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[New Data] Tweets Between 100 and 115 Characters are More Likely to be ReTweeted
Tweet-length, in characters and it’s relationship to ReTweets
By Dan Zarrella Posted: October 17, 2013
More new ReTweet data! In the past few weeks, I’ve looked at quotes and hashtags and images.
This time I decided to look at Tweet-length, in characters and it’s relationship to ReTweets. The data set is up to 1.4 million randomly selected Tweets, from 1.2 million different accounts.
I found that Tweets between 100 and 115 characters were 34% more likely to be ReTweeted than Tweets outside of that range, with a 99.9% confidence interval. A big drop off in ReTweet probability occurs once Tweets get beyond about 120 characters, but up to that point, the longer the Tweet, the better.
[New Data] Use “Quotes” and #Hashtags to Get More ReTweets
A look at non-alphanumerical characters and their relationship to ReTweets
Continuing my new research into ReTweeting behavior, I also looked at non-alphanumerical characters and their relationship to new-school, native, ReTweets.
Using a dataset now more than 1.2 million Tweets strong, I found two particularly impactful characters, which when present in Tweets tend to correlate with those Tweets being more likely to be ReTweeted: quotes and hashtags.
Tweets that contain one or more hashtags were 55% more likely to be ReTweeted than Tweets that did not. Thanks to the large dataset, there is a 99.9% confidence interval that Tweets with hashtags get more ReTweets than those without.
Use Images on Twitter to Get More ReTweets
A comparison of the 4 of the most popular ways to send images to Twitter
By Dan Zarrella Posted: October 7, 2013
I collected a dataset of more than 400,000 randomly selected Tweets and the number of times each tweet received a “new school” (native) ReTweet. I then compared 4 of the most popular ways to send images to Twitter: Facebook image links (images hosted on Facebook’s CDN, fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net), Instagram, Twitpic and Twitter’s own, native image uploading service (shown in Tweets as pic.Twitter.com).
Tweets with images uploaded to pic.Twitter.com were nearly twice as likely to be retweeted while the use of Twitpic increased the odds by just over 60%. On the other hand Tweets that used Facebook or Instagram links were less likely to be retweeted. In all four of cases, I found a 99% confidence interval assuring us of the reliability of these results.
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NGOs in Africa: Assets or Liabilities?
Thread: NGOs in Africa: Assets or Liabilities?
NGOs in Africa: Assets or Liabilities?, by Abdul Ghelleh. African Executive, May 2013.
I came to the conclusion, however, that the overwhelming majority of the NGOs do more harm than good to livelihoods and sustainable development in Africa. Here is my charge sheet: NGOs artificially sustain a false economy whereby they push huge amounts of cash into the pockets of corrupted local African partners while taking most of the cash back to their private bank accounts in Europe and elsewhere. Yes, they do pay the salaries of a few people here and there who support their families. But that’s not my point. The NGOs actually work against home-grown developmental strategies in Africa.
The NGO operatives don’t want the recycling of aid operations – which creates chronic dependency and corruption within the receiving societies – to end. For example, NGOs are not prepared to cede some power or train local people to take over in the future, and they don’t give the confidence necessary to carry out the work to local government personnel of the countries that they operate in. Africans have the experience and the expertise to own the operations of the NGOs, but actually the foreign bosses of the NGOs want to retain power in order to continue the dependency culture that they have created.
I don’t know anything directly about the subject, but the broader theme of how perverse incentives can infect even the best of intentions is something that I find both fascinating and tragic.
“[S]omething in his tone now reminded her of his explanations of asymmetric warfare, a topic in which he had a keen and abiding interest. She remembered him telling her how terrorism was almost exclusively about branding, but only slightly less so about the psychology of lotteries…” - Zero History, William Gibson
Bourbon,
Not my area, but by coincidence I came across the website of a leading UK charity, Oxfam just and this blog by Ed Cairns, a policy adviser might help:http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/...thor/ed-cairns
Another writer from Oxford University is Paul Collier, an economist whose book 'The Bottom Billion' is worth a read; his home page is:http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco/
We keep on hearing this is Africa's decade, time etc and then 'The Dark Continent' appears again - which is fascinating and tragic.
A bunch of good NGOs are suffering from being successful. Sounds strange, but if you show any sort of progress, your funds end up dwindling.
With our donations, and lack of child related deaths, we face the same axe.
Agree, there are some out there that have to deal with African dictators, and most of those donations never reach the intended recipients. Part of doing business and most of those NGOs know that.
If they fess up to what is real, the cash is gone, if they accomplish something the cash is gone, if they do nothing, the cash is gone. Some hard choices await all of us.
As for my pathetic thoughts, we have starving people too and I see no good reason to support a dictator hell bent on self destruction.
If you want to blend in, take the bus
Denver on occasion
It is getting to be a long time ago but two of the things that had the most beneficial big picture effect on things in Congo Kinshasa were commercial enterprises, the cell phone companies and the Russian Anotonov operations. The cell phones had a huge effect and the piratical, occasionally suicidal Russians were the ones who had a real economic impact by tying together some pretty remote towns to the rest of the country.
The most important thing the UN did was airport operations and development. Everything else they did seemed useless but the airport development seemed to have some beneficial economic benefits to everybody in the country in addition to giving me decent places to land.
It always seemed to me that the most pressing need that was not being filled in the country was that a lot of the right people needed to be killed. No NGO was going to do that but if one could ever be got to wipe out the FDLR that would have done more good than all the conflict resolution trainers and regional workshops they were so fond of.
The thesis of the article has been covered by several books but that doesn't make it any less true. The book I read (the name of which I forgot) says the dilemma goes all the way back to the Crimean War with Florence Nightengale, do you do things to help people immediately and thereby relieve the govs of responsibility, or do you accept immediate harm so the govs will step up. I don't know. What I observed is commercial enterprises did the most good, international aid did good if it help commercial development and somebody needs to kill some people but they won't.
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
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Deployed Capital Region National Guard Troops Appear on Jumbotron at Albany Devils Game
501st Ordnance Battalion Soldiers Smile Live, Via Satellite from Iraq
Story by: Sgt. 1st Class Raymond Drumsta - Joint Force Headquarters- New York
Dated: Sun, Apr 3, 2011
Families of the 501st Ordnance Battalion Soldiers look up and wave as the Soldiers appear on the Times Union Center’s jumbotron during an Albany Devils hockey game April 3.
ALBANY, N.Y. (04/06/2011)-- Amid cheers from hockey fans, Soldiers of the 501st Ordnance Battalion sent smiles from Iraq to their families here April 3.
Thanks to the unit’s family readiness group, the Albany Devils hockey team and a satellite feed, ten Soldiers appeared on the Times Union Center’s jumbotron during a break in the Devils’ game against the Binghamton Senators. The families were elated to see their Soldiers, who deployed to Iraq with the unit in December.
"It was awesome," said Derek George, the father of Sgt. Nicholas George, of Troy, N.Y. "It was a good feeling to see him, and see he was ok."
Carole Landy, wife of 1st Sgt. Joseph Landy, agreed.
"I loved it," said Landy, also a Troy resident. "It was amazing. It made me closer to him, almost as if he was at the game."
Reached by phone in Iraq, the Soldiers said they could only hear their loved ones, but that alone seemed to be a boost.
He heard his daughter Victoria say she loved and missed him, 1st Sgt. Joseph Landy recalled.
"It made me feel good," he said. "I wish I could’ve seen her, but it brought my spirits up."
Her 12-year old daughter Marissa Martinez also said she missed her, said Sgt. 1st Class Melissa Harrell. She and Marissa frequently speak over the phone, she added.
"I hear her voice, everyday, but this made me feel very good," Harrell said.
Seeing her husband Staff Sgt. Shawn Nethaway on the Jumbotron made her proud, said Amy Nethaway, of Latham, N.Y. The applause increased her pride in her daughter, said Harrell’s mother, Brenda Coleman.
"It wasn’t a full house, but a lot of them stood up and clapped," recalled Coleman.
The cheers and the personal thanks he received from fans touched him, and affirmed that what his son is doing in Iraq is "respected and admired by everybody," George said.
"Everybody appreciates it," George said.
The unit’s family readiness group (FRG) coordinated the event with the Albany Devils in March, said Gwyn Nagy, the FRG lead volunteer. The satellite feed took place during the Devils’ military appreciation night.
Albany Devils Vice President Chris Valente said they wanted to do something special for the families of military members. His parents send care packages to troops in Iraq, one of his friends is an Iraqi war veteran, and one of their former staff members is an Iraqi war veteran as well, he said.
"It’s near and dear to our hearts to recognize the military in any way possible," Valente said, adding that they reached out to a military contractor, a local television station and other organizations to make the satellite link.
The families also prize their links to each other via the FRG. Not being able to consult her husband on household matters is a hardship, and not knowing what’s happening to him and the unit is frightening, but the FRG connections help, Carole Landy said.
"You can actually talk to them, because they’re going through the same thing," she said.
The situation in Iraq seems quieter now, and increased phone contact, along with the experience of the previous deployment, has eased the strain of separation, George said. Nonetheless, the FRG is a morale booster and a Godsend, allowing families to meet and talk with others who understand, he stressed.
"We’re all different as human beings, but we all share a common situation -- having a Soldier in a combat zone," he said.
His son also deployed to Iraq in 2004, and took part in many combat patrols, said George.
"That’s when my hair turned gray," George said. "That was a very long year."
The FRG is also a resource families can contact when problems arise, Coleman said. This is the first time Harrell has deployed, and "I hope the last," she added.
"Me too!" Marissa chimed in.
The FRG needs to arrange more events, Carole Landy said. Scheduling and individual tastes make planning FRG social events difficult, she explained. The Army’s Strong Bonds program - which organizes retreats for couples and families to strengthen their relationships - should be expanded to include FRGs while Soldiers are deployed, she added.
They expect to host more events like this, Valente said.
"We want to do more, and plan to do more next year," he explained.
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Edinburgh Society of Model Engineers
Edinburgh Society of Model Engineering
Founded in 1894 ESME is the oldest model engineering club in the world.
Since the earliest days of the industrial revolution engineers have constructed models of their designs to test and predict the performance of the intended full-scale structure. Indeed it was the repair of a model that prompted James Watt to undertake his pioneering work on the steam engine. Many people interested in the technology of the day made engineering models and it became a popular pastime. To find out more please visit our About page.
We welcome all new members and volunteers, if you are interested in membership please contact us at enquiries@edinburgh-sme.org.uk
The Society operates its own workshop and owns several machine tools for members to use
Portable Track
The Society operates a portable railway track that attends local gala days and charity events where rides are given to members of the public behind miniature “live-steam” locomotives.
Engineering Knowledge
ESME meets weekly with a regular programme of lectures, video events and site visits to develop the knowledge and skills of members
miniature track
The Society has a miniature railway which we are in the process of relocating to the Almondell Model Engineering Centre. Click the tab of the same name for progress updates of this exciting development.
ESME AIMS
The aim of the Edinburgh Society of Model Engineers is to encourage & develop the skills & art of engineering through the construction of miniature, small scale & experimental prototype machines. The Society encourages the development of engineering knowledge in an atmosphere of mutual respect whilst promoting the appreciation of engineering and its history to the general public.
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FC United start 2011 with defeat at Halifax
FC United threw away a goal lead against Evo-Stik Premier Division leaders Halifax Town to go down 4-1 in front of a New Year’s Day crowd of 4,023 supporters in West Yorkshire.
Jerome Wright put the Reds ahead from the penalty spot but the Shaymen got a vital equaliser on the stroke of half-time before gaining the lead early in the second half and adding two more right at the death as United pushed forward in search of the equaliser.
The Reds started the game brightly and almost took the lead inside two minutes when a Wright cross was fired just wide by Mike Norton. Halifax didn’t take too long to find a footing in the game, ex FC United player Simon Garner firing just wide and Sam Ashton also had to punch clear under pressure.
The match was open, with FC playing the ball around well, and one flowing move almost brought a goal, with Richard Battersby firing a long range shot towards goal but sadly for him Hedge was equal to it and tipped the ball over.
The home side almost took the lead a minute later when Holland, looking suspiciously offside, was set clear, Ashton pushing the ball wide for a corner. Ashton was also called upon on 24 minutes when the dangerous Vardy was played in but the FC keeper saved well.
The Reds took the lead on the half hour mark when a ball by captain Kyle Jacobs played in Matthew Wolfenden on the right, who was brought down by the home keeper as he played the ball goalwards.
The referee played on to see where the ball would drop but when there was no advantage, he pointed to the spot. Despite the away fans’ call for Ashton to take the penalty, Wright picked up the ball and fired his shot down the middle of the goal.
The lead lasted 10 minutes, when a loose FC United pass in midfield was picked up by the home team and the ball played into the box, where Jacobs turned it behind. From the resultant corner, the FC defence seemed to pause, allowing Vardy time to bring the ball under control and fire into the net to grab the equaliser seconds before the break.
Into the second half and the Reds went close with Simon Carden shooting just wide. However, it took just nine minutes of the half for Halifax to take the lead when a long ball forward wasn’t dealt with by Ludovic Quistin. The ball was worked out to the right, where it was crossed in for Gregory to sidefoot home.
Despite this setback, FC continued to get the ball out wide and attack the home defence, Wright using his pace to pass two defenders only to fire over the goal. At the other end, the home side continued to make chances, Vardy sending a piledriver wide and substitute Marshall firing into the side netting.
With less than 15 minutes to go, a flowing FC United move involving Ben Deegan, Wright and James Holden ended with Wright firing just over.
With FC pressing for the equaliser, they were leaving space at the back, allowing the home side to attack pretty much at will but despite this, it took the Shaymen till the 89th minute to extend their lead when a cross from the right fell to Marshall who had time to turn and slot the ball into the corner of the net.
In injury time, Halifax scored a fourth when Taylor ran free and chipped the ball over Ashton, who despite getting his fingers to the shot couldn’t prevent it going over the line.
The scoreline was maybe slightly harsh on United who at times played some good football approaching the penalty area only to be blighted more often than not with a poor final ball.
The Reds must now pick themselves up for the Bank Holiday Monday visit of Ashton United.
Report by Steven Wood
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Energy-Models.com
Energy Modeling
Chiller Plant Design
© 2002 McQuay International
Using chilled water to cool a building or process is efficient and flexible. A two-inch Schedule 40 pipe of chilled water can supply as much comfort cooling as 42" diameter round air duct. The use of chillers allows the design engineer to produce chilled water in a central building location or even on the roof and distribute the water economically and without the use of large duct shafts. Chilled water also provides accurate temperature control that is especially useful for variable air volume (VAV) applications.
The purpose of this manual is to discuss various piping and control strategies commonly used with chilled water systems including variable flow pumping systems.
This Guide initially discusses the components used in a chilled water system. It then reviews various chiller plant designs explaining their operation, strengths and weaknesses. Where appropriate, sequence of operations are provided. Each project is unique so these sequences are just guidelines.
In addition, many sections reference ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2001. The ASHRAE section numbers are provided in parentheses to direct the reader. The sections referenced in this Guide are by no means complete. It is recommended that the reader have access to a copy of Standard 90.1 as well as the Users Manual. The Standard and manual can be purchased online at WWW.ASHRAE.org.
Figure 1 shows a basic chiller loop with a water-cooled chiller. The system consists of a chiller, cooling tower, building cooling load, chilled water and condensing water pumps and piping. This section will review each of the components.
Figure 1 - Single Chiller Loop
Chiller Basics
The chiller can be water-cooled, air-cooled or evaporatively cooled. The compressor types typically are reciprocating, scroll, screw or centrifugal. The evaporator can be remote from the condensing section on air-cooled units. This has the advantage of allowing the chilled water loop to remain inside the building envelope when using an outdoor chiller. In applications where freezing conditions can be expected, keeping the chilled water loop inside the building avoids the need for some form of antifreeze.
There can be multiple chillers in a chilled water plant. The details of various multiple chiller plant designs will be discussed in future sections.
The chilled water flows through the evaporator of the chiller. The evaporator is a heat exchanger where the chilled water gives up its sensible heat (the water temperature drops) and transfers the heat to the refrigerant as latent energy (the refrigerant evaporates or boils).
Flow and Capacity Calculations
For air conditioning applications, the common design conditions are 44oF supply water temperature and 2.4 gpm/ton. The temperature change in the fluid for either the condenser or the evaporator can be described using the following formula:
Q = W × C × ΔT
Q = Quantity of heat exchanged (Btu/hr)
W = flow rate of fluid (USgpm)
C = specific heat of fluid (Btu/lb- oF)
ΔT = temperature change of fluid (oF )
Assuming the fluid is water, the formula takes the more common form of:
Load (Btu/hr) = Flow (USgpm) × (oFin - oFoutt) × 500
Load (tons) = Flow (USgpm) × (oFin - oFout)/24
Using this equation and the above design conditions, the temperature change in the evaporator is found to be 10oF. The water temperature entering the evaporator is then 54oF.
Most air conditioning design conditions are based on 75oF and 50% relative humidity (RH) in the occupied space. The dewpoint for air at this condition is 55.08oF. Most HVAC designs are based on cooling the air to this dewpoint to maintain the proper RH in the space. Using a 10oF approach at the cooling coil means the supply chilled water needs to be around 44oF or 45oF.
The designer is not tied to these typical design conditions. In fact, more energy efficient solutions can be found by modifying the design conditions, as the project requires.
Changing the chilled water flow rate affects a specific chiller's performance. Too low a flow rate lowers the chiller efficiency and ultimately leads to laminar flow. The minimum flow rate is typically around 3 fps (feet per second). Too high a flow rate leads to vibration, noise and tube erosion. The maximum flow rate is typically around 12 fps. The chilled water flow rate should be maintained between these limits of 3 to 12 fps.
The condenser water flows through the condenser of the chiller. The condenser is also a heat exchanger. In this case the heat absorbed from the building, plus the work of compression, leaves the refrigerant (condensing the refrigerant) and enters the condenser water (raising its temperature). The condenser has the same limitations to flow change as the evaporator.
Chillers and Energy Efficiency
Chillers are often the single largest electricity users in a building. A 1000 ton chiller has a motor rated at 700 hp. Improving the chiller performance has immediate benefit to the building operating cost. Chiller full load efficiency ratings are usually given in the form of kW/ton, COP (Coefficient of Performance = kWcooling / kWinput) or EER (Energy Efficiency Ratio = Tons X 12/ kWinput). Full load performance is either the default ARI conditions or the designer specified conditions. It is important to be specific about operating conditions since chiller performance varies significantly at different operating conditions.
Chiller part load performance can be given at designer-specified conditions or the NPLV (Non- Standard Part Load Value) can be used. The definition of NPLV is spelled out in ARI 550/590-98, Test Standard for Chillers. For further information refer to McQuay Application Guide AG 31-002, Centrifugal Chiller Fundamentals.
☺Tip: To convert from COP to kW/ton;
COP = 3.516/(kW/ton)
To calculate EER = Tons x 12/(total kW input)
Figure 2 - ASHRAE Std 90.1 Chiller Performance Table1
Since buildings rarely operate at design load conditions (typically less than 2% of the time) chiller part load performance is critical to good overall chiller plant performance. Chiller full and part load efficiencies have improved significantly over the last 10 years (Chillers with NPLVs of 0.35 kW/ton are available) to the point where future chiller plant energy performance will have to come from chiller plant design.
ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2001 includes mandatory requirements for minimum chiller performance. Table 6.2.1.C of this standard covers chillers at ARI standard conditions. Tables 6.2.1H to M cover centrifugal chillers at non-standard conditions.
1 Copyright 2001, American Society Of Heating, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Engineers Inc., www.ashrae.org. Reprinted by permission from ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2001
Piping Basics
Figure 3 - Closed Loop
The piping is usually steel, copper or plastic. The chilled water piping is usually a closed loop. A closed loop is not open to the atmosphere. Figure 3 shows a simple closed loop with the pump at the bottom of the loop. Notice that the static pressure created by the change in elevation is equal on both sides of the pump. In a closed loop, the pump needs only to overcome the friction loss in the piping and components. The pump does not need to "lift" the water to the top of the loop.
When open cooling towers are used in condenser piping, the loop is an open type. Condenser pump must overcome the friction of the system and "lift" the water from the sump to the top of the cooling tower. Figure 4 shows an open loop. Notice the pump need only overcome the elevation difference of the cooling tower, not the entire building.
☺ Tip: Most chillers are rated for 150 PSI
water side pressure. This should be considered
carefully for buildings over 10 stories.
In high-rise applications, the static pressure can become considerable and exceed the pressure rating of the piping and the components such as chillers. Although chillers can be built to higher pressure ratings (The standard is typically 150 PSI but the reader is advised to check with the manufacturer) high pressure systems can become expensive. The next standard rating is typically 300 PSI. Above that, the chillers become very expensive. One solution is to use heat exchangers to isolate the chillers from the static pressure. While this solves the pressure rating for the chiller, it introduces another device and another approach that affects supply water temperature and chiller performance. A second solution is to locate chiller plants on various floors throughout the building selected to avoid exceeding the 150 PSI chiller rating.
Figure 4 -Open Loop
An expansion tank is required in the chilled water loop to allow for the thermal expansion of the water. Expansion tanks can be open type, closed type with air-water interface or diaphragm type. Tank location will influence the type. Open tanks must be located above the highest point in the system (for example, the penthouse). Airwater interface and diaphragm type tanks can be located anywhere in the system. Generally, the lower the pressure in the tank, the smaller the tank needs to be. Tank size can be minimized by locating it higher in the system.
Figure 5 - Expansion Tank Location
The pressure at which the tank is operated is the reference point for the entire hydronic system. The location of the tank -which side on the pump (suction or discharge) - will affect the total pressure seen by the system. When the pump is off, the tank will be exposed to the static pressure plus the pressure due to thermal expansion. If the tank is located on the suction side, when the pump is running, the total pressure seen on the discharge side will be the pressure differential, created by the pump, added to the expansion tank pressure. If the expansion tank is located on the discharge side of the pump, the discharge pressure will be the same as the expansion tank pressure and the suction side pressure will be the expansion tank pressure minus the pump pressure differential.
Chilled water piping is insulated since the water and hence the piping is often below the dewpoint temperature. Condensate would form on it and heat loss would occur. The goal of the insulation is to minimize heat loss and maintain the outer surface above the ambient air dewpoint.
Condenser Water Piping
In most cases, the condenser water piping is an open loop. Figure 4 shows an open loop with the water open to the atmosphere. When the pump is not running, the level in the supply and return piping will be even at the level of the sump. When the pump operates, it needs to overcome the friction loss in the system and "lift" the water from the sump level to the top of the loop. Condenser water piping is typically not insulated since there will be negligible heat gain or loss and sweating will not occur. If the piping is exposed to cold ambient conditions, however, it could need to be insulated and heat traced to avoid freezing.
Reverse Return/Direct Return Piping
Figure 6 - Reverse Return Piping
Figure 6 shows reverse return piping. Reverse return piping is designed such that the path through any load is the same length and therefore has approximately the same fluid pressure drop. Reverse return piping is inherently self-balancing. It also requires more piping and consequently is more expensive.
Figure 7 - Direct Return Piping
Direct return piping results in the load closest to the chiller plant having the shortest path and therefore the lowest fluid pressure drop. Depending on the piping design, the difference in pressure drops between a load near the chiller plant and a load at the end of the piping run can be substantial. Balancing valves will be required. The advantage of direct return piping is the cost savings of less piping.
For proper control valve selection, it is necessary to know the pressure differential between the supply and return header (refer to Control Valve Basics, page 20). While at first it would appear with reverse return piping, that the pressure drop would be the same for all devices, this is not certain. Changes in pipe sizing in the main headers, different lengths and fittings all lead to different pressure differentials for each device. When the device pressure drop is large relative to piping pressure losses, the difference is minimized.
In direct return piping, the pressure drops for each device vary at design conditions depending on where they are in the system. The valve closest to the pumps will see nearly the entire pump head. Valves at the furthest end of the loop will see the minimum required pressure differential. Assuming the pressure differential sensor is located at the furthest end, all valves in a direct return system should be selected for the minimum pressure differential. This is because if any one device is the only one operating, the pressure differential controller will maintain the minimum differential across that device.
The decision whether to use direct or reverse return piping should be based on system operability vs. first cost. Where direct return piping is used, flow-balancing valves should be carefully located so that the system can be balanced.
Piping and Energy Efficiency
Piping materials and design have a large influence on the system pressure drop, which in turn affects the pump work. Many of the decisions made in the piping system design will affect the operating cost of the chiller plant every hour the plant operates for the life of the building. When viewed from this life cycle point of view, any improvements that can lower the operating pressure drop should be considered. Some areas to consider are:
□ Pipe material. Different materials have different friction factors.
□ Pipe sizing. Smaller piping raises the pressure drop. This must be balanced against the capital cost and considered over the lifetime of the system.
□ Fittings. Minimize fittings as much as possible.
□ Valves. Valves represent large pressure drops and can be costly. Isolation and balancing valves should be strategically placed.
□ Direct return vs. Reverse return.
Piping insulation reduces heat gain into the chilled water. This has a compound effect. First, any cooling effect that is lost due to heat gain is additional load on the chiller plant. Second, in most cases, to account for the resultant temperature rise, the chilled water setpoint must be lowered to provide the correct supply water temperature at the load. This increases the lift on the chillers and lowers their performance.
ASHRAE 90.1-2001 requires the following for piping systems:
□ Piping must be insulated as per ASHRAE Standard 90.1 Table 6.2.4.1.3. (See Table 1)
□ Factory installed insulation.
□ Systems operating between 60oF and 105oF.
□ The hydronic system be proportionally balanced in a manner to first minimize throttling losses and then the impeller trimmed or the speed adjusted to meet the design flow conditions (6.2.5.3.3)
□ Pumps with motors less than 10 hp.
□ When throttling results in no greater than 5% of nameplate horsepower or 3 hp, whichever is less.
□ Three pipe systems with a common return for heating and cooling are not allowed. (6.3.2.2.1)
□ Two pipe changeover systems are acceptable providing: (6.3.2.2.2)
□ Controls limit changeovers based on 15oF ambient drybulb deadband.
□ System will operate in one mode for at least 4 hours.
□ Reset controls lower the changeover point to 30oF or less.
□ Systems with total pump nameplate horsepower exceeding 10 hp shall be variable flow able to modulate down to 50%. (6.3.4)
Table 1 - Minimum Piping Insulation As Per Std 90.12
Range (oF) Insulation Conductivity Nominal Pipe or Tube Size (in)
Btu•in/(h•ft2•oF) Mean Rating
Temp oF <1 1 to <1-1/2 1-1/2 to <4 4<8 >8
Cooling Systems (Chilled Water, Brine and Refrigerant)
40-60 0.22-0.28 100 0.5 0.5 1.0 1.0 1.0
>60 0.22-0.28 100 0.5 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.5
Pumping Basics
Figure 8 - Inline Centrifugal Pump
Typically centrifugal type pumps are used for both condenser water and chilled water systems. They can be either inline or base mounted. The pumps must be sized to maintain the system dynamic head and the required flow rate. Normally, the pumps are located so they discharge into the chiller heat exchangers.
Figure 9 - Basic Pump Curve
Centrifugal pumps are non-positive displacement type so the flow rate changes with the head. The actual operating point is where the system curve crosses the pump curve. In systems with control valves, the system curve changes every time a valve setting changes. This is important because the pump affinity laws cannot be used to estimate a change if the system curve is allowed to change. Identical pumps in parallel will double the flow at the same head. Identical pumps in series will double the head.
Figure 10 - Pump Curve Profiles
Figure 10 shows a steep and flat curve profile. Different pumps provide different profiles each with their own advantages. The steep curve is better suited for open systems such as cooling towers where high lift and stable flow are desirable. The flat profile is better suited for systems with control valves. The flat profile will maintain the necessary head over a wide flow range.
Figure 11 - Typical Centrifugal Pump Curve
☺Tip: For a constant system curve, the following
pump affinity laws may be used;
At constant impeller diameter (Variable speed)
RPM1 / RPM2 = gpm1 / gpm2 = (H1 )1/2/(H2 )1/2
At constant speed (Variable impeller diameter)
D1 / D2 = gpm1 / gpm2 = (H1 )1/2/(H2 )1/2
Figure 11 shows a typical pump curve. Since pumps are direct drive, the pump curves are typically for standard motor speeds (1200, 1800 or 3600 rpm). The required flowrate and head can be plotted and the subsequent efficiency and impeller diameter can be found. As the flow increases, generally the Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH) decreases. This is due to the increased fluid velocity at the inlet of the impeller. NPSH is required by the pump to avoid the fluid flashing to gas in the inlet of the impeller. This can lead to cavitation and pump damage. NPSH is an important consideration with condenser pumps particularly when the chillers are in the penthouse and the cooling towers are on the same level.
Multiple Pumps
To provide redundancy, multiple pumps are used. Common approaches are (1) a complete full-sized stand-by pump, or (2) the design flow is met by two pumps with a third stand-by pump sized at half the load. When multiple pumps are used in parallel, check valves on the discharge of each pump are required to avoid "short circuiting". Pumps can also utilize common headers to allow one pump to serve multiple duties (headered primary pumps serving multiple chillers). Refer to Primary Pumps, page 52 for more information on primary pumps.
Variable Flow Pumps
Many applications require the flow to change in response to load. Modulating the flow can be accomplished by:
□ Riding the pump curve
□ Staging on pumps
□ Using variable frequency drives (VFDs)
Riding the pump curve is typically used on small systems with limited flow range. Staging on pumps was the traditional method until VFDs. Today, VFDs are the most common method for varying flow. They are the most efficient method as well. System flow is usually controlled by maintaining a pressure differential between the supply and return lines. The measuring point should be at or near the end of the pipe runs as opposed to being in the mechanical room to reduce unnecessary pump work. This is particularly true for direct return systems.
☺Tip: The differential pressure setpoint for variable
flow pumps should based on field measurements taken
during commissioning and balancing. Using an
estimated setting may lead to unnecessary pump work
for the life of the building
Figure 12 shows the differential pressure sensor located at the end of the piping run. At design load, the pressure drop across coil 1 is 60 ft while the pressure drop across coil 5 is only 30 ft. Then differential pressure controls should be set up to maintain 30 ft. When only coil 1 is operating, the pressure differential across coil 1 will only be 30 ft if the differential sensor is located at the end of the run as shown. If the sensors had been near the pumps, however, the differential controller would have to have been set for 60 ft to meet the design requirements. When only coil 1 operates, the pressure would have been maintained at 60 ft, which would have wasted pump work.
Figure 12 - Secondary Pump Control in Direct Return Systems
Another method of controlling variable flow pumps is to monitor the valve positions of a control valve in a critical part of the system. This valve is typically the furthest from the pumps. The control system then maintains the minimum pressure differential necessary, which allows the valve to maintain setpoint. The advantage of this approach is the system pressure is maintained at the minimum required to operate properly and that translates into minimum pump work.
When multiple pumps are required to be variable flow, such as the secondary pumps of a primarysecondary system, VFDs are recommended on all pumps. Consider a system with two equal pumps, both are required to meet the design flow. Pump 1 has a VFD while pump 2 does not. From 0 to 50% flow, pump 1 can be used with its VFD. Above 50%, the second pump will be required. When pump 2 is started, it will operate at design speed. It will overpower pump 1, which will need to operate at less than design speed and will not generate the same head.
Figure 13 - Pumping Power vs. Flow3
Figure 13 shows percent pumping power as a function of percent flow. From this figure, it can be seen that VFD pumps will not save much energy below 33% or 20Hz. Operating pumps much below 30% starts to create problems for motors, chiller minimum flows, etc. Since there are minimal savings anyway, the recommended minimum frequency is 20 Hz.
Pumps and Energy Efficiency
Pump work is deceptive. Although the motors tend to be small (when compared to chiller motors), they operate whenever the chiller operates. In a single water-cooled chiller plant with constant chilled water flow, it is not unusual for the pumps to use two-thirds of the energy consumed by the chiller. Optimal use of pumps can often save more energy than any other improvement to a chiller plant.
Figure 14 - Motor and VFD Efficiency At Part Load
When both motors and VFDs operate at less than 100% capacity, their efficiency drops off. Figure 14 shows motor and VFD efficiencies at part load. It can be seen that oversizing motors can lead to significantly poorer performance than expected.
Oversizing pumps themselves also leads to wasted energy. If the pumps produce too much flow, the flow will be throttled, usually with a balancing valve, to meet the desired flow. This creates an unnecessary pressure drop and consumes power all the time the pump operates. The solution in most cases, is to trim the impeller.
3 Bernier, Michel., Bernard Bourret, 1999. Pumping Energy and Variable Speed Drives. ASHRAE Journal, December 1999. ASHRAE. Atlanta, Ga.
ASHRAE 90.1-2001 requires the following for pumps:
□ When throttling results in no greater than 5% of nameplate horsepower or 3 hp, whichever is less
□ Individual pumps with over 100- head and a 50-hp motor shall be able to operate at 50% flow with 30% power.
□ The differential pressure shall be measured at or near the furthest coil or the coil requiring the greatest pressure differential.
□ Where minimum flow interferes with proper operation of the equipment (i.e., the chiller) and the total pump horsepower is less than 75.
□ Systems with no more than 3 control valves.
Cooling Tower Basics
Cooling towers are used in conjunction with water-cooled chillers. Air-cooled chillers do not require cooling towers. A cooling tower rejects the heat collected from the building plus the work of compression from the chiller. There are two common forms used in the HVAC industry: induced draft and forced draft. Induced draft towers have a large propeller fan at the top of the tower (discharge end) to draw air counterflow to the water. They require much smaller fan motors for the same capacity than forced draft towers. Induced draft towers are considered to be less susceptible to recirculation, which can result in reduced performance.
Figure 15 - Induced Draft Cooling Tower
Forced draft towers have fans on the air inlet to push air either counterflow or crossflow to the movement of the water. Forward curved fans are often employed. They use more fan power than induced draft but can provide external static pressure when required. This can be important if the cooling tower requires ducting, discharge cap or other device that creates a pressure drop.
Condenser water is dispersed through the tower through trays or nozzles. The water flows over fill within the tower, which greatly increases the air-to-water surface contact area. The water is collected into a sump, which can be integral to the tower or remote from the tower. The latter is popular in freezing climates where the condenser water can be stored indoors.
Either tower type can have single or multiple cells. The cells can be headered together on both the supply and return side with isolation valves to separate the sections. This approach allows more cells to be added as more chillers are activated or to allow more tower surface area to be used by a single chiller to reduce fan work.
Typical Operating Conditions
The Cooling Tower Institute (CTI) rates cooling towers at 78oF ambient wetbulb, 85oF supply water temperature and a 10oF range. Since it is common (but not necessary) to use a temperature range of 10oF, the cooling tower flow rate will be 3.0 gpm/ton compared to the chilled water flow rate which is 2.4 gpm/ton. The extra condenser water flow rate is required to accommodate the heat from the work of compression. Cooling towers are very versatile and can be used over a wide range of approaches, ranges, flows and wetbulb temperatures. Lower condenser water temperatures can be produced in many climates with low wet bulb temperatures which significantly improves chiller performance.
Figure 16 - Forced Draft Cooling Tower
Cooling Tower Process
Cooling towers expose the condenser water directly to the ambient air in a process that resembles a waterfall. The process can cool condenser water to below ambient drybulb. The water is cooled by a combination of sensible and latent cooling. A portion of the water evaporates which provides the latent cooling. The example on page 18 shows the cooling tower process on a psychrometric chart at ARI conditions. As the wetbulb temperature drops, cooling towers rely more on sensible cooling and less on latent cooling. Ambient air below freezing can hold very little moisture which leads to large plumes; and in some cases the winter tower selection requires a larger tower than the summer conditions. Additional care should be taken when selecting cooling towers for use in winter.
The above psychrometric chart shows the cooling tower process at ARI conditions. Assume 1 lb. of water is cooled by 1 lb. of air. The water cools from 95oF to 85oF and releases 10 Btus of heat to the air ( 1 Btu = the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 lb. of water, 1oF). The 10 Btus of heat raises the enthalpy of air from 42.4 Btu/lb. to 52.4 Btu/lb. and saturates the air. The leaving air condition is 87.5oF and 100% RH. The moisture content went from 0.018 lb.w to 0.029 lb.w. This means 0.029- 0.018 lb. = 0.011 of water was evaporated which is why it is common to hear that cooling towers lose about 1% of their water flow to evaporation. The latent heat of vaporization for water at 85oF is about 1045 Btu/lb. Multiplying the latent heat times the amount of evaporated water (1045 × 0.011) results in 11.45 Btus of cooling effect. Cooling the water required 10 Btus, the rest was used to cool the air sensibly. The air entered the tower at 95oF and left the tower at 87.5oF.
Approximately 1% of the design condenser water flow is evaporated (See the above example). A 1000-ton chiller operating at design conditions can consume 1800 gallons of water per hour. The specific amount can be calculated by reviewing the psychrometric process. In locations where the cost of water is an issue, air-cooled chillers may provide a better operating cost despite the lower chiller performance.
Winter Operation
Cooling towers required to work in freezing winter environments require additional care. The condenser water must not be allowed to freeze particularly when the tower is idle. Common solutions include electric or steam injection heaters or a remote sump within the building envelope. The high RH of ambient winter air results in a plume, which can frost over surrounding surfaces. Low plume towers are available. Finally, freezing of condenser water on the tower itself can lead to blockage and reduced or no performance. Modulating water flow through a cooling tower (such as the use of threeway chiller head pressure control) should be given careful consideration. In many instances this can lead to increased possibility of freezing the tower.
Condenser water has all the right ingredients for biological growth; it is warm, exposed to air and provides surfaces to grow on. In addition, the constant water loss makes water treatment even more difficult. Both chemical and ozone-based treatment systems are used. A thorough discussion on the topic of water treatment is beyond the scope of this Guide but it suffices to say, that it is necessary to provide the proper operation of both the tower and the chiller.
Figure 17 - Chiller Power Vs. Tower Power4
Cooling towers differ from closed-circuit coolers in that closed-circuit coolers reject heat sensibly while cooling towers reject heat latently. Consider ambient design conditions of 95oF DB and 78oF wb. If closed circuit coolers are used, the condenser water must be warmer than the ambient drybulb (typically 10oF warmer or 105oF). This raises the condensing pressure in the chiller and requires more overall power for cooling. Closed circuit coolers are larger than cooling towers for the same capacity and can be difficult to locate on the roof.
Cooling Tower Controls
Cooling tower controls provide condenser water at the correct temperature to the chillers. Defining correct water temperature is very important. Lowering the condenser supply water temperature (to the chiller) increases the effort by the cooling tower and more fan work can be expected. It also improves the chiller performance. Figure 17 shows the relationship between chiller and tower work.
Table 2 - Chiller Performance Vs. CSWT
Chiller Type Performance
(Percent kW /oF
condenser water)
W/C Recip. 1.1 to 1.3
W/C Scroll 1.3 to 1.5
W/C Screw 1.6 to 1.8
W/C Centrifugal 1.0 to 1.6
W/C Centrifugal VFD 2.4 to 2.6
Absorption 1.4 to 1.5
Table 2 shows the range of chiller improvement that can be expected by lowering the condenser water supply temperature. The goal of cooling tower control is to find the balance that provides the required cooling with the least use of power by the chiller plant.
Cooling towers are often provided with aquastats. This is the most basic level of control. They are popular for single chiller-tower arrangements because the control package can be supplied as part of the cooling tower. The aquastat is installed in the supply (to the chiller) side of the cooling tower. In many cases, the setpoint is 85oF, which is very poor.
Figure 18 shows the 85oF setpoint and the ARI condenser relief curve which chillers are rated at. Maintaining 85oF condenser water, while saving cooling tower fan work, will significantly penalize the chiller. There is some risk that without some condenser relief, the chiller may not operate at lower part load conditions (The chiller may surge).
4 Braun, J.E., and G.T. Diderrich. 1990. Near-Optimal Control of Cooling Towers For Chilled Water Systems. ASHRAE Transactions SL-90-13-3, Atlanta, Ga.
Figure 18- Chiller Performance with 85 T Setpoint
If aquastats are going to be used, then a lower setpoint than 85oF should be used. One recommendation is to set the aquastat at the minimum condenser water temperature acceptable to the chiller. The cooling tower will then operate at maximum fan power and always provide the coldest possible (based on load and ambient wet bulb) condenser water to the chiller until the minimum setpoint is reached. Then the tower fan work will stage down and maintain minimum setpoint.
Figure 19 - Chiller Performance with Minimum Setpoint
Minimum chiller setpoints are not a specific temperature. They change depending on the chiller load. A conservative number such as 65oF is recommended.
Another method to control cooling towers dedicated to single chillers is to use the chiller controller. Most chiller controllers today have standard outputs which can operate cooling towers, bypass valves and pumps. The chiller controller has the advantage of knowing just how much cooling is actually required by the chiller for optimum performance.
☺Tip: Using wetbulb plus tower design approach as
a setpoint can strike an excellent balance between
chiller work and cooling tower fan work.
A method to control either single cell or multiple cell cooling towers serving multiple chillers is to base the condenser supply water temperature on ambient wetbulb. For this method, set the condenser water setpoint at the current ambient wetbulb plus the design approach temperature for the cooling tower. The set-point will change as the ambient wetbulb changes. Limit the setpoint between the design condenser water temperature (typically 85oF) and the minimum condenser water temperature (typically 65oF).
The wetbulb method will provide good condenser relief for the chiller and cooling tower fan work relief when the chiller is not operating at 100% capacity. It can be a good balance between chiller and tower work.
Ultimately, the best cooling tower control designs are part of a chiller plant optimization program. These programs monitor the weather, the building load and the power consumption of all the components in the chiller plant including cooling towers. Using modeling algorithms, the program calculates the best operating point to use the least power possible and meet the requirements of the building.
Cooling Towers and Energy Efficiency
Cooling towers consume power to operate the fans. Induced draft towers should be selected since they typically use half the fan horsepower force draft towers use. Some form of fan speed control is also recommended such as piggyback motors, multi-speed motors or Variable Speed Drives (VFDs). In addition, a sensible controls logic is required to take advantage of the variable speeds.
ASHRAE 90.1-2001 requires the following for heat rejection devices:
□ Requires fan speed control for each fan motor 7 1/2 hp or larger. The fan must be able to operate at two-thirds speed or less and have the necessary controls to automatically change the speed. (6.3.5.2)
□ Condenser fans serving multiple refrigeration circuits.
□ Condenser fans serving flooded condensers
□ Installations in climates with greater than 7200 CDD50.
□ Up to one-third of the fans on a condenser or tower with multiple fans, where the lead fans comply with the speed control requirement.
Load Basics
Figure 20 -Air Handling Equipment
Chilled water coils are used to transfer the heat from the building air to the chilled water. The coils can be located in air handling units, fan coils, induction units, etc. The air is cooled and dehumidified as it passes through the coils. The chilled water temperature rises during the process.
Cooling coil performance is not linear with flow. Cooling coils perform 75% cooling with only 50% chilled water flow and 40% cooling with only 20% flow. As well, the leaving water temperature will approach the entering air temperature as the load is reduced.
Process loads can reject heat in the chilled water in a variety of ways. A common process load is a cooling jacket in machinery such as injection molding equipment. Here the chilled water absorbs the sensible heat of the process.
Control Valve Basics
Control valves are used to maintain space temperature conditions by altering chilled water flow. Valves can be broken down into groups in several ways. Valves can be two-position or modulating. Two-position valves are either on or off. Control comes from time weighting. The percentage that the valve is open over a certain time period dictates the amount of cooling that the cooling coil actually does. Modulating valves vary the flow in response to the actual load at any given time.
Valves can also be classified as two-way or three-way type. Two-way valves throttle flow while three divert flow. Refer to Piping Diversity, page 24 for further explanation. There are several different physical types of valves. Globe valves, ball valves and butterfly valves are all commonly used in the HVAC industry.
Figure 21 - Coil and Control Valve Performance Curves
Different kinds of valves have different valve characteristics. Common characteristic types include linear, equal percentage and quick opening. Control valves used with cooling coils need to have a performance characteristic that is "opposite" to the coil. Equal percentage control valves are typically used for two-way applications. For three-way applications, equal percentage is used on the terminal port and linear is used on the bypass port.
Figure 21 shows an equal percentage control valve properly matched to a cooling coil. The result is that the valve stem movement is linear with the cooling coil capacity. In other words, a valve stroked 50% will provide 50% cooling.
Sizing Control Valves
Control valves must be sized correctly for the chilled water system to operate properly. An incorrectly sized control valve cannot only mean the device it serves will not operate properly, it can also lead to system-wide problems such as low delta T syndrome.
Control valves are typically sized based on the required Cv . The Cv is the amount of 60oF water that will flow through the valve in US gpm, with a 1 PSI pressure drop. The formula is:
G = Cv (ΔP)1/2
G is the flow through the valve in US gpm
Cv is the valve coefficient.
ΔP is the differential pressure required across the control valve.
The required flow at a control valves is defined by the needs on the device (fan coil, unit ventilator or AHU) it serves. Cv values for valves are published by valve manufacturers. The required pressure differential through the valve is the difficult parameter to define.
Figure 22 - Pressure Drops and Cv
Figure 22 shows typical pressure drops from the supply to the return line for a cooling coil. For a modulating valve, the valve pressure drop should be as large a percentage as possible when compared to the system pressure drop; preferably over 50%. The reason is to maintain valve authority. For on-off control, any valve can be used as long as it can pass the required flow rate with the pressure differential available.
Valve Authority
☺Tip: When calculating valve C to size valves, use at
least 50% of the system pressure drop from the supply to
the return line to maintain good valve authority. In most
cases, a properly sized control valve will be smaller than
the line size it is installed in.
As a control valve closes, the pressure drop across the valve increases so that when the valve is completely closed, the differential pressure drop across the valve matches the pressure drop from the supply to the return line. This pressure drop is known as ΔPMax. When the valve is completely open, the pressure drop across the valve is at its lowest point and is referred to ΔPMin. The ratio (β) ΔPMin / ΔPMax is the valve authority. The increase in pressure drop across the valve as it closes is important to note. Valves are rated based on a constant pressure drop. As the pressure drop shifts, the performance of the valve changes. The method to minimize the change in valve performance is to maintain the Valve Authority (β) above 0.5.
Figure 23 - Distortion of Equal Percentage Valve Characteristic
Figure 23 shows the change in the valve characteristic that occurs at different Valve Authorities. Since the goal is to provide a valve with a performance characteristic that is the opposite of a coil characteristic (See Figure 21), it is important to maintain Valve Authority above 0.5.
Valve Authority Example
Consider a control valve with a Cv = 25 serving a coil that has a design flow of 50 US gpm. The pressure differential from the supply to the return line is 16 PSI.
As the valve closes, the system pressure shifts to the valve until all the pressure drop (16 PSI) is across the valve. If the valve was fully opened and there was 16 PSI across the valve the flow rate would increase to:
Q = Cv (ΔP)1/2 = 25(16) 1/2 = 100 US gpm.
This does not actually happen, however, since the pressure drop through the coil, balancing valve, etc. increases and limits flow to 50USgpm.
ΔPMin = (Q)2/( C2)2 = (50)2/( 25)2 = 4 PSI
In this case, the valve authority (β) is 4 PSI/16 PSI = 0.25. Referring to Figure 23, it can be seen that the valve performance characteristic is distorted and when matched to a cooling coil will not provide a linear relationship between valve position and coil output. This can lead to poor coil performance and low delta T syndrome. The solution is to try and keep the valve authority above 0.5. In other words, the pressure drop though the control valve when it is fully open should be at least 50% of the pressure drop from the supply to return line.
Rangeablity
Rangeablity is a measure of the turndown a control valve can provide. The larger the range, the better the control at low loads. Typical ranges for control valves are 15:1 to 50:1.
Control Valve Location in Systems
Proper valve selection requires knowing the pressure drop from the supply to the return wherever the device is located. This information is typically not made available to the controls contractor which often leads to guessing. One solution would be for the designer to provide the required Cv for each valve. Another solution would be to provide the estimated pressure drops for each valve. Because the pressure drop from the supply to the return changes throughout the system, it can be expected that different valves with different Cvs will be required. Even if all the coil flows and pressure drops were identical, the valves should change depending on location in the system. Lack of attention to this detail can lead to low delta T syndrome (refer to Low Delta T Syndrome, page 80) that can be very difficult to resolve.
Loop Control Basics
There are two parameters that need to be considered for the chilled water loop. These are temperature and flow. The loop supply temperature is usually controlled at the chiller. The unit controller on the chiller will monitor and maintain the supply chilled water temperature (within its capacity range). The accuracy to which the chiller can maintain the setpoint is based on the chiller type, controller quality (a DDC controller with a PID loop is the best), compressor cycle times, the volume of fluid in the system, etc. Systems with fast changing loads (especially process loads) and small fluid volumes (close coupled) require special consideration.
The system flow control occurs at the load. To control the cooling effect at the load, two-way or three-way valves are used. Valve types are discussed in Control Valve Basics, page 20. Valve selection will also touch on piping diversity and variable vs. constant flow.
Another method to control cooling is face and bypass control at the air cooling coil while running chilled water through the coil. This approach has the advantage of improved dehumidification at part load and no waterside pressure drops due to control valves. The disadvantage is the requirement for continuous flow during any mechanical cooling load. In many cases the pressure drop savings will offset the continuous operation penalty but only annual energy analysis will clarify it. Face and bypass coil control is popular with unit ventilator systems with their required high percentage of outdoor air, and make-up air systems.
Piping Diversity
Figure 24 - Three-way Valves
Diversity in piping is based on what type of valves are used. To maintain the correct space condition, three-way or two-way control valves are used. Threeway control valves direct chilled water either through or around the coil to maintain the desired condition. If all the loads on the loop use three-way valves, then the chilled water flow is constant. The temperature range varies directly with the load. That is, if the design chilled water temperature range is 10oF, then every 10% drop in system load represents a 1oF drop in temperature range. A system incorporating three-way control valves is easy to design and operate. The system pumps all the water all the time, however this requires more pump horsepower. In most cases the chiller is sized for the building peak load. Due to diversity, not all the connected loads will "peak" at the same time as the building peak load. However, the pumps and piping system must be designed for full flow to all the control valves all the time. Since the chiller flow rate is the same as the flow rate through all the loads (they're connected by the same piping system and pump) the diversity is applied to the chiller temperature range.
Figure 25 - Two-Way Valves
For example, consider a building with an 80-ton peak load. Summing all the connected loads adds up to 100 tons. In short, this building has a diversity of 80%. Using a temperature range of 10oF at each control valve, the total system flow rate is:
Flow = 24 × 100 tons/10oF = 240 gpm
However, an 80-ton chiller with 240 gpm will only have a temperature range of 8oF. The lower chiller temperature range is not a problem for the chiller operation, but it will lower the chiller efficiency. Care must be taken to select the chiller at the proper temperature range.
When two-way modulating control valves are used, the flow to the coil is restricted rather than bypassed. If all the valves in the system are two-way type, the flow will vary with the load. If the valves are properly selected, the temperature range remains constant and the flow varies directly with the load. In this case the diversity is applied to the chilled water flow rate.
Using the previous example, the peak load is 80 tons and the design flow is 2.4 × 80 tons or 192 gpm. The connected load is still 100 tons and requires 240 gpm if all the two-way control valves are open at the same time. The 80% diversity assumes only 80% of the valves will be open at the peak load.
The advantage of two-way control valves is both the pump and the piping are sized for a smaller flow rate, offering both first cost and operating savings. The difficulty is that the chiller and control system must be designed for variable flow. The chiller has a minimum flow rate so the piping design has to allow for enough flow during all operating conditions to meet the chiller minimum flow rate. Using two-way valves is the main building block for a variable flow system.
Water Temperatures and Ranges
Selection of temperature ranges can affect the chiller plant operation and energy usage. The limiting temperatures are the required supply air temperature and either the ambient wetbulb (water or evaporatively cooled chillers) or drybulb (air cooled chillers) temperatures. Once these have been identified, the HVAC system must operate within them.
Supply Air Temperature
The chilled water supply temperature is tied to the supply air temperature. The chilled water temperature must be cold enough to provide a reasonable log mean temperature difference (LMTD) (Refer to McQuay , for more information on LMTD) for a cooling coil to be selected. Traditionally this has resulted in a 10oF approach which, when subtracted from 55oF supply air temperature, has led to the 44 or 45oF chilled water temperature. Lowering the chilled water temperature will increase the approach allowing a smaller (in rows and fins and hence air pressure drop) coil to be used. It will also increase the lift that the chiller must overcome and that will reduce the chiller performance.
Figure 26 - Chiller Heat Exchanger Conditions
The air pressure drop savings for small changes (2 to 4oF) in the approach do not generally save enough in fan work to offset the chiller penalty. This is particularly true for VAV where the pressure drops inside an air handling unit follow the fan affinity laws. The power required to overcome the coil pressure drop decrease by the cube root as the air volume decreases. A 20% decrease in airflow results in a 36% decrease in internal air pressure drop and a 49% drop in bhp.
It is sometimes suggested that the chilled water supply temperature be 2oF colder than the supply water temperature used to select the cooling coils to make sure the "correct" water temperature is delivered to the coils. This is not recommended. For a 10oF chilled water temperature range, a 2oF temperature increase implies 20% of the chiller capacity has been lost to heat gain in the piping system! The coil would have to be selected with only an 8o
Chilled Water Temperature Range
Increasing the chilled water temperature range reduces the required flow rate and consequently the pump and piping sizes. In some situations, the savings both in capital cost and operating cost can be very large. Increasing the chilled water temperature range while maintaining the same supply water temperature actually improves the chiller performance because the chiller log mean temperature difference increases. It has just the opposite effect on the cooling coil where the LMTD decreases between the air and the chilled water. In some cases, it may be necessary to lower the supply water temperature to balance the chiller LMTD with the coil LMTD.
Table 3 - Suggested Supply Water Temperatures
Temperature Ranges (oF) Suggested Supply
Water Temperature (oF)
Table 3 provides suggested supply water temperatures for various ranges. The best balance of supply water temperature and range can only be found through annual energy analysis. Every project is unique. The McQuay Energy Analyzer™ can be used to quickly evaluate the pump savings vs. chiller penalty.
☺Tip: Pump operating savings come from increasing the
chilled water temperature range, not from lowering the supply
water temperature.
Products such as fan coils and unit ventilators have standardized coils designed to work with 10 to 12oF chilled water range. When these products are used with this range of chilled water, they provide the sensible heat ratio and return water temperature generally required. When the range is increased, the coils may not provide the necessary sensible heat ratio and return water temperature. It is recommended that for these products, the chilled water range stay close to industry standard conditions. Chilled water coils are designed for the application-specific conditions so this is generally not an issue.
Condenser Water Temperature Range
Increasing the condenser water temperature range reduces the condenser water flow, which requires smaller pumps and piping. It also increases the required condenser pressure while improving the LMTD for the cooling tower. Increasing the condensing pressure on the chiller will result in a combination of increased chiller cost and reduced performance. Improving the cooling tower LMTD allows a smaller tower to be used, but the savings from this strategy will not generally offset the increased cost of the chiller.
In most cases, the overall design power requirement will go up. At full load conditions, the increased chiller power requirement to overcome the increased lift will more than offset the savings from the smaller cooling tower fan and condenser pump. This will depend on the head requirement of the condenser pump.
As the chilled water load decreases, the chiller and cooling tower work will reduce but the condenser pump work will remain the same. At some part load operating point, the savings from the smaller condenser pump will offset the chiller penalty and for all operating points below this, the increased condenser range will save energy. Whether an increased condenser temperature range will save energy annually will depend on when the crossover point occurs (the pump motor size) and the chiller operating profile (whether the operating hours favor the chiller or the pump). This can only be found with annual energy analysis.
Temperature Range Trends
Changing the temperature ranges and supply temperatures requires careful analysis. The following are some points to consider:
□ The traditional ARI operating conditions work very well for many buildings.
□ Unnecessary reduction of the chilled water supply temperature should be avoided as it increases chiller work.
□ When using standard products such as fancoils and unit ventilators, maintain the chilled water temperature range between 10 and 12oF where they are designed to operate.
□ Increasing the chilled water temperature range is a good way to reduce the capital and operating cost of a building, particularly if the pump head is large or the piping runs long.
□ With larger chilled water temperature ranges it may be necessary to lower the supply water temperature to find a balance between coil and fan performance vs. chiller performance. Annual energy analysis using the McQuay Energy Analyzer™ is recommended.
□ If the chilled water supply temperature is reduced, consider oversizing the cooling tower to reduce the condenser water temperature and minimize the affect on the chiller.
□ Always take into account the actual design ambient drybulb or wetbulb conditions when designing a chiller plant. If the location is arid, then lower the wetbulb design as per ASHRAE design weather data and select both the cooling tower and chiller accordingly.
□ For very large chilled water ranges, use series chillers possibly with series counterflow condenser circuits to optimize chiller performance.
□ Increasing the condenser water range should only be considered for projects where the piping runs are long and the pump work high. When it is required, optimize the flow to the actual pipe size that is selected and select the chillers accordingly. Consider oversizing the cooling towers to minimize the affect on the chiller.
□ Use the McQuay Energy Analyzer™ to evaluate various temperature range supply water temperature combinations. Design condition performance is not an accurate indicator of the annual energy usage.
Air and Evaporatively Cooled Chillers
The choice of chiller type and chiller plant design are inherently linked. Different chiller types have different strengths and by careful selection of chiller plant design, these strengths can be optimized. Most large plants consist of centrifugal water cooled chillers. Hybrid plants (discussed in Hybrid Plants, page 66) may also include absorption chillers.
Air-Cooled Chillers
Figure 27 - McQuay Air-Cooled Screw Chiller
Many small to medium chiller plants use air cooled chillers with air-cooled screw chillers being common in the 150 to 400- ton range. Air-cooled screw chillers offer very good performance particularly at part load. The compressors are modulating rather than stepped which provides more accurate control.
Air cooled chillers avoid the need for cooling towers, condenser pumps and condenser piping which can offer substantial capital savings. Air cooled chillers do not require mechanical room space which offers additional savings.
☺Tip: Air cooled chillers do not require mechanical room space.
To estimate the savings use$50/ft2.
Another advantage of aircooled chillers is they do not consume water like watercooled chillers. A 400-ton chiller will consume over 700 gallons per hour to offset cooling tower makeup. Where water is scarce, this can be a significant cost. In addition, condenser water treatment is avoided.
Drybulb Relief
☺Tip: When considering air cooled vs. water cooled it is
important to make an apples-to-apples comparison. Aircooled
chillers are rated with the condenser fans included. To
be fair, water-cooled chillers should have the condenser pump
and the cooling tower fans added. For instance, a watercooled
chiller with 0.55 kW/ton performance changes to 0.64
kW/ton when the condenser pumps and tower fan motor are
Air-cooled chillers have lower performance (consume more power) than water or evaporatively cooled chillers because of the increased lift. Refrigeration work is proportional to lift; doubling the lift will approximately double the work required. (For this purpose, consider lift to be the difference between chilled water supply and either cooling tower supply or ambient air drybulb) Since aircooled chillers must raise the refrigerant temperature above ambient drybulb, they consume more power.
Both chiller types will improve chiller performance when the lift is reduced. This is often referred to as condenser relief. Figure 28 shows the annual drybulb vs. wetbulb temperature for Chicago. The curves show the amount of available condenser relief for each type of chiller. As expected, the wetbulb based (water-cooled) chillers offer the best performance at design conditions, however, the relief during spring and fall seasons quickly reduces the difference. In the winter, there is no advantage, as either system will operate at the minimum condensing temperature permissible by the refrigeration system.
Understanding the overall annual performance is important when considering the building use. For example, schools are rarely operating at design conditions during the summer months due to reduced occupancy. This has the effect of limiting the advantage water-cooled chillers have over air- cooled chillers.
Figure 28 - Annual Ambient Drybulb Vs. Wetbulb
Water-cooled chiller systems usually out perform air cooled chiller systems. However, when considering life cycle analysis, the payback for water-cooled systems can be very long.
In climates where freezing conditions exist, winter operation must be considered. There are two issues to deal with. The first is the necessary changes to the chiller to operate in cold temperatures. All chillers have a minimum condensing temperature. Going beyond that temperature may damage the chiller. To protect the chiller, the condensing fans are staged off, or slowed down to maintain the correct condensing temperature. In very cold climates, a flooded system may be required. There are other changes that are required as well, such as larger crankcase heaters. Consult your sales representative to discuss these requirements.
The second issue is protecting the chilled water from freezing. Here are some possible solutions:
□ Heat trace the piping and evaporator. This is a good solution where freezing weather occurs but is not extensive. It is also a good backup for systems that are to be drained in the winter. Many chillers already include evaporator tracing. Check with your sales representative.
□ Add antifreeze. A common solution is to add either propylene or ethylene glycol to the chilled water. While this will resolve the freezing issue, it will increase pumping work and de-rate both the chiller and chilled water coils. Maintaining the correct level of antifreeze in the system becomes an additional maintenance issue. A loss of antifreeze in the system due to flushing or a leak and subsequent water make-up can allow the chilled water loop to become vulnerable to freezing. Adding glycol to a system that was not designed to have it must be carefully examined to ensure the system will operate properly.
□ Relocate the evaporator barrel inside the building envelope. Relocating the evaporator avoids antifreeze but will require field refrigerant piping. There are also limitations on piping distances and elevation changes. Consult your sales representative to discuss the details.
□ Use an indoor chiller with a remote air-cooled condenser. This arrangement will require mechanical room space, however, the equipment can be serviced from within the building. This is a very good solution for very cold climates. The compressors are indoors and flooded condensers can easily be added.
Air-Cooled Chiller System Design
Air-cooled chillers will affect the system selection and design details. In most cases, air-cooled chillers are limited in evaporator shell arrangements when compared to centrifugal chillers. They are designed to work well around the ARI 550/560 design conditions (54oF EWT, 44oF EWT). The design temperature range should stay within 20% of these operating conditions. Series chiller arrangements will typically double the flow and half the temperature change in the evaporator. This can lead to very high water pressure drops. Contact your sales representative to review the acceptable performance ranges of the various chiller options.
Air-cooled chillers can be used in any chiller system design. They are commonly used in single, parallel and primary/secondary systems. They can be mixed with water cooled chillers in multiple chiller applications.
Most air-cooled chillers can be used in either constant or variable flow applications. Variable flow in the evaporator is a function of the staging and chiller controller. Check with your sales representative when designing variable primary flow systems.
There are many applications that require a small amount of chilled water during the winter. For example, a hospital might require chilled water to cool an MRI year-round while the AHUs can switch to air-side economizers in the winter. When there is a requirement for small amounts of chilled water in winter, an air-cooled chiller is an excellent solution. An air-cooled chiller avoids the need to operate a cooling tower in cold (freezing) weather. In addition, the air-cooled chiller will offer equal performance to a water-cooled chiller at low ambient conditions.
Evaporatively Cooled Chillers
☺Tip: Evaporatively -cooled chillers are not just for hot, dry
climates, should be considered wherever water-cooled chillers
make sense.
Evaporatively-cooled chillers are essentially water-cooled chillers in a box. The hot gaseous refrigerant is condensed by water flowing over the condenser tubes and evaporating. This ties the condensing temperature to ambient wetbulb like a water-cooled chiller. The condenser, water sump and pump, etc., are all integral to the chiller. Whereas a watercooled chiller will require a cooling tower, condenser pump and field erected piping, the evaporatively-cooled chilled comes as a complete package from the factory. Evaporatively-cooled chillers offer the ease and savings of air-cooled chiller installation while providing performance comparable to water-cooled chillers. Evaporatively-cooled chillers will require makeup water, water treatment and drains.
Figure 29 - McQuay EGR Evaporatively Cooled Chiller
Evaporatively-cooled chillers are often associated with hot, dry climates such as the American Southwest. However, they should be considered wherever watercooled chillers make sense.
Evaporatively Cooled Chiller System Design
Evaporatively-cooled chillers can be used in any system design. They have similar limitations as air-cooled chillers (Refer to Air-Cooled Chiller System Design, page 29).
Dual Compressor and VFD Chillers
The unique performance of both McQuay dual compressor and variable frequency drive chillers affect the chiller plant design. While it is satisfactory to simply switch conventional chillers with either dual or VFD chillers in the chiller plant, to take full advantage of these chillers capabilities, the design should be modified.
Dual Compressor Chillers
Figure 30 - McQuay Dual Compressor Chiller
McQuay dual compressor centrifugal chillers offer many advantages over conventional chillers. From a performance point of view, the chiller is most efficient at 50% capacity. At this point, only one compressor is operating and the evaporator and condenser are twice the size normally used for the compressor size. Whereas a conventional chiller NPLV can be 0.479 kW/ton, a dual NPLV is 0.435 kW/ton. An advantage a dual compressor chiller offers over a VFD chiller is it does not require significant condenser water temperature relief to provide the savings. Dual chillers can also have VFD offering the best of both worlds with an NPLV of 0.360 kW/ton or lower
The built-in redundancy of a dual compressor chiller allows the designer to use fewer chillers and still provide the owner with backup equipment. This can save considerable capital expense in installation costs.
VFD Chillers
Figure 31 - VFD Chiller
VFD chillers use a combination of VFDs and inlet guide vanes to modulate the capacity of the chiller. The VFD is used to change the speed of the compressor. For information on how this works, refer to McQuay AG 31-002, Centrifugal Chiller Fundamentals. The performance savings are obtained when the VFD is used rather than the inlet guide vanes. Typical VFD chiller NPLV is about 0.386 kW/ton. The VFD can only be used when the lift on the compressor is reduced. The lift is reduced either when the chiller load is decreased or when the condenser water temperature is lowered and/or the chilled water temperature is raised. When the lift is reduced and the VFD can be used, the chiller will operate much more efficiently at part load than a conventional chiller does.
The best way to take advantage of a VFD chiller is to reduce the condenser water temperature as much as possible. Climates with reasonable annual changes in wetbulb are prime candidates for VFD chillers.
System Design Changes
Conventional Application
Both dual compressor and VFD chillers operate much more efficiently at part load. Conventional chillers operate most efficiently at or near full load. To fully optimize a dual or VFD chiller, the design should take advantage of their part load performance.
Figure 32 - Chiller Performance Vs. Plant Load
Figure 32 is based on two equally sized chillers in a primary/secondary arrangement using the ARI condenser relief profile for the entire plant. At the 50% load point, the second chiller must be started. For conventional chillers, the chiller performance drops because the load is split evenly between the two chillers and they unload to a less efficient operating point. The dual and VFD chillers actually improve their performance because the chillers are unloaded and there is condenser relief available.
Considering that most buildings experience a significant number of operating hours around 50% plant load, the dual or VFD chillers may offer appreciable savings even when used in a convention manner.
Lead Chiller Application
The first chiller that is activated in a plant, typically called the lead chiller, operates with many hours at reduced load and condenser water temperature. An example is a multi-chiller primary /secondary plant. The lead chiller sees optimal conditions for either a VFD or a dual compressor chiller. The other chillers in the plant can be conventional chillers. Each chiller that is started as the plant load increases will operate at a higher percent load with less condenser water relief and therefore will offer fewer savings.
Winter Load Application
Another good application for a dual or VFD chiller is winter load applications. Building using fancoils have considerable chiller plant loads even in winter. Other buildings such as hospitals or office buildings with computer, telecommunications or other winter chilled water loads can also take advantage of a dual or VFD chiller. In many cases, these winter loads are relatively small. Conventional thinking would require a smaller chiller sized specifically for the load. With a dual or VFD chiller, there may not be a performance penalty to use a larger chiller sized for summer loads to handle the small winter load. The peripheral loads such as pumps should be checked when evaluating performance.
Series Chiller Application
A common method for sizing chillers used in series is to select both chillers to be able to perform as the lead chiller (See Series Chillers, page 44). The causes the lag chiller to be sub-optimized because the lift is reduced in the lag position. By using a VFD chiller as the upstream chiller, the VFD can take advantage of the reduced lift when operating as the lag chiller. In addition, the same chiller can be used as the lead chiller during light loads when there should be condenser water relief available.
Asymmetrical Chiller Application
Selecting the chillers to be different sizes can improve chiller plant performance based on the building load profile (see Varying Chiller Sizes, page 57). Using either a dual or VFD chiller for that larger chiller can enhance the savings. Consider a 1200-ton plant consisting of an 800-ton dual compressor and a 400-ton single compressor chiller. The dual compressor chiller can accommodate the plant load up to 800 tons. Above that, the second chiller must be started and both chillers will initially operate at 67%. The larger chiller will be more efficient when unloaded.
Low Delta T Application
Most variable flow chiller plants will see a drop in return water temperature as the load drops. The low delta T can cause serious operation issues with the plant ( See Low Delta T Syndrome, page 80). One solution is to use either dual or VFD chillers and operate two chillers at part load as opposed to one chiller fully loaded. The dual or VFD chillers partly loaded should be more efficient than one conventional chiller fully loaded. The chiller savings can be used to offset the additional pumping cost from operating peripheral pumps. Moreover, this arrangement will provide the necessary chilled water flow on the primary side to offset the low delta T problem.
Total System Analysis
When estimating the savings, consider both the type of chillers used and the available lift reduction (condenser relief) and peripheral equipment that must be operated. Many combinations of plant design can be quickly modeled using the McQuay Energy Analyzer™.
Mechanical Room Safety
Chillers represent large, powerful machines filled with refrigerants. When chillers are placed in confined spaces, care must be exercised to provide safety to the equipment operator and the public at large.
Figure 33 - ASHRAE STD 15-2001
ASHRAE Standard 15-2001, Safety Standard for Refrigeration Systems and ASHRAE Standard 34- 2001, Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants, provides the designer with excellent sources when designing a chiller mechanical room. In Canada, CSA –B52, provides similar information.
The following is a brief summary of the safety requirements covered by these documents as they apply to chiller mechanical rooms. This section is by no means a complete review of all requirements covered by these standards. It is recommended that the design have access to these documents. ASHRAE plans to publish a users manual for Standard 15, which may also be very helpful.
Standard 34 lists refrigerants and provides a safety classification as shown in Figure 34. Refer to Standard 34 or to McQuay Application Guide AG 31-007, Refrigerants for further information on common refrigerants and their safety properties.
Figure 34 - ASHRAE STD 34 Safety Classification5
The purpose of Standard 15 is to specify "safe design, construction, installation, and operation of refrigeration systems6." The following is a brief outline of the issues that affect chiller mechanical room design. The Section numbers refer to ASHRAE Standard 15 sections.
5 ASHRAE, 2001. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34-2001,Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants. Atlanta, Ga.: ASHRAE
6 ASHRAE, 2001. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 15-2001,Safety Standard for Refrigeration Systems. Atlanta, Ga.: ASHRAE
Occupancy Classification
(Section 4)
Standard 15 identifies seven occupancy types (4.1.1 to 4.1.7) that consider the ability of the occupants to respond to a potential exposure to refrigerant. An example is Institutional Occupancy where it is anticipated that the occupants may be disabled and not capable of readily leaving the building without assistance. A hospital is an institutional building.
Refrigeration System Classification (Section 5)
Section 5 describes various types of refrigeration systems based on how they extract or deliver heat. Chiller plants are considered indirect systems because they cool chilled water, which in turn cools the air. Indirect systems are subsequently subdivided by how the secondary fluid (chilled water) contacts the air stream. Assuming coils are used, the classification is indirect closed system (5.1.2.3). If open spray coil systems are used then the classification becomes either indirect open spray system (5.1.2.1) or double indirect spray system (5.1.2.2).
The refrigeration system classification is used to determine the probability that a refrigeration leak would enter the occupied space. Indirect closed systems such as chiller plants are generally considered Low-Probability systems (5.2.2) providing they are either outside the building or in a mechanical room.
Refrigeration Safety Classification (Section 6)
Standard 15 uses the safety classifications listed in Standard 34. Table 4 of this Guide is based on Table 1 in Standard 15. It shows the group, refrigerant name, formula and the minimum quantity of refrigerant allowed in an occupied area. Blends such as R-407C and R-410a are classified based on the worst case fractionation of the refrigerant.
Table 4 - STD 15 Refrigerants and Amounts7
Number Chemical Name Chemical
Formula Quantity of Refrigerant per Occupied Space
Lb./1000 ft3 PPM (Volume)
Group A1
R-11 Trichlorofluoromethane CCl3F 1.6 4,000
R-12 Dichlorodifluoromethane CCl2F2 12 40,000
R-22 Chlorodifluoromethane CHClF2 9.4 42,000
R-134a 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane CH2FCF3 16 60,000
R-123 2,2-Dichloro-1,1,1-
Trifluoroethane CHCl2CF3 0.40 1,000
Restrictions on Refrigeration Use (Section 7)
Section 7 describes the restrictions on where refrigerants can be used. It is based on results of Sections 4, 5 and 6. With high probability systems (the refrigerant can enter the occupied space i.e. a spot cooler) the maximum refrigerant level is defined in Table 1 of Standard 15 (7.2). For example R-123 can only have a concentration of 0.4 lb per 1000 ft3 occupied space. Once these levels are exceeded, the refrigeration equipment must be either outdoors or in a mechanical room (7.4). Refrigerant levels involved in chiller plants necessitate mechanical rooms or outdoor equipment.
An interesting issue occurs when an air handling unit that serves occupied spaces is in the chiller mechanical room. If a leak occurs, the refrigerant may be drawn into the air handling unit and circulated through the building. The best solution to this is to avoid air handling units in the chiller mechanical room. This may not be possible in existing buildings. Standard 15 does allow AHUs in the chiller mechanical room if they are sealed (8.11.7).
Installation Restrictions (Section 8)
Section 8 describes the installation requirements. It has general requirements (8.1 through 8.10) and then requirements for nonflammable (type A1 and B1) refrigerants (8.11). Flammable refrigerants are covered in 8.12 through 8.14. With the exception of ammonia, most common commercial air conditioning refrigerants are either A1 or B1 type. It is important to confirm this, however.
The following is a summary of section 8:
□ Foundations for refrigeration equipment shall be non-combustible and capable of supporting the weight (8.1).
□ Provide guards for moving machinery (8.2).
□ There should be safe access to the equipment for service (8.3).
□ Water, electrical, natural gas and duct connections must meet the requirements of local authority (8.4, 8.5, 8.6 and 8.7 respectively)
□ Refrigeration components in the air stream must be able to withstand 700oF without leaking.
□ There are requirements on where refrigeration piping may be located (8.10).
□ Other equipment is not prohibited in the chiller mechanical room unless specifically mentioned. The room must be large enough to allow service and have a clear headroom of 7.25 ft. (8.11.1).
□ The mechanical room doors shall be tight fitting that open outward and be self closing if they open into the building. There must be enough doors to allow adequate escape in the event of an emergency. The mechanical room cannot have openings that will allow refrigerant to enter the occupied space in the event of leak (8.11.2).
□ Each mechanical room shall have a refrigerant leak detector. The detector shall activate an alarm and ventilation system at a value not greater than the TLV-TWA of the refrigerant. The alarms shall be audio and visual and be located in the mechanical room and at each entrance to the mechanical room. There shall be a manual reset located in the mechanical room. Absorption chillers using water as the refrigerant do not require detectors (8.11.2.1).
□ Chiller mechanical rooms shall be vented to the outdoors as follows (8.11.3 through 8.11.5):
□ Mechanical fans are required.
□ Openings for inlet air must be provided and situated to avoid recirculation.
□ Supply and exhaust air ducts shall serve no other area.
□ Discharge of exhaust air shall be in such a manner as not to cause a nuisance or danger.
□ The emergency ventilation capacity shall be calculated as follows:
☺Tip: The refrigerant charge of a chiller can be supplied
by the chiller manufacturer. A good rule of thumb is 3 lbs.
per ton.
Q = 100*G0.5
Q = the airflow rate in cubic feet per minute
G = the mass of refrigerant in pounds in the largest system (i.e., the chiller), any of which is located in the chiller mechanical room.
□ General ventilation shall be provided when occupied at a rate of 0.5 cfm/ft2 or 20 cfm/person. The general ventilation rate must be capable of maintaining a minimum 18oF temperature rise above the inlet air or a maximum space temperature of 122oF.
□ Natural ventilation is acceptable under certain circumstances such as open structures. Consult Standard 15 for information.
□ No open flames that use combustion air from the chiller mechanical room are allowed; for instance a natural draft boiler. Combustion equipment can be in the chiller mechanical room if:
□ Combustion air is drawn directly from outdoors or a refrigerant detector is used to shut down the combustion device in the event of a leak (8.11.6).
□ There shall be no airflow from the occupied space through the chiller mechanical room unless the air is ducted and sealed in such a manner as to prevent refrigerant leakage from entering the airstream. Access doors must be gasketed and tight fitting (8.11.7).
□ Access to chiller mechanical rooms shall be restricted to authorized personnel and clearly marked as restricted (8.11.8).
□ The discharge from purge systems (i.e., negative pressure centrifugal chillers) shall be governed by the same rules as pressure relief and fusible plug devices. Absorption chillers using water as the refrigerant are exempt (8.14).
Design and Construction of Equipment and Systems (Section 9)
Section 9 covers the design and construction of refrigeration equipment. In most cases, the chillers are factory built and the designer will not be directly involved in the equipment design. If there is field refrigerant piping involved such as in a split system, the designer will have to be familiar with this section.
Pressure Relief Piping
One area that will involve the designer is pressure relief devices and piping. The pressure relief devices are typically part of the chiller. With field refrigerant piping, additional relief devices may be required. Medium to high pressure refrigeration systems typically use re-seating spring loaded pressure relief valves. Negative pressure chillers often use rupture disks. Rupture disks are less expensive however, if they burst, the entire charge will be lost. Spring loaded pressure relief valves will re-seat as soon as the pressure within the refrigeration system drops to safe level. For negative pressure chillers, it is recommended that reseating pressure relief valves be used in addition to rupture disks for additional protection.
Pressure relief devices and purge unit discharges must be piped to the outdoors (9.7.8). The location must not be less than 15 ft above grade or 20 ft from a window, ventilation opening or doorway. The line size shall be at least the discharge size of the pressure relief device or fusible plug.
Multiple relief devices can be connected to a common header. The header size must be at least the sum of the discharge areas of the connected devices and designed to accommodate the pressure drop. Many chiller application catalogs provide tables for sizing relief piping. ASHRAE Standard 15 also includes tables for sizing relief piping.
General Requirements (Section 11)
Section 11 covers general requirements. Permanent signs are required indicating (11.2.1):
Name and address of installer
Refrigerant number and amount
Lubricant type and amount
Field test pressure
Single Chiller System
Single chiller systems are the easiest to design and operate but are also the least efficient chiller plant design for buildings. Moreover, they provide no redundancy. If the chiller fails, all cooling is lost. Single chiller plants require the smallest mechanical room, particularly if the chiller is air or evaporatively cooled.
Basic Operation
Figure 35 shows a single water-cooled chiller plant with constant flow and 80% cooling load diversity. Chilled water is circulated by the chilled water or primary pump through the chiller to the load and back to the chiller. The chilled water loop can be either constant flow or variable flow. Variable Flow systems increase the complexity but offer significant pump work savings. Variable flow systems are covered in Primary/Secondary Systems and Variable Primary Flow Design. A condenser loop is required for water cooled chillers. This includes a condenser pump, piping and a cooling tower or closed circuit cooler. The condenser loop operates whenever the chiller operates.
Figure 35 –Basic Single Chiller System Operation
For constant flow systems, the chilled water temperature range varies directly with the load. Depending on the load diversity, the chiller design temperature range will be less than the range seen at each load. In this case, the chiller range is 8oF while the cooling coil range is 10oF (Refer to Piping Diversity, page 24). The overall result is increased chilled water pump and pipe capital cost plus higher annual pumping cost.
The chiller is sized to meet the design load of the building or process. For building loads, the chiller only operates at full capacity for a few percent of the time. The balance of the time the chiller is operating in the 50 to 60% range (depending on the building load profile). Most chillers provide their most efficient performance at or near full load. Single chiller plant design does not promote optimal use of the chiller's performance. An exception to this is the McQuay Dual Compressor chiller, which operates at its most efficient point at 50% capacity. In addition, the dual compressor chiller offers complete redundancy of all major mechanical components, which resolves another issue with single chiller plant design.
Water-cooled, air-cooled or evaporatively-cooled chillers can be used. Air and evaporatively cooled chillers do not require a condenser loop including piping, cooling tower and pump.
Figure 36 - Typical Single Chiller System
Pumps can be constant or variable flow. Pump basics are covered in Pumping Basics, page 11. Both the chilled water and condenser pump must be sized for the design flowrates. Whenever the chiller operates, these pumps will operate. The result is that the design chilled water and condenser flow are being pumped any time the chiller plant is operating.
Water-cooled chiller will require cooling towers. Cooling towers are covered in Cooling Tower Basics, page 15.
Single Chiller Sequence of Operation
Single chiller plants are the most straightforward to operate. Recognizing the need for chilled water is the first goal. This can be as simple as manually enabling the chiller. The process can be automated with a building automation system (BAS) which can recognize when mechanical cooling is required.
All chillers must have chilled water (and condenser water, if appropriate) flow before they operate. The simplest method is to manually turn on the pumps prior to enabling the chiller. The chiller controller, in many cases, includes a signal to operate the chilled and condenser water pumps. In this case, the pump starters can be interlocked with the chiller control panel to start the pumps. Pumps should shut down when not required to save energy. The BAS can also start the pumps prior to enabling the chiller.
☺Tip: Chillers are not technically started, they are
enabled. The difference is subtle but important.
Enabling a chiller means the chiller is allowed to
operate if it needs to. For instance, if there is no load,
the chiller will not start even though it has been enabled.
If you were truly starting the chiller, the compressor
would start as soon as you threw the switch.
Variable flow systems add another degree of complexity but also provide significant pump work savings. Control sequences for variable flow systems are covered in other sections of this Guide.
In addition to operating the pumps, it is necessary to prove that there is flow. Pressure differential or paddle type switches can be used and usually are connected directly to the chiller controller. Current sensing devices can also be used. Operating a chiller without flow can result in serious damage. It is recommended that the manufacturer’s installation instructions be followed carefully to provide proper operation and avoid warranty conflicts.
Systems requiring a cooling tower will need to control it. Sequences for cooling towers are covered in detail in Cooling Tower Controls, page 18. Additional information on chiller plant controls can be found in product catalogs, as well as in installation and maintenance manuals.
Single Chiller Plant Example
Consider a model 7-story office building in Minneapolis with 375,000 ft2. The air conditioning system is floor-by-floor VAV with reheat and a single chiller plant as shown in Figure 35.
Reviewing the design performance does not indicate how well the system will operate annually. The annual kWh/yr usage tells a different story. Although pumps are much smaller than the chiller, they end up using almost two-thirds the energy that the chiller uses. This happens because the chilled water and condenser pumps must operate at plant design flow rates any time there is a requirement for chilled water.
Although fans are not part of the chiller plant, it is important to notice that they too consume a significant amount of power over the course of a year. In this case, more energy is used operating the fans than the chiller. Annual energy analysis such as this can be performed for a specific project using McQuay's Energy Analyzer™.
Parallel Chiller System
To provide some redundancy in the HVAC design, most designers will require two or more chillers. Multiple chillers also offer the opportunity to improve on overall system part load performance and reduce energy consumption. Parallel chiller plants are straightforward to design and are easily modified for variable primary flow.
Figure 37 shows a parallel water-cooled chiller plant. Chilled water is circulated by the chilled water or primary pump through both chillers to the load and back to the chillers. The chilled water loop can be either constant flow or variable flow. Variable flow systems increase the complexity but offer significant pump work savings. They also resolve the issue about chiller sequencing that occurs with parallel chillers, constant flow. (See Variable Primary Flow Design, page 75.) Variable flow systems are covered in Primary/Secondary Systems and Variable Primary Flow Design. A condenser loop is required for water-cooled chillers. This includes a condenser pump, piping and a cooling tower or closed circuit cooler. The condenser loop operates whenever the chillers operate.
Figure 37 - Basic Parallel Chiller System Operation
For constant flow systems, the chilled water temperature range varies directly with the load. Depending on load diversity, the chiller design temperature range will be less than the temperature range seen at each load. In this case, the chiller temperature range is 8oF while the cooling coil range is 10oF (Refer to Piping Diversity, page 24). The overall result is increased chilled water pump and pipe capital cost plus higher annual pumping cost.
☺Tip: Parallel chillers experience the same percent load.
For example, consider a chiller plant with a 100-ton and a
1000-ton chiller operating at 50% capacity. With both
chillers operating, both chillers will operate at 50% capacity.
The 100-ton chiller will be at 50 tons and the 1000-ton chiller
will be at 500 tons. This occurs as long as the flows don't
change (i.e,. variable primary flow) and both chillers see the
same return water temperature.
In most cases, the sum of the chiller capacities meets the design for the building or process. Additional capacity can be added, if required, by oversizing the chillers. It is common for parallel chillers to be the same size and type although this not a requirement. Water-cooled, air-cooled or evaporatively-cooled chillers can be used. Air and evaporatively-cooled chillers do not require a condenser loop including piping, cooling tower and pump.
Pumps can be constant or variable flow. Pump basics are covered in Pumping Basics, page 11. The chilled water pump is sized for the design flowrate. Figure 38 shows one main chilled water pump providing flow to both chillers. An alternative method is to have two smaller pumps serving dedicated chillers. Figure 38 also shows dedicated condenser pumps and cooling towers for each chiller. The pumps and piping are sized for the design condenser flow for each chiller. Whenever the chiller operates, the condenser pump operates.
Figure 38 - Typical Parallel Chiller System
Water-cooled chillers will require cooling towers. Figure 38 shows dedicated cooling towers for each chiller. A common cooling tower is also possible but not common for parallel chillers. Cooling towers are covered in Cooling Tower Basics, page 15.
Parallel Chiller Sequence of Operation
Parallel chiller plants create a unique situation when used in a constant flow system. Consider the system operating at 50%. From a chiller performance aspect, turning off one chiller and operating the other at full capacity is desirable. However, this will not happen. At 50% capacity, the return water will be 49oF. The chiller that is turned off will let the water pass through it unchanged. The operating chiller will only see a 50% load (49oF return water), and will cool the water down to the set point of 44oF. The two chilled water streams will then mix to 46.5oF supply temperature.
If the system is operated in this manner, the warmer chilled water will cause the control valves to open (increase flow) to meet the space requirements. An iterative process will occur and the system may stabilize. The issue is whether the cooling coils can meet the local loads with the higher chilled water temperature. Depending on the actual design conditions, the building sensible load could be met but high chilled water temperature will make it difficult to meet the latent load. Since this scenario is likely to occur during intermediate weather, dehumidification may not be an issue. In areas where humidity is an issue, this arrangement can result in high humidity within the space.
One solution is to operate both chillers all the time. This works and is a simple solution, however, it is not energy efficient and causes unnecessary equipment wear.
Another possibility is to lower the operating chiller's set point to offset the mixed water temperature. This also works but has some difficulties. Lowering the chilled water setpoint requires the chiller to work harder, lowering its efficiency. In extreme conditions, it can cause chiller stability issues.
Adding isolation valves to stop flow through a chiller when it is not operating is not recommended for a constant flow system. It is unlikely that the pump will be able to provide design flow if all the chilled water is directed through just one chiller. The pump will ride its curve and a loss of flow will occur. Without design flow, it is unlikely that all the individual loads will receive their required flows. In the event the pump could actually provide the flow through one chiller, the maximum allowable flow rate for the chiller may be exceeded resulting in serious damage to the chiller.
The safe answer is to operate both chillers all the time chilled water is required, however, this is as expensive as operating a single chiller plant. Staging on the pumps and cooling towers is similar to that outlined for single chillers. Refer to Single Chiller Sequence of Operation, page 39.
Parallel Chiller Plant Example
Consider the same model building used in the Single Chiller example. The parallel chiller plant is shown in Figure 37.
The design load performance is identical to the single chiller plant. There are small changes in real applications when two chillers are used instead of one. For instance, pump and chiller selections are not likely to offer identical performance, other than being half the size.
What is more interesting is the annual energy usage is the same for both single and parallel chillers. This occurs because both chillers were operated to provide 44oF supply chilled water at any plant load. With both chillers operating, all the pumps and towers had to operate as well. There was no opportunity to use only one chiller at light loads, shut down one tower and condenser pump and shift the single chiller further up its performance curve.
This could be accomplished by switching to variable primary flow, which would allow a chiller to be isolated at light loads, as well as to reduce the chilled water pump size and to lower its operating cost. This is covered in detail in Variable Primary Flow Design, page 50.
Series Chillers
Series chillers are another method of operating more than one chiller in a plant. This design concept resolves the mixed flow issues found in parallel chiller designs. The chillers can be preferentially loaded as well, allowing the designer to optimize chiller performance. Series chiller systems are straightforward to design and operate.
Figure 39 shows two chillers in series. All the system flow goes through both chillers. As a result, the water pressure drops through the evaporators are additive. The chilled water loop can be either constant or variable flow. Variable flow systems increase the complexity but offer significant pump savings. Variable flow systems are covered in Primary/Secondary Systems and Variable Primary Flow Design. A condenser loop is required for water cooled chillers. This includes a condenser pump, piping and a cooling tower or closed circuit cooler. The condenser loop operates whenever the chillers operate.
If both chillers are the same and the condensers are piped in parallel, the lead chiller will accomplish about 45% of the system load and the lag chiller will accomplish about 55% of the system load. This occurs because the lead (downstream) chiller is supplying chiller water at the system set point (typically 44oF). The lag (upstream) chiller is supplying chilled water at approximately 48.5oF to the lead chiller. The reduced lift for the lag chiller allows it to provide more cooling capacity.
Figure 39 - Basic Series Chiller System Operation
For constant flow systems, the chilled water temperature range varies directly with the load. Depending on the load diversity, the chiller design temperature range will be less than the range seen at each load. In this case, the chiller range is 8oF while the cooling coil range is 10oF (Refer to Piping Diversity, page 24). The overall result is an increased chilled water pump and pipe capital cost plus higher annual pumping cost.
A problem with series chillers is the high flow rate and the low temperature range through the chillers. The high flow rate can result in high water pressure drops. Since the chillers are in series, the pressure drops of the chillers must be added. If the typical 10oF system temperature difference is maintained, then single pass evaporators should be considered. This will lower the pressure drop to an acceptable level.
Chillers selected for series applications require special consideration. Special care should be taken when using smaller chillers with limited shell arrangements such as small air or water-cooled chillers. The pressure drops are typically designed to be acceptable with the flow rates around 2.4 gpm/ton. When the flow is increased to 4.8 gpm/ton as in series applications, the pressure drop rises significantly. A 10 ft. pressure drop at 2.4 gpm/ton will be a 40 ft pressure drop at 4.8 gpm/ton. With larger chillers that offer flexible shell arrangements, single pass shells can be used to lower the pressure drop. Two single pass shells in series will be comparable to a typical two-pass shell in water pressure drop.
☺Tip: For series chillers, the evaporator pressure prods must be
added. Care should be taken when using chillers with limited shell
arrangements such as small air or water-cooled products. The
pressure drops (at the correct flow rate) can be very high. For
larger chillers with flexible shell arrangements, consider single
pass to reduce the water pressure drops.
The chillers will not see the same duty; the lead chiller has a different lift requirement than the lag chiller. The more difficult duty is the lead chiller. The selections must be done so that the chillers operating at the specific conditions will provide the required capacity. The actual chiller output and performance will most likely be different. Selecting both chillers to be the same machine and able to meet the requirements of the lead position allows the chillers to be interchangeable when the plant load is less than one chiller's capacity. There is some performance loss when the chiller is operated in the lag position because the chiller is not optimized for that specific lift. It is possible to select two different chillers, each optimized for their operating conditions. This arrangement will be slightly (about 2%) more efficient but the chillers will not be interchangeable.
☺Tip: Series chillers operate more effectively at increased chilled
water temperature ranges than parallel chillers. As the chilled
water range is increased, you can expect series chiller
arrangements to outperform parallel chiller arrangements.
Increasing the chilled water temperature range affects series chillers differently than parallel chillers. As the range is increased, series chillers will generally outperform parallel chiller arrangement. This occurs because the cascading effect of series chillers enhances the chillers' performance.
Pumps can be constant or variable flow. Pump basics are covered in Pumping Basics, page 11. The chilled water pump is sized for the design flow rate. The chilled water design head will be impacted by having to add the chiller pressure drops together. Figure 40 shows one main chilled water pump providing flow through both chillers. Figure 40 also shows dedicated condenser pumps and cooling towers for each chiller in a parallel arrangement. The pumps and piping are sized for the design condenser flow for each chiller. Whenever the chiller operates, the condenser pump operates.
Figure 40 - Typical Series Chiller System
Water cooled chillers will require cooling towers. Figure 40 shows dedicated cooling towers for each chiller. A common cooling tower is also possible but not common for series chillers. Cooling towers are covered in Cooling Tower Basics, page 15.
Series Chillers Sequence of Operation
Series chillers can preferentially load chillers. As the chiller plant load increases, the lead (downstream) chiller will load from 0 to 100% capacity to meet it. Once the lead chiller is loaded (which is likely to be about 45% of plant capacity) the lag chiller is started. Here are three ways to operate the lag chiller:
Set the upstream chiller chilled water setpoint to bring on the chiller once the downstream chiller is fully loaded. This will preferentially load the downstream chiller. The downstream chiller will operate at full load while the upstream chiller will ramp up as the chiller plant load goes from about 45% to 100%. If the downstream chiller is offline for any reason, the upstream chiller will not be able to assume its role unless the chilled water setpoint is changed, either manually or remotely.
Move the upstream chiller sensor downstream of both chillers. This will preferentially load the upstream chiller. Once the upstream chiller cannot maintain the chilled water supply temperature, the downstream chiller will start and provide the balance of the load.
Modern chiller controllers such as McQuay's Microtech™ controllers can allow two chillers to communicate. In this arrangement. Either chiller can be the first chiller on (assuming they were both selected to do the lead chiller duty). Once the first chiller is fully loaded, the second chiller will start and the load will be evenly balanced between the two chillers. This can result in about a 2% improvement in annual chiller energy usage. Where possible, this method is recommended.
Staging on the pumps and cooling towers is similar to that outlined for single chillers. Refer to Single Chiller Sequence of Operation, page 39.
Series Chiller Plant Example
Consider the same model building used in the single chiller example. The series chiller plant is shown in Figure 39.
The design load performance is identical to the single or parallel chiller systems. In this case, it has been assumed that the sum of the chiller pressure drops for series chillers equals the pressure drops through single or parallel two-pass chillers. In most cases, the pressure drop will be higher for series systems.
As before, air system fans are the dominant HVAC load when reviewing annual energy usage. Series chillers provide some savings over constant flow parallel and single chiller systems. In variable primary flow systems, parallel chillers would typically slightly outperform series chillers at ARI conditions. As the chilled water temperature range is increased, series chillers would again out perform parallel chillers.
Series Counterflow Chillers
Series counterflow chillers are shown in Figure 41. This arrangement differs from the series chillers system shown in Figure 39 in that the condenser flow passes through both chillers in series, counterflow to the chilled water. Series counterflow condenser water improves the chiller performance as explained in the Series counterflow chiller example.
Figure 41 - Series Counterflow System Design
Series counter flow chillers can be 5 to 7% more efficient than a single chiller at design conditions and save up to 20% of chiller energy annually. However, the condenser pump is sized for the entire system flow (in this case 2400 US gpm) and this pump must operate whenever any chiller operates. The result is increased pump work annually. Series chillers with parallel towers may out perform series counterflow chillers depending on the chiller savings versus pump losses. Where series counterflow chillers can be advantageous is in large primary/secondary chiller plant systems.
Series Counterflow Chillers vs. Series Parallel Chillers
Parallel Condensers
The lower figure shows series chillers with the condensers piped in series counterflow to the chilled water. The arrangement enhances the chiller performance by "cascading" the chillers. The above figure shows the lift requirements for series chillers with parallel towers. Chiller 1 has a smaller lift because it sees the return chilled water. Chiller 2 sees a higher lift because it cools the water to 42oF. Since both chillers have the same discharge pressure requirement (dictated by using 85oF-95oF condenser water), the chiller lifts are different.
Series Condensers
The above figure shows the lift requirements for series counterflow chillers. Now chiller- 2 sees a lower lift because the discharge pressure has been reduced as a result of the lower condenser water temperatures. The chiller lifts are almost balanced which will always provide the best refrigeration performance.
Using VFD Chillers in Series Arrangements
A common practice in selecting chillers for series applications is to select both chillers to be the same and meet the lead (most demanding lift) chiller duty. For centrifugal chillers, this means the compressors are selected for the largest lift on a design day. The chiller that is then used as the lag chiller provides too much lift and is not optimized. A solution to this is to use a centrifugal chiller with a VFD as the upstream chiller. This has two advantages:
During periods when the chiller plant load is less than 45% (about the limit for one chiller) the VFD chiller can be used and take advantage of any condenser relief available. Considering this is a part load situation, condenser relief should be significant.
When two chillers are required, the VFD chiller can use the VFD to optimize its performance while being used in the lower lift application.
Both chillers do not need to have VFDs. Either chiller will work in either application (lead or lag) without a VFD.
Series Counterflow Plant Example
Consider the same model building used in the single chiller example. The series counterflow chiller system is shown in Figure 41.
The series counterflow arrangement has improved the chiller performance as described in the sidebar. This has resulted in an overall design condition performance improvement.
As expected, the annual chiller work went down because of the enhanced chiller performance. On the other hand, the large condenser pump (sized for the design condenser flow) which must operate whenever there is a need for chilled water, has increased the annual pump work. Whether series counterflow will save energy on an annual basis will depend on the pump penalty vs. the chiller savings.
System Comparison
The previous section covered several common chiller system designs based on constant flow systems. Each system has strengths and weaknesses in terms of design. A key operating parameter is the annual energy usage.
Table 5 - Design Condition Performance In kW
Systems Chiller Pumps Cooling
Tower AHU
Fans Total
Single Chiller 440 100 40 185 765
Parallel Chillers 440 100 40 185 765
Series Chillers 440 100 40 185 765
Series Counterflow Chillers 424 100 40 185 749
Table 5 shows the design condition power usage of the chiller systems covered in the last section. As can be seen, all the systems have the same full load performance. The series counterflow chillers provide better performance than the other systems because of the cascading effect. At nominal ARI conditions, these chillers would perform the same as the other chillers.
Table 6 shows the annual energy usage of the various chiller systems. This tells quite a different story. The single and parallel chiller plants perform the same because the parallel system operates the two chillers at all load points. There is no easy way to shut down a chiller in a parallel, constant flow arrangement.
Table 6 - Annual Energy Usage In kWh/yr
Single Chiller 258,344 175,689 16,597 334,237 784,867
Parallel Chillers 258,344 175,689 16,597 334,237 784,867
Series Chillers 237,607 160,762 19,243 334,237 751,849
Series Counterflow Chillers 227,718 173,564 19,153 334,237 754,672
The series chillers outperformed the parallel chillers. The water pressure drops, however, were held constant. If the water pressure drops through the series chillers had been increased as is typically the case, then there would have been little or no difference.
At design conditions, the series counterflow chillers appeared to have a distinct advantage, however, the pump penalty on the condenser side actually increased the overall annual energy usage. Here are some relationships that can be used:
□ Design performance is a poor indicator of annual performance. There is no way to tell which system will perform the best by reviewing the design condition performance.
□ Sequence of operation is a major factor. How the system operates will vastly affect the savings.
□ In constant flow systems, pumps are a major component. Although the pump motors are only 25% the size of the chiller, they use more than 60% of the power that the chiller uses.
□ Increasing the chilled water temperature range will improve the performance of the series chiller systems relative to other chiller systems. The chillers will operate more efficiently and the pressure drop penalty will be less of an issue.
□ Variable flow systems can save significant pump energy. They will be discussed in future sections.
Primary/Secondary Systems
For large chillers or where more than two chillers are anticipated, primary/secondary (also called decoupled) piping systems are often used. To reduce installation and operating costs, it is desirable to apply diversity to system flow. With diversity applied to flow, the pumps and piping will be smaller. To accomplish this, two-way control valves are used at the loads. At the same time it is desirable to provide constant flow through the chillers to maintain chiller stability. The solution is primary/secondary piping.
Figure 42 - Basic Primary/Secondary System Operation (50% Load)
Figure 42 shows a 1200-ton primary secondary system with three chillers. The system is operating at 50% or 600 tons. The 600- ton load requires 1440 gpm. Two chillers are operating along with their 960 gpm primary pumps.
The additional flow from the two primary pumps bypasses the building through the decoupler. The bypassed water mixes with the return water from the building and is returned to the chillers. Both chillers operate at the same percent load (300 tons).
Figure 43 - Typical Primary/Secondary System
☺Tip: All operating chillers in a primary-secondary
plant see the same percent load. For example, consider
a plant consisting of one 100-ton chiller and one 1000-
ton chiller operating at 50% load. In this case, the 100-
ton chiller will operate at 50 tons and the 1000-ton
chiller at 500 tons. Preferentially or backloading
loading chillers is possible, see Decoupler.
Figure 43 shows a typical primary secondary chiller plant with four chillers. They can have any number of chillers. Any size and type of chiller can be used. Different capacity chillers are acceptable and can be advantageous depending on the load profile. The only requirement is all chillers must operate on the same chilled water temperature range. Unless specially configured (See Decoupler, page 53) all operating chillers will have the same percent load.
Primary Pumps
Primary pumps provide constant flow through the chillers. They can be dedicated to each chiller as shown or there can be a primary pumping plant providing constant flow to each chiller. Primary pumps can utilize a common header (See Figure 44) to allow a particular pump to serve several chillers. The advantage is should a pump fail, the chiller can still be used by activating one of the other pumps. A spare pump can also be built into the arrangement. The disadvantage to headered primary pumps is complexity and cost.
If the chillers have different flow requirements (meaning they are different sizes) then intermixing pumps becomes even more complicated. It can be done using VFDs on the pumps. The BAS can be preprogrammed with the appropriate pump speed required to deliver the correct flow to each chiller. This allows each chiller to receive its correct flow rate.
Figure 44 - Alternative Primary Pump Arrangement
The flow for each chiller is based on the design flow required by the chiller. The flow is only provided when the chiller is operating. An automatic isolating valve is required for each chiller to stop short-circuiting when the chiller and pump are off.
Primary pumps need only provide enough head to move chilled water through the chiller and the piping pressure drops between the chiller and the secondary pumps. Heads in the range of 25 to 75 ft are common.
Condenser Pumps
If the chillers are water cooled, each chiller will have a condenser pump and cooling tower or other form of heat rejection device. Like the primary pumps, the condenser pumps can be dedicated to each chiller as shown or a condenser water pump plant can provide condenser flow. The flow rate to each chiller is typically constant and based on the design flow rate for the chiller. Where the head pressure drop is particularly high, variable flow condenser pumps may offer additional savings and are becoming more common in chiller plant design.
Cooling towers can be grouped or individual. Individual towers allow the tower to be sized specifically for the chillers needs, which can be important in hybrid chiller plants. Refer to Cooling Tower Basics, page 15 for more details.
Secondary Pumps
Figure 45 - Basic Secondary Loop
Secondary pumps are variable flow and sized to provide flow throughout the chilled water plant. In a sense, they handle all the pressure drops "outside the mechanical room". Refer to Variable Flow Pumps, page 13 on how to vary the flow through pumps.
Most secondary pump arrangements include multiple pumps and often a spare pump.
Figure 46 - Multiple Secondary Loops
Figure 46 shows dedicated pumps for various loops. Multiple loops can serve areas with different operating schedules or widely different fluid pressure drops (such as a building on the far side of a campus). The individual loops can be scheduled off when not required. A good system design should always group loads with common pressure drop and scheduling requirements to reduce pumping work.
Decoupler
Referring to Figure 45 it would appear that the primary and secondary pumps are in series. This is not the case however, because of the decoupler. The decoupler allows the pumps to operate at different flow rates. This is necessary because the primary pumps are fixed speed and the secondary pumps are variable speed. Only on special occasions will the primary pump flow and the secondary flow be equal. An example would be when the cooling load (and secondary flow) can be met by a fully loaded chiller.
Figure 47 - Primary Vs. Secondary Flow
Figure 47 shows primary flow vs. secondary flow. Secondary flow is based on the load in the building. Specifically, the secondary flow rate is produced to maintain the necessary system pressure differential. Primary flow must always meet or exceed the secondary flow. Any excess primary water flows through the decoupler to the return side and back to the chillers. Any time the primary flow is less than the secondary flow, warm return water will flow “backwards” through the decoupler and mix the primary flow going out to the building.
Decoupler Sizing Decouplers should be sized for the flow rate of the largest primary pump. This may be more than the design flow rate of the largest chiller if overpumping is being considered. The pressure drop should not exceed 1.5 ft. As the pressure drop through the decoupler increases, it tends to make the primary and secondary pumps behave like they are in series.
Figure 48 - Decoupler Sizing
To avoid thermal contamination, the decoupler should be at least three pipe diameters in length. Longer decouplers tend to increase the pressure drop. When the secondary return flows straight through in the tee to the primary return, there should be at least 10 pipe diameters to the first chiller. This is to help avoid the possibility of having stratification in the primary return line, which can lead to unmixed water to the first chiller. This can lead to chiller cycling.
☺Tip: In situations where a new chiller is added to an older existing chiller plant, relocating the decoupler can take full advantage of the new chiller's part load performance. Older chiller may operate at 1 kW/ton or more at full load, worse at part load. Relocating the decoupler allows the older chillers to be base loaded (their best operating point) while the new chiller is operated at part load. Consider either a VFD or dual compressor chiller for additional savings.
Decoupler Location The location of the decoupler line will change how the chillers are loaded. Figure 43 shows the typical layout with the decoupler between the chillers and the load. In this situation, each chiller sees the same return water temperature even at part load conditions.
Figure 49 shows the decoupler line in a different location. Locating the chillers between the secondary loop and the decoupler line causes the return water temperature to each chiller to vary. This is often referred to as "backloading" or “preferentially” loading the chillers. Chiller 2 in Figure 49 will see close to the secondary loop return water temperature. Chiller 1 will see a mixture of supply water and return water. As a result Chiller 2 is more heavily loaded than Chiller 1.
Figure 49 - Backloaded Primary Loop Layout
Relocating the decoupler can make sense if one or more of the chillers is a dual compressor model. The dual compressor chiller has very good part load performance. Single compressor chillers typically work best when fully loaded. By locating the dual compressor chiller close to the decoupler line and the single compressor chiller furthest away, the strengths of each chiller can be maximized. Another application for backloading chillers is where one of the chillers is a heat recovery type or a McQuay Templifier™ is connected to the condenser loop. In this case, providing additional load to that chiller provides a heat source for the energy recovery process.
Decouplers should be sized for the maximum design chilled water flow through the largest chiller. Their length should be as short as possible to minimize pressure drop.
Backloaded Chiller Example
The table below shows the chiller plant performance for Figure 42 and Figure 49. Assume for Figure 42 the two chillers are standard 400-ton single compressor type. In Figure 49, Chiller 1 is a standard chiller while Chiller 2 is a dual compressor chiller with outstanding part load efficiency. By base loading the single compressor chiller and taking advantage of the dual chiller's part load performance, the power input can be cut by up to 10 percent.
Chiller Plant Performance vs. Decoupler Location
Figure 45 Cap. (tons) RWT (oF) SWT (oF) Power (kw)
CH-1 300 51.5 44 124.6
Total 600 51.5 44 249.2
CH-1 200 49 44 73.2
CH-2 400 54 44 151.7
Total 600 44 224.9
Tertiary Pumping
Figure 50 - Tertiary Pumping
☺Tip: There are many instances where facilities designed with different chilled water temperature ranges are required to operate from a common chilled water plant. This is a common occurrence for large university and health care campuses. Tertiary piping can be used to connect buildings with different design temperature ranges and supply water temperatures to a common plant.
The arrangement on the right of Figure 50 includes a tertiary pump, common pipe and a two-way control valve. The tertiary pump provides the necessary flow and head for the facility it serves. If the two-way valve is closed, the chilled water recirculates in the facility through the common pipe. As the two-way valve is opened, warm water is returned to the return header while cool chilled water is introduced
This arrangement can be variable flow by making the tertiary pump variable. A key advantage of this arrangement is the tertiary loop does not have to have the same temperature range as the main loop. The design chilled water temperature in the tertiary loop must be warmer than the main supply chilled water temperature. If they are the same temperature, the two-way valve will open and bleed supply water into the return line leading to low delta T syndrome (See Low Delta T Syndrome Causes and Solutions, page 82). The two-way valve should control to maintain the tertiary loop supply temperature (approximately 2oF warmer than the main loop) and should close when the tertiary loop is not in operation to avoid unnecessary crossflow.
Figure 51 - Expanding the System
Primary/secondary piping allows easy expansion both in the chiller plant (primary loop) and the building (secondary loop). To expand the chiller plant capacity, another chiller can be added to the loop as shown in Figure 51. By strategically locating the decoupler and the new chiller (see Figure 49), it is possible to apply a greater load on the new chiller. This can be advantageous if the new chiller is more efficient than the rest of the plant.
If the building load is increased, a new loop can be added. The pump for the new loop can be sized to meet the new loop’s pressure drop requirements.
Varying Chiller Sizes
One advantage of primary/secondary systems is varying the chiller sizes. As long as the supply water temperature and the design delta T are the same, the chillers can have different capacities.
☺Tip: Healthcare facilities using constant volume with reheat systems have a significant base load. The only variable load is the ventilation load. This makes health care facilities an excellent choice for varying chiller sizes.
Varying the chiller sizes allows chillers to be selected so the chiller plant is at maximum performance when the run-hours are highest. For example, consider a chiller plant where two chillers can be used. The bulk of the run-hours will be at 50% to 70% of design capacity. This will require the two equally sized chillers to operate between 50% and 70% of their design capacity. By varying the chiller sizes to one at 700 tons and one at 300 tons, the system load can be met with one chiller for the bulk of the operating time. The savings come from operating one chiller at near full load conditions over two chillers at part load conditions and from avoiding operating additional ancillary devices such as primary and condenser pumps.
Variable Chiller Size Example Consider a 320,000-square foot hospital in Minneapolis. The design load is 1000 tons. The primary system is a two chiller primary/secondary system. The graph below compares two 500-ton chillers, a 700-ton dual compressor chiller with a 300-ton chiller and a 700-ton VFD chiller with a 300-ton chiller.
The two 500-ton chillers provide a benchmark. Since the hospital has a load profile with many hours between 50 and 70% of design capacity, the next two options outperform the benchmark. During these hours, only one chiller is required to meet the load avoiding the need for two primary and condenser pumps. The result is more efficient use of the chiller and reduced pump work.
To take full advantage of the situation, the larger chillers are either dual compressor type or VFD type, both of which have excellent part load performance. Even if one of the benchmark chillers were switched to a VFD chiller, the two options would still have had better performance.
During the spring and fall seasons, the operator has the option of using the chiller whose size best fits the expected load. For instance, on a light load day, the smaller chiller can be used. The chiller will be more fully loaded than the larger chiller offering a performance improvement for the chiller. In addition, the smaller primary condenser pump and tower fan will be used offering ancillary equipment savings.
Very Large Chiller Plants
Very large chilled water plants follow the same basic design considerations discussed so far. The scale of large chiller plants, however, creates some trends that should be addressed. Large plants tend to use large (18oF or greater) chilled water ranges to reduce pump and piping sizes and pump work. This in turn requires lower chilled water temperatures to offset the effect on the cooling coils (see Water Temperatures and Ranges, page 25).
Figure 52 - Series Counterflow Chillers in P/S Arrangement
Figure 52 shows series counterflow chillers in a primary /secondary system. The series counterflow arrangement provides an efficient means to produce 40oF supply water with and 18oF temperature range. The series counterflow arrangement can provide about 5% better annual performance than single large chillers when using large temperature ranges.
The primary/secondary arrangement provides variable flow in the secondary loop to reduce pipe and pump size and save pump work.
Primary/Secondary Sequence of Operation
Primary/secondary chiller plant operation can become very complex. It is not unusual to have dedicated and specialized building automation systems to operate the chillers and the ancillary equipment. While a complete discussion on the many ways of operating a complex plant is beyond the intention of this Guide, here are a few key areas to consider:
Condenser Pump and Cooling Tower Operation
Whenever a chiller is on line, there will need to be condenser flow and a means to cool it. With dedicated pumps and towers to each chiller, this is straightforward. They can be operated by either the chiller control panel, assuming it has outputs, or by the BAS. The chiller control panel may offer better performance since it has intimate understanding of the needs of the chiller. Using the BAS to operate the equipment makes the operation easily visible to the control system and to the operator. (For example, without an additional flow sensor, it may not be obvious to the BAS that the condenser pump is operating.) Using either Open Protocol™ or Protocol Selectablity™ allows the chiller to operate the equipment while providing easy visibility for the BAS and operator. The information is passed digitally from the chiller controller to the BAS.
When the condenser pumps are shared in a common header the sequence becomes more complex. Automatic isolation valves will be required. If the pumps are all the same size, the BAS must open the valve and start a condenser pump. The pump sequence is usually based on pump run-hours.
When the chillers have different condenser flow requirements, the system becomes very complex. Flow meters may be required.
When a common cooling tower plant is used, a sequence to determine the optimum condenser water temperature is required. Special care should be taken when an absorption chiller is used in a hybrid plant. Generally an absorption chiller has different condenser water requirements than a centrifugal chiller.
Primary Pump Operation
Primary pumps will have similar issues as condenser pumps. Dedicated pumps are straightforward. Common pumps in a headered arrangement are more complex. When overpumping is considered as a solution to low delta T syndrome or to take advantage on additional chiller capacity during low lift situations, the sequence can be very complex.
Secondary Pump Operation
Secondary pump operation in general is covered in Variable Flow Pumps, page 13.
Chiller Staging
A critical requirement of primary /secondary systems is that the primary flow always be equal to or exceed the secondary flow. Theoretically this should happen because the chilled water temperature range is constant and the chilled water flow is proportional to the cooling load.
☺Tip: It is absolutely necessary for the primary chilled water flow to equal or exceed the secondary flow (See Low Delta T Example, page 83). The primary/secondary control system must maintain this flow relationship above all.
Assuming this happens, chillers could be staged on and off based on their load. However, this is not necessarily a good control scheme. First, Low Delta T syndrome can cause a disconnect so the chilled water flow is not proportional to load. (See Low Delta T Example, page 80). Just using chiller load will not recognize when this situation occurs. A second issue is the chiller power draw is not an exact indicator of the actual cooling effect. For instance, if there is condenser water relief, the chiller will produce the required cooling effect with less kilowatts. It is even possible for the chiller to produce more than the design cooling capacity with the same kilowatts if there is some form of condenser relief.
Monitoring the chiller power load can be advantageous and can provide some guidance in chiller staging along with other data inputs discussed below. Power monitoring can be accomplished by using communication gateways such as Open Protocol™ or Protocol Selectablity or with power meters.
To make sure the primary flow meets or exceeds the secondary flow, the BAS must also monitor chilled water flows. One method is measuring the direction of flow through the decoupler. A flow meter in the decoupler can be difficult due to the short pipe length and low flowrates. It is important that if a flow meter is used, that it actually works and provides meaningful information.
Another method is to measure the chilled water temperature in the decoupler. A single temperature sensor in the decoupler in principle should work. For instance if the temperature is near the supply water temperature setpoint, then flow must be going from the supply to the return (which is what is required). However, if the temperature rises to close to the return water temperature, then the flow must have reversed (which is not desirable). In practice, a single sensor can lead to false readings for several reasons. For example, low delta T syndrome can make the actual chilled water temperature range very small so the BAS cannot tell which way the water is flowing.
A more reliable method is to use temperature sensors in the supply and return piping on both sides of the decoupler. This arrangement allows the BAS to monitor the actual chilled water temperature range at the decoupler. With four sensors, the BAS can monitor that the chilled water temperature does not rise as it passes the decoupler, that the return water temperature may rise as it passes the decoupler and that the decoupler water temperature is close to the supply chilled water temperature.
Once the situation occurs where there is reverse flow in the decoupler, another chiller and primary pump must be added to keep the chilled water plant operating properly. Using temperature sensors may not provide very much warning.
Another method for staging chillers is to use a flow meter in the chilled water supply line down stream of the decoupler. Using the required flow and the flowrates for each of the primary pumps (These are fixed flowrates), the BAS can monitor that there is enough primary flow for the required secondary flow. This method is very reliable. It can also provide some warning that another chiller/primary pump is going to be required. Normal schedules have the next chiller start when the current chiller has been operating at 90% capacity for 30 minutes. The actual load and time period vary from project to project. Many operators do not want a chiller to automatically start but prefer that the BAS indicate a chiller is required. If the operator acknowledges the start request, the BAS can then enable another chiller.
Optimizing High Part load Performance Chillers
High part load performance chillers such as a VFD or dual compressor chiller may create an opportunity to operate the chiller plant in a different but more efficient manner. These chillers operate more efficiently at part load then at full load. Refer to Dual Compressor and VFD Chillers, page 31.
State of the Art Chiller Plant Operation
The previous section provides the basics to get a primary/secondary system to operate satisfactorily. Leading edge control systems are aimed at improving overall system efficiency. To accomplish this, algorithms are developed that model the building load profile and monitor the weather. Threedimensional chiller models are also used along with matrices for the power consumption of individual ancillary components. The program then simulates the building load and monitors the weather conditions. It evaluates which combination of equipment will use the least power to accomplish the load. In large systems, this additional effort has been shown to pay for itself.
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The government has set aside Tshs. 1.5 bn/- from its development expenditure fund which starts from July this year to be used to construct a district hospital in Mlandizi suburb in Coast region, the parliament has been informed. The deputy minister of State in president’s office for local government and regional administration George Kakunda revealed last week in the parliament during question and answer session. He was responding to the question which was earlier raised by Special Seat legislator for coast region Hawa Mchafu (CCM) who wanted to know when the government will build a district hospital in the area.
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The legislator cited a most basic reason why the area need to have a district hospital and noted that, the current health centre which provides medical services receives 250 maternal mothers who delivers their babies in a month and hence the need for its expansion is necessary. Clarifying the matter, the deputy minister further noted that, the district council in the area has been given the task to look for the 30 hectares of land on which the building would stand to start its construction on straight. Meanwhile, A similar supplementary question was raised by Joseph Kasheku alias ‘Musukuma’ (CCM),Geita legislator who w anted to know when a health centre would be constructed for the people in rural areas within his constituency after the one in Geita had been upgraded into a district hospital. In responding to this question, the Minister in-charge of the ministry for local government and regional administration
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[Clearly, a massive program of renewable energy construction is in order. But it is just as clear that neither the federal government nor the majority of American citizens has the insight or the will to undertake such a program - and someday soon (given the American monetary position in the world system), they may not even have the capital. John C. Pennie and others like him deserve respect for their prudence and foresight, and for the small but real contribution their renewables make to the environmental situation -- but their projects have little to do with the national emergency that FTW expects in the middle term. -JAH]
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The following report was based primarily on an interview with John C. Pennie on January 17, 2005. Since then, Mr. Pennie has informed FTW that plans to erect three wind turbines on the same property as his residence have been cancelled.
On April 26, 2005, Mr. Pennie sent me the following email:
From: J.C. Pennie
To: Michael Kane
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10: 20 AM
I have been pondering your article "Renewables Part 1" and agree with your premise. That is why we have decided to focus on 'inland clusters' (of wind turbines) servicing a local area. In Ontario, there are many small community hydro distributors, which could potentially allow for distributed rather than centralized generation of renewables.
Since we last spoke, we have come to a decision concerning our three turbines in Adjala due to excessive delays and costs that we were facing through the Environmental Assessment and re-zoning process (attached). Therefore we are now focusing on two sites in other municipalities west of this location, which will be announced shortly.
J.C.Pennie
Windrush Energy
Land's End Corporation
Bus: xxx-xxx-xxxx
Fax: xxx-xxx-xxxx
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On April 8, 2005, Pennie was quoted in a Canadian weekly, The Banner, as saying the decision to move the project to another jurisdiction "had nothing to do with the concerns of some of the residents because we believe, as a result of our work, that there are no health issues to the public. But time is money and it is simply from a business point of view that it didn't make sense."
Pennie did not respond to the following questions prior to publication.
1. Which municipalities are now being considered?
2. Will you or any of your business partners have the chance to join a wind energy cooperative once the project is complete?
Despite this recent change, FTW feels the report produced from the January 17, 2005 interview remains cogent. We present that report now in full, unchanged. - FTW
May 4, 2005 0800 PST (FTW): Land's End Corporation is building three wind turbines in Hockley Valley where the company's president has built his home. The aerial photograph of the township of Adjala in Ontario, Canada, below shows the president of Land's End Corp., John C. Pennie, is currently living one mile from where the proposed wind turbines will stand.
photo originally published by Windrush Energy
http://windrush-energy.com/newspaper.pdf
FTW's research indicates that the only way to directly utilize renewable energy is to be near a renewable energy source. In a phone interview, J.C. Pennie was asked if he is aware of peak oil.
"Well I've heard about it," said Pennie. "I haven't done a lot of research on it, but that wasn't the motivation for us to look at this project. I suffer from asthma. I see many friends and their children, the children more so, have asthma."
He spoke quite idealistically.
"Our motivation initially was that we're going to drown ourselves in pollution if we don't do something. Somebody has to do something. I'm 65 years old and I'm going to do something, and I have a number of partners of similar age - we're going to do something."
"And all of the (wind) power can't be generated along the lakes, and all of it can't be the ideal wind conditions. It has to be distributed and it has to be delivered to users who are close by." Ontario has just approved 2 major wind farms along Lake Superior's north shore,i where the wind is quite strong."
But when first asked why he wanted to build this wind farm he stated, "Partly because we are concerned about the environment and partly because Ontario is short of energy."
Sounds like he is concerned with hydrocarbon depletion - peak or no peak.
FTW asked if he planned on using wind energy to heat his home by installing electric heating systems. Currently Pennie heats his home with propane and does not anticipate altering this. He plans on joining a wind energy cooperative with some of his neighbors when the project is completed.
When he first bought the property in Adjala at Hockley Valley, Pennie told his neighbors he wanted to apply for severances to sell the land for horse farms. They supported that use, approving it in the town government. But that support has been withheld from the windmill proposal, which remains unpopular.ii
The property is on a plateau in Hockley Valley. Pennie explained it wasn't until construction of his home began that he realized Hockley Valley was a fairly windy area. Coincidentally, he and some partners were looking for land on which to develop a small wind farm and according to Pennie, as luck would have it, his home was well suited for such a project.
"We found that the wind here made construction pretty difficult. They would be lifting a sheet of plywood and it would fly out of their hands, stuff like that. So we decided to test the property and got some reasonable results. It's not the windiest section in Ontario. But my partners and I felt - there were industrial companies in the area - that it would be a good thing for Ontario's energy if all of the windmills weren't along the lakes…so we took the property off the market to sell as real estate, and decided to work on developing it as an energy site."
Land's End Corporation is made up of six individual investors, including Marilyn Fields who is president of the DAREarts Foundation for children. DAREarts has worked with NATO peacekeeping forces in a card writing campaign designed to garner donations in support of children in war torn nations such as Kosovo. As part of the larger DAREarts program, artist Mark Raynes Roberts has presented windmills as sculptural art forms - both esthetically and philosophically - to Canadian school children.
Overall, the Land's End project seems to be good for everyone in the area. If this reporter had $10 millioniii to invest in such a project, he just might. What could be a better investment in the new millennium than energy security? 4.5 megawatts capacity of wind energy ensures J.C. Pennie, his wife, and neighbors who join the wind energy cooperative will have a steady stream of electricity regardless of hydrocarbon depletion and its accompanying politics. Wind fluctuation will vary, so there is the possibility of installing battery systems to store energy for when the turbines don't spin.
Renewable energy will be increasingly valuable, especially in the context of Peak Oil. Businesses near Land's End will be more than happy to buy wind energy, helping to curb their CO2 emissions in line with the Kyoto Protocol, which is coming into effect now that Russia has ratified the treaty. Even military and intelligence professionals have publicly endorsed a massive implementation of renewable energy which they call "Phase Two."iv
Land's End Corporation's current project at Hockley Valley demonstrates that there are wealthy individuals who are preparing for Peak Oil - whether consciously or by happenstance.
So what are you doing to prepare for peak oil?
Today, some efforts to help the average citizen do appear to be in place - such as the Apollo Alliance or Set America Free - but that appearance is skin deep at best. The renewable projects they endorse cannot replace the level of hydrocarbon consumption we currently consume. Not even close. Yet the Apollo Alliance presents its information as if renewable energy projects will allow for economic growth to continue at current rates.
Set America Free is an organization of war hawks who have recently -- suddenly - begun to back the implementation of renewable energy projects. Their rhetoric is that dependence on foreign oil is a threat to our "national security." Renewables will certainly make the war machine more efficient as the effects of hydrocarbon depletion set in. It's much easier to talk about terrorism than the geological reality of hydrocarbon depletion.
As pointed out in Part 1 of this series and repeated here, wealthy individuals are preparing themselves while the masses remain exposed to severe scarcity in the coming years.
John C. Pennie is the former Chairman of the now bankrupt American ECO Corporation. This Canadian company was headquartered in Houston, TX, owning multiple American corporations in California, New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana, Ohio, North Carolina and Oregon. Mr. Pennie said he was placed as Chairman for a short period to help the company through difficult times.v
photo originally published at http://windrush-energy.com/index-3.htm#principals
i "Sites get green light for MNR," staff writer, The Chronicle Journal, January 30, 2005 http://www.chroniclejournal.com/story.shtml?id=25554
ii "Controversy over wind turbines in Hockley continues," by Constance Scrfield-Danby, The Banner, December 7, 2004 http://www.northpeel.com/br/orangeville/news/story/2405351p-2784127c.html
iii "Residents tilting at wind mills," by Jason Ballantyne, Alliston Herald, February 15, 2005 http://www.simcoe.com/sc/alliston/story/2271659p-2632832c.html
iv "National Security to Lead Renewable Energy Deployment," by Jesse Broehl, RenewableEnergyAccess.com, December 14, 2004 http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/010305_energy_deployment.shtml
v According to the FEC (Federal Elections Commission), American ECO Corp. had given illegal campaign contributions to the Clinton/Gore campaign as a foreign national interest. This does not appear to have occurred while John C. Pennie was Chairman.
http://www.fec.gov/press/20020927mur.html document mirrored here http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/fec-clinton-gore.htm
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Arcade Fire NBC Concert Special (trailer)
By Alex Hudson
We already knew that Arcade Fire would be performing a televised concert following their Saturday Night Live appearance tomorrow (September 28), and now they have shared a peculiar trailer for that NBC special.
The TV appearance seems to be called Here Comes the Night Time, since that's the phrase that appears in neon at the start of the clip, as well as the slug on the actual YouTube video. (It's also the name of a couple of tracks on the upcoming Reflektor.) We see the Arcade Fire crew hanging out on a fake tropical set while wearing their massive papier mâché heads.
Of course, Reflektor arrives on October 29 through Merge.
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Casting for Amazon's Lord of the Rings
What do you think of Tolkien on the silver screen...? Whether Bakshi, Jackson, Amazon, BBC radio play, or whoever else, come on in and discuss your reflections, opinions, and memories...
by Thor 'n' Oakenshield » Sat Sep 01, 2018 10:16 am
I've been trying to overcome the fact that I honestly can't see anyone other than the original actors in their roles, because obviously Amazon will want new faces, and some of the LotR cast probably would have a difficult time reprising roles of seventeen years ago (though I think Ian McKellan said he was feeling up to playing Gandalf again?). Who would you recommend for roles such as Aragorn, Arwen, young Theoden, Denethor, Elrond, etc. I'm working on creating my own list, but I'd love to hear what everyone has to offer!
(But, since I've already stated this elsewhere, I want Elle Fanning as Goldberry, regardless of whether or not that character even shows up)
(And could anybody else see Sebastian Stan as Prince Imrahil?)
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Re: Casting for Amazon's Lord of the Rings
by Otaku-sempai » Sat Sep 01, 2018 5:55 pm
Well, it is possible that we could see a few cast members from Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films carry over to this, but it's a slim chance at best. Viggo could, for example. conceivably appear as King Elessar telling the story of his early travels to his children. But Aragorn in his earlier stages of life would still need to be recast.
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by Thor 'n' Oakenshield » Sun Sep 02, 2018 4:42 pm
I love the idea of Viggo as an older Elessar, personally, and I would like to see that idea brought to fruition.
(and Gal Gadot as Arwen!)
And I really want Tilda Swinton in a role in Middle-earth (not as Galadriel, of course, but maybe as Morwen of Lossarnach?)
by Krypton_Son » Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:46 am
Thor 'n' Oakenshield wrote: I love the idea of Viggo as an older Elessar, personally, and I would like to see that idea brought to fruition.
Gal Gadot as an Elf. That's an amazing idea. Have they confirmed what point in time this is going to be set in? I wouldn't be opposed to it being in the first or second ages.
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by Thor 'n' Oakenshield » Tue Sep 04, 2018 11:28 am
It'll be set in the 60 years between the Hobbit and the LotR. Speculation has been that the journeys of a young Aragorn will be the series' focus, but nothing has been confirmed, except that it will be "characters you love" and original storylines. Peter Jackson is assembling the creative team behind the series, and there was a report that Amazon is going to be filming in New Zealand, but we have very little else to go on so far. The show will air in a few years, i think
by Thor 'n' Oakenshield » Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:36 pm
And how about Lupita Nyong'o? (for some reason, the reference to Lothiriel, daughter of Imrahil, always conveys an image of Lupita Nyong'o.) I would love to see some diverse casting.
Others from Marvel who would absolutely sell this Amazon series for me, if they were in it, would be Scarlett Johannsson, Tom Hiddleston (Glorfindel?), or Chris Hemsworth (young Theoden?). Or Pom Klementieff. Any of them would be enough for me.
by Otaku-sempai » Wed Sep 05, 2018 6:04 am
Thor 'n' Oakenshield wrote: And how about Lupita Nyong'o? (for some reason, the reference to Lothiriel, daughter of Imrahil, always conveys an image of Lupita Nyong'o.) I would love to see some diverse casting.
Well, the suggestion of Lupita Nyong'o is surely thinking outside of the box. I would have probably only considered her as a woman of either the Corsairs of Umbar or of Far Harad. What to your mind connects her to Lothíriel daughter of Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth? How do you see him meeting and wedding a woman of the far South? If nothing else, I'll admit that there could be an interesting story there.
by Thor 'n' Oakenshield » Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:39 am
Frankly, I don't know why I imagine the men of Dol Amroth as being black, or at least of mixed races; maybe their proximity to Harad suggests to me that in times of peace there could have been a marriage between these two nations, though I suspect it would have had to have been a long time ago, so that the bond is no longer strong. Or, I suppose a Haradrim princess might have been taken captive long ago, and was wedded to a Prince of Dol Amroth, or simply bore his children (I create whole stories for Dol Amroth and its people, and I've always been intrigued as to why the genealogy of their royalty didn't end up in the final Appendix; I would have liked much more about them. And Lothiriel, for some reason, suggests a beautiful and intelligent black woman, watching as her kinsfolk in both Dol Amroth and Harad tear each other apart in a savage war. I can't see her standing idly by. Now I'm getting into fan-fiction territory, I know, but her character feels like so much more than the single mention she receives in the Appendixes. I could see a very interesting storyline playing out if the royal family of Dol Amroth were related to Harad, or even the Corsairs, by something in their past - while also having Elven blood inherited from Lorien. That bit also makes me feel like that family was a veritable melting pot of different colors and creeds; any time spent in Dol Amroth in this new series would make me extraordinarily happy.
That's curious as there is nothing in the text of The Lord of the Rings to suggest such an interpretation of the ethnicity of the people of Dol Amroth. Our first introduction to Imrahil and his followers comes (if I have it right) in Chapter 1 of Book V. First there is this:
But beyond, in the great fief of Belfalas, dwelt Prince Imrahil in his castle of Dol Amroth by the sea, and he was of high blood, and his folk also, tall men and proud with sea-grey eyes.
And a bit later:
And last and proudest, Imrahil, Prince of Dol Amroth, kinsman of the Lord, with gilded banners bearing his token of the Ship and the Silver Swan, and a company of knights in full harness riding grey horses; and behind them seven hundreds of men at arms, tall as lords, grey-eyed, dark-haired, singing as they came.
Legolas upon meeting Imrahil immediately recognizes his elven blood, but it seems clear that the Prince of Dol Amroth also has a strong strain of Númenórean blood. I just don't see any evidence for a southern heritage. That said, giving him a wife and children of such blood would be a bold and interesting choice.
by Thor 'n' Oakenshield » Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:03 pm
I have a tendency to build off what is defined in Tolkien's text; I don't see why his high blood means he would have pale skin? A black man could be tall, proud, dark-haired and have sea-grey eyes; I checked LotR and have found no specific references to Imrahil's skin colour – maybe it's just me, but I love the idea that the men of Dol Amroth could be darker than the Men of Gondor. There might be no evidence that their people had relations with Harad, but the proximity and the fact that in ancient days the men of Harad did homage to Gondor suggest it to me (if the sons of the Haradrim kings lived as hostages in the courts of Gondorian royalty, isn't it safe to assume that the daughters were also forced into slavery? I could imagine that Gondorian princes in those days, when the Kingdom was vast and unassailable, probably took Haradrim as wives, fearing no consequence.
Then again, maybe it's just me!
by Otaku-sempai » Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:53 pm
Not to harp on this, but it comes down to the Dúnedain being descended from the same Northmen who inhabited Rhovanion, Dale and the Anduin Vales. That isn't to say that the showrunner(s) of Amazon's show might not have their own ideas to add diversity to the cast.
Anyway, black actors have thus far been nonexistent in film representations of Middle-earth, so I wouldn't mind seeing some. Taraji Henson and Janelle Monae are also great; and what about those mysterious Blue Wizards? To blend into the eastern realms of Rhun and Harad, wouldn't it be a good idea for them to be darker?
If the show does focus, though, on Aragorn, then I suppose we should see some black actors when he leads the fleets of Gondor against Umbar. That should be interesting.
Now, who has any suggestions for Galadriel? I can't even imagine a Middle-earth without Cate Blanchett's Lady of Lorien…
(But if I must…how about Lady Gaga? partially kidding, but I was thinking about how – I think – David Bowie was considered for the role of Celeborn…sometimes, outlandish people like that can really show some talent, though I think Marton Csokas was a wonderful Celeborn.)
But a singer in the role of Galadriel could be quite touching, if she had a voice capable of achieving that Enya-like quality, with that echoing, haunting tone…(have I mentioned yet that my favourite song is "May it Be" ?
by Otaku-sempai » Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:18 am
Thor 'n' Oakenshield wrote: Anyway, black actors have thus far been nonexistent in film representations of Middle-earth, so I wouldn't mind seeing some.
Well, nearly nonexistent in any recognizable roles other than a Ranger of Ithilien under the command of Faramir and some faces of color in Lake-town. None of them are named characters.
Aragorn's travels should take him places where he would meet peoples of Middle-eastern and Asian appearance, as well as dark-skinned peoples of Far Harad. At least some Easterlings should physically and culturally resemble the Mongols. And the folk of Dorwinion might well have a Mediterranean cast about them.
by Thor 'n' Oakenshield » Thu Sep 06, 2018 7:36 am
Wow, I had never noticed him! That's a surprise, and makes me much happier; I had noticed the extras in Lake-town, and had eagerly followed the conversation on this forum dealing with them. Honestly, I would think the men of Gondor would have a more Mediterranean cast than the men of Dorwinion; didn't Tolkien say that Minas Tirith was roughly geographically equivalent to Florence or Rome? I've never imagined them as being very pale. Dorwinion, I've never even thought about, but I would think of their land as being more like the Caucasus Area, around the Caspian Sea. And I would love to see a more East Asian culture, with Claudia Kim playing…somebody. Nobody from the far east is ever mentioned.
Also, the skin-color of the men from Rhovanion who intermarried with the royal family of Gondor in the Third Age, leading to the Kin-Strife, is never specified, is it? It might be in UT, I can't remember (I need a copy of that book).
by Thor 'n' Oakenshield » Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:03 pm
I find myself disagreeing vehemently with a thought I found expressed on TORN, that people were considering Henry Mortensen as young Aragorn; I don't see that working at all. Nicholas Hoult, another choice on that list, is, I admit, a fine actor, but I'm not sure I want him in Middle-earth just now, and I don't think he looks rough enough to pull off the role. I am quite puzzled about who SHOULD play Aragorn, though. Nobody comes to mind instantly.
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Though, as Nicholas Hoult will be playing Tolkien in the biopic (has anybody even heard from that project recently?), then it might be interesting to have him play Aragorn, with the woman playing Edith Bratt as Arwen
by Denethor » Sat Mar 02, 2019 1:29 am
If the TV series ends up focusing on the Rings of Power and the Second Age, rather than Aragorn, that pretty much only leaves Elrond and Galadriel to be re-cast, unless they're using flashbacks from the Aragorn era to tell the older story.
by Otaku-sempai » Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:15 am
Denethor wrote: If the TV series ends up focusing on the Rings of Power and the Second Age, rather than Aragorn, that pretty much only leaves Elrond and Galadriel to be re-cast, unless they're using flashbacks from the Aragorn era to tell the older story.
If the series is set in the Second Age and before the fall of Númenor, how would you cast Sauron/Annatar? If I could get either of them, I might cast Jude Law or Benedict Cumberbatch.
by Thor 'n' Oakenshield » Sun Mar 03, 2019 2:19 pm
Jude Law, or Rami Malek, are the two choices that spring to my mind instantly. If they were going for an older take on Sauron, then maybe Mads Mikkelsen. Or Christian Bale could be interesting.
by Elmtree » Sun Mar 31, 2019 5:46 pm
Oh my... I remember in 1999, speculating online on who would be cast in Lord of the Rings. Memories....
I would be doubtful for any connection (other than the original source material) to Jacksons' works or his actors in any of the roles.
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Osteopetrosis is a bone disease characterized by a generalized increase in skeletal mass. It is inherited in a number of mammalian species including man and results from a congenital defect in the production or function of specialized bone cells known as osteoclasts. Impairment of osteoclastic activity prevents bone marrow cavity formation resulting in compromised hematologic and neurologic function, lack of or delayed tooth eruption, and abnormally shaped bones. Osteopetrosis is heterogeneous in its phenotypic expression and response to curative therapies. Currently, bone marrow transplantation is the only method known for curing this disease in man and animal. However, not all of the children and similarly, not all of the osteopetrotic mutations, are cured by this procedure. The toothless (tl) rat is a unique osteopetrotic animal model. It is resistant-to-cure by bone marrow transplantation and also has skeletal features characteristic of rickets. Rickets has been frequently associated with osteopetrosis in man, but like the disorder in the tl rat, it is poorly understood. In spite of this reported frequency, none of the patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation for their osteopetrosis have had rickets. The objectives of the proposed research are to increase our understanding of the pathogenesis of osteopetrosis and the associated rickets in tl rats and to determine the role of vitamin D in the etiology of this latter disorder. The results of these studies will provide insights into the future development of procedures to cure the rachitic lesion. Reversal of this lesion will be followed by attempts at curing the osteopetrosis in these animals by bone marrow transplantation to see if this pretreatment has produced a more favorable skeletal environment for engraftment and rescue from this disease. Information from these studies may offer insights into potential therapies for curing other cure-resistant mutations with or without associated rickets and for providing a basis for establishing an appropriate clinical approach to this problem in similarly affected humans.
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Anatomic variations of the nose and paranasal sinuses in saudi population: computed tomography scan analysis
Nada Alshaikh1, Amirah Aldhurais2
1 Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Rhinology Unit, Dammam Medical Complex (DMC), Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2 Department of ENT, King Fahad Specialist Hospital (KFSH), Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Date of Submission 13-Nov-2016
Date of Acceptance 23-Dec-2016
Date of Web Publication 2-Nov-2018
Nada Alshaikh
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Dammam Medical Complex, Dammam - 31414
Background Knowledge of the anatomy constitutes an integral part in the total management of patients with sinonasal diseases. The aim of this study was to obtain the prevalence of sinonasal anatomic variations in Saudi population and to understand their importance and impact on the disease process, as well as their influence on surgical management and outcome.
Materials and methods This study is prospective review of retrospectively performed normal computed tomography (CT) scans of the nose and paranasal sinuses in adult Saudi population at Dammam Medical Complex. The scans were reviewed by two independent observers.
Results Of all CT scans that were reviewed, 48.4% were of female patients and 51.6% were of male patients. The mean age of the study sample was 38.5±26.5 years. The most common anatomic variation after excluding agger nasi cell was pneumatized crista galli, which was seen in 73% of the scans. However, the least common variation seen in this series was hypoplasia of the maxillary sinus, which was encountered in 5% of the cases. We did not detect a single pneumatized inferior turbinate among the studied scans.
Conclusion A wide range of regional differences in the prevalence of each anatomic variation exists. Understanding the preoperative CT scan is substantially important because it is the road map for the sinus surgeon. Detection of anatomic variations is vital for surgical planning and prevention of complications.
Keywords: agger nasi, anatomic variations, computed tomography scan, concha bullosa, cristal galli, haller cell, middle turbinate, nasal septum, nose and paranasal sinuses, onodi cell
Alshaikh N, Aldhurais A. Anatomic variations of the nose and paranasal sinuses in saudi population: computed tomography scan analysis. Egypt J Otolaryngol 2018;34:234-41
Alshaikh N, Aldhurais A. Anatomic variations of the nose and paranasal sinuses in saudi population: computed tomography scan analysis. Egypt J Otolaryngol [serial online] 2018 [cited 2020 Jan 20];34:234-41. Available from: http://www.ejo.eg.net/text.asp?2018/34/4/234/244904
The superiority of computed tomography (CT) scan compared with conventional radiography has unquestionable importance for the evaluation of anatomic structure and pathology [1].
Nowadays, both radiologists and otolaryngologists depend on CT scan as the radiological modality of choice for the evaluation of the nose and paranasal sinuses [2].
CT scan has the ability to detect fine bone architecture of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses, the mucosa, and the air, thus making it a preferred tool for imaging [3]. Using multiplanar reformatted imaging of the sagittal and coronal views will help in identifying the anatomic variation in paranasal sinuses and eliminating the artifacts. In addition, using bone and soft tissue windows may help in the evaluation of dehiscence abnormalities [4]. It is essential to perform CT scan of the paranasal sinuses before attempting sinonasal surgery, to avoid potential complications resulting from unrecognized important anatomical landmarks and significant anatomic variations [5].
In the advanced era of endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery, a thorough knowledge of the precise anatomy and common anatomic variation of the nose and paranasal sinuses and the relation with the neighboring structures constitute an integral part of the total diagnostic and therapeutic management of patients with sinonasal disease [6],[7]. As such, a detailed preoperative checklist evaluation of the sinonasal CT scan enhances the safety and efficacy of the nose and paranasal sinus surgery [8].
CT scan will help the otolaryngologist in understanding the complex anatomy, which could cause the sinonasal symptoms. In addition, it will help in identifying the landmarks that play a significant role for orientation during endoscopic sinus surgeries (ESSs) and aid in performing successful surgery with avoidance of serious complications [9].
Although anatomic variation in the sinonasal region is not uncommon [10], it was found that the frequency of these variations may differ among the different ethnic groups [11].
The purpose of this study was to determine the background of the prevalence of the most common anatomic variations in the nose and paranasal sinuses among adults of Saudi Arabia and to compare our results with other published data.
We conducted a prospective review of retrospectively performed normal CT scans of the nose and paranasal sinuses in adult Saudi population. Patients consent for emolument in the study was obtained prior to the review. The study was conducted at the Otolaryngology Department of an advanced secondary hospital in Saudi Arabia.
In this study, we reviewed a total of 942 consecutive CT scans of the paranasal sinuses over a period of 5 years. Of all CT scans reviewed, only 219 were normal adult CT scans that met our inclusion criteria. The older 89 CT scans were performed using a Multichannel Toshiba (Asteion 4, AMBER Diagnostics, Orlando, Florida, USA) scanner. The specifications of the technique include 3 mm section thickness, interval direct coronal and axial imaging, 250 mA, 120 kV, 1 s scan time, 16 cm display field of view, and a window of 2000 and 250 HU.
The rest of the CT scans were performed with a helical multislice GE scanner (GE, Standish, Maine, USA). Specification of this device includes 0.63–1 mm section thickness and interval direct coronal and axial cuts. Images were installed and archived from the Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS) software.
CT scans were reviewed by independent observers. First review and reporting was performed by the radiology consultants who follow an approved departmental CT sinuses template in reporting, which reduces the interobserver variability. Second review was performed by the second author, who is a senior rhinology consultant.
We excluded patients who were less than 12 years of age, those of non-Saudi nationality, patients who had previously undergone nasal or paranasal sinus surgery, and those who presented with extensive sinonasal disease, tumors, or fractures.
Anatomic variations that have been investigated include the following: variations of the nasal septum (deviation, spur, and pneumatization), pneumatization of the crista galli, variations of the turbinates (inferior turbinate pneumatization, paradoxical middle turbinate, and pneumatized middle turbinate), variations of the maxillary sinus (hypoplasia and presence of septation), variations of the frontal sinus (aplasia and hypoplasia), and presence of variants of specific ethmoidal sinus cells (agger nasi cell, Haller’s cell, and Onodi cell).
Data recording and statistical analysis were carried out using Excel Microsoft Workbook for Mac 2011 (Apple Inc., Sunnyvale, California, USA) version 14.0.2. The study was approved by the local institutional research and ethics committee.
A total of 942 consecutive CT scans of the paranasal sinuses were reviewed over a period of 5 years, of which 623 were excluded. Reasons for exclusion include the presence of sinonasal disease in 348 scans, no images available in 140 scans, non-Saudi nationality in 56 scans, improper CT cuts in 49 scans, history of previous sinonasal surgery in 22 cases, and pediatric patient in eight cases. The 219 included scans were of Saudi adults with clear paranasal sinuses or minimal mucosal disease and with no history of previous sinonasal surgery. All CT scans were requested by otolaryngologists to rule out sinonasal disease. The mean age of the study sample was 38.5±26.5 years; 106 (48.4%) were female patients and 113 (51.6%) were male patients.
After exclusion of the agger nasi cell, which was found to be constant in the entire study sample, we have found that there was no single anatomic variation detected in five (2.3%) patients, single anatomic variation was found in 17 (7.8%) patients, two anatomical variations in 36 (16.4%) patients, and three or more anatomic variations in the remaining 161 (73.5%) patients ([Figure 1]).
Figure 1 Percentage of anatomic variations after exclusion of agger nasi cell
Agger nasi cell was found in the entire study sample bilaterally. The most common anatomic variation after excluding agger nasi cell was pneumatized crista galli, which was seen in 73% of the scans. However, the least common variation seen in this series was hypoplasia of the maxillary sinus, which was encountered in 5% of the cases. We did not detect a single pneumatized inferior turbinate among the studied scans. Different identified anatomic variations are seen in [Figure 2].
Figure 2 (a) Maxillary hypoplasia; (b) Haller’s cell; (c) septal spur; (d) frontal hypoplasia; (e) maxillary septum; (f) deviated nasal septum and concha bullosa; (g) pneumatized septum; (h) concha bullosa; (i) Onodi cell (j) pneumatized crista galli; (k) paradoxical middle turbinate; (l) frontal agenesis
The frequency and prevalence of the different anatomic variations are summarized in [Table 1].
Table 1 Frequency and prevalence of various anatomical variations
ESS is a minimal invasive procedure that has been introduced as a valuable option in the management of sinunasal diseases [12]. The success, outcome, and completeness of ESS procedure are directly related to the understanding of sinus anatomy [13]. As such, it is substantially important for otolaryngologists to study the detailed normal anatomy and anatomic variations of the nose and paranasal sinuses for each individual patient before ESS [14].
In this report, we studied different important anatomic variations in the nose and paranasal sinuses in adult Saudi patients and we compared our results with other reports in the literature.
There is a significant body of literature supporting the link between the presence of anatomic variations and development of sinonasal disease [15].
The overall prevalence of anatomic variations in our study is higher than that reported in the literature. This was not expected as our study population has no or very minimal sinus disease. Such an unexpected result could be due to the difference in population size, the difference in selecting the studied CT scans (disease, undiseased, or mixed group), the number and nature of included anatomical variations, the quality and standards of the CT scan used, and the subjectivity in reading the CT images. In addition, it has been reported that ethnic differences may influence the prevalence of some anatomic variations in the sinonasal region [11].
Badia et al. [11]reported a significantly higher incidence of sphenoethmoid cells (Onodi cells) in the Chinese population in comparison with the Caucasian population.
In a different report, Cho et al. [16] found a significantly low incidence of supraorbital ethmoid cell in the Korean population at 2.6% compared with 64.6% in the white population, which could be attributed to the pronounced glabella and superior orbital rim found in Caucasians.
The difference in the prevalence of anatomical variation in our study population and others reported in the literature can be seen in [Table 2],[Table 3],[Table 4].
Table 2 Prevalence of anatomic variation in different studies
Table 3 Prevalence of the anatomic variations of the nasal septum, crista galli, and middle turbinate variations with comparison with some literature reports
Table 4 Prevalence of the anatomic variations of the agger nasi cell, Haller’s cell, Onodi cell, maxillary sinus, and frontal sinus with comparison with some literature reports
In this study, we have utilized specific definitions for the variations in nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses. In addition, we highlighted the clinical significance of each one of them.
Nasal septum
In this study, deviated nasal septum (DNS) was considered as any aching of the septum either osseous, cartilaginous, or osseocartilaginous that blocks at least half of the nasal cavity [13].
However, septal spur was considered as any sharp angulation of the septum recognized in CT scan [7]. Nasal septal deviations and nasal spurs if large or severe may lateralize the middle turbinate by pressure effect and thus narrow the middle meatus, consequently leading to inflammation and infection [21]. This may be considered as a predisposing factor for obstruction of the normal mucous flow leading to inflammation and infection [33].
By far, DNS is the most frequent anatomical variant encountered in the nasal cavity. In our study, we encountered DNS in 38.8% of the scans. As illustrated in [Table 3], the wider the definition of DNS, the higher the prevalence of such a variation to the extent that it might be considered as a normal finding rather than a variant of the normal [26]. The lower prevalence can be attributed to the fact that only severely angulated nasal septum that impinges on adjacent structures was considered as DNS [23].
Pneumatization of the septum, however, is considered a common finding in the posterior superior aspect of the septum [7]. It usually communicates and drains into the sphenoid sinus [34]. When diseased, it may resemble an encephalocele, for which CT scan and MRI are needed to confirm the diagnosis [7].
Crista galli
It is a well-recognized phenomenon in which the crista galli, which is normally a bony structure, becomes aerated [7]. We considered any degree of aeration of the crista galli in this study as a positive finding. Sometimes, it is recognized as a double bony structure with no air in between. In this case, it was not considered as pneumatized crista galli. In our study, pneumatized crista galli was the most common anatomic variation encountered.
It has been reported that pneumatized crista galli usually communicates with the frontal sinus and drains through the frontal recess [7]. Any obstruction of its drainage pathway might lead to infection and development of mucocele, which can be − if not recognized preoperatively − mistaken as an ethmoid cell and lead to an accidental invasion of the skull base during surgery [7].
Middle turbinate
A concha bullosa is an extension of pneumatization from either the anterior (55%) or posterior (45%) ethmoid air cells [6]. It is one of the most frequently studied variant seen in patients with sinusitis [35].
Its prevalence ranges between 4 and 80% depending on the criteria for pneumatization and the differences in study populations [33].
Bolger, in 1991, studied the different patterns of concha bullosa and classified them according to the area of pneumatization into three types: aeration of the vertical lamella, the bulb, and the whole middle turbinate. He found a high prevalence of aeration of the vertical lamella compared with low prevalence of whole middle turbinate pneumatization [6].
For the sake of this study, we adopted the following definition: any pneumatization of the middle turbinate regardless of which part or of what size is a concha bullosa [7]. In this report, it was as frequent as 44.3%. The vast majority was unilateral.
The highest percentage of detected concha bullosa was reported by Goldman in 1987 and it was based on anatomic dissection of the middle turbinate specimens of patients who underwent surgery and middle turbinate was amputated [25].
Paradoxical middle turbinate is when the turbinate curvature projects laterally and thus narrows the middle meatus and infundibulum [7]. This variation is not associated with any change in the middle turbinate attachment, and regardless of the size of the turbinate the majority was unilateral [19].
In our study, it was found to be 24.7%, which is also the highest on comparing with other studies.
When the concha bullosa is very large or when the middle turbinate is paradoxical, it can obstruct the middle meatus and infundibulum, thus predisposing for the development of rhinosinusitis [7]. Further, the concha bullosa would react similar to any other air cell in the sinonasal region, and if its drainage gets obstructed mucocele could happen [7]. It is usually asymptomatic, but it can cause symptoms such as headache and nasal obstruction when it has extensive aeration [36].
However, Zinrech [7] in his study failed to demonstrate an increase in the ostiomeatal complex disease among those with concha bullosa compared with those without.
Ethmoid cells
Agger nasi cell is defined as the most anterior ethmoid air cell located below the frontal sinus and extends to the frontal recess superiorly and anteriorly and arches the lacrimal fossa inferolaterally [32]. It is clinically significant due to its location relevant to the frontal recess and the lacrimal sac [33].
If it is extensively pneumatized or diseased, it may obstruct frontal sinus drainage, leading to frontal sinusitis or ocular symptoms [14]. It also provides a surgical access to the frontal recess area and the frontal sinus during ESS [33]. The prevalence of agger nasi cell varies widely between investigators, ranging between 3 [37] and 100% [32]. In our study, agger nasi cell was a constant finding in all CT studies we reviewed.
Haller’s cell, however, was first described by Albert Von Haller in 18th century as pneumatization of the anterior ethmoid cells into the roof of the maxillary sinus [8]. We adopted the same definition in reviewing our CT scans. Those cells are closely related to the infundibulum and maxillary sinus ostium [14]. It is suggested that if they are diseased or extremely large, they can obstruct the natural drainage pathway of the maxillary sinus predisposing to infection [14]. Haller’s cell prevalence varies widely as well, with the highest reported by Bolger in 1991 as he considered any cell located beneath the ethmoid bulla, the lamina papyracea, or the orbital floor as Haller’s cell [6]. In his report, he found no difference in the incidence of Haller’s cell between patients with rhinosinusitis and patients without [6]. This was not the case with Stammberger and Wolf [38], who considered the presence of Haller’s cell as a predisposing factor for recurrent and refractory maxillary sinusitis. This was also suggested by Kayalioglu et al. [21], who found a higher incidence of Haller’s cell among those with sinus disease.
Onodi cell, however, was first described by Adolf Onodi in 1910 and was initially defined as a posterior ethmoid cell that pneumatizes laterally or superiolaterally to the sphenoid sinus [39]. In 1995, the anatomic terminology group defined the Onodi cell as the most posterior ethmoid cell that pneumatizes laterally and superiorly to the sphenoid sinus and is intimately associated with the optic nerve [40].
Their clinical significance is very important as they may expose the optic nerve tract and put the nerve at risk during surgery [7]. Thus, their preoperative identification is extremely helpful in the prevention of inadvertent injury to the optic nerve [7].
Maxillary sinus
Maxillary sinus hypoplasia is a rare anatomical variation of the sinonasal region [41]. Bolger et al. in 1990 proposed a classification system for maxillary sinus hypoplasia into three types based not only on the small size of the maxillary sinus but also on the development of the uncinate process and its effect on the infundibulum [42].
In our series, we did not adopt this classification and our aim was just to find the prevalence of maxillary sinus hypoplasia of any type in our population.
Sirikci et al. [43], defined maxillary hypoplasia as maximal horizontal or vertical maxillary sinus size less than 50% of the relevant orbital size. We have adopted the same definition in our study [43].
The prevalence of maxillary sinus hyperplasia in our study group was 5%, which falls within the previously reported range ([Table 4]).
However, the clinical significance of maxillary sinus hypoplasia does not only lie on the fact that it might be misdiagnosed as sinusitis but also on the accompanying anatomical changes such as medialization of the medial orbital wall and underdevelopment or absence of the uncinate process, which both can lead to difficulty in finding the maxillary sinus ostium and accidental penetration of the orbit during ESS if not recognized preoperatively [4].
Maxillary sinus septa was defined by Selcuk et al. [29] as presentation of bony septum within maxillary sinus and classified them according to their location (anterior or posterior) and their position horizontal, vertical, or oblique), and their number (multiple or solitary). In our series, we adopted the definition of presentation of maxillary sinus septum regardless of its location, position, or number.
The incidence of maxillary sinus septa in our study was within the reported range of 1–28%. Maxillary sinus septa could be primarily due to defect during the embryonic life or secondarily as a result of tooth loss during the process of maxillary sinus pneumatization [44],[45]. Kennedy et al. [46] and Stammberger [47] reported that septa might interfere with ESS of the maxillary sinus.
Frontal sinus
Precise knowledge of the frontal sinus anatomy is necessary before attempting ESS because of its close relationship with other anatomical structures, such as the anterior skull base or the orbit [48].
Frontal agenesis (aplasia) is when there is complete absence of the frontal sinus. Our definition of frontal hypoplasia is when the frontal sinus is not crossing the imaginary line passing through the middle of the orbit longitudinally or not higher than the superior orbital rim roof.
Hypoplastic and aplastic frontal sinuses were identified in a total of 34.2% of our CT scans. Failure to identify hypoplastic or aplastic frontal sinus may lead to accidental skull base penetration during surgery [48].
Considering the wide range of variations in the anatomy, each paranasal sinus case should be planned individually and carefully to avoid dreadful complications and maximize patients’ benefit.
There is an obvious wide range of prevalence among all anatomical variations. Our results generally were found to fall into those reported ranges with exception to the higher prevalence of pneumatized crista galli and paradoxical middle turbinate. This can be attributed to many factors such as our sample size of patients, the investigator error, possible differences in the CT imaging techniques, and ethnic variations.
Because of the differences in various populations, identification of anatomic variations within the paranasal sinuses in every individual patient with sinonasal disease is substantially important to ensure safe and complete surgery.
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Creating Accessible Voting Opportunities
Updated: February 2016
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One of the roles of an election management body is to engage the public and meet its needs and expectations for better information and services, better voting opportunities, higher levels of security and privacy protection, and improved accessibility services.
Before the 27th General Election in November 2011, Elections Saskatchewan made several changes in order to offer better access to voting in the coming election. These changes included:
Installing ramps and mats in voting locations;
Changing the color of directional signs to yellow with black text, making them easier to read;
Placing additional information officers at voting locations to provide directions and assistance to voters;
Providing training to deputy returning officers on how to accommodate for disabilities;
Including information about the accessibility of voting locations on voter information cards;
Sending absentee voting kits to a number of groups to inform them of this option for voting;
Developing a leaflet and poster about voting options, specifically focusing on people with disabilities;
Installing supplementary lighting in the voting booths; and
Adding grips to the pencils used in the voting booths.
In a 2012 Elections Canada review, Saskatchewan scored relatively poorly compared with other jurisdictions in the area of accessibility (source: Prince, 2012). As part of its strategic plan, Elections Saskatchewan committed to improving the accessibility of the electoral process in Saskatchewan. Using the guiding principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the institution took action to address the gaps and to bring the electoral process in line with national and international best practice.
In 2013, Elections Saskatchewan partnered with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS) to identify issues important to seniors and voters with disabilities. The three organizations consulted more than 200 groups representing seniors and people with disabilities. In the Chief Electoral Officer Assessment Toward an Improved Legislative Framework for Elections in Saskatchewan – Step One: Recommended Amendments for Saskatchewan’s 28th General Election released in December 2013, Saskatchewan’s Chief Electoral Officer Dr. Michael Boda recommended a number of changes related to accessibility be implemented in advance of the 28th General Election.
When The Election Amendment Act, 2014 was proclaimed into law in December 2014, Elections Saskatchewan prepared an Accessibility Implementation Plan for Saskatchewan’s 28th General Election. This plan ensures:
Voters with disabilities will have more voting options available to them, including homebound voting; advance voting; voting at hospitals, remand centres or mobile polls; and absentee voting (voting by mail).
Voting places will be more accessible. Returning officers have been trained to assess the accessibility of prospective voting locations and, whenever possible, to set up their voting locations to meet the needs of voters with disabilities. Every voting place will have a trained information officer ready to provide directions and assistance to all voters, including voters with disabilities, when they arrive. Election day officials will have a supply of temporary accessible parking signs to be used as required at voting places.Voting places will be equipped with temporary lamps that may be used to provide supplementary lighting in the voting booths.
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Elections Saskatchewan is being mindful of the needs of voters with disabilities as it prepares voter information that will be distributed and communicated during the 28th General Election.
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During 2014-15, Elections Saskatchewan created engaging, general audience educational materials regarding voter registration, voting, and the rights of candidacy, along with information related to the electoral processes and schedules. These materials are being made available in multiple formats and languages so as to increase accessibility for both voters and potential candidates for office.
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Geraint grunted as the Brujah woman grabbed him unexpectedly. "Merde, Vanessa..." he said in a low growl as he retracted his claws from Marni, turning a glare on the one still holding him. "Didn't know she was yours... doesn't smell like one of you Rabble." he said, using the nickname for the Brujah clan., turning back to eye Marni. "Maybe dresses like you but.. doesn't smell like one of you... Smells more like a... Degenerate.." he added after sniffing the air without subtlety.
"Hey, who are you calling a degenerate!" Marni said angrily, had dropping to her side in a fist after having been rubbing the shoulder the claws had been holding, not realizing the word was a clan nickname and taking it as a personal insult instead. Who was this guy to be making any kind of judgments about her? He knew nothing about her. "At least I don't look like some dirty slob..."
Geraint let out a growl of laughter, totally unconcerned by Marni's anger or return insult. "Definitely a Degenerate.." he muttered, just loud enough for the two women to hear. He laughed harder, seeing Vanessa now trying to hold back her.. 'squire', to keep the new blood from attacking him. "Better teach the new blood there to control that anger... lest she lose control of her Beast. If you say you already took her to Hans, I'll take your word for it, Vanessa. Know you are trustworthy enough.. for a Rabble."
He glanced at Marni again with a hard look before turning back to the Brujah with another grunt. "You know I'm not supposed to talk about my jobs for Hans but.. well, the trail I'm on has to do with a friend of yours... Thought I'd at least give you a heads up about that, Vanessa." He turned back to scan the crowd, still talking though to her. "There was a building our missing elder was using as one of his many havens. The Kine responsible for loaning it out to him is here tonight. I've been trying to track a timeline, talked to the building manager.. something fishy there...." His eyes swung back and for a second at the right angle, the light reflected from them as if they were a cat's eyes. "I was tracking around that building.. seems there have been quite a few Kindred.. or maybe Cainites? going in and out of that building recently...." He looked back at Vanessa, knowing she got around with the Anarch social circles a little more than he did.. or at least had a better gossip network. "Hear anything about it? Anything official from us?"
( Vanessa has heard of nothing to do with that building, nor even that area of town. She'd know from talking to Marni earlier though that it is now on the border of contested territory with the Sabbat. 7 months ago it was purely in Anarch territory but.. the borders have since shifted. )
Vanessa made a grimace of mild anger at the words coming out of the gangrel. She had managed to keep herself from reacting well enough, but Marni seemed to be a lot more emotional and prone to outbursts than she was right now, which was normal for a kindred so young as she was. She had to hold her down by the shoulder as to keep her from causing a scene now that the Gangrel had unhanded her shoulder." Calm down, Marni. He's not someone you can match in a fight anyway." The Brujah stated and turned back to Geraint." She's just starting to learn proper manners of acting out in public, but she wouldn't have had this outburst if someone wasn't trying to provoque her right now... Then again I guess I shouldn't expect one of the Animals to understand this." Vanessa growled in return. Outlanders in her dictionary wasn't an offensive term. Rabble and degenerates were offensive, but she had the benefit of having a sire who was learned in the olden ways so she knew a thing or two about the dark ages and the names floating around back then.
She then frowned hard as she listened to him talking. She pondered for a moment and then threw a glance at Marni, then around the club." Well it wouldn't be good for me to stop you from your task, next time we meet don't go into the provocations right away." Vanessa stated, displeased." Anyhow about that building, all I know is that it should be on the border of Sabbat turf right now. We've been losing ground..." She mumbled and took an not really needed sigh, but it just seemed proper for hte situation.
"Anyway, She is Tobias's childe..." She gestured to Marni. It was going to be announced soon enough anyway at least to people like Geraint here who did important jobs." Since this is connected to us, I'm really of the opinion of leaving you to your job. If you happen to learn something of use, do inform me if possible. I've gotten some leads of my own, not going to discuss it here, but Hans has the info, so I assume you should be filled in on that when you meet with him again." Vanessa stated and gestured to Marni to stand up and follow her." Alright, practical lesson's being cut short it seems. We are leaving now." The brujah stated. If people connected to what happend to her friend happened to appear, chances were they were going to recognize Marni right away too and she didn't want to expose the toreador to needless danger quite yet.
Marni was still angry but she did at least listen to Vanessa's suggestion not to get into a fight when she still knew next to nothing about any of this. She was surprised when her new mentor instead growled at the ragged bear of a man, calling him an animal. It surprised her all the more, making her forget her anger, when the huge guy began to laugh, a gravely, deep belly laugh.
"Shouldn't expect a non-Animal to have a thick skin." he replied, though his tone now was clear that he only only provoked to amuse himself, not to actually pick a fight. He turned more serious, huffing lightly. "Yeah, that's the building." he confirmed, knowing full well where it was located. "I have a feeling we had lost that building even before the borders shifted though..." He stopped at hearing who the new girl was, his bushy eyebrows rising in surprise, and turned to study her more in depth again. "Tobias's cub huh? Well, that would explain the whole Degenerate thing..." he said half to himself, though his voice held some respect using that term now. His brow lowered as he stared at her. "Tell me, girl, you been to an apartment at 5446 Hastings Drive?" he asked.
Marni frowned, confused but wondering if she should answer. A quick glance over at Vanessa and the other other woman nodding slightly told her she should. "Well, yeah.. yes. I was taken there by a ma.... by Tobias, from what I'm told, the night he disappeared." she answered. "I didn't catch the address number of the apartment but.. that's sounds about right. He.." She frowned, feeling uncomfortable to use the terms that Vanessa had. "He turned me there and when I woke up, he was gone... and I got attacked and captured."
Geraint growled for real now. "Merde! I had a gut feeling he went missing from that one. It was the only one that wasn't as secure as the others..." he muttered. He made an annoyed sound, shaking his head at all of it. That an Elder could be disappeared so easily... It had been a serious blow the the Anarchs. "You really are in the thick of this, girl, huh?" He turned to the Brujah. "If Hans gave you the okay to pursue this too, we should probably keep in contact, Vanessa." he stated seriously. "If I find anything, I'll make sure you get it and vice versa, bien? Just pass it on through Hans. He will make sure I get anything." he added, giving each of the women a short nod as they left.
As they walked away, Marni was still a bit confused about the whole interaction. "He.. wasn't what I would have expected from someone dressed.. someone looking like that..." she said, indicating the face with her hand. She made a sound to herself. "That's a lesson I need to learn, isn't it: things aren't always what they seem, right? And, by the way... what the HELL was that guy?! And what's the next step, where do we go from here?" she asked, her mind burning with more questions but she held them back. For now. "Maybe.. I should get some form of weapon sooner rather than later..." she added, suddenly feeling not safe at all in the world.
"Yeah, in our world appearances are decieving... a lot. Some of the worst and most dangerous people I've seen were incredibly iinocent looking. And some of the most dangerous were the kindest." Vanessa confirmed with a shrug as they were leaving. This wasn't a nice development, she planned to use this chance to get Marni eased into the life and use the chance while the toreador was already fed to have her become able to regulate herself when feeding, but the plan fell now.
"As for what he is... He's a Gangrel." The brujah explained and threw a look at Marni." They are a lot more in tune with the beast that we all harbor inside. I suppose they are the opposite of a toreador. As a side effect if they lose contol sometimes, their bodies actually gain beastial characteristics. I once met one who had whiskers and the animal paw pad things on the inside of their palms. Hehe... They are not to be underestimated at all. People tend to view them as wanderers and beggers and animals, but they can be just as smart and cutting as any of us. And what's more they are generally powerhouses in melee too. Some of them can turn into animals such as dogs and cats too." She added.
"Weapons can be somewhat effective, but not always. I do sometimes use gun but it's ofen tracer rounds and or aimed at heads and hearts only." The brujah explained." Guns are only really dangerous to us if aimed at the head. Though they can be useful if you punture the heart, it will hinder a kindred for a few moments. Same if you shatter let's say a kneecap or damage a tendon. That type of damage our bodies can gennerally quickly heal though. That's why if firearms are involved it's usually either shotguns or automatic weapons. Many prefer the good old melee though. A sword or an axe for example."
"Well I'm not sure really. Night's rapidly advancing and I should think up where you shall be staying for the time being. Frankly I think I will keep you in the bar building. Can't risk you being found or killed by whomever is involved in the mess with Tobias." Vanessa sighed." Let's hrad back to the bar. I will clean you one of the spare rooms I currently keep as a store room for misc items of mine. We shall put you a bed there at a later date too. For now a matress and blankets will have to suffice." The brujah explained to Marni.
Marni shook her head to herself. Appearances were indeed deceiving it seemed. Like the woman beside her who was almost three times Marni's own age but appeared younger. Yeah, that would definitely be something to watch out for... Don't assume anything. Be wary of everyone. It sounded like a cynical way to live but.. if it helped her survive this crazy new world, so be it. As she listened to Vanessa explain about Gerard the Gangrel, she tucked all the information away. Opposite of Toreador. That was interesting. Her new mentor had said that Toreador were the best, or one of the best, at holding onto their humanity and apparently Gangrel did not even care to try. Her nose wrinkled as she grimaced at the thought of living like an animal, at becoming an animal. Gross.
"Wait, what?!" she said suddenly as Vanessa was describing the curse of the Gangrel clan. "Seriously? Whiskers? Wow..." she said with a laugh, picturing what that must look like. Maybe like the old Beauty and the Beast TV series from the 90's with Ron Perlman... Then again, with what she had seen of it so far... maybe more like the 90's movie of The Island of Dr. Moreau.. Yeah, more likely the latter, she decided. "Well, they may be cunning and powerhouses..." she replied, using Vanessa's word, "but I think I'm glad that I'm not one of them... Being a Toreador and embracing my humanity and my art sounds like a much nicer fate."
The information about weapons and effectiveness disappointed Marni. She had hoped that guns would have been a bit better but.. still, being able to keep some range between herself and an attacker seemed much more preferable. She.. just wasn't really a blade-type person. "Automatic weapons sound good to me... an SMG I guess it's called would be a nice start..." she added. Truth be told, she hadn't been obsessed over guns before.. sort of the opposite but.. she had picked up enough knowledge about them from games and movies and the like to know the basics, and an SMG sounded really good to her now.
Marni frowned. "Uh.. I have a place I've been staying. A motel room..." she objected. She had paid for it with money she'd taken off her last victim. True, she hadn't actually used the bed in the room. She had taken all the blankets she could into the bathroom for her day-sleeping just to make sure she kept well away from any source of sunlight. The curtains in the rooms weren't the best. But still, it was an environment she controlled... sort of. She was still.. or now so, more wary of even Vanessa. The woman might be helping her, mentoring her now but.. the Brujah's earlier words had reminded Marni that deception was rampant among the vampires. Well, whether deceiving or not, Vanessa WAS still Marni's only source of learning in this new world. What choice did she really have?
"Fine.." she agreed reticently. "I'll stay at the bar." she conceded with a grimace. The idea of sleeping at a bar... in a store room at a bar at that!, was.. barely a step above sleeping at some of the seedier places she had been forced to take refuge in a few times since her escape. But not much more of a step above, as far as she was concerned. Part of her wondered if Vanessa wanted her at the bar to keep an eye and make sure Marni didn't try to return to her old life, her old family and friends. To Craig. She was still determined to do that at some point when she got a chance. It had been months but she was sure he would be grateful to find out that she was still alive. Sort of. For now though, she had to play the part of submissive pupil and followed Vanessa so they could head back.
Next Night
Marni awoke suddenly in the dark room. The room was pitch black and only a faint glow marked the line under the door to the store room in which Vanessa had stashed her. Going to sleep and waking up was weird now, something she didn't think she'd ever get used to. There was no real tiredness come the mornings, just a visceral sense, a knowledge that the sun was approaching the horizon and it was time to get ready. The falling asleep was sudden. She'd be awake one second, her mind working as usual and.. gone the next. Waking up at sunset felt just the same but opposite. Now that she was awake, she felt no lingering tiredness, no cloudy thinking. She was just.. awake. And so very aware of the terrible, old mattress that Vanessa had loaned her.
She groaned at a spring that felt like it was poking into her back through the material and direly missed her old bed as she sat up, the old blanket clinging loosely around her. A bed she hadn't seen or slept on in seven months. God, had it really been that long? One long nightmare that seemed like it would never end. She missed.. everything. Especially the people. She missed her loved ones. In the dark, she could feel a few tears rolling down her face as she drew her knees up to her chest, hugging them to herself. She wanted to rail out against someone.. anyone. To be able to vent her anger but.. there was no one she could do so against. And so she bottled it up. What else could she do? Still, she sobbed quietly to herself, at everything she had lost.
"Get yourself together, Marni." she finally told herself, wiping at the tears, forcing herself to stop, to think of what she was going to do about it rather than wallow. Finally, she got up, feeling her way over to the door and then up the wall until she found the light switch and flicked it on, lighting up the obvious store room in stark, yellow light. She blinked a couple of times to get used to it before she noticed the remnants of the tears on her hands. Damn vampire things! Her hands were streaked with red and she was sure her face was too. No sink or water in here.. and going out there like this was.. dangerous. With a growl of annoyance, she began to lick at her hands until all evidence of the blood-tears was gone, and used the moisture left to scrub at her face until she was sure she had gotten it all. She made one last pass over all of it with the edge of the blanket she had been using before she headed out of the room to look for Vanessa.
Vanessa had a rather fun time all around now. She suddenly found herself with a foster childe and actually no proper place to house her. Marni was for now staying in the storage room and she was going to be staying there for a while. She was tied up in this situation and no way in hell was she going to br allowed to be somewhere unsupervised until it was discovered what happened to her sire and who was actually responsible. That and the fact she as a new kindred had a lot to learn as to not bring doom to herself and the rest of them.
Thus before hitting the bed, Vanessa gave specific orders to be fulfilled during the day by her workers in the bar. While the bar was mostly working at night, during the day they still had working hours. Anyways her working people were doing maintenance and other similar tasks such as storage arrangements and supplies check. Now that Marni was placed in one of the stotages, they had to rearrange it and transfer all the thing to the other rooms.
By the time Marni was to leave her room, she was going to find the hall neatly packed with different cardboard wrapped thin things resembling assemble yourself furniture... yeah. There were a lot of packages there by her door including a wrapped up brand new matress. There were also other stuff like light fixtures and lamps and the like.
Veta was also there, she was busy helping out at the bar which had a lot of customers right now weirdly enough. Her smile brightened up right away when she spotted Marni leaving her room and she was carrying a big casket of beer." Hey, you finaly woke up!" She exclaimed happily, navigating her way through the sea of boxes in the hall." Your furniture arrived earlier today. So we will have the room cleared off storage and put into proper living condition later tonight while you are out and about!" The human stated while a shout was heard from the main bar hall for her to hurry up.
"Ahh sorry, got to go. We've got a lot of people for a change. There's a huge biker group passing through and they seemed to have stopped for a break. Vanessa said to inform you to go to her office when we see you moving about." The kine girl stated as she hurried on with her task. The noise of people could be heard from the direction of the bar hall.
Meanwhile in Vanessa's office she had long since woken up and taken a shower to freshen up. Then she started dealing with a lot of nonsense... among which collating the reports about the movements on Sabbat and Camarila forces. It was her job to hold a firm line in this area of the city as the owner of this Elysium. She was concerned... The Tobas case suggested that a massive plot was in the works and a possible traitor within their ranks. Maybe it was time to get some better weapons... She was pondering the procurement of tracer rounds for the guns of the local Anarch members." If only we had like 15 more dedicated fighters... holding the borders would have been so much easier... Hell we might have even regained some territory." She mumbled. As it stood there just weren't enough bodies to counter attack yet. Cammies and Sabbat could bring reinforcements easily... and then there was the fact those blasted sabbat weren't going to be hesitating to use the showelhead tactics if they wanted and needed to.
If only they could gain a single good engagement and manage to capitalize on it. A single Sabbat nest exterminated could turn the scales on that conflict. But then the Camarilla were going to get out of hands instead. They needed to oust both groups at nearly the same time... Her head was hurting. She had to talk with other anarch leading figures to organize a possible counter initiative. The Baron was still holding the fort, but unless they moved to an active role and not just defending and slowly losing ground, the city would be a lost cause. For how much longer would they have to bid t heir time and pray for a chance?
Leaving the room, Marni found the hallway literally packed with boxes and items. A few of them she could see the Ikea logo stamped on the sides along with.. a wrapped mattress taking up a good chunk of the small passageway. As she stepped around.. and over boxes and packages, she tried to take note of what each was, trying to picture what it was all for. "What the hell..." she whispered to herself, her focus solely on all the furniture. So much so that she didn't even notice Veta until the human woman called out to her.
Marni looked up in surprise.. and felt some embarrassment at her memory of feeding on the girl and her brother the previous night. It was just.. weird and awkward, knowing that your food was actually a person and actually knowing them! Awkward but.. well, it was better than killing to survive. "Hi... Veta..." Marni answered slowly, giving an awkward smile of greeting. Yeah, it wasn't just the feeding that had been awkward but Veta's reaction to it, her.. enthusiasm. My furniture? she thought to herself and then sighed. Of course, Vanessa wasn't going to let her out of her sight so.. furnishing a room for Marni here was logical. Undesirable but logical. Play it cool, Marni, she told herself. Your chance will come eventually.
"Thanks." she added to Veta's comment about the items being set up and installed before the night was over, as the human was called by a customer in the bar. She took a glance out where the customers were, noticing that it did seem a fair bit busier than last night had been. And definitely louder. A lot louder. To the point of almost being rowdy. She added another thanks at being told where to find her new mentor. "Good luck with the crowds." she said as Veta whisked away.
She had to shuffle past all the furnishings yet again to get to where Vanessa's office was. She knocked on the closed door, then opened it when she heard Vanessa's reply to come in, then closed it behind her again, blocking out the louder din from back in the bar area, channelled by the hallways. "Mornin... um.. wait, I guess.. Evening? Evening, Vanessa." she greeted, frowning at how confusing the terms were now that she was nocturnal. "Veta told me you wanted me to come to you office when I woke up." she added, turning a curious look at the Brujah, wondering what the plan was for tonight.
Vanessa was having the struggle of dealing with damned paperwork and also planning and information reports. Hell she had to be informed of the situation every single day as much as she could be. As a person of some importance and influence here, she was at the position to affect the state of the city for the better or for worse with her actions. So far she had managed to keep her section of the realm as stable as possible. Sabbat invasion in her turf was halted, camarilla were made to behave and overall around her Elysium peace reigned supreme. She was glad with her acomplishment, but it wasn't enough. As soon as the status quo broke in the neighboring territories, hers was going to be suffering badly when the enemies could focus more of their power on her.
She wanted to just go on the offense, but she didn't have the excuse or the manpower to do so right now. Maybe if they took out Ditko, they could use the chance to rouse the forces of hte Anarchs and push back at the Sabbat. Anyways the Brujah's head snapped up as she heard Marni. She looked at the fledgeling and nodded." Yeah, we have work to do tonight too." She stated and stood up, running through her notes and pulling the one she needed." We did agree you need a weapon for self defense of some kind. We are going to go get you one. Already arranged it." The older vampire stated and picked her leather jacket." Might also pass by the grab you some new clothing on the way back." She added with a smile.
"Alright, also considering everything, might be a good idea to have you experience the weakness of your clan. The arms dealer we are heading to, also deals in rare antiquities... He has a painting I want too. It
s a great way to experience it yourself, as to not get surprised later when unattended." She smiled and tucked her revolver in a holster underneath her armpit." Any questions?"
Marni wasn't sure she liked the sound of having to do work... but, it had to be better than the wandering and rarely fruitful hunting she had been doing since her escape, right? And if it had something to do with bringing down whatever the creeps were that had killed the guy who had made her and then kidnapped her... even better. A smile broke out on her face at hearing that they were going to get her a weapon now. "Hell, yeah.." she muttered to herself. Just the thought of something that she could defend herself with made her feel safer already.
She glanced down at her outfit, about to ask what was wrong with it but.. damn, Vanessa was right. Marni had been living in the same get-up for months and.. well, the red shirt beneath her black denim vest was pretty bloodstained, thanks to her lack of knowledge of how to feed properly.. not to mention all the times being forced to lose control when she had been a captive. At least the red had disguised the blood somewhat, though despite the washing it had had in last night's rain storm.. yeah, Vanessa was right. It needed replacement at this point. Marni ran a hand back through her short hair. "Yeah, I guess I could use some." she agreed. Really didn't do to look this trashy, not when she had options now. Well, as long as Vanessa let her pick her own style anyways.
She froze, smile fading. Right.. Clan weaknesses. Vanessa had mentioned that last night too. What was it again? Something about art? Vanessa was right about this too, she supposed but.. anything termed a 'weakness' and the thought of wilfully succumbing to it around people who, despite the help already given, were still all essentially strangers to her made Marni just a little anxious. She pulled herself together, putting that anxiety to the side when Vanessa asked if there were any more questions. "Just one." she answered, forcing a confident smile on her face. "What are we standing around here for, then?" Despite being anxious, the excitement at the prospect of arming herself was winning.
( Can jump to arriving at the arms dealer or clothing place if you want. )
"Yes, that you need. Can't have a toreador in my care run around dressed like a gangrel. Your clan will make me the butt of all their jokes for a century at least." Vanessa said jokingly, well half jokingly at least." Anyway, I'm going ot be covering the bill, so you will just have to pick up what you want, really. There's no dress code we abide. Though many anarchs seem to be on the biker and rocker side of things. Comes with the style and culture I guess. It's not an obligation though, as you have seen." She shrugged. Frankly she herself liked jeans and or leathers because htey were sturdy and made for good protection while keeping clothing managable and mobile enough. Also it tended to look attractive.
"Alright, time to go." The Brujah stated as she waved for her charge to follow her." This time around I've prepared a proper transport." She said as she led Marni out the back door where there was a classic mustang waiting for them." No cabs tonight... saves time." She smiled as she hopped in the driver seat and once Marni had joined her, Vanessa sped away.
About half an hour later, Vanessa and Marni had arrived at a certain clothing store that was currently closed... sort of. As soon as the brujah had knocked on the door, it was opened and the two were led into the rather big and fancy store. The clothing here varied on everything from sport to official and anything in between.
"Alright, I'm giving you a full freedom here." Vanessa stated and threw a learned look at Marni." Pick enough for a changes, can pick out more later. Also don't forget to chose a big jacket or a coat in addition." She whispered the later part of the sentence." You know what you need ot be able to hide..." She added as she left Marni to her own clothes' picking, while the Brujah herself went to browse the things too. In fact she had barely taken a few steps when she pulled a nice white shirt and lined it over herself in front of a mirror. Then by a single blink later and in her hand was also a skirt to pair with it.
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Stephen Hales's Syllabub Machine
Dr Stephen Hales FRS (1677-1761)
Many years ago while working on a paper on the subject of syllabub, I came across a reference to an ingenious invention by a certain Dr Hayles for making this frothy, uniquely English dairy dish. I found the citation in Old English Glasses by Albert Hartshorne, who quoted an obscure eighteenth century reference whose source I could not track down,
“Dr. Hayles hath actually published what has been for some time talked of, a tube of tin with a box of the same at the lower end of it...that is full of small holes. This engine, with the help of a pair of bellows, blows up cream into syllabub with great expedition. This complex machine has already procured the doctor the blessing of the housekeeper in this palace, and of all such as she in the present generation (who know the time and labour required to whip this sort of geer), and will cause his memory to be held in reverence by all housekeepers in the generations that are yet to come.” A. Hartshorne, Old English Glasses, (London and New York: 1897), p. 307.
In my ignorance, I did not know who Dr Hayles was, so I did not have a clue where to look for his publication. I searched for some time in the British Library, the Public Record Office and other archives, but gave up when I got no results. It seemed to me that the doctor had not lived up to the promise of being 'held in reverence by all housekeepers in the generations that are yet to come.' He and his eccentric machine had been entirely forgotten. Despite this I was pretty keen to have a go at rescuing his syllabub engine from oblivion. The brief description quoted by Hartshorne was clear enough, so following the instructions I made the instrument below. It indeed proved to be an excellent and labour saving way of making syllabub and was tremendous fun to use, bringing a smile to the face of anyone who watched it in action. I even demonstrated it on a couple of television programmes, including an episode on eighteenth century food in my own series Hungry for the Past.
Syllabub engine Mark I
After a few years it eventually dawned on me who the mysterious Dr. Hayles was. The problem all along had been with the spelling of his name - Hayles rather than Hales. If I had had the wit to work this out in the first place I would have realised that the gentleman in question was none other than the great eighteenth century clergyman botanist and inventor Stephen Hales, noted mainly for his early experiments on the respiration of plants. After searching through Hale's books I noticed that in one work on the distillation of seawater, there was an additional essay at the end entitled An Account of the good Effect of blowing Showers of Air up through MILK, thereby to cure the ill Taste which is occasioned by some Kinds of Food of Cows. (London: 1761).
Dr Hales was very fond of blowing bubbles. The main essay in his book was about blowing air through seawater as it was being distilled to make freshwater for seamen. He also argued that the process of blowing air through milk which had been tainted through cows eating wild garlic or turnips, would get rid of the strong unwanted flavours, especially if the milk was heated during the process.
The final essay in this book is where Hales published his design for blowing air through milk
In the essay he illustrates the mechanism for blowing the air through the milk. When I saw his engraved plate (below), I realised that it fitted the description in Hartshorne's quotation exactly. However, syllabub does not even get a mention in Hale's essay. Now that I knew the machine was the invention of a Dr Hales rather than a Dr Hayles, I decided to track down Hartshorne's source and found it very quickly. In 1905, Hartshorne edited the letters of the Rev. Edmund Pyle, chaplain in ordinary to King George II between 1729-1763, in a book called Memoirs of a Royal Chaplain. In it I found a letter which Pyle had written to his friend Samuel Kerrich, a Norfolk vicar. When I read the text of the letter, I realised that Hartshorne had abridged it in Old English Glasses, leaving out a critical passage which indicated that the perforated box was in fact round ('like a box for a Great Seal').
Originally designed for ridding tainted milk of the unpleasant flavours of wild garlic and turnips, Hales's engine was used in the kitchens of Kensington Palace for making whipped syllabub. A pair of bellows was inserted into the tube at the top.
When I made my machine, I assumed that the box at the lower end of the syllabub engine was cuboid. Although my engine worked perfectly, blowing up ' cream into syllabub, with great exhibition' it looked pretty different to Hales's device for blowing air through tainted milk. Here is the full text of Pyle's letter,
Dear Sir, "Novr 21 1758.
" I have a favour of yours to acknowledge. There is a great dearth of literary news. The only articles, of that sort, that I know of, are: That Dr. Hales hath actually published; what has been some time talked of; a tube of tin, with a box, of the same, at the lower end of it, (like a box for a Great Seal,) that is full of very small holes. This engine, with the help of a pair of bellows, blows up cream into syllabub, with great expedition. This complex machine has already procured the Dr. the blessing of the housekeeper of this palace, and of all such as she is, in the present generation, (who know the time & labour required to whip this sort of geer: and will cause his memory to be had in reverence, all housekeepers, in the generations that are yet for to come."
The mention by Pyle of 'the housekeeper of this palace' is very interesting. This was Kensington Palace where Pyle was chaplain. Hales too had strong royal connections. By the middle of the eighteenth century he had become a well known public figure. So much so that Prince Frederick of Wales, the heir to the throne, frequently drove from his palace at Kew to observe the doctor's curious experiments at his laboratory in Teddington. Frederick's wife Princess Augusta often accompanied him on these excursions and became very fond of Dr Hales. When Frederick died in 1751, Hales was appointed Clerk of the Closet to the Princess Dowager. In the summer he frequently visited the princess at Kew and advised her on her gardens and greenhouses. He also thought up amusements for the princess and her children, including the Prince of Wales, who would eventually become King George III. One of these diversions was making pictures out of rare dried sea mosses (species of seaweed with a feathery appearance) sent to Hales by a fellow botanist. One day, probably in 1758, at Leicester House, the princess's winter residence, he amused the royal children by making syllabub with an 'ingenious machine'. This was the year which Pyle wrote his letter referring to the published design. So it looks like the Doctor brought his invention to Leicester House just to give the children a good laugh. But it must have been spotted by the housekeeper of Kensington Palace who put it to serious use.
Frederick Prince of Wales with his sisters in front of Kew Palace by Philip Mercier 1733.
Frederick's wife Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772), oil on canvas by Charles Philips. In 1751 Dr Hales was appointed the princess's Clerk to the Closet.
The highly inventive Dr Hales was very fond of experimenting with air. He placed this windmill on the roof of Newgate prison to ventilate the airless cells below. It was a huge success. Hales's brother William had died of gaol fever in Newgate. He was also celebrated for designing ventilation systems for ships and advocated fumigating biscuit and other sea stores with sulphur dioxide to kill weevils and other insects. Another of Hale's remarkable inventions was a system of salting whole carcasses of meat by pumping saline solution through the animals' blood vessels.
Kensington Palace where the royal housekeeper used Hales's syllabub engine.
Leicester House formerly on Leicester Square, the residence of Frederick Prince of Wales and Princess Augusta. It was here that Hales amused the royal children with his syllabub engine.
Now that I have found Hales's drawing, I am making a Mark II version of his syllabub engine which will be exactly like the original. Once it is completed I will post a video of it being used, which I hope you will find an amusing diversion. Despite the speed with which this device pumps up syllabub, it never seems to have caught on in England. However, at some time in the nineteenth century on the other side of the Atlantic in the Southern States, utensils which used a similar pumping action started to become popular for whipping up cream and syllabub. However, I suspect that these churns were invented without knowledge of Hales's device. Though strangely enough earlier in his career Hales was one of the original twenty-one trustees of Georgia in the early history of the colony. He also had strong connections with the Carolinas. And it was in the Southern States that these devices became popular. Coincidence? Almost certainly.
A reproduction of a nineteenth century American syllabub churn. Photo courtesy of John Chaney
Another view of the syllabub churn above. Photo courtesy of John Chaney
Tildens 1865 USA patent churn - with a turbine which whips up the cream when the cylinder is shaken
Whether making syllabub by milking a cow into a bowl, as in this romantic 19th century illustration, or by blowing air through the cream with an eccentric bellows operated engine, this bucolic activity seems to have entertained generations of children, including a few royal ones.
If you would like to know more about syllabub there are some other posts dealing with the subject on this blog -
Pumping up the Syllabub - 12 Feb 2012
Syllabub Revisited and Sugar Plumb Theories - 8 Feb 2012
Lady Rachel Fane's Syllabub -17 Dec 2011
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Labels: Stephen Hales's Syllabub Machine, Syllabub
A Forked Stick for the Cookold
'A bean for the kinge, a pease for the queen, a cloave for the knave, a forked stick for the cookold and a ragg for the slutt. ' All these objects were concealed in the twelfth cake which Henry Teonge ate on board HMS Assistance in 1675
In our last posting, we mentioned how a threepenny bit coin was included in the Empire Christmas Pudding recipe of 1926 'for luck'. The practice of concealing small objects in food as good luck charms, or for divination purposes, seems to be both ancient and international. In Scotland there was a tradition of hiding a glass ring in a bride pie - whoever got the ring in their portion would sure to be the next one to get married. And there was a very similar custom here in England where a ring would be tossed into a bridal posset. Sometimes gifts or messages were secreted in sugar walnut shells or sugar eggs. The Georgian confectioner Giuliamo Jarrin tells us how to make perfectly seamless hollow sugar eggs in a balancing pan. Hidden inside these 'egg comfits' were all sorts of goodies. Jarrin tells us that,
‘In Paris they put in a number of nicknacks, little almanacks, smelling bottles with essences, and even things of value, for presents.’
From very early times both a bean and a pea were concealed in cakes consumed during revels and celebrations on the feast of the Epiphany, a custom that was practiced in a number of European countries. Whosoever got the bean in their slice became the king of the revels and the pea signified his queen. The most celebrated of these cakes is the gallete des rois, which still survives in France and its former colonies. In nineteenth century France, beans (feves) made out of ceramic started to replace the real ones and a whole host of other small objects were made by the potteries for galletes des rois. There were white rabbits, four leafed clovers, kings, queens, infants, doves and a whole host of other objects, though these novelties continued to be called feves.
Two nineteenth ceramic French feves designed for hiding in galletes des rois - in this case the feves really are beans.
A small collection of nineteenth century French feves for galletes des rois. These now then to be made from plastic.
Two feves in the form of tiny bone playing cards for putting into galletes des rois (early twentieth century). These are French, but sets of cards illustrated with various characters, including a king and queen became very important in the English twelfth-day celebrations from the end of the eighteenth century into the early Victorian period. Though these were not put in the cakes of that period, but blindly picked from the pack by the Twelfth-nighters to indicate the role they had to play for the night.
In England the practice was already ancient when Robert Herrick wrote the following lines in the seventeenth century,
Now, now the mirth comes
With the cake full of plums,
Where bean's the king of the sport here;
Beside, we must know
The pea also
Must revel as queen in the court here.
Begin then to choose,
This night, as ye use,
Who shall for the present delight here;
Be a king by the lot,
And who shall not
Be Twelve-day queen for the night here!
From Twelfth Night; Or, King And Queen
HMS Assistance, the ship on which Henry Teonge and his fellow crew members celebrated Twelfth-day in 1676 with a 'great kake".
About a year after Herrick's death in 1674, a naval chaplain called Henry Teonge celebrated both Christmas and Twelfth Day on board a ship in the Eastern Mediterranean in stormy weather. In his diary he describes the twelfth cake made by the ship's cook,
From The Diary of Henry Teonge. London: 1825
Though very brief, this is is one of the most detailed descriptions from the early modern period of the English version of the custom. Teonge's vivid account paints a marvellous picture of the hilarity of the occasion. My 'great kake' for Twelfth day this year will definitely have in it 'a bean for the kinge, a pease for the queen, a cloave for the knave, a forked stick for the cookold and a ragg for the slutt.' We will make it on my Taste of Christmas Past Cookery Course on November 24-25. I still have a few places left, so if you would like to join the fun please get in touch.
In the first half of the twentieth century manufactured silver charms for concealing in Christmas Puddings became popular, though the most commonly used item was a silver threepenny bit. These are the direct descendants of the bean, pea and other items originally hidden in twelfth cakes
In early modern period England twelfth cakes were also known as wassail cakes. In 1686, in his notes on customs and superstitions Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, the antiquarian John Aubrey tells us that at,
'Twelve-tyde at night they use in the Countrey to wassaile their Oxen and to have Wassaile-Cakes made.'
Instructions for preparing a Twelfth-day revel, including how to lay out wassail cakes, is given in a remarkable early Tudor manuscript in the Bodleian Library known as 'The Second Northumberland Household Book (Bod]. MS Eng. hist. b. 233. This set of household ordinances was compiled for Henry Algernon Percy, fifth earl of Northumberland (1478-1527) and was compiled between 1519 and 1527. Here is the section of the text that deals with the highly ritualised delivery of wassail cakes to the hall for the earl's table. I have left the English in its original form,
The pauntry to be brought in for the lorde ande the laidy as hereaftir followith with two yomen of the Chaumbre suche as the gentillmen vsshers shall appoint Furst the yoman of the pauntry to bring in for the lord the Salt the kerving kniffes bread ande trenchers and aftir him a groim with a towell vpon his shulder bering the vassall caike and an outher to be appointed as yoman to bring in for the laidy with an outhir to follow him as groim with A towell vppon hs shulder bering the wassaill caike inlikefourme as the outhir did with two gentillmen vsshers befoir theim and two Marshalles befoir theim and a yoman vsher befoir theim and aftir the said pauntlers haue set the Saltes vppon the bourde and breade and takyn of the groim the wassaill caik and set it down Than the gentillmen vsshers and Marshallis with the yomen vsher to maik their obeisaunce and departe The said yomen pauntelers to stand still vnto the say be deliuerd theim by the kervers when they be comyn and haith takyn the sayes and so the pauntelers to departe when that is doon.
From The Second Northumberland Household Book (Bod]. MS Eng. hist. b. 233.) 274-288
Wressle Castle in Yorkshire, where Henry Algernon Percy held his twelfth day revels in the early sixteenth century. The wassail cakes would have been baked in the castle bakehouse.
Twelfth night revels at this period, like those given by the Earl of Northumberland in his castle at Wressle, featured an entertainment known as a 'disguising', where the participants dressed up as characters. This tradition continued well into the first half of the nineteenth century, when twelfth-night partygoers would choose cards illustrated with the characters they were required to take on, rather than hunt for a bean, pea or forked stick in their portion of cake. In the later nineteenth century, the twelfth cake went out of fashion and similar novelty items started to find their way into the Christmas pudding.
A much romanticised Victorian depiction of a Twelfth-night revel
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French Fire Warning Shot Across The Bow of NZS All Blacks
by Paul Waite
If anyone imagined that the good ship NZS All Blacks was steaming for the tropical Island World Cup Trophy through calm waters, they got a storm warning yesterday.
The lads got the boat into some choppy water, and looked decidely seasick by the end of the night after a pretty dodgy win against France ‘B’.
To carry on with the nautical theme, the lineout was de-masted, the scrum was rammed amidships, and the skipper got to walk the plank.
Apart from a ‘golden spell’ of fifteen minutes in the first half when Rokocoko ran in three tries, it was all a case of floundering out of their depth pitted against a bunch of althletic but inexperienced second-string Frogs who had just lost two tests in Argentina.
Even allowing for the inevitable raising of the French game to meet the All Blacks on their home turf, you had to wonder at the basic problems on show: a lineout that couldn’t win its own ball, a scrum (reckoned as our best) which was shunted backwards on its own ball, a defence which couldn’t cope with players offloading and running at it with more than three changes in the point of attack, and finally an inability to control its own posession at the breakdown.
The problem, from the viewpoint of a land-lubber who eschews all the nerdy rugby techno-babble, looked to be that the French were playing a style the All Blacks couldn’t cope with. Once again we are reminded of the nemesis of Super 12 rugby, with all its stereotypical plays, it’s over-emphasis on continuity for the sake of “entertainment”, and the end result of schooling players in a kind of game which isn’t played anywhere else and which is exposed as a complete nonsense in tests like this one.
The problem is becoming worse as each season comes around as well, probably because hitherto we had players still involved in the game who had not spent their entire careers playing Super 12. These days it seems to take the All Blacks at least 2-3 tests to get Super 12 out of their systems, and if the competition expands then it will presumably take more in future. Excuse the application of logic at a time like this, but why not get rid of the main problem – Super 12 rugby played in it’s present form – and avoid all this? Let’s play “real rugby” instead perhaps.
Back to the test, and looking around the park at various players there were some performances to note. After being shown up in two tests by the effervescent Mealamu, in this one Oliver did nothing to offer any other judgement than he should be sitting on the bench for the next. The All Black scrum was going backwards before Mealamu got on, gainsaying those who promote him as our best scrummaging hooker. He may well be, but isn’t much different from Mealamu there, quite obviously. The throwing at lineout time was a different issue again – Oliver had problems from the start, tossing the ball short and gifting the French with posession when the All Blacks were hot on attack; unforgiveable.
The referee, Andre Watson, I have a lot of time for, but in this test he made two very strange calls. The first was to call the All Blacks back from a certain try for a forward pass which was so un-forward as to be blatantly obvious even to the camera which was positioned so as to emphasise the forwardness (if you see what I mean).
The second was to penalise Steve Devine in a preposterous incident. After feeding the New Zealand scrum Devine managed to get the ball away, but was sacked by the eager Galthie. In being castled Devine fell on his hands and knees, semi-raised himself against Galthie and fell again. “I saw that!” said the eagle-eyed Watson, blowing a penalty in the face of the surprised Devine. Saw what? Saw him falling over? What next, penalties for tackling someone with the intent to stop them?
To wrap up, this test marked the end of any pretence that the All Blacks have it all laid out before them to win the World Crown in November. To do so they must beat at least one Northern hemisphere team. France showed last night that with no less than nine first-choice test players out of the team their top lineup could run rings around New Zealand on their day, which is more than England took away with them.
Who knows we might see a New Zealand vs France semi-final again. In that event, given this latest performance, would we be confident of winning?
Well, at least this time we can’t say we haven’t been warned.
Paul Waite
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Posted in Test Rugby Tagged All Blacks, Argentina, England, France, RWC, Super, Test
England's World Cup Prospects
by Colin Johnston
Having “Systematically Dismantled” Both the All Blacks and Australia What Are England’s World Cup Prospects?
With the Rugby World Cup 2003 set to kick off on 10th October, a few of the fancied teams have slipped. The cup is in the bag. England, undisputed world champions and winners of the RWC elect. All other countries are invited to attend the investiture and crowning of the new Kings of World Rugby.
But what are these heinous rumours floating about? The All Blacks have been mixing and matching their team, more like a cut price department store’s Men’s Department than the made to measure Saville Row tailor we know them to be? Ozzie management send Elton Flatley home for not handing his homework in on time thereby ensuring that their team has no recognisable shape or direction?
Rubbish, excuses, just face it England are the best – they must be because I read it in a newspaper. Prove it? Easy, lets quote Mick Cleary of London’s Daily Telegraph “It was a splendid effort and shoved all those naive, arrogant words down the throats of assorted Kiwis and Aussies who doubted England’s ability to score tries.” So there you go, it must be true.
England’s efforts since October 2002 have been exceptional with victories over every major rugby nation. This has been achieved in some cases home and away. But lets look at what lies beneath the armour-plated juggernaut with the go faster stripes.
Starting at 1 through 15, and based around the teams that have just “systematically dismantled” (© Daily Telegraph again) both the All Blacks and Australia, they are a handy out fit.
Right up front in the trenches Woodman, Thompson and Vickery in the front row are mobile ball players, they can scrummage too. Not the World’s best but they can scrummage. Vickery’s weakness is his uncanny ability to pick up long term injuries at the most inopportune moments. Thompson’s throwing and discipline can be suspect and Woodman has also had injury worries. He also lacks experience at test level. Leonard and Rowntree are an excellent advert for Help the Aged.
Second row of Johnson and Kay are Worldclass dreadnoughts that literally punch their weight. Kay is very beatable in the line (as is Johnson) and Johnson has the shortest fuse of any international captain currently playing. Think back to this year’s 6N. He could have been carded, usually red, for serious foul play in almost every game. Ref, fully wired up, bottled it in one test even after the touch judge told him live on air “4 white, kicking and punching – he’s got to get red”. Shame, because he is some player and had his best match in the loose against Oz on Saturday. The young guys coming through can play. They have a wee discipline problem too and some have even been known to miss tours to NZ and Oz due to such things as a swinging boot. The fine example that Johnson has set over the years and lets face it stamping on the throat of a prone and pinned back (John Leslie) is a pretty good example, must have left its mark (literally?) on the lads.
Back row? Well Hill, Dallaglio and Back are all fine ball players. Neil Back loves nothing better than to show off how good his kicking is should the chance ever arise. Aimless kicking, especially to a counter acting Southern Hemisphere side fresh from the 3N, could be disastrous. Richie McCaw proved to be 5 yards too fast for Back and Woodward may well have to call time on him before the knock out phase of the RWC. Dallaglio and Hill are also getting on and it is going to be warm in Oz in November – the question has to be asked, can they perform consistently in that heat, flat out for 80 minutes? Personally, I doubt it. The reserve back rowers aren’t in their class. Hill off and apparently some one called Joe came on against Oz.
Collectively, England’s packs biggest weakness is their love and unswerving commitment to coming in from the side, obstructing opposition’s quick ball, going to ground, handling on the deck, not releasing ball/tackler, foul play and so it goes on ad infinitum. All these tactics will be used to the point of frustration (see Ali William’s stamping on Lewsey) and with great effect during the RWC. Make no doubt about it, England will use these negative tactics if they are not ref’d accordingly. A strong ref can sort them out. We saw Back and Dallaglio taking deserved walks against the All Blacks for exactly these crimes. I still don’t understand why more didn’t follow. Yellow cards could be a tactic for the back row of course, lets these older guys get a breather for 10 minutes!
Onto the backs. Good scrum half and excellent outside half. Matt Dawson will start instead of Bracken. Wilco loves to tackle and mix it with the forwards. He is a hard little bastard and unfortunately for the rest of us, he is also the best goal kicker in the world at present. Dawson, like some of his forwards, has a bad habit of getting injured. Wilco doesn’t. If I were Woodward, I would have them both in an underground bunker for the next 3 months, including the tests against Wales and France later this summer (remember Wilco got subbed off against France in 2002 6N? The Froggie back row got at him and beat him up). Dawson and Wilkinson are too important to Woodward’s team. No Wilco, no nailed on 15 point start per match. No coronation.
Centres are settled in Tindall and Greenwood – that is about the most exciting thing you can say about them. The upside is they leave holes in defence and the loose forwards will have to cover this. Yet more work that these guys can do without in the Ozzie conditions. That’s assuming they haven’t gone for their 10 minutes breather!
Back 3? Robinson did nothing against the All Blacks and I can’t remember if he played against Oz. Every time he ran from deep, he ran away from the support. A blind man on a galloping horse can then see what he is going to do. Er? Run! Robbo was then double teamed in the tackle and he got gubbed every time. Result turnover ball or a penalty depending on how the ref plays. He is not that quick either. Neither is Cohen. Neither are a patch on Roff or Howlett, for example. Cohen does do a very impressive celebration when he scores and Woodward will have him in for that. You have to admit, Cohen has the sort of smug face that you wouldn’t get tired slapping. Luger, should he play, will keep the medicine men in business for most of the tournament, so make sure you buy shares in Boots the Chemist. Then we have Lewsey the full back. Remember him? Lucy is the bloke that moans about getting a shoeing for hanging on the ball on the deck and on the wrong side of the ruck. What does he expect? Against Oz, still Lucy still had the hump from the week before, Josh obstructed and then violently ruffled Matt Rogers’ hair off the ball. That was before he tried to hospitalise Rogers with a shoulder charge to the guts. Oh, and he can be suspect under the high ball. Confidence is a fragile thing and we have seen Lucy lose that in a couple of games during the 6N – brilliant one minute, scrabbling for the ball on the deck the next. So what of him? Well, whinging Pom that needs be exposed.
In reality though, we know that none of the above is true – the England team is unbeatable. It is as hard and flawless as the perfect diamond, so the English TV pundits would have it. The rest of the rugby world is clutching at straws. England the anointed one, the rest of us should aim for second and be grateful that we are allowed to attend the coronation.
Aye, right!
Colin Johnston
Posted in Test Rugby Tagged All Blacks, England, France, RWC, Test, Tour, Wales, Wallabies
England Being Set Up For The Fall?
It’s a set-up.
A victory against Australia in the on-off test being played this coming weekend will see England established as undisputed favourites for the Rugby World Cup starting November this year.
Looking at the way thngs have been unfolding recently, it doesn’t require a huge stretch of the imagination to believe that some degree of orchestration has been at work to allow this.
First of all the scheduling of the All Blacks v England test as the very first of the season is fairly suspicious. Anyone who has followed All Black rugby knows that the first test of the season has a history of rusty performances behind it. Only in latter years have the fixtures been changed to provide some soft opposition such as Fiji or Italy as warm-up tests for the Tri-Nations. Previously, first tests against the likes of Ireland have always had us pulling our hair out as the All Blacks dropped the ball, literally, and generally played like amateurs. This season, playing England first resulted in a test no different in this facet to the others – a rusty mistake-ridden effort with a predictable loss.
But looking at the bigger picture, the loss itself is actually arguably a benefit to New Zealand. England go off full of themselves, and likely to be brimming with confidence at RWC time. The All Blacks are left with a greivance, and the knowledge they can play 200% better than they showed.
Over the ditch let’s look at the Australians. Nobody wants to carry the burden of “World Cup Favourite”. It’s a title to be shunned, but was justifiably accorded Australia for obvious reasons. However in their build-up this season the Wallabies have had a lot of injuries to key players. The team has a very makeshift look to it, and struggled against Wales last week.
This week we see that Eddie Jones has taken an opportunity to sack his only genuine No.10, Elton Flately, for disciplinary reasons, and bring Nathan Grey into the position instead of drafting in another player. Now Grey is a well-known centre, but has about as much subtlety as a bulldozer. Eddie Jones looks very much to be setting his team up for an excusable loss.
If Australia do lose this weekend, it will do them the big favour of lifting the favourites mantle from their shoulders, and placing it reverantly upon England’s. At the same time, the Wallaby team to contest the World Cup will not be anything like the one which was fielded for this test, and therefore won’t carry any baggage from a loss. Win-win.
Nobody is saying this was all worked out to a tee months ago. Conspiracy theory is all very well, but in reality its just nonsense. However there is nothing to say that certain options were taken with a view to this possibly happening, and that, in Eddie Jones’ case, he has just taken advantage of opportunities which have come his way.
Is he that wily and cunning? Definitely.
So good luck England. We hope you win against Australia, and carry that heavy old piece of baggage labelled “World Cup Favourites” around from now ’til November, when it won’t matter a damn.
Posted in General Rugby Tagged 4N, All Blacks, England, Pacific, RWC, Test, Wales, Wallabies
Best Of Three?
There are many things to commend the professional rugby era for, and an equal number which deserve to be kicked into touch. The fly-by-night one-off test match is one of them.
Used to be that a visiting team couldn’t simply jet into town, scrape a 2-point, Nil-tries-to-1 win over the hosts, and then escape with the spoils of “supremacy” laughing. No. Instead they’d have to back the first win up by turning out and doing it again in two weeks, and then again after that. Only by winning the series could they claim to be superior. Somehow, I don’t think that would have happened.
So, forgive me if I look at the result yesterday and seem pretty much unconcerned. We saw an English team, hardened to the point that depleted uramium ordinance would bounce right off it, coming at full noise off a grand-slamming 6N season to take on a newbie All Black side put together the week before and fronting in their first test of the season. So, the two points doesn’t really worry me, and it shouldn’t really worry the knowledgable English fan either. Looking at the game, the English were at full stretch, whereas the All Blacks have about 50% improvement in them.
So much for the perspective, what about the test.
Well it was a great occasion, and it was one to savour even for the All Black fan. Those lads in white put everything they could into this win, and deserved the result in the end of that there’s no doubt.
The turning point came when referee Dickinson (more of him later) saw fit to dispatch two English forwards to the sin-bin. Down to 13 men, Johnson rallied his troops and played wily time-wasting rugby brilliantly. For his part All Black Captain Rueben Thorne didn’t distinguish himself with leadership in this phase of proceedings and seemed to be happy to let the clock while away. At the end of this time, with two players still absent, the English handed the All Blacks a bit of a rugby lesson. They kept the ball in hand superbly and looked dangerous, getting inside the 22m for Wilkinson to put a droppie over the bar and extend their lead. When the All Blacks had the ball they saw to it that the defence formed a wall of white. It couldn’t be kept up for more than 15 minutes, but it was enough.
The All Blacks themselves looked predictably disjointed, in first-test mode. There were misunderstandings, slow delivery, lack of support and turnovers, but overall they fared much better than they have at times in the past. The tight five more than held their own against one of the best packs in the World, particularly at lienout time, and this is a good base to build from for November.
The main problem, from the All Blacks point of view was the lack of penetration and finishing power. They had the posession, but couldn’t turn it into points. The Umaga/Nonu experiment, brought on the team through injury, was a distinct flop. The twin dreadlocked hard-running centres might do well at Super-12 level, but at test level they are too alike and too predictable. Umaga is a test centre, not a second five-eighth, and should be put alongside either Carter or Mauger.
Aside from that there was inexperience from the talented lock Ali Williams, which saw him turn over posession a couple of times, but he showed he’s a player with a future in the Black Jersey. At No.8 Rodney So’oialo had problems clearing the ball with Bracken snapping at his heels – something he will have to rectify before he gets picked again, and he also had a tendency to get isolated, something which is part and parcel of his game.
Overall the tight-five did well, and even bested their experienced opponents. Scrums were more or less even, despite the moronically repetetive “..2, 3, 4, 5″ chant each time from the Englishmen. Lineouts were more or less the same, and in mauling the All Blacks took the honours. However rucks were a problem area, with the English spoiling tactic resulting (deservedly) in the two sin-binnings mentioned above. When they were on their own ball the English cleared more easily than their opponents.
A blight on this test was the performance of Australian referee Stuart Dickinson, who has the dubious honour of having awarded the most yellow cards in Super 12 this season. In what looked like an ill-disguised attempt to wrest the mantle from South African whistle-blower Tappe Hennings shoulders for “The Most Refereeing In A Game”, Dickinson blew the players into a frenzy during the first half. Penalties for “leaving the lineout 12 milli-seconds before the ball is thrown to the halfback”, and “daring to contest the ball in the air” were but some of the random stoppages he dealt out. Both teams suffered from this pedantic nonsense, and both were equally confused. The classic moment came when Dickinson called the skipper together and told them “there are too many penalties…”.
However it would be wrong to assume that all his rulings were without foundation. The English pack are adept at trying to spoil the opposition ball, and were trying to kill it at each and every ruck. I have a wish to see the sin-bin eradicated from test rugby forever. I think that no test should ever be decided except by 15 against 15, and the rest should be handled by penalties. However, in this test match we had the option, and Dickinson properly used it for repeated hands in the ruck. The bonus was that, due to exceptional leadership from Johnson and the response from his men, the issue didn’t really affect the outcome. In fact you could argue it fired up England to bring them the victory, since the crux of the game was the drop-goal from Wilco during this phase.
So England go away with the scalp they so badly needed. The All Blacks, for their part, will not be downcast, and can look back on a great effort for their first test of the season.
Posted in Test Rugby Tagged All Blacks, England, Springboks, Super, Test, Wallabies
Season Review 2003
by Rob Wallace
The S12 final was a great game between the 2 best teams in the competition and the Blues managed to take their chances and win 21-17.
There wasn’t much between the teams in this game and both teams played well – hardly anyone had a poor game and there was top defensive work from both sides. As Thorne and Deans commented afterward, the Crusaders had their opportunities and didn’t take them.
The crowd would have helped the Blues a lot – the last 3 weeks of the competition saw very atypical crowds for Auckland – normally quiet, polite and filled up with noisy opposition supporters – but the recent crowds have been staunchly pro-Auckland, very vocal, and there was an atmosphere at the final that I haven’t seen since the early days we had the Shield in the late 80′s. A real buzz of excitement, and sort of hum around the ground.
The Crusaders pack owned the first half, and their tacking was awesome as they smashed the Blues backwards with 2 on the tackle and stopped any momentum dead. The Blues only survived due to Spencer’s kicking game – he reels off yards more distance than most other players and that and sound defence left things pretty even.
But the first 20-25 min of the second half was quite different and the Blues pack began to get ascendancy at the ruck and maul and managed a bit of go-forward ball. But the backline never really cut loose – the Crusaders’ defence was too good, especially in midfield where the Blues got very little penetration.
The Crusaders came back strongly in the last 10 minutes but it was too late and some tenacious defence from the Blues meant they held on to take the title.
It’s been a very interesting season for the Blues. They played the most exciting rugby of the competition and scored the most tries and most points, and showed that you can both entertain and win. But they also had the best defensive record and it has been the defence that has won them both the NPC and S12 titles. They also brought through a large group of talented young players and I hope they continue to introduce new talent.
Player of the year was obviously Carlos Spencer who is in the best form of his life, and controlled all facets of the game and showed some sublime touches. But he had a great group of players around him also, and a backline that suited his style and wanted to work with him
My forward of the year was Gus Collins who worked tirelessly near the ball and provided the glue for the forward pack. The other player who had made a huge difference is Meeuws, who since his return has provided the forward solidity that has been missing from Blues teams for a few years. Other players who had outstanding seasons were Williams, Mealamu, Muliaina, and of course Howlett. Braid, Manu and Woodcock found the going a bit tougher at S12 level than NPC but all played well, while Angus MacDonald looked quite at home there and will have a big future at blindside.
It was a mixed picture for the other NZ teams. The Crusaders pack slowly wound into top gear and look the best in the country, but injuries and lack of real wheels meant the backs never really capitalised on that.
Colin Cooper managed to turn a novice/journeyman tight 5 into a pretty decent unit, but they were not good enough to hold on to the top teams up front and lost out despite their stellar loosies and midfield.
The Highlanders looked to be well positioned and were playing a Mains-style conservative game that was well suited to their strengths, but internal ructions led to changes in personnel and style as they messily imploded over the last few games.
The Chiefs never had the players to compete at the very top, and Greene was unable to perform the sort of miracles that Cooper did with the ‘Canes, and the Chiefs suffered for this. They were competitive, scored some nice tries and were seldom hammered but never quite had the skill or toughness to close out games.
Rob Wallace
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11 January, 2019 11:51 AM ISRO Says Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission Launch Planned for Mid-April
The launch of India's second Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, is planned for the middle of April this year, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K Sivan announced Friday. ISRO had earlier said Chandrayaan-2 will be launched in a window between January-February 16 this year. The mission, costing nearly Rs. 800 crores, is an advanced version 179
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India's maiden manned space mission ''Gaganyaan'' is set for December 2021 launch and is likely to include a woman astronaut, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K Sivan said Friday. Gearing up for the mission, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the ISRO has set up a new centre to facilitate the manned voyage involving a three-member 195
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Human Spaceflight capability will enable India to participate as a collaborating partner in future Global space exploration initiatives with long-term national benefits. In a huge boost for India's space programme, the Cabinet on Friday gave a green flag to the Gaganyaan programme through which a three-member crew can be in space for minimum 7 days. The indigenous 171
19 December, 2018 5:04 AM Countdown begins for launch of communication satellite GSAT-7A
GSLV-F11 carrying 2,250kg GSAT-7A is scheduled to lift-off at 4.10pm today from Sriharikota. Chennai: The 26-hour countdown commenced Tuesday for the launch of India's geostationary communication satellite GSAT-7A onboard Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle GSLV-F11 from Sriharikota, ISRO said. GSLV-F11 carrying 2,250kg GSAT-7A is scheduled to lift-off at 4.10pm today 106
18 December, 2018 5:01 PM ISRO begins countdown for launch of communication satellite GSAT-7A
Chennai: The 26-hour countdown commenced on Tuesday for the launch of India's geostationary communication satellite GSAT-7A onboard Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle GSLV-F11 from Sriharikota, ISRO said. GSLV-F11 carrying 2,250kg GSAT-7A is scheduled to lift-off at 4.10pm Wednesday from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota, situated about 130
18 December, 2018 1:08 PM India's IDRSS to be satellite communication hub in sky
The Indian Data Relay Satellite System and ISRO's GSLV MK III will concurrently improve earth observation and communication links. Chennai: As part of its proposed manned space mission, India will launch the Indian Data Relay Satellite System (IDRSS) to improve data relay and communication links with its remote sensing/earth observation satellites, said a top official 124
12 December, 2018 6:17 PM India To Soon Launch 2,250 Kg Satellite For Indian Air Force
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29 November, 2018 5:23 AM ISRO launches Indian earth-mapping and 30 other satellites from 8 countries into earth's orbit
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Goodbye Ms. Neumeyer
By Chronicle Staff on May 27, 2015 Opinion
Dear Ms. Neumeyer, This year’s senior staffers are only the latest in a long line that have benefited from your tutelage. We are also the last. Twenty-four years, 192 issues and countless students later, you will retire from the school and the Chronicle. When we first walked into Weiler Hall three years ago, we had […]
A necessary conversation
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A yearlong campus dialogue on gender issues culminated with a presentation by anti-sexist activist Jackson Katz last week. Katz urged male students to recognize sexism and gender violence as a universal problem, rather than simply view them as women’s issues. And while his words drew approval from many, some students’ reactions have caused us to […]
Looking beyond the bubble
By Chronicle Staff on March 18, 2015 Opinion
The first line of the school Mission Statement reads: “Harvard-Westlake strives to be a diverse and inclusive community.” Lately, we have found ourselves thinking a lot about what that means. Issues of injustice and prejudice dominate national headlines, and college campuses in particular have come under scrutiny for matters ranging from racism to religous intolerance. […]
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When students left school Dec. 19 to enjoy their long-awaited winter break, they left with their midyear assessments already finished. Students no longer had to spend their winter break thinking about midterms just enough to be worried while attempting to enjoy time away from textbooks and study guides. The administration’s main goal in this overhaul […]
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But every assembly speaker deserves the respect we afforded Thursday’s speaker, if not more. Incredibly, there was still some talking during the story of how one man saved 1,268 people from genocide. But there was far less talking, texting, studying and sleeping in this recent assembly than there was the week before, when the president […]
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Rough trail
Last weekend for our bike ride, we decided to go to Waterton Canyon. It is a 12 mile ride- 6 miles up to the dam all at a slight incline, and then 6 miles back, whoopeee! The slight decline makes it fun!
But NO. As always, though Rich says he wants me to pick where we go, it gets amended at the last minute. We went to the parking lot alright, but instead of taking the usual road through the canyon, Rich decided that he wanted us to try the trail on the other side instead.
I have one thing to say about that: mountain bikes. We have these hybrid bikes which are a cross between road bikes and mountain bikes, very light to carry when you need to and pretty sturdy. But the tires are not nearly big enough for that trail we went on, and some suspension would have been EXTREMELY nice.
We did it, but it was a workout alright! The trail was so skinny that sometimes our pedals were hitting rocks on the side of the dip (which was the actual trail) and it was so bumpy, full of rocks and tree roots and the like. Gave me a bit of a headache by the end.
BUT I will say that it was a beautiful, scenic trail and I wouldn't mind one bit doing more of those, once we have the right equipment.
We really wanted to try snowshoeing this year, but we have had no snow to speak of. We really have been able to ride our bikes most of this winter, and we do enjoy it a lot. Maybe next year for the snowshoeing...
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Psoriasis Meds Might Help Fight Heart Trouble, Too
TUESDAY, Feb. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Could the inflammation that drives psoriasis and other immune-linked illnesses be a major player in heart disease?
In a new study, certain psoriasis drugs appeared to help to keep arteries clear, suggesting such a link.
"Classically a heart attack is caused by one of five risk factors: diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, family history or smoking," explained study lead researcher Dr. Nehal Mehta.
"Our study presents evidence that there is a sixth factor, inflammation," she said.
Mehta heads the Laboratory of Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Diseases at the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in Bethesda, Md.
Another cardiologist agreed the study could open doors to new research.
"The future of cardiovascular prevention may require a cholesterol reduction medication and an anti-inflammatory medication," said Dr. Guy Mintz, who directs heart health at Northwell Health's Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.
"These are exciting times in the area of cardiovascular prevention," said Mintz, who wasn't involved with the study.
The new study involved 121 patients who had moderate to severe psoriasis and qualified for anti-inflammatory medicines called biologic therapies. These injected medicines are also used by people with immune-linked conditions such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, and include drugs such as Cimzia, Enbrel, Humira, Orencia and Remicade, among others.
All of these medicines work by helping to suppress pro-inflammatory immune system activity.
All participants enrolled in the new study were at low risk of heart disease at the beginning of the research.
Over a year of follow-up, the use of biologic therapy was associated with an 8 percent reduction in coronary artery plaque, the researchers said.
Specifically, use of biologic drugs appeared linked with a slowed buildup of fatty plaques in arteries. These are the plaques that can restrict blood flow and cause heart attacks and stroke.
The findings suggest that immunotherapies that treat inflammatory conditions might also help cut heart disease risk, Mehta and his colleagues reported.
The study authors pointed to prior research that tied psoriasis to the early development of high-risk "soft" arterial plaques. Biologic therapy might cut plaque formation, even in patients without other heart disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure, they said.
"This appears to be an anti-inflammatory effect," Mehta explained in an NHLBI news release. "In the absence of improvement in other cardiovascular risk factors, and without adding new cholesterol medications, patients' soft plaque still improved."
However, a cause-and-effect relationship isn't clear from this type of study, so "the next steps should be randomized, controlled trials," Mehta said.
Dr. Michele Green is a dermatologist who treats psoriasis patients at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She wasn't involved in the new study, but said that "treatments with biologics indeed shows great promise in treating cardiovascular disease."
As for Mintz, he called the new research "exciting and important, because it highlights the importance of inflammation associated with psoriasis causing blockages in the arteries of the heart to progress.
"The best statin in the world can only lower cardiovascular events by approximately 40 percent," Mintz pointed out. "So the question arises, what causes the other 60 percent of cardiovascular events?"
The new research "supports the hypothesis that inflammation contributes to cardiovascular disease," he said. "Physicians need to become aware that inflammation should be considered in patient cardiovascular risk assessment."
The study appears online Feb. 5 in the journal Cardiovascular Research.
The National Psoriasis Foundation offers more on biologic drugs.
SOURCES: Michele S. Green, M.D., dermatologist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Guy L. Mintz, M.D., director, cardiovascular health and lipidology, Northwell Health's Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital, Manhasset, N.Y.; U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, news release, Feb. 5, 2019
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'''Eduardo Segura Fernández''' is a Spanish author and translator, currently professor of English language and literature in the University of Granada.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://directorio.ugr.es/static/PersonalUGR/*/show/03018a8a82ee297d28426fc2dd1bf614|articlename=Profile|dated=|website=[http://directorio.ugr.es University of Granada Directory]|accessed=15 May 2019}}</ref>
'''Eduardo Segura Fernández''' (born [[1967]]) is a Spanish author and translator, currently professor of English language and literature in the University of Granada.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://directorio.ugr.es/static/PersonalUGR/*/show/03018a8a82ee297d28426fc2dd1bf614|articlename=Profile|dated=|website=[http://directorio.ugr.es University of Granada Directory]|accessed=15 May 2019}}</ref> He made his Doctoral tesis on ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and years later he was called by [[New Line Cinema]] to work as consultant for the writing of the [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|movies]].<ref>Segura, Eduardo, ''El Señor de los Anillos: del libro a la pantalla'', "Del libro al guión"</ref>
He also donated the [[Letter to David L. Sands]] to the [[Marquette University]].<ref name=Marq>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/Mss/JRRT/JRRT-series7.shtml|articlename=J.R.R. Tolkien Collection: Other Tolkien Writings, 1911-1976|dated=|website=[http://www.marquette.edu/ Marquette.edu]|accessed=15 May 2019}}</ref>
==Books==
==Bibliography==
===Books===
*[[2002]]: ''J.R.R. Tolkien, el mago de las palabras''
*[[2004]]: ''El Viaje del Anillo''
*[[2007]]: ''[[Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings]]'' (co-editor with [[Thomas M. Honegger]])
*[[2007]]: [[Cormarë]] 14: ''[[Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings]]'' (co-editor with [[Thomas M. Honegger]])
*[[2008]]: ''Las Crónicas de Narnia, de C.S. Lewis''
*[[2009]]: ''J.R.R. Tolkien. Mitopoeia y Mitología''
*[[2012]]: ''El Señor de los Anillos: del libro a la pantalla'' (co-editor with Alejandro Pardo)
==Articles==
**"Del libro al guión"
*[[2005]]: ''[[Reconsidering Tolkien]]''
===Articles===
*[[2005]]: Cormarë 8: ''[[Reconsidering Tolkien]]''
**"Tolkien as Philo-Logist" (collaboration with Guillermo Peris)
*[[2006]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]''
**"Spanish Language"
**"Unfinished Tales"
*[[2007]]: ''Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings''
*[[2007]]: Cormarë 14: ''Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings''
**"Leaf by Niggle and the Aesthetics of Gift: Towards a Definition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Notion of Art"
==Translations==
===Translations===
*[[1998]]: [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], ''[[The Monsters and the Critics|Los monstruos y los críticos y otros ensayos]]'', edited by [[Christopher Tolkien]], publisher: Ediciones Minotauro
*[[1999]]: [[T.A. Shippey]], ''[[The Road to Middle-earth|El camino a la Tierra Media]]'', publisher: Ediciones Minotauro
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Eduardo Segura Fernández (born 1967) is a Spanish author and translator, currently professor of English language and literature in the University of Granada.[1] He made his Doctoral tesis on The Lord of the Rings and years later he was called by New Line Cinema to work as consultant for the writing of the movies.[2]
He also donated the Letter to David L. Sands to the Marquette University.[3]
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Books
2002: J.R.R. Tolkien, el mago de las palabras
2004: El Viaje del Anillo
2007: Cormarë 14: Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings (co-editor with Thomas M. Honegger)
2008: Las Crónicas de Narnia, de C.S. Lewis
2009: J.R.R. Tolkien. Mitopoeia y Mitología
2012: El Señor de los Anillos: del libro a la pantalla (co-editor with Alejandro Pardo)
"Del libro al guión"
[edit] Articles
2005: Cormarë 8: Reconsidering Tolkien
"Tolkien as Philo-Logist" (collaboration with Guillermo Peris)
2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
"Spain: reception of Tolkien"
"Spanish Language"
"Unfinished Tales"
2007: Cormarë 14: Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings
"Leaf by Niggle and the Aesthetics of Gift: Towards a Definition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Notion of Art"
[edit] Translations
1998: J.R.R. Tolkien, Los monstruos y los críticos y otros ensayos, edited by Christopher Tolkien, publisher: Ediciones Minotauro
1999: T.A. Shippey, El camino a la Tierra Media, publisher: Ediciones Minotauro
2003: Tolkien o la fuerza del mito, (compilation of articles from the Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference), co-edited with Guillermo Peris
2013: J.R.R. Tolkien, La caída de Arturo, edited by Christopher Tolkien, publisher: Ediciones Minotauro
2014: John Garth, Tolkien y la Gran Guerra, translation along with Martin Simonson and Daniel Royo, publisher: Ediciones Minotauro
2015: J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: traducción y comentario, edited by Christopher Tolkien, publisher: Ediciones Minotauro.
[edit] External links
Inklinga, his personal web
↑ "Profile", University of Granada Directory (accessed 15 May 2019)
↑ Segura, Eduardo, El Señor de los Anillos: del libro a la pantalla, "Del libro al guión"
↑ "J.R.R. Tolkien Collection: Other Tolkien Writings, 1911-1976", Marquette.edu (accessed 15 May 2019)
Retrieved from "http://irc.tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Eduardo_Segura"
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Validity Holdings
How the Robber Barons Forged the Great American Art Collector – Part 1: The Rise of the Curator
by Irvin Goldman | Apr 13, 2015
When we think about the early giants of American industrial capital: Frick, Astor, Carnegie, Morgan, Crocker, Vanderbilt and Gould; we generally think of larger-than-life entrepreneurs who flooded the markets with commodities and services – and art.
One of the products of exorbitant wealth in the industrial age was philanthropy. Men like John Pierpont Morgan (JP Morgan) and Henry Clay Frick chose to nourish, develop and enhance humanity through the collecting of fine art. Though the motivating force may have been ownership, acquisition for those purposes fortuitously created invaluable collections of exotic artifacts and European artwork.
Egyptology was catching fire and Eastern essentialism had begun in earnest with Chinese pottery, Mesopotamian art and curious becoming the tell tale signs of wealth. From New York to Detroit, the competitive enterprising spirit of the robber barons translated to art curation as each of would try to outdo the other. The American barons were positioning themselves in history to be erudite men of culture.
For us the endowment of these personal collections of art are a wonderful gift. Often housed in an original, historical mansions, they show us the unique and oftentimes eccentric curatorial choices made by the men who boldly charted the trajectory of America’s economic future. They represent the innate desire of a collector to rescue unique objects from the uncertainty of circulation, to give them a resting place, to own them and to cement them into the history of a nation.
Next week, Part II: The Collection of JP Morgan.
A finance executive with more than three decades of experience in investment banking, Irvin Goldman currently manages investments as president of Validity Holdings in New Jersey. Learn more about Irvin.
Watch Documentary — The Movement of Modern Art Through History
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Simone Leigh, Sculptor with a Focus on ‘Black Female Subjectivity,’ Heads to Hauser & Wirth
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The Time Factor
Profuse apologies for a lack of review for last week's Doctor Who episode ... basically the weekend was taken up with collecting son from Uni, and then tidying the house. Evenings this week are mental, and next weekend is also completely occupied with stuff. So the chances are that The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords won't be reviewed for a couple of weeks yet ... Sorry about that but sometimes the real world intrudes ...
Doctor Who - Utopia
I feel so torn by Utopia. On the one hand, I really enjoyed it. It's exciting and gripping and rattles along at a great pace. It hit all the fannish buttons in me: the Master returning, but also the tremendous pace and the ending. But it also has little or no plot, and, in common with many of the episodes written by Russell T Davies, seems to exist solely to acheieve an objective: in this case to introduce the Master to a new audience. But I'm not sure it even does that very well.
The opening had a very much 'been there done that' feel. Cardiff again, and the TARDIS needs to re-fuel. Again. And Captain Jack. Again. I'm not sure how he knew where the TARDIS would be though. Perhaps he has bionic hearing like Jackie and Mickey have at the start of The Christmas Invasion. He races for the ship, and in a moment which must have had evil bus drivers the world over clapping with joy, although the Doctor sees him on the monitor, he takes off anyway. Leaving poor Jack clinging to the side of the TARDIS as it headed through the Vortex. Hmmm. Not sure about that. Visually great, but not really explained and not in keeping with what we've heard about the Vortex before.
Anyway ... Jack's presence sends the TARDIS hurtling into the distant distant future. Again. But this time they arrive on the planet Malcassero - a deserted and decidedly quarry-like place. I half expected to see a bunch of extras from Blake's 7 there. Malnourished and tribal, dressed in the remnants of their costumes and managing to somehow survive ... hang on ... there they are! And they're chasing a human.
Said human is naturally rescued by the Doctor, Jack and Martha and they all race to somewhere called the Silo. There they gain entry and the ragged outsiders, with their pointy teeth clashing, are locked out. But what is young laddo doing running about out there anyway? Everyone else is in the Silo, patiently waiting to board the rocket to take them to Utopia, the promised land. It seems that the pointy toothed ones eat humans ... well they must be pretty starving then as there's not much evidence of them out there!
In the Silo is Professor Yana and his assistant, the insect Malmouth, called Chantho. The Professor is trying to get the rocket working but is failing to do so. So the Doctor helps and before you can say 'reverse the polarity' he has buzzed with his sonic screwdriver and it's all fixed. But first, five lever things have to be set in a room full of deadly radiation. I get it. This place was designed by the same committee who did Platform 5 and that spacecraft from 42. It's the only explanation as to why the radiation can't be turned off, or even why the switches are in a lethal zone anyway.
Handy Jack gets it sorted though - there are advantages to being immortal - but meanwhile Martha discovers that the Professor has a fob watch the same as the one the Doctor stored his Time Lord self in a couple of episodes earlier. This was a lovely touch. Very unexpected. Of course it points towards the Professor being a Time Lord ... perhaps even the Doctor!
But it's obvious something is up. The voice the Professor hears is evil and old ... and I cheered out loud when I heard a clip from The Daemons in there of Roger Delgado's distinctive voice ... we know what's coming.
The Professor opens the watch and becomes his Time Lord persona ... that of the Master! I liked the idea of the Professor's name relating to the Face of Boe's message 'You Are Not Alone'. Y. A. N. A. Very clever.
Now, all avid fans know who the Master is. We know the history and everything. But new viewers don't. He's just a bad guy. Another Time Lord admittedly, but that's about all we know. Put it like this, if it wasn't the Master, and was someone called Askwith, would it have made any difference. Nope. Hopefully we will get more of a sense of the Master and why he is special in the next couple of weeks. I just hope it doesn't involve him unexpectedly growing a goatee beard and chuckling a lot. Oh, and wearing black leather gloves.
While all this has been going on, the Doctor and Jack have allowed the rocket to take off, and race back to the Professor's lab. The Master has opened all the external gates allowing the great unwashed to enter, and so the final moments of the episode are a chaos of running, snarling, exciting music (some of which seemed to be pinched from the soundtrack to one of my favourite horror films, Phantasm) and shouting.
The Master electrocutes Chantho (Chan. Well, her stupid language was starting to get on my wick as well. Tho.) and she in turn shoots him. The Doctor recognises his old adversary, but the Master gets into the TARDIS and locks the door against the Doctor. He then regenerates into the form of John Simm. Very nicely done, but I wish it hadn't looked the same as the Doctor's regeneration ... I guess the production team was providing a reference point for the viewers though.
Simm seems far more like Tennant's Doctor, and is manic, energetic and rushing. He promptly leaves in the TARDIS after a last gloat at the Doctor over the speakers (and Martha recognises his voice) and we leave the episode with the Doctor TARDIS-less, and Jack and Martha trying to keep the tribe of Blake's 7 extras from getting through the door.
Breathless stuff.
On the utterly awesome front was Derek Jacobi. What a brilliant performance. Full of pathos and love as the Professor, and then cold and hard when the Master took over. I did sense the scenery being chewed a little in these scenes, but that's forgivable I feel. John Simm? Not enough to really tell. The only question of course being whether he is in a coma, dreaming, or really in the far future (sorry ... you have to have watched Life on Mars to get that).
On the 'a bit rubbish' side, the plot - there wasn't one. The whole Utopia thing and the savages - or futurekind - outside and the running about and snarling. Maybe Utopia is significant later on in the season - the Master did take the disk from the machine which was showing its location. Captain Jack was a bit of a wet fish, though I did like the Doctor's 'stop it!' every time Jack said hello to anyone (though quite how a blue insect girl would be attracted to a human is hard to fathom).
Overall then, a true example of style over substance. From the sublime and superbly plotted and acted adventure of Human Nature, The Family of Blood and Blink, we regress to a plotless runaround which is just crammed with great bits. Rather like an unthemed buffet meal consisting of everything you enjoy, but with no structure or menu to make palatable sense of it. I really enjoyed it, but feel that in time it won't stand up to repeated viewing.
Next week looks like some sort of party political broadcast as Mr Saxon takes centre stage ... Listen for those drums though.
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Doctor Who - Blink
Blooming blinking brilliant! That was the verdict on this latest episode of Who. An absolutely cracking story, simple and yet really effective in all the right ways. Steven Moffat pulled out all the stops to present something scary and creepy, and the direction and acting combined to make it totally rivetting from beginning to end.
The opening is awesome. Sally Sparrow is exploring an old house called Wester Drumlins and sees a message written on the wall, behind the wallpaper, telling her to beware the weeping angel, and to duck! A rock thrown through the window narrowly misses her ... and she sees that the message is from the Doctor.
Aside from idly wondering who threw the rock! When the Angels are not creeping up on people at the speed of light, do they bung stones at people for a laugh? It's only in retrospect that this makes little sense. As does the idea of the Doctor knowing where to write his message, knowing that it will be seen by Sally at that moment ... it's all a little contrived. But it doesn't really matter as the episode is just so good.
Sally is intrigued and so gets her flatmate Kathy Nightingale to come with her back to the house. The Angels approach and Kathy abruptly finds herself transported from London 2007, to Hull 1920! What a brilliant concept: aliens who kill you simply by sending you back in time to die naturally! It's all so well handled too. Kathy's grandson delivering the letter from Kathy to Sally at the same time as Kathy vanishes. Sally goes looking for Kathy but just finds one of the stone statue Angels with a yale key in its hand, which she takes.
I loved with a passion the way the statue changed position behind her. The editing and direction of this episode is awesome, with tension ratchetting all the time, and the Angels a very sinister and creepy presence.
Sally now goes to see Kathy's brother, Larry, who works in a DVD store, and we find that the Doctor is an 'Easter Egg' extra on 17 different and apparently unrelated DVDs. He is apparently holding one side of a conversation, but the other side is unknown so it all seems a little meaningless. More clever ideas from Moffat here, and the idea of the Doctor being a hidden DVD extra is again fun and fitting.
Sally goes to the Police, and meets Billy, a young black copper who takes a shine to her and asks for her number. However the Police have a car park full of cars abandoned outside the old house ... and the TARDIS is there also. When Sally has gone, however, the Angels approach the box, and Billy is transported back to 1969 where he meets the Doctor and Martha. They get him to take a message to Sally in 2007 ... which he delivers to her on his death bed.
Sally asks Larry to bring the Doctor's message on the DVD to the old house where they play it, and Sally is able to have a conversation with the Doctor, which Larry records in a pad ... this is how the Doctor knows what to say, and what Sally is asking him ... my mind reels with all this, but it's just so neat and clever!
But then ... the Angels attack. The Doctor explains that they are quantum locked, which means that they can only move when unobserved. So you must not take your eyes off them or even blink as then they can get you. He tells Sally that she has to get the blue police box back to them, and she eventually finds it in the cellar, surrounded by the Angels. She and Larry hurry to use the key she has to get in, but the Angels make the light fail, and in the flashes of darkness, they close in.
Finalls, Sally and Larry get inside and are safe, but a hologram of the Doctor appears and asks them to place the DVD in the console to activate it. They do this, and the ship dematerialises from around them! They are surrounded by the Angels ... but are safe as the creatures are all now looking at each other and so will remain stone forever.
I loved the simplicity and cleverness of this solution. However I'm sure that someone will move the statues eventually and they will be able to escape somehow ...
Now we flash forward a year, and Sally has been unable to get over the events. She has all the information, transcript, photographs in a folder ... and suddenly she sees the Doctor and Martha outside the DVD shop which she now owns with Larry - they are just friends.
She talks to the Doctor, but in a genius stroke, the adventure has not happened to him yet. She gives him the file of information and he and Martha rush off to whatever adventure they are having ... This is lovely ... really lovely. But do you know what I would have loved. I would have adored there to have been a scene in, maybe The Lazarus Experiment, where, from Martha's point of view, we saw the Doctor talking to Sally, and not know what it was all about ...
The problem for me is that, as with Love & Monsters, we catch a glimpse of an adventure which is not 'real' in as much as we've not seen it on TV. Of course the business with arrows and reptiles might be in a future story, but I severely doubt whether we'll see the 10th Doctor and Rose battling the Hoix anytime soon ... It would just have been nice to have seen the exchange beforehand in an earlier story, and to have, at that point, been in exactly the same position as the Doctor and Martha and not know what on earth it was all about. A small missed opportunity I feel.
And then we end with a final collage of statues ... loads and loads of statues. Imlying that any and all of them could be Weeping Angels, and that they could come and get you if you so much as blink!
I'm sure several kids went to bed eyeing any statues around carefully that night. Blink was a brilliant slice of Saturday evening entertainment and did everything that Doctor Who does at its very best. Even the fact that the Doctor's not in it very much didn't seem to matter. Carey Mulligan, playing Sally, was brilliant, bringing warmth and humanity to the part. Her reactions were spot on, from the terror, to the confusion, to the loss of her friend, to the embarrasment at Billy's flirting with her. Larry was also well played, and even Kathy and Billy were excellent. Especial kudos to Louis Mahoney playing the old Billy. He's come a long way from playing a newscaster in 1973's Frontier in Space, and Ponti in 1975's Planet of Evil.
In fact the only thing that really ruined the episode for me, was the BBC squishing the end credits into a box the size of a postage stamp, and allowing Graham Norton to shout about his show on next ... very, VERY annoying indeed. All BBC channels have apparently adopted this approach for most shows, and I really feel it is something of an abomination. If you feel strongly then maybe consider making your voice heard, and phone the BBC complaints line on 08700 100 222. I did, and who knows, maybe if enough people contact them to say that they like watching the end credits, and being able to read them, and that it spoils the mood of drama programs to have this happen at the end, and that the people involved in making the shows deserve for their names to be seen and to be readable on screen ...
Anyway ... next week we have the end of the Universe (again), Derek Jacobi, Captain Jack, and some pointy-toothed individuals in what looks like it could be a remake of The Savages ... time will tell.
Doctor Who - The Family of Blood
The two part stories have, in these new series of Doctor Who, often been the most disappointing. Adventures like Aliens of London/World War III, The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit and Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways have featured one brilliant episode, and one which was less than brilliant. However we have also had gems like Rise of the Cyberman/Age of Steel and Army of Ghosts/Doomsday where the production team seemed to get it right. And now with Human Nature/The Family of Blood, they get it so right that it seems impossible to ever top it.
As readers will know, I loved the first episode, Human Nature, and now with The Family of Blood, it all seemed to come together and gel into something cinematic in scope and which touched your heart and mind as you watched, making the audience think about what had happened as well as enjoying the scope and spectacle of it all.
We open as we left last week, with the Family threatening the lives of Martha and Joan unless the Doctor changes himself back into a Time Lord. Well Martha well and truly takes the upper hand, gaining control of a gun and getting everyone out of the church hall alive. I loved her off-hand comment to John Smith: 'God, you're rubbish as a human!' Very fitting given the circumstances. Everyone dashes back to the school where John Smith starts to rouse the boys and staff into a fighting force to see of the Family and their ambulatory scarecrows. Before the battle starts, however, the Headmaster and Phillips go out to talk to the attackers. These are great scenes, with the sounds of battle over Baines' foretelling of the War to come. But Phillips is disintegrated by the Family and the Head rushes back as battle commences.
Baines calls for more Soldiers and loads more Scarecrows arrive - all identical. How many do they have in the fields around this village? I counted at least 30 in shot, with more arriving all the time.
We have lots of great character interplay, all switched together here. The boys preparing for the fight with guns, June and John Smith trying to come to terms with what's happening and Martha trying to find the watch to restore the Doctor.
The Family start their attack and the initial phlanx of scarecrows are cut down with bullets as the school hymn plays. I felt this was a moment too far. For a start, why did the bullets affect the scarecrows at all, and the mood of the battle was, I felt, trying too hard to elicit a Blackadder the Fourth moment of poignancy which didn't work as the 'dead' were only scarecrows anyway. But the lead up, with the boys crying with fear, was brilliantly handled, and brought to mind similar moments in the middle Lord of the Rings film, The Two Towers.
It all ends when the little girl appears and disintegrates the Headmaster. Panic ensues and everyone runs again.
The Family now know they just need to get the pocket watch, and they also have the Doctor's TARDIS brought to the school to tempt the Doctor out. However the Doctor is nowhere to be seen and John Smith starts to crack under the strain. He just wants to be John Smith. This is a bravura performance from David Tennant. Absolutely believable and brilliant. Tennant is so watchable as an actor ... pure genius.
Smith, Martha and Joan head off to the Cartwright's cottage (little Lucy Cartwright is the small girl possessed by the Family) where they finally meet up with Tim who passes the watch across. These scenes feature the most poetic description of the Doctor ... 'He is like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and can see the turn of the Universe. And he's wonderful.'
This is said by Tim to John Smith as he agonises over whether to open the watch or not. Whether to return to being the Doctor or not. These are great scenes, perhaps a little long played, but necessarily so. John Smith must die if the Doctor is to live, and Smith does not want to die. He sees a flash forward of his human life as it might be ... of marriage and children ... happiness ... and then his death. And the make-up on Tennant for his old, dying frame is awesome. These are tear jerking, emotional moments, but also classic Doctor Who, making you care for the people and what's happening ... what decision would you ... could you ... make yourself?
And so it's endgame, and the most brilliant twist by writer Paul Cornell ... the Doctor was not hiding to protect himself and Martha, but to save the Family ... for when he returns (and of course we knew he would) he exacts his wrath on these alien beings in a way which is callous and cold - he gives them exactly what they wanted. This echoes the temptation posed by Rassilon in The Five Doctors, that those who wish immortality would be granted it ... at a price. But the Doctor's price is immense.
I loved the way the narrative suddenly shifted to Baines talking us through the fates of the Family members. Showing the Doctor as an implacable alien being, doing what he has to do. But cruel too, as if he had just waited, then the Family would have all died anyway. With his involvement they live forever in their own private hells.
After this, there's a sequence of endings to rival that of The Lord of the Rings. One at a time the plots and characters are wrapped up: Joan no longer wants the Doctor - her John Smith was the braver as he died to save everyone: the Doctor just had to change. Latimer sees the Doctor and Martha leave in the TARDIS, saves the older bully, Hutchinson, from a shell during the War the following year, and lives to an old age. The final scenes around the War memorial, the elderly Latimer holding his lucky watch and remembering, as the Doctor and Martha look on from a distance is awesome television. It's almost impossible not to be moved by it.
'They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
We will remember them.'
From 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon
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Viper – High Performance Computing
Transforming Research
What is Viper
Case Study – Cosmic Structures
Case Study – Modelling Molecules in Future Oceans
PhD Case Studies – Spring 2018
Research Software Engineering
Examples of research outputs coming from work carried on Viper can be found below.
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We are always interested to know of any output that features work carried out on Viper, please contact viper@hull.ac.uk
Publications (54 outputs)
2019 (20 outputs)
Eva Tarazona, Christoph Hahn, Lluis Franch-Gras, Eduardo M. Garcia-Roger, Maria Jose Carmona and Africa Gomez, 2019-12-23, Ecological genomics of adaptation to unpredictability in experimental rotifer populations, Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-56100-y
Elucidating the genetic basis of phenotypic variation in response to different environments is key to understanding how populations evolve. Facultatively sexual rotifers can develop adaptive responses to fluctuating environments. In a previous evolution experiment, diapause-related traits changed rapidly in response to two selective regimes (predictable vs unpredictable) in laboratory populations of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis. Here, we investigate the genomic basis of adaptation to environmental unpredictability in these experimental populations. We identified and genotyped genome-wide polymorphisms in 169 clones from both selective regimes after seven cycles of selection using genotyping by sequencing (GBS). Additionally, we used GBS data from the 270 field clones from which the laboratory populations were established. This GBS dataset was used to identify candidate SNPs under selection. A total of 76 SNPs showed divergent selection, three of which are candidates for being under selection in the particular unpredictable fluctuation pattern studied. Most of the remaining SNPs showed strong signals of adaptation to laboratory conditions. Furthermore, a genotype-phenotype association approach revealed five SNPs associated with two key life-history traits in the adaptation to unpredictability. Our results contribute to elucidating the genomic basis for adaptation to unpredictable environments and lay the groundwork for future evolution studies in rotifers.
Molla, M.; Wekesa, S.; Cavichia, O.; Diaz, A. I.; Gibson, B. K.; Rosales-Ortega, F. F.; Ascasibar, Y.; Wamalwa, D. S.; Sanchez, S. F., 2019-11-01, 2D-Galactic chemical evolution: the role of the spiral density wave, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz2537
We present a 2D chemical evolution code applied to a Milky Way type Galaxy, incorporating the role of spiral arms in shaping azimuthal abundance variations, and confront the predicted behaviour with recent observations taken with integral field units. To the usual radial distribution of mass, we add the surface density of the spiral wave and study its effect on star formation and elemental abundances. We compute five different models: one with azimuthal symmetry which depends only on radius, while the other four are subjected to the effect of a spiral density wave. At early times, the imprint of the spiral density wave is carried by both the stellar and star formation surface densities; conversely, the elemental abundance pattern is less affected. At later epochs, however, differences among the models are diluted, becoming almost indistinguishable given current observational uncertainties. At the present time, the largest differences appear in the star formation rate and/or in the outer disc (R ≥ 18 kpc). The predicted azimuthal oxygen abundance patterns for t ≤ 2 Gyr are in reasonable agreement with recent observations obtained with VLT/MUSE for NGC 6754.
Furness, Andrew I., Capellini, Isabella, 2019-10-17, The evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12608-5
Parental care is extremely diverse across species, ranging from simple behaviours to complex adaptations, varying in duration and in which sex cares. Surprisingly, we know little about how such diversity has evolved. Here, using phylogenetic comparative methods and data for over 1300 amphibian species, we show that egg attendance, arguably one of the simplest care behaviours, is gained and lost faster than any other care form, while complex adaptations, like brooding and viviparity, are lost at very low rates, if at all. Prolonged care from the egg to later developmental stages evolves from temporally limited care, but it is as easily lost as it is gained. Finally, biparental care is evolutionarily unstable regardless of whether the parents perform complementary or similar care duties. By considering the full spectrum of parental care adaptations, our study reveals a more complex and nuanced picture of how care evolves, is maintained, or is lost.
Donatella Romano, Francesco Calura, Annibale D’Ercole and C. Gareth Few, 2019-10-08, High-resolution three-dimensional simulations of gas removal from ultrafaint dwarf galaxies, Astronomy & Astrophysics, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935328
Context. The faintest Local Group galaxies found lurking in and around the Milky Way halo provide a unique test bed for theories of structure formation and evolution on small scales. Deep Subaru and Hubble Space Telescope photometry demonstrates that the stellar populations of these galaxies are old and that the star formation activity did not last longer than 2 Gyr in these systems. A few mechanisms that may lead to such a rapid quenching have been investigated by means of hydrodynamic simulations, but these have not provided any final assessment so far.
Aims. This is the first in a series of papers aimed at analyzing the roles of stellar feedback, ram pressure stripping, host-satellite tidal interactions, and reionization in cleaning the lowest mass Milky Way companions of their cold gas using high-resolution, three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations.
Methods. We simulated an isolated ultrafaint dwarf galaxy loosely modeled after Bootes I, and examined whether or not stellar feedback alone could drive a substantial fraction of the ambient gas out from the shallow potential well.
Results. In contrast to simple analytical estimates, but in agreement with previous hydrodynamical studies, we find that most of the cold gas reservoir is retained. Conversely, a significant amount of the metal-enriched stellar ejecta crosses the boundaries of the computational box with velocities exceeding the local escape velocity and is, thus, likely lost from the system.
Conclusions. Although the total energy output from multiple supernova explosions exceeds the binding energy of the gas, no galactic-scale outflow develops in our simulations and as such, most of the ambient medium remains trapped within the weak potential well of the model galaxy. It seems thus unavoidable that to explain the dearth of gas in ultrafaint dwarf galaxies, we will have to resort to environmental effects. This will be the subject of a forthcoming paper.
C. C. Roggatz, N. Fletcher, D. M. Benoit, A. C. Algar, A. Doroff, B. Wright, K. C. Wollenberg Valero & J. D. Hardege, 2019-10-07, Saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin bioavailability increases in future oceans, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038/s41558-019-0589-3
Increasing atmospheric CO2 levels are largely absorbed by the ocean, decreasing surface water pH1. In combination with increasing ocean temperatures, these changes have been identified as a major sustainability threat to future marine life2. Interactions between marine organisms are known to depend on biomolecules, although the influence of oceanic pH on their bioavailability and functionality remains unexplored. Here we show that global change substantially impacts two ecological keystone molecules3 in the ocean, the paralytic neurotoxins saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin. Increasing temperatures and declining pH increase the abundance of their toxic forms in the water. Our geospatial global model predicts where this increased toxicity could intensify the devastating impact of harmful algal blooms, for example through an increased incidence of paralytic shellfish poisoning. Calculations of future saxitoxin toxicity levels in Alaskan clams, Saxidomus gigantea, show critical exceedance of limits safe for consumption. Our findings for saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin exemplify potential consequences of changing pH and temperature on chemicals dissolved in the sea. This reveals major implications not only for ecotoxicology, but also for chemical signals that mediate species interactions such as foraging, reproduction or predation in the ocean, with unexplored consequences for ecosystem stability and ecosystem services.
Denissenkov, Pavel A; Herwig, Falk; Woodward, Paul; Andrassy, Robert; Pignatari, Marco; Jones, Samuel, 2019-09-21, The i-process yields of rapidly accreting white dwarfs from multicycle He-shell flash stellar evolution models with mixing parametrizations from 3D hydrodynamics simulations, Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz1921
We have modelled the multicycle evolution of rapidly accreting CO white dwarfs (RAWDs) with stable H burning intermittent with strong He-shell flashes on their surfaces for 0.7 ≤ MRAWD/M⊙ ≤ 0.75 and [Fe/H] ranging from 0 to −2.6. We have also computed the i-process nucleosynthesis yields for these models. The i process occurs when convection driven by the He-shell flash ingests protons from the accreted H-rich surface layer, which results in maximum neutron densities Nn, max ≈ 1013–1015 cm−3. The H-ingestion rate and the convective boundary mixing (CBM) parameter ftop adopted in the one-dimensional nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution models are constrained through three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic simulations. The mass ingestion rate and, for the first time, the scaling laws for the CBM parameter ftop have been determined from 3D hydrodynamic simulations. We confirm our previous result that the high-metallicity RAWDs have a low mass retention efficiency (â η≲10 per centâ ). A new result is that RAWDs with [Fe/H] ≲−2 have η≳20 per centâ ; therefore, their masses may reach the Chandrasekhar limit and they may eventually explode as SNeIa. This result and the good fits of the i-process yields from the metal-poor RAWDs to the observed chemical composition of the CEMP-r/s stars suggest that some of the present-day CEMP-r/s stars could be former distant members of triple systems, orbiting close binary systems with RAWDs that may have later exploded as SNeIa.
den Hartogh, J. W. and Hirschi, R. and Lugaro, M. and Doherty, C. L. and Battino, U. and Herwig, F. and Pignatari, M. and Eggenberger, P., 2019-09-16, The s process in rotating low-mass AGB stars – Nucleosynthesis calculations in models matching asteroseismic constraints, Astronomy and Astrophysics, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935476
Aims. We investigate the s-process during the AGB phase of stellar models whose cores are enforced to rotate at rates consistent with asteroseismology observations of their progenitors and successors.
Methods. We calculated new 2 M. ,Z = 0.01 models, rotating at 0, 125, and 250 km s-1 at the start of main sequence. An artificial, additional viscosity was added to enhance the transport of angular momentum in order to reduce the core rotation rates to be in agreement with asteroseismology observations. We compared rotation rates of our models with observed rotation rates during the MS up to the end of core He burning, and the white dwarf phase.
Results. We present nucleosynthesis calculations for these rotating AGB models that were enforced to match the asteroseismic constraints on rotation rates of MS, RGB, He-burning, and WD stars. In particular, we calculated one model that matches the upper limit of observed rotation rates of core He-burning stars and we also included a model that rotates one order of magnitude faster than the upper limit of the observations. The s-process production in both of these models is comparable to that of non-rotating models.
Conclusions. Slowing down the core rotation rate in stars to match the above mentioned asteroseismic constraints reduces the rotationally induced mixing processes to the point that they have no effect on the s-process nucleosynthesis. This result is independent of the initial rotation rate of the stellar evolution model. However, there are uncertainties remaining in the treatment of rotation in stellar evolution, which need to be reduced in order to confirm our conclusions, including the physical nature of our approach to reduce the core rotation rates of our models, and magnetic processes.
Joan Garcia-Porta, Iker Irisarri, Martin Kirchner, Ariel Rodriguez, Sebastian Kirchhof, Jason L. Brown, Amy MacLeod, Alexander P. Turner, Faraham Ahmadzadeh, Gonzalo Albaladejo, Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailovic, Ignacio De la Riva, Adnane Fawzi, Pedro Galan, Bayram Gocmen, D. James Harris, Octavio Jimenez-Robles, Ulrich Joger, Olga Jovanovic Glavas, Mert Karis, Giannina Koziel, Sven Kunzel, Mariana Lyra, Donald Miles, Manuel Nogales, Mehmet Anil Oguz, Panayiotis Pafilis, Lois Rancilhac, Noemi Rodriguez, Benza Rodriguez Concepcion, Eugenia Sanchez, Daniele Salvi, Tahar Slimani, Abderrahim S’khifa, Ali Turk Qashqaei, Anamarija Zagar, Alan Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Miguel Angel Carretero, Salvador Carranza, Herve Philippe, Barry Sinervo, Johannes Muller, Miguel Vences & Katharina C. Wollenberg Valero, 2019-09-09, Environmental temperatures shape thermal physiology as well as diversification and genome-wide substitution rates in lizards, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11943-x
Climatic conditions changing over time and space shape the evolution of organisms at multiple levels, including temperate lizards in the family Lacertidae. Here we reconstruct a dated phylogenetic tree of 262 lacertid species based on a supermatrix relying on novel phylogenomic datasets and fossil calibrations. Diversification of lacertids was accompanied by an increasing disparity among occupied bioclimatic niches, especially in the last 10 Ma, during a period of progressive global cooling. Temperate species also underwent a genome-wide slowdown in molecular substitution rates compared to tropical and desert-adapted lacertids. Evaporative water loss and preferred temperature are correlated with bioclimatic parameters, indicating physiological adaptations to climate. Tropical, but also some populations of cool-adapted species experience maximum temperatures close to their preferred temperatures. We hypothesize these species-specific physiological preferences may constitute a handicap to prevail under rapid global warming, and contribute to explaining local lizard extinctions in cool and humid climates.
Velez, Zelia and Roggatz, Christina C. and Benoit, David M. and Hardege, Jorg D. and Hubbard, Peter C., 2019-07-03, Short- and Medium-Term Exposure to Ocean Acidification Reduces Olfactory Sensitivity in Gilthead Seabream, Frontiers in Physiology, doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00731
The effects of ocean acidification on fish are only partially understood. Studies on olfaction are mostly limited to behavioural alterations of coral reef fish; studies on temperate species and/or with economic importance are scarce. The current study evaluated the effects of short- and medium-term exposure to ocean acidification on the olfactory system of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata), and attempted to explain observed differences in sensitivity by changes in the protonation state of amino acid odorants. Short-term exposure to elevated PCO2 decreased olfactory sensitivity to some odorants, such as L-serine, L-leucine, L-arginine, L-glutamate and conspecific intestinal fluid, but not to others, such as L-glutamine and conspecific bile fluid. Seabream were unable to compensate for high PCO2 levels in the medium-term; after four weeks’ exposure to high PCO2, the olfactory sensitivity remained lower in elevated PCO2 water. The decrease in olfactory sensitivity in high PCO2 water could be partly attributed to changes in the protonation state of the odorants and/or their receptor(s); we illustrate how protonation due to reduced pH causes changes in the charge distribution of odorant molecules, an essential component for ligand-receptor interaction. However, there are other mechanisms involved. At a histological level, the olfactory epithelium contained higher densities of mucus cells in fish kept in high CO2 water, and a shift in pH of the mucus they produced to more neutral. These differences suggest a physiological response of the olfactory epithelium to lower pH and/or high CO2 levels, but an inability to fully counteract the effects of acidification on olfactory sensitivity. Therefore, the current study provides evidence for a direct, medium-term, global effect of ocean acidification on olfactory sensitivity in fish, and possibly other marine organisms, and suggests a partial explanatory mechanism.
A Cote, Benoit; Lugaro, Maria; Reifarth, Rene; Pignatari, Marco; Vilagos, Blanka; Yague, Andres; Gibson, Brad K., 2019-06, Galactic Chemical Evolution of Radioactive Isotopes, The Astrophysical Journal, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab21d1
The presence of short-lived (̃Myr) radioactive isotopes in meteoritic inclusions at the time of their formation represents a unique opportunity to study the circumstances that led to the formation of the solar system. To interpret these observations, we need to calculate the evolution of radioactive-to-stable isotopic ratios in the Galaxy. We present an extension of the open-source galactic chemical evolution codes NuPyCEE and JINAPyCEE that enable the decay of radioactive isotopes in the interstellar medium to be tracked. We show how the evolution of the isotopic ratio depends on the star formation history and efficiency, star-to-gas mass ratio, and galactic outflows. Given the uncertainties in the observations used to calibrate our model, our predictions for isotopic ratios at the time of formation of the Sun are uncertain by a factor of 3.6. At that time, to recover the actual radioactive-to-stable isotopic ratios predicted by our model, one can multiply the steady-state solution (see Equation (1)) by {2.3}-0.7+3.4. However, in the cases where the radioactive isotope has a half-life longer than ̃200 Myr, or the target radioactive or stable isotopes have mass- and/or metallicity-dependent production rates, or they originate from different sources with different delay-time distributions, or the reference isotope is radioactive, our codes should be used for more accurate solutions. Our preliminary calculations confirm the dichotomy between radioactive nuclei in the early solar system with r- and s-process origin, and that 55Mn and 60Fe can be explained by galactic chemical evolution, while 26Al cannot.
Wehmeyer, B; Frohlich, C; Cote, B; Pignatari, M; Thielemann, F-K, 2019-05-16, Using failed supernovae to constrain the Galactic r-process element production, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz1310
Rapid neutron capture process (r-process) elements have been detected in a large fraction of metal-poor halo stars, with abundances relative to iron (Fe) that vary by over two orders of magnitude. This scatter is reduced to less than a factor of 3 in younger Galactic disc stars. The large scatter of r-process elements in the early Galaxy suggests that the r-process is made by rare events, like compact binary mergers and rare sub-classes of supernovae. Although being rare, neutron star mergers alone have difficulties to explain the observed enhancement of r-process elements in the lowest metallicity stars compared to Fe. The supernovae producing the two neutron stars already provide a substantial Fe abundance where the r-process ejecta from the merger would be injected. In this work we investigate another complementary scenario, where the r-process occurs in neutron star-black hole mergers in addition to neutron star mergers. Neutron star-black hole mergers would eject similar amounts of r-process matter as neutron star mergers, but only the neutron star progenitor would have produced Fe. Furthermore, a reduced efficiency of Fe production from single stars significantly alters the age–metallicity relation, which shifts the onset of r-process production to lower metallicities. We use the high-resolution [(20 pc)3/cell] inhomogeneous chemical evolution tool ‘ICE’ to study the outcomes of these effects. In our simulations, an adequate combination of neutron star mergers and neutron star-black hole mergers qualitatively reproduces the observed r-process abundances in the Galaxy.
Cote, Benoit; Eichler, Marius; Arcones, Almudena; Hansen, Camilla J.; Simonetti, Paolo; Frebel, Anna; Fryer, Chris L.; Pignatari, Marco; Reichert, Moritz; Belczynski, Krzysztof; Matteucci, Francesca, 2019-04-22, Neutron star mergers might not be the only source of r-process elements in the Milky Way, The Astrophysical Journal, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab10db
Probing the origin of r-process elements in the universe represents a multidisciplinary challenge. We review the observational evidence that probes the properties of r-process sites, and address them using galactic chemical evolution simulations, binary population synthesis models, and nucleosynthesis calculations. Our motivation is to define which astrophysical sites have significantly contributed to the total mass of r-process elements present in our Galaxy. We found discrepancies with the neutron star (NS–NS) merger scenario. When we assume that they are the only site, the decreasing trend of [Eu/Fe] at [Fe/H] > −1 in the disk of the Milky Way cannot be reproduced while accounting for the delay-time distribution (DTD) of coalescence times (âˆt −1) derived from short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and population synthesis models. Steeper DTD functions (âˆt −1.5) or power laws combined with a strong burst of mergers before the onset of supernovae (SNe) Ia can reproduce the [Eu/Fe] trend, but this scenario is inconsistent with the similar fraction of short GRBs and SNe Ia occurring in early-type galaxies, and it reduces the probability of detecting GW170817 in an early-type galaxy. One solution is to assume an additional production site of Eu that would be active in the early universe, but would fade away with increasing metallicity. If this is correct, this additional site could be responsible for roughly 50% of the Eu production in the early universe before the onset of SNe Ia. Rare classes of supernovae could be this additional r-process source, but hydrodynamic simulations still need to ensure the conditions for a robust r-process pattern.
David Lauvergnat, Peter Felker, Yohann Scribano, David M. Benoit, Zlatko Bacic, 2019-04-15, H2, HD, and D2 in the small cage of structure II clathrate hydrate: Vibrational frequency shifts from fully coupled quantum six-dimensional calculations of the vibration-translation-rotation eigenstates, The Journal of Chemical Physics, doi: 10.1063/1.5090573
We report the first fully coupled quantum six-dimensional (6D) bound-state calculations of the vibration-translation-rotation eigenstates of a flexible H2, HD, and D2 molecule confined inside the small cage of the structure II clathrate hydrate embedded in larger hydrate domains with up to 76 H2O molecules, treated as rigid. Our calculations use a pairwise-additive 6D intermolecular potential energy surface for H2 in the hydrate domain, based on an ab initio 6D H2–H2O pair potential for flexible H2 and rigid H2O. They extend to the first excited (v = 1) vibrational state of H2, along with two isotopologues, providing a direct computation of vibrational frequency shifts. We show that obtaining a converged v = 1 vibrational state of the caged molecule does not require converging the very large number of intermolecular translation-rotation states belonging to the v = 0 manifold up to the energy of the intramolecular stretch fundamental (≈4100 cm−1 for H2). Only a relatively modest-size basis for the intermolecular degrees of freedom is needed to accurately describe the vibrational averaging over the delocalized wave function of the quantum ground state of the system. For the caged H2, our computed fundamental translational excitations, rotational j = 0 → 1 transitions, and frequency shifts of the stretch fundamental are in excellent agreement with recent quantum 5D (rigid H2) results [A. Powers et al., J. Chem. Phys. 148, 144304 (2018)]. Our computed frequency shift of −43 cm−1 for H2 is only 14% away from the experimental value at 20 K.
Jianguo Wang, Philip Rubini, Qin Qin, Brian Houston, 2019-04-04, A Model to Predict Acoustic Resonant Frequencies of Distributed Helmholtz Resonators on Gas Turbine Engines, Applied Sciences, doi: 10.3390/app9071419
Helmholtz resonators, traditionally designed as a narrow neck backed by a cavity, are widely applied to attenuate combustion instabilities in gas turbine engines. The use of multiple small holes with an equivalent open area to that of a single neck has been found to be able to significantly improve the noise damping bandwidth. This type of resonator is often referred to as “distributed Helmholtz resonatorâ€. When multiple holes are employed, interactions between acoustic radiations from neighboring holes changes the resonance frequency of the resonator. In this work, the resonance frequencies from a series of distributed Helmholtz resonators were obtained via a series of highly resolved computational fluid dynamics simulations. A regression analysis of the resulting response surface was undertaken and validated by comparison with experimental results for a series of eighteen absorbers with geometries typically employed in gas turbine combustors. The resulting model demonstrates that the acoustic end correction length for perforations is closely related to the effective porosity of the perforated plate and will be obviously enhanced by acoustic radiation effect from the perforation area as a whole. This model is easily applicable for engineers in the design of practical distributed Helmholtz resonators.
Alexander Turner and Stephen Hayes, 2019-02-21, The Classification of Minor Gait Alterations Using Wearable Sensors and Deep Learning, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2019.2900863
Objective: This paper describes how non-invasive wearable sensors can be used in combination with deep learning to classify artificially induced gait alterations without the requirement for a medical professional or gait analyst to be present. This approach is motivated by the goal of diagnosing gait abnormalities on a symptom by symptom basis, irrespective of other neuromuscular movement disorders patients may be affected by. This could lead to improvements in treatment and offer a greater insight into movement disorders. Methods: In-shoe pressure was measured for 12 able-bodied participants, each subject to 8 artificially induced gait alterations, achieved by modifying the underside of the shoe. The data were recorded at 100 Hz over 2520 data channels and was analysed using the deep learning architecture, long term short term memory networks. Additionally, the rationale for the decision-making process of these networks was investigated. Conclusion: Long term short term memory networks are applicable to the classification of gait function. The classifications can be made using only 2 seconds of sparse data (82.0% accuracy over 96,000 instances of test data) from participants who were not part of the training set. Significance: This work provides potential for gait function to be accurately classified using non-invasive techniques, and at more regular intervals, outside of a clinical setting without the need for healthcare professionals to be present.
Mishenina, T; Pignatari, M; Gorbaneva, T; Bisterzo, S; Travaglio, C; Thielemann, F. K.; Soubiran, C, 2019-02-08, Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron capture elements: Sr, Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz178
The enrichment history of heavy neutron-capture elements in the Milky Way disc provides fundamental information about the chemical evolution of our Galaxy and about the stellar sources that made those elements. In this work we give new observational data for Sr, the element at the first neutron-shell closure beyond iron, N=50, based on the analysis of the high resolution spectra of 276 Galactic disc stars. The Sr abundance was derived by comparing the observed and synthetic spectra in the region of the Sr I 4607Ã…4607Ã… line, making use of the LTE approximation. NLTE corrections lead to an increase of the abundance estimates obtained under LTE, but for these lines they are minor near solar metallicity. The average correction that we find is 0.151 dex. The star that is mostly affected is HD 6582, with a 0.244 dex correction. The behavior of the Sr abundance as a function of metallicity is discussed within a stellar nucleosynthesis context, in comparison with the abundance of the heavy neutron-capture elements Ba (Z=56) and Eu (Z=63). The comparison of the observational data with the current GCE models confirm that the s-process contributions from Asymptotic Giant Branch stars and from massive stars are the main sources of Sr in the Galactic disc and in the Sun, while different nucleosynthesis sources can explain the high [Sr/Ba] and [Sr/Eu] ratios observed in the early Galaxy.
Keegans, James D.; Fryer, Chris L.; Jones, Samuel W.; Cote, Benoit; Belczynski, Krzysztof; Herwig, Falk; Pignatari, Marco; Laird, Alison M.; Diget, Christian Aa., 2019-02-06, Nucleosynthetic yields from neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes, Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz368
Massive-star binaries can undergo a phase where one of the two stars expands during its advanced evolutionary stage as a giant and envelops its companion, ejecting the hydrogen envelope and tightening its orbit. Such a common envelope phase is required to tighten the binary orbit in the formation of many of the observed X-ray binaries and merging compact binary systems. In the formation scenario for neutron star binaries, the system might pass through a phase where a neutron star spirals into the envelope of its giant star companion. These phases lead to mass accretion onto the neutron star. Accretion onto these common-envelope-phase neutron stars can eject matter that has undergone burning near to the neutron star surface. This paper presents nucleosynthetic yields of this ejected matter, using population synthesis models to study the importance of these nucleosynthetic yields in a galactic chemical evolution context. Depending on the extreme conditions in temperature and density found in the accreted material, both proton-rich and neutron-rich nucleosynthesis can be obtained, with efficient production of neutron rich isotopes of low Z material at the most extreme conditions, and proton rich isotopes, again at low Z, in lower density models. Final yields are found to be extremely sensitive to the physical modeling of the accretion phase. We show that neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes might be a new relevant site for galactic chemical evolution, and therefore more comprehensive studies are needed to better constrain nucleosynthesis in these objects.
Donatus O. Onwuli and Sabrina Francesca Samuel and Pagona Sfyri and Kevin Welham and Martin Goddard and Yasir Abu-Omar and Mahmoud Loubani and Francisco Rivero and Antonios Matsakas and David M. Benoit and Mark Wade and John Greenman and Pedro Beltran-Alvarez, 2019-01-31, The inhibitory subunit of cardiac troponin (cTnI) is modified by arginine methylation in the human heart, International Journal of Cardiology, doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2019.01.102
The inhibitory subunit of cardiac troponin (cTnI) is a gold standard cardiac biomarker and also an essential protein in cardiomyocyte excitation-contraction coupling. The interactions of cTnI with other proteins are fine-tuned by post-translational modification of cTnI. Mutations in cTnI can lead to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Thielemann, F. K.; Mishenina, T.; Pignatari, M.; Gorbaneva, T.; Travaglio, C.; Cote, B.; Thielemann, F.K; Soubiran, C., 2019-01-01, Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron-capture elements: Mo and Ru, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz2202
We present new observational data for the heavy elements molybdenum (Mo, Z = 42) and ruthenium (Ru, Z = 44) in F-, G-, and K-stars belonging to different substructures of the Milky Way. The range of metallicity covered is -1.0 < [Fe/H] < + 0.3. The spectra of Galactic disc stars have a high resolution of 42 000 and 75 000 and signal-to-noise ratio better than 100. Mo and Ru abundances were derived by comparing the observed and synthetic spectra in the region of Mo I lines at 5506, 5533 Ã… for 209 stars and Ru I lines at 4080, 4584, 4757 Ã… for 162 stars using the LTE approach. For all the stars, the Mo and Ru abundance determinations are obtained for the first time with an average error of 0.14 dex. This is the first extended sample of stellar observations for Mo and Ru in the Milky Way disc, and together with earlier observations in halo stars it is pivotal in providing a complete picture of the evolution of Mo and Ru across cosmic time-scales. The Mo and Ru abundances were compared with those of the neutron-capture elements (Sr, Y, Zr, Ba, Sm, Eu). The complex nucleosynthesis history of Mo and Ru is compared with different Galactic Chemical Evolution (GCE) simulations. In general, present theoretical GCE simulations show underproduction ofMo and Ru at all metallicities compared to observations. This highlights a significant contribution of nucleosynthesis processes not yet considered in our simulations. A number of possible scenarios are discussed.
A Molla, M.; Diaz, A. I.; Cavichia, O.; Gibson, B. K.; Maciel, W. J.; Costa, R. D. D.; Ascasibar, Y.; Few, C. G., 2019-01, The time evolution of the Milky Way’s oxygen abundance gradient, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty2877
We study the evolution of oxygen abundance radial gradients as a function of time for the Milky Way Galaxy obtained with our MULCHEM chemical evolution model. We review the recent data of abundances for different objects observed in our Galactic disc. We analyse with our models the role of the growth of the stellar disc, as well as the effect of infall rate and star formation prescriptions, or the pre-enrichment of the infall gas, on the time evolution of the oxygen abundance radial distribution. We compute the radial gradient of abundances within the disc, and its corresponding evolution, taking into account the disc growth along time. We compare our predictions with the data compilation, showing a good agreement. Our models predict a very smooth evolution when the radial gradient is measured within the optical disc with a slight flattening of the gradient from ̃-0.057 dex kpc-1 at z = 4 until values around ̃-0.015 dex kpc-1 at z = 1 and basically the same gradient until the present, with small differences between models. Moreover, some models show a steepening at the last times, from z = 1 until z = 0 in agreement with data which give a variation of the gradient in a range from -0.02 to -0.04 dex kpc-1 from t = 10 Gyr until now. The gradient measured as a function of the normalized radius R/Reff is in good agreement with findings by CALIFA and MUSE, and its evolution with redshift falls within the error bars of cosmological simulations.
Lluis Franch-Gras, Christoph Hahn, Eduardo M. Garcia-Roger, Maria Jose Carmona, Manuel Serra & Africa Gomez, 2018-10-30, Genomic signatures of local adaptation to the degree of environmental predictability in rotifers, Scientific reports, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34188-y
Environmental fluctuations are ubiquitous and thus essential for the study of adaptation. Despite this, genome evolution in response to environmental fluctuations —and more specifically to the degree of environmental predictability– is still unknown. Saline lakes in the Mediterranean region are remarkably diverse in their ecological conditions, which can lead to divergent local adaptation patterns in the inhabiting aquatic organisms. The facultatively sexual rotifer Brachionus plicatilis shows diverging local adaptation in its life-history traits in relation to estimated environmental predictability in its habitats. Here, we used an integrative approach —combining environmental, phenotypic and genomic data for the same populations– to understand the genomic basis of this diverging adaptation. Firstly, a novel draft genome for B. plicatilis was assembled. Then, genome-wide polymorphisms were studied using genotyping by sequencing on 270 clones from nine populations in eastern Spain. As a result, 4,543 high-quality SNPs were identified and genotyped. More than 90 SNPs were found to be putatively under selection with signatures of diversifying and balancing selection. Over 140 SNPs were correlated with environmental or phenotypic variables revealing signatures of local adaptation, including environmental predictability. Putative functions were associated to most of these SNPs, since they were located within annotated genes. Our results reveal associations between genomic variation and the degree of environmental predictability, providing genomic evidence of adaptation to local conditions in natural rotifer populations.
Cseh, B.; Lugaro, M.; D’Orazi, V.; de Castro, D. B.; Pereira, C. B.; Karakas, A. I.; Molnar, L.; Plachy, E.; Szabo, R.; Pignatari, M.; Cristallo, S., 2018-10-17, The s process in AGB stars as constrained by a large sample of barium stars, Astronomy & Astrophysics, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834079
Barium (Ba) stars are dwarf and giant stars enriched in elements heavier than iron produced by the slow neutron-capture process (s process). These stars belong to binary systems in which the primary star evolved through the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phase. During this phase the primary star produced s-process elements and transferred them onto the secondary, which is now observed as a Ba star. Aims. We compare the largest homogeneous set of Ba giant star observations of the s-process elements Y, Zr, La, Ce, and Nd with AGB nucleosynthesis models to reach a better understanding of the s process in AGB stars. Methods. By considering the light-s (ls: Y and Zr) heavy-s (hs: La, Ce, and Nd) and elements individually, we computed for the first time quantitative error bars for the different hs-element to ls-element abundance ratios, and for each of the sample stars. We compared these ratios to low-mass AGB nucleosynthesis models. We excluded La from our analysis because the strong La lines in some of the sample stars cause an overestimation and unreliable abundance determination, as compared to the other observed hs-Type elements. Results. All the computed hs-Type to ls-Type element ratios show a clear trend of increasing with decreasing metallicity with a small spread (less than a factor of 3). This trend is predicted by low-mass AGB models in which 13C is the main neutron source. The comparison with rotating AGB models indicates the need for the presence of an angular momentum transport mechanism that should not transport chemical species, but significantly reduces the rotational speed of the core in the advanced stellar evolutionary stages. This is an independent confirmation of asteroseismology observations of the slow down of core rotation in giant stars, and of rotational velocities of white dwarfs lower than predicted by models without an extra angular momentum transport mechanism.
Deshmukh, Harshal and Papageorgiou, Maria and Kilpatrick, Eric S. and Atkin, Stephen L. and Sathyapalan, Thozhukat, 2018-10, Development of a novel risk prediction and risk stratification score for polycystic ovary syndrome, Clinical Endocrinology, doi: 10.1111/cen.13879
Summary Objective The aim of this study was to develop a simple phenotypic algorithm that can capture the underlying clinical and hormonal abnormalities to help in the diagnosis and risk stratification of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Methods The study consisted of 111 women with PCOS fulfilling the Rotterdam diagnostic criteria and 67 women without PCOS. A Firth’s penalized logistic regression model was used for independent variable section. Model optimism, discrimination and calibration were assessed using bootstrapping, area under the curve (AUC) and Hosmer-Lemeshow statistics, respectively. The prognostic index (PI) and risk score for developing PCOS were calculated using independent variables from the regression model. Results Firth penalized logistic regression model with backward selection identified four independent predictors of PCOS namely free androgen index [β 0.30 (0.12), P = 0.008], 17-OHP [β = 0.20 (0.01), P = 0.026], anti-mullerian hormone [AMH; β = 0.04 (0.01) PÂ
Deshmukh, Harshal and Barker, Emma and Ambarasan, Thineshkrishna and Levin, Daniel and Bell, Samira and Witham, Miles D and George, Jacob, 2018-10, Calcium channel blockers are associated with improved survival and lower cardiovascular mortality in patients with renovascular disease, Cardiovascular Therapeutics, doi: 10.1111/1755-5922.12474
Background and objective Results of interventional trials in renovascular hypertension have been disappointing and medical therapy is the current recommended gold standard. However, the comparative long-term benefits of different antihypertensive drug classes in atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis are not known. We aim to assess the effect of different antihypertensive drug classes on outcomes in renovascular hypertension Design, setting, participants, and measurements Using Tayside Health Informatics Centre database, anonymised data over a 6-year period was analysed. Biochemistry, prescribing data, morbidity, mortality and demographic data were accessed via hospital medical records and electronic data stored in the Tayside Health Informatics Centre Safe Haven. General Registrar’s Office data was used to identify patients who died from cardiovascular disease. Independent predictors of survival in each group were analyzed using Kaplan-Meier survival curves and Cox proportional hazard models, adjusted for a range of covariates, using Time-Updated Drug Analysis. Blood pressure data was obtained from primary and secondary care clinic blood pressure records for each patient. Adjustments for mean systolic blood pressure over the follow-up period and baseline blood pressure were made. Results 579 patients with Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis were identified. In the unilateral renal artery stenosis cohort, Calcium Channel Blockers but not ACE inhibitors/ARBs, were associated with a significant reduction in all-cause (HR=0.45, CI= 0.31, 0.65; P=<0.0001) and Cardiovascular ((HR= 0.51, CI =0.29-0.90 P=0.019). This was maintained after adjustment for blood pressure. In the bilateral renal artery stenosis cohort, both classes of drugs reduced all-cause but not cardiovascular mortality. Patients with moderate disease benefitted more than those with mild or severe disease. Conclusions Calcium Channel Blockers are associated with significantly increased survival and lower cardiovascular mortality particularly in patients with moderate RAS disease. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
W.R.C. Somerville, J.L. Stokes, A.M., T.S. Horozov, A.J. Archer and D.M.A. Buzza, 2018-09-13, Density functional theory for the crystallization of two-dimensional dipolar colloidal alloys, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/aaddc9
Two-dimensional mixtures of dipolar colloidal particles with different dipole moments exhibit extremely rich self-assembly behaviour and are relevant to a wide range of experimental systems, including charged and super-paramagnetic colloids at liquid interfaces. However, there is a gap in our understanding of the crystallization of these systems because existing theories such as integral equation theory and lattice sum methods can only be used to study the high temperature fluid phase and the zero-temperature crystal phase, respectively. In this paper we bridge this gap by developing a density functional theory (DFT), valid at intermediate temperatures, in order to study the crystallization of one and two-component dipolar colloidal monolayers. The theory employs a series expansion of the excess Helmholtz free energy functional, truncated at second order in the density, and taking as input highly accurate bulk fluid direct correlation functions from simulation. Although truncating the free energy at second order means that we cannot determine the freezing point accurately, our approach allows us to calculate ab initio both the density profiles of the different species and the symmetry of the final crystal structures. Our DFT predicts hexagonal crystal structures for one-component systems, and a variety of superlattice structures for two-component systems, including those with hexagonal and square symmetry, in excellent agreement with known results for these systems. The theory also provides new insights into the structure of two-component systems in the intermediate temperature regime where the small particles remain molten but the large particles are frozen on a regular lattice.
Al-Qaissi, Ahmed and Papageorgiou, Maria and Deshmukh, Harshal and Madden, Leigh A. and Rigby, Alan and Kilpatrick, Eric S. and Atkin, Stephen L. and Sathyapalan, Thozhukat, 2018-09, Effects of acute insulin-induced hypoglycaemia on endothelial microparticles in adults with and without type 2 diabetes, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, doi: 10.1111/dom.13548
Aims To assess whether endothelial microparticles (EMPs), novel surrogate markers of endothelial injury and dysfunction, are differentially produced in response to acute insulin-induced hypoglycaemia in adults with and without type 2 diabetes. Materials and methods A prospective, parallel study was conducted in individuals with type 2 diabetes (n = 23) and controls (n = 22). Hypoglycaemia (<2.2 mmoL/L: <40 mg/dL) was achieved by intravenous infusion of soluble insulin. Blood samples were collected at baseline and at 0, 30, 60, 120, 240 minutes and 24 hours after hypoglycaemia and analysed for CD31+ (platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1), CD54+ (intercellular adhesion molecule 1), CD62-E+ (E-selectin), CD105+ (endoglin), CD106+ (vascular cell adhesion molecule 1) and CD142+ (tissue factor) EMPs by flow cytometry. The peak elevations (\% rise from 0 minutes after hypoglycaemia) in EMP within 240 minutes after insulin-induced hypoglycaemia were modelled using a regression model, with adjustment for relevant covariates. All EMPs were expressed as percentage from 0 minutes hypoglycaemia for each time point and total areas under the curve (AUC0min–24h) were calculated. Results Following insulin-induced hypoglycaemia, levels of circulating EMPs were maximal at 240 minutes (P 
Annika M Schoene and Nina Dethlefs, 2018-08-20, Unsupervised suicide note classification, Proceedings of the 7th KDD Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and Opinion Mining (WISDOM), doi:
With the greater availability of linguistic data from public social media platforms and the advancements of natural language processing, a number of opportunities have arisen for researchers to analyse this type of data. Research efforts have mostly focused on detecting the polarity of textual data, evaluating whether there is positive, negative or sometimes neutral content. Especially the use of neural networks has recently yielded significant results in polarity detection experiments. In this paper we present a more fine-grained approach to detecting sentiment in textual data, particularly analysing a corpus of suicide notes, depressive notes and love notes. We achieve a classification accuracy of 71.76% when classifying based on text and sentiment features, and an accuracy of 69.41% when using the words present in the notes alone. We discover that while emotions in all three datasets overlap, each of them has a unique ‘emotion profile’ which allows us to draw conclusions about the potential mental state that is reflects. Using the emotion sequences only, we achieve an accuracy of 75.29%. The results from unannotated data, while worse than the other models, nevertheless represent an encouraging step towards being able to flag potentially harmful social media posts online and in real time. We provide a high-level corpus analysis of the data sets in order to demonstrate the grammatical and emotional differences.
T.L. Lee, J. Mi, S. Ren, S. Zhao, J. Fan, S. Kabra, S. Zhang, and P.S. Grant, 2018-05-26, Modelling and neutron diffraction characterization of the interfacial bonding of spray formed dissimilar steels, Acta Materialia, doi: 10.1016/j.actamat.2018.05.055
The spray forming of thick, dissimilar steel clad tubes with the objective of achieving a high integrity metallurgical bond across the cladding-substrate interface able to withstand residual stresses and subsequent thermo-mechanical processing was investigated by large scale experiments, modelling and extensive microstructural characterization including microscopy, X-ray tomography, neutron scattering and mechanical testing. The simulated residual stress distributions across the cladding-substrate interface, accounting for any as-sprayed porosity and the distribution of martensitic and retained austenite phases, were compared with neutron diffraction measurements and differences used to infer the load transfer behaviour and thus the mechanical integrity of the interface. The mechanical properties of the interfaces were then also measured directly by shear testing. The link between substrate pre-heating, the spray forming temperature, and the resulting preform temperature, porosity, phase fractions, residual stress, strength and integrity of the interface were established and quantified explicitly.
Benoit, David M. and Lauvergnat, David and Scribano, Yohann, 2018-05-25, Does cage quantum delocalisation influence the translation-rotational bound states of molecular hydrogen in clathrate hydrate?, Faraday Discussions, doi: 10.1039/C8FD00087E
In this study, we examine the effect of a flexible description of the clathrate hydrate framework on the translation-rotation (TR) eigenstates of guest molecules such as molecular hydrogen. Traditionally, the water cage structure is assumed to be rigid, thus ignoring the quantum nature of hydrogen nuclei in the water framework. However, it has been shown that protons in a water molecule possess a marked delocalised character in many situations, ranging from water clusters to proton transfer in the bulk. In the case of water clathrates, all previous TR bound-state calculations of guest molecules consider that the caging water molecules are fixed at their equilibrium geometry. Only recently, a static investigation of the role of proton configurations was performed by Bacic and co-workers by sampling a very large number of different static structures of water clathrates. Here, we investigate the importance of the rotational degrees of freedom of the water cage on the TR levels of the guest molecule using an efficient adiabatic decoupling scheme. Our approach combines rigid body diffusion Monte Carlo calculations for the description of the rotational degree of freedom of water molecules surrounding the guest molecular hydrogen to an efficient Smolyak sparse-grid technique for the calculation of the TR levels. This approach allows us to take into account the highly anharmonic nature of the rotational water motions in a high-dimensional system. The clathrate-induced splittings of the j = 1 rotational levels are much more sensitive to the quantum hydrogen delocalisation than the translational transitions. This result is in good agreement with the previous static study of Bacic and co-workers.
Chen, Long; Vivier, Elodie; Eling, Charlotte J.; Babra, Tahkur S.; Bouillard, Jean Sebastien G.; Adawi, Ali M.; Benoit, David M.; Hartl, Frantisek; Colquhoun, Howard M.; Efremova, Olga A.; Greenland, Barnaby W., 2018-04-07, Conjugated, rod-like viologen oligomers: Correlation of oligomer length with conductivity and photoconductivity, Synthetic Metals, doi: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2018.03.019
An iterative synthesis has been used to produce conjugated, monodisperse, viologen-based aromatic oligomers containing up to 12 aromatic/heterocyclic rings. The methoxy-substituted oligomers were soluble in common organic solvents and could be processed by spin coating. The conductivities of the resulting films (30–221 nm thick) increased by more than one order of magnitude as the oligomer length increased from unimer (1, 2.20 × 10 −11 S cm- 1 ) through dimer (2) to trimer (3, 6.87 × 10 -10 S cm -1 ). The bandgaps of the materials were estimated from the absorption spectra of these thin films. The longest oligomer, 3, exhibited a noticeably narrower bandgap (2.3 eV) than the shorter oligomers (1 and 2 both 2.7 eV). Oligomer 3 also showed photoconductivity under irradiation across a wide range of wavelengths in the visible spectral region. In conjunction with DFT calculations of these systems our results suggest that structurally related viologen-type oligomers may find use in optoelectronic devices.
Chalupa, David and Hawick, Ken A. and Walker, James A., 2018-04, Hybrid Bridge-Based Memetic Algorithms for Finding Bottlenecks in Complex Networks, Big Data Research, doi: 10.1016/j.bdr.2018.04.001
We propose a memetic approach to find bottlenecks in complex networks based on searching for a graph partitioning with minimum conductance. Finding the optimum of this problem, also known in statistical mechanics as the Cheeger constant, is one of the most interesting NP-hard network optimisation problems. The existence of low conductance minima indicates bottlenecks in complex networks. However, the problem has not yet been explored in depth in the context of applied discrete optimisation and evolutionary approaches to solve it. In this paper, the use of a memetic framework is explored to solve the minimum conductance problem. The approach combines a hybrid method of initial population generation based on bridge identification and local optima sampling with a steady-state evolutionary process with two local search subroutines. These two local search subroutines have complementary qualities. Efficiency of three crossover operators is explored, namely one-point crossover, uniform crossover, and our own partition crossover. Experimental results are presented for both artificial and real-world complex networks. Results for Barabási–Albert model of scale-free networks are presented, as well as results for samples of social networks and protein–protein interaction networks. These indicate that both well-informed initial population generation and the use of a crossover seem beneficial in solving the problem in large-scale.”
Roggatz, Christina C. and Lorch, Mark and Benoit, David M., 2018-03-22, Influence of Solvent Representation on Nuclear Shielding Calculations of Protonation States of Small Biological Molecules, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01020
In this study, we assess the influence of solvation on the accuracy and reliability of isotropic nuclear magnetic shielding calculations for amino acids in comparison to experimental data. We focus particularly on the performance of solvation methods for different protonation states, as biological molecules occur almost exclusively in aqueous solution and are subject to protonation with pH. We identify significant shortcomings of current implicit solvent models and present a hybrid solvation approach that improves agreement with experimental data by taking into account the presence of direct interactions between amino acid protonation state and water molecules.
Y. Zhao and W. Du and B. Koe and T. Connolley and S. Irvine and P.K. Allan and C.M. Schleputz and W. Zhang and F. Wang and D.G. Eskin and J. Mi, 2018-03-15, 3D characterisation of the Fe-rich intermetallic phases in recycled Al alloys by synchrotron X-ray microtomography and skeletonisation, Scripta Materialia, doi: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2017.12.010
Synchrotron X-ray microtomography and skeletonisation method were used to study the true 3D network structures and morphologies of the Fe-rich intermetallic phases in recycled Al-5.0%Cu-0.6%Mn alloys with 0.5% and 1.0% Fe. It was found that, the Fe-phases in the 1.0%Fe alloy have node lengths of 5–25μm; while those in the 0.5%Fe alloy are of 3–17μm. The Fe-phases in the 1.0%Fe alloy also developed sharper mean curvature with wider distribution than those in the 0.5%Fe alloy. Combining SEM studies of the deeply-etched samples, the true 3D structures of 4 different type Fe phases in both alloys are also revealed and demonstrated.
Travaglio, C.; Rauscher, T.; Heger, A.; Pignatari, M.; West, C., 2018-02-07, Role of core-collapse supernovae in explaining Solar System abundances of p nuclides, The Astrophysical journal, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaa4f7
The production of the heavy stable proton-rich isotopes between 74Se and 196Hg—the p nuclides—is due to the contribution from different nucleosynthesis processes, activated in different types of stars. Whereas these processes have been subject to various studies, their relative contributions to Galactic chemical evolution (GCE) are still a matter of debate. Here we investigate for the first time the nucleosynthesis of p nuclides in GCE by including metallicity and progenitor mass-dependent yields of core-collapse supernovae (ccSNe) into a chemical evolution model. We used a grid of metallicities and progenitor masses from two different sets of stellar yields and followed the contribution of ccSNe to the Galactic abundances as a function of time. In combination with previous studies on p-nucleus production in thermonuclear supernovae (SNIa), and using the same GCE description, this allows us to compare the respective roles of SNeIa and ccSNe in the production of p-nuclei in the Galaxy. The γ process in ccSN is very efficient for a wide range of progenitor masses (13 M ⊙–25 M ⊙) at solar metallicity. Since it is a secondary process with its efficiency depending on the initial abundance of heavy elements, its contribution is strongly reduced below solar metallicity. This makes it challenging to explain the inventory of the p nuclides in the solar system by the contribution from ccSNe alone. In particular, we find that ccSNe contribute less than 10% of the solar p nuclide abundances, with only a few exceptions. Due to the uncertain contribution from other nucleosynthesis sites in ccSNe, such as neutrino winds or α-rich freeze out, we conclude that the light p-nuclides 74Se, 78Kr, 84Sr, and 92Mo may either still be completely or only partially produced in ccSNe. The γ-process accounts for up to twice the relative solar abundances for 74Se in one set of stellar models and 196Hg in the other set. The solar abundance of the heaviest p nucleus 196Hg is reproduced within uncertainties in one set of our models due to photodisintegration of the Pb isotopes 208,207,206Pb. For all other p nuclides, abundances as low as 2% of the solar level were obtained.
Bing Wang and Dongyue Tan and Tung Lik Lee and Jia Chuan Khong and Feng Wang and Dmitry Eskin and Thomas Connolley and Kamel Fezzaa and Jiawei Mi, 2018-02-01, Ultrafast synchrotron X-ray imaging studies of microstructure fragmentation in solidification under ultrasound, Acta Materialia, doi: 10.1016/j.actamat.2017.10.067
Ultrasound processing of metal alloys is an environmental friendly and promising green technology for liquid metal degassing and microstructural refinement. However many fundamental issues in this field are still not fully understood, because of the difficulties in direct observation of the dynamic behaviours caused by ultrasound inside liquid metal and semisolid metals during the solidification processes. In this paper, we report a systematic study using the ultrafast synchrotron X-ray imaging (up to 271,554 frame per second) technique available at the Advanced Photon Source, USA and Diamond Light Source, UK to investigate the dynamic interactions between the ultrasonic bubbles/acoustic flow and the solidifying phases in a Bi-8%Zn alloy. The experimental results were complimented by numerical modelling. The chaotic bubble implosion and dynamic bubble oscillations were revealed in-situ for the first time in liquid metal and semisolid metal. The fragmentation of the solidifying Zn phases and breaking up of the liquid-solid interface by ultrasonic bubbles and enhanced acoustic flow were clearly demonstrated and agreed very well with the theoretical calculations. The research provides unambiguous experimental evidence and robust theoretical interpretation in elucidating the dominant mechanisms of microstructure fragmentation and refinement in solidification under ultrasound.
Marco Pignatari and Peter Hoppe and Reto Trappitsch and Chris Fryer and F.X. Timmes and Falk Herwig and Raphael Hirschi, 2018-01-15, The neutron capture process in the He shell in core-collapse supernovae: Presolar silicon carbide grains as a diagnostic tool for nuclear astrophysics, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2017.06.005
Carbon-rich presolar grains are found in primitive meteorites, with isotopic measurements to date suggesting a core-collapse supernovae origin site for some of them. This holds for about 1–2% of presolar silicon carbide (SiC) grains, so-called Type X and C grains, and about 30% of presolar graphite grains. Presolar SiC grains of Type X show anomalous isotopic signatures for several elements heavier than iron compared to the solar abundances: most notably for strontium, zirconium, molybdenum, ruthenium and barium. We study the nucleosynthesis of zirconium and molybdenum isotopes in the He-shell of three core-collapse supernovae models of 15, 20 and 25 M☉ with solar metallicity, and compare the results to measurements of presolar grains. We find the stellar models show a large scatter of isotopic abundances for zirconium and molybdenum, but the mass averaged abundances are qualitatively similar to the measurements. We find all models show an excess of 96Zr relative to the measurements, but the model abundances are affected by the fractionation between Sr and Zr since a large contribution to 90Zr is due to the radiogenic decay of 90Sr. Some supernova models show excesses of 95,97Mo and depletion of 96Mo relative to solar. The mass averaged distribution from these models shows an excess of 100Mo, but this may be alleviated by very recent neutron-capture cross section measurements. We encourage future explorations to assess the impact of the uncertainties in key neutron-capture reaction rates that lie along the n-process path.
Peter Hoppe and Marco Pignatari and Janos Kodolanyi and Elmar Groner and Sachiko Amari, 2018-01-15, NanoSIMS isotope studies of rare types of presolar silicon carbide grains from the Murchison meteorite: Implications for supernova models and the role of 14C, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2017.01.051
We have conducted a NanoSIMS ion imaging survey of about 1800 presolar silicon carbide (SiC) grains from the Murchison meteorite. A total of 21 supernova (SN) X grains, two \{SN\} C grains, and two putative nova grains were identified. Six particularly interesting grains, two X and C grains each and the two putative nova grains were subsequently studied in greater detail, namely, for C-, N-, Mg-Al-, Si-, S-, and Ca-Ti-isotopic compositions and for the initial presence of radioactive 26Al (half life 716,000 yr), 32Si (half life 153 yr), and 44Ti (half life 60 yr). Their isotope data along with those of three X grains from the literature were compared with model predictions for 15 M⊙ and 25 M⊙ Type \{II\} supernovae (SNe). The best fits were found for 25 M⊙ \{SN\} models that consider for the He shell the temperature and density of a 15 M⊙ \{SN\} and ingestion of H into the He shell before the explosion. In these models a C- and Si-rich zone forms at the bottom of the He burning zone (C/Si zone). The region above the C/Si zone is termed the O/nova zone and exhibits the isotopic fingerprints of explosive H burning. Satisfactory fits of measured C-, N-, and Si-isotopic compositions and of 26Al/27Al ratios require small-scale mixing of matter originating from a region extending over 0.2 M⊙ for X and C grains and over 0.4 M⊙ for one of the putative nova grains, involving matter from a thin Si-rich layer slightly below the C/Si zone, the C/Si zone, and the O/nova zone. Simultaneous fitting of 14N/15N and 26Al/27Al requires a C-N fractionation of a factor of 50 during SiC condensation. This leads to preferential incorporation of radioactive 14C (half life 5700 yr) over directly produced 14N and can account for the 14N/15N along with 26Al/27Al ratios as observed in the SiC grains. The good fit for one of the putative nova grains along with its high 26Al/27Al points towards a \{SN\} origin and supports previous suggestions that some grains classified as nova grains might be from SNe. Apparent problems with the small-scale mixing scheme considered here are C/O ratios that are mostly <1 if C-, N-, and Si-isotopic compositions and 26Al/27Al ratios are simultaneously matched, underproduction of 32Si, and overproduction of 44Ti. This confirms the limitations of one-dimensional hydrodynamical models for H ingestion and stresses the need to better study the convective-boundary mixing mechanisms at the bottom of the convective He shell in massive star progenitors. This is crucial to define the effective size of the C/Si zone formed by the \{SN\} shock. The comparison between the Si isotope data of the \{SN\} grains and the models gives a hint that the predicted 30Si is too high at the bottom of the He burning shell.
Hannes C. Gottschalk and Anja Poblotzki and Martin A. Suhm and Muneerah M. Al-Mogren and Jens Antony and Alexander A. Auer and Leonardo Baptista and David M. Benoit and Giovanni Bistoni and Fabian Bohle and Rahma Dahmani and Dzmitry Firaha and Stefan Grimme and Andreas Hansen and Michael E. Harding and Majdi Hochlaf and Christof Holzer and Georg Jansen and Wim Klopper and Wassja A. Kopp and Leif C. Kroger and Kai Leonhard and Halima Mouhib and Frank Neese and Max N. Pereira and Inga S. Ulusoy and Axel Wuttke and Ricardo A. Mata, 2018-01-01, The furan microsolvation blind challenge for quantum chemical methods: First steps, The Journal of Chemical Physics, doi: 10.1063/1.5009011
Herein we present the results of a blind challenge to quantum chemical methods in the calculation of dimerization preferences in the low temperature gas phase. The target of study was the first step of the microsolvation of furan, 2-methylfuran and 2,5-dimethylfuran with methanol. The dimers were investigated through IR spectroscopy of a supersonic jet expansion. From the measured bands, it was possible to identify a persistent hydrogen bonding OH–O motif in the predominant species. From the presence of another band, which can be attributed to an OH-π interaction, we were able to assert that the energy gap between the two types of dimers should be less than or close to 1 kJ/mol across the series. These values served as a first evaluation ruler for the 12 entries featured in the challenge. A tentative stricter evaluation of the challenge results is also carried out, combining theoretical and experimental results in order to define a smaller error bar. The process was carried out in a double-blind fashion, with both theory and experimental groups unaware of the results on the other side, with the exception of the 2,5-dimethylfuran system which was featured in an earlier publication.
Vorotnikova, Natalya A. and Vorotnikov, Yuri A. and Novozhilov, Igor N. and Syrokvashin, Mikhail M. and Nadolinny, Vladimir A. and Kuratieva, Natalia V. and Benoit, David M. and Mironov, Yuri V. and Walton, Richard I. and Clarkson, Guy J. and Kitamura, Noboru and Sutherland, Andrew J. and Shestopalov, Michael A. and Efremova, Olga A., 2017-12-22, 23-Electron Octahedral Molybdenum Cluster Complex [{Mo6I8}Cl6]−, Inorganic Chemistry, doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02760
Photoactive transition metal compounds that are prone to reversible redox reactions are important for myriad applications, including catalysis, optoelectronics, and sensing. This article describes chemical and electrochemical methods to prepare cluster complex (Bu4N)[{Mo6I8}Cl6], a rare example of a 23 e– cluster complex within the family of octahedral clusters of Mo, W, and Re. The low temperature and room temperature crystal structures; electronic structure; and the magnetic, optical, and electrochemical properties of this complex are described.
Ruiz-Lara, T., Few, C. G., Florido, E., Gibson, B. K., Perez, I., Sanchez-Blazquez, P., 2017-12-15, The role of stellar radial motions in shaping galaxy surface brightness profiles, Astronomy & Astrophysics, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731485
Aims: The physics driving features such as breaks observed in galaxy surface brightness (SB) profiles remains contentious. Here, we assess the importance of stellar radial motions in shaping their characteristics. Methods: We use the simulated Milky Way-mass cosmological discs from the Ramses Disc Environment Study (RaDES) to characterise the radial redistribution of stars in galaxies displaying type-I (pure exponentials), II (downbending), and III (upbending) SB profiles. We compare radial profiles of the mass fractions and the velocity dispersions of different sub-populations of stars according to their birth and current location. Results: Radial redistribution of stars is important in all galaxies regardless of their light profiles. Type-II breaks seem to be a consequence of the combined effects of outward-moving and accreted stars. The former produce shallower inner profiles (lack of stars in the inner disc) and accumulate material around the break radius and beyond, strengthening the break; the latter can weaken or even convert the break into a pure exponential. Further accretion from satellites can concentrate material in the outermost parts, leading to type-III breaks that can coexist with type-II breaks, but situated further out. Type-III galaxies would be the result of an important radial redistribution of material throughout the entire disc, as well as a concentration of accreted material in the outskirts. In addition, type-III galaxies display the most efficient radial redistribution and the largest number of accreted stars, followed by type-I and II systems, suggesting that type-I galaxies may be an intermediate case between types II and III. In general, the velocity dispersion profiles of all galaxies tend to flatten or even increase around the locations where the breaks are found. The age and metallicity profiles are also affected, exhibiting different inner gradients depending on their SB profile, being steeper in the case of type-II systems (as found observationally). The steep type-II profiles might be inherent to their formation rather than acquired via radial redistribution.
Szitenberg A, Salazar-Jaramillo L, Blok VC, Laetsch DR, Joseph S, Williamson VM, et al., 2017-09-25, Comparative genomics of apomictic root-knot nematodes: hybridization, ploidy, and dynamic genome change., Genome Biology and Evolution, doi: 10.1093/gbe/evx201
The Root-Knot Nematodes (RKN; genus Meloidogyne) are important plant parasites causing substantial agricultural losses. The Meloidogyne incognita group (MIG) of species, most of which are obligatory apomicts (mitotic parthenogens), are extremely polyphagous and important problems for global agriculture. While understanding the genomic basis for their variable success on different crops could benefit future agriculture, analyses of their genomes are challenging due to complex evolutionary histories that may incorporate hybridization, ploidy changes, and chromosomal fragmentation. Here we sequence 19 genomes, representing five species of key RKN collected from different geographic origins. We show that a hybrid origin that predated speciation within the MIG has resulted in each species possessing two divergent genomic copies. Additionally, the apomictic MIG species are hypotriploids, with a proportion of one genome present in a second copy. The hypotriploid proportion varies among species. The evolutionary history of the MIG genomes is revealed to be very dynamic, with non-crossover recombination both homogenising the genomic copies, and acting as a mechanism for generating divergence between species. Interestingly, the automictic MIG species M. floridensis differs from the apomict species in that it has become homozygous throughout much of its genome.
Thompson, B. B. and Few, C. G. and Bergemann, M. and Gibson, B. K. and MacFarlane, B. A. and Serenelli, A. and Gilmore, G. and Randich, S. and Vallenari, A. and Alfaro, E. J. and Bensby, T. and Francois, P. and Korn, A. J. and Bayo, A. and Carraro, G. and Casey, A. R. and Costado, M. T. and Donati, P. and Franciosini, E. and Frasca, A. and Hourihane, A. and Jofré, P. and Hill, V. and Heiter, U. and Koposov, S. E. and Lanzafame, A. and Lardo, C. and de Laverny, P. and Lewis, J. and Magrini, L. and Marconi, G. and Masseron, T. and Monaco, L. and Morbidelli, L. and Pancino, E. and Prisinzano, L. and Recio-Blanco, A. and Sacco, G. and Sousa, S. G. and Tautvaisiene, G. and Worley, C. C. and Zaggia, S., 2017-09-11, The Gaia-ESO Survey: Matching Chemo-Dynamical Simulations to Observations of the Milky Way, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx2316
The typical methodology for comparing simulated galaxies with observational surveys is usually to apply a spatial selection to the simulation to mimic the region of interest covered by a comparable observational survey sample. In this work we compare this approach with a more sophisticated post-processing in which the observational uncertainties and selection effects (photometric, surface gravity and effective temperature) are taken into account. We compare a ‘solar neighbourhood analogue’ region in a model Milky Way-like galaxy simulated with RAMSES-CH with fourth release Gaia-ESO survey data. We find that a simple spatial cut alone is insufficient and that observational uncertainties must be accounted for in the comparison. This is particularly true when the scale of uncertainty is large compared to the dynamic range of the data, e.g. in our comparison, the [Mg/Fe] distribution is affected much more than the more accurately determined [Fe/H] distribution. Despite clear differences in the underlying distributions of elemental abundances between simulation and observation, incorporating scatter to our simulation results to mimic observational uncertainty produces reasonable agreement. The quite complete nature of the Gaia-ESO survey means that the selection function has minimal impact on the distribution of observed age and metal abundances but this would become increasingly more important for surveys with narrower selection functions.
R. J. deBoer, J. Gorres, M. Wiescher, R. E. Azuma, A. Best, C. R. Brune, C. E. Fields, S. Jones, M. Pignatari, D. Sayre, K. Smith, F. X. Timmes, and E. Uberseder, 2017-09-07, The 12C(alpha,gamma)16O reaction and its implications for stellar helium burning, Reviews of Modern Physics, doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.89.035007
The creation of carbon and oxygen in our Universe is one of the forefront questions in nuclear astrophysics. The determination of the abundance of these elements is key to our understanding of both the formation of life on Earth and to the life cycles of stars. While nearly all models of different nucleosynthesis environments are affected by the production of carbon and oxygen, a key ingredient, the precise determination of the reaction rate of 12C(α,γ)16O, has long remained elusive. This is owed to the reaction’s inaccessibility, both experimentally and theoretically. Nuclear theory has struggled to calculate this reaction rate because the cross section is produced through different underlying nuclear mechanisms. Isospin selection rules suppress the E1 component of the ground state cross section, creating a unique situation where the E1 and E2 contributions are of nearly equal amplitudes. Experimentally there have also been great challenges. Measurements have been pushed to the limits of state-of-the-art techniques, often developed for just these measurements. The data have been plagued by uncharacterized uncertainties, often the result of the novel measurement techniques that have made the different results challenging to reconcile. However, the situation has markedly improved in recent years, and the desired level of uncertainty ≈10% may be in sight. In this review the current understanding of this critical reaction is summarized. The emphasis is placed primarily on the experimental work and interpretation of the reaction data, but discussions of the theory and astrophysics are also pursued. The main goal is to summarize and clarify the current understanding of the reaction and then point the way forward to an improved determination of the reaction rate.
Hahn, Christoph and Genner, Martin J and Turner, George F and Joyce, Domino A, 2017-08-29, The genomic basis of cichlid fish adaptation within the deepwater “twilight zone” of Lake Malawi, Evolution Letters, doi: 10.1002/evl3.20
Deepwater environments are characterized by low levels of available light at narrow spectra, great hydrostatic pressure, and low levels of dissolved oxygen—conditions predicted to exert highly specific selection pressures. In Lake Malawi over 800 cichlid species have evolved, and this adaptive radiation extends into the “twilight zone†below 50 m. We use population-level RAD-seq data to investigate whether four endemic deepwater species (Diplotaxodon spp.) have experienced divergent selection within this environment. We identify candidate genes including regulators of photoreceptor function, photopigments, lens morphology, and haemoglobin, many not previously implicated in cichlid adaptive radiations. Colocalization of functionally linked genes suggests coadapted “supergene†complexes. Comparisons of Diplotaxodon to the broader Lake Malawi radiation using genome resequencing data revealed functional substitutions and signatures of positive selection in candidate genes. Our data provide unique insights into genomic adaptation within deepwater habitats, and suggest genome-level specialization for life at depth as an important process in cichlid radiation.
Dethlefs, Nina, 2017-07-18, Domain Transfer for Deep Natural Language Generation from Abstract Meaning Representations, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, doi: 10.1109/MCI.2017.2708558
Stochastic natural language generation systems that are trained from labelled datasets are often domain-specific in their annotation and in their mapping from semantic input representations to lexical-syntactic outputs. As a result, learnt models fail to generalize across domains, heavily restricting their usability beyond single applications. In this article, we focus on the problem of domain adaptation for natural language generation. We show how linguistic knowledge from a source domain, for which labelled data is available, can be adapted to a target domain by reusing training data across domains. As a key to this, we propose to employ abstract meaning representations as a common semantic representation across domains. We model natural language generation as a long short-term memory recurrent neural network encoder-decoder, in which one recurrent neural network learns a latent representation of a semantic input, and a second recurrent neural network learns to decode it to a sequence of words. We show that the learnt representations can be transferred across domains and can be leveraged effectively to improve training on new unseen domains. Experiments in three different domains and with six datasets demonstrate that the lexical-syntactic constructions learnt in one domain can be transferred to new domains and achieve up to 75-100% of the performance of in-domain training. This is based on objective metrics such as BLEU and semantic error rate and a subjective human rating study. Training a policy from prior knowledge from a different domain is consistently better than pure in-domain training by up to 10%.
Nan Liu and Larry R. Nittler and Marco Pignatari and Conel M. O’D. Alexander and Jianhua Wang, 2017-06-06, Stellar Origin of 15 N-rich Presolar SiC Grains of Type AB: Supernovae with Explosive Hydrogen Burning, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa74e5
We report C, N, and Si isotopic data for 59 highly 13 C-enriched presolar submicron- to micron-sized SiC grains from the Murchison meteorite, including eight putative nova grains (PNGs) and 29 15 N-rich ( 14 N/ 15 N ≤ solar) AB grains, and their Mg–Al, S, and Ca–Ti isotope data when available. These 37 grains are enriched in 13 C, 15 N, and 26 Al with the PNGs showing more extreme enhancements. The 15 N-rich AB grains show systematically higher 26 Al and 30 Si excesses than the 14 N-rich AB grains. Thus, we propose to divide the AB grains into groups 1 ( 14 N/ 15 N < solar) and 2 ( 14 N/ 15 N ≥ solar). For the first time, we have obtained both S and Ti isotopic data for five AB1 grains and one PNG and found 32 S and/or 50 Ti enhancements. Interestingly, one AB1 grain had the largest 32 S and 50 Ti excesses, strongly suggesting a neutron-capture nucleosynthetic origin of the 32 S excess and thus the initial presence of radiogenic 32 Si ( t 1/2 = 153 years). More importantly, we found that the 15 N and 26 Al excesses of AB1 grains form a trend that extends to the region in the N–Al isotope plot occupied by C2 grains, strongly indicating a common stellar origin for both AB1 and C2 grains. Comparison of supernova models with the AB1 and C2 grain data indicates that these grains came from supernovae that experienced H ingestion into the He/C zones of their progenitors.
Dethlefs, Nina and Turner, Alexander, 2017-05-27, Deep Text Generation — Using Hierarchical Decomposition to Mitigate the Effect of Rare Data Points, Language, Data, and Knowledge: First International Conference, LDK 2017, Galway, Ireland, June 19-20, 2017, Proceedings, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59888-8_25
The generation of in situ sp2–sp3 diboron adducts has revolutionised the synthesis of organoboranes. Organocatalytic diboration reactions have represented a milestone in terms of unpredictable reactivity of these adducts. However, current methodologies have limitations in terms of substrate scope, selectivity and functional group tolerance. Here a new methodology based on the use of simple amines as catalyst is reported. This methodology provides a completely selective transformation overcoming current substrate scope and functional/protecting group limitations. Mechanistic studies have been included in this report.
Mishenina, T. and Pignatari, M. and Cote, B. and Thielemann, F.-K. and Soubiran, C. and Basak, N. and Gorbaneva, T. and Korotin, S. A. and Kovtyukh, V. V. and Wehmeyer, B. and Bisterzo, S. and Travaglio, C. and Gibson, B. K. and Jordan, C. and Paul, A. and Ritter, C. and Herwig, F., 2017-05-11, Observing the metal-poor solar neighbourhood: a comparison of galactic chemical evolution predictions, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1145
Atmospheric parameters and chemical compositions for 10 stars with metallicities in the region of −2.2 < [Fe/H] < −0.6 were precisely determined using high-resolution, high signal-to-noise, spectra. For each star, the abundances, for 14–27 elements, were derived using both local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) and non-LTE (NLTE) approaches. In particular, differences by assuming LTE or NLTE are about 0.10 dex; depending on [Fe/H], Teff, gravity and element lines used in the analysis. We find that the O abundance has the largest error, ranging from 0.10 and 0.2 dex. The best measured elements are Cr, Fe, and Mn; with errors between 0.03 and 0.11 dex. The stars in our sample were included in previous different observational work. We provide a consistent data analysis. The data dispersion introduced in the literature by different techniques and assumptions used by the different authors is within the observational errors, excepting for HD103095. We compare these results with stellar observations from different data sets and a number of theoretical galactic chemical evolution (GCE) simulations. We find a large scatter in the GCE results, used to study the origin of the elements. Within this scatter as found in previous GCE simulations, we cannot reproduce the evolution of the elemental ratios [Sc/Fe], [Ti/Fe], and [V/Fe] at different metallicities. The stellar yields from core-collapse supernovae are likely primarily responsible for this discrepancy. Possible solutions and open problems are discussed.
Makina, Y. and Mahjoubi, K. and Benoit, D. M. and Jaidane, N.-E. and Al-Mogren, M. Mogren and Hochlaf, M., 2017-05-09, Periodic Dispersion-Corrected Approach for Isolation Spectroscopy of N2 in an Argon Environment: Clusters, Surfaces, and Matrices, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b00093
Ab initio and Perdew, Burke, and Ernzerhof (PBE) density functional theory with dispersion correction (PBE-D3) calculations are performed to study N2–Arn (n ≤ 3) complexes and N2 trapped in Ar matrix (i.e., N2@Ar). For cluster computations, we used both Møller–Plesset (MP2) and PBE-D3 methods. For N2@Ar, we used a periodic-dispersion corrected model for Ar matrix, which consists on a slab of four layers of Ar atoms. We determined the equilibrium structures and binding energies of N2 interacting with these entities. We also deduced the N2 vibrational frequency shifts caused by clustering or embedding compared to an isolated N2 molecule. Upon complexation or embedding, the vibrational frequency of N2 is slightly shifted, while its equilibrium distance remains unchanged. This is due to the weak interactions between N2 and Ar within these compounds. Our calculations show the importance of inclusion of dispersion effects for the accurate description of geometrical and spectroscopic parameters of N2 isolated, in interaction with Ar surfaces, or trapped in Ar matrices.
Siri Chongchitnan and Matthew Hunt, 2017-03-27, On the abundance of extreme voids II: a survey of void mass functions, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/03/049
The abundance of cosmic voids can be described by an analogue of halo mass functions for galaxy clusters. In this work, we explore a number of void mass functions: from those based on excursion-set theory to new mass functions obtained by modifying halo mass functions. We show how different void mass functions vary in their predictions for the largest void expected in an observational volume, and compare those predictions to observational data. Our extreme-value formalism is shown to be a new practical tool for testing void theories against simulation and observation.
Dethlefs, Nina and Hawick, Ken, 2017-02-04, DEFIne: A Fluent Interface DSL for Deep Learning Applications, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Real World Domain Specific Languages, doi: 10.1145/3039895.3039898
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in deep learning models that outperform other machine learning algorithms on benchmarks across many disciplines. Most existing deep learning libraries facilitate the development of neural nets by providing a mathematical framework that helps users implement their models more efficiently. This still represents a substantial investment of time and effort, however, when the intention is to compare a range of competing models quickly for a specific task. We present DEFIne, a fluent interface DSL for the specification, optimisation and evaluation of deep learning models. The fluent interface is implemented through method chaining. DEFIne is embedded in Python and is build on top of its most popular deep learning libraries, Keras and Theano. It extends these with common operations for data pre-processing and representation as well as visualisation of datasets and results. We test our framework on three benchmark tasks from different domains: heart disease diagnosis, hand-written digit recognition and weather forecast generation. Results in terms of accuracy, runtime and lines of code show that our DSL achieves equivalent accuracy and runtime to state-of-the-art models, while requiring only about 10 lines of code per application.
Uberseder, E.; Heil, M.; Kaeppeler, F.; Lederer, C.; Mengoni, A.; Bisterzo, S.; Pignatari, M.; Wiescher, M.;, 2017-02-02, Stellar (n ,gamma) cross sections of 23Na, Physical Review C, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.95.025803
The cross section of the 23Na(n ,γ )24Na reaction was measured via the activation method at the Karlsruhe 3.7 MV Van de Graaff accelerator. NaCl samples were exposed to quasistellar neutron spectra at k T =5.1 and 25 keV produced via the 18O(p,n )18F and 7Li(p ,n )7Be reactions, respectively. The derived capture cross sections kT=5 keV=9.1 ±0.3 mb and kT =25keV=2.03 ±0.05 mb are significantly lower than reported in literature. These results were used to substantially revise the radiative width of the first 23Na resonance and to establish an improved set of Maxwellian average cross sections. The implications of the lower capture cross section for current models of s-process nucleosynthesis are discussed.
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Farre, Albert and Soares, Kaline and Briggs, Rachel A. and Balanta, Angelica and Benoit, David M. and Bonet, Amadeu, 2016-10-26, Amine Catalysis for the Organocatalytic Diboration of Challenging Alkenes, Chemistry – A European Journal, doi: 10.1002/chem.201603979
The generation of in situ sp2–sp3 diboron adducts has revolutionised the synthesis of organoboranes. Organocatalytic diboration reactions have represented a milestone in terms of unpredictable reactivity of these adducts. However, current methodologies have limitations in terms of substrate scope, selectivity and functional group tolerance. Here a new methodology based on the use of simple amines as catalyst is reported. This methodology provides a completely selective transformation overcoming current substrate scope and functional/protecting group limitations. Mechanistic studies have been included in this report
Szitenberg, Amir; Cha, Soyeon; Opperman, Charles H.; Bird, David M.; Blaxter, Mark L.; Lunt, David H., 2016-09, Genetic drift, not life history or RNAi, determine long term evolution of transposable elements, Genome biology and evolution, doi: 10.1093/gbe/evw208
Transposable elements (TEs) are a major source of genome variation across the branches of life. Although TEs may play an adaptive role in their host’s genome, they are more often deleterious, and purifying selection is an important factor controlling their genomic loads. In contrast, life history, mating system, GC content, and RNAi pathways, have been suggested to account for the disparity of TE loads in different species. Previous studies of fungal, plant, and animal genomes have reported conflicting results regarding the direction in which these genomic features drive TE evolution. Many of these studies have had limited power, however, because they studied taxonomically narrow systems, comparing only a limited number of phylogenetically independent contrasts, and did not address long-term effects on TE evolution. Here we test the long-term determinants of TE evolution by comparing 42 nematode genomes spanning over 500 million years of diversification. This analysis includes numerous transitions between life history states, and RNAi pathways, and evaluates if these forces are sufficiently persistent to affect the long-term evolution of TE loads in eukaryotic genomes. Although we demonstrate statistical power to detect selection, we find no evidence that variation in these factors influence genomic TE loads across extended periods of time. In contrast, the effects of genetic drift appear to persist and control TE variation among species. We suggest that variation in the tested factors are largely inconsequential to the large differences in TE content observed between genomes, and only by these large-scale comparisons can we distinguish long-term and persistent effects from transient or random changes.
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Drive-Thru Whale
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"Get your lighter from the anvil, please."
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The Drive-Thru Whale, or the Blubb-O Whale, is a smiling blue whale-shaped drive-through speaker that did not originally appear to be linked to a restaurant, though nightlife suggests (and Blubb-O's Commercial confirms) that it is the mascot for Blubb-O's. The speaker is very scratchy and difficult to understand. Its speech patterns range from typical drive-thru speaker phrases like "Would you like to try a combo meal?" to seemingly random phrases like "Sever your leg, please. It's the greatest day," as well as playing a short length of music while moving its flume of water up and down. The Drive-Thru Whale can move from place to place using a rocket booster mounted underneath it, which allows it to fly up into Outer Space, and it can also rise up from underground. It apparently has a taste for Europa-pean Lobster, or perhaps for anything that will sever its leg. The Drive-Thru Whale was originally discovered in The Field, but has since been seen on the Sweet Puttin' Cakes Puttiature Golf-Golf Course and Behind the Fence. The Drive-Thru Whale is in Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People, as a location in The Field. It says random phrases and cryptic hints when interacted with.
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[Weekender] A case for Korean millennials in the workplace
By Kim Arin
Published : Jan 10, 2020 - 10:04 Updated : Jan 10, 2020 - 11:38
Millennials everywhere get a bad rap, and South Korea is no exception.
As more millennials join the workforce, theories and assumptions about the millennial ways abound.
Millennial workers have been called weak and entitled, or are portrayed as not trying hard enough. They also hold a reputation for being quitters and job-hoppers.
But blaming the “millennial mindset” for traits seen in young workers can prevent us from seeing the whole picture, experts say.
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For today’s youths, getting full-time paid employment no longer means a steady job.
“In the case of my parents’ generation, most companies thrived in the growing economy, at least before the 1997-98 financial crisis,” said Seo Ye-jin, 25. “You could expect to stay at one job until you hit retirement age.”
“But now, sluggish economic growth has spurred companies to downsize, by hiring less and forcing employees to resign -- the idea of job security has become sort of a thing of the past.”
Seo said her generation sought to develop skill sets that would allow them to stay economically active after they retired or were otherwise compelled to leave their jobs.
“People are thinking about the next step even after landing a full-time position because they know it may not last.”
This is why millennials tend to think less of a particular company as their end goal, and look instead for opportunities where they can build their expertise and gain a competitive edge, according to headhunting platform Wanted’s head of business Nam Song-hyun.
The lack of job security gave rise to the trend of “saladenting” -- a neologism combining salaried worker and student -- as workers try to stay afloat amid the flagging economy.
Such was the case for Lee Hyun-jung, 25, who said she was studying while working full-time.
Lee, who began her second job in 2018, recently enrolled in a graduate course in hopes of upgrading her work performance and enjoying future job opportunities.
“The anxiety over status is real for young Koreans in their 20s and 30s. You are not guaranteed a stable job, and it’s not like there is a social safety net you could fall back on,” she said.
While financial security is a major concern, millennials also struggle to cope with workplace norms that older generations of Koreans are comfortable with.
As with other age groups, Nam said millennial job seekers are chiefly interested in the pay. But other considerations matter too, such as welfare, benefits and the corporate culture.
Jang Ji-hyeon, 28, who works at a public enterprise in Daejeon, said she had experienced what she felt was a generation gap with her superiors.
“For instance, my boss loves office nights out -- which involve drinking more often than not -- and is openly unhappy with the fact that the junior staffers don’t seem willing to tag along,” she said.
“Post-work gatherings were a matter of course in work cultures in the past, but most young workers I know prefer to leave time for personal life after work hours.”
She said the cultural disparity sometimes led to entry-level employees leaving jobs.
“Not many (in junior positions) can stand up to their managers and say no, so they end up transferring to a new job where they may be better suited culture-wise.”
Another millennial, Cho Sung-jin, 28, who works in the media industry, said the Korean work culture was not catching up fast enough with the demands of the changing times and the expectations of young workers.
“Daunting workloads that should be distributed among several workers are heaped on one person, resulting in frequent overtime work,” he said.
“On top of that, hierarchy within a group is extremely rigid. I would apologize to my workplace seniors for things that I’m not responsible for just to avoid conflict.”
Cho said the top-down structure made communication difficult, which he found frustrating.
“How could young employees have a meaningful input when they are expected to say yes to everything?”
According to a December survey of 1,831 people by a recruitment website, 87.6 percent of employees left their first jobs -- 30.6 percent of them within the first year and 15.4 percent within the first six months.
Human resources management professor Yu Gyu-chang of Hanyang University said the hierarchical work culture used to get a pass, until millennials came along.
“Prior generations such as Gen Xers would put up with it and say, ‘What can you do, this is just the way it is’ -- but not millennials.”
The millennial resistance to toxic traditions of the past may be changing things for the better, as companies take steps to establish a more flexible work culture to attract and retain millennial talent.
An LG Electronics public relations official told The Korea Herald the company had reduced the number of job grades from five to three, to create more lateral relationships among employees. Samsung Electronics employees now use the same honorific (“nim”) to address one another, as opposed to using job titles in line with the old convention, according to an official from the company.
Sociologist Shin Jin-wook at Chungang University said one thing that characterized Korean millennials was their sense of resignation and helplessness.
“Millennials are job-hopping because there are too few good jobs available to begin with,” he said, explaining that the fault lies with the system.
“In the news, they repeatedly witness stories of dream schools and jobs being handed to children of politicians and chaebol, while they strain after a spot at an internship or a temp job. Trust in a fair system has been eroded.
“Millennials are spending their youth in a period of recession. Social mobility has been stifled over the course of the past few decades,” he said. “There is no promise of an affluent future awaiting them, the kind that older generations experienced.”
But once millennials come to the fore, the prospects are not so bleak, according to Shin.
“Millennials, who are less accommodating of injustice than any other generation, are expected to take the lead in forming a more progressive society,” he said.
By Kim Arin (arin@heraldcorp.com)
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Los Hermanos Flores Edmonton 2018
Location:12340 FORT ROAD, EDMONTON
Venue:THE MAJESTIC PALACE
Length:08:00 pm
Directamente desde El Salvador llega La Orquesta International “LOS HERMANOS FLORES” en Concierto. Atacando Pura Candela!!!
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Los Hermanos Flores (aka Orquesta de los Hermanos Flores) is the most prestigious musical group in El Salvador’s musical history. They have been recognized for generations for their best-selling recordings and awards, and have a fan base that continues to grow. Their popularity has taken them beyond the borders of their homeland to stages across Central America, the Caribbean, the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.
The group, whose original sound melded cumbia with jazz, was founded in 1962 in the city of San Vicente by Don Andrés Rodríguez, father of the ten Flores brothers. Among their biggest hits are the bumping “La Bala” (a tune that reigned on the charts across Central America and Mexico), and the iconic cumbias “Enferma” and “La Secretaria,” which have proven influential with musicians all over the world.
During their long tenure, Los Flores Hermanos have sold millions of records. Several have been awarded platinum, gold, and silver certifications. Their award and achievement lists are long and their music has been used plentifully in television and film. Their incessant touring regimen reveals their influence as everyone from Los Melodicos, Billo’s Caracas Boys, and Sonora Matancera to Kumbia Kings and Jerry Rivera; dozens more have opened shows for them.
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Jeff Ruby to buy steak dinners for new grads from seven area universities
Restaurateur Jeff Ruby offers free steak dinners to area college grads. | Image via WLKY
Story via WLKY News.
Cincinnati-based restaurateur Jeff Ruby announced Monday that he will give every graduate of seven area colleges a free steak dinner.
Ruby announced the news on Bill Cunningham’s show on 700WLW, a Greater Cincinnati radio station.
Ruby said that every student who graduates from Northern Kentucky University, Xavier University, University of Cincinnati, University of Dayton, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville and Vanderbilt University in the next four years can come to any of his restaurants to receive a complimentary steak dinner as a graduation present.
Ruby’s Louisville restaurant is located downtown at 325 W. Main St.
Ohio State will be added to the list next year after Ruby’s Columbus location opens.
“These seven universities produce terrific young adults.” Ruby said. “With graduation on the horizon and with each school’s NCAA Tournament participation, we thought this would be a great way to recognize both the athletic as well as academic achievement of the talented young leaders from all of these great schools.”
Ruby told Cunningham that the students would have to show proof of their recent graduations, and said “we’ll work out the details later.”
Details will be released in the coming weeks on the company’s website, he added.
Ruby previously made headlines after promising steak dinners to every NKU undergrad if the No. 15 Norse upset the No. 2 Kentucky Wildcats in the NCAA Tournament. UK beat NKU 79-70.
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Houghton Hall & Gardens01485 528569work Historic HouseOne of the finest Palladian Houses in this country. Built in the 1720s, for Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's First Prime Minister. It is a showcase of the work of architects James Gibbs and Colen Campbell complemented by the richly ornamented interiors of William Kent and furnished to reflect Walpole's growing wealth and power. The Hall is currently the home of the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, Walpole's descendent, and his family.
Situated in traditional parkland, Houghton is home to a spectacular herd of white fallow and other exotic deer.
Displayed in the grounds is an impressive collection of contemporary sculptures by world-renowned artists including works by James Turrell, Richard Long, Stephen Cox, Anya Gallaccio, Stephen Cox, Jeppe Hein, Rachel Whiteread, Phillip King and Henry Moore.
The award winning 5-acre Walled Garden includes a spectacular double-sided herbaceous border, a formal rose parterre, a Mediterranean garden, and a kitchen garden with arches and espaliers of apples and pears. There are also glasshouses, antique statues, fountains, Stephen Cox's Flask II, Jeppe Hein's Waterflame and Sir Richard Long's Houghton Cross.
The Stables contain a range of original wooden stalls and tack and harness room. There is a fully-licensed café, Gift Shop and a Soldier Museum, which holds The Cholmondeley Collection of Soldiers one of the largest private collections in the world, with 20,000 models displayed.
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Model Soldier Museum
One of the finest Palladian Houses in this country. Built in the 1720s, for Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's First Prime Minister. It is a showcase of the work of architects James Gibbs and Colen Campbell complemented by the richly ornamented interiors of William Kent and furnished to reflect Walpole's growing wealth and power. The Hall is currently the home of the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, Walpole's descendent, and his family.
Christie's Garden of the Year Award 2007 by Historic Houses Association. Visit England - Quality Rose Marque. HHA Member, RHS Partner Garden, National Gardens Scheme Member.
For opening times and ticket prices please visit www.houghtonhall.com
See website for entry prices: http://www.houghtonhall.com
By Road: Sat Nav postcode PE31 6TY
Houghton Hall is situated 13 miles East of King's Lynn/10 miles west of Fakenham - just off the A148 at New Houghton. Signed by brown signs off the A148. Follow signs through park gates to car park. A special area is designated for disabled parking near the house.
Nearest train station is King's Lynn.
Designated parking provided for guests with disabilities
Surface of the car park and pathway leading to entrance is:
Flat (ie without steps)
Level access (no steps/thresholds) or access by ramp or lift to restaurant / cafe
Level access (ie no steps or thresholds), or access by ramp or lift to the toilets
Level access (ie no steps or thresholds) or access by ramp to a specially adapted toilet for wheelchair users
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California teen uses Snapchat to escape alleged kidnappers
Apple Watch Series 5 Will Feature an Always-On Display & New Finishes
New watch faces are being added as well, something we're accustomed to from previous Apple Watch launches. Those who want to enroll can sign up on the new Apple Research app.
"It has a 6.1" Liquid Retina display and a new dual camera system that couples a wide sensor with a new ultra wide lens that captures a 120-degree field of view. There haven't been many rumors about the new Apple Watch, so it was unclear whether we will actually see a new Apple Watch this year.
Also new with the Series 5 is a built-in compass, which means the watch is going to be able to tell watch wearers which direction they're facing, as well as where they are. The Apple Watch now holds the title of the best selling smartwatch, and the Apple Watch 4 is the company's most elegant device yet (sitting near the top of our best smartwatch ranking).
The most exciting day of the year for Apple fans is finally here. It will feature an always-on display, a built in compass and the cellular models will have global emergency calling.
Apple's press event today included the iPhone 11 series as well as updated iPad and Apple Watch versions, but some rumored devices, features and accessories didn't materialize. There will also be brand new Hermes and Nike bands available.
The Apple Watch Series 5 will be available in aluminum and stainless steel finishes as well as new titanium and ceramic models. Data submitted can't be accessed by Apple, a company employee assured during the September event. It will be available to order from 10 September, starting at $399/£399 for the Global Positioning System only model and from $499/£499 for the Global Positioning System and Cellular model. You can pre-order it from today and it will be shipping starting September 20th. Cellular Apple Watch Series 5 models will offer global emergency calling with a push and hold of the side button.
The big feature is the introduction of an App Store straight on the watch - conceivably, so you can use it without even needing a phone as a go-between.
The Bahamas was just hit last week by Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall as a catastrophic Category 5 storm. For about 10 days, Hurricane Dorian has been making headlines in the news and it continues to cause damage.
Some of the questions, such as Newton's health, were answered, but many remained after the team's first game of the season. Coach Sean McVay held him out of offseason workouts and Gurley practiced every other day during training camp.
US House panel to consider formalizing Trump impeachment probe
While most Democrats in Congress and those running for the Democratic nomination want to impeach President Donald Trump, Rep. Allow the president's legal counsel to respond to presented evidence and testimony in writing.
"When you watch her play, you can see what a fierce competitive individual she is which also makes me very proud". She could have been a little bit intimidated for many reasons.
Pennsylvania Couple Spends $120K That Was Accidentally Put in Their Bank Account
Back in June, one Montoursville, Pennsylvania, couple apparently found themselves in that predicament, the Sun-Gazette reports . The two were arrested and are now out on $25,000 bail. "I don't even know what's going on", the father said.
Also in 2018, she lent her voice to Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen in Sony's hit animated adventure, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Haliee Steinfeld has previously starred in major blockbuster movies like Pitch Perfect and the Transformers movie, Bumblebee .
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to speed up the regulation of e-cigarettes and remove all unregulated products from the market. During the presentation, the students said the rep told them the company's product was "totally safe ".
Other features Apple didn't talk about include water and dust resistance, WiFi 6 support, a 6.1-inch display, and more . The iPhone 11 offers an anodized aluminum and glass design, and Apple says it's the strongest glass in a smartphone.
Watford have parted ways with coach Javi Gracia after picking up just one point from their first four Premier League games. Watford misplaced the FA Cup closing in Can also merely to Manchester City, which also won the Premier League .
South Korea based smartphone manufacturer Samsung recently unveiled its A series smartphones Galaxy A50s and Galaxy A30s . The Galaxy A50s features a 6.4-inch FHD+ Infinity-U Super AMOLED display (1080*2340 resolution) found on its predecessor.
The bright light of the moon allows farmers to work a little bit later into the night to bring in their crops before fall sets in. The upcoming "Harvest Moon" has also been referred to as a "micromoon" as it will appear around 14 percent smaller in the sky.
UK Parliament faces shutdown after Johnson's failure in Ireland
Microsoft expands Xbox Console Streaming Preview to more markets
Apple buys edge-based AI startup Xnor.ai for $200mn
Apple's new 'Pro Mode' could boost your MacBook's performance
Fitbit Activates Blood Oxygen Monitor Feature, Racing Ahead of Apple Watch
Xiaomi reveals Mi A3 Android 10 update release date
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Horizon Zero Dawn is reportedly coming to PC later this year
Bitter Blast Friday, Accumulating Snow Saturday Evening
Xiaomi makes POCO an independent brand in India
Cyberpunk 2077 delayed into September
NetherRealm Studios finally unveils Mortal Kombat 11's Joker trailer
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea must pay $13bn after court order
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Xiaomi patents dual-screen smartphones with wraparound displays
Frog Stem Cells Used To Build First Living Robots
Valve Index just sold out thanks to Half-Life: Alyx (VR)
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Portage Quarry
2011 Portage
2011 Belize
Indonesia & South Pacific
Sea Hunt Turns 50
Legends Articles
Legends Obituaries
Legends Authors
Legends of Diving Articles
Nick Rolle
Owner of Sunn Odyssey Divers, LTD
The owner of Sunn Odyssey Divers; Nick Rolle, was in defiance of his mother; when he took up scuba diving in 1974 under the instruction of David Andrews ex-Navy Seal. Although his father was a Sea Captain; his mother was a non-swimmer; therefore, her belief was stay away from the water because you will drown!
After secretly completing his OW certification Nick began working with his instructor in Nassau at the Buena Vista Hotel. At that time they did more snorkel trips than scuba and his longing for more took him to Freeport, Grand Bahama. There he began his career as a Dive Guide in late 1974 with The Deep Freaks at the Victoria Inn. In early
1975 he moved on to Scubahamas continuing to lead dives and enjoy the underwater world with a passion.
Later that year the shop closed and Nick moved on to UNEXSO where he quickly fit in. Nick recalls; back then everybody had to do a little of everything to keep things going. You may have had to dive in the morning, work the desk in the afternoon and then make sure the pool was clean before closing. This was only the beginning of something big to come in his life; owning his own dive shop.
In 1977 Nick got a call from a good friend of his asking if he would like to start a dive operation on Walker's Cay. He jumped at the chance to officially open a dive operation from the start. He was again thrown into the position of wearing many hats on most days from leading dive trips to teaching scuba courses as well as everything in between. Walker's Cay dive was still in operation until a few years ago.
UNEXSO had a need for a Bahamian Divemaster and in 1979 he found himself back in Freeport where he worked as a Divemaster. After spending some time there and also as usual; become someone that could be depended on to lead dives, teach or even clean the pool.
Nick got a call from Frazier Nivens; a PADI Course Director working in Rum Cay, Bahamas and asked Nick to join him down there. This was 1980 and he worked there as a Divemaster until he started his own operation; Sunn Odyssey Divers in 1982. His operation has expanded and now has a very successful retail shop as well as being the first PADI 5 Star IDC facility on Grand Bahama Island. His shop also held the first PADI IDC in Freeport.
For many summers, Nick has given his time to the kids in the YMCA summer camp program by offering the Bubble Maker program to the many children who would otherwise never get an opportunity to learn about and use scuba gear. Who knows, there may be a future Dive Shop owner taking one of these summer classes!
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The Malahat Review's Annual Writers Festival
What is WordsThaw?
Natural Divide or Shape-Shifting Chic: Negotiating Creative Nonfiction’s Extremes
Saturday, March 21, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Human & Social Development Building, room A250, University of Victoria
Creative nonfiction (CNF) is an elastic genre that embraces everything from the prose poem, to the journalistic exposé, to the travelogue. Panelists will describe and define their writing styles and discuss the shifting, expansive terrain between literary CNF and journalistic CNF.
Lynne Van Luven (moderator)
Lynne Van Luven has a PhD in English (Canadian Literature) and has taught journalism and creative nonfiction at the University of Victoria since 1997. The editor or co-editor of five anthologies, including Nobody’s Mother: Life Without Kids and In The Flesh, she is working on a book of personal essays about aging with a sense of humour.
Read an interview with Lynne about her role as the CNF panel moderator.
Fiona Tinwei Lam
Fiona Tinwei Lam’s poetry, nonfiction and fiction have been included in over twenty-four anthologies. She is the author of two books of poetry, Intimate Distances (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Prize) and Enter the Chrysanthemum as well as the children’s book, The Rainbow Rocket. She is a co-editor of and contributor to the non-fiction anthology, Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood, as well as the editor of The Bright Well, a collection of contemporary Canadian poems about facing cancer. She occasionally writes for The Tyee online news magazine. Her short poetry videos have been screened locally and internationally. www.fionalam.net
Mark Leiren-Young
Mark Leiren-Young is the author of two comic memoirs – Free Magic Secrets Revealed and Never Shoot a Stampede Queen – winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour. His other books include The Green Chain: Nothing is Ever Clear Cut and This Crazy Time (written with/about controversial environmentalist Tzeporah Berman). He’s a regular contributor to The Tyee, The Georgia Straight and The Walrus. Mark is also a playwright, screenwriter, journalist, performer, the 2014-2015 Harvey S. Southam Visiting Lecturer and a proud graduate of the UVic Writing and Theatre programs. He’s currently directing a documentary about Moby Doll: The Last Killer Whale.
Jane Silcott
Jane Silcott’s debut collection of essays, Everything Rustles, was a finalist for the Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize in the 2014 B.C. Book Prizes. Her writing has appeared in several literary magazines including Eighteen Bridges, Geist, subTerrain, The Malahat Review, enRoute, CV2, and The Utne Reader, and has been recognized by the CBC Literary Awards, Room Magazine, the Creative Nonfiction Collective and the National and Western Magazine Awards. Jane completed her BA in Creative Writing & English at UVic in the 80s, went on to do an MFA at UBC and now teaches for the University of King’s College MFA Program in Creative Nonfiction, the UBC Writing Centre, and SFU’s Southbank Program. She serves on the boards of The Creative Nonfiction Collective of Canada and Geist and lives in Vancouver with her family.
Co-presenters
WordsThaw Prequel Events
Lisa Bird-Wilson and Christine Lowther Read in Victoria
WordsThaw Prize Shortlist Reading
WordsThaw Readings: Friday, March 16
WordsThaw Panels: Saturday, March 17
Master Class with Carla Funk: March 18
Save the Date: March 16 to 18, 2018
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There are so many resources locally, statewide, and nationally for us to explore and gain insight into the multi-racial and multi-cultural LGBT community, here are the resources for you to check out from state to state.
Search For LGBT Resources By State
Welcoming places of worship in Alabama
http://equalityfederation.salsalabs.com/o/35002/p/salsa/web/blog/public/?blog_KEY=7
PFLAG Birmingham
http://pflagbham.org/
GLBT Advocacy & Youth Services
http://free2be.org/
Central Alabama Pride
http://www.centralalabamapride.org/
Birmingham LGBT
http://www.blgbt.org/
Birmingham Aids Outreach
http://www.birminghamaidsoutreach.org/
http://identityinc.org/
Alaska LGBT Community
http://alaskacommunity.org/
Alaskans Together for Equality
http://www.alaskanstogether.org/
Tucson LGBT Organizations & Publications
http://www.visittucson.org/about/lgbt/organizations/
Arizona Pride Guide LGBT Community Resources
http://gayarizona.com/
Equality Arizona
http://equalityarizona.org/
Phoenix Pride LGBT Center
http://phoenixpridelgbtcenter.org/
One-N-Ten
http://onenten.org/
New Beginnings Church of Central Arkansas
http://newbeginningsofcar.org/links.htm
Central Arkansas Pride
http://www.centralarkansaspride.com/
Center For Artistic Revolution
http://www.car4ar.org/
http://sfaguilas.org/
The South Bay Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Organization
http://www.southbaycenter.org/
The Diversity Center: The Santa Cruz LGBT Community Center
http://www.diversitycenter.org/
Pacific Pride Foundation
http://www.pacificpridefoundation.org/
LGBT Center Orange County
http://www.lgbtcenteroc.org/
Spectrum LGBT Center
http://www.spectrumlgbtcenter.org/
The San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center
http://www.thecentersd.org/
Sacramento LGBT Community Center
http://saccenter.org/
Motherlode LGBTQ Community Center
http://www.motherlodepride.org/
Pasadena Pride Center
http://www.pridepasadena.org/
The LGBT Community Center of the Desert - Palm Springs
https://www.thecenterps.org/
North County LGBTQ Resource Center
http://www.ncresourcecenter.org/
http://www.lalgbtcenter.org/
The LGBTQ Center Long Beach
http://www.centerlb.org/
The OUTreach Center - Antelope Valley
http://www.outreachcenterav.org/
Our Space - LGBTQ Youth Center
http://www.baycyouth.org/lgbtq-community-center.html
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County
http://rainbowcc.org/
Stonewall Alliance Center of Chico
http://www.stonewallchico.org/
Pacific Center for Human Growth
http://pacificcenter.org/
Southern Colorado Equality Alliance (SCEA)
http://www.socoequality.org/home.html
Mile High Gay Guy LGBT Resources
http://www.milehighgayguy.com/p/resources-organizations.html
Springs Equality
http://springsequality.org/
The Colorado GLBT Bar Association
http://coloradoglbtbar.org/
GLBT Community Center of Colorado
http://www.glbtcolorado.org/
Colorado Springs Queer Collective
http://csqueercollective.org/
OutBoulder
http://www.outboulder.org/
The Hartford Gay & Lesbian Health Collective
https://www.hglhc.org/
http://www.ourtruecolors.org/
Triangle Community Center
http://www.ctgay.org/
New Haven Pride Center
http://www.newhavenpridecenter.org/
Delaware Pride & LGBT Resources
http://www.delawarepride.org/wordpress/?page_id=216
Delaware LGBT Organizations
http://towardequality.org/links.html
Equality Delaware
http://www.equalitydelaware.org/
CAMP Rehoboth
http://www.camprehoboth.com/
The LGBT Bar Association of the District of Columbia
http://lgbtbardc.org/
The Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders (SMYAL)
http://smyal.org/index.php
The DC Center for the LGBT Community
http://www.thedccenter.org/
Casa Ruby
http://casaruby.org/
The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC)
http://www.nbjc.org/
The Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (MDGLCC)
http://www.gaybizmiami.com/pages/homepage
Unity Coalition
http://www.unitycoalition.org/
Equality Florida
http://www.eqfl.org/home
The Family Tree LGBT Community Center
http://www.familytreecenter.org/
Metro Wellness & Community Centers
http://www.metrotampabay.org/
ALSO Youth
http://www.alsoyouth.org/
ONE Treasure Coast
http://onetreasurecoast.org/
The Center - Orlando
http://www.thecenterorlando.org/
The Alliance for GLBTQ Youth – Miami
http://www.glbtqalliance.com/
LGBT Vistor Center of Miami Beach
http://www.gogaymiami.com/
Pridelines – Miami
http://www.pridelines.org/
Compass - GLCC of Palm Beach County
http://www.compassglcc.com/
JASMYN - Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network
http://jasmyn.org/
SunServe
http://www.sunserve.org/
Pride Center at Equality Park
http://www.pridecenterflorida.org/
Prism Youth Initiative
http://www.prismyouth.org/
First City Network
http://www.firstcitynetwork.org/
Georgia’s LGBT Organizations
http://thegavoice.com/organizations-2/
YouthPride
http://www.youthpride.org/
Georgia Equality
http://georgiaequality.org/
The Phillip Rush Center – Atlanta
http://www.rushcenteratl.org/
Pride Guide Hawaii
http://www.gogayhawaii.com/
Hawaii LGBT Legacy Foundation
http://hawaiilgbtlegacyfoundation.com/
LGBT Resources for South Eastern Idaho and Idaho Falls
http://www.queerasidaho.com/lgbt_org
All Under One Roof LGBT Centers of S.E.
http://www.allunderoneroof.org/
The Community Center, Inc.
http://tccidaho.org/
Project VIDA
http://www.projectvida.org/
Association of Latino Men for Action (ALMA)
http://www.almachicago.org/
Oak Park Area Lesbian and Gay Association
http://opalga.org/
Equality Illinois
http://www.equalityillinois.us/
The Phoenix Center
http://www.phoenixcenterspringfield.org/
http://www.centeronhalsted.org/
Affinity Community Services
http://affinity95.org/acscontent/
The UP (Uniting Pride) Center of Champaign County
http://unitingpride.org/
Indy Rainbow Chamber
http://gayindy.org/
Indy Pride
http://www.indypride.org/
GLBT Resource Center of Michiana, Inc.
http://www.michianaglbtcenter.org/
Indiana Youth Group
http://www.indianayouthgroup.org/
Rainbow Serenity
http://www.rainbowserenity.org/
Iowa Pride Network
http://www.pride.oneiowa.org/
Iowa Safe Schools
http://iowasafeschools.org/
One Iowa
http://oneiowa.org/
Passages KC LGBT Youth Center
http://www.kcpassages.org/site/
The Mid-America Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (Mid-America GLCC)
http://maglcc.org/
The Center of Wichita, Inc.
http://www.thecenterofwichita.org/
The Rainbow Babies
http://www.therainbowbabies.com/
Pride Community Services Organization
http://www.pcsoky.org/site/
http://lgbtccneworleans.org/
Forum for Equality
http://www.forumforequality.org/
Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE Maine)
http://www.sagemaine.org/
The Trans Youth Equality Foundation
http://www.transyouthequality.org/
Maine TransNet
http://www.mainetransnet.org/
The DownEast Pride Alliance (DEPA)
http://www.depabusiness.com/
Portland Outright
http://portlandoutright.com/
Baltimore Outloud
http://www.baltimoreoutloud.com/
Equality Maryland
http://equalitymaryland.org/
The Frederick Center
http://www.thefrederickcenter.org/
GLBT Community Center of Baltimore
http://www.glccb.org/
The Cape & Islands Gay & Straight Youth Alliance(CIGSYA)
http://www.cigsya.org/CIGSYA_House_-_English/Welcome.html
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC)
http://www.masstpc.org/
The Massachusetts Commission on GLBT Youth
http://www.mass.gov/cgly/youth.htm
Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth (BAGLY)
http://www.bagly.org/
Pride Source
http://www.pridesource.com/
Equality Michigan
https://www.equalitymi.org/
Transgender Michigan
http://www.transgendermichigan.org/
http://www.goaffirmations.org/
OutCenter of Southwest Michigan
http://www.outcenter.org/
Battle Creek Pride
http://www.battlecreekpride.org/
Kalamazoo Gay Lesbian Resource Center
http://www.kglrc.org/
Ruth Ellis Center
http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/
The LGBT Network of Western Michigan
http://www.grlgbt.org/
LGBT Detroit
http://www.lgbtdetroit.org/
OutFront Minnesota LGBTQ and Allied Organizations
http://www.outfront.org/resources/organizations
GLBT Senior Organizations
http://click-sandiego.com/glbtseniorsminnesota/
The Bridge for Youth
http://www.bridgeforyouth.org/
Bisexual Organizing Project (BOP)
http://www.bisexualorganizingproject.org/
Avenues for Homeless Youth
http://avenuesforyouth.org/
Unity Mississippi
http://unityms.org/
The Spectrum Center
http://www.thespectrumcenterms.org/
Vital VOICE
http://www.thevitalvoice.com/
https://promoonline.org/
The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU-EM)
http://www.lgbtcenterstl.org/local-lgbt-community-organizations.html
Metro Trans Umbrella Group
http://www.stlmetrotrans.com/
Gay and Lesbian Community Center of the Ozarks
http://glocenter.org/
LIKEME® Lighthouse Community Center
http://www.likemelighthouse.org/
The Center Project (MO)
http://thecenterproject.org/
Western Montana Gay & Lesbian Community Center
http://www.gaymontana.org/
Gender Expansion Project
http://genderexpansionproject.org/
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The Quaker, 1967
Title The Quaker, 1967
Creator Guilford College
Biographical/historical note Guilford College, a Quaker-supported four-year liberal arts school in Greensboro, N.C., was chartered in 1834 and opened in 1837 as New Garden Boarding School. The name was changed to Guilford College in 1888. During the Civil War, the campus became a station on the Underground Railroad as well as a center of resistance to Confederate conscription and requisitioning efforts. True to Quaker tradition, students at Guilford were active in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s.
Subject headings Guilford College
Topics Race relations at Guilford College
Description The 1967 Guilford College yearbook, The Quaker, shows increased faculty diversity. Added to the faculty were Dr. Surindar S. Suri and James C. McMillian, McMillian being the first African American male instructor. This yearbook also highlights current events both directly related to the college, as well as events throughout the country and world. Included is a candid shot of African delegates talking in a hallway at an event held at the college. Finally, a collage of words, terms, and events under the political science department includes: KKK, Viet Nam, inflation, and Lunar Orbiter 2, showing the current political and social issues of that year.
Original format clippings
Original dimensions 8" x 11"
Original publisher Greensboro, N.C. : Guilford College
Contributing institution Friends Historical Collection, Hege Library, Guilford College
Source collection The Quaker (Civil Rights Clippings)
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Home E-Games What Makes a Game good, and where will it lead?
What Makes a Game good, and where will it lead?
written by Mark Cesar June 15, 2016
Considering the assortment of various games accessible to us, not to mention the sort of games; blaze, Internet, PC, computer game, it’s truly difficult to have the capacity to say what makes a decent game a decent game. Nonetheless, regardless of how hard of an inquiry this is, numerous individuals are as yet asking it. I’m certain I could list a couple games I adore in the console world, for example, Need For Speed and the ever prominent Tom Clancy sets of three, however on the grounds that I may like these recreations, doesn’t mean other people does! Case of good recreations is out there at the same time, they don’t generally answer the current inquiry. With everything taken into account I think for everybody, the inquiry; what is a decent game?
The Game Design – In some examples you may hear individuals discussing the outline of the game, and how it does or doesn’t “work” with the game. Typically when individuals are discussing the configuration they are talking in specifics of how the game was set up, and the tenets of the game or the guidelines of engagement in a manner of speaking. The expression is likewise used to recognize both the game plan typified in a genuine game and in addition programming documentation that distinguishes such an outline. Different qualities of the gaming plan incorporate; account, mechanics, visual expressions, programming and sound.
This incorporates all player experience amid the collaboration with gaming frameworks, especially formal games. Fitting usage is combined with affirmation to “what the player does”. Emerging close by game advancement in the 1980s, game play was connected solely inside the setting of video or PC recreations, however now its notoriety has started to see use in the depiction of other more customary game frames. Comprehensively Speaking, the expression game play in computer game dialect is utilized to recognize the general experience of playing the game excluding elements like work of art and sound!
Back in the times of the first Nintendo and even blaze based games like Asteroids, the design were extremely “blocky” obviously the majority of didn’t understand it at the time until more up to date comforts like SNES and especially XBOX and XBOX 360 turned out. I think the essential of representation is all the more consistently looked for after these days since individuals need to the best. It’s been contended that the contrasts amongst XBOX and XBOX 360 are distinctive or aren’t distinctive. In any case, more individuals have purchased XBOX 360 than XBOX, possibly for this thinking alone.
Game Engine
This is a product framework intended for the creation and improvement of PC and computer games. There are numerous game motors that are thought up to take a shot at computer game consoles and desktop working frameworks, for example, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. The center usefulness normally gave by an game motor incorporates a rendering motor (“renderer”) for 2D or 3D representation, a physical science motor or impact location (and crash response), sound, scripting, activity, AI, organizing, spilling, memory administration, threading, and a scene chart. The strategy of game development is periodically conserved by in expansive part reusing the same game motor to make distinctive recreations.
Also known as Character era is the system of characterizing an imagine character for a game. Typically, a character’s individual qualities and shortcomings are introduced by an arrangement of details. Recreations that have a generally anecdotal situation may incorporate characteristics, for example, race and class. Recreations with a more contemporary or smaller setting may constrain customization to physical and identity qualities.
Some individuals play games in view of the properties recorded above, and they basically won’t play or won’t appreciate a game if the representation are not as much as impeccable or if the characters are irritating or if the game play is carriage, however others, play recreations essentially on the grounds that it’s an approach to enjoy a reprieve from this present reality, it’s an approach to make tracks in an opposite direction from the common lowly of our standard lives, and a few of us however in some cases butt-centric about the specifics of a console game, don’t utilize those same feedback when playing something like an online glimmer based game since we know they aren’t made the same way (not by any stretch of the imagination at any rate).
Since Asteroids in the 80s, there have been a few million distinctive blaze based games discharged, some of these are by huge with organizations and others are produced by people that basically appreciate making games. These recreations have made considerable progress from Asteroids and so forth, and now you have a wide range of classes to browse.
As a general rule, streak based games can just show signs of improvement from here on in, however I believe that is the same with a games or gaming basically as a result of the mechanical advancements that continue being made! At last, it truly relies on upon the client playing the game, in the matter of what makes a decent game. You be the judge!
What Makes a Game good, and where will it lead? was last modified: March 17th, 2017 by Mark Cesar
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Business News›News›International›Business›Vietnam's richest man Pham Nhat Vuong bets $2 billion to sell cars to Americans
Vietnam's richest man Pham Nhat Vuong bets $2 billion to sell cars to Americans
The billionaire behind six-month-old Vietnamese auto startup VinFast plans a feat even Toyota and Hyundai couldn’t pull off during their early days: sell a car in the US. Pham Nhat Vuong is so intent on exporting electric vehicles to the lucrative American market in 2021 that he’s plowing as much as $2 billion of his own fortune to reach that goal.
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By Nguyen Kieu Giang and K. Oanh Ha
The billionaire behind six-month-old Vietnamese auto startup VinFast plans a feat even Toyota Motor Corp. and Hyundai Motor Co. couldn’t pull off during their early days: sell a car in the U.S.
Pham Nhat Vuong, the Southeast Asian country’s richest man and now in charge of the new automaker, is so intent on exporting electric vehicles to the lucrative American market in 2021 that he’s plowing as much as $2 billion of his own fortune to reach that goal. His cash would account for half the capital investment of VinFast, which began delivering cars to Vietnamese consumers with BMW-licensed engines earlier this year and aims to expand into electric vehicles.
“Our ultimate goal is to create an international brand,” the 51-year-old tycoon said in an interview at the Hanoi headquarters of the car company’s parent Vingroup JSC, which Vuong founded and holds the title of chairman. “It will be a very difficult road and we will have to put in a lot of effort. But there’s only one road ahead.”
The homegrown cars made under Vuong’s sprawling real estate-to-hospitals conglomerate faces an uphill battle to succeed overseas. Carmakers such as India’s Tata Motors Ltd. and Malaysia’s Proton Holdings Bhd. struggled to win over consumers away from their home turf. Even in Vietnam, VinFast Trading and Production LLC has formidable competition from established foreign players such as Toyota, Ford Motor Co. and Hyundai.
Shares of Vingroup fell as much as 2% Tuesday. The benchmark VN Index of Vietnamese stocks dropped 0.6%.
VinFast follows a long list of Chinese automakers that have also had ambitions to sell vehicles in the U.S. going back more than a decade. Though the plans have yet come to fruition, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Zotye Automobile Co. and others have set up local sales units and research-and-development operations to show just how serious they are. Some Chinese brands have also exhibited at American auto shows in recent years.
Vuong, whose net worth is $9.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, is undaunted. Vingroup sold some shares last year and he plans to sell as much as 10% of his own to raise funds for the ambitious project. He owns 49% of VinFast, while the parent, Vingroup, holds 51%.
The automaker won’t be profitable for as many as five years, said Vuong, adding the local market is “too small” and overseas sales are key to becoming profitable. Vuong directly owns 26% of Vingroup, according to Bloomberg data. Vietnam Investment Group JSC, in which Vuong has about a 92% stake, holds 31.6% of Vingroup.
And VinFast will have to overcome an even more daunting task of winning over demanding consumers in the U.S. and other developed markets, where emissions and crash standards are stringent.
Adding to these challenges is successfully manufacturing and selling electric vehicles. Many Chinese startups, backed by billions of dollars in funding, bet on the prospects for EVs in the world’s biggest auto market, but few are making money. BAIC BluePark New Energy Technology Co., China’s biggest maker of pure electric cars, forecasts a 2019 loss. Unprofitable NIO Inc., which is traded in New York, has struggled to assuage concerns that it’s running short on cash amid sputtering demand.
High Hurdles
VinFast’s first EV won’t roll off its assembly line until late next year, but Vuong said he plans to export those vehicles to the U.S., Europe and Russia in 2021.
VinFast must clear several high hurdles to compete outside Vietnam, said Michael Dunne, chief executive officer of automotive consultant ZoZo Go LLC, which specializes in the Asian market. “It will be some time before the company is ready to compete in the U.S. -- still the world’s toughest market,” he said. “You need a solid brand name.”
Many consumers prefer a second-hand Honda Motor Co. or Toyota vehicle over a new car with an unfamiliar brand name, Dunne said. The Vietnamese automaker will need to produce at least 100,000 vehicles a year to be cost competitive, develop a global brand and establish a parts-and-services network, he said. Still, VinFast has an opportunity to crack smaller Southeast Asian markets, he said.
VinFast, which operates a 335-hectare factory in the northern port city of Haiphong, is selling its first line of vehicles -- a hatchback, sedan and SUV -- at below cost. The hatchback retails for the equivalent of $17,000, while the four-cylinder sedan goes for $47,400 and its SUV is offered at $60,400. The company targets production of as many as 500,000 vehicles a year by 2025. The carmarker also makes electric scooters.
In the next few years, Vingroup will have to spend “many trillions of dong per year” to cover losses for VinFast, estimated at as much as 18 trillion ($777 million) annually, Vuong said. Those losses include financing and depreciation, and as much as 7 trillion dong each year to absorb the hit of selling cars below cost, he added.
Vingroup will divest stakes in other units to fund VinFast while other subsidiaries have been ordered to reduce costs, Vuong said, without providing details. VinFast will also seek additional loans, in addition to about $1.95 billion of international loans it has already raised. Vuong also plans to list VinFast on a Vietnamese exchange and possibly overseas, he said, without elaborating.
“We have the desire to build a Vietnamese brand that has a world-class reputation,” he said. “Our biggest challenge is that Vietnamese products do not have an international brand. To many international friends, Vietnam is still a poor, backward country. We will have to find a way to market and prove our products represent a dynamic and developing Vietnam that has reached the highest standards of the world.”
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The Worshipful Company of Woolmen and The Company of Merchants of The Staple of England are pleased to open applications for this year’s Wool Innovation Prize.
Worth up to £10,000, the Prize is an annual award available to the individual who shows the most innovative use of wool in any commercially viable application.
Regardless of the industry in which you work, you can apply for the prize as long as you:
Work predominantly with wool
Display genuine innovation
Offer a commercially viable application
Are excited about developing your ideas further
Sarah Turner - Little Beau Sheep
Robert Hal l, Chairman of the of the Staple’s charitable trust commented: “We are delighted to award Sarah Turner of Little Beau Sheep our 2019 Wool Innovation Award, which we hope can help her drive further growth in the business. Sarah has exciting plans in the pipeline for her business and we are immensely proud to support her.”
“As an institution, we aim to drive wool innovation in the UK and support British craft. Sarah’s business really impressed us. It combines the use of wool in every day products whilst allowing consumers to be more eco-friendly”, noted Peter Ackroyd, member of the Woolmen and COO of HRH The Prince of Wales’ Campaign for Wool.
Peter Hullah, Chairman of the Worshipful Company of Woolmen Charity Committee, added: “The Woolmen are delighted to be working in partnership with the Staple to award this significant prize. Sarah is a worthy winner and we look forward to supporting her as she takes her innovative business, which focusses on putting wool to good use, to the next level commercially.”
“This marks the start of a very exciting journey. This prize will allow me to further the work I have begun using British Wools and to help me develop machinery to automate the production of my laundry products. This will allow me to develop and grow the business to keep up with increased demand for the products” says Sarah.
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Brad Day
Yi-Ju Lu
Masaki Shimono
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Yi-Ju Lu, Ph.D.
Email: luyiju@msu.edu
Ph. D., 2012, Cologne University and Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany
Ph. D. fellowship, The Sainsbury Lab (TSL), UK
Ph. D. fellowship, Max Planck Institute for plant breeding research, Germany
M. S., 2006, National Taiwan University, department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Taiwan
B. S., 2004, National Taiwan University, department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Taiwan
Postdoctoral research fellow, 2012-current, Michigan State University, USA
Research assistant, 2008, Agriculture biotechnology research center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Research intern, 2003-2004, National Taiwan University, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Taiwan
I am a molecular plant pathologist and my interest focuses specifically on understanding the mechanisms underlying plant immunity and pathogen virulence targeting of host processes required for immune signaling. During my Ph.D. research at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, I studied the role of subcellular compartments reorganization in different stages of plant-pathogen interactions. This work provided insights into the function and effects of the model downy mildew pathogen-Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis.
In my current research, I am working on the molecular-genetic analysis of the host-pathogen interface, specifically through the analysis of the host actin cytoskeleton. My research highlights the importance of activation and regulation of resistance signaling through the actin cytoskeleton, using both direct and indirect targeting of the actin cytoskeleton by the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Also, I am interested in the regulation of actin dynamics by bacterial effectors.
Lu, Y-J., Li, P., Corrion, A., Shimono, M., Yamauchi, R., Higaki, T. and Day, B. (201X). CPK3 is required for the regulation of pathogen-induced changes in actin cytoskeletal organization. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U. S. A (Under review).
Lu, Y-J., and Day, B. (2017). Quantitative evaluation of plant actin cytoskeletal parameters during immune signaling. Methods in Mol. Biol. 1578: 207-221.
Chiang, Y-H., Zhang, M., Toruño, T.Y., Lee, D., Yadeta, K.A., Lemos, M., Lu, Y-J., Lal, N.K., Ma, S., Liu, J., Day, B., Dinesh-Kumar, S.P., Dehesh, K., and Coaker, G. (2018). Kinase-mediated stabilization of plant innate immunity. In Press, Cell Host Microbe.
Shimono, M*., Lu, Y*., Porter, K., Kvitko, B., Creason, A., Henty-Ridilla, J., He, S.Y., Chang, J.H., Staiger, C., and Day, B. (2016). The Pseudomonas syringae type III effector HopG1 induces actin filament remodeling in Arabidopsis in association with disease symptom development. Plant Physiol. 171: 2239-2255. (* Equal contribution).
Lu Y-J*, Schornack S*, Spallek T, Geldner N, Chory J, Schellmann S, Schumacher K, Kamoun S, and Robatzek S. (2012). Patterns of plant subcellular responses to successful oomycete infections reveal differences in host cell reprogramming and endocytic trafficking. Cell Microb. 14(5):682-97. (* Equal contribution).
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Caitlin Johnstone: 25 Times Trump Has Been Dangerously Hawkish on Russia
December 2, 2019 natyliesb Leave a comment
CNN has published a fascinatingly manipulative and falsehood-laden article titled “25 times Trump was soft on Russia”, in which a lot of strained effort is poured into building the case that the US president is suspiciously loyal to the nation against which he has spent his administration escalating dangerous new cold war aggressions.
The items within the CNN article consist mostly of times in which Trump said some words or failed to say other words; “Trump has repeatedly praised Putin”, “Trump refused to say Putin is a killer”, “Trump denied that Russia interfered in 2016”, “Trump made light of Russian hacking”, etc. It also includes the completely false but oft-repeated narrative that “Trump’s team softened the GOP platform on Ukraine”, as well as the utterly ridiculous and thoroughly invalidated claim that “Since intervening in Syria in 2015, the Russian military has focused its airstrikes on anti-government rebels, not ISIS.”
NEW ANALYSIS: We tallied 25 times Trump was SOFT ON RUSSIA. Examples: He praised Putin. Denied Russian meddling. Said Russia can keep Crimea. Reluctant to impose new sanctions. Attacked NATO. Congratulated Putin's election. Withdrew from Syria. (1/4) https://t.co/3gWqYMjHwS
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) November 17, 2019
CNN’s 25 items are made up almost entirely of narrative and words; Trump said a nice thing about Putin, Trump said offending things to NATO allies, Trump thought about visiting Putin in Russia, etc. In contrast, the 25 items which I am about to list do not consist of narrative at all, but rather the actual movement of actual concrete objects which can easily lead to an altercation from which there may be no re-emerging. These items show that when you ignore the words and narrative spin and look at what this administration has actually been doing, it’s clear to anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty that, far from being “soft” on Russia, Trump has actually been consistently reckless in the one area where a US president must absolutely always maintain a steady hand. And he’s been doing so with zero resistance from either party.
It would be understandable if you were unaware that Trump has been escalating tensions with Moscow more than any other president since the fall of the Berlin Wall; it’s a fact that neither of America’s two mainstream political factions care about, so it tends to get lost in the shuffle. Trump’s opposition is interested in painting him as a sycophantic Kremlin crony, and his supporters are interested in painting him as an antiwar hero of the people, but he is neither. Observe:
1. Implementing a Nuclear Posture Review with a more aggressive stance toward Russia
Nuclear Posture Review puts Russia firmly in crosshairs https://t.co/wBfJInldD3 pic.twitter.com/vAsxaPkU66
— Defense News (@defense_news) February 2, 2018
Last year Trump’s Department of Defense rolled out a Nuclear Posture Review which CNN itself called “its toughest line yet against Russia’s resurgent nuclear forces.”
“In its newly released Nuclear Posture Review, the Defense Department has focused much of its multibillion nuclear effort on an updated nuclear deterrence focused on Russia,” CNN reported last year.
This revision of nuclear policy includes the new implementation of so-called “low-yield” nuclear weapons, which, because they are designed to be more “usable” than conventional nuclear ordinances, have been called “the most dangerous weapon ever” by critics of this insane policy. These weapons, which can remove some of the inhibitions that mutually assured destruction would normally give military commanders, have already been rolled off the assembly line.
2. Arming Ukraine
For years, neocons and arms industry darlings like @RepAdamSchiff have sought to re-arm Ukraine and escalate the conflict in Donbas. By stirring up Russiagate, they finally got their deadly deal. My latest: https://t.co/pyJB4btOSk
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) January 8, 2018
Lost in the gibberish about Trump temporarily withholding military aide to supposedly pressure a Ukrainian government who was never even aware of being pressured is the fact that arming Ukraine against Russia is an entirely new policy that was introduced by the Trump administration in the first place. Even the Obama administration, which was plenty hawkish toward Russia in its own right, refused to implement this extremely provocative escalation against Moscow. It was not until Obama was replaced with the worst Putin puppet of all time Uthat this policy was put in place.
3. Bombing Syria
Another escalation Trump took against Russia which Obama wasn’t hawkish enough to also do was bombing the Syrian government, a longtime ally of Moscow. These airstrikes in April 2017 and April 2018 were perpetrated in retaliation for chemical weapons use allegations that there is no legitimate reason to trust at this point.
4. Staging coup attempts in Venezuela
Russia accused the United States of promoting regime change in Venezuela, warning of the "catastrophic" consequences of destabilizing one of the Kremlin's key South American allies https://t.co/FMfPkYUPfM
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 24, 2019
Venezuela, another Russian ally, has been the subject of relentless coup attempts from the Trump administration which persist unsuccessfully to this very day. Trump’s attempts to topple the Venezuelan government have been so violent and aggressive that the starvation sanctions which he has implemented are believed to have killed tens of thousands of Venezuelan civilians.
Trump has reportedly spoken frequently of a US military invasion to oust Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, provoking a forceful rebuke from Moscow.
“Signals coming from certain capitals indicating the possibility of external military interference look particularly disquieting,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “We warn against such reckless actions, which threaten catastrophic consequences.”
5. Withdrawing from the INF treaty
Russia's Vladimir Putin has said America's latest missile test has raised new threats and will warrant a response from Moscow.
The missile test on Sunday would have been banned under a now-defunct arms treaty.
Read more: https://t.co/c1f1Lxulto pic.twitter.com/D8xpwD3W6h
— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 22, 2019
For a president who’s “soft” on Russia, Trump has sure been eager to keep postures between the two nations extremely aggressive in nature. This administration has withdrawn from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, prompting UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to declare that “the world lost an invaluable brake on nuclear war.” It appears entirely possible that Trump will continue to adhere to the John Bolton school of nuclear weapons treaties until they all lie in tatters, with the administration strongly criticizing the crucial New START Treaty which expires in early 2021.
Some particularly demented Russiagaters try to argue that Trump withdrawing from these treaties benefits Russia in some way. These people either (A) believe that treaties only go one way, (B) believe that a nation with an economy the size of South Korea can compete with the US in an arms race, (C) believe that Russians are immune to nuclear radiation, or (D) all of the above. Withdrawing from these treaties benefits no one but the military-industrial complex.
6. Ending the Open Skies Treaty
“The Trump administration has taken steps toward leaving a nearly three-decade-old agreement designed to reduce the risk of war between Russia and the West by allowing both sides to conduct reconnaissance flights over one another’s territories,” The Wall Street Journal reported last month, adding that the administration has alleged that “Russia has interfered with American monitoring flights while using its missions to gather intelligence in the US.”
Again, if you subscribe to the bizarre belief that withdrawing from this treaty benefits Russia, please think harder. Or ask the Russians themselves how they feel about it:
“US plans to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty lower the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons and multiply the risks for the whole world, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said,” Sputnik reports.
“All this negatively affects the predictability of the military-strategic situation and lowers the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, which drastically increases the risks for the whole humanity,” Patrushev said.
“In general, it is becoming apparent that Washington intends to use its technological leadership in order to maintain strategic dominance in the information space by actually pursuing a policy of imposing its conditions on states that are lagging behind in digital development,” he added.
7. Selling Patriot missiles to Poland
Poland signs $4.75 billion deal for U.S. Patriot missile system facing Russia https://t.co/iKsr46mhHq pic.twitter.com/eDWUkrMuz2
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 28, 2018
“Poland signed the largest arms procurement deal in its history on Wednesday, agreeing with the United States to buy Raytheon Co’s Patriot missile defense system for $4.75 billion in a major step to modernize its forces against a bolder Russia,” Reuters reported last year.
8. Occupying Syrian oil fields
The Trump administration has been open about the fact that it is not only maintaining a military presence in Syria to control the nation’s oil, but that it is doing so in order to deprive the nation’s government of that financial resource. Syria’s ally Russia strongly opposes this, accusing the Trump administration of nothing short of “international state banditry”.
“In a statement, Russia’s defense ministry said Washington had no mandate under international or US law to increase its military presence in Syria and said its plan was not motivated by genuine security concerns in the region,” Reuters reported last month.
“Therefore Washington’s current actions — capturing and maintaining military control over oil fields in eastern Syria — is, simply put, international state banditry,” Russia’s defense ministry said.
9. Killing Russians in Syria
Reports have placed Russian casualties anywhere between a handful and hundreds, but whatever the exact number the US military is known to have killed Russian citizens as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing Syria occupation in an altercation last year.
10. Tanks in Estonia
US Tanks, Troops Arrive In Estonia As Part Of NATO Anti-Russia Build Up https://t.co/lwCww5UkC7 #tlot #ronpaul pic.twitter.com/ZlspSAtpon
— Ron Paul News (@RonPaulNews) February 7, 2017
Within weeks of taking office, Trump was already sending Abrams battle tanks, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and other military hardware right up to Russia’s border as part of a NATO operation.
“Atlantic Resolve is a demonstration of continued US commitment to collective security through a series of actions designed to reassure NATO allies and partners of America’s dedication to enduring peace and stability in the region in light of the Russian intervention in Ukraine,” the Defense Department said in a statement.
11. War ships in the Black Sea
The US Navy is ramping up its presence in the Black Sea as part of a bid to counter Russia's increased presence there, a US military official tells CNN https://t.co/ZlfdLqUbQy pic.twitter.com/rBi7j3X1sL
— CNN (@CNN) February 20, 2018
12. Sanctions
Trump approved new sanctions against Russia on August 2017. CNN reports the following:
US President Donald Trump approved fresh sanctions on Russia Wednesday after Congress showed overwhelming bipartisan support for the new measures,” CNN reported at the time. “Congress passed the bill last week in response to Russia’s interference in the 2016 US election, as well as its human rights violations, annexation of Crimea and military operations in eastern Ukraine. The bill’s passage drew ire from Moscow — which responded by stripping 755 staff members and two properties from US missions in the country — all but crushing any hope for the reset in US-Russian relations that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had called for.”
“A full-fledged trade war has been declared on Russia,” said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in response.
13. More sanctions
“The United States imposed sanctions on five Russian individuals on Wednesday, including the leader of the Republic of Chechnya, for alleged human rights abuses and involvement in criminal conspiracies, a sign that the Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure on Russia,” The New York Times reported in December 2017.
14. Still more sanctions
Trump just hit Russian oligarchs with the most aggressive sanctions yet https://t.co/tLdMjAVbt7 via @vicenews pic.twitter.com/qGFBx5MbPU
— …By The Way ☕☕ (@_MrDavidJones) April 6, 2018
“Trump just hit Russian oligarchs with the most aggressive sanctions yet,” reads a Vice headline from April of last year.
“The sanctions target seven oligarchs and 12 companies under their ownership or control, 17 senior Russian government officials, and a state-owned Russian weapons trading company and its subsidiary, a Russian bank,” Vice reports. “While the move is aimed, in part, at Russia’s role in the U.S. 2016 election, senior U.S. government officials also stressed that the new measures seek to penalize Russia’s recent bout of international troublemaking more broadly, including its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad and military activity in eastern Ukraine.”
15. Even more sanctions
The Trump administration hit Russia with more sanctions for the alleged Skripal poisoning in August of last year, then hit them with another round of sanctions for the same reason again in August of this year.
16. Guess what? MORE sanctions
Each new round of sanctions on Russia is an opportunity to remind ourselves that serious pundits & cable news hosts have openly posited — like, not just pondered in their in minds or anonymous chat rooms — that Trump is a Kremlin operative and/or subjected to Kremlin blackmail: https://t.co/DdS89M76Mj
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) November 8, 2018
“The Trump administration on Thursday imposed new sanctions on a dozen individuals and entities in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea,” The Hill reported in November of last year. “The group includes a company linked to Bank Rossiya and Russian businessman Yuri Kovalchuk and others accused of operating in Crimea, which the U.S. says Russia seized illegally in 2014.”
17. Oh hey, more sanctions
“Today, the United States continues to take action in response to Russian attempts to influence US democratic processes by imposing sanctions on four entities and seven individuals associated with the Internet Research Agency and its financier, Yevgeniy Prigozhin. This action increases pressure on Prigozhin by targeting his luxury assets, including three aircraft and a vessel,” reads a statement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from September of this year.
18. Secondary sanctions
Secondary sanctions are economic sanctions in which a third party is punished for breaching the primary sanctions of the sanctioning body. The US has leveled sanctions against both China and Turkey for purchasing Russian S-400 air defense missiles, and it is threatening to do so to India as well.
19. Forcing Russian media to register as foreign agents
Both RT and Sputnik have been forced to register as “foreign agents” by the Trump administration. This classification forced the outlets to post a disclaimer on content, to report their activities and funding sources to the Department of Justice twice a year, and could arguably place an unrealistic burden on all their social media activities as it submits to DOJ micromanagement.
20. Throwing out Russian diplomats
The Trump administration joined some 20 other nations in casting out scores of Russian diplomats as an immediate response to the Skripal poisoning incident in the UK.
21. Training Polish and Latvian fighters “to resist Russian aggression”
“US Army Special Forces soldiers completed the first irregular and unconventional warfare training iteration for members of the Polish Territorial Defense Forces and Latvian Zemmessardze as a part of the Ridge Runner program in West Virginia, according to service officials,” Army Times reported this past July.
“U.S. special operations forces have been training more with allies from the Baltic states and other Eastern European nations in the wake of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014,” Army Times writes. “A low-level conflict continues to simmer in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region between Russian-backed separatists and government forces to this day. The conflict spurred the Baltics into action, as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia embraced the concepts of total defense and unconventional warfare, combining active-duty, national guard and reserve-styled forces to each take on different missions to resist Russian aggression and even occupation.”
22. Refusal to recognize Crimea as part of the Russian Federation
@SecPompeo : Crimea is Ukraine pic.twitter.com/fv26jKeR7Q
— Political-Military Affairs, US Dept of State (@StateDeptPM) February 27, 2019
…even while acknowledging Israel’s illegal annexation of the Golan Heights as perfectly legal and legitimate.
23. Sending 1,000 troops to Poland
From the September article “1000 US Troops Are Headed to Poland” by National Interest:
Key point:Trump agreed to send more forces to Poland to defend it against Russia.
What Happened: U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to deploy approximately 1,000 additional U.S. troops to Poland during a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, Reuters reported Sept. 23.
Why It Matters: The deal, which formalizes the United States’ commitment to protecting Poland from Russia, provides a diplomatic victory to Duda and his governing Law and Justice ahead of November elections. The additional U.S. troops will likely prompt a reactive military buildup from Moscow in places like neighboring Kaliningrad and, potentially, Belarus.
24. Withdrawing from the Iran deal
Russia has been consistently opposed to Trump’s destruction of the JCPOA. In a statement after Trump killed the deal, the Russian Foreign Ministry said it was “deeply disappointed by the decision of US President Donald Trump to unilaterally refuse to carry out commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”, adding that this administration’s actions were “trampling on the norms of international law”.
25. Attacking Russian gas interests
Trump threatened sanctions over Merkel’s continued support for a gas pipeline from Russia https://t.co/4RJ2jnl2Us via @josh_wingrove pic.twitter.com/9X53Wdx8gE
— Stuart Wallace (@StuartLWallace) June 13, 2019
Trump has been threatening Germany with sanctions and troop withdrawal if it continues to support a gas pipeline from Russia called Nord Stream 2.
“Echoing previous threats about German support for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Trump said he’s looking at sanctions to block the project he’s warned would leave Berlin ‘captive’ to Moscow,” Bloomberg reports. “The US also hopes to export its own liquefied natural gas to Germany.”
“We’re protecting Germany from Russia, and Russia is getting billions and billions of dollars in money from Germany” for its gas, Trump told the press.
I could have kept going, but that’s my 25. The only reason anyone still believes Trump is anything other than insanely hawkish toward Russia is because it doesn’t benefit anyone’s partisanship or profit margins to call it like it really is. The facts are right here as plain as can be, but there’s a difference between facts and narrative. If they wanted to, the political/media class could very easily use the facts I just laid out to weave the narrative that this president is imperiling us all with dangerous new cold war provocations, but that’s how different narrative is from fact; there’s almost no connection. Instead they use a light sprinkling of fact to weave a narrative that has very little to do with reality. And meanwhile the insane escalations continue.
In a cold war, it only takes one miscommunication or one defective piece of equipment to set off a chain of events that can obliterate all life on earth. The more things escalate, the greater the probability of that happening. We’re rolling the dice on armageddon every single day, and with every escalation the number we need to beat gets a bit harder.
We should not be rolling the dice on this. This is very, very wrong, and the US and Russia should stop and establish detente immediately. The fact that outlets like CNN would rather diddle made-up Russiagate narratives than point to this obvious fact with truthful reporting is in and of itself sufficient to discredit them all forever.
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PARIS/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Officials from the Group of 20 leading industrialized nations gathered in Argentina are making slow progress in drafting a final communique for this weekend’s leaders summit, amid disagreements over language on trade and climate change, delegates said.
Representatives from the G20 countries known as “sherpas” began meeting in Buenos Aires on Monday to start intensive discussions around the communique, a non-binding agreement on policy issues that is due to be unveiled at the conclusion of the two-day summit, which begins on Friday.
G20 leaders have met each year since the 2008 global economic crisis to try to reach broad agreement on important issues such as trade. But increasingly they have been bedeviled by disunity, and a failure to agree on a communique this year would underscore growing divisions at a time of heightened international trade disputes.
“The talks are difficult but that is not a surprise,” a European source told Reuters on Tuesday. “Concerning the progress on the statement, the talks are still ongoing so it is difficult to predict the outcome.”
A French finance ministry source added: “It’s true the situation is quite frankly rather tense. The outcome in the coming days is quite uncertain.”
A second source at the finance ministry said U.S. officials were pushing back on any mention of the Paris Climate Agreement.
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The French are also pushing for the communique to reject protectionism and commit to reforming the World Trade Organization and the rules of global commerce, the second French source said.
An Asian delegate told Reuters there was no progress made on Monday after a half-day session. A delegate from Latin America, who also requested anonymity, said a definitive draft was not expected until Thursday.
“We are in full negotiation with the other delegations. The text will be known once the leaders approve it,” Argentina’s Pedro Villagra Delgado, the lead organizer or “sherpa” of the G20, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Villagra Delgado had said on Nov. 15 that climate change, steel and migration had emerged as the “most complicated” areas of discussion, delaying final approval on the communique.
Recent history suggests the sherpas will struggle to agree to reach consensus.
Officials from countries attending a major Asia-Pacific summit earlier this month failed to approve a joint communique for the first time as the United States clashed with China over trade and security.
In May, U.S. President Donald Trump rejected a statement by fellow leaders of the G7 industrialized economies after a tense gathering ended in acrimony, again over tariffs and trade.
Some sherpas have said this year’s G20 communique will likely be watered down to try to ensure approval from Trump, an avowed skeptic of man-made climate change who has adopted protectionist trade policies and a more isolationist foreign policy.
Trump’s top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said on Tuesday it was unclear whether there would be a final communique.
“If we didn’t get one, there’d be no tears shed,” he said.
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Myers Park girls win Broughton Holiday Invitational
By J. Mike Blake
The News and Observer
RALEIGH -- About 22 years ago, a strong but agile player named Rodney Rogers walked to center court of Broughton’s Holliday Gymnasium and accepted the MVP trophy for the 1989 Holiday Invitational.
On Wednesday night, his oldest daughter – Roddreka Rogers – made the same triumphant walk.
It’s an unprecedented father-daughter combination of MVPs that hasn’t been seen in the prep basketball tournament’s 40-year history.
The senior for Myers Park averaged 17 points and 10.6 rebounds in three games in the Mix-101.5 girls bracket at the HighSchoolOT.com Holiday Invitational, leading her unbeaten Mustangs to a 50-45 victory in the championship game against Raleigh Millbrook. It was the first loss for Millbrook (12-1), last year’s 4A runners-up, in a game that could serve as a preview of the 4A state championship game.
“There is not a dry eye in the locker room,” said Millbrook coach Chris East. “They know that I love them, and I’m proud of them. They know too that we can’t start off like we did in the first minutes of the game and not execute.”
Millbrook played the three-game tournament without two starters – Katelyn Mitchell and Ryan Flowers – who were suspended for a violation of team rules.
Myers Park coach Dustin Terrel said it was important to get out to an early lead, which his team did – up 28-15 at the break – by limiting Millbrook to just one second-quarter point.
“With their scores being so low, we thought that if we got a double-digit lead, they would struggle trying to get back and start forcing stuff, and they kind of did in the first half,” Terrel said. “We tried to give it away to them at the end, but we battled back.”
While Myers Park was able to force some turnovers with a full-court press, Millbrook did the same in the fourth – making for an entertaining finish.
Millbrook swarmed from down 12 with 3:43 left in the game to cut the deficit to two after a 3-pointer from Mykia Jones with 53.6 seconds left. But it was too little, too late for the Wildcats, as defensive gambles in its press led to two straight Myers Park layups.
“We should’ve learned from our state championship game (loss) last year,” said the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player Briana Day, a Millbrook junior and UNC recruit. “Our intensity should’ve came well before the fourth quarter.”
Myers Park placed three players on the all-tournament team, adding freshman Rydeiah Rogers – Roddreka’s younger sister – and sophomore Saadia Timpton.
Green Hope, which finished third in the tournament after a 56-41 win against Riverside, placed Kristen Gaffney (79 points in three games) and Ashley Williams on the all-tournament team.
The rest of the all-tournament team included Riverside’s Maddie McCallie, Hillside’s Morgan McGee, Panther Creek’s Kayla Seymour and Cary Christian’s Dakota Dukes.
By J. Mike Blake - mblake@newsobserver.com By J. Mike Blake The News and Observer Tags: High school basketball | Holiday Invitational | tournament | Charlotte Myers Park | Mustangs | Millbrook | Wildcats | Roddreka Rogers RALEIGH -- About 22 years ago, a strong but agile player named Rodney Rogers walked to center court of Broughton’s Holliday Gymnasium and accepted the MVP trophy for the 1989 Holiday Invitational.On Wednesday night, his oldest daughter – Roddreka Rogers – made the same triumphant walk. It’s an unprecedented father-daughter combination of MVPs that hasn’t been seen in the prep basketball tournament’s 40-year history.The senior for Charlotte Myers Park averaged 17 points and 10.6 rebounds in three games in the Mix-101.5 girls bracket at the HighSchoolOT.com Holiday Invitational, leading her unbeaten Mustangs to a 50-45 victory in the championship game against Millbrook. It was the first loss for Millbrook (12-1), last year’s 4A runners-up, in a game that could serve as a preview of the 4A state championship game.“There is not a dry eye in the locker room,” said Millbrook coach Chris East. “They know that I love them, and I’m proud of them. They know too that we can’t start off like we did in the first minutes of the game and not execute.”Millbrook played the three-game tournament without two starters – Katelyn Mitchell and Ryan Flowers – who were suspended for a violation of team rules.Myers Park coach Dustin Terrel said it was important to get out to an early lead, which his team did – up 28-15 at the break – by limiting Millbrook to just one second-quarter point.“With their scores being so low, we thought that if we got a double-digit lead, they would struggle trying to get back and start forcing stuff, and they kind of did in the first half,” Terrel said. “We tried to give it away to them at the end, but we battled back.”While Myers Park was able to force some turnovers with a full-court press, Millbrook did the same in the fourth – making for an entertaining finish.Millbrook swarmed from down 12 with 3:43 left in the game to cut the deficit to two after a 3-pointer from Mykia Jones with 53.6 seconds left. But it was too little, too late for the Wildcats, as defensive gambles in its press led to two straight Myers Park layups.“We should’ve learned from our state championship game (loss) last year,” said the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player Briana Day, a Millbrook junior and UNC recruit. “Our intensity should’ve came well before the fourth quarter.”Myers Park placed three players on the all-tournament team, adding freshman Rydeiah Rogers – Roddreka’s younger sister – and sophomore Saadia Timpton.Green Hope, which finished third in the tournament after a 56-41 win against Riverside, placed Kristen Gaffney (79 points in three games) and Ashley Williams on the all-tournament team. The rest of the all-tournament team included Riverside’s Maddie McCallie, Hillside’s Morgan McGee, Panther Creek’s Kayla Seymour and Cary Christian’s Dakota Dukes. Blake: 919-460-2606
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/12/28/1739402/girls-holiday-invitational-championship.html#storylink=cpy
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Natural gas line explodes near Rosston in Harper County, Oklahoma
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Published: Wed, October 9, 2013 12:00 AM Updated: Wed, October 9, 2013 4:54 AM
Screen image from video by Spencer Albracht
ROSSTON – A natural gas line exploded late Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of four nearby homes in northwest Harper County but causing no injuries or property damage, authorities said early Wednesday.
The explosion was about 11 p.m. Tuesday in a rural area about 10 miles north of Rosston in the Ditch Valley community near U.S. 283 near the Kansas border. All roads have been reopened Wednesday, a Harper County Sheriff's dispatcher said.
The line is owned by Northern Natural Gas Company of Omaha, Neb., said company spokesman Mike Loeffler. Loeffler said the cause of the explosion is not known. Crews will look for answers after daybreak, he said.
“There will be a thorough investigation,” Loeffler said.
The fire has been contained and had nearly burned out early Wednesday, he said.
Loeffler said there has been no disruption of service. Four homes were evacuated as a precaution late Tuesday.
Check NewsOK.com for updates.
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Muslim migrant in Germany stabs three people with knife for “unknown reasons,” not being treated as terror-related
“Unknown reasons”? Do they really think anyone still believes that? The Islamic State (ISIS) has called upon Muslims in the West to attack random civilians. Do German authorities think they will be able to cover up jihad activity forever? Has it ever occurred to Angela Merkel that the Alliance for Germany (AfD) has arisen so quickly and gained such a massive following precisely because of obvious official dishonesty such as what we see in this case? Why do she and her lapdogs among the political and media elites think that it is their first and most important job to protect the image of Islam and not make anyone think that terror attacks are occurring? This strategy is going to lead Germany, and all of Europe, into chaos.
“Ravensburg stabbing: Three injured after knife attack in German town square,” by Neil Murphy, Mirror, September 28, 2018:
Three people have been stabbed following an incident in Ravensburg, Germany.
Police arrested one man in connection with the attack at the town’s Marienplatz square at 4.20pm on Friday.
The alleged assailant is a 19-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan and is reported to have attacked two young Syrian men, aged 19 and 20, and a 56-year-old German citizen.
One of the victims is being treated for life-threatening injuries.
A police statement said the incident was carried out for ‘unknown reasons’ and is not being treated as terror-related.
Footage from the scene showed a man gesticulating and waving a knife as another man stood nearby.
The attacker is believed to have stormed the square where he began his attack, according local news website Schwaebische.
The Lord Mayor of Ravensburg is believed to have intervened in the attack and urged the 19-year-old to drop the knife.
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South Africa Calls for 300,000 Gun Owners to Turn Over Their Weapons
South Africa is opening the door for tyranny.
The Constitutional Court of South Africa recently ruled that 300,000 gun owners must turn in their firearms.
This judgement came in response to the North Gauteng High Court’s ruling in 2017 which said Section 24 and Section 28 of the Firearm’s Control Act were unconstitutional.
A report from The Citizen explains what Section 24 and Section 28 entail:
“Section 24 of the Act requires that any person who seeks to renew a licence must do so 90 days before its expiry date Section 28 stipulates that if a firearm licence has been cancelled‚ the firearm must be disposed of or forfeited to the state. A 60-day time frame was placed on its disposal, which was to be done through a dealer.”
Now that the High Court’s initial ruling has been overturned, gun owners who failed to renew their firearms licenses must hand in their firearms to the nearest police station, where authorities will then proceed to destroy them.
Many naïve political observers will paint this event as a casual gun control scheme, but any astute student of politics will recognize that the floodgates are now open for further encroachments – not only on the gun rights of South Africans, but also on others facets of theirs lives.
A look at South Africa’s current political climate will give us an idea of the potential ramifications of this gun control scheme.
Political Trouble Brewing in South Africa?
Though South Africa witnessed rising levels of economic freedom shortly after Apartheid ended in 1994, the country has taken a more interventionist path to economic development in recent years.
This situation is becoming more pronounced with the South African National Assembly recently voting 241-83 to amend the South African constitution to allow for land expropriation without compensation.
The socialist-leaning African National Congress (ANC) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) parties are leading the charge for expropriation under the banner of fixing racial disparities that have supposedly remained intact since Apartheid’s conclusion.
While land confiscation has not been officially finalized, South Africans should worry about the direction their country is going.
And how does gun control fit into this equation?
Gun Control: A Tool for Tyranny
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Florida Governor Candidate, Andrew Gillum Had Intimate Relationship With Male Lobbyist
By Jacob Engels
Our sources in Florida’s capital city of Tallahassee, where Gillum has served as a Commissioner and now Mayor, say he was intimately involved with Adam Corey.
It is 2018. Nobody should be afraid to embrace their sexuality and be who they are. I am openly gay. We all come to terms with our sexual preference in different ways and at different times in our life.
Over the past week, a photo of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum and his lifelong friend Adam Corey has been circulating online with a lot of debate over just how “close” the two had become. Corey, like myself, is openly gay.
Our sources in Tallahassee have confirmed that it is well known among capitol power-brokers that Andrew Gillum and Adam Corey were engaged in a long-term intimate relationship. Corey was once Gillum’s campaign treasurer and appeared before Gillum as a lobbyist during his time on the Tallahassee City Commission.
Corey is now the subject to and FBI corruption probe that has ensnared the Tallahassee City Commission, according to multiple news reports. As is Gillum, depending on what you are reading. Both deny being the subject of the probe. The FBI is reportedly aware of the special nature of their relationship.
As Gillum has drawn heat over failing to reimburse Corey for lavish vacations to New York and Costa Rica with a cadre of other lobbyists, he has swiftly thrown his friend of over 20 years under the bus quicker than quicksand.
They are no longer friends and have seemingly excommunicated one another from each other’s lives. So… what does it matter if Corey and Gillum did in fact engage in a long-term intimate relationship?
I would argue that Floridians deserve to know the full scope of the men or women who run for high-public office, especially any relationships that speak to their character and how they interact with those close to them who benefit financially.
In the past, Charlie Crist faced similar rumors alleging that he was either bi-sexual or gay. It started with a whisper campaign and articles similar to this one, ending with several men coming forward. Crist would go on to marry Carol Rome (they are now divorced), however the rumors still persist and remain prevalent among Florida politicos to this day. The former Governor is now a Congressman in the Tampa area.
These rumors and alleged relationships with other men caused Crist legal trouble in 2012 when he was sued by former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer. For Crist, most of the allegations were during his single years, and make his case quite different than Gillum’s.
Given the fact that Gillum is a married man and father, these alleged interludes with Corey over a long period of time present several problems for not only his campaign, but his potential governorship.
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Staffer For Andrew Gillum, Running For Florida Governor FIRED After Trump Assassination Tweet
Manny Orozco Ballestas, who we exposed for calling all Trump voters dumbf****, deleted close to 30,000 tweets after our report.
We have all had a little bit too much to drink and made a “martini tweet”. I don’t deny it and neither should you. However, Democratic candidate for Governor Andrew Gillum’s Youth Director went far past an off-color joke.
Manny Orozco Ballestas, who worked in a high level position with Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign in 2016, was exposed by the Central Florida Post for posing in a t-shirt calling Trump voters members of “Dumbfuckistan.”
Andrew Gillum refused to fire the staffer and has kept Ballestas in his employ to this date. Now we have obtained deleted tweets from Ballestas that showcase his affinity for body shaming, sexism, pedophilia, and murder.
In tweets provided to us by an anonymous source, Ballestas demonstrates exactly why he should not be in charge of children or in any leadership position with Andrew Gillum’s campaign for Governor of Florida.
We will analyze each tweet as we post them all below. These are his alleged deleted tweets after we exposed him earlier this week for being a political bigot.
In this tweet, Manny Orozco Ballestas shames a fellow female college student for having more leg hair than him. What happened to Democrats and progressives embracing the body-positivity movement? This female should showcase her unshaven body without shame.
This tweet is simply disgusting. It reasons that young babies using a pacifier are somehow preparing to suck Manny’s penis. Why is he thinking about infants that may or may not be men/woman performing oral sex on his unimpressive and deformed penis?
The Kardashian’s are fame seeking weirdos, but for a progressive Democrat to describe any woman as a “cunt” is hypocritical and sexist.
Manny actually advocated for the murder of a public figure. This tweet was posted years before Donald Trump ran for President. Why hasn’t Jack Dorsey and Twitter deleted this tweet that calls for the murder of someone? Is he too busy silencing conservative actor James Woods for posting a funny meme?
*Even More Disgusting Tweets Removed From This Article*
In response to the Tweets, a representative with the Gillum campaign confirmed that Orozco Ballestas no longer works for the campaign.
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Sen. Flake’s Screaming ‘Victims’ Were George Soros Babes
The women who were filmed screaming at Arizona Senator Jeff Flake and quickly became a liberal “heroes” were just identified as a Soros plants:
The screaming leftists cornered the Arizona Republican at the US Capitol Friday morning as he made his way to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where, he’d just announced, he would be voting to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
With Flake trapped in the elevator, the women berated him for his intended vote supporting Kavanaugh, screaming, “This is not tolerable!”
“You have children in your family. Think about them! I have two children. I cannot imagine that for the next 50 years they will have to have someone in the Supreme Court who has been accused of violating a young girl. What are you doing, sir?!” one of the women yelled while blocking the elevator door.
Flake silently listened, nodding occasionally before escaping to the Committee hearing where, after private meetings with Senate Democrats, he gave the left what they wanted. Flake announced to the panel that he would only vote for Kavanaugh if the Senate vote was delayed and another FBI investigation was allowed to be conducted.
And as liberals cheered the news, it was soon clear that the screaming women by the elevator were actually Soros-funded astroturfed activists.Shortly after the incident with Flake, Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher were caught celebrating:
Archila even wrote about the incident with Senator Flake:
“Shortly after, CNN reported that Flake was visibly shaken after his encounter with us. Our words, and the words of thousands of women who have shared their stories, moved him.”
Turns out Ana Maria Archila is the co-executive director for the Center for Popular Democracy and the Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund, both heavily funded by George Soros.
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Lunch with the Pope
President Trump invited the Pope for lunch on his mega yacht, the Pope accepted and during lunch, a puff of wind blew the Pontiff's hat off, right into the water.
It floated off about 50 feet, then the wind died down and it just floated in place.
The crew and the secret service were scrambling to launch a boat to go get it, when Trump waved them off, saying "Never mind, boys, I'll get it."
The Donald climbed over the side of the yacht, walked on the water to the hat, picked it up, walked back on the water, climbed into the yacht, and handed the Pope his hat.
The crew was speechless. The security team and the Pope's entourage were speechless.
No one knew what to say, not even the Pope.
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Why Another FBI Investigation of Kavanaugh Would Be Pointless
Campaigns of whatever sort often adopt a mantra, a phrase, or even a single word that’s repeated over and over to advance the campaign’s goals. The campaign against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is no different, and its latest mantra is “FBI investigation.” Let’s look at this mantra’s objectives and its validity.
The call for another FBI investigation, which dominated the Sept. 27 hearing about Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh, appears to have multiple partisan objectives, based on statements made by those opposed to his confirmation.
First, Kavanaugh’s opponents have expressed hope that the continued controversy will help defeat the nomination. Barring that, they have indicated that they want to drag the process out at least past Election Day. Third, according to Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Democrats would keep this seat open until President Donald Trump leaves office if they win control of the Senate in the upcoming election.
This demand for another FBI investigation is not valid and based on a complete misunderstanding of the bureau’s role. First, Kavanaugh’s opponents want people to think that the FBI is on standby, ready to run down all the leads and figure out what really happened.
That may be what a law enforcement agency does in the criminal justice system—as seen on TV—but not in the confirmation process.
That distinction between the criminal justice system and the confirmation process is critical. The FBI is in the executive branch, which has authority over the criminal justice system. The confirmation process, however, occurs in the legislative branch. The Constitution gives the Senate sole responsibility for evaluating presidential nominees.
In the criminal justice system, the FBI investigates by not only gathering information but evaluating it, making judgments about the credibility of witnesses or the truth of what they say, pursuing leads, and offering conclusions or even recommendations. In other words, they figure out what really happened.
In the confirmation process, the FBI gathers information and stops there. The Senate must do the rest. In fact, as CBS News recently described it, the FBI “conducts a background check at the request of the White House, mainly to determine whether the nominee would pose a risk to national security interests of the United States, according to the Justice Department.”
That has already been done. It’s worth noting that this “full-field” FBI investigation has been conducted every time Kavanaugh was hired or appointed to a significant government position. Six times between 1993 and 2018, the FBI went talking to people about Kavanaugh. Six times, all after the incident that Ford alleges, the FBI never heard anyone even whisper a word about sexual misconduct.
Kavanaugh’s opponents not only want people to think that the FBI has a criminal justice role in the confirmation process, but they mislead people to think that if the FBI does not jump in, there will be no investigation of Ford’s allegation. The people actually responsible for investigating these allegations are the Judiciary Committee’s own investigative staff and they have been hard at work for nearly two weeks. The list of steps they have taken is...
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Jack Poulson, a former senior research scientist at Google, sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation calling the company “unethical” and stating that oversight of the company is “urgently needed” after resigning from the Silicon Valley titan over its censored China search project.
In his letter, Poulson described Google’s censored China search project as “unethical” and claimed “greater oversight and accountability” of the company was “urgently needed.”
He also claimed Google would now be clamping down on internal investigations to stop future revelations of a similar nature from reaching the public, and called on the Senate to have a hearing over the matter.
“Senator Thune set the tone for the upcoming hearing by stating that ‘Consumers deserve clear answers and standards on data privacy protection.’ Given the scale and social impact of the technical systems being deployed by Google and other corporations, I would add that greater oversight and accountability of not only data, but also the systems that are designed and deployed based on such data, is urgently needed,” declared Poulson. “Until the beginning of this month, I worked in Google’s Research and Machine Intelligence division as a Senior Research Scientist, where one of my primary responsibilities was improving Google’s search accuracy across a wide variety of languages.”
Poulson continued:
I was compelled to resign my position on August 31, 2018, in the wake of a pattern of unethical and unaccountable decision making from company leadership. This culminated in their refusal to disclose information about Project Dragonfly, a version of Google Search tailored to the censorship and surveillance demands of the Chinese government. Like most of the world, including most Google employees, I learned about this effort on August 1, 2018, from public reporting.
It is notable that Project Dragonfly was well underway at the time the company released its AI Principles. As has been widely understood, by human rights organizations,investigative reporters, Google employees, and the public, Project Dragonfly directly contradicts the AI Principles’ commitment to not “design or deploy” any technology whose purpose “contravenes...
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The rise of killer robots is now unstoppable and a new digital Geneva Convention is essential to protect the world from the growing threat they pose, according to the President of the world’s biggest technology company.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, said the use of ‘lethal autonomous weapon systems’ poses a host of new ethical questions which need to be considered by governments as a matter of urgency.
He said the rapidly advancing technology, in which flying, swimming or walking drones can be equipped with lethal weapons systems – missiles, bombs or guns – which could be programmed to operate entirely or partially autonomously, “ultimately will spread… to many countries”.
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Smith said killer robots must “not be allowed to decide on their own to engage in combat and who to kill” and argued that a new international convention needed to be drawn up to govern the use of the technology.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) performed an entirely made-up conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his opening statement at a committee hearing Thursday morning.
The White House released a transcript of a phone call between Trump and Zelensky on Wednesday, but Schiff made up and fabricated his own own transcript that he read at the hearing, which sought to create a quid pro quo that Democrats have accused the president of making.
“This is the essence of what the president communicates,” Schiff began.
“We’ve been very good to your country. Very good. No other country has done as much as we have. But you know what? I don’t see much reciprocity here. I hear what you want. I have a favor I want from YOU though. And I’m going to say this only seven times so you better listen good,” Schiff read from his fabricated conversation.
“I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? Lots of it,” he continued.
“On this and on that. I’m gonna put you in touch with people and not just any people,” he continued, affecting an accent meant to resemble Trump’s. “I’m going to put you with the attorney general of the United States, my attorney general Bill Barr. He’s got the whole weight of the American law enforcement behind him.”
“And I’m gonna put you in touch with Rudy, you’re gonna love him, trust me,” Schiff said, still avoiding any real quotations from the transcript. “You know what I’m asking, so I’m only going to say this a few more times, in a few more ways. And by the way don’t call me again. I’ll call you when you’ve done what I’ve asked.”
Schiff said of his made-up conversation, “This is in sum and character what the president was trying to communicate.”
Republican lawmakers slammed Schiff for making up the conversation entirely, instead of going off the transcript of what was actually said between Trump and Zelensky.
Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) called the statement “fiction”:
While the chairman was speaking, I actually had someone text me, ‘Is he just making this up?’ And yes, yes he was. Because sometimes fiction is better than the actual words or the text. But luckily the American people are smart. They have the transcript, they’ve read the conversation, they know when someone is just making it up.
After Turner’s scolding, Schiff said his “summary of the president’s call was at least meant to be in part parody.”
He added, “The fact that that’s not clear is a separate problem in and of itself. Of course the president never said, “If you didn’t understand me, I’m going to say it seven more times.’ My point is, that’s the message the Ukrainian president was receiving in not so many words.”
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) accused Schiff of being intentionally misleading.
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It’s a partisan witch hunt – and without a hint of irony – many of those Democrats pushing for impeachment today were decrying an allegedly partisan witch hunt against Bill Clinton when it was him being impeached.
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The polar bear may be the animal most often identified with climate change, but it is far from the only creature at risk from rising temperatures. The northernmost part of Earth is warming two to three times faster than the rest of the planet. This means the melting sea ice is opening new routes for shipping.
The melting ice has cleared space through the historically dangerous Northwest Passage, and the Northern Sea Route, along Russia's northern coast. This has sharply increased shipping in what was once a largely untouched ocean. Donna Hauser is a marine biologist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Hauser says she and other people expect more ships to sail in Arctic waters.
“Part of what motivated the study is to understand where we're at and where we need to go." Hauser says she was interested in studying the possible threat to Arctic marine mammals from shipping. Hauser says her hope was to protect both these animals and the people who depend on them.
"All of these species are really important traditional resources for indigenous communities throughout the Arctic as well as in Alaska and in the Alaskan Arctic, in particular." Hauser and other researchers looked at seven Arctic species: beluga whales, narwhals, bowhead whales, ringed seals, bearded seals, walruses, and polar bears. They created a risk measure that combined the general sensitivity of these animals and their contact with shipping.
The researchers limited their study to the month of September. This is when sea ice is at its lowest point and most ships pass through Arctic waters.
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President Ilham Aliyev received delegation led by Iranian minister of health and medical education
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It is a degenerative disease of the spinal cord, also called "German Shepherd Dog, degenerative myelopathy" pursuant to the occurrence of particular cases in this race. However, it is a disease described in other races, especially large or giant; It can also occur in the cat.
The MD gives rise to the first clinical symptoms between the ages of 5 and 14 years old, but may also occur in younger animals. Shows predilection for sex.
The cause is still unknown.
There are several hypotheses, but none has proven a reliable scientific evidence.
These hypotheses range from the most reliable talking of nutritional deficiencies and problems, degenerative and autoimmune mechanisms. In fact, to support the first hypothesis, some patients with DM has been described in a concomitant chronic enteropathy associated with abnormal posterior proliferation of bacteria in the small intestine, bad absorcion and reduction in blood levels of vitamin E and vitamin B12.
However, the administration of vitamin B12 by injection in dogs, proved ineffective to curb the development of symptoms.
In addition, a recent study with 25 dogs with degenerative myelopathy, excludes the deficiencies of vitamin E of the possible causes of the disease.
The mediated immune hypothesis, however, rests on the finding of alteration of the responses mediated by cells and lymphocyte infiltrate in various organs in dogs with degenerative myelopathy.
Some authors, finally, believe that it is a degenerative disease in the late development of genetic basis.
The clinical symptoms
Proprioceptive deficits are significant, given the ataxia of the hind limbs and slight paraparesis.
The lack of coordination is much more evident in paralysis. This aspect allows the doctor to move toward a suspicion of degenerative myelopathy, rather than other diseases of the bone marrow.
The insignificant absence of a painful response to palpation of the spinal column and the set of factors such as responses to treatment with NSAIDs or corticosteroids, and the failure of the owner to determine the onset of symptoms, support the suspicion of degenerative myelopathy.
In the examination of the spinal reflex points in the early stages of the disease, can be seen normo or hipereflexia patellar and the most advanced lumbar hiporeflexia.
Sphincters control tends to be preserved.
The evolution of progressive worsening of clinical symptoms, occurs in a period of 6 to 36 months, but on average settles paraplegia in 12 months. In this case, many of these patients are subjected to euthanasia.
Myelography of thoracic and lumbar spinal cord to exclude pathologies of compression and the examination of the cerebrospinal fluid are suitable to ensure the diagnosis.
There is no proven treatment protocol.
A combination of exercise, vitamin supplements and amino caproic acid is used.
Moderate swimming and physical therapy they are useful in preventing the atrophy by disuse of the muscles of the hind legs.
The vitamins of the B complex and vitamin E reduces the degeneration of the nervous system.
Amino caproic acid seems to slow down the progression of the disease based on its antiproteasa activity.
The use of corticosteroids, immunosuppressive doses, to be used only in limited time periods and in the recurrence of symptoms.
The prognosis of these animals is bad.
There are products on the market as the Biko brace or the Special thermal blankets that they can help improve ambulation, improving clinical signs, reducing ataxia, not "cure" the disease but if symptoms improve.
The histopathologic lesions ranged to the white matter of the spinal cord. These can affect any bone, but usually concentrate on segments of the lumbar, thoracic and cranial volume.
Some authors exclude the involvement of the brain, however, recently have been isolated from the brain stem injuries his involvement and clinical consideration is still not clear.
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Klieman’s Big Contract Means Big Buyout
Pace Maier April 25, 2016 No Comments
Hard to imagine North Dakota State head football coach Chris Klieman would ever want to leave Fargo.
I mean there are seven McDonald’s and 11 Subways. And a Space Aliens.
Oh, and I suppose we can’t forget about the highly successful FCS football team he coaches.
Last week, Klieman signed a contract extension with the Bison, agreeing to a six-year deal to stay at the helm of Bison football through the 2021 season. The 48-year-old will make $300,000 next season. You can add in another $90,000 for personal and media appearance fees, too.
And if the green and gold juke and jive through the playoffs and win a six-straight national championship, Klieman could earn nearly a half of a million dollars.
Yes, that isn’t chump change, but greener pastures are out there — that is, an FBS school with a much larger budget.
NDSU perhaps has another Craig Bohl situation on its hands: Head coach wins a lot of regular season games, manages to successfully get through the playoffs and wins a few championships in a row.
Remember: Bohl received a big contract right before he left for Wyoming. NDSU perhaps saw his departure as inevitable and wanted the FBS school that snagged him to dish out a big buyout.
NDSU received $100,000 when Bohl left for Laramie.
Klieman’s potential buyout would fetch $320,000 if a school came knocking before January 2017.
Bison fans don’t have to be reminded about how Bohl left. Why would Klieman be any different? Klieman is worthy of FBS-money and has reached the summit of FCS play, twice.
After the spring game, Klieman walked into Saturday’s postgame press conference and sat down in front of the cameras and reporters, flashing his 2015 National Championship ring.
And geez did it sparkle.
“I am very blessed to have the best job in FCS football,” Klieman said after he agreed to the contract extension. “NDSU has tremendous student-athletes who are receiving an outstanding education and foundation for excellence which are showcased and supported by an unbelievable fan base and institution.”
NDSU athletics have put the state school (and state) on the national map.
Not just by the football program but the men’s basketball program, track and field program and the softball program as well as others.
But with success comes recognition.
The Bison are chasing a sixth-straight national championship, and if that six-pack becomes reality, Klieman has no reason to not take his talents to the FBS level.
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Norwegian ‘aid’ for Tiger bunkers
According to Military sources, the bund cum trench, unlike other LTTE defence lines that the forces overran earlier, is a tried and tested defensive system used by both the Indian and Pakistani armies against each other.
To halt the advancing Army, the Tigers have built this formidable trench line for miles facing the south, using heavy equipment taken from the INGOs, while the Army and the Air Force were busy concentrating on engaging the enemy in earlier operations, to regain territory in their then immediate front. It had been built, first laying mines on its approaches, then a trench had been cut, especially to prevent crossing of armour and the earth removed from this trench had been used to build a bund above it to a height of eight to 10 feet.
Inside the bund are also a series of bunkers, from which vantage the Tigers are able to mow down the advancing Army and call in artillery support, with their clear view of the advancing forces.
In hindsight, it can now be said that, had the Air Force Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, had spotted the massive defence line being constructed in advance, and got the MI-24 attack helicopters or the jets, to take out the heavy machinery engaged in building the network, much of this misery could have been avoided.
It is easy for us to say this from the safety and comfort of Colombo now, but for the valiant forces fighting the most ruthless outfit on earth, with limited resources, in the heat of so many operations in their immediate front, it would have eluded them. Besides, the Norwegian People’s Aid only reported the removal of their heavy machinery long after the Tigers had done it.
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The Institute of Mathematics and Physics at Aberystwyth University seeks to appoint a lecturer in physics with outstanding research potential to contribute to our programme of research and teaching. The successful candidate will have a PhD in Physics and a proven record of research of international standing with publications in leading journals. Physicists whose interests would strengthen the research in optical and/or electron spectroscopy are particularly encouraged to apply. This open-ended post is available from October 2010.
Ref: MP.10.04 Closing date: 3 September 2010 NOTE: Please put the post reference on the front of your envelope and on your application form. Completed Applications Forms should be signed and returned to the Human Resources Recruitment Team by fax or post. Bilingual Institution which operates a Welsh Language scheme. Committed to Equal Opportunities. Operations Team: vacancies@aber.ac.uk / Tel: 01970 628442 / Fax: 01970 622975 For information and application forms please go to www.aber.ac.uk/hr
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Jack Black has shared a video which sees him get one step closer to making his collaboration with Jack White.
The video follows the band throughout their Nashville stop, including their trip to the White's Third Man Records HQ along with White's home studio, where the D recorded.
Last week (August 4), Jack Blackannounced that Tenacious D have made "Jack Gray" a reality by recording with Jack White at Third Man Records.
But new footage has now been released showing White meeting up with Black and bandmate Kyle Gass to get in the studio and lay down the track. "Needs a bit of work, but I think that's where Jack White's gonna come in and help us pull it over the finish line".
He added: "This is a legendary collab". It's what you would expect-Jack White's house is going to be off the chain. During the vehicle ride, Tenacious D not only belt out Michael Jackson's "Black Or White" but also White's arguably biggest hit with The White Stripes: "Seven Nation Army". The anachronistic legend himself even chimes in on the duo: "I didn't realize, but they're actually not very nice guys", White says of Tenacious D.
They weren't allowed to film inside the house but described the recording process of their new song as "magical", stating: "I'm still floating on cloud 9". The details behind this "Jack Gray" collaboration will just have to remain a mystery for now.
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Home/ News/Rafters fall 2-1 in first conference loss to Dallas City FC
Pictured: Shreveport Rafters fell to Dallas City FC in their first loss in the conference
By: Jordan Spratt
On: June 6, 4:33 am
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Rafters fall 2-1 in first conference loss to Dallas City FC
The Shreveport Rafters took the I-20 trip to play conference opponent Dallas City FC Saturday evening. The Rafters are full speed ahead wrapping up the first half of the season as they’ve exceeded expectations, but it would be naïve to think there wouldn’t be speed bumps along the way as they continue their stellar campaign.
To start, the Shreveport side came out looking like a team up for the task of taking on the conference veterans. Inside the first 10 minutes the Rafters had most of the time on the ball which speaks to the team gaining confidence with each match.
It was an odd philosophy for City as they wanted their massive yet lumbering center halves to keep a high line against the pacey duo Steven Bush and Nick Hammond. Seeing this inviting matchup the Rafters defenders (4) and midfield ([1]3) sought to exploit the mismatch in speed.
On three occasions a ball lobbed to the Shreveport native forwards would find its way to their feet. While winning each foot race, it was last second efforts by Marko Jovanovic to clear the ball out- keeping the Rafters from getting an easy 1-v-1 goal.
In the 4th minute the Rafters had a wonderful display of chemistry as midfielder(R) Aaron Bergman sent a ball in to N. Hammond. Hammond, fully aware of his surroundings and teammates moving around the ball, played a perfectly weighted through-ball to the oncoming Matt Barcelona(L) right behind the cemented central defender. Barcelona’s soft touch granted him enough time to take a good shot that went low and just wide left.
City’s formation featured a 4-4-2 that could be a 4-3-3 as they moved forward. The right back of the home team stayed high trusting his fellow three defenders to cover for him on the break. This philosophy has been employed by many teams that the Rafters have faced and it’s clear the team is well aware and prepared for a lopsided flanked attack from the opposing team.
It’s apparent that the Rafters focus on every aspect of the game as the team had a surprising potent attack from throw-ins. Designated long thrower, Che Walcott, had 5 throws that were put well into the 18-yard box. Only one of them were cleared first-time by the home squad as City made keeping their goal clear, on thrown-ins, look really difficult.
It wouldn’t come until the 25th minute that City would have their first real opportunity as a good cross was met with a Dallas header towards goal that glanced wide right and high.
City would mysteriously avoid a card darker than yellow as a two-foot studded tackle came in on Dan Debleare that left the midfielder down for some time. It could be seen as frustration setting in as the rookie team had much of the possession.
As many people know, the game of soccer can be a cruel one. Despite being the lesser squad in terms of statistics and the natural eye, in the 40th minute City broke the 0-0 deadlock with a questionable goal. A cross came in from the right to the far post and fell to Ariel Mesa as his point blank shot found the back of the net. Albeit it was probably not intentional, the appeal for handball on the first touch by the forward could be brought into question.
The Rafters would enter halftime down 0-1 despite a well-played first half.
The second half would be one that was monotonous as City seemed content getting a 1-0 win and the Rafters in their usual pressing fashion. No changes to the formation of either team changed, however City did turn the tide on the possession as they had a ‘pass-pass, go forward if necessary’ mindset.
In the 64th minute City would double their lead as forward Mesa would come from the right side and hit a grounded left foot cross. With some unlucky out stretched misses by the defense, the ball found the feet of Damien Rosales as he was able to gather the ball for a placed right foot shot in the bottom right of the net.
While being down is never the state you want to be in, it is entertaining to watch a good team press with purpose and success, as that’s exactly how the Rafters responded.
In the 89th minute the Rafters were finally rewarded with a goal. Abdullah Rayyan hit a beautiful curling aerial through-ball to Childers who still had plenty of work to do with defenders helping to cover. Childers, with step-overs and magic, opened himself up to pass the defender and hit a right footed cross far post. The ball landed to forward Luiz Petribu. Petribu made Rafters fans and coaches alike hearts stop as his first attempt was a fake but he always knew what he wanted as the keeper and the defender in-front went the wrong way making for an easy right footed shot placed bottom left.
I’d like to thank the wonderful ball boys and girls for the Shreveport Rafters at Graf Orthodontics field as we have not once had a single issue, with not having balls constantly to play with whether our team is down or winning. This has not been the case on away trips and this one was no different tonight, as it was difficult to find a ball to play with as the Rafters pressed; time being of the essence.
With a frantic ending the match would end 1-2, Dallas City FC.
The Rafters sit 4th in the South Central Conference standings with a record of 4-3-1.
The Rafters will play the second leg of the Louisiana Cup as they face the Jesters of New Orleans, Tuesday night at Graf Orthodontics Field @7pm. If you haven’t heard, they’ll be in a spiffy Louisiana patented uniform. See you there.
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Boys Soccer Victory; Girls Make Playoffs…Oct. 19, 2016
Cyndy | October 25, 2016
Nashoba scores against Westboro earlier in October SusanShaye.com
The Nashoba Regional boys’ soccer team is doing its best to try to keep its head above water.
On Saturday evening the Chieftains welcomed nearby rival Hudson High School to town. Nashoba, in much need of a victory, played with grit and heart and dominated from start to finish en route to a 9-0 thumping over the Hawks under the lights at Nashoba Regional High School.
The victory secured two big points in the standings for the Chieftains. Nashoba improves to 4-6-2 overall with the win while Hudson drops to 0-12-1.
Nashoba now has 10 points on the season with six games to play. The Chieftains need eight points in their final six games to qualify for the Central Mass. Division 1 Tournament.
“It’s been the same concept all year long for us, when we score first we win. Every game we’ve lost we’ve given up the first goal,” said Nashoba head coach Ryan Gates following Saturday’s triumph. “This was a game we really needed and coming in we knew, on paper, we were the better team. We needed to show it on the field.”
Nashoba is fighting for its first postseason berth since the 2013 season. That year, the No.11 Chieftains were bounced in the first round against sixth-seeded Hudson in penalty kicks. The Chieftains finished 2013 with an 8-9-2 overall record.
The victory also snaps a two-game losing streak for the Chieftains, who are fighting to climb back to the .500 mark on the campaign. Nashoba was looking to inch a little closer to a sectional spot when it returned to action this past Tuesday night. That was when the Chieftains hosted the Colonials of Shrewsbury High School.
“It’s going to be an uphill battle, we’re playing some very good teams in front of us. It’s been a weird season in Central Mass; there isn’t one team running away with things,” said Gates on Saturday. “There is no easy wins for us, but if the boys play the way they did against (previous opponent) Marlboro and shoot like we did tonight, I’m confident in our chances.”
As for Saturday’s action, Nashoba seized control early on as it struck for a pair of first half goals in the first four minutes and never looked back.
Nashoba’s Jasper Yang put the hosts on the scoreboard in the fourth minute of play when he beat Hudson goalie Jared Colbert with a blast to make it 1-0.
Yang doubled the lead less than a minute later to make it 2-0.
Nashoba tacked on five more first half goals as the Chieftains enjoyed a 7-0 lead after the first 40 minutes.
In the second half, the hosts didn’t relinquish its lead – in fact, they added to it. Nashoba tacked on two more goals in the second half en route to the final tally.
The Chieftains spread the scoring out on Saturday as seven different players scored goals.
Yang, a senior captain had a standout game with three goals and an assist. Senior Garren LaPlante had a goal and an assist while sophomore John Higgins had two assists. Other Nashoba goal scorers were sophomore Cooper Caviness, junior Evan Medcraft, senior Keenan Doyle, junior Jay Toland and senior Grant Edwards.
Nashoba goalies Matt Cunningham and Michael Perreault were solid in the cage for the Chieftains. Cunningham worked the first half while Perreault manned the net for the final 40 minutes.
Nashoba Girls Add Another to Winning Season, Playoff-bound
In Saturday’s matinee performance, the Nashoba girls’ soccer team used a strong second half to pull away from Hudson as the Chieftains notched a 6-1 victory.
The win improves the girls’ overall record to 8-3-2 and qualifies the Chieftains for the Central Mass. Division 1 Tournament.
“Our girls were coming off a big win against Marlboro, and Hudson is a team with some really good players and we didn’t do a good enough job defending in the first half,” said Nashoba head coach Renee Moulton following the win. “It took us a little while, but the girls came out fired up in the second half and played with the intensity that they’re capable of.”
Nashoba held a slim 2-1 halftime lead before opening the floodgates with four unanswered goals in the second half.
“The team played to their capabilities in the second half,” said Moulton. “We came out and scored three goals in the first five minutes to really take control.”
As for scoring, Nashoba drew first blood during the third minute of action. Katie Piccioli found the back of the net and Taylor Rodriguez assisted.
Hudson answered with the equalizer with 9:25 to play before halftime. However, Nashoba reclaimed the lead with 5:47 left before halftime when Abby McNulty buried the first of her three goals on the day. Alana Carlucci was credited with the assist.
In the second half, Nashoba put the contest out of reach with a dominating 40 minute effort. The Chieftains tallied three goals inside the first five minutes of the stanza to grab a 5-1 advantage.
Nashoba added one more for good measure with 12:37 left to cap the scoring.
Along with McNulty and Piccioli’s offensive efforts, The Chieftains received strong games from Grace Kiernan and Ella Lemieux, both scoring goals on Saturday.
Goalies Jetta Oskirko and Theresa Dawn combined for the win. Oskirko was net for the first half and Dawn was in net for the second half.
Nashoba returned to action on Tuesday against Shrewsbury High School.
Editor’s Note: Tuesday’s scores were not available at press time
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Written by Brian Brinkman and Micho Rutare
Directed by Bruce Davison
Packed to the gills with crazy action, former stars, and massive carnage, Asylum’s Bigfoot is an entertaining SyFy feature that also doubles as political commentary. Bigfoot is relentless with action sequences, the very first shots are of various animals being devoured up the food chain, until we reach man shooting a bear. Man who is quickly taken out by a huge Bigfoot! Bigfoot will run rampage through the local town of Deadwood, smashing cars, trucks, and chomping the heads off of people. There is an energy in Bigfoot that keeps it chugging along, character dismissing any attempts to stop and think as they rush into one crazy plan after another, all while Bigfoot is smashing and eating.
Bigfoot is a sequel in spirit to Mega Python vs. Gateroid. Like that film, it features two faded stars (instead of 80s pop icons Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, we have former 60s child stars Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams) who argue constantly. The monster battle aspect has been dumped for just constant monster action. Bigfoot features more minor stars in supporting roles than MPvG, but both do feature a musical icon getting killed just after they appear (Micky Dolenz gets chomped in MPvG, while Alice Cooper gets punted in Bigfoot!) Even the ending is similar, but more on that in a little bit.
Bigfoot is part of the Icy May series for MOSS – The Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit. And if you are wondering why something for May is showing up in June on TarsTarkas.NET, you must be new here! Heck, our March theme (March of Godzilla 2013) is still going on! Further Icy May entries include Gaddaar at both Beth Loves Bollywood and at FourDK, Yeti Curse of the Snow Demon at The Horror!?, Snow Devils at Exploder Button, Fist of B-List meets The Iceman Cometh, and The Great Silence at Teleport City.
Harley Anderson (Danny Bonaduce) – Former singer turned obnoxious disk jockey and thrower of ridiculous nostalgia concerts that both fail and cause angry beasts to awaken. Spends most of his time fighting his former partner turned rival Simon Quint instead of stopping the creature he helped unleash on the public.
Simon Quint (Barry Williams) – Former singer turned gentle soul and friend of the Earth. He attracts a large following of young hot women and fights for the rights of nature. He attempts to subdue Bigfoot so he can be peacefully relocated instead of killed, but his attempts never pan out.
Sheriff Becky Alvarez (Sherilyn Fenn) – A former detective in Oklahoma City, who has returned to her childhood home and joined the Sheriff’s department there. Attempts to stop the rampages of Bigfoot, despite objections from everyone for different reasons, and is one of the few characters more worried about the actual problem then about scoring points against the other side.
Bigfoot (CGI) – Angry huge furry guy who likes to bit off heads of passersby. Awoken from his hibernation due to noise from acres of trees getting chopped down, and is not too keen on this environmental encroachment. So he smashes up the local town.
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Posted by Tars Tarkas - June 12, 2013 at 6:23 am
Categories: Movie Reviews, Ugly Tags: Alice Cooper, Andre Royo, Asylum, Barry Williams, Brian Brinkman, Bruce Davison, Cynthia Geary, Danny Bonaduce, Howard Hesseman, Micho Rutare, SciFi Channel, Sherilyn Fenn, Stephanie Sarreal Park, SyFy
SyFy Channel in June is Monster Movie Heaven!
June looks like it will be one of the best months for SyFy films since Chupacabra Were-Vampire vs. Space Quake Snake. And while that film might not exist yet, these four new films do exist and will bring a world of hilarity and awesome to the small screen:
June 9th brings us Jersey Shore Shark Attack. Check out your Snookies and J-WOWs vs ocean death, and pray that the Jersey Shore loses big time. Only sharks can save America from Snooki’s baby! Jack Scalia and Paul Sorvino star, while the Jersey characters have names like TC “The Complication”, BJ, J-Moni, and Nooki. John Shepphird (Chupacabra Terror) directs.
Next week on June 16th is Piranhaconda – Jim Wynorski’s new flick about the Part Snake! Part Fish! All Killer! Michael Madsen and Rachel Hunter star, and the title alone is worth a view! The trailer recently popped up.
June 23rd gives us Arachnoquake – the awesomely titled film where and earthquake causes giant albino spiders to get unleashed upon the Earth to attack Tracey Gold, Ethan Phillips, Bug Hall, and Edward Furlong.
Griff Furst directs, he’s proven he can direct a fun SyFy flick (and be fun as well when he shows up in one of his dad’s films)
I couldn’t find a trailer, so here’s an interview with Furst and some of the cast:
And finally June 30th gives us Bigfoot, which is notable because Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams are following the Tiffany/Debbie Gibson route and teaming up for a SyFy film where they play rivals! Sherilyn Fenn, Howard Hesseman, and Alice Cooper also star.
Needless to say, the DVRs are being set as we speak to make June the SyFyest month of them all!
Posted by Tars Tarkas - May 10, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Categories: Movie News Tags: Alice Cooper, Arachnoquake, Barry Williams, Bigfoot, Bug Hall, Danny Bonaduce, Edward Furlong, Ethan Phillips, Griff Furst, Howard Hesseman, Jack Scalia, Jim Wynorski, John Shepphird, Michael Madsen, Paul Sorvino, Piranhaconda, Rachel Hunter, SciFi Channel, Sherilyn Fenn, Tracey Gold
Written by John Augus and Seth Grahame-Smith
Based on characters created by Dan Curtis
Directed by Tim Burton
Needs more spires…
The thing about Dark Shadows is it is the type of film that Tim Burton directing and Johnny Depp starring should make it a natural hit and an amazing cinematic experience. But instead things just don’t turn our right, in fact, they go pretty wrong pretty quickly. The dark and dreary atmosphere is unfortunately too familiar with Burton’s other works, even though it should stand out here. The plot is the weakest part, the whole jilted ex-lover out for revenge trope we’ve seen time and time again. Sure, it’s dandied up with all the spooky trappings, ghosts and vampires and witchcraft, but it’s nothing new. Unfortunately, that’s a big problem. Just reading through the plots for the series, there was a lot of things going on, most of which is ignored and discarded, though there are a few references. But what we end up with is bland.
The Transylvanian version of The Help didn’t do as well
Though the period setting of 1971 is largely used on a few jokes that fall flat and hippie murder (killing hippies is soooo Kent State…) it does help in giving some characters a distinct look as they’re dressed in period clothing as opposed to modern fashion (and it helps that retro looks are in and what old is new!) Beyond that, you’ll not even notice that it is set in the past and not modern day, the few times older technology is used, it’s not intrusive and it keeps things from getting diluted with cell phone videos of vampire action being uploaded to YouTube.
The film is not all bad, there are bright spots. The strongest aspects of Dark Shadows are the actors. Everyone is bringing their A games. But they got little to work with, and the film can’t be carried by performances alone. And remember that it’s Collins, not Cullen. Let’s not say things we can’t take back and have sparkle vampires starting to wander around…
Three Stooges witchcraft
Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) – A 17th-century man cursed to become a vampire by a scorned lover. He’s imprisoned in the ground for 200 years and is freed in 1971, where he sets out to try to bring his family back to prominence. There is no actor I could have conceived of playing this part except Johnny Depp, and no one else could have done it justice. But Depp seems to be acting a constant stream of Jack Sparrow variations, eventually it’s going to get tiresome. Eventually means real soon.
Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green) – A former servant of the Collins family 200 years prior and a witch, who has been enacting revenge against the family ever since Barnabas spurned her. Eva Green is spectacular and looks spectacular.
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) – The matriarch of the Collins family, and the only thing holding it together until Barnabas arrives with help and secret treasure. Michelle Pfeiffer is frakking awesome. It is great to see a strong role for an older woman in a Hollywood film.
Carolyn Stoddard (Chloë Moretz) – Elizabeth’s teenage daughter, who seems to think she’s some sort of rocker chick and is permanently scowling.
Victoria Winters (Bella Heathcote) – Hired to be the governess of David Collins. Victoria is a name she made up on the train ride over. She bears a striking resemblance to Barnbas’s true love, Josette du Pres, and quickly catches his eye.
Actual photo of the original test audience five minutes after the film ended…
Posted by Tars Tarkas - May 9, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Categories: Movie Reviews, Ugly Tags: Alice Cooper, Bella Heathcote, Chloë Moretz, Christopher Lee, Dan Curtis, David Selby, Eva Green, Gulliver McGrath, Helena Bonham Carter, John Augus, Johnny Depp, Jonathan Frid, Jonny Lee Miller, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Lara Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ray Shirley, Seth Grahame-Smith, Tars sells out!, Tim Burton
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Volume 128 >> Issue 43 : Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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Maksim Imakaev—The Tech
Susan Hockfield discusses the Institute’s budget and the need for MIT to take leadership roles regarding economic and energy issues during the annual State of the Institute Forum on Sept. 29 in Kresge.
Hockfield Delivers State of the Institute, Discusses Endowment
By Natasha Nath
President Susan J. Hockfield delivered the State of the Institute address in Kresge Auditorium yesterday, highlighting MIT’s continued growth amidst troubled times. Her message was echoed by the other speakers, Provost L. Rafael Reif, Chancellor Phillip L. Clay PhD ’75, and Executive Vice President and Treasurer Theresa M. Stone.
MIT E-Voting Project To Analyze Experience Of Voters in Election
By Florence Gallez
As the election approaches, a question lingers with increasing urgency on the minds of concerned citizens: to e-vote or not to e-vote?
Shift From Double Degrees to Double Majors Removes Extra 90 Units Req.
By Pearle Lipinski
Two years after a recommendation by the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons, MIT is transitioning from double degrees to the double major program which eliminates the need for 90 additional units for the second degree program in an effort to make the study of two fields less constraining for students.
MIT’s Soljacic and Ochsendorf Win MacArthur Prizes
By Carolyn Y. Johnson
A Harvard neurobiologist who regularly does surgery on fruit fly brains smaller than a poppy seed, and an MIT structural engineer who searches for modern design principles in Gothic churches, are among the 25 winners of the $500,000 MacArthur “genius” grants announced last week.
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This Isn’t a Bailout — It’s a Stickup (9/30/08)
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MOTHALLAH (Alpha Trianguli). Triangulum: not a very exotic name for an ancient constellation. Its origin, however, is obvious, the figure a long, thin triangle between Aries and Andromeda. Our star, Mothallah, is the only named star within the constellation, the name from Arabic meaning simply "the triangle." In Latin it is referred to as "Caput Trianguli," the "head of the triangle," from its position at the sharp southwestern apex. That special location is probably why Bayer gave the star the Alpha designation, even though at dim third magnitude (3.41) it is 50% fainter than the Beta star at the northern apex. Most naked eye stars are much brighter than the Sun, the reason we see them. Modest stars like the Sun make little impact on the outlines of the constellations, Chara in Canes Venatici a notable exception. The huge numbers of stars much fainter than the Sun are hardly visible at all without a telescope. It is rather refreshing then to find one that, while certainly brighter than our Sun, is at least modestly similar. Residing in yellow-white class F (F6), Mothallah has a temperature of 6350 Kelvin, only 10% greater than the solar temperature. From its modest distance of 64 light years (which is why it appears even as bright as it does), we find Mothallah to shine with only 13 solar luminosities, and from that and temperature that it is only three times larger than the Sun. More advanced in relative age than the Sun, Mothallah is a 1.5 solar mass "subgiant," that is close to shutting down its core hydrogen fusion, if it has not done so already, as it prepares to be a giant star. Yet because stars of higher mass live shorter lives, Mothallah is only about 2.7 billion years old, as compared with the 4.5 billion year age of the Sun. Mothallah is observed to shift back and forth, telling us that it is accompanied by a small companion about which nothing is known. The system is odd because the orbital period of the companion around Mothallah proper is very short, a mere 1.74 days. (Even Mercury takes 88 days to go around the Sun). The separation between them must be very small, perhaps around 0.04 times the distance between the Earth and Sun. Given Mothallah's size, the companion is only around three million kilometers from Mothallah's surface. Seen from the companion, Mothallah would be an immense 45 degrees across. The closeness would probably not preclude planets, which could orbit at such a distance that any residents would see a "double sun." Mothallah is also a fine guide to the "Triangulum Galaxy," M 33, a dim patch of light that contains billions of stars that lies between Mothallah and Mirach in Andromeda. The galaxy, over two million light years away, can be seen with binoculars in a dark sky and under perfect circumstances even with the naked eye.
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The Movement In Manchester (1908)
From the January 1908 issue of the Socialist Standard
The hard work put in by "The Two Revolutionaries" last winter in Cottonopolis and the visit paid by Comrades Kent and Humphrey in August bore fruit in the shape of the Manchester branch of the S.P.G.B., which branch, although only formed in October, has already made itself felt, and will prove a very prickly thorn in the side of the "reformers" and political job-hunters of the S.D.F. and I.L.P. brand as soon as the open-air propaganda season commences.
On October 20th Mr. J. T. McPherson, Labour member for Preston, who, with Messers. Seddon and G. D. Kelley, recently had his expenses paid to Switzerland and back by those friends of Labour, the National Service League, spoke at a meeting of a local Ethical Society and eulogised the Labour Party, singling out Mr. Crooks, M.P., for special mention. In the course of the discussion our comrade Jim Brough pointed out that Crooks had broken the Constitution of the L.R.C. by sending a letter in support of Mr. Hamar Greenwood, then Liberal candidate (now M.P.) for York, Mr. G. H. Stuart being the L.R.C. candidate for the Division.
Mr. McPherson replied that Crooks had not proved false to the Labour Party's Constitution since signing it. Following upon this correspondence took place and the member for Preston promised on October 24th to obtain information which would enable him to justify his assertion. Up to the time of writing he has not done so. In connection with the same matter Comrade Brough wrote to Mr. Hamar Greenwood drawing his attention to the issue of the Postmen's Gazette of February 17th, 1906, stating that extracts from Mr. Crook's letter in support of Mr. Greenwood were posted and issued as a handbill during the contest. Mr. Greenwood, who may of course be out of town, has not yet replied. Comrade W. L. Brown also wrote to Mr. G. H. Stuart, M.P. for information and this gentleman informed our comrade that Mr. Crooks did not deny writing the letter referred to, but he did deny that the construction placed upon it was the correct one!
On November 20th, Comrade J. W. Marsh represented the Party at a debate at the Co-operative Hall, Ashton Old Road, his opponent being Mr. Tom Swann, I.L.P. The subject was "Does the I.L.P. deserve the support of the Working Class?" and Dr. Garrett of the S.D.F. presided. In his opening remarks the chairman said there was nothing to lose but much to gain by discussing this and similar matters in public. They had differences and these should be fought out before the public. Comrade Marsh opened the debate. He pointed out that the development of Society from feudal times had resulted in the political power being secured by the owners of the machinery of wealth production, which ownership enabled them to practically own the worker. The antagonism of interest between the possessing class and the wage earners demanded the formation of a working-class party based upon a clear recognition of the class position, and he showed how all other parties were useless to achieve any real good to the workers. By a Socialist party he meant one whose aim was the capture of the political power, for until that was done class domination could not be ended. A party not preaching Socialism all the time, not openly and avowedly organising for Socialism, was not doing the work of a Socialist Party. He gave many instances of confusing and pro-capitalist tactics of I.L.P. members, and having dealt with the futility of reform, closed by declaring that the answer to the question was in the negative. Mr. Swann, in his opening speech, denied that they had anything to do with the action taken by I.L.P. leaders, even if they had violated the constitution of the Party. For every backslider that Marsh could name, 99 could be mentioned who had been true to the Cause. He became irrelevant by referring to the fact that certain prominent members of the S.P.G.B. were expelled from the S.D.F., and tried to make out a case for the I.L.P. by comparing the number of its weekly meetings to those held by the S.P.G.B. The I.L.P., he said, had more branches than the S.P.G.B. had individual members. It had spent £250,000 in propaganda since it was founded. Alluding to Marsh's attack on the advocacy of reforms, Mr. Swann quoted from a pamphlet on Free Maintenance to the effect that in times of strike the men would be encouraged by the knowledge that their children were being fed. He admitted that capitalism not only produced but demanded a reserve army of unemployed, but said the capitalist class must be compelled to find work for the unemployed. He described the policy of the S.P.G.B. as a dog in-the-manger one. Not only was it trying to prevent the I.L.P. doing good work but it was also trying to undo that already done. The S.P.G.B. were dreamers trying to disunite and leg down the workers. He claimed that the I.L.P. contributed more to that unity which was essential on the part of the workers than any other party and therefore deserved their support.
In his reply Comrade Marsh pointed out that the I.L.P. leaders who had violated the principles preached by the Party still had the support of the rank and file. and the I.L.P., like any other party, must be judged by the actions of its representatives. He pointed out that the master class could take away Free Maintenance as well "concede" it, and the strike argument therefore fell through. Moreover, so long as they controlled, through Parliament, the Army and Navy, they could and would use these against workers on strike. He denied that Mr. Swann had dealt with the points, which was evidence of his inability to do so. Mr. Swann concluded by declaring that his view of the S.P.G.B. had been confirmed. He had always thought they were "a set of fanatical, skyscraping, moonraking, rainbow chasers," and having delivered himself of much more to the same effect he sat down. The hall was crowded and a good sale of literature was effected.
The Manchester branch is thus fairly on its legs and the "political job hunters" had better look out for squalls. We have now enrolled a vigorous fighter in the person of Moses Baritz, late of the S.D.F., well known throughout Lancashire and the Potteries, and we have no doubt the branch will from time to time, be enabled to report favourably of its doings.
A B.
Since the above was written a further report has been received, from which we gather that for the first three weeks in December the branch disposed of 300 copies of THE SOCIALIST STANDARD and the S.P.G.B. Manifesto. Good propaganda meetings have been held. On Sunday, December 8th, Baritz spoke at Stevenson Square in the afternoon, and at Tab Street in the evening. Here Councillor Sam Hague, of the I.L.P., opposed, and after Baritz had dealt with his opposition the audience bought 10 pamphlets in a few moments. At the meeting at Stevenson Square on the afternoon of December 15th two members of the S.D.F. opposed. They claimed to be revolutionists but believed in reforms. After the S.P.G.B. speaker had quoted the words of Mr. H. M. Hyndman concerning palliatives obscuring the issue and reform being impossible, these opponents repudiated Mr. Hyndman. One admitted that "there are a few fakirs and shakers in the S.D.F." The branch has challenged the local branches of the S.D.F. and I.L.P. to set debates and is awaiting replies. —Ed.
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[Prof. Wincenty Lutoslawski, Polish philosopher, author, and member of the Polish National League.] Autograph Card Signed ('W Lutoslawski') to the Anglo-Irish poet Sylvia Lynd, with printed text requesting her view on reincarnation. With her reply.
Prof. Wincenty Lutoslawski (1883-1954), Polish philosopher, author, and member of the Polish National League [Sylvia Lynd (1888-1952), Anglo-Irish poet, wife of the essayist Robert Lynd (1879-1949)]
With his letterhead, Jagiellonska, Poland. 11 May 1929.
Lutoslawski's letter is in fair condition, lightly-aged with vertical crease. Addressed to Lynd at 5 Keat's Grove, Highgate, from Poland, with Polish stamp and postmark. He writes that he has 'exceedingly enjoyed [her novels] the Gold Finches and the Mulberry Bush', and would like her 'opinion and experience on the following inquiry', i.e. a printed circular regarding his book 'Preexistence and Reincarnation', which attempts to rove that 'each of us has lived in human shape many times and that we reap now what we have sown ages ago'.
LUTOSLAWSKI
SPIRTUALISM
['The Leading Occult Monthly of the World', ed. News E. Wood.] Star of the Magi | An Exponent of Occult Science, Art and Philosophy. [20 issues bound together.]
News E. Wood, A.M., M.D., Editor and Proprietor of the Chicago occult journal 'Star of the Magi: An Exponent of Occult Science, Art and Philosophy'
News E. Wood, A.M., M.D., Editor and Proprietor, 617 La Salle Avenue, Chicago, U.S.A. The twenty issues from 1 May 1902 (Vol. III No.7) to 1 December 1903 (Vol. IV No. 13).
312pp., large 8vo. In publisher's green cloth binding, gilt. Internally good, sound and tight on lightly-aged paper; in worn binding. Each volume carries two pages of advertisements, with more in text. The earliest issue is typical, with articles on such subjects as reincarnation; prophecy; occult timepieces; occult uses of colours (by Professor G. R. Nile). An advertisement on p.2 of the earliest issue gives the magazine's view of itself: 'THE STAR OF THE MAGI IS THE LEADING OCCULT JOURNAL OF THE WORLD. A year's trial will convince you of this.
Typed Letter Signed ('David') from Sir David Russell to his cousin Frank Carr Nicholson, discussing Rodney Collins's book on Ouspensky, Alexis Aladin, and 'books we have read'. With copy of his anonymous pamphlet 'Iona. A Short Chronological Table'.
Sir David Russell (1872-1956) of Silverburn, Leven, Fife [Frank Carr Nicholson (1875-1962), Librarian, Edinburgh University Library; Alexis Aladin (d.1927); Rodney Collins; Gurdieff; Ouspensky]
Letter on letterhead of Silverburn, Leven, Fife; 4 April 1956. Pamphlet printed by McLagan & Cumming, Edinburgh;1932.
Both letter and pamphlet in very good condition. Letter: 8pp., 4to. Written a few days before Russell's death on 12 March 1956. On the first page he describes how the London esoteric bookseller J. M.
GURDIEFF
OUSPENSKY
[Printed handbill poetical Christmas keepsake by Victor B. Neuburg, with wood engraving by 'O. W.']
Victor B. Neuburg [Victor Benjamin Neuburg (1883-1940), poet and author, proprietor of the Vine Press, Steyning, Sussex]
The Vine Press, Steyning, Sussex. Christmas, 1921.
1p., 12mo. On piece of aged and lightly-creased laid paper. The engraving, at the head of the page, is 7 x 9.5 cm., is a stylised full-length depiction of a young man in eighteenth-century dress, wearing a cravat, with hands on hips, standing between two trees. The poem reads 'Dear He - / Or She - / This from me, / Victor B. / Neuburg, to thee.' Second stanza: 'Not me: we, / I forgot, you see.' In bottom left-hand corner, in italics, 'Christmas, 1921.' And in italics in bottom-right: 'The Vine Press, / Steyning, / Sussex.' No other copy found listed.
ALEISTER
[Pamphlet.] Spiritualism and Insanity: An Essay describing the disastrous consequences to the Mental Health which are apt to result from a pursuit of the study of Spiritualism. By Dr. C. Williams, Author of "Insanity: its Causes and Prevention," etc.
Charles Williams (b.1858), LRCP, Assistant Medical Officer, the Warneford, Oxford [spiritualism]
London: The Ambrose Co., Ltd., 55 & 57 Wigmore Street, W. [1909 or 1910]
12mo, 53 + [iii] pp. Text clear and complete. Aged and worn, with loose original front cover, printed in green, remaining from the binding. Stamp of 'The Community of the Resurrection' on title-page. A few manuscript notes in light pencil. Scarce: five copies on COPAC, at the British Library, Oxford, Cambridge, the National Library of Scotland, and University of London, variously dated to 1909 and 1910.
LRCP
WARNEFORD
[Printed pamphlet.] Cataclysm Has Begun! [With covering Typed Letter Signed from Williamson to George H. Brook.]
J. J. Williamson [John Jacob Williamson], Founder-President, the Society of Metaphysicians Ltd, Hastings, Sussex [Nuclear proliferation; Cold War; Atomic Bomb]
Pamphlet: 1955. The Society of Metaphysicians Ltd. Letter: 19 February 1955; on letterhead of the Society of Metaphysicians Ltd, Archers' Court, Stonestile Lane, Hastings, Sussex.]
4to, vii + 21 pp. Stapled pamphlet, on two different paper stocks (white and grey), front cover detached Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper, with crease to one corner of title-leaf. Title leaf printed, the rest mimeographed. Pp. v-vii consist of an appendix at the rear of the volume. Occult pseudo-science (the Society's logo is a pentacle), presaging the hippie 'retreat from reason' in the face of Cold War realities. Begins 'For ten years the Society of Metaphysicians has worked in the interests of human unity at all levels.
METAPHYSICIANS
Autograph Letter Signed ('Julian B. Arnold') to Raffin, commenting on the state of the American book trade.
Julian Biddulph Arnold, author, and son and biographer of Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904) [Alain Raffin]
20 September 1921; 5132 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois [on cancelled letterhead].
4to, 2 pp. Twenty-seven lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged and slightly creased paper. He cannot help Raffin find an American publisher for his book 'Mystery, Mirage and Miracle' (privately printed for the author in London in 1921), although he finds its style 'delightful', and its subject matter 'one which deeply interests me'. 'The book-market is in a very strained condition - a sort of transition period with all the publishers "sitting on the fence", and the public refusing to by any books except a few which have the luck to become fashionable'.
NINETEEN-TWENTIES
RAFFIN
Autograph address and short note.
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), Anglo-Welsh writer
Date and place not stated.
On one side of a piece of wove paper, cut into a rectangle approximately 4.5 x 9 cm. Good, on lightly-creased paper with one vertical fold. Cut from an envelope, with traces of the postmark over the autograph, and a section of the gummed strip on the reverse. Reads 'From | John Cowper Powys | Waterloo | Blaenau - F Festiniog | Merionethshire | North Wales | I enjoyed thinking of you in Italy'.
COPWER
DREISER
LLEWELYN
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr Disspain'.
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), Anglo-Welsh writer [William Blake; Denis Saurat]
8 November 1958. 1 Waterloo, Blaenau-FFestiniog, Merionethshire, North Wales.
8vo, 4 pp. Bifolium. Very good on lightly aged paper. Written in Powys's distinctive, sprawling hand. Concerns William Blake and the monograph on him (1954) by Denis Saurat, who 'must indeed be a wonder considering the scope of his interests.' 'Yes I was brought up by my mother on the Poems of Blake; so I am always interested by any reference to them or any reproduction of them. Indeed and indeed I can fully understand your being so hypnotized by the pictures of Blake that you find yourself going to see them when you had decided to go somewhere else'. Powys is 'in excellent health'.
SAURAT
Autograph Letter Signed ('Gerald Kelly') to unnamed male autograph hunter.
Sir Gerald Kelly (1879-1972), portrait painter, Aleister Crowley's brother-in-law
29 September 1935; on letterhead '65, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W.1.'
One page, 12mo. On ruckled paper with damage on reverse due to removal from mount. Text clear and entire. The autograph wasn't sent because Kelly was away. 'Why you want it I can't understand but since you ask for it: - here it is: -'.
Engraving by 'J Brown', from drawing by Marshall, captioned 'BARCLAY'S DICTIONARY, WORD CONJURER.'
William Marshall Craig (fl.1788-1828), English artist [Barclay's Dictionary; T. Kinnersley]
Published as the Act directs by T. Kinnersley, May 1st. 1813.'
Dimensions of paper roughly ten inches by seven and a half wide. Clear impression on aged paper. Shows a standing magician waving a wand with a skull behind him and a kneeling servant hiding behind the hem of his gown, reciting a spell from a book on a table in front of him. The two demons he has conjured up stand to his left, looking rather pleased with themselves. Snakes, smoking cauldron, pin cushion, hourglass, knife, etc. Extracted from Barclay's Dictionary, where it was used to illustrate the word 'conjurer'.
Printed Ephemera
BARCLAY'S
DIABOLISM
SATANIST
Physical harm, sickness, and death by conjury | a survey of the sorcerer's evil art in America.
Wayland D. Hand
Offprint: 'Acta Etnographica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Tomus 19, pp. 169-177 (1970)'.
Hand (1907-86), an authority on American folklore, was Professor of Germanic Languages and Folklore at the University of California, Los Angeles. 9 pages (paginated as stated), octavo. In very good condition in light-blue printed card wraps. Minor spotting and discoloration. A 'survey, essentially, of the physical harm wrought by conjurers, [...] a discussion of sickness and disease, and other categories of physical impairment, and [...] a consideration of the nature of the magic employed, and the various circumstances and conditions under which it is carried out'.
CONJUROR
CONJURY
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Why Your Dream House in France has Damp Walls
Just about the first thing that everyone notices when they get their dream house in France, and I base this on an admittedly unscientific but extensive post-prandially-conducted survey, is the damp. Unless they have bought in the Midi, of course. For those further north or west, it is a big issue.
Ask anyone yourself. You’ll soon see that this is the case. You might be forgiven for thinking that parts of France were perpetually under water, from the stories you hear. They’re not; it just can seem that way.
In order to get some sense of perspective on this, let’s examine a few facts. Large areas of France are indeed very wet. A quick glance at the map will show that weather systems coming in from the Atlantic under the prevailing westerly wind have a choice; they can either swing up north and east and drench Wales, Ireland, the north west of England and of course Scotland, or they can slip in over the Bay of Biscay and take up residence in France, where they will be nicely bottled up due to the fact that from the Med to the Rhine Basin there is a rampart of mountains which prevents any further progress.
I understand that this is to do with the exact position of the jetstream, a system of ferocious winds at very high altitude.
Normally, summers in Central France are reasonably dry and very warm. Just what the holidaymaker likes, apparently, and perfect for ripening all that lovely plonk.
However, winters in central France are a whole ’nother can of worms altogether.
That’s when these weather systems really like to come and stay, and you get soaking wet weather, or damp, cold weather, for weeks on end. And when these low-pressure systems dissolve at last, to everyone’s joy, the temperature plummets to well below freezing. I have personally known winters when the temperature in the shade did not get above minus five Celsius for six or eight weeks, and that was on the warm days. In between the freezing cold it piddles down.
This combination of heat in summer with lots of water is what makes France the lush and verdant country that it is; compare it with the spectacular yet arid landscape of Spain, and you’ll see what I mean.
It also makes old French houses damp.
The thing that the new purchaser of the wonderful pile at practically giveaway price, that is the perennial attraction of the Anglo-Saxon buyer, has to remember, is that the people who built these houses were a lot tougher than we are. They didn’t mind a bit of draught. In fact they needed it; the standard country fireplace, even in the most humble of fermettes, is over four feet square. You get a lot of air up one of those. Pile that full of logs and you squirt even more up the flue. Add the fact that the windows and doors fit where they touch and you can see that these old buildings were distinctly airy.
Sometime in the early 19th century, coal began to supplant wood as the principal fuel in both urban, and to a lesser extent rural France, as it did in Britain. But whereas in Britain this resulted in the popularisation of the coal open hearth, typically much smaller than the old wood ones, in France the new-fangled age of coal brought with it the poêle fermé or closed stove. Originally these were individually constructed of fire-bricks and covered in tiles called faïence, and were beautiful pieces of permanent furniture. But those creative little Frenchmen quickly realised the benefits of casting up the stoves in iron, and soon huge old fireplaces all over France were being blocked up and replaced with them.
Now the whole point of a poêle fermé is that it is closed and so does not send hundreds of cubic feet of hot air squirting up the chimney; instead, the fire is lit and then damped right down to slow the passage of air and retain as much heat as possible within the house. And believe me, those French stoves are seriously efficient devices.
To go along with the arrival of this innovation, the clever French joiners started making windows that really did fit the holes they were supposed to occlude. Anyone brought up with the Anglo-Saxon sash window, a device cunningly designed so that is quite impossible to draught-proof, will be very impressed with the channels and gutters and mouldings that make a traditional French window so efficient at keeping the weather out.
The trouble is that when there was a big open fire roaring in the hearth and windows and doors that really didn’t fit very well, the walls and floor were kept dry and fresh by the constant passage of air. Once the fireplace and the windows were blocked up, there was nowhere for the water to go. This was only made worse by the advent of modern central heating systems and double-glazing.
What everyone has to realise is that water has to go somewhere.
If it’s already in the house you have to get it out, and you have to stop as much getting in as you can, and that’s not easy when it’s been blattering down enough to keep a Welshman happy for weeks.
Minor failures in roofing, drainage and water evacuation were more than catered for by a system that provided for many air changes per hour; in a modern sealed home, the result is dampness.
Most of this dampness enters the home through the roof, through the walls, or by the simple process of living. Which, after all, is the point, so we shall have to allow that.
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The answers to many questions
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There were "old" features in your gua (hexagram). It means that you have two hexagrams. The first one — is something that the Book tells you at the moment, the second is something it warns you about. →
1. Force (qián). The Creative
Life is endless sequence of changes. Try to evaluate energy, learn to acquire, accumulate and give, lose. Swallow your pride. Do not try to raise higher Heavens as everything will return to the Earth. The great is similar to the small.
Inital text of I Ching
The Judgement
The Creative works sublime success, Furthering through perseverance.
The movement of heaven is full of power. Thus the superior man makes himself strong and untiring.
Hidden dragon. Do not act.
Dragon appearing in the field. It furthers one to see the great man.
All day long the superior man is creatively active. At nightfall his mind is still beset with cares. Danger. No blame.
Wavering flight over the depths.No blame.
Flying dragon in the heavens. It furthers one to see the great man.
Arrogant dragon will have cause to repent.
There appears a flight of dragons without heads. Good fortune.
It is beginning to everything. It is time to act in accordance with Higher Reason. Something started should be finished. Study to manage the creative process, be able to restrain and direct energy consciously. Do not think and reason about benefits. Do not reject joy and grief. Be constant and reserved in speech, careful and consistent in actions. Moving forward on the way to knowledge, improve your life, find new goals. Do not neglect trifles – the great consists of small things. Having raised high, do not be too proud; falling down, do not despair – nothing is constant. People, who cannot part with something, have lost the wisdom. Be careful even if there are no reasons. Any good hides danger and any danger hides good. Everything is dual.
Richard Wilhelm's commentary
The first hexagram is made up of six unbroken lines. These unbroken lines stand for the primal power, which is light-giving, active, strong, and of the spirit. The hexagram is consistently strong in character, and since it is without weakness, its essence is power or energy. Its image is heaven. Its energy is represented as unrestricted by any fixed conditions in space and is therefore conceived of as motion. Time is regarded as the basis of this motion. Thus the hexagram includes also the power of time and the power of persisting in time, that is, duration.
The power represented by the hexagram is to be interpreted in a dual sense in terms of its action on the universe and of its action on the world of men. In relation to the universe, the hexagram expresses the strong, creative action of the Deity. In relation to the human world, it denotes the creative action of the holy man or sage, of the ruler or leader of men, who through his power awakens and develops their higher nature.
THE JUDGMENT
According to the original meaning, the attributes [sublimity, potentiality of success, power to further, perseverance] are paired. When an individual draws this oracle, it means that success will come to him from the primal depths of the universe and that everything depends upon his seeking his happiness and that of others in one way only, that is, by perseverance in what is right.
The specific meanings of the four attributes became the subject of speculation at an early date. The Chinese word here rendered by "sublime" means literally "head," "origin," "great." This is why Confucius says in explaining it: "Great indeed is the generating power of the Creative; all beings owe their beginning to it. This power permeates all heaven." For this attribute inheres in the other three as well.
The beginning of all things lies still in the beyond in the form of ideas that have yet to become real. But the Creative furthermore has power to lend form to these archetypes of ideas. This is indicated in the word success, and the process is represented by an image from nature: "The clouds pass and the rain does its work, and all individual beings flow into their forms."
Applies to the human world, these attributes show the great man the way to notable success: "Because he sees with great clarity and cause and effects, he completes the six steps at the right time and mounts toward heaven on them at the right time, as though on six dragons." The six steps are the six different positions given in the hexagram, which are represented later by the dragon symbol. Here it is shown that the way to success lies in apprehending and giving actuality to the way of the universe [Tao], which, as a law running through end and beginning, brings about all phenomena in time. Thus each step attained forthwith becomes a preparation for the next. Time is no longer a hindrance but the means of making actual what is potential.
The act of creation having found expression in the two attributes sublimity and success, the work of conservation is shown to be a continuous actualization and differentiation of form. This is expressed in the two terms "furthering" (literally, "creating that which accords with the nature of a given being") and "persevering" (literally, "correct and firm"). "The course of the Creative alters and shapes beings until each attains its true, specific nature, then it keeps them in conformity with the Great Harmony. Thus does it show itself to further through perseverance."
In relation to the human sphere, this shows how the great man brings peace and security to the world through his activity in creating order: "He towers high above the multitude of beings, and all lands are united in peace."
Another line of speculation goes still further in separating the words "sublime," "success," "furthering," "perseverance," and parallels them with the four cardinal virtues in humanity. To sublimity, which, as the fundamental principle, embraces all the other attributes, it links love. To the attribute success are linked the morals, which regulate and organize expressions of love and thereby make them successful. The attribute furthering is correlated with justice, which creates the conditions in which each receives that which accords with his being, that which is due him and which constitutes his happiness. The attribute perseverance is correlated with wisdom, which discerns the immutable laws of all that happens and can therefore bring about enduring conditions. These speculations, already broached in the commentary called Wên Yen , later formed the bridge connecting the philosophy of the "five stages (elements) of change," as laid down in the Book of History (Shu Ching) with the philosophy of the Book of Changes, which is based solely on the polarity of positive and negative principles. In the course of time this combination of the two systems of thought opened the way for an increasingly intricate number symbolism.
Since there is only one heaven, the doubling of the trigram Ch'ien, of which heaven is the image, indicates the movement of heaven. One complete revolution of heaven makes a day, and the repetition of the trigram means that each day is followed by another. This creates the idea of time. Since it is the same heaven moving with untiring power, there is also created the idea of duration both in and beyond time, a movement that never stops nor slackens, just as one day follows another in an unending course. This duration in time is the image of the power inherent in the Creative.
With this image as a model, the sage learns how best to develop himself so that his influence may endure. He must make himself strong in every way, by consciously casting out all that is inferior and degrading. Thus he attains that tirelessness which depends upon consciously limiting the fields of his activity.
In China the dragon has a meaning altogether different from that given it in the Western world. The dragon is a symbol of the electrically charged, dynamic, arousing force that manifests itself in the thunderstorm. In winter this energy withdraws into the earth; in the early summer it becomes active again, appearing in the sky as thunder and lightning. As a result the creative forces on earth begin to stir again.
Here this creative force is still hidden beneath the earth and therefore has no effect. In terms of human affairs, this symbolizes a great man who is still unrecognized. Nonetheless he remains true to himself. He does not allow himself to be influenced by outward success or failure, but confident in his strength, he bides his time. Hence it is wise for the man who consults the oracle and draws this line to wait in the calm strength of patience. The time will fulfill itself. One need not fear least strong will should not prevail; the main thing is not to expend one's powers prematurely in an attempt to obtain by force something for which the time is not yet ripe.
Here the effects of the light-giving power begin to manifest themselves. In terms of human affairs, this means that the great man makes his appearance in his chosen field of activity. As yet he has no commanding position but is still with his peers. However, what distinguishes him form the others is his seriousness of purpose, his unqualified reliability, and the influence he exerts on his environment with out conscious effort. Such a man is destined to gain great influence and to set the world in order. Therefore it is favorable to see him.
A sphere of influence opens up for the great man. His fame begins to spread. The masses flock to him. His inner power is adequate to the increased outer activity. There are all sorts of things to be done, and when others are at rest in the evening, plans and anxieties press in upon him. But danger lurks here at the place of transition from lowliness to the heights. Many a great man has been ruined because the masses flocked to him and swept him into their course. Ambition has destroyed his integrity. However, true greatness is not impaired by temptations. He who remains in touch with the time that is dawning, and with its demands is prudent enough to avoid all pitfalls, and remains blameless.
A place of transition has been reached, and free choice can enter in. A twofold possibility is presented to the great man: he can soar to the heights and play an important part in the world, or he can withdraw into solitude and develop himself. He can go the way of the hero or that of the holy sage who seeks seclusion. There is no general law of his being. If the individual acts consistently and is true to himself, he will find the way that is appropriate for him. This way is right for him and without blame.
Here the great man has attained the sphere of the heavenly beings. His influence spreads and becomes visible throughout the whole world. Everyone who sees him may count himself blessed. Confucius says about this line:
Things that accord in tone vibrate together. Things that have affinity in their inmost natures seek one another. Water flows to what is wet, fire turns to what is dry. Clouds (the breath of heaven) follow the dragon, wind (the breath of earth) follows the tiger. Thus the sage arises, and all creatures follow him with their eyes. What is born of heaven feels related to what is above. What is born of earth feels related to what is below. Each follows its kind.
When a man seeks to climb so high that he loses touch with the rest of mankind, he becomes isolated, and this necessarily leads to failure. This line warns against titanic aspirations that exceed one's power. A precipitous fall would follow.
When all the lines are nines, it means that the whole hexagram is in motion and changes into the hexagram K'un, THE RECEPTIVE, whose character is devotion. The strength of the Creative and the mildness of the Receptive unite. Strength is indicated by the flight of dragons, mildness by the fact that their heads are hidden. This means that mildness in action joined to strength of decision brings good fortune.
Barbara Hejslip interpretation
This symbol consists of six lines. A kind, good sign. This hexagram man's, means month April and spring hopes. But be circumspect! Now you at top of mountain and while opportunities to go down at you are not present. Being above, be vigilant and judicious. Wait for large changes not later than in six months. Time favours to your undertakings. There is a known uncertainty at you in private life, it is necessary to bring in it clearness. Your desire will by all means be executed, if it reasonably and modestly. Someone resists to you but if you will be resolute and unshakable, you are expected with success. Test to which you undergo, you sustain.
18. Corrupting (gǔ). Work on the Decayed
Any person inherits not only knowledge but also delusion, not just wealth, but the debts from our ancestors. There comes time when you have to pay for them, because it is difficult to carry it further.
Work on What Has Been Spoiled has supreme success. It furthers one to cross the great water. Before the starting point, three days. After the starting point, three days.
The wind blows low on the mountain:
The image of Decay. Thus the superior man stirs up the people and strengthens their spirit.
Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. If there is a son, no blame rests upon the departed father. Danger. In the end good fortune.
Setting right what has been spoiled by the mother. One must not be too persevering.
Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. There will be little remorse. No great blame.
Tolerating what has been spoiled by the father. In continuing one sees humiliation.
Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. One meets with praise.
He does not serve kings and princes, sets himself higher goals.
Everything in the world is perishable. Every idea can be ruined, any undertaking can turn evil. There is danger of confusion and deception. There is business stagnation. Influence of the old mistakes, generic prejudice is great. Be able to distinguish tradition from the remnants of the past. Read the ancestors, but do not repeat their mistakes. Follow the higher purpose. Do not try to be obedient to the will of all seniors, regardless of age or rank. Have your own opinion and the will to resist stagnation, be honest with yourselves. Get rid of old mistakes – and you will find your way again.
The Chinese character ku represents a bowl in whose contents worms are breeding. This means decay. IT is come about because the gentle indifference in the lower trigram has come together with the rigid inertia of the upper, and the result is stagnation. Since this implies guilt, the conditions embody a demand for removal of the cause. Hence the meaning of the hexagram is not simply "what has been spoiled" but "work on what has been spoiled".
What has been spoiled through man's fault can be made good again through man's work. IT is not immutable fate, as in the time of STANDSTILL, that has caused the state of corruption, but rather the abuse of human freedom. Work toward improving conditions promises well, because it accords the possibilities of the time. We must not recoil from work and danger- symbolized by crossing of the great water-but must take hold energetically. Success depends, however, on proper deliberation. This is expressed by the lines, "Before the starting point, three days. After the starting point, three days." We must first know the cause of corruption before we can do away with them; hence it is necessary to be cautious during the time before the start. Then we must see to it that the new way is safely entered upon, so that a relapse may be avoided; therefore we must pay attention to the time after the start. Decisiveness and energy must take the place of inertia and indifference that have led to decay, in order that the ending may be followed by a new beginning.
When the wind blow s slow on the mountain, it is thrown back and spoils the vegetation. This contains a challenge to improvement. It is the same with debasing attitudes and fashions; they corrupt human society. His methods likewise must be derived from the two trigrams, but in such a way that their effects unfold in orderly sequence. The superior must first remove stagnation by stirring up public opinion, as the wind stirs up everything, and must strengthen and tranquilize the character of the people, as the mountain gives tranquillity and nourishment to all that grows in its vicinity.
Rigid adherence to tradition has resulted in decay. But the decay has not yet penetrated deeply and so can still be easily remedied. It is as if a son were compensated for the decay his father allowed to creep in. Then no blame attaches to the father. However, one must not overlook the danger or take the matter too lightly. Only if one is conscious of the danger connected with every reform will everything go well in the end.
This refers to mistakes that as a result of weakness have brought about decay- hence the symbol, "what has been spoiled by the mother. " In setting things right in such a case, a certain gentle consideration is called for. In order not to wound, one should not attempt to proceed too drastically.
This describes a man who proceeds a little too energetically in righting the mistakes of the past. Now and then, as a result, minor discourse and annoyances will surely develop. But too much energy is better than too little. Therefore, although he may at times have slight cause for regret, he remains free of any serious blame.
This shows the situation of someone too weak to take measures against decay that has its roots in the past and is just beginning to manifest itself. It is allowed to run its course. If this continues, humiliation will result.
An individual is confronted with corruption originating from neglect in former times. He lacks the power to ward it off alone, but with able helpers he can at least bring about a thorough reform, if he cannot create a new beginning, and this also is praiseworthy.
Not every man has an obligation to mingle in the affairs of the world. There are some who are developed to such a degree that they are justified in letting the world go its own way and refusing to enter public life with a view to reforming it. But this does not imply a right to remain idle or to sit back and merely criticize. Such withdrawal is justified only when we strive to realize in ourselves the higher aims of mankind. For although the sage remains distant from the turmoil of daily life, he creates incomparable human values for the future.
You need to analyze and estimate events especially carefully: you can become the participant of changes in another's private life. You should be a master of the situation. It becomes possible owing to your present condition. Can happen so, that you will lose the friend. From you shortly it is possible to wait for the most unexpected acts. You need to clear the relations with associates. They not by way of, and problems arising from this can interfere with execution of your desires.
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Insomnium One For Sorrow
By Natalie Zina Walschots
Based in Joensuu, Finland, a veritable hotbed of sweet, sad, wintry music, melodic death metallers Insomnium have produced another fantastic soundtrack to the rapidly cooling weather. The album begins with "Inertia," featuring a lovely instrumental intro that trickles in like melt water, then the drums come in ― dense, hard death metal drums. The vocals that emerge on One For Sorrow can be positively doom-y, alternating between deep and mournful cleans and animal growls throughout. The guitar work is melodic, at times almost delicate, like a frostbitten leaf cracking underfoot. One For Sorrow is a lovely autumn soundtrack, characterized by a sweet melancholia that conjures the buttery smokiness of dying leaves in the air, and increasingly longer nights. Even at their most urgent, like in "Only One Who Waits" and "Regain the Fire," Insomnium convey a sense of fragility in the delicate, trilling guitars and bittersweet atmosphere. This album demonstrates a great balance between frailty and strength that's best encapsulated in "Song of the Blackest Bird." This is powerful, wounded music. (Century Media)
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PUP / Weakened Friends Halifax Pop Explosion, Halifax NS, October 25
Photo: Richard Lann
By Sam Boer
It was after the drenched, fanatical crowd finished screaming every word to Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" that guitarist Steve Sladkowski's face stretched into a sly grin. "That's fucking right on." After pausing to share a laugh with bandleader Stefan Babcock, he continued: "We never expected Halifax to leapfrog Birmingham, AL."
Torontonian punk-rockers and world travellers PUP did not have to win over any fans during their hour-plus headlining set at the Marquee Ballroom. After all, this is the crowd that sold out this Pop Explosion show in a single day — the first show on PUP's lengthy Canadian tour to sell out. Halifax was feeling separation anxiety from the three-year gap since PUP's last visit, and their return was greeted with cathartic exuberance.
Even the opening band — Portland, ME's Weakened Friends — were longtime fans of PUP, with lead singer Sonia Sturino admitting, "I remember being a kid and saying, 'What is this band?'"
Quickly winning the crowd over with their brand of open-hearted punk pop, Weakened Friends were clearly thrilled to be on stage, using their excitement to fuel an impressive set. Bassist Annie Hoffman and drummer Cam Jones were mostly engaged in a raucous, smiley party on one side of the stage, while Sturino's signature vocal squeaks and shudders were even more pronounced than on the band's recordings.
This self-described "bunch of weirdoes from Maine" jumped frantically during the self-titled track of last year's Common Blah, and Sturino belted passionately on "Blue Again." It was endearing to hear a band on the rise express such gratitude throughout their set, announcing "you made us feel like superheroes tonight!" before leaving the stage to watch the main act.
After minutes of hearing the crowd chant their name, PUP emerged. Clad in black-on-black, the band jumped into "Morbid Stuff" like a thunderbolt. However, it was their second song of the night, "Kids" — the first single off their latest record — in which the whole room came fully alive. Babcock strummed insistently while the crowd matched nearly every word, nearly drowning him out as they sang "I don't care about nothing but you" when the chorus hit. What the room was singing rang true — they were fixated. And freaking out. By the end of the track, the reckless crowd surfing was in full force.
And Babcock's first words of banter? "Holy shit."
The rowdiness of the crowd kicked the energy up, but it also caused some chaos early into the show. A fan nearly kicked the bass out of Nestor Chumak's hands; during a rousing rendition of "Free At Last," a loose elbow sent a phone flying, while another crowd member smacked a beer cup over people's heads; midway through "Scorpion Hill," a man lumbered onto the stage and flailed himself onto an unexpecting section of the crowd, forcing PUP to shut down the party for a moment. Seeming genuinely annoyed, Babcock offered a "friendly reminder to be good to everybody." Guitarist Sladkowski added, "gravity is still fucking undefeated" to an appreciative laugh from the crowd. Then, with all the grace of band that's been on the road consistently for nine months, offered a simple "shall we pick up where we left off?" and launched right back into the chorus.
Crowd insanity is par for the course at a PUP concert, but the energy in the Marquee Ballroom made this quintessentially frantic PUP performance distinct. The band tried to navigate a room that may have been too packed for its own good, with PUP fans that didn't blink at some of the unnecessary, meandering banter between certain songs that made for an oddly paced set. At certain moments, like during the song described as "being a miserable piece of shit" — "See You At Your Funeral" — Babcock's vocals felt phoned in, the band going along with the motions, with a crowd that was thrilled by their sheer presence. The admiration increased when PUP explained that they were collecting donations for RAVEN, a legal fund for Indigenous peoples, in a paper sack by the merch table.
After another spontaneous "PUP!" chant, the band snickered like school children at one another, then shot into 2016's "If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will." Warned that there would be no encores, the satiated crowd ran for fresh air as soon as PUP left the stage.
Although there were moments when PUP seemed to be going through the motions, having no need to make a big impression, the whole night was an over-the-top love fest. It was a worshipful crowd, crushed into a boiling room, exuding over a seasoned band at a notable high in their career.
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“Feeling Energetic” – Here’s a few local hikes you may want to try . . . . .
1.2 miles – (approx. 1 hr, 30 min) : elevation 2526’ “Sugarloaf Trail” – Trail starts 1 mile up Zealand Road at bridge over Zealand river. Hiking through open hardwoods, the trail splits between Middle and North Sugarloaf. Bear left to Middle Sugarloaf for fantastic views.
1.4 miles – (approx. 1 hr, 10 min) : elevation 2804’ “Mt.Willard Trail” – Trail starts at the end of Crawford House railroad station opposite Saco Lake. An easy grade up an old carriage road leads to a spectacular view of Crawford Notch.
1.4 miles – (approx. 45 min) : “Bridle Path – Upper Ammonoosuc Falls” – Start at the Mt. Washington Hotel tennis courts, the path follows the river through the evergreen forest and joins an old railroad bed which leads to the falls. This series of cascades through a narrow gorge is one of the area’s most interesting natural features.
2.4 miles – (approx. 2 hrs, 40 min) : elevation 5715’ “Mt.Jefferson Trail” – Trail starts at height of land on Jefferson Notch Road and ascends the west slope of Mt. Jefferson. Timberline is reached in just ½ hr. From there, steep grade and rocky terrain lead to a panoramic view of North Presidential Range.
2.5 miles – (approx. 2 hrs, 15 min) : elevation 3910’ “Webster-Jackson Trail to Mt.Webster” – Trail begins behind road camp by Saco lake in Crawford Notch. The steepness of this trail varies as it skirts the top of Webster Cliff. Breathtaking view of Crawford Notch.
2.5 miles – (approx. 2 hrs, 45 min) : elevation 5050’ “Lake of the Clouds – Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail” – Trail starts at Cog Railway base station. Following the Ammonoosuc River the trail passes the base of the ammonoosuc ravine, then the steep trail ascends to the lakes. From here you can continue from the lakes to the Mt.Washington summit.
2.7 miles – (approx. 1 hr, 30 min) : “Zealand Valley Trail” – Starting at the end of Zealand road, the trail rises gently on an old railroad bed leading to open meadows teeming with wildlife. At the far end of the valley is Zealand pond, Zealand falls and the AMC Zealand falls hut.
3.2 miles – (approx. 2 hrs, 40 min) : elevation 4761’ “Mt.Eisenhower – Edmand’s Path” – Trail leads from the east side of Mt.Clinton road to the summit of Mt.Eisenhower. An excellent view of Bretton Woods valley. One of the easier trails up onto the Presidential Range.
4.6 miles – (approx. 3 hrs, 55 min) : elevation 6288’ “Mt.Washington – Jewell Trail” – Trail begins at the Cog railway base station. Winding and zig-zagging through rugged forest, the trail works it’s way up to the North shoulder of Mt. Washington and from there on to the summit. Alpine shrubs and flowers. At the summit there is a cafeteria, gift shop, post office and museum.
5.4 miles – (approx. 3 hrs, 10 min) : elevation 3554’ “Cherry Mountain – Black Brook Trail” – Trail begins ½ mile west of living waters campground on Route 302. Trail passes through hardwood forest. Summit offers beautiful view of Presidential Range.
8.2 miles – (approx. 6 hrs) : “Mt.Washington – Crawford Path” – Trail begins directly across from the former site of the Crawford House on Route 302. A more demanding hike offering rewarding views. The trail crosses the entire Southern Presidential Range. 5 miles of this trail lies above the timberline.
"Want a more relaxing activity" - try a beautiful scenic drive . . . .
Fall Foliage Drives:
Route 118 in Warren to Route 112 into Woodstock is a beautiful drive with lots of overlooks. Then you can either go Route 3 north into Franconia Notch or stay on Route 112 (Kancamangus Highway) into North Conway. There�s always a good chance of seeing Moose on Route 118, and again on Route 112.
Route 145 from Colebrook to Pittsburg, then Route 3 to the Canadian Border offers a spectacular view of the fall colors in the northern reaches of New Hampshire. This stretch of Route 3 is more commonly known as "moose alley" and chances are pretty good you will see one of these marvelous creatures grazing along side of the road.
Route 26 through the Dixville Notch includes a great show of fall colors and beautiful scenery.
Take Route 16 in Pinkham Notch to Berlin to Route 110 North in Groveton to Route 3 South into Lancaster then onto Route 2 east to Gorham. This drive includes some great views of the northern Presidential Mountains.
Route 142 from Bethlehem to Franconia to Route 117 from Franconia to Sugar Hill has some of the greatest color in the state.
Route 118 takes you along the hills of Mount Moosilauke. Take Exit 32 off interstate 93 in North Woodstock and head west on Route 112. You may even see a moose or two.
Route 117 takes you through Franconia Notch and Sugar Hill. To get there, take exit 38 off I-93. Route 117 meets up with Route 302 in Lisbon. This road takes you into Bath, where there is a covered bridge that crosses the Ammonoosuc River. You can cross this bridge and drive along some of these back roads that have spectacular views of the fall foliage.
Route 116 takes you from Franconia through the Easton Valley. You can pick up this route by heading straight across the intersection once you get off I-93 at Exit 38. Route 116 intersects with Route 112. If you head west, you will go through a section of the White Mountain National Forest. This road follows the Wild Ammonoosuc River. If you head east on Route 112, you will come into Kinsman Notch. Route 112 becomes the Kancamangus Highway at the Lincoln/Woodstock town line.
Routes 142 and 302 is a winding, wooded road which ends up in Bethlehem. You can connect with this road at Exit 37 off I-93 in Franconia. Route 302 head into Littleton or over to Crawford Notch by way of Twin Mountain, past the Bretton Woods Ski Area, the Mount Washington Hotel and the road to the Cog Railway, which climbs Mount Washington.
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HomeArchivesChileIndigenous March in Chile’s Capital on Columbus Day
Indigenous March in Chile’s Capital on Columbus Day
October 15, 2013 Charlotte Karrlsson-Willis and Sam Edwards Chile 0
“We are Mapuche and we are here because the Mapuche people, Mapuche children are being repressed, all the time, every day,” said Jessica Mardoqueo, who marched with her daughter. “You watch the TV every day and you see the torture, the deprivation. It is shameful. That’s why I am here, to stand by them against this repression.”
Source: The Santiago Times
Demonstrators took to the streets Saturday to celebrate indigenous culture, demand political self-determination and decry the government’s response to the ongoing disputes over land rights in the South of the country.
Forming a sea of color, music and tradition, thousands of demonstrators marched through downtown Santiago in support of indigenous rights this Columbus Day in a lively, but peaceful, protest.
While a carnival atmosphere and traditional customs were abundant, tensions with the Chilean government and police force were never far away.
Addressing the crowd, speakers referenced the frequently fraught relationship between Mapuche communities and the state. References to ongoing conflicts over disputed land, the treatment of incarcerated Mapuche activists and numerous allegations of police brutality were prominent in both speeches and the signs carried by demonstrators.
Patricia Lienlaf, spokeswoman for Meli Wixan Mapu — the Mapuche campaign group leading the protest — said the march sought to denounce systematic brutalization of indigenous communities in the South of Chile.
“We are marching against state terrorism,” said Lienlaf. “We are here to say enough of state terrorism, enough of militarization and police agents in our communities which is happening now in our territories and keep our community, our children, women, elders and men repressed. We are all stigmatized by this fight.”
‘For all the people’
Alongside Santiago locals were several Mapuche communities who had made the journey from the Araucanía Region in Southern Chile. Like many of those in attendance, Jessica Mardoqueo marched with her daughter in what she described as an act of solidarity with communities engaged in land disputes in the South.
“We are Mapuche and we are here because the Mapuche people, Mapuche children are being repressed, all the time, every day,” Mardoqueo told The Santiago Times. “You watch the TV every day and you see the torture, the deprivation. It is shameful. That’s why I am here, to stand by them against this repression.”
The march brought together people from all over Santiago and beyond representing indigenous communities from across the length of the country. Once in Parque Forestal, traditional dance and music shared the stage with hip-hop performed in a mixture of Spanish and Mapungdungún, the traditional language of the Mapuche.
Isabel Pakarati Takano, standing next to a flag of the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island, was excited to see all the diversity.
“This is a national march for people from all over Chile, the indigenous Mapuche from the South, the Aymara and everyone from the North, and from Easter Island, Rapa Nui,” Takano told The Santiago Times. “We are part of the indigenous community Pakarati — from Easter Island — and so we wanted to participate to be a part of everything that is happening, for all the people from all different communities.”
While crowds watched the cultural events and sampled traditional food, however, conflict broke out between police and “encapuchados,” or “hooded ones” along the side streets. A common feature of protests in Chile, “encapuchados” often appear immediately after a march and begin vandalising street signs and sidewalks in an effort to bait police into action.
The dull thuds of rocks on traffic lights was soon answered by the acrid smell of tear gas and water cannon laced with irritant as Carabineros — Chile’s uniformed police — engaged the “encapuchados” who responded in turn by throwing missiles and several Molotov cocktails. The large numbers of riot police present launched a counter-offensive marking several arrests and ensuring the conflict was relatively short-lived.
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Guest Blog: Waking for Winter by Katherine McIntyre
UFI welcomes Author Katherine McIntyre. Thanks for Joining us!!
Top Five Paranormal Romance Series
While I’m a paranormal romance addict, the series I read also have to pass the feminist reader test. Are there complex female characters? Is there consent and lack of abusive behavior? Thankfully, a lot of modern books are really getting away from the old issues the genre was mired in, so there’s more selection for the savvy reader. Here are some of my top five series in the genre, even though there’s a whole plethora out there to choose from.
This is one of those growly alpha male series that I plunged into and wasn’t super thrilled with the first book. However, the writing is SHARP, the story was interesting, and I liked it enough to read the following books. By book two, I was smitten, and book three, Zsadist’s book, is one of my absolute favorites. JR Ward has the sort of urban style I’m completely jealous of, as it leaps off the page to drag you into the world of the broken Black Dagger Brotherhood. Each character was meticulously defined and their backstories and histories made them engaging.
Psy-Changeling Series
Nalini Singh is a master of characterization and sensuality. Similarly to reading Black Dagger Brotherhood, the first book didn’t grip me as much, but the third was what had me committed to the series for good. She spins such an engaging tale, and we get so deep into the character’s perspectives. Nalini Singh isn’t afraid of diversity, of variation in gender roles, and it’s such a relief and joy to see. On top of the unique concept with the Psy, her Changelings are one of my favorite examples of shifters.
The Southern Vampire Mysteries
Despite Sookie Stackhouse coming off like the ‘everygirl’ in the beginning of the series, she has this stubborn practicality I adored. And when dealing with multiple varieties of supernaturals, that sort of pragmatism is something to be admired. The books are short, but they take you for an entertaining ride, and at the time it came out, the series provided a refreshing take from all the urban-centric supernatural stories, providing a real Southern flair.
Kate Daniels Series
Ilona Andrews tends to top the charts for me every time. Not only does this urban fantasy series contain one of the best slow-burn romances I’ve ever read, but also the best female lead. Kate Daniels is a queen in urban fantasy, the sort of take-charge, smart-mouthed merc we can all fall in love with. And the version of Atlanta in this series is both terrifying and entertaining, providing a wonderful landscape as the story delves deeper into Kate’s history.
Hidden Legacy
More Ilona Andrews on the docket? You betcha. This series finishes this year, and already, the first two books take you on one hell of a ride. Nevada Baylor and Mad Rogan have the sort of chemistry that makes you giddy. Nevada continues with their brand of competent heroine, though I really loved the family loyalty she espouses and the big sister attitude. Mad Rogan is layered and complex, a soldier who’s never left the war. And with the interesting system of Primes and magic created in this universe, the story is always entertaining.
A modern day Renaissance-woman, Katherine McIntyre has learned soapmaking, beer brewing, tea blending, and most recently roasting coffee. Most of which make sure she’s hydrated and bathed while she spends the rest of her time writing. With a desire to travel and more imagination than she knows what to do with, all the stories jumping around in her head led to the logical route of jotting them down on paper. She writes novels with snarky women, ragtag crews, and guys with bad attitudes. High chances for a passionate speech thrown into the mix.
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The Philadelphia Coven has thwarted the Order of the Serpent’s every attempt to destroy their city only to draw out the scariest nightmare from the Otherworld, the Caoranach. One of the Coven’s own, Cami Akiyama, has already met this creature—the very monster who tortured her, branding her with a mark. Given Cami’s history with the big bad, the Coven leader assigns her a bodyguard, none other than the gorgeous and lethal necromancer, Dante Martinez, the ex-boyfriend she disappeared on years ago. One conversation confirms the spark between them never died, and based on the way Dante flirts, he won’t allow that flame to extinguish out without a fight.
No one has ever compared to Dante and the incendiary passion he inspired in her, but the Caoranach broke her—Cami’s too damaged for any sort of relationship. Not like that stops him. If anything, he fights harder for the memories of a love that kept her sane on the bleakest nights. And despite every effort to distance, she finds herself falling for him all over again. Except the Caoranach isn’t finished with her—the branded mark holds the secret to the city’s destruction or salvation, and Cami stands in the center of the storm.
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Calderon’s Speech: drop Arizona Law, renew Assault Weapons Ban, continue building North American Region
Felipe Calderon gave Congress their marching orders in his speech before a fawning audience of senators and representatives on May 20, 2010. He even talked about continuing the integration of North America, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) but without the name. Go here. NOTICE: The link to Calderon’s speech was broken. I have replaced that with another copy in PDF. Thanks. 05/24/10.
Calderon spoke on Arizona law SB 1070, aimed at identifying illegal aliens and taking the appropriate actions, either incarceration or returning them to their home country:
“I am convinced that comprehensive immigration reform is also crucial to secure a common border.
“However, I completely disagree with the recent adoption of the law in Arizona. It is a law that not only ignores a reality that can not be erased by decree, but also introduces a terrible idea: using racial features as a basis for applying the law.
“And so I agree. I agree with the President when he says that this new law carries a high risk when they violate the basic values…”
But take a look at Mexico’s system of dealing with illegals for the perfect example of hypocrisy:
CNN’s interview with President Calderon:
Blitzer: So if people want to come from Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador or Nicaragua, they want to come into Mexico, they can just walk in?
Calderon: No. They need to fill out a form. They need to establish their right name. We analyze if they have not a criminal precedent. And they coming into Mexico. Actually… (Translation edited for clarity.)
Blitzer: Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal immigrants?
Calderon: Of course. Of course, in the border, we are asking the people, who are you?
And if they explain…
Blitzer: At the border, I understand, when they come.
Calderon: Yes.
Blitzer: But once they’re in…
Calderon: But not-but not in-once they are inside the -inside the country, what the Mexican police do is, of course, enforce the law. More.
Calderon on the Assault Weapons Ban:
“…if you look closely, you may realize that violence in Mexico began to grow a couple of years before I took office in 2006. That coincides, at least, with the repeal of the Assault Weapons Ban in 2004.”
“I fully understand the political sensitivity of this issue. But I would ask Congress to help us, with all respect, and understand how important this is for us and that you apply the law to stop the supply of such weapons to criminals. And ask them to consider the return of the Assault Weapons Ban.
“By any legal means you deem appropriate, work together to stop this deadly trade…”
Calderon, a strong supporter of a North American Community (union), met with Obama and the Canadian prime minister at the annual (SPP) leaders summit on August 10, 2009 in Guadalajara . They agreed to continue the integration of North America and meet again later this year.
On the day before Calderon’s speech, “a senior administration official said Obama will reiterate his commitment to fixing the nation’s immigration system during his private meetings with Calderon. The official also said the administration plans to address security along the U.S. -Mexico border and build on work done this year to OPEN NEW BORDER CROSSINGS and invest in the modernization of EXISTING BORDER CROSSINGS.” See ‘Mexican Trucks will soon flow across America’s Open Borders…’
Calderon is also building infrastructure for North American integration:
‘”We have increased our investment in infrastructure of 3-5 percentage points of GDP per year, to build roads, ports, airports and power plants we need to modernize. This is the most important investment in infrastructure in decades.”
This, and the pending agreement to allow Mexican trucks to carry cargo on NAFTA super transportation corridors from Mexican ports , through upgraded border crossings and across North America, are more steps toward opening the mutual borders of Canada, Mexico and the United States. The result will be an integrated North American Community.
“Its boundaries will be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter within which the movement of people, products, and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe.” This comes directly from the Council on Foreign Relations plan for Building a North American Community and Calderon used the same terms in his speech to promote this continental integration. CFR plan, p.3
Calderon:
“It is time that the United States and Mexico work together on this issue. It is time to reduce the causes of migration and the transformation of this phenomenon in[to] a flow [that] is legal, orderly and safe for workers and visitors.” The Mexican president probably knows the CFR document by heart.
Calderon on a United North America:
“The world is becoming more global and more interconnected. It is also divided into MAJOR ECONOMIC REGIONS. Those regions that maximize their comparative advantages will succeed. And our two countries (don’t forget Canada) must compete with Asia and Europe.
“Mexico and the United States are stronger together than apart. Our economic ties have strengthened our economies and together we can renew our PARTNERSHIP to restore economic growth…”
“A stronger Mexico means a stronger America. Do not forget that Mexicans are the second largest importer of American goods in the world. And a stronger America, of course, means a stronger Mexico.
“So I invite you to work with Mexico and consolidate North America as the world’s most competitive region. I believe in it.”
(By consolidating, Calderon means integrating the three nations of North America into one community, a single economic and eventual political region, as in the European Union.)
“Our two great nations are bound together by geography and history, but more importantly, we are united by a shared bright future. I believe in the future of North America as the strongest and most prosperous region in the world.”
Calderon is pushing this integrated continent and Obama is fully onboard. Calderon is clear on the goal:
“Immigration is not solved by a wall. We’ll jump over it anyway.”
“In the coming two decades, I envision the whole North American region (union) with a ‘free market,’ not just in goods, services and investments, but a free labor market like the European Union.” (Everyone will be a citizen of North America and their movement across the continent will be “legal, orderly and safe.”)
I hope President Calderon wasn’t too vague in explaining his plans for North America.
Posted by Ray at 9:33 pm
Amnesty Bills: Open Borders and the free flow of Commerce and People throughout North America Note to Obama: Illegal Aliens continue to cross our Borders and Kill Americans.
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Just imagine how much All You Can Eat Korean BBQ they’d go through in a sitting
Coelasquid March 25, 2013 6:57 am
Oh no another half-assed Kratos comic, you know what that means! Yep, I had an insane work week and my only respite was the new God of War.
Anyway, I’m of the opinion that Kratos is a bit of an anomaly in the world of Macho Action Dudes, in that he is just a bottomless sieve of emotions. Like, usually action dudes have their moment of unrestrained rage at the end of the story o prove What A Badass Dude they can be, that Super Saiyan “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry” moment where they let it all out. Kratos, on the other hand is like… perpetually exhaustingly angry. And when he runs out of angry, he’s sad. He’s just this constant torrent of unrestrained heart-on-his-sleeve emotional whiplash. He’s never the cocky, aloof, too-cool-for-school emotionally distant robot you expect to play in a macho action dude game, he just kind of exists in this cycle of getting all angried out and trying to kill himself until someone on the suicide watch crew can find him a new thing to be angry about. He’s the only game hero I can think of who’s like “Oh man, I checked everything off my to-do list and now I’m out of things to be mad at, I am so drained I think I’m going to kill myself now”
I don’t doubt that others like him exist, they’re just pretty rare in a world of Duke Nukems and Commander Shepards and Solid Snakes and Jack Caymans and Grayson Hunts and Macus Fenixes and Dantes and Chris Redfields and all those other action dudes who are capable of speaking with indoor voices.
We discussed this on Tumblr with fun screen shots and everything.
Oh! And if you’re in the Massachusetts area, next weekend I’ll be at ConBust over at Smith college in Northampton!
└ Tags: God of War, Kratos
AceJayce
*ow* looks like a pressure cooker – just prior to exploding O_O
The Offender
You would not believe how loud one of those things is when that happens.
Have heard a couple pressure-cooker explosions and saw the mess after one. Well-fitting for Kratos, anyway ^_^
Had it happen to me when attempting to make chili the first time. I have since learned where I went wrong.
what kind of chili??
3 meat. Beef (for flavor), pork (for texture), and lamb (for both). Is good when the cooker doesn’t explode.
April 7, 2013, 5:13 am | # | Reply
and just how did you make the cooker explode??
cos i have never heard of that happening before?
This thread is disturbingly prophetic.
Filed under: Boston Marathon 2013
That dude with the face
COELASQUID EDIT: Not cool to post walking Dead Spoilers the day after the episode airs dude. I changed the font colour to white so people can ignore it easier if they don’t want to see it.
i guess he’s mad that Merle died on the walking dead last night as well.
Angry, but not as angry as Kratos
…that doesn’t count as a spoiler alert.
Magoran
Just a heads up, if it’s a spoiler for something that isn’t the topic immediately at hand, people usually appreciate a specification of what it’s a spoiler for.
RogeSoja
Way to be a tool dude.
Wrasynth
SPOILER ALERT! Jesus dies at the end of the movie. The germans loose world war two, and foreshadowed deaths happen fairly consistently when more than half the cast is wearing red shirts.
D: im sorrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Parapsychotic
Some good advice once told to me, you can make almost any mistake so long as you only make it once. Especialy since that way, when someone else who nagged you for that mistake makes the same one a month or two later, YOU can be the one giving THEM a hard time! XD
Gimarie
As an American living in S. Korea right now … I would love to go to an all you can eat BBQ with the Commander. Probably one of three of my favorite places to eat here in Korealand. I saw the panel and was immediately happy. <3 For 16,000W (roughly 13-15 USD) … all you can eat meat is amazing.
I very much appreciate the Commander on my pillow case, btw. Best Connecticon ever for me. <3
Storm Wing
US$15 is worth it. Here in Indonesia, we have Hanamasa & it’s around IDR150,000 (yeah, US$15) for All-You-Can-Eat. ^_^
tengokujin
I miss buffet-style grilling sooooo much. T-T
The closest thing around here on the Eastern seaboard is like $25, and IT JUST ISN’T THE SAME. (Mainly because the servers keep coming around to cook your meat for you.)
CBob
There’s a all-you-can-eat Brazilian barbeque place downtown from where I live. It’s like $50 a person ’cause it’s upscale, but it’s awesome. You get a little bobble thing that’s green on one side and red on the other to put on your table, and as long as you keep the green side up, waiters will keep coming around every couple minutes with different things on skewers.
Some all-you-can-eat restaurants here in Brazil uses the “booble system” – keeps the servers from harassing when you take a break from all the eating. In pizzerias there’s also the yellow sign for when you want a dessert pizza.
Note, some of the pizza flavors can be offensive for hardcore pizza lovers, like strogonoff, hamburger with fries and *yuck* sushi X-P
I would contend that pizza is perhaps the world first truly unifying food, regardless of it’s Sicilian roots, and there can be no illegitimate toppings, only personal preferences. Kind of like how the rocket that went to the moon may have been American, but the accomplishment belongs to the whole species. When the aliens land, and ask us for an “Earthian food” to represent our planet in their restaurants back home, the answer will be pizza.
That said, people who eat it with knife and fork are barbarians who don’t understand pizza.
A friend of mine who owns a pizza parlor serves corned beef and cabbage pizza for St. Patrick’s Day. It’s got a mustard sauce (instead of tomato) and it’s pretty good with, of course, a pint of Guinness.
Yeah, Fogo de Chao or something, right? It isn’t the same :/
I like going up to a bar of marinated meats, picking out what I want, bringing them to the grill built into the table and cooking and eating them, wrapping them with garlic and doenjang and peppers and scallions inside some red lettu- ok. Now I’m really hungry. :/
Deidara1933
GODAMMIT, I didn’t want to find out that he died, at least not this way TT_TT
IM SORRRYYYYYY
So he’s died too? He could make cool ragebros with Asura.
Kratos might be on to something. What sounds like better stress relief, drinking yourself into comas in some bar in Ukraine, or roidraging gods in the face?
Degraine
Neither’s really better. Despite what you may have heard, trying to externalise some deep-seated anger onto a nearby target and then beat it into a bloody pulp doesn’t help in the long run. It might actually make things worse because it makes you think about it more.
Seadhna
With some anti-depressants he might as well be inducted into the Angry Marines chapter
They gave him serious consideration but upon learning that he eventually -can- run out of angry they sent back his application form with a giant flaccid penis drawn on it.
The Chainmail Guy
At first glance, I thought they were just eating piles and piles of bacon.
Mister Flames
I’ve had squid and pork bellies Korean here locally. They may actually be making bacon there.
Drat, now I’m hungry for bulgogi.
Weird thing is that I pretty much always feel like Kratos, but somehow seem to end up on the Commander’s side of the table, listening to other people’s crap.
So my advice for Kratos is to just try and repress everything, put on your game face and deal…
… then every couple of months when it all gets too much, you get really, really, drunk and have sing along to some Dusty Springfield.
Or, you bite the bullet and go get some CBT.
Unfortunately there are few workable solutions, but coping mechanisms are endless.
If CBT helps, look into IFS (Internal Family Systems). Find a counselor near you that specializes in it. Or maybe read a bit online to start.
The Temporal Detective: Professor Templeton
Suppressing such things is the first step to moderate insanity, I can tell you this first hand.
There are much, MUCH better options.
Insanity, you say.
What’s insane about a six foot tall, tubby and hirsute man belting out Dusty Springfield tunes?
I mean, it’s not like I always wear the ballgown.
“I’m not as craaaazy as I used to be/Some of my devils done left me free/to find quiet space/ I’m not as out of place…”
MikeyMouse
April 6, 2013, 12:15 pm | # | Reply
I love this guy. ^^
June 12, 2013, 6:46 pm | # | Reply
I know that feel bro.
AWWW YISSS MUTHA FUCKIN KOREAN BARBECUE
Doesn’t Solid Snake go the suicide path towards the end? He at least thinks about it.
Solid Snake is the quintessential “I tried to get out, but they keep bringing me back!”
Yes, but it was because he would have become a walking WMD if he didn’t die first.
Good point. He did have the Russian roulette revolver of Foxdie pointed at his head all this time, and at most other peoples too.
Broklynite
Never played the God of War games- always wanted to, never got the PlayStation. That said, the two Prototype games drive me crazy because the main character is just so darned unbelievable. These guys are either Barely Held In Check or Unleashing Living Hell levels of pissed off, 24/7. It’s ridiculous, boring, and completely unbelievable.
Especially in Prototype 1, where Mercer is pissed off because…? I mean, Prototype 2, the dude’s wife and daughter were needlessly murdered horribly, I get that. But Mercer is just angry for the sake of being angry. Nobody can be that angry all the time. He sits there being pissed off while eating a sandwich. When he goes and takes a whiz? Angry. after he’s killed his enemies? Still angry. It makes no sense. He has to have SOME other emotion SOMETIME. And in Prototype 2, the protagonist is the same way!
The creators apparently realized that he at least needed a reason for it, so they killed off his family. But is he ever sad or mournful? Nope. Just angry. And again, angry when he’s having a hot dog, angry when he’s riding the subway, whatever- dude is always angry.
This has nothing to do with badass characters, violent video games, whatever. It’s just lazy writing and bad editing. Badass guys aren’t *powered* by rage (with admittedly the sort-of exception of Hulk) but rather are badass in and of themselves, and sometimes lose their tempers. Badass guys don’t need to prove that they are badass, they simply are- and having them be always angry just makes them seem like they are constantly insisting on the fact that they are badass- no, really, honestly I am- rather than just being it.
To be fair, in Prototype the heightened rage might be a side effect of the virus, considering that Mercer underwent vast physical mutation, I wouldn’t be surprised if rage was just suddenly default. I don’t think they exactly had a list of side effects.
I’m trying to ponder this because for some reason Kratos is excessively angry, but it doesn’t feel out of place.
I guess it’s because he’s consistently angry at everything, and people acknowledge that he’s a pretty angry dude. He also channels his anger at targets which are contextually appropriate, like gods and annoying people with red souls in them. He’s a relatively normal rageman who’s suddenly at the hub of the cosmos and shits all up in his grill all the time.
Alex Mercer has points where he’s totally chill to some people, but is still a major dick. It makes no sense because initially they say he’s a normal science dude with a girlfriend(?) so obviously he has to have been a sociable person at some point. But no personality is established beforehand and none of his previous relationships fit with his current personality.Have you tried walking around normally with him? He’s just constantly slapping civilians around for no reason. He ended up being really boring for me to play as because of how the only reaction he has to anything is to shoot black shit at them.
Coelasquid
I think Kratos makes the angry-all-the-time thing work, because he’s not angry all the time so much as angry for the eight hour duration of the time you’re playing with him. Before that he’s mopey, and after he’s burnt out and suicidally depressed, which is a pretty believable reaction to a solid day of screaming rage and being pushed in the dirt by these phenomenal cosmic beings. And we have to consider Kratos’ general… lack of agency, I guess you could say. He’s like a little animal being tormented by all these magical beings the size of skyscrapers. He’s a big strong shouty dude, but compared to the scale of world he lives in he’s like a parakeet with clipped wings trying to climb a bookshelf. If there’s one thing God of War games are great at, it’s making this beefmuscle bullmoose of a man seem like a diminutive little sea monkey in the grand scheme of things.
I think ‘beefmuscle bullmoose’ is my new favorite terminology of the day.
“Hee hee, this commenter should write with Squid”
*sees name*
Apparently I just love your writing.
forrestfire15
(Prototype spoilers for people who care about not seeing them)
The thing about Alex Mercer is that he is so screwed up during the game because of a combination of identity merging from eating people and the fact that he isn’t Alex Mercer, but a virus construct with no memories that looks like him. I can understand his distress and emotions, since he has been literally forced to fight for his life from the moment he woke up constantly until the present time.
In any case, the real Alex Mercer wasn’t a “normal science dude with a girlfriend,” he was a sociopath. He is described as having no friends and trusting no one, and not caring about the consequences of his work. When he learned that he was going to be fired, he released a freaking zombie plague out of spite. Definitely not a normal person. Definitely a dick. The player character Alex actually expresses disgust at “his” prior actions, if I remember correctly. You know you’re bad when a zombie virus given human form can’t stand you :p
Passerby
July 13, 2013, 9:02 am | # | Reply
This was what I found so interesting about that game. Wish I was better at the fighting stuff, never did make it all the way to the end.
(with admittedly the sort-of exception of Hulk) And Mr. Furious! From Mystery Men.
way to steal some of what makes Kratos so badass the gods tricked him into killing his family it’s reveange that drives him to kill the gods that found it funny to have him kill his family alot of pepole forget this fact it only menchend in an intro to one of his games
Geizt
Uh…what? I can’t even tell what you’re saying, buddy. Punctuation is your friend. Anyways, Kratos really is just like a screaming teapot of rage and anger, it’s pretty interesting to see a more in depth analysis of the whole “always pissed off” thing.
Dude, dial it back a little. No need to snipe at a person’s writing ability. Makes you seem small and petty.
CaveTrollWithABeard
Er, no, it makes them look like someone who tried to understand what the other person was saying and failed because they said it so badly. If you want someone to understand your point, make it clearly. Otherwise, they get to tell you that you suck at making a point.
Wow, did NOT expect such great responses. Let me take these bit by bit.
1. Mercer dick vs. killing rage. Yea, there are times when he is almost calm- and then he lets slip and you see that it’s just a calm exterior over a raging soul. And yes, it’s as goofy and as melodramatic as that sounds.
2. As I said, never played GoW. I didn’t realize that GoW took place continuously over the course of a fairly short period of time (8-10 hours, say). This does make things considerably more believable. In Prototype, the day/night cycle and the fact that apparently enough time passes for you to destroy an infected building, the building be re-constructed, then re-infected all over again means that the course of the game appears to be over the course of weeks. In fact, I seem to recall that most of the original game is told as a flashback and notes stating how many days after first infection it is, so he’s been rageful for day after day. It’s just damned silly.
3. You say that people acknoweldge Kratos’ anger. Again, with Mercer, that isn’t the case. Nobody ever tells him “Yo, dude, calm down. Breathe deeply. Go take a walk.” Nope, people are just like “What’s that? You’re so enraged that you are literally picking up random people in the streets and tearing them to pieces? Well, that’s understandable.”
4. Personality. Again, he has none. Just rage. He isn’t even one dimensional. He’s an emotion.
5. Side-effects. Well, he isn’t infected by the virus- he is the virus. The virus infected and consumed its first host. Being the first set of memories consumed, the virus is “imprinted” with Mercer as a personality. For another example of something like this, see Alan Moore’s first issue of Swamp Thing. Now, that said, the back story we get of Mercer himself paints him as a bit of a whiny asshole. He doesn’t like his job, so rather than quit, he decides to spread the Blacklight virus through the entirety of NYC. Because, y’know, he didn’t like the severance package they offered him.
5. Mr. Furious. Haven’t seen Mystery Men in the better part of a decade. Forgot all about that until you mentioned it. I stand corrected.
6. Zac, if I understand you correctly (and the gods know, I may not), you are saying that Kratos is pissed off because the gods tricked him into killing his own family, which you would only know because it was in the intro to the game which people skipped over. Could be. Again, never played any of the games. Not…quite sure how this steals him being badass, but okay.
Dear wordpress: Trying to publish a comment 24 hours later doesn’t strike me in particular as “trying to post comments too quickly,” but then, we may have different definitions.
Creature SH
It’s amazing how much mileage there is in a Kratos in spite and because of him being so one-note.
DarkPhoenixMishima
That Sudoku game really did a number on Kratos.
If he gets nearly half as angry as I get on them, it’s no wonder he goes out to kick gods.
they tricked him into killing his family you wood be pissed too
Man, Kratos really needs to get his emotions under control. If he had taken a couple of minutes to stop and think at the end of God of War 2, he probably would have realized that he had the newfound power to travel back in time and stop himself from murdering his own family like an idiot.
Michael Corley
Sushi makes every feeling better!
I love your Kratos comics. Never stop.
Also: How does Kratos feel about baby sloths? Maybe the guy needs a pet?
I’m sure he’d be angry that eventually they stop being babies.
Madman12222
What the hell are they eating, it looks like raw bacon but it could be anything
Probably steak. It is Korean barbeque, after all – they’re putting it to cook themselves.
Nick Waters
I love Kratos – I remember when he Leonidas argued about Ikea candles “You know I hate blueberry candles!”
A Gray Phantom
I wanted to point out how the Commander is showing a good example of how to react to a borderline personality: stay as neutral as possible.
That doesn’t make them angry at you for being noncommittal?
Takioki
New idea, you can’t win either way, so just prepare for a punch in the face.
Borderlines are a mess, and yeah, you can’t win. Preparing for a punch in the face is always a good idea.
That said, if you feel a confrontation can be avoided, do stay neutral in your statements. But to learn more about borderline personality disorder, visit your local library.
Ozzie Scribbler
The ‘aloof badass’ archetype needs to be discussed and deconstructed more. I already linked it in tumblr response, but there’s a great article on Chez Apocalypse discussing the trope in context of new Lara Croft. Having en emotional action hero seems like a major step forward, but it apparently only under condition of said hero being a woman or showing only ‘macho’ emotions, like anger.
We definitely could use more characters (of both genders) in mainstream media that have genuine human reactions to the shit they go through.
I’d love to see the result of handing A big bundle of inconsolable masculine emotion like Kratos to Rhianna Pratchett (who wrote the new Tomb Raider) with carte blanche on what to do with him.
Every time I play on of the God of War games, but the end, I just want to give Kratos a hug. He needs so many hugs.
*by the end
ArchRylen
Where do Commander Badass and Canada Man fit on the macho robot spectrum? I picture CB having grown out of the “too cool” shtick and CM being aware of his feelings, if not particularly deep.
I imagine Commander being a pretty goofy dudebro in his youth. Probably why he’s so patient with Jared, gotta let kids be silly.
I can’t see the word ‘dudebro’ without thinking of social justice blogger’s definition of it… and it’s soooo out-of-character to imagine Commander as this strawman fedora-wearing-dudebro XD
Hah, tumblr has screwed my vocabulary.
I mean it in the well meaning jock who knows where the party’s at way. Dudes who are bros. Learns lessons like “don’t play beer pong on a sandy beach” and “don’t eat that thing on the floor” the hard way, but appreciates the journey.
Any chance of a “Jared meets the young commander” strip?
That would be the best thing ever.
I’d like to know where the fedora malarkey comes from. Not a single MRA I’ve spoken to or read articles from mentions them. Or has adopted the fedora as a symbol, or whatever.
It is baffling to me.
Frankly, I’m really not sure. I’ve seen some fedora pride facebook posts headshakingly reblogged on some SJ blogs, but most activity concerning the hat seems to be questions just like yours.
But most MRA’s don’t seem to identify with derogatory meaning of ‘dudebro’ either, they rather see themselves as misunderstood intellectuals, so there you are, I guess…
I mean ‘the you have it’, sorry. That’s what I get for writing just after waking up.
I’ve noticed the SJs on Tumblr seem to have a habit of creating definitions of various words/phrases and getting indignant if you insist on using them in the way understood by normal society.
Yeah, sometimes they can get a bit too far and call out people on thing that shouldn’t be called out on (misunderstanding their inner-circle vocabulary).
But generally I agree with definition of ‘privilege’ provided by SJ movement and keep track of blogs that are reasonably moderated.
I think the only possible contender in the same category as Kratos for being either super angry or mopey has got to be Barrett from FFVII. However Kratos still has him beat by a long shot. Barrett has an adopted daughter to keep some of it at bay
Silverman1
Giving ME an unlimited amount of all you can eat food is going to lead to a new world hunger for just about everybody. I can`t even imagine the sheer amount of food Kratos himself can eat, add the Commander and that restaurant is going broke
Stalling is fine so long as there’s some kind of connection to the jokes at the end or something. :D
Slang Loving Rihia
Ahh. This is why Commander is the TRUE ‘bad ass’. (Hulk aside) New writers seem so into the idea that rage = power and destruction = strength.
Figure Commander’s kinda’ old-school, control = power and preservation = strength. (though he knows he can pull out the entrail-origami if needs be)
Scientifically speaking, rage sends adrenaline and all sorts of super-man juice straight through the bloodstream that, temporarily, makes the rager immune to fatigue and pain and immediately pushes the body into the maximum level of strength and endurance it can achieve. It’s an essential part of the fight-or-flight response and is a natural defense mechanism against enemies, used by every living animal between grizzly bears and field mice.
So, yeah, the writers are on to something and know it.
That is fair and objective, but ‘raging’ has a time and place, it shouldn’t work as a ‘first, last and always’ solution. It might save your skin once in a while, but short-fuse rage makes a fighter sloppy (particularly in martial arts).
As for the writers being onto something – same could be said for teen vampire fiction authors…
Flogging a decapitated horse and all that…
but ‘raging’ has a time and place
Some of the greatest stories in human history revolve around this happening at the wrong time. We all know what you’re saying is true, but, human condition and all that.
Bruce Lee, in his prime, once got his ass kicked in a bar fight by a guy who was too drunk to realize he was fighting Bruce freaking Lee. Lee kept hitting him in all the right places and in all the right ways and the guy kept coming because fuck you Bruce Lee, I’m drunk xD. My combatives instructor used that story to teach us that all your experience and knowledge and muscle memory can be topped by one idiot who knows a few things about the art of whup-ass and is too mad to know when to quit. The old “where’s there’s a will, there’s a way” mindset can work wonders for normal people.
And I think we can all agree that teen vampire fiction sucks no matter how it is presented.
Yes, Bruce Lee was sober.
Generally a person who knows what they’re doing can seriously fuck up a brawler, I would give that one to the pain-numbing properties of alcohol and Bruce Lee’s refusal to flat-out murder a dude in a fight more than the guy’s knowledge of “whup-ass”. Like that guy who yanked out a tazer and kept coming at the cops because he was full of PCP or something, not a lot of skill, just a lot of drugs.
While Kratos is a emotional wreck at least he could take his time out of his depressing world to punch ninjas in MK9 and be around a god who knows what it feels like to be a total joke also fujin. Raiden: hey thank you for murdering every one you some how killed Shao khan, we are in your dept. You have a home here if you ever want to comeback.
Kratos: Somegod, being kind, Too me?! *on that day kratos heart grew 1 nanometers*
The BlackBear
I love the Kratos strips, so if it’s easier for you just keep doing them.
in which Kratos accurately sums up my life/is the fangirl/fanboy part of Tumblr.
Words cannot express how much I want all you can eat Korean BBQ right now.
Android 21 3/7
… Now I’m craving galbi, samgyupsal, and cow tongue. Oh well. I’ll have to make do with the schadenfreude that someone, somewhere out there, just lost their appetite over that last one.
And stuffed intestines!
If you saw what a good “feijoada” (typical Brazilian food) has inside, probably you would never eat it – it’s namely black beans cooked with pork meats and salted parts (ear, tail, tongue, foot, throat), sided with white rice, orange slices and “couve” (a cabbage relative, probably the collard green)
And I love cow tongue, foot and tail too. ^_^
Lost my appetite? No, you just made me want to cut into the corned beef I just cooked. It should be done setting by now :D
Has that awesome black&white Commander art always been there at the bottom of the page? I looked and it’s not on the Extras page. Is there a larger version of it somewhere?
Crestlinger
Add being a shrink Kratos Won’t kill to the Commander’s list of badassery.
Layogenic
I sometimes forget that people ever play male-Shep.
Fakebunny
Eventually, that rage gotta end. But thinking of Kratos dishing a Kamehameha, is oddly funny.
(I forgot, sorry!) Sooo… you are telling me that Kratos is Vegeta, without the pointy hair.
Synystergreed
You know, Coelasquid, as long as we’re on the “feels things” and “doesn’t fit the macho stereotype” you should look into Issac Clarke, the protagonist from the Dead Space series. I know he isn’t what you’d classically do a comic about, but there’s something inherently badass about a dude who straight walks up to mutated human corpses to dismember them with his booted feet before they can horribly eviscerate him. And he does it over and over and over. With tools, for the first part of his Necromorph-battling career. Just a thought!
So he’s exactly like every other mute protagonist.
Like I said, just a thought! :D
Omnicent
Espescially in that once they get a voice, all you want them to do is shut the hell up again.
This just made me think of how much of a dick Gordon Freeman is. He spends all his time jumping, even when people are talking to him, breaking things, ruining peoples lunches, spying on people and he doesn’t even have the courtesy to answer anyone back.
Exploding Pineapple Ninja
Wasn’t there a guest comic a while back where these two were rejected by the agency on account of being nerds?
Yeah there was. It was a shame. No one else can make a crowbar sing like GF. Or squelch or splat or kill aliens.
April 1, 2013, 8:00 pm | # | Reply
Maybe everyone just assumes he’s an autistic savant. He does inexplicable and/or rude things, won’t talk, but is so good at physics that no one will fire him. And everyone lets him off with a light scolding because they think he doesn’t know better. Whether Gordan really is one or not is left up to the player.
Ebiltommy
I would like to contest the theory that Commander Shepard is just another senseless badass protagonist. the only way s/he comes across like that is if you skip all the dialogue in all three games. there are some incredibly touching moments where Shepard comes across as very much just a human being.
Evilweirdo
I agree, especially if you take the Paragon options. I just don’t have the heart to do otherwise.
Shep in ME3 is the ultimate bro. I can’t finish the game because seeing him in that N7 hoodie, and listening to his dialogue reminds me of every meathead i met in my 10 years at happy valley.
I keep expecting him to start conversations by jutting his chin forward and saying “sup”.
Especially when he talks to vega. its such bullshit man pain.
“dont you think i wanna be on earth MAN. I do MAN. I’m like dying inside bro, but like, we need to like… get these kegs to phi delt.”
mascot1063
Speaking of kratos (sorry to break topic), there was a review where adam sesslar got particularly salty about a trophy and the beating of a female. I am curious, what is your whole opinion of this matter Coelasquid?
And while were at it, what about that tropes vs women show? Not that I would think less of someone based on an opinion, but givin the source material of this comic, it really leaves me curious on what your thoughts are.
Considering all the women he “beats” in the game are phenomenal cosmic beings who are actively engaged in using their God-powers to fight him, and what I’m imagining is the scene in question is on par with just about any other God of War boss fight, I’m of the opinion it would be more sexist of him to go easy on her because guys fighting women make people uncomfortable.
Huh, I just watched the review, I didn’t notice that trophy when I finished that fight. I’d agree that it’s a pretty tasteless title for it, but I’m more of the opinion whoever named it was a dick than “it soured the whole experience”, considering the attitude expressed by it has nothing to do with the actual game.
Kratos does seem to have a soft spot for the more human like females in the game. Up until they try to kill him, or he has to choose between not setting them up to die and moving a head with his goal of god killing. The god killing will always win.
The only time I can recall him ‘needlessly’ killing a normal, un-god like piece of temple eye candy is in the second game with the Poseidon Priestess- who was terrified of him. I’m not sure why it was necessary for her to die that way, but it was the only direct female eye candy death he took a part in.
I do think the name of the trophy is tasteless. I think (and I’ve just watched the review- haven’t gotten to that boss fight yet) if the trophy had a different name or if there was none at all there wouldn’t be a problem as I was taking the review to be objecting more to the trophy name than the actual act of stomping on a fury.
Actually a lot of “trophies” and their names are kind of dumb and seem more geared to the in-joke bro-fist mentality which leaves me feeling left out. But I don’t play for achievements- I play to kill things without going to jail for it.
3- god of war 3 was when the girl was killed. I lost my ability to count for a moment.
I will say that killinh that woman in three kind of left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Me and my buddy were just like… wow… And the room stayed silent for a minute.
Would like to think that was the point of that part. So when Smith God went all “stay the HELL away from my daughter!” and tired to kill Kratos we would be kind of “yeah, can’t blame him for trying”. Hell, even Kratos didn’t want to be near Pandora because he knew what he could and would do if given a chance.
And then there were all these emotional feels and he was getting angry because he doesn’t have TIME to deal with them on top of a teen-daughter like girl who is trying to kill herself for the cause and then Zeus shows up. I bet that was the one and only time Kratos was “happy” Zeus showed up.
If im not mistaken, I believe the trophy was for a completely different reason, not for beating a woman. I think it was someone who saved you as opposed to turning on you? I havent played it but thats what I know without delving a bit to much into the story.
Probably for saving Orkos from the furies or standing by him or something. It’s still pretty tacky to call a woman who exists in a completely non-sexual context a “ho”, especially right after you’ve just graphically bludgeoned her into submission. The scene doesn’t bother me content-wise because the women Kratos is fighting is his antagonistic superior, not a sex object. The phrase “bros before hos” means “stand by your buddy instead of that chick you’re banging/would like to bang” and yes, I believe even in context it’s pretty shitty to call a powerful female character that’s supposed to be Kratos’ near-equal at this stage in the game a slang term for “whore” based on no reason other than “she is a woman”.
Yes. Kind of also saying the only reason why Kratos even won was because she was female, weak and an easy target, not because he’s a bad ass god killer.
I thought that guy’s only emotion was ‘anger’. Or possibly ‘rage’.
There are other emotions. But, because he doesn’t quite know how to handle them- or can’t handle them at the time he just defaults to rage.
First it was because he was tormented with the visions of him killing his family over and over and over on top of being bound to the very gods who used the vague promise of forgiveness- on the assumption that forgiveness would make the visions stop.
That ‘forgiveness’ for his past crimes did not make the visions stop so he is stuck with really vivid PTSD and no way to heal from it or deal with it outside of killing everything in his path. The gods fucked themselves over by not letting the man heal, but then we wouldn’t have a GoW franchise.
I would just like to take a minute to appreciate the detail of skin lump where Kratos’ head meets the table. Or maybe they’re just angry eyebrows. They make me happy for some reason anyway.
Actually, now that I browse backward through the archive, I only found one moment where Coelasquid drew Kratos being happy: http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/03222010
I guess his default mode in this comic really is ‘angry’.
CommunistCanada
Hey Coela, will you ever put LOTR charecters in this Comic?
Are any of the LOTR characters TOTALLY MACHO DUDES? Preferrably ones that can be explored in a new light by Coelasquid?
Kratos need to talk to a therapist. That would likely not end well for the therapist…
Commander IS his therapist by the looks of it…or at least, one who is able to press X and not die.
Didn’t think of that. The Commander is likely the only person that could play therapist to Kratos, even if it is in an informal fashion. Then again it seems like counseling might be part of his job.
LokiLullaby
Coelasquid! I ate at those kinda restaurants all the time when I was stationed in japan. I can’t remember what they are called so I can find one here though. What are they?!
Korean BBQ, it mentions it in the title.
In Japan they called them “Ghengis Khan”, or as we know them here “Mongolian BBQ”. It cracked me up.
Mongolian BBQ is a different thing, at least in North America. Korean BBQ they bring you a plate of raw meat that you cook yourself on a gas burner in the middle of the table, Mongolian BBQ you get a bowl and pile it as high as you can with meat and veggies, then you hand it to the cooks, they add noodles and seasoning, and stir fry it on a giant round hot plate thing with big wooden sticks.
Jace Draccus
Over here in New Zealand, the Mongolian BBQs I’ve been to have you pick out EVERYTHING. The meat, veggies, noodles and seasoning. Then they cook it on… well, it’s basically a round counter that’s just a huge hot plate, but they don’t use wooden sticks. Knives and spatulas…
When I red this ” Control Anger by Using Your Less-Dominant Hand” (http://www.cracked.com/article_20166_5-brain-hacks-that-give-you-mind-blowing-powers_p2.html) I tought of Kratos inmediately xD
ladyoflate
Betcha he’s that rare person who’s naturally ambidextrous.
Moodyman90
Kratos is a bit of an odd ball. Nearly everything that happens to him is his fault, but then there’s the fact the Fates plotted it that way. And then you remember he killed the Fates to change his, but only to get revenge rather than to make his life better. There’s no doubt his a rage filled monster of a man, but then they keep reminding the player he had a wife and daughter he was tricked into killing and felt remorse for doing so. There is pity to be had for Kratos, just it’s hard to feel it when he’s buried under the mountains of bodies and rivers of blood from those he’s killed.
EveryZig
Huh, I was at a Korean barbecue for the first time in years just a few days ago…
Grieverjoe
Sounds like Kratos could use some other form of venting…
“Dear Livejournal,
I totally kicked Ares off of my friends list today…”
Hmmmm…not one Serious Sam who did go beyond Serious mention. :/
Well…you could always include Captain Martin Walker. He was a Macho Action Dude amirite?
October 19, 2013, 11:40 pm | # | Reply
Except Capt. Walker was a deconstruction of army dude protagonists in army games. Having him here would be redundant.
Naszvanu
I wonder if Kratos was actually angry/depressed during his encounters with women he met on beds?
I seriously doubt someone like Aphrodite would give Kratos something to rage at.
“Damn it why won’t you get off!!”
Don’t think he has that problem with women. Hence all the happy consenting whores that line up when they aren’t piling on top of him. All things considered, he treats the women he has sex with rather decent.
Makes me wonder how he’d get along with Asura. I can’t remember if you’ve already used him in a comic before, actually…
The Pink Spartan
I have read this comic probably ten times now since it posted. I keep coming back to it.
It will never not be funny.
Thisfellow
Dangit, now I’m hungry.
ElOctopodo
Maybe Max Payne could be placed in that category, too…?
Andarion
I wonder… what would happen if Commander Badass met Fate/Zero’s Alexander the Great… Broskander is boisterous enough to fit right in there and he’d probably try to make Velvet befriend Jared…
Hevaess
There has GOT to be some sort of medication he can take to even him out. A constant state of emotional roller coaster bad times will just burn the life out of anyone.
Peptatum
Holy crap you’re gonna be in northampton?!?! gotta get dat autograph!
Guybrush20X6
Only guy that could give Kratos a tun for his money in the anger department is Asura of Asura’s Wrath (fittingly enough.) But Asura got his happy ending while Kratos just left the world a mess so… I’s give Kratos a hug if I didn’t fear been torn in two for touching him.
The Enforcer
Yeah, I don’t know why, but whenever I read the Commander’s lines, I imagine Phil Harris’ voice, but a bit gruffer.
Asura from Asura’s Warath might count.
But then again Asura did have his daughter to keep him grounded.
(Well until the DLC but thats another story)
I find it hard to sympathise with Kratos at times. The dude is responsible for a lot of his misfortunes.
Consider ‘Ghost of Sparta’, where he finds his mother and, thanks to a curse or something, she turns into a monster and attacks him. Of course, the only option he can see is to beat seven kinds of hell out of the monster, which then turns back to his mortally-wounded mother.
He grieves for a moment, then is pretty much immediately angry again. And that’s his pattern. Something happens, he rages out and destroys everything, he’s sad for a moment, and then he swears angry vengeance on everything!
As much as we can assume he’s pretty damn clever for solving all the puzzles in the games, you’d think he’d stop for a moment’s self reflection now and then. Maybe look for another answer, even if only when the fight involves something or someone he cares about or wants to save.
But then, he wouldn’t be Kratos….
See, I would consider that a rather poor example. What else are you supposed to do to a monster attacking you, even if it is really your mother? And is it really unreasonable to get mad at someone who makes you do that to her?
Ya know. . . I have yet to play God of War 3, but after playing 1 and 2. . . I don’t like Kratos. I don’t like him at all. The only thing keeping me from not despising him is the fact that almost every other character is just as bad as he is or worse. He kills literally everyone he meets. It’s almost like a bad running gag. 2’s worst moment for me was probably the dark silhouette’d fight where you “accidentally” kill your loyal mortal Spartan dude who worships your ass. They make a pretty piss poor attempt at making Kratos appear apologetic about the whole thing too, they have a moment where the guy is all “you’re the last spartan blah blah blah” and Kratos get’s all “ZEUUUUUUUUUS!” … and then….he’s using his worshipers corpse as a dead-weight for the kraken puzzle/boss fight.
Blankcheck
Yay I made it to the end of the archive.
I just finished Mass Effect 3 and this is exactly how I feel.
Now I imagine Kratos posting about his “feels” on tumblr.
Just a random idea, but it’s a shame there wasn’t a strip with Kratos trying to get really angry in his Kawaii form. His face would probably snap. :P
Not sure if you been told, but this was posted on the God of War Facebook page (I think a fanpage though). Wasn’t sure if you were interested in knowing.
In more prudent news, I laughed really hard.
In less prudent news, Korean BBQ is fantastic.
CitizenKahne
April 3, 2013, 11:46 am | # | Reply
I don’t know about the Commander Shepard one. He seemed pretty emotionally drained in Mass Effect 3.
They’d be slaughtering whole ranches of cow to feed that BBQ.
Solarn
The only other such character I can think of is Asura from Asura’s Wrath and he’s more of a deconstruction of rage-fueled heroes while at the same time being a more positive portrayal.
Well, people tend to eat much when they’re in depression -voice of wisdom- so possibilities are endless… Let’s call the entire meat stock of the restaurant. Maybe two more.
Rogue of Space
I wanna know where they are that they get ACTUAL Korean barbecue. We don’t have any restaurants around South Georgia that have the real thing, sadly……..
I swear I thought they were eating people parts.
July 2, 2013, 11:36 pm | # | Reply
Every time I watch someone playing god of war I try and imitate Kratos’ permanent frown. So close to getting it
The Mike
September 3, 2013, 1:24 am | # | Reply
Hell, you’d get a kick out of Guts from Berserk.
Story of my life. I honestly can feel for Kratos on this one, especially with how things have been going for me in my own family life. Yulch. -_-;
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Centros savage English Heritage over Canal Corridor
Despite choosing not to attend the Inquiry itself and leaving defence of its plans for Lancaster's Canal Corridor to its partner, Lancaster City Council - at considerable cost to the local taxpayer - developers Centros say they will not withdraw their £140 million plans for the area.
Instead, apparently like some Lancaster City Council councillors and staff, they are blaming English Heritage for the Inquiry fiasco that saw the Council withdraw from proceedings earlier this week.
In a press statement, Centros has slammed English Heritage for its questionable behaviour.
"It's high time that the Government called English Heritage to heel," argues Richard Wise, Chief Executive of Centros, who, as we have previously reported, has long railed against the more democratic elements of the British planning process. "Their contribution to this development has been erractic at best and is likely to send shockwaves throughout the property sector as well as local authorities trying to achieve regeneration of their town and city centres.
"In Lancaster, English Heritage firstly failed to engage meaningfully with us in the masterplanning process which we began in 2005. Then, following significant changes that we made in response to their input on our subsequent planning application, they stated that they were happy for Lancaster City Council to decide the application.
"After the council's decision in favour of our development, English Heritage then reneged and campaigned with other members of the heritage lobby for a call in.
"Whilst many people were surprised that we chose not to appear at the inquiry, we did so because we felt strongly that we should not have to finance a process that was not of our making."
Centros told the Architects Journal the estimated one million pound cost of their appearance at the Inquiry would have put paid to some of the "community benefits" included in their plan - presumably things like a new location for the Musician's Co-op and improvements to the Dukes and the Grand.
"Developers and investors need a level of certainty in the planning process - especially when economic regeneration is at the top of the nation's agenda. This level of performance by English Heritage - when their full attention has only really been given to the project at the public inquiry stage - is woeful. With the Secretary of State giving in to their late intervention, neither developers nor local authorities can have confidence in the planning system."
"But the Secretary of State still has the opportunity of demonstrating his authority by making a decision that gives clear guidance to both the council and us as developer that regeneration of Lancaster city centre outweighs the retention of a handful of unremarkable and unlisted buildings.
"If the Government really wants to deliver economic regeneration, then it needs to stand firm in the face of interventions like this and others such as the recent royal one on Chelsea Barracks, so that developers and investors can have confidence in the planning process".
Effectively, Centros would seem to rather local people have no say in the development process, favouring the kind of "consultation practices" campaign group It's Our City has contested, that have stood them in good stead in their success at pushing through now-struggling developments elsewhere in the UK.
Responding to the Centros attack, the Lancaster Guardian reports an English Heritage spokeswoman welcomed Lancaster City Council's recognition that there are significant problems with these applications, and also its decision not to present further evidence to the inquiry.
"We believe that Centros should now withdraw the applications to avoid the need for the further investment of time and resources in the continuation of the inquiry.
"If the present applications are withdrawn or refused English Heritage will aim to work with Lancaster City Council and other interested parties in the development of proposals that can command widespread support."
Despite Centros' bluster, the Architects Journal reports the Canal Corridor project now looks set to be scrapped. Perhaps then the Council will re-examine alternative proposals designed to enhance the community with no impact on existing retail space in Lancaster and Morecambe, but given the Council's earlier statement, we won't hold our breath... We also aren't expecting any councillors who've been backing Centros, or staff, to resign over the mess anytime soon, either...
Labels: Canal Corridor, Centros, Development Issues, English Heritage, Lancaster City Council
Corrie Stars Back in Morecambe for Charity Footie
Soap fans will get the chance to see their favourite stars at Morecambe Football Club when a team drawn from Coronation Street and other TV shows will play in a charity football match.
On Sunday July 26 the Soap Stars will be playing against the Bay Radio All Stars with local companies Hargreaves Garages and VVV supporting the game.
Last year Royle Family star and football fanatic Ralf Little stole the show with his silky skills on the pitch and by signing autographs off it. He also met up with Morecambe FC's physio Dave Edge who has been known to appear as Ralf's TV dad 'Jim'.
The event has been organised by Heysham Power Stations with all proceeds going to the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Martyn Butlin, of Heysham power stations said: "British Energy has linked up with the MS Society for the year and the sites have already raised £26,000.
"We're delighted the Soap Stars team has again agreed to play in the game which I'm sure will be of interest to many people. Again we are grateful to Morecambe FC and The Bay for all their support in this game."
Martyn added: "It should be a great day out and a real chance to see some famous TV folk up close and in shorts! And the real winner will be the MS Society as every penny from the day will go them."
It's hoped that the money raised from the year-long link will help the local MS group set up its own base in the area for those affected by the neurological condition.
• The gates open at Christie Park at 12 noon, with the game kicking off at 1.00 pm. Admission at the turnstiles for the day is £5 for adults and £3 for children and £12 for a family.
Labels: Bay Radio, Bay Radio All Stars, British Energy, Charity, Charity Event, Hargreaves Garages, Heysham Power Station, Morcambe, Morecambe Football Club, Sport
Centros Inquiry a "Fiasco" say Greens
Green Party City Councillors say that Lancaster City Council has wasted tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money by withdrawing from the inquiry after two weeks (see news story).
"In April we put a motion to Full Council saying that because of Centros' decision not to attend the inquiry, then the City Council should not spend taxpayers money defending the developer," explained Councillor Chris Coates. "However, planning officers were adamant then that the Council should attend the inquiry and pay tens of thousands of pounds for a barrister and expensive retail and traffic consultants.
"Now, having spent the money, the Council is doing what it should have done in the first place. But by withdrawing at this late stage, and blaming Centros' non-appearance, the Council has made itself a laughing stock.
"In my view, the real reason that the Council withdrew was because its case on conservation issues was unravelling," he continued. "The Council has now resorted to playing games to try to keep Centros' development alive, by, for example, asking the Inquiry to agree the principle of the level of retail and car parking on the site, allowing Centros or another developer to tweak the original proposal and re-submit it."
Like other campaigners such as It's Our City, the Greens are not against developing the Canal Corridor site - but do not see a large commercial expansion like Centros proposed as the best use of the area.
"We think there needs to be a very different type of development," argues Chris, "one without the large increase in car parking spaces, that has less retail and which is worked in with the existing buildings - rather than simply bulldozing them."
It's Our City reported yesterday that the Council will not be making closing submissions and will not cross examine the other parties. English Heritage, SAVE, and It's Our City, however, remain anxious to present their evidence before the Inspector reports to the Secretary of State.
SAVE barrister, Andrew Deakin was “extremely keen” that heritage aspects of the Canal Corridor are properly presented. “Request with force” was the way he put his appeal to the Inspector that architects, Ptolemy Dean and Richard Griffiths, have the opportunity to speak at the Inquiry.
It is now hoped that a proposed September extension will be unnecessary and that the Inquiry can be concluded at the end of the planned three week period.
• Read the It's Our City blog of the Inquiry
Labels: Canal Corridor, Centros, Chris Coates, Conservation Issues, Development Issues, Green Party, It's Our City, Lancaster City Council, Planning
'Cycling Shorts' Film Competition 2009
Lancaster City Council and the Dukes are working in tandem to launch a short film competition to promote and celebrate cycling and film making in the Lancaster district.
The competition, entitled 'Cycling Shorts', asks all local budding film directors to make the most of the sunshine and enter the competition by producing a short film (three minutes maximum) highlighting the varied aspects of cycling - from bmx and mtb to commuting and family rides.
All films worthy of being featured on the big screen will be premiered at the Dukes Gallery in October.
Prizes will also be awarded to the winning films and runners up in each of the following three categories: under 16, over 16 and mobile phone (one minute only)
Documentaries, sports, action and animation are all welcome and should preferably depict cycling in the Lancaster district although those located in Lancashire and/or Cumbria will also be considered.
Films should be sent on a DVD or CD in the following formats - wma, mpeg, mpg, 3gp, avi, mov and mp4 to Celebrating Cycling, Morecambe Town Hall, Marine Road, Morecambe, LA4 5AF. Full contact details of the film maker should also be included.
Alternatively, films can be uploaded to youtube.com. Once you have uploaded your film simply go to www.youtube.com/group/cyclingshorts, choose ‘Join this Group’ and select ‘Add Videos’.
• For more information and conditions visit www.celebratingcycling.org/cyclingshorts or contact the council’s Cycling Demonstration Town Team by email to celebratingcycling@lancaster.gov.uk or call 01524 582392/582616.
• The closing date for submission of films is Friday, 18 September.
Labels: Competition, Competitions, Film, Lancaster City Council, The Dukes
North Rises with John Robb Event
Local performance and visual arts group Totally Wired have announced a special Spoken Word Event with author John Robb at The Book Room, Lancaster on Monday 6th July 2009.
John Robb's latest and critically acclaimed oral history of Manchester Music The North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City 1976-1996 was published in May, but his credits also include The Stone Roses and The Resurrection of British Pop and Punk Rock: An Oral History.
Born in Fleetwood, Lancashire but based in Manchester, John is many things to many people: TV pundit, journalist, Radio DJ, author, songwriter and current lead singer with Punk Rock band Goldblade, John has a vast wealth of knowledge regarding popular culture.
He was inspired by the DIY ethic of Punk to form the critically acclaimed Membranes, who released several albums in the 1980's. He then went on to write for the music paper Sounds and was the first person in the world to interview Nirvana as well as being the first to write about the new Madchester Scene of The Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays.
He's also currently Morrissey's favourite journalist, which takes some doing!
• Tickets for this event cost £3 and are available in advance from The Book Room, 9 Meeting House Lane, Lancaster. For More Info on this event go to www.totallywired.org.uk
Labels: Books, Events, Events Lancaster, Totally Wired
Canal Corridor Inquiry: City Council Statement
Lancaster City Council has released a full statement regarding its withdrawal from the public inquiry into plans by Centros to redevelop the Canal Corridor North site, saying it will not be taking any further part.
As we reported earlier today, this announcement comes just days into the proceedings, apparently following damning evidence on the heritage impact of the £150 million redevelopment scheme.
virtual-lancaster understands the Council's decided that it would no longer take an active role in the inquiry after its Senior Conservation Officer, Stephen Gardner's gave his evidence to the Inquiry earlier this week. Among other concerns, Gardner told the inquiry that he would not have assented to the demolition of the brewery if it had been in a conservation area; and that the link bridge needed to be a 'fixed' part of the application to be acceptable because of issues of design and the way it would relate to new and existing buildings.
After the completion of Gardner's evidence, the council's barrister Paul Tucker initiated adjournments that led to the Council's formal withdrawal. The barrister told the Inquiry that there were "issues with the application"; and that "details were problematical" and went on to say that it was "naive and mistaken of Centros to expect that LCC would defend its application."
We understand Centros was given an opportunity to address the inquiry but appears to have held to its declared intention not to do so, which has led to the Council's decision to withdraw from proceedings.
"At the time the applications were considered by the council’s Planning Committee they were considered on the information that was then available," the Council says in a press statement.
"However, while the city council is firmly committed to the redevelopment of the site, the rigorous testing of evidence at the public inquiry has identified a number of issues which need to be addressed.
"In light of the decision by Centros not to appear before the inquiry these questions remain unanswered.
"In addition, English Heritage has substantially revised its position and now opposes many elements of the scheme which it previously accepted."
"Lancaster City Council remains firmly committed to the redevelopment of the Canal Corridor North site," says Coun Stuart Langhorn, Leader of Lancaster City Council.
“The site itself is rundown and decaying with many derelict buildings. Without its regeneration we run the risk of falling behind other towns and cities in the north west.
“However, the public inquiry has raised a number of questions which need to be answered.
"It has always been the city council’s position that it would present evidence to the inquiry in relation to its own decision to grant the development planning permission – not to defend the applicant.
"As many of the questions which have arisen are only ones which the applicant could answer we have decided to withdraw from any further participation."
Council barrister, Paul Tucker, told the Lancaster Guardian: "My client considers itself badly let down by the stance taken by Centros.
"This has caused unncecessary expenditure to the council tax payers of Lancaster," he added.
The inquiry itself will continue and will next hear evidence from English Heritage. A decision on whether the SAVE and It's Our City witnesses should take to the stand could be made next week: Inspector John Gray has said he is happy to take written evidence.
Exactly what all this means for the proposed development still remains unclear at this stage but it seems the entire development has turned into another nightmare for the City Council.
Labels: Canal Corridor, Centros, Development Issues, Lancaster City Council
Council Backs Out of Centros Inquiry
Lancaster City Council has just announced its withdrawal from the Centros public inquiry.
The Lancaster Guardian reports this announcement comes just days into the proceedings, apparently following damning evidence on the heritage impact of the £150 million redevelopment scheme.
The Council was already under fire for committing some £5000 of local taxpayers money to presenting the case for the scheme, after developer Centros refused to appear at the Inquiry.
At this early stage it is believed that unless Centros withdraws the application, the inspector is still required to report to the Secretary of State.
• Read the full story on the Lancaster Guardian web site
Labels: Canal Corridor, Centros, Development Issues, Lancaster City Council, Lancaster Guardian
Chapel Island Walk In July
The Morecambe Bay Partnership has arranged a perfect early summer evening walk on Saturday 4th July over the sands of the Leven Estuary to Chapel Island on Saturday 4th July.
Apart from a small area at the north of the island the land is completely overgrown with an impenetrable mat of brambles and the island can only be accessed on foot at low tide. However, Morecambe Bay is notorious for quick sands, and the Ulverston Channel usually flows between the shore and the island so this guided walk is a rare opportunity to visit.
Everyone is welcome on the walk but under 16s must be accompanied by an adult and suitable clothing and footwear must be worn. Remember the coast can be breezy and cold - take an extra/windproof layer and your hat!
The very first part of the walk crosses sticky and slippery mud, but this soon eases to firm sand - it is just best to come prepared.
• Those wishing to visit Chapel Island should not attempt the crossing at any time other than low tide or as part of a guided walk and should seek local advice.
• Meet at 4.30pm at Canal Foot, Ulverston. GR SD315775 [LA12 9EL] in time for registration. (If you are unsure of the location to meet up, please check the map from the website www.morecambebay.org.uk/what_we_do/Leven_Estuary_walk_2009.html). The walk will finish by 7.30pm (if not before). Cost: £10 Donation requested in advance to Morecambe Bay Partnership, 32 Market Place, Kendal, LA9 4TN.
• Full details at www.morecambebay.org.uk/what_we_do/Leven_Estuary_walk_2009.html
• Contact: Morecambe Bay Partnership 01539 735900 or 0787 5845693 or office@morecambebay.org.uk
Labels: Arnside Events, Leven Estuary, Morecambe Bay Partnership, Walks
Wild Writer's Talk Announced
Cannibals and deserts, polar bears and passion, songlines and shamans – the author of a book on the essential wildness of the human spirit comes to Lancaster in July.
Jay Griffiths, author of Wild: An Elemental Journey , reads at the Storey Auditorium on Thursday 16th July in an event organised jointly by Litfest and the Centre for Study of Environmental Change at Lancaster University.
In Wild, which was shortlisted for the Orwell prize in the UK in 2008 and was awarded the 2007 Orion Book Award in the US, Jay describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. The book is by turns funny, touching and harrowing. It's also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands – wild mind – as Griffiths explores the words and meanings which shape our ideas and our experience of our own wildness.
Wild which was also shortlisted for World Book Day ‘Books to talk about in 2009’, is described as an evocation of the songlines of the earth, the result of long journeys among Native people; meeting cannibals; anchoring a boat to an iceberg where polar bears slept; drinking shamanic medicine with Amazonian healers; visiting sea gypsies and journeying to meet freedom fighters in West Papua.
• Tickets for the event, which starts at 7.30pm, cost £3 (no concessions). Ticket-buyers can get £3 off a copy of Wild – normally £8.99 - on the night of the event. For more information visit www.litfest.org
Labels: Centre for Study of Environmental Change, Events, Events Lancaster, Lancaster University, LitFest, Writers
Women on Wheels Tours Continue
Lancaster City Council continues its programme of guided Sunday cycle rides for women this weekend (Sunday 5th July) with a seven mile ride to Morecambe Bay.
Guided 'women only' rides have been taking place on the first Sunday of each month since March to encourage women who might not have the confidence they need to cycle on their own, to get out and about with other like-minded ladies.
Following routes included in the council's Cycling for All Guide, these interesting and relaxing rides suitable for all levels of ability have already taken groups of women to the Sunderland Point, Crook O’Lune, Glasson Dock and Carnforth Railway Station.
This ride promises to be breathtaking and exciting, taking in the breezy shores and fantastic views of Morecambe Bay.
The guided ride is free and kicks off at 11am from the south end side of Lancaster’s Millennium Bridge. There’s no need to book - just turn up.
• For more information on these rides and other events taking place this year, pick up a copy of the council's free 'Go by Bike' Events and Rides 2009 brochure from customer service centres at Lancaster and Morecambe Town Halls or visit www.celebratingcycling.org. Alternatively, you can contact the council’s cycling team on 01524 582392/582616.
Labels: Carnforth, Carnforth Railway Station, Crook O'Lune, Cycling, Cycling Campaigning, Events, Glasson Dock, Lancaster City Council, Sunderland Point
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The Top 5 Shows Toonami Failed
Posted 17 February 2008 / By Andrew "Sketch" Hingson / Opinion
Before the fanboys start harking about Kenshin, Megas, IGPX and Fantastic Four, I’m going to say I give them honorable mentions but, truthfully, Toonami gave them a fair shot and they just didn’t click. This is a list of shows which had a moment of promise before Toonami (or more so Cartoon Network itself) gave up on them. It is pretty sad that their own series (IGPX) had to leave the block, but to their credit the show still aired at a semi-watch able time.
#5 – Zatch Bell
Zatch Bell seemed to be doing great for at least two years and then it suddenly vanished. I can understand that there weren’t any more episodes to air at the time, but considering CN barely reran any of season two it would have been nice to at least see reruns of that. I guess they decided Jetstream was enough. However, now that at least another “season” is available, Toonami should be playing Zatch Bell right now – but the network completely let it die. Any steam it once had is long gone. It could have been another strong pillar for Toonami to rely on, but for whatever reason they gave up on it. What bothers me the most about Zatch Bell‘s situation was that its departure felt very sudden. Even though other shows have been abruptly removed, some of them do make a return. Zatch Bell, however, has been relegated to the Jetstream and will probably never air again.
#4 – The Batman
Everything seemed fine in season one but it never got a stable slot on Toonami after that point. While I personally did not care for the show at first, it has managed to grow on me over the years since 2005 and now that it has improved dramatically I feel like Toonami really dropped the ball with The Batman. What more is there to say than that it has been tossed to Boomerang, of all places? Toonami needs some super heroes and The Batman is willing and able to fill that void. It even has a movie to promote this summer, yet they still won’t air it. That is quite a poor choice.
#3 – Gundam SEED
I am a bit reluctant to include SEED because I honestly cannot blame them for taking it off the block when it was doing so poorly. However, there was a light at the end of the tunnel and the rather lackluster beginning gave way to a great finale. Toonami should have hosted that finale, if for no other reason than to make up for months of boredom and/or agony. This pick is not entirely because of Gundam SEED‘s fall from grace (if it ever had any), but also because Gundam SEED‘s failure brought the inevitable death of Gundam in America. Sure, the DVDs are still being released, but it feels like Gundam has been blacklisted ever since SEED took down the whole franchise. Perhaps if Toonami had kept airing it to the end, Gundam would have lived on. I guess we will never know for sure.
#2 – The Prince of Tennis and Marchen Awakens Romance
That’s right, it’s a two-for-one deal. I know I’m cheating, but if you know the history of these shows’ lack of success then you’ll understand why I grouped them together. Both premiered the same day, and they basically left together – though technically Prince of Tennis was the first one off the block (and also the first one to leave Jetstream). The story of these two series is a tragic one. They, along with Hikaru no Go, were the poster boys for the Toonami Jetstream online service. Jetstream was the first place these series were shown in the US, and they seemed to do all right. MAR was even the third highest viewed show on Jetstream in 2007 according to Viz Media, and it was only behind the ratings juggernauts Naruto and Pokemon. Jetstream certainly has given these shows a good place to be established, but when they ventured onto television things somehow went horribly wrong.
Things started with the poor decision to skip several episodes of each – only to restart them and run them normally. That undoubtedly killed any casual interest in these series, and it was the first step towards the apparent break-down of both series. After only airing on Saturday Toonami for a short while, they vanished from the schedule like so many other shows – and while Viz put up a good front for both, it was obvious that they were sinking quickly. As of the moment neither series have had episodes dubbed beyond their first seasons and MAR‘s DVDs have sold so poorly that Viz has pulled their remaining releases for it. The Prince of Tennis has managed to churn out four box sets covering every episode seen on Jetstream, but there is no sign of the 100+ episode series getting a continuation in the US. Toonami was not the only reason both of these series are circling the drain as we speak, but the way Toonami went about airing them in 2007 was a recipe for failure and I hope Williams Street learned their lesson.
#1 – Yu Yu Hakusho
What happened to Yu Yu Hakusho? I wish I knew. It was a ratings winner for around two years and it managed to get ratings as good as the Dragonball franchise on occasion. The initial move from Adult Swim to Toonami worked well, and everything seemed great for those two years. I don’t think anyone saw its removal coming, but in March of 2005, Yu Yu Hakusho disappeared. Much like Zatch Bell years later, a series that seemed to be doing so well somehow ended up having a massive fall-out. Could the ratings really have hit the ground that badly? Did they decide the series just didn’t look crisp enough to fit into their 2005 “new and fresh” line-up? How did such a great show that was doing so well suddenly drop off?
Some people say the ratings dropped with the move to once-a-week airings, but I don’t believe that was the case. What makes YYH‘s loss sting even more is that this previous ratings winner was so forgotten by the network that it may have taken a letter from a fan for them to realize they still had it. [ed- referring to William Maune (Meteo) from Animation Insider, who apparently prodded Toonami into reairing the series with a single letter.] Some might say Zatch Bell got the worse deal because YYH did eventually finish on the network, but Zatch will probably get to finish on Jetstream (which can be watched any time of the day, rather than at 5:30AM on a Saturday morning). Therefore I have to give the crown to Yu Yu Hakusho.
That is all for the shows I feel Toonami gave up on too soon. Next time I’ll steer this in a more positive direction, with a list of shows which Toonami saved from extinction.
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Letter from America : Four Days in Washington DC
February 15, 2011 James Robinson Feature, Travel, World 0
A Long Walk Down Memory Lane…
Words and pictures by James Robinson
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The first thing I saw when I got into the airport in Washington DC was CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, running, I assume for a waiting plane. He had a jersey tied around his neck, he was donned in boat shoes, looking like he was going sailing for the weekend, except for the fact that his face seemed grey, and gaunt, and lifeless, (or even more so than it usually does) and in the brief seconds that I had my eyes on him, ‘leisurely’ seemed to be the last possible word that could come to mind.
“Brilliant,” I thought to myself. “Wolf Blitzer, huh? 30 seconds in town, and I see a real mover-and-shaker in the flesh.”
In retrospect, it is fitting that the one living cog of the Washington machine I witnessed, I saw while running full speed to get on a plane out-of-town. For the new in town, set aside any West Wing inspired aspirations for spying in on Washington DC power broking. Anywhere where something current could be actually happening, is somewhere else to any place you are, or may find yourself: closed off to the public, usually by lock, key and security guard.
DC, as it stands to the casual tourist, is a memorial to the greatest hits of the USA, pre-1970: a mesh of museums, monuments, memorials and over-priced gift shops.
From this, I observe two things, worthy of emphasised notation.
(i) Washington’s nature as a monument to America itself makes it the ultimate emotional Rorschach test for one’s true feelings about the American democratic system. I was debating with myself soon after arriving as to whether DC was either a) America’s heart, or b) America’s brain, when it dawned on me that I was looking at this the wrong way. It is America’s face. I was last in the city in December 2004. Bush II had defeated Kerry, and I remember Washington leading me to dwell on the fact that I was not particularly pleased by this. But, I was still overawed by the city itself, much like as a younger man I was still overawed by America as a whole. Now, as a more seasoned, on-and-off ex-patriot living in the United States, I felt respectful of the history and grandeur of its central city, but generally suspicious and cynical of the values it was seeking to purport. Simply put, the range of sights in Washington DC (the White House, Capitol, etcetera) make it impossible not to contemplate America itself.
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ii) Although there are more than several things in Washington DC, very much worth seeing at least once (no joking here, I promise, there’s some great stuff), there was a certain point where the huge expanse of large concrete odes to events that happened 40, or more, years ago becomes horribly, chokingly, oppressive. I was looking up at the phallic wonder of the Washington Monument, content with the regal spectacle of the Lincoln Memorial and a trip to Arlington fresh in my memory, when for all measure I snapped. It felt like my mind was swimming in circles and I was walking with weights tied on to my legs, and my spirits sank, miserable that I had two days left in the city. History is important, but in the here and now, it is lifeless. I had overdosed, and the town seemed dead. You spend too much time looking backwards, and it jumps out of you that there is nothing at all “of the moment” about the city.
Lincoln memorial, the White House, Korean War
For all that can be said about the confusing identity crisis evoked by Washington’s ceaselessly inward focus, there’s a lot of cool stuff to see. The huge plus in DC’s favor is that it really does take in and pay graceful homage to a few centuries of history. On the surface level, and at a starting point, you have – the wars: Civil, Korean, World I and II, Iraq and Afghanistan, presidents: Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Kennedy, there are the three branches of government, and the full range of Smithsonian museums. It is all in walking distance of each other. You can sight see. Lazily. And this is just the beginning.
Capitol, Supreme Court
The Capitol tour is a waste of time: they provide no interaction with the current House, or Senate, shepherding tourists through a 13-minute welcome movie (Democracy: The Instruction Manual), and past a staggering array of preserved rooms, (unused for many, many decades) statues, and awnings, and in to the gift shop. Conversely, watching the sitting Supreme Court is magnificent (no cameras though) – the intellectual equivalent of watching a bunch of cruel, sarcastic cats toy with a helpless mouse. Are you a Scalia fan? More of a Thomas follower? Kagan? See them shuffle in their seats, argue, fight sleep, and torture lawyers. This is as close as the legal profession gets to live rock and roll.
There is a security blockade lurking about every corner, there are security guards swarming every building of value. You won’t see these guys in any tourist brochures, but they must pay someone to crop them out. Everywhere you go, someone is getting mad at you for taking a photo. Bored looking guards – private security, police, diplomatic protection, take your pick – stand at the ready, chatting constantly, and not appearing totally alert. Overhearing their conversations was nearly Seinfeld-ian, if they didn’t stand as symbols of the post 9/11 burden/Washington’s desire to consume itself with paranoia (an either/or for you, depending on political persuasion).
Slums!
Four blocks from the Capitol, the city descends into an expanse of urban decay. Urban renewal has led to newer developments pushing outwards from the city centre, and leading to the occasionally odd juxtaposition (a shopping mall in construction across the road from a dilapidated corner liquor store). But DC is very much a testament to the best and the worst sides of inequality in close quarters.
Ben’s Chilli Bowl
Ben’s Chilli Bowl has it signposted that two people eat free, Bill Cosby and Barack Obama. A very much old-school diner and popular DC stop-through, Ben’s Chilli Bowl has become a go-to for foreign leaders and current president’s looking to convey some “man of the people” grit (Presidents Sarkozy, and Obama have visited). The food is good, the staff colorful, the price fair. The place has a great feel to it.
I have a question: why does Washington have such a regrettably average basketball franchise? The city’s sports history is a virtual non-event. Boston/Chicago/Los Angeles/New York/the Florida/Texas teams, all have solid sports histories, worthy of their social/economic/political/historical importance. But DC? Nope. The stadium is six blocks from the White House. The town is filled with educated, well-paid public servants, all with evenings and weekends to kill, and much disposable income. There is a large disconnect here. A horrid, inadequate team, playing to a third-full arena seems out of place for a city of any vibrancy. The city ruined Michael Jordan. Its last basketball star, Gilbert Arenas, was suspended indefinitely for drawing a gun in the locker room. Enough said.
Flag at half-mast
Through all the central city’s constant lifelessness (I did eventually find the missing piece: Washington DC’s modern expression of itself is crammed into Georgetown and Dupont Circle, where well-paid public servants spend their free time within a cluster of nice restaurants, boutique stores and exaggerated rents), there was one constant reminder of tragic current events, and of the incessant Washington-centric cable news spin-cycle that is constantly in action (the less said about that, the better, no?). Flags flew constantly at half-mast, right across town, a sad reminder of the Tucson shooting that severely wounded Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords and killed six others.
So. Washington, DC, a win?
My best summation: for an average tourist, the city of Washington DC is like a really, really good museum. But most of it is the same, long-standing exhibit, with little turnover in material. I’ll only visit the same museum every time it updates its main show. Washington is a “come once” town. Its predominant culture is remembrance, and after a while, it plays with your head.
Of course, a lot happens in Washington. The city means a lot. But this represents itself in suburbs like Georgetown, or Dupont Circle, culturally offering little more significance than Ponsonby.
What happens of worth, and excitement, and buzz in the town, when you walk the streets is obviously happening in the many important, handsome buildings, with security clearance needed to get past the many, many security guards.
I’m sure this is the exciting Washington, DC. The West Wing DC. The one that makes it a rewarding city in which to live if you have the right job. But it is not representative of the tourist experience.
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REVIEW: Old Sarum Airshow
Old Sarum Airshow – Image © Paul Johnson/Flightline UK
It is always good to see a new airshow appear on the calendar, particularly at a beautiful venue such as Old Sarum. Taking advantage of a gap left by the failure of the Southend Airshow revival, the event brought together many top class civilian display acts for what promised to be a fun weekend of flying in great surroundings.
Paul Johnson/Flightline UK reports from the first day of this new event. All photography by the author.
While the Old Sarum Airshow is a completely new event, this was not the first time the beautiful grass airfield had hosted air displays with “Support Our Paras” hosting two events there in recent years.
Organised by Slipstream Events, a long time supporting organisation of UK airshows, the Old Sarum event brought together many of the most popular civilian display acts for relaxed and fun afternoon flying display over two days. Perhaps the biggest draw of the weekend was to have been the Vulcan which was also supporting the Goodwood Revival. It had been planned for the Vulcan to appear together with B-17G Flying Fortress on the Saturday of the event but sadly a last minute technical snag with the Vulcan’s fuel system meant the aircraft had to make a return to its home at Doncaster before it was able to appear leaving everyone disappointed.
The promise of the Vulcan had drawn a very full crowd on Saturday with Sunday being less well attended. Sadly for the organisers, they were badly let down by a catering contractor meaning there were very few outlets for food and drink throughout the day. The airfield’s café, the two ice cream vans and the two outlets that did attend were swamped throughout the day on Saturday. Full credit to them though for coping and proving that the absent contractor missed out on a good day of business!
In many way this felt like an “airshow unplugged” being really stripped back to the barebones. There were precious few traders or other distractions apart from the Boscombe Down Aircraft Collection which is now located at the airfield. The morning saw many of the display aircraft arrive and even a somewhat distant appearance by the Red Arrows as they ran in for a flypast over an event at nearby Middle Wallop.
Opening the flying were a pair of Supermarine Spitfire XVI and IX from the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar and flown by Dan Griffith and Richard Grace. Dan opened the sequence with a smooth flowing solo routine before being joined by Richard for an exciting tailchase sequence over the rolling hills of Wiltshire. Richard completed the Spitfire display with a short solo in the Mk.IX.
The only modern military flying display of the weekend was the Grob Tutor T1 flown by Flt Lt Andy Preece. Sadly, next year there will be no Tutor display which is a great shame for venues such as Old Sarum where the RAF’s elementary trainer is just a about the only aircraft that can operate from the grass strip. The Royal Navy were also involved with the Historic Flight’s Fairey Swordfish I making the short hop over from RNAS Yeovilton. It really is great to see a ‘Stringbag’ back in the skies and we hope next year that the RNHF are seen much more widely.
Old Sarum brought together a very diverse range of civilian aerobatic acts. Bob Grimstead has made a very welcome comeback to the display circuit with his Fournier RF4D. Bob has spent the last few months lovingly recovering and refurbishing his beloved RF4D and it looks as good as new. With little power available, Bob’s display is all about energy management and is a wonderful aerial ballet of flowing aerobatics highlighted by delicate wingtip smoke trails.
Further up the performance scale is the Pitts S-1S Special flown by Lauren Richardson. The small single seat Pitts is another classic shape at UK airshows and Lauren put a very fine display of precise aerobatics, making great use of Old Sarum’s unique topography for her final passes.
Peter Davies and his Calidus Autogyro are one of the true stars of the airshow circuit. Despite the Calidus’ small size, Peter always puts on a superb display at venues large or small showing off the incredible agility and flying characteristics of the unusual aircraft in dramatic style.
Adding “big team” elements to the afternoon were Team Raven and The Turbulent Team. Team Raven fly a Vans RV4 and four of the slightly bigger Vans RV8 homebuilt aircraft which are fast, yet quite cheap and easy to operate. The team are actually formed by former members of a Yak-52 based team called Team Osprey and the classic jet based Team Viper. They have travelled far and wide in their first two years on the circuit performing an many UK and European airshows large and small. At a small venue like Old Sarum they quite literally filled the sky with their gentle mix of formation and synchronised aerobatics. The Turbulent Team may be a much more familiar team, but their display was one of the high points of the afternoon entertaining the crowd with a great mix of flour bombing, limbo flying and balloon bursting that suited the small venue incredibly well.
The Great War Display Team added yet more spectacle to the event with their recreation of the swirling dogfights of the Second World War with their faithful replica aircraft. Supporting their display were some ground based pyrotechnics which caught many people off guard on the Saturday! However, together it made for enthralling display.
A nod to Old Sarum’s own history came in the form of the Taylorcraft Auster AOP6. Old Sarum was a wartime base for the Army Cooperation Austers. Flying the Auster was Kevin Hale who gave his first ever public display on the Saturday of the event and he did very well indeed showing off the slow flying capabilities of the aerial observation post aircraft.
The North American Harvard was another type to operate from Old Sarum during the Second World War and a US Navy marked example was a late addition to the flying. The America theme continued through to the end of the flying too. Current Red Bull Air Race World Championship Nigel Lamb gave a storming display in North American P-51D Mustang Ferocious Frankie. With the Vulcan cancellation, Nigel flew fast around the back of the display site on completion of his display to form up with Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Sally-B for a formation flypast before the bomber’s own solo display. It was a fitting end to a great opening day at Old Sarum. Sunday’s show continued in similar vein, but enjoyed additional displays from a Bucker Bestmann from Axis Air Displays and Peter Teichman in his Curtiss P-40M Kittyhawk.
We hope the Old Sarum Airshow returns next year to become a permanent feature of the display calendar. Despite the teething issues the event experienced this year, it is a beautiful venue for a flying display and certainly an event with great potential.
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Augsburg Confession
Title: Augsburg Confession
Subject: Philip Melanchthon, Sacramental union, Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein, Vespers in Lutheranism, All Saints' Church, Wittenberg
Luther's rose
Book of Concord
Apology of the
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The Augsburg Confession, also known as the "Augustana" from its Latin name, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church and one of the most important documents of the Lutheran Reformation. The Augsburg Confession was written in both German and Latin and was presented by a number of German rulers and free-cities at the Diet of Augsburg on 25 June 1530. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V had called on the Princes and Free Territories in Germany to explain their religious convictions in an attempt to restore religious and political unity in the Holy Roman Empire and rally support against the Turkish invasion. It is the fourth document contained in the Lutheran Book of Concord.
2.1 The 28 articles
2.1.1 The chief articles of faith (theses)
2.1.2 Abuses corrected
2.2 Conclusion
3 Influence of the Augsburg Confession
A stained glass window, Confessio Augustana
On 21 January 1530, Holy Roman Emperor at the diet.
This summary has received the name of the "Torgau Articles". On 3 April, the elector and reformers started from Christian Beyer, the conciliatory Christopher von Stadion, bishop of Augsburg, and the imperial secretary Alfonso de Valdes.
Diet of Augsburg by Christian Beyer.
On 23 June, the final form of the text was adopted in the presence of the Elector John of Saxony, the Landgrave Ernest of Lüneburg, the Landgrave Philip of Hesse, the Prince Wolfgang of Anhalt, the representatives of Nuremberg and Reutlingen, and probably also the electoral prince John Frederick and Duke Francis of Lüneburg.
During the diet, the cities of Weißenburg in Bayern, Heilbronn, Kempten, and Windesheim also expressed their concurrence with the confession. The emperor had ordered the confession to be presented to him at the next session, 24 June; but when the Protestant princes asked that it be read in public, their petition was refused, and efforts were made to prevent the public reading of the document altogether. The Protestant princes, however, declared that they would not part with the confession until its reading should be allowed. The 25th was then fixed for the day of its presentation. In order to exclude the people, the little chapel of the episcopal palace was appointed in place of the spacious city hall, where the meetings of the diet were held. The two Saxon chancellors Christian Beyer and Gregor Bruck, the former with the plain German copy, the other in traditional Latin language, against the wish of the emperor stepped into the middle of the assembly. The reading of the German version of the text by Christian Beyer lasted two hours and was so distinct that every word could be heard outside. The reading being over, the copies were handed to the emperor. The German he gave to the imperial chancellor, the Elector of Mainz, the Latin he took away. Neither of the copies is now extant.
The first official publication (Editio princeps) was edited by Philipp Melanchthon, a professor at the University of Wittenberg and a close colleague and friend of Martin Luther.
The 28 articles
The Augsburg Confession consists of 28 articles presented by Lutheran princes and representatives of "free cities" at the Diet of Augsburg that set forward what the Lutherans believed, taught and confessed in positive (theses) and negative (antitheses) statements. The theses are 21 Chief Articles of Faith describing the normative principles of Christian faith held by the Lutherans; the antitheses are seven statements describing what they viewed as abuses of the Christian faith present in the Roman church.
The chief articles of faith (theses)
I God Lutherans believe in the Triune God and reject other interpretations regarding the nature of God.
II Original Sin Lutherans believe that the nature of man is sinful, described as being without fear of God, without trust of God and with concupiscence. Sin is redeemed through Baptism and the Holy Spirit.
III The Son of God Lutherans believe in the incarnation, that is, the union of the fully human with the fully divine in the person of Jesus. Jesus Christ alone brings about the reconciliation of humanity with God.
IV Justification By Faith Man cannot be justified before God through our own abilities; we are wholly reliant on Jesus Christ for reconciliation with God. (This is often described as the one article by which the "Lutheran church stands or falls".)
V The Office of Preaching Lutherans believe that to ensure that the gospel of Jesus Christ is proclaimed throughout the world, Christ has established His office of the holy ministry.
VI Of The New Obedience Lutherans believe that good deeds of Christians are the fruits of faith and salvation, not a price paid for them.
VII Of The Church Lutherans believe that there is one holy Christian church, and it is found wherever the gospel is preached in its truth and purity and the sacraments are administered according to the gospel.
VIII What The Church Is Despite what hypocrisy may exist in the church (and among men), the Word and the Sacraments are always valid because they are instituted by Christ, no matter what the sins may be of the one who administers them.
IX Of Baptism Lutherans believe that Baptism is necessary, and that through Baptism is offered the grace of God. Children are baptized as an offering to them of God's grace.
X Of the Lord's Supper Lutherans believe that Christ's body and blood is truly present in, with, and under the bread and wine of the sacrament and reject those that teach otherwise.
XI Of Confession Lutherans believe that private absolution should remain in the church, though a believer does not need to enumerate all of his sins as it is impossible for a man to enumerate all of the sins for which he should be forgiven.
XII Of Repentance Repentance comes in two parts: in contrition for sins committed according to the Law and through faith offered through the Gospel. A believer can never be free from sin, nor live outside of the grace of God.
XIII Of the Use of the Sacraments The Sacraments (Baptism and the Eucharist) are physical manifestations of God's Word and His commitment to us. The Sacraments are never just physical elements, but have God's word and promises bound to them.
XIV Of Ecclesiastical Order Lutherans allow only those who are "rightly called" to administer the Sacraments.
XV Of Ecclesiastical Usages Lutherans believe that church holidays, calendars and festivals are useful for religious observance, but that observance and ritual is not necessary for salvation. Human traditions (such as observances, fasts, distinctions in eating meats) that are taught as a way to "merit" grace work in opposition to the Gospel.
XVI Of Civil Affairs Secular governments and vocations are considered to be part of God's natural orders; Christians are free to serve in government and the military and to engage in the business and vocations of the world. Laws are to be followed unless they are commandments to sin.
XVII Of Christ's Return to Judgment Lutherans believe that Christ will return to raise the dead and judge the world; the godly will be given everlasting joy, and the ungodly will be "tormented without end". This article rejects notions of a millennial kingdom before the resurrection of the dead.
XVIII Of Free Will Lutherans believe that we have free will in the realm of "civil righteousness" (or "things subject to reason"), but that we do not have free will in "spiritual righteousness". In other words, we are free to choose and act in every regard except for the choice of salvation. Faith is not the work of men, but of the Holy Spirit.
XIX Of the Cause of Sin Lutherans believe that sin is caused not by God but by "the will of the wicked", turning away from God.
XX Of Good Works The Lutheran notion of justification by faith does not somehow condemn good works; faith causes them to do good works as a sign of our justification (or salvation), not a requirement for salvation.
XXI Of the Worship of the Saints Lutherans keep the saints, not as saviors or intercessors to God, but rather as examples and inspirations to our own faith and life.
Abuses corrected
XXII Of Both Kinds In The Sacrament (Eucharist) It is proper to offer communicants the consecrated bread and wine, not just the bread.
XXIII Of the Marriage of Priests Lutherans permit their clergy to enter the institution of marriage, for the reasons that the early Church bishops were married, that God blesses marriage as an order of creation, and because marriage and procreation is the natural outlet for human sexual desire.
XXIV Of the Mass Lutherans retain the practice of the Mass, but only as a public gathering for the purposes of community worship and the receiving of the Eucharist. Lutherans reject the practice of using the Mass as a "work" for both salvation and worldly (monetary) gain.
XXV Of Confession Lutherans uphold the need for confession and absolution, but reject the notion that Confession should induce guilt or anxiety to the Christian. Absolution is offered for all sin, not just sins that can be recounted in a confession, as it is impossible for a man to know all of his transgressions.
XXVI Of the Distinction of Meats Human traditions that hold fasting and special observances with dietary restrictions as a means of gaining the favor of God are contrary to the gospel. While fasting and other practices are useful spiritual practices, they do not justify man nor offer salvation.
XXVII Of Monastic Vows Man cannot achieve purity in community or isolation from the rest of the world, and perfection cannot be attained by any vow taken or actions of man alone.
XXVIII Of Ecclesiastical Power The only power given to priests or bishops is the power offered through Scripture to preach, teach and administer the sacraments. The powers given to the clergy in issues of government or the military are granted and respected only through civil means; they are not civil rulers of governments and the military by divine right.
"That in doctrine and ceremonies nothing has been received on our part against Scripture or the Church Catholic." Signatures of several secular leaders in Saxony.
Illustration of the first 21 articles by Wenceslas Hollar
Influence of the Augsburg Confession
The Augsburg Confession became the primary confessional document for the Lutheran movement, even without the contribution of Martin Luther. Following the public reading of the Augsburg Confession in June 1530, the expected response by Charles V and the Vatican representatives at the Diet of Augsburg was not immediately forthcoming. Following debate between the court of Charles V and the Vatican representatives, the official response known as the Pontifical Confutation of the Augsburg Confession was produced to the Diet, though the document was so poorly prepared that the document was never published for widespread distribution, nor presented to the Lutherans at the Diet.
However, in September, Charles V declared the response to be sufficient and gave the Lutheran princes until 15 April 1531, to respond to the demands of the Confutation. In response, Phillipp Melancthon wrote a lengthy and sustained argument both supporting the Augsburg Confession and refuting the arguments made in the Confutation. This document became known as the Apology of the Augsburg Confession and was soon translated into German and was widely distributed and read throughout Germany.
The Lutheran princes at the diet concurrently agreed to a military alliance in the event of action by Charles V known as the Schmalkaldic League. By 1535, the League admitted any city or state to the alliance that gave official assent to the Augsburg Confession and the Apology. Significantly, the Confession was translated into English in 1536, and King Henry VIII was given opportunity to sign the confession and join the league, but theological and political disputes would prevent the English church from joining. The English translation of the Augsburg Confession and German Lutheran theologians would influence the composition of the first of the Anglican articles of faith started in the latter 1530s and culminating with the Thirty-Nine Articles in 1563. In Scandinavia the Danish-Norwegian king Christian III marched into Copenhagen on 6 August 1536 and six days later he carried out a coup that established the Reformation in Denmark and Norway. The three bishops who dwelt in Copenhagen were arrested and the rest were tracked down and likewise arrested. The official reason was their hesitation to elect Christian as king and other alleged criminal acts. The real reason was, however, that Christian wanted to kill two birds with one stone: carrying through a Lutheran Reformation and confiscating the bishops' properties, the profits from which was needed to cover the expenses of the recently ended civil war.
In 1540, Philipp Melanchthon produced a revised edition, the Variata, which was signed by John Calvin. Many Lutheran churches specify in their official documents that they subscribe to the "Unaltered Augsburg Confession", as opposed to the Variata.
The political tensions between the Schmalkaldic League and the forces of Charles V and the Vatican eventually led to the Schmalkaldic War in 1546–1547, which was won convincingly by Charles V. The war, however, did not resolve the religious and political situation. Eight years later, the Lutheran princes and Charles V agreed to the Peace of Augsburg, which granted Lutheranism legal status within the Holy Roman Empire.
Theological disputes within the expanding sphere of Lutheranism to other territories in the latter half of the 16th century led to the compilation of a definitive set of Lutheran Confessions in the Book of Concord in 1580. The Book of Concord includes the Augsburg Confession and the Apology of the Augsburg Confession as the foundational confessions of the Lutheran faith.
Confessio Augustana, Augsburg 1530
Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5 (actually his second symphony in order of composition) was composed to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession and thus bears the title The Reformation Symphony. The symphony, however, was not commissioned for the celebrations, because of either the composer's Jewish origins or the inappropriateness of a symphony for the celebrations. Instead, Eduard Grell's work for four men's voices a capella was commissioned.
Augsburg Confession Variata
Confessio Catholica
May, Gerhard. "Augsburg Confession." In The Encyclopedia of Christianity, edited by Erwin Fahlbusch and Geoffrey William Bromiley, 157–159. Vol. 1. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999. ISBN 0802824137
Reu, Johann Michael, The Augsburg Confession: A Collection of Sources with an Historical Introduction. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1983.
The full text of Augsburg Confession at Wikisource
The Augsburg Confession (1530) in Latin with a parallel English translation and with notes on the differences in the 1540 edition (Articles I — VII); from Philip Schaff's Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Augsburg Confession (1530), including articles XXII — XXVIII
The Roman Confutation (1530), in an English translation, compares each articles of the confession to Catholic beliefs.
Audio recording of the first part of the Augsburg Confession in Latin with text
A Chronicle of the Augsburg Confession by Charles Porterfield Krauth, Philadelphia: J. Fredrick Smith, 1878.
Augsburg Confession in The Lutheran Cyclopedia (1899) edited by Henry Eyster Jacobs
Augsburg Confession in the Concordia Cyclopedia (page 1)(page 2)
Augsburg Confession in the Christian Cyclopedia
An Orthodox Response – Summary of Orthodox Patriarch Jeremias II's letter of 15 May 1576, in which he compares each article of the confession to Orthodox Christian beliefs
The Roman Catholic Reception of the Augsburg Confession by Robert Kress (JSTOR)
The Lutheran Confessions — Documents of the Book of Concord
Apology of the Augsburg Confession
Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope
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Start of the
Posting of The Ninety-Five Theses
Heidelberg Disputation
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Reformers
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Johann Pfeffinger
Frederick the Wise
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Dissemination of the Augsburg Confession Variata
Diet of Regensburg
Schmalkaldic War
Augsburg Interim
Peace of Passau
Peace of Augsburg
Colloquy of Worms
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Controversy on the Descent into Hell
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Presentation of the Greek Augsburg Confession
Signing of the Formula of Concord
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Cyriacus Spangenberg
Joachim Westphal
Andreas Musculus
Victorinus Strigel
Johannes Agricola
Andreas Osiander
John the Magnanimous
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Nikolaus Selnecker
David Chytraeus
Mathias Haffenreffer
Leonhard Hutter
Aegidius Hunnius
J. A. Quenstedt
Georgius Calixtus
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Jesper Brochmand
Salomo Glassius
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J. C. Dannhauer
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Otto Pfleiderer
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Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
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Laestadianism
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N. F. S. Grundtvig
Friedrich Tholuck
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Repristination
E. W. Hengstenberg
F. A. Philippi
F. G. Hedberg
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C. P. Krauth
L .A. Gotwald
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"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"
On War against the Turk
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Luther Bible
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The Adoration of the Sacrament
The Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ—Against the Fanatics
The Ninety-Five Theses
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Confession Concerning Christ's Supper
On Secular Authority
Formula missae
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Vom Schem Hamphoras
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Diet of Worms
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Theology of Martin Luther
Albert of Mainz
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Georg Rörer
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History of Augsburg
Lutheranism, Ten Commandments, Protestant Reformation, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lutheranism, Martin Luther, Creed, Bible, Formula of Concord
Lutheranism, Martin Luther, Wittenberg, Protestant Reformation, Philosophy
Philip Melanchthon
Lutheranism, Martin Luther, Eucharist, Christianity, Book of Concord
Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein
Lutheranism, Martin Luther, Copenhagen, Iceland, Book of Concord
Vespers in Lutheranism
Lutheranism, Martin Luther, Ten Commandments, History of Lutheranism, Lutheran Orthodoxy
All Saints' Church, Wittenberg
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My name is Christine Tonks and I have been a Parent Governor since September 2019. Worth village is a central point in our life, my partner’s family farm began over 100 years ago in the village and still remains a successful farm today. My daughter joined the reception class this year and her father’s side of the family have been attending the school since opening. My son attends Busy Bees nursery in Worth and we hope he will also join the school in 2021.
Before having children, I worked as a Regional Manager for a large retail chain. Since maternity leave, I decided to have a change of pace in my career and now spend my time sitting on the board for three local charities, managing The Red Box Project, the Co-Chair of Worth Primary PTA and working with Co-op to support their national plans to improve their community engagement and charity support, with a scheme called Co-operate 2022.
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• We work alongside the Senior Leadership team to set the strategic direction of the school in order to continue to raise standards for all children
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• We monitor and evaluate school performance in relation to agreed priorities and targets, and support school improvement through setting, monitoring and reviewing these targeted areas.
• We act to support the staff and headteacher through our role as ‘critical friend’ by asking challenging questions to continue improving standards.
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How can you get involved?
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What’s actually involved?
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Being a Governor is very rewarding, so go on… get involved!
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For immediate release MEMPHIS, TN (August 25, 2017) – Frank D. Robinson Jr. is the recipient of the fifth annual Emmett O’Ryan Award for Artistic Inspiration, given by Memphis-based Metropolitan Bank to a local artist whose original work indicates continued artistic significance. Robinson, was nominated for the award by Memphis Brook Museum of Art. The award comes with a $2,000 cash award and the nominating organization receives $500. The Emmett... Read More
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Apollo 11 brooch worn by Neil Armstrong’s wife surfaces, on the block
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A commemorative silver brooch that belonged into the spouse of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong is on the market.
Produced by jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels, the 18-carat silver brooch is certainly one of three that have been presented to Armstrong along with his other Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins after their historic objective. a 4th brooch had been presented to Rose Kennedy, mother for the belated President John F. Kennedy.
Donned by Armstrong’s spouse Janet, the brooch is shaped to resemble the lunar area, filled with a textured design that mimics the Moon’s craters and rocky surface. brand brand New Orleans gallery M.S. Rau Antiques is offering the brooch, which can be associated with a page of provenance through the Armstrong Family Collection, for $168,500.
The brooch commemorates the famous Apollo 11 objective. (M.S. Rau Antiques)
“At the guts, it is meant to reproduce the ocean of Tranquility, where in fact the Eagle landed,” Lyndon Lasiter, product product sales consultant for M.S. Rau Antiques, told Fox News. “There’s a white diamond to represent where in fact the Eagle landed and around it, you will find five rubies to represent where Armstrong walked.”
The reverse part associated with the brooch is inscribed “Neil Armstrong Sunday, July 20, 1969,” commemorating your day once the astronaut took their famous very first actions in the Moon.
Janet Armstrong wore the brooch throughout the “Giant Leap” international goodwill tour undertaken by the Apollo 11 astronauts and their spouses from Sept. 29 to Nov. 5, 1969. An image taken throughout the tour shows her using the brooch during when conference Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Andrew at Buckingham Palace in 1969 october.
Just 12 men, all People in the us, have actually walked from the Moon.
File picture – Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Andrew talk to Neil Armstrong, their spouse Janet and Pat Collins, kept, wife of Colonel Michael Collins, at Buckingham Palace. Janet Armstrong is using the lunar brooch on the lapel. (picture by PA photos via Getty pictures)
July 20, 2019, marks the anniversary that is 50th of historic Apollo 11 Moon landing and lunar missions continue being a way to obtain fascination.
File picture – The Apollo 11 astronauts and their wives leaving the Pres >(picture by PA pictures via Getty pictures)
A checklist that traveled towards the area associated with Moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin recently offered at auction in ny for $62,500. Within the auction that is same three small Moon stones cut back from area because of the unmanned Soviet Luna-16 mission were offered for $855,000.
The brooch is shaped to resemble the lunar area. (M.S. Rau Antiques)
Dec. 21, 2018 also marked the anniversary that is 50th of momentous Apollo 8 launch. During a series of historic lunar orbits, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the initial people to look at far part for the Moon.
The Associated Press contributed for this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers
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NEW YORK, Jan. 5, 2012 – Brinson Patrick Securities Corporation, a boutique investment bank that focuses specifically on at-the-market (ATM) offerings, today announced the establishment of an equity research department, pending regulatory approval, with the hiring of Michael Higgins as a life sciences analyst. Higgins has joined Brinson Patrick from Rodman & Renshaw, LLC, where he was a managing director and senior specialty pharmaceuticals analyst.
In addition, the firm announced the expansion of its trading desk with the addition of Timothy Studley, who has joined Brinson Patrick from Barclays Capital. Both additions reflect the firm’s recent and projected significant growth through the provision of its DOCS® (Dynamic Offering of Common Stock) ATM financing facility to REITs and companies in the life sciences industry.
“The establishment of our equity research department is an important component of our growth strategy,” said Todd Wyche, founder and managing director of Brinson Patrick. “Michael’s expertise will be critical in delivering research that is valued by the life sciences industry. Timothy’s experience is an important addition to our trading desk and continues our commitment to provide the best execution for our clients.”
Higgins has significant experience working with and covering life sciences companies. He spent ten years in the marketing department of Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals. Following Procter & Gamble, Higgins moved to equity research where he has been a research analyst for eight years. Besides Rodman & Renshaw, LLC, he has worked as an analyst with Dafna Capital Management, Wedbush Morgan Securities and an independent research firm he founded, 4sight Research Partners, LLP. Higgins has earned a four-star rating from StarMine for stock recommendation performance. He is most recognized for his coverage of “drug launch” companies as well as drug delivery technologies and patents.
Studley, previously worked as a sales trader in the electronic trading group at Barclays Capital where he advised institutional buy-side firms on algorithmic trading strategies and optimal electronic trade execution. Prior to Barclays Capital, Studley worked for Lehman Brothers, where he focused on establishing trading connectivity for hedge funds, mutual funds, and pension funds.
In conjunction with these growth initiatives, Brinson Patrick promoted its head trader, Nino Jimenez, CFA, to managing director. Mr. Jimenez has over twenty-five years of industry experience, the last ten with Brinson Patrick. He created the firm’s electronic trading infrastructure, including algorithmic trading programs, resulting in greater efficiency and trading capacity for the firm and better executions for clients.
“The growth in experience at Brinson Patrick further exemplifies our plan of continuing success in 2012,” added Wyche. “We look forward to leveraging our increased expertise to helping clients develop successful financing strategies. Our DOCs ATM financing vehicle enables our clients to better control when capital is raised and to have a lower cost of capital compared to traditional financing vehicles.”
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Offshore króna holders with interesting friends
Holders of Icelandic offshore króna holders seem to have gained some intriguing friends. A so-called think tank, Institute for Liberty with the slogan “Defending America’s Right To Be Free” has suddenly found the urge to set up a project called “Iceland Watch” with its own website, specifically to follow, it seems, how Icelandic authorities deal with offshore króna holders (inter alia linking to some of my blogs).
The focus of interest, according to the Institute, is the following:
“The Institute for Liberty has followed Iceland’s path to recovery since the 2008 collapse and has developed an increased concern over recent protectionist economic policies like the discriminatory practices against offshore króna investors.
“In creating Iceland Watch, we aim to keep the public apprised of any anti-democratic and anti-free trade policies put into place by the Althingi, Iceland’s parliament, which could threaten the property rights of offshore investors in Iceland’s króna.
“Holders of Iceland’s offshore krona include several American investors, which serve a variety of retail investors like retirees with 401k plans and institutional investors such as corporate and public retirement plans, foundations, and endowments.
“Despite investors’ willingness to support Iceland during its time of transition and several distinct offers to negotiate good faith solutions, the Icelandic government refuses to offer anything other than a clear take-it-or-leave-it scenario. The discrimination against foreign investors is disturbing and could affect millions of American holders of 401k and retirement accounts.
“When Iceland’s parliament, the Althingi, convenes its Summer Special Session on August 15, its actions will indicate whether the island nation will reintegrate itself into international free markets or further its isolation by instating new costly, misguided policies that chill investment and economic growth.”
The Institute’s website indicates it’s also interested in Puerto Rico’s debt, another place where American investment funds struggle to get repaid. More intriguingly, the Institute has also fought Obamacare and other typically far-right interests.
Indeed, the Institute is part of ad hoc networks of “think tanks,” non-profit organisations and ,,grassroots” organisations funded by far-right American billionaires such as David and Charles Koch and the hedge fund owner Paul Singer, who for years fought the Argentinian government, now a settled issue.
The Institute is mentioned in Jane Mayer’s insightful and well-documented analysis of the money powers on the right-wing of the Republican party, far more right-wing than the mainstream Grand Old Party is. Powers, that for a few decades have pumped money into setting up phoney “grassroots” organisations in support of the tobacco industry, against environmental issues and lately, Obamacare. Mayer’s book, Dark Money; The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, came out in spring, an essential read to understand the undercurrents in US politics the last decades and the issues behind political funding, now open to anonymous donations, and the Citizens United ruling in 2010.
According to Mayer, Institute for Liberty got lucky with funding, yet another node in the efforts to fight Obamacare; in 2009 it received $1.5m:
Four hundred thousand dollars of these funds were channeled back to DCI Group (Washington PR company, instrumental according to Mayer in fighting Obamacare) for “consulting.” The previous year, the Institute for Liberty’s entire budget had been $52,000. Suddenly it was so awash with cash that the group’s president, Andrew Langer, told the The Washington Post,‘ “This year has been really serendipitous for us.” He said a donor, whom he declined to name, had earmarked the funds for a five-state advertising blitz targeting Obama’s health-care plan. (Mayer, p.192).
As I’ve pointed out earlier, there have been some articles popping up here and there – op-ed in WSJ, guest blog on FT Alphaville and the most recent on The Street, “Iceland Should Learn From Argentina’s Bad Example” by Aldo Abraham, an Argentinian academic.
No need to point out that of course all of the media rumbling is orchestrated, driven as it is by non-journalistic input; as seen from Mayer’s book the DCI Group has links to the Institute. Everyone fights their turf as best they can, the links to the knights of dark money is rather unsettling but “à chacun son goût.” It is intriguing to see the cause of Icelandic offshore króna holders as part of this picture: not necessarily surprising but yes, intriguing.
The Princeton economist Angus Deaton, summarises masterly in his powerfully argued “The Great Escape” that the worrying trend in US politics is the tendency of interest groups to buy influence in Washington.
As spelled out in earlier blogs Argentina is potentially a worrying example for Iceland: it fought creditors and then settled after a decade of costly legal wrangling, beneficial for the lawyers involved and corrupt powers but deeply deeply harmful for Argentina. In Iceland, voices similar to those Argentinian politicians who fought the Argentinian debtors can be heard. Elections are coming up in October, politicians will hardly strife to be on the side of foreign creditors although successful plan last year re the estates of the failed banks, based on agreement with creditors, is a positive argument for co-operation with creditors.
Views vary: some claim Iceland’s cause is wholly different from Argentina. However, although Iceland has graduated from the earlier IMF program the Fund is still closely connected to Iceland; it’s difficult to imagine that the Fund’s views will be ignored. Happily, Iceland is blossoming and, according to the latest IMF report, has more than gained what it lost on the crisis, i.e. it’s difficult to argue for any emergency actions. In the end, Iceland will have to decide on the best course to follow so as to adhere to the rule of law and further prosperity.
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[…] is an earlier blog on the offshore króna problem and potential litigation; here is the latest one on offshore króna holders and their US political […]
Liberalising capital controls on Icelanders – who don’t really notice at Sigrún Davíðsdóttir's Icelog
19 Aug 16 at 10:11 am
Sigrún,
The off-shore Króna hedge-hopers, hoping to profiteer from buying up Icelandic Króna held off-shore at low rates when things were down, then pushing for full-value sell-back, using cooked publicity and use of U.S. courts as world-courts for international trade to leverage national angst to coerce settlements on the terms they dictate, as Singer et al did to Argentina, are up a tree and sliding toward making themselves monkeys.
The element that “monkey-wrenches” their plan is the Icelandic banks having been privatized well before, and with no relation to (at arm’s length) the events of 2003 to 2007 that produced the situation the hedge-hopers hope to manipulate to profiteer: The International Icelandic banks, and all debt they accrued, even that accrued for government requirements, such as depositor guarantees, is private debt. The debt was/is bank debt, not Icelandic debt. Sovereign Iceland is not a guarantor of the debt, so the Icelandic government has “no skin in the game”. The government of Iceland is outside, like Russia in the negotiations between the U.S. and Syria, and Rusia, France and Germany between the Eastern and the Western Ukrainians, and like TIF was outside the Icelandic Banks v. Britain and Holland argument over payout of depositor guarantee costs.
Even though Iceland re-nationalized the domestic components of the private International Banks, Iceland did not nationalize the debts accrued by the banks as private entities. Thus, the government of Iceland has, the last few years, been a third party, trying to help the two principle parties resolve their differences and settle affairs so everybody can go back to business as normal.
For this Iceland could accept all inputs from all disputing parties, make suggestions for solutions, hear arguments to these, determine then, at last, a resolution solution, and present its resolution solution as a take-or-leave proposition from the final arbiter in the situation.
There is no legal recourse. The only questions that the hedge-hopers could take to a court would be if the government of Iceland did or did not have authority to act as final arbiter, or if the applicants to the court might be granted privilege to apply to another intermediary agency for a ‘re-hearing’ of the matters.
Iceland being sovereign, there is no question of Iceland having authority, so that would go nowhere, and Iceland being the final authority, another arbiter would be subsidiary, any ‘solution’ it came up with being required to be submitted to Iceland for Iceland’s approval, or rejection.
There is an old American political saying, that “If you can’t lick ’em with logic, baffle ’em with bullshit.” The evidences appear to indicate the “Institute for Liberty” actually a “Braintrust for Bullshitters” taking a flyer to see if they could maybe pull off the old ‘Baffle Trick’ on the Icelandic Alþing, if they could scare enough timid members, if there were any timid ones, or any that timid, in the summer session.
R.L.Dogh
There is a great deal of confusion on this matter.
It is very difficult to say, after the issuance of any currency, that holders who happen to be non domestic (i.e. foreign) effectively own a different asset class, that can’t be spent, can’t be reinvested in the full range of financial investments open to others, and can’t be subject to the normal interest rates applicable to others. That’s discrimination, and were every country who gets into trouble to do the same, the international trade and payments system would stop functioning. Iceland is in a good place today. It has been in a difficult place earlier and everyone understands it did then what it had to do. Today’s actions by the government is gratuitous discrimination for financial and political gain, without regard to its international obligations to a fair system of reciprocity to all investors, both foreign and domestic.
robert gibbins
[…] Be Free” has now taken a new step: placing an ad in US, Danish and Icelandic media. As mentioned earlier, DCI Group, a political PR group based in Washington acts on behalf of the funds […]
International ad campaign and un-worried Icelanders at Sigrún Davíðsdóttir's Icelog
[…] I’ve pointed out earlier the funds have allied with Institute for Liberty, mostly dormant since it fought the Obama care […]
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Mark your calendar - June 3rd is National Trails Day
Over 120,000 people hit the trails to celebrate National Trails Day this June 3rd. You can check out http://www.americanhiking.org/events/ntd/index.html for a list of events in your area (and if you know of a race that weekend, be sure to add it to their list!). Press release is below.
14th Annual National Trails Day
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Silver Spring, MD—All across the country, people are getting ready to celebrate the great outdoors at this year's National Trails Day—America's largest annual single-day trails and outdoor celebration. Organized by American Hiking Society, the national nonprofit organization serving as the national voice for America's hikers, the 14th annual National Trails Day is set to kick off on Saturday, June 3. Hundreds of thousands of trail enthusiasts are expected to participate in a wide variety of activities on public trails at more than one thousand nationally sanctioned events across the land. National Trails Day, American Hiking Society's signature trail awareness program, encompasses activities for all interests and abilities, in an inclusive, family-friendly manner. Events will include: hikes; paddles; horse and bike rides; outdoor festivals; trail openings and dedications; volunteer trail building and maintenance projects; educational programs; and much more. Besides allowing people to discover, learn about and celebrate our country's public trails system, it also provides Americans a chance to thank the volunteers, land-managing organizations and civic-minded businesses that maintain this irreplaceable national asset. "Our nation's trails offer Americans from all walks of life boundless opportunities to enjoy nature, renew themselves, and establish a lifetime of fitness," notes Gregory Miller, President of American Hiking Society. "From city dwellers and suburban families to rural and country residents, children to senior citizens, recent immigrants to people with deep roots here, trails offer every American a healthy, enjoyable way to spend time outside." Trail events in 2006 will embody this year's theme, "Experience Your Outdoors."
"The 'Experience Your Outdoors' theme personalizes National Trails Day for all Americans, and is meant to encourage everyone to get outside, get active and experience the myriad opportunities for outdoor recreation that trails afford. We hope that attending a National Trails Day event will expose people to the wonders of their community trails, and the variety of ways they can be enjoyed," says Miller.
National Trails Day events are hosted by local and statewide trail clubs, city, state and federal public land and health agencies, community groups and other nonprofit organizations, and outdoor-minded businesses. People interested in attending a local event should visit American Hiking's National Trails Day web site, www.NationalTrailsDay.org. The site includes a map allowing users to search for registered events in their local community and across the country. The web site also includes detailed information on how you or your organization can "Experience Your Outdoors" and host your own National Trails Day activity or get involved with planned events in your area. According to the Outdoor Industry Association, almost 160 million Americans age 16 or older, or two-thirds of the population, participate in trail-oriented outdoor recreational sports, including hiking, backpacking, trail running and cross-country skiing. "The significant increases we've seen in National Trails Day participation each year, coupled with the growing number of Americans who enjoy outdoor recreational activities, indicate the importance of and need for local trails, parks and open spaces. We salute the countless volunteers at clubs nationwide and our valued network of government, corporate and non-profit partners who make our country's outstanding trail network possible. We urge Americans to support this cooperative effort to expand, sustain and preserve our trails and natural areas," says Miller.
Since its debut back in 1993, National Trails Day has grown from 100 registered events attended by 10,000 people, to more than a thousand events attended by an estimated 125,000 outdoor recreationists last year. All 50 states, as well as Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, Canada and the Virgin Islands have participated in events.
To learn more about National Trails Day 2006, please visit www.NationalTrailsDay.org or contact Ivan Levin, Trail Programs Manager, at 301-565-6704, extension 208.
About American Hiking Society
Founded in 1976, American Hiking Society is the only national conservation-based recreation organization dedicated to establishing, protecting and maintaining the nation's footpaths and promoting the hiking experience. With a strong membership base of individual hikers and hiking clubs, American Hiking represents more than half a million outdoors people and serves as the national voice of the American hiker. To learn more about hiking, the Society and its programs including National Trails Day, please visit www.AmericanHiking.org or call 301-565-6704.
National Trails Day is made possible in part by the generous support of the following business and government leaders. National Sponsors: Adventure Medical Kits, Backpacker magazine, Eastern Mountain Sports, Merrell, REI, Royal Robbins and Thorlos; and Federal Agency Partners: Bureau of Land Management, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Federal Highway Administration, National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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New Sprinter price announced ahead of June arrival
The Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles team is at work preparing for the arrival here of their new Sprinter van series which will be launched on the market early next month.
Ahead of its arrival, the company has announced that prices will begin from €21,950 excluding taxes and charges – a figure their commercial vehicles sales manager, Fergus Conheady says: “is one that puts the new Sprinter comfortably within the budget of the majority of van buyers”.
New Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Van
The new Sprinter will offer new levels of intelligent connectivity, superior comfort and for the first time in the vehicles history a front wheel drive variant.
Meanwhile, as part of the pre-launch preparations, dealers recently returned from a global training event in Portugal where they had the opportunity to put the new Sprinter through its paces in preparation for its arrival in Ireland.
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Blog: Wayne Eckerson
Welcome to Wayne's World, my blog that illuminates the latest thinking about how to deliver insights from business data and celebrates out-of-the-box thinkers and doers in the business intelligence (BI), performance management and data warehousing (DW) fields. Tune in here if you want to keep abreast of the latest trends, techniques, and technologies in this dynamic industry.
About the author >
Wayne has been a thought leader in the business intelligence field since the early 1990s. He has conducted numerous research studies and is a noted speaker, blogger, and consultant. He is the author of two widely read books: Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business (2005, 2010) and The Secrets of Analytical Leaders: Insights from Information Insiders (2012).
Wayne is founder and principal consultant at Eckerson Group, a research and consulting company focused on business intelligence, analytics and big data.
Dundas Does BI
Dundas Data Visuailzation, Inc. is about to complete its transition from a provider of charting components to a full-stack business intelligence (BI) vendor. Founded in 1992, the Toronto-based company became one of the leading providers of charting and programming controls. Seeing an opportunity to move "up the stack", Dundas sold most of its components to Microsoft in 2007 and focused on building a dashboard product, which it shipped in 2010. Capitalizing on its visualization heritage, Dundas quickly built a following for its Dundas Dashboards product. It now has almost 1,000 customers in 53 countries, including many Fortune 500 companies.
Recognizing that many customers were using its dashboard product for other BI functions, Dundas recently decided to build a BI suite, called Dundas BI, that it plans to ship by end of year. The suite will support ad hoc reporting, analysis, dashboarding, scorecarding, visual discovery, and a data mashup utility along with an in-memory database.
Dundas Dashboards runs on a .NET architecture with Microsoft IIS Web Server and Microsoft SQL Server, enabling it to access relational and OLAP databases and flat files. Business users access the product using Microsoft Silverlight-based browsers or HTML5 for mobile devices. Version 5, shipped this year, enables users to schedule reports (PDF, PowerPoint, or Excel), HTML5 viewer for mobile devices, connectivity to Amazon Redshift, and a usage tracking application. Dundas has a consulting team that helps customers design key performance indicators and dashboard and scorecard displays. The company's top top competitor is Qlik.
For more information, go to www.dundas.com
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SQLstream Bets on the Internet of Things
Stream processing has idled on the backwaters of the analytic market for years. But with the advent of Hadoop and new open source streaming tools, such as Storm, Spark, and Kafka, many companies are taking a closer look. And many stream processing tools are finally finding a home with the Internet of Things, in which consumer and commercial devices--from smartphones and household appliances to automobiles, utility meters, and medical equipment--emit millions of events per second and require specialized analytical systems to process them in real time.
Stream processing platforms, like SQLstream, provide both the horsepower and smarts to filter, aggregate, group, compare, and analyze large volumes of data in flight as well as visualize the results in real time. Telecommunications companies use SQLstream to monitor network performance, track service usage, and detect fraud in real time; oil and gas producers use it to monitor operations of drilling rigs, digital wells, and intelligent oil fields; and transportation companies use it to monitor traffic congestion, among many other things.
Compared to Storm and Spark, SQLstream is a complete enterprise platform for streaming analytics that can be deployed quickly without a large development effort. Whereas the open source projects are free to download, they require a lot of development talent and time to make work, especially in high-volume environments. Moreover, SQLstream, which gets its name because it uses continuous SQL to generate analytics, runs more efficiently, requiring many fewer servers and less overall expenditures.
As devices become more intelligent with the addition of sensors, product companies will need to invest in stream processing systems to make sense of the deluge of data. SQLstreams is well positioned to capitalize on the emerging Internet of Things.
For more information, see www.sqlstream.com
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Think Entrinsik for Operational BI: It May Be All You Need
Sometimes the best things come in small packages. If you want to create reports and dashboards directly from source data, then you might want to consider Entrinsik, a small business intelligence (BI) vendor with a venerable pedigree and highly satisfied customers.
Founded in 1984, Entrinsik got pulled into BI in 2002 when it built a Web reporting tool for customers using MultiValue databases, such as UniVerse and UniData, which store attributes as strings in the same table as the entity. This denormalized structure makes it difficult to generate reports quickly or easily. But Entrinsik cracked the MultiValue database nut and quickly became the go-to-player for MultiValue reporting tools. Since then, Entrinsik has expanded into the SQL market. Its Informer product queries both SQL and MultiValue databases.
As an operational BI product, Entrinsik complements traditional BI tools that primarily query data warehouses or other predefined dimensional or analytical structures. In many cases, Entrinsik becomes a customer's defacto BI tool because it is quick to set up, easy to use, priced affordably, and comes with superior customer service and support. Entrinsik is used heavily by community colleges and mid-size universities, as well as insurance and manufacturing companies.
Like most other BI tools, Entrinsik customers create a metadata layer, which requires about 2-3 weeks of effort. Once that is built, users can then build ad hoc reports and dashboards by dragging and dropping objects onto a canvass and configuring them accordingly. Entrinsik also lets customers, many of whom are value-added resellers, customize the product via its Java plug-in architecture.
For more information, see www.entrinsik.com
Posted September 1, 2014 12:05 PM
Cyberscience: When Your Data Warehouse Does Not Cut It
In the 1980s, before the dawn of data warehousing, companies ran reports and queries directly against operational systems. But this analytical activity undermined the performance of core systems and created a rallying cry for a dedicated reporting and analysis system, known as the data warehouse.
But what if you could have your operational cake and analytics, too? That's the fundamental question that Cyberscience asked back in 1977 when it was founded. And while the industry chose data warehousing as the architectural solution to manage reporting and analytical workloads, Cyberscience went against the grain. It kept optimizing the federated query technology of its Cyberquery product to run against operational applications and databases without degrading performance of either.
Fast forward 40 years and what's old is new again. As data warehouses teeter in the architectural abyss and hardware performance skyrockets, Cyberscience now finds itself on the cutting edge. By combining operational and analytical workloads, Cyberscience provides a compelling alternative to both data warehouses and operational data stores. With more than 5,000 customers and a top-rated customer satisfaction rating from BARC, a German research firm, Cyberscience is a long-time business intelligence (BI) vendor that has focused more on engineering and customer value than marketshare or mindshare.
The key to Cyberquery's success is a data dictionary that abstracts back-end resources and integrates with an optimized runtime engine that uses native connectors to speed access to most applications and databases. The dictionary automatically grabs metadata from the source databases and populates fields with plain English labels. Customers further customize the metadata layer to meet business requirements and enhance data security.
Driving Cyberquery's query engine is a fourth generation report specification language (much like Information Builder's WebFocus language) that makes it easy for customers to build any type of report and customize the look and feel. More than half of Cyberscience's annual $15 million in revenue comes from independent software vendors who embed the product in their own applications or white label it as their own. And despite its vintage, Cyberquery offers modern charting components and a fairly contemporary look and feel.
For more information, see www.cyberscience.com.
Posted September 1, 2014 11:51 AM
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The Ghost Train
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 May 2015
Presented at Belgrade Main stage
Tickets: £10.75 - £25.50 Concessions: £8.50 - £23.50
Arnold Ridley’s classic comedy thriller about a group of travellers (including a newlywed couple, an estranged couple, a self-indulgent young dandy and an elderly spinster with a parrot) stranded in the waiting room of an isolated railway station on a dark and stormy night, reacting with various degrees of credulity to the station master’s warning of death to anyone who sets eyes on the ghostly train that haunts the line.
Ridley’s inspiration came after becoming stranded overnight at Mangotsfield station in Bristol, now a disused station on the Midland Railway main line.
Starring Jeffrey Holland (Hi-de-Hi!, You Rang, M’Lord?, Oh, Doctor Beeching!), Tom Butcher (The Bill, Doctors), Sophie Powles (Emmerdale), Judy Buxton (General Hospital, On the Up) and David Janson (Get Some In!, ‘Allo ‘Allo!, Keeping Up Appearances).
Running time 2 hrs 30 mins including an interval
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Trustees and Administration
The WHSI collects data from those schools who enter the competition annually. The purpose of collecting this data is to enable the WHSI to administer the competition. Data is kept secure and are not shared with a third party. Data relating to each competition is permanently erased annually.
© WHSI. 2019. The Welsh Heritage Schools Initiative is an independent registered charity (No. 1048155). Its Trustees are: Catrin Stevens, Dr Stuart Broomfield, Alun Morgan.
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"We will defeat a coup d'etat that intends to intervene in political life, throw Venezuelan sovereignty to the side and install a puppet regime for the interests of the U.S. and its allies in the Western world," President Nicolas Maduro said at a press conference on Friday.
The Venezuelan president has vowed to defeat a "coup d'etat" against Venezuelan sovereignty, local media reported.
"We will defeat a coup d'etat that intends to intervene in political life, throw Venezuelan sovereignty to the side and install a puppet regime for the interests of the U.S. and its allies in the Western world," Nicolas Maduro said late Friday at a press conference in Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas.
He stated that international media has been putting pressure on Venezuela and manipulating facts about the South American country.
The president said Venezuela should solve its domestic problems alone without the intervention of imperialist U.S.
Maduro also called for a national dialogue, which can help Venezuela.
Separately, Juan Guaido, the leader of Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly, who declared himself acting president, said demonstrations will continue until Maduro leaves his office.
Guaido also requested the support of the Venezuelan army.
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Venezuelan authorities claimed that Guaido secretly met with the leader of United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Diosdado Cabello in a Caracas hotel on Jan. 22.
The country's Minister of Communication and Information Jorge Rodriguez had published footage of the meeting from Caracas hotel.
Venezuela has been rocked by protests since Jan. 10 when Maduro was sworn in for a second term following a vote boycott by the opposition.
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He has repeatedly lashed out at the U.S., saying Washington is waging an economic war against him and his government amid a sweeping sanctions campaign.
Brazil and the Organization of American States recognized Guaido as Venezuela's leader prior to his formal announcement. Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama and Paraguay have followed suit while Bolivia and Mexico continue to recognize Maduro.
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Meet the Macaronut...
March 20th is Macaron Day. To celebrate, this year, renowned New York pastry chef Francois Payard has created the Macaronut. Yes, another fantastical food hybrid, following in the footsteps of the Cronut (croissant-doughnut), the Cruffin (croissant-muffin) and the Wonut (waffle-doughnut – simply: doughnuts cooked in a waffle maker). The Macaronut, as the name suggests, is the combination of the delicate, colourful macaron and the traditional round doughnut. Staying true to his French roots, Chef Payard is making the all-American doughnut a delicacy.
Photo courtesy of The Stylist magazine
In reality, it’s simply a giant Macaron, in the shape of a traditional ring doughnut. Launching initially in strawberries and cream flavour, Chef Payard is expected to roll out many more flavours, both subtle and sublime. Perhaps an Oreo macaronut? Pistachio? Or variants on coffee flavours – the Mocha Macaronut? Whatever next!?
Made with Italian meringue (not French!), a hot sugar syrup is drizzled into to the whisking frothy egg whites. Colouring can be added once you have a shiny-peaked consistency, and the mixture has cooled. To this, ground almonds and icing sugar are added to form a paste, and this is then traditionally piped into circles and baked on a low heat. Once cooked, macarons are left to settle until there is a crispy shell and tender interior. I imagine that piping ring shapes will work just as well for the Macaronut. The filling is usually ganache or buttercream in the flavour of the month, so for Chef Payard’s Macaronuts, I'm guessing it’s strawberries and cream. Is it possible he has created a doughnut-flavoured ganache? Or perhaps it contains a strawberry jam filling; regular macarons are sometimes filled with artisan jams. Top with sprinkles and it looks just like a doughnut. But tastes like a macaron. Those elegant pops of Heaven, just on a grander scale.
Why, you may ask? Well, why not! It’s a beautiful, elegant, and fun dessert and not only that, it’s a worthy cause too. Donations from the sales of Macaronuts on March 20 will be given to the hunger charity City Harvest in New York. The charity link the food industry to countless companies and foundations to help feed over two million New Yorkers every year. In London too, City Harvest help put surplus food to good use in a sustainable way, by upcycling over two tons of food each week that would have been wasted to organisations that feed the hungry. Last year they delivered over a quarter of a million meals.
Macaronuts are just available Stateside for now, but I hope it won’t be too long before the UK follows suit and delivers the Macaronut to the macaron-loving masses. I will be first in the queue...
Labels: city harvest, doughnut, food trend, hunger charity., Macaron day, macarons, new York food
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Tjihapit Boek
Boudewyn van Oort September 28, 2016 Books
The Tjihapit Boek constituted the very first attempt made by camp survivors to capture an account of the traumatic events they had endured between November 1942 and May 1945. In 1994, almost fifty years after the ending of the Pacific War, a reunion of camp survivors was organized in Zwolle, the Netherlands city, where, curiously enough my mother had grown up. This was an attempt to pull together an overview of what had happened during those fateful war time years. Gradually individuals had begun to write and publish their own stories but these strictly personal accounts were fragmentary, and were based almost entirely on memories.
Before the advent of the internet contacting members of the Tjihapit diaspora was largely a matter of coincidence and then confined to some of those former camp inmates who had found a permanent postwar home in the Netherlands. Those who had sought a postwar life elsewhere, mostly in the USA and the British Commonwealth countries had disappeared. So thoroughly had the world changed that the history of Tjihapit camp was in danger of evaporating like a bad nightmare. This book sought to bring together three aspects of Camp history: Reconstructions, Source material and memories.
For my own work in writing Tjideng Reunion this book provided an invaluable launch pad. Of the three and a half years we were interned, three years were spent in Tjihapit, and yet for this period the least amount of documentation had survived. Without the Tjihapit Boek, my task in providing a reasonably coherent chronology linked to the key military and political events that shaped our existence as prisoners of the Imperial Japanese army would have been immeasurably more difficult.
The book was never properly published and lack an ISBN number. Copies are available for inspection at the NIOD archives in Amsterdam.
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"The Glass Menagerie" by Theatre Coup d'Etat at SPACE
Tennessee Williams is one of my favorite playwrights, and all I ask of a production of one of his plays is that it leave me with that feeling of delicious melancholy. Theatre Coup d'Etat's production of The Glass Menagerie, my favorite Williams play, did just that. As I drove home last night and saw the big moon hanging heavy in the sky, I sighed and made a wish for something that would never come true. Just like the characters in Menagerie, Williams most personal play. Theatre Coup d'Etat's interesting staging with appropriate mood lighting and music really makes it feel like you're looking in on Tom's (aka Williams') memories of his family. Which is always a beautifully tragic rumination on the past, how memory works, and how the choices we've made continue to affect us.
A mother and her two adult children live in a small apartment in St. Louis in the late 1930s. Tom (James Napoleon Stone) dutifully supports the family by working at a shoe factory, where he feels stifled and bored with life. Laura (Kaylyn Forkey) has a slight physical impairment that has caused her to become reclusive, wanting nothing more than to stay in the apartment, listen to records on the Victrola, and arrange her glass figurines, her menagerie. Their mother, Amanda (Cynthia Uhrich), is constantly nagging her children - telling Tom how to chew his food and how to sit at the table, cajoling Laura into leaving the house to attend business school or entertain a "gentleman caller" (Kevin Fanshaw). She's a stereotypical fading Southern belle, who talks constantly of her glorious past and happy youth; she performs a memory play of her own for her children. She wants Laura to be as popular as she was, but Laura is nothing like her, and the time and place they live in is nothing like the one in which she came of age. The situation turns tragic as the gentleman caller experiment fails miserably, Tom leaves the family to find his fortune in the world, and Laura is left with her glass menagerie.*
The play is staged Savage Umbrella's SPACE, a studio space in an artists' warehouse building off University in St. Paul. It looks very different from last time I was there, for Coup d'Etat's Equus. The Wingfield's apartment is set inside a square three-walled room, with the audience looking in from the fourth side. While at times acoustically challenging, this creates an effect of being an observer peering into their lives, almost like a life-sized dollhouse. The shabby furnishings, soft lighting (the candlelight is especially effective), and appropriately melancholy music all set the tone for the story (set design by Meagan Kedrowski, lighting design by Mark Kieffer, and sound design by Lanny Langston, who also directs).
This is my fourth time writing about The Glass Menagerie on this blog, so I'm not sure I have any words left. Other than it's a classic of the American theater, one that hits close to home for me, and that speaks of hopes, dreams, expectations, regrets, and disappointments in a universal way through the playwright's specific story. This is a fine production with a strong cast and production elements that effectively create the tragic and nostalgic mood of the play (right down to the elevated temperature in the room).
The Glass Menagerie continues Friday through Monday nights until June 6. With many theaters taking some time off for Memorial Day Weekend, this is a great option if you're staying in town and want to spend your holiday weekend seeing some theater (no better way to spend it!).
*Plot summary borrowed from previous posts about The Glass Menagerie.
Labels: Cynthia Uhrich, James N. Stone, Kaylyn Forkey, Kevin Fanshaw, Lanny Langston, Mark Kieffer, Meagan Kedrowski, SPACE, Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, Theatre Coup D'Etat
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Posted on December 9, 2018 December 8, 2018 by Editor
Story by John Grover
Illustration by John Waltrip
John Makepeace rode across the plains in western South Dakota. The horse squealed with exhaustion, but John knew he was almost there. He slung the rifle from his saddle and gritted his teeth. Sand and dust whipped at his face, and the wind hit him hard as if trying to slow him down. There was no way he was losing it this time. He hadn’t tracked it all this way just to lose it.
“Hold on, girl, almost there!” He clicked his spurs against the beast once more.
Finally, the Black Hills came into view and the first of the trees popped up on the horizon. By all accounts and all of his tracking, the thing was in the hills, hiding. This time John would find it and kill it once and for all.
He raced across the prairie and splashed through a creek. Cold water sprayed his face, but he paid it no mind. Spruce and pine flashed by him. He was in a forest now, and shadows of the trees dimmed the light around him.
The horse slowed down to nearly a crawl. John spotted what he thought were footprints. His grip on his rifle tightened. His heart fluttered.
A scream almost spooked his horse. John clicked his spurs, but the horse refused to move.
“It’s okay, girl.” He clicked again, but the horse was having none of it. John rolled his eyes and hopped off the horse to the ground. He rushed deeper into the forest, rifle in hand.
John jumped over another creek and climbed higher, growing tired, catching his breath. Another scream pulled him forward. He climbed over a small ridge and stopped when he saw a Lakota woman writhing on the ground. She was with child and not alone.
There it was, standing over her, long black hair hiding both of its faces. A tall, gaunt body with sun-burnt flesh hunched over its prey. The woman could not get away from it. It growled as John took aim and fired.
The Two Face jumped into the air with a screech. It came down beside John and lunged at him. Long, sharp bones slipped out of the creature’s arms and slashed at him. His rifle let off a shot before he tumbled to the ground, its sharp bone piercing one of his arms. The creature took another swing, but John ducked and rolled to the ground, tasting blood in his mouth.
The creature howled and bolted for him. The woman screamed, and the creature halted, looking at her. Its black, matted hair whipped both forward and back. John glimpsed both of its faces, the humanoid one in the front and the hideous one in the back. He turned away sharply, avoiding looking directly at it. He reached for the Bowie knife in his belt and stabbed blindly.
The strike caught the creature in the ribs. Hot blood spilled, and it wailed, jumping out of sight and into the trees. John rolled to his knees and looked around. It was gone. He stood and went to the woman’s side.
“Can you move?”
She shook her head.
“You looked at its second face, didn’t you?”
She nodded, then pointed down at her belly. He saw a gash, bleeding profusely.
“Lord, it already stabbed you. Your child?”
She moaned with pain then looked up at him with frantic eyes. The baby was coming. John fell to his knees and took her hand. “Oh, Lord, I am not ready for this. Not nearly.”
She screamed and parted her legs. The child was coming whether he liked it or not.
John maneuvered himself between her legs. Her breathing was fast and furious. Sweat soaked her face. She screamed again, and a small head emerged.
A boy entered the world. John cradled him as best he could, a smile on his hard face. He looked up at the child’s mother, now motionless. She had passed the moment her son was born. Another motherless child.
John thought of his son James and knew there was no other choice. He was about to bring James a new baby brother.
— ♦♦♦ —
—Twenty-two years later. —
James Makepeace watched his father John work the plow, guiding it with some effort across the field. His father struggled with most things these days. He was often sick, and his strength was failing. All of this weighed on James’s mind as he hauled bales of hay with his brother, Maka.
Maka wasn’t his born brother, but James thought of him that way. The day his father brought him Maka, it felt like Christmas. James had always wanted a brother.
Maka’s people, the Lakota, had named him. They trusted James’ father John unlike other white men. John was different. He respected the land and the Lakota, and his lips were not filled with lies. When he rescued the child, the Lakota praised him. They wanted John to raise the child. Chief Red Sky chose the name Maka. It meant earth. It was if the earth itself had given Maka to John.
“You’re worried about him, aren’t you?” Maka asked.
James picked up another bale of hay. “Can’t help it. I see how tired he is all the time.”
“He is getting old,” Maka said. “But Father is a strong man, and he raised strong sons to care for him.”
“Yeah. Doesn’t stop the worrying.”
That night, James served the three of them a thick stew with skillet bread. He watched John eat it with a trembling hand.
James eyed Maka, who tried to show no concern as he ate. James asked, “Dad, what happened the day you found Maka? Was it the same thing that happened to Mom?”
John glowered at his son. “I have never spoken of it, James, and I won’t with your brother sitting right at our table.”
Maka looked up. “It’s okay, Father. I want to know, too. I should know what happened to my mother.”
“Dad, please, we never knew our mothers. Tell us something.”
“All these years I have tried to forget it, but I cannot. I wanted to protect you from nightmares, but I suppose you’re both old enough now. You must promise me you won’t do anything foolish. It hasn’t been seen in years. It may even be dead.”
“It?” James said.
John nodded. “Maka’s people call it Two Face. That’s exactly what the thing was or is. It has two faces. One normal, one…evil. You cannot look at its evil face. It will paralyze you, then tear you apart and eat you alive.”
“That’s what it did to my mother?” Maka asked. The horror in his eyes was something James had never seen in his brother before. Maka feared nothing.
“It hadn’t gotten that far. I ran it off before it could finish, but it had wounded your mother, and she was about to give birth to you. She lost her life delivering you.”
Maka’s face went pale. His eyes welled. James felt sorry for him, even regretted bringing the question up.
“And my mother?” James asked.
John sighed. “Your mother was an angel.” He opened a desk drawer and pulled an old photograph of his wife from an envelope, brushing his fingers across it. “I was in town, getting tools and supplies. When I got back, it was already too late. She was in pieces on the floor. The creature was heading for your crib. I never moved so fast nor jumped so high, by God. I crashed into the thing. It tried to get me to look at it, but I knew better. I pounded the thing until I got a hold of my rifle. By then it had jumped through the window and was gone.
“I left you in the care of a Lakota family. Then I went after it, tracking it almost two years until I found it in the Black Hills. That was the day I found Maka’s mother. After delivering Maka, I took him to his people, who were looking after you. They gave him his name. I asked if they felt they should raise him. They refused, saying they could not take him from his real father and brother.”
James looked over at Maka again and smiled. Their father stopped there, forgetting his meal and staring intently at the photograph of his wife.
“So, you didn’t kill the Two Face?” Maka asked.
John shook his head. “I’m afraid it got away.”
“We need to destroy it!” James roared.
“No!” John pounded a fist on the table. James and Maka both jumped. “It nearly destroyed two families already. Do not let it finish. It’s gone. It hasn’t been seen in over 20 years. I’ve asked Maka’s people. The Lakota watch everything in their Hills. They have seen nothing.”
Maka lowered his head. “I’m sorry, Father.”
“That’s settled,” John said. “I’m going to bed early. It’s been a long day. Don’t forget to say your prayers before bed.”
“Yes, sir,” they said in unison, and John closed the bedroom door behind him.
James tossed and turned. His eyes opened again and again during the night. Sleep came in short bursts. He was just drifting off when the moan startled him.
One of the cows howled outside. Something was wrong. It was a beast in pain, a distinct call of agony. James sprang up in bed as the cries grew louder. He jumped out of bed as another animal bellowed.
James listened at the window. The cries dwindled. Then the horses shrieked. James ran from his bedroom and pounded on his father’s door.
“Dad, Dad! Something is after the animals!”
He pushed opened his father’s bedroom door and discovered the room empty. His heart sank. James rushed from the room. Maka appeared in the hallway.
“Maka, Dad is out there. Something’s wrong.”
“Let’s see if he needs help!”
James lit a lantern before the brothers rushed to the stables and opened their doors. Inside, the horses screamed, kicking at their gates. Moonlight set their eyes aflame.
“Something’s spooking them,” James said. “Watch out they might throw you.”
“You’re talking to a Lakota, my brother.”
James nodded and mounted his steed, struggling to control him. He checked the pistol in his holster. Maka was already riding across the yard ahead of him. The horizon was full of purple shadows and strange movement. They saw a shape on the ground.
It was one of their cows, dead, torn and gutted. Its corpse was mutilated. James looked around and saw the body of another cow, then another. “Dad!” he cried, panic setting in. They rode on, coming upon one last cow, its blood still flowing. The kill was fresh.
“Father!” Maka called.
Shots rang out, echoing across the plains. The brothers galloped off at top speed. They heard a scream. James’s heart slammed against his chest. Adrenaline surged through him. His arms and legs tensed. And he knew. James knew the next body they would find would be…
“Dad!” James screamed. He spotted his father struggling to move on the ground. Something bent over him. Long black hair flowed in the wind. A gaunt, pale body straightened. The thing howled.
“Son of a bitch!” James drew his pistol and fired. Maka followed suit, taking aim with his rifle, but it was too late. The creature leapt from the body and darted up the hillside, vanishing into the distance.
James dismounted and rushed to his father’s side, taking his hand. “Dad, no…no…”
“I’m sorry, Jimmy. I looked at its evil face. It tricked me. I couldn’t run from it this time. It went for the animals to lure me out here. It knew I would come. It …knew.”
“Dad, no.”
Maka joined his brother and father on the ground, taking his other hand. Tears streamed down his cheeks.
“My boys,” John said, his entire body twitching. He gasped for air. “I am proud of you both. Take care of the home. It’s yours now.”
“Please, Dad.” James lowered his head onto his father’s chest. “Don’t leave us. We can’t lose you now. We need you.”
John smiled. He reached a jittery hand to his son James and touched his cheek. “You don’t need me. You are men now. You are ready.” He sighed his last breath and went still.
James wept louder than he ever had before. He let go of his father’s hand and stood up. He looked up at the moon and its orange glow. “I’m going to kill that thing.” James cocked his pistol and started for his horse.
“No.” Maka ran to him. “Not now.”
“When, Maka, when? When it kills you? Me? It’s time for it to die. Are you going to help me or not?”
Maka nodded. “We will kill it together. First, we need help.”
“No one will help us. No one will even believe us.”
“My people will, and we need their help. This is a creature from long ago, from the legends of my people. We need their spiritual guidance. Yes, we will find and kill it, but we cannot do it alone.”
“We go tomorrow, or I go alone. Those are the choices.”
Maka nodded. “Let us bury our father.”
James cried again and Maka put his arm around him as they turned to lift their fallen father.
In the morning sun, two brothers rode toward the Black Hills. James and Maka rode for hours over and through the hills until they reached the lands of Maka’s people.
Teepees rose proud against the horizon, smoke trickling from their tops. Dogs barked at the brothers’ approach. The smell of cooked meat hung in the air. Women and warriors turned to welcome Maka.
Small fires crackled, fish dried, tools chopped vegetables, and children played in groups. Old women laughed, drums thumped, horses whinnied.
Red Sky, Chief of the Lakota, rose from his teepee. Some of the oldest tribal members flanked him. Red Sky put up his hand as James and Maka rode up to him. “Welcome, brothers. I know what brings you. Two Face has returned.”
Maka nodded and dismounted. “Yes, Grandfather, it has killed our father.” Maka had called Chief Red Sky Grandfather ever since he could speak. He knew he wasn’t his real grandfather, but it made his heart feel good to call him by that name. Red Sky liked it too, having no grandchildren of his own. He was happy to call Maka his grandson.
“An honorable and noble man has joined the Great Spirit,” Red Sky said.
“We need your help, Grandfather,” Maka said as James joined his side.
“You are not ready.”
“Please,” James said, a desperate tone in his voice. “This creature must pay a price.”
Red Sky looked at them both, up and down, then glanced at the old men beside him. “You must become warriors and seek the help of the white buffalo. Only then will he give you his guidance. Both of you must begin your vision quest.”
“I understand.” Maka nodded.
James put his hand on his brother’s shoulder. “Are you sure about this? What does he mean?”
Maka turned to him and smiled. “Don’t worry, my brother. We will take this journey together.”
As the moon rose full over the Black Hills, James and Maka joined the tribe’s medicine men inside the Lakota ceremonial lodge. The hot air inside was filled with thick smoke. A sweet and pungent odor wafted in the air.
James and his brother were stripped to loincloths, and already they’d begun to sweat. Their bare chests were painted red in the tribe’s sacred symbols of the sun, the moon, the hills, and the Great Spirit.
One of the medicine men stepped up to James and Maka. He looked into the brothers’ eyes and handed Maka a smoldering pipe.
Maka inhaled the perfumed smoke and let it fill his senses. James took it and did the same. His head felt fuzzy, the sound around him vibrated. Drums began beating softly. A flute trilled in the distance.
The brothers sat crossed-legged on the floor and Maka took James’s hand. The medicine man placed a knife in Maka’s other hand. Maka showed James the blade and nodded. James did not pull away, even as Maka drew the blade across the palm of his hand, drawing blood. Maka did the same to his own hand. He took his bloody palm and pressed it into James’s.
“We are blood brothers now,” Maka said. “Nothing can come between us. We will never let the other fall in battle.”
“I swear,” James said. “You can always count on me.” He looked up and saw the two medicine men standing together, their palms up. He saw the scars on their hands, just like the ones he and Maka would have. Beside them, he saw someone else standing. The white, misty form of a man took shape.
“Dad?” James reached out for him, but the form melted into the smoke. “We will avenge you.”
James felt sights and sounds filling his head. He still felt Maka’s hand as the room spun. His eyes closed, and when he reopened them—
He and Maka stood in a grassy field full of yellow flowers. A crystal blue river flowed alongside them. James noticed his hair was long, flowing down to his chest, and braided with feathers. He discovered a tomahawk in his hand. Maka had one in his hand, too.
They stepped over the river together, walking through the field. The field suddenly burst into flames, black smoke billowed into a gray sky, and the flowers turned black and wilted, eaten by the fire. The fire surrounded the brothers.
The fire roared, growing higher, thicker, and from inside the flames, creatures appeared, jumping out of the fire and attacking the brothers. Mutated, deformed faces leered at them, sharp, tusk-like teeth gnashed, drool fell from black lips, and eyes flared with the color of fire as the monsters lunged.
James and his brother launched into action, wielding their tomahawks with fury, slashing and swinging hard. Blades chopped, severing limbs, crushing skulls, and hacking chests. Black blood spurted, raining over the men, covering their flesh, matting their hair.
The fire vanished as quickly as it came. The skies turned dark and thunder rumbled. James saw a form in the distance, a great animal storming toward them.
James turned to Maka, who was yelling something at him, but James couldn’t understand him. Maka’s mouth moved but no sound came out. He pointed frantically, and James followed his finger and saw it…the white buffalo.
Flowing white hair danced around the beast, white horns curled proud around its head, and white hooves thundered on the ground as fire spat from its every step. It raced toward them. James braced himself, he wasn’t sure what to do. Maka danced beside him, a tribal celebration, a spiritual ecstasy, a joyous reverence.
The buffalo was right upon them, gigantic, bigger than anything in the living world. Maka dropped to his knees and raised his arms to the sky. James looked at him in disbelief, frightened and puzzled.
The white buffalo roared and lunged into the air. A great black shadow fell upon the brothers, snuffing out the sky, swallowing the clouds, and darkening the field.
“Take in my spirit.” James heard a booming voice. “Trust your brother. You are of two worlds. Only you can defeat the scourge.”
James screamed, and his eyes opened… He found himself suspended in midair by ropes entwined to horns slivered through his bare chest. Blood streamed over his chest and belly. James looked down at himself and the spinning floor. He screamed again.
He heard laughter and turned to see Maka staring at him. “It’s all right, my brother.” Maka said to him. “I was there with you. The White Buffalo came to us… and we are ready.”
The ropes released. James dropped to the ground. His chest felt like it was on fire. Maka fell beside him, they locked hands, and Maka whispered to him: “Blood brothers.”
Chief Red Sky stood before the two brothers. They’d been washed and wrapped in soft blankets.
“I thank all of Lakota,” Maka said.
Red Sky nodded. He placed his hands on both of their heads. “You are of two worlds, both of you.” His words were familiar to James, as if he’d heard them in a dream. “That’s why only you can defeat this scourge. Trust in your brother.”
Maka smiled and James couldn’t help but smile back. Out beyond the village, he saw his father watching from the thick of the trees. In the blink of an eye he was gone.
“The Great Spirit visited us,” Maka said.
James looked over to him. “Yes, he did.”
“You are ready now,” Red Sky said, lifting his hands from their heads and raising them to the sky. “Two Face is waiting for you.”
The brothers rode on their horses by day, crossing the plains and heading deep into the Black Hills. A vulture circled above them. Maka hadn’t spoken all day.
“Maka, I know you’re angry. I am too.”
“It has taken everything from us. Everything.”
“It has. And we will find it and kill it. It will not escape us.”
“But it does. Every time.”
“Its time is coming. We must not turn on each other. Not now.”
“I’m not turning on you, my brother. We are blood. I only feel the anger of my failure.”
“Time, Maka, time. It cannot hide from us. Not any more. It has made one mistake.”
“It made it personal. It should have stuck to the weak and the old.”
Maka nodded.
Another day and night of tracking and traveling more false leads, dead ends and animal carcasses. It was still out there. They just didn’t know where. James watched Maka sniff the air again.
“Maybe we should head for the Rocky Mountains,” James called to his brother. “It’s had time to leave the Black Hills. It knows we’re looking for it. It might head far away.”
“It’s still here.”
“How can you know that?”
“I know. There are signs everywhere. We just have to look.”
Maka said nothing more as he led James higher into the hills. They climbed the ridge of one of the tallest peaks and entered a sea of grass.
A shriek echoed above. Both of them looked to the sky and watched the vulture that followed them circle again and again. An eagle swooped down on the vulture and attacked it. Razor talons ripped into the vulture, sending it down. The eagle swooped across the sky. James couldn’t take his eyes off it.
The eagle dove down to land, skimming the grass. It soared over James and Maka’s heads and perched atop the entrance to a small cave.
“It’s a sign,” Maka said.
James looked over and saw the small opening nearly hidden in the hillside. He felt sick to his stomach. His heart pounded in his chest, and his palms dampened. He knew that was where Two Face was.
“We need to go inside, don’t we?” James asked.
Maka nodded and they started for the cave. The brothers dismounted and tied the horses to a tree. They walked slowly to the cave opening. The eagle pecked at the rocks at the top of the threshold, then took flight.
Maka made a small fire and fashioned a torch. He moved close to the opening. James stuck right to his side. He readied his rifle and glanced at his father’s Bowie knife tucked into his belt. For you, Dad.
A rank smell hit James as they entered the cave. He fought the urge to vomit. He saw Maka grip his tomahawk.
The cave led to a tunnel that burrowed deeper into the ground. The sound of water dripping echoed in the distance. They descended further and found themselves in a subterranean chamber. A pond rippled in the center of it.
James walked carefully toward the pond, his boot crunching on something. He looked down and saw a small ribcage. He guessed it might have belonged to a child. There were scores of other bones and hollow skulls littering the chamber. His mind reeled. Rage bubbled inside of him. He had bolted toward the water when a scurrying sound stopped him. He looked up at the ceiling.
Maka’s torch illuminated the rocky ceiling above them, but James saw nothing. He turned back to the black water of the pond and caught a pale reflection in it. The light danced across the pond’s surface. James watched a human form shimmer. He blinked, clearing his eyes. Dad? It looked just like his father.
James stepped closer, and the reflection vanished.
Maka now stood beside him. James looked up, past Maka, and in the tunnel doorway he saw his father standing and staring. He rushed toward him, pushing his way past his brother.
“What are you doing?” Maka called after him.
“Dad?” The apparition vanished. James froze. A rush of cold air shot through him. He turned around and saw the creature rising out of the pond behind Maka. Long, wet black hair hid both of its faces, a crooked, gaunt body stretched in slow motion, pale flesh glistened in the torchlight. The sharp bones like swords slid from its arms.
“Maka! Behind you!” James ran at full speed, but his feet felt as if they were dragging through mud.
The Two Face slashed its bony appendage and ripped through Maka’s leg. The warrior went down and let out a howl.
James aimed and fired his rifle, once, twice, three times. The blasts caught the beast in the chest, and it went down in the water. The water sloshed, and waves rushed across it. Two Face shot out of the pond and up to the ceiling. It scurried across it and slipped into the shadows.
The torch had fallen to the ground beside Maka. James rushed to his side, yanking the torch up and shining its light above them. “Stay down,” he said to Maka.
“I am all right. Find the demon.”
James’s eyes scanned the ceiling, but he saw nothing.
Maka gained his footing with James’s help. Skittering feet resounded in the chamber. Both brothers looked up, and the creature fell out of the dark.
It crashed into both of them, sending them down. James rolled to his knees, his rifle still in his hands, but Two Face was on him. A bone speared James’ right arm and he screamed. Seething pain burned through him and he dropped his gun. The creature grabbed him by the throat.
Maka crashed into the beast, and both slammed to the ground, rolling over a prone James. Grunts and roars echoed. James crawled on his knees, searching for his gun in the dark until he gave up. He pulled out his father’s Bowie knife. He spotted Maka struggling with Two Face and rushed into the fray.
The Bowie knife slashed up then down the creature’s back with lightening quick moves. The thing yelped and turned on James. Clawed hand met face and James soared across the cave, slamming down on the edge of the pond.
Two Face hurled itself at James again. The two slashed, knife against bone. James lunged, but the creature dodged and then kicked James in the gut. He went down again, splashing into the pond.
James gasped for air as he swallowed water. He felt it slither into his lungs, choking him. Two Face stood over him, driving his razor-sharp bone into James’ ribs. He felt the thing scrape the inside of him, and horrifying agony ravaged him. He tried to scream, but he couldn’t get any air. The abomination straddled him, parting its long black hair. Its head shifted on its shoulders, it twisted its body, and its grotesque evil face leered at James.
The sight of the face stopped James cold. He was unable to resist looking at something so foul, so hideous, so insane. He was drawn to its chaos, its madness, its unreality, and he was helpless. James tried to move but could not. He sweated with fear as his heart pounded in his chest. Two Face lifted his bone weapons above the paralyzed James.
James caught a glimpse of something soaring past. The creature howled in deep agony. It arched backward. James saw the tomahawk protruding from its back.
Maka limped out of the shadows. He lunged for the creature and pushed a knife into its guts. The monster roared again, falling to its knees. Maka towered over it, ripping the tomahawk from the thing’s back and lifting it high. He scalped Two Face, taking its long black hair and finishing it for good. The lifeless body twitched momentarily, then crumpled to the ground.
Maka caught his breath, finally letting the air out, and turned to James. He pulled his brother from the pond and thumped his back.
James coughed, gagged, and threw up filthy water. Air came rushing back in. His lungs filled, but he wheezed. Maka held him in his arms. “You looked at its face.”
“I know,” James croaked.
“How many times have you told me?”
James nodded with a smile, then winced suddenly. “Don’t make me laugh.”
“You should have known better. You could have been dead.”
“I knew I could count on my blood brother.”
Maka smiled back and took James’s hand.
Chief Red Sky took them in and brought them directly to the tribe’s medicine men. They dressed their wounds and nursed them. The brothers lay side-by-side in the medicine teepee.
“He was there, you know, our father,” James said to Maka, who stared knowingly.
“I know. I saw him too.”
“You never said anything.”
“You never asked. He will always be with us, by our sides in our future battles.”
“Future battles?” James winced.
Maka laughed.
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#Herofail Chapter 2
10/23/2018 11:00:00 AM Unknown 0 Comments
It turned out being a superhero didn’t save anybody from the worst evil: meetings. The current reason why my alarm clock shrilled in my ear far, far too early.
Guy flicked my shoulder and I begrudgingly thumped the alarm clock a little harder than necessary. The plastic casing creaked. More importantly, the beeping stopped.
“Eddie Davenport sucks,” I said into my pillow before lifting my head to glare at the darkness outside.
“Yes, so you’ve said,” Guy said without opening his eyes. He had an impressive case of bedhead. And he’d shucked off his shirt, which even half-asleep and grumpy me could appreciate.
“The man knows I’m training to be the Raptor, who operates under the cover of darkness. And you know what darkness requires? Lateness. As in late at night.” I faced my fate, setting my feet on the cold floor. “He knows I need to be out late and he still sets briefings at the ass crack of dawn, solely to get back at me.”
“I think you might be feeling slightly self-centered today,” Guy said, far too amused. “Not a criticism, just a note. Eddie doesn’t even think about your schedule.”
“Eddie takes sadistic pleasure in making my life hell, there’s no way that man doesn’t have my schedule memorized,” I said. Ever the considerate girlfriend, I let Guy go back to sleep and finished dressing in the dark, snatching up my water bottle before I climbed onto the fire escape. I checked to make sure nobody was around before I collected my bicycle, glanced at the ground four stories below, and hopped the railing.
The trip downtown by bike would’ve taken anybody else a lot longer, but I’d absorbed the ability to phase from Angélica. It was a little like a slingshot, where I could alter my own momentum, throw myself across long distances, and land safely with a puff of air to release the force from the phase. On my bike, I could easily hop six blocks in an instant. I wore a helmet with a mirrored visor as a concession to Jessie. It really wouldn’t do to let the world know that Hostage Girl no longer counted herself among the regular humans.
Before I reached the Willis—or Sears, as true Chicagoans still called it—Tower, I swapped the helmet out for my Raptorlet mask, tracing my finger along the tufted ears hugging the line of my skull. The mask let me bypass the security guard at the way station altogether—a good thing, as Marsh and I’d never gotten along—allowing me to walk straight back to the ʼporter lounge.
Jon took one look at me and laughed as he folded up his magazine. “How will you miss me if you don’t go away?”
“What can I say? I love spending time with you. New York, please.” We’d seen each other less than four hours before, when he’d ʼported me back to Chicago after my fight in Battery Park. I’d been tempted to sleep in New York after I finished apprehending Nefarious Norman, but I hadn’t felt like sleeping on a cot in the main headquarters.
Jon put his hands on my shoulders; reality squeezed itself into nothingness for the briefest of seconds, and I opened my eyes to find myself in an identical room eight hundred miles away. I blinked away an ocular migraine. “Thanks for the lift,” I said, waving as I stepped out into the lobby for the Davenport Tower way station. “See you in another four hours, probably.”
“Looking forward to it.” Jon returned his attention to his magazine.
Davenport Industries had invested millions of dollars into creating a network of ʼporters between all the major cities. ʼPorting took both natural talent and a lifetime of training and dedication. Untrained ʼporters couldn’t intentionally hop even a single foot: I knew that from personal experience. No matter how many times I’d inadvertently ʼported myself out of danger, if I wanted to travel from Chicago to New York City on my own, I’d need a plane ticket or a car. And it’d take a hell of a lot longer than a blink.
The convenience of the travel involved didn’t make me feel any better about being summoned to Davenport Tower. Aboveground, Davenport Industries—worldwide leader in technology, mining, real estate, and whatever else made money—operated like any regular business. Only traveling below exposed any of the strangeness: in addition to pretty much running the normal world, Davenport kept watch over the superhero community. They employed, protected, guarded, and sometimes exploited those with powers. Any superhero willing to pull their weight and stay on the mostly right side of the law had a guaranteed place at Davenport Industries—for better or for worse.
My own experiences with Davenport tended to fall more on the worse side.
Most superpowered business took place in a secret facility belowground, but HEX meetings always met on the seventh floor. I hated it, as reaching the briefing room meant a trip through the Annals, a creepy portrait hallway full of (mostly) dead superheroes. It felt disrespectful to phase inside the Annals, so I walked on past the portrait of Kurt Davenport. He’d been the original Raptor, so it was only fair that I saluted him and his judgy face as I passed.
I gave the same salute to the portrait of Guy’s older brother, Sam, aka War Hammer. They had a sister in the family wing, and I didn’t want to be late. I stepped out of the hallway and into a small, nondescript waiting room. The coffee station in the corner held three full pots that I ignored for the water cooler, filling up my bottle.
Quiet footsteps approached. “Raptorlet,” said a voice behind me.
“Rodrigo.”
Rodrigo Calles had dressed for the meeting in gray sweats. The man didn’t own anything that contained color, and I wasn’t sure if it was because he was color-blind or because he simply detested any hue not found on the sea creatures he modeled himself after. Without another word, he reached around me and picked up one of the full coffeepots. He tilted his head back and poured the scalding liquid straight from the pot into his open mouth. It splashed a little, spattering my sleeve.
“What the—hey! You’re not actually a shark, have some manners. And leave some for everyone else.” It was like the man had never worked in an office environment. Come to think of it, he probably hadn’t.
Rodrigo wiped his mouth on his sleeve and pointed at a little piece of tape on the pot. “FOR SHARK-MAN ONLY” it read.
“Still gross,” I said.
“It’s three o’clock in the morning in San Francisco, need I remind you. I hate the East Coast.” Rodrigo refilled his pot from another one—without making up a new pot—and padded after me as I moved into the conference room.
As I stepped inside, a computerized voice announced my code name to the room at large, which was dominated by a single table. Most of the chairs were occupied already, meaning I was one of the stragglers. I wasn’t late, but Eddie Davenport still gave me a cold look as I found my seat. Next to him, Jessie, his twin sister and my boss, nodded in greeting. Most everyone had tablets or laptops open in front of them. I had only my water bottle.
Right before the clock hit six, a familiar figure hurried in with a tablet under her arm. I sat up straighter. I’d never seen Kiki Davenport at a HEX briefing, even though she ran Medical and seemed like an obvious choice for it.
She took a seat on Eddie’s other side without glancing my way.
“Let’s begin,” Eddie said, shuffling the papers in front of him. Monitors along the walls lit up with the word HEX, like we’d forgotten where we were. “My assistant will be taking the minutes and copies will be made available to everyone later today. Before we begin, is there any old business to cover?”
Shark-man raised his hand. “Motion to move the time of these meetings to sometime other than the middle of the night.”
“Seconded,” at least three of the costumed heroes on his side of the table—which represented the West Coast—said in unison.
“After this, briefings will return to the regular time, but this is something of a special circumstance,” Eddie said.
“What circumstance?” Radar Roxy asked, fiddling with her visor.
“We’ll get to that in a moment. Any other old business?”
I had no idea why Eddie insisted on running these briefings like a board meeting, as nobody ever really brought up old business or requested the minutes. I’d seen photographs of the original HEX briefings, where everybody either wore uniform suits or actual suits, but casual Fridays had hit pretty hard since the days of Kurt Davenport. Most of us rolled into meetings in a variety of costume states, some completely masked and others in sweats and street clothes. Judging from the aggravated look on Eddie’s face, he likely would’ve preferred a return to a formal dress code over a bunch of slouching, sleepy superheroes lounging around a table, and Shark-man guzzling coffee in the corner.
Still, business moved along. Seattle had been set on by a rash of oddly organized supervillains, which posed a problem. Supervillains were encouraged to look out for number one first, as that made it easier for the HEX network to take them down. When they joined forces, that spelled bad times for heroes. Pike Place Market still smelled a bit like burning from the attack, apparently. “Almost an improvement over the fish,” someone said, and Rodrigo looked offended.
Different groups had attacked the Alamo, the Bean, and the Brooklyn Bridge in the past couple of days, making it a bad week to work at landmark sites. In a final order of business, TNTeen was aging out of his hero pseudonym and would need a new name soon. We didn’t come up with one, but everybody did agree that TN-Early-Twenties didn’t have quite the same ring.
Throughout the squabbling, Kiki kept her gaze on the table in front of her. I sent a psychic push in her direction, but she ignored me. What was she doing here? She had minor psychic powers (I knew how minor because I’d inherited them from her), but her department didn’t take much interest in these meetings. And why was she sitting by Eddie and Jessie? She was their niece, but they usually did their best to ignore the family connection; there’s complicated family history, and then there’s the Davenports.
My answer came forty long, dragging minutes later. After the Maine superhero contingent finished detailing the latest attack by mutant lobsters—“cursed-aceans,” as Radar Roxy put it—Eddie cleared his throat. “Any other business?” he asked, and everybody shook their heads. “Then let’s get into why this meeting was called so early.”
“I called you all here to let you know there will be a change in management at Davenport Industries. In the coming months, we’ll be bringing my niece to a more prominent position within the company leadership, with the intention of her taking over a third of Davenport’s interests. I’ve made the announcement here because unlike Jessie and me, Kristiana will take an active role in both the superpowered and the aboveground sections of Davenport Industries.”
I looked up sharply. Kristiana? We shared a mental connection and I’d had no idea Kiki was a nickname.
Around the room, people began to shift in their seats, a few of them frowning. It took me a stupidly long time to realize they weren’t reacting to Kiki’s full name.
“The announcement will be made to the general public at a press conference shortly,” Eddie went on, either not noticing or not caring that people had begun to rustle with hostility. “We’ll be hosting a gala in two weeks’ time to welcome my niece to company management. Invitations will be sent to those with a justifiable reason to attend.”
Mentally, I poked Kiki, who had yet to look up from the table. She glanced swiftly at me, apparently surprised enough to let a flicker of actual emotion leak through our bond. You had no idea this was coming, I thought at her, puzzled.
Eddie told me yesterday.
Do you even want this? I thought at her.
She returned her gaze to the table. Jessie looked up from her phone to peer at us suspiciously. Using psychic abilities during a HEX meeting was explicitly forbidden, but it wasn’t like Jessie could prove anything.
It’s complicated, Kiki said. I don’t want to talk about it here.
Fair enough. People trusted Eddie and Jessie, as they hadn’t inherited their mother’s powers and were immune to Villain Syndrome, a disease that made one want to save the world by destroying it. Eddie and Jessie’s younger brother, Marcus, hadn’t been so lucky. He’d been killed while attempting to destroy Grand Central Station. As his only child and somebody with power herself, Kiki lived every day under the umbrella of everybody’s suspicion. Would she develop Villain Syndrome like her father and her grandmother Rita? If so, when?
It was bad enough that she was already close to the inner workings of the most powerful company in the world by running Medical. Now it looked like she would be put in charge of a substantial part of Davenport Industries. Pretty much the last thing anybody with Villain Syndrome needed, really. I could partly understand why nobody looked exactly happy with this decision.
It didn’t help that her maternal grandfather was also a mad scientist. Thank god nobody knew that; there would be rioting in the streets.
“Any questions?” Eddie asked, obviously ignoring the suspicious looks everybody shot at the young woman on his left.
“So will she be turning evil and killing us all before or after the gala?” Rodrigo asked. “I need to decide whether to rent a tux.”
Kiki flinched. Jessie’s face shuttered. I twisted the cap off my water bottle and flicked it. Even before my powers, my aim had been solid; now it was pristine. The cap hit Shark-man in the throat. He jerked forward, hands on his neck and eyes bulging, before his healing factor kicked in. His head swiveled toward me, the promise of retribution in his eyes.
I stroked my chin with my middle finger. Kiki covered her mouth with her hand, which could hide either a smile or a frown.
“Ahem,” Eddie said pointedly, and I waited for a scolding. Eddie only said, “Any actual questions?”
Shark-man glared at me, but remained silent.
“Good,” Eddie said. “Dismissed. Hopefully those of you that can get back to sleep will, and for everybody else, have a good rest of your day.”
Rodrigo slunk from the room, shooting a vicious glare over his shoulder at me and taking my bottle cap with him, the jerk. The other heroes in the room filed out, giving me a wide berth.
“That wasn’t necessary,” said a quiet voice, and Kiki appeared at my side.
“He’s lucky it was me and not Angélica,” I said. “She would’ve punched him.” Which he deserved.
“Sharkbait’s an asshole, news at eleven,” Kiki said with a sigh. “What did you even hit him with?”
I showed her the bottle sans the cap.
“I should’ve guessed.”
Since flinging a beer bottle at a psychic villain had gotten me into this whole superhero mess once upon a time, it wasn’t surprising. I smiled back at her and popped to my feet. “Congrats on the promotion.”
“Thanks. It’ll take everybody some time to get used to it. Maybe in the meantime you could refrain from damaging employees over it. Even Sharkbait.”
“I make no promises,” I said, and Kiki gave me a look. “All right, fine, I’ll leave him alone. It doesn’t matter anyway because I’m not sticking around. I’m going back to bed.” Back to my warm blankets and warmer boyfriend.
“Enjoy,” Kiki said. “But let me leave first, in case Sharkbait’s outside waiting to enact vengeance.”
I could take Rodrigo in a fight, but it was sweet of her to look out for me, so I held back until I got a mental confirmation of all clear before I headed for the door.
“And where,” said a voice behind me, “do you think you’re going?”
I swiveled. “Home?” I said in a hopeful voice.
Jessie Davenport stood with her arms crossed, her eyebrows high. “I was planning to give you a few hours off until your little stunt with Mr. Calles,” she said.
“In my defense, I didn’t use any powers to hit him with that cap. I’m naturally that good.”
“Doesn’t matter. Your restlessness tells me you need some time on the obstacle course. If you know what’s good for you, you’ll get to headquarters before I do.”
I sighed. “Something tells me you took the Raptorjet to work this morning, too.”
“Would you look at that, it appears I did. You might want to hurry,” Jessie said, walking for the door with a slight limp. She’d fallen off a roof last week.
I cursed under my breath and leapt, phasing out the door. As I raced by, I swore I heard her laugh. It was foolish to expect that I would be able to go back to bed. After all, the first rule of being a superhero was you never got the day off.
Continued in Chapter Three
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Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds Give Madison Square Park a Free Show to Remember
One of the primary reasons I've stuck around New York for so long is the seemingly endless amount of free concerts. While some artists are content with providing a little background music for picnickers, some go that extra mile to satisfy their longtime fans as well. Last night in Madison Square Park, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds proved they have no interest in only being paired with hummus, grapes, and prosciutto; they exist to make you shake your ass.
I took a spot on the ground near the soundboard, surrounded by couples on blankets. Arleigh "Sister Sparrow" Kincheloe, dressed entirely in white, bounced out onto the stage to the intro of "The Long Way." I realized quickly that I was too far away. The mix was only coming out of the speakers framing the stage, so the horns sounded thin. I relocated to the standing section to the right of the stage, discovering that part of the reason for this was the absence of trombonist Ryan Snow. I overcame my longing for trombone as soon as the Dirty Birds plunged into their second tune, a cover of "The Way You Make Me Feel" that sounded like the love child of MJ and Dr. Funkenstein. Josh Myers was absolutely murdering it on the bass, and they even spiced it up with a pinch of "Kashmir." Following a powerful "Freight Train," Arleigh encouraged the audience to come forward. "I feel like you're afraid to get a little closer to the Dirty Birds. They don't smell too bad," she confessed. That's all it took for the crowd to sweep in like pigeons spotting breadcrumbs, nodding their heads to each "uh-huh" in "Don't Be Jealous." "This is a song I wrote for my best friend. It's kind of about troublemakers in your life," announced Arleigh before the groovy new summer track, "Prison Cells." "Disappear," another fresh tune, came next, allowing for some raspy riffing by Kincheloe at its end. Sister Sparrow-staple "Make It Rain" spotlighted an extended saxophone solo from Brian Graham, with Arleigh shaking a tambourine and giving a look to the crowd that she was also genuinely impressed by his sax skills. The last Sister Sparrow show I'd been to was their Zeppelin IV cover concert, and a whole lotta Led must've rubbed off on new number "Catch Me If You Can," with Arleigh giving off serious '70s rocker vibes over the chunky blues of the Birds. Myers let another fantastic bass bomb drop to kick off the final ditty, "Boogie Man."
Less than a minute after their departure, Arleigh ran back onto the stage and let out a guttural scream into the microphone. Sister Sparrow then turned her tail to the crowd for a photo op. "You ready, boys?" she said after the Kodak moment, gathering her flock for the encore. The band tore into their "Bulls on Parade/Rock & Roll" mashup to finish it out, with Jackson Kincheloe serving up a positively wicked harmonica solo.
Requests for a podcast interview have been made, so look out for that later this year. SSDB will return to NYC for a two-night stand at Bowery Ballroom the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving. Arleigh's advice? "Come on out. Work off that turkey."
SISTER SPARROW & THE DIRTY BIRDS - 08.06.14 - MADISON SQUARE PARK (1 hour, 17 minutes)
SET -
The Long Way / Sugar > The Way You Make Me Feel > Kashmir (tease) > The Way You Make Me Feel / We Need a Love / Freight Train / Don't Be Jealous / Prison Cells / Disappear / Borderline / Make It Rain / My House / Horn Section Solo > Crawdaddies / Catch Me If You Can / Boogie Man
ENCORE -
Bulls on Parade/Rock & Roll
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José González & yMusic Lincoln Center Setlist
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JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ & YMUSIC - 07.31.14 - DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL (59 minutes)
Stay in the Shade / Deadweight on Velveteen / Hints / Hand on Your Heart / Teardop / Crosses / The Nest / Promises to Keep* / Fold / Instrumental* / Lovestain / Abram / Killing for Love / This is How We Walk on the Moon / With the Ink of a Ghost
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