for those who reside in houses categorized as low or medium cost due to the lack of space for relaxing, in spite of the government standard ruling of at least three rooms to every house. As a result, family members feel more comfortable being out of the home. Adolescents who come from families with 5 to7 siblings are more inclined to be involved in criminal activities. The following statistics show that 1,783 (60.2%) juveniles detained in prisons come from families with 5 to7 siblings while 774 (26.1%) of them come from families with 2 to 4 siblings.
Juvenile Statistics according to Number of Family Members
NumberNumber ofof FamilyFamily MembersMembers
OOnlynly CChildhild
88 aandnd MoreMore
9898 ((3.3%)3.3%)
8. Place of Residence
The area where a juvenile comes from has an influence on his involvement in criminal misconduct. Although crime is committed without consideration whether the offender originates from the rural, suburban or urban area the following statistics show that 2,089 (70.5%) of the juveniles who are serving prison sentences come from the rural areas, compared with 486 (16.4%) from suburban areas and 389 (13.1%) from urban areas. Although the offenders come from families who reside in the rural area, this is not an accurate representation as most crimes are committed in the urban or suburban areas. This may be due to the fact that the crimes were committed while the juveniles were in the urban or suburban areas or have migrated or resided permanently there.
Juvenile Statistics according to Place of Residence
PlacePlace ofof ResidenceResidence
RuralRural
SuburbanSuburban
UrbanUrban
20892089 (70.5%)(70.5%)
B. Legal Trend
From the legal aspect, criminal misconduct among adolescents clearly show that most of the crimes committed by the juveniles come under the Penal Code, particularly theft. The following statistics show that 1,246 or 42.1% juveniles are involved in crimes under the Penal Code and 431 or 16.6% under the Dangerous Drugs Act particularly possession and abuse of drugs. The percentage of foreign juveniles who are involved in crimes under the Immigration Act is 32.2% or 954. On the whole, 1,112 or 37.5% juveniles
detained in prisons are foreign citizens. Apart from that, there are also crimes under other Acts, 56 or 1.9% come under the Registration Act (foreigner used forged identification card), 6 or 0.2% under the Firearms Act, 32 or 1.1% under the Child Act, 28 or 0.9% under the Dangerous Drugs Special Preventive Measures,
or 3.0% under the Restricted Residence Act, 22 or 0.9% under the Road Transport Act and the remaining
or 3.1% under other Acts.
Juvenile Statistics according to Offence
ActAct
ADMADM
S/APIS/API
PPNPPN
JPJJPJ
IMMIMM
LLPKLLPK
POPOCPOPOC
AKKAKK
442.1%2.1%
14.6%14.6%
0.2%0.2%
Note: KK = Penal Code, ADM = Dangerous Drugs Act, S/API = Firearms Act, PPN = National Registration Act, JPJ = Road Transport Act, IMM = Immigration Act, LLPK = Dangerous Drugs Act, Special Preventive Measures, POPOC = Restricted Residence Act, AKK = Child Act.
VI. JUVENILE REHABILITATION PRACTICE
As they are young offenders, juveniles must be given the opportunity to correct their wrongdoing through the process of rehabilitation. This is due to the fact that most of the problems involving juvenile misconduct are the result of the shortcomings of the social system itself, particularly the family institution and the spirit of neighbourhood in the society. The Prison Department of Malaysia has developed and implemented a rehabilitation module that is specially targeted at young prisoners known as the Putra Module and a rehabilitation plan targeted at juveniles in Henry Gurney schools with attitude building, knowledge and skills development as the main objectives. This is to ensure that the juveniles can be rehabilitated to be normal individuals again.
A. The Putra Module (Prisoners and Young Detainees)
The Putra Module was developed with an integrated approach as the main objective i.e. physical and spiritual rehabilitation. Through this module, the Prison Department of Malaysia has identified the objectives of the rehabilitation process and activities that prisoners must go through. There are four main programmes in the module, namely the Discipline Building Programme, the Character Reinforcement Programme, the Skills Programme and the Community Programme. The implementation of the rehabilitation programmes is supported by spiritual activities, counselling, good citizenship and moral/civic education.
1. Phase 1 - Discipline Building Programme
The Discipline Building Programme was developed with the main objective of producing inmates who are disciplined and abide by all the regulations, are active and who practice a healthy way of life. The programme is implemented for a period of three months. The module contains the following programmes, namely the information module, physical and discipline building module, the moral/civic module, the motivation module, the citizenship module, the counselling module and the spiritual module.
Phase 1: Discipline Building Programme
AimAim
PProcessrocess
AActivityctivity
To prepare offenders to serve their sentence effectively
•Offenders’ personal data and reason for committing crime are recorded •To get offenders’ vow for good conduct •Offenders are categorized according to sentence •Basic personal hygiene
• Marching
• Civic/moral classes
• Basic regulations
• Spiritual
• Counselling
• Cleaning work
2. Phase 2 - Character Reinforcement Programme
The Character Reinforcement Programme is the core treatment in the Putra Module. The programme is implemented between 6 and 12 months where the stress is on the development of self-identity and positive attitudes through the Halaqah approach, Therapeutic Community and Counselling, academic and Malaysian Skills Certificate basic classes. The main objective of the programme is to produce inmates who possess strong self-identity when facing the pre re-entry process while in prison and when they are released. In the Hallaquah approach, inmates are divided into many groups depending on their knowledge of Islam. Ustaz or other religious teachers, who have much knowledge of the religion, will monitor the inmates’ progress. Also, inmates who have advanced knowledge of the subject have an opportunity to give a talk to the group and help teachers guide the group.
Phase 2: Character Reinforcement Programme
To build a strong self identity and to instil good moral values among offenders
•Offenders are given activities according to interest, problems and background •Offenders are exposed to basic training and practical work
•Religious talks •Counselling •Moral and civic education •Team work •Basic training for Malaysian Skills Certificate •Spiritual •Academic
3. Phase 3 - Skills Programme
Phase 3 of the Putra Module is the Skills Programme. The main objective of the programme is to produce inmates who are skilled and possess certificates as well as those who excel in sports. The main activities in the programme include certified skills, vocational skills and sports excellence skills. Apart from that, spiritual activities and counselling are still the main activities in this phase.
Phase 3: Skills Programme
To enable offenders to be independent after their release
•Through the SKM and CIDB Learning System, etc. •Vocational training through work at joint-ventures and trust accounts •Work which involves low costs aimed at sharpening skills
•SKM, CIDB Theory and Practical Classes •Vocational Skills •Counselling •Moral and Civic Education •Spiritual •Academic •Sports Excellence
Note’s MSC = Malaysian Skills Certificate. CIDB = Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia.
4. Phase 4 - Community Programme
The last phase in this module is the Community Programme. The main objective of this programme is to prepare the inmates to face the stigma attached to them by society after they are released and to encourage public participation to assist in the process of assimilation of prisoners into society. The activities in this programme are developed to expose the prisoners to life in society again such as preventive education i.e. the Realisation Programme - Message from the Prison (inmates are escorted to school or the community to give talks on how and why they commit the crimes and on the implications or impact they get after they are convicted and sent to the Henry Gurney School), Community Services such as to clean old folks homes and kampong (village) and spiritual activities, which form the core rehabilitation for each phase.
Phase 4: Community Programme
ActivityActivity
To prepare inmates to face life beyond prison and to assimilate with society
•Work outside of the prison •Living skills and income •Sports and community activities outside the prison •Crime prevention activities
•Work outside the prison •Give educational talks •Individual and family counselling •Spiritual •Job interviews •Realisation programme – Message From The Prison •Camping for uniformed units •Visit to towns •Spiritual (Qiamullail) •Short holiday •Freedom to obtain licence
B. Juvenile Rehabilitation Module
The Juvenile Rehabilitation Programme is developed in three categories i.e. the rehabilitation of students below the age of 18 years, rehabilitation of students aged 18 and above and those without basic education. However, the module still retains rehabilitation with attitude building, knowledge and skills development as the core objectives through the spiritual approach, moral/civic awareness, counselling, citizenship and co- curricular activities such as music band, police cadets, the Civil Defence Department cadets, RELA cadets and the Putra cadets (Uniform activities).
1. Rehabilitation Module for Juveniles Aged 18 Years and Below
Juveniles at the Henry Gurney schools, especially those under the age of 18 years, are usually school dropouts. These groups of students usually have not had the opportunity to take the Lower Secondary Examination (PMR) or the Malaysian School Certificate (SPM) examination. Taking into consideration the need for education for these students, the Prison Department has determined that core rehabilitation for juveniles at this level involves discipline building, character building and education. Thus, every juvenile aged 18 years and below is required to take academic classes with the aim of obtaining the Lower Secondary Examination or Malaysian School Certificate after completing the Character Reinforcement Programme.
Rehabilitation Plan for Juveniles Aged 18 Years and Below
Discipline Building
Character Reinforcement
LCE
CIDB
2. Rehabilitation Module for Juveniles Aged 18 Years and Above
The rehabilitation of juveniles aged 18 years and above is based on building discipline, self identity and skills. The rehabilitation plan for students aged 18 years and above is as follows:
Rehabilitation Plan for Juveniles Aged 18 Years and Above
3. Rehabilitation Module for Juveniles with No Basic Education
The National Education Policy has determined that each child should receive formal education especially at the primary and secondary levels. Nevertheless, there are juveniles placed in Henry Gurney schools who have not followed formal education or are illiterate. Rehabilitation for these juveniles is focused on discipline building, character reinforcement, the three R’s and skills. The teaching of the 3 R’s (reading, writing and mathematics) is stressed to ensure that they are able to take the certified skills course for three years while in remand, especially the Malaysian Skills Certificate (MSC) and the Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB). The rehabilitation plan for juveniles in this category is as follows:
Rehabilitation Plan for Juveniles with No Basic Education
VII. CONCLUSION
Social deviance among adolescents, no matter the aspect of its definition, cannot be separated from the fact that the problem has its source at all levels of community and involves all members of the community. Thus, each programme, module, approach and activity whether in the form of prevention, rehabilitation, policy or social system development, must involve a role that is united, thorough and continuous, requiring the full commitment of all levels including individuals, families, society, social institutions, rehabilitation institutions, non-governmental organizations, private bodies and the government. The role of the institutions should also be in line with the objectives of the National Social Policy whose purpose is the creation of a Malaysian society that is developed and stable from the social, economic and technological aspects. Each member of society must have the opportunity and desire to fulfil their self potential in a healthy social environment based on the attributes of unity, steadfastness, democracy, morality, tolerance, pro-activeness, progressiveness, love and fairness in line with the objectives of Vision 2020.
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Browse over 600 reprints of rosters, regimental histories and personal narratives of the war. These books record the names and chronicle the experiences of hundreds of thousands of common soldiers.
101st Infantry OH - STORY OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST OHIO INFANTRY. (Hardcover)
By L. W. Day. 464 pages. 1894 CWOH101IH
103rd Infantry OH - PERSONAL REMINISCENCES AND EXPERIENCES. (Hardcover)
By Members of the 103rd Ohio. 444 pages. 1900 CWOH103IH
105th Infantry OH - THE STORY OF A THOUSAND, BEING A HISTORY OF THE SERVICE OF THE 105TH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION FROM AUGUST 21, 1862 TO JUNE 6, 1865. (Hardcover)
By Albion Tourgee. 409+64 pages. 1896. Buffalo, NY. Illustrated. Maps. "Tourgee, who became a notorious Carpetbagger, served with the regiment until 1863 and gives much personal material, the unit's history...
111th Infantry OH - HISTORY ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH REGIMENT O.V.I. (Hardcover)
By Captain W. S. Thurstin. 152+48 pages. 1894
113th Infantry OH - EVERY-DAY SOLDIER LIFE; OR, A HISTORY OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. (Hardcover)
By F. M. McAdams. 400 pages. 1884. Columbus, OH. Portraits. "This underrated work is a detailed, reliable, and very revealing account of the Western campaigns." CWB CWOH113IH
116th Infantry OH - RECORD OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTH REGIMENT OHIO INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS. (Hardcover)
By Thomas F. Wildes. 364 pages. 1884
122nd Infantry OH - THE OFFICIAL WAR RECORD OF THE 122nd REGIMENT OF OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. (Hardcover)
By Moses Granger. 146 pages. 1912
123rd Infantry OH - THE MILITARY HISTORY OF THE 123rd REGIMEN T OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. (Hardcover)
By C. M. Keyes. 196 pages. 1874. Sandusky, OH. "Although based in part on memory, this narrative of service in East and West, as well as a short tenury in...
124th Infantry OH - THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, WITH ROSTER AND ROLL OF HONOR. (Hardcover)
By G. W. Lewis. 285 pages. 1894
125th Infantry OH - OPDYCKE TIGERS. 125TH O.V.I. A HISTORY OF THE REGIMENT AND OF THE CAMPAIGNS AND BATTLES OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. (Hardcover)
By Charles Clark. 476 pages. 1895. Columbus, OH. Illustrated. Maps. Portraits. "Short memoirs, diary extracts, etc. appear here and there in this profusely illustrated chronicle." CWB
133rd Infantry OH - HISTORY OF THE 133RD REGIMENT, O.V.I. (Hardcover)
By S. M. Sherman. 163 pages. 1896
149th Infantry OH - A SUMMER IN MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA, OR CAMPAIGNING WITH THE 149TH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. (Hardcover)
By George Perkins. 106 pages. 1911
14th Infantry OH - HISTORY OF THE FOURTEENTH OHIO REGIMENT, O.V.V.I. (Hardcover)
By Colonel J. A. Chase 130 pages. 1881
154th Infantry OH - THE HISTORY AND SERVICE OF THE 154th OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. (Hardcover)
By Joseph Stipp. 73 pages. 1896
15th Infantry OH - THE FIFTEENTH OHIO VOLUNTEERS AND ITS CAMPAIGNS. (Hardcover)
By Alexis Cope. 796 pages. 1916 CWOH15IH
16th Battery OH - HISTORY OF THE SIXTEENTH BATTERY OF OHIO LIGHT ARTILLERY. COMPILED FROM THE DIARIES OF COMRADES, THE BEST RECOLLECTIONS OF SURVIVORS AND OFFICIAL RECORDS. (Hardcover)
14 + 202 pages. 1909. Illustrated. Maps. Portraits. "A brief but entertaining narrative that elaborates on individual acts of battery members." CWB
1st Artillery OH - REMINISCENCES OF THE CLEVELAND LIGHT ARTILLERY. (Hardcover)
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1st Cavalry OH - A HISTORY OF COMPANY A, FIRST OHIO CAVALRY (Hardcover)
By Lovejoy (Samuel Gillespie). 219 pages, + many portraits on unnumbered pages. (308 total pages), 1898.
1st Cavalry OH - FOUR YEARS IN THE SADDLE. HISTORY OF THE FIRST REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. (Hardcover)
By W. L. Curry. 401p. + 50p. roster. 1898 Four Years in the Saddle. History of the First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.War of the Rebellion -- 1861-1865. (1898) Includes:Official Roster...
21st Infantry OH - HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. (Hardcover)
By S. S. Canfield. 192+47 pages. 1893
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume IV, Foreign Assistance, International Development, Trade Policies, 1969–1972
417. Information Memorandum From C. Fred Bergsten of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)1
Washington, December 5, 1969.
Meat Import Program for 1970
I met today with Secretary Hardin, John Whitaker of John Ehrlichman’s staff, and Bryce Harlow on the meat import program for 1970. Three issues were discussed:
Whether to seek continued voluntary restraints by foreign exporters or apply quotas ourselves.
The level of imports.
The allocation of imports as between the traditional suppliers (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) and the Latin Americans.
All agreed that voluntary restraints were far superior to quotas. The main issue was thus the import level. Our objective was to minimize the level for domestic political reasons while offering enough to the foreign suppliers to preserve the voluntary restraint agreements.
Secretary Hardin felt strongly that our initial negotiating position should be an import level of 1,050 million pounds, allocated among the suppliers a la 1969, plus an additional 5 million pounds for Latin America to exemplify the “special relationship.” Imports of 1,050 million pounds in 1970 would represent virtually no increase over actual imports in 1969 and only a 15 million pound increase from the agreed restraint levels of this year. I therefore expressed doubts that Australia and perhaps New Zealand would be willing to negotiate voluntary restraints at that level. They might calculate that they would come out better if we applied quotas, even at the lower statutory level of 1,000 million pounds. This is because they would expect the quotas to be allocated on an historical (5-year) basis, under which they would receive a much larger share of the total than they got in 1969 and would get in 1970 under the voluntary approach, which already encompasses substantially favored treatment for Latin America.
It was clear at the meeting that you might wish to raise the issue with the President if you were dissatisfied with the decision. Despite my being overruled, I do not recommend further effort at this point because:
The 1,050 plus 5 for Latin America is only a first negotiating position, which State has already begun trying out on the suppliers.
Secretary Hardin is clearly prepared to fall back to 1,060 plus 5, or even 1,075, if necessary to secure voluntary agreements.
Australian and New Zealand meat has been entering the U.S. via Canada in excess of agreed amounts and there is thus a case for being tough with them as a result; I know of no particular foreign policy reason to be particularly accommodating to them at present.
The add-on for Latin America should give us a good point in the ongoing IA-ECOSOC dialogue.
Secretary Hardin has a point in wanting to maintain some leeway in the program for additional allocations later in 1970, as pressures build up for both economic and foreign policy reasons as they did this year.
We should know within a week or ten days whether the 1,050 plus 5 level is negotiable. If it is not, we may need a Presidential decision at that time.
Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Subject Files, Box 401, Trade General, Volume I. Confidential.↩
Foreign Assistance, International Development, Trade Policies, 1969–1972
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The rebuke was painful for two reasons: I deserved it and I should have known better. My careless words could have deepened wounds in a divided congregation. I was sharply reminded of my moral and community responsibility to exercise stewardship over what I say and do.
I had spoken as a 'poster child' for a disease that plagues our culture. It undermines Christian discipleship and discredits the Church. The disease is intemperate and ill-informed speech.
The disease thrives in a culture where round-the-clock news media serve up 'shout fests,' but bill them as 'informed and balanced' dialogue. The economic benefits of being 'first to break the story' weigh against cautious and seasoned transmission of information. Carefully analyzed claims and ideas succumb to clever sound bites and 'back after this commercial.' Enhanced viewer ratings that result from habitually interrupting 'guests' before they can complete a sentence exacerbate the disease. Scorn for humane discourse, mockery of truth, and declining civility result.
Ready access to means for quickly transmitting information increases the likelihood that baseless or half-baked information will race through cyberspace. Any oaf can instantly spread errors around the globe. Once unleashed, they are seldom corrected.
This is light years removed from 'the new creation' the New Testament presents (2 Corinthians 5:17). Matthew to Revelation pictures a new form of human life being shaped in the image of Christ-a comprehensive reconstruction of the self in community. This is in sharp contrast to the old earthly way of living that results in spiritual death and decomposition.
The Apostle Peter said violence, crafty manipulation of others, and all forms of deceit would have to yield to holiness in all manner of conduct (1 Peter 1:13-2:3). Paul said the Colossian Christians should 'put to death' all that characterized their old pagan lives - anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech (Colossians 3:5-11). The Roman Christians should 'lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light' (Romans 13:12, NRSV).
Christian holiness entails practicing 'a holy decorum' in thought, speech, and action.
Remember, Peter and Paul were instructing Christians living in a predominantly pagan world.
Truth-telling, renewing our minds, and governing our speech are essential characteristics of the 'new creation' (Colossians 3:5-11). A love for truth is inseparable from a love for Christ, who is the Truth. Loving and telling the truth cultivate integrity and make true community possible. Renewing our minds means cleansing and transforming our thought lives and self-understanding. Our speech must serve truth as it is in Christ.
Inattention to any of these undercuts discipleship and reflects negatively upon our Lord. The Epistle to the Philippians summarizes this as pursuing all that is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, and excellent (Philippians 4:8-9).
Even that limited picture of 'the new humanity' shows why Christians must rigorously avoid harboring the disease of intemperate and ill-informed speech. If we don't, we will accelerate the decline of civility and community happening in the 'public square.' We will end up bearing witness against the gospel instead of to it. Paul's counsel becomes more urgent: 'Don't let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold' (Romans 12:1-2, PHILLIPS).
This calls for diligent and strategic action. Let's examine strategies for treating the disease.
First, let's sweep around our own back doors.
1. Before we absorb information as true, and then transmit it to others, do we scrutinize its source? Are we resolutely opposed to passing along inaccurate or demeaning information? Do generalizations--the calling card of careless speech--enjoy 'reserved parking' in our minds? Is 'favored status' granted to positions and persons with whom we agree, while we shove aside opposing positions? Do we make truth serve our political and cultural biases, and then turn it into a fierce warrior against positions and persons with whom we disagree?
2. Does our process of handling information demonstrate a respect for the dignity of all persons? Does it reveal that we believe all persons are the active scene of God's prevenient grace, and the object of his redeeming love?
3. Does the way we process information reveal that we believe Jesus inaugurated the kingdom of God, and that He is bringing it to completion? Is our belief evidenced by a love for everything that is commendable, just, pure, lovely, and excellent (Philippians 4:8-9)?
These questions will require confession and vigilance. They identify a demanding and unending project--one to which we must be committed if our Christian witness is to be taken seriously.
Second, what should we do about persons who pass along information we suspect or know to be erroneous, biased, demeaning of others, or just plain 'dumb?'
My Internet provider offers an 'anti-spam system.' It traps questionable incoming messages, sends the titles and E-mail addresses to me, and gives two options: 'accept' or 'reject.' A comparable system needs to be part of our mental and moral hardware (the Epistle of James offers a free 'user' manual).
We need to inform others that our 'system' is 'turned on' and functioning. Ask the purveyor of suspected 'junk mail' if they have carefully checked their information. You might ask, 'Does that strike you as fair and believable?' Such questions telegraph, 'Don't send that 'stuff' to me!' A frown or refusal to smile or laugh might accomplish the same thing. Sometimes, in love, we might have to rebuke a 'sender' by saying that spreading questionable information flies beneath the speech and conduct Christians should model.
Encourage them to expect better of themselves. Protecting a friendship at the expense of permitting ourselves to become dumps for 'junk' is a price the New Testament will not accept.
Al Truesdale is emeritus professor of philosophy of religion and Christian ethics, Nazarene Theological Seminary.
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'The Gentlemen' stars Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant are finally working on a romcom together (exclusive)
They’re both known for being masters of the romcom, but Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant are about to join forces for what will probably be the Avengers: Endgame of the genre.
The two stars have largely stepped away from the romcom world in recent years, but that looks set to change.
In an interview to promote Guy Ritchie’s new crime thriller The Gentlemen, McConaughey tells Yahoo Movies UK that he and Grant are working on a romcom project.
Read more: Mark Kermode shares three romcoms everyone should watch
McConaughey says: “[Hugh] was king of romcoms for years and then I got the baton and quite enjoyed it.
“Now, we've got an idea for another one... the next romcom, to finally do something together.
“Because we didn't do anything together in this film. We don't have any scenes together.”
Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey were romcom stalwarts in the 1990s and 2000s. (Credit: PolyGram/Paramount)
When asked for more details, the actor says “something’s brewing” with him and Grant and adds that The Gentlemen co-star Charlie Hunnam is writing the movie.
Read more: Hugh Grant complains after bad cinema experience
Hunnam has often spoken about his desire to move into writing and directing and has numerous film projects in development, including one about the life of Vlad the Impaler.
Michelle Dockery and Matthew McConaughey in 'The Gentlemen'. (Credit: EFD)
Grant has previously spoken of having become “too old and too ugly” to take on romcom roles and recently called a Love Actually scene one of the most excruciating experiences he has ever had.
McConaughey has largely avoided the genre since 2009’s Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, having become notorious for leaning on his co-stars on posters for movies including Failure to Launch.
Read more: Watch the trailer for The Gentlemen
In The Gentlemen, McConaughey plays American expat drug kingpin Mickey Pearson, who sparks a rush for power when rumours spread that he is stepping down.
Grant, meanwhile, plays the slimy private investigator who has unearthed the story and is hoping to extort money from Mickey’s right-hand man, portrayed by Hunnam.
Hugh Grant in 'The Gentlemen'. (Credit: EFD)
It marks Guy Ritchie’s return to the gangster genre, years after he made classics Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
Earlier this year, he had a billion-dollar hit for Disney with Aladdin, which also became the biggest film in the career of star Will Smith.
Read more: Aladdin producer discusses sequel possibilities
Its success marked Ritchie bouncing back from the critical and commercial disappointment of his sword-wielding flop King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
The Gentlemen is in cinemas from 1 January, 2020.
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China’s ‘Cake Theory’
– ‘Cake Theory’ Has Chinese Eating Up Political Debate
by Louisa Lim
What goes on inside China’s leadership is usually played out behind the closed oxblood doors of the compound where the top leaders live. This year, though, a political debate has sprung out in the open — and it has leaders and constituents considering how to move forward politically.
This ideological debate comes as China gears up for a once-in-a-decade political transition. The country’s future top leaders seem almost certain, with Xi Jinping in line for president and Li Keqiang on track for premier. Horse-trading is under way for other leadership positions, however, sparking a debate that could define China’s future.
The Chongqing Model: Equal Slices
In recent months, the streets of the city of Chongqing have been ringing with song. These are not spontaneous outbreaks; they’re government-mandated sessions, requiring employees to “sing the red,” patriotic songs praising China.
This is a leftist vision of China’s future, with powerful echoes of its Maoist past.
It’s the brainchild of Bo Xilai, Chongqing’s party secretary and the son of a revolutionary elder, Bo Yibo, one of the “eight immortals” of Communist China. Bo Xilai has taken a three-pronged approach by “smashing the black,” or attacking corruption and organized crime, with what some say is a disregard for the rule of law. His approach also includes putting in place measures to help those left behind by China’s economic boom.
“The government intervenes to correct the shortcomings of the market economy,” says Yang Fan, a conservative-leaning scholar at China University of Political Science and Law and co-author of a book about the Chongqing model.
“There are projects to improve people’s livelihood by letting migrant workers come to the city, by building them cheap rental places and allowing them to sell their land to come to the city,” he says.
This is where it comes to what’s been dubbed “cake theory.” If the cake is China’s economy, the Chongqing model concentrates on dividing the cake more equally.
The Market-Driven Guangdong Model
The competing vision, based in the province of Guangdong, focuses on making the cake bigger first, not dividing it. In economic terms, the Guangdong model is a more market-driven approach, pushing forward development ahead of addressing inequality.
“The Guangdong model aims to solve the concerns of the middle class,” says Qiu Feng, a liberal academic from the Unirule Institute of Economics. “It’s about building society and rule of law. It wants to give the middle class institutionalized channels to take part in the political process. Its basic thought is co-opting the middle class.”
He says the “Happy Guangdong” approach is aimed not at those left behind, but at those who have profited from the economic boom.
Guangdong’s party secretary, Wang Yang, has criticized the Chongqing model, saying people need to study and review Communist Party history, “rather than just singing of its brilliance.” In political terms, he’s throwing down the gauntlet at his rival, Bo Xilai.
Both these politicians are fighting for a place — and influence — inside the holiest of holies: the Politburo Standing Committee. This comes against a background of criticism of the current leadership from a surprising quarter.
“The bureaucracy is corrupt. Power has been marketized. Governance has been industrialized,” says Zhang Musheng, a consummate insider. “Local governments are becoming riddled with gangsters.”
Zhang’s father was secretary to China’s Premier Zhou Enlai. This makes him what’s known as a “princeling.” He’s attended a number of meetings held by children of former leaders, where criticism of the current leadership has been aired.
Despite their grievances, they came to one conclusion.
“China’s such a complicated society. Right now, it can’t leave the Communist Party. So the Communist Party must reform and improve,” Zhang says. “Although it’s criticized, right now there is no social force which can replace the Communist Party.”
Those are the key questions: how to reform or even if the Communist Party can reach consensus over which model it follows. ….
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With bin Laden gone, now’s the time to push Pakistan
By Fareed Zakaria
The killing of Osama bin Laden has produced new waves of commentary on the problem of Pakistan. We could all discuss again its selective policy toward terrorists, its complicated relationship with the United States and its mounting dysfunctions. But there is more to this opportunity than an opening for analysis. This is a time for action, to finally push the country toward moderation and genuine democracy.
So far, Pakistan’s military has approached this crisis as it has every one in the past, using its old tricks and hoping to ride out the storm. It is leaking stories to favored journalists, unleashing activists and politicians, all with the aim of stoking anti-Americanism. Having been caught in a situation that suggests either complicity with al-Qaeda or gross incompetence — and the reality is probably a bit of both — it is furiously trying to change the subject. Senior generals angrily denounce America for entering the country. “It’s like a person, caught in bed with another man’s wife, who is indignant that someone entered his house,” one Pakistani scholar, who preferred not to be named for fear of repercussions, told me.
This strategy has worked in the past. In 2009, the Obama administration joined forces with Sens. Richard Lugar and John Kerry to triple American aid to Pakistan’s civilian government and civil society — to $7.5 billion over five years — but with measures designed to strengthen democracy and civilian control over the military. The military reacted by unleashing an anti-American campaign, using its proxies in the media and parliament to denounce “violations of Pakistan’s sovereignty” — the same phrase that’s being hurled about now. The result was that the United States backed off and has conceded that, in practice, none of the strictures in the Lugar-Kerry bill will be implemented.
The military has also, once again, been able to cow the civilian government. According to Pakistani sources, the speech that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani gave at a recent news conference was drafted by the military. President Asif Ali Zardari continues to appease the military rather than confront the generals. Having come to power hoping to clip the military’s wings, Pakistan’s democratically elected government has been reduced to mouthing talking points written for it by the intelligence services.
There have been almost no marches to protest bin Laden’s death or the American operation, although one 500-person march in Lahore was replayed endlessly on television. The fundamental issue for Pakistan is surely not how America entered the country. The United States has been involved in counterterrorism operations in Pakistan for years, using drones and people. Rather, the fundamental question is, how was it that the world’s leading terrorist was living in Pakistan, with some kind of support network that must have included elements of the Pakistani government? How is it that every major al-Qaeda official who has been captured since 2002 has been comfortably ensconced in a Pakistani city? And how is it that any time these issues are raised, they get drowned out by an organized campaign of anti-Americanism or religious fanaticism?
Washington has given in to the Pakistani military time and again, on the theory that we need the generals badly and that they could go elsewhere for support — to the Chinese, for instance. In fact, the United States has considerable leverage with Islamabad. The Pakistanis need American aid, arms and training to sustain their army. If they are going to receive those benefits, they must become part of Pakistan’s solution and not its problem. With some urgency, Washington should:
l Demand a major national commission in Pakistan — headed by a Supreme Court justice, not an army apparatchik — to investigate whether bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders have been supported and sustained by elements of the Pakistani state.
l Demand that the provisions of the Lugar-Kerry bill on civilian control of the military be strictly followed or aid will be withheld.
l Develop a plan to go after the major untouched terror networks in Pakistan, such as the Haqqani faction, the Quetta Shura and Lashkar-i-Taiba.
In the longer run, as the United States scales back its military presence in Afghanistan, it will need the Pakistani military less and less to supply its troops in theater.
Pakistan’s civilian government, business class and intellectuals have an ever-larger role in this struggle. They should not get distracted by empty anti-American slogans or hypernationalism. This is Pakistan’s moment of truth, its chance to break with its dysfunctions and become a normal, modern country. The opportunity might not come again.
Courtesy: The Washington Post
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The End (of Religion) Is Near, Scientists Say
– Scientists often have a funny way of talking about religion.
By Louis Ruprecht
A case in point concerns a new study that was discussed at the American Physical Society meetings in Dallas, Texas, in late March. Religion, it seems, is going extinct. You heard me: extinct. Dead and gone. Like the dinosaurs.
The data that a team of mathematicians used to reach this rather surprising conclusion were census reports of religious affiliation. Using a complicated means of mathematical analysis called “nonlinear dynamics”—complicated, ironically, because its purpose is to make complicated things simpler by reducing them to one variable—the team attempted to extrapolate from data on religious affiliation in nine countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.
Turns out, every case of self-reported religious affiliation is trending downward: 40% self-identify as religiously non-affiliated in the Netherlands, as do 60% in the Czech Republic. The mathematicians seem far more surprised by these numbers than most religionists would be. ….
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IDR Select: What caught our attention this September
This month's picks really make you consider: are we forcing our ideas of 'opportunity' and 'development' on the communities we work with?
by India Development Review
2018-09-25 00:00:00 2019-02-22 00:00:00 https://idronline.org India Development Review IDR Select: What caught our attention this September
1. The diverging paths of two young foretell the fate of a tribe in India
In this essay, Raghu Karnad tells us the story of two young women from the Dongria tribe in Odisha, and while doing so, makes us question the dominant narrative of development in India.
Left: Kuni Sikaka | Photo courtesy: Raghu Karnad Right: Purnima (born Pukutti) | Photo courtesy: Arko Datto
Karnad remains neutral in his writing, allowing you to form your own opinion based on the stories he shares. For us, this resulted in more than a few questions – Are we force-fitting our ideas of ‘opportunity’ on the communities we work with? Is assimilation the price we make them pay in the name of ‘moving forward’? Is it worth it?
Take some time out to read this piece. And if you have thoughts about it, we’d love to hear them.
2. A collection of graphic narratives
First Hand—Volume I is an anthology of Indian non-fiction narratives (the first of its kind in India) that uses graphics and text to tell stories. The volume, edited by Orijit Sen and Vidyun Sabhaney, features works by independent writers, artists, researchers, anthropologists, and filmmakers. The book comments on contemporary issues through reportage, documentary, biography, among others.
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Ever since smartphones became mainstream, they have fundamentally changed the way we treat photography. These days, everyone has a high-quality camera in their front pocket. Apple, in particular, has been pushing the boundaries of smartphone cameras, actively focusing on new technology. And with Apple being the first choice for many creatives, it should come as no surprise that a lot of app developers have created photography apps for the iPhone. Here are a few of the best photography apps available on the App Store today!
Free Camera Apps
The iPhone camera is great for snapping photos of everyday activities. But there are a lot of features iOS lacks when it comes to taking photos at a professional level. For that, you need a third-party camera app that can control things like ISO and shutter speed. Most of the best camera apps cost a few dollars, but there are some great gems in the free category.
VSCO is one of the most popular camera apps for iPhone, and for good reason. It gives you more control over your camera with manual controls for adjusting focus, shutter speed, white balance, and more. None of these things are offered in the stock iPhone camera app, but would be standard for a professional or even consumer camera. VSCO is also packed with editing features and a community sharing aspect. There are plenty of adjustments and filters available to make your photos look even better.
The Focos app is a really interesting one, but only works if you have a newer iPhone that has two cameras on the back. It uses computational photography technology to enable a lot of edits after taking the photo. These edits can include bokeh effects and adjustable focus.
Normally it is impossible to change the focus of a photo after taking it, but using data from two cameras can help achieve this look. A lot of the photo editing apps we’ll talk about later can achieve these effects artificially, but actually being able to do them in-camera is great.
Free Editing Apps
It’s one thing just to take a photo with your iPhone, but editing it can greatly improve your photo’s look. The iPhone has a fair bit of editing features baked into the camera app, but there is so much more you could be doing!
Snapseed features a lot of great filters and tweaks. Each filter is incredibly customizable. There are also a number of selective editing tools. Being able to edit specific portions of a photo is a real game-changer, and enables a lot of edits that are impossible on the stock camera app.
Lightroom CC
Adobe Lightroom is known and loved by desktop and laptop users, but there is a mobile app as well! The app is well-loved by Adobe enthusiasts and photographers because it brings in many of the features from the full version. Not only does Lightroom provide a camera with more features, but the editor also has a number of great preset filters.
One of the best parts is the photo album aspect, and the ability to sync with desktop Adobe CC apps. The free version has plenty of features, but the paid version has extras like healing brushes, artificial intelligence organization, and selective adjustments.
Prisma Photo Editor is a bit of a niche editor, but can result in some interesting creations. It offers filters with a focus on turning photos into works of art. Normally it can be cheesy to turn a photo into something that looks like a painting or drawing, but Prisma does it tastefully. The free version has plenty of filters to choose from, but you can also pay to access additional ones.
Photoshop Fix
Don’t be fooled by the name. Photoshop Fix is nothing like actual Photoshop CC. Rather, it is a tool to adjust portraits. When you import a photo, the app will scan facial features, and then allow you to alter them. In addition to color adjustments and healing brushes, you can use the liquify tool to edit the size or shape of your subject’s facial features. There are probably some silly things you can do with this, but it is designed for balancing out faces and making small adjustments. If you have a Creative Cloud subscription, you can also send your photo over to Photoshop on your computer.
Instagram is barely worth mentioning because it’s so ubiquitous. However, since a lot of the photos you’re taking and editing on your phone are likely to end up on the app, we may as well talk about their editing features.
In addition to the normal filters we all know and love, you can adjust simple things like brightness, contrast, and saturation. These are all things the built-in iPhone camera has, but sometimes it’s just easier to edit when you’re posting. Instagram is also a great place to follow influencers and get inspired!
Boost Your iPhone Photos with a Free App
The Apple App Store has a seemingly endless supply of free and paid photography apps. These are some of the overall best free choices. But that’s not to say that there aren’t some hidden gems.
If these don’t quite serve your needs, take a journey through the App Store and sample some of the other options. Maybe you’ll take your new favorite photo!
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13 guilty of chopping Kerala professor’s hand
The convicts, all belonging to Popular Front of India, cut off Joseph’s hand in 2010 for allegedly insulting the Prophet.
Written by Shaju Philip | Thiruvananthapuram | Published: May 1, 2015 4:19:09 am
The convicts, all belonging to Popular Front of India, cut off T J Joseph’s hand in 2010 for allegedly insulting the Prophet
An NIA court in Kochi on Thursday found 13 people guilty in the sensational case pertaining to the chopping of the hand of a professor on charges of insulting Prophet Mohammed in a question paper. The court acquitted 18 others for want of evidence. Five accused, including the key conspirator, are still absconding although the NIA had taken over the probe from Kerala Police in 2011.
Of the 13 accused found guilty, 10 had direct involvement in the attack on profession T J Joseph and were charged under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act apart from attempt-to-murder and rioting. The three others were involved in giving cover for the assailants.
All the accused were activists of a Muslim outfit, Popular Front of India. The sentence would be pronounced on May 5.
Reacting to the verdict, Joseph said: “In the court of my conscience I pardoned them long ago. In future, no teacher should be punished like this for a non-issue. The police should not have acted (arrested him) on a baseless allegation. I had not insulted the Prophet. The police unnecessarily arrested me, put me in lock up. They made me a target for fanatical elements.”
Jospeh’s right palm was chopped of by PFI activists on July 4, 2010 on charges of insulting the Prophet in a question paper for an internal exam at Newman College, Thodupuzha, where he taught Malayalam.
While preparing a question meant for giving punctuation marks, Joseph extracted a text from a literary work of writer P T Kunhimuhammed. That was a conversation between a lunatic and God. Joseph named the lunatic as Muhammed, making it a conversation between Muhammed and God.
Days after the exam was over, certain persons at the college handed over the question paper to some Muslim outfits, telling them that the Prophet was insulted. Local media also flared up communal sentiments. Joseph went into hiding, but police tortured his son, then a college student. Days later, Joseph surrendered before the police. Soon the college management, Catholic Diocese of Kothamangalam, placed him under suspension.
On July 5, while he was returning home with his family from a local church, Joseph’s car was waylaid by a gang. After bursting a crude bomb, they pulled out Joseph from the car and chopped off his right palm.
As Joseph was recovering from the injury and mental trauma, the college management dismissed the professor, a lone breadwinner of a family. The M G University, to which the college was affiliated, and the Left government in Kerala demanded that the professor be reinstated. But the Catholic Church stuck to its adamant stand.
In the meantime, a magistrate court in Thodupuzha exonerated Joseph from the charges of insulting the Prophet, but he was not reinstated.
His family had been traversing through severe financial crisis due to the dismissal from service. The family had been subsisting on the meager income of his daughter, a nurse then employed in Delhi, and support from well wishers.
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Notes on perezhivanie
http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/seminars/perezhivanie.htm
Perezhivanie is a Russian word, usually translated as lived experience, and used in
connection with social situation of development, has multiple shades of meaning. It
indicates a persons situation with special emphasis on the subjective significance,
especially the emotional and visceral impact of the situation on the person, recollection
of which summons up the entire situation. A bit like "experience" in italics. The excerpts
below are explanations culled from selected writers.
Excerpt from Vygotskys The Problem of the Environment, in the Vygotsky
The case histories of children we have studied, have put us in a better position to be more
exact and precise, and to say that the essential factors which explain the influence of
environment on the psychological development of children, and on the development of their
conscious personalities, are made up of their emotional experiences [petrezhivanija]. The
emotional experience [perezhivanie] arising from any situation or from any aspect of his
environment, determines what kind of influence this situation or this environment will have
on the child. Therefore, it is not any of the factors in themselves (if taken without reference
to the child) which determines how they will influence the future course of his development,
but the same factors refracted through the prism of the childs emotional experience
[perezhivanie]. Let us now examine one such straightforward case from our clinic.
We are dealing with three children, brought to us from one family. The external situation in
this family is the same for all three children. The essential circumstances were very
straightforward. The mother drinks and, as a result, apparently suffers from several nervous
and psychological disorders. The children find themselves in a very difficult situation. When
drunk, and during these breakdowns, the mother had once attempted to throw one of the
children out of the window and she regularly beat them or threw them to the floor. In a word,
the children are living in conditions of dread and fear due to these circumstances.
The three children are brought to our clinic, but each one of them presents a completely
different picture of disrupted development, caused by the same situation. The same
circumstances result in an entirely different picture for the three children.
As far as the youngest of these children is concerned, what we find is the commonly
encountered picture in such cases among the younger age group. He reacts to the situation by
developing a number of neurotic symptoms, i.e. symptoms of a defensive nature. He is simply
overwhelmed by the horror of what is happening to him. As a result, he develops attacks of
terror, enuresis and he develops a stammer, sometimes being unable to speak at all as he loses
his voice. In other words, the childs reaction amounts to a state of complete depression and
helplessness in the face of this situation.
The second child is developing an extremely agonizing condition, what is called a state of
inner conflict, which is a condition frequently found in certain cases when contrasting
emotional attitudes towards the mother make their appearance, examples of which we have
previously been able to observe among one of our children and which, you may remember,
we have called an ambivalent attitude. On the one hand, from the childs point of view, the
mother is an object of painful attachment, and on the other, she represents a source of all
kinds of terrors and terrible emotional experiences [perezhivanija] for the child. The German
authors call this kind of emotional complex which the child is experiencing a MutterHexekomplex, or a mother-witch complex, when love for the mother and terror of the witch
coexist.
The second child was brought to us with this kind of deeply pronounced conflict and a
sharply colliding internal contradiction expressed in a simultaneously positive and negative
attitude towards the mother, a terrible attachment to her and an equally terrible hate for her,
combined with terribly contradictory behaviour. He asked to be sent home immediately, but
expressed terror when the subject of his going home was brought up.
Finally, at first glance, the third and eldest child presented us with a completely
unexpected picture. This child had a limited mental ability but, at the same time, showed
signs of some precocious maturity, seriousness and solicitude. He already understood the
situation. He understood that their mother was ill and he pitied her.
He could see that the younger children found themselves in danger when their mother was
in one of her states of frenzy. And he had a special role. He must calm his mother down,
make certain that she is prevented from harming the little ones and comfort them. Quite
simply, he has become the senior member of the family, the only one whose duty it was to
look after everyone else. As a result of this , the entire course of his development underwent
a striking change. This was not a lively child with normal, lively, simple interests, appropriate
to his age and exhibiting a lively level of activity. It was a child whose course of normal
development was severely disrupted, a different type of child.
When such an example is taken into account, and any researchers experience who
investigates concrete material is full of such examples, one can easily see that the same
environmental situation and the same environmental events can influence various peoples
development in different ways, depending at what age they happen to find them.
How can one explain why exactly the same environmental conditions exert three different
types of influence on these three different children? It can be explained because each of the
children has a different attitude to the situation. Or, as we might put it, each of the children
experienced the situation in a different way. One of them experienced it as an inexplicable,
incomprehensible horror which has left him in a state of defencelessness. The second was
experiencing it consciously, as a clash between his strong attachment, and his no less strong
feeling of fear, hate and hostility. And the third child experienced it, to some extent, as far as
it is possible for a 10-11 year old boy, as a misfortune which has befallen the family and
which required him to put all other things aside, to try somehow to mitigate the misfortune
and to help both the sick mother and the children. So it appears that, depending on the fact
that the same situation had been experienced by the three children in three different ways,
the influence which this situation exerted on their development also turns out to be different.
By citing this example, I only wished to clarify the idea that, unlike other disciplines,
paedology does not investigate the environment as such without regard to the child, but
instead looks at the role and influence of the environment on the course of development. It
ought to always be capable of finding the particular prism through which the influence of the
environment on the child is refracted, i.e. it ought to be able to find the relationship
which exists between the child and its environment, the childs emotional experience
[perezhivanie], in other words how a child becomes aware of, interprets, [and] emotionally
relates to a certain event. This is such a prism which determines the role and influence of the
environment on the development of, say, the childs character, his psychological
development, etc.
In connection with this example, I would like to turn your attention to one more factor. If
you recall, when we were discussing the methods we employ in our science, I attempted to
defend the idea that in science the analysis into elements ought to be replaced by analysis
which reduces a complex unity, a complex whole, to its units. We have said that, unlike
elements, these units represent such products of analysis which do not lose any of the
properties which are characteristic of the whole, but which manage to retain, in the most
elementary form, the properties inherent in the whole.
Today, whilst basing myself on a concrete example of the theory about the environment, I
would like to show you a few such units with which psychological research operates. One
example of such a unit is the emotional experience [perezhivanie]. An emotional experience
[perezhivanie] is a unit where, on the one hand, in an indivisible state, the
environment is represented, i.e. that which is being experienced an emotional experience
[perezhivanie] is always related to something which is found outside the person and on the
other hand, what is represented is how I, myself, am experiencing this, i.e., all the
personal characteristics and all the environmental characteristics are represented in an
emotional experience [perezhivanie]; everything selected from the environment and all the
factors which are related to our personality and are selected from the personality, all the
features of its character, its constitutional elements, which are related to the event in
question. So, in an emotional experience [perezhivanie] we are always dealing with an
indivisible unity of personal characteristics and situational characteristics, which are
represented in the emotional experience [perezhivanie].
That is why from the methodological point of view it seems convenient to carry out an
analysis when we study the role the environment plays in the development of a child, an
analysis from the point of view of the childs emotional experiences [perezhivanija] because,
as I have already said, all the childs personal characteristics which took part in determining
his attitudes to the given situation have been taken into account in his emotional experience
[perezhivanie]. For example, do all of my own personal constitutional characteristic
elements, of every type, participate fully and on an equal basis? Of course not. In one
situation some of my constitutional characteristics playa primary role, but in another,
different ones may play this primary role which may not even appear at all in the first case. It
is not essential for us to know what the childs constitutional characteristics are like per se,
but what is important for us to find out is which of these constitutional
characteristics have played a decisive role in determining the childs relationship to a
given situation. And in another situation, different constitutional characteristics may well
have played a role.
In this way the emotional experience [perezhivanie] also helps us select those
characteristics which played a role in determining the attitude to the given situation.
Imagine I possess certain constitutional characteristics clearly, I will experience this
situation in one way, and if I possess different characteristics, it is equally clear that I will
experience it in quite a different way. This is why peoples constitutional characteristics are
taken into account when differentiating between those who are excitable, sociable, lively and
active and others who are more emotionally slack, inhibited and dull. It is therefore obvious,
that if we have two people with two opposite types of constitutional characteristics, then one
and the same event is likely to elicit a different emotional experience [perezhivanie] in each
of them. Consequently, the constitutional characteristics of the person and generally the
personal characteristics of children are, as it were, mobilized by a given emotional experience
[perezhivanie], are laid down, become crystallized within a given emotional experience
[perezhivanie] but, at the same time, this experience does not just represent the aggregate of
the childs personal characteristics which determine how the child experienced this particular
event emotionally, but different events also elicit different emotional experiences
[perezhivanija] in the child. A drunken or mentally ill mother amounts to the same thing as a
mentally ill nanny, but it does not mean the same as a drunken father or a drunken neighbour.
Which means that the environment, which in this case was represented by a specific concrete
situation, is also always represented in a given emotional experience [perezhivanie]. This is
why we are justified in considering the emotional experience [perezhivanie] to be a unity of
environmental and personal features. And it is precisely for this reason that the emotional
experience [perezhivanie] is a concept which allows us to study the role and influence of
environment on the psychological development of children in the analysis of the laws of
Footnote from editors of the Reader, R. van de Veer and J. Valsiner:
The Russian term perezhivanie serves to express the idea that one and the same objective
situation may be interpreted, perceived, experienced or lived through by different children in
different ways. Neither emotional experience (which is used here and which only covers the
affective aspect of the meaning of perezhivanie), nor interpretation (which is too
exclusively rational) are fully adequate translations of the noun. Its meaning is closely linked
to that of the German verb erleben (cf. Erlebnis, erlebte Wirklichkeit).
Excerpt from the Dissertation of Beth Ferholt
The concept of perezhivanie has the potential to be a powerful tool in the project of
reintegrating the subjects of emotion and cognition in psychological and educational studies
of development and learning. Unlike any terms with roots in the English language, the term
perezhivanie encompasses the dynamic relations of imagination and creativity, emotion and
cognition. Translation of perezhivanie is difficult because the English language itself
separates emotion and cognition, but I hope both to strengthen the concept by discussing it in
English, and also to minimize its dilution by turning to technical uses of perezhivanie within
the disciplines of theater (Stanislavski, 1949) and psychology (Bozhovich, 1977; Vasilyuk,
1988; Vygotsky, 1994).
Perezhivanie was first used as more than an everyday word in the dramatic system of
Constantin Stanislavski (1949). For Stanislavski (1949) perezhivanie is a tool that enables
actors to create characters from their own re-lived, past lived-through experiences. Actors
create a character by revitalizing their autobiographical emotional memories and, as emotions
are aroused by physical action, it is by imitating anothers, or a past selfs, physical actions,
that these emotional memories are re-lived.
Vygotsky himself described perezhivanie thus:
The emotional experience [perezhivanie] arising from any situation or from any
aspect of his environment, determines what kind of influence this situation or
this environment will have on the child. Therefore, it is not any of the factors
themselves (if taken without the reference of the child) which determines how
they will influence the future course of his development, but the same factors
refracted through the prism of the childs emotional experience [perezhivanie].
(1994, pp. 338-339)
In this way Vygotsky (1994) explains, generally, how cognition and emotion are
dynamically related. And he follows this statement with two mandates that describe the
import of this observation. The first makes more explicit the fact that, for Vygotsky,
perezhivanie is the relationship between individual and environment, and therefore that this
phenomenon is central to his theory of development: It (Psychology) ought to be able to
find the relationship which exists between the child and its environment, the childs
emotional experience [perezhivanie] (p. 341). The second states that perezhivanie avoids
the loss of those properties that are characteristic of the whole, that perezhivanie retains the
properties inherent in the whole, thus allowing analysis through units rather than elements:
In an emotional experience [perezhivanie] we are always dealing with an indivisible
unity of personal characteristics and situational characteristics, which are represented
in the emotional experience [perezhivanie]. That is why from the methodological point of
view it seems convenient to carry out an analysis when we study the role the environment
plays in the development of a child, an analysis from the point of view of the childs
emotional experiences [perezhivanie]. (p. 342)
Van der Veer adds that the concept of perezhivanie also captures the idea of
development by insisting on the ever-changing character of interpretations or emotional
experiences (which are also dependent on changing word meaning, another of Vygotskys
units of analysis) (Chaiklin, 2001, p. 103 as cited in Robbins, 2007a, no page number). And
L. I. Bozhovich (a follower of Vygotskys who focused on the relation of his theories of
higher mental functions to the affective sphere of personality (Robbins, 2004)), argued that
for a short period of time Vygotsky considered perezhivanie as the unity of psychological
development in the study of the social situation of development (Gonzalez-Rey 2002, p. 136
as cited in Robbins, 2004).
Fyodor Vasilyuk (1988) adapts Vygotskys use of the term perezhivanie to describe a form
of inter-subjectivity in which we insert ourselves into the stories of others in order to gain the
foresight that allows us to proceed. He describes perezhivanie as an internal and subjective
labor of entering into which is not done by the mind alone, but rather involves the whole of
life or a state of consciousness. And although, for Vasilyuk, perezhivanie is the direct
sensation or experience of mental states and processes, another person is needed for this
experience. It is this inclusion of another that allows a person to overcome and conquer
despair through perezhivanie.
Vasilyuk (1988), who is working from within the framework of cultural historical activity
theory, gives us at once a broader and more specific definition of perezhivanie than does
Vygotsky. But he has not actually moved further from the non-technical definition of the
word perezhivanie. As Robbins explains:
perezhivat means, if you look at it closely, that you have passed as if above
something that had made you feel pain ... There, inside of a recollection that we
call an again living -lives your pain. It is the pain that doesnt let you forget
what has happened. And you keep on coming back to it in your memory, keep
living through it over and over again, until you discover that you have passed
through it, and have survived. (2007a, no page number)
There are also, of course, a range of scholars and artists whose studies of the properties of
perezhivanie have converged, often without their using, or possibly even being aware of, the
term perezhivanie. Richard Schechner, whose work is most useful for us here, integrates
the work of the psychoanalytic play theorist D. W. Winnicott, Victor Turner and Bateson (in
his discussion of the play frame (1972)) with his own work as a theater director. He (1985)
claims that the underlying processes of the ontogenesis of individuals, the social action of
ritual, and the symbolic / fictive action of art are identical, and he supports this claim by
describing, in concrete detail, the process of perezhivanie without using the term itself
(although he is, of course, familiar with Stanislavski).
For Schechner, performance is perezhivanie. He writes: Performance means: never for
the first time. It means: for the second to nth time. Performance is twice-behaved behavior
(1985, p. 36). Schechner calls this restored behavior and adds: Put in personal terms,
restored behavior is me behaving as if I am someone else or as if I am beside myself, or
not myself, as when in a trance (1985, p. 37).
The essence of Schechners argument is that there are three parts to the process of
performance, not two, and that in performance time flows in more than one direction:
Although restored behavior seems to be founded on past events ... it is in fact
the synchronic bundle (of three parts) ... The past ... is recreated in terms not
simply of a present, ... but of a future ... This future is the performance being
rehearsed, the finished thing to be made graceful through editing, repetition,
and intervention. Restored behavior is both teleological and eschatological. It
joins first causes to what happens at the end of time. (1985, p. 79)
Specifically, the way that the flow of time becomes multidirectional is that rehearsals
make it necessary to think of the future in such a way as to create a past (1985, p. 39). As
Schechner explains: In a very real way the future - the project coming into existence
through the process of rehearsal - determines the past: what will be kept from earlier
rehearsals or from the source materials (1985, p. 39).
Vasilyuk is describing the same phenomenon when he writes of the proleptic nature of
perezhivanie in the development of Raskolnikov, the main character in Dostoevskys Crime
and Punishment:
Although the given schematism fault - repentance - redemption - bliss is
formally expressed as a series of contents following one another in time, this
does not mean that the later elements in the series appear in consciousness only
after the earlier stages have been traversed. They respond to one another
psychologically and all exist at once in consciousness, as a Gestalt, though it is
true they are expressed with varying degree of clarity as the series is gone
through. Bliss is conferred even at the beginning of the road to redemption, as a
kind of advance payment of emotion and meaning, needed to keep one going if a
successful end is to be reached. (1988, pp. 190-191)
Schechner outlines the three stages of this phenomenon:
The workshop-rehearsal process is the basic machine for the restoration of
behavior ... (whose) primary function ... is a kind of collective memory-in/ofaction. The first phase breaks down the performers resistance, makes him a
tabula rasa. To do this most effectively the performer has to be removed from
familiar surroundings. Thus the need for separation, for sacred or special
space, and for a use of time different than that prevailing in the ordinary. The
second phase is of initiation or transition: developing new or restoring old
behavior. But the so-called new behavior is really the rearrangement of old
behavior or the enactment of old behavior in new settings. In the third phase,
reintegration, the restored behavior is practiced until it is second nature. The
final part of the third phase is public performance. (1985, pp. 113-114)
These stages closely match those stages of perezhivanie that Vasilyuk presents, even
though Schechner and Vasilyuks terms differ. (I will discuss this further in my analysis,
chapter four.)
Cole (2007) has used the term temporally double sided to describe this phenomenon of
growing back and towards the future and the past simultaneously. (He has used it to describe
Deweys relation of the notion of object to prolepsis.) It is the juxtaposition of temporal
double sidedness with these stages that creates perezhivanie. What Schechner argues is
that this juxtaposition provides the rhythm that allows us to raise ourselves up and hover,
suspended momentarily in a state of being simultaneously ourselves and not ourselves: our
past and future selves (someone else).
Winnicott writes of play:
Whereas inner psychic reality has a kind of location in the mind or in the belly
or in the head or somewhere within the bounds of the individuals personality,
and whereas what is called external reality is located outside these bounds,
playing and cultural experience can be given a location if one uses the concept
of the potential space between the mother and the baby. (1971, p. 53) (as quoted
in Schechner, 1985, p. 110)
According to Schechner, this potential space is the workshop-rehearsal:
The most dynamic formulation of what Winnicott is describing is that the baby - and later
the child at play and the adult at art (and religion) - recognizes some things and situations as
not me. By the end of the process the dance goes into the body. So Olivier is not Hamlet,
but he is also not not Hamlet. The reverse is also true: in this production of the play, Hamlet
is not Olivier, but he is also not not Olivier. Within this field or frame of double negativity,
choice and virtuality remain activated. (1985, p. 110)
Schechner explains a central component of the formation of this doubleness by referring to
Winnicotts transitional object (the blanket or stuffed animal that is the first not-me,
representing the mother (primary caretaker) when she (he) is absent):
Restored behaviors of all kinds ... are transitional. Elements that are not me
become me without losing their not me-ness. This is the peculiar but
necessary double negativity that characterizes symbolic actions. While
performing, a performer experiences his own self not directly but through
the medium of experiencing the others. [italics added] While performing, he
no longer has a me but has a not not me, and this double negative
relationship also shows how restored behavior is simultaneously private and
social. A person performing recovers his own self only by going out of himself
and meeting the others - by entering a social field. The way in which me and
not me, the performer and the thing to be performed, are transformed into
not me ... not not me is through the workshop-rehearsal/ritual process. (1985,
pp. 111-112)
The workshop-rehearsal process allows one to use another person/fictional character as a
pivot, to detach emotions that are personal from the self and to relive them through another,
and this is the process that allows one to be that which one could not imagine without this
process. As Vygotsky writes in The Psychology of Art:
Art is the social technique of emotion, a tool of society which brings the most
intimate and personal aspects of our being into the circle of social life. It would
be more correct to say that emotion becomes personal when every one of us
experiences a work of art; it becomes personal without ceasing to be social.
(1971, p. 249)
The sensation of being at the center of this workshop-rehearsal process is what Schechner
calls an experience of the present moment:
Actions move in time, from past thrown into future, from me to not me and
from not me to me. As they travel they are absorbed into the liminal,
subjective time/space of not me ... not not me. This time/space includes both
workshops-rehearsals and performances. Things thrown into the future (Keep
that.) are recalled and used later in rehearsals and performances. During
performance, if everything goes right, the experience is of synchronicity as the
flow of ordinary time and the flow of performance time meet and eclipse each
other. This eclipse is the present moment, the synchronic ecstasy, the autotelic
flow, of liminal stasis. Those who are masters at attaining and prolonging this
balance are artists, shamans, conmen, acrobats. No one can keep it long. (1985,
Schechner also describes this phenomenon through experience in the space of
A performance takes place in the not me . . . not not me between
performers; between performers, texts and environment; between performers,
texts, environment, and audience. The larger the field of between, the stronger
the performance. The antistructure that is performance swells until it threatens
to burst. The trick is to extend it to the bursting point but no further. It is the
ambition of all performers to expand this field until it includes all beings, things,
and relations. This cant happen. The field is precarious because it is
subjunctive, liminal, transitional: it rests not on how things are but on how things
are not; its existence depends on agreements kept among all participants,
including the audience. The field is the embodiment of potential, of the virtual,
the imaginative, the fictive, the negative, the not not. The larger it gets, the more
it thrills, but the more doubt and anxiety it evokes, too. (1985, p. 113)
Robbins describes this present moment and field of between of twice-behaved
behavior, created in the juxtaposition of temporal double sidedness with the progressive
stages of the workshop-rehearsal process, as the anchor of perezhivanie. She writes:
Perezhivanie ... is an anchor in the fluidity of life, it represents a type of synthesis (not a
concrete unity of analysis), but an anchor within the fleeting times we have on this earth,
dedicated to internal transformation and involvement in our world (2007b, no page number).
And Virginia Woolf, in her novel To the Lighthouse, describes this heart of perezhivanie
most eloquently and accurately.
Email from Dot Robbins to xmca listserv 1 December 2007
The history of my interest in Bozhovich came from trying to understand perezhivanie,
when Akhutina, Glozmann, Moskovich and I were putting together a book: Festschrift
Celebrating the Centennial of the Birth of Luria (2002). There were so many words that I
could not really understand. At that time, I wrote to approx. ten people around the world
asking for their definitions of perezhivanie. Unfortunately, I did not save all of that. But, it
led me to Bozhovich, a most remarkable woman, and a person loyal to Vygotsky in very
difficult times. In those early discussions, it was clear that perezhivanie is difficult to
understand for us outside of Russia, because it really captures the Russian soul in so many
ways. What I understood (and if I am wrong, please correct me), was that there is an
intensity, pain, sorrow [Russian] involved in perezhivanie, and it is a type of unity of
affect/cognition with so many other things, forming a unit (of analysis) for Vygotsky (at
one point in his life). Van der Veer (in Chaiklin, 2001, p. 103) states: The concept of
perezhivanie captures the ideas of analysis in units rather than elements....[It] also captures
the idea of development by insisting on the ever-changing character of interpretations or
emotional experiences (which are also dependent on changing word meaning, another of
Vygotskys units of analysis). ....
It is the problem of trying to describe verbs by using nouns only, but never really using
verbs, becoming verbs... it is the problem of trying to prove ones theory, and using case
studies, and offering definitions, but not trying to radically change ones self and trying to
really light the torch of motivation of those around us.... so, perezhivanie for me is an
anchor in the fluidity of life, it represents a type of synthesis (not a concrete unity of
analysis), but an anchor within the fleeting times we have on this earth, dedicated to internal
transformation and involvement in our world. ...
The Russian language has preserved a lot of magic, almost as much as Sanskrit. In Russian
it sounds like perezhivanie. What does it mean? It is a state of mind in which we are
excited, worried, nervous, suffering from something. Something to that effect. And if we look
at the corresponding verb perezhivat, we will see two stems: pere and zhivat.
... Zhivat means to live. And perezhivat means to be able to survive after some
disaster has overwhelmed you over-live something.
And pere means carrying something over something, letting something pass beneath and
overleaping it. Pere means something like cutting out a piece of space, time or feeling.
Pereterpet (terpet to endure some pain) means to live until a time when no pain
is left.
Pereprignut- exactly like English overleap means to overcome some obstacle a pit or a
stone with a jump, meaning that you dont walk on it, but in some way fly over it.
And, in just the same way, perezhivat means, if you look at it closely, that you have
passed as if above something that had made you feel pain. And the fact that in the base of
each again living lies a pain you know that. There, inside of a recollection that we call an
again living lives your pain. It is the pain that doesnt let you forget what has happened.
And you keep on coming back to it in your memory, keep living through it over and over
again, until you discover that you have passed through it, and have survived.
Bella Kotik-Friedguts response
To your excellent analysis of semantics of perezhivanie I want to add one aspect which
was not enough clear: it is really a unity of affect and intellect, but it is not only negative
affect (pain, traumatic events etc.) we can use it also in a positive context. I remember
hearing about a friend: She is going through (perezihivaet) a cats period which meant: she
is happy, crazy with in love. We can speak about a profound joy of victory as perezivanie
From Lydia Bozhovich (here perezhivanie is translated as experience)
True to the principle that analysis of complex phenomena should be conducted not in terms
of elements but in terms of units that preserve in simplest form properties intrinsic to the
whole, Vygotsky began to seek a corresponding unit to use in studying the social situation
of development. He identified emotional experience (or the childs affective relationship
to the environment) as such a unit. Experience, from Vygotskys perspective, is a unit that,
in indissoluble unity, represents, on the one hand, the environment, that is, what the child
experiences, and, on the other, the subject, that is, what introduces the child into this
experience and, in turn, is defined by the level of mental development the child has already
achieved. From this it can be concluded that in order to understand exactly what effect the
environment has on children, and, consequently, how it affects the course of their
development, the nature of childrens experience must be understood, the nature of their
affective relationship to the environment. Vygotskys proposition and the concept of
experience that he introduced appear to us to be very important and productive for child
psychology. However, he did not fully develop the concept of experience. In fact, even
taking analysis of childrens experience as our point of departure in understanding the causes
that condition individual (or age-related) features of childrens minds, we will still be forced
to go back and examine of all the circumstances of their life and activity and all the currently
existing features of their personality. Only then will we be able to understand the nature of
the experience itself and its function within mental development.
So it could be said that the concept of experience introduced by Vygotsky isolated and
denoted an essential psychological reality, the study of which must be the first step in
analyzing the environments role in child development; experience is like a node where the
varied influences of different external and internal circumstances come together. But this is
exactly why experience must not be viewed as a whole that will not be broken down any
further, why it is essential to address the problem of the subsequent deciphering of this
concept and, consequently, uncover the forces that underlie it and, in the final analysis,
condition the course of mental development.
Vygotsky himself was willing to accept the need to formulate and solve this fundamental
problem. He also attempted to find that decisive link within the dynamics of mental
development that determines the character of experience itself and, consequently, how the
influence of the external environment is refracted by its subject. However, in this, it seems to
us, Vygotsky was taking a step backward, retreating to a certain extent beyond old
boundaries. He felt that the nature of experience in the final analysis is determined by how
children understand the circumstances affecting them, that is, by how developed their
ability to generalize is. If, he said, children will understand (perceive, conceptualize) one
and the same event in different ways, it will have absolutely different meanings for them and,
consequently, they will experience it differently. For example, a mothers illness is usually
very upsetting for young school-aged children or adolescents, while for very young children it
does not generate negative emotions and may even be experienced as a cause for happiness
and joy, since they are unable to understand the situation and grownups will permit them to
do things they otherwise might not.
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Companies build factories to mass-produce goods. They utilize them until they reach their maximum capacity, and then they build newer and bigger facilities to keep up with increasing demand. Or they cut down on the production capacity if they can’t stay ahead of their competitors. In either case the old structures are usually turned into warehouses, left abandoned, or sold altogether – the latter usually results in their demolition to make way for new development, and the cycle continues.
Sometimes unused factories, or any old buildings for that matter, are given a second chance and brought back to life by those who see their potential to attract people who would otherwise stay clear from derelict premises. However, when this transformation is done with commercial purposes in mind, i.e. reaping huge profits, what usually follows is the opening of crowd-pleasing and often tacky venues – trick eye ‘museums’ and brightly-colored spots are the norm now, thanks to the drive Instagram has created.
Once in a while, however, there are a few revitalization projects carried out in a sensible way that they not only breathe life back into the decrepit places, but they also enrich the communities to which they belong through cultural offerings, becoming a space for the locals to express their artistic calling, and housing independent retailers aimed at boosting the local economy. In other words, they put the community’s interest above anything else. In Tsuen Wan, a district in the western side of Hong Kong’s New Territories, a fine example of one such project has recently opened its doors to the public.
In 1954, Chinese businessman Chen Di-hwa, who fled to Hong Kong after the Communist Party came to power in the mainland, established Nan Fung Cotton Mills at a time when the textile industry was the largest employer in Hong Kong, accounting for around 30% of the total workforce. In the following years Nan Fung constructed more mills to keep up with the growing demand, and by 1970 (the year when 43% of the manufacturing workforce was employed in the textile industry) it had six mills in operation.
Then came the 1980s, when Hong Kong’s economy diversified and grew rapidly to become one of Asia’s Four Tigers. This contributed to the demise of the cotton industry in the former British colony, and subsequently the demolition of Nan Fung’s Mills 1, 2 and 3. The company also gradually shifted its core business from textile manufacturing to property development, and today Nan Fung Group is Hong Kong’s largest privately-held developer. Its textile factories shut down completely in 2008 and the remaining mills (Mill 4, 5 and 6) were turned into warehouses.
Vanessa Cheung, the granddaughter of Chen, and a landscape architect by training, joined the family business in 2013. Two years later Mill6 Foundation was established as a non-profit arts and cultural organization whose primary mission is to manage and operate Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile (CHAT), the first of its kind in Hong Kong. Later Cheung came up with the idea of utilizing the company’s old warehouses as a permanent venue for affairs organized by the foundation, including exhibitions and community events.
Work began in 2016 at Mills 4 to 6 with a sight many Hong Kongers are familiar with: construction mesh and scaffolding. However, it wasn’t done to demolish the structures. Instead, a major transformation was underway to turn the three old warehouses into a hub for creativity and inspiration. For two years construction workers carefully restored much of the original structure, reinforced some columns with steel, built glass bridges to connect the separate mills, and hollowed out a three-story space to create a large top-lit atrium which would become a centerpiece of the entire compound, which would soon be named The Mills.
The main entrance to The Mills
A logo that evokes Nan Fung’s past
A warm welcome to The Hall, the heart of The Mills
Original concrete columns blend in amid the beautiful minimalist setting
Monoyono, a boutique specializing in quirky gifts
Looking up through the unique Christmas decoration
Surfing the cotton spools
Getting to know more about Garment-to-Garment recycling at alt:
The grand atrium from a height
A warmly-lit corridor
Think of a Style, a pop-up store showcasing products made by local artisans and designers
The Lab, a sustainable lifestyle shop with items curated from around the world
Toward the end of 2018 The Mills was finally unveiled to the public and I happened to be in town just weeks after its official opening. From the outside, the entire compound looked anything but old. It wasn’t overwhelmingly imposing – unlike many other modern buildings that tower over their immediate surroundings – but it was visually inviting enough for people to go inside. Entering The Hall, dubbed the heart of The Mills with a beautifully-made Christmas “tree” hanging from the large skylight above, I marveled at the warm ambiance which is not usually associated with industrial buildings. It could have been because of the lights from the independent shops at the ground and first floors, each filled with unique as well as thought-provoking items, or the afternoon light of the unseasonably hot (and humid) winter’s day that entered this open space.
The entire compound of The Mills comprises three main sections: CHAT which occupies the second floor of Mill 6 and the first floor of Mill 4; Fabrica, a business incubator and springboard for startups located at the fourth, fifth and sixth floors of Mill 5; and Shopfloor, a space for brands with special stories and local significance. Speaking of the latter, not only is this retail space filled with beautiful small shops – an antithesis to the monotonous selection most Hong Kong malls offer – but it’s also home to some interesting businesses that employ unusual production methods.
On the ground floor, alt: introduces the concept of Garment-to-Garment (G2G) recycling, an alternative to incineration and disposal which might hold the key to a more sustainable clothing industry in the future. One only needs to bring his/her old garments to the store. The staff will then estimate how much of a discount the person will get to buy recycled clothes at the shop which have been processed from old garments other customers have brought in before.
Meanwhile, Shabibi Sheep Workshop on the first floor challenges people’s perceptions of concrete as an unappealing and rough material by making art pieces, homeware products, and even jewelry from it. No additives or other substances were added during the process, allowing people to touch and feel concrete like they’ve never seen before. The idea is clearly “out of the box”, and the shop hopes to inspire people to think in new ways.
The Deck, the smaller of two open-air rooftop terraces at The Mills, is where organic vegetables are grown as a part of the increasingly popular farm-to-table concept which emphasizes the importance of sustainability and local produce. On the other hand, The Park on top of Mill 6 provides visitors with a relaxing place to talk with their friends and families, to people-watch, or just to read. At the far end of it a 24.3-m long art installation called Wavy Weaving Wall consisting of small panels made from materials that mimic the movement of fabric, evoking the history of Hong Kong’s textile industry.
All over The Mills pieces of the past are purposefully retained in their original condition as a time machine to enhance the visitor experience. From the original staircase of Mill 4, sand buckets to put out a fire, metal gates that have been turned into the backdrops for information counters within the compound, and timber doors which have been repurposed as benches and signage, preservation has clearly been conducted here in a sensible and tasteful manner.
Just before heading back into the city center, we walked down Pak Tin Par Lane, a passageway between Mill 5 and 6 that is now adorned with colorful murals that pay homage to Nan Fung’s past as a textile manufacturer. As I caught a glimpse of The Hall from the outside, I couldn’t help but think of the message this place tries to convey: reinvention and a change of lifestyles, both of which are keys to creating and sustaining a thriving society. What began as a visit to a relatively unknown (and slightly out of the way) part of Hong Kong ended up as one of the most satisfying and inspiring urban explorations I’ve ever done to date.
A rooftop terrace
Wavy Weaving Wall at The Park, The Mills’ rooftop garden
Inspired by the history of Hong Kong’s textile industry
Walking back to the main building
Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile (CHAT) at Mill 6
Walking through Nan Fung Textiles’ history
A video installation at CHAT
Concept to Go, another pretty shop at The Mills
The salvaged former gate of Mill 5, now the backdrop to an information counter
Retold, an inviting third-wave coffee shop
Commune, showcasing furniture with a stylish, human-centric design
The communal area in front of Commune
The original staircase of Mill 4 allows visitors to experience the past
A passerby in front of a mural named The Past and Future of The Mills
Interesting murals at Pak Tin Par Lane
The Passage of Time, a depiction of the working environment in the former mills
Unsung Hero, an enormous portrait created by Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto
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42 thoughts on “The Mills: Revitalization with Sensibility”
Really nice to see some of the original pieces slotted into the new
Bama says:
That was also one of the things that caught my attention the most. It’s an ingenious way to preserve a relic from the past without erasing much of the original appearance.
Interesting looking place. Your photographs show less crowds than most places in HK, probably because you were there so soon after it opened.
Probably. But to be fair this place is located at the very end of Tsuen Wan line (the red line), so that might be a hindrance for some people who prefer to go somewhere closer to the city.
Piotr Z. says:
I visited The Mills last weekend. Crowds were significantly bigger than on your pictures. It’s still work in progress, with many spaces yet unoccupied. The Mills is one of several recent developments in the similar vein opened recently, most prominently Tai Kwun, a former prison. It’s a cool way to repurpose older buildings. The notorious Central Market in the very centre of the city is also, finally, undergoing a renovation, after decades of abandonment.
Actually that day in the morning we went to Tai Kwun first, then The Mills in the afternoon. By the end of the day I felt so inspired and excited, and it made me wonder if there are places like these two in Jakarta because this city has so much talent and ‘energy’. When it comes to arts and culture Hong Kong is a really interesting place to be right now, and I can’t wait to visit West Kowloon Cultural District after it opens its doors to the public sometime in the future. It will be interesting to see the restored Central Market as well.
The Mills is such an interesting concept, and love how you gave us an in-depth overview of it. From your photos I agree with you, it doesn’t look old at all but instead modern minimalistic, which seems to be the trend these days. It is interesting to read different floors cater to different revitalisation areas. Startups seem to be very common these days, and there are different startups to empower our lives and empower each other as well. I do wonder how much it takes to sustain The Mills cost-wise of starting up, and now the running of it and into the long run. I guess with visitors like you and many who are keen on living modern and taking care of the world, this initiative will probably be around for a while.
It’s the kind of place I like to hang out with friends, or just by myself. In fact, after exploring some of its sections I decided to sit in The Hall for quite some time just to enjoy the beautiful building and be in the moment. Startups really are disrupting the way we do business and almost everything else, in a good way for they force traditional companies to think of innovative ways to stay relevant. I was wondering about the cost too, but Nan Fung seems to be doing well (hopefully) and I think in the foreseeable future The Mills will remain true to its raison d’être.
A good question would be: does this place have staying power? It’s new and cool now, but will people go back there? The architecture is interesting, but the place is far. I went there to check it out, not to shop, and the coffee I had in one of the cafes was awful, so that left a bad impression. I don’t think I will go back anytime soon. Will the people who live nearby make it commercially viable?
My hope is that the people behind The Mills won’t resort to superficial ways many places targeting millennials do to attract them to come, because not only it is not sustainable, but also no one will learn anything from it.
That really i a good question, Piotr. You can have something that is new, cool and flashy, but it’s worth asking will it be practical in the long run. I’d give it to these place for bringing new ideas to the fore, but I’d also say you can probably get good and coffee more affordable elsewhere.
thinkinglistener says:
This is amazing. I learnt something new today.
Thanks for reading, Vivek. The Mills is indeed filled with good vibes and inspirations. Glad you enjoyed this post.
What a wonderful place for ALL they have created! I hope it continues to thrive. I sent a link to this to a friend in Alaska who is planning another trip to Asia. Thanks!
I certainly hope so. Much appreciated, Marilyn. Wish your friend a great time in Asia!
This is such an extraordinary initiative. I was fascinated reading about all the cool things The Mills houses. I’m especially intrigued by the G2G recycling concept. It struck a chord as I’ve recently done a closet “clean-out” and am at a loss of what to do with really old, worn out garments that are unfit to give away. Maybe Vancouver has something like this…time to google!
It really is, isn’t it? I hope there will be more places like this sprouting up elsewhere in the future. Were you inspired by Marie Kondo to do the clean-out? I know I should do the same with my apartment — in those boxes there must be items I no longer need and will never need.
No, I’m trying to make good on a new year’s resolution from 2018 that I never completed…going through every room in the house, including the garage (ugh!). Stick to an apartment. The bigger the house the more needless stuff that accumulates!
Exactly my thought. Having such a limited space always makes me think twice before buying something. Most of the times I manage to buy things I need, not want.
awtytravels says:
I’m such a sucker for industrial archaeology that I’d be flying there just for the Mills! Thanks for taking us there, although vicariously, Bama.
There are quite a lot such opportunities in my hometown, with wool mills and not cotton, but being it not quite Hong Kong, and being my fellow countrymen rather stupid, very little (if anything) is being done…
I really like the fact that despite the modern look, if one pays attention to the columns, the staircases, and many other corners of The Mills, clearly this compound had a rough past, and it’s not being hidden from us the visitors. Instead, the “imperfect” appearance adds to the beauty of this place.
Some places embrace this kind of progressive and innovative ideas rather slowly, but maybe you can help spread the word to your fellow countrymen? 🙂
Misstumbler says:
Interesting! Will loved to visit The Mills if I have a chance to visit HK – the architecture, little shops & cafe, murals, how beautiful that place is. I also loved how they keep the part of history in this new artsy space. Old but also new at the same time.
If you have ample time in the city, and you love places that are unique and inspiring, you should make it to The Mills. Hopefully by the time you go it will still retain its charm that really caught me by surprise, in a good way.
I think it’s super important to have forms of production operations in urban centres, close to their place on consumption. Although the operations at The Mills seem small scale, it’s a great start having things like farm-to-table agriculture in somewhere as dense as Hong Kong. And the G2G looks excellent–what a great way to save water and curb waste, and what better location too?! And of course the respect shown by the architects towards the original building, as well as the new art installations, provide great incentive to visit and make use of the tings going on within.
I like the idea of farm-to-table agriculture since it reduces the needs for fossil fuel and storage. Overall, I think the most important thing people can learn from places like The Mills is that there are actually ways to remain trendy and fashionable without having to sacrifice the environment.
lexklein says:
What a great story, Bama. We need to support these recycle/reuse projects as much as we can. I’m sure many are of the commercial/tacky sort, but in my view, even those are better than starting over and throwing all those construction materials into landfills. When you can renovate AND meet community-based needs, all the better!
Exactly! At the moment having a perfect version of The Mills that is appealing to the public is probably a bit unrealistic. But at least what this new venue for creativity offers are ideas and inspirations that living a modern lifestyle doesn’t necessarily mean putting the earth’s well-being at further risk.
christinetales says:
I still feel as through your an amazing photographer rather there were many people or not. The pictures are great. The angle, lighting, position all of it.
Thanks for your kind words, Christine. Glad you enjoyed this post and the photos.
I wish that you could publish this post a bit earlier, Bama 😦 Just came back from Hong Kong a few days ago. It looks like I have missed a really cool place. For Hong Kong, I guess you have to look closely (perhaps look inside a building) to discover its charm because from outside, Hong Kong is just a collection of skyscrapers, malls and old buildings. If you add the fog (or probably smog) and the crowd, the city looks no appealing at all 🙂
Don’t worry, The Mills will still be there the next time you go to Hong Kong — and maybe by then West Kowloon Cultural Centre will have opened its doors to the public as well. So on your recent trip the city was covered in fog? That sounds like my first time in Hong Kong — I went to the Big Buddha and couldn’t see anything.
It was exactly as you said! The Big Buddha was swallowed by the fog and riding the cable car was like floating through the cloud 🙂
dimasfebryprasetyo says:
Terima kasih sudah mampir di blog saya. 🙂
The Untourists says:
The gentrification of mills! We have old mill areas in Mumbai which are slowly being converted into residential/commercial areas as well.
Ahh, so it is happening in many places across the globe, which is very encouraging. I’d love to see one in the city where I live — or maybe there has already been one.
The Nan Fung Group did such a superb job in breathing new life into these old 1950s/60s cotton mills – I especially appreciate how they kept so many of the original details and the walls of peeling paint. There’s something wonderful about a building that wears its age – its patina – with pride. The choice of tenants is inspired too, and now that we’re no longer in Hong Kong, I wonder whether we should have picked up a few concrete souvenirs from Shabibi Sheep Workshop.
The fact that they kept parts of the original structure is one of the things that makes The Mills such a cool place — a great alternative to completely modern buildings that is the norm in Hong Kong. I actually wish I spent more time at that shop, and maybe got something for myself as a memento. Well, maybe next time!
Bama, this is a fascinating post. Love the way you started with broad context about the generic fate of old industrial buildings and their cycle of death and reincarnation, and then took us through the cotton mill business story leading up to the revitalisation of Mill #6. Great journey!
Love what the grand daughter was able to achieve by taking a decrepit family asset and gifting it to the community as destination for creative endeavours. Next time we are in Hong Kong we will no doubt go and visit this place, so thank you so much for this introduction to something super cool.
Thanks Ben. I think the main message The Mills tries to convey is that old structures have values and demolition is not necessarily the best thing to do to them. The more benefits it can bring to the community, the more people realize that maybe what they need is not another mall, but a place that can spark their creativity.
ceritariyanti says:
Mas Bama… wah terima kasih atas post ini, lagi-lagi saya bacanya pas makan siang, jadi berasa santai dan terhibur sekaligus berada invited kesana bwahahaha… kalo ke HK akan kukejaaar, itu tempat asiiik banget sih, Dan ngebayangin di jakarta ada tempat seperti itu… terutama yang G-to-G itu… sekalian bongkar lemari wkwkwk… btw, berapa lama minimal waktu yang diperlukan untuk explore the mills ini?
Keputusan yang tepat untuk membaca post ini pas makan siang, hehe.. 🙂 Saya belum pernah ke tempat yang vibe-nya kayak The Mills ini sih, jadi bener-bener berkesan. Saya di sana sekitar satu jam sih mbak. Tapi sebenernya mau dua jam juga saya sih betah-betah aja karena suasananya enak.
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Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
By John A. Davis
Originally published in: HBS Working Knowledge (March 2015)
On important occasions, we gather for family portraits. If you were to take a picture of your family business today, what would it show?
Family businesses represent the aspirations, achievements, and struggles of one or more generations of a family. We would see all those things in the portrait of the family business. The portrait of the business would also typically represent more than 90 percent of the owners’ wealth.
“IF THIS TRANSITION IS NOT MANAGED WELL, THE FAMILY HAS A HIGHER RISK OF LOSING ITS WEALTH THROUGH BAD INVESTMENT DECISIONS AND OVERCONSUMPTION”
Few families sell their companies, and those that do sell generally part with them very reluctantly, given all that selling represents. We sympathize with a family’s emotional attachment to its company. But given how fast industries are changing and other factors, more families should consider this move.
If you are in a position to consider selling your legacy business, we congratulate you. You (and all your stakeholders) will hopefully realize the fruits of generations of hard work and sacrifices. Plus, selling your family business presents wonderful opportunities. You can update and reconfigure your ownership group with the right owners for your next chapter of wealth-generating (and social value-generating) ventures.
But it’s important to understand that if this transition is not managed well, the family has a higher risk of losing its wealth through bad investment decisions and overconsumption. Starting now, before your sale and liquidity event, you need to adopt the attitudes of those families that endure as high-performing, enterprising families:
They know their industry life cycle(s) and get ahead of the curve.
They understand the family’s cash needs, now and in the future, along with its true strengths and weaknesses.
They want to educate themselves about the differences between families with operating businesses and post-liquidity families managing portfolio assets.
They are willing to face the challenges common to post-liquidity business families that can pose threats to unity of the family and the owners.
Enterprising Families Build Value Through Liquidity Transitions
The attitudes of enterprising families that thrive after legacy transitions seem to lead to the following six key activities that achieve, then propel, their success.
Planning. They develop a family strategic plan—usually with the help of trusted advisors—to specify their goals and values and clarify how they will achieve those goals. This strategic plan naturally takes some time, often a year or two, to develop.
Redeployment. Consistent with the family’s strategic plan, they redeploy the proceeds of a business sale in assets (usually more diversified assets) that match the family’s talents, aspirations, and needs. Short term, families usually place their assets in relatively safe vehicles while they catch their breath and assess their interests, unity, and risk tolerance. Longer term, they might start or buy another operating company, while keeping some portion of their assets, individually or collectively, in other kinds of investments.
Governance. They develop governance mechanisms (forums for discussions and decisions, plus rules, policies, and agreements) to help the family make decisions and keep family members informed, united, and hopefully committed to future investments by the family.
Talent Development. They develop family talent to help manage or guide the new business or other activities of the family. Obviously, with the sale of the family business, the type of family talent needed for the future will be unclear for a while. As the family settles into new activities, it will become better understood what family talent is needed.
More Planning. Even if the family quickly and collectively redeploys its assets in new business activities, after a sale family members will have more financial autonomy. This necessitates that individuals develop their own life plans and financial plans in the context of greater liquid wealth. There are many great resources available to help with financial planning and asset management. Make the family strategic plan before you search for investment advisors. And before you do that, take the time to reexamine individual family members’ life dreams, the family’s collective goals, and the role of wealth in supporting them. Then please shop for the right advisors to help you at the right price.
Develop New Context Awareness. Value-building families also take this opportunity to consider how greater wealth or more liquid wealth will affect family lifestyle, behavior, and work ethic. These are all serious ingredients in sustaining an enterprising family.
Unite the family. They work extra hard to develop family unity and commitment to the new family enterprise. We can’t overemphasize how important it is, now on the eve of your legacy sale, to focus on unity in the family, so you can cultivate and support new family wealth creators for future generations. The family has been the foundation of your success, and it always will be.
Remember, businesses come and go, but business families can last for generations. Maintaining family momentum and growing family assets are the real measures of success from generation to generation. Are you ready for your portrait?
Article – John A. Davis
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Fic: The Ones You Love (NCIS)
Title: The Ones You Love
Episode Tag: 03x21 Bloodbath
Warnings: Contains M/M/F Threesome, Sex, light BDSM, Spanking
Word Count: approx 3,800
Beta: azraelz_angel Many Thanks!!!!
Crossposted: rounds_of_kink; gibbs_dinozzo; ncis_slash; ncisfanfic; gibbs_abby_tony; tonydinozzo
Written For: rounds_of_kink's May 8th Prompt by sandersyager
Prompt: I can't control myself and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, it's true what they say about you. Abby Sciuto/Anthony DiNozzo/Jethro Gibbs. Kink - Spanking.
Summary: I can't control myself and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, it's true what they say about you. Episode Tag to 03x21 Bloodbath
Abby found herself shaking as she parked her hearse outside of Gibbs’ house. She had been at a loss since everything Mikel has started. Now that she knew he had intended to kill her for not returning his affection, she felt all her defenses crumbling. She couldn’t help but wonder what might have happened if she’d gone to Gibbs or even Tony before everything had gotten out of control.
She kept repeating to herself that she couldn’t change the past, but she could work on changing the future. To help with that task, there were only two people she could and would trust. And they were both inside not expecting her visit. With the last of her fragile control, she got out of the car and made her way to the darkened house.
Tony stepped into Gibbs’ tight embrace and tucked his head into the crook of Gibbs’ neck. Ever since Kate, it seemed that life for their little “family” was one mishap after another. He had been framed for murder, McGee had killed a cop and now Abby. It scared him with how close they had come to losing her.
“Will she be alright, Boss?” Tony mumbled as he started to kiss the skin beneath his mouth.
“I’ll make sure she is,” Gibbs said with a confidence Tony knew he could back. It was Gibbs that always put him back together every time he broke. First, there was Baltimore and his need for a quick exit, Jeffrey, the plague, Kate’s death, Chip… The list was long and growing every day it seemed.
Gibbs must have sensed his inner turmoil, because Tony felt the arms and hands wrapped around his body begin to move in soothing circles across his back. Then the hands moved up to card through his hair.
If Tony had been a cat, he knew he would have started to purr. As it was, he heard little mewling sounds slip past his lips. Then Gibbs pulled his head back so they were staring into each other’s eyes.
“We’ll take care of her Tony,” Gibbs said soundly. “I told her the door was opened.”
“Think she’ll come?” Tony asked as he dipped his eyes out of view of Gibbs’ blue ones.
“When she’s ready,” Gibbs said just before he leaned in to place a tender kiss on Tony’s lips. Before long, Gibbs’ tongue slipped into Tony’s mouth and the kiss deepened until they were both left breathless.
As Gibbs pulled back, Tony watched the older man’s blue eyes darken. Then Gibbs took control as he huskily said, “Go to the bedroom and strip down. Wait for me on the bed.”
Tony started to turn, but Gibbs caught his wrist to stop him from leaving. “And Tony,” he added, “prepare yourself.”
“On it, Boss,” Tony whispered as he began to follow the orders without delay. He departed so quickly that he missed seeing the shadowed figure standing in the doorway.
Abby gave a slight shudder as she heard the order Gibbs had given to Tony. This is what she had come to him for, structure, a place where she didn’t have to be responsible. She was so lost in thought that she hadn’t noticed that Gibbs was standing right next to her until he whispered in her ear.
“You okay, Abby?” he asked her softly and she could hear the concern that laced his strong voice.
“No, Sir,” she whispered back. “I-“ she started, then paused as she took a deep breath. “I need-“ she found herself unable to voice what she wanted. Instead, she showed him with her actions.
Within moments, she sank gracefully to her knees, placed her hands behind her back and bowed her head. She didn’t move as Gibbs circled her a few times before he placed his hand in her hair. She held back a sigh as he slipped the dark strands through his fingers as if he were petting her.
“Look at me Abby,” his voice seemed to echo around her and she immediately responded by straightening her head and then casting her eyes upward.
He held her gaze for several moments in silence. Abby tried hard not to shudder under his scrutiny, but finally her eyes shifted just slightly and his hand froze on her head.
“I’ll take care of you Abby,” Gibbs said quietly yet firmly. “Tony and I will keep you safe.”
“I don’t feel safe,” Abby all but sobbed out. “And--" she shifted her eyes back to meet Gibbs’, “I screwed up.”
“How so?” Gibbs asked quietly as his hand resumed petting her with an occasional tug that left her gasping.
“I should have,” she paused to catch her breath. “I should have gone to you or Tony when things got out of hand.”
Gibbs stayed quiet as he let her work through what she was punishing herself for.
“I -- I didn’t want you to worry about me. It was my problem and I didn’t want -- couldn't talk about it. I was embarrassed,” she concluded as she cast worried eyes back up to meet his.
“You didn’t need to be embarrassed Abby,” Gibbs said as he moved his hand down to stroke her cheek. “I’m the guy who was clubbed in the head with a nine iron. You could have come to us for help and we wouldn’t have said a thing.”
Abby narrowed her eyes and raised an eyebrow at that statement.
“Okay,” Gibbs amended, “Tony would have said something, but I would have stopped him before he went too far.”
Abby smiled a little. “I know. It’s his coping mechanism.”
“One we’re working on one head slap at a time,” Gibbs added with his own smile. Then he sobered up and gave Abby his ‘give me an honest answer or else’ look. “Do you need this tonight?”
Abby had no doubt in her mind what ‘this’ was. If she said no, Gibbs would either let her stay for comfort or give her the guest room to gather herself. If she said yes, he would give her the punishment her mind and body wanted in order to feel absolved and back in control. Tony and Gibbs would have the responsibility to tell her that none of it was her fault. All she would have to do was listen and follow their orders. The control would be theirs to give back to her when they felt she was ready.
Taking a deep breath, she corrected her posture, dipped her head and said in a clear voice, “Yes, Sir.”
He stroked her cheek one more time before stepping back. “Follow me upstairs; do not talk and once we are inside the bedroom strip, then kneel near the door.”
He saw her nod before he turned to make his way upstairs to join Tony.
Tony had finished his preparations and had been kneeling on the bed for about five minutes when his ears picked up the sound of the door clicking open and then closing again. He drew in a breath and concentrated on maintaining his position. Being with Gibbs had given him a calm that he didn’t know he could ever find. He could relax his body from its constant motion, let his guard down and trust Gibbs to take care of everything. He had never had that in his life, even as a child, and found himself treasuring every moment.
He sighed when he felt the familiar hand run down his head and stop at the back of his neck. He shuddered at the light squeeze the hand gave before it trailed slowly down his back. The hand came to rest again over his ass with one finger slipping between his cheeks. Tony’s body reacted by pushing back into the finger. He heard a low chuckle before the hand pulled away, only to feel it return quickly with a light slap. Tony’s breath quickened from the action.
Then he felt breath on his neck as the bed dipped under the weight of his boss. “I love seeing you like this,” was whispered in his ear. “Ready to do anything I ask, ready for me to just push you into the mattress and fuck you.”
Tony felt every inch of his skin heat up and his cock hardened as Gibbs continued. “You like me taking you long and hard, don’t you DiNozzo? Love it when I tie your hands and don’t give you any relief until I tell you to come.”
A stuttered, “Please,” slipped out of Tony’s mouth before he could stop it and Gibbs delivered a matching slap to the other side of his ass.
“No talking until I say so,” Gibbs said sternly. “Lay down on your back; arms on the headboard.”
Tony hurriedly obeyed. When he started to spread his legs apart, Gibbs place a hand on his thigh to stop him.
“Leave those there for now,” Gibbs said softly.
Tony gave Gibbs a questioning look as he watched the older man move to the nightstand and the pair of cuffs that were kept there. Tony couldn’t keep his reaction hidden as his already heavy cock filled out more, precome sitting on the tip. He gave a full body shudder as the metal closed around his wrists, locking them in place. He gave an experimental tug and smiled slightly knowing that he was now vulnerable to whatever Gibbs wanted to do with him.
Tony pushed his body up some when a still fully clothed Gibbs stretched out over top of him. Their eyes locked for several moments before Gibbs leaned in and prodded Tony’s mouth open with his tongue. Before long, both men were breathless and Tony was tugging unconsciously against the restraints to try to touch some part of Gibbs.
Then suddenly, Gibbs was gone from the bed and Tony let out a small whimper from the loss. He flushed when he heard the sound he had made, but hoped fervently that it would bring Gibbs back to him. Then he heard Gibbs speaking and his eyes went wide when he realized that Gibbs was speaking to someone else in the room.
“Stand up,” Gibbs had ordered to the unknown person. Tony pulled a little harder against the cuffs in an effort to try to cover himself. In his mind, he knew that Gibbs would never expose him to anyone without knowing that it was okay with Tony to do so. However knowing that and actually being able to live it were two separate things. He was about to call out the word he had never used in all his times with Gibbs, his safe word, when he saw the bowed head with black hair draped across bare shoulders.
Tony’s mouth formed an almost comical ‘o’ shape as he watched Gibbs and Abby make their way to the bed. He wanted nothing more than to ask if she was okay, but looking at the way she moved, he already knew the answer to that. He silently cursed the cuffs on his wrists that prevented him from scooping her up in his arms and protecting her from everything bad in the world. He trusted that Gibbs could take care of her and give her what she needed to feel whole again.
Tony kept his eyes locked on the pair standing beside the bed as Gibbs stepped behind Abby and pressed against her back. His hands trailed down from her shoulders and moved to her breasts. Once there, the talented fingers began to lightly pinch and tease the nipples until they were hardened nubs. Abby’s chest started to rise and fall as she panted and gasped for breath under Gibbs’ attention. Tony found himself squirming at the sight of his Boss’ hands, hand he knew so well, moving over her smooth body. But he only managed to frustrate himself when he couldn’t find any source of friction for his aching cock.
After several minutes, Gibbs’ hands slid down Abby’s stomach and then slipped between her legs. Tony’s attention was so focused on the way Gibbs’ fingers disappeared into her body that he didn’t notice the pair had moved closer until Abby was being gently pushed onto the bed beside him.
Her eyes flickered up to meet his and his heart ached at the hurt mixed with need he could read in her expression. He wanted to whisper words to her, tell her everything would be alright and that they would take care of her, but he wasn’t permitted to talk. Instead he put every thought he had into his eyes and hoped she understood. The silent communication seemed to work when she gave a small smile in his direction before dipping her head away.
Tony leaned in to Gibbs’ hand when it reached over to pet his cheek. Tony wanted to laugh at the look of satisfaction on Gibbs’ face as he looked down at the two people he had willingly in his bed. Leave it to his boss to be satisfied when he knew he had complete control over the people in his life.
“Keep still,” Gibbs intoned as he patted Tony’s cheek before pulling his hand back to Abby. Then Tony watched in fascination and curiosity as Gibbs moved Abby so she was lying across Tony’s lap. He had to bite back the urge to thrust upward when Abby’s inner thighs covered his cock. Instead, he fisted his hands, nails digging into the tender skin of his palms.
Before long, Gibbs had cuffed Abby’s hands behind her back and stepped back to look at the display he had created on his bed. Then he moved to the side that Abby was facing and knelt down until his face was even with hers.
Tony didn’t hear what Gibbs asked the dark haired girl, but he understood when she responded with, “Bert.”
Gibbs chuckled and then placed a light kiss on the top of her head before pulling back. Tony wasn’t sure what to expect next, but what did happen shocked him to his core.
Gibbs had moved quickly to the other side of the bed and stood in between outstretched legs that were hanging over the edge. The effect had her legs parted which gave room for Tony’s cock to strain up between her thighs and brush the heated crevice that he suddenly wanted to sink into. His attention was so tuned to the heat radiating from Abby that he didn’t see the descending hand until the sound of the slap against her ass and the movement of her body over him and around his cock startled him back to reality.
He cast shocked eyes in Gibbs’ direction even as he wanted to rub his dick against Abby. He didn’t know or understand why he was punishing her. She needed their comfort, not punishment for something she had no control over. But it seemed that Gibbs was either too focused on Abby or pointedly avoiding looking at Tony. Tony decided it was the latter after the second slap landed on Abby’s opposite cheek and Gibbs’ retreating hand brushed the tip of his cock.
Tony decided that Gibbs had lost something in his mind for alternating between punishment for Abby and a mix of pleasure and torture for him. Within moments, two more slaps rang out in quick succession, his cock brushed both times. By that point, Abby was taking shallow breaths and her lower body was bucking slightly over Tony’s legs.
Tony wanted to reach his hands out to either stop Gibbs’ hand from descending or to sooth the redness he could see blossoming on Abby’s ass. With his hands cuffed in place, he could only lay back and watch as the hand struck again. This time there was a longer pull on his dick and Gibbs finally turned his head to meet Tony’s eyes.
Tony tried to pour his sudden anger over Gibbs’ actions into their look and Gibbs must have noticed it. Gibbs placed a finger over Tony’s lips and then used his other hand to run down Abby’s back to the reddened globes of her ass. Tony looked at him with questions and anger still burning in his eyes as Gibbs spoke evenly to Abby as he kept his eyes locked on Tony’s.
“Why am I punishing you Abby?” he asked in his commanding voice that always had Tony straightening his posture.
Abby sniffed quietly before responding in a soft voice, “It was my fault. I didn’t -- I should have come to you guys. I should have--"
“Shhh,” Gibbs soothed as he ran his hand back down her back. Tony found himself struggling to keep quiet and surprisingly blinking back tears in his eyes.
“We’ll take care of you Abby. You have us now,” Gibbs whispered as he bent down to place a kiss in the center of the ornate cross that decorated her back.
Abby turned her head so she could look at Tony. He stared into her dark eyes and finally saw the need buried there, the need for absolution that Gibbs was trying to give her. She continued to look at Tony as she spoke to Gibbs.
“Please Sir,” she all but whispered. “I need--"
“I’ve got you Abby,” Gibbs said strongly. “It’s my responsibility now.”
Tony jerked when a new slap landed quickly on Abby’s skin. She let out a gasp of air just as Tony let out a moan at the warm fingers dragging over his erection.
After that, a rhythm was set that lasted for the next several minutes. Gibbs’ hands alternated striking Abby’s ass and always caught his dick on their way back. Tony had never felt such an emotional build up in his life. Between the sounds of the strikes, Abby’s gasping breath and the small touches he was receiving from both Gibbs’ hands and Abby’s leg, Tony was lost. He was on the edge, but could not find his completion; Gibbs hadn’t told him he could.
Just as Tony was about to beg for it to stop, for Gibbs to take him or for Abby to take, for any kind of relief, the strikes came to an end. Then in the sudden silence, Tony could hear the quiet sobs coming from Abby as Gibbs bent over and scooped her back into his arms whispering reassurances into her ear.
Tony was torn between wanting to be able to do what Gibbs was doing and finding relief. Finally, a mewling sound escaped his lips and his skin flushed in embarrassment. Within moments, Gibbs was moving and had rolled a condom onto Tony’s cock, giving it a few firm strokes that left Tony panting.
Gibbs leaned over and kissed him on the lips and he pulled back, he gave Tony an order he had learned to expect from the older man in bed, “Don’t come until I say so.”
Then Gibbs pulled back and Tony watched wide-eyed as he positioned a kneeling Abby over his dick. Gibbs guided her down slowly until Tony was buried inside her heated body. Tony fought back the urge to thrust up, waiting for Gibbs’ instructions.
“Don’t move,” Gibbs said to both of them as he stepped back from the bed and slowly began to strip, his eyes never leaving the display in front of him. Both Tony and Abby were breathing harshly from not moving their bodies the way they desperately wanted to. Tony whimpered each time Abby clenched her muscles around his sensitive cock.
It seemed like forever before Gibbs joined them on the bed again. Gibbs grabbed a pillow and had Tony rise up with Abby still sitting on his cock as Gibbs place the pillow under his ass. Then Gibbs parted Tony’s legs wide enough for him to press up against Abby’s back and place his hard cock at the prepared opening to Tony’s body. Tony’s eyes glazed over as he realized what Gibbs had planned. Tony was going to fuck Abby while Gibbs fucked him, but Gibbs would set the pace for everything. Tony flexed his fingers in anticipation.
Within moments, Gibbs’ hands grasped Abby’s hips and he lifted her up slowly only to carefully drop her back down. The action drew a moan out of both and Gibbs gave a smile that Tony only ever saw when they were in bed. Soon, Gibbs had set a rhythm for moving Abby, letting Tony’s cock slide in and out of her hot passage.
While Tony concentrated on the sensations coming from plunging into Abby’s body for the first time, Gibbs slid into Tony’s waiting body until he was fully inside and pressed against Abby’s back.
Tony groaned loudly as he was torn between wanting to thrust his hips forward and backward at the same time. It was a hard decision that he didn’t have to make because Gibbs was doing all the work.
Soon, Gibbs was pounding into Tony with a force that he had rarely used in bed and Tony found himself going incoherent from it. Gibbs also increased Abby’s up and down motion and started bringing her down hard with each pass.
Just when Tony was sure he couldn’t last any longer no matter what his boss had ordered, Abby was pushed harshly down on his cock as Gibbs reached a hand around to finger her clit.
Then he heard the one word order that sent him over the edge with Abby, “Come.”
Tony was sure that he hadn’t come that hard in his entire life. As he filled the condom deep inside Abby’s body, he relished in the tightness of her body spasming around him and the feel of Gibbs’ cock still pounding into his ass. He cried out just as he sank back into the mattress without a thought of anything except the cock still brushing his prostate with each thrust.
Finally, Gibbs buried himself deep within Tony’s ass and let out his own strangled sound as he came. Then, with the last of his strength, Gibbs lifted Abby off of Tony’s spent cock and undid the cuffs around the wrists behind her back.
Tony smiled languidly as Gibbs leaned forward, letting his softening cock slip from Tony’s body.
Soon, Tony was free from the headboard and he immediately rolled to his side and wrapped Abby into his arms, tangling her hair into his fingers.
“It’ll be okay Abs,” he repeated over and over. He was sure if it was to reassure her, himself or both.
Abby pressed into his chest and quietly cried herself to sleep in Tony’s arms. Tony smiled as he felt Gibbs pull the covers up over all three of them and then slide in behind him.
“Thanks for taking care of both of us Boss,” he said quietly as Gibbs pressed into his back and wrapped his strong arms around both of them.
“It’s my job,” Gibbs whispered back. “Gotta take care of the ones you love.”
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Random Thoughts on the Golden Globes
Well the Hollywood Foreign Press held their annual movie and television gala last night and as usual there were a few surprises, a few predictable wins, and some head-scratching moments as well. But that’s to be expected. I mean I enjoy them and there were a few applause-worthy moments. But let’s be honest, often times these things make no sense whatsoever. Still, they do give us plenty to talk about as we make our way to the Oscars. So, as I do every year, here are a few random thoughts about last night’s Golden Globes…
Okay, lets go ahead and get this out of the way. Everyone knows “The Martian” was not a comedy. Good film. I love Ridley Scott. But you have to wonder if it was shoehorned into the comedy category just to give it an award? Better yet, by it winning what does it say about the actual comedies of last year?
Jonah Hill’s bear bit wins for stupidest moment of the night. Wasn’t clever. Wasn’t funny. Kinda embarrassing. On the other hand, Jason Statham was hysterical.
I was so wanting Saoirse Ronan to win Best Actress for “Brooklyn”, but if she had to lose I’m so happy it was to Brie Larson. Both films were fantastic. Still not convinced either will win the Oscar though. My fingers are crossed.
Remember that scene in “The Martian” when Matt Damon had a piece of flying debris smash into his head? Pure comedy genius. Surely that’s one of the reasons he won for Best Actor – Comedy.
No Best Director win for George Miller. Bummer. But I guess “Mad Max: Fury Road” is an anti-awards type movie. Shouldn’t surprise us that it didn’t get the votes. Unfortunately it looks like it will need to be content with nominations.
Was it just me or did Brad Pitt’s face look especially stiff and bronzed? Not making any accusations. Just a little observation.
“Carol” went in with a lot of nominations and a ton of critical praise but left the show empty-handed. I must admit I was surprised. Unlike “Mad Max” it seems custom-made for awards season.
Ricky Gervais played the mean-spirited agitating Englishman to the hilt. He did have several funny gags. He also had some lame ones and others that seemed to come from his ego overextending itself. He was okay but exactly what we expected. Nothing more or less.
Speaking of Gervais, the bit with Mel Gibson got a little uncomfortable. Mel took Gervais’ ribbing well and had a great colonoscopy comeback. Apparently Gervais’ ego couldn’t stand it. He comes back out and the two have another exchange that didn’t seem mutually respectful.
Kate Winslet’s Supporting Actress win for “Steve Jobs” was a bit of a surprise. While I thought Jennifer Jason Leigh gave a good but not awards-worthy performance, she had some momentum going into the night. She certainly doesn’t have as much now.
Hands down, the biggest disappointment of the night was “Spotlight” getting shut out. What a shame. Such an important and thoroughly engaging film. But here’s the thing, it’s not the least bit flashy or ostentatious – both things the awards voters seem to love. Again, what a shame.
What a fantastic introduction of Denzel Washington by Tom Hanks for the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Funny thing is the exact same introduction could be made for Hanks and probably will be in the next few years.
So Jennifer Lawrence wins Best Actress – Comedy for “Joy”. Fairly predictable. I found that to be one of the weaker categories. I don’t see that win carrying over to Oscar night when (and if) she gets thrown into the mix with the other dramatic performances.
I had to rewind a couple of times to get what Quentin Tarantino was saying about Ennio Morricone. Before last night he had never won an award for a musical score in America. That is pretty amazing. His score was one of the best things about “The Hateful Eight”. Too bad he didn’t get to do original music for the entire film.
Keeping with some of the night’s predictability, “Inside Out” wins Best Animated Feature and “Son of Saul” wins Best Foreign Language Film. Don’t expect anything to change come Oscar night.
Speaking of nothing changing on Oscar night, Leonardo DiCaprio will be the biggest sure-thing at this year’s Academy Awards. He’s not going up against a big Daniel Day-Lewis type performance plus the standing ovation he received was telling. The crowd was genuinely enthusiastic for the win and many in that crowd are Academy voters. The Oscar drought is over.
Speaking of enthusiasm and standing ovations, those same Academy voters gave one to Sylvester Stallone for his Best Supporting Actor win. For me it and Best Actress are the strongest categories. Idris Elba was my choice but back when I reviewed “Creed” I said don’t be surprised if Sly got an Oscar nomination. Not only will he be nominated, but now he is the bona-fide frontrunner. Good for him. Plus he had one of the night’s greatest reactions at the calling of his name.
Jim Carrey is a funny guy. Where so many floundered on the stage trying desperately to be funny (Hill, Tatum, Lawrence, Schumer to name a few), the bearded Carrey comes out and I immediately start giggling. Is it his goofy, well-spoken delivery or his even goofier expressions? I don’t know. He’s just funny.
“The Revenant” sure came out of the Globes in a strong position. Winning for Best Director and Best Motion Picture – Drama makes it the leader in the Best Picture Oscar pool. But some are saying don’t christen it the big winner just yet. I don’t know. It’s hard not to see it as the true frontrunner.
So there are a few random thoughts on this year’s Golden Globe festivities. What did you think of the show? What were you impressions of the winners, losers, or anything in between?
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39 thoughts on “Random Thoughts on the Golden Globes”
Brittani says: January 11, 2016 at 10:39 am
I’m bummed Spotlight got shut out too. I’m okay with The Revenant winning because it’s great too, but I wanted more love for Spotlight.
Jim Carrey is so effortlessly funny. You’re right about so many other presenters failing on that part. (Schumer and Lawrence were the worst)
What is your take on Gervais? I was kinda mixed. Some really good gags but I thought he was a bit too pompous a time or two.
smilingldsgirl says: January 11, 2016 at 11:28 am
Yeah I think Spotlight is much better than The Revenant but the acting wins I was ok with and animated feature. Last year the Globes got it right with Boyhood and the Oscars flubbed it. Will be interesting to see what happens this year
I SOOOO agree with you on the Globes and Boyhood.It was so frustrating to see the odd shift of opinion on Boyhood during the time between the Globes and the Oscars. Accusations of gimmicky filmmaking by Linklater and this strange vocal turn to “Birdman”. It was frustrating because Linklater has never made a gimmicky film in his life and he has never made a single film with rewards in mind. His “Boyhood” experiment was extremely risky and he put a ton of his own time and money into the project. To brush it off as an awards grab was nuts to me. But that was the rhetoric that suddenly started coming out right after “Boyhood” won the big award at the Globes.
I couldn’t agree more. The Birdman win still baffles me
And the love for it seemed to explode. I thought it was a pretty good movie and the camera trickery was fun for a bit. But I really didn’t see the point of it all and there were times where I wanted the camera to simply sit still and allow the actors to tell me a story. But what do I know. 🙂
And I found it bizarre personally that supposedly modern Hollywood would embrace a movie thats kind of misogynistic. I mean think about the women of Birdman? They are all shrill, manipulative, and judgemental. It looks good and is well acted but I agree it needed to sit down and tell the story!
Good point. And in many ways it stroked the creative egos of writers, directors, and stars. I still think that played a part in winning over those Oscar voters.
smilingldsgirl says: January 11, 2016 at 12:08 pm
I so agree! Hollywood always loves things about how tortured it is to be a star…Why the rest of the world declared it a masterpiece baffles me? I did not get the blogger/youtuber response. Oh well. Different tastes I guess.
True, true.
ckckred says: January 11, 2016 at 11:39 am
I don’t care too much for award shows and the only bit of the Golden Globes I saw was Ricky Gervais’ monologue. I’ve always been a huge fan of Gervais and even though I enjoyed many of his jokes, he seemed a little tired.
I haven’t looked much over the winners list but I was pleased to see a win for Aaron Sorkin. I absolutely loved Steve Jobs and Sorkin’s one of the best and most powerful writers today.
That observation was spot-on. I thought the same thing. Gervais did look tired, at times completely uninterested. Sorkin is a dialogue powerhouse but I really hoped Spotlight would have won there. I thought the script was so smart and fluid. But to be completely fair I still haven’t seen “Steve Jobs” so my opinion probably isn’t an educated one.
I agree Spotlight best written film of the year by a large margin
peggyatthemovies says: January 11, 2016 at 1:52 pm
Good read..and reading thru your comments.. I was thrilled with the Revenant..the only competition it really has is Mad Max. While Spotlight is a very good movie..Me personally, I liked The Big Short much better with it’s pure dark comedy. I’ve no love for Room really.. as it just came off as an episode of Law & Order:SVU to me. But I do think it’s this years Boyhood kinda deal…and on that I can only say the difference is, Boyhood was a brilliant idea behind an average film. Birdman was just brilliant all the way around. 🙂 But Leo is a must-deserved shoo-in and I really did love Sly winning though that category was for me, the hardest pick of all. I like Gervais, always have..but a few mis-stepes for sure..he shoulda just left it alone when Mel responded..no need to have gone back to that..he made himself look petty.. ah well.. Here’s to a good movie-watching 2016. Cheers.. 😀
Thanks so much for the comments. I’m a huge fan of Spotlight. It had a pretty prominent spot of my Top 10 of 2015 list I put up a week or so ago. ( https://keithandthemovies.com/2015/12/27/the-top-10-films-of-2015/ )It completely pulled me in. I haven’t seen The Big Short and for some reason I’m having a hard time mustering any excitement for it. I’ve had a lot of support for it though. I was in the ‘love Boyhood’ camp and struggled with some of Birdman. We definitely agree on Leo though. He has this one wrapped up as does Sly. What a great moment when his named was announced. Totally agree on the Gervais/Gibson thing.
As for 2016, it looks pretty intriguing. Several really good looking movies of all kinds are on the way!
Cindy Bruchman says: January 11, 2016 at 2:26 pm
Keith, I’m not a fan of Gervais — tacky and crass isn’t funny to me, but I did laugh a couple times. I just think he’s annoying. I’m curious to see if Tom Hardy is nominated by the Oscars on Thursday. I love your GIF at the end of this post!
It wouldn’t hurt my feelings if the HFP went with someone else to host next year’s show. Hardy very well may find a nomination. But I think that Supporting Actor category is so loaded with great performances. Oh, and that gif…pretty funny, right?
Claude W. Sims says: January 11, 2016 at 2:34 pm
I think them golden globes was a good show. They was pretty hot back in the day, but I think all of them are dead now except Betty white.
Claude, I think we may be talking about two different things.
ruth says: January 11, 2016 at 2:40 pm
Ahah, that bit of Leo vs Gaga still cracks me up!! His expression is just priceless. I’m happy for Sly winning too, though I believe you that Elba was excellent. I just think Sly is so gracious about the whole thing so I’m glad he got a standing ovation too. Disappointed by Spotlight shutout but I was already bummed weeks ago that Hardy got zero nominations in a very strong year for the talented actor.
“Wasn’t clever. Wasn’t funny. Kinda embarrassing.” Agree about the bear thing but you can apply your sentiment to a lot of moments of the night, esp the whole exchange between Gervais & Gibson, ugh.
The Gervais/Gibson thing was pretty rotten. It would have been okay if Gervais would have stayed in the back and been able to take a little ribbing himself. But out he marches with that nonsense. It was a big year for Hardy and I’m surprised he didn’t at least snatch ONE nomination. Big, big fan of that guy. One of my favorites since Inception.
I still think Spotlight has a chance at Oscar. Boyhood won the big prize at last year’s Globes and we know how the Oscars turned out for it. Should be fun to watch.
I’m baffled by Hardy exclusion as he’s got so many great roles this year. I also think he’d be popular w/ the HFP?
I sure hope you’re right about Spotlight! At least ONE acting nom please, I mean come on!
Spotlight fascinates me. Every single performance is perfectly in tune with the story. Not a single one draws attention to itself. Truly an ensemble piece. I wonder if that will end up hurting it?
ruth says: January 12, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Indeed, even the small supporting roles like Liev Schreiber were great. A true ensemble piece indeed, so yeah perhaps that’s why it might be tough to honor just one performer.
P.S. I just posted an interview w/ 3 of the surviving soldiers involved in the Benghazi attack, surely you’ve heard of the 13 Hours film? I’d love to hear what you think, Keith, hope you have a chance to check it out.
Oh wow! Sounds great. Heading over there now!
Andrew says: January 11, 2016 at 3:02 pm
Nice breakdown.
I’ll say this…I’m not convinced in Sly even getting nominated Thursday, let alone win. He was snubbed by both BAFTA and SAG, so he won’t get any momentum from them, and Creed is kind of dying. The Globes like to reward stars, and his comeback narrative is far starrier than Rylance getting a win.
I still think Rylance will take the Oscar…and probably everything else.
I honestly can’t see Rylance winning. I liked him a lot in Bridge of Spies but it isn’t a performance that has stuck with me. I think Sly’s nomination is guaranteed. My gut says he will win but you may be right. I do think it’s a really strong and moving performance.
Thanks for the thoughts Andrew!
Vits/Vicente Torres (@Vits_Chile) says: January 11, 2016 at 3:08 pm
The ceremony was a lot of fun! It turns out that Ricky Gervais isn’t the only one willing to say “forbidden” things on T.V. Mel Gibson’s comebacks and Jaimie Alexander’s reaction to the prompter were very funny. Also, there were so many unpredictable winners (mainly in the TV categories). Now, to answer some of your comments:
1) Of course THE MARTIAN didn’t deserve to win in this category. It’s the same problem when they nominate musical dramas: They always defeat the comedies by a landslide, so it’s not a fair competition.
2) There’s a possibility that, since Rooney Mara was nominated as lead instead of supporting, that the votes for the 2 CAROL actresses were split. I think Cate Blanchett has as many possibilities as Brie Larson.
3) I don’t understand. If MAD MAX 4 is an anti-awards type movie, why was it nominated at all?
4) Of course that Brad Pitt was extra-tanned. Everyone has to be when they attend the “Golden” Globes.
5) It’s hard to talk about the thing with Mel Gibson, because we don’t know if it was pre-rehearsed or not.
6) Be careful when you make your predictions. The Globe winners don’t match the Oscar winners as often as most people think. Look at last year with BIRDMAN, BIG HERO 6, IDA and the music score of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL.
Good comments! Always appreciated. Here are a few responses:
2. My reasoning as well. That’s why I said I’m not sold on either Ronan or Larson winning the award. Blanchett will be really hard to beat.
3. Being nominated is fine and all, but it ain’t winning. There have been all sorts of (what felt like) token nominations. It’s like saying “We recognize that you’re a cool movie and lots of people like you, but Best Picture winner? Sorry.”
4. Many were tanned, but not many looked quite as…rubbery.
5. Perhaps. I don’t think that final bit was rehearsed. Didn’t look particularly cordial.
6. Exactly. As I said some are warning against christening The Revenant as the Best Picture winner. I do think it is in a very nice position heading into February 28th.
jwforeva says: January 11, 2016 at 7:35 pm
Ok alot of interesting things that you pointed out. This is a super comprehensive post 🙂 I’ve been reading your comments and I absolutely agree with you on the Boyhood Birdman saga. Like you, I was firmly in the Boyhood camp and was sad to see the industry side with a film that was quite self-indulgent in craft. I loved the uniqueness, so Chivo and Alejandro deserved their awards. But Boyhood was just all-encompassing and so real. In the end though, I think it was something to do with the way they voted. If I’m not wrong, more voters included Boyhood in it’s top three but more voters put Birdman as first. Still baffled that the academy loved Birdman more.
I was really hoping for Idris Elba to win though. And Tom Hanks was just pure awesome.
I love a word you used describing Boyhood – real. It felt so real from start to finish. Watched it twice in the theater and twice at home. Noticed new touches with each viewing.
vinnieh says: January 12, 2016 at 6:29 am
It looks as if it could be Leo’s year to win big. I still need to see The Revenant.
Yep! I’m not a betting man but Leo is a lock. So many stars have lined up perfectly for him.
The Vern says: January 12, 2016 at 8:49 am
I could not even watch the show because my antenna wont get in that station. Im glad Brie Larson won for Room and now I really want to see Steve Jobs because I forgot WInslet was in that one. Having Carol and Mad Max shut out of awards is a bit odd
I hear ya. Mad Max, Carol, and Spotlight. Combined the three got NOTHING. But the Globes don’t always line up with Oscar. Just look at last year when the Globes went with Boyhood and Oscar went with Birdman.
Khalid Rafi says: January 12, 2016 at 4:08 pm
I think Stallone winning was easily the highlight of the night for me. Really, really hope he wins the Oscar. All though the banter between Gibson and Gervais was immensely funny too. ”From Mel Gibson and me, Shalom.” LOL!
And how about that great reaction from Sly? Pure and genuine surprise. I proud for him and Oscar night should be interesting.
Khalid Rafi says: January 13, 2016 at 5:45 am
I know everyone was saying that its embarrassing to care about a Globe but dammit that moment was amazing and everyone in the room acknowledged that
I don’t think its embarrassing at all especially when you truly care about your work. Add to that the fact that Sly hasn’t really been recognized that way since maybe the very first Rocky film. Good for him!
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PANTY EXPLOSION!!!
A year ago I was still working a real job. At a motel here in Portland called the Cabana. The Cabana is a horrible place. While working there I was bitten, kicked, stabbed, punched, spit on and threatened at knife point. Shortly before I stopped working there Sony announced the Playstation 3. Both my friend Matt Schlotte and I were pretty exciteda bout this (both being avid PS2 owners) and we both immediatly decided we wanted one. Even though the release was still some way off (and actually still is some way off even now) we both came to the conclusion that putting aside money for the new system would be pointless. I’m not a saver. What we needed was a sure fire way to generate a lot of money fairly fast. Our solution? cash in on the lucrative indy game craze.
I had just released the CrossRoads of Eternity RPG with Travis Brown so I felt like I kind of knew what went into making a new game. The problem is we did’nt know what game to make. The classic advice is to just make the game you want to play. We went the other way. We spent a few days brainstorming over what kind of game we thought would sell (during this time Matt would call me at the motel and we would engage in the 2-3 hour phone calls that eventually cost me my job. No great loss). We settled on psychic Japanese schoolgirls as the focus of our game, figuring that even if the subject didn’t appeal to everyoneit was still a pretty safe bet. Shortly after that I lost my job and started working freelance full time. Panty Explosion kinda stagnated for awhile.
We got back to work in September with a goal of finishing the game before the new year. But that date came and passed. I hoped we could wrap it up so I could take copies with me to the GAmA Trade show in March of this year, but we missed that deadline as well. But slowly the game ground itself out, and finally after 9 months of… development…. we have a working draft of the game! This is exciting!
So what is it? Panty Explosion is an adventure roleplaying game where you and a few friends assume the roles of a group of Japanese highschool girls, one or more of whom are psychic. The game features simple and easy to learn mechanics that encourage participation from every player and encourage creativity and player interaction.
If you’d like to take a look at Panty Explosion or even try playing a game you can download the PDF here:Panty Explosion V1
Matt and I are working hard to have the finished version of Panty Explosion available this July. Any comments or feedbackyou could give us would be greatly appreciated.
I’m planning 20 illustrations for Panty Explosion, including the front and rear cover. You can see 2 of the first few here.This is a style I don’t get to use very often, and honestly it’s kind of a pain in the ass to do. But I think it looks good, and I think it will give the game a unique look. This will be the first book I’ve designed from the ground up so I’m pretty excited about it.
At some point Panty Explosion will have it’s own dedicated site, but in the meantime I’ll post information about the games development here.
Anyway, I really hope you take a look. It’s a fun game and I think you’ll like it.
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Thurs 08 Oct- Imagining Ireland: Voices that shaped a Nation–DETAILS below
Speaker Dr. P.J. MATHEWS – Co-Editor of Handbook of the Irish Revival
VENUE: United Arts Club, 3 Upper FITZWILLIAM St., Dublin 2- MAP
Dont miss this event! PJ’s recent nationwide appearances have included venues such as the Abbey Theatre, Clifden Arts Festival and the Sean O’Rourke RTE Radio show-
The centenaries of foundational events of our states and societies bring with them an opportunity to reflect on what we think is important about defining moments in our past…..
The Irish Revival of 1891 to 1922 was an extraordinary era of literary achievement and cultural debate in Ireland. Artists, thinkers and political activists exchanged ideas and opinions about what Ireland was and could become. The Handbook of the Irish Revival traces a line of connection between the pressing issues of the time and the challenges faced by Ireland today. Writings by world famous names such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Maud Gonne and J.M. Synge are published alongside voices of almost forgotten figures.
“Yeats’ vision was of a future Ireland founded on wonder and beauty but built on imagination and possibility...The Abbey Theatre...was founded to sow the seeds and reap the fruits of the Revival. …The dramatic form played a key role in the Revival, both in linking to the mythic past and in bringing… Ireland out into the world” – President of Ireland, M.D. Higgins, 2015
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P.J. Mathews is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, and has written widely on Irish literature and theatre. He is the author of Revival: the Abbey Theatre, Sinn Féin, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement (Field Day, 2003) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to John Millington Synge (CUP, 2009). He is a member of the governing board of RTÉ, Director of Academic Podcasting for UCDscholarcast
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Basal body and flagellum mutants reveal a rotational constraint of the central pair microtubules in the axonemes of trypanosomes
C. Gadelha, B. Wickstead, P. G. McKean, K. Gull
Journal of Cell Science 2006 119: 2405-2413; doi: 10.1242/jcs.02969
C. Gadelha
B. Wickstead
P. G. McKean
K. Gull
Productive beating of eukaryotic flagella and cilia requires a strict regulation of axonemal dynein activation. Fundamental to any description of axonemal beating is an understanding of the significance of the central pair microtubules and the degree to which central pair rotation has a role. However, for the majority of organisms, it is unclear whether the central pair actually rotates. Using an extra-axonemal structure as a fixed reference, we analysed the orientation of the central pair in African trypanosomes and other kinetoplastid protozoa. A geometric correction allowed the superposition of data from many cross-sections, demonstrating that the axis of the central pair is invariant and that there is no central pair rotation in these organisms. Analysis of mutants depleted in particular flagellar and basal body proteins [γ-tubulin, δ-tubulin, Parkin co-regulated gene product (PACRG) or the paraflagellar rod protein PFR2] allowed a dissection of the mechanisms for central pair constraint. This demonstrated that orientation is independent of flagellum attachment and beating, but is influenced by constraints along its length and is entirely dependent on correct positioning at the basal plate.
Axoneme
Central pair
Paraflagellar rod
Delta-tubulin
Basal body
In eukaryotes, the motility of flagella and cilia results from a microtubule-based assembly known as the axoneme. Although a variety of microtubule arrangements exist in motile flagella, the canonical axoneme - the structure most widespread and almost certainly ancestral to all others (Cavalier-Smith, 2002; Cavalier-Smith and Chao, 2003) - consists of nine microtubule doublets symmetrically arranged in a circle around a central pair (CP) of singlet microtubules (the so-called 9+2 arrangement). This structure is anchored at the proximal end by a basal body containing triplet microtubules in a 9+0 arrangement. Dynein arms are attached to the A-tubule of each doublet such that their motor head domains are in close proximity to the B-tubule of the neighbouring doublet (Gibbons and Gibbons, 1973; Gibbons and Rowe, 1965). Activation of the dynein motors causes a sliding force between adjacent doublets (Sale and Satir, 1977). Because the microtubules are constrained at the basal body and along their length, this force is translated into an axonemal bend. This is the fundamental force of axonemal motion.
From even such a basic description of axonemal action, one can recognise the need for three kinds of regulation of dynein activation to create a productive axonemal beat. (1) Asymmetric activation: given the symmetry of the outer doublets, the dynein arms on one side must be active while those on the other are quiescent to generate a productive bend. (2) Co-operative activation: a bend of any significant length requires the simultaneous (in)activation of many dynein molecules along that stretch of axoneme. (3) Dynamic activation: the propagation of a bend along the axoneme requires that dyneins in a particular axonemal region be coherently switched between active and inactive states.
One model for the regulation of dynein activation is based on evidence that indicates a core role for the CP microtubules. In this model, signal from an asymmetric CP apparatus (consisting of the two singlet microtubules C1 and C2, and associated structures such as the CP bridge and CP projections) is transduced through the radial spokes, to a doublet-associated regulatory complex, which modifies dynein activity through the action of dynein-associated protein kinases and phosphatases (Porter and Sale, 2000; Smith and Yang, 2004). In support of this model, asymmetric contacts between radial spokes and CP projections have been seen in molluscan gill cilia (Warner and Satir, 1974), suggesting that radial spokes might detach and reattach to the CP projections during microtubule sliding. In Chlamydomonas, CP mutants are paralysed yet retain the ability to undergo microtubule sliding; their defect is therefore not in the force-generating mechanism but in a control system that regulates force generation (reviewed by Smith and Lefebvre, 1997).
The CP signal transduction model is particularly significant in the context of CP rotation. It has been postulated that rotation of an asymmetric CP could, through interactions between one set of CP projections and radial spokes, regulate the activation of dyneins on successive doublets around the axoneme. By contrast, associations made by the opposing CP microtubule would ensure that dyneins on the opposite side of the axoneme were inactive. The CP would then act as a distributor of regulatory signals around the axoneme.
CP rotation during beating of flagella and cilia has been demonstrated by thin-section electron microscopy in Chlamydomonas and Paramecium. Longitudinal sectioning through Chlamydomonas flagella that were fixed during active swimming revealed the orientation of the CP microtubules as being parallel to the bend plane within the principal bend, then gradually twisting through 180° until once again being parallel to the bend plane within the reverse bend (Mitchell, 2003). In fact, the CP assumes a natural left-handed helix when separated from the rest of the axoneme by detergent (Goodenough and Heuser, 1985) and protease treatments (Hosokawa and Miki-Noumura, 1987). It thus seems reasonable to accept that the CP is also helical inside the native axoneme, and that rotation of the helix through successive waves allows the CP to reorient such that one of the two CP microtubules is always at the outside of the bend. However, this CP rotation is independent of both dynein activation (as it also occurs in curved, quiescent flagella) and also spoke head association (as it occurs during bend propagation in spoke head mutants) (Mitchell and Nakatsugawa, 2004). Hence, CP orientation is a passive response to bend formation in Chlamydomonas.
CP orientation in Paramecium cilia is also parallel to the plane of bending, and it rotates 360° during each beat cycle in forward and backward swimming (Omoto and Kung, 1979; Omoto and Kung, 1980). Serial thin sections also revealed the CP left-handed twist along the Paramecium axoneme. In contrast to Chlamydomonas quiescent flagella, paralysed paramecia do not show CP rotation (Omoto and Kung, 1980). Therefore, rather than being a passive process, rotation of the CP in Paramecium might be an active one, initiated or constantly driven by a mechanism other than bending, with the orientation of the CP determining the pattern of active sliding around the axoneme (Omoto and Kung, 1980). It is worth noting that both Chlamydomonas and Paramecium rotate their CP tubules clockwise when viewed from the base of the flagellum.
However, CP rotation is not ubiquitous in axonemal beating. In both ctenophore comb plate cilia and echinoderm sperm flagella, the CP apparatus has a fixed orientation relative to the position of active sliding (Sale, 1986; Tamm and Tamm, 1981). For most organisms, it is not yet clear if the CP rotates. This is largely a result of the difficulties in ultra-structural analyses of imposing an absolute frame of reference onto the ninefold symmetric doublets of the axoneme, making it problematic to perceive a change in the axis of the CP relative to the doublets. This situation is considerably eased in kinetoplastid protozoa owing to the presence in the flagellum of a characteristic extra-axonemal structure - the paraflagellar rod (PFR). Here, we use this structure as an external reference to address the orientation of the CP in the flagella of several kinetoplastid species. We show that there is no CP rotation and use a simple geometric correction technique to produce an accurate estimate of the angle of the CP axis in Trypanosoma brucei from a large number of axonemal cross-sections. We also present a first examination of the causes of this constraint using RNA interference (RNAi) to deplete particular flagellar and basal body proteins specifically.
Fixed CP orientation in T. brucei
In Kinetoplastida, the PFR runs alongside the axoneme for most of its length (Fuge, 1969; Gull, 1999). Importantly, the PFR is fixed relative to the axoneme, being permanently connected to a set of four outer doublets (Gull, 1999). The PFR therefore acts as a reference, allowing unambiguous identification of CP orientation to an external axis within the flagellum.
To determine the CP orientation in the kinetoplastid flagella, we analysed 40 randomly selected thin-section transmission electron micrographs showing cross-sections of axonemes from motile procyclic-form T. brucei. Most micrographs showing near `transverse' sections through an axoneme cannot be directly superimposed because there is inevitably a slight (and often a substantial) discrepancy between the angle of the section and the true transverse plane. The result is an apparent deformation of the axoneme (Fig. 1A). To compensate for axonemal cross-sections not being true perpendicular sections, we used a mathematical transformation that moves the data into the transverse plane (Fig. 1B; detailed in Materials and Methods). Fig. 1C shows how this transformation can be used to correct an elliptical axonemal cross-section to a circular one representative of a true transverse section. The circularity of the transformed dataset can be demonstrated by ninefold rotation of the corrected image, showing superposition of the doublets of the axoneme (Fig. 1D).
(A) An elliptical section is formed if a perfect cylinder with longitudinal axis z′, is cut at an angle θ to the x′y′ plane. (B) The ellipse can be transposed onto the x′y′ plane by a transformation, Tθ, to generate a true transverse section. (C) A thin-section transmission electron micrograph showing a cross-section through a T. brucei flagellum. The section angle was corrected by the transformation Tθ to generate a transverse section. (D) Ninefold rotation of the corrected axoneme shown in C. Bars, 50 nm.
We should note that this ellipse-correction procedure would also erroneously `correct' any symmetric deformation of the axoneme in a true transverse section caused by bending forces. However, since the transformation is applied only once, it cannot correct for both a symmetric deformation and a glancing section. Since there is very little eccentricity in the transformed dataset (Fig. 1C), whereas the original cross-sections were often highly elliptical (eccentricities up to 0.8; i.e. the ellipse long axis is nearly twice that of the short axis), it is unlikely that deformation of the axoneme as a result of beating is large in these micrographs when compared with eccentricity as a result of sectional plane. Bending waves can be clearly seen in the fixed flagella when interrogated by light microscopy (data not shown).
Following transformation of the data from the micrographs, the positions of all of the microtubules are extremely constant from axoneme to axoneme (Fig. 2A) and fall on the points predicted on the basis of perfect ninefold symmetry. Using the PFR as an external reference to define the doublet number (by being attached to doublets 4-7), the axis of the CP also has a very constant orientation at 92.7±0.5° (mean ± s.e.m.) to the axis defined by the centre of the axoneme and doublet 1 (Fig. 2A,B). Thus, the orientation of the CP does not vary with respect to the nine outer doublets. Since this dataset comprises cross-sections through axonemes of many different cells and at different positions along the cell, this provides strong evidence for a fixed, specific orientation for the CP in T. brucei, precluding CP rotation in this species. We therefore propose that the mechanism by which the CP might rotate with respect to the outer nine doublet microtubules in some species does not operate in trypanosomes.
Fixed CP orientation in other Trypanosomatidae
In T. brucei, the single flagellum is physically attached to the cell body along most of its length through the flagellum attachment zone, a precise system of membrane connections, filaments and specialised microtubules (Gull, 1999). However, the trypanosomatids in general can display attached, partially attached and free flagella, all of which possess the external reference of the PFR. We next asked whether the fixed orientation of the CP in the axonemes of T. brucei was specific to this species, or indeed life-cycle stage, or if it was common to other species and cell types.
The same geometric correction demonstrated in Fig. 1 for procyclic-form T. brucei axonemes was performed on bloodstream-form T. brucei cells. These two life-cycle stages move very differently from one another, yet the CP of each was found to be fixed in the same orientation (Fig. 3A,B). The same is also true for axonemes of epimastigote-form T. cruzi semi-attached flagella (Fig. 3C), as well as Leishmania major, Herpetomonas megaseliae and Crithidia fasciculata free flagella (Fig. 3D-F). Once more, the position of the CP was invariant and had the same orientation as that seen in T. brucei.
The most recent common ancestor of the above kinetoplastid species existed ∼250 million years ago (Douzery et al., 2004) and, in the light of these data, most probably had a CP in a fixed orientation. Moreover, in spite of many differences in cell morphology, it appears that all of the extant progeny from this common ancestor have maintained the machinery that constrains the CP of microtubules.
Release of CP constraint in mutants
We next asked what factors were controlling the fixed CP orientation seen in trypanosomes. We used double-stranded RNAi to deplete particular flagellar and basal body proteins to gain insight into the mechanism determining CP orientation in T. brucei. The first of these was δ-tubulin - a protein associated with basal bodies. In Chlamydomonas, disruption of the gene encoding δ-tubulin results in loss of the C-tubule of the basal body microtubules (Dutcher and Trabuco, 1998; Fromherz et al., 2003). In Paramecium, silencing of the gene encoding δ-tubulin similarly results in loss of the C-tubule, but additionally loss of B- and even A-tubules was observed (Garreau de Loubresse et al., 2001). Since the radial symmetry of the axoneme is born from the ninefold symmetry of the basal body, with the nine doublets of the axoneme extending from the A and B tubules of the triplet basal body, there is a prediction that disruption of the basal body configuration will be transferred along the axoneme.
(A) The positions of microtubules in transverse sections of axonemes from T. brucei. Points show the positions of the centres of either the CP microtubules or the A-tubules of the outer doublets. Dotted lines show the x′ and y′ axes of the axoneme (see Materials and Methods) and also a regular normal nonagon. The number, N, indicates the number of independent micrographs combined in the diagram. (B) Radial distribution of the doublets and the CP microtubules in transverse sections of axonemes from the wild-type trypanosomes. Since the CP are indistinguishable on the electron micrographs, their distribution can be anywhere in the range 0-180°, whereas the distribution of the doublets is 0-360°.
The orientation of the CP microtubules is fixed, and at the same position, in Kinetoplastida species. Representative cross-section micrographs through the flagellum of (A) procyclic-form T. brucei, (B) bloodstream-form T. brucei, (C) epimastigote-form T. cruzi, (D) promastigote-form L. major, (E) promastigote-form H. megaseliae, and (F) choanomastigote-form C. fasciculata. These micrographs had the section angle corrected by the transformation Tθ to become true transverse section, and they show the CP microtubules always aligned with respect to the doublets 3 and 8. This orientation does not vary in either attached or partially attached flagella (trypanosomes), or free flagella (Leishmania, Herpetomonas, Crithidia). Bars, 50 nm.
We generated a T. brucei cell line for the inducible knockdown of δ-tubulin by RNAi. Prior to induction of δ-tubulin RNAi, trypanosomes were morphologically normal, and showed normal growth and motility. Induction of δ-tubulin RNAi resulted in a reduction in growth rate after 48 hours (Fig. 4A). Several characteristic phenotypes were noted in trypanosome populations following induction of δ-tubulin RNAi that varied in severity as a function of time post-induction (see below). The earliest phenotypic effect we observed, at >24 hours post-induction, was the loss of flagellar motility in trypanosomes that otherwise appeared morphologically normal (Fig. 4B). To confirm the efficacy of δ-tubulin RNAi, we raised a monoclonal antibody, LAZ1, against T. brucei δ-tubulin (see Materials and Methods) and used it to monitor the levels of δ-tubulin protein post-induction. Immunoblotting confirmed that, following induction of RNAi, levels of δ-tubulin were progressively reduced such that, by 48 hours post-induction, δ-tubulin protein is barely detectable (Fig. 4C). By contrast, levels of β-tubulin - which acts as both loading and specificity control in these RNAi experiments - were unaffected during the time course of the experiment (Fig. 4C).
Induction of RNAi in these cells did not initially block flagellar construction but resulted in the production of aberrant basal bodies subtending immotile flagella. Basal body structure was reduced to combinations of triplet, doublet and singlet microtubules (Fig. 4D), showing that the trypanosome basal body is fundamentally dependent upon δ-tubulin function. Distal from the basal bodies, ultra-structural analysis of flagella revealed disruption of the 9+2 arrangement by loss of outer doublets (Fig. 4F,G). At later time-points post-induction (>96 hours), more-severe defects were observed (with several doublets missing from the axoneme); however, at 48 hours post-induction, the majority of disrupted axonemes had lost only one doublet and in some instances only the B-tubule of a single doublet was absent. Interestingly, there was a significant preference for the disappearance of outer doublets 8 and 9 (χ2 test, P<0.001). Despite this loss of outer doublets, no loss of the CP occurred, indicating that CP nucleation is unimpaired in these cells.
Some axonemes in the induced δ-tubulin RNAi cell line display the canonical 9+2 arrangement. These most probably represent axonemes constructed before δ-tubulin levels had dropped below a crucial level and, accordingly, their abundance decreases with increasing time post-induction (data not shown). In these axonemes, as for the non-induced cells, the CP was orientated as seen for wild-type T. brucei (Fig. 4E). However, loss of one outer doublet microtubule, or even just the B-tubule of a doublet, results in a total loss of correct CP orientation with the CP now being orientated apparently randomly around the central axis of the axoneme (Fig. 4F,G and Fig. 5D).
Another member of the tubulin family is γ-tubulin, also seen at the basal body and centriole region in a wide range of eukaryotes (Nigg, 2004). More precisely, γ-tubulin localises to the basal plate in Chlamydomonas, where it plays a role in CP nucleation (Silflow et al., 1999). We have previously reported the effects of γ-tubulin depletion in T. brucei - induction of γ-tubulin RNAi produces immotile flagella that lack the CP (McKean et al., 2003). However, early in γ-tubulin RNAi induction, there are a small number of cells (∼9%) in which only one of the two CP microtubules is lost. We analysed these axonemes with respect to orientation of the remaining microtubule and found that, in these 9+1 axonemes, the single central microtubule had a random distribution (Fig. 5A). Hence, although γ-tubulin RNAi does not affect the integrity of the nine outer doublets, the radial symmetry of the 9+1 arrangement is not sufficient for constraining the CP position. Interestingly, the remaining, mis-orientated central microtubule is found at the same distance from the centre of the axoneme, as it would be had its partner still been present, and does not collapse inwards. This argues against a model in which the CP push against the radial spokes to create a force that is transduced out to the doublets.
Unlike the basal body proteins γ- and δ-tubulin, the T. brucei Parkin co-regulated gene products TbPACRG A and TbPACRG B are related proteins that appear to have a role in doublet morphogenesis and locate along the length of the flagellum (Dawe et al., 2005). Depletion of both homologues simultaneously (although not separately) by RNAi in T. brucei causes flagellar paralysis and leads to premature termination of outer doublets - axoneme formation is initially normal, but the number of missing doublets increases towards the distal tip of the flagellum. The resulting disrupted axonemes look superficially like δ-tubulin mutants but the defects are more severe and, importantly, do not originate in the basal body. Fig. 5B shows the orientation of the CP in axonemes with variable numbers of outer doublets (X+2) resulting from PACRG ablation. Disruption of the axoneme again produced a perturbation of CP orientation. However, despite producing a more severe axonemal disruption than that of δ-tubulin RNAi, 55% of the X+2 axonemes analysed maintained the CP in a fixed, wild-type orientation. These data indicate a differential effect of axonemal disruptions originating at or near the basal plate compared with those that occur along the length of the flagellum.
δ-tubulin ablation in T. brucei results in growth rate reduction, cell paralysis, aberrant basal bodies and disrupted CP orientation. Growth (A) and motility (B) of δ-tubulin RNAi mutant cells with (closed squares) and without (open circles) tetracycline induction. (C) Western blot analysis of δ-tubulin depletion. Total cell lysates prepared at various time-points after δ-tubulin RNAi induction were separated by SDS-PAGE and analysed with mAb LAZ1 (raised against δ-tubulin) or mAb KMX (reacts with β-tubulin). Each lane contains the protein from 2×106 cells. (D) The microtubule number in the basal bodies of the T. brucei δ-tubulin RNAi cell line. Non-induced basal bodies possess the canonical nine-triplet arrangement at the proximal region, and the normal nine-doublet arrangement at the transition zone. Induced basal bodies were reduced to a mixture of triplets, doublets and singlets. Arrows indicate singlet microtubules. Bar, 100 nm. (E-G) The position of microtubules in transverse sections of induced T. brucei δ-tubulin RNAi axonemes. Representative individual micrographs illustrate (E) a 9+2 axoneme, (F) an axoneme that lost the B-tubule of doublet number 8 (9+2-B), and (G) an axoneme that lost doublet number 7 (8+2), and the corresponding position of microtubules within the respective nonagons. The number, N, indicates the number of independent micrographs combined in the diagram. Bars, 50 nm.
Since the above mutants all result in flagellar motility defects, it was possible that CP orientation might be entrained by the intrinsic beating of the flagellum. We addressed this issue by analysing micrographs from a previously described RNAi against PFR2 in T. brucei (Bastin et al., 2000; Bastin et al., 1998). In these cells, interference in the building of a normal PFR structure leads to cell paralysis apparently without disruption of the axoneme itself. However, sufficient residual PFR structure remains for it still to be used as an external reference to assign CP orientation, and examination of axonemal cross-sections reveals that the CP remains fixed (Fig. 5C).
CP orientation in γ-tubulin, PACRG and PFR2 RNAi mutant cell lines. (A) The remaining CP microtubule in 9+1 axonemes resulting from γ-tubulin ablation has a random orientation. (B) Knockdown of PACRG severely disrupts outer doublet microtubules, but only partially removes CP constraint in X+2 axonemes. (C) Immotility as a result of PFR2 ablation does not affect CP orientation. (D) Radial distribution of the doublets and the CP microtubules in transverse sections of axonemes from the induced δ-tubulin and PACRG RNAi trypanosomes.
We have used the singularity of the PFR structure to investigate orientation of the CP in a eukaryotic flagellum. The data presented here show a fixed CP orientation throughout the length of the axonemes in several trypanosomatid species and do not, therefore, support the hypothesis of CP rotation in Kinetoplastida. However, one must always be mindful in such ultra-structural studies of the possibility of fixation artefacts. Three lines of reasoning lead us to conclude that the fixed angle of the CP in our analysis reflects the true orientation of the CP during flagellar beating: (1) In this report, cells were fixed in aldehyde-based solutions believed to preserve the metachrony of the cilia on the Paramecium surface, as well as to preserve waveforms during forward and reverse swimming of Chlamydomonas. We reason that these reagents used to establish CP orientation in the latter two organisms were appropriate fixatives for our analysis in trypanosomes. Our conclusion of a fixed CP orientation is also compatible with data presented in previous studies on trypanosomes that involved other fixation techniques, such as high-pressure freezing and freeze substitution (Wiese et al., 2003), as well as detergent extraction followed by chemical fixation (Maga et al., 1999). (2) If the CP were falling back to a low-energy configuration within the axoneme, it might be expected that the precise orientation would be influenced by the degree of local strain as a result of bending. However, the axis of the CP is exceptionally well defined in our analysis despite being based on a number of samples from random points along flagella - presumably possessing different torsional strains. (3) The fixed orientation of the CP in T. brucei can be disrupted by RNAi against specific gene products. This suggests that, were the CP of wild-type cells to rotate, our analysis would detect the rotation. However, although our and similar chemical-fixation techniques are fast enough to preserve both CP orientation and a normal-looking bending wave, it is noteworthy that they are probably not sufficiently rapid to capture an instantaneous `snap-shot' of the transitory positions of every axonemal structure. For example, we cannot detect in our corrected axonemes any variation in the doublet positions caused by activated dyneins pulling doublets closer together - a central tenet to the geometric clutch hypothesis (see Lindemann, 2004). Such deformations, being asymmetric with respect to axonemal cross-sections, would not be affected by the ellipse correction approach presented here.
Relative to an unmoving external reference, an invariable CP orientation can only be achieved if the CP is fixed along its length. However, if the CP is not seen in a constant position, there are three possible explanations - one of which involves an unmoving CP, whereas the other two require CP movement. First, the CP orientation might be invariant (i.e. unmoving) along the length of an individual axoneme, but variant between axonemes as a result of differences in the initial orientation of CPs at their origins. Second, the CP might be fixed at its basal end, but twist around its longitudinal axis during flagellar beating. Since the basal end is unmoving, this model requires a reverse twist of the CP during the recovery stroke to avoid super-coiling of the CP. The net CP movement is thus an oscillation. Last, the CP might be movable at the base and also along its length - allowing the CP to rotate relative to an unmoving external reference during the beat.
Here, we report that CP orientation is fixed within kinetoplastid flagella and hence the CP does not move during flagellar beating. We used RNAi to investigate how CP orientation is defined and whether it can be freed from constraint. The fact that the CP is fixed in free Leishmania flagella suggests that CP orientation is independent of flagellar attachment to the trypanosomatid cell body. This is strengthened by our analysis of the T. cruzi epimastigote flagellum, which is only associated with the cell body in its proximal segments. Yet again, the fixed CP orientation is maintained throughout the attached and free segments of this flagellum.
The RNAi mutants described here all result in forms of flagellar paralysis. However, the orientation of the CP is not being entrained by flagellar beating. This can be demonstrated by the previously described RNAi against PFR2, which also results in immotility in T. brucei (Bastin et al., 1998), but a careful examination of axonemal cross-sections reveals that the CP remains fixed. Since CP orientation is independent of flagellar attachment and also beating, it must be defined by interactions occurring solely within the flagellum. Such definition might occur by either: (1) determination of CP orientation at its origin at the basal plate, which is then passively inherited distally along the flagellum; or (2) physical constraint of CP orientation by proteins existing along the length of the axoneme. Our data suggest that the former is an absolute requirement for correct CP orientation; mis-orientation of the CP can be prevented only when a native basal body configuration is present in the cell, and CP mis-orientation does not seem able to be corrected even when the ultra-structure of the outer doublets appears normal (see γ-tubulin RNAi). However, there does seem to be a partial dependence on constraint by the axoneme because, in cells containing normal basal bodies but with severely disrupted axonemal configurations, correct CP orientation is sometimes lost. Hence, the mechanism by which the kinetoplastid CP is constrained - when it is free to move in species such as Chlamydomonas and Paramecium - acts predominantly at the birth of the CP at the distal-end of the basal body, but is also to a lesser degree constrained by physical contacts made by the CP along the length of the flagellum. Although we cannot entirely rule out movement of the CP in trypanosome RNAi mutants, the removal of the CP constraint in trypanosomes most probably does not result in CP rotation or oscillation, but in a mis-orientation that is invariant within an individual axoneme. This can be seen in the fact that all the RNAi mutants described are paralysed, and hence cannot be moving the CP in response to flagellar beating. Whether or not the CP in such axonemes would move in response to an externally enforced beat remains to be seen.
The functional reasons for CP rotation in some but not all axonemes have yet to be fully understood. Bray suggested that the CP rotates whenever a ciliary beat is three dimensional - i.e. when the effective and recovery strokes occur in different planes (Bray, 1992). Paramecium supports this condition since it performs non-planar, asymmetrical waves - during forward or reverse swimming, the cilia beat presents a planar power stroke and a three-dimensional recovery stroke (Omoto and Kung, 1979). However, Chlamydomonas performs planar waves whether swimming forwards (asymmetrical) or backwards (symmetrical) (Bessen et al., 1980). In addition, Chlamydomonas flagella are able to propagate planar asymmetrical and symmetrical waveforms despite the lack of CP (Frey et al., 1997; Wakabayashi et al., 1997). Another proposal is that cilia and flagella of organisms that rely on rapid changes in waveform, beat frequency and effective stroke orientation require variable CP position, whereas an unchanging orientation is supposed to be a derived simplification in organelles that have a permanent bend plane, such as ctenophore comb plate cilia and many metazoan spermatozoa (Mitchell, 2004). However, this hypothesis also appears incomplete since trypanosomes - here shown to have a fixed CP orientation - present complex waveforms. The main waveform is a planar, symmetrical wave run from the distal tip to its base (Holwill, 1965a; Holwill, 1965b), but trypanosomes can also re-orientate themselves by reversing their flagellar wave (Sugrue et al., 1988), which becomes asymmetrical and runs from base to tip (Holwill and McGregor, 1976). Swimming reversal has also been reported in Chlamydomonas (Bessen et al., 1980) and Paramecium (Naitoh and Kaneko, 1973), although the mode is distinct in each case (Holwill and McGregor, 1976). The trypanosome flagellum is not only a dynamic motility organelle, but has also evolved to perform other biological processes, such as participating in cell division (Moreira-Leite et al., 2001) and moving the parasite through challenging environments during its cell cycle in the vertebrate and invertebrate host. In the invertebrate host, the flagellum is an organelle for attachment to the host epithelia (Vickerman, 1973; Vickerman and Tetley, 1990), which ensures transmission to vertebrates. Whether the trypanosome swimming behaviour is not complex enough to require movable CP orientation to differentially regulate specific dynein arms is not yet clear. However, it seems reasonable to suggest that the swimming changes trypanosomes have to deal with might well be precisely regulated but by means other than a variable CP orientation.
This report has brought further insights into the relationship of functional constraints and axoneme integrity in eukaryotic flagella. This raises interesting questions about the molecular mechanisms of such phenomena and one wonders whether differences between axonemes capable of CP rotation versus axonemes bearing fixed CPs could be reflected in flagellar composition. In this regard, flagellar proteome comparisons hold much promise.
Procyclic Trypanosoma brucei 427 strain cells were maintained in SDM 79 medium supplemented with 10% v/v foetal calf serum (FCS) at 28°C; bloodstream-form 427 strain cells were maintained in HMI9 medium supplemented with 15% v/v FCS at 37°C and 5% CO2. RNA interference (RNAi) mutant cell lines were generated from the T. brucei 29-13 cell line, which is a derivative of the procyclic 427 strain containing transgenes encoding T7 RNA polymerase and tetracycline repressor proteins. 29-13 cells were maintained as for 427 strain procyclic cells. Stable, inducible RNAi mutants for the genes encoding PFR2, γ-tubulin and PACRG (double knockdown of A and B isoforms) have been described previously (Bastin et al., 1998; Dawe et al., 2005; McKean et al., 2003). To generate cell lines in which RNAi against the gene encoding δ-tubulin could be induced, a 500 bp fragment of the T. brucei δ-tubulin open reading frame was amplified from genomic DNA using the primers 5′-CTCGAGAAGCTTCGCGAGAGTGCGGATGCTGT-3′ and 5′-ACTTCTCGAGAGCACTTCCCGC-3′ (restriction enzyme recognition sequence underlined). This amplicon was digested with HindIII and XhoI restriction endonucleases and ligated into the vector pZJM (Wang et al., 2000). 20 μg of this construct was used to stably transform 2×107 actively dividing 29-13 cells in cold ZPFM buffer (Bellofatto and Cross, 1989) by electroporation twice at 4.25 kV cm-1, with three pulses of 100 microseconds separated by 200 milliseconds (Electro Square Porator; BTX). Post-electroporation, cells were allowed to recover for 16 hours, after which time stable transformants were selected by the addition of 2.5 μg ml-1 phleomycin, 15 μg ml-1 G418 and 50 μg ml-1 hygromycin; and subsequently cloned by limiting dilution. Prior to induction, RNAi mutants were left in medium devoid of drug for 24 hours, then diluted to 5×105 cells ml-1, and induced by the addition of 1 μg ml-1 tetracycline. Cultures were diluted back to a density of 5×105 cells ml-1 every 24 hours, and fresh tetracycline was added to the culture medium.
Promastigote-form Leishmania major Friedlin VI strain cells were cultured at 28°C in Medium 199 with Earle's Salt and L-glutamine supplemented with 40 mM HEPES, 10% v/v FCS and 5 μg ml-1 haemin. Promastigote-form Herpetomonas megaseliae and choanomastigote-form Crithidia fasciculata cells were cultured in Brain and Hearth Infusion medium supplemented with 5% v/v FCS. Epimastigote-form Trypanosoma cruzi CL Brenner strain cells were kindly supplied by J. Kelly (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK).
δ-tubulin for monoclonal antibody generation
For recombinant δ-tubulin expression, the T. brucei δ-tubulin open reading frame was amplified from genomic DNA using the primers 5′-CATATGCCTGACAACCGTGTCGTT-3′ and 5′-GGATCCTCAAGCCGCTCCGTATGCGGCAGCAGT-3′ (restriction enzyme recognition sequence underlined). This amplicon was ligated into the TA cloning site of pGEMT-Easy (Promega), released by NdeI and BamHI digestion, and ligated into the Escherichia coli expression vector pET15b (Novagen). Recombinant δ-tubulin was expressed in FB810 (a RecA derivative of BL21) (McKean et al., 2001) and purified by Ni-affinity chromatography followed by preparative SDS-PAGE. BALB/c mice were immunised with purified recombinant δ-tubulin and hybridomas produced as described previously (Woods et al., 1989).
Protein sample preparation and western blotting
For protein depletion analysis, δ-tubulin RNAi mutant cells (2×108) were harvested at various time-points after the addition of tetracycline, washed in PBS (150 mM NaCl, 10 mM sodium phosphate, pH 7.4) containing protease inhibitors, and resuspended in boiling Laemmli sample buffer. SDS-PAGE and immersion transfer to nitrocellulose membrane were performed using standard techniques described elsewhere (Sambrook and Russell, 2001). For immunoblotting, membranes were blocked with 3% w/v skimmed milk in TTBS (20 mM Tris-HCl, 500 mM NaCl, 0.05% Tween 20, pH 7.5), labelled with either anti-δ-tubulin monoclonal antibody, or anti-β-tubulin monoclonal antibody KMX (Birkett et al., 1985), developed with horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated anti-mouse immunoglobulins (Sigma) and detected by the ECL detection system (Amersham).
Sample preparation for electron microscopy
T. brucei, T. cruzi, L. major, H. megaseliae and C. fasciculata samples for thin-section transmission electron microscopy were prepared by fixing cells in culture with 4% formaldehyde and 2% glutaraldehyde for 1 hour at room temperature. Cells were post-fixed in 1% osmium tetroxide in 100 mM sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7 for 1 hour at 4°C, washed several times in double-distilled water, stained en bloc with 1% aqueous uranyl acetate for 16 hours at 4°C, dehydrated through acetone and embedded in epoxy resin.
Geometric correction of electron micrographs
To correct for variations in the angle of sectioning in micrographs collected in this study, the following mathematical correction was applied. Considering the axoneme as a cylinder, any cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (the z′ axis) will depict a perfect circle. However, any `glancing' section, which is not exactly 90° to the z′ axis, will show an ellipse whose eccentricity increases as the angle between the section and a true perpendicular section (θ) increases (see Fig. 1). Hence, an ellipse in the observed xy plane - formed by taking a section at an angle (90-θ)° to the true longitudinal axis z′ - can be superimposed onto the true transverse plane, x′y′, by the transformation:
where the maximum diameter of the ellipse lies along the x axis. The result is a reacquisition of a circular transverse section.
From our `transverse' sections, the positions of the centre of each A tubule of the axonemal outer doublet microtubules and the centre of each of the CP microtubules were mapped by hand using the software NIH Image as an interface. The position of each microtubule in the observed xy plane was thus defined by a point (xi, yi). The origin was defined by the mean xi and yi values for the nine doublets and an estimate of θ was made from the eccentricity of the doublet positions:
where d is the distance of a point from the origin, i.e.:
The axes were then rotated so that the doublet with the maximum di value lay along the positive x axis. Microtubule positions were superimposed onto the true transverse plane x′y′ by the transformation:
Each transformed point (x′i, y′i) has a distance d′i from the origin and makes an angle ϕi to the y′ axis. The x′y′ axes were rotated such that the mean of the differences of each ϕi from its expected value [2π(n-1)/9, where n is the doublet number] was zero. Finally, the microtubule positions were normalised against the mean d′ value for the doublets.
For most axonemes, minimum and maximum doublet distances provide a good estimate of ellipse angle and eccentricity (see Fig. 2A). However, in situations such as the PACRG mutant cell lines, where there is gross disruption of the outer doublets, this measurement is no longer sufficient. For these axonemes, it is necessary to use information from all remaining doublets, such as fitting the data points to an ellipse. We used the free software LSM (http://www.prz.rzeszow.pl/~janand/) to perform non-linear least-squares fitting of the data. All other calculations follow as above.
The above ellipse corrections are obviously just as applicable to images as they are to individual data points (see Fig. 1C). In this case, we used parameters estimated from non-linear least-squares fitting as above and the software NIH Image (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/) with custom macros (available from the authors of this article on request).
We thank J. Kelly for providing us with T. cruzi cells, F. Moreira-Leite and H. Dawe for providing us with EM negatives, H. Lu and M. Shaw for EM assistance, and A. Baines for the assistance with monoclonal antibody production. This work has been supported by grants from the Wellcome Trust, HFSP, BBSRC and the EP Abraham Trust. K.G. is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow.
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work
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Happy 2020! (sort of)
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It’s been an wful amount of years since I haven’t drawn a Christmas -or New Year- greeting cardtoon (I just made that up as I typed), and I thought it was about time, so here it is: Happy 2020 to everyone! -most especially to all those who have been following this humble site from the beginning.
Of course, even in such a straightforward drawing I couldn’t resist including a few nods to things both past and present, from Planet of the Apes to Climate Change, Brexit, Calvin and Hobbes, postmodern architecture, or Disney’s The Mandalorian, which has been the first time I enjoy a Star Wars-related product since the original three. (Well, I also enjoyed ‘Solo’, but that’s something I guess I shouldn’t admit publicly). Together whith those, there’s as usual, my cringe-worthy self-caricature, and these two guys which, if you look closely, tend to show up in many of my works. The reason for their inclusion here, other than habit, is that 2020 also marks the 15th year (oh, dear…) since I started using the ‘Klaus’ moniker, which I created in 2005 when I started publishing the architect-themed comic strip ‘El Corbu’ (which Quilian Riano suggested translating as ‘John Corb’). The strip featured a struggling young architect (as I was at the time) dealing with the typical problems of the profession, mostly low wages and clients who don’t like modern architecture. The strip only lasted for a year, even if I had sketched ideas for some 200 installments. As usual, again, the magazine that published didn’t last long, and I abandoned the project. I still like it, and perhaps I’ll retaake it. When I’m retired, I guess. In the meantime, and, for those who might feel any curiosity, here’s a taste, with a strip that makes part of a series where John Corb hs to deal with a client particularly opposed to flat roofs. Enjoy.
And a let’s all hope for a Happy 2020!
Why I hate Blade Runner
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I saw Blade Runner for the first time on the end-of-the-Summer Friday night of September 2, 1988. I remember it with such accuracy because, at a time where there were only two TV channels available, and I still had no VCR at home, the premiere on television of any movie was greeted as an event – and so did, on this occasion, the people I was having dinner with. Truth is, at my still somewhat tender age, I hadn’t heard of the film, but one of the main roles was played by the actor who had previously played Han Solo in Star Wars (the FILM; not ‘A New Hope’, not the Star Wars Universe or any of that mumbo-jumbo). So I sat in front of the TV, still some two years too young to truly enjoy it. Certainly, the film impressed me, although not in the way one would hope for. A couple of years before that I had fled from a morning projection of Blade Runner’s coetaneous Escape from the Bronx (1983), Enzo G. Castellari’s sequel to his own Escape From New York exploitation film 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1990: I guerrieri del Bronx, 1982), whose crudeness -incredibly tame for today’s standards, I’ll freely admit- proved to be too much for my youngster sensitivity. That experience had an echo that night, while watching Scott’s film, which granted me several disturbing moments. From that session I kept, engraved in my retina -and my brain- the indelible image of Zhora going through several layers of glass store windows in her plexiglass raincoat, which became less and less transparent as the blood escaping her body impregnated it. I also remember with a similar ambivalence the mixture of repulsion and morbid fascination that the grim porcelain doll look of a very young Sean Young caused on me; or the final scene with Rutger Hauer, majestic in full Norse god magnificence, reciting his semi-improvised monologue on a rainy roof surrounded by blue light.
None of this happened to me some -very few- years later when, also at night, but this time on my own and with some more – although still meager – knowledge and maturity, I finally watched Scott’s previous film, Alien (or Alien, the eighth passenger, in my case , in one of those rare moments of brilliance of the usual ‘creative translation’ of original film titles for Spanish audiences). That is: the fascination was there, of course, but in this case, it was not a morbid mixture of attraction and repulsion, but the pure aesthetic delight of those who experience something for the first time with the growing awareness of being in front of a masterpiece. I must say that this did not happen to me with Blade Runner, not even some years later, when, in the somewhat more reasonable condition of having some previous knowledge of the film and being halfways -more towards the second half, really- of my architecture studies, I rewatched it in order to help a colleague with some coursework. Don’t get me wrong. Blade Runner is one of the films I have most extensively (and often) discussed, one of my favorite films, a milestone in the history of cinema -indisputable if we’re talking about science fiction cinema-, and an icon of postmodernism that has generated rivers of ink, with some minor branches fed by yours truly. I neither confirm nor deny I may have devoted a chapter to it in a PhD dissertation at some point in the past.
However, whilst Alien is a film that works with (Swiss) clockwork precision, Blade Runner is a more irregular effort. Scott’s second film -let’s not forget he had already directed the beautiful The Duellists, which provided him with the Best Debut Film in Cannes in 1977- was a prodigy in the control of cinematographic tempo and footage economy Blade Runner presents an uneven success in the handling of pace, and a clunkier narrative. Alien toyed with the spectator, presenting him with a morose pacing, slowly building tension and then throwing him into an adrenaline-boosted rollercoaster. Blade Runner, on the contrary, is burdened by an occasionally choppy montage and an erratic narrative, full with scenes that drag on screen, whose purpose is not always clear. When it first hit the theaters, viewers often complained about the difficulty to follow the otherwise ridiculously simple plot. Alien had been a filmic prodigy in many respects, ultimately upgrading what had begun as a B horror movie set in space to the category of small cinematic gem. Three years later, with a budget three times bigger, Blade Runner was conceived as a much more ambitious enterprise. Here, Ridley Scott left the megastructural but still somewhat modest inner architectural ecosystem of his second film, and took over the visual creation of a complete world: the megalopolitan continuum of Los Angeles in the -yet to be- future of 2019. However, this expansion in the scope did not lower its level of demand when it came down to the detail in which this fictional world had to be presented to the viewer. Blade Runner was built using the same layering1 method he had applied to the design of The Duelists (1976) and Alien (1979): an accumulation of data in which each frame of the film was crowded with layer upon layer of information. This diogenetic strategy of visual design overwhelmed a viewer unable to apprehend everything that on display, which ultimately resulted in an unbearable feeling of veracity. The images in the film did not look like a set, like a staged, but limited imitation of reality built for the eye of the camera. They looked like real environments whose complexity exceeded the viewer’s ability to apprehend them in their entirety. They were too full with information; they seemed to extend beyond the limits of the screen, equally detailed and complex everywhere the camera bothered to point at; like the real world.
This excessive ambition would also take its toll in the film. If Alien, despite its relative yet limited variety of sets, exuded coherence in his visual treatment, in Blade Runner the team led by Douglas Trumbull had no other option but use all the tricks in the book in order to address Scott’s growing demands, which ended up instilling the fictional reality of the film with a certain collage nature on2. Blade Runner/ Los Angeles 2019 is a film/ place made up of juxtaposed moments/ spaces whose connection, as in the Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, is left to the discretion of the viewer’s imagination.
And yet, it would be this multiple, oversaturated, fragmented condition that would ultimately result in the film’s seemingly inexhaustible ability to both represent postmodern reality, and fascinate audiences and the Academia alike. Back in 1982, Blade Runner shook the filmgoing world with a future-present (a 1980’s future) that was presented to the viewer with overwhelming physicality; a dark but palpable future, which would lead to paradoxes such as the curious Stockholm Syndrome described by Norman M. Klein in 1991, when he wrote that: “(i)n February, 1990, at a public lecture series on art in Los Angeles, three out of five leading urban planners agreed that they hoped someday Los Angeles would look like the film Blade Runner …It has become a paradigm for the future of cities, for artists across the disciplines3.” November 2019 is here, and the reality on the other side of my window is just as ominous as the one described by Scott, but much less fascinating. To make it worse, the same can be said of the one on the other side of the -now predominantly digital-silver screen.
See? See why I hate Blade Runner?
1 “Alien’s ‘environment’ was the popular filmgoing public’s first exposure to “layering”, Scott’s self-described technique of building up a dense, kaleidoscopic accretion of detail within every frame and set of a film. ‘To me (Scott Said) a film is like a seven-hundred-layer layer cake.” Paul M. Sammon, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner (New York: HarperPrism, 1996); 47.
2 Norman M. Klein, “Building Blade Runner” in Social Text, 1990, no. 28; 147. Yes, I know I’ve quoted this text at least as many times as Rowe’s ‘Introduction with Five Architects’. Well, as Eric Idle, in full Michelangelo attire would say: ‘It works, mate!’
“Por qué Odio Blade Runner.” Arquine. Revista Internacional de Arquitectura. ‘Lo que Falta / Missing Pieces.’ Mexico DF: Editorial Arquine, Julio 2019. Nº 89, pp. 23-25.
So, now that November 2019, the year Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (you know, the REAL one) is set, is over, I thought it might be worth remembering the film through this installment of my section ‘Arquinoir’ in Mexican architecture magazine Arquine. I haven’t translated the texts in the cartoon so far. Later, perhaps. The Spanish version can be found online here. Although I strongly suggest buying a physical copy.
Architecture Between the Panels. Comics, cartoons, and graphic narrative in the (New) Neo-Avant-garde.
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Architecture Between the Panels. Page 2. Click to enlarge.
Ok, let’s kickstart, even if a little late, the academic year. with a new entry
Last July, Architectural Design (AD) published ‘Re-imagining the Avant-Garde: Revisiting the Architecture of the 1960s and 1970s’. Guest edited by Matthew Butcher and Luke C. Pearson, this special issue ‘explores the ongoing importance of the work of Architects associated with the Avant-Garde of the 1960s and 1970s for today’s designers and artists.’ The issue features contributions by Pablo Bronstein, Sam Jacob, Sarah Deyong, Stylianos Giamarelos, Damjan Jovanovic, Andrew Kovacs, Perry Kulper, Igor Marjanović, William Menking, Michael Sorkin, Neil Spiller and Mimi Zeiger, and Jimenez Lai, among others.
Knowing how much I like this time period and its architecture, Luke and Matthew were so kind as to ask me to contribute. So I joined my usual partner in crime, and together we put together a dual contribution of both a text and a Scott-McCloud-esque visual essay/graphic narrative under the title “Architecture Between the Panels. Comics, cartoons, and graphic narrative in the (New) Neo-Avant-garde, 1960-2018.” Both the text and the article deal with the many ways in which the language of comics, cartoons, and graphic narrative at large were used by the 1960s avant-garde, and how a younger generation, whose work can be related to the work produced by those architects, are also fostering a determined comeback of these very representation tools.
Architecture Between the Panels. Pages 1-4. Click to enlarge.
The article(s) features many of the usual suspects, such as Archigram, Superstudio, Archizoom, Street Farm, or Rudolf Doernach, but also some lesser-known forays into comics by well-known figures such as Mark Fisher (see my homage from a few years ago here), and Piers Gough, together with Stuart Lever, or Diana Jowsey. Amongst today’s practices, you can find the ubiquitous Jimenez Lai and Wes Jones, CJ Lim, Steve McCloy, Mitnick+Roddier, FleaFolly, Luke Pearson himself, and many others.
As usual with my work, the four pages that make this entry are impossibly cluttered, although this time I may have reached my own limit due to a major rehaul of the piece that took place halfways thru it. My original plan was to feature just the works from the ‘60s, but -very understandably, to be honest- the editors felt the piece should include current practices too, which led to an almost imposible density. Still readable, though. With a magnifying glass, perhaps.
I’ve included some snippet views of the pages for you all to get a taste of what you’re missing by not having read the issue yet. So, open a new tab in your browser and buy yourselves a copy already!
Arquine, Hope, OMA, Rem Koolhaas
Our model Alejandro Hernández (@otrootroblog), editor in Arquine, lectures with style some weeks ago at the ISAD in Chihuahua. In the picture, he’s wearing the retro T-shirt ‘Hope’, from the ‘Kunst Haas’ series in our Spring 2009 Collection.
Quotidian (T)errors: Hyperbole, Caricature, Deformation and Other Catalysts of Invention – Article for Bitácora Magazine
Articles, Klaus, Klaus outside the blog
As a way to celebrate this year’s anniversary (the 10 years of Klaustoon’s Blog, I mean, not the advent of Blade Runner’s 2019), the next months will see some posts looking backwards to past events. And amongst them, a few will deal with events from last year, 2018, which was a rather busy period for me, full of Klaus-related lecturing, exhibiting, and traveling. This busy-ness had the less happy side effect of my neglecting my obligations towards this blog even more than I usually do (which has been a lot, in recent years).
Let’s start, then: as I was writing the 10-year celebration post last week, adding links to the text in the right places, I realized I had forgotten to include a publication that came late in the year, and followed the spirit of my contribution to Thresholds #46: Scatter! (which will be reprised again in an upcoming piece for Architectural Design). As things go, while in the Mextropoli Festival in Mexico DF last year, I happened upon Dino del Cueto, and Cristina López Uribe, from UNAM’s Bitácora Arquitectura.
I had too much on my plate, but the topic of the issue (Error) was irresistible, and, instead of publishing something already done (as they suggested), I decided to call in my better half, and design a piece on the power of satire, cartooning and caricature. The piece, which has quite a lot of Gombrich, along with quite some Buster Keaton, some LC, Piranesi, Hollein, and (of course) many other referents can be found on the journal’s webpage here (in Spanish). Below you can find a quick English translation of the first couple of pages, interspersed with the pages as published, which have the specially-made cartoons (click to enlarge) in them (I did manage to oblige myself to repurpose a couple of earlier cartoons, one from Thresholds and another one from A10, but, unfortunately, I couldn’t help drawing four new ones; don’t laugh: it’s a curse).
Twenty years ago, I attended a lecture given by Federico Soriano, who, armed with his trademark floral shirts and blank stares, began by showing several stills from One Week (1920) [1], the first film produced independently by Buster Keaton, which revolved around the disagreements of the protagonists regarding the construction of a house. This was a recurrent trope in the films of the first decades of the century, from Laurel & Hardy’s to Charlie Chase’s, particularly when the accessories of modernity came into play: specifically, the many mechanisms that literally transformed the house into a machine for living in. Keaton himself addressed this issue in other films, such as The Scarecrow (1920), and especially The Electric House (1922), adding to a genealogy probably started by Segundo de Chomón with The Electric Hotel (1908) which, some decades later, would find one of its most celebrated moments in Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle (1958) [2].
However, here the link with the architectural practice was even more straightforward, since the film portrayed the eventful construction -and later destruction- of a prefabricated house, conducted by the protagonist and his wife. The house was a simple two-story wooden structure which, according to the brochure, could be erected within a week’s time -hence the title-, merely requiring to be assembled, following the numbering on the boxes that contained the pieces. This apparently simple process goes off the rails, however, when Keaton’s rival – a spiteful suitor who had given the house to the newlyweds as a wedding present- sabotages the construction halfways by changing the numbers on the boxes. Oblivious to this ploy Keaton’s character continues the construction unperturbed, following what he believes to be the company’s instructions to the T -with hilarious consequences. The resulting building is a caricature of what a house of the time should look like, with uncanny angles, elements rotated and repositioned in absurd places, and many other defamiliarizing twists on the invariants of the typology.
All throughout its footage, the film keeps showcasing these strategies that estrange the familiar, displaying floors and ceilings that suffer elastic deformations, rotating walls (a usual resource of slapstick cinema) and, in general, presenting an architecture which is anything but stable and/ or static. The second half of the film shows the house spinning vertiginously on its axis as a result of a storm and, afterwards, travelling on wheels (barrels, actually), once the owners realize that the lot they should have built it in is on the other side of the railroad. Of course, all this only helps make its deformation even worse. As could not be otherwise, the film ends with the eventual destruction of the building, when, following an unsuccessful attempt to move it to the correct plot, the little monstrosity is destroyed by a train, in a kind of benevolent euthanasia, after getting stuck on the railway tracks.
In Soriano’s narrative, this film -which has become sort of a classic in modern disquisitions on architecture and housing- was used as an example of incorruptible commitment to a predetermined design process. Keaton’s character represents here the believer in following an a priori chosen method to its ultimate consequences, whatever these may be. This is an approach that understands architecture as a process -autonomous or otherwise- where the success of the final result may be more or less relevant, but is neither predetermined nor predictable when it is unleashed. Also, in Keaton’s film the process is triggered by error, but not by sheer chance. Error is not fortuitous, but premeditated (even if not by the executor himself), and although the initial change that triggers the process is both arbitrary and random (there is not an specific, but a generic goal behind the new arrangement: disorder itself), its execution, within the film’s narrative, is impeccably rigorous.
However, and particularly with the advantage of looking back at it almost a century later, after the advent of protomodernity, modernity, postmodernity (and whatever we inhabit since then -liquid modernity, I guess), the film also exemplifies the creative potentialities of error as an automatic, uncontrolled and uncontrollable generator of new, unexpected ideas, or ideas-forms in architecture’s case. Other authors, such as Iñaki Ábalos have contributed less optimistic readings of the film, understanding that “although it soon become obvious that there is some kind of mistake, Keaton has no choice, no other thought model to oppose that of the manual, and blindly proceeds to a mechanical construction process in which the final result will become a cruel metaphor of the destiny of the couple and the institutional family in our days.”[3] Beyond these socio-architectural disquisitions, there is, however, an obvious overlap of the, then absurd, architectural form generated in/for the film and iconographies (and strategies) we are very familiar with today. The goal of the result of the architectural operation was, in the context of the film, exclusively diegetic, and undeniably humorous. In fact, the film was conceived as a parody of Home Made (1919), a Ford Motor Company-produced educational film on prefab housing -buildable in a week- which provided Keaton with many of the ideas on display in One Week. Consequently, it presented the viewer with a design that was, for all intents and purposes, a parody, or, better, a caricature of a known archetype, designed to arise laughter in the audience. The current validity of the gag [4] was proved by the unanimous laughter it raised at the lecture I mentioned at the beginning, in an auditorium exclusively populated by architects and students of architecture. [….]
Luis Miguel Lus Arana: Quotidian [T]errors: Hyperbole, Caricature, Deformation and Other Catalysts of Invention. [Excerpt]. Bitácora Arquitectura nº 37 (2018); 120-135.
Klaustoon’s Blog: 10 years and still here.
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Oh, dear.
When, 5 years ago, I realized this blog had reached its 5 year mark, and I set out to write an anniversary post of sorts, I distinctly remember thinking: ‘Really? Five years already?’ It certainly felt much less than that in some respects, possibly because producing Klaus-related stuff had been an on-and-off thing with ups and downs, and I was ready to abandon it altogether just every other Sunday. So it’s most disturbing to be writing this at a point that feels about two weeks later. And again, I’m both surprised that time went so fast, but also that it lasted this long: as I commented a couple days ago at a lecture in Canterbury, the ‘let’s just forget about this already’ feeling still persists.
Oh, well, let’s not get too dramatic. 5 years ago, I thought a brief summary of what had happened in those 5 years would be appropriate, so, following that short-lived tradition, let’s look back at those additional 60 months:
Back in March 2014, I had already been working for Uncube magazine for a little over a year, producing my ‘Numerus Klausus’ strip for the ‘Klaus’s Kube’ section at the Berlin-based online journal. That soon overlapped with a series of cartoons for the ‘Interchange’ section of Dutch magazine A10: New European architecture, thanks to a kind invitation by its then editor-in-chief, Indira Van’t Klooster, who ultimately compiled them all (together with the interviews they illustrated) in the book Forty and Famous (2016). Sadly, both Uncube and A10 went out of business within a couple months’ span in the Spring of 2016 (some posthumous celebration posts coming), but they provided me with a great platform (and a nice excuse) to show and produce my cartoons. And I had so much fun with them. Both editorial teams went on to found their own platforms (A10 coop. and &Beyond), and continued with other projects. Uncube’s cartoons remain uncollected in paper form, though, so if some publisher out there would like to try his hand at an ‘Artist’s Edition’, complete with sketches, preliminary drawings, and behind-the-scenes commentary, please let me (and Sophie Lovell) know.
I was sad to see both magazines go. However, even if the crazy 2014-2016 period, with its -for me- intense production of about two (increasingly complicated) cartoons per month, overlapped with my also increasingly demanding academic life, it also witnessed the consolidation of my longest steady relationship to date: the section Arquinoir at Mexico’s leading architecture magazine Arquine, a combination of cartoons and written columns that offers me with a great venue to exorcise my inner demons. Other writing gigs (together with cartoons), where I can pour some of my own research disguised under the ‘Klaus’ persona have also popped up in the last year, in the form of a conversation in MIT’s Thresholds journal (Thanks to Eli Keller and Anne Graziano), Mexican magazine Bitácora (cheers, Cristina & Dino), and, in a few months’ time (although completed a few months back), in Architectural Design, thanks to a kind invitation from Bartlett’s Luke Pearson and Matthew Butcher.
Of course, this is something that was already going on, and continued in yet one more article for Clog with another cartoon -and article- for their 11th issue, simply titled ‘Rem’. Other nice forays from 2014 were Phin Harper‘s-scripted Terry Farrell cartoon for The Architectural Review, the Table of Contents illustration for PRAXIS #14: True Stories, where I was featured along with some old friends (even if behind the new penname ‘Klaus Roons’ -Ahem!), as well as Jean-Louis Violeau’s irreverent REM. Le Bon, la Brute…, which reused some of my past cartoons on Mr. K. The following year, my work was also the subject of some nice commentary in Gabriele Neri’s book Caricature architettoniche – Satira e critica del progetto moderno (I swear I wrote that review, Gabriele; I just never found the time to finish it publish it…), and an eight-page dossier was published in Arq’a magazine.
Finally, an additional -and very big- ‘thank you’ must go to all those Good Samaritans who insist on forcing me to fight my seclusive self and make me travel virtually through my cartoons, in exhibitions in The Art Institute of Chicago, Venice, the Centro Cultural España (post coming) in Mexico or the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Santiago de Chile (yes, another post coming, too). And thanks to those who felt it might be worth hearing about my work in my words. For a few interviews with yours truly, click here and here (Veredes.com), here and here (Fredy Massad in La Viga en el Ojo), or here (Sophie Lovell in Uncube).
I got to thank them, too, for also bringing me physically out of my office. Those who know me also know about my natural resistance to talk about my work. But also know that, deep at heart, I love traveling, so thanks for helping me leave my drafting table and speak (in disguise) at the Graham Foundation, Universidad de Alcalá, the Chicago design Museum, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (post coming again; in the meantime, here’s the poster I designed for them, which was an immense amount of fun) the gigantic Mextropoli Festival in Mexico D.F. (first anniversary post coming soon), Santiago de Chile’s ArqFilmFest (seems some intensive posting is gonna happen in the upcoming months) or, just a little over a week ago, to Canterbury’s School of Architecture (guess what’s coming next week), among others.
5 years ago, I ended my anniversary post with a ‘see you in 5 more years’ time’. So, see you in… 10 more years’ time?
And the Pritzker Goes to… [A Short-short History of the Pritzker Prize]
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So, since tomorrow, March 5, 2019, will see the announcement of the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize, I thought it might be worth to whet (y)our appetite with this short piece from last year. The text, published within my ongoing section ‘ArquiNoir’ in issue #84 of Mexican magazine Arquine, was written -as you probably guessed already- on occasion of last year’s award, which went to Balkrishna Doshi. However, as it’s traditional in the column, I barely touched upon Doshi, and rather went for a slightly humorous, somewhat sarcastic, and very brief review of the (also) brief history of the Prize -peppered with some saucy vignettes that have taken place in the four decades that have gone by since it was created.
The text was originally written in (perfect) Spanish, so some adaptations were done here and there so as to limit the wonkiness of the English translation. For the original text, as well as a view of both the cartoon and the essay as they were published in the magazine, just scroll down. For past cartoons on the Pritzker Prize, click here.
According to Brendan Gill (not to be confused with Iker Gil), secretary of the Pritzker Prize between 1985 and 1987 and author of the column “The Sky Line” for the New Yorker, shortly before leaving the secretariat he received a call at the offices of the organization. The hoarse voice on the other side of the wire was that of Gordon Bunshaft, who, working for SOM has left us some of the best works produced by American corporate architecture, such as the Lever House. According to Gill, Bunshaft “had long coveted the prize” (which actually had only run for eight editions), and phoned to ask about the nomination process. Gill informed him that anyone could propose a candidate, and that “many times friends or admirers of an architect would write in to propose him”. So, with proverbial pragmatism, Bunshaft nominated himself[1]. He would show similar pragmatism a few months later when he picked up the prize -ex-aequo with Oscar Niemeyer-, delivering an acceptance speech of less than 60 words[2].
Bunshaft’s is surely one of the most colorful anecdotes in the History of a prize which, inevitably, have never been without controversy. When Niemeyer and Bunshaft were honored exactly 30 years ago now, Paul Goldberger counter-attacked in the pages of the New York Times, speaking out against the policy of rewarding these ‘White Old Men’ (my words, not his), old glories whose work he regarded as totally off-tune with the reality of the time[3]. Surely Mr. Goldberger still thinks the same today, at 67 years old. I certainly do think the same as six years ago, when I wrote (sorry for the self-quotation) that “[o]ver the years, the Pritzker organization has featured a combination of total predictability, submitting to the architectural status quo by awarding its prize to the decreasing members of the star(chitectural) system who are left -and the Oscar-like custom to reward old-timers in not particularly moments of their careers before it’s too late-, and a penchant for alternating those with lesser-known names, usually artisans from outside the Anglo-Saxon market. [4]”
Six years later, I still think that, despite the fact that the organization itself claims on its own website that “[m]any of the procedures and rewards of the Pritzker Prize are modeled after the Nobel Prize“, the comparison with the Oscars is a sounder one. I also still have hope, as I said then, that at some point Peter Eisenman plays the role of Martin Scorsese when, in 2006, he finally picked up a prize awarded rather for his glorious past than for the film that served as an excuse. This would honor the tradition I already outlined -and, in light of Eisenman’s work in the last thirty years, it’s in the only possible option, anyway. They have also adopted other customs of the Academy, such as delivering posthumous prizes: in 2015, the announcement of Frei Otto’s award took place two weeks earlier than usual… and one day after the architect’s demise, despite tje Prize’s stated purpose “to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision, and commitment, etc., etc.” If they intend to reward the only member of the New York Five still available -Meier already got his more than three decades ago-, and only as a preventive measure, perhaps they should hurry up a little (the same would apply to César Pelli, Ricardo Scofidio or Arata Isozaki -and even Stanley Tigerman, since we’re at it).
Not an easy feat for him, though. It is true that during its first, the prize had a marked local nature, awarding Philip Johnson (1979), Kevin Roche (1982), I.M. Pei (1983), Richard Meier (1984), the aforementioned Gordon Bunshaft (1988), and Frank Gehry (1989) – Robert Venturi would be added to the list in 1991. However, we would have to wait until Thom Mayne got it in 2005 to find another American (US, I mean) Pritzker, and none other has been elected since. The most elementary arithmetic of architectural criticism tells us, therefore, that the United States has one Pritzker for every 40.7 million inhabitants, very far from Portugal, which, with its 10.32 million has already obtained two, and from Japan, whose five winners almost make one for every 21.16 million -almost in a technical draw with the United Kingdom (Mexico is far behind, with its -still- only winner dating back to the early days of the award).
However, in spite of its international projection, the award has somehow managed to avoid some of the controversies that the Oscars have gone through, such as the one attached to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign in 2016 (although racial diversity, minus the cases of Japan and the nationalized Pei, has been, let’s say, quite limited). There will always be cynics who see in Wang Shu’s 2012 nomination a marketing device similar to that of Hollywood films which introduce Asian actors to make their way into the Chinese market. There will also be some who think that to award the prize to B.V. Doshi is a gesture of Western paternalism, which somehow rewards his relationship with Le Corbusier. It will not be me who makes such unfair remarks. I won’t be the one, either, who, in line with the movement Time’s Up, will accuse the organization of sexism, for leaving Denise Scott Brown out in 1991, while including a forty-year-old Ryue Nishizawa in 2010 it.
And I will not do it because, regardless of how fair -or extremely unfair- their decision might be, we will criticize them with equal fury. Who will be next? As Marcos Mundstock would say, “place your bullets, gentlemen![5]“
[1] Brendan Gill, “Worldwide Plaza”, in The Sky Line, The New Yorker, December 24, 1990; 86.
[2] It consisted of exactly 58 words: “In 1928, I entered the MIT School of Architecture and started my architectural trip. Today, 60 years later, I’ve been given the Pritzker Architecture Prize for which I thank the Pritzker family and the distinguished members of the selection committee for honoring me with this prestigious award. It is the capstone of my life in architecture. That’s it.”
[3] Paul Goldberger, “What Pritzker Winners Tell Us About the Prize”, in Architecture View, The New York Times, May 29, 1988.
[4] “Pritzker 2012: Who they gonna call?“, in Klaustoon’s Blog, February 27, 2012.
[5] In the original text, the sentence is the untranslatable play on words “¡hagan fuego, señores! “. Les Luthiers, “Ya el sol asomaba por poniente.” Volumen III (Ion, 1973)
De acuerdo con Brendan Gill (no confundir con Iker Gil), secretario del Pritzker Prize entre 1985 y 1987 y autor de la columna “The Sky Line” para el New Yorker, poco antes de dejar la secretaría recibió una llamada en las oficinas de la organización. La voz ronca al otro lado del hilo era la de Gordon Bunshaft, arquitecto que trabajando para SOM nos ha dejado algunas de las mejores obras producidas por la arquitectura corporativa estadounidense, como la Lever House. De acuerdo con Gill, Bunshaft “hacía mucho tiempo que codiciaba el premio” (que en realidad tan sólo había tenido ocho ediciones), y llamaba para interesarse por el proceso de nominación. Gill le informó de que cualquiera podía nominar un candidato, y que “muchas veces amigos o admiradores de un arquitecto escribían para proponerlo”. Así que, con proverbial pragmatismo, Bunshaft se nominó a sí mismo[1]. Similar pragmatismo exhibiría unos meses después cuando recogiera el premio, ex-aequo con Oscar Niemeyer, y pronunciara un discurso de aceptación que no llegó a las 60 palabras[2].
La de Bunshaft es seguramente una de las anécdotas más coloridas dentro de la historia de unos premios que, como no puede ser de otra manera, nunca han estado exentos de polémica. Ya cuando Niemeyer y Bunshaft fueron galardonados hace ahora exactamente 30 años, Paul Goldberger arremetía en las páginas del New York Times contra la política de premiar a estos ‘White Old Men’ (mis palabras, no las suyas), viejas glorias cuya obra él veía en total falta de sintonía con la realidad actual[3]. Seguramente el Sr. Goldberger sigue opinando lo mismo hoy en día, a sus 67 años. Yo, ciertamente, opino lo mismo que hace seis cuando escribía (perdón por la autocita) que “a lo largo de los años la organización de los Pritzker ha combinado dos estrategias: por una parte, la de ser totalmente predecibles y postrarse ante el statu quo arquitectónico galardonando, a la manera de los Oscars, a los cada vez menos numerosos miembros del ‘star(chitectural) system’ que quedan, aunque sea en momentos no particularmente memorables de sus carreras; por otra, la de alternar a estos con nombres menos conocidos, generalmente esforzados artesanos procedentes de fuera del mercado anglosajón.[4]“
Seis años después, sigo pensando que, pese a que la propia organización insista desde su propia página web en que “muchos de los procedimientos y premios del Pritzker… han tomado como modelo a los Premios Nobel”, la comparación con los Oscar es más acertada. También sigo esperando, como afirmaba entonces, que en algún momento Peter Eisenman haga las veces de Martin Scorsese cuando en 2006 recogía por fin un premio que lo era más por pasadas glorias que por el film que le servía de excusa. Esto se correspondería con la tradición antes apuntada para los Pritzker -y, a la luz de la obra de Eisenman en las últimas tres décadas, es en cualquier caso la única opción posible. También han adoptado otras costumbres de la Academia, como la de entregar premios póstumos: en 2015, el anuncio del premio de Frei Otto tuvo lugar dos semanas antes de lo habitual… y un día después del fallecimiento del arquitecto, pese a su objetivo declarado de “homenajear a un arquitecto vivo cuyo trabajo construido demuestra una combinación de las cualidades del talento, la visión, el compromiso, etc., etc.” Si tienen intención de premiar al único miembro de los New York Five que queda libre -Meier ya obtuvo el suyo hace más de tres décadas-, y únicamente como medida preventiva, quizá deberían acelerar los tiempos (lo mismo aplicaría a César Pelli, Ricardo Scofidio o Arata Isozaki, e incluso a Stanley Tigerman, ya puestos).
No lo tiene fácil, en cualquier caso. Es cierto que durante la primera década de su historia, los premios tuvieron una marcada componente local, con premios para Philip Johnson (1979), Kevin Roche (1982), I.M. Pei (1983) Richard Meier (1984), el ya mencionado Gordon Bunshaft (1988) y Frank Gehry (1989), a los que se sumaría Robert Venturi en 1991. Sin embargo, habría que esperar hasta Thom Mayne en 2005 para encontrar otro estadounidense, y desde entonces ninguno más ha sido seleccionado. La aritmética elemental de la crítica arquitectónica nos dice, por tanto, que Estados Unidos cuenta con un Pritzker por cada 40,7 millones de habitantes, muy lejos de Portugal, que con 10,32 millones ya ha obtenido dos, y de Japón, que con sus cinco premiados toca a uno por cada 21,16 millones, casi en empate técnico con el Reino Unido (atrás queda México, con su aún único premio relegado a los comienzos del galardón).
Esta proyección internacional ha soslayado sin embargo alguna de las carencias que han propiciado algunas controversias de los Oscar, como la relativa al #OscarsSoWhite de 2015, si bien la diversidad racial, fuera de los casos de Japón y del nacionalizado Pei, ha sido, por ponerlo generosamente, limitada. Siempre habrá cínicos que vean en la nominación de Wang Shu en 2012 una maniobra de marketing similar a la de los filmes de Hollywood cuando introducen actores asiáticos para abrirse camino en el mercado chino. También habrá quien opine que galardonar a B.V. Doshi es un gesto de paternalismo occidentalista, que premia su relación con Le Corbusier. No seré yo quien haga tan injustas apreciaciones. Tampoco seré yo, al hilo del movimiento Time’s Up, quien acuse de sexismo a la organización, que en 1991 dejó fuera a Denise Scott Brown, pero en 2010 incluyó a un Ryue Nishizawa de cuarenta y pocos años.
Y no lo haré porque, independientemente de lo acertado o extremadamente desacertado de sus decisiones, los criticaremos con igual saña. ¿A quién le tocará el próximo? Como diría Marcos Mundstock, “¡hagan fuego, señores![5]“.
[1] Brendan Gill, “Worldwide Plaza” en The Sky Line, The New Yorker, December 24, 1990; 86.
[2] Fueron exactamente 58: “In 1928, I entered the MIT School of Architecture and started my architectural trip. Today, 60 years later, I’ve been given the Pritzker Architecture Prize for which I thank the Pritzker family and the distinguished members of the selection committee for honoring me with this prestigious award. It is the capstone of my life in architecture. That’s it.”
[3] Paul Goldberger, “What Pritzker Winners Tell Us About the Prize”, en Architecture View, The New York Times, May 29, 1988;
[4] “Pritzker 2012: Who they gonna call?“ en Klaustoon’s Blog, February 27, 2012.
[5] Les Luthiers, “Ya el sol asomaba por poniente.” Volumen III (Ion, 1973)
————————–Klaus, “¡Han cantado Pritzker!”, Arquinoir, Arquine nº 84: La Apariencia del Espacio / The Appearance of Space, Verano / Summer 2018.
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LEVESON PART TWO = Please Help Ensure That Police & Media Corruption is EXPOSED and that Victims of Press Abuse Finally Get Justice!
Posted on November 2, 2016 by klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis
BREAKING NEWS: House of Lords Passes Ammendment Demanding that Part Two of
Leveson Inquiry Must Take Place:
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/lords-defeat-government-passing-law-requiring-part-two-of-the-leveson-inquiry-to-take-place/
BAD NEWS = We Still need your help to ensure that the House of Commons do note
vote against and/or overule this ammendment so PLEASE Contact your MP now as
per http://linkis.com/takeaction.org.uk/2pimU
The Recent Jailing of Murdoch’s “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood and the fact so many of his innocent victims are now appealing their Convictions, with many others also taking Civil Action is just one of the numerous very good reasons why we need PART TWO of The LEVESON Inquiry to take place as a matter of urgency.
The Daniel Morgan Murder
The Daniel Morgan Murder is the most investigated Murder in British History and Still nobody has been charged. Evidence exists that Southern Investigations worked with
Mazher Mahmood for many, many years and also evidence exists that News International
aka The now Defunct News of the World interferred in the proper investigation of Daniel
Morgans Murder. Yet another good reason why we need LEVESON PART 2 as a matter of extreme urgency.
Also Section 40 needs to be implemented as soon as possible so that the only truly independent Press Regulator “IMPRESS” can offer real protection and help to victims of press abuse and so that they will have real powers and thus will act as a real deterrent to stop the media from publishing lies, fabricated and distorted rubbish and indeed ever entrapping or manipulating people in the same manner that the “Fake Sheikh” regularly did.
This Link Will Explain More About What Section 40 is and why it needs to be implemented
immediatly:
http://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hacked-Off-S40-submission.pdf
And this link includes information on why we Need Leveson 2 to take place:
http://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/HackedOff_FF1.pdf
PLEASE THEREFORE COMPLETE THE ONLINE SURVEY AT THIS LINK
https://www.research.net/r/9WH5LV3
Questions 1, 2 and 3 are about who you are and where you are etc….
Then to give you an example the rest of the questions are as follows (see below)
and here are the answers that I gave so you know which are the right ones to
tick the boxes on of the multiple choice questions and also have an idea of what
to say in reply to the rest of the questions.
THE MORE OF THESE SURVEYS THAT ARE COMPLETED BY PEOPLE LIKE
YOU AND ME THE MORE CHANCE THERE IS OF US BEING HEARD
4: Which of the following statements do you agree with? (Tick all that apply)
Government should fully commence s.40 now.
5.Do you have evidence in support of your view, particularly in terms of the impacts on the press industry and claimants?
6Please provide the evidence which supports your view. (Maximum 250 words)
Having Studied this at great length and attended events by Hacked Off, it is my understanding that implementing Section 40 will protect publishers just as much as it will those who feel (and can show) that they have been or have become victims of press abuse.
IMPRESS the only truly independent Press Regulator has now been given a Royal Charter and Approval and by implementing Section 40, you can help them to become the logical body of choice for all media to become members of, thus helping to ensure that unfounded attacks on innocent people, untruthful and distorted stories and defamatory rubbish no longer continues to appear in British Media.
Or at very least that if it does appear, those innocent victims of it, can thanks to Section 40 pursue affordably and realistically their legal right of redress to make the truth known and get the justice that they deserve when they have been wronged.
Publishers need not fear this as if they publish only the truth then no action will ever come against them, but even if they did for example accidentally be found of defaming someone, if they have joined a body such as IMPRESS then they too as the Publishers will have a level of protection.
7.To what extent will full commencement incentivise publishers to join a recognised self-regulator? Please use evidence in your answer. (Maximum 250 words)
It is my belief that the ONLY way to incentivise publishers to join a truly independent regulator such as IMPRESS which now has a Royal Charter and is the only truly independent press regulator which does not have involvement or meddling from those whose self-interests are involved due to them being too close to the media which prints things is to ensure that Section 40 is commenced urgently. It is only when people have true protection from becoming victims of press abuse or at very least have an affordable way to defend their position when they have been wronged that justice and truth will ever finally prevail in the British media.
Questions on Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry
Part 1 of the Leveson Inquiry examined the culture, practices and ethics of the press and, in particular, the relationship of the press with the public, police and politicians.
Part 2 was designed to examine wrongdoing in the press and the police and the wider implications for police and press relations.
8. Do you believe that the terms of reference of Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry have already been covered by Part 1 and the criminal investigations?
9. Which terms do you think still require further investigation? (Tick all that apply)
(PLEASE TICK ALL OF THE BOXES ON QUESTION NINE)
Term of Reference 3 (To inquire into the extent of unlawful or improper conduct within News International, other newspaper organisations and, as appropriate, other organisations within the media, and by those responsible for holding personal data).
Term of Reference 4 (To inquire into the way in which any relevant police force investigated allegations or evidence of unlawful conduct by persons within or connected with News International, the review by the Metropolitan Police of their initial investigation, and the conduct of the prosecuting authorities).
Term of Reference 5 (To inquire into the extent to which the police received corrupt payments or other inducements, or were otherwise complicit in such misconduct or in suppressing its proper investigation and how this was allowed to happen)
Term of Reference 6 (To inquire into the extent of corporate governance and management failures at News International and other newspaper organisations, and the role, if any, of politicians, public servants and others in relation to any failure to investigate wrongdoing at News International).
Term of Reference 7 (In the light of these inquiries, to consider the implications for the relationships between newspaper organisations and the police, prosecuting authorities, and relevant regulatory bodies – and to recommend what actions, if any, should be taken).
10. If you have evidence to support your answer, please provide details below. (Maximum 250 words)
Need I say more than Milly Dowler, Phone Hacking, The Daniel Morgan Murder and Mazher Mahmood?
The Daniel Morgan Murder is the most investigated murder in British History and there is evidence that News International have interfered in the investigation/s, also evidence exists that Southern Investigations were used by News International and Mazher Mahmood for many years and that ultimately combined with Mahmoods boasts of having Bent Coppers in his pocket and his most recent conviction for Perverting the Course of Justice, there is quite obviously a massive can of worms that demands further investigation.
The fact so many who were victims of the same kind of deception, entrapment, dishonesty, lies and deceit at the hand of Mazher Mahmood who evidence shows even perjured himself during the first part of the Leveson Inquiry have now got appeals in process with the CCRC and Courts also calls into question why did the Police and CPS ever believe any alledged evidence from Mahmood and News UK/International when evidence exists that they knew Mahmood could not be trusted as far back as 1998/1999 and possibly earlier.
The fact that Police and Media may have had a corrupt relationship in the past most certainly is of public interest and needs to be investigated in depth and the truth uncovered.
11. Which of the following options best represent your views?
Continue the Inquiry with the original or amended Terms of Reference
12. If you think the Government should take another course of action to those set out in the question above, please provide your views. (Maximum 250 words)
The Government Should and indeed MUST do exactly what has been promised to the General Public for so long now, namely to implement Section 40 as a matter of urgency to give potential victims of press abuse a realistic and affordable right of reply and route to justice and also Start Part Two of the Leveson Inquiry immediatly.
Quite honestly to not do so will look (whether it is or not) to everybody like some kind of attempt by the Government to help Cover up the truth about the Media and Police Corruption which it is becoming increasingly clear has taken place over the years.
If you’d like to know more about things such as:
*The Truth about Murdoch’s Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood
*The Daniel Morgan Murder Inquiry
*IMPRESS the truly independent Press Regulator and The Hacked Off Campaign
*Evidence of Police and Media Corruption at the highest levels..
THEN PLEASE CHECK OUT MY DETAILED BLOG PAGE HERE
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Doctor Who: The Daleks, Part Three: The Escape
September 27, 2014 Joe Pranevich Leave a comment
Well, don’t you know about the Daleks? – Susan
Three episodes into The Daleks and we finally get some action! This episode also gives us the Thals for the first time, a perfect race of beautiful people that make inappropriate comments about sixteen-year old girls. Doctor Who is finding its feet still in these early stories, but I do not believe that you have to be a mature show to know that insinuating that a 35-year old man has the hots for a 16-year old woman is a bad idea.
That transgression aside, this is a nice episode that finally moves the plot forward while establishing several new characters. On to the recap.
“The Escape”, Season 1, Episode 7. First aired January 4, 1964.
Where we left off, Susan was just leaving the TARDIS with the radiation drugs, on her way back to the Dalek city and her companions. She walked almost right into her stalker, a handsome man named Alydon who provides Susan with a second set of drugs (in case the Daleks take the first), his cloak, and offers to escort her to the city. Susan is initially scared and suspicious, but since you can always trust beautiful people, she soon comes to trust him completely.
Fast forward and Susan is back in the city and back in her cell, having given the medication to each of the companions. The Daleks are aware that she has made contact with the Thals, and even allow her to keep the second set of drugs that she brought, but the group are still prisoners and may not leave. She explains that the Thals have survived through subsistence farming, relying on a great rainfall every several years, but they are running out of food and had to leave their plateau in order to find more. They will slowly starve unless they find some other source of food, and the chance to make peace with the Daleks may be the best way to save their people.
In the control room, a group of Daleks is spying on the group. One asks another why she was allowed to keep the second set of drugs, and why they are providing the prisoners with food and water, but he reveals that he is just trying to give them a false sense of security.
In the morning, a Dalek arrives bearing food and water, but also takes Susan. They tell the group that they will help the Thals. Ian realizes as they take Susan away that they have been spied on.
It would have been better if you had given it to a man instead of a girl. – Dyoni
Meanwhile in the jungle, a group of under-dressed Thals have decided that right next to the strange blue box is the best place to build camp. Several new Thals are introduced: Ganadus; Temmosus, who may be their leader; and Dyoni, a young girl who shows jealousy about Alydon’s affection for Susan. They discuss that they were once a warrior race, but now they are peaceful farmers. Temmosus admires the architecture of the Dalek city and hopes to be able to exchange ideas and goods with them. They also reveal that they have been traveling for four years and will need a resupply of food soon. Alydon reveals that if they receive a message, they will know whether the Daleks are hostile or not by whether it is signed with Susan’s name.
Back in the Dalek’s city, Susan is transcribing a note. The Daleks reveal that they grow vegetables in artificial sunlight and will exchange with the Thals if they help cultivate the land around the city. Susan writes it all out and signs her name at the bottom. She wants to take the message, but the Daleks insist on doing it themselves. Suddenly, Ian’s voice can be heard asking how long the Daleks will keep Susan: they left their spying machine on! How clumsy of them. The Daleks immediately take a more hostile posture and escort Susan back to the cell.
Some time later, the companions start a ruse. The Doctor pretends that he wants to cooperate with the Daleks, Ian accuses him of treason, they fight, Susan and Barbara get in on the action, and in all of that Susan manages to get on Ian’s shoulders to pull the security camera out of the wall. Despite their cleverness, the Daleks see straight through the act but decide not to fix the camera anyway. But finally, they have privacy and can plan their escape. Ian and the Doctor start piecing together all the evidence: the metal floors, the the spell, the way they move. The Daleks are powered by electricity through the floor! (The Doctor says static electricity, but of course he meant futuristic static electricity and not what we know of as static electricity because that wold be dumb.) Fortunately, the Thals have provided Susan with a plastic cloak, the perfect insulator.
Meanwhile, back in the land of handsome people, they have received Susan’s note with signature and prepare to meet the Daleks to claim the offered vegetables.
The companions wait in the cell until the next meal-time. When a Dalek arrives with another tray of food, Ian jams the door open with a piece of metal. Barbara gets the jump on the surprised Dalek by covering its eye stalk with mud (dirt collected from Susan’s shoes mixed with water). Ian and the Doctor try to control the creature from the outside, to keep it from shooting anyone, while Susan lays out the cloak. With a strenuous effort, Ian and the Doctor are able to maneuver the Dalek onto the insulated surface and it immediately powers down. Ian opens the Dalek casing and looks inside, telling Susan and Barbara to move away so they do not need to. He wraps the creature inside in the cloak and puts it aside. Ian is able to fit inside– there are controls and a screen, so the creature must have been controlling it directly. Barbara clears off the mud, but Ian cannot figure out the controls. They decide they need to push the Dalek casing containing Ian and hope no one notices.
Susan leads them out into the hallway. Under the cloak, the now separated Dalek moves. To be continued!
I tell you, the Daleks are brilliant people. I think we ought to cooperate with them. – The Doctor
After two episodes of set up, it is disappointing that so much of this episodes relies on coincidence and stupidity. Time and time again, the Daleks subvert expectation by seeing through every ruse (they find the hidden second set of radiation drugs, they figure out that the fight in the cell was staged), but then being utterly stupid. They let the group use the drugs, do not move their cell or fix the broken camera, and allow Susan to discover their spying. Are they supposed to be clever or stupid? I cannot tell.
The Thals are also introduced for the first time, but do not come off that well. They are beautiful people, but Alydon is a borderline stalker who might be skirt-chasing a woman less than half his age, while another woman also half his age pines for him. The relationship triangle is unnecessary and icky.
The end of this episode sets up some great opportunities in the next episode, as long as the group does not get caught immediately and thrown back into their cell.
The Daleks here are presented a little creatures in tanks, rather than BEING the tank. This is different than how they will be portrayed in the future, but a nice sci-fi touch.
Dalek paper is hard and can be carried by Daleks! Nice bit of world-building, but then why don’t they write the note themselves?
The plastic cloak is both a terrible costuming choice, and one lampshaded to fit the needs of the episode. Or in 1964 was plastic considered rare and valuable?
The Thals name the strange metal animal from the first episode, a Magneton. It is implied that they are a source of food, presumably requiring a can-opener.
The Daleks are clever and stupid at the same time, and having Susan write the note in the same room that they use to spy on the others is terribly stupid.
The Thals are too perfectly pacifistic, and I am not sure I buy that they have wandered for four years only to stumble on the TARDIS and her crew by accident. The TARDIS does have a way of dropping her passengers in the right places, but at this point in the story it feels too coincidental.
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Previous episodes this season:
E01: An Unearthly Child
E02: The Cave of Skulls (An Unearthly Child, Part 2)
E03: The Forest of Fear (An Unearthly Child, Part 3)
E04: The Firemaker (An Unearthly Child, Part 4)
E05: The Dead Planet (The Daleks, Part 1)
E06: The Survivors (The Daleks, Part 2)
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Emotional Boise Kid Gives Performance of His Life Moving on to Hollywood
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I was in tears Wednesday night during a performance on American Idol that I came across. The new season for Idol just kicked off and it just happened to be recorded on the DVR. I clicked and saw this kid from Boise, Idaho. Skrrrrt!
let us introduce you to Logan Johnson from Boise that had everyone crying. What a friggin' great performance and emotional story for Logan's entire family. Yes, Logan will be headed to the Hollywood rounds.
This is a great story because it's everything we struggle with and how you come through on the other side. Addiction hit his family pretty hard and like his mom says,
Our family really needs a win right now. We need something positive...
Logan stepped up and nailed an acoustic version of Demi Lovato's "Sober." His performance was great but I was just in love with their story. I've seen addiction ruin lives and most of us see it play out on social media every day. We've lost too many people to addiction and at age 20 this kid's family is fighting. We ALWAYS cheer for the underdogs and addiction takes no prisoners. What mom couldn't relate to needing a win right now?
All three award-winning judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie gives this guy high praises. "I think he's incredible!" right from Luke who also compares him to Justin Timberlake. All three judges brought the family in to announce that he would be headed to the Hollywood rounds and that's when [insert crying] it pretty emotional.
Let's see if he can surpass our friend Maddie Zahm from last year that was so close! Maddie has a phenomenal voice and a very touching story. We're so excited to see what her next big move is. For Logan, Things look really good based on this video from the show.
Good luck Logan!
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Stepan Kosatyi
Amazon Gets Into The Branded-Mattress Business
Amazon is reportedly getting into the online mattress business, entering a market in which a handful of startups are trying to dominate.
According to a report in Bloomberg, AmazonBasics firm mattress, which sells starting at $130, was found by TJI Research late last week. The firm monitors the list of more than 120 private label Amazon brand products that now includes kitchen goods, clothing, batteries, and electronics. It also has its own line of furniture that includes Amazon bed frames and bedding, reported Bloomberg. The mattress marks the first time Amazon sold a branded Amazon mattress, noted the report, citing TJI.
Retailers, including Amazon, have been picking up the pace of creating their own products under their in-house brands. For Amazon, Wall Street is bullish on its prospects. This past summer SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, the Wall Street firm, projected the Amazon private label business could see revenues of $25 billion by 2022. SunTrust analyst Youssef Squali said the venture could send shares up more than 21 percent over the next year. As a result, he increased his price target from $1,900 to $2,000 a share, CNBC reported at the time. “As strong an eCommerce platform as Amazon has become over the last 20 years, we believe that the best has yet to come,” Squali wrote in a note on Monday (June 4). “Private label is one of the highly under-appreciated trends within Amazon, in our view, which over time should give the company a strong … competitive advantage.” In terms of clothing and footwear on Amazon, the eCommerce retailer’s own private labels are the fourth most purchased brand, “with only Nike, Under Armour and Hanes ranking higher,” Squali wrote in a note. Overall, the bank projected that private label sales could bring in $7.5 billion in sales on the company’s site this year.
In 2017, an analyst from financial firm Morgan Stanley predicted the eCommerce platform’s private label retail sales could provide an added boost to its bottom lines. Brian Nowak said Amazon’s private label merchandise sales could add $1 billion to Amazon’s bottom line, making up 5 percent of retail sales by 2019, Barron’s reported in October.
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Land of plenty: London for startup investors
Megabuyte, November 2012. Original article here (£).
The Early View
The London startup ecosystem now constitutes at least 3,000 tech-focused companies, but possibly as many as 5,000, according to research by Charles Armstrong, the ethnographer and business innovator. Armstrong runs Trampoline Systems in Shoreditch, an award-winning social analytics software specialist, which maps companies’ internal and external relationships. But even he has been surprised at the speed and intensity of growth in the tech cluster around what is admittedly one of London’s grimmest roundabouts. As the London startup hunting ground is getting increasingly rewarding for investors, we spoke to Seedcamp and Passion Capital about what they are looking for, and what kind of opportunity they see in the London scene.
Seedcamp: Network is king
“At the moment we are calling ourselves a global early stage seed investor with a mentoring programme, ” says Kirsten Campbell, general manager of Seedcamp, as we meet in their offices at Google Campus in Shoreditch. The terminology needs work, she laughs: “But we are more than a seed investor. I wouldn’t necessarily classify us as an incubator, as those typically tend to have companies in a co-working space. We don’t like to use the word accelerator either, although there’s a lot of value when that happens.”
Regardless of what Seedcamp will end up calling itself, the fact remains that a host of hot startups can be traced back to the five-year-old programme. These include fashion data expert Editd, peer-to-peer currency exchange group Transferwise, and Playmob, the charity and gaming link-up specialist. Seedcamp’s standard investment is €50 000 for a 8-10% stake, alongside a year-long support programme with access to leading events and mentors. Similar initiatives include Springboard in Europe and Y-Combinator, 500 Startups and TechStars in the US, which support early-stage companies for a limited time while preparing them to raise their next round of funding.
Seedcamp is usually a company’s first cash injection outside friends and family, says Campbell: “This means there’s also a learning curve, as quite often when we send companies a term sheet they have never seen one before.” On that note, Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Seedcamp partner alongside Reshma Sohoni, has set up seedsummit.org, where anyone can look at legal documents for startup funding as agreed as standard by over 30 of the bigger investors [including Passion Capital]. “So even if you have nothing to do with Seedcamp, you can look up what a standard term sheet looks like. That gives you grounds for negotiating if you get something that’s way off.”
This may seem very neighbourly of Seedcamp, but these are actually a very choosy bunch. Operating exclusively on an events- and applications basis, last year Seedcamp got 2000 letters, from which they selected 200 for personal meetings before choosing 20 for investment. “So that gives you an idea of our process, but if you’re talking about quality, we could probably invest in more. There are certainly companies that have applied to Seedcamp and not been picked that have gone on to raise money elsewhere,” says Campbell, pointing out how Christian Thaler-Wolski, Wellington Partners principal and Seedcamp mentor, kept track of a company he met at Seedcamp Berlin last year. Bonusbox, a Facebook-based shopping portal, didn’t get into the Seedcamp programme, but Thaler-Wolski ended up contributing to their funding.
But with companies like Seedcamp being quite exclusive, is there enough money going around in London to fund the good startups? Campbell thinks for a moment: “I guess it depends on how well networked you are, and what investors think of your capabilities. But if you have a strong team in London, Berlin or another hub, I don’t think companies struggle too much to get investment. There seems to be a boost at the moment, there are so many angel networks pitching events.” Right now, Seedcamp is present at ‘How to Web’ in Bucharest, ‘LeWeb’ is coming up next week in Paris, and last week there was an event in Vienna. And investors do go to these events, says Campbell, as well as big corporates such as Microsoft and Facebook, ever keen to see what’s happening on the ground. She points out how co-working community TechHub held an event at Campus earlier in the week; it was meant to be a casual night for founders to test their demos, but investors still managed to sneak in.
For startups, Campbell recommends researching which investor is most suitable to your specific situation and target that shortlist. “Look at the size of deals they typically do to make sure they can give you the amount you are looking for. Look at which sectors they like: for instance Notion Capital likes to invest in B2B software, and Anthemis likes fintech.” Campbell is also a fan of AngelList, the San Francisco-based online network for connecting startups with angel investors. A similar initiative is London-based Seedrs [who we met in September], where companies can reach out not just to angels but anyone else who’d like to invest. There are nearly 18,000 business angels out there in the UK, most being registered by The British Business Angel Association.
When choosing their investments, Campbell says Seedcamp primarily consider the team and the market size, but also the general impression of the people involved. “Some of the teams are really early stage, so all you can get is a gut feel whether these founders will be able to achieve something.” Campbell reckons about half of the applicants to Seedcamp have a previous venture of some kind behind them: “We invested in Cashpadder last year and in March they sold to AirBnB. The founder, Stephen Rapoport, is now doing his second startup [YourGrind, a custom coffee bean delivery service], so even in a short space of time we are seeing experience building up.”
Passion Capital: A room full of opportunity
White Bear Yard, Passion Capital’s open and friendly co-working space in London’s Clerkenwell, is the sort of buzzy space that gives the impression of the next generation of tech being created right under your nose. Luke Johnson, head of Risk Capital Partners and chairman of StartUp Britain, described it thus in the FT: “This method of building new companies at warp speed is fascinating. […] I like the sense of urgency, the work ethic, the high-pressure environment that helps drive rapid progress, and the incredible opportunities to network and cross-fertilise.”
The $60m Passion fund has only been around since April 2011, but founders Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero have been busy. Out of 1500 possible investments in the first year they ended up with 20, including real-time analytics group GoSquared, direct debit innovator GoCardless, social micropayments outfit Flattr, and Pusher, a programming interface for adding scalable functionality to apps in real time.
“There is a hell of a lot of deal flow in London and Europe right now,” says Stefan Glaenzer. The Passion team look for three Ts when choosing their investments, he explains: team, traction, technology: “Team is the most important once. We first look for passion and willingness in the entrepreneur. It doesn’t necessarily have to be passion for the product, but are these these passionate people? Then there’s the execution and the ability of the founders. And last, do they have the entrepreneurial oomph?” This is where the gut feeling comes in, says Glaenzer: “Some have the oomph and some just don’t.”
Glaenzer thinks the quality as well as the quantity of startups in London, and Europe overall, has increased, and a lot of this can be traced back to the growth in the overall scene: “The ecosystem is getting better. Go back 6-7 years there were 3-4 digital companies around the roundabout. Now there’s over 3000 in 1.5 square miles.” Of course not all the startups are good, adds Glaenzer, but the increasing mass improves the networking and funding opportunities.
Being involved in companies at the earliest stages is where the fun’s at for Glaenzer, who co-founded auction site Ricardo.de and was the first to invest in Last.fm: “I love it. That’s why we do early stage: being involved from the moment of the idea or prototype, then you see a service or product become loved, and then you enter a growth phase … nothing beats it.” Having said that, the backers at Passion will either take a close or remote role with its companies, depending on what they prefer: “We provide them with some funding, resources and a network, and some grey hair magic. But in the end it’s the entrepreneurs who make or break it.”
Passion’s seed rounds last either six, nine or 12 months, during which time the companies need to find an external lead for the next round and Passion will participate pro rata. If they can’t, for a great entrepreneur this may not mean the end, but a signal to go back to the drawing board, says Glaenzer: “It took me five companies to hit on a good one. It doesn’t have to be the first one that makes it. I experienced this myself: you don’t get it right every time.”
The entrepreneur resource
London is the world’s seventh most influential startup ecosystem, according to an interesting new report from Telefonica Digital and Startup Genome, after Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York and Boston. The ‘Startup Ecosystem Report 2012’ surveyed over 50,000 entrepreneurs in an effort to understand how their locations played a hand in their progress. Diverse talent, good support networks, lack of red tape around company creation, and supportive capital structures has made London the biggest hub in Europe, but it still has 70% less “risk capital” available for early-stage startups than the Valley.
While accelerators, angels and investment funds may look like the gatekeepers from the point of view of companies, Glaenzer points out it’s actually the great entrepreneur that is the scarce resource and money that’s the commodity. “For the exceptional entrepreneurs it’s not that hard to raise money. […] But then there is this bracket of entrepreneurs, especially first timers, where the potential might be good but there’s no proven track record.” This is the segment that may find it harder to get funding, but having said that, Glaenzer thinks London and Europe has come a long way in providing opportunities for also this group: “But I’d like to see five times the funds we have now [in the region] become available over the next five to ten years. With the increasing density of the startup ecosystem, I think we could make use of that amount of money.”
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Australia Banks on the Power of Thor to Attract Chinese Tourists
Matthew Lubin
During a press tour for "Avengers: Endgame," actor Chris Hemsworth spoke to media and influencers in China about tourism in Australia. Photo: Shutterstock
Australian tourism hopes to get a boost in arrivals following actor Chris Hemsworth’s recent trip to Shanghai on the “Avengers: Endgame” press tour. Hemsworth’s popularity in China (he has more than 450,000 followers on Weibo) along with the release of the film in mainland China on April 24 could give tourism a boost following a year of slowing growth. The movie set a record with 1 million tickets sold in the first six hours of availability.
Hemsworth, who plays the Marvel character Thor in the movies, became the global ambassador for Tourism Australia in 2016. While in Shanghai, the actor, along with Vogue China editor-in-chief Angelica Cheung shared their favorite experiences about Australia during a session attended by local media and key opinion leaders (KOLs). Cheung was recently appointed as a “Friend of Australia,” a program from Tourism Australia that hopes to benefit from the support of globally influential people.
Hemsworth said during the event, “Tourism Australia recently launched the ‘Too Australian for Words’ campaign here in China, and, as an Australian, I am constantly discovering new and unexpected experiences in Australia.” The Hollywood actor talked about his recent holiday that included Perth and the Quobba Coast, where he and his family spent a week. He also mentioned a visit to Rottnest Island for snorkeling and swimming while also admiring the local wildlife.
(From Left) Andrew Hogg, Regional General Manager, North Asia, Tourism Australia, Angelica Cheung, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue China and Friend of Australia, Chris Hemsworth, Global Ambassador for Tourism Australia. Courtesy Photo
“We are so excited to have Chris here today to share with Chinese travelers his recent trips around Australia and his favorite little-known holiday spots in Australia as a local,” Andrew Hogg, Regional General Manager of North Asia at Tourism Australia, told media.
“It is an immense honor to be a Friend of Australia,” Cheung told the audience. “I am always excited and willing to showcase the best of Australia to Chinese audiences.” Both Hemsworth and Cheung also shared their common affinity for Australian cuisine and wines, which included Hemsworth’s description of the true ‘Australian style’ brunch — simple, fresh, and casual.
Last year, Australia welcomed 1.3 million Chinese tourists, an increase of 5 percent from the previous year and only slightly fewer than visitors from top source market New Zealand. Chinese tourists also spent $8.3 billion (AUD 11.7 billion) in Australia during the year, up 13 percent from 2017. Chinese tourists are by far the biggest spenders in Australia — the second biggest spenders are Americans who spent only $2.69 billion (AUD 3.8 billion) last year. Despite the number of arrivals, Tourism Research Australia noted that the growth rate has slowed.
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Wyoming State Tennis Championships: Sept. 26-28, 2019
The 2019 Wyoming High School State Tennis Championships embark on a three-day run in Gillette Thursday through Saturday.
Play will take place at four venues, Campbell County High School courts, Thunder Basin High School courts, the Campbell County Recreation Center Fieldhouse, and the Bicentennial Park tennis courts.
The action starts at 8:30 a.m. on both Thursday and Friday. There are split times for Saturday with the matches at Thunder Basin starting at 8:30 a.m. and those at Campbell County beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Schedule of Matches
The first two days will feature No. 1 Singles action will be at Campbell County High School with some No. 1 boys’ doubles. Thunder Basin High School will host No. 2 Singles and a few No. 1 girls’ doubles contests. No. 2 doubles will be at Bicentennial Park with some No. 1 doubles matches mixed in. The No. 3 doubles teams will be in the Rec Center Fieldhouse.
The third day, depending on weather will be held at the two high school facilities, but the temperature must be 50 degrees and winds less than 15 mph. Otherwise, everything moves inside to the Rec Center Fieldhouse.
Defending Champs – Cheyenne Central girls and boys and Jackson boys
The Cheyenne Central girls are two-time defending champions. Looking for a three-peat, the Indians are coming off a regional title last week. Some title contenders include North Regional champion Kelly Walsh, North Regional runner-up Cody, and South Regional runner-up Green River.
Cheyenne Central and Jackson are co-defending champs in the boys’ division. They shared the title a year ago. The Indians won the South Regional last weekend. Chief contenders will be the Powell boys, who also won the crown at their regional last week. Gillette, Kelly Walsh, Green River, and Laramie look to be top contenders coming off the regional tournaments.
Defending Champion Players
Cody duo Maddy Icenogle and Simona Wambeke are the defending champs at girls’ No. 1 doubles.
Cheyenne South’s Brendan Lock is a two-time champion at No. 1 singles and seeks a third consecutive title.
Powell’s Dylan Preator is looking to repeat at boys’ No. 2 singles.
Other returning champions playing at new spots include:
Cheyenne Central’s Emily Needham won at No. 2 singles in 2018. She’s now vying for the No. 1 singles crown. Kaitlyn Smedley, Sarah Foster, Cassadie Anderson, and Tenley Keller of Cheyenne Central were part of doubles titles a year ago and looking for success at different positions in 2019, singles for Smedley or doubles for the other three.
The Gillette duo of Jefferson Neary and Austin Robertson are now playing at No. 1 boys’ doubles, but they won the title at No. 2 a year ago.
Caden Bogus was part of a doubles title at No. 3 last year but is playing at No. 2 this year.
Girls Team Scores
Boys Team Scores
Girls No. 1 Singles
Boys No. 1 Singles
Girls No. 1 Doubles
Boys No. 1 Doubles
Wyoming HS Tennis Regional Tournament Recap
Source: Wyoming State Tennis Championships: Sept. 26-28, 2019
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Small-town fire chief taking steps to keep firefighters safe from distracted drivers
Posted 3:34 pm, April 2, 2019, by Roche Madden
BECKEMEYER, Ill. – A small-town Illinois fire chief is determined to make sure emergency responders are safe when they are on an accident scene.
Luke Baker, chief of the Beckemeyer Wade Fire Protection District, said motorists continuously refuse to slow down or move over into the other lane as required by law.
Because of poor response from drivers, Baker said from now on, his crews will shut down roads in both directions when working a traffic accident in order to keep emergency responders safe.
“People can’t get it through their head they need to slow down,” he said.
Chief Baker posted a message on the department’s Facebook page, warning that from now on roads will be closed when there’s a crash.
“It’s mostly distracted drivers looking at their phone,” he said.
The chief was keenly aware of the more than 15 Illinois state troopers who have been struck or killed working a traffic accident this year. Chief Baker’s department had a close call this past weekend, although no firefighters were injured.
“We’ve had traffic cones run over, we’ve had equipment hit struck while we’ve been on scene,” Baker said.
Beckemeyer citizens seemed to support the chief’s decision. At Frank’s Corner Kitchen, folks were talking about the decision to close down roads in the area when necessary.
“I believe in people’s safety first,” said customer Darlene Johnson.
Another customer, Ken Becker, added, “It’d be frustrating but it’s for the good of the people working the accident.”
The chief said he will try to find detours for drivers who come upon the accident scenes but the road will be closed to protect people trying to save the lives of other folks.
“I’d hate to be responsible for telling one our member’s families they’re not around anymore cause they got hit on an accident scene,” said Assistant Fire Chief Jeremy Pate.
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NASA chief warns meteors are a threat to the planet
Posted 11:05 am, May 1, 2019, by Tribune Media
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine this week warned meteors are a threat to the planet.
“This is not about Hollywood. It’s not about movies. This is about ultimately protecting the only planet we know right now to host life,” he said Monday, speaking at the Planetary Defense Conference in Washington D.C.
Bridenstine talked about a February 2013 meteor that exploded over Russia. That meteor blast shook Russia’s Urals region. More than 1,000 people were injured, including more than 200 children, according to news reports. Many people were hit by flying glass when windows shattered from the sonic boom that followed the meteor’s explosion.
“It was brighter in the sky than the sun at that point when it entered Earth’s atmosphere. And people could feel the heat from this object from 62 kilometers away,” Bridenstine said.
“When it finally exploded 18 miles above the surface…it had…30 times the energy of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima,” he said, adding it “damaged buildings in six cities.”
More than 4,000 buildings, mostly apartment blocks, were damaged and 200,000 square meters (77,220 square miles) of glass were broken, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported then, citing the Chelyabinsk regional emergencies ministry.
“I wish I could tell you these events are exceptionally unique, but they are not,” Bridenstine said.
He said NASA’s modeling shows similar events will happen once every 60 years.
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Wisconsin Mother Killed in Road-Rage Shooting While Teaching Teenage Son to Drive: Police
Posted 9:40 AM, September 5, 2019, by CNN Wire, Updated at 09:47AM, September 5, 2019
A Wisconsin mother teaching her teenage son to drive was shot and killed in what police say was a road-rage incident sparked by a minor car crash.
With her son driving, Tracey Smith was in the passenger seat last Friday afternoon as the two made their way to a Milwaukee clothing store, according to a criminal complaint. Smith's family said she was teaching her son to drive at the time, CNN affiliate WISN reports.
When the teen prepared to turn left from the left lane, a gold van cut in front of their car from the wrong lane, causing the teen to collide with the driver's side of the van, according to the complaint.
Smith, 46, got out of the car to check the damage and began yelling at the man driving the van, her son later told police. The van's driver said, "B****, I'll kill you," pointed a gun at her and fired, the complaint says.
"He shot me," she said, before she stumbled and fell to the ground, the complaint says.
The suspect then made a U-turn in his van and fled the scene, police said. Nearby people helped Smith into her car, and her son drove her to the hospital, where she was declared dead.
Milwaukee police said investigators recovered video that showed the van's license plate, and records linked that license plate to a man named Matthew Lee Wilks. The teenage son identified a picture of Wilks as being the man who killed his mother, the complaint says.
Wilks, 35, was taken into custody on Saturday and on Wednesday was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and possession of a firearm by a felon, Milwaukee police said.
'She was a beautiful person'
Smith worked as a sergeant at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility, a medium-security prison, according to Wisconsin Department of Corrections Secretary-designee Kevin A. Carr.
"Sgt. Smith courageously served Wisconsin communities for 23 years as a member of the DOC, and her contributions to the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) will be felt long after her passing," Carr said in a statement. "Today, I want to express my sincere condolences and stand in solidarity with Sgt. Smith's family, friends and co-workers."
Her father, Ollie Luckett, remembered his daughter as a beautiful person.
"She knew how to treat people. She knew how to talk to people. She was wonderful," Luckett told WISN. "That was my oldest daughter. And I wish you knew how I feel."
Wilks had previously been convicted in 2008 of felony possession of a firearm by a felon and felony possession of cocaine, the complaint states.
After arresting him, police searched his home and found a handgun and drugs, a probable cause affidavit states. He was charged with possession of a firearm by a felon and two drug charges related to that search, according to a criminal complaint.
Wilks appeared in court on the homicide charge Wednesday, and cash bond was set at $100,000, according to online court records. He was also assigned a public defender.
Tom Reed, regional attorney manager with the Wisconsin Public Defender's Office, said he expects Wilks to plead not guilty at next week's preliminary hearing, as is typical for defendants at this point in a criminal case.
"The case itself is interesting and we'll have to see what happens with it," Reed said.
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L.A. Firefighter Who Formerly Played for Rams Battling ALS
Posted 8:43 PM, October 9, 2019, by KTLA 5 and Kacey Montoya, Updated at 11:18PM, October 17, 2019
A 30-year-old Los Angeles firefighter has been "stopped in his tracks" after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, the Fire Department announced Wednesday.
Before joining LAFD, Eric Stevens had a successful football career, serving as captain of UC Berkeley's team and before joining the St. Louis Rams as a free agent in 2013.
Stevens went on to join LAFD in 2015, and in an Instagram post the agency says he was "off to a strong career" — until he was diagnosed recently.
"Everything's changed. It's been completely flipped upside down," Stevens said.
We want to share a story about a member of our family. One of Your #LAFD firefighters, Eric Stevens, is facing the unimaginable....at only 30 years old he was diagnosed with #ALS. Eric has quite a backstory, after playing for and Captaining the NCAA Division 1 football team at Cal Berkeley, he went on to play for the St Louis Rams. In 2015, Eric joined the LAFD and was off to a strong career. And then he was stopped in his tracks with this recent diagnosis. If you would like to learn more about Eric's journey and his fight to advocate for early access to drugs and treatments for patients, we invite you to follow one of the below accounts. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/teamstevensnation/ Instagram: @teamstevensnation Go Fund Me: http://bit.ly/3133Snr . . #firefamily #firefighter #fightals
A post shared by LAFD (@losangelesfiredepartment) on Oct 9, 2019 at 5:54pm PDT
Also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, Lou Gehrig's is a progressive disease that kills off neurons that control muscles throughout the body. There is no cure, and it will eventually turn fatal.
"The average life expectancy for an ALS patient is two to five years, and paralysis comes a lot sooner than that," Stevens said.
Stevens is a San Pedro native who recently got married — about a month before he was diagnosed, according to the East Bay Times.
A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help raise money for Stevens' medical costs. As of Wednesday evening, it had raised nearly $74,000 of its $1 million goal.
You can also follow Stevens' journey via Facebook and Instagram.
Eric Stevens, one of my best friends in the world, was just recently diagnosed with ALS. Please join Team Stevens Nation on FB and help us #axeALS. #StevensNation https://t.co/8jwagpHqa4 pic.twitter.com/GAJzovY2f6
— Paul Toboni (@paul30toboni) October 9, 2019
Eric Stevens is the youngest of four brothers. Jeff and Brett are LA City Firefighters like Eric and Craig played football at Cal and for the Tennessee Titans for 8 years. Erics brothers have had a huge impact on his college and career choices and he has always looked up to them. Jeff, Craig and Brett have helped shape Eric into the man he is today. These four brothers are just a small part of what we call “Stevens Nation”. #axeALS #TeamStevensNation
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Finding Influencers…at the Bottom of Your Org Chart
We underestimate the power of influence networks in our organizations. Here are 5 tips for finding influencers at the bottom of the org chart, along with a podcast I recorded with Tamara Kleinberg of Inside Launchstreet.
Jason is the author of Lean Change Management and founder of the Lean Change Management Association and Spark the Change Toronto
Call it digital disruption, call it the symptom of living in a VUCA world, call it what you will, but the odds are pretty good your industry is going to be disrupted. The Agile and Change communities try to use this as a fear-tactic to sell you a method, or certification or what-have-you.
Yes, that’s cynical…but here’s the thing: What else do we need to know about change that hasn’t already been invented and talked about ad nauseam?
Herb Kelleher, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines, famously said in an interview, in the context of being a leader, “be humble, work harder than anyone else; serve your people” His leadership style arguably created the environment for the man who saved Southwest Airlines to do what he did.
Alan Mulally arguably turned around Ford by implementing a daily standup to talk about blocks and risks with the global department heads.
Peter Aceto tells fantastic stories about how Tangerine built the culture they have in his book Weology.
Skip reading and listen to my Inside Launchstreet interview with Tamara Kleinberg (iTunes | stitcher )
The Process View
If you’re someone who usually takes a process view, that is believing everything is a process, at Southwest you’ll see that the 10-minute turnaround indeed was, and still is, a process. The counter-argument I have is that it’s unlikely that Herb came to his people and said “please provide me with a process strategy document to solve this problem” given how he talks in this interview.
In the case of Ford, yes a weekly standup meeting is a process, but how it came to be, and more importantly why it came to be, happened in a natural way. Here’s an excerpt from Alan’s interview with MIT:
“It was such a natural thing for me to include everybody because that’s what you have to do if you’re going to change the world with a new product,” he told me. “It was really important that we had everybody on the team, the leaders around the world, the skills teams around the world, and that we – together – unite around the vision, the strategy, the implementation plan.”
His weekly meeting offered the ideal forum, where Mulally fostered a safe, open, encouraging and respectful environment. “Every week, we worked it [the strategy and the plan] together, helping each other turn the reds to yellows to greens.”
In his book Weology, Peter tells a story about having his Tangerine card declined at a restaurant. His wife calls the helpdesk, and they can’t solve the problem directly. Peter brings that problem back and tells the team that front-line customers should be able to fix that AND we should try to prevent that call. Long story short, they fixed it twice. They created a way for fraud protection to notify customers if their card was disabled and he said ~85% of the time, customers called immediately and rarely ran into a situation of being at the checkout and having their card declined.
The Human View
In all of these examples, these leaders created environments for their people to do the right thing. They didn’t approach these problems by creating processes from a centralized group or team. The people in the middle and the bottom of the company made these decisions.
5 Tips for Finding Influencers
What happens when your leaders don’t have the same relatable skills as Herb, Alan or Peter?
find people with large internal networks
find people who’ve worked with, or interacted with, many different departments
find people who are fun to be around!
connect with co-workers on social media to learn more about them
bring meetups into your office and see who sticks around
We underestimate the power that influence networks have in our organizations. Over a decade ago I worked with a team where one of the team members had been there for 10 years. He knew everybody in the organization and whenever our team ran into a problem, he knew who we could take for a coffee to talk. After our first sprint, he simply said “maybe we should help the testers next time so we can finish everything. They were stuck with not enough time to get everything tested”
That spawned a team norm where testers would create the test plan, and then we’d pair developers and testers to make sure everything was finished by the end of the sprint. The rule was, if you build it, you can’t test it.
That’s one of many examples about how to make change happen from the bottom up. All it took was for this catalyst to suggest something and he was so well-respected that the team listened to him. Had I suggested it as the ‘outsider’, my gut says it’s unlikely the team would have listed. I call that the “shut up consultant, you don’t know what it’s like here” syndrome.
Listen to the full podcast with Tamara Kleinberg of Inside Launchstreet where I tell some interesting stories, and talk about more tips, and ideas for finding influencers in your organization.
Title image attribution: https://hbr.org/2018/01/how-likely-is-your-industry-to-be-disrupted-this-2×2-matrix-will-tell-you
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a Granite State Pro-life Blog by Ellen Kolb
Category: Voices to Trust
“A Heartfelt Open Letter to CNN’s Alysin Camerota”
I am very happy to send you off to someone else’s blog at the moment, because Verity Swayne has hit a home run over on Verily His. She is responding to a CNN reporter’s question about eugenic abortion, directed to a politician: “…why would you want a family to have to have a child with a severe disability?”
As someone who spends way too much time listening to politicians and lobbyists who are just fine with eugenic abortion (and who have turned “tragicfetalanomalies” into one word), I am cheering as I read Ms. Swayne’s open letter.
…I was immediately reminded of my own anger, fear, and ignorance when my husband and I learned we were going to have a child with Down syndrome. I had so much to learn. Or should I say that God had so much to teach me. And I know, Alisyn, you just don’t understand, as I didn’t. So, if you’ll stay with me to the end of this heartfelt letter, I’d love to share a simple testimony to the truth of the matter. I want to tell you about our Belinda, because it’s a beautiful picture of a life worthy of life.
Verity Swayne, from Verily His
Please head over to Verily His and check out her full post. To Nancy Elliott, who brought the post to my attention, double thumbs up.
Author Ellen KolbPosted on July 15, 2019 Categories Voices to TrustTags CNN, Down Syndrome, parenting, prolife, Verily His, Verity Swayne
Update: “The Walls are Talking”
I reviewed the groundbreaking book “The Walls are Talking” when it was published in 2016. It was the first book to gather accounts from former abortion workers who had left the industry and were ready to share their experiences. I commented at the time that the only weak spot in the book was the anonymity chosen by some of the workers.
Since then, more abortion workers have left the industry with the assistance of the peer support group And Then There Were None (ATTWN). More are willing to go public, revealing their faces and names, despite fear of reprisal. On May 21, four of them and ATTWN founder Abby Johnson will be featured in a webinar.
At this writing, registrations are still being accepted at this link for the online event: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0vav34L6Ti-C0aHhuBWtNQ
From the email announcement of the event, sent by Abby Johnson and ATTWN:
After Unplanned: The Walls are Talking
(Abby Johnson talks with former abortion workers)
Time: 4:30PM PT/ 6:30PM CT/ 7:30PM ET
UNPLANNED, the surprise hit film based on the book I wrote (of the same name, after I quit my job at Planned Parenthood) shook the nation as people were confronted with the truth about abortion. Many people, even those who are pro-life, didn’t know how horrific abortion was or the devastating effects it has wreaked on children, women, and their families. I received hundreds of personal messages about how UNPLANNED changed their views on abortion – and how they viewed those who worked in the industry, just like I did.
UNPLANNED only showed a small portion of what it looks like to work in the abortion industry. But it also showed how love and compassion can help workers quit their jobs and leave the industry entirely. Many of their stories are told in my second book, The Walls Are Talking.
Join me on TUESDAY, MAY 21 at 7:30pm EDT and four former abortion workers to learn:
– how their stories are changing the face of the pro-life movement,
– the secrets of the abortion industry, and
– how abortion clinics are dealing with the exodus of so many workers. I will introduce you to these four courageous former workers:
– Sue Thayer – Sue was a Center Manager for Planned Parenthood for 18 years. After she became pro-life, Sue led the first-ever 40 Days for Life campaign outside the very clinic she managed.
– Monica Cline – Monica was trained by Planned Parenthood for outreach to teens and saw first-hand that the goals were more abortion-centered than they were education-based.
– Adrienne Moton – Adrienne is a former employee of Women’s Medical Center, the infamous Kermit Gosnell’s practice. She worked in the abortion industry for 3 years.
– Myra Neyer – Myra worked for Planned Parenthood in Baltimore. She witnessed an unforgettable abortion procedure that led to her quitting her job in the industry.
Participants will be entered into a random drawing to receive an autographed copy of my book, The Walls are Talking. It can also be ordered by CLICKING HERE. I hope you will join me on May 21. These walls are talking, and it’s time we all listen. Sincerely, Abby Johnson.
Author Ellen KolbPosted on May 16, 2019 Categories Voices to TrustTags Abby Johnson, abortion workers, And Then There Were None, Unplanned movie
Link of Note: Jennifer Christie
New Hampshire readers may recall Jennifer Christie, keynote speaker at the state March for Life last month. She survived a savage sexual assault, and she and her husband are raising & loving her child who was conceived from that assault. Great love, great courage. I include Jennifer as one of the Voices to Trust I’ve featured on this blog; you can search by that category name to find others.
(Why “Voices to Trust”? Because I’ve heard “Trust Women!” too often from abortion advocates. Try trusting these women.)
I’ve just discovered a link about Jennifer on a blog called Stories of Women. Along with her story as related at Save the 1, I find it inspiring and challenging at the same time. I hope you’ll take time to read and share those two posts.
Author Ellen KolbPosted on February 17, 2018 Categories Voices to TrustTags courage, Jennifer Christie, prolife
“Conversion is real. Believe it.”
Author Ellen KolbPosted on October 6, 2016 Categories Voices to TrustTags Abby Johnson, abortion workers, conversion, Planned Parenthood, prolife
Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano
Last in the Voices to Trust series.
Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano rejected the Supreme Court decisions that were supposedly made in their favor. Their identities obscured in the 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton cases, they ultimately went public with their dissent from those decisions, reclaiming their own names and proclaiming their support of the right to life.
McCorvey was “Jane Roe,” the plaintiff in a challenge to Texas abortion law that culminated in Roe v. Wade, overturning most abortion restrictions and regulations nationwide. Cano was the anonymous plaintiff in Doe v. Bolton, an abortion case decided the same day as Roe, which resulted in an expansive definition of “health of the mother” as justification for abortion on demand. Ironically, neither woman had an abortion pursuant to the decisions.
McCorvey supported the Roe decision for about twenty years before renouncing it and becoming pro-life. In a one-minute 2010 video, she summarized her position. “I realized that my case, which legalized abortion on demand, was the biggest mistake of my life….but now I’m dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.”
Asked in a 1997 interview what she thought people could do to stop abortion, McCorvey said, “[I]t doesn’t make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are, I think if they get up and go to these abortion mills, and stand there – and they don’t have to do anything, they can just stand there and pray, I think that would make a lot of difference. We have to be seen in numbers.”
Sandra Cano (Photo from wonderfullymadeministry.com)
Sandra Cano came to be the Supreme Court’s “Doe” after she went to an attorney for help with matters relating to divorce and child custody. As she told a Congressional committee in 2005,
“I was very vulnerable: poor and pregnant with my fourth child, but abortion never crossed my mind. Although it apparently was utmost in the mind of the attorney from whom I sought help….Please understand even though I have lived what many would consider an unstable life and overcome many devastating circumstances, at no time did I ever have an abortion. l did not seek an abortion nor do I believe in abortion. Yet my name and life is now forever linked with the slaughter of 40-50 million babies.
“…I feel like my name, life, and identity have been stolen and put on this case without my knowledge and against my wishes….One of the Justices of the Supreme Court said during oral argument in my case ‘What does it matter if she is real or not.’ Well, I am real and it does matter.”
Cano died in 2014, with Doe v. Bolton still standing. To the end of her life, she told her story far and wide. She knew that the truth and her experience were too important to hide.
McCorvey has noted how as with Doe, disregard for truth played an important part in the Roe decision. “I was persuaded by feminist attorneys to lie; to say that I was raped, and needed an abortion. It was all a lie. Since then, over 50 million babies have been murdered. I will take this burden to my grave. Please, don’t follow in my mistakes.”
Share the words of these women who moved beyond abortion to embrace respect for life: McCorvey and Cano, who lost their identities in court and then reclaimed them; the women who ran abortion facilities and now help people leave the industry; women who survived efforts to abort them; women who reject being called “exceptions“; post-abortive women like Catherine, Karen, Susan and Julia. If ever the words “trust women” are used in an effort to squelch pro-lifers – not mention when they’re used to imply that men have no right to speak up about human rights – bring these women’s words into the discussion.
Author Ellen KolbPosted on January 22, 2016 May 23, 2019 Categories Voices to TrustTags #TrustWomen, Doe v. Bolton, Norma McCorvey, prolife, Roe v. Wade, Sandra Cano, voices to trust
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PM Concludes Visit To Hungary
March 12, 2019 Posted in Industry
Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has concluded his two-day official visit to Hungary which is his first visit since he took office in 2016.
PM Thongloun’s visit was in response to the invitation of his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban.
The visit was considered by the two countries as a historic landmark of enhancing the longstanding friendship and cooperation between Laos and Hungary.
On Mar 11, the second day of his two-day visit to Hungary, PM Thongloun had bilateral talks with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban in Hungary’s capital Budapest where both sides reviewed their friendship and cooperation as the two countries have maintained mutual assistance and support through both bilateral and multilateral frameworks.
PM Thongloun expressed gratitude upon the assistance the government and people of Hungary has extended to the Lao PDR during its past time of national liberation and its current time of national protection and development.
Both Prime Ministers discussed ways to enhance the cooperation in the future and agreed to elevate the bilateral ties to a strategic partnership level noting that this reaffirms the mutual trust between the two governments and peoples of the two countries.
They agreed to promote the exchange of visits at all levels and of all sectors, ranging from top leaders to technicians and promote the implementation of cooperation projects.
Both sides agreed to continue to enhance bilateral cooperation in economic, trade, investment, education, agriculture, finance, and other potential areas of common interest and agreed to hold political dialogues between the two ministries of foreign affairs of the two countries on a regular basis to ensure more effective and deeper relations and cooperation between the two countries.
Prime Minister Thongloun expressed sincere thanks to the government and people of Hungary for their support to human resource development of Laos noting that Lao nationals graduating from Hungary have become quality and successful human resources for the motherland with some holding senior positions in the government and business sector.
The Prime Minister expressed gratitude upon the decision by the government of Hungary to provide a Tied Aid Credit line of almost US$ 200 million over coming years, noting that such provision of financial assistance was a great contribution to the socio-economic development of the Lao PDR.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that his government would open a consular representation in Vientiane in the near future.
On this occasion, both sides also signed two documents with one on exemption of visas for di0plomats and government officials and another one on education cooperation for 2020-2022.
Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith also paid a courtesy call to Hungarian President Janos A�der and the Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary Laszlo KAlver, placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of Hungary and visited well-known cultural and historical sites of Hungary.
Source: Lao News Agency
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Obama Wants All Your Internets to Belong to Him
Posted: 27 September 2010 by Sayyid in National News
Tags: civil liberties, FBI, internet surveillance, law, libertarian, NSA, Obama Administration, US, US Congress, warrantless wiretapping program
The White House will push Congress to ‘make it easier to wiretap the internet’.
The Obama Administration is going to push Congress to write policy granting the executive branch of the U.S. government more privileges to “wiretap the internet” and the implications are global, Charlie Savage reported today at The New York Times.
It’s all to fight terrorism, of course, he added:
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications—including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype—to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order. The mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages.
The bill, which the Obama administration plans to submit to lawmakers next year, raises fresh questions about how to balance security needs with protecting privacy and fostering innovation. And because security services around the world face the same problem, it could set an example that is copied globally.
The amoral argument from the industry is that such measures counter the “decentralized design” of the internet. It’s what progresses from the becoming-archaic telephone-method of commincation, one expert said.
But, don’t forget—TERRORISM REQUIRES UNBRIDLED POWER, AS DOES COUNTERING IT!:
But law enforcement officials contend that imposing such a mandate is reasonable and necessary to prevent the erosion of their investigative powers.
“We’re talking about lawfully authorized intercepts,” said Valerie E. Caproni, general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “We’re not talking expanding authority. We’re talking about preserving our ability to execute our existing authority in order to protect the public safety and national security.”
In other words: ‘lawfully’ means whatever the government agents chooses to permit. According to Ms. Caprioni, this isn’t “expanding authority”, only expanding what people in authority are immune from prosecution after committing and allowing more information to be collected against people without due process, with lesser scrutiny to probable cause.
The key isn’t overtly “expanding authority” like adding agents and arms and cameras and wiretaps, etc., but crafting the most deceitful language:
There is not yet agreement on important elements, like how to word statutory language defining who counts as a communications service provider, according to several officials familiar with the deliberations.
Manufacture consent for evil and evil becomes good.
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Tag: Jordan Binnington Rookie Of The Month
nhl March 1, 2019 March 1, 2019
St. Louis Blues G Jordan Binnington The New Andrew Hammond (Aka Hamburglar)?
Jordan Binnington, the 25-year-old, 2011 3rd round pick has been quite the story this season. Binnington came onto the Blues this season when the Blues were in last place and looking to be a guaranteed top-5 draft pick for this years NHL draft.
Well, the one thing the Blues lacked was goaltending and it played a major role in their failures in the early part of the season. Along came Jordan Binnington. Much like the Ottawa Senators and Andrew Hammond aka “The Hamburglar” when he took the league by storm from mid-February to early April in 2015. Hammond was one of the hottest goalies in the league and completely changed the fate of the Senators season during his run. During his run when the Senators had Craig Anderson and Robin Lehner sidelined, Hammond posted a 20-1-2 record, 1.79 goals-against average and .941 save percentage. Hammond propelled the Senators into the playoffs placing them fourth in the division that year but they eventually lost to Montreal 4-2 in the first round.
Well, it seems Jordan Binnington is on that same type of run. Right now Binnington is 15-2-0 with a 1.61 goals against, .936 save percentage in 18 games started. He earned NHL star of the week accolades just two weeks ago and just earned Rookie of the Month for February.
But, I don’t think the Blues want Binnington to be the next “Hamburglar”. After Hammond had his famed season he went onto post a 7-11-4 record with a 2.65 GAA and .914 save percentage the following season. And since his 2014-15 storied season he has played in 26 games total.
Either way Binnington has helped shoot the Blues back into playoff contention, in the top three in the difficult Central division and now a legitimate playoff team that many will over look. Binnington continues his unbelievable season, he has lost 1 game in the last month and 12 starts. Following his first lost of the season on Jan. 21, Binnington went to win the next nine games he played in. Binnington seems to show an uncanny amount of confidence in net and with the media after and before games. The 25-year-old phenomenon continues to impress and hopefully for the Blues he is not just a one hit wonder.
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Economics NGO Sector: David Parker asked to intervene as WTO cancels NGO registrations in bizarre lead-up to ministerial
Headline: David Parker asked to intervene as WTO cancels NGO registrations in bizarre lead-up to ministerial
‘I’ve written to Trade Minister David Parker this morning asking him to intervene urgently over the sudden and bizarre de-registration of representatives of prominent NGOs who had been accredited to attend the World Trade Organization ministerial conference from 10 to 13 December in Buenos Aires, Argentina’, said Auckland university law professor Jane Kelsey.
The Minister is one of four vice-chairs of the eleventh WTO ministerial conference (MC11).
The groups whose accreditation was cancelled include Friends of the Earth International, the Transnational Institute from the Netherlands, British, Ugandan and Argentina delegates from UK-based Global Justice Now, Internet freedom group Derechos Digitales from Chile and Ecuador, and UNI Global Union Americas regional trade union confederation, digital economy analyst, and Indonesian representative.
The WTO’s spokesperson has confirmed the emails are legitimate, and indicated that this decision emanates from Argentina. He says the WTO does not have any explanation for who has been de-registered or why.
‘The 31 people we have so far identified are mostly expert researchers who have attended numerous WTO ministerials previously, many of whom I know and work with on a regular basis’, said Professor Kelsey.
‘From what we can see, almost all those deregistered are affiliated to the global network Our World is Not for Sale (OWINFS), which has a long-standing engagement in WTO activities. For example, OWINFS organised numerous panel sessions at this year’s WTO Public Forum on specific issues, such as agriculture, e-commerce and domestic regulation.’
A couple of low key business groups also appear to have been deregistered, but the major corporations and lobbies who are registered as NGOs, such as DHL, ebay, Sidley, International Chamber of Commerce, World Economic Forum, are still attending.
Professor Kelsey is registered to participate on behalf of the Geneva-based Third World Network, for whom she acts as a consultant, and has been selected to present a paper at the MC11 Think Track, a one-day conference co-sponsored by the Argentine government. So far, she has not heard that she has been deregistered.
‘However, I am deeply concerned for my colleagues and for the message that this sends about the future conduct of multilateral trade negotiations. The WTO has been trying to shed its reputation as a rule-making body that serves big business, and be more open and responsive to development and social concerns. Shutting out mainstream critical voices one week before the event will further damage the WTO at a time when its agreements face a growing crisis of legitimacy’.
‘I have asked David Parker to intercede with the WTO Director-General and to ensure New Zealand speaks out against this move at the WTO General Council meeting in Geneva today Geneva time, but have yet to hear from him.’
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TSA tests new security technology
Published by Like the Future on November 25, 2019 November 25, 2019
The Transportation Security Administration is bracing for a record number of people at airport security checkpoints around the country this Thanksgiving. Nearly 27 million passengers are expected to be screened during the holiday period, meaning travelers could face long security lines. But new technology being tested by the TSA could speed up screenings and address passenger complaints over electronics, liquids and taking off their shoes.
In a field outside Providence, University of Rhode Island researchers are working on new ways to detect and stop explosives popular with terrorists. They’re partnering with the Department of Homeland Security on a sensor – called a “digital dog nose” – that will soon be the size of cell phone. Able to be mounted on a drone, it could can detect homemade explosives as well or better than a bomb-sniffing dog.
A team from the University of Rhode Island is developing chemical sensors that could be even better at detecting explosives than a bomb-sniffing dog. CBS NEWS
They’ve also created a gel called “Schmoo” that can surround an explosive or chemical agent and flash-freeze it so it can be safely removed from a transit hub.
“We think about how to detect and mitigate the threats for today, while we’re still realizing that if we get really good about today’s threats, there’s going to be a different threat tomorrow,” said professor Jimmie Oxley, of the university’s Center for Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation and Response. “What would that look like, and how would we attack it?”
About 2,700 miles away, at a new airport checkpoint in Las Vegas, the TSA’s newest technology, in an area of Terminal 3 at McCarran International Airport, is being tested together for first time with real passengers. They call it their “Innovation Checkpoint.”
“This is a glimpse into the future of what aviation security is going to look like,” Jose Bonilla, the director of TSA’s Innovation Task Force, told correspondent Kris Van Cleave. “What we’re trying to do is, how do we make that a more seamless process for the traveling public, but not giving up on security capability? What you see here may not be here in a year. We may bring in new pieces of technology.”
As passengers approach the innovation checkpoint, they’ll see dynamic message boards. Next, new ID readers scan your license to quickly validate your identity and confirm you’re flying that day, without needing to show officers your boarding pass
From there, carry-on bags go to a CT scanner. Electronics can stay in, and eventually the goal is liquids will, too.
The new scanners can more easily see through all the clutter in bags.
While it’s not quite the scanner from “Total Recall,” science fiction is coming alive with new walk-by body scanners. They display a generic male or female form and flag an area of the body where there may be a concern. The technology is also better at spotting non-metallic threats that a metal detector might miss.
Advanced Imaging Technology, being tested with passengers at the TSA’s Innovation Checkpoint at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. CBS NEWS
“The improvement they really need to make for everybody is, don’t take your shoes off!” said passenger Patrick Hinke.
“If they can speed it up a bit more, yeah. The ID thing was a little slow,” said Keith Ross.
Deanna Sack said, “It’s quicker. It definitely pushes people through a lot faster.”
TSA hopes it can turn lessons learned at this Vegas checkpoint into reality around the country by 2022. Some of the technology, like the CT scanners, is already being rolled out at some airports.
TSA may also look to expand its use of facial recognition technology in the next few years.
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Why I don’t like Phantasy Star Universe as much as Phantasy Star Online or Monster Hunter Freedom 2…
November 21, 2008 at 5:50 pm (Game Design, Gaming)
Tags: Monster Hunter Freedom 2, Phantasy Star Online, Phantasy Star Universe, rant
Well, I’m still alive. I’ve just been taking an unannounced-though-obvious vacation from… uh… inspiration. Not relating to ideas for articles, as I have many of those lying around, but relating to how I should write them. What particular games I should reference, why those and not others.
As far as art’s concerned, I’ve just been lazy, though. I need to get back into the habit of both posting and practicing art, really, so… here’s a not-as-small-as-first-intended rant that connects to game design a little.
As much as I loved Phantasy Star Online on the Gamecube, I really don’t enjoy most of Phantasy Star Universe; I didn’t have anything to compare Story mode to the last time I played it, but now I can say the characters and lack of acting are reminiscent of Two Worlds. Ethan is as annoying as the unnamed protagonist from that game, and only shows barely more expression… and that’s simply because the story mode uses emote animations from the Extra and Network modes. Voice-wise, only a few characters show any emotion besides an arbitrarily-determined default setting.
So I don’t like Story mode. I’m also too cheap to pay money to play a mission-based game with very little exploration online.
Why don’t I just play Extra mode? That’s just like the offline mode of Phantasy Star Online, right? Well, in order to unlock Extra mode, a player has to complete up to chapter 4 of Story mode, first; they sort of serve as a tutorial – chapters 1 to 3, anyway, chapter 4 is anyone’s guess as to why it’s a requirement – and you only have to do it once… per install. I’m not on the computer I was last playing PSU on, so I had to go through it all again. Additionally, that only opens Parum for Extra mode. If I want to amble around Neudaiz and Moatoob, or unlock more than the basic four-or-so missions for Parum, I have to complete more chapters. Each chapter drags on slightly too long for me to enjoy, and having to go through the first four chapters with Ethan Waber and his merry men in order to unlock something that should have been
It’s also not entirely like the offline mode. I’ve mentioned it before elsewhere, but there are two very significant differences between Phantasy Star Offline and Phantasy Star Universe. In each case, Monster Hunter Freedom 2 is closer to PSU than PSO, but manages to make their decision work where in PSU a similar mechanic falls flat.
The first difference is that PSU is exclusively mission-based; you cannot go anywhere without a mission. When you pick a mission in PSU, you are essentially picking a map, the spawning patterns of enemies, and each Free Mission – the only kind of mission available – took place on a different map. I think. PSO, on the other hand, allowed you to go out without a general mission – though you still had an objective – and all missions for a given area (say… Ruins…) took place on the same series of maps. PSO’s maps had a number of possible starting positions, a number of different possible spawning patterns depending on where you started and what mission, if any, you were currently working on, and were much larger than PSU’s maps. By necessity; anyone forced to run through the same area ten times in a row would swiftly tire of the game. A large continuous map allowed a player’s knowledge of the area
from missions – which tended to cover just a small portion of the whole
map – to guide them when just exploring and trying to complete the area, and vice versa, without giving the entire game away. ‘That path leads to a dead end, that other path leads to the teleporter when not on a mission, Delsabers spawned here last time, after poking the item box…’ Missions themselves in PSO were not made to be repeated until a player either beat every mission and the game, at which point they all unlocked again, or until the player starts a game on a new difficulty setting, and begin all the missions from the start; thus keeping players from having the exact details of a mission etched into their very grey matter from sheer repetition.
Unfortunately, PSU’s missions are designed to be repeated, ad nauseum; with just Parum’s initial set of Free Missions unlocked, a player has to run through the first mission three or four times killing everything just to attain the level requirement for the next mission. I can only imagine things get worse as it starts to take longer to level, but despite unlocking Neudaiz and Moatoob for Extra mode in my first install of PSU, I never lasted to the point where my character would have enough levels to survive a single hit on those.
However, Monster Hunter is an exclusively mission-based game. You can’t go anywhere without accepting a mission; which selects map, enemies, alters the chances of picking up certain items around the map sometimes…
So why is Monster Hunter Freedom 2 much better than Phantasy Star Universe, if they’re both entirely mission-based? Well, MH takes the PSO approach to maps and missions; each mission takes place in a region (Hills & Forest, Snowy Mountain, Volcano… and so forth), and that region’s map is the same every time. Missions alter enemy spawn rates and patterns, the chance of picking up certain items, and the goal of the mission, but not the map, beyond occasionally blocking off a few areas… just like PSO. The player does not necessarily have to visit every single area in the region to complete a mission; usually, they’re set up so that is specifically not the case, with target creatures running through just three or four areas, or target items only obtainable in one or two constant areas, out of sixteen. MHF2’s missions also tend to be… short, despite having absolute upper time limits of fifty real-time minutes, in most cases. Either you succeed, or you die three times, hit reward zero and fail automatically, and you usually succeed or die long before time over. Taking close to the entire allotted time is usually a big hint that you should reassess your equipment. Speaking of which…
The second major difference is in your inventory. PSO’s total set of items is, on the whole, much more interesting than PSU’s list. For a very, very simple reason:
I do not like generic gear. I like interesting loot.
Phantasy Star Online had enemies drop equipment. Mostly… yes, it was generic. Sabers (Brands, Busters, Pallasches, Gladius’…), Swords (Gigushes, Breakers, Claymores, Caliburs), and Wands (Staves, Batons, Scepters) for a few examples of weapons and their better-statted counterparts from later areas and difficulties. Sometimes, however, you got a shiny RED box, rather than a dull green or blue thing; a rare item. Like DISKA OF LIBERATOR… which was probably the most common rare I ever saw, but still better than another Cane. Or an enemy part; how about a Rappy Wing? You could also get Mag cells, which changed your already-nifty evolving piece of equipment into something shinier, under the right conditions. There was always the possibility of a very nice drop
Phantasy Star Universe had a Star Trek replicator disguised as a poor replacement for a stay-at-home MAG. Enemies occasionally dropped materials for replication, but more often than not you had to go out and buy those. Usually they just dropped meseta and monomates. Once in a blue moon, you’d find…!
A circuit board. You had the budget MAG-substitute produce a generic piece of gear for you. No legendary rare items, just another generic-though-better-statted piece of probably-mass-produced gear. Or a novelty room decoration requiring drops just as rare as the board was, and with a high chance of failure. So not only could you not immediately use what you picked up, there was even a chance you’d never get to use it anyway.
Which sounds better? Rivetacle, or Heart of Poumn? Burzaihoh, or Snow Queen? What makes a Ryo-Betatore better than a Ryo-Louktore? Even PSU’s ultimate weapons, from boards not found in shops, sound generic. I don’t know what they look like. I never felt motivated to invest the effort to find out.
MHF2 takes a similar approach to equipment to PSU; enemies don’t drop equipment, but instead drop materials for equipment. It’s understandable; in PSO, equipment drops were weakly justified by telling us they previously belonged to a now-dead military, or… well, worse, you’re killing the, um, Jenova’d remains of that military. It’s never quite specified exactly what happened, and it stretches credibility that the monster standing in front of you a few seconds ago was holding a DISKA OF LIBERATOR and is not now dancing in your guts. In PSU, enemies might drop things like Acid or Jelly… oh, I don’t know. It’s never made clear how you GET these materials, as enemies tend to disappear in a cloud of blood once they die. Microscopic SEEDs, perhaps?
In MHF2, however, the material drops make more sense; Genprey can be carved to produce Genprey Fangs, Claws, and Scales, amongst other stuff. The things you’d expect to get when tearing apart a monster’s carcass to salvage anything useful. PSU would just give you ‘Paralytic Venom’, and never tell you that you really have a handful of Genprey Fangs. Sensible naming, whoo… but it doesn’t stop there. MHF2 doesn’t have generic equipment, doesn’t have different names for something that is nothing but a basic upgrade of something you had previously, and doesn’t require you to find a ‘recipe’ for each weapon; if you have the parts to make something, you definitely have the ability to tell the weaponsmith or armoursmith to make it. There’s no chance of failure, either; having a chance of failing at both the point you loot (not getting the necessary item) AND the point you craft (failing to make it and wasting your items) is too much chance of failure, and needlessly frustrating to see all your work at the first stage possibly ruined at the second. MHF2 simply lets you have your item as soon as you have the materials and money to pay the crafter… and materials aren’t in short supply. You just sometimes need a lot of them.
Summary and Conclusions
Repetition is, to a certain degree, unavoidable in any game that allows you to backtrack and revisit previous areas. Naturally. Painful repetition can be alleviated through a number of methods:
Not requiring the player to visit every single place on the map, every time they visit. This very quickly gets old. Where a single large map is used for multiple missions, each mission could only allow passage to a much smaller portion of that map, and where each mission has its own map, don’t require footsteps over all of it in order to finish the mission, and don’t have only one useful mission at any given time.
Adding a little variety; through multiple start positions, a la PSO, or through randomised (…maybe) spawns of monsters each mission, or even each time you visit the area in a single mission, a la MHF2. Variety in the target of the mission also counts; PSO had you pick up parts of an CAST, at least one miniature stealth mission, hunting a scientist wearing a Rappy costume, and killing 100 monsters with another Hunter before he dies… complete with timer ticking down for the NPC. MHF2 has its large cast of boss monsters, such as the one I took my name here from, and a host of missions tracking down items and hunting smaller things, as well.
Interesting maps; MHF2’s regions look stunning every time I play, and PSO’s maps, with the exception of Forest, were absolutely huge – with, yes, some repetition, but not painful repetition. I always used to get very lost in the Mines.
Non-generic equipment is either easier or more difficult to solve, depending on how you look at it. MHF2 had no generic equipment or models for equipment whatsoever; each weapon-series was never visually repeated. A War Hammer+ looked the same as a War Hammer, but looked nothing like Crystal Hammer, Crater Maker, the Sanctioned Hammer, or Iron Striker… for a small example. However, it takes much more work to make unique models for each distinct weapon than, say, to make a lightsaber, call it a Brand, and vary its colour randomly or based on its element.
The other solution is to come up with significant names; nonsense names don’t cut it, as PSU proved with its ‘Baybari’ and ‘Ryo-Betatore’. PSO had ‘Rika’s Claw’ and ‘Nei’s Claw’, named after famous characters from earlier Phantasy Star games, and ‘Heart of Poumn’, referring both to another earlier character (Alis), and to a significant piece of text within the main game (‘MUUT DITS POUMN’). Hildebear’s Cane, Diska of Liberator, Meteor Cudgel… they stand out from the generic weapons by their name and description – and stats, and rarity – if not always by appearance.
Phantasy Star Online was by no means perfect, or non-repetitive – Forest, though nice, gets repetitive eventually – but it had far less problems than Phantasy Star Universe, where everything became tiresome for me. A lot of PSU’s trouble was probably caused by noticing small maybe-problems in Phantasy Star Online and generally answering them correctly, but getting many small details wrong in the process. MHF2 independently made the same choices, and without (as?) many of those small annoying burrs that turn up in PSU.
I guess that makes PSU an example of what not to do for… well… anything, then.
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Fans have spotted another editing mistake in Game of Thrones. Picture: Supplied/ HBO
GoT hit by another huge edit fail
14th May 2019 9:57 AM
JUST as "Coffeegate" was about to simmer down, Game of Thrones is serving up another hot mistake.
Fresh off the anachronistic appearance of a modern-day coffee cup in Episode 4, the final season of HBO's hit fantasy drama's latest editing mistake: Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) appears to have miraculously grown back his severed hand in a promo image from Episode 5, "The Bells."
It’s a miracle.
Fans will recall that the legendary swordsman had to relearn the art of combat after his right hand was chopped off in Season 3.
What looks like a shot from Jaime's final scene - in which he embraces Cersei (Lena Headey) as the Red Keep goes up in flames - seems to contradict episode history.
However, an HBO rep told The Post that Jaime's right hand did not appear on air but the photo making the rounds on social media was possibly distributed by the digital team.
Still, eagle-eyed fans took to Twitter to do what they do best - pound out keyboard cries of outrage aimed at show-runners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff.
The duo also took the heat last week after the Starbucks-like paper cup was accidentally left in a scene.
"The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. Daenerys had ordered an herbal tea," HBO sarcastically conceded the morning after.
The network later confirmed that the cup had been digitally edited out of the scene.
The sixth and final episode of Game of Thrones will air next Monday on Foxtel at 11am and 8:30pm. Keep an eye out for news.com.au's recap and podcast analysing the episode.
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VOTED ON: The Noosa Town Plan has been passed and is to be signed off by the State Government.
Noosa’s future on the line with new town plan
12th Dec 2019 5:00 PM
NOOSA’S future has gone on the line at a special meeting of the council today and critics of councillors’ approach to short-stay lettings received no joy.
The decision to accept this new planning scheme four years in the making came amid a backdrop of business backlash and a demand that adoption of the document be delayed until after the March election.
Adding to the intrigue is that the meeting took place without Cr Frank Pardon, who was found guilty in Maroochydore District Court during the council deliberations of historical sex charges.
This allowed for Mayor Tony Wellington to have a key casting vote during a deadlock on short-stay lettings to be a consistent use of the new plan in low-density residential areas.
The Mayor voted against allowing this amendment put forward by Cr Ingrid Jackson.
The council received more than 1500 written submissions on the plan that had also raised concerns about signage.
The new Noosa Plan must now be signed off by the State Government before the council can formally adopt it, which it’s hoping to do in early 2020.
Cr Jackson said short-stay lettings proposals “had attracted the greatest number of submissions, with a large number being against the proposals”.
“Yet the staff recommendation is still the same, that short-term accommodation of whole houses and units must get development approvals in all zones,” she said.
“On behalf of a large number of residents who are against this proposal, I propose instead that short-term accommodation be accepted developments subject to requirements.”
Deputy Mayor Frank Wilkie said there was no evidence that no further increase in short-term stays “would impact negatively on the existing tourism economy as the new plan does not propose any losses in existing tourist accommodation but the contrary”.
He said about 5500 properties had the ability to host short-term stays and a further 600 had the ability to apply for this in the medium and high-density residential zones.
“Claims that short-term accommodation would be reduced under this planning scheme are absolutely false,” Cr Wilkie said.
Cr Stockwell said the planning scheme would protect visitor accommodation “and neighbourhoods of permanent housing are protected from short-term visitor accommodation that would impact on the amenity enjoyed by residents”.
Cr Jackson raised the lack of evidence-based study on short stays that had been done in Noosa.
“My motion is simply about giving people an opportunity to let out houses that they choose to let out and to diversify our tourism accommodation choice,” she said.
She raised the prospect that making an application in an inconsistent zone would attract something like a $9000 charge just by the council.
She said on top of that there would be thousands of dollars in planning consultants’ fees and “most people won’t be able to afford that”.
She said there was a petition asking for a deferral of this planning scheme that had already attracted 875 signatures “so the concept that this is real estate agents (complaining), I don’t think so”.
Her amendment lost, with only Cr Glasgow’s support.
Cr Jackson then sought to amend the plan so that people could still apply for short-term stays in residential low density that would “still be impact accessible” as consistent rather than an inconsistent use.
“A planning scheme should be performance outcomes oriented,” she said.
“And people should have the rights to make applications.”
She said it would still be less likely that people would apply because it was very expensive in even a consistent use area and this would be a more user-friendly approach.
Cr Joe Jurisevic supported Cr Jackson’s move, as did Cr Glasgow.
Cr Wellington said if this amendment did proceed it would be in direct conflict with the overall outcomes of the scheme and he believed this would have to go back out for feedback in the community until after the election.
“Now I know there are people in the community who would love that to happen but here are the implications,” he said.
Councillors, without the absent Cr Pardon’s vote, were deadlocked when it came to the vote and Cr Wellington used his casting vote to reject the amendment.
Finally it came down to adopting the plan and Cr Jackson said this document was “a great step in the right direction”.
The plan was then approved by the council.
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Theo has been missing since May.
Was missing Belgian backpacker last seen near Coffs?
7th Dec 2019 11:00 PM | Updated: 9th Dec 2019 5:29 AM
A WOMAN phoned police to say she saw a man 'looking dead' lying on the side of the road wearing similar clothes to those worn by Theo Hayez.
Leesa Horn, a beauty therapist from Queensland, claims she was waved down by a man, aged in his 30s, as she drove south on the Pacific Highway, 10km south of Coffs Harbour, about 4.30am on June 2.
The hitchhiker was standing next to another man who was sprawled out on the concrete and looked 'dead', she told journalist at The Australian David Murray.
The sighting was four days before the 18-year-old traveller's family learned he had vanished in Byron Bay, 200km away.
Theo was last seen leaving the Cheeky Monkey's nightclub after he was asked to leave on May 31 at 11pm.
Leesa Horne on the highway south of Coffs Harbour where she believes she saw missing tourist Theo Hayez. Frank Redward
Extensive land, air and sea searches failed to find the teenager and the NSW Police referred Theo's case to the State Coroner in September, officially ending the search.
On the day of her sighting, Ms Horn posted a video to Facebook detailing what she saw.
The beauty therapist explained she initially thought to reverse and help the men, before changing her mind.
"Something in my stomach said this is not right. I thought 'No Leesa, just go'," Ms Horn said.
"I started crying when I'm driving off because I thought what if somebody's really hurt and they need my help. I didn't know what to do. So I decided to ring 000."
Coffs Harbour police are said to have called Ms Horn back and told her they did not find anyone on the highway after patrolling the scene.
Ms Horn said it was 'strange' police were unable to find the men.
She would later connect the June 2 incident and Theo's disappearance after seeing CCTV footage of him on the news.
Ms Horn believes the man lying on the ground was wearing wearing light-coloured pants and dark shoes, just like Theo was on the night he went missing.
"I told Crime Stoppers that I'm sure the guy I saw in the video was the guy lying on the road,' she told The Australian's podcast The Lighthouse.
Police began searching for Theo on June 6.
The teenager failed to return to his accommodation at the Wake Up! Hostel in Byron Bay.
Missing Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez was last seen leaving Cheeky Monkeys Bar on May 31. NSW Police Media
May 31 at 7.45pm: Theo Hayez and an unnamed friend were caught on CCTV camera at a local bottle shop in Byron Bay.
May 31 at 11pm: The last confirmed sighting of Hayez. He was spotted leaving the Cheeky Monkey bar and appeared to be heading in the direction of the WakeUp! Backpacker hostel where he was staying.
June at 1am: The last confirmed WhatsApp message was sent from Theo's phone.
June 1 at 1:42pm: Theo's phone pinged for the last time.
June 6: Theo was reported missing to local police .
June 9: Police conducted a major land, sea and air search in the Byron Bay area with the assistance of rescue officers, the State Emergency Service, a lifesaver helicopter and lifesavers.
June 10: Locals and other backpackers joined in the search for Theo.
June 10-June 16: SES crews, the dog squad, lifeguards, local volunteers and police are continuing to search the Byron Bay headlands, east and north of the town, as well as beaches and swamps.
June 16: Theo's mother Vinciane Delforge, told a French broadcaster in Belgium she is holding out hope her son is safe and well, but said his disappearance is entirely out of character.
June 17: Theo's father Laurent Hayez travels to Byron Bay to help search for his son Theo.
He makes an emotional plea asking Australia to keep looking for his son and vows to stay in the country until he is found. He says he hopes WhatsApp will cooperate with police to decode the messages that Theo last sent - a feat, he says, which could change the course of the search.
Police confess they are still 'baffled' by the case, and are keeping all lines of inquiry open.
Homicide detectives join in on the search for Theo.
July 3: NSW Police announce the full-scale search for the teenager had been called off, but investigations are ongoing.
July 12: Theo's heartbroken father flies home.
July 17: Top forensic psychologist Tim Watson-Munro says believes Theo could have been the victim of an unknown serial killer, along with two 20-year-old backpackers who went missing on the NSW north coast months prior.
July 18: Theo's parents reveal they believe he is still alive and are holding out hope he is in a commune.
August: A dedicated group of Byron Bay locals have brought in cadaver dogs to search for missing Belgian tourist Theo Hayez. The dogs and their handlers scoured bushland in the Arakwal National Park including Tallow Beach.
September: Theo's father Laurent Hayez arrives back in Australia to continue his search for his son.
September 16: Police call off the search for Theo and refer his case to the coroner.
October 13: Theo's family confirm a cap found in dense bushland near to where the missing backpacker's phone last 'pinged' belonged to him.
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“Evil” colors and rough noses
by Jim Rizzuto | posted in: Lure Making Tips | 3
The Lure-Making Tips blog is for readers who already know the techniques and methods explained in the books Lure-Making 101/102 and Lure-Making 201/202. If you don’t have these books, be sure to get them.
More lessons from the long-view of history. Perhaps a good reminiscence for old-timers who were among the first generation of “Kona-Style” lure makers and users in the 1950s and 1960s. For newcomers who didn’t get started until later, perhaps this and other stories in the Lure-making Tips blog will nudge you to respect your elders. But there is nothing really heavy in this post. Just a few things worth pondering. I’m starting with a picture of some of my now-familiar work. I am using my work only because I know the details of when and how it was created, and I don’t need to speculate on important facts.
The three lures shown at left came out of the same mold over a period of about 45 years. The top one is the reason for showing the image. Note the color. Today’s lure makers know that pale blue color by the code name “Evil” and associate it with the Joe Yee Apollo (below right).
Apollo “Evil” with name tag inside.
I made this Fat Boy lure (left, top) in 1970 or, perhaps, even earlier. The color was very popular back then, just as it is now. Before it became known as “Evil,” it was just plain evil to the fish.
On that same Evil blue lure, note the yellow and black eye. It was made by pouring two layers of resin, first black and then yellow, into a mold made with small curved pockets. Today, we use plastic painter’s palettes. Back then, we used a rubber mold that we created by embedding coat buttons in the uncured rubber. It seems that every generation “discovers” the process of pouring their own eyes and decides they invented it.
Now note the insert. This lure predates all of the fancy, flashy, mylar film tapes we now have today. On this lure, the shiny surface is aluminum tape press-fitted over a plastic “popsicle” insert. To add some texture, I stippled the tape with a rough-tooth file.
Let’s look at a few other lures from the same era. I don’t know who made them but we can make the point just from their features.
There’s that pale blue color again. The slight difference in the hue is probably because of variations in the color of the resin, itself.
The top lure has a shiny metal insert, which was polished like a mirror. The bottom has a textured metal insert. The middle lure uses some early fish-scale patterned mylar tape.
Note the tail pieces on the top and bottom. The two-notch dovetails were already the standard back then. They were molded into the lure rather than being carved on a lathe. Lathing was difficult to do because the leader tubes were off-center. The grooves were left unpolished — even left tacky. Better to hold the skirt.
Look at the tail stock for a big clue to the age of the top lure. Old-timers will recognize the clue immediately. They will understand the meaning of that strange orange residue on the rear piece. Back in the day, our top choice for underskirt material was red rubber from inner tubes, but we could also buy orange sheet material to cut into a hula skirt. The inner tube rubber lasted longer. The orange sheet rubber eventually got gooey and sticky.
Look at the eyes, too. Molded from leftover resin, most likely. As already noted, the practice goes back almost to the beginning.
One last look. In a previous post, I mentioned the practice of leaving the nose of the lure unpolished. Polishing was a pain so many folks convinced themselves that rough noses were better anyway. If the nose is left unpolished, you can tinker with it more easily to tune it up to run true. The center lure shows a red-painted nose — a common practice that made the front look more finished.
Do you see that the red nose is not really squared up? This lure would tend to pull to one side. The lure maker might have wanted that to happen to spread the lure out to one side of the wake. In any event, look at the big chip in the scoop. That eventually happened to all good lures in heavy use. In the final chapter of a lure’s life, the chipped ends were filed off to create new models with different actions. And thus some entirely new shapes were accidentally “discovered.”
For reasons that make no sense, these scoop-faced lures are occasionally referred to as “conventional” lures. With any development, the “convention” is established by the original product. In the case of Kona-style trolling lures, the convention is the Henry Chee straight runner with the center pull and the flat beveled face. If we were adhering to common practice, the “convention” would be the center-pull, tube lure made in a bar glass.
to Keith Prinn from Jim Rizzuto: Fascinating and well documented. So “Evil” began as the name of a skirt in the Pakula line and then got borrowed as the name of a lure head color in the Joe Yee line and is now used as a generic term for pale blue heads. Just another example of what gets lost and gained in translation from Australian to English. And the story does support the points made in my post: the color has been around for as long as lure-makers have been making trolling heads; it is not and has never been the particular property of Joe Yee, even though that is the usual association here in Hawaii.
More from Keith Prinn: Further support for the skirt colours being named Evil rather than the head colour comes from Peter Pakula having the same skirt colours in his range on his Evil Animal since the late 80s-early 90s or so when he released the Sprocket and Animal series of heads. The HTS catalogues I have from 1990 and 1991 have Joe Yee Evil Apollos featured but one year has a clear head and the other has the famous blue (as I know it to be) light blue head. Also the Evil skirts originally have the silver outside at the top with blue under this is often reversed by later luremakers using the nickname. HTS skirted the Apollos with Golden Bait skirts from memory which I believe to be Yamashita skirts.I guess I am saying there was one original nicknamed Evil lure skirt combo just like there was one Lumo being Pakula’s. Lots of others have used the names since then of course and today in Australia they are as commonly used as names like Hoover or Xerox in their respective fields. Other skirt and head combos in that era for Joe Yee Apollos at HTS were nicknamed Evil’s Brother, Evil’s Sister and Evil Brown Dog etc. I was told by someone that Peter Pakula and Chris Hall fished together with Joe Ritchie at times but I havent confirmed that personally with either Chris or Pete. I think the first HTS catalogues may have been 1988 or 89 but not 100% sure on that the actual catalogues I have are 1990 and 1991. The similarities between the HTS catalogues and the first Melton’s catalogues are also no coincidence. I am fortunate to still own a number of Joe Yees and a Marlin Magic bought from HTS in that era including two Apollos, three 501s, three Bubbles with a sole MM “Zip Rocket” Big Eye remaining from the MMs I bought. I am convinced that the connection between Melton’s and staff from HTS is what lead to the use of the nickname “Evil” in other non Australian areas after the combo was advertised as such on Joe Yee Apollos listed in Tracy’s catalogues. Other nick names such as “Big Dog”, “Slash” and more recently “Grimace” used by HTS are also often used today by some lure makers and in the current Melton’s catalogues. US nicknames for skirt combos are also regularly used here in Australia today with eg: “Petrolier, “Gay Bob” and “”Zuccini” appearing here.
From Keith
Prinn: The adoption of the name “Evil” as far as I am aware came about with the late Joe Ritchie running the now famous Apollo with the silver blue outer skirts over green and gold on his boat “Jah Ah” off Sydney and Port Stephens. As I was told it was given that nickname after a particularly successful day on blue marlin. So the Evil name refers to the lure in that format not just the lure head colour. The lure took off in the US after Melton’s advertised them that way but Chris Hall who fished with Joe Ritchie on “Jay Ah” rigged and sold heaps back in those days when he and Ian MIller worked for Harbord Tackle Supply. HTS back then is still the best tackle shop Ive ever visited. Evil became known as part of the famous blue marlin pattern run by Sydney boats including “Cintra” and “Jay Ah” which included a Large Marlin Magic Tube nicknamed “Slash” the “Evil” Joe Yee Apollo, a Marlin Magic big plunger named Big Dog and a Joe Yee 501 named after Sydney GFC fisho and great mate Graham Donaldson and nicknamed “Grimace”.
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The Heart-Saving Hormone
Khloe Kardashian has been hitting the gym hard and has not been letting herself slack, no matter what is going on in her life, as well as making sure that she sticks to a very strict diet. Khloe has since gone on to lose around 35lbs. “Khloe gives as much to the gym as the gym gives to her” Gunnar Peterson has praised Kardashian for her dedication. Her Beverly Hills-based trainer explains why Khloe’s physical transformation has been so major: “We keep her mind challenged and her body guessing, and the focus is on building strength. She never cancels! Some days it’s more heart-rate intensive, some days it’s more lower-extremities intensive, some days the upper extremities get a little extra love.” Khloe Kardashian in the Gym He added: “As the changes have come, the diet has tightened up … She’s made better choices when she eats. She’s been more conscious about working on sleep habits. She hydrates better. She keeps getting after it and she keeps getting better. We’re always playing with our workouts. We’re always making it that much more challenging.” And that hard work and intense focus has helped our September cover star score what some might call a post-breakup revenge body. “Yeah, it’s a revenge body” Khloe says. But it’s just as much for all my critics who called me ‘the fat one’ for my entire existance.” Her workout consists of a complete routine, two or three times a week, on nonconsecutive days. You can try it…
Khloe Kardashian has been hitting the gym hard and has not been letting herself slack, no matter what is going on in her life, as well as making sure that she sticks to a very strict diet. Khloe has since gone on to lose around 35lbs.
“Khloe gives as much to the gym as the gym gives to her”
Gunnar Peterson has praised Kardashian for her dedication. Her Beverly Hills-based trainer explains why Khloe’s physical transformation has been so major: “We keep her mind challenged and her body guessing, and the focus is on building strength. She never cancels! Some days it’s more heart-rate intensive, some days it’s more lower-extremities intensive, some days the upper extremities get a little extra love.”
Khloe Kardashian in the Gym
He added: “As the changes have come, the diet has tightened up … She’s made better choices when she eats. She’s been more conscious about working on sleep habits. She hydrates better. She keeps getting after it and she keeps getting better. We’re always playing with our workouts. We’re always making it that much more challenging.” And that hard work and intense focus has helped our September cover star score what some might call a post-breakup revenge body.
“Yeah, it’s a revenge body”
Khloe says. But it’s just as much for all my critics who called me ‘the fat one’ for my entire existance.” Her workout consists of a complete routine, two or three times a week, on nonconsecutive days. You can try it yourself! Starting with the first exercise, do the prescribed number of reps, then rest 10 to 30 seconds. Do two to five sets of each move, then continue to the next move and repeat until you’ve done the entire routine.
The biggest obstacle most people face when trying to add exercise into their day is time. Many also (mistakenly) think that the only way to stay fit is to hit the gym or spend at least an hour doing aerobic exercise. While it’s true that you increase your fitness level when you increase the intensity, frequency and duration of your program, it’s possible to gain moderate fitness benefits from making small, consistent changes to your daily life.
Khloe Kardashian Running
The latest and probably one of the most common sense ways to get fit and lose excess body fat is by making painless additions of exercise to your day, combined with small diet modifications. For example, current research has shown that by consuming just 100 fewer calories per day, a woman can avoid the 1-2 pound gain most of us take on each year.
If you want to lose weight, you need to increase your daily caloric deduction by 500 calories, but you can do this by cutting 200 calories out of your daily diet and burning 300 calories more through exercise.
Add that up over a week and you’ll have nearly a pound of fat loss with very little pain or diet deprivation.
It’s the little things you do everyday that can make the difference between keeping fit or packing on additional pounds every year. Don’t underestimate the power of tiny changes: consistent, lifestyle changes are always more successful for losing and maintaining weight loss.
Here are a few tips to help you find painless ways to stay fit:
All rise! The average person burns 100 calories per hour while sitting and 140 per hour while standing. Get on your feet two hours a day while you work and you could drop 6 pounds over the course of a year. Stand while you talk on the phone and set up an area where you can work in a standing position (great for people with back pain!).
Take the stairs, not the elevator A 130-pound woman will burn nearly 20 calories each time she goes up and down the stairs. Do it all day watch how quickly those add up!
Dust while you talk on the phone.
Lose the remote. Get up to change the channel! And while you’re up grab some weights for a set of bicep curls or shoulder presses. You can work through a full strength training routine in an hour if you do a set during each commercial.
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Park so you have to walk.
Walk and talk! Catch up on phone calls while your take a walk.
Be creative! Instead of thinking of all the ways you don’t have time to exercise, make it a game to see how many ways you can carve out time for little bouts of exercise. Lose your all or nothing mindset and look at exercise as a daily accumulation of activity.
Remember, to lose weight you still need to take a look at your diet and try to eliminate excess calories, especially those that come from junk. Your goal isn’t difficult cutting 200-300 calories from your daily diet can be easy if you choose foods that you won’t miss too much. Think about switching from a can a soda every afternoon to unsweetened iced tea or a flavored sparkling water. But remember, don’t cut something that you look forward to everyday (for me cutting cream in my coffee would be a deal breaker), instead look for little changes you can make that won’t make a big difference in the foods your enjoy.
“We’re always playing with our workouts”
Hot on the heels of her steamy spread in Complex magazine, Khloe Kardashian has revealed she’s lost about 35 pounds from hitting the gym. The 31-year-old told Australian radio show “Fitzy & Wippa” on Friday about her weight loss journey. “I’ve lost like, 35 pounds. I don’t really weigh myself … but I know how I want to feel in clothes and it does become addicting once you start losing weight and seeing results. I want to see more,” she said.
Khloe Kardashian Resting
Kardashian recently slammed critics who accused her sexy shoot of being digitally altered, posting an un retouched photo alongside the one that appeared in the magazine.
loe Kardashian channeled her inner Beyonce by doing a booty pop on Instagram after her recent 13-pound weight loss. Khloe said Beyonce, who wowed fans with her sexy Met Gala ball gown, is her fitness inspiration.
“I just got my motivation for the year!” Kardashian gushed after seeing Beyonce’s super-fit body in a nude Givenchy dress. Beyonce has maintained her 65-pound post-baby weight loss with a vegan diet, according to her longtime trainer, Marco Borges.
Khloe posted several Instagram photos May 12, where she proudly showed off her tiny waist and toned booty. Kardashian previously revealed on Instagram that her weight loss secrets are a dairy-free diet, waist training and intense workouts with celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson.
Peterson, who helped Khloe’s sister, Kim Kardashian, lose 56 pounds just six months after childbirth, said Khloe is extremely dedicated to diet and exercise. Peterson said Khloe has never looked better following her recent weight loss.
“Khloe’s a full-on animal in the gym”
“The changes she’s made to her body are incredible. She’s done it the right way. Nothing fast, just hard work. Her body is bangin’ right now.”
Khloe gets laser treatments to zap the cellulite off her butt and thighs, but said the rest of her body is all-natural, not due to plastic surgery. Kardashian feels great after losing 13 pounds recently by following a dairy-free diet and exercising five days a week.
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Tag: Numberphile
Numberphile and the Cult of Collegiality
2 Comments on Numberphile and the Cult of Collegiality
analysis, infinite series, mathematics education, Numberphile, Riemann zeta function
Mathologer recently posted a long video addressing the “proof” by Numberphile of the “astounding result” that 1 + 2 + 3 + … = -1/12. As well as carefully explaining the underlying mathematical truth, Mathologer tore into Numberphile for their video. Mathologer’s video has been very popular (17K thumbs up), and very unpopular (1K thumbs down).
Many who objected to Mathologer’s video were Numberphile fans or semi-literate physicists who were incapable of contemplating the idea that Numberphile could have gotten it wrong. Many others, however, while begrudgingly accepting there were issues with the Numberphile video, strongly objected to the tone of Mathologer’s critique. And it’s true, Mathologer’s video might have been improved without the snarky jokes from that annoying cameraman. (Although, awarding Numberfile a score of -1/12 for their video is pretty funny.) But whining about Mathologer’s tone was mostly a cheap distraction from the main point. Fundamentally, the objections were to Mathologer’s engaging in strong and public criticism, to his lack of collegiality, and these objections were ridiculous. Mathologer had every right to hammer Numberphile hard.
Numberphile’s video is mathematical crap and it continues to do great damage. The video has been viewed over six million times, with the vast majority of viewers having absolutely no clue that they’ve been sold mathematical snake oil. Numberphile made a bad mistake in posting that video, and they’re making a much worse mistake in not admitting it, apologising for it and taking it down.
The underlying issue, a misguided concern for collegiality, extends far beyond one stupid video. There is so much godawful crap around and there are plenty of people who know it, but not nearly enough people willing to say it.
Which brings us to Australian mathematics education.
There is no shortage of people happy to acknowledge privately their frustration with or contempt for the Australian Curriculum, NAPLAN, VCE, AMSI, AAMT, MAV, teacher training, textbooks, and on and on. Rarely are these people willing to formally or publicly express any such opinions, even if they have a natural platform for doing so. Why?
Many feel that any objection is pointless, that there is no hope that they will be listened to. That may well be true, though it may also be self-fulfilling prophecy. If all those who were pissed off spoke up it would be pretty noisy and pretty difficult to ignore.
More than a few teachers have indicated to us that they are fearful of speaking out. They do not trust the VCAA, for example, to not be vindictive. To us, this seems far-fetched. The VCAA has always struck us as petty and inept and devoid of empathy and plain dumb, but not vengeful. The fear, however, is clearly genuine. Such fear is an argument, though not a clinching argument, for remaining silent.
It is also clear, however, that many teachers and academics believe that complaining, either formally or publicly, is simply not nice, not collegial. This is ridiculous. Collegiality is valuable, and it is obviously rude, pointless and damaging to nitpick over every minor disagreement. But collegiality should be a principle, not a fetish.
At a time when educational authorities and prominent “experts” are arrogantly and systemically screwing things up there is a professional obligation for those with a voice to use it. There is an obligation for professional organisations to encourage dissenting voices, and of course it is reprehensible for such organisations to attempt to diminish or outright censor such voices. (Yes, MAV, we’re talking about you, and not only you.)
If there is ever a time to be quietly respectful of educational authority, it is not now.
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Some folks have all the luck. Matt Damon took his girlfriend, Luciana Barroso, to O'Neill's in Maspeth, Queens, to watch the Kentucky Derby and she ended up winning $15,000, sources said.
Thanks to Sandi for this summary of Matt's 'cameo' on Law and Order: Criminal Intent:
It was about these two guys who moved to New York to act. One friend was more popular than the other. The less popular guy was always riding his friend's coat tails.
The less popular guy lost his big break when he auditioned for a bit-part for a movie with Matt Damon and blew his audition. At the end of the episode, the cops are viewing the audition tape, and we hear Matt in the background 'Take it easy buddy, we got time'. The guy was messing up his lines and Matt was heard saying 'It's cool, we've got plenty of film, let's just relax, it's no big deal.' Then the guy walks off the screen and we hear Matt say 'Wait, did he just leave? He left?'
And thanks to Steph for her summary of a Family Guy skit:
I was watching Family Guy last night (5/8) on Fox, and they had a little bit about Matt and Ben writing Good Will Hunting. It had Matt on the computer finishing the script, and Ben on the couch saying "hey man, put my name on that". It was mostly making fun of Ben, but it was a cute little scene.", "url": "https://mattdamoncolumn.livejournal.com/30061.html", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/sign.png" }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Matt Damon News Column", "image": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/45883606/5305146" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Journal mattdamoncolumn", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://mattdamoncolumn.livejournal.com", "contentUrl": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/45883606/5305146" } } }
Derby win, TV references
From the NY Post:
I was watching Family Guy last night (5/8) on Fox, and they had a little bit about Matt and Ben writing Good Will Hunting. It had Matt on the computer finishing the script, and Ben on the couch saying "hey man, put my name on that". It was mostly making fun of Ben, but it was a cute little scene.
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Palace in PR crisis mode
Foreign pollster to help recreate Aquino’s image
posted August 19, 2014 at 12:01 am by Christine F. Herrera
THE Palace is in a crisis mode and has hired a foreign pollster and political strategist to recreate the image of President Benigno Aquino III after the government’s net approval rating plummeted to a record low of 29 percent, a source in Malacañang said Monday.
A crisis management team under Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr., and a political strategy team under Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II will do damage control, the source added.
“It will be like the 2010 campaign again or a glimpse of the 2016 campaign,” said the Palace source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “All the political and PR strategists being recalled to mount a massive media campaign, going back to the old platform of governance and slogans against corruption, transparency and good governance.”
The Palace source said Roxas brought in Paul Bograd, a foreign pollster and political strategist, to advise the President on strategies that would recreate his public image, following his tiff with the Supreme Court, which declared the Priority Development Assistance Fund and parts of the Disbursement Acceleration Program unconstitutional.
The President’s public image has also taken a beating from rising prices of basic commodities and fuel, incompetence in government agencies and a surge in violent crime.
To arrest the sagging image, Roxas broached the idea of a second term for the President by amending the Constitution, which the President affirmed during a television interview last week.
Bograd was Roxas’ political campaign strategist when he ran for senator in 2004. Roxas topped the race with the “Mr. Palengke” brand.
The Palace source said Bograd was also a pollster for then Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and also worked on the unsuccessful presidential campaign of then House Speaker Ramon Mitra in 1992. Bograd also worked for deposed President Joseph Estrada during his short-lived presidency.
Bograd’s link to Mitra and Estrada were the Zamora brothers – House Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora and businessman banker Manny Zamora, the Palace source said. In the case of Roxas, it was another brother, Salvador Zamora, who brought Bograd in.
“Basically, Bograd’s expertise is to develop, together with established local pollsters, some survey questionnaires. He also develops focus group discussions or FGDs to test the sample voters’ reactions to issues and policies,” the Palace source told the Manila Standard.
An online entry on Bograd describes him as an “international communications advisor specializing in economic policy communications, crisis and risk management, public and regulatory issues management and communications, institutional brand development; and behavioral economics…. He has advised electoral campaigns in Asia, the United States, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Russia, including past presidential campaigns in the Philippines, Russia, Indonesia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and the United States.”
“But this time, while the PR strategies of the Balay and Samar camps are worlds apart, the focus is the President,” the source said.
“The President was dragged down by the mishandling and bungling of the issues on pork barrel and the Disbursement Acceleration Program, which were both declared by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional,” the source said.
“Not to mention the inefficiency of some of his Cabinet members who would rather stick to their positions even if their performance were found to be dismally poor,” the source added.
The Samar camp insisted that the blunders were committed by the ruling Liberal Party leadership, including Senate President Franklin Drilon and Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, the source said.
The two groups revived their crisis management groups, hoping for a “quick turnaround,” the source said.
“The pork barrel issue is a concern of the middle class. But the latest survey showed a huge dip in approval rating among those in the E-class. These are supposedly the poorest of the poor that are recipients of the controversial Conditional Cash Transfer program, yet the huge drop was recorded in this class,” the Palace source said.
“This is no laughing matter anymore,” the source added. “The two groups are racing to arrest the flagging survey ratings of the President.”
Ochoa has made changes in the Palace media group, designating Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma as presidential spokesman, replacing Edwin Lacierda, who is identified with Roxas’ Balay group.
Ochoa has also called in the Samar group involved in the 2010 presidential campaign, including Maria Montelibano and some former staff of Senator Francis Escudero, who ran a parallel presidential campaign with Ochoa.
Apart from Bograd, Roxas also tapped as political strategist LP stalwart former Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza to take care of the LP concerns.
The Samar group, headed by Ochoa, was only concerned about the ratings of the President while Roxas had to arrest the sagging popularity of the ruling Liberal Party, the President’s party, including a turnaround in the negative ratings of Drilon and Abad.
Abad was the first to admit that “savings” were used to disburse additional P50 million to P100 million in funding to each senator and P10 million to each congressman.
But opposition lawmakers accused Abad and Drilon of bribery because they granted the extra allocations only to those who voted to impeach and convict former Chief Justice Renato Corona, whom the President had vowed to remove from office.
“Ochoa believes Drilon and Abad are dragging the President down with them,” the source said.
Palace sources said Ochoa became concerned when Roxas started to assert his role as LP leader and go straight to the President without passing through him.
“Roxas had to bypass Ochoa because Ochoa was already complaining about the wrong political strategies being done by the LP in handling the issue of pork barrel,” the source said.
“Ochoa was not even aware of the hiring of Bograd. He only learned about it when Bograd started frequenting the Palace. Bograd comes and goes anytime of day,” the source said.
“Ochoa is becoming worried because the LP wanted the President to save their necks when it was supposedly their job to take the bullet for the President. In this case, it’s the other way around,” the source said.
The source cited the Aug. 23 speech of the President last year defending the DAP, which he described as a fiasco.
Roxas was able to persuade the President to deliver that speech, which also focused on protecting his allies by saying he and his allies were no thieves but were running after thieves.
“True enough, after the President’s speech, Drilon and Abad were all around town echoing the Chief Executive’s lines that the administration was judicious in disbursing and allocating the funds and those in the opposition were the ones who stole the public funds,” the source said.
Drilon, the source said, exerted a separate pressure on the President after the Senate President was convinced that he could not deliver his promise of abolishing the pork barrel allocations of the senators.
“In their being overzealous in extricating themselves from the controversy, the LP leadership committed one blunder after another.
“To make up for his failure to deliver the promise of scrapping the Senate pork, Drilon even tried to salvage the impounded money by getting around the temporary restraining order issued by the Supreme Court and declared these funds as ‘savings’ that the President can use for calamities and this move elicited a word of caution from Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., who said the Senate could not do that without the concurrence of the House,” the source said.
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Ieper/Ypres – Comemmoriation of 1918 armistice
Ieper/Ypres
Comemmoriation of 1918 armistice
The two gents in front look the part
In their rain gear, which was needed !
Singh & Singh
Young and older Sikh
Those that lay flowers are allowed
underneath the Menenpoort
Blue and yellow Sikh flags from East London
More Belgian pictures to be published
Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue
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The Hindustan Times – Family of 21-yr-old Sikh woman killed in Canada’s Surrey clueless on why she was shot dead
Jatinder Mahal
Jalandhar – Panjab – India, 25 November 2019. Gurdyal Singh Matharoo, the father of Prabhleen Kaur 21, from Jalandhar who was shot dead in Canada’s Surrey where she was working after studying management, is clueless on why she was targeted and is headed to see her body one last time.
“The Canadian police have refused to share anything with us over the phone and with our relatives there. They have asked me to come to get details.
I’m hopeful of getting the go-ahead from the Canadian embassy by Tuesday morning and will be taking a flight at the earliest,” said an inconsolable Matharoo, 64, of Chitti village near Lambra in Jalandhar, where he runs a photo studio.
He freelanced as a photographer for a Punjabi daily for 15 years.
Prabhleen had gone to Canada on a student visa on November 14, 2016, and studied business management from Langara College in Vancouver. She was working at a store and lived on rent with friends in Surrey. Police suspect she was shot dead on 21 November.
The family was told about the murder at 6 am on Sunday. Her father said the Canadian police said they had locked her accommodation after the crime.
Matharoo said when Prabhleen got a full-time job this year, she started sending home money to repay the loan taken for her education. “I spent Rs 35 lakh in three years, including the Rs 15 lakh needed to send her to Canada. I borrowed the money from relatives. We still we have to repay about Rs 15 lakh,” he said.
Her mother, Manjit Kaur, had visited her twice in two years and returned in August after spending three months with her.
“She was happy and excited for she was to come home in January. The last time she came visiting was in January 2017. I would never have allowed her to go had I known she would never come back,” he said.
Prabhleen has a 10-year-old brother, Prabhjeet Singh, who studies in a Jalandhar school.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/family-of-21-yr-old-sikh-woman-killed-in-canada-s-surrey-clueless-on-why-she-was-shot-dead/story-umSpOvUUl8qtEWu6CXyGEO.html
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Dawn – Dutch queen arrives in Pakistan for three-day visit
Islamabad Capital Territory – Pakistan, 25 November 2019. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands arrived in Pakistan on Monday for a three-day visit in her capacity as the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Advocate (UNSGSA) for Inclusive Finance for Development.
The Dutch queen was received by senior officials of the foreign ministry and representatives of the Embassy of Netherlands at Nur Khan Air Base. Last week, the Foreign Office (FO) announced Queen Maxima’s visit.
In a press release, the FO said that the Dutch queen will call on President Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan during her visit, in addition to her engagements with stakeholders from the public and private sectors.
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Queen Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti will also attend the launch of the ‘Micro Payment Gateway’, which the FO described as “an initiative of the State Bank of Pakistan aimed at reducing the costs of small payments and boosting digital transactions to benefit people and promote financial inclusion”.
The statement had added that inclusive finance for development is one of the “key priorities” of the government and the country has taken a number of steps in recent years to promote financial inclusion.
Queen Maxima had visited Pakistan in February 2016 as well.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1518766/dutch-queen-arrives-in-pakistan-for-three-day-visit
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Sikh24.com – DSGMC asks Imran Khan to take action against hate-monger Khadim Hussain Rizvi
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New Delhi – India, 23 November 2019. Pained over the unbearable words spoken by Pakistan’s religious leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi against Guru Nanak Sahib and Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee has requested the Pakistani PM Imran Khan to take immediate action against Rizvi.
The DSGMC has said that people like Rizvi incites mob to demolish heritage sites and statues.
Interacting with media, DSGMC president Manjinder Singh Sirsa has said that Khadim Hussain Rizvi can’t be forgiven for the abusing words he spoke about Guru Nanak Sahib, Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib and Sher-e-Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
“We request Imran Khan to order action against Rizvi so that no one could dare in future to disrupt communal harmony and world peace,” he said.
It is noteworthy here that Khadim Hussain Rizvi has termed Guru Nanak Sahib as “Kafir” and the historic Sikh shrine Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib as “Marhi of Kafir” in a speech that has gone viral over social media. Beside it, Rizvi also abused Sher-e-Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh while making baseless accusations against him.
Khadim Hussain Rizvi also made a comparison between Madina and Kartarpur in a manner which is unbearable for Sikhs.
DSGMC asks Imran Khan to take action against hate-monger Khadim Hussain Rizvi
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The Wire – In 10 Steps, Here’s how Modi and Shah managed the murder of democracy in Maharashtra
Mumbai – Maharashstra – India, 23 November 2019. In the early hours of Saturday, when the people of Maharashtra were fast asleep, the country awoke to strife and unfreedom.
News of the death of democracy, the tearing up of constitutional norms, was broken by the executioner-in-chief, Narendra Modi, through his preferred medium, Twitter.
Curiously, the morning newspapers had all led with the headline that the Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray was going to be Maharashtra chief minister.
Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar had made this big announcement to reporters on Friday night after it was clear the Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress had managed to sink their political differences and make common cause against the BJP.
For Prime Minister Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah, Pawar’s announcement was a call for them to don protective gear and descend into the political sewers.
The two leaders knew they could not afford to let the Maharashtra government out of their hands and had prepared the ground, from day one, to ensure the BJP returned to power. They had already played fast and loose with norms and principles; all that was required was a final act of brazenness, which they pulled off without any hesitation or embarrassment.
3. Governor Koshiyari issued a perfunctory invitation to Devendra Fadnavis on November 9, the day the term of the previous assembly expired, giving him 48 hours. When he refused, Shiv Sena was given 24 hours.
When they said they needed more time, he gave the NCP 24 hours but recommended president’s rule before that deadline had even expired. This recommendation was in violation of the Supreme Court’s Bommai judgment.
5. When it became clear that the Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena had overcome their ideological and political differences and agreed on a coalition government under the chief ministership of the Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah went all out to ensure the new coalition does not come to power.
Sharad Pawar denies he was party to this deal; the BJP claims he was but then, quite frankly, anything the party says on Maharashtra needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
8. President Kovind was woken up and asked to sign a notification revoking Central rule in Maharashtra. He did this at 5:47 am. But the president could only act based on a recommendation of the cabinet, and there appears to have been no cabinet meeting or recommendation to that effect.
The government says it took recourse to Rule 12 of the Government of India (Transaction of Business) Rules, which says the “Prime Minister may, in any case or classes of cases permit or condone a departure from these rules, to the extent he deems necessary.”
However, this rule’s primary purpose is to deal with a “situation of extreme urgency or unforeseen contingency”, according to the Cabinet Secretariat. And the swearing in of a chief minister in this manner can hardly be considered a matter of “extreme urgency” – unless the government had something to hide.
9. Based on a questionable list of signatures of NCP MLAs, which Governor Koshiyari made no attempt to verify despite the fact that the NCP president, Sharad Pawar, had already announced the party’s backing of Thackeray, Fadnavis was sworn in at 7:30 am.
This was a blatant violation of the principles laid down by former president K R Narayanan, who said that governors who don’t take steps to ensure the chief minister they are swearing in actually has the support of the requisite number of MLAs will only end up encouraging bribery and horse-trading.
10. The only way Fadnavis can survive as chief minister on the floor of the assembly is if Ajit Pawar can bring two-thirds of the NCP’s 54 MLAs with him. This means 36 MLAs. Anything less than that means the MLAs on side would have deemed to have defected. But there’s plenty of slip between the cup of law and the lip of enforcement.
Ruling party speakers in the past have been notorious in their partisanship whenever the anti-defection law has to be invoked. And the courts, regrettably, can sometimes take forever to deliver their judgments.
Time will tell what role the courts, the Election Commission and also NCP president Sharad Pawar will play in the unfolding drama. But one things is clear. Future historians, if they are free to ply their craft, will speak of Narendra Modi and not Indira Gandhi as the prime minister who institutionalised venality and the debasement of institutions in politics.
https://thewire.in/politics/maharashtra-amit-shah-narendra-modi-democracy
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Gent-Sint-Pieters – Ieper/Ypres – Commemoration of 1918 armistice
Gent-Sint-Pieters
I took the train to Poperinge via Ieper
The other side of the platform and the
Flemish government building
Commemoration of 1918 armistice
Vandepeereboomplein and Menen Gate
On the look out for the Scottish sgian-dubh
that the Scots wear in their socks
In full rain gear, but the sgian-dubh or dirk is just visible
Band of the fire brigade
Enjoying the rain ?
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Pieter Friedrich – US Election: Why Tulsi Gabbard’s ‘Hindutva’ link deserves scrutiny
She is apparently the only candidate offering apologetics for Hindutva
Pieter Friedrich
After Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu to run for US president, failed to qualify for the September 2019 Democratic presidential debates, many wrote her campaign off as a lost cause.
Gabbard stuck it out. She pledged to soldier on until the Democratic Party’s National Convention in July 2020. And she started making headlines, including about her alleged support from both Putin’s Russia and India’s Hindu nationalist movement.
The news isn’t always positive but, as the saying goes, any press is good press.
“Hillary Clinton suggests Russians are ‘grooming’ Tulsi Gabbard for third-party run,” reported CNN in mid-October. Yet Gabbard shot back, calling Clinton “the queen of warmongers” and “embodiment of corruption”.
By mid-November, CNN was reporting that Gabbard actually received a boost after Clinton’s attacks raised her profile nationally.
Tulsi Gabbard on the Rise, Passing Up Kamala Harris
Gabbard is on the rise. While she is back in the debates, her poll numbers in early voting states like New Hampshire are steadily increasing, in NH, she has at times risen to fifth place out of a still-crowded Democratic primary of 18 candidates.
She has also outlasted formerly top-tier candidates like Beto O’Rourke and, in NH, is outpolling candidates who have outraised her.
For instance, Gabbard is passing up Kamala Harris, whose poll numbers crashed soon after the July debate in which Gabbard lashed out at her record as a prosecuting attorney. The Hawaiian congresswoman has only raised a quarter of the USD 36 million the Californian senator has pocketed.
Yet Harris, the only Indian-American candidate, is not only sinking in the polls but has failed to galvanise Indian diaspora support. As India Abroad reported in April, Indian-American donations to Gabbard surpassed those to Harris by a margin of more than 3 to 1.
Gabbard is making significant strides as she demonstrates a willingness to go head-to-head with her own party’s establishment.
During the 2016 presidential election, Clinton was widely perceived as “untrustworthy’ and “unethical”, a perception that Gabbard plays upon. On the eve of the 20 November Democratic debate, Gabbard’s attorneys accused Clinton of defamation, demanding she retract her 17 October description of the congresswoman as the “favourite of the Russians”.
RSS ‘Support’ of Tulsi Gabbard
Gabbard’s demand has some standing. On 24 October, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, a national media watch group, rubbished the allegations. “There is no evidence that Gabbard is any kind of Russian agent,” reported FAIR.
Such “silly accusations,” the group stated, are rather a nonsensical distraction from “the reality that Gabbard’s most troubling attribute is her documented connection to the far-right Hindu nationalist, or Hindutva, movement known as Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the parent organisation of India’s ruling BJP party.”
That connection traces back to 2011, a year before Gabbard was first elected to the US Congress and long before the BJP rose to power in India.
As she sought election and then re-election, Gabbard owed much of her success to support from the same leaders of overseas wings of the RSS and BJP who mobilised to get Modi into office. Even as evidence of this connection emerged over the past year, her campaign has entrenched her notoriously close relationship with Modi while reciting RSS/BJP talking points in defence of the Hindu nationalist movement.
Tulsi Gabbard ‘Justifies’ Article 370 Revocation in Kashmir
Gabbard made a name for herself among American progressives in 2016 when she resigned from her powerful position on the Democratic National Committee to endorse socialist Bernie Sanders for president, a move that put her at odds with then Democratic front-runner Clinton.
Today, however, she is at odds with Sanders not only as his opponent in the 2020 Democratic primary but on foreign policy issues. One conspicuous example is their contrasting positions on Kashmir.
“I am also deeply concerned about the situation in Kashmir,” said Sanders on 31 August 2019, just three weeks after the abrogation of Article 370. Criticising the “communications blackout” and “crackdown in the name of ‘security’,” he declared, “India’s action is unacceptable.”
“It is complex,” said Gabbard when asked about Kashmir at an 8 September campaign rally. Referring to the 1990 exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, she said, “Many families were driven from their homes there, and fled, and have not been able to return home.”
Insisting that Kashmiri women previously had no rights to own property, she added, “The previous government had policies in place that made homosexuality illegal.”
Her rhetoric directly mirrored that of India’s right-wing which, as journalist Anish Gawande explained, increasingly adopts the argument that “Article 370 was removed to protect minorities.”
The result is that LGBTQ rights are “used as bait to target every voice decrying the changes to Article 370.” This tactic was forcefully employed in October, for instance, when masked protestors, shouting “Gay for J&K,” shut down a London University panel on Kashmir.
Gabbard Absent from ‘Howdy Modi’, Indian Ambassador Comes to Her ‘Rescue’ [bold]
None of the other Democratic presidential candidates have echoed Gabbard’s BJP-esque rhetoric.
“I’m really concerned about what’s happened in Kashmir,” said O’Rourke in mid-September (before he dropped out). Elizabeth Warren, currently a front-runner, recently remarked, “The rights of the people of Kashmir must be respected.” Even Harris warned that “we are all watching” and referred to the possible need to intervene to prevent any human rights abuses.
Gabbard’s interest in swimming against the progressive current was further illustrated by her response to Modi’s recent visit to the USA.
The ‘Howdy Modi’ rockstar reception on 22 September in Houston, Texas was supposed to be a propaganda bonanza for the BJP. As ANI reported, BJP Foreign Affairs Cell In-Charge, Vijay Chauthaiwale, “spearheaded the preparations.” Over 60 “prominent US lawmakers, including Tulsi Gabbard” were slated to attend, reported India Today.
The event ended in disarray. Ultimately, only 21 US congressional representatives attended. Only one of five Indian-American lawmakers — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, showed up.
Even Gabbard herself was a no-show, although her exit was clouded by confusion. Reports circulated that she dropped out in solidarity with fellow Hindu-American Congressman Ro Khanna’s recent call to “reject Hindutva”, yet, reported DNA India, she “vehemently denied the claims.” India’s ambassador to the US, Harsh Shringla, rushed to her defence, calling her a “staunch supporter” of Modi.
Issuing a welcome video, she apologised for missing Modi’s rockstar reception “due to previously scheduled presidential campaign events.” She added that a strong partnership with India can “bring about the ideal of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”, a phrase (meaning “the world is one family”) which professor Audrey Truschke noted has been adopted by Hindutva groups such as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
Tulsi Gabbard on Hindu Nationalism
Of the 65,000 people present at “Howdy Modi,” an estimated 15,000 were protestors outside the event. Yet Gabbard stated the event was “bringing together Indian-Americans and Hindu-Americans from across our country.” Then she met Modi on 27 September in New York City.
It was their fifth meeting in five years.
As Gabbard met Modi, Truschke and others were outside protesting. “Modi and his political party, the BJP, openly adhere to Hindutva,” declared Truschke at the protest. “The Modi sarkar [government] has made it very clear that all who oppose Hindutva are enemies.
Really, anyone who merely accurately describes Hindutva is an enemy in the eyes of the Modi government. As a result, the BJP and associated groups have ruthlessly attacked the media, academics, and any other dissenters in India.”
Yet Gabbard was unfazed.
That weekend, her campaign launched a new fundraiser, a raffle for a free trip to India.
Featuring a photo of her garlanding Modi, the fundraiser was hosted at the (now defunct) URL: Tulsi2020.com/Howdy.
In a 13 October interview with Gabbard, The Times of India, noting that she had missed ‘Howdy Modi’, asked, “How do you view such rallies and the expression of what some people see as an upsurge of Hindu nationalism and Hindu pride?”
She responded: “Hindu nationalism is a term that many people are using frequently without being specific about what they mean by that. Why is expressing pride in one’s religion a bad thing?”
Gabbard further asked, “If you take out the word Hindu and you replace it with Muslim or Catholic or Jewish, then what do you end up with?” The answer is, of course, you end up with religious nationalism no matter which religious label precedes the “nationalism” term.
Gabbard Not the Only US Congressional Rep With RSS Links
Tulsi Gabbard is not the only Democratic presidential candidate with links to India’s far-right, though she is apparently the only one offering apologetics for Hindutva and its alleged atrocities.
“Links to Modi and Hindu nationalism can even be found in at least three Democratic presidential campaigns,” wrote journalist Rashmee Kumar. She cited frontrunner Joe Biden, whose campaign recently hired the son of the Overseas Friends of the BJP (OFBJP) co-founder and Pete Buttigieg, whose campaign policy director is the former national coordinator of VHP-America and daughter of a former OFBJP vice-president.
Nor is Gabbard the only US congressional representative associated with the RSS.
Raja Krishnamoorthi joined RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat at last year’s World Hindu Congress in Chicago, an event Gabbard, after months of pressure, eventually publicly dropped out of, and recently headlined a celebration of the RSS’s founding organised by the group’s international wing, the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh.
FAIR reported, Gabbard has “received crucial financial support from the Indian-American far right.” Her funding from RSS-affiliated donors traces back to before she was first elected in November 2012. In 2013, approximately 21 percent of her donations came from members and executives of Hindutva groups, rising to approximately 24 percent in her second year in office.
While Clinton levels allegations that incite American political commentators to rant about Gabbard’s perceived support from Russia, they overlook the real hard evidence that her actual support comes from, and goes to India’s Hindu nationalist movement.
Gabbard Has Found Her Niche As ‘Anti-Establishment’, ‘Anti-War’ Candidate
In late October 2019, Gabbard announced that she won’t seek re-election to US Congress. “I’ve always done my best to serve where I felt I could make the most impact,” she declared. “I believe I can best serve the people of Hawaii and our country as your President.”
“I’m running for president to rebuild our Democratic party, take it out of the hands of the foreign policy establishment in Washington, the military industrial complex, and greedy corporate interests and truly put it in the hands of the people,” she declared at the 20 November debate.
Cashing in on her military service, she added, “I volunteered to deploy to Iraq where every single day I saw the terribly high human cost of war. No, I’m not going to put party interest first. I will put the interest of the American people above all else.”
Gabbard’s Rhetoric Echoes Trump’s ‘Drain the Swamp’ Slogan
Her rhetoric is reminiscent of Donald Trump’s “drain the swamp” slogan. It’s a populist, anti-corruption, proletariat vs bourgeoisie message.
Perhaps then it’s not surprising that Gabbard’s support base overlaps with Trump’s, as one analysis of poll respondents revealed, her supporters “are more likely to have backed President Trump in 2016, hold conservative views or identify as Republican compared to voters backing the other candidates.”
Her no-holds-barred brawl with Clinton, who, as the 2016 Democratic nominee, was the subject of “lock her up” chants at Trump campaign rallies, has certainly won her fans on the Right. Even Trump’s campaign has applauded her criticism of her own party.
Tulsi Gabbard is in an all-or-nothing campaign for president.
She is rising in the polls and remains standing as others who once appeared strong fall by the wayside. She faces long odds to secure the nomination, but that was also once true of Donald Trump.
Whatever comes to pass, since she appears certain to stay in the presidential race at least until July 2020, her association with the international Hindutva movement deserves deeper scrutiny.
Published by The Quint
Pieter Friedrich is a South Asian Affairs Analyst who resides in California. He is the co-author of Captivating the Simple-Hearted: A Struggle for Human Dignity in the Indian Subcontinent. Discover more by him at
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Scroll.in – In charts: Did Delhi’s odd-even vehicle plan help improve its air pollution problem?
Research shows that the scheme, along with suitable weather conditions, led to a marginal improvement in Delhi’s air quality in 2016.
Vijayta Lalwani & Nithya Subramanian
New Delhi – India, 23 November 2019. The National Capital and the areas around it struggled for breath in October and early in November as pollution levels reached hazardous levels .
Contributing to the filthy air was smoke from crop stubble burnt in the nearby agricultural states of Punjab and Haryana, vehicular and industrial emissions in the capital as well as dust from construction work. Low temperatures during the period strengthened the smog blanket as the colder air made it more difficult for the pollutants to disperse.
As pollution levels rose, Delhi’s Graded Response Action Plan went into effect. Construction activity was halted and schools were ordered shut.
Significantly, the odd-even scheme went into effect. The scheme, which allows vehicles with odd-numbered licence plates on the road on dates with odd numbers and those with even-numbered plates on others, was implemented for the first time in 2016 in two phases. It ran from 8 am till 8 pm on all days except Sundays. Two-wheelers and vehicles driven by women were exempt from the scheme.
The third edition was enforced from November 4 to 15, but was suspended on November 11 and November 12 on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti.
Compared to the second phase in April 2016, the fines levied by the police on motorists violating the scheme this year fell by 50%. In April 2016, fine had been imposed on 9,576 motorists, reported the Hindustan Times. This year, action was taken against 4,885 motorists.
But did reducing the number of vehicles on the road result in lower pollution levels? Experts are wary of drawing conclusions from the data, adding that an analysis of pollution levels must consider multiple factors, including weather conditions.
What data shows
For this analysis, Scroll.in picked four air-quality monitoring stations spread around Delhi, RK Puram in South Delhi, Anand Vihar in East Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Central Delhi and Punjabi Bagh in West Delhi.
All four stations are monitored by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, an autonomous body under the Delhi government. Daily averages were used from the hourly data recorded from 9 am till 9 pm between November 4 and November 15. On some days, data was not recorded by the monitoring agency for a few hours.
In the chart below, it can be seen that PM 2.5 levels started to increase after October 27.
See original article
Particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns (or about a ten-thousandth of an inch) is particularly dangerous to human health. Such particles are small enough to travel deep into the respiratory system, potentially hurting lung function. The National Ambient Air Quality Standards require PM 2.5 concentration be less than 60 micrograms per cubic metre of air, in any given 24 hour period.
On 03 November, levels peaked as Delhi experienced its worst air quality during the season.
On 04 November, on the first day of odd-even, these levels suddenly dropped and the city had cleaner air to breathe. On the next day, the air quality improved further as the wind speed picked. This trend continued until November 10 after which PM 2.5 levels started to increase steadily.
Similar trends were also noticed in PM 10 levels or particulate matter the size of 10 micrometers.
Scroll.in also analysed the 24-hour average PM 2.5 concentrations in the regions adjoining Delhi, where the scheme was not implemented.
In Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh and Gurugram, Haryana, a similar drop in particulate matter in the air was observed between November 4 to 10. Both places, because of their proximity to Delhi, could be expected to experience similar wind patterns as the capital. The data indicates that Delhi’s PM 2.5 levels were marginally lower than its adjoining regions, but this was also true on some of the days before the odd-even scheme was introduced.
Outcome in 2016
On 15 November, the Supreme Court expressed concern about the effectiveness of the odd-even policy. Studies about the operation of the scheme in 2016 showed that there were marginal improvements in Delhi’s air quality as a result of several factors.
When the policy was first implemented between 01 and 15 January 2016, particulate matter 2.5 levels fell by 4%-6%, found a study by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, The Energy Research Institute and National Physical Laboratory in Delhi, and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune.
The study noted that this was not a significant consequence of the policy, considering that it was taken as an emergency measure. “The failure is attributed to stable meteorological conditions (winds are not strong enough to disperse PM 2.5 away) during the period and there was no control over PM 2.5 outside the periphery of the city,” the study states.
Another study concluded that the first phase of odd-even in 2016 led to a reduction of 13% in particulate matter concentrations. The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Chicago and Harvard University. The study noted that the reduction in particulate matter was highest in the mornings from 11 am till 2 pm, but no such improvement was noticed at night.
The study also found that compared to levels in other states, Delhi did not show any significant improvement in the second phase of the policy in April 2016.
Interestingly, the study noted that similar car rationing schemes implemented in China and Mexico did not yield satisfactory results because of non-compliance.
The Central Pollution Control Board also carried out a study of the two phases in 2016. It concluded that a single factor could not result in substantial reductions in pollution and that an “integrated approach” was needed.
“With no clear trend and wide fluctuations observed in the concentrations, it is evident that the meteorology and emissions from other polluting sources have been major factors impacting air quality of Delhi during the period,” the study noted.
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TPS51200A-Q1 Sink and Source DDR Termination Regulator (Rev. A)
Texas Instruments | TPS51200A-Q1 Sink and Source DDR Termination Regulator (Rev. A) | Datasheet | Texas Instruments TPS51200A-Q1 Sink and Source DDR Termination Regulator (Rev. A) Datasheet
TPS51200A-Q1
SLUSD58A – JUNE 2018 – REVISED DECEMBER 2018
TPS51200A-Q1 Sink and Source DDR Termination Regulator
AEC-Q100 Qualified for Automotive Applications:
– Device Temperature Grade 1:
–40°C ≤ TA ≤ 125°C
– Device HBM ESD Classification Level 2
– Device CDM ESD Classification Level C4B
Extended Reliability Testing
Input Voltage: Supports 2.5-V Rail and 3.3-V Rail
VLDOIN Voltage Range: 1.1 V to 3.5 V
Sink and Source Termination Regulator Includes
Droop Compensation
Requires Minimum Output Capacitance of 20-μF
(typically 3 × 10-μF MLCCs) for Memory
Termination Applications (DDR)
PGOOD to Monitor Output Regulation
EN Input
REFIN Input Allows for Flexible Input Tracking
Either Directly or Through Resistor Divider
Remote Sensing (VOSNS)
±10-mA Buffered Reference (REFOUT)
Built-in Soft-Start, UVLO and OCL
Meets DDR, DDR2 JEDEC Specifications;
Supports DDR3 and Low-Power DDR3 and DDR4
VTT Applications
VSON-10 Package With Exposed Thermal Pad
Memory Termination Regulator for DDR, DDR2,
DDR3, and Low Power DDR3/DDR4
Notebook, Desktop, Server
Telecom and Datacom, GSM Base Station, LCDTV and PDP-TV, Copier and Printer, Set-Top Box
The TPS51200A-Q1 device is a sink and source
double-data-rate
(DDR)
specifically designed for low input voltage, low-cost,
low-noise systems where space is a key
The device maintains a fast transient response and
only requires a minimum output capacitance of 20 μF.
The device supports a remote sensing function and
all power requirements for DDR, DDR2, DDR3, and
Low Power DDR3 and DDR4 VTT bus termination.
In addition, the device provides an open-drain
PGOOD signal to monitor the output regulation and
an EN signal that can be used to discharge VTT
during S3 (suspend to RAM) for DDR applications.
The device is available in the thermally-efficient
VSON-10 package, and is rated both green and Pbfree. The device is specified from –40°C to 125°C.
Device Information(1)
VSON (10)
BODY SIZE (NOM)
3.00 mm × 3.00 mm
(1) For all available packages, see the orderable addendum at
the end of the datasheet.
Simplified DDR Application
VDDQ
3.3 VIN
VLDOIN
PGND
VOSNS
PGOOD
SLP_S3
REFOUT
VTTREF
An IMPORTANT NOTICE at the end of this data sheet addresses availability, warranty, changes, use in safety-critical applications,
intellectual property matters and other important disclaimers. PRODUCTION DATA.
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Features ..................................................................
Applications ...........................................................
Description .............................................................
Revision History.....................................................
Pin Configuration and Functions .........................
Specifications.........................................................
Absolute Maximum Ratings .....................................
ESD Ratings..............................................................
Recommended Operating Conditions.......................
Thermal Information ..................................................
Electrical Characteristics...........................................
Switching Characteristics ..........................................
Typical Characteristics ..............................................
Detailed Description ............................................ 10
Overview ................................................................
Functional Block Diagram .......................................
Feature Description.................................................
Device Functional Modes........................................
Application and Implementation ........................ 14
8.1 Application Information............................................ 14
8.2 Typical Application ................................................. 14
9 Power Supply Recommendations...................... 25
10 Layout................................................................... 25
10.1 Layout Guidelines ................................................. 25
10.2 Layout Example .................................................... 26
10.3 Thermal Considerations ........................................ 27
11 Device and Documentation Support ................. 29
Device Support......................................................
Documentation Support ........................................
Receiving Notification of Documentation Updates
Community Resources..........................................
Trademarks ...........................................................
Electrostatic Discharge Caution ............................
Glossary ................................................................
12 Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable
Information ........................................................... 29
4 Revision History
NOTE: Page numbers for previous revisions may differ from page numbers in the current version.
Changes from Original (June 2018) to Revision A
Added Extended Reliability Testing to Features list ............................................................................................................... 1
Changed document status from Advance Information to Production Data ........................................................................... 1
Updated device number error in schematic illustrations ...................................................................................................... 14
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5 Pin Configuration and Functions
DRC Package
10-Pin VSON With Exposed Thermal Pad
Pin Functions
For DDR VTT application, connect EN to SLP_S3. For any other applications, use EN as the ON/OFF
function. Keep EN voltage equal or lower than VIN voltage at all times.
Ground. Signal ground. Connect to negative pin of the output capacitor.
Power ground output for the LDO
PGOOD output. Indicates regulation.
Reference input
Reference output. Connect to GND through 0.1-μF ceramic capacitor. If there is REFOUT capacitor at DDR
side, keep the total capacitance on REFOUT pin below 1 μF. The REFOUT pin can not be open.
2.5-V or 3.3-V power supply A ceramic decoupling capacitor with a value between 1-μF and 4.7-μF is
Supply voltage for the LDO.
Power output for the LDO. Minimum 20-μF capacitance is required. No maximum capacitance limit.
Voltage sense output for the LDO. Connect to positive pin of the output capacitor or the load.
Thermal pad connection. See Figure 35 in the Thermal Considerations section for additional information.
6.1 Absolute Maximum Ratings
Over operating free-air temperature range, unless otherwise noted. (1)
Input voltage (2)
Output voltage (2)
VIN, VLDOIN, VOSNS, REFIN
PGND to GND
VO, REFOUT
Operating junction temperature, TJ
Storage temperature, Tstg
Stresses beyond those listed under Absolute Maximum Ratings may cause permanent damage to the device. These are stress ratings
only and functional operation of the device at these or any other conditions beyond those indicated under Recommended Operating
Conditions is not implied. Exposure to absolute-maximum-rated conditions for extended periods may affect device reliability.
All voltage values are with respect to the network ground pin unless otherwise noted.
6.2 ESD Ratings
Human body model (HBM), per AEC Q100-002
V(ESD)
Charged device model (CDM), per
AEC Q100-011
±2000
Corner pins (1, 5, 6, and 10)
AEC Q100-002 indicates HBM stressing is done in accordance with the ANSI/ESDA/JEDEC JS-001 specification.
6.3 Recommended Operating Conditions
VO, PGOOD
EN, VLDOIN, VOSNS
Operating free-air temperature, TA
6.4 Thermal Information
THERMAL METRIC
DRC (VSON)
RθJA
Junction-to-ambient thermal resistance
°C/W
RθJCtop
Junction-to-case (top) thermal resistance
RθJB
Junction-to-board thermal resistance
ψJT
Junction-to-top characterization parameter
ψJB
Junction-to-board characterization parameter
RθJCbot
Junction-to-case (bottom) thermal resistance
For more information about traditional and new thermal metrics, see the Semiconductor and IC Package Thermal Metrics application
report, SPRA953.
Over recommended free-air temperature range, VVIN = 3.3 V, VVLDOIN = 1.8 V, VREFIN = 0.9 V, VVOSNS = 0.9 V, VEN = VVIN, COUT
= 3 × 10 μF and circuit shown in the Simplified DDR Application section (unless otherwise noted)
SUPPLY CURRENT
TA = 25 °C, VEN = 3.3 V, No Load
TA = 25 °C, VEN = 0 V, VREFIN = 0, No Load
IIN(SDN)
Shutdown current
ILDOIN
Supply current of VLDOIN
ILDOIN(SDN)
Shutdown current of VLDOIN
TA = 25 °C, VEN = 0 V, No Load
TA = 25 °C, VEN = 0 V, VREFIN > 0.4 V, No Load
IREFIN
Input current, REFIN
VEN = 3.3 V
VO OUTPUT
VREFOUT = 1.25 V (DDR1), IO = 0 A
VREFOUT = 0.9 V (DDR2), IO = 0 A
VVOSNS
Output DC voltage, VO
–2A < IVO < 2A
VO source current Limit
With reference to REFOUT, VOSNS = 90% × VREFOUT
IVOSNCL
VO sink current Limit
With reference to REFOUT, VOSNS = 110% × VREFOUT
IDSCHRG
Discharge current, VO
VREFIN = 0 V, VVO = 0.3 V, VEN = 0 V, TA = 25°C
Output voltage tolerance to REFOUT
VREFOUT = 0.675 V (DDR3L), IO = 0 A
IVOSRCL
VVOTOL
POWERGOOD COMPARATOR
VTH(PG)
VO PGOOD threshold
PGOOD window lower threshold with respect to REFOUT
PGOOD window upper threshold with respect to REFOUT
PGOOD hysteresis
VPGOODLOW
IPGOODLK
Output low voltage
ISINK = 4 mA
VOSNS = VREFIN (PGOOD high impedance), PGOOD = VIN
+ 0.2 V
REFIN AND REFOUT
VREFIN
REFIN voltage range
VREFINUVLO
REFIN undervoltage lockout
VREFINUVHYS
REFIN undervoltage lockout hysteresis
VREFOUT
REFOUT voltage
REFIN rising
–10 mA ≤ IREFOUT ≤ 10 mA, 0.6 V ≤ VREFIN ≤ 1.25 V
–1 mA ≤ IREFOUT ≤ 1 mA, 0.6 V ≤ VREFIN ≤ 1.25 V
VREFOUTTOL
REFOUT voltage tolerance to VREFIN
IREFOUTSRCL
REFOUT source current limit
VREFOUT = 0.5 V
IREFOUTSNCL
REFOUT sink current limit
Wake up, TA = 25°C
UVLO / EN LOGIC THRESHOLD
VVINUVLO
UVLO threshold
VENIH
High-level input voltage
VENIL
Low-level input voltage
VENYST
Hysteresis voltage
IENLEAK
Logic input leakage current
EN, TA = 25°C
TSDN
Thermal shutdown threshold (1)
Shutdown temperature
Ensured by design. Not production tested.
6.6 Switching Characteristics
Over recommended free-air temperature range, VVIN = 3.3 V,VVLDOIN = 1.8 V, VREFIN = 0.9 V, VVOSNS = 0.9 V, VEN = VVIN, COUT
TPGSTUPDLY
PGOOD startup delay
Startup rising edge, VOSNS within
15% of REFOUT
TPBADDLY
PGOOD bad delay
VOSNS is outside of the ±20%
PGOOD window
6.7 Typical Characteristics
For Figure 1 through Figure 18, 3 × 10-μF MLCCs (0805) are used on the output.
± 40°C
Output Voltage (mV)
VVIN = 3.3 V
Figure 1. Load Regulation
±40°C
Output Current (mA)
Typical Characteristics (continued)
LP DDR3 or DDR4
VVIN =2.5 V
Figure 10. Load Regulation
REFOUT Output Current (mA)
Figure 11. REFOUT Load Regulation
DROPOUT Voltage (V)
VOUT (V)
Figure 16. DROPOUT Voltage vs Output Current
Phase (°)
Gain (dB)
Figure 17. Gain and Phase vs Frequency
7 Detailed Description
The TPS51200A-Q1 device is a sink and source, double data-rate (DDR) termination regulator specifically
designed for low-input voltage, low-cost, and low-noise systems where space is a key consideration.
The TPS51200A-Q1 device is designed to provide proper termination voltage and a 10-mA buffered reference
voltage for DDR memory which includes the following DDR specifications (core voltage, reference voltage) with
minimal external components: DDR (2.5 V, 1.25 V), DDR2 (1.8 V, 0.9 V), DDR3 (1.5 V, 0.75 V), LP DDR3 or
DDR4 (1.2 V, 0.6 V).
7.2 Functional Block Diagram
UVLO
DchgREF
DchgVTT
REFINOK
ENVTT
UDG-08019
7.3 Feature Description
7.3.1 Sink and Source Regulator (VO Pin)
The TPS51200A-Q1 device is a sink and source (sink/source) tracking termination regulator specifically designed
for low input voltage, low-cost, and low external-component count systems where space is a key application
parameter. The TPS51200A-Q1 device integrates a high-performance, low-dropout (LDO) linear regulator that is
capable of both sourcing and sinking current. The LDO regulator employs a fast feedback loop so that small
ceramic capacitors can be used to support the fast load transient response. To achieve tight regulation with
minimum effect of trace resistance, a remote sensing pin, VOSNS, must be connected to the positive pin of the
output capacitors as a separate trace from the high current path from the VO pin.
7.3.2 Reference Input (REFIN Pin)
The output voltage, VO, is regulated to the REFOUT pin. When the REFIN pin is configured for standard DDR
termination applications, the REFIN pin can be set by an external equivalent ratio voltage divider connected to
the memory supply bus (VDDQ). The TPS51200A-Q1 device supports the REFIN voltage from 0.5 V to 1.8 V,
making the device versatile and ideal for many types of low-power LDO applications.
Feature Description (continued)
7.3.3 Reference Output (REFOUT Pin)
When the device is configured for DDR termination applications, the REFOUT pin generates the DDR VTT
reference voltage for the memory application. The device is capable of supporting both a sourcing and sinking
load of 10 mA. The REFOUT pin becomes active when the REFIN voltage rises to 0.390 V and the VIN pin is
above the UVLO threshold. When the REFOUT pin is less than 0.375 V, it is disabled and subsequently
discharges to the GND pin through an internal 10-kΩ MOSFET. The REFOUT pin is independent of the EN pin
7.3.4 Soft-Start Sequencing
The soft-start function of the VO pin is achieved through a current clamp. The current clamp allows the output
capacitors to be charged with low and constant current, providing a linear ramp-up of the output voltage. When
the VO pin is outside of the powergood window, the current clamp level is one-half of the full overcurrent limit
(OCL) level. When the VO pin rises or falls within the PGOOD window, the current clamp level switches to the
full OCL level. The soft-start function is completely symmetrical and works not only from GND to the REFOUT
voltage, but also from the VLDOIN pin to the REFOUT voltage.
7.3.5 Enable Control (EN Pin)
When the EN pin is driven high, the TPS51200A-Q1 VO-regulator begins normal operation. When the EN pin is
driven low, the VO pin discharges to the GND pin through an internal 18-Ω MOSFET. The REFOUT pin remains
on when the EN pin is driven low.
7.3.6 Powergood Function (PGOOD Pin)
The TPS51200A-Q1 device provides an open-drain PGOOD output that goes high when the VO output is within
±20% of the REFOUT pin. The PGOOD pin deasserts within 10 μs after the output exceeds the size of the
powergood window. During initial VO startup, the PGOOD pin asserts high 2 ms (typ) after the VO pin enters
power good window. Because the PGOOD pin is an open-drain output, a 100-kΩ, pullup resistor between the
PGOOD pin and a stable active supply voltage rail is required.
7.3.7 Current Protection (VO Pin)
The LDO has a constant overcurrent limit (OCL). Note that the OCL level reduces by one-half when the output
voltage is not within the powergood window. This reduction is a non-latch protection.
7.3.8 UVLO Protection (VIN Pin)
For the VIN undervoltage-lockout (UVLO) protection, the device monitors the VIN voltage. When the VIN voltage
is lower than the UVLO threshold voltage, both the VO and REFOUT regulators are powered off. This shutdown
is a non-latch protection.
7.3.9 Thermal Shutdown
The TPS51200A-Q1 device monitors the junction temperature. If the device junction temperature exceeds the
threshold value, (typically 150°C), the VO and REFOUT regulators are both shut off, discharged by the internal
discharge MOSFETs. This shutdown is a non-latch protection.
7.4 Device Functional Modes
The TPS51200A-Q1 device can be used in an application system where either a 2.5-V rail or a 3.3-V rail is
available. The minimum input voltage requirement is 2.375 V. If a 2.5-V rail is used, ensure that the absolute
minimum voltage (both DC and transient) at the device pin is be 2.375 V or greater. The voltage tolerance for a
2.5-V rail input is between –5% and 5% accuracy, or better.
7.4.1 S3 and Pseudo-S5 Support
The TPS51200A-Q1 device provides S3 support by an EN function. The EN pin can be connected to an SLP_S3
signal in the end application. Both the REFOUT and VO pin are on when EN = high (S0 state). The REFOUT pin
is maintained while the VO pin is turned off and discharged through an internal discharge MOSFET when EN =
low (S3 state). When EN = low and the REFIN voltage is less than 0.390 V, the TPS51200A-Q1 device enters
pseudo-S5 state. Both the VO and REFOUT outputs are turned off and discharged to the GND pin through
internal MOSFETs when pseudo-S5 support is engaged (S4/S5 state). Figure 19 shows a typical startup and
shutdown timing diagram for an application that uses S3 and pseudo-S5 support. It is also allowed to turn on
VLDOIN earlier than VIN during power on, and turn off VIN earlier than VLDOIN during power off.
7.4.2 Tracking Startup and Shutdown
The TPS51200A-Q1 device also supports tracking startup and shutdown when the EN pin is tied directly to the
system bus and not used to turn on or turn off the device. During tracking startup, the VO pin follows the
REFOUT pin when the REFIN voltage is greater than 0.39 V. The REFIN pin follows the rise of the VDDQ rail
though a voltage divider. The typical soft-start time for the VDDQ rail is approximately 3 ms, however this softstar time can vary depending on the system configuration. The SS time of the VO output no longer depends on
the OCL setting, but is a function of the SS time of the VDDQ rail. PGOOD is asserted 2 ms after the VO pin is
within ±20% of the REFOUT pin. During tracking shutdown, the VO pin falls following the REFOUT pin until the
REFOUT pin reaches 0.37 V. When the REFOUT pin falls below 0.37 V, the internal discharge MOSFETs are
turned on and quickly discharge both the REFOUT and VO pins to GND. The PGOOD pin is deasserted when
the VO pin is beyond the ±20% range of the REFOUT pin. Figure 20 shows the typical timing diagram for an
application that uses tracking startup and shutdown.
3.3VIN
VVDDQ = 1.5 V
(VTTREF)
(S3_SLP)
VVO = 0.75 V
tSS .
tSS =
COUT x VO
IOOCL
Figure 19. Typical Timing Diagram for S3 and Pseudo-S5 Support
Device Functional Modes (continued)
tSS determined
by the SS time
of VLDOIN
Figure 20. Typical Timing Diagram of Tracking Startup and Shutdown
8 Application and Implementation
Information in the following applications sections is not part of the TI component
specification, and TI does not warrant its accuracy or completeness. TI’s customers are
responsible for determining suitability of components for their purposes. Customers should
validate and test their design implementation to confirm system functionality.
8.1 Application Information
The TPS51200A-Q1 device is specifically designed to power up the memory termination rail (as shown in
Figure 21). The DDR memory termination structure determines the main characteristics of the VTT rail, which is
to be able to sink and source current while maintaining acceptable VTT tolerance. See Figure 22 for typical
characteristics for a single memory cell.
8.2 Typical Application
8.2.1 VTT DIMM Applications
DDR3 240 Pin Socke t
TPS512 00A-Q1
10 µF
Figure 21. Typical Application Diagram for DDR3 VTT DIMM using TPS51200A-Q1
8.2.1.1 Design Parameters
Use the information listed in Table 1 as the design parameters.
Table 1. DDR, DDR2, DDR3, LP DDR3 and DDR4 Termination Technology and Differences
LP DDR3 or
FSB Data Rates
200, 266, 333 and 400 MHz
800, 1066, 1330 and 1600 MHz
Same as DDR3
On-die termination for data group. VTT
Motherboard termination to VTT
termination for address, command and
for all signals
control signals
Termination Current
Max source/sink transient
currents of up to 2.6 A to 2.9 A
Not as demanding
(address,
command, control) tied to VTT
ODT handles data signals
Less than 1 A of burst current
Less than 1A of burst current
Voltage Level
2.5-V Core and I/O 1.25-V VTT
1.8-V Core and I/O 0.9-V VTT
1.2-V Core and I/O
0.6-V VTT
8.2.1.2 Detailed Design Procedure
8.2.1.2.1 VIN Capacitor
Add a ceramic capacitor, with a value between 1-μF and 4.7-μF, placed close to the VIN pin, to stabilize the bias
supply (2.5-V rail or 3.3-V rail) from any parasitic impedance from the supply.
8.2.1.2.2 VLDO Input Capacitor
Depending on the trace impedance between the VLDOIN bulk power supply to the device, a transient increase of
source current is supplied mostly by the charge from the VLDOIN input capacitor. Use a 10-μF (or greater)
ceramic capacitor to supply this transient charge. Provide more input capacitance as more output capacitance is
used at the VO pin. In general, use one-half of the COUT value for input.
8.2.1.2.3 Output Capacitor
For stable operation, the total capacitance of the VO output pin must be greater than 20 μF. Attach three, 10-μF
ceramic capacitors in parallel to minimize the effect of equivalent series resistance (ESR) and equivalent series
inductance (ESL). If the ESR is greater than 2 mΩ, insert an R-C filter between the output and the VOSNS input
to achieve loop stability. The R-C filter time constant must be almost the same as or slightly lower than the time
constant of the output capacitor and its ESR.
8.2.1.2.4 Output Tolerance Consideration for VTT DIMM Applications
Figure 22 shows the typical characteristics for a single memory cell.
Ouput
(Driver)
Figure 22. DDR Physical Signal System Bi-Directional SSTL Signaling
In Figure 22, when Q1 is on and Q2 is off:
• The current flows from VDDQ via the termination resistor to VTT
• VTT sinks current
The current flows from VTT via the termination resistor to GND
VTT sources current
Because VTT accuracy has a direct impact on the memory signal integrity, it is imperative to understand the
tolerance requirement on VTT. Based on JEDEC VTT specifications for DDR and DDR2 (JEDEC standard: DDR
JESD8-9B May 2002; DDR2 JESD8-15A Sept 2003).
VTTREF – 40 mV < VTT < VTTREF + 40 mV, for both DC and AC conditions
The specification indicates that VTT must keep track of VTTREF for proper signal conditioning.
The TPS51200A-Q1 device ensures the regulator output voltage to be:
VTTREF –25 mV < VTT < VTTREF + 25 mV, for both DC and AC conditions and –2 A < IVTT < 2 A
The regulator output voltage is measured at the regulator side, not the load side. The tolerance is applicable to
DDR, DDR2, DDR3 and low-power DDR3/DDR4 applications (see Table 1 for detailed information). To meet the
stability requirement, a minimum output capacitance of 20 μF is needed. Considering the actual tolerance on the
MLCC capacitors, three 10-μF ceramic capacitors are sufficient to meet the above requirement.
The TPS51200A-Q1 device is designed as a Gm driven LDO. The voltage droop between the reference input
and the output regulator is determined by the transconductance and output current of the device. The typical Gm
is 250 S at 2 A and changes with respect to the load to conserve the quiescent current (that is, the Gm is very
low at no load condition). The Gm LDO regulator is a single pole system. Its unity gain bandwidth for the voltage
loop is only determined by the output capacitance, as a result of the bandwidth nature of the Gm (see
Equation 1).
FUGBW =
2 ´ p ´ COUT
FUGBW is the unity gain bandwidth
Gm is transconductance
COUT is the output capacitance
This type of regulator has two limitations on the output bulk capacitor requirement. To maintain stability, the zero
location contributed by the ESR of the output capacitors must be greater than the –3-dB point of the current loop.
This constraint means that higher ESR capacitors must not be used in the design. In addition, the impedance
characteristics of the ceramic capacitor must be well understood to prevent the gain peaking effect around the
Gm –3-dB point because of the large ESL, the output capacitor and parasitic inductance of the VO trace.
Figure 23. Bode Plot for a Typical DDR3 Configuration
Figure 23 shows the bode plot simulation for a typical DDR3 configuration of the TPS51200A-Q1 device, where:
VIN = 3.3 V
VVLDOIN = 1.5 V
IIO = 2 A
3 × 10-μF capacitors included
ESR = 2.5 mΩ
ESL = 800 pH
The unity-gain bandwidth is approximately 1 MHz and the phase margin is 52°. The 0-dB level is crossed, the
gain peaks because of the ESL effect. However, the peaking is kept well below 0 dB.
Figure 24 shows the load regulation and Figure 25 shows the transient response for a typical DDR3
configuration. When the regulator is subjected to ±1.5-A load step and release, the output voltage measurement
shows no difference between the DC and AC conditions.
8.2.1.3 Application Curves
Figure 24. Output Current vs Output voltage
Figure 25. Transient Waveform
8.2.2 Design Example 1
This design example describes a 3.3-VIN, DDR2 configuration.
VVDD Q = 1.8 V
100 0 pF
VVLD OIN = VVDD Q = 1.8 V
VOS NS
PGO OD
VTTRE F
VVTT = 0.9 V
4.7 µF
Figure 26. 3.3-VIN, DDR2 Configuration
For this design example, use the parameters listed in Table 2.
Table 2. Design Example 1 List of Materials
R1, R2
C1, C2, C3
GRM21BR70J106KE76L
10 kΩ
100 kΩ
10 μF, 6.3 V
0.1 μF
4.7 μF, 6.3 V
GRM21BR60J475KA11L
C7, C8
VVTT = 0.75 V
This design example describes a 3.3-VIN, LP DDR3 or DDR4 configuration.
Figure 29. 3.3-VIN, LP DDR3 or DDR4 Configuration
This design example describes a 3.3-VIN, DDR3 tracking configuration.
Figure 30. 3.3-VIN, DDR3 Tracking Configuration
This design example describes a 3.3-VIN, LDO configuration.
VVLD OIN = VVLD OREF = 2.5 V
ENABL E
VVLD O = 1.8 V
Figure 31. 3.3-VIN, LDO Configuration
3.86 kΩ
This design example describes a 3.3-VIN, DDR3 configuration with Low Pass Filter (LPF).
R4(1)
Figure 32. 3.3-VIN, DDR3 Configuration with LPF
The values of R4 and C9 must be chosen to reduce the parasitic effect of the trace (between VO and the output MLCCs) and the output
capacitors (ESR and ESL).
9 Power Supply Recommendations
The device is designed to operate from an input voltage supply with a range between 2.375 V and 3.5 V. This
input supply must be well regulated. TI recommends adding at least one 1-µF to 4.7-µF ceramic capacitor at the
VIN pin.
10 Layout
10.1 Layout Guidelines
Consider the following points before starting the layout design.
• The input bypass capacitor for VLDOIN must be placed as close as possible to the pin with short and wide
• The output capacitor for VO must be placed close to the pin with short and wide connection to avoid
additional ESR or ESL trace inductance.
• VOSNS must be connected to the positive node of VO output capacitors as a separate trace from the high
current power line. This configuration is strongly recommended to avoid additional ESR, ESL, or both. If
sensing the voltage at the point of the load is required, TI recommends to attach the output capacitors at that
point. Also, it is recommended to minimize any additional ESR, ESL, or both of ground trace between the
GND pin and the output capacitors.
• Consider adding low-pass filter at VOSNS if the ESR of the VO output capacitors is larger than 2 mΩ.
• REFIN can be connected separately from VLDOIN. Remember that this sensing potential is the reference
voltage of REFOUT. Avoid any noise-generating lines.
• The negative node of the VO output capacitors and the REFOUT capacitor must be tied together by avoiding
common impedance to the high current path of the VO source/sink current.
• The GND and PGND pins must be connected to the thermal land underneath the die pad with multiple vias
connecting to the internal system ground planes (for better result, use at least two internal ground planes).
Use as many vias as possible to reduce the impedance between PGND/GND and the system ground plane.
Also, place bulk caps close to the DIMM load point, route the VOSNS to the DIMM load sense point.
• To effectively remove heat from the package, properly prepare the thermal land. Apply solder directly to the
thermal pad of the package. The wide traces of the component and the side copper connected to the thermal
land pad help to dissipate heat. Numerous vias 0,33 mm in diameter connected from the thermal land to the
internal/solder side ground planes must also be used to help dissipation.
• See the TPS51200-EVM User's Guide (SLUU323) for detailed layout recommendations.
10.1.1 LDO Design Guidelines
The minimum input to output voltage difference (headroom) decides the lowest usable supply voltage
transconductance to drive a certain load. For device, a minimum of 300 mV (VLDOINMIIN – VOMAX) is needed to
support a Gm driven sourcing current of 2 A based on a design of VIN = 3.3 V and COUT = 3 × 10 μF. Because
the TPS51200A-Q1 device is essentially a Gm driven LDO, the impedance characteristics are both a function of
the 1 / Gm and RDS(on) of the sourcing MOSFET (see Figure 33). The current inflection point of the design is
between 2 A and 3 A. When ISRC is less than the inflection point, the LDO is considered to be operating in the
Gm region; when ISRC is greater than the inflection point but less than the overcurrent limit point, the LDO is
operating in the RDS(on) region. The maximum sourcing RDS(on) is 0.144 Ω with VIN = 3 V and TJ = 125°C.
Output Voltage, VVO (V)
Layout Guidelines (continued)
(between
2 A and 3 A)
1/RDS(on)
Overcurrent
Source Current, ISRC (A)
Figure 33. Impedance Characteristics
10.2 Layout Example
Figure 34. Layout Example
10.3 Thermal Considerations
Because the TPS51200A-Q1 device is a linear regulator, the VO current flows in both source and sink directions,
thereby dissipating power from the device. When the device is sourcing current, the voltage difference between
VLDOIN and VO times IO (IIO) current becomes the power dissipation as shown in Equation 2.
PDISS _ SRC =
(VVLDOIN
- VVO ) x IO _ SRC
In this case, if VLDOIN is connected to an alternative power supply lower than the VDDQ voltage, overall power
loss can be reduced. For the sink phase, VO voltage is applied across the internal LDO regulator, and the power
dissipation, PDISS_SNK can be calculated by Equation 3.
PDISS _ SNK = VVO ´ IO _ SNK
Because the device does not sink and source current at the same time and the IO current may vary rapidly with
time, the actual power dissipation must be the time average of the above dissipations over the thermal relaxation
duration of the system. Another source of power consumption is the current used for the internal current control
circuitry from the VIN supply and the VLDOIN supply. This can be estimated as 5 mW or less during normal
operatiing conditions. This power must be effectively dissipated from the package.
Maximum power dissipation allowed by the package is calculated by Equation 4.
PPKG = (TJ(MAX) – TA(MAX)) / RθJA
PPKG =
TJ(max) ´ TA(max)
R qJA
TJ(MAX) is 125°C
TA(MAX) is the maximum ambient temperature in the system
RθJA is the thermal resistance from junction to ambient
The thermal performance of an LDO depends on the printed circuit board (PCB) layout. The TPS51200A-Q1
device is housed in a thermally-enhanced package that has an exposed die pad underneath the body. For
improved thermal performance, this die pad must be attached to ground via thermal land on the PCB. This
ground trace acts as a both a heatsink and heatspreader. The typical thermal resistance, RθJA, 55.7°C/W, is
achieved based on a land pattern of 3 mm × 1,9 mm with four vias (0,33-mm via diameter, the standard thermal
via size) without air flow (see Figure 35).
Land Pad
3 mm × 1.9 mm
Exposed Thermal
Die Pad,
Figure 35. Recommend Land Pad Pattern for TPS51200A-Q1
Thermal Considerations (continued)
TT on top of package
TB on PCB surface
Figure 36. Package Thermal Measurement
To further improve the thermal performance of this device, using a larger than recommended thermal land as
well as increasing the number of vias helps lower the thermal resistance from junction to thermal pad. The typical
thermal resistance from junction to thermal pad, RθJP, is 12.1°C/W (based on the recommend land pad and four
standard thermal vias).
11 Device and Documentation Support
11.1 Device Support
11.1.1 Third-Party Products Disclaimer
TI'S PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION REGARDING THIRD-PARTY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES DOES NOT
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ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH ANY TI PRODUCT OR SERVICE.
11.2 Documentation Support
11.2.1 Related Documentation
For related documentation see the following:
TPS51200-EVM User's Guide, SLUU323
11.3 Receiving Notification of Documentation Updates
To receive notification of documentation updates, navigate to the device product folder on ti.com. In the upper
right corner, click on Alert me to register and receive a weekly digest of any product information that has
changed. For change details, review the revision history included in any revised document.
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Design Support TI's Design Support Quickly find helpful E2E forums along with design support tools and
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11.6 Electrostatic Discharge Caution
This integrated circuit can be damaged by ESD. Texas Instruments recommends that all integrated circuits be handled with
appropriate precautions. Failure to observe proper handling and installation procedures can cause damage.
ESD damage can range from subtle performance degradation to complete device failure. Precision integrated circuits may be more
susceptible to damage because very small parametric changes could cause the device not to meet its published specifications.
SLYZ022 — TI Glossary.
This glossary lists and explains terms, acronyms, and definitions.
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The following pages include mechanical packaging and orderable information. This information is the most
current data available for the designated devices. This data is subject to change without notice and revision of
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Lead/Ball Finish
MSL Peak Temp
Op Temp (°C)
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TPS51200AQDRCRQ1
VSON
Green (RoHS
& no Sb/Br)
CU NIPDAUAG
Level-2-260C-1 YEAR
-40 to 125
TPS51200AQDRCTQ1
The marketing status values are defined as follows:
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Package Drawing
GENERIC PACKAGE VIEW
DRC 10
VSON - 1 mm max height
PLASTIC SMALL OUTLINE - NO LEAD
Images above are just a representation of the package family, actual package may vary.
Refer to the product data sheet for package details.
4204102-3/M
PACKAGE OUTLINE
DRC0010J
SCALE 4.000
PIN 1 INDEX AREA
SEATING PLANE
0.08 C
2X (0.5)
(0.2) TYP
4X (0.25)
SYMM
8X 0.5
PIN 1 ID
C A B
4218878/B 07/2018
1. All linear dimensions are in millimeters. Any dimensions in parenthesis are for reference only. Dimensioning and tolerancing
per ASME Y14.5M.
2. This drawing is subject to change without notice.
3. The package thermal pad must be soldered to the printed circuit board for optimal thermal and mechanical performance.
EXAMPLE BOARD LAYOUT
10X (0.6)
10X (0.24)
(R0.05) TYP
( 0.2) VIA
LAND PATTERN EXAMPLE
EXPOSED METAL SHOWN
SCALE:20X
0.07 MAX
0.07 MIN
EXPOSED METAL
METAL UNDER
NON SOLDER MASK
(PREFERRED)
SOLDER MASK DETAILS
NOTES: (continued)
4. This package is designed to be soldered to a thermal pad on the board. For more information, see Texas Instruments literature
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on this view. It is recommended that vias under paste be filled, plugged or tented.
EXAMPLE STENCIL DESIGN
SOLDER PASTE EXAMPLE
BASED ON 0.125 mm THICK STENCIL
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Scofield’s passing looms heavily over Cave In on glorious cosmic rock burst ‘Final Transmission’
To say that a record is tough to listen to usually means the music isn’t any good or the production is poor or something along those lines. You typically don’t say that about a powerful album, one that contains some of a band’s most reflective, thought-provoking work in a long time, but then again, most of those records aren’t Cave In’s tragic new album “Final Transmission.”
Maybe calling it tragic isn’t quite the right descriptor. But considering this album features the final work of bassist Caleb Scofield, who was killed in an auto accident last March before the band could formally record the music they had prepared for “Final Transmission,” it can be fitting. His death sent the band into a spiral, as it also heavily affected members of his other band Old Man Gloom, which pretty much is a given. It was utterly devastating, and if you get a copy of the new issue of Decibel, they do an incredible cover story on Scofield that is one of the best pieces that magazine ever has done. Those involved with the band and Scofield’s circle of friends talk about how hard it is to hear the nine tracks that comprise their sixth record (which is made up of the demos they had recorded, which sound pretty damn good) because Scofield’s presence is so heavily felt. But it’s also a triumph of an album in a way, a deeper push into their space rock tendencies with a few kernels from the “Until Your Heart Stops” and “Jupiter” eras along the way. The rest of the band—guitarist/vocalist Stephen Brodsky, guitarist Adam McGrath, and drummer J.R. Conners—has expressed that the direction and voice of the album is very much Scofield’s, and to see it through is a way to give him and his fans one final time together. Also, half the proceeds of the record will go toward Scofield’s family.
The opening title track is a heartbreaker, comprised of a skeleton of a song Scofield had sent to the band, played on acoustic guitar. It’s naked and driving, with his hums interrupting and utterly haunting the flow. Then we’re into “All Illusion” that opens into a mid-tempo rocker, with Brodsky’s steady, strong voice leading the way with the chorus lapping over like a warm wave of water with the jarring call of, “What doesn’t kill me may survive.” “Shake My Blood” has a cool riff, a spacious aura, and Brodsky calling, “No one leave, no one leave to say goodbye.” The pace is weird and tempered, which chills the flesh, while the powerful chorus comes back around before the song dissolves into noise. “Night Crawler” gets heavier and burlier with the bass chugging, the tempo trampling, and the band thrashing away, with the music finally soaring off into the sky.
“Lunar Day” is a quick one with noise rushing and drenching the song, static burying the light, and ringing smearing, leading into “Winter Window” that is one of the strongest songs on the record. Guitars come to life as Brodsky’s voice pushes higher as he wails, “Oh, sweet nausea, moving slow.” The track takes on doomy, oily thickness later, bringing the song to a pummeling finish. “Lanterna” starts with Brodsky calling, “Eternal light is her name,” as muscular riffs flex, and the track begins to speed up, blasting its way into deep space. “Lost on my own, only see monochrome,” Brodsky observes, while cosmic riffs continue their ascent, and the song disappears in the clouds. “Strange Reflection” has darkness falling and the riffs playing in the shadows, as the singing pulls the ropes, and the chorus flows. “Someone took me to the dance of dead souls,” Brodsky sings while the song picks up and then disintegrates. “Led to the Wolves” closes the 31-minute album by bringing sweltering heaviness, metallic chaos, and vocals that pour swarms of hornets onto an angry blaze. Brodsky sings of seeing “fire in their eyes” as the track convulses in madness and then comes to a devastating end.
Losing Caleb Scofield dealt a massive blow to the heavy music world, to Cave in, to Old Man Gloom, to his wife and children, and the world is lesser without him. That’s what makes “Final Transmission” so tough to tackle, because his presence is so overwhelming and involved. Given time, this record likely will be remembered as another daring turn for Cave In, and valuable and emotional collection that captured the last bursts of an amazing musician.
For more on the band, go here: https://www.facebook.com/CaveIn.Official
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For more on the label, go here: https://www.hydrahead.com/
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Living in a Contested Environment: On Strategic Not-Knowing in the Aftermath of the ‘Quirra case’
by Chiara Carboni “I had no idea people were still talking about this. They have even reopened the beach!” Ernesto (the name is fictitious) is probably in his late 70s, but may be much younger: his skin, shrivelled and darkened by Sardinia’s sun, makes it tricky to tell his age. We are in Porto Corallo, one…
Dialogical (de)Medicalisation in British Abortion Activism
by Leah Eades At March for Life, Britain’s largest anti-abortion demonstration, I found myself face-to-face with a sign exhorting me to “love them both”. The both referred to the smiling mother and baby also pictured. Underneath, a subtitle read: “Abortion: kills one, hurts another”. The notion that abortions hurts the women who have them was…
Focusing on Funding: Thoughts from a Maternal Health Workshop in Johannesburg
By Rebecca Irons This September I had the great privilege to attend a early-careers workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, “Towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC): promoting and responding to Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health (MNCAH)”. Jointly organised by the South-African based Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), Aga Khan University in Kenya, and Imperial College London,…
Charting Troubled Waters: Documenting Ecological and Social Change in the Lower Omo Valley
By David-Paul Pertaub SIDERA – Shifting Inequality Research Dynamics in Ethiopia: Research to Application – is an 18 month ESRC funded inter-disciplinary research project exploring the relationship between conflict, poverty and environmental degradation in the lower Omo region of Ethiopia. Kicking off this month, the project comprises three working groups based in three different countries…
Talking shit, or comments on ‘Three Achievements of Dirt: Disgust, Humour, Emphasis’
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Critical Medical Anthropology: perspectives from/of Latin America
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Texts on prognostication; England (St Albans), before 1259
Text on the Holy Land, Treatises on prognostication and compotus, etc. — 14th century, beginning
Astronomical tables — 14th century
Scientific extracts and notes — 15th century
Calendar, Astronomical treatises, notes and tables — 15th century
Medical, astronomical and astrological treatises and notes — 15th century
Astronomical tables — 13th century, end
Letter of fraternity — c. 1395-1402, 1450; English
Alexander de Villa Dei, etc. — c. 1300
Martin of Spain, etc. — 15th century
Petrus de S. Audomaro, Albumasar, etc. — 14th century
Alcabitius, etc. — 15th century
Geoffrey Chaucer — 15th century
Matthias Woghenoris — 15th century
Alexander de Villa Dei, Johannes de Sacro Bosco, etc. — 13th century
Calendar, Astrological notes and tables, etc. — 14th century, early
Astronomical diagram — 13th century
Roger Frugardi, Roland of Parma, etc. — 13th century, late
Macer, etc. — 13th century, late; English
Theological miscellany — 13th century, late
Theological treatise and notes — 13th century, late
Isaac Iudaeus, Matthaeus Platearius, etc. — 13th century, second half; English
Eusebius Gallicanus, Origen, etc. — 11th century or 12th century; English
Peter of Poitiers — 13th century, beginning; English
Boethius — 12th century, middle; Flemish (?)
Register of John de Sautre, abbot of Ramsey — 13th century, late - 14th century, early; English
'Computation of the Tymes' from Creation — 16th century, second half; English
Richard Rolle, etc. — 15th century; English
MS. Auct. D. inf. 2. 1
Bible, Epistle and Gospel list — 13th century, second half; English
MS. Bodl. 26
Sermons on St Luke's Gospel — 13th century, late; English
Sermons — c. 1300; English
Sermons — 14th century; English
Theological notes and extracts — 14th century, early; English
Sermons — 13th century, late; English
Sermons — 14th century, early; English
Treatise of moral instruction — 14th century; English
Astrological and arithmetical fragments — 13th century and 14th century; English
Commentary on Augustinian rule — 16th century, beginning; English
Rabanus Maurus — 13th century, early; English
John of Worcester, etc. — Multiple dates; English, Bury St. Edmunds, Benedictine abbey
Jacob and Joseph — 13th century, second half; English, South West
Honorius Augustodunensis — 13th century, end; English (?)
Robert Grosseteste — 13th century, second half
Motets with polyphonic music (fragments) — c. 1300; English
Gilbert Stone, canon of Wells — 15th century, first quarter; English
John Bromyard, etc. — 15th century, first quarter; English
Paschasius Radbertus, Augustine, etc. — 15th century, first quarter; English
Sermons on the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary — 15th century, first quarter; English
Sermons and notes — 15th century, first quarter; English
Untitled work or fragment — c. 1300; English
Christ Church MS. 103
Statutes of England and works of common law; England (?Cobham, Surrey), s. xiii/xiv
Vulgate Bible; England (Oxford), s. xiiimed.
Cartulary of Oseney Abbey; England (Oxford), s. xiiiex (perhaps 1280 x 1284), with additions s. xiiiex-s. xvi
‘The Book of Orts’
MS. Digby 2
William of Montoriel, Ricardus Sophista (13th cent.), etc. — 13th century, end; English, Oxford (?)
Richard the Premonstratensian — 13th century
Poems — 13th century
Theological notes — 13th century
Macer — 12th century
Poema morale, Poems — 13th century
Odoricus de Portu Naonis, Johannis de Plano Carpini, etc. — 14th century; English, Oxford (?)
Ps.-Aristotle, Adelard of Bath, etc. — 13th century
Sermons, Theological texts and notes, etc. — 13th century and 14th century; English, Stanley (Wiltshire), Cisterican abbey
Medical recipes, Friar Daw's Reply, etc. — 15th century; English
Alanus de Insulis — 12th century, end; English
Astronomical calendar including tables of Nicholas of Lynn — 14th century, end (after 1387); English
Ecclestiastical notes partly relating to Durham Cathedral — 12th century - 14th century (?); English
Robert Grosseteste (?) — 15th century; English
Fulgentius — 15th century; English
Richard of Wallingford, etc. — 15th century (?)
Astrological treatises — 15th century (?)
Dietary, Scientific texts — 15th century (?)
Treatises on calendar, Arithmetical treatise — 12th century
Geoffrey of Monmouth — 13th century, beginning
Walter Map, etc. — 12th century, end
Albertus Magnus, etc. — 14th century; Multiple places of origin
Roger Bacon — 13th century
Miscellany in French, Latin and English; England (Worcestershire), c. 1271-83
Robert Allington, Alexander de Villa Dei, etc. — 15th century, beginning; English, Lincoln (?)
Euclid, Boethius — 12th century, middle; English, Lincoln (?)
Simon Bredon, John Pecham, etc. — 15th century, beginning; English, Lincoln (?)
Walter Brit (?), Robert Grosseteste, etc. — 15th century, beginning; English, Lincoln (?)
Robert Grosseteste, Johannes de Sacro Bosco, etc. — 13th century, second half; English, Lincoln (?)
John Whitehead (d. after 1422), etc. — 15th century, beginning; English, Lincoln (?)
Edmund Rich — 15th century; English, Lincoln (?)
Medical recipes — 15th century; English, Lincoln (?)
MS. Digby 146
Aldhelm, etc. — Multiple dates; English, Abingdon
Injunctions of Cardinal John of Ferentino for St Mary's Abbey, York, 1206 — 13th century, beginning; English, York (?), St Mary's Abbey (?)
John of Bridlington, Geoffrey Eglyn, etc. — 15th century - 16th century, beginning; English
Bible, Epistle and Gospel list — 13th century, second quarter; additions, 13th - 15th century; English
MS. Don. c. 168
Deeds relating to Windrush, Gloucestershire — Multiple dates; English
MS. Douce 87
Arnaldus de Villa Nova — 13th century
De sphaera — 15th century, early
Treatise on calendar — 15th century, early
Medical recipes — 15th century
Register of writs, Statutes of England, etc. — 13th century; English, Coventry (?)
Statute of Gloucester, Leges Edwardi confessoris, etc. — 13th century; English, Coventry (?)
Statutes of England, Charters, etc. — 13th century; English, Coventry (?)
Life of St. Juliana — 13th century
Adam Ross — 13th century
The Destruction of Troy — 13th century
Characters of first eighteen days of the month in relation to good and ill fortune — 15th century
Martijn van Thorout — 14th century, second half; Dutch
Romance of Garin de Montglane (?) — 15th century
Songs — 15th century, late
Songs with music — 14th century, late (?)
Chanson de Jérusalem — 13th century
Collectar and Hymnal — 13th century
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MS. Douce d. 5
Fragments and papers, including two leaves from a 12th century Missal and notes, lists, and papers of F. Douce — 12th century - 19th century
MS. Eng. hist. a. 2
Charters and papers (The Crawford Charters) — 10th century - 18th century; English
MS. Eng. misc. c. 291
Collection of fragments, apparently part of a binding
MS. Eng. poet. d. 208
Guardbook of manuscript and printed leaves with commentary by William E. Moss
MS. Gough Gen. Top. 37
Fragments by, or owned by, Gough, 13th century - 18th century
MS. Hatton 38
Gospels (West Saxon translation) — 12th - 13th century; English, Canterbury (?)
Thomas Wimbledon — c. 1400; English
Breviary, noted — 13th century, early; English
MS. Lat. liturg. d. 41
Hubert (d. after 1253), etc. — Multiple dates; English
MS. Lat. misc. a. 3
Fragments, 7th-17th centuries
MS. Lat. misc. b. 22
Guardbook of medieval fragments found/acquired before 1976.
Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908-82) , from known sources, 1933-65 and n.d. (the quotations of…
Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908-82) , from sources not now identifiable (but most show traces…
MS. Lat. misc. c. 17
Guardbook of fragments
MS. Laud Lat. 95
Psalter, Prayers, hymns and other liturgical materials — 13th century, beginning; English, Ely
MS. Laud Misc. 108
South English Legendary, King Horn, Havelok, etc.; England (perhaps Oxford?), c. 1300 with additions
Ps.-Athanasius, Ps.-Jerome, etc. — 13th century
Robert Grosseteste, Ps.-Bernard, etc. — 14th century
Abbreviation of Peter Lombard, Sententiae — 13th century
Speculum Christiani, Questions for a priest to ask the dying, etc. — 15th century; English
MS. Lyell empt. 12
Biblical fragments, Liturgical fragments, etc. — 12th century - 18th century
Merton College MS. 120
HISTORIA SCHOLASTICA; S. XIII 2/4
ROBERT KILWARDBY, PETER OF SPAIN; S. XIII ex.
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Thetel, etc. — 13th century, early; Italian
MS. Lat. th. d. 7
Gregory the Great — 11th or 12th century (?); Irish
MS. Rawl. B. 484
Collectanea of Sir James Ware, comprising fragments, extracts and notes mostly on Ireland but including (fol. 85) cutting without text from a Psalter, English, Winchester, 10th century, second quarter — 10th century - 17th century; English, Winchester (in part)
Jocelin of Furness, etc. — 14th century; Irish, Augustinian priory of Saints' Island in Lough Ree, Co. Longford (?)
Apocalypsis Goliae episcopi — 14th century
Hugh of Saint-Victor — 13th century, second half - 14th century, first half
Martyrology, Use of Rome — 15th century; Irish
Irish miscellany, including historical narratives, genealogies of saints and others, lists of kings, etc — 14th century
Cath Finntrága, Acallam na Senórach, etc. — 15th century (fols. 1-67), 17th century (fols. 68-end); Irish
Irish world-chronicle, to c. A.D. 361, Annals of Tigernach — 14th century, third quarter
Irish annals, with special reference to Connacht (?), for 1237-1249 and 1303-1314 — 14th century, late (?)
Irish annals for 1392-8 and 1401-7, probably originating from the monastery of Saints' Island in Lough Ree, Co. Longford, for 1392-1398 and 1401-1407 — 14th century, late - 15th century, early
Historical transcripts and notes made by or for Sir James Ware — 17th century; Irish
The Annals of Ulster (Annala Uladh) or Annals of Senat (Annala Senait) — 16th century, early; Irish
Irish world-chronicle — 11th century, end - 12th century, beginning
Irish historical excerpts copied by Sir James Ware from royal archives — 1642
Saltair na Rann, Sex aetates mundi, etc. — 12th century, second quarter; Irish
Documents relating to Ireland, excerpts made by or for Sir James Ware from the royal archives at Dublin — 17th century (partly dated 1647); Irish
The Annals of Inisfallen — 1092 - 15th century; Irish
Jocelin of Furness, etc. — 15th century, beginning; Irish, Abbeyderg (?)
Félire Óengusso Céli Dé — 15th century; Irish, Abbeyderg (?)
Untitled works or fragments — 17th century; Irish
Genealogies relating to Ulster and elsewhere, Dinnshenchas Érenn — 14th century (in part before 1373); Irish
Legal collection — 14th century (before 1390); Irish
Untitled works or fragments — 1663-1664; Irish
Prose texts, mainly religious — 15th century, last quarter; Irish
MS. Selden Supra 32
Petrus de Argellata — 15th or 16th century (?); Irish
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Bodleian Library270
Dep. (Deposited manuscripts)1
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MSS. Add. (Additional) C1
MSS. Auct. F. (Auctarium F.)2
MSS. Auct. T. (Auctarium T.)1
MSS. Barlow1
MSS. Bodl. (Bodley)15
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MSS. Buchanan8
MSS. Bywater1
MSS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. (Canonici Latin Biblical)2
MSS. Canon. Liturg. (Canonici Liturgical)8
MSS. Canon. Misc. (Canonici Miscellaneous)4
MSS. Canon. Pat. Lat. (Canonici Latin Patristic)2
MSS. D'Orville3
MSS. Douce43
MSS. E Mus. (e Musaeo)4
MSS. E. D. Clarke1
MSS. Fr. (French)8
MSS. Holkham misc. (Holkham miscellaneous)1
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MSS. Rawl. statutes (Rawlinson statutes)1
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MS. Add. A. 22
Calendar — 15th century; French
Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung — c. 1300; French
Jean de Meung — 14th century, second half; French
Texts relating to the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem — 1350 with additions to c. 1410; French, Provence (?)
Manual of confession — 15th century; French
Quodvultdeus — 15th century; Spanish
MS. Add. A. 100
Vita Sancti Honorati archiepiscopi Arelatensis — 1449; French, Avignon
Book of Hours, Use of Nantes — c. 1440; French, Nantes
MS. Add. C. 29
Guillaume de Deguilleville — c. 1400; French
Witelo — 15th century, beginning; French
Aeneas Sylvius, Honoré Bouvet, etc. — 15th century, third quarter - late; English (script); French (decoration)
Writing exercises — 15th century, second quarter; English
Disticha Catonis, 'Sentences of Sages' — 15th century
Formulary of letters — 15th century, first half; French
Correspondence and documents of ambassadors to England and France from the Pope of Rome, 1374-6 — 14th century, second half
Documents relating to Anglo-French treaties, 1395-1410 — 15th century
Documents relating to a meeting of the ambassadors of England and France, 1418 — 15th century
Thomas Bekynton — 14th century; English
John Somer — 14th century, end (after 1387); English
Theological texts, Biblical extracts, etc. — 14th century, early; English
Rogericus Zamorensis — c. 1478; French
Alchemical treatises, Medical recipes — 16th century, first half; French, Calais (?)
Alchemical recipes and notes — 15th century
Alchemical extracts — 16th century, second half; English
Alchemical treatises — 14th century, middle; English
Alchemical texts and experiments — 14th century - 15th century; English
Alchemical treatise — 16th century, second half; English
Seneca — 15th century, middle; French
MS. Auct. D. inf. 2. 11
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, Calendar, etc. — c. 1440-50; French
MS. Auct. F. 2. 29
Justinus — 15th century, third quarter; French
Cicero, etc. — 1479; French (?)
MS. Auct. T. 2. 26
Eusebius, Marcellinus comes
MS. Barlow 30
Book of Hours, Use of Rouen — 15th century, first half; French, North (?)
Aldobrandino da Siena — 15th century, second quarter; French
Eusebius, Prosper of Aquitaine, etc. — 15th century; French
Boccaccio — c. 1420; French, Paris
Evrart de Tremaugon — 15th century, middle; French
John Waleys, etc. — 15th century, beginning; French
Franciscus de Mayronis — Multiple dates; Multiple places of origin
Christine de Pisan, Alain Chartier — 15th century, third quarter; French
Ps.-Ptolemy, Johannes de Lineriis, etc. — c. 1437; French, Louvain
Nicholas de Byard — 14th century, first half; England or France
Index of subjects to a theological treatise — 1455; England, Oxford (?)
Thomas the Cistercian, etc. — 13th century, first half; England or France
Now MS. Lat. misc. d. 48, fols. 1, 2, 11, 12.
Life of Adam, Religious texts, etc. — 15th century, beginning (after 1415); English
John Lydgate — 15th century, third quarter; English
Bede, Lethaldus Miciacensis, etc. — 11th century, end - 12th century, beginning; Multiple places of origin
Augustine — 11th century; French
Sermons — 11th century; French
John Mirk, Ps.-Edward the Confessor, etc. — 15th century
Bible historiale — c. 1400; French
Valescus de Taranta — 15th century, second half; French
MS. Bodl. 965A
Aristotle, Ps.-Aristotle — 15th century, second quarter (?); French
Mirouer historiale abregé de France — c. 1451-1473; French, Angers
MS. Broxb. 85.1
Psalter — 15th century, third quarter; French, Burgundy
Book of Hours — 15th century; French
Cistercian statutes and list of abbots — 15th century, late; French
MS. Buchanan e. 3
Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, in Latin and French. France (Rouen), late 15th or early 16th century.
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin and French. France, late 15th or early 16th century.
Book of Hours, Use of Paris, Hymns, etc. — 15th-16th century, c. 1500; French, Paris
Book of Hours, Use unidentified, Prayers to the Virgin, etc. — 15th century, second quarter; French
MS. Buchanan e. 10
Book of Hours, Use of Paris, Prayers to the Virgin — 15th-16th century, c. 1500; French, Paris
Book of Hours, Use of Bayeux — 15th century, late - 16th century, early, c. 1500; additions, 16th century; France, Normandy
Book of Hours, Use of Rouen — 15th century, c. 1470-80; French, Rouen
Book of Hours, Use of Evreux — 15th century, late - 16th century, early, c. 1500; French, Normandy
MS. Bywater 17
Collection of Moral Sayings; France or Italy, 15th - 16th century
MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 70
Nicholas de Lyra — c. 1400; French, Paris
Psalter — 15th century, second half; French, South (?)
MS. Canon. Liturg. 43
Book of Hours, Use of Bourges — c. 1470-1480; French
Book of Hours, Use of Paris — 15th century, beginning; French
Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, beginning; French
Book of Hours, Use of Paris — 15th century, beginning; French, Paris
MS. Canon. Liturg. 123
Book of Hours, Use of Paris — 15th century, second quarter; French, Paris (?)
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Entrance Discussion
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Choosing Between Universities
Thread starter faysapprentice
Tomato said:
When you were admitted to UQ bonded, do you sign the BMP document immediately or sign it after the bachelor's degree? What you said sounds you have to sign straight away after admission. Just want to clarify.
You usually sign it towards the middle of the first year of uni. Because UQ is provisional entry it’s possible this wouldn’t occur until you’ve started the MD (so 4th year out of school). I believe it’s the latter but can’t recall this with 100% certainty.
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Who knows what the future holds?
Crow said:
If it is like UWA you sign it when you start the MD portion. I'm curious as to how it would work if you signed it during your bachelors. What would happen if you did the GAMSAT while at UQ provisional and then got into a uni somewhere else as a CSP but you already signed the BMP at UQ?
heh. Remember that time Curtin messed up big time? If you know, you know.
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TKAO said:
Very good point, and I think it makes a lot of sense to not have it signed until the MD portion (with some people also dropping out before the MD, bonded requirements changing over time etc etc). I was about 95% sure it happened the way you mentioned above but I don’t like making guaranteed statements unless I am fully certain! Thank you for that
ETA: Worth noting that signing the BMP documentation is making a legal commitment to the government. One couldn’t then go on to take a CSP at a different uni and “overlook” the BMP commitments that they’ve committed to - if someone did this then they’d still be bound by these commitments if they went on to work as a doctor, even if they ended up graduating from another uni.
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TKAO talked about one of the scenarios if the BMP document was signed in the bachelor's stage and then went to another uni for MD. The other scenario is if you sign the BMP document at the time MD starts (i.e. not at the beginning of the bachelor's degree), you may have 3 years commitment rather than 1 year.
I'm relatively sure that the conditions for provisional entry students would be the same as whatever the BMP conditions were when they were initially made the offer by the university, rather than at the time that they reached the MD (because it wouldn't be fair to inflict the change of conditions on them after they had originally accepted a BMP offer on the basis of the conditions at that time), but it would be best for someone in this position to contact the BMP scheme department to confirm.
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I'm curious as to how it would work if you signed it during your bachelors. What would happen if you did the GAMSAT while at UQ provisional and then got into a uni somewhere else as a CSP but you already signed the BMP at UQ?
Unless this rule has changed, the penalty for not fulfilling your BMP contract is you have to repay the gov subsidies for your BMP med course, about $25k/year. So I believe if you switch to a CSP at another uni you will have done zero BMP study years thus zero $ to repay in breaking the contract terms.
It's no loss to the gov since your vacated BMP spot would be offered to another student anyway, who will fulfill their contract in place of yours.
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pokopoko99
What are some opinions on wsu vs jmp? Having a hard time choosing which to put 2nd/3rd on preference list. I'm NZ so distance isn't a consideration. They're also both 5 years. Does it pretty much come down to location? If it is which to the two has a more 'active' as in restaurants/shops/activities? (I've never been to Newcastle or Western Sydney)
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pokopoko99 said:
I’m not from either location, but have been to both: WSU is a shorter train ride into Sydney CBD so it’s easier to make the most of the activity on offer there. The WSU campus and closest clinical school are both quite new generally, but are very new compared to Newcastle. Also, don’t forget JMP doesn’t necessarily = Newcastle, as you may be allocated to Armidale. WSU is on the airport train line, making transport back home for visits more accessible, also.
I received offers to both WSU and JMP a couple of years ago and if I’d not got into UTAS also, I’d have chosen WSU due to the campus location, access to the airport, and newer facilities.
It’ll be good for you to have a look around when you attend interviews.
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Western Sydney isn't the same as Sydney (ie completely different vibe and demographic), and Newcastle is a location in its own right (ie it should not be regarded as an outer suburb of Sydney). If you like the beach and the lifestyle that goes with it, go to Newcastle. If you can't bear the thought of not living in Sydney, go to WSU.
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chinaski said:
Completely agree with this. I'm currently studying at WSU Campbelltown (not medicine though) and if you're after a more active lifestyle, it will be very hard to get that here. It takes over an hour by public transport to get to the CBD, so if you're like everyone else, you will likely not have the energy to head out after a long day of uni. The campus itself is also situated in a very suburban area, so there isn't much to do within 20 minutes of the campus either (I am not kidding when I say that the highlight of Campbelltown is probably King Kebab House). To top if off, the campus itself has virtually no social aspect to it, and the majority of students disappear the moment class ends.
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Do you know what people usually do after uni and on weekends then? (aside from studying) and thanks for all the replies!
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A lot of people go home for the weekend if they're from NSW but live too far away to commute everyday. Weekends are a different story though, so if you want to go to Sydney (or Wollongong even) during the weekend it should be doable. Public transport can be an issue at night though.
The issue is that because of both the limited campus life and activities, it's hard to do things during the week. There are nearby shopping centres, but I'm pretty sure they close around the same time that the med students finish class on most days. This leaves you with restaurants and pubs, but Newcastle should have more options in that sense anyway
Work, pursuit of personal interests, socialisation, housework, shopping? You know, what most people do on the weekend...?
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WannaBeMed
Other than the year difference (UNSW - 6, JMP - 5), I'm wondering what's the difference between the courses in general like the ILP of UNSW and the Research Project of JMP. Are the clinical placements or simulations meant to be different?
WannaBeMed said:
The Research Project for JMP was only brought in when they switched to the MD program, the first students of which are currently in third year. Given (I think!) the research project starts in earnest in fourth year, there’s not too much info about this around at the moment. I have a friend in third year and all she’s reported to date is that it’s incredibly nebulous and no one really seems to know what’s going on or how it will all work. Admittedly, I last spoke to her about it at least 6 months ago, so fingers crossed things have progressed since then!
Logic might be able to give you more info on the UNSW-front.
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dental20101
I have a friend who is having trouble deciding between attending the MD Program at JCU and University of Adelaide. Can anyone or current students at the programs offer any perspective on the programs (i.e. which course has fairer grading and has instructors who support students) and pros and cons for choosing one program over the other?
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dental20101 said:
I'm sorry I don't have enough knowledge to answer your friend's question, but are offers out for both universities already?? Wat??
Formerly ucatboy, now interviewboy™
ucatboy said:
The friend is likely an international or special pathway student, unless they just have a REALLY good feeling about their interviews
Both are 6 year degrees, and I’m assuming your mate is an international student so will be moving regardless, so location isn’t too much of an issue?
Historically, Adelaide has had some issues with high failure rates over the course of the degree, but it’s understood they’ve sorted this out.
Accommodation may be cheaper for JCU, if that’s an issue? Though would be worth looking into both.
JCU has an emphasis on tropical medicine, whereas that would be less of a focus in Adelaide.
We don’t have any JCU regulars at the moment (unless Benjamin pops by). @dr potato is a current UAdel student who may have thoughts.
If your friend is an international hoping to get an Aus internship/career after graduation I believe JCU is the better choice. There are some prospects in QLD whereas SA recently struggled to intern all their domestic grads let alone international. Benjamin mentioned in one of his posts all JCU int'l grads his year got internships.
If they are domestic I suggest not to worry much about course programs. Pay more attention to which state they will prefer to intern/work in after graduation.
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A word about Parents’ Evening
At the end of last year I attended a parents’ evening where I was told my child has moved from being exceptionally good at Maths, to just plain average!
This was somewhat of a shock when a. the school pride themselves on their academic attainment and b. I had raised the issue he was struggling with Maths homework 3 – 4 times during the course of the year just to be told ‘Don’t worry, he’s a mathematician – I’m pushing him.’ So you can imagine I felt the school had failed us – failed to support someone who showed real promise in realising their potential and also failed to engage the child in the subject – a subject which he once LOVED! I should also add that he is ‘average’ (not that I’m a fan of that term) in every other subject, with the exception of PE! So having an academic area to excel in was REALLY important to us.
Fast forward to this year, with a new teacher, who opened the parents evening with, “I knew you’d want to know about Maths and in light of that I set a test last week so that I can understand and advise where we can improve.” She had set that test for our benefit (or at least made me think that), had it at her fingertips and went through a full set of strategies and recommendations for us to work on. We felt valued, cared for and understood, despite receiving bad news – she truly captured our hearts and minds.
Anyone who asked me about the school at the end of last year, would have got a completely different response to anyone who asks me now and that’s why every communication is SO important. And every piece of information has to be in consistent with your brand and your USP’s. Never forget that your parents are your biggest advocates, exceed their expectations and let word of mouth take on a whole journey of its own!
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What is a roman numeral analysis of the chords from Coldplay's “God put a smile upon your face”?
I'm trying to apply Roman numeral analysis to some pop songs and am a little stumped on Coldplay's "God put a smile upon your face".
The chords, as I understand them, are:
Section A: D♭, E6, E♭7, Dmaj7
Section B: Amaj7, E6, F♯add9
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MJGMJG
This question does not conform to the title: You are not asking about underlying harmonic analysis - you're simply asking for the chords to the song. That is not underlying harmonic analysis. Unfortunately, it is also off topic on this site. If you google for the chords to the song, more than likely you'll find them. – Stinkfoot Mar 12 '18 at 5:52
In some cases, Roman numerals aren't all that helpful, and this piece might be one of them.
In my opinion, Section A is best understood by considering two simultaneous actions:
The chromatic descent in the bass from E, through E♭ and D, to the tonic D♭.
And the constant presence of the tonic D♭ in all four of the chords. The D♭ is obviously the root of D♭, it's the 6 of E6 (spelled as C♯), the 7 of E♭7, and the maj7 (again spelled as C♯) of Dmaj7.
These two aspects make it very clear that D♭ is tonic, and that's ultimately what drives the harmonic motion: tension and resolution to that D♭.
The B Section is less clear, but there are two things to consider: B Sections often go somewhere else tonally, and here it seems to be rooted in A, which is enharmonic to ♭VI (B♭♭), a relatively common move dating back almost two centuries. Note also that the overall tonic D♭ is still present in every single chord, though now always spelled as C♯: it's the third of Amaj7, the sixth of E6, and the fifth of F♯add9.
In other words, Coldplay makes clear what the tonic is by playing it in every single chord of the song. If you try to sing a D♭ throughout the song, you'll see that it fits everywhere!
RichardRichard
I tried listening to the song and the progression in the A section is pretty non-functional which means there are going to be some ambiguities when doing the analysis. The B section sounds like I-V-VI-I in the key of A (I'm not sure about the tensions, but if you're right then Imaj7-V6-VIadd9). If I'm hearing it right each chord in the A section is played on the guitar by moving the open C chord shape around but leaving the open stings open, so each chord has an E and G though I think you got the basic movement down. We could interpret this section to also be in the key of A as III#9#11-V#9-bVb9-IVadd11 with the G and/or E providing the tensions on each, but I think you could make an argument for analyzing this in Db/C# since during the verse the bass is alternating between B and C# throughout. Either way there are many non-diatonic tones throughout. I like the interpretation in A since the III chord could be thought of as a sort of substitute for the I.
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Mercedes Benz • 23 December 2014
5 moments that defined Mercedes’ 2014 Formula 1 season
Read nextFerrari’s Sergio Pininfarina tribute is completely fitting
It was a landmark year for the Mercedes AMG team, for hybrid-turbo technology and for Lewis Hamilton, eventual winner of the most hotly contested season in quite a while.
Rolling back the years for many fans of the sport, watching the two Mercedes team mates have at it was a glimpse back to 1988, when four-times World Champion Alain Prost and three-times World Champion Ayrton Senna were at it almost every weekend in what was then the most successful Formula 1 car ever constructed.
Roll on a few years, and the introduction of hybrid-turbo technology introduced the largest gulf in performance we’ve seen since 2009. But that wasn’t to say it was a boring year, by any stretch of the imagination.
However, there were pivotal moments in the Championship that had a massive bearing on the entire outcome of the race for the title, and those we’ll be looking at today.
At the end of the year, we look back at five of these pivotal moments for Mercedes AMG Petronas, recapping them and remembering them with glee.
1. The Mercedes W05 Hybrid launch — the most important racing car launch since the Audi R10 TDI
Who knew that this particular yet seemingly inauspicious day in February would hold so much weight come November?
The Mercedes W05 Hybrid will go down as the sport’s most successful car ever, and probably it’s most efficient too. It was a big leap for motorsport technology and Formula 1 back into the realm of road relevance.
Although the World Endurance Championship‘s LMP1 cars have relied on hybrid technology for a good while (and even diesel in Audi’s R10 TDI), and Formula E has burst onto the scene with its electric-only formula, Formula 1 is still the pinnacle of development, and in saying that, the W05 Hybrid was the pinnacle of motorsport.
2. Bahrain GP: Hamilton and Rosberg’s first major squabble ends in British triumph
At the first race in Australia, the world witnessed what a supreme package the Mercedes W05 Hybrid was, but that only meant the Mercedes teammates would be the ones contesting this year’s title. How right were we.
At race three during the first night event held in Bahrain, Hamilton and Rosberg had an almighty flag-to-finish fight amongst themselves, which led to a few heart in mouth moments.
They didn’t bang wheels, they didn’t send each other off the road, but it was good, clean driving.
Hamilton won the race, with Rosberg second, perhaps foreshadowing much of the season.
3. Monaco GP: Rosberg ruins Hamilton’s pole lap, Rosberg wins the race. But was it on purpose?
Strangely enough, a snatched brake would throw the entire season into something of a dog-fight between the Mercedes pair from May onwards.
In Michael Schumacher-like fashion (although less precise), Rosberg either deliberately or accidentally carried too much speed into Monaco’s Mirabeau corner, outbraked himself and took the escape road. Yellow flags were outed, which spoiled Lewis Hamilton’s pole attempt. Rosberg was fastest at the time and remained so when the session concluded.
Monaco is probably the one place on the calendar you want to guarantee pole position.
Hamilton was not best pleased, Rosberg was ecstatic. The German eventually went on to win the Monaco GP and begin a run of success that saw Hamilton’s Championship hopes take a severe dent.
4. Belgian GP: The relationship turns sour when Rosberg hits Hamilton “on purpose” too
The most chaotic race of the season for Mercedes saw the one thing Grand Prix teams dread — teammates making contact on the racetrack.
Hamilton got the run on Rosberg from the start and through the super fast Eau Rouge corner, and on the back straigh the Briton was leading his German compatriot. Rosberg has other ideas though, and at the chicane at the end of the Kemmel straight, Rosberg charged down the outside of Hamilton, ruining his front wing and puncturing Hamilton’s left-rear tyre.
Both drivers finished off the podium, with Red Bull’s Dani Ricciardo winning the race. But more importantly, this sparked what many believed would be a Prost/Senna like battle for the rest of the season.
If only they were right.
5. Abu Dhabi GP: Rosberg’s few technical issues happened at the worst possible moments
I won’t for one minute suggest that Hamilton had this season won before Abu Dhabi. Sure, winning in Brazil, the Briton made massive strides towards his second World Championship, but he still needed to beat his teammate — and now bitter rival — in the desert kingdom.
The race got off to the perfect start for second-on-the-grid Hamilton who bolted for the flag leaving a slow-starting pole sitter Rosberg crawling towards third. But there was something massively wrong with Rosberg’s car.
Halfway though the race, the German’s W05 Hybrid’s ERS system failed, leaving him 160-horsepowre down and three seconds off the race, struggling to finish in the points.
In conclusion, double points didn’t play a role in the Championship result, and for that fans should be thankful, but at many moments in the season it seemed that Rosberg had it in his grasp. Hamilton’s impressive post-Spa performances however really ensured that he was the deserved 2014 World Champion.
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How can the community assist in welcoming LGBTQ users?
This is a followup to my question Are there specific issues with unwelcoming behavior toward LGBTQ persons on Stack Exchange? . StrongBad, in a comment replying to one of my comments, suggested that I go ahead and ask something along these lines. This question is directed at those who have experienced unwelcoming behavior.
I'm so confused over the nature of the unwelcoming behavior that others have alluded to. If I can't figure out what is happening because it gets deleted quickly, there's little I can do to work toward preventing future occurrences.
What, specifically, can individuals in the community do to support those who have experienced gender bias? I'm asking you -- those of you who have experienced bias related to being LGBTQ or some other sort of gender bias. What do you want or need us to do so that you feel welcomed?
Are you looking primarily for greater awareness of the issues you commonly face? That is, there is nothing really that specific for us to do except to attend sensitivity training, show greater empathy, etc.
Do you want us to be more vigilant in voting down and flagging unwelcoming content so that it gets deleted quicker?
Are there a few specific users that you want to be "taught a lesson", and the rest of us are caught up in the crossfire?
Do you want us to proactively ask you for your pronouns or other biographical or identity details before we engage with you? (I apologize for accidentally misgendering Aza in my previous question, but there's nothing on her profile to indicate her gender or that she wants people to be particularly sensitive in this regard towards her. Perhaps I could have sent her a note "Hey Aza, I'm going to reference you in an upcoming post, what are your pronouns?", but that seems so awkward.)
Do you want help with lobbying Stack Exchange into making changes to the existing system such as adding support for adding pronouns, sexual orientation, etc. to user profiles?
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Robert ColumbiaRobert Columbia
A thousand thanks for putting up these questions. I can't say how important I find it that our community looks into this aspect of the whole "network crisis". It is all fair and square to confront SE.COM about the way they dealt with Monica Cello. But looking into the mirror, and figuring what this community (independent of the company running the servers) should (want to) learn about itself, that is equally important! – GhostCat salutes Monica C. Oct 2 '19 at 0:11
@GhostCat I find this important as well, but I wonder - for years women complaining about feeling unwelcome (esp. on Stack Overflow), they were told that their gender doesn't matter because it's all about the post and not the user. I as a woman had to listen to some unsolicited advice on how I should feel as well. Now that it's about LGBTQ, the topic is suddenly important and taken very seriously. Don't get me wrong, it definitely is... but... I don't quite know how to feel about that fact. – user204841 Oct 2 '19 at 1:05
@ModusTollens It should have mattered for you too – user384163 Oct 2 '19 at 1:08
@ModusTollens They did, for sure. We simply reached the next level. Welcome to a world where everybody deserves to be accepted as individual, not as a member of some group. – GhostCat salutes Monica C. Oct 2 '19 at 3:36
@ModusTollens - Grab the ball and run with it. We are all in this together, my friend. – TempGuest Oct 2 '19 at 4:04
I agree with Alon Eltan. Only on very specific SE subsections is gender and sexuality at all relevant. Should we also research a poster's racial and religious background before responding to them? Their political stance? Where would it end? – Weckar E. Oct 3 '19 at 3:16
You're being disingenuous. The slippery slope argument is called a fallacy for a reason, and using it demonstrates that you are not acting in good faith. It is not a difficult concept: when you are talking directly to or about another user, apply the correct pronoun, with priority to the pronoun that they have explicitly claimed. That's it. // Their gender and sexuality is relevant when you have deliberately disrespected someone on that basis. By acting that way, you made it relevant, because you chose to have that discussion with or about them. @WeckarE. – Nij Oct 3 '19 at 10:48
@Nij I would never deliberately disrespect someone. I just often don't feel like going out of my way to respect someone. If someone has clarified their pronouns in such a way that I don't have to go looking for it (say, by having to check their profile page), of course I'd use them when appropriate to flow-of-text. But I cannot be expected to check every single profile just-in-case. – Weckar E. Oct 3 '19 at 12:56
@Nij Additioally, I think it is equally so a slippery slope to assume that anyone who is not going out of their way to 'respect' you, must be deliberately disrespecting you. Apathy exists, people. – Weckar E. Oct 3 '19 at 13:02
@WeckarE. of course I'd use them when appropriate to flow-of-text. so still not an outright "I will respect you if you ask me to use a particular pronoun." – user371773 Oct 19 '19 at 18:35
@QHarr I'll respect you, but not be your obedient mindless slave. If the text flow doesn't allow it, it doesn't allow it. Basically, I'll respect your preferred pronouns, please respect my autonomy on how to use them in my own speech. – Weckar E. Oct 20 '19 at 7:30
I have experienced problems at SE around the use of gendered pronouns.
I am a female SE participant who works very hard to remain gender neutral on SE. When I was getting started at a particular male-dominated SE site, I found it quite beneficial in building up reputation and respect to fly under the gender radar there. I was careful to avoid writing anything there that would give any hints as to my gender.
Several years ago, there was a user at that site with whom I had some ongoing tension. I’ll call him User A. (His gender was clear from his user name or his personal home page, easily found via google by using the information he posted in his SE profile.)
User A outed me as a female participant in a discussion comment. That page received thousands of views and I flagged his comment. I patiently attempted to work through the problem with the site moderators, but they said they could not edit his comment or remove it, and they said they could not force User A to dialogue with me, or with them, about the problem. I was shocked. I carefully explained how gender affects interactions on that site, and I explained that my opinions would have much less credibility on that site if my gender were known. I explained that I didn’t want to publicly correct User A regarding my gender, because that would either mean confirming the gender attribution he had made, or being untruthful, which I have an aversion to.
Eventually I found a discreet way of communicating with User A. He explained that I had posted something on a different SE site regarding breastfeeding, in which my actual gender was clear. Once he pointed that out, I went back and edited that post. In the new version, I just said "we," so it wouldn't be clear which parent (me, or my husband) was the one who was doing the breastfeeding. User A removed the problematic comment and we both removed all traces of the conversation.
I felt that the site moderators could have easily and quickly solved the problem, by simply removing the comment that referred to me as "she."
So, how can people be supportive?
Let's get in the habit of not assuming others' gender, unless it's been made obvious (through name, profile, image, posts or comments).
Moderators can be watching for this issue when responding to flags.
Let's all practice greater empathy. When we write something, let's ask ourselves, How would I feel if someone directed that to me?
SE can lead the way in practicing greater empathy, by reinstating Monica Cellio pending an open discussion of the proposed changes to the Code of Conduct. In my experience, Monica approaches moderation with empathy and humanity, and has been a model moderator.
Maybe it will become necessary to ask her to step down due to irreconcilable differences, later on, during an open discussion of the proposal -- but we're not there yet.
By removing her prematurely, SE is causing more harm than good to the principles of tolerance, inclusion and respect.
TempGuestTempGuest
Thanks for sharing! You said " I carefully explained how gender affects interactions on that site". What did you mean by that? Can you explain that for us here? Because most of your post here seems to be about the fear of others finding out you're a woman, but I'm not seeing a description of why it's such a bad thing if people find out you're a woman. While women are clearly in the minority, I haven't personally witnessed any special treatment of those women that are here, so hearing from you might shed some why on why you feared people finding out you're a woman. – mason Oct 1 '19 at 22:43
It's great to have a real example. It's also interesting in that it's the very opposite of the usual scenario: in your scenario, you wanted people to go on assuming you were male, because it simplified things and/or you felt it increased your credibility. Honestly, though, it seems to me that if every person were to conscientiously research a person before using pronouns in reference to that person, the result would have been the same: User A would have found your answer about breastfeeding, seen that you were clearly female, and then used "she" to refer to you. – Wildcard Oct 1 '19 at 22:53
+1: This answer stresses patience, understanding, empathy, dialog, discussion, and working together to improve our community. – Nat Oct 2 '19 at 0:15
@Marco13 - Sorry, which of my sentences or paragraphs are you referring to? // People use pronouns frequently in discussions on SE. // My experience had nothing to do with anyone accusing anyone of anything. It was about me wanting to be seen as a neutral person, without anyone assuming I was any particular gender. I wanted them to assume I was a person. It wasn't about hostility or offensiveness -- it was about leveling the playing field. – TempGuest Oct 2 '19 at 3:22
@Wildcard - I wanted to be seen as a person first. In real life, I have always wanted to be seen as a person first, and a woman, or a certain nationality, second. There were many participants in that male-dominated site who, consciously or unconsciously, thought differently about opinions expressed by participants who were openly female. I can't really point a finger of blame at User A, given that I had left that post out there identifying myself as a breastfeeding mother. But I would have liked to rely on the moderators' solidarity and support. – TempGuest Oct 2 '19 at 3:27
@mason - I didn't explain all that to User A -- sorry if I wasn't clear. I explained all that to the site moderators. With User A, I kept it short and sweet, and just told him I prefer the pronoun "they." He respected my preference after that. // The article is about women functioning in a male-dominated STEM field, right? So, it's relevant. I would like, now, to allow you some time to do some reading and reflecting, as I will also be doing, and then another day, when you and I are both ready, we can "meet" again, if you like, and talk some more. – TempGuest Oct 2 '19 at 3:59
Yeah, this ended up being an unstructured mess. There's a summarized version at the end, but the rest contains reasoning and some hits at the unreleased CoC, as it has been presented by the two answers posted to two different resignation posts on other metas.
What do you want or need us to do so that you feel welcomed?
The new CoC as it has been presented this far overcomplicates it a lot. Speaking for myself, I'm perfectly fine with "they" instead of a random gendered pronoun, and I'm pretty sure most people are. SE isn't built up as a social media where gender is listed. Even if it is, there's far too many variations to properly cover it.
For an instance, there's people who don't have pronouns at all, and prefer to have their name used instead, there's people who change pronouns daily, there's people who use multiple pronouns, some who use all, some who use all except one or more, and all kinds of variations in between.
My point is: don't overthink it. Most on-site interactions actually don't touch pronouns, with a possible exception to meta sites. Personally, if I'm in doubt, I use "they" or avoid pronouns entirely if I'm on main or meta. Chat is different, and I'll rather ask if I need to. Using names is, as far as I know, the variant the fewest amount of consider offensive. I actually haven't met anyone who has felt offended by name use (provided it's not deadnaming, which is bad either way, but doesn't really apply online).
Generally, if you're in doubt and it makes sense to ask (it would likely be considered noise on main/meta), ask. And even after you've asked, I doubt anyone minds if you fall back to their name. Speaking for myself, I like hearing my name from time to time.
Do you want us to proactively ask you for your pronouns or other biographical or identity details before we engage with you?
If it doesn't make sense to ask, no. Again, chat is a lot better for these types of things. Optimally, we'd have a system for adding pronouns to names, but that gets complicated fast with all the variations. Not to forget that some people don't want to list their gender, and requiring it can ironically be unwelcoming too.
While a lot of people know their pronouns, there's still people who aren't sure what they are, and prefer to not list anything or even see that option. Not to forget people who aren't out of the closet. Both these might be a minority of a minority, but they matter, and their problems are real.
This part needs its own paragraph because of a misleading definition elsewhere; "they", aside the plural use, is widely regarded as a gender-neutral pronoun. Now for the misleading definition; "they" does not have to refer to non-binary people. I know some non-binary people, one of which is fine with he/she/they. I also know one who prefers it/its, but who's fine with "they" too in the sense that using "they" isn't considered offensive or hurtful. Non-binary people can use all kinds of different pronouns.
Moreover, non-binary isn't technically a gender - it's a spectrum of gender identities that include all kinds of identities. Quite literally, non-binary means something outside a binary system (here: male and female). The "implications" vary from person to person, and I don't have a chance of listing all the variations. I actually don't know all myself - more on that later.
Honestly, I doubt anyone will call you unwelcoming for using "they". Personally, I find that a lot of people just assume programmers here are male, at least among new users. "sir" and "bro" is also thrown around an unnecessary amount regardless of the receiver, and this practice needs to die in a fire, preferably yesterday.
Misgendering is a slippery slope. There's some people who can't be misgendered (that's those who use all pronouns, and don't really care which are used). Some people use multiple pronouns and can be harder to misgender (if one or more fall in the "binary" pronouns).
Personally, I only consider misgendering a problem if it's repeated, and it's clearly malicious. That being, if someone uses "he/him" about me, I'll correct them. I don't like it, but I'm not going to hate the other person for that. Note that not all people take this approach; some people are hurt the first time. I've gotten a bit of a laid-back approach to it. However, repeated use in a way that's pretty obviously an invalidation attempt is directly hurtful.
Again, this isn't complicated: listen to people. There are a lot of unique approaches to pronouns out there (trust me - I'm in multiple LGBTQ servers on Discord, one of which is a server exclusively for transpeople and non-binary people).
That being said, no one is required to learn all the pronouns - there's a lot of them Live site: https://pronoun.is/all-pronouns. There's also no point in learning all of them, but if someone tells you they use a pronoun you haven't heard before, all you need to do is remember that the person uses that pronoun, and you're good.
Listen! Discarding people's pronouns or identity because "it has to be proven" is offensive. If someone tells you their pronouns, accept it and use it. Some might sound weird at first, but a lot of things sound weird the first time they're heard.
Don't use gendered pronouns without clarifying first. Or, as written more elegantly in the first answer - avoid assuming gender. Prefer gender-neutral language or names if you're in doubt.
Remember that some people don't use pronouns. Listen to them and find out what they use instead.
Make changes to the CoC - but please don't make it so strict it fails to include other members of LGBTQ who may not be as visible (including, but far from limited to people who are still figuring out their identities, people who use multiple pronouns, etc). Allow names, allow "they", but make sure it doesn't allow for intentional misgendering.
Flag behavior that's clearly abusive. Under this comes a second request (albeit not for users): make comment moderation tools better for everyone to help find abusive behavior and mitigate problems fast.
Don't be like SE. We have feelings too
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+1 - During the past few days, I've read many answers (at least 15, including all in this post) which are at least primarily about the proposed CoC changes regarding pronoun use. Among these, your answer is the one which I most agree with & which makes the most sense to me. Thank you for writing this. – John Omielan Oct 3 '19 at 2:03
I had to look up "deadnaming". Calling someone by their old birth name after transitioning. That can happen online too, when users change their usernames. – Mari-Lou A Oct 5 '19 at 12:26
@Mari-LouA yep, but that also requires you to remember the previous one, and for the person to not like that username. Personally, I used a username I still use on some other sites, including GitHub (because it isn't really gendered). But yeah, that can happen. Deadnaming isn't just after transitioning though, it's generally after a name change. – Zoe - account abandoned Oct 5 '19 at 12:30
I still have lots to learn and understand. – Mari-Lou A Oct 5 '19 at 12:31
However, I am acutely aware that language is like walking on eggshells, make one false move and people's feelings get hurt. – Mari-Lou A Oct 5 '19 at 12:33
A change of username is rarely as emotive as a change of real name, @Mari-LouA, though I suppose it may be in certain circumstances. And, of course, some people use their real names as usernames. – TRiG Oct 6 '19 at 18:02
""sir" and "bro" is also thrown around an unnecessary amount regardless of the receiver, and this practice needs to die..." This is really a cultural thing, and I don't mean the microcosm of culture that exists in the world of software development or even engineering. Where I grew up, it was quite common for people to call you "dude" or "bro" regardless of your gender. It wasn't because people assumed you were male. Gender was fairly evenly split, and often, they were your friends, so they knew quite well your identity. "Sir" is the same, but a different culture. It isn't meant to misgender. – Cody Gray Oct 18 '19 at 18:01
Please stop giving credence to the idea that using a person's pronouns is somehow onerous.
The very fact that you can find people on this site who openly think that it is acceptable to use some pronouns, but to refuse to use others is unwelcoming and emotionally draining for people who have struggled to find language with which to accept themselves.
The fact that people feel able to debate this is unwelcoming.
Most of time in the Stack Exchange world you just don't need a person's pronouns (which are only used in the third person). In many reply contexts you end up using the second person and addressing a person directly. On some occasions you will find yourself referring to another post by author "the answer by CB" and only very occasionally is a third person pronoun needed (e.g. "What CB fails to mention in their answer ..."). At this point you can simply look at a person's profile - it'll only be a click away - if they state their pronouns then use the pronouns which they state, otherwise use something gender neutral such as "they".
It really is very simple, and it means a lot to many people.
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I see this being pretty easy to adopt for english users, but how to deal with the worldwide community any the many users for whom english is a second language? I, for example, first encountered "they" as a neutral pronoun some years ago, it was never taught to us in school (non-native speaker). How are we going to educate people, make them aware of the problem and teach them how to deal with it? – user204841 Oct 1 '19 at 22:48
And from stuff that was posted it seems like using neutral pronouns or names to avoid using specific pronouns would not be allowed under the new (unpublished) CoC. – user204841 Oct 1 '19 at 22:53
Gender-neutral language, e.g. "they", definitely seems like a good idea. I dunno so much about any convention that requires people to look at others' profiles; that seems to invite an unnecessary level of social entanglement. – Nat Oct 2 '19 at 0:44
@ModusTollens theregister.co.uk/2019/10/01/stack_exchange_controversy Monica announced in advance she will not refer to a person as they. Imagine how that feels for a person who has realized they are nonbinary. It cannot possibly be welcoming (again, remember the question and the answer we are commenting on.) I really like Monica (we have several sites in common) but on this issue she was wrong. (Wrong enough for what happened next, probably not. But still wrong.) And now everyone is "oh noes the poor new users they will never figure it out" but it is not that hard really. – Kate Gregory Oct 2 '19 at 13:04
oh come on. Go read the 20 or 30 resignation and on strike speeches. They all say the same thing. And that article includes a quote from Monica herself saying she will not use they. There is no universe in which she's perfectly happy to use they be SE decided to pretend she wasn't. And she doesn't find it "linguistically hard" she just doesn't believe in nonbinary people and won't call anyone they. Caleb doesn't believe in gender and if your "genetic sex" (the phrase in Caleb's resignation letter) is known, that's what Caleb will use. These positions are not ok. And pronouns are not hard. – Kate Gregory Oct 2 '19 at 13:18
@KateGregory C'mon. This is a site people from whole world use. Many of them struggle hard to compose sentences that resemble English grammar. And you expect them to grasp subtleties of person pronouns in English? Good luck. – Tadeusz Kopec Oct 2 '19 at 13:42
@TadeuszKopec yes I do because it's not hard. But that is not what this answer says. This answer says "stop saying it's hard." And the demodding isn't about ESL users making honest mistakes, it's about mods saying "I refuse to do what I know the person wants because I know their gender better than they do" and there's no way that's welcoming or respectful. Stop conflating "honest mistakes" with heel-digging refusals. – Kate Gregory Oct 2 '19 at 13:46
@KateGregory You are severely mischaracterizing Monica's stance. I hope that's not in bad faith, but I feel you should take some time to learn what she actually said rather than continue to make false statements. Check out the screenshots [Please don't link to leaked private conversations, it's rude and potentially harmful --Ed.]. Monica offered to use any pronoun that a user wants, except she didn't wish to refer to a single person as "they" because she felt it was grammatically awkward (even if not grammatically incorrect).... – mason Oct 2 '19 at 13:53
But that's the point! It's not up to her what someone's proper pronoun is! (People keep acting like it's hard.) Do you know how many times singular they has been used in this comment stream alone? You don't even notice it because it's so natural. Refusing to use it is not sticking up for grammar. It's hurting gender non conforming people and acting like that makes you virtuous. – Kate Gregory Oct 2 '19 at 13:56
@KateGregory If she feels that "they" shouldn't be used to refer to a single person, then refusing to call a single person "they" has nothing to do with gender issues. It's a complex nuanced issue, and people draw the line at different places. While I may not entirely agree with Monica's stance, I don't find it offensive at all. She actually offered to use a lot of the neo-pronouns (or whatever they're called) if a person wished for them to be used. Anyways, my point is that you're arguing in bad faith if you keep mischaracterizing her position now that you know what it is. – mason Oct 2 '19 at 14:00
You're wrong. It has everything to do with gender issues. We all use they for a single person all the time. In this comment thread, Monica is referred to as they several times. Nobody notices. Singular they is just not a problem. It isn't complex or nuanced -- people just claim it is while refusing to honour the reality of the people they talk about. Language changes. We used to use "the n word" and the "the r word" and now we don't. Years ago, kids called me Kathy because they said that was the only short form for Katherine. They were wrong. Refusing to call a person they is also wrong. – Kate Gregory Oct 2 '19 at 14:07
@KateGregory Why should the listener alone decide what can be spoken? The speaker has agency too. If the listener is offended by X and the speaker is offended by Y, why not use Z instead? Using a different pronoun for the same gender is not misgendering, it is not factually wrong, and I have yet to see a good objective reason for it to be offensive. – Reinstate Monica Oct 2 '19 at 15:58
@Solomonoff'sSecret: Please have a look at the question and the answer again. You are on a question asking how we can be welcoming to LGBTQ users. This answer is telling you that not debating other people's pronouns is one concrete and important way to do this. If you want to research the history of why having one's pronouns "gatekept" has a painful history, then please feel free to research this on your own time. If someone is offended by my prounouns, then perhaps they need to examine why this is. – CB Bailey Oct 2 '19 at 17:15
@CBBailey I will personally call you whatever you wish to be called. However, this entire pronoun-gate has arisen because a moderator refused to address a single person with "they" because they felt "they" is confusing because many people only know it being used in a plural sense. That moderator even acknowledged the dictionary says it's okay to use "they" for singular reference. That moderator also offered to use any other pronoun (including the neo-pronouns) or to avoid pronouns completely to sidestep the issue. It wasn't about a lack of respect, though the company chose to view it that way. – mason Oct 2 '19 at 17:45
Using a person's pronouns is not onerous. Tracking the preferred pronouns of the several thousand site users I've interacted with over the years is onerous. I'd prefer to remember the pronouns of the people I refer to on a regular basis, use neutral writing for everyone else, and put the majority of my effort into the main purpose of this site, which is asking and answering questions. – Mark Oct 2 '19 at 20:23
You can listen.
When we say that things are a bit difficult you could say "How so?" And maybe watch your tone when you say it lest you come off as saying "I demand you prove it to me." (I don't think your previous question crossed that line, but it was close) When we do give examples don't pop out the woodwork to explain why our examples aren't valid. Please, just listen. Accept that we may be telling the truth and that even if we are wrong or misguided we are just trying to tell you how it looks to us. Take the time to consider your response and do so with compassion and patience and deference. Maybe then the civil discourse will flow more freely.
Believe our issues instead of mocking them.
In so much of this conversation, a queer person trying to express the problem with Stack Overflow is immediately pounced on by a defensive dude reacting like it's the most ridiculous thing he's ever heard.
The worst examples are deleted now, as the worst examples tend to be, and that's a positive sign that the community is trying, but don't go asking for receipts because, look at my reputation score, I don't and can't have them.
Stop celebrating transphobia.
When a moderator resigns and posts a long ramble that denies the validity of trans people as his parting words, and the post gets hundreds of net upvotes, it indicates that the power user community generally agrees with transphobia, or at least doesn't think it's as much of a problem as losing one of their own. On a queer-friendly site, that post would have a negative score, or just be removed until he came up with a better statement.
On many smaller occasions across this Meta site, people are posting transphobic things as well, like telling us that our pronouns are wrong, that we are liars, or that we are mentally ill. They get net upvotes as well.
Don't let transphobia stand. Call it out. Call out the people who say it's not that bad. When a transphobic person leaves, let them, don't martyr them.
Trans folks are on the front line of the politics of LGBTQ+ issues at the moment, and even the cis parts of the LGBTQ+ community can see what's happening.
Fix structural misogyny.
Misogyny affects a majority of the queer community:
Queer cis women suffer from misogyny in the usual way.
Trans women suffer from misogyny navigating their life as women.
Trans men suffer from misogyny because they once were perceived as women, and possibly still are by some, and they also grew up experiencing it.
Non-binary folks get the worst of everything.
Of course straight cis women are also affected by misogyny on Stack Overflow. Women's issues and LGBTQ+ issues go hand in hand here.
Structural misogyny takes forms like:
Women who call out problems, such as April Wensel, are disbelieved by the core community of this site.
The processes of this site favor asking, answering, and moderating questions in the manner typical of cis men. When you have suffered from misogyny, you use more cautious and appeasing language, which this site doesn't reward.
More reputation points go to men than women, because men fit better into the community as it is, giving men more control over the site in a self-reinforcing cycle.
You can't support the LGBTQ+ community without supporting women, and you can't support women without believing them.
Broaden your idea of what the community is.
The core community that created this toxicity isn't going to fix it on its own. So the question isn't just what you can do, it's what the women who left can do if you get them to come back. It's what the queer folks you're getting too defensive about can do. It's what the new users can do.
Strengthen the code of conduct.
Hoo wow I bet Meta isn't going to like this point.
A code of conduct is a fairly essential tool in maintaining a respectful, inclusive community. Most successful open source projects, for example, have a strong code of conduct by now. SO is clearly lagging behind if putting anything as basic as "don't misgender people" in the Code of Conduct (note: I don't know the actual language any more than you do) is a shock to the community.
Inclusion, without a code of conduct to support it, will be chipped away until it's nothing.
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Could you call out some examples too, under the sections Stop celebrating transphobia. ? – ankii Oct 2 '19 at 5:11
1/2 It isn't an obscure interpretation. It's a direct reading of what was written by Caleb in their post on Christianity Meta, here. @Blue – Nij Oct 2 '19 at 6:14
2/2 To expand: In several places they make it clear that they do not agree with the idea of using a pronoun preference they have been explicitly informed of, because they believe they should use the pronoun that "matches the gender" (paraphrased) of the user they refer to, as determined by Caleb themselves, and then try to justify this either as a facet of their personal beliefs that should not be interfered with, in the interests of maintaining the status quo; or because they have never received complaints about it and therefore it is not really a problem that needs being solved. – Nij Oct 2 '19 at 6:14
@Nij Are you sure you interpret their posts as intended? See this comment from Monica. Regarding Caleb, I re-read his post, and the focus is on "Now if I avoid pronouns altogether by sticking to proper names or disengaging from the individual, that's being considered an insult too." How can using proper name instead of a pronoun be considered insulting? How can disengaging be considered bad? – dim lost faith in SE Oct 2 '19 at 7:30
1/3x That's Caleb's interpretation of a proposed COC that the general public haven't seen. I can't say with any guarantee, but based on every other experience where such a concept is introduced to TOU/COC/EULA, this is likely to be a massive exaggeration. If people can read a law saying that civil marriages will be awarded as being a requirement that religious institutions award religious marriages to the same people, despite this being obviously false and having no basis in the bill itself, I am not surprised that someone who demonstrates similar biases would at best miss the difference... – Nij Oct 2 '19 at 7:36
@Blue, your comment about "making up imaginary situations" shows exactly where you stand. This is a thread about how to support queer folks in the community, but you don't. – rspeer Oct 2 '19 at 14:51
@Nij, rspeer: I don't think Caleb's post is being heavily upvoted because of the line about "mismatch for their genetic sex", I think it's being heavily upvoted for other large parts of the post, which provided the first third-party explanation of what happened. – Mark Oct 2 '19 at 20:11
One point that stirs up the conversation are the accusations. When someone requests a certain use of pronouns, and someone does not comply, the person is called "transphobic" and "disrespectful", which, in turn, is (IMHO rightfully) perceived as aggressive and hostile. This has nothing to do with "phobia" or "respect". One person may simply have a different attitude towards language than another. Expecting someone to accept any form of speech that a group or authority dictates is dangerous. Leaving strong accusations like that one out would certainly help to have a civilized discussion. – Marco13 Oct 2 '19 at 20:19
@Mark - I was just getting ready to make the same point. RE: When a moderator resigns and posts a long ramble that denies the validity of trans people as his parting words, and the post gets hundreds of net upvotes, it indicates that the power user community generally agrees with transphobia. That's neither an objective conclusion nor a fair characterization. The post is a long and rambling one indeed, so people may have upvoted it for any number of reasons. It's not fair to assume that everyone (or even most) who clicked the upvote button did so just to pile on some transphobia bandwagon. – J.R. means 'Just Reinstate' Oct 2 '19 at 20:23
@Mark Still, those who upvoted that post (or praised it by noting how judicious or elucidating it was) presumably have gone through that line (and other connected passages, which occupy a good chunk of the post) and didn't find it a big deal, or at least not enough to affect their vote or remark. As rspeer notes, in a queer-friendly site that would have been a dealbreaker. (On a related note, the period from this answer quoted by J.R. in the comment above has a second sentence: "[...] or at least doesn't think it's as much of a problem as losing one of their own".) – duplode Oct 2 '19 at 22:04
@Nij Openness, tolerance and inclusivity should go both ways. I really don't share the point of view of Caleb, but what would you expect from a moderator on ChristianityStackExchange talking to his "brothers"? What's next, will we force "Free Tibet!" banners on chinese.stackexchange.com or "Happy Hanukkah!" on islam.stackexchange.com, in the name of openness? It's not possible to make everyone happy on every stackexchange website, that's why there are multiple sites in the first place. To get respect, show some respect. If you want to impose respect, you'll get disdain. – Eric Duminil Oct 3 '19 at 9:25
There is nothing to be respected about the idea that LGBTQI+ are not truly people, do not have individual personalities, or should be deliberately misnamed and misgendered. Tolerance cannot go both ways: either you side with the oppressor or you side with the oppressed. If it is too much for someone to just use the right pronoun, there is no possible way to have respect go both ways. It's extremely ironic that you say requiring some basic decency will earn disdain, when that's exactly what misgendering and misnaming demonstrates in the first place. – Nij Oct 3 '19 at 9:52
@Nij: So what, let's close every religious StackExchange website? You should simply accept that LGBTQ people won't get much support from monotheistic religions. You won't manage to solve this problem in comments or with a shiny new dictatorial code of conduct. I'm very much atheist and anti-cleric but I simply accept that there are religious people, and it's good that they have a platform on which they can write n̶o̶n̶s̶e̶n̶s̶e̶ their point of view. It makes it easier for me to ignore everything coming from their corresponding websites. – Eric Duminil Oct 3 '19 at 10:23
People can quite easily discuss the more discriminatory aspects of religious faith in a respectful way without necessarily displaying that discrimination themselves. That people choose to disrespectful, and are allowed to continue acting that way, is not an excuse to keep allowing it. We can defend the right of bigots to hold their bigoted opinion; they do not have the right to use every possible platform in sharing it, and neither do we need to support giving them one. – Nij Oct 3 '19 at 10:32
I'm perfectly capable of coping with different opinions and ideas; it's a major part of my jobs. But you and others have missed the entire point of a COC that requires pronouns be correct - nobody should have to "cope" with being treated as subhuman or second-class or as if merely existing is abhorrent. That you think it is possible for tolerance to go both ways, when one of the sides in question is literally the intolerance of the other side's existence, demonstrates you do not even understand what you're disputing. – Nij Oct 6 '19 at 3:33
Don't expect us to educate you.
Educating people is terribly draining, don't expect us to do it. We might be willing to help you learn, but don't specifically ask us to do so. Instead, ask the community and hope someone will be willing to answer. And, in any case, Google is your friend, use it.
Don't get defensive when we talk about an issue we are facing.
Don't, never ever, say that "not all [category of people] are like that". We know and it's very tiring to hear this excuse all day long.
Also, don't imply that we are oversensitive. Maybe we are, maybe we aren't (and we probably aren't). But, in any case, it's not an excuse to make us feel bad and unwelcome.
Make everything in your power to hide transphobic stuff from us.
Flag them, edit them, vote to delete them. If something is clearly out of line and people aren't reacting quickly enough, don't wait for the answer to be deleted, remove the offensive part yourself (yes, sometimes it's the whole answer).
Do not passively watch when someone says something offensive.
Be an ally, protect us, show us that we aren't alone and that you don't stand by that.
Listen to us.
Sometimes, allies say stuff that aren't true. It's okay. But listen to us when we correct you. As the people who suffer from the oppression, we know best what is and isn't right for us.
Use your downvotes.
There is nothing more depressing than seeing something transphobic highly upvoted and without any downvotes.
Don't take any risk.
If you see something borderline, flag it/edit it. I'm all for "assuming good intent", but when it can hurt someone else feeling (even unintentionally), then I would rather be too cautious than not enough.
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Honestly, I've had a bad experience with the last one there. I've even been suspended from chat for flagging something that was eventually deemed acceptable. The fact that I was just trying to help was seemingly lost. – Robert Columbia Oct 2 '19 at 12:20
@RobertColumbia Yeah, I had "bad" experience with that too (flag being rejected and no action taken (like editing) because the comment wasn't offensive enough...). But I won't stop doing it. The more people flag one thing as being "not nice", the more likely people are to realize that it is, indeed, "not nice" (or that it could be interpreted this way at least). – BelovedFool Oct 2 '19 at 12:24
Can I add to your second point: don't imply that all of us are "snowflake SJWs" who will scream at you if you get our pronouns wrong even by mistake. Because that's just as annoying, especially when I hear it coming from the same people insisting "well not all of us are unwelcoming..." – F1Krazy Oct 2 '19 at 12:27
@F1Krazy I edited to add something about being "oversensitive". I didn't talk about the fact that we won't scream at people misgendering us, though. I don't want other queer people to feel like they don't have the right to be mad about that. I also don't want them to feel like they are being "tone policed". – BelovedFool Oct 2 '19 at 12:42
@Ælis Trans people definitely have the right to be angry about being misgendered, I didn't mean to suggest that they don't. My point is that it's hypocritical for people to assume that all trans people are like that, and then turn around and say how dare we suggest that all SE users are unwelcoming. – F1Krazy Oct 2 '19 at 12:47
@F1Krazy True that x) But I don't think adding this to my post would be really relevant. Feel free to add that as a separate answer though :) – BelovedFool Oct 2 '19 at 12:48
"the right to be angry about being misgendered" Is there such a thing? And is it universal? I get misgendered once in a while even as a comically stereotype white male and I'm certainly annoyed that I have to correct someone the same way I'm annoyed at banner ads or red lights. I assume it's more annoying the more it happens. But I'm not angry. At what point does the right to be angry begin? My personal line would be "when it's intentional, repeatedly and meant to insult", but were should we draw that line? – nvoigt Oct 2 '19 at 14:39
@nvoigt it's very individual. Some people don't care at all, others are hurt on the first instance, others are hurt when it's repeated, and with a lot of variations between. – Zoe - account abandoned Oct 2 '19 at 15:13
When I first looked at your post, I felt a big weight of negativity. But then I saw I could relate to all the fine print you wrote! So, I drafted a more positive version. It wouldn't fit very well in the comments; and since the ideas are all yours, I don't think it would be right to post it in an answer box. So, I am going to very tentatively put it as an update at the bottom of your answer, as a collaborative contribution. But if you feel it doesn't fit well there, please do a rollback. – TempGuest Oct 3 '19 at 2:46
Regarding use your downvotes, unfortunately, we can't differentiate I upvoted this because I agree with the transphobic message and I upvoted this because I agree with this user taking a stand against a moderator being fired without any communication. I sincerely hope the upvotes on certain posts are because of the latter, and do hope you don't feel like the voting majority is transphobic. If something is purely transphobic with no other message, per your last point, a flag is probably better (but can be accompanied by a downvote of course). – Erik A Oct 5 '19 at 16:07
@ErikA Unfortunately, I did feel like the majority didn't care at all about transgender people. In my mind, they wouldn't have upvoted otherwise. They could have done nothing, downvote or left an answer/comment to clearly express their point of view (without having to upvote something transphobic). – BelovedFool Oct 5 '19 at 16:16
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521. The Temptations: “My Girl”
Posted by The Nixon Administration in The Temptations, Writing credit: Ronnie White, Writing credit: Smokey Robinson
Gordy G 7038 (A), December 1964
b/w (Talking ’Bout) Nobody But My Baby
(Written by Smokey Robinson and Ronnie White)
Stateside SS 378 (A), January 1965
(Released in the UK under license through Stateside Records)
Q. What’s the best thing about the Temptations’ My Girl?
A. Everything.
I’VE GOT SUNSHINE
If it’s strange to be reaching December ’64 on Motown Junkies whilst we’re actually in August – and what’s laughably called “summer” here in Wales, meaning “the two weeks of the year when it rains slightly less than the other fifty weeks” – then it’s doubly strange to be rummaging around Motown’s end-of-year clearance sale and suddenly find My Girl, which has always felt to me like the sound of spring becoming summer. Or the sound of the month of May, if you like.
Coming across My Girl here, in the middle of a fairly ropey run of Motown sides shoved out at the end of the year when nobody was looking, it shines brighter than ever. That first bass pulse, as familiar and comforting as a heartbeat, heralds our return to home ground, a first sighting of land after what feels like months at sea.
It’s a strangely minimalist start, quiet and repetitive; as well as providing stressed-out radio listeners with a little bit of clear air and thinking space after the detergent ads have finished, its sheer familiarity now gives it the same kind of feel as the reverent hush that falls over a congregation before dearly beloved. But then that beautiful, beautiful Robert White guitar loop kicks in, climbing the scale two steps at a time like a ladder of sunlight stretching up to heaven, and you realise that this is just a great song no matter what surrounds it. And we’re only eight seconds in.
WHAT CAN MAKE ME FEEL THIS WAY?
I could write a whole book just filled with the things I love about My Girl, and still be thinking about what was left over to put in Volume 2. Just those opening few seconds are full of things that drive me to ever more stretched similes: the tiny, tiny hint of echoing reverb on those bass strings that sound like brushed drums coming from down the hall, the finger snaps that let us know we’re among friends while still making it impossible to tell just how many people’s fingers are being clicked even after two hundred listens, the benign hiss in the air that seems to swell and breathe between each pluck of the bass. But it’s almost pointless to go through the song highlighting these things, because the beauty of My Girl is that it’s a song made of highlights.
It can be difficult trying to find new things to say about these Motown “monuments”, the iconic (in every sense) songs that everyone’s already heard so many times that they blend into the background. Doubly so with My Girl, which is perhaps the Motown song that more than any other has become part of the trans-Atlantic cultural fabric; more overplayed than even Baby Love, it’s the one song where you could play pretty much any ten-second stretch and still get people singing along.
But with My Girl, that’s kind of the point. Which is why I started this review with the question: what’s the best thing about it? And the answer is, everything. If there’s no obvious high point, no moment where you, the listener, is moved to sit down and say oh, wow, it’s because the entire song is made out of them, and limiting yourself to just one favourite bit is a pointless waste.
Plus, every great moment somehow makes every other great moment stronger. Even the one relative moment of weakness – the last ascent, the final push to the summit, as we hear the I guess you’ll say… bit for the valedictory last time, being underscored by a string section that has got ever so slightly out of hand and briefly tries in vain to compete with our boys’ vocals – feels like a deliberate mistake, like a beautiful Islamic carpet made almost imperceptibly imperfect so as not to offend those heavens we’re now gatecrashing.
WHEN IT’S COLD OUTSIDE
And still, that’s not why I love My Girl so much. No, I love this because it doubles down on its emotional impact, perhaps Motown’s best example of dovetailing form and function to emphasise both.
What am I talking about? It’s a feeling, simple to appreciate but hard to explain. The lyrics (which I’m not going to quote, but for anyone just joining us from Mars, they make up the sub headings sprinkled throughout this page) feature David Ruffin’s narrator celebrating the feelings of sheer joy that come from being head-over-heels in love, making devastatingly effective use of deceptively simple lyrical imagery. Not only do David and his fellow Temptations make us feel it too (it’s almost impossible not to smile along with his good fortune when this is playing), the song itself inspires the same kind of feeling in me: it’s exactly as cheering and warming as the feelings David’s describing, so you get a two-for-one double hit. Sunshine on a cloudy day, indeed; no Motown record has ever felt more like the perfect tool for parting those clouds.
Reading about this cold, without it playing in the background, I imagine there’s the tiniest hint of an iconoclastic rejection, an involuntary turning away from the obviousness of it all, kind of like the reaction to other ultra-overplayed Motown monoliths (as with Mary Wells’ My Guy, for instance, or the aforementioned Baby Love). But listening to this when you’re not expecting it, it’s just wonderful, something like those beautiful moments when you can actually feel the summer in the air after a rainstorm, shielding your eyes from the dazzling flashes on the wet ground even as you taste the warmth on your neck.
That’s why I love My Girl.
ALL THE RICHES ONE MAN CAN CLAIM
Poor old Ronnie White has often been airbrushed out of the history of My Girl, Midge Ure style, and so it’s worth noting Smokey was often better when he had a trusted partner, someone to mix his palette; Robinson himself has credited Ronnie with stopping him from getting too rote and cheesy when writing this song. But really, it stands as Smokey’s masterpiece to date, empirically the best song he’d yet put his name to (already a pretty hotly-contested title).
Less than a year had elapsed since the Funk Brothers had cut another majestic Smokey Robinson number, My Guy, similarly themed and similarly titled. Less than a year had elapsed since the Temptations had put months of endless, thankless, hitless toil behind them, bounding out of obscurity with another fine Smokey Robinson number, The Way You Do The Things You Do. But to listen to either of those next to My Girl, the difference is nothing short of remarkable, the band and the group both great, giant, seven-league strides ahead of where they’d been before. So it’s a foolish task to try and take any of the credit for this amazing record away from either the Brothers or the Tempts, all of whom are on the form of their lives here (not least David Ruffin, for whom this was a first single lead vocal with the group – talk about making a winning start). But if any one person deserves to be singled out, it’s Smokey Robinson.
It was Smokey who realised the mileage in writing a male “answer” to My Guy, Smokey who singled out the previously-unheralded David Ruffin as the group’s secret killer weapon, Smokey who wrote this song especially for Ruffin’s voice, riding the very edge of sweetness and sandpaper, Smokey who spent hours in the cramped, low-tech conditions of the cobbled-together Hitsville studio endlessly mixing vocal tracks down on a 3-track tape machine to make room for more ingredients, Smokey who wrote what must be the first pop hit with a string break as an instantly memorable hook – and, of course, Smokey who’d solved the problem of getting the five Temptations to sing together in the first place. To see Robinson still singing this in his live shows 50 years later, or to see him taking up half the cover of the Temptations’ second LP, the modestly-titled The Temptations Sing Smokey (above), you can’t begrudge him taking some of the glory; he earned it.
THE BEES ENVY ME
I haven’t done a full and complete count, weeding out all the doubles and re-issues, but my current estimate is that we’ll finally be done here on Motown Junkies when we reach something like review number 4150, which means we’re only one eighth of the way in. Regular readers will know that I’ll be giving just fifty of these sides top marks, ten out of ten, marking them out as my fifty personal favourites, my own highly subjective Motown 50, and that once they’re gone, they’re gone. So some people may be rolling their eyes at me wasting another precious ten on such an obvious pick. (Oh, this is getting ten, if you hadn’t guessed already. Sorry to ruin the suspense.)
But sometimes there’s just nothing else to be done. And if My Girl isn’t in your fifty top Motown tunes, I fear nothing can be done for you.
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89 thoughts on “521. The Temptations: “My Girl””
Landini said:
Wow! I can’t believe I am the first to comment here. Excellent review, Mr. Nixon. Yes, I agree this is a wonderful song – completely flawless, kudos to Smokey, Temptations, the Funk Bros, the janitor – whoever. Again, great! great! great! …. HOWEVER, for some strange reason I can pick maybe 20 Temptations songs that I technically like better than “My Girl”. I wonder what is wrong with me? Maybe because it has been so overplayed? Not sure. Of course, I love it everytime I hear it though for a period in the 80s when it was so overplayed I did groan a little when it came on the radio the umpteenth time. I guess the drawback of a big hit record (& wonderful record) is that it can obscure the other great work an artist has done. I guess it troubles me that the average Joe on the street can name “My Girl” but just try to mention “It’s Growing” “My Baby” or “Since I Lost My Baby” & you will probably get blank stares. I know that we MJ’ers understand but for some reason it troubles me still. So…. I realize I am getting way too analytical here. Definitely agree with your 10 but it almost bothers me that I possibly might not pick this for my desert island set. Maybe this song is so familiar that I can hear it in my mind almost perfectly. I think my quandry might be that I discovered Motown (& soul music in general) in their 1967-68 period so many of those records (particularly those of the Temptations) are very dear to me. I didn’t even hear “My Girl” until 1968 at the tender age of 10. I know just about every note of the “With A Lot Of Soul” album by heart! So this is my somewhat garbled response to this song. Hoping my Motown Junkie friends still love me! And, again, Mr. Nixion this was wonderful review & worth the wait!
My good friend, Mr Nixon, I know that apologies aren’t expected here, but please do know that I meant in no way to slight this song. As I said above, your review is excellent & spot on & this is a great song. Outside of you friends here I have little opportunity to discuss music as I do here.
Damecia said:
We forgive! Lol. But I think you are suffering from your own diagnosis which is overplay. It happens to the best of songs.
Thanks! Been waiting for your comments lady. Saw them below. Great as always!
= )
Bob Harlow said:
A wonderful review of a wonderful record. I would take “My Girl” over all the other Temptation singles and there are a few more 10’s there for me. This is one of the top 5 Motown Records of all time in my opinion.
Overplayed? There is a reason that “My Girl” has had so much airplay, it’s that good!
Charles said:
You’re right, “My Girl” is a great recording by any measure. Co-writer Robert White’s role should be illuminated. Further credit must be given to Paul Reiser, a talented Motown house arranger. It was Reiser who created the nearly perfect string and horn arrangement that really separated “My Girl” from the pack. Even insiders at Motown were knocked out by the final product. Most still are.
It is worth noting that per David Ruffin, he was thinking of his infant daughter as sang the words to “My Girl” during the recording process. Some trivia: The Tempts put their background on first then David added his lead vocal. “My Girl” was David’s first lead on a Tempts single, his first lead on a Tempts recording was “You’ll Lose A Precious Love”, written and produced by Smokey, recorded March 2, 1964, the B-side of “Ain’t To Proud To Beg”.
Smokey saw David’s talent very early on.
Finally, to what problem did Smokey solve “getting the five Temptations to sing together” do you refer?
Correction: Paul Riser
The Nixon Administration said:
Thanks Charles. Yes, Paul Reiser is the guy from Mad About You and Aliens 🙂
Ronnie White of the Miracles was the co-writer, Robert White the immortal guitarist who played that great riff. Neither is still with us, both having passed within a few months of each other in 1994/5, but neither should be underestimated.
There’s a heartbreaking bit in the Standing in the Shadows of Motown documentary where one of his fellow Funks (I can’t remember who offhand – Eddie Willis, possibly?) relates a story of him and Robert eating in a restaurant in the mid-80s and hearing My Girl strike up on the radio; White started to excitedly tell the waitress “that’s me!”, and then abruptly stopped, and when his friend asked why, he said he’d sound like just another crazy old man to be humoured. It’s just crushing.
Anyway. It’s a great arrangement, and Paul Riser is a twice-over Motown great for both his arranging and his trombone work – check out this fantastic and fascinating lecture he gave in Madrid last year! – but I’m fundamentally uncomfortable flat-out crediting him with writing the string and horn parts he arranged, just because there’s so much of a thin and blurry line between arranger and composer, and it’s always maddeningly unclear how much was him and how much was the credited writer/producers – even in that lecture, he goes from saying “credit where credit is due”, saying how meticulous Smokey and Stevie Wonder were (“every beat was put in there on purpose”), and how his work was just “a little icing on the top”, and then almost in the same breath points out how “un-funky” Smokey was, and claims the Temptations hated the song until he got his hands on it and fixed it, which doesn’t ring true at all. So, um, who knows? It’s a great arrangement whoever wrote it, but this is Smokey’s show.
You’re quite right about this not being David’s first lead vocal, I didn’t realise You’ll Lose A Precious Love (of which more later) predated this – I’ve amended the review accordingly.
As for the last bit, it’s my contention the early Tempts’ harmonies (’61-’64) are often chaotic and lacking discipline until Smokey gets involved and sorts out their vocal chart arrangements – check out some of the earlier reviews where I expound on this in much more detail. The best metaphor I could come up with was the bit in Ben Hur where Charlton Heston puts the brilliant but disorganised chariot horses in the right order and they suddenly become champions…!
Wow! I didn’t realize that Mr. Riser arranged this. Add him to my list of thank yous, and add both Mr. Whites as well! Cheers!
Dave L said:
Quick, name the finest sides you can think of issued by Presley, Lennon & McCartney, Phil Spector or Brian Wilson, and “My Girl” is instantly their equal. If there’s something that makes, for instance, “Love Me Tender,” “Yesterday,” “Be My Baby” or “God Only Knows” greater masterpieces, go ahead and make the argument. I’ll wait.
Today, you can still make your way through secondary Temptations’ sides like “Runaway Child Running Wild” and “Don’t Let The Joneses Get You Down,” but after all these years, they have the unmistakable under taste of soap opera. “Psychedelic Shack,” no loser, nevertheless, is a period relic, as though someone dug up a time capsule. Even the otherwise unassailable “Cloud Nine” and “Ball of Confusion,” here and there, have musical and lyrical points that pin them to an era one knows is gone, and not coming back.
Not “My Girl.” Never “My Girl.” Five generations after we’re all dead, young people in love for the first time –especially young men- will effortlessly take this song to their hearts as robustly as the public did when 1965 was dawning. What the Taj Mahal is to architecture, what the Mona Lisa is to art, what the aurora borealis is to natural wonders, “My Girl” is to records. A “10” if there ever was one.
“Five generations after we’re all dead, young people in love for the first time –especially young men- will effortlessly take this song to their hearts as robustly as the public did when 1965 was dawning.” Dave L — I certainly hope so my friend!
Wow! Wonderful commentary Dave L. I was tempted to try to make an argument with “Be My Baby” — excellent song it is, but it doesn’t have that timeless quality of which you speak of.
ThinPaperWings said:
I think it’s certainly worth a 10/10, though it is certainly overplayed. Fortunately I wasn’t personally overexposed, and for that I’m grateful.
Without doing a survey of all the Temps singles, I think the construction of the chorus is pretty unique. David sings an ascending melody line, and at the peak, it unfolds like a flower, with each Temp (or 3 of the 5, anyway) repeating the title, then folding back together underneath David for the ‘whoa-oh-oh-oh’ as he resumes the lead (and they echo him to finish it all off.) Quite an arrangement and quite unlike anything else in their catalog, or any other Motown songs for that matter, though you might argue that the seed of that idea was there in ‘Too Many Fish in the Sea.’ They certainly traded leads a lot more on the more psychedelic material, but not quite like this.
And I think it’s worth pointing out from a musical standpoint that the key change is extremely well used here. It’s as if the narrator’s singing of the song has taken his affection to an even greater extreme, and the musical lead-in is seamless.
My friend, another good “brief lead vocal trade off song” is “Its You That I Need” by the Tempts. Everybody gets to chant the title (even Otis). It is a wonderful song. And yes friends, please believe me, despite my rambling diatribe above I do love “My Girl”! It is playing as I write this!
Of course, one more “lead vocal trade off” song which actually came before “Fish” & “My Girl” is “Breathtaking Guy” by the Supremes. Back to the Tempts, I thought the traded lead vocals motiff worked well with some of the psych-soul stuff & not so much in others. I am the first one to admit that the whole psych-soul sound wore very thin to my fragile ears very quickly but of course we are light years away from that!
Great shoutout to the Supremes Grandpa Landini! Lol
Smokey Robinson will turn 25 the following February, and “My Girl” is the first in what was almost surely the busiest year of his life, and maybe his most creative.
In addition to some of the most striking compositions and productions Motown ever knew, Smokey will spend the year not only propping up his own group, but The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Brenda Holloway, and soon enough again, The Marvelettes. When you factor in his television and concert schedule as well, he might very well have been busier than Holland-Dozier-Holland.
Today, he probably looks back on this period and wonders how the hell he did it. Smokey’s Motown vice-presidency was no gift – he earned it.
My friend Dave L. I woke up this morning a little embarrassed by my ramblings from yesterday. Good thing I’m not a politician! I do love this song. I have included several mea culpas. I also know that I am amongst friends here so I feel free to give my views no matter what they are. My own friends that I hang around with are the absolute best as far as friendship, etc but I really cannot discuss music with them as I do with you dear friends here at MJ. So thank you. And no offense to anyone here was intended in the least.
As example of people’s (outside of MJers) ignorance about Tempts/Motown, I recently had a very well intentioned young man tell me how much he like “Build Me Up Buttercup” by the Temptations! I had to very gently correct him.
By the way, I am so impressed that a talented singer such as Mr. Robinson had the foresight to give his song to Mr Ruffin & his co-horts rather than be tempted (No pun intended) to keep it for himself. In one of my crazy alternate universe scenarios I wonder what would have happened had Smokey & his fellas recorded the song first. Hmm… I mean Smokey’s great and all that but I wonder… Of course, I do know that Smokey got around to recording his own version of “My Girl” on the Miracles ‘Time Out” album. His version is pleasant but even there he wisely chose not to try & recreate the Temptations arrangement.
One more thing & I promise I’ll shut up. in 1998 the Tempts slyly referenced (or sampled) a bit of “My Girl” in their comeback hit “Stay” (not the Maurice Williams song). Cheers & best to all!
Imagine how happy the Motown Christmas party of 1964 must have been. Despite the sting of losing Mary Wells, the Tempts knew this beauty was on its way to radio and stores, the Tops had finally broken through, the Vandellas had an anthem-ish masterpiece, every new single of Marvin’s was gathering more fans, and the Supremes had three consecutive number ones. There couldn’t have been a frown in the building. 🙂
Well said … and Smokey & his guys are about to have a banner year in the hit singles department!
Unless you were in the Marvelettes, maybe.
MotownFan1962 said:
Why would the Marvelettes be sad? They’ve got a big hit with “Too Many Fish in the Sea”.
Well, one fleeting appearance in the Top 30 three months ago (all they’d have to show for a year and a half of work) isn’t really what you’d call commercial success, certainly not compared to what the other marquee Motown acts mentioned were doing – and their next single wasn’t slated to come out for another four months again, long after the rest of the acts Dave listed had had new material out, which shows the kind of faith the company had in them. Brilliant though it is, I’d struggle to really call Too Many Fish a “big hit” in the context of the other breakthroughs Dave mentioned, and there’s no denying they were visibly slipping down the label’s pecking order.
Grandpa Landini I think you may be amused to know this but my favorite cover of “My Girl” is Dolly Parton’s “My Love”. Am no way am I saying it’s better or just as good as, but Dolly makes it totally Dolly lol. It’s very sweet & enduring. She made it during the late 70s when she was trying to crossover.
I also like Dennis Edward’s version he did on the “My Guy/My Girl” mashup.
Mary Plant said:
I love Dolly P Damecia! I’ll have to check this out!
From “The Temptations” Otis Williams, in his own words, as the group comes to this point:
[“ The year 1964 closed on a high note not only for us but for everyone at Motown. The Supremes racked up three number-one records in a row, then became the first Motown act to appear on national television when they debuted on The Ed Sullivan Show. It was exciting to see our friends on a program we watched every Sunday. When the Supremes made that historic appearance, they represented not just themselves but everyone at Motown. As they would in several other areas, the Supremes blazed a trail the rest of us would follow, and we were all very proud. There were plenty of great female singers around Hitsville, and some truly fine-looking ones, too. But, as the world discovered, Diane, Flo, and Mary were born to this; they had ‘it,’ or as we’d say, the Jim Johnson. They were stars. Meanwhile, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Brenda Holloway, Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas, the Miracles, and the label’s latest signing, the Four Tops, kept spinning out the hits. After “Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)” charted in the twenties, we were looking for the next tune.
Back home in Detroit, Smokey Robinson caught our act at the Twenty Grand one evening. One of our numbers featured each of us singing a part. The title of it escapes me, but I do remember that we brought the house down with it. After we came offstage that night, Smokey approached us and, pointing directly at David, said, “I’ve got a song for you.”
It turned out to be a tune Smokey and Ronnie White had written and planned to cut with the Miracles. It was midtempo ballad with a pretty, sweet melody. From the first line – “I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day / When it’s cold outside, I’ve got the month of May” – we knew we had something very special. That fall, during a run at the Apollo, Smokey came to New York to work with us in our dressing room between shows. He taught us to sing the parts as he heard them and perfect those intricate harmonies. On November 17 we recorded “My Girl” in Detroit. It was David’s first lead on a single.
We recorded our vocals over a basic track, so what we heard was basically bass, drums and guitar. Smokey worked up those lush string parts with Paul Riser, a classically trained musician who wrote most of the orchestral music on Motown records. We listened in the studio as Smokey added the “sweetening,” and by the time he was finished with the mix, it was the most gorgeous, magical love song I’d ever heard. There was no question in our minds that we had the big one here.” ]
“The Temptations,” Otis Williams with Patricia Romanowski, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988
Ed Pauli said:
10/10—yes Nixon, I wholheartedly agree for probably the only time-as for David L–My Girl is better than any Presley record save for the ones on that funny looking yellow label with musical notes and a chicken if it is on a 78 RPM!!
The only other records in the entire universe that I liked more than My Girl were—Be Bop A Lula, IN the Still of the Nite , and Bo Diddley
To me, My Girl is the epitome of all things Motown–the beat, the lyrics, the music , the harmonies–and the only other record besides Chuck Berry that they could;ve sent into outer space
gregory said:
Yes If There Ever Is A 10/10 this is it!!!!as usual a “A” class review!!!!! This is the perfect temptations record!!!!
Robb Klein said:
We finally agree! A perfect 10/10. Despite being overplayed. It’s still my favourite Temptations’ song, and, at least tied for favourite Motown song, and favourite song of any kind.
My friend Robb. A definite 10. I thank my fellow MJ’ers for allowing my somewhat stumbling perspective from above. In no way did I intend to slight this song in the least. I’m just wired funny when it come to music. I probably need at 2 or 3 types of Motown favorites lists for my obsessive-compulsive personality (& yes “My Girl” would be on one or more of those!) Hey! if it helps, I’ll ask my doc to adjust my meds. LOL!!!!
Blank Frank said:
Nixon, as perfect as this song is, your review matches it. Both are 10/10. Thank you
Beautiful review & wonderful comments on a wonderful song! Thanks Nixon & everyone – especially Dave L for the Otis Williams piece – fascinating! I love this song, and I love the Temptations – if I were Nixon, they’d get a heavy share of my 10s. I can’t wait to hear what brother John has to say!
Yes, dear Mary, I am also interested in what John has to say. He is the classical guy isn’t he? I am sure he will have some good perspective on this wonderful song. Hopefully more coherent than my stumbling statements from above! Have a wonderful day!
Thanks, Landini, he is indeed the one, and is madly working on commissions before meeting up with the rest of us siblings next week – I can’t imagine anything else holding him up.
John Plant said:
The cruel hand of fate decided to trash my modem and exile me from the internet just as ‘My Girl’ appeared. And, oh, what a feast of eloquence it inspired, from Nixon, and from everyone here. The ‘classical guy’ recognizes a classic when he hears one! – While fully recognizing the greatness of a song like ‘Satisfaction’… well, I’m tempted to echo the great Marianne Moore here: ‘Satisfaction is a lowly thing/ how pure a thing is joy…’ (I don’t really think that ‘Satisfaction’ is lowly – but My Girl’s joy trumps anybody’s frustration, no matter how vigorously embodied.) Sheer benevolent floating affectionate artistry, and ageless like Mozart. I can certainly empathize Landini, coming to the Tempts at the time of ‘With a Lot O’ Soul’ – another very nearly perfect album – but this is a summit – at the Himalayan altitude where comparisons are pointless – it’s at the very top. And Nixon, your prose is beautiful music itself, once again rendering full and exuberant justice to this immortal song. – And I realize that I’VE NEVER HEARD THE FLIP SIDE!!
My friend John, Your comments have made my day! Thank you so much. Like you, I never heard the b side until yesterday on YouTube. I will wait until Friend Nixon gets to it before commenting. Thank for your confirmation of WALOS album. What a great album! It is so funny, my sophomore year in college (back in 1977) I had a roomie who was a classical guy who listened to classical almost exclusively. We had a great time – he would patiently listen to my pop/soul/rock records & I would listen to his classical stuff & we would compare notes. Many times when I get burned out with music I tend to put a classical station on in my car or wherever. It is a great way to cleanse the pallete so to speak! Have a great weekend my friend!
Beautiful commemtary John = )
So this is the single everyone’s been holdimg they’re breathe for? I’m glad I didn’t know it would be next or I would’ve been just as anxious as everyone else lol.
10/10 there’s no argument here. My Girl is truly one of those timeless records that music critics & people who aren’t so certified to talk about music (you know the ones on those crappy 100 greatest songs countdown shows) speak of. My Girl is the type of song that makes me feel nostalgic for era I never known. Just as Steve D. mentioned above its impossible to pin point a favorite part of this song. Just when I think its the bass in the intro, then I think no it’s David, then I think no it is THOSE fingersnaps, then I think it is the rest of the Tempts in the background,
point a favorite part of this so. Just when I think it is the bass in the intro, then I think no David really makes this record, then I think no its the rest of the Temps, then no the string breakdown is really my favorite part.
Hey Damecia, Give a listen to the Tempts’ 1998 “comeback” hit called “Stay” & see if you hear the “My Girl” vibe running through it. And yes, Smokey & Ronnie got a partial writing credit – very much deserved! I normally don’t go in for “sampling” but “Stay” is a splendid song which captures the “My Girl” spirit in a very un-cheesy way.
I listened to “Stay” & they sampled “My Girl” well. How cool is that? A group.samplimg.their own music lol. Pretty dope if you ask me. Off subject but I love when Madonna makes reference to her hits in her new songs lol. It may be cocky, but move like this prove how strong a catalog The Tempts & Madonna have. Back to the song, I really like it…it real smooth = )
Abbott Cooper said:
James Brown was the undisputed champion of personal past hits referencing.
Agreed, Damecia! I’ve been playing the song in my head since yesterday, and I keep saying it’s THAT part – no, wait it’s THIS one, arrggh, it’s that bit, and so on. I’ve brought the album into work today, but I don’t expect that I’ll be able to solve that particluar conuundrum – sure will enjoy the attempt, though!
Hi Mary, this is from Landini…. Please tell your brother that we are waiting for his comments. Thanks! And thanks for your insights as well. Have a wonderful day & weekend!
Oops Sorry Just read your comments above re. your bro…. Hope you all have a wonderful time together! Cheers!
He’s posted in reply to ours above – and does not disappoint!
Hi Miss Mary! It’s great to hear from you = )
Hi Again Miss D, Have a busy day ahead but thought I’d add some more comments. Just re-read your comments & you might have hit upon something that I was incoherently rambling about up above re. “My Girl”. I agree that so many pompous rock critics love to heap praise on “My Girl” & other classics (& RIGHTFULLY SO) but you are right, many times they don’t really understand the music & they ignore other great music by those same artists. Here at MJ, we can heap praise on the classics like “My Girl” & “My Guy” etc but we can also appreciate songs like “Dream Come True” or “Run Run Run” or “You Lost the Sweetest Boy” and.. WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT! Funny too, back in the late 60s many of those same pompous critics were very reluctant to praise Motown music & nowadays they tend to go overboard in their praise at the expense of ignoring other great music. Anyway… I’ll shut up now…. Have a great day & Labor Day Weekend!
That is funny! Lol. I cant stand those types of critics. Im so glad Steve D. allows us MJ’ers to disagree with him. Not only does hr respond with reasoning but he sometimes changes his mind a bit.
Like you i’m also glad that I can come on here.& talk with everyone. My friends only know a little about music and that’s only.current music. It really is a joy for me to come here & talk about what I know, state my IMHO’s & learn.from you cool people. Lol. = )
Why not? Let’s feel a little sorry for ourselves too -with this record as our best excuse- that the hand of fate couldn’t keep this classic line-up of the group together at least a decade. As it was, we didn’t even get five full years.
When reading “The Temptations,” and when 1968 arrives, one sorely wishes there was a respected show business legend that could have coaxed Ruffin to listen to less of his ego, and put forth workable ideas that would provide added recognition without destroying the ‘one among equals’ sense that helps groups stay together. I would not have been bothered with a subscript line on the 45s that said “featuring David Ruffin” underneath “The Temptations,” even though we all knew by then if we were hearing him, Eddie or Paul.
And, again from the book, one gets the sense Berry didn’t inject himself very far into the turmoil and just let a majority opinion within the group make the call, but the other four members could hardly have been unemotional or objective about the tension. That’s completely different from how Berry was in the middle of every unhappy instance in the Supremes. Soon enough too, when they’re down to a trio, similar turmoil comes to The Marvelettes.
I’ll always wonder if things might have gone differently, if there’d been some interested, old-hand show business veteran and friend of Motown about to coax these young performers to more intently consider the long view.
Great observation about Berry. I recently made the same. I saw an interview with Eddie Kendricks before he died & he said he only talked to Berry 3 times! IMO Berry needed Diana Ross & The Supremes just as much as they needed him. No fool he is, so I guess it’s safe to.say he knew.what.group.mattered most.
Sorry guys i’m typing on a phone and I have somewhat long nails, so please excuse any misspellings or run on sentences = )
I forgot to mention in my first comment the wonderful job Steve D. has done writing this review. A 10/10 should go to you too =)
Nick in Pasadena said:
Of course a “10,” not even the slightest question there. I agree with everything that’s been said about this iconic record. But… each time I hear it, the line “I guess you’ll say” bugs me. “What can make me feel this way?” is a question, so it should be, “I guess you’ll ask” — but of course that doesn’t rhyme. I’m sure Smokey thought and thought about a way to get around this — and I’m not saying I know another word that would have worked (you’d have to fix the subsequent rhyme) — but it still stands out every time I hear this. I think, “Man, this would be absolutely perfect if that one line were fixed!!” I know most would say this is nitpicking a work of art, and maybe it’s the famous flaw every work of art needs to truly be memorable.
Hi Nick!
Was English/Grammar your.favorite subject in school? Lol
Ha! I don’t know if t was my favorite subject, but it was the only one at which I got good grades!
Lol = )
Hey Nick, I’M the stickler for grammar! I’m known as “the grammar policeman” on Soulful Detroit Forum. I’m appalled at the pitiful condition of the so-called English language written on The Internet (especially by Americans and Brits (but even by many Canadians)) these days. It bears almost no resemblance to the English we spoke and wrote in Canada and USA during the time I grew up (1940s and 1950s). And yet, even I, give Smokey, accomplished wordsmith that he is, poetic license to come up with words that rhyme and flow nicely off the tongue when sung, to make a song work.
Having tried my hand at songwriting (and especially lyric writing) I can appreciate the fact that proper grammar and word order must often be sacrificed to come up with a workable tune. Isn’t the license to change word order and “bend” grammar usage a bit one of the main tools of poetry (and, thus, songwriting)?
Yes, you ARE nitpicking in this instance. I think Smokey did a great job on choosing these lyrics, and matching them to the tempo and resultant phrasing timing requirements of this song, matching the words to the music.
144man said:
My opinion for what it’s worth is that you can SAY “What can make me feel this way?” as an alternative to merely THINKING it.
Far be it from me to second-guess Smokey, Robb! Totally agree with you comments.
Nick, if you can slightly change your interpretation of the lyric to “I guess you’ll say [that] what can make me feel this way [is] my girl”, then that might solve your problem.
ExGuyParis said:
LOL! I suffer the curse of being an ex-English teacher. This one never struck me as strange (but it does now that you’ve brought it up). The one Motown grammar mangle that stands out for me is “Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my sadness hid.”
Just imagine how “klunky” and off-tempo songs would sound if they ALL had to be written with proper grammatical usage and using the optimum current conventional word order (e.g. no artistic license allowed)! I’m a stickler for proper grammar, and yet, “Just Like Pagliacci did, I’ll keep my sadness hid” is among my favourite lyric half-stanzas of all time (and I’ve listened to over a million vocal songs in my 66 years).
I’m so old that my English is no longer conventional. If someone sang “I could care less” when he meant “couldn’t care less” I’d have a beef. Not allowing grammatical changes because the basic meaning is changed (as in “Could care less”) is reasonable. Not allowing artistic license when the meaning is discernible, is not!
My favorite is within Eddie Holland’s “If Cleopatra Took A Chance” where we hear, “In the history books, you’ll find, kingdoms have been TOOK.” We have up to 3 composers to blame for that one, none of whom is Mr. Holland. Every time I hear that line, I feel sharp pain in my gut, followed, not by a grimace, but a chuckle because it sounds so crazy.
I’ve been racking my brain since Wednesday to think of something pertinent to say about “My Girl”, but can’t think of a darn thing except for 10/10. Great review too.
This is at once excruciating and laughable: how safe, sanitary, white(!), and out of touch the Grammy Awards were back in this time. Have a look, the winners for 1964 material:
http://littleurl.info/hnp
Thanx for posting this! This is funny to see
Randy Brown said:
There were more black winners in the Classical category than in the Pop category! That was an era when Leontyne Price was an almost automatic winner (I think 4 or 5 years straight), and Marilyn Horn got an award that year, too. And look at Roger Miller almost sweeping the Country division with a song that few people remember today…and a black man, Charley Pride, would win an award in that category in 1972.
Motown’s Grammy debut would come a few years later with a highly unlikely record. Given NARAS’ tendency to reward million-sellers, it’s shocking that Motown didn’t get any props until 1968.
Ron Leonard said:
Yes Nixon, an awesome review!! This is one of those iconic songs that helped make The Motown Sound a pop culture mainstay and for generations to come. Yes, 10/10 definately. A major home run for Smokey, Ronnie White, Paul Riser and all those talented people that worked at 2648 West Grand Blvd in Detroit Michigan..”Hitsville”
Yes, the song has been over played partly because I worked on air at various Oldies Stations in major markets here in the states..”My Girl” is still being played 48 years later because it is great! I have their Box Set, Emperors of Soul which contains the song “My Girl” with the Vocal Track in clear. You can still hear the music track in the background, coming from the engineers production glassed in studio which is just above from where the artists record their vocals..
I also read earlier on this thread reguarding The Tempations “With A’ lot O’ Soul” LP from 1967 which to me was another Motown masterpiece…”(I Know) I’m Losing You”
“All I Need” “Your My Everything” “Loneliness Made Me Realize(It’s You That I Need)” and various other cuts from that Album..Wow!!
Ron, thank you for another confirmation for WALOS. Is it okay with everyone if I take that to my desert island with “My Girl” added on? LOL!
Henry said:
If as most of us agree that the song is a ten, then the best that any song could hope for is 9.9999999999999999999………………..Listening to the many other versions that are out there, from the Beatles to Otis, to the co-writer of this song. It is the most gorgeous track from beginning to end ever!. While the string break that continues into the last verse rarely fails to make the hairs stand up on my aging arms, when you think there isn’t any more that can be added, how about the sax closing out the verse, subtle as thunderclap. At the time of release I lived in a Classical Music household, being 10 years old I did have friends fortunately, which is how I heard the song, though I was mostly attracted by the aforementioned string break. We have been blessed by the vocal only track on the Tempts 5 Disc compilation from the mid nineties, where hearing the backing vocals is truly mind blowing. When you consider that the Tempts were also executing some pretty nifty moves on the stage as well as singing these harmonies. Game Over!
I have Emperors of Soul too 🙂 and wasn’t it a wonderful surprise? Nowhere on the packaging does it tell you it’s there; you just think disc 1 is done and -oh my God!- there it is. Acapella “My Girl.”
It’s early, Nixon, but someday, I bet we’d all like to hear what your favorites are among your own reviews. Motown 1965 essentially begins with “My Girl,” and I suspect there will more joy to express in those reviews than in any other one year.
I needed Motown to unwind to in those years. Sept. 1964 to June 1966 were my last two years in Catholic parish school in Philadelphia. We were taught by the St. Joseph order of nuns who still wore the penguin outfits. I was plenty intimidated by them then, but from the viewpoint of 58, I realize Sister Joseph Gertrude and Sister Maria Sancta had to be -as anyone would- rather formidable presences to control a room of 40 boys on the cusp of adolescence, day after day. Any soft side to them had doled out sparingly and carefully. A starched and pressed long-sleeve white shirt every day, and I knew how to put my own necktie on in 20 seconds.
But when I got home, there were the Supremes, Vandellas, Temptations, Four Tops and all the others who made sure childhood was something I’d always treasure. Bring it on, Motown 1965.
Ironically Dave L. we were both among the residents of what was then the nations fourth largest city. And what a nice way to begin the school year in Sept. 1964 with our beloved baseball team, the Philadelphia Phillies historic train wreck at the end of the season. Lesson learned at age 9, it ain’t over till it’s over, with apologies to Lenny Kravitz
I agree, that 1965 was the best Motown year, though it is nearly impossible to get a copy of the Hipo Select Motown Singles Collection for 1966, copies of 1965 are pretty much readily available.
Also, Nixon, all of your reviews are outstanding, even for records I don’t particularly care for, but this was a review that was worthy of a 10!
Just listened to all the assorted versions I have. Instrumental – no vocals by the Funk Brothers. Without lead vocals (but with back up). A cappella. In each of those separate slices, there are wonders. Listening to all “glued together”: perfection!
It’s also fun to discover the slight variations in all the versions (for example, lengths ranging from 2:40 to 3:10; live version recorded at the Fox Theater). And then checking out the covers (Marvin Gaye, Human Nature, The Royal Philharmonic, Mamas & Papas) to hear how dramatically they pale relative to the original)!
Your review is a 10 out of 10. Wonderful!
Hi — Interesting to note that “My Girl” is not included in 2 of the group’s later Live albums “Copa” & “London’s Talk of the Town”. It is included in a medley in the “Live in Japan” set from 1973 which wasn’t officially released until recently. I saw the Temptations in 1970 in Washington,DC at the Carter Baron Ampitheater & have very little memory of the show (I was 12 at the time!). I am racking my brain to remember if they did “My Girl” as a full song or as part of a medley or at all! I remember a lot of show tunes/standards & of course, a few of their then current psychedelic soul hits. Was anyone at that show & if so, what are your memories of it?
Surely the best Xmas present ever (this was released 12/26/64) and worthy of that “10”. But I always hold out for the NEXT Tempts A-side…
Rupert Kinnard said:
There are very few things that can bring a smile to my face like hearing the opening notes to “My Girl” by The Temptations. I can never think about such greatness in terms of being “overplayed.”
Everything about that record strikes me as perfect and as joyous a celebration of love as any recording ever made. The first sounds of the bass guitar as the happy beating of a heart, followed by finger snapping, beautiful melody… and then, with delightful
urgency, David Ruffin’s startling voice cutting through everything with the great line,
“I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day…”.
The sweetness of the background vocals are the cherries on top of the sundae. The production is as epic as any record ever recorded. It is one of the seven wonders of my world.
I would add, however, that it is profoundly ironic that my least favorite of all the 20 versions of My Girl that I own, is Smokey and the Miracles’ version of the song. I think it is rare that I don’t care for a Smokey performance…but I was shocked when I bought the album Time Out for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles when it was first released in 1969 and heard Smokey’s rendition of his masterpiece! He butchered his own song! What say you, Nixon?
Mr. Kinnard, I wonder if Mr Robinson (great as he was) was astute enough to realize that he could never beat the Temptations version and probably just threw together his arrangement to fill up the album. I am not sure if Motown/Smokey/Temptations quite realized what a classic they had on their hands until many years later. Just my thoughts.
Yes…I guess you could be right. As far as straying away from the actual arrangement of the original, I actually found Michael Jackson’s rendition of My Girl to be quite delightful. I think Stevie Wonder’s version is my second favorite and I love the mellowness of Marvin’s version, which doesn’t even seem to have the Funk Brothers as the backing band….
Yeah… all those versions are good. I was listening to an Eddie Floyd collection yesterday & he did a version of “My Girl”. Of course, nothing can touch the Temptations’ version, but Eddie’s version gives an interesting Southern Soul spin on the song. Of course, there is Otis Redding’s version which is in a class all by itself.
10 out of 10, indeed…for the Tempts version!!!!!!
Governor Milton P. Shapp said:
There are records that are incapable of being overplayed, and this is one of them. There is so much going on here musically and emotionally that every time I hear this it’s like the first time. Smokey deserves every accolade that can be (has been) thrown at him. America’s greatest poet indeed.
A friend of mine says the string arrangement on this makes her cry. I know what she means. The little melody after they sing “My Girl” toward the end before the fade sounds just like how it feels to be with that one person who can turn your life into springtime. It’s the accumulation of those kind of little details that make this record the wonder that it is.
If I were forced at gunpoint to change something, I might vote for leaving out the “hey hey heys”. But it would have to be at gunpoint.
Heh heh heh…nope! The “Hey, hey, heys” are such a part of the celebratory aspect of the song and the background’s support of the song’s central theme…it has to stay. Sorry…
I agree. The “hey, hey, heys” must stay.
…then it’s settled!
Jim Riley said:
No other song can make me feel 15 again in a heartbeat the way this one does. That’s 43 years off my age the moment it starts!
bogart4017 said:
Super duper ten out of ten! Though released at the end of the year it road out into the early spring of 1965 so my early memories of this song playing include toe-tapping patent leather shoes from guys with real high “conks” and cardigan sweaters and pants high enough to see nylon socks, long Cadillacs with whip antennas with the radio blasting “My Girl”, and the Temps suddenly making a lot of TV appearances. I studied them so close that as soon as this song comes on i can fall right into the choreography for “My Girl”!
Kevin Moore said:
10/10 no doubt.
1. Now we get two thematic riffs in counterpoint!
2. A brilliant instrumental bridge with new material (forward-looking to God Only Knows) that leads to a whole step modulation – not as clever as the one in Baby I Need Your Lovin’ but still a legitimate non-cliché modulation. After shaking off the MOR lounge lizardiness of Tin Pan Alley ez listening vocals, pop has finally re-evolved to encompass, on its own terms, the massively horizon-expanding idea of changing key.
3. The brass fanfares almost inarguably influenced McCartney circa 1967.
4. Now this is what I call an “answer song” – other than the title it’s all new, all fabulous, all hooks.
“The ever popular Temptations have a real smoothie and a winner here that flows effortlessly along with a really polished production and performance from the quintet. Fast rising in the US, with sufficient plugs it could happen here too. Faintly reminiscent of the Miracles in technique and presentation. 4/5
“Nobody But My Baby is more troubled with a moody piano weaving in and out of the melody. 3/5
“Two very good sides from a fine group.”
[Dave Godin, Hitsville U.S.A. 2, 1965]
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The Michigan Chronicle first annual coat drive a success
Tatiana Wheeler
The Michigan Chronicle coat drive began on Dec. 1 and concluded on Dec. 16 and was a great success, as the media company partnered with the Detroit Rescue Mission and One Warm Coat to provide winter coats to Detroiters in need.
Throughout the two-week campaign for coats, the Chronicle received assistance from The Anambra State Association of Michigan, which collected more than 35 coats and other clothing during their Annual End of the Year Christmas party on Saturday, Dec. 6.
The coat collection effort also embraced the efforts of a local woman who rallied her family and coworkers to donate.
“I honestly couldn’t be happier to help,” she stated.
The passionate participant found the Michigan Chronicle coat drive online and opted to take advantage of the opportunity to give warmth to the community. She was filled with the spirit of giving, which was evident when she dropped of more than 25 coats to the Michigan Chronicle office. In addition, the Chronicle donated another 40 coats to the Detroit Rescue Mission.
On Tuesday, Dec. 15, the Michigan Chronicle and the Detroit Rescue Mission delivered coats to Genesis House and the Detroit Rescue Mission, providing coats to men, women and children. All recipients were overjoyed to select a coat for themselves and their children. A special thank you to everyone who helped make this coat drive a success.
The Detroit Rescue Mission is a faith-based, non-profit organization, recognized by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities and has devoted a wealth of resources to meet the basic needs of humanity while motivating individuals to rebuild their lives, one life at a time. DRMM is one of the largest providers in the fight against homelessness and substance abuse in the country.
The Detroit Rescue Mission accepts donations year-round. For more information please call 313.993.4700.
One Warm Coat is a national non-profit organization that assists in the donation of coats. It helps individuals, groups, companies and organizations across the country collect coats and deliver them to local agencies that distribute them without charge to people who need and appreciate them.
The organization’s goal is to ensure that anyone who needs a coat has one. Supporting this simple yet vital need helps people to better live productive lives.
Nearly 4 million coats have been collected and distributed through One Warm Coat activities since 1992.
For more information on how to start your own coat drive, please visit OneWarmCoat.org
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Men’s Golf Hosts 36th Duke Nelson Invitational
The Ralph Myhre Golf Course at Middlebury was buzzing with activity for the 36th Duke Nelson Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 15 and Sunday, Sept. 16. The invitational was hosted by the men’s golf team. Twenty-two colleges were represented that weekend, including Nescac rivals Williams, Trinity, Amherst, Tufts and Wesleyan. Other schools included New York University, Springfield College and Endicott College. Weather conditions were perfect for attacking the par-71 course. The summer heat had decided to extend its stay on campus for the tournament, allowing golfers to squeeze in a final tan.
While the Panthers may have returned with sun-kissed glows, they were unable to bring home new hardware. Middlebury finished seventh overall. The Williams Ephs captured first place after shooting a total of 584, and were followed by the Trinity Bantams, who tallied just four more strokes at 588. Middlebury was 12 shots behind first place with a score of 600.
The Panthers’ performance improved from day one to day two, when they shot 303 and 297, respectively. Middlebury’s second-round score of 297 was better than those of third-place NYU, fifth-place Johnson & Wales and sixth-place Amherst. The Panthers’ six-shot improvement, unfortunately, would not prove to be enough to capture first. Ironically, their position dropped from sixth place after round one to seventh place after the tournament ended.
Middlebury’s performance was led by David Packer ’20, who shot consistently at 74 and 73. Packer ultimately tied for 10th overall on an individual basis.
“Coming off our first round of tournament play for the season, I think the biggest factor [behind our improvement] was just a higher level of comfort competing again,” said Packer. “[It involved] getting some of those first-day jitters out of the way and being more confident standing over the ball.”
“The team was able to settle down after day one of our first tournament, and trust the process,” said senior captain Philippe Morin, who was tied at 48th after hitting 77 and 76. “We do not try to think too much about physical changes during tournaments, but mentally we commit to each other and every shot while on the course — a mindset needed to score well.”
Captains Reid Buzby ’19 and David McDaniel ’19 finished tied for 26th and 65th, respectively. Sophomore Jordan Bessalel ’21 also placed at 26th.
The Panthers will be looking to exact revenge on Williams this weekend at the Williams Fall Invitational this weekend, Saturday, Sept. 22 and Sunday, Sept. 23.
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Men’s Tennis Competes at Home
Both the Proctor and Nelson tennis courts were busy on Saturday, Sept. 15 and Sunday, Sept. 16. The Middlebury Invitational, hosted by men’s tennis, brought together Division III teams located throughout the Northeast. NESCAC rivals such as Bates, Colby and Tufts were present, while out-of-conference teams such as RPI, Skidmore and Brandeis were also invited.
The invitational consisted of six brackets over the course of two days. Four of the brackets were singles, while the remaining two were doubles. Men’s tennis senior captain and two-time All-NESCAC First Team selectee Lubomir Cuba was placed on the ‘A’ Singles Flight, along with fellow senior captain Noah Farrell and sophomore Nate Eazor.
First-year Stanley Morris and David Vilys were on the ‘B’ Singles Flight, while juniors Weston Brach, Aleks Samets and sophomore Thorne Gregory competed in the ‘C’ Singles Flight. Senior captain Cole Sutton and Zachary Hilty ’22 were the last Panthers playing singles in the ‘D’ Flight.
For doubles, two pairs of Panthers, Cuba and Eazor and Farrell and Martin, were placed in the ‘A’ bracket. Sutton and Gregory were paired together in the ‘B’ Bracket.
Middlebury saw varied success in the singles brackets. Most notably, Stanley Morris won the championship within the ‘B’ Singles Flight against Brandeis’s Anupreeth Coramutla. Morris was originally the second seed in the bracket and had defeated Tufts’ Zach Shaff, Skidmore’s Jack McClaren and even fellow Panther Adam Guo ’21 before advancing to the championship round.
In a shocking upset, top-seeded Cuba fell to Bates’s Pieter Wernick in the first round. The other Panthers of the ‘A’ Singles Flight, Farrell and Eazor, were also eliminated in the same round. Vilys, Martin, Samets, Hilty and Sutton advanced to the quarterfinals, while Brach managed to reach the semifinals before losing to Brandeis’s Rajan Vohra.
“I was able to serve and return well in both matches, which allowed me to be more offensive than my opponents early on,” said Brach. “Since I served well, I was able to approach the net a lot and hit some volley winners.
“Vohra did a good job of pushing me back in the court with high topspin shots, making it difficult for me to approach the net and put away volleys. I also had a low first-serve percentage, which limited my ability to dictate early on in the points.”
For doubles, pairs Cuba and Eazor and Sutton and Gregory finished at the quarterfinals for their respective brackets. Farrell and Martin managed to reach the semi-finals.
Currently, the men’s tennis team is preparing for the ITA Regional Championships taking place from Friday, Sept. 28 to Sunday, Sept. 30.
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Barrett Barrera Projects Announces Major Exhibition Featuring Alexander McQueen and Ann Ray projects exhibitions 4568 Manchester Ave St. Louis, MO 63110
05oct(oct 5)11:00 am15feb(feb 15)5:00 pmBarrett Barrera Projects Announces Major Exhibition Featuring Alexander McQueen and Ann Ray(october 5) 11:00 am - (february 15) 5:00 pm projects exhibitions, 4568 Manchester Ave St. Louis, MO 63110
Inaugurating Barrett Barrera Projects’ new gallery space—projects exhibitions (4568 Manchester Avenue)—is Ann Ray & Lee McQueen: Rendez-Vous, which will be on view from Oct. 5, 2019 to Feb. 15, 2020,
Inaugurating Barrett Barrera Projects’ new gallery space—projects exhibitions (4568 Manchester Avenue)—is Ann Ray & Lee McQueen: Rendez-Vous, which will be on view from Oct. 5, 2019 to Feb. 15, 2020, opening to the public on Oct. 5.
Ann Ray & Lee McQueen: Rendez-Vous explores the thirteen-year friendship and intimate creative collaboration between the late British designer Lee Alexander McQueen and French photographer Ann Ray (otherwise known as Anne Deniau), who McQueen personally selected to document his design process and the behind-the-scenes experience of his runway shows.
The exhibition features photographs taken by Ray, reflecting her unique relationship with McQueen between the years of 1997 and 2010, alongside garments McQueen gifted to her over the course of their work together. The exhibition will also feature over two dozen spectacular McQueen pieces from Barrett Barrera Projects’ collection, the largest private collection of McQueen’s work.
October 5 (Saturday) 11:00 am - February 15 (Saturday) 5:00 pm
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Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum – Candlestick Telephone Exhibit Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum 12 Hancock Ave, Saint Louis MO 63125
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Hush-a-Phone, Scissor Phones, One of the First Rotary Dial Phones – these are some of the telephones you’ll see at the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum. Housed in a restored 1896 building,
Hush-a-Phone, Scissor Phones, One of the First Rotary Dial Phones – these are some of the telephones you’ll see at the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum.
Housed in a restored 1896 building, the history museum also features an extensive collection of telephones manufactured from the early 1900s through the 2000s, hundreds of pieces of telephone-related equipment, memorabilia from 1880s through the 2000s and military telephones from WWI through the Gulf War. It is located in the historic Jefferson Barracks Park.
The museum has many hands-on, how-things-work exhibits which were created to inspire an interest in engineering and history.
November 16 (Saturday) 9:00 am - February 9 (Sunday) 2:00 pm
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Exhibition: Comfort and Joy at The Foundry Foundry Art Centre 520 North Main Street Saint Charles, MO 63301
20dec(dec 20)5:30 pm24jan(jan 24)8:00 pmExhibition: Comfort and Joy at The Foundry(december 20) 5:30 pm - (january 24) 8:00 pm Foundry Art Centre, 520 North Main Street Saint Charles, MO 63301
Exhibition: Comfort and Joy is from Friday, December 20 through Friday, January 24 at The Foundry, 520 North Main Street Saint Charles. Opening Reception: Friday, Dec. 20, 5:30 - 8 p.m.
Exhibition: Comfort and Joy is from Friday, December 20 through Friday, January 24 at The Foundry, 520 North Main Street Saint Charles.
Opening Reception: Friday, Dec. 20, 5:30 – 8 p.m. | FREE
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Opening Reception | Friday, December 20, 5:30 – 8:00pm | Free & Open to the Public
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A Celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service 4116 McClay Road St Charles, MO 63304
23jan6:00 pmA Celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.6:00 pm Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service, 4116 McClay Road St Charles, MO 63304
A Celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is at 6 p.m. on Thursday, January 23 at Sts. Joachim and Ann Care Service, 4116 McClay Road in St. Charles. The
A Celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is at 6 p.m. on Thursday, January 23 at Sts. Joachim and Ann Care Service, 4116 McClay Road in St. Charles.
The public is invited to attend this celebration. Come early to see and hear an overview of Dr. King’s dedication to service and to mankind. Stroll through the copy photo gallery to see those persons who walked with and worked with Dr. King. The Keynote Speaker will be the Rev. Rodney O. Bozeman, Pastor of Hopewell M.B. Church in Wentzville. Rev. Bozeman formerly served as a member of the Board of Directors at the Care Service. Light refreshments will be served.
RSVP at (636) 441-1302, ext. 350. Leave your message. You may also email ffazio@jacares.org.
Sts. Joachim and Ann Care Service is a nationally accredited, faith-based non-profit community social service organization and is the largest comprehensive social support agency in the region serving St. Charles, Lincoln, and Warren Counties.
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Our goal is to provide native habitat by planting natives and removing introduced weeds.
We thank the Moggill Creek Catchment Group for advice and information and for providing us with numerous local species of native plants. Their official website –
http://www.moggillcreek.org/
– is a fount of authoritative information which would still be relevant for those living outside the western area of Brisbane.
We thank Brisbane City Council for their support through the Land For Wildlife Program and particularly our Program Officer, Peter Hayes. Thanks also, BCC, for removing the Chinese Elms from the roadside opposite our driveway!
The aerial photo of our property on the Home Menu is courtesy of Google Earth.
The aerial photos of our property that compare our land at the time of the 2011 flood with 2010 and 2012 photos come courtesy of www.nearmap.com/ .
Helpful Publications
Our place In The Country: Managing Your Acreage Property in West Brisbane (2009) by the Pullen Pullen Catchments Group and Moggill Creek Catchment Group
Putting Back The Forest: A Landcare Guide for Brookfield, Pullenvale and Moggill (1994) by Bryan Hacker, Rona Butler and Rae Rekdahl
Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane: A Queensland Museum Guide (2003) Printed by Queensland Museum (Queensland Government) [A very good section on how Brisbane City Council planted certain exotics and natives in streets and parks p 323 -333. Also good photos of some of the worst weeds.]
Mangroves to Mountains (Revised Edition): A Field Guide to the Native Plants of South-east Queensland by Glenn Leiper, Jan Glazebrook, Denis Cox & Kerrie Rathie published by Logan River Branch SGAP (Society For Growing Australian Plants) (Qld Region) in 2008
Helpful Links for Native Plants
http://www.allcreativedesigns.com.au/pages/speciescommon.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_of_Brisbane
http://www.brisrain.webcentral.com.au/
http://www.calyx.com.au/native_species/native_plant.html
http://www.growmeinstead.com.au/
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Resources for identifying weeds
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Weeds to Whack (Save our Waterways Now)
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Canderous Ordo
(Redirected from Canderous)
Canderous Ordo is a fictional Mandalorian nationalist and Mandalore initially developed by BioWare for the role-playing game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and then further developed by Obsidian Entertainment for its sequel Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Canderous fought as a Mandalorian warrior in the Mandalorian Wars. After Revan defeated the Mandalorians, Canderous became a mercenary and was eventually employed by Davik Kang of the Exchange criminal syndicate on the planet Taris. Canderous tends to have a realist prospective on war and events.
In the first Knights of the Old Republic game, the player teams up with Canderous to escape from Taris. Canderouse became disenchanted with the mercenary life and follows the player on their quest for the Star Forge. During his travels with the player, Canderous learns that he desires a new, transcendental purpose in life.
Between the events of the two Knights of the Old Republic games, Revan began to remember the threat that the True Sith posed to the galaxy and planned to defeat them. Revan helped Canderous recover the mask of the deceased Mandalore, and in accordance with Revan's grand strategy, Canderous became the new Mandalore and began reorganizing and reuniting the Mandalorian clans on Onderon's moon Dxun. Revan apparently intended to utilize Canderous and his army against the True Sith at same point in the future. In the meantime, however, Revan left his former companions and set out to find and undermine the True Sith on their own.
In the second Knights of the Old Republic game, Canderous provides the player with transportation from Dxun to Onderon and joins the player's quest. The player may aid Canderous in reuniting the Mandalorian clans during their quest.
Due to his efforts in reuniting the Mandalorian clans and gaining them a new purpose, transcendental Canderous would become known as Mandalore the Preserver.
1 Quotes from Canderous
1.1 Knights of the Old Republic
1.2 Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
2 Commentaries about Canderous
4 Related musings
Quotes from Canderous[edit]
Knights of the Old Republic[edit]
Canderous
The Sith came to us with an offer: to fight a worthy enemy in a battle that would be remembered forever.
Win or lose, as long as the fight is worthy, then honor is gained. The glory at having triumphed over impossible odds is what drives us.
If there's nothing at stake – your possessions, your life, your world – then the battle's meaningless.
We Mandalore take everything we are and throw it into battle. It's the true test of yourself – the battle against death… against oblivion.
— Canderous Ordo, in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
All life dies eventually. A true warrior is one who can beat it down whenever it raises its head. But…
The days of combat and glory and cheating death at every turn seem to be over now… I take what I can.
Times have changed now. The Mandalore clans have been scattered across the Outer Rim, the Republic is in decline and the Sith Empire rises to take its place.
The clans as they were aren't a threat, but the galaxy still fears us. Ha! People think we war out of spite, or bloodlust. They don't understand, and fear that.
We only wanted the challenge of the battle, and glory from it – win or lose. And we lost.
But now I have no real challenges. Crushing Davik's enemies and the pathetic gangs in the Lower City of Taris could not be considered the most glorious of tasks.
When I think of the battles I've fought… the thousands I've killed… the worlds I've burned… I weep for my past.
We started by conquering worlds just outside the Republic. We did it quietly so the Republic wouldn't really know what was going on until too late.
When we finally did hit the Republic worlds, they had no idea we were coming.
We came in through three invasion corridors in adjacent sectors. Anyone who put up a fight – or wouldn't fight – was crushed. We razed whole worlds trying to provoke the Republic into fighting us.
I don't particularly enjoy wiping out worlds for its own sake, but the cowardly tactics the Republic defenders used left us little choice.
They had the choice not to fight. We meet the enemy wherever they are hiding and we wipe them out. A few cities is a small price to pay for a world.
Hiding in the homes of civilians. Using families as shields. Thinking we would not use appropriate force on their bases inside major cities.
They underestimated our resolve and what measures are acceptable in war. Those who cannot defend themselves should not be around those who can in battle.
If annihilating a city is the kind of power it takes to overwhelm a Republic shield device, then that's what we did. Necessary force to destroy all opposition.
We fought against the Republic forces for some time, over the course of many battles.
At the start, they were not much of a threat to speak of, but once the Jedi Revan had taken charge, things began to turn against us.
The Republic fleets began to use more than just basic tactics. Feints, counterattacks, mass deceptions. Revan was a genius on the field.
Revan abandoned worlds of their defenders so that others would be too fortified to strike, and was willing to make sacrifices in order to advance goals.
And in the end, Revan proved too much for us.
Yeah, we lost. But there is no shame in it. We lost to the greatest single warrior the Republic has ever known.
It was not your ships or your men or your vaunted fight for freedom that won this, the final battle of the war.
It was by the actions of one person, the Jedi Revan, that you prevailed.
Revan's strategies and tactics defeated the best of us. Even Mandalore himself was taken aback by the ferocity, the tenacity and the subtlety of Revan's plans.
Revan fought us to a standstill and then began pushing back. We didn't really have a chance.
It was what we had wanted all along, in a way. We wanted to fight the best in a battle that would be remembered for centuries. And we did.
And Revan won.
I don't hold a grudge against Revan, and neither do any of my people. It was the greatest moment of my life to be in that battle.
If Revan had been a Mandalorian, nothing in the galaxy would have stopped us.
But wishing for the past to be different is useless. Better to look into the future. As we should now.
The war we had with the Republic was supposed to be the most glorious battle of our history, but… it was a very costly one. I guess we didn't think of how much we could lose in it.
There weren't many of us left after that last battle. Mandalore himself was killed at the hands of the Jedi Revan. The best of us could not defeat him!
After that last battle, those of us that survived were stripped of our weapons, our armor, and our Basilisks.
Revan's forces destroyed them while we were forced to watch. Those who hadn't fled earlier were left with nothing to call their own: no weapons, no armor… only the honor of having fought in the battle we just lost.
For many this was not enough. While the rest of us were sent into exile on the Outer Rim, they tried to relive the old days – raiding worlds. They're nothing more than bandits now.
I'm not even sure what that [a Mandalorian] is anymore. The Mandalorian are gone, defeated by the Republic and swept away by time.
I look back and regret all the chances I had as a warrior, and then all the chances I've had since then. I shouldn't be getting like this, not when so many other things are happening… but…
It feels like… like something has changed inside and I don't know what it is.
I'm not happy with the way my life has turned. I'm not the Mandalore I once was. I don't even think I'm the merc I was when I joined you.
I think… I think I need something more than killing and fighting in my life. I need a purpose or something like that.
Killing is never enough. Anybody can kill just by pushing a button. A warrior fights his battles himself – as you have done – and tries to defeat all comers.
The way the Mandalorians – we – fought… it holds no appeal for me. To rape and ravage worlds for the thrill of battle… It gets old. Very old.
Honor in battle. Cheating death. Comrades in arms. The code of the Mandalore.
I think I'm something different now. Maybe more, maybe less.
The time of the clans is past. I don't think the galaxy wants them anymore. Maybe in the future, but not now.
I don't think there is really any place left in the galaxy for the Mandalorian clans like they were.
I don't know if I can go on forever fighting as I have. Even warriors get insightful in their old age…
Once my time with you is done, once you have moved on to greater things, I'll find my own way once again.
Maybe the Mandalorian clans will be reborn again. Maybe even under the Republic… or the Sith.
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords[edit]
See Kex there – he was serving on Nar Shaddaa as muscle for the Hutts. Kelborn was a scout for the Duros on frontier worlds. I brought them here, gave them a purpose. The galaxy will be ours again, I promise you. That is the future.
— Canderous Ordo, in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
The Republic is a stagnant beast, that had been killing its people for years before the wars began.
Were it not for Revan's strength, the Republic would already be dead.
Like us, the people of Onderon are a warriors. Early in their history they built Iziz to protect them from the beasts that swarmed on their world.
No matter how far they've progressed, they're fundamentally still warriors standing watch on their battlements.
They don't like outsiders and their inability to take ideas from other cultures gives them a fundamental disadvantage in warfare.
They fell quickly during the Mandalorian Wars despite their martial skills. Their technology and doctrine are not in the same league as Mandalorians.
We should try to get General Vaklu on our side. He has a shrewd mind and is far more fit for command.
Queen Talia is young and too idealistic. A veteran leader is what this planet needs and would make a better ally.
Vaklu is no fool. Whatever our past disagreements, he'll recognize the value of an alliance between us.
Valku is a political animal, but he has never backed out of a deal. The Sith must have changed their arrangement substantially for him to consider betraying them.
We can trust his offer. He's far more capable than Queen Talia is, I think allying with him is the best course.
Commentaries about Canderous[edit]
Kreia
Many battles does that one [Canderous Ordo] have left in him… as Revan intended. A general needs an army, as he needs those he trusts.
And Canderous is a loyal beast, no matter how much he is broken upon Revan's will.
— Kreia, in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Ceta Farr
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Canderous Ordo's entry at Wookieepedia
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Troye Sivan speaks out against Eminem’s homophobic slur on “Kamikaze”
Troye Sivan is speaking out against Eminem on his use of a homophobic slur against Tyler The Creator on his latest release, Kamikaze.
Read more: Eminem regrets homophobic slur in diss track to Tyler the Creator
The track in question is his song “Fall,” which features disses meant for Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler The Creator. However, his diss on Tyler may have gone too far.
“Fall” was released a couple of weeks ago as a single from Eminem’s new album. The homophobic diss reads, “Tyler create nothin’, I see why you called yourself a (f****t), bitch.”
Eminem has since expressed remorse for using the homophobic slur in his track, but Sivan, who came out in 2013, has shared his views on Eminem’s choice of words. Talking with Variety at the Variety + Women in Film Emmy nominees party on Saturday night, Sivan shared:
“I don’t think there’s ever really a reason,” Sivan told Variety. “I just feel like some words are not meant for everyone, or for anyone. It’s not that hard to respect that, so I just hope that people do.”
He continued on by saying:
“I would like to believe that people can grow and change,” he said. “I think that repeated behavior is something that should be taken really seriously…I would love to believe that if the person showed enough genuine remorse and understanding of how they’ve hurt people and actively made strides to correct that — I would like to believe I can be fine with that person.”
Following the criticism he received for his choice of words, Eminem did an interview series with Sway where he addressed the slur.
“I was angry when I said the shit about Tyler,” Mathers says. “Every time I saw this kid, I was always so cool with him. I loved his energy. He was a funny dude. He’s super charismatic and shit. But shit, at what point do I have to say something just to defend myself?”
He went on to apologize for his choice of words, saying:
“In my quest to hurt him, I realize that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it,” Mathers says. “In the midst of everything else that was going on on this album, it was one of the things that I kept going back to going, ‘I don’t feel right with this.’”
You can watch the full third installment of the interview series below.
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Movie of The Week: John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
After gunning down a member of the High Table — the shadowy international assassin’s guild — legendary hit man John Wick finds himself stripped of the organization’s protective services. Now stuck with a $14 million bounty on his head, Wick must fight his way through the streets of New York as he becomes the target of the world’s most ruthless killers.
John Wick films, for all their excesses, do something interesting: They take this hyper-horrible underworld and shellac it with a veneer of quasi-religious bureaucracy.
Despite overseeing a sprawling crime network built on circumventing societal law, the High Table has plenty of rules of its own. And when the underground criminal association is discussed, it’s often in the same reverent, fearful tones that folks might’ve spoken of the Catholic Church during the Inquisition.
And certain crime enclaves, such as the Continental Hotel in New York, are treated almost like churches—places of refuge and sanctuary, where no “business” can be conducted. The organization’s language also makes generous use of religious terms to stress its spiritual tang as well as its twisted sense of morality and honor.
And when John seeks to return to serve the High Table, his “ticket” is an Eastern Cross (which, unlike our more familiar Latin cross, has a slanted beam toward the bottom). Before his quest, someone takes that cross and uses it as a branding iron—burning an inverted cross on John’s back.
A woman tells Wick that his journey back to paradise “begins in hell,” perhaps a reference to Dante’s Inferno. (All of the John Wick films occasionally seem to lift references from Dante’s work.) We hear rumination on the very word “assassin” and its roots: The speaker believes that it actually references those who are “faithful and who abide by their beliefs.”
John’s nickname, Baba Yaga, comes from Russian folklore, where she’s a bogeywoman of some renown. (John Wick: Chapter 3 is the second movie I’ve reviewed in 2019 name-checking Ms. Yaga, in fact; a more literal interpretation was found in Hellboy.)
In the Continental, the concierge is called Charon: In Greek mythology, Charon serves as a boatman ferrying souls from the land of the living to the land of the dead, and he demands a coin as payment. (Interestingly, specially made coins and tokens are used in payment throughout the Wick movies, as well.) Various scenes featuring hotel boilers or metal smelters seem intended to stress that John is in some metaphorical hellscape.
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Author RodneyPosted on 2018-07-11 2018-07-12 Categories Promotional, Sci-Fi, Science, UncategorizedTags comments, donation, editor, fundraising, request, science
This affiliate review found, according to Wikipedia, that ShareASale was founded in 2000 by Brian Littleton, and was a part of Awin. To date ShareASale has a review of over 3900 merchant programs hosted on its network platform. ShareASale was primarily targeting small and mid-size merchants. ShareASale was among the largest U.S. affiliate networks in terms of number of advertisers who were using an affiliate network to manage their affiliate program. ShareASale had over 700,000 affiliates and more than 86% of affiliates surveyed said they were a member of the ShareASale network.
Visit ShareASale for an awesome collection of Hellboy, Manga, Star Wars, Superhero comics and other pop culture favorites. This web site says it offers thousands of pop culture products such as apparel, comics, graphic novels, statues, toys and other collectibles. The web site also says they carry a huge variety of popular entertainment products from hundreds of manufacturers including DC Direct, Dark Horse, Disney, Hasbro, McFarlane, Marvel, Master Replicas, Tokyopop. Click the picture.
Awin was a global affiliate network that brought together the Affiliate Window and Zanox networks. Awin was made up of over 100,000 contributing publishers and 6,000 advertisers. Awin had over 900 employees in 15 offices worldwide. Operating across the retail, telecommunications, travel and finance verticals, Awin generated €6.2 billion in revenue for its advertisers and €377 million for its publishers in the last financial year (2016). Awin was founded in 2000 by Thomas Hessler, Heiko Rauch and Jens Hewald.
After acceptance to their affiliate program, a review of their categories was quite eye catching – all bases were covered. Several merchant programs could be used to compliment any existing blogs / journals or web pages.
End User Beware: The banners or pictures are redirect points to affiliate programs. When the end-user decides a purchase from the various affiliate merchants using the hidden hyperlink connection, this could conclude with the web page blog \ journal earning a small commission; to continue research on many topics of discussion.
Author RodneyPosted on 2018-01-04 2018-08-15 Categories Business, PromotionalTags affiliate, on-line, shopping
An Analytical Comparison
With an analytical analysis comparison, my progress, shown by my performance review and self evaluation, hinges on my contacts within Wealthy Affiliate, 2017 shows;
No, I’m not a robot but my niche is based on the science fiction concepts of robots, computer, spaceships, propulsion, etc.
Course 2 lessons complete
24 credits for comments on other web pages – positive
3 comments received on title page positive response.
Jazzy keyword tool used 30 times
all titles under 100 competition on keyword tool
20+ random posts.
hyperlinking shop on line affiliate links
New user under admin – rodeney123@yahoo.ca.
communication with the eBay Patnership Network to resolve an issue.
membership bumped to the yearly connection.
Affiliate membership in ShareAsale Network approved.
Plans for the future involve additional web pages, based on just about any subject but, concentrating on the sciences of the past that are just starting to be realized now. My money goals are sky-high now that I have hyperlinked with two of the larger on-line web sites – eBay and AliExpress.
End User Beware: The following thumb nails are redirect points to affiliate programs. When the end-user decides a purchase from the various affiliate merchants using the hidden hyperlink connection, this could conclude with the web page blog \ journal earning a small commission; to continue research on many topics of discussion.
Author RodneyPosted on 2017-11-15 2018-09-25 Categories Business, Personal, PromotionalTags evaluation, niche, review
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Hyperlinking for Better TurnKey Commissions.
What is a turnkey business? What are commissions? What is hyperlinking? How does one hyperlink for better turnkey commissions? Well, I understood it to be an enterprise set up in such a way to allow the minimum of attention, like a bubble gum machine or a laundromat or a play machine. Turn the key to open for the day and at the close of the day, turn the key again to lock it. No staff to protect because of money on the premises. Bank deposits made at random. A second income like a stock market investment. Perfect for the person who wants to work smarter not harder !!
Other ideas came to mind as previously posted.
Now, how about a turnkey with the computer?
Information is the path to knowledge and knowledge is the path to fortune.
OK, I have a few pages on my web site full of useful information. How do I make any money from it – big time? I asked Wealthy Affiliate how to link to an outsourced affiliate such as Amazon or eBay. Their automated system directed me to a classroom “How to Add Affiliates” for the answer. I made a coffee or herbal tea and started reading.
I decided to try eBay first since they offered double commission for newbies; just for their first 3 months. Using trial and error on the keyboard, the method I used was as follows;
I connected to a private search engine to keep the mystique about it duckduckgo.com
I brought up tabs to Wealthy Affiliate edit posting, eBay and eBay partner. I should mention to register with eBay or AliExpress first.
eBay contact
Not necessary to sign in
Chose search pattern
Highlight address or url
eBay Partner
find Create a Promotional Link
Decide campaign
Paste an eBay URL address
off click
hit the create button
copy to WA link
Wealthy Affiliate web page create
Highlight keyword choice
Hit gear wheel
Paste eBay link
View post and confirm link now underlined in blue
The hyperlink hover showed destination.
add “available on eBay:” as per partner network
A test was done by “view post” and hovering over hyperlinks.
Done. After that, it’s just copy and paste.
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Vintage Science fiction when put to print so long ago was not faction as it is thought of today. That’s fact based on fiction. Now we can look back at that science fiction and compare it to the present reality and find a correlation to a fact. The material was found in the tombs of the public archives because the story’s copyright was not renewed.
Stairway to the Stars.
It was a stairway leading down into the ocean, but it also led out into space—indirectly.
Stairway to the Stars – Larry Shaw
The situation had the aspects of a burlesque on Grand Hotel.
This vintage science fiction story fixes itself around a invention combination of color television and super-radar presenting a view of the ocean floor only to discover a matter-transmitter gate between two worlds.
The Galactic Federation shuts down the gate and the scientist/fishermen representing Earth were told the only real trouble with Earth people was that they have a tremendous inferiority complex, collectively and individually but, they’ll undoubtedly be accepted by the Federation; once Earth develops space ( warp ) travel. Just at the moment, Earth was at a crossroads, ready to jump in either direction, blowing themselves up or taking the big step into space travel.
Yes, Earth may be a sort of fenced-off area, so far as other intelligent races of the galaxy are concerned. But not for the grandiose reasons that some have imagined . . . but there’s hope.
Story concepts: star-gate, robot, first contact, prime directive of non interference and the Federation.
( The story was published in 1951 – now in the public domain ).
If mankind chooses to survive the bomb then maybe the next story will answer their “what if?”
And All the Earth a Grave – Carroll M. Capps
(The story was published in 1963 and sleeps in the public domain)
There’s nothing wrong with dying – it just hasn’t ever had the right sales pitch!
The story centres around a coffin manufacturing business.
It all began when the new bookkeeping machine of a large Midwestern coffin manufacturer slipped a cog, or blew a transistor, or something. It was fantastic that the error—one of two decimal places—should enjoy a straight run of okays, human and mechanical, clear down the line; but when the figures clacked out at the last clacking-out station, there it was. The figures were now sacred; immutable; and it was doubtful whether the President of the concern or the Chairman of the Board would have dared question them—even if either of those two gentlemen had been in town.
With one thing and another, the economy hadn’t been exactly in overdrive that year, and predictions for the Christmas season were gloomy. Early retail figures bore them out. Gift buying dribbled along feebly until Thanksgiving, despite brave speeches by the Administration. The holiday passed more in self-pity than in thankfulness among owners of gift-oriented businesses. Then, on Friday following Thanksgiving, the coffin ads struck. Various mottos were advertised worldwide:
“The Gift That Will Last More Than a Lifetime”
“Do You Want Your Widow to Be Half-Safe?”
“I Dreamt I Was Caught Dead Without My Virgin-form Casket!”
Newspapers, magazines and every other medium added to the assault, never letting it cool. It was the most horrendous campaign, for sheer concentration, that had ever battered at the public mind. The public reeled, blinked, shook its head to clear it, gawked, and rushed out to buy and then holding “popping-off parties” ( with the contention to honor those living before they eventually kicked the can, so to speak ).
The casket industry had by now almost completely automated box-making and grave-digging with some interesting assembly lines and packaging arrangements; there still remained the jobs of management, distribution, consolidation and franchising. It isn’t hard to imagine the reactions of the rest of the world . . .
Story concepts: business, computer glitch, life and death.
What if the computer glitch was found in time. What then?
The Finance Department had a check of data integrity or audit. To preserve profit, the Human Resources department was told to initiate company procedure to size – down across the board; meaning all departments effected. Without warning of layoff, the Payroll department was obligated to pay a severance payout based on tenure or years of service. The Budget Forecasting department must of been consulted after the Costing department generated a forecasted scenario . . .
The gist of the corporate machine was as outlined:
The Success Machine by Henry Slesar
Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one. But the blamed thing almost put them out of business. Why? It had no tact. It insisted upon telling the truth!
The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot. “Oh, Lord. Let this one be all right!” He read the card. It was pink.
“Subject #34580. Apt. Rat. 34577. Psych. Clas. 45. Last Per. Vac. An. 3/5/98. Rat. 19. Cur. Rat. 14. Analysis: Subject demonstrates decreased mechanical coordination. Decrease in work-energy per man-hour. Marked increase in waste-motion due to subject’s interest in non-essential activities such as horseracing. Indication of hostility towards superiors.”
“Recommendation: Dismiss them.”
The Personnel Manager sat down and placed the card in front of him. Then, making sure he was unobserved, he broke a company rule and began to Think.
Something’s wrong, he thought. Something is terribly wrong. Twenty-four pink cards in the last month. Twenty-four out of forty this month. That’s a batting average of — He tried to figure it out with a pencil, but gave it up as a bad job. Maybe I’ll run it through the Averagovac, he thought. But why bother? It’s obvious that it’s high. There’s obviously SOMETHING WRONG.
“Nothing wrong? You call twenty-four firings out of forty nothing?” The old man stood up, still holding the core of his apple.
“ACT is our motto. ACT is our password. ACT is our key to success. And why not? The Brains do the thinking. All of us put together couldn’t think so effectively, so perfectly, so honestly as the Brains. They take the orders, designate raw materials, equipment, manpower. They schedule our work. They analyze our products. They analyze our people.”
“I’m rounding up all the aptitude records of the department heads. They’ll be in your hands in the next couple of days. Feed ’em in! Root ’em out! Spot the deadwood, ACT!”
“I was just getting around to yours. But I figured I’d better make sure the Brain was functioning properly.” He grew confidential. “You know, that darned machine has been firing everyone lately.”
Eagerly, the Personnel Manager collated the records of the Personnelovac. They were far more complex than any employee record, and it took the manager the better part of an hour.
“Subject #PV8. Mech. Rat. 9987. Mem. Rat. 9995. Last Per. Vac. An. None. Cur. Rat. 100. Analysis: Subject operating at maximum efficiency. Equipped to perform at peak level. Is completely honest and does not exhibit bias, prejudice, or sentiment in establishing personnel evaluations. Cumulative increase in mnemonic ability. Analytic ability improving.”
“However,” it read, “because of mechanistic approach to humanistic evaluation, subject displays inability to incorporate human equation in analytical computation, resulting in technically accurate but humanistically incorrect deductions. Recommendation: Dismiss them.”
Any moment he expected to hear the President’s angry voice over the inter-com. ( The HR computer just dismissed the Chairman of the Board. ) His anxiety made him fumble, but at last, the job was done.
Concepts: Business, computer, Human Resources,
The story was published in 1960 and hides in the public domain.
What if society accepted computer decision without question . . .
Two Plus Two Makes Crazy- W. Sheldon
Walt Sheldon is bitter-bright in this imaginative short satire of Man’s sell-out by a group of staunch believers in the infallibility of numbers. The following brief is based on that premise.
OUR NEW TYRANT–THE COMPUTER. The article complained that some of the new labor and food regulations were the result of conscious reasoning on the part of The Computer. Devices were building the Computer bigger and bigger and bigger at the expense of ordinary workers.
The Computer could do no wrong. Then it was asked a simple little question by a simple little man. “Essentially each computer is the same, but adjusted to translate problems into the special terms of the division it serves.”
He considered himself a master of the technique of building a career in Computer City–he knew how to stay within the limits of directives and regulations and still make decisions, or rather to relay computer decisions that kept his responsibility to a minimum.
“But is there any real central control, say in case of a breakdown or something of that sort?”
“Of course, of course,” said Krayton, answering the question.
“It’s never necessary to use the All circuit. But we could very easily in case of a great emergency.”
“The All circuit puts every machine in the city to work on any selection-problem that’s fed into our master control here. Each machine will give its answer in its own special terms, but actually they will all work on the same problem. To use a grossly simple example, let us say we wish to know the results of two-and-two, but we wish to know it in terms of total security. That is, we wish to know that two-plus-two means twice as many nourishment units for the Department of Foods, twice as many weapons for the Department of War, but is perhaps not necessarily true according to the current situational adjustment in the Department of Public Information.”
“At any rate, we would set up our problem on the master, pushing the button Two, then the button Plus, and the button Two again as on a primitive adding machine. Then we would merely throw the All switch. A short time later the total answer to our problem would be relayed back from every computer, and the cross-comparison factors canceled out, so that we would have the result in terms of the familiar Verdict Statement. And, as everyone knows, the electronically filed Verdict Statements make the complete record of directives for the controlled behavior of our society.”
The Computer itself had issued a memo in the matter of public thought control;
" When a brain is faced with two absolutely equal alternatives; complete breakdown invariably results."
Concepts: computer, control, decision,
The story was published in 1954 and was found buried in the public domain; for the enjoyment of future generations.
Author RodneyPosted on 2017-10-29 2018-08-15 Categories Business, Gaming, Personal, Promotional, Sci-Fi, Science, SportsTags #, business, computer, Federation, halloween, robot, travel, vintage
Energy Shot Review
Product Review of an Energy Drink
According to source, the idea of energy shots started decades ago in Japan, where small “tonics” became very popular among consumers who were served highly concentrated carbonation drinks.
With the introduction of energy drinks as of the late 1980s, the efficacy of these energy shots started to travel the world as a new product format. In 2003, the founder of 5-Hour Energy discovered an energy drink at a natural products trade show and formulated a similar product reducing the content from 16 to 2 ounces but keeping the energizing effects. Finance credits them with largely creating the energy shot market. By 2008, there were over 25 brands offering energy shots in the US alone. In 2009, a major energy drink producer Red Bull launched an energy shot.
By 2011, energy shots became so popular that 5-Hour Energy
sold $1 billion of their product at retail.
Although originally marketed in the US, energy shots are also becoming popular in other parts of the world such as Europe, Asia and Australia. The products were targeted at customers who seek high efficacy with little liquid intake and included truck drivers and students. One word of caution, “Dilute the shot” for best results.
The product under endorsement was Red Rain Energy . The frat parties they sponsor, as seen under their web page photo gallery, were promotional.
The small bottle product in question contained caffeine, choline and taurine. TAURINE was an amino acid and a building block of protein. CHOLINE was necessary in the structure of cell membranes, protected livers from accumulating fat and as the precursor molecule for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, etc. CAFFEINE, as the only addictive was a naturally occurring alkaloid, found in common coffee and tea.
I found the product available over the counter. The product was inexpensive. The product was not a steroid. The product was loaded with B vitamins. I personally used this product when attention to detail and awareness was necessary; around machines, on the job as a night guard and in study.
The can contained 250 ml. and the small bottle was 60 ml.
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Privacy in Search Mode
AS YOU KNOW, the internet was abuzz with unknown hackers who were apparently successful in penetrating so-called secure sources of commerce, information and political security. A Private Search Engine was in dire need. Where’s the privacy on a world-wide party line anyways?
Cybersecurity was in the news at all levels of society as a solution to this. Data Integrity was also being addressed with Net Neutrality. Let us take for example the following infiltrations on corporate and national security. Recent activity included:
NY Times and London Observer Newspaper: 2018-03-17 Cambridge Analytics Suspended for Data Breach Harvesting on 50M End-users.
Wired Magazine ( 2017-12-07 ) : Iranian Hackers Have Been Infiltrating Critical Infrastructure Companies.
CNet Magazine ( 2017-12-04 ) : Password-Sharing Politicians Prompt Security Row in British House of Parliament.
New York Times ( 2017-11-28 ) : Insiders Accused of Stealing Personal Data From Homeland Security.
USA Today ( 2017-11-28 ) : Sensitive Personal Information of 246,000 Department of Homeland Security Employees Found on Home Computer.
The Hill ( 2017-11-25 ) : Security Exchange Commission Hack was Preceded by Years of Warnings about Lax Cybersecurity.
Bloomberg Technology ( 2017-11-21 ) : Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People.
CNet Magazine ( 2017-09-07 ) Equifax Data Breach May Affect Nearly Half the US Population.
“The world is full of prosecutors; but few defenders.”
Security Management Magazine suggested changing the password often.
For myself, I felt I was too public with my everyday inquiries. Remember, on the telephone there was a private line and a party line? My web page provider – Wealthy Affiliate has an interesting feature that changes the admin’s password at the touch of a button; any and every time they access!!
When ever I went on line for information I first contacted a private search engine just to start the search. A different search engine protected my identity on line with better anonymity and a secure web connection. A Virtual Private Network provided some anonymity. Cookies were still used to speed up recall inquiries. The private chat search engine as such shared information confidentially; while still using the main search engines of Bing, Google and Yahoo. All minor search engines, as you know, are mirrors of the 3 majors.
The Private Search Engine provided the following;
Private Searches
Secure Information Drop
The Standard of Trust on-line
Incognitos
Demographic Data Collection
Ad Costings
Cell Phone Privacy
Data Hijack
Fake News Analytics
Device Encryption
Privacy and Part Line Security
Web Connection Security.
That’s why when ever I went on line for information I first contacted “DuckDuckGo” to start the search. My contacts in private demand it. The duck race is on to distract the common hacker with a quack !!
Author RodneyPosted on 2017-10-23 2018-08-15 Categories Business, Covert, Personal, Promotional, Sci-Fi, ScienceTags #, cybersecurity, duck race, national security, private, search, secret, security, top secret, ultra secret
Zero Point Energy
Zero Point Energy Module
A Fuel Cell is composed of common elements. The Planetary Encyclopedia Wikipedia said there were 23 types of fuel cells all directed at power.
A lot of people are still in the dark because of the weather. A back up alternative and/or remote portable generator power source was one alternative to the Dark Side but there’s another alternative with Research & Development.
Common Fuel and Oxidizing Agents exists in alkaline and electric storage types; mainly Hydrogen and Oxygen. How about other common sources like Natural Gas and Chlorine or any of the other halogens?!?
What the Scientists Said
Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940) the radio pioneer, said further, " . . . the amount of atomic energy stored in one ounce of chlorine could keep a transatlantic steamer going full speed for a week !! The explosion of a few pounds of material could be enough to shatter a continent !! Radium, a most concentrated source of energy, was found to break up atoms from x-ray use. The ATOM breaks up of its own accord over thousands of years, shooting off the fragments at speeds which make a rifle bullet a snail in comparison. A radium is like a two-ton gun firing a 100 pound shot, recoiling similar to uranium which fires off 4 such projectiles in order to become radium. The alpha particle of helium is fired off at the speed of 10,000 miles a second, producing heat. The beta particle was found to be an electron, the fundamental unit of electricity and seen to repel each other. An atom is a miniature solar system; the sun being the central positive nucleus and the revolving system like planets. Electrons travel at the speed of light- 186,000 miles a second.
(Popular Science 1920's)
The speed of light converted to metric was 300,000 kilometers per second as the ultimate speed limit; until you add energy to make it go even faster. One percent of the speed of light was 2,200 km/sec. which would get it around the Earth in 18 seconds.
Too Much Energy, You Say !!
Zero-point energy or ground state energy was the lowest possible energy that a quantum mechanical system could have. Unlike in classical mechanics, quantum systems constantly fluctuated in their lowest energy state; due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. As well as atoms and molecules, the empty space of the vacuum has these unique properties. According to Quantum Field Theory, the universe can be thought of not as isolated particles but with continuous fluctuating fields: matter fields, whose quanta are fermions and force fields, whose quanta are bosons. All these fields have zero-point energy. These fluctuating zero-point fields lead to a kind of reintroduction of an aether in physics, since some systems can detect the existence of this energy. However this aether is not referred to as a physical medium, if it is to be the Lorentz invariant; such that there is no contradiction with Einstein‘s theory of special relativity.
( source: Wikipedia )
Information Particle Physics puts aside all these great scientists of the past and tests another theory in Quantum.
Used by NASA and the military, the government research created an open public domain on fuel cell research showing them to be faster to refuel, more energy efficient and pollution free.
A fuel cell is an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy from a fuel into electricity through an electrochemical reaction of hydrogen-containing fuel with oxygen or another oxidizing agent. Fuel cells can produce electricity continuously for as long as fuel and oxygen ( or another oxidizing agent ) are supplied.
Scheme of a proton-conducting fuel cell -Wikipedia
Earlier Comparison
Newton’s third law of motion says, to every action there is an equal and contrary reaction or the two actions are equal and contrary reaction.
In a rocket, the small mass and great velocity of the discharged explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen are equal to the larger mass and smaller velocity of the rocket.
We can create breathable air by driving stale air through limewater and heating potassium chlorate to liberate oxygen from the chemical combination.
Fuel is fed into the cell and broken into positive hydrogen atoms and negative electrons useful for energy. The hydrogen atom weighs nearly 2000 times as much as the negative charged electron leaving the difference in the proton; meaning it has the same charge as the electron but is smaller. One can refer to the electromagnetic theory of mass. When air is mixed with the fuel, in this case hydrogen, the atoms are reformed into water. In summary, the proton-conducting fuel cell uses the most abundant element in the universe hydrogen; on Earth it comprises about 13% before purification. Hydrogen blends with the second most commonest element on Earth – Oxygen. The only pollutant is pure water, clean and useful. A Circle Logic in the making.
In science fiction, ancient earth technology said a submerged covered island with aerospace capabilities should welcome the hybrid technology of a modified fuel cell; if only as a secondary source of perpetual energy.
2017-10-26 The first interstellar object named A/2017U1 just shot through our solar system on its way to the Pegasus System; moving very fast. Might be an Asguard starship on a rescue mission!!
This animation shows the path of A/2017 U1, which is an asteroid — or perhaps a comet — as it passed through our inner solar system in September and October 2017. From analysis of its motion, scientists calculate that it probably originated from outside of our solar system.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A short story was published in Analog Magazine in 1963 that might explain the fuel cell concept better:
With No Strings Attached by Gordon Randall Garrett
The following is a short review of the finer points from his open domain contribution to chemistry.
A man will always be willing to buy something he wants and believes in, even if it is impossible, rather than something he believes is possible. So . . . sell him what he thinks he wants!
Hydrogen Fusion . . .
The examiner drew a symbolic electronic circuit. Somewhere in the circuit, instead of drawing the component that is supposed to be there, he drew a Little Black Box. Then he defined the wave-form, voltage, and amperage entering the circuit and defined whatever was coming out. The million dollar question: What was in the Little Black Box?
Except in the simplest of cases, there was never an absolute answer. The question was counted as correct if the student puts into the Little Black Box a component or sub-circuit which produced the effect desired. The value of the answer depended on the simplicity and relative controllability of the component drawn in the place of the Little Black Box. From the top of the Black Suitcase projected two one-inch copper electrodes, fourteen inches apart. In the mysterious black suitcase was a small pressure tank of hydrogen inside—one of the little ones that are sometimes used to fill toy balloons. There was a small batch of electronic circuitry that looked as though it might be the insides of an FM-AM radio. All of the rest of the space was taken up by batteries and every single one of the cells was a familiar little canister. They were small, rechargeable nickel-cadmium or lithium-cobalt cells. Is it some kind of hydrogen fuel cell? Does it get its power by converting hydrogen to helium?
Batteries were needed to start the thing. After it got going, those leads there from the reactor cell kept the batteries charged. One of the technicians began flipping other switches, and a bank of ordinary incandescent light bulbs came on, four at a time. Finally there were one hundred of them burning, each one a hundred-watt bulb that glowed brightly but did not appear to be contributing much to the general brightness of the desert sun. The technicians checked their recording voltmeters and ammeters and reported that, sure enough, some ten kilowatts of power at a little less than one hundred fifteen volts D.C. was coming from the Black Suitcase.
Battery-making is an art, not a science. You don’t just stick a couple of electrodes into a solution of electrolyte and consider that your work is done. With the same two metals and the same electrolyte, you could make batteries that would run the gamut from terrible to excellent. Some of ’em, maybe, wouldn’t hold a charge more than an hour, while others would have a shelf-life, fully charged, of as much as a year. Batteries don’t work according to theory. If they did, potassium chlorate would be a better depolarizer than manganese dioxide, instead of the other way around. What you get out of a voltaic cell depends on the composition and strength of the electrolyte, the kind of depolarizer used, the shape of the electrodes, the kind of surface they have, their arrangement and spacing, and a hundred other little things too numerous to mention.
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Author RodneyPosted on 2017-10-20 2018-07-25 Categories Business, Personal, Promotional, Sci-Fi, ScienceTags energy, fuel cell, hybrid, pegasus, ZPE, ZPM
Daily Cash Flow
The best companies have a handle on their daily cash flow.
Any company is non-profit until it stops spending its cash flow.
Take for example an under-ground public parking lot under private property; charging rent by the half hour.
Ideal downtown location, near the political arena, university, trauma hospital, subway and gay community.
The immediate area was being raised to high-rise developments but with limited parking and no visitor parking!?!
Imagine that underground parking garage the length of the block with 2 parking levels and 155 parking spots available to all with a parking permit – just like on the street. Monthly parking was available for those who could afford it.
Motion sensors opened and closed the garage door. Security cameras watch the premises. Bright lights illuminate the back lanes keeping it safe for pedestrians. Radio Frequency buttons were situated throughout the property identifying key points of security checks by private security guards.
Money machines collected the parking permit payed with credit card or coin.
It’s all automated with mechtechs maintaining the money machines. Private security guards issued parking permit violations and escorted undesirables off the property.
The owner collected a very large portion of the daily receipts and laughed all the way to the bank.
A very small sum for money machine maintenance and private ticketing was placed aside. Three parking audits happened throughout the night; the private ticketer, city parking authority, both enforced through the courts, and the private security guard issued parking warnings after checking with the on-line parking payment app.
The garage was turn-key and was automated – a cash cow worth about $30 to 50,000 a month!! The closest competition was on the street at 7 cents per minute.
The private public garage rented space only, they did not take custody of any vehicle. The garage was therefore not liable for any damage incurred by towing vehicles off the property by police and tow-truck.
Now what to put above ground on top of the private public parking garage the length of a double hockey arena? Medical offices and commerce complimenting low-rise townhouses?
What we have here is an example of a nascent, niche or turn-key business. The businesses surrounding this parking lot were set for partying, near a secure parking garage. Within a block of the private public parking underground, there were about 15 bars open until 3 am catering to the university and medical crowd, not to mention those after work drinkers. Because of the private parking lot the community was safer. Security guards patrolled it 24 hours every day and night.
Canada has more lakefront property than any other so . . .
So, if the lot was near water then maybe a beach house with an awesome deck for kiosk movie prop settings.
Then there’s another turn-key business in franchised garages and storage – 24/7 public access with security fobs, gates and cameras.
How’s about a round office condominium tower with movie prop starship bridges. Outrageous!
Then of course, there’s digital marketing .
Office and townhouse preferred parking would only limit public parking availability so, they would be issued monthly passes allowing them to park anywhere.
Author RodneyPosted on 2017-10-04 2018-09-25 Categories Business, Personal, Promotional, Sci-Fi, SportsTags business, profit, turn-key
With this post I hope to do the analytics or comparison for the shopper to save them money and time if they’re shopping or just looking for something?
The news is full of reports of data breaching and identity theft by hackers. Big corporations can’t protect their customer’s identity so, how does the small business? The solution is . . .
Worldwide On-line Business
Why do I prefer using the PayPal Merchant system for on-line shopping. Because this electronic alternative accepts all credit cards, is compatible to eBay Canada and is confidential, faster and simpler. I do not have to keep digging out my credit card for every transaction. PayPal Canada with 100,000+ visitors knows what it is. To transact business on PayPal, I just need an email address. I can send or receive money on-line and it is held in account. PayPal is my office!!
I estimate about 20% of my time on-line is spent searching for what I want. Many a time I’ve wanted something in particular and priced it in the mall for comparison on-line.
I am a patient guy. I can wait to save a few bucks waiting for it to arrive, especially when it’s cheaper than retail. Retail and wholesale is like the comparison between a beer at the bar and buying a case for the pad.
If your curious about the secret to the lazy man’s way to money making opportunities online read on !!
Author RodneyPosted on 2017-09-28 2018-09-25 Format ImageCategories Business, PromotionalTags #, business, data, research, search, shop
Medical Cannabis Seed
Medical Cannabis, Marijuana, Weed, Pot, etc.
Historically, since the dawn of time, the medical cannabis seed, grown to plant, had been used to relieve pain. They say medical marijuana seed, grown to herb, had been used throughout the world to treat various medical ailments. Cannabis was one of the fundamental herbs of Ancient Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Dope Source – Popular Science
The Worldwide tolerance laws on possession of small amounts of cannabis for recreational and medical personal use are relaxing the hurricane.
CANADA, on October 2018, becomes the 2nd country to legalize recreational Cannabis. Not sure why, but maybe, it was to lower the costs of cannabis possession criminal prosecution and to clear the court backlog of cases. Should save millions of dollars for the taxpayer and add to the treasury. It’s a multi-billion dollar a year industry. I would watch the stock market on canvas stocks leading up to the summer pot party here in Canada.
South of the border research found the District of Columbia or the seat of American politics ( White House and the Pentagon ) legalized recreational cannabis on 2015-02-26. The west coast has also legalized it. San Francisco has announced plans to clear simple marijuana possession misdemeanors. See Time Magazine ( 2018-02-01 ) under Proposition 64.
Then I looked up “10 things I didn’t know about Kentucky and Bourbon”and found a news research team from CNBC- that said 3 states were now exporting marijuana and disco balls; big time!!
Flash!! 2018-06-22 > The latest from our friends south of Niagara Falls. see Axios Pot Bust
Back to business. Now, there’s the issue of Canadian supply and demand and financing any import – export opportunities for a medical product that will grow just about anywhere . . . even in eaves-troughs? Many houses and many streets. It is a hearty weed. But the question now remains, how long before the medical marijuana seed legally grows into a plant for distribution? It was commonly supposed that electrification had a miraculous effect on germination of seeds. Examine the Wolfryn Process
Immerse the seeds in a solution of common salt or calcium chloride and water for 4 hours. Application of an electrical current was later used. The seeds, after having been dried at a temperature of 100 degrees F. were ready for sowing.
Seeds were not electrified but still soaked for 4 hours in a solution of sulphate of ammonia and water; then dried also at 100 degrees F.
Seeds untreated in any way were tested on a farm, side by side with the above.
The results showed that no positive evidence was obtained that electrified or zapped seed was any better than ordinary seed.
Note: Sir Jagadis Bose, the Hindu scientist of Calcutta commented, "Indirect electrical stimulus causes an increase in growth where direct stimulus of a plant organ causes a decrease of growth."
Another Popular Science article ( 1924-02 ) described how to double plant growth describing how direct sunlight only gave 37% light and 63% heat compared to electricity light giving only 7% light and 93% heat. Plant light for a continuous time duration was enough to increase growth, once the heat was filtered by passing the light through two colored glass plates that absorb the ultra violet rays, between which was flowing a constantly flowing stream of cool water.
Plant research under the watchful eyes of plant pathology, microscopy, photobiology and bacteriology offers unlimited fascinating possibilities for food conservation as well.
A more modern source states UV could be beneficial to seedlings to ward off disease and improve nutrient absorption.
Then I’m reminded about the rebirth of a forest after a wildfire. Scientists have determined, the redwoods grew over the ages because their seeds were heated by wildfires. So, maybe heating the marijuana seed before planting might help the seed growth . . . maybe talking and caressing the leaf in natural light might too. Anyone got a plant mantra or karma?
OK, now what if you electrically zapped the end product like say a poor port wine . . . would it become vintage? Pasteurization of grape destroys the germs. They say the Chinese scientists are trying to create vintage wine from mediocre grape. Certainly would make the winos happy !!
Vintage Wine – Popular Science
If you were sure of your idea, had the curiosity to find out about things and the energy to overcome obstacles, it was always worth while to keep on trying. Concentrate all of yourself on a worthy purpose. Don’t be too modest. Close your ears to jeers and say to yourself – IT CAN BE DONE.
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Author RodneyPosted on 2017-09-21 2018-08-15 Categories Business, Personal, Promotional, Sci-Fi, ScienceTags ancient, cannabis, Chinese, Hindu, Horticulture, marijuana, seed, Weed, wine
BUDGET WEB DESIGN TECH FOR NEW ENTREPRENEURS
Presented here is a budget web design tech for new entrepreneurs. Money making opportunities using Web Design were based on the premise that anyone can learn the basics and develop the coordination to web page design and hyperlinking.
I asked myself how did the average person make an income with a web page without spending a lot?
A web page works 24 hours, 7 days a week and explains anything to the average person; student to webmaster; from startup to payroll.
The cost? $300+ for 36 hours of instruction. That’s what the local college charges to learn WordPress for blogging and Web Design.
In comparison, Wealthy Affiliate or WA, with a compliment of services during the introductory starter course level, was free. Wealthy Affiliate represented an opportunity to make money on-line by promoting other people’s business. There were no contract obligations after premium upgrade enrollment.
There were close to 4 billion people searching for something or other on-line; information, product and service.
A Meta Resource or private enterprise was a capitalist basic, forming a co-operative commonwealth or an ad network. With business psycho-analysis, the marketing plan identified the sell points: ambition, contacts, desires, economy, efficiency, empowerment, exclusiveness, facts, features, incentives, location, package, price, profits, progress, quality, reputation, security, service, style, testimonials and time.
My input seems too public, so Cybersecurity suggested using a different search engine like duckduckgo.com The duck directed the search request to bing, google or yahoo; but not my private confidential address.
“Any business is non-profit while spending money.”
This is a testimonial and opinion of Wealthy Affiliate. In summary, based on experience, a new business affiliate web site, like an education could reap a income, knowledge and friendship. Starter accounts were free. There was no contract thus, no obligation. I considered this offer a win-win situation for all concerned with affiliate links inside the blog journal; earning referral commissions; while I studied or did something else . . .
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Author RodneyPosted on 2017-09-07 2018-08-15 Categories Business, PromotionalTags #, advertising, budget, design, enterprise, entrpreneural, marketing, profit, sale, Web, web design4 Comments on BUDGET WEB DESIGN TECH FOR NEW ENTREPRENEURS
Yachts Yachting
CANADA is a country surrounded by three oceans. Yachts yachting salutes The Bluenose, depicted on the Canadian dime and stamp as a winning twin-mast fishing and racing schooner, was built in 1921 for Nova Scotia, Canada.
For reference, the following was researched from the public domain vaults:
Yacht Racing for the America Cup was described as a science when Popular Science Magazine from the public domain vaults detailed the race from design to sail.
Famous contestants included The America, The Mischief, The British Cutter Cenesta, The Scotch Cutter Thistle, The Valkyrie, The Vigilant, The Columbia, The Vanitie, The Resolute and The Shamrock IV.
The race course was off Sandy Hook near Jamaica Bay, Long Island, New York, USA; An excellent reference for the beginner or novice tall ship captain or sailor.
Please engage the following public domain pdf links for additional information.
~ 1920 ~ Sail Yachting
~ 1923 ~ Small Sailing Craft
~ 1905~ American Schooner “Atlantic”wins 3,000-mile Ocean Race
~ 1876 ~Hydrographic Navigation
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Visit this web page for a massive selection of Hellboy, Manga, Star Wars, Superhero comics and other pop culture favorites. This web site says it offers thousands of pop culture products such as apparel, comics, graphic novels, statues, toys and other collectibles. The web site also says they carry a huge variety of popular entertainment products from hundreds of manufacturers including DC Direct, Dark Horse, Disney, Hasbro, McFarlane, Marvel, Master Replicas, Tokyopop. Click the picture
Author RodneyPosted on 2017-09-01 2018-09-25 Categories Business, Gaming, Personal, Philosophy, Promotional, Sci-Fi, Science, SportsTags competition, racing, Sailing, science, Yachting
Welcome to My Kiosk. The purpose of this web page’s existence was to draw attention to the future as it was envisioned from the past; because we’re now living it.
My Brief
Currently, I am working as a security guard while attending night school in college. My studies have included a provincial MBA primer, the Liberal Arts, Computer Integration (POM) and a General Law course. External courses include this course on web page development, a digital MBA and a Venture Capitalist instruction. Just trying to keep busy and staying out of trouble.
Why I Feel I Must Help People
This website was to be dedicated to sci fi or science fiction e-books and audio books. They cover the topics of discovery, existence and investigation.
The prime directive with alien contacts was the question asked; while reading or listening to the short stories. The audience would be anyone interested in the future of mankind, planet Earth, other planets and dimensions out there.
This editor will be adding posts when the existing content needs to be spiced up; about once a month or sooner. This administrator was doing this because he felt the need to communicate something that was said before; but ignored.
His example was a quote from Sir Author Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame, “Second-hand romance and second-hand emotion ( from reading ) are surely better than the dull soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race.”
The Ultimate Goal of This Business Web Site
To introduce a comparison of source material which better illustrates the question to answers accepted as definite. If you need a hand or have any questions relevant to the content presented, please feel free to inquire and you can expect an answer.
Please think of your question carefully to obtain the correct answer. Wording your question in the format of a perceived answer to “yes”, “no” or “maybe” will definitely help.
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Author RodneyPosted on 2017-09-01 2018-09-25 Categories Business, PromotionalTags affiliate, beginnings, blog
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Author RodneyPosted on 2017-08-30 2018-09-25 Categories Business, Personal, PromotionalTags affiliate, money, opportunity
Hello World. Bonjour le monde des affiliés! Welcome to MY KIOSK. Bienvenue dans MY KIOSK.
This is the first year of postings and therefore a learning experience. C’est la première année d’affichage et donc une expérience d’apprentissage
Your business affiliate web site, like a learning experience could reap an income, knowledge and friendship. Votre site Web d’affiliation d’entreprise, comme une expérience d’apprentissage, pourrait avoir un revenu, une connaissance et une amitié.
Starter accounts are free. Les comptes de démarrage sont gratuits.
No contract thus, no obligation. Aucun contrat ainsi, aucune obligation.
A win-win situation for all concerned with affiliate links beside your blog journal; earning commissions from affiliates and referrals; while you study and party on. Une situation gagnant-gagnant pour tous concernés par des liens affiliés à côté de votre journal de blog; gagner des commissions d’affiliés et de renvois; Pendant que vous étudiez et faites la fête.
Author RodneyPosted on 2017-08-22 2018-09-25 Categories Business, Personal, PromotionalTags affiliate, AliExpress, ebay, kiosk, partner1 Comment on Hello World. Bonjour le monde des affiliés!
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Flyers won’t re-sign Joacim Eriksson, another sign of their confidence in Sergei Bobrovsky
By James O'BrienJun 3, 2011, 9:03 PM EDT
From a short-term perspective, it almost seemed like the Philadelphia Flyers pulled the plug on goalie Sergei Bobrovsky during the 2011 playoffs. After emerging as their No. 1 netminder much earlier than most people expected, head coach Peter Laviolette gave the rookie goalie a short leash in the postseason.
Michael Leighton’s training camp surgery probably pushed Bobrovsky into the spotlight sooner than many in the Flyers organization would have liked, but it seems like the front office is excited about his longer-term future. It seems highly likely that they will go after a veteran (or “proven”) goalie through a trade or free agent signing this summer, but they appear to believe that the Russian stopper has a bright light at the end of his developmental tunnel.
Today provided another bit of evidence of that increasing confidence (and also the unpredictable nature of developing goalies). CSN Philly’s Tim Panaccio reports that the Flyers allowed goalie Joacim Eriksson’s signing rights expire this week. This might be stunning news to people who follow prospects closely because Eriksson was once considered the top goalie in the team’s farm system.
It seems like three factors contributed to the decision. The first is the notion that Bobrovsky is the leader of the pack when it comes to being the team’s future No. 1 goalie. The second factor is that Eriksson wasn’t receiving many opportunities to develop overseas. The final bit of reasoning is that the Flyers signed former Minnesota Wild prospect Niko Hovinen last month. Panaccio indicates that the team expects the 6-foot-7 Hovinen to make it to North America sooner than Eriksson, so Hovinen essentially replaced Eriksson in the team’s prospect ranks.
Holmgren said it made no sense to sign Eriksson if they had no place to play him right now. He was not expected to replace either Johan Backlund or Brian Stewart with the AHL Phantoms this season, either.
“Your choice is you sign the guy, give him money and hope he develops,” Holmgren said. “Or you just wait. See what happens if they become free agents. Minnesota drafts Hovinen … it doesn’t happen, he goes back in the draft and nobody drafted him.
“Then this year he became a hot commodity. He started to come on. That’s just the way it is. When you draft kids at 17, sometimes it works out and sometime it doesn’t.”
At the moment, the Flyers don’t own first or second round picks in the 2011 Entry Draft. Panaccio reports that Eriksson (Philadelphia’s seventh round pick in 2008) is eligible to be drafted again, so there’s always the chance the team will bring him back on board with one of their five choices in this year’s draft.
From the draft to free agency and possible trades along the way, it should be an interesting off-season for the often-aggressive Flyers franchise. We’ll keep you informed about their frequently intriguing decisions.
Tags: contract negotiations, Joacim Eriksson, Michael Leighton, Niko Hovinen, Paul Holmgren, Sergei Bobrovsky
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Lightning’s Point bloodied; Predators’ Johansen gets elbowing major
By James O'BrienDec 3, 2019, 9:46 PM EST
(UPDATE: Johansen has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA.)
The Nashville Predators and Tampa Bay Lightning don’t face each other very often, yet you’d almost think they were blood rivals based on some of the events so far during Tuesday’s game on NBCSN (stream here).
We’ve seen a fight, and then maybe a turning point moment during the second period.
The Lightning already held a 2-1 lead, quickly answering after the Predators tied things up 1-1, and it sure looked like things were about to get worse for Nashville.
Ryan Johansen caught Brayden Point with an elbow that bloodied the Lightning star, and officials whistled Johansen for a five-minute elbowing major. After deliberating via tablets, officials determined that a major was a valid call, and the lethal Lightning power play gained a big opportunity — although it was crucial to note that Point needed to get cleaned up with blood on his jersey.
The Predators showed serious moxie in killing the entire five-minute major penalty, and actually had some of the better opportunities, as they nearly scored a shorthanded goal.
It was an impressive display by the Predators’ PK, and a frustrating moment for the Lightning, as Jon Cooper noted during an in-game interview with Pierre McGuire. We’ll see if the Predators can rally around that strong kill to come back against the Lightning, as they want that to be more than just a confidence-booster.
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Marjorie Arons-Barron
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Posted on July 21, 2012 by aronsbarron
Shouting fire in a crowded theater is a terrible thing to do. Opening fire is a horror of a whole order of magnitude. Most of America is struggling to make sense out of 24-year-old neuroscience student James Holmes’ rampage, which so far has resulted in the deaths of 12 people and injured 59 others, some of whom may not make it. We want to do something to keep these things from happening, but what?
photo CBS
President Obama and Mitt Romney extended condolences and modified their campaign schedules for the day. But neither wants to risk losing voter support, especially in swing states, by making gun control part of the election debate.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg chastised them for not using the occasion to call for stricter gun control. He has a point. Luke O’Dell of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, said that, if someone in the audience were carrying, the carnage wouldn’t have been so great. Now there’s a helpful solution, in the George Zimmerman style! But people are more responsive to O’Dell than Bloomberg. Please note the post-Aurora spike in gun sales reported by the Boston Herald’s Jessica Van Sack.
When you see the ease with which Holmes apparently purchased 6000 rounds of ammunition online and, from gun shops, a military-style assault weapon, a semi-automatic rifle and two .40 caliber Glock handguns, plus cannisters of gas, Bloomberg’s argument makes sense. The pusillanimous cowering of most politicians in the face of National Rifle Association lobbying stands in the way of gun restrictions and is contemptible.
Criminologist James Alan Fox of Northeastern maintains that mass murder will not be stopped by gun control. We remember the most notorious incidents: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Gabby Giffords, Charles Whitman at the U. Texas tower. According to Fox, since the 1970’s, the number of such shootings, on varied scale, has held at about two dozen a year. Fox says that gun control might reduce the overall level of gun violence but not eliminate the mass murderer, often a twisted, premeditative, violent loner, who plans and executes the crime and often commits suicide afterward. Such incidents, Fox maintains, are one of the “painful consequences of the freedoms we enjoy.”
I’m not willing to let it go at that. So great is today’s level of gun violence that Jessica Ghawi, one of the tragic victims in Aurora, had narrowly missed being shot just a month ago in a shooting spree in a Toronto mall. As Adam Gopnik wrote in The New Yorker after Virginia Tech in 2007, other countries (e.g. France, England, Scotland, Australia) have passed gun restrictions in the wake of mass murders and none has seen a repeat of the horrific incident which prompted the new rules. Yet here we go again.
Every time there’s a mass murder, we go into a frenzy of debating gun control (versus arming vigilantes), violence in the media- especially video games -, changing security at entrances to public venues. (See Ty Burr’s thoughtful piece in today’s Boston Globe about how violent movies feed the fantasies of people who feel powerless.) We don’t want to live in an authoritarian environment, but isn’t it time to pass reasonable restrictions on gun ownership? What legitimate hunter or anxious homeowner needs an assault rifle?
Bringing back the assault rifle ban should be a minimum and immediate goal, even before we get to resolving the inadequacies of the data base used to check potential gun owners, or addressing the ratcheting up of violence that certain video games and movies are foisting on the public. This time, can’t we convert the pontificating into action?
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Fox news Julie Roginsky have a child. Who is her husband?
Who does not love a strong and independent woman especially when she is a single mother who knows how to take care of herself and her child(ren).
A woman who fits as a perfect example of that category is Julie Roginsky.
Julie Roginsky: Know About Her Personal Life
Julie Roginsky is an American-Russian television personality who is a contributor on Fox News Channel working as a co-host for Outnumbered.
She also works as an occasional co-host for The Five. She also has her columns appear in FoxNews.com, CNBC.com, Politico, Forbes and the Star-Ledger.
Everybody wants to know if an attractive woman is single or not especially if that woman is a media personality.
If a woman is popular, people automatically want to know about her love life if she has one but Julie has been able to leave people wondering about it for a very long time.
Julie has not really been linked with any personalities nor has she ever been spotted with one. In spite of being very active on her social networking sites, she has neither posted about her son nor about her husband or partner.
Julie Roginsky Has A Son
I do have a child and I have been appalled at how Monica Lewinsky was treated for the last 20 years.
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— Julie Roginsky (@julieroginsky) December 28, 2015
Nothing is known about Julie’s romantic interest but we do know for sure that Julie Roginsky has a son. Julie gave birth to a child in 2012 and named him Zachary Peter Roginsky.
So this perfect example of the bold and beautiful gave her son her own last name and left us wondering who the father is.
The paparazzi has failed to find out if Julie has ever been married, divorced, engaged or even committed at all.
You're right. I'll be sure to stop making excuses for my imaginary husband.
— Julie Roginsky (@julieroginsky) January 8, 2016
Julie Roginsky as a smart independent woman
Smart is attractive and attractive attracts a lot of attention. Julie Roginsky is one of those women who has been able to maintain a very low profile despite all the attention received.
Julie Roginsky is not just a pretty face. She has a post graduation degree in M.A. from the Boston University and is looking after herself throwing punches at everybody who gave her bad judgments without getting her hands dirty.
Personally, I think it is very attractive when a female can build herself in politics. Julie started her career in politics after she got hired to work in Emily’s List for the congressional campaign of Dale McCormick.
Julie has then built herself a great career and is now a founder and president at Comprehensive Communications Group.
Julie Roginsky's Lawsuit Against Fox News Roger Ailes; Ahna O'Reilly To Play Her Role in Roger Ailes Movie
In 2017, Roginsky accused Fox News Roger Ailes and Bill Shine alleging sexual harassment.
She claimed that Ailes offered her a permanent position on The Five if she had a sexual relationship with him.
She settled the lawsuit in December 2017. Ahna O'Reilly is playing in a new movie depicting Roginsky's story on Fox News.
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Hackney and Islington councils are consulting on a scheme which could see all but the cleanest vehicles banned from two zones in Shoreditch.
The scheme would mean that petrol, diesel and older hybrid vehicles would not be allowed to enter nine streets during the peak commuter periods of 7am-10am and 4pm-7pm Monday to Friday. Ultra low emission vehicles like electric cars, e-bikes, the newest hybrids and hydrogen vehicles, as well as pedestrians and cyclists, will be allowed.
The streets around Shoreditch suffer from some of the worst air quality in London – ultra low emission streets will have reduced levels of air and noise pollution, make it easier and safer to walk and cycle and improve the character of the area for all residents and businesses.
To start with we’re proposing to ban petrol and diesel vehicles in the morning and evening rush hours to reduce people’s exposure to dangerous fumes and make the streets safer when people are walking and cycling to and from work and school. Our ultimate goal is to reclaim the streets from polluting motor vehicles – this ground breaking scheme is the first step towards doing that.
Cllr Feryal Demirci, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, Transport and Parks
Residents and businesses on the streets affected would still be able to use their cars.
Residents, businesses and people who travel through the area are invited to have their say before 14 February. Find out more about the proposals and have your say.
The scheme is part funded through the Office For Low Emission Vehicles’ ‘Neighbourhoods of the Future’ and forms part of the Mayor of London-funded Low Emission Neighbourhood.
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Stress inhibits eating behavior
UTHealth's Yuanzhong Xu, PhD, is studying the parts of the brain that affect hunger. Image Credit: Rob Cahill/UTHealth
Many human beings can’t swallow a thing when faced with significant stress, among other strong emotional states. However, scientists don’t know much about how the brain brings about these emotion-related effects on eating behavior.
Pioneering research from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) uncovers a novel brain pathway in mice which can be stimulated to increase the stress levels in these mice, while reducing their drive to eat.
This study, for the first time, looked at a neural circuit that connects two brain regions in the mouse, the paraventricular hypothalamus (PVH) and the ventral lateral septum (LSv). The first of these is connected to feeding, but the second is related to emotional regulation. The particular brain circuit examined in the current study functions to switch the pathway on and off. Activation of this circuit shows a measurable and dose-dependent effect on eating in relation to emotional stress.
The PVH is a central point for coordinating many survival-related adaptive behaviors and body functions, including eating. Both PVH and LSv neurons were proved to be sensitive to environmental stimuli expressing danger. They were relatively inactive during feeding activity, on the other hand.
Researcher Qingchun Tong says, “We have identified a part of the brain in a mouse model that controls the impact of emotions on eating.”
This is important, say the scientists, because it could offer a way to treat the potentially deadly disorder called anorexia nervosa. This eating disorder kills more people than any other mental illness, says the National Institute of Mental Health. The diagnostic features of anorexia nervosa are the ingestion of severely restricted amounts or types of food with a distorted body image. For instance, a classic finding in anorexia nervosa is the feeling that one is fat, even when the individual is persistently and even dangerously below the minimum weight for health.
The relevance of this finding lies in the close similarity between the nervous system in mice and human beings. Older studies have already shown that stress has a powerful effect on both increasing and decreasing the drive to eat. However, research to identify how this interaction occurs, and to find the brain pathways that regulate feeding via stress responses, has so far drawn a blank.
During the present research experiment, the scientists used optogenetic techniques to activate and inhibit the circuit. They found that on activation of the circuit, glutamate was released by the neurons, with a corresponding increase in anxiety levels while appetite, conversely, went down, in a dose-dependent manner. With weak light stimulation, the mice began to groom themselves, a classic stress response. Strong light stimulation produced escape jumping behavior which is known to be related to fear.
When it was inhibited, the reverse effects occurred. Anxiety signs were visibly lowered, while feeding behavior increased. In short, electrical activity between the PVH and the LSv modulates emotional states and thus alters feeding behavior. Moreover, the negative effect on emotions produced by this pathway caused competitive inhibition of feeding in the presence of hunger.
This is a new discovery which shows how eating disorders can be related to underlying mental changes. This agrees with previous findings that an animal’s sense of environmental security or of environmental stress competes with its feeding behavior. In other words, animals eat more when they are not stressed by a sense of danger.
This is perhaps reflected in chronic eating disorders occurring in human beings in relation to stress and anxiety causing abnormal emotional states, as well as in the overeating that often occurs with a strongly impulsive temperamental trait and because of the comfort offered by the food. This has led researchers to consider the strong possibility of a common brain circuit that underlies the regulation of both feeding and emotional states.
It is already known that areas like the amygdala, which controls emotions, is also crucial in regulating emotion. Similarly, the transmission of one type of neurons in the hypothalamus produces more eating while another type inhibits eating.
These findings will need more testing before they can be confirmed, says lead author Yuanzhong Xu. However, this study shows the importance of this circuit in gating emotional stress-related stimuli which affect feeding behavior.
The study was published in the journal Nature Communications on August 1, 2019.
Identification of a neurocircuit underlying regulation of feeding by stress-related emotional responses, Yuanzhong Xu, Yungang Lu, Ryan M. Cassidy, Leandra R. Mangieri, Canjun Zhu, Xugen Huang, Zhiying Jiang, Nicholas J. Justice, Yong Xu, Benjamin R. Arenkiel & Qingchun Tong, Nature Communicationsvolume 10, Article number: 3446 (2019).
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March in Tuscaloosa used to mean more than spring football.
When the NCAA tournament expanded in 1975 to include at-large teams for the first time, the Alabama Crimson Tide snagged a bid and started making itself at home. Bama returned the next spring and after a few down years began a long run of success in the 80s and early 90s under Wimp Sanderson. Out of 40 tournaments in the NCAA’s “open” era, Alabama has made the field 20 times.
That well has gone dry over the past decade. The Tide has missed eight of the last nine NCAA tournaments. The exception was a joyless slog to a one-and-done appearance in 2012, when Alabama fell out of the Top 25 before Christmas and endured a rash of mid-season suspensions before rallying for its only bid of the Anthony Grant era.
Avery Johnson arrived last spring with big dreams of Final Fours and matching the legacy of Duke basketball. Alabama fans quickly warmed up to their new coach but filed his dreams in a back drawer labeled “someday”. First the Crimson Tide would need to work its way back into the big dance, and with a dearth of returning star power and a modest recruiting class that ultimately didn’t include any out-of-state players, it seemed like even that was an unrealistic dream in the short-term.
The computers picked up on Alabama first, thanks to Thanksgiving tournament upsets of Wichita State and Notre Dame, followed by an ugly win at better-than-expected Clemson. Most humans expected the Tide to fade away as injuries and the league schedule took a toll, and they seemed justified after a 1-5 SEC start brightened only by an upset of then-unbeaten South Carolina. Bama slowly righted the ship with too-close-for-comfort wins over Tennessee, Mississippi State and Missouri, then broke out last week by downing Texas A&M and then snapping a long losing streak at Florida.
Now Bama sits at 15-9 with a golden opportunity to clinch a bid. It should be solidly favored in its three remaining home games and likely should get a winnable game to open the SEC tournament. If it somehow steals a win at LSU, Kentucky or Georgia, it feels safe to forecast a high Tide in March once more.
Game of the week: No. 14 Kentucky (19-6, 9-3 SEC) at Texas A&M (18-7, 7-5), 5:30 p.m. Central Saturday, ESPN. It may have happened hundreds of miles away, but John Calipari’s quick ejection and nuclear meltdown Saturday at South Carolina was the Shot Heard Round The Commonwealth. It also galvanized the sometimes-shaky Wildcats, propelling them to an 89-62 victory that may go down as the turning point in the conference race. Conspiracy theories are already sprouting like button mushrooms claiming that this was stagecraft on Calipari’s part to force his young team to grow up in a hostile environment, but planned or not it resulted in Kentucky’s best win since downing Duke back in November. Saturday is another chance to prove this is a far different team than the one that blew second-half leads at Auburn and Tennessee.
The Aggies’ wild collapse after a 17-2 start is even more puzzling when considering their roster. A&M starts four senior guards who have been through the growing pains of the switch to the SEC, from back-to-back 18-win seasons as conference also-rans to last year’s tie for third and near-miss of the NCAA tournament. But the Aggies seem to have lost their way on defense and become careless with turnovers despite a wealth of capable ball handlers. The Kentucky game shouldn’t make or break A&M’s tournament hopes, but it should show whether it can expect to do more than fill a bracket line in March.
Also this week:
South Carolina at Missouri, 6 p.m., SEC Network
Florida at Georgia, 8 p.m., ESPN
Ole Miss at Texas A&M, 8 p.m., ESPNU
Vanderbilt at Mississippi State, 8 p.m., SEC Network
Auburn at Arkansas, 6 p.m., SEC Network
Alabama at LSU, 8 p.m., SEC Network
Tennessee at No. 14 Kentucky, 6 p.m., ESPN
Florida at South Carolina, 11 a.m., SEC Network
Georgia at Vanderbilt, 11 a.m., ESPN2
Mississippi State at Alabama, 1:30 p.m., SEC Network
Ole Miss at Auburn, 4 p.m., SEC Network
LSU at Tennessee, 4:30 p.m., ESPNU
Missouri at Arkansas, 6:30 p.m., SEC Network
Power poll:
Kentucky – Jamal Murray didn’t slow down after his 35-point outburst against Florida on Feb. 6. The freshman guard dropped 24 points on Georgia while going 6-for-10 from 3-point range and scored 25 at South Carolina. The 85 points in a three-game stretch is a school record for a freshman.
South Carolina – The Gamecocks are the national leaders in attempting free throws and that was true again versus Kentucky (22-for-31). What doomed USC was its abysmal 32.7 percent shooting from the field. The Cocks had almost as many turnovers (16) as field goals (18)
LSU – Foul trouble has bitten lots of teams at South Carolina and the Tigers were no different last Wednesday. Craig Victor and Tim Quarterman combined for just 13 points before fouling out, and Ben Simmons and Keith Hornsby had four fouls each. By contrast, no Tiger had more than three fouls Saturday against Texas A&M.
Texas A&M – Senior point guard Anthony Collins had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. Despite being a 93 percent free throw shooter, he missed twice with under three seconds left in a one-point loss at Alabama, then had to leave the LSU game after five minutes with a stomach bug on a day the Aggies committed 19 turnovers.
Alabama – Shannon Hale returned to action after missing two games, and twice came off the bench to score 10 points in upsets of Texas A&M and Florida. It seems more likely than not he should be able to start after logging 25 minutes in Gainesville, but in his last game against LSU he was held to seven points on 2-for-10 shooting.
Florida – KeVaughn Allen went 5-for-12 from the floor against Alabama – and that was the best shooting performance by any Gator in an ugly 61-55 loss. Fellow guard Chris Chiozza was 3-for-12, the starting frontcourt went a combined 5-for-22 and the bench players finished 5-for-17. Worse, the Gators were a paltry 3-for-21 from 3-point range.
Vanderbilt – The best the Commodores could do last week was not embarrass themselves against Missouri or Auburn, and they passed that test. Assuming they survive a trap game in Starkville, Saturday offers the next chance to build on their tournament resume when young Georgia visits for a late-morning tip at Memorial Gymnasium.
Georgia – Bulldogs fans are familiar with hard losses against Kentucky, but last week’s 34-point blowout was UGA’s worst against the Cats since 1959. The 48 points was clearly an aberration, but Georgia has been held under 70 points in its last four games, despite winning three of them.
Ole Miss – Sharing is caring, and the Rebels figured out how to do more than rely on Stefan Moody in their win over Arkansas. Five players scored in double figures for Ole Miss, and while Moody led the way with 17, Andy Kennedy had to be encouraged by Sebastian Saiz’s 11 points in just his second game back from eye surgery.
Mississippi State – The Bulldogs have been threatening to break through for weeks, and it finally happened in last Tuesday’s 78-46 beatdown of Arkansas. Gavin Ware piled up 21 points and was one of three MSU players with 10 rebounds. But State went cold in a 66-57 home loss to Georgia that kicked off a string of five consecutive games against teams vying for NCAA bids.
Arkansas – The Hogs routinely get roasted away from Bud Walton Arena, losing 10 of their 11 games away from their home gym. But Arkansas closes with four of its last six games at home, with prime get-well opportunities this week against Auburn and Mizzou. LSU and South Carolina could see their title dreams crash and burn in the Ozarks.
Tennessee – The Vols’ lack of height and experience caught up to them in the most unlikely place – Mizzou Arena. Minivan-driving sitcom dad Ryan Rosburg went 8-for-9 from the floor for 21 points and freshman forward Kevin Puryear added 17 as Missouri pulled out a 75-64 upset. Tennessee meanwhile went uncharacteristically cold from the line, hitting just 14 of their 24 shots and missing three times on the front end of one-and-one trips.
Missouri – Saturday’s game against UT was dedicated to Rhyan Loos, the five-year-old daughter of Mizzou assistant Brad Loos. Rhyan was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma last fall. The “Rally for Rhyan” game drew a season-high 10,536 fans and raised over $50,000 for pediatric cancer research. To top it off, the Tigers snapped a nine-game losing streak.
Auburn – In three games since cutting ties with point guard Kareem Canty, the Tigers have scored 55, 45 and 57 points. Newly-minted point forward Cinmeon Bowers struggled last week, turning the ball over six times each in losses to UT and Vandy.
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