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__label__wiki	0.542362	0.542362	← Farm minister George Eustice reveals more of his vision for post-Brexit farm subsidies Parliament calls for ban on double subsidy for biogas #Maize. → George Eustice clueless on impacts of Brexit on laws protecting UK wildlife Farm Minister, former UKIP parliamentary candidate and Brexiter (Brexiteer? Brexetier?) George Eustice today displayed a continuing failure to have absorbed anything useful during his now considerable time at the Department allegedly for the Environment, Defra. Speaking to the Guardian he stated that, if the UK left leave the EU “the Birds and Habitats Directives would go”. This is self-evidently true. But in case anyone was concerned that the protection afforded by the Directives would also be removed, Eustice sought to reassure: “A lot of the national directives they instructed us to put in place would stay. But the directives’ framework is so rigid that it is spirit-crushing. “If we had more flexibility, we could focus our scientists’ energies on coming up with new, interesting ways to protect the environment, rather than just producing voluminous documents from Brussels.” Eustice seems to be implying that the transposing legislation – the Habitat Regulations and all the other regulations and laws originating from EU environmental Directives, would stay in place, even if the UK was no longer subject to EU law. There is just one small problem with this – well actually more than one. The Regulations refer, throughout, to the Directives, generally and specifically. I’m no lawyer, but I would find it difficult to imagine these Regulations being even legal, without the UK being signatory to the Directives. Here’s an example from The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations (2010) “conservation” has the meaning given by Article 1(a) of the Habitats Directive; Since the UK would no longer be a signatory to the Habitats Directive, how could we continue to use a definition of “conservation” derived from it? the phrase “Habitats Directive” appears in the Regulations 43 times. Even if the wording remained the same and we continued to use the definitions created by the Directove, what about enforcement? Failure by government to implement part of an EU Directive would (and often does) trigger legal action ultimately ending in a European Court of Justice decision – and these can mean very big fines for the UK. This would of course no longer apply if Brexit occurred. So where would the buck stop? As I mentioned previously, the European environmental Directives strength also lies in the case law that has developed around them. Case law that applies across the EU, including here in the UK. Following Brexit, the UK would presumably be no longer subject to this case law, so every subsequent decision taken – say by a Planning Inspector, or a Planning Committee, or a Government Department, would no longer be subject to that case law. Which means that hundreds of individual pieces of statutory guidance will need to be rewritten. Once rewritten the protection afforded by those decisions will also be removed. For the Birds and Habitats Directives, the main, though not the only, mechanism to pursue the holy grail of “favourable conservation status” for species and habitats listed on the Directives, is to designate, protect and manage Special Protection Areas and Special Areas of Conservation. Take away the special protection afforded because they are designated under the birds and habitats directives, and they revert to just being Sites of Special Scientific Interest. They lose a whole tier of protection and also funding for management (through the LIFE programme.) Unless Eustice is suggesting that those SSSIs which are currently European Sites (SPAs and SACs) will be given additional protection, compared with those SSSIs which are not European Sites, the suggestion that the Habitat Regulations (and other transposing legislation) remain in place and carry on working as before, makes no sense at all. Eustice suggests that Brexit would give the UK more flexibility over protecting our environment. This is true, but not in the way he is implying. Taking away the European protections afforded some of the UK’s wildlife, would enable some landowners to take a more flexible approach to protecting it – by not protecting it. For more information about the implications of Brexit for the environment, see this comprehensive report from IEEP. UK conservation professional, writing about nature, politics, life. All views are my own and not my employers. I don't write on behalf of anybody else. View all posts by Miles King → This entry was posted in Birds Directive, Brexit, EU referendum, George Eustice, Habitats Directive and tagged Birds Directive, Brexit, EU referendum, George Eustice, habitats directive. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Responses to George Eustice clueless on impacts of Brexit on laws protecting UK wildlife David Dunlop says: We’d be left with the Council of Europe’s Berne Convention (Europe in the sense of the continent, not shorthand for the EU. http://www.coe.int/en/web/bern-convention/presentation How that works in practice I don’t know, though the Isle of Man and, I think, the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the States of Jersey are signatories. (Other signatories include Norway, Switzerland and the Russian Federation – when last I paid attention: it’s much easier to rely on the UK regulations and EU Directives.) Miles King says: thanks Dave. Yes the Berne Convention provided some protection for a few species before the Birds and Habitats Directives came along. It was partly transposed into UK law via the Wildlife and Countryside Act, until the Birds and Habitats Directives came along. At which point the UK met its obligations under Bern via these EU Nature Directives! As we know, UK and EU environmental law is intimately bound together; and has been for over 30 years. Untangling those connections will take an army of bureaucrats. Otherwise it’s a field day for the lawyers. There’d be some very practical disentangling to be done too; e.g. http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/protectedsites/sacselection/sac.asp?EUcode=UK0016603 http://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000584 If I hear any other UK secessionist (strictly, “Brexit” requires Scotland to stay in the UK and Northern Ireland to leave it) describe the UK as an island I may explode – cliche as that would be! And even if it were there’s, for example, the Dogger Bank SAC (Germany, Netherlands, UK, Belgium?)… I’m not sure how practical – or practicable – the disentangling would be – but cross border sites would be very interesting, yes. Should we rename them uk-exit-eers Dave? We call him George Useless down these parts (Cornwall – where he is one of the six of our Tory MPs!!) Robert Christopher says: He’s nothing to do with UKIP! As poster Lindsay says, he’s a Tory. And his web site has a subheading: “MP for Camborne, Redruth & Hayle Conservatives” It is normal for an MPs to represent all their constituents, not only from their own party: http://www.georgeeustice.org.uk Eustice was a UKIP candidate for the European Parliament in 1999. Pingback: Brexit: Conclusive evidence for the Cock-Up theory of History \| a new nature blog Pingback: Stewart continues his journey, and it’s Coffey Time at Defra \| a new nature blog Pingback: Hollow Promises: A Brexit impact assessment \| a new nature blog @ACameronFOE Morning Alasdair. My understanding of this is that chlorination isn't an animal welfare argument, or f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 28 minutes ago The Story remains up on the @BBCDorset website this morning, unchanged. twitter.com/MilesKing10/st… 45 minutes ago and as everyone knows you shouldn't reheat a chlorinated chicken argument more than once. twitter.com/SamuelMarcLowe… 51 minutes ago RT @premnsikka: 12 highly vulnerable people with eating disorders died over the last 7 years after failings in care. 11 NHS trusts warned.… 17 hours ago @Rosewood_Farm @nigelwickenden @seasonalight @drvox come on guys. this is twitter. You know the rules. 17 hours ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13713
__label__cc	0.715224	0.284776	Action Alert: Genetically Modified Frankenfish! Coming to you soon—and you probably won’t know that you’re eating it. Genetically modified salmon—the first GMO animal for human consumption—is reaching the final stages in its approval. Most terrifying: they might not have to tell us if our fish is GM or not! This week the FDA announced a 60-day period of consultation and public hearings over whether to permit a genetically modified strain of salmon (“frankenfish” to its critics) to be eaten by humans. The approval process could take less than a year, and if it gets the green light the fish could be on the market in eighteen months. There are two sets of hearings: whether the FDA should approve this “new animal drug application,” and whether the fish (if approved) must be labeled as genetically engineered or not. Because it is new ground for the FDA and there are no regulations about genetically engineered animals, it is being evaluated as if it were an animal treated with drugs. AquAdvantage Salmon, designed to grow twice as fast as traditional fish, is an Atlantic salmon containing the Chinook salmon growth hormone gene, plus an antifreeze protein gene from the ocean pout—an eel-like creature from a different family of marine organisms. The fish has been created by AquaBounty Technologies of Boston, Massachusetts, and was developed over the past fourteen years at a cost of $50 million. The explanation of the genetic modification on the company’s publicity literature, aimed at reassuring the public, makes no mention of the ocean pout gene: “The chinook growth hormone is the same as the Atlantic salmon growth hormone; it is simply regulated differently. Their ability to grow faster does not change the biological make-up of the fish.” AquaBounty says the fish will be raised in inland waters to ensure that the modified salmon do not enter the oceans. The GM salmon will also be sterile, which eliminates the threat of interbreeding among themselves or with native populations, eliminating the risk to wild populations or the environment. ANH-USA has consistently opposed genetically modified organisms because of both the documented and the unknown health risks. If GMO products are approved, however ANH-USA strongly supports labeling. We do not have true health freedom if we are prevented from choosing non-GMO foods—which is precisely the result if there are no labels indicating that a particular food has been genetically modified. We do not like untested, new-to-nature substances being forced onto us, but we value the freedom of conscious consumer choice even more. Eric Hallerman, head of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences at Virginia Tech University, said, “This is the threshold case. If it’s approved, there will be others. If it’s not, it’ll have a chilling effect for years.” One question the hearings will try to determine is whether and how AquaBounty salmon is “materially different” from regular Atlantic salmon. In past hearings on GMOs, the FDA has never found that genetic engineering in itself constitutes a material difference, and the FDA cannot require labeling based on differences in the production process if the resulting products are not materially different. Any specific scientific data that might support material differences for this GM salmon will be released anywhere from two weeks to two days before the hearing, which will hardly be enough time for thorough scientific evaluation. The FDA says that if the Agency is unable to provide the materials before the meeting, they will be available at the hearing! This says it all about the FDA’s bias. Can you imagine telling a prosecutor or defense lawyer that the evidence would be withheld until the trial? To date, FDA has refused to require GMO labeling based on consumer interest alone, and the courts (in Stauber v. Shalala and Alliance for Bio-integrity v. Shalala) have upheld the FDA’s decision. The problem, of course, is that we don’t yet know what negative health effects such bio-engineering might cause in the salmon. We do know that genetically modified foods affect the human physiology in negative ways. One example: Filipinos who ate GMO corn found that their bodies developed antibodies to Bt toxin—that is, their bodies processed the corn’s engineered traits into their guts and reacted to them. These same consumers also developed a resistance to the antibiotic ampicillin. Moreover, there are significant nutritional differences between GM and non-GM foods generally: GMO soybean varieties produce greater amounts of oleic acid than other soybean varieties. The FDA even acknowledged the differences in the oil they produce, concluding that the term “soybean oil” no longer adequately described the nature of the food but that a term like “high oleic acid” would be required to appear as part of the name of the oil. Roundup Ready beans were significantly lower in protein and amino acid, according to Jeffrey Smith in his book Genetic Roulette. In 1996, animal tests proved that there was a severe danger from genes spliced from Brazil nuts and soybeans—allergic reactions so severe that the individuals could suffer anaphylactic shock, possibly leading to death. We recently reported to you that GM soy made hamsters sterile, but that the effect did not hit until the third generation, a frightening thought if it applies to humans. One major problem is that the FDA has historically rushed to approve genetically modified products that are later found to be dangerous. For example, the Flavr Savr tomato was genetically engineered in the early 1990s by Calgene Inc. (now owned by Monsanto); it was designed to stay fresh on store shelves longer than regular tomatoes. Even though the FDA’s own scientific advisers were concerned over Calgene’s findings, which showed stomach lesions in lab rats that ingested the GM tomato, the Flavr Savr went to market! The FDA should certainly have required the Flavr Savr to be labeled as GM: not only were there significant “material differences” between it and a non-GM tomato in terms of its taste, its risk of fungal diseases, and other physical problems, but more importantly, the Flavr Savr tomato was never deemed safe. According to biologist Arpad Pusztai, “the claim that these GM tomatoes were safe as conventional ones is at best premature and, at worst, faulty.” The tomato was withdrawn from the market in 1997. In the case of the GM salmon, there are two different FDA hearings—one on the AquAdvantage product, and one on the need for a labeling requirement—so we need your help with a two-pronged Action Alert. Please contact the FDA and voice your opinions on genetically modified salmon and on full disclosure in labeling. As always, we’ve drafted sample letters to help you. Please TAKE ACTION now! TO SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO THE FDA ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED SALMON Click THIS LINK to go to the AquAdvantage Salmon Hearing Action Alert page. TO SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO THE FDA ON LABELING FOR GMO FOODS Click THIS LINK to go to the GMO Labeling Hearing Once there, fill out the form with your name and address, etc., and customize your letter. We have a suggested message for you, but please feel free to add your own comments to the letter. We’d also love to hear your comments about this article—just add your thoughts below—but remember that the messages below are only seen by our ANH-USA readers and not FDA. 56 responses to “Action Alert: Genetically Modified Frankenfish!” Richard Edlich says: We encourage the FDA to ban genetically modified salmon. Mary Ellen Ryall says: We need a Food Labeling Bill. Then at least we would know NOT TO BUY GMO salmon or any other food product that contains gene mixes from other species be it bacteria, pesticide or mixing different fish genes. Happy Tonics, Inc. stands behind biodiversity, open pollination and saying NO TO GMO. Oh we need a food labeling law desperately! Unfortunately Monsanto has a strong lobby so it may take a while before the government listens. I can’t believe they are so greedy that they need politicians from their company in the FDA and the USDA trying to “protect the public” by eliminating our rights to choose what is good for us! Christine Herbert says: Can you please fix your website so that when I try to “Share” an article using the Facebook Share button on my Google toolbar that it actually shares the article title and not yoru generic “welcome to the Alliance for Natural Health” title. This requires that you change your meta description for each page to the article title not your website default title. It would also be nice if you could add Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and Digg share buttons on your article pages to make it easier for people to spread the word. Love your info, but please make it easier to go viral! Yes this site needs Share button ANH-USA says: We’re working on adding those features right now – Thanks Christine! This is a wordpress site. Adding the above mentioned buttons is a trivial plugin addition. Need help, just ask. Pamela Myers says: STOP THIS TRAVESTY!!! THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING! Richard Murray says: What every body seems to ignore is the overpopulation of the world today, Seven billion people are too many, so my theory is that because GM foods have been shown in early testing to cause sterilization in humans, it may be a pogrom for population control. Just a thought, I mean our government always has our well being in mind. don’t they? Oralia Acosta says: NO Richard, they don’t they don’t give a damned about us, just the Almighty dollar whom they praise MORE than ANY god, and is their GOD! There are OTHER ways of dealing w/overpopulation — but the masses of course, must serve to feed the rich lords! These people really are delving into something they know NOTHING ABOUT! And I can assure you “they” KNOW that those of us that are INFORMED about GMOs do NOT want them and that is why they don’t label them — they KNOW MOST people will NOT buy them!!!!! World “Overpopulation” is a lie!!! We have enough room just in the state of Texas to put everyone currently alive in the world into a 1200 sqft house and use the Great Planes States to produce food to feed them all. Julie Amato says: I am not in favor of Genetically modified foods….it could be a HUGE health risk, as there has not been enough research on the health effects over time. We have enough problems with the food as it is….look at all of the EGGS being recalled! We have huge food issues, and don’t need this one right now. And to even THINK about not labeling GMO foods is a big NO. Where is our freedom to choose…? And what if it IS a big mistake for our health…? What then? Profits for these companies is not as important to me as REAL FOOD…that we know is healthy for us. Please stop….we DON’T WANT GMO’s….thank you. Worse, if the foods are not marked, people will not know WHAT ON EARTH is making them ill …. I think this has been a long time coming, our foods are already containing poisons….Soy is known to be a neurotoxin as it is…. Don’t you ever wonder what the “flavoring” is in our foods, plus…. they already don’t have to put that some foods contain MSG, which often goes by several other names… khg says: The FDA is a criminal institution that supports corparate farms and the corporate manipulaion of food. They do not represent the interest of the people, they’re just like the Republican and Democartic criminal parties. The people have lost control of our country – big money and corporations run the show. David Shelton says: I agree entirely. One hopes that at some point those irresponsible money grubbers will somehow be stopped. No, David, hoping won’t change a thing! As King says, the republicnas and democrats are all bought, sold and paid for. WE MUST VOTE THEM ALL OUT – bring all independents in are start rebuilding this thing from scratch! FDA = Fraudulent Deception Association YOU GOT THAT RIGHT KGH!!! NOW LET’S INFORM THE MASSES!!!! Charlee Sandell says: Re-read Francis Pottenger’s books about generational demise when animals were fed foods that were not even GMO…just processed. Cats lasted only 4 generations on cooked meat & milk…tells you something right there!!! Whew! Now we can eat Frankenstein for dinner. Keith Huxoll says: Man should never attempt to play God because the effects down the road can be disasterous I.e. God is the creator and man is the creation Brenda Hoover says: Larry bassett says: Please end the GMO insanity. Your negligence is endangering many. I’m not quite sure why we have to argue against GMO foods day after day. The corporations behind this – vegetable or salmon etc., – are so infatuated with their filthy profits and power over others that health and even life don’t matter. Why is it that they are OUTside the prison bars wrecking the world while the rest of us are inside begging to have real food to eat? Since the science behind GMO has NOT been done in the US, I suggest we follow Denmark’s science. Then, like Denmark and Britain after them, refuse to follow international pressures to allow GMO and outlaw it in our country. Do we have to sit here watching country after country do the same, or could we catch on now and just say NO right now. We are never the leader, never the people who can think ahead to consequences. I’ll fight for a normal salmon-life for the salmon’s sake, but my days of eating salmon are over. We can fight over labeling forever, and I support labels, but we will never win this argument until we face GMO directly and firmly say NO. Yes I agree lets outlaw this GM and GMO now. Why are we not aggresively stopping this takeover of our food. You know “he that controls the food control the people”. Lets end it and say NO. What part of no do they not understand! We do not want fake unreal food. Soon we will hear how a freaky fish accidently got loose into the wild and now all the fish will be contaminated and cross breed and we will starve because the food will be too dangerous to eat. All because of greed. God gave man dominian over the earth and animals, we now have evil men who are greedy to the point they will distroy human health and earth. Only God is the creater. Only God did it right the first time. It is time to stop the freaky labratory experiments they keep trying to mix DNA and cells at. The case has already been made for chemical agriculture. You can’t feed seven billion people with the less-intensive organic techniques even if you convert every acre of rain forest into farmland. Having chosen to be child-free, I really don’t care whether GM soy might make my descendants sterile. Achieving that for the bulk of humanity would be a boon for the planet. Failing that, population increase without improved technology requires converting more of nature into food. As population increases, I must ethically choose GM plant varieties over converting more marginal land to agriculture. I must similarly assume the hypothetical risk of GM fish over continued strip-mining of the oceans. GM opponents who have not opposed population growth are guilty of magical thinking. At best they will accomplish nothing. At worst, they will be responsible for greater environmental degradation both on land and under the sea. Chief Seattle, 1854 We are bound within the shackles of greed and becoming prisoners within this stock market driven ( Bio-Tech- Gene-Tech, Nano-Tech) community of corporate entities that have recently become a voting block granted personhood by the Supreme Court. “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) the Supreme Court of the United States held that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited under the First Amendment, overruling Austin (1990) and partly overruling McConnell (2003). The corporate personhood aspect of the campaign finance debate turns on Buckley v. Valeo (1976) and Citizens United (2010): Buckley ruled that political spending is protected by the First Amendment right to free speech, while Citizens United ruled that corporate political spending is protected, holding that corporations have a First Amendment right to free speech.” We as ‘living’ individuals and citizens of the World are having no say in where this huge mechanized machine called “Bio-Tech- Gene-Tech- Nano-Tech” is going. The human beings working within these faceless “Bio-Tech- Gene-Tech- Nano-Tech” Corporations are designing Frankenstein technologies for monetary rewards and they are all cogs in this Wall Street stock driven corporate Fascistic Conglomerate called (New Technology). Worker units driven by the greed of fame for any new invention they can invent and for all the stock options they can get if their invention is sold to you and I in the consumer marketplace. The FDA is under control by political Pac moneyed payouts that all of our politicians have taken by this conglomerate called (New Technology) and all the top billionaire players are controlling you and I. Our system has been broken by greed in the United States and Corporate Fascism has killed our Democracy. I am a DES daughter, my Mother was given the first manmade estrogen derived from Petroleum in 1953 while pregnant with me, the drug rendered me sterile at birth, gave my Mother Cancer when I was five and created a germ line change within my DNA, meaning if I was able to breed my Grandchildren would be showing genetic changes due to the “Lilly Corporation” drug that bathed me in my Mothers Womb. There are over 10,000,000 of us DES sons and daughters whose lives were changed by this poison, which the FDA allowed into the market place. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylstilbestrol We are playing with fire by ingesting and being exposed to all these new technologies that have not been tested properly. Because the FDA is a sham and is nothing but a greed controlled puppet organization designed to support new technology at every turn, every citizen in this country has to take personal responsibility and do the research and make the right choices for themselves, because our government is controlled by Corporate Fascism. That means reading every label and reading up on what these new “Bio-Tech- Gene-Tech- Nano-Tech” Corporations are up to. The Internet is still a freethinking environment and you will find the truth in the many sites that are popping up fighting this madness. Many of us are awake and are taking responsibility for ourselves. It is the Wild West right now because there is no structure in place controlling this Greed driven train. Snake oil salesmen and women are everywhere. GREED IS RUNNING THE SHOW…. DO THE RESEARCH OR PAY THE CONSEQUENCES! Kathleen Carr says: I cannot believe our complaisance! “Please” don’t do this??? Where is the OUTRAGE, the ANGER at our government, and companies like Monsanto, whereby the almighty dollar has become more important than human life, ethics, health, morality or just about anything else!! Would be willing to bet those in charge go to church, too, and think they are all wonderful Christians to boot. Donna Travis says: This is a serious deviations from the way our Lord has provided us with earth’s bounties left in its natural state. Its an abomination to create something different and we will suffer the repercussions from all of these transgressions. I say let us continue on with the way the earth has provided us. It has never been wrong for the past million years. We don’t need to be changing things at all and can be nutritionally balanced as our ancestors were. Roger Fuller says: Dear ANH-USA: It seems to me that the authors of the Salmon Action item are not clear on some issues. Genetically Engineered Plants and Animals are always materially different from the natural ones because the DNA molecules in their cell nuclei have been permanently, chemically altered by artifically added, foreign DNA fragment molecules, (genes). In the case of plants, the DNA in the cell nuclei of the seeds has been mutated: permanently altered with inserted foreign genes (DNA fragments) which causes all future plant cells to be altered in a similar way to the original seed cell. The offspring cells which make up the whole organism are now biochemically altered as well as their DNA. The food animals we currently eat are already altered by eating GE food and by being injected with GE hormones. To make a genetically engineered animal from scratch is a new process that I Alfiya Aleeva says: FDA, MONSANTO and other food additive production companies they are all MAFIA. You seem to be so naive saying they don’t know what they are doing! If alternative health practitioner will harm single individual they will spread it all over the world, but look what they do. They try to reduce population, where ever you put your nose in everywhere dangerous things now. FDA is a criminal organization people like Donald Tramp, Blair all of them investing money into these corporations. They want us die like flies and we are dying. They scream out of TV population is growing and food shortages ahead. Who would believe? Population is dying to cancer, heart disorders, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, moto-neuron diseases. They are all know well what they do and look pigs sterile, fish sterile, food seeds are sterile. THEY DESTROY THE PLANET BLOODY and we are discussing in here, wasting time!!!!!!! They destroying us, the entire world already contaminated by pesticides, herbicides DDT, AND THAT WASN’T ENOUGH FOR THEM. we dont need FDA IT IS PRIVATE CORRUPTED ORGANIZATION! PEOPLE! WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH FOOD ON THE PLANET! THE PROBLEM IS THE TRADE ORGANIZATION IS A HUGE POLITICAL ISSUE. THEY DONT LET IN ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SELL THEIR FOODSTUFF. look around the world plenty of untouched soils a good soils but because this monsters produce food fast on chemicals and normally grown food cannot compete in price. But trouble is they make a huge profit as tomatoes planted in spongy water filled with chemicals cost pennies to produce 1 kg but they cell it so expensive! Dont let them destroy the planet please, stop them to feed us by disease causing foods. 50 millions for fish GMO! who paid those money? millioners investing money into FDA, mONSANTO AND OTHERS LIKE and publicly they pretend being so innocent. please don’t let them feed us, destroy all GMO, and don’t buy any food from supermarket, eat bread you baked in your oven, stay away from dangerous people and their foods. ASK WHAT THEY EAT AND DRINK. THEY DELIVER THEIR DRINKING WATERS FROM UNTOUCHED MOUNTAIN This is nothing new. It’s simply getitng far more frequent and sublte. The FDA is a bunch of slime balls that have nothing to do except figure out ways they can aid their “buddies” in killing us all. The USDA does the same thing. The agenda is to bring this country to its kness. The WHO and the CDC say the US ranks 50th in the world among over 100 world nations in health and longevity. This is unacceptable. They told us smoking cigarettes was good for us, that if we ate less fat and cholesterol we would get thin and have less cardio vascular disease. Instead, we all got fatter, sicker and seemingly more dependant on the “expert” opinions of the pharma poison pushers and the most ignorant intelligent people there seems to be–medical doctors. All of it is wrong. It’s deception through the omission of critical facts–And the implementation of select information and information that has a slanted agenda, plus blantant lies and indifference. We need to take back our destiny and the lives of our children and grand children before we all are just another statistic that the law simply ignores because the doctors say so.They said some years ago that it was against the law to aid another in self inflicted suicide. How about some enforcement–!!! P.Oed in Texas GET THE FDA OUT OF HERE. IT IS A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION RUN BY THOSE WHO ARE KILLING US. THEY DO NOT HAVE POWER. THEY DO NOT HAVE POWER. PEOPLE! RUN THEM OUT! Selena Bonito says: This is sick I tell you. You don’t make food. You grow or let it grow! I can’t even believe how far everything has gotten these days. Seems like we are all going to have to live like our great grandparents did in order to survive the sick things they are doing and allowed to do with our food. BimBam says: It is CLEAR to me the FDA is our ENEMY. No way should FOOD NOT BE LABELED GMO, when there is GMO in the ingredients. DO NOT TRUST THE FDA. They are liars. Valerie Nixon says: While I always say we must fight the good fight, I must also add that it is a pretty terrible thing that this Country, founded upon such noble principles, – has become such an evil empire. tomescu teofan emilian says: These so called scientists should be prosecuted for undermining our nature given right to eat natural food without any let or hindrance.It should be the last straw for all sane human beings and a clarion call to take action against these murderers who want us to be their lab rats and their milk-cows.What will happen to the natives and fish eaters around the world when they want to eat a freshly caught fish when they are told “this fish belongs to x company who has a valid patent on it ?Not to mention the greatest threat of all that of contaminating the natural species and thus destroying their strong natural genetic make-up that took milions of years to hone to perfection something that cannot be said about the genetically modified type who will be nothing more than a reject like the brains of those mad scientists that created them.Do not mess with our natural food you freaks! Scott Brown says: You realize, of course, that sending a petition to the FDA is akin to a group of hostages in a bank vault submitting a vote to the bank robbers that they’d like to be freed. The FDA’s actions over the years have clearly and consistently shown that their primary allegiance is to big pharma-, big medico-, big insurance-, and big agri-lobbyists who pay them obscene amounts of money. We are no more than lab specimens to them. They quite obviously don’t much care how, or if, we and our friends and families live or die. If enough lab specimens pipe up and say: “Please, sir! Can I have some more organic food? And could you please not kill me with lethal chemicals, fake foods, and dangerous treatments?” then I am sure someone in the appropriate department will make a note of the request. NO GMO! or for crying out loud at the very least you must label it! But overall I propose no GMO at all! L. Ralph Berger says: I disagree with about 90% of the comments above. Yes new products should be tested, but if the investigators, products are denigrated before they can justify their work or workings by persons with blanket prejudice against GM products and activities, it is these critics who are the potential ¨fools or criminals¨. The darkness of the ¨Middle Ages¨ was largely the result of the premises held by the then (political, religious and just plain ignorant) leaders of the time. You should publish a fair list of the goodies (food, medical, and a host of other items) from which we profit everyday. It will be a long one. The human hormone you are taking was probably made in bacteria, the antibiotics you use are the products of genetically modified microorganismI: fungi and bacteria mostly, the demand for more food has given us better strains of cereals.. yes a few with rare side-effects, but nothing´s all-perfect (yet), not even me.. Yes, I´m a scientist, but yes I know a bit about the subjects I write about. More of us should be ´vocal´. Ona says: Mr. Berger, the pejorative labeling of commenters here and of the Middle Ages does nothing but illuminate one’s own prejudice and ignorance. I urge you to continue your education by reading Wikpedia’s article on the “Dark Ages,” a term understood as being judgmental and critical of religion dominating an age supposedly lacking scientific reason. It’s a good article, and the terms “darkness” and “dark ages” are now largely avoided as the meanings they conjure to the general public are narrow minded and erroneous. As for genetically modified organisms, there is a world of difference between carefully isolating genetically modified microorganisms in a laboratory to produce insulin or an antibiotic and unleashing genetically modified plants and animals that are yet to be proven safe for the planet’s flora and fauna, and in some cases already shown to be harmful. It is not a rare side effect that the genes of Roundup-Ready genetic modification are infecting indigenous plants and producing super weeds. It was not a rare side effect when all third-generation surviving hamsters fed GM soy became sterile. It was not a rare side effect when all of an Iowa farmer’s breeding cattle became sterile when fed GM grain. It is not a rare side effect that GM corn pollen can be carried in the wind more than 5 miles and contaminate natural organic corn. It is not a rare side effect that glyphosate (Roundup herbicide) used on GM crops is polluting ground water at the rate of 5 times more than the allowed level for drinking water. The USDA’s action and oversight are supposed to be based on “sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management.” The FDA is supposed to be responsible for “protecting the public health” and “helping the public get accurate, science-based information.” No question, food labels must be required to clearly list in large bold letters anything therein genetically modified. It’s time to demand government agencies adhere to their missions. It’s time to clean money- and corporate-based corruption out of our government. It’s time to kick out the government representatives that politic to get our votes and then betray us by voting for regulations that benefit the rich and corporate contributors and make the rest of us sicker and poorer. Ida Anderson says: This is very “scary.” It seems as though the FDA is getting away with just about anything they want !! It seems like we will all have to stop eating salmon. Even if they do label it, who knows if the label is correct. It is bad enough to think that they may be selling salmon from the “oil” in the waters! We all need to really PRAY about this as many other situations in our President and some in Congress!! Ona- You totally rock girl! Ona – Very well put!! You DO totally rock! Timothy Humphrey says: My letter to the FDA on labeling genetic modified foods as such: I’m troubled to read about genetically modified fish being considered to be sold. While I won’t claim to be an expert on these matters, as an individual I want to know what’s in the foods I eat. If a fish has had its genetic makeup artificially altered, as in direct DNA manipulation as opposed to more natural methods such as cross breeding, then I most definitely want to know this. I simply am not convinced that genetically modified foods are materially the same as their non-genetically modified counterparts. While the end product make look visually the same on the outside, the inside, the makeup of nutrients, is not the same. It’s because of this reason that I want genetically modified foods to be clearly marked as such so I can decide for myself if I want to consume them. Janet Miles says: Thank you so much for providing important information so we can be on the look-out for what the FDA and others are doing that can be matters of life or DEATH!! An excellent article. Thank you. Nura Washington says: GM has gotten out-of-hand in seeds, plants, fish – everything, and has started overseas. It does not appear that the FDA or any other organizations that produce these genetically modified organisms actually care. But thank you for the information, and I hope enough people worldwide become aware before there is no return. John R Stockhausen says: I was brought up on (Organic Food) from day (1). It was proven more than (40yrs) ago that (How you act & feel all depends on the Quality of the food you eat). Most of the food out there is full of Chemicals & Fillers that the body doesn’t have any idea of how to deal with this garbage. Most all of the crime & crazy actions are responsible for the quality (or lack of) quality food. The body has NO idea of how to deal with all these chemicals. All of the governmental agencies are supposed to (Keep us SAFE). The taxpayers are paying all of you to (Do the Right Thing). Now it’s about time you ALL get your heads out of your (Back Pockets) & do whats RIGHT. Have any of you EVER thought about what the (BIG JUDGE) has in store for you per to all of your (BAD) actions & judgement calls????????? Time is running out for YOU. 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__label__cc	0.701115	0.298885	Sophia Donovan-Spalding BA (Hons) Media Studies 2017 1. Tell us about yourself. I’m a 21-year-old comedy queen who makes everyone cry with laughter around her… Nope, that’s not right. My name’s Sophia Donovan-Spalding and I graduated from Anglia Ruskin in October 2017, and I’m also the first person from my immediate family to receive a degree. I would describe myself as a 21-year-old shopaholic with a make-up and dog obsession (not a make-up-on-dog’s obsession as that would be quite strange!). I’m also a bit of a bookworm and a book hoarder. I have two full bookshelves in my house, with books ranging from Dr Seuss to Martina Cole. I can never throw a book away, no matter it’s condition, (when you have dogs, nothing ever stays immaculate). I currently work for a company called Cambridge Wireless, a leading international community for companies involved in the research, development and application of wireless and mobile, internet semiconductor and software technologies. I know, that is a mouthful and a lot to take in, trust me, when I first started I was like what…? But honestly, I’ve learnt so much during my time here and I’ve met some really cool people from companies such as Google, Amazon, Costa Coffee. I’m just an ordinary 21-year-old who likes the occasional night out and a good Blue Lagoon pitcher at Spoons with my friends! 2. What is your fondest memory at Anglia Ruskin University? Meeting some of my closest friends for the first time. I wouldn’t be where I am today without them. 3. What advice would you give to current students as they're preparing to graduate? Spread your time out evenly. Always make sure that you have spread your time out evenly enough to focus on your essays and/or exams. Trust me, I know how hard and daunting that sounds. I worked part-time throughout my time at university and it’s a killer, I know. Luckily, where I worked were understanding of my situation and that university would always come first before anything else. Also, what helped me in my final year was creating note Powerpoint presentations that I could print out and scribble on, containing the most relevant of information, from book excerpts to website posts. It may sound excessive but they helped shoot my grades up, and I wasn’t browsing through websites constantly trying to find useful material as I had it all in front of me. Also, attend your graduation as it is one of the most pleasurable, exciting experiences of your life. It’s so worth it! 4. What do you know now that you wish you had known whilst you were studying? I would have to say the time juggling. God I wish that I had practiced how to juggle my time efficiently before moving. I know, saying that I should have ‘practiced’ time juggling sounds strange, but if I could go back, that’s what I would have done as keeping time is such a crucial part of your time at university. ABBA may think that time goes by slowly, but believe me, when you’re at university, time shoots past you at the speed of light! 5. How did your time at Anglia Ruskin help you? Anglia Ruskin has helped me in so many ways. I wouldn’t be the person that I am today if it wasn’t for ARU, and I know that that sounds so cringe but it’s true. I wanted to challenge myself by moving away from London to a new part of the UK, (but not too far because I would have missed my family loads) and I fell in love with Cambridge and the university when I came to one of the open days. Moving to a new city, into a new house (on my own) and living with complete strangers sounds daunting, and trust me it was, but being put into those unfamiliar situations changed my viewpoint on everything for the better. I also wouldn’t be sitting here, at my desk, in my swanky office located in Cambridge Science Park if it wasn’t for the university as I actually found the job vacancy on ARU’s Employment Bureau website. 6. What did you love about your chosen course? That there was so much more to the subject than met the eye. Everyone I knew referred to media studies as a ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree as they believed that all you did was study films and annotate advertisements, but once I told them exactly what I'd studied, they’d sit there with a question mark above their forehead asking me 'What?'! Media studies = don’t judge a book by its cover. 7. What would you tell someone thinking of studying at ARU? Go for it! As well as studying at a fantastic university that offers so much choice, you’ll also be studying in beautiful surroundings such as Cambridge, Peterborough or Chelmsford. ARU has helped shape me into the person that I am today and I believe that they can help shape anyone. 8. In one word how would you describe Anglia Ruskin? 9. Who was the biggest influence on your career? Can I say my mum? Is that too cheesy? My mum has been the biggest influence. My mum was quite young when she had me and my brother but that still didn’t stop her from going out and following her dreams. I’ve watched her work her way up in the career ladder and I couldn’t be prouder. From watching her, I know that it’s possible to achieve anything. 10. What accomplishment are you most proud of? My degree, I actually have one! 11. What advice would you give your younger self? Not to listen to the playground bullies and to be more confident in both myself and my work. 12. What drives you? 13. What’s next? Stepping up in my role, growing as a person. Who knows, anything can happen. Sophia Donovan-Spalding graduating with friends in October 2017	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13718
__label__cc	0.74217	0.25783	Walking to Create Posted byRonnie Hughes April 20, 2016 April 20, 2016 2 Comments on Walking to Create After a few years away a much loved Liverpool business is once again a high street presence in Liverpool. Welcome back Create. Back open since November on Prescot Road, Old Swan, Create was one of Liverpool’s original social enterprises from its founding in 1995. Sarah and I did a lot of work with them over the years and became particular friends with their longest serving Chief Executive Greg Walker. Create worked on white goods – cookers, fridges, freezers and washing machines. Recycling some and supplying them at good affordable prices to people who needed them the most. More particularly though they helped people with their lives, training and employing many hundreds in the end, from their base then in Speke, and with Create shops all over Merseyside. But we’ll pick up their story when we get there, because today we’re walking to the new Create. Off across The Mystery on a deeply blue morning. Balmy and still today, though mostly windy here, as you can tell from the avenue of trees. Guided for some of today’s walk by a 1905 OS map. Avenue of trees clearly visible. Into Grange Terrace. I lived along there for a few months back in 1991. At the top of the road, a welcome sight. The old Sandown pub transformed into the new location for long lived and loved ‘Eureka.’ Displaced by the destruction of it’s former home in Myrtle Parade L8. And very welcome here. Wavertree High Street. This place only became a part of Liverpool in 1895. Crossing the road into Sandown Lane. Handsome, Georgian, Gresford Street off to the right. The splendid Edinburgh pub on the corner. And more elegant houses further along Sandown Lane. North and South Drives off to the right. One of several Victorian developments dotted around Liverpool, like say Grassendale in Aigburth, where the well to do of the day built themselves comfortable villas. The lodge of long gone Sandown Hall. How it looked late in its days. Before being controversially demolished early this century. The area in 1905. 100 years before the Hall went. Across Olive Mount Cutting as marked on that map. And passing the top of Binns Road. The Meccano factory was down there until 1979 when it was closed. Protesting about that was my first big political demo back then. Arriving at Old Swan, St Oswald’s Church. St Oswald House used to be opposite. Replaced by a Tesco car park, sadly. Spoiling the scale of the corner more than a little. Five roads come together at the junction here. Clearly an ancient village junction that’s gloriously made it to the 21st century. The same road pattern from the 1830s, when Old Swan was a village. From Liverpool Today, thank you. You can, of course see LFC’s ground from here. Rising ever higher into the North Liverpool sky. Along Prescot Road. A busy attractive high street. Older times still in evidence along the side. A pulley up there? And so we arrive at the new Create. What’s happened with Create is that a few years ago it closed for business as the recession bit. Even though by then its chief Executive Greg Walker had been awarded an OBE for his services to the unemployed. But since then Greg has dreamed and planned, sometimes on walks with me, how he might get Create going again in some form. And now he has. Create now, in 2016. So still about affordable white goods. But, as ever, even more about people. So a couple of the stories of the team here now. First Carol’s Story: “Carol had been unemployed for the previous 8 years or more until she came to work at CREATE in July 2015 on the six month WRAP supported programme, backed by her housing provider Liverpool Mutual Homes. As a single parent with four children, life had been difficult for Carol to say the least. She’d been applying for jobs for years for cleaning or anything available, but without any luck. In July 2015 she got the chance of the 6 months paid work at CREATE as part of a small team refurbishing end of life white goods for onward sale to low income households. She worked hard and became a valuable member of that team. CREATE saw her potential and at the end of the six months they offered her the job of managing their newly opened retail shop. The photograph above shows Carol in the shop with her new found skills and confidence. In Carol’s own words “Financially, because of now having to pay full council tax and housing costs I’m only about £50 a month better off – but the real plus is the mental gain. I enjoy the work and I feel like I’m a real person again and can look people in the eye. I’m not ashamed anymore” Next, Afonso’s Story: “Afonso was born in Angola and arrived in the UK in January 2011 after working in Portugal. Although he could speak several African languages as well as Portuguese, French and Dutch, his English was at that time very limited. He was referred to the Job Centre which he found very stressful due to the language, so he went to night school to study English. He took a course in welding and engineering which was his previous trade but no jobs came. He was referred by the Job Centre to many agencies but nothing came of them. After three and a half years he was eventually referred to CREATE who realised what a hardworking and intelligent person he was. He was subsequently taken on the CREATE six month WRAP supported programme, backed by his housing provider Liverpool Mutual Homes. At the end of that programme CREATE gave him a permanent job as a delivery and service engineer. He now runs a car and was able to get married last year. All the staff went to his wedding. In Afonso’s words “Financially I am much better off than I was. Most importantly though I’ve got a job and my self-respect – and I never have to visit the Job Centre again!” Part of the Create team now. Well done that Greg Walker. Good friend and serial social entrepreneur. So, Create is back. And it’s well worth the walk, or the bus ride, from wherever you are. Create is at 692-696 Prescot Road, Liverpool, L13 5XG. The shop selling kitchen appliances and beds. And also changing people’s lives. Posted byRonnie Hughes April 20, 2016 April 20, 2016 Posted inHistory, Social Enterprise, WalkingTags: Create, Eureka restaurant, Greg Walker, Meccano, Old Swan, Prescot Road, Sandown Hall, Social enterprise, The Edinburgh Sandown Lane, The Mystery, urban walking, Wavertree Published by Ronnie Hughes Writing about life, Liverpool and anything else that interests me. As well as working with others to make the world a fairer and kinder place: http://asenseofplace.com. View more posts Writing On The Wall: WoWFest 2016 in May Good-night, Sweet Prince Sylvia Dunn says: A fascinating blog, maps always Ronnie, but with such a positive and happy ending. Thank you! Just reinforces, to this exiled Liverpudlian, the character of my home city and its residents. Well done Create! Ronnie Hughes says: Yes Sylvia. Love a good map, especially old ones that you can still see in the shapes of our places today. Essential that everywhere retains a sense of itself in the way Old Swan so elegantly does. And yes, Create, Greg Walker and their stories. Brilliant, of course. Leave a Reply to Sylvia Dunn Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13720
__label__wiki	0.733384	0.733384	Dungeon Under the Stairs at the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse It's a pretty creepy lock-up. An 18th century detention hall. J. Ginsberg (Atlas Obscura User) An unruly student, kept under the stairs. J Ginsberg (Atlas Obscura User) The 200 year old schoolhouse, built of cypress and cedar. Dan Lundberg (CC BY-SA 2.0) Display at the museum. J Ginsberg (Atlas Obscura User) In the classroom with the animatronic teacher. Cliff (CC BY 2.0) He declares he's "inocint," but rumor has it he bites. J Ginsberg (Atlas Obscura User) The old school has been a museum since 1936. Dave (CC BY 2.0) Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse in the U.S. located on St. George Street, St. Augustine TravisMcGee (Atlas Obscura User) An anchor secures the oldest wooden schoolhouse during heavy winds TravisMcGee (Atlas Obscura User) There’s nothing like a visit to St Augustine’s Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse Museum to bring back memories of those carefree elementary school days of the 18th century: dunce caps, a privy out back, a schoolmaster living overhead… And a creepy Harry Potter-esque dungeon under the stairs, where they put kids who misbehaved. Top Places in St. Augustine St. Augustine Airplane Graveyard Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field. Added by re_nakaba Pirate & Treasure Museum Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey. Added by Genki St. Photios National Greek Orthodox Shrine Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints. Added by ronin See more things to do in St. Augustine » This is what detention looked like 200 years ago. Located in the Minorcan Quarter of St. Augustine, the original structure of the schoolhouse was one-room in a single-story, with an outhouse and detached kitchen. It first appeared on tax rolls as far back as 1716, but it didn’t become a school until the first recorded owner got married and became the schoolmaster. With a new wife and kids to educate, the little cedar and cypress building was expanded to include a small upstairs living quarters. Despite some features that now seem antiquated (like the dungeon and privy), in other ways the school was actually ahead of its time. It was the first to be co-ed in the United States, educating both boys and girls as early as 1788. Since the mid-1930s the site has been a small museum, with displays of colonial life (including some spiffy animatronics), artifacts, early text books, and a never-completed Grove of Educators, an ambitious project intended to gather and showcase statues of educational pioneers from every country in the Americas (only a few countries participated). Meanwhile, all these years poor Timmy has been stuck in that claustrophobic little dungeon–allegedly for biting–and maybe one day they’ll let him out. He claims that he’s “inocint,” but even if he did commit the offense, after more than two centuries he’s probably ready to behave himself by now. The Old Wooden Schoolhouse Museum is near the Old City Gates in the Minorcan Quarter of St Augustine. They are open Sunday to Friday from 9am to 6pm and Saturday from 9am to 8pm. Admission is $4.95 for adults, $3.95 for kids (under 5 are free). schoolsprisonsmuseums and collectionshistorymuseums J Ginsberg TravisMcGee 14 St George Street Old Spanish Trail Zero Milestone In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends. Added by bibliotech The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs. Added by linazeldovich Byrdstown, Tennessee Cordell Hull Birthplace Museum The longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in this humble cabin. Amsterdam Tulip Museum Tucked in the back of a flower shop, its collection details the fascinating history of the Netherlands's iconic symbol. Commissariat Store Its most grisly object is a jar full of severed fingers allegedly cut off by prisoners to avoid work. Added by jbartlett2000	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13727
__label__cc	0.616743	0.383257	Linley Sambourne House Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it. The Linley Sambourne House at 18 Stafford Terrace in southwest London. http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiejones/3... (Flickr CC) The Sambourne family. http://www.flickr.com/photos/maidmadeleine... (Flickr CC) English-born businessman Cecil Rhodes, a subject in one of Sambourne's most famous cartoons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CecilRho... (Wikipedia CC) The Linley Sambourne house is situated on a quiet street in southwest London. From the outside, it looks like any of the other houses on the street. But the inside can transport visitors back in time. Top Places in London The London Stone This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders. St. Leonard Church of Shoreditch Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried. Added by EricGrundhauser Lock & Co. Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler. Added by Amy Lewin See more things to do in London » Edward Linley Sambourne was a cartoonist for the Victorian magazine Punch. Founded in 1841, Punch was one of the more popular satirical magazines of the Victorian era and was also one of the first magazines to pioneer the idea of employing cartoons in a comical format. Sambourne became chief cartoonist for the magazine in 1901 and stayed with the magazine until his death in 1910. During his time at Punch Sambourne drew a number of famous cartoons. Most notable among these is the quintessential picture of British Imperialism: Cecil Rhodes with his feet planted at opposite ends of the African continent. The house at 18 Stafford Terrace has been preserved with the exact same interior decorations and furnishings that it had while occupied by Sambourne and his family around the turn of the century. (Sambourne purchased the house in 1875 and lived there until his death.) The rooms are filled with cartoons, sketches, paintings, and other interesting and eclectic pieces of art. There is a formidably large china collection along with Sambourne’s original bed and writing desk. Today, the house is managed and operated by the Victorian Society. Tours of the property are available. Some of the tours are led by actors who are dressed in period costume, seemingly straight out of a Dickens novel. This, while perhaps slightly camp, can also be highly entertaining. Take the Tube to High Street Kensington Station, walk west down the High Street and turn right onto Argyll Road. Turn left onto Stafford Terrace. eccentric homes N NathanRisinger Nicholas Jackson Visit London: Linley Sambourne House: http://www.visitlondon.com/attractions/detail/119305 Wikipedia: Linley Sambourne: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linley_Sambourne Lonely Planet: Linley Sambourne House: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/england/london/sights/371065 18 Stafford Terrace London, England, W8 Leighton House Museum This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences. Added by dtheodora A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park. Freddie Mercury's Former Home and Studio A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place. Added by hcshannonart Alfred Hitchcock's London Flat One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939. Added by terrylm Winnekenni Castle It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling. Added by Maria Valeria Diaz Seiberling Mansion An opulent testament to the boom-and-bust history of industry in north central Indiana. Added by terez93 Areguá, Paraguay Castillo Carlota Palmerola An unlikely neo-Gothic castle in the Paraguayan countryside. Added by jonryan Incline Village, Nevada This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo). Added by Meg	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13728
__label__wiki	0.729863	0.729863	Australian visa of Palestinian activist Bassem Tamini cancelled/Letter to the ambassador of Australia VISA OF PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST BASSEM TAMINI REVOKED HOURS BEFORE TRAVEL TO AUSTRALIA/LETTER TO AMBASSADOR OF AUSTRALIA https://www.astridessed.nl/visa-of-palestinian-activist-bassem-tamini-revoked-hours-before-travel-to-australialetter-to-the-ambassador-of-australia/ THE AMBASSADOR OF AUSTRALIA IN THE NETHERLANDS HIS EXCELLENCY Dr B. MASON A demand to use your influence to revise the decision to revoke the visa of Mr Bassem Tamini, a non violent Palestinian Dear Mr Ambassador, The decision of the Australian Immigration Department to revoke the visa of Mr Bassem Ramini, a non violent Palestinian activist [1], is an utter scandal and I demand from you to use your influence to give Mr Ramini the chance to visit Australia. In the first place it is an attack of the freedom of speech. Equally wrong and perhaps still worse is that the Australian authorities, by taking such a decision, are supporting Israeli occupation and settlement's policy, thus violating International Law. Besides: The reason the Immigration Department gives for its decision, is shameless and ridiculius I quote from ABC News Australia ''"The department has recently been made aware of information that indicates there is a risk that members of the public will react adversely to Mr Tamimi's presence in Australia regarding his views of the ongoing political tensions in the Middle East," [2] Even when this is true, it is nonsense. Like Israel supporters have the right to express their opinion freely [unless it is racist, of course], mr Ramini has the right to express his point of view. But what's worse according to my opinion, is the protection, by the authorities, of the Israeli occupation and settlements policy. Because what's the reason of mr Tamini's visit? To speak out against the Israeli settlements in the West Bank.[3] I don't think it's necessary to remind you of the facts, that all the Israeli settlements, built on occupied Palestinian territories, are illegal according to International Law. [4] That the [nearly] 50 years Israeli occupation, which made the settlements building possible, is not only inhuman and oppressive and has led to numerous warcrimes, like the bloody agression wars on Gaza [5], but is, like every other occupation in the world, an utter violation of International Law. Here embodied in UN Resolution 242,, 1967, which demanded from Israel, to withdraw from all conquered areas in the june war [1967], among else the Palestinian. [6] By revolking the visa of an activist, who speaks out against the injustice of the settlements and the occupation, the Australian government de facto is supporting occupation, oppression, warcrimes and crimes against humanity, like the Gaza Blockade. [7] Are the Australian authorities pointing at his earlier conviction by an Israeli military Court [an example of serious discrimination anyway, since only Palestinians appear for a military Court, not Israeli settlers] [8] Then know, that Amnesty International considered Tamini as a ''prisoner of conscience'', and that the EU called him a ''human rights defender'' As well Amnesty International as the EU considered the conviction of Mr Tamini as a travesty of justice, [10] Therefore I expect from you to use your influence and show your government on its obligations according to International Law. Pressure them to give mr Ramini the opportunity to visit Australia, to utter his opinion and to defend International I count on you. HOURS BEFORE TRAVEL TO AUSTRALIA http://www.abc.net.au/news/201 7-04-08/visa-of-prominent-pale stinian-activist-bassem-tamimi -revoked/8428054 ''The EU considers Bassem Tamimi to be a 'human rights defender' committed to non-violent protest against the expansion of an Israeli settlement on lands belonging to his West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.'' STATEMENT BY THE SPOKESPERSON OF HIGH REPRESENTATIVE CATHERINE ASHTON ON THE CASE OF BASSEM TAMINI http://www.consilium.europa.eu /uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdat a/EN/foraff/130332.pdf ''"The department has recently been made aware of information that indicates there is a risk that members of the public will react adversely to Mr Tamimi's presence in Australia regarding his views of the ongoing political tensions in the Middle East," ''Bassem al-Tamimi (Arabic: باسم التميمي‎‎, born c. 1967[1]) is a Palestinian activist and an organizer of protests against Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. '' BASSEM AL-TAMINI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bassem_al-Tamimi THE ILLEGALITY OF THE ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ”The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from transferring citizens from its own territory to the occupied territory (Article 49). The Hague Regulations prohibit an occupying power from undertaking permanent changes in the occupied area unless these are due to military needs in the narrow sense of the term, or unless they are undertaken for the benefit of the local population.” BTSELEM.ORG LAND EXPROPRIATION AND SETTLEMENTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL http://www.btselem.org/settlem ents/international_law ”Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.” ARTICLE 49, FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION https://www.icrc.org/applic/ih l/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=o penDocument&documentId=77068F1 2B8857C4DC12563CD0051BDB0 HAGUE CONVENTION 1907 http://www.opbw.org/int_inst/s ec_docs/1907HC-TEXT.pdf ISRAELI MILITARY ATTACKS ON GAZA ”PROTECTIVE EDGE” 2014 FRAGMENTED LIVES HUMANITARIAN OVERVIEW 2014 http://reliefweb.int/sites/rel iefweb.int/files/resources/ann ual_humanitarian_overview_2014 _english_final.pdf UNITED NATION SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 242 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ United_Nations_Security_Counci l_Resolution_242 THE SIEGE ON GAZA http://www.btselem.org/gaza_ strip/siege UN OFFICIAL SLAMS ISRAEL ”CRIMES” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ middle_east/7774988.stm BLOCKADE ON GAZA/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY http://la.indymedia.org/news/ 2008/02/213864.php ”A new report published by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) outlines the nature of the legal regime currently operating in the West Bank. Two systems of law are applied in a single territory: one – a civilian legal system for Israeli citizens, and a second – a military court system for Palestinian residents. The result: institutionalized discrimination.” ACRI [ASSOCIATION FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN ISRAEL] ONE RULE, TWO LEGAL SYSTEMS: ISRAEL’S REGIME OF LAWS IN THE WEST BANK http://www.acri.org.il/en/2014 /11/24/twosysreport/ http://www.acri.org.il/en/wp-c ontent/uploads/2015/02/Two-Sys tems-of-Law-English-FINAL.pdf ”The laws implemented in the West Bank are inequitable and discriminate against Palestinians. Although the settlers live in the same geographical area in which martial law is imposed, Israel has decided that they are not subject to military law, but rather to Israeli law. The application of two distinct legal systems in a single territory constitutes gross discrimination” http://www.btselem.org/demonst rations/military_law ISRAELI AUTHORITIES MUST RELEASE PALESTINIAN PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE IN WEST BANK http://www.amnestyusa.org/ news/press-releases/israeli- authorities-must-release- palestinian-prisoner-of- conscience-in-west-bank-0 ''Once again, Bassem Tamimi is being held solely for peacefully exercising his rights to freedom of expression and assembly. We believe he is a prisoner of conscience and should be released immediately and unconditionally," said Ann Harrison, deputy Middle East and North Africa program director at Amnesty International.'' http://www.amnestyusa.org/news /press-releases/israeli-author ities-must-release-palestinian -prisoner-of-conscience-in- west-bank-0 ''The EU considers Bassem Tamimi to be a 'human rights defender' committed to non-violent protest against the expansion of an Israeli settlement on lands belonging to his West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. The EU attended all court hearings in his case and is concerned at the use of evidence based on the testimony of a minor who was interrogated in violation of his rights. The EU believes that everyone should be able to exercise their legitimate right to protest in a nonviolent manner."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13730
__label__cc	0.507062	0.492938	band annie's Weblog I have a parallel blog in French at http://anniebannie.net Learning Arabic on line Syrian Revolution songs Rosa sat This message is being sms-ed all over Washington : Rosa sat so Martin could walk Martin walked so Barack could run Barack ran so our children could fly Arab Americans will be next. No longer confined to sweeping floors at the White House (see Emanuel’s father) Obama, Emanuel and Israel By JOHN V. WHITBECK In the first major appointment of his administration, President-elect Barack Obama has named as his chief of staff Congressman Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli citizen and Israeli army veteran whose father, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, was a member of Menachem Begin’s Irgun forces during the Nakba and named his son after “a Lehi combatant who was killed” — i.e., a member of Yitzhak Shamir’s terrorist Stern Gang, responsible for, in addition to other atrocities against Palestinians, the more famous bombing of the King David Hotel and assassination of the UN peace envoy Count Folke Bernadotte. In rapid response to this news, the editorial in the next day’s Arab News (Jeddah) was entitled “Don’t pin much hope on Obama — Emanuel is his chief of staff and that sends a message”. This editorial referred to the Irgun as a “terror organization” (a judgment call) and concluded: “Far from challenging Israel, the new team may turn out to be as pro-Israel as the one it is replacing.” That was always likely. Obama repeatedly pledged unconditional allegiance to Israel during his campaign, most memorably in an address to the AIPAC national convention which Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery characterized as “a speech that broke all records for obsequiousness and fawning”, and America’s electing a black president has always been more easily imagined than any American president’s declaring his country’s independence from Israeli domination. R. Emanuel: Repudiate this disgusting racist comment Posted by Helena Cobban November 7, 2008 11:09 AM EST \| Link Filed in US politics … that was reportedly made by your father, Benjamin Emanuel, to the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv in response to your appointment as Obama’s White House Chief of Staff: “Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel… Why wouldn’t he be? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going to clean the floors of the White House.“ (HT: B of Moon of Alabama) In many Jewish-Israeli circles, including apparently the Irgun/Likud circles the elder Emanuel has been associated with for many decades, “Arab work” is associated with doing all the dirty or hard work, very frequently carried out by members of Israel’s substantial ethnically Palestinian (Arab) minority, that allows so many of Jewish Israelis, nowadays, to live lives of relative ease and prosperity. But Rahm Emanuel is not just a provincial-minded Jewish Israeli. He is also a US citizen. Indeed, he’s about to rise to one of the highest positions in our country. There is a good question as to whether anyone occupying such a sensitive position in Washington ought to also hold the citizenship of a foreign country– or whether, in the circumstances, Rahm Emanuel should lay down his foreign citizenship. Annie Bannie : This site in French Boycott, main site dimashq Excellent news tv Jadaliya (in Arabic) Jews for Justice for Palestinians Let him write your text on this Wall Mondoweiss The War of Ideas in the Middle East Qunfuz Radio Bethlehem2000 Redress Information & Analysis Exposing injustice, disinformation and bigotry Sara’s music Smoking mirrors Syria Livestream Syria updated news Syrian in exile The Center for Media and Democracy Who profits from the occupation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13734
__label__cc	0.731373	0.268627	Primary School Beaumaris VIC QKR Payments A – Z Parent Guide Enrolment & Transition A - Z Parent Guide SelectA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z eSmart is a guiding framework for schools to implement a whole-school culture and behaviour change relevant to the smart, safe and responsible use of digital technologies. eSmart helps teachers, students and the whole school community embrace the benefits of technology and reduce exposure to cyberspace risks such as cyber bullying, identity theft, online predators and inappropriate images and content. Funded by the Victorian Government, eSmart is an initiative of The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, a national charity committed to protecting children from violence. Registration as an eSmart School provides us with assurance that we are accessing evidence-informed practice, policies and activities. Beaumaris North Primary School became an official eSmart school in February 2014. Since we first registered with the program, we have introduced many new policies and activities to improve the way our school manages cybersafety, bullying and cyberbullying. We feel confident our students, staff and the wider school community are now well supported to be smart, safe and responsible users of digital technology. We encourage everyone in the school community to continue to uphold and promote eSmart behaviours, at school and at home. If you are aware of any incidents of bullying, cyberbullying or risky online behaviour, please contact the Principal or our eSmart coordinator. For more information, please visit the eSmart website. eSmart Policy and Use of ICT Guidelines The eSmart policy relates to the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at Beaumaris North Primary School. There are an accompanying set of guidelines for the smart, safe and responsible use of ICT at BNPS. These documents outline the school’s policies on such ICT issues as bringing personal electronic devices to school and student and staff obligations when using ICT at school. ALL parents and students should be familiar with these documents. BNPS eSmart Policy BNPS eSmart Use of ICT Guidelines Student eSmart Agreement The Student eSmart Agreement outlines the appropriate and safe use of computers, Internet and portable devices at Beaumaris North Primary School. This document reinforces the cybersafety training that occurs throughout the school. The eSmart Agreement must be: Discussed with your child FILLED OUT by your child (or parent, after discussing, if your child is too young) Signed by your child (Preps excluded) Signed by a parent. No student at BNPS is permitted to use any ICT until this document has been completed and returned to the Class Teacher. eSmart Captains Two eSmart Captains are elected annually from the Year Six cohort. See Leadership Program. Beaumaris North Primary School Beaumaris Victoria Australia 3193 Email: beaumaris.north.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au BNPS Policies © 2019 Beaumaris North Primary School 2020 PREP (NOT ZONED)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13740
__label__cc	0.588293	0.411707	NBDA - New York & New Jersey Doulas Denise Bolds, Bold Doula - New York, NY Denise comes from a heritage of matriarchal southern healers & leaders. She is a published writer, radio show host/producer, birth advocate, public speaker, Contact Baby, Please! Birth Services - West Orange, NJ Michelle Gabriel-Caldwell, Birth & Postpartum Doula, Doula Trainer, CBE, Nutritionist and Breastfeeding Peer Counselor. We are a husband/wife team of natural childbirth educators who teach the one and only Bradley Method of Husband Coached Childbirth. A 12 week series of classes that focus on relaxation, nutrition, exercise. We also emphasize the training of the husband/partner to be the coach so that the mother can be supported during labor. We help couples recognize their birth rights while educating them on the stages of labor, gestation and birth plans. We provide labor rehearsals, support and guidance throughout the pregnancy, labor and postpartum. We are excited to announce that Michelle has recently become an Evidence Based Birth Instructor teaching parents AND birth professionals. She can also offer contact hours to doulas, midwives, nurses, etc. These workshops or hybrid (in-person/online) classes can offer quick tutorials or in depth childbirth education using the latest evidence to enhance birth experiences from a 360 degree perspective. Contact Valencia Andrews Doula Services - New York, NY Valencia Andrews, M.Ed. , DONA-trained Birth and Postpartum Doula, providing services in the Lower Hudson Valley, southern Connecticut, northern New Jersey and the Greater New York City area. My path to birth work was inspired by supporting many close friends and family during their labor and delivery experiences. It was these formative experiences that guided me during my early training, informing my current approach as a doula, of being centered on wholehearted attentiveness and providing a calm presence, while giving non-judgmental, physical, emotional and spiritual support to pregnant persons. Contact Earth's Natural Touch: Birth Care & Beyond - NY / NJ SciHonor Devotion is a Labor Doula, Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator, Homebirth Midwife Assistant and Women’s Reproductive Health Advocate who serves women and girls in her community through workshop, ceremony and rites of passage. SciHonor Devotion has been in the field of Women’s Reproductive Health since 1999 when she became pregnant with her first child. She began her journey training and certifying as a Labor Doula with Doulas of North America (DONA) in 2001. She also trained with the Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association (CAPPA) and became a certified childbirth educator and Postpartum Doula in 2004. She continued to take trainings and gain certifications through BirthMama, Mamatoto Village, Inc., Indigenous Remedies, Hearthside Perinatal Bereavement Services, Divine Birth Wisdom and more. Contact Queen Doula Services - Brooklyn, NY Nicole Williams, owner of Queen Doula Services is a Birth and Postpartum Doula and Placenta Encapsulate. Contact The Doula’s Garden - Brooklyn, NY The Doula's Garden, is a Postpartum Doula service founded by Brianna Burton, a Brooklyn resident, wife and mother of two toddler boys. Brianna is committed to helping you navigate parenthood with compassionate, evidence-based infant and new parent education. Contact NBDA New York & New Jersey P.E.A.R.LS Consulting - New York, NY Simone Junious, Full Spectrum Doula and Mom of 2. We live a holistic and natural lifestyle, as I am a self-proclaimed "herb-nerd". I am also a corporate and soft skills trainer, coach & full spectrum Doula with over 20+ years of combined experience. I have functioned in a multitude of situations that calls for a combination of nurturing care, diplomacy and attention to detail. Birth in a hospital setting will require all of these skills to ensure you receive the best care and experience possible. I am also a certified epidoula. Simone.Junious@gmail.com Karma Tudor, Inc. - New York, NY Karma is a Birth & Postpartum Doula & Yoga instructor. She teaches Gentle & Restore classes, which is just as it sounds, a gentle flow of asana coupled with moments of settling into a posture to allow the body to feel restored. Her HIIT Yoga class is the complete opposite with a high energy hip-hop playlist to encourage fun while you work hard and sweat. In 2018 Karma read an article about the increasing black maternal mortality rate in the NY Times. She felt connected to the story since her own pregnancy could have had a dark outcome. At that moment Karma decided she wanted to assist mothers with their prenatal and postpartum experience, by becoming a doula and receiving her doula certification with Mama Glow. Karma believes that every expectant mother should have a doula, regardless of their family make-up. Contact The Life Experience Doula Services - Mount Vernon, NY Yanna Spellman, Childbirth Doula serving the Bronx and Westchester areas of NY. She left her career as a special education teacher to pursue her passion of providing support to families bringing new life into the world. It is important to remember that it is not only the mother who needs support, but the family as well, as they transition into this new experience. Born and raised in VA, Yanna's heart of Southern hospitality ensures she provides adequate support for you and your family. Contact NBDA NY & New Jersey River Rise - Mamaroneck, New York Leilani Yizar-Reid, I am grateful to be in this space at this time as Fertility Doula and Wellness Advocate under my company River Rise. Currently residing in Westchester County, NY, my goal is to be able to walk and work with women along their journey into preparing their bodies to have a baby. I also am in training to be a Bereavement Doula, looking to support and facilitate services for those with infant loss, miscarriages, still birth and fertility challenges. I am just out here doing what I love with love! riverrise18@gmail.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13744
__label__wiki	0.596851	0.596851	My story of the day.... Five-year-old who missed his friend's birthday party is INVOICED £15.95 by the boy's mother... and threatened with court action Alex Nash missed ski slope party and went to see grandparents instead Weeks later his shocked father Derek found 'no show fee' in school bag It had been put there after being handed to a teacher by the boy's mother Mr Nash, 45, from Torpoint, Cornwall, said: 'I thought it was a joke' He refused to pay - and 'has been threatened with small claims court' Plymouth Ski Slope and Snowboard Centre: We didn't write the invoice Manager said boy's mother could have had credit on the bar instead But unrepentant mother said: 'All details were on the party invite' By DAN BLOOM FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 09:21, 19 January 2015 \| UPDATED: 17:04, 19 January 2015 12kshares A five-year-old boy who missed a friend's birthday party has been invoiced £15.95 - by the host's mother. Alex Nash was handed the bill via a teacher after he visited grandparents instead of showing up at a ski centre in Plymouth, Devon. Alex's dumbstruck parents found it in his school bag - and their refusal to pay could now lead to a hearing at a small claims court. Baffled: Derek Nash took his son Alex to see his grandparents instead of turning up to a friend's birthday party - and was handed an invoice for £15.95. The bill was given to the five-year-old via a teacher No show: The parents received this invoice from the mother of the birthday boy - and the ski slope involved said it was nothing to do with them. 'We don't have any such things as no-show fees', said the manager But the birthday boy's mother - former police employee Julie Lawrence, who organised the party with her partner Colin, believed to be a stage rigger - said she had no regrets. 'All details were on the party invite,' she said in a short statement. 'They had every detail needed to contact me.' Mr Nash, 45, from nearby Torpoint, Cornwall, said he thought the 'no show fee' slip was a joke when it was found in Alex's school bag on Thursday. Schools should stop wasting money buying iPads and 'shiny... Primary school teacher who was so drunk she couldn't stand... From goofy schoolgirl to star striker who turned Ronaldo's... Parents have until midnight to apply for primary schools but... When he discovered it was real, he said he was so angry he refused to pay a penny. Mr Nash had confirmed Alex would attend the 'slide and ride' party before Christmas at the Plymouth Ski Slope and Snowboard Centre. Costing £15.95 a head, it would have included half an hour on a snow tubing run, three toboggan rides, a hot meal, ice cream, jelly and balloons. But he then realised he had already arranged for their daughter to go on a day trip with her grandparents. Defence: The host's mother Julie Lawrence (left with her family) said 'all details were on the party invite' Furious father: 'She's not getting a penny out of me' Without a contact number or e-mail address for the friend's mother, he claimed, he had no choice but to withdraw Alex from the party and apologise when school resumed on January 6. Mr Nash said his partner looked out for the host's mother at Torpoint Nursery and Infant School, but couldn't find her. Without warning, the bill was found in Alex's bag a week later. 'I have talked to quite a few people about this,' said Mr Nash, a delivery driver. 'They're all quite incredulous that this has happened. 'I thought it was a joke to begin with. I am lost for words.' He said Alex had chosen of his own accord to spend the day with his grandparents. 'My partner looked out for [the friend's mother] to apologise for Alex not showing up to the party, but didn't see her,' he said. Row: Mr Nash confronted the party host's mother on the doorstep of her Cornwall home (pictured) Invoicee: The home where Mr Nash lives with his partner Tanya Walsh and their five-year-old son Alex 'But on January 15 she looked in Alex's school bag and found a brown envelope. It was an invoice for £15.95 for a child's party no show fee. 'I asked Alex's class teacher if [the child's mother] had given anything to her. She said, "Yes, a brown envelope". 'I then visited Alex's school headteacher, who couldn't apologise enough that one of the teachers had passed this on. She said she would remind all staff that this was a breach of protocol.' Mr Nash confronted the host's mother, who he said has threatened to take the case to a small claims court. He told the BBC: 'Because I was so angry I said she wasn't going to get a penny out of me'. The birthday boy is also no longer playing with Alex at school. 'I would have sympathised with her about the cost of Alex not showing up, but I just can't believe the way she has gone about it,' Mr Nash added. Bemused: The bill for the no show fee at the ski centre (left) and Mr Nash with his son. 'I thought it was a joke to begin with,' he said. 'I told her I would not be paying her the money. She should have spoken to me first' Family attraction: The 'slide and ride' party at the ski centre in Plymouth would have included 'snow tubing', three toboggan rides per child and a hot meal with a pudding of jelly and ice cream 'It seems to be a dispute between two parents and the parent who wrote the invoice has put us on it, which is crazy. We have nothing to do with it,' said manager Louisa Duggan. 'There's no such thing as a no-show fee' The host's mother could have little luck getting back the £15.95 in court - where the administration fee to make a claim is £25. The ski centre's manager Louisa Duggan said: 'It seems to be a dispute between two parents and the parent who wrote the invoice has put us on it, which is crazy because we have nothing to do with it. 'We ask for a small deposit on booking and 48 hours before the party we ask hosts to confirm numbers and pay us the full amount. It's £15.95 a head for a slide and ride party. 'But there's no such thing as a no-show fee. We don't invoice private individuals, we just ask for payment 48 hours before. 'If the child doesn't show, to be honest we're pretty flexible. We might give the hosts some extra toboggan rides or some credit at the bar. 'I understand people being upset because people outlay a lot of money for these parties, so I understand their frustration. 'Whether invoicing another parent is a good idea or not is not for me to say, but it's certainly not something I'd do.' 'I have talked to quite a few people about this,' said Mr Nash, a delivery driver. 'They're all quite incredulous' Fallout: Mr Nash said the row has meant the birthday boy is no longer playing with Alex (left) at school Alex's mother Tanya Walsh, 30, said: 'I messaged Julie on Facebook to say sorry and let's resolve this amicably. And she said "the amicable way I believe is for you to pay me the money. And let that be a lesson learnt." 'I have spoken to Julie after we got the bill and the next thing I heard was she was taking us to the small claims court. I am now waiting to see what she does next. 'My partner went to see her and it ended in an argument. She always seemed nice. Every time I spoke to her previously she was always very polite. All of this is very shocking. 'When Alex couldn't attend we tried contacting them. But I didn't have a number or a full name at the time. It was over the holidays so it was not like I could just bump into her at school.' The tale has provoked a storm of reaction online, with commenters' loyalties split between the warring families - and some condemning both. Reaction: Comments on Twitter ranged from the outraged to the amused... to the simply baffled Ms Walsh, a full-time mother, added: 'She said we had an invite but we don't remember ever getting one. I definitely have not seen one. I have searched the whole house and found nothing. 'She could have tried to contact us before issuing the bill. If she had spoken to us we would have considered paying it. 'I could totally understand her point. It is not about the money for us and we did not mean to let them down. It is the way she has gone about it.' 'Little Alex was really upset and today he was scared to go to school. He was worried that no-one would want to play with him. 'He was upset when I left him at school this morning. But he is a tough cookie and will get over it.' Talking point: Journalists and newspaper columnists lined up to give their thoughts on the row Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2916379/Five-year-old-misses-friend-s-birthday-bash-INVOICED-15-95.html#ixzz3PI4MTXG2 January 19, 2015 Comments (0) \| Permalink Is Monty ready for potty training? So, in Monty's nursery book this Friday was his 31-month development assessment. Here were the interesting bits: Monty has very clear speech and can often suprise with some of the things he says. He also asks questions when having a conversation. Monty is very keen to learn how to skip and hop. Monty is very curious about what's in his nappy. This would indicate that he could start potty training. My next goal/target: Encourage potty training. Oh lord. I have to admit we did wonder about trying to potty train him over Christmas because we've had the odd poo and wee in the toilet. But, to be honest, we couldn't face the thought of it. I'd always been told that with boys it was best to do it when they were three (as they're ready for it later than girls, who can usually manage at about 2 and a half) so in my mind I was thinking about June of this year, when he turns three and when it's warm enough for him to run about without a nappy on. I also feel like I need to do it when I have a week off booked, surely we won't manage to make much progress just over a weekend? My book Small Talk: Simple ways to boost your child's speech and language development from birth, is available from Amazon now Help your child to learn - through story telling I am not sure if I have told you about this before but Minnie's school describes itself as a 'story telling school'. It basically means that in reception and in the few classes above, they help the chidlren to learn via the medium of stories. Here's how you can adopt these easy and fun techniques at home: Take one book and focus on it for the week. Minnie did Peace At Last for a good few weeks at school last term. First they read the story with the teachers over and again. Then they were encouraged to tell the story back to the teacher, in their own words. Then they acted it out, making the noises of the dripping tap, the ticking clock, making Mr Bear a cup of tea at the end, etc. Only then, when they knew the story and all of the words in the book inside out, did the teachers ask the children to attempt to write some of the words out - the idea is that by then they are so familiar with the sounds of the words, that they find it easy to write them using their phonics. Here's Minnie's work - 'Drip went the tap, Mmmm went the fridge' (with frij spelt exactly as it sounds!). And she has copied the picture (simply photocopied out of the book) to accompany the phrase, too. Give it a whirl with your little ones - toddlers will enjoy taking part too - Monty loves nothing more than to read the same story over and over. Monty the machine is up to mischief again So last night Monty didn't actuallly go to sleep til about 9pm, busily shouting, 'Can you come up?', chatting, singing and asking 'Music on please!' He then woke up crying at 4am, saying 'I've hurt my hand' and then asked for water and cough mixture, and a banana. I agreed to the first two then told him he had to go to sleep. He was then up before 6am and I kept telling him he had to wait til the clock turned yellow but none of us managed to get back to sleep. This morning I called his nursery and told them that even short naps after lunch had to stop. And I plan to test out my friend's theory on boys (she has three) 'You have to treat them like dogs, feed them and exercise them and they'll be as good as gold'. As ever, I'll keep you posted on progress! The things my children have said to me today,,, Monty: You are a hairy pancake! Minnie: You smell like the train, mummy Monty: Who scratched the Croods DVD? It wasn't me. Or Minnie. It was you, mummy! Minnie: Where are the constructions for my Lego? Monty: I have come to lick your face! Minnie: I am NOT wearing my school jumper! Monty: I've got some snot for you, mummy! Big thanks to Small Talk reader Dani for this cheering comment... This goes out to parents everywhere - you may wish to whoop or high five when you read it, it certainly gave me a real boost. Dani said: Hi, I just wanted to say that I have children of a similar age and while (touchwood) they don't have the same sleep issues I can totally sympathise with how tired you must be. Also I can sympathise with how hard it is to make a plan (or even think straight) to make it better when you are sleep deprived. I would just say though that you should be a bit kinder to yourself, I don't think the answer is necessarily to get tough on them or by extension on yourself. When you are tired it is very hard to make a plan stick so every time there is a setback it is hard to stay on track. Maybe you should try the opposite approach and be ultra relaxed instead. If you think Monty is hungry and waking up because of it then for your own sanity make sure he eats enough before he goes to bed so that he is stuffed full until breakfast! They way to make that feel like a success for you is not to set it up so he eats his main meal or no dessert. Don't mention anything about it. There is a main course and a pudding spend time on one and then have the other. Make the pudding something nutritious and filling like yoghurt, creme caramel, custard etc with plain biscuits or cake to fill the tummy and then it doesn't matter so much if he gets his calories from one or the other and you can cut yourself some slack as you know he is getting plenty of carbs, protein and fat. Don't make it a battle or a negotiation just remember the bigger picture of a full nights sleep for you and a mostly balanced and healthy diet for him. Also with the sleep thing don't forget your GP can probably help or refer you to a sleep specialist. If all else fails just do whatever you need to to get as much sleep as you can and for them. Be consistent if you can, cut yourself some slack when you need to and be kind to yourself and to them. I know lots of people will disagree but I think getting tough can be pretty miserable for you all and is just as likely to fail as kids can be pretty stubborn when they want to. Set your basic requirements of things like kindness and patience from them and you and don't worry too much about the rest it will all get better and even if it doesn't work straight away at least you'll be less miserable on the way. Good luck, sleep deprivation is a killer - don't be afraid of pulling a Scarlett O'Hara and saying it is all too much to think of right now and thinking about it tomorrow (or at least after you have had some sleep!). This week's obsessions... This week Minnie has mostly been obsessed with: Her babies (the Annabelles and Nanuko) Dressing up as Cinderella and slaving away in her kitchen Her pet parlour and baker shop Lego Friends Lego Drawing round her hands (and Monty's) and drawing little faces on them - super cute, get your kids giving it a try! Meanwhile Monty has been mostly obsessed with... Putting a plaster on when has bumped his head (which is often) Watching Despicable Me Making all of us 'Walk the plank into the ship's mess!' (this means jumping off the sofa on to some cushions) His rubber with a spider on it Dressing up as Spiderman And whisper it, but we have had two nights of undistubed sleep! Monty has a Mariah moment... Here's 2-and-a-half yro Monty singing his heart out to Frozen. He starts out shy then unleashes his inner diva! And check him out using words like 'Kingdom' and 'isolation'! It's all about repetition so, while they may drive you mad, remember that when your children are endlessly singing the Frozen theme tune they are actually learning something! My sister had to call me from Australia last night.... To tell me that I was clearly so exhausted that I didn't know the names of my own children. Yes, I began yesterday's blog with a line about 'Monty and Monty'. Oh dear, what can I say, that's how bad the sleep deprivation is folks!! Last night Minnie slept through perfectly but Monty woke me up screaming and it turned out that his sock had fallen off. He has gone to pre-school for the first time today, so I am hoping it will wear him out. He is particularly pleased with his Minion lunch box! January 8, 2015 Comments (0) \| Permalink Two nightmare nights... I fear we are in a bad pattern again with Monty and Monty. On Sunday night Minnie came into our room in the middle of the night complaining that she was a 'super hearer' and that Monty's snoring was keeping her awake. Then later Monty started crying hysterically and when James went in he said he was very worried about 'bad dogs in the garden' and was very hungry. James gave him two strawberries which he took an eternity to eat before he went back to sleep. Last night he was crying again and it turned out that his nappy had leaked so he was wet and cold. I must say, it's been a while since I've had to change bed sheets in the middle of the night and I had forgotten what a faff it is. He then claimed to be hungry again and was desperate for a banana. - I know we should be giving him food in the middle of the night. - Maybe I need to be offering him an extra snack before bed but I am trying to get very strict that if he doesn't eat his tea he doesn't get pudding or snacks. - Monty has been messing about crying for water, cough mixture and hot water bottles in the middle of the night for a while now. I know we need to get tough with both of them all over again but I am just not sure I have the strength while we are still coping with the January blues, back to school and work stress, plus he starts pre-school this Thursday....	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13745
__label__cc	0.649864	0.350136	27 March 2019 / Fertilizer feedstock New Rock Phosphate Process Extracts Fertilizer Feedstock from Low-Value Ores Phosphate production may never be the same again, as a new smelting process has been developed that can make a soluble phosphate product from low-value ores. According to the research from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian national science agency, the discovery not only eliminates the hazardous waste of low-quality agrichemical feedstock, but is also a ‘simpler, safer, and more efficient’ alternative to standard phosphate production methods. Current bulk phosphate fertilizers are typically manufactured using a wet acid process. This requires sulphuric acid from rock sulphur to dissolve the phosphate and precipitate gypsum. The new smelting process removes the need for sulphur as a feedstock. Instead the new process uses a ‘thermal process route for smaller scale processing of low-cost ores’. It has already been patented as PyroPhos, and is owned by investment capitalists at the Process Capital Corp. Although based on the process SiroSmelt, which developed in the 1970’s, the new smelting method is already causing a stir among agrichemical industry insiders. In a recent interview with the economic journal Investing News, CSIRO team leader, Keith Barnard, described the discovery as a “smelting process [that] uses high temperature to extract phosphate from ores, producing prized phosphate feedstock and a glassy gravel that can be used in road base construction and Portland cement.” Adding that, “A major benefit of the process is that is can be used on lower grade ores giving phosphate miners and processors the opportunity to increase their productivity in an environmentally sustainable way.” Measuring furnace temperatures with a probe at the CSIRO research centre Meanwhile, the CSIRO website notes the potential of its discovery in a huge market, stating that, “The AUD$73 billion global phosphate market continues to grow as demand for fertiliser increases to meet food production needs.” While the new method will not be an instant replacement throughout the market, the developers are excited over the process’s potential in servicing previously unusable feedstocks, particularly lower-quality or contaminated stockpiles. As the PyroPhos company website states, “PyroPhos is suitable for re-treatment opportunities including phosphate overburden, screenings waste and crushing rejects where the residual phosphate levels are of moderate quality. Of particular interest are stock piles which are sub-economic due to high levels of one of more of magnesium, aluminium, carbon, chlorine, fluorine, titanium, sodium or potassium.” Explaining further how the new, “smelting technology for converting phosphate ore to phosphoric acid … offers producers significant financial and technical advantages over the traditional wet acid process.” They are also keen to note how the breakthrough could, “… trigger a new wave of development in the phosphate fertiliser industry.” This includes; Removing sulphur as a feedstock, as it could be replaced with coke or biomass. This would allow for production away from industrial shipping ports or sulphur sources, and instead make ‘smaller inland phosphate deposits viable’. Allow processing of ‘inert slag as this solid waste product would become economically feasible’. Accelerate the move to soluble fertilisers. All-in-all, the new phosphate processing method could revolutionise how fertilizers are produced. Not only making lower-quality fertilizer feedstocks economically viable, but also in producing a useable waste by-product. Factors that are sure to resonate with fertilizer manufacturers and rock phosphate processors everywhere. As PyroPhos Director, Mark Muzzin notes, “Our networks and investor base give us the ability to connect PyroPhos technology to the global phosphate industry. We have had an excellent response from the industry and believe it has the ability to make a major impact.” If you are interested in phosphate supplies, potassium sulphate prices, or need fertilizer raw materials, then please contact the friendly, multi-lingual sales team, or take a look at the AG CHEMI GROUP catalogue. Photo credit: FMR, Tenova, IndiaMart, CSIRO, & ArabNews Un Estudio Definitivo Establece Nuevos Niveles Recomendados de Fósforo y Calcio Para los Cerdos ¿Su alimento tiene los últimos niveles de fósforo y calcio? The Economics of Turning Waste Saltwater into Caustic Soda Discover how MIT researchers found a way to turn waste saltwater from desalination plants into industrial chemicals, such as caustic soda and hydrochloric acid.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13748
__label__wiki	0.727918	0.727918	HDMI 2.0: Another piece of the 2013 Mac Pro Puzzle? Today the HDMI Forum announced a big upgrade to their video connectivity standard: HDMI 2.0. What does this mean for this autumn’s ‘4K’ Mac Pro? HDMI 2.0: 4K and more HDMI (High Definition Media Interface) is a successful video and audio interface standard that has been used in over 3 billion devices since 2003. It is used to transfer uncompressed video and audio from one device to another. The initial definition defined a maximum video resolution over a single connection of 1920×1200 at 60 frames a second with 24 bits used to represent each pixel, using a maximum throughput of 4.95 Gbit/s. Today’s 2.0 definition includes the following specifications: – Maximum resolution: 4096 x 2160 p 60 48 bits/pixel – Maximum audio channels: 32 – Maximum audio sample frequency: 1536kHz – Simultaneous delivery of multi-stream audio to up to 4 users – Support for 21:9 aspect ratio – Maximum throughput: 18 Gbit/s The cables and connectors haven’t changed, the definition of the data that can be transmitted along the wires has changed. Apple and HDMI 2.0 Apple is a member of The HDMI Forum, so what does 2.0 mean for Apple products? In June Apple previewed this year’s new Mac Pro. Many were surprised that Apple included six Thunderbolt 2 ports and an HDMI 1.4 connection. Firstly, Thunderbolt 2 had only been announced a few days before by Intel with the first products using the new standard expected in 2014. Secondly, given that Apple said that the Mac Pro is designed to be a full 4K editing device, why include an HDMI port that can only handle 24 frames a second at 4K? HDMI 2.0 could explain some of the Mac Pro specification. Thunderbolt 2 is implemented using Intel’s Falcon Ridge I/O controller. It doubles the possible maximum throughput of the connection in one direction from 10 Gbit/s to 20 Gbit/s. Currently Apple’s Mac Pro page states that it will have an HDMI 1.4 connector. As the I/O controller on the Mac Pro will be able to transfer up to of data 20 Gbit/s along Thunderbolt 2, maybe the HDMI port will be upgraded to 2.0 on launch day to transfer up to 18 Gbit/s of video and audio. HDMI 2.0 is electrically identical to HDMI 1.4: the wires and ports are the same. It’s probably a matter of upgrading the firmware in the I/O controller. The HDMI site says that ‘The HDMI 2.0 Compliance Test Specification is expected to be released before the end of 2013.’ It also allows Apple to launch a range of 4K monitors that use HDMI 2.0 data standards. Knowing Apple however, they may transmit the HDMI video and audio signals along a special Apple-flavoured Thunderbolt 2 cable instead of using standard HDMI connectors and cables. HDMI 2.0 might mean there’s more to the Mac Pro’s 4K ambitions than Thunderbolt 2 and a new version of Final Cut Pro X. Marcus Moore said: 4 September, 20136:11 pm True enough- obviously Apple couldn’t have announced HDMI 2.0 when it hadn’t been ratified until today. Now, I went back and looked at the keynote, and Schiller doesn’t specify verbally HDMI 1.4 (though as you say it does on their webpage). We can pretty much assume that the “up to 3 4K [computer] displays” Apple mentions are coming off the Thunderbolt ports (one per controller?)- so what’s the use-case for the HDMI? Does it eliminate the need for a video I/O box? Coupled with a certified display could you use it for proper broadcast monitoring? I think timing will be very much a consideration. Every major component in the new MacPro is new. As far as I know this will be one of , if not the first machine to ship with the new Xeons, Thunderbolt2, and those AMD GPUs. Is HDMI 2 going to be ready? Alex said: 4 September, 20136:21 pm Sony announced the Z100 today, a prosumer 4K camera. A quote from their site: A future firmware upgrade is planned to provide compatibility with the new HDMI 2.0 standard and enable 4K 50fps/60fps output to a wider range of devices. The use case is uncompressed 48bit/pixel 4K up to 60 times a second as a video signal on a certified display. Thunderbolt is for data transfer, not video. Andrew said: 5 September, 20132:05 am Thunderbolt is for data transfer? I think you need to go look up the use and specifications for Thunderbolt. I am just saying this as I would like people to stop pigeon-holing Thunderbolt into a specific task. It is a multi-use technology that goes far far far beyond “data transfer”. Currently it does in fact transfer video… Stu Brannon said: 6 September, 20131:55 pm Dude… if it’s not for video, HOW exactly are you running any and every screen that’s hooked up to the Thunderbolt ports of ANY current Mac then? How else do you figure will people be hooking up screens? Hmmmm… The video signals are encoded as data which are interpreted my the screens. HDMI is for uncompressed video that any device at the other ends can deal with including TVs and recording devices. You can’t connect TVs and video recorders to Macs via Thunderbolt – they can’t handle the various resolutions, frame rates and clock speeds that Macs can produce. There MAY be an FCP update?? Erm… it’s been said over and over that there most certainly WILL be an FCP update for (at minimum) Mavericks. That will surely incorporate any and every tech update needed to use FCP on a new Mac Pro to its full potential. mikey said: 9 December, 20136:58 am Alex you’re talking absolute rubbish: I’ve used all kinds of devices and TV’s plugged into my Tbolt ports using the separate Apple HDMI-to-Tbolt adaptor, with absolutely no problems whatsoever. Tbolt can handle everything HDMI can, over its DisplayPort transport (HDMI and DP are interchangeable). It was purposefully designed that way, so Tbolt ports can handle BOTH video and other data, and even at the same time (hence the ‘daisy chaining’ philosophy of having 2 Tbolt ports on most peripheral devices). The reason for having the HDMI port is mainly one of CONVENIENCE, hence why Apple have been including HDMI ports on most of their computers recently (accept the MPAir). It means users can easily plug in ANY type of screen device, many of which happen to use HDMI (whether specifically computer displays, or more obviously any type of TV – whether that TV is 2K [1080p] or 4K). Apple are dropping the old philosophy of not offering HDMI and only offering DP, and have been for some time. But by using Tbolt rather than HDMI for the majority of ports on the new Mac Pro, users have the choice of using them for data OR video as they choose. So no point including loads more HDMI ports, just one for convenience, and if users need to use other HDMI displays they just buy an adaptor or two to use them in the Tbolt ports. Makes a lot of sense. (2.0 HDMI firmware upgrade later-on is also a given, as the spec on a great deal of other devices in the marketplace with the 1.4 issue, have been promising later free upgrade to their firmware; why would Apple’s super expensive new top-end not offer likewise.) Stu Brannon said: 9 December, 201311:43 am Get a grip mikey. How did Alex write ANYTHING to the contrary??! You might consider working on your reading comprehension skills. Mario said: 5 February, 201412:44 pm What confuses me is the fact that Apple used to be ahead of the game. With HDMI 2.0 available, why is that they chose to use HDMI 1.4 only? Alex said: 5 February, 20141:15 pm Because HDMI 2.0 was announced as a standard in September, and no chips and software are yet available to anyone. Leave a Reply to Stu Brannon Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13749
__label__wiki	0.56496	0.56496	Teen / Young Adult Lalani of the Distant Sea Author(s): Erin Entrada Kelly "Fast-paced and full of wonder, this is a powerful, gripping must-read."--Kirkus (starred review) "A lush and mysterious fable, full of beauty, full of wonder."--Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly's debut fantasy novel is a gorgeous, literary adventure about bravery, friendship, self-reliance, and the choice between accepting fate or forging your own path. When Lalani Sarita's mother falls ill with an incurable disease, Lalani embarks on a dangerous journey across the sea in the hope of safeguarding her own future. Inspired by Filipino folklore, this engrossing fantasy is for readers who loved Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Disney's Moana. Life is difficult on the island of Sanlagita. To the west looms a vengeful mountain, one that threatens to collapse and bury the village at any moment. To the north, a dangerous fog swallows sailors who dare to venture out, looking for a more hospitable land. And what does the future hold for young girls? Chores and more chores. When Lalani Sarita's mother falls gravely ill, twelve-year-old Lalani faces an impossible task--she must leave Sanlagita and find the riches of the legendary Mount Isa, which towers on an island to the north. But generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can an ordinary girl survive the epic tests of the archipelago? And how will she manage without Veyda, her best friend? Newbery Medalist and New York Times-bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly's debut fantasy novel is inspired by Filipino folklore and is an unforgettable coming-of-age story about friendship, courage, and identity. Perfect for fans of Lauren Wolk's Beyond the Bright Sea and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Publisher : Piccadilly Press, Limited Imprint : Piccadilly Press Ltd Author : Erin Entrada Kelly	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13758
__label__wiki	0.838064	0.838064	NYC Top Comedy Choices for Sunday 3/29/15 For more, please visit HyReviews.com. Jo Firestone, Brooke Van Poppelen, Camille Harris… …and Adira Amram are among the stellar talents performing on this final day of Bad Assery: The Women and Comedy Conference Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include: [MEGA-TOP PICK] [$] Noon-10:30 pm ($40 for the entire day or $15 per event, at the door or online): To my eye, well over half of the finest comics alive are women. As just one quick example, the best filmed comedies on TV right now are Louie C.K.’s Louie (okay, guy), Abbi Jacobson’s & Ilana Glazer’s Broad City (two gals), and Inside Amy Schumer(gal). But industry hiring practices still overwhelmingly favor male comics. This and other issues will be tackled on this final day of Bad Assery, a 3-day event produced by Natalie Wall & Shaina Stigler featuring panel discussions and performances by some of the greatest comics in the country. The clear highlight of Day #2 was Leah Rudick & Katie Hartman, a.k.a. duo Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting, who’ve been working together as sketch writer/performers since they met years ago at Sarah Lawrence College, and who’ve developed into world-class comics with a distinct voice and style that’s vibrant, fearless, dark, and endearing. Lorne Michaels, whenever you’re looking to add fresh talent, please bring these two in to perform live for you. Other treats yesterday included a flawless hour-long stand-up set from Ophira Eisenberg that flew by. Ophira first came to prominence in NYC as one of the very best storytellers in the country, but she’s managed to also become a sharp and enormously likeable stand-up—as well as radio host of NPR’s popular trivia/puzzle show Ask Me Anotherand author of bestselling book Screw Everyone. Also notable were panels that ranged from sexism to musical comedy to breaking out into stardom. At least as important as anything said was the lovely camaraderie and affection evident among all the comics participating. The final day of this wonderful event includes a women-only discussion of ways to modernize show biz running from noon to 3:30 pm at Hill Country Barbecue Market (30 West 26th Street), and evening performances by such tremendous talents as Jo Firestone, Brooke Van Poppelen, Adira Amram, Rebecca Vigil, Jessica Delfino, Camille Harris, The Reformed Whores, Charla Lauriston, and (closing up the conference) veteran stand-up Judy Gold, all at Brooklyn’s The Bell House (149 7th Street). To nab tickets ($40 for the whole day or $15 per show), please click here; and then enjoy Day #3 of Bad Assery: The Women and Comedy Conference 6:00 pm ($5): Sketches and other scripted comedy in 5-minute and 15-minute slots at The Magnet theatre: The Generator 6:30 pm ($5): Three NYC improv groups that are independent (i.e., not a house team of any particular improv school/theatre) compete for audience member laughs and votes at UCB East hosted by superb improvisors Amey Goerlich & Ryan Karels (half of revered improv group Krompf): Indie Cage Match [TOP PICK] [$] 7:00 pm ($20): A musical version of a famed 1989 movie with book by Christopher W. Barnes, music by Ryan Mercy, lyrics by Christopher W. Barnes, and produced by Ronny Pascale at The PIT upstairs theatre (for a video sneak peek, please click here): Steel Petunias: The Unauthorized Musical Parody [TOP PICK] 7:00 pm (Pay Whatever You Like): “Delusional cruise ship entertainer and musical theatre fanatic Lance Johnson welcomes scheduled guests Liza Minnelli, Hugh Jackman, and Miami Sound Machine for an instantly forgettable evening of chat, song, dance, and Lance before he heads back out to sea” by Peter Michael Marino and friends at The Triple Crown Underground (330 7th Avenue, between 28th and 29th Streets): Late With Lance 7:00 pm ($5): Andy Blitz (comedy genius best known for being an Emmy-nominated and long-time writer/performer for Late Night with Conan O’Brien; has also written for Comedy Central’s Important Things, MTV’s Human Giant, etc.; a thoroughly unique stand-up whose sets—ranging from talking peanut butter to jet-flying cats—tend to be unforgettable), Josh Sharp (superb sketch writer/performer; MTV, co-star of GUMP, co-host of Cool Shit/Weird Shit), Tynan Delong, Lena Einbinder, Charlie Hankin, Steve Whalen, Steven Desiena, and group Wham City Comedyperforming stand-up or sketch at Brooklyn’s Shea Stadium (20 Meadow Street) hosted by Brett Davis & Sally Burtnick: The Macaulay Culkin Show 7:00 pm ($5): A one-woman sketch show by Caitlin Hefner at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street): Happy Hour [TOP PICK] 7:30 pm ($10) and 9:30 pm [FREE]: UCB Chelsea’s signature improv comedy extravaganza, which typically includes superstars in the improv world such as Shannon O’Neill and Anthony Atamanuik, and sometimes network TV & movie stars such as Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz: ASSSSCAT 3000 7:30 pm ($7): Sketch comedy groups Wendigo and Buddy Club perform new material at The Magnet theatre: Magnet Sketch Teams [TOP PICK] [$] 8:00 pm, 9:45 pm and 11:30 pm ($14 per show, plus 2-item food/drink min.): Tonight’s stand-ups include Ted Alexandro, Judah Friedlander, and Greer Barnes at the 8:00 show; Gary Gulman, Joe Machi, Artie Lange, Sam Morril, Ricky Velez, and Ryan Reiss (hosting) at the 9:45 show; and Dave Attell, Keith Alberstadt, Big Jay Oakerson, and Sean Donnelly (hosting) at the 11:30 show, with all three shows at Comedy Cellar (117 MacDougal Street, between 3rd Street & Minetta Lane): Comedy Cellar Sunday [TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): Joe Pera (hilarious and genius deadpan stand-up; Comedy Central, Adult Swim; for a very special one-minute set at Carolines, please click here; for Joe’s latest Kaufman awards submissions, please clickhere and here), Erik Bergstrom (cartoonist/author of Grimmer Tales, The New Yorker, blogger for Comedy Central), Guy Branum (Chelsea Lately, Totally Biased), Sam Morril (Comedy Central), Kate Hendricks, Nate Fernald, and Evan Williams performing stand-up at UCB East hosted by Kara Klenk (Comedy Central, Spike, Nickelodeon): If You Build It: Joe Pera, Erik Bergstrom, Guy Branum, Sam Morril, and More [TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): Superb improvisors Micah Sherman, Pay Shay, Brigid Boyle, Jon Bander, and more make up theatrical scenes at The PIT upstairs theatre for this weekly show produced by Micah Sherman & Sarah Nowak:People Improvising [TOP PICK] [$] 8:00 pm ($15; no min.): The Lucas Brothers (Jimmy Fallon, 22 Jump Street, FOX’s Lucas Bros Moving Company, Arrested Development), Jermaine Fowler (MTV’s Guy Code and Wildn Out, Comedy Central, Adult Swim’sThe Eric Andre Show), Kevin Barnett (MTV’s Guy Code, Comedy Central, TruTV’s Friends of the People, Sleepwalk With Me, College Humor), and Lil Rel performing stand-up at The Stand Comedy Club (239 Third Avenue & 20th Street) hosted by Amanda Seales: Smart, Funny, and Black [FREE] 8:00 pm: NYC stand-ups performing at The Creek upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Andrew Collin: Creek Cave Live 8:00 pm ($5): Skilled improvisors Conner O’Malley, Gary Richardson, and John Reynolds perform as Hunkz ‘R Us, plus David Rysdahl & Paul Gutkowski perform as improv duo True East, at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street): True East and Hunkz ‘R Us 9:00 pm ($5): Three scripted shows for the price of one at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street): Triple Feature [TOP PICK] 9:00 pm ($10): Duo improv from Louis Kornfeld & Rick Andrews at The Magnet theatre: Kornfeld & Andrews [TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): Superb improvisors and guest improv groups join host Skycopter (which includes the incredible David Carl) to make up one-act plays on the spot at The PIT downstairs lounge: Act One Sunday Open Mics & Open Stages [FREE] 4:00 pm: An unusually early walk-in open-mic stand-up show (put your name in the bucket at 3:45), providing 3 minutes or more per comic at The Creek downstairs lounge in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by James Ferrarella: Face-Plant Comedy Open Mic [ALMOST FREE] 5:00 pm ($1): Sign up at 4:30 pm to do improv with experienced PIT performers at The PITdownstairs lounge hosted by Sasha Capelli, Eitan Levine, and Shaina Stigler: 10K Jam Jam 5:15ish pm (no cover, 1 drink min.): Weekly open mic stand-up, with comics selected from names tossed into a bucket starting at 4:55 pm, at Brooklyn’s Legion Bar (790 Metropolitan Avenue) hosted by Aaron Glaser, Irene Hartmann, and/or Carlos Delgado: Sunday Open Mic 9:30 pm ($3): Open-mic comedy, with 3-5 minutes per walk-in performer who signs up (first come, first serve) at The PIT downstairs lounge, hosted by Will Neville: Amateur Night At The Gemini [FREE] 10:00 pm: An open-mic stand-up show (sign up is at 9:45 pm) providing 5 minutes for each comic whose name is pulled from the bucket at The Creek upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Christi Chiello:Lance Bass Space Mic [FREE] 10:00 pm: The only open-stage show for entire groups of improvisors and sketch comics, running weekly atUCB East hosted by Austin Rodrigues: Bring Your Own Team: Improv/Sketch Team Jam Upright Citizens Brigade Chelsea (307 West 26th Street; 150-seater; shows free-$10; one of the most respected comedy theatres in the world) Upright Citizens Brigade East (153 East 3rd Street; 99-seat main theatre, bar area for open mics; shows free-$10) (123 East 24th Street; 99-seat upstairs theatre, 40-seat downstairs theatre; shows free-$15) (254 West 29th Street; 60-seat theatre; shows $5-$10) (Queens’ Long Island City; 40-seat theatre upstairs, 25 downstairs; virtually all shows free) The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Ave. in Brooklyn; J/M/Z to Marcy or L to Lorimer; 50-seat theatre; shows free-$10) (117 MacDougal Street; among the finest daily stand-up lineups in the world; 2-item min.) (239 Third Avenue; recent competitor to Comedy Cellar; no drink min.—support this policy!) (1626 Broadway; focuses on the world’s top headliners, who perform hour-long sets; 2-drink min.) (208 West 23rd Street; headliners on weekends, specialty & lineup shows weekdays; 2-drink min.) (85 East 4th Street; strong weekend lineups; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.) (99 MacDougal Street; convenient if Comedy Cellar’s sold out; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.) (1568 Second Avenue, off 81st; Upper East Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.) (236 West 78th Street, off Broadway; Upper West Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.) Laughing Devil/The Standing Room (4738 Vernon Blvd., by #7 train; Queens LIC club; free cover Fri-Sat with code LICVIP; 2-drink min.) From legendary NYC comedy site Brooklyn Vegan: Thank God for Hy Bender’s religiously updated show bible BestNewYorkComedy.com. He is literally the only person in NYC providing daily summaries of what’s happening comedy-wise. It must be exhausting keeping that monster of a website alive…It is your daily comedy itinerary and it scares me how on top of his shit this guy is. Please feel encouraged to reach out to tell me about comedy shows, hire me for book or screenplay work, or for any other reason by emailing me at hy@hyreviews.com. Leave a Comment » \| Best New York Live Comedy Shows \| Tagged: Adira Amram, Bad Assery: The Women and Comedy Conference, Brooke Van Poppelen, Camille Harris, Jo Firestone, Live Comedy shows in NYC tonight, New York Comedy, NYC Comedy, NYC Improv, NYC Sketch, Stand-Up \| Permalink NYC Top Comedy Choices for Saturday 3/28/15 TV Alert: Dwayne Johnson hosts SNL at 11:29 pm on NBC Leah Rudick & Katie Hartman (ace sketch duo Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting) will be among the many highlights at a packed Day 2 of Brooklyn’s first annual Bad Assery: The Women and Comedy Conference… …Fortune Feimster concludes her headlining run at Carolines… …and Soojeong Son & GInny Leise host comics attempting to top each other in mortification at The Shame Game [MEGA-TOP PICK] [$] 1:00 pm-10:00 pm ($75 for the entire 3-day conference, which starts today, or $40 per day, at the door or online): To my eye, well over half of the finest comics alive are women. As just one quick example, the best filmed comedies on TV right now are Louie C.K.’s Louie (okay, guy), Abbi Jacobson’s & Ilana Glazer’s Broad City (two gals), and Inside Amy Schumer (gal). But industry hiring practices still overwhelmingly favor male comics. This and other issues will be tackled at Bad Assery, a 3-day event produced by Natalie Wall & Shaina Stigler featuring panel discussions and performances by some of the greatest comics in the country. Yesterday’s spectacular opening included a breathtaking musical show by Kristin Dausch in which she took us through almost every pop musical style with genius singing skill; and stand-up sets by Aparna Nancherla (one of the very finest and hardest working comedic writers in the biz, and an irresistible performer who’s on her way to becoming a superstar), Sabrina Jalees (human dynamo who can make reading a grocery list funny, and a red-hot rising star), Michelle Wolf (another brilliant and irresistible writer/performer destined for a major career), and Phoebe Robinson (who showed supreme confidence by bringing a laid-back, low-key style to the high-energy stage and making it totally work). Today is packed with not-to-be-missed panels and shows, including “An Uncomfortable Conversation about Sexism” moderated by Keisha Zollar at 2:00 pm, a chat about “Breaking Out” moderated by brand new TV star Brooke Van Poppelen at 4:00 pm, a sketch show by comedy duo Leah Rudick & Katie Hartman as Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting that’s likely to blow the roof off, and stand-up sets by such talents as Marina Franklin and Ophira Eisenberg. This second day of the conference happens at Brooklyn’s The Bell House (149 7th Street) and Littlefield (622 Degraw Street). To nab tickets ($75 for today and Sunday or $40 for just today), please click here; and then enjoy Bad Assery: The Women and Comedy Conference [$] 6:00 pm ($20): Ted Greenberg (Emmy-winning David Letterman writer) performing a fun, fast-paced theatrical comedy show—complete with audience interaction and audience rides home!—at The Complete Performer 6:00 pm ($5): Improv troupes Rue Mclanahan’s Pills, Christopher Nolan, Temple Cats, and Old Man Time performing at The Magnet theatre: The Rundown [TOP PICK] 7:00 pm ($10): Genius improvisors Neil Casey & Anthony Atamanuik perform the jaw-dropping feat of making up an entire feature film at the UCB East theatre: The Two-Man Movie [TOP PICK] 7:00 pm ($10): A staged version of a TV episode written just for this show, with tonight’s subject Parks & Recreation presented “in ways you never imagined” at The PIT downstairs lounge: We Love TV [TOP PICK] [$] 7:00 pm, 7:15 pm, 8:45 pm, 9:15 pm, 10:30 pm, and 12:15 am ($20-$24 per show, plus 2-item food/drink min.): Tonight’s stand-ups include Ted Alexandro, Greer Barnes, Lynne Koplitz, and Ryan Reiss (hosting) at the 7:00 show; Artie Lange, Greer Barnes, Lynne Koplitz, Ricky Velez, and Ryan Reiss (hosting) at the 8:45 show; Keith Alberstadt, Marina Franklin, and Ricky Velez at the 9:15 show; Dave Attell, Joe Machi, and Lynne Koplitz at the 10:30 show; Dave Attell, Big Jay Oakerson, Ricky Velez, and Sam Morril at the 12:15 MacDougal show; and Joe Matarese, Big Jay Oakerson, Lynne Koplitz, Ricky Velez, and Sean Donnelly (hosting) at the 12:15 Village Underground show, with the 7:00, 8:45, 10:30, and (1 of 2) 12:15 shows at Comedy Cellar (117 MacDougal Street, between 3rd Street & Minetta Lane), and the 7:15, 9:15, and (2 of 2) 12:15 shows at Village Underground (130 West 3rd Street, off Sixth Avenue): Comedy Cellar Saturday 7:00 pm ($5): A house sketch group that includes the wonderful Sarah Nowak performs at The PIT downstairs lounge: National Scandal [$] [DISCOUNTED] 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm & 11:00 pm (FREE TICKETS if you reserve in advance by calling (212) 260-2445 and mention HyReviews.com, but there’s still a 2-drink min. per person): Movie & TV star Janeane Garofalo (possibly 9:00 pm only), Rachel Feinstein (finalist on Last Comic Standing; Inside Amy Schumer, HBO, The Apprentice, opens for Sarah Silverman on tour), DC Benny (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central, ABC’s The Unusuals), and more performing at the only comedy club in the East Village: Eastville Comedy Club 7:00 pm ($5): House improv groups such as Santeria and Improv Frogs perform for an hour at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street): Annoyance Improv Teams [FREE] 7:00 pm: Improvisors make up scenes revolving around their heroes at The Creek’s upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Nicholas Feitel: The Hero Show [TOP PICK] [$] 7:30 pm & 10:00 pm ($31.25 & 2-drink min.) A Groundlings-trained improvisor, sketch comic, and stand-up who’s a regular on Chelsea Lately and After Lately headlining one last night at the Carolines Comedy Club:Fortune Feimster [TOP PICK] 7:30 pm ($10): “Created in 1995 at the iO Theater in Chicago, The Armando Diaz Experience is the longest running improv show ever. A guest monologist—who tonight is Chris Duffy—takes a suggestion from the audience and shares true personal tales. These stories are then brought to life by a rotating cast of improv all-stars—and occasionally Armando himself” at The Magnet theatre: The Armando Diaz Experience [TOP PICK] 7:30 pm ($10): Improv powerhouses Charlie Todd, Jim Santangeli, Natasha Rothwell, Brandon Gardner, Chelsea Clarke, and more at UCB Chelsea interview an audience member about where he or she grew up and then “turn that town’s tourist attractions, landmarks, hangouts, local celebrities, urban legends, and more into a hilarious show made up on the spot:” The Curfew: Not From Around Here [TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($10 at the door or $11.59 online): Comics share their most shameful stories with the aim of being crowned the King or Queen of Shame, with tonight’s hopefuls Brooke Van Poppelen (co-host of TruTV’s Hack My Life; writer and/or producer for a slew of MTV shows; also performed on HBO, Comedy Central, VH1), David Smithyman (ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat), Joel Kim Booster, and Michael Wolf & Colin O’Brien (sketch/music duoNancy Comedy) performing at Brooklyn’s Union Hall hosted by Ginny Leise & Soojeong Son: The Shame Game [TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($10): Stellar improv groups The Baldwins (which includes Micah Sherman, Sarah Nowak, and Brigid Boyle) and Big Black Car (which includes Chris Grace, Nate Starkey, and Ashley Ward) make stuff up at The PIT upstairs theatre: The Baldwins and Big Black Car [TOP PICK] [$] 8:00 pm ($29): The only FringeNYC show to ever include a barbershop quartet singing about alcohol and three rounds for each audience member (for my full review, please click here) is now playing as a perfect show for a date every Friday & Saturday night at the West Village’s Soho Playhouse (15 Vandam Street, in the downstairs Huron Club): The Imbible: A Spirited History of Drinking [TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($50-$130): John Oliver, Bill Burr, Lewis Black, Dane Cook, and J.B. Smoove are among the star comics slated to perform at this charity event at Madison Square Garden: Garden of Laughs 8:00 pm ($8): Sketch comedy from the IFC Comedy Crib—”It’s all the grandeur of a webseries without the convenience of watching it on your laptop”—at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street): IFC Comedy Crib Live [FREE—plus FREE BEER!] 8:00 pm: Politically incorrect stand-ups compete in this unique show for which each comic performs a set and then has to provide biting commentary on a popular online video. The audience then votes on who was the most savagely funny and has won the right to return the following month. It all happens at The Creek’s upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Mike Feeney: On the Offensive [TOP PICK] 8:30 pm ($10): Improv group Airwolf—which includes such talents as Molly Lloyd, Tim Martin, Achilles Stamatelaky, John Frusciante, and Emily Axford, and in 2012 crushed 15 improv groups in a row at Cage Match, entirely owns the UCB East stage tonight at Airwolf: Let’s Go Back to Your Place [TOP PICK] 9:00 pm ($10): An improvised apocalypse from superb comics Anthony Atamanuik, John Murray, and more at the UCB Chelsea theatre: Goat 9:00 pm ($10): Magnet improvisors team up with poets at KissPunchPoem [TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): This Baltimore-based sketch group uses video, improv, and audience participation “to create absurdist presentational performances. We tour the US once a year and we have very little money. We thought our lives would be different and that comedy would save us, but oh god we fucked up so so bad. We suck and we hate ourselves. Please come to one of our shows” at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street): Wham City [TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($10): “Musical sketch comedy that skewers and dissects pop culture one roll of the dice at at time” at The PIT upstairs theatre: Pop Roulette [TOP PICK] 10:00 pm ($10): A powerhouse group of improvisors—Zhubin Parang (writer for The Daily Show), Michael Kayne (Baby Wants Candy, Diamond Lion), Langan Kingsley (rising star; sketch group Beige, one-woman show The Dicewoman Cometh), Aaron Jackson (Fuck That Shit, Newsadoozies), Natasha Vaynblat (one-woman show United Federation of Teachers), Nate Dern (News Editor for Funny or Die), and Jamison Guest—springboard scenes off interviewing an audience member about his or her love life at the UCB East theatre: What I Did For Love [TOP PICK] [FREE] 10:00 pm: Henry Zebrowski, Ben Kissel, and Marcus Parks of Cave Comedy Radio’s Last Podcast On The Left “explore the dark recesses of humanity, both real and imagined, via short films, clips from favorite features, and audio spookiness” at Queens LIC’s The Creek upstairs theatre: Last Podcast on the Left Live [TOP PICK] 10:30 pm ($10): At UCB Chelsea, improv group Grandma’s Ashes—which includes stellar talents Ryan Karels, Morgan Grace Jarrett, Brandon Scott Jones, and more—takes your written secrets and turns them into very funny improv scenes: Grandma’s Ashes: We Won’t Tell [TOP PICK] 10:30 pm ($10): Sharp improvisors Peter McNerney & Nick Kanellis make up scenes at The Magnet as comedy duo Trike [TOP PICK] 10:30 pm ($5): A unique musical improv show in which scenes explode into popular songs with with tunes you know but entirely made up lyrics. Instead of an improv pianist, this show uses a DJ spinning karaoke tracks at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street) directed by Philip Markle (Executive Director of The Annoyance Theatre): Happy Karaoke Fun Time! 11:30 pm ($5): Kara Klenk, Jim Tews, Megan Gailey, and Ryan Beck share true-life longish funny tales at this UCB East mashup of stand-up and storytelling hosted by Alison Leiby: It’s a Long Story Midnight ($5): Sketch groups His Majesty The Baby and The Blizzard of ’96 compete for audience laughs and votes at UCB Chelsea hosted by Alden Ford and Justin Tyler: Backyard Brawl [FREE] Midnight: Stand-up, sketch, and improv at this variety show at Queens LIC’s The Creek upstairs theatre:Pinball Saturday Open Mics and Jams [FREE] 4:00 pm: An unusually early weekly open mic stand-up show (“starts late enough to sleep off that hangover but ends just in time to begin a new one”), with sign-up at 3:30 pm, at The Creek upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Raj Sivaraman & Sam Evans host: The Amateur Hour [FREE] 6:00 pm: Veteran improvisors make up scenes with improv students from any school (selected by lottery) at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street):Student Mixer Leave a Comment » \| Best New York Live Comedy Shows \| Tagged: Bad Assery: The Women and Comedy Conference, Fortune Feimster, GInny Leise, Katie Hartman, Leah Rudick, Live Comedy shows in NYC tonight, New York Comedy, NYC Comedy, NYC Improv, NYC Sketch, NYC Storytelling, Soojeong Son, Stand-Up \| Permalink NYC Top Comedy Choices for Friday 3/27/15 TV Alert: Will Forte is on Jimmy Fallon; Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell are on James Corden (repeated from 3/25) [TOP PICK] [$] 5:00 pm-9:30 pm ($75 for the entire 3-day conference, which starts today, or $40 per day, at the door or online): To my eye, well over half of the finest comics alive are women. As just one quick example, the best filmed comedies on TV right now are Louie C.K.’s Louie (okay, guy), Abbi Jacobson’s & Ilana Glazer’s Broad City (two gals), and Inside Amy Schumer (gal). But industry hiring practices still overwhelmingly favor male comics. This and other issues will be tackled at Bad Assery, a new 3-day conference produced by Natalie Wall (host of storytelling showAwkward Sex and the City) and Shaina Stigler (member of musical improv group Dagger). Although Bad Assery isn’t calling itself a festival, it’s featuring performances by some of the greatest comics in the country, so I expect it’ll be a highly entertaining event for anyone who loves comedy. It all happens today through Sunday at Brooklyn’s The Bell House (149 7th Street) and Littlefield (622 Degraw Street). To nab tickets ($75 for all three days or $40 for a single day), please click here; and then look forward to enjoying Bad Assery: The Women and Comedy Conference [$] 7:00 pm, 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm, 8:45 pm, 10:30 pm, and 12:15 am ($20-$24 per show, plus 2-item food/drink min.): Tonight’s stand-ups include Joe Machi, Artie Lange, Greer Barnes, Lynne Koplitz, and Keith Robinson (hosting) at the 7:00 show, and Dave Attell, Marina Franklin, Joe Tucker, Ricky Velez, and Ryan Reiss (hosting) at the 12:15 am show, with all of the shows at Comedy Cellar (117 MacDougal Street, between 3rd Street & Minetta Lane) except the 8:00 pm show at Village Underground (130 West 3rd Street, off Sixth Avenue): Comedy Cellar Friday [FREE] 7:00 pm ($5 at the door or $6.95 online, plus $10 drink min.): Camille Harris (irresistible singer/sketch comic/cutie; featured player on The Moon Show, music album Silly Jazz) performing songs along with Wayne Tucker and David Linard at the Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen Street, near the F subway’s Second Avenue stop): Camille Harris and More at Rockwood Stage 3 7:00 pm ($7): “It’s important to stay informed. That’s why we bring you all the news that happened this month, at the end of this month. Just your average news show, keeping you up to date with your world one month at a time” atThe Magnet written & performed by Jarret Berenstein: Current Events 7:00 pm ($5): Three improv teams compete in this cutthroat battle for laughs. What’s different about this cage match is it’s judged by a dog. Every week features a new human guest judge—whose opinion doesn’t really matter—and a guest canine judge who will actually decide the fates of everyone based on which bowl this dog goes to first. It all happens at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street): Dog Fight 7:00 pm ($5): Five veteran improvisors make stuff up at The PIT downstairs lounge as troupe Lead McEnroe [MEGA-TOP PICK] 7:30 pm ($10): At UCB Chelsea, arguably the two best scripted shows currently at UCB on a single wonderful double-bill. First, delightful dynamo Christine Bullen proves herself a fresh rising star in a one-woman show about her the various odd jobs one can find in NYC by answering Craigslist ads: My Melonbasket… …and then a smart, hilarious parody of The Wizard of Oz involving zombies, feminism, and the Hollywood system that must not be missed, written and co-starring Glenn Boozan and directed and co-starring the fabulous Laura Grey: Dorothy Goes to Hollywood: A Musical [TOP PICK] [$] 7:30 pm & 10:00 pm ($31.25 & 2-drink min.) A Groundlings-trained improvisor, sketch comic, and stand-up who’s a regular on Chelsea Lately and After Lately headlining tonight through Saturday at the CarolinesComedy Club: Fortune Feimster [$] 7:30 pm ($15): Improv group Bucky makes up one long scene in the same location (a winning form that’s helped such teams as Death by Roo Roo win a whole lot of Cage Match victories)—and, when SNL is on break, sometimes includes star Sasheer Zamata—at the UCB East theatre: Bucky: Here and Now [MEGA-TOP PICK] [$] 8:00 pm ($20): A superb Back to the Future parody with songs and special effects live on stage. The show starts out too slowly in the present time, but becomes quite fun once Marty travels to the past; and by Act 2 it’s a hilarious romp that I highly recommend. The show is by Christopher W. Barnes (book), Ryan Mercy (music) and Christopher W. Barnes (lyrics), produced by Ronny Pascale, and featuring a cast of over a dozen comics performing at The PIT upstairs theatre: That 80s Time Travel Movie: The UNAUTHORIZED! Musical Parody [TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($15): Judah Friedlander (one of the quickest minds and very finest stand-ups in comedy; 30 Rock, Meet the Parents, Along Came Polly, author of How to Beat Up Anybody), Ben Bailey (Emmy Award-winning host of Cash Cab and NBC’s Who’s Still Standing?; Comedy Central Presents, Jay Leno), Jermaine Fowler (MTV’sGuy Code and Wildn Out, Comedy Central, Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show), Adrienne Iapalucci (David Letterman, Last Comic Standing, VH1), and Derek Gaines performing stand-up at Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan) sponsored by stellar comedy club The Stand: The Stand Presents Judah Friedlander, Ben Bailey, Jermaine Fowler, Adrienne Iapalucci, and More [TOP PICK] [$] 8:00 pm ($29): The only FringeNYC show to ever include a barbershop quartet singing about alcohol and three rounds for each audience member (for my full review, which includes a rave for the spectacular Nicole DiMattei, please click here) is now playing as a perfect show for a date every Friday & Saturday night at the West Village’s Soho Playhouse (15 Vandam Street, in the downstairs Huron Club): The Imbible: A Spirited History of Drinking [TOP PICK] [$] 8:00 pm ($21.69 online or $25 at the door): Ted Alexandro (one of the very finest stand-ups in the country; David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, two Comedy Central Presents half-hour specials; comedy album I Did It; frequently opens for Louis C.K.), Aparna Nancherla (one of the finest stand-ups in the country, with a delightfully wry style and lightning-quick mind; Conan O’Brien, Last Comic Standing, @midnight, Totally Biased, recently opened for Tig Notaro at Town Hall), Harrison Greenbaum (Comedy Central, Mad Magazine), Joyelle Johnson, Anthony DeVito, Frank Liotti, Charles McBee, and Katherine Williams performing stand-up for a fundraiser at Flux Factory (39-21 29th Street) in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Liz Magee: Funny by Nature Fundraiser: Ted Alexandro, Aparna Nancherla, and More [TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($20; no min.): Gary Gulman (razor-sharp wordsmith; David Letterman, Jay Leno, Last Comic Standing, Tourgasm, Comedy Central hour-log special), Ben Bailey (Emmy Award-winning host of Cash Cab and NBC’s Who’s Still Standing?; Comedy Central Presents, Jay Leno), Marina Franklin (Jay Leno, Last Comic Standing, Chappelle’s Show, VH1), Monroe Martin (finalist on this season’s Last Comic Standing), and Mike Vecchione (Jay Leno, Comedy Central Half Hour, Last Comic Standing, Howard Stern) performing stand-up at The Stand Comedy Club (239 Third Avenue & 20th Street): Gary Gulman, Ben Bailey, Marina Franklin, and More 8:00 pm ($10): Two PIT upstairs theatre improv groups making up a musical on the spot. Dagger includes Abby Holland (VH1’s Best Night Ever, musical improv groups Aquarius and Veal), and Hello includes Lorraine Cink (especially lovely singing voice; host & writer of Marvel Comics’ The Watcher): Dagger and Hello 8:00 pm ($5): “Long, long ago, by the banks of the river Marinara, where breadstick trees grew in unlimited amounts, in the steamy valley of mozzarella, there was a sleepy little hamlet known as the town of pizza. And the people of this town were a simple, smiling folk, who loved soft drinks, and arcade games, and maintained a friendly family atmosphere. Oh, they were an eclectic bunch: a mayor with a gluttonous lust for power; a bum who tasted glory but lost it all; a fisherman desperate for one last bite. But in one house lived a man who was…a little different” at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street): Slice of Life [FREE] 8:00 pm: This show “randomly pairs duos from the world of comedy. They have one week to prepare a comedy set for the physically and emotionally taxing Battlebowl where these teams will compete against one another”—with tonight’s contestants Christi Chiello & Becca Kauffman, John Reynolds & Dru Johnston, Edy Modica & Gary Richardson, Nora Isabella & Ben Wasserman, Mike Abrusci & Joel Kim Booster, and Charles Gould & Madonna Eleganza Refugia—at Brooklyn’s Over the Eight (594 Union Ave) hosted by Bret Davis & Darren Mabee:The Lethal Lottery [FREE] 8:00 pm: NYC stand-ups performing at The Creek upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Casey James Salengo: Creek Cave Live [TOP PICK] 8:30 pm ($10): Before this Magnet show, audience members may anonymously submit written confessions, secrets, rants, advice and opinions which will be used onstage by the improvisors—who include such talents as Laura Grey (stellar old-time radio style theatrical podcast Horrorgasm, improv troupe Salmon Diane, sketch/improv duo Klepper & Grey): The Friday Night Sh*w [MEGA-TOP PICK] [$] 9:00 pm ($10): Some of the finest improv in the country from brilliant comics Shannon O’Neill, Connor Ratliff, Jordan Klepper, Don Fanelli, Silvija Ozols, and/or Michael Delaney forming a seamless and hilarious group mind at UCB Chelsea—the all-star members of The Stepfathers [TOP PICK] 9:00 pm ($10): Cipha Sounds (Hot 97, Chappelle’s Show) thought it would be cool if a hip-hop star told tales and then improvisors made up scenes based on them. This monthly show is the result, with a “secret” music celebrity “mesmerizing the crowd with amazing stories and linguistic darts to spark the creativity of some of the best improvisers in NYC,” the latter being Anthony Atamanuik, Natasha Rothwell, Brandon Gardner, Lydia Hensler, Christian Capozzoli, and/or Shaun Diston at the UCB East theatre: Take It Personal: The Hip-Hip Improv Show [TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5 at the door or $6.27 online; the latter is recommended because this will probably sell out): Jo Firestone (exceptionally inventive and irresistible rising star; radio host of WFMU’s Dr. Gameshow, and live-on-stage host ofPunderdome 3000 and The Incredible Game Show Showcase) hosts this show in which Jo and other improvisors live-dub over muted episodes of well-known sitcoms—which tonight are Will and Grace and, more dangerously, The Cosby Show—to create entirely new story lines on the spot. “Watch as your classic Friends episode takes on a film noir spin, or how everyone in Cheers just wants to talk about pizza” at Videology (308 Bedford Avenue): Live Dubbed Sitcoms 9:30 pm ($7): A one-woman show by Ali Levin in which “Miami’s most beloved spicy Cuban Holistic Wellness Counselor Viviana Cortez is on a quest to answer life’s toughest questions while healing her clients one churro at a time” at the Treehouse Theater (154 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor): Steps to Salbachun 9:30 pm ($5): This variety show features stand-up, characters, dance, improv, and/or more at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street): The Juice 9:30 pm ($10): Typically disturbing and semi-obscene sketches at The PIT downstairs lounge from troupe FUCT [TOP PICK] 10:00 pm ($20; no min.): Gary Gulman (razor-sharp wordsmith; David Letterman, Jay Leno, Last Comic Standing, Tourgasm, Comedy Central hour-log special), Ben Bailey (Emmy Award-winning host of Cash Cab and NBC’s Who’s Still Standing?; Comedy Central Presents, Jay Leno), Marina Franklin (Jay Leno, Last Comic Standing, Chappelle’s Show, VH1), Monroe Martin (finalist on this season’s Last Comic Standing), Mike Vecchione (Jay Leno, Comedy Central Half Hour, Last Comic Standing, Howard Stern), and Derek Gaines performing stand-up at The Stand Comedy Club (239 Third Avenue & 20th Street): Gary Gulman, Ben Bailey, Marina Franklin, and More [TOP PICK] 10:00 pm ($10): Musical improv group Premiere—which features the best improv piano player in the biz, Frank Spitznagel—springboards off an audience suggestion to create a complete story with song and dance at The Magnettheatre: Premiere: The Improvised Musical [FREE] 10:00 pm: Veteran improvisors reunite, new improvisors perform, and then old and new merge to create a one-nigh-only team at Queens LIC’s The Creek upstairs theatre hosted by Nick Arret: Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue [TOP PICK] 10:30 pm ($10): Andrew Law (Seth Meyers), Josh Sharp (superb sketch writer/performer; MTV; co-star ofGUMP, co-host of Cool Shit/Weird Shit), Katie Kester (host of The Later Show), Ramon Rivas II (Nerdist), and Sharon Spell (host of Big Shrink) performing stand-up, sketch, storytelling, or improv at UCB East hosted by Brandon Scott Jones, D’Arcy Carden, Justin Tyler, Kelly Hudson, and/or Alden Ford: Gentrify 10:30 pm ($5): “A showcase of bizarre comedy entertainers. Can power producers Nick Zielinski and Micah Phillips pull off this high stakes show or will their evil overlords destroy them? Come and find out” at Brooklyn’s The Annoyance Theatre (367 Bedford Avenue; take J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue or L to Lorimer Street): Starlight Entertainment [TOP PICK] 11:00 pm ($10): Sketch comedy from group Forever Dog about ” a seemingly sleepy town sitting at the base of an active volcano” at The PIT upstairs theatre: Volcano Town 11:00 pm ($10): Sketch comedy blended with dance, poetry, and live music at The PIT downstairs lounge from groupHis Majesty, The Baby 11:30 pm ($7): A sketch show from Ari Miller, Dmitry Shein, Trumane Alston, and Michael Delisle at The Magnettheatre: Bedlam [TOP PICK] Midnight ($5): Fearless, innovative dark comedy gal duo Leah Rudick & Katie Hartman (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, FringeNYC) briefly return to The PIT downstairs lounge (while Leah is in NYC for the weekend) to show off their darker B-side sketches. In their words, “Katie and Leah get it. You don’t go to a Rolling Stones concert waiting to see Jagger sing ‘Paint it Black.’ You didn’t spend $300 on scalped tickets to watch Beyonce perform ‘Single Ladies’ or ‘Drunk in Love.’ You want the obscure! The less catchy! The slightly shitty! Well, we’ve got them for you! Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting (known throughout the entire world as the Beyonce of sketch comedy) is back at The PIT for one night only performing the weirder, wilder, and wonderful B-Side sketches that you love, you just don’t know it yet,” plus musical guests The Reformed Whores (raunchy comedic singing duo Marie Cecile Anderson & Katy Frame; album Ladies Don’t Spit; CBS’ The Doctors): Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting [TOP PICK] Midnight ($5): “For over nine years, you have been able to count on the UCBW to bring you hot comedy wrestling action each and every Thursday night at Cage Match. For an unprecedented tenth year, UCBW will present its signature show—the grandpappy of ’em all—WrestleSlamMania X! Rivalries have been brewing, and everything will come to a full boil when the full roster of UCBW MegaStars appears in the squared circle! Hilarious real wrestling matches live! Get your tickets NOW! Only 14,000 seats available!:” WrestleSlamMania X Midnight ($5): A variety of oddball comedy acts at UCB East hosted by sketch duo Matt Dennie & Josh Sharp: Cool Shit / Weird Shit Friday Open Mics & Jams 5:00 pm ($5): Two-hour open-mic for 20 stand-ups performing for 5 minutes each, with sign-up online here, at theStand Up NY Comedy Club (236 West 78th Street): Stand Up NY Open Mic 5:45 pm (no cover, 1 drink min. for both comics and audience members): Open mic stand-up providing 5-7 minutes per comic, running 1 hour. Arrive 30 minutes before the show to get on the signup sheet. This is a fine opportunity to perform at the only comedy club in the East Village: Eastville Comedy Club Open Mic [FREE] 6:00 pm: An open-mic show on a lottery system (sign-ups happen at 5:45-6:00 pm) at The Creek upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City with host Eli Sairs: The Orphanage [ALMOST FREE] 6:00 pm ($1): PIT musical improv veterans mix with musical improv novices on-stage at the upstairs theatre for Pitch [ALMOST FREE] 6:00 pm ($1): PIT improv veterans mix with improv novices on-stage at the downstairs lounge forHappy Hour [FREE] 8:00 pm: An open-mic show that’s first come, first serve, with each comic getting 5 minutes on stage at The Creek downstairs lounge in Queens’ Long Island City: Mic and Cheese Leave a Comment » \| Best New York Live Comedy Shows \| Tagged: Adira Amram, Amber Nelson, Aparna Nancherla, Bad Assery: The Women and Comedy Conference, Brooke Van Poppelen, Jo Firestone, Katie Hartman, Katy Frame, Keisha Zollar, Leah Rudick, Live Comedy shows in NYC tonight, Marie Cecile Anderson, Marina Franklin, Michelle Wolf, New York Comedy, NYC Comedy, NYC Improv, NYC Sketch, NYC Storytelling, Ophira Eisenberg, Phoebe Robinson, Sabrina Jalees, Stand-Up \| Permalink	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13759
__label__cc	0.503879	0.496121	By Douglas Soltys Canadian Startup News, Launches January 27, 2015 Career Skills Incubator helps Canadians transitioning careers with new Menteer app The Career Skills Incubator announced today the launch of a new mobile app to help Canadian job seekers get matched with mentors to forward their careers. Called Menteer, the open source application functions almost as a career dating app, matching mentors and mentees through an algorithm that weighs communication style, industry experience, and goals. “Menteer started simply enough – we wanted to save volunteer time and allow our program to grow by automating the mentor matching process,” said CSCI founder Victoria Alleyne. “It grew to be much bigger; by making it open source, we are creating a tool that can be used at low to no cost for other organizations across the country hoping to start or scale mentorship programs.” Housed in Toronto’s Centre for Social Innovation, CSCI is run by a volunteer team of students and recent graduates, with the goal of providing tools to help create career opportunities for underemployed Canadians. Funding for the development was provided by the .CA Community Investment Program, whose mandate is to forward solutions for Canadian social and economic issues. Menteer is one of 29 projects funded through the CIP. “Canadians have embraced the Internet for job seeking, making mentoring an area ripe for digital disruption,” said David Fowler, Director of Marketing and Communications for .CA. “The .CA Community Investment Program allows projects like Menteer to create digital solutions for their sectors, helping non-profit leaders experiment, create cutting-edge services and innovate with digital tools.” impactlaunchtoronto Douglas Soltys Douglas Soltys is the Editor-in-Chief of BetaKit and founder of BetaKit Incorporated. He has worked for a few failed companies and written about many more. He spends too much time on the Internet. Cisco and Teralys commit to McRock’s industrial IoT fund CEO Ryan Holmes rolling out guru employee track across Hootsuite Switchcam Raises $1.2M, Looks to Focus on New Verticals Social video platform Switchcam announced a funding round of $1.2 million today, led by Mark Cuban. The startup will use that funding to help…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13761
__label__cc	0.546862	0.453138	Abby Johnson has always been fiercely determined to help women in need. This desire is what led Abby to a career with Planned Parenthood, our nation’s largest abortion provider, and caused her to flee the organization, becoming an outspoken advocate for the pro-life movement. During her eight years with Planned Parenthood, Abby quickly rose through the organization’s ranks and became a clinic director. However, Abby became increasingly disturbed by what she witnessed. Abortion was a product Planned Parenthood was selling, not an unfortunate necessity they were fighting to decrease. Still, Abby loved the women that entered her clinic and her co-workers. Despite a growing unrest within her, she stayed on and strove to serve women in crisis. All of that changed on September 26, 2009 when Abby was asked to assist with an ultrasound-guided abortion. She watched in horror as a 13 week baby fought for, and ultimately lost, its life at the hand of the abortionist. At that moment, she fully realized what abortion actually was and what she had dedicated her life to. As it washed over Abby, a dramatic transformation had occurred. Desperate and confused, Abby sought help from a local pro-life group. She swore that she would begin to advocate for life in the womb and expose abortion for what it truly is. Planned Parenthood did not take Abby’s departure sitting down. The organization is fully aware the workers who leave are their greatest threat. They took immediate action to silence Abby with a gag order and brought her to court. The lawsuit was quickly seen as the sham it was and it was ultimately thrown out of court. The media was, and continues to be, intensely interested in Abby’s story as well as her continued efforts to advocate for the unborn and help clinic workers escape the abortion industry. She is a frequently requested guest on Fox News and a variety of other shows. She also the author of the nationally best-selling book, Unplanned, which chronicles both her experiences within Planned Parenthood and her dramatic exit. Today, Abby travels across the globe sharing her story, educating the public on pro-life issues, advocating for the unborn, and reaching out to abortion clinic staff who still work in the industry. She is the founder of And Then There Were None, a ministry designed to assist abortion clinic workers in transitioning out of the industry. To date, this ministry has helped over 550 workers leave the abortion industry. Abby lives in Texas with her husband and seven precious children. Check out and Support her book and now hit movie; “Unplanned” (Book / Movie) YouTube Video of our Interview with Abby: Dolphins Fact Source: BBC research link from Robert and Pastor Brad’s discussion and podcast introduction. Notes & Quotes: “We are not meant to parent in Isolation” “We must learn to ‘help’ men and women who have heard that Abortion is a ‘viable’ option to consider.” “To forgive myself and accept God’s forgiveness takes practice” “And then there were none” has had a significant impact on the abortion industry. Since 2012, 550 abortion workers have left Planned Parenthood along with 8 full time Medical doctors. “Living today, life in the present is a gift” “How we respond to our past choices determines a lot. If we react with shame and diminishment, that’s not God. Guilt can be good, it convicts us of sin and motivates us to change.” “God motivates us to change, to use our past to glorify Him” About our Podcasts! We feature a variety of topics and issues of interest to parents. Our guests vary from the home-school mom next door to Grammy Winning Musicians and Nationally known authors and parenting experts. We do our best to offer practical information, advice, and honest encouragement to parents at any stage or age of life. Listen to our other episodes!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13777
__label__wiki	0.763518	0.763518	Identification, Images, & Information For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin For the United States & Canada Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Emeralds (Corduliidae) » Little Emeralds (Dorocordulia) » Racket-tailed Emerald (Dorocordulia libera) Species Dorocordulia libera - Racket-tailed Emerald Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) Identification manual for the dragonfly larvae (Anisoptera) of Florida By Richardson J.S. Dept Envir. Prot., Tallahassee. 114 pp., 2003 Contributed by v belov on 24 December, 2014 - 1:02am A dazzle of dragonflies By Mitchell F.L., Lasswell J.L. Texas A&M University Press. 224 pp., 2005 Excellent popular book written by two experts, with emphasis on Texan fauna, full of magnificent photos and most helpful information. (Was a bargain at B&N, too, when I bought it a couple of years ago.) Contributed by v belov on 26 July, 2010 - 6:32am Dragonfly Genera of the New World By Rosser W. Garrison, Natalia von Ellenrieder, Jerry A. Louton Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 The subtitle is an accurate description: "An illustrated and annotated key to the Anisoptera." The book is a key to the 195 dragonfly genera of the New World. The description of each genus includes drawings, distribution map, list of species with state of classification, a brief description of the genus, and references to literature on individual species. While the entire hemisphere is treated, the authors consider the book most valuable as a guide to the diverse and obscure drangonflies of the tropics and South America. A limited preview is available on Contributed by John F. Carr on 27 September, 2008 - 5:26pm Dragonflies of North America, revised edition By James G. Needham, Minter J. Westfall, Jr., Michael L. May Scientific Publishers, Inc., 2000 This tricky-to-find, heavy, and expensive book is the definitive book on North American dragonflies. All the Anisoptera of the U.S., Canada, the Greater Antilles, and the northern tier of Mexican states are covered. Not the kind of hefty book one would use as a field guide (although I do carry it in a backpack sometimes), but there are several important features that make this guide absolutely indispensible to anyone serious about dragonfly identification: -Names, detailed descriptions, and illustrations for all the external features of a dragonfly adult and larva (including detailed diagrams of wing venation, thoracic patterns, and genitalia) Contributed by Cliff Bernzweig on 27 August, 2006 - 1:22pm Dragonflies of the North Woods By Kurt Mead Adventure Publications, 2003 Kurt's book is very useful for us here in the northern midwest. Excellent work on Aeshna and Somatochlora, among others. Contributed by john and jane balaban on 5 March, 2005 - 6:29pm Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Massachusetts By Blair Nikula, Jennifer L. Loose, Matthew R. Burne Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, 2003 Wonderful photographic guide. For nearly every species, it has two large photographs, one of the male and one of the female. Lots of neat features, including a page of side-by-side comparisons of darners' lateral thoracic stripes. Contributed by Stephen_WV on 22 October, 2004 - 6:39am Dragonflies of Indiana By James R. Curry Indiana Academy of Science, 2001 Best book for the midwest; dragonflies only, no damsels. Contributed by john and jane balaban on 30 August, 2004 - 10:06pm Dragonflies Through Binoculars: A Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America By Sidney W. Dunkle Oxford Press, 2000 Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 22 February, 2004 - 3:22pm Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office. Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content. Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information. Everything else copyright © 2003-2020 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted. Bugguide is hosted by:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13787
__label__cc	0.716101	0.283899	Bohat ALA Research Paper Example & Topics, Assignment Help, Case Studies Case Studies Solutions Projects/Reports New Business Plans IT/Technology Law/Legal Home / Research Papers / Economics / Positive And Negative Impacts of Brexit Positive And Negative Impacts of Brexit Economics, Research Papers 22,159 Views Advantages and Disadvantages of Brexit Positive And Negative Impacts of Brexit – Introduction: This paper discusses about Pros and Cons of Brexit and Impact of Brexit on UK Economy. The UK’s decision to leave the EU has left everyone wondering how it will affect people associated with business. On June 23rd, referendum was announced from European Union. It was perhaps a better decision at state level that why would their country be paying taxes to Europe when they are getting nothing in return. All debits were imposed on UK so it was rather a good decision to get away from them. London is ranked as “number 1” in world with respect to tourism, as it has 18.82 million visitors in a night. Now here we need to know that what is “BREXIT”, perhaps BREXIT means British to be exited from European Union. Hence there are many pros and cons of BREXIT so we cannot say that it was totally bureaucracy or the British were really tired of paying taxes to the EU and wanted to get rid of the situation. Here we will consider two majors for our focus namely, “Recruitment and retention” & “Organizational Management”. Also Study: The Impact of Brexit on UK Economy \| Brexit Consequences Negative Impact of BREXIT: BREXIT had many negative impacts on business vendors. First of all free entry for EU nationals was banned, which caused to increase in cost of business. People who were vendors and sell their products by travelling from one country to another were now facing a big problem because BREXIT was causing loss of revenues. If we think at a broader level and say that your organization is headquartered in London and you have offshore production units in Romania and Bulgaria. You cannot manage your organization in that way as free entry will not be possible in UK. You cannot move your HQs to Europe as you have spent years to make business relations and business values. You will have to pay custom taxes in order to receive goods from EU members. A drop in immigration would mean more jobs for the people who remained, but labor shortages could also hold back the economy, reducing its potential for growth. There are also skills shortages in the UK workforce that would hurt some sectors. UK has highest proportion of EU nationalists in hotels and restaurants, but now they require visa for working. BREXIT on literal meaning was to kick out the EU nationals and recruit only the people born in UK. On average about 3 million were EU based which were destructed by BREXIT and causing 3000 businesses to be down. Now it was a challenge for HR to recruit blue and white collar jobs out of British nationals only. Previously there was a competition for jobs in UK as from 26 countries people tried for jobs. So the company had best employee for their organization, acquiring mixed and multi skills. Now blue collar jobs out of British were a big deal as right people for the right job were mostly not available. Rising costs, lower budgets and extra administration is obviously a cause for short-term concern; as with other industries, there are pros and cons to the Brexit vote. The important thing for the economy was to put political differences aside and focus on seizing global opportunities. But Brexit was thinking at state level not at global level. Conference and Incentive Travel Magazine have been running snap polls on the topic on Twitter over the last few months. In February they reported 70% of event planners want to remain in Europe. The last one in May showed 55% of planners think a vote to remain in Europe will be better for the events industry (Brannick). It will be causing problems for people born in UK, who are working in EU countries as they would also be losing jobs due to effects of Brexit. So it was negative for those whose customers were waiting across the borderline or the companies have multinational employees. Positive Impact of BREXIT: BREXIT on the other hand had positive impact too. Firstly, it will help in decreasing overcrowding which UK complains that it affects its economy on a large scale. Moreover UK skilled workers are working in other countries BREXIT will help to bring talent back to UK. When overcrowding will decrease then HR can easily find the right person for the right job. This will help in overcoming unemployment of people born in UK. Secondly, it will solve the multi-currency problems i.e. it will solve the problems in converting euros to pounds or pounds to euros as only single currency would be available. This will lead people out of confusion that either people are hired based on euros or pounds. This will help UK enjoy independent monetary policies. Thirdly, it will help UK government in lowering taxes on every item as government will not have to pay extra at least 7 billion pounds for the membership. So new businesses will grow and government will build new industries and plants in order to improve their economy. This all will lead to make every item cheap and households in UK would be getting richer. Also Study: Impact of Brexit on UK Housing Market Sector British Tier 2 visas are just as of now accessible to specialists in graduate-level employments paying at any rate £20,800. As per a study embraced by Path Motion of 75 top UK graduate businesses, 49 percent said they were probably going to bring down their admission of graduates post-Brexit, however 25% said they would probably expand enrollment of British graduates. Be that as it may, in the cordiality business graduate-level occupations over £20,000 represent only 6 percent of representatives. This all will lead investors to invest in their own country and hire their own people. This will help in increasing economy and will lead towards a bright future for UK. The whole essay would be concluded by saying that we should take our personal benefits to a side and think global benefits. This will help us to be united and develop better inter-country relationships. UK is now free to have partnerships with any of the countries. At this time it is hard to say that either it is a good decision or not but business analysts say it would be a fruitful decision for UK in future, as UK will have Positive And Negative Impacts of Brexit on its economy. Reference; LAUREN HOUGHTON. C&IT. [Online]. http://www.citmagazine.com/article/1400091/brexit-reaction-event-planners-outline-pros-cons-leave-vote-updated Tags Advantages of Brexit Brexit article Brexit Essay Brexit Pros and Cons Brexit Report Disadvantages of Brexit Negative Impact of BREXIT Positive Impact of BREXIT Pros and Cons of Brexit Previous Internet of Things Research Paper Next ExxonMobil Marketing Project Report Evaluating The Journal Article on Marketing Analysis of Healthcare Organization in Singapore Apple Inc Financial Analysis Enterprise Resource Planning Competency Childhood Interview Questions Colonialism And White Privilege This is amazing rely helped. What an amazingly twisted and uninformed article. Brexit advantages: 1. Will bring skilled workers back to the UK. Well, why are they not in the UK already? Better job availability, higher wages and better standard of living in Europe. They will be coming home to fewer jobs, lower wages and more importantly expensive living costs. 2. Will reduce immigration. Yes it will, but it won’t increase jobs, salaries or conditions. 3. Lowering taxes. Bwahaha. When has that ever happened? Due to loss of European free trade, extra tariffs and increased bureaucracy, loss of jobs, leading to increased inflation, falling currency and unemployment, costs will far exceed any monetary benefit. 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__label__wiki	0.693392	0.693392	Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes among Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans: La Crisis Boricua Marie T. Mora, Alberto Dávila, Havidán Rodríguez Lexington Books, Nov 15, 2017 - Business & Economics - 242 pages At the landmark centennial anniversary of the 1917 Jones-Shafroth Act, which granted Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship, the island confronts an unfolding humanitarian crisis initially triggered by an acute economic crisis surging since 2006. Analyzing large datasets such as the American Community Survey and the Puerto Rican Community Survey, this book represents the first comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic and demographic consequences of “La Crisis Boricua” for Puerto Ricans on the island and mainland, including massive net outmigration from the island on a scale not seen for sixty years; a shrinking and rapidly aging population; a shut-down of high-tech industries; a significant loss in public and private sector jobs; a deteriorating infrastructure; higher sales taxes than any of the states; $74 billion in public debt plus another $49 billion in unfunded pension obligations; and defaults on payments to bondholders. This book also discusses how the socioeconomic and demographic outcomes differ among stateside Puerto Ricans, including recent migrants, in traditional settlement areas such as New York versus those in newer settlement areas such as Florida and Texas. Florida is now home to 1.1 million Puerto Ricans (essentially the same number as those living in New York) and received a full third of the migrants from the island to mainland during this time. Scholars interested in the transition of migrants into their receiving communities (regardless of the Puerto Rican case) will also find this book to be of interest, particularly with respect to the comparative analyses on earnings, the likelihood of being impoverished, and self-employment. Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes Among Island and Mainland ... Marie T. Mora,Alberto E. Dávila,Havidán Rodríguez Marie T. Mora,Alberto Dávila,Havidán Rodríguez ACS and PRCS ages of twenty-five Alberto Dávila average Crisis Boricua Cubans Dávila decades decline differences discussed employment/population ratios estimates Figure Florida gender gender-related geographic groups higher Hispanic impact increase indicates IPUMS island residents island-born Puerto Ricans island’s La Crisis Boricua labor force participation labor force status labor market largest levels LFP rates likelihood mainland-born Puerto Ricans major receiving Massachusetts Mexican Americans Mora non-Hispanic whites non-Puerto Ricans noted number of Puerto Operation Bootstrap outmigration panel Pennsylvania percent percentage points perfect storm political population growth Population Pyramids poverty rates poverty-rate PRCS data PROMESA Puerto Rican communities Puerto Rican migrants Puerto Rican population Puerto Rican residents Puerto Rican women reasons for moving receiving areas recent migrants reported Rico Rico’s self-employment significant social socioeconomic and demographic socioeconomic outcomes stateside Puerto Ricans Table timeframe tion twenty-five and sixty-four U.S. Census Bureau U.S. mainland unemployment rates unexplained earnings differential versus workers York Marie T. Mora is professor of economics and associate vice provost for faculty diversity at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Alberto Dávila is professor of economics and associate dean for administration, graduate studies and research at the Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Havidán Rodríguez is professor and president of the University at Albany, State University of New York. Title Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes among Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans: La Crisis Boricua Authors Marie T. Mora, Alberto Dávila, Havidán Rodríguez Contributor Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz Publisher Lexington Books, 2017 Business & Economics / Economic Conditions Business & Economics / Economics / General Business & Economics / Urban & Regional Social Science / Emigration & Immigration Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13796
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‘Tyringham in the parish of Tyringham with Filgrave’, c. 26 April 1627; ‘Sherington’, c. 7 September 1632, 17 October 1632, 7 December 1632, 9 February 1633, 9 February 1633, 25 February 1633, 29 March 1633, 1 April 1633, 9 April 1633, 16 May 1633, 10 October 1633 & 27 March 1635 Mrs Aloysia Cayno [Old Mrs Cayno] (PERSON10391) Residences: ‘Little Woolstone (now part of Milton Keynes)’, c. 18 May 1602, 20 May 1602, 1 September 1606 & 31 October 1606; ‘Great Woolstone’, c. 24 May 1602, 11 March 1606, 10 September 1611, 24 October 1618 & 2 May 1620; ‘Woughton on the Green’, c. 25 April 1606; ‘Wollaston (village)’, c. 17 October 1612 & 19 September 1634 Magdalen Hedge (PERSON12707) Residences: ‘Whaddon (village, now part of Milton Keynes)’, c. 12 September 1600; ‘Little Horwood’, c. 6 July 1602; ‘Great Horwood (village)’, c. 19 July 1602 Goody Elizabeth Morgan (PERSON14266) Residences: ‘Lavendon (village)’, c. 5 November 1600, 8 November 1600, 17 September 1602, 5 February 1603, 1 September 1603, 12 September 1603, 17 December 1603, 10 January 1604, 8 February 1604, 24 August 1604, 11 May 1605, 22 March 1606, 2 May 1607, 4 June 1608, 25 July 1611, 23 August 1619, 16 October 1619, 23 April 1620, 10 July 1620 & 3 January 1621; ‘Moulsoe’, c. 10 December 1624, 14 October 1625, 19 October 1625, 30 October 1625 & 4 November 1625; ‘Stoke Goldington (village)’, c. 2 October 1626 Jane Rutland (PERSON15544) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 10 December 1622 & 26 March 1623 Residences: ‘Newton Blossomville’, c. 28 January 1604; ‘Haversham (village)’, c. 25 June 1609 & 14 October 1622; ‘Great Linford (village)’, c. 26 March 1623 Anne Stiffe (PERSON16165) Occupations: ‘Servant’, c. 25 August 1601; ‘Maid’, c. 24 December 1602 Residences: ‘Lathbury (village)’, c. 25 August 1601 & 27 April 1603; ‘Sherington’, c. 5 September 1601; ‘Deanshanger (manor in the parish of Passenham)’, c. 24 December 1602 Sara Kirkland (PERSON20094) Female, b. 1599-11-01 or 1600-11-01 or 1601-11-01 or 1601-10-12-1601-12-12 (approx.) or 1601-11-01 (06:00) or 1601-11-01 or 1602-11-01 (06:26 approx.), d. not recorded Residences: ‘Filgrave (hamlet in the parish of Tyringham with Filgrave)’, c. 12 June 1602; ‘Sherington’, c. 9 August 1605, 21 April 1611, 28 September 1616, 11 April 1618, 11 April 1618, 2 May 1618, 22 March 1623 & 25 March 1623; ‘Newport Pagnell (town)’, c. 13 August 1605 William Miller (PERSON20323) Occupations: ‘Man (servant)’, c. 14 August 1606, 19 July 1607, 28 July 1608, 16 December 1609, 12 May 1611 & 13 June 1614; ‘Servant’, c. 27 February 1607, 11 May 1611, 23 September 1612 & 26 May 1616 Residences: ‘Great Linford (village)’, c. 23 September 1612; ‘Wolverton (village)’, c. 22 September 1628; ‘Great Woolstone’, c. 1 August 1632 Mrs Audrey More [Old Mrs More] (PERSON20341) Female, b. 1533-09-12-1541-12-01 (est.), d. 1608-12-04-1608-12-11 Residences: ‘Cublington’, c. 11 September 1604 & 28 March 1608; ‘Upper Weld (in the parish of Wing)’, c. 18 March 1605 & 2 December 1608; ‘Netherweld (a manor in Wing parish)’, c. 31 October 1608 Mr Thomas Silvester (PERSON20769) Occupation: ‘Musician’, c. 9 January 1608, 15 September 1608 & 22 November 1608 Residences: ‘Hulcott’, c. 7 August 1605; ‘Stowe (village)’, c. 13 April 1607; ‘Stony Stratford (village, now part of Milton Keynes)’, c. 15 September 1608 Elizabeth Smith [the younger] (PERSON20817) Residences: ‘Salden (Salden House still survives, NE of Mursley, nr Milton Keynes)’, c. 17 July 1606 & 8 December 1608; 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‘longevill’, c. 19 July 1616; ‘Bradwell (now part of Milton Keynes)’, c. 17 October 1618; ‘Foscote (also Foscott)’, c. 5 November 1623, 19 May 1624, 21 December 1627 & 25 March 1630 John Shephard (PERSON25349) Residences: ‘Unspecified’, c. 12 December 1609 & 27 January 1610; ‘Crafton (hamlet in the parish of Wing)’, c. 3 January 1610 & 15 January 1610; ‘Wing (village)’, c. 7 February 1610 Mr John Simons (PERSON25383) Occupations: ‘Servant’, c. 11 May 1609, 17 June 1609, 14 July 1609, 20 March 1624 & 4 February 1632; ‘Butler’, c. 31 January 1624 & 5 April 1630 Residences: ‘Tyringham in the parish of Tyringham with Filgrave’, c. 11 May 1609, 13 November 1610, 23 July 1611, 27 May 1624, 6 February 1626, 8 May 1629 & 19 February 1630; ‘Sherington’, c. 31 January 1624 & 5 April 1630; ‘Salden (Salden House still survives, NE of Mursley, nr Milton Keynes)’, c. 30 September 1631 Elizabeth Clark (PERSON29014) Residences: ‘Dagnall (a hamlet in the parish of Edlesborough)’, c. 16 July 1614; ‘Unspecified’, c. 12 October 1616; ‘Edlesborough (village)’, c. 13 June 1617 & 14 June 1617 Susan Glantem (PERSON30901) Occupation: ‘Servant’, c. 21 January 1629 & 27 May 1630 Residences: ‘Stantonbury’, c. 19 October 1619 & 21 January 1629; ‘Whaddon (village, now part of Milton Keynes)’, c. 27 May 1630; ‘Shenley (village; now part of Milton Keynes)’, c. 4 September 1630 Robert Tee [Mortimer] (PERSON35946) Residences: ‘Monks Risborough (village)’, c. 30 December 1612, 3 June 1613 & 21 June 1621; ‘Unspecified’, c. 21 January 1613, 9 June 1613 & 5 October 1620; ‘Meadle (hamlet in the parish of Monks Risborough)’, c. 21 April 1613 Leonard Borowe (PERSON9859) Residences: ‘Aston Abbotts (village)’, c. 15 December 1604, 13 April 1609, 14 June 1609, 16 December 1609, 24 February 1610 & 8 March 1610; ‘Unspecified’, c. 22 December 1604; ‘Wing (village)’, c. 17 June 1609 Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?f2-gentry=No;f3-residence=England%3A%3ABuckinghamshire, accessed 20 January 2020.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13813
__label__cc	0.531979	0.468021	Marvelous Milkweed A Gulf Fritillary Butterfly sips nectar from a Swamp Milkweed flower. Over the years, I’ve planted many plants in my backyard to attract and feed butterflies with mixed results. I’m lucky to have a lot of tall trees in my yard, but that also makes my little plot of land less than ideal for a butterfly garden. I only have full sunlight for a few hours a day. Also, my garden adjoins the “rough” of a golf course, and those plants, including poison ivy, invade my garden. Still, I get a few butterfly visitors who lay their eggs on my plants. Ten years ago, I planted some Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), which grew vigorously, but the Monarch butterflies, which require milkweed, ignored it. Instead they preferred the tropical milkweed, which must be planted every year. Perhaps the Monarchs were dreaming of their species’ winter quarters in Mexico. So I pulled out most of the swamp milkweed from my garden and dutifully planted tropical milkweed every year. Swamp Milkweed in the rough of a golf course. Since being mostly banished from my garden (because it takes up so much space), the Swamp Milkweed has now moved into and prospered in the rough of the adjoining golf course, where it is even vanquishing the poison ivy. Hurrah! I hope the Monarch butterflies find this ever growing patch of Swamp Milkweed and don’t ignore it this time. There are beautiful blooms to sip from and huge leaves to lay eggs on, a great source of caterpillar food. Let us hope the golf course groundskeeper won’t mow it down. To learn more about Monarch Butterflies, which are dwindling in numbers due to loss of habitat due to herbicides and other factors, go to Monarch Watch and Monarch Watch Blog. Here’s on of my posts about Monarch Butterflies: How You Can Help Monarch Butterflies. Use my search box to find more on my blog. Gulf Fritillary Butterfly on a Swamp Milkweed. Swamp Milkweed has escaped my garden and is now flourishing in the rough area of the adjoining golf course. Filed under Biology, Butterflies, Gardening, Kansas, Photography Tagged as Biology, Butterflies, Butterfly, Butterfly Gardening, Gardening, Golf Course, Gulf Fritillary Butterfly, Kansas, Monarch Butterflies, Monarch Watch, Photography, Pollinators, Swamp Milkweed Bountiful Butterfly Garden A male monarch butterfly sips from a tropical milkweed flower in my neighborhood butterfly garden. Just a few weeks ago, almost two dozen Monarch butterfly caterpillars were feasting on these milkweeds. Is this an adult returning to his nursery before heading off to begin the journey to a winter in Mexico? As summer draws to a close, our neighborhood butterfly garden is now a flowering paradise finally crowded with bugs and animals. During June, July and August, the garden reminded me of a dinner party where few of the guests showed up, despite the mass of plants that bloomed all summer. We did get a lot of rabbits, who found the young plants very tasty and ate them almost to the dirt. Joan, one of the hardest working neighborhood gardeners, built cages around the tender coneflowers and tropical milkweed plants so that they’d have a chance to provide food for other animals, and of course to be beautiful for our enjoyment. A Monarch butterfly sipping nectar from a tropical milkweed flower in the neighborhood butterfly garden. I’ve seen many types of butterflies in the garden this week. The two species I plant specifically for are the Monarch Butterfly and the Black Swallowtail Butterfly. We plant food plants for the caterpillars and lots of flowering plants that butterflies and other pollinating insects prefer for nectar. For Black Swallowtail caterpillars, we plant bronze fennel and parsley. Monarch Butterfly caterpillars will only eat milkweed, and they sometimes are picky about which kind of milkweed. Tropical milkweed is the most popular milkweed in our Kansas City area garden, and it has lovely scarlet and yellow flowers, too. Unfortunately, it’s an annual in our climate so it has to be re-planted every spring. I buy my plants from Monarch Watch on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kansas, at their plant sale in May. Monarch Watch sells a lot of plants for butterflies and other pollinators. Their butterfly garden is worth visiting. They also have an open house in September every year. Protecting and fostering pollinators is good for the environment and for our food supply. A large percentage of our food plants must be pollinated to produce a crop. On a recent visit to the garden, a ruby-throated hummingbird whizzed by me. Ruby-throated hummingbirds, which are also pollinators, also visit the feeder at my house. The Monarch butterfly population is in serious decline, so I would encourage everyone with a yard to plan a butterfly garden. To find out more click on this link: Monarch Watch. In the upper left is a Red-spotted Purple butterfly. The lower left is a Painted Lady butterfly. Can anyone tell me in the comments what the other two butterflies are? Can you see the insect lurking or resting under the petals of the coneflower? In the top left photo, a Black Swallowtail caterpillar eating fennel. In the lower left photo, a crowd of Black Swallowtail caterpillars eat parsley. In the upper right photo, two Monarch butterfly caterpillars thrash around as their antennae meet. In the center right photo, a Monarch butterfly caterpillar eats Tropical Milkweed. In the bottom right photo, Black Swallowtail butterfly eggs glisten on the narrow leaves of a bronze fennel. Here is a collage of photos from the founding days of the neighborhood butterfly garden. The top photo is from 2012, a hot summer in which I had to bring gallons of water from my house to water the new plants, because the sprinkler system didn’t provide enough water. The bottom three photos are from 2013. An empty Monarch butterfly chrysalis hangs from a butterfly bush. Filed under Butterflies, Entomology, Environment, Gardening, Kansas City, Life, Natural History, Nature, Photography Tagged as Butterflies, Butterfly Garden, Caterpillars, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Kansas, Kansas City, Monarch Butterflies, Monarch Butterfly, Monarch Watch, Neighborhood Garden, Painted Lady Butterfly, Photography, pollination, Pollinators, Red-Spotted Purple Butterfly, Tropical Milkweed How You Can Help Monarch Butterflies Monarch Butterfly on a Swamp Milkweed Flower Food and habitat for butterflies are dwindling every year. You can help by planting milkweed for the monarch caterpillars to eat and nectar plants for butterfly nourishment, says Chip Taylor, entomologist at the University of Kansas and director of Monarch Watch. A Monarch butterfly chrysalis hangs from a milkweed plant in our neighborhood butterfly garden. Beautiful golden dots adorn this treasure. In May of 2012, several people in my neighborhood started a butterfly garden in one of our common shrub beds. We got a late start, and the summer of 2012 was hot and dry, so we didn’t see much butterfly activity. Fortunately, the winter of 2012-13 was wet, and the perennial plants revived and then thrived. We added more plants, which did so well that they need to be divided and moved apart in 2014 — if they survive the winter. This summer, I counted a lot of black swallowtail caterpillars, as many as 20 at a time on bronze fennel and parsley plants. I only saw a few monarch butterfly caterpillars, although the garden has four large milkweed plants. Hopefully, next year the monarchs will find our garden. I may order some caterpillars, too. Here’s the link for ordering Monarch caterpillars: Monarch Rearing Kit. Click on this link for more information: One Beautiful Thing You Can Do to Help Monarch Butterflies Monarch Watch Website. Monarch Watch is a nonprofit education, conservation, and research program based at the University of Kansas that focuses on the monarch butterfly, its habitat, and its spectacular fall migration. Monarch Watch Shop. I’ve written many posts about butterflies and Monarch Watch. Here’s one about the fall open house at Monarch Watch, which includes a lot of photographs: Butterfly School at Monarch Watch Fall 2009 Open House. Filed under Butterflies Tagged as Butterflies, Butterfly Gardening, Caterpillars, Entomology, Gardens, Habitat, Lepidoptera, Milkweed, Monarch Butterflies, Monarch Watch, Natural History, Nectar Plants, Photography Monarch Watch Spring 2012 Open House and Plant Sale Chip Taylor’s Doppelganger greets visitors at the 2012 Monarch Watch Spring Open House and Plant Sale. Dr. Taylor is the director and founder of Monarch Watch at the University of Kansas. Hundreds of people visited the open house and plant sale at Monarch Watch on Saturday, May 12, at the University of Kansas. About 4,000 plants were for sale for butterfly gardening, including plants to nurture both caterpillars and adults. Many of the plants are native to northeast Kansas. Monarch Watch, founded by internationally renowned entomologist Dr. Orley “Chip” Taylor, is dedicated to the education about, conservation of and research about Monarch butterflies. It works closely with schools and with researchers. I’ve posted several articles and photographs on this blog about Monarch Watch. Here’s my post about the 2009 Monarch Watch Spring Open House. Here’s an article about about a previous Fall open house. Be sure to check the Monarch Watch site for the dates of the fall open house and the butterfly tagging event, both in September. You can find more of my articles by doing a search for “Monarch Watch” or “butterflies” in my search box. Here’s the official Monarch Watch site. Chip Taylor, founder and director of Monarch Watch, meets with visitors at the 2012 Monarch Watch Spring Open House and Plant Sale at the University of Kansas. Here, a KU faculty member on his way to commencement activities stops to buy some tropical milkweed plants. Many of the butterfly plants for sale at the Monarch Watch open house are native to northeast Kansas. Here are some photos of the Monarch Watch garden on the campus of the University of Kansas. The garden is a way station to provide milkweeds, nectar sources and shelter needed to sustain to Monarch butterflies as the migrate through North America. People are encouraged to create their own Monarch way stations and pollination gardens. Monarch Watch sells plants for butterfly gardens at its annual Spring open house. A child poses for a photograph in a Monarch Butterfly at the 2012 Monarch Watch Spring Annual Open House and Plant Sale. Lots of activities were available for children to enjoy. Children select their Monarch caterpillars, which they will take home with a milkweed they have purchased from the plant sale. People wait in line to buy their plants at the 2012 Monarch Watch annual Spring open house and plant sale. A boy proudly shows off his Monarch caterpillar, which he will take home with a milkweed plant to sustain it. Awaiting its new home in my garden, a Monarch butterfly caterpillar hangs out on a tropical milkweed plant I bought at the Monarch Watch plant sale. When you buy a large tropical milkweed, you got a caterpillar, too. I’ve always had good luck attracting Monarch butterflies to tropical milkweed plants in my garden, although the plants don’t survive the winter. Tagged as Butterflies, Butterfly Gardening, Entomology, Monarch Butterflies, Monarch Watch, Monarch Watch Open House, Nature, Photography, Plants August 2, 2010 · 6:11 pm Butterflies and Caterpillars — Oh, My! Giant Swallowtail Butterfly on Purple Statice This year in my garden, I added more host and nectar plants to the caterpillar and butterfly menu, but I haven’t seen many butterflies. Maybe I should get outside more — and weed! I know they visit, because I’ve found plenty of caterpillars on my plants, particularly the bronze fennel. Sometimes there are dozens of Black Swallowtail (BST) caterpillars on my many fennel plants. If you click on the photo you can see a tiny black swallowtail caterpillar on the far fennel stem in the front pot. It kind of looks like bird shit. That’s what the two large caterpillars looked like a week earlier when I gave the potted fennel to J and V. The baby was just an egg. My brother emailed me this photo to show me how voracious these critters are. Hopefully, they can supplement the menu with parsley. I gave several potted bronze fennel plants to my brother “J” and his wife “V”. The fennel plants I gave them were hosting some tiny BST caterpillars. But BST caterpillars don’t stay tiny for long. My brother emailed me a week later, saying they had “caterpillar overload” and wanted to know what else to feed the ravenous, voracious caterpillars. He and V were afraid the caterpillars would starve. The caterpillars had almost eaten the potted fennel to the dirt. I suggested they buy parsley at the store, put it in water and hope the caterpillars don’t mind the change in menu. V, a special education teacher for preschoolers, said her students are enthralled every year when they raise Monarch caterpillars, which require milkweed to eat. A Monarch Butterfly caterpillar eats a swamp milkweed leaf in my garden. BST caterpillars must eat members of the dill family, such as dill, parsley and fennel. (It’s amazing that’s all they need to eat. Imagine just living and thriving on garnish!) This fall, I’ll pot more fennel to give to friends to plant to attract more BST butterflies. As development spreads, there are fewer wild areas for butterflies and caterpillars to flourish, so we need to help them along by providing food and habitat. Bronze fennel will seed itself and is a perennial, so it’s a great caterpillar host plant. It does get tall and wide, though, so you need a large sunny spot for it in the back of your flower bed. This summer, I saw many butterflies at Pendleton’s Country Market, which I visited with my daughter and her fiance to choose flowers for their September wedding. The top photograph is from our visit to the fields. The Pendletons grow plants for butterflies and their caterpillars in addition to flowers for cutting. They also have a butterfly house you can visit. From Jim Lovett of Monarch Watch: Greetings Monarch Watchers! Here’s brief update to kick off the 2010 Monarch Migration/Tagging Season… Status of the Population The 2009-2010 overwintering monarch population in Mexico covered a forest area of only 1.92 hectares. This figure represents an all time low for overwintering monarchs and is well below the long-term average of 7.44 hectares (1994-2010). We worried about these low numbers because of the possibility that a devastating storm could drive the population even lower. And then it happened — a storm of the worst possible dimensions hit the overwintering area starting on February 2. Accounts of the flooding and landslides can be found on the Monarch Watch Blog at http://monarchwatch.org/blog/category/mexico/ Attempts to find out how the monarchs fared following these winter storms were unsatisfactory. We estimated that at least 50% of the monarchs died during the winter months, recognizing that this value could have been low. Fortunately, the conditions encountered by the monarchs that reached Texas were favorable. The result, in spite of the low number of returning monarchs, was a substantial first generation. These butterflies colonized much of the northern breeding area from late April to mid-June. It appears thmonarchs are making a modest recovery and we expect the overwintering population will measure close to 3 hectares. For a more detailed status and updates throughout the season please visit the Monarch Watch Blog at http://monarchwatch.org/blog/ at the Monarch Tagging Kits We have begun shipping out tagging kits for the 2010 monarch butterfly tagging season – all of those ordered from January-June this year are on their way and those ordered last month should go out this week. New orders should be turned around within a week so if you haven’t ordered tags yet there is still time. 🙂 You can find all of the information about ordering tags, downloading additional data sheets, and our tagging program in general at http://monarchwatch.org/tagging Chip in For Monarch Watch Last year was our first “Chip in for Monarch Watch” fundraising campaign – a chance for Monarch Watchers, colleagues, friends, and family across the planet to show their support of Monarch Watch and its director Chip Taylor who brought the program to life nearly two decades ago. By the end of the campaign, more than $23,000 was contributed by nearly 500 donors – wow! These funds put us in the best financial position we have ever been in heading into the winter season. Many of you asked if we would be making this an annual fundraising campaign and we think that is a great idea! Although we accept donations at any time (http://monarchwatch.org/donate/), this formal effort will be a yearly reminder to renew your support and give you the opportunity to share your monarch stories or other comments with us. If you haven’t viewed the comments and photos submitted last year, we encourage you to do so – the connections facilitated by monarchs and Monarch Watch are truly extraordinary. The 2010 “Chip in for Monarch Watch” campaign will run through the entire month of August – if you enjoy and/or appreciate all that Monarch Watch offers throughout the year, please consider making a donation today…it’s quick, easy, secure, and fully tax-deductible. As you may know, we rely on these contributions to allow us to continue to offer educational, conservation, and research programs and resources. Donations to Monarch Watch are managed via the KU Endowment Association (KUEA) here at the University of Kansas and 100% of your donation will go to Monarch Watch – none of it will be used for KUEA operating expenses. Donations may be made by phone, online, or by mail and you can easily set up a monthly or annual gift. Also, many employers offer matching programs, effectively doubling your gift. Please take some time to visit our “Chip in for Monarch Watch” page and pledge your support before the end of the month. If you have any questions about this campaign please feel free to drop us a line anytime! Chip in for Monarch Watch 2010: http://monarchwatch.org/chip Filed under Butterflies, Education, Entomology, Environment, Family, Gardening, Insects, Kansas, Life, Natural History, Nature, Photography, University of Kansas Tagged as Black Swallowtail Butterfly, Bronze Fennel, Butterflies, Butterfly Gardening, Caterpillars, Catherine Sherman, Coneflowers, Dill, Echinacea, Entomology, Giant Swallowtail Butterfly, Life, Milkweed, Monarch Butterfly, Monarch Watch, Natural History, Nature, Parsley, Pendleton's Country Market, Photography, Photos, University of Kansas, Wedding Flowers December 8, 2009 · 12:00 pm Monarch Butterflies in Space KU Professor to help send monarchs into space By RON SYLVESTER The Wichita Eagle (published in Kansas City Star on Nov. 16, 2009) http://www.kansas.com http://www.monarchwatch.org/space LAWRENCE, Kan. – (By Ron Sylvester) Chip Taylor is used to people giving him strange looks. As director of Monarch Watch and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas, Taylor has placed radio tags on butterflies and tracked them across pastures and plains. Sending monarchs to space is not that far-out an idea to him. Three of Taylor’s monarch caterpillars are set to blast off to the International Space Station on Monday aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Why send butterflies to space? To study the effects of gravity. And yes, the thought of sending butterflies to space has drawn some quizzical looks. But Taylor is used to that in his field. “We got strange looks last summer when I was working with National Geographic and we radio tagged a butterfly,” Taylor said. “We have to go knock on somebody’s door and say ‘Can we go look for our radio-tagged butterfly? We think it landed in your pasture.’ I mean, you talk about having strange looks.” Studying insects helps us learn how the world around us works, Taylor said, and how it affects our lives. “The nature of what we do is to find out what life is all about,” Taylor said. “When you’re doing that sort of thing you’re up close and personal with all these insects, and that’s something people aren’t comfortable with.” About 600 individuals and schools will be able to watch the caterpillars develop as they orbit in the space station, about 220 miles outside the earth’s atmosphere. The schools will receive their own caterpillars in a small rearing station similar to that in the space station. Students will watch those in their classrooms develop and compare them to how the caterpillars grow in space. Researchers hope they’ll turn into butterflies sometime after Thanksgiving. The object, Taylor said, is to see how gravity, or the near-zero gravity in the space station, affects the insects. These will be the first of their species to travel in space. “It is so gravity oriented,” Taylor said. “None of the insects they’ve taken up into space have had a particularly strong gravity orientation. The monarchs do. They’re going to be in a nearly weightless environment. It could pose all sorts of different problems for them.” That will tell scientists more about movement and how life functions, said Steve Hawley, Kansas professor of physics and astronomy and an astronaut on five shuttle missions. “The more we learn about how physiology works in space whether it’s human physiology or insect physiology or plant physiology the more we’ll be able to use that information on the ground to understand fundamentally how biological systems work,” Hawley said in a statement from the university. Monarch Watch is working on the project with the BioServe Space Technologies program at the University of Colorado. Stefanie Countryman, business development manager with BioServe, said their program created habitat and stringent requirements for the butterflies in space. But they had no food. Taylor and his Kansas program developed an artificial food for the caterpillars. That’s how they’ll eat in space. Since April, Taylor has been perfecting the artificial diet. “That’s what’s making this all possible,” Taylor said. A study guide being sent to the schools explains that monarch caterpillars walk with 16 legs and spin silk to attach themselves to surfaces. “What will happen when they lose their grip?” the guide asks, referring to the force of gravity on liftoff or the weightlessness of space. How the caterpillars are able to react could teach astronauts how to move better in space, the study guide says. “You win if they succeed, you win if they fail, because you learn something,” Taylor said. “You learn what their limitations are when they fail. You learn how they adjust if they succeed.” People will be able to follow the experiment through photos, videos and other information at the program’s Web site: http://www.monarchwatch.org/space. Information from: The Wichita Eagle, http://www.kansas.com Filed under Biology, Butterflies, Entomology, Insects, Life, Natural History, Nature, Science, Technology, University of Kansas Tagged as Biology, Butterflies, Chip Taylor, Entomology, Life, Monarch Butterflies, Monarch Watch, Nature, Science, Space, Space Station, University of Kansas Butterfly School at Monarch Watch Fall 2009 Open House Chip Taylor, right, director of Monarch Watch, shows how to hold a Monarch butterfly for tagging. One of the highlights of the annual fall open house at Monarch Watch is Butterfly School, in which Chip Taylor, founder and director of Monarch Watch, demonstrates how to catch, hold, tag and release a Monarch butterfly before it begins its migration to its winter home in Mexico. Chip Taylor shows the students in "Butterfly School" where to place the tag on the butterfly's wing. The weather for this fall’s event (Sept. 12) was warm and sunny, so the butterflies were very active but with the right technique (wait until they stop to refuel on a flower, don’t chase them!) they were easily captured in a net so that a small tag could be placed on a wing to help to track the butterfly’s migration patterns. Monarch Watch is on the west campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Soon these tagged Monarchs will be joining hundreds of millions of other Monarchs in one of nature’s greatest natural wonders. In North America the Monarchs migrate south starting in August until the first frost. A northward migration takes place in the spring. The Monarch is the only butterfly that migrates both north and south, although no single individual makes the entire round trip. The Monarchs tagged east of the Rocky Mountains spend the winter in Mexico and start to breed on their trip back home as soon as they encounter milkweed along the route. This is why it’s so important for people to plant milkweed in their gardens to help the Monarchs along the way. Find out about starting a Monarch Butterfly Waystation by visiting Monarch Watch’s website. Because of development and agriculture, milkweed is being destroyed in the areas Monarchs have used in the past. Drought and cold weather also reduces the amount of milkweed available. Chip Taylor shows how to sneak up on a butterfly to catch it with a net. Captured butterflies are tagged before being released so that when they are found, the data on the tag can tell researchers about the butterfly's migration. The tagging students were preparing for the Jayhawk Audubon Society and Monarch Watch annual tagging event for the public at the Baker University Wetlands along 31st Street between Haskell and Louisiana in Lawrence, Kansas. The annual tagging event is open to everyone, with instructions given at the site. The 2009 event is scheduled for 7:30 AM until 11:30 AM on Saturday, September 19, 2009. More information can be found by clicking on the Monarch Watch website in my blogroll at the right. In 2001, 325 participants tagged nearly 3000 of the estimated 20,000 Monarchs present, and at least 85 of those tagged were recovered at the winter roost sites in Mexico, according to Monarch Watch. Almost as many were tagged in 2008. You can view all of the recoveries tagged at these events by searching for Lawrence-tagged Monarchs on the Monarch Watch searchable recovery database on its website. Click on this to find out more about the tagging process and why it’s done. A group gathers in Monarch Watch's biohouse to hear about how to tag Monarch butterflies. Every year, up to hundreds of thousands of Monarchs stop on their way south to refuel on the nectar from the ocean of yellow Bidens flowers at the wetlands, which is an amazing sight. Monarch Watch is dedicated to the education about, conservation of and research about Monarch butterflies. It works closely with schools and with researchers. Research into Monarch migration is providing extensive information about genetics, for example. Taylor and others went to the wintering site in Mexico in March 2009. Here’s part of what Taylor had to say about a new Disney film, taken from the Monarch Watch blog. It’s very exciting. “While I enjoyed the entire trip, and this agreeable bunch, I had a side adventure: I spent 4 extraordinary days working with a film crew funded by Disney at El Rosario. It was total monarch immersion, all day every day, from 6AM to 7PM. The film crew was the largest I’ve worked with and there were three cameras going most of the time. The footage will be spectacular and like no other on monarchs to date.Disney has commissioned a series of nature films, and this film about pollination and pollinators is scheduled for theaters in 2010-2011. The working title for the film is “Naked Beauty” – but the bets are the title will be changed in time to something like “Nature’s Beauty: A love story that feeds the world”. The film’s message is important and timely. Nature’s beauty, as represented by numerous pollinators and the fruits, nuts, berries, and seeds that are the products of their efforts, will be skillfully and dramatically presented through the masterful direction and loving eye of the film’s director, Louie Schwartzberg.” A Monarch butterfly is a beautiful hair ornament -- but just for a few minutes. Photo by Evan Jorn. I’ve posted several other articles about Monarch Watch and butterflies, which you can find through my search button. The Monarch Watch site has many articles on the butterfly’s biology, reproductive needs and the The Top Ten Butterfly Facts. You can also find out how you can raise your own Monarchs. Wikipedia has links, charts and photographs about the Monarch Butterfly. Monarchs have spread widely and can even be found in New Zealand. There’s a white version in Hawaii. Newly emerged Monarch butterflies harden their wings on Chip Taylor's beard. Children received a free Monarch pupa so that they could raise a butterfly at home. Monarch Watch provides information about other pollinators, such as honey bees. Visitors to Monarch Watch's fall 2009 open house watched honey bees at work in this hive. Children and their parents found plenty of fun and educational activities to do at the fall 2009 Monarch Watch open house. Chip Taylor discusses research into Monarch butterfly migration, which provides insights in a lot of areas of science, including genetics. Monarch Watch raises Monarch butterflies for education and research. Monarch butterflies are fascinating creatures scientifically, but it doesn't hurt that they are also gorgeous and like to visit beautiful flowers on a lovely late summer afternoon. A male Monarch butterfly shows off its beautiful wings while perched on a scarlet milkweed in front of the Monarch Watch headquarters in Foley Hall at the University of Kansas. People get close to Monarch caterpillars at the Monarch Watch fall 2009 open house. A Monarch caterpillar feeds on a South African Milkweed. There are more than 140 known species of milkweed, which is the only kind of plant Monarch caterpillars eat. A Monarch butterfly finds nectar in the blossom of a scarlet milkweed, a tropical species. I planted four kinds of milkweed, but the Monarchs by far preferred my scarlet milkweed. The other milkweeds in my garden are perennials, but I'll need to replace my scarlet milkweed next spring. I could save the seeds or, more likely, just buy a new one at the Monarch Watch spring open house. This butterfly is one of the many that greeted visitors to the Monarch Watch fall 2009 open house. Chip Taylor shows the tagging students what the tag says. Monarch Watch pays for the retrieval of dead Monarch bearing these tags, most of which are found in Mexico near where they spend the winter. A newly emerged Monarch butterfly hardens its wings before taking its first flight. The process takes a few hours. In the leaf above, you can see the hole made by a caterpillar when it hatched from its egg and ate its first milkweed meal. Children could get a little exercise playing tossing games while learning about butterflies at the Monarch Watch open house. Here's where the cycle begins -- the butterfly mating cage at Monarch Watch. The pollination garden at Foley Hall, the home to Monarch Watch at the University of Kansas. Here is a Monarch butterfly just minutes from emerging from its chrysalis. Filed under Animals, Biology, Butterflies, Conservation, Entomology, Gardening, Insects, Kansas, Life, Natural History, Nature, New Zealand, Personal, Science, University of Kansas Tagged as Biology, Butterflies, Butterfly, Butterfly Tagging, Education, Entomology, Gardening, Insects, Mexico, Migration, Milkweed, Monarch Butterflies, Monarch Caterpillar, Monarch Watch, Monarch Waystation, Natural History, Nature, Orley "Chip" Taylor, Personal, pollination, Science, University of Kansas, Walt Disney	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13814
__label__wiki	0.98499	0.98499	MDC should first defeat Zimbabwe military in order to rule country MDC vice president Welshman Ncube says President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party were not in total control of the country but the military was calling the shots. Speaking during victory celebrations for Mutasa South legislator, Regayi Tsunga in Tsvingwe, Penhalonga Sunday, Ncube said young people in the country led by MDC president Nelson Chamisa will have the responsibility to take the army back to the barracks where it belongs. Tsunga defeated Zanu-PF candidate Misheck Mugadza during last year`s harmonised elections with a landslide margin. "There is need to strengthen the party at all levels including the branches," Ncube said. "We need unity, unity, unity. As long there is no unity in the party you cannot defeat, not just Zanu-PF but the military. "Zimbabwe is not governed by Zanu-PF but military, never forget that. "Never forget that you are required to defeat the military because you defeated Zanu-PF and Mugabe long back. What you need to do now is to defeat the military." Ncube said the MDC old guard will not be responsible for removing the military but the youths in the country led by Chamisa. "The late Joshua Nkomo (ex State VP) many years ago said this country will never die but young people will save it. The process of saving this country has started because we chose President Nelson Chamisa as our leader at the congress. This country is not going to die no matter how we will suffer because you as young people you are going to save it. "Cde Gonese, isusu abadala (we the older ones), we are not the ones who will defeat the military. The young people led by President Nelson Chamisa will defeat the military and take them to the barracks so that the politics will come to the civilians," said Ncube. He pointed that their party lost a considerable number of house of assembly seats to Zanu-PF in Manicaland during the 2018 elections due to infighting as cadres jostle for positions. In 2008, MDC won 20 out of 26 parliamentary seats in the province but now controls only seven constituencies. "Cde Mutseyami, in 2008 you had 20 seats and Zanu-PF was reduced to just six. Today we are now seven we have reversed, the challenge why we are seven is we forgot who the enemy was. "We started to think the fight was about positions. Everyone wanted to grab a position. Going forward, this must stop. You can fight for position when the military is back in the barracks," said the VP. Ncube said by strengthening party structures, it was the only way to ensure that Chamisa goes to State House to stop poverty and hunger. He also told the party supporters that it was their responsibility to inform people in their communities that Mnangagwa was their source of their current economic misery. "I know in your communities there are people who still support Zanu-PF despite the hardships we are facing. "It does not make sense when someone says Pamberi naED (President Mnangagwa) when the economy is collapsing. Some of them behave as if they were bewitched. It's your responsibility to remind them that ED was their source of misery," said Ncube. He said Mnangagwa was a conductor in former President Robert Mugabe bus but stole it without a valid driver`s license and the country was now stagnant. "We are not going anywhere because ED does possess a valid driver's licence for him to be eligible to drive the bus he stole from his boss. The bus does not have wheels and even a steering wheel to control it," said Ncube. Source - newsday More on: #Welshman_Ncube, #MDC, #Military 1acre stand in sunninghill 1acre stand in queensdale connolly 24	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13818
__label__cc	0.704117	0.295883	Economy to recover in 2018 with expected inflation hikes: Arqaam Capital - Daily News Egypt Business Economy to recover in 2018 with expected inflation hikes: Arqaam Capital Economy to recover in 2018 with expected inflation hikes: Arqaam Capital The Egyptian pound is expected to appreciate by 10% or more in FY 2017/2018 as tourism improves Reem Hosam El-din July 12, 2017 Be the first to comment A gradual recovery in the economy is expected in 2018, with 2017 being difficult but paving the way for a better year with both consumers and investors coping with the changes and absorbing the shocks of the past two years, according to Arqaam Capital. Arqaam Capital banking group has recently issued a report to look into the status of the Egyptian economy and the expected events and circumstances over the upcoming period. After the imposition of the 13% value-added tax (VAT) in November 2016, an increase of 1% is expected to take place soon, taking VAT to 14% and causing inflation to jump to nearly 35%, alongside with energy hikes and the re-pricing of many government services, according to Arqaam’s report. Inflation and interest rates should decline in 2018, and the New Investment Law’s regulations are nearly complete. The difficult preparations of 2016 and 2017 should reap their benefits for consumers and investors in 2018 if other bureaucratic impediments are removed. “The government, however, is notorious for imperfect communication, an incomplete vision, and following through with comprehensive reforms, all while restructuring public services properly to protect the poor,” Arqaam added. In terms of headline inflation, it is expected to decline as of November 2017 as the positive base effect kicks in. It will then prevail in 2018, gradually declining until it breaks the single digit level in late 2019 or early 2020. Arqaam said that its expectations of inflation accounted for this policy change, and a jump is anticipated to anywhere between 35% and 38% in the summer, depending on the rise in pressures with the simultaneous implementation of other fiscal measures. According to the Egyptian government’s economic reform agenda, the implementation of the second round of fiscal reforms continued in the first year of its International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme. The energy hike is the fifth in nine years since 2008, and the second in less than a year. Arqaam Capital expects the Egyptian pound to appreciate by 10% or more in fiscal year (FY) 2017/18 as tourism improves, alongside improved remittances and investment flows. The appreciation, however, depends on when the ban on Russian and UK tourists is lifted. As for the gross domestic product (GDP), Arqaam said, “we maintain our real GDP growth projections, expecting 3.8% in FY 2017, 4.5% in FY 2018, 5.5% in FY 2019, and 6.2% in FY 2020.” Arqaam says there is substantial scope for the government to cut interest rates, provided inflationary pressures come down. On 29 June, the government started the implementation of its plan to restructure energy subsidies, increasing petroleum products’ prices by 40% for gasoline (80, 92, and 95 octane), diesel (gas oil), LPG canisters, and mazut (fuel oil), in addition to natural gas for the household sector by 20%, to restructure government spending as the main aim for this reduction in energy subsidies. The government announced earlier that subsidies on petroleum products would need to be reduced from an expected EGP 145bn to EGP 110bn in the FY 2018 state budget and electricity from EGP 80bn to EGP 30bn. In less than a year (between November 2016 and June 2017), the government raised 92 octane gasoline by 92%, diesel by 103%, and mazut for cement companies by 56%. “We had expected this step to happen in the third quarter (Q3) of 2017 to get the more difficult measures done in 2017 and clear the way for a recovery in 2018. The step shows continued commitment to reform and a deep understanding of the need to change economic direction, following decades of economic mismanagement,” the report noted. Energy subsidies as a portion of total government expenditures will also decline to around 9% in FY 2018, from 20% in FY 2012. More fiscal reforms underway Another package of fiscal reforms is underway and is scheduled to be implemented over the few coming weeks. In fact, the Minister of Petroleum announced that savings expected from the energy hike could reach EGP 35bn, part of which will be directed to additional social spending. In addition, the government has recently announced a social spending package worth around EGP 85bn. It includes a 15% increase in pensions, 7-10% exceptional annual bonuses for civil servants, with 7% being for those under the New Civil Service Law, and 10% for other civil servants, totaling 14% and 20% respectively, an increase in monthly food subsidies on ration cards from EGP 21 to EGP 50 per person, as well as an increase in the cash transfer programme beneficiaries. A flurry of increments in prices of government fees and services is expected to take place, including on water, car registration fees, and fees on mobile phone tariffs; besides an increase in taxes on tobacco products expected in July. This follows an increase in prices of sugar and edible oil in the ration card system. “In our research note “Paradigm Shift in Egypt” we had indicated that an energy price hike would likely happen in Q3 2017, as part of the government’s wider efforts to restructure its rigid expenditures and break the decade’s long vicious cycle of rising rigid expenditure items undermining the government’s ability to improve public services. Next steps are likely to include implementation of the fuel smart card system to better monitor consumption and the possible liberalization of prices in the medium term, whereby a subsidized quota could be sold, and additional consumption may be sold at cost levels. A wider reform program of the energy sector has been agreed on with the IMF,” Arqaam’s report said. Forecast for the automotive and property sectors On the auto front, GB Auto has felt the largest decline in passenger car volumes in Q1 2017 across the discretionary consumer space, and is now offering discounts to stimulate demand and improve cash flows. This suggests limited scope for any further upward pricing adjustments, though an improvement in demand for small engine vehicles (Hyundai, Geely, Chery) would likely result after the instatement of fuel price hikes. In terms of the property sector, affordable residential product, which is typically purchased by specific users and not as a hedge against inflation/FX, will likely undergo a greater degree of margin compression relatively to high-end property, given the substantial growth in asking prices over the past two years. “We see limited room for further pricing growth in the low-end segment of the property market. High-end property, in which expat demand has become a significant sales contributor, will likely exhibit margin immunity in an environment of subsidy cuts,” Arqaam’s report said. Pricing growth has yet to stall as of the first half of 2017, in which high-end developers have achieved, on average, a 30% year-on-year increase in selling prices across launched projects. “While expenditures are finally coming under some control, we expect a potential negative impact of the high inflation and interest rates on the economy. This could reduce the anticipated increase in tax revenues in the FY 2018 state budget. Tax revenues make up 70% of total revenues and with our expectation of revenue growth of 27%, compared to the projected 29.5% in FY 2018 state budget, we expect the overall budget deficit will exceed the government’s target of 9% to reach 10% of GDP,” Arqaam said. In terms of Arqaam’s general projections for 2018, Arqaam said that it maintains its existing economic growth projections. “We had just revised real GDP growth downward after the 200bps hike and our inflation projections had already included the effect of the energy price hike on economic activity,” it said. “We also believe that the apparent resilience of the informal sector and high-income group in dealing with the spike in inflation, coupled with the improvement in the contribution of investment (especially foreign) and net exports in real growth, would partially compensate for the pressure exerted by the inflationary pressures and high interest rates on consumers and local investors, respectively,” Arqaam added. Impact on the industrial and automotive sectors The second round of energy price hikes affects cement producers primarily via electricity costs, as most producers have moved away from diesel/natural gas to coal/RDF, according to Arqaam. Electricity represents 11% of direct expenses for cement companies. “Our calculations assume a 40% increase in electricity costs (expected to take effect in July 2017) for fuel-intensive industries. Furthermore, we expect Tourah Cement to switch energy usage from heavy fuel (mazut) to petcoke (not impacted by subsidy cuts) which should partially mitigate margin erosion resulting from fuel subsidy cuts. Increase in energy costs should be neutral on earning per share (EPS) at Sewedy Electric and Ezz Steel as both businesses retain strong pricing power, allowing for full pass-through of increases in direct costs (primarily imports of copper and iron ore post-EGP float, electricity post-subsidy removal, but to a lesser extent),” Arqaam said. Arqaam said that it expects a minimal direct impact on Egyptian consumer names, as energy expenses typically represent 1-3% of operating costs; however, continued inflationary pressure should strain disposable income and further erode purchasing power, which would impede the gradual recovery in volumes. On the other hand, the social aid package should counteract the pressure on volumes for mid-low income households. Food producers have fully passed on foreign exchange-related cost growth in FY 2017, which translated into an average of 30% volume decline for JUFO, DOMTY, and EDITA. “We continue to play Juhayna as our top value/defensive pick in the sector and maintain our earnings and margin estimated unchanged across the board,” it added. Arqaam expects very little price hikes in the food sectors at least in the near term as producers continue to prioritize the rehabilitation of volumes over margins in order to avoid inventory accumulation. 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Ridesharing applications’ cost, prevalence Gap between rich, poor in Egypt shrinking, middle class doing worse: LSE Director AUC features Dame Minouche Shafik as acclaimed guest speaker at Nadia Younes’ annual Memorial Lecture Coffee across globe: 1.8% more production, 5.7% more consumption in 2018 https://cdn2.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/07/12/economy-recover-2018-expected-inflation-hikes-arqaam-capital/ Info-graph: New electricity tariffs for households Juhayna exports up 207% last year Ezz Steel mulls cost reductions to boost financials, market share Egyptian parliament approves a draft law to increase taxes on tobacco Flotation saved currency from exploding, economy from collapsing: Domty vice chairperson Africa’s $110bn expat remittances could fund continent’s infrastructure Egypt’s imports of LPG increases in July for first time in 3 months: CAPMAS Printing price on packaging violates free market policy and increases production cost: Juhayna Mobile companies motivate customers to change their SIM cards to 4G ready 3.35% increase in mobile phone users in April Alhokair, Edita exit TBS acquisition deal Egyptian banks benefit from strong net interest margin expansion: Arqaam Capital Controversy intensifies over new Banking Law Hyundai launches all-new Sonata, 6th generation of Azera in Middle East Fuel price hikes drive consumers to switch to gas instead of gasoline Government to extend rice export ban to secure local market needs Egypt automotive market under pressure amid elevated inflation, high borrowing costs Communications Minister agrees with Valeo and Orange to increase their investments in Egypt Remittances from expatriate Egyptians rose 11.1% in May Government considers doubling bread subsidy points to reduce consumption New gas projects to double Egypt’s production in 2020: Petroleum Minister IMF votes on second tranche of Egypt’s loan Egyptian Union for Investors Associations, CBE to discuss problems of companies that refused exchange rate difference initiative Higher electricity prices increase cost of accommodation: tourism officials Citizens will pay actual fuel price in FY 2018/19 compared to 85% in FY 2017/18: MP Energy subsidy cuts, take its toll on the average Egyptians Egypt’s economy shows signs of vigour: BNP Paribas Inflation stabilizes at 30.9%, unchanged from May July 12, 2017 Breaking News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13829
__label__wiki	0.545809	0.545809	The cooling power of trees ‘may be more important than their carbon storage’ By Annette Gartland on March 21, 2017 In a new research paper, scientists say that the cooling effects of trees may be more environmentally important than their capacity for storing carbon. Trees, the researchers say, directly affect our climate via rainfall. They help to retain water on the ground and produce cooling moisture. In the paper, entitled “Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world”, the researchers suggest that there needs to be a turnaround in thinking. In discussions and actions about climate change, more attention needs to be paid to the relationship between trees and water, they say. Given the major role they play in water cycles and in cooling temperatures, forests and trees contribute to food security and to climate change adaptation, the scientists say. They state in their research paper: “Our call to action targets a reversal of paradigms, from a carbon-centric model to one that treats the hydrologic and climate-cooling effects of trees and forests as the first order of priority. “For reasons of sustainability, carbon storage must remain a secondary, though valuable, by-product.” The new paper, which was published in the journal Global Environmental Change, has 22 co-authors – from the United States, Australia, Britain, France, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Peru, Indonesia, Ethiopia, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Belgium. In recent decades, in the discourse about climate change, forests and trees have been considered mostly as carbon stocks and carbon sinks. The lead author of the new paper, David Ellison, said: “Carbon sequestration is a co-benefit of the precipitation-recycling and cooling power of trees. “As trees process and redistribute water, they simultaneously cool planetary surfaces.” The paper’s authors are participating in a two-day virtual symposium organised by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)¹ and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) as part of the CGIAR Research Programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). The symposium is being held on the International Day of Forests today (Tuesday) and World Water Day on Wednesday (March 22). Attendees are discussing the findings in the new paper and new areas of research about the links between forests, water, and climate. FTA director Vincent Gitz says scientists are seeing that trees have a wider role than is generally recognised. “This is very important in the context of the Paris Agreement, which recognised that climate change is not only about mitigation, but also about adaptation.” Gitz says those setting global agendas for food security and climate change adaptation need to be taking into account the important influence of trees on water cycles. “With trees, there is no trade-off between adaptation and mitigation, but a synergy.” Using the sun’s energy, individual trees can transpire hundreds of litres of water daily. This represents a cooling power equivalent to 70 kWh for every 100 litres of water transpired, which is enough to power two average household air-conditioning units for a day. With deeper roots, trees can maintain their cooling function even during long-lasting heat waves, the scientists say. “Trees likewise reduce temperatures in urban settings. Urban areas with greater tree and vegetation cover and fewer impervious surfaces tend to exhibit lower temperatures than those blanketed by solid surfaces.” Ellison says that the finer details of how forests affect rainfall are still being discussed among scientists from different disciplines and backgrounds. “However, the direct relevance of trees and forests for protecting and intensifying the hydrologic cycle, associated cooling and the sharing of atmospheric moisture with downwind locations is beyond reasonable doubt.” Climate collaboration CIFOR points to the fact that those conducting new research about trees and water are combining knowledge from many different fields of science: biology, chemistry, climate science, geology, hydrology, and social science. The research paper and the symposium are a good example of the interdisciplinary research and collaboration that are needed to address the issue of climate change adaption from multiple scientific and policy angles, CIFOR says. The new research paper says that forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national, continental, and global decision-making about climate change adaptation and mitigation, land use, and water management. “This constrains humanity’s ability to protect our planet’s climate and life-sustaining functions,” the researchers state. “The substantial body of research we reviewed reveals that forest, water, and energy interactions provide the foundations for carbon storage, for cooling terrestrial surfaces and for distributing water resources.” Forests and trees must be recognised as prime regulators within the water, energy, and carbon cycles, the researchers say. “If these functions are ignored, planners will be unable to assess, adapt to or mitigate the impacts of changing land cover and climate. “The effects of tree cover on climate at local, regional, and continental scales offer benefits that demand wider recognition.” Primary rainforest in Danum Valley in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by M. Edliadi for CIFOR. The researchers say that their understanding of the way trees and forests influence water, energy, and carbon cycles has important implications for the structure of planning, management, and governance institutions, and for how trees and forests might be used to improve sustainability, adaptation, and mitigation efforts. “Billions of people suffer the effects of inadequate access to water and extreme heat events,” the researchers state. “Climate change can exacerbate water shortages and threaten food security, triggering mass migrations and increasing social and political conflict.” Strategies for mitigating and adapting to such outcomes are urgently needed, they say. “For large populations to remain where they are located without experiencing the extreme disruptions that can cause migrations, reliable access to water and tolerable atmospheric temperatures must be recognised as stable ingredients of life. The maintenance of healthy forests is a necessary pre-condition if this is to be achieved, the researchers say. Deforestation, they say, can impact rainfall for reasons beyond its impact on precipitable water. “And the combination of warming and altered rainfall patterns due to climate change can lead to feedback effects on remaining vegetation, reduced biomass accumulation, drought, die-off and fires. “Forest and land fires resulting from the increased incidence of drought, agricultural land conversion, clearing, and other causes likewise play havoc with rainfall. Aerosol particles from fires can scatter solar radiation, disrupt water vapour uplifting, alter regional circulation and otherwise disrupt rainfall patterns.” With increasing deforestation, the researchers say, locations further from upwind coasts are likely to feel the strongest impact of change in land-atmosphere interactions and experience reduced predictability, extent, and quantity of rainfall. “In borderline regions, reduced predictability, seasonal timings and feedback effects may even trigger a switch from wet to dry climates.” The scientists say that land conversions from forests to agriculture have downwind impacts on water availability and alter the land surface energy balance. “On the other hand, enforcing upstream or upwind forest protection for the benefits of downstream or downwind agriculture can potentially restrict the freedom of choice and the livelihood options of upstream and upwind communities.” The researchers point to the importance of communication with, and the incorporation of, local communities in decision-making practices. The role of forests in water and climate regulation and, consequently, food production must meanwhile be better integrated into all levels of land-use management and governance, they say. “A new and radically improved mitigation and adaptation agenda designed for the new millennium could learn to marshal land-atmosphere carbon, water and energy cycles in ways that optimize their potential. “Building on synergies and avoiding or minimizing trade-offs represents the key to a more sustainable and productive future with improved adaptation and thereby mitigation potential.” The scientists say that a call to action on forests, water, and climate is emerging on many fronts. “Consideration of the effects of forests on water and climate suggests this call is urgent. Stimulating regional and continental approaches may help develop more appropriate governance, thereby improving the chances for success.” A forest in eastern Cameroon. (Photo by M. Edliadi.) 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__label__cc	0.719377	0.280623	An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, all matters medical, and some not so medical. New Flu Drug Offers Convenience, Fast Activity, and a Novel Mechanism — at a Price Last week, the FDA approved a new drug for treatment of influenza, baloxavir marboxil (Xofluza). The drug is indicated for treatment of symptomatic influenza in patients 12 years of age or older. As with existing treatments, it should be started within 48 hours of symptom onset. In a comparative clinical trial in otherwise healthy outpatients, baloxavir and oseltamivir (commonly known as Tamiflu) comparably reduced the duration of flu symptoms — both on average by about 36 hours. Each treatment was more effective if started within 24 hours of symptom onset. Baloxavir differs from oseltamivir in several ways, some of them potentially important: Treatment is a single dose. Patients receive 40 mg if their weight is between 40 and 80 kg, and 80 mg (two pills) if 80 kg or more. As every primary care clinician knows, oseltamivir is 75 mg twice daily for 5 days. Side effects ascribed to the treatment occurred less frequently in those randomized to baloxavir vs oseltamivir — specifically, 3.9% and 8.4% for baloxavir and oseltamivir, respectively (p=0.009). The side effects table from the study indicate that GI-related side effects (especially nausea) were numerically more common with oseltamivir. In clinical practice, this is the most commonly encountered problem with the drug, which can be diminished (but not eliminated) when oseltamivir is taken with food. The incidence of severe adverse events did not differ between arms. Baloxavir lowered influenza viral loads in respiratory secretions faster than oseltamivir. The clinical significance of this faster antiviral action is unclear. Might this make patients less contagious more quickly? Or could this translate to a clinical benefit in very immunocompromised hosts, or in the most severe cases? A study in “high risk” adults demonstrated a faster recovery time compared to oseltamivir if the infecting virus was influenza B; outcomes in influenza A were similar. A different clinical trial of the drug in hospitalized patients is about to start. The mechanism of action is different. Unlike the neuraminidase inhibitors (oseltamivir, et al), baloxavir blocks influenza replication through inhibition of viral endonuclease (see the fine video below). It’s the first flu drug with this mechanism of action. The good news is that baloxavir should retain activity against neuraminidase-resistant strains, which periodically emerge and could be a substantial global threat. Baloxavir treatment selects for resistance. This excellent accompanying editorial to the above-cited phase 3 trial describes the resistance concerns in more detail. Will this resistance limit the usefulness of the drug? Or will the impaired replication capacity of resistance variants make them less transmissible? Oseltamivir is generic, and cheap. A 5-day course costs around $50. Payers have undoubtedly negotiated a much lower price. (That stuff is kept secret from us patients and clinicians, remember.) Baloxavir will cost $150, regardless of the dose, with coupons available to lower the price. My colleague Ken Freedberg, whose research focus is cost-effectiveness, often jokes that he’s frequently the last to speak at a conference since the topic of cost is so often considered secondary to the “scientific” parts of the program. Please note, Ken, that I meant no offense by putting cost last in the bulleted list above. Especially since with baloxavir, it’s probably this very point — cost — that will limit use of the drug, at least initially. Insurance plans are not eager (an understatement) to add new treatments to their formularies that cost more than existing options unless they are clearly more effective, or safer, or preferably both. With baloxavir, while it seems to have some advantages over osteltamivir in these metrics, we’re not quite there yet. In the meantime, we can make fun of the brand name —Xofluza! — which, if you say it loudly and quickly, kind of sounds like someone sneezing. Categories: Health Care, Infectious Diseases, Policy, Research Tags: baloxavir, influenza, oseltamivir 3 Responses to “New Flu Drug Offers Convenience, Fast Activity, and a Novel Mechanism — at a Price” Loretta S says: I see I wasn’t the only one who thought Xofluza sounds like a sneeze. I can imagine the manufacturer airing a TV ad with flu victims sneezing, but actually saying, “XoFLUza!”. I even like the generic name of this drug: baloxavir marboxil. It has a nice rhythm to it. A single dose sounds good to me. But I can imagine my patients telling the pharmacy no thanks when they see the price tag on a drug their insurance company won’t cover. We’ll see how that plays out. I guess we should be grateful the manufacturer didn’t price it at $1,500 per dose. Jon Blum says: The study cited claiming that baloxavir led to faster recovery in immunocompromised hosts had the following, baffling claim: “TTIIS was significantly shorter in BXM than PLC (median 73.2hr vs 102.3hr, p<0.0001) and numerically shorter than Os (81.0 hr, p=0.8347)." "Numerically shorter" meant less than 9 hours, but more importantly, look at the P value. How could they say this with a straight face? Hopefully when this goes to press, the journal will not allow them to make a statement like this. The reduced viral shedding in the first few days is intriguing, but as you say, whether that will actually impact transmission is not so clear. Is a 10,000X reduction in shedding better than 100X? The purpose of coupons is similar to sampling, on the patient side instead of the doctor side. They reduce the patient cost-share to create an incentive to use a more expensive medication. My health system does not accept coupons (and I'm not allowed to sample drugs, either). This is one of many methods the pharmaceutical industry uses to drive up drug costs. Ken Freedberg says: Thanks Paul for the last bullet on cost. While we used to always be at the end of conferences and courses (you know that your lecture is especially undervalued when not only is it at the end of the course, but it is after the final exam), this has started to change. Notable was a meeting on NCDs in HIV in low and middle income countries at the Fogarty Center a few years ago when our colleague Emily Hyle was asked to talk about cost-effectiveness right after the overview talk at the beginning of the meeting. In every presentation after that (CVD management, cancer treatment, screening and treatment for renal disease, mental health issues, etc.), towards the end of each presentation, the speaker would turn to Emily for a sort of ‘cost-effectiveness blessing.’ Now we’ll see if we can get cost-effectiveness to the top of your blog post. Or at least to right after effectiveness… Paul E. Sax, MD NEJM Journal Watch Learn more about HIV and ID Observations. The Decade’s Top 10 Biggest Changes to ID Clinical Practice Diagnostic Tests for Syphilis Continue to Perplex Even the Experts: An Unanswerable Question in Infectious Diseases FDA Defers Approval of First Long-Acting HIV Therapy, Surprising Everyone Should Oseltamivir Become an Over-the-Counter Drug? Welcome to Mandatory Online Module Land! 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__label__cc	0.588742	0.411258	← Look out, it’s MegaCast! The SOD standard → Head vs. heart: a season preview I’ve saved this Matt Hinton post from Monday to share with you, because it’s such a perfect summation of where I’m at assessing Georgia’s chances in 2017, and I wasn’t quite ready to write about that. I’m not going to re-post everything he wrote, because you ought to hit the link and read what he came up with in its entirety, but his start… Backing Into the Red and Black. I honestly didn’t see this coming, but … well, I guess it’s official: I’m on the Georgia bandwagon? It wasn’t up to me. Every year, I put together a set of national rankings for every FBS team (we’re up to 130 of them now) based on five broad categories — Recent History, Talent/Recruiting, Experience, Offensive Production and Defensive Production; each category consists of three subcategories based on criteria like winning percentage, recruiting rankings, returning starts, etc. The upshot is that none of the results necessarily reflects my off-the-cuff conclusion when I’m eyeballing a depth chart. So what to make of the fact that, after taking schedules into account, my foolproof system has pegged Georgia — an inconsistent program five years removed from its last division title, coming off an uninspiring, 8-5 finish in 2016 — not only as the runaway favorite to win the SEC East, but as a borderline Playoff contender? No other result at the top of my rankings was nearly as bold compared to the preseason consensus among other outlets, almost none of which project Georgia in the top 10. Am I prepared to defend UGA as a burgeoning elite? Really? … and his finish… … in much larger part it’s because Georgia’s pattern of underachieving over the past decade has made the Bulldogs reflexively hard to trust. Obviously Georgia has potential. But what distinguishes this team from the equally talented teams that finished unranked three of the past four years? From the outfit that lost to Ole Miss, Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech last year, and only narrowly survived scares from Missouri, Kentucky and Nicholls State? The first step in answering those questions would be laying a solid, routine-looking whooping on the Mountaineers this weekend, where Georgia is a two-touchdown favorite. It’s still a long way from there to Atlanta in early December, but if the long-term goal is going to become a reality then serving notice that at least the 2017 edition won’t make a habit of playing down to the competition would be a very good start. … just flat out nail everything I think and feel about this year’s team. From a logical, intellectual perspective, there are a ton of positives about Georgia — returning experience on defense and at running back, which happen to be two of the most important areas for a team to prosper in the SEC; the best talent base in the division; a coaching staff (starting with the head coach) with a year together under their collective belts; a talent influx over the last two seasons that should help address special teams shortcomings; a schedule that isn’t too daunting (i.e., no Alabama) — that, combined with issues plaguing the key divisional rivals, make me think a 10-2 regular season and a SECCG berth are anything but far-fetched. Then, emotionally, I remember all the disappointments that have been synonymous with Georgia football — not just last year’s embarrassments against Nicholls and Ole Miss, but flops against Tennessee in ’04 and ’07 that cost them trips to Atlanta; random, inexplicable losses to Vanderbilt; losing two of the last three games to Georgia Tech for no good reason; and, of course, Richt’s last two Cocktail Party debacles — and I can’t avoid the nagging feeling Georgia is still a program that can’t get out of the way of its own shadow. Not only that, but to believe Georgia’s on the verge of a great leap, I have to put an uncomfortable amount of faith in Kirby Smart’s capacity for growth in his second year on the job. When my heart ponders that, it sees 2017 coming out much the same as the previous four seasons have gone. I believe I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m in a strange place with this. Normally it’s my heart that’s more optimistic than my head, but not this year. In the end, it boils down to a simple question: does Georgia finally have its shit together in 2017? I wish I could tell you I knew for sure either way, but I don’t. However, I agree with Matt that we’re going to learn a lot from the opener, more than we normally would from watching this team start out against a mid-major program, which, lest we lose sight of Appalachian State’s Sun Belt membership because of what happened ten years ago, is the case. (Lest we also forget, ASU was a team Georgia demolished the last time the two squared off in 2013.) On Saturday, Georgia doesn’t have to beat the Mountaineers by 39 points to indicate a corner’s being turned (not that I’d complain if that were to happen). But it does have to show noticeable improvement in certain key areas to convince me that the coaches and players have at least located the corner and figured out how navigate it. Mainly that would stem from controlling a game the way an SEC power playing a mid-major squad should control a game. You don’t have to be an analytic genius to know what areas of the program have to step up to meet that standard of play in the opener. We’ve certainly discussed them ad nauseam here over the course of the preseason. I’m sure the coaches and players have, too. If you’re Georgia, talking’s been the easy part. One game does not a season make, of course. A solid opening win is nothing more than a good start. If things really are different this year, then that means we’ll see a team capable of sustaining good play from week to week. In that regard, Notre Dame makes for a capable test. Leave South Bend with a win and I expect the program will begin seeing a higher level of national respect. The two games that follow next (Samford and Mississippi State) are winnable ones. Which brings me to what from here appears to me to be the key game of the season. It’s not Florida, although that likely will be a pivotal game in terms of winning the East. It’s Tennessee. A Georgia team riding high at 4-0 and a probable top ten ranking is the kind of Georgia team that’s gone up against the Vols in other seasons with high expectations only to spit the bit. If this really is a different kind of year, that won’t happen. That can’t happen. We’ll know what kind of team we’ve got and we’ll know what kind of program Kirby is building after the Tennessee game. Right now I’ll split the baby to say we’re looking at a nine-win regular season and a divisional battle that won’t be settled until the Auburn game. But I reserve the right to change my mind after Knoxville. And, man, do I want to. 77 responses to “Head vs. heart: a season preview” It’s kind of a pre-season hangover. You want to feel good, it’s just hard to. Excellent post – my head thinks this team could be 12-0 in December. My heart knows better from being stomped on too many times over the last 4 years in particular … 10-2 with the possibility of 9-3. Anything less than that (unless it’s due to a 2013 rash of injuries) begins to prove we’re heading somewhere between Egypt and the Promised Land. My thoughts, too, ee. I’m saying it this way. 2017 will either be a lot of fun or a lot of frustration. I’d take incremental improvement and look to next year as “the year” but I don’t think that’s how it plays out. Captain Obvious here says we’re either really good or bad (to me, last year was bad). I would take 9-3 if we fight like mad in the 3 we lose to demonstrate that Kirby is turning the battleship in the direction we want to go. Any egg laying losses where it looks like the team (staff and players) just rolled out of bed and headed to the stadium will make me think this program is in deep trouble. Beat Florida … that is all. I’m totally with you here. 9-3 will be totally respectable IF we go down in our losses fighting like mad, as you say. I think we’ll know who we are after the Notre Dame game. Unlike The Senator I don’t think we’ll have to wait all the way till UT to know what we’re made of. If we’re gonna fold like a wet paper bag it will happen earlier than that. Dawg in Lutz WE CANT LOSE TO THE GATORS! OR TECH! Yea, and anyone marking Mississippi State down as a win better do so in pencil. They are very talented and experienced at Quarterback, have a coach who is widely considered the “second best” coach in the conference and always play with a scrappy underdog mentality and chip on their shoulder. They are going to be coming in to Athens ready and expecting to whip our ass. My feelings as well, agree with both you and the Senator about 10-2 or 9-3 for this year. And there is more upside than downside with that prediction. If we do fall to 8 or 7 wins, it will not be a talent fix that is needed. Both Chaney and Tucker have something to prove in 2017 or we should planning on immediate changes to their positions. I think Chaney is coaching for his career this season, which is one thing that gives me optimism. He is going to strongly biased to call plays based upon what works, rather than based on some abstract sense of what he or Kirby thinks ought to work. I thought Chaney deserved to be gone after last season. But after ruminating all summer on his bad OL, poor WR corps, a sub-par Chubb, and a rookie QB, I softened on him a bit. Maybe things were way worse – as far as personnel – than I realized…. Anyway, I think he’s got a lot more to work with this year. Add to that the fact that this is his second year and if our offense doesn’t look like they are clicking this year then something is woefully wrong. Jared, I do not see much improvement in personnel at this point. The talent on hand is extremely young. I fully expect the offense to struggle early this year as well. As the younger kids gain playing time and experience I see an upward trend over the course of the 2nd half of the year. Another season of 7 to 8 wins is about where this team is this year. I expect to seem massive improvement and finally compete for the East in 2018. Couldn’t possibly be worse than that. But I guess if you’re a true skeptic thats the only way to look at it without your head exploding from disappointment. Aubrey E Walker If things were far worse last year than this year and the common denominator being the offense line that was very bad last year and now being maned with players that was in school except mayde one or two then one would have to say last year was the result of atrocious coaching . Now we have the same coaches on O an D .so all the lies that we didn’t have players is spot on or was an attempt to have a built in excuse if we lost. Bottom line our problem is and has been the offense line. I don’t see that changing over nite. It could happen later in the year. But all coaches say the harvester group to jell is the offenses line. We Will see. At the O-line we have less experience in games, but a major talent upgrade and a net increase in experience in the system in the two deep. We’ll see how that shakes out. There were no ‘lies’ about poor talent on the O-line last year. However they were playing for this and next year. Meaning the line was lower talent, but it could have performed better if the scheme was suited to their abilities. It happens every day with lesser teams. But they played a scheme they wanted to use going forward, even if it wasn’t the best way to win last year. Its a subjective matter as to whether that was a good idea. The best advice I can give Kirby is to stay the hell out of offensive play calling. You have all of 1 year of experience on that side of the ball. Let the guy do his job. If he can’t do it, find someone who can and leave him alone. The “impose our will” crap cost us big time last year and probably cost us at least 1 maybe 2 wins last year. Personally I think we’ll learn a lot more in week 2 than in week 1. Only a loss Saturday will have any meaning in my mind. Blowing out appy state or even winning a close one won’t mean a lot to me. It’s an opener. They like this position. We may dominate them and we may look sloppy. Just don’t lose. If we’re truly a sec championship level team, we’ll maul Notre Dame. If we lose or if it’s a 60 minute struggle, we may be on the way there, but we’re probably an east contender with no real shot at alabama if we can even get there. Everything comes down to the OL. If they open holes and provide time to throw the sky is the limit. This doesn’t have to be an all time great uga team to win big this year. We only have to be better than the teams on the schedule on the day we play. Game by game, that doesn’t look too daunting. The greatest risk to me is simply the volume of teams that could get you on “any given Saturday.” Teams that we might not be too concerned about like USC, Mizzou, MSU, UK and GT in other years may be good enough to beat you on an off day. In most years where we’re thinking we’re a contender it’s a four week schedule: UT, USC, UF and Auburn. This year you add in ND, GT, MSU, Mizzou and UK and you’ve got a legit 9 game schedule. That’s why I’m hesitant to think we’re gonna set the world on fire before I see them play in south bend with my own two eyes. There are simply too many unknowns for our team and too many legit teams on the scheulde to positively speculate until we see what we look like in South Bend. If we look like alabama in 2008 rolling through Athens, watch out world. If we don’t, hang on for a wild ride. Yep week 2 will tell just where this team is at. Last year after UNC it was the sky is the limit only to be let down later on. UT game will be huge for the confidence not only for the players but the coaches as well. Going into South Bend and beating ND will be the push this team needs when the meat of the schedule rolls around Agree, thinks ND will tell us a lot. Honestly thinks we stomp a mud hole in Appy State’s azz. Thinks ND will be tight, will go either way…but a loss that early will not hurt us imo. Way too much talent on this team, but it is young talent…what was it, #4 in country for roster blue chippers (4&5 star)?? Can’t remember a time that we have had this much talent (on paper), and it is at all positions. The closer we get, the better I feel…..unless there is just epic failure on the staffs part. This should be at least a 11 win team…. The talent is one thing, but when your identity is to beat down people that is either apparent or it ain’t. That’s why I think we either pummel ND or the process hasn’t really started to kick in yet. I’m Charlie Brown again. Despite reminding myself of the last ten years, all the positives that everyone has noted are in place. But we need a convincing win Saturday to prove it. I’m hoping to be back at the tailgate mid fourth quarter. And unlike last year I’m hoping it not because I’m disgusted. “Dogs on top. We were out of it and gone”. Great post, Senator. I think a lot of us are in a similar place as you. Can Saturday evening just get here already? We’re going to win 11 plus games due to the second year bounce and do some inexplicable, so Georgia, self inflicted face plant that costs us a trip to Atlanta and/ or playoff, most likely against Florida. During the subsequent off-season everyone will be convinced we’re on the rise and you’ll hear a lot of “We totally coulda woulda shoulda beaten Bama/ Florida if, fill in the blank ” enter 2018 as a pre-season top 5 and flop horribly. 5 years later it turns out Kirby was a huge bust, working as defensive coordinator for will muschamp and it’s obvious we should have hired Mike bobo when we had the chance because he’s winning championships and kicking our ass on a regular basis as head coach of one of our rivals LOL, that’s the spirit…you should give the pregame pep talk. There’s the charlotte we know and love. Hey, I predicted we’d win eleven games this year, that’s a good thing right? It’s not all doom and gloom 😉 “Georgia’s pattern of underachieving over the past decade has made the Bulldogs reflexively hard to trust.” If you “underachieve” for a decade, it’s not underachieving. I’m afraid it’s just who you are. Here’s hoping we start overachieving. Careful. That’s a difficult truth that’s not always well tolerated. Not everybody wants to take the red pill. We’ve never been this low: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2014/09/21/against-florida-state-clemsons-clemsoning-was-the-most-clemsoning-clemson-ever-clemsoned/ and they are the defending champs. So, you know, hope. Remember that Herschel Walker’s lifetime we’ve always won a natty one calendar year separated from Clemson and within 3 years of alabama playing for the title twice in a row. Stats! LakeOconeeDawg ^^This^^ and these stats………..UGA- 38 years in between Nattys. 1942 to 1980 to 2018………One more years guys I expect improvement this year as well. Chaney still has a lot to prove in my book and has others have said, I hope he comes out of his proverbial box. I will go with 9-3 and the East. I know how disappointed those recent Jacksonville trips have been, but if I make that dreary ride back with alias to that dilapated bunch of Jorts it will be my last. JustcN not see losing to them this yer. “Normally it’s my heart that’s more optimistic than my head, but not this year.” I couldn’t agree more. Let’s not forget that we looked very good in the opener last year against North Carolina and then went on to have a disappointing year. I’m going to agree with you again by seconding the thought that I will reserve judgment until after Knoxville. We did look pretty good against UNC, but I watched the game again this summer and we got several key calls in our favor that really screwed UNC. It was almost as if Penn Wagers was calling the game in reverse. I won’t say the refs gave us the game, but they certainly helped. I seem to recall UNC missing on most, if not all, of their deep throws in that game. The receivers were definitely getting open, their QB just couldn’t connect with them. We definitely caught a few breaks in that game, but sometimes those things just go your way. Yep. Every time there was a big play for them, whether on offense or defense, there was a flag that negated it. It was the most favorable officiating I can ever remember us getting in a big game. I simply believe that many of us have reached the last next year. The ingredients suggest that we should have a very good season but we won’t believe it until we see it. The way we analyze games and seasons, four losses would be more of the same frustration. DawgFlan I would guess Kirby’s preference is going to be whoopin’ App with base offense and defense – better talent, better execution, don’t give Notre Dame too much on film. That is a recipe for a game that feels closer than it should, and I am guessing that sort of game would create a lot of anxiety in the fan base heading into Notre Dame. I think Kirby’s main goal this year is an SEC East title and trip to ATL. That strategic goal might create some tactical second-guessing in these OOC tilts. Going into the first game with his Nichols State plan? He’s a quick learner! OL not yet fully ready to roll. Your accessment seems about right to me… How many times have we had to beat AU to have a shot at the SEC title? More than a few times… GATA! If it comes down to AU game, I really like our chances. We’ve whipped that ass with regularity over the past dozen or so years. dawgired “But it does have to show noticeable improvement in certain key areas to convince me that the coaches and players have at least located the corner and figured out how navigate it.” I know, being the first game, ALL of the offensive plays will not be implemented, but I would like to see a variety of plays. I good mix of run/pass. I would like to see some inside and outside runs. It would be nice if a good variety of receivers used including the TEs and RBs with a good mix of check-downs and screens, passes over the middle and fly patterns and each arranged at opportunistic times. Play action when the defense SHOULD expect run. Draw plays when the D SHOULD expect pass etc. No play action on 3rd and 20. You know something interesting to watch other than Chubb between the tackles 100 times in a row. I want to see a HUNGRY D!!! Relentless and smothering with some QB pressure…about 37.2% of the plays in Appy St’s back field. SlobberKnocker I’d be happy with 37.1% 🙂 This may be one of the top ten threads ever. Since we’re talking UGA football and not politics or societal condition, I’ll go with what DEREK wrote at 7:51. I think he’s nailed it. It just seems like such a leap to go from a team that was 93rd on offense in s&p+ rankings is going to make top 10 and the same with a 35th ranked defense. Both sides of the ball have to make pretty big jumps to even be borderline playoff. The fan in me looks at the schedule and is pretty sure we are way better than every team and only old lady luck could steal a great season away from this team. Danny Sheridan was on Finebaum the other day saying probably 8 or 9 wins, but that we could even end up with only 7. Basically said he thinks Smart is a good coach but that we still suck. Not high on UGA at all. Screw that dude. the part of me that likes to watch things burn would enjoy seeing CSU beat the Buffs and UGA struggle with app st. I hope the Fighting Bobos run the Buffs out of Denver. I also expect the Dawgs to beat App by 20+. ApalachDawg Is winning by a landslide in convincing fashion a good thing or a bad thing for Georgia as they head into ND week? We’ve had 5 years of roller coaster city with Georgia so maybe winning big and backing it up with a win at ND will start to show signs of that corner the Sen referenced. Absolutely a good thing. Never has a smaller game had greater consequences for Georgia. We need to beat the brakes off of App State to start to put an end to the “playing down to bad teams” thing (even though App State isn’t exactly bad… we should be much better). It would also show recruits this is not the same boring ass team of the last couple of years, and put a much bigger spotlight on the Notre Dame game which would also be huge for recruiting. As much as I would like to see us unload on App St. I don’t see it. Smart is trained in the Alabama way of boring wins over lesser teams. And since we are nowhere near the talent level of Alabama, I expect the game to stay close longer. On a tangential note, I am not a fan of the “don’t show the playbook” philosophy of early games. For 95+% of the playbook, who cares? It’s likely already on tape from last year. Whatever gains there may be in the element of surprise, I see an equal loss/risk in never having executed the plays in live action. I would much prefer to open up the bulk of the playbook from the word go, and if anything use it to run a wider number of plays out of different sequences to keep tendencies confused… “Smart is trained in the Alabama way of boring wins over lesser teams.” I can live with giving a butt whoop’n of the methodical fashion as long as we are in control the whole time and we are using the time to gain experience and improve execution for later. “I am not a fan of the “don’t show the playbook”” “Whatever gains there may be in the element of surprise, I see an equal loss/risk in never having executed the plays in live action.” Agree 100% with this. Good teams/coaches are not going to be surprised. Let’s work on what we do and play ball!! We have the talent to man-up and play with teams on our schedule!! diving duck Watching all these preseason predictions sweep past the middle of our schedule from ND to FL to AUB seems too convenient for the Dawgs I know. Miss St., SCAR, TN, and Mizzou are all games we should win but find a way to let slip through our fingers by the time the clock hits zero. Winning the games we should win without too much drama is something i’d like to see this season. Beating Florida, Tennessee, and Tech is something I’d like to see this season. Anything else would be gravy Beat the Big 3 + Tennessee and I’m happy. kckd Sold on KS as a recruiter, not sold as head coach yet. Will say this, everything on offense should be better. OL- can it be worse, TE- great talent that’s maturing, QB- ditto, WR- ditto, RBs- healthier Defense has everyone back and another year to learn a new defense. I like our chances if this staff can coach. Yes, it can be worse on the OL. There’s a lot of yoots getting a look at playing time. Remember Theus? Only Danny Inman murdered more offensive possessions in our history. Would you like to bet that it is worse? No, I wouldn’t. I don’t think it will be worse than last year but I’ve seen enough intangibles to know that things can always go sideways. Would you bet that the line will be better? Actually I would bet that. Unfortunately, there is no definitive measurement since the grade will be subjective. Plan to be pleased, not overwhelmed, but pleased. We’ll know how it’s going to go pretty quick. If we come out in 13 personnel and blow App St off the ball, we will kill them. If we come out in 13 personnel and they hit 27 in the backfield well hello Nicholls and the year is going to get a lot longer. We are now bigger on the Oline but App St is quick in their front 7, It’s not going to be as easy as some here think. For the Senator….off topic for sure… http://jalopnik.com/going-inside-porsches-secret-vault-left-me-on-the-edge-1798658991 I just want to see good, consistent football. I want to blow out the teams we should blow out and be competitive with our peers. If we lose a close game to an SEC team, but we look good doing it and it’s not the result of a brainfart, then, over the season, that would give me confidence in Cubby Smaht. Fabrics Pool link? I must have missed it… Me too, but I found an old one and made my picks. Senator, how about adding it somewhere on the right side of the page with the others? I would use that more often than the others (which are great by the way. If cfbdatawarehouse is still there, it has gone under, sadly.) We sought a major upgrade. It’s time to show that improvement. Beat Appy by 20+. Demonstrate a tenacious D vs. ND…a loss should be close and chalked-up to the luck of the Irish. Beat TN by any means possible. And at all costs, beat Florida and Tech. Do that with at least a 9-3 record with no face plants and we’re probably seeing all the pieces fall into place. Miss on any of these and we’ll know KS needs a full 4 year cycle just to get us back to where Richt once had us. Sound writing to be sure and left himerism off the plate. Yes, I agree; beat the Vols ass like rented mules, but I also think a relentless beating of Florida and or Auburn would elevate the prognostications some. Early indeed, but a sound whipping on Tennessee in Neyland would exorcise quite a few demons. Homerism WTH is Skeptic Dawg when you need him??? Beat Florida. Please? Got Sr. says 9-3, 10-2 if they get past UF. This is an excellent post. Jt (the other one) My head says we are better and we win the East…my heart says PLEASE DON’T PULL A CHARLIE BROWN!!! Kenneth Croy App State has almost their entire team back and they now have the same number of scholarships as us…not as talented but the same #. Their experience is going to be at least enough to over come the point spread. If Kirby even thinks about limiting the playbook because he does not want to show ND too much he is a fool. We’ll know all we need to know about this season by 0:00 of Saturday night’s game. A big win and I’m on board….. without it it’ll be a long season. This guy’s an idiot. Chico Dawg Not to get too dramatic, here, but I’m not sure that UGA football has ever been at a more definitive crossroads than this season. If this team exceeds expectations, it will break the mold of a team of elite talent falling flat on its face against the Vandys and Teks of the world. It will mean winning at least 1 of the 3 at Tenn, at Florida (yes that’s an away game) and at Auburn. It will mean a road victory in South Bend. It will relieve the immense pressure on the folks in administration, justifying briefly the firing and hiring which took place 20 months ago. It will validate “the process” and justify the loosening of the purse strings for the JPIPF and the recruiting mecca taking place under the bridge. It will downgrade the surly, woe is me, “Georgia is gonna Georgia” fan, we have all come to know. It will mean the likelihood of another top 3 recruiting class including the #1 RB and possibly the #1 overall player in the country. It will create a positive momentum that may indeed vault us into conversations we have all longed for many years. If this team fails to meet expectations, it will mean another hiccup against an inferior opponent, losses AT Florida (yes that’s an away game) at Rocky Top, at Touchdown Jesus and Toomers Corner will be full of toilet paper. It will break out the boo birds, watching a lethargic offense not produce, a defense which is not lined up, and special teams you would see at the Pop Warner level. Coaches will openly argue on the sidelines, the silence to the media will dissolve, and the administration will tunnel themselves out of town. The money will dry up, and “the process” will just be something only The Emperor can master, leaving the recruiting class rivaling that of 2013, and the “i told you so” portion of the fan base comes out in droves. But here’s the odd part of it all…no one really knows! It’s truly an illusion to us all! Either one could happen! That’s what makes it such a compelling story! We really could shit the bed, or take home serious hardware. It’s a crossroads of epic proportions! I honestly don’t see the 8-4/ 9-3 scenario playing out. We are either going to make the jump in 2017, or go backwards. I’m glad we only have to wait 48 hours from now to see how this is gonna unfold. Either way, I will click on GTP and opine, just like I did today. Senator, congrats on 20,000 posts. This is a must read for me every day. I hope you have taken some of your legal training and prepared a succession plan…when the time comes, of course. Chico done. See yall Saturday! Pingback: Observations from the 35, opening night edition \| Get The Picture	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13847
__label__cc	0.696844	0.303156	← Your Daily Gator is on something. “We appreciate that there is stated interest in extending the relationship from the CBS side.” → Anybody can throw a slant. From Seth Emerson’s Mailbag ($$): Smart was asked Tuesday night about Georgia’s use of slants, or lack thereof, and here’s what he said, which I’ll quote in full because I thought it was both informative and instructive, but I will bold the parts in particular that stood out to me: “We’ve been a slant team in the past. The first couple of years here we ran a lot of slants. If you can remember, we ran slants in the spring game, one of the passes that Eric Stokes took from J.J. Holloman went for a Pick-6. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad play, it doesn’t make it one way or another but it is one that we haven’t been extremely successful with. We’ve actually run slants this year; (it’s not that) we haven’t thrown slants. There’s several times we’ve been in empty (no tailback formation) that we’ve had slants attached, but No. 1, you’ve got to have guys who can win on slants, No. 2 you’ve got to feel good about the coverage you’re getting before the slants. Some of what we were doing — and we don’t want to give a slant away as opposed to giving a fade away — has to do with leverage.” The two bolded parts would point to the notion that they — either the coaches or Fromm or both — just don’t feel good enough about the receivers to call and throw those slants. Fair enough. My only question is, how easy is it to identify receivers who have the necessary skill set to be reliable in the slant pass game? It’s either that Georgia hasn’t recruited those kind of guys all of a sudden, or Kirby has made a tactical decision that he prefers to emphasize other types of passes. I’m not trying to be snarky here. I am genuinely curious how they’ve gotten to this point. What little I know about offensive strategy leads me to think a slant pass game is a valid way to attack what defenses have been throwing at Georgia’s offense this year, but Smart is obviously skeptical of that. 90 responses to “Anybody can throw a slant.” Doing it consistently maybe? I’ve seen Blaylock, Cager, and Pickens all run successful man-beater-type routes before, so it’s not like no one can do it. But they either couldn’t do it often, or it wasn’t getting called (the number of sideline routes in the SCar game will remain mystifying to me.) I think Robertson should be this guy. But he is either so unreliable with his positioning, hands, or routes that Fromm doesn’t throw to him. The pass that Fromm threw to Wolf to seal the UF game? They run that route often. Robertson is running a dig route (I think) on that play where he runs across the line of scrimmage, about 5-8 yards past it. Open every time I’ve seen it run. Fromm always throws to the sideline anyway. This has not always been the case. Almost any pass you can recall Godwin catching was a route in the center of the field. JJ was the only receiver who could run a slant successfully and he’s no longer on the team so…… In the LSU/Bama game Gary Danielson pointed out what a high % of Burrow’s throws are between the hashes. I remember seeing a chart of Fromm’s passes in the SCar game and I think he had 3 or 4 between the hashes (out of 50 attempts) under 20 yards. Just nuts to me. But I’ve never been in the arena. So there’s that. Chaser: Make it 4 of 51 attempts. http://secstatcat.com/team/georgia/passer-stats For comp, Burrow had 7 out of 39 against Bama 5 out of 24 against Florida 9 out of 42 against Auburn Against Auburn Fromm had 1 pass attempt between the hashes under 20 yards out of 28 attempts. Texas Dawg It is a lot easier to cover guys when you know that about 1/2 the field is off limits to the offense and is not going to be used. We treat the hash marks like the sidelines this year. When we do throw towards the middle, I’m surprised the guys don’t do a toe tap to make sure there “in bounds” before they cross the hash marks into no mans land. In that game, they mentioned that Brady’s influence in LSU’s offense involved throwing between 10 and 2 o’clock. The GD exact opposite of what we do. I pray Coley is canned in 6 weeks. I am beginning to buy more into the line of reasoning that the problem isn’t Coley….. Coley is only doing the bidding of the HC. Except that Coley has been the exact same every place he’s been. More about the talent we have imo. Still very young at WR and inexperienced. It is a little tougher than some think to take one over the middle while a LB or safety wants to take your head off. I just don’t see too many Hines Wards on the team…..but they are developing. Can see Blaylock and Pickens developing in time. The story of our season on offense so far this season. The receivers have been an issue this season, but they are getting better. Low on quality and numbers. Hard to lose 5 and expect to be as good as we were a year ago….short answer, more about talent and matchups. That’s exactly right. Lose your top 5 pass catchers in a given year and your options are limited. Seems clear to me that these guys just aren’t world beaters on some routes, and Kirby will only trust them on plays they do really well. It’s unfortunate they haven’t developed enough over the year, though. We knew we were losing Godwin. Ridley and Hardman going early wasn’t such a surprise, though I could have seen Ridley staying one more year. Holloman, who was primed to be WR1, was the big shock. If this group had Holloman, along with a healthy Cager, DRob, Pickens, and Blaylock, we’d be just fine, IMO. My concerns also aren’t alleviated when I look ahead to next year. Pickens and Blaylock should take a step forward (they’re already getting better as this year goes on), but Cager will be gone. We’re likely going to need meaningful contributions from a couple of WRs who aren’t on campus now. And that’s to say nothing of how the passing attack would be affected if Fromm turns pro. It’s not too hard to imagine the 2020 offense as being the 2019 one redux. But here’s to hoping for better things. Good points….honestly thinks Fromm is a 4 year guy. He seems to love college. Now if we are lucky enough to win the MNC, he may choose to go…. Milton Dawg If Fromm is a first round pick in the draft, he would be a fool to stay in Athens. If he is projected to be a top 20 pick, he would be an even bigger fool to stay. Based on 2019 numbers, a draft slot in the teens will get him more than a 12.5 million dollar per year contract. Plus getting the fifth year option as a first rounder unless he is really just awful at the next level. And if he can get on the active roster for three games per year for three years, he is vested with a pension for life, health benefits, etc. I know, I know, “Money isn’t everything.” But solidifying your family’s future is worth a lot. Don’t know, P. Manning was a projected as a 1st rounder his junior year…he came back. I’m sure that there have been others. I guess it depends on where you heart is, if he comes back…I certainly would not go as far as calling him a “fool”. It’s just what he wanted to do. Hope he stays another year.. Would you stay for another year of seasoning in Coley’s dynamic offense? No….for just a chance at a MNC and more seasoned receivers…and more quality. Football really ain’t a hard game. Bat City Dawg does anybody think Fromm looks like an NFL ready qb right now? I sure don’t, and I love him as our QB. Sure the receivers and play calling haven’t helped. but he doesn’t have great mechanics: for as many clean pockets as he has, he rarely steps into throws. He has that ball flip that has to bug the hell out of NFL types. For all the pre-snap reads he makes.. he can be a bit slow to make a decision after the snap, and he seems to miss a fair amount of reads. and then of course there is the whole over the middle deal.. can he make the throws? could be nit-picky but to be clear i would probably only trade him for 3-4 other guys in CFB right now. LOL!!….and they come out. But gotta ask before I go…which 3 or 4 would you rather have?? Ok Greg, so we cannot give observational criticism of Jake Fromm? is that the new rule? I admit I am not in the arena, like most here, but help me understand where i was way off base there? Out of 119 or whatever college QBs, in a thougth experiment you wouldn’t consider trading Jake for a single one? C’mon man. it isn’t as much of a slight as you think it is. Heck no, criticize all you want…it’s welcomed as far as I am concerned. It can make some better, especially if it is constructive. It was just a simple, question….which 3 or 4 would you take (stayed above)?? Fair enough. Given our scheme isn’t a fit for everyone (Fields, Hurts), I think Burrow, Tua, or Trevor would be the only ones I would trade Jake for. They are all a bit more athletic than Jake, so they can sell the read option more, and also seem to get the ball out a little quicker than him, which might open up more quick hitter routes. I can’t comment on Herbert at Oregon, because I haven’t watched him play much. I’m now concerned that we let a stud in John Rhys Plumlee get away. He looks fantastic so far, and those wheels! Greg, Fromm doesn’t appear to be anywhere near a first round pick from what I’ve read. He came into the season as a possible first round guy, but he has dropped off significantly. Supposedly his arm strength, foot work, and post snap vision are nowhere near NFL ready. He could finish on fire and get back in it though. In addition to all of that, his deep balls aren’t always very accurate; then there’s his inability to throw on the run and lack of mobility. LOTS to work on. I think unless we win it all he comes back next year. I’m not saying Fromm is above criticism (some of it is certainly warranted) but I’m not sure who I’d take over him since our system isn’t set up to be successful running what these other guys do. Look at Fields. He didn’t suddenly turn into a good QB, they just have a system set up for him to succeed. Same with Burrow at LSU. I think Fromm could have just as much success if we opened the offense up, but I doubt we’ll ever know. 2675miller I would buy that the wrs are the problem if we didn’t have the exact same problems against Texas, LSU and the 2nd half against UAT last year. Everyone is using the same formula as those teams did last year and are enjoying the same success. It isn’t that we haven’t recruited guys who can run the route and succeed, it’s that we’ve run into a situation where the position group as a whole is characterized by inexperience. With the exception of Cager and a few other players, we’re all freshmen or players who haven’t really panned out the way they should have (cough, cough, Matt Landers, cough, cough). We’ve got guys who are still developing and the coaches and Jake Fromm clearly believe there are other skill sets where they’re better and they’re trying to stay away from some of the other areas where they aren’t as strong. Kinda begs my question — what makes a receiver better at running fades compared to slants? Getting hammered over the middle. Receivers get hammered all over the field. Not like they do over the middle, you should try it sometime. Different animal…. So all this is about is taking a blow in a certain area of the field? LOL!….yes sir. That and also having the right personnel to be able to do it. I think some of it is. Hard to get really hammered on a fade..plus if the ball zings off of your hands it’s going out of bounds and not up in the middle of the field for a pick. But still, you have to throw it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. William H. Not necessarily. The leverage is different. Also, making tough catches in tight windows where you may only have a step. It requires tighter timing and sure hands. The ball has to be on you the minute you come out of the break sometimes. They may be better at it now than they were initially, or there may be more trust. Throwing to those WRs in tight spaces was not going well in the SC game. I can easily see a guy with poor leverage get brick hands and popping a few up in the middle of the field. No. This is about taking a blow to a certain area of the body. I believe there’s more to it. Our schedule is back-loaded with five P5 games in November leading up to the SECC. Kirby is looking to protect the positions where we are thin (QB & WR). It’s also why Fromm rarely keeps the ball. Once the SECC kicks, the restrictions come off. No, as clearly outline in many other posts below this one. I get what you are saying, but it is not the sole component. A lot goes into a successful slant route. We have green WRs who get jammed easy. A fade allows them more space to operate. A slant is timing and precision. Our WRs currently, do not inspire that confidence in either the HC or the QB. That was my point, although admittedly, very poorly put. That’s a fresh and interesting perspective. Might be true, esp. Fromm. Saban didn’t employ that strategy with Tua and he’s probably regretting it. This…exactly. Then would seem to be a prime opportunity to line up Cook or Herrien or Swift in the slot more and have more formations with more than 1 of them on the field at the same time. Especially RPO with a slant option Herrien? Swift? Over the middle? Those dudes would get creamed!!1!!!! saildawg A fade is a safer throw, it is lower risk but lower likelihood of success. A slant is higher risk but also higher likelihood of success. The problem with our fade routes is how poor of a job the receivers have done winning off the LOS, and pressing the DB inside on their stem. It is why you see Jake throwing the ball out of bounds, because the DB has pressed the receiver to the sideline and there is just not room to fit it in. If you look at LSU’s first TD against Alabama notice that the receiver is covered but is still just at the inside of the numbers allowing Burrow to under throw and letting his WR make a play. Compare that to Pickens fade in the Auburn game (thrown way OOB) or even his TD against Mizzou. He is forced to the edge of the sideline and takes a perfect throw and acrobatic catch to be successful. LSU has the room on the sideline because they throw mostly between the hashes. Our WRs are getting pressed to the sideline because the DB knows they’re not going towards the middle of the field. This is why it’s maddening that we don’t throw between the hashes. Admiral Sackbar I’ll take a crack at this question. I think a fade route has timing elements that are crucial but it’s also manball; a guy runs up the field and tries to out-physical his defender for the ball. On a slant route; I think the receiver has to create his own separation through his body language, using his hands, feet and eyes to put the defender on his heels. I remember Tony Ball getting a lot of praise back when he coached this position group as he was getting good production from receivers who didn’t quite possess next-level talent (Michael Bennett comes to mind) so I wonder if this is inexperience or an issue of coaching. roswell dawg Seems obvious that Kirby wants to do it his way. Our pass offense is occasionally creative, decreasingly successful, and out of balance with what we need to do to challenge top ranked teams. Maybe it was just me but most of the throws by Fromm last week in the first 30 minutes seemed to lack urgency and pace. Looked like he was trying to float it out there. With the tight coverage on our wideouts, the speed of the throw needs to be crisp. He changed that as the game went on. I have been screaming play action since the first game. And been mostly disappointed. There is nothing sissy about play action or slants. There is a lot of space between the line backers moving uo on the run and the safeties. Have no idea why we are not using that space to our advantage. Wouldn’t the sell of a block or crack back on play action be another way to help these young receivers get off press coverage ? As mystifying to me as not throwing more play-action passes. Depends on how the corners are lining up. If they are playing tight with inside leverage, the slant really isn’t there. If they were playing a lot of zone, off the line, eyes in the backfield, the slant should be easy pickings. That’s what Kirby is saying: “We take that slant away playing with leverage” (One reason I think we have a chance vs LSU is I think we can deny them the middle of the field, but I digress.) I think Kirby wants to RTDB and influence the LB’s and safeties to think run first and attack one on one match ups on the outside. In other words, when we throw it, we want an advantage. So we’re not designed to be in 3rd and long. We want to stay “on schedule” as they say. 2nd and 5, 3rd and short etc… We want to throw it 18 times and his 14 for big yards and run it 40 times. When we’re 15 of 30 it’s not who we want to be. I think the reason the offense is struggling is that Fromm doesn’t see any open guys a lot of times because they aren’t getting separation and doesn’t trust his guys to be where they’re are supposed to be. He trusts cager and that’s about it. Cager keeps going down and the offense grinds to a halt. Fromm also has too long a memory. A pick. A drop. A bad pass. Whatever it’s just seems to snowball. When he’s rolling it’s beautiful. Once he starts worrying about things, it can get ugly. But with that OL and that defense why would you put the ball at hazard? If we’re going to get this thing done it’s going to be 1992 Alabama or 2000 Baltimore ravens style. And that’s fine with me. The 1980 team was not our best team, but they won the damn trophy. That’s what matters to me. Let’s go get it. Do you remember how many passes Buck completed in the 1980 NC and what quarter the first completion was? I truly believe it`s Kirby limiting the play calling. Chaney was a longtime OC and i think was given more room to operate. Watching Fromm I think he has regressed and is not getting the best possible (the reserve fund sure can afford it) QB coaching. junkyardawg41 Not like this is Coley’s first rodeo. I know Kirby acknowledged throwing slants in the past, but I also thought some Auburn or Florida DB tried to throw shade at Fromm his freshman year by saying all he threw were slants and screens. I’m I mistaken or can someone else recall that? That’s where the header comes from. A UF safety said that a couple of years ago. What about the play action to set up a post or a TE sitting down over the middle? Oh to dream If these guys can run 10 yard outs, comebacks and back shoulder routes they can run 5 yard slants. Good grief! I agree it’s more about the coverage, though. We gave Auburn the slants and middle of the field all gameplay long. Teams have just been jamming our WRs at the line all year and they’ve mostly been unable to beat that. Good coaching and play calling CAN take advantage of that. Mostly doing the same damn thing over and over obviously won’t. But then I don’t have 3 SEC East banners. That’s what I’m guessing — it’s a separation issue. As I wrote above, can 1 cure for separation not be play action, and the things the receiver does to sell run for a second or two ? Seems like a good way to get away from a pressing corner is to make him want to get away from you by showing run–play action. Lol. At the beginning of the season we were screaming, “Where are the explosive plays, throwing downfield?” Now that we are doing that, “where are all the short easy throws?” Who really cares, as long as the defense is elite. “If we score, we might win. If they never score, we can’t lose.” The defense was elite against South Carolina. SC in my opinion was the time to run some quick slants. I have posted about this and still believe it is something that could spark success on offense but is far from the end all fix all. Quick slants depend on timing which comes with practice as it is less dependent on separation and more on body position. If ti isn’t successful again IMO it is due to lack of emphasis in practice. UGA has seemed to run more trips and stack WRs sets which also gets the WRs out of immediate man coverage where the DB get to lock up and jam the WR. Good point. I heard a commentator say during one of LSU’s games earlier this season that Brady had made Burrow throw literally thousands of passes to his receivers over the summer. I don’t want to be a hurry up 50 passes a game team. However, UGA can run plays which are called as a pass 1st and the passing game needs to be there for instances like SC. UGA;s ground control/clock control offense which wins time of possession by holding on to the ball for fewer but longer possessions is a major factor in UGA’s D ranking very highly. The coaching stuff must learn to improve the passing attack to get over the hump, and I am not buying the narrative it is all because young WRs. UGA isn’t a Vandy or Wake Forest which recruits lower rated talent which must improve to be compete. I think they were IMO. They were only accountable for 13 of those 20 points (really 10 if you don’t count OT). Final should have been 17-10. Which brings me back to Erk’s quote. Thats just my opinion though. And we all know what they say about opinions. The explosive plays haven’t really shown up much…79th in the country in 40+ yd plays, 93rd in 50+ yarders. (Even shorter “big” plays are lacking — 89th in 20+ yard plays.) Geezus My thought is that a slant is almost a pure pass route, e.g. the receivers would take too long to execute the route if they tried to combine a blocking technique with it. With Kirby’s heavy reliance on receivers blocking on everything, slants probably don’t fit the over-all strategy very well. I can guaranty that Robertson ran the hell out of slats when he was at Cal. Agreed I’d love to see him in at slot WR run a quick slant with it being Fromm’s 1st read, yes it is a short route but as a run the ball team, 4 yards is on schedule. I’d also like the see Robertson run a slant that if he doesn’t get the 1st read it goes to a crossing pattern that Fromm can come back to as later in the progressions. Dawg Lover How are they going to get better at running slants which I assume includes learning how to separate, learning how to run the route the best for execution, if they don’t RUN THE SLANT AT ALL???? Has absolutely nothing to do with WR talent. 100% to do with Kirbs philosophy and throws Fromm is comfortable making. Whatever the reason, I suspect (based on what we’ve seen all season) is that during practices when slant routes are practiced our defense tears them up, so Kirby’s like….. “Okay, maybe not so much.” Is it possible that our massive OL hinders the throwing lanes for slants. Slants are typically thrown to the slot receivers. The throwing lane for this route is going to be through the guard/tackle space. Jake is listed as 6’2 Left lane would be through Thomas at 6’5 and Kindley at 6’4 Right lane would be through Mays/Cleveland at 6’6 and Wilson at 6’7 Not to mention the girth of these monsters. Perhaps they hinder the ability to through a quick, flat pass. If you float the pass on that route, it is likely to be picked. This sounds like one of the more likely reasons to me. Former Fan The 2018 receivers have jumped some of the earlier recruiting classes at the position. That doesn’t help. To me, the bigger question(s) is why don’t we use play action more? Or, if we are going to run a slant, why not do it off an RPO? I guess the RPO slant has the same issues as Coach mentioned in the article. Played WR in HS only 19 years ago (shit I’m old), so I know a little about the position. I watch all the games from 50 yrd line upper deck so have a good view of the entire field/play. I can tell you that the route running of all WRs not named Cager has been poor. There is too much rounding of routes and lack of crisp change in direction. A slant is a pure timing route requiring 3 steps out of the break with an outside plant foot to create quick change of direction and thus separation. It just not there, Pickens and Blaylock will be great with time, but it is challenging enough to get Pickens to line up correctly at this point (see Missouri, see SC on last drive of 4th quarter). I am not surprised the playbook is limited for the freshman, but have been disappointed in the lack of production from Simmons and Landers. I am sure those guys work hard and are great teammates, but we need them to step up. Hoping Kearis Jackson can get into a groove, D-Rob seems to be good on the drag route but can’t remember seeing him run a slant at all. I think at this point we are what we are, and don’t see it changing much. I do know that Jake Fromm will be such a better future QB because of his experience this year. He is already used to throwing into tight windows. This is what I was trying to get at, but stated much clearer! If route running is the issue, how are we the only coaching staff that can’t teach freshman 5 star receivers how to run routes? Also it’s not like wide receiver is a position that needs a ton of experience in order to be effective as evidenced by Alabama and Clemson winning national championships with freshman receivers or even for UGA, AJ green, Malcolm Mitchell, Chris Conley, Michael Bennett were all productive as freshman. I’m not saying you’re wrong, this just sounds like flimsy excuses from the coaching staff. On a separate note, Tyler Simmons and Matt Landers shouldn’t see the field again ever, especially Simmons. Every time the ball touches his hands something bad happens for UGA. He’s the offensive equivalent of Bryan Evans. Not an excuse for coaching, Cortez Hankton has a lot to prove in the development of WR. But also schematically the Florida game is the only game I can point to and say, wow they schemed up a great play to get guys open. It’s a conundrum offensively this season for sure The thought that comes to mind on quick slants, is that body-shielding technique really comes into play. That and quick eyes and hands. The teams that make their living on slants seem not to have that high of a success percentage rate. The teams that utilize the slant on 3rd/4th and short, mixed with other options, seem to make the slant look like something you COULD make a living on. Having stacked boxes so often jams up the middle of the field where slants have to go. Tougher with an extra guy in the box. Then add the height issue of opposing DL personnel to the danger of tips. We may have to go deeper down the seam since Jake isn’t 6’6″ with a corresponding wingspan. I refuse to believe we don’t enough guys with speed to get a step or two away from the defender near the line. We need to find ways to get the ball to Cook, this might be one. Also, throws over the middle don’t just cause big hits on the receiver, they often result in INTs on overthrows/tips. Want to see more over the middle but it isn’t because Fromm can throw it, he is/was legendary regarding that 2 years ago. Like sex and bicycle riding, you don’t forget how to do that. FlyingPeakDawg Our receivers run perfectly good slant routes when blocking. This is just more coach speak. We keep having the same issues and instead of blaming the capabilities of the 1 we blame the capabilities of the many. Watching Jake throw against air during warmups he often hit his receivers who were crossing him on their route.. behind. I think he had 1 throw that was in stride. If you are running slants.. where you are crossing the qb.. you don’t want the ball behind. That is a pic. For his deep routes in air.. he overthrew one and most of the others slowed down to catch the ball. We need better OC play calls to take advantage of what Fromm can do. Line Fromm under center. More PA plays since everyone is keying on the run. Incorporate more hurry up. Slant passes are inherently riskier. Receiver doinks one off his hands or face, ball pops right up to 3-4 waiting DB’s or LB’s for the INT. Jake doesn’t throw anything to the middle of the field because risk adverse Kirby has coached it out of him. jbp32 Fromm isn’t the tallest QB…maybe having 6’6″ guards and a 6’4″ center isn’t the best for throwing over the middle? But then again, Tua is 6’1″, so my point may be moot. The lines for Aaron Murray weren’t exactly tiny, and despite being shorter than Jake, he did OK. I love Fromm and hope he stays. That said, he has regressed since that brilliant freshman year. Maybe like a pitcher in MLB not looking as good the 2nd time through the league, as they have figured him out. Has a lot of passes batted down also. The slant pass seems to work well AGAINST us. I put this up last week. Dial up to the 47:45 mark. There’s no reason we can’t run these now. If Fromm could do it as a true freshman, he should be better at it now. I know Hardman makes a difference, but this is a pretty standard route for a college WR. If those YOUNG receivers haven’t learned how to run routes by now they won’t ever learn. How many times do you think Robertson wakes up at night having a nightmare about choosing Georgia? It is probably a continuing occurrence!!!!! Dial this one up to 20.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13848
__label__wiki	0.661542	0.661542	Cell array-based intracellular localization screening reveals novel functional features of human chromosome 21 proteins Yu-Hui Hu1,2, Hans-Jörg Warnatz1, Dominique Vanhecke1, Florian Wagner3, Andrea Fiebitz1, Sabine Thamm1, Pascal Kahlem1,4, Hans Lehrach1, Marie-Laure Yaspo1 & Michal Janitz1 Trisomy of human chromosome 21 (Chr21) results in Down's syndrome, a complex developmental and neurodegenerative disease. Molecular analysis of Down's syndrome, however, poses a particular challenge, because the aneuploid region of Chr21 contains many genes of unknown function. Subcellular localization of human Chr21 proteins may contribute to further understanding of the functions and regulatory mechanisms of the genes that code for these proteins. Following this idea, we used a transfected-cell array technique to perform a rapid and cost-effective analysis of the intracellular distribution of Chr 21 proteins. We chose 89 genes that were distributed over the majority of 21q, ranging from RBM11 (14.5 Mb) to MCM3AP (46.6 Mb), with part of them expressed aberrantly in the Down's syndrome mouse model. Open reading frames of these genes were cloned into a mammalian expression vector with an amino-terminal His6 tag. All of the constructs were arrayed on glass slides and reverse transfected into HEK293T cells for protein expression. Co-localization detection using a set of organelle markers was carried out for each Chr21 protein. Here, we report the subcellular localization properties of 52 proteins. For 34 of these proteins, their localization is described for the first time. Furthermore, the alteration in cell morphology and growth as a result of protein over-expression for claudin-8 and claudin-14 genes has been characterized. The cell array-based protein expression and detection approach is a cost-effective platform for large-scale functional analyses, including protein subcellular localization and cell phenotype screening. The results from this study reveal novel functional features of human Chr21 proteins, which should contribute to further understanding of the molecular pathology of Down's syndrome. Eukaryotic cells are characterized by a high degree of compartmentalization and most protein activities can be assigned to particular cellular compartments. Moreover, the accurate functions of protein interaction networks rely greatly on the proper localization of each protein component. In many cases, aberrant translocation of proteins correlates highly with pathological changes in cell physiology. Until recently, protein localization experiments have been confined to only one or a few particular genes of interest. The first large-scale localization study in mammalian cells was performed in microwell-plate format by Simpson et al. and included 107 human genes [1]. Recently, an automated transfection and immunostaining system for 96-well plates has been established [2]. A microwell-plate-based approach, however, is associated with a high consumption of reagents and a requirement for extensive automation. A recently developed transfected cell array (TCA) technique [3] represents a cost-effective alternative for high-throughput approaches in functional genomics. The principle of the TCA technique is based on the transfection of DNA or RNA molecules, immobilized on a solid surface, into mammalian cells. Subsequently, detection of the physiological effects on these cells caused by the introduction of foreign nucleic acid is carried out [4]. We optimized this platform for high-throughput protein co-localization studies and applied it to the characterization of human chromosome 21 (Chr21) encoded proteins. Functional analysis of Chr21 proteins is of great medical relevance. This refers, in particular, to trisomy of human Chr21, which results in Down's syndrome, a complex developmental and neurodegenerative disease. The phenotype of Down's syndrome includes various organ malformations, stereotypic craniofacial anomalies and brain malformations [5]. Molecular analysis of this syndrome, however, poses a particular challenge, because the aneuploid region of Chr21 contains genes of unknown function. Genomic sequencing and gene expression analysis of human Chr21 [6–10], as well as study of the transcriptome of a Down's syndrome mouse models [11–15], provide a comprehensive resource for the systematic functional characterization of Chr21 genes. However, functional characterization at the protein level has been performed most often using protein prediction algorithms. Therefore, determination of the subcellular protein distribution would provide an important insight into the function of human Chr21 genes. In the present study, 89 human Chr21 genes were analyzed for subcellular localization of protein using a TCA technique (Fig. 1). Furthermore, changes in cellular phenotypes, such as cell morphology and proliferation, could be identified as a consequence of over-expression of some of these genes. Schematic presentation of the cell array-based protein localization procedure. (A) Open reading frames (ORFs) derived from human chromosome 21 were cloned into a mammalian expression vector containing an amino-terminal His6 tag, spotted in an array format and reverse transfected into an HEK293T cell line. (B) Proteins expressed on the cell arrays were detected using anti-His antibody and a set of organelle counterstaining was performed. (C) The efficiency of protein expression and labeling was monitored using a BioCCD laser scanning system. The green signal indicates the expression of enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP). The red signal indicates His6-tagged protein. (D) For single-cell analysis, fluorescent and confocal microscopy was used. The red signal in the 1000× magnification images represents expressed C21orf25 protein, whereas the green and blue signals represent labeled microtubule and nucleus, respectively. Subcellular localization of Chr21 proteins In order to ensure that the localization of the expressed proteins has not been influenced by the cell array protocol or His6 tagging, genes coding for proteins with well-described localization to particular cellular compartments were reverse transfected and over-expressed. The control genes encoded for the CDH8, KDELR1, LMNA, Pex11a, TGN38 and EGFP proteins [16–21]. All control proteins have been detected in the locations as described [22]. The subcellular localization pattern for 52 out of 89 Chr21 proteins was determined using His6 epitope detection. The rest of the proteins could not be detected, as their expression remains below the detection level of the cell array. The subcellular distribution for mammalian cells of 34 detected proteins is described here for the first time. A summary of the localization data is presented in Table 1 [see Additional file 1], together with the protein and gene accession numbers, and information on gene function and expression patterns. Localization images can be visualized and downloaded from [22]. In order to exclude the possibility that the fusion of the His6 tag at the protein N terminus influenced its localization, the Chr21 open reading frames (ORFs) have been cloned with a Myc epitope tag at the C terminus. The localization of the C terminus-tagged proteins did not substantially differed from the localization pattern of N terminus-tagged proteins (data not shown). A significant proportion of the proteins localized either in the cytosol (31%) or in the nucleus (17%). In all, 23% of proteins were found in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus, or were found to translocate between these two compartments. Localization of 29% of the proteins was associated with components of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) secretory pathway, including the ER (10%), the Golgi (5%) and endosome/lysosome compartment (4%); 10% of proteins were localized in the plasma membrane (PM). Figure 2 shows localization examples of Chr21 proteins in different cellular compartments. In what follows, several features of protein distribution are discussed. Localization categories for detected chromosome 21 (Chr21) proteins. The Chr21 proteins were localized in a variety of cellular compartments. The images in the left panel represent anti-His staining of Chr21 proteins, with the gene names indicated in the upper left corner of each image. The images in the middle panel show applied counterstaining, with organelles indicated in the upper left corner. The images in the right panel present a merged picture from detection of Ch21 proteins and counterstaining. The scale bar represents 10 μm. Two distinct localization features were observed for cytosolic proteins. Proteins were either distributed evenly throughout the cytoplasm or formed a punctate pattern of distribution. For example, the HLCS gene codes for a biotin-protein ligase and was found to localize throughout the cytosol (Fig. 2). Another protein, myxovirus resistance protein 1, which is encoded by the MxA gene, revealed a punctate pattern in the cytosol, which does not overlap with any organelle staining. The accumulated localization pattern of MxA in our study supports previous suggestions that self-assembled MxA proteins wrap around or interact with the incoming viral nucleocapsids and thereby prevent their replication [23]. Accola et al. reported that the MxA protein localizes to the smooth ER and might inhibit viral replication through alterations in membrane organization [24]. We did not, however, observe the co-localization of MxA with the ER marker, protein disulphide isomerase (PDI) (Fig. 2). The non-histone chromosomal protein HMG-14, which is encoded by the HMGN1 gene, was found in the nucleus but outside of the nucleolus (Fig. 2). This localization correlated with its suggested function as a modulator of the interaction between DNA and the histone octamer through the binding of HMG-14 to nucleosomal DNA. In contrast, the novel nuclear protein 1 (NNP-1) localized exclusively in the nucleolus, in accordance with its role in the synthesis of 28 S rRNA (Fig. 2) [25]. Nucleus and cytoplasm In all, 23% of Chr21 proteins were found to localize in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm. The nucleus/cytoplasm distribution ratio for a particular protein, however, varied from cell to cell. In some cells, the proteins with dual localization could be found either only in the nucleus or only in the cytoplasm, suggesting a continuous translocation activity. For example, the variable distribution of the MCM3AP protein (minichromosome maintenance protein 3-associated protein) in the nucleus and cytoplasm (Fig. 3C) correlates with its role in the translocation of MCM3 proteins from the cytosol into the nucleus. The MCM3 protein is known to be an essential factor that allows DNA to undergo a single round of replication per cell cycle [26, 27]. The requirement for nuclear import of MCM3 protein changes according to the phase of the cell cycle, which is probably reflected by variable distribution of MCM3AP between the nucleus and the cytosol [26]. Protein intracellular translocation observed on cell arrays. (A) Stages of post-translational trafficking of KCNE2, a plasma membrane (PM) protein, including the early modification within the Golgi complex (a) and final localization at the PM (b) or in the lysosomes (c), without retention in the ER. (B) Translocation of BACH1 and CHAF1B proteins during cell interphase and mitosis. 1. BACH1 proteins distributed in the entire cytosol at interphase. In early mitosis, most proteins accumulated in the nucleus and wrapped around condensed chromosome. 2. During the interphase, CHAF1B protein localized in the nucleus, whereas after cell division it was found in the cytoplasm of two daughter cells. (C) Differential localization patterns of MCM3AP protein in the cytoplasm and nucleus. The scale bar represents 10 μm. ER-associated secretory pathway PM proteins, lysosome proteins and secretory proteins are first targeted to ER and then to the Golgi apparatus for modifications before being transported elsewhere. In contrast, proteins that are resident in the ER and the Golgi are retrieved and retained in these two organelles. For example, the TMPRSS3 protein (transmembrane protease serine 3), which mutation results in autosomal recessive neurosensory deafness was found to localize exclusively in the ER (Fig. 2), as described [28]. For some proteins, the entire protein-processing pathway could be traced throughout different organelles. Good examples are two integral PM proteins that are encoded by the KCNE1 (Fig. 2) and KCNE2 genes, both of which belong to the potassium channel, voltage-gated, ISK-related subfamily. Figure 3A shows consecutive steps of KCNE2 protein maturation, with its final destination being the PM, where it acts as a K2+ channel. Here, we report for the first time, that these proteins localize also to the lysosomes. This co-localization of KCNE2 protein with the lysosome marker LAMP2 (lysosomal-associated membrane glycoprotein 2) (Fig. 3A) could reflect the ability of the PM proteins to shuttle between the PM and the endosome/lysosome compartment. Alternatively, the lysosomal location of KCNE1 and KCNE2 proteins could result from their direct transport from the Golgi to the lysosome. It is not clear which of the two mechanisms accounts for this dual localization pattern. Interestingly, the KCNJ6 potassium channel protein, which is a member of subfamily J, never showed the lysosomal resident pattern and localized at the PM only in the same cell array experiment (Fig. 2). Cell cycle-dependent protein translocation In the case of the BACH1 and CHAF1B proteins, we observed a cell cycle-dependent localization pattern. Regarding the BACH1 protein, we observed a complex cell division-dependent localization pattern. At interphase, BACH1 was distributed in the entire cytosol. During the early phase of mitosis, however, the protein accumulated in the vicinity of condensing chromatin (Fig. 3B). The chromatin assembly factor I p60 subunit (CHAF1B) protein translocated from the nucleus into the cytoplasm during cell division (Fig. 3B). As reported [29], we observed most of the CHAF1B protein localizing in the nucleus at interphase, where it is involved in chromatin assembly and DNA replication. After cytokinesis had occurred, we detected the presence of the CHAF1B protein in the cytoplasm of two daughter cells, probably in its inactive form after dissociation from chromatin. The effects of protein over-expression on cell morphology Clusters of cells transfected with gene CLDN8 or CLDN14 were found to undergo morphological changes. Overexpression of fifty of the 52 proteins was not associated with any abnormal cell morphology. Claudins comprise one of the two major integral membrane protein families that are found in the tight junctions of epithelial cells and endothelial cell sheets. There are more than 20 members of the human claudin gene family, which are characterized by heterogeneous tissue localization patterns [30, 31]. Daugherty et al. found that translocation of claudin-5 from the PM to an intracellular compartment helps to regulate tight junction permeability during the differentiation of human fetal lung alveolar epithelial cells to a type II cell phenotype [32]. Loss of human claudin-14 results in autosomal recessive deafness [33]. Furthermore, loss of claudin-3 may initiate cilia degeneration of the retinal pigment epithelium [34] and correlates with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis [35]. Despite the clinical relevance of the claudin proteins, their structure within tight junctions and the regulatory mechanisms of protein expression is not entirely understood. Here, we report for the first time subcellular localization data for claudin-17, which localizes predominantly at the PM (Fig. 4). The localization of claudin-14 has been described recently [36]. We observed several morphological changes of HEK293 cells as a result of over-expression of these proteins. Expression of claudin-8 and claudin-14, but not claudin-17, resulted in loss of cell-membrane protrusions and cell retraction. Moreover, a distinct change in nuclear shape could be observed in cells expressing claudin-8 (not shown) and claudin-14, but not in those expressing claudin-17 (Fig. 4). Influence of Chr21 protein over-expression on cellular physiology. Over-expressed claudin-14 was retained in the retracted endoplasmic reticulum (a), which resulted in loss of cell-membrane protrusions (b). Claudin-17 localized in the plasma membrane and its expression did not influence cell morphology. A distinct change in nuclear shape (c) was observed in cells expressing claudin-14 but not in those expressing claudin-17. The scale bar represents 10 μm. Subcellular localization of 34 Chr21 proteins is reported here for the first time. Figure 5 shows the localization patterns of four selected proteins that are encoded by the C21orf4, DSCR3, PCP4 and SH3BGR genes [see Additional file 1]. The C21orf4 protein was predicted to be an integral membrane protein. Indeed, we determined its localization in the PM. The DSCR3 gene has significant homology to the Hbeta58 mouse gene, which is active in embryogenesis [37]. In our study, the DSCR3 protein was found in the nucleus, suggesting that it functions in the regulation of transcription or in the maintenance of nuclear structure. The PCP4 gene encodes brain-specific polypeptide PEP-19, which has a key role in brain development [38]. A precise function of the PEP-19 in this process has not, however, been determined. Here, we report localization of the PEP-19 in the cytosol and in the nucleus (Fig. 5). Subcellular localization of proteins of possible relevance to Down's syndrome pathogenesis. The localization pattern of 21 Chr21 proteins related to Down's syndrome critical region was described in this study. The figure shows localization pattern for four of these proteins. Gene names are shown in the left panel, together with an indication of the protein localization. The middle panel shows nucleus DAPI staining. The scale bar represents 10 μm. In Chr21 trisomic cells, genes are usually over-expressed by 1.5-fold in comparison to diploid cells. There are, however, some exceptions, as described recently [11]. The SH3BGR and KCNE2 genes showed a 2.61-fold and 3.39-fold increase of expression in the kidney and midbrain, respectively, in the Down's syndrome mouse model. In our study, the SH3BGR protein revealed a uniform localization pattern in the cytosol (Fig. 5). As described above, the KCNE2 protein showed a variable distribution pattern, probably due to the differential level of expression in particular cells (Fig. 3A). The abundance of the KCNE2 protein in the PM was lower than that in the lysosome/endosome (Fig. 3A). This abundance-dependent protein localization pattern might be particularly relevant in the case of Chr21 trisomic cells, which over-express the KCNE2 gene. This hypothesis, however, needs further functional evaluation. This study provides comprehensive information on the subcellular distribution of human Chr21 proteins and the physiological effects following over-expression for some of these genes. This cell phenotype-based information should contribute to further understanding of the molecular pathology of Down's syndrome. The study has not been performed in human Chr21 trisomic cells due to difficulties in reverse transfection of primary cells or immortalized primary cells. Nevertheless, the data provided in this report may serve as a reference for comparative studies concerning aberrations of protein localization as a result of trisomy 21. Cellular localization of many Chr21 proteins is described here for the first time. Together with gene expression profiling and in situ hybridization data, knowledge about the protein compartmentalization pattern should contribute to creation of an integrated picture of Chr21 molecular biology. Furthermore, the large-scale localization data obtained in this study support the concept of application of array-based gene expression systems for the evaluation of protein functions on a single-cell level. It shows a versatility of the cell array technology for analysis of gene sets at various levels of genetic information flow. For example, cell arrays allow for parallel gene silencing [39] or cellular localization studies of large gene sets, resulting in cost-effective characterization of protein functions on a genomic scale. The cell array technology applied in this study has some limitations. Currently, only adhesive cells growing as a monolayer can be used for reverse transfection. Moreover, efficient transfection of primary cells such as fibroblasts or macrophages remains a substantial obstacle. Recently published lentivirus-based "reverse transduction" of the cells could dramatically improve DNA delivery into those difficult-to-transfect cells [40]. Taking advantage of wide cellular tropism of the lentiviruses, a variety of cell types could be reverse transfected using a single vector construct. Regarding therapeutic purposes, a cell array-based high-throughput localization platform might facilitate the functional screening of chemical compounds that interfere with the expression and translocation of the proteins involved in a particular disease. We believe that cell array-based, high-throughput screening of large genes sets, based on both gene over-expression and knockdown, will accelerate functional analysis of the vast amount of sequence information that has emerged as a result of genome sequencing projects. Construction of Chr21 ORF plasmid ORF sequences were obtained from the Chr21 gene catalogue [41]. A total of 207 primer pairs were designed using PRIDE software [42] and used to amplify each ORF from cDNA (Human MTC Panels I+II and QUICK-Clone cDNA; Clontech, Heidelberg, Germany) or from public IMAGE or MGC cDNA clones (RZPD, Berlin, Germany). The PCR products were cloned into the pEntry vector pDONR201. We verified the correct identities of the inserts by generation of 5' and 3' ORF sequence tags. In all, 89 cloned ORFs were selected for re-cloning into the Gateway™ mammalian expression vector pDEST26, which carries an amino-terminal His6 fusion tag. For the expression of C-terminal tagged proteins, the ORFs were cloned into the Gateway pDEST-474 vector containing a Myc tag at the C-terminus (kind gift from Dr. Esposito, NCI-Frederick Vector Engineering Group). Such prepared clones were sequenced to confirm the presence of the full length of the insert. Organelle-specific control proteins (kdelr1, pmp22, pmp26, lapC1, laminA and tgn38) were also cloned in the pDEST26 vector. Microarray preparation Before spotting, all purified plasmids were diluted in 0.2% (w/v) gelatin solution to reach final concentrations of 50–100 ng/μl of plasmid and 0.18% gelatin. Depending on the number of plasmid samples in each test, manual spotting or robotic spotting (arrayer from Virtek, Toronto, Canada) was applied to print the plasmid DNA onto standard glass slides coated with poly-L-lysine (Sigma, Munich, Germany). The spotting procedure was carried out using split pins (type SMP4, TeleChem, Sunnyvale, CA) in a hood set at 55% humidity. Each spot was 120 μm in diameter, with a distance of 400 μm between adjacent spots. Each DNA sample was spotted in triplicate. Cell culture and reverse transfection Human HEK293T/17 (ATCC, CRL-11268) cells were cultured in DMEM medium (Invitrogen, Karlsruhe, Germany) supplemented with 10% (v/v) fetal calf serum (Biochrom, Berlin, Germany), L-glutamine (Sigma) and gentamicin (Gibco Invitrogen, Karlsruhe, Germany) at 37°C in a humidified 5% CO2 incubator. One day before transfection, 10 × 106 HEK293T cells per 10-cm dish in 10 ml of medium were seeded out. Prior to transfection, the arrayed slides were covered with Hybriwell (Grace Bio-Labs, Bend, OR) and 190 μl of Effectene transfection reagent (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) was added, as described [3]. After incubation for 25 min, the Hybriwell and transfection reagent were removed and the slides were placed into a QuadriPerm chamber (Greiner, Frickenhausen, Germany). Subsequently, 3.5 × 106 HEK293T cells were added on top of each slide for reverse transfection. Following transfection for a period of 48–72 hours, cells were fixed and subjected to immunofluorescence staining. Recombinant Chr21 proteins were detected with Penta•His Alexa488 or Alexa555 conjugated mouse antibody (Qiagen). For cellular compartment labeling, the mouse antibody against LAMP2 (H4B4 from Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank, Iowa City, IA) for lysosomes, against PDI for ER (Stressgen, San Diego, CA), against adaptin-γ for the Golgi complex (BD Biosciences, Heidelberg, Germany), against α-tubulin for microtubule (Sigma), against vimentin for intermediate filaments (Affinity BioReagents, Golden, CO), rabbit antibodies against prohibitin for mitochondria and against catalyse for peroxisome (Abcam, Cambridge, UK) were used. Rhodamine-labeled phalloidin (Molecular Probes Invitrogen, Karlsruhe, Germany) and 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) (Sigma) were used to stain F-actin and DNA. After fixation with 100% methanol or 3.7% (v/v) paraformaldehyde, the cell array was permeabilized with 0.1% (v/v) Triton X-100 or 0.5% (w/v) saponin and subsequently blocked for 1 hour at room temperature using 5% (w/v) bovine serum albumin or 5% (v/v) normal serum from the host species of the fluophor-labeled antibodies. Cell arrays were incubated with rhodamine-labeled phalloidin or the rabbit primary antibodies together with mouse anti-His antibody. Incubation with secondary antibody was performed with Alexa488-conjugated donkey anti-rabbit IgG antibody (Molecular Probes) or Cy3-conjugated mouse anti-rabbit IgG antibody (Jackson ImmunoResearch, Cambridge, UK). The organelle-specific mouse antibodies were always used before anti-His antibody staining. Secondary staining was performed with Alexa488 or Alexa568 goat anti-mouse IgG antibody (Molecular Probes). After washing with phosphate-buffered saline, the slides were incubated with 20% (v/v) normal mouse serum for 1 hour at room temperature. The fluophor-conjugated anti-His antibody was then added to detect the fusion protein. Each cell array slide was incubated with DAPI before the final washing and mounting with Prolong Gold anti-fade reagent (Molecular Probes). Laser scanning and microscopy To observe Chr21 proteins within each cell cluster, a BioCCD scanning system (Applied Biosystems, Darmstadt, Germany) was used. For cell morphology analysis and protein subcellular localization, ImagerZ1 microscope (Zeiss, Jena, Germany) and LSM510 confocal system (Zeiss) were used, together with Axiovision 4.0 and LSM510 software (Zeiss). 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Human chromosome 21 gene catalogue . http://chr21.molgen.mpg.de/chr21_catalog9.html PRIDE software. http://pride.molgen.mpg.de/pride.html We thank Stefan Wiemann for providing us with pENTRY clones for the KDELR1, PMP22, PMP26, LAPC1, lamin-A and TGN38 control proteins. The H4B4 antibody was a gift from the Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (University of Iowa, IA, USA). We thank Monica Shevack for help in the preparation of Figure 1. The study was supported by the European Commission (integrated project MolTools) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant no 0313068, 01GS0416, 01GR0414, 31P3674). Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195, Berlin, Germany Yu-Hui Hu , Hans-Jörg Warnatz , Dominique Vanhecke , Andrea Fiebitz , Sabine Thamm , Pascal Kahlem , Hans Lehrach , Marie-Laure Yaspo & Michal Janitz FU Berlin, Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, 14195, Berlin, Germany RZPD German Resource Center for Genome Research, 14059, Berlin, Germany Florian Wagner Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Tumor Immunology, Humboldt University, Charite, Berlin, Germany Pascal Kahlem Search for Yu-Hui Hu in: Search for Hans-Jörg Warnatz in: Search for Dominique Vanhecke in: Search for Florian Wagner in: Search for Andrea Fiebitz in: Search for Sabine Thamm in: Search for Pascal Kahlem in: Search for Hans Lehrach in: Search for Marie-Laure Yaspo in: Search for Michal Janitz in: Correspondence to Michal Janitz. Y.H.H. optimized the cell array protocol, performed protein localization studies and was pivotal in writing the manuscript; H.J.W. performed cloning of expression constructs and clone sequencing and contributed to data analysis; D.V. was pivotal in establishment of the transfected-cell array protocol; F.W. was instrumental in optimizations and production of DNA arrays for reverse transfections; A.F. contributed to development of the His6 tag detection protocol; S.T. assisted in maintenance of cell cultures; P.K. was involved in the conceptualization; H.L. is the Head of the Department of Vertebrate Genomics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics. M.L.Y. and M.J. supervised the study and were involved in the conceptualization and writing. Additional File 1: 112 Kb. Data description: Table 1 (DOC 112 KB) Hu, Y., Warnatz, H., Vanhecke, D. et al. Cell array-based intracellular localization screening reveals novel functional features of human chromosome 21 proteins. BMC Genomics 7, 155 (2006) doi:10.1186/1471-2164-7-155 Accepted: 16 June 2006 Localization Pattern MCM3 Protein Reverse Transfection	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13849
__label__wiki	0.624692	0.624692	Cognitive-motor integration deficits in young adult athletes following concussion Jeffrey A. Brown1, Marc Dalecki1,2, Cindy Hughes1,3, Alison K. Macpherson1,3 & Lauren E. Sergio1,2,3,4 BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation volume 7, Article number: 25 (2015) Cite this article The ability to perform visually-guided motor tasks requires the transformation of visual information into programmed motor outputs. When the guiding visual information does not align spatially with the motor output, the brain processes rules to integrate the information for an appropriate motor response. Here, we look at how performance on such tasks is affected in young adult athletes with concussion history. Participants displaced a cursor from a central to peripheral targets on a vertical display by sliding their finger along a touch sensitive screen in one of two spatial planes. The addition of a memory component, along with variations in cursor feedback increased task complexity across conditions. Significant main effects between participants with concussion history and healthy controls without concussion history were observed in timing and accuracy measures. Importantly, the deficits were distinctly more pronounced for participants with concussion history compared to healthy controls, especially when the brain had to control movements having two levels of decoupling between vision and action. A discriminant analysis correctly classified athletes with a history of concussion based on task performance with an accuracy of 94 %, despite the majority of these athletes being rated asymptomatic by current standards. These findings correspond to our previous work with adults at risk of developing dementia, and support the use of cognitive motor integration as an enhanced assessment tool for those who may have mild brain dysfunction. Such a task may provide a more sensitive metric of performance relevant to daily function than what is currently in use, to assist in return to play/work/learn decisions. Concussion can be defined as a rapid onset brain injury leading to short-lived impairment of neurological function that resolves spontaneously [1]. With concussion, function may be interrupted but there is no obvious structural damage to the brain using current structural neuroimaging techniques [2], although recent imaging and behavioral studies have found alterations in both function and anatomy in particular brain regions following concussion [3–5]. Moreover, concerns over the short and long term effects of the concussion suffered by professional athletes have been highly influential in bringing concerns about concussion in sport to the global scale. Recent media attention has focused on the short-term memory loss, headache, and migraine suffered 10–20 years following concussion in sports such as football and hockey [6]. Recent behavioral studies have found up to a five-fold increase in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and earlier onset of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) among retired football athletes [7]. It is also recognized that concussions are cumulative; once one has had a concussion, it is easier to get another one, with symptoms often lasting longer. For example, football players with three concussions were three times as likely to suffer another one relative to a player with no concussion [8, 9]. The neurological reasons underlying this increased vulnerability are poorly understood. While at present the Return to Play or Return to Work protocols are fairly well-established, there remains a lack of robust metrics for use by clinicians to thoroughly assess function following a mild brain injury prior to safe resumption of pre-injury activities [1]. Current neurocognitive testing reports (balance, vestibular, oculomotor, symptoms, neuropsychological tests) measure cognitive and motor abilities separately. However, in daily life, and particularly during many sport activities, there occur several situations where the brain needs to integrate both cognition and movement control concurrently. This rule-based motor performance can occur for example when the brain has to decouple vision from action (e.g., gaze and hand motion are in different directions and spatial locations) [10]. One might argue that if the brain is ‘pushed’ to think and act concurrently following a concussion, there may occur functionally relevant performance deficits, ones which currently used metrics testing cognitive and motor abilities separately do not find. If so, more sensitive performance metrics testing cognitive and motor abilities concurrently could, arguably, reduce the potential for re-injury. Previously, our group has indeed examined rule-based motor performance (“cognitive-motor integration”) in adults affected by age-related mild brain dysfunction [11–14]. Such integration is often required when performing non-standard visuomotor tasks, where a rule is used to align the required motor output to the guiding visual information [15]. A standard task refers to one which involves direct interaction with an object, such as reaching for a coffee cup in front of you; the eye and hand end at the same spatial location. A non-standard task results in different final spatial locations for the eye and hand, such as making a horizontal movement with a computer mouse in order to vertically displace the cursor viewed on the monitor. In our research to date we have observed that reaching and gross motor movements made under congruent, standard conditions are not impaired in early Alzheimer’s disease (eAD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) relative to healthy aging. Significantly, however, we have found that as soon as an element of dissociation is introduced into a reaching task (the guiding visual information is spatially decoupled from the required motor act, such as using a computer mouse or parking a car using a rear-view mirror), eAD performance declines precipitously relative to healthy adults, whose performance also declines but much less so [11, 16]. Our more recent results suggest that adults with MCI, and even healthy adults with a familial dementia risk, also show a decline in performance, albeit less dramatically [12–14]. Thus there appears to be an impaired ability to integrate rules into coordinated motor tasks with the presence of mild brain dysfunction. To date, there has been little research examining the utility of assessing mild brain dysfunction brought on by concussion using cognitive-motor integration [17]. Concussion’s longer term effects on cognitive ability and cognitive-motor integration are poorly understood and not fully characterized. Indeed, there is a limited amount of information on functional problems associated with having a history of concussion. A more sensitive quantification of function post-concussion would in turn assist in return-to-play/work/learn decisions. In the present study, we address this gap in knowledge by studying the performance of university varsity athletes both with a history of concussion and healthy age matched controls without concussion history on a movement coordination task requiring rule integration. Based on our previous work, we hypothesize that cognitive-motor integration is affected in athletes with a history concussion when compared to healthy age-matched controls without concussion history. Specifically we predict that, like older adults at risk for developing dementia, these athletes with concussion history will show degraded movement planning and movement execution performance when there are two or more levels of decoupling between vision and action. To find out, we used in the present study the same cognitive-motor integration task as in our previous work, which has proven to produce valid and reliable data and to be effective at quantifying subtle cognitive-motor integration changes in those at risk of, or in the early stages of dementia [11–13, 16]. Therefore, it was an additional aim of our study to assess the effectiveness of our computer-based task and to find out if we are able to distinguish between participants with concussion history and with no-history of concussion. Here we report that in support of our prediction, athletes with a concussion history - most of whom were asymptomatic by current measures-nevertheless displayed significant performance impairment when required to think and move at the same time. We recruited 18 athletes with a history of concussion (Age: 21.44 ± 4.29 years; 2 female, 16 male) and 17 healthy control participants (Age: 20.44 ± 2.43 years; 9 female, 8 male) for this study. All participants of both groups were recruited from the York Lions varsity sport teams (including football, hockey, rugby, basketball, volleyball, track and field and field hockey) at York University Toronto, ON, Canada. Potential participants were approached during their routine pre-season baseline medical testing, and their concussion history was unknown to the experimenter at the time of testing. The participants were free of neurological conditions excluding concussion history. All participants’ concussions were being managed by the York University Sport Medicine team. Within the concussion history participant group, 13 were asymptomatic and were already progressing through the return to play protocols at the time of testing, and five participants were still symptomatic at the time of testing and had not begun the Return to Play protocols. Details for the participants with a history of concussion are summarized in Table 1. All participants signed a consent form to participate in the experiment, approved by the York University review board. Table 1 Characteristics and concussion incidence for participants with concussion history While performing the experiment, participants were seated at a desk so that they could comfortably reach a laptop computer with two touch-sensitive screens, one in the vertical and one in the horizontal plane (ACER brand computer, Model: Iconia 6120). For all conditions in the experimental task, participants were instructed to slide their index finger along one of the touch screens in order to displace a cursor as quickly and accurately as possible from a central circle to one of four peripheral targets (all 20 mm diameter) that were presented on the vertical screen. The targets were located 75 mm directly to the left, right, above, or below the home target. A yellow home target was presented in the center of the vertical tablet and participants touched the home target (either directly or with the cursor using the horizontal tablet depending on the condition), which then changed to green. After holding the home target for 4000 ms a red peripheral target was presented and the home target disappeared, serving as a ‘go-signal’ for participants to look towards the visual target and slide their finger along the touchscreen in order to direct the cursor to the target. Once the cursor reached the peripheral target and remained for 500 ms, it disappeared and the trial ended. The next trial began with the presentation of the home target after an inter trial interval of 2000 ms. To ensure smooth movement of the finger during the experiment task, participants wore a capacitive-touch glove on their preferred hand. Different experimental conditions with different levels of decoupling of vision and action were used. The decoupling was achieved by either changing the plane on which the finger moved (vertical V, or horizontal H), changing the direction of cursor visual feedback (veridical or 180° rotated R, i.e. to move cursor right, slide finger left.), or inserting a memory delay (M) between target presentation and go signal (cf. Fig. 1a). These conditions were performed in a randomized block design. All combinations of the spatial correspondence, visual feedback, and memory conditions were tested to make seven conditions: V (vertical), VR (vertical rotated), VM (vertical memory delay), VRM (vertical rotated memory delay), H (horizontal), HR (horizontal rotated), and HM (horizontal memory delay). There were a total of 140 trials for each participant (4 directions × 5 trials × 7 conditions). Note that within the seven conditions only V represents a standard visuomotor mapping, where eye and hand movements were congruent in direction and plane. All other conditions required cognitive-motor integration in order to successfully perform a movement where the effector was decoupled from the guiding visual information. In the memory conditions, the target center appeared, and once the participants positioned the cursor in the central target, the peripheral target stayed for 2000 ms, followed by the removal of the peripheral target. The participants had to hold the cursor within the target for an additional 2000 ms and then it disappeared, serving as a go signal to move to the remembered target location. Drawing of experimental conditions and example of typical hand path data. a Schematic drawing of the experimental conditions. Visual stimuli were presented on the vertical monitor for all conditions. Light grey cursor, eye, and hand symbols denote the starting position for each trial (home target). Dark grey eye and hand symbols denote the instructed eye and hand movements for each task. Red circles denote the peripheral (reach) target, presented randomly in one of four locations (left, up, right, down). The dark crosshair denotes the cursor feedback provided during each condition. The open circles denote the cued position before the movement (seen in memory conditions). b Typical hand path data of one participant with concussion history and one participant with no-history of concussion performing the V and HR condition. Note the poorer performance in condition HR compared to V, particularly in the concussed participant Prior to each experimental condition, participants were allowed two practice trials in each direction (i.e., eight practice trials for each condition). Due to the possibility of cervical soft-tissue injury following concussion and the need for portability, eye-tracking was not feasible. Participant’s eye movements were monitored by the experimenter and if incorrect movements were made in the non-standard conditions, participants were reminded to always look towards the target and not at their hand; these trials were excluded from further data analyzing. Data processing and analysis Movement trajectories and timing The custom-written (C++) acquisition software used the touch-screen computer’s internal CPU clock to align the finger’s X-Y screen position to exact sampling times. The sampling rate was approximately 55 Hz. Individual movements paths derived from the cursor location were first low-pass Butterworth filtered at 10Hz (filfilt function, Matlab, Mathworks Inc.). Custom software was then used to generate a computerized velocity profile of each trial’s movement, with movement onset and end being recorded at 10 % peak velocity. These profiles were then verified by visual inspection and corrections were performed when necessary. Reaction time (RT) was calculated as the time interval (milliseconds; ms) between the central target disappearance and the point at which the finger velocity reached 10 % peak velocity. Movement time (MT) was the time (milliseconds; ms) between onset and offset, thereby representing the ‘ballistic’ initial movement without corrective adjustments. Pathlength (PL) was recorded for each trial, and was quantified as the distance (millimeter; mm) between start and the first correction of the initial cursor movement. The constant error (CE, i.e., movement accuracy) was determined as the distance (millimeter; mm) between the average movement endpoint for each target location (∑ x/n, ∑ y/n) and the actual target central location. Variable error (VE, i.e., movement precision), was determined as the distance (millimeter; mm) between the endpoints of the individual movements (σ2) from their mean movement endpoint. Direction reversals and task completion error counts Direction reversals errors (DR) were calculated when there was a deviation of more than ±45° from the line between center of central and peripheral target during the first half of each movement. Failed trials were counted for each condition. Failures were: failure to start trial within 10,000 ms of onset, failure to remain in the central target for 2000 ms (4000 ms M conditions), leaving start < 150 ms after the go signal, leaving the start > 5,000 ms after the go signal, or exceeding the maximum movement time to a target (>10,000 ms). For all dependent variables, main effects of Group (Non-history, Concussion history) and Condition (V, VR, VM, VRM, H, HR, HM) were analyzed using repeated-measures mixed ANOVA. Additionally, initial separate analyses using sex or symptomatic/asymptomatic as a main effect were run. Trials whose value was >2 standard deviations (SDs) away from the mean for a given condition in a given group were considered outliers and removed before statistical analysis. All remaining data were checked for normal distribution (Shapiro-Wilk’s test) and sphericity (Mauchly’s test), and were Greenhouse-Geisser corrected where necessary. Statistical significance levels were set to 0.05, and all analyses were performed using SPSS software (IBM corp.). Level of dissociation We grouped the conditions by ‘level of eye-hand dissociation’ in order to test our hypothesis that performance declines would be significant for only the most decoupled situations. For this analysis, we compared participants’ performance as a function of their change from the most direct condition (no decoupling, standard mapping), similar to our previous studies. Specifically, we subtracted out the result on the V condition from the other six conditions for a given dependent measure. We grouped these six ‘delta’ conditions into 1 level (VM, H, VR) and 2 levels (HM, VRM, HR) of dissociation and performed a repeated-measures mixed ANOVA with the within factor Level (1 level, 2 levels) and the between factor Group (No-history, Concussion history). In order to test if our task was sensitive enough to predict a presence of concussion history based on performance, we performed separate stepwise discriminant analyses testing different combinations of dependent measures between the no-history of concussion and the concussion history group. The two analyses using sex or symptomatic/asymptomatic status as a main effect yielded no significant differences for any dependent variable (all p > 0.05), supporting the decision to merge data across sexes and status. Examples of typical movement trajectories of one subject with concussion history and one subject with no-history of concussion performing the V and HR conditions are presented in Fig. 1b-e. Statistical outcomes of the repeated mixed measures ANOVA for Group (No-history, Concussion history) and Condition (V, VR, VM, VRM, H, HR, HM) and significant pair-wise comparisons are summarized in Table 2, and the according descriptive statistics in Table 3. Table 2 Statistical outcome repeated-measures mixed ANOVA of Group (Concussion history, No-history) and Condition (V, VR, VM, VRM, H, HR, HM) for all dependent variables (RT, MT, PL, CE, VE, DR) Table 3 Descriptive statistics of main repeated-mixed ANOVA for all conditions vand groups (Concussion history, No-history) of all dependent variables (RT, MT, PL, CE, VE, DR) Repeated-measures mixed ANOVA revealed significant effects for RT for both Group (p < 0.01) and Condition (p < 0.001), but not for Group × Condition (p > 0.05). ANOVA yielded a main effect of Group (p < 0.001) and Condition (p < 0.001) for MT and a Group × Condition interaction (p < 0.01). Pair-wise comparisons of Group showed significant differences between no-history and concussion history for RT in condition VR (p < 0.05), VM (p < 0.05), VRM (p < 0.05) and HM (p < 0.01), and for MT in condition V (p < 0.05), VRM (p < 0.001), H (p < 0.05) and HM (p < 0.01). Both performance timing measures, RT and MT increased with increasing task difficulty, and were, across conditions, longer for concussion history participants compared to healthy controls with no-history of concussion (cf. Fig. 2a, b). Mean movement timing and execution values for both groups (Concussion history, No-history) across all experimental conditions. Summarized are variables that showed a significant group effect, for movement timing a reaction time, and b movement time, and for c endpoint precision. Note the impaired movement timing and execution performance for participants with concussion history compared to participants with no-history of concussion. Abbreviations: V = vertical; M = memory; R = rotated feedback, H = horizontal, n.s. = non-significant. Asterisks represent p < 0.05, p < 0.01, p < 0.001. Error bars represent standard error of the mean Performance execution Repeated-measures mixed ANOVA revealed significant effects of PL for Condition (p < 0.01), both not for Group and Group × Condition (both p > 0.05). Repeated-measures mixed ANOVA for CE (i.e. movement accuracy) revealed a main effect of Condition (p < 0.001), but no effects of Group and Group × Condition (both p > 0.05). Repeated-measures mixed ANOVA for VE (i.e. movement precision) revealed a main effect of Condition (p < 0.001), and an interaction between Group × Condition (p < 0.01), but no significant effect of Group (p > 0.05). Pair-wise comparisons showed no significant Group differences of PL for all variables (all p < 0.05), but significant differences between no-history and concussion history group for VE in condition V (p < 0.01), VR (p < 0.01), H (p < 0.001) and HR (p < 0.05). Increasing the task complexity lengthened the pathlength, and had a detrimental effect on endpoint accuracy and precision. Endpoint accuracy (CE) and endpoint precision (VE) decreased both with task difficulty for no-history and concussion history participants, however endpoint precision (VE) was lower for the participants with concussion history (cf. Fig. 2c). Direction reversals, and Task Completion Error Counts Repeated-measures mixed ANOVA for direction reversals revealed no significant effects of Condition, Group or Group × Condition (all p > 0.05). We also did not find any significant group differences in the number of remaining error types (all p > 0.05). Performance as a Function of Level of Dissociation Statistical outcomes of the repeated mixed measures ANOVA for the level of dissociation are summarized in Table 4, and descriptive statistics for all dependent variables of Group and Level are summarized in Table 5. We observed a main effect of Group (No-history, Concussion history) for RT (p < 0.05) and CE (p < 0.05), a main effect of Level (1 level, 2 levels) for MT (p < 0.001), and notably a significant Group × Level interaction for MT (p < 0.001) and VE (p < 0.05). Pair-wise comparisons of Group showed significant differences between no-history and concussion history participants of MT for 2 levels (p < 0.01), of CE for 1 level and 2 levels (both p < 0.05), and of VE for 1 level (p < 0.05). Table 4 Statistical outcome of repeated-measures mixed ANOVA for Level (1 level, 2 levels) and Group (Concussion history, No-history) Table 5 Descriptive statistics of the ANOVA for 1 level and 2 levels of disassociation for both groups (Concussion history, No-history) Most importantly, the change between non-standard-mapping and standard mapping condition for MT increased dramatically in the concussion history group in going from 1 level of dissociation to 2 levels of dissociation, while there was no significant MT increase in no-history control participants’ MT (cf. Fig. 3 and Table. 5). Across groups, the change between non-standard-mapping and standard mapping condition for MT was significant longer in the 2 level (203.743 ± 25.05 ms) than in the 1 level (117.54 ± 18.17 ms) condition. Across levels, the change between non-standard-mapping and standard mapping condition for RT was significantly longer in the concussion history (54.42 ± 12.17 ms) compared to no-history of concussion group (17.17 ± 12.52 ms), and movement accuracy (CE) was significantly less in the concussion history group (4.75 ± 0.68 mm) compared to no-history controls (2.25 ± 0.70 mm). Interestingly, movement precision (VE) showed the opposite effect, increasing from a very small amount (precise) for no-history control participants in the 1 level condition to a much greater amount (imprecise) in the 2 level condition (p < 0.05), an increase not seen for concussion history participants, whose values were in the middle range relative to no-history control performance (cf. Tab. 5). Mean movement time values as a function of dissociation from direct interaction. Movement time (MT), presented as function of 1 level and 2 levels of dissociation between vision and action subtracted from the standard mapping condition (V), for both groups (Concussion history, No-history). Note the prolonged movement time for participants with concussion history compared to no-history participants for two levels of dissociation, but not in one level. Abbreviations: n.s. = non-significant, asterisks represent p < 0.01. Error bars represent standard error of the mean The discriminant analysis performed for the concussion history group demonstrated good separation from the no-history control group. Based on the outcome of the dependent variable analyses, the predictors supplied to the discriminant function classifying concussion history versus no-history control participants were VE and MT in the H condition, and MT in the VRM condition. Using these variables, the outcome of the discriminant analyses showed that our assessment tool was able to discriminate athletes with a history of concussion from athletes with no-history of concussion with an accuracy of 94 % (for details please see Table. 6 and Fig. 4). Table 6 Classification results a,c of stepwise discriminant analyses Stepwise discriminant analysis results. Normal distribution of discriminant scores for No-history (a) and Concussion history (b) participants. Scores are a weighted contribution of dependent variables chosen by the analysis to maximize differentiation between groups. Note the good separation between concussion history and no-history of concussion data points The main aim of this study was to determine whether participants with a history of concussion had deficits in a cognitive-motor integration task when compared to healthy controls without a history of concussion. A second aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of our computer-based task to detect cognitive-motor integration deficits in participants with concussion history, which has proven effective at quantifying subtle cognitive-motor integration changes in those at risk of, or in the early stages of dementia [11–13, 16]. We observed differences in performance on complex visuomotor tasks between varsity-level athletes with a history of concussion and healthy age-matched adults with no-history of concussion. Specifically, participants with a concussion history had difficulty executing visually-guided movements when there was a single level of dissociation between the guiding visual information and the required motor action. In support of our hypothesis, participants with a concussion history also displayed both impaired movement planning and execution when the brain had to control a movement with the highest level of dissociation between vision and action. Notably, our assessment tool was able to discriminate between athletes with a history of concussion – most of whom are asymptomatic by current measures–and athletes with no-history of concussion with 94 % accuracy. Our present findings complement those of our previous studies on adults at-risk (through an MCI diagnosis or family history) for the development of Alzheimer’s disease [12, 13]. While similar behavioural deficits between these otherwise very different groups do not mean the mechanism underlying motor impairment is the same, it does suggest that young athletes with a history of concussion are neurologically fragile, even when they are asymptomatic and in the late period of the return to play/work schedule. A task which ‘pushes the system’ appears to bring out behavioural deficits across a range of mild brain dysfunction. We propose that the present results reflect a problem in the communication between brain regions responsible for planning and executing skilled movement when there is an element of cognition involved. This proposal is based on recent work on brain networks for cognitive-motor integration in both human-and non-human primates [14, 18–24]. In particular, our behavioural results may arise from impairments in parietal-frontal networks as well as communication between cortical and subcortical movement control regions due to cellular damages following concussion. Cellular changes are well known following concussion, with an initial reduction in cerebral blood flow and cerebral glucose utilization followed by membrane depolarization and excess excitatory neurotransmitter release [25–28]. Such changes could lead to problems in ATP metabolism [28] and in long-term potentiation (LTP) of the brain [29–31]. While the long-term effects of subtle hypoxia on brain tissue are not fully understood, it is becoming increasingly clear that oxidative stress may trigger neuropathological processes both local and distal to the site of mild brain contusion, effects which may only manifest themselves months to years later [31]. Indeed, recent studies of brain metabolism in adults with concussion history have found concurrent motor skill deficits and primary motor cortex metabolism abnormalities related to deficits in motor learning [32]. Lingering abnormalities in not only individual brain areas but the pathways between them may thus underly problems in more complex behaviour manifested following concussion. In support of our proposal, imaging and brain function studies have found alterations in both function and anatomy in particular brain regions following concussion. Studies have found increased and more widespread activation of pre-frontal cortex (PFC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and cerebellum for a variety of tasks in concussed versus non-concussed populations [3–5]. These authors suggested that the additional and more elaborate network activations may reflect compensatory mechanisms to accommodate functional and/or structural deficits in the brain’s default networks as a result of concussion. In terms of networks that may relate specifically to cognitive-motor integration, imaging studies have found increased activation in parietal, frontal, as well as cerebellar regions in concussed individuals compared to pre-injury fMRI data, although no cognitive performance deficits were noted [33]. Further, recent anatomical studies have found altered white matter integrity in concussed adolescents, younger adults with concussion history, and older adults with concussion history that involved those pathways connecting frontal and parietal regions [34–37]. These data complement our group’s findings on the crucial role played by such fronto-parietal networks in integrating thought and action [10, 14, 19, 20, 38]. A notable aspect to the group of athletes examined in this study is that the majority of our athletes with a concussion history were classified as “asymptomatic” by current testing standards (computerized cognitive testing alone, balance/coordination testing alone), which suggests that the current testing standards are examining individual brain regions. When one is forced to integrate one's behavior across the traditionally segregated domains of cognition and action, something which athletes and skilled workers are often called upon to do in the course of their actual activities, the integrity of brain connections between regions is likely crucial for successful performance. We suggest that multi-domain tasks such as the one used here are more effective at assessing function prior to a return to activity, in that they allow one to test communication between brain regions needed for the control of complex skilled action. Further studies are needed to better understand the detailed neural mechanisms that are involved in cognitive-motor integration following concussion. These further studies should taking into account number of concussions and aspects of one’s medical history, specifics of the concussive event itself, as well as severity and time since last concussion. The present data suggest that our cognitive-motor integration task is able to sensitively detect concussion-related functional performance changes, important for the safe return to play/work. Additionally, our assessment tool was able to discriminate between athletes with concussion history–most of whom are asymptomatic by current measures–and athletes with no-history of concussion with 94 % accuracy. This type of evaluation in domains crucial for safe performance (e.g. sports, military, industry, rehabilitation settings) represents a clinically efficient approach to concussion recovery assessment. Based on our “level of disassociation” analysis, it is feasible to reduce the experiment conditions used here (i.e., one standard-mapping condition and one non-standard mapping condition requiring two levels of disassociation), to allow a simple, quick assessment tool for the both clinical and field settings. McCrory P, Meeuwisse WH, Aubry M, Cantu RC, Dvořák J, Echemendia RJ, et al. 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Granek J, Pisella L, Stemberger J, Vighetto A, Rossetti Y, Sergio LE. Decoupled visually-guided reaching in optic ataxia: Differences in motor control between canonical and non-canonical orientations in space. PLoS One. 2013;8(12):1–18. The authors gratefully acknowledge Laura Cruz, MD and Tracey Meloche, CATA for their assistance with the athletes, and the York University Lions organization. Funding provided by the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (JB), Canadian Institutes of Health Research operating grant #125915 (LS, AM), and the Donald Sanderson Memorial Trust (LS, AM, CH). School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, 357 Bethune College, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, M3J 1P3, ON, Canada Jeffrey A. Brown , Marc Dalecki , Cindy Hughes , Alison K. Macpherson & Lauren E. Sergio Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, Canada Marc Dalecki York University Sport Medicine Team, York University, Toronto, Canada Cindy Hughes Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada Lauren E. Sergio Search for Jeffrey A. Brown in: Search for Marc Dalecki in: Search for Cindy Hughes in: Search for Alison K. Macpherson in: Search for Lauren E. Sergio in: Correspondence to Lauren E. Sergio. The authors declare that they have no financial or non-financial competing interests in relation to this manuscript. JB carried out the data collection, initial data analysis, and drafted the manuscript. MD contributed to the data analysis and manuscript preparation. CH assisted in study design, data collection, and study coordination. AM assisted with data analysis and manuscript preparation. LS conceived of the study, and participated in its design, data collection, data analysis, and manuscript preparation. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. 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__label__cc	0.518824	0.481176	For Those Who Go in Different Directions: Talking to Cass R. Sunstein When do we need civilizational glue to bind us closer together? When do we need to proactively promote and protect cognitive diversity? When I want to ask such questions, I pose them to Cass R. Sunstein. This present conversation focuses on Sunstein’s book Conformity: The Power of Social Influences. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, where he founded the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. From 2009 to 2012, Sunstein served as the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. His recent books include Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America, The Cost-Benefit Revolution, How Change Happens, and On Freedom. ANDY FITCH: People who have attended American schools and absorbed American popular culture might bring negative connotations to the topic of conformity (itself perhaps a conformist response). So could you first flesh out a basic human impulse to conform — not only in the most regrettable cases of assaults on perceived rival groups and persecution of nonconforming individuals, but also in the more benign sense of an everyday civilizational glue allowing us to assemble some constructive, collaborative conception of what we believe true and what we believe right? CASS R. SUNSTEIN: When people want to know what they should do (like run from a threat, or pack an umbrella, or smile or scowl), they look at what others do. Conformity has two underlying justifications. First, what other people do provides relevant and helpful information. When you see people running out of the open fields, you can infer that a big thunderstorm is coming. And second, conformity helps us get along together. If you do what other people do, all else being equal, this will probably benefit you, by keeping you in their good graces (not always, but often). So if everybody plans to wear formal attire to the party, it benefits your own self-interest to know this in advance, and probably to do the same. Here your book frames itself as offering a description, rather than an evaluation, of conformity. Nonetheless, it does point to foundational problems brought about by conformist thought and behavior. In terms of informational dynamics, conformity can distract us from and deprive us of the information that we most need (both as individuals and as groups) in order to make the best decision. In terms of reputational dynamics, conformity can coax us to free-ride, to come across as cooperative “good sports” rather than selfish standouts — even if maintaining such status requires us to withhold some valuable contribution that could have helped the group achieve better outcomes. So before we get to any specific social, political, legal circumstances, could you speak more generally to why a collectivity might want to support certain types of nonconformity: not solely to protect individual rights per se, but to promote the group’s best interests? Right this book, on balance, does offer a plea for allowing room (a lot of room) for nonconformists. It acknowledges many good reasons for conformity, but ultimately concludes that societies suffer if they don’t create significant protections for those who go in different directions. Many types of groups (a company, a church, a labor union, a White House administration) need the kinds of information that nonconformists provide. A giant Silicon Valley social-media firm needs to allow its people to speak up when they sense a certain policy leading the company down the wrong path. That type of dissent benefits the company. It gives the company a sense of what it might not know. I worked in President Obama’s White House. President Obama insisted on allowing and even encouraging the expression of many competing views. That helped us avoid a lot of mistakes — because sometimes the minority position actually turns out to have it right. Any well-functioning organization establishes norms of openness precisely in order to correct its own leaders’ or its majority’s mistakes. A great commentator on World War Two, Luther Gulick, observed that while many people expected dictatorships to outfight democracies, given the efficiency of top-down chains of command, the reverse ended up happening. Democracies (even within the military) felt freer to correct their mistakes, which provided a big safeguard. And what I personally observed in the White House, and what analysts have observed on a very large scale about World War Two, holds true even for little organizations. If you create a culture of conformity you’ll miss much information that could have prompted midcourse corrections or prevented disasters. In your book’s basic terms, conformity helps to breed stability, and social cascades bring forth change. Yet cascades themselves exemplify certain conformist tendencies. Could you sketch, for instance, the self-amplifying processes by which an information cascade prompts participants to stop relying on their private assessment, and instead to treat other people’s public signals as a reflection of deliberative judgments worth emulating (and, in doing so, to send their own equivalent public signaling — prompting yet more conformists to follow suit)? For one glaring example, the rise of Nazism came about in part through an informational cascade, at a moment when a bunch of Germans didn’t know what to think. Prominent voices told them to support Hitler and to persecute Jews. Many people believed in this cause. But many also went along primarily because signaling from fellow citizens gave a lot of weight to these policies — just by virtue of the numbers. As more supporters then continued to join these groups, the groups just sucked in more and more people. That’s not an example we should applaud. But within the US Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, Martin Luther King had equivalent successes as a norm entrepreneur harnessing a social cascade that brought in millions of people (though still not as many as one might hope). That movement gathered and distributed important information about injustice happening in the US. And as increasing numbers of Americans joined this movement, some of their fellow citizens thought: Well, so many people have joined with King. I probably should do the same. And once they did, you started to have a large swath of not only African American but also Hispanic and white supporters, and it became that much harder to resist the push for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — with the passage of both coming from cascades. More recently, we’ve found ourselves within an information cascade on climate change. The vast majority of us have no expertise in the science. We don’t really grasp many of the details. We have to rely on trusted specialists. But our sense of this crisis and its severity keeps getting multiplied by the increasing numbers of people who seem to agree — sometimes culminating in significant policy change, including in the US under President Obama, or certainly in Germany under Chancellor Merkel, who has made addressing climate change a top priority. To some extent, even China has done so (again, as in the US, not as much as you’d like to see). And for each individual person, the actual increase of knowledge on a given topic might be modest. But at this point, within a matter of days, new information can reach tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens. With #MeToo as well, we’ve seen an accelerating social cascade, with people joining a movement that many previously wouldn’t have elected to join, or wouldn’t have felt comfortable joining — all based on informational signaling they see coming from others. Among conformity’s basic mechanisms, belief polarization also stands out, particularly in our present age of demographically inflected partisan divides. But I find most intriguing in your account of belief polarization the implicit intra-group homogenizing pressures, rather than the explicit inter-group rivalry. So could we take the fact that self-consciously unified social groups tend towards convergent beliefs, that individuals within such groups tend towards increasingly extreme and unflinching beliefs, and could you outline certain ways in which the incredulity, the outrage, the fear that one belief-polarized group feels might come about through its own internal dynamics — as much as through its opponents’ provocations? I’d describe it as even more dynamic than homogenization because, as you said, like-minded people typically push each other towards more extreme perspectives than their pre-deliberation tendencies would have suggested. When you bring together a group of people who think President Trump probably should be removed from office, and these individuals start talking with one another, they’ll likely leave that discussion convinced we should have removed President Trump for sure — yesterday. Or a group of individuals who suspect we probably shouldn’t remove President Trump from office might talk each other into the uniform position that this whole impeachment process is a hoax and a dangerous plot devised by terrible people. In either case, when individuals predisposed to certain beliefs come together, they will typically exchange information that further supports those inclinations. At the same time, they won’t hear many perspectives pushing in opposing directions. They’ll listen to each other, and they’ll end up thinking a more extreme version of what they originally thought. They’ll make the group as a whole more extreme, and they’ll also (even when not starting off as a close-knit group) keep each other in line. They’ll want to stay in each other’s good graces. They’ll shift a bit as individuals to uphold this dominant tendency. You might at first have some right-of-center people who worry a lot about climate change, or who welcome immigration. But they’ll silence themselves or even shift their own beliefs to avoid becoming an outlier or “traitor.” In reference now to how our Constitution might proactively provide for and preserve cognitive diversity, why might 21st-century Americans want to think of our republican (not purely democratic) traditions, our elected officials’ representative deliberation (with its reflective attempt to find the best solution for all, rather than some rigid commitment to the expressed will of a given district’s constituents), our federalism and separation of powers and bicamerality, not just as insulating elite interests from the capricious “mob,” but as protecting all of us from some of the more problematic social influences that this book traces? And with this emphasis on diffused decision-making power taking on less positive connotations (amid, say, present-day concerns of a dysfunctional American vetocracy, in which polarized parties and vested interest-groups have sufficiently gamed the system to ensure that nothing much gets changed), how might you persuade skeptical citizens to maintain faith that democratic decision-making still can offer something closer to an Aristotelian mean than to some schemer’s bait-and-switch? Whether you like President Trump or President Obama or President Bush or President Clinton, our constitutional system historically has safeguarded against developments that many of our citizens would have loathed. Congress needs to pass laws or at least agree to allow certain executive initiatives. The House and Senate have many opportunities to check any especially threatening political movement. Again, it’s no accident that some of Hitler’s first acts as German Chancellor involved eliminating checks and balances. We likewise have a system where our House checks our Senate, and our Senate checks our House, and our president checks Congress, and Congress checks our president. We have courts which can and often do strike down laws and executive policies, both under Republican and Democratic presidents. And if the White House or the Washington apparatus moves in an undesirable direction, the states likewise can counter that. California has taken many significant steps lately on climate policy and environmental protections, providing an important check against White House rollbacks or Washington inaction. You might not agree that climate change deserves the attention California has given it. But you nonetheless might affirm that in a free, diverse nation like ours, Mississippi or Massachusetts or Ohio or California sometimes has to go in its own direction, to safeguard against mistakes from the center. Returning then to how to structure group dynamics to produce the best decisions, how does rewarding group success (rather than rewarding comparative individual advantage) incentivize full disclosure — providing the most complete and accurate and actionable picture? And by contrast, how might rewarding individual conformity produce the opposite? Suppose you have a group deciding whether to create a new product, or to launch a startup, or to go in one policy direction rather than the other. Suppose this group has eight people. If life plays out as it often does, every one of these eight people will have something to contribute. Each individual will possess slightly different information, and have a distinct angle on the overall situation. Though then this group’s leader or most powerful or most credentialed person will indicate a view — and, as a result, the information elicited from all other group members will take on less weight. People will feel a bit frightened of the leader. Or people might assume the leader knows best, even if they should have good reason to think otherwise. I mean, when I worked in the White House, the day after the US Senate confirmed my nomination, I noticed my staff, with so many talented people, acting like I’d suddenly become the wisest person in the room. Obviously, I had not. But when I’d offer even just an initial inclination towards one view, my excellent staff responded with disproportionate enthusiasm to this insufficiently informed provisional statement of conviction. This signal from the group led to my sense that, as the leader, I’d better shut up and let them talk first. So I had to learn that lesson in real time, but a bunch of empirical research also confirms leaders have this power. As a result, influential people in the group often do best by staying as quiet as possible, and creating a culture of receptivity — not just because they want everybody to feel happy and respected (though that helps too), but because they want the group to reach the right decision. To make the best decisions, a group often has to overcome certain conformity pressures. I’ve witnessed this in companies large and small, as well as in governments all across the world. If you can create a culture of receptivity, and can weaken conformity pressures, you tend to get much more valuable input from individual group members. Now, you get a lot of nonsense also. But one actual advantage of conformity pressures comes from how, in a reasonable discussion, foolish or uninformed people will tend to self-silence. That saves everybody time, and prevents distracting tangents. Though it also comes with its own high cost, since even that person who seems foolish once in a while has the freshest and best perspective. If we still have close to 40,000 deaths on US highways, we need to change that. Various people in the Department of Transportation will have their own ideas — some of these quite inconsistent with the views of the department’s leadership. But precisely for this reason, department leadership needs to hear out these qualified but dissenting voices. And to get those voices into this conversation, you need to prevent conformity pressures from stifling the group. Here for one quick indication of conformity’s pervasive impact even on the most insulated decision-making bodies, could you articulate your call for a reasonable diversity of viewpoints on our courts — to ensure that lucid argument, rather than lockstep group membership, wins the day? And why, even among disciplined professionals operating from relatively explicit codified principles, must we remain wary about courts which proceed from preestablished unanimity failing to hold themselves accountable to the law? The striking findings from research I did with a bunch of students, and with some colleagues, show that, on our federal courts, if you put three Democratic appointees together on a three-judge panel, the likelihood that they will produce a stereotypically left-of-center ruling gets crazy high — compared to if you have two Democratic appointees and one Republican appointee (and by the way, we observed exactly the same patterns play out with Republican majorities). Now, what makes this finding so wild is that you of course only need two judges on such a panel to establish the majority opinion. So why would three Democratic appointees show such strongly left-of-center voting patterns, compared to the more moderate patterns of courts with a two-one split? Or you could just ask: how should we go about interpreting the Civil Rights Act of 1964? How should we interpret the Clean Air Act? Well, to start with, the contingent fact of which political party appointed your fellow judges shouldn’t make much difference. Though this turns out to make a massive difference in what courts decide — apparently because two Republican appointees who find themselves seated with a Democratic appointee might hear that Democratic appointee say: “This woman accusing her employer of sexual harassment seems to have made a pretty reasonable argument, and let me tell you why.” But without that kind of dissenting view, you again see, even in our courts, another just amazing case of like-minded people moving to extreme positions when they only talk to each other. We truly didn’t expect to find this with federal judges, who tend to be pretty independent-minded. They’re not young. They have strong and well-tested convictions. And yet even with this impressive group of people, you can better predict their decisions, even on quite ideologically inflected cases (such as civil-rights or criminal cases), based on who’s sitting next to them, rather than which president appointed them. Then for a more benign mode of harnessing such informational and reputational dynamics to socially constructive ends, could you sketch some ways that a society might best deploy the expressive function of law — perhaps less to proclaim the moral superiority of a certain set of values, than to promote the social perception that others obey these laws, and believe them right? Could you give an example of how such norm-management might prove particularly efficient when norm-breaking stands out, and when private enforcement gets legitimated and activated? And could you situate law’s optimized expressive place in society: somewhat ahead of prevailing public views, but not too far ahead as to require substantial reinforcement? For one quick example: during my time in government, President Obama issued an executive order that said federal employees could not text while driving. This kind of safety-first executive order is never easy to enforce. If someone in the State Department texts while driving, this executive order does not specify what will happen to the employee. Instead, this order signals more generally to the federal sector: “We consider it dangerous to text while driving.” And this expressive executive order had equivalent impacts beyond the federal sector. It encouraged and reinforced state-issued laws forbidding texting while driving. The UN Secretary-General soon prohibited employees from texting while driving at an official ceremony. We saw these ripple effects in the US and abroad. When the public trusts the relevant official or institution making such an expressive signal, and when things go your way, this type of gesture can significantly reshape a basic social norm. You still might need more than that. Too many people still text while driving. But ideally, when the commander in chief says “I don’t think you should text while driving,” a lot of people think: Well, I probably shouldn’t do that. For an earlier example, think about norms with buckling your seatbelt. Where we have laws requiring seatbelt buckling, we’ve seen much better results. This doesn’t necessarily mean that police often ticket people who do not buckle. Instead, these laws convey the impression that an expressed norm has taken hold among the public. The norm then becomes increasingly easy to justify. Why should you buckle? Well, you and your loved ones (or even your liked ones, or even your disliked ones) deserve the added safety that comes from buckling. Click It or Ticket might linger as a threat. But the norm probably ends up shaping your behavior more. Similarly, for more conspicuous norm-breaking, say with public-smoking bans, even without any police presence, ordinary citizens themselves now might feel inclined to say: “You know, you shouldn’t smoke here.” Or when the public gets galvanized, as it has with the #MeToo movement, you might see sexual-harassment prohibitions in our civil-rights laws get much more consistently emphasized (though still not yet enough). #MeToo has helped both to shift a norm and to put violations under bright lights. And that second part becomes especially crucial when you factor in all the types of sexual harassment that stop short of physical assault, but that nonetheless prevent people from receiving their fair share of equality and of dignity. Here again the expressive power of civil-rights laws can help draw attention to these unjust situations. So, given these tensions between revelatory political movements and polarizing partisan distortions, to what extent should we assume, regardless of which “side” we find ourselves on today, that its most vigorously professed views derive from dubious intra-group dynamics — as much as from any lucid reasoning? When should we distrust our most committed fellow travelers more than we distrust our sober-argument-asserting rivals? When should all the reasonable people from all sides come together to form their own group? Or why might it better serve society if they distribute themselves as evenly as possible among whatever new tribalisms emerge? Great questions. I wouldn’t expect that if you support the Republican Party and consider the Democratic Party just terrible, you can somehow force yourself to think: I probably should distrust strong voices on my own side more than the Democrats. That sounds psychologically hard to do, and we probably don’t have enough reason to try. But it does help to recognize that you likely support your own team’s policy preferences 10- to 40-percent more than reason alone would recommend, and that this does at times mean you probably end up making the wrong decisions. I definitely would assume that when you restrict yourself to associating with like-minded people, you become your most highly fallible. And I do believe that nonconformists should sometimes band together and build a critical mass. Jonathan Haidt, a social theorist I greatly admire, has helped to found the Heterodox Academy, which questions intellectual orthodoxies in educational settings. I certainly consider that an important project. We need to preserve institutional space to challenge conventional wisdom really on any topic. This doesn’t mean we need to identify as chest-beating nonconformists. It probably works better to think: I will take every issue as it comes, and not try to put it through some filter of affiliation. We already do this well for so many things. When you want to know whether some food preservative is dangerous, you probably don’t just ask your friends for their opinion. You probably think: Well, I’ll look it up on the Internet and see what qualified people have to say. Or when you have some health concern you probably go to a doctor or at least consult credible professional websites, rather than just rely on some implicit group affiliation. And with topics like climate change, or immigration visas, or gun control, that same approach would probably work best. When instead you find yourself just acting in lockstep, you should consider that a warning sign.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13860
__label__wiki	0.853125	0.853125	Dons can set up Pittodrie showdown Enda McElhinney GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - MAY 27: Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes is seen during the William Hill Scottish Cup Final between Celtic and Aberdeen at Hampden Park on May 27, 2017 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images) Aberdeen are in the Scottish capital on Saturday to face Hibs at Easter Road seeking three points that will, in all probability, set up a humdinger with Celtic at Pittodrie under the lights in just over a week. The Dons have matched the champions to date, each recording six wins and two draws from eight Premiership outings. Victory over Hibernian then will set up an explosive tussle between the two best teams in Scotland, with Celtic firmly expected to account for Dundee in Glasgow on Saturday. Given the long unblemished record of Brendan Rodgers’ side, the prospect of a showdown with Aberdeen makes considerable appeal for both neutrals and fans of these clubs alike as it would prove the acid test domestically for Celtic. Of course Aberdeen have a formidable task ahead before that, but they are fancied at 9/5 to take three points at Easter Road. Derek McInnes’ side have won on their previous two trips to Leith, while they also got past Hibs in a Scottish Cup semi-final in April. Aberdeen kept clean sheets in both away league games last month, something would put them well on their way to victory against a leaky Hibs defence. Neil Lennon’s side delivered arguably their best effort of the season last time out in a 2-2 with Celtic at Parkhead, a game where the visitors earned most of the plaudits. Their previous benchmark result, a 3-2 win over Rangers at Ibrox in August, was followed by a four-game winless sequence in the league. Hibs have been the epitome of hot and cold so far this season, with just three wins on the board from eight in the league. Given Aberdeen’s motivation to set up a showdown again Celtic, the visitors are strongly fancied. McDiarmid Park ought to provide a spicy encounter on Friday night when Rangers visit St Johnstone. The rival managers have been exchanging hostilities in the press this week, Saints boss Tommy Wright accusing rival Pedro Caixinha of ‘paranoia’ and lacking respect for his team. Their difference stems from Caixinha’s claim that his team was leaked from within when the clubs met last season, something Wright disputes. Rangers travel to Perth with the sides level on 14 points in the Premiership after eight matches, the visitors ahead on goal difference alone, but the Light Blues have won six of their last seven away games in the league. At 4/7, Rangers can pick up another three points on Friday but it likely won’t be straightforward and the clever play here is in backing both teams to score at 5/6. The remaining value bet in Scotland’s top flight this weekend could be in following Motherwell in their trip to Hamilton. The Steelmen have won in their previous two visits to New Douglas Park and, after a convincing 3-0 home win against Partick Thistle last time out, they now venture to face an Accies side that lost four on the spin and shipped a dozen goals in doing so. At 27/20 to win, Motherwell are capable of obliging in this one. Montherwell Previous articleExpect another sticky day for Toffees Next articleStoke seek to slow Citizens’ charge A keen follower of all things horse racing (both Flat and National Hunt), and a staunch Celtic fan delighted the Bhoys are back on the world map! Blues to edge tight Stamford Bridge contest City to win heavyweight tussle	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13864
__label__cc	0.59093	0.40907	The RAnts of RA Patriotic words, wisdom, and whining. By Shawn K. Hall Today, ironically, we celebrate our independence. Two hundred and forty years ago we cast off a totalitarian government for a long chain of abuses. I’d like to show you how far we’ve come. But first, it’s important to understand what Independence Day is, and what it is not. On the Fourth of July, 1776, we did not create the United States of America. We did not create the behemoth that has become the most corrupt and indefensible nation on the planet. The Declaration did not grant extraordinary authority to an exclusive few while the rest had their liberty, privacy and individuality revoked. It did not preserve the horrors of slavery, religious persecution, and war. These things cannot exist without government, and this Declaration effectively dissolved ours. It’s really telling that last week the UK dissolved their membership with the European Union. Forty years ago fewer than the population of Florida within the UK decided they needed a new master, and two thirds of the population chose the federalism of the EU. After Federalism didn’t work, about the same number of people that voted them in, voted them back out again. For now, at least. Home again, home again. Back here, back then, in the Americas, where we had thrown off our foreign masters and united for our own defense, things were tough for a few years, yet. The ensuing war lasted seven years and took the lives of as many as 75,000 colonials and up to 100,000 others. But that’s a different story. What we’re talking about here is the Declaration. The moment we chose to throw off the chains of imperialism. Below you’ll find the text of the Declaration of Independence, with links throughout to current events demonstrating that while we may have had a brief, 240-year hiatus, we’re in the position Franklin knew was the inevitable result of all Republics in known history. One final note: I’m sick of hearing those who signed the Declaration lumped in with the “Founders”. They didn’t “found” anything, they dissolved their bond with a government that bore them nothing but disrespect, malice and ill will. IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. – Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. – And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. Tags: 911, blog, budget, California, cancer, celebrate, ceremony, Constitution, contributions, court, crime, custody, Declaration of Independence, Democrats, disease, economy, emergency, English, Facebook, family, fire, Florida, flu, freedom, GOP, gov, government, GPS, guns, House, Immigration, Independence Day, Iraq, journalist, law, laws, lawsuit, legislation, liberty, medical, Michigan, murder, nature, news, Obama, Obamacare, Ohio, opinion, police, politics, President, prison, privacy, protest, rant, republic, respect, safety, school, security, Subway, tax, taxes, Texas, theft, threat, training, treatment, UK, United States, video, war, Yahoo, Youtube.com Hail the mighty Salmon Salmon is so good for you and so yummy. Unfortunately, our days of eating Salmon are gone forever. The oceans have become so contaminated that all the fish are dying. I’m heartbroken. We had bought some salmon prior to the Fukushima meltdown. It was double-bagged and kept in the bottom of the freezer. We’ve used a little of it every couple years to wean ourselves off of this amazing food. It’s been five years and it still looks good. I’m amazed. As I post this, we are preparing to smoke it for bagel sandwiches. I used to work in Old Town Sacramento at Laszlo’s Gourmet Smoked Fish. I swear it was the best smoked fish I’ve ever had the pleasure of eating. Since the business is no longer open, I see no reason not to publish the simple recipe: Smoke Salmon Recipe 2 cups Apple Juice (or Apple Cider) ½ pound Brown Sugar You may have to double or triple the recipe based on the amount of fish you’re making. The brine should just cover the fish. Soak the fish in the brine overnight. Smoke in your smoker for at least 6-8 hours. This is the bomb! For bagel sandwiches, spread cream cheese on your favorite toasted bagel. We make ours from scratch. Top with capers, thinly sliced tomato and onion. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. If you were unaware of the damage being done in the Pacific Ocean, check out the links below. SURPRISE! You’re Eating Fukushima Radiation; Bloody Cancerous Tumors in Fish & Seafood My Turn: Fukushima radiation in Pacific reaches West Coast I believe our government is lying to us about the radiation levels in not only the salmon, but other fish as well, and by the time the government warns us about it, the damage will be long done. I would rather take a “let’s wait and see” attitude. If after a few years we don’t see a huge increase in cancer rates, I will start eating salmon again. But wait, aren’t we already seeing an uptick in cancer? Homemade Thai Chili Sauce Sweeten your next barbecue with strawberries Using Apple Cider Vinegar for Herpes State of Morro Bay, California; 4.6 years into the Fukushima meltdown Salmon In Danger: March Against Monsanto San Francisco Categories: Cooking, Medical, Rants Tags: Alaska, Apple cider vinegar, blog, business, California, cancer, favorite, food, Fukushima, government, health, homemade, Laszlo's Gourmet Smoked Fish, Monsanto, Old Town Sacramento, opinion, Pacific Ocean, radiation, recipe, salmon, San Francisco, smoked fish, Smoked Salmon, Tomato, UK, Youtube.com Vaccination Fact vs. Fiction Who are they kidding? The only people that get whooping cough are those that have been vaccinated. This is nothing but brain-washing. “New data suggests that anti-vaccine activists may be influencing a growing number of affluent parents into opting out of immunization shots for their children. Epidemiologist Lolita McDavid with the Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland joins to help discern vaccine facts vs. fiction.” The problem is parents are getting informed and the vaccine manufacturers are losing money. It’s all about the money. They don’t care how many children die, just so long as they make a buck. This is nothing but propaganda. Watch this video and tell me they aren’t doing this on purpose. It’s just not possible. Do your homework! Please your children are depending on you to protect them. Medical Evidence That Vaccines Cause Cancer, Autism, Narcolepsy, Developmental Disorders and Death! 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__label__cc	0.625559	0.374441	Making the Digital Repository at Cambridge Fast(er) For the past month or so I have been working on upgrading the Digital Repository at the University of Cambridge Library from a heavily customised version of DSpace 1.6 to a minimally customised version of DSpace 3. The local customizations were deemed necessary List of commandments from Lev. 9–12; numbered Halakhot 8–18; includes a list of where they appear in Maimonides’ Book of Commandments and the Mishneh Torah, and possibly references to another work. to achieve the performance required to host the 217,000 items and the 4M metadata records in the Digital Repository. DSpace 3 which was releases at the end of November 2012 showed promise in removing the need for many of the local patches. I am happy to report that this has proved to be the case and we are now able to cover all of our local use cases using a stock DSpace release with local customizations and optimizations isolated into an overlay. One problem however remains, performance. The current Digital Repository contains detailed metadata and is focused on preservation of artifacts. Unlike the more popular Digital Library which has generated significant media interest in recent weeks with items like “A 2,000-year-old copy of the 10 Commandments” , the Digital Repository does not yet have significant traffic. That may change in the next few months as the UK government is taking a lead in the Open Access agenda which may prompt the rest of the world to follow. Cambridge, with its leading position in global research will be depositing its output into its Digital Repository. Hence, a primary concern of the upgrade process was to ensure that the Digital Repository could handle the expected increase in traffic driven by Open Access. Some basics DSpace is a Java web application running in Tomcat. Testing Tomcat for a trivial application reveals that it will deliver content at a peak rate of anything up to 6K pages per second. If that rate were sustained for 24h, 518M pages would have been served. Unfortunately traffic is never evenly distributed and applications always add overhead but this gives an idea of the basics. At 1K pages/s 86M pages would be served in 24h. Many real Java webapps are capable of jogging along happily at that rate. Unfortunately DSpace is not. It’s an old code base that has focused on the preservation use case. Many page requests perform heavy database access and the flexible Cocoon based XMLUI is resource intensive. The modified 1.6 instance using a JSP UI delivers pages at 8/s on a moderate 8 core box and the unmodified DSpace 3, using the XMLUI instance a 15/s on a moderate 4 core box. Surprisingly, because the application does not have any web 2.0 functionality to speak of, even at that low level it feels quite nippy as each page is a single request once the page assets (css/js/png etc) are distributed and cached. With the Cambridge Digital Library regularly serving 1M pages per hour, Open Access on the Digital Repository at Cambridge will change that. Overloaded DSpace remains solid and reliable, but slow. Apache Httpd mod_cache to the rescue Fortunately this application is a publishing platform. For anonymous users that data changes very slowly and the number of users that log into the application is low. The DSpace URLs are well structured and predictable with no major abuse of the HTTP standard. Event the search operations backed by Solr are well structured. The current data set of 217K items published as html pages represents about 3.9GB of uncompressed data, less if the responses are stored and delivered gzipped. Consequently configuring Apache HTTPD with mod_cache to cache page responses for anonymous users has a dramatic impact on throughput. A trivial test with Apache Benchmark over 100 concurrent connections indicates a peak throughput of around 19K pages per second. I will leave you to do the rest of the maths. I think network will be the limiting factor. Loosing statistics There are some disadvantages to this approach. Deep within DSpace statistics are recorded. Since the cache will serve most of the content for anon users these statistics no longer make sense. I have misgivings about the way in which the statistics are being collected since if the request is serviced by Cocoon, the access is recorded in a Solr Core by performing an update operation on the core. This is one of the reasons why the throughput is slow, but I also have my doubts that this is a good way of recording statistics. Lucene indexes are often bounded by the cardinality of the index. I worry that over time the Lucene indexes behind the Solr instance recording statistics will overflow available memory. I would have thought, but have no evidence, that recording stats in a Big Data way would be more scalable, and in some ways just as easy for small institutions (ie append only log files, periodically processed with Map Reduce if required). Alternatively, Google Analytics. Gottchas Before you rush off and mod_cache all your slow applications there is one fly in the ointment. To get this to work you have to separate anonymous responses from authenticated responses. You also have to perform that separation based on the request and nothing else, and you have to ensure that your cache never gets polluted, otherwise anonymous users, including a Google spider, will see authenticated responses. There is precious little in an http request that a server can influence. It can set cookies, and change the url. Applications could segment URL space based on the role of the user, but that is ugly from a URI point of view. Suddenly there are 2 URIs pointing to the same resource. Setting a cookies doesn’t work, since the response that would have set the cookie is cached, hopefully without the cookie. The solution that worked for us was segment authenticated requests onto https and leave anon requests on http. Then configure the URL space used to perform authentication such that it would not be cached, and ensure an anon users never accessed https content, and an authenticated user, never accesses http content. The latter restriction ensures no authenticated content ever gets cached and the former ensures that the expected tsunami of anon users doesn’t impact the management of the repository. Much though I would have liked to serve everything over a single protocol on one virtual host the approach is generally applicable to all webapps. I think the key message is, if you can host using Apache Httpd with mod_mem_cache or even the disk version, then there is no need to jump through hoops to use exotic applications stacks. My testing of Dspace 3 was done with Apache HTTPD 2.2 and all the other components running on a single 4 core box probably well past its sell by date. Comments : Comments Off on Making the Digital Repository at Cambridge Fast(er) Tags: Apache HTTP Server, Apache HTTPD, Apache Solr, Digital Library, DSpace, Dspace 3, Open Access, Uniform Resource Locator	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13871
__label__wiki	0.92121	0.92121	A.J. Turner Matt Haarms Sasha Stefanovic Pete Nance Trevion Williams Eric Hunter Jahaad Proctor Sports College basketball Basketball College sports Men's college basketball Men's basketball Men's sports Purdue Big Ten Northwestern SIU-Edwardsville Ohio Valley Purdue tops Northwestern 58-44 in Big Ten opener By MARK AMBROGI - Dec. 08, 2019 08:37 PM EST Northwestern forward Pete Nance (22) drives on Purdue forward Aaron Wheeler (1) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in West Lafayette, Ind., Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. Purdue defeated Northwestern 58-44. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — For Matt Haarms, defense will be the key to Purdue's success. If the Boilermakers have to win ugly, Haarms said so be it. Sasha Stefanovic scored 14 points and Haarms added 12 points to lead Purdue to a 58-44 victory over Northwestern in the Big Ten opener for both teams on Sunday. “The outside shot didn’t go in at all throughout the entire game,” Haarms said. “I think we responded really well after the initial shock of ’none of our shots are falling.’ We knew this was going to be a game where we grind it out on defense. We had stops 10 of the last 11 possessions in the first half and it translated into the second half.” The Boilermakers (6-3) closed the second half with a nice spurt as well. Purdue led 49-42 with 4:01 to go before reeling off nine straight points to take command. Stefanovic scored 10 points in the second half including a 3-pointer that capped the 9-0 run and ignited the crowd. “He had some looks that didn’t go down in the first half,” Purdue coach Matt Painter said of Stefanovic. “At the end of the day, he has a good (stat) line, going 5 of 10 from field and 2 of 5 from 3s and not turning the ball over (in 34 minutes).” For the second consecutive game, the Boilermakers started the 7-foot-3 Haarms and 6-9 Trevion Williams together. Haarms hit 5 of 9 shots and Williams hit 3 of 4 for eight points. “We work together well offensively,” Haarms said. “We know how each other plays. If there is a question defensively, I think I have to do a better job guarding the (power forward).” Jahaad Proctor added 10 points for Purdue, which won its seventh in a row over Northwestern. Haarms, Williams and Eric Hunter Jr. each had seven rebounds as Purdue held a 38-31 edge. Pete Nance led Northwestern (4-4) with 14 points. He was the only Wildcat in double figures. “We played nine guys in this game and five are playing in their first conference game,” Wildcats coach Chris Collins said. Collins described Purdue as one of the toughest places in the conference. “For us to come out and not be rattled, I feel like we’re getting better,” he said. “We have to continue to learn how to win. When we got it to 49-42 after (Miller) Kopp hit a 3, I thought we could maybe steal a game if we got a couple of stops. Give them credit it was 9-2 after that. That’s what winning teams do. They executed and got stops when they needed.” Purdue, which shot 39% overall, held a 22-16 lead after a sluggish first half as both teams suffered long scoring droughts. “I felt like we had some good looks, but we also had some empty possessions,” Painter said. “Give them credit, they had a good start to the game. We’re learning as we go along offensively.” After A.J. Turner hit a 3-pointer to give the Wildcats a 14-13 with 7:44 left before the break, the Wildcats managed just one field goal the rest of the half. Northwestern shot just 27% in the first half and 34% overall. Averaging 12 turnovers a game, Purdue was able to cut that in half with just six. That certainly helped on a slow shooting night. Northwestern committed 12. Northwestern will look to get its offense in gear and avoid another stumble against SIU-Edwardsville. The Wildcats already have suffered disappointing home losses to Merrimack and Radford. Fresh from Wednesday’s 69-40 rout of No. 5 Virginia, Purdue began defense of its Big Ten title with a lackluster shooting performance. Northwestern faces SIU-Edwardsville in a nonconference home game on Sunday. Purdue is at Big Ten opponent Nebraska on Sunday. The Boilermakers follow that with a nonconference game at Ohio on Dec. 17 and No. 24 Butler at the Crossroads Classic in Indianapolis on Dec. 21. More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13873
__label__cc	0.656927	0.343073	Art, Editor's Choice, Photography, Recent The amazing works of Julia Margaret Cameron In 1863, right after her 48th birthday, Julia Margaret Cameron received her first camera as a gift from her daughter and son-in-law with the words, “It may amuse you, Mother, to try to photograph during your solitude at Freshwater.” The gift came at a moment to Cameron when her husband was investigating his family’s failed coffee crop in Caylon, Sri Lanka, when all their sons were grown and their only daughter had married and moved away. Within a year, the mother of six, a deeply religious and well read Cameron became a member of the Photographic Societies of London and Scotland and the camera became far more than an amusement to her: “From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour,” she wrote, “and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.” In her photography, Cameron strove to capture beauty. She wrote, “I longed to arrest all the beauty that came before me and at length the longing has been satisfied.” Favoring lenses that required long exposure times, Cameron enlisted her family, friends and household staff in her activities to capture the qualities of innocence, excellence, piety and passion that made them modern manifestations of classical, religious, and literary figures. She was obsessive about her photography, with subjects sitting for countless exposures as she laboriously coated, exposed, and processed each wet plate. One of her models even left a vivid description of a photographic session with her: “The studio, I remember, was very untidy and very uncomfortable. Mrs. Cameron put a crown on my head and posed me as the heroic queen. … The exposure began. A minute went over and I felt as if I must scream, another minute and the sensation was as if my eyes were coming out of my head; a third, and the back of my neck appeared to be afflicted with palsy; a fourth, and the crown, which was too large, began to slip down my forehead; a fifth—but here I utterly broke down, for Mr. Cameron, who was very aged, and had unconquerable fits of hilarity which always came in the wrong places, began to laugh audibly, and this was too much for my self-possession, and I was obliged to join the dear old gentleman.” Cameron’s works were mostly focused on Impressionism in both look and theory. Unlike most of the artists’ works of her era, which were hugely influenced by Pre-Raphaelite movement. Like many artists, Cameron was not fully understood and appreciated in her lifetime. The Photographic Journal reviewed her submissions to the annual exhibition of the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1865 with a condescension, stating: “Mrs. Cameron exhibits her series of out-of-focus portraits of celebrities. We must give this lady credit for daring originality, but at the expense of all other photographic qualities. A true artist would employ all the resources at his disposal, in whatever branch of art he might practise. In these pictures, all that is good in photography has been neglected and the shortcomings of the art are prominently exhibited. We are sorry to have to speak thus severely on the works of a lady, but we feel compelled to do so in the interest of the art.” But seen with historical look, Cameron worked against photography itself in order to create a great picture is what makes her one of the most important artists and photographers of Victorian Era. Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron Annie my first success by Julia Margaret Cameron Study of Beatrice Cenci by Julia Margaret Cameron I Wait by Julia Margaret Cameron John Herschel by Julia Margaret Cameron Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere by Julia Margaret Cameron Charles Hay Cameron by Julia Margaret Cameron Sadness by Julia Margaret Cameron Beatrice Cenci by Julia Margaret Cameron Photos: Wikimedia Commons communitynap April 30, 2019 August 7, 2019 Art, artist, Photography, UK, woman 8 thoughts on “The amazing works of Julia Margaret Cameron” Michael Scandling says: Thank you for the introduction. I am enthralled. communitynap says: It’s a pleasure. Impressive photos from so long ago… denise421win says: loujen haxm'Yor says: Great photos! Many thanx for sharing. mbrazfieldm says: beautiful pictures thanks for sharing 🙂 Previous Previous post: Maborosi and memory Next Next post: A Young Director and his only film	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13881
__label__cc	0.618615	0.381385	Lakers officially announce Frank Vogel’s coaching staff Ralph Orense The Los Angeles Lakers have officially announced the people who will form Frank Vogel’s coaching staff next season: #Lakers announce the additions to their coaching staff, including Jason Kidd, Lionel Hollions, Mike Penberty, and Quinton Crawford. — Ryan Ward (@RyanWardLA) July 31, 2019 Jason Kidd is the most popular name on Vogel’s staff. He previously had coaching stints with the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks. There have been rumors that Kidd was brought in to be the next head coach if things go haywire with Vogel. Lionel Hollins is known for his stint with the Memphis Grizzlies. He is considered as that franchise’s most successful coach as they improved their win-loss record from 2009-2013. He was an integral part of the team’s Grit and Grind era. Mike Penberthy will serve as the Lakers’ shooting coach. He previously had the same job with the Minnesota Timberwolves and New Orleans Pelicans. Quinton Crawford already worked with Vogel back when he was with the Orlando Magic as head video coordinator and player development coach. Last season, he had the same role with the Charlotte Hornets. Rounding out the Lakers’ coaching staff are Greg St. Jean (player development coach/advance scout), Dru Anthrop (head video coordinator/player development coach), and Jon Pastorek (assistant video coordinator/player development coach of the team.) The new-look Lakers will be looking to contend for a championship next season, and the coaching staff will play a key role in making that happen. They have assembled a collection of great minds, led by Vogel, and they will be partially responsible for the team’s success or demise moving forward. JUST IN: GM Neil Olshey thinks Blazers have ‘most competitive’ roster of his tenure Related Topicsfrank vogelJason KiddLakersLionel Hollins	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13883
__label__wiki	0.912161	0.912161	Chris Paul’s Wake Forest teammate believes Thunder star is ‘misunderstood’ in the NBA Chris Ellis, former teammate of Chris Paul at Wake Forest, believes the new Oklahoma City Thunder guard is “misunderstood” in the NBA. There’s this narrative around the league that Paul rubs teammates the wrong way because of how much he yells and demands excellence. Ellis says Paul is just a fierce competitor who hates losing and wants to win at all costs. “I really feel like the narrative on him, he’s just misunderstood,” Ellis told C.L. Brown of The Athletic. “Anybody with greatness you always hear negative about them because they want to win. I feel like a lot of people in the league don’t understand CP3 because the man wants to win. “They said the same thing about Kobe. He’s one of the greatest point guards in history. The knock against him is that he doesn’t have a ring and he wants it, so on the court he’s pushing people. If you get to know the dude, he’s down to earth.” Chris Paul reportedly didn’t have the best relationship with Blake Griffin and Doc Rivers on the Los Angeles Clippers. Paul supposedly also got into it with Houston Rockets star James Harden last season, although both guys denied anything happened. The Rockets traded Paul to the Thunder this summer in the blockbuster Russell Westbrook trade. It’s going to be interesting to see how players on OKC react to Paul’s leadership style. They will either feed off it or get sick and tired of it. The Thunder will be grooming Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to be the new franchise point guard, but while Paul is on the roster, the two will play together in the backcourt. JUST IN: Thunder guard Chris Paul would yell at upperclassmen as a freshman at Wake Forest Related TopicsChris PaulThunder	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13884
__label__wiki	0.896435	0.896435	Channel Packs Leading across the world Star channels are the preferred choice of the South Asian diaspora and are available on major platforms across the world. Connecting South Asia to the world Powerful stories make a lasting impression. They move us irrespective of race, creed and geographies and this is the reason why Star India’s content has successfully travelled to more than 100 countries across the globe. Powerful stories connect us. We speak through our characters in 8 Indian languages as well as several native languages. We connect with our audiences on a single common theme- we bring out the best in people. It is no wonder that Star Plus UK is the #1 Commercial channel for South Asians and the #1 South Asian channel. Star Plus and Star Asianet are two of the top three channels in the Middle East. Star Plus is also the #1 channel in the US. Star Plus is officially the UK’s No. 1 Asian TV channel. Our selection of channels includes our finest GECs: Star Plus, Star Bharat, Star Utsav and Star Gold – a dedicated Hindi movie channel with English subtitles. Our channels are available in over 10 million UK households, on all leading satellites and cable platforms. Star TV is the leading Hindi GEC network for South Asians in the US, Canada and the Caribbean. Star North America, is one of the largest distributed networks on satellite and cable platforms. Our primary network portfolio includes Star India Plus, Star Bharat, Star India Gold and Movies OK, with English subtitles. Star Jalsha, Star Vijay, Suvarna, Star Pravah, Asianet, Asianet Movies, Asianet Plus, Asianet News, Maa TV, Maa Gold, Maa Movies and Maa Music are also part of our presence in the region. Star Middle East broadcasts 21 leading entertainment channels across the Middle East, Africa and the Indian Ocean. These class-leading channels span across Hindi, Malayalam, Bangla, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. Star Asianet Middle East also broadcasts the region’s favourite Malayalam AM Radio station – Asianet Radio, covering a vast footprint across 6 GCC countries. Viewers have access to entertainment channels spanning music, movies, news and general entertainment – making us the one-stop solution for South Asian Entertainment in the region. As the #1 channel in Bangladesh, a strong Tamil and English viewership in Sri Lanka, and with strong connect with Hindi and Tamil audiences in Singapore and Malaysia, Star International leads the way across Asia Pacific across 14 countries. The contemporary approach to our dramas with a greater focus on stronger roles for women who are surging ahead with a desire to influence and impact the world enables it to cross over cultures and engage with audiences worldwide. They are not just popular in Asia, Europe and the Middle East but also in Turkey and Latin America; markets with strong locally produced content. Know more: http://contentsales.startv.com/ Star India’s globally acclaimed show, ‘Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon’, created history in 2016 when it became the first ever Indian drama series to be aired on Turkish TV; the biggest exporters of drama series in the world. The show not only quadrupled the channel ratings but also made the stars household names across Turkey. This paved the way for more Indian stories to be broadcast on Turkish television. Star India’s interpretation of the literary classic Saraswati Chandra has captivated audiences in Latin America; hitherto an untapped market for Indian dramas. The poignant love story mounted with impressive production has kindled an interest for Indian dramas with partners in Chile investing in marketing efforts to explain Indian culture and traditions. Clearly, an indication of how Indian dramas can influence narratives. For syndication inquiries, contact us at contentinfo@startv.com Inspiring a billion imaginations Life at Star Star Writers Program Legal Terms & Policies (UPDATED) © 2017 Star Imagine more... Pick Your Language Keep me to up to date with Star's latest: Stories Press Releases Published Articles Leaders Speak User Already Present Thanks for subscribing to Star We’re looking forward to keeping you up to date with our latest stories.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13887
__label__cc	0.697591	0.302409	Funding and donations BETA status Funding context Programme of improvements Funding streams Previous project income Proposals? CycleStreets is launching a funding drive to enable routing improvements and a large number of feature requests to be undertaken. Our key target is for £90k to enable funding to pay for two full-time development positions for 18 months, plus smaller miscellaneous funds. With this, we believe the project will then be self-sustaining. By way of brief background, CycleStreets is the UK-wide cycle journey planning system. Users can plan routes from A-B anywhere in the UK, receiving three route solutions (the quietest and fastest routes and a balance between the two). Routes can then be printed or exported to a handlebar-mounted device. A range of new mobile apps, enabling route planning on-the-go are already using our routing services. Over a third-of-a-million routes have been planned on the system, and usage rates are increasing. This amounts to 3.85 million km of route planning, equivalent to cycling round the earth 100 times. CycleStreets is set up on a not-for-profit basis, and is free for people to use. However, this does not mean that it costs nothing to run. Unlike large mapping companies, or the government's Transport Direct project, we do not have large financial backing. All funding so far has come from tiny grants of up to £5k, from pieces of consultancy work, and donations from users of the site. The natural channel for funding should be from national bodies such as Cycling England. But they have an allegiance to the Transport Direct project which, despite its much greater costs, is (we believe) only serving about one-tenth the number of routes as CycleStreets. It is disappointing that so far they have not finally supported a community-run project that is helping break down barriers to getting more people cycling, more often, although we remain in talks, and the data collection aspect of their project is something that OpenStreetMap (and thus CycleStreets) may be able to benefit from. Nonetheless, CycleStreets needs to stand on its own two feet and move to a fully-funded model. CycleStreets does not currently pay full salaries to the core developers, meaning that only limited time for improvements is available. We have to survive and so have other jobs that take up our time. With full-time development staff, CycleStreets could reach its full potential much more quickly. CycleStreets is run on a low-cost basis. We do have neither software licensing costs nor data licensing costs - the data is obtained freely from the excellent OpenStreetMap (OSM) project. Our key requirements are development time, particularly for the core routing engine, and hardware costs (i.e. the webservers which run the site). Primarily: Developers – £90k: This would cover two full-time developers for an 18-month programme of improvements, listed below. In practice we would like to take on a full-time developer, plus two half-time developers. 5% of time would be spent on promotional work, and business and relationship management. A key goal of this position will also be to bring new volunteers on board. Secondarily: Hosting – £15k: This would cover three years of hosting with increased resilience over the current arrangement. Promotional materials – £15k: This would enable us to commission, distribute (and make available for download) a range of promotional material targeted to particular stakeholders/users such as Local Authorities, businesses, schools and related websites. Miscellaneous – £10k: Covering conference costs, accountancy, legal advice, general business expenses, etc. In total, £130k. With 18 months of two full-time-equivalent development roles, we would be able to: Considerably improve the quality of the routing by taking into account more of the knowledge available to an experienced cyclist; Implement turn delays (which would eliminate over-wiggly routes) and turn restrictions; Implement a much wider range of OpenStreetMap street attributes, which will have the welcome side-effect of encouraging collection of that data; Implement waymarkers/via-points (this is one of the most frequently requested enhancements); Speed up the routing to give an almost instant response; Develop the mobile apps and expand these to more platforms; Overhaul the user interface to improve things in line with user requests and developments in technology; Enable other sites to embed the journey planner without our intervention; Rework problematic aspects of the Photomap and turn this into a more useful tool; Create promotional resources (both electronic and paper) to ramp up usage of the system; Move towards automated feedback management that benefits users and OSM more greatly; React much more quickly to the availability of new data; Perhaps move even to live routing (i.e. new OSM data affecting the routing almost instantly); Purge all outstanding bugs and half-finished feature implementations; Investigate/implement adaptive routing (capturing real journeys by users and modifying their routing) and consider other research-based approaches; Potentially move to wider coverage than just the UK – following an increasing number of requests for this; Put in place the model of an open-source project run by a development team. This list is based on themes which continually come through in feedback reports. Although in the longer term, the open-source model of a development team is where we wish to be at, routing work is complex and requires often weeks of solid, concentrated work. This makes it difficult to get volunteers, as they are more likely only to be able to 'dip in' to the code; the latter is useful for a range of smaller improvements, but more limited in terms of our core competency of endeavouring to create world-class cycle routing. We would welcome recommendations of people who could undertake this work, if our funding drive reaches its target. In terms of funding streams we see several potential sources towards our main £90k target: Central government funding (if Cycling England can be persuaded to divert merely 1-2% of its £2.4m cycle journey planner budget); Grant funding (small amounts, from local government); Funding from bike industry initiatives / funds; API fees from SatNav-style mobile apps placing heavier load on the hosting; Branded planners for businesses and organisations (e.g. perhaps with company site locations around a city marked in); Embedded planners for Local Authorities (though we do not wish to rely on this); Consultancy (e.g. CyclingSorted-style sites which facilitate crowd-sourcing of infrastructure problems); User donations (including from wealthier individuals who support our work); Another possibility is a partnership with a major bicycle/retailing firm. Advertising/co-branding is not listed here, as we feel this would weaken the credibility of the site, distract users (by definition, advertising is intended to take users away from the site) and would not raise significant levels of funding. In terms of income prior to this funding drive, the project has obtained: £5k seed funding from Cycling Scotland, for the creation of Edinburgh CycleStreets; £2k contract from Cambridgeshire County Council for Cycling Sorted (below a commercial rate but done as a partnership with Cambridge Cycling Campaign); £3.2k grant from Sustainable City (Cambridge City Council), for a range of improvements; £5k grant from the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund, for the iPhone app and routing speedups; £2k grant from Cycle Cambridge, for mobile development; £1k grant from the Co-operative Community Fund, for hosting purchase; £3k of other consultancy income; Around £1.9k of donations from generous users who like our work; £2.5k from work currently being undertaken but not yet received; Another Local Authority has recently confirmed an order for an embedded journey planner and CyclingSorted-style site. These funds have enabled much to be done, but are not on a scale to enable full-time developers to be taken on for a determined period of 18 months. We are also in talks with two cycling NGOs and one governmental organisation regarding development work. Competition in the sphere of route planning remains likely (and more route-planning availability means more cycling), but we feel that CycleStreets will always have a distinctive (and hopefully large) niche even if/when big players come on the scene. We see CycleStreets as more than just another routing engine, but something with much more added-value. We have taken care to build up a reasonably diverse set of infrastructure (covering journey planning, infrastructure implementing the concept of crowd-sourcing of public infrastructure problem locations, and the ability to add layers to the mapping). And our key asset, detailed understanding and analysis of cyclist preferences, means we will always strive for ever-higher-quality routing. Furthermore, we remain strongly of the view that a system with community roots and good connections to the cycling community will result in the best quality routing. We are hard-working people whose aim is to help get more people cycling, more often. We hope we have already demonstrated that we offer a system for which there is demand. If you can offer funding and share this aim, or have projects we can help with, please do get in touch. CycleStreets is from CycleStreets Ltd, a UK company run on a not-for-profit basis. Company no. 06948959; Company office: CycleStreets Ltd., 80b York Street, Cambridge, CB1 2PY. URL of page: * https://colchester.cyclestreets.net/funding/drive/ Short link: http://cycle.st/funding/drive/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13888
__label__wiki	0.798018	0.798018	EXPERT REVIEWS, RECAPS, AND GALLERIES FOR THE HOTTEST FESTIVALS IN MUSIC AND FILM ALL ACROSS THE WORLD Boiled 'n' Baked at Bonnaroo '10: A CoS Report by Carson O'Shoney,Bruce Matlock and Ernest May on June 15, 2010, 2:37am When you arrive in Manchester, Tennessee, you know youre at Bonnaroo. The heat hits you like a ton of bricks, if those bricks were each tiny little suns. The heat this year was the worst that its been in a long time, even with the near constant threat of rain, which fell on Wednesday to make for a muddy Centeroo. But after nine years, weve come to expect the mud and the heat. Theyre hallmarks of Bonnaroo. And even though some people didn’t expect this year to live up to past years with the so-called sub par lineup and the increased corporate presence Bonnaroo once again proved to be a success. Regardless of the changes that some people cried foul over (losing touch with their roots, exchanging the art of Such n Such with a dance stage, along with the aforementioned corporate presence and lineup), this was still Bonnaroo. It still took hours to get there, it was still unbearably humid, it was still crowded, and it was still an amazing weekend packed with a lot of good music. Its still a beautiful thing to bring people together from all over the world in the name of music on a farm in the middle of Tennessee. And as I watched everyone around me during Stevie Wonders headlining set on Saturday night, I saw people of every different size, shape, age, color, gender and religion singing and dancing in harmony and I thought, This is what its all about. Thats the Bonnaroo spirit. No corporate sponsorships can ever take that away. Fanfarlo The Other Tent, 4:15 p.m. As hordes of people were still stacked on the highway, Fanfarlo opened The Other Stage, their faces gleaming with excitement as they looked out to an early and eager crowd. The deep and wandering voices told the somber but hopeful stories that make up their debut record with the sweet duet of mandolin and guitar adding to the eastern European folk tone of Simon Balthazar. A lulling trumpet and sweet violin highlighted Ghosts intensity. Im a Pilot and The Walls are Coming Down using the same to push up the already solid set, and for that matter the start of the weekend. -E.N. May Photo by E.N. May The Entrance Band This Tent, 4:30 p.m. Some of the most psychedelic music of the weekend kicked off This Tent on Thursday with a bang of bass grooves ready to send the just arriving crowd into their search for acid. Paz Lenchantin, however, is no secret. The only real curiosity here is why she (or anyone else really) isnt singing for this band. Band leader Guy Blakeslee is one hell of a guitar player, and made sure everyone knew it, but when it came time for him to step up to the mic, ears cringed, and to be very Bonnaroo about it, the vibe was compromised. -Bruce Matlock That Tent, 7:00 p.m. As the first big draw of the fest, Local Natives‘ Taylor Rice took full advantage of the still fresh energy coming from those lucky enough to be inside. With soaring harmonies and heavy bashing tribal laced rock, the bare bones Shape Shifter and set closer Sun Hands whipped the crowd into a frenzy with fists in the air screaming along. Theres a lot of power behind a band like this, their set the proof of how being down to earth yet still bad-ass they can be. -E.N. May According to frontman Alan Palomo, being at Bonnaroo was an incredible experience for Neon Indian. Indeed, just less than a year after their debut album was released, the band was already commanding a large crowd on the opening night of one of the biggest festivals in America. Palomo brought along a full live band, and they tore through tracks from Psychic Chasms. The highlights of the set included closer Ephemeral Artery and indie hit Deadbeat Summer, during which four topless and painted ladies joined the band onstage, prancing around in Indian headdresses. They ended their set about 20 minutes early, apparently not realizing they had more time, but even with a shortened set they still got the Bonnaroo crowd dancing early, setting a tone for the rest of the weekend. Carson OShoney Troo Music Lounge, 10:00 p.m. Armed with just an acoustic guitar and his voice, Frank Turner took the stage at the Troo Music Lounge ready to win over those who had just happened to stumble upon that particular stage. After making a joke about using a beer koozie for the first time (In England we have this technology called our hands), the people next to me yelled in a drunken stupor, Who is this guy anyways? Go back to London! But by the end of his hour-long set, these same people were clapping and cheering along with the rest of us. Turners on-stage banter was consistently entertaining; the man is nothing if not a good storyteller whether they’re serious songs or hilarious stories. The set featured some new songs, some a Capella songs, and a volunteer from the crowd was pulled on stage to perform a harmonica solo. Near the end of the set, Turners guitar broke. But Constellations, the band performing after him, came to the rescue and loaned him an electric guitar. Turner claimed that he was not the best with an electric, but he made it work. He brought a ton of energy to his set, which is something to be said for a solo acoustic performer. Carson OShoney The Other Tent, 10:15 p.m. Black River Killer opened Blitzen Trapper‘s set, heavy in cuts from their excellent 2008 record, Furr, and their latest, Destroyer the Void. With those new songs still working themselves out, they played a tightly constructed hour and a half that sounded fantastic, but left much to the imagination. Blitzen Trappers songs have such potential to be built on for the live experience, giving us a turned up version of their modern country stories. Furr, Lady on the Water, and Sleepy Time on the Western Coast gave the audience a chance to sing along, and from off the first record, Wild Mountain Nation took them back to their country roots. Theyre barn burners without a doubt. -E.N. May That Tent, 11:30 p.m. The award for biggest crowd of the night went to The xx. The mass of people extended far beyond the limits of That Tent. The band came out and pleased fans by opening with Intro straight into Crystalised the crowd went nuts when singer Romy Madley Croft sang her first lines. Theyve found a way to recreate the chilly cool of their debut album in a live environment, but dont really change up the pace too much. That same style that works so well on the album doesnt translate into anything particularly exciting live. The band sounded good even though the mix at That Tent was a bit off, and fans who were expecting to hear more or less direct replications of their songs were satisfied, but I left wanting a bit more. Carson OShoney This Tent, 12:00 a.m. Hip-hop is never on time – but dont tell that to Bonnaroo attendees. While they still get excited for hip-hop shows (the crowd was chanting WALE! WALE! for a while before his set), the Kanye West debacle in 08 is never far from their collective mind. There was even still Fuck Kanye graffiti everywhere around the farm this year. But people also understand that sometimes things get a little off schedule at festivals. So by the time 12:15 a.m. came around and there was still no sign of Wale, the crowd was still on his side and ready for him to come out. But around the 22-minutes-late mark, the crowd started to turn, booing and throwing middle fingers at the stage. Around this time, Wales DJ took quick action and played something, which the crowd took to be as intro music, so they started getting excited again. But as the band awkwardly stood around and the DJ played increasingly more random clips of songs (from Biggie to Nirvana to Drowning Pool), it became painfully obvious that he was just stalling for Wale. He even went so far as to play a new Wale song (saying, Yall wanna hear some new Wale? to which the crowd seemed to reply, No, we want Wale.), which seemed all too similar to the Sly Stone fiasco at Coachella. Wale finally came out around 12:30 p.m. and apologized for being late, explaining that he had overslept his nap. Once he started he really wasnt bad. The D.C. rapper and his band played songs from his debut Attention Deficit, along with older favorites like W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E. And while his band sounded good and Wale was on point, for some the damage had already been done. Carson OShoney Friday, June 11th Comedy Theatre, 1:00 p.m. While Conan O’Brien served as What Stage emcee for Friday and Saturday, introducing many of the bands that played the main stage, his only scheduled sets were both in the Bonnaroo Comedy Theatre. The theatre runs on a ticket system, and only holds about a thousand or so people. The demand to see O’Brien was absolutely massive, and the folks at Bonnaroo knew it. But instead of giving him his own set on a main stage, they instead simulcasted his sets so fans could watch at the Lunar Stage or the Cinema Tent. People started lining up to get his tickets at five am on Friday and Saturday, a whole six hours before they started handing them out. The line to watch it in the Cinema Tent was nearly as long, and the crowd at the Lunar Stage was huge as well. I watched from that stage, and the audience participation was just as good there as it seemed to be in the comedy theatre. People were clapping, laughing and responding just like they would if he were actually right in front of them and not on a screen. His set was nothing short of hilarious, lampooning all things Bonnaroo while also dressing up like Eddie Murphy in Raw, inviting friends on stage like Andy Richter and writer Deon Cole, and playing a few songs with his Legally Prohibited Band. Even though most fans couldnt get in to the theatre to see his show in person, everyone left the simulcast satisfied. Carson OShoney If there ever was a time to feel the love it was during Edward Sharpe. Off the bat, they started in with the whistles of Janglin, frontman Alex Ebert not on stage more than a couple minutes before taking to the crowd wide eyed and full of unabashed positivity. 40 Day Dream drew him back to the front row one more time giving the mic to the more than willing participants to help out. It was a beautiful set, filled to the brim with the revelry from their gripping debut record. Peoples arms outstretched to catch the radiating optimism from Ebert and his companions whose smiles and energy never faded. The hours pinnacle came during the love filled story of Home with the spoken word section cutely tweaked for the festival. The song, and the set for that matter, was exactly what you look for, not just in a festival, but in an over all experience. -E.N. May Theres really only one way to follow the revelry of Edward Sharpe, and Dr. Dog blew up the Other Tent with the guitar escalations of Stranger to start. Their sets now are mostly, if not all, based off their past two albums, but given their recorded perfection, the tailored for the stage counter parts went above and beyond. The blow out at the end of The Old Days and later the The Rabbit, The Bat and The Reindeer sent the band and the audience into a frenzy. The soaring harmonies and last verse of Jackie Wants a Black Eye hit the heart hard with a rare stroke of song-writing truth that they make look so easy. Dancing was unavoidable with Mirror Mirror as it hooked in quick, and even funkier on the guitar melody with all muscle on the back end. Shows like this solidify them as a quintessential live experience, and as they brought in the high heat of the day, it couldnt have been any better. -E.N. May After hearing bad things about Zooey Deschanels stage presence as front woman, I tuned my expectations down a bit for my first time seeing her onstage with M. Ward as She & Him. But when she came on stage, my perceptions immediately changed. From the beginning of the first song, she was jumping, dancing and generally seemed to be having a good time. Her voice sounded spot on, while M. Ward played it cool and understated while also cranking out some great guitar lines. The crowd was huge, it seemed that everyone wanted to catch a glimpse of the main attraction, Deschanel. She didnt disappoint, and was just as adorable as ever. The set was comprised of material off their two albums, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, before closing things out with a gorgeous cover of Screamin Jay Hawkins I Put a Spell on You. Carson OShoney What Stage, 6:30 p.m. Photo by Bruce Matlock If you were surprised by even the smallest bit of the Ds show, or didnt get it you simply were not meant to be there. For those well aware of the bands rise, the real surprise here was the skill of their supporting cast. Though Jack Black (JB) and Kyle Gass (KG) did their part wonderfully, when it came down to the music, guitarist John Konesky nearly stole the show. Black riled the crowd up using all of his abilities stating that Kung Fu Panda would be the end of Tenacious D because a Panda is the least metal thing ever, and informing the crowd that they were potentially the biggest they had ever played to. Seriously Mr. Black, everyone knows pandas are the most metal animal on the planet, go back to kicking Satans ass and leave the pandas on screen. -Bruce Matlock Its rare to find a true to rock band that can be bigger than life, yet still genuine in their love of what they do. If there was any doubt that Kings of Leon could be an actual headliner, Friday night’s set squashed it. Theyve worked their way through the festival stages, this year coming full circle for a set that left them, and us, in rock and roll awe. Caleb Followill took celebratory shots while having the self proclaimed night of his life. Walking out to Mozarts Requiem, you could sense this was a personally monumental show for the band. From the first notes of Crawl they floored you, by the solo you were hooked for a night of true to life rock. Older material was tightened up and blown out with brash guitar workouts like Charmer. Going back to their first appearance at the festival, they played the very rare Tranny as a kind of homage to the experience and the love its shown them over the years. A Pixies cover of Where is My Mind surprised as they hit every note, Followills worn voice fitting perfectly with the cult favorite doing it more than justice. As promised, four new songs made the set hinting at what could be in the not so distant future. Few bands capture what the modern rock show is so well, and with this set Kings of Leon further solidified themselves as the heirs to the must see arena rock throne. -E.N. May Daryl Hall & Chromeo The Other Tent, 12:00 a.m. Soft rocker Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates fame) and electro-pop band Chromeo may seem like an odd pairing, but when Chromeo stopped by to perform with Hall in his web series, Live From Daryls House, the results were so good that the folks at Bonnaroo wanted them to come perform together at their festival. It was the first time a pairing from Live at Daryls House had performed outside of the series, and the results were the same. Daryl Halls smooth voice compliments Chromeos electro music perfectly, and vice versa. They sounded great together live, playing off one another like they had been doing it for years. The pair opened with a couple of Hall & Oates songs in one, Dance on Your Knees/Out of Touch before a seamless transition into Chromeos Tenderoni. The large band that accompanied the pair sounded great playing both Halls and Chromeos numbers, which they switched off every few songs. Halls hair was ever-blowing in the wind, and the vibe in the tent was something else. There were smiles all around, and young and old danced together in perfect harmony. Carson OShoney That Tent, 12:00 a.m. Always on time, and ready to make the Tennessee humidity levels raise a few percent due to increased sweat content, the boys from Akron unearthed the same fiery passion found inside all of their early records with fan pleasers, Girl is on My Mind and Stack Shot Billy. For newer songs going back to 2008s Strange Times, the band brought along a touring bassist and keyboardist which does in fact remove some level of the intimate feel the band thrives on live. However, the extras also added an extra dimension to tracks like Same Old Thing and help reproduce the catchiest of new tunes such as Gary Glitter-esque Howlin for You. The band is clearly at their most comfortable, however, as the twosome of Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach. Lets hope this isnt a sign of things to come on future records/tours. -Bruce Matlock The Flaming Lips, ft. Star Death & White Dwarfs Which Stage, 12:00 a.m. If there ever was a moment to witness, this was it. Everyone knows that The Lips‘ reputation for extravagant shows precedes them, but nothing came close to the visual and audio mind warp they planned for Bonnaroo. Opening with a short set of Lips classics like She Dont Use Jelly, W.A.N.D., and the newer Silver Trembling Hands, it was the standard Lips show, hamster ball, confetti guns and all. After a quick half dozen songs, however, they took a break to set up for the big show: Dark Side of the Moon. Photo by Daniel McIver Henry Rollins spoken word introduced the driving guitar line of their take on Speak to Me/Breath, which launched an out of this world menagerie of light and laser. It was an absolute bombardment of the senses, letting up on Money, and hypnotizing on Us and Them. The lasers radiated blues, yellows, and purples into the clouds of smoke bellowing from the stage while the giant video screen interjected with pulsating colors and dancing nudes. Steven Dresden Drozds often odd wail melted right into the vocal solo The Great Gig in the Sky blowing everyone back. After two and a half hours, Eclipse brought everything back to Earth as the band disappeared in a cloud of smoke leaving the kaleidoscoping colors to dance in the sky. It was an incredible night to witness, and one only the Flaming Lips couldve imagined. It was as over the top as the band could possibly be, the experience astounding, and most importantly blew minds. -E.N. May This Tent, 2:30 a.m. Over the past few years, LCD Soundsystem have firmly positioned themselves as one of the best live bands on the planet, and Friday night in This Tent proved to be no exception. Having one of the most popular undercard bands on the lineup scheduled for a set from 2:30 a.m. until four in the morning is a bit of a risk, but one that worked out perfectly. There was really no better time for their brand of Talking Heads-esque electro dance punk. The band sounded as tight as ever, and frontman James Murphy was filled with energy. This Tent turned into a huge rave for party starters like Drunk Girls, Pow Pow and Yeah. They blew the roof off the tent with All My Friends, for my money one of the best performances of the festival. And while the bands setlist this tour has not seen many changes, the crowd still loved each and every song they played, especially Losing My Edge. The set fell right in line with the long history of great late night sets at Bonnaroo. Carson OShoney That Tent, 3:00 a.m. Where else can you see an artist with only one commercially released album play until sunrise? Well as B.o.B aka Bobby Ray put it early Saturday morning, I dont know what time we are supposed to leave this stage, but we will when the sun comes up. Featuring fellow Atlanta rapper Playboy Tre (who came off rather preachy and annoying) the set consisted of countless mixtape tracks as well as a rather fancy cover of MGMTs Kids. Highlights for the marathon also included a heavy rendition of Dont Let Me Fall which lifted the dwindling crowds spirits higher than should be possible at five am, as well as Bet I with its hardcore rap stylings that really just come off comic-like coming from the guy making wishes out of airplanes. –Bruce Matlock Which Stage, 2:30 p.m. By the middle of the day on Saturday, the heat index was pushing past the mid-90s. This is not the ideal scenario to see a Norah Jones concert. I would love to see her in a nice air-conditioned theatre on a nice evening after a fancy dinner with fine wine. But in the heat of the Tennessee sun, in the middle of a smelly and sweat-soaked Bonnaroo crowd? That might be the last place I want to see Norah Jones. Thats not a knock against her; her music is just suited to a different time and place. She came out and played a nice set. She proclaimed that it was her first time at Bonnaroo since the very first one, surely the longest time between sets for a repeat act at Roo. She came out and played guitar with her backing band, playing mostly songs from her most recent album, The Fall, along with covers of Johnny Cash, The Kinks, Tom Waits, and Neil Young. Her voice is still a thing of beauty, and the band sounded great, but in the end I just wished I could of experienced it in a better setting. Carson OShoney Having announced their breakup just a few weeks ago, fans were even more eager to see Isis this time around as it will probably be their last chance. They did not disappoint. Instead of just going through the motions for their last shows, Isis cranked it up and tried to put on a great show for the fans who will undoubtedly miss them. From sweeping, melodic songs to hard, powerful numbers, the band went through all the peaks and valleys that make up their particular brand of hard rock. While they will be missed, all the fans at This Tent seemed grateful to have one last chance to experience their live show. Carson OShoney With little to no relief from the unbearable sun rolling in, The Avett Brothers brought the worn out crowds back to life. Pulling heavily from I and Love and You, The Perfect Space, Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise, and January Wedding stroked the heartstrings, especially when Seth Avett yelled out for life and love on Laundry Room. The clouds rolled in, turning on a light rain that was more than welcome while the sweet strums of Salina played out. As songwriters theyre simple, but being so personal and genuine in that simplicity allows raw emotion to ride along with them, which altogether gave the festival another perfect mid-day set. -E.N. May Jack White has now completed the trifecta. Hes played Bonnaroo with all three of his bands, and hes put on a fantastic show each time. His show with The Dead Weather on Saturday was no different. Bassist Jack Lawrence and guitarist Dean Fertita kept the energy high and the music on pace, while White proved to be more than competent behind the drums. Alison Mosshart is a force of nature on stage. Shes sexually charged with tons of energy; sprawling all over the stage like it was her own. The crowd was into the whole set, but went especially crazy when White decided to come out from behind the drums and take center stage. Sometimes it was just to sing lead vocals, but the highlight of the set came when he was front and center playing the instrument that made him famous, lead guitar. His extended solo during Will There Be Enough Water was a highlight of the entire festival. Its time like these that you wonder why he ever yields the guitar to anyone else. From 2007s solo during Ball & Biscuit (with the White Stripes) to 2008s solo during Blue Veins (with the Raconteurs) to this weekend, White is the king of epic Bonnaroo guitar solos. Carson OShoney Oh Weezer, why do you like to make it so easy to hate on you? While Mr. Cuomo busied himself by being a Troublemaker, the rest of the band performed a rock show. It seemed at times like Cuomo was trying to find any way possible not to perform, everything from ripping apart mics located on the speaker stacks to pulling the wires hanging from the bottom of them. While he was busy being a destructive badass, as someone in the crowd so bro-ishly put it, he allowed everyone else in the band play lead-singer on great sing-alongs of Why Bother? and Dope Nose. Just saying, the band seemed to get along just fine without him. -Bruce Matlock To see a legend perform is incredible, to see Stevie Wonder is a religious experience. All weekend Conan O’Brien had been able to keep a sense of humor for the main-stage he was MCing, but for Stevie, he was speechless with a kind of excitement that can only happen when introducing the modern godfather of soul. With everyone at the festival watching, Wonder walked out with a white keytar tearing into his own introduction. From there it was a night of greatest hits like Superstitious and Higher Ground, throwing in a talk boxing cover of George Clinton’s We Want the Funk that brought down the house. Of all the aging performers, by voice alone Wonder is still in his prime, hitting every note and flourish perfectly. Grape Vine, Signed, Sealed, Delivered, and Dont You Worry About a Thing took us on his 30-year soul train and gave the festival a set that will go down in history. -E.N. May What Stage, 11:30 p.m. Jay-Zs headlining set on Saturday night was nothing short of huge. The stage setup, the band, the crowd, the songs, Jay-Z himself everything about it was just bigger than anything else at Bonnaroo this year, with apologies to Stevie Wonders fantastic set before his. If the title of best rapper alive was ever in question, he put that to rest at his self-proclaimed second home – Bonnaroo. The crowd got excited even when the 10-minute countdown flashed on screen, and went completely insane when Jigga came on stage. He started the set with Run This Town, and after that it was hit after hit after hit. He seemed extremely happy to be there, and to get a shoutout from Stevie Wonder, who said he would be sticking around to experience Jay-Z. He repeatedly said he was having the best week ever, and it showed. He and his band absolutely ripped through cuts from his entire discography barely taking any pause. Jay did stop the show to survey the crowd at one point, pointing out signs, flags, and shirts that people were sporting. He noticed a girl who had on a shirt proclaiming it was her 19th birthday, and Jay had her come on stage, gave her a hug, and led 70 thousand people in singing her happy birthday. I think its safe to say no birthday will beat that. Rumors had swirled throughout the weekend that Beyoncé would show up like she did at Coachella, or that Jack White would come out and they would debut the song the two had worked on at Whites Third Man Records. Alas, neither collaboration happened, but Jay didnt need them. He handled the crowd by his lonesome, and had people bouncing, waving, tossing up diamonds – doing whatever he commanded. He completely commanded the What Stage in a way that I had never seen any Bonnaroo headliner accomplish. From the opening beat of Run This Town to the closing note of Encore, Jay-Z dominated Bonnaroo. It was a triumphant tour-de-force performance that should erase any ill will that Kanye West created in the Bonnaroo community. Carson OShoney The Other Tent, 2:30 a.m. Taken deep from the bowls of hell, raised from their frozen tomb in the arctic, the blood soaked metal spectacle that is GWAR took to the Other Tent and annihilated all within reach. There are tips to know when going to a GWAR show, the most important is to not expect to leave clean, and that you won’t to be the same after. From the second pounding Saddam A Go Go the blood guns came out and unleashed on the first few rows (including yours truly in the photo pit). A disemboweling saw more gore, and in the end, it looked like a zombie massacre. The show, as part of their 25th anniversary tour, was unrelenting in the ways that literally only they could do. These kinds of theatrics dont exist anywhere else. The costumes, blood cannons, and side show antics always go over the top, and even if youre not a metal head, you just have to see it to believe it. -E.N. May Playing an early Sunday set, the pleasantries of Calexico provided an easy wake up for those sticking around. The steel slides floated along with the trumpets, trading licks with guitars, creating a harmonious blend of southwest folk wisdom with American alt-country.Hailing from Arizona, the band’s set took a political tone, with members using the chance to express themselves on the recent immigration fiasco. -E.N. May Coming off of his highest profile gig – hosting the MTV Movie Awards, just last week the demand to see Aziz Ansari was high. As I waited in line, I saw girls with AZ-IZ painted across their face and RAAAAAAAANDY painted down their arms. With the obvious exception of Conan, Ansari was the most in-demand comic at Bonnaroo, and his fans were equally eager to see him. After a great opening set by Chelsea Peretti, Ansari walked out to erupting applause. He was immediately taken back by the fact that there was a sign language translator there signing his show, and warned her that there were plenty of dirty things to come, to which he proceeded to mess with her by saying some dirty things he wanted to see signed. Throughout the set, Ansari would repeat a dirty line if he missed it being signed the first time around, and sometimes the signs were just as funny as the joke themselves. And the jokes were definitely funny. With a set of all new material, he covered a wide range of topics from 50 Cent learning what a grapefruit is to his little cousin Harris having sex with a Cinnabon. After his 45 minute set, he came out and did another 15 minutes of RAAAAAAAANDY, his overly gross but totally hilarious character from Funny People. He completely killed and everyone in the tent left with a smile on their face while quoting their favorite lines, which is exactly what should be happening after any good comedy show. Carson OShoney Starting out right with back to back Creedence, John Fogerty delivered a perfect late afternoon set, dusting off all his classics. Hes another in the line of legends that can still perform like the 70s never ended, way past his prescribed prime. With the words already well ingrained, Have You Ever Seen the Rain and Down in the Corner were perfect for a mid-day sing along. Working through some solo material, Fogerty closed the set with more CCR memories, delivering flawless work on the still fantastic Fortunate Son. Creedence may not be around anymore, but it doesnt mean the music is anywhere close to disappearing. -E.N. May Weens brand of ADD genre-hopping can grate on some people, but their throngs of hardcore devoted fans think otherwise. Love them or hate them, they usually put on a fantastically fun live show. Their last show at Bonnaroo, a two hour plus romp on Saturday afternoon in This Tent in 2007, was a classic which made the expectations high for this year’s show. This time around however, their time was cut to an hour and a half and they were put on the Which Stage, a much less intimate environment as far as Bonnaroo stages go. They werent bad; Voodoo Lady still stands out as one of the best live songs around, but there wasnt much to distinguish it from any other normal Ween set. The setlist was lacking, and the energy wasnt as high as the last go round. All in all, it wasnt a bad show, but compared to their last Bonnaroo show, it was a let down. Carson OShoney As the unofficial festival closer for many, Phoenix came out to see a seemingly endless sprawl of people. Having played just last year in the smallest of the tents, this was a huge moment for the latest of the indie bands to blow up. They knew why they were there too, and excitedly gave fans what they came for, opening with Lisztomania and running through the bulk of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Fences laid down a strong electro pop rock groove that was as smooth as it could ever be. This was a special moment for the band, and they showed it with the energy shooting through Consolation Prize, and the grand finale we all saw coming. With heat lightning lighting up the rising thunderhead above, 1901 exploded over the field. The grinding yet sweet synths gave the festival one last chance to move with frenzied excitement. Seeing this, and feeling the moment, Phoenix took the song a few minutes longer, giving one more reprise of that infectious hook. This was their best moment, and they seized it with everything they had. Let’s hope they get off the road soon and start writing again, though. -E.N. May The last band to play Bonnaroo is a fairly special honor to bestow upon any band. Those brave enough to withstand four long days of 110+ heat index and still be able to withstand the mass of un-showered Zach Galifinakis impersonators want to sit back in the grass, relax, and cool off before heading down Shakedown Street for the last time. This honor is always bestowed upon the jammiest in the land; Phish last year, Widespread Panic numerous times, you get the idea. Dave Matthews and his band of ridiculously capable artists jammed for two and a half hours on what could have been the most musically tense set off the weekend. Certainly there were light moments, but darker songs such as Lying in the Hands of God and Timebomb sounded perfectly fitting as lightning crashed in the background. Though the thunder was long gone, the band closing out with their version of All Along the Watchtower seemed perfectly fitting. Those wandering in the crowd suddenly came to a realization that life is actually anything but a joke, and after the musical wonderland that is Bonnaroo, it was approaching on the horizon all too quickly. -Bruce Matlock Photography by Michael Hurcomb, Bruce Matlock, E.N. May, and Daniel McIver. Late Night Lobotomy (6/14) Album Review: Thieves Like Us – Again and Again	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13892
__label__wiki	0.948358	0.948358	Visit the Editors Guild site Guild – IATSE 700 MPEG Diversity From The National Executive Director Labor Matters This Quarter in Film History My Most Memorable Film Cut/Print Pimp My Bay Tail Pop Op / Edit About CineMontage History of CineMontage HomeAwardsOscar-Worthy Sound Editors Oscar-Worthy Sound Editors February 10, 2019 Awards, Web Exclusives Millie Iatrou, left, and Ai-Ling Lee. by Mel Lambert As on previous occasions, the 91st Academy Awards nominees in the Best Sound Editing category covered a number of noteworthy narratives, from the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, through a biopic of a 1970s rock ensemble, NASA’s first landing on the moon, the importance of remaining mute silent in a post-apocalyptic world, and middle-class life in 1970s Mexico City. The teams that developed the innovative soundtracks for these scenarios are Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker, nominated for Black Panther; John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone, AMPS, for Bohemian Rhapsody; Ai-Ling Lee, CAS, and Mildred Iatrou Morgan for First Man; Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl, MPSE, for A Quiet Place; Sergio Díaz, MPSE, and Skip Lievsay for Roma. Four of these films, with the exception of A Quiet Place, are also Oscar-nominated nominated in the Best Sound Mixing category, with some of these nominated sound editors doing double duty as re-recording mixers. Benjamin A. Burtt. Co-supervising sound editor Burtt, who has also been nominated for an MPSE Effects/Foley Award for Black Panther, recalls that the editorial team was trying to tell a deeper story of Wakanda, as its citizens confront a unique threat. “During the Warrior Falls challenges, we stripped away a lot of the background sounds, and tried to really focus the track on the fight and grappling sounds,” he says. “We were trying to emphasize that these challenges for the throne were raw and primal; not two superheroes going at it.” Prior to the release of Black Panther, the comic-book world of Wakanda was largely unknown to the general public. “We are quickly introduced to their history, culture and traditions,” Burtt continues. “To the rest of the world, they are an undeveloped country that mostly keeps to itself. As the movie unfolds, we come to learn that they possess technology much more advanced than any other nation.” Co-supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Boeddeker, is also an Oscar nominee for sound mixing on Black Panther and is nominated for a CAS Sound Mixing Award and an MPSE Sound Effects/Foley Award for Black Panther. He believes that audiences have certain expectations with any Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. “While we wanted to meet those expectations,” he says, “we really wanted to do something different. Ryan Coogler’s script is such a departure from your typical superhero movie, and we wanted the sound to follow suit. There are plenty of opportunities for exciting sound, but also many chances for sound to play an emotional role — specifically the Ancestral Plane sequences, where emotion is key.” Discussing Wakandan technology, Burtt says, “We found ourselves repeatedly asking, ‘If the technology is so advanced, would it make a sound? Would Wakandans intentionally design something that hummed? Would the Royal Talon Fighters be loud and alert people to their presence or, despite their size and power, were they designed to be silent so they could move around quietly and remain unnoticed?’ We debated often whether some bit of technology would make a sound. Sometimes we settled on ‘Yes,’ other times we settled on ‘Let’s try it with nothing — or at least something very subtle.’” Boeddeker confirms: “We had many discussions with Ryan about what futuristic design would/should be like. The sounds needed to convey a feeling of ‘high tech, but also be pleasant and rooted in traditional African sounds.” On the dialogue side, the native Wakandan language of Xhosa posed its own challenges. “It is a unique and beautiful African language characterized by clicks and pops,” Burtt explains. “Naturally, it is difficult to edit in a language you are unfamiliar with, adding back the important clicks and pops you typically would remove, and seamlessly go back and forth between English and Xhosa. Our dialogue supervisor and other editors did a great job wrangling all the various languages and accents heard throughout the film.” “All aspects of the effects, music and mix were always transitioning back and forth between the royal African influences and a more Western-focused sound,” Boeddeker relates. “For example, the early fights on the waterfall are brutal and aggressive, but rooted in the ancient tradition of battle. There are no high-tech elements, no Vibranium sounds [of a fictional metal used in Marvel comic books] — just the brutality of the fight. But the huge battle at the end of the film is a full-blown futuristic swirl of flying Talon Fighters and futuristic weapons.” John Warhurst. Supervising sound and music editor Warhurst, who is also a BAFTA Nominee for Sound on Bohemian Rhapsody, and has been nominated this year for MPSE Musical and Dialogue/ADR awards, reveals that the editorial team’s overall goal “was to try and make the audience feel as excited as if they were attending the Queen concerts portrayed in the film. We did a lot of work to build up the scale of the huge audiences, and notably Live Aid. We were very fortunate to have opportunities to create concert crowds using a combination of original recordings, a marketing campaign by Fox that invited people to submit recordings of themselves singing along to the song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ and access to Queen’s own recordings of crowds from a back catalog of concerts. That gave us both scale and authenticity.” RELATED POSTS: Oscar Worthy Sound Editors: 2016 Warhurst’s team secured time on a second-unit day with a crowd of 600 to record extras singing Queen songs. “Inspired by Freddie’s ‘Ay-oh’ call and response technique at Live Aid, this crowd was recorded by playing each line of the song through the PA we had on set, and then have the crowd sing it back,” he explains. “Pro Tools sessions were built so this could be done with a rhythm — the crowd singing back the line they had just heard through the PA, and then they would immediately hear the next line. To worldize the music, we also managed to get two hours before one of the Queen concerts to play the concert music from the film through the band’s current PA system in a 20,000-seat arena without an audience.” “Using Blend Audio [a UK-based loop group], we scheduled an exterior space at Shepperton Studios to record our mid-sized crowd,” relates supervising dialogue/ADR editor Hartstone, who is also a BAFTA Nominee for Sound on Bohemian Rhapsody, and has been nominated this year for an MPSE Dialogue/ADR Editing award. “We had approximately 40 actors, who we recorded in groups of eight with headphones. With all these crowd sessions, it was important to always push the group to keep the same level of energy and enthusiasm as real concertgoers; getting them to jump and punch their arms in the air so you can hear the movement in their voices.” During dialogue editorial, she recalls, “One of the biggest challenges was ensuring our Freddie, portrayed by the truly excellent Rami Malek, was believable singing as Freddie Mercury, whose four-octave range is the stuff of legend. Unique to this film, we had three voices to interweave [to create a cohesive and believable vocal track]. Rami did amazing work performing as Freddie, giving absolute authenticity to his physical presence and movements.” In terms of providing an immersive Dolby Atmos experience, a primary concern was the creation of concert crowds. “These tracks were built from many different sound recordings, to create bespoke tracks for each concert, with rich layers of voice, whistles, drums and other stadium crowd sounds,” Warhurst reveals. “For ‘We Will Rock You,’ we had three Pro Tools systems playing back the crowd — musical/ effects and group — probably totaling around 500 tracks. There were around 150 tracks coming from the Music Pro Tools system, with everything stemmed, plus worldized tracks.” Nina-Hartstone. “There were many unique hurdles in the creation of a soundtrack for Bohemian Rhapsody,” Hartstone concludes. “The press conference scene focuses heavily on the build-up of pressure and the intrusions into Freddie’s private life. The picture edit and camerawork put us inside his head; the sound of the incessant, intrusive questions from reporters. This was interwoven with camera flashes and sound design elements [to emphasizing this pressure build up].” Sound designer/supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Lee is also Oscar-nominated for sound mixing on First Man, together with a BAFTA Sound nomination, as well as CAS and MPSE nominations. “First Man was filmed and edited with sound in mind,” she offers, “Picture editor Tom Cross left room in the cockpit sequences, where we can only see what the astronauts see, for sound to illuminate the story. The astronauts react to the intensity and danger created with sound. Sound is used to show not just what you see, but what we want you to feel. In these scenes we crafted an arc where sound transitions from an authentic G-force experience of being strapped to a rocket, to using abstract design such as adding animal vocals, in order to evoke a visceral sense of anxiety felt by the characters. Damien Chazelle also wanted space to have a lonely, chilling effect, so we used shades of quiet, or even extended periods of pure silence.” Ai-Ling Lee. According to supervising sound editor Morgan, who also received BAFTA and MPSE nominations for First Man, “The film uses a lot of radio communication between mission control and the astronauts, many of which are comms from the Gemini and Apollo missions. But for story purposes and clarity we also had to supplement the archival comms with recreations. Much time was spent casting for loop group actors who sounded authentic and of the period, and then editing the performances so that their cadence matched the older comms.” RELATED POSTS: Sync Hole: An ADR Editor's Walk on the Wild Side To portray high velocity throughout the spacecraft’s ascent, “We manipulated the sounds — turbines, metal vibrations, fire whooshes — to perpetually rise in pitch like a music cue, creating a feeling of G-force and danger,” Lee recalls. “It was important to make these scenes uneasy and surprising, by playing with sound dynamics; we’d build to extremely loud moments, then immediately drop into shocking silence. To play into Neil Armstrong’s emotion and anxiety of fighting for control of the spacecraft, we processed animal vocals that were pitch-manipulated and distorted to sound like turbines or fireballs, using sources such as elephant roars, snake hiss, lion growls and even an animal stampede.” The Saturn V portrayed in the film is the world’s most powerful rocket. “To capture the fury and insanity of the Apollo launch,” Lee adds, “we turned to the next most powerful rocket on Earth, and recorded the maiden launch of Space X Falcon Heavy. We set microphones on the launch pad to capture the close-up ignition, as well as the sonic booms for the X15 scene.” To help the audience feel the low-end rumble during launch, “we recorded sound in JPL’s acoustic chamber,” states Lee. “Using nitrogen gas, they blast the chamber used to test hardware components by simulating the acoustics inside a rocket during launch. To capture the extreme low frequencies, we converted a subwoofer speaker into a microphone.” “My biggest challenge was editing Neil Armstrong’s famous words from the moon,” Morgan acknowledges. “Ryan Gosling referenced the original recording and performed the dialogue very close to the way that Armstrong did. Damien and Tom wanted the dialogue to sound exactly like the original, so I edited Ryan’s performance against Neil’s to reproduce the pacing. I combined the futzed air from the original as well as the radio squelches and placed them in the same spots. I used Revoice Pro to tweak a few words and syllables to match Neil. Some people have told me they thought we used Neil Armstrong’s voice, which really pleases me!” Ethan Van der Ryn, left, and Erik Aadahl. Supervising sound editor Aadahl was also Oscar-nominated for sound editing on Argo (2012) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), and is BAFTA nominee for Best Sound on A Quiet Place. He is also up for MPSE Dialogue/ADR and Sound Effects/Foley Awards. He says that actor/director John Krasinski’s film about a family forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing “had sound baked into the DNA of the script; John described it as ‘a central character.’ Sound is deadly; the family we follow has to intimately understand sound to survive.” “One of the unexpected things that we did was to use the sound to put the viewer/listener into the sonic perspective of the characters,” says co-supervising sound editor Van der Ryn, who was also an Oscar nominee for Argo (2012), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), as well as Transformers (2007), and he won the Oscar for his work on for King Kong (2005) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002). This year, for A Quiet Place, he is also BAFTA-nominated for Sound and is up for MPSE Dialogue/ADR and Sound Effects/Foley awards. “We did some subtle things with the sound design to help describe the rules of the world that our characters are living in,” he adds. “This made the audience active participants in the film, and created an extremely immersive and interactive [experience].” “We created a number of sonic points of view that John Krasinski came to call ‘sonic envelopes,’ Aadahl reveals. “The deaf daughter, Regan, played by Millicent Simmonds, who is deaf in real life, uses a cochlear implant. During her close ups and point-of-view shots, we go into her sonic reality, which Millicent described as a ‘low hum.’ Other sonic envelopes include the family’s POV and, of course, the creatures, which have hyper-acute and -sensitive hearing.” As Van der Ryn explains, “The main narrative arc we take is to set up the rules of the world now dominated by alien killing creatures with hyper-sensitive hearing. Sound is initially portrayed as the biggest hindrance to our characters’ survival, as is brutally demonstrated near the opening. As the movie progresses, we start to get hints that maybe sound can also become a weapon for our characters to use against the alien creatures. By the end of the movie this concept is fully comprehended by the deaf daughter.” RELATED POSTS: What Our Members Do: Takako Ishikawa The first big risk with sound occurred on the script level, Aadahl relates. “There is almost no dialogue at all in this story. Or exposition. It’s really unheard of having a studio movie with so little dialogue, and what there is of it whispered. I remember working on a scene in which Regan is testing out a new cochlear implant her father has made for her. We are in her ‘sonic envelope’ — the low-hum and heart pulse that she can hear — and she pulls out the implant. Silence! I remember gasping when we tried it — goosebumps!” “We had to figure out what the alien creatures should sound like,” Van der Ryn adds. “Because they are blind with hyper-sensitive hearing, we thought it would make sense for them to use some sort of echo location, like sonar, to navigate the world searching out their prey. We started playing around with a stun gun we had laying around in the studio, and recorded it zapping against grapes, which, like humans, are good conductors of electricity because they have a fleshy interior encased in a thin skin. We slowed down those sounds and they became the echo-location sounds.” Sergio Diaz. Supervising sound editor/sound designer Diaz, who received his very first Oscar nomination for Roma, says that his biggest challenge while working on the film was “to recreate director Alfonso Cuáron’s memories and explore the cinema experience with an immersive sound design/editing with huge amounts of accurate sounds.” Co-supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Lievsay is also nominated for a Sound Mixing Oscar for his work on Roma; he previously won a the award for Cuáron’s Gravity (2013), and was nominated for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), True Grit (2010) and No Country for Old Men (2007). He also earned a CAS Award nomination this year for Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) and and MPSE Award nominations for Roma. “Alfonso wanted the viewer to be able to smell the atmosphere, morning, noon and night; to feel the day pass almost in real time,” he says. “We jointly decided to use Dolby Atmos to give a 3D quality to the soundtrack — extreme Atmos — everything would pan with the moving camera perspective, just like in real life.” From the film’s very first shot, between the earth and the sky, “All the sound elements should be flowing harmoniously during each sequence.” Diaz says. “There is a thin line between affected and organic sounds; our soundscape was always to preserve the organic sound touching the audiences with subtle, chaotic and silent moments, as we move forward until the sky and the earth appear again in a peaceful resolution. The most remarkable risk to explore was Alfonso’s idea to pan all the dialogue and effects elements around the cinema, so that wherever the camera goes, you’d discover more sound elements in the left and right sides.” Diaz recalls that he invested more than 18 months recording and editing accurate sounds for the film, “starting with the atmospheres [that formed] the basis of my sound design for that period of time,” he says. “Since the actual Mexico’s cacophonic is very noisy, with plenty of cars and less trees/birds, I had the idea to record the city atmospheres on Christmas day of 2016, with no one on the streets. In addition, I recorded all the cars on screen, crowds, vendors, soccer games and more specific sounds outside of the city.” “Sergio can take credit for the thousands of period and location specific sounds that were gathered for Roma,” Lievsay acknowledges. “All sounds needed to be accurate and realistic; many sounds of 1970 Mexico City can still be heard today. Our epic Group ADR session in Mexico City involved over 300 voice actors and we created recordings for every person on camera, each with scripted lines from the filmmaker. These recordings enabled us to extend our 3D panning to the foreground and background extras in each scene.” The re-recording phase was a major experience, Diaz recalls, “since Skip and Craig Henighan connected with the film at such a deep level. The biggest hurdle was the translation of Alfonso’s memories and emotions into our soundscape journey. Apart from the foregoing, the film has no music score; sound design transforms it into a sublime experience for each scene.” “During the past few years, Craig and I had several positive experiences with Dolby Atmos and were very excited to apply such concepts to this type of film,” concludes Lievsay. “We did have a very long final mix lasting eight weeks, during which we had the time to try many approaches and select the best ideas. We learned much about the possibilities of immersive audio.” About Mel Lambert 62 Articles Mel Lambert is intimately involved with production industries on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a 30-year member of the UK’s National Union of Journalists. He can be reached at mel.lambert@content-creators.com. 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involuntary manslaughter conviction, Involvement, Ira Harrison, Ira Harrison: Acts of Joy, Irresponsible Business, is it about politics, is it politics, Is this complaint and ban about politics, Is this complaint and ban about se, Is this complaint and ban about sex, ISBN-10: 1410769232, ISBN-10: 1410769240, ISBN-13: 9781410769237, ISBN-13: 9781410769244, Islam, Isolation, issue, issues, issues that arose, it, it sends the wrong message to impressionable minds, It takes a village to raise a child, it would be nice to see more African American judges behind the judicial bench, it would be nice to see more black faces behind the judicial bench, It's filth, It's filth and it's sickening to me and it's unacceptable to have something like this in the school system, it's important, it's sickening, it's sickening to me, It's Still Time to Stop Blaming the White Man, it's time we cared about how every neighborhood looks and feels to live in, it's unacceptable, Italian nationalist leader, J. 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__label__cc	0.700543	0.299457	WMD: 1998 Colts vs 2010 Rams Posted on August 2, 2010 by Weller Ross This segment of WMD (Weller’s Musing and Divination) came via a suggestion from Bryan, which he mentioned in this post. The suggestion was to compare the 1998 Colts team with the 2010 Rams team. The ’98 season was Peyton Manning’s rookie year with the Colts and this 2010 season is obviously going to be Sam Bradford’s rookie year with the Rams. The Colts were coming off an abysmal 3-13 season that landed them the top pick in the 98 Draft. The Rams are coming off an abysmal 1-15 season that landed them the top pick in the 10 Draft. Colts top receiver, Marvin Harrison was entering his third season and had yet to really put together a great season. Rams top receiver, Donnie Avery is entering his third season and has yet to really put together a great season. It was Colts head coach, Jim Mora’s first year with the team. It’s Rams head coach, Steve Spagnuolo’s second year with the team. The Colts star running back, Marshall Faulk, who was easily the best player on the team, was entering his fifth season and was coming off a good season in which he was able to play in three more games than he had the previous year. The Rams star running back, Steven Jackson, who is easily the best player on the team, is entering his seventh season and is coming off a great season in which he was able to play in three more games than he had the previous year. The Colts had finished dead last in the worst division in the league the previous year. The Rams finished dead last in the worst division in the league last year. Also, when all else failed the Colts had the small bright spot that was their punter, Chris Gardocki. And, when all else fails the Rams have the small bright spot that is their punter, Donnie Jones. Continue reading → Filed under: NFL, WMD \| Tagged: 08, 09, 10, 11, 1997, 1998, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 97, 98, Aaron, Adam, Alcorn, amount, Atogwe, Avery, Bailey, Bajema, Bartell, Bell, Berry, Bertrand, Big 12, Billy, Bowl, Bradford, Brown, Butler, Championship, Chris, Clifton, Colts, compare, corp, Daniel, Darcy, Darell, David, defense, different, Dilger, Donnie, Draft, EG, Eric, Expectation, faulk, Fells, Fendi, First, Flacco, Florida St, Gardocki, Gilyard, Glann, Glenn, Goldberg, Greco, Green, group, Harrison, Heisman, Hoomanawanui, Hope, Illinois, Indianapolis, Indy, Jackson, Jacob, James, jason, Jay, Jerome, Jim, joe, john, johnson, jones, Josh, justin, Ken, King, Larry, Laurent, Laurinaitis, Leeuwenburg, Leonard, Little, Long, losses, Mandarich, Manning, Marcus, Mardy, marshall, Marus, Marvin, McKinney, Meadows, Michael, Mike, Moore, Mora, murphy, national, OJ, Oklahoma, Onobun, overall, Pathon, Peyton, pick, Pollard, pro, quarterback, Rams, Realistic, Robinson, Rodger, Ronald, Rookie, Ryan, Saffold, Sam, Scott, SEC, similar, Small, Smith, Sooners, South Florida, Spagnuolo, St Louis, state, Steve, Steven, STL, success, Tarik, Tennessee, Tony, Torrance, Vanderjagt, Victor Adeyanju, Vobora, Vols, Volunteers, Wins, WMD, Young \| 16 Comments »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13901
__label__wiki	0.67147	0.67147	Design of FRET Probes for SNP RS1006737, Related to Mood Disorder Germano Orrù1, 2, , Mauro Giovanni Carta3, Alessia Bramanti4 1 Department of Surgical Sciences, Molecular Biology Service (MBS), University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy 2 National Research Council of Italy, ISPA, Sassari, Italy 3 Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy 4 Istituto di Scienze Applicate e Sistemi Intelligenti, ISASI, Messina, Italy Publisher Id: CPEMH-14-53 Revision Received Date: 29/01/2018 Electronic publication date: 28/02/2018 Abstract HTML Views: 1726 ePub Downloads: 736 © 2018 Orrù et al. open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Germano Orrù Ph.D, via Ospedale 54, 09124 Cagliari, Italy; Tel: +39 070 609-2568; E-mail: orru@unica.it Several studies have shown that the Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) in the CACAN1C gene, rs1006737, is related to different mood disorder illnesses, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Current day molecular procedures for allele detection of this gene can be very expensive and time consuming. Hence, a sensitive and specific molecular procedure for detecting these mutations in a large number of subjects is desirable, especially for research groups who have no complex laboratory equipment. The possibility of using a Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) probe was evaluated by means of bioinformatic tools, designed for forecasting the molecular behavior of DNA probes used in the research field or for laboratory analysis methods. In this study we used the DINAMelt Web Server to predict the Tms of FRET oligo in the presence of the A and/or G allele in rs1006737. The PCR primers were designed by using oligo 4 and oligo 6 primer analysis software, The molecular probe described in this study detected a Tm difference of 5-6°C between alleles A and G in rs1006737, which also showed good discrimination for a heterozygous profile for this genomic region. Although in silico studies represent a relatively new avenue of inquiry, they have now started to be used to predict how a molecular probe interacts with its biological target, reducing the time and costs of molecular test tuning. The results of this study seem promising for further laboratory tests on allele detection in rs1006737 region. Keywords: Mood disorders, Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), CACNA1C gene, RS1006737, FRET probes, Real time PCR. View Abstract Download PDF Download ePub Although the laboratory molecular approach in Mood Disorders (MD) has currently no clear diagnostic value, the need for its use in an “omics comprehension” of this illness has become more and more obvious. In fact, MD and also bipolar disorders and sub-threshold mania conditions are regulated in the patient by multifactorial, genetic and epigenetic factors [1-3], in which transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and environmental conditions work closely together at disease onset and during its progression [4]. This is the context in which it is hoped that further integration of these techniques will yield a more comprehensive understanding of mood disease etiology and its biological pathways. In recent years, the use of Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) has provided an extensive investigation of genomes in healthy and sick patients and these results could thus prove promising in the future for an extensive comprehension of BD-associated genetic features [5, 6]. Research carried out on a very large human population has highlighted numerous genetic variants/mutations in both coding and in non-coding gene regions. Some of these appear promising for suggesting a significant association between MD and DNA changes [7, 8]. This work only focuses on a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) located in the CACNA1C gene (rs1006737), which is one of the most studied and replicated mutations associated to mood disorders. We are aware that this is an arguable choice, but a study of all the mutations in the candidate genes reported so far is beyond the scope of this article. In fact, the aim of this work is the valuation in silico of a molecular probe able to detect in a short time the allelic variations previously described in rs1006737 as regards the risk of MD for this genic region. 1.1. CACNA1C Function and Gene Structure This gene, located in chromosome 12, encodes an alpha-1 subunit of a voltage-dependent calcium channel that mediates the influx of calcium ions into the cell, upon membrane polarization. It consists of 24 segments positioned in a cell transmembrane space, able to form a pore for calcium transfer. This molecular structure is responsible for calcium influx in response to membrane depolarization, thereby regulating different intracellular processes such as neurotransmission and gene expression in many different cells and neurons. This activity results as being essential for coupling electrical signals on the cell surface to physiological events in the cells [9, 10]. The complete calcium channel is structured as a complex of alpha-1, alpha-2/delta, beta, and gamma subunits in a 1:1:1:1 ratio. As has been previously described in other publications, an alternative splicing also exists that results in numerous transcript variants which encode different proteins, but no such products result for functional ion channel subunits [11]. In the gene sequence corresponding to GenBank accession n. NG_008801, CACAN1C takes up a region of 728,273 bp and 51 exons Fig. (1). In variant 4, the mRNA is about 13500 bp long (Gen Bank accession NM_001129830), Fig. (1). 1.2. Risk Allele RS1006737 To date, this variant represents the most cited and studied genetic risk for bipolar disorders, but it also confers a risk of recurrent major depression and schizophrenia [12-18]. As shown in Fig. (1), the SNP is located in the intronic region of CACNA1C, Fig. (1). The A allele is thought to be a risk factor and various studies have shown its odds ratio as ranging between 1.18-1.07 [19-21]. Some researchers have hypothesized that this variant is able to influence gene expression, and others have demonstrated an effective variation of CACNA1C mRNA in post-mortem brain studies. The frequency of this allele appears to be strictly correlated to the ethnic origin of the analyzed population, for example, about 54% in African descent while 5% in the Asian population. Moreover, different discrepancies exist as regards the interpretation of molecular data in the clinical findings, which is also due to the result of these allelic differences in different ethnical groups and an admixture of these in some countries, e.g. in the USA population. Thus, some researchers have found no effects, while others have reported a significant reduction in cognitive function [16, 22, 23], but only in individuals who carried the homozygous A allele. Due to the lack of clinical specificity, such controversies require further and extensive studies, and in particular, this nucleotide profile could be detected by faster, less expensive molecular procedures than those used in current molecular analysis. In light of these facts, we thus performed an in silico study to investigate the suitability of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) technology for use in DNA probes to detect G-A variants in rs1006737 in human samples. 1.3. Usefulness of FRET Probes for Allelic Profile Analysis FRET phenomena are observable when two dye molecules are in close proximity (about 1-5 nucleotides apart), and in this condition, due to an energy transfer from one molecule (donor) to the other (acceptor), the latter may show instability with photon emission [24]. FRET technology has been used to investigate a variety of biological phenomena that produce changes in molecular proximity, such as nucleotide variations in a DNA fragment [25-27]. FRET dyes could be applicable in DNA probes structured as shown in Fig. (2). Two fluorophores are bound in 2 different DNA fragments that are complementary to the DNA sequence under study, the first one in the 3' position of the fragment and the second one in the 5' position of the other adjacent oligonucleotide. These dyes were chosen so that the emission spectrum of one significantly overlaps with the excitation spectrum of the other. During FRET, the donor fluorophore, excited by a light source, transfers its energy to an acceptor fluorophore when positioned in the direct vicinity of the former, thus the probe system consists of two oligonucleotides labeled with two different fluorescent dyes. During a PCR reaction, the oligonucleotides hybridize to complementary regions of the DNA target and the fluorophores, which are coupled to the oligonucleotides, are in close proximity, Fig. (2). The donor fluorophore (F1) is excited by an external light source from the PCR thermocycler and then passes part of its energy to the adjacent acceptor fluorophore (F2). The latter dye emits light at a different wavelength which can then be detected and measured by a PCR machine. This technique can be applied to genotype variants in rs1006737 by using melting curve procedures during the PCR reaction and the subsequent melting temperature by the melting peak interpretation, which is now evaluable by means of online tools such as the DINAMelt program [28]. Fig (1). Position of rs 1006737 in the CACAN1C gene associated to mood disorders, following recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS)[53]. Fig (2). Schematic representation of FRET probe structure and the possible melting peak array with rs1006737 alleles. 2. METHODOLOGY We analyzed the CACNA1C 480 bp fragment corresponding to GenBank accession n. NG_008801 (from nucleotide 270121 to 27600) indicating the normal allele (G), Fig. (1). This DNA sequence was analyzed by using the “mfold Web Server” tools available on line from the RNA Institute (University at Albany, State University of New York), http://www.albany.edu/rna/. The folding of the sequence was studied to avoid the presence of high energy DNA loops able to interfere with FRET probe positioning during the PCR reaction [29]. Subsequently, DINAMelt was used to design the probe and to study the prediction of the melting temperatures (Tms) in the presence of the different rs1006737 alleles G and A. Fig (3). Sequence and structure of the FRET system valuated in this study. The typical ROCHE Dye, Fluorescein and LC 640, are indicated in the figure, PHO - phosphate. The graph represents the tendency curve indicating the donor probe length and Tm differences between the A and G variants in rs1006737. 2.1. Tm Prediction and Probe Structure The range of Tm events depends on different conditions: (i) probe length, (ii) GC% content, (iii) the molar concentration of monovalent cations, (iv) steric hindrance of the fluorophore bound to the oligo [26]. The DINAMelt tool was used with chemical and physical parameters for a PCR reaction ([Na]= 50 mM and [Mg] = 2 mM). The temperature range was set from 50°C to 100°C. The theoretical concentration of the probes was 20 µM [27, 28]. The Tm values compared to the length of the acceptor probe for both alleles A and G has been evaluated, they are shown in Fig. (3). 2.2. PCR Design We designed a real time PCR reaction by using the Oligo 6 and Oligo 4 programs (Med.Probe, Oslo, Norway) as described in other publications [30-47]. Some authors have reported real time PCR procedures, by using TaqMan probes, to detect rs1006737 SNP in the CACNA1C gene [48]. This molecular probe consists of an oligonucleotide with a fluorescent reporter at one end, and a fluorescence quencher molecule at the opposite end of the probe. The proximity of these fluorophores prevents the emission of fluorescence, but the hydrolyzation of the probe, caused by the 5' to 3' exonuclease activity of the Taq polymerase during the PCR reaction, releases the reporter and thus allows fluorescence emission. Although this procedure is easy to use and has been indicated by many authors for genotyping, other molecular works carried out with reconstruction experiments, have demonstrated its limited use in terms of accurate discrimination in SNP detection, especially as far as heterozygotes are concerned. In fact, this condition has proved to be a problematic point in PCR based genotyping, in this case with the AG allele. An alternative method in rs1006737 genotyping with greater specificity/selectivity could be to use a molecular procedure based on FRET probes. In comparison with traditional or recent molecular methods, such as RFLP or DNA sequencing procedures, this approach resulted as being faster, less expensive, simpler and accurate [49]. In FRET technologies classic Dye chemistry are composed from fluorescein isothiocyanate (F1) at 3′ end of upstream probe, while the downstream probe (acceptor) is labeled with the fluorophore Red 640 (F2), Fig. (2), and (3). A single G-A variation can be detected in rs1006737 because the nucleotide change in the DNA target destabilize binding of the acceptor probe and, hence, cause a characteristic decrease in the melting temperature (Tm). In the PCR apparatus this result is displayed by a melting peak shift, by monitoring the F2 fluorescence during sampling heating, Fig. (4). Our work, which was exclusively performed in silico, has indicated a good possibility of allelic discrimination for this gene region by melting temperatures evaluation. Fig (4). In silico forecast analysis for the allelic discrimination between A and G alleles for SNP rs1006737 by using FRET probes in real time PCR after melting curve real time PCR protocol. Fig. (3) summarizes results from studies that have sought to detect the differences between melting temperature Tms in the presence of the G or A allele in SNP rs1006737 as compared to the respective nucleotide length of the acceptor probe. In accordance with the data obtained by the DINAMelt program, the optimal length was assessed at 16 nucleotides when the ΔTm resulted as being 5°C, a value which could be sufficient to discriminate between the two allelic profiles. In particular this approach it may be able detect the allele A, which has been indicated as a risk in bipolar disorders and Schizophrenia [50]. In our previous works we have assessed that the maximum difference in Tm between: (i) theoretical and (ii) real values, using real time PCR procedures by using different FRET probes, corresponds to 0.5°C max [25, 26], in these publications, we also noted that a good rate of sensitivity/specificity of this method was observed with two rounds of DNA amplification [51]. In fact Table (1) indicates the theoretical PCR oligos designed for a nested PCR suitable for this FRET SNP detection. Fig. (4) shows the melting peaks obtained with DINAMelt, simulating a PCR platform such as a LightCycler (Roche). The mutation analysis by Next Generation Sequencing or by real time PCR with TaqMan probes are a widely used method to differentiate A and G allele in SNP rs1006737. However in comparison with proposed FRET method the first one is a relatively time-consuming and many expensive procedure (about 100-200 fold higher) and it require a high minimum number of samples for to be cost efficiency [52]. TaqMan could be unable to distinguish the presence of both G-A alleles with errors in specificity and selectivity (heterozygous profile) [51]. Table 1. Oligonucleotides designed for a nested real time PCR for rs1006737. Oligo Name Sequence 5'-3' Length (nt) NG_008801 OG644F GGCTTCAGAGTCCACTTGGC 20 270271 OG645R TGGGCACATTCAAACCTGAA 20 270410 OG646F CAAAGTCTTGCTATCAATTACATA 24. 270296 OG647R CTGAGAGACACTGTGAGGTC 20 270380 OG648Fam CATTCCATCTCAGCCCFam 16 270325 OG649R640 Red640AAGTGTTTTCAGAGCCPHO 16 270342 Note: 644-645 = external PCR, amplicon length = 140 bp 646-647 = internal PCR, amplicon length = 85 bp Theoretical annealing temp. = 50°C for both reactions. Thus, this procedure could be achievable within a molecular procedure able to detect the nucleotide variation in rs1006737 by means of a fast-real time PCR laboratory protocol. Although the implications of our results are theoretical, we are able to assert that FRET probes could be employed in laboratory tests for the detection of rs1006737 alleles, for example, by using patient’s saliva DNA. In further studies, it could be interesting to evaluate whether other SNPs in CACANA1C, or in other MD-related genes, are detectable by different FRET oligos. This could be a molecular model for a non-expensive routine procedure for multiple MD-related SNPs, which have already been described in clinical studies with more complex molecular analyses, such as those using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). 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__label__cc	0.624018	0.375982	If your browser doesn't automatically go there within a few seconds, you may want to go to inkbox.com manually. 10 Tattoos That Will Awaken the Force Within Would you consider yourself a Jedi or Sith? Well technically you don’t have to commit to one or another, so does that mean Star Wars and inkbox have something in common? Whether you’re a new fan to the franchise or a long-time devotee, we’ve got the perfect Star Wars tattoos to take your fandom to the next level! Finn is the nickname of FN-2187, a born stormtrooper that was purposed to serve the First Order. Until he was awakened and his conscience drove him down a more heroic path. The stormtroopers represented the ultimate evolution of the clone troopers, the soldiers who fought on the Galactic Republic’s side against the Confederacy of Independent Systems in the Clone Wars. The Jedi Order was all about peace until the Clone Wars. Their symbol of wings and what looks like shining lights represents their role and beliefs. During the rise of the Galactic Empire, Boba gained a reputation as one of the galaxy’s deadliest bounty hunters. His distinctive armor helped keep stories about the Mandalorians alive after the Empire’s domination of the planet Mandalore. Artoo Resourceful and spunky, this droid has developed a somewhat adventurous personality during many decades of operation. It’s a slippery slope to turn from the Light to the Dark side. This tattoo reflects both the Rebel Alliance and the Imperial Empire, which side will you choose? This tattoo is named after Wedge Antilles, a rebel pilot Star Wars. He survived the attack on the first Death Star to become a respected veteran of Rogue Squadron. Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. The TIE fighter is the unforgettable symbol of the Imperial fleet. They are single pilot vehicles designed for fast-paced dogfights with Rebel X-wings and other star fighters. People might think you’re a ‘hunk of junk’ but we know you’re braver than you think. We have more Star Wars themed tattoos if you're still browsing for the perfect one, or if you're looking for a more specific Star Wars tattoo why not create one? Head on over to our custom platform to customize your own personalized tattoo! - Cindy Tran	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13906
__label__wiki	0.550324	0.550324	When Hygiene Affects School Attendance Kids who don’t feel clean sometimes stay home from school out of embarrassment On the RoadShelley Callahan \| October 29, 2018 In the northern part of Pike County, Kentucky lies the Belfry community, which pertains to the Thacker Coalfield. Years ago, there were active mines there; but today, the mines are no longer worked, and many parents of our sponsored and unsponsored kids have found themselves scrambling to find jobs – none of which pay as well as working in the mines did. Most available employment is in the service industry, such as at convenience marts and fast food restaurants for minimum wage – which means that many families have less money than they used to, and that they have to make hard decisions about which basic necessities to buy for their children. In considering their needs, important hygiene products are often overlooked. A very devoted coordinator Pat with one of our sponsored children at Belfry High School On a recent trip to Pike County, our Director of U.S. Programs, Renée Kube, was warmly greeted by our long-term Volunteer Coordinator at Belfry High School, Pat. Formerly our coordinator at Runyon Elementary School, Pat has seen the value of our sponsorship program over many years. She explained to Renée that when she moved from the elementary school to the high school, working with older kids was a big adjustment for her, because they have a lot more issues and insecurities than younger students. She is now thriving as our coordinator, and she finds herself very devoted to and protective of the teenagers she supports through the school’s Family Resource Center. Belfry High School is the largest in the county, with an enrollment of 648 students in grades nine through twelve. The building was constructed in 2005 between the communities of Belfry and Goody; the former high school building became another affiliated project of ours, Belfry Middle School. While they met in the resource center, Pat shared with Renée that her budget has been cut drastically over the past few school years. Pat has tirelessly sought community partnerships to provide for her students; one that she acquired is with a small local realty company that donated a few new coats for the holiday season. Pat says she doesn’t know what she would do without the Children Incorporated program, which she feels is vital in helping the most impoverished students at the school, who would otherwise not receive any assistance at all. For both boys and girls, hygiene is about more than just health and well-being – when kids feel clean, they also feel confident, and their self-esteem is raised. Keeping kids confident Beyond clothing and school supplies, Pat’s greatest need is for hygiene items, which families are not legally able to purchase with food stamps. Additionally, when parents and guardians need to pay bills and buy food, deodorant and soap can be low on their priority lists; kids, therefore, might go without them. These items are essential for students as they grow – especially for high school students – because without them, children feel like they don’t fit in with other kids. As a result, they may skip school out of embarrassment. Pat told Renée that it is especially important that she be able to provide sanitary supplies for her female students on a regular basis, because it makes a huge difference in the girls’ attendance. For both boys and girls, hygiene is about more than just health and well-being – when kids feel clean, they also feel confident, and their self-esteem is raised. It is important for kids to feel good about themselves, because only then can they concentrate on obtaining an education and doing well in school, rather than be concerned about whether their hygiene is up to par with that of their classmates. Thankfully, adolescents enrolled in our program at Belfry High School have their sponsors’ monthly support to help them receive the hygiene items they so greatly need. HOW DO I SPONSOR A CHILD IN KENTUCKY? You can sponsor a child in Kentucky in one of two ways: call our office at 1-800-538-5381 and speak with one of our staff members, or email us at sponsorship@children-inc.org. October 29, 2018 Story Series, Kentucky written by Shelley Callahan Shelley is the Director of Development for Children Incorporated. She is also the lead social correspondent, regularly contributing insights and observations on site conditions and sponsorship impact around the world. Sign up for her On the Road updates and follow the conversation at #CIOntheRoad. » more of Shelley's stories Subscribe to On the Road More from On the Road 25 Years in Pike County Children Incorporated celebrates two and a half decades of work in Pike County with a coordinators’ breakfast Art for the Soul and the Mind Our coordinator at Belfry Elementary School in Kentucky wants to use art to help children in need Businesses Supporting Students At Pike County Central High School, kids are receiving extra help, thanks to local businesses	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13908
__label__wiki	0.696971	0.696971	Home RSS Feed IN AP News FANTASY PLAYS: A closer still widely available on waivers FANTASY PLAYS: A closer still widely available on waivers Minnesota Twins relief pitcher Trevor Hildenberger, right, and catcher Williams Astudillo celebrate after the Twins defeated the Cleveland Indians 4-3 in a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) As we head into the final weeks of the fantasy baseball season we must continue to work the waiver wire as rosters expand after September 1. Many of the prospects that will get promoted have already seen some big league action. However, it’s still important to monitor their progress and determine if they can help improve your team. There’s still plenty of talent on league waiver wires. We’ll identify players who can steal bases, and we’ll also introduce you to a closer who’s owned in less than 25 percent of fantasy leagues. PLAYERS TO PICK UP LUIS URIAS, 2B/SS, San Diego Padres (23 percent owned in CBSSports.com leagues) – Urias will be batting close to the top of the Padres lineup as their starting second baseman for the rest of the season. Urias can hit for average, as his .306 career minor league batting average suggests, and he could also potentially help you in the stolen base category. AMED ROSARIO, SS, New York Mets (45 percent) – Rosario is another infielder who can provide a boost in batting average and stolen bases. He got off to a slow start but is batting .329 with five stolen bases in his last 19 games. ROMAN QUINN, OF, Philadelphia Phillies (6 percent) – Quinn has stolen at least 30 bases in five different minor league seasons and he’s been a fixture in the Phillies lineup for the past few weeks. He’s batting .369 and has a .388 OBP in 27 games for the Phillies this season. TREVOR HILDENBERGER RP, Minnesota Twins (22 percent) – It isn’t often that fantasy baseball players can find a closer on the waiver wire this late in the season, but since Aug. 11, Hildenberger has notched a win and converted all five of his save opportunities. TWO-START PITCHERS TO STREAM MATT HARVEY, SP, Cincinnati Reds (50 percent) – Harvey has a 3.18 ERA and has struck out 24 batters over his last 23 IP. He has favorable matchups against the Pirates and Padres next week. JOEY LUCCHESI, SP, San Diego Padres (53 percent) – Lucchesi’s ERA is actually better when he pitches on the road (2.89 on the road vs. 3.97 home ERA). He’s a strikeout pitcher who has road matchups next week against the Diamondbacks and Reds. JAKOB JUNIS, SP, Kansas City Royals (40 percent) – Junis has a 2.32 ERA in his last five starts, striking out 33 batters in 31 innings while walking just five. He takes on the Indians and later has a winnable start against the Twins next week. HITTERS TO STREAM COLIN MORAN 1B/3B, Pittsburgh Pirates (17 percent) – Moran has been getting consistent at bats and he’s made them count. He’s batting .333 over the past two weeks. He takes on the Braves to start the weekend but finishes next week with a juicy matchup against the Reds, against whom he’s batted .317 with three home runs on the season. MIKIE MAHTOOK, OF, Detroit Tigers (1 percent) – Baseball fans sometimes forget that Mahtook was a first round pick in baseball’s 2011 amateur draft. He’s got skills and is batting .360 over his last seven games. He ends next week with a three-game set against a soft White Sox pitching staff. JOEY WENDLE 2B/OF, Tampa Bay Rays (28 percent) – Wendle is batting .333 with five stolen bases over the past month. He ends the week against the Blue Jays, who have a league worst 7.59 ERA over the past week. This column was provided to The Associated Press by RotoExperts: https://rotoexperts.com/ Previous articleRhule not reminding Baylor players how last year started Next articleTaiwan carries out first execution under President Tsai’s government	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13909
__label__cc	0.735419	0.264581	CD - 60 Christmas Classics 4 Record Set Default Manufacturer Click for Track Listing and Sound Samples. You will choose your shipping options at check-out. 60xmasclassics_DVL20723 5.0 3 51.00 Christmas LPs to CD Operated by DLF Music Transfer, LLC https://christmaslpstocd.com/Item/60ChristmasClassics-DVL20723 Home / Christmas CDs / Compilation CDs / DVL20723 - CD - 60 Christmas Classics 4 Record Set CD - 60 Christmas Classics 4 Record Set DVL20723 - CD - 60 Christmas Classics 4 Record Set Track Listing: (Click a song title to hear a sound sample.) Fanfare/ Joy to the World (Frank Mills), It Came Upon A Midnight Clear/ Away In A Manger/The First Noel, Sleigh Ride (Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, Conductor), Sunny Bank (Julie Andrews with the Orchestra, Harpsichord and Arrangements of Andre Previn), The Christmas Song (John Gary), There's No Place Like Home For the Holidays (Living Strings), Silver Bells (Kate Smith), Christmas In Dixie (Alabama), Wassail Song (The Ralph Hunter Choir), Joy to the World/ Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (The Norman Luboff Choir), Winter Wonderland (Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass), Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Ed Ames), Good King Wenceslas (RCA Symphony Orchestra, Morton Gould Conducting), Ring Christmas Bells/ We Wish You A Merry Christmas (Living Strings and Living Voices), Good Christian Men Rejoice/ Silent Night/ Patapan/ O Come All Ye Faithful (The Robert Shaw Chorale and RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw Conducting), Deck the Halls/ It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas (Living Strings), I'll Be Home For Christmas (Lana Cantrell), White Christmas (Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler Conducting), Here Comes Santa Claus (Eddie Fisher), Pretty Paper (Willie Nelson), Carol of the Bells (Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra), We Three Kings of Orient Are (The John McCarthy Chorale), Messiah: Chorus: Hallelujah! (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham, Baritone and Conductor. John McCarthy, Chorus Master) The Nativity: Silent Night/ Cantique de Noel/ Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/ Adeste Fideles (Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Under the Direction of Raymond Paige. Richard Leibert at the Grand Organ. Radio City Music Hall Choral Ensemble.), God Rest You Merry Gentlemen (Julie Andrews with the Orchestra, Harpsichord, and Arrangements of Andre Previn), Do You Hear What I Hear (Ed Ames), Cathedral Bells Are Ringing (Frank Mills), The First Noel/ O Come All Ye Faithful/ O Holy Night (John Gary), Angels From the Realms (The John McCarthy Chorale), Silent Night (Tony Martin), A Christmas Festival: Joy to the World/ Deck the Halls/ Good King Wenceslas/ God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/ Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/ The First Nowell/ Silent Night/ Jingle Bells/ O Come All Ye Faithful (Arthur Fiedler and His Orchestra and Chorus), The White World of Winter (Bing Crosby), Jingle Bells (Patti Page), March of the Toys/ Toyland (Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra), Mary's Little Boy (Andy Williams), Wassail Song/ The First Noel/ O Christmas Tree/ Green Needles (Living Voices), O Come O Come Emmanuel (The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor), White Christmas (Tony Bennett), While Shepherds Watched (London Symphony Orchestra), Jolly Old St. Nick/ The Little Drummer Boy (Ray Conniff Singers), My Favorite Things (Mary Martin), Coventry Carol (Mitch MIller and The Gang), Scarlet Ribbons (The Browns), We Need A Little Christmas (Percy Faith and His Orchestra), The Lord's Prayer (Andy Williams) Happy Holidays (Percy Faith and His Orchestra), Winter Wonderland (Tony Bennett)See Amid The Winter Snows (Julie Andrews), Hark! 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__label__wiki	0.987401	0.987401	Latest in James Badge Dale Annabelle Attanasio’s ‘Mickey And The Bear’ Acquired By Utopia For Fall Theatrical Release – Cannes EXCLUSIVE: Utopia, the newly launched sales and distribution company, has acquired world rights to Mickey and the Bear, the father-daughter drama written and directed by Annabelle Attanasio in her feature debut. Robert Schwartzman’s company plans a fall theatrical release timed to awards season. The pic, set in… ‘Hightown’: James Badge Dale To Star In Starz’s Opioid Epidemic Drama Series EXCLUSIVE: James Badge Dale (13 Hours) is set as the male lead opposite Monica Raymund in Hightown, Starz’s drama series from Rebecca Cutter, Gary Lennon and Jerry Bruckheimer TV. Written and executive produced by Cutter, Hightown is a crime drama set amid the drug trade on Cape Cod, touched off when a body washes… ‘The Standoff At Sparrow Creek’ Acquired By RLJE Films – Toronto RLJE Films has acquired North American rights to The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, the thriller written and directed by first-time feature director Henry Dunham that is making its world premiere tomorrow in the Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness section. An early 2019 theatrical and VOD release is planned. James Bad… Common In Negotiations & James Badge Dale Set To Join Melissa McCarthy & Tiffany Haddish In ‘The Kitchen’ EXCLUSIVE: Common is in advanced negotiations and James Badge Dale has closed his deal to join Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss in New Line’s film adaptation of The Kitchen, based on the DC/Vertigo female-led crime comic book series. Jeremy Bobb (Godless, Manhunt: Unabomber) and Myk Watford (No Coun… James Badge Dale, Brian Geraghty To Topline Indie Film ‘The Incident At Sparrow Creek Lumber’ Actors James Badge Dale (Only The Brave) and Brian Geraghty (The Alienist) have been tapped to star in the indie drama, The Incident At Sparrow Creek Lumber from writer, director Henry Dunham. The script, which was featured on 2015’s Black List under the title Militia, is described as a locked-room paranoia of Reservoi… ‘Brothered Up’ CBS Comedy Pilot: Adhir Kalyan To Star, James Burrows To Direct Rules of Engagement alum Adhir Kalyan is returning to CBS as one of two leads in Brothered Up, the network’s multi-camera buddy cop comedy from CBS TV Studios. Written and executive produced by Mark Gross, sitcom veteran James Burrows is set to direct and executive produce. Brothered Up centers on Calvin, an… Tessa Thompson & Lily James Head To ‘Little Woods’ EXCLUSIVE: Tessa Thompson and Lily James are set to star in upcoming indie title Little Woods, with James Badge Dale, Luke Kirby and Lance Reddick also joining the cast. The film, which is written and directed by Nia DaCosta, is produced by Rachael Fung and Gabrielle Nadig. CAA is handling sales. Little Woods marks… By Diana Lodderhose ‘13 Hours’ Trailer: A Kinetic Look At The Murky Benghazi Story The second trailer for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi has arrived, and it’s as kinetic as the first. Based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s nonfiction book 13 Hours: The Inside Account Of What Really Happened In Benghazi, the film is set during the September 11-12, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in… By Ross A. Lincoln ’13 Hours’ Trailer: Michael Bay Bengazi Drama Peers Into The Myth Michael Bay is back with 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Bengazi, a film whose topic is sure to make holiday dinners civil, polite affairs. Based on the nonfiction book 13 Hours: The Inside Account Of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff, the film follows a group of US special forces who find… Jul 28, 2015 5:08 pm Paramount’s ’13 Hours’ Benghazi Drama Confirmed For MLK Weekend 2016 Confirming the news Deadline reported back in April, Paramount said today that its Benghazi drama 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi will land in theaters January 15, 2016 during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Based on the nonfiction book 13 Hours: The Inside Account Of What Really Happened In Bengh… ‘Echoes Of War’ Acquired By ARC Entertainment For May Release ARC Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Echoes Of War, the James Badge Dale-starring Western thriller that now has a May 15 theatrical and VOD release date. Directed by Kane Senes and co-written by Senes and John Chriss, the pic is set in post-Civil War Texas where two neighboring farm families are grieving… James Badge Dale Lands Lead In Michael Bay Benghazi Project ’13 Hours’ EXCLUSIVE: James Badge Dale has been set for one of the leads in the Michael Bay-directed 13 Hours, a chronicle of the deadly assault on the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, told from the perspective of the six-member security team that fought to protect the other people stationed there. He… By Mike Fleming Jr Feb 6, 2015 9:26 am	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13922
__label__wiki	0.980811	0.980811	Latest in Jerry O’Connell Jerry O’Connell Comedy ‘Carter’ Gets Season 2 Premiere Date On WGN America – Watch The Trailer UPDATED, 2:05 PM: WGN America has set the Season 2 premiere of its Jerry O’Connell-led comedy Carter for 10 p.m. Wednesday January 20, and released a new trailer. Watch it above, and read details of the show and its sophomore season below. PREVIOUSLY, January 23: WGN America, Sony Pictures Television’s networks, and… By Dino-Ray Ramos Jerry O’Connell Joins Kenny Leon’s ‘A Soldier’s Play’ On Broadway; Casting Completed Broadway’s upcoming production of Charles Fullers’ A Soldier’s Play starring David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood has rounded out the 12-member cast, with Jerry O’Connell, Namdi Asomugha and Billy Eugene Jones among the new recruits. The announcement was made by producer The Roundabout Theatre Company. The casting… ‘Jerry O’: ‘Talking Dead’ EP Brandon Monk Named Showrunner For Jerry O’Connell Talk Show Jerry O, a new entertainment talk and comedy series hosted by Jerry O’Connell, has tapped Talking Dead executive producer Brandon Monk as EP/showrunner. Co-produced by Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die, Jerry O debuts Monday, August 12, for a three-week preview on Fox Television Stations. "Brandon's… Aug 6, 2019 4:27 pm Jerry O’Connell Talk Show Gets Fox Stations Test Run After subbing for Wendy Williams, Jerry O'Connell is getting a show of his own. Jerry O, a new entertainment talk and comedy series hosted by the actor and TV personality will get a three-week preview this summer. Per Fox stations’ limited-run model, the series from Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die is set… By Anita Bennett Rebecca Romijn To Star In ‘Satanic Panic’; Hayley Griffith, Ruby Modine, Jerry O’Connell & More Cast EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Romijn (Star Trek: Discovery, the X-Men franchise) is set to star in Fangoria’s Chelsea Stardust-directed film, Satanic Panic, described as an after-hours-esque horror comedy with a healthy dash of imaginative gore. Newcomer Hayley Griffith will co-star opposite Romijn with Ruby Modine (Happy Death D… Awesomeness Films Sets Cast For High School Comedy From Dan McDermott & Michael Duggan Eli Brown (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists), Peter Facinelli (Twilight Saga, Nurse Jackie), Madison Iseman (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Goosebumps 2), and Jerry O’Connell (Billions) are set for Awesomeness Films’ comedy, currently titled The F*ck It List, which just started production. Michael Duggan is at… Bravo Sets Late-Night Talk Show Exec Produced By Andy Cohen & Jerry O’Connell Bravo Media has given the green light to Real Men Watch Bravo, a new late-night talk show executive produced by Andy Cohen and Jerry O'Connell with O’Connell to host, set for premiere this fall. Each episode will feature O'Connell, alongside a panel of male celebrities, comics and tastemakers, discussing the buzziest… Jul 9, 2018 6:32 am WGN America Picks Up Procedural Series ‘Carter’ With Jerry O’Connell & Sydney Poitier Heartsong, ‘Gone’ With Chris Noth WGN America is adding to its Prime Crime slate with the acquisition of two original series in the detective procedural genre — the comedic Carter, starring Jerry O'Connell (Billions), Sydney Poitier Heartsong (Chicago P.D.) and Kristian Bruun (Orphan Black), which will premiere August 7, and crime drama Gone, starring… Wendy Williams Sets Comeback Date, Names Temporary Guest Host Wendy Williams will return to The Wendy Williams Show on March 19, three weeks after announcing to her large audience that she was taking some doctor-ordered time off to work with treatments for hyperthyroidism and Graves' disease. Williams today also disclosed today that she’s called on her friend, actor Jerry… Sony Pictures TV Networks Greenlights Detective Procedural Series ‘Carter’ Starring Jerry O’Connell & Sydney Poitier Sony Pictures Television Networks has commissioned Carter, a 10-episode comedic detective procedural starring Jerry O'Connell (Billions) and Sydney Poitier (Chicago P.D.), for its international channels, including AXN. The series begins production later this month in North Bay, Ontario. Carter is SPTN's' second global… Jerry O'Connell To Play Herman Munster In NBC's 'Munsters' Reboot Jerry O’Connell is set to star opposite Eddie Izzard and Charity Wakefield in NBC's Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane. The pilot, written by Bryan Fuller and to be directed by Bryan Singer, is described as a reinvention of the 1960s sitcom about The Munsters, a family of "monsters" — vampires, werewolves and…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13923
__label__wiki	0.672218	0.672218	Merchant Cash Advance is The Real Square IPO Story November 22, 2015 \| By: Sean Murray Square’s debut on the New York Stock Exchange is being talked about as one of the more consequential IPOs of 2015. As a mobile payments company famous for both losing money and its founding by Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, the $2.9 billion valuation pales in comparison to its rival First Data that went public just a month before. First Data, which was founded in 1971, is worth five times more than Square with a market cap of $14.7 billion to Square’s $2.9 billion. But it’s Square that everyone’s talking about and not necessarily in a positive way. Cast as the poster child for runaway private market valuations in Fintech, Square’s Series E round just a year before had supposedly increased its worth to $6 billion. Robert Greifeld, the CEO of Nasdaq, had warned people just weeks earlier about the validity of private market valuations. “A unicorn valuation in private markets could be from just two people,” he said. “Whereas public markets could be 200,000 people.” And while Square’s IPO was relatively well-received, closing at 45% above its offered price, there’s an entire story beyond payments hidden in the company’s financial statements under the label of “software and data products.” That’s code for merchant cash advance, the working capital product they offer to customers that currently makes up 4% of the company’s revenue. “Since Square Capital is not a loan, there is no interest rate,” states the company’s FAQ. That echoes what dozens of other merchant cash advance companies have been saying for a decade. “You sell a specific amount of your future receivables to Square, and in return you get a lump sum for the sale,” marketing materials explain. Lenders that don’t approve of this receivable purchase model are lobbying politically against it, some of whom are well-known. Lending Club for example, is a signatory to the Responsible Business Lending Coalition’s Small Business Borrowers Bill of Rights (SBBOR), committing themselves to things like transparency and the disclosure of APRs even for non-loan products. But disclosing an APR on a receivable purchase merchant cash advance transaction is not only impossible since there is no time variable, but would violate the spirit of the contract even if estimates were used to fill in the blanks. Nonetheless, Fundera CEO Jared Hecht, whose marketplace platform has also signed the SBBOR told Forbes in September that “small business owners have been sold by pushy salespeople, hiding terms, disguising rates and manipulating customers into taking products that aren’t good for them.” Ironically, Fundera’s own merchant cash advance partners have not made any such pledge to disclose APRs. No one’s commitment is verified anyway. “Neither Small Business Majority nor any other coalition member independently verifies that any of these signatory companies or entities in fact abide by the SBBOR,” the group’s website states. This isn’t to say that their intent is misguided, there’s just very little substance to it below the surface. For example, while the coalition has made some subtle and not so subtle digs about merchant cash advances over fairness and transparency, it’s the lending model used by some of the SBBOR’s signatories that is being challenged by the courts right now. Because of Madden v. Midland, Lending Club’s practice of using a chartered bank to originate loans could potentially be in jeopardy. The ruling was just appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. At the heart of the issue is the ability to usurp state usury caps through the National Bank Act. For a company that has pledged to offer non-abusive products, it’s ironic that their model relies on preemption of state interest rate caps all the while reassuring their shareholders that there’s no risk because of their Choice of Law fallback provision. In truth, Lending Club uses a state chartered bank and not a nationally chartered bank and thus would be somewhat shielded in an unfavorable Supreme Court ruling. Those concerned in years past that receivable purchase merchant cash advances were full of regulatory uncertainty had shifted towards the model that Lending Club uses since it was perceived to have more nationally recognized legitimacy. However, with that model seriously challenged, old school merchant cash advances are once again looking pretty good. That’s probably why publicly traded Enova International Inc. (NYSE:ENVA) bought The Business Backer this past summer. And it’s why Square skated through their IPO without much resistance to their merchant cash advance activities. The story of Square was either that it was overvalued, that CEO Jack Dorsey couldn’t handle running two companies, that they were losing money, or that their deal with Starbucks was a mistake. Meanwhile Square has processed $300 million worth of merchant cash advances, a product that doesn’t disclose an APR since it’s not a loan. “Nearly 90% of sellers who have been offered a second Square Capital advance cho[se] to accept a repeat advance,” their S-1 stated. “If our Square Capital program shifts from an MCA model to a loan model, state and federal rules concerning lending could become applicable,” it adds. And right now partly due to Madden v. Midland, the loan model looks pretty shaky. Square proved many things when they went public on November 19th and one was that merchant cash advances are just the opposite of what critics have argued in the past. Battery Ventures’ general partner Roger Lee told Business Insider, “the [Square Capital] product itself will have unique advantages in the market, and it’s a big market.” Last modified: February 22, 2016 Category: merchant cash advance Home › merchant cash advance › Merchant Cash Advance is The Real Square IPO Story	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13927
__label__wiki	0.537198	0.537198	Skrillex to Daft Punk: ‘Come on guys, let’s get a live show again’ Daft Punk’s memorabilia-filled pop-up shop opened over Grammy weekend to a host of celebrities, media, and other influential figures in the music industry who eagerly lined up to purchase items and meet the duo in person. In addition to having the chance of chatting with the enigmatic French duo, who were in attendance in plainclothes as partygoers, guests also had first access to an array of limited-edition Daft Punk items created by brands like Hervet Manufacturing, Off-White, and more. Mija and Skrillex were the two artists selected to provide music for the high-profile affair, with Mija selecting the majority of the music for the night until Skrillex came in for a surprise set. Evidently, the OWSLA head also took the opportunity as a way in to ask the duo to please perform again. The request comes after over a year of eager hope among fans regarding a potential Alive 2017 tour. Skrillex detailed his longtime love for the robots to Rolling Stone, from nearly getting beat up scalping a ticket to the Alive 2007 LA stop which he credits for changing his life, to his current admiration for the impact they continue to have over contemporary electronic music. He also advised that as long as he’s known them personally, he’s been trying to convince them to finally perform live again. “I’m trying to get them to do a live show,” Skrillex began. “Come on guys, let’s get a live show again,” he finished. Fans can only hope that Skrillex’s influential voice will inspire a special concert appearance by Daft Punk after their decade-long hiatus. In the meantime, their pop-up shop will be appearing in various musical hotspots around the globe. Watch a video of Skrillex performing at Daft Punk’s pop-up shop opening below (H/T: DJ Mag): Mandem #skrillex #daftpunk #dAftpunkpopup A video posted by ｄａｎｎｙｔａｙｌｏｒ (@mr_danny_t) on Feb 11, 2017 at 8:54am PST H/T: Rolling Stone Feature Photo Credit: the1point8 for Rolling Stone Watch Daft Punk and The Weeknd perform at the 59th Grammys Look inside Daft Punk’s LA pop up shop [Video] Check out this thousand-song playlist of Daft Punk’s musical influences Tags: daft punk, Mija, pop-up shop, skrillex HiJinx Festival returns to Philadelphia for bass boosted sequel [Review] Ricky Remedy unleashes long-awaited Skrillex bootleg and festival anthem Dancing Astronaut’s BIG 100—Top 25 Electronic Albums of the Decade	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13928
__label__wiki	0.651541	0.651541	Marvel Comics News Digest Featuring C2E2 News – Carnage, X-Men and More By Murray the Bellhop\|2019-03-24T09:39:25-07:00March 24th, 2019\|Categories: Entertainment, Marvel\|Tags: c2e2, carnage, house of x, magnificent, marvel comics, ms. marvel, News, powers of x, war of the realms, X-Men\| MARVEL COMICS UNVEILS PUBLISHING SLATE FOR 2019 New York, NY — March 23, 2019 — This weekend, Marvel unveiled its 2019 Publishing Slate to a hall of fans attending Marvel’s Next Big Thing [...] Marvel Comics News Digest Featuring Cloak and Dagger Digital Comic By Murray the Bellhop\|2018-06-09T16:29:17-07:00June 10th, 2018\|Categories: Entertainment, Marvel\|Tags: 50, asgardians, Captain America, cloak and dagger, comixology, cover, Digital, Galaxy, limited, marvel comics, ms. marvel, Spider Man, spidergeddon, Teaser, unlimited, variant\| Marvel news this week has some big announcements including a new Cloak and Dagger digital series. It's, of course, here in time for the start of the television series on Freeform. More Captain America variants [...] Marvel Comics News Digest 1/29 – 2/2/18 Featuring The Last Jedi By Murray the Bellhop\|2018-02-03T15:19:26-08:00February 4th, 2018\|Categories: Entertainment, Marvel\|Tags: adaptation, America, Annual, cosmic, Ghost Rider, inferno, last jedi, marvel comics, ms. marvel, patriot, rising, squirrel girl, Star Wars, thanos\| Good news for Star Wars fans! The Last Jedi is getting a comic adaptation. 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An announcement over an expansion of Marvel Unlimited comes in. Video Comics will be a new media that brings [...] Marvel Comics News Digest 8/22 – 8/26/16 By Murray the Bellhop\|2016-08-27T12:48:14-07:00August 28th, 2016\|Categories: DAPs Magic News, Marvel\|Tags: champions, cyclops, Hulk, image, marvel comics, miles morales, ms. marvel, mu, News, nova, Spider Man, steam, Teaser, variant covers, vision\| This week had a lot of teaser images for the upcoming Champions series set to debut. Also announced and available is a free prelude to Mosaic - a new Inhuman. Some variant covers were announced. 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New York, NY—May [...] Marvel Comics News Digest 3/7 – 3/11/16 By Murray the Bellhop\|2016-05-16T21:53:11-07:00March 12th, 2016\|Categories: DAPs Magic News, Geek News, Marvel\|Tags: Agents of SHIELD, apocalypse, Captain America, civil war 2, First Look, Han Solo, Hawkeye, inhumans, limited series, magneto, marvel comics, ms. marvel, News, Preview, rocket raccoon, sam wilson, spider women alpha, Star Lord, Star Wars, wondercon, X-Men\| It's time for another very filled news digest containing Marvel Comics' upcoming books. Star Wars is having Han Solo go solo in his own limited series. 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Next is previews of Hyperion - a [...] By Murray the Bellhop\|2016-05-16T21:53:09-07:00February 21st, 2016\|Categories: DAPs Magic News, Marvel\|Tags: apocalypse war, Deadpool, First Look, graphic audio, international iron man, marvel comics, ms. marvel, News, Preview, unlimited, X-Men\| GET CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH MARVEL’S DEADPOOL WITHIN MARVEL UNLIMITED Join any Tier of Marvel Unlimited Between February 16th and March 2nd and Receive a Deadpool Digital Desktop Calendar New York, NY— February [...]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13931
__label__cc	0.678372	0.321628	Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) — Opportunities and Challenges of Side-Channel Security in the Era of Confidential Computing Yinqian Zhang, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Seminar • Symbolic Computation — Computing Critical Points for Invariant Algebraic Systems Thi Xuan Vu, PhD candidate David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science and University of Sorbonne Seminar • Artificial Intelligence — Voting Games: Trembling Hand Equilibria Svetlana Obraztsova Wednesday, April 10, 2019 — 9:00 AM EDT PhD Defence • Data Systems — Increasing the Efficiency of High-Recall Information Retrieval Haotian Zhang, PhD candidate Tuesday, April 9, 2019 — 10:30 AM EDT Seminar • Data Systems — Meta-Analysis for Retrieval Experiments Involving Multiple Test Collections Ian Soboroff, Leader, Retrieval Group Monday, April 8, 2019 — 4:00 PM EDT Sirius Group Meeting • How Blockchains Can Help Smart Cities S. Keshav, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science Monday, April 8, 2019 — 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM EDT The Nature of Experiment: Intelligence, Life, and the Human Mary Shelley’s famous invocation of human experimentation gone wrong is 200 years old, but remains as vibrant an analysis of the human implication of scientific insight as it did when it was first published — perhaps even more so in an age on the verge of breakthroughs in both artificial inteligence and bioengineering. This conference will approach the intersections of intelligence, life and the human from a unique perspective, through the concept and practice of the “experiment,” both today and in the past. Friday, April 5, 2019 — 10:30 AM EDT Seminar • SHARCNET at Waterloo for Computer Science Researchers Director of Technology, SHARCNET Technical Lead, Graham cluster Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence — End-to-end Neural Information Retrieval Wei Yang, Master’s candidate Thursday, April 4, 2019 — 10:30 AM EDT Seminar • Bioinformatics — Graph-centric Approaches for Understanding the Mutational Landscape of Life Heewook Lee, Lane Fellow, Computational Biology Department School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT FINE / CS 383 Computational Digital Art Capstone Exhibition Come to Area 151 Communitech at 151 Charles Street West in Kitchener to experience the FINE/CS 383 Computational Digital Art Capstone Exhibition, where you will see interactive and digital works of art created by students from the University of Waterloo! Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 2:00 PM EDT Mathematics Education Seminar • Summary of SIGMAA RUME Conference Dan Wolczuk, Faculty of Mathematics Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 10:30 AM EDT Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) — Empiricism-Informed Secure System Design: From Improving Passwords to Helping Domestic Violence Victims Rahul Chatterjee, PhD candidate Department of Computer Science, Cornell University Sirius Group Meeting • ShallowForest: Optimizing All-to-All Data Transmission in WANs Hao Tan, Master’s candidate Monday, April 1, 2019 — 10:30 AM EDT Seminar • Computer Graphics — Unifying Numerical Algorithms for Photorealistic Image Synthesis Toshiya Hachisuka, Department of Creative Informatics Thursday, March 28, 2019 — 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT Software Engineering • Capstone Design Symposium The 2019 Software Engineering Capstone Design Symposium is the culmination of the undergraduate student experience, creating a blueprint for innovation in software engineering design. A variety of topics will be showcased from gaming and food applications to automotive safety features and breast cancer research. Wednesday, March 27, 2019 — 7:30 PM EDT Bridges Lecture Series • Touch: The Science and Culture of Contact in More-Than-Human Worlds PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning) — Semi-supervised Clustering for De-duplication Shrinu Kushagra, PhD candidate Wednesday, March 27, 2019 — 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM EDT Ask Me Anything with Rudy Karsan Venture Capitalist, TEDx Speaker, and BMath '79, Nooruddin (Rudy) Karsan, is coming to the University of Waterloo for an ask-me-anything fireside chat with students. In advance of the event, check out Rudy's TedX talk, How the future of work is not "jobs." Wednesday, March 27, 2019 — 10:30 AM EDT Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction — The Power of Representation in Human-Computer Interaction Haijun Xia, PhD candidate Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Tuesday, March 26, 2019 — 2:30 PM EDT PhD Seminar • Institute for Quantum — Quantum Circuit Design Via Path Integrals Matthew Amy, PhD candidate Monday, March 25, 2019 — 4:00 PM EDT DLS: Vitalik Buterin — Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains: Combining Mechanism Design and Computation Creator of Ethereum, Cofounder of Bitcoin Magazine Seminar • Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute — Game-Theoretic Approach to Resource Management in Computer Systems Seyed Majid Zahedi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Monday, March 25, 2019 — 10:30 AM EDT Seminar • Computer Graphics — Computational Design of Complex Assemblies Peng Song, Research scientist École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Mathematics Education Seminar • Tales from Undergraduate Teaching: What Would You Do? Barbara Forrest, Faculty of Mathematics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13942
__label__wiki	0.617625	0.617625	Brian meets ex-Scientologist Hello, just got this on Brian’s blog http://www.briantellsstories.com/podcasts/2016/2/17/brian-meetsan-ex-scientologist Brian Tells Stories Sharone came on the show to walk us through her experience. She was a Scieftologist from the age of 6 and she shares her stories from her childhood in Scientology. Her stories are incredible and ridiculous and unbelievable. She spent time on the Sea Org and was L. Ron Hubbards assistant….sort of. We return with a truly fascinating tail. An extra long episode but it is worth it. I have always been fascinated with Scientology and Scientologists. Truth be told, I find all religion and believers fascinating. However, particularly Scientology. This topic and interviewee is something that I have been dying to do a piece on for quite some time. Sharone was only 6 when her family got involved in Scientology. Even then, she had a bad feeling about it all. At 10, she signed a billion year contract to join the Sea-Organization. Naturally. Sharone worked very closely with the infamous L. Ron Hubbard. She was L. Ron’s personal assistant of sorts. Sharone joins the podcast to share her truly incredible time in Scientology, living on the Sea-Org, her relationship with L. Ron Hubbard, escaping Scientology and her subsequent life afterwards. You can read Sharone’s blog here and a big shout out to Ex-Scientologists Ireland for putting me in touch. A huge thank you to Sharone for sharing her st Author Da Man from Cabra WestPosted on February 22, 2016 Categories Former cult members, former sect member, Scientologist, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Brian meets ex-Scientologist Fake Archbishop flogging Aldi oil as cure for cancer Trust in the Aldi Mighty: We reveal that a FAKE Archbishop is flogging ‘miracle’ olive oil as a cure for cancer Info-Secte <infosecte@qc.aibn.com> SUN INVESTIGATION: Gilbert Deya is STILL in the UK ten years after deport order to face baby-stealing charges in his native Kenya EXCLUSIVE by BRIAN FLYNN, Investigations Editor, and LEE SORRELL A FAKE “Archbishop” is flogging olive oil from Aldi as a wonder cure for cancer. Gilbert Deya, 63, is also fleecing gullible church-goers with cash-for-miracles scams. Incredibly, this is happening in 21st-century London.N INVESTIGATION: Fake Archbishop scams churchgoers with ‘miracle cure’ Deya, who calls himself the Archbishop of Peckham, rakes in millions running dodgy evangelical churches in the UK. This despite a ten-year battle to return him to his native Kenya to face baby-stealing charges. Our two-month undercover investigation caught him and his pastors falsely selling olive oil from Aldi as a cure for cancer and HIV, and charging to perform “miracles” and to ensure infertile women conceive. Horrified MP David Lammy last night branded Deya a “pernicious crook”. And the Charities Commission launched a probe in the wake of our investigation. But the Home Office insisted it STILL cannot expel him five years after Home Secretary Theresa May signed off his extradition. Our investigators posed as a husband and his cancer-hit wife to infiltrate Deya’s church HQ in a deprived area of Peckham, South London. His right-hand man Pastor Kamara assured them Deya’s miracle oil – on sale for £5 in the church shop – would cure the killer disease if used on her food. He handed them a badly-spelled leaflet detailing its “mystical powers”, which include overcoming illness and debt. Unaware he was being filmed, he promised: “Don’t use any oil except this oil…and the cancer will just disappear. The healing will take place.” Deya claims the oil is special because he has personally “anointed” it. He was charged £5 for the 750ml bottle of Solesta extra virgin olive oil, which has an Aldi logo on the label. The same oil cost £1.99 in the supermarket. Another of his lieutenants Pastor Gabriel added: “The oil is not any oil, as the Bishop normally prays with it. “So this oil heals thousands of people here. Thousands of people…minimum thousand people been healed of every kind of diseases.” He described how one who used the oil to treat HIV was “cured completely”. Our couple were also taken into a room where a pastor performed a disturbing ritual to “cure” our investigator. Rubbing “anointed” cooking oil into her chest, the minister assured her: “This is the start of your miracle. “You could be here now and tomorrow you go to the doctor and when the doctor checks you find that that cancer is gone.” During the lengthy ceremony, the pastor pushed our girl to the ground while shouting: “Yes you snake that have put cancer in her blood. “Every tainted witchcraft has to go. Yes, go out of her now.” One church leaflet lists Deya’s miracles, including curing a broken leg in one day by prayer. A worshipper supposedly gave thanks by buying ten of the preacher’s books only to miraculously find all his debts then vanished and his post-menopausal wife was pregnant. The leaflet also claims a car crash victim’s broken arm “healed in 10 minutes”. When our couple asked Deya if he could help them conceive, he summoned four children he claimed were born to the same mother at six-monthly intervals thanks to his miracle prayers. Pointing at each in turn, he said: “After she was born, six months he was born, six months he was born, six months he was born. The mother is here.” Our man asked: “So you helped their mother give birth every six months?” Despite this scientific impossibility, Deya replied: “In the name of Jesus, everybody knows about this.” His son Amos then requested a £700 “sacrifice” up front to help our couple conceive a “miracle” baby, suggesting they could sell their car to fund further “sacrifices”. Our man told Amos: “We have been told categorically by medical people that our chances of having children are zero.” Yet Amos insisted infertility would not stop his wife passing a pregnancy “blue” test if the money was paid. Before pocketing the “sacrifice”, Amos asked our reporter whether she had ever had sex with a spirit while asleep. He explained: “There are a lot of women who are barren because of that.” Amos rubbed supermarket oil on the couple’s head and went on: “We can take this journey and rush with it to its conclusive end, which is going to be fantastic. “Then the day she wakes up and does the blue test that I have prayed for – that particular day, that blue test, you don’t go to Nando’s and celebrate, you run to the house of God. “You say, ‘Man of God, this is my third sacrifice [donation].’ “I tell you, it is now happening. On the day you’re carrying your baby, you can sell all your cars, I don’t care. “You say, ‘Lord now I thank you. I have a son or a baby.’” The pastor warned he expected a huge donation when the couple had their baby. He added: “At that time, I would like you to do an amazing sacrifice. “You can come to the altar, whether it’s two thousand or a thousand or five thousands, and say, ‘Lord, I say thank you.’” Deya also urged followers who fall sick to call him BEFORE an ambulance or medic. He told his spellbound congregation: “If you are part of our ministry, before you call an ambulance when you are sick call us first because if it is a spiritual problem we take care of it before you go to see the GP. “We have seen many miracles happen – healing of cancer, fibroids and many things beyond the medication of the doctor.” The showman was also filmed pulling one woman on crutches from the congregation and instantly “curing” her of multiple sclerosis so she could walk off stage unaided. Sermons ended with donation envelopes and requests for bank details. Accounts show Deya’s hope-filled cocktail of “miracles” and immaculate conceptions is reaping a fortune. He enjoys a jetset lifestyle, posing alongside a personalised helicopter. GDM claims to have 34,000 followers in churches in Manchester, Liverpool, Reading and Crawley. Accounts show the registered charity banked £865,620 in donations in 2014, with another £1million in savings and £2million in properties. Deya’s church blew £80,589 running Internet TV and radio stations, £41,000 on cars and £74,593 paying guest preachers. By contrast, just £29,430 went on poverty relief. Although showman Deya leads the church, he was removed from the charity’s board in 2012 amid concerns at how it was being run. Deya was first arrested for extradition by Scotland Yard in 2006. He is accused of stealing five children from Kenyan slums after claiming followers gave birth “through the power of prayer.” DNA tests proved they were not the natural mums. At Deya’s Nairobi home, police found 10 children with no genetic connection to the family. Wife Mary was jailed but he fled to the UK. In 2007 Deya’s human rights appeal against extradition was dismissed and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith ordered his removal. In 2011 her successor Theresa May again signed it off and the Home Office confirmed: “He has exhausted all avenues of appeal against extradition.” Yet incredibly Deya is STILL preying on Britain’s vulnerable. MP David Lammy, who began campaigning for Deya’s deportation after a couple in his constituency returned from Kenya with a “miracle baby”, demanded urgent action. He said: “For over a decade I’ve been pressing for Gilbert Deya to face justice for his child trafficking and cruel exploitation of vulnerable people. “This pernicious crook is still running rings around the Home Secretary and the Police. We need action.” Although Deya leads the church, he was removed from the board of the charity in 2012 amid concerns at how it was being run. Deya refused to comment on the Sun’s investigation, insisting he did not talk to “evil liars who are confused”. The Home Office last night said: “We continue to consider representations being made by Mr Deya’s legal team. It would be inappropriate to comment further.” www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6884150/Fake-archbishop-flogs-Aldi-olive-oil-as-miracle-cure.html Author Da Man from Cabra WestPosted on February 1, 2016 Categories Fake Archbishop in London, Quack Archbishop, Snake oil salesman, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Fake Archbishop flogging Aldi oil as cure for cancer	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13944
__label__wiki	0.793971	0.793971	Christopher Wheeldon – An American in Paris – Paris By Jann Parry on December 27, 2014 in Reviews · 0 Comments Leanne Cope and Robert Fairchild in rehersals for An American in Paris. © Matt Trent Photography. (Click image for larger version) Christopher Wheeldon Co-production Théâtre du Châtelet, Pittsburgh CLO with Elephant Eye Theatrical Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet chatelet-theatre.com anamericaninparisbroadway.com Visiting Paris for Christmas, I joined tourists and locals at the ChâteletTheatre, run by Jean-Luc Choplin (once director of Sadler’s Wells), whose policy is to introduce Parisian audiences to the pleasures of vintage American musicals. An American in Paris is due to have a run on Broadway after its try-out at the Châtelet, so most of its cast and creative team are American, with notable exceptions; Christopher Wheeldon, choreographer and metteur en scène, Bob Crowley, designer, Natasha Katz, lighting designer – and Leanne Cope of the Royal Ballet as the leading lady. Wheeldon has long wanted to mount a musical theatre version of the 1951 film, which had Gene Kelly as the choreographer and leading man, and Leslie Caron as the heroine, Lise Dassin. Wheeldon had already choreographed the ‘rhapsodic ballet’ from the film, to George Gershwin’s symphonic music, for New York City Ballet in 2005. Indeed, the new production seems as though it’s going to be a Matthew Bourne-type ‘dancical’, setting the scene in motion with dancers going about everyday life in austere 1945 Paris. They’re obviously ballet-trained dancers, with Leanne Cope as an elusive sprite with whom demobbed GI Jerry Mulligan (Robert Fairchild from New York City Ballet) falls in love. The movement language has been established from the start as balletic. Leanne Cope and Robert Fairchild in An American in Paris. © Angela Sterling. (Click image for larger version) However, there’s a narrator to help the story along: he’s a young Jewish-American composer called Adam Hochberg (played by an actor, Brandon Uranowitz), who plays for daily class at the Ballet du Châtelet. Artistic Jerry accompanies him in order to sketch the dancers, and sees Lise at her audition to join the company. By now, we’re into lots of dialogue as well as songs from the Gershwin catalogue. The book, by Craig Lucas, is clunky – not helped by miked performers speaking slowly so that surtitles in French can keep up with them. Programme notes explain that the production takes the characters’ situations in recently liberated Paris far more seriously than the film (set in 1949) chose to do. Issues raised in the dialogue include French guilt over the Nazi occupation and the appalling treatment of Jews and homosexuals; American GIs’ war traumas; Freudian father complexes; turbulent changes in modern art and music; unrequited love – and more. Far too much for a musical set to familiar songs, whose happy or wistful lyrics have to be taken with more than a pinch of irony. When the three main male characters sing about love being enough ‘As long as I care for you and you care for me’, one of them has to add, ‘We’re not fooling ourselves, are we.’ When Lise says to Jerry: ‘Life is not like in your American movies’, his response, ‘Why not?’ is implausibly naïve. Irony is very tricky in musicals. When is choreography meant to be crass – as in the ballet for which Lise auditioned, and which is performed at a Parisian soiree? Yet the triumphant final ballet starring Lise is supposedly by the same pretentious ballet master. Are ‘period’ jokes about homosexuals as fairies funny? Is a needy American heiress with airs about art to be mocked or pitied? Are ‘French people’ really right to insist that ballets should be cheerful celebrations instead of cerebral? There’s a big problem of tone in this production that will need to be sorted out when it goes to Broadway. As in his narrative ballets, Wheeldon crams in too many ideas. What he does supremely well is to convey emotions beyond words in his pas de deux and solos. We learn about Lise in a charming solo that pays homage to Ashton’s Chloe and Ondine; Jerry unfurls his feelings in flying maneges and angular jazzy enchainements; their mutual attraction is revealed in romantic pas de deux that avoid Wheeldon’s usual acrobatic lifts. Here he gets the tone exactly right as Lise resists then succumbs to Jerry’s importuning. Cope is delicious as gamine Lise, singing two solo songs commendably well. She’s also a noticeably better dancer than the supporting corps. Fairchild is on another level as a triple-treat performer – good actor, fine singer and star dancer. He carries the show, as Gene Kelly did the film. Christopher Wheeldon’s An American in Paris. Wheeldon’s use of the 27 members of the supporting corps (many from American ballet companies) is adroit, often witty. They portray a variety of characters, including artworks such as Picasso’s harlequins, acrobats and cubist portraits. The stage comes vividly alive to Gershwin’s fascinatin’ rhythms and fidgety feet compositions. There’s even a Radio City Musical Hall hommage with tappers, ostrich feathers and top hats. Irony alert: this is the gay character’s fantasy, and he is a lousy dancer, though his disapproving father (closeted gay?) is suddenly a convert to cabaret. Bob Crowley’s sets, their component elements wheeled around by the cast, are cleverly versatile, though could do with simplifying yet further. Starting out post-war drab, colours brighten in costumes and lighting until the big number near the end is positively eye-popping. By then, I was watching the production as an entertaining if curious ballet rather than as a would-be musical with too many false endings. Though it received rapturous applause from an audience with a lot of English-speakers, I suspect it needs radical tweaking if it’s to succeed on Broadway. At present, Wheeldon’s An American in Paris is an over-ambitious, over-long experiment that falls between genres, neither musical comedy, film tribute nor dance-theatre, with a bad book and worse jokes. And fun dancing. Tags: An American in Paris, Bob Crowley, Brandon Uranowitz, Christopher Wheeldon, Craig Lucas, Daphnis and Chloe, Frederick Ashton, Gene Kelly, George Gershwin, Jean-Luc Choplin, Leanne Cope, Leslie Caron, Matthew Bourne, Natasha Katz, New York City Ballet, Ondine, Paris, Picasso, Radio City Musical Hall, Robert Fairchild, Sadler's Wells, The Royal Ballet, Theatre du Chatelet Previous Post 2014 Dance Memories – London Next Post Gallery – English National Ballet in Swan Lake San Francisco Ballet – Maelstrom, Within the Golden Hour, Glass Pieces – Paris Royal Ballet – Titian 2012: Machina, Trespass, Diana & Actaeon – London Royal Ballet – Viscera, Infra, Fool’s Paradise – London Work for DanceTabs Reviews on Balletco A long-established dance writer, Jann Parry was dance critic for The Observer from 1983 to 2004 and wrote the award-winning biography of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan: 'Different Drummer', Faber and Faber, 2009. She has written for publications including The Spectator, The Listener, About the House (Royal Opera House magazine), Dance Now, Dance Magazine (USA), Stage Bill (USA) and Dancing Times. As a writer/producer she worked for the BBC World Service from 1970 to 1989, covering current affairs and the arts. As well as producing radio programmes she has contributed to television and radio documentaries about dance and dancers. 2012 Dance Memories – London New York City Ballet – Tradition and Innovation & Just for Fun bills – New York	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13955
__label__wiki	0.886425	0.886425	Eric Cantor on Principles & Values Republican Representative (VA-7) OpEd: "Young Guns PAC" led to Majority Leader post Rubio formed a political action committee in October 2011 called Reclaim America PAC. The intent was to support conservative Republican candidates. It was patterned on a PAC formed by Sen. Jim DeMint. In the House, Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican, had formed a group called the Young Guns to raise money for Republican candidates. It had been so effective that Cantor became majority leader. Like Rubio, Cantor is a young lawmaker who is being touted as a potential future president or vice president. Source: The Rise of Marco Rubio, by Manuel Rogi-Franzia, p.187 , Jun 19, 2012 Leader of the "Young Guns" conservative movement Cantor was elected in 2000 and two years later was already on the leadership track, chosen as deputy chief whip. What prompted Cantor, Ryan and McCarthy to come together was a story in "The Weekly Standard". They knew each other as members of the embattled Republican caucus that had lost control of the House in the disastrous 2006 mid-term election. But they hadn't realized their individual skills were remarkably complementary: Cantor the leader, Ryan the thinker, McCarthy the strategist. With money, manpower, and advice, Young Guns supports challengers, many in races that otherwise might be ignored by the national party. Young Guns is partial to young, reform-minded Republicans. In short, Cantor, Ryan and McCarthy would like to fill the ranks of House Republicans with members, like themselves, committed to policies and legislation infused with the principles of limited government, free markets, and individual freedom. Source: Young Guns, by Reps. Ryan, Cantor & McCarthy, p. vii-ix , Sep 14, 2010 Profiled in "Jews in American Politics". Cantor is profiled in the book "Jews in American Politics": When one reads accounts of Jews in American politics, the common theme is that Jews have achieved prominence in art, literature, academia, certain businesses, and entertainment, but not in politics or government. The Jewish politician was the exception, not the rule. In the last third of the 20th century, however, that pattern changed. By 2000, Jews had become as prominent in the political realm as they have been in other aspects of American life. And Jewish participation is accepted for the contributions these activists make, not because of their Jewishness. Nothing could symbolize this trend more cogently than the nomination of Joseph Lieberman for vice president in 2000 and the national reaction to his candidacy. [Lieberman says]: Although politics was not exactly a Jewish profession, individual Jews did throw themsleves into the democratic process. Some were traditional politicians; others machine politicians. Many more, such as Emma Goldman and the radicals of the early 20th century, were inspired by the ideal that they had a duty to repair the world—Tikkun Olam. Many reasons account for the broader representation of Jews in American civic life today. The forces of antisemitism have been relegated to the extreme margins of society, the principle of meritocracy has increasingly opened the doors of opportunity. Moreover, the idealism and purpose that were spawned by the movements for civil rights, opposition to the war in Vietnam, environmentalism, and other causes drew many Jewish Americans into the political arena. Jews are admonished tp help perfect the world by the ancient wisdom of Rabbi Tarfon, who tells us, “You are not required to complete the task, yet you are not free to withdaw from it.” [This book] provides brief biographical sketches for more than 400 Jews who have played prominent roles in American political life. The roster provides much of the basic information that we felt was previously lacking in one place. Source: Jews in American Politics, Sandy Maisels, ed., pp. xii-xxiii 01-JIAP0 on Jan 1, 2001 Member of the House Republican Young Guns. Cantor is a member House Republican Young Guns The new generation of pro-market, small government leaders filled such a need that in October 2007, Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard profiled Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy and christened them the "young guns." Kevin approached Eric & Paul about the idea of traveling together, as "Young Guns", to visit Republican candidates interested in a new approach for the party. What began as an informal way to support like-minded candidates became a more formal structure. Once the three Representatives had studied the candidate and given their support to become a Young Gun, they committed to providing financial support through their campaign committees. Existing House Republicans were approached with a simple pitch: Are we willing to help ourselves by being proactive and going on the offense to change this House? Dozens of our House Republican colleagues joined the Young Gun effort as one of the many signs that the Republican Party had shifted. Source: Young Guns 10-HRYG on Sep 14, 2010 Member of the Tea Party movement. Cantor is a member the Tea Party movement The Tea Party movement is a populist conservative social movement in the United States that emerged in 2009 through a series of locally and nationally coordinated protests. The protests were partially in response to several Federal laws: the stimulus package; te healthcare bill; and the TARP bailouts. The name "Tea Party" refers to the Boston Tea Party of 1773, the source of the phrase, "No Taxation Without Representation." Source: Tea Party movement 10-Tea on Aug 11, 2010 Click here for HouseMatch answers by Eric Cantor. Click here for a summary of Eric Cantor's positions on all issues. Click here for a summary of Eric Cantor's positions on the AmericansElect.org quiz. Click here for contact information for Eric Cantor. Click here for a Wikipedia profile of Eric Cantor. Click here for a Ballotpedia profile of Eric Cantor. Click here for other VA politicians. Click here for VA primary archives. Click here for VA secondary archives. 2016-17 Governor, House and Senate candidates on Principles & Values: Eric Cantor on other issues: VA Gubernatorial: Bob McDonnell Robert Sarvis VA Senatorial: Ed Gillespie James Webb Newly-elected Democrats taking office Jan.2017: WA-7:Jayapal(D) Newly-elected Republicans taking office Jan.2017: VA politicians VA Archives	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13957
__label__wiki	0.745562	0.745562	Tag Archives: DR VON HAGENS BODY WORLDS EXHIBITION NETFLIX UK DARK TOURIST ATTRACTION, HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, LITTLEDEAN JAIL, FOREST OF DEAN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, GL14 3NL … THE ASSASSINATION OF THE AMERICAN BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST MARTIN LUTHER KING – 4 APRIL 1968 Posted on May 15, 2019 by CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION “I HAVE A DREAM” …. REVEREND, DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL WE TOUCH UPON AND FEATURE A NUMBER OF CONTROVERSIAL AND HISTORIC ASSASSINATIONS OF SOME OF THE ICONIC FIGUREHEADS THROUGHOUT TIME INCLUDING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FEATURED HERE BELOW . ABOVE AND BELOW : ORIGINAL OIL PAINTINGS BY OUR IN-HOUSE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARTIST PAUL BRIDGMAN HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL … THIS ALONG WITH A MASS OF TRUE CRIME , MURDERABILIA, AND OTHER ASSOCIATED MEMORABILIA IS ALL HERE ON DISPLAY AS PART OF A HOPEFULLY EDUCATIONAL INSIGHT DURING ONE’S VISIT TO THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION HERE AT THE JAIL MARTIN LUTHER KING ASSASSINATED ON THE BALCONY OUTSIDE HIS ROOM AT THE LORRAINE MOTEL , MEMPHIS USA MARTIN LUTHER KING IN HIS COFFIN SHORTLY BEFORE FUNERAL MARTIN LUTHER KING POLICE MUGSHOT AT TIME OF A PREVIOUS ARREST Michael King, Jr. April 4, 1968 (aged 39) Memphis, Tennessee, United States Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Morehouse College (B.A.) Crozer Theological Seminary (B.D.) Boston University (Ph.D.) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Influenced by Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln,Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,Benjamin Mays, Hosea Williams,Bayard Rustin, Henry David Thoreau, Howard Thurman, Leo Tolstoy Political movement African-American Civil Rights Movement, Peace movement Baptist (Progressive National Baptist Convention) Coretta Scott King (m. 1953–68) Yolanda Denise-King (deceased) Dexter Scott King Bernice Albertine King Martin Luther King, Sr. Alberta Williams King Nobel Peace Prize (1964),Presidential Medal of Freedom(1977, posthumous), Congressional Gold Medal (2004, posthumous) Martin Luther King is probably the most famous person associated with the civil rights movement. King was active from the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 to 1956 until his murder in April 1968. To many Martin Luther King epitomised what the civil rights campaign was all about and he brought massive international cover to the movement. Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15th, 1929. The church was very much a part of his life as both his father and grandfather had been Baptist preachers. They themselves were involved in the civil rights movement. By the standards of the time, King came from a reasonably comfortable background and after graduating from college in 1948 he was not sure about which profession to join. He considered a career in medicine and law but rejected both and joined the Baptist Church. He studied at the Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. It was while studying here, that King learned about the non-violent methods used by Mahatma Gandhi against the British in India. King became convinced that such methods would be of great value to the civil rights movement. After leaving Crozer, King got married to Coretta Scott. He became a Baptist pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was in Montgomery at the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He was appointed the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association which was created during the boycott and he became a prominent leader of the boycott – even driving some of the black community to work as the buses had been boycotted. King was arrested for starting a boycott (an arrestable offence as a result of an obscure law that was very rarely used) and fined $500 with $500 costs. His house was fire-bombed and others involved with MIA were also intimidated – but by the end of 1956, segregation had been lifted in Montgomery and bus integration had been introduced. Another result of the boycott was the establishment of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). This organisation was committed to the use of non-violence and its motto was “Not one hair of one head of one person should be harmed.” Martin Luther King was elected its president. The importance of the SCLC’s involvement was simply because the churches that represented the black population in the South were potent organisations. Now that they had combined their power and influence, this power was multiplied. Not long after the conclusion of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, King wrote ‘Stride Towards Freedom’. This was read by some students at Greensboro, North Carolina and they started the student sit-in of the Woolworth’s lunch counter which had a policy of not serving African-Americans. Though the students were frequently abused and assaulted, they never fought back. The same tactic – a non-violent response to violence – was also used by the Freedom Riders in their campaign to desegregate transport. Buoyed by this response, King toured the country making speeches and urging more and more people to get involved in the civil rights movement. King had also noted the economic power that the black community had – as was seen in Montgomery. He tried to get communities to use companies/individual shop keepers etc. who were sympathetic to the civil rights campaign but also to boycott those who were not. King also placed great faith in the power of the vote. Many black Americans in the South still faced enormous problems doing something as basic as registering to vote such was the intimidation they faced. In Mississippi, 42% of the state’s population was black but only 2% registered to vote in the 1960 election. However, more and more did register throughout the South and in 1960, their support (70%) helped to give the Democrat J F Kennedy the narrowest of victories over Richard Nixon. In 1963, Kennedy proposed his civil rights bill. To persuade Congress to support this bill, King, with other civil rights leaders, organised the legendary March on Washington. Baynard Rustin was given overall control of the march. The march – officially the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom – was a major success. Held on August 28th, 1963, it attracted between 250,000 and 400,000 people. The final speaker was Martin Luther King and it was here that he made his legendary ‘I have a Dream’ speech which was heard throughout the world and did a huge amount to publicise the civil rights movement in America across the world. Congress did accept Kennedy’s civil rights bill and it became the 1964 Civil Rights Act – a far reaching act that many saw as a fitting tribute to the assassinated Kennedy. King then moved on to a bill that would guarantee the voting rights of the black community in America. This led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. From this time on, King became more and more concerned with the poverty of those in America – both black and white. For whatever reason, King became more radical – or so it seemed to those who distrusted him. He used the word “revolution” in some of his speeches and he voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War. King also became involved in trade union issues. King had clearly made enemies in his rise to fame. At the most basic level, the KKK did what they could to tarnish his name in the South. However, it was the work done by the FBI under the leadership of J Edgar Hoover that did most damage. Rooms where King stayed during his travels were bugged and recordings of his alleged sexual improprieties were made. The FBI released such details to the press. On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead by an assassin. His death sparked off riots in many cities and 46 people were killed during these. In March 1969, James Earl Ray was found guilty of King’s murder and sentenced to 99 years in prison. Many years after starting his sentence, Ray claimed that he was innocent and that he could not have killed King. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY The Black Panther Party, originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. 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INCIDENTALLY , THE FIRST RECORDED DEATH OF A SERVING PARISH CONSTABLE (FORERUNNERS TO THE POLICE FORCE ) IN THE FOREST OF DEAN WAS HENRY THOMPSON IN THE PARISH OF RUARDEAN , 14 MAY 1817 , AGED 31 . FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE HISTORY OF THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE POLICE FORCE PLEASE CLICK ON THE TWO LINKS HERE OR HERE BELOW …. A BRIEF LOOK AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL, FEATURING VARIOUS POLICE MANNEQUINS AND OTHER POLICE MEMORABILIA DISPLAYS . HERE’S JUST A BRIEF PICTORIAL INSIGHT INTO SOME OF THE BRITISH POLICE MEMORABILIA AND EPHEMERA ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL WHICH COVERS THE HISTORY OF THE POLICE THROUGH THE AGES . THIS COLLECTION IS BELIEVED TO BE ONE OF THE LARGEST PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF POLICE MEMORABILIA IN THE UK . WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF VINTAGE HAND PAINTED TRUNCHEONS , RESTRAINTS , HELMETS, BADGES, UNIFORMS AND MUCH MORE . SEE BELOW FOR PICTORIAL SLIDESHOW OF A FEW EXHIBITS ON DISPLAY SEE BELOW VIDEO FOR EDUCATIONAL INSIGHT INTO THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH POLICE A SUPERB PIECE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE POLICE CRIME SCENE MEMORABILIA ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL JUST ONE OF A GREAT MANY BRITISH POLICE MEMORABILIA ITEMS THROUGH THE AGES ON DISPLAY IN ONE OF THE UK’S LARGEST PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF LAW AND ORDER MATERIAL . BELOW IS AN IMAGE OF WHAT IS BELIEVED TO BE ONE OF THE VERY FEW SURVIVING VINTAGE GLOUCESTERSHIRE CONSTABULARY’S FINGERPRINT KITS (CIRCA 1940’S) . COMPLETE WITH IT’S ORIGINAL BOX, INKS, ROLLER, POWDERS AND BRUSHES ETC .ALSO VARIOUS APPROPRIATE DOCUMENTATION FOR FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE PURPOSES . FOR MORE INFORMATION AND PICTURES RELATING TO THIS ITEM CLICK HERE Picture By: Jules Annan Picture Shows:GLOUCESTERSHIRE POLICE FINGERPRINT KIT CIRCA 1940’S Date 25TH September 2011 Ref: World Rights Only Unbylined uses will incur an additional discretionary fee! A short history of British Police focusing on truncheon and armour – Arms in Action ORIGINAL PAINTING BY GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARTIST PAUL BRIDGMAN DEPICTING WPC YVONNE FLETCHER, WHO WAS FATALLY SHOT OUTSIDE THE LIBYAN EMBASSY , ST JAMES SQUARE, LONDON IN 1984 . THIS PAINTING IS ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL. PC DAVID RATHBAND WHO WAS SHOT AND BLINDED BY RAOUL MOAT PERSONAL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BRITISH POLICE The word “Police” means, generally, the arrangements made in all civilised countries to ensure that the inhabitants keep the peace and obey the law. The word also denotes the force of peace officers (or police) employed for this purpose. In 1829 Sir Richard Mayne wrote: “The primary object of an efficient police is the prevention of crime: the next that of detection and punishment of offenders if crime is committed. To these ends all the efforts of police must be directed. The protection of life and property, the preservation of public tranquillity, and the absence of crime, will alone prove whether those efforts have been successful and whether the objects for which the police were appointed have been attained.” In attaining these objects, much depends on the approval and co-operation of the public, and these have always been determined by the degree of esteem and respect in which the police are held. One of the key principles of modern policing in Britain is that the police seek to work with the community and as part of the community. Origins of policing The origin of the British police lies in early tribal history and is based on customs for securing order through the medium of appointed representatives. In effect, the people were the police. The Saxons brought this system to England and improved and developed the organisation. This entailed the division of the people into groups of ten, called “tythings”, with a tything-man as representative of each; and into larger groups, each of ten tythings, under a “hundred-man” who was responsible to the Shire-reeve, or Sheriff, of the County. The tything-man system, after contact with Norman feudalism, changed considerably but was not wholly destroyed. In time the tything-man became the parish constable and the Shire-reeve the Justice of the Peace, to whom the parish constable was responsible. This system, which became widely established in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, comprised, generally, one unarmed able-bodied citizen in each parish, who was appointed or elected annually to serve for a year unpaid, as parish constable. He worked in co-operation with the local Justices in securing observance of laws and maintaining order. In addition, in the towns, responsibility for the maintenance of order was conferred on the guilds and, later, on other specified groups of citizens, and these supplied bodies of paid men, known as “The Watch”, for guarding the gates and patrolling the streets at night. In the eighteenth century came the beginnings of immense social and economic changes and the consequent movement of the population to the towns. The parish constable and “Watch” systems failed completely and the impotence of the law-enforcement machinery was a serious menace. Conditions became intolerable and led to the formation of the “New Police”. The Metropolitan Police In 1829, when Sir Robert Peel was Home Secretary, the first Metropolitan Police Act was passed and the Metropolitan Police Force was established. This new force superseded the local Watch in the London area but the City of London was not covered. Even within the Metropolitan Police District there still remained certain police establishments, organised during the eighteenth century, outside the control of the Metropolitan Police Office, viz:- The Bow Street Patrols, mounted and foot, the latter commonly called the “Bow Street runners”. Police Office constables attached to the offices of, and under the control of, the Magistrates. The Marine or River Police. By 1839 all these establishments had been absorbed by the Metropolitan Police Force. The City of London Police, which was set up in 1839, remains an independent force to this day. HISTORY OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE Time Line 1829 – 1849 Until 1829, law enforcement had been lacking in organisation. As London expanded during the 18th and 19th centuries the whole question of maintaining law and order had become a matter of public concern. In 1812, 1818 and 1822, Parliamentary committees were appointed to investigate the subject of crime and policing. But it was not until 1828 when Sir Robert Peel set up his committee that the findings paved the way for his police Bill, which led to the setting up of an organised police service in London. 1829 The formation of the Metropolitan Police Force on 29 September 1829 by Sir Robert Peel. Sir Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne are appointed as Justices of the Peace in charge of the Force.1830PC Joseph Grantham becomes first officer to be killed on duty, at Somers Town, Euston. The Metropolitan Police ranks were increased considerably to 3,300 men.1831Further riots. A crowd attacks Apsley House, home of the Duke of Wellington, and break all the windows. The police eventually restore order.1832Richard Mayne, the Commissioner, tries to clarify the roles of the Magistrates and the Commissioners as the Bow Street Runners continue their existance.1833Coldbath Fields Riot (Grays Inn Road). A major crowd disturbance was dealt with by the Metropolitan Police with controversial use of force. PC Robert Culley was killed at this event, and the jury returned a verdict of Justifiable Homicide. 1834The Select Committee designated with the task of inquiring into the state of the Police of the Metropolis reported ‘that the Metropolitan Police Force, as respects its influence in repressing crime and the security it has given to persons and property, is one of the most valuable modern institutions’ 1835In October a fire breaks out at the Millbank Penitentiary and 400 Metropolitan Police officers and a detachment of the Guards are called to restore order. This prompted the press to call for the police to be put in command at all large fires. 1836The Metropolitan Police absorb the Bow Street Horse Patrol into its control. 1837Select Committee appointed to look into the affairs of the police offices. They also propose that the City of London be placed under the control of the Metropolitan Police. 1838Select Committee finally reports and recommends incorporating of Marine Police and Bow Street Runners into the Metropolitan Police and the disbandment of the Bow Street Office and other Offices. These were all agreed and put into effect. 1839The two Justices of the Peace, Rowan and Mayne are termed Commissioners by the Metropolitan Police Act 1839. Enlargement of the Metropolitan Police District by the same Act .1840Gould Interrogation case in which Police Sergeant Otway attempts induced self-incrimination in the accused, which is immediately discountenanced by the Courts and Commissioner Richard Mayne. 1841Formation of Dockyard divisions of the Metropolitan police .1842Formation of the Detective Department .1843The Woolwich Arsenal became part of the area to be patrolled by the Metropolitan Police .1844Richard Mayne, Commissioner, called to give evidence to the Select Committee on Dogs. He stated that in the Metropolis there were a rising number of lost or stolen dogs. In the preceding year over 600 dogs were lost and 60 stolen. He declared the law to be in a very unsatisfactory state as people paid money for restoration of dogs. ‘People pay monies to parties whom they have reason to believe have either stolen or enticed them away in order to get the reward…’ Mayne believed it to be organised crime. 1845The Commissioners, in returns to the Home Office, states that the aim of the Force was to have one Policeman to 450 head of population. 1846Plain clothes officers were frequently used at this time, but a June order made clear that two officers per division would be employed on detective duties, but that police in plain clothes must make themselves known if interfered with in their duty. 1847Statistics for the year were; 14,091 robberies; 62,181 people taken in charge, 24,689 of these were summarily dealt with; 5,920 stood trial and 4,551 were convicted and sentenced; 31,572 people were discharged by the magistrates. The Metropolitan Police were still, despite their good record on crime prevention, facing discipline problems amongst their officers on the 18 divisions, with 238 men being dismissed in the year. 1848Large scale enrolement of Special constables to assist the Metropolitan Police in controlling the Chartist Demonstrations .1849Authorised strength 5,493. In reality 5,288 were available for duty. The population at this time in London was 2,473,758. 1850 Retirement of Sir Charles Rowan as joint Commissioner. Captain William Hay is appointed in his place. 1851 The Great Exhibition with its special crowd problems forces the police to temporarily form a new police division. The total manpower of the force at this time was 5,551, covering 688 square miles. 1852 Sir Charles Rowan, first joint Commissioner, dies. In his obituary note of 24 May The Times wrote: “No individual of any rank or station could be more highly esteemed or loved when living, or more regretted in death.” 1853 Lord Dudley Stuart, MP for Marylebone and a persistent critic of the police, suggests in Parliament that the police are not worth the money they cost. He recommends that they be reduced in numbers, and a higher class of officers be recruited to control the constables. 1854 Out of 5,700 in the Metropolitan Force, 2.5% were Scottish, 6.5% Irish. The Commissioner was not happy about employing these officers in areas of high Scottish or Irish ethnic concentrations. 1855 Death of Captain William Hay. Sir Richard Mayne becomes sole Commissioner. 1856 Detective Force increased to 10 men, with an extra Inspector and Sergeant. 1857 The Commissioner Richard Mayne is paid a salary of £1,883, and his two Assistant Commissioners are paid salaries of £800 each. 1858 First acquisition of Police van for conveying prisoners. These were horse drawn, and known as‘Black Marias’. 1859 Police orders of 6 January state “It is a great gratification to the Commissioner that the number of police guilty of the offence of drunkenness during the late Christmas holidays has been much lower than last year… In A, F and R Division only one man was reported in each, and in H Division not one man was reported in the present or last year..” 1860 Police begin the occasional use of hand ambulances for injured, sick or drunk people. Accommodation or ‘ambulance sheds’ are later provided for these in police station yards. 1861 Police orders on the 25 January made allowance for one third of Metropolitan Police officers in Dockyards “to be relieved each Sunday, to give them an opportunity of attending Divine Service…” The Metropolitan Police act as firemen at the British Museum. The Superintendent in charge said of them “From their manner of doing the work, I should be inclined to place considerable confidence in these men in an emergency.” 1862Further expansion in the Metropolitan Police with the formations of the X and W Divisions in the west, and Y Division in the north 1863Drunkenness is still a problem in the force, and in this year 215 officers were dismissed for this reason .1864Execution of 5 pirates of the ship ‘Flowery Land’ at Newgate. The Metropolitan Police supply nearly 800 officers to keep the peace. 1865Further extensions of the Metropolitan Police District in terms of the area patrolled in north east London. 1866 3,200 police under the command of Commissioner Richard Mayne were used to control a serious riot in Hyde Park. 28 police were permanently disabled, and Mayne was hit by a stone which cut his head open. He was forced to call in the Military to restore order .1867The Metropolitan Police are severely criticised after Commissioner Richard Mayne ignores a warning about the Clerkenwell bombing by the Fenians. Mayne offers his resignation, but it is refused.1868Death of Commissioner Sir Richard Mayne. Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Labalmondiere acts as Commissioner. 1869Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Henderson appointed Commissioner. 1870 The standard height for Metropolitan Police officers is raised to 5ft 8ins, except for Thames Division, where it is 5ft 7ins. 1871 As a result of frequent larcenies of linen, the Commissioner Edmund Henderson said, on the 21 April, “Constables are to call at the houses of all persons on their beats having wet linen in their gardens, and caution them of the risk they run in having them stolen…” 1872 Police strike for the first time. Various men are disciplined or dismissed, although these latter are later allowed back in to the Force. 1873 The Metropolitan Police acquire 9 new stations : North Woolwich, Rodney Road (Lock’s Fields), Chislehurst, Finchley, Isleworth, Putney, South Norwood, Harrow and Enfield Town. 1874 A survey of recruiting over a 2 year period showed that of those who had joined the force; 31% came from land jobs, 12% from military services, and 5% from other police jobs. The remainder came mostly from manual jobs. The majority of recruits and serving officers came from outside of London. 1875 New police offices at Great Scotland Yard are taken possession of on 4 October 1875 by the Detective and Public Carriage Departments. 1876 8 January the following order was released : “Relief from duty during severe weather – dufing the present severe weather as much indulgence as possible is to be given to the men on night duty, due regard being had to public safety..” 1877 Trial of the Detectives or Turf Fraud Scandal exposes corruption within the Force. 1878 Charles Vincent was appointed Director of Criminal Investigations, the reformed Detective Branch which became known as C.I.D. 1879 Initial rules for dealing with Murder cases, released on 7 June, stated “the body must not be moved, nor anything about it or in the room or place interfered with, and the public must be excluded..” 1880 Formation of the Convict Supervision Office for the assistance and control of convicts discharged upon license. 1881 Possibly London’s most famous police station, Bow Street, was rebuilt in this year. 1882 The growth of London and the area needing policing is illustrated in Tottenham, (Y Division) when 8 miles of new streets are formed in a year with nearly 4,000 houses on them. The Metropolitan Police at Devonport Dockyard illustrate the diversity of the role of the force as the Police Fire Brigade has its busiest year since formation with 6 major fires .1883Special Irish Branch formed .1884A bomb explodes at Scotland Yard planted by the Fenians. The Special Irish Branch are hit. 1885The strength of the force at this time was 13,319, but statistics show that only 1,383 officers were available for beat duty in the day. The population of London at this time was 5,255,069.Public outrage at the explosions at the Tower of London and Houses of Parliament. Two men are sentenced to penal servitude for life as a result. 1886Trafalgar Square riot forces resignation of the Commissioner Sir Edmund Henderson. 1887Major riot in Trafalgar Square, known as ‘Bloody Sunday’, the first test for the new Commissioner Sir Charles Warren, appointed the previous year. 1888Sir Charles Warren resigns after a dispute with the Home Office, and James Monro is appointed Commissioner in his place. Jack the Ripper murders in the Whitechapel area.1889The last of the so called “Whitechapel” murders is discovered with the death in Castle Alley on 17 July of Alice McKenzie. 1890 Opening of the new headquarters at the Norman Shaw Building on the Embankment known as New Scotland Yard. Police strike at Bow Street Police Station. Sir Edward Bradford is appointed Commissioner after the resignation of James Monro. 1891The Public Carriage and Lost Property Offices move from Great Scotland Yard to the new offices at New Scotland Yard on the 21 March. 1892Dismissals and rank and pay reductions were common at this point, and the case of Pc379A Best whose resignation on 21 July illustrates how the Metropolitan Police attempted to keep its men in order. He was “in possession of a tea-can, the property of another constable, obliterating the owners number, substituting his own name and number, telling a deliberate falsehood in connection therewith; and considered unfit for the police force ”1893PC George Cooke, a serving officer, is convicted for murder and hanged. 1894The Alphonse Bertillon system of identification comes into operation.1895To join the Metropolitan Police the following qualifications were necessary: to be over 21 and under 27 years of age to stand clear 5ft 9ins without shoes or stockings to be able to read well, write legibly and have a fair knowledge of spelling to be generally intelligent to be free from any bodily complaint The bodily complaints for which candidates were rejected included; flat foot, stiffness of joints, narrow chest and deformities of the face. 1896Public Carriage Office and Lost Property Offices amalgamate under the designation ‘Public Carriage Branch’. 1897Metropolitan Police Officers granted a boot allowance instead of being supplied with boots. Police boots at this time were loathed, only Sir Edward Bradford, the Commissioner, believing them suitable. 1898After a series of assaults and the murder of PC Baldwin in the vicinity of the Kingsland Road, there are calls for the Metropolitan Police to be armed with revolvers. 1899High rate of suicides amongst officers. This is blamed by certain commentators on harsh discipline and insensitive handling of the men. As the century draws to a close it is worth noting that the Metropolitan Police on formation in 1829 had a force of about 3,000 men, and by 1899 16,000. The population of London had grown from 1,500,000 to 7 million. 1900Construction of a new floating police station at Waterloo Pier.Lord Belper Committee inquire into the best system of identification of possible criminals .1901The Fingerprint Bureau commences operation after the findings of the Belper Report. Anthropometric measurements under the Bertillon system are still used, but begin to decline in importance. 1902The coronation of King Edward VII makes major demands on the police, resulting in 512 police pensioners being recalled for duty. Extra pay, leave and a medal were granted to all serving officers. 1903Sir Edward Bradford retires as Commissioner to be replaced by Edward Henry. 19046 new stations buildt at East Ham, Hackney, John Street, Muswell Hill, North Woolwich and Tower Bridge. 1 is near completion and 2 other started. Major works take place on 23 other stations. 1905An article in Police Review mentions that Pc William Hallett of Y Division, who had retired after 26 years as a mounted officer, had ridden 144,000 miles or more than 5 times around the world in the course of his duty. 1906The Metropolitan Police at this stage in their history are on duty for 13 days a fortnight and have an additional leave of 10 days. 1907Clash between the Metropolitan Police and 800 Suffragettes outside the House of Commons on 13 February. Mounted and Foot officers are used to disperse them, and allegations of brutality are made. 1908Police Review reports “the authorities at Scotland Yard have been seriously discussing the use of dogs as the constable companion and help, and Sir Edward Henry (Commissioner), who regards the innovation sympathetically, considers the only crucial objection to be the sentimental prejudices of the public.” 1909The Tottenham Outrage occurs, in the course of which PC William Tyler and a 10 year old boy are shot dead by anarchists. 1910 Radio Telegraphy used for the first time, resulting in the capture of Doctor Crippen. The miners strike in South Wales results in many Metropolitan Police officers assisting to maintain law and order. 1911The Siege of Sidney Street results in armed Metropolitan Police officers taking to the streets with the military to deal with armed anarchist criminals. 1912Assassination attempt on the life of the Commissioner, Sir Edward Henry. Establishment of the Metropolitan Police Special Constabulary on a permanent basis. 1913The Commissioner calls for legislation to be introduced to restrict the trade in pistols following the assassination attempt on his own life. 1914With the outbreak of war, 24,000 Special Constables are sworn in, and by the end of the year there are 31,000. Annual leave is suspended for the first year of the war. Women Police founded in this year. 1915London Ambulance Service commences operation, taking over some of the duties originally performed by the Metropolitan Police. However, police in this year convey over 11,000 people to hospital. 1916The Commissioner Sir Edward Henry signs a Police Order in November stating that any member of the Metropolitan Police renders himself liable to dismissal by joining a union. 1917At this point in WW1, some 2,300 members of the Metropolitan Police were serving in the armed services. 1918Major strike of Metropolitan Police in search of better pay and conditions, and union recognition. Sir Edward Henry resigns as Commissioner, and is replaced by Sir Nevil Macready. 1919Macready crushes a further police strike. Women Police Patrols appointed. Formation of Flying Squad. 1920Sir Nevil Macready retires as Commissioner, and is replaced by Brigadier-General Sir William Horwood. 1921The Police Pensions Act comes into force, fixing an age limit for each rank at which retirement shall be compulsory. Z Division formed on the South side of the River Thames. 1922Commissioner Horwood admits that many of the men taken into the force in 1919 to replace strikers and those in the armed forces have given trouble due to neglecting their beats and drunkenness. The Commissioner also comments on the growth in consumption of methylated spirits, with 80 convictions this year. Women Constables reduced to an establishment of 20. 1923First Cup Final at Wembley leads to major crowd problems, controlled by the Mounted Branch. Billy, the White Horse of Wembley, and his rider Pc George Scorey become a legend. 1924The Commissioner explains in his Annual Report how the social status of a Metropolitan policeman has been raised due to his conditions of employment. 1925The Metropolitan Police begin to withdraw from policing dockyards (including Rosyth, Pembroke, Deptford Dockyards) and War Department Stations. Sir James Olive retires from his position as an Assistant Commissioner after 53 years service. 1926Attempt to assasinate Commissioner Horwood with poisoned chocolates 1927Public Carriage Office transfered to Lambeth 1928Retirement of Brigadier-General Sir William Horwood. Viscount Byng of Vimy appointed new Commissioner. 1929Centenery of Metropolitan Police celebrated with a parade in Hyde Park and inspection by HRH the Prince of Wales. The Police Box system commences on an experimental basis in Richmond and Wood Green. 1930 Large number of men posted to Motor Patrol work: 4 subdivisional Inspectors, 31 Sergeants, and 324 Constables. 1931 Commissioner Byng retires. Lord Trenchard appointed. 1932 Lord Trenchard abolishes the timed Beat System and sets out his thoughts about the Metropolitan Police Personnel recruitment and promotion system. 1933 Trenchard begins his programme for the improvement of Section Houses. 1934 The Metropolitan Police College opens at Hendon. Metropolitan Police withdraw from Devonport Dockyard, bringing to a close its presence in HM Dockyards. 1935Metropolitan Police Forensic Laboratory opened. Lord Trenchard retires as Commissioner, and Sir Philip Game is appointed in his place. 1936The Battle of Cable Street involves the Metropolitan Police in street battles with opposing political factions. 1937The 999 system is introduced. 1938Civil Defence starts with the formation of two Reserves in the event of war. The first are retired officers, the second Special Constables. 1939I.R.A. activity results in 59 explosions in the Metropolitan Police District. 55 people are convicted for these offences. 194098 Metropolitan Police officers killed during air raids. Click here to read about the MPS officer murdered in Hyde Park during the war 1941Air raid bombings continue, and Holloway police station is destroyed. Somers Town, Sydenham and Brixton stations are too badly damaged to be used. 1942Police officers allowed to volunteer for the Armed Forces. 1943In an attempt to curb housebreaking, the Commissioner Sir Philip Game asks people not to keep furs, saying “they are no doubt warmer, and look nicer than a tweed coat, but a live dog is better than a dead lion. ”1944Looting reaches an all time record. 1945Sir Philip Game retires and is replaced as Commissioner by Harold Scott .1946The Metropolitan and City Police Company Fraud Department is formed. 1947Metropolitan Police face a deficiency of 4,730 men as a result of the war. 1948Indictable crime rate falls to 126,000 crimes, but this is still 40% higher than before the war. 1949Lord Oakseys committee reports on police pay, recommending small increases and London weighting. 1950 The Metropolitan Police Roll of Honour is unveiled at Westminster Abbey by the Queen, displaying the names of officers killed in the 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 wars. 1951 Commissioner Harold Scott introduces training of cadets aged 16 – 18 to become police officers. 1952 The Dixon Report advocates many changes in the Metropolitan Police, including greater civilianisation. 1953 Sir Harold Scott retires, and is replaced as Commissioner by Sir John Nott-Bower. 1954 Serious understaffing problems, with the force consisting of only 16,000 and needing an estimated 4,000 men, mainly Police Constables. 1955 Formation of the Central Traffic Squad, consisting of 100 men. 1956 Flying Squad makes over 1,000 arrests, a record since its formation. 1957 New Information Room opens at New Scotland Yard. 1958 Sir John Nott-Bower retires as Commissioner. He is replaced by Joseph Simpson. 1959 Indictable offences reach over 160,000, the highest recorded to date. 1960 Traffic Wardens introduced. Criminal Intelligence Section and Stolen Motor Vehicle Investigation branches established. 1961The Receivers Office moved from Scotland House to new premises at Tintagel House. The Minicab arrives on the London scene, and the Metropolitan Police obtain 24 convictions for illegal plying for hire. 1962The rate of indictable crimes for this year reaches an all time high – 214,120. The series ‘Police 5′, designed to prevent crime, begins on BBC. 1963The Commissioner, Joseph Simpson, stresses the need for the Beat system to reduce motorised patrols and deter incidents of crime. The first computer to be used by the Met (an ICT 1301) was set up in the office of the Receiver for use on pay and crime statistics. 1964The worst year so far this century for crime, with over a quarter of a million indictable crimes. Regional Crime Squads formed. Police face major criticism and complaints as a result of the Challenor Case, in which a policeman was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and made infamous for planting evidence .1965Special Patrol Group formed consisting of 100 officers. It arrested 396 people in its first 9 months of operation. 1966The Commissioner’s Office and the Receiver’s Office are combined. 3 Metropolitan Police officers murdered at Shepherds Bush. 1967The headquarters is moved from the Norman Shaw Building to a new building in Broadway, just off Victoria Street. The name of New Scotland Yard is retained. Norwell Roberts joins the Met as the first black police officer. He retired after 30 years service with the rank of Detective Sergeant and received the QPM in 1996.1968Sir Joseph Simpson dies in service, and is replaced as Commissioner b y John Waldron. 1969MPS officers sent to offer assistance in the Anguilla crisis. Serious Crime Squad becomes permanent. 1970 Clear up rate on indictable crimes reaches 28%, the best since 1957. 1971 The Commissioner (John Waldron) in his annual report said “With deep and lasting traditions the Metropolitan Police is an impressive institution by every standard and in any company in the world.” 1972 Sir John Waldron is succeeded as Commissioner by Robert Mark. 1973 Robert Mark works to restore the integrity of the Metropolitan Police, and 90 officers leave as a result. Mark establishes better relations with the media by setting out a policy of openness. Women police are integrated directly into the force. 1974The Peel Centre at Hendon is modernised and reopended as the Training School .1975Robert Mark makes an appeal on television for ethnic recruits. Balcombe Street and Spaghetti House sieges were both brought to successful conclusions by the Met. 1976Major riot at Notting Hill Carnival, in which more than 400 officers and civilian staff were injured. 1977David McNee becomes Commissioner after the retirement of Sir Robert Mark. 1978An inquiry into police pay by Lord Edmund-Davies results in higher allowances and better pay to officers. 1979The Metropolitan Police celebrates its 150th Anniversary. A new Force Inspectorate is formed, to provide a close and continuing assessment of the efficiency of all units of the force. 1980Iranian Embassy siege brought to a successful conclusion after co-operation between the Met and the Special Air Service Regiment. Formation of Metropolitan Air Support Unit with its own Bell 222 helicopter. 1981Brixton Riots involve the Metropolitan Police in the largest civil disturbance this century. 1982Sir David McNee retires as Commissioner to be replaced by Sir Kenneth Newman. 1983With the aid of the MPS Policy Committee Sir Kenneth Newman devises a new statement of the Principles of Policing, and in doing so changes the emphasis from the primary objectives of policing established by Richard Mayne and Sir Charles Rowan in 1829. 1984PC Jon Gordon lost both legs and part of a hand in the IRA bomb attack on Harrods in 1983. On 10 December 1984 he resumed duty by walking unaided up the steps to his new office. Whilst policing a demonstration in St James’s Square, WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot in the back and mortally wounded by shots fired from the Libyan People’s Bureau. WPC Fletcher’s murder led to the creation of the Police Memorial Trust, an organisation dedicated to placing memorials at the locations of fallen officers 1985Tottenham Riots (also known as ‘Broadwater Farm’ riot) result in the murder of PC Keith Blakelock. 1986Identification Parade screens introduced at Clapham police station. The Police and Criminal Evidence Act comes into force in January. Mounted Branch celebrates its 150th anniversary. 1987Sir Kenneth Newman retires, and is replaced as Commissioner by Peter Imbert. 1988The Commissioner stresses the need for close community liaison between the Police and Consultative Groups to foster the police / public partnership. 1989‘Plus Programme’ launched to improve the corporate image and quality of the service of the Metropolitan Police. It significantly altered attitudes within the MPS, and included the Statement of Common Purpose and Values. 1990 Riot in Trafalgar Square mirrors the 1887 riot in the same location. 1991 Sector Policing introduced, involving a team of officers with a continuing responsibility for the same small community area or sector. 1992 First 5 year Corporate Strategy published in February. 1993 Sir Peter Imbert retires, and is replaced as Commissioner by Sir Paul Condon. Operation Bumblebee introduced on the 1 June and has a considerable impact on burglary in the capital. The Charter is launched in September, defining the role of the Police and public expectation 1994Metropolitan Police Service key objectives established for the first time by the Government, plus key performance indicators. 1995Metropolitan Police Committee formed on 1 April. Crime Report Information System (CRIS) introduced. It revolutionises the means of recording crimes. 1996‘The London Beat’ published. The MPS launches its Website at www.met.police.uk. Click here to find out more about this website. 1997Installation of N.A.F.I.S. the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System. 1998The Metropolitan Police launch the Policing Diversity Strategy in response to the majority of issues raised into the Inquiry into the death of Stephen Lawrence. The aim is to provide better protection to ethnic communities from racial and violent crime and demonstrate fairness in every aspect of policing. 1999The handling of the Greek Embassy siege demonstrates the professionalism of the Metropolitan Police Service. Time Line 2000-2009 2000 Sir Paul Condon retires and is replaced as Commissioner by Sir John Stevens. 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SERIAL KILLERS ARTWORK SERIAL KILLERS PAINTINGS TIBETON SKULLS NAZI ARTWORK ELEPHANT MAN SUFFRAGETTES, WIZARD, WOMEN MURDERERS, WORLD WAR TWO, WORLD'S BEST TRUE CRIME MUSEUM, WPC YVONNE FLETCHER, WPC YVONNE FLETCHER MEMORIAL, WPC YVONNE FLETCHER MURDER, WPC YVONNE FLETCHER PAINTING, WSPU SUFFRAGE, WW2, WW2 by CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION., WW2 by CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION. by CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION. by CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, WW2 SAS, www.crimethroughtime.com, WYE VALLEY TOURISM, you killed my fuching scooter by crimethroughtimecollection, YOUTH CULTURE, YOUTH CULTURE MUSEUM \| Leave a reply NETFLIX UK DARK TOURIST ATTRACTION HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, LITTLEDEAN JAIL, FOREST OF DEAN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE….CORPORAL PUNISHMENT THROUGH THE AGES ALONG WITH A BRIEF INSIGHT INTO PRESENT DAY CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS TOO…. IT’S ALL HERE AND MORE … ABOVE: A VERY EARLY POSTCARD IMAGE OF LITTLEDEAN GAOL,SPELT HERE IN THE OLD FASHION WAY . IT WAS ALSO FORMERLY USED AS A “HOUSE OF CORRECTION “, LATER TO BECOME A POLICE STATION,COURTHOUSE AND NOW IS THE HOME OF THE INFAMOUS CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION . ABOVE: Original Victorian 3-handcuffed leather body belt and original leather bound handcuffs ABOVE : EARLY VICTORIAN LITTLE DEAN PRISON WARDEN/GUARD TUNIC BUTTON ( A VERY RARE FIND FOR SURE ) Possibly of little significance to visitors …. however I love this item which has been recently discovered and acquired for display here . Intriguingly this early Victorian Prison Warden/Guard tunic button is worded LITTLE DEAN (AS TWO WORDS) WITH PRISON BENEATH (INSTEAD OF GAOL ) … as opposed to it’s early title as having been “Littledean Gaol”. BELOW: ORIGINAL VICTIORAN STRAIGHT JACKET THAT WAS FOUND IN LITTLEDEAN JAIL’S ATTIC SPACE BY BUILDERS DURING RENOVATION WORK BACK IN 1986 AND SUBSEQUENTLY DONATED TO THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION FOR PERMANENT DISPLAY HERE AT THE JAIL CORPORAL PUNISHMENT THROUGH THE AGES AS WELL AS AN INSIGHT INTO PRESENT DAY CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS TOO, AS FEATURED AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL ABOVE :AN ARRAY OF VARIOUS 19TH CENTURY HANDCUFFS, RESTRAINTS AND LEG IRONS HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL . CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN MALAYSIA FOR RAPE, ARMED ROBBERY , DRUGS ETC ORIGINAL EARLY 16TH- 17TH CENTURY HANDMADE OAK “VILLAGE PUNISHMENT STOCKS” RESTORED IN THE 19TH CENTURY WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING IRONWORK AND PRESERVED FOR POSTERITY ….. AS CAN NOW BE SEEN AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL,LITTLEDEAN, FOREST OF DEAN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UK VILLAGE STOCKS Stocks are devices used in the internationally, in medieval, Renaissance and colonial American times as a form of physical punishment involving public humiliation. The stocks partially immobilized its victims and they were often exposed in a public place such as the site of a market to the scorn of those who passed by. Since the purpose of putting offenders in the stocks was to expose them to ridicule and mockery, passers-by were encouraged to throw mud, rotten eggs, moldy fruit and vegetables, smelly fish, offal, and excrement (both animal and human) at those being punished. ABOVE AND BELOW : WITCHES DUCKING STOOL AND LIFTING PULLY ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL VARIOUS EARLY VICTORIAN LEATHER BOUND WHIPS AND CAT O’NINE TAILS USED WITHIN UK PRISONS ….. HERE ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL VARIOUS WHIPS, CAT O’NINE TAILS , BLUDGEON AND LEATHER BOUND HANDCUFFS USED WITHIN UK PRISONS HERE ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL CLOSE-UP IMAGE OF ROUND HANDLED LEATHER BOUND EARLY VICTORIAN WHIP USED WITHIN UK PRISONS EARLY VICTORIAN BLACK CLOTH BOUND, ROUND HANDLED CAT O’NINE TAILS USED IN UK PRISONS EARLY VICTORIAN FLAT HANDLED CAT O’NINE TAILS USED IN UK PRISONS CLOSE UP IMAGE OF VICTORIAN LEATHER BOUND HAND RESTRIANTS AS USED HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL EARLY VICTORIAN LEATHER BOUND BODY RESTRAINT WITH ATTACHED HAND CUFFS USED IN UK PRISONS AND NOW ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL CLOSE UP OF ABOVE BELOW : ORIGINAL 1930’s LEATHER BODY BELT RESTRAINT COMPLETE WITH WRIST RESTRAINTS ACQUIRED FROM THE MONICA BRITTON MUSEUM COLLECTION AT FRENCHAY HOSPITAL , BRISTOL AND NOW ON DISPLAY HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL , GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UK BELOW: ORIGINAL 1930’s LEATHER RESTRAINT STRAPS ACQUIRED FROM THE MONICA BRITTON MUSEUM COLLECTION AT FRENCHAY HOSPITAL , BRISTOL AND NOW ON DISPLAY HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL , GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UK PRISON WARDEN INSCRIBED 18TH CENTURY TRUNCHEON AND EARLY VICTORIAN BODY RESTRAINT BELT HERE ON DISPLAY INSCRIBED GEORGE 1ST PRISON WARDEN TRUNCHEON HERE ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL EARLY VICTORIAN BLUDGEON USED IN UK PRISONS …. HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL WITH PRISON WARDEN TRUNCHEON AND HIATT STEEL HANDCUFFS EARLY VICTORIAN BLUDGEON USED IN UK PRISONS CLOSE-UP OF HIATT STEEL HANDCUFFS corporal punishment is a form of physical punishment that involves the deliberate infliction of pain as retribution for an offence, or for the purpose of disciplining or reforming a wrongdoer, or to deter attitudes or behaviour deemed unacceptable. The term usually refers to methodically striking the offender with an implement, whether in judicial, domestic, or educational settings. Corporal punishment may be divided into three main types: Parental or domestic corporal punishment: within the family—typically, children punished by parents or guardians; School corporal punishment: within schools, when students are punished by teachers or school administrators, or, in the past, apprentices by master craftsmen; Judicial corporal punishment: as part of a criminal sentence ordered by a court of law. Closely related is prison corporal punishment, ordered either directly by the prison authorities or by a visiting court. Corporal punishment of minors within domestic settings is lawful in all 50 of the United States and, according to a 2000 survey, is widely approved by parents.[1]It has been officially outlawed in 29 countries.[2] Corporal punishment in school is still legal in some parts of the world, including 20 of the States of the USA, but has been outlawed in other places, including Canada, Kenya, Japan, South Africa, New Zealand, and nearly all of Europe except the Czech Republic[3] and France.[4] Judicial corporal punishment has virtually disappeared from the western world but remains in force in many parts of Africa and Asia. 1 History of corporal punishment 2 Modern use 2.1 Corporal punishment in the home 2.2 Corporal punishment in schools 2.3 Judicial or quasi-judicial punishment 2.4 Pros and cons of corporal punishment 3 Anatomical target 4 Ritual and punishment 4.1 Corporal punishment, paraphilia and fetishism History of corporal punishment The practice was recorded as early as c. 10th Century BC in Book of Proverbs attributed to Solomon: He that spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes.[5] Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.[6] It was certainly present in classical civilisations, being used in Greece, Rome, and Egypt for both judicial and educational discipline.[7] Some states gained a reputation for using such punishments cruelly; Sparta, in particular, used them as part of a disciplinary regime designed to build willpower and physical strength.[8] Although the Spartan example was extreme, corporal punishment was possibly the most frequent type of punishment. In the Roman Empire, the maximum penalty that a Roman citizen could receive under the law was 40 “lashes” or “strokes” with a whip applied to the back and shoulders, or with the “fasces” (similar to a birch rod, but consisting of 8–10 lengths of willow rather than birch) applied to the buttocks. Such punishments could draw blood, and were frequently inflicted in public. In Medieval Europe, corporal punishment was encouraged by the attitudes of the medieval church towards the human body, flagellation being a common means of self-discipline. This had an influence on the use of corporal punishment in schools, as educational establishments were closely attached to the church during this period. Nevertheless, corporal punishment was not used uncritically; as early as the eleventh century Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury was speaking out against what he saw as the excessive use of corporal punishment in the treatment of children.[9] From the 16th century onwards, new trends were seen in corporal punishment. Judicial punishments were increasingly turned into public spectacles, with public beatings of criminals intended as a deterrent to other would-be offenders. Meanwhile, early writers on education, such as Roger Ascham, complained of the arbitrary manner in which children were punished.[10] Perhaps the most influential writer on the subject was the English philosopher John Locke, whose Some Thoughts Concerning Education explicitly criticised the central role of corporal punishment in education. Locke’s work was highly influential, and may have helped influence Polish legislators to ban corporal punishment from Poland’s schools in 1783.[11] During the 18th century, the concept of corporal punishment was attacked by some philosophers and legal reformers. Merely inflicting pain on miscreants was seen as inefficient, influencing the subject only for a short period of time and effecting no permanent change in their behaviour. Some believed that the purpose of punishment should be reformation, not retribution. This is perhaps best expressed in Jeremy Bentham’s idea of a panoptic prison, in which prisoners were controlled and surveyed at all times, perceived to be advantageous in that this system supposedly reduced the need of measures such as corporal punishment.[12] A consequence of this mode of thinking was a reduction in the use of corporal punishment in the 19th century in Europe and North America. In some countries this was encouraged by scandals involving individuals seriously hurt during acts of corporal punishment. For instance, in Britain, popular opposition to punishment was encouraged by two significant cases, the death of Private Frederick John White, who died after a military flogging in 1846,[13] and the death of Reginald Cancellor, who was killed by his schoolmaster in 1860.[14] Events such as these mobilised public opinion, and in response, many countries introduced thorough regulation of the infliction of corporal punishment in state institutions such as schools, prisons and reformatories. In the 1870s, courts in the United States overruled the common-law principle that a husband had the right to “physically chastise an errant wife”.[15] In the UK the traditional right of a husband to inflict moderate corporal punishment on his wife in order to keep her “within the bounds of duty” was similarly removed in 1891.[16][17] See Domestic violence for more information. In the United Kingdom, the use of judicial corporal punishment declined during the first half of the 20th century and it was abolished altogether in 1948, while most other European countries had abolished it earlier. Meanwhile in many schools, the use of the cane, paddle or tawse remained commonplace in the UK and the United States until the 1980s. In several other countries, it still is: seeSchool corporal punishment. Modern use Corporal punishment in the home Main article: Corporal punishment in the home Domestic corporal punishment, i.e. of children and teenagers by their parents, is usually referred to colloquially as “spanking“, “whipping“, “smacking,” or “slapping.” One possible method of spanking is to have the child or teenager lying, stomach down, across the parent’s lap, with the parent bringing their open hand down upon the child’s buttocks. Alternatively, the youngster might be told to bend over, or lie face down across a bed.[18] Spankings may be delivered over the trousers, over the undergarments, or upon the bare buttocks.[19] In an increasing number of countries it has been outlawed, starting with Sweden in 1979.[2] In some other countries, corporal punishment is legal, but restricted (e.g. blows to the head are outlawed and implements may not be used, and/or only children within a certain age range may be spanked). In the United States and all African and most Asian nations, “spanking,” “whipping,” “smacking,” or “slapping” by parents is currently legal; it is also legal to use certain implements such as a belt or paddle. In Canada, spanking by parents or legal guardians (but nobody else) is legal, as long as the child is not under 2 years or over 12 years of age, and no implement other than an open, bare hand is used (belts, paddles, etc. are strictly prohibited). Provinces can legally impose tighter restrictions than the aforementioned national restrictions, but none currently does so. In the UK, spanking or smacking is legal, but it may not leave a mark on the body and in Scotland since October 2003 it has been illegal to use any implements when disciplining a child. In Pakistan, Section 89 of Pakistan Penal Code allows corporal punishment. The Government of Pakistan has yet to repeal this law.[20] Corporal punishment in schools Main article: School corporal punishment Legal corporal punishment of school students for misbehaviour involves striking the student on the buttocks or the palm of the hand in a premeditated ceremony with an implement specially kept for the purpose such as a rattan cane or spanking paddle, or with the open hand. Judicial or quasi-judicial punishment Main article: Judicial corporal punishment Countries with judicial corporal punishment Some countries retain judicial corporal punishment, including a number of former British territories such as Botswana, Malaysia, Singapore and Tanzania. In Malaysia and Singapore, for certain specified offences, males are routinely sentenced to caning in addition to a prison term. The Singaporean practice of caning became much discussed around the world in 1994 when American teenager Michael P. Fay was caned for vandalism. A number of countries with an Islamic legal system, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan and northern Nigeria, employ judicial whipping for a range of offences. As of 2009, some regions of Pakistan are experiencing a breakdown of law and government, leading to a reintroduction of corporal punishment by ad hocIslamicist courts.[21] As well as corporal punishment, some Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran use other kinds of physical penalties such asamputation or mutilation.[22][23][24] However, the term “corporal punishment” has since the 19th century usually meant caning, flogging or whipping rather than those other types of physical penalty.[25][26][27][28][29][30][31] Pros and cons of corporal punishment Main articles: Corporal punishment in the home#Differing views about parental spanking and School corporal punishment#Justification and criticism See also: Campaigns against corporal punishment According to its proponents, corporal punishment offers several advantages over other kinds of punishment, such as that it is quicker to implement, costs nothing, and deters unruliness.[32][33] The American Psychological Association opposes the use of corporal punishment in schools, juvenile facilities, child care nurseries, and all other institutions, public or private, where children are cared for or educated. It claims that corporal punishment is violent and unnecessary, may lower self-esteem, and is liable to instil hostility and rage without reducing the undesired behaviour. The APA also states that corporal punishment is likely to train children to use physical violence.[34] The professor of philosophy, David Benatar, points out that using this last argument, fining people also teaches that forcing others to give up some of their property is an acceptable response to unwanted behaviour in others. “Why don’t detentions, imprisonments, fines, and a multitude of other punishments convey equally undesirable messages?” According to Benatar, the key difference lies in the legitimacy of the authority administering the punishment: “[T]here is all the difference in the world between legitimate authorities—the judiciary, parents, or teachers—using punitive powers responsibly to punish wrongdoing, and children or private citizens going around beating each other, locking each other up, and extracting financial tributes (such as lunch money). There is a vast moral difference here and there is no reason why children should not learn about it. Punishing children when they do wrong seems to be one important way of doing this.”[35] Kay Hymowitz in her book, Who Killed Discipline in School? states, “Ask Americans what worries them most about public schools and the answer might surprise you; discipline. For several decades now, poll after poll shows it topping the list of parents’ concerns. Hymowitz says that, “the public’s sense that something has gone drastically wrong with school discipline isn’t mistaken. Over the past thirty years or so, the courts and federal government have hacked away at the power of educators to maintain a safe and civil school environment.”[36] Anatomical target Different parts of the anatomy may be targeted: The buttocks, whether clothed or bare, have often been targeted for punishment, particularly in Europe and the English-speaking world.[28] Indeed, some languages have a specific word for their chastisement: spanking in English, fessée in French, nalgada in Spanish (both Romanesque words directly derived from the word for buttock). The advantage is that these fleshy body parts are robust and can be chastised accurately, without endangering any bodily functions; they heal well and relatively quickly; in some cultures punishment applied to the buttocks entails a degree of humiliation, which may or may not be intended as part of the punishment. Chastising the back of the thighs and calves, as sometimes in South Korean schools, is at least as painful if not more so, but this can cause more damage in terms of scars and bruising. The upper back and the shoulders have historically been a target for whipping, e.g. in the UK with the cat-o’-nine-tails in the Royal Navy and in some pre-1948 judicial punishments, and also today generally in the Middle East and the Islamic world. The head is a very dangerous place to hit, especially “boxing the ears“. The hand is very sensitive and delicate, and use of an implement could cause excessive damage.[37] The soles of the feet are extremely sensitive, and flogging them (falaka), as has been sometimes done in the Middle East, is excruciating. Ritual and punishment This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2007) Corporal punishment in official settings, such as schools and prisons, has typically been carried out as a formal ceremony, with a standard procedure, emphasising the solemnity of the occasion. It may even be staged in a ritual manner in front of other students/inmates, in order to act as a deterrent to others. In the case of prison or judicial punishments, formal punishment might begin with the offender stripped of some or all of their clothing and secured to a piece of furniture, such as a trestle or frame,[38][39](X-cross), punishment horse or falaka. In some cases the nature of the offence is read out and the sentence (consisting of a predetermined number of strokes) is formally imposed. A variety of implements may be used to inflict blows on the offender. The terms used to describe these are not fixed, varying by country and by context. There are, however, a number of common types that are encountered when reading about corporal punishment. These include: The rod. A thin, flexible rod is often called a switch. The birch, a number of strong, flexible branches of birch or similar wood, bound together with twine into a single implement. The rattan cane (not bamboo as it is often wrongly described). Much favoured in the British Commonwealth for both school and judicial use. The paddle, a flat wooden board with a handle, with or without holes. Used in US schools. The strap. A leather strap with a number of tails at one end, called a tawse, was used in schools in Scotland and some parts of northern England. The whip, typically of leather. Varieties include the Russian knout and South African sjambok, in addition to the scourge and the French martinet. The cat o’ nine tails was used in British naval discipline and as a judicial and prison punishment. The hairbrush and belt were traditionally used in the United States and Britain as an implement for domestic spanking. The plimsoll or gym shoe, used in British and Commonwealth schools, often called “the slipper”. See Slippering (punishment). The ferula, in Jesuit schools, as vividly described in a scene in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In some instances the offender is required to prepare the implement himself. For instance, sailors were employed in preparing the cat o’ nine tails that would be used upon their own back, while school students were sometimes sent out to cut a switch or rod. In contrast, informal punishments, particularly in domestic settings, tend to lack this ritual nature and are often administered with whatever object comes to hand. It is common, for instance, for belts, wooden spoons, slippers, hairbrushes or coathangers to be used in domestic punishment, while rulers and other classroom equipment have been used in schools. In parts of England, boys were once beaten under the old tradition of “Beating the Bounds” whereby a boy was paraded around the edge of a city or parish and would be spanked with a switch or cane to mark the boundary.[40] One famous “Beating the Bounds” took place around the boundary of St Giles and the area where Tottenham Court Road now stands in central London. The actual stone that separated the boundary is now underneath the Centre Point office tower.[41] Corporal punishment, paraphilia and fetishism The German psychologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing suggested that a tendency to sadism and masochism may develop out of the experience of children receiving corporal punishment at school.[42] But this was disputed by Sigmund Freud, who found that, where there was a sexual interest in beating or being beaten, it developed in early childhood, and rarely related to actual experiences of punishment.[43] Capital punishment in the United Kingdom was used from the creation of the state in 1707 until the practice was abolished in the twentieth century. The last executions in the United Kingdom, by hanging, took place in 1964, prior to capital punishment being abolished for murder (in 1969 in Great Britain and in 1973 in Northern Ireland). Although not applied since, the death penalty remained on the statute book for certain other offences until 1998.[1] Sir Samuel Romilly, speaking to the House of Commons on capital punishment in 1810, declared that “…(there is) no country on the face of the earth in which there [have] been so many different offences according to law to be punished with death as in England.”[citation needed] Known as the “Bloody Code“, at its height the criminal law included some 220 crimes punishable by death, including “being in the company of Gypsies for one month”, “strong evidence of malice in a child aged 7–14 years of age” and “blacking the face or using a disguise whilst committing a crime”. Many of these offences had been introduced to protect the property of the wealthy classes that emerged during the first half of the 18th century, a notable example being the Black Act of 1723, which created 50 capital offences for various acts of theft and poaching.Background Whilst executions for murder, burglary and robbery were common, the death sentences for minor offenders were often not carried out. However, children were commonly executed for such minor crimes as stealing. A sentence of death could be commuted or respited (permanently postponed) for reasons such as benefit of clergy, official pardons, pregnancy of the offender or performance of military or naval duty.[2] Between 1770 and 1830, 35,000 death sentences were handed down in England and Wales, but only 7,000 executions were carried out.[3] There were prisons, but they were mostly small, old and badly-run. Common punishments included transportation — sending the offender to America, Australia or Van Diemens Land (Tasmania), or execution — hundreds of offences carried the death penalty. By the 1830s people were having doubts about both these punishments. The answer was prison: lots of new prisons were built and old ones extended. The Victorians also had clear ideas about what these prisons should be like. They should be unpleasant places, so as to deter people from committing crimes. Once inside, prisoners had to be made to face up to their own faults, by keeping them in silence and making them do hard, boring work. Walking a treadwheel or picking oakum (separating strands of rope) were the most common forms of hard labour. In 1808 Romilly had the death penalty removed for pickpockets and lesser offenders, starting a process of reform that continued over the next 50 years. The death penalty was mandatory (although it was frequently commuted by the government) until the Judgement of Death Act 1823 gave judges the power to commute the death penalty except for treason and murder. The Punishment of Death, etc. Act 1832 reduced the number of capital crimes by two-thirds. Gibbeting was abolished in 1832 and hanging in chains was abolished in 1834. In 1861, several acts of Parliament (24 & 25 Vict; c. 94 to c. 100) further reduced the number of civilian capital crimes to five: murder, treason, espionage, arson in royal dockyards, and piracy with violence; there were other offences under military law. The death penalty remained mandatory for treason and murder unless commuted. The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1864-1866 [4] concluded (with dissenting Commissioners) that there was not a case for abolition but recommended an end to public executions. This proposal was included in the Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868. From then executions in Great Britain were carried out in prison. The practice of beheading and quartering executed traitors stopped in 1870.[5] Juveniles under 16 could no longer be executed from 1908 under the Children Act 1908. In 1922 a new offence of Infanticide was introduced to replace the charge of murder for mothers killing their children in the first year of life. In 1930 a parliamentary Select Committee recommended that capital punishment be suspended for a trial period of five years, but no action was taken. From 1931 pregnant women could no longer be hanged (following the birth of their child) although in practice since the 18th century their sentences had always been commuted, and in 1933 the minimum age for capital punishment was raised to 18 under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933. The last known execution by the civilian courts of a person under 18 was that of Charles Dobel, 17, hanged atMaidstone together with his accomplice William Gower, 18, in January 1889. In 1938 the issue of the abolition of capital punishment was brought before parliament. A clause within the Criminal Justice Bill called for an experimental five-year suspension of the death penalty. When war broke out in 1939 the bill was postponed. It was revived after the war and to everyone’s surprise was adopted by a majority in the House of Commons (245 to 222). In the House of Lords the abolition clause was defeated but the remainder of the bill was passed. Popular support for abolition was absent and the government decided that it would be inappropriate for it to assert its supremacy by invoking the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 over such an unpopular issue. Instead, then Home Secretary, James Chuter Ede, set up a new Royal Commission (the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, 1949–1953) with instructions to determine “whether the liability to suffer capital punishment should be limited or modified”. The Commission’s report discussed a number of alternatives to execution by hanging (including the US methods of electrocution and gassing, and the then-theoretical lethal injection), but rejected them. It had more difficulty with the principle of capital punishment. Popular opinion believed that the death penalty acted as a deterrent to criminals, but the statistics within the report were inconclusive. Whilst the report recommended abolition from an ethical standpoint, it made no mention of possible miscarriages of justice. The public had by then expressed great dissatisfaction with the verdict in the case of Timothy Evans, who was tried and hanged for murdering his baby daughter in 1949. It later transpired in 1953 that John Christie had strangled at least six women in the same house; if the jury in Evans’s trial had known this, Evans would probably not have been found guilty. There were other cases in the same period where doubts arose over convictions and subsequent hangings, such as the notorious case of Derek Bentley. The Commission concluded that unless there was overwhelming public support in favour of abolition, the death penalty should be retained. Between 1900 and 1949, 621 men and 11 women were executed in England and Wales. Ten German agents were executed during the First World War under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914,[6] and 16 spies were executed during the Second World War under the Treachery Act 1940.[7] By 1957 a number of controversial cases highlighted the issue of capital punishment again. Campaigners for abolition were partially rewarded with the Homicide Act 1957. The Act brought in a distinction between capital and non-capital homicide. Only six categories of murder were now punishable by execution: in the course or furtherance of theft by shooting or causing an explosion while resisting arrest or during an escape of a police officer of a prison officer by a prisoner the second of two murders committed on different occasions (if both done in Great Britain). The police and the government were of the opinion that the death penalty deterred offenders from carrying firearms and it was for this reason that such offences remained punishable by death. The only known photograph of the death sentence being pronounced in England and Wales, for the poisoner Frederick Seddon in 1912[8] In 1965 the Labour MP Sydney Silverman, who had committed himself to the cause of abolition for more than 20 years, introduced a private member’s bill to suspend the death penalty, which was passed on a free vote in the House of Commons by 200 votes to 98. The bill was subsequently passed by the House of Lords by 204 votes to 104. The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 suspended the death penalty in England, Wales and Scotland (but not in Northern Ireland) for murder for a period of five years, and substituted a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment; it further provided that if, before the expiry of the five-year suspension, each House of Parliament passed a resolution to make the effect of the Act permanent, then it would become permanent. In 1969 the Home Secretary, James Callaghan, proposed a motion to make the Act permanent, which was carried in the Commons on 16 December 1969,[9] and a similar motion was carried in the Lords on 18 December.[10] The death penalty for murder was abolished in Northern Ireland on 25 July 1973 under the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973. Following the abolition of the death penalty for murder, the House of Commons held a vote during each subsequent parliament until 1997 to restore the death penalty. This motion was always defeated, but the death penalty still survived for other crimes: causing a fire or explosion in a naval dockyard, ship, magazine or warehouse (until 1971); espionage[11] (until 1981); piracy with violence (until 1998); treason (until 1998); and certain purely military offences under the jurisdiction of the armed forces, such as mutiny[12] (until 1998). Prior to its complete abolition in 1998, it was available for six offences: serious misconduct in action; assisting the enemy; obstructing operations; giving false air signals; mutiny or incitement to mutiny; and failure to suppress a mutiny with intent to assist the enemy. However no executions were carried out in the United Kingdom for any of these offences, after the abolition of the death penalty for murder. Nevertheless, there remained a working gallows at HMP Wandsworth, London, until 1994, which was tested every six months until 1992. This gallows is now housed in the Galleries of Justice inNottingham.[13] Last executions England and in the United Kingdom: on 13 August 1964, Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, were executed for the murder of John Alan West on 7 April that year.[14] Scotland: Henry John Burnett, 21, on 15 August 1963 in Craiginches Prison, Aberdeen, for the murder of seaman Thomas Guyan. Northern Ireland: Robert McGladdery, 25, on 20 December 1961 in Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast, for the murder of Pearl Gamble. Wales: Vivian Teed, 24, in Swansea on 6 May 1958, for the murder of William Williams, sub-postmaster of Fforestfach Post Office.[15] Last death sentences Northern Ireland and in the United Kingdom: William Holden in 1973 in Northern Ireland, for the capital murder of a British soldier during the Troubles. Holden was removed from the death cell in May 1973.[16] England: David Chapman, who was sentenced to hang in November 1965 for the murder of a swimming pool nightwatchman in Scarborough. He was released from prison in 1979 and later died in a car accident. Scotland: Patrick McCarron in 1964 for shooting his wife. He hanged himself in prison in 1970. Wales: Edgar Black, who was reprieved on 6 November 1963. He had shot his wife’s lover in Cardiff. Final abolition The Criminal Damage Act 1971 abolished the offence of arson in royal dockyards. The Naval Discipline Act 1957 reduced the scope of capital espionage from “all spies for the enemy” to spies on naval ships or bases.[17] Later, the Armed Forces Act 1981 abolished the death penalty for espionage.[18] (The Official Secrets Act 1911 had created another offence of espionage which carried a maximum sentence of fourteen years.) Beheading was abolished as a method of execution for treason in 1973.[19] However hanging remained available until 1998 when, under a House of Lords amendment to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, proposed by Lord Archer of Sandwell, the death penalty was abolished for treason and piracy with violence, replacing it with a discretionary maximum sentence of life imprisonment. These were the last civilian offences punishable by death. On 20 May 1998 the House of Commons voted to ratify the 6th Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibiting capital punishment except “in time of war or imminent threat of war.” The last remaining provisions for the death penalty under military jurisdiction (including in wartime) were removed when section 21(5) of the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force on 9 November 1998. On 10 October 2003, effective from 1 February 2004,[20] the UK acceded to the 13th Protocol, which prohibits the death penalty under all circumstances,[21] so that the UK may no longer legislate to restore the death penalty while it is subject to the Convention. It can only now restore it if it withdraws from the Council of Europe. As a legacy from colonial times, several islands in the West Indies still had the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as the court of final appeal; although the death penalty has been retained in these islands, the Privy Council would sometimes delay or deny executions. Some of these islands severed links with the British court system in 2001 in order to speed up executions.[22] Further information: Capital punishment in the Isle of Man and Capital punishment in Jersey Although not part of the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey are British Crown dependencies. In the Channel Islands, the last death sentence was passed in 1984; the last execution in the Channel Islands was in Jersey on 9 October 1959, when Francis Joseph Huchet was hanged for murder.[23] The Human Rights (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2006[24] amends the Human Rights (Jersey) Law 2000[25] to give effect to the 13th Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rightsproviding for the total abolition of the death penalty. Both of these laws came into effect on 10 December 2006. The 13th Protocol was extended to Guernsey in April 2004.[26] The last execution on the Isle of Man took place in 1872, when John Kewish was hanged for patricide. Capital punishment was not formally abolished by Tynwald (the island’s parliament) until 1993.[27]Five persons were sentenced to death (for murder) on the Isle of Man between 1973 and 1992, although all sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. The last person to be sentenced to death in the UK or its dependencies was Anthony Teare, who was convicted at the Manx Court of General Gaol Delivery in Douglas in 1992; he was subsequently retried and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1994.[28] In 2004 the 13th Protocol was adopted,[29] with an effective date of 1 November 2006.[30] Overseas territories Like the Crown dependencies, the British overseas territories are constitutionally not part of the United Kingdom. However, the British government’s ultimate responsibility for good governance of the territories has led it over recent years to pursue a policy of revoking all statutory provision for the death penalty in those territories where it had up until recently been legal. The last executions in an overseas territory, and indeed the last on British soil, took place in Bermuda in 1977, when two men, Larry Tacklyn and Erskine Burrows, were hanged for the 1973 murder of the then territory’s Governor Sir Richard Sharples.[31] In 1991, the British government extended an Order in Council to its Caribbean territories whose effect was to abolish capital punishment for murder: Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands.[32] The British government was unable to extend the abolition via Order in Council to Bermuda, the UK’s most autonomous overseas territory with powers of almost total self-governance — but warned that if voluntary abolition was not forthcoming it would be forced to consider the unprecedented step of ‘whether to impose abolition by means of an Act of Parliament’.[33] As a result the Bermudian government introduced its own domestic legislation in 1999 to rectify the problem.[34] Further measures have subsequently been adopted to revoke technicalities in British overseas territories’ domestic legislation as regards use of the death penalty for crimes of treason and piracy. Since 2002, the death penalty has been outlawed under all circumstances in all the UK’s overseas territories.[35] Public support for reintroduction of capital punishment A November 2009 television survey showed that 70% favoured reinstating the death penalty for at least one of the following crimes: armed robbery, rape, crimes related to paedophilia, terrorism, adult murder, child murder, child rape, treason, child abuse, or kidnapping. However, respondents only favoured capital punishment for adult murder, the polling question asked by other organisations such asGallup, by small majorities or pluralities: overall, 51% favoured the death penalty for adult murder, while 56% in Wales did, 55% in Scotland, and only 49% in England.[36] In August 2011, the Internet blogger Paul Staines – who writes a political blog as Guido Fawkes and heads the Restore Justice Camptign – launched an e-petition on the Downing Street website calling for the restoration of the death penalty for those convicted of the murder of children and police officers.[37] The petition was one of several in support or opposition of capital punishment to be published by the government with the launch of its e-petitions website. As of August 12, an e-petition calling to retain the ban on capital punishment has received 20,000 votes[38], 17000 more than the e-petition calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty.[39] Petitions attracting 100,000 signatures would prompt a parliamentary debate on a particular topic, but not necessarily lead to any Parliamentary Bills being put forward.[40] Also in August 2011, a representative survey conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion showed that 65 per cent of Britons support reinstating the death penalty for murder in Great Britain, while 28 per cent oppose this course of action. Men, respondents aged 35-to-54 and those over the age of 55 are more likely to endorse the change.[41] Notable executions in the United Kingdom Note: This list does not include the beheadings of nobility. 1724, 16 November: Jack Sheppard, housebreaker, was hanged at Tyburn for burglary after four successful escape attempts from jail. His partner-in-crime, highwayman Joseph “Blueskin” Blake, was executed for the same burglary five days earlier. 1725, 24 May: Jonathan Wild, criminal overlord and fraudulent “Thief Taker General”, was hanged at Tyburn (over six months after Jack Sheppard’s and Blueskin’s executions) for receiving stolen goods and thus aiding criminals. 1739: Dick Turpin, highwayman, was hanged. 1746, 30 July: nine Catholic members of the Manchester Regiment, Jacobites, were hanged, drawn and quartered for treason at Kennington Common (now Kennington Park). 1750: James MacLaine, ‘The Gentleman Highwayman’, was hanged at Tyburn, London 1757: John Byng became the only British admiral executed, by firing squad by the Royal Navy. His crime was to have failed to “do his utmost” at the Battle of Minorca during the Seven Years War. 1760, 5 May: Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers was executed at Tyburn for the murder of a servant. He is the only peer to have been hanged for murder. 1789: Catherine Murphy was the last woman to be burned to death (legally) in England. The penalty was abolished the next year. 1812, 18 May: John Bellingham was hanged for the murder of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. 1820: Andrew Hardie and John Baird were hanged and beheaded at Stirling after being tried for their part in the Radical War in Scotland. 1828, 11 August: William Corder was hanged at Bury St Edmunds for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year before. 1856, 9 August: Martha Brown was the last woman to be hanged in public, in Dorset. 1861, 27 August: Martin Doyle was the last person to be hanged for attempted murder, at Chester. 1868, 2 April: Frances Kidder was the last woman to be hanged in public. 1868, 26 May: Michael Barrett was executed at Newgate Prison for the Fenian bombing at Clerkenwell, the last public hanging in the UK. 1899, 19 July: Mary Ansell was hanged at St Albans, for poisoning her sister. At 22 she was the youngest woman to be hanged in the post-1868 ‘modern era’ (non-public, and by the ‘long drop’ method). 1910, 23 November: Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged in London’s Pentonville Prison for the murder of his wife. 1914, 8 September: Private Thomas Highgate was executed by firing squad, the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during World War I. 1915, 13 August: George Joseph Smith was hanged in Maidstone Prison for the pattern of serial killings known as the “Brides in the Bath Murders”. 1916, 3 August: Roger Casement was hanged at Pentonville for treason as one of the seven leaders of the failed Irish Easter Rising. 1920, 2 November: Private James Daly of the Connaught Rangers was shot for mutiny in India, the last member of the British Armed Forces to be executed for mutiny. 1923, 9 January: Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, in London’s Holloway and Pentonville Prisons respectively. The case was controversial because Thompson did not directly participate in the murder for which she was hanged. 1931, 3 January: Victor Betts for murder committed during the course of a robbery. The case had established that a person need not be present when a crime is committed to be regarded as an accessory after the fact.[42] 1941, 15 August: Josef Jakobs was executed by firing squad, the last execution in the Tower of London. 1946, 3 January: William Joyce, better known as “Lord Haw-Haw“, for treason in London’s Wandsworth Prison. He was an American citizen, but was convicted of treason because, as the holder of aBritish passport (albeit fraudulently obtained), he was held to have owed allegiance to the British sovereign. Theodore Schurch, hanged for treachery the next day, was the last person to be executed for an offence other than murder; he was executed at Pentonville. As a member of the armed forces he had been tried by court-martial. 1947, 27 February: Walter Rowland in Manchester for the murder of Olive Balchin despite maintaining his innocence. While he had been awaiting execution, another man confessed to the crime.[citation needed] A Home Office report dismissed the latter’s confession as a fake, but in 1951 he attacked another woman and was found guilty but insane.[citation needed] 1949, 12 January: Margaret Allen, aged 43, for killing a 70-year-old woman in the course of a robbery, the first woman to be hanged in Britain for 12 years. 1949, 10 August: John George Haigh, the “acid-bath murderer”, at Wandsworth. 1950, 9 March: Timothy Evans at Pentonville for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine at 10 Rillington Place, North West London. He initially claimed to have killed his wife, but later withdrew the claim. A fellow inhabitant at the same address, John Christie, later found to be a sexual serial killer, gave key evidence against Evans. Christie was executed in 1953 for the murder of his own wife. Evans received a posthumous pardon in 1966. In 2004 the Court of Appeal refused to consider overturning the conviction due to the costs and resources that would be involved. See John Christie (murderer). 1950, 28 March: George Kelly at Liverpool for murder, but had his conviction quashed posthumously by the Court of Appeal in June 2003. 1952, 25 April: Edward Devlin and Alfred Burns, for killing a woman during a robbery in Liverpool. They claimed that they had been doing a different burglary in Manchester, and others involved in the crime supported this. A Home Office report rejected this evidence. Huge crowds gathered outside Liverpool’s Walton Prison as they were executed. 1952, 3 September: Mahmood Hussein Mattan, a Somali seaman, in Cardiff for murder. The Court of Appeal quashed his conviction posthumously in 1998[43] after hearing that crucial evidence implicating another Somali was withheld at his trial. 1953, 28 January: Derek Bentley at Wandsworth Prison as an accomplice to the murder of a police officer by his 16-year-old friend Christopher Craig. Craig, a minor, was not executed and instead served 10 years. Bentley was granted a posthumous pardon on 29 July 1993, and the Court of Appeal overturned his conviction on 30 July 1998. 1953, 15 July: John Reginald Halliday Christie at Pentonville for the murder of his wife Ethel. Christie was a serial killer and had murdered at least six other women. 1954, 13 December: Styllou Christofi, aged 53, penultimate woman executed in Britain. 1955, 12 July: Ruth Ellis, aged 28, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. She was the 15th and youngest woman hanged in the 20th century. (See also Mary Ansell, above). 1958, 6 May: Vivian Teed, 24, in Swansea, the last person to be executed in Wales. 1958, 11 July: Peter Manuel, aged 31, second to last person to be hanged in HM Prison Barlinnie and the third to last to be hanged in Scotland. 1959, 9 October: Francis Joseph Huchet, 31, in St Helier, Jersey, the last person to be executed in the Channel Islands. 1959, 5 November: Guenther Podola, the last person to be hanged for the murder of a policeman. 1960, 10 November: Francis Forsyth, the last 18-year-old to be executed in Britain; 1960, 22 December: Anthony Miller, 19, in Glasgow‘s Barlinnie Prison, the last teenager to be executed in Britain. 1961, 20 December: Robert McGladdery, 25, in Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast, the last person to be executed in Northern Ireland, for the murder of Pearl Gamble in Newry. 1962, 4 April: James Hanratty at Bedford after a controversial rape-murder trial. In 2002 Hanratty’s body was exhumed and the Court of Appeal upheld his conviction after Hanratty’s DNA was linked to crime scene samples. 1963, 15 August: Henry Burnett, aged 21, at Craiginches Prison in Aberdeen for the murder of seaman Thomas Guyan, the last hanging in Scotland. 1964, 13 August: Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester for the murder of John Alan West, the last people executed in Britain.[14] Posted in CRIME THROUGH TIME \| Tagged 17TH CENTURY STOCKS, 1955, 25 CROMWELL ST, 25 CROMWELL STREEET, 666, 666 THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, ADRIEN BRODY PEAKY BLINDERS, AILEEN WUORNOS, AJ, ALBERT PIERREPOINT, ALCATRAZ, ALEISTER CROWLEY, ALEX SANDERRS KING WITCH, ALEX SANDERS HIGH PRIEST, ALEX SANDERS WITCHRAFT, ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS, ALEXANDRIAN CASTING CIRCLE, ALEXANDRIAN CIRCLE, ALEXANDRIAN COVEN, ALEXANDRIAN RITES, ALEXANDRIAN TRADITION, ALEXANDRIAN WICCA, ALEXANDRIAN WITCH, ALFIE SOLOMONS, ANDERSENS RESTAURANT COLEFORD, ANDY JONES, ANDY JONES LITTLEDEAN JAIL, ANDY JONES WITCHCRAFT, ANGEL OF DEATH, ANNIE PIERREPOINT, ANTI NAZI, ANTI NAZI LEAGUE, ANTON LAVEY, ART GALLERY, ARTHUR SHELBY PEAKY BLINDERS, ARTIST, ASSISTANT HANGMAN, ASYLUM, AUNT POLLY PEAKY BLINDERS, AUSCHWITZ, BANKSY, BAPHOMET, BAPHOMET ALTAR, BAPHOMET FIGURE, BAPHOMET FIGURES, BAPHOMET HORNED GOD, BAPHOMET IMAGES, BAPHOMET LIFE SIZE, BAPHOMET LIFESIZE, BAPHOMET MEMORABILIA, BAPHOMET MUSEUM, BAPHOMET OUIJA BOARD, BAPHOMET STATUE, BAPHOMET WEDDING, BELSEN, BEST TRUE CRIME MUSEUM, BEST WORLD CRIME MUSEUM, BET FIXING, BETHEL TEA ROOMS, BETHELS CAFE LITTLDEAN, BIGGEST CRIME MUSEUM IN EUROPE, BILLY HILL, BILLY KIMBER, BILLY KIMBER BIRMINGHAM BOYS, BILLY KIMBER RACETRACK, BIRMINGHAM BOYS, BIRMINGHAM GANG, BIZARRE, BIZARRE MUSEUM, BIZARRE VISITOR ATTRACTION, BLACK KLANSMAN, BLACK MAGIC, BLACK MUSEUM, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, BLACK POWER, BLACK WIDOW, BLACK WITCH, BLAISDON, BLAISDON HALL, BLAISDON HOUSE, BLAISDON HOUSE B AND B, BLUDGEON, BODMIN JAIL, BONDAGE, BONDAGE APPARATUS, BOXING, BRAYNE COURT LITTLEDEAN, BRAYNE COURT LIYTTLEDEAN, BRISTOL, BRITAIN'S HANGMEN, BRITISH ARMY, BRITISH FASCIST, british government, BROADMOOR, BROADMOOR MENTAL ASYLUM, BRONSON, BROTHEL, BRUCE REYNOLDS, BRUMMAGEN BOYS, BRUTISH MUSEUM, by order of littledean jail, BY ORDER OF THE PEAKY BLINDERS, CANNING, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, CARL CHINN PEAKY BLINDERS PEAKY BLINDERS SHOOT OUT, CAT O'NINE TAILS, CAT O-NINE TAILS, CECIL WILLIAMSON WITCHCRAFT, CELLS, CERIMONIAL MAGIC, CHA, CHAINS, CHAMOIS LEATHER, CHAMOIS LEATHER HANGMAN'S NOOSE, CHAMOIS LEATHER NOOSE, CHAMOIS LEATHER ROPE, CHARLES BRONSON, CHARLES DERBY SABINI, CHARLES MANSON, CHARLES SALVADOR, CHARLIE BRONSON, CHARLIE CREED-MILES PEAKY BLINDERS, CHARLIE RICHARDSON, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING, CHARLOTTE RILEY, CHILD ABUSE, CHURCH OF SATAN, CHURCH OF SATAN ANTON LAVEY, CILLIIAN MURPHY PEAKY BLINDERS, CINDERFORD, COCAINE, COLEFORD, COLLECTION, CONCENTRATION CAMP, CONCENTRATION CAMPS, CONDEMNED CELL, CONFINED IN STOCKS, CONTROVERSIAL ART GALLERY, CORPERAL PUNISHMENT, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, CORRUPTION, COUNTER TERRORISM, COURT ROOM, COURTROOM, COVEN OF WITCHES, CRIMAL, CRIME, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, CRIME AUTOGRAPHS, CRIME COLLECTION, CRIME COLLECTIONS, CRIME EXHIBITION, CRIME GALLERY, CRIME MEMORABILIA, CRIME MEMORABILLIA, CRIME MUSEUM, CRIME MUSEUM UNCOVERED, CRIME MUSUEM, CRIME SCENE, CRIME THOUGH TIME COLLECTION, CRIME THROUGH TIME, CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION DARK TOURISM, CRIME THROUGH TIME MUSEUM, CRIME THROUGH TIME MUSUEM, CRIMINAL, CRIMINALS, CROMWELL STREET, CUCKING STOOL, CUNNING WITCH, CURIOSITIES, CURIOSITIES MUSEUM, curiosity museum, CYNTHIA PAYNE, DACHAU, DAKR TOURISM ART GALLERY NETFLIX. 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__label__cc	0.675921	0.324079	Home > News > Spotlight ACE vice president: Working group needed to set Sino-U.S. research rules Speaking at the 2019 Duke International Forum, Brad Farnsworth from the American Council on Education called for national higher-education organizations in both countries to agree clear standards for transnational collaboration to reduce suspicion of scholars. EVC Simon joins Asian Institute of Technology’s board of trustees Based in Thailand, the AIT is an international organization that promotes technological change and sustainable development in the Asian-Pacific region through research and outreach. Forum: Graduates with a humanities background attract global employers In a presidential dialogue at the 2019 Duke International Forum, university leaders from Ohio, North Carolina, Nanjing and Shanghai discussed ways to bridge gaps in understanding between the U.S. and China through education. China Town Hall: Educational exchanges can play crucial role in thawing Sino-U.S. relations In a panel discussion, experts from Fudan, Sichuan and Duke Kunshan universities and The Economist expressed optimism for the future of China-U.S. collaborations in education, science and technology despite the current tension between Washington and Beijing. Denis Simon to step down as executive vice chancellor Since taking office in 2015, Simon has overseen completion of the first phase of Duke Kunshan’s 200-acre campus and the launch of the undergraduate program, as well as helped develop an innovative curriculum and hire more than 80 faculty members from around the world. DKU in the Media	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13987
__label__wiki	0.727559	0.727559	NAGRA enables multiscreen, on-demand for Link Net First Media in Indonesia NAGRA MediaLive provides an end-to-end multiscreen solution for the operator’s new platform allowing subscribers to enjoy content delivered OTT seamlessly across devices Solution enables advanced features on open devices using the NAGRA MediaLive Secure Player integrated with NAGRA’s studio-approved DRM, NAGRA anyCAST PRM The new TV everywhere offers Link Net’s subscribers the freedom to enjoy richer multimedia entertainment anytime, anywhere CHESEAUX, Switzerland and JAKARTA, Indonesia – May 5, 2015 – NAGRA, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) digital TV business and the world's leading provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, and PT Link Net Tbk, Indonesia’s largest cable and broadband operator, announced today the launch of a new TV everywhere offering for the operator’s brand-new platform. 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Their solution enables us to offer First Media Go, a service that allows subscribers to conveniently enjoy 120 simulcast linear TV Anywhere channels, Video-on-Demand content and Catch-up TV online and on mobile devices anywhere.” “We thank Link Net for entrusting us with this latest launch and are excited to partner with them in bringing advanced multiscreen services to their subscribers through another successful delivery of our end-to-end MediaLive solution,” said Jean-Luc Jezouin, SVP Sales APAC at NAGRA. “We will continue to support them and all of our customers to ensure that consumers have ubiquitous access to content on any device in any place at any time and in a secure environment.” NAGRA MediaLive provides Link Net with a scalable, end-to-end solution to manage, secure and operate, from a single platform, a wide range of media services across multiple delivery networks, multiple devices and multiple content types. As part of the solution, the NAGRA MediaLive Secure Player extends the TV experience to open consumer electronic devices (PCs, tablets, smartphones) and enables service provider to safely distribute high-value content beyond the set-top box thanks to NAGRA anyCAST PRM, NAGRA’s Hollywood-approved DRM solution. About Link Net PT Link Net Tbk, a subsidiary of First Media Tbk, is a leading cable operator in Indonesia offering pay-TV, high-speed broadband and data services to both residential and commercial customers under the brand “First Media”. Link Net has been in the forefront of several industry “firsts”. Among the innovations are the launch of high-definition TV, offering more than 60 HD channels to date, Personal Video Recording and First Media Go “TV Anywhere” services. Link Net has won multiple awards including Indonesia's Most Admired Companies 2012 and 2014 for the category of pay-TV and Fixed Internet Service from Frontier Consulting Group and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Top Brand Award 2013 and 2014 for its Fixed Broadband Internet service in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Building the Top Brand. Link Net’s hybrid fiber coaxial network currently covers more than 1.5 million homes in the three strategic areas in Indonesia (the Greater Jakarta area, Surabaya, Bandung and Bali) with widespread coverage of the major residential and central business districts in greater Metropolitan Jakarta. For more information, please visit www.firstmedia.com. About NAGRA NAGRA, a digital TV division of the Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S), provides security and multiscreen user experience solutions for the monetization of digital media. The company offers content providers and DTV operators worldwide with secure, open, integrated platforms and applications over broadcast, broadband and mobile platforms, enabling compelling and personalized viewing experiences. Please visit dtv.nagra.com for more information and follow us on Twitter at @nagrakudelski. Mico F. Kaliki Link Net Mico.Kaliki@linknet.co.id Ivan Schnider NAGRA Marketing Communications Ivan.schnider@nagra.com Anita Pang NAGRA Marketing Communications APAC anita.pang@nagra.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line13999
__label__cc	0.643585	0.356415	Tag: Dawn of the Replicants Welcome, welcome Chain Gangers new and old, welcome all. Last week’s record was “Radar Love” by Golden Earring, and the gauntlet was thrown down for you to come up with records which linked to that five minute rock classic. Some of you chose to link to word “Radar”, some to the word “Golden”, one of you to the word “Ear”, but, and bless you all for this, not one of you went down the very simple route of suggesting songs which linked to the word “Love” or “Ring”. Actually, that’s not quite true. For one from amongst our ranks linked to both. At the same time. We’ll deal with them later. So, to your suggestions, and first up this week is Charity Chic from Charity Chic Music: “Let’s get the cheese out the fridge early doors,” begins CC. Music to my ears, that. Regular readers will know that whilst we encourage, smart, clever, odd, witty, records here, we also enjoy a bit of cheese to off-set it all. So what does CC have in store for us? “Golden Earring puts one in mind (or me at any rate) of Golden Brown by the Stranglers. There was a Boston Strangler leading to the poodle band Boston with More than a Feeling.” If I could just clarify, Boston were a band from Boston who named their band Boston, that’s how full of innovative ideas they were. So clearly, Boston were not a band made up exclusively of Poodles. That would be ridiculous. There was a Yorkshire Terrier on keyboards too, and an American Hairless Terrier called Brian provided occasional backing vocals. Boston – More Than a Feeling “I may well be back,” CC adds, somewhat ominously. Now, once in a while a suggestion contains a bit of info that I didn’t know, and this week that dubious distinction goes to The Great Gog: “Oh well, I’d better get it over with. For those that know about these things, there’s a bit of an elephant in the room with Golden Earring, or should I say Eggermont in the room. Japp Eggermont to be precise. Not content with providing a track for the Euro-version of Smashie & Nicey to play, Mr. Eggermont post-Golden Earring was responsible for the medley mania that blighted the UK Charts in 1981 with his Starsound project.” In case you have no idea what GG is talking about here, the Starsound project was kind of like a prototype Jive Bunny, who simply mixed old pop hits together into a medley with an irritating drum beat syncing them all together. You can read about them here or if you’d like to actually hear one of them, this is the one that got to No. 2 in the UK charts in 1981: Stars On 45 – Stars On 45 No need to thank me. Anyway, sorry GG, I seem to have interrupted, do carry on. “This launched many copyists, but perhaps the most interesting lurked on the b-side of Squeeze’s “Labelled With Love” single – “Squabs On Forty Fab”. Clearly, Glenn, Chris and the guys weren’t taking it terribly seriously, but it’s a better listen than any other the others that were around.” See? I had no idea that a bloke from Golden Earring was responsible for all those records, nor did I know that Squeeze had done a parody, of sorts: Squeeze – Squabs On Forty Fab Time to get settled now folks, as our nice Uncle Dirk from sexyloser is about to demonstrate the art of Comment Showboating: “…in ‘Radar Love’, Golden Earring have a line which goes “And the radio played that forgotten song / Brenda Lee’s “Coming On Strong””. Not only is this tune shamelessly forgotten indeed (although I have a feeling that someone might easily suggest it here in due course in order to rectify this situation)…” Stop right there. We can do that right now: Brenda Lee – Coming On Strong Do continue, Dirk. “…it’s also a little known fact that this song’s title refers to Barrett Strong, American singer and songwriter, born February 5, 1941 in West Point, Mississippi. Brenda Lee, although married to Ronnie Shacklett since 1963, apparently had a soft spot for lucky Barret as well, or is there any other explanation why she wrote a song about having sex with him and even describes her favourite position in the title?” [Erm…are you sure about this bit…? I’ve read this several times and can’t make out if you’re making a very rude joke or not – Ed.] “And, friends, it must have been g.r.e.a.t. sex, because it was Barrett Strong who gave Brenda the nickname under which she was widely known until the end of her career: “Little Miss Dynamite”! Also commonly not all too well known is that Barrett wanted more than just this short liaison, but it took him until 1973 until he responded with a song for Brenda: ‘Stand Up And Cheer For The Preacher’. History shows us that his wish was never fulfilled by Brenda, nevertheless it’s my suggestion for this week’s link, so there you are!” I have no idea whether any of this is true or not, so just in case, a disclaimer: the views of Dirk are not necessarily shared by the broadcaster. Anyway, here’s the tune Dirk nominates, and rather fine it is too: Barrett Strong – Stand Up and Cheer for the Preacher Time to welcome The Swede from Unthought of, though, somehow who proposes a song and a band I had no previous knowledge of, and who, on the strength of this song – which musically reminds me of Cowboy Junkies take on “Sweet Jane” from their The Trinity Sessions album – I’ve gone out and got me the album. “There’s no way I can pass up such a (ahem) golden opportunity to suggest my favourite song of 2015. From Golden to Silver – ‘Silver John’ by This is the Kit.” This Is The Kit – Silver John Onwards now to SWC from When You Can’t Remember Anything who submits: “Radar makes me firstly think of MASH so that immediately gives us the opportunity to have a listen to the Manics version of theme tune to that.” Manic Street Preachers – Theme From M.A.S.H (Suicide Is Painless) “But secondly” SWC continues, “Radar also makes me think of the wonderful Dawn of The Replicants’ single ‘Radars’.” Dawn Of The Replicants – Radars Which seems an appropriate moment for me to slip one of my suggestions in, for the first record that sprang to my mind when I saw the source material was this, one of those “let’s stick this previously unreleased track on the Greatest Hits album in the hope it helps flog a few more copies” affairs: Blur – Music Is My Radar And now, the return of Is This The Life‘s The Robster for his second (or should that be fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth..?) suggestions: “A couple [ahem! – Ed] of suggestions from me: Radar Love was from an album called Moontan. Moon Safari was an album by Air featuring the excellent song Kelly Watch The Stars” Air – Kelly, Watch the Stars “Another track from Moontan – Vanilla Queen – samples Marilyn Monroe who sang a song called I Wanna Be Loved By You…” Marilyn Monroe – I Wanna Be Loved By You “A more obvious route – and a blatant excuse to get some David Gedge in here – takes us straight to Ears by Cinerama…” Cinerama – Ears “Alternatively, using the Golden tack – Gold Lion by Yeah Yeah Yeahs…” Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion “…or better still, Golden by Stephenhero (aka Patrick Fitzgerald of Kitchens Of Distinction) which features vocals by the delectable Tanya Donelly.” Stephen Hero – Golden “Better leave it at that – I’m getting greedy…” he (finally) signs off. Y’think?? Now, I’ve never heard that Stephen Hero record before, so forgive me as I’m not entirely confident in the place I got it from: is it supposed to do that thing where it seems to go into a completely different song for no reason whatsoever? (Not saying I don’t like it, by the way, just wondered if I’ve picked me up some duffer of a tampered with version). Ok, so The Robster emailed me to tell me it sounded like I had indeed been sold a pup and that what I seemed to have was a sampler for the whole EP, which just goes to show what an idiot I am. Link now updated to feature the correct song. Many thanks to the Robster for pointing me in the right direction with this one, which I like even more now that I’ve heard it properly! Moving on to Alyson from What’s It All About, Alfie? who writes: “I am (sadly) old enough to remember Golden Earring from when they first released Radar Love back in ’73 and I hated it! Not my thing at all and they stole valuable TOTP from my favourite teen idols of the day. Bit of a one-hit wonder though so they soon went away, but then what happens, they release the same bl**dy song again four years later! My musical tastes had evolved by this time but they still (to use a phrase last employed by my favourite person to stalk/spy on/copy, George) “rubbed me up the wrong way” – Again they were taking valuable air time away from the acts I did want to watch on television! So, to pull a lyric from a song I really do like, they not only stole time: One time, one time (but) Two times, two times….. Yes, a very tenuous link to the Fugees version of Killing Me Softly from me this week.” I think I understand that connection, just about: The Fugees – Killing Me Softly Remember how Charity Chic said they may be back later? Turns out, they weren’t ruddy well joking: “In 1978 Radar Records released their first single (I Love The Sound of) Breaking Glass by Nick Lowe – hopefully got those brackets in the correct order Alyson!” This prompted a mini-discussion (can two comments be classed as a discussion? Discuss.) as to whether there were any brackets in the song title in question, Alyson stating: “Not seeing brackets in any of my reference material for that one CC, although I’m not actually looking at the single so they might have snuck those pesky brackets in there.” I was with CC on this one, right up until the point that, after uploading and naming the MP3, I checked the single sleeve. Oopsies. Nick Lowe – (I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass Luckily, it turns out that we’re all right. For it seems that in some countries, it was released with, and in some countries without, the brackets. For example, when it was released on Columbia Records in the USA, the brackets were included. As evidence: Glad to clear that up. And by the way, who said us bloggers were nerds? Now does anyone know what time it is? That’s right: it’s George Time! “Golden Earring were Dutch (I suppose they still are). So were Focus, but I chose them last week, but The Vengaboys were Dutch. I recognised We Like To Party (and did a little dance a la The Inbetweeners film which brought a smile to my partner’s face. Or was it a grimace…. ).” Definitely the latter. Vengaboys – We Like to Party! (The Vengabus) For those of you new round these parts, can I stress that this is not the sort of record that George usually suggests. He’s been under a lot of pressure recently… To try and balance things out a little, I’ve spent much of my spare time since George suggested this trying to find a clip of the Wenger Boys from Sky One’s Soccer AM, but to no avail. In my quest, however, I did find an article about Vengaboys which read: “Vengaboys are a Dutch Eurodance group…[who were] never critically acclaimed”. Hands up who knows can think of a really good reason why that might be? Here’s Rol from My Top Ten; surely he’ll have some blinding suggestions for us? “My first thought this time was that Golden Earring also had a song called The Twilight Zone and recently I put together a Top Ten Twilight Zone Songs (songs which could have been episodes of the amazing Rod Serling TV show). Number One on that list was Angie Baby by Helen Reddy because it freaks me out every time I listen to it. However, I’ve disqualified the above as it’s way too self-referential.” Oh shush. Such modesty. Read it here. “So instead, I offer Mark Germino & The Sluggers’ classic DJ song Rex Bob Lowenstein, taken from the album Radartown. Rex Bob is a hero to music bloggers everywhere – he refuses to “play the song list they send in the mail” and when The Man tries to make him, he barricades himself in his studio and “plays smash and trash till they cuff him on the floor”.” Mark Germino and The Sluggers – Rex Bob Lowenstein Over to Alex G from We Will Have Salad now: “OK, sticking with Dutchness for a moment, one Dutch musician who passed through Golden Earring’s ranks was Robert-Jan Stips, later of art popsters Nits, from whom I nominate “Radio Shoes”. And since the first “R” of “RADAR” stands for Radio, that’s a connection by two different routes.” The Nits – Radio Shoes “Also,” Alex continues, “I imagine most or all of Golden Earring wore shoes.” Not according to The Great Gog, they don’t: “Picking up from Alex G, a bit of lazy stereotyping would have the Dutch band’s footwear being clogs. This of course opens up the opportunity for a quick blast of Violinski’s “Clog Dance”. Violinski – Clog Dance 70s-tastic, Great Mate! What time is it? It’s a quarter past George Time! And here he is with another contender for Comment Showboat of the week: “Taking Gold as a starting point, directly under gold in the Periodic Table is Roentgenium, symbol Rg, named after Wilhelm Rontgen, the discoverer of X-rays. And The Butthole Surfers have a song with lines I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas, from the Hairway To Steven album. (Apologies to German readers and Germano-philes for not using an umlaut in Rontgen.)” Butthole Surfers – I Saw an X-Ray Of a Girl Passing Gas Last, but by no means least, of your suggestions this week, it’s welcome back to The Beard: “Golden Earring are famously Dutch. The sport of darts has produced many famous Dutchmen, none more so than current world number one Michael Van Gerwen. In the glamour world of professional arrows, walk-on music is standard. His walk-on music is Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes. Frontman Jack White appears to have a low boredom threshold/strong work ethic and was also in, among others, The Raconteurs with a couple of gadges from The Greenhornes. My choice is The End Of The Night by The Greenhornes.” The Greenhornes – The End of the Night I was going to post The White Stripes tune for you too, but CC only posted it over at his place a couple of days ago, so here’s the Glitch Mob Remix of it instead: The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army (The Glitch Mob Remix) Now, you’ll recall that right at the top of this week’s post, I wrote this: “…not one of you went down the very simple route of suggesting songs which linked to the word “Love” or “Ring”. Well the time to deal with them is now, and that person was yours truly. And surprisingly, I’m not going for the easy joke here. And this is the record: Pixies – I’ve Been Tired Whilst Black Francis/Frank Black/whatever he’s calling himself this week and Kim Deal may be (or have been in the latter’s case) the famous ones in the Pixies, this overlooks their drummer, the fantastically named Dave Lovering. Which is probably why he plays an instrument that is played sitting down, to protect his Lovering. (You know when I said I wasn’t going for the easy joke? I lied.) And one more from me. Some people claim to be able to use their Radar to establish what sexual preference a person is. Often this is referred to as a Gay-dar. Which sounds too much like this for me to be able to resist: Electric Six – Gay Bar It also gives me the opportunity to post the quite brilliant video for it: That’s enough Abraham Lincoln’s in posing pouches for this week, I think. Time to reveal what the BBC Radio 2 listening public nominated as their choice to follow on from Radar Love by Golden Earring: “From ‘Radar Love’ to Elvis Costello’s record label, Radar, hence…” 23. Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Radio Radio CC – you were so close to gaining some bonus points. So near, and yet so far… Ok, so you all know what to do next. Send me, via the Comments section below, you’re suggestions for records which can be linked to “Radio Radio” by Elvis Costello & The Attractions, along with your explanation of the link between the two (or in The Robster’s case, five). See you back here in a week’s time! (More soon) Posted on October 5, 2016 October 9, 2016 Categories The ChainTags Air, Barrett Strong, Blur, Boston, Brenda Lee, Butthole Surfers, Cinerama, Dawn of the Replicants, Electric Six, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Manic Street Preachers, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Germino and The Sluggers, Nick Lowe, Pixies, Squeeze, Stars on 45, Stephen Hero, The Fugees, The Greenhornes, The Nits, The White Stripes, This Is The Kit, Vengaboys, Violinski, Yeah Yeah Yeahs31 Comments on The Chain #23	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14000
__label__cc	0.737068	0.262932	Applications of cloud computing in healthcare pdf The remaining 4 dimensions address concrete methods to implement ie, how to use CCSs for health care and represent how-to knowledge. The service form and deployment model dimensions are consistent with the service and deployment models of CC, respectively [ 1 ]. They clarify the most basic operational principles of CCSs for health care organizations, which relate to principle knowledge. The dimension service form contains 3 characteristics: The deployment model dimension indicates whether CCSs are deployed using a public, community, or private cloud. Because a hybrid cloud is, by definition, composed of 2 or more of the aforementioned deployment models, we do not define hybrid as an independent characteristic of the deployment model. Instead, our taxonomy represents a CCS with a hybrid deployment model by using 2 or more of the characteristics defined above. The targeted cloud advantage dimension describes the concrete cloud properties from which a health care organization can benefit. This dimension highlights the effects of using CCSs and is also considered a type of principle knowledge. Ubiquity indicates that users can access the CCS from any location. Cost efficiency emphasizes the cost advantage brought by CCSs. Shareability refers to the ability of CCSs to enable the efficient exchange and sharing of data between different users, whereas interoperability denotes the ability of a CCS to smoothly integrate and operate with disparate systems and machines. Timeliness assesses how quickly CC is able to deliver services and related data to health care organizations real time vs not real time and thus relates to principle knowledge. We define a CCS as real time if it is ready to process or transfer data at any time, such that the computational results and requested data are immediately available. The supported task dimension specifies the areas in which health care organizations use CCSs. This dimension highlights the manner in which CC supports health care and is deemed a type of how-to knowledge. Supported task includes 4 characteristics: Clinical refers to medical activities in health care organizations that are directly associated with patient diagnosis and treatment. Administrative denotes management or support tasks in health care organizations, such as patient registration, admission, and discharge. Strategic represents tasks performed by management teams in health care organizations, such as strategic planning decisions, human resources management, and performance evaluations. Research represents all activities that are related to medical research. The user dimension relates to how-to knowledge and aggregates the possible user types of CCSs. This dimension differentiates between a patient who receives medical treatment at a health care organization, the medical staff health care professionals as well as administrators , and the family members of the patient. Service delivery device refers to how-to knowledge because this dimension represents the types of client devices used to access the CCS. A CCS with an independent characteristic allows users to access services using any computer or mobile device. Adapted specifies that a CCS is compatible with different types of devices but operates more efficiently on a certain group of devices eg, mobile phones or tablets via technical adaptation to those devices eg, developing specialized applications for tablets or compressing data to accelerate data transfer for mobile phones. Specialized represents those CCSs that can be accessed by only 1 or several designated groups of devices, such as authorized tablet computers, workstations in health care organizations, or specific medical devices. Finally, the patient data involvement dimension, which also relates to how-to knowledge, explains how patient-related data are used to deliver services. Internal indicates that a CCS uses patient data that are internally available to the health care organization for IT service delivery. External refers to a situation in which a CCS uses patient data collected from external sources, such as outside medical professionals or the patients themselves. No involvement indicates that a CCS does not have access to patient data and thus does not use such data in IT service delivery. After completing all taxonomy development iterations, we classified all 50 CCSs that we identified during stage 1. Multimedia Appendix 4 presents the final classification results. In this section, we provide an example of how our taxonomy can be used to classify CCSs for health care organizations. This example examines a hospital decision support system for bed-patient assignments see C22, Multimedia Appendix 1. Because this CCS addresses patient administration and assists hospital leadership in measuring and benchmarking hospital operations, it supports both administrative and strategic tasks. The CCS is delivered in the form of a software application and is hosted in a public cloud environment. The CCS does not operate in real time not real time. It is used by medical staff and is not device-specific independent. Finally, the patient data processed by the CCS are internal. Our taxonomy fulfills all predefined ending conditions after 14 development iterations. In particular, the fulfillment of 5 subjective ending conditions indicates high sufficiency of the taxonomy. We summarized these subjective ending conditions and provide a justification for the fulfillment of each condition in Multimedia Appendix 5. Notably, the subjective ending conditions describe the essential features of the derived taxonomy. By observing the taxonomy, which includes the classification results of CCSs for health care organizations, we obtained specific implications of CCSs for health care. As demonstrated in Table 3 , these implications offer 2 types of challenges to our previous understanding of CC in health care: More importantly, as shown in Figure 3 , the summarized specificities suggest research opportunities with exemplary research questions, facilitating future research about this relevant phenomenon in health IT. Research opportunities for cloud computing in health care. Previous studies show that in a common context, PaaS and IaaS are as relevant as SaaS in the cloud market [ 40 ]; however, this result is challenged by CC in the context of health care type 1. This is possibly because health care organizations expect to exploit the advantages of SaaS to the greatest extent and in a timely manner. For hospitals, cloud almost only means software as a service because many hospitals want to use them as off-the-shelf products. SaaS products that support medical areas are especially welcome because hospitals always expect to get immediate improvement from the cloud in their core business. The lack of PaaS and IaaS in health care organizations indicates an insufficient state of CC in health care, which was confirmed by several interviewees ii08, i10, ii We want to develop our own SaaS, but there is just no specific PaaS for health care organizations. General PaaS are not enough. The need for PaaS in health care is not only because PaaS in general provides ready-to-use technical support for programmers but also because it has the potential to provide solutions to effectively fulfill industry-specific IT requirements. This is, for example, explained by an interviewee who was involved in developing a CCS for a hospital. There were so many complex things we had to consider for hospitals. We kept wasting time on unnecessary meetings to find technical solutions. I dreamt of having a PaaS that could support us. Of course, there is more. Compliance is also a main topic. Hospitals ask over and over again whether our software is compliant with this or that. Further industry-specific IT requirements that can potentially be supported by a health care PaaS—constant demand on cutting-edge technologies, high health IT agility to meet changing medical requirements , the need for different domain-specific medical data structures, and support for industrial joint implementation activities eg, between government and hospital —were also mentioned by the interviewees. For IaaS, previous research studies [ 42 ] and our interviewees both emphasized the strategic meaning i08 of IT infrastructure ie, critical information infrastructure for the health care industry and consequently the extremely high importance of IaaS i20 for health care organizations. Future research could focus on exploring the lack of PaaS and IaaS for health care. As revealed by our interview data, there is a particular need for research studies that systematically investigate specific requirements for health care that cannot be covered by PaaS and IaaS in a common context and thus a need to design and develop industry-specific PaaS and IaaS. Previous studies have raised concerns about security and privacy as the Achilles heel of CC [ 43 ], which are main barriers for the adoption of health IT artifacts [ 44 , 45 ]. These concerns might be more severe for public clouds, whose infrastructures are accessible by many different users [ 46 ]. However, the dimension deployment model indicates that more than half of the investigated CCSs are based on public clouds, especially given that almost all of these CCSs involved patient data dimension: To this end, providing a high level of data security was regarded as a targeted cloud advantage in 10 of the identified CCSs, of which 6 were deployed on public clouds. This challenges our understanding of CC in a general context type 1. Additionally, interoperability may also impede the adoption of CC in a general context [ 47 ]. For health care, however, our taxonomy demonstrates that increased interoperability is a benefit of CC. Security and interoperability are traditionally the most intractable challenges in health IT, and industry standards concerning IT security and interoperability in health care are evolving [ 9 ]. Cloud providers can devote resources to the implementation of industry standards or best practices that many hospitals cannot afford [ 4 ]. CC can thereby address security and interoperability issues in a more effective manner, which was confirmed by the interviewed experts ii04, ii07, i10, ii14, ii18, i Data security, interoperability Speaking of data security, using paper is also not safe, if you insist on saying a cloud is not safe. Moreover, researchers could focus on exploring the factors such as security and interoperability that have industry-specific impacts on cloud adoption in health care, in contrast to a general context. In a general context, the use of CC is heavily motivated by short-term economic interests [ 48 ]. Research relying on this general understanding of CC claimed the low costs were the principle advantage of CC in health care [ 4 ]. Our research challenges the understanding of CC in a general context type 1 by revealing that when using CCSs, many health care organizations frequently must transfer large volumes of data to and from the cloud eg, medical images [ 49 ]. This can cause data transfer bottlenecks due to the obsolete network infrastructures currently in place at many health care organizations—a typical industry-specific IT issue i02, i08, i It is therefore not surprising that the interviewees were not convinced of the potential financial advantages of using CC in health care ii05, i07, i10, i However, our interviewees reported that in the long term, CC will reduce their general IT maintenance work i02, i24 and help them avoid possible IT reinvestments i Future research could therefore focus on re examining and explaining the economic results of using CCSs in health care organizations. Moreover, researchers could focus on CC business processes or investment strategies in health care settings that enhance the short-term benefits for health care organizations. We recognize that most of the identified CCSs 36 of 50 support clinical tasks in health care organizations dimension: This observation challenges previous studies about traditional health IT type 2 , which have concluded that health care organizations primarily focus on the use of IT applications for administrative, strategic, or financial functions rather than clinical activities [ 50 ]. In clinical practice, even ordinary data analysis occasionally overwhelms traditional health IT with large volumes of data and complex analytical algorithms. A conservative but still well-recognized view of health IT is that medical staff are the main users of health IT applications [ 53 , 54 ], and many existing health IT applications are heavily physician-centered. However, the evidence from our taxonomy challenges this view type 2 and implies a high potential of CC to realize patient-centeredness—a promising future direction for health IT [ 55 ]. Regarding the user dimension, we noticed that 8 identified CCSs included patients as their users, which is a premise of patient-centered health IT services. Additionally, several interviewees i02, ii08, i11 noted that CC innovatively involves patient family members to realize patient-centeredness, as did 2 identified CCSs C26, C An interviewee, whose hospital deploys a medical appointment CCS for patients, had this to say:. Although we have to have more users and processes now, I believe CC can offer the necessary computer resources. Their children could help them Despite the potential of CC to support patient-centeredness, only a limited number of patient-centered CCSs were identified in this study. Future research could therefore focus on examining how CC supports patient-centeredness and on designing further CCSs that support it. For health IT that supports clinical functions, physicians who are forced to adapt health care delivery processes to technologies are often unwilling to use it. Existing health IT research concluded that these devices are inherently subjected to limited computing capacity and are criticized as unsuitable for complex tasks, such as clinical work [ 58 ]. Future research could explore how CC overcomes the limitations of mobile or small devices in health care, which is a relevant but underinvestigated topic in health IT [ 58 ]. One major expected purpose of involving patient data in health IT is to employ the data as a means to link users or systems in different clinical areas and thereby facilitate their collaboration [ 59 ]. However, research generally highlights a lack of sufficient health IT applications that support collaboration [ 60 ]. Our taxonomy challenges this type 2 and reveals that CC has the potential to address this issue, as 21 of the 46 CCSs that involve patient data and support clinical areas possessed shareability or interoperability as an advantage dimension: However, these CCSs are not without limitations. Including patient data from different sources is the basis of collaboration in clinical activities [ 51 ]. The interviewees remarked that CCSs in health care organizations that have a collaboration purpose mostly focus on internal data exchanges which was also revealed by our taxonomy , although they believed that CC has the potential to also facilitate collaboration with external parties. The timeliness dimension is another indicator for collaboration because it addresses how intensively data exchanges occur. However, for the 21 CCSs that supported clinical areas and possessed the shareability or interoperability characteristics, we found that only 8 enabled real-time data exchanges. Real time is crucial for effective data exchanges and the resulting collaboration in clinical processes ii06, i08, i11, i Collaboration [based on data exchanges] should not only take place but also in a real-time manner. A delay of important data for even a few minutes could be fatal for clinical activities. Future research should therefore strive to improve CCSs for collaboration in clinical activities due to the currently still insufficient state of CCSs as well as general health IT [ 51 , 60 ] for supporting collaboration. Moreover, researchers could also investigate how CC supports collaboration in areas other than clinical settings in health care. For health IT research, our contributions are threefold. In particular, our taxonomy targets principle and how-to knowledge to systematically conceptualize the concept of CC for health care settings. Thus, the derived dimensions and characteristics of the taxonomy highlight the aspects of CC that are most relevant to health care. We thereby contribute to closing the gap between an insufficient conceptual understanding of CC and the actual phenomenon in practice for health care. Second, our taxonomy suggests 7 specificities that subvert and thus challenge our previous understanding of CC in a general context or of traditional health IT. These specificities advance the understanding of CC in health care. Third, we derived concrete research opportunities for health IT see Multimedia Appendix 6 for a summary. As presented at the beginning, health IT researchers have been interested in the development of single CC applications or data security topics. For both topics, we provide suggestions that guide future research eg, to focus on developing CCSs that enable collaboration in health care or even create new opportunities and directions eg, to focus on inherently increased, instead of decreased, IT security in health care by using CC. In addition, we noticed that research topics on CC are by nature broad and diverse, which should not be limited to the development of CC applications and IT security, as in current health care settings, but can include more areas such as its business perspective [ 61 , 62 ], its adoption by organizations [ 63 , 64 ], user awareness and acceptance [ 65 , 66 ], and its certification [ 67 - 69 ]. The proposed research directions in this study are a step toward facilitating research on CC in health care settings. For health IT practice, the derived taxonomy can be applied to investigate CCSs for health care organizations on 2 different levels. On a macro level, the classification of available CCSs in a certain health IT market using the taxonomy can serve as an indicator of the current state of these CCSs. Cloud providers or policy makers could, for example, suggest new CCSs that address possible market gaps eg, PaaS for hospitals. On a micro level, health care organizations could apply the taxonomy to understand an individual CCS. A main limitation of this research is that our data focused on health care organizations that are hospitals and clinics, as implied by the literature review search string and by the interview questions. This is because hospitals and clinics are not only the backbone of the health care industry [ 70 ] but also representative IT consumers in health care [ 71 ]. We therefore expected that a taxonomy derived from hospitals and clinics would provide more generally valid insights into CC for health care settings. Research that focuses on CC in more specific health care settings eg, nursing homes could employ our taxonomy as a starting point. We suggest that such research use the proposed dimensions and characteristics as a checklist to investigate CC. Our work relied on data from 24 expert interviews, which does not necessarily guarantee that all CCSs for health care organizations from practice were discovered. However, the selection of our interviewees ensured a wide spectrum of knowledge about CC in health care in Asia, Western Europe, and the United States, which represent the main CC health care markets. Future research could also include niche CC markets to further verify and improve our taxonomy. By relying on perspectives from a taxonomy for CCSs for health care organizations, we provide a solid conceptual cornerstone for research about CC in health care; moreover, the suggested specificities of CC for health care and the related future research opportunities will serve as a valuable roadmap. Conflicts of Interest: None declared. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. J Med Internet Res. Published online Jul Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer. Corresponding author. Corresponding Author: Ali Sunyaev ude. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research http: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License https: The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http: Abstract Background Cloud computing is an innovative paradigm that provides users with on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources such as servers, storage, and applications. Objective We aim to generate insights into the concept of cloud computing for health IT research. Methods We employed a 2-stage approach in developing a taxonomy of cloud computing services for health care organizations. Results Our taxonomy is composed of 8 dimensions and 28 characteristics that are relevant for cloud computing services in health care organizations. Conclusions By relying on perspectives from a taxonomy for cloud computing services for health care organizations, this study provides a solid conceptual cornerstone for cloud computing in health care. Introduction Background and Objective Cloud computing CC is an innovative paradigm that provides users with on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources such as servers, storage, and applications [ 1 ]. Our research focuses on the following research questions RQs: What are the relevant properties of CC for service delivery to health care? What are the specific meanings of these properties for health care? Methods Overview We employed a 2-stage approach to develop a taxonomy of CCSs for health care organizations. Open in a separate window. Figure 1. Literature Review To obtain data for the development of our taxonomy, we followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses framework [ 33 ] and performed a review of the literature on CC in health care organizations. Expert Interviews To gather knowledge that could inform the development of the taxonomy from practice, we conducted 24 semistructured expert interviews, as listed in Table 1. Table 1 Overview of interviewees. Taxonomy Development For the taxonomy development, we chose the method proposed by Nickerson et al [ 32 ], which provides a systematic taxonomy development approach for IT objects and is well acknowledged in the domain of health IT [ 38 , 39 ]. Results Dimensions and Characteristics Our taxonomy of CCSs for health care organizations is composed of 8 dimensions and 28 characteristics see Table 2 for overview. Table 2 Taxonomy of cloud computing services for health care organizations. Dimension Characteristics Principle knowledge Service form Software, platform, infrastructure Deployment model Public, private, community Targeted cloud advantage Scalability, elasticity, ubiquity, cost efficiency, shareability, interoperability, security Timeliness Real time, not real time How-to knowledge Supported task Clinical, administrative, strategy, research User Patient, medical staff, family member Service delivery device Independent, adapted, specialized Patient data involvement Internal, external, no involvement. Classification and Evaluation After completing all taxonomy development iterations, we classified all 50 CCSs that we identified during stage 1. Table 3 Specificities of cloud computing for health care. Figure 3. Specificity 1: Interviewee i Specificity 2: Cloud Computing Brings More Data Security and Interoperability to Health Care Previous studies have raised concerns about security and privacy as the Achilles heel of CC [ 43 ], which are main barriers for the adoption of health IT artifacts [ 44 , 45 ]. CC is safe. The problem is how to make people believe that. There was a problem providing the content you requested Specificity 3: Specificity 4: Specificity 5: Cloud Computing Supports Patient-Centeredness A conservative but still well-recognized view of health IT is that medical staff are the main users of health IT applications [ 53 , 54 ], and many existing health IT applications are heavily physician-centered. An interviewee, whose hospital deploys a medical appointment CCS for patients, had this to say: Specificity 6: Specificity 7: Contributions For health IT research, our contributions are threefold. Limitations and Conclusions A main limitation of this research is that our data focused on health care organizations that are hospitals and clinics, as implied by the literature review search string and by the interview questions. Multimedia Appendix 1 Overview of identified cloud computing services. Cloudlet-Based Mobile Cloud Computing for Healthcare Applications - IEEE Conference Publication Click here to view. Multimedia Appendix 2 Overview of interview questions. Multimedia Appendix 3 Taxonomy development iterations. Multimedia Appendix 4 Taxonomy of cloud computing services for health care organizations. Multimedia Appendix 6 Future research directions. Footnotes Conflicts of Interest: References 1. Mell P, Grance T. NIST definition of cloud computing. National Institute of Standards and Technology; Paul M, Das A. Provisioning of healthcare service in cloud. Information and Communication Technology. Springer; Quwaider M, Jararweh Y. Multi-tier cloud infrastructure support for reliable global health awareness system. Simulation Modelling Pract Theory. Kuo AM. Opportunities and challenges of cloud computing to improve health care services. Sultan N. Making use of cloud computing for healthcare provision: Int J Inform Manag. The key lessons of the Healthcare. ZapThink; Costs of cloud computing for a biometry department. A case study. Methods Inf Med. On-cloud healthcare clinic: Telematics and Informatics. Nelson R, Staggers N. Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach. Evolve Elsevier; Mathieson S. Moore-Colyer R. HP overhauls Cambridge University Hospitals? An intelligent cloud-based data processing broker for mobile e-health multimedia applications. Future Gen Comput Sys. A mobile cloud computing model using the Cloudlet scheme for big data applications. Comput Biol Med. Integration of a zero-footprint cloud-based picture archiving and communication system with customizable forms for radiology research and education. Acad Radiol. Security architecture and protocol for trust verifications regarding the integrity of files stored in cloud services. Sensors Basel Mar 02; 18 3: J Med Syst. Nat Biotechnol. Skip to Main Content. A not-for-profit organization, IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Use of this web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. Personal Sign In. For IEEE to continue sending you helpful information on our products and services, please consent to our updated Privacy Policy. Email Address. Sign In. Institutional Sign In. The smart phones are used in many aspects of our life, shopping on the Internet, and creating and distributing many types of files. 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__label__wiki	0.886024	0.886024	http://fna.ir/dbe8oa Sun Aug 11, 2019 1:49 Iran's Top Commander Urges India, Pakistan to Exercise Restraint TEHRAN (FNA)- Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri said Tehran expects both New Delhi and Islamabad to avoid undertaking impulsive measures, adding that political efforts rather than military option will help resolve the Kashmir issue. “It is expected that both sides (Pakistan and India) abstain from any hasty decision about the fate of the region that would not take the people’s will into account,” Baqeri said in a telephone conversation with Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Saturday. The top commander expressed concern over tensions in the Indian-controlled Kashmir, warning that military approaches will further escalate the situation in the Himalayan district. “We hope that political efforts will restore the basic rights of the region’s Muslims,” he added, emphasizing that Muslim nations were concerned about the developments in the disputed region. Baqeri also stressed the need for restraint in order to manage Kashmir developments. The Iranian and Pakistani military officials then exchanged viewpoints on border security, military and security relations between Tehran and Islamabad and latest regional developments, particularly the situation in Kashmir. Bajwa, for his part, praised Iran’s concern for Muslims, saying that Pakistan will spare no efforts to secure its frontiers with Iran, so the borders will be the boundaries of peace, friendship and serenity for both the Pakistani and Iranian nations. Tensions have been running high in Kashmir since Monday, when New Delhi revoked Article 370, a constitutional provision that had come into effect in 1949 and grants special status to Kashmir, allowing it to have its own flag and constitution, among other rights. In the lead-up to the move, India sent thousands of additional troops to the disputed region, imposing a curfew on parts of it, arrested political leaders and shut down telecommunication lines. Kashmir has been split between India and Pakistan since partition in 1947. Both countries claim all of Kashmir and have fought three wars over the territory. Islamabad was quick to denounce India’s recent move as illegal, with Prime Minister Imran Khan saying he was weighing taking the matter to the United Nations Security Council In a Thursday tweet, Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian urged New Delhi and Islamabad to put the issue of Kashmir into a regional perspective, saying that regional efforts can resolve the issue through dialogue and peaceful means. Amir Abdollahian said that Iran is “deeply concerned" about the escalation of tensions in Kashmir, highlighting that the situation in Kashmir doesn’t have a military solution. “[We] welcome peaceful means and dialogue for securing interests of people in Jammu and Kashmir and resolving the crisis. Kashmir has no military solution,” he added, stressing that regional and international approach, specially under the OIC initiative is “a must”. On Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Moussavi called on New Delhi and Islamabad to exercise self-restraint and try to resolve their dispute over Jammu and Kashmir. “Iran expects India and Pakistan, as two of its regional partners, to use a peaceful approach and dialogue to settle the dispute over Jammu and Kashmir,” The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement, in reaction to the current developments concerning the disputed Jammu and Kashmir regions. He said that the Islamic Republic of Iran is closely following the recent decision by the Indian government regarding Jammu and Kashmir, and will take into careful consideration the explanations presented by both Indian and Pakistani officials about the recent developments. “The Islamic Republic of Iran expects India and Pakistan, as its friends and regional partners, to take effective steps in line with the interests of the people of the region by using dialogue and adopting peaceful means,” he added. Official: Enemies after Discord between Iran, Pakistan Rouhani Reiterates Enhancement of Iran-Pakistan Economic Interactions Iran's Top Security Official Urges All-Out Expansion of Ties with Pakistan Tehran, Islamabad Discuss Ways to Expand Army Cooperation Tehran Raps New Delhi’s Submission to US Pressures Iran Calls for Expansion of All-Out Relations with India New Delhi Resolute to Boost Defense Ties with Tehran Advisor Calls for Placing Kashmir Issue into Regional Perspective for Resolving Crisis Iran Calls for Peaceful Settlement of Kashmir Dispute by India, Pakistan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14020
__label__wiki	0.712077	0.712077	IEEE Circuits and Systems Society History Brief Timeline Letter from John Brainerd writing on the early history of the Professional Group in the IRE According to John Brainerd writing in the December 1983 centennial issue of the Circuits and Systems Magazine, by about 1948 or 1949, an existing informal group or subcommittee interested in Circuit Theory saw a possiblity of having a group for itself, because the concept of Professional Groups in IRE had arisen. On 5 April 1949 the IRE Board approved a petition signed by 26 IRE members to form the IRE Circuit Theory Group. March 20, 1951 - First meeting of the IRE Professional Group on Circuit Theory. The first issue of the Transactions, PGCT-1, was dated December 1952. It refers to a Newsletter for members but no copy of the original issue has been found. March 25, 1963 - Name change to IEEE Professional Technical Group on Circuit Theory 1966 - Became Group on Circuit Theory In 1971 the opportunity to gain greater independence by a change from Group to Society status arose, and the IEEE Board of Directors approved the change in May 1972. Later that year (December 1972) the Board approved the change in name to Circuits and Systems Society. This data comes from a History of the Society written by Ban Leon (in the CAS Magazine Centennial Issue), and differs from another claim (below) that the name change was in November. This should be easy toi resolve from the minutes of the IEEE Board of Directors November 2, 1972 - Name change to IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Date Name Affiliation 1952 - 1953 John G. Brainerd University of Pennsylvania 1954 - 1955 Robert L. Dietzold Bell Labs 1955 Chester H. Page National Bureau of Standards 1956 - 1957 Herbert J. Carlin Polytech. Inst. of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 1958 - 1959 William H. Huggins Westinghouse Electric Corp. 1960 - 1961 Sidney Darlington Bell Labs 1962 - 1963 James H. Mulligan New York University 1964 - 31 Mar 1965 Ralph J. Schwarz Columbia University 1 Apr 1965 - 31 Mar 1966 John. G. Linvill Stanford University 1 Apr 1966 - 31 Dec 1966 M.E. Van Valkenburg University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 1967 Franklin H. Blecher Bell Labs 1968 - 1969 Arthur P. Stern The Magnavox Company 1970 - 1971 Benjamin J. Leon Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 1972 Ernest S. Kuh University of California, Berkeley, CA 1973 M.R. Aaron Bell Labs 1974 Sydney R. Parker Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 1975 Belle A. Shenoi Wright State University, Dayton, OH 1976 Mohammed Ghausi Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 1977 Leon O. Chua University of California, Berkeley, CA 1978 Omar Wing Columbia University, New York, NY 1979 Timothy N. Trick University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 1980 Carl F. Kurth Bell Labs 1981 Stephen W. Director Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1982 Bede Liu Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 1983 Kenneth R. Laker University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1984 Alan N. Willson Jr. University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1985 W. Kenneth Jenkins University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 1986 Sanjit K. Mitra University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1987 Ronald A. Rohrer Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1988 Ming Liou Bell Labs 1989 Anthony N. Michel Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN 1990 Rolf Schaumann University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 1991 Sung Mo Kang University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 1992 Randall L. Geiger Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 1993 Philip V. Lopresti AT & T 1994 Wai-Kai Chen University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 1995 Ruey-Wen Liu University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 1996 Michael R. Lightner University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1997 John Choma Jr. Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Rui J.P. de Figureido University of California, Irvine, CA 1999 George S. Moschytz Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech, Zurich, Switzerland 2000 Bing J. Sheu Nassda Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 2001 Hari C. Reddy California State University, Long Beach, CA 2002 Josef A. Nossek Munich University of Technology, Germany 2003 Giovanni De Micheli Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2004 M.N.S. Swamy Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 2005 Georges Gielen Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium 2006 Ellen Yoffa IBM Corporation 2007 Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser Univ., BC, Canada 2008 Maciej Ogorzalek Jagiellonian Univ., Krakow, Poland 2009 David J. Allstot Univ of California, Berkeley, USA 2010 Gianluca Setti Università degli studi di Ferrara, Italy 2011 Mani Soma University of Washington 2012-2013 Thanos Stouraitis University of Patras, Greece Notice that the Society did not have a President resident in an IEEE Region outside the USA until 1999 (George Moschytz). Conferences of the Society The first outside the USA The IRE (then IEEE) Circuit Theory Group developed an international perspective at a very early stage. Initially it supported several different conferences related to Circuit Theory, but then decided to concentrate support on one Symposium per year (the forerunner of ISCAS). After holding this event a couple of times in USA, by 1969 there was a wish to hold it outside the USA. A bid in May 1969 from the Circuit Theory Chapter of the IEEE United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Section to host it in London, England in 1971, was accepted in August 1969. An announcement in the March 1971 Newsletter of the Circuit Theory Group and the Call for Papers are illustrated here. Some concerns were expressed at the time about the effect of a ‘financial downturn’ on the attendance, and the registration fee was increased slightly to compensate. The editor of the same March 1971 Newsletter (Frank Boesch) wrote ‘….the economic condition of the engineering community in the United States is presently very poor……’ He also quoted some airline ticket costs: New York to London $210, and London to New York $255 – with a possibility of Charter Flights for $175 round trip. Numerically those are comparable to today’s costs, and considering the inflation since 1971, it is evident how dramatically the real cost of flying has fallen. A postal strike in UK at the time of paper submission and review led to some temporary worries, but the event was judged to be a success and led directly to the policy of regularly holding ISCAS outside the USA which has been maintained ever since then. Prof. B.D.H. Tellegen (TU Delft, Netherlands), inventor of the Gyrator and discoverer of Tellegen's Theorem, speaking in September 1971 at the banquet of the IEEE International Symposium on Electrical Network Theory, London, England, the first 'ISCAS' to be held outside the USA. Seated next to Prof. Tellegen is George Brayshaw, General Chairman of the Symposium. Although the London Symposium was organised in the full knowledge of and with some cooperation from the National Society (IEE), some of the organisers feared that ‘retribution’ from IEE might follow afterwards. An indirect consequence was the initiation with the assistance of IEE of the ECCTD series of conferences, still held every two years in Region 8, which some staff and members of IEE hoped would keep IEEE out of Europe – in fact, there has normally been a cooperative association between IEEE CAS and ECCTD. Anthony C. Davies (Written in March 2003 for the CAS Society Directory) The Annual Symposium of the CAS Society The first annual symposium was held in Miami Beach, Florida, in December 1968. Prior to that the Circuit Theory Group had co-sponsored (apparently without financial involvement) several meetings in the Circuit Theory field: the Midwest Symposium on Circuit Theory, the Allerton Conference on Circuit Theory, etc. A decision was taken to concentrate on supporting only one event per year soon after the Miami Beach event. The international perspective which characterized the Circuit Theory Group can be judged from the decision to hold this event in London, England in 1971 - a decision in principle to do so must have been taken not later than 1969. Although the Society has sponsored and co-sponsored many different series of conferences and continues to do so, the primary annual conferences is the the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). The following list gives the date, location and general chairman of ISCAS since its inception: Date Venue General Chairman 1968 Miami Beach, Florida Omar Wing 1969 San Francisco, CA unavailable 1970 Atlanta, Georgia H.E. Meadows 1971 London, England George S. Brayshaw 1972 Los Angeles, CA Sydney R. Parker 1973 Toronto, Canada Kenneth C. Smith 1974 San Francisco, CA Sanjit K. Mitra 1975 Boston, MA John Logan 1976 Munich, Germany Rudolf Saal 1977 Phoenix, Arizona William Howard 1978 New York City H.E. Meadows 1979 Tokyo, Japan Yosiro Oono 1980 Houston, Texas Rui J.P. de Figureido 1981 Chicago, Illinois Benjamin J. Leon , M.E. Van Valkenburg 1982 Rome, Italy Antonio Ruberti 1983 Newport Beach, CA George Szentirmai 1984 Montreal, Canada M.N.S. Swamy 1985 Kyoto, Japan Toshio Fujusawa 1986 San Jose, CA George Szentirmai 1987 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Samuel Bedrosian 1988 Helsinki, Finland Yrjo Neuvo 1989 Portland, Oregon Tran Thong 1990 New Orleans, Louisiana Anthony Michel, Michael Sain 1991 Singapore J.C.H. Phang 1992 San Diego, CA Stanley A. White 1993 Chicago, Illinois Wai-Kai Chen 1994 London, England Robert Spence 1995 Seattle, Washington Robert J. Marks II 1996 Atlanta, Georgia Philip E. Allen 1997 Hong Kong Tony T.S. Ng, Ming Liou 1998 Monterey, California Sherif N. Michael 1999 Orlando, Florida Wasfy B. Mikhael 2000 Geneva, Switzerland Martin J. Hasler 2001 Sydney, Australia Graham R. Hellestrand, David J. Skellern 2002 Phoenix, Arizona David J. Allstot, Sethuraman Panchanathan 2003 Bangkok, Thailand Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, Chris Toumazou 2004 Vancouver, BC, Canada Andreas Antoniou 2005 Kobe, Japan Nobuo Fuji 2006 Kos, Greece Thanos Stouraitis 2007 New Orleans Magdy Bayoumi 2008 Seattle, Washington David Allstot 2009 Taipei, Taiwan Jhing Fa Wang 2010 Paris, France Amara Amara 2011 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Paulo Diniz 2012 Incheon, Korea Myung Sunwoo 2016 Montreal, Canada Editors of CAS Society Publications The reputation and achievements of the CAS Society are substantially dependent upon the Transactions, and while the content is created by the authors (with not insignificant contributions from reviewers), the Editors are responsible for the overall quality and timeliness of what is published. From the very first issue of the IRE Circuit Theory Group, the Transactions have been the source of many of the fundamentals which have led to the spectacular achievements of modern electronic engineering. Because the names of the Editors are often recorded only on the cover pages of the Transactions, and these pages are frequently discarded by libraries as part of the process of binding the annual volumes, the identities of the Editors are easily lost, especially for early issues. The list below is intended to help to preserve this heritage.For many years, the change in editor took place in mid-year. More recently, the changes have been on a Calendar year basis (normally a two year term starting in January). Notice that initially and for several years, all editors were from USA, though increasingly, content came from authors outside the USA. A more recent trend has been many more editors from outside USA. Editors of the Transactions on Circuit Theory The first issue was December 1952 W.H. Huggins John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA 1954-1957 W.R. Bennett Bell Telephone Labs, NJ, USA 1958-1960 M.E. Van Valkenberg Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, USA 1961-1963 Norman Balabanian Syracuse University, NY, USA 1963-1965 Dante Youla Poly. Inst. of Brooklyn, NY, USA 1965-1967 Benjamin Leon Purdue University, IN, USA 1967-1969 Gabor Temes UCLA, CA, USA 1969-1971 George Szentirmai Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 1971-1973 At the end of 1973, the title ‘Circuit Theory’ was dropped and replaced by ‘Circuits and Systems’, used from January 1974. Editors of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems Leon Chua Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 1973-1975 Omar Wing Columbia University, New York, USA 1975-1977 Alan N. Willson UCLA, CA, USA 1977-1979 Ming L. Liou Bell Telephone Labs, NJ, USA 1979-1981 Anthony Michel Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA 1981-1983 Rolf Schaumann Univ. of Minnesota, USA 1983-1985 Andreas Antoniou Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada 1985-1987 Yen-Long Kuo Bell Labs, North Andover, MA, USA 1987-1989 Ruey-Wen Liu Notre Dame University, IN, USA 1989-1991 In January 1992, the Transactions were split into two parts, TCAS-I and TCAS-II, subsequently each with its own editorial team. TCAS-I was allocated to 'Fundamental Theory and Applications' and TCAS-II to 'Analog and Digital Signal Processing'. After a while this distinction was not easy to sustain, and the two parts were later discontinued and replaced by a new format with part 1 being for 'regular papers' and part 2 being for 'express briefs (short papers). Editors of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I Wai-Kai Chen Univ of Illinois, Chicago, USA 1991-1993 Martin Hasler EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 1993-1995 Josef Nossek TU München, Germany 1995-1997 Pier Paulo Civalleri Politecnico di Torino, Italy 1997-1999 M.N.S. Swamy Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 1999-2001 Tamás Roska SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary 2001-2003 Keshab Parhi Univ of Minnesota, MN, USA 2004-2005 Sankar Basu National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, USA 2006-2007 Gianluca Setti Univ of Ferrara, Italy 2008- Editors of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II Dave J. Allstot Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 1993-1995 John Choma USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA 1995-1997 Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio Texas A&M Univ, TX, USA 1997-1999 Chris Toumazou Imperial College London, England 1999-2001 Ian Galton UC, San Diego, CA, USA 2001-2003 Gianluca Setti Univ of Ferrara, Italy 2006-2007 U.-K. Moon Oregon State Univ. Corvallis, OR 97331, USA 2008- Editors of the Transactions on Computer Aided Design The first issue was January 1982 Ronald A. Rohrer General Electric Co, USA 1982-1984 Robert W Dutton Stanford University, CA, USA 1985-1987 Andrzej Stojwas Carnegie Mellon Univ, PA, USA 1988-1989 Michael Lightner Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA 1990-1991 Alfred Dunlop AT&T Bell Labs, NJ, USA 1991-1993 Malgorzata Marek-Sadorska UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA 1993-1995 Randal Bryant Carnegie Mellon Univ, PA, USA 1996-1997 Giovanni De Micheli Stanford University, CA, USA 1997-2001 Kartikega Mayaram Oregon State Univ., Portland, OR, USA 2002-2005 E. Macii Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy 2006 Editors of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology The first issue was March 1991 Ming Liou Bellcore, USA (then Univ. of Sci. and Tech, Kowloon, Hong Kong) 1991-1995 Ming T Sun Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 1995-1997 Ya-Qin Zhang Microsoft, Cranbury, NJ, USA 1997-1999 Weiping Li Webcast Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA, USA 1999-2001 T. Sikora TU Berlin, Germany 2002-2005 C.W. Chen Univ. of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA 2006- The Newsletters and Magazines From the early days of the Circuit Theory Group, a simple Newsletter was sent to all the members. At first issued irregularly, in 1959 it became a quarterly publication. This developed to include some technical articles, and was renamed the Magazine, although subsequently it was again called a Newsletter. Later, some other IEEE Societies began the production of popular high quality magazines, such as the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and for a while, the Circuits and Systems Society was one of the particpating sponsors of the Circuits and Devices Magazine. The idea then developed to produce a Magazine for the Circuits and Systems Society and a transition-path was planned to convert the Newsletter to a Magazine. The Editor during this transitional phase was Michael Sain. As the publication developed and improved, it was necessary to get formal IEEE approval for it to be produced within the 'IEEE family of publications' and after some opposition from several sources, this approval was obtained, and now the Society has a colourful magazine incorporating good quality tutorial and survey papers covering many topics within the overall field of interest of the Society. Since 2007, there has also been a bi-monthly Newsletter, containing only brief news items for members of the Society (e.g. no technical articles). The Society has always had a strong international perspective and membership, and for a short while, around 2000, tried a membership encouragement drive using other languages than English, following a trend adopted by some other IEEE Societies, for example Electron Devices (example leaflets shown below the images of Magazine Front Covers). The Circuits and Systems Society: some historical remarks about the Original Core Subject Area (mostly from the CAS Society Directory, 2002-2003, written by Anthony C Davies) A Tale of Long Ago Many of the early members and contributors were passive-filter designers. The design of high-performance passive filters was a very specialized topic, understood by only a few experts, but it was crucial to the implementation of line-based telecommunications systems and quite important in radio communications. For many years, industry generally used the ‘Image Parameter’ method, which provided an ‘easy’ design route (for which slide-rule accuracy was often enough) but which involved inherent approximations in terms of realization of the frequency characteristics of the ‘design’. The Insertion Loss method, pioneered by Cauer and by Darlington, was able to produce designs for which, with ideal lossless components, an exact synthesis of a prescribed transfer function could be obtained. However, the theory was not easy to understand at the time, accurate and extensive calculations were needed, and with only primitive mechanical calculating machines available, the method was laborious and did not find many supporters, and industry generally neither understood nor made use of the method. Filter designers were thus often regarded as ‘a race apart’ - engaged in using abstract theories in an almost ‘black art’ of which most engineers had no understanding. Even when digital computers became available to assist in the design calculations, it was at first necessary to use triple-length arithmetic (or more) in order to obtain sufficient precision for useful designs. Active filters were occasionally suggested, but never used in practice except for very low frequency (sub-audio) applications, such as mechanical servomechanisms - the only available active element was the thermionic valve (tube) which was expensive, unreliable, and required high voltage power supplies. The beginnings of the Circuit Theory Group were also involved in educational aspects of Circuit Theory - with a strong mission to teach fundamentals of the subject, as opposed to the ad hoc approaches which characterized the circuit-teaching in much of the university electrical engineering curriculum. The subject offered some key advantages: the possibility of an axiomatic approach, rigorous development of a theory uncontaminated by the imperfections of practical components and experiments, and the prospect of formal synthesis - being given a ‘requirement’ and producing, by a step-by-step procedure guaranteed to succeed, a circuit implementation. Although the implementations were ‘theoretical’ ones, requiring idealized linear, time-invariant and often lossless components, there was a real sense in which this represented an alternative to much of engineering practice in other subjects. It also laid a pedagogical foundation, widely believed (at least by the Circuit Theory people) to be a strong contender to be the basis for an engineering education in all disciplines. The concept of the ‘two port’ (or ‘four-pole, as it was more often called at the time) originally put on a systematic foundation by Feldtkeller in Germany in the mid-1930’s [see R. Feldtkeller ‘Einführung in die Vierpoltheorie der electrischen Nachrichtentechnik’ Verlag von S. Hirzel, Leipzig, 1937], became very important in Circuit Theory. It also laid the foundation for the treatment of transistors as circuit elements. There was much hope from ‘analogies’ too. The realization that the successful field of electrical circuit theory could apparently be applied just as well to mechanical, thermal, acoustical and other dynamical systems seemed to suggest that electrical circuit theory could become the foundation for many branches of engineering and not only electrical engineering - unfortunately, the lack of good practical implementations of the ‘ideal linear lumped time-invariant’ circuit elements in non-electrical systems severely restricted the extent to which this hope could be realized. The linear, lumped, passive, finite, bilateral, time-invariant assumptions limited the scope of much Circuit Theory in these early years but nevertheless provided a broad field in which significant fundamental research could be done, and provided the ‘training ground’ for many graduate students and professors. There were some failures to adequately deal with electronic components - the practice of actual electronic circuit design (at that time involving thermionic valves/tubes) did not conform well to the formalized design processes advocated by many of the leaders in circuit theory, in many cases, it involved non-linearity in an essential way (so that a linear time-invariant assumption was simply not useful) and there was a lack of clear and agreed ideas about how to extend the set of ideal linear passive elements to take into account ‘activity’ in a suitably idealized way to make a formal extension of passive circuit theory. Active circuits were often simply defined as those circuits, which were ‘not-passive’, and little more was said about them. What are the Real Fundamentals? The driving point impedance of any linear time-invariant passive system / circuit / network is a positive-real function of complex frequency. Further, if a circuit is constructed from a finite number of linear lumped passive time-invariant components, e.g. from the familiar ideal {R, L, C, M, ideal transformer, gyrator} set, then this driving point impedance is a positive real rational function, for which a formal synthesis procedure is available. Brune [O. Brune ‘Synthesis of a finite two-terminal network whose driving point impedance is a prescribed function of frequency’, J. Math. Phys. 10, 191, 1931] showed that every such rational function could be systematically implemented by a systematic construction (though requiring, in most cases, inconvenient mutually coupled inductive elements or ideal transformers). Finally, Bott and Duffin [R. Bott and R.J. Duffin ‘Impedance synthesis without the use of transformers’, J. Appl, Phys. 20, 816, 1949] were able to use the Richards transformation [P.I. Richards ‘A special class of functions with positive real part in a half-plane’, Duke Math. J., 14, 777, 1947] to provide a transformerless (e.g. R,L,C) synthesis procedure. These results appeared to be of great significance at the time - especially given the analogies with non-electrical systems - and the lack of practical utility of many of the synthesized circuits was more-or-less overlooked. However, it represented the achievement of an ideal missing in much of engineering then and today. Starting with a precise, formal (mathematical) statement of the problem to be solved and achieving a realization by a systematic process guaranteed in advance by theory to succeed (in a finite number of steps) represented a major achievement, the importance of which can hardly be overstated, and it was also a philosophy which seemed ideal for the educational foundation of electrical engineers. (Would it not be nice if today’s office-PC software could be designed by such procedures). Darlington made an outstanding contribution, which must have appeared to many at the time to be of no practical significance whatsoever. He was able to extend the synthesis methods for driving-point impedances to show that any positive real rational function could be implemented as a structure of lossless (e.g. L, C) elements and exactly one positive resistor. Despite the apparent practical uselessness of this theoretical result, relationships between the magnitude of scattering parameters of lossless two-ports enabled this to be related to the implementation of a prescribed magnitude-frequency response as the insertion loss of a lossless two port with resistive terminations. This led directly to a solution to the problem of designing the high-performance frequency selective filters upon which the whole of the analog frequency-division multiplex based line and radio communications industry depended at least until digital technology increasingly replaced them. Note the absence of any consideration of non-reciprocity in the foregoing - Tellegen invented the Gyrator - a ‘missing’ element was needed to complete the theory for the ‘passive’ domain, in order to have non-reciprocity without activity. The ideal gyrator provided just such a passive device [B.D.H. Tellegen,’ The gyrator; a new network element’, Philips Research Report, 3, 81, 1948]. Subsequently, it became fashionable to try to devise ‘new circuit elements’, many of which did not survive or achieve importance. Among the more abstract and at first apparently useless concepts are a two-terminal element for which both the voltage and current are always zero and a two-terminal element for which both the voltage and the current are undefined. The description of such elements might cause the practically-minded engineer to check if the cover date of the publication he/she was reading was 1st April, yet these two elements, combined together as a ‘nullor’, represent a practically useful model of an ideal transistor and of an operational amplifier, and have found a permanent place in Circuit Theory. Graph Theory. The concept of an electrical circuit as a linear graph formed the foundation for much of the theory and a basis for systematic methods of analyzing complicated networks, and as a result, Graph Theory laid the basis for the computer based analysis methods and simulators (such as SPICE) which we now take for granted, and which provide one of the foundations upon which the success of modern integrated circuit technology stands. Kirchhoff’s first and second laws were ‘graph theory based’ but what Weinberg called Kirchhoff’s third and fourth laws were almost unknown, yet provide a foundation for much of the network theory developed (using concepts of trees and cutsets, etc.) which is essential for the systematic analysis of large networks. For example, the determinant of the nodal admittance matrix is the sum of all the tree-admittance products - so enabling all numerical processing to be side-stepped and demonstrating immediately and dramatically the link between circuit topology and circuit transfer-functions. A book by S. Seshu and M.B. Reed (Linear Graphs and Electrical Networks) had a very strong influence on its readership (Addison Wesley, 1961) Activity: Controlled sources were a natural way of introducing activity into otherwise passive circuits. However, since they were also used in the representation of passive circuits (for example in modeling mutual inductance, ideal transformers and gyrators) they did not offer the convenience of being a distinctive element to be added to the passive set to introduce the concept of activity. Initially, it seemed that the unlikely candidate of the negative impedance convertor (NIC) was going to fill this role. The motivation for developing active filters was mainly the elimination of inductors (on grounds of their size, weight, and non-ideal properties). Linvill [J.C. Linvill,’RC Active Filters’, Proc. IRE, 42, 55, 1954 ‘Synthesis of Active Filters’, Poly. Inst. Brooklyn, MRI Symposia series, 5, 453, 1955] showed that by using just a single voltage-inversion negative impedance convertor (NIC) as the active element, any rational function could be realized as the transfer function of an RC-active circuit, and shortly afterwards, Yanagisawa [T. Yanigasawa,’RC active networks using current inversion negative impedance convertors’, Trans IRE, CT-4, 140, 1957] provided a simplified synthesis procedure, using a current-inversion NIC. This stimulated intensive research into Active-RC synthesis using the NIC, and many ideas for implementing such an idealized component using transistors. However, the enthusiasm was soon dampened by the realization that the sensitivity of the circuits was so high that they were almost useless in practice. In the following decade of work with the NIC the principal value seems, in retrospect, to have been in the production of doctoral theses and the launching of academic careers. Very few systems went into actual production as a result of this work! What was apparently not realized by many from a passive filter background was well-known to most practicing electronics engineers: to get a low sensitivity with only one amplifier, a very high loop gain is needed - and the many inventive schemes to make a highly accurate NIC with two or three low gain transistors were doomed to failure. It was not until the invention of the integrated circuit OP-Amp by Ralph Widlar at Fairchild that a cheap high-gain component became available to implement active-RC filters. It was then mainly the much older Sallen and Key structures [R.P Sallen and E.L. Key, ‘A practical method of designing active RC filters’, Trans. IRE, CT-2, 74, 1955], that survived the transition to engineering practice. An important breakthrough came with the observation by Orchard [H.J. Orchard, ‘Inductorless Filters’, Electronics Letters, 2, 224, 1966] that the sensitivity to component tolerances in the classical doubly-terminated passive, lossless, LC ladder filters is exceptionally good, especially in the passband, because of the non-negative property of the insertion loss of such a passive structure, and this led to the understanding that imitating this behavior in active and digital filters was a route to getting the low sensitivity needed in practical circuits. The large silicon area required for accurate resistors prevented successful single chip implementations of Active RC filters, and Switched-capacitor filters were the first practically successful approach to widespread implementation of high-performance filters in silicon monolithic form. Despite the need to distribute high-frequency clocks around the chip, they found their way into many real systems. Digital filters were an inevitable development, although for a long time, their practical implementation was severely limited for real-time signal processing over the frequency ranges needed by communications systems. Although there were many attempts to implement digital filters in integrated circuit form, the development of the TMS 320 series of DSP chips by Texas Instruments was a major stimulus to converting these ideas to widespread use. The usefulness of wave digital filters may sometimes be questioned, but the theory developed by Fettweis [A. Fettweis, ‘Wave Digital Filters’, Proc. IEEE, 74, 270, 1986] showed the unanticipated result that concepts from classical network theory (including passivity) could be transferred into the field of purely numerical processing of data, and that classical network theory did, after all, have something important to contribute to the emerging field of digital signal processing. In June 2001, the company Infineon Technologies AG celebrated the delivery of 50 million units of a subscriber-line filter product, each one of which contained several wave-digital filters Non-linearity has not been mentioned so far - it was often considered unwelcome, to be avoided, either by pretending it was not there or by modifying designs so as to minimize its effects. A perfect world was often assumed to ‘linear, lumped, finite, time-invariant, passive, bilateral’, and anything falling outside this was regarded as unwelcome and harmful. It took the recent developments in dynamics and the discovery of chaos and fractals to demonstrate more widely that reality is non-linearity and that the real world is non-linear in a way that engineers need to understand and to exploit. The rest of the story is not history, it is going on around us! A message embedded within the story is that what looks like useless theory today can often turn out to be an essential foundation for tomorrow’s technology. to Ben Leon, for the useful material that I extracted from his ‘History of the Circuits and Systems Society’ published in the Centennial Issue (December 1983) of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (vol. 5, No. 4), to Sean Scanlan for his observations about the technological significance of Darlington’s results on the synthesis of RLC networks, to George Moschytz who persuaded me, rather against my wishes, to create the first CAS Society Directory, to the CAS Executive Committee which gave me a free hand to define the concept, structure and content of the Directory and to Tom Wehner for filling in a lot of data and putting it all together in the CAS Society printed Directory (without which it would have remained in a partially completed state on the hard disc of my computer). Thanks are also due to many people who made appreciative comments about the CAS Society Directory and encouraged the production of updated versions (which continued annually from the first, dated 1999-2000, until at least the 2009 issue, produced by Magdy Bayoumi). More Historical Moments An extract from the Minutes of a 22 March 1956 meeting of the AdCom of the IRE Circuit Theory Group: “…. only by taking in more fringe areas (e.g. Transistor Circuits) can we really obtain more members..” “…consensus … not to have a membership drive…” This extract appears to indicate that the AdCom members did not consider that the theory or design of circuits containing transistors was either important or within the real scope of Circuit Theory. In view of subsequent developments in electronics, the description of Transistor Circuits as a ‘fringe area’ of Circuit Theory seems rather quaint, and certainly an indication of not foreseeing the future. As described above, the initial field of interest was centred on linear passive time-invariant circuits, the later change in Society name from Circuit Theory to Circuits and Systems was said by some to enable anything that they wanted to be included in the Field of Interest, which has subsequently expanded to cover a range of topics which could surely not have been forseen by the early leadership of the Society. The increasingly important subject of digital filters was initially not recognised by many in the leadership of the Society, and as a result, researchers in this area found a 'home' in what was then the IEEE Audio and Electroacoustics Group, which subsequently developed into the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Time-varying systems were a minor topic until the development of switched-capacitor filters. Non-linearity was at first considered a minor and mostly unwanted feature, considering only such aspects as harmonic distortion and intermodulation effects. Even though a proper explanation of oscillator behaviour required non-linear dynamics, this was generally avoided. Not untul the late 1980s did non-linear dynamics begin to take a significant place in the interests of the Society, concurrently with discoveries about and applications of chaos in engineering, and the development of over-sampled systems based on sigma-delta modulators and other inherently non-linear systems,. Notable also is the often long gestation time for fundamental ideas to move into useful applications - an example is the Memristor, initially proposed by Leon Chua in 1971 as a 'missing' non-linear circuit component linking charge and magnetic flux, which did not find practical implementations and applications for nearly 40 years. IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Website IEEE UKRI Circuits and Systems Chapter History Retrieved from "https://ethw.org/w/index.php?title=IEEE_Circuits_and_Systems_Society_History&oldid=174029" Geographical units Computing and electronics 1 Brief Timeline 2 Past Presidents 3 Conferences of the Society 3.1 The first outside the USA 3.2 The Annual Symposium of the CAS Society 4 Editors of CAS Society Publications 4.1 Editors of the Transactions on Circuit Theory 4.2 Editors of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems 4.3 Editors of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I 4.4 Editors of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II 4.5 Editors of the Transactions on Computer Aided Design 4.6 Editors of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 5 The Newsletters and Magazines 6 The Circuits and Systems Society: some historical remarks about the Original Core Subject Area 6.1 A Tale of Long Ago 6.2 What are the Real Fundamentals? 6.3 Acknowledgements: 6.4 More Historical Moments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14023
__label__wiki	0.982959	0.982959	Musharraf lifts emergency rule in Pakistan Unchecked 30 September 2019: Brother of murdered Pakistani social media star sentenced to life 17 September 2019: US President Trump says Osama bin Laden's son killed 3 November 2018: Pakistan Supreme Court acquits Asia Bibi from blasphemy charges after eight years of confinement 17 June 2018: UN releases first-ever human rights report on Kashmir 3 June 2018: Pakistani President signs bill to merge Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Location of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf in 2002 On December 15, Pervez Musharraf appeared in a nationally televised address in Pakistan to announce the end of emergency rule which had been invoked on November 3, 2007. Musharraf said that his objective of saving Pakistan from being destabilized had been achieved. However, a ban that prevents media from making live broadcasts has been left in place. Benazir Bhutto, a former Prime Minister and key opposition member, said that this is "an important step forward," however, more is need to achieve a "restoration of democracy" in Pakistan. "We welcome President Musharraf's lifting of state of emergency and the revoking of the provisional constitutional order," Amadeu Altafaj Tardio, a spokesperson for the European Commissioner for Development & Humanitarian Aid told reporters at a briefing on Monday. "It is essential for all restrictions on fundamental rights and freedoms to be lifted in advance of the parliamentary elections," Tardio continued. "We thus appeal to the government to take further steps to enhance confidence in the political process." Pakistan is scheduled to hold a general election on January 8, 2008. "Musharraf quits as chief of army staff in Pakistan" — Wikinews, November 29, 2007 "Pakistan gets caretaker government to oversee January elections" — Wikinews, November 15, 2007 "Musharraf declares emergency rule in Pakistan" — Wikinews, November 3, 2007 Wikipedia has more about this subject: 2007 Pakistani state of emergency "EU urges Pakistan to lift all curbs ahead of vote" — Reuters, December 17, 2007 Mark Sappenfield. "As Pakistan lifts emergency rule, Musharraf eyes next step" — Christian Science Monitor, December 17, 2007 Jason Burke. "Pakistan lifts emergency rule but media curbs remain" — The Observer, December 16, 2007 Retrieved from "https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Musharraf_lifts_emergency_rule_in_Pakistan&oldid=540281" Politics and conflicts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14026
__label__cc	0.700887	0.299113	Endeavours Endeavours 001 – Craig Davidson, Kyle Seller, Pentatonix September 19, 2016 Dan McPeake Comments Off on Endeavours 001 – Craig Davidson, Kyle Seller, Pentatonix Welcome to the re-launch of Endeavours! It feels great to be back. The show will be releasing two to three episodes a week for the first week or two, until all the interviews from the summer have made it to the interwebs. The guests today are author Craig Davidson, classic arcade and pinball collector Kyle Seller, and musical guest Pentatonix! https://endeavoursmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/endeavours-001-revised.mp3 Craig Davidson has written horror novels under the names Nick Cutter (The Troop, The Deep) and Patrick Lestewska (Mother Bitchfight, The Coliseum). Writing as his true self, he wrote Cataract City – shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2013 – as well as the short story collection Rust & Bone, which was made into a feature film in 2012. His new memoir is Precious Cargo, which chronicles his year as a school bus driver for special needs children. Kyle Seller is an avid video game collector. He owns more than 60 pinball machines, which he puts up in various small businesses around Vancouver for the people to enjoy. He, and his collection, is taking part in an contemporary art exhibit at the Museum of Vancouver entitled All Together Now: Vancouver Collectors and Their Worlds, which runs until January 8, 2017. Pentatonix are a Grammy Award-winning a cappella quintet from Arlington, Texas. After finding success early on, with their stunning covers of hit songs, the group decided to branch and release all original material for the eponymous fourth record Pentatonix. They have received two Grammy Awards in the “Best Arrangement, instrumental or A Cappella” category for the tunes Daft Punk and Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. They also appeared in the hit film Pitch Perfect 2, as well as a documentary about their journey On My Way Home. From Pentatonix self-titled fourth album: a cappellaAll Together Nowarcade gamesArlingtonBitchfightCataract Citycraig DavidsonDaft PunkDance of the Sugarplum FairyGrammy AwardJason DeruloKyle SellerMuseum of VancouverNa Na NaNick CutterOn My Way HomePatrick LestewskaPentatonixPinballPitch Perfect 2podcasts!Precious CargoRust & BoneScotiabank Giller PrizeSingTake Me HomeTexasThe ColiseaumThe DeepThe Troopvideogame 535 Thurlow St. endeavoursradio@gmail.com 2016 All Rights Reserved. Developed by ProgressionStudios	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14029
__label__cc	0.585529	0.414471	Zinc supplements during pregnancy may counteract damage from early alcohol exposure By Ralph Turchiano on October 8, 2012 • ( 3 Comments ) 2009 study posted for filing Contact: Peter Coyle, Ph.D. peter.coyle@imvs.sa.gov.au Hanson Institute Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research Animal research has shown that binge drinking – even just once – during early pregnancy can cause numerous problems for the fetus, including early postnatal death. Fetal zinc deficiency may explain some of the birth defects and neurodevelopmental abnormalities associated with alcohol exposure. New rodent findings are the first to show that dietary zinc supplements throughout pregnancy can reduce some alcohol-related birth defects. Results will be published in the April issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research and are currently available at Early View. “Alcohol’s damage to the fetus depends not only on the amount and duration of alcohol exposure, but also on the timing of the exposure relative to the development stage of the cells and tissues involved,” said Peter Coyle, associate professor at the Hanson Institute in Adelaide, and corresponding author for the study. “Earlier work had shown that prenatal alcohol, as well as other toxins, can result in fetal zinc deficiency and teratogenicity by inducing the zinc-binding protein, metallothionein, in the mother’s liver. Since then, our group has confirmed the importance of metallothionein in alcohol-mediated birth defects.” Coyle and his colleagues injected pregnant mice with either saline or a 25-percent solution of alcohol on gestational day (GD) eight; all mice received either a regular or zinc-supplemented diet from GD zero to 18. On GD 18, fetuses from all four groups – saline, saline plus zinc, alcohol, alcohol plus zinc – were assessed for external birth abnormalities. In addition, from birth to day 60, researchers examined the growth of survivors from all four groups. “There were three key findings,” said Coyle. “One, fetal abnormalities caused by acute alcohol exposure in early pregnancy can be prevented by dietary zinc supplementation. Two, dietary zinc supplementation throughout pregnancy can protect against post-natal death caused by acute alcohol exposure in early pregnancy. Three, dietary zinc supplementation increases the mother’s blood zinc to overwhelm the transient drop in zinc caused by alcohol, which we believe prevents the fetal zinc deficiency and subsequent fetal damage.” Coyle added that the rodents’ GD eight is the equivalent of weeks three to eight during a human pregnancy. “This encompasses a period when the mother is often unaware of her pregnancy and may not have changed her drinking habits,” he said. “Moreover, up to 60 percent of pregnancies are unplanned. This latter point is of concern when noting that binge drinking is common in the community and more likely to occur in the first trimester than later.” Importantly, Coyle emphasized, his team is not suggesting that it is safe to drink while taking zinc during pregnancy. “We have not determined whether zinc protects against all of the possible negative outcomes from alcohol exposure in pregnancy,” he said. “Nor would we recommend that makers of alcoholic beverages include zinc in their product so that women can drink while pregnant. Indeed, we take the conservative stand of a ‘no alcohol policy’ during pregnancy. What our studies do indicate is that dietary zinc supplementation could be as important as folic acid and applied as a simple prophylactic treatment in the human setting to prevent the effects of a range of insults in pregnancy.” While zinc supplementation is relatively common, and zinc tablets can easily be found in herbal shops, Coyle cautioned that zinc can also affect the absorption of other trace elements and cause anemia if taken in excess. “So one must be wary of taking zinc supplements without professional oversight, and this is particularly so in pregnancy,” he said. “Furthermore,” he added, “although dietary zinc supplementation has been used in human pregnancy, we do not have any information regarding the dose that would be required to protect against damage from alcohol nor even the dosage that could be harmful to fetal development. Indeed, we have not tested our hypothesis in humans and so it would be unwise to extrapolate any of our findings to humans. We would predict that zinc supplementation would only be effective around the time of alcohol intake to prevent fetal zinc deficiency. Taking zinc supplements a day after alcohol consumption would probably be too late to prevent fetal damage. Obviously more research is needed.” Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research (ACER) is the official journal of the Research Society on Alcoholism and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism. Co-authors of the ACER paper, “Dietary Zinc Supplementation throughout Pregnancy Protects against Fetal Dysmorphology and Improves Postnatal Survival after Prenatal Ethanol Exposure in Mice,” were: Brooke L. Summers of the Hanson Institute/Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, and of the Discipline of Physiology in the School of Molecular and Biomedical Science at the University of Adelaide; and Allan M. Rofe of the Hanson Institute/Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science. The study was funded by the Channel Seven Children’s Research Foundation of South Australia, Inc. Categories: Disease and Conditions, Missed - Medical Breakthroughs Tagged as: Alcoholic beverage, Binge drinking, Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Medical research, Oregon State University, Pregnancy, University of Adelaide, zinc, Zinc deficiency Blue light destroys antibiotic-resistant staph infection Obama administration officials say there’s no point crafting detailed sequestration plans Pingback: Alcoholics: Separating the Men from the Boys. « just telling it as it is	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14032
__label__wiki	0.527854	0.527854	Electronic Devices & Circuits Electronics Animation Electronics Q & A Electrical Basics Electrical Q & A Electrical Animation Switchgear & Protection Digital Electronics Q & A Mechanical Q & A Computers Q & A Civil Q & A Engineering Tutorial Zener Diode Breakdown Characteristics Post on: July 9, 2016 Bharadwaj The symbol for a zener diode is shown in Below Figure. Instead of a straight line representing the cathode, the zener diode has a bent line that reminds you of the letter Z (for zener). A zener diode is a silicon pn junction device that is designed for operation in the reverse-breakdown region. The breakdown voltage of a zener diode is set by carefully controlling the doping level during manufacture. From the discussion of the diode characteristic curve in previous article, that when a diode reaches reverse breakdown, its voltage remains almost constant even though the current changes drastically, and this is the key to zener diode operation. This volt-ampere characteristic is shown again in Below Figure with the normal operating region for zener diodes shown as a shaded area. Zener Breakdown Zener diodes are designed to operate in reverse breakdown. Two types of reverse breakdown in a zener diode are avalanche and zener. The avalanche effect occurs in both rectifier and zener diodes at a sufficiently high reverse voltage. Zener breakdown occurs in a zener diode at low reverse voltages. A zener diode is heavily doped to reduce the breakdown voltage. This causes a very thin depletion region. As a result, an intense electric field exists within the depletion region. Near the zener breakdown voltage (V), the field is intense enough to pull electrons from their valence bands and create current. Zener diodes with breakdown voltages of less than approximately 5 V operate predominately in zener breakdown. Those with breakdown voltages greater than approximately 5 V operate predominately in avalanche breakdown. Both types, however, are called zener diodes. Zeners are commercially available with breakdown voltages from less than 1 V to more than 250 V with specified tolerances from 1% to 20%. Zener Breakdown Characteristics Below Figure shows the reverse portion of a zener diode’s characteristic curve. Notice that as the reverse voltage (VR) is increased, the reverse current (IR) remains extremely small up to the “knee” of the curve. The reverse current is also called the zener current, IZ. At this point, the breakdown effect begins; the internal zener resistance, also called zener impedance (ZZ), begins to decrease as the reverse current increases rapidly. From the bottom of the knee, the zener breakdown voltage (VZ) remains essentially constant although it increases slightly as the zener current, IZ, increases. Fig : Reverse characteristic of a zener diode. VZ is usually specified at a value of the zener current known as the test current. Zener Regulation The ability to keep the reverse voltage across its terminals essentially constant is the key feature of the zener diode. A zener diode operating in breakdown acts as a voltage regulator because it maintains a nearly constant voltage across its terminals over a specified range of reverse-current values. A minimum value of reverse current, IZK, must be maintained in order to keep the diode in breakdown for voltage regulation. You can see on the curve in Above Figure that when the reverse current is reduced below the knee of the curve, the voltage decreases drastically and regulation is lost. Also, there is a maximum current, IZM, above which the diode may be damaged due to excessive power dissipation. So, basically, the zener diode maintains a nearly constant voltage across its terminals for values of reverse current ranging from IZK to IZM. A nominal zener voltage, VZ, is usually specified on a datasheet at a value of reverse current called the zener test current. Zener Equivalent Circuits The Below Figure shows the ideal model (first approximation) of a zener diode in reverse breakdown and its ideal characteristic curve. It has a constant voltage drop equal to the nominal zener voltage. This constant voltage drop across the zener diode produced by reverse breakdown is represented by a dc voltage symbol even though the zener diode does not produce a voltage. Fig : Ideal zener diode equivalent circuit model and the characteristic curve. Below Figure (a) represents the practical model (second approximation) of a zener diode, where the zener impedance (resistance), ZZ, is included. Since the actual voltage curve is not ideally vertical, a change in zener current (ΔIZ) produces a small change in zener voltage (ΔVZ), as illustrated in Below Figure (b). By Ohm’s law, the ratio of ΔVZ to ΔIZ is the impedance, as expressed in the following equation: Normally, ZZ is specified at the zener test current. In most cases, you can assume that ZZ is a small constant over the full range of zener current values and is purely resistive. It is best to avoid operating a zener diode near the knee of the curve because the impedance changes dramatically in that area. Fig : Practical zener diode equivalent circuit and the characteristic curve illustrating ZZ. For most circuit analysis and troubleshooting work, the ideal model will give very good results and is much easier to use than more complicated models. When a zener diode is operating normally, it will be in reverse breakdown and you should observe the nominal breakdown voltage across it. Most schematics will indicate on the drawing what this voltage should be. A major application for zener diodes is as a type of voltage regulator for providing stable reference voltages for use in power supplies, voltmeters, and other instruments. Zener Diode Breakdown Voltage There are two distinct mechanism due to which breakdown may occur in the zener diode. They are given below Avalanche breakdown The different breakdowns are usually differentiated on the basis of doping concentration. When the PN- junction is highly doped, the zener breakdown occurs while avalanche breakdown occurs only when the PN- junction is very lightly doped. 1. Zener Breakdown : The Zener breakdown occurs when the reverse bias voltage across a p-n junction is sufficiently high, so that the resulting electric field at the junction exerts a large force on a bound electron to tear it out of its covalent bound. Thus a direct rupture of the covalent bounds produces a large number of electron-hole pairs, thereby increasing the reverse current. This process is referred to as Zener breakdown. Since the breakdown voltage decreases as junction temperature increases, it negative temperature coefficients. 2. Avalanche Breakdown : A thermally generated carrier falls down the junction barrier and acquires energy from the applied potential. This carrier collides with a crystal ion and imparts sufficient energy to disturb a covalent bond. In addition with the original carrier, a new electron-hole pairs has been created. This carriers may also pic up sufficient energy from the applied field, collide with another crystal ion and still create another electron-hole pairs. This process is known as Avalanches multiplication. In this the breakdown voltage increases with increase in temperature. The zener diodes have breakdown voltage range from 3V to 200 V. Zener Diode Applications The various applications of zener diode are, In various protection circuits. In zener limiters i.e., clipping circuits which are used to clip off the unwanted portion of the voltage waveform. As a voltage regulating element in voltage regulators. 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__label__wiki	0.508413	0.508413	News and commentary about white-collar crime, enforcement, and compliance FCPA Tracker Richard Bistrong Marc Alain Bohn Harry Cassin Richard L. Cassin Julie DiMauro Thomas Fox Shruti J. Shah Elizabeth Spahn Andy Spalding Russell A. Stamets Bill Steinman Jessica Tillipman Bill Waite Cody Worthington Publisher and Editor Elizabeth K. Spahn Editor Emeritus Was Daimler’s Deal Twice Delayed? Friday we posted Bloomberg’s report that German company Daimler AG (manufacturer of Mercedes-Benz cars and trucks) will pay about $200 million to resolve a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation that began in 2004. Why did the settlement take so long? We’ve heard this explanation, which hasn’t been confirmed by the company or the Justice Department: Daimler first reached agreement with the government at end of the Bush administration. Counsel advised Daimler to wait until the Obama administration came in, in order to get a better deal. Daimler waited but wasn’t able to improve on the terms and may have ended up with a harsher settlement. The deal was originally brought to Judge Richard Leon at the federal district court in Washington, D.C. in August 2009. He took his time reviewing the terms (to Daimler’s disappointment) and ultimately wouldn’t give approval because it was not severe enough on the company. The government and Daimler revised the terms to meet Judge Leon’s concerns. The deal calls for the appointment of a compliance monitor for three years. Former FBI director Louis Freeh’s name has been mentioned. As we said, no one from the government or Daimler has confirmed this information. Founder of the FCPA Blog and currently Editor at Large. He has been named multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential People In Business Ethics by Ethisphere Magazine and is a Trust Across America Top Thought Leader. His articles have appeared in many leading news and professional publications. He was a senior partner in a major international law firm and led its FCPA practice. Post Tags: DaimlerChrysler, Monitors Comments are closed for this article! We set out in 2007 to bring our readers free and unrestricted coverage of all Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions — the first to do that in real-time. Since then we’ve published more than 7,000 posts by 600 different authors. Our mission is to help compliance professionals and others everywhere understand how corruption happens, what it does to people and institutions, and how anti-corruption laws and compliance programs work. The FCPA Blog Copyright © 2007 - 2020 by Richard L. Cassin and Recathlon LLC. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14041
__label__wiki	0.819978	0.819978	The Delightful Evil of Hugh Grant Good News: ‘Sex Education: Season 2’ is a Banger Watch ‘Bad Boys for Life,’ Then Watch These Movies ‘The Sonata’ Review: A Simple Yet Haunting Tale of Family, Fate, and Pain ‘The Gentlemen’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys In Guy Ritchie’s London ‘Bad Boys for Life’ Review: Hell Yeah The Alternate Universe ‘Bad Boys’ The Movies Directed By John Carpenter, Ranked Reframing the Two Love Stories in ‘The Souvenir’ Our Pick Of the Week Finds the Funny In the Cruel Truths of Politics A Brief History of the Oscars Brad Pitt Should Already Have Shot by Shot with the ‘Morbius’ Trailer Why Antonio Banderas Deserves to Win Best Actor Creating the World of ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ with Editor Maryann Brandon The Real Story Behind ‘1917’ Jake Orthwein A Master at Work: Lessons Learned from "The Godfather Notebook" We dig into Francis Ford Coppola's notes to learn lessons from a master at the peak of his power. TweetSharePostBookmarkSubscribe We dig into Francis Ford Coppola’s notes to learn lessons from a master at the peak of his power. The late great Mike Nichols is reputed to have said that “directing is like having sex; you rarely have a chance to see others do it.” Apocryphal or not, the quote demonstrates a maddening discovery many aspiring directors make in the course of their study: for all the well-meaning how-to books and superficial making-of interviews, genuine records of great directors’ thinking and process are hard to find. Most artists prefer to hide their brushstrokes, allowing their work to speak for itself. The student is thus left with only finished films, most of which are designed to conceal the laborious efforts expended in their making. As a result of this secrecy, many are left feeling that a well-directed film is a mysterious work of alchemy, sprung fully formed from the visionary mind of a genius. Now, on the occasion of its 45th anniversary, we have the opportunity to lift the veil on one of the finest films ever made: Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather. Last December, Coppola published “The Godfather Notebook,” a massive coffee-table tome containing his detailed, handwritten annotations on the original Mario Puzo novel, as well as scene-by-scene breakdowns of the entire film. Coppola has said that the notebook, which he built over months of preparation, was his “bible” throughout the production, his only mooring amid the harrowing process of realizing the film. It is a truly unique document, full of unfiltered and incompletely formed expressions of Coppola’s incomparable directorial instinct. One finds in its pages, not the posthoc recollections of a wizened auteur but a record of the moment-by-moment thought process that would give rise to a true cinema classic. Here’s what we learned. Think in Themes Among Coppola’s copious notes, a clear trend emerges in the types of insights he was attempting to record: throughout the text, Coppola sought specific details that illustrated the broader themes with which he was concerned. In fact, his entire process of adaptation from the Puzo novel was characterized by a distillation of the narrative down to what he saw as its most central theme: succession. Despite not liking the novel on his first read-through, Coppola found that a second reading brought this theme to the fore; all that was inessential, he writes, “fell away.” A lengthy, lurid description of Sonny Corleone’s sexual encounter with Lucy Mancini, for example, is marked in the text with a dismissive “O.K.” But a moment shortly thereafter in which Tom Hagen beckons Sonny to come see his father is underlined and emphasized. Once Coppola had decided upon his theme, the process of adaptation became a matter of discovering and amplifying only those aspects of the sprawling story that demonstrated it. All subsequent decisions, down to the minute details of costume and performance, could be directed toward this end. Be Terrified The extensive work of preparation found in the notebook was in part the due diligence of a careful director, but Coppola confesses in the introduction that he mostly created it out of “profound fear.” Still early in his career and faced with the imminent bankruptcy of his production company, American Zoetrope, Coppola undertook the making of The Godfather overwhelmed with anxiety and self-doubt. To make matters worse, Paramount objected to many of his major decisions, including the casting of Al Pacino, and threatened throughout the shooting of the film to have him replaced. The notebook and all the careful thought and consideration it represented became a bulwark for Coppola against what he calls the “downs and downs” of production. “I must say I’ve never approached a project without fear,” he writes. Torturous though this process must have been, there seems little question that this fear-driven preparation helped to make The Godfather the classic it has become. The key was Coppola’s choice to use the fear as an impetus to action, rather than allow it to paralyze him. Let it Incubate Amid the churn of hastily produced, minimally considered content that now floods the internet, it’s easy to forget that great ideas can require weeks and months to materialize. The seemingly menial work required for Coppola to assemble the notebook would strike many as a colossal waste of time, but he viewed it as an essential process of creative gestation. Reflecting on the “prompt books” used by theater stage managers that inspired him to build the notebook, Coppola writes: “The building of the prompt book took hours, and the tedious activity of cutting, reinforcing, and organizing the pages provided many meditative hours during which one could use the other side of the brain to roam over the ideas and essential themes of the playwright’s intention. That was very much the way I configured The Godfather Notebook; I based it on this idea.” By setting upon the painstaking task of building the notebook, Coppola provided himself with both the immersion and incubation necessary for creative insight. Find the Core Inspired by a piece of advice from Elia Kazan, Coppola attempted to distil the emotional, dramatic, and thematic core of each scene to a single sentence or pair of sentences. Like identifying a theme for the project at large, this process of uncovering the core of each scene allowed Coppola to focus his decision-making and ensure that what was truly essential to the text survived the travails of production. The heart of the opening wedding sequence, for example, is to “introduce the Don, and gradually reveal the breadth of his power, [and] make clear his relation to Michael. Establish the fusion of family and business.” Watching the film, these goals are obvious, but that only attests to the focus of Coppola’s direction. The sequence could just as easily have devolved into a distracting set piece or empty prologue. By crystallizing his intentions, Coppola turned it into an efficient and effective piece of storytelling. Anticipate Pitfalls In addition to establishing his goals for every sequence, Coppola was careful to anticipate how things could go wrong. Each scene in the notebook contains a list of potential pitfalls; moments, Coppola writes, that “I could do wrong and later bitch about, all the things that when I saw the movie would make me say, ‘Oh, my God, no.’” Such warnings range from general pacing concerns (“Boring,” “Too fast”) to possible clichés and stereotypes (“Italians who-a talka lika-dis”) to moral and aesthetic transgressions (“Losing a basic ‘humanity’ to these people”). Great filmmaking is as much a matter of avoiding egregious mistakes as making bold decisions, and Coppola’s extensive focus on what could go wrong undoubtedly saved the Godfather from the failings of prior and subsequent mafia films. Treasure Tension Certain words appear over and over again in Coppola’s marginalia, including “power” and “pace,” but none appears so often as “tension” – or rather, “TENSION.” Despite The Godfather’s patient pacing, tension is the film’s lifeblood, and Coppola was determined to extract every ounce of it from the original novel. If cinema is life with all the boring bits cut out, Coppola’s screenplay for The Godfather was Puzo’s novel shorn of all the scenes that lacked tension. While novels can get away with lengthy exposition and indulgence of characters’ mental lives, film thrives on present dramatic action, and the task of a great director is the carefully manipulate the level of tension throughout these moments. For Coppola, this effort began before he typed a single word of the screenplay, and it shows in the final product. Trust First Impressions Directors are often careful to have a pen in hand upon first reading material, no doubt because one’s first impressions of a screenplay or novel represent the closest thing to the reaction an audience will later have to the story. Through the interminable course of pre-production, production, and post-production, it can become increasingly difficult to recall and preserve these impressions – which is why it’s so vital to record them. Although the final version of the notebook contains many layers of notes in many colors of pen, Coppola was careful to put down his very first reactions to each scene, knowing that they would form the basis of later creative decisions. Guide the Viewer The great filmmaker and teacher Alexander Mackendrick once noted that “what a film director really directs is the audience’s attention.” This maxim is at the heart of Coppola’s approach in the notebook. At each turn, he highlighted the details, visual and emotional, that were essential to emphasize, while similarly passing over or discarding those passages that were inessential. Part of what helps a great filmmaker pare down the many options he or she has for shooting a scene is determining what precisely is important; otherwise, films would be shot in proscenium wide shots, with all elements equidistant from the lens. Iconic lines from Puzo’s novel (“Leave the gun; take the cannoli.”) are preserved in our memories in part because Coppola singled them out for emphasis in his original reading. Likewise, vast swaths of exposition, such as the backstory of Luca Brasi or the nature of the interfamily conflict with the Tattaglias, are distilled to their vital elements. All throughout the notebook, Coppola made the early decisions about how to guide the viewer’s attention toward what mattered and away from what didn’t. “The Godfather Notebook” is a treasure in its totality and an important addition to the library of any aspiring filmmaker. Tags:AnniversaryBooksFilmmakingFrancis Ford CoppolaThe Godfather Writer, filmmaker.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14055
__label__cc	0.626517	0.373483	First Republic Bank Just Released Its Yearly Results And Analysts Are Updating Their Estimates Simply Wall St Simply Wall St. January 16, 2020 First Republic Bank (NYSE:FRC) came out with its yearly results last week, and we wanted to see how the business is performing and what top analysts think of the company following this report. First Republic Bank missed revenue estimates by 4.2%, with sales of US$3.3b, although statutory earnings per share (EPS) of US$5.20 beat expectations, coming in 2.1% ahead of analyst estimates. Analysts typically update their forecasts at each earnings report, and we can judge from their estimates whether their view of the company has changed or if there are any new concerns to be aware of. We thought readers would find it interesting to see analysts' latest (statutory) post-earnings forecasts for next year. See our latest analysis for First Republic Bank NYSE:FRC Past and Future Earnings, January 16th 2020 Taking into account the latest results, the most recent consensus for First Republic Bank from 13 analysts is for revenues of US$3.80b in 2020, which is a decent 16% increase on its sales over the past 12 months. Statutory per-share earnings are expected to be US$5.33, roughly flat on the last 12 months. Before this earnings report, analysts had been forecasting revenues of US$3.75b and earnings per share (EPS) of US$5.31 in 2020. The consensus analysts don't seem to have seen anything in these results that would have changed their view on the business, given there's been no major change to their estimates. It will come as no surprise then, to learn that the consensus price target is largely unchanged at US$117. The consensus price target just an average of individual analyst targets, so - considering that the price target changed, it would be handy to see how wide the range of underlying estimates is. The most optimistic First Republic Bank analyst has a price target of US$135 per share, while the most pessimistic values it at US$80.00. This shows there is still quite a bit of diversity in estimates, but analysts don't appear to be totally split on the stock as though it might be a success or failure situation. Zooming out to look at the bigger picture now, one of the ways we can make sense of these forecasts is to see how they measure up both against past performance, and against industry growth estimates. Next year brings more of the same, according to analysts, with revenue forecast to grow 16%, in line with its 15% annual growth over the past five years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in a similar industry are forecast to see their revenues grow 4.3% per year. So it's pretty clear that First Republic Bank is forecast to grow substantially faster than its market. The most important thing to take away is that there's been no major change in sentiment, with analysts reconfirming that earnings per share are expected to continue performing in line with their prior expectations. Happily, there were no major changes to revenue forecasts, with analysts still expecting the business to grow faster than the wider market. There was no real change to the consensus price target, suggesting that the intrinsic value of the business has not undergone any major changes with the latest estimates. Even so, the longer term trajectory of the business is much more important for the value creation of shareholders. We have estimates - from multiple First Republic Bank analysts - going out to 2022, and you can see them free on our platform here. You can also see whether First Republic Bank is carrying too much debt, and whether its balance sheet is healthy, for free on our platform here. If you spot an error that warrants correction, please contact the editor at editorial-team@simplywallst.com. This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. Simply Wall St has no position in the stocks mentioned. We aim to bring you long-term focused research analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Thank you for reading. 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__label__cc	0.562701	0.437299	Focus Hip Hop PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT CONTENT Extended Plays A Tribe Called Quest (In Progress) Busta Rhymes (In Progress) Eminem (In Progress) Wu-Tang Clan (In Progress) 3 January 2015 19 June 2017 OG Nick Marsh Album Review \| Jeezy – Seen It All: The Autobiography It’s pretty refreshing to listen to an album like this, especially after listening to that Kirko Bangz project. I like Jeezy, but I’ve never been a huge fan of him. I like some of his music, but not all of it. For some reason, I’m actually really excited about this project. I guess it’s because i’ve liked almost every single that I’ve heard from it. Hopefully I’m not disappointed. Track 1: 1/4 Block (Prod. Childish Major) This beat is dope. The hook is average for Jeezy. His flow is cool. This is nothing you haven’t already heard from him, but that isn’t really a problem in my opinion. I don’t need to hear Jeezy rappin’ about political shit & especially not Drake shit… 4/5 Track 2: What You Say (Prod. Childish Major) This beat is average. This is kind of a boring track. Average flow, average beat, average hook… Not bad, but not anything special. 3/5 Track 3: Black Eskimo (Prod. Cardo & Johnny Juliano) This beat is average, but he’s fuckin’ killin’ these verses. The hook’s cool. This is dope. 4/5 Track 4: Enough (Prod. Kenoe) I don’t wanna hear Jeezy sing, but it’s not too bad here. He barely sings at all. He just shouldn’t do it more than this. This beat is dope af. Yeah, he’s kinda singin’ on the hook, but it ain’t that bad. The hook is dope. I fuck with this. 4/5 Track 5: Holy Ghost (Prod. Don Cannon, Lyle LeDuff & Frank Dukes) This song was my shit when it first came out. And then K. Dot’s remix just made it better. This dark beat is dope af. Jeezy sounded kinda weird on it at first, but it’s pretty easy to get used to. I really like the way that grainy sound fades in right before the hook. It’s like my eardrums are being poked by a bunch of tiny needles. Except it feels good. The hook is alright. Nothin’ special. It’s kinda weird to hear Jeezy make a sad song like this that doesn’t glorify water whippin’, but I like it. If you get a chance, you should listen to the remix with Kendrick. It’s dope af. The first time I heard this song, I said to myself “Damn, that nigga Jeezy a real ass nigga.” I didn’t actually say that, but that’s pretty much what I was thinking. 5/5 Track 6: Me OK (Prod. Drumma Boy) This is the only single that I didn’t really like when it first came out. I thought that the way the beat started made it sound incomplete. It sounded to me like they cut the intro to the song out. It wasn’t that big of a deal, so I could get over it, but the beat itself just wasn’t that good to me. It sounded like a generic trap beat to me. The whole song sounded generic to me. I actually like the beat now tho. I really like the way the horns fade in at the beginning and the way the track starts doesn’t really bother me anymore. I did just watch the video for this song and the intro is in there. I guess they really did cut it out for the actual song, but i just don’t care anymore. The hook is dope. I feel like this could’ve used a guest feature. I know Gucci had a “wopmix“, but that was really poorly mixed. Also, it was Gucci Mane, so it doesn’t really count. The song isn’t bad tho. I fuck with this. 4/5 Track 7: 4 Zones (Prod. Mike WiLL Made It) Hopefully this beat is better than the shit we got on Ransom. OK, this beat is definitely better than anything that was on that mixtape. Damn, Jeezy usin’ autotune. It actually isn’t that bad. He isn’t overdoing it. OK, he’s finally rappin’ now. He was kinda rappin’ before the autotuned hook, but that was just an intro. It feels like it takes kinda long for the verse to start, but it isn’t too bad. This hook could definitely be better, but it isn’t terrible. This is dope af. 5/5 Track 8: Been Gettin’ Money Feat. Akon (Prod. Childish Major) Oh God, not Akon. Hopefully he isn’t that bad on this. This beat is dope af. Jeezy flow is on point. Yeah, Akon’s hook isn’t too bad. This is dope. This song is obviously about gettin’ money just like every other mainstream Hip Hop song (I’m exaggerating), but he does a really good job making that kind of song. I fuck with this. 4/5 Track 9: Fuck The World Feat. August Alsina (Prod. No I.D. & Trakmatik) That nigga August be hittin’ them notes. Any singer coulda did what he did on this track tho. This isn’t really the kinda song I wanna hear from Jeezy. It’s not a bad song; it’s just not for me. The beat isn’t bad. Sounds like a Chris Brown beat. Average flow from Jeezy. Average hook. It’s alright. 3/5 Track 10: Seen It All Feat. JAY-Z (Prod. Cardo) This beat is fucking insane. Jeezy was dope. This beat is dope af tho. JAY-Z snapped on this. That beat is fuckin’ crazy. i don’t really fuck with JAY-Z like that, but he was gettin’ busy on this one. That beat tho. The hook is dope. This beat is amazing. Cardo made the best beat on the whole album so far. JAY-Z apparently cried when he was writing his verse for this song and that’s fucking hilarious. Just imagine what that would sound like. Anyway, this song is dope af. 5/5 Track 11: Win Is A Win (Prod. Black Metaphor) This beat is dope. His flow isn’t bad. OK, the song is ending. I guess that’s just an interlude because it’s less than two minutes long. It’s dope tho. 4/5 Track 12: Beautiful Feat. Game & Rick Ross (Prod. Black Metaphor) I feel like I’ve heard this sample used a thousand times before, but this beat is still dope af. Jeezy did his thing. Game fuckin’ killed it tho. “Fuckin’ European models, skin white as Marilyn Manson.” Rick Ross actually wasn’t that bad. I feel like they all fit really well on this track together. I would be completely OK with them forming a group. Maybe take out Ross… That would actually be dope af. The hook was dope. I’m surprised by how good Jeezy sounded over a smooth beat like this. This song is dope af. 5/5 Track 13: Beez Like Feat. Lil Boosie (Prod. Will-A-Fool) Not really feelin’ this beat. This hook is not good. It’s actually pretty terrible. We got Jeezy singin’. His verse ain’t that bad. This song is pretty corny to me. I’ve never really been a fan of Lil Boosie, but his verse was actually pretty dope here. “Daughter just had her period, I ain’t there for her.” That’s kind of a weird line tho. Aren’t the mothers the ones who usually take care of things like that? I mean if it was his son having a wet dream it would be another story, but if you’re a father, you leave it to the mother to explain what’s happening to your DAUGHTER during puberty. I mean it’s not like Boosie goes through the menstrual cycle every month, so he can’t really relate. There is no way that Boosie understands menstruation more than his baby mama. She should be the one explaining it. This hook is just bad. I can’t fuck with this song. 2/5 Track 14: No Tearz Feat. Future (Prod. Mike WiLL Made It) “Yeah, put your lighters up.” I’m only 5 seconds in and I can tell that this song is about to be corny as fuck. Why the fuck do people do that? That shit is corny af. If I’m at a concert and everybody starts holdin’ they lighter up, I’m leaving. If you put your lighter up at concerts then we ain’t friends. And I’d rather not have Future yelling “WHERE DA LOVE AT” in autotune, right in my fuckin’ ear. This beat is corny. Nobody wanted this song from Jeezy. If you’re buying this album, you weren’t planning on hearing some shit like this. Future’s hook is awful. This song is ass. It’s like Future is sitting on the side of my head (ass naked), and wiggling on my ear. It’s just ass. Asshole in my ear. Fuck you, Future. 1/5 Track 15: How I Did It (Perfection) (Prod. Black Metaphor) Wow I just realized that the shit I said about Future up there sounded gay as fuck… This beat is dope af. Jeezy flow is dope. This song is smooth af. I fuck with this. This is so much better. Damnit, that shit with Future was so wack. 5/5 This album was pretty dope. It definitely got worse towards the end, but it was still pretty good. The main reason I wasn’t feelin’ the songs that I wasn’t feelin’ was because of the features. I think… The beat for Beez Like was pretty wack. Everything about No Tearz was wack. I feel like he wouldn’t have done any songs like these if it weren’t for Future & Lil Boosie (I’m never calling him Boosie Badazz. That shit is just stupid. The only rapper who is allowed to have “badass” in his name is Joey Bada$$. And I don’t even really like that name either). This album was definitely worth listening to. It would have been dope if he gave YG or Doughboyz Cashout a feature. YG got a feature on one of the bonus tracks, Addicted. That song was dope af. It had T.I. on it too. That song would’ve gotten a 5/5 if I reviewed the deluxe edition, but I don’t wanna hear the Kelly Rowland track. I saw what she did on that Pusha T album and I don’t want it to ruin this one for me. Jeezy shoulda swapped out No Tearz for Addicted. No Tearz is a much deeper song I guess, but I don’t care because that shit was terrible. Favorite Track: Beautiful Least Favorite Track: No Tearz Tell me if I’m trippin’ in the comments below If you enjoyed this article, share it on Twitter & Facebook For more thoughts on the album watch the videos below Follow me on Twitter: @OGNickMarsh if you don't share this article i will hunt you down August Alsina Black Metaphor Childish Major Drumma Boy Frank Dukes Johnny Juliano Kenoe Lyle Leduff Trakmatik Published by OG Nick Marsh I am not a music expert. My reviews are completely subjective and should not sway anyone’s opinion on any musical project. 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__label__wiki	0.512268	0.512268	Parachute employment Thread starter nagomi How do you describe in the English language? In my language, it's called 'parachute employment.' Companies announce an open hiring process; everybody has to hand in their application and wait for the result. However, if the company is corrupted, it could be possible for an influential figure at the higher-up to help someone to join the corporate in much easier way; for example, the person would not struggle with the interview because he or she is guaranteed to pass. And this individual will probably take a middle or high level position that others often otherwise take years to reach. This is why it's called 'parachute'. The idea is you're dropped in the middle of sky so that you can land on a middle or high location effortlessly. Is there a way to describe this staying as close to the original as possible? Pulling the string may fit, but I'm looking for something closer to the original. lingobingo English - England Nepotism? SwissPete Français (CH), AE (California) The generic term would be corruption. lingobingo said: That's exactly correct. Would you fiddle with the original; parachute? SwissPete said: That's true, but it seems to broad. The term “golden parachute” seems to sometimes be applied to employment contracts in English. I’d never come across it before, but it implies that parachute employment is an established concept. Or maybe not? (Golden parachute - Wikipedia) My understanding of Golden Parachute is a financial benefit for taking responsibilities for certain risky occasion often to quite the public as an executive member of the company. In this case, the idea of parachute is to have a solid financial situation (safely land) even though the person is no longer in the employment. But the parachute I brought up is different. It's about using a 'parachute' as a mode of transport, if you will, to get up high enough, not a safety device. I realise that. Hence my edit. So it seems that your parachute employment metaphor doesn’t exist in English. Massachusetts, U.S. English - U.S. The other problem with "parachute" in an employment context is that there is a popular book on job-hunting, updated every year, called What Color is Your Parachute. Many people, especially in the U.S., are familiar with this book; over 10 million copies have been sold. In it, the parachute refers to the skills a person has that enable him or her to find a new job. People who know of this book would assume that "parachute employment" is a position that a person found by using the methods that it teaches and recommends. Here's one use of "parachute" in an employment context: from Parachute definition and meaning \| Collins English Dictionary If a person parachutes into an organization or if they are parachuted into it, they are brought in suddenly in order to help it. ...a consultant who parachutes into corporations and helps provide strategic thinking. [V into] There was intense speculation 18 months ago that the former foreign secretary might be parachuted into the Scottish Parliament. [be VERB-ed + into] It can be used in a negative way to imply cronyism or nepotism, as in Parachuting political careerists into safe seats is a poisonous practice \| Holly Baxter \| Opinion \| The Guardian 17 Sep 2014 · The policy of parachuting in candidates from Westminster to a safe party seat somewhere so that that person is essentially guaranteed power is poisonous. Labour already suffers from a shameful problem of nepotism... Egmont said: That's very refreshing view, thank you. As a non-native speaker, I would've never had such a view. Parachute has quite contrasting meanings, I see. Thank you. I meant the latter, but should note the first too. What was your first idea got into your head the first you read "parachute employment"? Since I’d never come across it, and you’d explained your use of it, I had no reason to imagine anything else. I don’t think it has an obvious meaning, as a parachute implies different things, such as escape or a safe landing. LolozaN I worked in the HR department of a local university. As a department we waged countless battles against staff using an open recruitment process to parachute their students into academic posts. As HR you would sit in draining interviews only to hv the most inexperienced individual deemed appointable. It is corruption and individuals would conspire outside of the interview process to appoint specific people. JulianStuart English (UK then US) nagomi said: However, if the company is corrupted, it could be possible for an influential figure at the higher-up to help someone to join the corporate in much easier way; for example, the person would not struggle with the interview because he or she is guaranteed to pass. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: nepotism/ˈnɛpəˌtɪzəm/n favouritism shown to relatives or close friends by those with power or influence Note that it should be too, not to (an error common even among native speakers!)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14070
__label__wiki	0.504806	0.504806	LoginCourt-Records.netBetaDiscordRegister Board index » Phoenix Wright » Defendant's Lobby Page 156 of 157[ 6271 posts ] Go to page Previous 1 ... 153, 154, 155, 156, 157 Next Re: Phoenix and Maya Fan Club Rank: Ace Attorney As much as I'd like to see Mia, I really hope she doesn't help out in court. Phoenix is well beyond the need for that by now. Yeah, I hope that if there is a Mia appearance it's just a one time cameo. Like maybe she says Hi to Phoenix at the end or something. Because it's unfair to Phoenix AND Maya. The whole point of Mia 'leaving' at the end of 3-5 is both Phoenix no longer needs a mentor, but also Maya should have finally gotten some amazing new power from all her training, not just be some kind of hotline to Mia as all she's 'for'. Also I think Mia 'leaving' meant maybe she was hanging around closer to the mundane world because she had unfinished business, but now she's in the ghost afterlife or whatever happens in GS Reality. Anyway in this thread some people are complaining Maya hasn't changed enough (which I don't agree with at all) and she shouldn't still be training to 'become Master'. Yeah perhaps Maya looks about 20 not 28 but I don't care. But yeah if she really STILL isn't Master of Kurain Village/Japanese America it sounds like the plot that 'should' have happened when she was 20-21 not now? Becoming Kurain Master was by inheritance not meeting a power level aside of being the stronger 'sister'. Since Misty officially died in 3-5 she stopped being Master so Maya should have officially gotten the title or maybe when she was 21 or something. Hopefully this thing that still hasn't happened is some kind of external recognition by the Kurain Country, like a higher qualification. Since Maya supposedly hasn't been working for Phoenix since the 'disbarring' there's no reason it'd take this long to train. I guess we just have to wait. LOL parody sig trend. Phoenix/Maya Day is Sept 5! [ Read my fanfics! =) \| Phoenix/Maya 'Evidence' List ] nevertalk Rank: Decisive Witness icer wrote: Here's the thing about Maya "changing". We haven't seen her interacting with anyone but Phoenix and of course she's going to revert a little with Phoenix. She's comfortable with him and just excited to see him again. Phoenix is going to turn into a big kid with Maya around too. In fact, while Phoenix's stunned bug eyes upon seeing Maya were nice, the giant, crushing hug wasn't there and I'm left disappointed. As far as her design, the only thing I might have changed would be her hair style to a bun or maybe just down and loose. Even so, the top knot is iconic. It's her distinct silhouette so I can forgive it. Maya's always looked young, too. Maybe that's just from them using the same sprite from 17-19, but she just has a youthful appearance. Now that she's 28, that's working to her benefit. I'm waiting to see how they handle the title of Master of Kurain. She should already be Master even if she's still "in training". Maybe there's some debacle over the whole thing and that's why Phoenix is there. He's defending his girl's honor as usual. It's too early to say. Based on what little we've seen, Maya has changed pretty much exactly enough. I don't know what people were expecting. It's been a long time, but she isn't going to transform into a different person. Well, no more than she already does. Rubia Ryu the Royal Location: LA, Japanifornia If Maya can pull off a sexy Mia voice when she was 17, she can pull off a sexy Maya look now that she's 28. That is all I have to say on that. That Maya has yet to become officially pledged in as the Master may suggest it's a conscious decision on her own or the clan's part. She's been abroad training a different kind of training than what she's gone through at Hazakura, and I think it already shows improvement. Sure, the standing-in-a-freezing-waterfall kind of training seems to be similar between cultures, but in that footage we've gotten of Maya, she mentions it's just one step and that she's completed enough to be ready for the next level... whatever that may entail. I highly doubt Mia will show, unless Pearl is confirmed for the main game and she channels Mia for Apollo and Athena's sakes. As I said, she won't be able to offer much to Phoenix since he can figure out things for himself, and even if he doesn't, Maya can even lend a few words of advice. She's done so before and isn't afraid to rub it in his face again. So, that leaves me to wonder. What other things can she do with spirit channeling besides simply channeling a spirit? Perhaps channeling an audience? I seem to recall Mia was capable of such a thing before she passed. Whether or not that means only hearing those people or actually seeing them... is getting me psyched up! Finally, there will be a reason to use dated popculture references to the Sixth Sense! The home of the Gyakuten Saiban vs Ace Attorney blog: http://gyakutengagotoku.tumblr.com 1/3/19 edit: The project has officially been moved to a new blog at https://gsvsaa.blogspot.com/ Further updates will be pending. AA fanfiction archive: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=31369 Yakuza/RGG fanfiction archive: https://archiveofourown.org/users/rubia ... /rubia_ryu My misc translation and work promos here at http://rubiaryutheroyal.tumblr.com I still think it'd be alright to channel Mia. I mean...just because you grow up doesn't mean you aren't faced with new challenges. They'd just be different in nature, Phoenix has never really had to mentor people before and Mia is someone with experience in that that he knows. It would be more of a supportive role rather than someone who just shows up to tell Phoenix the answer in court. If Apollo of Athena have another trial of faith or confidence its Phoenix's job to try and fix that and Mia is someone he could believably turn to for solutions. Plus there's the actual reason many people turn to seances and mediums: to see their loved ones. He might simply ask Maya if he could talk to her just to catch up, just for comfort to talk to another old friend. Honestly I could see them using it for a lot of nice quiet moments. Even if its only to have Mia say how far Phoenix has come I still think I'd like to see it. Made by Chesu+Zombee You thought you could be safe in your courts, with your laws and attorneys to protect you. In this world only I am law, my word is fact, my power is absolute. Mister Gruel Danksgiving Gender: None specified Pierre wrote: "good job phoenix you wasted seven years of your life failing at playing the piano while countless innocent people were condemned by our crappy court system" AceAssistant The execution is ready, Your Honor. Rank: Desk Jockey Is it just me, or did her... um... "chest area" grow a bit? Either that's the product of 3D animation, or just late-blooming. Either way, I'm not going to complain. That aside (cough), people don't really change THAT much as they age. Her "looking 18 instead of 28" is just the result of her personality. I'm GLAD they didn't mellow out her character just to show that she got older like they did with Pearl. In other words... she looks just fine. The execution rests, Your Honor. Equilibrate Concerto This is...! This is such good news!! Welcome back Maya!he says like she's a real person* But seriously, wow. After 8 years or so, just the fact that "where is Maya!?" will become less of an "all-consuming" question is a huge shift. RisanF Rank: Suspect nevertalk wrote: Personally, I always took Maya to be one of those Alyson Hannigan types that always look kind of young. Other than that, yeah, I'm not sure what else they could've done with her design other than what they did. She's matured just enough in the face, but if they tried to make her look more like Mia, she could end up looking too sharp and unrecognizable. There are plenty of women over 28 that look like Maya, and this is a softer-kind of character to begin with, so I don't think Maya needs to conform to a specific image of womanhood. I don't know about everyone else, but as a Maya fan, I don't a super-serious, humorous version of this character. Actually, the trailers kind of play with that concept a bit. I don't know Japanese, but when you watch these new videos of Maya, they start dramatically with Maya cloaked or in shadows, speaking very softly. Like they're trying to scare fans into thinking: "Oh no, she's super-masterly, she's not fun anymore!" Then later, she starts joking around and the "Turnabout Sisters" music kicks in, inviting everyone to sigh in relief that she hasn't lost her pep. Maybe my opinion will change as more info comes out, but for now, I think they're headed in the right direction. RisanF wrote: Maya was never going to look like Mia, I'm glad they didn't decide the only way she's 'allowed' back is to look like Mia in Maya's Body. The other route could have been her being super creepy and mystical for a cameo at the end. But no, this is about the same level of 'change' we see on Pearl (who aged to look about 12?) so it's kind of what we'd expect from these writers. And personality changes don't do a 360 during adulthood unless something drastic happens (i.e. Phoenix being disbarred, Ema failing the science exam...) so I don't know why people think there 'should' be one, particularly relating to her, um, best friend. I hope they let her be a bit more confident and competent in her powers though, canon Maya (GS1-3) seemed really insecure with regard to the Kurain Master thing away from Phoenix. That's the kind of personal growth we'd hope would have occurred if they are respecting her character. As for the 'reveal' though, I think at least in the anime scene we are supposed to not know it's Maya at all and then lovellly surprise. Maybe it's the first appearance during the game? vs Oh hi Maya I didn't expect to see you here whatever. Aren't they replicating that picture of Ami Fey from the original games? Anyway in that 3DS theme that we probably won't get with the dot sprites, both Maya and Phoenix are holding up their magatamas but they are both green (ie. not the goldish one around Maya's neck). Does this mean during the game Maya has another magatama and their powers will fuse and implode the universe? Or make two halves of a love heart. But it probably doesn't mean anything.... I recall a single split second from the spring trailer where it shows an instance of Bokuto presenting a plate with a large green magatama cake (at least it looks like a bun) on it to Nick. Based on that dull green color, I can assume from the 3DS theme pic the two are enjoying the exact type of cake. It's certainly a nod to their sweet relationship as friends who go on dates maybe, nonetheless. Rubia Ryu the Royal wrote: I didn't know about the Magatama Cake, but yeah that does sound like a reasonable explanation doesn't it? Especially Maya and food. Oh well, no awesome new power. Also why they're huge. Not sure. Guessing that it's a symbol of blessing one with luck, fortune, and prosperity. It is a charm that wards off ill spirits, after all. I wonder if the blessing only works if you offer it up to someone else, instead of munching away on one's own. That may explain why they both got some cake - from each other. Plenty of east Asian customs are like this. Tibetan-like Kurain should be no exception. Found it. It's in the demo trailer. Still, they're holding those Magatamas aloft in the 3DS theme and cake doesn't work that way. I choose to believe they're presenting Magatamas together like the nerds they are. Unrelated question, any translation of Maya's introduction footage? It's 2D pixel art, man. Of course they're gonna hold them upright. So that confirms it. It's been two years since they've last seen each other. I honestly wasn't expecting them to address that or try and convince us that they hadn't seen eacth other since the disbarment. I'm glad they made it something relatively reasonable. It still doesn't explain why Pearl asked if Phoenix had seen Maya recently, though. If Maya's out of the country, of course he hasn't. Unless Maya's known for sneaking out of an entire nation to see Nick for the weekend or something. I swear, if they do to Maya and burgers/noodles what they did to Trucy and panties in Dual Destinies, I think I just might hurt someone. Jean Descole The cape is self-fluttering Location: The Bostonius You'd be offended if Maya pulled a burger out of her panties? "Descole? You don't mean Mr. I-Like-to-Wreck-Things-with-Mechanical-Monsters-and-Dress-Up-as-Posh-Ladies Descole?" -Emmy Altava ...NAILED IT Jean Descole wrote: I mean if they just have her repeat "burgers" every other line..... Thanks for the imagery, though! not if she lets me eat it afterwards AceAssistant wrote: I know, I'm just messing with you I'd probably be annoyed, too, if they portrayed her with no hint that she was an actual human outside of her love of burgers. (And the panty cookies in DD were just wrong.) Yeah these writers do have a problem with presenting characters as just bad caricatures don't they? We can hope since Maya is back as a 'main' they tried a bit harder? But put it this way, the game is more likely to be something that can be easily fixed with fanfiction even if it's not our dream game. Vs that we're supposed to believe Maya just happens to be too busy training in a cave 2 hours away for the last 10 years to ever see Phoenix again. I think this confirms though they they sure weren't planning GS6 when they made that. They just decided they had to throw us some garbage likely as an afterthought since they couldn't get by another game without mentioning Maya's name. But since GS5 was successful enough that GS6 was commissioned, and there was that poll of JP fans where Maya scored highly despite not even being in a game for 10 years or something, the fans didn't forget about her even with some new Athena and some older Pearl, so there are only so many ideas one can have for new games in this franchise. So a ret-con had to be made up I don't expect them to cover the disbarring though. GS5 avoided most of the really important stuff from GS4 to start with, it's not a proper sequel. In this light though, it explains GS4 Hobo!Phoenix's character a bit better. Look what happens when Maya leaves him all alone. He turns into a decrepit hobo and forges cards and corrupts a jury trial! This is good for shipping, right? LateSummer wrote: Hi everyone, I'm back for a bit because it's a public holiday (yayy) Just a heads-up because I thought you guys should know, there's been a big blow-up in the Narumayo tags on tumblr and not in a good way. It seems that a group of people --I highly suspect that this particular group of people is young and new to the fandom-- have decided that the Narumayo ship is disgusting (they have the mistaken idea that it's pedophilic--they clearly don't understand what the term means), ergo any Narumayo shippper is also disgusting. So disgusting that it warrants tumblr vigilantism which has culminated in anon hate telling shippers that they are poisonous and a danger to kids, outing, singling out and shaming etc. You know how it is.(what is with the black and white mentality of some tumblr users?!) I'm not too sure about the extent of damage caused, but I do know that people like minouze-drawings (mod for asknarumayo) has left the fandom and Jesidres has deleted her sideblog (it was a nice sideblog, too :( ) And to make things worse, these people have twitter accounts, too. I'll let you guess what they're doing with those. (God, I hope to high heaven they never find this place ) Oh yeah, maybe this isn't a good idea, but can anyone explain this to me? I only started looking at Tumblr on my phone recently because I have some time at the moment... There are all these posts referencing it without what anybody is actually referring to... So far as I can tell though nobody is really 'triggered' by P/M thought. They are just little trolls. They have heard of this trigger thing and are mocking it. Which is doubly insulting because some people have legitimate problems, that's why it's polite to write trigger warnings on fanfic and soforth when people do like to write non-canon stories about characters being abused. Like on the PW Kink Meme people might write a story about Apollo being raped by Kristoph or something, and that needs a trigger warning, because someone who'd been raped and wasn't expecting the story to be like that might actually have that horrible memory return to them and get an attack of PTSD like they're back in that situation. Nobody is going to be triggered by pictures or stories about a nice consensual relationship between consenting adults. The games only start any shipping hints in GS2 when they make a big deal that Maya has become an adult in words of one syllable. And by now they're practically middle aged? Here the age of 'consent' is 16 anyway (no idea about the USA) so it's not pedophilia even in the 1st game. ( I wouldn't ship it then though, I don't think anyone does!) Hey so regarding the database that we were talking about a few pages ago... I'm currently going through a career change, which entails learning about such things as databases and web development. There are still some things I have to learn, but I think I've picked up the skill set necessary to put together something that we can use. I can't give an ETA due to other things going on, but I'm just posting here to let you all know that there is something in the works (and mentioning it here means that I'll be motivated to actually do it, haha...) So yeah, if anyone here knows this stuff, I'd definitely appreciate the advice too... I'm willing to pay for hosting btw: I'll need to for my other projects anyway and it's not like a database of this scale is going to take up all that much space. As for requirements, something like this I guess? : - Registered users will be able to submit entries to the database with fields for source, url, title, author, genre(s), rating, summary (any others?) - When something is submitted it is seen in a separate “awaiting approval” table where contributors can review it. - Should it be fanart too or just fanfics? - Database will be searchable based on fields Having an account system (role names pending): - Guest: only be able to search - Contributor: above + can submit new entries for moderation - Moderator: above + can approve/disapprove submitted entries - Editor: above + can edit existing entries + can promote contributors to moderator status - Others? • Maybe have some additional way of promoting users so that this can be somewhat self-sustaining. - Have a “comments” function where users can leave comments about a particular story - Personally I’m against having a straight up “vote” system for fic recs, for the reasons icer mentioned earlier. - Anything else? Yayy the prologue video for GS6 has been released! I'm relieved Maya doesn't seem to be on trial for murder yet In another context I'd complain this was very convoluted, but hey this is how Phoenix acts with Maya. ship ship ship. Still annoyed she still doesn't seem to be Kurain Master though. Geez what has she been doing during the 7 years? Not 'being Kurain Master' apparently. It'd make sense if Phoenix hadn't been disbarred.... or if she stayed around to look after him, which was never alluded to at all. Maybe they will give us a desirable ret-con to explain this, but they seem to act like gaps between games don't happen. This is why Maya wasn't in GS4 and 5 forget whatever else [?] This is excellent news. I only know front end web development so I wouldn't want to do it by myself but I can help you out (if you want). The only issue I can think of is that there is a Tumblr blog that more recently has been archiving P/M stories (tumblr does have tags so there is some sort of categories, searching possible) . But I don't think there's a problem with having more than one site about this kind of thing. There could even by like cross-linking to the tumblr site or something (?) And we can also link/archive notable things like fanart sites (for example those JP ones which are about the pairing), writings about the pairing, whatever. (I would have said so to start with but this also means it's not merely unnecessary replication of that tumblr site.) Of course not every fanart in existence or something but maybe a few notable things or ones people submit themselves. This makes it easier to find P/M content/shippers etc, more than just searching Tumblr. Enoshima Junko-chan! Rank: Prosecutor Did Misty have to go through all of this to become Master, too? I suppose that will be revealed in this game, but it makes me wonder exactly where she was in her training when she did the DL-6 channeling. I also wonder if some people think 28 is, like, really old or something. It's not, really. I think maybe this line of thinking is encouraged by Apollo Justice!Phoenix becoming a shady, mysterious mentor at the grand old age of 33. I mean, I know RPG characters are usually about 15 or so, but Phoenix and Maya are still in the prime of their lives. Anyway, Maya from the prologue seems to be the right mix of poise (waterfall training) and goofball (talking with her mouth full on the phone). And honestly, the heartfelt way they talk to each other makes them look even more like a couple, so much so that sinking this ship would be a lot more effort than its worth. So... about that animated prologue... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIGHgrDOZiI It's like Bridge to a Turnabout all over again, huh? Forever Hungry Just popped in the express my pure joy! Also I'm very confused about this tumblr stuff. Why is it happening? Personal note, I had a boyfriend 7 years older and it wasn't abusive! We met at university it was totally normal! Thanks to Vickinator for the sig! Avatar courtesy of http://cursor.lolipop.jp/cursor/frame1.html/ I also wonder if some people think 28 is, like, really old or something. i once saw someone try to justify edgeworth's crappy DD voice by saying that he's old and doesn't have much longer to live Yes well I have to some extent answered my own question by searching Tumblr, as far as I can tell these ship hate trolls don't always post publicly but send anonymous messages (asks) to people's blogs. Along with the NaruMayo haters (some of which do post on their public accounts voicing their disgust over this supposed age 'problem') some idiot has recently opened a blog called downwithnarumitsu and is possibly the same one supposedly sending Asks to P/E blogs saying 'Narumayo is canon.' (no further justification). It's crossed my mind these people aren't necessarily very invested in either ship but just think it's fun to try and goad shippers into some shipping war. It's not like this is 'debate' based on reasons or even personal opinions. There's just some false moralising that us shippers are disgusting to like this pairing. I'm pretty sure they know it isn't really a valid argument concerning this pairing and don't care, they just want something to complain about to criticise us shippers ourselves. I do wonder if they think it's some equivalent to those people who claim to hate yaoi and thus P/E, like fake 'retaliation'. As for the genuine cases for P/E and P/M reading of the games I can't see that they're any different from ever. They've stopped forgetting about Maya existing but I don't really expect an elevation over the case we got for P/M at the end of 3-5 (I expect the happy sunset ending of 3-5 was as good as it gets for P/M unfortunately). But fanfic will hopefully be easier to write the pairing now. As for P/E there's definitely a friendship which has a lot of emotions involved in either party, if people desperately WANT to reframe it as romantic I doubt P/M will be formalised to supposedly 'sink' their ship. But this hate started way before Maya was announced so it's not sparked by some worry that P/M might be made explicitly canon. I know there are some people around who just don't like Maya as a character too... Mister Gruel wrote: I think this is just something that happens when people are young, that they think being in your late twenties is really old. I'd heard people say that they thought 50 was elderly, when RDJ is still Iron Man at 51, along with Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt. Honestly, it makes me feel like Phoenix in the first Ace Attorney game, when Maya is giving him a hard time about being 24. So decrepit! So crotchety! Objection intensifies The fact is, the relationship between Phoenix and Maya are far from just a normal friendship. I'm not into shipping or anything, but they are so important to each other, as we can see in the previous games and just now in the prologue for AA6, that it wouldn't be a surprise if they stay together in the end. Also, I don't know why there are some people complaining about Maya not changing much, 28 is definitely not old. I'm 23 now and look almost the same as when I was 17. Am I Apollo or what? Brazil has Ace Attorney fans too! Vasco da Gama, Champion of Land and Sea! Always by your side, until the end. It's not as much the age gap that the anti-shippers have a problem with, but that Maya is 17 in the first game and that she assists Phoenix, so with him being her boss (in a way) he can abuse his power over her. I'm not making that up. The only hints that Phoenix and Maya could be more than friends are in the second and third games, so there's no issue with this pairing. Ucha Nekome The law is full of contradictions. Location: LAokio MBr wrote: Well now there is no problem. She's older than Mia was when she died. If Phoenix and Maya decide to take their relationship to the next level it's their decision as adults. I never thought that they should have gotten together in the first game. I thought what they had was a deep respect and cherishing for one another. But like you said it was too early for love. Now it's very possible Maya had a secret CRUSH on Phoenix. This might have started Pearl's point of view. With Maya gushing over what an awesome guy Nick is (something she would never say to him after all she's too young for him at this point and she'd aware of that.) Pearl being an idealistic child could EASILY mistaken a crush for love. Crushes can be easy to hide. But even early on you can see signs of it from Maya. But again that's a harmless crush. On Phoenix's end, it's harder to tell, with his hot and cold dialogue and even more extreme actions. One moment he's laid back and sarcastic, the next he's passionately running across burning bridges and busting down steel doors. The man is both emotional and aloof. But while he's shown extreme's for some people like becoming a lawyer to save Edgeworth, or adopting a former clients daughter. There is no doubt that he has shown to go to the most extremes for the people he loves, such as eating a glass bottle that used to house poison to save Dahlia. (The fucking She-Devil...) Not only that but he has shown to be almost completely mindless when it comes to the girls he loves being pinned for murder. In T&T both Dahlia and Maya were put in the position of being blamed for murder. In both cases Phoenix (instead of using his usual "crap it can't be!" or "no that's not right" and having to remind himself "I just got to keep trusting my client" to reassure himself) outright denies it as if the very notion is the most absurd thing. But unlike Dahlia he wasn't deluded or blinded with puppy love. Yet even so he was denying all evidence as if it were a personal attack. That's because it was personal, even if it could have been an accident, Maya was being blamed for murder and at this point he's so worried and scared for her the very notion only made him blind to anything else but what he in his heart believed. This above anything else to me tells me he was in love with Maya by the final case of T&T but as a man who has gone years without truly loving someone romantically, (after what happened the last time I don't blame him) noticing his own feelings would be difficult maybe even impossible at that time. However after years of being pen pals and phone buddies you'd think his feelings would falter right. Wrong. When Phoenix got a letter from Maya in DD he acted as if her short few words were a godsend. As if after all the pain he goes through at least Maya is still there even if only in spirit. This little letter was all he needed. I bet you any money every time he gets a message from her, every time he gets a package full of Steel Samurai merch, every time he gets a letter from her, it just brings joy to his life no matter how bad it gets. He still loves her, maybe even more than ever. But he's yet to act. But someone is CERTAINLY picking up vibes from him. Someone who knows the heart better than anyone. "Follow Your heart out of the darkness! Stand up and rise from the ashes! Back to the start, far from the madness. Come alive again! Break off the chains of hesitation! Your voice will be your salvation! Look to the light of liberation waiting at the end!" Also this entire scene is adorable! Spoilers for episode 2 of the anime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxuDkIoXBpo Ucha Nekome wrote: Well now, that's a cute take on the hiring scene. I don't take that as an argument for these ship haters though because aside from some weird hentai doujins actually about Mia, how many of us P/M fans even ship it then as more than maybe a one sided crush that Maya gets by the end? I haven't seen us writing fanfics about some messed up boss/subordinate relationship. Almost any pairing can have some weird scenario in which case it 'would have been a problem' in the past or in some variation. In my view it's part of the attraction of this pairing that they'd be friends for a while first, if it becomes romantic it's because they became attached over time. (And it's canon they became attached anyway, even if it's not explicitly 'romantic'). There was a connection even in 1-2 but it wasn't 'lust at first sight'. And there isn't even proper evidence that Phoenix is Maya's boss. Mia is still around [when channelled] so for all we know her will left Maya the office too. I don't think Maya gets paid or anything. It's not a proper employee thing. And especially in the first game it's like Mia is still the Chief, not Phoenix. Now I do like this, maybe even better than the game. As far as I'm concerned at this point it's stupid to even bring up the age difference. Maya is 28 now. She's an adult and perfectly capable of choosing for herself whether or not to take their relationship to the next step. (Hell the woman's older than I am.) A strong Phoenix x Maya shipper The Maya and Phoenix coupling makes the most sense as they hold a very special place in each others heart. I hope AA6 will deliver at least some supportive evidence for our ships. Not to mention Maya is over 28 and Nick is over 35 and if they are thinking of getting offsprings to keep the bloodline going on, they need to do something about it as soon as possible; especially on Maya's part as her eggs are already past of their prime times. knight210 wrote: No. Just... no. While it's true that risks with pregnancy will increase with age, 28 is hardly too old to have a healthy child. Hell, Morgan was at least 40 when she had Pearl. The window is still very much open for Maya. To be honest, I hope that the upcoming game doesn't do anything definitive with the relationship. Maybe "definitive" isn't the right word, so I'll explain. It's a complex relationship (but then again, everyone has complex relationships in this series), so I think it's best to keep it in a way that allows for different interpretations. The trilogy and Layton vs. Wright handled their relationship in a way so you could interpret it as romantic or close friendship. 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__label__cc	0.561155	0.438845	Other Role Plays [IC thread] In the Black By Mistress of Whispers, April 21, 2014 in Other Role Plays Mistress of Whispers Stalking dragons and eating cookies ~ First Post: You are here Setting and History Character Sheet ~ Second Post Crew Roster ~ Third Post Important NPCs ~ Fourth Post - Reserved - ~ Fifth Post Welcome to In the Black, a roleplay based on Joss Whedon's Firefly series. This is the IC thread. The OoC thread can be found here. Knowledge of Firefly is not required to join this roleplay, so if cowboy-shenanigans in space sounds interesting to you: read on. ~ Setting and History ~ The 'Verse Earth-That-Was When Earth became uninhabitable due to depleted resources, overpopulation, and a compromised ecosystem, humanity began a mass-exodus. Transported in massive ships departing from Earth between the years 2097 an 2101, humanity left for the 34Tauri system. Much of this time is shrouded in history, but we do know something of what happened after. 34Tauri is a massive star cluster, full of sequence stars, protostars, gas giants, asteroid belts, planets, and their moons. Between them they have a plethora of planets, either habitable from the start or suitable for terraforming, that now hold human life. All the worlds that make up the 'Verse have two names, a Sino (Mandarin) and Anglo (English) name. The 'Verse consists of three main regions: the Core, the Border and the Rim. White Sun, also known as Bai Hu, is the center of the 'Verse. Around it orbit the Central Planets, which are also known as the White Sun System. It is also the richest and most advanced part of the 'Verse by far and home to the Alliance. Border Systems The Border Region consists of two star systems. Life here is hard, but it is still possible to eke out a fair existence. Even though the Independents lost the Unification War, many Border planets still harbor Independent sympathies and hold a grudge against the Alliance. - Georgia, also known as Huang Long, is the largest star system in the 'Verse. Here the Independent Planets first stood up against the Alliance. Georgia still bears the scars of the Unification War in the form of Shadow: a planet bombed so massively at the beginning of the war, that it is no longer able to support life. - Red Sun, also known as Zhu Que, holds the coldest of all the suns in the 'Verse at its centre. Rim Systems The Rim also consists of two systems. The Rim worlds have only recently been terraformed and settled, and as a result, life here is still raw and untamed. Given the high cost of terraforming, many Rim planets are beholden to the Alliance, even if they are only loosely governed so far away from the Core. - Kalidasa, also known as Xuan Wu, is the start of the Rim Planets. - Blue Sun, also known as Qing Long, sits on the edge of the 'Verse. It was here where the first attacks by Reavers took place. - Map of the 'Verse(link) - More information about the 'Verse and individual planets can be found here. The Unification War The Core planets traditionally hold most of the Alliance's resources, wealth and technology, whilst leaving the Border and Rim planets to fend for themselves. After years of unsatisfactory negotiations in an effort to attain equality, the outer planets seceded from the Alliance. Their aim was to start their own alliance, without the center planets. The Alliance could not accept this and so the Unification War began. The war lasted for five years; from 2506 to 2511. Predictably, the technologically superior and more numerous Alliance was victorious. After the vicious and decisive Battle of Serenity, the Independents were crushed and the war was officially over. Many Independents did not accept this defeat however, nor were they awarded amnesty, and took refuge on the outer worlds. Our story is set in 2517, six years after the end of the Unification War. Notable Groups Union of Allied Planets (also: Alliance, Purple Bellies) The Alliance, officially the Union of Allied Planets, is the central government and law-enforcement of the 'Verse. Every core Alliance planet is allowed to organize its own affairs on a planetary level, but system-wide policy is set by the Parliament. The planet Londinium is the central seat of Parliament and home to the Prime Minister, while the planet Sihnon holds the headquarters of major guilds and trade associations. The Alliance is semi-democratic, granting the right to vote and be elected to 'full citizens' of the Alliance (that is to say, the planets who remained loyal in the Unification War). A derogatory term nickname for Alliance soldiers is 'Purple Bellies', because of the purple tinted body armor they wore on their chests. Independents (also: Browncoats) When the Alliance actively moved to take control over all of 34Tauri, the Independent planets and moons came together to present a unified front of resistance. While neither well-trained nor well-equipped, they fought fiercely, but were eventually forced to surrender. The Independent governments were removed from power and replaced with Alliance-appointed governors. A popular nickname for the Independents is 'Browncoats', based on the simple brown leather trenchcoats they wore as uniform. Dismissed as an urban legend by the people of the Core, Reavers are very real to the people from the Border and Rim worlds. Completely mad, homicidal and cannibalistic, Reavers are believed to be men that went insane at the edge of space and became savage. They are the stuff of nightmare: they do not stop, cannot be reasoned with and will kill (that's a euphemism for: 'torture to death') anyone in their path. Companions (also: Companion Guild) Companions are skilled, well-educated and well-respected members of a guild of professional courtesans and entertainers. They are generally treated with a great deal of respect, especially on the Core planets. Reversely though, non-guild prostitutes are treated quite poorly, even if they are former guild members. Many people in the 'Verse follow the tenets of one religion or another (to a degree). - Buddhism is the 'Verse's dominant religion, particularly on the Core Planets. - Christianity ranks second, with larger concentrations on the outer worlds. Many Christians follow a Protestant tradition hailing from Earth-That-Was and while Catholicism still exists, it no longer maintains its culture-spanning dominance. One notable group of Christian missionaries, the Order of Shepherds, still follows the monastic tradition of poverty and chastity. The Shepherds often travel the 'Verse to spread the word of god to those that need it. - Many religious groups, including Muslims, Jews, and Hindus, have formed their own communities. - Faith healers and preachers who have founded their own church can be found wandering the Rim. Mule = Hovercraft used for overland transport of goods Ship / Boat = Spaceship Craft = Spaceship or Aircraft Alliance = Planets of the core systems, ruled by a parliament; technologically advanced, current superpower in charge Independents = Planets who rose up against core world rule (Alliance), but lost the war Browncoat = Referring to the 'Independents' or rebels against the Alliance, in reference to their military uniform. Purple-belly = Derogatory term referring to a member of the Alliance army, also in reference to their uniform Reavers = Mad cannibalistic space pirates who live past the boundaries of the outer rim planets; believed to be myths by most. Terms of daily use Shiny = Good! Great! Neat! Wonderful! (sometimes used sarcastically) Gorram = Swear word Mite = A small amount Peck = A large amount Atmo = Atmosphere The black = Space The 'verse or The 'Verse = The universe Cortex = Widespread information network (similar to the internet) Wave = A Cortex communication (text, video call, audio call, hologram, etc.) Terraform = To alter a planet's characteristics, making it suitable for human life Since the English and Chinese culture are both the most prominent, language is interspersed with Cantonese expressions. Alliance = (聯盟) Lien Mohn Browncoat = Jone Yee Demon woman = (妖女) Yao Nu Oh my god = (我的天阿) Wou Duh Tian Ah Shut up = Bi Jweh You're crazy = (發狂) Fa Kuang An expansive list of dialect and slang can be found here. - The Firefly tv-series - The accompanying Serenity movie - The (unofficial) wiki (link) ~ Plot ~ The Firefly-class vessel Harmony is on its way from Beaumonde to Higgin's Moon to deliver agricultural equipment, when the ship is hailed by raiders. The raiders' message is simple: prepare to be boarded. There is no way for crew or passengers aboard the Harmony to know what the raiders want, but their intentions are easily guessed: to strip the ship of any spare parts and to take the cargo and any valuables on board. What the people aboard the Harmony can't possibly know, is how far this 'stripping' will go (will the raiders leave them dead in space?) and if they themselves are part of the 'valuables'. The raider's intentions are left specifically ambiguous, so players can truly act on the uncertainty and danger of a pending raid. It is then up to them (or better: their characters) to decide how to react. Run? Fight? Surrender? Try to negotiate a 'fee of passage' before being boarded? Whatever the characters decide, the ship is likely left in a bit of a pickle. Even if they successfully run, the raiders are bound to get in a few parting shots. Again, what happens next is up to the characters. Head for the nearest shipping lane in the hopes of finding help? Settle down on a moon for repairs? Or muddle on to Higgin's Moon? The above scenario is specifically designed to give characters a chance to get to know each other (you're not likely to remain sequestered in your cabin while the ship is under attack) and for players to get into the swing of things. After that, the 'Verse is wide open, as this roleplay takes place in an 'open world'. That means that the RP leader does not devise all the plots, but players have room to develop their own. Captain Nadir (see below) is always open to ideas from crew and passengers, leaving plenty of room for input from other characters. I also encourage players to come up with their own subplots, both for the group as a whole and for other individual players. You think that tax collector Captain Nadir snubbed could be a recurring enemy? Super! Let me know when he turns up next to make our lives miserable. Another character's background details a long-lost brother? Great! Let's run a storyline with hints to his whereabouts. However, in all cases: post in the OoC first, explain your idea and make sure everyone is on board. This is especially true if you want to run a small plot for another player. As RP Leader, I will make sure that new subplots, threats and follow-up stories are introduced regularly. This means that if players have a hard time coming up with plots, I will keep the roleplay going. I will try to gear these stories to the interests of the players and characters, which means that nothing is set in stone. The Harmony This roleplay centers around a group of people on a Firefly-class transport ship. A Firefly is a reliable, affordable (as spaceships go) and versatile vessel and is therefore very popular with low-end traders and couriers. The ship in this roleplay is called 'Harmony', even if life aboard her is likely anything but. Harmony is captained by Teela Nadir, a 'self-employed entrepreneur' (aka rogue and scoundrel). She travels the 'Verse as strikes her fancy, taking jobs as needed or as they appeal to her and doesn't answer to anyone (especially the Alliance tax collectors). Nadir is always open to new ideas and adventures, meaning there is room for crew (and passengers in her good graces) to suggest jobs and ventures. The Harmony holds two small shuttles in her cargo bay, as well as a hover mule and bike mule. - Exterior (link) - Schematics (link) - Shuttle (link) (ignore the décor) - Hover Mule (link) - Bike Mule (link) Crew and Passengers The Harmony can comfortably hold nine crew and passengers spread over 5 crew cabins and 4 passenger cabins. There are also two shuttles on board. One of these remains reserved for the crew, the other can be rented as private quarters for an additional one or two passengers. Check the Crew Roster in the second post for some of the proposed crew positions. I'll also list whether they are already taken or not. Depending on the size of the crew, it's very possible for characters to have double tasks. Players can also propose a new position or board as paying passengers. ~ Frequently Asked Questions ~ * What is the level of technology like? The level of technology in the 'Verse varies wildly, depending on where you are and what you can afford. However, for a sci-fi setting, it is more low-tech than high-tech. For example, there are no healing tanks available to citizens and most people use Western-style pistols rather than laser guns or even semi-automatics. * Can I join this RP after it has started? Yes! Just post your character sheet it in the OoC thread, or pm it to me and we'll find a good moment to introduce your character. * Is knowledge of Firefly necessary to join this RP? Nope. Think 'Wild West meets Star Wars' and you've got the general gist. We'll fill you in on anything else you need to know. * Do the Firefly series and movie feature in this roleplay? Our story takes place in the same year as the series start (2517). Captain Malcolm and his crew are out there, somewhere, doing their thing. The 'Verse is a big place however, and we're unlikely to encounter them in our roleplay. Also, where our story conflicts with the official series, the roleplay takes precedence (meaning we might deviate from canon). ~Rules ~ - All Dragoncave Rules apply. - No Powerplaying or Godmoding. No Mary Sues or Gary Stus. - Do not kill another player's character(s) without their and my permission. - Use proper spelling and grammar. No chat or leek speak. - Try to make posts of a decent length (guideline: five sentences or more). - Post in third person, i.e. 'he/she' and not 'you' or 'I'. - The content of this RP is mature, but the forum is PG-13, so fade to black as appropriate. - Respect each other. Negative behavior OoC is not acceptable. - Character sheets should be posted in the OoC thread or PMed to me to be approved. - We currently have a limit of 2 characters per player. - Please be active. If you haven't posted in a week and your character's actions (or lack thereof) are stalling the RP, I reserve the right to 'bunny mod' your character until the situation is resolved. - Players who have been inactive for 3 weeks without leaving a warning in the OoC, run the risk of having their character deleted. I might not make back-ups, so you are responsible for keeping a back-up yourself. ~ Charactersheet ~ Please fill out all sections. When making a character, keep in mind that this is a roleplay about an outlaw ship so it's unlikely that your character is a well-respected, upstanding citizen or an angel of charity and virtue. Similarly, characters are more likely to be former Independents than Alliance (though both are allowed). I reserve the right to reject characters if I think they won't fit in the roleplay. In that case however, I will give feedback on the character so a new version might be accepted. Username: [This is you] Character Name: [First and last, as well as notable aliases] Concept: [A one-line description of your character] Position: [The crew position you'd like. Make sure it isn't taken.] Gender and Age: [self-explanatory. Age 19 years and up.] Birth Planet/System: [specify Core, Border or Rim at least] Appearance: [Description mandatory, picture optional. If using a picture: please use a photo or realistic drawing.] Personality: [How does s/he behave. Any character quirks.] History: [Expressly not optional. You may ask me to hide it from other players if you like] Notable Equipment: [includes any and all weapons and armor] Strengths: [Less or equal to weaknesses] Weaknesses: [More or equal to strengths] Other: [Anything else you'd like to share] [b]Username:[/b] [b]Character Name:[/b] [b]Concept:[/b] [b]Position:[/b] [b]Gender and Age:[/b] [b]Birth Planet/System:[/b] [b]Appearance:[/b] [b]Personality:[/b] [b]History:[/b] [b]Notable Equipment:[/b] [b]Strengths:[/b] [b]Weaknesses:[/b] [b]Other:[/b] Edited July 21, 2015 by Mistress of Whispers ~ First Post ~ Second Post: You are here ~ Crew Roster ~ - Captain: Teela Nadir (Mistress of Whispers) (Crew Quarters 1) - Pilot: Jay McCarty (Biologist) (Crew Quarters 3) - Mechanic: Nelson Layton (Marcus Pheonix) (Crew Quarters 4) - Liaison and cook: Eli Hastings (Narvix) (Crew Quarters 5) - Medic: Li Xiao (Mistress of Whispers) (Crew Quarters 2) - Passenger (Companion): Athena L Rochellea (XxWaterGardianxX) (Shuttle 1) - Passenger / Crew (to be determined): OPEN Click here to see a lay-out of the ship and where your quarters are. Username: Mistress of Whispers Character Name: Teela Nadir Concept: Self-employed entrepreneur (ahem) Position: Captain Gender and Age: Female, 28 Birth Planet/System: Vesselside Appearance: Tall with an athletic build, Teela has olive skin and deep, almost golden, amber eyes. Her (dyed) green hair comes to halfway down her back in waves and is usually held together in a thick braid. She has an aquiline nose that gives an exotic aspect to her features and a crooked, roguish smile. Several tattoos adorn her body; all of them markings acquired during her journeys. Teela goes dressed in leathers, usually in brown and tan colors. She prefers to go around barefoot, but dresses in knee-high boots when going planetside. She wears assorted pieces of light armour covering her torso, as well as padding on her knees, elbows and shoulders. (Picture) Personality: Teela is loud, boisterous and outgoing. She makes friends easily, having a natural charisma, and flirts with men and women alike. Teela loves her freedom and is fiercely independent, even in situations when it might be better to play along or roll over. She also has a decidedly fearless and adventurous streak, meaning it's never boring to be around her (nor is it usually safe). Despite her demeanour as a fun-loving, devil-may-care rogue, Teela is also decidedly smart, having benefited from both good genes and an excellent education in that department. History: Teela's parents were notable archaeologists hailing from the Core planet Bernadette. They were obsessed with Earth-That-Was and the Great Exodus, travelling all over the 'Verse in the pursuit of knowledge. Her mother's pregnancy never slowed them down and Teela was born on a ship halfway between the Border and the Core – this duality would be symbolic of the rest of her young life. Half of Teela's childhood was spent in regal university halls, listening to her parents' academic findings, and the other half in space or on Border and Rim planets, digging around for clues about the past. When the Unifaction War began, Teela immediately sided with the Independent Cause. Not only did she strongly believe in any individual's right to shape their own life, she had also become much more enamoured with the rough, but oddly honest, lifestyle of the Independent planets, than the posh living in the Core. Only seventeen when the war began, she falsified her birth record to state her age as eighteen and enlisted. When the news of her enlistment eventually made its way to her Alliance parents, they first tried to sway her back to their side and finally disowned her. Teela hasn't seen them since. Even after the fateful Battle of Serenity, Teela does not believe the war is truly over. As long there are people willing to stand up to overbearing governments and belligerent authorities, the Independent spirit remains. So that's exactly what she does. Determined to live free, she worked odd jobs after the war and borrowed money from other 'free entrepreneurs' until she could finally buy her own ship. That was several years hence and she has never regretted her choice. Notable Equipment: Light Body Armor. Mare’s Leg Rifle (large leg holster on right leg), bowie knife (leg holster on left leg), .38 calibre gun (10 cylinder, hip holster on left hip), machete (back holster). Teela wears the Mare and knife on her at all times, the other weapons are usually kept in a locker in her quarters. Teela also owns a plethora of archaeological books, including several rare and banned copies. - Charismatic: Teela has a natural, roguish charisma that has helped her talk her way out of trouble on several occasions. - Academia: Listening to her parents' academic lectures from a young age, Teela is versed in both anthropology and archaeology. - Quiet as a mouse: Teela can be very, very stealthy when she wants to be. - Marksmanship: Teela is a near-perfect shot. - Hand-to-Hand Combat: Finding herself on the wrong side of a deal on more than one occasion, Teela is well-versed in Capoeira combat. - Parkour: Teela greatly enjoys the art of free-running, climbing and jumping. - Mental-Mapping: Teela has a great sense of direction and instinctively maps any area she visits in her mind. - Rebel: Teela does NOT respond well to authority figures, even if it is (much) better to play along. - Impatient: Ill-suited to 'doing nothing', Teela will sometimes spring into action before a decent plan has been formed. - All On Me: Teela feels acutely and personally responsible for her crew and ship, to the point of feeling that anything wrong is her fault. - Obsessive Personality: Teela can completely lose herself in her pursuits, be they for exploration or vengeance. - Bipolar: The same energy that drives Teela to pursue life with reckless abandon, can also swing around to where she cannot muster the will to do anything anymore. This usually occurs after something bad happens to her ship or the people aboard. - Curiosity Got The Cat: Of course Teela wakes the sleeping dog. How else will she know what it does? - Show Off: Teela is a show-off who will share more tales of her exploits than is strictly wise, nor does she easily back down from a challenge. She also tends to take unnecessary risks with the sole benefit of impressing people. Character Name: Li Xiao (last name, first name) (real name: Ming Xiao) Concept: Enigma / Tactical Genius Birth Planet/Moon: Unknown Position: Medic Appearance: Xiao comes from a mixed Caucasian-Asian ancestry. She has a petite and slender build with a regal bearing. Brown hair, falling in gentle waves, frames a heart-shaped face with hazel eyes. She is not stunningly beautiful, but certainly very pretty and bears herself well. (Picture) Personality: Soft-spoken, highly intelligent. Abhors violence and refuses to fight. Seems to suffer from nightmares and post-traumatic stress syndrome. History: [Partly hidden on user request.] Xiao rarely (never) speaks about her past, but some rumours have filtered through. People say she was present at the battle of Serenity Valley, though it's unclear on which side she fought. Some people even say she is a war criminal, but again it's unclear on whose behalf she perpetrated these unknown atrocities. One far-fetched rumour states that she is a survivor of the annihilation of Shadow. Notable Equipment: Xiao is in possession of military-grade ballistic mesh armor which she often wears underneath her clothes. She owns no weapons. She also has a databook (encrypted), hacking tools, one dose of cyanol poison (carried on her at all time), a set of pictures of Browncoats and a set of pictures of what appear to be burn victims. Highly intelligent Very strong-willed Extremely perceptive Genius at military tactics Good medic Good hacker Has a knack for languages Eidetic memory Cortex Spectre: There is no data on Ming Xiao in the cortex, whilst Li Xiao has a (fake) paper trail. Lacking physical strength Horrible with guns Dark Secret: Ming’s contribution to the war Stigmata: Suspected former Alliance member Stigmata: Suspected Independent member Deadly Enemy: The Alliance is very actively looking for her Memorable: Stands out in people's minds (pretty and soft-spoken) Traumatic Flashes Obsession: Anything to do with the planet Shadow Username: Biologist Character Name: Jay McCarty Position: Pilot Gender and Age: Male, 27 Birth Planet/System: Shadow Appearance: Jay is a muscular man, hardened through hard work and battle, with quite a few scars. He has sky blue eyes and dirty blond hair, he is usually unshaven and wears work clothes (jeans and T-shirt with brown leather jacket and leather boots). Personality: He is loyal. Not much of a thinker and with a youth of hard work, he isn't very sophisticated, but likes straightforward things in life. He isn't the most intelligent person, but he is a man who likes to take action and isn't afraid to put his life on the line if he thinks someone deserves his loyalty. History: Jay grew up on a small farm on Shadow. He learned to ride the horses and drive the mules and even to fly the small transport ships to get their crops to supply ships in orbit after harvest time. His father taught him to shoot a gun and to drink beer, his brothers and cousins taught him the rest (brawling, more guns, more beer and everything he knows about girls). It was a simple life. Until he was 16. Until the bombs rained down. He doesn't remember how he survived, but he did. He escaped off planet on a ship, leaving everyone and everything behind as the surface of his home planet lighted up like a christmas tree. Burning with anger and a desire for revenge, he joined the browncoats and fought long and hard. He was a loyal corporal and often surprised friend and foe with his tenacity and violence. All was going well. Until Serenity Valley. He survived. After the battle of Serenity Valley, the browncoats were devastated and quickly signed the peace agreements. Jay disappeared into the outer system, trying to live off of his combat skills and his farming skills. He couldn't make ends meet, though, and has tried every job in the Verse (except for companion) to finally end up as a dealer in 'protoype tech' on the run due to unhappy clients and unhappy moneylenders. When he heard by chance that the Harmony was looking for a pilot, he grasped the best chance to get off planet and hasn't looked back since. Notable Equipment: Pistol: his main weapon. Has a distinct browncoat look and feel to it. It has probably stayed with him since the war. Bowie knife: for all purpose use. Strengths: Tough as nails: he has survived his fair share of apocalyptic events and his is still breathin'. Broad skill set: his willingness and aptitude to take on any job has made him a good pilot, and gun for hire, a reasonable technician and cook, and a bad businessman. Loyal: when he has a cause and a leader worthy of following, he'll stick to their side forever. Or until they betray him. Weaknesses: Not the sharpest knife in the drawer: Jay is a man of action and takes initiative. He is not a man of deep thought or high intelligence. One of the reasons he got bested in business deals. Nightmares: due to the traumatic events of Shadow and Serenity Valley, he suffers from recurring nightmares. Addiction: to forget, he drinks alcohol. Sometimes the more the better. Debts: he has made a few bad deals and now he owes people money. A lot of people. A lot of money. He hopes he can outrun them for the time being, until he has a new game plan. Username: XxWaterGardianxX Character Name: Athena L Rochellea Concept: Registered (former) Companion Position: shuttle inhabitant, high end companion, but enjoying her travels and adventures for the time being. Gender and Age: Female. 25 Birth Planet/System: Hera Appearance: Athena has light blonde hair, almost white, along with dark blue eyes. She stands at about 5'10" with olive skin and curves that could kill. The Companion knows how to use her body, and likes to stay fit because she doesn't always know what is around the corner.. She likes the oriental look, chop sticks in her hair and short kimonos with a low neck line, a leather corset tightly bound to her waist along with light flowing pants. Her brown boots and brown gloves to match. Also two metal bands around her upper arms. Athena has scars on her hands, which is why she wares the gloves. She also has scripture in Chinese down the entire length of her right leg from her hip to her ankle. Personality:Athena is kinds and sophisticated as a proper companion should be but most times her smiles never reach her eyes. She doesn't have any friends she left them with her past, making it hard for her to make any to trust any because of the walls she puts up, this makes her slightly sarcastic when she does finally become accustom to being around a certain person. History: Athena grew up on a farm, her mother and father were very poor and had very little but love to give her. But she was happy, sunny days in the dusty farm, everything had been perfect... Until the Revers crashed on the outskirts of their farm. Even though only two survived the crash it was enough for her father to get the shot gun out and tell her and her mother to run. She can still hear the gunshots going off and her mother being ripped from her arms... But in the end she was able to get away, an orphan but alive. Having no place to go she got a ride onto a small ship owned by a grandfather like figure, he was kind to her but stern, he taught her the ropes of ships. She learned how to pilot, the engine, how to cook, even how to use a gun properly. But when he passed suddenly she didn't know what to do with herself. She wondered the streets of the wealthy planets, finding work here and there, when a Companion found her and offered to teach her in the ways of a Companion. She accepted, feeling as if she had no other choice, and started to study. She aimed to be the best companion that there was, immersing herself into the study. When she graduated she had few partners but very wealthy. She lived in the sparkle and glitz life and she liked it, the small farm girl miles away. But faithful night after one of the various balls she blacked out and woke up with crimson blood on her hands along with a blade in her hand. She had been framed, or at least she thought she had... Athena ran. She ran from that life, knowing that she could never go back again when everyone of her companion sisters thought she was a killer and everyone else thought she was a murder. She never looked back. So that her status as a companion would not be diminished she forged documents, still getting her yearly check up from a formal doctor that owed her greatly, everything looked real. The only way someone would be able to realize that Athena was a no longer a companion would be to know the right people, and she has made sure that those certain people have been paid well to forget her name. Notable Equipment: She carries quite a few things with her wherever she goes, the dagger from that night which is long and thin as an envelope opener but with a deadly point and poison in various versions. She has a couple different colors of corsets that have metal boning that pack a punch when hit. Compassion. Knowledge of her trade. Witty. Quick on her feet. In peek condition. Will do anything for a child. Tends to see things in people others don't, getting her into trouble at times. Terrified of Reavers, to a point where she can't think properly. Username: Marcus Pheonix Character Name: Nelson Layton Concept: All men wear a mask Position: Mechanic Gender and Age: Male and 30 Birth Planet/System: New Melbourne Appearance: The image of a strong man gone to seed, Nelson is 6'1 with a beer belly in the works. While his waist fools many his arms and legs are quite muscled but are concealed. He usually wheres a navy, collared long sleeve shirt with a simple brown sleeveless jacket over top. Brown pants, muddy black combat boots and a grey beanie finish his attire. Nelson has long, thick auburn hair with a matching beard. Beneath all that and the usual grease stains are his nearly white, blue eyes and surprisingly pale skin and a large scar on the crown of his head, hidden beneath his hair. Personality: Nelson is the kind of guy most would like to be around in any sort of situation. The kind who'd break up a fight by buying a round of beer for all and would then challenge all to a drinking contest. He enjoys the solace of the engine rooms and can frequently be found sleeping on the job. He enjoys his time with others as much as possible and can sometimes be over enthusiastic in his approach (hes a hugger not a handshaker). The only times when he is ever quiet are the times when he is out fishing. But those who have known him longer then others occasionally see another side to him, a sad side indicating hes seen more than one would expect. History: [Partly hidden at user request] On New Melbourne Nelson was the friendly face who frequented many of the local taverns boasting of his latest catch. After several years he decided that he was gonna try and move on, while he loved fishing he'd love to see more of the verse. One day he hoarded up some his supplies and prized possessions (like his fishing rod) and grabbed a ship, always on the move since then he somehow made his way to the engineering room on Harmony. Notable Equipment: His fishing rod and tool box his filleting knife a k-bar and two rifles; a Accuracy Internation L115A3 and a PGM Hecate II both of which are kept in a hidden panel beneath Harmony's engine that only he knows where. Fishing Jamboree: Just try and reel a bigger fish then him Technical Wizz: Surprisingly knows a lot about engines Great Hunter Dirty Hands: Hes not afraid to get his hands dirty when it comes to anything bloody Can keep his head Perceptive: Is very aware of his surroundings and keeps his eyes and ears open Physically muscled and very strong [some hidden at user request] Enigma: There is no knowledge of him on the cortex A Mask: He’s not what he appears Unfit: Anyone could beat him in a race Alcoholic: Is commonly found asleep with a bottle of rum Bad at hand to hand combat Other: Is great at Pool and is highly against violence. Username: Narvix Character Name: Eli Hastings Concept: Your friendly conversationalist. Position: Liaison/Self-designated Cook Gender and Age: Demimale/34 years Birth Planet/System: Ezra Appearance: With a round face and average athletic build, Eli stands no taller than 5’10” and weighs 168 pounds. His skin is dark through blood more than tanning and his eyes are barely distinguishable from black. Black hair sweeps back from his moderate hairline, kept short and, though he tries to style it, unruly with waves or small curls. His nose was broken as a child and healed crookedly, a bump in the middle of the bridge where the break occurred. His hands aren’t rough but his fingertips are dry from so many years of handling paper. Several paper cuts sometimes decorate his hands, gradually toughing the skin. The scar from a bullet wound is hidden away on his abdomen, consistently covered by the various button-up shirts he favors most. It’s a 50/50 between whether he tucks his shirt into his black slacks or not. A worn, leather belt loops around his waist more for appearances than necessity. On his feet, he either wears brown cargo boots or sneakers. Personality: First and foremost, Eli likes to talk. He enjoys conversation and being merry. From somber to jovial, he doesn’t care what the subject is so long as it is good for passing the time. He’s an all-around friendly sort with seemingly no qualms about who someone is. Not much can stop him from playing coy or the general flirt. He’s willing to be a shoulder for someone to cry on or another set of hands to carry a burden. His patience hardly knows any bounds and he knows how to adapt to any verbal situation. However, Eli much prefers to avoid the stressful situation or any talk about family, religion, and science. The latter two are mostly out of habit than self-preference. He’s sensitive to tone and body language, making it easy for him to understand all sorts of people. And, though he’s good at lying, he doesn’t always enjoy leading people on. Much of what he does has honest intentions. He’s trusting and that can result in him being easily manipulated if someone’s skilled enough. History: Eli’s existence has mostly been an average one. He lived in a normal household, graduated from school, and sought a decent job that wouldn’t kill him from boredom. He has, however, gotten into a few difficult situations before, one of which resulted in his getting shot through the stomach. Over the past decade or two, he worked on his conversational skills, becoming rather talented in being convincing or striking the deal he wanted most. Eli has moved around from place to place, making it hard for him to possibly settle down. Does he want to? Perhaps in the future. Notable Equipment: - Beretta M9: 9mm pistol with 15 round, detachable magazine + 1 in the chamber. Right hip holster. - Glock 17: 9mm pistol with 17 round, detachable magazine + 1 in the chamber. Right ankle holster. - Gerber LHR Combat knife: 6.87" blade length and 12.5" full length. Left upper-arm holster. - Bulletproof Vest: Black Kevlar stored until needed. - 3 Portfolios: Various usages. Mostly notes, job information, and contact lists. All are locked with the key on a string around Eli’s neck. - Writing Supplies: An assortment of pens, pencils, erasers, and more as deemed necessary. - He possesses very quick reflexes. - Eli is silver-tongued, making him ideal for talking oneself out of unfavorable situations. - He is resourceful and well connected. - His elbows have a bad habit of giving him issues, mostly locking up when bent. - He’s quite terrified of storms, any and all of them. - Eli doesn’t have a good long-term memory and will forget things if he doesn’t write down/review notes. Retired characters that are allowed to come back Username: diaveborn Character Name: Suren Waite (names, but not characterization, based on Being Human [uS] characters) Concept: Scientist (Genetics Researcher / Hydroponist) Position: Can grow fresh edible plants for the crew and serve as part time cook. Gender and Age: Female, mid-thirties Birth Planet/System: Sihnon Appearance: Mostly like this, with the same Eastern features and sections of her hair dyed (although she'll probably remove the dye shortly after joining up with anyone who also has their hair dyed). She looks less glamorous than in the picture - she doesn't wear makeup and her face usually has a less graceful expression - and is a little older and weighs a little more. She wears her clothing in layers, favoring long black or blue coats, lots of hidden pockets, and tall, heavy black boots with multiple buckles. Personality: What facet of Suren's personality comes to the forefront depends to a great degree on who she's with, and to a lesser degree how she's feeling. She can be cool, even somewhat aloof or standoffish, with strangers due to being generally uncomfortable around people she doesn't know. At those times she's mostly quiet, preferring to observe rather than speak, unless called upon to speak about one of her areas of expertise. When she gets to know people, she becomes more open, and can be quite warm with people she considers friends. She knows how to go along with a plan and is quite willing to be led by someone she respects, but she can also be opinionated and stubborn about subjects she's taken care to educate herself on. Although Suren likes to take regular time for herself and her experiments, most days she doesn't mind being around people. But on bad days she can withdrawn, partially because she can get a bit too focused on her work and partially to protect others from her moodiness. History: Suren was born on Sihnon to a family with a strong and purposeful sense of intellectualism and a more subtle, yet equally strong, religious belief, and she absorbed these values from an early age. Although as an adult she finds she is more occupied with the practices of science than with those of faith, she doesn't feel she has lost the faith-based aspect of herself. One of the many things she was taught as a child was how to cook, and her natural aptitude, largely due to an excellent palate, combined with her love of advancing new skills meant cooking became important to her. It was never her chosen path in life, however - she knew early on that she wanted to be a biologist, and studied genetics and botany on Sihnon. As she began to feel the importance of a richer diet being made available to those who lived in harsher planetary conditions or in space, she chose to focus on developing new strains of edible plants. She became interested in hydroponics, travelling to Osiris to study it, due to the applicability of hydroponic techniques in both planetary and space-based environments. Since then she has attempted to cultivate her own improved strains of plants, and has recently made some inroads in her experimental goals but knows she has much work to continue. During the war much, but not all, of Suren's family sided with the Alliance; she was mostly absorbed in study and experiments and kept relatively neutral. Nowadays she still prefers not to claim she's part of either side, although she will identify as an Independent if pressed, feeling that law is not best made on a system-wide basis but that rules and structure are important to society. She has lived for a time on Persephone and Bellerophon and has spent brief periods on Ariel and Londinium. Notable Equipment: She's never without weapons, but you might not know it to look at her. She keeps her small knives in hidden pockets and compartments in her clothes and shoes, and only has them for getting out of jams, not into them. She also likes to carry a small amount of acid; although this can serve as a weapon it's best for more subtle applications, such as dissolving a crude padlock or the circuitry of a more sophisticated electronic lock. More conspicuous are the storage crates she's bringing on board, which house her hydroponics equipment, including a small store of plant seeds and sprouts. Strengths: Suren considers herself intelligent and well-educated in her field. She has strong senses of taste and smell, is generally very self-aware, and is willing to work hard for things she believes are important. Weaknesses: Suren has a hard time getting computers to do exactly what she wants. She's not the best fighter - her greatest strength in a fight is the element of surprise, and once she loses that, things would tend to go rapidly downhill for her. She can overthink things at times, and can sometimes get stuck on an idea to the exclusion of others. Other: She doesn't like it if someone's lack of self-awareness impacts her, and it bothers her when people pretend to be something they're not or fail to be direct with her or others when problems arise. Suren also dislikes messy medical issues and hates when people bully those weaker than them. She likes to plan for a multitude of situations, and likes it when people she's working with are prepared for the unexpected. She embraces opportunities to expand her horizons even when it feels somewhat uncomfortable to do so. Beautiful architecture, the grace of the Companions, and the diversity of nature are all things she admires. Username: Narath Character Name: Jake Drunmer Concept: Boom, headshot. Position: weapons specialist Birth Planet/System: Appearance: short blonde neatly combed back hair, sharp and piercing blue eyes, six foot four, muscular but not overly so, black combat boots, Brown leather jacket. Personality: he may appear rough and tough when you first meet him, but once you get to know the guy, you find out that he can be quite nice. Always willing to lend a helping hand, Jake will often even venture outside of his areas of expertise to help someone he knows. Just, try not to get on his bad side. He can have quite the temper sometimes. History: was once a weapons expert for the brown coats in the war, but became a sort of freelancer afterwards. He doesn't enjoy talking about the war though, so it's usually best to avoid the subject if you can. Revolvers: [1] [2] [3] Rifles: [1] [2] [3] Automatic Rifles: [1] [2] Favorite: Bertha mountable machine gun (can only be fired when properly mounted on a vehical or other surface) -Very strong -Great shot -some mechanics (if it applies to guns somehow, he can do anything.) -romance -hates spiders (if he is not on a ship he may just shoot it) -do not bring him around purple-bellies. He has very little patience with them. Other: has a large gun collection. Username: Takhesis Character Name: Atlanta Ward Concept: Junior Scientist. Position: Passenger Gender and Age: 19 year old female Birth Planet/System: Border System Appearance: Shoulder length auburn hair that settles in ringlets - much to Atlanta's annoyance, the style and colour being almost too obvious for her liking - is paired with ice-blue eyes. Her clothes seem to be too well-made for a scientist, yet it could be explained away by her somewhat 'unique appearance'. Personality: Atlanta seems to have two personalities. A public persona and a private one. Her public persona is that of a timid, well behaved, bookworm. Her real personality is her private one - glimpses of which can be seen if she's in trusted company or if she's under stress. Her real self is a stubborn, speaks-her-mind tomboy. History: Atlanta boarded the Harmony as a Junior Scientist wanting to gain some first hand experience on the 'verse for her next written paper. [Rest hidden at user request.] Notable Equipment: Jewellery - mainly easily hidden broaches and rings. These are hidden in her bag, to be pawned as needed. She keeps a stiletto blade strapped to her thigh - courtesy of her guard helper. She also owns a notebook and pen, and a few textbook. The latter are on a wide variety of different scientific subjects and none of them is very in-depth. Limited wealth - the jewellery won't last long, but it could buy silence and/or supplies. Family name: [secret] Broken pledge: [secret]. Distinctive Looks: Her hair is a dead giveaway. So she has to keep it covered in public areas where she is likely to be known. Other: Plot Bunnies! So many Plot Bunnies. Edited October 2, 2015 by Mistress of Whispers ~ Third Post: You are here ~ The Journey So Far ~ - hasn’t started yet - ~ Important NPCs ~ - none yet - Edited April 25, 2014 by Mistress of Whispers ~ Fourth Post: You are here ~ Fifth Post: You are here Dauntingale Location: UC Berkeley Looks good. If there are any mistakes, they are minor. Have fun roleplaying! "Attention, Crew. This is the Captain speaking. Please report to stations." Teela's voice, coming over the dingy intercom, was perfectly calm with just a hint of well-educated Core World accent. She sounded composed, even conversational, as if she were asking the crew to please eat with knife and fork. To those who knew her even just a little, this was a sure sign of trouble. The Captain liked to joke and goof around - any clipped to-the-point message from her spelled Problems. Hanging up the intercom, Teela Nadir stared at the large, squat (and ugly, the aesthetic part of her brain noted) ship sitting just off starboard. She had taken the Harmony into an asteroid field to avoid a particularly meddlesome looking Alliance vessel, and it seemed she wasn't the only outlaw to do so. Unfortunately, in the 'verse, there was no honour amongst thieves and their 'colleagues' had taken the opportunity to ambush the smaller Firefly vessel. "Stand down weapons and engines and prepare to be boarded" the male voice coming from the other vessel repeated. It was harsh and guttural, with the hailing-from-nowhere accent that Teela associated with people who'd spent too much time vesselside. The voice hadn't bothered to introduce itself, or give a name for its vessel. It had merely demanded that they prepared for boarding. How rude. Teela considered that poor form, but in the end it mattered little. Polite pirates would have done them no better than rude ones; they merely apologized for the inconvenience while they robbed you. If robbing us is all they're planning on. Not for the first time, Teela lamented the lack of weapons on transporter vessels. Perhaps I could have them custom-fitted. Of course, such an act would be both illegal and highly expensive. She didn't care much about the former (what are laws for if not to be broken), but the latter was definitely a problem. The Harmony was deep in the black, on its way from the Border World Beaumonde to the Rim Moon Higgin's. Beaumonde was an industrial planet, (in)famous for its huge factories that produced almost any kind of good and equipment. The Harmony had been hired to transport mud-farming machinery from one of those factories to Higgin's Moon orbiting the planet Harvest. In addition to the agricultural supplies, Teela had also picked up a few additional crew and passengers. The new people would provide a good addition to the crew, passengers were always a good (and easy) way to make some money and transporting mud-farming equipment was essentially a blue milk run. In short, it had been a good trip. Until now. "Prepared to be boarded" the voice said a third time. It was starting to sound impatient. The fact that Captain Nadir hadn't deigned to answer was probably grating it as well. Teela sighed and acknowledged that she couldn't risk ignoring the demand any longer. Her green braid slipped forward over her shoulder as she leaned over to hit the com panel: "Yes, we're preparing." Of course, she never said what they were preparing for .... ((I'll let everyone decide for themselves if their character boarded at Beaumonde, or if they've been on the Harmony longer. Just try to incorporate something to either effect in your post so we all know. I'm also very fine with characters knowing each other, so feel free to pm each other or post in the OoC and work out a starting relationship as friends / drinking buddies / etc.)) Edited May 2, 2014 by Mistress of Whispers Jay looked at Teela, the light of the dash and controls illuminating their faces in blue and red hues. "Gorram pirates." he cursed. "The way I see it, we have three options. Either we bluff, tell them we need medical assistance to combat some infectious disease, or we let them board and blast them back into their stinkin' freighter with our guns. Or..." Jay didn't like the third option. He had served on the Harmony as pilot for a few missions now and knowing Teela, neither would she. "Or we signal the Alliance vessel for help." The look on his face was clear: he would like to avoid the Alliance, just as he would like to avoid the black plague... XxWaterGaridanxX LoVe PeAcE FaItH The companion had been brushing her hair when she heard the captains overcom announcement, it immediately made her ill at ease with the situation. She had been with Harmony for a couple weeks now and she could already tell that this was not a normal announcement by the under tones of Captain Teela's voice. So with that thought she moved into action getting herself dressed in one of the only pair of pants that she owned, most likely no one on the ship has seen a companion in actual, functional, pants. As well as a simple corset and modest shirt underneath, yet even though her modest attire one could still pin point that she was a companion just by looking at her from her proper posture to her precise movements and clean unmarked skin. Her boots clicked across the ship as she went up the stairs to the dining area and sat at the table, her hands folded out in front of her, glancing down the hall at the cockpit but not going in as she waited for the next intercom, a boot toe tapping against the floor. Marcus Pheonix Location: Vegemite land Nelson awoke with a shock. The voice of the captain raising him from his cheery slumber. As he sat up he felt a sudden sharp pain and his hand flew to his forehead. As he pulled himself up from the dirty mattress he had fallen asleep on in the engineering bay, placed there some time prior after similar events occurred, several bottles of rum clanked onto the hard floor, echoing a musical chime. The chime only proceeded to make Nelsons headache hurt more and he forced his fingers in his ears. He kicked the bottles roughly into the corner and moved over to the rotating acceleration core. "Yup still moving," He said to himself. Nelson stumbled over to the door wincing once again as it slid to the side. "Gonna need to oil that thing sometime," He said. Quickly moving through the hallway he found himself in the dining room to see the companion Athena sitting calm and composed... in pants? Nelson paused and looked at his hand, yep five fingers, he wasn't dreaming. Shrugging he reached a cupboard and swiftly began searching for the aspirin. "Mornin' Athena. You wouldn't happen to no where they keep the, ahhhh" He cut himself off as he found the small bottle. He shook the contents out into his open palm and downed it. He'll need to grab another bottle from the infirmary later. Raising his hand in farewell he entered the forward corridor, as he reached the stairs to the cockpit he heard the short conversation between Jay and Teela. At the sight of the large ship he whistled, "A Bernard-class SAR vessel, not the prettiest but pretty sturdy" He thought to himself. As he listened to Jays last few words he felt the need to voice his opinion. "We could try and run cap'n," He said. "Their boat shouldn't be able to keep up if we go to full speed, worst they can do is hook us with them grapplin' hooks o' theres. Although they might have modified the hull with some cannons". He didn't have much hope in his argument, knowing the cap'n she probably would want them to board then reverse the stakes and turn their arsenal on the pirates crew as they entered. ((Let me know if I should keep the vessel as an unnamed type, the bernards in the wiki if you wanna check it out)) Narath Location: Edmonton "Gorram it." Jake cursed under his breath, setting down the gun he'd been cleaning at the moment of Teela's announcement. "Can't have the decency to have a fair fight can they? Of course they have to do it in space where there's a chance of puncturing the hull." Continuing his grumbling, the weapons expert threw open the large dented and tarnished metal cabinet in his room, revealing his large collection of guns. He grabbed his tri-barrel revolver, since they were in close quarters and it's accuracy wasn't the best, before stopping to debate which rifle to grab as a primary weapon. Jake ended up going with the lever action rifle, since the others had larger chances of putting a hole in the wall. After strapping on the pistol, Jake left his room and headed straight for the cotpit, his rifle slung over his shoulder. On his way, he walked past the companion that had joined them a little while ago. Now what was her name again? Maleena? Aleena? He never was good at names. It took him forever to remember the rest of the regular crew's names. "Hey miss, ready for some excitement?" He asked in a joking manner as he walked past her. ((Sniped. Let me edit a second. Never mind. It still works with what's going on. )) Edited May 3, 2014 by Narath Athena nodded and smiled politely to Nelson, "Good morning Nelson." She couldn't help but chuckle under her breath and wave at the kind hearted man as he headed up the stairs to the cockpit. Just as she pushed her chair out, not able to stay seated any longer, the Companion looked up to see Jake walking into the dining room with a rifle over his broad shoulder. She arched a delicate brow, "When am I not ready Jake?" Purposefully saying his name as she could practically read his mind knowing that he forgot her name yet again, but she didn't let it faze her as she smiled coyly before turning and taking an apple from the bowl in the counter and taking a bite, she knew that the other crew members and passengers would trail in soon so she might as well get comfortable and have some breakfast. "Or we signal the Alliance vessel for help." Teela had been about to reply to Jay's suggestion, when Nelson saved her from having to do so by making a timely entrance. She'd sooner surrender her ship to the raiders than ask the Alliance for help. Besides, she had a suspicion that several people aboard the Harmony needed to remain off the Alliance radar. "Running is an option," she instead replied to Nelson. "But it'll take us a while to gather up speed and if they do have guns..." Teela didn't mind being shot at as a general rule (it came with the job, after all), but she hated being shot in the back while trying to run away. If the raiders had guns and got in a few good parting shots, they might be fleeing from the frying pan into the fire. She walked up to the forward window and peered outside. Just then, Jake walked in. "Do you see any guns on this, Jake?" she inquired, still focused intently on the ship off their side. She thought she saw a few patches and bulges not commonly found on Bernards. But were they guns? "Pretty big ship," she mused. "Might be problematic if we let them board and they outgun us three to one." Of course, there was no way to know how many people the Bernard carried unless they let them board. It might be manned by a skeleton crew bluffing their way through. And if the fight took place on the Harmony, they'd have the home advantage of knowing all the nooks and crannies. Unfortunately, they'd also have the disadvantage of something possibly blowing up or getting a hole blown in the hull. She considered going with Jay's first plan of faking a infectious disease on board. That would require some heavy bluffing, but this ship was full of expert liars and Teela was not the least of them. Atop that, they had a trained medic who could probably come up with something real convincing and official sounding. Xiao was standing amidst a field of corpses. They were burnt and mangled, staring up at her with lidless, bloodied eyes. A low moaning sounded across the field and she realized not all of them were dead. Not yet. But they would be soon. "I'm sorry," she said, but the corpses didn't care. Hands wrapped around her ankles, threatening to drag her down to them. For a moment she wanted to. This was her home. But no, not yet. She still had work to do. She knelt down and took the hands gently in hers, disentangling them from her legs. Not long ago she would have run in terror, but not anymore. She had accepted her fate. "Soon," she promised. She would die one day and then she'd join them. The corpse look at her with open hatred, but it nodded and withdrew. It was dead. It could wait. And then they'd play. Rising, Xiao saw a tall woman with green hair in the distance. That was odd. She had never seen another living person in the field of death. "This is the Captain speaking," the apparition said. She woke with a start, just in time to catch the last part of Teela's message. Report to stations? That was never a good sign. Technically speaking, Xiao's station was the infirmary. However, most of the crew would be in the cockpit. If anyone required medical attention, she'd be of more use near to them. Xiao dressed in a plain linen dress and golden-tan surcoat. The cut and colours were modest, though a closer look at the fabric would reveal that it was of high quality. Making her way over to the dining hall, she saw that Athena was already there. She could her voices coming from the cockpit. For a moment, she debated what to do. Then she sat down at the small table and folded her hands as she settled in to wait. "Good morning, Athena," she greeted the companion. "I hope you slept well." Xiao's voice, as always, was perfectly impeccable with no discernible accent. "Touché." Jake replied with a wry grin, making his way out of the kitchen and into the cotpit. After hearing the captain's question, he peered out the window and at the approaching vessel, attempting to appraise any armaments. "There's a few basic ship to ship guns on there." He finally said. "Nothing big like a cannon, but it's good enough to punch a hole through the ship. "If you want cap', I can set up my mounted gun in the hold, so that when they board we can shoot past the doors and into their ship. If we''re lucky, we can punch some holes in their hull that way, and vent them out. "And captain, how many time to I have to tell you; no one outguns me." diaveborn ((OOC: Suren's been here since before Beaumonde.)) After hearing the captain's announcement, Suren put away the vials she'd been idly examining and shoved the container back into place. She put on the rest of her clothes and other things before leaving her quarters for the dining area. She had secured everything in the hydroponics section the last time she left, and presumably all cargo was already fully secured as well. Yet it was possible some things had been left out unattended in the dining area, which could go flying around if the trouble they were now in led to a jostled ship. Arriving in the dining area, Suren nodded hello to Xiao and Athena, then started putting away the few things that were not in the cabinets. When she got to the bowl Athena would have gotten the apple from, she turned towards Athena while asking "I think I might stow this for safety, unless you would like to keep it?" After everything else was secure Suren sat down at the table. "Have either of you yet heard what's the matter?" Jay looked out the window. "I don't know about runnin'. We are in an asteroid field if y'all forgot. So a nice straight line at full speed is gonna smash us right up on one of them rocks. We could try a game of hide and seek, but that would burn fuel like there was no tomorrow. And we still need to make it to Higgin's Moon." He scratched his head, still looking outside the window. "If we could get one of them rocks to hit that ship, though, with a space walk and some charges..." He shook his head and turned to Teela. "If we're to bluff, you best call in the doctor. Otherwise, I got myself a gun to prep." Nelson chuckled, then winced, the aspirin hadn't fully kicked in yet. "Typical Jake, whenever there's a problem the best answer is to face a machine gun in its general direction," He gazed out at the ship again, their were a few cannons but none of them appeared to be on rotating mounts, probably shoddy work so they were fixed facing forward. He stroked his beard thoughtfully. "One of the best things about a firefly is that they are fairly maneuverable, making our way through this field hasn't been a problem so far, plus we've got our ace pilot here. Let me get back to the engines and I could have Harmony flyin' at full burst, no matter what direction we're trying to go. We just need to stay in their blind spot and they can't shoot us, once we're there gettin' away would be cinch." Nelson continued to think, trying to visualize the downfall of his plan. "Plus St. Albans is on the way, we could stop in for fuel but we may not have enough to pay for it. Keep me posted cap'n" Nelson said as he began to walk back towards the door. He paused, "Oh yeah Jake, Bernards are salvage and rescue boats, they're designed to be sent in during a full scale war, their hulls are pretty tough to break". With that he hopped down the stairs making his way to the engine room. As he walked through the dining room he saw the Athena had been joined by Xiao and Suren. He inclined his head towards them. "Ladies," he said, in what he believed was a suave voice. His moment was then ruined as he tripped over one of the chairs at the dining table. "Great now it wasn't just his head that ached" He thought angrily as he picked himself up, rubbing his nose. Takhesis [Welp since it seems my idea has been ignored... Plan B] Atlanta had been curled up on her bunk, with her nose buried in one of her textbooks, when the announcement came through. Closing her book, and placing it under the bed, Atlanta sighed. She'd been on board the Harmony long enough to know the short announcement meant trouble. The question was, what station did passengers report to? It wasn't as if she had a dedicated job section. Making sure her stiletto dagger was strapped to her thigh, Atlanta left her quarters to head for the bridge. Along the way, she encountered the ship's medic, hydroponicist and a fellow passenger in the dining room. She hadn't yet noticed Nelson as picked himself up from his earlier trip over the chair. "Any idea what the situation is?" She asked, tentively - as if nervous to interrupt any ongoing conversation. "Good morning Xiao, it was a night like any other I hope yours was better than mine." Athena replied to the doctor as she watched her sit down, noting the clothing on her back was more of something one would find on a picnic outing rather than a space ship. It suited the doctor well either way, she couldn't imagine her in anything less. "Stow away Suren dear, we wouldn't want it to get bullet holes in it." She said the last part slightly sarcastically but in a light tone, taking another bite of her apple. She was just about to reply to Suren when she couldn't help but smile at Nelson tripping, she thought it was slightly adorable. And in perfect timing Athena decided to kill two questions with one answer, "I have no idea, but it's not good." She said as she threw away her apple and moved to sit on the table next to Xiao, her legs crossed at the ankles, "What do you think Xiao?" She asked her eyes still fixed in the direction of the cockpit. Going over her options again, Teela doubted that Jay's 'contagious outbreak' ruse would work. It was just too conveniently timed; the raiders would never go for it. But perhaps there was some other wisdom in opening communications. "We could negotiate a fee for passage," she said more to herself than anyone in particular. The distaste in her voice was obvious. She hated giving in to bullies. But the fact remained that the Bernard was bigger, better armed and probably had more crew on board. Teela, on the other hand, had passengers to think of. "Bring her around for docking, Jay, lest our new friends tire of waiting. But do it slowly; we don't want to burn out that bad engine." Of course Harmony's engines were both in fine shape, but she suspected the pilot would catch her meaning. That would give Nelson the time he needed to get to the engine room, and her time to decide what to do. "Be ready to play hide 'n seek just in case." She also considered Jake's proposal. An on-board shoot out would put Harmony at risk just as much as the Bernard. Not to mention that IF the raiders' vessel began venting with Harmony still attached, they'd both lose air. Still, it seemed more evenly matched than a space battle, given that the Firefly had no guns mounted. As for the risk of venting air, she supposed that's why the air lock had a 'close' button. "Best dress up your lady and get her ready," she replied to the weapon specialist. "It's not my first choice, but it won't hurt to be prepared." Xiao took two apples from the bowl before Suren set it away. "Thank you, Suren," she said with a polite incline of her head. She considered offering to help secure everything, but suspected that the other woman appreciated people mucking around in her kitchen no more than Xiao did them in the infirmary. When Atlanta came in, the medic set the second apple down before her without missing a beat. It hadn't been hard to predict that the young woman would come to the dining hall. After all, she had no assigned station and the dining hall was the natural place to gravitate to. "Might be a while before breakfast," she offered by way of explanation. She merely nodded to Athena's assessment of her night. Hers had been just like every other night for the last decade and not something she liked to dwell on. She was saved from replying by Nelson, who came in and - literally - fell on his face trying to impress the women. "Good morning, Nelson," she said as he hurried on by to the engine room. She managed to make her voice sound absolutely even despite smiling at his antics; best not to encourage him. Xiao braced herself when Suren, Atlanta and Athena all asked about their situation in rapid succession. With Suren engaged in locking down the kitchen, she supposed it fell to her to provide the passengers with some answers. Lords knew she didn't want to step into that cockpit, but she saw no other option unless she wanted to be a bad host and she was raised better than that. Rising, she brushed down her dress out of habit and quietly slipped into the cockpit. Jay was at the helm, as usual, and the captain was right up by the view port. The focus of their attention was immediately obvious: a large Bernard - with mounted canons no less - hung just off Harmony's starboard. As she took in the scene before her, Xiao could feel her mind kick into drive. It was as if she were standing in front of a three dimensional simulation screen, with both ships and the space around them perfectly clear. She rotated the Bernard, slowly, noting the exact position of the canons - shoddy work and unevenly mounted - the way she hung in the black, how she had approached Harmony and how one side was slightly more dinged than the other. She favours her left, Xiao knew. It wasn't an instinct; it was a perfect calculation based on a thousand small observations. Going from there, she added everything she knew about the Bernard class transporter - hull strength, speed, manoeuvrability - and saw exactly where the ship had been lying in ambush. With that done, she moved both ships forward in time and into battle. There was no need for her to assess Harmony; she'd been on the ship long enough to know exactly what her strengths and weaknesses were. Combat began to unfold before her mind's eye, adjusting for every minute detail the ships gleaned about each other, and ... STOP. As if someone had flipped a switch on a machine, the simulation crashed to a halt. She was a medic now, and she didn't play these games any more. She had enough information to bring to the passengers. Turning, she prepared to exit the cockpit again. She had entered so quietly, and remained by the door, that even the captain's usually sensitive ears hadn't picked up on her. Though, to be fair, both captain and pilot had other things on her mind right now. Xiao already had her hand on the door handle, when she hesitated and turned back. "Try to get on her right," she said softly to Jay, then exited before he could respond. As she sat down at the table again, she looked decidedly paler than before. She made no effort to hide it though, as the others would probably think that news from the cockpit had startled her. And to be fair, it had; just not in the way most would expect. "We're being held at gunpoint," she said without much preamble. "Raiders, most likely. No need to worry too much though. Jay is one of the finest pilots in the 'verse and the captain is -" she hesitated for a moment as the words 'stubborn' and 'reckless' crossed her mind, but then decided on: "- resourceful." "Thanks." Atlanta smiled and took the offered apple from Xiao. Sitting herself down on the same table as the rest, Atlanta considered making a light hearted comment about the choice of fruit, but managed to supress it. After all, she wasn't meant to be that outgoing and social. She also nodded a greeting to Nelson, as he came into her field of view. Truth was, she did miss it. The ability to make jokes and comments without fear of being found out as a fraud. She wasn't able to stop herself from thinking the words: An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Biting into the apple, Atlanta noticed Xiao going up front and returning - rather paler than before. When the update was given however, Atlanta thought she knew why the leeched colour. "Raiders?" Swallowing the apple-bite Atlanta queried, not aware of their detour off the beaten path into the asteroid field. "I thought the trading routes were well patrolled." She didn't particularly like the idea of running to the Alliance for help, but from what little she knew of the ship - it was unarmed, but speedy. Not a good prospect for a firefight. As he heard Teela give the order for him to prep the big gun, a very large grin split his face ear to ear like a child on christmas morning. "Yes ma'am!" Jake responded eagerly, turning to run flat footed out of the cockpit and down the hall to his room. When he arrived, he put his rifle back into his weapons locker with care, before turning to the large worn footlocker at the end of his bunk. He lifted the heavy lid, revealing the large chaingun that lay inside with it's stand and an excessive amount of ammunition. The grin still plastered on his face, Jake lugged the heavy gun onto his shoulders with one arm, and picking up the mount and his tool kit with his free hand. "'Scuse me." He said as he passed by those in the mess hall on his way to the hold. Jay started docking procedures by punching numbers into the navcontrol. He knew very well how to operate the computer console and was almost never wrong when guessing an approach, but somehow he managed to get it wrong. Slowly Harmony drifted off to the right too much. Before she hit the Bernard, though, Jay stopped her and adjusted the approach trajectory, making the docking procedure a lengthy one. He tried to get as much time out of it as he thought he could get away with. The only thing that was good about getting closer to the big ship was that it seemed they were also getting out of the fire arc of the cannons. Although Jay guessed they had some aft cannons as well. Otherwise ships could just slip underneath and make a run for it... He paid close attention to the right side of the Bernard and then checked the left side. He tried to figure out why Xiao had told him to get on the rigth side. He knew he could trust her tips on tactical advantages, they were as reliable as they got. Still he wanted to see for himself, but couldn't figure it out. Edited May 5, 2014 by Biologist Suren wasn't sure what to say in response to the issue of trading routes, but when Jake moved past... she didn't quite smile at the sight of such a large gun, but her expression lightened a little, and she knew what to say in response to Xiao's assessment. "A fine pilot, a resourceful captain - and a man with a very large gun. No need to worry much, indeed," Suren confirmed. "It seems it's the raiders who have something to worry about, and we'll have a nice dinner later to celebrate getting out of our little scrape." Alright, maybe she was bluffing a little. Dealing with space raiders wasn't exactly something she was accustomed to, but she expected it could go badly in a multitude of unpleasant ways. But she knew people could feed off of each other's emotion and felt it best to refrain from contributing any unnecessary negativity - and she hoped her tone had been one of trying to see the best side of things, and not of dismissal of reality or patronization. "Two large guns." Jake corrected as he walked by. "I still have Bertha back in my quarters." When he got down to the loading dock, he set down the gun and began to drill the stand to the floor. When he finished, the weapon master heaved the chain gun on top of its stand, and fitted that into place so it would not budge while firing. When he finished, Jake walked back to his bunk and grabbed boxes of ammunition. Then as he passed through the mess hall (yet again) he stopped to say something. "Hey, if any of you could help me move some crates into a defensive position, that would help a lot."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14079
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__label__cc	0.571661	0.428339	Tag: E3 1972 BMW Bavaria By Carter October 14, 2019 October 14, 2019 BMW I have a soft spot for the Bavaria. It�s not because it�s the best looking BMW from the 1970s, nor the fastest. It�s not the most collectable, either � but as a result, the Bavaria might just be the rarest of the 1970s BMWs. To me, I can appreciate this coming from a background of loving Audis � most of which are quite rare today. The look of the Bavaria is even very similar to the Audi 100, and like the 100 very few examples are left kicking around. Also like the Audi 100, people will always be glad to see it, and I�m sure many have stories involving Bavarias. As with the old Audis, it�ll be a mix of people who smile and immediately start to tell you their wonderful BMW story and the balance of the masses who simply ask �What is that?� But the Bavaria was nonetheless an important move for BMW, taking on the larger executive market with an upscale big-body 4-door and that famous M30 power: CLICK FOR DETAILS: 1972 BMW Bavaria on eBay Tagged 3.0S, Agave Green, Bavaria, BMW, E3, neue klasse 1975 BMW 3.3 Li By Paul September 17, 2016 September 15, 2016 BMW Along with the 2002, the New Six was BMW’s first attempts at branching out to buyers of other luxury vehicle brands, most notably their domestic rival, Mercedes-Benz. Comprised of the E3 sedan and E9 coupe, the New Six was a bit of a different animal than the competition from Stuttgart, aimed more at the driver than those who were seeking a more cosseting driving experience. A number of variants were offered, with the top of the range being the 3.3 Li. This long-wheelbase model packed a 3.3 liter inline-6 packing 190 horsepower and sharp handling that would put BMW on the map for those looking for a more engaging luxury sedan. This 3.3 Li for sale in Freiburg, Germany is one of a handful of these high-end E3s built, with barely 30,000 miles from new. CLICK FOR DETAILS: 1975 BMW 3.3 Li on Mobile.de Tagged 1975, 3.3, BMW, E3, Li By Carter March 27, 2016 March 27, 2016 BMW When considering the large BMWs that preceded the 7-series, most in the U.S. will only remember the Bavaria like the 1974 example Paul wrote up the other day. But before the name Bavaria tipped its hat on these shores, BMW was importing both 2500 and 2800 sedans of the New Six platform. The E3 isn’t usually a fan favorite but it really did pave the way for models like the later 5 and 7-series cars; luxurious, sporting sedans. Largely forgotten and with most rusted to oblivion, today we have a neat 2800 that really ups the sport quotient of the E3: CLICK FOR DETAILS: 1971 BMW 2800 on eBay Tagged 1971, 2800, Alpina, BMW, E3, New Six, restomod 1977 BMW 3.3 LiA By Paul July 15, 2015 July 12, 2015 BMW The BMW E3, or “New Six” was the grandfather to today’s modern 7 series. This was a car that helped BMW emerge from the brink of collapse post World War II and bring it towards the prosperity it experienced in the 1980s. While the stablemate E9 coupe is fairly sought after in today’s market, the E3 has flown a bit under the radar. This 1977 3.3 LiA is a late model build, as 1977 would be the last year for this model. The baton would then be passed to the E23 7 series would then take the top spot in the BMW range. While this is a right-hand drive model, this car was too nice to pass up for a feature, sitting pretty on Alpina rims in a handsome hue of Anthracite metallic. Click for details: 1977 BMW 3.3 LiA on Classic Driver Tagged 1977, 3.3, BMW, E3, LiA I have a soft spot for the Bavaria. It’s not because it’s the best looking BMW from the 1970s, or the fastest. It’s not the most collectable, either – but as a result, the Bavaria might just be the rarest of the 1970s BMWs. To me, I can appreciate this coming from a background of loving Audis – most of which are quite rare today. The look of the Bavaria is even very similar to the Audi 100, and like the 100 very few examples are left kicking around. But the Bavaria was nonetheless an important move for BMW, taking on the larger executive market with an upscale big-body 4-door: Tagged 1972, 3.0, Bavaria, BMW, E3, inline-6, Racing Dynamics Double Take: 1973 and 1974 BMW Bavarias By Paul November 8, 2014 November 8, 2014 BMW, Double Take Following on to the S-Class Double Take we featured earlier today, here’s another pair highlighting that car’s competition: the BMW E3, or New Six. After the success of the smaller New Class, BMW decided to try its hand at luxury vehicles once again. These larger sedans, powered by straight six engines, would be a decided departure from the luxury sedan formula, adding a dash of sport into the equation. Unique to the US market was the Bavaria, priced more in line with the 2500 model but with the larger engine of the 2800. Eventually the engine would increase in size to 3.0 liters in 1972 and the Bavaria would continue on, slotted beneath the 3.0S. To start, we’ll take a look at this restored Bavaria for sale in Pennsylvania. Tagged 1973, 1974, 3.0S, Bavaria, BMW, E3 1972 BMW 2800 Euro-Spec By Carter July 7, 2014 July 7, 2014 BMW Do you need a show car? We often write up very clean, fully restored and consequently very expensive examples of cars that are desirable, but there are many more than exist below pristine level. Generally if we post one of these cars there’s a large amount of feedback pointing out the flaws. Yesterday, a few of the GCFSB authors went to a local open house in our old – and flawed – cars. None of them are perfect; all have plenty of character from being driven over the years. They have stories about how they got various battle scars, strange modifications and unorthodox thinking to get around a problem or previous owner’s work. Despite this, driver quality cars have a charm that makes them desirable in their own right. Do I love perfect examples of older cars? Yes, absolutely – they’re awesome to see. But so are well presented drivers: Tagged 1972, 2800, Agave Green, Alpina, Bavaria, BMW, E3, euro, Patina, Turbine Portuguese Preservation: Two owner 1974 BMW 3.0Si By Paul November 9, 2013 November 8, 2013 BMW After a run of bubble cars and compact, rear engine sedans in the 1960s, BMW decided to return to the large car segment with the “New Six” in 1968, which helped establish the company’s reputation for combining luxury with sport into one neat package. Over 200,000 of these sedans were made over a ten year span, taking BMW to the zenith of the 1970s in better financial shape than it had began. Today, these models serve as a touchstone for classic BMW design features evolved and they prove to be rather more affordable than you would at first assume. This beautiful 3.0Si is for sale in São João da Madeira, Portugal, southwest of the country’s second largest city, Porto. It is also a mere stone’s throw from where my family roots lie along the northern coast. Model: 3.0Si Mileage: 102,000 km (~ 63,379 mi) Price: €18,750 (~ $25,040 USD) CLICK FOR DETAILS: 1974 BMW 3.0Si on eBay Ultra original car. Always assisted in BMW main dealer. Always a Portuguese Car. 102,000 Kms. Two owners from new. Last Owner since 1981. Only repainted one time in the late ’80s. Never restored. Perfect Condition. Unrepeatable opportunity to buy a super original car in perfect condition and never restored. Only for who wants perfect originality. Originality certified by The Portuguese Classic Car Club (F.I.V.A. Member) I’ve seen a lot of 3.0CS coupes in this shade of blue, but the sedan really looks stunning in this color with the blue velour upholstery. Couple that with the fact that this car has been owned by the same person for the last 32 years and you have quite the piece. It’s rare to come across a car of this caliber, let alone in Portugal, which reminds you that you never know where serious collectables are hiding. A 3.0Si like this one in good or restored condition should hover around the $15,000 mark and maybe edge $20,000 if it’s an exceptional example. At over $25,000 USD, this one may be priced a bit optimistic. However, you would be hard pressed to find one that is so original. Tagged 1974, 3.0 Si, BMW, E3, New Six Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ 1974 BMW 3.0S This November will mark 50 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. With this tragic event came the end of “Camelot” and the innocence carried over the postwar America in the 1950s. A turbulent decade would parallel the life of former First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy. In the wake of the June 1968 assassination of her brother-in-law Robert Kennedy, she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and moved herself and her children to Greece. Upon Onassis’ death, she would return to the US, settle in New York City and reinvent herself once again, taking up a career in publishing. While residing in New York, she purchased a rather unusual car for the times, a 1974 BMW 3.0S Automatic. Unlike Mercedes-Benz, BMW was a relatively obscure brand. The 2002 had brought the company much needed success in the US market, but those shopping for larger sedans didn’t exactly have the car with the Roundel badge on their mind. Then again, Mrs. Onassis wasn’t your average consumer. She owned this car for almost 20 years, selling it to her neighbor two years before she passed away. Now her beloved BMW is up for sale once again and is sure to attract both Bimmerphiles and those wanting a piece of American history. Model: 3.0S Price: $64,995 (on seller’s website) CLICK FOR DETAILS: 1974 BMW 3.0S Owned By Jackie O. on eBay This 1974 BMW was purchased for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and she personally owned and drove it. Also includes 4 copyrighted pictures of her driving it and her original title with her signature on it. The car is a green BMW Barvaria 3.0S 4 Door Sedan equipped with automatic transmission, which Jackie Onassis drove for 18 years from August 20, 1974 date when she purchased the car from Martin Motors BMW on the upper east Side in New York until 1992 when she sold the car to her neighbor in Peapack. Mrs. Onassis bought her BMW new, while married to Onassis who purchased a country estate for them in the horse country of Peapack-Gladstone New Jersey. It was in this automobile that she would drive her children each weekend to Peapack to go riding and fox hunting or the Essex Hunt Club. During the week the car was garaged in a parking lot on 86th Street, but she occasionally used it to fulfill editorial commitments at Doubleday. As noted by her son his mother has a “Love of Words, the bonds of home and family and her spirit of adventure” the BMW was her principal means of travel to all three. “It was her only and favorite drive” says her Peapack neighbor. “when she finally decided to part with it I purchased it and put it in storage with my collection.” As I was doing research on selling this car I came across a well written a fairly amusing article by Kelly Holsten, whom gave me permission to use some of his words here. Also I would like to include the link to his original article if you wish to read. (I’m sorry the over reaching, totally controlling, ebay corporation will not let me put in the link. So email me and I will get you the link.) You may have to copy and paste if it does not come up as a link. Thanks Kelly Holsten. The car has been a historical joy to have in our shop, it has started many conversation on a wonderful lady whom many of us wish we would have had the opportunity to meet. You may not have ever had the chance to meet her but here is your chance to sit where she sat and hold that steering wheel just as she did and look out the same windshield she did. When I sit in the car for a few minuets a very intriguing feeling overwhelms me. Just to know that I and Jackie have been in the exact same place. So if you would ever want to have a true piece of history, here is your chance. Passing Lane Motors LLC has been put in charge of marketing Jackie O’s car for a private collector who has had this car in his collection for many years and do to health reason must let go. The BMW comes with 4 copyrighted pictures of Jackie driving the car, I would love to include them but the photographer would not give use permission to use in the ad, and must be seen in person I cannot copy or send in emails of them, so please don’t ask. Also included is the original title with Jackie O’s signature on it. Now a little about the car. The car starts easily and had been driven around our shop, we of course will not take the vehicle out on the streets do to the fact that it could not be replace. We have been ask by many a TV station and reality show to bring it to them, I just can’t take the chance of losing such a piece of history. So I cannot state how the vehicle handles on the highway. The transmission shifts smoothly but I have not had the car over 50 MPH, it also has a slight leak, so we keep a floor pad under the vehicle. The power steering unit appears to be functioning properly. We have information stating that the engine was rebuilt at 40K but have no documentation to verify. Interior….. The interior appears to be all original, the interior for the most part is all in tact. The drivers seat shows wear and some tears in the leather. It is in unrestored condition would be up to the next owner to decide if they wanted to change it or leave the seats that Jackie personally sat in. All gauges appear to be working properly, the Air should work with a fresh charge of freon, but not guaranteed. The car has been stated to have been repainted in it’s original color, the paint still has a high degree of gloss on all panels. The paint is showing its age as is the underside of the vehicle. But let’s face it, this car is being purchased for it true historical value. To have a very nice vehicle this car would need new paint and interior, I’m not sure but leaving the way Jackie had it seems like the way it should stay, but if you are the next owner that would be up to you. In closing….. Here is a opportunity for some one to own a real piece of history, to have and hold a one of a kind vehicle. If you want a vintage BMW to cruise in this would not be the one for you. If you wanted a real piece of American history, a truly one of a kind collectors piece, please call us with any questions. Passing Lane Motors LLC Fenton Mo. This same BMW was auctioned on eBay back in 2000 and sold for $57,100. The seller has the car listed on their site at $64,995. It’s unclear whether the reserve is set below that figure. It’s never easy putting a value on celebrity cars, as pricing them can be rather subjective. If it’s the right car owned by a celebrity recognized as a car enthusiast, like Steve McQueen’s Ferrari 250GT Lusso that sold not too long ago, you know the price will be through the roof. Ordinary cars, even if it is Jackie O’s BMW, well, that’s another story. That’s especially true when it’s a BMW sedan from the 1970s with an automatic gearbox. If this were a 4-speed manual 3.0 CS coupe, maybe we’d raise a few eyebrows. Given what the car sold for back in 2000, I’m sure the seller is not going to let this car go cheap. But if I was bidding on it, I’d maybe stretch to the $35,000 mark. Then again, to a fan of the Kennedy family, it could be worth much more. Given the length of time Mrs. Onassis owned this car, it was surely an item she held in high esteem. To most BMW aficionados, however, it’s just another 3.0S. Tagged 1974, 3.0S, BMW, celebrity, E3, Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis, New Six By Paul April 25, 2013 April 24, 2013 BMW The BMW E3, or New Six, as it was known, was a step in the right direction for BMW in the late 1960s. This, along with the 2002 “New Class” helped better define the vehicle lineup and began to cement the company’s position as a manufacturer of sporty, efficient sedans. Unlike its predecessor we featured earlier in the week, the 3200CS, the New Six had a more advanced overhead cam engine and unit body construction. It was famous vehicle importer Max Hoffman that goaded BMW into making a special model for the US market, called the Bavaria. This car had less luxury features that the 2800 model featured, but did feature the larger, 2.8 liter inline six. The Bavaria gained a bit of notoriety over the years, as former First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis was known for piloting her Bavaria around Manhattan in the years following her marriage to Aristotle Onassis and subsequent relocation to New York. This Bavaria for sale in California, while not the most mint example out there, is a great example of a practical classic that you could not only use, but keep up with modern day traffic. Model: Bavaria Engine: 2.8 liter inline six Price: No reserve auction 1972 BMW Bavaria on eBay This is a super nice 1972 BMW Bavaria that has been owned and restored by a true BMW enthusiast. It has the great color combination of alpine white with blue vinyl interior. The vinyl is the original herringbone and the carpets are the original wool and I’ve added new custom floor mats. The paint and chrome are in really good condition and the car is 99% rust free. Over $8,000 in recent receipts that include a rebuilt 3.5 liter big six motor, new triple side draft Weber carburetors, a Gertrag 5 speed transmission, Stahl header and all new suspension. Suspension components include new Bilstein sport shocks, Ireland Engineering lowering springs, new urethane bushings, larger sway bars and control arms. The wheels are vintage staggered Alpinas that include the rare matching center caps and performance tires. I’ve added a vintage style digital stereo with new speakers and an Ipod hookup in the glove box as well. This car was built to run and is very fast, sounds amazing and handles extremely well. Although it might not be concours condition, this Bavaria is one of the best in the country and it is sure to turn heads at any BMW event. I have the car for sale locally and I reserve the right to remove the listing if I accept a local offer. The aftermarket Alpina wheels don’t do a lot for this car, in my opinion. Hopefully the seller has the original wheels, or ones that are sized more appropriately for this car. While receipts for recent upgrades and work are available, it would be nice to know a little more about the history of this car, along with the mileage figure that is on this particular chassis. Naturally, E3 sedans don’t bring as much as their two-door counterparts, and at $13,000, we’re probably a bit overpriced. Given the state of this car and the information provided, I’d say we’re probably somewhere around the $8,000 to $10,000 mark. Tagged 1972, 2.8, 2800, Bavaria, BMW, E3, New Class	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14086
__label__cc	0.577265	0.422735	Adventures in Chow City. Fried Neck Bones…and some home fries Archive \| New York City RSS feed for this section Winter Warmth Found at Two Steam Tables Dera, on Lexington Avenue in the neighborhood with the fragrant acronym, Curry Hill claimed the gamut of South Asian cuisines including Bengali, Indian, Pakistani, and Nepali . Was the goat combo different in Nepal than Pakistan? As long is it comes with nan bread, basmati rice, and of course a Coke, that’s a combo that would be hard to beat in any country. Beans Punjab-style For those, and I’m really just talking about Eugene here, who are squeamish about goat or lamb after hearing Agent Starling’s heartfelt confession to Hannibal Lecter, and those slaughtered lambs in Silence of the Lambs, there were plenty of chicken curry options. Kidney and fava beans yes: Goat no. Gerry, on the other hand, welcomed the idea of goat. And the gamier the better. Zio would eat goat, kidney, fava beans and duck’s feet if he could. But at Dera he even stooped low enough to try what looked like a cross between Gefilte fish and a very pale matzoh ball. This particular sweet was soaked in milk and from what I could tell tastes best when served with a plastic spoon. Our next steam table was on Roosevelt Avenue under the number 7 train in the familiar terrain of Jackson Heights. This one offered meats and more; a modified and more than moderately priced churrascaria. Chosen by Gerry, I quipped to him after he emailed our destination as Aroma Brazil that I could smell the barbecued meats all the way in Harlem. No one even chuckled and how could I blame them. It was too cold to smell anything when we convened inside the small restaurant under the tracks. We warmed up quickly by piling meats, hanger steak, short ribs, roast beef, and sirloin onto our plates. I was careful and actually took two plates, one for the salad bar that included varieties of rice, greens, eggplant, plantains, beans and more and had them weighed separately. At Aroma Brazil you pay by the pound. I was carrying a heavy load and I paid for it in more ways than one. Brazilian steam table offerings Gerry as he usually does, despite whatever ails him, eats more than all of us. After plowing through his sizable mound of meats and vegetables, he pondered out loud that he might get more. I offered him a portion of my dinosaur-sized short rib. He took it without hesitation. Rice made with shrimp heads After Gerry made quick work of the rib and all our plates, with the exception of, who else but Mike from Yonkers, who was slowly gnawing meat off his own short rib, were cleaned, we pondered dessert. Gerry didn’t have to ponder for long; he settled on a tres leche cake while Zio ordered a slice of cassava cake that was as memorable as the shrimp head rice. Though we offered him tastes, Eugene just watched us fill up on sweets. He had his annual Punta Cana retreat upcoming and couldn’t risk adding any flab to his normally concave belly. It wasn’t as cold when we exited Aroma Brazil as when we entered. But it was cold enough to want to return to that warm Brazilian steam table well before we would be complaining about the heat. Curry Hill (Manhattan) Aroma Brazil 75-13 Roosevelt Ave Tags: Brazilian food, Cheap Eats, Food, humor, Indian, New York City, Queens, restaurants Categories Adventures in Chow City, Bengali, Brazilian, Cheap Eats, Cheap Eats in New York City, Food, humor, New York City, Pakistani, Restaurants Conquering the Fear of Fusion in Flushing I admit I have a fear of food fusion. I see that word in a restaurant’s sub-name and I immediately throw up my own red flags; the food won’t be authentic; it will be a watered down version of what it should be, the restaurant wants to have it both ways, and on and on. There are exceptions however and when Zio chose Pho Mekong, a restaurant in Flushing that boasted both Thai and Vietnamese food, I really wasn’t concerned. The distinction between the food of Thailand and that of Vietnam to many westerners, myself included, is a small one; most don’t even know the difference. The restaurant was located in the back of strip mall surrounded by a Korean market and a Korean family barbecue restaurant where you ordered your raw meat by the bulk to cook on the table top grills. “Maybe we should just go here,” Zio said as he gazed at the Korean signage of the barbecue restaurant. “It’s much more exciting than Vietnamese or Thai.” Zio was getting cold feet about his choice. Maybe he also had that inner fear of fusion. I told him that it’s always best to trust your initial instincts. He did and as we assembled after our Thai/Vietnamese dinner, again gazing at the Korean Family Barbecue restaurant, Zio’s instincts proved right. Despite the fusion of the two cuisines, the dinner was a success. The soup of the house, of course, was Pho and we noticed many local diners in the restaurant were happily slurping from the gallon-sized bowls of soup layered with brisket or thin slices of round steak, cooked in the hot broth. None of us, however, chose to order what was the specialty, at least in the restaurant’s name, of the house. Fish ball soup Gerry who was a little under the weather with a stomach ailment braved the trip to Flushing and, displaying even more bravado, ordered fish ball soup and an appetizer of oysters smothered in a rich, dark oyster sauce. Stomach ailment be damned. Oysters for whatever ails ya Tom kha gai, the traditional Thai chicken soup Eugene ordered presented a dilemma. Eugene often crows about his affection for coconut, milk or anything else about it. And tom kha gai is made with a coconut milk base. But it also includes an abundance of mushrooms and there was the dilemma. Eugene, as far as I know has no fear of fusion, but he does have a mushroom phobia. And there they were littered within the silky coconut milk broth. Undeterred, he fished each mushroom out and then proceeded to slurp down what was left of the soup. Squid with Thai chilies Zio’s dilemma was not quite as serious. He had stated from the get go that he was going to order the beef curry stew, but at the last minute, the waiter poised with pen in hand to take his order, Zio switched to squid with Thai chili sauce. Why, we wondered? “If I ordered the beef curry stew it would put us over our budget,” he said. “The squid is cheaper.” No one was counting pennies and if we were that would have left Mike from Yonkers unfazed considering he ordered a whole salmon that, fried and covered in the same chili sauce that was on Zio’s squid, was enough to feed his own enormous appetite and maybe also that of a very small child. Shrimp lemongrass soup with plenty of mushrooms I also ordered soup; the shrimp lemongrass variety and happily ingested all the mushrooms I found within. To complement the soup, I had a vermicelli salad topped with grilled pork. I wasn’t sure if the salad was Vietnamese or Thai, or some fusion concoction of the two, and, frankly, I didn’t give a damn. Vermicelli salad with grilled pork Pho Mekong 15632 Northern Boulevard Flushing, Queens Tags: Cheap Eats, Food, humor, New York City, Queens, Thai, Vietnamese Categories Adventures in Chow City, Cheap Eats, Cheap Eats in New York City, Food, New York City, Queens, Thai, Vietnamese The Great Chinatown Conflict 2017: Resolved with Rye and Lo Mein Gerry was concerned. We had scheduled our monthly food group well in advance. But now there was a sudden conflict. The Yankee fans among us, Zio, Gerry, and me were in a quandary. The fifth game of the knotted American League Championship Series was to be played at 5. We were to meet in Chinatown at a place chosen by me called Noodle Village at 7:30. “Time to reschedule,” Gerry wrote in an urgent email once the Yankee schedule was confirmed. “We got an important game tomorrow.” He pleaded to reschedule either the next day when there was no game or the following week, but with each suggestion, someone had to drop out. “Why don’t we meet at a bar in Chinatown, watch the game, see where we are by 7:30 and if the game is still in doubt, stay at the bar and go eat after the game,” I suggested. Gerry, Mike from Yonkers and Zio liked the idea. Eugene, however, possibly still stewing from the early exit his Red Sox made was not happy. “I will not be going,” he wrote the next day. “I do not want to deal with the nyc traffic and Yankee traffic…” All of us tried to convince him he could make it to the restaurant in plenty of time or meet us at the bar whether he drove or took the train, but once Eugene makes up his mind about something, there’s not much even the prospect of a village of Chinese noodles can do to change it. The bar, Whiskey Tavern, was a few blocks from Noodle Village, which, on Mott Street, was a few doors from the Chinatown legend of our collective youths: Wo Hop (Obsession Confession). While Gerry and Mike from Yonkers sipped Redemption Rye, I settled on cold beer as my viewing beverage of choice. The Yankees’ play made it a happy time at the happiest of hours and by 7:30 we were confident enough with the Yankee’s comfortably leading to exit the bar and head to Noodle Village. Happiness is fleeting Passing a line of hungry people waiting up the steps of Wo Hop, we arrived at the equally crowded, Noodle Village. There were no free tables for our group of four and for the first time in our 16 years, we had to wait to eat. But the wait was a short one and it gave us time to follow the remainder of the Yankee game on our cell phones. By the time Mike from Yonkers was served his chicken congee, the Yankees had won, 5-0. Chicken congee I cannot lie that the flavor of the steamed crab meat soup dumplings and fried pork and chive dumplings were possibly enhanced by our baseball joy; they were as good as I have ever eaten. But it wasn’t just me, Gerry was raving over the squid and pig skin with curry sauce lo mein. Squid and pig skin lo mein with curry sauce Zio had to repeat his order of pork liver and kidney lo mein to the waitress who had a difficult time comprehending that someone of his chalky hue would actually order such a dish. After a few bites from his chopsticks, a strange sound came from his mouth. “Hmmm it has an earthy flavor,” he said. Whether he was referring to the kidney or the pork liver, we did not know. Kidney and pork liver lo mein I kept it simple with a bowl of shrimp wonton soup and a communal plate of Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce and, like everything else at Noodle Village, enjoyed every slurping spoonful. Outside, on Mott Street among the familiar black garbage cans that litter the crowded curbside, Zio gave Noodle Village the ultimate compliment. “I’m coming back here,” he said. “And I think I’ll bring the Colonel.” If Zio contemplates bringing his wife, also known as the Colonel, to one of our eclectic destinations, it can’t get much better than that. Crab meat soup dumplings Noodle Village 13 Mott Street Tags: Bars, Baseball, Cheap Eats, Chinatown, Chinese Food, Food, humor, New York City Categories Adventures in Chow City, Bars, Cheap Eats, Chinatown, Chinese, Food, New York City, Restaurants In the Heights (Hamilton’s) Eating Ecuadorian Food “This is the second Ecuadorian restaurant we’ve been to,” Eugene announced to all of us as we sat together in Ecuatoriana, the restaurant chosen by Eugene for our most recent eating adventure. “What was the first,” I said, testing him. “Braulio’s and Family,” Eugene responded correctly. I had to give Eugene credit; he did his research (Extending Familia). Ecuatoriana was on Amsterdam Avenue located a block from a Jamaican restaurant we dined at back in the early days of our food group, meaning the first years of the new century (Cool Jerk). Back then we were in Harlem but now we were in the “The Heights;” Hamilton Heights to be exact, named as such because of its proximity to the former home of founding father Alexander Hamilton. To be fair, the neighborhood’s moniker was created before Alexander Hamilton achieved excessive notoriety from the monster success of the Broadway show, Hamilton. To make things even more confusing, the creator of Hamilton, Lin Manuel Miranda, also had a Broadway hit called In the Heights, about a neighborhood a little further north named after another founding father, George Washington. None of this has anything to do with Ecuadorian food so ignore it if you wish. We were all examining the menus; reacquainting ourselves with the staples of Ecuadorian food; ceviche, steaks, pork chops, hominy, rice, and plantains when Zio boasted to all that he finally got hearing aids. The problem was, none of us could hear his proclamation because Eugene was bellowing about Houston Rocket, James Harden’s new contract. “$572 thousand per game,” Eugene wailed. “Can you believe that? I’d have to work four years to make that much.” I looked at Eugene. “Hey, you ain’t doing so bad,” I said, hoping to encourage him to glance at the menu instead of continuing to torment us by whining about James Harden’s riches. The presence of a waitress helped spur our ordering and Gerry wasted no time in choosing a mixed seafood ceviche for the group; this one including the exotic “black clams.” “They’re not clams,” Gerry said, as if he were an expert on Ecuadorian shellfish. “They are really mussels.” “Why call them clams then?” Gerry had no answer and I wasn’t sure he was right. But we did both agree on the same dish for our entree; the chaulafan, a fried rice-type of entrée with a mix of meats; sausage and beef, potatoes, plantains, and a scrambled egg all part of the dish. Thankfully the heaviness of the chaulafan was offset by the delicate ceviche, which indeed contained clams, not mussels, in a dark, cool broth. The ceviche was so inviting, Mike from Yonkers was hovering above Gerry hoping to get his spoon in the bowl before those black clams disappeared. There are black clams in there somewhere. A whole red snapper was placed in front of Zio. It was a challenge, but at least he didn’t have to hear anyone or even talk to us as he went to work on it, slowly separating flesh from bone until all that was left was a cleanly picked carcass. A snapper for Zio After the ceviche, Mike from Yonkers still had plenty of room for the fried pork ribs. The addition of white hominy along with mashed potatoes was just to ensure his starch intake was sufficient. Eugene’s pedestrian order of grilled shrimp arrived last, but amazingly he was the first to finish. Fried ribs with hominy On this warm summer night, the streets of Hamilton Heights were brimming with activity and Eugene was impressed not only by his choice of restaurant, but also by the neighborhood. “We should come here more often,” Eugene said. I wasn’t sure if that was invitation, a plea for more human companionship, or just Eugene making inane conversation. With Eugene, did it really matter? Chaulafan Ecuatoriana Hamilton Heights (Harlem) Tags: Cheap Eats, Food, Harlem, humor, Latin food, New York City, restaurants Categories Adventures in Chow City, Cheap Eats, Cheap Eats in New York City, Ecuadorian, Food, Harlem, New York City, Restaurants A Pilgrimage to Queens to Pay Homage to a Falafel King “There ought to be a rule that you can’t pick a place in your neighborhood,” Eugene proclaimed as we sat down inside King of Falafel and Shawarma on Broadway in Astoria. Eugene always wants to amend the bylaws of our food group. The problem is, we really don’t have any by laws. Still, it was a little convenient or maybe lazy even, for Zio to choose a place just a few blocks from his love nest. And coming on the heels of another Middle Eastern restaurant we just visited a month earlier; the Egyptian Tut’s Hub, made it even more puzzling. But we don’t want to get into Zio’s creative yet sometimes garbled brain here. This is about the food and the self proclaimed King of Falafel—whose humble beginnings as a food cart operator sparked his road to royalty. His falafel became so popular he moved up from a cart to a food truck where the lines in Astoria to sample his falafel circled the block. It’s always good to be the king and it was so good for the King of Falafel that in 2016 he moved into a full-fledged take out restaurant, where we were currently assembled. The King’s falafel with humus and baba “ganooj” in the background Since the falafel is legend here, our group easily decided the best way to sample that and other of the King’s specialties was to order the Mazamez or the King appetizer, a family style sampling of hummus, baba “ganooj,” grape leaves, tabbouleh, spinach pie and, of course, falafel. Instead of the round golf ball-sized falafels I’m familiar with, the King makes his oblong, fried to a dark golden brown and devoid of any grease. I admit to not being a falafel snob, but in my amateurish opinion, the King’s version tasted damn good. Using the provided pita bread, we easily devoured the platter but then Gerry, whose appetite knows no limit, ordered another starter called Foul, pronounced, I believe as Fool. The Foul was a well spiced stew of fava beans in a hearty sauce that, combined with the other appetizers we just downed, was more than sufficient to appease our enormous appetites. But why stop at the appetizers when there was the shawarma to sample? A sample of shawarma is one thing, but the weighty mound of chicken and shawarma coated in a very spicy chili tomato sauce layered on top of a king-sized bed of basmati rice, known as the “Omar,” that I ordered was a sample fit for a very large king, falafel, shawarma or whatever. This was a food challenge I knew I would not win. The “Omar” comin’ Gerry, however, was up for any challenge and, unfazed by the starters, ordered the most expensive and largest item on the menu: the “Teaser.” This teaser was a gargantuan platter of meats; chicken, shawarma, and kebabs over basmati rice, complimented by two more of the King’s famous falafels. Gerry worked through the meats meticulously and before Mike from Yonkers could even get halfway through his falafel platter, Gerry was done. The “Teaser” Keeping his mouth shut from the spanking his Red Sox were getting from the Yankees, Eugene sullenly feasted on what was called the “Big Dady,” described as a “delightful mix of chicken and beef kabob over rice.” Whatever it was, Eugene showed no delight in his meal—but with Eugene that did not mean that he didn’t thoroughly enjoy it. You just had to ask him. The Big “Dady” for the Big Papi fan. After the long two block journey from his love to the King of Falafel, Zio’s appetite was not as it could be. Still, he had no difficulties finishing his beef kebab platter. And we expected no less. Beef kebabs on Basmati rice Trying to hide my embarrassment, I signaled for a takeout container; a first for me in the 15 years our group had been stuffing their faces at various restaurants in New York’s boroughs and suburbs. Piling the Omar into the container and securing the lid tightly, I departed the King of Falafel and Shawarma with enough in my bag for a happy Middle Eastern reprise. But only after I digested the one I just finished, which most likely meant in maybe 48 hours. King of Falafel & Shawarma Tags: Cheap Eats, Food, humor, Middle Eastern, Queens, restaurants Categories Adventures in Chow City, Cheap Eats, Cheap Eats in New York City, Food, humor, Middle Eastern, New York City, Queens, Restaurants The Fateer Feast on Steinway Street “Is pigeon on the menu,” I asked Gerry after he announced his choice; an Egyptian restaurant on Steinway Street in Astoria named Tut’s Hub. “No pigeon,” he answered and all of us in our quirky food group breathed a collective sigh of relief. Pigeon was on the menu of our last foray, several years ago, to Steinway Street and another Egyptian restaurant (A Night on Steinway Street) . That one didn’t end well and maybe it was because of that greasy pigeon that we never returned to Steinway Street, but by now our informal statute of limitations had long expired and Gerry felt it was time we gave Steinway street another chance. There was a sheet of water rushing down the glass façade of Tut’s Hub. The waterfall was part of the theme-park like restaurant where the five of us dined surrounded by statues of Egyptian gods and goddesses as if entombed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s, Temple of Dender. I was hoping for Im Ho Tep to show us to our table but instead we were greeted by a boisterous woman in jeans and a baseball cap. You can’t have everything. No mummies at Tut’s Hub While archaeologists were busy in the back restoring the hieroglyphics on the inner walls of the restaurant, we sat close to the waterfall and perused the menu. Despite the kitschy surroundings, the food offerings looked authentically Egyptian. I didn’t bother to make a suggestion instead leaving the ordering to Gerry, with Mike from Yonkers in consultation. The Gold Chair was off limits. We started off with Kushari, a mix of elbow macaroni, lentils, fried onions, and a tomato-vinegar sauce that prompted Zio to mutter: “What is this? noodle roni?”And as it turned out, the Kushari, though it arrived first, was least of all the dishes we were to sample in Tut’s temple that night. Kushari a.k.a. “noodle roni.” Next came baba ghanoush with a basket of warm pita which we made quick work of along with two bowls of mulukyiah, a pureed soup of greens in a salty chicken broth that also went well with the pita bread. Soon, though, Eugene and I gave up on the pita and used our spoons to slurp the soup. “And now we get deep dish pizza,” Zio remarked when the pastrami fateer, a pie stuffed with Tut’s Hub’s homemade Egyptian pastrami and veggies arrived on our table. Zio wasn’t the only pizza snob at the table; none of us had any use for what might be found in a Pizza Hut in Indianapolis, but the Pastrami fateer was unlike any deep dish pizza we had ever had. It was so good Zio could be heard making strange noises of satisfaction as he feasted on the pie. Pastrami fateer Tut’s mixed grill, chicken, lamb, sausage, and beef kabobs served on rice pilaf, and another fateer, this called Hawawshi containing spiced beef and pickled turnips that gave it an unusual and somewhat bitter taste, rounded out our “family-style” entrees. Spoiled by the magnificent pastrami fateer, the Hawawshi, with the inclusion of those slightly bitter turnips, was an acquired taste—one that we soon acquired with Mike from Yonkers making sure to snag the last slice. Hawawshi fateer Though by now, more than well fed, we decided to let the fateer feast continue ordering a “mixed nuts” variety for dessert. With Mike from Yonkers and his enormous appetite gone, there was more of the sweet pie, dusted with confectioner’s sugar and sprinkled with pistachios, raisins and coconut flakes, for the rest of us—as if we needed it. And, after consuming every last bit of crust and pistachios, apparently we did. And more fateer…the mixed nut variety Tut’s Hub 30-91 Steinway St. Tags: Cheap Eats, Egyptian, Food, humor, Middle Eastern, New York City, Queens, restaurants Categories Adventures in Chow City, Cheap Eats, Cheap Eats in New York City, Egyptian, Food, Middle Eastern, New York City, Queens, Restaurants Guyanese-Style Gizzards Found in the Bronx Like a laser directed drone strike, Gerry’s eyes found their target on the menu of the Coconut Palm Bar & Grill under “chicken gizzards.” There was no talking him down. No dissuading him from taking the risk. It was gizzards he wanted. It was gizzards he was most definitely going to get. “Jerk chicken wings?” I offered. “Sure,” Gerry said. “What about the chicken dumplings?” I asked, hoping another appetizer would deter him from the gizzards. “She said they were one of the most popular items on the menu.” The she, being the illustrated woman of a waitress we had—her arms decorated in multi-colored tattoos. “Sounds good,” Gerry said. “So we’re set?” “Mmmhmmm as long as we get the gizzards.” So the gizzards were ordered…along with chicken dumplings and jerk chicken wings. And while Mike from Yonkers and Gerry sipped 12 year old, Macallan Scotch, certainly a first for our frugal food group, and with soca coming from the sound system and a cricket match on the television, we scoured the menu for our entrees. We were in the Bronx, under the 6 train tracks in the Castle Hill section of the borough at what was advertised as a Guyanese & West Indian restaurant. Near the bar, I noticed that the Coconut Palm offered “Pepper Pot,” a piquant Guyanese stew of meat parts cooked slowly in a syrup made from cassava called “cassareep.” I’ve had the Grenadian version in Grenada but never had a pepper pot in the Bronx. I was excited by the prospect. “I’ll have to ask him when he gets back,” the waitress told me when I asked if there really was pepper pot available. Who she had to ask was the owner of the Coconut Palm and I waited a long time for “him” to come back to learn that, no, there was no pepper pot. But there was “cook up rice,” a mix of rice, beans, chicken pieces; the Guyanese/Caribbean version of fried rice which I promptly ordered. Cook up rice The gizzards arrived on our table, cooked crispy and coated in the light curry spice known as bunjal. Gerry wasted no time getting to them and Zio, also a renowned gizzard man, wasn’t far behind. The jerk chicken wings were tender and, as I expected, not quite as spicy as the authentic Jamaican jerk found on that island. Rounding out the trio of appetizers, the chicken dumplings were more reminiscent of fried wontons than anything Caribbean and were served with a sweet soy sauce. The gizzards Displaying the East Indian influence on Guyanese food, the entrees of salt fish and stewed red snapper, ordered by Gerry and Eugene respectively, came with dhal, a soupy lentil condiment. Zio’s jerk chicken was the extended version of the chicken wings we already experienced, but his came with rice. “Rice a Roni,” Zio muttered as the bright orange rice with peas was placed in front of him. Mike from Yonkers was complaining as well. “There are too many bones,” he kept telling us as he gnawed through the “bunjal duck” he ordered, that was prepared in the same lighter version of a curry that the gizzards were. I had no complaints about my cook up rice; it was what I expected and Mike from Yonkers’ loss was my gain as there were many tiny pieced of duck for me to pick through long after he had given up. Stewed snapper Twelve year old Scotch aside, the Coconut Palm Bar and Grill easily fit into our meager budget and though there were gizzards, orange-colored rice, and numerous tiny duck bones to work around, the food just always seems better when eaten under the elevated subway tracks. Coconut Palm Bar & Grll 2407 Westchester Ave Tags: Bronx, Caribbean, Cheap Eats, Food, Guyanese, humor, New York City, restaurants Categories Adventures in Chow City, Bronx, Caribbean, Cheap Eats, Cheap Eats in New York City, Food, New York City The Case for Polish Vodka Who do those Russians think they are meddling in our affairs? They fixed the election for their comrade Trump and now they are trying to disrupt all of Europe with their hacking and spying. Enough is enough, I say. No more borscht. No more blinis. No more Baltika beer. And most importantly, no more Russian vodka. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made for the sake of patriotism. I plan on doing my part by boycotting one of my favorite beverages. That means no Caucasians(white Russians), no martini’s with Stoli, and worst of all, no shots of lemon infused Russian vodka at the incomparable Russian Samovar. But I can only sacrifice so much, so instead of the Russian stuff, there is always our friends’ from Poland. They wouldn’t dare try to influence our elections. They have no aims to dominate the world. And they love America. In return, we love them. And now I plan to love their vodka. I’m not sure Gerry shared my reasoning. Though he might not have been as passionate about my anti-Russian fervor, the prospect of a meal cooked by Polish grandmothers in the old-school cafeteria called Pyza, located a block from the liquor store on Nassau Avenue in gentrifying Greenpoint Brooklyn, was incentive enough for him to make the trip from Westchester. And he wasn’t complaining when he also agreed to accompany me to the Greenpoint Wine and Liquor store on Nassau Avenue where there was the opportunity to purchase budget priced but underrated Polish vodka. The store had a huge selection of vodkas including many Russians. There was Stoli. There was Imperia. There was Russian Standard and there were other, pricey Russian vodkas. There was no Putinka, however, the vodka named after the man behind the current mess we are in. Before we knew he was influencing our elections, I once bought a bottle of Putinka vodka and wrote about it in these pages where I discussed the bizarre commingling of what was known as the a “vodka pizza” (On Pizza, Pomodoros, Putin, and Putinka). Now, if I ever dare to order a slice of vodka pizza I’ll need to ask the pizza maker if Russian vodka was used in preparation. If so, it’s a no go. Soft vodka named after a hard man At the liquor store I now defiantly bypassed the Russian stuff and grabbed a bottle of Wyobrowa and another of Stravinsky while Gerry nabbed a Lukosowa. The menu at Pyza With our vodka stash in hand, we headed down the block to Pyza. The inexpensive meals were posted on the restaurant’s menu on the wall near the cashier. Both of us decided that the Polish plate, a combination of goodies such as pierogies, kielbasa, sauerkraut, stuffed cabbage, and potato pancakes, would give us a representative sampling of what grandma was cooking back in that kitchen. And we were not disappointed. Could there be a heartier food to line our stomachs while navigating the snow mounds that remained from the previous week’s blizzard? The only negative was that we couldn’t crack open the bottles just purchased and wash down the meal with a shot of the clear Polish stuff. Two Polish plates Tags: Brooklyn, Cheap Eats, Food, humor, New York, Polish, Spirits, Vodka Categories Brooklyn, Cheap Eats, Drinks, Food, humor, New York City, Polish, Russian, Spirits, Vodka A Taste of Heaven (and a little bit of hell) on Northern Boulevard After last month’s “disaster” in Port Chester and as the designated Grand Poobah of our now 15-year-old food group, I quickly signed into order a temporary ban on Mexican restaurants for our group. No more tacos. No more enchiladas. No more grand volcanoes until further notice. Despite a mini-protest by the sudden activist, Eugene, no one dared question my motives or intentions. Eugene soon fell into line and Mike from Yonkers, whose turn it was to choose our next destination stuck to the ban and chose a Korean restaurant in Flushing’s Koreatown called Joah. While we have had enough of guacamole for awhile, we were starved for bulgogi and bibimbap. The Grand Poobah I arrived early and had time for a beer, so I stumbled into a non-descript bar across the street from Joah. When I entered, the few heads in the bar turned to stare at me as if I were some sort of immigrant life form they had never seen before. There was a Korean couple at one end of the bar snuggled close to each other sharing cherry tomatoes and a bottle of Grey Goose and a lone older Korean man with three empty Coors’ Light bottles in front of him, two of the Korean female bartenders huddled around him lovingly. One of the bartenders reluctantly broke away to see what I wanted. I mentioned beer and she looked at me quizzically as if she didn’t understand what I said. And then she mimicked my words; her English almost non-existent. I dared not ask what type of beers were available and just went ahead and ordered a Heineken. She nodded and returned with a glass, a bottle of Heineken and a small dish of roasted peanuts. As I started in on the beer and the peanuts a loud wail ensued seemingly out of nowhere. I turned to see the man with the cherry tomatoes and Grey Goose bottle gripping a microphone. He was soulfully crooning into the microphone, the vodka fueling his passion as he sang along with the Korean pop tune. I made sure to applaud his performance politely when he finished and then, trying not to look too stressed, downed the beer as fast as I could and got out of there before I had to hear more karaoke, Korean or otherwise. The quiet when I arrived at the sparsely populated Joah was appreciated. Zio waddled in a few minutes later and we sat and took a look at the menu which was a colorful notebook loaded with non-traditional Korean dishes. Where was the bulgogi? Where was the bibimbap? Instead there was page devoted to “hamburger steak,” including Turkish hamburger steak and hamburger steak and sausage. There was also a lengthy section of the menu on risottos and pastas; just what was expected in a Korean joint. “You gonna get pasta, Eugene?” I asked him. “No, I’m gonna get risotto,” he replied, surprising me as he ordered the “Gondre” seafood risotto in a tomato sauce. “That’s what I was gonna order,” Mike from Yonkers whined. “No one’s stopping you,” Eugene answered. And no one did. Both ordered the same risotto in a Korean restaurant. Korean risotto I quickly decided that the Korean version of Italian food might be problematic to an Italian food snob like me, so instead focused on something I had never seen before called “Eggs in Heaven OR Eggs in Hell.” The difference between heaven and hell in this case meant that the eggs were either prepared in a cheese cream sauce (heaven) or in a tomato broth (hell). Though the idea of hell always sounds edgier, more exciting, I opted for more mundane heaven; eggs in a Korean made tomato sauce just did not appeal to my half Italian sensibilities. Eggs in heaven Gerry wasted no time ordering the army stew, a soup of bacon, fish cake, sausage and noodles in the same, dark red tomato broth that coated Eugene and Mike from Yonkers’ risotto. “It’s a little sweet,” all of them, including Zio, whose spicy pork plate over rice was also red in color, intoned and I agreed after taking a bite of Mike from Yonkers’ risotto. There was nothing sweet, however, about my eggs in heaven. “Make sure you mix it all up,” the waiter told me as he planted the very hot bowl in front of me. I did what he said, the eggs cooking in the hot cheese and cream sauce, all of it easy to scoop up with the saltine crackers and pieces of Italian bread that decorated the bowl. The bits of bacon in the eggs added much needed salt to the otherwise bland, yet somewhat comforting dish. Though we came expecting Korean food normalcy, we experienced something much different. The results may not have been what we wanted, but the adventure most definitely was. In that regard, Mike from Yonkers’ pick of Joah was a big time winner. Joah Tags: Food, humor, Italian food, Korean, New York City, Queens Categories Adventures in Chow City, Cheap Eats, Cheap Eats in New York City, Food, Italian, Korean, New York City, Queens, Restaurants Two Grinches and a Scrooge Get Happy with Hunan “You know what I look forward to most about the holidays,” I said. “January 3rd. Kids are back at school. And best of all, you start seeing dead Christmas trees on the street signaling the end of the holiday nightmare.” “Yeah I love seeing that too,” Gerry said with glee. “$75 for a tree. Talk about a waste?” “Happy f…ing New Year,” Zio spat. “What the f..k is there to be happy about. The world is ending for Christ’s sake!” Zio, Gerry and I were huddled around a table near the door of Happy Hot Hunan, a restaurant the three of us decided to sample while the official food group took a December hiatus. And though there was a distinct draft coming from the front door, the sight of big bowls of food adorned with chili peppers gave us a warming sensation. We were the only non-Asians in the upper west side restaurant which was also reassuring. After more griping about the holidays, we settled down to order from the impressively Hunan menu. There were frogs legs, plenty of intestines, tripe, pork feet, drunk chicken, smoked pork and even a General Tso’s sighting. Really, we had nothing to complain about. “Should I get the hot and spicy pork belly or the hot and spicy pork intestine,” Gerry debated. “If you ask me, I’d get the pork belly,” I offered. “I’m not asking you,” he replied, Grinch-like, and ordered pork intestines, also known to Gerry, as chitterlings or chitlins. “Pork intestines?” The waiter looked at Gerry questionably. “You want that?” “I want that,” he said, tossing back his menu. “Most don’t,” the waiter said with a smile, impressed that someone of Gerry’s ethnic origins would take on the challenge that is Hunan pork intestines. Zio wanted ribs and pointed to a plate a lone diner was devouring at a table near ours. “Are those the spicy pork ribs with hot green pepper?” The waiter shook his head. “They sweet and sour ribs. You want spicy pork ribs?” “That’s what I want,” Zio said and the waiter scribbled down his order. I figured I would order one of the “hot chili dishes” that, in this Hunan restaurant meant a meat or fish in what was described as a “hot creamy chili sauce.” I was intrigued by the idea of hot creamy chili so I veered from pork and chose the fish. Closing out our order we added a vegetable, stir fried Hunan mustard leaf, “to keep us regular,” as Zio made sure to point out. Hot creamy chili fish without the cream First to arrive on our table was the fish. The chili sauce looked like any other Szechuan chili sauce; a deep red broth, dusted with dried red peppers and showered with fresh cilantro. I noticed no cream, however, and after sampling it there was a noticeable, silken, to use a tired food adjective, quality to the sauce. Creamy or not, the three of us were in agreement that the fish was properly lip numbing to meet our Hunan and/or Szechuan specifications. Pork ribs with hot green pepper Zio stared at his pork ribs when they were placed in front of him. “Hmmm they chopped them up,” he said with a bit of disappointment in his voice. The ribs were cut into inch-size pieces that you could only eat one or two at a time, careful not to swallow one whole. But the meat on them was tender and coated with a cumin-heavy, 5-spice sauce that was good enough to forget about the effort it took to eat them. Hot and spicy pork intenstines After gnawing through the donut like spheres of pork intestine, Gerry said, “I should have ordered the pork belly.” I sampled one and though the flavor was very good, my teeth were just not sharp enough to break through the rubbery consistency of the intestine. But Gerry’s teeth, sharpened by many battles with tough squid, ate the pork intestines happily. Stir fried mustard leaf While we ate, all the upcoming holiday madness was forgotten—at least for a couple of hours. It wasn’t until we were bombarded on the sidewalk after dinner with a Christmas carol coming from the open window of a double-parked car and a dollar store selling plastic green and red garlands and cheap chemically unsafe artificial trees that we were quickly reminded of the season. “See you next year,” Gerry said to us as we parted ways. “I can’t f..king wait,” Zio grumbled as we walked away from the happiness that was Happy Hot Hunan. 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__label__cc	0.578662	0.421338	← Snowbound at Hartfield Review & Giveaway Snowbound at Hartfield – Giveaway Winners’s announcement → A Contrary Wind Excerpt & Giveaway I usually post about Pride and Prejudice and North and South fan fiction because those are the books closest to my heart, but I know that my readers love all things Jane Austen, so today I bring you an excerpt of A Contrary Wind, a Mansfield Park variation from debut author Lona Manning. Lona Manning is currently teaching English in China and has written “The Hurricane Hoax”, “The Murder of Madalyn Murray O’Hair” and other true-crime articles available at True Crime Magazine, but her love for Jane Austen made her venture into JAFF with a different take at Mansfield Park. I hope you like the excerpt and please do not miss the opportunity to win a copy of this book by commenting this post 🙂 What if Fanny Price, the meek and docile heroine of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park,ran away from home? What if Fanny could no longer endure living with the Bertrams? What if she could not bear to watch Edmund fall in love with Mary Crawford? In Lona Manning’s debut novel, Fanny Price is given an opportunity to change and grow, to learn and to make mistakes; while Edmund Bertram’s fascination with Mary Crawford, and Henry Crawford’s efforts to avoid matrimony, lead to completely different outcomes than in Jane Austen’s masterpiece. All of the familiar characters from Mansfield Park are included, and many – such as Mrs. Norris and little Betsey Price – help drive the plot. New characters, such as the brusque but kindly widow, Mrs. Butters, and the impecunious but charming writer, William Gibson, are involved with the movement to abolish slavery. Real characters from history – politicians, writers, and sea captains, join the story and there are even some cameo appearances from characters in other Austen novels. The text employs many of the techniques which made Jane Austen so popular – dialogue in which each character speaks in their own unique voice, free indirect style of narration, Johnsonian cadences, and some snark. A Contrary Wind differs from Mansfield Park in that not all the scenes involving sex occur off-stage and instead of having “[t]hree or four families in a country village,” the action moves from Mansfield Park, to Bristol, London, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and the coast of Africa, where young Lieutenant William Price fights the slave trade as part of the West Africa Squadron. “Like many Jane Austen fans, I’ve wished that Austen had written more than six novels,” says Manning. “’A Contrary Wind’ is my homage to Austen, and a bit of a “what if” scenario. I really loved working with the unforgettable characters Jane Austen created, such as Henry and Mary Crawford and Mrs. Norris, while adding a few new characters of my own.” The grandfather clock in the front hall struck eleven, then midnight, and Fanny still lay awake in her narrow bed, unable to console herself. As miserable as her present circumstances were, the future offered no hope of improvement. At an age when most young ladies were beginning to seriously contemplate matrimony, she had already formed the resolution that she would never enter the state; it was impossible that she would ever meet another man who could be the equal of Edmund Bertram. She rejected with contempt the idea of marrying for money, and in her humility she could not conceive of receiving an offer from one who esteemed her well enough to overlook her lack of a dowry. Settling with her family in Portsmouth appeared to be as equally out of the question as finding a husband. Her parents had never, in the course of her nearly ten years’ absence, expressed the wish that she return to them. Fanny’s visions of her own future had all centered on a plan concocted with her older brother William – namely, that they would one day live in a little cottage and she would keep house for him when he retired from the Navy. But what was she to do until then? Her cousins had paid little regard to her over the years, but how empty the great house would seem when Maria and Julia married and formed their own establishments. Tom was abroad more than at home and Edmund would remove to Thornton Lacey after his ordination. She would be left behind to grow old in the service of her aunts. A long twilight existence, fetching and carrying for Aunt Bertram and bearing Aunt Norris’ slights and insults in silence, stretched ahead of her. She might have to endure ten, fifteen, twenty years of such a life before she could retire to a cottage with her brother. And could she truly rely upon this solace, at long last? Although marriage formed no part of her brother’s plans at twenty, could she expect him to regard the state with the same indifference at five or eight-and-twenty? What if William did marry, and his wife had no wish to be encumbered by a maiden sister? And whether in Mansfield, Portsmouth or her brother’s cottage, was she not dependent upon the charity of others for every mouthful she ate and every thread upon her back? Were her comings and goings to be entirely at the command of others, her own preferences never consulted? As Fanny tossed and turned for the hundredth time that long night, a new unbidden resolution suggested itself to her – you are acquainted with one independent gentlewoman who earned her own bread. Your own governess, Miss Lee. Why should you not do the same? The following morning, Fanny escaped to the East Room after a half-eaten breakfast to ask herself how the thoughts she’d entertained the previous night appeared to her in the judicious light of morning. The East Room had once been the school-room and had sat empty after the departure of their governess. It was now used solely by Fanny, the smallness of her own bedchamber making the use of the other so evidently reasonable, and Mrs. Norris, having stipulated for there never being a fire in it on Fanny’s account, was tolerably resigned to her having the use of what nobody else wanted. The aspect was so favourable that even without a fire it was habitable in many an early spring and late autumn morning to such a willing mind as Fanny’s. The comfort of it in her hours of leisure was extreme. She could go there after anything unpleasant below, and find immediate consolation in some pursuit, or some train of thought at hand. Her plants, her books—of which she had been a collector from the first hour of her commanding a shilling—her writing-desk, and her works of charity and ingenuity, were all within her reach. To this nest of comforts Fanny now walked down to try its influence on an agitated, doubting spirit. Could she, Fanny, take a position as governess? Of caring for children, she had had much experience. As the eldest daughter of a family of ten, she had been important as playfellow, instructress, and nurse until sent away to live with her uncle and aunt. In the ordinary course of events, gentlewomen only became governesses out of necessity. It was the last resort of the genteel but poor. It was a position entered upon with resignation at best, despair and resentment at worst, by widows and orphans, by persons whose expectations had been dashed and whose hopes had been overthrown – it was not to be wondered at that governesses and their faults were dwelt upon with much energy by ladies on their morning visits throughout the kingdom. While it was possible that some governesses become honoured and beloved members of the family, Fanny only knew that the profession never wore a happy face in any novel she had picked up. Fanny paced unceasingly around the old work table, greatly agitated at her own audacity for even entertaining such ideas as now entered her head. She attempted to recollect, as best she might, any remarks dropped by Miss Lee concerning her opinions of the profession. But Miss Lee had been of a taciturn and formal disposition, a quality that recommended her to Sir Thomas, but was ill-suited for arousing lasting feelings of affection or confidence from her pupils. Fanny had first met Miss Lee upon coming to Mansfield when she was but ten years old, and for many months was afraid of her, though anxious to win her approbation. The governess’s biting remarks upon Fanny’s backwardness, ignorance and awkward ways had often brought Fanny to tears. Almost a year passed before Miss Lee had realized that of her three pupils – Maria, Julia and Fanny – only Fanny loved learning for learning’s sake; only her timidity before the others prevented her from showing that she had memorized every textbook laid before her, and thenceforward Miss Lee was more encouraging. Maria and Julia were overjoyed to be released from the schoolroom upon turning seventeen, while Fanny, the youngest, continued for another year, sitting with Miss Lee for several hours every morning, studying French, geography and natural history, or walking the grounds of the park to collect botanical samples. Although Miss Lee had less to do as a governess when she had only one pupil, she was required to devote her afternoons and many evenings to attending on Lady Bertram. When Miss Lee was at last discharged from Mansfield Park, Fanny was old enough to supply her place as Lady Bertram’s errand-runner and cribbage partner. Fanny wondered whether these tasks were rendered less irksome to Miss Lee by the knowledge that she was paid for performing them. Would living amongst strangers be preferable to living with her cousins, if she received a salary, however small, rather than paying for her bread and board with the coinage of duty, submission and gratitude? A tap at the door roused her and her eyes brightened at the sight of Edmund. They had not spoken since Aunt Norris’s cruel rebuke of the night before, and Fanny, her colour rising, anticipated the unlooked-for joy of a private conference with Edmund, in which he would declare his indignation at their aunt, and assure her of his esteem and regard. But no, it was the play, and worse, it was Miss Crawford, that occupied Edmund’s thoughts and occasioned this rare, this precious conversation. “This acting scheme gets worse and worse, you see. They have chosen almost as bad a play as they could, and now, to complete the business, are going to ask the help of a young man very slightly known to any of us. This is the end of all the privacy and propriety which was talked about at first. I know no harm of Charles Maddox; but the excessive intimacy which must spring from his being admitted among us in this manner is highly objectionable, the more than intimacy—the familiarity.” He came to the East room, he said, for her ‘advice and opinion,’ but a very few moments made it clear to Fanny that he had already made up his mind – he would yield – he would take the part of Anhalt himself rather than see a stranger admitted on such intimate terms. “Put yourself in Miss Crawford’s place, Fanny. Consider what it would be to act Amelia with a stranger.” Fanny protested, “I am sorry for Miss Crawford, but I am more sorry to see you drawn in to do what you had resolved against, and what you are known to think will be disagreeable to my uncle. It will be such a triumph to the others!” “They will not have much cause of triumph when they see how infamously I act,” Edmund responded drily, adding that he hoped, by yielding in this fashion, to persuade the others to keep the theatricals private and not involve any others in the neighbourhood, either as performers or audience. “Will not this be worth gaining?” “Yes, it will be a great point,” Fanny said reluctantly. Then Edmund did, finally, refer to her humiliation of the previous night, but only as a further reason to yield to Miss Crawford and take the part of Anhalt, for: “She never appeared more amiable than in her behaviour to you last night. It gave her a very strong claim on my goodwill.” At this, Fanny could scarcely speak, and Edmund was only too willing to interpret her silence as consent. He smiled, he spent a few moments looking over her little library with her, when he was clearly eager to be gone, to walk down to the Parsonage and convey his change of sentiments to Miss Crawford. Then he was gone, entirely insensible of the pain he had inflicted. Had either circumstance – Aunt Norris’ insult or this fresh proof of Edmund’s infatuation – occurred separately, Fanny would surely have spent her morning weeping. But occurring within twelve hours of each other, the absolute misery of the whole was so stupefying that she could no longer weep and, resolving within herself that she would weep no more, Fanny jumped up from her seat and slipped downstairs to the breakfast room, unobserved by anyone. Lady Bertram kept her recent correspondence in an elegant little desk there. All of Lady Bertram’s acquaintance, including Miss Lee, had received a note from her Ladyship hinting at the engagement of her eldest daughter to the richest landowner in the county – and the former governess, Fanny knew, had recently replied, wishing her one-time pupil every happiness. The note was postmarked from Bristol, where Miss Lee’s latest employers resided. With a rapidly beating heart, Fanny retraced her steps to the East Room where she composed a letter to Miss Lee, imploring her to keep her secret for now, and asking her advice on whether she thought her last pupil at Mansfield Park might be suited to be a governess. No sooner had she sealed her letter than she was summoned to walk into town on an errand for her Aunt Norris, which happily afforded her the opportunity to visit the village post office without the letter passing through the hands of servants at the Park. She passed by Dr. and Mrs. Grant’s home on the way to the village, and she could hear the lovely rippling strains of harp music issuing from the sitting room. Miss Crawford was entertaining her cousin Edmund. With tear-filled eyes, Fanny hurried past the parsonage, followed by the faint sounds of Edmund laughing in response to something witty Mary Crawford had said. Hello. I was born in South Korea a few years after the Korean War. My father taught library science at Yonsei University. And — being from the American South, he also taught his students how to do the Virginia Reel. My mother fostered Korean war orphan babies. My folks returned to the United States in the early 60’s and were active in the civil rights movement. We always had the kind of house that was filled with books and magazines. Our family (with six kids by then) moved to Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, in 1967. Then we had a house filled with books, magazines, and war objectors playing guitar and singing “Where have all the flowers gone.” I put myself through university in Vancouver. Over the years, I’ve been a home care aide, legal secretary, political speech writer, office manager, and vocational instructor. Mainly I worked in non-profit administration until suddenly deciding (in my late 50’s) to get an ESL teaching certificate. So most recently I’ve been teaching English in China. My husband Ross and I raised two boys; one is now a computer programmer and the other is finishing law school. Although I have not written much in recent years, I have authored several lengthy non-fiction pieces about notable American crimes, such as: the murder of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, the Lindbergh kidnapping, the 1920 Wall Street bombing, the satanic ritual moral panic of the 90’s, and the Rubin Hurricane Carter case. These articles have been cited in over a dozen books and been used in secondary school and university courses [for example, Sam Houston University, University of Missouri-Kansas City] My article about O’Hair was used in a course on the history of atheism at the Center for American Studies at Heidelberg University. My Wall Street bombing article was referenced in a New York City Law Journal Review article. Last spring, after a long silence, my Muse showed up and started writing this book in my head. Hobbies, interests, passions and peeves: I’ve sung in a number of bands and choirs, most recently the Kelowna International Choir. My husband and I love to travel around Asia. I get buggy when people use possessive apostrophes when they really mean plural, as in “apple’s for sale.” Lona Manning would like to offer my readers two copies of A Contrary Wind, a paperback and an ebook. To participate in the giveaway all you have to do is comment on this post and share your thoughts with us. The giveaway is international and is open until the 8th of March. The winners will be announced shortly after that. I would hate to see winners of the book miss their chances to receive it, so in order not to miss the announcement, please visit the blog after the 8th or follow it to guarantee you receive an e-mail notification with each post that is published, including the giveaway announcements. Filed under JAFF, Mansfield Park 26 responses to “A Contrary Wind Excerpt & Giveaway” Wonderful! I am intrigued. Thank you for the giveaway Lona Manning Thank Becky! In this excerpt, there is some Jane Austen prose blended in, as I’m sure you can recognize, but once Fanny leaves Mansfield Park, she (and I) are on our own! Poor Fanny. Shall have to read it now – thanks for the giveaway This book is now added to my tbr list. it is rare to find variations of MP and NA True! In fact, I’d have to go looking to find a NA variation, I don’t remember even seeing one. Fanny has never been a favorite of mine, even though I wanted her to win Edward. She is just too perfect. So here’s hoping I would find more empathy for her in this book. BTW: my pet peeve is when author’s only use the apostrophe for one of two nouns meant to show possessive, i.e., Sue and John’s house. It should be Sue’s and John’s house as it belongs to both. As my teacher said, “Separate the nouns and in your head how would you show possession for each?” Sue house or Sue’s house? Yes, I know what you mean about Fanny. One critic says of her “she never puts a foot wrong.” And speaking of houses, how many house signs have you seen that say ‘The Robinson’s”? Interesting premise and excerpt. I am intrigued and hope to read more. I like the idea of Fanny actively looking for a way to improve her situation instead of accepting all the abuse she suffers. Looking forward to reading this. Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy! Yes, exactly. I really admire Mansfield Park, but for example, when Fanny is staying with her parents, she can’t even make herself a cup of tea! This is difficult for us to relate to. You definitely got my attention with this one. MP is my second favorite Austen novel and I love that here is a fine variation to enjoy. Thanks for the excerpt and giveaway opportunity. Hi Sophia Rose, good luck in the draw. Thanks for sharing this poignant excerpt. I really felt sorry for Fanny in this scene. Oh, there’s more to come, poor girl! Lovely post, Rita! I am looking forward to reading this book too. Thanks for putting this book on my radar! I enjoy reading non-P&P variations from time to time, so this sounds great. Mansfield Park is not my favourite, but I read it so long ago, I think it is time for a re-read. This premise of Fanny wanting to do something more with her life is definitely intriguing, and I would love to have the chance to read it. Thank you for the giveaway! I love in your bio that you would sing ‘where have all the flowers gone’…one of my favourites from that time period. Oh I love the idea of Fanny running away, that promises to be an interesting story! Would love to read it 🙂 So nice to see other Austen books being shown some fan fiction love! 😀 I am quite sure it should be a most delightful read! I love all your comments about Fanny, and I agree with them. Look like an interesting premise. Thanks for the giveaway. 🙂 lynnchar Mansfield Park is not my least favorite Austen work, but it’s definitely near the bottom for some reason. This excerpt almost makes me want to go back and see why I feel that way. Instead I think I’ll just wait for this book and enjoy a whole new take. So far I’m intrigued! Thanks for such a lovely excerpt, Lona. I came back to MP last year for the first time in a looong time and found myself wishing that Fanny would show a little more backbone. Looks like you may have given her some! Very interesting premise! Thanks for a chance to win a copy! Betty Campbell Madden Sounds like an enticing story. I’m hoping to win one. You’ve certainly had an intriguing life journey. I hope you’ll continue with Muse support for Austen FF, preferably P&P for me, for I’m generally current with the well-done releases, in fact, usually waiting for something new. Welcome to the genre. Sounds very interesting. I have always had a great admiration for Fanny Price! Good luck in all future endeavors and thank you for the great giveaway!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14091
__label__cc	0.585917	0.414083	Home Gossip Daymond John's Net Worth 2018: How He Built His $300 Million Dollar Empire? Daymond John's Net Worth 2018: How He Built His $300 Million Dollar Empire? Shree Krishna Tue Nov, 2018 "A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work" and today we bring you a story of a 49-year old Brooklyn, New York City born who befits the saying. Started out with nothing in the name of wealth, today he is worth over $300 million. He is none other than the founder of the FUBU clothing line, Daymond John. Daymond is the man who took Hip-Hop and urban wear by storm in the late 1890s and early 1990s. But do you known, while he started out he had to sell hats on the streets of New York City? From a normal boy waking on the streets of New York to one of the successful businessmen of the current time. Here is Daymon's inside story. Daymond John's Net Worth: How He Built His Million Dollar Empire? Daymond John has a net worth of over $300 million, as of 2018. In 2016, he was worth around $250 million. Daymond earns millions with his business tactics, aided by his profession as an author. Roll Call! - Comment the following: What‘s ONE question you have about starting a business that‘s holding you back from actually making it happen? - #DaymondOnDemand A post shared by Daymond John (@thesharkdaymond) on Nov 13, 2018 at 7:05am PST Daymond's wealth is deeply rooted in the success of his clothing line, FUBU. Daymond started FUBU in his mother's house in Hollis, Queens. And it's said that he started the clothing line with just $40 worth of fabric. Also Read, American Investor Daymond John's Past Marriage & Children: Who Is He Currently Dating? When he started he had to sell hats on the street corner of New York, $10 each. After the hats, Daymond began selling screen-printed T-shirts. To generate start-up capital. moving Daymond and his mother had to mortgage their only house for $100,000. Drive > Dollars. - What‘s your drive? A post shared by Daymond John (@thesharkdaymond) on Nov 16, 2018 at 2:33pm PST In 1993, Daymond convinced American recording artist LL Cool J, who was also an old neighborhood friend of him, to wear a FUBU T-shirt for promotion. Later, while filming for an advert for The Gap, LL Cool wore a FUBU hat and also incorporated the line "for us, by us" in his rapping. In the early 1990s, Daymond received $300,000 in orders. Daymond and his mother had to take out a second mortgage of their house in order to fulfill the orders. Also Read, Shark Tank star Daymond John engaged to his long-term girlfriend Heather Taras with a baby. Over years of hardship, Daymond then successfully established his clothing brand and as of now, his clothing brand has earned over $6 billion in sales across the globe. So many cities, states and events makes for a fun and intense two weeks, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. _ A big part of it all was giving a free talk to help aspiring and struggling entrepreneurs learn how to leverage their target audience and create a loyal tribe. _ I want to continue to be able to help you all become better entrepreneurs. So for the next 24 hours I'm giving you free access to watch my webinar and learn my trade secrets. Check it out in the link in my bio. - #DaymondOnDemand A post shared by Daymond John (@thesharkdaymond) on Oct 24, 2018 at 4:54pm PDT Along with a successful businessman, Daymond is also a TV personality and an author. Daymond John: The Latter Side In 2009, Daymond started out as an investor to the ABC's reality TV show Shark Tank, after a call from Mark Burnett asking him to join the cast of the show. As of May 17, 2017, Daymond invested $8,567,000 in Shark Tank. Out of my entire decade of being on #SharkTank this was the most emotional pitch I have ever been through. It took everything in me not to walk off the set because my emotions ran so crazy because I was there and lost many friends from 9/11. Reality is that everybody on set was in tears… cameramen, stylists, makeup artists. Not one person didn’t totally break down and realize the value that life has. I'm glad that you all met this special family tonight and @mcuban @lorigreinershark @kevinolearytv @matthigginsrse and I made a deal with #CupboardPro. I'm looking forward to working with these incredible entrepreneurs. I will remember this pitch forever - DJ. - If you want to support the Young family, click the link in my bio to donate to their #GoFundMe in honor of the FDNY. Daymond is also an accomplished author. He has released four books throughout his career which includes Display of Power, The Brand Within, and The Power of Broke, and Rise & Rind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life. His fourth paperwork is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller. We hope time bring the best out of him, as always. # Shark Tank # net worth # LL Cool J # American businessman # FUBU clothing line The truth about Gabriel Iglesias' son revealed; Is Gabriel Iglesias Married to his Long-term Girlfriend? Rabina Koirala Getting A Laser Tattoo Removal Appointment At The Finery New York City Navin shah Greg Gutfeld And Wife Elena Moussa Married Since 2003 Without Divorce Rumors; Do They Have Children? Andrew Walker Married Wife Cassandra Troy; Know their Married Life, Relationships, and Children Ashmita Karki	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14094
__label__cc	0.746723	0.253277	Missing something here I’m no believer in genetic determinism. But surely one’s genetic endowment matters. A lot. It’s kind of preposterous that this article on the struggles of adopted kids doesn’t even bring it up: Being adopted can be one of the best things to happen to a kid. People who adopt tend to be wealthier than other parents, both because of self-selection and because of the adoption screening process. Adoptive parents tend to be better-educated and put more effort into raising their kids, as measured by things like eating family meals together, providing the child with books, and getting involved in their schools. And yet, as rated by their teachers and tests, adopted children tend to have worse behavioral and academic outcomes in kindergarten and first grade than birth children do, according to a new research brief from the Institute for Family Studies written by psychologist Nicholas Zill… Adoptive parents go to great lengths to do a great service. Why are their young kids’ behavior and test scores nonetheless worse, on average? One clue might be attachment theory, which holds that a strong bond with at least one nurturing adult—usually the mother—is essential to a child thriving. That adult can be the adoptive parent, but the adoption itself might mean that the bond with the birth parent was disrupted or never formed, Zill writes. In the worst cases, these children might have experienced a traumatic event prior to their adoption. Early trauma can affect the parts of the brain that control mood and learning. Actually, early childhood issues may very well be a lot of it. But to completely ignore the fact that adopted kids probably come from less smart and/or disciplined parents and go to more smart/disciplined parents seems to me missing a potentially significant portion of the equation. Lots of good research on this in my favorite parenting book. Filed under Education/Academia, Parenting 1) Great Rolling Stone article on the Freedom Caucus. Gives a really full and nuanced picture of these radicals. 2) Will Saletan with among the better takes on the Benghazi hearings. And a good take from John Cassidy. 3) Not only most powerful hurricane ever measured, but reaching the theoretical limits of hurricane strength. Amazing. 4) And a good Politco piece on the Freedom Caucus: There hasn’t been a bloc like the Freedom Caucus for at least a century, one that refuses to work with its own party leadership while being steadfastly unwilling to reach across the aisle. “There have been groups that often broke from the party, but in doing so, they didn’t stand as a third force,” says former GOP Rep. Mickey Edwards. “This group is very different.” The Freedom Caucus, rather than breaking from Republican ranks, has forced Republican leaders to break from them. It’s a perverse sort of political jujitsu. One of outgoing Speaker John Boehner’s supposed crimes was that he went begging Democrats for help passing legislation when he couldn’t find the votes within his own caucus. Some rank-and-file Republicans, meanwhile, have made a separate peace with Democrats on reviving the Export-Import Bank. Normally the opposite would happen and it would be the insurgents reaching across the aisle. But that presupposes an interest in governing. 5) Seth Masket on why we should not be asking “who won?” after debates. 6) I must say, I agree with google on this. I hate the idea of an app for every stupid website you want to go to. Just give me a goo mobile website. 7) A James Hamblin video on our meatless future. I really do think this is going to happen. It’s just chemistry. 8) Weight Watchers might be doomed by all the free weight loss apps, but I still love it for basing it’s diet around choice and actual scientifically-based weight loss principles. We’ll see if Oprah can save it. 9) Yes, it is time for baseball’s unwritten rules to be re-written, but that is not why the sport is losing popularity. No, that’s because it’s boring and takes too long: Baseball has lagged behind basketball and football in popularity for a number of reasons, but primarily because the game is too buttoned down. In many ways, baseball has been the team version of golf. 10) Finally, the truth on what makes for good college teaching. 11) I love Terry Gross. I already lament whenever she retires because there’s just no other interviewer close. And I loved this NYT Magazine profile. 12) Best piece I’ve read on explaining the reasoning behind the recent and important (and somewhat complicated) Federal Appeals Court decision on gun control. 13) You know what’s good for poor people, but not bad for rich people? More poor people living near rich people. Critics would do well to study Mount Laurel itself, where an affordable housing development that opened in 2000 has yielded benefits that have been chronicled in a study led by the Princeton sociologist Douglas Massey. The study, recounted in the book “Climbing Mount Laurel,” shows that an attractive, well-maintained affordable housing development in an affluent neighborhood can improve the lives of struggling families without jeopardizing local property values, precipitating more crime or becoming an economic burden on the community. 14) And how white children may benefit from integrated schools. 15) I used to think birth order was bunk. Then I read some research in grad school and thought it was real. Latest research says it’s basically bunk. 16) Jesus would probably not be such a big Tea Party fan. 17) Enjoyed this post on the Star Wars movies in light of the new trailer: Coming to the original “Star Wars” trilogy at the right age is a minor blessing: young enough to be confused by the fact that “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” looked like the future, or to be terrified by pretty much all of “The Empire Strikes Back,” or to think that tiny Teddy bears armed with sticks and rocks really might be able to defeat armored professional soldiers. But old enough to recognize the regret and redemption of Obi-Wan Kenobi, squirm at the flirty banter of Han and Leia, and understand just how magnificently terrible it would be to discover that Darth Vader is your father. 18) Those “social welfare” PAC’s that are supposedly about educating the public rather than electoral advocacy are about the biggest, most embarrassing sham in American politics. Looks like the one supporting NC Senator Thom Tillis has been caught in its fraud. I doubt anything will happen. And the N&O on it. 19) The secret to a easy to remember but hard to crack password? Poetry. 20) If you are betting, Hillary is way under-valued as a presidential candidate. I really need to put actual money in this some day. For now, I’ve just got lunch riding on it (in a bet dating back to 2013). Filed under Criminal Justice, Culture, Education/Academia, Health/Medicine, North Carolina, Parenting, Politics, Religion, Science, Social Science	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14096
__label__wiki	0.581984	0.581984	Empirical Assessment of the Practices of Accountability System in the Public Sector of Malaysia Md. Mahmudul Alam Abstract: As the recent Auditor General‟s report discovered some corruptions, weakness, and lack of control in asset management in the public sector of Malaysia, this study is an attempt to assess the status of current practices of accountability in public sector of Malaysia. This study collected primary data based on a set of questionnaire survey that was distributed by email using the Google Doc application among the head of department of 682 departments and agencies under 24 federal ministries including the Prime Minister Department in Malaysia. Finally, based on the email responses, the final sample of the study is 109 respondents. The data were collected based on the opinion about ten factors of accountability practices in the department or agency by using seven-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). The data are analysed under descriptive statistics and factor analysis. Further, the reliability of the data is tested by using Cronbach alpha test, and the validity of data is tested by checking the normality of data through Shapiro Wilk test and graphically. Overall, 87.3% of the respondents mentioned that overall they practice accountability in their department. However, the priority of these ten factors of accountability differs among the services schemes. The accountability in the administrative & diplomatic, education, and medical & health is below the overall average accountability. The accountability in the financial and information system schemes is also not strong enough. Therefore the public sector in Malaysia needs to be transformed into becoming a reliable and efficient sector by ensuring proper accountability and its proper assessment system. Key Words: Accountability System; Public Sector; Factor Analysis; Malaysia enregistrerEnregistrer Empirical Assessment of the Practices of Accountab... pour plus tard Empirical Assessment of the Practices of Accountability System in the Public Sector of Malaysia Mohamad Azizal bin Abd Aziz Masters Student Faculty of Accountancy Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Email: azizal2603@gmail.com Md. Mahmudul Alam* Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI) National University of Malaysia (UKM) Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia Email: rony000@gmail.com *(Corresponding author) Jamaliah Said Associate Professor and Deputy Director (Research & Networking) Accounting Research Institute (ARI) Email: jamaliah533@salam.uitm.edu.my Citation Reference: Said, J., Alam, M.M., and Aziz, M.A. 2015. Public Accountability System: Empirical Assessment of Public Sector of Malaysia. Asian Journal of Scientific Research. Vol. 8(2), pp. 225-236. [Online Link] This is a pre-publication copy. The published article is copyrighted by the publisher of the journal. As the recent Auditor Generals report discovered some corruptions, weakness, and lack of control in asset management in the public sector of Malaysia, this study is an attempt to assess the status of current practices of accountability in public sector of Malaysia. This study collected primary data based on a set of questionnaire survey that was distributed by email using the Google Doc application among the head of department of 682 departments and agencies under 24 federal ministries including the Prime Minister Department in Malaysia. Finally, based on the email responses, the final sample of the study is 109 respondents. The data were collected based on the opinion about ten factors of accountability practices in the department or agency by using seven-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). The data are analysed under descriptive statistics and factor analysis. Further, the reliability of the data is tested by using Cronbach alpha test, and the validity of data is tested by checking the normality of data through Shapiro Wilk test and graphically. Overall, 87.3% of the respondents mentioned that overall they practice accountability in their department. However, the priority of these ten factors of accountability differs among the services schemes. The accountability in the administrative & diplomatic, education, and medical & health is below the overall average accountability. The accountability in the financial and information system schemes is also not strong enough. Therefore the public sector in Malaysia needs to be transformed into becoming a reliable and efficient sector by ensuring proper accountability and its proper assessment system. Key Words: Accountability System; Public Sector; Factor Analysis; Malaysia Understanding the way to improve accountability in public sector is very important to assure better public sector. Therefore, many countries have reformed its public sector to meet the public demand of a more transparent and accountable government. In addition, the evolution of new technology has put the government to devise the integrity value of public sector with strong command in leadership to steer the efficiency without abandoning the value of good governance. Accountability plays greater roles particularly in public administration (Mulgan, 1997; Yang, 2012). The term has been socially constructed and contested concept (Bryane, 2005; Mulgan, 2000). Over a decade it has been a debatable term among researchers since there are no exhaustive definitions on it (Steffek, 2010; Valentinov, 2011). Accountability is always related to good governance that implies public organizations which conduct public matters, manage public funds and guarantee the realization of human rights in a way fundamentally free from abuse and corruption, as well as obeying the rule of law (Bhuiyan & Amagoh, 2011; Morrell, 2009; United Nation Human Rights, 2012). This is imperative as the public have an ultimate right to know and to receive facts and figures which would assist them to debate and decide the destiny of their elected representatives (Almquist et al., 2013; Christensen & Skaerbaek, 2007; Subramaniam et al., 2013). In this process, accountability is vital to demonstrate as a democratic way on how government conduct to monitor and control while preventing the development of concentration of power and enhancing the learning capacity and effectiveness of public administration (Aucoin & Heintzman, 2000; Peters & Pierre, 1998; Rotberg 2004). Salminen & Ikola-Norrbacka (2010) suggested that fundamentally, every government is trying to appear good and reliable government in the eyes of the public. In order to avoid unethical actions against regulation, anti-corruption laws and ethical codes have been established and enforced. The concept of accountability has been evolving and broadening to a broader concept of integrated financial management and stewardship over the effective and efficient use of financial and other resources in all areas of government operations (Bovens, 2007; Kaldor, 2003; Mulgan, 2000). Accountability in the public sector requires governments to answer to public to justify the source and utilization of public resources (Almquist et al., 2013; Jorge de Jesus & Eirado, 2012; Laegreid et al., 2008) because there are perception that the government are inefficient and has poor performance in services delivery (Barton, 2006; Hui et al., 2011). Due to the growing concern on how the government spends the money, the public demands seem increasing and adding up a pressure to the government in managing the resources prudently (Abu Bakar et al., 2011; Almquist et al., 2013; Bhuiyan & Amagoh, 2011; Mulgan, In case of Malaysia, the government has realised that to achieve the visions 2020 to become a developed nation, they must equip the nation with high class mentality citizen with the attitude of upholding high ethical value (Iyer, 2011). Since gaining the independence way back in 1957, Malaysia is on track in transforming the nation from developing country to the developed one. In 1980s, Malaysia has given a greater attention to enhance public sector delivery system which aiming to boost good moral value and integrity. Many initiatives such as ''Clean, Efficient and Trustworthy'', ''Integration of Islamic Values'', ''Excellent Work Culture'', ''Code of Work Ethics'', ''Clients Charter'' and ''ISO 9000'' have been introduced to the public sector as a mechanism to improve system delivery and accountability. To ensure accountability in public sectors spending, the government has introduced various control systems that perhaps could expel or restrict the negligence or misconduct of governments fund. The Prime Minister Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi introduced Malaysian Institute of Integrity (IIM) in 2004 which embarked the governments initiative to develop a nation of high integrity, that is resilient and embraces universal good values. The existence of IIM which has a role as a coordinating agency for the implementation of the National Integrity Plan (NIP) is also a vital step taken by the government in enhancing the accountability among the public sector. Moreover, Malaysian Public Complaint Bureau (PCB)1 is always proactive in providing services to assist the public in channelling their complaint which will be contributed towards public service excellence. Furthermore, numerous types of auditing have been conducted annually by the Auditor General office alone to evaluate the efficiency of the federal government financial management and activities such as Attestation Audit, Compliance Audit, Performance Audit and Government Companies Management Audit. As an addition to that, other evaluation was made by The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) 2 known as Star Rating (SSR) system which one of the main objectives is to give recognition to Public Complaint Bureau is an agency under Prime Minister Department that accountable in managing public complaint. See http://www.pcb.gov.my/ for further explanation Malaysian Administrative Modernization and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) is one of the few central agencies in Malaysia, responsible for modernizing and reforming the public sector in the areas of administrative reforms. See http://www.mampu.gov.my/ for further explanation. agencies that have demonstrated high standards of governance and continuous improvements in public service delivery starting from 2008. Further, Prime Minister Mohd Najib introduced a new approach in 2009 towards transforming the government and public sector by focusing on the six National Key Results Areas (NKRAs)3 under the Government Transformation Programs with the main objective to change the government machinery to be more effective in its service delivery and be accountable for outcomes that matter most to the people as well as aiding Malaysia to move forward in becoming advanced, united, and just society with high standards of living. It is identified as the most important area for the benefit of the people and the progress of nation and would be seen as an administrative reformation to improve government accountability and strengthen the public sector. It is a crucial step taken by the government in order to maintain public confidence and the projection of the determination from government in implementing the good governance in the public sector. Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamed mentioned that to build a strong and united nation, the emphasis on moral and ethical values is a crucial step when directing Malaysia in becoming a united and progressive country (Prime Ministers Office of Malaysia, 2010). This idea is also shared by his fellow successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi which later positioned a significant mark by instituting the Institute Integrity of Malaysia 4 to propel Malaysia especially the Public Sector into the right path of upholding the value of accountability and transparency. In his speech during the presentation of the 2013 5 budget in the Parliament Prime Minister Mohd Najib also stressed on the working culture that uphold swift, accurate and integrity value. Then again, he repeats the same conception in the budget speech 20146 with emphasizing on transformation of the public sector in order to enhance confidence from the public as well as maintaining the image and credibility of the public Despite all efforts to improve the service delivery have been made, the critics and complains toward the public service still echo everywhere. As a multi-racial country, Malaysia has faced many obstacles and challenges. Here the public sector has been subjected to criticisms for its inefficiency, red tape, lack of flexibility, ineffective accountability and poor performance for a long period of time (Siddiquee, 2006). Moreover, Malaysian are still surrounded by the impression that the public sector is easily manipulated by the malevolent people and this perception had dampened public confidence in the integrity of government institutions with such alleged corruption cases in government procurement, abuses in land excision and fraud on land transfer, and corruption in business transfers at the local municipality level (The Star, 2008). Poor service delivery had reflected gaps in accountability, inequalities in policy planning, and inadequate coordination across public agencies, especially at the ministerial level have led to 2008 Malaysias voters expressed The brainchild of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and implemented under the purview of the Performance Management and Delivery Unit (PEMANDU), the GTP is deeply rooted in the motto of 1Malaysia of People First, Performance Now. See more at http://www.pemandu.gov.my/gtp/ The Malaysian Institute of Integrity (MII), was established as a coordinating agency for the implementation of the National Integrity Plan (NIP) with the main objective is to develop a nation of high integrity, that is resilient and embraces universal good values. See http://www.iim.org.my/ for further explanation. Full text of the 2013 budget speech can be assessed at http://www.pmo.gov.my/dokumenattached/bajet2013/ SPEECH_BUDGET_2013_28092012_E.pdf Full text of the 2014 budget speech can be assessed at https://www.pmo.gov.my/?menu=speech&page=1676& news_id=680&speech_cat=2 deep discontent with government services by handing the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional, its worst election performance since independence in 1957 (Iyer, 2011). This matter was also highlighted prior to the 2012 Auditor Generals report where several issues on the possibility of negligence and public official whom fail to discharge their duty to protect government interest. As stated in the report, several weaknesses have been observed during the audit namely improper payment; work/procurement did not follow specifications/ low in quality/ unsuitable; unreasonable delays; wastage; weaknesses in revenue management and management of the Governments assets (National Audit Department, 2013). The report further discussed that the weaknesses happen due to the negligence of the officer in various ways such as unable to comply with the rules and regulations, lack of monitoring, lack of project management skills and fail to give attention on outcome/impact of the programmes/activities/projects. Due to this negligence, a significant amount of money has been wasted. Among of that was the infamous case of Royal Malaysian Customs Department (RMCD) in the issue of shoes procurement for its personnel which was managed by its headquarters within the period of 2009 to 2013 involving a total of RM6.86 million. Audit findings revealed that, at the end of 2012, the balance of shoes purchased in 2009 was yet to be distributed and a total of 7,659 pairs of shoes worth RM602,089 were damaged and needed to be disposed (National Audit Department, 2013). The management in the procurement of shoes by RMCD has resulted in a loss to the Government. Even though the matter is still under investigation, it has incurred a cost to the government and reflected in the governments coffers whether; it was due to inefficiency and negligence by officers responsible in procurement or those responsible in the distribution of the shoes. The other shocking finding from the report discovered that the lack of control in asset management by the Royal Malaysian Police has cost government in missing of invaluable assets such as firearms and handcuffs. With improper internal control system implemented in managing and securing these assets, it could turn into disastrous result that could threaten public safety. According to National Audit Department (2013) from 2010 to 2012, as much as 309 units of assets worth RM1.33 million were reported missing. Among the main categories of asset lost were 156 units of handcuffs, followed by 44 units of firearms and 29 units of vehicles. From auditor generals perspective, the overall management of loss assets in Bukit Aman Police Headquarters and its 3 Police Contingent (IPK) is at unsatisfactory level. This finding has generated concern among the public as it will spread the fear among them on the integrity and accountability of the police department to protect national security whereby at the same time they failed to manage and control their assets efficiently. In term of project management, the auditors also discovered the procurement works of Ministry of Defence amounting to RM1.28 million which was supposed to be done through the tendering process was split into four quotations. The failure of the officer to adhere to the Treasury Instruction has tarnished the image of ministry and the public sector as a whole. These are a few cases highlighted from numerous weaknesses found and these have triggered the public to question on how the public sector manage its employees to follow and honour the publics money with the value of integrity, responsibility and accountability as well as implementing good governance in the public sector delivery. Therefore, this study tries to explore to what extent the principle of accountability in the public sector being honoured in which the employees can be held accountable for its use of funds and for the results of its actions by the electorate as well as the legislature and judiciary in Malaysia. This study will help the government in defining the factor that can contribute to nurture and promote the accountability value among the government departments. Findings from this research will also be useful to provide awareness to policy makers on encouraging accountability environment in many countries especially in Malaysia. Sampling and Data Collection This data for this study was collected based on a targeted survey among the 682 departments and agencies under 24 federal ministries including the Prime Minister Department in Malaysia. The rate of response/ actual sample of this study were 16% from the targeted group. Total 109 respondents replied the email questionnaire among the targeted 682 persons. Previous studies also found that the rate of responses is 5-10% (Alreck & Settle, 1995). The list of ministries is given in Table 1. Table 1: Distribution of samples among the federal ministries of Malaysia Number of Number of Targeted Actual Sample No Name of Ministry Departments or Departments or Agencies Agency 1 Prime Minister office 52 15 2 Ministry of Finance 33 5 3 Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development 18 8 4 Ministry of Education 57 8 5 Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water 21 4 6 Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities 19 1 7 Ministry of Home Affairs 34 4 8 Ministry of Communications and Multimedia 20 2 9 Ministry of Rural and Regional Development 28 2 10 Ministry of International Trade and Industry 31 4 11 Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation 42 5 12 Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment 26 2 13 Ministry of Tourism and Culture 23 1 14 Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry 26 7 15 Ministry of Defence 33 8 16 Ministry of Works 20 4 17 Ministry of Health 44 6 18 Ministry of Youth and Sports 21 3 19 Ministry of Human Resources 22 3 20 Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-Operatives and Consumerism 24 3 21 Ministry of Transport 23 2 22 Ministry of Foreign Affairs 31 5 23 Ministry of Federal Territories 12 3 24 Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Total 682 109 A set of questionnaire was distributed by email using the Google Doc application among the head of department with the guaranteed of information confidentiality. The email addresses of the respondents were collected from the website of the respective ministries. To ensure a high successful response rates, another follow up reminder email was sent to the respondents as suggested by previous studies (Fan & Yan, 2010; Hamilton, 2009; Kaplowitz, Hadlock, & Levine, 2004). Finally, we have received the responses from 109 participants from different departments (Table 1). Measurements of Variables The respondents were asked to provide their opinion on the practices of promoting accountability in their department by using seven-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). The variables of accountability measurements (Table 2) were adapted with some modification from Geer (2009), and Shaoul, Stafford, & Stapleton (2012). Table 2: Factors of accountability measurements in the public sector of Malaysia Code Variables of Accountability Measurement B1 Report regularly on the departments performance to the top management Support the process of learning from mistakes and successes and consider external views for Have a regular reporting system on the achievements and results of programs/projects against their objectives Recognizes the responsibilities of organization towards its wider communities, society and B5 Have established clear operating goals to be achieved B6 Maintain detail and up-to-date records of its inventories and assets B7 Follow treasury rules and regulations in all circumstances B8 Ensures proper usage of fund and usage in authorized way B9 Provide higher responsibility to employees to become highly efficient and effective Highly emphasis on providing prompt assistance to resolve enquires or complains from The data were analysed under descriptive statistics and factor analysis. Descriptive statistics are used to analyse the general features of the data. The factor analysis is used to measure consistency of the data that were collected in this study. Further, the reliability of the data was tested by using Cronbach alpha test. Finally, the data validity was tested by checking the normality of data through Shapiro Wilk test and graphical method. Findings and Discussions The study collected few demographic data of the respondents which includes gender, age, job position, service scheme, grade, highest academic qualification, working experience in current organisation, and total year of working experiences in public service. A summary of the demographic information is given in the Table 3. Table 3: Demographic information of the respondents Demographic Profile Frequency Percentage (%) Female 50 45.9 Male 56 51.4 Not Indicated 3 2.8 30 to 40 years 75 68.8 51 years and above 6 5.5 Under 30 years 12 11.0 Job Position: Management and Professional 101 92.7 Supporting staff 5 4.6 Top management 3 2.8 Service Scheme: Administrative and Diplomatic 76 69.7 Administrative & Support 7 6.4 Education 2 1.8 Engineering 4 3.7 Financial 12 11.0 Information System 2 1.8 Medical & Health 2 1.8 JUSA C 3 2.8 Highest Academic Qualification: Diploma 1 0.9 University Degree/Master/PhD 108 99.1 Working Experience with Current Organisation (Year): 1 to 3 years 29 26.6 5 years and above 55 50.5 Less than 1 year 12 11.0 Working Experience In Public Sector (Year): 1 to 3 years 7 6.4 Less than 1 year 2 1.8 Among the respondents, around 46% are female and 51.4% are mail, and rest did not provide the gender data. Most of the respondents are in the 30-40 years age group which comprised of around 69% of total respondents. Almost all of the respondents have minimum a bachelor degree. Among the respondents, around 93% are in the management & professional position. In case of job scheme, 69% of the respondents are in the administrative and diplomatic scheme followed by 10% in financial services, and 6.4% in administrative & support scheme. About 42% of the respondents are at grade 48 followed by grade 44 which consists of 16.5% and grade 52 which consists of 11% of the respondents. About half of the respondents (50.5%) have been working for more than 5 years in the current organisation while 26.6% from the respondents have been working between 1 to 3 years. As for working in the public sector, 81.7% of the respondents stated that they have been serving the government for more than 5 years. Descriptive Analysis and Factor Analysis The study tries to measure the accountability in public sector by ten variables. Among the respondents, on an average total 87.3% of the respondent are agreed that they practice these accountability factors and only 4.4% mentioned that they do not practices (Table 4). Table 4: Score of accountability factors in the public sector of Malaysia Scores B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 4 5 11 10 9 6 15 5 7 12 7 9 Disagree (1-3) 5 7 7 5 5 5 3 5 3 3 5 Agree (5-7) 99 91 92 95 98 89 101 96 93 98 94 Disagree (1-3) % 5% 6% 6% 5% 5% 5% 3% 5% 3% 3% 4.4% Agree (5-7) % 91% 83% 84% 87% 90% 82% 93% 88% 85% 90% 87.3% Maximum 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 Minimum 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 Std. Dev. 1.01 1.13 1.14 1.03 1.15 1.12 0.94 1.09 0.98 0.98 0.82 The factor analysis provides the consistency of these variables for the accountability measurement. The factor loading for all of the variables are more than 0.6. The ranges of the loading value of the factor is 0.685 (B6) to 0.844 (B1) (Table 5). This indicates that all of these ten variables are good to measure the accountability of the public sector in Malaysia. Among the factors of measurement the accountability in the public sector, reporting regularly on the departments performance to the top management (B1) is followed by 91% of the respondents (Table 4), and the people engaged in engineering scheme performed it most efficiently and the people engaged in medical & health scheme performed it least efficiently (Table 5). Among the other service schemes, the people engaged in administrative & support, financial, and information system schemes follow it more than the average level and the people engaged in administrative & diplomatic, and education schemes follow it below the average level (Table 5). Among the factors of measurement the accountability in the public sector, supporting the process of learning from mistakes and successes and consider external views for improvement (B2) is followed by 83% of the respondents (Table 4), and the people engaged in engineering and information system scheme performed it most efficiently and the people engaged in administrative & diplomatic scheme performed it least efficiently (Table 5). Among the other service schemes, the people engaged in administrative & support, and financial schemes follow it more than the average level and the people engaged in education, and medical & health schemes follow it below the average level (Table 5). Around 84% of the respondents agreed that they has a regular reporting system on the achievements and results of programs/projects against their objectives (B3) (Table 4), and the people engaged in engineering scheme performed this activity most efficiently and the people engaged in medical & health scheme performed this activity least efficiently (Table 5). Among the other service schemes, the people engaged in administrative & support, information system, and financial schemes follow this activity more than the average level and the people engaged in administrative & diplomatic, and education schemes follow this activity below the average level (Table 5). Around 87% of the respondents mentioned that they recognize the responsibilities of organization towards its wider communities, society and the environment (B4) (Table 4), and the people engaged in engineering scheme follow this activity at highest level and the people engaged in education and medical & health scheme follow this activity at lowest level (Table 5). Among the other service schemes, the people engaged in administrative & support and administrative & diplomatic schemes recognize their responsibilities more than the average level and the people engaged in information system and financial schemes recognize the responsibilities below the average level (Table 5). Around 90% of the respondents mentioned that they have established clear operating goals to be achieved (B5) (Table 4), and the people engaged in administrative & support scheme have established it most and the people engaged in medical & health scheme established it least (Table 5). Among the other service schemes, the people engaged in engineering, information system, financial and education schemes have established their goal more than the average level and the people engaged in administrative & diplomatic have established their goal less than the average level (Table 5). Around 82% of the respondents mentioned that they maintain detail and up-to-date records of their inventories and assets (B6) (Table 4), and the people engaged in administrative & support scheme maintain this records at highest rate and the people engaged in medical & health scheme maintain this records at lowest rate (Table 5). Among the other service schemes, the people engaged in engineering, information system, and administrative & diplomatic emphasize on maintaining this record more than the average level and the people engaged in financial and education maintaining this record less than the average level (Table 5). The accountability factor of following treasury rules and regulations in all circumstances (B7) was ensured by the highest number of respondents which consists of 93% of the respondents (Table 4), and the people engaged in engineering scheme are most cautious and the people engaged in medical & health scheme are least cautious about this accountability factor (Table 5). Among the other service schemes, the people engaged in administrative & support, information system, and administrative & diplomatic emphasize on following treasury rules and regulations more than the average level and the people engaged in financial and education following treasury rules and regulations less than the average level The accountability factor of proper usage of fund and usage in authorized way (B8) was ensured by 88% of the respondents (Table 4), and the people engaged in engineering and administrative & support scheme are most cautious and the people engaged in information system scheme are least cautious about this accountability factor (Table 5). Among the other service schemes, the people engaged in administrative & diplomatic emphasize on this issue more than the average level and the people engaged in financial, education, and medical & health emphasize on this issue less than the average level (Table 5). The accountability factor of providing higher responsibility to employees to become highly efficient and effective (B9) was ensured by 85% of the respondents (Table 4), and the people engaged in engineering scheme provide highest responsibility to employees and the people engaged in education and medical & health scheme provide lowest responsibility to employees (Table 5). Among the other service schemes, the people engaged in administrative & support practice this issue more than the average level and the people engaged in information system, financial, administrative & diplomatic schemes practice this issue less than the average level (Table 5). Around 90% of the respondents mentioned that they highly emphasize on providing prompt assistance to resolve enquires or complains of customer (B10) (Table 4), and the people engaged in engineering scheme emphasize on this issue most and the people engaged in financial scheme emphasize on this issue least (Table 5). Among the other service schemes, the people engaged in administrative & support and administrative & diplomatic emphasize on this issue more than the average level and the people engaged in information system, education, and medical & health emphasize on this issue less than the average level Table 5: Score of accountability factors according to service scheme in the public sector of Service Scheme B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 Engineering 6.8 6.0 6.3 6.3 6.5 6.0 6.8 6.3 6.5 6.8 6.4 Administrative & Support 6.3 5.9 6.1 6.1 6.7 6.6 6.0 6.3 6.3 6.6 6.3 Information System 6.0 6.0 6.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 6.5 3.5 5.5 5.5 5.7 Financial 6.1 5.7 5.6 5.5 6.6 5.4 5.6 5.7 5.5 5.3 5.7 Administrative & Diplomatic 5.6 5.3 5.4 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.8 5.9 5.5 5.7 5.6 Education 5.5 5.5 5.0 5.0 6.0 4.5 5.5 4.5 5.0 5.5 5.2 Medical & Health 5.0 5.5 4.0 5.0 4.5 3.5 4.5 4.0 5.0 5.5 4.7 N/A 6.3 5.8 5.8 5.5 6.0 5.0 6.3 5.3 5.5 6.0 5.7 Total Average 5.7 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.9 5.6 5.8 5.8 5.6 5.7 5.7 Factor Loading 0.84 0.81 0.79 0.77 0.79 0.69 0.78 0.74 0.80 0.78 Among all of the accountability factors, the highest mean score is 5.9 for the factor of having established clear operating goals to be achieved (B5), and the lowest mean score is 5.4 for the factor of supporting the process of learning from mistakes and successes and consider external views for improvement (B2) (Table 5). Among all of the service scheme group, the highest average score for all of the factors of accountability measurement is 6.4 for engineering group, and the lowest mean score is 4.7 for the medical & health scheme group. The accountability in the administrative & diplomatic, education, and medical & health is lower than the overall average accountability score of 5.7. The total average score for engineering service scheme group is 6.4 whereas their highest score is 6.8 for the measurement of accountability factors of B1, B7, and B10. Their accountability for the B2, B3, B4, B5, and B8 factors are less than their total average accountability scores, but all of their accountability score is more than the overall average accountability score of 5.7. The total average score for administrative & support scheme group is 6.3 whereas their highest score is 6.7 for the factor of B5, and their lowest score is 5.9 for the factor B2. Their accountability for the B2, B3, B4, and B7 factors are less than their total average The total average score for information system scheme group is 5.7 whereas their highest score is 6.5 for the factors of B6 and B7, and their lowest score is 3.5 for the factor B8. Their accountability for the B4, B8, B9, and B10 factors are less than their average accountability score and total overall average accountability score of 5.7. Interestingly the overall accountability in the financial scheme is not very strong, just average. The total average score for financial scheme group is 5.7 whereas their highest score is 6.6 for the factor of B5, and their lowest score is 5.3 for the factor B10. Their accountability for the B3, B4, B6, B7, B9, and B10 factors are less than their average The total average score for administrative & diplomatic scheme group is 5.6 whereas Their accountability for most of the factors are less than the overall average accountability score of 5.7, and their accountability for the B2, B3, and B9 factors are less than their total average accountability scores. The total average score for education scheme group is 5.2 whereas their highest score is 6.0 for the factor of B5, and their lowest score is 4.5 for the factors B6 and B8. Their accountability for all of the factors, except B5, are less than the overall average accountability score of 5.7, and their accountability for the B3, B4, B6, and B8 factors are less than their total average accountability scores. The total average score for medical & health scheme group is 4.7 whereas their highest score is 5.5 for the factors of B2 and B10, and their lowest score is 3.5 for the factor B6. Their accountability for all of the factors are less than the overall average accountability score of 5.7, and their accountability for the B3, B5, B6, B7, and B8 factors are less than their This result implies that overall public departments are providing highest priority in establishing clear operating goals to be achieved (B5). However, overall departments are providing least support for the learning from mistakes and success as well as review from external parties (B2). This notion shows that the overall public sector has less focus in receiving feedbacks from outside people to review its operation in uplifting the accountability environment. The priority among the accountability factors also differ based on the services The histogram (Figure 1) shows a normal distribution of the bell shape curve for the total average of all ten variables of accountability. The Shapiro Wilk test to assess normality also indicates positive result where p value curve for the total average of all ten variables of accountability is more than .05 (p=.096) that indicates the sample size of the study is normally distributed. Figure 1: Histogram with Normality Plot for Accountability Variable The Cronbach alpha (Table 6) value on the accountability is 0.926 that indicates the reliability of the questions is excellent (George & Mallery, 2003). The eigenvalues for the test mean that the factor used in accountability explained the 60.66% of variance. The Kaiser- Meyer Olkin test indicates a value greater than 0.6 at 0.907 (Chi-Square = 683.321, p < 0.000). Therefore, the sample is adequate to be used in this factorial analysis. Generally, the test has supported the accountability variable for this study. Table 6: Reliability Test for Accountability Factors Cronbach's Alpha 0.926 Eigenvalue 6.066 Eigen % variance 60.66 % of variance 60.66 Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy 0.907 Bartlett's Test of Sphericity Approx. Chi-Square 683.32 Bartlett's Test of Sphericity Sig. 0.000 Malaysia has targeted to achieve the visions 2020 to become a developed nation, but there are much more steps to be taken in improving the accountability of public sector. The study tries to measure the status of current practices of accountability in public sector of Malaysia by assessing the status of ten factors of accountability. Among the total respondents, 87.3% of them are agreed that overall they practice these ten accountability factors, but only 4.4% mentioned that they do not practices. Overall, these public departments provide highest priority in establishing operational goals but least emphasize on the learning from mistakes and feedbacks from outside people to review its operation in uplifting the accountability environment. The priority among the accountability factors for individual services scheme also differs from the overall priority. The accountability in the administrative & diplomatic, education, and medical & health is lower than the overall average accountability. The accountability in the financial and information system schemes is not strong enough. Therefore there are some corruptions, weakness, and lack of control in asset management were discovered in recent Auditor Generals report. Though many approaches have been undertaken to strengthen the public service delivery, the statistic result shows adversely with no impact or at least at the minimal impact. The recent survey by Transparency International on Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2013 shows that Malaysia has just managed to creep up one slot in the rankings from 54 to 53 out of 177 countries, scored 50 but remained in the average range of perception from the people, indicating that graft-fighting measures efforts are still inadequate (The Sunday Daily, 2013). This indication shows even though the government is on the right track to restore the public confidence, there are much more steps to be taken in improving public perception especially towards the public sector accountability. To overcome this situation, just simply changing the structure of bureaucracies is not enough. The overall public sector needs to be transformed into becoming a reliable and efficient sector by ensuring proper accountability and its proper assessment system. 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__label__cc	0.728215	0.271785	FRACTURED AIR The universe is making music all the time Posts Tagged ‘Barbara Lynn’ Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S01E09 \| September mix We’re delighted to present two previously unreleased tracks for September’s mixtape, by Iceland-born cellist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and Portland Oregon-based artist Brumes. For well over a decade now, Hildur Guðnadóttir has firmly established herself as one of the jewels in the crown of today’s independent music scene. Guðnadóttir’s remarkable artistry and versatility has been widely evident in her highly prolific recording output to date – whether in the form of solo works or her many collaborations – on labels such as Touch, Sonic Pieces and Oral Records. Guðnadóttir has released a string of formidable solo albums – from her landmark 2009 full-length “Without Sinking” to 2014’s “Saman” (both albums released via the world-renowned U.K. independent label Touch) and has collaborated with musicians including Hauschka (Dusseldorf’s Volker Bertelmann) and Iceland’s Jóhann Jóhannsson. The moving composition “Fólk fær andlit” (translates to “People get Faces”) was originally published by Guðnadóttir to her YouTube page in April of 2016, in response to the series of events which unfolded in her native Iceland in December 2015, involving the deportation of Albanian children with terminal illnesses along with their families who had been denied residence permits (her heartfelt and eloquently written account of the inspiration to “Fólk fær andlit” can be read in full HERE). Brumes are a three-piece based in Portland Oregon whose lineup comprises of lead songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Desireé Rousseau, Dalton Long (drums) and Nico Bartulski (keys). The band’s debut album “Soundings in Fathoms” was recorded by renowned producer (musician/composer) Peter Broderick at his home studio The Sparkle along the Oregon coast. “I’m Not Listening” was also recorded at The Sparkle by Peter Broderick. Also featured in September’s mixtape are newly released gems by longtime indie greats Cass McCombs (“Mangy Love”, Anti-) and Woods (“City Sun Eater In The River of Light”, Woodsit); latest solo full-length by beloved Irish songwriter Lisa Hannigan (“At Swim”, Play It Again Sam); a pair of releases by the forever inspiring FatCat imprint 130701 (Warsaw-based cellist and composer Resina and Moscow-based pianist and multi-instrumentalist Dmitry Evgrafov). September also sees the welcome return of the hugely influential independent label Tomlab (The Books, Patrick Wolf, Final Fantasy) with Berlin-based electronic artist Heimer’s shape-shifting debut album “Teilzeit Swag”. To Read/listen on La Blogothèque: http://www.blogotheque.net/2016/09/28/fractured-air-x-blogotheque-s01e09-september-mix/ 01. Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek – “Cin” (excerpt) (Faitiche) 02. Botany – “Needam Wish To” (Western Vinyl) 03. The Avalanches – “Saturday Night Inside Out” (XL Recordings) 04. Syrinx – “Hollywood Dream Trip” (RVNG Intl) 05. Ashanti Roy – “Hail The Words of Jah” (Soul Jazz) 06. Barbara Lynn – “This Is The Thanks I Get” (Light In The Attic) 07. Woods – “Sun City Creeps” (Woodsit) 08. Mr. Sweety “G” – “At the Place to Be” (Soul Jazz) 09. Cass McCombs – “Opposite House” (Anti-) 10. Angel Olsen – “Woman” (Jagjaguwar) 11. Lisa Hannigan – “Ora” (Play It Again Sam / ATO) 12. Resina – “Afterimage” (130701) 13. Hildur Guðnadóttir – “Fólk fær andlit” (Unreleased) 14. Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie – “Lithium, The New Era” (Erased Tapes) 15. Brumes – “I’m Not Listening” (Unreleased) 16. Fiona Brice – “Dallas” (Digital 21 + Stefan Olsdal Remix) (Bella Union) 17. Cat Power – “Say” (Matador) 18. ISAN – “Napier Deltic” (Morr Music) 19. Forma – “Maxwell’s Demon” (Kranky) 20. Jackie Lynn – “Alien Love” (Thrill Jockey) 21. Craig Leon – “Details Suggest Fidelity To Fact” (RVNG Intl) 22. Heimer – “Icy Grip” (Tomlab) 23. Zomby & Banshee – “Fly 2” (Hyperdub) 24. Oliver Coates – “STASH” (PRAH Recordings) 25. Mogwai – “U-235” (Atomic OST, Rock Action) 26. Katie Kim – “FOREIGN FLEAS” (Bandcamp) 27. Eluvium – “Strangeworks” (Temporary Residence) 28. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Distant Sky” (Bad Seed Ltd.) 29. Dmitry Evgrafov – “The Lofty Sky” (130701) 30. Irene Buckley – “Waiting” (House of Usher extract) (Soundcloud) 31. Arvo Pärt – “My Heart’s In The Highlands” (Else Torp, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent) (Harmonia Mundi) 32. Jóhann Jóhannsson – “Good Night, Day” (Deutsche Grammophon) Compiled by Fractured Air, September 2016. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or record labels. 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__label__wiki	0.514478	0.514478	FreeSpeech.com “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell Category: domain names ICANN RPM PDP Co-chair Uses Double Standard To Shut Down URS Debate People are beginning to realize there is something terribly wrong with the URS policy, as discussed in part 1 and part 2 of my recent series of articles titled “URS: A Failed Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy That ICANN Insiders Wish To Impose On More Registrants”. One member of the working group attempted to broach the subject today on the mailing list, noting: Here are 3 example URS determinations that seem very troubling from the public information available. Rather than allow debate and analysis to continue, however, Kathy Kleiman, writing “as co-chair” (rather than in a personal capacity) wrote that: At a certain point, you have to draw a line a line (sic) and move on. However, this is completely opposite to how the URS Individual Proposals have been treated by the co-chairs of the working group. Rather than “drawing a line” and “moving on” after decisions were made in 2018 for inclusion of all individual proposals, they relitigated that entire issue. They even violated the rules while doing so. This demonstrates the “double standard”, that the co-chairs can go back and redo things when it suits their desires, but others are told they have to “move on” when trying to bring up legitimate topics. The need to remove the co-chairs and replace them with an independent and neutral facilitator has never been greater. Author George KirikosPosted on December 11, 2019 Categories domain names, ICANN, UncategorizedTags ICANN, UDRP URS: A Failed Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy That ICANN Insiders Wish To Impose On More Registrants (Part 2) In this multi-part series, I look at the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy, a domain name dispute resolution policy that the RPM PDP working group of ICANN is currently reviewing. In part 1, I gave an overview of the URS, and looked at 6 recent domain dispute decisions to help illustrate why it’s such a failed policy, one that belongs in the trash heap of history. In this post, I will look at some of the individual proposals for changing the URS that may or may not be published in the Initial Report of the working group. Currently the working group co-chairs are openly violating the working group rules, relitigating which URS proposals submitted by individual members (including myself, before I was unfairly banished from participation) should be published in the coming report that is open for public comment. Despite this, those remaining members of the working group have not challenged the proposed agenda, which would exclude proposals from the Initial Report. I will go through the individual proposals in the same order that the working group is doing, in order to illuminate the issues involved. As there are more than 30 of them, I will cover just 7 of them in this post. Continue reading “URS: A Failed Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy That ICANN Insiders Wish To Impose On More Registrants (Part 2)” Author George KirikosPosted on December 10, 2019 December 11, 2019 Categories domain names, ICANN, UncategorizedTags ICANN, UDRP, Verisign In this multi-part series, I look at the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy, a domain name dispute resolution policy that the RPM PDP working group of ICANN is currently reviewing. In a fair and unbiased review of the facts, the URS would be abandoned as a failed idea. However, in the ICANN world, that fair and unbiased review doesn’t exist, and instead ICANN insiders wish to impose that flawed policy upon even more domain name registrants. Author George KirikosPosted on December 3, 2019 December 3, 2019 Categories domain names, ICANN, UncategorizedTags ICANN, UDRP ICANN’s (Un)empowered Community Now that the proverbial shit has hit the fan, with regards to the announcement that the .ORG registry has been sold to private equity, something I predicted might happen, many in the ICANN community have wondered how to undo what has been done. There actually exists a theoretically very powerful mechanism within ICANN dubbed the “Empowered Community“, which should be perfect for such a situation. In theory, it can: • Reject ICANN and IANA budgets, and ICANN operating and strategic plans • Reject standard Bylaw amendments • Reject PTI governance actions • Approve fundamental Bylaw and Articles amendments, and asset sales • Recall the entire ICANN Board • Appoint and remove individual ICANN Board directors (other than the President) • Require the ICANN Board to review its rejection of IANA Function Review (IFR),special IFR, Separation Cross-Community Working Group (SCWG) creation,and SCWG recommendation decisions • Initiate community reconsideration request, mediation, or Independent Review Process (IRP) • The rights of inspection and investigation However, there’s a big problem. Like other aspects of ICANN, it too has been captured by registry operator interests or those who have current or past associations with them. There are currently 5 designees listed, and they are: Keith Drazek, of Verisign (operator of the .COM registry)! And he is formerly of Neustar, another registry operator. You can be confident Verisign loves the .ORG contract renewal. In fact, in 2006 when I raised the alarm over tiered pricing in registry contracts, for the .ORG, .INFO and .BIZ agreements, it was Chuck Gomes of Verisign who was one of the few voices that wrote to support such egregious proposals. Champagne bottles were likely popping at Verisign when they saw that the .ORG contract’s terms were changed in 2019 to allow uncapped fees. Keith Drazek also chairs the GNSO Council, which has unjustly banned me from participating in any GNSO working groups. Maureen Hilyard who not only was on the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (the Internet Society owned “Public Interest Registry” which ran .ORG), she’s on the board of directors of DotAsia (another registry operator). As a member of the At Large, she drafted the comments on the renewal of the .ASIA agreement (which was open for public comments around the same time as the .ORG agreement), even showing that draft to the rest of the DotAsia Board for approval, despite the obvious conflicts of interest (see May 2, 2019 transcript of the CPWG, pp. 16-19, where I called it out. I left the At Large in disgust the following day). Stephen Deerhake, who is or was associated with the .AS country code registry operator. Manal Ismail, who is currently on the GAC, but “has also been involved in launching Egypt’s new Arabic ccTLD” (another registry operator). Axel Pawlik who recently stepped down from RIPE (which deals with IP addresses, not domain names). Thus, it’s clear that 4 of the 5 members of the so-called “Empowered Community”, which has the power to recall the entire board and initiate community reconsideration requests (among other powers) have current or past association with registry operators. The likelihood they intervene on the community’s behalf to challenge the decisions of the ICANN Board regarding .ORG is low, given they simply don’t reflect the broad sets of stakeholders in the community. This represents another accountability mechanism that is broken and captured, and which cannot be used by the entire community (ordinary users, domain name registrants, and other stakeholders affected by ICANN decisions) to hold ICANN accountable and reverse bad decisions. The need for drastic action to change the composition and review the entire structure of ICANN, to eliminate this capture now, and the ability to do so in the future, should be clear. Author George KirikosPosted on November 19, 2019 November 19, 2019 Categories domain names, ICANNTags ICANN, Verisign ICANN RPM PDP Working Group Chairs Blatantly Violate Rules The ICANN Review of all Rights Protection Mechanisms in all gTLDs Working Group (“RPM PDP”) has an important agenda, which includes review of domain name dispute resolution procedures such as the UDRP and URS. This is the first time ICANN has ever reviewed these policies since they were adopted. However, this important work is being undermined by working group chairs (Philip S. Corwin of Verisign, Brian Beckham, and Kathy Kleiman) who blatantly violate the working group rules. In a prior blog post, I documented how Mr. Corwin wished to relitigate an already decided issue regarding the publication in the upcoming working group report of various URS-related proposals. The inappropriateness of this attempt to relitigate already decided issues is reinforced by the recent slides of the Pre-ICANN66 GNSO Policy Webinar of October 17, 2019, which clearly state, in relation to the RPM PDP: How can the Council and community assist? Challenge: Relitigating Issues Assistance: Enforce rules against reopening closed topics (page 8) The co-chairs don’t enforce these rules, but instead disregard them to attempt to manipulate the outcome of the PDP by relitigating issues where they wish to change the past outcome with which they disagree. However, despite having no new facts or information to justify reopening a decided issue (as per requirements of section 3.3 of the Working Group Guidelines) WG members should be mindful that, once input/comment periods have been closed, discussions or decisions should not be resurrected unless there is group consensus that the issue should be revisited in light of new information that has been introduced. (page 7) the co-chairs went further and decided to blatantly violate the ICANN transparency requirements, by initiating an anonymous survey of working group members to “take the temperature of the room.” Section 4.1 of the Working Group Guidelines is unambiguous: There is a presumption of full transparency in all WGs. (page 11, emphasis added) An anonymous survey is a clear violation of that “full transparency” standard. Mr. Corwin must certainly be aware of this, given that the exact same transparency issue arose in the IGO PDP, where I initiated a Section 3.7 appeal to challenge a similar anonymous survey/poll, where ultimately we returned to a transparent process after my challenge. In the RPM PDP, though, where I’m unfairly banished from participating, current members appear to be unaware of the ICANN transparency requirements, or are too scared to challenge the co-chairs given how I was mistreated. The results of that anonymous survey (if they are to be even trusted, which is a big “if”, given the numerous problems we encountered in the IGO PDP with faulty numbers in surveys) will apparently be used to attempt to summarily remove sound proposals that are deemed “unpopular”, while retaining deeply flawed proposals that are deemed “popular.” I will examine in detail the good, the bad, and the ugly of those individual proposals in future blog posts. However, consider that a mere 27 members of the PDP responded to the survey. This is out of a total membership of 166 participants in the working group (at the time of this post). This PDP has been beset with major deficiencies in its statistical work, as many members appear to be clueless when it comes to mathematics or statistics. In the best case scenario, had those 27 members surveyed been a random representative sample of the 166 members, the margin of error calculator at SurveyMonkey tells us that (with a population size of 166, confidence level of 95%, sample size of 27), the margin of error for the responses to each question is a whopping +/- 17%. But, we know that this is not a random sample, so the true margin of error will be much higher than +/- 17%, and will not be centered around zero. It’s a self-selected unrepresentative sample that turns out to be dominated by the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) members (at least 41%, which probably understates things, given a Dispute Resolution Provider also answered the survey, whose interests tend to be aligned with the IPC. Some of the folks claiming to be from the BC or CSG might also be closely aligned with the IPC, given the cobweb of interrelationships between various participants of the PDP. Full transparency (as required by the Working Group Guidelines) would reveal the positions of each member who participated, and allow one to properly audit the results. Regardless, this group is entirely unrepresentative of the broader community (in particular, registrants like myself who are directly and greatly impacted by the policies are vastly underrepresented), which is exactly why one should be soliciting public comments on all proposals, rather than allowing a dominant group of insiders to advance their poorly thought out but “popular” (within the unrepresentative group) proposals and shut out sound but “unpopular” (within the unrepresentative group) proposals. [To understand the systemic misuse of statistics in this PDP, see, for example (1) my post within the working group which documented problems with the Analysis Group survey, (2) further post which documented issues with an unrepresentative sample of 14 URS practitioners, where all but 1 focused on representing complainants (and which was far too small a sample to have any statistical validity), and (3) critiques of INTA study (here and here and resulting threads).] Indeed, section 3.2 of the Working Group Guidelines requires that the co-chairs ensure representativeness: Ideally, a Working Group should mirror the diversity and representativeness of the community by having representatives from most, if not all, CO Stakeholder Groups and/or Constituencies. It should be noted that certain issues might be more of interest to one part of the community than others. The Chair, in cooperation with the Secretariat and ICANN Staff, is continually expected to assess whether the WG has sufficiently broad representation, and if not, which groups should be approached to encourage participation. Similarly, if the Chair is of the opinion that there is over-representation to the point of capture, he/she should inform the Chartering Organization. The Working Group and its subteams have long been captured by the dominant IPC, and the co-chairs ignore their responsibility to guard against capture. Lastly, consider that Mr. Corwin has posited that too many proposals represent a high “burden” on the community. However, on October 31, 2019, after completing a review of all those URS proposals, he demonstrated the falsehood of the “burden” argument, stating: I went through all the proposals and it doesn’t take very long to fill out. If it didn’t take him very long to analyze things, it shouldn’t take the community long to do the same and provide feedback. In conclusion, it’s time for the manipulation of the RPM PDP by the co-chairs to end. I renew my call for them to be removed, so they can be replaced by a completely independent and neutral facilitator. Author George KirikosPosted on November 3, 2019 Categories domain names, ICANNTags ICANN, UDRP, Verisign UDRP Systematic Bias as Panelists Mindlessly Copy and Paste Text The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) permits trademark owners to bring domain name registrants before a panel to adjudicate allegations of cybersquatting. These panels have the ability to order that a domain name be transferred to the complainant if the cybersquatting claim is proven. Given this tremendous power to transfer valuable property, there is an inherent expectation that the panels will be neutral, unbiased, and will formulate their decisions with utmost care. However, a recent UDRP decision involving a dispute over the ymobile.com domain name demonstrates that panelists are not starting from a clean slate when adjudicating cases, as one would expect from a neutral and unbiased panel. Instead, panels are using a starting point that the complainant will be the winner, demonstrating systematic bias against domain name registrants. Continue reading “UDRP Systematic Bias as Panelists Mindlessly Copy and Paste Text” Author George KirikosPosted on October 10, 2019 October 10, 2019 Categories domain names, ICANNTags ICANN, UDRP ICANN demonstrates its hypocrisy over .ORG renewals, with cost savings for EBERO contracts ICANN recently passed a resolution regarding the EBERO program. It’s worth comparing the rationale for that resolution with the reasoning used to justify the renewal of the .ORG agreement. For the EBERO resolution, ICANN’s Board refers to competition and costs repeatedly, saying: As a result, ICANN org identified several bidders that have a clear understanding of the work involved, and the capability and infrastructure to perform at the appropriate service levels. Taking this step towards contracting is in fulfilment of ICANN’s mission and in the public interest to ensure that ICANN org is utilizing the right third-party providers, and to ensure that it is maximizing available resources in a cost-efficient and effective manner. The EBEROs provide ICANN org greater geographic diversity of available service providers while achieving a more competitive pricing model. Currently, ICANN pays [REDACTED FOR NEGOTIATION PURPOSES] for three EBERO providers over five years. The selection of providers through the RFP process will result in a savings of approximately 30%, while also achieving an increased level of technical support for the EBERO program. So, terms like “several bidders”, “cost-efficient”, “achieving a more competitive pricing model”, “savings of approximately 30%”, and fixed terms of “five years” are evident. Contrast this with the controversial .ORG renewal where, despite the overwhelming opposition of the public, ICANN renewed the contract with an important change that eliminated caps on fees charged by the registry operator. In its analysis of the public comments, ICANN said: Removing the price cap provisions in the .org Registry Agreement is consistent with the Core Values of ICANN org as enumerated in the Bylaws approved by the ICANN community. [p. 8] This is hypocrisy. ICANN demonstrates that it’s fully capable of negotiating a fixed term contract for EBERO, which led to cost savings and even the replacement of one of the EBERO providers. ICANN refers to “several bidders”, highlighting the importance of seeking cost-efficient contracted parties. These were fixed term contracts that led to a cost savings of approximately 30%. In contrast, the .ORG renewal debacle shows no respect for cost-efficiency, as it allows the registry operator the ability to raise fees by an unlimited amount. This contract also has “presumptive renewal”, meaning it’s nearly impossible to replace the registry operator, unlike the apparent terms of the EBERO. Unlike the EBERO contract which had “several bidders”, ICANN only “negotiated” with a single party (if one can even call it a good faith “negotiation”, given ICANN threw registrants under the bus with this bad deal). Presumably ICANN does not let EBERO providers change their fees at the discretion of the EBERO providers, nor does it let EBERO providers have presumptive renewal. NameCheap is currently challenging ICANN’s unjustified renewal of .ORG on such terrible terms. I hope that this contrast with the EBERO contracts assists them in their efforts. Author George KirikosPosted on August 28, 2019 August 28, 2019 Categories domain names, ICANNTags ICANN ICANN Public Comment Periods are a Sham. All Public Comment Periods Should be Suspended Until a Full Investigation Has Occurred Today was the last day to submit comments to ICANN on the GNSO Policy Development Process on IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms Policy Recommendations for ICANN Board Consideration. I submitted a comment a few minutes ago, which can be read in its entirety here [PDF]. Comments by others can be viewed in the public comments archive. As a preliminary matter, I called out ICANN for pretending that the comment periods are legitimate. Below is the first section of my 32 page submission (with formatting slightly edited for clarity on this blog): As a preliminary matter, I note with approval and fully support the recent Reconsideration Request 19-2 filed by Namecheap, Inc. regarding the .org contract renewal, where Namecheap wrote: The ICANN org will decide whether to accept or reject public comment, and will unliterally (sic) make its own decisions- even if that ignores the public benefit or almost unanimous feedback to the contrary, and is based upon conclusory statements not supported by evidence. This shows that the public comment process is basically a sham, and that ICANN org will do as it pleases in this and other matters. It is a concern not only for the renewal of the .org and other legacy TLD registry agreements being renewed in 2019, but an even greater concern for the upcoming renewal of the .com registry agreement- as well as other vital policy issues under consideration by ICANN now and in the future. [p. 12, emphasis added] These are strong but thoughtful words from a highly respected company in the domain industry, whose views are shared by many. One of the synonyms for the word sham is fraud, and it’s apparent now that a fraud has been perpetrated on the public, namely ICANN deceiving the public into believing that these comment periods were legitimate opportunities for meaningful input. The reconsideration request isn’t strictly limited to the .org renewal, but directly calls into question the legitimacy of all of ICANN’s public comment periods for all of the policy issues now and in the future. ICANN should not take their reconsideration request lightly, but should instead call for a full public investigation with full opportunity for the ICANN community to weigh in on this procedural matter which is at the core of ICANN itself. Until such an investigation has concluded, I call on ICANN to suspend all public comments periods, in order to ensure the process integrity of all policymaking. Of course, given ICANN’s comment process is a sham, this comment itself will likely be ignored, but I place it on the public record for posterity so that a higher authority will eventually hold ICANN accountable. My remaining comments are thus made “in protest” given that the process itself is currently a sham, but I place them again on the record so that fair-minded members of the public can later scrutinize ICANN’s processes, and hold them accountable. Author George KirikosPosted on August 20, 2019 August 20, 2019 Categories domain names, ICANNTags ICANN, UDRP, Verisign Misuse of ICANN PDP Chair Position to Relitigate Working Group Decisions Something very disturbing and dangerous is happening within the ICANN RPM PDP working group, that I’d like to bring to the community’s attention. A co-chair of the working group is misusing his position. Philip S. Corwin, is Policy Counsel at Verisign (the dot-com registry operator), and one of the co-chairs in the RPM PDP working group that is chartered to review the UDRP, URS, and other rights protection mechanisms. In October 2018 at the ICANN face-to-face meeting in Barcelona, it was decided by the working group that all individual proposals related to the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) dispute resolution procedure would be published and included in the initial report, in order to have the benefit of public comment on all of them. One can review the transcripts of Session 1 and Session 4 where this is fully documented. For example, on page 2 of the Session 4 transcript: Kathy Kleiman: … And it had been proposed by John McElwaine that rather than arguing, spending the next meeting arguing over what’s limited support and what’s adequate support, we move everything into adequate support, publish all individual proposals as individual proposals, not as working group recommendations in any way shape or form, and go home and, you know, or bring a keg and have a beer. Indeed, an action item was even prepared in a subsequent email by ICANN staff which documented the results, stating: Staff will update the table of individual proposals to reflect all proposals as having adequate support and updating the sections of the Initial Report in which they will appear; Mr. Corwin even replied to that email, stating on October 23, 2018: My recollection is that we agreed yesterday that all individual proposals would be placed in the IR for the purpose of soliciting public comment without any designation of support level. [Note to reader: IR = Initial Report] However, in a GNSO Council meeting 9 months later, on July 18, 2019, where Mr. Corwin was providing an update on the RPM PDP’s status, long after the above working group decision, Mr. Corwin said: I personally hope that the full working group will give some additional attention to the URS proposals because, frankly, there’s almost three dozens of them. We kind of threw in the towel back in Abu Dhabi (sic) because of internal problems in the working group. I don’t think it’s fair or efficient to burden the community with that many proposals on URS [inaudible] which are likely to gain consensus support in the end. But we’ll see how the full working group feels about that. [page 41 of transcript] (Obviously, Mr. Corwin meant Barcelona, not Abu Dhabi in the above statement.) Mr. Corwin makes 2 arguments, namely (a) burdening the community and (b) internal problems in the working group. Let’s examine them one at a time. First, if we review the October 2018 transcripts, the argument about burdening the community was already explicitly discussed and considered at the time. Phil Corwin: Yes, Phil Corwin for the record. Brief comment following up on Kathy, yes, I fully understand the viewpoint of those who think we’re overburdening community by putting out too many proposals that may not have a high level of support. [page 3 of the session 4 transcript] Thus, there was no new information that hadn’t already been considered by the working group. Mr. Corwin’s second argument alleged that at the time of the October 2018 decision, there were “internal problems in the working group”. Presumably he is trying to reference me without naming me, because then he later went on to say in the transcript: I do want to note that since an extremely disrupted member of the working group exited –thanks to assistance from council–the work has gone much more efficiently and productively, and we thank you for stepping in and helping on that matter. It’s clear now that we no longer have that problem, how much it was slowing us down, and really showing the descent and making it difficult to reach agreement on many issues. So we have that in the past now. [page 41 of transcript] Thus, it should be obvious that Mr. Corwin is clearly trying to reference me as the source of the alleged “disruption” and “problems” on or prior to October 2018 (when the URS process decision was made by the working group), given that I was unjustly banished from the working group as previously discussed at length on this blog (see here and here). Mr. Corwin’s above allegations of “disruptions” and “problems” are false, and contradicted by his very own statements on the GNSO Council mailing list on October 25, 2018 (several days after the URS topic was finalized above), where he wrote: Goran just made the statement below on the ESB dispute within the RPM WG at the conclusion of the Public Forum, which I captured from the raw transcript. The statement references the letter received on Monday from Mr. Kirikos’ attorneys, and states that he has assigned JJ to look into the issues surrounding the matter. Goran’s statement that, “WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE HAVE BEEN DISPUTES WITHIN THE GROUP, AND IT’S MORE OR LESS BEEN STALLED FOR THE LAST SEVEN MONTHS” is factually incorrect. Greg Shatan’s ESB complaint was filed in June, so its resolution has been stalled for four months. However, the WG has made substantial progress on its work during the past few months, including the consideration, and adoption for Initial Report public comment purposes, of 34 sub-team recommendations and 33 individual proposals for URS operational and policy modifications. However, the escalation of outside counsel involvement beyond the original ESB complaint to occurrences within WG meetings does threaten its further progress absent a satisfactory resolution. This statement by Mr. Corwin was directly referenced in section 2 of the letter from Robin Gross to John Jeffrey of March 10, 2019. So, there was never any disruption at all in the working group by me that in any way affected the URS topic. Mr. Corwin acknowledged that himself, citing the “substantial progress on its work during the past few months, including the consideration, and adoption for Initial Report public comment purposes, of 34 sub-team recommendations and 33 individual proposals for URS operational and policy modifications.” Thus, both of Mr. Corwin’s arguments are spurious. But, it gets worse. On August 2, 2019 (this past Friday), ICANN Staff circulated the agenda for the upcoming call on Wednesday, August 7, 2019, wherein item 2 is: Brief Discussion: Process for Determining Individual URS Proposals to Include in the Initial Report Mr. Corwin is thus actively following through and attempting to relitigate the issue (already decided in October 2018) this week. Mr. Corwin is trying to rewrite history, in order to attempt to justify reopening a decided issue within the RPM PDP, thereby abusing his powers as Co-Chair. It’s been said that in order to be a good liar, you need to have a good memory. It’s clear that Mr. Corwin has a bad memory, as it was trivial for me to document the true facts and timeline and expose his shenanigans via his own statements. The stakes are very high, especially now that the URS will become mandatory for the .ORG registry, newly affecting millions of domain names and registrants, instead of just new gTLDs (due to a highly controversial recent decision by ICANN that was opposed by many, as can be read in the thousands of public comments. I submitted numerous proposals regarding the URS (see the “Individual URS Proposal Presentation Order & Schedule” tab), and I believe that Mr. Corwin, due to his personal animus towards me, seeks to now prevent those proposals from being commented upon by the public, especially now that I am unable to defend them or the future process within the working group itself. Mr. Corwin even had the nerve to falsely state, on June 17, 2019, that: I want to note that I think council was aware we’re having particular disciplinary problem with one member. Council took action on that after Kobe. That member decided to leave the working group and things have been much smoother and more efficient since then, and we thank council for that action. [page 27 of transcript] I did not “decide to leave” — I was unjustly banished. This is fully documented. This was not in any way a voluntary act by me to “leave”. Perhaps it helps Mr. Corwin sleep better at night to tell the world that it was a voluntary act by me to leave, but it just isn’t so. This is another attempt at historical negationism by Mr. Corwin. Obviously there was never a disruption to the actual work of the PDP, as documented above by Mr. Corwin himself on October 25, 2018. Mr. Corwin then went on to say on June 17, 2019, ironically in light of the above: Relitigating issues, all I can say here is the co-chairs of the full working group and the subteam co-chairs have been more actively pushing back against attempts to reopen topics which have been thoroughly discussed and resolved, and emphasizing the need to move on and accept the outcome, either we’ve reached wide support and we’re putting something out for comment in the initial report, or we haven’t. [page 28 of transcript] There you have it. Mr. Corwin himself, via his own words, was against others relitigating issues that have been “thoroughly discussed and resolved.” This is not even the first time Mr. Corwin has attempted to manipulate a PDP — he attempted to manipulate the IGO PDP when he was co-chair (he later resigned), which I called him out for in the Section 3.7 appeal in that working group (see documents in PDFs at the bottom of the emails here and here). His personal animus towards me stems from that Section 3.7 appeal. I call upon the RPM PDP members and GNSO Council to oppose Mr. Corwin and have him severely sanctioned. At a minimum, Mr. Corwin should be removed as co-chair. Indeed, I previously called for all the co-chairs of the RPM PDP to be removed and replaced by a neutral professional facilitator (see item 1(h) and section 7 of PDF attached to the email here) for the good of the work. Given the other two co-chairs appear to have permitted Mr. Corwin to put this on the agenda for Wednesday’s call, they too need to be held accountable. All members of the PDP should be put upon an even playing field, to prevent these kinds of abuses from happening again in the future. Author George KirikosPosted on August 5, 2019 August 6, 2019 Categories domain names, ICANNTags ICANN, Verisign Double Standards in the Application of the ICANN Expected Standards of Behavior – Part 6 In this series, I examine past behavior at ICANN, contrasting it with the Expected Standards of Behavior (ESOB), and ask you to decide for yourself whether it has been applied equally to everyone, or instead is applied selectively to achieve different results when different people are involved. I previously documented how Mr. Corwin previously publicly rebuked me, in October 2018, for using the term “wish lists”, a term that had been used by others at ICANN. On April 24, 2019, in a meeting of the Trademark Claims Data Review Sub Team of the RPM PDP, Mr. Corwin said the following in regards to one of the proposals I submitted: Not to pile on – and I haven’t heard any support for this yet – I just want to state in a personal capacity I regard this proposal as an intentionally poison pill proposal coming from a former member of this working group who was exceedingly clear that he wanted to sunset most, if not all, of the new TLD RPMs. [page 27 of transcript or starting at 45:40 of the MP3 recording, emphasis added] So, in one instance, Mr. Corwin rebukes the innocuous term “wish lists” only when I use it (and not when others have used it). But then in another instance, Mr. Corwin feels free to make a far worse statement of his own, using the phrase “intentionally poison pill proposal.” His statement falsely suggests that my good faith proposal was actually made in bad faith (which is an attack on me personally). According to the ESOB, which Mr. Corwin claims must be followed, “Those who take part in the ICANN process must acknowledge the importance of all stakeholders and seek to understand their points of view.” Rather than attempt to do so, Mr. Corwin engaged in an attack against me when I wasn’t even present to defend myself (as I had been unfairly banished earlier that month. That’s the typical conduct of a coward, one who knows he can get away with an attack because the target of the statements isn’t present. Without going into great length in this post (I’ll save that for future blog posts reviewing all my proposals), I made a serious proposal in good faith which sought to reimburse registrars for their costs (my company is not a registrar directly, although we do act as a reseller of the registrar Tucows mostly for the management of our own domain names) related to the Trademark Claims notices, via a CPM-based method. Some registrars haven’t even implemented the notices for new gTLDs (these notices might even become mandatory for legacy TLDs, depending on the outcome of the PDP), and those that did implement the notices have seen very high abandonment rates when prospective registrants are shopping for their domains. My proposal was a good faith attempt to find an economic solution to an economic problem (my academic background is in economics and finance), and one that is easy to implement (many DNS providers charge usage-based fees proportional to the number of DNS requests, as do other systems that use APIs, and as do many online advertising systems). Indeed, it’s rich for Mr. Corwin, an employee and representative of Verisign, to attack my attempts to “work to build consensus with other stakeholders” (to quote the ESOB, with the “other stakeholders” being registrars facing burdens due to ICANN’s policies) and to act “irrespective of personal interests” (to again quote the ESOB, as my company isn’t directly impacted by the notices at present), given that section 7.3(d)(ii) of Verisign’s dot-com registry agreement permits Verisign to be directly compensated (through higher prices) if a new ICANN consensus policy imposes new burdens on Verisign. My proposal simply attempts to provide registrars with reimbursement for their burdens, to have similar protections that Verisign enjoys. Indeed, I made another proposal in a similar vein which sought the provision of open source software examples to be provided to registrars, to once again lower the burden on registrars by lowering their implementation costs. This second proposal read in combination with the other shows my good faith intent to address a real economic problem for registrars. I doubt Mr. Corwin or Verisign would unilaterally offer to remove section 7.3(d)(ii) from their contract without compensation, but his criticism of my proposal would ring more sincere if Verisign did so. Mr. Corwin, in rebuking me in the past, asserted that one should “refrain from using terms that denigrate the efforts and ideas of other WG members“. But it’s clear that he feels free to use phrases like “intentionally poison pill proposal” and not follow his own advice in his attack on myself, his policy opponent. Indeed, Mr. Corwin’s hypocrisy reminds me of Matthew 7:5: Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. In conclusion, this example further illustrates the dangers of the ESOB. 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__label__cc	0.623052	0.376948	Why Recommended Places Are the Next Big Thing in Location Mathew Ingram Aug 24, 2010 - 8:30 AM CDT Now that Facebook is doing its best to make location-based services and the idea of a “check-in” mainstream with Facebook Places, the real game in location is shifting elsewhere: such as trying to make sense of all of the location data that users are providing through various services. One obvious goal is to offer users recommendations for places based on their behavior or the activity of their social network, and several startups have their eye on that prize: The Hotlist, a seed-funded startup based in New York, just announced it has integrated the Facebook Places API into its recommendation service, and Hunch.com — another NYC-based startup, founded by Flickr (s yhoo) co-founder Caterina Fake — has just launched a recommended-location service. The Hotlist started as a service aimed at university students, designed by its founders to aggregate information from a user’s social network and show popular nightspots. It uses the Facebook platform to pull in data from that network’s social graph, and also collects related tweets about a location from Twitter, as well as user reviews from Yelp. The service’s university-focused pedigree definitely shows in certain features, like the one that shows the male-to-female ratio at a given venue. The Hotlist also allows users to share their future plans to attend events or go to specific locations, in much the same way that event-sharing services such as Plancast do. The company raised $800,000 from a number of angel investors earlier this year. Although it is still relatively new (having launched its beta in March), The Hotlist says it’s logged close to 3 million upcoming events that users (and their social networks) plan to attend at almost a million locations around the world. Hunch.com, a recommendation service that Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon launched earlier this year, also has its eye on providing location recommendations, through a feature called Hunch Local that debuted recently. Hunch pulls in a user’s social-graph information when they log in with Facebook or Twitter, but also uses its proprietary algorithm — which is based on a user’s answers to a series of questions about their likes and dislikes in a variety of areas — to arrive at recommendations. So while The Hotlist shows you venues that your social network explicitly likes or has checked-in at, Hunch tries to guess what kinds of locations you might like (other services such as LikeCube are taking a similar approach). A service like Foursquare can show you how many of your friends have checked in at a specific spot and give you tips about that location, while Yelp and other services (such as Google (s goog) Local) can show you user reviews, but the interesting thing about applications like The Hotlist and Hunch’s local recommendation feature is their ability — or potential ability — to effectively make social decisions easier. With a glance at a customized map on your Hotlist page, you can see the places where your friends either are already or plan to go in the future, and then decide to join them (or not, depending on how social you’re feeling). Hunch’s secret sauce, meanwhile, is its ability to guess what locations you might be interested in, based on what it knows about you. Facebook has its eye on the recommendation prize as well, obviously. Given enough check-ins and “likes” using the network’s open-graph protocol, Facebook can start to show you what locations are popular with your social network, and then eventually make suggestions about locations you might like as well — the potential advertising opportunities for such a service would be huge — and because the Facebook Places API is open, it can aggregate data from Foursquare and Gowalla as well. That is going to make the game a lot harder for startups like Hunch and The Hotlist, but for now at least the location-recommendation market is fairly wide open. Related content from GigaOM Pro (sub req’d): Location: The Epicenter of Mobile Innovation Is Geolocation a Real Business or Just a Feature? Post and thumbnail photos courtesy of Flickr user Dunechaser The Hotlist 10 Responses to “Why Recommended Places Are the Next Big Thing in Location” Tyroon September 8, 2010 From an end user point of view recommended places are very useful for me. If I’m at certain place and any of trusted source recommended something, I would prefer to go check out that place…. More over I’m doubtful some big hotels or restaurant might try to game this system by fake reviews…. Dr. Phil Hendrix August 24, 2010 The Holy Grail at the nexus of location/proximity, time, events and offers/deals… Excellent post, Mathew. I believe services like these will soon be indispensable, akin to navigation on mobile devices and PNDs. Since events are by definition perishable, these services could solve the age-old, universal problem faced by individuals (“what should I do this (evening/weekend/etc.)?”) as well as businesses (“the event starts in four hours and we have lots of unsold tickets.”) With location tracking and a properly disambiguated database of events by location and time, a location-based service could also “learn” a great deal about individuals’ interests (with their permission, of course; I referred to this as “footstreams” in my location-based innovation report). It’s useful to consider which feature(s) and functionality could/will make one of these solutions truly indispensable. I suspect it’s the ability to match events to users in real-time. Dave Pakman of Venrock offered keen insights a few months ago in his post “The Right-time Web” (http://dpakman.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-right-time-web/) – referring to search, he observed that “[while] social media content is valuable because it comes from people you care about, it is gold when it marries with your intent and interest in a topic at a time of your choosing.” His observation is even more applicable to opportunities at the nexus of location (proximity), time, and perishable events. Imagine a solution that combines collaborative filtering a la Hunch or Amazon (not just from your social network, but others “like you”), the scalability of Google search, location awareness from someone (maybe Skyhook?), with real-time offers from a Groupon-like service tied into local attractions and events – there is enormous value in solving this problem! Interestingly, Groupon has just begun to ask its subscribers to complete a short profile so that it can provide offers tailored to the subscriber’s interests. Much like “Google” has become synonymous with search, the service that best answers “what do you want to do?” will soon become part of our vernacular as well. Dr. Phil Hendrix, immr and GigaOm Pro analyst Yvon Bayonne August 24, 2010 Yet I’m very surprised that startups try to compete against Facebook given its huge avantage: social graph acuracy. I mean they have better knowledge (the data is here) of user behaviour than anyone. Facebook Places API will make it possible to leverage Foursquare and Gowalla’s check-ins data? Come on. Demensi August 24, 2010 I’ve been saying it for years now, location-based services are the way of the future. A company called Nixle (nixle.com) was pioneering the path before it became a fad. Sanjay August 24, 2010 We completely agree that helping users find what to do & where to do it is a huge opportunity in the social location space. Now that check-ins have become mainstream, the real value that people are looking for is around deciding where to go, well before checking in somewhere. At Poig, our approach is to make it incredibly easy to share what you want to do (an idea, a want, a thought that comes well before having a formal plan) and then, helping users figure out the where, when and with whom through their social connections. The next wave of location innovation is going to be about helping people make real-time social decisions, not just broadcasting what they’re already doing. Sanjay Maharaj August 24, 2010 Recommended services has value becasue it comes from a trusted source. If friends recommend a place or service it is more then likely that we will check thast place out and that is why the value of such services are great Mathew Ingram August 24, 2010 I agree, Sanjay — thanks for the comment.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14106
__label__wiki	0.503701	0.503701	Posts Tagged ‘Striking Beauties Boxing Gym for Women K.O. Mequinonoag Reis: Exclusive Q & A Ahead Of Her May 3, 2014 Fight! By Girlboxing 1 Comment Tags: 2012 Olympics, 2012 Women's Olympic Boxing, Big Six Boxing Academy, Big Six Boxing Entertainment, Boxing, boxing trainers, boxing training, Dr. Roland Estrada, female boxing, girlboxing, inspirational, Irish Cultural Center, K.O. Mequinonoag Reis, K.O. Reis, Kali Reis, Marva Dash, Mary Del Pino, Mary del Pino Morgan, MMA, Peter Manfredo Sr., Postaday 2014, postaday2014, Striking Beauties Boxing Gym for Women, Tori Nelson, WIBA, WIBA Welterweight Title, WMMA, women's boxing, Women's Olympic Boxing Kali Reis (5-2-0), known in the ring as K.O. Mequinonoag Reis, will be fighting Marva Dash (0-2) on May 3, 2014 at the Irish Cultural Center in Canton, Massechussetts. Promoted by Big Six Boxing Entertainment, the bout will be on mixed card of boxing and MMA bouts–and the only female fight on the card. Reis defeated Dash by unanimous decision in a previous four-rounder. In the words of her manager Mary Del Pino, “Kali Reis is one of the first Native American professional female boxers to come out of New England. Her rich heritage includes Cherokee, Nipmunk and Wampanoag blood.” Kali also had a challenging upbringing in the tougher areas of Providence, Rhode Island, but it didn’t keep her down, and she used her athletic abilities and keen intellect to push through adversity. She started boxing at a young age, learning the rudiments of the game on a heavy bag with her coach, the Native American boxer, Domingo Tall Dog. In her late teens, she trained with Peter Manfredo Sr. and eventually with Dr. Roland Estrada at Big Six Boxing Academy. Reis is currently back in training with Manfredo. Last fall, Reis shocked the boxing world with her high credible showing against seasoned boxer, Tori Nelson, in a ten-round WIBA Welterweight Title fight in Cockeysville, Maryland on November 7, 2013. While Reis lost the fight, she gained respect for her obvious boxing talent, especially since she’d been out of commission following a serious motorcycle accident in 2012. It was also her first 10-rounder. When she isn’t fighting, Reis works as a trainer at the Striking Beauties Boxing Gym for Women in North Attleboro, MA, teaching adults and children how to box. Ahead of her fight on May 3rd, Girlboxing had a chance to catch up with her: 1. You’ve got a 6-round fight coming up on May 3, 2014 against Marva Dash — what can we expect to see on fight night? You can expect to see a totally different fighter on my end, from the lay time we fought in 2012. I’ve made some serious adjustments to my training camp and the results have proved to be successful thus far. I am very happy with the way I am feeling and looking in the ring. 2. What do you want to tell your fans about your upcoming bout and what motivates you to fight? I want to tell all my fans IM BACK!! 🙂 I hope you all missed me!!! Dust off your purple and lime green attire lol!! I’ve been away from boxing for a while and I haven’t fought in New England for far too long. I came back in November and it’s my time now. I’ve been training harder than ever and I’m ready to show my fans what I can do in there 3. The 10-round WIBA welterweight title fight last November against Tori Nelson was quite a bold fight for you — especially since it was your first bout after your serious motorcycle accident. What did it take to walk into the ring that night? It took EVERYTHING!! I had been back in training since last July and was scheduled for a come back fight locally in Rhode Island in October. We got the call about the Nelson Title fight about a week after she defeated Alex Lopes for the vacant title in early September and I jumped right on it! It was perfect timing because of the scheduled “tune-up” fight in Oct, but that fight fell thru. So I was going into a 10-round world title fight from over a year lay off. Physically I was in great shape and did what I had to do, mentally I wasn’t all there. Personally I was going thru a few changes and there were a lot of new things for me going into this fight. I had Peter Manfredo back on my corner with Dr. Roland Estrada and I hadn’t had Pete in my corner in years. I had never fought 10 rounds or a main event or in Maryland lol. Not to mention the “ring rust” I didn’t have a chance to shake off prior to this fight. The only mistake I made with that fight is not letting my hands go. I picked it up In the fourth round and every round following but it was a little too late. I want the rematch most definitely. 4. You surprised a lot of fans and boxing aficionados with your ring skills that night — and now you’re ranked number ten at welterweight. Where do you see your career going from here? Are you working towards another title shot? I see nothing but positive moves being made toward that number 1 spot. Especially after the recent positive changes I’ve made. I seem to have finally found my rhythm and I’m focused on doing what ever is necessary to secure my place as a top contender in the female welterweight division. I also have other plans to make some noise in Native Country. I want to (and will) start an all Native cross country boxing tournament. It’s just thoughts and conversation right now but I am determined to make it happen. I do what we as a Nation of people have been doing for centuries, I FIGHT!! Another title shot is in the works right now and hopefully everything goes thru smoothly. 5. You’ve been around boxing for over ten years first as an amateur and now as a pro — what motivates you to keep in the boxing game? My love for the sport. I’m definitely not in it for the money lol. I’m not too bad at it either. I look at boxing as an art and I haven’t mastered that art yet; or in better terms I haven’t achieved what I want to achieve from boxing yet. Boxing is one of those skills were you will never know it all and there’s always something new to learn or an area to improve in. 6. As a proud Native American woman with a rich heritage that includes Cherokee, Nipmunk and Wampanoag ancestry — and one of the few in boxing today — you are a role model for other young women. How has your experience in boxing helped you — and what can your experiences offer by way of guidance to younger women and girls? Boxing has definitely helped me to channel and control certain emotions. It has also given me patience in general because I am also a boxing coach and fitness/boxing instructor for all ages and teaching takes a lot of patience. Boxing is a very demanding sport and it teaches you commitment, discipline and offers a feeling of success as you learn more and more. I always teach my girls/students to be humble to the sport and don’t cheat on yourself by taking the easy way out. Boxing isn’t a team sport so if YOU don’t do something it’s YOUR fault, there’s no one else to blame. 7. With the Olympics in 2012 — and Claressa Shields’ success at bringing home the gold, there was a lot of hope that the sport of women’s boxing would find its way back to the mainstream. Your fight on May 3rd is actually on a mixed card with boxing and MMA — a format that has been used in California as well when Ana Julaton fought on a mixed card. From your perspective, do you think there is reason for optimism? Certainly the coverage is more positive … the question is why aren’t female boxing matches making it to the mainstream in the U. S.? When Claressa Shields brought home that gold I thought for sure women’s boxing would get the push it’s been wiring for but it fizzled out quick and no one made any significant noise about it! I think mixing the MMA with boxing is a smart idea from a promoters standpoint to get more fans on board and back to being classic boxing fans as well as cater to the fight fans who aren’t into the brutality that MMA offers. I think the reason female fights aren’t making it to the mainstream is because the fights that happened to be showcased are the wrong fights. They’re unskilled sloppy “pull your hair” slap fest that no one cares to watch. We need the caliber of fighters like the era of Lucia Rijker, Laila Ali, Christy Martin when fight fans wanted those females on main big name cards. A few tickets are still available for what is anticipated to be a sold-out show. Tickets are $40, $75 Ringside, available through Kali at 401-368-4294. The Accidental Boxing Manager: Mary del Pino Morgan Tags: 2012 Women's Olympic Boxing, Boxing, boxing promotion, boxing trainers, boxing training, CES Boxing, Classic Entertainment Sports, female boxing, girl boxing, girlboxing, girls boxing, Havoc Boxing, inspirational, Mary del Pino Morgan, pep rallies, Peter Manfredo Sr., post-victory party, postaday 2013, postaday2013, Shelito Vincent, Shelly "Shelito's Way" Vincent, Shelly Vincent, Striking Beauties Boxing Gym for Women, Striking Beauties Gym, women's boxing As a boxing manager, Mary del Pino Morgan is pretty unlikely. She first walked into the Striking Beauties all-women’s boxing gym in North Attleboro, Massachusetts nearly four years ago wanting to lose weight. She’d been a boxing fan and remembers watching fights with her Argentinean father. One of her uncles was a champion boxer as well, “so, it’s in my blood,” she said in a recent interview with Girlboxing, “if not one way, than another.” Still, during her first forays in training, Mary did not envision herself as the boxing manager for Shelly “Shelito’s Way” Vincent, a rising star in the East Coast professional women’s boxing world, whose perfect 9-0 record and most recent win against boxer Angel Gladney have netted Shelito the Women’s International Boxing Association (WIBA) super bantamweight title and a fan base that seems to grow exponentially with every foray into the ring. The latter, Shelito’s fan base though has a lot to do with her manager, and friend Mary del Pino Morgan. As Mary tells it, her growing love of boxing and dedication to the sport and the women who practice it led her down a path she never expected. “I was there [at Striking Beauties] all the time and got to know everyone. It was more like a club than a gym and pretty intimate. At first I volunteered there,” she said, wanting women coming into the gym for the first time to “feel comfortable especially with losing weight.” She felt good about introducing them to an environment that was really safe and supportive no matter what their body type or skill level. Mary, in her “other” life as a personal chef and wedding cake designer was so good at customer service that she the owner of the gym, Dena Paolino, offered her a job managing Striking Beauties. With several National champions, including two 2010 National Golden Gloves title holders coming out of the gym, Mary became pretty excited about the sport and the possibilities for women. It also brought her to the fights and an awareness of Shelito Vincent who was making a name for herself as an amateur boxer in the New England area. This led Mary to strike up a casual friendship with her on Facebook. One fateful night, Shelito wrote a post on Facebook that struck a chord with Mary. “She put up a message that said she was in a car accident and stuck. And it was like, January and raining and at night. I checked back in a few minutes to see if anyone was helping her and Shelly had put another message on that said her car was dead and her phone was almost out and I thought, that’s it. “I wrote ‘You’re in Connecticut right?’ and she wrote back, ‘No. I’m in Providence.’ And then I wrote her to say I’d get in my car to pick her up. A couple of minutes later she got back to me and said, ‘somebody is right down the street, so I’m okay, but I have your back now. You were going to come get me and you don’t even know me!’ and I thought, wow, Shelito Vincent’s got my back.” By then Shelito had won her October 2011 debut match by decision against Karen Dulin and was looking forward to a rematch in March 2012. Shortly before that fight Mary and Shelito finally met at a boxing match that had women on the card. “We were sitting behind a couple of gentlemen who were having a great time.” After a lot of banter back and forth Mary said, “You need to see one of her fights, she’s really great.” Of the meeting Mary said, “It really blew his mind that she was a woman and a professional boxer.” At the end of the night, Mary took his email address and she wrote him to let him know the particulars of Shelito’s upcoming bout. As Mary tells it, “He bought a whole bunch of tickets and the night of the fight Shelly said, ‘you’re my manager now,’ and I thought, ‘what does that mean,’ and said yes.” Pretty immediately it meant helping Shelito set up for her upcoming fights. Shelito had already inked her deal with CES Boxing (Classic Entertainment Sports) (where she is one of two female fighters on their roster), guaranteeing her five fights a year for each of three years for 4-6-8 and 10 round bouts, though most of her nine fights to date have been four- and six-rounders with the exception of her eight-round title fight this past May. It has also meant working full-time helping to keep Shelito in the public’s eye. Mary spends hours and hours drumming up publicity for Shelito’s fights working closely with CES. She sifts through speaking engagements, interviews and photo shoots, and lots of press relations with local papers, regional television and radio news outlets, and boxing websites and bloggers–not to mention her forays on social media such as her active Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts. Mary is also a one woman machine getting fans to pep rallies, pre-fight and post-fight victory parties, as well as keeping Shelito on track with her motivational speaking appearances with school kids which are a true labor of love. The combination of activities can bite into her gym time with famed boxing trainer Peter Manfredo, Sr. and her hours as a trainer at Striking Beauties, but between Mary and Shelito, they make it work. It has also meant gaining sponsorships for Shelito to help defray the costs, which include the $20 and more in gas money a day needed for Shelito to get back and forth from training and to her various appointments. Mary’s success at that has been phenomenal, having landed several sponsorship deals including the well-known Havoc Boxing who custom make all of Shelito’s boxing trunks, tops and robes for her fights. In the scheme of things when considering paychecks such as Floyd Mayweather’s recent $32 million dollar guarantee for fighting Robert Guerrero this may not seem like a lot, but in the world of women’s boxing where the margins are that close, it is the difference between being able to pursue a professional career and being shut out completely. But for all of that Mary sees her main job as ensuring that Shelito’s best interests are always in focus. “I help her negotiate … I have to look out for her. That is my motivation. It is not for anything else. Not for money, it is all for Shelly.” Mary also feels that the other important component is “having a loving trusting relationship with your team,” saying further “that trust has to be there so she knows we are not going to take advantage of her.” That team is Mary, Peter Manfredo Sr. and his trainers, and the folks at CES Boxing who have come through for her at every turn. As for the frustrations, probably one of the biggest is the lack of exposure for women’s boxing on broadcast and cable television. Mary put it this way, “I don’t know why and I don’t know how to fix it, but I am getting her out there in front of people. CES has been great getting her on their bigger cards on ESPN, Friday Night Fights and NBC’s Main Event, but we haven’t gotten on television yet. It’s really disappointing. We’re all just going to have to find the right people to try to push the envelope. Probably the next generation of girls because they really work hard and women are definitely gaining respect. The Olympics is helping too and bringing new girls up.” Being a boxing manager who happens to be a woman also has its downside. “I wasn’t getting taken very seriously … they see what we’re doing and see that we’re professional … and then there’s that whole thing about being a woman around all these guys … it happens all the time.” Still she has garnered respect where it matters, and when it comes to Shelito is most proud of being told that “I was good for boxing because I really took care of my fighter.” Shelito Vincent keeps it perfect … Tags: Boxing, female boxing, girl boxing, girlboxing, girls boxing, inspirational, Manfredo's Gym, musings, Peter Manfredo, postaday2012, Rosie Sherine Thomas, Shelito Vincent, Sr., Striking Beauties Boxing Gym for Women, Twin River Event Center, women's boxing, working it out on the bag From the moment Shelito Vincent (6-0) walked into the ring at the Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, Rhode Island, the night was hers. The hard-fighting bantamweight who trains under the legendary Peter Manfredo, Sr., dominated her opponent, Canadian fighter Rosie Sherine Thomas who had sported a 2-0 record before entering the ring. Vincent, showing a savvy, ring acumen and lightening speed took the win with decisive scores from the judges who easily handed her the decision 60-54, 59-55 and 59-55. This was Vincent’s first six-rounder having previously fought in four round bouts. This is also her second win in as many months having walked over Louisiana native, Ivana Coleman (0-3) by decision, taking all four rounds. For Shelito, however, keeping her record perfect has another meaning. Having struggled early in her life, each day represents another kind of win. It is a triumph over personal demons, run-ins with the law, and a young-adulthood steeped in troubles. Boxing has been part of her recovery — and what a recovery it is for those who have watched her not only defeat her challengers, but the many challenges that have plauged her life. Way to go Shelito! Shelito Vincent set to fight her third bout on May 24th! Tags: Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School, Boxing, boxing gym, boxing trainers, boxing training, female boxing, girl boxing, girlboxing, girls boxing, inspirational, Karen Dulin, Mary DelPino Morgan, Olympics 2012, Peter Manfredo Sr., postaday2012, Shelito Vincent, Striking Beauties Boxing Gym for Women, Striking Beauties Gym, Team Shelito's Way Boxing, women's boxing >>>>UPDATE>>>> Shelito Vincent vs Carmen Cruz (female bantamweights) – Bringing a good vibe and an infectious smile, the wildly popular Shelito Vincent (3-0 from Providence RI) pounded out her third win as a professional, defeating the debuting Carmen Cruz (0-1 from Fort Meyers, FL) over four easy rounds. Vincent came on strong in the final round, rocking her opponent with a nifty combination to close the show and leave no doubts. Unanimous shutout scores of 40-36 in favor of Vincent serve to illustrate just how dominant she was. Bantamweight Shelito Vincent (2-0) is set to fight her third bout as a pro boxer on May 24th at the Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, Rhode Island. Vincent’s opponent in the ring will be Carmen Cruz in her first professional fight. (Contact Lew Beasley to purchase tickets at 860-501-4703. Seats are $35.00) Before her professional debut against Karen Dulin this past October, Vincent had an 11-4 amateur career, capped by winning the 2011 National Golden Gloves Bantamweight Title at 119 lbs. Shelito has recently begun training with the legendary Peter Manfredo Sr. She credits him with pushing her to the next level as a fighter, but more importantly, helping her to believe in her own potential. A native of Connecticut, Shelito has not had it easy. She has overcome tragedy, disillusionment and incarceration, but has found herself back on a more positive road. Her transformation will see her to speak on May 14th at the Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School in New London, CT as part of their “Hope Week” Effective Leadership Conference. Shelito will share her life experiences, struggles, and talk about what she has done to overcome her demons to move on to a better life. Girlboxing had the opportunity to pose a series of questions to Shelito about her upcoming fight, but more importantly, about her inspirational story. This is what Shelito had to say. Q1: Your first started boxing as an 18 year old and then found your way back to boxing later in your life having made a renewed commitment to training and to your amateur and professional competitive career. What has boxing come to mean to you? A1: Boxing means everything to me. I owe my life to boxing. It got me out of depression, out the streets, off booze. When I was incarcerated all I thought about was what if I took it serious would I be here.. Everyone told me I was good enough to get somewhere. Think back then I didn’t believe in myself. Life is a everyday battle some harder then others… I look to boxing as if I can take blows everyday then emotional pains and blows are nothing… I survive beatings everyday… When you win a tough fight u feel great… Same with battles of life… So to me they symbolize the same. Q2: A recent article about you discussed how your mother’s untimely death caused you to spiral into a deep depression and eventually some run-ins with the law. What can you tell Girlboxing readers about your road to recovery and how your story can be inspirational to others who have encountered similar setbacks? A2: Nothing is too big to overcome… Pain is temporary.. You can’t let anything keep you down… With me being openly gay and at a time gay was not accepted like it is she and my Great Grandmother were all I had at that time I lost my grandmother shortly after also… Talk to someone! There’s always someone there… Channel the emotions… These are all things I’ve come to learn… It was a Lil bit deeper then just my that though that pushed me over the edge.. I had a tramatic thing happen to me at 13. Which I’m not ready to let out yet… My team Dena, Mary an Peter my best friend an corner Marcia an Brother Lew keep me focused and on point now… Q3: You have a loving partner with a four year old son. How has raising a child affected you and what can you share with us about the stability of your family life as you embark upon your professional boxing career? A3: They make me a better person! Keep me pushing and make me want to obtain bigger goals to build us a better future… His room has all my trophys an accomplishment… I think maybe if these were things I seen everyday maybe that’s what I’d of worked for… Just a theory lol hope it works… He’s a great kid wants to be a ninja an boxer when he grows up lol.. And my woman takes care a me as well as my corner in Peter, Mary, Dena, Marcia, an Lew my Grandmother’s an Father also my family in the Hadley’s an Vincent’s and all my friends that come out an support… I feel complete again… They are my “new family” as well… I have my nieces an newphews that look up to me heavy now… Have to show them what hard work will get you and NEVER let them down!!! Q4: It has been quite a year for you. You won the 2011 Golden Gloves National Bantamweight title this past July, and then made your pro debut in October. You are also training for your third professional fight on May 24th with a perfect 2-0 record. What has been the secret to your success in the ring? A4: Listening to Peter with Hard work an Dedication… An respect for the game… Also listening to what the rest a my team and what they suggest… They all have strong points an roles.. I take it all in. Q5: Your trainer, the legendary Peter Manfredo, Sr. has described you by saying. “She’ll do anything a man will do and more. She’s looking to show everybody, ‘I’m here.'” How do you react to that? What does the gym give you? A5: Always remaining that person… I have so much respect for Pete… I promise to always give him a 110%… He makes me believe in me and I know we are just going to keep building and getting stronger I mean look at our guys we got Falowo, Ayala, Toca Kahn who is about to shine as a pro! Missy the fury Fiorentino… Look at what JR. did… Being in that building gets me pumped… I love Peter he’s the best… I feel like I found my nest there. Q6: Women’s professional boxing is replete with women who are finding success in the ring well into their 40s and yet, it is hard to earn a living as a professional fighter. What challenges are you overcoming in order to pursue your dreams of winning a professional world title? A6: Traveling but it’s worth it… Failure is not an option for me anymore!!! TEAMWORK make a DREAM WORK… I’m chasing my dreams, no obstacles will stop the kid no more!!!! Q7: As you look into the future, what do you hope to achieve? A7: Happiness, RESPECT, become a role model an counselor to troubled youth… And WORLD TITLES!!!!!! I know this will take a lot of work but I have great support in my team with Dena and Mary an Zack at Striking Beauties an the girls there… And Peter, Diego Periera and Ron, my dudes at Manfredo’s… I give thanks to Jaime Clampitt everyday also, she pulled me back into the sport!!!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14109
__label__wiki	0.822444	0.822444	Goodleaf the new face of cannabis With Jeff Sessions Out, The New AG Should Advance Marijuana Policy By Restoring The Cole Memorandum When President Trump announced that then-U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) would head the U.S. Department of Justice, cannabis business leaders were rightfully concerned. After all, Sessions has been notoriously vocal about opposing cannabis in any form. “Good people don’t smoke marijuana,” the Senator said at an April 2016 hearing. “We need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized,” he added. “It’s in fact a very real danger.” The list of colorful quotes goes on and on. Today, Sessions is out of the Trump Administration, resigning at the president’s request after months of speculation that his tenure would be up shortly after the midterm elections. Many factors led to this, but it is unlikely that Sessions’s position on cannabis was one of them. To understand why, let’s review Sessions’s record. Given his hard line on cannabis, many expected official DOJ policy to adopt and enforce Sessions’s anti-marijuana views. In one respect, that has been the case. In early 2018, in a major blow to the cannabis sector and its advocates, Sessions rescinded a 2013 DOJ memo issued by Obama-era Deputy Attorney General James Cole that directed federal prosecutors not to enforce the federal cannabis ban in states that had legalized cannabis use and had implemented sufficient regulations to control it. By rescinding the Cole memo, Sessions threatened the Obama Administration’s explicit hands-off approach to cannabis enforcement in jurisdictions where it was legal for medicine or recreation – a list that now includes 31 states plus the District of Columbia. But outside of that one action — despite rumors of a shadowy Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee charged with waging a “war on weed” — public federal anti-cannabis activity has been difficult to detect. Rescinding the Cole memo did not lead to the worst fears of a full-scale prohibition or DOJ ramp-up of federal enforcement. But Sessions’s move did give cannabis opponents something to celebrate: a legal cannabis industry facing greater uncertainty. For example, if national banks and credit card companies were nervous about entering the sector before, losing the Cole memo made it untouchable – a state of play that is already holding back the greatest potential of the sector. As I discussed in Forbes in August, the industry would be tremendously boosted by the safety, security, and transparency that comes from working with large financial institutions if it were permitted. But major financial institutions will not touch this sector until it is declared legal to do so. There are glimmers of hope, however, now that Sessions has left office. For all of his anti-cannabis bluster, it seems like his former boss doesn’t share his opinion, and that could lead to new legal protections for the industry. For example, in June, U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced the STATES Act, which would amend the federal Controlled Substances Act to exempt state-legal cannabis activities from its provisions and allow banks to work with legal cannabis businesses. Asked at a press conference whether he supports the Gardner-Warren bill, President Trump responded, “I probably will end up supporting that, yes.” Then, in October, U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) told Fox Business that he had been “talking to people inside the White House” about ending the longstanding prohibition on cannabis. According to Rohrabacher, “the president intends to keep his campaign promise” to protect states that have legalized cannabis in some form from federal interference. While these are hardly definitive indications that Trump will support legal cannabis in the end, they may be signs that progress might be on the horizon. If this is the case, a logical first step for the incoming Attorney General would be to reinstate the Cole memo. Absent legislation being passed today to federally legalize cannabis or allow national banks to serve legal cannabis businesses, this will help remove at least some uncertainty about how the federal government will treat the sector in states where it is legal, regulated and safe. Published by jessejamesrich View all posts by jessejamesrich america, cannabis, marijuana, united states Michigan Becomes First State in Midwest to Legalize Marijuana, As Missouri and Utah Approve Medical Marijuana and Florida Restores Felony Voting Rights Weed in the Workplace: What Michigan Employers Can Do Now that Marijuana Use is Legal	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14120
__label__cc	0.636753	0.363247	Reserva tu viaje Alquila un coche Explora Islandia Encuentra alojamiento Reserva un tour Información acerca de Fiordos del Este The Eastfjords of Iceland is a 120 kilometre (75 mile) long stretch of coastline from Berufjörður, in the south, to the small fishing village of Borgarfjörður Eystri, in the north. Out of Iceland’s total population of 335,000 people, only an estimated 3.2% live in the East Fjords. Locally referred to as "Austurland," or "Austfirðir," the total area covers 22,721 square kilometres (8,773 square miles). Often overlooked by visitors, the Eastfjords represent the very best of what Iceland has to offer, with fantastical scenery, remote fishing villages, sparkling lakes, dense forests and traditional farms. Boasting the sunniest weather in the country, as well as some of Iceland’s most well-known wildlife, this region is perhaps best known for its herds of wild reindeer, its breathtaking coastlines and its promise of tranquil solitude. Papey Papey (“Friar’s Island”) is an uninhabited island located off the east coast of Iceland. The island is approximately 2 square kilometres (0.8 square miles) with its highest point measuring 58 metres (190 feet) above sea level. Boat trips to Papey depart every summer from Djúpivogur. The island is named after Gaelic monks (“The Papar”) who are thought to have inhabited the island long before the Norse settlement. What is known for sure is that Papey was lived upon from the 10th century until the year 1966, when the island’s residents finally moved to the mainland. For centuries, Papey’s residents had supported themselves on fishing for shark, hunting seals and puffins, and tending to their farmsteads. In later years, the residents would also harvest down from Eider Ducks living on the island. Today, visitors to Papey can enjoy the large puffin colonies that still live on the island, as well as the remnants of the former settlement; a lighthouse, church and weather station all still exist much as they did in 1966. Those arriving in Iceland by ferry from mainland Europe or the Faroe Islands will make port at Seyðisfjörður, a town famous for its ornate wooden architecture, Scandinavian influence and historical herring-fishing industry. In fact, much of the timber used to develop Seyðisfjörður was shipped over by Norway ready-made in the 18th century. Populated by around 700 people, Seyðisfjörður is surrounded by pounding waterfalls, flat-top mountains and serene hiking tails, complimented by gorgeous panoramas over the adjacent fjord. Other activities available from or near Seyðisfjörður include scuba diving, skiing, sea angling, paragliding and horseback riding; there is even a number of cultural exhibits including the Fjarðarsel Power Plant Museum and the Skaftfell Centre for Visual Arts. The Eastfjords are packed with fantastic cultural landmarks, such as Hallormsstaðarskógur, the country’s largest forest, found just on the eastern shore of Lake Lagarfljót. If you enjoy pleasant walks through nature, you could also visit the hiker’s paradise, Borgarfjörður Eystri, the supposed homes of elves’ and Iceland’s ‘hidden folk’. Visitors can also enjoy the black sand beach of the charming fishing village of Breiddalsvik and take a trip to the longest and widest valley in Iceland, Breiðdalur. For something a touch more relaxing, one could also take a soothing dip in the swimming pool at Selárlaug; the pool is surrounded by mountains and beautiful views over the fjord, making this one of the more authentic experiences available in the region. Servicios cercanos Fiordos del Este Todos los servicios en 50km radio Puntos de interés cercanos Fiordos del Este Berufjordur Berufjörður is a fjord in east Iceland. Photo from Wikimedia, Creative Commons, photo by Chensiyuan Geography of Berufjörður... Gleðivík Gleðivík, or Merry Bay, is the name of the coastline just outside the town of Djúpivogur in east Iceland. Gleðivík is ... Djúpivogur Wikimedia, Creative Commons, Photos by Chensiyuan Djúpivogur is a small coastal village located on the Búlandsnes peninsula, nestled by... Breiðdalsvík Photo above from Wikimedia, Creative Commons, by Christian Bickel Breiðdalsvík is a tiny hamlet in east Iceland, within the incredible val... The quiet and quaint island of Papey can be found off Iceland's east coast, in the municipality of Djúpavogshreppur. Roughly 2 square kilom... Stöðvarfjörður Wikimedia. Creative Commons. Credit: Christian Bickel. Stöðvarfjörður is a small coastal village in East Iceland, sitti... Fáskrúðsfjörður is a coastal village in east Iceland with a population of 700 people. The name of the town o... Eystrahorn Eystrahorn is a little-known but spectacular mountain in east Iceland. It is part of the Krossasnesfjall mountain range. Geography of Eystrahorn A... Photo by Tristan Ferne. Wikimedia, Creative Commons. Reyðarfjörður is a town of 1,102 people in the East Fjords of Iceland. ... Eskifjordur is a fishing town of roughly 1100 people in East Iceland. Along with Neskaupsstadur and Reydarfjordur it forms the municipality of Fjardab... Brunnhorn Brunnhorn is a little-known, jagged mountain in south-east Iceland. It often nicknamed the Batman Mountain due to its distinctive shape, giving it t... Atlavik Located in the east of Iceland, Atlavík is a small cove in Hallormsstaðarskógur forest, on the shores of the lake Lagarfljót.... Hallormsstaðaskógur Wikimedia, Creative Commons, Photo Credit: Cristophe L Hess Hallormsstaðaskógur is Iceland's largest national forest, found in East Ic... Skriðuklaustur Skriduklaustur is a culture and learning institute in the valley of Fljotsdalur in East Iceland. It is a historical site and home to the Gunnar instit... Hofdavik Höfðavík is a popular camping ground in east Iceland. Photo from Wikimedia, Creative Commons, by Christoph L. Hess Höfðav&... Hengifoss Photo by Regína Hrönn Ragnarsdóttir. Hengifoss is a waterfall that runs from the river Hengifossá in the municipality of Fl... Óbyggðasetrið Óbyggðasetrið, also known as the Wilderness Center, is a highland adventure hub which caters to those with a passion for the surroundin... Litlanesfoss Litlanesfoss is a waterfall in east Iceland renowned for its surrounding geology. Description of Litlanesfoss Litlanesfoss is two-tier waterfall t... Lagarfljót Lagarfjlót is a narrow lake in the east of Iceland, also known as Lögurinn. This feature is best known for its natural beauty, its fish... Eyjabakkar Eyjabakkar is an oasis in the East Highlands of Iceland. This is Iceland's second-largest wetland, the largest being Thjorsarver, itself a ... Tu plan de viaje Inicia sesión para crear tu plan de viaje. 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__label__wiki	0.692486	0.692486	2A Defense Winchester’s SX4 Evolution of an Autoloading Classic Written By Holt Bodinson The cycling speed of the SX4 is phenomenal. The SX4 chambers a new shell as a spent one barely clears the ejection port. Now in its 4th generation, Winchester’s new SX4 autoloader is the culmination of design efforts dating back to 1974’s SX1. By current manufacturing standards, the SX1 was a lavish gun, completely machined of steel. It was heavy, expensive and disappeared from the line in 1981. The simple, lightweight Winchester/Browning gas system tames felt recoil. The Browning Touch Eighteen years later, Winchester — now owned by Belgium’s Walloon business region — surprised us all with the introduction of the SX2 in 1999. The innovative SX2 is key to the understanding of the new SX4. The SX2 was a completely redesigned Super X auto and reflected a new burst of engineering and design creativity flowing from the Browning side of the house. The SX2 shared many features and overall lines with Browning’s Gold line of semi-autos — a similar aluminum receiver, bolt and bolt carrier, fire control system, Browning’s exceptional self-compensating gas system and a back-bored barrel fitted with Invector-Plus choke tubes. After shooting an SX2, most owners made three observations — the gun’s modest recoil and cycling speed and its liveliness between the hands. The sheer engineering elegance of the Winchester/Browning gas system that is carried over to the SX3 and SX4 has to be experienced to be appreciated. Recoil reduction is remarkable. What contributes to this reduction? Simplicity and the minimal weight of the gas system components. The heart of the SX2, SX3, SX4 self-compensating gas system that effectively handles everything from 2 3/4″, one ounce, target loads through 3 1/2″ magnums is a free-floating aluminum piston riding around the magazine tube. The piston transmits its energy to the bolt carrier via another free-floating unit made of a lightweight synthetic composite, while at the same time venting excess gas forward, both controlling bolt speed and reducing felt recoil. In short, the weight of the moving parts in the recoil system have been minimized while solid mechanical linkages — such as action arms — between the piston and bolt carrier have been eliminated. The system is simple, rugged and a cinch to clean. Tweaking the SX2, Winchester introduced the SX3 around 2006 in a variety of specialized models, including a complete offering of 20-gauge guns. Tweaking the SX3 brings us to the SX4 with two surprises. The complete SX3 line is still cataloged, while the new and improved SX4 line brings with it a lower price point for its various models. However, if your heartthrob is a 20-gauge, you’ll have to mine the SX3 line where 20-gauges now predominate. “Winchester claims their SX4 is the fastest cycling semi-auto available.” The forend is slimmer and more ergonomic than on previous SX models. The buttstock has a more rounded and open pistol grip, and features the Inflex recoil pad. Tweaked For The Field There are some notable improvements (other than price) in the SX4. One invaluable feature carried over from the SX3 is a chrome-lined chamber and barrel. As a hunter who fights weather, I find chrome plating to be a blessing. Another protective and self-lubricating coating, nickel Teflon, is applied to the SX4 bolt, carrier and bolt release. Speaking of hunting, the SX4 addresses the glove issue head-on with a greatly enlarged and squared off bolt handle, reversible safety and bolt release button. Even the triggerguard — which is now a composite — is radically enlarged and part of an easily removable trigger group. The SX4 buttstock has been reshaped with a more rounded and open pistol grip (which feels nice) and is finished with an enlarged “Inflex” recoil pad which actually does work to move the comb down and away from your cheek, again helping to diminish felt recoil. Two 1/4″ LOP spacers are supplied as standard fare, as are IC, M and F Invector-Plus choke tubes. Winchester claims their SX4 is the fastest cycling, semi-auto available. Adding to the speed of the SX4 action is a new spring-loaded ejector mounted in the barrel sleeve that ejects the case immediately once the mouth of the case has cleared the chamber. “Those big, squared-off controls — particularly the ambidextrous safety — proved much easier to manipulate.” Variations On The Theme The SX4 lineup currently includes a basic, synthetic-stocked Field Model, a Waterfowl Hunter, an NWTF Cantilever Turkey, a Cantilever Buck, a Universal Hunter and a walnut-stocked Field and Field Compact (13″ LOP) with 3″ and 3 1/2″ chambers. The MSRP runs from $799.99 to $1,069.99. Our test model was the walnut stocked SX4 Field with a 28″ barrel, 3″ chamber and a 49″ overall length. It weighs 6 3/4 lbs. with an LOP of 14-1/4″ with 1-1/2″ drop at comb and 1-3/4″ drop at heel. I’ve been shooting an SX2 for more than a decade, so the SX4 felt like an old friend at the range. It’s lighter and livelier than my SX2, and the slimmer stock design is more comfortable and will fit the average shooter better. Those big, squared-off controls — particularly the ambidextrous safety — proved much easier to manipulate. It’s a subtle design change other manufacturers might do well to emulate. A 6-3/4 lb. 12-gauge is great to roam afield with, but what about kick? Not to worry! The Winchester/Browning gas system plus the Inflex recoil pad really work in tandem to minimize felt recoil. Winchester’s SX auto line has been evolving for 44 years. The new SX4 family incorporates improved features at lower cost. And if you’re recoil sensitive, this is the shotgun for you. GUNS January 2019 Cover Purchase A PDF Download Of The GUNS Magazine January 2019 Issue Now!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14132
__label__wiki	0.794265	0.794265	High Fives & Stage Dives Gig Reviews \| Interviews \| Music News By: High Fives & Stage Dives September 17, 2019 Watch In The Cards’ new video for ‘Disguise’ The band’s new EP The Path is set for release on 25 October. Alternative four piece In The Cards have released a brand new video for Disguise, the track is taken off their upcoming EP The Path, which will be self released on 25 October. Speaking on the new EP lead singer Amy said “We can’t wait for everyone to hear what we have been working on for the past year. Our upcoming single Disguise will be the first look at what’s to come and we couldn’t be more excited.” The band have also announced UK shows with more to be added later this year. You can see In The Cards at the following dates: 19 September – Live Rooms, Chester 24 September – Gorilla, Manchester (w/ Mallory Knox) 6 October – Underworld, London (w/ Violet Tree) 7 October – The Bunkhouse, Swansea The Early November release video for ‘Ave Maria’ The Faim have finally release their long-awaited debut album Follow High Fives & Stage Dives on WordPress.com #instafun Emos of the UK - it’s HAPPENINGGGGG 🇬🇧 🖤 My Chem have dropped another teaser Maybe it’s not my weekend but it’s gonna be my year ✨ Love like that don’t need a match just watch it burn like Wildfire 🔥 What’s so funny ‘bout love, peace and understanding ♥️✌🏻 The icon, the legend, the god - here in the church of @springsteen it’s always Sunday and if he doesn’t win the BRIT awards it’s rigged. Don’t hate 🤷🏼‍♀️ With Springsteen in my headphones singing mockingly away. Oh Brucey baby, I've seen better days. These are not better days 🎶	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14134
__label__wiki	0.968533	0.968533	NASA-NOAA satellite tracks Tropical Storm Blake's remnants spreading The South Interior area of the state of Western Australia is under warnings for heavy rainfall and gusty winds as the remnants of Tropical Storm Blake move on a southeasterly path through the state. Imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided an image of the storm's clouds. NASA finds Tropical Storm Calvinia moving away from Mauritius Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite on Dec. 31 revealed that Tropical Cyclone Calvinia had moved south of the island of Mauritius in the Southern Indian Ocean. NASA-NOAA satellite imagery reveals a weaker Tropical Cyclone Claudia Tropical Storm Claudia now has two factors against it: wind shear and dry air. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with an image of the storm on January 14 as it continued to weaken and move further away from Western Australia. NASA-NOAA satellite catches Tropical Cyclone Blake and western Australia fires Tropical cyclone Blake made landfall in the Kimberley coast of Western Australia and NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided an image that showed its center inland with the storm extending to the southern part of the state where fires raged. The last decade was the warmest on record, NASA and NOAA find The data is a closely watched indicator of the Earth's changing climate, particularly as projections for future years anticipate the trend to continue. NASA sees Mauritius covered by Tropical Storm Calvinia Tropical Cyclone Calvinia formed on Dec. 29 and by the next day, its clouds from a band of thunderstorms on its western side had blanketed the island of Mauritius in the Southern Indian Ocean. NASA tracking Tropical Storm Claudia battling wind shear Tropical Storm Claudia is battling wind shear as it continues moving away from Western Australia and through the Southern Indian Ocean. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with an image of the storm on January 13. NASA finds heavy rain potential in Tropical Cyclone Blake phys.org NASA imagery shows Mauritius blanketed by tropical storm Calvinia Mail Online NASA tracks Tropical Storm Sarai moving away from Fiji phys.org NASA sees Tropical Storm Blake's center off Australia's Kimberley Coast NASA Planet Hunting Satellite TESS Finds Earth-Sized World in 'Goldilocks Zone' NDTV Gadgets 360	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14140
__label__wiki	0.68727	0.68727	in Box Office, Movie News “Black Panther” Wins 5th US Weekend Box Office; “Tomb Raider” Debuts At #2 “Black Panther” holds off “Tomb Raider” to keep the US weekend box office crown. Black Panther \| Marvel by Ben Johnson Mar 18, 2018, 12:32 pm The projection proved accurate. Despite taking second place on Friday, “Black Panther” ended up winning the overall US weekend box office race. “Black Panther,” which will add an estimated $27.0 million to its haul during the March 16-18 weekend, enjoys a fifth consecutive US box office victory. Its cumulative total, moreover, blasts past $600 million in the US. Including this weekend’s estimated total, “Black Panther” has grossed a whopping $605.4 million. “Tomb Raider,” which led the Friday box office, takes second place for the weekend. The new release debuted with $23.5 million. “I Can Only Imagine,” another new release, debuts at #3 with $17.1 million. “A Wrinkle In Time,” which debuted at #2 last weekend, falls to #4 in weekend two. It added $16.6 million to its total (cume now $61.1 million). New release “Love, Simon” starts at #5 with $11.5 million. a wrinkle in timeblack pantheri can only imaginelove simontomb raider Written by Ben Johnson Ben Johnson's tenure at Headline Planet dates back to its 2002 origins. He played a pivotal role in the publication's evolution into an entertainment powerhouse. Today, he focuses intently on movie and box office coverage. He also contributes stories on alternative areas like pro wrestling and mixed martial arts. Contact Ben at ben.johnson[at]headlineplanet.com. “Tomb Raider” Tops US Friday Box Office, But “Black Panther” Should Win Weekend “Pacific Rim Uprising” Leads US Friday Box Office; “Sherlock Gnomes,” “Midnight Sun,” “Unsane” Start Softly “A Quiet Place” Conquers US Weekend Box Office; “Blockers” Debuts At #3 “Ready Player One” Wins US Weekend Box Office; “Acrimony” Takes #2 “Ready Player One” Wins US Friday Box Office, “Tyler Perry’s Acrimony” Takes Second “Pacific Rim Uprising” Wins US Weekend Box Office; “Black Panther” Becomes Top Superhero Film More From: Box Office Jan 4, 2020, 1:38 pm “Midway” Leads US Friday Box Office, “Doctor Sleep” Disappoints, “Last Christmas,” “Playing With Fire” Modest “Downton Abbey” Rules US Friday Box Office; “Rambo,” “Ad Astra” In Top 3 Sep 21, 2019, 12:35 pm G-Eazy & Halsey’s “Him & I” Stays #1 At Pop Radio Drake’s “God’s Plan” Earns #1 On 4th Consecutive Rhythmic Radio Chart	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0032.json.gz/line14141

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