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Who voiced Allison Taylor in the episode, "Lard of the Dance"
In Allison's first appearance in "Lisa's Rival", she was voiced by one-time guest-star Winona Ryder. But in Lard of the Dance, her voice sound ''just'' like Winona Ryder's VO. However, she had a generic child voice in "The Last Tap Dance in Springfield".
the-simpsons
asked Aug 14, 2014 by Kid Sonic (talk) (530 points)
retagged Aug 14, 2014 by Solar Dragon (talk)
That would be Pamela Hayden.
answered Aug 14, 2014 by Solar Dragon (talk) (93,830 points)
selected Aug 31, 2014 by Loco87 (talk)
What song was used in Lard of The Dance?
asked Sep 21, 2019 by Dthomas20 (talk) (190 points)
Why did both Lard Of The Dance and Blood Feud air after the original season it was produced in but before the next one?
asked Jun 22, 2015 by anonymous
Season 24 episode 13 "Hardly Kirk-ing", who did the cover of "Here Comes Your Man"?
asked Apr 7, 2015 by katyb
Who was the Lord of Rock to the far left on the "Covercraft" episode? Was it Warren Zevon?
asked Nov 27, 2014 by Mike McK
Who is the singer at the end of The Winter of his Content episode?
asked Mar 17, 2014 by anonymous
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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago
Does the right offer anyone comparable to Noam Chomsky?
The J Man
What, what, what!?
You mean Rush, Hannity, Coulter, Friedman, O'Rielly and all the wingnut posters on here don't count!?
Great question. It's like the American denial that Einstein was openly socialist and advocated it.
And before anyone denies this, here it is:
http://monthlyreview.org/598einstein.php
Smart people are more often than not socialist, liberal, non-religious and pacifist.
Check out people who win Nobel Prizes.
Now compare those folks to what the right offers us. The only people on the right who are smart are economists, and their theories never seem to actually work. The only truly influential economist I can think of who had a clue was Keynes, and the right HATE him. (I've a degree in Economics, I might as well have a degree in Alchemy or Astrology. They've got as much predictive power as the classical economics supported by the right.)
Ayn Rand? Verbose doesn't equal brilliant. Her reputation for influence is much greater than her actual influence.
Christopher Hitchens is NOT conservative. He is a passionate atheist who thought that fundamentalist Christianity of the west was a lesser evil than fundamentalist Islam. His support of military intervention is hardly a quality that defines him as conservative. Liberals are not always opposed to war.
Buckley was a rich oil tycoon who promoted the interests of the rich. He founded the psuedointellectual National Review which has demonstrably hurt society with its lies and misrepresentations. I work at a place which subscribes to it. It would be a joke if weren't so respected and influential. Last year they ran an article on genetic determinism based on ignorant misrepresentation of issues that had been thoroughly answered by 1976. They ran this article as though they were on the cutting edge, and their semi-literate, scientically ignorant readership had no idea they were reading garbage. The article couldn't have been more of a misrepresentation if it had claimed that all scientists believe in ID.
Chomsky hasn't ever done anything like Buckley. Chomsky has made the world better. If Buckley had never been, the sun would shine brighter and the sky would be bluer.
Check out shevek_v's link.
That guy is most definitely NOT a modern conservative.
"In the book, Hayek writes that the government has a role to play in the economy through the monetary system, work-hours regulation, and institutions for the flow of proper information" (wiki link)
This cat, Hayek was also against laissez-faire capitalism, which is THE defining quality of the modern right. What do you think the term "free markets" means?
The economist Peter Schiff is the smartest guy I've seen on the right. Check out his interview on The Daily Show.
I'm very liberal, but I thought he might be right.
But, dude isn't a Chomsky. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone comparable to Chomsky in any category you wish to define. Chomsky's name is with the greats.
I cannot think of any of Chomsky's contemporaries on the right who match his intellect in political philosophy.
A past contender would have been the economist, Fredrich Hayek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Milton Friedman could have been another contender.
If you are looking for right wing academic thinkers try doing searches in the ares of ethno-symbolism and ethno-politics - especially those of Apartheid era South African origin.
P J O'Rourke is the best conservative theorist and commentator of his generation of you ask me.
I love him...and I am a leftie not a Dem...not even American...but he is witty, articulate and very politically savvy
I love the story about coming home from college all rebellious and announcing to his mega wealthy East Coast gran that he was a Communist.
And the old girl sips her Martini and says
"Well thank God you're not a Democrat, darlong"
ROFL!!
Priceless...and Holidays in Hell has a lot to tell us about Con foreign Policy objectives and preoccupations.
Source(s): I am serious...not taking the p!ss at all. I love the guy...have several of his books and collected writings.
Not really. Noam Chomsky's approach is fact-based and cerebral. The closest the right came to him was Wm. F. Buckley, an man whose intelligent commentary was over the heads of most Republicans today.
Conservatives today want red meat. They want right-wing talk show hosts who bloviate and bully and tell only one side of the story. It's more about confrontiveness and attitude than about facts.
The first answerer mentions Chomsky's fame as a language expert and says that most would be liberal. Perhaps he's forgotten S.I. Hayakawa. 8^) He was a professor of linguistics (or something) who rose to be president of San Francisco State College in the early 1970s and then served one term in the Senate for California. Actually Hayakawa was very intelligent and was able to present a good argument. He's been mostly forgotten today.
Vahé
No one comes to mind. Ayn Rand, people like that, they aren't really even like other right-wingers. She's a pretty good example, but nothing like Chomsky even. I wouldn't call her a right-winger, either.
I think that's part of the problem with the right-wing. They don't want to look at the facts. They just look for what feels good. It's finally taken its toll on their movement.
I suppose it is possible that someone could rise up, but doubtful...
John Stuart Mill was certainly nothing like what we'd think of as a right-winger.
Noam Chomsky's views are just as much aligned (or misaligned) with both sides of the spectrum. He's an anarchist/libertarian and doesn't really belong on the left or the right of the political spectrum.
In Defense of ☭Marxism
William Buckley?
There're Traditonal TRUE conservatives out there who advocates true freedom to all, but neo-cons choose to tune in Rush Limballs. LMAO.
Erich M
Nope. Chomsky is the man. You'd have to go way back to like a John Stuart Mill, but that's really a stretch as there really are no true "conservatives" these days.
Dont Call Me Dude
I do not know of any intelligent, well-reasoning arguers for semi-fascist ideas who provide "radical" cover for standard conservatives.
That would be the rightist equivalent of Chomsky, who is an intelligent, well-reasoning arguer for semi-socialist/anarchist ideas who provides "radical" cover for standard liberals.
Ah, well (sigh). He's better than nothing.
Source(s): an American Marxian socialist
What are the gun nuts going to do in Virginia today ?
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Bridgestone B330 RX vs Titleist Pro V1? Let’s compare them!
Titleist has long been the No. 1 name in golf balls. That’s part of the reason why you have seen so many companies take aim at the leader. Heavy lies the head that wears the crown.
While Titleist, particularly with its Pro V1 and Pro V1X models, continue to be big sellers, several usurpers have gained ground. Specifically, TaylorMade’s TP5x and Callaway’s Chrome Soft have bitten into Titleist’s lead, at least in the category of premium balls.
Another company, Bridgestone, has been attempting to make headway for several years versus the king, Titleist. One of Bridgestone’s fine balls, the B330 RX is not a perfect comparison to the ProV1. But they are close enough to warrant a side-by-side comparison.
Bridgestone B330 RX
Bridgestone Tour B330 RX 2016 Golf Ball, Yellow (Packing may vary)
The Amatour Core is 28% softer than the average tour ball core and utilizes a steeper gradient in softness from the inner part of the core to the outer region, resulting in faster ball speed and more reduced spin off the driver than ever before.
The newly formulated SlipRes Cover has the highest friction coefficient rating possible for maximum greenside spin AND reduced spin off the driver for longer distance. SlipRes also delivers a self-repairing cover for longer playability.
A note before we do a deeper dive on the B330 RX. This ball has been phased out and replaced with the Tour B-series of balls. The new Tour B RX is almost the same ball, if you have difficulty finding the discontinued B330 RX.
While this ball is excellent overall, it is specifically designed for a certain type of player, the mid-handicapper. Many players in that category are quite competitive with single-digit handicappers with one glaring exception: length off the tee.
When Bridgestone released this ball in 2008, it was marketed as being Tour quality but designed for lower swing speeds.
No matter how good you are from 100 yards and in, if you often find yourself 30 to 40 yards behind your fellow golfers, you will be playing at a disadvantage. Bridgestone aimed to reduce that deficit with a gradational compression core. The lower the compression a golf ball has the greater the rebound effect, thus producing longer shots.
Of course, there is a trade-off in feel and overall performance for low-compression balls. Bridgestone attempts to have it both ways by gradually changing the compression in the different layers of the ball. This innovation is typical these days, but it was revolutionary more than a decade ago.
Simply put, the B330 RX travels farther and straighter with its reduced spin and mid-level launch angle. While it does not perform badly in the short game, it does not have the stopping power of other premium balls.
Bridgestone’s SlipRes cover is quite durable and, according to the company, has the highest friction coefficient rating possible. This helps overcome the disadvantage it has in the short game.
The 330 in the name references the dimple count, which are arranged with smaller dimples inside surrounded by larger patterns. This design is intended to reduce drag and improve runout for greater distance.
In short, this remains an excellent ball and one that changed the game for golf balls on its release to the public.
Titleist Pro V1
Titleist Pro V1 Golf Balls, White, Standard Play Numbers (1-4), One Dozen
Extraordinary Distance with Consistent Flight
Very Low Long Game Spin and Penetrating Trajectory
There is a reason why the Pro V1 is such a big-time seller. It remains one the best overall performers of any golf ball on the market.
While competitors have been chipping away at its lead, the Pro V1 and Pro V1X are still far and away the most popular balls on the professional tours.
The Pro V1 is designed for those pros, as well as single-digit handicap amateurs. While less advanced golfers can still get good performance from this ball, there is an excellent reason why better players love it.
Distance balls often have lower compression rates than the 90 or so that the Pro V1 carries. The lower compression means slower swing speeds can compress the ball more easily, resulting in greater distance. However, if you can generate club-head speeds of 100 miles per hour or greater, you will have no trouble compressing the Pro V1.
That means golfers using the Pro V1 with sufficient swing speeds lose no distance to so-called “distance” balls. And they gain plenty.
The Pro V1 remains one of the softest feeling balls on the market. And it has sufficient spin that proficient golfers can turn the ball in either direction without much effort. That added spin also helps the ball stop on command on approach shots.
And Titleist is not resting on its laurels. The newest version of the Pro V1 has a 17 percent thinner cover. The effect is added spin without losing any spin or control. While the cover got thinner, the casing layer got thicker. This is the layer that is the difference-maker when it comes to optimum spin.
It is easy to take a particular stance on which of these two balls is best for you.
If you have a swing speed below 100 mph but above 80, choose the Bridgestone B330 RX. A club-head speed of 100 mph or greater is a better fit for the Titleist ProV1.
While that last paragraph is apt, it does not tell the entire story.
For example, while most mid-handicappers are experienced golfers who have lost a bit of length as they have aged, there are plenty who shoot a similar score with a much different game. Younger golfers in particular sometimes can hit the ball with anyone off the tee, but struggle around the game. Or maybe you are a mid-handicapper who still likes to work the ball in either direction when the situation calls for it. Golfers in those latter two categories might well sacrifice distance and go with the Titleist Pro V1.
Or maybe you are a mid-handicapper who plays the majority of your rounds on a shorter course that demands greater shot-making. Again, this tends to lead you toward Titleist.
One area where Bridgestone is the clear choice is price. While not the cheapest on the market, it is less expensive than Titleist. For some golfers, that matters, as golf can be an expensive hobby.
Bottom line is that these are two excellent golf balls. Even a mid- or high-handicapper will find something to like about the Titleist Pro V1. And Bridgestone’s B330 RX changed the way golf balls are made, which is not to be dismissed.
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stripybag
I have started the cooking for the ‘banquet’ next Tuesday. This is a beef madras that’s been altered to slow cook. Once it’s done it will be in the freezer.🐂👍🏴
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traceyross
Thank you. You menu sounds lovely I’m sure your guests will be very happy @stripybag
Hi @traceyross , I couldn’t read the end of your message after ‘menu sound’.
You prepare some astounding food. 👍🍴🍷
Looking good @stripybag and your menu sounds lovely.
A good “Calvados” will clear everything @stripybag!
Thanks @ latif, hope I will be able to move.🍷🍴😂
Hari Ghotra
Sounds epic @stripybag ! What are you cooking @Mark Harvey ?
Well, then “bon voyage” after the banquet @stripybag!
Off to France the next day 🇫🇷🍷🍷🍷🍴🦆
Hi @boo, I’m doing lamb keema, goat, and coconut pork curry with rice and cauliflower ‘rice’, maybe some cabbage stir fry. I’m going for Malbec as an accomplishment, ha ha 🍷
What have you planned else for your banquet? @stripybag! I suggest it will be amazing!! Bon appétit!!
Super! Beef Madras is a classic in the Indian cooking! Wish you fun for next Tuesday @stripybag
I've got one on Friday 🌶️🍷
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YJBY - Jervis Bay Airport
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Jervis Bay (, locally ) is a 102-square-kilometre (39 sq mi) oceanic bay and village on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, said to possess the whitest sand in the world. It is surrounded by Jervis Bay and Wreck Bay. A 70-square-kilometre (27 sq mi) area of land around the southern headland of the bay is a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia known as the Jervis Bay Territory.
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The Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche
Founded in 1587, the shrine is at the heart of the oldest European settlement on what in the United States, and is America’s oldest Marian shrine.
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It is dedicated to the devotion to Mary as a mother nursing the infant Jesus — a devotion popularized by the Spanish who arrived at the mission site (called La Florida) on September 8, 1565 on the feast day of the nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Highlights of the shrine include the Our Lady of La Leche statue, the Great Cross, a 208-foot stainless steel cross, and a rustic altar in the mission’s “Sacred Acre,” an outdoor altar in approximately the same place as the outdoor altar at the shrine’s founding Mass.
The shrine is a popular pilgrimage site for those hoping to become pregnant mother and those hoping to become pregnant, and many attest to wonders worked as a result of Mary’s intercession.
Prior to the elevation of the shrine, on August 22 of this year Bishop Felipe Estévez of the Diocese of St. Augustine reinstated the Confraternity of Our Lady of La Leche which had become inactive over the years.
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Amy Renaud
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This was a cute story about two sisters that were in between a rock and a hard place.
Abigail had inherited her father’s bakery however women weren’t allowed to own property at that time. She was to either sell the bakery or have it taken from her.
Or, plan c.
Find a husband.
An Impossible Situation. An Unlikely Couple.
A Recipe for Love?
After fulfilling a pledge to a dying friend, Zacharias Hamilton is finally free to live life on his own terms. No opportunities to disappoint those he cares about, just the quiet bachelor existence he’s always craved. Until fate snatches his freedom away once again when the baker of his favorite breakfast treat is railroaded by the city council. As hard as he tries to avoid getting involved, he can’t turn a blind eye to her predicament . . . or her adorable dimples.
Abigail Kemp needs a man’s name on her bakery’s deed. A marriage of convenience seems the best solution . . . if it involves a man she can control. Not the stoic lumberman who oozes confidence without saying a word whenever he enters her shop. Control Zacharias Hamilton? She can’t even control her pulse when she’s around him.
Once vows are spoken, Abigail’s troubles should be over. Yet threats to the bakery worsen, and darker dangers hound her sister. As trust grows between Zach and Abby, she finds she wants more than his rescue. She wants his heart.
“[Zach’s] compassionate, charitable nature coupled with his good looks, fighting skills and protective instincts make him a hero to die for. . . . More Than Words Can Say is a lovely story that is a complete pleasure to read.”–All About Romance
“Karen Witemeyer is a pro at creating imperfect, but loveable, characters and plopping them down in a unique setting and situation. The main characters are endearing, and the cast of secondary characters are colorful and well-drawn. The author’s wit and sense of humor shine through the story to make it a fun read.”–Interviews and Reviews
Now, onto my thoughts:
I love Karen Witemeyer for her wit and storytelling… and I love stories of marriages of convenience. All her stories are well written, this one is no exception.
The only trouble is when the couple gets married at the beginning of the book and the story is about them falling in love… well, boundaries ain’t no thang… so that can create a bit of a… blushing reader…if you know what I mean. To be clear, it is a CLEAN read, but I’m not sure some of the topics in this book are really for an unmarried reader. It’s kind of like when certain things are talked about to the entire congregation instead of holding a marriage conference. Do you know what I mean?
I love Karen’s work. I definitely laughed a lot and enjoyed the plot and all that. I don’t want to give a spoiler, but the kids Abigail and Zach helped in-the-end were the cherry on top… that, and the widows in the community who came to Abigail’s rescue. I hope that’s not too spoiler-like for you all.
I give it a four-star – I mean, I am married and found this story very relatable. It might be a good book for a book group for engaged ladies or new brides. 😀
Winner of the HOLT Medallion and the Carol Award and a finalist for the RITA and Christy Award, bestselling author Karen Witemeyer writes historical romance to give the world more happily-ever-afters. Karen makes her home in Abilene, Texas, with her husband and three children. Learn more about Karen and her books at www.karenwitemeyer.com.
More Than Words Can Say can be purchased at amazon.ca or amazon.com.
Note: I received an e-copy free from the publisher for my honest review.
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Ignore False Reports, Smart Card Readers Still Much Relevant – INEC
#Bayelsa/Kogi Decide
AN24IV
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has debunked claims that the Smart Card Reader (SCR), would no longer be used during elections in the country.
The Commission said the clarification became necessary following recent media reports, which had quoted the National Commissioner in Charge of Information and Voter Education, Barr Festus Okoye, as saying the electronic device had outlived its usefulness in the nation’s electoral system.
In a statement signed by the same National Commissioner, Okoye, Thursday evening in Abuja, the Commission said the value of the SCR is still very relevant to the conduct of elections in the country, explaining that use of the device had been included in the laws guiding electoral conducts in the country to protect the process against compromise on abuse.
According to the statement, the SCR was introduced to ascertain the identity of voters and to prevent impersonation and multiple voting, warning anyone, including polling officers who would attempt circumventing the process by abandoning the SCR, would be deemed to have committed a crime, for which he would be prosecuted.
“The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will continue to use and deploy the Smart Card Reader (SCR) in all elections, including the re- run elections in the Kogi West Senatorial District, the Ajaokuta Federal Constituency and Sabuwa State Constituency elections holding on Saturday, November 30, 2019.
“This clarification has become necessary in the light of remarks attributed to the National Commissioner in-charge of Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye Esq, at a program organized by the Situation Room, which gave the impression that Smart Card Readers are no longer useful in the electoral process.
“To the contrary, the National Commissioner spoke in the context of attempts by some political interests to willfully by-pass the Smart Card Reader during elections, to inflate their votes. They do this against the backdrop of the Supreme Court decision that the SCR is not to be used exclusively to determine over-voting.
“However, the Commission introduced the Smart Card Reader (SCR) in the electoral process principally as additional confirmatory and authentication tool to determine the authenticity of cards presented by voters and eliminate impersonation, which are serious challenges to the electoral process in Nigeria. The SCR is therefore designed to strengthen the integrity of the electoral process and eliminate multiple voting.
“In accordance with Section 49(1 & 2) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended) and Clause paragraph 10(a) of INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections, a person intending to vote with his voter’s card shall be verified to be the same person on the Register of Voters by use of the Smart Card Reader (SCR).
“Furthermore, by paragraph 10(b) of the said Regulations and Guidelines,
“Any Poll Official who violates the provisions of paragraph 10(a), relating to the use of the Smart Card Reader, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to prosecution”.
“Political Parties, candidates in election, Poll Agents and the electorate are reminded that voter resistance to the use of the Smart Card Reader and obstruction and resistance to the deployment/distribution of electoral materials constitute unlawful truncation of the electoral process and zero votes will be entered for the affected polling unit.
“The Commission will continue to work with the National Assembly and all the critical stakeholders to reduce malpractices in our electoral process, including over voting. As part of this process, strengthening the legal basis of the use of the SCR, as well as other amendments that will advance the electoral process, would be vigorously pursued.
“The Commission will also continue to work with the security agencies and other stakeholders to prevent individuals and/or groups from undermining the use and application of the Smart Card Reader in elections,” the statement said.
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Google Play and Android milestones highlighted for mobile consumers
Rei Padla
It’s the holidays and 2018 is about to set. Google has seen a lot of changes and introduced a number of innovations and new technologies. The Google Play specifically has reached milestones when it comes to app development and offering support for app developers. Some devs of apps and games were given support in launching their businesses and grow them within the Android community via the #IMakeApps initiative. It’s a project that celebrates app makers worldwide, allowing them to create experiences that may help many people from all over the world.
#IMakeApps highlighted stories to inspire more app and game developers. It’s a celebration of the hard work of all app makers from different parts of the world. It helps devs with their businesses by providing the tools and resources.
The goal is to extend an app’s reach and be able to engage more users. Securing the ecosystem is also one focus so expect related enhancements and futures.
Google is wrapping up all its achievements. There’s Android P which turned out to be Android 9 Pie, Android Jetpack for the Android developer ecosystem, Android Studio, Kotlin support, rich and dynamic UI templates with Slices, and APIs for new screens.
When it comes to publishing, a new format was launched. There’s also the Android App Bundle, saving download and size, Android Studio 3.2, and early access feature. All these and more can help achieve richer experiences and discovery and optimized quality and performance.
The Android dev team has introduced Google Play Instant, instant app support, pre-registration program. The Google Play Console has also received a number of updates for tracking and data analysis. Notice the customizable tools, downloadable reports, actionable Android vitals, dashboard highlighting core vitals, start-up time and permission denials vitals, and peer benchmarks among others.
The Academy for App Success is another way to improve on app development and learn the business practices. App quality is key and we’re hoping more Android developers will learn the best practices and take advantage of the Play Console.
SOURCE: Android Developers Blog
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Adolescents in treatment for alcohol/other drug problems: Profiles associated with psychological attributes and ethnic identity
James Williams, J. Ruiz-Molleston
Although often unreported, clinical practitioners and researchers support the notion that a significant proportion of adolescents in treatment for alcohol/other drug abuse may have personal pathology associated with psychological attributes (Luthar and D'Avanzo, 1999). In addition, there has been limited research reported on ethnic identity serving as a moderator of psychosocial risk and drug use in adolescents (Scheier, Botvin, Diaz, and Ifill-Williams, 1997). This pilot study examined psychological attributes related to alcohol/other drug use and the influence of ethnic identity for White and Ethnic adolescents in treatment. This study uses data from a sample of 127 adolescents referred to an outpatient treatment center who were comprehensively assessed at the time of admission into an intensive outpatient program for drug use. The study results indicate: (1) there were overall differences associated with psychological attributes for White and Ethnic adolescents; (2) the scores on alienation, social nonconformity, personal discomfort, and self-expression scales were correlated with drug use at a higher rate for Ethnic adolescents when compared to Whites; (3) the scores for Whites were higher on the defensiveness scale when compared to Ethnic adolescents; and (4) with some modification of assessment procedures, these profiles can be used by providers for the development of treatment plans for adolescents.
Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly
https://doi.org/10.1300/J020v19n03_04
Social Alienation
Alcohol/other drugs
Williams, J., & Ruiz-Molleston, J. (2001). Adolescents in treatment for alcohol/other drug problems: Profiles associated with psychological attributes and ethnic identity. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 19(3), 45-63. https://doi.org/10.1300/J020v19n03_04
Adolescents in treatment for alcohol/other drug problems : Profiles associated with psychological attributes and ethnic identity. / Williams, James; Ruiz-Molleston, J.
In: Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3, 01.12.2001, p. 45-63.
Williams, J & Ruiz-Molleston, J 2001, 'Adolescents in treatment for alcohol/other drug problems: Profiles associated with psychological attributes and ethnic identity', Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 45-63. https://doi.org/10.1300/J020v19n03_04
Williams J, Ruiz-Molleston J. Adolescents in treatment for alcohol/other drug problems: Profiles associated with psychological attributes and ethnic identity. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly. 2001 Dec 1;19(3):45-63. https://doi.org/10.1300/J020v19n03_04
Williams, James ; Ruiz-Molleston, J. / Adolescents in treatment for alcohol/other drug problems : Profiles associated with psychological attributes and ethnic identity. In: Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly. 2001 ; Vol. 19, No. 3. pp. 45-63.
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Home > Arsenal > KEY DECISION MADE | Gunners Fast-track Director Of Football Search With Two Potential Names, To Save Their Season And Assist Unai Emery
KEY DECISION MADE | Gunners Fast-track Director Of Football Search With Two Potential Names, To Save Their Season And Assist Unai Emery
by Ankit Nath - 17/02/2019 19/02/2019 1
Arsenal are looking to immediately appoint a Director of Football if reports emerging from London are to be believed. The Gunners are presently in a dire need of a new face to fill the void at the club’s leadership and decision making level after their head of recruitment, Sven Mislintat and chief executive, Ivan Gazidis quit in recent months.
It is understood that the club have circled in on Roma’s Ramon Monchi and Ajax’s Marc Overmars as the leading candidates to appoint them as the new Arsenal Supremo, the Director of Football.
Arsenal enjoyed a fine start to the season with 22 match unbeaten streak in all competitions which was only broken by Southampton last December. However, since then developments in recent days have suggested that the chances for Champions League action are definitely not going to come easy next season.
The Gunners suffered a humiliating defeat against BATE Borisov which seriously dampened their chances of progressing further in Europa League. They have also dropped out of the top four after the resurgence of Manchester United under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Arsenal’s recent results.
Full-time: Bate Borisov 1-0 Arsenal https://t.co/vgSLPkEXBT pic.twitter.com/FMQ52Z05cI
— Guardian sport (@guardian_sport) February 14, 2019
All these latest developments suggest that Arsenal need much more than just a change in their manager or the way they play on field, a much bigger impact needs to be made by changing the way the club is being administered presently.
According to the reports in English media, Arsenal have made their hunt for their first ever Director of Football a priority in an effort to stabilise things at the club in the short term and pave the way for a future overhaul and transition during the summer.
The restructuring at the helm of club’s hierarchy was already set in place when Arsene Wenger was in charge. It continued this season with Gazidis’s departure to A.C Milan. It continued further when their highly rated head of recruitment Sven Mislintat, who was influential in bringing Emery to Emirates, quit this month after completing just 14 months of his tenure.
After having witnessed all of this in the recent months, Arsenal now need someone who can fill in this massive void in multiple roles and work from behind the scenes in order stabilise the club so that Emery can completely focus on the field and do his job.
The general consensus among Arsenal supporters is that Roma’s Monchi is a pretty good candidate for the job of Director of Football. He was part of Sevilla’s magnificent success story when they became a serious contenders in European football by winning 3 back to back Europa Leagues.
Monchi enjoys a good rapport with Unai Emery and they can certainly work together to bring the glory days back to Emirates. Monchi can work well with limited resources as evident from his tenure at Sevilla and Roma and has an eye to spot emerging talents from whom his former clubs have gone on to pocket massive transfer fees, thus showing his eye for talent and the impressive business he has already demonstrated while working with stringent budget.
Another name that is being seriously considered is Marc Overmars of Ajax. Overmars has been doing a good job there, in his native homeland for the past 6 years. He has helped in producing talents like Frenkie De Jong and Matthijs De Ligt, Dohlberg and has an Ajax sporting philosophy ingrained in his working style which Arsenal can really utilise and benefit from.
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He believes in grooming and nurturing young talents which is in the club DNA and he can dedicate himself for this with Arsenal as he is a former Gunner himself and indeed embodies the club and its values really well.
Another name that Arsenal should seriously consider for the role of Director of Football, but is not doing the rounds in the media is that of Antero Henrique of PSG. It is understood that he does not have a good working relationship with Thomas Tuchel and he is set to leave PSG this summer.
This can very well prove to be an opportunity that Arsenal can capitalise on. He was also the Director of Football for Porto and had kept them relevant in European Football during his tenure there even with the humble resources he had at his disposal back then. He would surely prove to be a good fit for Arsenal and the least the club can do right now is consider all options available if they are to actually save the season and secure a top four spot at the minimum.
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Thanks Autopilot: Cops stop Tesla whose driver appears asleep and drunk
Don't drink and drive—even if you have Autopilot.
Timothy B. Lee - May 18, 2019 6:45 pm UTC
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Police in the Netherlands on Thursday pulled over a Tesla driver who had apparently fallen asleep at the wheel while driving down the highway. A Dutch police agency reported the incident on Instagram.
A 50-year-old man was spotted driving close to the car ahead of him on the A27 road. "When we came alongside, the driver appeared to have fallen asleep," the police said.
Police signaled for the driver to pull over, but he didn't seem to notice. Eventually, the officers managed to wake the driver up using a siren, the Instagram post says. Police administered a blood alcohol test and found the driver to be under the influence of alcohol.
"His driving license was collected on the basis of Article 5 of the Road Traffic Act," the police wrote.
This isn't the first time authorities have pulled over an apparently sleeping and intoxicated driver in a Tesla. Last November, it took police seven miles to pull over a driver in Palo Alto, Calif. In that case, police had to speed ahead of the vehicle and then slow down to force the vehicle to stop.
In January, police arrested a man whose car was stopped on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. He assured the officers that everything was OK because his car had been "on Autopilot." That excuse didn't convince officers, who arrested him and charged him with a DUI.
Thanks to Chris Lee for help with translation.
Correction: The police said that man's intoxication level was 340ug/l, which I originally wrote was equivalent to a blood alcohol content of 0.34 percent in the US. However, I've deleted this statement because I think it's probably wrong. The Netherlands has standards for both blood alcohol content and breath alcohol content. While the police didn't explicitly state which one they measured, the units make me think it's a breath alcohol figure, which isn't directly comparable to blood alcohol standards in the US. I also initially wrote that the police arrested the man, but a reader pointed out that the Instagram post doesn't actually say that—just that the car was pulled over. So I updated the post accordingly.
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The Instagram post cites a BAC level of 340ug /l, which—if my math is right—is a BAC of 0.34 percent in American units.
It could be that 340µg/L is actually the breath alcohol content (BrAC), which would yield a BAC (blood) of 0.07%.
This is undoubtedly the case here.
BAC is not usually reported in µg/L, and if it were, 340 µg/L equates to a BAC of 0.00%.
BrAC is often reported in µg/L and a BrAC of 340 µg/L equates to BAC of 0.07%, as pointed out by plantagenet. This is below the legal limit in every US state other than Utah (although above the legal limit for everywhere in Europe other than England, Wales, and Northern Ireland).
Plug the numbers in here and see for yourself if you like.
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[Correction: The police said that man's intoxication level was 340ug/l, which I originally wrote was equivalent to a blood alcohol content of 0.34 percent in the US. However, I've deleted this statement because I think it's probably wrong. The Netherlands has standards for both blood alcohol content and breath alcohol content. While the police didn't explicitly state which one they measured, the units make me think it's a breath alcohol figure, which isn't directly comparable to blood alcohol standards in the US.
In the US police use linear measurement breathalyzer units that are calibrated for a blood-to-breath alcohol ratio 2,100:1, which assumes that there are 2,100 milliliters of alcohol in the blood for every 1 milliliter of alcohol in the breath. In other words, on average, the alcohol content of 1 ml of blood is 2,100 milliliters higher than that of 1 ml of breath.
In Canada police use linear measurement breathalyzer units that are calibrated for a blood-to-breath alcohol ratio 2,300:1, which assumes that there are 2,300 milliliters of alcohol in the blood for every 1 milliliter of alcohol in the breath. In other words, on average, the alcohol content of 1 ml of blood is 2,300 milliliters higher than that of 1 ml of breath.
In the United States minimum BAC limits are; .08 % (a federal limit) or higher except in Utah where its .05 % or higher - Drivers under 21 its 0.01% to 0.05% (varies by state) - Per Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration = 0.04% for drivers of a commercial vehicle requiring a commercial driver's license and 0.01% for operators of common carriers (e.g. buses).
The higher the ratio the lower the breath alcohol level. Or to put it another way, for the same breath sample, an instrument calibrated at 2,100:1 will give a lower blood alcohol reading than one calibrated at 2,300:1.
Police in the Netherlands use linear measurement breathalyzer units that are generally calibrated 1.40 milligrams per litre [mg/l BrAC] = 0.32% BAC at the top end and not calibrated directly on a ratio like US and Canadian police units. This may not be the same for all the Neitherlands - police in different areas may use units with different calibration factors and the blood-to-breath alcohol ratio can be 2,300:1, 2,200:1, 2,100:1 or 2,000:1 depending on the police usage in the area. The ratio for these are set after calibration according to the area in which the unit is used in Europe including the Netherlands, unlike US and Canadian police units which use a single standard ratio across the country. The most common unit is the Alcocal (made in the UK) which is common with police across Europe since about 2010, but there are other units in use now also. This is a chart of the Alcocal breath:blood conversion. I use this chart because its the same conversion for all breathalyzers in use by police across Europe including the Netherlands.
Calibration of breathalyzer units is also affected by altitude and a conversion factor is figured into the calibration to account for altitude when necessary. So, for example, a breathalyzer used in Denver would no longer be calibrated correctly if it was used in Florida and would need to be re-calibrated.
BrAC = breath alcohol content
BAC = blood alcohol content
The measure in the Norway case is 340 ug/L which is measured at micrograms of alcohol (in blood - BAC) per 100 milliliters of breath (ug/100ml)
at a 2,300:1 ratio 340ug/L = 78 ‰ (ug/100ml) = 0.078 % BAC (note: also the ratio for Canadian Police breathalyzers)
at a 2,200:1 ratio 340ug/L = 74 ‰ (ug/100ml) = 0.074 % BAC
at a 2,100:1 ratio 340ug/L = 71 ‰ (ug/100ml) = 0.071 % BAC (note: also the ratio for US Police breathalyzers)
Blood alcohol is measured 'weight by volume' (i.e. weight of alcohol per unit volume of blood) mostly. However, in some European countries its measured ‘weight by weight’ (i.e. weight of alcohol per unit weight of blood).
The weight/weight system (w/w) is used in countries which also use promille units. In reference to the chart above, using promille units: To convert from ‰ w/v to ‰ w/w the specific gravity of blood, which is about 1.06, must be used. So a 1.00 ‰ w/w blood sample is about 6% stronger in alcohol than a 1.00 ‰ w/v sample.
There ya go, you have all the information you need to convert from the Netherlands 340ug/L BrAC to US or Canadian BAC measurements. Now solve for X.
2081 posts | registered 7/19/2018
LordOfThePigs Wise, Aged Ars Veteran et Subscriptor
I don't know what Tesla does when the driver doesn't pay attention, but I've got the latest VW system, and it's pretty aggressive. I once did a test to see what would happen if I didn't take the wheel when prompted. It goes like that:
1. After 10 seconds: soft beep + the dash shows "please take over steering."
2. 5 seconds later: another soft beep+ the dash changes to "Take over steering!" (Note the lack of "please" and the addition of an exclamation mark. I found that little touch funny)
3. Another 5 seconds later: a really loud, long and angry beep
4. Another 5 seconds later: another angry beep + the car jerks itself by quickly applying and releasing the brakes + the seatbelt is very abruptly tightened.
5. I have no clue what happens then, because I didn't dare to continue the experiment. The last step is freaking scary and would definitely wake me up if I was sleeping (and give me an extra adrenaline boost that would keep me awake). (According to the manual, it's supposed to do the car on the shoulder and call emergency services, but I'm not going to test that)
Making it possible for a driver to stay asleep at the wheel is irresponsible. I'm not sure how Tesla is getting away with it.
142 posts | registered 8/7/2008
co-lee Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
I wish Tesla and all mfrs of L2 assist systems would release their actual data. That would let us see what difference if any the systems make wrt safety. It's clear that people like the L2 systems, as demonstrated in these comment threads, but it's not at all clear whether they improve or decrease safety.
What we get instead is comparisons between different scenarios: when Tesla claims there are fewer accidents with AP enabled than without, they're conveniently leaving out the driving context. It seems reasonable to expect that AP is enabled in general in safer situations (e.g. freeway driving) and not used in situations where accidents are more likely. So, yeah, of course, there are fewer accidents with AP enabled than when it's not enabled.
GM's Super Cruise can only be used in those safe situations. So, if GM said that there were fewer accidents with Super Cruise than without, we'd all say, gosh, isn't that amazing? In the safe (well mapped, controlled access) contexts where you let Super Cruise be used, there are fewer accidents than in all the less-safe contexts where you don't let it be used.
The relevant comparison is like-to-like. Is it safer on a controlled access, multi-lane highway with or without AP or Super Cruise? Does AP/SC do better or worse when traffic is heavier? Is it safer on a 2 lane highway without controlled access with or without AP? Is it safer on a city street with or without AP? Do drivers with AP enabled drive faster or slower than drivers with AP disengaged?
Tesla has this data and has either done the analysis and not shared it or hasn't done the analysis. The fact that they don't share this but instead hype meaningless comparisons strongly suggests that AP is not significantly safer to use. That doesn't mean it doesn't improve the driving experience, but it does suggest that such improvements don't result in real safety improvements.
In looking at this data, I'd be happy to filter out the suicidal idiots and just look at "responsible" use of driver assist tech. The suicidal idiots will hopefully continue to just have single-car and single-person fatalities.
This isn't just for Tesla: I'd really like to see comparable info from any car mfr that releases an L2 driver assist package.
3309 posts | registered 10/21/2015
Rusane Smack-Fu Master, in training
Here is something incontrovertible; 100% of drunks who fall asleep behind the wheel of a moving car for a sufficient amount of time, will stop violently - until now. The difference here is that Autopilot gave this man, and the people around him, a fighting chance of survival for long enough for the police to intervene.
Should autopilot have stopped this guy earlier? Yes. Is it designed to? Yes.
Tesla uses a torque sensor to detect hands on wheel. If it doesn’t, it issues a series of escalating alerts before stopping the vehicle and calling emergency services. The fact that the editor has chosen to promote a comment that questions this, comparing it negatively to VW which also 1) uses torque sensors to detect hands on wheel 2) issues a series of escalating alerts before stopping and calling, is ridiculous. The editor either knows, or reasonably should have known, that this is EXACTLY what the Tesla does. Why didn’t it stop sooner? The guy’s hands were still on the wheel when he fell asleep, defeating the abort cascade. Exactly the same failure would have occurred in the VW. GM’s super-cruise, as far as I know, is the only similar system that would have aborted based on eye tracking instead - point GM.
‘So what, autopilot probably encouraged the guy to drive drunk.’
Based on what, exactly? People have been driving drunk since cars were invented, they have never needed an excuse that ‘the car can handle it’. They are filled with rationalizations, even if ‘my car has autopilot, so there’ were one of them, there is absolutely zero evidence that it has any significant contribution to that decision. ‘But the guy on the bridge told the police his car had autopilot...’ well add that to the long list of excuses drunk drivers have offered the police to (unsuccessfully) justify their behavior.
Here is the nail in the coffin for the argument ‘if he hadn’t had autopilot, he wouldn’t have made the decision to drive drunk’;
Here’s a dirty little secret; even if you ignore all the warnings on the internet, the warnings when you take delivery, the warnings in the manual, and click passed all the screen warnings when you engage autopilot, that say it’s not self driving and you need to be alert; absolutely no one who has driven on autopilot for more than 10 or 20 miles could reasonably be under the impression that, in it’s current form, it can drive itself. Sure, Elon has promised it will someday soon, but it is immediately obvious to anyone who has ever used it - soon is not today. It disengages all the time, makes stupid mistakes, and drives like an insecure teenager - no one who has used it could possibly believe it can drive you home from the bar.
‘But what about the Harry Potter guy, or the .... guy’. Yes, there are people who knowingly test the systems limits outside of its design domain. There are idiots doing stupid things in all walks of society, putting themselves and others at risk. Here’s the thing; the responsibility for that antisocial behavior is on them, not the system. The reality is that in the more than 1 billion miles driven on autopilot, the incidence of stupid people doing stupid things is on par with the incidence of stupid people doing stupid things in all walks of life, you just don’t hear about the billion plus miles of people not doing stupid things on news sites and blogs.
There are plenty of things to criticize about autopilot, but in this instance, it probably saved the guy’s life.
2 posts | registered 12/12/2018
Thr2hrmrf wrote:
except that's not what happened...
The Tesla uses a torque sensor and the autopilot needs more than just resting hands, it also needs very slight resistance to the autopilot not enough to disable it with a very slight and lite turn of the wheel to the left or right.
... These acts require intentional fine coordinated motor skills a person simply can not do while intoxicated and asleep.
Sorry, but that is just factually incorrect. People have defeated the Tesla torque sensor by wedging a grapefruit in the steering wheel. The dead weight of an unconscious driver’s hands could absolutely defeat the abort sequence.
mentin Smack-Fu Master, in training
reply Sat May 18, 2019 7:21 pm
meta.x.gdb wrote:
Doesn't Tesla Autopilot recognize police cars? It is an all-visual system isn't it?
Musk promised it will, after exactly the same thing happened in California, and police drove for 7 miles, before they could stop Tesla with drunk driver. Musk promised police recognition will be added in 3 weeks, and Tesla will stop in such situations. Well, that was half a year ago, so he's a bit late, like with all the things he promised about "autopilot".
2 posts | registered May 18, 2019
Sarty Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
numerobis wrote:
Sarty wrote:
This guy was dumb enough to get that drunk and get in his car. He'd probably have done it in a car with no self-driving features -- people do all the time.
"Probably" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. How probable? How have you evaluated this probability? Anything other than waving your hand to observe that some other people have done something similar at some previous time?
I'm enjoying a porch beer right now, in fact. Therefore I'm "probably" going to pass out in the grass tonight! People do it all the time.
https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/ ... sheet.html
"Every day, 29 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver."
So, to answer my question, you haven't. You know some things happen sometimes at some rate, and then you decided "probably" was the right word to use. I hope you're arguing from a position of dishonesty and you don't actually think what you've cited in any way justifies the claim you made. The alternative explanation is kind of unfortunate.
kkeane Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
eric102 wrote:
Demmrir wrote:
Let’s be honest. Drunk people who think it’s a good idea to drive (probably because they’re drunk?) are going to do it regardless. It’s the one case where autopilot is currently making the roads safer.
I'm thinking that Autopilot actually increases moral hazard instead. "I'm drunk but this Autopilot will drive me home."
Do you have proof that moral hazard in any car-related domain actually exceeds the benefit of the intervention? The very same argument was made against seat belts and against air bags, and against various road infrastructure improvements. It never seems to pan out.
That's actually an interesting question, but I wouldn't go so far as to state this as "it never pans out". First, the number of traffic deaths has been declining because of dramatic advances in medicine.
And second, seat belts and air bags may in fact have had a similar problem in that without them, we may never have built today's far more powerful and heavier cars.
Overall, seat belts and air bags were probably a net positive, but in the case of autopilot, it not convinced that is still true.
evanTO wrote:
Would this man have had the confidence to get into his vehicle and attempt to drive if he didn't have Autopilot? Could, in fact, the mere presence of Autopilot actually have contributed to making for a more unsafe road condition?
Given the number of people who drive drunk each day including drunk enough to pass out behind the wheel I would say yes. Alcohol both lowers motor skills and boosts confidence. I really doubt anyone with a BAC of 0.34 is doing a logical analysis of driving home drunk vs using autopilot drunk. They are will past that kind of thinking.
No Safe Exit Ars Centurion
My car is my designated driver. What's wrong with that Ossifer?
290 posts | registered Nov 23, 2016
No!! Don't give them any excuses....
Given them excuses makes the road less safe, and the autopilot is probably worse than a drunk person anyway.
Chuckstar Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
Yeah. The closest I know of is an example that still has been found to provide net benefit -- anti-lock brakes. The NHTSA did a study that found that ABS does not reduce overall fatalities, but does reduce collisions and non-fatal injuries. Significant increases in run-off-road crashes (especially resulting in side impacts with fixed objects) were the major offsetting factor to the decrease in car-on-car and car-on-pedestrian accidents. Especially apparent in wet/icy conditions. Providing pretty convincing data supporting the idea of a moral hazard where drivers are driving at higher speed in certain situations if they have ABS on the vehicle.
The point being that I am only aware of one example where the moral hazard shows up as a pretty strong signal in the stats, and even that one still shows a net benefit.
One other interesting point about ABS is that even though the fatality rate doesn't change, the rate of fatalities among pedestrians and the occupants of other cars go down. So the net result of ABS does seem to be to skew fatalities away from others and towards those in the car causing the accident. I'm not suggesting those in the car causing the accident somehow "deserve" it, but there does seem to be something more "fair" about a situation where the risk of fatality is more closely aligned with which car is being driven less safely.
16290 posts | registered Nov 13, 2002
greenbeast wrote:
What happens when autolane change is enabled and the police try the 'drive in front and slow down technique', will the car just overtake
It is a an overhyped lane-keeping cruise control. It has the same ability to recognize police car any old fashioned cruise control has, which is none.
aleph_nought Ars Tribunus Militum
Tsa Szymborska wrote:
No. This man was lucky to be stopped by the police. Who knows what would have happened if they hadn't stopped him?
He would have ended up in Germany?
I wonder if Autopilot could keep running until there was no charge left. Or would it pull over and stop before the battery pack was depleted?
2745 posts | registered Dec 18, 2012
eric102 Ars Centurion
There's a huge difference between safety equipment such as seatbelts and Tesla Autopilot, which is nowhere near autonomous driving.
Caption Captain Chaplin Account Banned
insecto wrote:
How is that conversion done?
My quick math says
1g = 1000 mg = 1000000 ug
1L = 1000 mL
340ug/L = 0.34mg/L = 0.00034 g/L = 0.00000034 g/mL = 0.000034 g/100mL which is the scale we measure BAC by in the United States oddly even though it is metric
340ug/L would equal a BAC of 0.000034%.
Where is the error?
988 posts | registered Feb 10, 2019
Photo Geek Smack-Fu Master, in training
LordOfThePigs wrote:
... latest VW system ... :
5. "I'm sorry, Dave." <activates ejection seat and continues to destination>
7 posts | registered Sep 21, 2017
Thr2hrmrf Ars Centurion
Caption Captain Chaplin wrote:
already done for you here > https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/du ... t=37385633
3495 posts | registered Jul 19, 2018
Zabieru Ars Scholae Palatinae
808$urph wrote:
i just realized where the threshold exists.
when you can legally be drunk as fuck in a fully automated auto and no police would even bother to consider this unsafe or a violation.
then! I'll trust the technology.
... maybe
Yeah. I think there is another threshold, though, where the automation is smart enough to know when it needs help.
Tesla Autopilot is in this really bad zone where it can't function safely without constant supervision, but it doesn't require any input most of the time. Humans are really, really bad at remaining alert and attentive to things that mostly don't happen.
Cruise control, on the other hand, strikes a better balance for what we might call "cognitive safety:" you still need to pay attention because it does no steering at all, so you still have a job to do, and one that keeps your attention on the road... But it's a lighter job.
Ideally, airplane autopilots function toward the other end of the zone: there are systems to warn the pilot of ground proximity, or if the autopilot is unable to maintain the course, or of the presence of other aircraft. Now, it's not that simple in practice, but at least the goal is that the pilot has to remain oriented and able to take control but not constantly watchful.
fishbait Ars Scholae Palatinae
reply Sat May 18, 2019 10:37 pm
O_O that sounds.... terrifying, shocking, and like i want to know the end.
nitpicker357 Smack-Fu Master, in training
Wow, this seems a really cogent response to me. I am saddened that at the moment, 4 people have down-voted it and one person (that would be me) has up-voted it.
9 posts | registered Jan 23, 2017
Fatesrider Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
The driver assist system can be credited with converting this to a car getting pulled over with a bit of difficulty since the driver wasn't responsive, instead of the traditional slamming head-first into oncoming traffic and killing half of a young family, or wrapping itself around a lamp post killing the driver.
Jesus, you don't get it.
Th driver assist system FUCKED UP BIG TIME!
The guy's hands weren't on the wheel. It didn't pull over and STOP!
That should be SOP for any driver assist system. Alarms and chimes and seat shakers (assuming it's even an option) aren't going to wake dead drunk people. This fucking piece of shit endangered thousands of other motorists at some point because Tesla is too fucking STUPID to program their cars to go to the shoulder and stop after a minute of not having hands on wheels with an alert driver.
Other car makers HAVE THOSE SYSTEMS!
So yeah, MAYBE TESLA'S system didn't fuck up, because it's a piece of shit to begin with. ANY other system would have pulled over waiting for the cops to arrive - or the driver to wake up.
Like I said, this isn't something you ever want to laud. It's a major failure that endangered the public and should never be allowed on the streets as is.
zigmar Smack-Fu Master, in training
reply Sun May 19, 2019 12:06 am
Not really. It gives a false sense of security which potentially makes people drive when they won't otherwise. I'm pretty sure there enough people out there who thinks "well, I'm a bit drunk, but it's ok to drive because Autopilot will back me up". And there little doubt that car with barely competent drive assist system and a drink driver is a recipe for disaster. Especially when the said drive assist system is marketed and perceived as almost complete self-driving system.
Last edited by zigmar on Sun May 19, 2019 6:06 pm
14 posts | registered May 13, 2017
Xdrive22 Smack-Fu Master, in training
Uh oh, don't comment on arse Technica about Tesla/ Elon musk. It's full of Tesla fangirls. Any mention that Elon is culpable for Tesla related incidents causes many triggers to go off for his fangirls. The simple truth is marketing autopilot makes people too complacent with technology. Either have fully autonomous systems or have people drive themselves.
8 posts | registered Feb 14, 2019
onkeljonas Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
reply Sun May 19, 2019 1:31 am
Imbrium wrote:
After a few of these kinds of stories, I have to admit I am a little more wary when I am around a Tesla on the road, as I have no idea if we have someone who has put it on autopilot and isn't paying attention. I wish it were not so, but there it is.
You never know if other drivers are paying attention. In fact, you can know to a high degree of certainty that there are always drivers on the road who aren't paying attention.
A million people are killed in traffic every year, trusting your fellow drivers to pay attention and not do something dangerous is naive at best. A good system for ensuring driver attention would probably save thousands of lives regardless of selfdriving technology.
The guy's hands weren't on the wheel.
Do we actually know this? It's quite possible to be asleep while holding onto something.
7587 posts | registered Aug 31, 2003
pqr Ars Scholae Palatinae
Yeah, the original conversions in the article are wrong (by orders of magnitude, when taken literally for blood). It is explained in the comments on page 3. The ug/L number is for breath measurement, and the end result is a BAC of about 0.07. People still seem to comment on BAC ~ 0.3 but that is just critical thinking in short supply
onkeljonas wrote:
It's quite possible to be asleep while holding onto something.
This always comes up in discussions like this. Was the guy holding on to the wheel while intoxicated and asleep?
Although it is possible to "be asleep while holding onto something", that's more correctly stated as "its possible to go to sleep while holding onto something" because holding on to it while asleep is a crap shoot because of the way the body relaxes during sleep. It is highly unlikely to impossible to be asleep and maintain a grip with enough required pressure and torque on the Tesla steering wheel consistently enough to sense and satisfy Autopilot if its working correctly. If a person is asleep it means their muscles are relaxed which means arms start to relax along with the hands and grip decreases. If a person has been drinking alcohol and falls asleep they are going to be more relaxed than just with normal sleep and it would be impossible to maintain a grip with enough required pressure and torque on the Tesla steering wheel consistently enough to sense and satisfy Autopilot if its working correctly.
At some point during that alcohol relaxed sleep the hands are going to let go of the steering wheel completely. It can not be helped under alcohol intoxication assisted or induced sleep as its a normal response with such sleep to bring the hands and arms closer to the body at some point and thus would be drawn away from the steering wheel.
At a breathalyzer test reading of 340 ug/l this guy in the Netherlands had a BAC between 0.068 and 0.078 which is around 3 times that required for a person to be more relaxed and fall asleep.
So i'm gonna go with that most likely the guys hands were not on the wheel.
Last edited by Thr2hrmrf on Sun May 19, 2019 3:04 am
DoubleNothing Smack-Fu Master, in training
If autopilot can't drive my car home when I'm drunk, what is it good for?
59 posts | registered Aug 4, 2017
Well, I would never use "can he hold on to something" as a test of whether a person is conscious. While regular sleep and most forms of unconsciousness certainly predisposes you to relaxing your muscles, that's not guaranteed. I haven't tried a Tesla, but wouldn't it also be possible to be resting against the steering wheel and pressing your hands against it?
I haven't tried a Tesla, but wouldn't it also be possible to be resting against the steering wheel and pressing your hands against it
Not really. The Tesla uses a torque sensor and the autopilot needs more than just resting hands, it also needs very slight resistance to the autopilot not enough to disable it with a very slight and lite turn of the wheel to the left or right.
Rotational torque sensors on the steering shaft are looking for the weight of your hand resting on the steering wheel causing a slight rotational force or other slight rotational inputs to indicate you are there. Plus, also needed is a constant pressure that provides very slight resistance to the constant movement of the wheel by auto pilot.
Its impossible to supply both of these while asleep. Plus its likely the hands are going to come off the wheel when asleep especially if the driver has been drinking enough to cause this guys BAC because its an involuntary response to draw the hands and arms closer to the body at some point if asleep while intoxicated to such a BAC level thus the hands would come off the wheel. Its takes an aware, coordinated, timed, and conscious and purposeful act of muscle movement to supply that torque and pressure together in such a manner to satisfy autopilot. In other words you have to be awake. Tesla calls this act of satisfying autopilot you are still there 'active driver supervision'. These acts require intentional fine coordinated motor skills a person simply can not do while while intoxicated and asleep.
Without these 'inputs' from the person the warning is suppose to start, but evidently there are cases where the warnings never happen nor does the car slow down like its suppose to do and there have been plenty of such cases since about 2015. For example, Ignoring Tesla Autopilot Warnings – What Happens? - 10 miles no hands on the wheel yet no warning from autopilot, and a bunch more instances.
So yeah its a most likely thing this guys hands were not on the wheel, and the Tesla autopilot was in that flaw mode where it can go a long time without hands on the wheel with no warnings at all.
People look at this hands off thing and say 'look how much safer it was that the car was able to drive its self even though the driver was sleeping'. All of that is a load of crap, what they are condoning, endorsing, cheering, and busy patting Tesla and Musk on the back for is actually a dangerous flaw in the Autopilot system that Tesla has not been able to get rid of. The autopilot system is not suppose to allow for hands off for long periods of time yet there are still reports where it happens. This flaw just needs the right conditions to appear. This autopilot flaw makes the Tesla autopilot a threat to human safety for the driver and passengers of the Tesla and also to those others on the road.
denemo Smack-Fu Master, in training
Boskone wrote:
In January, police arrested a man whose car was stopped on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. He assured the officers that everything was OK because his car had been "on Autopilot."
There should be an IQ test before a person can engage autopilot
Less IQ, and more common sense. I've met too many highly-intelligent dumbasses to trust smart people just because they're smart.
To echo what Voltaire allegedly said: "Common sense is not so common".
91 posts | registered Dec 5, 2011
cc bcc Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
angleiron wrote:
For once we can place a checkmark in the "lives saved" column.
Would he have trusted his drunken driving skills if he didn’t have the Tesla? You could argue that autopilot enables dangerous behaviour.
mhalpern Ars Centurion
LesDawg wrote:
BS. The only thing more dangerous than a drunk driving a car is nobody driving a car.
That's when they are safest, as they aren't usually moving, a computer can be a better driver than a human once AP gets here that level, it's just not there yet
8459 posts | registered Jan 28, 2018
cc bcc wrote:
Possibly.
Andreas M. Smack-Fu Master, in training
why did you write that he was arrested. He wasn't.
His license was collected.
The Netherlands are in Europe, not in the United States of Jail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarcera ... ted_States
7 posts | registered Apr 24, 2018
Mintaka87 Ars Praetorian
There have been a lot of stories lately that are related to Tesla Autopilot. Here is a summary of my understanding and my thoughts:
Tesla Autopilot is a level-2 driving assist. It appears to be the best in terms of lane-keeping ability, but it is still only level-2. I am not aware of any level-2 system that would have recognized that truck crossing the road in Florida. All of the problems with level-2 systems seem to arise from people treating them as a fully autonomous level-5 system and not paying attention. People seem more likely to do that in Teslas than in any other make.
I don't blame Tesla naming the system "Autopilot" for this, at least not to the level of being legally actionable. There are real-world aircraft and boat autopilots with worse capabilities than Tesla's Autopilot, and it isn't Tesla's fault that some of the general public vastly overestimates what aircraft and boat autopilots can do. I do blame Tesla's CEO and marketing for its pattern of blurring the lines between its level-2 Autopilot system and its vaporware level-5 Full Self Driving system. I would like to see them get slapped down hard for this, possibly to the point of jail time for the individuals involved.
Tesla also really needs to up its game on the safety of Autopilot. I believe it was last year that the Tesla fanboys became indignant when Consumer Reports rated GM's SuperCruise as superior to Autopilot overall based upon it having much better safety and only slightly worse driving capabilities. Consumer Reports made the right call. Tesla needs to do much better on monitoring driver attention than just looking for torque on the steering wheel. It is inadequate, and things are only made worse by all the idiots who deliberately look for ways to subvert the torque sensor.
457 posts | registered Aug 9, 2017
Voyna i Mor Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
Zabieru wrote:
One thing I never seem to see mentioned is that aircraft autopilots are used by people who have extensive training which has to be recertified periodically. But Tesla "autopilot" can be used by people whose sole qualification to use it is the ability to afford a Tesla.
Perhaps an additional driving test should be mandated before anybody can use "autopilot", both theoretical and practical.
5153 posts | registered Nov 3, 2015
adenine Smack-Fu Master, in training et Subscriptor
Bloater51 wrote:
If this is the case, then the problem is greater than that of drunks who are capable of putting themselves and others at risk even without access to a vehicle. It is not necessary to have been drinking to drop off. If the Tesla could not detect that he was conscious (or even alive) then this was quite literally an accident waiting to happen. Trains are typically equipped with a Dead Man's Handle which requires more than passive touch. Irritating for drivers, but at the current state of development further safeguards may be necessary.
A Dead Man's Switch on a train enables the emergency brakes. This is typically not an issue due to consecutive trains usually being spaced several kilometers apart - this itself is a safety precaution, as a fully-loaded intercity train travelling at top speed will have a stopping distance of more than a kilometer.
In a car, slapping on the brakes as hard as possible might be doable on a 30kph residential zone without wrecking havoc, but the same cannot be said for highways.
Any Dead Man's Switch for cars would first have to find a suitable place to stop, drive to it - safely - and only then apply the brakes. This is a seriously hard engineering problem, and I'm skeptical as to whether it ever can be realized.
8 posts | registered Mar 19, 2019
cbreak Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
That's quite a shitty auto pilot if it can't even stop for police, or when the driver is asleep. Doing that should be basic capability...
froggz Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
I have to disagree, the driver is still driving drunk to get into autopilot and then continue driving drunk to get out of autopilot once they are near their destination.
235 posts | registered Jan 23, 2013
Akemi Ars Praefectus
Deepcoiler wrote:
I've always been curious about when articles use out-of-date images of a product. Is this intentional? The nose cone went away three years ago; shouldn't a more accurate representation of the vehicle currently being produced, and likely the car in the incident, be used?
And that has fuck-all to do with the article, how? Tesla's nag system for hands-on usage has changed from 2015-1019 (from 30 minutes to 1 minute). And that has zero to do with a dumbass drunk driving the car while passed-out.
The article is all about how the car was driving itself while the operator (dumbass drunk) was unconscious. And it's relevant due to the technology aspect.
Hopefully Smarter Ars Scholae Palatinae
con man releases scourge of untested autopilot system onto public barely able to get past adult diapers.
thanks con. man
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titiomm Ars Centurion
Which begs the question: what happens when more of those cars hit the road ? Seems like police would need a special access to be able to stop the cars.
Oldmanalex Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
If the driver really had a BAC of 0.07%, I would assume that either he cannot hold his booze, or he was extremely fatigued. This is the sort of behavior one might expect with a BAC more like 0.2%, which in the Oldmanalex scale would put one more into the well smashed range rather than the one sheet to the wind range I would expect from 0.07% in a 50 year old, who has probably been meticulously inducing his liver Cyp enzymes for the last 30 years.
Oldmanalex wrote:
BAC is a legal limit. Tolerance differs by person based upon many factors.
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Essay / review: ‘In camera and in public’ at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Categories: American, Australian artist, Australian writing, black and white photography, digital photography, documentary photography, exhibition, gallery website, Japanese artist, Marcus Bunyan, Melbourne, memory, Paris, photographic series, photography, portrait, psychological, reality, review, space, street photography and time
Tags: A topographical amnesia, Amelia Groom, Aoyama park, Artlink: Art and Surveillance, ASIO, ASIO surveillance 1949 -1980, Bill Henson, Bill Henson Crowd series, Bill Henson Untitled 1980/82, blair french, Body Image and the Gay Male, Building Workers Industrial Union, butterbox, Caroline Blinder, CCP, CCTV, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Cherine Fahd, Cherine Fahd The Sleepers, Cherine Fahd Untitled, civil inattention, Communist Party of Australia, Daniel Palmer, Denis Beaubois, Denis Beaubois In the event of Amnesia the city will recall…, Diane Arbus, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Eddie Mabo, Erving Goffman civil inattention, Erving Goffmann, Erving Goffmann facework, facework, flagellantism, Frank Hardy, french artist, gaze of the spectator, Gaze without Subjectivity, George Platt Lynes, Hall Foster Vision and Visuality, Haydn Keenan, Helen McDonald, history, in camera, In camera and in public, in public, In the event of Amnesia the city will recall…, It's Rude to Stare, Jeremy Bentham Panopticon prison, John Berger, John Berger and Jean Mohr, Keenan Haydn, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Kohei Yoshiyuki The Park, Kohei Yoshiyuki Untitled, L'Autre, Lacan the Gaze, Laura Mulvey Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Looking at photographs, Luc Delahaye, Luc Delahaye L'Autre, Luc Delahaye Untitled, Lust Branch, lust branch photographs, Maggie Finch, Maggie Finch Looking at Looking, male body image, Marcus Bunyan Pressing the Flesh, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish, mini DV camera, minor white, Naomi Cass, No credible photographic interest, panopticon, Panopticon prison, Past-Horde-House, Paul Virilio, Paul Virilio the phatic image, pepping Toms, Percy Grainger, Percy Grainger Lust Branch, Percy Grainger Photo-skills Guide, Percy Grainger Private Matters: Do not open until 10 (ten) years after my death, Persons Of Interest, Persons Of Interest - ASIO surveillance 1949 -1980, phatic image, Photography as Crime, Photography as Crime symposium, physiognomy, Presing the Flesh: Sex, Princeton University, privacy, private, Private Matters: Do not open until 10 (ten) years after my death, private space, public, public space, public/private, recipro/city, recording eye, refentiality of the image, referentiality, repose, resistance, S/M, sadomasochistic practices, seeing in the field of the other, self beating, self-reflexivity, sexual practices, Shihoko Lida, Shinjuku park, Shukan Shincho, Sir Francis Galton, sousveillance, Specimens of Composite Portraiture, stolen images, stolen photographs, surveillance, surveillance photography, Susan Sontag, Susan Sontag On Photography, Sydney, taboo, the gaze, the image and reality, The Kinsey Institute, The Park, The Photobook: A History: Volume 2, the photographic gaze, the public city, the seer and the seen, The Sleepers, the spectacle, the spectator, the thing itself, the visible, tokyo, transforming the gaze, transgression, unaware, unfocused interaction, Victor Burgin, Victor Burgin Looking at photographs, virtual reality, vision, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, voyeurism, Walker Evans, Walker Evans subway photographs, Yoyogi park
Exhibition dates: 16th September – 23rd October 2011
The Melbourne Festival
Curator Naomi Cass
Artists ASIO de-classified photos and footage, Denis Beaubois (France/Australia), Luc Delahaye (France), Cherine Fahd (Australia), Percy Grainger (Australia/USA), Bill Henson (Australia), Sonia Leber and David Chesworth (Australia), Walid Raad (Lebanon/USA), Kohei Yoshiyuki (Japan)
Keywords of essay: surveillance, surveillance photography, the gaze, the camera, photography, stolen images, voyeurism, scopophilia, public/private, disciplinary systems, facework, civil inattention, portrait, social history, persons of interest, the city, the self, subject, awareness, repose, reciprocity, the spectacle, the spectator.
Un/aware and in re/pose: the self, the subject and the city
“The paradox is the more we seek to fix our vision of the world and to control it the less sure we are as to who we are and what our place is in the world.”
Marcus Bunyan 2011
“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
“Texts that testify do not simply report facts but, in different ways, encounter – and make us encounter – strangeness.”
Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub 1
Curated by Naomi Cass as part of the Melbourne Festival, this is a brilliant exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne. The exhibition explores, “the fraught relationship between the camera and the subject: where the image is stolen, candid or where the unspoken contract between photographer and subject is broken in some way – sometimes to make art, sometimes to do something malevolent.”2 It examines the promiscuity of gazes in public/private space specifically looking at surveillance, voyeurism, desire, scopophilia, secret photography and self-reflexivity. It investigates the camera and its moral and physical relationship to the unsuspecting subject. Does the camera see something different if the subject is unaware? Is the viewer complicit in the process as they (repeatedly) stare at the photographs? Are we all implicated in a kind of “mass social surveillance” based on Foucault’s concept of the self-regulating disciplinary society, a society that is watched from a single, panoptic vantage point (that of the omnipresent camera lens) and through the agency of the watchers watching each other? 3 More on this later in the writing.
To the left
A selection of photographs from the series The Sleepers by Cherine Fahd, A4 sized black and white photographs of homeless people, asleep on the grass in a park, taken in secret from a sixth floor apartment in Kings Cross, Sydney. Fahd “went to great pains to make sure her subjects were anonymous, unidentifiable, their faces turned away”4 resulting in photographs of corpse-like bodies on contextless backgrounds – wrapped, isolated, entwined, covered in shadow, the bodies disorientated in space and consequently disorientating the gaze of the viewer.
To the right
A selection of photographs from the Crowd Series (1980 – 82) by Bill Henson. Snapped in secret these black and white journalistic surveillance photographs (‘taken’ in an around Flinders Street railway station in Melbourne) have a brooding intensity and melancholic beauty. Henson uses a flattened perspective that is opposed to the principles of linear perspective in these photographs. Known as The Art of Describing5 and much used in Dutch still life painting of the 17th century to give equal weight to objects within the image plane, here Henson uses the technique to emphasise the mass and jostle of the crowd with their “waiting, solemn and compliant” people.
“When exhibiting the full series, Henson arranges the works into small groupings that create an overall effect of aberrant movement and fragmentation. From within these bustling clusters of images, individual faces emerge like spectres of humanity that will once again dissolve into the crowd … all apparently adrift in the flow of urban life. The people in these images have an anonymity that allows them to represent universal human experiences of alienation, mortality and fatigue.”6
Henson states, “The great beauty in the subject comes, for me, from the haunted space, that unbridgeable gap – which separates the profound intimacy and solitude of our interior world from the ‘other’… The business of how a child’s small hand appearing between two adults at a street crossing can suggest both a vulnerability, great tenderness, and yet also contain within it all of the power that beauty commands, is endlessly fascinating to me.”7 His observation is astute but for me it is the un/awareness of the people in these photographs that are their beauty, their insertion into the crowd but their isolation from the crowd and from themselves. As Maggie Finch observes, it is “that feeling of being both alone and private in a crowd, thus free but also exposed.”8
In the sociologist Erving Goffman’s terms the photographs can be seen as examples of what he calls “civil inattention”9 which is a carefully monitored demonstration of what might be called polite estrangement, the “facework” as we glance at people in the crowd, holding the gaze of the other only briefly, then looking ahead as each passes the other.
“Civil inattention is the most basic type of facework commitment involved in encounters with strangers in circumstances of modernity. It involves not just the use of the face itself, but the subtle employment of bodily posture and positioning which gives off the message “you may trust me to be without hostile intent” – in the street, public buildings, trains or buses, or at ceremonial gatherings, parties, or other assemblies. Civil inattention is TRUST as ‘background noise’ – not as a random collection of sounds, but as carefully restrained and controlled social rhythms. It is characteristic of what Goffman calls “unfocused interaction.””10
This is what I believe Henson’s photographs are about. Not so much the tenderness of the child’s hand but a fear of engagement with the ‘other’. As such they can be seen as image precursors to the absence/presence of contemporary communication and music technologies. How many times do people talk on their mobile phone or listen to iPods in crowds, on trams and trains, physically present but absenting themselves from interaction with other people. Here but not here; here and there. The body is immersed in absent presence, present and not present, conscious and not conscious, aware and yet not aware of the narratives of a ‘recipro/city failure’. A failure to engage with the light of place, the time of exposure and an attentiveness to the city.
As Susan Stewart insightfully observes,
“To walk in the city is to experience the disjuncture of partial vision/partial consciousness … The walkers of the city travel at different speeds, their steps like handwriting of a personal mobility. In the milling of the crowd is the choking of class relations, the interruption of speed, and the machine.”11
Travelling in the city, in a machine (in this case a subway train) is the subject of the next body of work in the exhibition, represented by the book L’Autre (The Other) by French artist Luc Delahaye.12 Using a hidden camera Delahaye photographs the commuters faces in repose.
“I stole these photographs between ’95 and ’97 in the Paris metro. ‘Stole’ because it is against the law to take them, it’s forbidden. The law states that everyone owns their own image. But our image, this worthless alias of ourselves, is everywhere without us knowing it. How and why can it be said to belong to us? But more importantly, there’s another rule, that non-aggression pact we all subscribe to: the prohibition against looking at others. Apart from the odd illicit glance, you keep staring at the wall. We are very much alone in these public places and there’s violence in this calm acceptance of a closed world.”13
This is another example of Goffman’s civil inattention as Delahaye stares into the distance and feigns absence long enough to get his stolen photograph (much like Walker Evans earlier photographs of people on the New York subway photographed with Evans’s camera concealed inside his overcoat).14 Here the photographs are much closer cropped than Evans, allowing the viewer no escape from staring at the stolen faces. The faces seen in repose remind me of the composite portraits of criminals and the diseased, Specimens of Composite Portraiture c.1883 by Sir Francis Galton, remembering that one of the earliest scientific functions of the camera was to document the likenesses of criminals, degenerates and other aberrant beings. We must also remember that, as Geoffrey Batchen suggests, “we are so used to the idea that we are always being watched that we might have turned our whole lives into “a grand, impenetrable pose” because we assume the camera eye is always present.”15
In the physiognomy of these faces the viewer is asked to assess a person’s character or personality from their outer appearance. While the viewer may be complicit in this task we must also remember that the photographer who stole these photographs has also re/posed these faces, choosing which people to secretly photograph and culling images that did not meet his conceptual project. We find no smiling or laughing faces in the book, no context is given (the photographs being tightly cropped on the body and face) and the phatic image, the one that grabs us has been manipulated, reposed and restaged for our edification. While the subject may be unaware of being photographed and their face may be in repose, this repose is as much a cultural construct as if they had known their photograph was being taken.
As John Berger and Jean Mohr write,
“The photographer choses the events he photographs. This choice can be thought of as a cultural construction. The space for this construction is, as it were, cleared by his rejection of what he did not choose to photograph.”16
On the wall in front
Series of images from Persons of Interest: ASIO surveillance photographs 1949 – 1980 taken in secret to record the state’s purported enemies (ASIO is the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Australia’s national security service, which is responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically-motivated violence, attacks on the Australian defence system, and terrorism). The photographs were not taken as art and served a purely utilitarian purpose, that of recording and documenting the conversations and movements of persons of interest to the powers that be. “The camera can’t change the world, but there’s an idea that it can protect us – hence surveillance, which promises to watch over us, and watch out for us, rather than merely watch.”17
According to Haydn Keenan, director of the documentary Persons of Interest “Surveillance secretly records an image of someone so that the recorder so that the recorder can have advantage over the subject. Sometimes it’s political, sometimes social, but the very essence of surveillance is the secret theft of the image.”18 Keenan goes on to identify four types of photographic surveillance:
Photographs taken by ASIO agents who are known to the person of interest. These are particularly disconcerting because they are the kind of intimate photographs that you would see in a family album
ASIO photographer taking photographs in public, at demos and public meetings, always happening to get the person of interest “in the frame” so to speak.
Long lens photographs taken by setting up an observation post and then sitting down and waiting.
Photographs taken by what was called a ‘butterbox’ – a camera concealed in another object like a briefcase.19
There are thousands of these images, photographs of people in the wrong place at the wrong time. The closely cropped black and white photographs have an intimacy and anonymity to them. They build up a mental image of the changing face of what the State saw as threat: Aboriginal land rights, gay rights, women’s liberation, anti-Vietnam demonstrations, youth culture, Communism – and now terrorism. These photographs evince an inherent suspicion about social issues and they had the power to dramatically alter lives (through the loss of work or home, through imprisonment). “Yet what ASIO didn’t realise is that they were constructing an invaluable social history of Australian dissent as they gradually confused subversion with dissent.”20 The eye of the beholder cast a dark shadow but one that would not remain private forever.
The largest series of the exhibition, The Park by Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki (1971 – 1979), features twenty-five luscious A3 sized black and white photographs with deep blacks, framed in thin white, wood frames. The photographs were taken in Japanese parks at night where fornicating couples use public space as private space. In most cases the couples were not aware they were being observed by voyeurs and if they were, “with exhibitionist complicity, they fornicate to an audience of peeping Toms.”21 What they were definitely not aware of was that they were being photographed. As Amelia Groom observes, “The levels of complicity, performativity and victimisation of the subjects remains ambiguous.”22
These informal, grainy, infra-red flash photographs, “were first published in 1972 in the popular ‘secret camera’ genre magazine Shukan Shincho and were not initially considered as art photography … however they also sit within a broad tradition of voyeurism in Japanese art.”23 Starting in mid-distance the photographs eventually close right in on the subject matter, tightly composed on the mass of hands going everywhere, the flash over exposing various elements of the infra-red composition. The photographs are most effective when the viewer does not see the object of desire, but is positioned behind the voyeur who is hidden behind the hedge, looking. The viewpoint of the erotic act is denied, is out of shot/sight. We are literally “lined up right behind Yoshiyuki in the chain of voyeurism”24 imbibing the camera’s active, desiring masculine gaze. “Looking at Yoshiyuki’s images induces an uneasiness that has something to do with seeing the seer looking while seeing ourselves being seen looking.”25 The photographs are multiply voyeuristic, implicating the watchers, the photographer and us.26 But they implicate us only as part of a larger cultural signification.
Penny Modra in The Sunday Age M magazine observes of these photographs that, “you are a peeping Tom peeping at peeping Toms peeping at people.”27 I believe it is more than that. The definition of “peeping” is that of stealing a quick glance; to peer through a small aperture or from behind something (peering through a small aperture number is quite an appropriate metaphor since we are dealing with the photographic lens). While this may be true of the act of photography itself it is not true of the process of photography that took place to get the photographer to the point of exposure. Yoshiyuki himself “assembled the story of his association with the park voyeurs and details how the series was shot after spending six months getting to know those observers in the shrubbery.”28 Much as Diane Arbus befriended the subjects in her photographs, Yoshiyuki, rather than having a furtive glance of desire, planned his series using the all seeing narrative eye trained on its target over several months. He positions his subject squarely in his line of sight. And while a voyeur “can be defined as a person who observes without participation, a powerless or passive spectator … a photographer, contemplating a nude or any sexual subject is also a voyeur, but someone with a camera, or the means to distribute a photograph, is not entirely passive or powerless.”29 This power can be seen in the fame that the series has bought the photographer, his infamous series now heralded around the world.
At the centre
Black and white ‘snapshot’ photographs from the series Lust Branch by Percy Grainger, printed between 1933 and 1942, that document his sadomasochistic sexual practices including ‘self beating’ which he believed were intrinsic to his creativity. The envelope containing some of the photographs was marked “Private Matters: Do Not Open Until 10 (ten) Years After My Death.” The archive has the quality of forensic records as it documents, in a quasi-scientific Victorian tradition, evidence of his proclivities, his normalcy. The dark 4″ x 5″ brown-toned photographs show Grainger posing in a domestic setting (in Kansas) with a chair and also show the use of a suspended mirror to document his fustigations. Robert Nelson states that the shock of these images isn’t the flagellantism itself but that we’re looking at it. “The transgression isn’t the perversity but the breach of privacy the composer orchestrated: he lashed himself not only with a whip but a camera.”30 Personally I don’t register this shock as S/M practices have regularly been part of my life. What I find more disquieting is people who try to define what is normal and what should be recorded or not and by whom and who gets to see them.
I vividly remember going to the Minor White archive at Princeton University and seeing photographs of erect penises taken by White (who was gay) and thinking why I hadn’t seen these photographs before. The shock was not of seeing them but the fact that they were still hidden and had never been reproduced. Similarly, at The Kinsey Institute there are colour photographs of 1950s physique magazine body builders having full on sex, never to be seen in public. Also at the Kinsey are erotic photographs by the gay George Platt Lynes, taken for his own pleasure but never exhibited in public.31 Lynes had to resort to sending his erotic work to an early German pornographic magazine to get the photographs published. Taking these photographs is not a breach of privacy but an expression of normalcy, freedom and creativity.
“The idea of a photographic ‘gaze’ relates to a specific way of looking, and being looked at through the camera, and implies a certain psychological relationship of power and control.”32 Foucault’s analysis of the gaze as a means of surveillance, which is predatory and controlling, used to classify and discipline, allows the camera and mirror to be equated as tools of self-reflection and surveillance, where the double (created through self-relfection and surveillance) can be alienated from the self, taken away (like a photograph) for closer examination.33 Victor Burgin in his seminal 1977 essay Looking at photographs “argues that the ‘recording eye’ of the camera sets it apart from the subject at which it looks. The camera creates an ordering device which ‘depicts a scene and the gaze of the spectator, an object and a viewing subject.’“34 The camera’s gaze is not passive, it is active; it imparts its own subjectivity forming a triangular relationship between the object being photographed, camera and photographer. It has its own reality.
In a society where we are living in the age of ubiquitous networked photography35 the borders between public and private are collapsing. The idea that the gazer is able to see but not be seen; in essence, that the looking is anonymous36 is becoming a fallacy. Everything, even the watcher, becomes visible (after an ever shorter time). The separation that takes place between the looker and the looked-at is disappearing; we all know we are being watched even as we watch (and post) ourselves. “The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle … are [becoming] one.”37
I would suggest that there is no fixed definition of private and public. For example even after people sign out from Facebook the sites they visit are still tracked.38 Anything that you post on Facebook, the music you like – if you just listen to it, Facebook takes it to mean that you approve of it and distributes it too your friends. Similarly with CCTV, ASIO images, mobile phone images, what is thought of as an invasion of privacy is eventually made public through FOI, leaking, teenage girls posting online (Ricky Nixon) etc …. As noted earlier someone with a camera, or the means to distribute a photograph, is not entirely passive or powerless.
Even as the photographer “lifts” the object of his attention with his machine, the camera, he “takes” a picture, “and in so doing he makes a claim for that object or that composition, and a claim for his act of seeing in the first place … transposing a particular and emphatically personal point of view”39 and making a claim for the very act of seeing itself. The thing itself (the object photographed) and the way the photographer looks at it cannot be separated. In other words, in constant oscillation, we stand behind but also in front of the metaphorical camera: “I am nothing; I see all.”40
We know that we are being monitored and so we conform; even if no one is there, even if we cannot see the guard (as in Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon prison) we suspect we are being watched and so self regulate our behaviour. “And yet, our contemporary society … has ironically embraced surveillance … This is most apparent in social media where millions of people regularly upload their most intimate moments via webcam … we happily embrace the mechanisms devised to control us and turn them into a kind of freefall celebration.”41
“It is though the millions of people, artists or not, who produce and publish images of themselves, their friends, surroundings and ideas in a sort of mass social surveillance (while often being tracked by the devices they are using) are implicated … in surveillance as a source of entertainment and personal gratification.”42
Surveillance, sousveillance as the sight of (perverse) resistance.
These contradictory, constantly shifting contemporary information and image flows tends to erode the moral authority of any social order, patriarchal or otherwise, opening up an expanded and abstracted terrain of becoming. Images exceed, incorporate or reverse the values that are presumed to reside within them.43 These phatic images, for that is what they are – targeted images that force you to look and hold your attention – “produce a ‘message-intensification’ within the visual image that accentuates pictorial detail while simultaneously forcing image context and location to recede or disappear. The phatic image is at once technically-mediated, manipulable, intensified and perhaps most importantly for [Paul] Virilio de-localized.”44 This can be observed in bodies of work in this exhibition: most have no image context or defined location while intensifying their message through close-up details. All have been circulated around the world for consumption. Vision is everywhere and nowhere at one and the same time.
The person who gazes is not unfamiliar with the world upon which he looks; he understands the image as seen from without as another would see it, in the midst of the visible.45 No longer is the image seen or considered from a certain spot. That vision is decentred by the networks of signifiers that come to me from the social milieu …
“The viewing subject does not stand at the center of the perceptual horizon, and cannot command the chains and series of signifiers passing across the visual domain. Vision unfolds to the side of, in tangent to, the field of the other. And to that form of seeing Lacan gives a name: seeing on the field of the other, seeing under the Gaze.”46
While the self and environment are under constant surveillance in an attempt to resemble the truth, to re-assemble the referentiality of the image, it is not the breakdown of an already existing web of visuality (the disciplinary gaze of surveillance) but the wilful amending of its intent that opens up new terrains of becoming. In the public city it is the publicity of the image that will continue to thwart the controlling eye. We are all actors in a performative space, transforming the gaze and collapsing its vision into the tactile worlds of virtual reality (Ron Burnett), “engaging with ideas of pose, of masquerade, of performance, of witness and record as they transact across increasingly contingent boundaries of private and public, fact and artifice,”47 to question who we become in the necessarily public register of the photographic – the public register of memory and history.48
Each enframing of reality opens up the possibility of new discourses. The paradox is the more we seek to fix our vision of the world and to control it the less sure we are as to who we are and what our place is in the world. Does the painting emerge from the figure or the figure from the painting?
Does the image/reality emerge from the image …
Marcus Bunyan for the Art Blart blog
Many thank to the CCP and Naomi Cass for allowing me to publish the text and photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. Text © Centre for Contemporary Photography 2011.
from the series The Sleepers
lightjet print
courtesy the artist
“In 2003 I began photographing people I didn’t know in the streets of Paris, working in a conventional street photography style. I became a prowler searching for photographic opportunities in the faces and gestures of total strangers, fascinated with capturing private moments within the public realm.
In 2005 I was living on the sixth floor of an apartment in Kings Cross, Sydney, below was a park unadorned by play equipment or even a bench. From my window I could see homeless people asleep on the grass in the middle of the day. What struck me most were their bodies resting in dappled light and gesturing in ways usually saved for private moments. The drape of their clothes and the quality of light reminded me of so many paintings I had seen.
So The Sleepers began. I photographed people asleep in the park with my mini DV camera, which allowed me to zoom in and capture detail but also allowed for a grainy image reminiscent of surveillance footage. In the sleeping posture – curled up or lying flat – people generally covered their faces, ensuring their anonymity. I liked this aspect of the work. Although I was photographing them unawares, I wasn’t really intruding if I couldn’t see their faces. Oddly, I have stopped working in this candid way. I wasn’t sure why at the time. In retrospect I understand that it became too difficult because audiences became obsessed with whether I had permission to photograph people. I never considered asking anyone if I could take their photo. It would have defeated the whole point. People change when they know there is a camera present, better to let them be.
The moral dilemmas engulfing candid photography are not something I am interested in addressing in my work. I would much rather ponder whether their faces, or their bodies, or their gestures are cues to something more mysterious, spiritual and human.”
Cherine Fahd 2011 text from the exhibition catalogue
From the series The Park
© Kohei Yoshiyuki, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
www.yossimilo.com/artists/kohe_yosh
Untitled 1971, 1972, 1973, 1979 from the series The Park
edition various of 10
25 gelatin silver prints, 40.64 – 50.8 cm
courtesy the artist and Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park is presented in association with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
“Kohei Yoshiyuki’s now infamous documentation of voyeurism features confronting photographs of public space clandestinely used as private space at night: Japanese parks where, in the absence of privacy, young people perform intimate acts while being watched by onlookers.
During the 1970s, young commercial photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki (a pseudonym; his real name remains unknown) frequented Tokyo’s Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama parks at night with a 35mm camera, infrared film and a flash. Photographed over a decade, the series was exhibited at the Komai Gallery in Tokyo in 1979 where the images were printed life-size and exhibited in the dark while visitors used hand held torches to view the photographs. These prints were subsequently destroyed.1
Images from The Park were first published in 1972 in the popular ‘secret camera’ genre magazine Shukan Shincho and were not initially considered as art photography.2 However, Yoshiyuki’s series also sits within a broad tradition of voyeurism in Japanese art, including eighteenth and nineteenthcentury erotic ukiyo-e prints and in cinema.
In 1980 Yoshiyuki published a further selection and, in 1989, he wrote about the process of getting to know the park voyeurs. In 2006 Yoshiyuki was included in Martin Parr’s publication The Photobook: A History: Volume 2 as an unknown innovator, prompting Yossi Milo Gallery to track down the reclusive artist and convince him to reprint the remaining negatives for what became a highly successful exhibition in 2007.
Of the relationship between couples and voyeur Yoshiyuki wrote: ‘The couples were not aware of the voyeurs in most cases. The voyeurs try to look at the couple from a distance … then slowly approach toward the couple behind the bushes, and from the blind spots of the couple they try to come as close as possible, and finally peep from a very close distance. But sometimes there are the voyeurs who try to touch … and gradually escalating – then trouble would happen.’ “3
Naomi Cass text from the exhibition catalogue
1. Amelia Groom. ‘Seeing Darkness’, in Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park exhibition catalogue, IMA, Brisbane, July 2011.
2. Shihoko Iida, ‘Gaze without subjectivity’, Artlink: Art and Surveillance, 31: 3, 2011, p.28.
3. Philip Gefter, ‘Sex in the Park, and its Sneaky Spectators’, The New York Times, 23 Sept 2007.
from the series L’Autre
courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia
“I stole these photographs between ’95 and ’97 in the Paris metro. ‘Stole’ because it is against the law to take them, it’s forbidden. The law states that everyone owns their own image. But our image, this worthless alias of ourselves, is everywhere without us knowing it. How and why can it be said to belong to us? But more importantly, there’s another rule, that non-aggression pact we all subscribe to: the prohibition against looking at others. Apart from the odd illicit glance, you keep staring at the wall. We are very much alone in these public places and there’s violence in this calm acceptance of a closed world.
I am sitting in front of someone to record his image, the form of evidence, but just like him I too stare into the distance and feign absence. I try to be like him. It’s all a sham, a necessary lie lasting long enough to take a picture. If to look is to be free, the same holds true for photographing: I hold my breath and let the shutter go.”
Luc Delahaye, from L’Autre, Phaidon Press, London, 1999 text from the exhibition catalogue
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder – a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.
Susan Sontag On Photography 1977
In camera and in pubic is about the relationship between camera and subject when this is fraught in some way, in particular, where the subject is not aware of being photographed, where the contract between photographer and subject has been broken.
Candid photography has been critical in the development of art and evidential photography, in revealing aspects of our history and society which have been hidden, ignored, lied about or simply abandoned. Candid photography has delivered some of the most widely regarded, potent and treasured images.
However, the camera is merely a technical device and some would even say a dumb device, which can be, and is used for contradictory and malicious ends. Candid photography has also hurt, harmed and destroyed people. There are more images in the world than ever before, and image sharing technologies in the hands of those with subversive, destructive or immature desires. Paradoxically, on one hand there is greater access to unmediated information of all genres through the internet but also a counter move of public disquiet about candid photography. Many well-regarded, indeed renowned photographers will no longer photograph at the beach, by a pubic pool, at a junior sports match, on the street. The context for photography has changed.
This exhibition looks at the physical and moral proximity of camera to subject in both historical and contemporary work by Cherine Fahd, Bill Henson, Luc Delahaye, Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Denis Beaubois, Percy Grainger, Walid Raad and declassified ASIO images from the late 1940s to the 1980s.
In viewing In camera… it is sobering to consider where the photographer is positioned, to viscerally experience the proximity of camera to unsuspecting subject because, importantly, the exhibition moves from candid photography taken with the sole intention of making art (Henson, Fahd, Delahaye, Leber and Chesworth, Raad and Yoshiyuki) through to the intention of surveillance. Not surprisingly, on first view, even the declassified ASIO images are compelling and beautiful.
Of the artists, the viewer might well ask, have you obtained permission to photograph? But as we all know the unprepared body and face reveals quite a different story than the figure composed for the camera. It is the non-composed figure which is the lifeblood of much art and photography.
Surveillance is in part the subject of work by Denis Beaubois, Walid Raad and to some extent in Leber and Chesworth’s multi-media work. Certainly Beaubois, Leber and Chesworth consider the role of architectural space and the all-seeing eye of the state and in the latter, the eye of god within the panopticon of the domed cathedral. Walid Raad puts the tedium of surveillance in perspective when his fictional operative repeatedly forgoes his designated work to relish the setting sun.
In camera and in public exploits the form of CCP’s nautilus galleries and reflects the progress of the camera turned towards an unsuspecting subject until Gallery 4 where, in the hand of Percy Grainger, the camera is turned towards himself, in an astonishing series of vintage photographs, possibly created for display in the Grainger Museum. ‘In camera’ and in public, indeed. In 1941 Grainger wrote, “Most museums, most cultural endeavours, suffer from being subjected to too much taste, too much elimination, too much selection, too much specialisation! What we want (in museums and cultural records) is all-sidedness, side lights, crossreferences.”
We all love to stare, to linger, to see what we might have missed, and with advancing technologies, to see what is unavailable to the naked human eye, and here lies the problem. In looking at these images, are we implicated in an act of transgression?”
Text Naomi Cass September 2011 from the exhibition catalogue
Denis Beaubois
In the event of Amnesia the city will recall…
9 mins 30 secs
“This work explores the relationship between the individual and the metropolis. Twelve sites were selected around the city of Sydney where surveillance cameras are prominently placed, the locations were mapped out and the stage for this work was created. A daily pilgrimage was made to the sites for a period of three days. No permission was sought for the use of these sites. The performer arrived unannounced and carried out his actions. Upon arrival the performer attempted to engage with the electronic eye. The performer’s actions were directed to the camera, which adopted the role of audience.
The primary audience was the surveillance camera (or those who monitor them). Their willingness to observe is not based upon the longing for entertainment. It stems from a necessity to assess and monitor designated terrain. Imbued with a watchdog consciousness, the primary audience scans the field for suspects, clues and leads. Like many audiences, it assesses the scene and attempts to pre-empt the plot. However this audience is extremely discerning and, ultimately, by assessing and reacting to the event it also adopts the role of performer.
Within this metropolis the walls do not have ears but are equipped with eyes. The city must understand the movements of those who dwell within its domain. To successfully achieve this it must be capable of reading its inhabitants. What can be read can be controlled in theory. Yet the city’s eyes are not content following the narrative provided by its inhabitants. The city weaves its own text within the surface narrative. A paranoid fiction based on foresight.”
Denis Beaubois 1997 text from the exhibition catalogue
“In camera and in public represents a very different approach to this year’s Festival theme of protest and revolution. Taking a look at society through the lens of the state, the street photographer, the artist and the eye of the voyeur, this exhibition curated by Naomi Cass examines the abandonment of the contract between photographer and subject.
Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed. From images taken in public spaces, including a series of striking faces taken on the Paris metro, the exhibition proceeds to the grainy anxiety of declassified ASIO photos from the 1960s.
Kohei Yoshiyuki’s now infamous documentation of voyeurism, The Park (1970-1979), features confronting photographs of public space clandestinely used as private space at night: Japanese parks where, in the absence of privacy, young people perform intimate acts while being watched by onlookers.
At the heart of CCP galleries are Percy Grainger’s extraordinary naked self-portraits from his so-called ‘lust branch’ collection, hand printed by Grainger between 1933 and 1942. Here the camera is turned on himself, in camera.
Cherine Fahd offers frank photographs of daytime sleeping bodies in a Kings Cross park taken from her 6th floor apartment, while Bill Henson captures hauntingly beautiful crowd scenes during the 1980s. Sonia Leber and David Chesworth secretly film from the dome of St Pauls Cathedral, London and Walid Raad impersonates a fictional operative who failing in his surveillance task, repeatedly films the sunset.
Finally, Denis Beaubois, with a playful and performative video, seeks a kind of revenge of the subject, through his attempts to engage with a number of surveillance cameras, inviting the camera to respond to pleas earnestly delivered on cue cards.”
Press release from the CCP website
Untitled 1980/82
gelatin silver chlorobromide print
from a series of 220
courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
“The great beauty in the subject comes, for me, from the haunted space, that unbridgeable gap – which separates the profound intimacy and solitude of our interior world from the ‘other’ and in trying to show, in this case through envisioning the crowd, how an awesome, unassailable, even monumental, beauty and grace might attend the undulating, fluid mass of a wall of people as they move toward you.
It is the contradictory nature of life and the way in which this can be suggested in art which first drew me to photograph crowds – much as this underpins my interest in any art form…
The business of how a child’s small hand appearing between two adults at a street crossing can suggest both a vulnerability, great tenderness, and yet also contain within it all of the power that beauty commands, is endlessly fascinating to me.”
Bill Henson 2011 text from the exhibition catalogue
Persons Of Interest – ASIO surveillance 1949 -1980
Eddie Mabo, CPA district conference, Townsville, September 1965
NAA A9626, 162
Author Frank Hardy in the doorway of the Building Workers Industrial Union, 535 George St, Sydney, August 1955
Persons Of Interest – ASIO surveillance 1949 – 1980
Curated by Haydn Keenan
Selected surveillance images from a forthcoming documentary series from Smart Street Films
www.smartstreetfilms.com.au/
“I discovered these images as part of my research for our documentary series Persons Of Interest which will be screened on SBS early next year. They are part of a massive archive of pictures secretly recorded by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) from 1949 onwards.
These images are not art. Unlike art these pictures have the power to alter lives dramatically. Be photographed at the wrong place and you’ll find it hard to get a job, when you do you’ll get the sack soon after. Appear in these images and your career will go nowhere without explanation. The eye of the beholder will cast a shadow you will not see until thirty years later when you get access to your file.
The photos create a strange world of frozen youth, high hopes and issues that were seen as subversive then but are now so integrated into the mainstream that they need explanation for Gen Y. ASIO was created to hunt down and eliminate a Soviet spy ring operating in Canberra in the late 1940s. Most of the members of the spy ring were connected with or were members of the Communist Party of Australia. For the next forty years ASIO followed everything the Party did.
The purpose of photographic surveillance is to identify Persons Of Interest in a definitive manner and to record their associations and contacts thereby building a network. Surveillance would occur during demonstrations, May Day marches and at political meetings. It would also occur at specific locations and everyone entering or leaving the location would be recorded. Each person in a photograph with an ASIO file would have an identifying number marked on the image next to them.
I have thousands of these images and what I have noticed is that one builds up a mental image of the changing face of what the State saw as a threat. What starts as the hunt for Communist spies gradually evolves into suspicion about social issues like Aboriginal land rights, youth culture, Women’s Liberation, anti Vietnam, Apartheid – even amateur actors at New Theatre were thoroughly photographed. There’s even a file on the Mother’s Club at Gardenvale Primary School. The absurdity is evident in hindsight. Yet what ASIO didn’t realise is that they were constructing an invaluable social history of Australian dissent as they gradually confused subversion with dissent.
They recorded many people, especially in the 1960s filled with youthful exuberance, high in hope and action. These people were questioning the central values of a society their parents had created. Here they are frozen in the malevolent eye of the security services. Whilst it’s invasive, seedy and incompetent, even they can’t diminish sunlit youth.”
Haydn Keenan 2011 text from the exhibition catalogue
Percy Grainger
Private Matters: Do not open until 10 (ten) years after my death
courtesy the Grainger Museum, The University of Melbourne
“Internationally renowned Australian pianist and composer Percy Grainger (1882 – 1961) built new sounds by modifying old instruments. He built electronic instruments from recycled materials; he built new words, new types of garments and previously unforged links between folk and classical music. He also built the Past-Horde-House, his term for museum, in which he curated his life.
In these photographs, hand printed between 1933 and 1942, Percy Grainer turns the camera on himself (and to a lesser degree his wife Ella) to document his sexual practices, which he believed were intrinsic to his being and his creativity. These works form part of what Grainer called the ‘lust branch’ of his Museum.
Grainger was a sadomasochist and wrote to his partners and friends quite openly about his thoughts on sex, including what he called ‘self beating’. However when in 1956 Sir Eugene Goossens, British composer and Sydney Symphony Orchestra conductor was detained for bringing pornography into the country, and was subsequently destroyed by the scandal, Grainger, like a number of prominent Australian artists, either left the country or outwardly restrained their behaviour. Consequently, Grainger sealed his ‘lust branch’ of the Museum, a selection of books, whips and photographs related to sadomasochistic behaviour in a travelling trunk, and left the instruction: ‘Not to be opened until 10 (ten) years after my death’ (exhibited). Contained within the accompanying envelope is a kind of manifesto in the form of a letter, the pages of which are carefully bound together by hand, in which he writes, ‘The photographs of myself whipped by myself in Kansas City and the various photographs of my wife whipped by me show that my flagellantism was not make-believe or puerility, but had the element of drasticness in it. Nevertheless my flagellantism was never inhuman or uncontrolled.’
While Grainger was the subject of intense, international media scrutiny, marketing and photography, to document their sadomasochistic practices Grainger had to teach himself photography. The archive he left has the quality of forensic records, consistent with the quasi scientific method he practiced in other aspects of his life. Exhibited is Grainger’s self-printed, hand-made album, Photo-skills Guide in which he makes technical observations, similarly evident in and on other ‘lust branch’ photographs.
Grainger considered his sexual expression integral to all aspects of his life, indeed for Grainger sexuality was inseparable from his renowned life as a pianist and composer. It is probable that the ‘lust branch’ images were designed for display in the Museum, in a more enlightened period. In 1941 Grainger wrote, ‘I have a bottomless hunger for truth … life is innocent, yet full of meaning. Destroy nothing, forget nothing … say all. Trust life, trust mankind. As long as the picture of truth is placed in the right frame (art, science, history) it will offend none.’
Naomi Cass 2011 text from the exhibition catalogue
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2. Stephens, Andrew. “Who’s watching you?” in The Saturday Age. 23rd September 2011 [Online] Cited 14/10/2011.
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3. Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan.New York: Pantheon Books, 1977 cited in McDonald, Helen. “It’s Rude to Stare,” Footnote 9 in Radok, Stephanie (ed.,). Artlink: Art & Surveillance. South Australia: Artlink, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2011, p.25.
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5. See Alpers, Svetlana. The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century. University Of Chicago Press, 1984.
6. Anon. BILL HENSON: early work from the MGA collection. Education Resource. A Monash Gallery of Art Travelling Exhibition [Online] Cited 14/10/2011.
www.unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum/exhibitions/2011/docs/HENSON_edukit.PDF
7. Henson, Bill quoted in the exhibition catalogue. First published as a pdf for the exhibition In camera and in public Curated by Naomi Cass. Centre for Contemporary Photography, 16 September – 23 October 2011.
9. See Goffman, E. Behaviour in Public Places. New York: Free Press, 1963.
10. Giddens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991, pp.82-83.
11. Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993, p.2. Prologue.
12. Delahaye, Luc. L’Autre. Phaidon Press, 1999.
13. Delahaye, Luc quoted in the exhibition catalogue. First published as a pdf for the exhibition In camera and in public Curated by Naomi Cass. Centre for Contemporary Photography, 16 September – 23 October 2011.
14. Morrison, Blake. “Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera,” on the The Guardian website 22nd May 2011 [Online] Cited 14/10/2011.
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15. Stephens, Op. cit.,
16. Berger, John and Mohr, Jean. Another Way of Telling. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982, pp.92-93.
17. Morrison, Op. cit.,
18. Keenan, Haydn. “A Job for the Dogs,” in Radok, Stephanie (ed.,). Artlink: Art & Surveillance. South Australia: Artlink, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2011, p.18.
19. Ibid.,
20. Keenan, Haydn quoted in the exhibition catalogue. First published as a pdf for the exhibition In camera and in public Curated by Naomi Cass. Centre for Contemporary Photography, 16 September – 23 October 2011.
21. Nelson, Robert. “Snapped in the moment – forever,” in The Age newspaper. Wednesday, October 5th 2011, p.19.
22. Groom, Amelia. “Seeing Darkness,” in Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park. Institute of Modern Art pamphlet for the exhibition.
23. Cass, Naomi quoted in the exhibition catalogue. First published as a pdf for the exhibition In camera and in public Curated by Naomi Cass. Centre for Contemporary Photography, 16 September – 23 October 2011.
24. Groom, Op. cit.,
26. Goldberg, Vicky. “Voyeurism Exposed,” on Artnet magazine website. 2010 [Online] Cited 14/10/2011.
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27. Modra, Penny. The Sunday Age M magazine. September 25th, 2011.
28. Gefter, Philip. “Sex in the Park, and its Sneaky Spectators,” in The New York Times, 23rd September 2007 cited in Lida, Shihoko. “Gaze without Subjectivity: Kohei Yoshiyuki and Yoko Asakai,” Footnote 4 in Radok, Stephanie (ed.,). Artlink: Art & Surveillance. South Australia: Artlink, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2011, p.28.
29. Goldberg, Op. cit.,
30. Nelson, Op cit.,
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32. Finch, Maggie. Looking at Looking. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2011, p.2.
34. Burgin, Victor, “Looking at photographs,” in Burgin, Victor (ed.,). Thinking Photography. London: Macmillan Education, 1987, p.146 quoted in Finch, Maggie. Looking at Looking. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2011, p.3.
35. Palmer, Daniel and Whyte, Jessica. “‘No credible photographic interest’: photographic restrictions and surveillance in a time of terror,” in Philosophy of Photography Vol. 1, No. 2, 2010, p.182.
36. Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings in Braudy, Leo and Cohen, Marshall (eds.,). New York: Oxford UP, 1999: 833-44 cited in Boen, Ashley. “The Male Pornographic Gaze,” on Boen, Ashley. Cultures of the Camera: The Male Gaze website [Online] Cited 15/10/2011.
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37. Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought 1927 – 1930. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1930 quoted in Blinder, Caroline. “”The Transparent Eyeball”: On Emerson and Walker Evans,” Footnote 11 in Mosaic : a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Winnipeg: Dec 2004. Vol. 37, Iss. 4; pg. 149, 15 pgs.
38. Bloomberg. “Facebook in tracking suit,” in The Age newspaper. Monday, October 3rd 2011, p.3.
39. Blinder, Caroline. “”The Transparent Eyeball”: On Emerson and Walker Evans,” Footnote 11 in Mosaic : a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Winnipeg: Dec 2004. Vol. 37, Iss. 4; pg. 149, 15 pgs.
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42. King, Natalie and Fraser, Virginia. “People Who Love To Watch,” in Radok, Stephanie (ed.,). Artlink: Art & Surveillance. South Australia: Artlink, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2011, p.15.
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45. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Le Visible et l’invisible. Paris: 1964, p.177 (trans. by Alphonso Lingis, Evanston, 1968, p.134) quoted in Damisch, Hubert. The Origin of Perspective. (trans. John Goodman). Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1994, pp.34-35.
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IMR Acoustics R1 – unusual ceramic/beryllium hybrid with bags of tone
Pros: Smooth and organic sound signature, good all metal build, serious bass prowess, nice texture and weight to the sound, smooth and clear treble, very coherent and musical tuning, multiple tuning options with filters, capability to open up the soundstage with the open/closed port mechanism
Cons: Not massive amounts of micro-detail, could potentially be a little bass-heavy for some (can be mitigated slightly with filters), not massively sparkling in the treble
Price: £500 (IMR Acoustics)
These IEMs were provided on a loan basis by Bob at IMR Acoustics for review purposes. There was no financial incentive for writing this review, and the gear was returned to Bob/IMR once the allotted time period was up, so the opinions expressed below are 100% my own.
Introduction (and the elephant in the room)
IMR Acoustics are a new company, founded in 2017 by Bob James, formerly the head designer and forum “face” of Trinity Audio. For people who are aware of Trinity Audio, this will probably be quite a polarising fact – I won’t go into details here as this should be past history, but I will just say that after speaking to Bob via email prior to agreeing to do this review, he has explained a few things about the direction he wants to take with IMR and I’m comfortable to review these as a “new start” for a new IEM manufacturer.
Unboxing and aesthetics
As these are a pre-production sample, no retail packaging was available at the time I was sent these IEMs, so I just received the IEMs and a sample cable, filters and tip selection. IMR have since confirmed that the expected loadout for the R1 once it hits the shelves is likely to include a case, single and double flange, whirlwind wide bore tips, foams and potentially some hybrid tips as well. Please note that in the pictures attached, the cable and filters shown are not the “final” production items, although the tuning is final so the filters will behave in the same manner on the finished article.
As for the IEM itself, the design is pretty unusual, and quite strikingly industrial. The main body of the IEM is angled backward from the central 2-pin “stalk”, and is reasonably slim, with a solid circular disc on the outside of each IEM that covers the in-house open/closed venting solution. The IEMs are solid metal (aluminium, I believe), and feel well machined and constructed, exhibiting a nice solidity to the design without too much weight. The shape is different from the usual teardrop or cartridge designs on the majority of IEMs out there, and due to its relatively small dimensions, maintains a nicely sophisticated look when worn.
Once in-ear, the R1 are a very ergonomic and comfortable design. The main bore of the IEM is angled in to the ear, flowing the natural shape of the ear canaland allowing for the main body of the IEM to sit flush in the bowl of your outer ear. The rounded edges to the shell design help here, with no obvious pressure points being generated where the shell contacts the surface of the ear, making for a very comfy fit.
As you would expect from an IEM in this sort of “mid-fi” price bracket, the R1 are designed to be worn over-ear. One point to note – the pins on the IEM are a standard 2-pin CIEM style cable socket, but are mounted at 90 degrees to the “normal” angle, so for users who wish to cable roll, please bear in mind that you will probably have to adjust the memory wire portion of any cables (If they have them), and pre-formed/heat shrunk ear guides may not work. For more this isn’t a problem, and I did the bulk of my listening with an 8-braid SPC Litz cable from the Trinity Audio Hunter I have in my collection, as the cable matches very nicely in terms of ergonomics with the overall design of the R1, which shares a similar shape and fit in the ear to the Hunter.
The R1 have an unashamedly “old school” feel to the tuning, with the aim to reproduce a more analogue and musical tone to the sound rather than shooting for absolute studio reference. For me, this is a very good move, with the R1 producing a weighty and supremely musical sound, heavy on tone and enjoyment over absolute detail, and feeling no poorer for it. The 13mm beryllium driver kicks out a powerful and punchy lower end, and the ceramic driver blends in beautifully as the sound climbs up the frequency response to produce a clean and clear midrange and extended but never sharp top end. In fact, the stated extension goes right up to the top end of the official “Hi-Res” certification scale at 40kHz, which is obviously too far for my merely human ears to discern, but should keep any canine IEM wearers in raptures with their latest dog-whistling chart toppers.
Joking aside, the extension on both ends of the spectrum is top notch, with the R1 keeping level through the mid-bass down into true sub-bass territory, the big Beryllium dynamic just digging deeper and deeper without any hint of bottoming out. In terms of tightness and overall detail I have heard better dynamic bass (CA Vega, take a step forward), but in terms of absolute depth of sound, the R1 can definitely compete with anything I have heard in the in-ear market at the moment.
The overall tuning before you start playing with the filters is somewhere approximating an L shape, with the mids and treble both sounding smooth and clear, but not quite as weighty as the bass. Playing with the filter options (a very sensible five in total, all with a noticeable effect on the sound) allows some good tweaking of the tuning to shape the base tuning slightly more to your own preference. This feels like an evolution of Bob’s previous work with Trinity, with the underlying tuning feeling far more cohesive and measured overall than IEMs like the Hunter, starting with a better balanced baseline to mount the tuning offensive from. There are no unusual spikes or hotness in the mid/treble transition, and the emphasis in the higher end is on a clean and strong reproduction rather than a more stylised “fizz” or sparkle. Don’t get me wrong, these certainly aren’t dark IEMs, but there is more of a natural feel to the sound, which fits in nicely with the overall more analogue and organic tuning that was obviously being aimed for.
As this is a filter based IEM, rather than the usual categories, I am going to concentrate on describing the overall sound through my two favourite filters, the green and purple.
Purple filter / no damper (mildly L-shaped sound)
Starting with the sub-bass, the R1 produces a nicely textured sound in the lowest reaches through the purple undamped filter, with plenty of volume and quantity. As previously stated, it extends as low as anything I’ve heard, taking the subsonic “Why So Serious” from The Dark Night soundtrack and turning it into a veritable earthquake in between the ears. Moving up into the mid-bass, the R1 shows a good visceral impact, slamming hard when called on, again using the big Be driver to good effect. Despite the impact, the overall bass presentation isn’t boomy or flabby, and while it may be a little on the heavy side for some in this configuration, it still feels well controlled, with only a minimal sense of overshadowing the midrange on really bass-dominant tracks.
In terms of balance in the lower range, there is a good blend between sub and mid bass which feels almost flat in the transition, portraying a nicely rounded note presentation. The DD used is no slouch, but by the same token there is no spectacular speed to proceedings, leaving a nicely organic feeling to the note decay. On more busy tracks, the bass doesn’t feel hurried, however, treading a nice line between big and overly bulky. There is no getting away from the fact these 13mm drivers can produce a big physical slam when needed, with plenty of bass presence. This is definitely not an anaemic or analytical sound, lean much more towards warm and musical (think Campfire Audio rather than Sennheiser HD800)
The midrange is very organic feeling, with a good timbre to male vocals. It is reasonably well detailed, but not overly crunchy or vivid, and actually feels quite balanced in this region. Compared to some of the previous Trinity models I have heard, this is a very “mature” tuning, with no audible spikes in the range to add vividness or artificial detail, instead relying on the resolving power of the underlying drivers to bring the music to the fore. These IEMs will not be described as detail monsters with this filter, but at the same time don’t feel overly veiled or lacking, with a nice sense of clarity.
Listening to the upper mids, vocals feel quite forward but again, not edgy or over-sharpened, with no obvious sibilance or shrillness unless it is unavoidably baked in to the DNA of the track you are listening to. Stringed instruments sound phenomenal – the ceramic driver adds plenty of room noise and retrieval of detail from up high to complement the richness of the midrange, and gives a warmly organic texture to cello and violin. Firing up some 2Cellos, the R1 handles “We Found Love” in as enjoyable a manner as I’ve heard. Maybe not the most technically mind-blowing, but when music just sounds right, I tend to stop worrying about any microdetail I may have missed along the way (don’t tell anyone – I may lose my audiophile member’s card if that gets out!)
The highs through the R1 in this configuration sound as smooth as glass, with none of the trademark Trinity “glare” from the later models of the Phantom range, nicely extended without feeling sharp. I never managed to hear the Delta or Icarus models from Bob’s previous employers, but this feels like the treble tuning that the other recent models would have benefitted from. Whether it is simply a different approach ti tuning on this new venture or the capabilities of the ceramic driver I couldn’t possibly say, but one thing I can say without hesitation is this is my favourite treble tuning from anything Bob has designed so far.
Green filter / black damper (mid-forward sound)
In comparison to the purple filter, there is less quantity on display here, the black damping foam taking some of the overall quantity away but still leaving a nicely capable and certainly not bass-shy tuning behind. Mid bass still carries plenty of presence, with a good level of impact but less overall power. I suspect (without graphing them) that the increased midrange emphasis felt in the higher ranges is mainly due to the balancing effect this filter has on lower end presence rather than a “boost” in the midrange.
With this filter, the midrange has a slightly less rich and organic tonality (due to the lower bass presence and attendant decrease in warmth), but is pushed further forward in both quantity and position on the stage as a result. There is a payoff to this midrange boost, with the R1 exhibiting a slightly less “natural” tone to the presentation. In this configuration, the vocals are pushed forwards towards the listener, which has the effect of pulling the other mid range instrumentation into the hole they leave behind slightly behind them, in an almost W shaped tuning reminiscent of the Campfire Audio Dorado. Guitars feel a little thinner, but the payoff is a little added edge and crunch, with the lower relative bass presence allowing the edges of the notes to stand out more in riff-heavy tracks.
Moving through to the upper mids, the presentation is still not sibilant despite the additional presence. Vocals sound clear and nicely weighted, with a slight boost in perceived clarity and a little more room to breathe in the stage overall. Once point to note is that the upper mids can occasionally overshadow the transition into the treble, giving the effect of standing a little in front of the treble notes like cymbals. This isn’t a major consideration, and in the main, the R1 presents a nicely separated and very clean audio image with these filters, and in fact these became my “go to” setup by the time I had to return the demo pair to Bob. Despite the slight loss in naturalness, there is something addictive about the vocal presentation and the way they sit alongside the bass, providing a rich and warmish almost tube-like tone to the sound for most vocal and guitar based music that is very enjoyable. I mentioned the Dorado from Campfire earlier, and I think the tuning of the R1 tends to evoke the same sort of musical and organic tone that the Campfire models are known for, without straying too far into Ken Ball’s sound signatures.
The treble with this filter is the least affected frequency range, sounding pretty much the same as through the undamped purple filters.
Separation and imaging
The R1 are highly capable when it comes to separation, and exhibit similar characteristics across all the five filters. On “White Worm” by Marty Friedman, the drums spread out behind the head well, pulling a nice crisp image and panning across the back of the skull with distinct impacts, the separate tom tom hits rolling around like thunder behind the eyes. The multiple layers of instrumentation on this tune gives the dual driver setup a nice test, which it passes well – each layer of the wall of sound is nicely marked out, not leaving a huge expanse between each slice of sound, but still remaining crisp enough to be easily distinguishable.
As far as imaging goes, the R1 provide a nice sense of width, and reasonable depth. There is a strong (if not laser-like) sense of instrument placement, with the soundstage feeling more oval than spherical.
Effect of the open/closed port
The most unique aspect to the R1 design is the addition of a rotating disc on the back of each IEM shell, which allows the IEM to be changed from fully closed to a semi-open setup by rotating the back cover to expose the four ports drilled into the back of the driver casing. These ports are covered in a find mesh and don’t actually leak much sound, so this doesn’t expose the delicate innards to any more risk of damage when opening the port, and is pretty simple to change on the fly without having to remove the IEMs.
In operation, this is a subtle effect, most noticeably dropping a little bit of bass pressure in the lower mid-bass and sub bass regions, in exchange for a little more feeling of air in the staging. It doesn’t suddenly explode the soundstage 3 feet out of your head in both directions, but there is an almost palpable feeling of pressure release, and the music just seems to relax its shoulders a little and push out a few more inches either way. There isn’t any massive sound leakage as a result of the port opening, but it is an interesting effect. Outside noise is slightly more audible as well (usually drowned out by the music playing), so can be useful in environments where you need to kill your music but don’t want to pull your buds out of your ears to talk to someone. This works best in tandem with the filters, allowing a little bot of extra tweaking to the base tuning of each filter to either lock in or tone down the bass, and air out or condense the sound slightly.
Subtle as it is, I think this is a genuinely useful innovation, and ended up using it a lot more than I thought depending on where I was listening to the R1 – ports closed for bass slam and isolation on my busy public transport commute to the office, and ports open and lower volume when chilling out in bed at the end of a day (and still not enough leakage to disturb my other half). This is evolutionary rather than totally revolutionary, but definitely adds something to the overall sound, so kudos to Bob and IMR for thinking outside of the box on this one.
Campfire Audio Andromeda – The Andromeda is one of the current co-flagships of the Campfire Audio range, and is one of the most highly regarded $1k models currently on the market. I have chosen this comparison due to the similar approach to tuning shown in both models, with an emphasis on tone and organic reproduction of sound.
Starting with the bass, the Andromeda has significantly less presence vs the R1 using the purple filters, with the IMR model carrying a fair bit more weight in the sub and mid bass ranges. The notes are also thicker on the R1, with the Andro carrying as much or more overt detail at each interval as the sound rises through the mid and treble ranges, but in a slightly thinner presentation. The lack of bass weight gives the Andromeda a more neutral feel to the presentation, with the notes swooping round a stage with more fell of air due to the sizing. With regards to clarity, the Andro pulls ahead slightly due to the lightness of its notes, but in contrast the R1 presenting a more convincing sense of depth with its weightier presentation as music pans around the stage (a good track to highlight this is “We Found Love” by 2Cellos, which has a swooping cello run around the 1.50 mark in the left ear that feels a little more fleshed out on the R1).
Opening the ports on the IMR model makes things a little more competitive in regards to air and space in the soundstage as the bass pressure levers off slightly, allowing the midrange a little more freedom to move. The Andro is still ahead in this regard, although the gap is comparatively smaller, with the Andro just feeling a shade more clear and refined.
Build quality is again similar between the two, with the unique industrial design of the Andromeda just nudging ahead of the R1 – as this is a pre-production model, the final article may be a little closer overall. IN terms of comfort, both IEMs sit in the ear well and provide good levels of isolation, with the Andromeda providing slightly more due to its sealed aluminium shell compared to the ported and vented design on the R1.
In terms of power requirements, the Andromeda is considerably easier to drive, requiring less power to reach a good listening volume. It is more sensitive to impedance of the source, giving slightly different levels of bass and treble depending on the DAP/source being used. The Andromeda also hisses significantly more than the practically jet black R1 on most of my music sources.
Overall, the Andromeda provides a more balanced and refined sound than the R1, which you would expect at approximately twice the price. Both IEMs share a nicely musical take on sound reproduction, and while lower, the R1 certainly doesn’t feel a million miles away from the Andro in terms of overall quality, and is certainly pretty close in terms of sheer enjoyment factor.
Astell & Kern / Beyerdynamic AKT8IE MkII – the AKT8IE Mk2 (hereafter referred to as the T8IE) is an Astell & Kern collaboration with the German company Beyerdynamic, and utilises their proprietary Tesla-coil technology to provide a single dynamic driver flagship for the current A&K in-ear range. Both IEMs are tuned with a more musical tilt rather than purely analytical, and the T8IE are more closely priced to the R1 in the current second hand market at around £800.
Starting with the bass, the T8IE has more mid bass focussed sound compared to the equally mid and sub centred R1, which can occasionally make the A&K model feel a little heavy or congested on some busier tracks like “Sound Of Madness” by Shinedown. The T8IE is comparable to the R1 in terms of physical impact and slam factor, keeping up well with the heavy drum impacts of the aforementioned Shinedown songs and other rhythm heavy tracks.
Moving on to the mids, there is a crisper sense of “attack” on guitar based music with the T8IE, the midrange feeling slightly thinner and crisper overall, with guitars jangling a little more cleanly in the listener’s ear but carrying three dimensionality and weight. Vocals feel textured and impassioned on the T8IE, competing well with the organic sound of the R1. The slightly less weighty presentation also adds to a slightly better sense of separation in this range, with the T8IE feeling easy to pick out the twin guitars of some of my more intricate rock tracks from bands like The Darkness or Shinedown with a slightly more clinical execution. With tracks like “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” from the recent Elvis collaboration album with the Royal Philharmonic, there is slightly more rasp in the vocal delivery with the T8IE, which is great for finding the emotion in a track. On the flipside, the T8IE feels slightly less balanced in comparison to the green filtered R1, with the vocals sitting a little behind the more pronounced midbass, and the sound carrying more impact but feeling a little less rounded.
Treble is similar on both, with the R1 carrying a little more weight and feel of extension in comparison to the sharper but thinner T8IE. Detail feels slightly higher in AK, but not huge – the R1 again feels more analogue and rounded in comparison, highlighting the trade-off between ultra detail and tone/balance that separates these two IEMs.
In terms of soundstage, there is slightly less of feel of depth and warmth on the T8IE in comparison to the R1 with the green filters (my favourite configuration). The T8IE actually feels more forward overall than the more laid back IMR model, pushing the listener a little closer to the music than the more laid back sound the IMR model is going for.
The T8IE packaging is top notch, so the R1 would have to pull something seriously top notch to compete with the A&K model here. The T8IE is also more efficient, being considerably easier to drive and scaling well with higher end gear. Build quality is similar between both, with the T8IE winning the ergonomics battle with a supremely comfortably shell shape that just disappears into the ear for extended listening, but loses out being a metal coated plastic IEM to the sturdier and more robust feeling solid metal shells of the R1.
Overall, the T8IE presents a nicely emotive sound, with slightly more refinement in terms of audible detail and finesse than the R1, but can come off a little thinner sounding and less flexible than the more tunable IMR model, and loses out a little in terms of absolute extension and bass tuning over the more capable feeling IMR dual dynamic setup. Preferences here will come down to if you like your sound a little crisper and more obviously detailed, or whether you prefer a fuller sounding and more tube-style rendition of your favourite tracks – neither would be a poor choice for most people.
Periodic Audio Be – this is the flagship model from the new Periodic Audio range, and is another dynamic driver model currently on the market with a beryllium diaphragm. It retails at around the $300 mark at present, so is roughly half the price of the R1.
Diving straight in to the sound, “We Found Love” by 2Cellos is first up. The initial impression of the sound produced by the Periodic flagship is of a less weighty overall tuning, with more crispness on the edge of notes and a slightly airier, more V shaped sound. The Be has a more oblong soundstage presentation than the R1, with less obvious depth. In terms of detailing, the additional crunchiness and crispness in the high mids and treble lead to a better perception of detail compared to the rounder R1.
With regards to the bass, both beryllium drivers can dig deep when the track requires it, and have a similarly low extension. The Be has more of a sub-bass tilt to the tuning in comparison to the more evenly distributed lower end of the R1. The additional mid-bass presence adds a little more warmth to the R1 with the filters I prefer in comparison to the slightly colder and more sub-oriented Periodic model.
Listening to something like “The Weekend” by Brantley Gilbert, the R1 again gives a slightly fuller but less crisp sound. The midrange is more forward on both filters mentioned above, giving a more analogue presentation, the less V shaped tuning and additional warmth from the mid bass giving a more vinyl-sounding tone to the music. The R1 also shows a little more in the way of directional cues on the drum hits, mainly down to the more 3D staging allowing for a more realistic placement of the impacts. This is a densely recorded song, and through the R1 the layers do feel feel closer together than the more obviously separated Periodic IEM, but this is balanced out by a bigger and wider stage on the R1. The treble is very crunchy and defined on the Be, but feels more smooth and less crystalline on the IMR, carrying more weight. I also prefer the R1 for the vocals on this track, as they add a little less edge to the gravel in Gilbert’s voice and present a more intimate and balanced sound in comparison to the slightly more recessed Be, which tends to add a little grit to the lower end of the vocal delivery here.
Last of the test tracks here is “Big Boys” off Chuck Berry’s last album, and in fairness the R1 presentation could have been made for this song. The IMR model presents the track with beautifully solid drum hits, a thick and jangling guitar, layering the smooth and soulful vocals from Berry and Nathaniel Rateliff over the top of the music seamlessly. The R1 also conveys a strong image of the room behind the mic on Berry’s vocals, adding to the “live” style sound. In contrast, the Be gives a thinner and more obviously textured sound, with the blended vocals not sitting quite as forward in the mix. Berry’s trademark jangling guitar riffs sound sharper on the Periodic, with less weight but more edge. The flatter presentation on the Be also gives off less of a feel of the room behind the singer on this track, but that is more marginal than massive. Overall, the Be feels less thick, with the imaging placing more of the music in the middle of the stage, and not pushing it back quite so deep.
In terms of presentation, the Be comes in a simple cardboard box with the IEMs, a small tobacco tin IEM case and some tips, so the R1’s proposed loadout should see it home quite comfortably on this front, if that sort of thing matters to you. The build is also won quite comfortably by the R1, with the Periodic model sporting a functional but uninspiring polycarbonate shell and thin and non removable runner cable, leaving it feel cheap in comparison to the all-metal build and removable cable and tuning filters of the IMR model. Ergonomics are also won by the R1, with a more comfortably and secure in ear fit in comparison to the more traditional “worn down” style of the barrel shaped Be.
Finally, the Be needs less power to drive well, needing less juice to hit maximum capacity than the thirstier R1. Overall, while the V-shape and obvious capability of the Be driver gives it a nicely detailed sound with plenty of low end, the comparatively smoother but more emotive R1 has a bit more for me in terms of tuning and emotional connection to the music to justify the increased price tag, presenting a warmer, thicker and more realistic sound in comparison to the very enjoyable but more stylised Periodic model.
Trinity Audio Hunter – the Hunter is the flagship model from Bob’s previous employers Trinity Audio, and sits in the same price bracket at £500, with a similar all-metal build and tunable filters to tweak the sound. Despite sharing a similar shell shape and tunable build, the two IEMs couldn’t be more different in terms of actual tuning philosophy, so much so it’s actually quite difficult to imagine the same person designed both pieces.
The Hunter are tuned to sound like a classic “audiophile” sound, with super-high detail levels and a taut, punchy bass which emphasises speed and leanness over impact or body. It does this by means of a pretty heavy spike in the high mids/lower treble, giving a razor sharp edge to the detailing and an accompanying heat to the treble which isn’t there in the clean and smooth high end of the R1.
The Hunter does have more filter options (12 in total), but for me only three or four of them actually suit my sonic preferences, so the tweaking potential is similar as some of the Hunter filters can be downright unlistenable with the treble heat they bring. In terms of bass on my favourite filters (gold on Hunter, purple or green on the R1), the IMR model has considerably more body and quantity, making the almost BA-style bass of the Hunter feel quite anaemic in direct comparison. The Hunter bests the R1 in pure speed in the low end, and produces a similar or higher level of texture to things like bass guitar, but lacks the sense of body and physicality of the big 13mm beryllium driver. This lack of body also contributes to the tone of the Hunter, with the hybrid sounding exceptionally cold and clean, in comparison to the warm and chunky IMR competitor. The R1 also has a more even balance between mid and sub-bass, and a stronger extension down into the really low notes as a result, with the Hunter sporting more of a traditional mid-bass “hump”.
The same holds through the mid-range, the Hunter pushing out a far more audible level of micro-detail than the R1, but sacrificing weight and tone in the process, adding a cold and almost hard sheen to the sound. For my personal preferences, I far prefer the tuning of the R1 in this regard. The Hunter also has its major flaw in this area, a quite vicious peak in the higher mid range that can bring some serious heat into play on some of the filters. Once this has been tamed with the right filters then the sound becomes more enjoyable (I found a combination of the Hunter 8-braid cabling with a warmer balanced source like the QP2R brought this more under control) but this sits in stark contrast to the more even tuning of the R1, which is pretty much enjoyable through all the options.
The Hunter is far crunchier with guitar and string instruments, emphasising the edges of notes – this works very well for more sparse acoustic arrangements, where it holds the edge over the R1 if you are looking for technical excellence over tone or timbre, but in most other genres, the warmer and more cohesive tuning of the R1 wins out for me.
Another area the Hunter excels at is imaging, projecting a slightly diffuse but almost holographic sense of space around the listener’s head, placing instruments firmly in space across all three dimensions. The R1 is no slouch here, but the warmer and thicker presentation can lag a little behind the laser-like accuracy of the Hunter in this regard. That isn’t to say the R1 is in any way lacking, but in this regard the Hunter is truly up there with other high end monitors I have heard.
Overall, these two IEMs couldn’t be further apart in the way they are tuned, and the way they deliver the music you listen to. If you are after a surgical and precise sound with less warmth or give than a sack full of ice cold rocks, the Hunter will excel, but if you are after something more forgiving, with a far thicker presentation of note and overall musical balance, the R1 is a clear winner for me here. It serves as a nice reminder that you can reproduce musical in all its technical glory, but sometimes it is more important to capture its soul instead, as that is what makes listening enjoyable.
Frequency Response 13 – 40000 Hz
Sensitivity 108 +/- 3dB
Impedance 32 Ohms
Included features Open/closed back porting system, 5 tuning filters
Included cable 13mm Beryllium dynamic driver + ceramic driver (hybrid setup)
Spending some time with this IEM was a very interesting proposition for me – knowing that this is the maiden effort for a new company, but having a fair bit of experience with the designer’s previous tunings and models in his former life left me a little unsure whether to expect more of the same, or something radically different. I’m very happy to report that different is what I got, and I believe this IEM is all the better for it. It shoots unashamedly for a musical presentation, not trying to wow the listener with audio-plankton and micro-detailing so fine only dogs and Superman could hear it in the real world. Instead, the emphasis here is on giving the listener a solid, organic feel to the sound, going for the soul of the music rather than the blueprints.
Despite the more obviously musical tuning, this isn’t an IEM that feels lacking in technicality, with the tandem 13mm beryllium dynamic and the more unusual ceramic driver blending together beautifully to produce the most coherent and balanced tuning I’ve heard from one of Bob’s creations yet (I must admit to never hearing the original Delta, however). It is this sense of balance in the underlying tuning that really elevates this IEM to the next level, allowing the filters and openable ports to make a subtle but audible difference to the sound but still stay close enough to the original balance to never sound overcooked or too far to one extreme. Add in some SERIOUS basshead level low end quantity on tap and a smooth and classy treble without any hotspots, and you have a tuning for people who love their music like they hear it in a dimly lit blues bar, or cranked through their old record deck and their parents’ huge amp. Warm, soulful and just right.
Now for the dose of reality and perspective – this isn’t an IEM that will rewrite the book on technicality, and it isn’t likely to be an IEM that will wow the HD800 and Grado fans of this world. It has its limitations, and in terms of resolution and clarity it is good but not stellar for the price bracket. That being said, there are precious few IEMs in this sort of price and capability bracket that are tuned this way, so if you are looking for something in the mid-fi tier that can blow your mind with bass or charm your ears with their smooth and velvety sound at the same time, the R1 is a strong debut entry from IMR Acoustics, and will definitely be worth checking out once they go on sale.
Published by jackpot77
I'm a fairly recent convert to audiophilia but a long time music fan, also aspiring to be a reasonably inept drummer in my spare time. I listen to at least 2 hours of music a day – generally prefer IEMs for out and about, and a large pair of headphones when I have the house to myself and a glass in my hand. I have a most of my library to FLAC and 320kbps MP3, and do my other listening other listening through Tidal HiFi. I am a fan of rock, acoustic (apart from folk) and sarcasm. Oh yeah, and a small amount of electronica. Not a basshead, but I do love a sound with some body to it. My ideal tuning for most IEMs and headphones tends towards a musical and slightly dark presentation, although I am not treble sensitive in general. Please take all views expressed in my posts with a pinch of salt – all my reviews are a work in progress based on my own perceptions and personal preferences, and your own ears may tell you a different story. View all posts by jackpot77
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6 thoughts on “IMR Acoustics R1 – unusual ceramic/beryllium hybrid with bags of tone”
Shoot says:
Nice for you that you have a Hunter to compare – as you know, many people, including friends of mine, are *still* waiting for delivery after over a year! But Bob simply walks away and starts making new stuff. Pretty shameful if you ask me, I don’t think anyone should buy anything from him after he failed his customers and also rejects the Trinity models as not what he would choose to make.
Let down your customers, make stuff that doesn’t live up to the hyperbolic marketing (the pinnacle of what we can do with an IEM? For the Hunter, a hot sibilant anticlimax!) And then go on to make more expensive stuff, in the hopes that people have short memories.
A clue: they don’t.
jackpot77 says:
Hi there – apologies for the late reply, I’ve been away on holiday. I wrote this review after speaking to Bob over email, and while I was personally OK with what he told me around his relationship (and the ending of it) with Trinity, I was fully aware that some people would have a similar opinion to the one expressed above.
It is up to everyone to make up their own minds whether they are interested in buying anything that Bob’s new venture offers, and I think he is aware there are some who will avoid his new gear precisely for the reasons you gave above. I wanted to hear the new IEM as the tech intrigued me, but for any ex-Trinity customers out there, it will be down to them to decide whether the venture is worth their cash or not.
PsiCore says:
Missing a comparison to 64audio U8.
Being a basshed, who likes velvety smooth, but still nicely detailed mids/highs, I was about to buy either U8 or the AKT8i mkii, when these caught my attention.
I would appreciate a short shootout between the three?
Azel says:
Azel, just for your info, I own a 64 audio U8 and just got a shipping notice for the IMR R1… I’ll be able to give you a comparison between those two at the very least. Though if you’re looking for clean bass, centered mids and highs, the U8 is already a great choice.
I’ll report back as soon as I have the R1 in hand 🙂
Fred St-Pierre says:
Sorry for the late reply. If you want to read up my comparison, it’s located here. It compares the Phantom Master 6, the 64 audio U8 and the IMR R1.
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/the-iem-ear-bud-lounge.855661/page-362#post-14040561
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St. Cloud, MN USA
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AA LF 2 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000
AA OF 2 0 4.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000
A(Adv) C 50 48 419.0 362 312 47 3 0 .992
A(Adv) 3B 4 3 33.0 7 0 6 1 0 .857
A(Full) C 76 74 635.1 611 531 71 9 11 .985
ROK C 42 35 302.2 307 255 48 4 1 .987
Minors C 423 405 3517.2 3403 3006 363 34 35 .990
Minors 1B 1 0 1.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000
Minors 3B 6 3 38.0 7 0 6 1 0 .857
Minors LF 3 1 11.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000
Career Minors OF 3 1 11.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000
2019 221 34 1 2.9 81.2 18.6 .131 .214 .149 .154 .236 20.6 37.5 1.8
ALL 221 34 1 2.9 81.2 18.6 .131 .214 .149 .154 .236 20.6 37.5 1.8
09/03/2019 Los Angeles Angels recalled C Anthony Bemboom from Salt Lake Bees.
08/24/2019 Los Angeles Angels optioned C Anthony Bemboom to Salt Lake Bees.
08/11/2019 Los Angeles Angels recalled Anthony Bemboom from Salt Lake Bees.
07/17/2019 Salt Lake Bees activated C Anthony Bemboom.
07/16/2019 Tampa Bay Rays traded C Anthony Bemboom to Los Angeles Angels for cash.
07/15/2019 Tampa Bay Rays designated C Anthony Bemboom for assignment.
07/15/2019 Tampa Bay Rays activated C Anthony Bemboom from the 60-day injured list.
07/01/2019 Tampa Bay Rays sent C Anthony Bemboom on a rehab assignment to Durham Bulls.
06/28/2019 Tampa Bay Rays sent C Anthony Bemboom on a rehab assignment to GCL Rays.
06/26/2019 Tampa Bay Rays sent C Anthony Bemboom on a rehab assignment to Charlotte Stone Crabs.
06/22/2019 Tampa Bay Rays placed C Anthony Bemboom on the 60-day injured list. Left knee sprain
05/16/2019 Tampa Bay Rays placed C Anthony Bemboom on the 10-day injured list retroactive to May 15, 2019. Left knee sprain.
05/10/2019 Tampa Bay Rays selected the contract of C Anthony Bemboom from Durham Bulls.
04/29/2019 C Anthony Bemboom assigned to Durham Bulls from Charlotte Stone Crabs.
04/24/2019 C Anthony Bemboom assigned to Charlotte Stone Crabs from Durham Bulls.
04/01/2019 Durham Bulls placed C Anthony Bemboom on the 7-day injured list.
01/08/2019 Tigres del Licey placed C Anthony Bemboom on the reserve list.
12/11/2018 C Anthony Bemboom assigned to Tigres del Licey.
11/26/2018 Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent C Anthony Bemboom to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
11/26/2018 C Anthony Bemboom assigned to Durham Bulls.
11/02/2018 C Anthony Bemboom elected free agency.
01/29/2018 Colorado Rockies invited non-roster C Anthony Bemboom to spring training.
08/21/2017 Albuquerque Isotopes activated C Anthony Bemboom from the 7-day disabled list.
07/18/2017 Albuquerque Isotopes placed C Anthony Bemboom on the 7-day disabled list.
07/15/2017 Albuquerque Isotopes activated C Anthony Bemboom from the temporarily inactive list.
07/03/2017 Albuquerque Isotopes placed C Anthony Bemboom on the temporarily inactive list.
12/08/2016 Albuquerque Isotopes claimed C Anthony Bemboom off waivers from Salt Lake Bees.
11/14/2016 C Anthony Bemboom assigned to Estrellas Orientales.
08/18/2016 C Anthony Bemboom assigned to Salt Lake Bees from Arkansas Travelers.
08/12/2016 C Anthony Bemboom assigned to Arkansas Travelers from Salt Lake Bees.
08/06/2016 Salt Lake Bees activated C Anthony Bemboom from the temporarily inactive list.
08/03/2016 Salt Lake Bees placed C Anthony Bemboom on the temporarily inactive list.
03/16/2016 C Anthony Bemboom assigned to Los Angeles Angels.
04/04/2015 C Anthony Bemboom assigned to Arkansas Travelers from Inland Empire 66ers.
06/22/2014 C Anthony Bemboom assigned to Inland Empire 66ers from Burlington Bees.
06/20/2014 Burlington Bees sent C Anthony Bemboom on a rehab assignment to AZL Angels.
05/05/2014 Burlington Bees placed C Anthony Bemboom on the 7-day disabled list.
04/01/2014 C Anthony Bemboom assigned to Burlington Bees from Inland Empire 66ers.
06/01/2013 Anthony Bemboom assigned to Burlington Bees from Arkansas Travelers.
05/17/2013 Anthony Bemboom assigned to Arkansas Travelers from Burlington Bees.
04/01/2013 Anthony Bemboom assigned to Burlington Bees from Orem Owlz.
06/15/2012 Anthony Bemboom assigned to Orem Owlz from Los Angeles Angels.
06/12/2012 Los Angeles Angels signed C Anthony Bemboom.
Los Angeles Angels MLB vs Left 6 5 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 .200 .333 .800 1.130
Tampa Bay Rays MLB vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB vs Right 45 44 1 4 0 0 0 1 0 18 0 0 0 .091 .091 .091 .182
Tampa Bay Rays MLB vs Right 5 5 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .400 .400 .600 1.000
Tampa Bay Rays MLB May 5 5 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .400 .400 .600 1.000
Los Angeles Angels MLB August 22 22 1 3 0 0 1 3 0 9 0 0 0 .136 .136 .273 .409
Los Angeles Angels MLB September 29 27 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 0 0 .074 .107 .074 .181
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Pre All-Star 5 5 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .400 .400 .600 1.000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Post All-Star 51 49 2 5 0 0 1 3 1 19 0 0 0 .102 .120 .163 .283
Los Angeles Angels MLB Batting Fourth 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Batting Fifth 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Batting Eighth 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 .400
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Batting Eighth 2 2 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.500 2.500
Los Angeles Angels MLB Batting Ninth 43 41 2 4 0 0 1 2 1 14 0 0 0 .098 .119 .171 .290
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Batting Ninth 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Bases Empty 31 30 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 9 0 0 0 .100 .129 .100 .229
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Bases Empty 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .667
Los Angeles Angels MLB Bases Loaded 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Bases Loaded 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Runner at 1st 9 8 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 4 0 0 0 .125 .125 .500 .625
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Runner at 1st 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Runners at 1st & 2nd 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Runners at 1st & 2nd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Runners at 1st & 3rd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Runner at 2nd 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Runner at 2nd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Runners at 2nd & 3rd 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Runner at 3rd 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 1.000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Scoring Position 11 11 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 6 0 0 0 .091 .091 .091 .182
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Scoring Position 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Home Games 27 26 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 9 0 0 0 .077 .077 .192 .269
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Home Games 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Away Games 24 23 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 10 0 0 0 .130 .167 .130 .297
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Away Games 3 3 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .667 .667 1.000 1.670
Los Angeles Angels MLB Day Games 16 15 2 3 0 0 1 3 1 5 0 0 0 .200 .250 .400 .650
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Day Games 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Night Games 35 34 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 .059 .059 .059 .118
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Night Games 3 3 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .667 .667 1.000 1.670
Los Angeles Angels MLB Leading Off 16 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 .067 .125 .067 .192
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Leading Off 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .667
Los Angeles Angels MLB Late / Close 7 7 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .286 .286 .286 .571
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Late / Close 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB No Outs 21 20 2 2 0 0 1 2 1 4 0 0 0 .100 .143 .250 .393
Tampa Bay Rays MLB No Outs 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .667
Los Angeles Angels MLB One Out 17 16 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 .125 .125 .125 .250
Tampa Bay Rays MLB One Out 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Two Outs 13 13 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 8 0 0 0 .077 .077 .077 .154
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Two Outs 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Second Inning 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Second Inning 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Third Inning 8 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .125 .125 .125 .250
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Third Inning 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Fourth Inning 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Fifth Inning 7 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .167 .167 .167 .333
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Fifth Inning 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Sixth Inning 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Sixth Inning 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Seventh Inning 6 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .200 .333 .200 .533
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Seventh Inning 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Eighth Inning 5 5 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 .200 .200 .800 1.000
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Eighth Inning 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Ninth Inning 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Tampa Bay Rays MLB Ninth Inning 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Los Angeles Angels MLB Extra Innings 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .667
Durham Bulls Triple-A vs Left 14 12 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 5 0 0 0 .083 .143 .083 .226
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A vs Left 20 18 0 6 1 0 0 3 2 5 0 0 0 .333 .400 .389 .789
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced vs Left 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie vs Left 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A vs Right 36 35 7 9 3 0 1 4 1 5 0 1 0 .257 .278 .429 .706
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A vs Right 44 39 7 12 0 2 2 7 5 4 0 0 0 .308 .386 .564 .950
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced vs Right 13 12 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 .167 .231 .167 .397
GCL Rays Rookie vs Right 6 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 .500 .667 .750 1.420
Durham Bulls Triple-A April 5 5 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 .200 .200 .800 1.000
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced April 13 12 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 .167 .231 .167 .397
Durham Bulls Triple-A May 14 13 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 .077 .143 .077 .220
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced June 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie June 7 5 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 .400 .571 .600 1.170
Durham Bulls Triple-A July 31 29 5 8 3 0 0 2 1 7 0 1 0 .276 .290 .379 .670
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A July 26 24 3 9 1 2 1 8 2 2 0 0 0 .375 .423 .708 1.130
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A August 34 29 4 9 0 0 1 2 5 5 0 0 0 .310 .412 .414 .826
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A September 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced First Half 13 12 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 .167 .231 .167 .397
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Second Half 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Pre All-Star 38 36 4 6 1 0 1 5 2 6 0 1 0 .167 .211 .278 .488
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Pre All-Star 13 12 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 .167 .231 .167 .397
GCL Rays Rookie Pre All-Star 7 5 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 .400 .571 .600 1.170
Durham Bulls Triple-A Post All-Star 12 11 3 4 2 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 .364 .333 .545 .879
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Post All-Star 64 57 7 18 1 2 2 10 7 9 0 0 0 .316 .391 .509 .899
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Post All-Star 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Batting Second 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie Batting Second 7 5 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 .400 .571 .600 1.170
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Batting Third 13 12 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 .167 .231 .167 .397
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Batting Fifth 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Batting Sixth 7 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 .167 .286 .167 .452
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Batting Sixth 8 7 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .286 .375 .286 .661
Durham Bulls Triple-A Batting Seventh 24 24 7 8 3 0 1 4 0 3 0 0 0 .333 .333 .583 .917
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Batting Seventh 21 18 3 8 1 0 1 2 3 5 0 0 0 .444 .524 .667 1.190
Durham Bulls Triple-A Batting Eighth 15 13 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 .077 .133 .077 .210
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Batting Eighth 17 15 3 5 0 2 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 .333 .412 .800 1.210
Durham Bulls Triple-A Batting Ninth 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Batting Ninth 10 9 0 3 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 .333 .400 .333 .733
Durham Bulls Triple-A Bases Empty 29 28 0 8 2 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 .286 .310 .357 .667
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Bases Empty 36 33 2 9 1 0 2 2 3 6 0 0 0 .273 .333 .485 .818
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Bases Empty 10 10 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 .400
GCL Rays Rookie Bases Empty 5 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .250 .400 .500 .900
Durham Bulls Triple-A Bases Loaded 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Bases Loaded 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie Bases Loaded 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Runner at 1st 10 10 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 .100 .100 .200 .300
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Runner at 1st 9 7 1 2 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 .286 .444 .857 1.300
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Runner at 1st 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie Runner at 1st 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Runners at 1st & 2nd 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 4.000 5.000
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Runners at 1st & 2nd 4 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 1.000
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Runners at 1st & 2nd 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie Runners at 1st & 2nd 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Runners at 1st & 3rd 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Runners at 1st & 3rd 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .333 .000 .333
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Runners at 1st & 3rd 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie Runners at 1st & 3rd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Runner at 2nd 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Runner at 2nd 6 6 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 1.000
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Runner at 2nd 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 1.000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Runners at 2nd & 3rd 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Runners at 2nd & 3rd 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 1.000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie Runners at 2nd & 3rd 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Runner at 3rd 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 1.000 .000 .000
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Runner at 3rd 4 4 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 1.000
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Runner at 3rd 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Scoring Position 11 9 7 1 0 0 1 5 1 3 0 0 0 .111 .182 .444 .626
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Scoring Position 19 17 4 7 0 0 0 6 2 1 0 0 0 .412 .474 .412 .885
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Scoring Position 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .250 .000 .250
GCL Rays Rookie Scoring Position 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Home Games 33 32 7 9 3 0 1 6 0 9 0 0 0 .281 .273 .469 .741
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Home Games 43 41 4 14 0 2 2 10 2 7 0 0 0 .341 .372 .585 .957
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Home Games 7 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .167 .286 .167 .452
GCL Rays Rookie Home Games 4 4 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .500 .500 .750 1.250
Durham Bulls Triple-A Away Games 17 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 .067 .176 .067 .243
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Away Games 21 16 3 4 1 0 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 .250 .429 .313 .741
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Away Games 9 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 .111 .111 .111 .222
GCL Rays Rookie Away Games 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 .000 .667 .000 .667
Durham Bulls Triple-A Day Games 11 11 1 2 0 0 1 4 0 3 0 0 0 .182 .182 .455 .636
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Day Games 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Day Games 7 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .167 .286 .167 .452
GCL Rays Rookie Day Games 7 5 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 .400 .571 .600 1.170
Durham Bulls Triple-A Night Games 39 36 6 8 3 0 0 2 2 7 0 1 0 .222 .256 .306 .562
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Night Games 60 53 7 18 1 2 2 10 7 7 0 0 0 .340 .417 .547 .964
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Night Games 9 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 .111 .111 .111 .222
Durham Bulls Triple-A Leading Off 14 13 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .231 .286 .308 .593
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Leading Off 14 13 1 4 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 .308 .357 .538 .896
GCL Rays Rookie Leading Off 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Late / Close 6 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 .200 .333 .200 .533
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Late / Close 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .667 .667 .667 1.330
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Late / Close 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .333 .000 .333
Durham Bulls Triple-A No Outs 23 21 1 4 1 0 1 4 1 4 0 0 0 .190 .217 .381 .598
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A No Outs 23 20 4 6 0 1 1 3 3 1 0 0 0 .300 .391 .550 .941
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced No Outs 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 1.000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie No Outs 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A One Out 10 10 3 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 .200 .200 .200 .400
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A One Out 18 16 1 3 1 0 1 2 2 8 0 0 0 .188 .278 .438 .715
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced One Out 9 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 .111 .111 .111 .222
GCL Rays Rookie One Out 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 .500 .667 .500 1.170
Durham Bulls Triple-A Two Outs 17 16 3 4 2 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 .250 .294 .375 .669
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Two Outs 23 21 2 9 0 1 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 .429 .478 .524 1.000
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Two Outs 6 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .167 .167 .167 .333
GCL Rays Rookie Two Outs 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000
Durham Bulls Triple-A First Inning 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A First Inning 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced First Inning 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie First Inning 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .500 .000 .500
Durham Bulls Triple-A Second Inning 11 11 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .182 .182 .182 .364
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Second Inning 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Third Inning 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Third Inning 7 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .333 .429 .333 .762
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Third Inning 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .250 .250 .250 .500
GCL Rays Rookie Third Inning 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 1.000 1.500
Durham Bulls Triple-A Fourth Inning 5 5 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .400 .400 .400 .800
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Fourth Inning 8 8 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .250 .250 .500 .750
GCL Rays Rookie Fourth Inning 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 1.000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Fifth Inning 9 9 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .222 .222 .444 .667
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Fifth Inning 8 8 1 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 .375 .375 .750 1.130
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Fifth Inning 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie Fifth Inning 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Sixth Inning 5 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .250 .400 .250 .650
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Sixth Inning 9 9 2 5 1 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 .556 .556 1.000 1.560
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Sixth Inning 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie Sixth Inning 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Seventh Inning 7 7 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .143 .143 .286 .429
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Seventh Inning 6 3 1 2 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 .667 .833 .667 1.500
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Seventh Inning 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
GCL Rays Rookie Seventh Inning 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Durham Bulls Triple-A Eighth Inning 5 4 1 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 .250 .400 1.000 1.400
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Eighth Inning 9 8 2 4 0 1 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 .500 .556 .750 1.310
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Eighth Inning 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .500 .000 .500
Durham Bulls Triple-A Ninth Inning 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .250 .250 .250 .500
Salt Lake Bees Triple-A Ninth Inning 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 .000 .500 .000 .500
Charlotte Stone Crabs Class A Advanced Ninth Inning 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000
2019-05-12 Tampa Bay Rays New York Yankees 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
2019-05-14 Miami Marlins Tampa Bay Rays 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
2019-05-15 Miami Marlins Tampa Bay Rays 2 2 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .400 .400 .600 1.000
May 5 5 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .400 .400 .600 1.000
2019-08-11 Boston Red Sox Los Angeles Angels 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .667 1.167
2019-08-14 Los Angeles Angels Pittsburgh Pirates 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .300 .300 .400 .700
2019-08-16 Los Angeles Angels Chicago White Sox 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .250 .250 .333 .583
2019-08-19 Texas Rangers Los Angeles Angels 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .211 .211 .421 .632
August 22 22 1 3 0 0 1 3 0 9 0 0 0 .136 .136 .273 .409
2019-09-03 Oakland Athletics Los Angeles Angels 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .185 .185 .333 .519
2019-09-06 Chicago White Sox Los Angeles Angels 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .156 .156 .281 .438
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October 26, 2013 by Asher Feldman
Heisman Watch Week Nine: Bryce Petty Makes His Move
Bouncing back from losses defines a season in college football, and for Johnny Manziel, Saturday gave him and Texas A&M a chance to do just that. In a solid victory over SEC foe Vanderbilt, Manziel passed for 305 yards and four touchdowns to give the Aggies just what they needed after suffering a tough second loss last weekend at the hands of Auburn.
Teddy Bridgewater
A nice bounce back victory for Louisville and Teddy Bridgewater keeps Bridgewater’s Heisman hopes alive at least for the time being, as the senior quarterback passed for 344 yards and three touchdowns against a much outmatched USF team on Saturday. After a loss to UCF last week, Bridgewater needed this kind of coasting performance in an easy win and got it. We’ll see if his Heisman stock can remain stable in the weeks to come.
In leading one of the nation’s most explosive offenses and the Big 12’s surprise season of the year thus far, quarterback Bryce Petty has played a huge role in Baylor’s rise to national prominence in 2013. Saturday was no different for the junior quarterback, as he submitted a 430-yard, three-touchdown day against lesser Kansas to run Baylor’s record to 7-0. Plus, Petty didn’t even play the full extent of the game, as he has most of the season.
What could have turned out to be a tough test against Pac-12 foes instead became a bit of a romp for Oregon, as UCLA proved less of a test in the second half than the first half suggested. For Marcus Mariota, the game was something of a wash, with the quarterback passing for just one touchdown and 230 yards and rushing for less than 20, far from his season averages. But still enough to lead his team to victory and give Oregon with a convincing resume win.
Jameis Winston
A cruising victory for Florida State and Jameis Winston was just what the Seminoles needed coming off a season-defining victory over Clemson last week. Winston passed for 292 yards and three touchdowns in FSU’s win over North Carolina State. The 49-17 victory over the Wolfpack came in a game that could have easily served as a trap for the Seminoles, and continued Winston’s powerful performance in his freshman year.
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Heisman Watch Week Eight: Winston Bright In A National Spotlight
Johnny Manziel won the 2012 Heisman on the strength of many things — his legs, his arm, his leadership, his youth and his persona. As an added bonus, the moments Manziel contributed to 2012’s season of fun were seemingly non stop. On Saturday, Manziel had a chance to submit another one of those much-coveted “Heisman moments” on Saturday. And yet, it just wasn’t there when needed this time. A visibly shaken and likely injured Manziel threw for 454 yards, accounted for five touchdowns and was key in his team’s attack. But he didn’t get the win.
Tajh Boyd
Everything that Jameis Winston achieved on Saturday night could have just as easily been Tajh Boyd’s. The national exposure, the bright lights, the top-five matchup — it was all there. But it was clear who was the better player was on this night. And it wasn’t the senior, it was the freshman. Boyd threw for one touchdown, two interceptions and didn’t complete more than 35 percent of his passes.
A Friday night seemed to fit undefeated and No. 8 Louisville just right. And yet, things didn’t feel perfect for Louisville from the get-go. And Bridgewater and the Cardinals went down hard. Bridgewater’s 341 yards and two touchdowns were big, and continue a trend of the leader putting up big numbers no matter the opponent, but Louisville lost. And in a race that is so crowded at the quarterback position, Bridgewater needed to also be in the thick of the title game race to make some headway in the Heisman race.
AJ McCarrron
AJ McCarron seems to know exactly how to, with neurosurgeon-like efficiency and accuracy — pick apart a defense in the most simple way possible, and get the most out of his time on the field. McCarron completed 15 of 21 passes, threw for 180 yards and three touchdowns in Alabmaa’s blowout victory over Arkansas, the Crimson Tide’s second straight such win in as many seasons. McCarron has been the leader the Tide has needed in those big wins.
Marcus Mariota wont stop. Against a surprisingly game Washington State team, Mariota and the Ducks went to work. And work they did — Mariota threw for two touchdowns and 327 yards. But that wasn’t it — Mariota ran for another touchdown and a nice collection of 67 yards. The chunk of that rushing total was the game’s first score, and proved once against what a threat Mariota is all over the field.
Jameis Winston took control. Winston took total control of the game against Clemson, the Seminoles offense, and the media’ attention with his performance against the Tigers. Winston threw for 444 yards, accounted for four touchdowns and was the star of the biggest game of the season in college football thus far. Completing nearly 90 percent of his passes, Winston looked well beyond his years and drove the Seminoles to a convincing and dominating win against No. 3 Clemson.
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Heisman Watch Week Seven: Contenders Step Up When Needed
On a Saturday full of upsets Johnny Manziel led Texas A&M past an upset bid of their own from Ole Miss. Though his performance wasn’t one for the record books, or anything quite close to that, his two rushing touchdowns and yet another 300-plus yard game through the air was enough to lift the Aggies to victory, which was all the more important on this Saturday in particular.
Tajh Boyd seems to have the tendency to give Clemson exactly what they need, when they need it. It was no different on Saturday, as in a 24-14 victory over Boston College, Boyd tossed and ran for key touchdowns in a closer-than-expected victory over the Eagles. Was it pretty for the Tigers? No, but it was a victory, and a much-needed one before they gear up for a showdown with Jameis Winston and Florida State.
With Thursday night all to himself, Teddy Bridgewater may not have broken out the big guns, but his performance against Rutgers was key to the Cardinals continuing their undefeated start to the regular season and a run at the Heisman trophy. Bridgewater connected on 21 of 31 attempts for two touchdowns and 310 yards to help Louisville top Rutgers on the night.
It was a slow start for AJ McCarron and the Alabama Crimson Tide on Saturday against a much lesser Kentucky team. But once the Tide got started, it was tough to stop them, much to McCarron’s credit. Throwing for 359 yards and a touchdown, the senior leader helped the Tide score 24 points in the second quarter after a barren first, and helped Alabama to an eventual 48-7 victory.
Marcus Mariota and the Oregon offensive attack was needed for most of the game against Washington, a revived program with much to prove this weekend. But Mariota delivered against the Huskies, passing for 366 yards and three touchdowns to go with 88 yards and another score against a Huskies defense that nearly knocked off Stanford last weekend, and clearly put a shake into the Cardinal, which lost this weekend.
Though Jameis Winston and Florida State rested this weekend, it’s safe to say their minds were not far from the football field with top-five Clemson looming. Sure Winston has collected nearly 1,500 yards passing in five games, and sure, he’s passed for 17 touchdowns against just two interceptions, but the game against Clemson could decide the fate of not only the ACC, but also a possible BCS national title game storyline. Winston will get the chance to shine, as will Boyd, next Saturday.
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October 5, 2013 by Asher Feldman
Heisman Watch Week Six: McCarron, Winston and Boyd Set The Tone
Johnny Manziel and Texas A&M had the week off to prepare for Ole Miss. Though the toughest part of Manziel’s season, his matchup with Alabama, is behind him, he still has plenty of chances to make an impact in the Heisman race with strong performances against schools like upcoming Auburn and Mississippi State, not to mention a showcase meeting with LSU as the season winds down in late November.
Four hundred and fifty-five yards will jump out at you on a stat sheet and a box score. That’s what strikes you first when you look at Clemson’s easy win over Syracuse from Saturday. Clemson certainly didn’t need the five touchdowns Body contributed to the win, but it was sure to fun to watch Boyd pick apart the new-to-the-ACC Orange defense in his time in the game before coach Dabo Swinney took his star out.
Playing in the newly formed American Athletic Conference for the first time Saturday, Teddy Bridgewater and Louisville had little trouble with Temple, using a 24-point first half and suffocating defense to top the Owls. Bridgewater, for his part, contributed two touchdowns and 348 passing yards to help the Cardinals breeze by Temple and continuing their undefeated start to the season.
Georgia State might not have put up much fight against Alabama and AJ McCarron, but McCarron took his game to a different level, as he completed 15 of 16 passes for four touchdowns and 166 yards. His completion percentage set a record for Crimson Tide and the victory was an easy walkover for the Tide before their SEC schedule sets in.
Seven touchdowns, no matter who they are scored against, is an impressive stat line for any quarterback to submit in a college football weekend. Yes, Marcus Mariota passed for five touchdowns and ran for two more against Colorado, but it was a stunning line none the less. Mariota also pushed near to 400 yards against the Buffaloes. The Ducks didn’t even score after the third quarter and Mariota played little more than a half.
A ranked matchup against Maryland should have promised a tough battle between two ACC schools in the middle of the conference’s resurgence. Instead, Winston and Florida State demolished the Terrapins, with Winston delivering highlight reel play after highlight reel play. Add to that SportsCenter-ready package Winston’s 393 passing yards and five touchdowns and you’ve got a Heisman highlight-type game that could stick out this year.
Though Georgia’s matchup with Tennessee didn’t seem to offer much in the way of drama, the SEC battle turned out to be among the weekend’s best games, and offered one of the week’s best performances in support of a victory, in Aaron Murray’s charge to lead the Bulldogs’ rally for a win. Importantly, Murray’s comeback bid helped Georgia keep its national title hopes alive as well with his 196 yards and three touchdowns
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September 28, 2013 by Asher Feldman
Heisman Watch Week Five: Winston, Boyd Key Big Victories
Johnny Manziel loves playing against Arkansas, following up his 500-plus yard performance last season against the Razorbacks with another 300-plus yards of offensive in Texas A&M’s Saturday night win. Manziel finished with 261 yards passing and two touchdowns through the air to go with 59 yards rushing. The Aggies get Ole Miss and Auburn after their bye next weekend, chances for Manziel to either bolster his chances at a repeat trophy, or watch others pass him by.
Tajh Boyd was back in a big way on Saturday, accounting for four touchdowns in Clemson’s dominating victory over Wake Forest. Boyd recorded his 100th career touchdown and passed for more than 300 yards on the day, picking apart the Demon Deacons easily. With Boston College and Syracuse up next for Clemson before they take on Jamies Winston and Florida State, Boyd has a few weeks to do some stat-padding.
Teddy Bridgewater and Louisville were off this weekend, but with more than 1,200 passing yards and 14 touchdowns through four games, and some weaker AAC defenses upcoming, expect Bridgewater to stay in the Heisman race all year.
Clearly the star of Saturday’s game between Alabama and Ole Miss was the Crimson Tide’s defense, but once again AJ McCarron efficiently led the Tide to the score drives they needed to pull off the victory, although the stats were not eye-popping. McCarron threw for 180 yards and was intercepted once in the 25-0 win.
Marcus Mariota didn’t need to do much to help Oregon to a victory over California in the Ducks’ return from a bye week. The Golden Bears were put away early, and Mariota was a big part of the early burst, throwing two touchdown passes and rushing for a third in the blowout victory. Mariota might not be truly tested or forced to play a full game until Oct. 12 against Washington.
Jameis Winston passed for 330 yards and four touchdowns against Boston College on Saturday, and for most of the game, Florida State needed every single one of those touchdowns to avoid the upset. Though the Eagles trailed off at the end, they hung around for the majority of the game, and Winston stepped up when needed. The freshman quarterback also helped out the Seminoles’ rushing attack with 67 yards on the ground.
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Heisman Watch Week Four: Strong Performances With No Stand Out
After his performance against Alabama was most notable for Johnny Manziel’s work through the air, it was his work in the rushing game that helped Texas A&M top SMU this weekend. Manziel rushed for two touchdowns and more than 100 yards to go along with his nearly 250 yards passing and passing score. A&M will start to hit the meat of its SEC schedule next week against Arkansas.
Clemson didn’t always look its best against NC State in its ACC opener, but behind the senior quarterback’s leadership and three touchdown passes, the Tigers continued their hot start to the 2013 season. And in the process, Boyd again put up big numbers in a game that got a lot of national attention, as the Thursday night kick gave the country a chance to watch Boyd again.
When a quarterback’s team scores 72 points, its easy for each accomplishment to disappear into the blowout. But Biridgewater was able to post four passing touchdowns and 212 yards before giving way to the rest of his offense to put away Florida International
After a season-defining performance when it counted most against Texas A&M, McCarron followed it up this weekend with a somewhat muted performance against Colorado State. McCarron didn’t need to be the force against the Rams, and threw for just one touchdown, but was also intercepted once.
After three consecutive weeks of stat lines that stood out among the early performances and leading his Oregon team to blowout victories, Marcus Mariota and the Ducks got the week off. In what seems like a good way to view his early statistics, no one player’s performance in week four was as completely dominant as Mariota’s had been.
Melvin Gordon
Three touchdowns for Gordon this weekend, and in the early going, he’s staying the thick of this race well.
De’Anthony Thomas
Thomas, like Mariota, and Oregon were also off this week. The Ducks get California next week.
A solid performance from Winston in a blowout victory over Bethune-Cookman. Winston attempted only 19 passes, and threw for two touchdowns.
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Heisman Watch Week Three: Manziel Has Flare, But McCarron Claims The Victory
Johnny Manziel might not have led Texas A&M to an upset victory over Alabama, but he did just about everything he could to make it so, passing for five touchdowns, 464 yards and rushing for 98 more. And all that against the Crimson Tide defense. Say what you will about not getting the victory here, but Manziel had two strong “Heisman moment” type plays here, despite them not panning out. If Manziel can rebound from the tough loss in the weeks to come, he should be just fine.
Tahj Boyd and Clemson had week three off, but his season thus far is simply hard to ignore. With three touchdowns each on the ground and through the air and a big, already season-defining victory against Georgia under his belt, Boyd seems to be in the Heisman discussion for the long-haul. Expect him to come out gunning in the Tigers’ ACC opener against NC State on Thursday.
Teddy Bridgewater was effective but quiet against Kentucky in week three, only passing for 250 yards and a touchdown. But Bridgewater didn’t make any mistakes and woke Louisville up when they started shakily against the Wildcats. For that, Bridgewater can continue to rest comfortably in the midst of the race, and prepare to fight the season-long battle for the trophy.
The start to AJ McCarron’s season was not as planned. Though Alabama won its first contest against Virginia Tech, the numbers weren’t there. Not so on Saturday against Manziel and Texas A&M, and though Johnny Football may have had the flashier performance, McCarron left College Station with the victory and, importantly, his statistics were as solid as they’ve ever been. McCarron tossed four touchdowns and recorded 334 yards passing in the win while completing 69 percent of his passes.
Marcus Mariota was just wicked against Tennessee on Saturday. It was a slow start for the Ducks, but just about as soon as Twitter turned everyone’s attention to the Vols’ early lead, Mariota and the Ducks made it disappear. Mariota finished the day with 456 yards passing, 27 yards rushing and five combined touchdowns. Mariota ruled a fantastic day for the Ducks and solidified his name in this race for the foreseeable future.
Big numbers for the Badgers running back against Arizona State, but that’s a loaded back field he’s a member of.
Another 100-yard-plus game and a touchdown scored, but continues to be outdone by his own quarterback.
Has more touchdowns than incompletions through three weeks. Recalls the likes of Robert Griffin III and Geno Smith. One of those guys Winston would be wise to aspire to.
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It was just before 7 AM on balmy Tuesday, June 26, 2018 and apart from the occasional thin white wisp there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, but the wind had a soft howl to it and buffeted us as we rode north on the service-road up the Grand Concourse, ‘the Park Avenue of the middle class,’ against the moaning, groaning, honking, growling, grumpy, morning rush, on the lightly-used black HONDA CB300F, I’d gotten a few days before from a peddler of counterfeit Louis Vuitton bags who had nothing more tangible to pay my bill.
We cantered past the TATS CRU graffiti tribute to Clive Campbell AKA DJ Kook Herc, the ‘godfather of Hip Hop’ decorating the exterior wall of the Italian Renaissance styled Andrew Freedman home — once a place where people who’d lost fortunes could live rent free in something close to the style they were accustomed to ‘with servants and silver service and an English Garden’ — now a center for urban arts and the most fabulous B&B in New York City.
At 167th Street, I swerved onto the crosswalk, startling a tag-team of three sanctimonious ladies representing, Dominican, East African, West Indian variations of the melting pot (oldest to youngest left to right, smaller to taller right to left, and lighter to darker left to right) one of whom dropped her consignment of “GOOD NEWS FROM GOD” headlined Watchtower brochures — used in door-to-door ministry by Jehovah’s Witnesses — into a puddle made by an open fire hydrant.
She lost her rag, as the unreasonably pious do when challenged by the reasonably free, and flung “Mama guevo” at us, chased by a virulent “cocksucker,” as we rode away from her across the Concourse, swung into the express lanes, and weaved in and out of the brake-lights of a long line of traffic plodding north, past the elegant Tudor, Beaux Arts, Art Deco, and Art Moderne apartment complexes, office buildings and movie theaters transformed into prosperity churches, that have made the Grand Concourse an Art Deco mecca rivaled only by Miami Beach.[i] [ii]
As we filtered off the Grand Concourse onto East Fordham Road a D-Train rumbled below us on its way to Coney Island and Joy moaned.
She bought the bike to transport us to weekend adventures, and as an accessory, the Viberider, which slipped under the passenger seat, out of sight, to amplify the throb of the bikes engine and massage her clitoris. It cost $129 from Viberider direct which seemed a small price to pay to experience “miles of smiles” and get off. [iii]
She came outside her campaign headquarters at 2704 Williamsbridge Rd, in the Allerton section of the Bronx; where she shared a store-front with Approach Quality Transportation, a well-loved local livery cab company hobbled by competition from Uber and Lyft.
She came so quietly that I was the only person to know and that’s because her knees clasped my outer thighs with tremendous force and then clamped even tighter, before letting go.
We sat there with her arms wrapped around me long enough for the wind to pick up and change direction to blow from south to the north and for the sun to be obstructed by a willing wisp. I knew she was smiling because the back of my neck was warm, and my ass was damp.
And then she pulled away rasping “Dale papito” like she was saying “Baby, I’m ready to rumble.” This being Primary day, the day when the fate of her underfunded, against-all-odds challenge to 10-term incumbent Representative, Democrat “Boss Joe Crowley” in New York's 14th congressional district would be decided.
“No te vieron venir!” I delivered with a forehead peck ,“Old Joe didn’t see you coming!”
“Ya hemos llegado” Joy swaggered. “And now I’ve arrived,”
We both laughed out long and loud and proud at that.
Best of friends. Best of lovers. Comrades in arms.
I had time to kill before my 11 AM appointment at the Grand Havana Cigar Club in mid-town Manhattan to have a “quiet off-the record, chat” with Angel Maranzano, the 9/11 fabled “America’s Mayor” of New York City from 1994 to 2001, who had descended into the swamp and was now first among equals in the expanding pantheon of President Kunt’s personal attorneys.
So, I took a short ride up the Bronx River Parkway past the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at New York Botanical Garden where all 680 varieties were in full bloom and the fragrance fell over everything including me, to visit Jay-B for the first time since we buried him the Saturday after Christmas with Rosa Parks, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Miles Davis, Otto Preminger, WC Handy and Joseph Pulitzer at Woodlawn Cemetery. A vast area of rolling hills that covers more than 400 acres in Woodlawn Bronx, which was annexed from Westchester County in 1874, and, is the heaven on earth for more than 300,000 people.
We said goodbye to Jay-B on a glittering, unseasonably warm, Bronx-star-crossed night — Romeo Santos was there, Jennifer Lopez was there holding hands with the former baseball superstar slugger Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez, Kerry Washington was there with her husband, actor Nnamdi Asomugha, Fat Joe was there, Monica, Joy and I were there because Jay-B had given all of us at one time or the other the benefit of his big heart, his strong arms, his will, and his devil may-or-may-not-care fortitude. Billy Joel was there to play “Lullaby ‘Goodnight My Angel’” on the piano, and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
But as spring came, the world got colder as Kunt separated thousands of migrant children from their parents and placed them in caged internment camps; cut nutrition assistance, pre-school grants, teen pregnancy prevention programs, afterschool programs, and job training in a budget that redistributed wealth from the poor to the rich through tax-cuts we cannot afford. He swore his devotion to tin-pot dictators Vlad, Benji, and Rod, and provided munitions, intelligence and political cover for the Saudi massacre of Houthi rebels in Yemen; turned a blind eye to white supremacy before and after the Neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville, slashing the budget of an interagency task force established to "Counter Violent Extremism” that included officials detailed from the FBI, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services from $21 million to $3 million.
The result being that white-supremacists propaganda efforts increased 182 percent, with 1,187 distributions across the U.S. in 2018, up from 421 total incidents reported in 2017." [iv]
By the time I pulled up to the curb at 666 5th Avenue it was already noon, I was late, and polling was well under way. So, I parked the bike right outside and paid a bum who really was Jesus Christ $20, to keep it warm, but I kept the keys.
The Grand Havana Cigar Club was the entire 39th floor penthouse of the building, which had been purchased in January 2007 by Jerry Kushner, Tatia Kunt’s husband and therefore James Alexander Kunt’s son-in-law, for $1.8 billion. It was at the time, the highest price ever paid for an individual building in Manhattan and far more than such a short (483 ft) building was worth, and, according to Monica, who got it from Qatari Finance Minister Sharif Al Emadi, who was through the Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund a prospective purchaser of the building, the $1.2 billion mortgage on the building was something Jerry was keen to wriggle out from.
I got to the 39th floor of the tatty club, which was draped in oversized black and blue velvet drapes to shield the big puffers from paparazzi’s telephoto lenses and priceless tobacco from the sun and filled with overstuffed armchairs, oversized ash trays, and the persistent haze of smoke, in time to hear Angel Maranzano --- five feet nine inches of bluster in a mid-priced single-breasted blue suit that had a red silk square poking out of its chest-pocket --- wax lyrical about the greatness of Cohiba Corona Especial cigars, over the din of wheezing ventilation machines, from behind a bruised, chipped wooden lectern, with Ike Mercer oohing and ahhing alongside him like a fawning back-up singer, obscured by the smoke.
He had a wide thin-lipped smile that sloped up right to left and showed yellow teeth sloping left to right. His legendary comb-over had surrendered to full-on baldness, and, as his torso had thickened, his neck had disappeared. His silk tie had a lot of diagonal stripes on it, and it was wrapped around a white shirt with a spread collar.
He wore Apple ear-buds like the winglets of a plane, either because he didn’t know how they worked or because his bark overwhelmed them when they were pointing at his bite. [v]
He thanked the small audience for listening to him and left them with a whitism: “I always tell Jerry I’m rooting against him selling this building and closing us down. There’s nowhere else in the city that wants hundreds of cigar smokers.”
On the way to greet me, he grabbed a Padrón fiftieth-anniversary cigar from a carrying case and arrived offering me one. If he was disappointed when I shook my head and lit a cigarette, he got over it quickly and passed the case to Ike Mercer, who didn’t seem all that thrilled to meet me again as kept his right hand to himself when I offered mine. Or perhaps he was just hoping for a different outcome second time around.
He lit the cigar with a high-tech flame thrower which like everything else he owned, came with an – aren’t I powerful and connected and fucking smarter than thou story: “It even works in the wind — good for the golf course,” he said, drawing his first puffs contentedly. And then placed an even larger cigar, which he explained was a gift from his thirty-two-year-old son, who worked in the White House Office of Public Liaison, on the cocktail table beside us.
“Andrew got it when he was playing golf with the President this weekend,” Angel explained as a succession of Wall Street guys stopped by to pay respects or in the case of the big swinging sperm whale standing over us wrapped in a gold $2.2 million Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime Reference 6300 watch which chimed 1 pm like it was Big Ben in New York Yankee cap, to show us a tweet.
They're never gonna get me. I've already got my next Attorney General practicing the redactions. pic.twitter.com/nu49dgx3aB
— therealkunt (@therealkunt) April 21, 2019
“Yeah”, he said without removing the cigar from his lips, choosing his words with great care: “Mueller’s probe is a bullshit witch-hunt. Don’t worry Micky, we’re doing everything we possibly can to obstruct him.”
Next came hugs from Micky all-round, followed by a couple of minutes on tip-toes, because both of us were reluctant to show our hand.
He called first, because he was certain he had a flush: “Degas, I enjoy being a lawyer more than I do be a politician,” he said as if every word was dangling at the end of a stick. “As a politician, a lot of people are better than me, as a lawyer I’m fucking impossible to beat.”
Then he had a thought that really amused him: “Apparently, we share professions?”
“I heard the same thing,” I said to myself most of all, “except we practice on different planets.”
“Ha, ha, ha,” he snarled leaning in, “Though I’d be the first to admit that I don’t have an exceptional knowledge of torts, or the ability to draft landmark briefs. Nor am I a particularly adept courtroom tactician, in fact I choose to stay away from them if I can. I specialize in impartial advice and wide-ranging political connections. What do you offer your clients, Degas?”
“A bit of this a bit of that and a steep discount to your fancy prices”
“Yes, I know who you are. And I know you haven’t done shit recently. And that your little lady has come as far as that pretty face and the socialist garbage she peddles is going to take her. So, here is the deal!” He proffered blowing smoke up my ass and handing me a napkin with $50,000,000 scrawled on it. And then he stood up and pointed at Ike Mercer, raised his voice and played to the crowd.
“FIFTY MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS FOR YOUR BITCH TO GET OUT OF THE RACE AND FOR YOU TO GET OUT OF KUNT’S FACE,” he rasped, hoarse from smoking and shouting at the same time.
“I didn’t know you liked Joe like that,” I Machiavellied back, which pissed him off as I’d encroached on his domain.
“Degas, Joe, Ike over here, Wilber, Sheldon, Michael, Kunt, Republican and Democrats, and me are all in on the same game. And we look after each other. So, even if Joe loses, I’ll get him a gig with me lobbying or working for cocksuckers like Americans for Carbon Dividends, a group sponsored by the fossil fuel industry; or with the Koch brothers Policy and Taxation Group, which aims to repeal the estate tax; or with Management & Training Corporation, the third largest private prison company in the country, or even with Advanced Emissions Solutions, which builds coal refineries and develops “clean coal” technologies. So, Joe isn’t going anywhere — worst case he’s just getting reprocessed.”
“And if Joy wins?” He growled, which dug his laugh-lines even deeper into his face. “We’ll bury her in misinformation, disinformation and hate. So, back her off!”
“I see that Kunt found his Roy Cohn after all. And it’s not his son!” I snapped back at him bitterly, walking away.[vi] [vii] [viii] “Did it ever occur to you that Joy might not be corruptible, that her bounty might be the common good? You were once America’s Mayor. What will you leave behind now?”
“I don’t care about my legacy --- I’ll be dead.” Angel threw after me propelled by Ike Mercer’s giggles.
[i] https://savingplaces.org/stories/experience-the-bronx-grand-concourse-in-24-hours#.XLrpuehKjZs
[ii] https://cultmtl.com/2015/08/kool-herc-interview/
[iii] https://medium.com/@rcormack/dating-advice-motorcycles-can-replace-vibrators-or-men-for-that-matter-542529c21bdc
[iv] https://popular.info/p/the-rise-of-white-nationalism
[v] https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/05/nyregion/about-new-york-clothes-make-the-mayor-a-hero-to-his-tailors.html
[vi] https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a41031/rudy-giuliani-facts-to-know-trump- cabinet/
[vii] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/01/10/revealed-mayor-a-42-regular-nuts-about-checked-jacket-source-sez
[viii] https://www.scmp.com/tech/social-gadgets/article/2139297/picture-rudy-giuliani-wearing-his-apple-airpods-completely-wrong
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Barbachano International Honors Jorge Roldan on his 20th Anniversary
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Barbachano International, Inc. (BIP), the premier leader of human capital solutions in Mexico, Latin America, and the United States, honored its longest-serving employee Jorge Roldan, who celebrated his 20th anniversary with the company on January 18. The milestone was commemorated with a luncheon where Mr. Roldan was praised by his peers who remembered and shared many special moments and achievements.
Octavio Lepe Joins Barbachano International as Executive Search Manager
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Barbachano International, Inc. (BIP) announced that Octavio Lepe Camarena has joined the firm assuming a key role as executive search manager, effective January 17.
Do This to Keep Your Employees From Walking out the Door
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Barbachano International Lights Up Times Square Billboard
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13 Reasons Why You’re Not Hearing Back from a Job Interview
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You’ve been on several job interviews that you thought went well, but then you hear nada, crickets, zilch. If this sounds familiar to you, the good news is a couple of interviews means that your experience and skills most likely match the requirements of the position and at the very least you qualify for a phone screening or in-person interview. It also means that your resume is doing its job. You look decent on paper and the hiring manager wants to bring you in to learn more about you and see whether they would want to work with you. The bad news is you’re still unemployed. No contact leaves you wondering what went wrong.
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Dees and Siggins Win BFI, $120K in Reno - Bob Feist Invitational Team Roping
Dees and Siggins Win BFI, $120K in Reno
The flag at the 42nd Annual Bob Feist Invitational on June 24 was still moving at the end of the final run of 7.2 seconds when 26-year-old Lane Siggins began racing around the arena to celebrate the resulting $120,000 cash prize with partner Junior Dees, 21. The Arizona boys finally vaulted off their moving horses to throw their arms around each other.
“I felt like we were 9 seconds on that run, and when the announcer said 7, my hat just came off,” Siggins said later. “I’ve been practicing to win the BFI at my house since I was 5 years old. I was ready for that victory lap!”
The first-place prize at the BFI in Reno, Nevada, often marks the biggest win of a roper’s life. The anchor event of Wrangler BFI Week presented by Yeti, it’s held in conjunction this year with the 100th anniversary of the Reno Rodeo. The BFI is the most lucrative but challenging team roping event for professionals in America. Under the traditional format, the 100 best teams in the world are invited to rope six fast steers over an 18-foot head start, for a purse of more than $600,000 in cash and prizes.
A new award this year for the overall fastest time in the first five rounds was given in memory of former BFI champion and three-time fast-time winner Rickey Green. It went to Tyler Wade and Billie Jack Saebens, who clocked a 4.57 to win the third round.
Over five steers, Dees and Siggins became the high callback team, and would compete last. They watched six straight teams make clean runs, and needed an 8.47 for the aggregate win. Their 7.2 edged the six-head time of Oklahoma ropers Cale Markham and Brye Crites by about a second.
Crites, 25, said he’ll pay off his trailer with his portion of the $90,000 he won with Markham, 28. Crites works full-time in an in vitro fertilization lab in Welch, while Markham’s family produces ropings and has Animal Health Supply Inc., in Vinita.
Interviewed in the arena immediately after the celebration, Siggins said that Dees had just made him a superstar. In fact, this was just Dees’ second time in the BFI, but Siggins had been entering it since he was a teenager.
“As someone who grew up jackpotting, it’s been tough to never get past the first steer here,” said Siggins. “But Junior and I have chemistry. There’s no heat roping with him; no pressure. And we’re on the same page financially – if we don’t win, we have to go home. Thanks to John Thompson of Thompson Carriers for paying our entry fees.”
The Siggins family makes a living near Coolidge, Arizona, riding, training and selling roping horses. When Dees arrived at their house last fall, it was to further his own career riding and training horses. By March, he and Lane had become fast friends and began to enter rodeos together.
“We just click,” said Dees. “We get along; he’s like a brother to me. We just have fun and have had luck together.”
Dees spent his early childhood in Arizona, too, before cutting his teeth as a roper in South Dakota. In fact, during the BFI he was on the phone with his mentor, three-time NFR heeler Matt Zancanella, after every steer. Siggins got a little remote coaching, too, from “Zanc” after missing the haze on the first BFI steer.
“I’ve wanted to win this all my life,” said Dees, who basically grew up on the arena floor at places like the BFI, watching Zancanella compete. The Zancanella family also raised the horse Dees credits with his big win. Famous Dillon was sired by their barrel-racing stallion Lion’s Share of Fame – a full brother to Gun Battle, a racehorse with a speed index of 110.
“Dillon” had a half-brother on which Dees qualified for the NFR in 2017, but the horse suffered a career-ending injury last year. Just 8 years old, Dillon went to his first rodeo this spring. On the other hand, Siggins’ gray 12-year-old gelding, “Shooter,” is a veteran and performed so well that he won the annual Heel Horse of the BFI award from Montana Silversmiths. Registered as Amigos Sonita Last, he has foundation cow-horse breeding.
“Tanner Baldwin trained him, and I’ve had him three years now,” said Siggins, who tweaked his roping style to fit the horse. “I have always liked a tighter feel, to where I need to kick a horse up, but he is so free-rolling that I needed to change a little. I mostly watched Ryan Motes to learn his style, since his horses never take his throw away.”
Motes’ horse, incidentally, was the 2014 Heel Horse of the BFI. On the fresh steers in Reno, many horses anticipate the stop and cause heelers to miss their shot, hurry their delivery or struggle to dally. But Shooter is honest every time. In fact, Siggins asked Dees to make sure and face on a tight rope to prevent any slipped legs.
On the other end, Riley Minor won his record fourth Head Horse of the BFI award, courtesy of his defending PRCA/AQHA Head Horse of the Year, RK Tuff Trinket (“Bob”). Minor and his brother, Brady, were winning this year’s BFI after four steers with a 29.61, but a leg penalty in the fifth round dropped them to 10th callback. Bob also won the award in 2016, when the Minors placed sixth.
“I got this horse five years ago and he’s been the greatest blessing in my life,” Minor said. “This award means a lot here with this long score and hard-running cattle. Today, he scored so good that we should have been high call.”
Wrangler BFI Week presented by Yeti continues for three days following the 42ND BFI. For more information, visit www.bfiweek.com.
Complete results from the 2019 Bob Feist Invitational:
First Round: 1. Clay Smith and Jade Corkill, 6.62 seconds, $8,000; 2. Cale Markham and Brye Crites, 6.86, $6,000; 3. Charly Crawford and Logan Medlin, 6.87, $4,000; 4. Dustin Egusquiza and Jake Long, 6.93, $2,000. Second Round: 1. Kaleb Driggers and Junior Noguiera, 4.73 seconds, $8,000; 2. Garrett Rogers and Jake Minor, 5.09, $6,000; 3. Levi Simpson and Cole Davison, 6.23, $4,000; 4. Lane Ivy and Cesar de la Cruz, 6.29, $2,000. Third Round: 1. Tyler Wade and Billie Jack Saebens, 4.57 seconds, $8,000; 2. Britt Smith and Jake Smith, 4.66, $6,000; 3. Tanner Green and Jake Clay, 4.88, $4,000; 4. Chant DeForest and Bronc Boehnlein, 5.84, $2,000. Fourth Round: 1. Marcus Theriot and Colby Payne, 4.68 seconds, 8,000; 2. Garrett Chick and Ross Ashford, 4.95, $6,000; 3. Kolton Schmidt and Jeremy Buhler, 5.08, $4,000; 4. Chad Masters and Joseph Harrison, 5.29, $2,000. Fifth Round: 1. Clayton VanAken and Cullen Teller, 4.60 seconds, $8,000; 2. Lane Ivy and Cesar de la Cruz, 5.08, $6,000; 3. Coleman Proctor and Ryan Motes, 5.18, $4,000; 4. Chase Sanders and Dan Scarbrough, 5.76, $2,000. Short Round: 1. David Key and Rich Skelton, 6.19 seconds, $4,000; 2. Rhett Anderson and Cole Wilson, 6.50, $3,000; 3. Pat Boyle and Jared Hixon, 6.59, $2,000; 4. Billy Bob Brown and Evan Arnold, 6.72 $1,000.
Aggregate: 1. Jr Dees and Lane Siggins, 44.62 seconds on six, $120,000; 2. Cale Markham and Brye Crites, 45.84, $84,000; 3. Billy Bob Brown and Evan Arnold, 46.50, $59,000; 4. Aaron Tsinigine and Patrick Smith, 46.66, $35,000; 5. Rhett Anderson and Cole Wilson, 47.14, $23,000; 6. David Key and Rich Skelton, 47.43, $17,000; 7. Tom Richards and Nick Sarchett, 47.77, $15,000; 8. Pat Boyle and Jared Hixon, 51.70, $12,000; 9. BJ Campbell and Clint Harry, 52.70, $10,000; 10. Brandon Beers and Justin Davis, 52.75, $9,000; 11. Dustin Egusquiza and Jake Long, 53.47, $9,000; 12. Pace Freed and Dustin Searcy, 60.49, $9,000; 13. Riley Minor and Brady Minor, 41.91 seconds on five, $7,000; 14. Coy Brittain and Colton Brittain, 42.96, $7,000; 15. Tate Kirchenschlager and Buddy Hawkins 45.46, $7,000.
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Java Annotated Monthly – August 2015
Posted on August 13, 2015 by Breandan Considine
At 20 years old, Java remains the world’s most popular programming language this August, with nearly 10 million active developers. If accurate, this figure puts Java slightly ahead of Swedish. While only slightly easier to read, Java has a number of compelling features, including lambdas and streams, intersection types, multiple inheritance, and unrivaled tools and frameworks. If you haven’t seen Java lately, you haven’t seen what Java can do. Join us each month, and stretch your idea of modern Java development.
When you think of Java development, you may be reminded of heavy libraries and runtimes, but this was a shortcoming of Java’s early class loading mechanism, which added a lot of unnecessary burden. Prior to modules, if you wanted to use a single package in a JAR, all of its dependencies became your dependencies – and their dependencies too. There was no way to establish the exact runtime requirements without downloading the internet or splitting yet-another-JAR. Throw in version conflicts, namespace collisions and soon you’ve got dependency hell.
With the introduction of Compact Profiles in Java 8, and the planned rollout of Project Jigsaw in Java 9, all this should soon become a thing of the past. Jigsaw introduces something called the Java Module System, a more granular alternative to the JAR format that provides metadata for the class loader to determine which parts of the dependency graph are actually needed at runtime. The JMS promises to deliver a number of popular features including a local repository for storing and retrieving modules on the same machine, Linux-oriented package management and support for installation and removal (a la RubyGems and NPM). If done well, this could have a huge benefit to the Java ecosystem.
Project Jigsaw is really coming in Java 9, and none too soon, for a project in development over the last six years. Given the scope of these changes and their intended timeline, JDK 9 must work carefully to balance repaying technical debt with feature enhancements, while maintaining two decades of backwards compatibility. Jigsaw will help ensure that Java 9 remains a versatile platform for future applications by introducing strategic changes to the Java runtime and dependency management. To stay up to date with the latest changes, subscribe to their mailing list.
JShell and REPL in Java 9 – This is a feature not traditionally associated with Java development, a Read–eval–print loop. In the spirit of command line friendliness, JShell provides a way to quickly evaluate and test Java statements with just a terminal. The JDK will offer this same functionality to IDEs and developer tools through the JShell API, making it easier to do certain things in IntelliJ IDEA, like execute Java scratch files.
JEP 259: Stack-Walking API is a new candidate for Java 9, enabling lazy stream-based access to Java stack traces. To date, there are 51 Java Enhancement proposals targeting JDK 9, and three candidates for acceptance, including JEP 225: Javadoc Search which will add a keyword search for Javadocs, and JEP 238: Multi-Release JAR Files, which will extend the JAR format to allow multiple class files compiled on different Java versions to occupy a single JAR. In the midst of JAR overhauling, it is not yet clear how this proposal will fit into the new JMS.
7 Days with Java 8 – With Java’s adoption at an all-time high, there’s never been a better time to start using Java 8 in production. A key feature in Java 8 is direct support for functional style programming, with the help of lambdas, streams and functional primitives like map(...) and reduce(...). These are designed to work well with existing OOP patterns, helping you to reduce boilerplate and improve readability. With a little help from Shekhar Gulati, you’ll be using lambdas in no time flat.
One of the most unique and ambitious projects we’ve tackled at JetBrains is a language called Kotlin. With Kotlin, you have the chance to see a language being designed from the inside out, interact with our developers, and contribute to its future. We’re excited to start using Kotlin in production, and look forward to hearing your feedback as we prepare for its release. Give Kotlin a try today and let us know what you think!
Modifiers vs. Annotations – One of the early language goals of Kotlin was to reduce boilerplate, and by taking what we’ve learned building parsers at JetBrains, we’ve been able to make a lot of progress on that front. For example, trailing semicolons are optional in Kotlin. Getters and setters are optional. Types are usually optional, if they can be inferred (ex. variable and return types). But sometimes a single character can make a huge difference in tooling efficiency, which is why we’ve decided to sacrifice unified metadata to achieve it. We’re interested in hearing your feedback.
Android + Kotlin = <3 – If you’re an Android developer interested in learning Kotlin, you’ll be pleased to know that Kotlin is totally compatible with Android. Since Kotlin compiles down to Java bytecode, you’ll be able to use the same familiar patterns and APIs that you’ve always tolerated, but never really loved. Get ready to fall back in love with Android development with true lambdas, built-in null safety, extension functions, and Anko, a library we’ve created to help you develop Android applications with pleasure. Thanks to Michael Sattler for his support!
Building APIs on the JVM Using Kotlin and Spark – Another area where Kotlin has seen significant adoption is web services. One of Kotlin’s early targets was JavaScript, and we’ve designed the language to work seamlessly in static and dynamically typed environments like JavaScript and NodeJS. If you’re determined to build web applications on the JVM, Spark (not to be confused with Apache Spark) is a tiny web framework for doing just that, and Travis Spencer will show you how to build APIs using Kotlin and Spark.
Frameworks are the bread and butter of an enterprise Java application, and learning a framework in Java is a bit like learning another language. Choosing a new framework for your business-critical application is not a choice to be made lightly, and one you will need to live with for years to come. In the beginning, there were two schools: Spring and Java EE. Life was simple. Now, there is Spring, Vaadin, GWT, Grails, Akka, Play – never mind reactive or actor frameworks. So each month we’ll focus on a new framework and see where that gets us.
Spring began its life as a dependency injection and AOP framework, later expanding into a number of related areas like security, data access, mobile and distributed computing. Traditionally considered a heavyweight choice, Spring evolved into a number of smaller, more agile projects, with significantly improved tooling in recent years. It also absorbed and maintains convenient abstractions for technologies, like ZooKeeper and Netflix OSS for doing things like service discovery with Spring Cloud, and composing various technologies with Spring Boot. But at its core is the same dependency injection framework you have grown to know and love.
Spring Framework 4.2 GA is the latest version of the Spring Framework, proper. It consists of several loosely related modules for dependency injection and aspect oriented programming. Spring Framework 4.2 includes a new annotation-based event listener, refinements to Java 8 support, integration with Hibernate 5.0, data binding for JSR-354: Money & Currency, support for CORS and much more. See here for a full list of changes in Spring Framework 4.2 and to learn more about Spring Framework, you may find the reference documentation surprisingly accessible.
Microservices with Spring are a more recent addition, designed to alleviate the complexity of monolithic applications, and it is only fitting that Spring should now have frameworks for building microservices (itself following a similar approach). Spring Boot is Spring’s lightweight solution for building modern web applications. Together with Spring Cloud, another framework for building distributed systems, you can bootstrap a distributed microservice architecture in days, rather than months. Or you could use Ratpack with Spring Boot for a more reactive kind of microservice.
Coming up in 2016: Spring Framework 4.3 & 5.0 – A somewhat unique feature of Spring Framework 4.0 was its compatibility with Java 6-8, revamping the APIs to use library features like Stream and Optional where available, and shipping vital updates to legacy Java users on the core framework. With their 4.* release cycle nearing completion, the next big step for Spring will be requiring Java 8 exclusively. Spring Framework 5.0 will bring all new support Java 9, and notably JEP 110: HTTP/2 Client. You can follow their issue tracker for the latest updates.
Java and Android share a language, but that’s mostly where the comparison stops. Despite their initial resemblance, writing Java for the JVM is very different to Android development, which has its own lifecycle, usage guidelines and memory constraints. It is interesting how Android has evolved independently of the Java ecosystem, yet it represents Java’s only significant presence on consumer mobile devices. Likewise, you might wonder if that presence were merely incidental, as though it were just waiting for a suitable candidate to take its place.
Android Studio 1.3 Released – This is the one you’ve been waiting for. With fully featured C/C++ editing, now you can dig into Android NDK development with the support of powerful debugging and profiling tools to help diagnose bugs. Android Studio 1.3 ships a number of highly anticipated features including a heap dump viewer, allocation tracker, separate modules for APK tests, new annotations and inspections, and brand new support for data binding, a feature that lets you bind references to variables and handler methods directly inside the Layout XML.
Android Databinding: Goodbye presenter, hello ViewModel – Traditionally, Android has left the implementation of UI patterns up to developers. This has created some debate over Model-View-Controllers, Model-View-Presenters, Model-View-ViewModels and other three letter acronyms. The introduction of Android databinding removes the necessity of manually updating Views, and can lead to much simpler solutions. As Frode Nilsen mentions, Android’s approach to databinding in XML is a somewhat contentious technique, and is still far from feature-complete.
Exploring the new Android Permissions Model – Android M introduces granular permissions, a long-awaited feature for users. This change will have implications for permission-hungry applications, and in order to effectively utilize the new permissions model, Android applications must be able to handle missing permissions and gracefully recover from losing them at runtime. Ultimately, this makes the process a lot more complex, but as our luck would have it, Joe Birch breaks down the changes and shares a number of best practices for getting all the right permissions.
RxAndroid 1.0 – Reactive has quickly found applications in many programming domains in the span of a few years. If you’re wondering what Reactive is all about, Ben Christensen at Netflix has a great introduction on applying reactive programming to existing applications, and many of the same techniques apply to data centers on the cloud and mobile devices in your pocket. You can use plain RxJava on Android, but RxAndroid provides a few convenience classes to help simplify scheduling on Android, and is now stable.
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Elon Musk had some explaining to do in light of his “funding secured” tweet on August 7 in the context of taking Tesla private, and he’s gone to the corporate blog to do so, arguing that his meetings with representatives of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund before his tweet provided him with a defensible basis for his statement. Whether that’s enough is likely now a matter for a court or regulatory agency to decide – NYTimes and WSJ and Bloomberg and MarketWatch
Fintech firms are swarming to fill the post-crisis void in the subprime lending space, with startups like LendUpGlobal and Fair Square Financial mailing out more than 35 million credit-card offers so far in 2018—a 400% increase from the same period a year ago – WSJ
Some context on Turkey’s economic crisis and why it matters well beyond that country’s borders – NYTimes and Bloomberg
Netflix announced yesterday that its CFO, David Wells, is stepping down after 8 years on the job. Wells is credited with “helping investors understand the company as it has transformed itself from a DVD-by-mail service into a Hollywood powerhouse and global streaming behemoth” – WSJ
The Third Circuit has sided with the CFPB in its quest for documents from student loan company Heartland ESCI, finding that the agency’s probe was properly defined as it investigates alleged loan servicing improprieties – Law360
Another month, another Wells Fargo scandal. This time, Wells is facing a federal inquiry into its “purchase of low-income housing credits” and whether the bank (and other financial institutions) colluded with developers on bids for them – Bloomberg
SDNY Judge Alison Nathan has agreed to stay a proposed class action accusing Deutsche Bank of “improperly funding its defense” in an RMBS trustee suit by “using money from the same trusts it is alleged to have mismanaged.” Judge Nathan determined that it would be “more efficient” to address the trustee suit first – Law360
The Journal lays out for us a troubling fact about Tether, the cryptocurrency whose “main selling point is its tie to the U.S. Dollar”: namely, there “isn’t hard evidence the cash supporting it exists.” Yeah, that could be a problem – WSJ
Ether’s not looking ideal at the moment, either – Bloomberg
We’ll probably always associate our understanding of evolution and the tree of life with Charles Darwin, but as this great Times feature shows, we really should be talking a lot more about Carl Woese and the impact of molecular phylogenetics—the scientist and branch of science that really muddied Darwin’s waters – NYTimes
Carl Woese
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People's Critic: Film Reviews
Top 5 Mission: Impossible Chase Scenes
By Tim Hall on July 24, 2018 at 10:41 PM
With Mission Impossible: Fallout quickly approaching, it prompted me to take look back at why the franchise is one of my favorites. It didn’t take long for me to realize it was Tom Cruise. The second reason was Tom Cruise running and the third is the phenomenal chase scenes. Each installment has a heart pounding sequence that involves Ethan Hunt doing something crazy, and subsequently Tom Cruise risking his life doing a very dangerous stunt. Here’s a list of my Top 5 Mission: Impossible chase scenes.
5. Mission: Impossible 2 – Motorcycle Chase (2000)
This scene has everything you’d want in a blockbuster chase scene. Ethan Hunt is flying down a road at full speed while firing a gun back at another guy on a bike with pinpoint accuracy. The editing for this sequence isn’t the best (thank you early 2000’s) with the bizarre cuts and random slow-motion. This whole sequence ends with an intense game of chicken that and a warm embrace.
4. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – Marrakech Car Chase (2015)
This car chase is intense but also the chase scene with the most comedy. Benji is along for Hunt’s crazy car chase and provides all the comic relief – he’s as scared as anyone would be in that situation. Hunt’s being trailed by a group of armed motorcyclists (again) and evading them through small alleys. The crazy spin the car does in the alley is the reason these movies are so much fun to watch. The scene could’t be more ridiculous until ends with Hunt’s car doing more flips than an Olympic athlete.
3. Mission Impossible 3 – Bridge Attack Scene (2006)
The bridge attack is great because Hunt and his team are being chased and they had no idea. It’s the first on my list that features a Tom Cruise run and he’s outrunning an explosion this time. Hunt has to take down some drones and stop Owen Davian from making his escape. This scene is Hunt desperately trying to stop something from happening but he’s all of of tricks and can’t get there in time.
2. Mission: Impossible – Tunnel Chase (1996)
This was the scene that started it all. Hunt should’ve died 1,000 times but he manages to hang on, literally. He jumps from a speeding train onto a helicopter that’s following him, plants an explosive on the helicopter and uses that explosion to catapult himself back onto the train. Well done!
1. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – Sandstorm Chase Scene (2011)
This scene is peak Tom Cruise [kisses fingers]. This scene is why you pay money to see Tom Cruise movies. He outruns a sandstorm only to get lost in it. Blind, he only has the GPS on the phone to track the man he’s chasing. This leads to Hunt getting hit by the car and taken for a ride through the storm. Hunt eventually steals another car to chase the other car down. He even ghost rides the whip into another car at the end. This whole scene feels like Mad Max meets Days of Thunder.
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The Branchline Rehabilitation Program
Back in the 1970s, grain transport in the Canadian Prairies was in trouble.
Government of Canada Branch Line Rehabilitation
The railways weren't very interested in transporting grain because their revenue was limited by the Crow's Nest Pass Act Agreement. This agreement between CP and the federal government fixed the freight rates on grain and flour forever, in exchange for federal subsidies to the CPR. It sounded like a good idea at the time but the rates were far below other freight rates by the middle of the 20th century. This was known as the Crow rate.
The Crow Rate was ended in 1984 by the federal Liberal government and transport minister Jean Luc Pepin, through the passage of the Western Grain Transportation Act. The government continued to subsidize the shipping rate and recently this subsidy has been replaced by the the rail revenue cap. Farmer's subsidies are complicated!
While the Crow Rate was in effect, there was no incentive for the railways to maintain the lines and no incentive to add new grain shippers. CN and CP weren't maintaining Prairie branch lines and many lines still had very light rail, limiting car weights to 177,000 lbs/car and therefore only permitting boxcars to be loaded. Loading boxcars with wheat is very time-consuming and labour intensive. Here's a great article on CP's grain boxcars.
Federal Government Investment
Grain cars in Chaplin, SK, August 2010
After several studies, the federal government decided to invest in grain transportation to the tune of greater than $1 billion. They purchased 13,500* cylindrical "Coke can" grain hoppers between 1972 and 1994 and assigned them to CN and CP for maintenance and operation at no cost. This greatly increased the size of the fleet to transport grain (and allowed retirement of most grain boxcars), but required more robust track and roadbed to handle the increased car sizes.
* The number of grain cars purchased doesn't appear to be certain - many sources quote 12,400 and some quote 13,500. It is also not clear whether this includes the 2,000 aluminum hoppers purchased between 1975 and 1978. Those were not very successful due to structural issues and the last was retired in 2009.
Note that Saskatchewan purchased 1,000 cars in 1981 (900 remained by the end of 2015) and Alberta purchased several hundred. Here's a good article on the uniquely Canadian grain cars.
Line Rehabilitation
The government spent hundreds of millions on prairie branch line rehabilitation to support these larger cars, which was in essence a direct subsidy to the railways. Good thing this was before free trade!
In order to receive the subsidy, a line had to be "grain dependent" meaning that 60% or more of the traffic on the line was grain. The Prairie Rail Action Committee determined which lines would receive the subsidy to be upgraded to be able to handle the 263,000 lb. cars that were purchased by the government. Lines that did not receive rehabilitation were essentially doomed.
The railways owned the lines after rehabilitation. In many cases rehabilitated lines were eventually abandoned, and the relatively new rails were lifted and reused elsewhere.
Ballast Cars
The railways purchased ballast cars that were funded by the rehabilitation program. These cars were stencilled to reflect this funding but were owned and maintained by the railways.
CN's Open Hoppers
Series CN 90000-90479 were built by National Steel Car in the late 1970s as open top hoppers. These cars were painted orange with a large black CN "noodle". One side says "CANADIAN NATIONAL" and the other says "CANADIEN NATIONAL", which was typical for CN freight cars.
CN 90170 in Prince George, BC, June 2014
I don't think they have been modified much since construction with the exception of reflective stripes added for greater visibility, and the replacement of the colourful Automatic Car Identification (ACI) visual labels with today's wireless AEI system.
CN 90333 in Winnipeg, March 2015
These cars are still in service on CN for maintenance work. One can often see them in yards or at work on the road. They are obsolete compared to the modern automatic unloading ballast trains such as the Herzogs but they are fine for spot work.
CN 90127, covered, Winnipeg, February 2016
CN Flat Bottomed Gondolas
Marine Industries built CN 91000-91143, a set of flat bottomed gondolas with side gates to dump ballast on the outside of the rails.
CN 91064, Winnipeg, January 2016
These cars are painted a more typical CN boxcar red with a lot of lettering and a white CN noodle.
CN Air Dump Cars
A third series of CN maintenance of way cars purchased for the branchline rehabilitation program is the CN 528xx series of air dump cars, built by Hawker Siddeley Canada. It appears to have been a pretty small series. So far I have discovered photos for CN 52899, CN 52850 below and this one.
CN 52850, Winnipeg, March 2015
CP Ballast Hoppers
National Steel Car built the series CP 456000-456325 for Canadian Pacific for branch line rehabilitation work. These cars were painted black with a large CP "multimark" at one end.
CP 456267, Emerson, Manitoba, May 2014
These cars have received the reflective stripes and AEI transmitters, and you can see from the above photo that the doors appear to have been modified, based on the fresh stenciling.
CP 456239, Winnipeg, May 2011
I have seen these cars in solid blocks used for ballast work.
CP ballast cars, Winnipeg, May 2011
Boxcar Rehabilitation
Many of the existing grain boxcars were rehabilitated as well. These boxcars continued to serve the light branchlines that were not upgraded, and some continued to serve the Churchill line in Manitoba until that was finally upgraded to handle the cylindrical grain hoppers.
CP 252797, Beiseker, AB, July 2013
Both CN and CP boxcars were rehabilitated. According to Eric Gagnon's excellent article, the CP boxcars lasted in service until 1996.
CN's boxcars lasted until the end of 1996 in Churchill service, again according to Eric Gagnon. Some 1,000 40' boxcars were rehabilitated starting in 1985 with money provided by the province of Manitoba, for Churchill service; these boxcars wore a bison logo and were nicknamed "Buffalo boxes".
Cars rehabilitated under the federal program bore the wheat sheaf logo seen on this CP boxcar stored in Beiseker, Alberta.
There's a great article in the March 1999 Branchline magazine, "The 40-foot Boxcar's Last Dance" by David Maiers. Recommended.
No 40' boxcars exist in revenue service. A few may survive in maintenance-of-way service for CN or CP.
Modeling the Branchline Rehabilitation Program
Ballast hoppers
CN orange hoppers - can start with Walthers Amtrak ballast hoppers and apply Highball Graphics decals for a rough match - HO scale decals
Walthers did produce CN ballast cars, that may still be found on eBay and elsewhere
CN side dump car - ???
CP black hoppers - repaint Walthers Amtrak ballast hoppers and apply CP multimark decals
Grain boxcars
40' CP grain boxcars - Intermountain - #46822 "ready to run"
40' CN and CP grain boxcars - Trains Canada (defunct)
40' CN boxcars - Highball Graphics - HO scale decals
CN grain boxcar - Ozark Miniatures (ex CDS) - HO scale decals
Wheat sheave decals etc. - Ozark Miniatures (ex CDS) - HO scale
Farm Communities at the Crossroads: Challenge and Resistance
Canadian Encyclopedia on the Crow's Nest Pass Agreement
Manitoba Historical Society on Grain Rates
Canadian Freight Car Gallery
Posted by Steve Boyko at 3/29/2016 08:28:00 am 10 comments:
Labels: cn, cp, grain, rehabilitation
Video Review: Canadian National's Western Manitoba Mains
I recently received a copy of Big E Production's "Canadian National's Western Manitoba Mains" DVD set, and I'd like to review it.
The two DVDs cover sections of CN's two western Manitoba main lines: the CN Rivers subdivision near Miniota, and the CN Togo subdivision between Dutton Siding and Roblin, MB. The Rivers subdivision is on the first DVD and part of the second, with the Togo footage on the remainder of the second DVD.
Big E advertises "no more mindless runbys" meaning that they show the entire train. When you start the DVD you are given the choice of two audio tracks - just the train sounds, or train sounds accompanied by narration. I watched the narrated version as I personally feel that watching a DVD of just trains going by is a bit boring.
The narration really adds value to the DVD. There are details on each train, including train symbols, origin and destination, and some comments on the consist. The narration also covers the history of the line and interesting features of the area. I thought it was excellent.
Big E usually shows 24 hours of action in a location and this DVD did the same. I believe there were about a dozen trains each way on the Rivers subdivision and only a few each way on the Togo - they were lucky to see a couple of diverted trains. Since it was shot over 24 hours, many of the trains were shot at night.
The power on the trains wasn't exceptional - mostly CN units with a few BC Rail units of various colours, one black Illinois Central "death star" unit, blue IC 2459, and the VIA Rail Canadian.
I have a couple of negative things to say about the DVDs. First off, the weather wasn't great so there are mostly gray skies in the DVDs.
The larger negative I would say is that the choice of locations wasn't great. The majority were shot at rural crossings and there's nothing really to say "prairie" in the shots. I definitely would have liked to see some grain elevators or the nearby Uno trestle.
I enjoyed watching the DVDs and I would recommend them to anyone who wanted to see a typical day on CN's western main lines in Manitoba (Big E web site).
Disclaimer: Dick Eisfeller, the big "E", had asked me for a few details about the area to provide background material for the DVDs, and in thanks he sent me the two-disc set. He didn't ask me to write a review, nor am I receiving any compensation for writing this review, but I decided to write a review because I like writing reviews.
Posted by Steve Boyko at 3/24/2016 06:55:00 pm 2 comments:
Labels: big e, cn, dvd, review
Winnipeg Area Railway Scanner Frequencies
Here are useful frequencies for a radio scanner to monitor railway operations in the Winnipeg, Manitoba area.
Please remember that use of a radio scanner in a vehicle is illegal in Manitoba. Also be careful what you share with others!
CN Frequencies
Train Standby Channel
This is used for train-to-train and train-to-ground communication for road trains, on all subdivisions. Hotbox detectors also broadcast on this channel. Highly recommended.
RTC Channels
These are used by the Rail Traffic Controller to talk to train crews and maintenance crews. Often they can give useful information about approaching trains or trains entering CTC territory.
CN Sprague Subdivision: 160.935
CN Letellier Subdivision: 161.025
CN Lilyfield Spur: 161.025
CN Rivers Subdivision: Miles 0-14: 161.025; miles 14-206: 161.205
CN Redditt Subdivision: Miles 20.7-239: 160.665; miles 239-252.1: 160.025
CP Frequencies
Train Standby Channels
CP Carberry Subdivision: Miles 0-5: 161.115; miles 5-133: 161.535
CP Keewatin Subdivision: 161.475
CP Emerson Subdivision: 161.325
CP Glenboro Subdivision: Miles 0-4: 161.115; miles 4-128: 161.325
CP La Riviere Subdivision: 161.325
CP Arborg Subdivision: Miles 0-3: 161.115; miles 3-end: 161.325
CP Winnipeg Beach Subdivision: 161.325
These is used for train-to-train and train-to-ground communication for road trains. Hotbox detectors also broadcast on these channels. Highly recommended.
This is used by the Rail Traffic Controller to talk to train crews and maintenance crews. For CP the train crews use the RTC channel to call in to the RTC but they then switch to the train standby channel, so monitoring these channels is not as important as for CN.
CEMR Frequencies
This is used for CEMR's train-to-train and train-to-ground communication for road trains. Highly recommended. This is used for the Central Manitoba Railway's Carman and Pine Falls subdivisions.
When CEMR is running over CN trackage it uses the CN frequencies.
GWWD Frequencies
The Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway uses two frequencies:
Miles 5-20 and miles 48-82: 167.700 / 169.620
Miles 20-48 and 48-82: 167.670 / 169.590
Prairie Dog Central Railway Frequencies
When the PDC is running through CP or CN, it uses their frequencies.
VIA Rail Frequencies
VIA Rail uses CN frequencies in the Winnipeg area as they are running on CN trackage.
How to Use a Scanner
Introduction to Scanners
Programming a Scanner
Scanner Frequencies
Labels: cemr, cn, cp, gwwd, scanners, winnipeg
Photography on the Rails - Just Say No
Not cool
Yesterday I received a notice that someone had linked to my CN Bedford subdivision page. Curious, I followed it to find a Halifax-area photographer had taken photos of a young family on the rails, and referenced my page.
Not cool.
I messaged the photographer and asked her to remove the link.
Could you please remove the link to my web site (traingeek.ca)? I do not want my site to be associated with a photography session on train tracks. Thank you.
She replied and said she would. In the meantime, I posted about it on my personal Facebook feed and numerous people commented. A friend from Operation Lifesaver picked up on it and suggested that I change the page on my side to show rail safety information instead. Great idea! I changed it to redirect my rail safety page.
Keep Off
I'm pretty sure others commented on her page, and it's been taken down. I'm not going to mention who it was as the matter has been dealt with. Hopefully she will think twice about taking photos on railway property.
It's an epidemic. You don't have to look far to see many photos of people on tracks, including kids and even stock photos.
We need to teach kids to respect trains.
Parents too.
Recently a 15-year old girl's life was cut off far too soon after the car she was in was hit by a (CN) train near Elie, Manitoba on January 10. She fought for a long time but she died in early March.
My heart goes out to her and her father (who I believe was driving, and was hurt as well) and her family.
Last year 14 people died at railway crossings in Canada and 31 trespassers died in Canada (source).
Take the time to slow down and look both ways at crossings. Don't race the train. Don't walk down tracks. Simple things that can save your life.
Rail Safety DOs and DON'Ts for Parents and Caregivers
Rail Safety DOs and DON'Ts for Photographers
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Labels: photography, safety
A Fine Evening's Railfanning
Graffiti is everywhere
The sun came out Saturday afternoon, so I decided to do a little railfanning in the late afternoon / early evening. This winter has been severely lacking in sunshine, so I wanted to take advantage of the sun when it showed up.
I headed out and decided to take the Perimeter Highway around to the Trans-Canada and then look into Symington. As I approached the CP Emerson sub's crossing over the Perimeter, the lights came on. If I were like most other Winnipeg drivers, I would have gunned it through the crossing. However, I'd rather not get hit by a train (#safetyfirst) so I stopped and the gates came down.
Like any good railfan, I had my camera sitting on the passenger seat, ready for action. I lowered the passenger side window and shot the approaching northbound train.
Grab shot!
The power was unremarkable but it was nice to catch it at just the right time.
The train had a mixed bag of cars, including an empty intermodal well car and a few auto racks. I liked this graffiti:
Well done graffiti
I really don't like vandalism like this, but wow - great art.
After the train passed, I drove up to the Trans-Canada and exited. There was nothing in sight to the south on the CN Sprague sub, so I went north toward Symington. I saw a CN train was pulling up to Navin, although they had a red light so they couldn't proceed yet. As I watched, a CN truck pulled up to the signals, presumably to inspect the train when it got its chance to leave.
No turns ahead on the CN Sprague subdivision!
I waited for five or ten minutes but they weren't leaving, so I left instead. As I approached Symington I saw they were on their way. There was a DPU locomotive in the middle of the train but I didn't catch the number.
Not much was going on at the hump. I drove up to CN's Transcona yard but there was no train there, just cars, so I kept going up to the CP line and on to CEMR.
CEMR 4002 was idling away at the head of some tank cars. CEMR 4000 and 4001 were moving around in front of the shop, but the interesting stuff was behind the shop.
Two CEFX locomotives were there - CEFX 6056 and CEFX 6057. Both are SD38-2 locomotives, apparently renumbered and relettered back in June 2015. These are ex Iowa Interstate locomotives, now with a Cando logo on them.
Cando or CEFX? Who knows?
Also on the property are two Railink locos, CCGX 1808 and CCGX 1755. A little Googling showed that these locomotives were working on the Barrie-Collingwood Railway before that more or less went dormant. Apparently they sat in Utopia, ON for a few years before being picked up by CP this past May. I don't know how long they've been in Winnipeg, as I haven't been by CEMR for quite a while.
CCGX 1808 in Winnipeg
After photographing what I could see from public property, I carried on south to the CN Redditt subdivision and headed out toward Dugald. The road was... icy... so I was being careful. I arrived in Dugald and took yet another photograph of the grain elevator.
Photograph #728 of the Dugald grain elevator
One thing I did spy with my little eye was a green signal wayyyy in the distance.
Some serious cropping
That meant a train was cleared to head east out of Winnipeg.
I headed back toward Winnipeg, keeping one eye on the track to my right and at least one on the icy road. I didn't see a train until I crossed the Perimeter Highway, and then I spotted the train picking its way through the Transcona yard.
I found a safe place to turn around and got ahead of it. I decided to get a little artsy with this nicely placed shelter to frame up CN 2647 as it led the train out of Winnipeg.
Frame it up
That was the end of the day's railfanning... not a bad outing.
Posted by Steve Boyko at 3/06/2016 06:00:00 am 3 comments:
Labels: 1808, 2647, 2851, 6056, 9639, cefx, cemr, cn, cp, graffiti, railink, winnipeg
Onboard the UP Express
The UP Express is a new train and route that was built to connect the Pearson (Toronto, YYZ) airport in Mississauga, Ontario with downtown Toronto.
On a recent trip to the US, I ended up spending several hours in the Pearson airport. I seriously considered taking the UP Express downtown to Toronto just for fun, but the price discouraged me ($44 round trip) plus the timing was a little too close for comfort. I did decide to go have a look at the trains.
They are not hard to find.
The new UP Express station is integrated with the airport; all you have to do is go up an escalator (or elevator) to an area with ticket machines, then on to the trains themselves. There were quite a few staff present, and I asked one of them if it would be all right if I went on board to take a few photos. She waved me on cheerily so I had a look inside the waiting train.
Inside the UP Express
It seemed roomy enough inside, and everything was nice and clean... as I expected, given how new the train sets are. The UP Express launched in June 2015.
The UP Express uses 18 Nippon Sharyo Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) cars, powered by Cummins QSK19-R ultra-low emissions diesel engines. They have 12 type A powered cars and 6 type B intermediate cars with toilets, allowing for 2 or 3 car trainsets. They are designed for relatively easy conversion into Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) cars.
The first pair of cars was delivered to Metrolinx in August 2014. The cars were built in Japan with final assembly at Nippon Sharyo's plant in Rochelle, Illinois.
Pearson is served by a new 3.3 km elevated spur from the GO Kitchener line. The trains run every 15 minutes and a trip between Union Station downtown and Pearson takes 25 minutes. There are intermediate stops at Bloor and Weston.
The train looks nice from the outside too!
UP Express ticket kiosks
I don't normally pay a lot of attention to transit vehicles, but it's nice to be able to railfan right at the Toronto airport.
If I have more time on a future Toronto connection, I'll seriously consider making the round trip... especially now that the cost is going down, due to poor ridership.
Fellow blogger Eric Gagnon took the UP Express from Union Station to the airport and back and blogged about it. I'm not sure where he got the $27.50 round trip fare... maybe I overlooked that option!
While I was at the airport, I couldn't help but do a bit of airplane watching.
Chock it up to good positioning!
The Air Canada Rouge planes look pretty sharp.
Air Canada Rouge C-GBHR
I saw my first Airbus A-380 but I didn't get a good photo of it... too slow!
My favourite was this Boeing Dreamliner 787 with Hainan Airlines.
Hi there, Hainan!
Of course, talking about Pearson airport wouldn't be complete without Rush's classic instrumental, "YYZ".
EDIT: Several people have pointed out other fare options. The "meet and greet" $27.50 round-trip option was not available to me because you have to originate from Union, Bloor or Weston... I guess you can't "meet and greet" from the airport into Toronto.
The PRESTO card is a cheaper option, but then you actually have to have a PRESTO card (cost $6). It was a maximum of $19 one-way but after March 9 it is going down to $9 one-way Union-Pearson.
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by Phillip Lopate
pubblicato da Ohio State University Press
In 1984, Phillip Lopate sat down with his mother, Frances, to listen to her life story. A strong, resilient, indomitable woman who lived through the major events of the twentieth century, she was orphaned in childhood, ran away and married young, and then reinvented herself as a mother, war factory worker, candy store owner, community organizer, clerk, actress, and singer. But paired with exciting anecdotes are the criticisms of the husband who couldn't satisfy her, the details of numerous affairs and sexual encounters, and, though she succeeded at many of her roles, accounts of how she always felt mistreated, taken advantage of. After the interviews, at a loss for what to do with the tapes, Lopate put them away. But thirty years later, after his mother had passed away, Lopate found himself drawn back to the recordings of this conversation. Thus begins a three-way conversation between a mother, his younger self, and the person he is today.
Trying to break open the family myths, rationalizations, and self-deceptions, A Mother's Tale is about family members who love each other but who can't seem to overcome their mutual mistrust. Though Phillip is sympathizing to a point, he cannot join her in her operatic displays of self-pity and how she blames his father for everything that went wrong. His detached, ironic character has been formed partly in response to her melodramatic one. The climax is an argument in which he tries to persuade herusing logic, of all thingsthat he really does love her, but is only partially successful, of course.
A Mother's Tale is about something primal and universal: the relationship between a mother and her child, the parent disappointed with the payback, the child, now fully grown, judgmental. The humor is in the details.
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Feb 23rd 2019, 9:05 am
Fredbargate
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Re: Gibraltar 2
For those of you who do not like my style of posting, SIMPLE do not read it the same as I mainly ignore the posters I do not like.
However when I post they go onto the Today's Posts thread and are available and read worldwide
However recently I have had major computer problems forcing for the first time in almost 30 years to seek help from a computer shop.
Also in the last few days Gibraltar has had some good coverage in the worlds media.
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Feb 25th 2019, 3:26 pm
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Feb 26th 2019, 11:06 am
criodain
Looking forward to visiting Gibraltar this year
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Mar 5th 2019, 9:15 am
Yesterday a tax treaty was signed between Gibraltar and Spain, the first international treaty between the two since 1713.
It also recognises for the first time by Spain the existence of Gibraltarians and their right to levy taxes as well as recognising Gibraltar's corporate taxes.
The full wording of the treaty should be available later this month.
An unexpected consequence of Brexit.
Last edited by Fredbargate; Mar 5th 2019 at 9:18 am.
EsuriJohn
Location: Puente Esuri
The substance of the treaty is in El Pais in English today and it emphasises that the negotiation was between HMG and Spain and does not mention Gibraltar as a party to the agreement. Still seems to depend on the Brexshit outcome though.
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Mar 5th 2019, 1:02 pm
The treaty is one between Spain and Gibraltar allowing the exchange of tax information between the two countries.
It was signed by David Lidington on Gibraltar's behalf because Spain still has dificulties in accepting Gibraltar as a country in it's own right and UK is still has constitutional responsibility for Gibraltar's inclusion in international treaties.
In situation like this the UK represents Gibraltar and takes it's instructions from Gibraltar
This treaty has been on our Chief Minister's desk for many years awaiting Spains signature.
Gibraltar has been signing Tax Information Agreements for many years with other countries.
Last edited by Fredbargate; Mar 5th 2019 at 1:07 pm.
Reference my previous post on tax information post:- 1206
https://www.yourgibraltartv.com/poli...aty-with-spain
Mar 20th 2019, 11:14 am
Fifty years ago today John Lennon and Yoko Ono got married in Gibraltar
Mar 29th 2019, 12:50 pm
The following link may be of interest to smokers
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Mar 29th 2019, 8:20 pm
Bonzodog
Somewhat ironical surely that Spain refers to Gibraltar as a colony, while they along with other Eu members have allowed themselves to become little more than colonies themselves.
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Apr 11th 2019, 12:54 pm
Originally Posted by Bonzodog
In his letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, PetrJezek the former colleague of Claude Moraes, the Labour MEP who blocked the legislation before he was removed as Rapporteur, also highlights that out of a list of 15 British Overseas Territories, only Gibraltar is referred to as a colony, adding "this makes absolutely no sense".
Petr Jezek says the European Commission's decision to accept the Gibraltar footnote has led him to lose faith in its impartiality in inter-institutional negotiations.
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Apr 25th 2019, 11:17 am
Spain should not be a contender for a £1 billion Royal Navy ship deal, due to issues with Gibraltar.
According to reports in the British press, Russ Murdoch of the Confederation of Ship Building and Engineering Unions highlighted repeated Spanish incursions into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters, as a reason why members have been asking the union whether the contract could seriously be awarded to a Spanish firm.
The unions are campaigning for a British yard to be awarded the contract
Apr 25th 2019, 6:39 pm
Fred James
Location: Granada Costa
The unions always want contracts to be awarded to British companies irrespective of whether it is a good deal or not. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the UK are the best builders.
To add the Gibraltar situation into the equation is ridiculous as Gibraltar has nothing to do with it.
Last edited by Fred James; Apr 25th 2019 at 6:41 pm.
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May 23rd 2019, 12:59 pm
An improvement
A number of RGP officers have been present in searches conducted by Guardia Civil officers since early yesterday morning in a number of localities within the neighbouring Campo de Gibraltar region.
http://www.gibraltarpanorama.gi/164556
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3 Stories to Report Now on the New Tax Cuts
by Dorianne Perrucci February 1, 2018
The new tax cut offers a number of angles for business reporters looking to cover its effect on local taxpayers. (Photo via Pixabay.com)
Many taxpayers saw an immediate increase in their paychecks after H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Bill, became law on January 1, 2018. But they may not be paying attention to the impact of the new law on their financial situation until they file their income tax returns in 2019.
Among other changes, the new law doubles the standard deduction, but eliminates itemized deductions and limits property taxes.
Business reporters can give their readers the opportunity to do some timely financial planning in 2018, by looking into one, or all, of the following angles and resources in this important story:
Explain the new tax cuts to your readers
The seven income tax brackets in the tax code haven’t changed as a result of the new law, but income levels have, which means that most taxpayers will benefit from the new law. According to calculations from the Tax Policy Center, tax cuts will average less than 2 percent for most (90 percent) of those on the lower end of the income scale, and 4 percent, for those with higher incomes.
Team up with your news organization’s data-reporting staff or adapt this open-source tax-modeling software to help readers estimate their tax savings. The staff at the Open Source Policy Center, which builds economic models related to public policy, can also offer help.
Offer your readers a free “tax clinic” on the new law
Ask two to three local financial planners and accountants to look at the financial situation of selected readers and offer specific advice on changes to make now or avoid. Pick an accountant with the Personal Financial Specialist designation.
Choose readers at different income levels and situations (single, married, head of household), as well as those who are retired or disabled.
Contact your state’s labor department to research your selections. Then reach out through social media to interview readers about how they plan to use their estimated savings.
Report on available free tax help
Before spending some — or all — of the money they just saved from the new tax cuts bill, some of your readers may want to see if they qualify for free tax help.
Professional Tax preparation fees are rising. Fees ranged from $176 for a simple Schedule A to $457 for a return including a Form 1040, Schedule A (itemized deductions) and a state tax return, according to a recent survey from the National Society of Accountants.
Free online tax-preparation services now include TurboTax AbsoluteZero, CreditKarma Tax and H&R Block’s MoreZero for earners in low- and moderate-income brackets, joining online (e-File and the Free File Alliance) and in-person programs from the Internal Revenue Service (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program and Tax Counseling or the Elderly). Volunteers with the AARP Foundation’s Tax-Aide program also offer help during tax season in libraries, community centers, and other locations.
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Pope Francis in North Macedonia: Dream big, and dream together
Pope Francis waves goodbye to Skopje, at the conclusion of his Apostolic Journey to North Macedonia. Image: ANSA/Vatican News.
On his visit to North Macedonia, Pope Francis highlights priorities of his papacy.
Pope Francis was able to hit on some of the key themes of his papacy during his whirlwind, one day-visit to the country of North Macedonia.
In his first address, to leaders of civil society, Pope Francis noted North Macedonia’s position as a meeting place for various cultures and religions. In particular, he praised the country for having found “a peaceful and enduring coexistence” rooted in the “multi-ethnic and multi-religious countenance” of the people, which he called the nation’s “most precious patrimony.”
A part of that national heritage is the figure of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, known throughout the world simply as “Mother Teresa.” Pope Francis emphasised her roots in Skopje, where Mother Teresa was raised in a family and in a community, and where she learned “to love those in greatest need.” The Holy Father held her up as an example for all of us to love “the poor, the abandoned, the marginalised, and migrants” not only with words, but with concrete, effective actions.
Speaking especially to the Catholic faithful (a minority comprising less than one percent of North Macedonia’s population) Pope Francis emphasised the need to spread the message of love, hope, and unity in diversity first and foremost by their example. In his address to Catholic priests – including married Eastern Catholic priests with their families – and religious men and women, Pope Francis used the scriptural example of Mary anointing the feet of Jesus with spikenard, to show how a little fragrance can fill a whole house, and illustrate how a small, but vibrant, Catholic community can inspire the life of the whole nation.
The Pope touched on the importance of roots in families, cultures, communities, in his address to a diverse group of young people. Repeating a theme dear to his heart, he encouraged them to speak to their elders, to learn their own history from them, in order to go forth into the world.
In that address, Pope Francis called on the young people to “dream big”, calling to mind once again the example of Mother Teresa, who was able to love in a big way precisely because she dreamed in a big way.
“You can never dream too much!” the Holy Father insisted. And his brief visit to North Macedonia once more shone a spotlight on Pope Francis’ “big dreams” – for the Church, and for the world.
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Planned Parenthood: ‘Every Child an Unwanted Child’
Published by Deacon Jim Russell at August 5, 2015
Children wait in a line to receive medical treatment from the members of the Brazilian contingent of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 25/Dec/2008. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. UN Photo/Marco Dormino. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
With the barbaric practices of Planned Parenthood exposed now more than ever, so many people of faith across the country are scratching their heads. Many are in perplexed awe at the breathtaking level of sheer denial at work in the minds of the media, the politicians, and the diehard supporters of the abortion industry’s spear-tip.
Children? No children here—just tissue for research! Stop bringing up children! Women? Now we’re talkin’. This is all about women—children have nothing to do with the importance of women’s “health”!
How can such bald-faced falsehood be asserted by so many apparently “reasonable” people? Professionals who lead productive lives and seem otherwise sane?
It’s that 25-cent word “concupiscence” again—one of the effects of original sin is to leave the human intellect and will wounded. The term “darkened intellect” is often used to describe how a person will, rather stupidly, choose to think or believe something utterly, foolishly false in order to safeguard other immoral choices they wish to continue choosing. “Darkened intellect” also aptly describes the “meh” response to evidence of children—innocent babies—being torn apart and their remains abused and bartered for in the so-called “medical” and “scientific” communities.
History Is Repeating Itself
Human history is full of examples of such atrocity, of people turning utterly blind eyes away from the despicable evil occurring in their midst. There are indeed profound parallels to be drawn between concentration-camp horrors and abortion-mill horrors. How did the architects and implementers of the Nazis’ “Final Solution” maintain the illusion that the objects of their enterprise actually weren’t innocent people whose lives should be protected, but a “problem” to be snuffed out? They accepted the darkened reasoning that insanely forbade them to “see” or perceive the human dignity of the persons they killed.
Villagers near the Nazi concentration camps often chose not to wonder about the constant smoke and ash rising from the crematoriums. Even after the war, citizens and SS officers and soldiers and camp guards were forced to confront the horror of their unburied corpses as they manually carried them to mass graves amid the stench and depravity that reflected the grave evil they had chosen. Even some of these perpetrators of the Holocaust would walk away unswayed and unmoved by the evidence of the dead people they themselves had killed and now were compelled to help bury.
Planned Parenthood Has Never “Seen” the Children
Fast-forward to the present-day carnage found in the heart of the Planned Parenthood abortion industry. Surely this will shock industry employees and supporters into realizing the magnitude of this evil, right? We can certainly pray that some will change their views, and we are seeing some evidence of this. But we ought not be surprised at the capacity of a person’s darkened intellect to use every possible avenue of avoidance to keep alive this primordial illusion that only women—not children—are present in this picture. Planned Parenthood’s founders virtually perfected the ideology that keeps the children from being “seen” even long before the organization officially existed. It is precisely this elimination of children that so many misguided souls respond to, finding in it a falsely alluring “liberation.” The backbone of the contraception and abortion industry remains the severe and absolute disconnect between sex and babies. For them, this is non-negotiable.
So, don’t let it surprise you that the staunchest anti-life figures and their supporters continue rejecting the presence of the dead children in their midst, even when the bloodied remains of these innocent children are in view and being ghoulishly treated and referenced as mere commodities. This is the satanic “glue” that holds everything together for the monstrosity that is Planned Parenthood. While reasonable people will acknowledge the reality of this homicidal industry, many whose intellects are too deeply darkened simply will not, even when staring directly into the lifeless eyes of an aborted child.
Despite its longstanding truth-mocking slogan “Every Child a Wanted Child,” there is only one real way that Planned Parenthood “wants” the children in its midst: Dead. Gone. Forgotten. Disappeared.
Or perhaps sold for a few pieces of silver.
Deacon Jim Russell
Deacon Jim Russell is a lifelong St. Louis resident, "cradle" Catholic, husband, father of eleven, and grandfather of two. Ordained to the Diaconate in 2002, Deacon Russell serves as Family Life Coordinator for the Office of Laity and Family Life in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri. He previously worked in full-time parish ministry for the last fourteen years. He remains an active supporter of Catholic radio and the Catholic blogosphere (some of his posts can be found at the “Virtual Vestibule,” the official blog of the Archdiocese of St. Louis (http://blog.stlouisreview.com/). Deacon Russell’s theological interests include the sanctity of marriage, the work of Pope St. John Paul II, and Catholic teaching on same-sex attraction. Follow Deacon Russell on Twitter at @MarriageSTL.
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The Link opens four show homes in Evanston
Josh Skapin, Calgary Herald
An artist's rendering of the front exterior of The Link by Brookfield Residential in Evanston. Supplied
A combination of value and prime location have helped drive early interest in a northwest Calgary townhome development that recently unveiled four new show homes.
Brookfield Residential launched sales on its first project in the Calgary area that wasn’t in one of its own new communities — the Link at Evanston — late last year. Evanston is a community master-planned by Qualico Communities in the Symons Valley corridor.
“It is located exceptionally well with restaurants, schools, banking facilities, grocery, the Symons Valley Ranch Farmers Market — everything is there,” says Lisa Kaiser, sales manager for Brookfield. “Evanston is one of the most sought after communities because of that.
“Nothing can beat location. It’s the first thing you want to think about when you’re looking at your lifestyle … we definitely offer the best of that.”
The 124-townhome development is now more than half sold. The Link has two- and three-bedroom layouts spanning from 812 to 1,432 square feet, starting from the mid-$200,000s.
There are four show homes that include two examples of stacked single-level plans and two that are two-storey layouts.
One of the single-level show homes is the Ruby model, which is 915 square feet. Kaiser says it’s highlighted by an eye-catching vaulted ceiling. The only single-level plan is the 812-square-foot, two-bedroom Ivory.
For two-storey options, it’s the 988-square-foot, two-bedroom Plum model and the Carmine at 1,203 square feet.
Kaiser calls the Carmine an “entertainer’s house.”
“It is absolutely gorgeous,” she says. “It reminds me of a high-end, Manhattan-style penthouse. It is quite stunning as far as the amount of natural light and fact you could entertain a lot of people in that home and still be quite comfortable.”
Interior finishes at the Link include laminate floors, pre-finished maple cabinet doors, a pantry and stainless steel appliances.
A sales centre for the development is at 521 Evanston Link N.W. It and the show homes are open 2 to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and noon to 5 p.m. on weekends.
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CAMRA comment on the Queen’s Speech
For more information, contact press on 01727 337 863 or email press@camra.org.uk
Commenting on the Queen’s Speech, CAMRA Chairman Nik Antona said:
“We welcome that the Government has followed up its manifesto commitment and will look to reform business rates, as well as bringing in an additional discount for pubs.
“Pubs contribute positively to the UK, socially, culturally and economically. We look forward to working with Government and Parliament to ensure the reforms mean pubs are treated fairly.
“CAMRA will continue to push for a lower rate of tax on beer served in pubs and will be bringing forward proposals in the new year.
“Finally, we urge the government to complete its statutory review of the Pubs Code and ensure that it is fit for purpose.”
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Staff Psychologist- Student Counseling Center
Regular Full-time, Pay Grade 44
The StudentCounseling Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville invitesapplications and nominations for an open position for StaffPsychologist.
This position,announced earlier as a 10 month position is now offered as a 12 month positionfor candidates who would prefer to work year round. Candidates need not reapplyand current candidates may opt for 10 or 12 month as desired. No preference for12 month position is required. This position remains a full-time, non-tenuretrack staff position. The successful candidate will join amultidisciplinary team of mental health professionals working together tosupport the mental health of UT students. We are seeking candidates who enjoyworking with young adults in a university environment, are enthusiastic about acareer in college mental health, and appreciate the importance of mental healthto academic success.
The University: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is thestate's flagship research institution, a campus of choice for outstandingundergraduates, and a premier graduate institution. Enrolling approximately 28,000students, the campus is located in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountainsand beautiful East Tennessee. As a land-grant university, it is committed toexcellence in learning, scholarship, and engagement. In all its activities, theuniversity aims to advance the frontiers of human knowledge and enrich andelevate society. The university values intellectual curiosity, pursuit ofknowledge, and academic freedom and integrity.
The Division: The Divisionof Student Life is comprised of over 400 staff persons who serve our studentsthrough 16 departments and functions. Division Staff are actively engaged inthe lives of students, living and learning with them in our residence halls,student union, and other campus environments. The Division seeks candidateswilling to engage, challenge, and support our students through intentionalprograms and services. In addition, we seek colleagues that are committed toteamwork and have a palpable passion for working with and serving all students.
The Department: The Student Counseling Center is a full-servicecollegiate counseling center staffed by 14 full-time providers (11 licensedpsychologists and 3 master's level providers). An APA accredited training sitewith 5 intern positions, the center provides a robust training program formultiple levels of doctoral psychology trainees. The department is activelyengaged in suicide prevention and stress management programming within theuniversity community. The Center shares a state of the art facility with theStudent Health Center and the Center for Health Education and Wellness allowingsignificant collaboration in the care of students.
ThePosition: Reportingto the Director, the primary duty of the staff psychologist in this position isto provide direct clinical services to students and consultation to faculty andstaff. The successful candidate will have strong general therapy skills and theability to provide effective treatment in a short term model. Therapy skillsshould include the ability to work with a range of clinical issues and complexdiagnoses. Further, the person in this position will be involved in clinical supervisionand training within the APA accredited training program including interns,graduate assistants, and practicum students. This position also includesengagement within the university community through community intervention,outreach, and development of liaison relationships with campus partners. We seekcandidates whose clinical service, clinical supervision, and communityintervention is infused with multicultural responsiveness and who demonstrateclear interest and commitment to all dimensions of diversity.
* Direct clinical services such asindividual, couples, and/or group psychotherapy.
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By Carrie on March 29, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )
Feeding my addiction…
As promised a bit longer of an addition post this week, it’s my cozy Kensington addiction that happens at least once a month that gets me. What can I say though? Always such great reads that are a lot of fun!
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Stella Kendrick is an all-American heiress who can’t be tamed. But when the lively aspiring equine trainer tangles with British aristocracy, she meets her match—and a murderer . . .
Spring, 1905: Free-spirited like the Thoroughbreds she rides across the Kentucky countryside, Stella takes adventure by the reins when she’s asked to attend a mysterious wedding in rural England. But once she arrives at the lush Morrington Hall estate, her cold and ambitious father confesses that he won’t only give away his best racehorses as gifts—he has also arranged to give away his daughter as bride to the Earl of Atherly’s financially strapped son . . .
Stella refuses to be sold off like a prized pony. Yet despite a rough start, there’s something intriguing about her groom-to-be, the roguish Viscount “Lyndy” Lyndhurst. The unlikely pair could actually be on the right track with each other . . . until they find the vicar who was to marry them dead in the library.
With culture clashes mounting between families, a scandalous murder case hangs over Morrington Hall. Now, Stella and Lyndy must go from future spouses to amateur sleuths as they team up to search for the truth—and prevent an unbridled criminal from destroying their new life together right out of the gate . . .
If it wasn’t for art thieves, spies and killers, Alex Vlodnachek’s life would be bliss.
Her freelance career is catching fire. Her relationship with B&B owner Ian Sterling is flirty and fun. She’s even attending a glittering cocktail party at his sprawling Victorian inn.
But, to this ex-reporter, something seems “off.” And it’s not the canapés. When Ian’s father vanishes, the enigmatic innkeeper asks for her discretion. And her assistance.
Meanwhile, Alex is having the opposite problem at her tiny bungalow: People keep piling in uninvited. Including a mysterious intruder found sleeping in her kitchen. Her grandmother, Baba, who shows up “to help”—with Alex’s own mother hot on her heels.
When the intrepid redhead discovers a body in the B&B’s basement and a “reproduction” Renoir in the library, she begins to suspect that Ian is more than just a simple hotel owner.
With editor pal Trip, brother Nick, and rescue-pup Lucy riding shotgun, Alex scrambles to stay one step ahead of disaster—and some very nasty characters.
Can she find the missing man before it’s too late? Or will Alex be the next one to disappear?
Life has always been sweet on Georgia’s Peach Cove Island, but a case of murder has Marygene Brown down in the pits . . .
For generations, the women of the Brown family on Peach Cove Island have been known for their Southern sass and sweet homemade desserts at their beloved Peach Diner. Since their mother’s passing two years ago, Marygene has been stuck in Atlanta while her sister Jena Lynn has been running the family business. Now Marygene has left her husband and returned to her hometown, where she can almost feel Mama’s presence.
But all is not peachy back home. Marygene has barely tied on an apron when a diner regular drops dead at the counter. When it turns out the old man’s been poisoned, Jena Lynn is led away in handcuffs and the family eatery is closed. Now, to save her sister and the diner, Marygene must find the real killer. With some startling assistance from her Mama’s spirit, Marygene will be serving up a special order of just desserts . . .
Includes Seven Recipes from Marygene’s Kitchen!
Single mom Colbie Summers has a lot to be grateful for in the run up to Thanksgiving. Relocating back to her California hometown has brought her irascible dad and adolescent son closer. Her gourmet cat food line—vetted by her trusty taste-tester, Trouble—is about to get a big re-order. And she’s made wonderful new friends and colleagues. Too bad one them has just been accused of murder . . .
Sunnyside’s most gifted students have been at the mercy of a shadowy network of college fixers—including an abusive oboe teacher whose recommendation is necessary to get into Julliard and a school secretary who alters grades for cash. When they turn up dead, Colbie has to untangle a cat’s cradle of suspects and motivations—from livid parents and students whose dreams have been crushed to an entire secret Facebook group of spurned lovers.
Suddenly, holiday preparations just got a lot hairier. With the big re-order now on hold and the real killer still at large, Colbie discovers that someone has been grading on a very dangerous curve—and it will take all her newfound sleuthing talent to land safely on her feet.
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The victim, Margo Fenton, was a Carrington family friend, and no one in their circle seems above suspicion. Between client trips to Manhattan and visits to her family in upstate New York, Belinda begins to put the pieces together. But though she’s falling for Stone’s numerous charms, Belinda wonders if she’s cozying up to a killer. And soon, daily contact with a deadly reptile might be the least dangerous part of her life . . .
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What Tati discovers is more than she could have ever imagined possible. Parallel universes exist and her abnormal DNA compels and condemns Tati and her other selves—shy Ana—privileged Tatyana—and on-the-run Tanya, to a lifetime of ricocheting between their parallel lives in the multiverse.
With knowledge of their existence a deadly threat in every universe, the only chance all four have to survive is to work together to take down the scientist responsible: their father.
Alejandro Padilla isn’t superstitious and he doesn’t believe the stories that an old sailor doll in a Key West, Florida, museum is haunted. Robert the Doll might look creepy, but that doesn’t mean the doll is cursed. So Al ignores the tour guide’s warning to ask Robert’s permission before taking the doll’s photograph. But it isn’t long after Al’s field trip to the museum that strange things start happening. Al is quick to dismiss the odd occurrences as coincidence and bad luck . . . that is until they become more frequent and more sinister. Is the doll tormenting Al? And if so, what will Al have to do to get him to stop?
Every state has its own spine-tingling stories of ghosts and mysterious hauntings grounded in its regional history. The Haunted States of America series uses real-life ghost lore as jumping-off points to new, chilling tales. An author’s note provides historical origins and fascinating facts, but beware: sometimes real life is stranger than fiction.
Hana Keller serves up European-style cakes and teas in her family-owned tea house, but when a customer keels over from a poisoned cuppa, Hana and her tea-leaf reading grandmother will have to help catch a killer in the first Hungarian Tea House Mystery from Julia Buckley.
Hana Keller and her family run Maggie’s Tea House, an establishment heavily influenced by the family’s Hungarian heritage and specializing in a European-style traditional tea service. But one of the shop’s largest draws is Hana’s eccentric grandmother, Juliana, renowned for her ability to read the future in the leaves at the bottom of customers’ cups. Lately, however, her readings have become alarmingly ominous and seemingly related to old Hungarian legends…
When a guest is poisoned at a tea event, Juliana’s dire predictions appear to have come true. Things are brought to a boil when Hana’s beloved Anna Weatherley butterfly teacup becomes the center of the murder investigation as it carried the poisoned tea. The cup is claimed as evidence by a handsome police detective, and the pretty Tea House is suddenly endangered. Hana and her family must catch the killer to save their business and bring the beautiful Budapest Butterfly back home where it belongs.
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It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her.
It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don’t dare wander outside the school’s fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.
But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there’s more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.
When seventeen-year-old DEVYN CARTER arrives at school, she expects the day to be as boring and mundane as usual, but when she meets the new, hot substitute teacher, and the even hotter transfer student, Devyn’s life transforms into anything but normal.
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It quickly becomes clear that Devyn’s role in the Order is more than anyone had thought. Pressed into training the skills she never knew she possessed, Devyn finds herself faced with the toughest decision she has ever had to make: leave the Order and return to her life for what little time humanity has left, or give up all she has ever known to assume a role she never chose and risk her life to save the world.
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The Telecom Crisis is an NPA Problem
After interim relief for telecom, structural reforms must follow.
The article originally published in Business Standard on November 7, 2019 was also mirrored on Organizing India Blogspot
The Committee of Secretaries to mitigate financial stress in telecom must act quickly on interim measures for the sector to survive. But is its mere survival sufficient for India’s development and growth? Is it possible to fix telecom in isolation?Our communications needs are very poorly served, although at rock-bottom prices. Is it even possible for our hapless citizens and enterprises to get past shoddy services and productivity foregone, to trade with other countries on a more even footing?
Yes, if we succeed at major structural changes, starting with telecom. But to transform telecom, the government and all of us have to come to the stark realisation that just as finance drives the economy, digitisation and communications have to be at the heart of production and delivery. Telecom and digitisation are strategic enablers for all infrastructure and in all sectors. Leading countries are so far ahead and functioning so effectively that it is difficult for us to imagine. We must want that path, plan for it, and put in the requisite effort.
Simply tweaking overdue payments, tinkering to reduce charges, and plugging along as before isn’t going to get us there. In this sense, the Committee’s charter is too limited. All it can do is assuage the pain, whereas our need is for a revitalised industry to serve our purposes.If the Committee’s scope were broader, could we actually adopt digitisation as our core strategy for development and growth? A study on China, “Telecommunications reforms in China”, about the transformation in policies to make digitisation its development priority, is instructive.1
Their approach to reforms was to balance the government’s aims of universal coverage, governance and control, and efficiency; industry’s profit-seeking; and the people and enterprises’ needs for freer, more rapid communications. This is what we need to do, in a way that works for us.Also, the government, the judiciary, the press and users need to understand and accept that the telecom crisis is part of the larger non-performing assets (NPAs) problem. It has systemic links to NPAs and banking, which links to real estate and construction, electricity and roads, and stable and predictable taxes. Government payment delays and tax terrorism must stop. Business as usual will not resolve NPAs soon to enable growth. These two articles explain why and deserve attention.2
Essentially, entities that take deposits need Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regulation. In a crisis, people with domain expertise and capacity must be appointed to take immediate steps to protect assets and operations, as with Satyam or IL&FS, because seizing/freezing assets often hurts depositors and creditors. A bureaucratic process as with the Punjab & Maharashtra Co-operative bank is likely to result in yet another zombie bank, burning depositors’ money just to stay alive.The Committee’s focus should be on cash flows, modelling cash flows and their timing, not just the present value of discounted flows, or other extraneous emotional, political, or judicial/administrative reasons.
Employment is a legitimate consideration, but has to be sustainable, with timely cash generation. Else, other sources of timely cash support must be arranged, because without sustained cash flows, no gambit or subsidy can succeed (and maintaining unproductive employment will not be possible). Some fixes need major legislative changes to policies.
BSNL & MTNL
On BSNL and MTNL, a recent article sets the context and explains why the revival plan is unrealistic.3 In short, these poorly supported and much-abused enterprises have so much debt that earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation would have to be at least 35 per cent. Governments have used them as market spoilers as with Air India, precipitating unsustainable price wars that gutted the industry.An alternative is to downsize, re-skill as needed, and retain the public sector entities (as one or both) in the role of security-and-public-interest-anchors in infrastructure consortiums. These must be run by the private sector (and in strategic areas, by defence). This will facilitate policies such as assigning spectrum for payment on usage without auctions, and extending Wi-Fi to 60 GHz and 6 GHz (details at: https://organizing-india.blogspot.com/2019/10/extend-tax-cut-logic-to-infrastructure.html, and https://organizing-india.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-great-start-on-wi-fi-reforms.html).
Weak Financial Systems
The Committee needs to apprehend and convey the need to strengthen financial institutions. Financial systems provide second-order infrastructure for productive activity and wellbeing. They need an adequate underlay of first-order, basic infrastructure, comprising communications, energy, water, waste, sewerage, and transport, leaving aside housing and the basics of security, and law and order. While most of us take these for granted, there should be no doubt about how critical these attributes are, and that they are being eroded and increasingly at risk because of social disorder and economic inadequacies. In addition, basic health care and education are essential adjuncts for the supply of trainable people to operate these sectors.
Until some years ago, despite weak infrastructure, financial systems were among India’s real strengths, although eroded periodically by disruptions resulting in NPAs. However, there was strength in the professional capacity of this sector that held up in spite of the pressures. Over time, these institutions have been severely degraded, through laxity, complicity, pressures for evergreening, the abrupt imposition of credit quality and NPAs, the extent of frauds because of lax or complicit supervision and the reputational damage, the buffeting from demonetisation and pressures to cross-sell products such as insurance. Governments need to understand this and support building professionalism, avoiding melas and waivers.
The scope of the Committee could be expanded to set the objectives of telecom and digitisation in the interests of governance, industry, and users, and to outline next steps. They could consider the experience of China and others such as Sweden for this vast effort, while addressing linkages and NPA issues. Perhaps, they could be exemplars by setting the tone for a national approach that is not departmental and becomes bipartisan, and helps to move away from our abrasive, confrontational politics that leads to deadlocks.
Becky P.Y. Loo, October 2004: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227426547_Telecommunications_reforms_in_China_Towards_an_analytical_framework
Debashis Basu, October 27, 2019: https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/how-to-fix-the-pmc-bank-crisis-119101400006_1.html October 13, 2019: https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/lessons-from-pmc-why-govt-is-responsible-for-co-operative-bank-crises-119102700620_1.html
Rahul Khullar, October 31, 2019: https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/don-t-bet-on-bsnl-mtnl-s-revival-119103100040_1.html
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Muslims and Christians throng Albania streets to greet Pope
Yahoo – AFP, Jean-Louis De La Vaissiere, 21 Sep 2014
Pope Francis gives a press conference aboard the plane carrying him to Tirana,
on September 21, 2014 (AFP Photo/Filippo Monteforte)
Tirana (AFP) - Christians and Muslims thronged the Albanian capital Sunday to greet Pope Francis who arrived in the mainly Muslim country for a one-day visit to praise it as a model of religious harmony.
The pontiff's plane landed at Tirana's Mother Teresa airport at 0700 GMT, where Prime Minister Edi Rama welcomed Francis for his first European visit outside of Italy.
Portraits of Catholic priests, nuns and monks
persecuted during the Communist period
are displayed on a main street of Tirana
on September 19, 2014 (AFP Photo/
Armend Nimani)
"Albania is a country that has suffered so much," the pope told journalists on his flight from Rome. "But it has managed to find peace between its different religions, which is a good sign for the world."
The packed 11-hour trip comes at a sensitive time amid turmoil in the Middle East and rising intolerance in Europe.
Authorities stepped up security to its highest level across the Balkan country after warnings from Iraq that Islamic State jihadists could be planning an attack on the Catholic leader.
Tens of thousands of Albanians -- many of them Muslim and Orthodox -- had already gathered in Mother Teresa square in central Tirana where the pope will later celebrate Mass. Some waved welcoming banners while others chanted: "Papa Francesco! Papa Francesco!"
Yellow-and-white Vatican flags flew alongside Albanian ones in the main streets of the capital while vast portraits of Catholic priests and nuns persecuted under communism -- when Albania became the world's first atheist state -- were strung across roads.
"The Catholic Church in Albania is a martyr church and with the visit of Pope Francis it will be known throughout the world," said Aida Agustini, 51, one of the faithful waiting in the square.
Vatican and Albanian flags decorate the main
entrance to Tirana, on September 20, 2014
(AFP Photo/Gent Shkullaku)
Beside her Muslim Hysen Doli, 85, who had come to the square with 10 members of his family, said, "We belong to another religion but have come here out of respect to get the pope's blessing."
Francis had said he chose to visit the impoverished country for his first European trip outside Italy because of the example it set of religious co-existence.
While the Vatican earlier this year voiced support for US air strikes in Iraq to defend persecuted Christians, Francis has made dialogue between religions a cornerstone of his papacy.
'We can all work together!'
In August, Francis said that his presence in Albania "will be a way of saying to everyone, 'See, we can all work together!'"
He will later have meeting with the heads of the country's other religious communities including Muslim, Orthodox, Bektashi, Jewish and Protestant leaders.
The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics also wants to honour those who suffered under former communist dictator Enver Hoxha, during whose rule priests and imams were persecuted and many churches and mosques razed.
Between 1945 and 1985, 111 priests, 10 seminarians and seven bishops died in detention or were executed.
Nuns walk on September 20, 2014 on
Tirana'’s main boulevard adorned with
portraits of Catholic clerics killed or
persecuted by the Communist Regime
Nearly 2,000 Orthodox and Catholic churches were destroyed or transformed into cinemas, theatres and dance halls, according to Francis, who said the successful rebirth of the Catholic faith after such persecution made Albania a place where "I felt like I should go".
The revival of Catholicism is due in part to the popularity of Mother Teresa, an ethnic Albanian born in neighbouring Macedonia. Yet only about 15 percent of the population are Catholic, with Muslims in the majority with 56 percent, and the Orthodox making up 11 percent.
In a country with one of the youngest populations in Europe, the Vatican will be hoping to tap into a source for converts in a continent gripped by secularism.
The 77-year-old pontiff will also meet Albanian President Bujar Nishani and visit orphans during the trip.
It is the second papal visit to Albania. Pope John Paul II travelled there the year after the collapse of its communism regime in 1992.
During that visit he paid tribute to "martyrs of the faith" and created four new bishops, including Michel Koliqi -- then 91 years old -- who had spent 21 years in detention.
Heightened security
The country of three million will likely be looking for the popular pope's support in its bid to become a member of the European Union.
People wait at a bus stop next to a poster
showing Pope Francis on September 20,
2014 in Tirana (AFP Photo/Gent Shkullaku)
"It is a strong signal and an encouragement to ramp up our move towards European integration," Don Gjergi Meta, the Church's spokesman in Albania, told Vatican Radio.
The Vatican has insisted it has not increased security for the trip, but Albania's interior ministry said police have set up 29 checkpoints in downtown Tirana, where most of the pope's activities were planned.
Some Vatican watchers fear Francis has made himself a target by speaking out against the Islamic State organisation.
But the Argentine pontiff, who loves to mingle with the crowds, will use the same open-topped vehicle he uses in Saint Peter's Square.
Albania last month began sending weapons and ammunition to Kurdish forces fighting IS militants in Iraq, and security sources in the country have dismissed fears that home-grown militants might be planning an attack.
Pope Francis condemns religious extremism during Albania visit
“. New Tolerance
Look for a softening of finger pointing and an awakening of new tolerance. There will remain many systems for different cultures, as traditions and history are important to sustaining the integrity of culture. So there are many in the Middle East who would follow the prophet and they will continue, but with an increase of awareness. It will be the increase of awareness of what the prophet really wanted all along - unity and tolerance. The angel in the cave instructed him to "unify the tribes and give them the God of Israel." You're going to start seeing a softening of intolerance and the beginning of a new way of being.
Eventually, this will create an acknowledgement that says, "You may not believe the way we believe, but we honor you and your God. We honor our prophet and we will love you according to his teachings. We don't have to agree in order to love." How would you like that? The earth is not going to turn into one belief system. It never will, for Humans don't do that. There must be variety, and there must be the beauty of cultural differences. But the systems will slowly update themselves with increased awareness of the truth of a new kind of balance. So that's the first thing. Watch for these changes, dear ones. ...."
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A Comparison Between Enterprise Social Network And Intranet
Digital Workplace Intranet
As most organizations are forced to do more with less and compete on the basis of how innovative they are within their respective industries, then making a decision on which digital workplace platform to implement can either improve or impede the speed at which teams can communicate and collaborate with each other.
In general, most organizations have implemented some form of Intranet. More recently, with consumer driven social media concepts making their way into the enterprise, and with the mainstream adoption of cloud based solutions, the alternative to the traditional Intranet is the Enterprise Social Network (ESN). So what’s the difference between an Intranet and an Enterprise Social Network?
Intranets are designed to manage operational and transactional content that enables an organization to run. They are secure, regimented environments which are usually implemented and managed by IT. They have been carefully planned and deployed using stringent management methodologies placed around how content and documents are published, who has access to them and what sections of the Intranet can be freely browsed or require a set of pre-defined privileges to access. Intranets are typically large, complex software applications that require a team of experts and months (sometimes years) to go from project commencement to go-live. They can have high implementation and maintenance costs, depending on a variety of attributes, and are usually owned and managed by a select few.
Enterprise Social Networks are open platforms that democratize the way information is published and shared across the enterprise. They are focused on fostering conversations between staff and encourage the ability to share content for the purpose of discoverability. ESN’s leverage the network effects that social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have made popular, and have integrated native apps that enable staff to access the platform no matter what device they are using at work. The concept of ESN’s is that the collective experience of everyone within the organization is more valuable than the content prepared and published by a select few.
Making a decision on which digital workplace platform to implement can either improve or impede the speed at which teams can communicate and collaborate with each other.
Intranets are usually on-premise monsters demanding multiple servers to separate database, application and content. They are deployed, configured, controlled and managed solely by a select few within IT, and they burden business users with complex permissions resulting in complicated authoring processes that are far from being user friendly.
Enterprise Social Networks largely exist in the cloud, removing the need for organizations to invest in the time and effort to plan, procure and prepare infrastructure to operate them. The flexibility of deployment models allows organizations to experiment with how functionality and services can be delivered to different users within the organization.
Nearly all Intranet and Enterprise Social Network platforms follow the general licensing model of a ‘per seat’ license, meaning each person in the organization who will access the software from their ‘seat’ will need to pay.
Historically the common garden variety Intranet can range from a few thousand dollars, through to enterprise Intranet platforms costing several million dollars depending on the number of user seats required. Some Intranet software platforms can also attract pricing dimensions relating to the number of CPU’s the server has and whether the users are accessing the software using different devices.
Enterprise Social Networks have adopted a more liberal approach to licensing. Most support simplified pricing models based on the number of seats required, and provide flexibility in purchasing the solution; pay month by month, or pay upfront for a year.
As organizations compete for talent in order to build the innovative workplaces of tomorrow, the collaboration software at the heart of the organization needs to be as every bit innovative as the vision the organization has to compete and win. As such, it’s not uncommon for a traditional Intranet and an Enterprise Social Network to exist side by side as they both provide legitimate use cases where the combination can deliver enormous value for staff.
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1 March 2005 Fecundity–Body Size Relationship and Other Reproductive Aspects of Streblote panda (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae)
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Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 98(2):191-196 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2005)098[0191:FSRAOR]2.0.CO;2
The relationship between fecundity and body size in females of the moth Streblote panda Hübner was studied in laboratory by using both virgin and mated females. Strong relationships among fecundity and pupal weight, adult weight, and forewing length were found. The number of eggs in virgin and mated females was similar; mean egg load (number of eggs per female) was 278.4 ± 8.7 (SE), suggesting that S. panda females eclose with all their eggs fully developed. Larger females were more fecund than smaller ones. Mated females laid eggs soon after emergence without any obvious preoviposition period, and no relationship between female body size and age-specific fecundity or female longevity were found. Male size did not show any effects on egg size or hatchability. Data suggest that determinants of larval development such as temperature and food plant may influence fecundity through their effects on pupal weight and adult body size. All studied reproductive traits are characteristic of the capital breeding strategy.
D. Calvo and J. Ma Molina "Fecundity–Body Size Relationship and Other Reproductive Aspects of Streblote panda (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae)," Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98(2), 191-196, (1 March 2005). https://doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2005)098[0191:FSRAOR]2.0.CO;2
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According to Vijayarani et
According to Vijayarani et. al (2015) stated that the IDS meant to be a software application which monitors the network or system activities and finds if any malicious operations occur. IDS are implemented in the network to detect the presence of intruders especially those that manage or trying to bypass the security defense layer such as a firewall, anti-virus, and access control so that preventive measures can be taken. Based on Hamdan et. al (2010), IDS attempt to detect computer attacks by inspecting data records observed by processes on the same network. Generally, these attacks are divided into two categories, host-based attacks and network-based attacks. Host based attack detection routines normally use system call data from an audit process that tracks all system calls made on behalf of each user on a particular machine. Network-based attack detection routines usually use network traffic data from a network packet sniffer.
Table 2.2 Comparison of HIDS and NIDS performance (Xavier, 2016)
Performance in terms of : Host-Based IDS
(HIDS) Network-Based IDS
(NIDS)
Intruder deterrence Strong deterrence for inside intruders Strong deterrence for outside intruders
Threat response time Weak real time response but performs better for a long-term attack Strong response time against outside intruders
Assessing damage Excellent in determining extent of damage Very weak in determining extent of damage
Intruder prevention Good at preventing inside intruders Good at preventing outside intruders
Threat anticipation Good at trending and detecting suspicious behavior patterns Good at trending and detecting suspicious behavior patterns
i) IDS Approach
IDS appliances can be used for auditing purposes. In other words, they just detect if particular software or protocol is in use on the observed network. There are three commonly used detection mechanisms available:
• Anomaly-based
Anomaly-based is a detection method commonly used for protocols because all the valid forms of a protocol are known and clearly defined in RFCs. Deviations from those forms are then identified as anomalies. A drawback of this method is obvious just because the traffic follows defined standards, the content cannot be considered as not malicious.
• Behavior-based
Behavior-based is a mechanism which watches the ongoing network activity and looks for suspicious events. In other words, behavior-based detection is base lined on everyday activity and looks for anything that deviates. This technology allows detecting any difference, including unknown issues such as zero-day attacks.
• Signature-based
This detection mechanism compares event patterns against known attack patterns, signatures, stored in the appliance database. Consequently, its detection capability is limited only to known signatures and malicious activity. The similarity to antivirus software solutions comes to mind. Besides, the regular updates are crucial.
ii) Analysis Approach
Based on Ayman et. al (2017) classify malware analysis methods by the mode of analysis whether it is static, dynamic or a mix from both (hybrid). The difference between static and dynamic analysis is shown in table below.
Static analysis is analyzing the software without executing it, it looks at the file itself and tries to extract information about the structure and the data in the file such that the time the program is compiled, which compiler is used, information about structure and data in the file can be determined. While, the dynamic analysis is testing the program by executing it at real time and trying to find errors in the program while running, there are many ways to dynamically analyze a suspicious software as described in the following sections.
Static analysis can be done either on the source code or the binary executable. The issue is that when the code is compiled from source code to binary code some information will be lost and the analysis of the code will be very complicated. While the good point here is that static analysis can identify specific coding errors that can lead to problems at run-time like crashes or memory-leaks. Static analysis can be classified into either basic or advanced static analysis.
Table 2.3 Comparison between Static Analysis and Dynamic Analysis Methods (Ayman, 2017)
Factors Static Analysis Dynamic Analysis
Time Less time if automated but more time if conducted manually More time is needed
Input Source code, Byte code of interpreted
language or binary code of a compiled application Memory snapshots and run-time data
consumption More cost efficient Needs more resources in memory and processing
Accuracy Less than dynamic analysis Better because it detects run-time vulnerability
Advantages • Faster and code weaknesses are found earlier in the development life cycle
• More cost efficient than dynamic analysis
• Static analysis analyzes the source code so it checks all possible malware executions • Find vulnerabilities at runtime
• More flexible
• More accurate
• More attractive than static analysis because it is concerned with actual code execution
Limitations • Cannot find vulnerabilities at run-time
• Hard to perform Analyzes only a single malware at a time
(d) Introduction to Machine Learning
Machine learning (ML) was introduced in the late 1950’s as a technique for artificial intelligence (AI) by Yue, 2015. ML is the use of algorithms within a program to learn from collected data. Within ML there are various algorithms that exist to learn from data. ML algorithms include clustering, classification, pattern recognition, correlation and statistical techniques.
i) Machine learning (ML) Algorithms
According to Liang et. al 2018, Machine learning techniques including supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning have been widely applied to improve network security, such as authentication, access control, anti-jamming offloading and malware detections.
Firstly, supervised learning consists of support vector machine (SVM), naive Bayes, K- nearest neighbor (K-NN), neural network, deep neural network (DNN) and random forest. IoT devices can use SVM to detect network intrusion and spoofing attacks, apply K-NN in the network intrusion and malware detections and utilize neural network to detect network intrusion and DoS attacks. Naive Bayes can be applied in the intrusion detection and random forest classifier can be used to detect malwares. IoT devices with sufficient computation and memory resources can utilize DNN to detect spoofing attacks.
Secondly, unsupervised learning does not require labeled data in the supervised learning and investigates the similarity between the unlabeled data to cluster them into different groups. Lastly, reinforcement learning techniques such as Q-learning, Dyna-Q, post-decision state (PDS) and deep Q-network (DQN) enable an IoT device to choose the security protocols as well as the key parameters against various attacks via trial-and-error.
ii) Machine learning (ML) Techniques
According to Koroniotis et.al, 2017, there are four types of machine learning techniques for IoT botnets detection. The ML consists of Association Rule Mining, Decision Tree, Artificial Neural Network and Naive Bayes. A brief description of the machine learning is provided first, then this project also provides an analysis of results obtained based on the accuracy and false alarm rate.
Association Rule Mining (ARM) and Decision Tree (DT) are the classification algorithm. The Association Rule Mining is performed by generating rules of a form while Decision Tree produces a tree-like structure to determine the class chosen for a record. In addition, the Artificial Neural Network also known as ANN is a classification model which was based on the idea of the human neurons while Naive Bayes classifies a record into a specific class.
By combining the four condition such as True Positive (TP), True Negative (TN), False Positive (FP), False Negative (FN) values to create two metrics, namely Accuracy and False Alarm Rate (FAR) which can use to evaluate the techniques. These two metrics are calculated as follows:
• Accuracy represents the probability that a record is correctly identified, either as attack, or as normal traffic. The calculation of Accuracy (Overall Success Rate) is OSR= (TN+TP)/(TP+FP+TN+FN)
• False Alarm Rate (FAR) represents the probability that a record gets incorrectly classified. The calculation of the False Alarm Rate is FAR = FP+FN/(FP+FN+TP+TN)
According to (Koroniotis, 2017), show that DT techniques was the best at distinguishing between Botnet and normal network traffic. This algorithm makes use of Information Gain, to pick the feature which best splits the data based on the classification feature, during construction of the tree and at every node. The figure below showed that DT had the highest accuracy out of all the algorithms that were tested at 93.23%, and the lowest FAR at 6.77%. ARM was the second-best classifier, having an accuracy of close to 86% and FAR just over twice that of the DT. The Naïve Bayes classifier, which relies on probability to classify records in classes was third, with 20% less accuracy and close to 21% more false alarms than the DT. Finally, the Artificial Neural Network was the least accurate out of the four algorithms that we tested, with accuracy and false alarm rate for this classifier showing a 30% differentiation from the C4,5 algorithm.
Figure 2.13 Accuracy vs FAR of ML Techniques (Koroniotis, 2017)
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REVIEW: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Oak Park Festival)
Posted on August 3, 2010 by Scotty Zacher
A Labour of Love in Oak Park
Oak Park Festival Theatre presents
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Jack Hickey
at Austin Gardens, 100 block North Forest, Oak Park (map)
through August 21 | tickets: $20-$25 | more info
Okay – sitting in the park on a buggy summer night is not exactly my idea of fun. There has to be something of worth to make this kind of sacrifice. I took a loaner lawn chair from the box office and was grateful to see that the park provided insect repellant for a voluntary donation. I gratefully slipped a buck in the jar and took my place on the lawn in Austin Gardens. There was a lovely pre-performance from the newly formed Oak Park Opera Company. A soprano and tenor performed selections from Verdi and Puccini to warm up the crowd. The music was quite beautiful and set the mood for a very cultured evening.
The cast from the play mixed about on the perimeter of the stage, playing bocce in the characters of men at court. When the action began it flowed smoothly as if they really were bystanders in the park.
Love’s Labour Lost is not as popular as other works written by Shakespeare, despite the facts that it is one of his funnier plays. The language is less convoluted and ornate – but it is that simplicity that makes this a deceptive pleasure. The audience gets more of a voyeuristic look into life and the social games that may have occurred in the Elizabethan court.
Love’s Labour’s Lost is one of Shakespeare’s earlier comedies, setting the bar for future farcical comedies full of ribaldry and mistaken identity. Comedy requires a cast to work hard without appearing to try. Kudos to the cast of the Oak Park Festival Theatre for pulling off this feat with grace and skill in spite of a sound system that battled the seemingly endless parade of air traffic overhead and blaring night insects below. Also, a little program coordination would be in order so that the actors don’t have to compete with amplified street performances a block over.
I was able to tune out the distractions for the most part as the play unfolded. Adam Breske as King Ferdinand shone as the pompous monarch setting an impossible social standard on his young attendants. Joseph Wycoff played the Lord Biron with sparkle and a wink to Walter Matthau. Mr. Wycoff has a great face for the frustration and trickery that ensues. It is Lord Biron who is the last of the king’s court to agree to a vow of celibacy and intense scholarship. It is Wycoff who shows the best and funniest reaction as the one who admits his own hypocrisy last when all are revealed as having broken their vows.
The performance of Stephen Spencer as Don Adriano de Amado – a fantastical Spaniard – is a wonderful mix of buffoonery with Kabuki subtlety. Mr. Spencer is also a wonderful speaker of Shakespeare’s rhythms with sharp and well-placed inflections. No pun is left unturned without perfect inflection hitting the target each time. Charlie Cascino makes brief but crazy energetic appearances as Country Wench Jaquenetta. Ms. Cascino’s mischievous smile and frisky demeanor are perfect for scenes with the clown Costard, played with equally great skill by Bryan James Wakefield.
Richard Henzel plays the character of Holofernes, a character is pivotal to the wonderful confusion and double takes that ensue with letter exchanges and identities. Henzel is a Chicago theater veteran and takes firm command in this role. The scenes between Holofernes and Sir Nathaniel are comic gems. Two of the audience’s favorite performers are the thoroughly enjoyable Skyler Schrempp as Don Armado’s attendant Moth and Robert Tobin as Dull the Constable. They both have a gift for physical comedy and verbal timing.
Love’s Labour Lost is not one of Shakespeare’s best works in regards to women roles. Katherine Keberlein is regal as the Princess of France, but she and the other ladies in waiting do not match the frenetic energy of the people in King Ferdinand’s court. This is partially due in part to Shakespeare’s interpretation or society women of the late 1500s, as well as the also the directing choice of reigning in the female cast a bit more than the male cast members, which is a wise choice by Artistic Director Jack Hickey.
All in all, Shakespeare Under The Stars is a great idea. You will have to make some concessions for the environmental sounds that hinder full enjoyment, but a night out in a wonderful town with a big city feel more than makes up for this.
Rating: ★★½
Love’s Labour Lost plays through August 21st at Austin Gardens in Oak Park. The park is a block away from both the Metra and the Green Line. If you take the Metra please pay attention to the schedule as it has an intermittent nature (Metra schedule). It could happen that you end up in Wheaton like I did. Go early to catch the great sidewalk sales and community energy that is Oak Park. Be aware that Oak Park basically closes the sidewalks at 9:00, so either arrive in Oak Park early enough to dine at a restaurant before the performance, or bring a meal and a beverage (wine is allowed) because there is nada après theatre to be had. Check online at www.oakparkfestival.org for availability and ticket information. Bring your insect repellant or at least leave a tip in the donation jar if you use the park’s resources.
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Just for Fun: Movie Review – Ghina
GHINA!
Every year, over 10,000 Chinese immigrants arrive in the oil- and gold-rich West African nation of Ghana, all with the aspiration to hit it rich. But what does such a huge wave of immigration followed up by the Chinese government’s low-cost loans and aid mean for Ghana? In Ghina (pronounced Gee-na), director Christine Choy attempts to answer that question by looking at the inter-personal relationships between a few Ghanaians and their Chinese bosses. But by focusing only on these select impressions and not examining the bigger macro issues at play, Choy fails to achieve her goal and instead, the movie is a disjointed, hodge-podge of interviews and scenes that merely perpetuates stereotypes of the Ghanaians rather than enlighten the viewer to any cohesive point.
Ghina opens with the Chinese construction of a hospital in the capital. As we learn from the English-speaking Chinese boss, this hospital is a donation to the Ghanaian people. While the undercurrent is clear – that China is likely getting something in exchange for this “donation” – the movie fails to ever explain what that exchange is. There is vague reference to “Chinese illegal mining” but the movie never explains just how illegal and damaging to the environment that mining is to a country that still largely relies on agriculture and thus is sensitive to environmental pollution.
And that is the major problem with Ghina. It barely scratches the surface and as a result, fails to explain, either on the micro or the macro level the complexities of China’s investment in Ghana. It is not all bad. As Ghina points out, roads are being paved, hospitals are being built and ambitious Ghanaians are learning new skills and technology. But at what cost? And ultimately, at what benefit? Is China just another colonial-like power in Ghana, intent to strip it of its resources and go, leaving Ghana worse off than before? Or is it committed to the development of Ghana, where the country and its people can share in the prosperity?
Ghina also fails to adequately address the fact that many of these new Chinese construction projects aren’t job-creators for Ghana. Instead,
Chinese boss leading a work group in Ghana
the Chinese company often imports the Chinese labor with the construction materials, giving only a few jobs to the locals.
Only in one scene – where what appears to be an NYU professor traveling with the film crew interacts with one of the Ghanaian professors (who judging from his wardrobe is doing quite well) – do we see the kernel of the greatness that Ghina could have become. In that exchange, the Ghanaian professor defends the Chinese actions, acknowledging that the Chinese are only taking advantage of loopholes that the Ghana government allows. And on some level that is true. However, in the case of Chinese mining in Ghana, these aren’t loopholes. These are largely illegal actions that since the summer of 2013, the Ghanaian government has begun to crackdown on, deporting thousands of Chinese immigrants. The movie fails to point that these referenced loopholes are actual illegalities.
Unfortunately, with an issue like Chinese investment in Africa, it is difficult to tell a coherent story just by looking at a few vignettes of individual people’s lives. While Ghina attempts to do that, it largely demonstrates that this type of storytelling ends up telling little to no story at all. Instead, check out the Guardian’s 15 minute video on illegal mining in Ghana for a more nuanced understanding of the Chinese in Ghana.
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Pakistan: National Accountability Bureau recovered $2 billion corrupt money
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The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is an autonomous and constitutionally established anti-corruption agency in Pakistan. It is headed by Justice Javed Iqbal as its chairman. Pakistan’s parliamentary committee that monitors corruption cases has criticized The NAB for its unwillingness to prosecute former Army officers involved in corruption scandals.
The NAB has been criticized by the Supreme Court for mismanagement. Justice Jawad S. Khawaja of the Supreme Court criticized the institution’s plea bargain practice under which the agency negotiates an out-of-court settlement and the suspect is made to sign a confession and deposit funds of an amount determined by NAB. The suspect goes free after that. The judge also said that some NAB officials warn influential suspects before arrest to allow them sufficient time to escape.
The NAB has so far recovered $2 billion from the corrupt elements and deposited into the national exchequer, said Justice Jawad, in a high-profile meeting at the NAB Headquarters yesterday. He said that the Supreme Court handed over investigations of Panama Papers, 56 Punjab Public Limited companies, 435 offshore companies and fake accounts case to NAB.
NAB apprehended 640 culprits and files 610 corruption references relating to the cases given by the Supreme Court. Right now, 1,210 references involving corruption of $5.6 billion are at different stages of hearing at various accountability courts, he revealed, and added that NAB has so far received over 408,431 applications, authorized 14,069 complaint verifications, 9,400 inquiries, 4,122 investigations besides arresting 3,813 persons and filing 3,488 corruption references in different accountability courts.
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It was instagram love at first sight: We just had to commission Kirstie Gilleade for our all important tool in kids yoga: a signature colouring page depicting common emotions.
She did such a fantastic job, and the Emotions Coloring Page by Mayblossoming for Creative Kimiyo is now available in three languages - just go to our Free Resources page to learn more!
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Get to know this talented young Brit by reading on!
Where are you based and where are you originally from?
I’m originally from a small town called Blackburn, but now I’ve been living in sunny Manchester (when it likes to be) for the last three years. It’s been such a vibrant city to live in, you’re never short of anything to do here.
What is your favourite colour?
My two favourite colours have to be royal blue and fuchsia pink. Yep, complete opposite colours on the spectrum.
What is one of the most memorable moments at art school that influenced your path?
I studied graphic design when I was at college, as I thought I really wanted to be a graphic designer. Yet when I was accepted into my university, I changed my course at the last second to animation and illustration. It just felt like the right move for me. I was more passionate to learn about illustration andbecoming a children’s illustrator, as one of my big goals to tick off my bucket list is to illustrate achildren’s book one day.
What are some really cool and amazing projects you recently realised?
When I won to have a place at the Launchpad stationery show in Manchester for new stationery designers. This was a massive achievement for me as I never thought I would have my work on display at a trade show. What made it even more special winning a place is that it landed on my birthday.
Not only that, last year this led me to being one of the finalists for the 30 under 30 for stationery, which I just couldn’t believe to see.
Was there ever a time when you suddenly knew you would become an artist, or was that path clear early on in your life?
I think the fact I’ve always enjoyed drawing from a young age, this made me want to continue on with it and see where it could lead me. When I look back through my old sketchbooks, I just love seeinghow far I’ve come in my drawing style and that people trust me enough to design something special for them.
What is characteristic for your style?
I never really think about this too much, as I’m still trying to hone my own style. But the one thing I absolutely enjoy doing, is applying the texture to my illustrations. This is the part where I can really give my illustrations character and bring them to life, with the different brushes I use within Photoshop.
Who are your design heroes?
This question is tricky for me as I do have quite a few, but to narrow it down, my favourites are Oliver Jeffers who I’ve had the chance to meet in person and Benji Davies.
The children’s books they have created are such a joy to read. Each one touches on real life situations, but it’s the way they have gotten the characters to tell these stories are done in such a charming way, for both adults and children to understand.
What is your greater source of inspiration?
I love getting inspiration from children’s books, as much as I do like reading them, I just love delvinginto the illustrations. I’m fascinated to see what type of colours are used for the characters and backgrounds, and how everything comes together to create the tone of the story.
Any life hack you can share as yogi or artist?
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Suicide: FG Restricts Sale, Use Of Sniper
The government’s directive, which will be enforced by the National Food, Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC), was made public in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The federal government yesterday placed a restriction on the sale and use of the fatal agro-chemical product, Sniper.
Since Sniper hits the Nigerian market, it has become the favourite of most Nigerians, especially the poor for killing mosquitoes and other pests.
Similarly, the product has found its way into the hands of youths, who have continued to use it to commit suicide.
In recent times, several Nigerian youths have committed suicide at the least provocation including failure in examinations, jilt by loved ones, using Sniper.
It is against this background that the federal government yesterday directed that the product be withdrawn from the open market with immediate effect.
By the order, the agency will ensure that all agro-chemical dealers and other stakeholders remove Sniper from both the open market and supermarkets across the country with immediate effect.
NAFDAC’s director, Veterinary Medicine and Allied Products Directorate, Dr Bukar Usman, stated this at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan.
Usman, who spoke at the launch of a new herbicide for cassava farmers, “Lifeline”, produced by UPL, Springfield Agro and IITA, explained that the agency had asked agro-dealers to stop the sale of the product in the open market and supermarkets.
He said that Sniper is an agro-cultural product meant for use only in the farms and not for households.
For the full enforcement of the restriction, he charged manufacturers and dealers to cooperate with NAFDAC to mop up the 100ml size of the product, which was cheap and easy to acquire.
Usman said that the directive was not an outright ban on the product but a restriction of its use and availability to farms alone, adding that all agro-chemicals meant for farms should not be used in households.
“There are appropriate products for the control of mosquitoes and other household pests” he said.
Reacting to the development, the president, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, told LEADERSHIP that NAFDAC has a responsibility to safeguard the health of Nigerians.
According to him, if a product that is supposed to be used for vectors and diseases is being used by humans to kill themselves, it behooves NAFDAC to take action.
He, however, said that while NAFDAC is taking the measure, the government holds it a duty to find out why more Nigerians are committing suicide.
Ohuabunwa said: “If you ban this product, what else are they going to use. Is NAFDAC going to keep banning products? It’s important to try and find out what it is that is making people, especially the younger ones to commit suicide so we don’t end up banning everything that is available.”
Also, a family physician with the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital and former chairman of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Chira Obiora, said that though the move was commendable, “it is not the solution to the problem.”
Obiora said: “A lot of people drink a lot of things when they want to commit suicide. Withdrawing Sniper does not make it not to be seen. There are several other things that can be taken to commit suicide.
“There are positive uses of Sniper insecticide, banning it is not the approach. If you want to solve a problem, you will solve it from the root. When people jump into the river, will you go and dry up the river. It is not the right thing to do so that we don’t end up increasing the rate of depression by also causing depression on the people that are importing Sniper.”
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A Drinking Story
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Happy Streaming Days
December 27, 2018 October 6, 2018
Written by Jay Matthews
The presents are opened. The boxes are in the trash. The returns are piling up because even thinking about going back to the mall (or the post office for gifts bought online) is still just waaayyy too stressful.
So with the kids (and lucky adults) off until after New Year there is one option open to everyone: Netflix and chill. Or Hulu and chill. Or Prime and chill. And honestly, that’s where you’re going to find the best TV showcasing some of Hollywood’s hottest stars.
If it’s John Krasinski in Jack Ryan or Elizabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale, Hollywood A-Listers are signing up for series TV work.
Swimming Up Stream
“Streaming in general and Netflix in particular, has led this charge,” Michael Douglas told The Cocktail. “And there’s never been an easier time for actors to go between feature films and television.”
Just a few years ago, this would have been unheard of! Once a star “graduated” from television to the silver screen, there was no looking back. And if they did return to a television series, they always got sympathetic stares from their co-workers!
But Michael, who has a new series on Netflix, The Kominsky Method, says streamers have changed the game. “A large reason is the movies I used to do, character driven, small, indie pictures. And I had two or three of them, pictures you guys never saw. King of California, Solitary Man. Pictures I really liked that got no release, theatrical release at all. Worked my butt off for nothing. I was getting a little disappointed.”
Kelsey Grammar, who did a movie, Like Father, on Netflix in August, says the streamers are able to offer opportunities that networks and cable services can’t. “If you’ve got a passion and a plank, basically, which is the old saying about doing stage work, you can go make something and that’s what Netflix has done for people. and our industry.”
Douglas likens it to making a mini-movie. “So this format, for a lot of film people, has been fantastic. Half hour comedies like Kominsky Method, hour shows, or movies. No commercials This is as close to making a thirty, thirty-five minute movie, can be twenty-five minutes, as you get.” Also the fact that they essentially do half-seasons (8-12 episodes) makes it much easier to commit. Networks are still making talent slog through 22 episode season. It’s so much, it drove Damon Wayans to abandon his show, Lethal Weapon, midway through season three.
A Second Life
It’s also a place for shows to find a whole new audience, as Kristen Bell learned. “I am on a show called The Good Place. And the backlog of episodes went on Netflix and our audience base, tenfold. Exponentially grew. Our show is that much more popular the following season.”
And that’s just for a network show. And we all know movies and TV shows come and go each month. But original content like Kominsky Method or Like Father will soon be the mainstays of streamers. And those will be available 24/7 forever.
And original content is even more important because each media giant wants to launch a streaming service of its own. Disney already plans to pull its content from Netflix when it launches its own streaming service with the massive Disney archives which is also absorbing 21st Century FOX’s library.
AT&T just bought Time Warner and wants to put that content, along with boutique content provider HBO, on its own platform.
So if NetPrimeHu is going to survive it will mean sustained investment in original programming.
Worth The Risk
Even though Netflix has been around for years, it’s still defining itself. And that is what appeals to some stars, including Bell. Kristen told us “They’re not yet defined. They haven’t yet defined who they are so they can be a lot riskier. Whereas like network television has defined what their audience is. They take a lot of risks. They green light crazy projects that otherwise wouldn’t have found a home. And then they turn out to be Stranger Things.”
We agree, Stranger Things have happened!
Kelsey says the high risks are already yielding high rewards. “I think it’s great. The amount of content that they’re nurturing and producing is a boon to our industry. For people who are just starting our, for people who are established.”
“So it’s joyful. It’s exciting,” Douglas told us, “and I don’t quite know how Netflix is doing it to the extent that they are. I can only speak to the extent of Chuck and our team, and what a great job they’ve done in these first eight episodes. But Netflix has jumped out there, so many hours and so many episodes, and seems to bring a lot of quality to the screen.”
The Critic’s Cocktail Recommendation
It’s too late for egg nog and too early for champagne. Try a Hot Toddy. Hopefully you have a good friend who gave you a good bottle of scotch or whisky this holiday season. If not, you must do two things: 1) Head to the liquor store 2) Re-evaluate your friends.
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Sharing with you the weird, wonderful, and just plain brilliant projects from the world of Crowd Funding
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Posted on December 29, 2014 December 29, 2014 by crowdedoutblog
Crowd funded film projects come in all shapes & sizes. From big budget with celebrity backing to creative indies doing things differently crowd funding has been able to see an explosion of creativity weaning film making off big studio funding.
Projects based around causes and campaigning can find it hard to find traditional sources of funding which has led to some great projects looking to crowd source their funding.
Here is a list of 5 documentaries looking to change the way you see the world, which we think you’ll love.
TRANSINDIA
Following the moving stories of transgender communities in India, from acceptance in the 1800s to persecution during modern times, Transindia hopes to shed some light on a part of Indian culture rarely talked about.
Looking for a modest budget of just £5000 the projects offering rewards ranging from postcards and downloads to personalised videos and credits. With just over 40 days left of the campaign (from the time this was posted) your support would go a long way.
In the film-makers words:
“My Documentary aims to capture a positive exploration on their lives, culture, beliefs and most importantly their unity. Why have they become ostracised? What do they do for a living? I want to find the answers to these several questions, seeking the ultimate truth.
“Transindia aims to capture their spark of unity and a sense of confidence in their sexuality. Subjectively exploring their identity, culture and truly seeing them as people – to not only observe but to absorb.”
WRITTEN OFF: THE SHORT BEAUTIFUL LIFE OF MATT EDWARDS
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This projects seeks to change the conversation around addiction, letting you see it through the life and experience of Matt Edwards thanks to the journals he left behind.
This is a bold and refreshing take on an international debate around substance use, and is set to be a powerful documentary look at the topic. With filming already complete then the risk in backing is greatly reduced, as funding is going only on post production.
In the film-makers own words:
Without your help it WON’T GET MADE. Become part of the SOLUTION!
This film will take you inside the specter of addiction like nothing else you have ever seen. There is no stopping the freight train of opiates without understanding how it is to not be able to live without them.
AFTER THE WAVES: TEN YEARS AFTER THE SRI LANKAN TSUNAMI
Video Trailer: http://vimeo.com/72342068
In the wake of natural disasters the eyes of the world tends to fall on the scenes of destruction. But after the last journalist leaves the job of rebuilding begins. Ten years later this film-maker is looking to return to Sri Lanka hand hear the stories directly from those impacted by this disaster.
This could be a really important piece of film showing people the impact of the support they give when disaster strikes, ensuring that people remember lives remain changed after you stop hearing about it.
A story of the incredible resilience of the Sri Lankan people, how their lives were irreversibly changed by the devastating tsunami, and how it shaped their realities, hopes and aspirations – borne from the personal experience of the producer and director who survived and witnessed the tsunami.
HALF WAY: A DOCUMENTARY
With homelessness on the rise this documentary comes at a really important time for greater understanding on the topic. This documentary will cut through the myths and assumptions around the homeless in the UK and is looking to show you a story through the eyes of those directly effected.
The project is being driven by a young & driven team which would lead to this being a really exciting and meaningful project to back and follow.
We are a group of debuting filmmakers, looking to create film which is honest, insightful and cinematic. We have found a personal story that we feel needs to be told as it represents the growing issue of homelessness in the UK. HALF WAY tells the story of a family displaced.
CALL OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
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This film explores our relationship with nature through the 60,000 year story of man’s live with sea turtles. The project is a great match for someone interested in the sea & sea life who has the chance to follow & support the post production for this really unique take on the topic.
With filming complete, and an experienced director leading the project, and half the funding already reached, this would be a really solid project to back if the topic suits.
Mariner tells the story of an iconic creature, the sea turtle, that has been the centrepiece for thousands of cultures, serving as the heart of creation, as a deity, as a trickster and much more. What better way to tell the story of man’s connection to nature and the ocean than sea turtles, given our long-time fascination with them.
With Mariner, I hope to explore the amazing world of turtles and man through thousands of years and how our futures our intertwined.
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Huge thanks to Crowdedout Blog for featuring my upcoming Documentary ‘Transindia’ in their post for ‘Film Projects that will change the world’ <– Check it out and give them a follow!!
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Chris McDaniel: Professional Cryptozoologist
Got an interesting email today, and, with the permission of the emailer [pictured above, with his wife and a great blue heron], here it is:
My name is Chris McDaniel. I am an Animal Control Officer in Columbus, Indiana.
I once read a reply you had given to an individual. The person asked “When can someone refer to oneself as a Cryptozoologist?”
You shared the notion that if you are being paid to investigate a crypto sighting you can then refer to yourself as a cryptozoologist. Until then you could be labeled as an amateur cryptozoologist.
I have been paid by the City of Columbus (Indiana) representing the Animal Control Department in the past years to investigate a mountain lion sighting, a bear sighting, alligators in the city and 3 Bigfoot sightings.
One Bigfoot sighting turned out to be a crank call. The other two had me scratching my head. Being that the City was paying me to investigate these events and being I am the “go to guy” on odd sightings am I justified to consider myself a cryptozoologist?
Side note: I have also assisted Neil Arnold in collecting research on a 1973 sighting of a hairy biped in Columbus, Indiana that was suppose to have a pale green face, labeled: The Mill Race Monster. Though I did help Mr. Arnold in my spare time I was not asking to be paid for any of my assistance in the research. Chris McDaniel
Well, I guess Mr. McDaniel has a point, and he certainly seems to qualify as a “professional cryptozoologist” in my book.
BTW, in the 2010 book, Dark Lore 5, Neil Arnold uncovers the lost history of the Mill Race Monster, which he acknowledges was brought to his attention by a Chris McDaniel.
The Milwaukee Journal, May 26, 1983:
CHICAGO ANGLER LANDS ‘MILLRACE MONSTER’
Wilmington, Ill The ‘Millrace Monster’, a mysterious canal dweller blamed for devouring ducks, has been caught with a hook and line. Some residents thought they had their own Loch Ness monster after two people reported seeing ducks snatched from below the surface of the Millrace, a canal off the Kankakee River where a mill wheel once turned.
Arnold Chipusa of the Illinois Department of Conservation said the so-called ‘monster’ could be a snapping turtle, but more likely was a huge northern pike. And then angler Jim Pecoraro of Chicago landed such a fish, a 41-inch specimen weighing 20 pounds, 2 ounces. The largest pike ever caught in the state was 22 pounds, 12 ounces.
The Argus Press, February 21, 1984:
‘Monster Fish’ Makes Life Rough For Migrating Fowl – Kankakee, Ill :- A monster fish with a taste for duck is making life rough for migrating fowl seeking a place to rest on the Kankakee River near here, fishermen say.
Several fishermen told bait shop owner Howard Curtis that a large northern pike was “taking swipes” at ducks on the water.
“This fellow, a good customer of mine, came in yesterday and he says, ‘Howard, I couldn’t tell what kind of fish he was, but he was really after them ducks’, said Curtis.
Later, an angler said he saw a duck-chasing fish jump out of the water, and he thought it was a northern pike, according to Curtis.
“I told him I was going to work on some duck decoys with a chain and big hooks and give it a try myself”, Curtis said.
Many fishermen think the big fish might be a cousin of an upstream northern, dubbed the ‘Mill Race Monster’, which lurked in Kankakee River holes near Wilmington last spring. That fish was credited with plucking several ducks off the surface of the Mill Race pond last April.
Chicagoan Jim Pecoraro may have caught the monster on April 23, when he bagged a 41-inch, 22-pound, 2-ounce northern pike there, using a 6-inch fist for bait. Ducks are now being harassed upstream and some folks think the monster itself – not a relative – may be the culprit.
“You think maybe he jumped the dam and came this way ?”, Curtis asked jokingly.
Kankakee may have to prepare for the notoriety of another monster fish story in the region. The tale of the Mill Race Monster appeared in newspapers and on broadcast stations all over the country. Two major national sportsman’s magazines also carried the story. Soon after the story got out, Wilmington business owners began getting calls and letters of inquiry from across the continent.
“They got a lot of publicity out of that big northern in Wilmington”, said Curtis.
Curtis said he might have to stock up on big, fat minnows, a northern’ favorite food.
In 2007, after an alleged Mothman sighting and then a newer bridge collapse, another McDaniel mourned for Minneapolis:
Our hearts go out to those people….You don’t forget these things. They stay in your mind.” Mayor Marilyn McDaniel, August 2, 2007, discussing the collapse of the I-35W Bridge at Minneapolis-St. Paul.
McDaniel, of course, is a name familiar for its Mothman links.
This reminds me of my exchange with [John A.] Keel about the name game in 1973, when we were discussing the new reports out of Illinois, from Enfield. On April 25, 1973, Mr. and Mrs. Henry McDaniel returned to their home and Henry had an encounter with a thing that looked like it had three legs, two pink eyes as big as flashlights, and short arms on a four-and-a-half-feet tall and grayish-colored body, along the L&N rail-road tracks, in front of his house. I traveled to Enfield, interviewed the witnesses, looked at the siding of the house the Enfield Monster had damaged, heard some strange screeching banshee-like sounds, and walked away bewildered.
John Keel wondered aloud with me about these reports, as he had returned from Point Pleasant well aware of the vortex the McDaniel family had found themselves in. One of the first Mothman witnesses, Linda Scarberry, was, after all, a McDaniel. Her mother saw Mothman. The McDaniel home was the focus of MIBs, telephone troubles, and poltergeist activity, thus involving Parke McDaniel and Mabel McDaniel with the Mothman flap.
Keel had uncovered a 1870s story of an individual named McDaniel who had met up with the Devil in New York State’s Catskill Mountains. Western Bigfoot Society member Vic McDaniel led expedition members to where he had found a Sasquatch bed in August 1979. As the 20th century ended, Stanley V. McDaniel, a philosophy professor and member of the Society for Planetary SETI Research, began to make a name for himself, to turn a phrase, when he produced The McDaniel Report, and a book, The Case for the Face, on his research into the possibility of artificial objects on the surface of Mars. Mothman and Other Curious Encounters (NY: Paraview, 2002)
John Keel discussed the 1966-1967 Mothman-McDaniel family troubles further:
The McDaniel family had been living in the twilight zone ever since their daughter and the others had first glimpsed “Mothman.” Linda had repeatedly heard the sound “of a speeded-up phonograph record” around her own home after the incident, and peculiar manifestations indicating the presence of a poltergeist began. Finally she and Roger moved into the basement apartment in the McDaniel’s home. The poltergeist followed them. Strange lights appeared in the house, objects moved by themselves, and the heavy odor of cigar smoke was frequently noted. No one in the family smokes. (The smell of cigar smoke is commonly reported in many poltergeist cases throughout the world.) One morning Linda woke up and distinctly saw the shadowy form of a large man in the room. The house was searched. All the doors were still locked. There was no sign of a prowler. The McDaniels’ experience was one of many during the thirteen intense months of the Mothman flap. Strange Creatures from Time and Space (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1970.
Mabel McDaniel had seen Mothman on January 11, 1967, near Tiny’s Restaurant in Point Pleasant; then later during March, had a run-in with one of those Mad Gasser/Springheel Jack-type fellows, the Men-In-Black. Parke McDaniel had likewise been frightened by the Men-In-Black on December 23, 1967. Keel felt the name McDaniel had a far greater recurrence in these matters than random….
Keel himself has raised the question of name selectivity in his writings: “Hundreds of thousands of phenomenal events have been described in newspapers, magazines and books, and hundreds of thousands of witnesses have been named in print. When dealing with such a large body of evidence—or population—certain laws of probability should surface. We might expect that more Smiths would see UFOs than anyone else, simply because there are more Smiths around. But, in actuality, the name Smith rarely appears in a UFO report.”
What Keel found was that unusual names were the point of convergence for the phenomena. He saw McDaniel, Reeves/Reaves, Maddox, Heflin, Allen, Hill, and others, as being selected for UFO and related experiences. The Smiths, Browns, Williams, and Johnsons—the four top surnames in America—are not the most frequent precipitant names to crop up. I would add that the most unusually named witnesses seem to have the more bizarre encounters. Mysterious America (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2007).
There is a reason it’s called the Name Game. Mothman and Other Curious Encounters (NY: Paraview, 2002)
December 15, 1967: The Silver Bridge – U. S. Highway 35 collapses.
For further information on the context of the McDaniel’s involvement, please consult: Mothman and Other Curious Encounters.
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A decade ago… which seems the agreed vista-point for personal overview at this cusp of the new year, I was a real Bah-humbug about Christmas. Wouldn’t even name it. The solstice season, I said, and went gathering kindling for midwinter bonfires muttering incantations against the big C – commercialism – and mourning the days when my children made potato-cut cards and marzipan petit-fours and sticky-glitter tree decorations.
And now the wheel is come full circle. Actually, I still don’t send cards, make mincepies, or mull wine, and I buy shockingly few presents, but I do love Christmas again. Tree lights, street lights, Pogues, parties, crap cracker jokes, TV spinoff merchandise…
I relish it all.
So in lieu of a sensible blog update with sensitive comments about the state of the world, I’ll lick the bowl of the old year with a personal list. Here, in no particular order, are my festive Best Bits:
Writers evening, the official start of Christmas ~ candlelit gingerbread house & festive lights everywhere ~ amazing movies (Cohen Brothers & Jane Austen) on big & little screens ~ pamper day with hot tub & champagne ~ parties & dancing ~ wonderful meals peaking with Michelin-starrable Christmas dinner ~ wintry walks & yoga ~ quizzes & scrabble ~ phone calls & emails with distant friends ~ real-time contact with friends & family.
Actually, that last one is best. Can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed & appreciated it, so like Jim Croce (nearly) said: I’ll have to say I love you in this blog.
Kim Noble wishes he was dead. His career's washed up and he's a depressive waste-of-space. His mother says so too, or at least some bloke with a bucket on his head, speaking as his mother, does. He has a convincing powerpoint-style CV to itemise and illustrate his futility and depravity. It's cutting-edge comedy - literally: there's a lot of blood as well as spunk in evidence - but is it theatre? And is it true?
After watching Kim Noble Will Die at Soho Theatre, I'd say Yes to the first. And I'm horribly afraid the second answer might be a Yes too.
So now with only 5 sleeps till Christmas, and party season in Frome seriously underway, I'll sign off wishing you all a wonderful week with an excess of everything you most enjoy, and Rage Against the Machine at Number One twinkling in the background of all our festivities.
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Labels: Kim Noble, Rage Against the Machine, Soho Theatre
Panto night at Poetry Café on Wednesday saw the Garden Café crammed for Paula Hammond's adjudication of the poetry and prose performances at the annual Merlin Pantomime Poetry Café night. Eighteen contestants for prizes - theatre tickets and panto merchandise – delighted the packed room with an amazing diversity of moods and memorable moments. “That’s not my name” was the theme, since this year’s Merlin show features Rumpelstiltskin, and stories and verses all celebrated identity. Everyone had their own personal favourites, but Paula’s final pick was popular: Phyllis Higgins and Linda Perry, both with a witty take on the theme, took runner-up prizes, with Dianne Penny and Gordon Graft joint First. Both these talented performance poets brought a personal angle to the seasonal spangle, thought-provoking as well as moving.
Over in Shepton Mallet, another pantomime night as the students of Musical Theatre School gave us a preview of the future with a zany but very sweet version of Cinderella. Nicholas Morrison, totally charismatic as the king, is the one to watch out for. Kookiest moment: ensemble rendition of 'That's why the Lady a Tramp' around Cinders' mother's grave...
Bath was abuzz on Saturday, pedestrianised streets as slow-moving as an easyjet check-in, though with more entertainment, stalls selling woolly hats & world's smallest kites, and a lovely girl giving "Free hugs - because it's Christmas!" I have an urban shopping policy: never buy more than 4 things, the first of which must be a large coffee. It works fine, allowing time for trying on unsuitable glamorous garb and general browsing, and today to watch Where The Wild Things Are.
Sendak's story was a family favourite in my bedtime-reading days so I couldn't resist seeing how even the genius of Spike Jonze would stretch a slim picture book to a 100 minute feature film. The answer is: surprisingly well as long as you don't expect a children's movie. It's all about a child - the beautiful, naughty, constantly endearing Max Records as Max - but that child, you quickly find, morphs into your deepest self and probably everyone you've ever known and loved. This is not cosy viewing. We're shown in painful detail why Max made mischief in his wolfsuit. His journey through the dark night of the soul lands him in a place he can understand because it's full of rage, rejection, and loneliness - each of these furry monsters is angst-filled as an RD Laing textbook. And Max, to avoid being eaten, has promised to be their king. All is well for about as long as it takes for a chronically insecure bunch of dysfunctionals to realise that a wild rumpus isn't much cop as a regal policy, and Max discovers all over again the hostility of strangers is nothing like as bad as upsetting those you love. He admits he's not a king, only a Max. "That's not much" scoffs his fiercest, darkest, alter ego - the one he most needs to reconcile with. And reconcile he finally does, with a long wordless howl across the sunset sea. As you'll all know Max gets safely home for his supper in the end, no spoilers here - just a warning: take tissues, not tots.
Emerging from an afternoon show in winter is eerie: people-packed streets have emptied and street-lights have inherited the kingdom of dark Bath, a solitary busker on the corner strumming a song of his own devising:
Shoppers are gone
It's too late, girl, too late...
Still on a festive season theme: Carol Ann Duffy's poetic-laureate version of The 12 Days of Christmas (read it here) caused raised eyebrows for its dark imprecations against politicians, bankers, celebrities, racism and war. Fellow poet Roger McGough comments "She's using her new post in the best way." And so say all of us.
Over at Nunney, during a great afternoon of live music - with bar, Sunday papers and the spanky Frome Street Bandits- this familiar carol was also caustically reinvented by Douglas Hamilton, with an internet twist and a message that would not display... All together now!
Labels: Carol Ann Duffy, Cinderella, Frome Poetry Cafe, Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things are
One of our charming, if slightly bonkers, national traits is the impulse to celebrate each calendar highlight out of doors. Perhaps there really was a time when maypole ribbons whirled gaily at the start of summer and hogs roasted undoused by autumn storms and all was idyllic in the bucolic daze of yore. Climate's changed, but optimistic exuberance lingers on. Frome's Christmas Spectacular last Sunday had a full programme from noon till nightfall. On Catherine Hill rain sluiced steadily down the cobbles as stall holders crouched under cover and the chocolate soup stand did steady trade. Over in the market yard two small reindeer stood resignedly as small hands emerged from umbrellas to pet them, and pools of water were being swept out from the Teenage Kicks tent.
And now silver snowflakes are glowing along the main street, M&S is plying shoppers with port and mincepies, the Pogues are back on the radio... it's definitely that time of year again.
Which is, in theatre world, panto time.
Most pantomimes, whatever the title, follow a simple storyline: a couple of men in frocks & wigs being silly, and a goody-goody girl who ends up with the prince. The first part is the bit everyone likes best, so why not have three men in frocks & wigs, and the girl a bit of a Violet Elizabeth Bott who eventually chooses the dwarf instead of lovely Prince of the Golden Halls despite the prince's white tights and habit of loping through the forest like a Monty Python knight on the quest of the Holy Grail?
But don't think Miracle Theatre's winter show The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin is all just transvestites and tantrums, despite the prominence of a menopausal forest fairy: this tale, based apparently on the writings of Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy, is embedded within a tale of an 1830s troup of travelling players, and the pantomime set is embedded in a stage set, with the actions of the actors off-stage as part of the on-stage action, if you see what I mean. It's a clever device, not only enhancing the humour but also giving us an extra chance to enjoy the dressing ups and downs, and in the Merlin performance bringing a local edge to the show by allowing a mini subplot featuring an intruding scallywag chased by a peeler, and some very sweet little girls dancing. With or without the interruptions, this is as charming and entertaining a show as you're likely to see anywhere this panto season. A wonderfully spirited cast: Ben Dyson as the effeminate prince/aka Mr Carter, and Tom Adams's Mr Ffitch singing his way through the roles of Queen and fierce fairy, are particularly splendid.
Footnote of the week: Has it come to this? another futile salvo in the gender war as Lily Allen complains she's been tagged 'the female version of The Streets.'
Lily lovey, that's because Mike Skinner came first. If you'd had a breakthrough hit in 2001, followed up with groundmaking material every year since, and he'd been the one to emerge in 2006 - with Smile - maybe people would refer to his band as 'the male version of Lily Allen'... Or maybe he'd still be hailed as "the most original, lyrical British rap in memory".
If I was you I'd wear the badge with respect.
Labels: Merlin Theatre, Mike Skinner, miracle theatre company, rumpelstiltskin
Inua Ellams comes from a long line of trouble-makers: from the moose-meat-thieving grandaddy who ran 'so fast the earth gasped and forgot to take footprints', this poet-performer has skittered, scatter-brained, he says, from Nigeria to London, to Dublin and back to England, learning about life all the way. The after-show talk is one of the best I've ever heard, feelingful and generous of experience. His work is totally truthful but only 80 percent true, since "there is no such thing as autobiography - there is art, and lies." The most difficult thing to write about, he says, is ourselves, and his main influence in creating The 14th Tale was hip-hop: "a voice that pumped beauty into my ears, with rhythm, and narration." A beautiful, inspirational, voice. It was a total privilege to share a stage with Inua. My 'curtain raiser' recounted my experience of the 4th Plinth this summer - a great chance to wear The Frock again. Thanks, Howard & Chris, for doing such a great job on the visuals. (The hour is still online, if you click this link.)
The abuse of power is a perpetually relevant theme, says Simon Godwin, director of The Winters Tale concluding its national tour at the Tobacco Factory. This production is set in pre-fascist Italy, but Sicilian king Leontes - powerfully portrayed by Vince Leigh - is a paranoid tyrant whose incandescent jealousy has little to do with politics. It's been dubbed 'the difficult play', allegedly for the contiguity of brutality and buffoonery, but the repetitions of cruelty are the biggest problem. Even the 'solution' seems to owe more to psychological abuse than miracle.
For me, the men, and male emotions, were the main strength in both tragic and comic scenes of this production. The 16-years-later second act is structurally challenging, with its combination of new characters and continuing griefs; Polixines (James Buller) had convincingly hardened, but the shepherdess had morphed into Catherine Tate's granny, and Perdita was a disappointment, clad in charity shop frock and fun-run plimmies, and disturbingly hyperactive. But I did cry, a lot, and a winter's tale should be sad, as the little prince said. Before he died.
Maybe it's down to over-hype but the new series of Gavin & Stacey didn't do it for me. Barry has always been a bit of a Craggy Island, and its inhabitants several celery sticks short of a crudités medley, but writers James Corden and Ruth Jones have been insisting, on wall-to-wall radio interviews, that they want this story to be 'real'. A pity. There was a moment, as Uncle Bryn's voice soared in "Something Inside So Strong" at little Neil's christening, when I really thought the entire congregation would lift off, bouncing and bounding like in The Blues Brothers, and maybe we would have a moment of superb surreal comedy. But no, it was back to Abigail's-Party parody and low-key sentimentality. I'd so hoped to go on loving this series but ended up wanting to flick through my cellphone contacts like bad-girl Rudi "Just seeing if I can find someone who gives a shit".
Labels: 14th Tale, Gavin and Stacey, The Winters Tale
Back from a weekend at Cotswold Conference Centre, where views were sumptuous peachy autumnal colours despite November dankness. Nine writers, combining an abundance of good humour, generosity, enthusiasm and talent, produced a delightful diversity of work: lively discussions were frank and frequent. With better weather - and less demanding course commitment - it would be pleasant to walk for hours in this exquisitely landscaped estate, but the inventive range of writings shared was simply wonderful. Thanks all, especially for Saturday night's stories and poems - including a rewriting of Shakespeare's 18th sonnet as a lipogram minus the vowel 'e'.
As the bard himself would surely say, how cool is that?
Always enjoyable to visit the Rondo, Bath's smallest theatre, where their own local theatre company this week performed Jim (Little Voice) Cartright's first play, Road. It's Under Milk Wood, but set in an unspecified Northern town in 1987 with scally Scullery to take us into the hearths, hearts, and minds of those who live there. A brave, as well as largely entertaining & occasionally moving, production, which the 15 cast members clearly hugely enjoyed too.
Much of the speech is monologue, a dramatic technique I find fascinating as the audience is no longer voyeur but directly engaged and by inference implicated. Top moments for me were Tim Thornton's Skin Lad, and the strange, sad, savage dance to Otis Reading by Rob Dawson and Marc Delangri (I think, it's hard to decipher from the inscrutible grey programme). Oh, and the interval, with outrageous DJ Bisto (Tim Thorton again) calling the audience up to dance... how could we resist?
Labels: Farncombe Estate, Rondo
The Pitmen Painters is Lee Hall's second look at the Billy Elliot fairytale: talented lad finds his creative wings and flies from Northern working class background to fulfillment and fame. Except that Oliver asks for less not more, and stays, whether from fear or loyalty, with his colliery clan. In Lee Hall's version of the Ashington Art Group history, the untutored artistry of the men doesn't appear to thrive from their contact with acknowledged masters; their paintings become generic and like the tenets of socialism lose significance except as glimpses of a pre-war era.
The play has been much admired, and the comic culture-shock between the tutor and the miners ("A Titian." - "Bless you!") certainly went down well with the Bath Theatre Royal audience. I liked the way the broad strokes of farce paralleled the men's initial crudity in artistic self-representation, evolving as did their paintings gradually into more complex and feelingful presentation of the integrity of their lives. But just as Oliver's work is ultimately critiqued by Mrs Sutherland, whose patronage he refused, as sentimental and conformist, in the second act the play too seems to lose its strength. The characters represent a range of attitudes to art and politics which like her ex-protegee's later painting is "perfectly fine, but undeveloped. No sexuality, or desire, or elemental hunger, no sensuality or yearning for the other." Mrs Sutherland admits to losing interest in painting, but she could make some salient points about playwriting.
It's a National Theatre production, obviously very well acted and stylishly put together, but it made me nostalgic not only for pre-1995 Labour and debates on the meaning of art but also for plays like Chicken Soup with Barley and The Corn is Green where characters grew from their class roots rather than representing them.
What do you do when you can't decide on a cover for your new novel? My friend Christine Coleman has an ingenious solution: put it to the vote. Chris has posted 7 options - what's your view? This was my favourite - pick yours & you could win a copy of this fascinating self-discovery novel.
And while I'm on the injunctions, will everyone in striking distance of Frome please come to see Inua Ellam's award-winning one man show The 14th Tale at the Merlin next Friday. I'm doing a curtain raiser in me posh Plinth frock so don't be late...
Finally, thanks to all those who emailed me after hearing my story Mrs Somerville's Garden on the beeb last week - I didn't even know they were repeating it, so your appreciative messages were a nice surprise.
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Labels: 14th Tale, Paper Lanterns, Pitmen Painters
Three Sisters, written in 1901 just 16 years before the Russian Revolution, was the ambitious production choice of Frome Drama Club – ambitious because Chekhov’s twin themes, of the decay of the privileged class and the search for meaning in the modern world, are easier to deconstruct than to witness. It’s about claustrophobia and ennui, the inability to find a meaningful work ethic when society is corrupt, the disappointments and casual brutality of relationships, and the loneliness of living with no way of understanding what life is about. ‘If only we knew...’ are the final words of the play, and the closest to comfort comes from the drunken doctor: ‘Nothing is real – it really doesn’t matter.’
Chekhov apparently took his initial inspiration from the life-story of the Bronte sisters - three creative woman whose life chances are betrayed by a weak brother. Here, Andrei represents the upper class submergence to cruder peasant energy, and his three sisters embody the main theme of the quest for life meaning: the woman who works, the wife, and the idealistic girl unlike her sisters not dragged down by duty. Yet…
Not a play to go head-to-head with Strictly in terms of easy entertainment, and with a cast of 15 some variability of performance is inevitable but there was a much to admire in this production. The set impressively created the Prozorovs affluent house and social standing, the costumes were immaculate, and director Robert O’Farrell brought out the sense of stifling tedium in this provincial town which only the glamour of military presence could ameliorate. The difficulty for a modern audience is not the subtext but the speeches, which are often not dialogue but monologue, addressed to the air or to the audience, with other characters simply moving away on some other business of card play or conversation. This struggle to find elusive connection works best when it allows characters to discover and disclose hidden feelings - Kulygin, (Paul Laville), the cuckolded husband of middle sister Masha, is particularly good at this. Jade Taylor’s Masha was exceptional too, as was Philip de Glanville's disillusioned doctor, but for me the star of the night was Naomi Parnell’s Irina, who not only looked duel-inspiringly beautiful but had mesmeric stage presence and inhabited her role emotionally throughout. Congratulations, FDC. Thanks, Harry, for the photo.
To the Lighthouse in Poole on Saturday, for another play about a class-conflicted culture in turmoil and shadowed by war - England, 2006 and we’re still sending Our Lads out to Iraq to slay monsters. What turns an ordinary binge-drinking boy into a brutal war criminal? could be seen as the central question of Days Of Significance but actually this scalding play, commissioned by RSC from writer Roy Williams, was originally produced in 2008 and has been ‘recently reworked’ for its recent tour to respond to 'the shift in mood since the withdrawal of troops' and presumably the atrocities scandal. Roy Williams says his intent was to show that “war matters to all of us, no matter who you are.” In that sense, this play is as contemporary as tomorrow’s news from Afghanistan and as timeless as caveman conflict – and perhaps didn’t need the intellectual moral problem of the veterans’ trial at the end.
The writer’s other inspiration, he says, was the Beatrice and Benedict banter in Much Ado, cleverly and almost-plausibly updated in the street scene outside the club on a typical weekend night. Other Shakespearean elements were strong too: routine feuding a la Montagues and Capulets, the fairy-tale wedding in the final act when Steve and Clare (Simon Harrison, delightfully crude to the last, and Sandy Foster) like Theseus and Hippolyta draw the cast around them for the ending of the evening’s revels. This self-referentialism worked well, bringing deeper undercurrents to a story of chaotic lives needing focus and longing for heroism. But the jokes about ‘Beatrice’ and quips direct from Little Britain become borderline intrusive, and despite the physical realism (one of the actors has invalided himself out of this run with a wrenched fist) I was left with a feeling the actors were translating, rather than inhabiting, the culture of their roles – possibly conscious of an audience more comfortable with conflicts on the streets of Verona than those of their own home town.
In a successful ensemble piece it's unfair pick anyone out, but I will: Dan Ben and Trish (Luke Norris, Toby Wharton, and Sarah Ridgeway). An amazing set created clubland and Bazra equally effectively – aided by a delapidated Coca Cola poster – but the directional tendency to ‘use the space’ of the huge stage left some of the intimate interactions looking oddly theatrical and made the script seem awkward. But having said all that, a brilliant performance overall, and despite the blood puke piss and casual violence, I'd happily watch it all again.
And finally: BBC guidelines.. not just there to feed quips for HIGNFU and fuel the fury of Moyles in the morning - these innane and patronising new directives have a more sinister role too. "It's difficult enough writing drama without being given rules devised by Kafkaesque committees" writes TV dramatist Stephen Poliakoff, "and it's completely unnecessary. Audiences are quite capable of realising that when real events are compressed for drama, certain liberties have to be taken. It's very important that writers in television tackle unfamiliar stories - they can't do that if they're artificially restricted." Good point well made.
Labels: Days of Significance, Stephen Poliakoff, Three Sisters
A shadow from Remembrance Day inevitably lay across this month's Poetry and a Pint session in Bath (but not in my resolutely flippant guest spot, though I did wear a peace poppy.) Most impressive, for me, was Sue Boyle's beautiful cameo of a virgin great aunt bereaved by the Great War, and Jeremy Gibson's acid satire on George Bush: his manic aspirationalism and word botching too.
I wouldn’t generally enthuse about an hour spent in the company of a man whose idea of a good time was to wrench the head off a swan and drink its blood, but I’m making an exception for the current production of Normal at the Brewery. It’s sensational – in a good as well as a lurid way. Anthony Neilson based his play on the real-life story of Peter Kurten, a German serial killer executed just before WW2, and there’s a dreadful foretaste of Nazi atrocities in this electrifying production. As well as the grim realities of history and psychological harm, this is a gripping horror story where crazed toys come to life, props become murder tools, and no-one seems sane or ‘normal’ despite the courtroom verdict. The uneasy feeling of entrapment in a gothic fairground is enhanced by fantastic set & lighting (Frazer Riches), by virtuoso acting (Oliver Millingham, Michael Mitcham, and Kate Kordel), and by the truly inspired direction of Chris Loveless. Top of my theatrical unforgettable moments of 2009: the manic dance sequence between Peter and the young lawyer he relentlessly entraps in his gruesome world. There's an unsettling crosscurrent of normalcy too in the love lives of these damaged people, and perhaps what is most chilling about Millingham's psychopath is his hypnotic charm. A play that questions innocence and guilt, and resonates long after plangent music has ebbed from the stage.
Labels: Brewery, Fallen Angel, Normal, Poetry and a Pint
Every writer once in a while should stop wrestling with words and spend an hour watching Pangottic. I came to that conclusion after watching Full Twist at The Brewery, Bristol's newest theatre venue, where two extraordinarily talented youngsters told a love story full of pathos and hilarity, crammed with insight as well as dazzling circus skills, breathtaking timing and irresistible audience rapport. Two love stories, in fact, as in a quirky subplot the cleaning staff find romance over rubber gloves. And the young lovers manage to juggle the hopes and insecurities of relationship along with the high-flying wine bottles, flowers, and ultimately babies. Without a single word. Show-don't-tell doesn't get any less, or more more-ish.
In all the shameful history slave ships, the story of Liverpool ship Zong must be most dreadful. Half their cargo of stolen lives was jettisoned for insurance. One survived, to carry the tale which became the stimulus and background story of Crossings by Julie McNamara, who also takes one of the 4 roles. The anger is plangent, and this piece might have become a history lesson in other hands, but Julie's passion is more wide-reaching: the central story is of 15-year old Shelley, pregnant and on the run - a beautiful wild-child powerfully portrayed by Nadine Wild Palmer - but the theme is man's inhumanity to man, and more especially to woman. Julie's aim is to confront disablement in all its forms; the BSL interpreter is not sidelined but takes a central role and the piece was originally written for a blind actor. Ironically, and very sadly, she wasn't able to appear at the Tobacco Factory and it's to the credit of both the script and her replacement Naomi Cortes that the use of script-in-hand enhanced rather than detracting from this theme of challenging social attitudes and expectations.
Mustn't end the week without sending congratulations to Josh Tyas, one of the talented young writers on the Villiers Park writing group I co-tutored with Rosie Jackson last year, for winning the Farrago Fireworks Poetry Slam! Go forth and sparkle, Josh.
And finally: I haven't read Giles Brandreth's just-published diaries, enticingly titled Something Sensational to read on the train, but reviews are discouraging. "He lacks the qualities looked for in a diarist" declared the Spectator: "he is minimally bitchy, shows a discretion that the reader applauds but does not rejoice in, and doesn't shag about." Blogger beware....
Labels: Crossings, Pangottic
Don Paterson apologised throughout his reading at Toppings in Bath: he's dying with a cold, he'll be coughing a lot, his poems are all about death and divorce - is there nothing on television tonight? His new collection Rain is certainly dark but not depressing; even the renku for My Last 35 Deaths has moments of dry humour:
Here's your book back, world.
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a few things. Sorry.
A brilliant reading - and then questions, for which despite his cold, his cough, and his rainfilled silent skies, the poet finds fascinating answers. Self-consciousness, he says, is death to poetry: simple language enables the poem, but it will always be 'a bit twisted, naughty, beyond language.' Hence the joy of rhyme, which 'makes it weirder. Because English is a rhyme-poor language, so you have to forget what you wanted to say and that's a good thing.'
UP has been acclaimed the funniest Pixar film ever. There's more than a curmugeonly nod to The Wizard of Oz in this fabulous fable of a septuagenarian dream-chaser flying off in a house weighed down with the pain of the past and equipped with a superflous random tracker cub, and finding in the end that home is where the heart is.. ahh.
And so Halloween arrives, filling the mild evening streets with its entourage of mummies, vampires, and ghouls. La Strada staff leapt zestfully into the spirit of the day - but would you buy a raspberry ripple from this man?
And anyone who heard my monologue for Stage Write at the Merlin last month will realise how spooky it was for me to glimpse this hooded scream behind me on the hill...
Awen, I discovered this week, is a celtic word for poetic inspiration, and The Garden of Awen opening night featured a fascinating array of awenydds. Bath's Chapel Arts Centre was atmospherically transformed by rural backdrops, flower poems, candles and laser lights as Kevan Manwaring compered this 'showcase of Arcadian delights offering something different from the post-modern cul-de-sac.' Nikki Bennett launched her poetry collection Love Shines Beyond Grief, joined by poets from Stroud, a vampiric story teller, and several excellent musicians including 'guitar-shaman' James Hollingsworth. The theme tonight, in keeping with Samhein, was endings and new beginnings; the aim each month will be high quality diversity of spoken word and music. Great to see such an atmospheric venue join the local network of alternative entertainment.
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Labels: Don Paterson, Garden of Awen, Halloween, UP
Autumn equinox. These are important days, astrologically, my friend Helen, who is a hearth-witch, told me when we met for our writing date: Halloween is the Celtic New Year: Samhein, Feast of the Dead, the time when Cailleach the Crone rules the earth. A full moon, too - owl moon, also called Hunter's moon or blood moon. Helen and I drank Emerald Sun tea and wrote from random fridge-magnate words and this is what happened for me:
Full moon, owl moon, Samhein moon:
Three reasons to celebrate the crone within –
No, to release the crone, to let her get on with her own
celebrations. What will she do?
She will dance, for sure. Will she dance wildly,
like the Bacchae? Will she drink deep, and laugh
too loud? Probably. Will she breathe deep and cry
for long gone loves, sigh silently those names
she once called out aloud? Why not.
This is her time of power and devastation.
Her wail is a wind to lift desert sand,
she shuffles ghosts like languid cards,
switches off the stars on a whim. She strides
regretless through forests of flux and lust,
paddles muddy water, finds surreal symmetry.
And is it easy? Yes, for a crone.
Look and learn, falterer, look and learn.
No-one knew what to expect from Poetry and Folk Retro Night at the Garden Cafe, but this random mix of guitarists and wordsmiths turned out to be a cracking evening.
My Irish/Californian friend Mo Robinson is over visiting our shared family, and as he set me up with a few gigs in San Francisco while I was staying with him in April, I thought it would be fun if the Poetry Cafe reciprocated with a 'happening'.
Mo gave us 3 spots, mingling his own powerful narrative ballads with political satire from Tom Russell, and 15 open-mic performers ensured a stonking eclectic medley of music and words. Several contributors seized the retro theme: Roger Wiltshire's witty rant inspired responses from both Lucy and Neil Howlett. Andy (Leonardo's Bicycle) Morten dropped by; Dianne Penny performed a moving personal tribute to Sharon Olds, and it was great to see how well the high-energy of music mixed with reflective poetry. Definitely a formula to repeat.
Labels: Frome Poetry Cafe, Samhein
Does Metaphor Make You Better? was the somewhat ponderous tag that peeled away to reveal an inspirational talk by Victoria Field and Rose Flint at Frome Library this week.
Writing therapy, unlike art therapy, has no long-standing psychoanalytic pedigree, but research increasingly shows the healing power of creative writing for both acute and chronic disease and depression.
"I don’t work with the reasons" Rose says, "we’re not defined by our illnesses, our wellness is our best reality. I work from the place of wellness.” Victoria talked of our shared instinct to self-medicate through poems: "We're not concerned with literary merit but the sheer pleasure of putting words together." As well as being foremost practitioners in this work, Rose and Victoria are both amazing poets and the event ended with readings from their own 'therapeutic' poems, some dark but all glowing with compassion for the human experience.
My musical taste has ever been what can most charitably labelled 'eclectic' (Deep Purple to Dirty Vegas via Tom Waits & Arctic Monkeys) but I found a whole new genre to enjoy after a splendidly theatrical session at a Cotswold's jazz pub with Nick Gill's Oxford Classic Jazz Band swinging through songs of the last century.
Big sound for a quartet (percussion sax and tuba as well as piano & vocals) and amazing range of mood: glitz and glamour, urban blues, and sweet melodic moments on that stardusted lazy river of the days gone by... Fabulous.
I'll end a random week with fireworks over Frome again, this time inspired by a request to the One Show from Mandie Stone. The answer was Yes. "If it's good enough for Jenson Button, it's good enough for us, end of story." pronounced Christine Bleakley from the show's helicopter cockpit. Cue Pee Wee Ellis leading the parade through town - cue youth band, operatic society, firefighters and twirling majorettes - cue town cryer, and the ancient town of Frome is officially twinned with BBC One Show. And thanks Mandie, for including as one of your 20 reasons for the twinning ceremony:
The polished One Show performance is up on a pedestal; Frome’s own poet Crysse Morrison performed poetry on the plinth at Trafalgar Square. Mandie sponsored my outfit from her shop Love Arts, an Aladdin's cave of retro delights, so it was great to see her in the studio giggling and threatening to wet herself as the story unfurled.
Labels: BBC One Show, Love Arts, Nick Gill, Rose Flint, Victoria Field
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Tag: Kim Hughes
Review of ‘Golden Boy’ by Christian Ryan
Like many cricket tragics, the first thing I associate with Kim Hughes is not any cover drive he played, nor any win he was involved with, but the distraught press conference he gave announcing his resignation from the Australian captaincy. Far from the cliché of the role being every boy’s dream, it had became a waking nightmare to the permanent man-child Hughes and ended, quite literally, in tears.
How did he ever reach this point? Things had begun so promisingly. For a long time his dominance of the world cricket stage seemed nothing less than destiny. He broke into the national team not by the sheer volume of runs he made, but by the manner he made them; elegant and imperious. At his best, nobody could bowl to him, though he had a tendency to lose concentration, to get himself out. No matter, his supporters argued, these moments were just the last vestiges of youthful impetuosity which would fade with experience.
Yet his cavalier approach to batting never really changed. Australian cricket had fallen on evil times and the golden-haired youngster was too inconsistent to be the messianic figure promised, constantly in and out of the eleven in his early years. Things really soured when he was prematurely elevated to the captaincy. The powerful clique of Rod Marsh, Dennis Lillee and the Chappell brothers were opposed to the appointment, believing the job to rightly be Marsh’s. If it is not quite accurate to say these players undermined Hughes’ captaincy, Ryan explains, then it is clear that they were never unhappy to see him fail. None of that group speak here about the issue, apparently happy for it to be airbrushed out of history.
Others have been willing to talk about the social schisms, bullying and sad macho posturing, however, and their accounts of the team at this time are damning. Newcomers to the setup found the prevailing mood a “mixture of panic and unease” and watched aghast as Lillee mercilessly pounded his captain with bouncers in the nets and ignored his instructions on the field.
If this was humiliating, worse was still to come. When Packer raided Australian cricket to form his breakaway competition, Hughes was overlooked (he later unconvincingly claimed he was approached, a claim denied by those in the Packer camp) despite being Australian captain. He ended up leading a rebel tour to South Africa, a sad and unworthy end.
One of the themes of Golden Boy is that sporting success is never inevitable and is always subject to the whims of fate. If Hughes had played in an era with less menacing opposition bowlers, or more supportive colleagues, he may be remembered as a great. His best knocks deserve that epithet. Ryan brackets three of them with Stan McCabe’s famed triumvirate of innings, and there is no higher praise from a coinoisseur. But the glory days were all too infrequent.
Hughes’ failure to touch this greatness more often cannot be solely placed at the feet of others. His was an unusual personality, combining an almost pitiful need to be liked with a kind of nonchalant arrogance that meant he would never take advice from others nor learn from his on-field mistakes. He was altogether too emotional for leadership, his assessment of the game at any time betrayed by his boyish face. When Ian Botham played a fabled innings to engineer the most improbable of English victories, many condemned Hughes’ “kicked-puppy demeanour”
On one level, this is an incredibly accomplished biography of irreconcilable personality clashes, the sad tale of opportunities missed and promise unfulfilled. It is also the best cricket book in recent years not written by someone called Gideon Haigh. Among its chief attributes is its implicit recognition that cricket is essentially a sport of individual confrontations masquerading as a team game. When Hughes’ humiliation played out in the most public of arenas, he was horribly, utterly alone.
Golden Boy : Kim Hughes and the bad old days of Australian cricket
Christian Ryan
(Allen & Unwin, $35.00)
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Quotations Within Quotations
Almost all of us have found ourselves confused with double and single quotation marks. When do we use single quotation marks? Where does the punctuation go with single quotation marks? With just a few rules and examples, you will feel surer about your decisions.
Rule: Use single quotation marks inside double quotation marks when you have a quotation within a quotation.
Example: Bobbi told me, “Delia said, ‘This will never work.’ ”
Notice that what Delia said was enclosed in single quotation marks. Notice also that the period was placed inside both the single and the double quotation marks. The American rule is that periods always go inside all quotation marks.
As a courtesy, make sure there is visible space at the start or end of a quotation between adjacent single and double quotation marks.
Example: Bobbi said, “I read an interesting article titled ‘A Poor Woman’s Journey.’ ”
Rule: Question marks and exclamation points, unlike periods, follow logic with their placement. If a quote inside a quote is a question or exclamation, place the question mark or exclamation point inside the single quotation marks.
Examples: Bobbi said, “Delia asked, ‘Will this remote control work on my TV?’ ”
Bobbi said, “Delia shouted, ‘Get your hands off me!’ ”
Rule: If the question is inside the double quotation marks, place the question mark between the single and double quotation marks.
Examples: Bobbi asked, “Did Delia say, ‘This will never work’?”
(Because you will rarely need an exclamation point within the double quotation marks and not within the single quotation marks, there is little sense discussing this.)
Rule: In the above three examples, only one ending punctuation mark was used with the quotation marks. The rule is that the “stronger” mark wins. Question marks and exclamation points are considered stronger than the period. Period!
Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007, at 1:18 am
178 Comments on Quotations Within Quotations
178 responses to “Quotations Within Quotations”
On the subject of quotation marks, I was taught to use single marks (‘) for quoting text, names, etc. and double marks (“) for spoken words. Have you heard of this? Is it double marks for anything quoted, for instance, a manufacturer’s name on a label, or a product name?
Mandy, you were taught incorrectly. Use double quotation marks for text and names unless they are within quoted material already. The other option with names of magazines, manufacturer’s names, products, etc., is to use italics.
ravi bedi says:
I thought it should read as:
“Didn’t she say,’How did you do that’ ?”
By all the comments to this blog, I can see how many people have been taught incorrectly. You don’t need the first set of quotation marks around
Didn’t she say…
because that is not part of the quote. Even if someone had actually said that part of the sentence, the question mark would be placed inside the single quotation mark.
If I do that, how will the sentence end?
e.g., “Didn’t she say,’how did you do that?’…how do we finish this, with a single’ or “?
Also, the ‘h’; small or capital?
“Didn’t she say, ‘How did you do that?'”
How do you put quotations within quotations within quotations.
Example: “My dad said, ‘Son, don’t pay too much attention to what people ‘think’ as most people don’t'” How do I mark the word “think?”
“My dad said, ‘Son, don’t pay too much attention to what people “think” as most people don’t.’ ”
My dad said, “Son, don’t pay too much attention to what people ‘think’ as most people don’t.”
(Note: Punctuation of the above sentences could be simplified by omitting quotation marks around the word think. From the context, we don’t see that quotation marks are necessary there.)
When are single quotations used?
The best time of summer is ‘after supper time.’
Single quotation marks are used inside double quotation marks when you have a quotation or title within a quotation.
Joe said, “My favorite poem is ‘The Raven.’ ”
In your example, there are no quotation marks necessary.
The best time of summer is after supper time.
Jane, I enjoyed your examples and learned a lot from this blog. My room mates and I are currently in Eng 101 in Washington state. However, I think you made a minor error when giving the example of “The Raven” being quoted inside of quotes. Your explanation states that single quotes should be used inside of double quotes, but your example reads similarly to this:
He said “I enjoyed “The Raven'”. Unless I am mistaken, you inadvertently placed double quotes in front of “The Raven’.” I know this post is old, but I feel that people still refer to it; For example, that is why I am here. I do not mean to unduly criticize. I believe it was just a simple mistake, and if so, requires a simple correction.
Thank you for pointing out the typo. It has been fixed.
Jane, I know this was over 3 years ago, but I have a question about what you are typing, and hopefully you still see comments made here. You seem to be placing a space between the single quotation mark and the double quotation mark. Is this just to demonstrate that there are 3 quotation marks (the single and double), or is there actually supposed to be a space placed between them?
So, should it be ‘ ” or ‘” ?
By the way, I didn’t learn that punctuation should be placed inside the quotation marks that end a sentence until college. It is not surprising that people don’t know these rules.
If you see this, and respond, thank you for your help.
In the recently published eleventh edition of The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation, we added a rule recommending a visible space between adjacent single and double quotation marks. This is considered standard practice and a courtesy to the reader, and we have not yet changed all of the previously written comments to reflect this change.
Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single quotes.
Why are so many people putting periods outside the quotation marks today???
Your guess is as good as mine, but one possibility is that the British rule puts the period outside of the quotation marks for some situations. Thus, you may be noticing it more often because the internet is bringing international writing to your attention. Another possibility is simply that people don’t know the rule for American English punctuation.
You have far too simplified the rules. You need to distinguish between quoting fiction and journals; and how about the citations? Periods always go after the citation in both MLA and APA, not within the quotation marks. Your rules lend to confusion. For the sake of all the Masters and Doctoral students who should know these rules, please make distinctions; or better yet, refer students to the Purdue Owl and other reputable cites that can give more accurate examples.
Perhaps you have far too complicated the rules. The rule stating that periods are placed inside quotation marks of course applies to when both the period and the quotation marks appear at the end of the sentence. For instance, the first example in our Rule 1 of Quotation Marks is, The sign changed from “Walk,” to “Don’t Walk,” to “Walk” again within 30 seconds. While this example demonstrates commas inside quotation marks, the period is not inside quotation marks because the quotation marks are not at the end of the sentence.
Similarly, as shown in the Purdue Owl, a typical MLA citation may be, This phenomenon is best referred to as a “cumulative collaboration of evidence” (Pepper). Since MLA has chosen to include the author’s name in parentheses within the sentence, the quotation marks do not come at the end of the sentence and therefore the period is not inside the quotation marks.
If I am misinterpreting your comment, please provide an example where the period is outside the quotation marks at the end of a sentence in any context in American English usage, including citations.
Please settle an argument for me! When grading a student’s paper, my husband marked his student wrong for writing this in a line of poetry:
And “we” became “me”.
He said the period should go inside the quote and I said it shouldn’t. Who’s right?
In American English the period goes inside the quote; however, the British rule puts the period outside of the quotation marks in this case. Therefore, if you live in the United States, your husband is correct.
Directly from the OWL:
Quotations within a Quotation
Use single quotation marks to enclose quotes within another quotation.
The reporter told me, “When I interviewed the quarterback, he said they simply ‘played a better game.'”
That is consistent with our rule above:
Use single quotation marks inside double quotation marks when you have a quotation within a quotation.
Is the following correct? the person is answering the question
“Because you were still a little boy.”
“Yes, too young to grasp what he meant by the words, ‘never forget the land, Henry.’ He told me I would never be poor if I have land, ‘especially this land because it is pure gold.’ Those were his exact words.”
A question should be noted by a question mark. Also, capitalize the first letter of a direct quote when the quoted material is a complete sentence.
“Because you were still a little boy?”
“Yes, too young to grasp what he meant by the words, ‘Never forget the land, Henry.’ He told me I would never be poor if I have land, ‘especially this land, because it is pure gold.’ Those were his exact words.”
I need to use APA format and often have block quotations (don’t require use of quotation marks). Do I use single or double quotation marks to quote within a block quotation?
You know. And again, Eric [friend that had MI] is not a very big guy. Like before you saw me today, you would have thought “oh this guy had a heart attack, he’s got to be 300 pounds.” Or some people think just because somebody has a heart attack or they’re diabetic or a huge big guy, big person. And no people are surprised that “you had a heart attack?”
You should use double quotation marks to quote within a block quotation, but the final phrase within quotation marks is not a direct quote. This passage has many other serious mistakes in it, in fact, too many to go into here. Are you sure you even want to use it?
Is this correct for MLA format?
“‘What do you think? Do you suppose we’ve come here for our own pleasure? Do you think we asked to come?’ A little more and the man would have killed him,” thought Elie.
You may wish to consult the Purdue Owl website for information on MLA format.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
I’m helping a friend edit a book. Does a phrase that is in quotations take a single or double quote when it is referred to in a thought this author is having (thinking out loud). The whole sentence is currently in italics.
Thanks you!
You are referring to internal dialogue. Internal dialogue is used by authors to indicate what a character is thinking to himself or herself. Direct internal dialogue refers to a character thinking the exact thoughts as written. Quotation marks and other punctuation are used in the same way as if the character had spoken aloud. You may also use italics without quotation marks for direct internal dialogue. For more information and examples, refer to our blog Internal Dialogue: Italics or Quotes?
Hi! editing a yearbook and the yearbook person took down a quote from the librarian and wrote it like this:
“I love being the Librarian at Millsap
and working with every grade level!!
It brings a smile to my face when I
see students getting excited about
the books they pick as well as
finding “that book” they have been
wanting for so long!”
I was wondering if “that book” should be in single quotes???
Thank you for the assistance!
That book is a quotation within a quotation, therefore use single quotes. Also, since it is not used as part of a name, the title librarian should not be capitalized. In addition, exclamation points should be used with discretion. You might want to consider removing all of them. But if you decide to keep any, only one exclamation point should be used after the word level.
and working with every grade level.
finding ‘that book’ they have been
wanting for so long.”
I am being instructed to use single quotation inside double, but am not sure how exactly to put the double due to how the sentence is worded.
Fortunato responds to the suggestion by saying, “Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry.”
Does the single go within the double? Or does it start at the beginning of the sentence? I have never had to do this before and I will admit that I graduated high school 20 years ago and am in English Comp II now. Been a while for me. Any help on this would really be appreciated.
The double quotation marks in your sentence are placed correctly. We are not sure where single quotation marks, which are used to indicate a quotation within a quotation, could be added without rewording the exact quote from Poe’s story. Here is an example sentence using single quotation marks within double quotation marks:
Fortunato responded, “Luchesi said, ‘I cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry.’ ”
Note that we recommend a space between the single and double quotation marks at the end as a courtesy to the reader.
When quoting from literature and the quote consists entirely of words spoken by a character, should the entire quote be in nested (” ‘ quote’ “) quotation marks or in just the double (“quote”) quotation marks? If the quote is introduced outside of the quotation, it seems distracting and unnecessary to use the nested quotes. Thanks.
Your question is difficult to answer without an example. If the entire quotation is spoken by one character, if there is no quotation within a quotation, and if there are no interrupters within the quotation such as she said or she continued, then only double quotation marks are used.
I did not see a reply to Rebecca, and I would like to know Jane’s answer.
In American English the period goes inside the quote; however, the British rule puts the period outside of the quotation marks in this case.
Steve Long says:
I’m writing a paper in which I want to quote a single verse from the Bible, but that verse has a quote within a quote. How do I punctuate that? Example: The prophet Agabus employed multisensory teaching: “ He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, ‘This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver him into Gentile hands.’’”
The prophet Agabus employed multisensory teaching. He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver him into Gentile hands.’ ”
What do I do if I have quotations inside quotations inside quotations?
Im quoting from a book for a project and it already has quotations inside quotations…
For quotations inside quotations inside quotations, alternate using single and double quotation marks.
Example (note the placement of the period): I found a note that said, “Joe stopped by to inform us, ‘Al just told me, “I can’t go that day.” ‘ ”
Does it matter whether or not you put a space between them? Is it a stylistic preference? I’ve seen both of the following on this site.
For example, “Joe said, ‘hello.’” Versus: “Joe said, ‘hello.’ ”
In the recently published eleventh edition of The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation, we added a rule recommending a visible space between adjacent single and double quotation marks. This is considered standard practice and a courtesy to the reader. We have not yet changed all of the previously written comments to reflect this change.
Help! I’m working on my Master’s thesis and I can’t seem to find any place that explains how quotes within quotes work for the works cited page. If I’m citing a magazine article that uses double quotations within the title, do I change them to single quotations in the reference? Or keep them as double quotations?
For example: (the article title: Adviser: Romney “shellshocked” by loss)
Does MLA format require single quotations regardless of what the title used?
Crawford, Jan. “Adviser: Romney ‘shellshocked’ by loss.” (etc.)
Or do should I not change any of the title’s original formatting?
Crawford, Jan. “Adviser: Romney “shellshocked” by loss.” (etc.)
And to make matters more confusing, there are other articles that use single quotations in their titles! Does anyone know if I just stay true to whatever style (double or single quotations) are used in the original title?
The most comprehensive site related to MLA that we found says, “If there are quotation marks in a title these are changed to single quotes.”
http://www.docstyles.com/mlacrib.htm#Sec51
I think I have seen a quote within a quote with a question mark listed two ways here – inside both quotation marks, and in between the two. I am confused!
How would it be with the following sentence:
“Did you say ‘goddaughter?’” or
“Did you say ‘goddaughter’?”
If the question is inside the double quotation marks, place the question mark between the single and double quotation marks. Example:
She asked, “Did you say ‘goddaughter’?”
D. Upshaw says:
If I am writing a formal letter, & I wish to quote a famous author, who includes a quote inside her quote (such as the Bible), will I be in error if I change the author’s DOUBLE quotes to SINGLE quotes?
That is considered a quotation within a quotation. It is correct to put the author’s quoted material in single quotes.
What if what your trying to quote is:
“Life is a game boy. Life is a game played according to the rules”
Game my as*. Some game.
This does not appear to be a quotation within a quotation situation. Each line appears to be spoken by a different person, thus each line should be enclosed in quotation marks.
Ingy says:
What about the Wendell Johnson quote? This is how I’ve typed it previously:
“‘Always’ and ‘never’ are two words you should always remember never to use.”
Is that correct?
Rule 4 of “Quotation Marks” on our website says, “As a courtesy, make sure there is visible space at the start or end of a quotation between adjacent single and double quotation marks.” Therefore, we recommend writing “ ‘Always’ and ‘never’ are two words you should always remember never to use.” To avoid this issue, you may italicize Always and never.
Your examples all start with the introductory phrase, but for sentences that reverse the order, as is often seen in dialog, I assume that the rules would still hold, resulting in something like this:
“He left after saying, ‘I will go where I must,'” the young man offered.
as opposed to having the comma between the ending single and double quotes. Is that correct?
Your sentence is punctuated correctly, however, as a courtesy, make sure there is visible space at the start or end of a quotation between adjacent single and double quotation marks. A comma never goes between the ending single and double quotes, it comes before.
“He left after saying, ‘I will go where I must,’ ” the young man offered.
What kind of punctuation should be used for a quote within a block quotation (i.e., offset with no punctuation?) Single or double quotes?
The Chicago Manual of Style’s Rule 13.29 says, “Although material set off as a block quotation is not enclosed in quotation marks, quoted matter within the block quotation is enclosed in double quotation marks—in other words, treated as it would be in text.”
Rae Ann says:
This post is very helpful and perhaps I am over-thinking this, but when I have single quotes inside double quotes that are at the end of a sentence but not the end of the double quote, does the period go between inside the single quote or after? Example:
“It is time for ‘real reform’. We can no longer sustain under the current program.”
In American English, periods go inside the quotation marks, including single quotation marks.
Lynn Horton says:
Are there exceptions to the rule that all quotation marks go outside end puncuation. And how about when using a colon or semicolon?
We are not sure where you found a rule stating that all quotation marks go outside end puncuation. Our Rules for Quotation Marks state the following:
Periods and commas ALWAYS go inside quotation marks.
The placement of question marks with quotation marks follows logic. If a question is within the quoted material, a question mark should be placed inside the quotation marks.
Regarding other exceptions, The Associated Press Stylebook says, “The dash, the semicolon, the colon, the question mark and the exclamation point go within the quotation marks when they apply to the quoted matter only. They go outside when they apply to the whole sentence.”
I’d sure like to know how to punctuate a nested quote followed by a parenthetical citation.
“To the woman He said: ‘I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you’” (Genesis 3:16, NKJV).
Is it correct to leave out the period at the end of the quoted sentence and place it only after the parentheses? Or should that end with:
…rule over you.’” (Genesis 3:16, NKJV).
Also, would the rule be any different if the quote itself contained more than one sentence?
This is an area where various reference books differ in their recommendations. There appears to be general agreement that the period should follow the closing parenthesis of the citation. However, placement of the closing quotation marks differs among, for instance, the Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), and Turabian style, which complicates the method to use for a quotation within a quotation. Our interpretation of APA style would result in the following:
“To the woman He said: ‘I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you’ ” (Genesis 3:16, NKJV).
If the quote consisted of more than one sentence, then it stands to reason that a period would appear at the end of the first sentence. However, the period for the second sentence would appear after the parentheses. Also, note that we recommend a space between the single and double quotation marks to avoid confusion.
January 2, 2015, at 12:25 pm
I cannot figure out if I need to put a period at the end of this sentence, or if the question mark will suffice.
Should the sentence look like this:
There is no one size fits all to the question, “How much exercise will I have to do?”.
There is no one size fits all to the question, “How much exercise will I have to do?”
Only one ending punctuation mark is needed. Therefore, the question mark will suffice.
Michele Movius says:
The sentence begins with a person thinking. She asks herself:
Why would this door say, ‘KEEP OUT!’ ?
Question 1: Would the question mark be placed as seen above?
Another: She is now speaking and says, “Well! I’m certainly not going to ‘keep out,’ “, Ann exclaimed.
Question 2: Does the comma come directly after ‘out’ in this statement – or would the comma come after the single quotation in this case?
Thank you for you help?
When a person is thinking, it is called “internal dialogue.” Our blog Internal Dialogue: Italics or Quotes? points out that you may use either quotation marks or italics. Your first sentence could be punctuated as follows:
She asked herself, “Why would this door say ‘KEEP OUT!’?” OR
She asked herself, Why would this door say “KEEP OUT!”?
In your second sentence, only one comma is necessary. There is no obligation to put “keep out” in quotation marks just because the sign did.
“Well! I’m certainly not going to keep out,” Ann said. OR
“Well! I’m certainly not going to keep out!” Ann exclaimed.
With regard to quote within a quote, what happens when one of the people speaking starts telling a story and the story has dialogue. Do still open each paragraph with a double quote as the main character is telling the story and what happens when the character in the story’s dialogue also expands more than one paragraph. Can you clarify this issue with nested dialogues or stories. Thx u
The Chicago Manual of Style’s Rule 13.31 says, “If a run-in quoted passage contains an interior quotation that runs for more than one paragraph, a single quotation mark appears at the beginning and end of the interior quotation, and both double and single quotation marks appear before each new paragraph belonging to it. If the interior quotation concludes at the same point as the including one, the single closing quotation mark precedes the double one.”
The grammar czar at my office insists that the “nested” quotation rules apply to quotations that are repeated various times in their entirety, so that we end up with something like:
“‘”‘”‘”He screamed this is insane.”‘”‘”‘”
In the legal context, it isn’t particularly unusual for a phrase to be repeated through a number of decisions.
To me it seems incredibly distracting without serving any real purpose, but I can’t find a rule addressing complete nesting, as opposed to partial nesting.
I understand I can try to finesse the problem by re-writing the sentence, but any help with identifying an actual rule that addresses this question?
It sounds as though you are talking about a quotation within a quotation within a quotation … Can you provide a brief example?
Boss has this but I disagree:
“Will organizations be able to mitigate their fine merely by showing that they had a compliance program “on paper?”
should it be:
“Will organizations be able to mitigate their fine merely by showing that they had a compliance program ‘on paper?'”
also is there any space b/n the single quote and double quote at the end of a sentence. the strait quotes show more space than the curly but we use curly.
You are correct that single quotation marks should be used, and we normally recommend a single space between adjacent single and double quotation marks. However, in this case
your question mark is out of place. The sentence should read, “Will organizations be able to mitigate their fine merely by showing that they had a compliance program ‘on paper’?”
gat10279 says:
What if you have three or more quotes within quotes? example: I am quoting a quote from a story, but that quote contains dialogue. (And I kept telling you as if I were in a room, ‘Go away. Stop knocking on the door! I do not want to let you into this room’…) continue in a pattern (” ‘And I kept telling you as if I were in a room, “Go away. Stop knocking on the door! I do not want to let you into this room”…’ “)
We recommend writing the quotation as follows:
“And I kept telling you as if I were in a room, ‘Go away. Stop knocking on the door! I do not want to let you into this room.’ “
What if it is something like:
“I can’t live without music,” I answer. I open the piano and play- loud and fast.
Would you write it like:
“‘I can’t live without music,’ I answer. I open the piano and play- loud and fast.”?
This does not appear to be a quotation within a quotation. It is unclear whether the second sentence is part of the quotation. We assume it is not. We recommend using a long dash instead of a hyphen. For information please see our post “Dashes vs. Hyphens.”
“I can’t live without music,” I answer. I open the piano and play—loud and fast.
In Chicago style, if we are using a quote from a person involved in an incident as published in a newspaper and only that quote, do we need to use single as well as double quotes, or should we say “quoted in” in the parenthetical citation, or if we clearly identify the speaker, do we need to use anything other than the double quotes? Such as, we say: According to the victim, “I was alarmed” (The New York Times 2013, January 13, 3). Is that OK?
If the author of the article is stated in the newspaper, that person should be given credit. Following the Chicago Manual of Style’s Rule 14.206, your citation could read as follows with and without an author:
John Doe reports that the victim stated, “I was alarmed” (New York Times, January 13, 2013).
According to the victim, “I was alarmed” (New York Times, January 13, 2013).
Chasity says:
I was wondering if single quotation marks could be used to reference a previously quoted piece of dialogue.
For example (in fiction writing):
And then later, after thoughts follow, the character getting lost in their head:
“You heard me,” he replied, and it took me a second to remember I’d phrased ‘what’ as a question.
I realize I could write the last sentence to say “…and it took me a second to realize I’d asked a question.” But I was wondering if the single quotation would be incorrect or if the word ‘what’ should be in double quotation marks.
Single quotation marks are valid only within a quotation. Therefore, we recommend using double quotation marks or italics for the word what.
Paul Thaxter says:
When you are reading aloud I suppose you say “quote” and “unquote” or “end of quote”, but what do you say for quotations within quotations? Thanks!
We are unable to find any formal grammar rules regarding the proper way of reading quotations within quotations aloud.
If a character in a novel is reading a newspaper article aloud, would that be a quote within a quote ( ” ‘) or simply a quote (“)? Also, would the same rule apply to a character singing an operatic aria, for example?
Thank you for your input in this matter.
In both of your examples, if the character is quoting directly from the source, you would need single quotation marks within double quotation marks.
I am quoting Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” and there is one part I need to quote in my essay that reads as follows: And then from out of Lennie’s head there came a little fat old woman. She wore thick bullseye glasses and she wore a huge gingham apron with pockets, and she put her hands on her hips, and she frowned disapprovingly at him. And when she spoke, it was in Lennie’s voice. “I told you and told you,” she said, “I told you, ‘Mind George because he’s such a nice fella and good to you.’ ” If I put double quotes around this section of the book, then single quotes around what Aunt Clara is saying, which punctuation mark do I use when she quotes herself within the single quotes?
For quotations inside quotations inside quotations, alternate using single and double quotation marks. Your quotation would be correct as is, if you indented it to let the reader know that you are quoting from the book. Or you could do it this way, which gets a bit dizzying:
“And then from out of Lennie’s head there came a little fat old woman. She wore thick bullseye glasses and she wore a huge gingham apron with pockets, and she put her hands on her hips, and she frowned disapprovingly at him. And when she spoke, it was in Lennie’s voice. ‘I told you and told you,’ she said, ‘I told you, “Mind George because he’s such a nice fella and good to you.” ‘ “
Queen Mary says:
Could you please help how to do an in-text citation and in the reference list, when I have a paraphrase by the journalist from the article published in the online version of e.g. New York Times:
Smith said that the law has to be amended as “it jeopardizes our national interests”.
When the author is known (Daniel)could I say:
According to Daniel, Smith warned that the law amendment is necessary as it threatens (our)the national interests (2015, para. 3).
or if I want to cite this paraphrase, could I do it this way:
As it was published,”Smith said that the law has to be amended as ‘it jeopardizes our national interests.’ ” (qtd in Daniel, 2015, para. 3)
when the author is not known, would the in-text citation be (qtd in ARTICLE TITLE, 2015) or (qtd in NEW YORK TIMES, 2015)?
Would this be correct in the Reference list:
Daniel, J. (2015, September 18) The law has to be amended. New York Times(in italic) retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/
You do not state which style guide you are required to follow. Each style guide has different guidelines for citations and reference lists. We recommend that you refer to the style guide for your field.
Martin Bluck says:
This was really helpful, thankyou.
Yonatan Shaked says:
First, I am very sad to read of Jane’s passing. I had no idea. I often take advice from this site but only now, because I have a particular question, did I discover this very sad news. May her dear soul rest in peace.
I was reading Rule 6. When quoted material runs more than one paragraph, start each new paragraph with opening quotation marks, but do not use closing quotation marks until the end of the passage.
Example: She wrote: “I don’t paint anymore. For a while I thought it was just a phase that I’d get over.
“Now, I don’t even try.”
Please may I ask a question?
If someone is quoting someone, and it includes speech, do I use opening quotation marks each time, each line? For example:
“I observe from the paved court before the common hall. The judge asked the teacher, ‘Are you who you say you are?’
“The teacher then responds, ‘Yes, I am.’
“The judge turns to the crowd and says, ‘This is the man!’
“The teacher has no defence and the judge has no choice but to convict him. But the judge turns to the crowd and asks, ‘Do you want me to release this man?’ “
I’m British, if this makes any difference!
Thank you for your kind words about Jane. Since the character is unidentified, it is unclear whether the entire passage is a character’s internal dialogue, a character describing a scene to someone else, or neither. We need more information in order to respond.
Dupes says:
How do I properly place the quotation marks when quoting a passage that starts with a quote within a quote but ends with the quote?
Example: I want to quote the following passage verbatim in my history paper starting with the word “sacred” and ending with the word “believe”
The passage reads:
[“sacred land” of freedom, where it is impossible to believe]
So how do I quote this entire passage since it begins with a quote and more specifically how many quotes do I start with?
‘sacred land of freedom,’ where it is impossible to believe”
Please help and thank you in advance.
” ‘Sacred land of freedom,’ where it is impossible to believe.”
Doug F. says:
I don’t know if you’d be willing to answer just one quick question about punctuation; I sure would appreciate it. I checked out your book from the library a while back, but couldn’t find this:
When talking about a CONCEPT, which one of the following is the correct use of punctuation?
There are many things that we ‘know’ to be true that aren’t.
There are many things that we “know” to be true that aren’t.
Thanks very much for your help!
Our online Rules 4a and 4b of Quotation Marks cover this situation. Use standard double quotation marks.
I’m writing an essay, and i was really confused because there was a quote in the essay that i wanted to quote after it ended, and i don’t know how to punctuate it properly. Is this how i should punctuate it? (This is just an example) “‘ I know what will happen’ John said”
” ‘I know what will happen,’ John said.”
How would I write the following?
Original quote from book:
“God the Father Almighty” is “Maker of heaven and earth.”
How would I write this correctly?
Harold Kuhn states “‘God the Father Almighty’ is ‘Maker of heaven and earth.’”
Harold Kuhn states “”God the Father Almighty” is “Maker of heaven and earth.””
We are not clear what is being quoted. If “Harold Kuhn states” is not part of the original quote from the book, then you may write:
Harold Kuhn states, “God the Father Almighty” is “Maker of heaven and earth.”
Harold Kuhn states, “God the Father Almighty [is] Maker of heaven and earth.”
If “Harold Kuhn states” is part of the original quote from the book:
“Harold Kuhn states, ‘God the Father Almighty’ is ‘Maker of heaven and earth.’ ”
“Harold Kuhn states, ‘God the Father Almighty [is] Maker of heaven and earth.’ ”
Please note the courtesy space between the single and double quotation marks at the end of the last two examples.
person says:
okay if im writing an essay in mla format how would i write “said, you’re fresh out of prison,” as quote in my essay?
We are not sure what you are asking. A simple quote in any format would be written as follows:
He said, “You’re fresh out of prison.”
A Bible quote is included in a book I am formatting. The entire quote is from Jesus. A double quote and a single quote are used at the beginning and the end. That seems to not be necessary to me. Since the entire quote is Jesus’ words wouldn’t double quotes be sufficient and the single quotes be deleted?
See example:
“‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.’”
It seems to us that the author of the book is implying that Luke is quoting Jesus. Therefore, this may qualify as a quotation within a quotation. Not being Bible scholars, we will let you decide. If you end up using single and double quote marks, as a courtesy make sure there is visible space at the start and end of the quotation between adjacent single and double quotation marks:
“ ‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.’ ”
is the following correct?
“ ‘Atticus, are we going to win it?’ ‘No, honey.’ ‘Then why-’ ‘Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win,’ Atticus said.”
there are 2 people talking and it looks weird to me for some reason.
also how would I put in the other person talking without messing with the quote?
for example is it like
“ ‘(Scout) Atticus, are we going to win it?’ “
This appears to be a passage from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. If you are quoting from the book, we recommend:
” ‘Atticus, are we going to win it?’
‘No, honey.’
‘Then why?’
‘Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win,’ Atticus said.”
When quoting a quote from an article, what would you do? For example, quoting something from Dr. Seuss: “And will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)” But, this was already quoted in the article so you need to quote what the person said, not Dr. Seuss. (For better emphasis, imagine that the article had a scientist create a claim and they stated it with no introduction.) What I’m asking is would it be: single quotation, double quotation, quote, single quotation, double quotation or the single quotation mark and double quotation mark reversed, etc, etc? Could somebody shed some light?
Since you posted the question in the “Quotations Within Quotations” post, if a scientist is quoting Dr. Seuss, the person quoting the scientist would use double, single, single, double quotation marks respectively.
Cinta says:
Ok, I have a question. What if the text I need to cite is a paragraph starting with double quotation marks, such as a this text:
“What,” said he, “makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation?[…]”
How shall I quote it? Should I use single quotation marks so as to avoid two double quotations together? Like:
‘“What,” said he, “makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation?[…]”‘
Or what should I do?
Thank you very much for your time.
As the post states, “As a courtesy, make sure there is visible space at the start or end of a quotation between adjacent single and double quotation marks.” We recommend the following:
” ‘What,’ said he, ‘makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation?’ “
Kodee says:
What if you need to quote something that is already quoted ? Like
“If life does exist somewhere on Mars,” scientist Steve remarked “it has managed…..”
Would you do “‘If life does exist somewhere on Mars,” scientist Steve remarked “it has managed…..”‘
As the post states, use single quotation marks inside double quotation marks when you have a quotation within a quotation. As a courtesy, make sure there is visible space at the start or end of a quotation between adjacent single and double quotation marks.
” ‘If life does exist somewhere on Mars,’ scientist Steve remarked, ‘it has managed … ‘ “
Elf says:
You are very patient in explaining over and over again. I like your article; found it by searching for an answer on quotes within quotes for a friend when said friend didn’t believe me. And I’ve been an editor & writer for [mumble] decades. Bah. Anyway, thanks for the clear article and for your willingness to respond to everyone.
joniboni7 says:
I second this.
Mark Colligan says:
How about this dilemma: A quote within a quote within a quote:
Is A or B correct?
The Administration reported in it’s daily blogpost, “In awarding his student, Mr Moore said, ‘Class, I was impressed when Kari told me that her father’s dictionary states […if you want to right a quote within a quote within a quote, you use brackets] so I awarded her a squirrel nugget.’”
The Administration reported in it’s daily blogpost, “In awarding his student, Mr Moore said, ‘Class, I was impressed when Kari told me that her father’s dictionary states ‘…if you want to write a quote within a quote within a quote, you use brackets’ so I awarded her a candy.’”
Neither is correct. We recommend the following, but it should be noted that the recommendation to use brackets is incorrect:
The Administration reported in its daily blog post, “In awarding his student, Mr Moore said, ‘Class, I was impressed when Kari told me that her father’s dictionary states ” … if you want to write a quote within a quote within a quote, you use brackets,” so I awarded her a candy.’ “
Sadie t says:
Is the following statement written correctly?:
As states in Keyishian v. Board of Education, 1967, “The classroom is peculiarly the ‘marketplace of ideas.’ The Nation’s future depends upon leaders trained through wide exposure to that robust exchange of ideas which discovers ‘truth out of a multitude of tongues, [rather] than through any kind of authoritative selection.’ ”
I am using a quote for my essay and was wondering if the following is correct,
Helen was talking to Zosia about her forgotten memory and their Jewish past when Zosia said,“‘One must remember. It’s vital. One needs to remember. One needs one’s roots. For me’ -She waved her hand helplessly – ‘I have nothing. I have no roots.’” (324).
It appears to us that only Zosia is speaking, therefore this does not seem to be a quotation within a quotation. Your hyphens or dashes also make punctuating with quotation marks awkward. We suggest:
Helen was talking to Zosia about her forgotten memory and their Jewish past when Zosia said, “One must remember. It’s vital. One needs to remember. One needs one’s roots. For me,” she waved her hand helplessly, “I have nothing. I have no roots.”
Why do news websites use single quotation marks in their headlines and video descriptions but use double quotation marks in the body of the article?
Trump Pledges to Keep ‘America First’
…outlining his forceful vision of a new national populism and echoing the same “America first” mantra that swept him to victory last November.
Sorry if this was discussed already.
You make a good observation. The Associated Press Stylebook recommends using single quotation marks in headlines. AP Stylebook is a guide specific for news media and journalists.
Marshall Hudnall says:
Based on what I have read above, is this correct? This is a dialogue I am writing, the portion inside the single quotation marks is a direct quote from the book.
Me: “Choose a seat that shows the group you are there to be an active participant. Sit ‘directly in the circle in a flexible seating space, close to a circular table, or at a central point at a square or rectangular table’ ” (Galanes & Adams, 2013, p. 42).
Without seeing the broader context, it appears you are on the right track. However, writing Me with a colon is not a standard way to write a quotation in formal writing. We suggest something like the following:
I instructed, “Choose a seat that shows the group you are there to be an active participant. Sit ‘directly in the circle in a flexible seating space, close to a circular table, or at a central point at a square or rectangular table’ ” (Galanes & Adams, 2013, p. 42).
Hi, I wanted to know, is it,
The clerk sighed. “That’s why I always tell people you should never put a bag down without keeping an eye on it, especially in this place.”
Or, “That’s why I always tell people, “you should never put a bag down without keeping an eye on it,” especially in this place.”
Is it,
Pertaining to answering a person as to what a message says,
Jenna took the phone out of Darla’s bag. It stopped ringing. She opened it and said, “It’s a text message from Daddy.”
“What does it say?”
“It says, ‘Honey, I’m on my way home, hope dinner is ready when I get there.’ ”
“It says, Honey, I’m on my way home, hope dinner is ready when I get there. ”
“Did you just say you’re with your mother?”
“Did you just say, “you’re with your mother?’ ”
“It’s like you said at the club the other night, ‘hard work really pays off.’ ”
“It’s like you said at the club the other night, hard work really pays off. ”
Which ones are correct
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Regarding the clerk, the use of quotes depends on whether those are the exact words the clerk uses with people or whether that’s the gist of what the clerk says. You may use your discretion as the author.
If the exact words:
The clerk sighed. “That’s why I always tell people, ‘You should never put a bag down without keeping an eye on it, especially in this place.’ ”
If not the exact words:
“It says, ‘Honey, I’m on my way home; hope dinner is ready when I get there.’ ”
Jacqueline G. says:
How would I quote someone else saying “Yes,” she said slowly; “and how foolish our human distinctions seem-now,” looking down to the great dead city stretched below, swimming in unlightened shadows.
And how would I quote this “Yes, she said slowly; and how foolish our human distinctions seem- now, looking down to the great dead city stretched below, swimming in unenlightened shadows”.
It appears to us that in each sentence there is only one speaker; therefore, neither seems to be a quotation within a quotation. There is also an unnecessary hyphen between the words seem and now. If you are intending to indicate hesitation, a pause, or wavering in an otherwise straightforward sentence, we recommend an ellipsis (see Rule 2 of Ellipses). Also, periods always go inside the quotation marks.
Your first sentence appears to indicate that “looking down to the great dead city …” is not part of what is spoken aloud, while the second sentence seems to indicate it is spoken. If our guesses are correct, we recommend the following as possible clarifications:
1. “Yes,” she said slowly as she looked down to the great dead city stretched below, swimming in unenlightened shadows, “and how foolish our human distinctions seem … now.”
2. “Yes,” she said slowly, “and how foolish our human distinctions seem … now, as I look down to the great dead city stretched below, swimming in unenlightened shadows.”
How would I cite a character saying this “He was a man, – no more; but he was in Bjorn some larger sense a gentleman, -sensitive, kindly, chivalrous, everything save his hands and- his face.” ? Would I have to use single quotation marks?
Again, it appears to us that there is only one speaker; therefore, the sentence is not a quotation within a quotation. Only double quotation marks are needed. Commas are not used together with hyphens or dashes. We suggest:
“He was a man, no more; but he was in Bjorn some larger sense a gentleman: sensitive, kindly, chivalrous, everything save his hands and his face.”
What if the speaker is not quoting someone? For instance, if the sentence is: “In a world where success is usually based on monetary intake, it takes a special person to accept a “call” to teach,” wrote Erik. “I believe I have been “called” to help children.”
Use single quotation marks inside double quotation marks.
“In a world where success is usually based on monetary intake, it takes a special person to accept a ‘call’ to teach,” wrote Erik. “I believe I have been ‘called’ to help children.”
To us, these uses of call and called are commonly understood and do not require quotation marks.
Renee Holly says:
This is a testimony in a court setting. I am not sure how to set off the quotes by the witness. The problem for me is whenever he says I said” because he is saying what he said, which is a quote within a quote, but it is him repeating what he himself said. Hope that makes sense.
If the entire testimony is placed within quotation marks, then the portions following I said should be placed within single quotation marks.
Alex B says:
Is this right? “Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.’ ‘You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining the future that keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.’”
It is not clear who is speaking. It seems like one person; therefore, it is not a quotation within a quotation. If that is the case, just use quotation marks at the beginning and end of the quote. See Quotation Marks.
Jayna Richardson says:
I’m proofreading a manuscript that has several instances of the author using single quotes within dialogue like this: “You can call me ‘Dave’,” he said. It seems to be punctuated correctly, but I’m wondering if the single quotes are necessary. I suppose it does prevent ambiguity so that the reader doesn’t think that the person speaking is telling someone named Dave to call him, but it seems unlikely that anyone would misinterpret this sentence if we simply deleted the single quotation marks, and it certainly looks cleaner without them. On the other hand, a few lines down the author has a similar sentence of dialogue: “She even calls him ‘Dinosaur’ because of his old-fashioned beliefs.” I’m more hesitant to delete the single quotation marks in this instance because it does seem to make the meaning of the sentence clearer. And I think if I keep the single quotation marks in one instance like this, I probably need to keep them in every instance for the sake of consistency. Your thoughts? (Much appreciated, by the way!)
The capitalization signals proper nouns: Dave as a name and Dinosaur as a descriptive or characterizing word used instead of a person’s name. We see no need for single quotes.
In addition, if the speaker were addressing someone else instead of referring to himself, the punctuation would be: You can call me, Dave.
Ravindra says:
Can you please help in the punctuation of quotes within quotes?
Are the following sentences correct?
Humpty Dumpty said, “The students offered these answers: ‘I love English’ and ‘I would love to love English.’”
Humpty Dumpty said, “The students offered these answers: ‘I love English,’ ‘I like English (do I have a choice?),’ and ‘I would love to love English.’”
Humpty Dumpty said, “The students offered these answers: ‘I love English,’ ‘I like English (do I have a choice?),’ ‘Who the devil are you, anyway?’ and ‘I would love to love English.’”
Yes, the sentences are correctly punctuated; however, as we state in this post, “As a courtesy, make sure there is visible space at the start or end of a quotation between adjacent single and double quotation marks.” Therefore, we recommend the following:
Humpty Dumpty said, “The students offered these answers: ‘I love English’ and ‘I would love to love English.’ ”
Humpty Dumpty said, “The students offered these answers: ‘I love English,’ ‘I like English (do I have a choice?),’ and ‘I would love to love English.’ ”
Humpty Dumpty said, “The students offered these answers: ‘I love English,’ ‘I like English (do I have a choice?),’ ‘Who the devil are you, anyway?’ and ‘I would love to love English.’ ”
Please, does the “hey” need to start with a capital letter?
“So, I thought ‘hey, why not?’ And it turns out that it’s not that hard to do.”
Yes, always capitalize the first word in a complete quotation, even midsentence or as a quotation within a quotation. Also, use a comma to introduce a direct quotation. Because a comma after the word “So” could be considered to be discretionary, we recommend omitting it so as not to overburden your sentence with commas: So I thought, “Hey, why not?” And it turns out that it’s not that hard to do. (It’s not apparent to us from the context how this is a quotation within a quotation.)
Can someone help with this double and single quote text?
Is this correct? It is from a text that I am quoting in a conversation between 2 people.
“ ‘Jimmy if they were going to kill me, would you have told me?’ I asked as he drove me back to my car.
‘What would you expect?’ he countered.
‘I’d expect you to tell me!’
As I said it, the truth drained from the words, and Jimmy picked up on it.
‘If they were going to kill me, would you tell me, Michael?’
‘No,’ I said. ‘That’s sick, isn’t it, Jimmy? What kind of friends are we? What kind of life is this?’ ”
Your double and single quotation marks are done correctly.
Lita says:
So if there is a quote that is inside of a quote in a quote, would you use double quotation marks for the innermost quote?
Ex: “The lone dissent came from Justice Potter Stewart, who argued that the majority had ‘misapplied a great constitutional principle.’ He wrote, ‘I cannot see how an [ ‘ or ” ?] official religion [ ‘ or ” ?] is established by letting those who want to say a prayer say it. On the contrary, I think that to deny the wish of these school children to join in reciting this prayer is to deny them the opportunity of sharing in the spiritual heritage of our Nation.’” (I put brackets around the innermost [?] quote)
For information regarding quotations within quotations within quotations, please see our reply to Ray of August 23, 2010, and our response to Nadia of May 7, 2014. Also, for extended quotations, you may want to consider indentation to eliminate the opening and closing set of quotation marks (see Rule 8 of Colons).
Randy Schultz says:
I am emulating a 1920s author, writing about Morse code. Extra visible space between single and double quotes was not added in the 1920s manuscript, although my word processer and the original manuscript show a little space. Are the commas placed correctly within the single quotes? Does “like” need a comma after it?
“When a signal that is generated by a vacuum tube comes in, it sounds like ‘dit’ and ‘dah,’ not ‘dot’ and ‘dash,’” explained Bob. “So, SOS sounds like ‘di-di-dit, dah-dah-dah, di-di-dit,’ and CQ is ‘dah-di-dah-dit, dah-dah-di-dah.'”
Your commas are correct as written.
Hello, when using quotation marks for direct speech which is longer than one sentence, can I use one set of quotation marks at the start of the first sentence and the end of the last sentence? Or do I need to open and close quotation marks at every sentence? It is for year 5 students, not academic writing at a university level.
As long as it is one person speaking, you can use one set of quotation marks. When a new person speaks, another set of quotation marks is used.
Jim Wexell says:
I’m interviewing an athlete for a Q and A, and to simplify for the reader I am not using quotation marks, just
Q: Blah, blah, blah?
A: Blah, blah, blah, and my coach said, Work harder.
Should Work harder be in single or double quotation marks?
We recommend using double quotation marks.
Hello. In my story, I have a character reading from a plaque out loud and adding her own comment. What is written on the plaque is a quote from that person. Do I use single or double quotation marks? And does that quote need to be italicized?
Example: “John W. Smith,” Cassie read aloud. ” ‘To do so would be a waste of time!’ I totally agree!”
Your sentence is punctuated correctly. There is no reason to italicize the quote.
In English I have to quote a character speaking out loud and he says a quote within his speech. So I typed “ ‘ “Many mansions” is the Lord’s way of saying that he loves all of mankind’ ” (Courtenay 258). Is this citation correct? It looks so weird when I type it out.
That’s a good try, but the following is correct:
“ ‘Many mansions’ is the Lord’s way of saying that he loves all of mankind” (Courtenay 258).
Do I use a single quotation mark for only the inside part of the quotes as in:
“‘Do you think dad meant that though?’ I asked him. ‘We’re moving.'”
“‘Do you think dad meant that though?” I asked him “We’re moving.'”
Unfortunately, from the information you’ve given us, we are unable to determine whether one or more people are speaking.
Jenyse says:
How would you read a quote within a quote out loud?
For example, Sally said, “Don’t be so ‘stupid’ all the time.” Would you say, “Sally said quote don’t be so quote stupid end-quote all the time end-quote,” or “Sally said quote dont be so stupid all the time end-quote”?
Leading with “Sally said” already signals that what follows is quoted material. Speaking the word quote could be optional but seems unnecessary. We see no reason to place stupid in quotation marks.
I said, “John, why do you keep asking, ‘What is this?’ ”
I translate audio so I cannot change the structure of the sentence. I’m just not sure about the question mark because there are actually two question, but I’m assuming you only need to use a single question mark and not …’What is this?’?”
The question mark should immediately follow the original sentence being quoted. Because a sentence should have only one ending punctuation mark, your first version is correct:
I said, “John, why do you keep asking, ‘What is this?’ ” (We like your inclusion of a space between the single and double quotation marks at the end.)
BLHull says:
Everyone seems to have missed an incredibly obvious question. How do you do this when the quote within a quote does not end the sentence?
ie: “Mama will never forgive you. ‘We’ve little rope left,’ she likes to say.”
Did I do that right?
Your sentence is punctuated correctly.
In the book it looks like this: “ ‘If you remember,’ ” said Carton, dictating, “ ‘ The words that passed between us, long ago, you will readily comprehend this when you see it.’ ”
Then what would it look like if I wanted to quote that in an essay? Would it be: “ “ ‘…?
Although we’re not seeing the context that makes this a quotation within a quotation, we’ll assume that it is. However, there appear to be errors either in the book or in your transcription of the passage. We would think it should be:
” ‘If you remember,’ said Carton, dictating, ‘the words that passed between us, long ago, you will readily comprehend this when you see it.’ ”
For quotations inside quotations inside quotations, you may alternate using double and single quotation marks:
” ‘ “If you remember,” said Carton, dictating, “the words that passed between us, long ago, you will readily comprehend this when you see it.” ‘ ”
Alternatively, it may be clearer to use italics: ” ‘If you remember,’ said Carton, dictating, ‘the words that passed between us, long ago, you will readily comprehend this when you see it.’ “
C Mathews says:
When a quotation is within a very long quotation with many paragraphs, each paragraph should start with a double quotation mark and be indented, but if that paragraph starts with a quote then does it have both a double followed by a single?
Normally, indenting a long quoted passage alleviates the need for quotation marks. However, if the quoted passage itself contains another quotation, then use double quotation marks at both the beginning and end of that included quoted material.
Bande says:
Thanks for your explanation; it is very helpful.
In the second example above you wrote:
Bobbi said, “I read the article, ‘A Poor Woman’s Journey.’ ”
So shouldn’t it be “I read the article ‘A poor Woman’s Journey,’ ” without a comma after “article”?
That’s a good question, Bande. Since you are not given any context to this quotation, you don’t know whether this one article has already been referenced by someone in the conversation Bobbi is having (non-restrictive appositive—separate with comma) or whether Bobbi is referencing this article from among two or more articles previously mentioned (restrictive appositive—no comma). Therefore, it could go either way. We have revised the example so that the point we are trying to make regarding single and double quotation marks is clear.
We are writing an essay and multiple people are saying thank you and we do NOT mention names because many people are saying thank you. Where do the quotes go? “Thank you,” thank you,” thank you,” I heard all around me. Is that correct?
As described, this is not a quotation within a quotation. Various approaches could be:
I heard “thank you” all around me.
I heard thank yous all around me.
I heard them [or it] all around me: “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
If we want to break up the different thank you(s), we would probably treat them as separate statement/sentences:
I heard it [or them] all around me: “Thank you,” “Thank you,” “Thank you.”
Joselito Nones says:
How do you put quotation marks on two separate quotations from a book but mentioned into adjacent sentences?
Is the below example correct or do we need to put them into separate quotation marks? Also, is there any specific rule to follow for this instance? I am following CMOS.
At the same time, though, it made him “a very efficient clergyman. He became a man of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin.”
These were taken from the original:
Among all its bad influences, the black veil had the one desirable effect, of making its wearer a very efficient clergyman. By the aid of his mysterious emblem–for there was no other apparent cause–he became a man of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin.
At the same time, though, it made him “a very efficient clergyman … he became a man of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin.”
Please see our rules for Ellipses.
Melissa Molloy says:
My question is regarding speech.
If a character is speaking and within their speech they are mimicking another character, talking in present tense, and also repeating words they have said previously, to said ‘other’ character. How is best to punctuate this?
“Freya, my darling girl. I’m afraid he does.” I took in a deep breath and in a melodic voice continued. “Reverend Jessamy Ward!” Only Bishop Marshall, or my mother, ever called me Jessamy. “I think it’s time for you to have your own parish. The vicar on the Isle of Wesberrey passed away a few months ago. Terrible end, pancreatic cancer, most unpleasant. Anyway, God has welcomed him home and his happy departure leaves a vacancy that, well, if I am honest, no one else is overly keen to take on.” The Bishop had the most unusual, sonorous voice that made everything he said sound like a Gregorian chant.
“Er hum, you asked me to do this. Please don’t interrupt.”
“Sorry, Reverend.”
“Ok, where was I? Ah, yes. Then I said, ‘And cats, you forgot the colony of feral cats.’” I returned to my sing-song impersonation. “Ah yes, the cats! Colin used to complain that they would keep him awake all night fighting in the graveyard.”
As you can see the first part is the speaker mimicking another character. Then in the final paragrah, the character speaks in first person present tense, but then repeats her own words from a past conversation.
I believe the mimicking/repeating of another character should have additional quotation marks and her own words should not. Yet, here the mimiced words of another character are being spoken in regular quotation marks and her own “repeated” words have the additional quotation marks.
I hope what I am asking makes sense.
To be honest, we’re not sure we understand all you are trying to accomplish here. As far as we can tell, your punctuation is good. We would only suggest inserting a space between the adjacent single and double quotation marks:
“Ok, where was I? Ah, yes. Then I said, ‘And cats, you forgot the colony of feral cats.’ ”
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Definitions: Percentage of 3rd, 5th and 8th grade students passing the Math component of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exams, by the race/ethnicity of students. Passing rates are based on Level II: Satisfactory Academic Performance standards at the final Recommended phase-in.
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"NA" = Not Applicable. No student of that race/ethnicity took the exam in this year.
The U.S. Department of Education requires that information on student ethnicity and race be collected separately. Respondents may select only one category for ethnicity (Hispanic/Latino or Not Hispanic/Latino) but may select multiple designations for race. Respondents who select "Hispanic/Latino" for ethnicity are counted in this category for aggregate reporting, regardless of the responses provided to the question on race. Respondents who select “Not Hispanic/Latino” for ethnicity, and select more than one category for race, will be counted in the category “Two or More Races” for aggregate reporting.
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Report from Louisiana: An Edwards/Rispone Runoff
By: Pat Austin
SHREVEPORT – It was a wild night in Louisiana Saturday night. LSU defeated Florida in Death Valley and John Bel Edwards and Eddie Rispone will face off in five weeks for the runoff election for Louisiana governor.
Edwards finished the night with 46% of the vote while the Republican vote was split between Rispone and Ralph Abraham. Rispone captured 27% and Abraham 23%. Other contenders in the gubernatorial race were mere blips.
Friday, President Trump visited Lake Charles, LA to lend support for the Republican candidates. He did not endorse either Rispone or Abraham until after the returns came in last night; now he has endorsed Rispone. Trump, of course, takes credit for getting Rispone into the runoff, and he may well have contributed. Lines to get inside to see Trump in Lake Charles were staggeringly long and people began camping out far in advance of the event.
Most pundits across the state do not see an Edwards re-election as a done deal:
In either scenario, Edwards will have a much tougher time scooping up support from Republican voters than he did in his first election. Edwards’ Conservative-leaning stances that attracted Republicans during his first election could seem more moderate when compared to Rispone’s. Edwards also can’t count on the same wave of support from Republican voters who had become fatigued with their party as they had with Edwards’ predecessor, former Governor Bobby Jindal.
He’s also almost certain to face critiques from Republican officials who held onto seats in Statewide offices after the primary, including one of his harshest critics Jeff Landry. And, he can expect to fight off attacks from the major Republican competitor who failed to beat Rispone to secure the runoff, Ralph Abraham.
Rispone often compares himself to Trump as a self-made businessman:
The grandson of Sicilian immigrants, Rispone grew up with six people in a one-bathroom house near the plants in blue-collar north Baton Rouge. He and a brother, Jerry, built ISC Constructors to a firm with revenue of $364 million last year.
Though much more soft-spoken and polite than Trump, Rispone upended the Louisiana Republican establishment by running as an outsider willing to blow up the traditional politics and historical governing structure to get things done.
Late Saturday night, Ralph Abraham conceded and endorsed Rispone.
The run off election is November 16.
Pat Austin blogs at And So it goes in Shreveport and is the author of Cane River Bohemia: Cammie Henry and her Circle at Melrose Planation (LSU Press). Follow her on Instagram @patbecker25 and Twitter @paustin110.
Posted on October 14, 2019 October 13, 2019 by Pat AustinPosted in UncategorizedTagged DaTechGuy's Magnificent Seven, Frank, John Bel Edwards, louisiana politics, report from LouisianaLeave a comment
Key Phrase: “Friendly Room”
We’re already talked a bit about how Beto O’Rourke’s admission in front of TV camera concerning taxing churches has confirmed what we’ve all known for years concerning the left. Now comes the left with the “Beto as Strawman” argument claiming that he’s a nobody, a non-entity who doesn’t really matter:
Given his low and static polling, it’s hard to tell what, exactly, Beto O’Rourke hopes to accomplish by staying in the presidential race. But while his actual goal seems a bit elusive, he is increasingly playing a very specific role: the human straw man, the embodiment of every seemingly irrational conservative fear about what the left really wants.
That’s Jordan Weissman arguing in Slate that O’Rourke’s positions aren’t actually positions of the left and all he is doing his stoking conservative fears. This is only part of his attack on Robert Francis O’Rourke
This is not the first time O’Rourke—a politician, it should be noted, without a constituency: no district, almost no support in the polls—has promised to make conservatives’ worst nightmares come true. After adopting gun control as a marquee issue following the mass shooting in El Paso earlier this year, O’Rourke promised a mandatory gun buyback program for assault weapons, memorably telling a moderator, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.” Not long after, Trump and Republicans blamed his comments for making it harder to get a gun control deal done in Congress. (Yes, that’s a bit rich coming from the GOP, but I’ll come back to that).
These are not the only far-left positions Beto has staked out recently. He’s strongly pro reparations, for instance. But his comments about churches and guns are especially remarkable, in that he’s essentially adopting unpopular stances that Democratic politicians have spent years claiming are unfair caricatures of their actual beliefs. He is turning himself into a walking straw man, the non-fringe guy Republicans can reliably point to when they want to say: “See, the libs really do want to take your guns and shut down your churches.”
There are two problems with this man’s point. The 1st is highlighted by the emphasized text. It’s rather comical to see this argument given that it was the same lefty media created him out of the whole cloth, extolling Mr. O’Rourke, promoting him as “Beto” as a counter to Ted Cruz authentic ethnicity and put him up and the sign that Texas is finally turning their way. They drew millions of dollars from liberal activists all over the country in his failed effort for senate seat and then floated him as a potential presidential candidate before they knew that the Democrat field would become large enough to field a shirts vs skins Basketball game with benches for both teams.
But it’s the second point that really give the lie to the entire piece and it comes from four simple words in the 1st sentence of the piece following the embedded video (again emphasis mine):
O’Rourke’s comments drew a warm round of applause in the friendly room, and riled conservatives, who have spent years worrying that Democrats might try to do such a thing.
That’s the key line, the room was full of Democrat activists, the people who give the money, who put the pressure on candidates and decide who can choose to make hell for any candidate who doesn’t toe the line.
Did those activists boo or cat call that line making it clear that this is not what Democrat believe?
Did they rush to defend the black church which had for so many years been the place, despite existing tax laws where Democrats openly campaigned organized and raised money?
Did they defend conservative Muslims who have increasingly become an important part of the Democrat coalition?
And most important of all did any Democrat candidate rush to clearly state that this is completely contrary to what the Democrat party in general or they in particular believe?
The answer to all of these questions is not just no but HELL NO and the reason for this is the same as why when Joe Biden they didn’t do any of these things when Joe Biden went all in on gay marriage in 2012 because he knew that this is what the people who matter in the party believe..
Beto is playing a similar gambit. He understands that the people who matter in the party along with the college students taught by their minions in school are already at this place. He furthermore is in a can’t lose proposition for him. At worst by forcing the issue he raises his profile and lasts longer int he primaries ensuring him face time for a while. At best he’s getting some chits in for next time around and assuring himself of good speaking fees for the next four years.
There are many descriptions that can be made of these moves that are apt, but “Strawman” is not one of them, in fact “Strawman” is best used to describe those on the left who are trying to pretend that Beto’s opinions are an outlier rather than someone saying aloud what everyone knows.
Update: added link and image plus this Atlantic link via Instapundit which touches on a cost that the left, in my opinion, simply doesn’t care about.
Posted on October 14, 2019 October 14, 2019 by DaTechGuyPosted in elections, Politics, primariesTagged Beto O'Rourke, Election 2020Leave a comment
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Fromm "Flirtin' with Disaster"
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ATHENS - Molly Hatchet wrote a song about Jake Fromm's off season.
Flirtin' with Disaster.
Two trips to the hospital for non-football injuries is certainly flirting with disaster. Serious? No. Am I judging? No.
But this is the sort of thing that makes folks freak out pretty good.
HEADLINE: UGA QB JAKE FROMM BREAKS HAND
Meanwhile, Dawg Post has been told that the break is on Fromm’s non-throwing left hand, and that the Warner Robins native is not expected to miss any time. Kirby Smart confirmed that the injury is "insignificant", and that Fromm is already throwing.
Still… how Georgia is this? How many bizarre things happen in the dead of the summer?
Sony Michel had a very serious hand injury a few years ago thanks to an ATV wreck.
Isaiah Crowell was arrested on felony weapons charges this time of year in 2012.
Rivals reported the news of Fromm’s injury Wednesday evening, and the panic button was hit from there. Understandably.
If voting took place today for the Heisman Trophy (HA!), Las Vegas says that Fromm wouldn’t win the award, but would be in NYC for the presentation. Fromm is the first UGA QB to win the SEC since D.J. Shockley. He’s got a squeaky-clean image, but he’s doing his best to give UGA fans a heart attack this off-season.
Maybe he should stay away from extracurricular activities for a little bit.
I can only wonder what Kirby Smart’s conversation with his quarterback went like today. Probably not that bad, but not that great, either.
It is unfair. Fromm is in the spotlight in ways that very few others understand (Aaron Murray, Jacob Eason, Matthew Stafford, D.J. Shockley). And the spotlight is brighter now than for any of those other men because of UGA’s success right now, and the reality of social media in 2018.
If this is as bad as it gets for Fromm and the Dawgs on the injury front in 2018, then mission accomplished.
Boys will be boys, but it is far from ideal (even with how minor this is) for this to be happening once more.
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Maps for Reframing an Over-Farmed Landscape
Agriculture maps frame the viewer’s relation to a settled expanse and farmed space. They describe where we get our food, the intensive over-cultivation of regions of the midwest, and chart the changed fertility of cropland that have been the consequence of large-scale industrial farms in recent decades–and offer something of a basis to orient us to their configuration but to calculate their consequences.
Maps offer a palimpsest of our recent reshaping of the rural world and our relation to cultivated farmlands. As such, they bridge the remove of most Americans from an agricultural world in ways that we have, as shoppers in malls and supermarkets, largely forgotten and moreover distanced ourselves from. The distance is all too evident in our shopping habits and expectations for the year-round availability of fresh produce–even if we shop in Whole Foods. Rather than mapping farmlands’ fertility, they try to map the active recreation of the rural as a site of economic activity, as much as an ecological unit:–a recreation underwritten in our current Farm Bill, even though few seem to have familiarity with the extent to which Department of Agriculture subsidies have informed the geography of farmed lands. For although nearly 54% of the continental U.S. is devoted to agricultural land–a slightly larger amount than the 40% worldwide–almost 99% of folks in the United States don’t work on farms. The geographic and conceptual remove of these maps from rural life stands at odd ends with the fact that most policy-making decisions occur across a rural-urban divide. Indeed, the disconnect between most Americans’ lifestyle and the growing spread of large farms in rural America suggest salutary benefits in perusing the wide range of maps from open data to immerse oneself in the quandaries of sustaining rural productivity in an age of increasing food demand.
For this is how we largely use our land: world-wide, an area approximating the size of South America is dedicated crop production, and far more—7.9 to 8.9 billion acres—to raise livestock. If this division does not seem that effective, we might begin from how the devotion of our own landscape to agriculture an effective form of land-use. For this landscape provides a model for how macroeconomic interests have altered the relation to the agrarian landscape worldwide. Despite the continued romance of the pastures and crops we produce, the mapping of agriculture productivity is particularly difficult in the failure to define the multiple adversely impacts on national farms–a problem that seems multiplied by the disconnect between most politicians from our agrarian landscape, and, indeed, most concepts of space and our agricultural space–both of which have led to a disquieting hybridization of our political and agricultural space that demands to be untangled. In an age of data-driven maps, the static images of data visualizations may seem out of date. The layering of visualizations however challenges viewers to assemble an image of urban-rural relations across the lower forty-eight–by concretely mapping and rendering evident such variables as crops in farms, farms in the land, the folks in the farms and the cities–that can provide a portrait not only of where we are, but of where we’re spending money, and how we might better conceptualize the fertility of the land we farm.
If all maps give visible form to data, maps of our agrarian landscape also create data for their observers in powerful ways. Agricultural maps of land-use deserve to be examined for their inter-relations, as much as for what they ‘say.’ No single visualization should be taken as an image of the farmed landscape–but rather offer a point of entry into that the forces that shape the landscape and the very contested views of our national cropland, and what might be appreciated as the shifting ‘cropscape’ of an increasingly post-rural world. (Even if over 90% of the farms in America are small and, for a variety of reasons, family run–96% of farms with cropland are family run, producing some 87% of the total value of crop-production in 2011, according to the USDA’s Economic Research Service, based on data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey–the landscape is increasingly defined by large agribusiness, and by how such farmers react to a market of global futures as much as national or regional needs.) The expansion of our agrarian land has been mapped by William Rankin, whose “World Cropland” (2009) provides something of a base-line for the conception of the temporal expansion and intensification of farmed crops.
William Rankin, courtesy Edible Geography
The layered images of farmlands that I consider in this post create a basis for future interactive analysis. Even without snazzy animations of time-lapse imaging of Google Earth or Google Earth Pro. By doing so, this post hopes to raise questions about how the relation and use of cropland to American agriculture might be most effectively mapped to would bring greater familiarity with the dilemmas of farming and agricultural practices. At a time when most are increasingly more unfamiliar with the organization of agricultural life that with the rising of the tides, we are all too ready to view agricultural practices in a purely macroeconomic–rather than environmental–lens. Although we imagine the agrarian landscape as an unconstrained or open space, the visualizations offer insight into what might be best be understood as a complex mosaic not only of individual interlocking ecological regions, as this ESRI visualization of the High Plains, Corn Belt, and Great Plains, but a complex economic dynamics it conceals. For despite its accuracy, and the differences between bioregions and eco regions, the unified landscape indeed conceals the divides created by the now dominant (if warped) view of each eco region as a source of crops on a global market–a view that has informed the rural landscapes over the past twenty to thirty years, from corn belt to the wheat fields to High Plains.
For as much as map nature, the division and conceptual of agricultural space in America is effectively under-written by the world market’s orientation to its products, rather than to the individual farm as a unit of farmed land. There has been something of a cognitive re-mapping of the national agrarian space, not only in terms of the needs of local bioregions or the diverse needs of bioregions that distinguish the alleged uniformity of agrarian expanse, that turns around the greater significance of cropland as a term of economic value, based on the extraction of grain or grasses from the land, distinct from the management of agriculture. The change in focus–and indeed of conceptual mapping–might allow us to look at the very same verdant terrain in Moscow, Idaho in markedly different ways, even before we’ve begun to map the variety of local crops.
The increased extraction of goods from crop lands–from corn to ethanol to silage to switchgrass–instills a view of the commoditized landscape, more familiar from contemporary images from real estate maps of land-value than to the locally or spatially situated sense of agricultural land in a specific landscape. The shifting nature of the farm has altered the agrarian landscape in recent times: despite some debate on the future of the family farm, the deceptive average stability of the size of farms has masked the rapid expansion of small farms that has paralleled an even greater expansion of large agribusiness. The consequent conversion of most farming acreage to cropland of far larger farms has created quite new processes of food production: if the mean size of a farm is 234 acres, most cropland is on farms of over 1,000 acres, and over a third on farms of over 2,000 acres. We have seen a very recent massive increase in the sizes of farms in the corn belt and northern plains–two areas where they have more than doubled in acreage and productivity, no doubt partly in response to agricultural technologies, fertilizer, and farm-seeding, as well as to the reclamation of grasslands.
Something of a tipping point may have arrived in the expansion of farm size in these regions of the central United States, and the power of the economic investments behind them: the ecology of the landscape threatens to become replaced by the commodities we extract and map in them. By mapping the dedicated mass of biological production across regions of the country, we can se the warping of the nature of land-use that we have perpetuated in recent years, as the practice of fresh farming has become overwhelmingly concentrated in pockets of high-scale production, whereas we abandon most land to consumption in shopping malls or residential tracts, and confine a density of large-scale farming to parts of Iowa, Illinois, and North and South Dakota, and Arkansas–and one pocket eastern Florida, California and Washington.
A similar change might under-write, in multiple senses, the reframing of the agrarian landscape of the United States as a source of investment rather than view it as a single or united landscape: provocative data visualizations of farmed land in the United States suggests that we have long ago passed a similar sense of tipping point. Data visualizations are supple tools to chart notions of cropland and pasture are less rooted in place and space, and mark the results of viewing the farms in extractable units–corn or animal feed or soybeans–that shift agrarian wealth from the fertility of the lands and bounty of a region, into a map of value and investment, and often of intensive production, fertilization, and even GMO crops.
There is something paradoxical or perverse about using data visualizations as a record of landscapes, and the end is not to aestheticize data visualizations as cognitive tools–although the visualizations offer quite provocative by their colors schemes alone: the images by which the conversion and farm management of the region has created offer interesting images to meditate on both the construction and the future of crop lands, and relative coherence of the concept as a viable construction of the agrarian space with which we live and to which we are deeply attached in ways that cannot only begin to be mapped. Such visualizations of the continuous forty-eight are a useful place to begin to visualize the transformation of cropland, because their qualitative depth presents such compelling pictures of the community and of how its inhabitants use its land. Take, for example, how Dustin Cable’s mapping of Census Data by one dot per person, on Stamen design’s base-map of the nation, affords a clear division in population just west of the Mississippi River.
1. Cropland, increasingly located in the less inhabited region between the High Plains and west of the Mississippi, has been shaped by the devaluing and reframing of cropland in terms of how much can be extracted from investment. Even in the face of new stressors on agricultural land-use, from rural out-migration to the decline of the family farm to the decline of hospitable local environments, and the government under-writing of agribusiness and large farms: crops are valued have combined to create a new agricultural landscape and concomitant foodscape that was more often linked to a macroeconomic context, in place of questions of how food can get to the marketplace. The expansion of transportation has effectively removed what food we eat from where we live for most.
By reconsidering the range of forms of mapping farms and the use of farmlands, we must consider the landscape of farming in which we increasingly live, even if our food rarely derives from it. US farming incomes have appreciably risen since 2010-11, attracting some financial markets, but the dynamics of farming are too often based on models of extraction, rather than of nurturing the local landscape. As the production of corn has increased, since 1980, 400 percent, soybeans 1,000 percent, and wheat 100 percent, as US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has noted, largely based on agricultural technologies and machines, including GPS seed drills, combines, and tractors, the mapping of farms have relied on being under-written by tax dollars to the tune of 30-50% by government agencies that have less regard for the mapping of farmlands. If crop insurance has helped to increase productivity some 50% since 1982, the expansion of farming technologies have shifted attention from the ecosystems and landscapes: cropland used for crops declined almost uniformly by about 50% since 1982, especially in the Northern Plains, and land-use for crops by 13%–at the same time as the amount of land dedicated to pasturage markedly increased. Corn, soy, wheat, hay, cotton, sorghum and rice traditionally constitute the bulk of farmed land; corn, soy, and wheat remain the largest cultivated crops, but the production of corn has peaked.
The range of visualizations of the changing face of farming and consequences of the emerging landscape or foodscape have neither been fully calculated or understood, and, even in an age of continuous LandSat photographs of the nation’s land cover, is challenging to map. The proliferation of maps of farmlands, from Landsat images of cropland to the expanse of regional farms, suggest a compelling illusion of coverage and expanding food production that may offer a less reliable guide to an actual landscape being devoured by agricultural machinery: if our agricultural policy is intended to bolster the strength of its remaining crops, policy has changed the landscape based on macroeconomics more than on-the-ground decisions, often ignoring place and space as construction with monocrops such as corn, soybeans, or grasses that are far from demand-based. The scarcity of water for irrigation in large part need to take stock of irrigation practices in such intensively farmed lands, in the hopes to “provide a better accounting of water use, cropland productivity, and water productivity.” The consequent proliferation of satellite-based remote sensing of farmlands provide an archive and a mirror of land use that may evoke the fear of a new form of agrarian surveillance–albeit one to encourage agreed best-practices of water conservation–but rather offer a feed-back loop to survey the recent transformation of the landscape that the reframing of national farmlands has wrought.
The striking concentration of farmed acreage in the central ten to eleven states has created a quite dramatic imbalance between the demand for agricultural subsidies and desire to control wasted water that has been so sharply contested it is difficult to agree on among elected legislative representatives. Is it possible that special interest groups might gain greater sway in the manipulation of maps to chart future agricultural policy?
It is striking that during the period of just 2002-7, the acreage devoted to farmlands intensified in those central states, even as the nation saw a dramatic reduction in agriculture’s spread.
The identical period was marked by a decline in farmed cropland acreage across the entire nation that exceeded 27 million acres, a loss apparently predominantly located in the central United States, as well as California’s Central Valley and the rural South, from Louisiana to central Florida and West Virginia:
As of 2007, concentrations of those farms operated either by families or individuals were uneven in the very same regions of the central states, and in the north-central states dropped to less than 75 percent.
At the same time, national drought placed undue pressure on farms to maintain their profitability, as this map of the counties affected by drought through 2012, compiled by the USDA’s Farm Services Administration–and who are compelled to take up drought insurance–seems to make clear.
2. Maps of agricultural production reveal the increasing remove of an agricultural landscape of the nation from its cities, and from large urban areas–and indeed concentrated in a relatively restricted region of the central United States. Of the 2.3 billion acres in the United States given to agriculture, in 2007 just under one-fifth were dedicated to crops (408 million, or 18 percent)–a number that had decreased by some 34 million acres over 2002-2007. The claim to map the comprehensive changes in land-use and land-cover in the coterminous United States from 1973 to 2000–the broader goal of the professional paper–by local surveys and satellite imagery and remotely sensed data–begins to document and explain many of the deeper changes in contemporary land-cover change, to which this post returns below.
The composition of farmlands in current years suggest a marked concentration in cropland.
The notable concentration of cropland at a remove from urban markets (noted in grey sectors of wheels in the above data visualization) and at a remove from population concentrations defines something like a belt of government subsidies that sustain large regions of agriculture–often of monoculture crops–that are abstracted from actual patterns of habitation. It is impossible to map how this concentration of cropland came about from a disinterested point of view, but data visualizations offer a fragmented view of some of the narratives by which the landscape has been and is being shaped, and the distorted notions of place and space that they generate: the visualizations suggest a range of narratives about the effectiveness of agricultural subsidies, the foodscapes created in the rural United States, shaped through the changing relation of farming as an extraction of value from the landscape, rather than as a response to local economic needs. The shifting optic that stresses the relation of the landscape to the national economy has re-framed the landscape’s fertility.
Rather than providing a coherent “map” of the agricultural economy and government investment in farms, data visualizations offer snapshots that provide a sense of multiple narratives that shape the relation to the new rural landscape. The somewhat fragmented picture they offer present several narratives about how we’ve come to regard the farming of the land, and present questions of how to unite or reconcile the varied and discordant narratives we’ve come to tell about our tutelage of an agrarian landscape and how to best meet its needs. And they don’t add up to a collective image of a landscape that is designed to be habitable over the long term, let alone economically viable.
The problem of all these maps is how to visualize–and conceptualize–or relation to the collectivity of farmed lands that could best take account of their variety. Indeed, the possibility of mapping the mosaic of agricultural productivity must begin from remapping their relations to regional needs, in ways that are obscured by privileging their relation to commercial products and food markets, as opposed to food needs–or the value of locally produced food. The multiple mechanisms by which the state and government has chosen to invest in agriculture–and promote the production of certain products on farms, to the exclusion of others–have historically shifted away from traditionally microeconomic understandings of the farm and rural agriculture to more macroeconomic questions in ways that are difficult to map, but have rewritten one’s relation to the land and the obscured the landscapes that they have begun to change.
3. The remote-sensing of shifting maps of land cover in the United States is extremely of the moment, and not only for the impact of climate change. It may be odd to present data visualizations as a landscape, but as indices of both productivity and indebtedness, regional map-based visualizations offer ways of thinking about how the land is seen in ways that have not yet been fully understood. For if the mapping of rural America and its agricultural productivity are increasingly contested, the landscape . Maps of farm subsidies offer telling mirrors of the extent of government investment in agrarian expanse. They provide a sense of the expectations for the value of land-use, and frame the image of productivity one would want to produce: but they are also the result or end-product of the negotiation of local demands, by tracing an image of the changing face of farmed land riven with debts, subsidies, relative lack of profitability and indemnities, the bulk of which go to larger farms, that expand to make up for the sizable decline in farmed acres.
When we map the huge levels of out-migration that occurred from 1980 to 2000–or from the Clinton years to the Bush years–marked by a decline of the population of the so-called “corn belt” in Nebraska, Iowa, southern Michigan, and Kansas–we can see the changed character of the rural landscape in America, as much as by the huge decline in crop diversity about which I’ve blogged in relation to the expansion of agricultural production that has been fed by agricultural subsidies–monocrops that maps of food reveal as having far less reference to a region or place, at a remove from urban areas of consumption that do not best serve populations. The shifts in settlement away from the central US were clear long before 2010, but the distribution devised by Dustin Cable maps from that year’s Census maps a starkly blank central and west, into which extend feathery wisps, clinging to roads and interstates, the new rivers of rural settlement.
The long-term but recently drastic population declines from the Great Plains and Corn Belt have been a prominent back story on the remapping of American agricultural diversity, as has the declining revenues and work associated with farmlands, often worked by fewer and growing crops with greater intensity; losses of population in rural regions orient the viewer to the shifting national foodscape, whose image of dwindling population in non-metro areas reveal stressors on the economic structures of rural agriculture, and of the relation between urban and rural lands, or between the expansion of farming to meet the population growth of urban areas. (This population shift that can also be charted by the expansion of “Heat islands” of “impervious surface area,” paved urban and extra-urban areas, mapped by Landsat images and night-time lighting, that exert disproportionate influence on climate change and remove a sense of urban settlement from agricultural space.) The loss of populations to some extent mirror the decline of family farms and rise of agribusiness, which tries to meet growing population needs.
This picture gains another layer of complexity once we consider the infusion of government subsidies to agriculture in the very same states–subsidies inflating monocrop cultivation that have created a new map of the country’s farmlands, over the decade dominated by the previous Farm Bill, and created a new and unprecedented level of indemnity and indebtedness in farms that are now considered as cropland, but often face too little water to be productive. While funds were distributed, they were concentrated in the same area where economic profits declined, and family farms shuttered–and an overall decrease in cropland nationwide was offset by increasing amounts of land dedicated to pasture and grasslands, according to the 2011 USDA ERS report. There is a tortured logic of dedicating increased land to corn and silage as animal feed: since it takes 10 to 14 pounds of grain-based feed for a cow to gain 1 pound of flesh; subsidizing animal feed is an outrageously uneconomic way to produce our food supply–although the international market for American meat is high.
Many of the same farms and acreage of farmlands are enrolled in federal crop insurance, changing the complexion of farms and character of government subsidies for land and increasing fear of their indemnities–and an increasing amount of farms enrolled in insurance programs nationwide, but especially dense in areas where state farming programs are established.
4. What are the reasons for this investment, aside from the desire to keep the local economy afloat in hard times? Despite the relatively restricted regions of intensive planting of subsidized crops, we remain tied to the mindset of a picture of the nation’s economically productive landscape as it was imagined circa 1940, when one-third of the world’s production of corn came from the central states, and half of the farmers in the central United States were tenant farmers:
The current agrarian landscape has sharply diverged from one where 62% of global production of oil was located, 52% of the entire world’s corn was harvested and Grade “A” farmland existed across the Midwest. But the attempt to invest money in the landscape to bolster its production of economically desirable products that might perpetuate this image, even at the expense of local farms and rising levels of indemnity. Protectionist legislators have continued to write into and perpetuate in our most recent national Farm Bill, although that landscape no longer exists, even if it struggles to support the image of a fertile range of grazing and farm land in the “Nation’s Bread Basket” in a land where subsidies are crucial and indemnities endemic, and local ecologies often overlooked.
The more restricted areas of cropland, combined with the recent expansion of federal subsidies to certain areas, regions, and crops reflect the relative constraints of crops within the national land cover–whose row crops are measured below across the coterminous United States–can be traced from 1992 to 2006, with special attention to relations of row crops (light brown), pasturage (yellow) and shrub lands (tan) in the central states–noting the tortured logic of dedicating cropland to animal feed if it takes 10 to 14 pounds of grain-based feed for a cow to produce but 1 pound of animal flesh.
The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium from 2001 reveals deep inroads of grasslands–with a slightly changed color-scheme–at a stunning spatial resolution of thirty meters, using remotely sensed Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper+, to differentiate land cover, and show an expanding northwest and midwest, even if the changes are slightly exaggerated by a stronger color spectrum–in which it almost seems that the physical remove of these row-crops from agrarian needs creates its own internal economy of production that has altered how cropland is conceived across the central states.
USGS Land Cover Institute (LCI), 2001
The 2006 wall-to-wall land cover database, although it groups crops collectively, shows increasing inroads of pasture (yellow) and grasslands (lightest green) and slightly diminished cropland:
It might be compared to the highlighting of pasturage in a lighter almost neon green in this USDA map of cropland layers of 2009:
5. The increased incursion of grasslands, pasture, and silage into the cropland in the cover layer conceals the deeper changes in the organization of agricultural expanse–but also masks the sort of crops that are growing in each region–including the expansion of corn and soy. Given the complexity of processing these groundcover maps, a sequence of data visualizations might reveal as a radically changed landscape both of government intervention and of expanding monocrops. As a point of contrast, however, the North American Land Change Monitoring System monitored the land cover of all North America in 2005, using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) to reveal the far greater expansion of cropland to the north–an area projected for greater future productivity of crops such as wheat, due both due to lower rising temperatures and the expansion of arable land for growing wheat, canola, and barley in all Canada by 15% in a 2008 United Nations’ Environmental Program map based on predicted “increased temperatures, precipitation differences and . . . carbon
fertilization for plants,” while American productivity of crops is predicted to drop some 15%-50% on account of the impact of climate change.
The image of arable land above the 48th parallel indeed seems much more expansive, anyways, and even far more fertile with crops today–not only due to a different structure of state subsidies, but also to different agrarian practices, and a high-speed rail dedicated to transporting grain to across the country.
The relatively restricted cropland in the United States was balanced by, oddly, an expansion of land dedicated to agribusiness crops that were less dedicated or directed to the dining table, and to an increasing mountain of investment in ostensible farmlands.
There is some evidence for the bad effects of the unmitigated expansion of row-crops in the landscape of the central United States. For the area of American cropland include a conversion of a substantial amount of land–2.5 million acres–from the Conservation Retention Program to the growing of soybeans and corn in North Dakota and Montana, creating some total plantings of some 97 million acres on formerly CRP lands since 2007, largely to the benefit of large agribusinesses who employ monoculture plantings, with a huge impact on the local landscapes.
The distribution across the country partly reflected a new “map” of how agriculture gained USDA appropriations to expand the growth of crops that might not necessarily meet food demand. Although the investment in agriculture lumps subsidies, disaster relief, crop insurance premiums, and conservation programs in an area effectively costs the nation; questions of such spending are perhaps too significant to be determined by guidelines of a single Farm Bill. In this map, farms have increasingly met needs for feed, fuel, and fiber, even while using less cropland to do so–and the design for subsidization was warped through the different agribusiness and corporate interest groups that may well have led legislators to concentrate resources in specific legislative districts, with limited investigations of their long-term effectiveness. Despite a massive conversion of nearly 400,000 acres of grasslands into cropland in 2012 alone, such “sod-saving” provisions in the Farm Bill are difficult to secure; states so notorious in converting grasslands to agricultural interests–like Florida, Nebraska, or South Dakota, and Iowa–to be known as “Sodbusters” seem indebted to the promise of jobs that big ag might secure.
A similar logic seems to play out in the receiving of agricultural subsidies to encourage the development of farmlands, most often with an eye to farm futures rather than local needs.
As a result, states are not directly subsidized–or farmers, for that matter–but the Department of Agriculture allocates funds to districts, creating a new map of the economy, as much as a map responding to needs of crop-cultivation or food-needs, based on this map of subsidies collected in bulk by some twenty-two congressional districts in the decade 1995-2004.
6. Such representations reflect the realities of the shifting agrarian landscape. They offer resources to refine our picture of the land by delineating varied concentrations of national resources by government investment. These representations of agrarian landscapes serve as a gauge to negotiate our relations to reality, as much as to measure them, placing into visual relief how we project value onto agricultural landscapes without attending to the specificity of their character–and tend to link value to the continued economic productivity of rural lands in ways that deny local changes. This even extended to the conversion of much “highly erodible land” (HEL) into cropland for moneys from 2008-12, often to intensify the farming of subsidized corn and wheat, filling areas from Montana to Texas that are centered in what was once a Dust Bowl devastated by persistent drought.
This occurred even as large numbers of wetlands, also important wildlife habitats of their own, and wetland buffers, were were also being converted to cropland in many of the same regions of the Dakota prairies, Montana and Minnesota, adding up to a loss of far over 15, 300 acres each year from 2001 to 2011–most (60%) in order to plant corn and soybeans.
The individual county costs for such conversion of such acts of bad agricultural stewardship averaged, in the case of counties loosing wetlands, $10.1 million, and in counties of highly erodible lands $5.8 million–four and two and a half times the national average respectively. And particularly notable seems the expansion of conversions of either both wetlands and highly erosive lands (framed in violet), or either wetlands (framed in sky blue) or erosive lands (framed in light green) both in Montana, upstate and western New York state, Texas and in northern California, suggesting a diffusion of bad practices of land-reclamation at much cost.
7. How much does this actually cost the government? And is this level of investment and subsidization financially sustainable? If one filters data and divides subsidies per inhabitant of rural regions, the largest six programs of USDA funds pump debt to diminished rural populations at astounding rates; if farming remains less profitable, it has gained and retained legislators’ ears for continued support for subsidizing crops as corn in areas of low population–dominated by agribusiness.
Despite the typo, the map displays an astounding concentration of relative farm dollars in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska–as Kansas, the southernmost state shown in the below map of subsidized farms in local counties, and bright blue Montana in the upper left.
The limited profitability in many of the very same regions–and indeed the focus of profitability only in states of the corn belt such as Iowa–suggest the deep economic constraints about such macroeconomic policies, and the limited success of farm income in many of the same regions in 2005–even as governments have shifted their investments to larger farms–with under 30 percent of farms receiving commodity program payments in a typical years. Indeed, the shift in the allocation of funds to farms with higher incomes and higher-income households has encouraged commodity-related programs–like grain sorghum, wheat, oats, or soybeans–that are removed from real food needs, and creates a picture of radical imbalance for the smaller farm, privileging “high value crops” in a macroeconomic sense, in ways that were often removed from actual farm income in many regions outside of Iowa, Nebraska and select parts of Missouri and Texas in this map of 2005.
The shift to larger farms whose incomes actually far exceed average household income in recent decades created a new dynamic of regional and rural investment that has privileged a food trade removed from local needs or a variety of foods, and considerably increased the percentage of non-family farms in ways that seem poised to increase over future decades.
Are the results even profitable? The level of indemnity is striking. There is not only considerable variation in crop indemnity nationwide, but evident intensity in regions of greatest population loss that are relatively removed from metro centers:
The patchwork strip of heavy indemnities of over $10 million per county, designated in dark brown, that run across the center of the country in 2010 (and are particularly concentrated in North Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas–all big foci of federal farm expenditures) raises question of the allocation of farm dollars in any Farm Bill, and indeed how to encourage local best practices with federal policies. Can such levels of indemnity be fiscally justified as a food policy?
How do they indeed distort the sort of food policy that the government might want to encourage? The question of best managing the balances of investment in the continued productivity of farmlands may have been too long framed in macroeconomic terms removed from local markets or best food practices–farm dollars being dedicated to the production of grains not destined to be consumed by human mouths, and whose cultivation imposes increasing costs for limited exchange value. Are these losses concealed in most maps of investment, and what sort of image of crop production do they effectively produce?
Some of the same states are highlighted in the below, more detailed, map of such direct and counter-cyclical payments–those payments that depend on weather changes or currency fluctuations, rather than cycles of agriculture–emerge in the recent he Farm Program Atlas, mapped for the USDA by Anne Effland, Vince Breneman, David Nulph, and Erik O’Donoghue, mapping variations in the dollars received by local farms in 2009. (The atlas will be completed through 2012, but this map provides an initial snapshot of where the money goes, county by county.) It offers a baseline of a picture of the benefits that the seven largest USDA programs give the nation’s farmers that is likely to be a touchstone in future debates.
The fluctuations charted respond to global markets and profits on crops, now removed from the calculus of local, regional, or national needs. Given that in 2009 corn and soybean prices were extraordinarily high–too high to trigger counter-cyclical payments as well as the direct–they offer an image of direct crop payments. And the image of direct cropland payments per acre is not in fact drastically different or distinct in its complexion, if it lightens the amount expended in the Northwest, Kansas, and Nebraska:
(If one were to look only at the counter-cyclical payments for that year, however, the rise in prices would make most monies appear devoted to the South for that specific year:
The different image that this provides of dollars spent in the Southland, however, is effectively a distorting mirror of the continued monies that flow to the acreage in the corn belt and across the midwest.)
If one charts the picture of the proportions of base acreage receiving either direct or counter-cyclical investment in farm dollars, a similar clustering of density emerges specific to the Midwest that suggests the remove of crops either from centers of population–metros–or areas of dense population–and even something of a marked inverse relation to population density:
The below map breaks down variations among individual counties that received dollars in ways that offer something of a mosaic not only of government investment, but a map of the competing interests that defined the future of our land use in states as of great population loss–and increased allocation of dollars/person–like Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas, suggesting considerable local variations perhaps based on local agitation.
What this means is not only an increased investment in large agribusiness, but a skewing of investments to areas removed from urban populations in the mosaic of those areas where federal farm dollars are received, and over $700/person of farm subsidies arrive yearly.
It is the underside, as it were, of increasing “over-specialization” in agricultural production and in the agrarian landscape–and the divorce of that landscape from our changing national foodscape, whose disproportional warping over the years has been described and charted by William Rankin with visual eloquence, revealing in five colors the recent expansion of monocrops in corn (orange), wheat (green) and soybeans (red), destined for agrarian feed at considerable expense both as an investment and a use of land. Local economies, such as they exist, are sustained by agribusiness–the largest property owners in many of these states, who privilege a uniformity of crop.
8. The most dangerous implication of this mis-managed mapping of federal investment may lie in the removal of local needs from a sense of what crops are being encouraged or discouraged by the USDA, creating distorted foodscapes evident in how the below map of William Rankin clearly reveals the disproportionate amount of farm dollars dedicated to specific crops–and to practices of monoculture–that are most often removed not only from the food needs of urban areas or urban poor, but run against both good agricultural practices of local variation and environmental health.
And just to focus on the monolithic intensity of Soybean and Silage in one area, one can see how little of the per capita funds spent by the USDA on agricultural acreage actually reaches the tables of Americans, or might contribute to their dietary health.
US Government data, relatively recently released, provides a shockingly similar distribution of funds picture of roughly the same area received in subsidies, as of July 11, 2012:
9. The dramatically lopsided geographical distribution that results among farmers’ markets across the nation–those ever-present upbeat small-scale micro-economies of the food trade–is no surprise: even when providing the select with “fresher” food, such markets are removed from very centers where those subsidies arrive–the inaccessibility of those markets in the major metros to folks on SNAP programs (or food stamps that the farm bill guarantees) is no surprise because it is a sort of niche agriculture in an age of the homogenization of crops, and the withdrawal of industrial agriculture from produce:
For organic farms largely spread to areas located outside the most intensively farmed acreage in the US by 2007.
Where have the organic farms gone? Outside of the corn belt, in part, although the clearly cluster in many areas of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana and Iowa, but often in the Northeast, Northwest, and Central Valley of California, the great producer of nuts, fruits, and vegetables.
What happens to larger markets of food when areas of the concentration of fruits such California’s Central Valley face sudden drought? Just stay tuned. It’s most likely coming to a food-stand near you.the USDA’s Economic Research Service, using data from the Agricultural Research Management Survey
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Mapping Commute Routes across California in Pneumatic Tubes
Before Captain James T. Kirk ordered Agent Sulu to place the engines of the USS Enterprise on warp speed to go boldly to regions of the universe no man had gone before, in 1951 Isaac Asimov described Gaal Dornick waiting nervously for a Jump through hyper-space to visit Hari Seldon on Trantor. Dornick waited for his first ride on “the only practical method of traveling between the stars” through “hyper-space, that unimaginable region that was neither space nor time, matter nor energy, something or nothing, [by which] one could traverse the length of the Galaxy in the interval between two neighboring instants of time,” in ways that seem to prefigure Kirk ordering Scotty to place engines on “warp speed ahead” from his comfortable console on the Enterprise. Elton Musk once was–not surprisingly–a big fan of Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy of 1951, and he’s offered Californians the prospect of something of a hyperspace-trip along California’s Central Valley in the futuristic Hyperloop. And now the tubes of Elon Musk seem a viable route for futuristic transit, some forty-five years after the unveiling of the pioneering long-planned 3.8 mile Trans-bay Tube and 3 mile bore vehicular tunnels of BART–the Bay Area Rapid Transit system–in September, 1972, that were among the longest in the nation.
Original BART Map (1972)
The Hyperloop Musk has recently proposed recalls Asimov’s classic description of a trip to Hari Seldon, as much as to LA, as well as a byproduct of artifacts and ideas generated at Tesla motors, to recast the commute from San Francisco to Los Angeles along airtight aluminum tubes. Musk first mapped his new mode of travel along hermetically sealed pressurized tubes in ways that reflect the idealized esthetic Google Maps afford of the Golden State: indeed, the simple overlay of a yellow path of travel helps Musk spin the fantasy of real high-speed travel out on Google Maps template, removed from the risk of earthquakes on the Hayward fault or rainy seasons that would dim its solar-powered engines. The map projects an image that obscures questions about how the cars would manage those turns at such high speeds, even as it seeks to conjure the promise of such high-speed travel. A recently tweeted prototype of the Hyperloop makes the prospect of traveling in a vacuum actually all far more concrete. Planned to run through Quay Valley, a town to be built along Highway 5, midway between LA and San Francisco, to be built with Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum, who helped craft the large hadron collider at CERN in Geneva, capsules flying through vacuum tubes across the state were promised last year, and the cross between a Concorde and air hockey table may have arrived in an actual prototype tested in California over a shorter geographical stretch.
The pioneering tube of high-speed transit would suggest one of the “greenest” travel options in the state. Rather than make the drive down that expanse, or the airplane trip on which Musk may have doodled a map of the idea on a napkin, one commutes in the Hyperloop driven by a fan on its nose that sucks in pressurized air in the aluminum tube in which it is suspended, pushing air beneath and behind it like a hydrofoil, as one speeds in a vessel through the Central Valley past the many cars that travel on I-5: indeed, the proposed placement of the track of the Hyperloop beside the interstate allows its very structure to offer something of a standing advertisement for speedy velo-commuting.
Although Musk has yet to attract the investors or engineers to build the project along Highway 5 without disturbance to surrounding croplands on aluminum-encased rails on pylons, he promises that its economical construction would soon be able to shuttle seated passengers along on a cushion of air, in cars powered exclusively by fan that runs on batteries powered by solar energy that would rest on the roofs of its reinforced tubes. To be sure, the Hyperloop offers a radical updating of the sort of proposed transit solutions to link the two metropoles, including the “Sleepbus” equipped with oddly analogous pods, but promising to do the same distance overnight in old-style automotive style fueled by gasoline:
In the face of such an outdated (if funky) alternative of overnight transit in an old Volvo bus for $48, Musk advocated his speculative plan as a radical re-imagining of public transit corridors.
It offers evidence of his interest in thinking ahead of the curve for the benefit of the state in which he works. Musk proposed this vision primarily as an alternative to plans for implementing high-speed rail in California proposed by Governor Jerry Brown. He couched the proposal as an illustration of an illustration of his public-spirited commitments: rather than spending the 68 billion dollar price tag on rail to be completed in 2029, Musk promises a commute time from San Francisco to LA in under half an hour, if you’ll just buy his batteries and plan and follow him in the scrapping of all existing public rail systems in the US. Although the pragmatics of the proposal have all to be mapped out in further detail, his 57-page spec sheet PDF Musk manages, with the help of Google Maps, to flesh out the practicalities with an urgency that makes one wonder why no one every thought of this model for moving through space before–that seems designed primarily to hold skeptics temporarily at bay, and meet the building anticipation for Musk’s plans for a “fifth mode” of transport. It is amazing that his proposal manages to resolve so many issues, and present itself as a significantly lower-cost alternative to high-speed rail, and even makes one question how “high-speed” the quite expensive rail system would actually be.
In providing commuters with a cabin that is “specifically designed with passenger safety and comfort in mind,” Musk’s plans caters to the jet-set who probably wouldn’t even want to drive. It’s rather something of an alternative to the airplane. Musk envisions Hyperloop as the travel of the future, whose construction would be far less costly than a rail system, and directly linked to renewable solar energy. Since the Hyperloop also evidences of Musk’s commitment to the public good, it is odd that it also undermines recent attempts to create a useful means of public transit that would reduce both air pollution, gas use, and highway-crowding in California. Musk’s antagonistic presentation of the “bullet train [as] both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world” seeks to use engines created by Tesla to offer a “fifth mode” of public transit able to reach supersonic speeds driven by an electric compressor fan, charged by photovoltaic cells perched on above its path. Its DeLorean-like doors, like the “Falcon Wings” of the Tesla XTesla X, seductively open to invite passengers to hop on in for the ride . . .
The map for the route is not that different from Highway 5 itself, whose path it follows, but the conceptual mapping of travel through space is decidedly futuristic in tone, boasting traveling speed not beyond light but above 700 miles per hour, allowing something of a Jump between the two not so neighboring cities in California akin to an air hockey table on skiis, which he promised “would generate far in excess of the energy needed to operate” and whose energy could be stored in the form of compressed air itself. Told with the urgency that one might associate with the inventor Nikola Tesla himself, the basic diagram of the Hyperloop is devoid of any actual spatial placement–which seems to be waiting for its engineer to actually map.
The ‘conceptual diagram’ is wonderfully futuristic vision that has been beautifully sketched as a sleek object of a consumer’s fantasy for an aerodynamic car running on skis, more than clearly mapped as a means of transit, whose propulsion system allows it to accelerate quickly to 300 miles per hour before reaching 760 mph by a linear induction motor, making the trip last but 35 minutes:
Needless to say, the linear induction motor has already been built by Tesla motors, and the solar generators on the roof of the tube use cels from Musk’s own SolarCity company; but mapped on Google Maps to follow I-5, the route becomes a reality, and that huge stretch of Highway 5 that no one really likes to drive on is reduced to a route the Hyperloop passenger barely registerd as s/he was sucked past:
The pneumatic tube isolates commuters from the travel experience, shuttling them from LA into San Francisco in ways that seem perfectly synchronized with the excitement over the new Bay Bridge, whose own futuristic and streamlined design it seems to leave in the dust.
Granted, we do need to update the systems of public transit that are woefully underfunded and often outdated in the United States. The existing options are mapped in the below illustration, brought to us by radical cartography‘s own Bill Rankin, comparing the layouts and expanse served by systems of urban mass transit: the great majority of these mass transit systems follow a simple hub-and-spoke design of regional commutes seem diminished insects once placed beside the grandiose vision of futuristic streamlined jetting between metropoles of the sort that Musk envisions, raising some questions about the efficiency of Musk’s futuristic system.
The ways of viewing the city as a self-contained unit is not necessarily a canvass broad enough for spatial travel to accommodate urban growth. The limited efficiency of our rail corridors, which aside from the Northeast get low scores–and are in need of massive structural updates–moreover seem retrograde when compared to the system Musk sketched.
Musk, to be fair, advocates an eventual state-wide expansion that would be a virtual state-wide redesigning of the rail system into a range of spin-off Hyperloop stations: “give me a map,” Tamburlaine said, weary of further battle, “[and] then let me see/ how much is left for me to conquer all the world”–or, in the case of Musk, all the state of California.
But Musk doesn’t offer a system of mass transit, but something more like a transit for the haves, and elite type of shuttle that can be experienced by those whose time is worth the public investment on a project that would best serve them. While he of course isn’t explicit about the audience he is addressing, it is pretty much the same as those to whom he is selling a Tesla S for a $70,000 cash payment–some of which can be recouped through electric vehicle tax incentives, and a monthly saving in energy costs–not the prospective audience, in short, as Amtrak.
And maybe–just maybe–Musk’s futuristic Hyperloop isn’t really so future-oriented after all, but more of a projection of Musk’s own fantasy, designed while scribbled on a napkin while flying from Los Angeles to Menlo Park. It is striking that the notion of a phasing in of plans for high-speed rail is a plan mapped that has been mapped by the Regional Plan Association America 2050, was premised upon the belief that rail can sustain and facilitate regional economies’ growth in crucial ways, and should be built around them in order to foster their growth.
Eventually, the Regional Plan Association envisions a Trans-National Network to connect “megaregions” sharing natural resources and ecosystems–as well as interests–by new corridors to foster their inter-related economic systems:
Musk’s plotting of a travel corridor by Google Maps software seems a quick reality, even if one that has come in for some ridicule on late-night TV, that might be mostly for folks who jet-set between two cities on the California coast. The “reality” of his Google Maps reconstruction of a state-wide system, positioned itself to replace the very cars that his company produces, but is also a pretty darn exclusive ride. To be sure, Musk invites open feedback and contributions to his design from anyone at hyperlink@telamotors.com. But the devil seems to lie in its details: plans call for “Building the energy storage element out of the same lithium ion cells available in the Tesla Model S is economical,” he assures us on page 38 of the spec sheet for the Hyperloop, using the very supercharger batteries which, he promises, “directly connected to the HVDC bus, eliminating the need for an additional DC/DC converter to connect it to the propulsion system,” provide the linear accelerator with sufficient propulsive energy to accelerate to supersonic speeds, allowing one effectively to ski from Los Angeles to Norcal, or ski back to Bakersfield. While cool as hell, the axial model of this coastal shuttle suggests few possibilities for expansion to the hinterland, or obstacles form the environment–like earthquakes. (Musk likes comparing the Hyperloop by comparing it to a cross between the Concorde and an air hockey game, a colorful simile, probably to give the concept a populist appeal; but this is an air hockey game on fixed and tracks.)
But the deeper question behind the funding of the system of Hyperloop may be the degree to which San Francisco and Los Angeles will ever come to constitute a single economy: the forecasting of a map of national megaregions suggests it may in fact not be one, and provides a picture of the megaregions it wants to link.
The scheme that Musk floated is not attentive to the clusters of economics, but incarnates the very aesthetic of the Google Map. Indeed, as a scheme of travel, it perpetuates a means by which one can move through a landscape without registering its existence, and removing space from travel, much as Google Maps isolate place from environment, in a new form of transit whose focus adopts the passenger’s perspective of space, rather than the expanse through which s/he travels, or the impact of building these rails on surrounding farmlands or their potential impact. In removing the schematic map of rail destinations from any external or material constraints by the dream of frictionless travel in an air-bearing suspension system, Musk maps an argument to channel public monies to a system which awaits its designers and engineers–or at least to plan on doing so to bolster shares of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) to robustness on Wall Street.
Some concern about Musk’s eagerness about the project encountered has been directed to the far greater price tag it would probably involve, as well as its earthquake-safety, and skepticism about the entire question of whether “the thing would actually work.” Perhaps the deeper question is whether the state of California–and indeed the coast of that state–provides the sort of economic hub that needs to be connected. The fantasy that it does seems to grow out of the maps that so prominently convince readers’ of the reality in Musk’s elegant spec sheet. These maps suggest yet another way maps generate ways of thinking of and considering space without reflecting on its occupation: how hard would it be, after all, to travel down the Interstate to not be confined to cars, without having the distractions of the farmland that lies between, and the smell of all those cows?
Hyperloop concept art from HTT
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Aquifers/Monocrops
Recent news of the quite devastating dwindling of the High Plains aquifers sent me back to how William Rankin charted the uneven distribution of monocrops in the United States. For the authority with which maps render a depletion of High Plains aquifers as an “underground pool drying up”–as if it were a record of nature, intensified by global warming, echoed in the discussion of a dwindling or disappearance by the time the aquifer that runs from the sands of Wyoming reaches Kansas and the Texas panhandle, leaving farms without the groundwater on which their livelihood depends. Although long characteristic of the nation’s landscape, the underground water that feeds the high plains long taken for granted to dry up–in ways that challenge mapping tools or a reliance on cartographical practices as tools explication. How much this has been intensified by increasing temperatures of summer months, maps reveal the extent to which the depletion of landwater has been exacerbated by agribusiness and the dramatic unsustainability of irrigating subsidized crops from an aquifer that is, due to evaporation, rarely recharged.
Most maps of aquifers’ depletion effectively minimize the impact of patterns of human inhabitation on the plains–if only because they don’t register how nature no longer exists as an autonomous category, or how all maps represent the human shaping of a “natural” record. The authority of the map erases the effects of inhabitation, or the very agricultural practices that much of the same article describes of an intensification of irrigation across the region, uniformly distributed without regard to the level of the water-table. They naturalize the presence of water in the ground, as, most simply, by coloring the aquifer’s expanse by a uniform blue, as if to render a plentiful underwater sea readily accessed by drill.
The shifting water-levels of the irrigation have however shifted the availability of this hidden underground reserve challenge us to use map to expressing the dynamics of its depletion. Use of the Northern Great Plains aquifer system for irrigation has long consumed over half of underground aquifers: irrigation of lands in Wyoming and Montana regularly feeds the aquifer system itself, as excess irrigation feeds the aquifer itself in those states. Yet water-level monitoring in the High Plains aquifer led to increasing declines in its level from the start of its intensive irrigation from 1950, and has most recently led to the failed search for new wells in its southernmost reaches.
The long-term decline of water levels have been concentrated further south in its almost 112 million acres for at least five years. The mapping of water-levels revealed a decline of almost 100 feet by 1980, when the irrigated acreage used for agriculture most dramatically grew from just over 2 million acres to 13.7 million. In the high plains, unlike the great plains, the aquifer itself was rarely restored with water withdrawn from pumping and wells, and an expansion of the demand for water from agrarian land-use led to a single-headed search for extraction even if little water was to be had. The gradual draining of the southernmost aquifer was in a sense long known:
The recent chronicling of the transformation of fertile plains into dust by the New York Times stands at the end of a depletion already mapped by 2009: if the compelling article painted a somewhat passive picture of the depletion of the aquifer that has so shaped the American landscape, the problem of mapping water and crops lay in the implicit tone of a naturalization of water-loss–whose effects nicely intersect with fears for the effects of global-warming–whose ‘news’ may exist in its delayed economic impact on farming, rather than on the absence of warning signs. When Ashley Yost told the reporter Michael Wines “I’ve raised 294 bushels of corn an acre there before, with water and the Lord’s help,” he grouped water with the divine assistance, as if it didn’t come out of the ground.
The combination of landscape images of the effects of a parching of agricultural fields with a set of regional maps threaten to naturalize the changing hight plains landscape and minimize the ways in which all maps pose arguments–as much as Matthew Staver’s striking image of arid corn fields–because they fail to register the dwindling as the effect of their practices of inhabitation and a changed dynamic of water-use.
Matthew Staver
The recent drop of the aquifer of some four and a quarter feet in Kansas from 2010-11 is a call for alarm not only as a “lack of water”; the drying up of landwater during the summer months has led to a dramatic decline in the amount of corn cultivated in that state that reflects a failure of agrarian planning and a concentrating of water-resources in monocrops–as much as the depletion of an existing water reserve in a uniform fashion over time, accompanied by an expansion of water-hungry crops such as corn, beside others like wheat, in the region–not to mention the raising of livestock on water pumped from aquifers. The destructive intensity of the drainage of water that never returns to the aquifers lying deep below rest on processes of extraction and irrigation to a degree that can never be replenished never lay in the individual farmer.
I’ve discussed Rankin’s maps that speculate on the consequences of the uneven distribution of crops and land-use in an earlier post. The correspondence of that aquifer to large corn monocrops they’ve been used to supply is striking when one maps the expansion of corn as a subsidized crop across the nation. What amounts to a submerged sea and had long seemed an unending resource of underground feeding supply has finally begun to exhaust itself–with disastrous consequences for farming communities who depended on its supply as if were a cash cow to irrigate less than fertile lands in the former dust bowl. Corn monoculture was facilitated and undergirded by the unsustainable illusion of irrational abundance of an unending supply of underground springs.
Although the patchwork of intense corn-farming may not be dominant in relation to wheat (shades of green) or silage (yellow), the intense patchwork of corn-cultivation in an area not particularly rich in water-sources suggests the ill-effects of agricultural subsidies on the distribution of natural resources.
The tan patchwork reveals a depletion of landwater in the very region a region that the New York Times singled out as revealing the adverse effects a dwindling aquifer had on farmers’ productivity. The ill-effects of sustained drilling in vain attempts to force underground water to rise in pumps range from the depletion of the region’s water-level to the survival of crops. But its maps conceal a story of the depletion of resources across the plains with the increased reliance on pumps. The difficulty to pump water grew further south extract demand grew to feed central-pivot irrigators to drench crop lands so as to enable them to remain emerald green and fertile in spring and arid summer months, at the very time that the intense sun dries them, the terrain maps present the present consequences of irrigation practices as the new nature of the plains.
The map that shows a “drying up” of hotspots on the paths of underground aquifers is a map of the future of US agriculture. But the dramatic dark-spots in the area of north Texas and Kansas, the edges of the underground aquifer and the areas of new corn farming, demand to be further unpacked.
Indeed, the extent to which the cultivation of corn as a dominant monocrop maps onto the depletion of the once-plentiful national aquifers in Midwestern states recently in the news, as the regions whose agrarian geography was defined by big center-pivot irrigators–temples to the belief of infinite water-extraction and the plenty of crops–have been able only to water circles of diminished radii as the aquifer has declined. Yet if “up to a fifth of the irrigated farmland along a 100-mile swath of the aquifer has already gone dry” at the same time as summer temperatures have risen, we need to accept how much of it was forcibly extracted by men hungry for cash.
The maps of this water-depletion reveal the need for revising the expectancy that regions of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas that occupy the High Plains Aquifer of North America. What amounts to an submerged sea and had long seemed an unending resource of underground feeding supply has finally begun to exhaust itself with disastrous consequences for farming communities who depended on its supply as if were a sort of cash cow that could be used to irrigate already fertile lands. The question is in part how such agricultural practices can change.
The correspondence between corn and landwater gets scarier when one notes the intensity with which aquifers had begun to be drained by ground-water withdrawals as early as 2000 to nourish the spread of thirsty crops such as corn that have led to increasing reliance on unwarranted extracting of groundwater.
The dramatic rise of irrigated acreage in this region maps onto the epicenter of a devastating dwindling of the plenty of aquifers in Texas, Nebraska and Kansas–and onto the period corn was subsidized:
The steady rise of ground-water withdrawals for irrigation was particularly dramatic in the 1990s for Texas and Nebraska, and the decline in regions like Kansas may have already been precipitated by a draining, as much as a drying up of, aquifers:
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The Way We Eat Now: the City and the Farms
The impacts of radical over-specialization of agricultural lands in the United States on our food supplies is only beginning to be mapped with the critical eye that it deserves. With the intense expansion of ‘mega-farms’ jumping some 20% just in the years 2005-7, their expansion of subsidies, and an intensification of the quarter of vegetable production for animal feed, the notion of agricultural stewardship has been replaced by an artificial market and explosion of selective crops. Is the notion of an agrarian space indeed itself a casualty of this new use of farming in a land of the death of the family farm? Is this the end of an ideal of cultivable space, or does it push us to seek to imagine a new relation to the land? It is indeed striking that until fairly recently, the ancient term ecumene or oikumene described the inhabited (or inhabitable) world with reference to those lands able to be used for agriculture or pasturage.
The extreme “specialization of the agrarian landscape” William Rankin recently mapped offers visualization of data from the 2007 Census of US Agriculture: the maps charts variations in crops and animal pasturage in each county of the country, each of which are colored by the gradations of four to five major crops or farmed livestock in the United States. The selectivity of farmland use it reveals captures the effects of this expansion and maps the consequence of that dramatic expansion of mega-farming in the Bush presidency of those years, in response to selective subsidies of corn and soy: the color-coding of individual crops provide a snapshot of the proportion of land devoted to each subsidized crop (soy; wheat; corn; cotton; vegetables and fruits or nuts) that raise to raise big questions about our limited foodscape and suggest the degree to which farm subsidies inform land-use in desirable ways.
Even more striking than the limited regions of land used for farming in Rankin’s data visualization is the creation of the zones of land dedicated to wheat, soybeans, silage and corn that rarely if at all overlap, where over 50% of county land is dedicated to soy, a solid 40+% is dedicated to wheat, or over 60% to corn. This is not only a map of agrarian distributions, but a the creation of a new attitude to agricultural space: indeed, Rankin’s map helps us see the distribution of croplands in the country less as something that occurs on a flat surface, but in itself creates a new familiarity with space, and a relation of our food supplies to space, as much as a form of “geographic” knowledge of how events occur on the map. For the sequence of maps chart a shift in the American foodscape, where we revise how we imagine agricultural space, and as creating a new notion of our agrarian space, rather than as changes that can be mapped or occur on the two-dimensional distribution of mapped space.
Rankin’s set of three maps of the national foodscape are not historical per se, but suggest a metageographical narrative of how attitudes to land have changed in their spectrum of such scattered colors. They chart an extraordinary degree of remove from local intake, distribution or demand. The distortion in this agrarian landscape is of course enabled by a huge transport industry, moving the wheat grown in the central band of the US from Iowa or Nebraska to Oklahoma, corn from Wisconsin to Iowa, to the soybeans so densely grown across South Dakota and Iowa to Indiana and Ohio. Although continuity and coherence as the central properties of terrestrial maps, an absence of continuity in the concentrations of crop cultivation suggest a skewed relation to the land–the maps undermine the very notions of continuity and coherence that defined maps of national territories–using maps to raise questions about food supplies. All the silage in across the Eastern seaboard in the country seems to derive from the local profitability of livestock products, show a nation almost drained of agricultural productivity, and relocates fruits and vegetables to ribbons on both coasts.
The consequent de-coupling of food markets from growing habits inverts Thomas Jefferson’s ideal of a yeoman farmer who planted crops for his own needs, out of the conviction that those “who labor in the earth are the chosen people by God.” The Jeffersonian ideal of stewardship,rooted in a contractual relation of a responsible servicing of the land, rested on “good practices” of land management through rational skills of crop rotation, terracing to prevent soil erosion, promoting the diversification of varied crops, and surveying of land, from advocating a regular seven-year cycle of regular crop rotation that follow corn and wheat with a variety of crops, including turnips, clover, vetch and buckwheat. He pioneered innovations that would increase the conservation of resources as well as crop yeild, including deep contour plowing, turning the ground far beneath the topsoil, and terracing to prevent soil erosion. And his quest for variety and diversity for the agriculturalist no doubt encouraged him to introduce eggplants, brussels sprouts, rice, chestnuts, cauliflower, nuts and olive plants to the country–Jefferson imported 170 different fruits and 330 vegetables in the period from 1767 to 1824 to diversify the nation’s agriculture. Jefferson was vigilant in advocacy of agricultural stewardship and famously wrote Washington with dismay in 1793 that “we can buy an acre of new land cheaper than we can manure an old one.”
William Rankin’s three data visualizations map the remove of what we eat from where we grow, or where we grow and what food we buy, suggests the imposition of an artificial remove of growing and husbandry from urban life–creating a gap between the country and the city so great that we cannot say where the country is. In mapping the geographical remove of crops from cities–and of cultivation and animal husbandry from centers of population, Rankin has charted the results of a dysfunctional division of land-use, in which the map transforms the territory, and almost precedes it, as the areas zoned for harvesting by agribusiness divorce local needs of populations from the large-scale farming and animal husbandry, not only fostering a lack of a uniform food-harvesting mosaic, but a super-regional specialization, as this map of the crops that are grown in individual counties reveal: the disorienting nature of individual to food, and individual to agriculture, that results removes the production of crops from local demand or a topography of need. Indeed, there seems little clear integration of the sites of growing vegetables or crops to a national market in local terms, as questions of national demand and pricing drive the redistribution of crops into what seem “hot-spots” of production, whose intensity of cultivation tries to keep up with the national need with an intensity that their concentration is unable to effectively sustain in the future.
The pronounced discontinuities in the maps of food specialization reveal a deep disconnect between food production and consumption, and the limited understanding of how reliant we’ve become on an unequally pronounced distribution of such basic needs as growing crops or raising chickens.
In this map, Jefferson seems to meet Baudrillard: the maps does not simulate a world of rending to the land with clear coherence, uniformity, or indeed boundaries, but visualizes a range of databases that reveal the imbalance by which we try to create the illusion of a land of plenty in an era of few farms. This map undermines the security of a healthy nation, beyond reconsidering the pathways or quality of food, to force one to ask how the foodstuffs produced in these spaces could be high quality. Reading the map will salutarily ward of any temptation to naturalize this self-evidently artificial division of land-use, or naturalize the imbalances of select crops in regions– the six colors used in the map are, indeed, almost always distinct from one another in the above map charting variations in degrees of crop specialization. The map is a metadata visualization, and absence of any attention to continuity in the agrarian structuring of the land, disrupts the continuity of the iconic image of the map.
Like Jasper Johns’ 1961 Map, which re-inscribes the encaustic splattering of primary colors that distance the map from its iconic status: the surface of Rankin’s maps distance observers from the nation, rendering unrecognizable the form of the territory, abstracting the surface of the map by revealing an uneven uniformity instead of a united whole and focussing attention on the unwarranted density of selective agricultural concentration on specific crops.
If maps don’t define and distinguish national sovereignty, but are a range of widely diffused simulations, we need an actively deconstructive map to assemble our disjointed foodscapes. The dramatic isolation of foci of planting of wheat, soy, and three intense pockets of cotton, the absence of vegetables from most crops across the nation is a reminder of the separation of how we inhabit the nation from agrarian land-use: citizenship is disconnected from stewardship, or the illusion of stewardship is no longer possible to perpetuate in relation to the land that no longer exists as a coherent territorial entity. The remove of crops from local use, and the injection of subsidies to promote specific crops in Midwestern states, but also in the Northwest and South, created intense pockets of over-intensification that with the growth of megafarms has produced, despite the temperate nature of the continent.
Perhaps these distortions of agrarian landscapes is an effect of the markets being driven by international prices, or if a radical specialization is striking for its remove from what we eat, even if not all have heads of leafy lettuce and arugula salads on their tables: crops like wheat and soy are farmed in mass in select places for massive milling and repackaging; local food needs are met by importing across the nation, if not scattered boutique farms or “farmers’ markets” that are not run by farmers but franchised, or run by men who drive hundreds of miles with diesel gas in order to perpetuate the illusion of a close relation to the fruits of the land to folks living on asphalt pavement and tar. We use food to create our own illusions, drawing from mythologies of agrarian responsibility that history provides.
Thomas Jefferson rooted democracy in the relation of the citizen-farmer and his land, metaphorically equating that relation to the fabric of the nation: “the greatest service rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture,” he argued, equating individual agricultural stewardship as a “service to the nation” that is “worth more to them than all the victories of all the most splendid pages of their histories.” When Jefferson preached the gospel of the agriculturalist, farmers were central to a nation’s needs both for feeding the nation and as stewards of the nation’s agrarian wealth, rather than white-color workers or professionals. And so he valued agriculturalists’ expertise in crop rotation, fertilizers, and agronomy as remedies to the perils of land-abuse and erosion of lands, and located the preservation of the wealth in the countryside and the value of good, arable land. The concern that led Jefferson to increase the diversification of vegetables as fundamental to the nation’s health led the horticulturist Luther Burbank in the early twentieth century to perfect crops able to sustain disease and blight, by hybridizing fruits, vegetables, and legumes by cross-pollination in strains of increased tolerance–if not genetic diversity.
When Burbank redefined performance of crops by their productivity and survival rates, he redefined plants and vegetables as a malleable resource subservient to man, though without encouraging an over-specialization similar to what we see in today’s foodscape. Burbank’s shift in the significance of the vegetable in the world underlies, in some fashion, the metageography of the current over-specialization spatial distribution of crops Rankin maps, as it removed proximity of the place of cultivation from the growing of crops, and removed crops from the local market place. Rankin’s beautifully detailed land-use maps chart the radically uneven nature of the specialization of our agrarian landscape’s distinct fracture lines. To judge by the deep pockets of specialization in Rankin’s maps by the variations in anima populations in individual counties, the thinning of farms extends not only over the deserts, but across most populated regions. This over-mapping of different types of husbandry reveals a virtual segregation of chicken, sheep, and cattle, with other areas left curiously blank, in need as much of importing foodstuffs across county lines, despite the thin distribution of cows for pasture, and a large welling across the midwest and southern Eastern seaboard of pigs.
The image suggests a set of deep imbalances and a surprising disconnect between areas and a patchwork redistricting to meet and accommodate national demand in specific regions. The thin distributions of light violet colors conceals pockets of intense specialization with a clustering of pigs and turkeys, but suggests the extremely rare grouping of a variety of meats by mapping the ranges of density in practices of animal husbandry across the nation.
Together with other maps which were solicited and edited by Darin Jensen in FOOD: An Atlas, a project broadly discussed in two earlier blogposts, Rankin’s metageography is oriented to imagining relations between food and the land. The maps discussed in earlier blogs were data visualizations, and less informed by GIS, and bore the trace of the cartographer’s hand. But this map is in no ways removed from being an intervention on cartography as an art, if it is based on “big data” as a structural metadata visualization of variations in local databases.
The data distribution of crops, animal livestock, and the profits of farming registered in the Census of Agriculture reveals not only strikingly constrained areas for active agriculture, but the geographic remove at which farming stands from food needs. It presents a clear-eyed critical view of the benefits of locally sourcing food by inviting us to shift our relation to the currently lopsided nature of national practices of cultivated space, but also suggests the distorted nature of food map created by the limited intense cultivation of crops and husbandry of animals in select areas. I’m interested in both the maps and the questions of human geography that the distribution of food in them raises: during the growth of agribusiness and consequent pronounced localization of livestock, slaughterhouses, and tending of animals, and map an increased remove from the sources of our food. With a lack of available local food, indeed, food is not only less nutritious, but removed from place in the manner that Jefferson had insisted. In such a landscape of specialization, “No major city could ever source all of its food from local farms–not even those close to major agricultural areas.” Not only are few farms profitable, but those areas farmed are farmed with an intensity of agribusinesses more market-driven than linked to local economies.
Indeed, the apparently unprecedented concentration of mono-crops–wheat and soybeans; corn; cotton–creates a disjointed landscape both removed from local needs and plugged into a national (and international) market and in which much feed goes to livestock–though, as we’ll see, in which livestock is not so profitable. This maps reflect on the consequences of how constrained farmlands shape a collective geography that leaves consumption curiously disconnected from production, which faces markets that the individual farmer cannot understand, and indeed are more subject to international prices and agricultural protectionism than to actual needs. The regional saturation of essentially businesses of food production reflects not only a death of local agrarian farms, but the impossibility of local crop variation in a landscape of regional concentration for foreign markets, animal feed, and available land.
These attitudes might change, if we accept how Rankin’s radical cartographies reveal the narrow divisions we’ve imposed on our agrarian landscape. But they delineate deep challenges of our national foodscape from even Burbank’s era of a range of resistant potatoes, peas, corn, and various pitted-fruits, including plums. No longer does agricultural needs of a territory shape the contents of the foodscape, and maps lose their reference to a fixed territory, but map a disconnect: Baudrillard would note that the notion of a territory does not in fact survive the map. The map might suggests some links between our distorted agrarian landscape to the political landscape, and not only in the government subsidies that many crops receive to grow at a distance from urban populations, or the diversion of water to allows intense crop cultivation of regions like the central valley. From a nation of farmer-citizens in a Jeffersonian mold, our “red” v. “blue” state electoral topography may mask deeply market-driven divisions in agrarian resources.
The data visualizations suggests the little attention we dedicated as a society to the role of land to food, or to the path from farm to table; the intense cultivation of crops, vegetables, and pastured meat to restricted pockets of the country practically ensures the remove of our food from a provenance or site of origin. Rankin’s maps provoke us to map our own individual relations to the origins of our food, and trace their path back from sites of cultivation to our tables. His maps delineate the broader challenges of our national foodscape; maps may enjoy limited authority or exclusive purchase to represent or contain such abstractions as the nation, state, or nationality, but provide a way to disrupt a world of simulations, where the territory does not precede the map. Jean Baudrillard famously asked pointedly whether the nation’s authority can survive that of the map: the coherence of the United States as a food-producing nation can’t easily functionally survive the unsustainable practices agribusiness has dictated, even if the market can sustain it for now.
The objective disassembly of a national space raises questions of the compatibility of current practices of land use are even compatible with a national space. Indeed, rather than map the relation of food to population, one could argue that the map mirrors one of uneven agricultural subsidies, as much as food demand or land cost, and illustrates the bloated landscape those subsidies are creating in place of agricutlural variety:
This can also be illustrated in relation to animal husbandry by mapping the local density of factory farms across the nation:
Rankin’s maps are of land-use reveal the effects of such subsidies for large farms in their “disjointed and lumpy space[s] of specialization;” they reveal a surface of farming where “few areas where different commodities are grown side by side” and radical concentration of cattle and livestock in specific areas, despite their thin distribution in the country as a whole. The rather lopsided topography of sourcing meat and centering husbandry in massive compound farms suggests a sort of anonymity of their origins, less than healthy and less than nutritious, and suggests a mental familiarity with erasing the origin of foods, rather than considering the relation of food as a “good.” The economic intense over-specialization to some extent ensures the virtual anonymity of paths most foods take from where they grow to the table or the supermarket aisle. This notion of food whose path from farm to table is devoid of specificity raises questions about as knowledge of the ability to distinguish food, as well as how its freshness is radically reduced in a system reliant upon quick transport.
As agribusiness replaces the good household practices of individual agriculturalist moving foods from limited sectors of over-cultivation, subsidies define circumscribed areas of crops and animals–here mapped by the specialization of crops or the density of livestock in each county–and limit their profitability. With the exception of some crops in the Midwest located near to cities or towns, in fact, a radical concentration of agriculture removes the individual’s dining room table from growing practices. Take, for example, the location of soybeans, marked by red, in some regions of the Midwest, that define a relation to the commodity outside the food that is actually consumed:
The dramatic disruption between farms to urban foods and divide between local food-supplies and consumers to reveal a deep shift in our connection to the land.
While fundamentally data constructions, these maps give new sense to the materiality of the map, by providing a visualization not of expanse but suggesting some of the ill-effects of our own division of land-use. Lest we naturalize the divisions created by this specialization of land-use, they map the stark divisions of the origins of the food we eat poses compelling (and pressing) questions about the best way we might provide nutritious food to urban populations, and if we can economically sustain the current landscape of intense specialization of agricultural work. One irony of this division of the agrarian functions is the illusion we are healthy to invest one or two crops to one expansive region. Indeed, this illusion masks dangers in segregating crops in the landscape and a fracturing of our relation to our food. The widespread naturalization of one state or region as the center of corn or wheat, potatoes, vegetables, nuts, or cheese conceals an implicit consent to the current culture of specialization has segregated the production of meats, wheat, corn, cotton or grains in only place, in ways that effectively naturalize an impoverished practice of agricultural rotation: by imagining certain states as lands of corn, wheat, or soy–as if crops were indigenous to a landscape–that erases the natural variety of an ecosystem by rendering it unrecognizable.
No clear sense of a landscape that provides nourishment for the nation remains, as agricultural “space” is itself dismantled as a uniform concept in relation to the nation. Rankin’s cartographies map the extreme variations in the dedication of land to the intense cultivation of foods, plant and animal, and we might re-examine the silent segregation of an agrarian landscape through its consequent perils. The database from the USDA that he has used reveal a concentration on crop monocultures and an agrarian centralization, à la Charles Taylor, of crop production. Hopefully, we can use them to take stock of whether this is healthiest way to feed our cities and urban populations–to segregate or actually remove most cropland from sites of urban population. As agribusinesses have concentrated the cultivation of wheat in a band in the central states stretching in regions colored bright green, corn and soybeans in the yellow and red northern midwest, and fruits and nuts, the result is an increase in the remove from which our cities are nourished. Populations stand at a remove not only from the sources of food, but of the most nutritious choices of food.
The high degree of scary fragmentation of US agriculture reveals a heightened specialization of food-sources between corn, wheat, soy, and nuts or vegetables. The isolation of pockets of food production reveal an intensity of artificial over-specialization often removed from a national demand: the segregation of centers dedicated to agricultural production from centers of urban life suggests a divide between city and farm. Even more significantly, perhaps, than the divide mapped in electoral-map chloropleths between ‘red’ and ‘blue’ states, the severely localized distribution of crops maps a huge divide in expectations among Americans for freshly grown food possible of being sustained, and to the landscape of food-availability; while the food landscape cannot provide a deterministic explanation of party affiliation or patterns of registration, the distribution may map populations’ selective distribution in areas with greater access to locally grown food supplies–or their resistance to the remove and distance from crops and an agrarian economy.
That is no doubt perhaps overly optimistic, given the huge role of agribusiness in structuring the landscape of food use, together with the subsidies of foods that they receive: the monocrop concentration of corn, wheat or soybeans is conducive to bulk harvesting for sugars or bread, and shipping, if not to their redistribution from select centers of packaging.
But the sad (unhealthy) result is a remove of most populations, or at least huge proportions of them, from the sources of their food. The existence of such a selective resettlement is less clear than the dysfunctional image it suggests of a fractured relation to the agrarian landscape about which it’s hard to wax poetic. The rare concentration of fruits, nuts and vegetables in California, densest in the Central Valley and farmlands of Northern California, are the only dense areas of their dense cultivation, save Southern Florida, based less on climate or topography than on their remove from coastal cities, and seem to provide the only dense region of vegetable harvesting in much of the nation.
How can one imagine this disjuncture of agrarian space from the national space? The classical poet Virgil idealized the relation of Rome to its landscape and countryside in the era of Augustus, providing a topos of the idealization of landscape’s tranquility as the result of harmonious good government. And it’s helpful to cite Virgil’s praise of the wealth of agrarian diversity in the Italian peninsula, too, because they provided a model of the metaphorical cultivation of a proto-national space. When one looks at Rankin’s weird maps of a disrupted foodscape, where over half the country is without crops and blank whitespace; they’re as removed from Virgil’s bucolic agrarian ideal as they are from Jefferson’s–indeed, those two are far closer to one another than we can see in how we’ve divided the nation into zones of soybeans, silage, and wheat that only occasionally overlap. There’s a huge contrast the dissonances in the food landscapes that Rankin mapped above to Virgil’s famous encomia of the productivity of the Italic landscape in his Augustan Georgics, where he evoked the transformation of a rocky Italic landscape through the benefit of Senatorial edicts and decrees to a land of “abundantly growing crops” and “sacred home of the olive groves,” now dotted with “many wondrous cities,/That so much toil has built” whose crops were “abundantly rich;” the land, tended by the best techniques of animal husbandry and of agricultural practices, provided the ground to cultivate wheat, barley, spelt and vetch in alteration with Egyptian lentils “in accordance with the Gods.”
That bucolic image of the productivity of the land that is fostered by Senatorial decrees and oversight of a diverse but homogenous space stand in sharp contrast to the segmentation of pockets of subsidized divisions in an agrarian landscape subject to intense monocultivation that is to large extent both largely sponsored by agribusiness, and largely removed urban areas or demand. Tending the Italic landscape drove wealth to the “tot egregias urbes,” so remarkably diverse and bountiful, of the recently united peninsula Augustus ruled–and whose relative riches outshone any other region in the world. The current landscape of specialization has so narrowly concentrated to focus agrarian productivity into scattered agrarian blocks of a zoned farming industry that dramatically disconnected itself from urban areas–and reveals a disconnect of city and farm so stark one could scarcely imagine a tie between the two.
Agrarian diversity? Well, the new space is just complicated to manage or understand. We know it’s unwise to concentrate corn and wheat in one area with soybeans, as if they were a large monocrop, because this exposes them to disease; the concentration of fruit and nuts in pockets of the entire country is even more irrational. The placement of production of crops at a remove from populations produces less nutritious food, and generates more waste. Equally difficult to sustain is the containment concentrations of livestock animals in select pockets of beef for slaughter, whose concentration is likewise removed from areas of urban concentration. Despite small areas of cows lightly scattered for use in pasture for milking across most of the country, concentrated centers of butchery define the country’s food map. Something like one-third of arable crops are given to land animals, but the segregation of high-density livestock farming from local agriculture suggest a challenging foodscape which might be considered more creatively, even if there is never much animal harvesting in the desert:
Drive down Highway 5 to Los Angeles past centers of slaughter and beef production. The extreme variation is stunning when one approaches the cattle farms in California’s Central Valley, and even more scary is how characteristic this is in our agrarian landscape, rather than an extreme fragmentation of land-use for livestock:
Consider the localization of livestock in deep purple gradations in Rankin’s chlorpleth reveal a national segregation of zones of butchery limiting availability of freshly butchered meat:
What does this say about our relation to space? Let’s look at the crazy topography of intense pockets of “cattle compounds” and “chicken farming” that might not be called husbandry which make a broad mosaic of meat processing centers in the poorer counties of the American South:
This snippet is barely recognizable as a map, of course, or a record of space. Remember the pretty staggering numbers that the deep purples reveal in this key:
Mass-farming of course unprecedentedly removes food from its consumer, and removes the very idea that this need not be the case. The inhumanity of concentrating chickens in the Southern United States is one concern; the remove of chicken farms from urban areas or human consumption is poignant: it finds counterparts in the chicken-farms of the Central Valley and Imperial Valley in California, which are something like a hub in the West Coast save from those in the northwest. But at their highest points of concentration, we have managed to concentrate an amazing 70,000/sq mile. (Cattle are densest in the Midwest, where we find 700 cows/sq mile at the densest parts; fewer turkeys are raised, but the greatest concentrations of 5,500/sq mile seems downright unhealthy.) Leaving aside ethical morality, the map posits questions of food safety: intense centralization of animals and consequently of feed supplies increase risks of contamination as well as exposing them to greater threats of disease. With the trends to global warming, the dangers of locating agriculture in fixed areas of intense over-cultivation are even more pronounced.
Such data visualizations offer a database which easily slips from the eye. While these maps don’t overlap, they suggest a joint-access data visualization that might offer a useful planning device. They reveal mono-crop cultivation and intense concentration of the value of animal or agricultural products that impoverish the project of agriculture in much of the country and seem to reduce the value of either crops or the production of animal products in most US counties in the absence of their intensification. More striking, perhaps, is the small degree which farming maps to value across the entire nation, uniting both animal and vegetable products, and the huge wholes of agricultural profitability in over one-third of the nation. We supplement these gaps through the massive importation of foods, vegetables, and produced foods. But the fact that it is rare for vegetable-growing to bring in a profit through most of the northeast suggests a topography of agriculture that few wold suspect; the profits are limited to the rich green areas dominated by the crops of soybeans and corn, as well as wheat, that are similarly scarily removed from many population centers. Despite the comforting green that leeches down the path of the Mississippi River, ; meat seems only profitable in Oklahoma and parts of the old South, sites of large concentrations of cattle- and chicken-farming.
The washed-out nature of large areas of this map suggests the low aggregate market value of product made in those regions; there is a surprising density in few counties where animal products provide profitable earnings. This is, to be sure, but one sector of the economy; but it maps an important one: the divides Rankin maps not only poses questions of how we see our land, or use resources but of how we imagine the remove of farmed land to a vital urban space–and indeed how economically removed agrarian practices have become from urban consumers across most of America.
The lopsided geography of land value creates an uneven distribution we all tacitly know but don’t acknowledge. It is also a basis of land-use that is not economically sustainable. One take away from Rankin’s series of visualizations of the discrepant distribution of agriculture is that at a time when we dedicate increasing attention to the construction and planning of urban space, rural agriculture might be better planned in concert with urban concentrations, and not only for reasons of health but as a matter of public policy. We often need a map to reveal the artificial nature of what we naturalize. All three data visualizations suggest that we’ve left agriculture to market forces alone, in ways that might not plan for future development; imagine the maps as overlapping public access databases we might use to orient ourselves not only to space, but to a more sustainable relation to the agrarian use of the land. The needs for such a shift in orientation are not only for health, but economic: it’s not possible to prognosticate from a map, but we can use the visualizations to raise questions about what would be the effects of climate change on districting agricultural land-use to specific sectors and types of crops; the concentration of corn strains in one area, moreover, raises possibilities of adverse influences in the food chain of GMO strains, much as the concentration of both animal livestock feeding raises specters of tainted meat supplies.
The limitations and constraints of agribusiness are imposing, if familiar. There has been some local pushback. Discomfort with these constraints undoubtedly informs the recent retrenchment of urban gardening and even urban rooftop gardening across the urban United States. Much as the growth of farmers markets may have encouraged or initiated widespread interest in centers of urban agricultural use within an urban landscape, as if to react to the marked remove of food-availability–as much as fresh food–from urban space, and the poor nutritional qualities of food that result.
What can we make of the local attempts to bridge the town and the country, either in the preserves of the new spaces in cities created at farmers’ markets, or the growth of urban agriculture? I’ve gestured to the attempts to map both in Oakland in some previous posts. Around New York City, a previously isolated urban space is surprisingly permeated by active green space. The Parks Department in fact only owns less than half of the almost 500 community gardens measured by GROW NYC and Green Thumb in 2009, with sites to volunteer noted in blue beside urban greenspaces:
How many are open to cultivation? Over 20% of those highlighted in yellow are dedicated to edible plants:
Or the similar emergence of community gardens in Portland:
The growth of San Francisco’s roof-top gardens, which was so quick in 2008-11 that the city changed its entire zoning code to permit urban agriculture from expanding in all neighborhoods of the city, led to a Renaissance of urban gardening, despite the relatively close access of the neighborhood and city to fresh food markets, not to mention an insatiable demand for local food:
Mapping the economy of rural-urban relations is a big project for the future, but perhaps it is even more difficult to plan to do so given the investment in a model of land-use that cannot yeild many positive long-term returns.
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Tucker Says He’s Rooting for Russia in the Ukraine Conflict, Yids Flip Lids
Why would you not be rooting for Russia?
The Ukraine isn’t a country, and it is run by Jews with a neo-Nazi army after being overthrown by the US State Department.
When the country was run by pro-Russia politicians, it was stable. Furthermore, the pro-Russian politicians were elected by popular vote in the sacred system of universal suffrage, and the State Department funded a violent Jew/Nazi coup.
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Tucker Carlson is rooting for Russia in its conflict with Ukraine – or at least he said he was on his Fox News primetime show.
“Why do I care … what is going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia?” the host said. “And I’m serious. Why do I care? Why shouldn’t I root for Russia, which I am?”
Carlson later said he was joking, despite having said he was serious, possibly because of the social media backlash he inevitably provoked.
“The endorsement of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine delivered tonight by Tucker Carlson is a pretty specialized form of Trump admiration,” wrote David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter now an ardent critic of Trump and his supporters.
“Why the F are you rooting for Russia?!?” asked the former tennis star Martina Navratilova. “And not Ukraine?!? Could you expand on that, Tucker? Please enlighten us idiots …”
He made his comment about Ukraine in a discussion of the impeachment inquiry with Richard Goodstein, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton.
The inquiry focuses on Trump’s attempts to have Ukraine investigate his own political rivals and a baseless conspiracy theory which says Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, not Russia.
I don’t even know what that is a reference to, I make a point not to follow this anymore, but the John Podesta emails were phished from a Ukrainian IP.
So there is definitely more evidence that the Ukraine was involved in whatever kind of alleged conspiracy than there is evidence Russia was involved. That single data point is more evidence than we have of anything related to Russia.
“We do care about the substance of it,” Carlson said. “And the substance of it is that Trump, for all of his sins and I will concede some of them, has never taken close to a million dollars a year from a Ukrainian energy company to do nothing because his dad is the vice-president. So, Hunter Biden did.”
The son of Joe Biden, the former vice-president who is a frontrunner to face Trump at the polls next year, had a board position at a Ukrainian energy company. There is no suggestion he or his father did anything illegal.
Well, I don’t know if there’s a suggestion, but there’s certainly an implication.
Hunter Biden is a literal crackhead. Why would he be put on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, if this was not influence peddling?
It is “wrong” on its face.
“I actually like Hunter Biden,” Carlson continued, “but that’s totally corrupt and you know it. Why is it worse to ask about it than do it?”
Goldstein said: “Because people are dying on the frontlines.”
Laughing, Carlson said: “Why do I care, why do I care what is going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? And I’m serious. Why do I care? Why shouldn’t I root for Russia, which I am.”
Because, Goldstein said, “preserving democracy is important”.
“I don’t care!” Carlson said.
If “preserving democracy” was the issue, why did the US State Department overthrow an elected government using a violent coup in the first place?
By the end of his show it seemed he did, as he said: “Before we go, earlier … I noted, I was rooting for Russia in the contest between Russia and Ukraine. Of course I’m joking, I’m only rooting for America.”
The “I was only joking” defence has been used extensively by Trump or by Republicans defending his more outrageous claims: about asking Russia to hack Clinton’s emails, for example, and about asking China to investigate the Bidens.
Claiming to have been mocking the obsession with Russia of “many on the left”, Carlson concluded: “Ha!”
The entire media is doing a “deebly goncerned” about this scene.
How absolutely dare you sir.
But legit, bro: who cares?
Who cares about this TV segment, who cares about the Ukraine, who gives a shit about any of this?
I care about American issues:
Why on earth would any normal American be sitting around worrying about the borders of former Soviet states?
It is absolutely nonsensical. No one cares.
We have real problems that directly affect our lives all around us, and no one is doing anything to solve them. In fact the government is making them worse on purpose, while claiming that people in Ohio who are surrounded by Somalians and heroin should be sitting around grinding their teeth and clutching their pearls, worrying about the territorial integrity of the Ukraine.
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New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail—home to more than 13,000 inmates—has opened a restaurant that serves comfort food crafted by criminals.
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Tihar Food Court opened earlier this month in the sprawling Tihar complex, the largest prison in South Asia. Samosas and other snacks along with drinks like lassi and even a thali with a variety of vegetarian dishes are on the menu.
Kapil Tanwar decided to bring his son to one of Delhi’s newest and most unusual restaurants to celebrate the completion of his college-application process.
“I promised my son that I’d treat him to some prison food to congratulate him,” said Mr. Tanwar, sipping on a glass of masala lassi.
The outside seating space at Tihar Food Court.
The simple restaurant has seating for 45 and no iron bars, metal detectors or armed guards. It has indoor and outdoor seating, a tandoor oven and its cream walls are decorated with pieces of art painted by prisoners.
It has small staff of a constable manager and seven convicts—mostly convicted murderers--who have proven themselves through good behavior during long years in Tihar that they are not violent or a flight risk, said Sunil Gupta, a spokesman at Tihar.
While the restaurant is still waiting for more government approvals to officially open, it started a soft launch on July 10 to test whether it will attract customers.
“We began service to see how people respond to the food as well as the concept,” said Vimlaa Mehra, the former director general of Tihar Prison.
Suresh Kumar, a 32-year-old inmate who has been in Tihar jail for 12 years on a life sentence for murder, now works at Tihar Food Court 11 hours a day, cooking, cleaning and serving.
A Deluxe Thali at the Tihar Food Court.
“This is just the start so we’re all doing everything,” he said.
The restaurant doesn’t have a full kitchen so most of the food is from a prison canteen, which is also run by inmates.
Balkrishna Grover, a waiter at the restaurant, left, and Kishan Singh, the constable manager at Tihar Food Court, right.
Tihar Food Court is one of the many programs aimed at making prisoners ready for the world outside. It has yoga camps, reading classes, cricket matches and film festivals in the 400-acre campus. Earlier this year it had a course run by the Delhi Institute of Hotel Management to train the men as chefs and housekeepers. It even had a job recruitment fair for people about to graduate into the real world.
The eatery is connected to the prison store that sells prison-made goods such as cookies, pickles, potato chips, clothing and even furniture under the brand-name TJ’s.
“These things keep us busy and ensure that we’re distracted from the fact that we’re living in jail,” said Balkrishna Grover, another convicted murderer and waiter at the restaurant.
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Mark Richt has lost control over losing control.
So, I finished drinking the Kool-Aid last night – quite tasty, thank you for asking – and finally stopped pinching myself before I went to bed.
And in the cold light of day, I’m still stunned.
The speed at which this came together continues to amaze me. A week ago, we’re arguing with each other about how Richt’s wish for defensive continuity is going to play out this season. Grantham flees Athens last Sunday, leaving us to fret about the process for finding his successor, as well as who that successor will be. But we barely had time to fret! (Schlabach told 680 The Fan yesterday that Richt learned of Grantham’s move at four o’clock that day and had settled on Pruitt as the guy to go after by five.)
Mark Richt snatched victory from the jaws of malaise. He is receiving deserved acclaim for acting so decisively. In fact, I’d call it near-universal acclaim. Outside of the FSU fan base, I honestly can’t find any criticism of the move, not from the media, other coaches, even that part of the fan base that has been steadily critical of Richt (when’s the last time that happened, eh?).
I mean, consider where things have wound up now that the dust has settled. Georgia has swapped Todd Grantham for Jeremy Pruitt, literally, for the same contract terms, and gotten a defensive coordinator with a better recent track record on the field and who is a better recruiter. And in the bargain, has gotten all that without having to make a major disruption to its defensive scheme. That’s about as good as it gets.
It’s so good that it’s making me a little nervous, honestly. Since when does Georgia get this golden? This is the home of funky karma and playing it safe and slow. But I’ll put that aside for now. Let’s look at a few specifics that are worth getting excited about.
Hey, maybe Georgia isn’t such a bad place to be after all. Louisville isn’t toxic, but Bobby Petrino obviously has a tough sell to make when he hires staff. That’s why it took the most ridiculous contract in college athletics to get Todd Grantham to jump ship. Pruitt decided to leave FSU a week after winning a national title for a contract worth half of Grantham’s. Whatever you think about Richt as a head coach, you’d have to say he’s still got the ability to attract quality coaching talent. Hopefully that’s a meme we can dispose of for a while.
Recharging the program’s batteries. That being said, this had all the makings of a somewhat sober offseason. The 2013 season was a bummer, from the final record to all the injuries. There’s no question that for much of the fan base the bloom had worn off the Grantham rose. I’m not saying that Richt’s decision to keep on keeping on with the defensive staff was a fatal call – there would have been no way to know that for sure until the 2014 season got underway – but it sure wasn’t lighting much of a fire under anyone. Today, we’re in a very different place. The fan base is pumped up and united for the most part. More importantly, from what I gather, you can say the same thing about the players.
Music to my ears. Georgia’s got plenty of talent on the defensive side of the ball. And Grantham, whatever faults you want to lay at his feet, wasn’t a dummy. But when you’ve got players having as much trouble getting in position in the bowl game as they did in the season opener, things clearly weren’t working right. So let me say that I flat-out love hearing stuff like this about Pruitt: “He was as good as anybody I’ve been with in the press box in the National Football League and in college ball,” said Sal Sunseri, an assistant on that 2009 Alabama team who now works as Florida State’s defensive ends coach. “He knows exactly how to put the guys in place and knew how to make adjustments. & That’s how we won.” That is some first class Dawg porn for this blogger, ladies and gentlemen. Excuse me while I wipe up this drool…
More music. Tell me, when’s the last time you heard a Georgia defender talk about his coordinator like this: “He taught us the ins and outs of everything,” Florida State safety Terrence Brooks said recently. “Just the way to pursue to the ball, the way to go get the ball, everything you can think about in football he’s taught us. He really broke the game down to us as to why we’re running this type of defense. “He makes you understand it so much better and I feel like everyone bought into it and that’s why we’re so successful.” Damn it, where did I put that towel?
If you act now, we’ll include this as a special bonus! I’m thrilled with Pruitt the teacher and schemer. Finding out that he’s one of the top recruiters in the country is icing on the cake. Is this Richt’s best staff ever from a recruiting standpoint? Time will tell, but it sure seems like you can make that argument. Given this – “Pruitt already has impressed the Georgia staff with his knowledge of the Bulldogs’ recruiting prospects.” – it may not take that much time, either.
Kirby Smart. Who cares?
Greg McGarity. A better DC, an energized fan base, all without having to spend a penny more in a market like this? Wipe that shit eating grin off your face, man. And don’t forget to take care of Bobo now that you’ve gotten to keep a few extra bucks in your pocket.
Mark Richt, winner. He made it happen and he deserves the credit he’s getting. If Ivan Maisel’s perception (“that Georgia gave him a three-year deal is a good indication that head coach Mark Richt plans to stay at least that long, a good sign for the Dawgs”) is common – and I don’t buy it, by the way – then this is as good a way to dispel the doubters as I can think of. More importantly, he proved himself to be decisive in a crisis, and by that I don’t just mean finding a new DC. I don’t believe in the conspiracy theories floating around that this whole deal was engineered by Richt from the get go, because there’s no way he could count on the good fortune of a desperate Petrino to put the wheels in motion, but I am convinced that he intended to hold Grantham’s feet to the fire this season, and that Grantham was fully aware of it.
There was obviously plenty going on behind the scenes that we’re never going to be made fully aware of, but that’s water under the bridge now. The program is in a better place today and that’s something to celebrate. At least until we want to start complaining about what’s being done to fix the problems on special teams, that is. But that can wait. Let’s savor the moment for a little while, okay?
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148 responses to “Mark Richt has lost control over losing control.”
It’s been a while since I felt much excitement about Georgia football. Feels good, man…
Summed up neatly. Thanks Senator.
Question: It appears that everyone in our athletic department from ADGM to CMR was unhappy with Grantham and the direction of the defense. That being said, why didn’t our head coach make things happen by firing Grantham? Why does he have such a hard time of firing people?
Why is it such a big deal to a certain part of the fan base that Richt “make things happen”? Especially after a day when he clearly did?
IAmAGurleyMan
Richt most definitely saved the day. And for that he deserves all the kudos in the world. With that said, if we had the ability to get Jeremy Pruitt, who is clearly an upgrade, I think the question, which is a fair one, is why wouldn’t Richt make that happen without waiting for Grantham to leave? It’s as if Richt was content with the mediocrity, but when he had no choice, then he was able to make magic happen. I think it’s more than a fair question to wonder why a coach who wants to win would not make that magic happen on his own volition. This gets to the heart of his hunger and his management style. And let’s not talk about money – the reality is that if Richt wants a coach gone badly enough, McGarity would surely make it happen regardless of the financial impact.
Unless you know what was going on behind the scenes, you have no idea whether the question was fair or otherwise. Do you? Or is this just how you prefer to think things operate?
Bingo. What we don’t know is how the conversation with Grantham and ADGM went when Richt met with both. My guess is the Senator is right and Grantham started shopping for a sweeter deal. I think Richt probably made it clear he wasn’t going to make it a fun year on the D and D staff and “You know, Todd, if you get a better offer, you might want to consider it.” I don’t mind that. I don’t think he wanted Todd to have the stigma of being fired because it hadn’t gotten THAT bad yet in his mind.
My Lord, I’m so excited about watching an exciting and attacking defense.
Your statement backs my point. Why not just fire the incompetent boob rather than hoping he gets a sweeter deal upon being suggested to look for one?
IndyDawg
So, you think our AD would have been willing to payout TG’s contract to fire him AND sign up for another 3 year $850K contract for a new DC? I suspect the answer is “No”. In this scenario, CMR was playing the hand he was dealt and TG fortunately folded. Then CMR played a new winning hand. See, there are lots of ways to interpret these events.
So you’re telling me that if Richt is insistent that he has an incompetent assistant who must be canned, then McGarity won’t listen because of dollars? I don’t buy that for a second, and I don’t think the Senator will either. If an assistant needs to go, $$$ won’t stand in the way.
I agree that if Richt wanted Grantham to be gone, he’d have been fired. Which means that Richt didn’t want Grantham gone, right?
BTW, weren’t you one of the two arguing a week ago that if Richt was okay with Grantham staying, Georgia should have matched Louisville’s offer?
No, that’s not what I was saying, but in rereading what I wrote, I understand why you read it that way.
You are the kind of guy who would get upset if someone gave you a fifty, griping that you wanted a hundred.,
Not so. It just strikes me as concerning that the same silliness goes in to watching the same mistakes made over and over again and not wanting to do anything about it. Thank God for Bobby Petrino, and thank God Richt landed Pruitt, but we need to be more aggressive in correcting our flaws.
Because you don’t know if you’re gonna land Pruitt. You can put out feelers but that doesn’t mean much if someone currently has the job. Think about it in your own world, talk is talk until something is visible. Without the opening being visible maybe Pruitt doesn’t take us seriously.
I disagree. Richt could have used a sock puppet on SeminoleVent to publish an authoritative job opening for DC and that Pruitt should apply. When Pruitt read that inside information, everything would have fallen into place. Maybe that’s exactly what happened.
Hope? Which offseason did he not shop himself? It was a solid bet (if that was their approach).
Because it’s fair to assume this given that we have seen this pattern with other coaches. Willie M, Van Halanger, and now Grantham. You act as if our supposition is so outlandish even though the history shows it to be the case.
And yet here we sit with an excellent hire made at record speed, which indicates to me that the man had a very specific plan in mind. How does that fit into your pattern?
It fits in the pattern because he didn’t fire an incompetent assistant; the assistant left on his own. If we didn’t have Bobby Petrino so stupid to want to overpay for Grantham, how exactly would that “specific plan” have played out?
Moreover, in this case, it is especially shocking given what was waiting in the wings.
Perhaps Richt doesn’t agree with your assessment of Grantham. Shocking, I know.
And if you’re suggesting that Richt knew Pruitt was available before Grantham left, please share with the class how you know that.
But how do you not know that Richt didn’t tell Grantham to look for another job? Fire him or not, why are you so darned worried about it?
lamontsanford
This. Some clowns will bitch about the bumpy flight on their free trip to Hawaii.
Perhaps “what was waiting in the wings” only existed because Richt is a fair-minded person who doesn’t reflexively fire coordinators?
BUT HE’S AN INCOMPETENT BOOB RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE
I know, right. It’s relentless.
roterhalsdawg
Not sure how many coaches truly know who is “waiting in the wings” until there is an opening. I think it is safe to say that CMR, unlike Petrino, isn’t gonna interview candidates for a coaching vacancy until it’s actually vacant.
Interview, no…but Friend could have been in Richt’s ear about his friend before the Petrino gig happened.
Would you have fired Bobo a couple of years back?
Studawg
One might also say BOOM!
No we don’t know what is going on by the scenes. Isn’t that why we have journalists who are paid to ask these types of questions?
If you were a great coach, would you rather work for someone who has a reputation for firing people or someone who gives people great chances to succeed.
Not to mention that Richt is not a total dick. He’s a fair man, and any fair minded person would take all the youth and injuries on the defense into account. Georgia’s defense sucked, no doubt, but from what I could see it was mostly on the secondary. Richt was willing to give Grantham a chance to fix that.
Mr. Sanchez
It’s more curiousity to me Senator. The “we weren’t firing him, but he was free to leave” idea. If you didn’t want the man around, why keep him around? That’s what I don’t get. If Grantham was free to pursue other opportunities, why don’t you fire him so he truly can pursue them? (with the fearful answering being, well then we’d have had to pay his buyout and reduce our reserve fund).
That aside, I agree with every word you wrote above.
I’m curious about what Richt said to Grantham. But if you’ll recall, Grantham was free to pursue other opportunities after the 2012 season, too. That’s hardly news.
Does anybody really think Mark Richt would make a coach stay in Athens against his wishes?
Bingo. If you don’t want him around, then fire the loser. Don’t bank on him getting a sweeter opportunity from a greater fool.
How do you know Richt didn’t want Grantham around this season?
I don’t, but again, that’s my point. If he did, then clearly he was content with mediocrity. If he didn’t, then why not fire him?
With that said, the idea that he may have encouraged Grantham to take a sweeter deal would seem to indicate that he did not want him around.
… the idea that he may have encouraged Grantham to take a sweeter deal…
Again, pure speculation on your part that anything like that was communicated to Grantham.
I didn’t say that it was, someone else did. I don’t know that to be the case, but honestly, I don’t care. What I do care about is that if nothing was said to Grantham, then Richt clearly was content to stick with an incompetent boob.
I don’t know why this is so hard. Either Richt didn’t want Grantham gone, in which case he was content to stick with an incompetent boob, or he did want Grantham gone, in which case it’s ludicrous that Grantham wasn’t fired. To not fire him but rather prefer he would leave on his own is unacceptable, as is holding onto such an incompetent clown. The only valid course of action was to recognize the disaster on hand, and act decisively (which, as mentioned earlier, we have seen this pattern in the past with Willie M and Van Halanger). The fact that he saved the day when Grantham bolted on his own doesn’t explain why Grantham was in charge of the departure in the first place.
Maybe not everyone thinks he’s an incompetent boob? Perhaps some people are okay with the idea that he had a defense full of youngsters who could improve?
This is a legitimate question – have you ever had to fire someone?
That excuse is bunk given that in 2012 he had 9 NFL players and still massively underperformed.
Yes, I have had to fire someone. It is not easy, admittedly. But it was the right thing to do for the organization. That doesn’t mean it’s not hard, but when it has to be done, you do it.
He had the same defense in 2011 and performed extremely well. You were willing to fire him this year. Richt, it seems, wasn’t there yet. Considering Richt works with the man on a daily basis, perhaps he has a different idea as to what constitutes an incompetent boob. Who knows.
Either way, you’re taking this way too seriously when it doesn’t matter in the slightest at this point. He didn’t fire Bobo when people wanted him to and that worked out alright, didn’t it?
Todd Gurley just called the Senator to ask that you remove his name because it implies his tacit endorsement of your stupidity.
Your argument here about something which you obviously have no inside knowledge is ridiculous. Unlike your handle, who on the field doesn’t over-analyze the play-calling, scheme or situation – Gurley simply takes the ball and goes full bore each and every time, – you appear to want to find 18 reasons why something is wrong instead of supporting why something is right.
Meanwhile, in Snelling Hall…
Random guy: “Hey, Todd.”
Gurley: “Uh. Hey. What’s up?”
Random guy: “There’s some dingus using your name and making dumb posts on the Internet.”
Gurley: “To the Gurleycopter!”
Now THAT is funny. Well done.
The most mediocre part of our defense was our secondary, which was the victim of youth, suspensions, attrition from earlier years, and (apparent) poor coaching. The rest of our defense was solid, and at times, really good. Allowing a coach the chance to improve things is not the same thing as being “content with mediocrity.”
CCRider
Richt didn’t want him but Richt was too weak to fire him…..again that is where your Boy and his Dirty Mexican stepped in and pushed this deal along. Again….I don’t want to brag….but……You are all mighty welcome!
I said C., C. C. Rider
Oh see, what you have done
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Oh girl, you made me love you
Now, now, now, now your loving man has gone
(C. C. Rider) Girl what’d I say (C. C. Rider)
Ahhhh Thank you… Thank you very much. 😉
I heard that in audio….. Beautiful! It am an Elvis person.. You know as in , either you are an Elvis person or A Beatles person.
That was the very best Elvis concert I have ever seen, by far. If someone watches that Hawaii concert and doesn’t get what separates The King from others, they won’t ever like him. That was the best because, he sounded great, looked great, and had the best selection of music to showcase his voice. Have had that on DVD since it was first out and upgraded when they improved it (had it on Laser Disc first).
Calling Grantham a loser speaks directly to your character, IMHO.
Your entitled to your ignorant opinion.
You’re*
That reminds me of an awesome t-shirt that read, “Your retarded.”
My apolgies. YOU’RE entitled to your ignorant opinion.
Because there is a broad spectrum of options between Fire him and give him a raise. How is that difficult to understand?
Plenty of times I have gotten the letter of resignation and said “I wish you the best of luck and please let me know if I can be of any assistance or if you need a future reference.” Sometimes I say “what can we do to keep you”, and then other times I am proactively making sure that a key employee is satisfied, engaged, and happy with compensation, projects, and work life balance. And sometimes I am just thankful that the person saved me the trouble of going through the firing process.
This isnt rocket science.
Plenty of times I have gotten the letter of resignation and said “I wish you the best of luck and please let me know if I can be of any assistance or if you need a future reference.”
Was this from incompentent people whom you let hang around, or was it from a competent guy whom you would have preferred to keep and had no interest in jettisonning? I am assuming the latter, of course.
Your management experience is limited and it’s showing.
You’re using the logical fallacy of false dilemma. You’re suggesting that the only two options for Richt were to fire Grantham for incompetence, or wholeheartedly endorse him. There are other possibilities.
The idea that Richt had a Tom Hagen-Franky Five Angels conversation with Grantham is just humerous to me. I don’t see Richt operating that way. However things happened though, I am grateful.
No snark intended, Kevin and GurleyMan, but you might be falling into the hindsjght trap of “why didn’t he think of this before?”
Last week Mark Richt was planning to see if Todd Grantham could rejuvenate his career, and Richt was judging that the search for an improvement was a chancy thing, and we could get worse in 2014. Please remember, that’s how it was a short few days ago.
Some fans can’t appreciate the class that MR represents for our University. Anyone with thoughts towards the lives of others like Richt has can understand what you are doing to families and others when the word “fired” is used. It reflects the failure of both parties and should never be used except when forced with your back to the wall. Firing people is a last resort situation that should never be used insensitively. It smacks of FU redneck fans.
This has nothing to do with Richt’s class. We all think Richt is classy. But you’re telling me not firing an incompetent assistant is what makes up class and that is “unclassy” to fire incompetent underlings? Absurd.
The buyout price most certainly outweighed the need to dismiss especially in this bean counting program.
To your point on the hindsight trap, I’ve heard “If Belichick knew Tom Brady was going to be such a good player why did he wait until the 6th round to draft him”. This type of Monday morning quarterbacking has become such an crutch to sports talk radio, it has seeped into the mainstream
GurleyMan (you really should change your name, it’s insulting to our best player) what is your deal? It baffles me that someone can find anything to bitch about after this hire.
I have heard from a few folks that I know who said that Grantham was told to look around and that he is the one who initiated contact with UL not the other way around (and this is from someone on the UL end not our end). How he convinced them that he was worth $1 mil is beyond me but good on him for it.
If you know anything about CMR it is that he has class and is a genuine person, he was allowing Grantham to keep his dignity while making a change that is excellent for the program at the same time. Why is this so hard to understand??
Why is it so hard to understand that it is ridiculous to want to keep a guy while at the same time encouraging him to look around? If you want your assistant to look around, then why would you want to keep him in the case that he doesn’t find a fool like Bobby Petrino to take such incompetent assistant off your hands?
The way this happened, benefited both parties…what is wrong with that? I say nothing.
I don’t remember the exact wording after the season, but it was something more like “we aren’t going to prevent anyone from exploring other opportunities” rather than “we are going to encourage some guys to look elsewhere.” You may not think that is a huge difference, but it is. The first is pretty much the unspoken rule at the end of every season of coaches who aren’t dicks. In this case, it was spoken because a reporter brought it up. Richt at no time said he wanted Grantham gone, so there is NO reason to believe that he wanted Grantham gone. What he did want is better results, and he was willing to give Grantham one more season to get those better results. This is not weakness. This is being an encouraging boss. This is not accepting mediocrity. This is weighing all of the factors of a shitty season and deciding that a guy deserves one more chance.
To put it simply, this is Mark Richt, and this is the way he works. Some of us see it as a feature rather than a bug.
Would you rather your manager at McDonalds fire you or would you rather him encourage you to go over to Arby’s and see if they are hiring? Of course I am being facetious but you get the idea. I don’t see why everything that CMR does you have to be so critical of. What would make you happy?? A public lynching? Tar and feathering him and running him out of town on a rail? Grantham may not have been what we needed as a DC but he is still a human being that deserves to be treated with a certain level of class and respect. If you truly do manage people then I pity the people who have to work for you.
Lakatos Intolerant
Give it up, brotherman.
Do you want the collective blogosphere to give you a “that’s a valid point, IAmAGurleyMan”?
Do you want something to hang onto if there is a management/coaching mistake down the road so that you can say “I told you so”?
What’s your schtick exactly?
There are 3 people who know precisely how the events transpired. Everything else is speculation and conjecture. So who gives a flying fuck at this point?
BMacDawg87
If he fires Grantham we also don’t get his 400K buyout ;). The writing was on the wall for CTG and he knew it IMO.
There’s a mention in this Weiszer article about Pruitt being ST coordinator at his HS program: http://dogbytesonline.com/with-pruitt-comes-you-get-what-you-earn-mentality-80399/
Obviously that won’t be his first (or second, or third) priority, but maybe he has something helpful to add to the conversation.
This article just took everything I was saving up for my wife tonight.
TMI friend.
Positive momentum FTW! Now just close on some guys and flip 1 or 2 and everyone will be foaming at the mouth.
Dawgaholic
First major post-Adams move. Thank you Jere.
Yes, don’t forget Bobo, along with a few other keeper assts.
I feel as uplifted as any fan, but talk of NC should stop now. It should not be carved as an expectation, but rather as an “If” everything we know of our program coming together without the big injury bug deciding our fate.
Pruitt fits everything we need when it comes to expertise and experience with the D-backfield, returns, ball turnover and other ST necessities. Let’s enjoy watching them work toward that and support what’s necessary to get our best players on the field. His experience with the prolific O at FSU’s practices is the best practice scenario that we could expect. He and Bobo should feed off one another.
Here’s to us, the fans, for maturing in a semicrisis atmosphere and arriving where many thought we should be over 7 yrs ago. Are you ready?: GO DAWGS! SIC”EM!
By the by, the pressure on So Ga recruiting just subsided a bit.
Perhaps we can at least talk of a return to the ATL?
Seriously, South GA is great, but it’s not going to mean much if Alabama and Tennessee wipe out ATL. See the 1990s.
Who exactly are UT and Bama getting from Atlanta that we wanted? How are they “wiping out” Atlanta?
I don’t think we have done a good job in ATL the last 20 years. Richt has done better, but there is still ground to be made up. To be fair, there are a lot of kids in ATL and a lot of them don’t have ties to UGA.
This. ATL has become a city of transplants where a lot of the kids growing up have no allegiance to UGA and didn’t have parents or grandparents that attended there. I am not worried about our recruiting at all, our class last year was stellar and this year while small will be a great year too.
Cojones, do you use “by the by” in regular conversation? I’ m reading “albion’s seed” by David Hackett fisher & he singles this out as a very unique regional phrase. I had never heard it, though.
Used in place of by the way? I must be honest last time I heard it used was in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Certainly not Albion’s Seed but both involve Brits. 😉
If you like American regional history and haven’t read Albion’s Seed, I highly recommend it.
“He makes you understand it so much better and I feel like everyone bought into it and that’s why we’re so successful.”
This, more than anything else that has been said about Pruitt.
Did any of us have the feeling the defensive players at Georgia…especially behind the line of scrimmage felt this way?
Even against Coach Beelzebub, the FSU defense seemed to be headed toward the football.
Teach me, coach, that’s your job.
I’m happy. I really don’t understand all the angst about Richt not FIRING CTG. Seriously. It got done to the betterment of the program. I think Richt has shown us “how to do it right!”
Got Goosies.
I think Richt new Grantham would leave this time at the first offer and had in the back of his mind who he wanted once Grantham made the first move. That is how it happened so fast. A good manager plans ahead for all possibilities. But like you said we (I) really don’t know what was going on behind the scenes.
I don’t care how it happened……just damn excited that it did. Guess my threat to withhold GSEF is over!
Yep. Opportune time for that comment.
I just can’t believe how long it’s taking to find a new LB coach.
The rev with a zinga…
Georgia – the home of funky karma. That belongs in the lexicon. And when was the last time you could type “Kirby Smart. Who cares?” and have everyone agree? I’m going outside to see if there are boulders falling from the sky or large cracks appearing in the face of the earth.
I’ve been called critical of Richt, but nothing to dislike about this. Absolute tape-measure, Mickey Mantle size grand slam.
As for Grantham, best of luck. If he succeeds at Louisville, I’ll be genuinely happy for him. But I have my doubts. Grantham knows football, I am sure. He strikes me as the type of person that knows everything there is to know about an engine, but can’t actually turn a wrench.
I have no doubt that he can turn the wrench. I just don’t think he’s very good at teaching others to turn it or, even more importantly, making others WANT to turn it.
Absolute tape-measure, Mickey Mantle size grand slam.
Can’t believe I’m saying it, still pinching myself. But after watching that presser, I think you’ve come up with the perfect description.
I was in Yankee Stadium before the renovation, in 1968, and saw the spot where the Mantle monster shot hit the light pole on the way out of the stadium. Nobody has ever, before or since, hit a baseball that high or that far.
Not even on steroids.
Does not surprise me now re CMR’s schedule and etc. Remember, retains strong connections to FSU. Would he have casual conversations with Mickey Andrews and Bobby? Plus, if he watched the BCS game, I’m sure he saw what some of us saw in that game…not so much Jameis Winston, but FSU’s D.
Rocket Dawg
Pruitt was also an excellent Special Teams coach at one point as well.
Also, possibly he had more of the “sense” of where his staff was than many of us thought. But CMR was coaching more than the current play, but future plays in the game is catch the meaning. Factor in Will Friend’s association and relationship. No doubt Pruitt wanted back into the SEC, that is who he is.
Senator, when you say you don’t buy it (re: Maisel), what don’t you buy? …that Richt won’t stay for another three years, or that the three year contract is necessary to prove that he will be?
I don’t get the idea he’s looking to retire any time soon, but maybe that’s just me.
Also, as an aside, is ADGM really a thing now? The acronyms we’re getting to make me want to pull my hair out – is McGarity that hard to type? (this isn’t at you, senator, just a rant).
The perception that Richt wasn’t planning on staying in the job too much longer.
Thanks for clearing it up. We’re in agreement.
You’re not lying. It requires easily as many brain cells to figure out “ADGM” as it does to just type “McGarity.”
Agree, its over the top.
I use “McG”. Is that OK? 🙂
I’ll allow it. 😉
So…you are the Judge?
It’s a dirty job, but…
Tre Mason had almost 200 rushing yards against Pruitt’s D. But he shut down Marshall and Marshall’s passing. 2014 Dawgs D will face Clemson, Auburn, and Tech between the hedges. Pruitt game planned all 3 in 2013. Throw in Florida. UF with Roper and Driskell will be a very tough team. Think not. Well, get out of the box.
Make that 5 teams. He saw Duke and Roper.
fatman48
He said, she said, what if this, what if that, its over its a done deal. Its time to sit back and let CJP go to work, NSD is three weeks away, then in September we arm chair quarterbacks can NIT-PICK everything he’s done, good,bad or indifferent. “GO DAWGS” GATA
I want more.
Let’s get Sal Sunseri to fill the LB coach position.
TEXAS DAWG
It is WONDERFUL to have someone who can TEACH. I realize last years defense was very young and inexperienced. The problem I had, was that they looked just as bad at the end the season as they did at the first of the season.
Thank you Mark Richt, ADGM, and The University of Georgia. I NOW HAVE HOPE! Go Dawgs! GATA!
Pass the kool aid. I want a big gulp! Great to be a Georgia Bulldog.
Let’s also hope they can teach defenders to actually CATCH interceptions instead of having numerous sure pick 6s bounce off of guys’ gloves. How many dropped INTs did we have this year? 5? 6?
I don’t believe that this all came together in a matter of days.
I think that agents were working back doors since Petrino was hired, maybe even before that.
CMR allowed CTG and the db coach to leave on their own terms, or at least appear to.
You gotta admit – he has class – maybe not enough killer instinct – but class.
I heard it went down a little something like this
I think you nailed it. The fire-eaters want drastic action because it satisfies an emotional need. Richt doesn’t want to wreck anyone’s career or do needless harm to others. I’d say the honor in that outweighs a random fan’s need for blood. Of course, to the fire-eater, that’s a sign of weakness and that we’ll never win jack because ______.
Tell me, when’s the last time you heard a Georgia defender talk about his coordinator like this….
When I heard Pollack talking about VanGorder in 2004.
The Nole Book of Lamentations
First they came for Hugh Durham and
I didn’t say anything because I was stunned.
Joe Williams? Who is Joe Williams?
Next they came for Mark Richt and
I didn’t say anything except adios because he couldn’t score a TD against BGB in the Mythical BCSCG. Besides, we got Jeff Bowden and even I could have gone undefeated against mythical ACC competition
Then they came for Jeremy Pruitt and
I didn’t say anything except to ask Jimbo how come the Dogs have so much more money than we do and Jimbo blinked, talked fast and said, “It turns out that nobody let the dogs out. They let them in and they made some music, some house music, some dog house music.”
Sometimes I don’t get your stuff, DiF, but this was right in my wheelhouse. Very funny.
“Sometimes I don’t get your stuff,”
Neither do I.
I have trouble getting stuff, especially in Columbus.
In his press conference, Pruitt is talking about fundamentals. That’s what we need! This guy is a Godsend! No more missed tackles and bonehead plays. This guy is amazing.
Moe Pritchett
very, very good read there Senator.
None of us know exactly what when down, nor what was said to CTG in his meeting with Richt, and that certainly includes me. While I don’t know, I feel CMR knew that Pruitt was unhappy at FSU, probably from Friend. It is common knowledge that Jimbo can be difficult to work with, has a large ego, and is doing his “Little Nicky Junior” act. So that was a hole card that Richt held going into his meeting with Grantham, imo. I believe Richt told CTG that his time at UGA was short, if not immediately, after the contract expired. Doesn’t take a genius to see the differences in the way CTG handles himself versus that of CMR. Grantham knowing it would be more advantageous for his future to get hired away from Georgia versus being booted put out feelers and found a sucker in Petrino.
Just my opinion, but it supports my contention that this whole 2-3 act play didn’t occur over a 41 hour span. Just too smooth for something so ragged.
Dboy
These 2 recent posts about the Pruitt hire were both excellent and maybe the funniest laugh out loud material I have read on this blog, over the past 5 years. It’s tough to make optimism funny.
Go Blutarsky and Go Dawgs!!!
Devil Dog
We get Pruitt and Petrino gets Grantham. Actually, as long as he’s not in Athens any longer, I really don’t care where Grantham ends up. But there is something humorous about him joining the ole motorcycle-in-the-gravel guy. Better score a bunch, BP. And welcome aboard, Jeremy Pruitt!
I have four words about the remaining opening for an LB/ST assistant: Get. Warren. Belin. back.
He’s available.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/08/panthers-keep-finding-scapegoats-bigger-problem-remains/
We are all Beliners now!
Wait, this just in…bad news – he’s part of the Clawfense operation in Deaconville. The good news is that they’re usually asleep in the front pew
http://www.journalnow.com/sports/wfu/football/article_5d427d5d-0aa3-5c1d-95aa-5d773422f2d4.html
well damn…
We get Pruitt as DC in near record time and instead of being happy people are carping that it didn’t happen through Richt firing Grantham. This pathology tht afflicts a slice of our fanbase is both stupifyingly annoying and totally fascinating. Senator we have to come up with a name for what plagues these people and add it to the lexicon.
Billy Bennett
Mike, we already have the perfect phrase: “Dawgraders”. Har har!
Also everyone, CMR was in Indianapolis Sunday at a coaches convention and flew back Monday, in case anyone needed some extra meat in their conspiracy stew. Of course the Dawgraders will “interpret” this to mean he was actually secretly interviewing his top DC choice, one Manny Diaz!
Billy… contary to your comment that the title “Dawgraders” describes these negative nellies…I believe “Dawgraders” refers to people who are not Georgia fans at all…people in the sports media…that put a ho-hum spin on everything UGA. For instance..if Georgia beat the #1 team in the country, some ahole on ESPN would say, “Well, (#!) was without it’s third string safety so the win isn’t really impressive as it looks”, etc.
What these peope are (and are called out on this blog to be) is E-Orr Dawgs….(I’m sure I spelled it incorrectly, but it’s the whiney donkey from Winnie the Pooh if my mind is working right…which would be unusual).
Not to be contrary, but I believe these points are more accurate. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong (being a married man, I’m used to it).
Jealousy rears it’s ugly head with those media guys. Georgia is the most upstanding program in College Football and we have the most class.
True words.
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Jack the Bear
Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
Genre : Drama
Actors : Andrea Marcovicci, Art LaFleur, Bert Remsen, Danny DeVito, Erica Yohn, Gary Sinise, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Miko Hughes, Reese Witherspoon, Robert J. Steinmiller Jr., Stefan Gierasch
Director : Marion Tumen, Marshall Herskovitz
Quality: CAM
Mr. Majestyk
Watermelon farmer Vince Majestyk (Charles Bronson) goes after the Mob, when they try to strong arm him to use their melon picking crew.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Abluka
With Istanbul mired in political violence, Kadir is offered release after 15 years in prison if he’ll work as an informant. In a shantytown he stumbles upon his brother Ahmet, working for the city rounding up stray dogs and shutting himself in his home.
Country: France, Qatar, Turkey
A Light Beneath Their Feet
A high school senior must choose between enrolling at the college of her dreams and remaining at home to take care of her bipolar mother.
Sohyun, a runaway, is left alone after her close friend Jungho disappears. By accident, she gets to know a transgender woman named Jane. She joins Jane and her close-knit community of runaways, who are as comforting and loving as a real family. Sohyun feels happy and at peace. But her happiness does not last long. There is something wrong with Jane’s health.
The Godfather: Part II
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Papa Hemingway in Cuba
In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Auftauchen
Having just landed a gig with a trendy magazine, young photographer Nadja celebrates at the local disco, where she bumps into Darius, a 20-year-old skateboarder. Although her frankness at first scares him, the two quickly become a couple, and as their intoxicating affair takes off, they seem like passionate soul mates. Soon, however, career demands and emotional intensity gradually put a strain on their rapport, and things turn even more complicated…
While recovering from a suicide attempt, Ben Layton accidentally falls in love with a girl who was very nearly, almost his sister – and then things start to get weird.
Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house and a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy, the power of prayer in India and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali.
A circle of twenty-something friends reunite for a weekend away to console a suicidal member of their group. Yet, despite their best efforts to enjoy themselves, a tinderbox of old jealousies, unrequited love, and widening political differences leads to an explosion of drama that, coupled with the flammable combination of drugs, wine, and risotto, cannot be contained. A Big Chill for our current social media moment, About Alex is a lighthearted look at the struggles of a generation that has it all—and wants more.
A look inside a tragedy through the eyes of a survivor. Based on actual events, April Showers is about picking up the pieces in the direct aftermath of school violence
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Former Shepway Resource Centre, Folkestone - Disposal
19/05/2014 - Decision due date changed from 18/02/2014 to 01/08/2014.
REASON: The proposed decision to dispose of the Centre was delayed while internal processes were undertaken to ensure that no other suitable use could be found before disposal. This process is complete and the former resource centre will be placed on the market shortly. Responses from the market will be gauged after a period of approximately 3 months and a proposal for the site put forward at that time. The decision will be considered by the Property Sub-Committee or the Policy and Resources cabinet Committee before being taken by the Cabinet Member.
To seek approval to the disposal of the former Shepway Resource Centre following the marketing of the site
Reason Key: Expenditure or savings of more than £1m;
Decision status: For Determination
It is likely that the sale price, buyer and any other financial information of a commercially sensitive nature wil lbe contained in a separate report, exempt from publication under paragraph 3 of schedule 12a of the Local Government Act 1972/
The proposed decisions will be discussed at Policy & Resources’ Property Sub Committee following marketing.
The property is situated within the electoral division of Folkestone West. Cllr Hod Birkby has been consulted.
Financial implications: Alyson McKenna, 01622 696032 alyson.mckenna@kent.gov.uk Rebecca Spore, 01622 221151 rebecca.spore@kent.gov.uk
Legal implications: 14.00022
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Denim & Tweed
Ignoti, sed non occulti.
Jeremy Yoder
The Yoder Lab
@JBYoder
Deprived of pollinators, flowers evolve to do without
Posted on 26 April, 2011 by jby
Who needs pollinators? Not monkeyflowers—at least not after a few generations of evolution. Photo by Brewbooks.
The loss of animal pollinators poses a potentially big problem for plants. However, many plant species that rely on animals to move pollen from anther to stigma have the capacity to make due if that service goes undone—and, as a new study released online early by the journal Evolution demonstrates, such plants can rapidly evolve to do without pollinators [$a] if they must.
The paper’s authors, Sarah Bodbyl Roels and John Kelly, demonstrate this using a simple greenhouse experiment with the monkeyflower Mimulus guttatus, a wildflower native to western North America, and a member of a genus rapidly developing into a major model system for studying the evolution of ecological isolation and floral evolution.
Mimulus species vary in their reliance on animal pollinators—some grow minimalistic flowers, with the anther so close to the stigma that pollen transfers without any assistance. In natural populations, M. guttatus is usually pollinated by bees, but individual plants vary in the distance between anther and stigma, and this variation has a genetic basis. So a population of M. guttatus deprived of pollinators would have the raw material to evolve a solution—natural selection would favor plants that are better able to self-pollinate. As the population evolved to be more self-fertilizing, it might also evolve to look more like self-pollinating Mimulus species, losing the bright petals that attract pollinators.
To see whether this could actually happen, Bobdyl Roels and Kelly challenged an experimental population of Mimulus guttatus to do without pollinators, and tracked its response.
The authors raised seeds derived from a natural wild population of Mimulus guttatus in greenhouses under two trial conditions: control populations were provided with hives of bumblebees to pollinate them when their flowers were ready for servicing; and experimental populations were left to produce what seed they could without pollinators. The authors collected the seeds produced by each population, and planted them to form the next generation.
A bumblebee digs for nectar in flowers of Mimulus moschatus. Photo by Mollivan Jon.
Early on in the experiment, the experimental populations deprived of pollinators fared badly. Without pollinators, the average plant produced two seeds or fewer by the end of the generation, compared to eight or ten seeds per plant in the population provided with bees. By the fifth generation, however, this was starting to improve—plants in both populations without pollinators were producing more seeds, and one of the two experimental populations produced nearly as many seeds as the control plants.
Examining the traits of plants produced by this final generation (actually, the grand-offspring of the fifth generation, to control for effects of inbreeding), the authors found that the average distance between the pollen-producing anther and the pollen-receiving stigma had shrunk significantly in plants from the experimental population. Across all the treatments, plants with a shorter distance between stigma and anther produced more self-pollinated seeds. There was no evolved change in other floral measurements, however—plants in the no-pollinators treatment had petals as big and showy as plants evolved with bumble bees.
In a natural population of Mimulus guttatus, the drop-off in seed production created by loss of pollinators should have much the same effect as in this experiment, creating a strong selective advantage for individual plants that can make more seeds on their own. The fact that the experimental plants did not evolve reduced petals could mean that in the cushy conditions of a greenhouse, there wasn’t much need to stop spending resources making showy flowers. Or maybe, when the major source of natural selection is the need to make any seeds at all, selection to save resources on flower production is relatively weak and correspondingly slow-acting.
As the authors point out, one of many changes humans are making to natural communities around the world is to disrupt pollination relationships. In a sense, experiments like theirs are being carried out worldwide, on hundreds of plant species—and each species will adapt, or fail to adapt, in its own way.
Bodbyl Roels, S., & Kelly, J. (2011). Rapid evolution caused by pollinator loss in Mimulus guttatus. Evolution DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01326.x
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College of Business, Law and Social Sciences
Thatcherism (1)
Policy Studies Journal (1)
Farrall, Stephen (1)
Gray, Emily (1)
Hay, Colin (1)
Jennings, Will (1)
Jennings, Will (1) Year (Issue Date)2017-12-22 (1)TypesArticle (1)
Moral Panics and Punctuated Equilibrium in Public Policy: An Analysis of the Criminal Justice Policy Agenda in Britain
Jennings, Will; Farrall, Stephen; Gray, Emily; Hay, Colin (2017-12-22)
How and when issues are elevated onto the political agenda is a perennial question in the study of public policy. This article considers how moral panics contribute to punctuated equilibrium in public policy by drawing together broader societal anxieties or fears and thereby precipitating or accelerating changes in the dominant set of issue frames. In so doing they create opportunities for policy entrepreneurs to disrupt the existing policy consensus. In a test of this theory, we assess the factors behind the rise of crime on the policy agenda in Britain between 1960 and 2010. We adopt an integrative mixed‐methods approach, drawing upon a combination of qualitative and quantitative data. This enables us to analyze the rise of crime as a policy problem, the breakdown of the political‐institutional consensus on crime, the moral panic that followed the murder of the toddler James Bulger in 1993, the emergence of new issue frames around crime and social/moral decay more broadly, and how—in combination—these contributed to an escalation of political rhetoric and action on crime, led by policy entrepreneurs in the Labour and Conservative parties.
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Moloney & Kelly’s Favourite Storytellers
This year, the theme of the St. Patrick’s Day Festival was Storytellers which couldn’t be better suited. A nation of storytellers, Moloney & Kelly list some of their favourites and how they can be incorporated into your incentive program in Ireland as well as some updates!
Their Favourite Storytellers
In Irish folklore, a seanchaí was revered all over the country – they were storytellers, the keepers of Irish history who would entertain with folklore, myths and legends. They have never lost the “gift of the gab” and some of their favorite Irish people over the years are adept at spinning a yarn. From James Joyce to Bono, Saoirse Ronan to Oscar Wilde – they just have a way with words! They love to bring characters into incentive groups to make them more memorable – whether it’s a storyteller by the fireside nursing a whiskey or an exclusive chance to meet one of the only remaining Guinness family members, stories and storytellers are what weave a successful incentive program together. Contact us to see how Moloney & Kelly can make storytelling key in your incentive.
Grand Central Hotel – Belfast
Moloney & Kelly were absolutely thrilled to be able to host the very first guests that crossed the threshold into the long awaited Grand Central Hotel in Belfast’s city centre. Standing at 23 stories, it is the tallest commercial building on the island of Ireland and cocktails on the top floor Observatory offer a stunning view over City Hall, the Titanic Quarter into the mountains and over all of Belfast. Part of the Hastings Hotel group, the 300 bedroom hotel was a welcome addition to the area that is now going to be known as the Linen Quarter with bustling restaurants and bars – an ideal incentive location!
Contact us for further information or to request a tailored proposal to Ireland with Moloney & Kelly
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British troops on standby as government ramps up no-deal Brexit preparations
Britain's defense secretary announced that 3,500 troops will be on standby for a possible no-deal Brexit, as...
Britain's defense secretary announced that 3,500 troops will be on standby for a possible no-deal Brexit, as lawmakers said Tuesday that they have ramped up preparations for leaving the European Union without an agreement.
With just 101 days to go before the UK is due to leave the EU, Cabinet members have made no-deal planning an "operational priority," Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said.
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Families and businesses will be sent official advice over the coming weeks on how best to prepare for such an outcome, a Downing Street spokeswoman told CNN.
After a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Theresa May's official spokesman said ministers agreed that an emergency contingency plan was essential in case parliamentarians reject her deal when they vote on it in January.
The spokesman stressed, however, that the government's "top priority" is to deliver the prime minister's deal, adding that it remains "the most likely scenario."
Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson told the House of Commons Tuesday that 3,500 troops will be ready to support the government in case of a no-deal Brexit.
"We've as yet not had any formal request from any government department but what we are doing is putting contingency plans in place," Williamson told the Commons.
"What we will do is have 3,500 service personnel held at readiness -- including regulars and reserves -- in order to support any government department on any contingencies they may need."
According to the UK's Press Association news agency, Barclay said after the Cabinet meeting: "The government's priority remains to secure a deal, but we need to recognize with 14 weeks to go, that a responsible government is preparing for the eventuality that we leave without a deal."
Barclay appealed to UK businesses to plan realistically for a no-deal Brexit.
Downing Street has said that advice will be sent out to households over the next few weeks, and businesses will have access to a 100-plus page document online to help them prepare. Over the coming days, it also said, emails will be sent to more than 80,000 businesses that are most likely to be affected.
"Cabinet also agreed to recommend businesses now also ensure they are similarly prepared, enacting their own no-deal plans as they judge necessary," May's spokesman said.
"Citizens should also prepare in line with the technical notices issued in the summer and in line with further more detailed advice that will now be issued over coming weeks."
May 'leading UK into a national crisis'
The no-deal preparations come as May's proposal remains more deadlocked than ever.
While May has said she will reschedule Parliament's vote on her Brexit deal for the week of January 14, less than 80 days before Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29, opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn called for a motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister.
He said it was "unacceptable" to make lawmakers wait until January and accused May of "cynically running down the clock" until the UK leaves the EU.
Corbyn also accused May of leading the UK into a "national crisis" as she ignored pleas to abandon her widely criticized deal.
The parliamentary vote on the deal was originally set to take place on December 11, but May delayed it after it became clear she would lose by a significant margin.
The government, however, has refused to allocate time to vote on Corbyn's non-binding, symbolic no-confidence motion, forcing the opposition to decide whether to try to topple the entire administration.
A no-confidence vote against the entire government would have to be scheduled, as it would be binding and could trigger a general election if the government lost.
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Anthony Ha Jordan Crook Darrell Etherington 3 months
You’ve probably already heard that HBO’s “Succession” (which recently completed its second season) is amazing. And as three East Coast tech reporters, we were probably the easiest targets for the show’s many charms.
Still, we felt like we had to talk about it. In fact, our “Succession” review on this episode of the Original Content podcast is perhaps our most epic discussion so far. And we probably would have gone for even longer if we thought anyone would still be listening.
The series revolves around the Roy family, whose patriarch Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox) founded and still leads the Waystar Royco media empire. Throughout the course of the two seasons, his four children — heir apparent Kendall (Jeremy Strong), political fixer Shiv (Sarah Snook), snarky smart aleck Roman (Kieran Culkin) and libertarian weirdo Connor (Alan Ruck) — all take turns vying for their father’s attention and scheming against him.
All three of us loved “Succession,” but even without a long argument about the show’s merits, there was still plenty for us to debate: How a story with such morally bankrupt characters can still be so compelling, to what extent those characters are motivated by love versus hate versus greed (and whether they can even tell the difference) and who, in the end, deserves to sit on the corporate throne.
We also discuss next week’s launch of Apple TV+ (and the launch of Disney+ shortly thereafter) and which shows we’re most excited about finally watching.
You can listen in the player below, subscribe using Apple Podcasts or find us in your podcast player of choice. If you like the show, please let us know by leaving a review on Apple. You can also send us feedback directly. (Or suggest shows and movies for us to review!)
And if you want to skip ahead, here’s how the episode breaks down:
0:00 Intro
0:41 Apple/Disney discussion
10:16 “Succession” spoiler-free review
25:50 “Succession” spoiler discussion
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Valerie Strauss Interviews Historian Jack Schneider: Are Schools Unchanged for a Century?
Journalist Valerie Strauss interviewed historian Jack Schneider. Is Betsy DeVos right to say that American public schools have not changed for a century, she asks. He answers: Not true. Betsy DeVos doesn’t know what she is talking about.
Schneider says:
If we could transport ourselves to a typical school of the early 20th century, the basic structural elements — desks, chalkboards, textbooks, etc. — would be recognizable. And we might see some similar kinds of power dynamics between adults and children. But almost everything else would be different. The subjects that students studied, the way the day was organized, the size of classes, the kinds of supports young people received — these essential aspects of education were all different. Teachers were largely untrained. Access to education was entirely shaped by demographic factors like race and income; special education didn’t exist. Latin was still king. It was just a completely different world. To say that schools haven’t changed is just an extraordinarily uninformed position.
DeVos says these ridiculous things because she wants to disrupt public schools. The reality is that they are constantly evolving.
Teachers and principals are too busy working every day to “reinvent” their schools.
Strauss quotes Professor Adam Laats of Binghamton University (SUNY) who wrote that DeVos’ idea of education anywhere everywhere is actually an early 19th century idea. It didn’t work, it left many children behind, and forward-thinking educators realized the need for free, universal public education.
Categories Accountability, Betsy DeVos, History
ponderosa says:
Schools have changed drastically –for the worse. Once upon a time kids actually learned things in the elementary schools. Now they just DO things –with little real learning. Hours and hours of literacy test prep that allegedly strengthens their mental skills, but which actually does nothing. This is radical change to the basic content of schooling is just the latest scandalous innovation –there have been many others (the “open classroom”, “New Math”, “the social adjustment movement”) over the past century –many emanating from foolishness factories like Teachers College in NYC. DeVos does not know what she’s talking about, but she’s not alone: everyone repeats this brainless cliche about schools never changing. Has anyone read Diane’s Left Back? I was just talking to a recent college grad who’s considering becoming a teacher: he parroted the same dumb line as if he were uttering profound wisdom.
caplee68 says:
Schools have changed in many ways but they still remain an elitist caste system designed to serve the few. What hasn’t changed is a devastating system of failure that destroys children, letter grades that lie to parents, an accountability system on a dramatically un even playing field, teach to the test that destroys the students ability to think beyond the confirmation bias, carnegie units that pass kids on without learning or fails them into oblivion, and treats kids like objects.
De Vos talks in generalities as she knows not what she says. However, intelligent educators shoul understand the necessity of change.
Metaphysician says:
Our public schools are stuck in “a 19th-century assembly line approach”? DeVos needs to spend time observing public school classrooms, at least in schools that will have her, as well as opening up a few books about the history of our country and of public education in particular. (To do this would require some intellectual curiosity on her part though.)
I don’t need to tell Diane Ravitch’s audience how profoundly our public schools have changed in the last century, for better or worse. We have Brown v. Board of Education, which ordered the desegregation of public schools “with all deliberate speed.” Of course de facto segregation persists, exacerbated by the charter school movement, but the case was still a victory. And on the downside, there’s the rise of standardized testing, along with the relentless drive to generate data about students and teachers and to use that data for questionable purposes.
In my own rather long career in public education I have observed many changes in evolving education. I also taught in a public system that embraced reasoned change and supported such changes with teacher training. We also had an evolving curriculum cycle that was designed to respond to changes in curriculum and instruction.
My area of specialization, ESL and bilingual education, did not exist a hundred years ago. The field developed after World War II at US Language Service Schools under the direction of the military, although settlement houses and churches had operated local volunteer programs prior to this. After the Civil Rights laws were passed, some universities started offering degrees in ESL and a few years later bilingual education. I finished by master’s degree in ESL in 1970. When I first started, I was among the first people in my county that held this degree. I had lots of autonomy to create a program, and I also helped other school districts in the county set up their own programs. I was part of two teams that helped write New York’s ESL curricula projects in the early ’80s.
Education evolves as it responds to the various needs of the community it serves. Unfortunately, within the last twenty years, it has been forced to respond to a variety of mandates from both the federal government and states. Many of these mandates are doing more to harm rather than help struggling students.
So far as statistics of working professional adults matter, the school system was not only working but increasingly getting better until it was very manipulatively attacked for holding an “untenable status quo” — an “untenable status quo” which presumably in secret meant “too many people of non-traditional backgrounds are moving into the professional/political sphere.”
Interactive white boards have been replacing chalk boards for almost two decades. Chalk is not lung friendly. The whiteboards can be marked up, but also display images from the internet, Powerpoints and so on. Desks in many schools have been replaced by tables that can be rearanged and accomodate wheelchairs. The stereotypes involked by DeVos are in perfect alignment with other arrogant amateurs who pretend to know about education.
bethree5 says:
If DeVos paid any attention whatsoever, she’d notice that in both schoolroom and workplace, early-20thC Taylorism has crept in via computer measurement and data collection. I suspect her routine slam on public schools is merely a knee-jerk soundbite. If she actually cared to prevent 100-y.o. ‘industrial science’ from ruling education, she would already have done something about this.
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UB Cross-country team star Stu Katz sprints home as his coach Emery Fisher serves as timekeeper, 1963-1964 season
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Stuart Katz, of Batavia, New York, was the best long distance runner in UB history. He set a course record in every race that he ran in the 1963-1964 season and was beaten by only two men in New York State.
“UB Cross-country team star Stu Katz sprints home as his coach Emery Fisher serves as timekeeper, 1963-1964 season ,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed January 20, 2020, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/78343.
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Mobile ad blocking on the rise. What’s that mean for digital publishers?
June 14, 2016 | By Peggy Anne Salz, Founder and Lead Analyst—Mobile Groove @peggyanne
Ad blocking on desktop has been a thorn in the side of publishers for years, but it’s the advance of ad blocking on mobile and built into browsers – and the stunning growth trajectory of ad blocking usage across markets including China and India – that poses the greatest threat to digital media companies that depend on advertising for revenue.
This is the key takeaway of Adblocking Goes Mobile, a recent report published by Page Fair, a company working to mitigate ad blocking with the help of technology it claims addresses the speed, privacy, and UX issues that cause ad blocking in the first place. Drawing from research and analysis of ad blocking browsers and capabilities conducted in collaboration with app intelligence firm Priori Data, the report sheds important light on the factors driving the meteoric growth ad blocking around the globe.
To date the report points out that “at least 419 million people are blocking ads on smartphones.” That’s nearly twice the number of consumers blocking ads on desktops and PCs. Do the math, and 22% of the world’s 1.9 billion smartphone users are blocking ads on the mobile Web.
While mobile ad blocking browsers have become a mainstream technology, there are important differences in how and where consumers block ads in their content and news.
In fact, mobile ad blocking usage and mobile data infrastructure appear to be inextricably linked, with consumers in Asia-Pacific adopting ad blocking browsers as a way to curb bandwidth-eating ads, improve page load speeds and ultimately keep a lid on mobile data costs. Overall, over one-third (33%) of smartphone users in the region are blocking ads with the help of an ad blocking browser. The report estimates that as of March 2016, the region contained a whopping 55% of global smartphone users, but “93% of ad blocking browser usage.”
The mass adoption of ad blocking browsers in markets including China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan means massive problems for digital media serving those markets. As the report puts it: “Mobile ad is a serious threat to the future of media and journalism in emerging markets, where people are coming online
for the first time via relatively expensive or slow mobile connections.”
Ad blocking usage in North America and Europe is not as widespread, thanks to developed mobile data infrastructure and affordable data plans. But there are also distinct differences. Ad blocking browsers are popular in Europe, while content blocking apps (apps that block ads in web pages viewed via a Safari browser on Apple’s iOS 9 Apple devices, for example) are 3x more popular in North America than in Europe.
In total (as of March 2016) the report reckons there were 14 million monthly active users of ad blocking browsers in Europe and North America. In total, 4.9 million content blocking and in-app ad blocking apps were downloaded from app stores in Europe and North America since September 2014.
The mature mobile markets of North America and Europe are marked by slow, but steady adoption of ad blocking browsers and content blocking apps. It’s the calm before the storm as the range of ad blocking tech continues on an impressive growth trajectory. The report identified an incredible 229 different content blocking apps on Apple iOS alone. Expect the numbers to skyrocket now that Samsung will make good on its promise that the default browser on its Android devices will support its version of content blocking. Growth of ad blocking tech will also see a huge boost as more browsers (not just operating systems) add ad blocking support and make it easier for consumers to configure their preferences.
It’s important to have a report that draws from empirical data, not user surveys, to understand the increasingly complex landscape of mobile ad blocking technology. Now it’s up to the media and publishing industry to use this report as a starting point to address the root causes and issues that are convincing consumer to use adblockers in the first place.
Fortunately, the report takes the first steps, inviting industry leaders and associations – including Digital Content Next – to weigh in with their opinions on the rise of ad blocking technology and why a focus on delivering a better user/reader advertising experience should be top of mind with all digital media companies and brands.
But the elephant in the room is not the quality of ads but the disconnect between how the industry approaches monetization and what they should really value. Perhaps David Chavern, CEO, Newspaper Association of America, sums it up best: “We [also] measure digital ads by a metric — “impressions” — that has no real meaning or value. If we don’t fix these problems, and we allow ad blockers to take over, then we will be left with small, subscription models that will exclude large portions of the public. Not being able to afford HBO is one thing. Not being able to afford quality news would be a much more serious problem.”
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Demonstration of a schedule-dependent therapeutic synergism utilizing the interacting drugs methotrexate and teniposide in L1210 leukemia
G. L. Wampler, W. H. Carter, E. D. Campbell, I. David Goldman
When three variables require simultaneous adjustment for treatment optimization, the experimental determination of the optimum treatment becomes more complicated than generally appreciated, especially when one variable is the interval between drug administrations. Molecular pharmacological studies at this institution suggest that teniposide, in doses that are achievable in vivo, blocks methotrexate efflux from cells, enhancing formation of methotrexate polyglutamates which are active retentive forms of the drug. Hence, the combination might show a synergistic effect if teniposide is given at an appropriate time in relation to administration of methotrexate. This paper considers the problem of estimating the optimal dose levels and timing of administration of these drugs in B6D2F1 mice bearing L1210 leukemia in vivo as a model for the analysis of multidrug regimens when time and dose are variables. Because of the complexity of these experiments, an adaptive approach was applied. Three cycles of treatment were given using methotrexate at 0-400 mg/kg, teniposide at 0-60 mg/kg, and an interval of 0-54 hours between the two drugs. The single drugs prolonged median survival up to 24 days under the conditions of these experiments. The combination given simultaneously resulted in median survival of up to 33.5 days, while use of an appropriate interval between drugs prolonged median survival to > 50 days. An analysis of the underlying dose-time response gives a much better appreciation of the relationships among the variables. The concept that optimal doses included less methotrexate and more teniposide as the interval between drugs is increased was developed only through modeling. This finding is critical in demonstrating the importance of including all nonnegligible variables in the experimental design if the results are to be considered valid. Confidence regions about the optimum dose and about the response at the optimum provide a sound basis for a claim of therapeutic synergism as demonstrated by use of a scheduling variable in the experiment design. A nonproportional hazards analysis permits the conclusion of nonproportionality and emphasizes the contribution of methotrexate to optimal short-term survival (15-24 days) and teniposide to long-term survival (24-39 days).
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Wampler, G. L., Carter, W. H., Campbell, E. D., & Goldman, I. D. (1987). Demonstration of a schedule-dependent therapeutic synergism utilizing the interacting drugs methotrexate and teniposide in L1210 leukemia. Cancer Treatment Reports, 71(6), 581-591.
Demonstration of a schedule-dependent therapeutic synergism utilizing the interacting drugs methotrexate and teniposide in L1210 leukemia. / Wampler, G. L.; Carter, W. H.; Campbell, E. D.; Goldman, I. David.
In: Cancer Treatment Reports, Vol. 71, No. 6, 1987, p. 581-591.
Wampler, GL, Carter, WH, Campbell, ED & Goldman, ID 1987, 'Demonstration of a schedule-dependent therapeutic synergism utilizing the interacting drugs methotrexate and teniposide in L1210 leukemia', Cancer Treatment Reports, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 581-591.
Wampler GL, Carter WH, Campbell ED, Goldman ID. Demonstration of a schedule-dependent therapeutic synergism utilizing the interacting drugs methotrexate and teniposide in L1210 leukemia. Cancer Treatment Reports. 1987;71(6):581-591.
Wampler, G. L. ; Carter, W. H. ; Campbell, E. D. ; Goldman, I. David. / Demonstration of a schedule-dependent therapeutic synergism utilizing the interacting drugs methotrexate and teniposide in L1210 leukemia. In: Cancer Treatment Reports. 1987 ; Vol. 71, No. 6. pp. 581-591.
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Have you ever wanted to learn cartooning ? We will be covering basic history, giving examples of different cartoon styles over the years. We will be cartooning basic object, vehicles, people and animals to teach exaggeration. Then I can demonstrate caricatures with all the kids and give them a try at each other. The course will finish with a comic strip assignment after a brief history example to cover sequential illustration and story telling.
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Brandon M. Burghard, a young freelance digital artist for over 4 years whose professional work includes; designing characters, creating promotional material, rendering splash art, designing icons,logos, pixel art and sprite work on multiple indie games and projects, as well as an art consultant.
Ever since he was young, Brandon crafted stories and designed characters expressing each in different mediums throughout the years. It was only until later in life where he honed his potential as a draftsmen and studied the way of illustration and design. Brandon’s works are inspired by many Eastern artists as well as a blend of his own art style. in his free time he often continues his education in art, writes stories, and works on his web-comic.
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Colin Boyer is a freelance genre illustrator who works for Magic: the Gathering and does cover illustrations for Fantasy Flight Game’s Star Wars: Legion. He studied illustration at Ringling College of Art + Design, and while there he took an intensive multi week summer workshop called The Illustration Academy, where he learned from world renowned illustrators like Mark English, Gary Kelley, and Jon Foster. When the Academy started an online school he was awarded a full ride scholarship. He also studied classical drawing and painting at The Southern Atelier, and did a private mentor-ship with illustrator Greg Manchess through SmArt School. He lives in Orlando with his beautiful wife and daughter.
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Brittany Sprouse is an artist and animator. I graduated in 2011 with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Media Arts and Animation from The Art Institute of Tampa. For the past few years I have been an in house artist working on cell phone applications. Doing everything from creating icons and ad’s to animating in game characters.
Some of the programs I use are Paint Tool Sai, the Adobe suite (including: Photoshop, Priemere, Illustrator, and Flash) as well as 3D software such as 3DS Max and Maya. I also illustrate freelance doing wide ranges of styles including
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The origin of 'feed' in 'line feed'
A line feed means moving one line forward. It's definition references feed.
In summary,'feed' has three meanings
Give food to.
Supply with material or power.
Cause to pass gradually and steadily, typically through a confined space.
From which 'line feed' originate?
The phrase "typically through a confined space" is a modern bias (as in "feed the wire through the conduit"). The verb feed, meaning to supply something in a continuous manner (e.g. to be worked upon or processed), was used in the 1860s in factory and mill settings, and it was already being used with ratchet and pawl mechanisms (the kind used with early prototypes of the typewriter) at least as early as the 1870s. – Tᴚoɯɐuo Nov 30 '17 at 17:09
This patent mentions line-feed. books.google.com/… – Tᴚoɯɐuo Nov 30 '17 at 17:13
Back in the old days, when the world was black and white (at least on TV), telephones had wires attached to them and "mail" involved a lenghty process of applying ink to paper as well as a delivery system involving boxes, mailmen and stamps, in those days there used to be machines that could transfer letters to a piece of paper by means of pressing a key.
These machines, know as typewriters back then, were fed a sheet of paper, which was transported in the upper part of the machine, called a carriage.
When you reached the end of the line, you would return the carriage so you could start typing again at the beginning (left side) of the paper. Also, if you wanted to type on the next line, you also had to move the paper one line up, or feed a new line into the machine.
The handle on the left side of the typewriter usually did both those things at the same time, it returned the carriage and fed a line.
Apart from the line feed we still use the carriage return in computers today (ASCII code 13 is CR, or Carriage Return, while code 10 is LF, or Line Feed) and they are often used together at the end of a line (also seen sometimes as "\r\n" for return & newline)
Here's another typewriter, with a sheet of paper in it. After every letter, the carriage with the paper would move to the left, so that the next letter would end up right next to the last one. At the end of the line, the whole carriage would stick out on the left side, and using the handle, you could move it back to the right. At the same time, the paper would move up one line:
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Worth mentioning that ultimately it's definition 3 from the question - i.e. the paper is (as the typist types) steadily fed though the confined space adjacent to the platen? – psmears Nov 30 '17 at 15:16
While it true that he handle returned the carriage and fed a line, it was possible to 1) just return the carriage (by pushing it); 2) just feed a line, by turning the knob at the side of the carriage. – Martin Bonner supports Monica Nov 30 '17 at 15:33
To someone old enough to remember seeing typewriters in the wild, this may read as a little snarky. To those young enough to have never heard of typewriters, this will likely read as a more sincere (if mildly tongue-in-cheek) explanation. As someone roughly in between those age groups, I think it's fine; it's a little sarcastic, but good-naturedly so. – anaximander Nov 30 '17 at 16:52
@MartinBonner Hence the existence of two separate control characters for “carriage return” and “line feed” in the basic character set (and why DOS required both to denote a new line). Otherwise there’d be just the one. – Konrad Rudolph Nov 30 '17 at 17:38
The typewriter origin isn't really true. I learned to type on one of those, and moving to the next line was "Carriage Return", or CR in computer. It derives from the original Teletype-style printers, where there were two codes. CR moved the print head to the left margin, line feed moved the platen to advance (that is, feed) the fan-fold computer paper by one line. So that code was, logically enough, called Line Feed or LF. – jamesqf Nov 30 '17 at 18:03
To me it looks like the third of those definitions is where line feed (LF) originated from.
Reading here about the history of the new line it seems that early teletype machines required the LF character in addition to the carriage return (CR) to give the machine enough time to position the print head at the beginning of a line.
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In some implementations LF would CR LF but CR would just CR. AFAIR CRLF would CRLF and not CRLFLF, but my memory may be dimming. My first printers, repurposed for microprocessor output use, were surplus Creed brand Baudot code 45 or 50 baud upper case only teletypes. – Russell McMahon Nov 30 '17 at 18:33
CR and LF were separate because you could return the carriage all the way to the left and then over-type the line to ___ (underscore) or ---- (strike through) or retype the same text to bold it. – Rob K Nov 30 '17 at 18:58
And for a long time many TTYs could still be controlled the same way. A back space character didn't necessarily 'rub out' the character preceding the current insertion point, it just moved the insertion point back one place. – Rob K Nov 30 '17 at 19:00
@RobK And this allowed for use of the common typewriter technique of underlining characters by following each character with backspace and underline, construction of currency symbols such as ¥ from Y and =, ¢ from c and /, or addition of accent marks such as ^, ', `. If memory serves, some people used " for umlaut. Another trick was to send a CR and tiny fractional LF and reprint any bold characters on the previous line, then another CR and the balance of the LF. – Monty Harder Nov 30 '17 at 20:45
@RussellMcMahon: I suspect your memory may be dimming - I definitely remember getting printouts that had unintentional double line spacing due to the different interpretations of CR & LF (some machines would CRLF when sent CR, some would CRLF when sent LF, some would just CR or LF when sent the respective code, and getting software to send the right code(s) was generally a pain!) – psmears Dec 1 '17 at 10:57
To me it looks much more like the second definition. It's from "feeding" paper into the place where it's actually printed: "Supply with material".
re definition 3, where "line feed" commands are involved, paper is most definitely not fed through a traditional printer "gradually and steadily", but rather in discrete steps.
With e.g. a laser printer the paper does move steadily but "line feed" commands still move the printing position down the page only occasionally and in definite steps.
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SAGE Results Coming October 20th: What Families Can Expect
In spring 2014, the State Board of Education required all Utah Students, beginning in the third grade, to take new state tests. The tests, called SAGE (Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence), were designed to measure more challenging state standards in mathematics, English language arts, and science. They are completely different from the CRTs. Therefore, SAGE and CRT results cannot be compared.
Statewide SAGE results will be released Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. These will include results for every school district and every school in the state.
At this point, the Utah State Office of Education is reporting that fewer than half of the Utah students tested are expected to score as proficient in English language arts, mathematics and science. As always, we will prepare individual student reports to share with you in conferences later in the school year. In the meantime, parents are urged to keep a few things in mind when interpreting these scores:
SAGE scores cannot be compared to the CRTs. The tests are different, and measure different standards, or expectations, for student achievement.
SAGE tests measure whether students are meeting the state¹s higher expectations for college- and career-readiness.
When tests that measure higher standards are first introduced, test scores typically appear lower than what parents might be used to, the state reports. However, in many cases, the state reports that test scores gradually improve in the years thereafter.
SAGE results will influence state school accountability reports. The State Office of Education has indicated that most Utah schools will receive D or F grades as a result of these more challenging standards. The State Board of Education will continue to discuss estimated results with members of the Utah Legislature. School grades are expected to be released to the public in December.
At this point, as is always the case with test scores, we recommend parents focus on a child¹s individual achievement, celebrate successes, and set individual goals as appropriate for your child¹s success.
More information and resources about the SAGE can be found at www.canyonsdistrict.org/sage
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Piper Riddle has been appointed as Draper Elementary’s new principal for the 2013-14 school year. Principal Kenna Sorensen has transferred to East Sandy Elementary School. Mrs. Riddle has been working as a curriculum and instruction specialist at the district and a specialist for literacy, mathematics and dual immersion. She has taught fourth and fifth grade, worked as a private tutor, education consultant, and instructional coach. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in elementary education and is a Ph.D. candidate in curriculum and instruction. She and her husband, Rod, are the parents of three children (ages 12, 14, 16) and reside in Heber City.
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Note-A-Bulls: Bulls stumble late in LA as four game win streak comes to a halt
November 20, 2016 ahutchinson99 Leave a comment
After having the lead most of the game, the Chicago Bulls lost to the Los Angles Clippers 102-95.
For the Clippers, Blake Griffin had 26 points and 13 rebounds, Chris Paul had 19 points and 8 assists, as well as Maurece Speights coming off the bench to score 16, hitting 3 of 4 from three-point range.
For the Bulls, Dwyane Wade had 28 points and 8 rebounds, Jimmy Butler had 22 points and 6 rebounds, while the rest of the team only combined for 43 points.
The Bulls had the advantage early, as they took a 10 point lead into the second quarter, and then a 5 point lead, 52-47 into the half.
JJ Reddick inability to hit from three was a problem all game for the Clippers (1/5), and their offense was really unable to stretch the floor until the fourth quarter.
The third and fourth quarters had the intensity like that of a playoff game. The scoring was even in the third giving the Bulls a 5 point lead going into the 4th.
Maurice Speights scored 11 of 16 points (a season high) in the fourth for the Clippers, including recording a necessary assist with 49 seconds left of an offensive rebound to Jamal Craford for an acrobat layup, sealing the lead for the Clippers.
The Bulls were not able to contain the lead, and lost to the Clippers 102-95.
The Clippers are still in my opinion the best team in the NBA. For now. After beating the Sacramento Kings and Chicago in close ones on overlapping nights, it seems to be the case. Chris Paul has the highest PER (player efficiency rating) in the league, above 31. As early as it is, he’s a possible MVP canidate. Blake Griffin has scored 20+ points in the last 7 straight games. Their bench is one of the deepest in the league, including Brandon Bass, Raymond Felton, and Austin Rivers Everything is clicking for the Clippers. Is it sustainable? Most likely no. The Warriors will continue to harmonize and soon that 1st seed in the West will be far, far away.
As far as the Bulls are concerned, Dwyane Wade had another spectacular night from three point range, 5 from 9. The rest of his teammates only hit 4 other threes on the night. For a team that finds its identity from the three ball, the Bulls need to make more than 9 from 30 from deep to continue to win games. And it all can’t be courtesy of Dwyane Wade.
Otherwise, the Bulls continue to dominate people on the glass, something that has been a nice surprise for Chicago fans. Even though they only edged the Clippers 40 to 39 in the rebound battle, they had 3 more offensive rebounds and shocked a team that’s usually a top rebounding presence in Jordan and Griffin. Taj Gibson seems to be in every play, and Lopez’s presence on the offensive boards has been evident, as he had 3 tonight. Heck, even Rajon Rondo joined in the act with 4 offensive boards.
Rajon Rondo, however, continues to prove that he is a subpar option at point guard. His porous defense and ways of breaking the flow of their offense is something that needs to change, and fast. Tonight he had the worst plus/minus on the team of -16. Not to mention 3 turnovers. Even though tonight people will look at his stats and say, “Oh, he almost had a triple double” (9/10/8), his inefficiencies go beyond the box score and continue to hurt his team.
Up Next: The Bulls play the Lakers Sunday night in Los Angles, a team they have beaten for three consecutive years.
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Former Wall Street Banker Dies in Court Room After Jury Returns a Guilty Verdict for Setting His Mansion on Fire in Phoenix
He was no longer able to make the big payments on his house in Phoenix and the jury found him guilty of setting his home on fire in order to cash in on the insurance. This appears from what everyone is saying to be suicide in the courtroom and as others are saying this may end up being a book or a movie as he was quite the person with his extravagant lifestyle and even climbed Mount Everest.
It is wild when you watch the video as it does appear that he did take something but toxicology reports when done will tell the story I think. He went into convulsions and you watch the video below and see what you think. It was in 2009 that he set his house on fire. The video is a bit graphic. BD
"Burning Man" Michael Marin died after his "medical emergency" in the courtroom yesterday, which came after a jury handed down a guilty verdict in Marin's arson case.
Fox 10 had its camera on Marin's face as the verdict came in, and it sure looks like he put something in his mouth before he started having an apparent seizure and fell unconscious in the courtroom.
CPR was performed on Marin before he was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A court spokesman said Marin was transported to a hospital after he collapsed, and Judge Bruce Cohen ruled that "footage of [Marin's] medical treatment" could not be aired, but thanks to Fox 10, there's footage of what happened before that medical treatment was needed.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2012/06/michael_marin_burning_man_may.php
He was no longer able to make the big payments on his house in Phoenix and the jury found him guilty of setting his home on fire in...
Cigna To Purchase Medicare Advantage Plans In Texas and Arkansas From Humana To Satisfy Purchase of Arcadian Medicare Advantage Business & More Plans Left To Sell –Subsidiary Watch
Corporate acquisitions certainly are not simple today. Humana purchased Arcadian and in the interest of not having a monopoly they need to sell off and divest part of that business. This is fine for the that sake, but the current policy holders get shuffled to Cigna. In addition there are additional plans that need to be sold off and as you can read they are up for grabs to purchase and may end up with Blue Cross or United Healthcare. The purchase was announced back in August of 2011, almost a year ago. The blue states are where Arcadian operates, 15 states.
Humana to Buy Arcadian Management Services HMO With 64,000 Members–Subsidiary Watch
So here we go again with the “insured shuffle” for healthcare. BD
CIGNA Corp. (CI) announced its plans to purchase selected Medicare Advantage (“MA”) plans in the state of Texas and Arkansas. Cigna will buy the plans in three markets - Amarillo, Longview-Marshall and Texarkana - from Humana.
The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to be complete by the end of 2012.
Humana got regulatory approval to buy Arcadian only on the condition that the former will divest Arcadian’s Medicare Advantage business in 51 counties in five states, namely, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. These divestitures were aimed at preventing monopoly in the states where the merging entities were the chief rivals before the acquisition, and hence, a union will virtually leave no competition.
While Cigna has bought Texas and Arkansas MA plans, other contenders for the remaining plans may be WellPoint Inc. (WLP) and UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH).
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cigna-buy-ma-plans-210134288.html
Corporate acquisitions certainly are not simple today. Humana purchased Arcadian and in the interest of not having a monopoly they need to ...
Kinect Accelerator Day Where Developers Showcase What They Have Developed–Several Innovative Healthcare Applications Represented
This is post worth taking a look at and I’ll just try to summarize what is covered here relative to healthcare from the “Next at Microsoft” blog. This apparently was a big day for VCs to come and take a look at what’s happening with Kinect and healthcare was represented well. Dr. Crounse from Microsoft was present and introduced one new Kinect technology I had not seen yet but it looks like there’s some serious work going on here with using Kinect with privacy as a monitoring tool. You can also read his blog for the latest Health IT information happening at Microsoft. Dr. Crounse as well as myself and few others were the early users of Tablet PC “before they were cool” as they are now. Years ago at one of the Microsoft User’s groups I attended I remember the night to where we all were given a first glimpse and presentation of this new technology that was to be announced in a couple days and look at where we are now. Back on topic ZebCare was one of the innovative products shown.
Perhaps one of the best known Kinect technologies is GestSure which you may have already seen as it has received a lot of publicity and is used at a hospital in Toronto to where it is used in the surgery room to view medical images and other information, giving the surgeons a “hands free” atmosphere to where they don’t need to “touch” anything.
Jintronix was yet another application that works with Kinect to make physical rehabilitation easier and interesting. I don’t know about you but rehab is something is needed but its always a bit of drudgery to get through it.
It’s amazing as to what is being developed with Kinect. I attended the Israel Conference a few weeks ago and found another interesting development with Kinvestix which is a vest you can wear that figures in resistance so you can do this instead of having to actually pack on a lot of weights and still get the same benefits with a work out.
A New Way to Work Out with Kinect–Kinvestix Belt Provides Resistance–No Need to Wear Weights
There’s also an application that is pretty wild to where Kinect can scan a room and you can use a 3D printer to print what’s the in the room so if your best friend comes over to visit Kinect with a 3D printer can print him/or her out. Also at the Israel Conference I did get to see one of those 3D printers and it’s amazing what they do. Printing a pipe wrench has received a lot of attention and that was the first thing I asked, “where’s your pipe wrench” sample. In 2011 I attended the same conference and spent a bit of time talking with Microsoft/XBOX Corporate VP Ilan Spillinger and got to hear the story about how Kinect came into being with it’s roots, interesting story on how the developer was able to connect with Microsoft and the rest is history. You can use the link at the bottom here and see what else was featured. Kinect has certainly earned its place in healthcare and I’m sure there lots more to come in the near future. BD
Kinect Demo Day At Microsoft–Getting Prepared
From the blog post:
“I get to see lots of presentations in my role at Microsoft but few are as compelling as the one that opened the Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect Demo Day today. Jintronix kicked off the 11 presentations from the teams who have been participating in this program in Seattle for the last 13 weeks. They stood in front of a room of over 100 venture capitalists and drew spontaneous applause for their Kinect based solution that looks set to transform physical therapy and in home rehabilitation.”
”Zebcare were introduced by Microsoft’s Dr Bill (Crounse), and Zeb Kimmel explained their employment of Kinect for helping elders. In a nutshell, they’re using Kinect as a “smart radar” in homes that can alert family or doctors about abnormal patterns of movement or lack of movement in a home. Zebcare can track the movement of individuals with total privacy and allay the major fear many of them have about losing their home”.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/06/29/microsoft-accelerator-for-kinect-demo-day-offers-lots-of-vc-options.aspx
This is post worth taking a look at and I’ll just try to summarize what is covered here relative to healthcare from the “Next at Microsoft” ...
Medically Related , Microsoft/Windows News , My Commentaries , Other Items of Interest , Technology
US CIO Steven VanRoekel and CTO Todd Park Talk About What Is Happening With Government Innovation (Video)
This is nice to have the two of them together, policies, people and permission are the 3 “P”s that VanRoekel begins with and nice to hear “permission” included in there. They discuss the Blue Button in healthcare in one area and the importance of exposing government to new technologies.
Open data is being used in government where ever they can and we have seen this with new stats and reports such as weather data for one example. I do have to say one thing, since these two have moved into these key positions the content we hear from the technology areas has certainly improved and not that the former executives did a bad job by any means, but we are now hearing a “more focused” group with actual “hands on” backgrounds and it makes a difference. Both are working on changing the “government culture” and we know what that has been in the past. Parks speaks too about the “stifled” atmosphere that has existed and the talent that has not been either used or exposed in government and he is working to bring a lot of their ideas and methodologies to fruition, in other words let the folks with the talent and ideas function to a greater capacity to make a difference and the talent exists in all government agencies. BD
US CTO and CIO
U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel and Chief Technology Officer Todd Park discuss government innovation with FedScoopTV. Park and VanRoekel touch on the White House Presidential Fellows Program, open data, mobile, consumerization of technology and changing the culture of government.
http://fedscoop.com/park-vanroekel-on-unlocking-governments-innovation-mojo-video/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
This is nice to have the two of them together, policies, people and permission are the 3 “P”s that VanRoekel begins with and nice to hear “...
Other Items of Interest , Technology
Melinda Gates Talks About Family Planning– Steven & Melinda Foundation” Returns (Video)
This a return visit and Melinda Gates gives an update on their work in the world and also discussed family planning here in the US and all over the world.
A while back she spoke at one of the TED conferences and really gave a great talk about family planning. Colbert talks about how controversial it is in the US and due to that it has come off the global agenda, that’s sad that all the mucky muck in our lawmaking sessions created that. BD
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/415947/june-27-2012/melinda-gates
This a return visit and Melinda Gates gives an update on their work in the world and also discussed family planning here in the US and all o...
Medically Related , Microsoft/Windows News , Other Items of Interest
SEC May Have Nasdaq Fix Their Code and Upgrade–CEO Blames The Tech Department & CIO - IBM Might Land A Big New Project
What happens when you have a CEO that doesn’t know or have his hand in at least a little technology, this maybe. IT Departments are an easy target for just about anything and sometimes they are at fault an sometimes not. End users usually hate them as they can’t give them everything they want and some still think it’s Burger King where you can have it your way.
One thing though I wish these folks would all talk the same language so consumers can learn. It drives me nuts to hear algorithms called “circuit breakers’, call it what it is. This is not a big pull switch on the wall that someone goes to pull when things get bad, it’s another algorithm stopping the processing of another bunch of algorithms in motion. One thing consumers do know about upgrades is that some things can be rocky afterwards and may not work exactly like they did before and that in itself gives the IT folks a bad time as they are trying to improve things. Most of the time though they go off without a hitch. Healthcare software has “glitches” too and these are systems that go through some rigid certification processes to work, so you never know when some code comes up that needs work. When you upgrade though you have new code and it has to be tested as well so not knowing all the details it’s hard to say whether or not an upgrade is the answer but all do upgrade at some point. BD
GE Centricity EHRs Need To Fix Their Algorithms (Math)-Some Customers May Not Be Able to Attest Until The End of November After the Software Update
In addition the OMX Director’s Desk had their security breach last year and I don’t know where that stands as last we heard the FBI was in on it and nobody took any data and used it, and perhaps just used it as “inside information” possibly. The machines make it possible for the hackers but it still takes a human to act on it. All we can do is just be prepared for the rocky roads when they hit and do our best and get the software certified, in other words have other do some outside debugging too as they may find items missed by the original programmers. BD
Healthcare Industry Is Not Alone with Hackers, NASDAQ Has Intruders Using Algorithms to Break In-FBI Investigation
As part of the deepening inquiry, regulators are weighing demanding that Nasdaq agree to revamp its processes for developing, changing, testing and implementing the computer code used in initial public offerings and other exchange functions, according to people familiar with the investigation. The SEC hasn't decided yet whether to take any enforcement action against the company.
Nasdaq's board, which includes Mr. Greifeld, first discussed potential ways to restructure its operations and technology unit, including possibly replacing Ms. Ewing as the supervisor over both areas, more than four weeks ago, said one person with direct knowledge of the discussions.
Retaining IBM to review Nasdaq's practices and then beefing up its technology could double the exchange company's spending on system maintenance and upgrades over the next few quarters, according to Matthew Heinz, analyst for Stifel Nicolaus & Co. He estimated Nasdaq now spends about $10 million a quarter on technology upkeep.
What happens when you have a CEO that doesn’t know or have his hand in at least a little technology, this maybe. IT Departments are an eas...
My Commentaries , Other Items of Interest
FDA Approves Mirabegron–New Drug for Over Active Bladders
The drug is taken once a day and there was a higher rate of tumors compared to placebos during trials. BD
U.S. drug regulators approved Astellas Pharma Inc's pill for overactive bladder on Thursday, boosting the Japanese drugmaker's foothold in the market for the condition. Mirabegron, the first drug in its class, works by activating a protein receptor in bladder muscles that relaxes them and helps the bladder fill and store urine. The pill is already approved in Japan.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48000533/ns/health-health_care/?ocid=twitter#.T-y3YJglTK4
The drug is taken once a day and there was a higher rate of tumors compared to placebos during trials. BD U.S. drug regulators approve...
Medically Related , Pharma/FDA News
Healthcare Reform Laws Stand–Time For More Work On Health IT Business Models/Software/Algorithms For Insurers And Time For Congress To Sift Out Their Differences and Explore Using Some Better Lawmaking Models For the Future
Ok this is not the same type of response you are seeing everywhere else but if you read here often enough you wouldn’t expect a “magpie” type of editorial either, so we continue on with the opinion of another bird, a duck:) I do have to say I found the ruling interesting and overall good as when you look at a repeal, gosh think of the mess of “unknowns” it would have created if repealed. We live in the world of the unknown today and when you stop and think about this, why do you think predictive algorithms are so popular..inquiring minds want to know so they can adjust their business models, but some of these models are flawed too, but that’s a story for a different day as the science of predictions will probably never be perfected in my lifetime. Insurers know the money involved in changing IT infrastructures to be law compliant and as in the example below, they can also use this to publish something that would be popular with the American pubic as United and others did. Do you see this as a negative, of course not.
United HealthCare States They Won’t Alter Plans They Offer If Healthcare Law Falls–Why Would They– As It Costs A Money to Re-Develop Business Plan Algorithms If Large Profit Gains Are Not Really on the Horizon
As a matter of fact United might be situated pretty well right now with all of this as they have been doing predictive algorithms and business models long before most others caught wind of it and the person credited with creating much of the healthcare reform laws at HHS is now sitting on their payroll. In addition, don’t lose sight of the fact that insurers are bidding on the administration of both Medicare and Medicaid contracts, so they make money there if a state or other entity awards them a contract.
US Health Insurance Regulator Leaving to Take a Job at UnitedHealth Care As Vice President of the Optum Division – Moving to the “For Profit Side” With Business Intelligence Algorithm Dollars To Review
We ended up with the law in it’s current state as the “public option” was removed and thus it has lead us down a different path, as when it was removed, other options and provisions had to be included to compensate so now the task might be to again review this and see if that was truly a portion of the law that could have lead to a smoother transition and allow options for consumers who can’t afford commercial policies.
When you revisit the fact that insurers want the administrative contracts with Medicaid and Medicare, I would guess they would again be interested in participation here versus the government running a full on public option, but if a public option were truly in fact initiated, it should be run by the government and not outsourced as we run into the same political battle again if we do. Is there a better way to do this with upholding the requirement that consumers all by law pay for health insurance? I don’t think so but others could have some different opinions. Carriers are duking it out over these contracts all across the country. If the money was not substantial and related to bottom life profits it kind of lends light as to why we things like this happening.
Update: UnitedHealthcare Sues Department of Defense Over Tri-Care Contracts–They Said They Would Do This – Is This A Case Of My Algorithms Are Better Than Yours?
Now with having a “tax” penalty of sorts, it may not be that bad as the penalty could be cheaper than acquiring insurance and again this is where the states come to task with this situation with folks just opting out. Nobody likes taxes but again until more is written here and the IT business models put into place to run it, we don’t know yet. It’s almost like a judgment of sorts as getting it is one thing, but collecting it is yet another issue. This means new IT infrastructure to put the “algorithms” in place to handle this on a large scale as well, so more “algo men” are definitely needed to pursue this tax business model and structure it so it works and we have “accurate” results rather than “desired” results for profit only. The carriers have already modeled accepting pre-existing conditions and looked for other areas to make up the difference in what is lost in one area to look for gains in other areas of business.
Hopefully we have maybe finally surpassed the use of algorithmic formulas to deny care and we all remember stories like this that were in the news before reform took place and we want these business models to run with “non flawed and biased” data and hope this does not become another battle like what is occurring with bank on Wall Street to where analysts are told “find loopholes” and there will be some of that activity anyway, but let’s hope it doesn’t float out there like it has in years past.
WellPoint Ran a Breast Cancer Algorithm to Target Members for Cancellation of Policies - “Fraud Detection” is the Catch All that Justifies the Reporting
In the area of Health IT there are many challenges and software and algorithms that function accurately are getting much more difficult to produce and this is not to say that the companies doing the programming are inferior, its just the world we live in today and Health IT will continue to evolve and it will get better as we are now coming to the age of accepting the fact that “flawed data” is creating havoc in some circles as you read about clinical trial reports and so forth. We to deal with that too.
Here’s an example of something that happened last year, bad algorithms, and nobody at fault here, but the GE Centricity EHR system had to fix their software. Software in the words of Bill Gates is nothing more than a bunch of algorithms working together so think of that when you see the word algorithms used so much here it’s the same stuff:) The financial business has this issue coming out their ears and they have CEOs that have no clue on how formulas and algorithms work, check out Jamie Dimon for more on that topic. Fact of the matter is that today it is a lot more difficult to develop software and algorithms as the integration processes sometimes take their tolls when running across many platforms and transactions take place.
I think if the Supreme Court had not ruled this way, they may have never been able to leave this ruling, in other words the Court could have had a full lifetime on reviewing and dissecting this law:) Again this is over all a good thing but the IT Infrastructures of how we do business today need to be in the forefront as nothing is perfect but the importance of protecting “ethic values” big. We will still have “algorithms for profit” to deal with and the need to check for accuracy of math and code and that battle will continue with the “Attack of the Killer Algorithms” to where the middle class will continue to have to battle back against the most profitable business times we have ever experienced as a nation and the formulas do it for them, not for us for the most part.
You can see some every day examples of what we have and what’s ahead. One item though that I found disappointing though is the tax on medical device companies being singled out and you can read more of my thoughts on that as the “Data Sellers” of the world should be taxed as they have the big profits, so just look at Walgreens making short of $800 million in 2010 doing this and imagine the profits they make and there’s a “Killer Algorithm” chapter dedicated to my thoughts on that one for sure.
Attack of the Killer Algorithms–Digest & Links for 35 Chapters–on How Math and Crafty Formulas Today Running on Servers 24/7 Make Life Impacting Decisions About You–Updated 6-24-2012
In summary, I really don’t think there was any other way to go as the IT Infrastructure costs to change some of this is huge! I have said this many times before and maybe those members of Congress who are not aware of this, as some are not real techie, time to include this and model it before rushing out with an “emotional” statement or press release. Actually I would like to see our lawmakers come up to speed and use some big data capabilities when making laws, it would help them. Perhaps instead of generating laws in committees as it is done now, reverse it. Have a full open floor of both and have everyone query and get their information first, and the go off to committees as we would at least have everyone starting with the same figures and information. Anybody need a wake up call in this area..read the link below:
IBM Watson Going to Work At Citigroup on Wall Street–Congress Didn’t See Big Data As A Tool (Hadoop Framework) When They Had Their Chance…For Consumers The Attack of the Killer Algorithms–Chapter 22
More on that thought…please budget the SEC as this impacts the healthcare laws as eventually we will be needing to purchase insurance from those who are traded on the open market. If investments are now being made on “emotions” certainly the “emotions and ethics” of healthcare need to be addressed as well and we are all still humans last I looked. Somebody made a great statement yesterday on Twitter and said “why are we regulating humans when the machines are doing the trading” which in part is pretty much true and “the machines are also making more decision in healthcare as well, so think about that those similarities. Overall all the Supreme Court kind of did what they had to do I think and not a bad deal, but the business of healthcare legislation is far from being over. BD
SEC Playing Catch Up With Technology–Working With Big Data Experts To Analyze Social Media Impact–It’s About Time As Reuters Is Already Way Ahead With Psychological Analytics Using Machine Learning To Foster Trading on Emotions
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday left standing the basic provisions of the health care overhaul, ruling that the government may use its taxation powers to push people to buy health insurance.
Chief Justice Roberts, the author of the majority opinion, surprised observers by joining the court's four more liberal members in the key finding and becoming the swing vote. Justices Anthony Kennedy, frequently the swing vote, joined three more conservative members in a dissent and read a statement in court that the minority viewed the law as “invalid in its entirety.”
The decision did significantly restrict one major portion of the law: the expansion of Medicaid, the government health-insurance program for low-income and sick people. The ruling gives states some flexibility not to expand their Medicaid programs, without paying the same financial penalties that the law called for.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us/supreme-court-lets-health-law-largely-stand.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
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Ok this is not the same type of response you are seeing everywhere else but if you read here often enough you wouldn’t expect a “magpie” typ...
Insurance , Medically Related , My Commentaries , Technology
Advocate Health Care Conducted Drug Study Without Patients’ Consent In the ER Comparing Outcomes of 2 Drugs –FDA Sends Warning Letter
This was a study that basically turned into a clinical trial when the processes were changed. Originally one drug was being studied but then the clinical investigator decided to compare 2 drugs and at that point patient consent was required, but they didn’t do it. The FDA wants a plan submitted to correct this type of action from happening again and the first plan was not sufficient.
Here we go with privacy and if you were a patient being treated in the ER room and given one of these drugs, would you not want the opportunity to say yes or no? The two drugs were randomly chosen and the patient information in the “ER trial study” was gathered and “risk” with the drugs was not explained to the patients. Two issues here with not knowing the facts, first was the clinical investigator and secondly the board of the hospital, maybe all should take a brush up course in privacy? BD
Oak Brook-based Advocate Health Care failed to obtain proper consent from emergency room patients before enrolling them in a clinical study, according to a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The letter to Advocate’s institutional review board is dated June 1 and was posted on the FDA’s website this week.
The research project involved emergency room patients undergoing intubation, an emergency procedure in which a tube is inserted down the throat to open the airway.
The study, conducted at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, originally was designed to evaluate the outcomes for people whose doctors chose to administer a sedative called etomidate.
But in July 2007, the clinical investigator proposed that human subjects be randomly selected to receive one of two drugs, etomidate and midazolam.
The board approved the modification in September and allowed the clinical investigation to continue without lifting the waiver on obtaining informed consent.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-fda-advocate-health-care-conducted-drug-study-without-patients-consent-20120615,0,2692656.story
This was a study that basically turned into a clinical trial when the processes were changed. Originally one drug was being studied but th...
FDA Approves New Diet Pill But DEA Has To Approve Dosage Levels First Before It Can Be Sold
Why does the DEA have to approve? The drug is in a category for potential abuse. Belviq works on activating a receptor in the brain, serotonin that helps you forget about wanting to eat. The concern here is the similarity with the drug fen-phen that was pulled from the market as it had potential heart issues and side effects. It’s a gradual loss and in trials people lost about 6 percent of their body weight after a year. I don’t know, that’s doesn’t sound like a lot and I think I could do better with teaching myself when to push away from the table or have my jaw wired shut if I were needing to lose weight. I think the jury is still somewhat out on this one until it is actually prescribed and we get more information. BD
The first new prescription diet pill in 13 years won approval from the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, providing a new option for the roughly one-third of American adults considered obese.
Before Belviq’s approval, there was only one prescription medicine — Roche’s Xenical — approved for long-term use in weight loss.
The history of diet pills has been marked by many safety problems, which has made the F.D.A. reluctant to approve new drugs. Belviq itself was turned down by the agency in 2010, but Arena came back with new data that assuaged some of the agency’s safety concerns.
Belviq works by activating a receptor in the brain, called serotonin 2C, in a way that helps suppress appetite.
The main safety concern about Belviq is that it works somewhat similarly to fenfluramine, a drug that was part of the popular fen-phen diet pill combination. It and a similar drug called dexfenfluramine were withdrawn from the market in 1997 after they were found to damage heart valves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/health/diet-drug-gains-fda-endorsement.html
Why does the DEA have to approve? The drug is in a category for potential abuse. Belviq works on activating a receptor in the brain, serot...
Hospital and Cerner Split Ways Over Medical Records System Purchase–Hospital Appears to Have Lacked In House IT Expertise for Guidance and Implementation
After reading this article and having been in this business for a while it somewhat tells me that the expertise needed by the hospital was not there and they didn’t understand the complexities of how a hospital medical record system worked. You can read where the hospital only has 2 IT people and I can tell a story from the past to where I had a hospital as an account where there was few more folks but nobody knew how to install a SQL server and thus I was contracted to do so. SQL server install is pretty matter of fact in today’s world of business, so I can clearly say from reading this that they were not prepared.
Now a new consultant has been brought in and maybe they will see some progress and get their system installed. The hospital didn’t appear to understand that the systems are modular with features you can either add or not add and the price goes up with each addition as you build the systems as you need them. The case is now in arbitration and I hope it has a happy ending somewhere along the line. CIOs and IT departments face this all the time with unexpected dollars that are needed and it’s not always the medical record software as hardware upgrades and so forth creep in there too.
As one more suggestion, maybe get someone on the board that knows a bit about health IT for the future as well as that’s what boards are for, members with knowledge to help guide situations and business decisions as such. BD
Girard Medical Center, a rural hospital in Kansas which services mainly uninsured patients and the elderly, wanted an electronic medical record system to better share information with its clinic offshoots and to claim federal incentives.
But a year-and-a-half and more than a million dollars later, the hospital says it’s no closer to having electronic medical records, and is blaming its vendor for the failure of the project.
Whether the fault for the failed project should rest on the big corporate vendor or the small hospital is unclear. But Girard’s story illustrates the risks for organizations of all kinds when they attempt to innovate by bringing in new, and unfamiliar, technologies and vendors.
Girard’s tale illustrates the inherent risk as health-care providers of all sizes move towards implementing electronic medical records. While hospitals are eager to pick up some of the $19 billion in funds the Obama Administration made available in 2009 as part of the stimulus package, they often lack the in-house expertise to contract with and supervise vendors on the complex implementation of records systems.
“Health-care systems are putting in these systems with all due haste to try to get this money,” said Dave Garets, executive director of the Advisory Board Company, a health-care research firm. “But you’ve got to have the people in-house who really understand this process and these people don’t come cheap.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/06/26/kansas-hospitals-failed-emr-project-shows-peril-of-vendor-relations-gone-bad/
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UPS Healthcare Fulfillment Centers Continue to Grow And What Effect Could This Have on the Future Further Changing the Pharmacy Benefit Business?
Before I got into healthcare I spent about 25 years in logistics and about the time I left the industry, this trend was already beginning and it used to be where the shipments were created on the platform or dock of the common carrier and now it has grown to where the common carriers and parcel carriers have built facilities to do it. Last year UPS reported a number of these facilities and when you continue to read further with the article in the WSJ, it’s growing.
UPS Expanding Healthcare Focus With Giant Warehouses for Temperature Sensitive Drugs and Vaccines
UPS to spend $100 million on 4 New Global Distribution Centers To Serve Biotech, Pharma and Medical Device Companies
Fedex has their biotech division to where you can track a shipment, even in the air and for the Life Sciences folks it tells the entire story of how it was handled, in other words did it take a hard bounce anywhere. Do you want to track your shipments..you can do that too with Twitter…
TrackThis: Twitter on Drugs for Mail Order Prescriptions…Track Fedex, UPS, DHL Packages…
CryoPort and FedEx Solution for Shipping Temperature-sensitive Medicines and Biomaterials
What is interesting is that actual pharmacists are on board filling prescriptions too, so what’s next one might ask, is where the next pharmacy benefit managers might move and call home? Who knows but as they are integrating with various drug and device companies, about the only thing missing at this point would be the analytics. They already have internal wellness coaches so that frame is there, so I guess time will tell. BD
Health coaches nag employees to better care - UPS offers service to employees
At UPS's Louisville headquarters, company pharmacists fill 4,000 orders a day for insulin pumps and other supplies from customers of Medtronic Inc., MDT +1.61% the Minneapolis medical-device company.
UPS pharmacists in Louisville log into Medtronic's system, fill the orders with devices stocked on site, and ship them to patients, by UPS, of course.
It is one part of a growing reach by UPS—along with rivals FedEx Corp., FDX +0.40% and Deutsche Post AG's DPW.XE +1.23% shipping division DHL—into the business of running supply chains for pharmaceutical and medical-device companies.
The parcel-delivery companies are investing in mega warehouses that service multiple pharmaceutical companies at once, with freezers for medicines and high-security vaults for controlled substances. They're betting that the investments will be offset by clients willing to pay a premium for specialized handling of sensitive products.
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FDA Approves New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer For Men With PSA Levels Just Above Normal Range
Perhaps this will add some additional definitive information on the PSA testing which has been in the news frequently for discussion as to whether it should be used for screening or not. This test appears to add some additional decision making information if any actions or treatments are needed/discussed. Last year at UCLA a new PSA testing format was developed called the A+PSA test so perhaps with both tests more decision making information can be obtained with fewer false positives. BD
A+PSA New Test For Prostate Cancer Is More Specific and Reduces False-Positives-Study at UCLA
A blood test for prostate cancer billed by its manufacturer as "an answer to the current PSA [prostate-specific antigen] testing controversy" has won FDA approval, the company said.
Beckman Coulter said Monday that the agency had okayed its premarket approval application for the so-called Prostate Health Index test, which incorporates measurement of a PSA precursor protein called [-2] pro-PSA along with total and free PSA.
According to the co-discoverer of [-2] pro-PSA, Kevin Slawin, MD, of Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, the marker is more closely associated with prostate cancer than total and free PSA. Combining the three markers makes the Prostate Health Index more specific than conventional PSA testing.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/ProstateCancer/33486
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Obamacare – GOP Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock Accidentally Puts His Prepared Response on YouTube Saying Healthcare Was Defeated –Colbert Report (Hilarious Video)
This is funny and Colbert does a great job as usual. I wonder how long this was up on YouTube:) He pre-taped and posted his response, what a predictor and he says the Supreme Court ruled that Healthcare Reform was unconstitutional. The GOP gets less smart all the time.
Colbert said he didn’t prepare for all the possibilities. BD
Colbert News Alert - Obamacare Supreme Court Ruling - Richard Mourdock's Responses
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/415852/june-25-2012/colbert-news-alert---obamacare-supreme-court-ruling---richard-mourdock-s-responses
This is funny and Colbert does a great job as usual. I wonder how long this was up on YouTube:) He pre-taped and posted his response, what...
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Roche To Cut 1000 US Jobs–Closing New Jersey Facility and Head of Pharma Research Leaving the Company
This is the location to where Valium was created and was the former headquarters for Roche prior to the purchase of Genentech and the corporate offices moved there. This seems to be a slow shut down that they hope to have done by the end of 2013 and the facility is huge. It somewhat reminds me of the big Pfizer facility in New England that was closed not too long ago. A couple months ago to answer the call for affordable drugs in India they are reducing the cost of a couple cancer drugs to stay in the market and not be outsold by generics. BD
Roche Cutting the Price of 2 Cancer Drugs in India To Potentially Avoid Compulsory Law Provisions That Allows Generic Drugs When Cost Is Not Affordable
"The overall number of programs in clinical development has grown substantially," Roche Chief Executive Severin Schwan said in a statement on Tuesday.
"The planned consolidation of our research and early development organization and the refocusing of research and development activities in Switzerland and Germany will free up resources that we can invest in these promising clinical programs while also increasing our overall efficiency," he said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/26/roche-jobs-idUSWEA518620120626?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssHealthcareNews&rpc=401
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I must say this is a “good” thing for the SEC and glad someone moved on it as there is no other federal agency that needs big data and intelligence analytics worse. By contrast you can see what Reuters is offering with adding a new tweak so you can see when fat ladies think about singing, when they sing and worse yet when they become “drama queens”:) The SEC does catch some folks with bad math and algorithms here and there and it does make the news, like this guy who for two years knew his calculations were off but still continued to run the…talk about flawed data and come to think of it, who did he sell this to?
SEC Sues Quant–Undisclosed Error in Trading Algorithm- Miscalculating “Risk”-Healthcare Software Evaluates This Factor Too
With everybody selling data today and making billions you can bet he had some buyers of “flawed data” that had no clue as most consumers are naïve and believe all the formulas and algorithms created are “accurate”..not so when it comes to money as some take on a little different characteristic that is more like “desired” results and that’s been going on for a long time. It has to get better than this:
”Hey dude let’s crunch some numbers and see if we can come up with some analytics to sell”
Here’s a good example I found a couple years ago and it made the rounds when I found my former doctor who had been dead for 8 years still listed in the after life on the web, in other words flawed data as she was not still alive and seeing new patients as the many sites that rank and put information out on doctors and hospitals said…see how far this goes back. Believe it with flawed data as there’s more of it out there than you can shake a stick at.
HealthGrades And Other MD Rating and Referral Sites List “Dead Doctors” on Their MD Information Pages And Even Include the Insurance Plans the “Dead Doctors” Honor
Recently too on the web there has been a few folks talking about the usefulness of all the “big data” and they make good points as some of it is not useful but folks take it and write queries and will sell anything they can create a data base with, and more and more of that is appearing. I like good clean data and not the marketing rubbish out there as is does nothing for me and others and just clouds the waters. Just because data exists and has value in one place doesn’t mean that it’s open game to query with any kind of other data to sell, but boy are the query folks all over it. Sometimes they do find good uses and we get that too, but being able to tell the difference is a challenge for sure, look at clinical trial data for one area as lies and other types of substantiation are in the news all the time. These folks at the MIB are marketing their asses off too and they are far cry from what they started out to be a number of years ago.
The MIB – Health Insurance Bureau Business Intelligence Mining May Go Beyond Just Healthcare Information
Too bad our Congress can’t look at big data, duh? Wall Street though is all over it. We just end up getting another dose of abortion talk as they are not up to speed and that seems to be the “default” topic of distraction as it makes them look like they are taking a stand on something valuable, not.
Use of IBMWatson Technology in Congress Would Allow For Smarter Laws and Decision Processes With Bonus Points For Lowering Over All Impact of Lobbyists
I wrote the short blog post almost 3 years ago and I’ll be darned if we don’t need a government department like this:
“Department of Algorithms – Do We Need One of These to Regulate Upcoming Laws?
Here’s the analytics Reuters is using for the “fear” and “emotions” index and you could get a real education if you read up here on what’s going on with algorithms and queries. Gee, what if we bought into this in healthcare? Now that’s a scary thought indeed. Reuters is not the only one into this by any means.
“MarketPsychData.com demonstrates our text-analysis based investment tools. Below, the MarketPsych 90-day average Fear index displays the amount of Fear expressed in financial social media (green line) over a candlestick chart of the S&P 500 index.”
Of course I write about this as with all of the data queries and sale of data that happens today, some of it encroaches on ethics in more ways than one. It would be nice to have folks study their queries and algorithms a little longer before dumping them out to sell. It’s getting harder today to create good software as in the news the last couple of weeks you can read articles as such talking about Goldman Sachs and others having issues with the platforms they are creating with code not being ready yet for prime time. In healthcare we certify medical records and the software goes though some pretty rigid testing, but it happens there too with software updates being needed before some doctors could collect their stimulus money. This was big old GE that had to create a fix.
So what in the heck is Congress going to do when it comes to a hearing on the Facebook IPO? Will they understand it at all? They are busy looking at the framework and not the algorithms for accuracy…duh? I have a series I write called “The Attack of the Killer Algorithms” they chapter 32 and you can read more on that topic at the link below, because it’s true and I would not want to be in the IT Department of NASDAQ today and you could clearly see the CEO didn’t get it either, he’s a figurehead when it comes to complicated algorithms and only your programmers know for sure and they have to determine what to put out in the press that the layman “might” comprehend, much less Congress.
Facebook IPO – The Ultimate “Attack of the Killer Algorithms” Chapter 32 - Nobody is Immune In the World of Complicated Computer Code and Formulas Today
Do you thing many would understand “over clocking of server processors, nope.
Gamers Are Not the Only Ones to Over Clock Processors-Turns Out It’s Done on Wall Street To Run Those Algorithms at Rocket Speed
Well we don’t know what else to do with these folks so slap out a fine:)
High Frequency Trading Firm Fined $850k for Losing Control of an Algorithm in Rapid Succession Buying–Bad Math and Some Killer Algos At Work- Keep Occupying…
Now that I have covered a few topics is this enough to bring about fear? It could be and if that’s the case then fear of the markets will continue to grow as flawed data and bad algos continue to infiltrate.
But this is not the worst of all of this though as all this activity with flawed data and spun marketing makes billions for companies, banks and so on and keep inequality growing sadly so maybe the SEC can get handle on some of this at least. Excise taxes for the data sellers are something that needs to e addressed today as when you look at corporate profits being at an all time high and wages at the lows we have today, this is what does it all the way around and until some folks come out of denial it won’t stop.
I thought I was the only one talking about this but recently was contacted by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences that told me to keep blowing the horn and that someone will eventually listen. It’s all about the math, algorithms, data, and “flawed data” that creates markets sometimes where they don’t belong.
You know when I have to pay an excise tax on a tire that I need for my car as a consumer and then look at the billions corporations make selling and brokering data, it bothers me as the consumer is stuck with this dated excise tax and corporations have none in this area. Sure it’s a new idea but technology has changed and we need those new ideas, be it mine or someone else's. Like I keep mentioning that is Walgreens made just under $800 million in 2010 on selling data only, you can see how much is out there to tax and the billions made when group banks and corporate America together in this game.
We Pay Gasoline Tax to Keep Up the US Highway Infrastructure–Why Not Tax the Data Selling Companies and Banks to Keep Up the US Government IT Infrastructure? A “Buffett Tax” Alternative
To quote Kevin Slavin on his video on Algorithms…future looks pretty good if you are an algorithm, not so if you are a human. If you want to look at some everyday examples in the Attack Series, here’s the link below and it has a permanent spot on the Medical Quack at all times if you scroll a little. Let’s hope the SEC can make some major moves in their analytics and with keeping things clean as they are about all we have anymore. BD
Something has been quietly changing at the SEC, the agency whose reputation was savaged by the financial crisis when regulators were accused of being asleep at the switch, and also took a severe beating for failing to seize multiple opportunities to stop Bernie Madoff before he bilked investors out of $65 billion.
Over the last year, the SEC has ramped up its ability to ingest and analyze the data that floods the market on a daily basis – and thanks to its new analytics technology, it has been able to more effectively pinpoint market abuses, Bayer notes.
Bayer has also been working with two Big Data experts – Jeanne Ross from MIT and Barb Wixom from the University of Virginia, who are providing the SEC with insights into emerging and evolving best practices in technology, he says. “Their technology case studies cover a range of companies and it gives us a broader view of innovative practices across industries. From a big data perspective, they inform us of how social media companies are analyzing their data. Jeanne helped me to understand the positive impact of "gamification" on learning and business process.”
http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/it-infrastructure/240002647
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Madonna On Tour Uses “DNA Sterilization Team” to Clean and Disinfect Her Dressing Rooms–Beware of the DNA Snatchers…
I wrote the post back in December of 2010 with the title to beware of the DNA Snatchers of the future and now it looks like the future is here, or at least Madonna is not taking any chances. Private investigators soon may take on a whole new identify. As we have all read your DNA can easily be picked up off a glass where you drank some water, a beverage at a bar and so on.
Beware of the DNA Snatchers of the Future
What happens when your DNA gets stolen and used illegally? We all know what a hassle it is with our personal information but what do you do about something like this? As sequencing becomes cheaper and folks have time on their hands, who knows what could occur. There’s black market everything out there today and she’s making sure that she or any part of her doesn’t get cloned in some fashion or another. This kind of gives a new meaning to the words “material girl” when someone could be seeking DNA:) BD
The pop star apparently uses a "DNA Sterilization Team" on her current tour, according to Britain's Daily Mail. The team cleans and disinfects each dressing room Madonna uses on the tour, literally wiping away any trace of the singer.
"We have to take extreme care, like I have never seen for any other artist," said Álvaro Ramos, the promoter handling the Portugal dates on Madonna's tour.
"We cannot even look at the dressing room after it is ready, or even open the door," he says. "We can only enter after her sterilization team has left the room. There will not be any of Madonna's DNA, any hair, or anything. They will clean up everything. In the end it is all to protect her and make her feel comfortable. I do understand it, but it is taken to extremes."
http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_20934876/hicks-madonna-using-dna-sterilization-team-tour
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One More Source of Healthcare Expenditures–Hiring “Experts” to Help Hospitals and Providers Document and Code As The System Complexities Grow for Reimbursement Leaving the Clinical Side Behind With Priority At Times With Patient Care
In reading this article, this is what is happening now as folks are calling in the “consultants” who they have to pay to teach the doctors, nurses and others on staff how to document so claims are paid correctly and promptly. Who pays for this, the hospitals, so one more expense coming on board for many hospitals that are already financially strapped. This is kind of a catch 22 item as if they don’t invest they run the gambit of lower compensation and on the other hand they also look to make sure the hospital is not over charging. You wonder sometimes when you read about all these “fines” that hospitals pay for billing errors, is the hospitals no coding right or is it the software and lack of education rolled in there? Sure there are the obvious cases but each case is it’s own. You can even buy a shirt that says don’t bother me, I’m coding.
Some insurance companies, like United Healthcare also created their own clearinghouse subsidiary to audit the bills before they are sent on. Most providers today do use some type of clearinghouse to check their work for accuracy and with a clearinghouse subsidiary it’s a bigger piece of the pie for overall corporate revenues as this subsidiary servers to generate revenue by subscriptions whereby the hospitals pay for this service, so they could end up with 2 legs of the process here with medical billing with clearinghouse services subsidiaries that check for accuracy before it hits their claims processing. United has so many subsidiaries anyway though and have recently hired former Minnesota Assistant Attorney General as general counsel as well as hiring the former HHS executive created most of the provisions of the healthcare law.
OptumInsight (A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of United HealthCare Optum Division) Creates Medical Clearinghouse Integrated With Epic Practice Management Software-Subsidiary Watch
Meanwhile back at the ranch, HHS Secretary Sebelius is counting on algorithms only while the powerful folks formerly in government leave and move over to the “for profit” side and they will have an advantage for sure at United as these folks bring with them knowledge as to how the government operates or doesn’t operate on the other side. This kind of reminds me of the PBS 4 part documentary to where they spoke with former brokers who made a lot of money and they all admitted they were given the tasks to “find loopholes” so they could make even more money. Watch this PBS 4 part video series on Wall Street
HHS Secretary Sebelius Still Looking for Tech Breakthroughs To Save the Day
So the long and short of this is more training of doctors and nurses with additional expenditures to create faster claim processing for the hospitals while the bottom line of insurers’ subsidiaries continues to grow. No wonder medical records are taking on a new reputation as they are now being created for the benefits of compensation rather than clinical care.
There was an article on the web this week that more doctors are using electronic medical records and liking it less, and this kind of tells the story why as now we have yet one more layer of expertise to use and pay for to make all of this happen, and the payers benefit, not so much the patients for the most part. BD
When it comes to patients getting an error-free medical bill, the name of the game for doctors and hospitals is documentation.
That's because if the care isn't recorded and well-documented while it's being provided, insurance companies and federal payers will ask for more information later. Payment for services slows down, and chances for mistakes skyrocket.
That can mean checking that seemingly obvious details are recorded. For instance, each time a nurse starts an IV, she must write it down because there is a charge for the equipment used, Bauschka explained.
That chart -- whether it is electronic or paper -- is also key for the coders, who translate the care documented on the chart into billable codes, said Kathy DeVault, director of professional practice at the national industry organization American Health Information Management Association.
Many health systems and doctors' offices struggle with documentation because of a lack of staff training, DeVault said, adding that "what seems very simple from the outside looking in, is very complex."
http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2012/06/many_providers_turn_paperwork.html
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Accretive Health Fails to Adequately Respond to Congress And Loses Contract with Second Hospital–A Total of Nine Notebooks Were Stolen or Missing
This keeps getting uglier and when you look at it, it was the business intelligence algorithms that drove all of this as that is the way to profit and make money. Now there’s nothing wrong with that if you are ethically doing business, but as you read in the news, we are all of sudden finding a entire slew of folks who are not, surprised? You shouldn’t be as this has been going on a long time but as folks getter smarter about the methodologies that have been used for a number of years, it’s all coming out. Sure someone can like their business algorithms but if ethics are compromised in the act then what do we have? Maybe I should ask someone on Wall Street about that while I’m at it. What started all of this..a stolen notebook that shows their lack of ethics and HIPAA violations.
Accretive Health Debt Collector Employee Has Laptop Stolen With Non Encrypted Patient Data from 2 Hospitals And Had Access to All the Data Via Revenue Cycling - Patient Information Was Shared With Wall Street Investors – Algorithms For Profit Again?
I wrote a post about 2 years ago on this blog in jest but I think it’s true now that “data addiction and abuse is the up and coming next 12 step program on the horizon”. We need somewhere to rehab the folks that have this issue and look at the big Oncologist in the OC who did it for years with fraud, he said he couldn’t help himself and he was addicted. Accretive though goes beyond addiction though and this is all about some marginal pay for performance incentives too. Nobody is going to collect in fashions they have unless someone is waiving a dollar under their nose. Maple Grove hospital has now cut them off as well.
We also have some new information here…not one but nine notebooks were stolen so nine times the potential exposure possibly, depending on what they were carrying around. The Vice President of the company left a non encrypted laptop with around 24k patients' information on the computer, gee and we wonder why executives are kind of useless today, but you could almost be he preaches to employees NOT to do this:) This was also Chapter 28 of my Attack of the Killer Algorithm series.
Accretive Medical Collections and Analytics Cited by Minnesota by Attorney General For Collecting from Patients At Bedside and Worse–Employees on Pay for Performance Too? Killer Algorithms Chapter 28
It looks like they are somewhat ignoring Congress too. BD
In a letter sent to Accretive Chief Executive Mary Tolan, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman and U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette said a public statement that the company had provided the U.S. House's Committee on Energy and Commerce was "not an appropriate response" to a request for internal documents.
The congressmen also said Accretive had ignored repeated efforts to reschedule a May 4 meeting between the two sides that the company had earlier canceled.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/21/idINL3E8HL5FL20120621
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Cook Medical Sponsors Clinical Study–New Endovascular Technique With Potential to Reduce A Large Number of Leg Amputations For Patients Suffering from PAD
this is the first study to examine the a new, endovascular approach to treating critical limb ischemia (CLI) – a symptom of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and if you are not familiar with PAD (peripheral arterial disease) , here’s a couple back links and an interview I did with Cook Medical a while back with Rob Lyles with Cook Medical.. CLU occurs when PAD goes to the worst case and leads to amputation to where 25% of the patients die due to the procedures. Let’s face it nobody wants to lose a leg. Back in 2009 I first spoke with Rob Lyles from the peripheral intervention division.
Cook Medical Interview Discussing PAD Leg Therapies– Rob Lyles, VP Peripheral Intervention Division
In addition you can also read up here with the interview I did with Dr. Peter Lawrence at the UCLA Gonda Vascular treatment center to see what they currently do with treating PAD.
The UCLA Gonda Vascular Center Treats PAD (Peripheral Arterial Disease)-Interview with Dr. Peter Lawrence Chief of Vascular Surgery
Cook has a stent that can be utilized to bring the blood flow back and unlike a heart stent, they have to be rugged, in other words your heart stays in one place, but no so for the legs as they are in constant motion, thus the importance of the stent remaining in place and being secure. 12 locations will participate in the Tibiopedal Access for Crossing Infrainguinal Artery Occlusions study and the Zilver stent was last reported consistent outcomes with treating pad over a 24 month period. BD
Cook Medical Zilver PTX Drug Eluding Stent Clinical Trial Shows Consistent Outcomes Over 24 Months in Treating PAD
Cook Medical Sponsors First Clinical Study to Examine New Endovascular Technique
Study designed to evaluate retrograde tibiopedal vascular access
Bloomington, Ind., June, 25, 2012 – Clinical investigators are for the first time examining the retrograde tibiopedal interventional approach, an endovascular technique that has the potential to reduce the rate of leg amputations by as much as 50 percent[1] in patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI), a manifestation of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Cook Medical, a global pioneer in interventional medical device technologies, is sponsoring the Tibiopedal Access for Crossing Infrainguinal Artery Occlusions study.
With the retrograde tibiopedal approach, a physician gains vascular access at the foot and advances wire guides and catheters up the leg to reach and cross arterial blockages. Individuals1 and single centers[2] have reported initial success with the technique, which is often tried after a traditional antegrade approach fails. This is the first prospective, multicenter study to collect data on this technique.
“This endovascular approach developed by leading physicians has the demonstrated potential to address life-limiting and lower-limb-threatening occlusions,” said Rob Lyles, vice president and global leader of Cook’s Peripheral Intervention business unit. “We are committed to enhancing the delivery of quality patient care and look forward to the initial study results in 2013.”
An estimated 27 million people in Europe and North America suffer from PAD,[3] which can lead to CLI, a severe obstruction of the arteries that decreases blood flow to the extremities, producing pain and skin ulcers or sores. CLI, which affects up to 300,000 people a year in the U.S.,[4] is the end stage of lower-extremity PAD and poses a significant risk for limb loss. Currently, 25 percent of CLI patients undergo amputation as a primary treatment.4 Within two years of treatment, 25 percent of these patients die and another 30 percent experience additional lower-limb amputation.4 The mortality rate at five years following amputation can be as high as 68 percent.[5]
Twelve sites in the United States and Europe will participate in the Tibiopedal Access for Crossing Infrainguinal Artery Occlusions study led by global principal investigator, Craig Walker, M.D., founder, president and medical director of the Cardiovascular Institute of the South in Louisiana. Up to 200 patients with a totally occluded lower-limb artery will be enrolled, and physicians will assess the technical success rates of the new procedure both for gaining vascular access via the foot and for crossing the lesion. Patient follow-up will consist of a telephone interview approximately 30 days after the procedure. J.A. Mustapha, M.D., director of endovascular intervention at Metro Health Hospital, has enrolled and treated the first patients in this study. Drs. Walker and Mustapha are compensated by Cook Medical for educational lectures they present to physicians on the tibiopedal access procedure.
1 Kavteladze Z. Retrograde recanalization of tibial CTOs. Presented at: TCT 2010; September 21-25, 2010; Washington, DC.
2 Montero-Baker M, Schmidt A, Bräunlich S, et al. Retrograde approach for complex popliteal and tibioperoneal occlusions. J Endovasc Ther. 2008;15(5):594-604.
3 Belch JJ, Topol EJ, Agnelli G, et al. Critical issues in peripheral arterial disease detection and management: a call to action. Arch Intern Med. 2003;163(8):884-892.
4 Norgren L, Hiatt WR, Dormandy JA, et al. Inter-society consensus for the management of peripheral arterial disease (TASC II). Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2007;33(suppl 1):S1-S75.
5 Reiber GE, Boyko EJ, Smith DG. Lower extremity foot ulcers and amputations in diabetes. In: Harris MI, Cowie CC, Stern MP, et al., eds. Diabetes in America. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 1995:409-428.
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World Health Organization finally releases next edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11)
July 25, 2018 by admindxrw
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(Key links from this post are also available on the ICD-11 2018 tab page.)
After 11 years in development and four extensions to the timeline, the World Health Organization (WHO) finally released a version of ICD-11 on June 18th.
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The WHO is presenting this June release as an “advance preview” to enable countries to start planning for implementation, prepare national translations and begin training health professionals.
ICD-11 MMS is scheduled for presentation at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in May 2019 for adoption by member states, but WHA endorsement won’t come into effect until January 1, 2022. After that date, member states can begin using the new edition for data reporting — if they are ready.
The WHO has bought itself a further three and half years in which to complete the preparation of implementation and support materials and finalize companion publications and other derivatives.
Dr Christopher Chute, chair of ICD-11’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee (MSAC), predicts that early implementers may require around five years to prepare their countries’ health systems for transition. Member states using a “clinical modification” of ICD are likely to take longer to develop, test and roll out a country specific adaptation.
There is no mandatory implementation date — member states will migrate to ICD-11 at their own pace and according to their countries’ specific timelines, requirements and resources.
Global adoption will likely be a patchy and prolonged process and for a period of time, WHO will be accepting data recorded using both ICD-10 and the new ICD-11 code sets.
No countries have announced implementation schedules. NHS Digital says:
NHS Digital – ICD-11 Launch
“…No decision has been made for the implementation of ICD-11 in England, however NHS Digital plan to undertake further testing of the latest release and supporting products that will inform a future decision.”
In the meantime, the mandatory classification and terminology systems for use in the NHS are ICD-10* and SNOMED CT UK Edition**.
*NHS currently mandating ICD-10 Version: 2015.
**Read Codes (CTV-2 and CTV-3) are retired. SNOMED CT became the mandatory terminology system for use in NHS primary care in April 2018. Secondary Care, Acute Care, Mental Health, Community systems, Dentistry and other systems used in the direct management of care of an individual are scheduled to adopt SNOMED CT as the mandatory clinical terminology before 1 April 2020.
ICD-11 launch News Release
Launch information and short videos: ICD-11: Classifying disease to map the way we live and die
A dedicated website for ICD-11 information has been launched: https://icd.who.int
ICD-11 Beta Draft becomes ICD-11 Maintenance Platform
The orange ICD-11 Beta drafting platform is renamed to the “ICD-11 Maintenance Platform” and will remain in the public domain as a “work in progress” between stable releases.
The content on the orange platform will change as the substantial backlog of earlier proposals and new proposals submitted since the June 2018 release are processed.
An approved proposal for an addition or other change won’t immediately be reflected in the released version of the ICD-11 MMS but carried forward for eventual incorporation into a later release, according to the update cycle for that particular class of change.
There is a current backlog of over 1000 proposals waiting to be processed. New comments and proposals will continue to be accepted (see Annex 3.7 of the Reference Guide for maintenance and update schedules and guidance on submitting new proposals).
(If you were registered with the Beta drafting platform for access to the Comments function and Proposals Mechanism your account will work for the Maintenance Platform and you will be able to access historical comments and proposals.)
The maintenance and update of ICD-11 will be advised by the Classifications and Statistics Advisory Commitee (CSAC); the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee (MSAC); the Mortality Reference Group; the Morbidity Reference Group; and the Functioning and Disability Reference Group.
It is currently unclear in which year the first update cycle is anticipated to start, i.e., whether the next stable version would be released in January 2020, or in a later year.
The ICD Revision Topic Advisory Groups and sub working groups ceased operations in October 2016 and the Joint Task Force is expected to be stood down later this year.
The ICD-11 Maintenance Platform displays both the Foundation Component and the combined Mortality and Morbidity Statistics linearization:
https://icd.who.int/dev11/f/en#/
The ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (ICD-11 MMS) 2018 version is on a new blue platform:
https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en
This platform currently displays only the MMS Linearization codes, not the Foundation Component which contains all the ICD entities. As released in June 2018, the content is planned to remain stable until January 2019, in preparation for presentation at the May 2019 World Health Assembly.
There is a coding tool here:
ICD-11 Coding Tool Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (MMS) 2018:
https://icd.who.int/ct11_2018/icd11_mms/en/release#/
The ICD-11 Reference Guide (the equivalent of ICD-10’s Volume 2) is here:
https://icd.who.int/browse11/content/refguide.ICD11_en/html/index.html
(At the time of publication, there is no PDF version of the Reference Guide only an html version.)
What hasn’t been released yet?
Not all disorder “Descriptions” texts and other “Content Model” parameters have been populated and the full ICD-11 implementation package isn’t completed.
An updated ICD Revision information page states: “A suite of tools and functionality facilitate implementation and use of ICD-11.” But not all the tools and other materials listed under the Implementation Support tab are currently available.
The list also mentions “Specialty versions” but none of these are available; for example, the ICD-11 Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines for Mental and Behavioural Disorders (the equivalent to ICD-10’s “Blue Book”) hasn’t been released yet.
This companion publication provides expanded clinical descriptions, differential diagnoses, diagnostic guidelines and codes for the categories in Chapter 06: Mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders including: “Essential (Required) Features, Boundaries with Other Disorders and Normality, and Additional Features sections. Additional sections (e.g., Culture-Related Features).”
Practitioners who have signed up to the Global Clinical Practice Network have had the opportunity to review and comment on drafts of the full clinical description and diagnostic guideline texts but drafts have not been available for public stakeholder review.
It’s not known whether this specialty mental disorder publication is planned to be released later this year or if the content cannot be finalized until after the ICD-11 MMS code sets have been ratified, in May 2019.
ICD-11 PHC: the revision of the 1996 publication: Diagnostic and Management Guidelines for Mental Disorders in Primary Care: ICD-10 Chapter V Primary Care Version (aka “ICD-10 PHC”) has not been released, either.
Drafts of the full texts for the disorder descriptions, as currently proposed for the 27 mental disorders for inclusion in ICD-11 PHC, are not available for public stakeholder scrutiny. There is no publicly available timeline for the finalization and release of ICD-11 PHC nor is it clear whether any additional field trials are in progress or have been recommended. NB: This publication will not be mandatory for use by WHO member states and it does not override the ICD-10 and ICD-11 code sets.
Brief Report from the Director-General: World Health Organization, EXECUTIVE BOARD EB143/13, 143rd session April 9, 2018, Provisional agenda item 5.2: International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems: update on the eleventh revision: http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB143/B143_13-en.pdf
Presentation Slides: ICD 11th revision, Member State Information Session Geneva, May 14, 2018, Dr John Grove, Director, Department of Information, Evidence, and Research, WHO and Dr Robert Jakob, Team Lead, Classifications, Terminologies and Standards, WHO https://dxrevisionwatch.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/icd11.pdf
Audio file from WHO Press Conference: June 14, 2018, Release of ICD-11 – the 11th revision of the International Classification of Disease, Dr Shekhar Saxena, Director, Department for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO, Dr Robert Jakob, Team Lead, Classifications, Terminologies and Standards, WHO
Mp3 audio file [39:25 min]:
http://terrance.who.int/mediacentre/presser/WHO-RUSH_ICD-11_Virtual_Press_Conference_18JUN2018.mp3
Presentation by Dr Michael First: Differences Between ICD-11 Classification of Mental & Behavioural Disorders and DSM-5. Nasjonal kompetansetjeneste ROP, Published July 20, 2018 [32:38 mins]
https://rop.no/roptv/hva-er-forskjellene-mellom-psykiske-lidelser-i-icd-11-og-dsm-5/
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APPENDIX I International Reserves »
Source: International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2001 : Making the Global Economy Work for All
Keywords: interest, debt, payments, loans, financial statements
Total international reserves, including gold, increased by 11 percent during 2000 and stood at SDR 1.7 trillion at the end of the year (Table I.1). Total nongold reserves grew by 12 percent, the result of a...
APPENDIX II Financial Operations and Transactions »
The tables in this appendix supplement the information given in Chapter 6 on the IMF’s financial operations and policies. Table II.1 Arrangement...
APPENDIX III Principal Policy Decisions of the Executive Board »
A. Access Policy and Limits in Credit Tranches and Under Extended Fund Facility—Review The Fund decides that the next annual review of the guidelines and limits for access to the Fun...
APPENDIX IV IMF Relations with Other International Organizations »
The IMF increased its efforts during FY2001 to refocus its operations, promote international financial stability, and help its member countries seize the opportunities offered by globalization. Key to this e...
APPENDIX IX Financial Statements April 30, 2001 »
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Suite 900 1900 K Street Washington DC 20006 Telephone (202) 822 4000 Facsimile...
APPENDIX V External Relations »
In FY2001, the IMF took further steps to increase the information provided to the public on its own activities and policies. It released a record number of documents to the public via its website, opened a n...
APPENDIX VI Press Communiqués of the International Monetary and Financial Committee and the Development Committee »
International Monetary and Financial Committee of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund PRESS COMMUNIQUÉS Second Meeting, Prague, Czec...
APPENDIX VII Executive Directors and Voting Power on April 30, 2001 »
Director Alternate Casting Votes of Votes byCount...
APPENDIX VIII Changes in Membership of the Executive Board »
Changes in membership of the Executive Board between May 1, 2000, and April 30, 2001, were as follows: Agustin Carstens completed his term of service as Executive Director for Costa Rica, El Salvado...
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Goodbye Dollink R.I.P. June Foray
By sallyedelstein / July 31, 2017 / baby boomers, Cold War, Entertainment, History / 4 comments
The many voices of the late, great June Foray
June Foray’s memorable voice was the sound of my cold war childhood.
Not only was hers the voice I heard when I pulled the string on my Chatty Cathy doll, a childish sweet voice saying “Let’s play house” but she was also the pre-feminist melodramatic voice of that perennially distressed damsel Nell Fenwick the long-suffering girl friend of that Saturday morning TV staple Dudley Do Right, the lantern-jawed Canadian Mountie.
June Foray played both sides of the cold war in that classic cartoon Rocky and Bullwinkle, voicing both Rocky and the “Russian” spy Natasha
Disney, Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera could all claim June’s distinctive voice in countless roles, but it was the high-pitched tone of Rocky the plucky flying squirrel with the broad smile, one half of that fearless duo out to save Western civilization, and the throaty Eastern European rasp of that sinister spy Natasha out to sabotage all things American, that were my favorites.
Without taking sides June Foray played both sides of the cold war in that classic cartoon Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Rocky and Friends provided years of entertainment for boomer kids trying to shake the duck and cover reality of their lives. The shows constant barrage of cultural references spoke to the paranoia of mid-century Americans.
Hokey smoke, what would my cold war childhood be without Rocket J. Squirrel and his irascible companion Bullwinkle J. Moose rescuing the American Way of Life on a weekly basis from the clutches of the evil empire of Pottsylvania by defeating the wicked schemes of Mr. Big and his accomplices in crime that hapless duo of Slavic spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatalay.
For better or worse the cold war never seem to defrost in Rocky’s home town of Frost Bite Falls, Minnesota, providing years of entertainment for boomer kids trying to shake the duck and cover reality of their lives. Like MAD Magazine, Rocky and Bullwinkle with their irreverent satire, helped kids navigate through a pretty perilous world, as they entered the uncertainty of a new cold war decade, the 1960’s.
Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev vowed he would “bury us!”
The last year of the 1950’s was a chilly time for the cold war.
The arms race and the space race were going full throttle between the two Superpowers. Still stinging from Sputnik and trying to play catch up with the Russians, Americans were spooked when Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev boasted of Soviet military supremacy. At home Congressmen groused about the growing dangers of a gaping missile gap, including a young man with his eye on the presidency, the senator from Massachusetts John Kennedy.
In back yards from coast to coast Americans were busy building home fallout shelters after Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb, commented that spring that: “it was necessary to provide every person in the U.S. with a shelter.”
There wasn’t much to laugh at.
Rocky and His Friends 1959
The formula for “Rocky and His Friends” would rarely change even as the name of the show itself changed – Rocky the plucky squirrel teamed up with the dim-witted but good-hearted partner Bullwinkle, a duo of fearless adventurers who wandered the globe saving western civilization, stumbling into one absurd situation after another while battling”Russian” spies.
In the fall of 1959, against the backdrop of the cold war and the end of the Eisenhower years the cold war came to the cartoons in the form of “Rocky and His Friends.”
Set the Waybac Machine for Thursday, November 19, 1959.
It’s 5:30, mom’s meatloaf was tucked in the oven nearly ready for our 6pm dinner. With a half hour free before supper my brother and I were glued to the TV. We quickly turned the dial on our Admiral TV to ABC tuning in to the premier of a new animated show, “Rocky and His Friends,” the latest offering from animator Jay Ward.
Crusader Rabbit was televisions first cartoon character produced for the new medium airing in 1950
Like most kids, I had been a fan of Ward’s first creation “Crusader Rabbit,” which was the first ever animated cartoon created especially for television.
In the earliest days of TV, cartoons for the kiddies were purchased from motion picture overstock. Saturday matinée cartoons from my movie going parents’ generation would find a new home in TV audiences. Krazy Kat clawed her way to TV, Out of the Inkwell’s Koko the Clown invited laughter and a WWII Bugs Bunny hopped over to the new medium.
But with the appearance of Crusader Rabbit and his sidekick “Rags” the Tiger, TV cartoons were born.
First appearing in 1950 this do-good duo were a precursor to Rocky and Bullwinkle, embarking on adventures to exotic locale, stumbling into one absurd situation after another, always foiled by an evil character named Dudley Night Shade, an early incarnation of Snidley Whiplash. The show, composed of cliffhanger shorts that emulated early radio series, was a formula Rocky would continue.
By 1959 when ads for the debut of the flying squirrel who sported a pilots helmet and his dimwitted but brave moose sidekick appeared, two pawed, four-footed anthropomorphic cartoon creatures crusading for good was old hat to me.
Saturday morning TV villains had little chance whenever Hanna-Barbera’s spunky pooch Reddy and his feline partner Ruff were around. And Television already had a talking flying rodent named Mighty Mouse who was pretty good at saving the day. And he could sing to boot.
But Now Here’s Something You’ll Really Like
But Rocky and Bullwinkle offered something none of the others did. What made the show different was its sly and not so sly cultural references to the cold war.
That very first episode I watched entitled Jet Fuel Formula made clear its cold war allusions. The themes of the arms race, the space race, international technological competition, and espionage mirrored the cold war paranoia between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. perfectly. And five years before Dr Strangelove, Jet Fuel Formula was satirizing the American Military and government.
Suddenly the cold war was a barrel of laughs.
Like Boris, Natasha takes orders from the nation’s leader Fearless Leader and rarely seen Mr Big. Boris’s accomplice Natasha’s main catch phrase is referring everyone as “dollink” spoken with her thick Pottsylvania accent courtesy of June Foray. No helpless heroine, Natasha was clearly the smarter of the two constantly pointing out Boris’s flaws to his plans and expressing contempt for his bungling failures. Inevitably Boris would shout at her “SHARRUP YOU MOUTH” when his schemes failed.
Who wouldn’t laugh at those Soviet-stand ins Boris and Natasha, a couple of no good-niks. Fiendish, but always inept these two cold war spies from Eastern Europe were forever scheming to control the world, topple its economy and destroy the American Way of life.
It was like laughing at Khrushchev himself.
Fearless Leader was the dictator of Pottsylvania and employer of the inept spies and could be found in his underground hideout “Central Control.” But he did answer to one man, the small Mr. Big.
These were not the cartoon staple of villains decked out in top hats and capes with twirling handle bar mustaches but instead Slavic speaking buffoons.
Boris Badenov (Long on Bad) the pasty white, pencil mustached, black hatted villain and his seductive, comely side kick Natasha Fataly (Long for Fatal) were spies for the sinister fictional nation of Pottsylvania, a closed repressive nation populated entirely by spies, secret agents, and saboteurs. Ruled by Fearless Leader a man sporting a monocle and German cross with an improbable German accent, fed my fear of Nazis and Communists in one clean swoop.
Because Truth, Justice and the American Way always prevailed, the “Soviet’s” misdeeds were continually thwarted by Rocky and Bullwinkle. In the end Boris and Natasha always failed in their missions to bring America to its knees.
In Frost Bite Falls at least, we were winning the cold war.
And that my friends, is a true Fractured Fairy Tale!
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I sure loved Rocky and Bulwinkle and Underdog too. But Rocky and Bulwinkle was the Mad Magazine of Cartoons.
They sure were, and they both helped form my ironic sensibility to our culture
Fond memories Sally. Never did link this to the Cold War.
Carl-Edward
Cold War or not, we had eight grand years with Eisenhower, and I wish we could have them back. We had national consensus, genuine prosperity (with little inflation), domestic tranquillity, a strong foreign policy, personal freedom, well-made products at reasonable prices and a largely homogeneous population. Education was not the farce it is to-day; there were intelligent plays, and many entertaining and intelligent books and films. Finally, there was an absence of public degeneracy and asinine pseudo-political movements that ultimately destroyed the social balance.
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Neutron radiation
Neutron radiation is a kind of ionizing radiation which consists of free neutrons. A result of nuclear fission or nuclear fusion, it consists of the release of free neutrons from atoms, and these free neutrons react with nuclei of other atoms to form new isotopes, which, in turn, may produce radiation. This will result in a chain reaction of nuclear radiation, which makes radiation dangerous and harmful over great areas of space.
3 Ionization mechanisms and properties
4 Health hazards and protection
5 Effects on materials
6 Neutron radiation and nuclear fission
7 Cosmogenic neutrons
Main article: Neutron source
See also: Category:Neutron sources
Neutrons may be emitted from nuclear fusion or nuclear fission, or from any number of different nuclear reactions such as from radioactive decay or reactions from particle interactions (such as from cosmic rays or particle accelerators). Large neutron sources are rare, and are usually limited to large-sized devices like nuclear reactors or particle accelerators (such as the Spallation Neutron Source).
Neutron radiation was discovered as a result of observing a beryllium nucleus reacting with an alpha particle thus transforming into a carbon nucleus and emitting a neutron, Be(α, n)C. The combination of an alpha particle emitter and an isotope with a large (α, n) nuclear reaction probability is still a common neutron source.
Cold, thermal and hot neutron radiation is most commonly used for scattering and diffraction experiments in order to assess the properties and the structure of materials in crystallography, condensed matter physics, biology, solid state chemistry, materials science, geology, mineralogy and related sciences. Neutron radiation is also used in select facilities to treat cancerous tumors due to its highly penetrating and damaging nature to cellular structure. Neutrons can also be used for imaging of industrial parts termed neutron radiography when using film, neutron radioscopy when taking a digital image, such as through image plates, and neutron tomography for three dimensional images. Neutron imaging is commonly used in the nuclear industry, the space and aerospace industry, as well as the high reliability explosives industry.
Ionization mechanisms and properties
Neutron radiation is often called indirectly ionizing radiation. It does not ionize atoms in the same way that charged particles such as protons and electrons do (exciting an electron), because neutrons have no charge. However, neutron interactions are largely ionizing, for example when neutron absorption results in gamma emission and the gamma ray (photon) subsequently removes an electron from an atom, or a nucleus recoiling from a neutron interaction is ionized and causes more traditional subsequent ionization in other atoms. Because neutrons are uncharged, they are more penetrating than alpha radiation or beta radiation. In some cases they are more penetrating than gamma radiation, which is impeded in materials of high atomic number. In materials of low atomic number such as hydrogen, a low energy gamma ray may be more penetrating than a high energy neutron.
Health hazards and protection
In health physics neutron radiation is considered a fourth radiation hazard alongside the other types of radiation. Another, sometimes more severe hazard of neutron radiation, is neutron activation, the ability of neutron radiation to induce radioactivity in most substances it encounters, including the body tissues of the workers themselves. This occurs through the capture of neutrons by atomic nuclei, which are transformed to another nuclide, frequently a radionuclide. This process accounts for much of the radioactive material released by the detonation of a nuclear weapon. It is also a problem in nuclear fission and nuclear fusion installations, as it gradually renders the equipment radioactive; eventually the hardware must be replaced and disposed of as low-level radioactive waste.
Neutron radiation protection relies on radiation shielding. In comparison with conventional ionizing radiation based on photons or charged particles, neutrons are repeatedly bounced and slowed (absorbed) by light nuclei, so a large mass of hydrogen-rich material is needed. Neutrons readily pass through most material, but interact enough to cause biological damage. Due to the high kinetic energy of neutrons, this radiation is considered to be the most severe and dangerous radiation available. The most effective materials are e.g. water, polyethylene, paraffin wax, or concrete, where a considerable amount of water molecules are chemically bound to the cement. The light atoms serve to slow down the neutrons by elastic scattering, so they can then be absorbed by nuclear reactions. However, gamma radiation is often produced in such reactions, so additional shielding has to be provided to absorb it.
Because the neutrons that strike the hydrogen nucleus (proton, or deuteron) impart energy to that nucleus, they in turn will break from their chemical bonds and travel a short distance, before stopping. Those protons and deuterons are high linear energy transfer particles, and are in turn stopped by ionization of the material through which they travel. Consequently, in living tissue, neutrons have a relatively high relative biological effectiveness, and are roughly ten times more effective at causing cancers or LD-50s compared to photon or beta radiation of equivalent radiation exposure.
Neutrons also degrade materials; bombardment of materials with neutrons creates collision cascades that can produce point defects and dislocations in the materials. At high neutron fluences this can lead to embrittlement of metals and other materials, and to swelling of some of them. This poses a problem for nuclear reactor vessels, and significantly limits their lifetime (which can be somewhat prolonged by controlled annealing of the vessel, reducing the number of the built-up dislocations). Graphite moderator blocks are especially susceptible to this effect, known as Wigner effect, and have to be annealed periodically; the well-known Windscale fire was caused by a mishap during such an annealing operation.
Neutron radiation and nuclear fission
The neutrons in reactors are generally categorized as slow (thermal) neutrons or fast neutrons depending on their energy. Thermal neutrons are similar to a gas in thermodynamic equilibrium but are easily captured by atomic nuclei and are the primary means by which elements undergo atomic transmutation.
In order to achieve an effective fission chain reaction, the neutrons produced during fission must be captured by fissionable nuclei, which then split, releasing more neutrons. In most fission reactor designs, the nuclear fuel is not sufficiently refined to be able to absorb enough fast neutrons to carry on the fission chain reaction, due to the lower cross section for higher-energy neutrons, so a neutron moderator must be introduced to slow the fast neutrons down to thermal velocities to permit sufficient absorption. Common neutron moderators include graphite, light water and heavy water. A few reactors (fast neutron reactors) and all nuclear weapons rely on fast neutrons. This requires certain changes in the design and in the required nuclear fuel. The element beryllium is particularly useful due to its ability to act as a neutron reflector or lens. This allows smaller quantities of fissile material to be used and is a primary technical development that led to the creation of neutron bombs.
Cosmogenic neutrons
Cosmogenic neutrons, neutrons produced from cosmic radiation in the Earth's atmosphere or surface, and those produced in particle accelerators can be significantly higher energy than those encountered in reactors. Most of them activate a nucleus before reaching the ground; a few react with nuclei in the air. The reactions with nitrogen 14 lead to the formation of carbon 14, widely used in radiocarbon dating.
Neutron activation
Neutron emission
Neutron bomb
Neutron flux
Neutron diffraction and Neutron scattering
Radiological hazards and their control
EPA definitions of various terms
Comparison of Neutron Radiographic and X-Radiographic Images
Neutron techniques A unique tool for research and development
Neutron related techniques
IARC Group 1 carcinogens
Arctic cod
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Mythbusters – Dodge a Bullet Review
June 3, 2011 by Al
‘Adam and Jamie test if you can jump out of the way of a bullet, while Kari, Grant and Tory find out if hitting the water is just like hitting pavement after a fall.’
Dodge a Bullet
An interesting concept. We’ve all seen the Hollywood martial arts movie cliche of dodging a bullet, all the while knowing that it’s not going to happen at close range; but the idea that it might be possible at extreme ranges has enough plausability to warrant investigation. I was happy that they brought in professional snipers for this myth to add the extra layer of accuracy. I’ve actually seen Dave Liwanag (the sniper that they brought in) on other documentary shows performing some pretty amazing shots, and this episode was no different.
This episode was a great example of the methodical myths that I really like. Sure, they aren’t as flashy as the big explosive myths or as fun as stuff like the spy cars, but there is something about a methodical series of data gathering experiments that I really enjoy. Seeing the boys overcome the various problems in the experiments and the short but detailed explanations of the things that they have to take into account are really fascinating, and one of the things that has made this show so long lived.
The opportunity to see Adam and Jamie really excited about their work is one of the things that draws you in to the show, and its well evidenced here. Adam in particular seemed to be channeling both Speed Racer and Vizzini here.
The myth played out in a very satisfying manner, even though the myth was busted relatively early. The final experiments were really fun (in a schadenfreude kind of way), if only for the opportunity to watch Jamie dodging, Matrix style.
Water vs Pavement
This is one of those old myths that you always hear about. Bread and butter for the Mythbusters. Since it’s so easy to test, I started the episode wondering how they were going to expand the myth out to fill half the episode. Especially since after a short montage of the build and explanations of the scientific concepts involved, they were ready to test. As with the other myth, this was a nice methodical series of experiments, but it seemed a little heavy on the exposition. We all know what the experiment is, we don’t need to have it explained repeatedly.
I think that this is symptomatic of the problem that Mythbusters has had for a while. The secondary myths have tended to depend too much on the personalities of Grant, Tory and Kari; and they aren’t really enough for me (although they might be for others).
What made this show popular was the fun science, presented by people who were a bit silly; but now it seems to be more about the silly people, and their detailed reactions to every experiment rather than the science itself. The overacted intro/outro’s to each myth were endearing at first, but began to wear thin pretty quick. But these are criticisms of the show in general, it’s no more apparent in this episode than any other for the past couple of seasons.
Overall, it was a reasonably interesting myth with some cool visuals; but I once again found myself losing interest part way through. This myth could have played out in half the time without all the hijinks with the presenting trio.
What I Liked – Good old fashioned methodical mythbusting. Matrix style slow-mo of Adam and Jamie
What I Didn’t Like – Spending more time with the presenters than the science
Rating – 3 out of 5 (Average)
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Essays, Not Rants!
Tag Archives: sitcoms
August 2, 2014 · 5:26 pm
Leslie Knope: Friends, Family, Feminism
I’ve recently begun watching Parks and Recreation, and by recently begun I mean about five seasons in two weeks. The miracle of Netflix.
In any case, the show’s fantastic and I lack any sort of Netflix Binger’s Remorse (and wanna get caught up as soon as I can). One of the reasons it’s so great is its bucking of typical sitcom trends.Parks and Rec isn’t a mean show. Whereas a lot of other sitcoms, including the prior one with Greg Daniel’s name attached: The Office, create their comedic situations through conflict between the main characters, much of Parks’ humor comes from the outside. Thus in The Office you’d have one character trying to con over the other, to much amusement. The Big Bang Theory thrives on the rest of the group trying to get one over Sheldon. The Parks Department, however, is always a team. Sure, there will be parts where they compete, but it’s never malicious. They’re a team, a team against the frustrating citizens of Pawnee, the snooty residents of Eagleton, and other departments in their government.
This teamwork lends the characters a strong sense of family. Now, this isn’t there from the beginning, rather they grow into it — and their roles in said makeshift family — over the seasons. And here’s another thing Parks does that most sitcoms don’t: they let their characters change and develop. All of the main cast is surprisingly well rounded. Sure, some seem one note at first, but as the show progresses we get to know them more and find facets of them we would never have expected. When the gruff Ron shows that he cares, or as Chris grows less self-obsessed they feel more rounded and we can really watch their bonds form. It makes them feel more real.
Neither are the characters forced to remain professionally stagnant. Leslie doesn’t stay the deputy director of the Parks Department, instead the writers let her career progress. See, it’s a risky move, they’ve proved that the bunch of co-workers interacting works, but they’re willing to go past that formula (which also shows in the developing characters). Tom too ends up leaving the Parks Department and tries his hand at entrepreneurship. It’d be easy for a recurring joke to be his constant failures. Instead, we see Tom try his hand, and yes, we do see Tom fail, but we also see Tom make changes to his approach and outlook in order to eventually succeed. It’s refreshing and really cool to see happen in a sitcom.
Parks and Recreation is an inherently political show, albeit on the scale of the local city government of a small town in Indiana. Leslie Knope is very obviously a feminist. Yet the show doesn’t preach it at you. Rather, we see Leslie combatting sexism in the often very out of date systems of Pawnee. For example, Leslie’s approach to the very male gallery of councilmen isn’t to become disheartened renounce it as an Evil Symbol of The Patriarchy, rather she wants to change things by being the first woman on the board. Feminism in Parks is an active thing. There’s no lecturing and posturing about feminism about it, instead we see why we need it and what can be done. Furthermore, the show doesn’t get caught up in its hubris: Leslie may spout rhetoric on occasion, but she isn’t on some sort of a pedestal. She’s not perfect because of her beliefs, rather, she’s a relatively normal, multifaceted human being.
So yes, Parks and Recreation is such a refreshing show. I’d seen bits of it prior, but now I’m finally sitting down and blasting through it. It’s a great show, and I want more shows like it.
Tagged as artificial family, feminism, Parks and Recreation, sitcoms, tv
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On Gerry Alanguilan’s “ELMER,” his author bio, and animal cognition.
Frank Brown Cloud in All posts, Evolutionary biology, Psychology October 1, 2015 February 12, 2016 1,364 Words
I was talking to a runner about graphic novels, once again recommending Andy Hartzell’s Fox Bunny Funny (which I imagine would be exceptionally treasured by a young person questioning their gender identity or sexuality, but is still great for anybody who feels they don’t quite fit in), when he recommended Gerry Alanguilan’s ELMER. An excellent recommendation — I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The comic’s premise is that chickens suddenly gain intelligence roughly equivalent to humans. Then they fight against murder, oppression, and prejudice in ways reminiscent of the U.S. civil rights movement. The beginning of the book is horrifying, first with scenes depicting chickens coming into awareness while hanging by their feet in a slaughter house, then the violent reprisal they affect against humans.
Alanguilan is a great artist and clearly a very empathetic man.
But that’s why I thought it was so strange that two out of four sentences of his short bio on the back cover read, “Gerry really likes chicken adobo, Psych, Mr. Belvedere, Titanic, Doctor Who, dogs, video blogging and specially Century Gothic. Transformed.” For a moment I thought the first clause might be ironic because his author photograph for ELMER was taken in front of a busy bulletin board & one sheet of paper was a diet guide that appeared to have the vegan “v” logo at the bottom — maybe Gerry is making a point about what he gave up! — but with some squinting I realized it was a “Diet Guide for High Cholesterol Patients,” the symbol at the bottom merely a checkmark.
Why, then, would Alanguilan want to punctuate his work with the statement that he eats chickens, as though that is a defining feature of his life?
It’s commonly assumed among people who study animal cognition that other species are less aware of the world than humans are. That humans perceive more acutely, our immense brainpower ensuring that our feelings cut deep.
The differences are matters of degree, though. It’s also widely acknowledged that humans exists on the same continuum as other animals, with no clear boundaries — genetic, physiological, or cognitive — demarcating us from them. I thought this was phrased well by Frans de Waal in his editorial on Homo naledi and teleological misconceptions about evolution:
The problem is that we keep assuming that there is a point at which we became human. This is about as unlikely as there being a precise wavelength at which the color spectrum turns from orange into red. The typical proposition of how this happened is that of a mental breakthrough — a miraculous spark — that made us radically different. But if we have learned anything from more than 50 years of research on chimpanzees and other intelligent animals, it is that the wall between human and animal cognition is like a Swiss cheese.
This is why, after reading Alanguilan’s brief biography, I began to wonder what percentage of human-like awareness chickens would need to have for their treatment in slaughterhouses, or the conveyer belt & macerator (grinder) used to expunge male chicks, or their confinement in dismal laying operations, to seem acceptable?
In Elmer, Alanguilan makes clear that their treatment would be unacceptable if the average chicken had one hundred percent of the cognitive capacity of the average human. But then, below what percentage cognition does their treatment become okay? Eighty percent? Ten? One? Point one?
I think that’s an important question to ask, especially of an artist capable of creating such powerful work.
(And I should make clear that my own moral decisions exist in the same grey zone that I find curious in Alanguilan’s author bio. I support abortion rights, an implicit declaration that the fractional cognition of a fetus is insufficient to outweigh the interests of the mother. It’s more complicated than that, but it’s worth making clear that I’m not purporting to be morally pure.)
It’s true that humans are heterotrophs. It’s impossible for us to live without harming — it irks me when vegetarians claim, for instance, that plants have no feelings. They clearly do, they have wants and desires, they have rudimentary means of communication. You could argue that eating fruit is ethically simple because fruit represents a pact between flowering plants and animal life, which co-evolved. A plant expends energy to create fruit as a gift to animals, and animals in accepting that gift spread the plant’s seeds.
But anyone who eats vegetables (where “vegetable” means something like kale or broccoli or carrots — Supreme Court justices are not scientists) harms other perceiving entities by eating.
Which is fine. I eat, too! Our first concern, given that we are perceiving entities, is to take care of ourselves. If you didn’t care for your own well-being, what would motivate you to care for someone else’s? Beyond that, I don’t think there’s a simple way to identify what or whom else is sufficiently self-like to merit our concern. Personally, I care much more about my family than I do other humans — I devote the majority of my time and energy to helping them. And I care much more about the well-being of the average human than I do the average cow, say, or lion.
Moral philosophers like Peter Singer would describe this as “speciest.” I think that’s a silly-sounding word for a silly concept. I don’t care about other humans because we have similar sequences in our DNA, or even because they resemble what I see when I look into a mirror. I care about their well-being because of their internal mental life — I can imagine what it might feel like to be another human and so their plights sadden me.
Sure, I can imagine what it might feel like to be a chicken… but less well. Other animals don’t perceive the world the same way we do. And they seem to think less well. I’d rather they not suffer. But if somebody has to suffer, I’d rather that somebody be a Gallus gallus than a Homo sapiens. I’d rather many chickens suffer than one human — I weigh chickens’ interests at only a small fraction of my concern for other humans.
Humans can talk to me. They can share their travails with words, or gestures, or interpretative dance, or facial expressions. And that matters a lot to me.
But integrity matters, too. For instance, it seemed strange to me that David Duchovny could both write the book Holy Cow, in which he depicts farmed animals attempting to escape their doom, and still announce that he is “a very lazy vegetarian, which means I will look for the vegetarian meal, but I will also give up.”
My main objection isn’t to people eating meat. It isn’t even to people who understand that animals can think (with differences in degree from human cognition, not differences in kind) eating meat. Not everyone lives where I do, within a short walk of several grocery stores that all offer excellent nutrition from plants alone. It’d be extremely difficult (and expensive) for humans living near the arctic to stay healthy without eating fish. Those people’s well-being matters to me far more than the well-being of fish they catch.
And, for people living in close proximity to large, dangerous carnivores? Yes, obviously it’s reasonable for them to kill the animals terrorizing their villages. I wish humans bred a little more slowly so that there’d still be space in our world for those large carnivores, but given that the at-risk humans already exist, I’d rather they be safe. I can imagine how they feel. I wouldn’t want my own daughter to be in danger. I ruthlessly smash any mosquitos that go near her, and they are far less deadly than lions.
I simply find it upsetting when people who seem to believe that animal thought matters won’t take minor steps toward hurting them less. It’s when confronted with stories about people who understand the moral implications of animal cognition, and who live in a place where it’s easy to be healthy eating vegetables alone, but don’t, that I feel sad.
If you had the chance to make your life consistent with your values, why wouldn’t you?
Andy Hartzell
Fox Bunny Funny
Homo naledi
live your ethics
speciest
teleological misconception
On military drones.
Links to my writing elsewhere: Line of Sight
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Transgender woman creates counter-campaign for border wall ladders
A transgender woman and human rights activist has set up a GoFundMe page to pay for ladders so people can climb over Trump’s proposed border wall.
Charlotte Clymer, who describes herself in her Facebook bio as a liberal writer and feminist from Texas, created the GoFundMe page titled Ladders to Get Over Trump’s Wall on Wednesday.
The page was set up to counter the crowdfunding page We The People Will Fund The Wall, which has surpassed $10million.
Clymer’s campaign began trending almost immediately – and already generated more than $40,000 of its $100million goal as of Thursday at 9pm.
The crowdfunding summary reads in part: ‘We saw some folks are raising money for a border wall to keep out our migrant siblings and fellow human beings, who are fleeing violence and persecution and whose tragically-underpaid labor is essential to the US economy.
Charlotte Clymer, of Texas, created the crowdfunding campaign titled Ladders to Get Over Trump’s Wall on Wednesday
The counter-campaign comes days as We The People Will Fund The Wall surpassed $10million of its $1billion goal
Clymer, (pictured above on Twitter) who is transgender, describes herself in her Facebook bio as a liberal writer and feminist from Texas
‘Seems like a bad idea on countless levels for everyone involved. Maybe we should focus on human rights and creating a community that reflects our supposed values.
‘And even though at a rate of $1.7million daily, it would take their fund about 35 years to raise the $21.7billion that Trump’s own Deptartment of Homeland Security says would be needed to build said wall, we wanna make sure ladders are ready to send over to our undocumented friends and help them.’
Clymer, who works as the press secretary for rapid response at the Human Rights Campaign, further explains that if the goal is not met, funds raised will go toward the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES).
RAICES is the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas, according to its website.
‘If this seems ludicrous, we welcome you to the coalition of reasonable adults,’ the campaign summary further says.
The crowdfunding campaign to build a wall on the southern border had raised more than $9million in just four days by Thursday evening
‘You see, they’ll never reach their goal, but no matter how much we raise, we’re going to reach ours.
‘Supporting an organization working to help immigrants seeking legal asylum. This GoFundMe isn’t really about ladders at all. It’s about lifting people up.’
Meanwhile, the crowdfunding page We The People Will Fund The Wall surpassed $10million of its $1billion goal as of Friday morning.
The campaign was launched Sunday by triple amputee Air Force veteran, Brian Kolfage.
The campaign was launched Sunday by triple amputee Air Force veteran, Brian Kolfage (pictured left and right with wife). The married Florida father-of-two lost both legs and his arm in 2004 insurgent attack in Iraq
Kolfage said on the GoFundMe page: ‘Too many Americans have been murdered by illegal aliens and too many illegals are taking advantage of the United States taxpayers’
The campaign wars over the wall come after Trump appeared to back down from threats of a government shutdown to secure the $5billion he wants for the wall.
He signaled that he would sign the last spending bill he will get from a Republican-controlled Congress for the rest of his term without the desired wall money.
The sting for conservatives was deepened by an announcement on Tuesday that the U.S. will increase aid to Mexico and Central America to $10.6billion.
Democrats mocked the GoFundMe as evidence of Trump supporters’ gullibility, gloating that federal funding for Trump’s signature proposal is looking increasingly less likely.
‘It’s up to Americans to help out and pitch in to get this project rolling,’ the page reads. ‘If the 63million people who voted for Trump each pledge $80, we can build the wall.’
The fundraising page says it has contacted the Trump Administration to secure a point of contact where all the funds will go, but adds it has ‘many very high level contacts already helping’.
The page says further: ‘As a veteran who has given so much, 3 limbs, I feel deeply invested to this nation to ensure future generations have everything we have today,’ while elaborating on Kolfage’s history as a Purple Heart Medal recipient.
The married father-of-two lost both legs and his right arm in a 2004 insurgent attack in Iraq.
Trump said Wednesday the new trade deal means Mexico will pay for his wall
Trump on Wednesday claimed the military would build his border wall and Mexico would pay for it – indirectly under the new trade agreement.
‘Mexico is paying (indirectly) for the Wall through the new USMCA, the replacement for NAFTA! Far more money coming to the US.
‘Because of the tremendous dangers at the Border, including large scale criminal and drug inflow, the United States Military will build the Wall!,’ he tweeted.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday the administration’s legal team was looking into whether the White House could redirect funds to build the wall.
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French Grand Prix, 1973 Grands Prix, Formula One races in France
1973 Swedish Grand Prix 8 of 1973 1973 British Grand Prix
The original layout of the Circuit Paul Ricard
LIX Grand Prix de France
Le Castellet, France
5.809km (3.61mi)
Tyrrell-Ford Cosworth
McLaren-Ford Cosworth
1:50.99 on lap 52
Ronnie Peterson
Lotus-Ford Cosworth
Brabham-Ford Cosworth
The 1973 French Grand Prix, otherwise known officially as the LIX Grand Prix de France, was the eighth round of the 1973 FIA Formula One World Championship, staged on the 1st of July at the Circuit Paul Ricard.[1] The race, which marked the halfway point in the 1973 season, would be remembered for a race deciding collision that effectively handed Ronnie Peterson a maiden race victory.[1]
Qualifying saw Jackie Stewart claim pole position, the Scot knowing that victory would put him into the lead of the Championship with seven races left to go.[1] He was joined on the front row by the youthful Jody Scheckter and current Championship leader Emerson Fittipaldi, who was looking for a strong result after a poor run of luck and form.[1]
The start of the race saw Scheckter shoot into the lead, trailed by an equally fast starting Peterson, up from fifth on the grid.[1] Stewart got away in third ahead of Denny Hulme, while Fittipaldi filtered in behind as the top five quickly sprinted clear of the rest of the field.[1]
It took until lap sixteen for any changes to affect the leaders, with Hulme dropping out of contention with a slow puncture.[1] He was joined by Stewart a few laps later, although neither managed to lose a lap while having their flats replaced, leaving just three cars in the fight for victory.[1]
Fittipaldi was determined to take advantage of Stewart's problem, his bid aided further by the rather generous decision of teammate Peterson to wave him through to second.[1] The Brazilian then set about attacking Scheckter, launching a dive down the inside of the South African when the rookie hesitated while trying to lap Jean-Pierre Beltoise.[1] Unfortunately Scheckter decided to dart past Beltoise at the same moment, meaning the Lotus and McLaren smacked together, leaving both to limp back to the pits with terminal damage.[1]
All of that left Peterson with a huge advantage over the rest of the field, with the Swede duly cruising home to claim his first World Championship triumph.[1] François Cevert had a quiet drive to second ahead of Carlos Reutemann, while Stewart recovered to fourth, taking the lead in the Championship.[1] Jacky Ickx claimed fifth for Ferrari while James Hunt came across the line in sixth, a maiden point the reward for both himself and Hesketh Racing.
After the brief stop in Sweden the F1 circus was heading back to the Mediterranean coast, this time to use the Circuit Paul Ricard.[2] The Circuit Paul Ricard was relatively new to the racing scene, having debuted as the host of the French Grand Prix back in 1971, and remained unchanged for its second attempt.[2] Indeed, the purpose built facilities encouraged a huge entry list to be submitted for the race, 28 cars being submitted, with a feast of other series in attendance to support France's biggest motorsport event after the 24 Hours of Le Mans.[2]
At Lotus it was business as usual, with Emerson Fittipaldi and Ronnie Peterson arriving in France with a full compliment of cars at their disposal.[2] Arch rivals Tyrrell were in a similar position, having their familiar trio of wheels on hand for Jackie Stewart and François Cevert, although all were carrying scars from the battle in Sweden.[2] Those four would once again start the weekend as favourites, with murmurs of discontent from the lower orders, who believed that these four were being given special engines from Ford Cosworth.[2]
At McLaren there was an enforced change, for Peter Revson was away to take part in a USAC race in the United States, meaning Denny Hulme would get a new partner for the weekend.[2] Indeed, the team were forced to bring in youngster Jody Scheckter to fill the second seat, with the South African racer making his third start in France.[2] He would get complete parity with Hulme for the first time, and many were eager to see if his promise would be fulfilled in the front running McLaren M23.[2]
Elsewhere, Brabham were up to full strength, with Carlos Reutemann and Wilson Fittipaldi in action again, both getting complete rebuilds ahead of the blast in France.[3] The third "pseudo-works" car of Andrea de Adamich was back to support them, with the Italian set to be supported by a teammate of his own, until young prospect John Watson injured his leg in a testing accident prior to the weekend.[1] The Ulsterman was set to race in the following British Grand Prix, leaving Brabham with two "new" and two "old" cars at Paul Ricard.[3]
March made an enforced change to their works effort, Jean-Pierre Jarier being partnered by Reine Wisell in the semi-works car, the Swede getting a second shot at Grand Prix racing after Mike Beuttler injured himself in an Formula Two crash prior to the weekend.[3] Joining them would be the customer cars of LEC Refrigeration Racing and Hesketh Racing, fielding David Purley and James Hunt respectively after both missed the scramble in Sweden.[3] Yet, the March quartet would not arrive in France in the same spec, for Lord Hesketh had decided to develop his car using his own money, tempting Harvey Postlethwaite to quit the factory effort and join the young privateers.[3]
At the Frank Williams Racing Cars run Iso-Marlboro effort the search to find a replacement for Nanni Galli was on, with Henri Pescarolo drafted in to fill the second seat alongside Howden Ganley.[3] Ferrari were back up to their full compliment again, Arturo Merzario getting his car rebuilt in time to rejoin Jacky Ickx, although their hopes were hampered by the outclassed F12 engine in the back.[2] BRM were in a similar position with their V12 powered trio of Clay Regazzoni, Jean-Pierre Beltoise and Niki Lauda, with the F12 Tecno effort failed to materialise as the team fell out with title sponsors Martini.[3]
Completing the field were Shadow, who were able to field their two factory cars for Jackie Oliver and George Follmer as usual, with Graham Hill's car rebuilt in time for the weekend too.[3] Surtees were also at full operating strength, Mike Hailwood and Carlos Pace entered as usual, while team boss John Surtees decided to enter himself in the experimental third car.[3] The final entry on the list was that of Ensign, who finally managed to arrive at Grand Prix with their car, although very little was expected of them and F1 debutante Rikky von Opel.[3]
Another retirement for Fittipaldi had allowed Stewart to close the gap even further in Sweden, although the Scot's late race problem meant that the Brazilian still held a two point advantage at the top of the World Championship standings. Cevert had made ground on the pair of them with another podium finish, but was still fourteen points behind teammate Stewart, while Hulme had overtaken teammate Revson with his Swedish victory. Ronnie Peterson was up to sixth, having leapfrogged the two Ferraris.
The Lotus-Ford Cosworth/Tyrrell-Ford Cosworth battle at the top of the International Cup for Manufacturers' standings had seen the latter's lead cut to two points, both teams looking set to break through the 50 point mark for the opening half of the season. McLaren-Ford Cosworth had secured themselves in third with Hulme's victory in Scandinavia, while Ferrari were finally up to double figures in fourth. Brabham-Ford Cosworth, BRM, Shadow-Ford Cosworth and Tecno completed the scorers.
John Player Team Lotus Lotus 72E Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G
Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC Ferrari 312B3 Ferrari 001/1 3.0 F12 G
Arturo Merzario
Elf Team Tyrrell Tyrrell 006 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G
Yardley Team McLaren McLaren M23 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G
Andrea de Adamich
Ceramica Pagnossin Team MRD Brabham BT37 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G
Motor Racing Developments Ltd. Brabham BT42 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G
Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior
Embassy Racing Shadow DN1 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G
STP March Racing Team March 731 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G
Reine Wisell
Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing March 731 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 F
George Follmer
UOP Shadow Racing Team Shadow DN1 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G
Jackie Oliver
David Purley
LEC Refrigeration Racing March 731 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G
Marlboro BRM BRM P160E BRM P142 3.0 V12 F
Martini Racing Tecno PA123/6 Tecno Series-P 3.0 F12 F
Mike Hailwood
Brooke Bond Oxo Team Surtees Surtees TS14A Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 F
Carlos Pace
Howden Ganley
Frank Williams Racing Cars Iso-Marlboro IR Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 F
Hesketh Racing March 731 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G
Rikky von Opel
Team Ensign Ensign N173 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 F
Practice/qualifying would be divided into three sessions for the French Grand Prix, with a two hour run on Friday afternoon followed by similar length sessions on Saturday morning and early evening.[2] The six hours of practice would allow teams to find a balance between top speed and cornering pace, a crucial decision given the unique layout of the Circuit Paul Ricard and its excessively long back straight.[2] As for target times the "Aces" of 1973 were all expected to beat the qualifying record of 1:50.71, set by Jackie Stewart as he took pole back in 1971. The circuit record stood at a 1:46.40, set in a Can Am car by Mark Donohue.[3]
The first session on Friday saw a lot of experimentation, although it seemed as if Tyrrell had perfected their setup before they even managed to turn a wheel in anger.[2] Indeed, Stewart looked to be in unbeatable form the moment he hit the track, lapping close to his circuit record after just a handful of laps, with teammate François Cevert not too far behind.[2] By the end of the session the Scot was flying, a 1:48.37 registered by the timekeepers handing him provisional pole, although the rest of the field had recorded the #5 car in the 1:49.00s.[2]
Stewart ultimately proved to be the only driver under the 1:49.00 mark, with teammate Cevert second fastest with a 1:49.39.[2] Only Ronnie Peterson and Denny Hulme joined the Frenchman in the 1:49.00s, with everyone else struggling to break the 1:50.00 barrier.[2] Elsewhere there was very little to analyse, despite a day almost completely clear of reliability issues.[2]
Saturday morning saw the track temperature around half of what it had been at the end of Friday, meaning it was difficult for the top drivers to improve.[3] Hulme ended up fastest, three hundredths down on his Friday best, although as that had been set in his spare it would be the Kiwi's 1:49.68 that ended up as his qualifying time.[2] His teammate Jody Scheckter was one of those to improve, climbing into the provisional top five, while Stewart failed to get into the 1:49.00s at all.[3]
Elsewhere there were improvements for Championship leader Emerson Fittipaldi, finding a second overnight, while Carlos Reutemann caused a stir when he put the Brabham on the verge of the 1:49.00s.[3] At the lower end of the field there were mixed results, Shadow seeing their factory cars beaten by the customer effort of Graham Hill.[3] At Surtees, meanwhile, there were murmurs of discontent for Carlos Pace, his car being the first to suffer a major failure in France, with the Brazilian taking over the spare car which John Surtees himself had been entered in, although the Brit ultimately decided against leaving the paddock.[3]
The final session on Saturday afternoon saw temperatures on the rise, with the majority of the field setting late laps to jumble the order.[3] The exceptions to this rule were the Tyrrells who both failed to improve, prompting several teams to protest against Stewart's Friday time, given the disparity between the timekeepers and team results.[2] Yet, there would be no threat to the Scot on the track, despite the best efforts of those behind.[2]
The man to put together the biggest challenge to the Scot was Scheckter, who was now fully up to pace with the race winning McLaren M23.[2] The South African flew round Paul Ricard to record a 1:49.18, taking him to second on the grid just moments after Fittipaldi had taken the spot having finally settled on a setup.[2] It was a lap that could, and most likely should, have put young Scheckter on pole, although the organisers quickly upheld Stewart's time once qualifying was over, leaving the South African sandwiched between two World Champions on the front row at only his third race.[2]
Jackie Stewart Tyrrell-Ford Cosworth 1:48.37 1:50.18 1:50.09 —
Jody Scheckter McLaren-Ford Cosworth 1:50.29 1:49.97 1:49.18 +0.81s
Emerson Fittipaldi Lotus-Ford Cosworth 1:51.00 1:50.09 1:49.36 +0.99s
François Cevert Tyrrell-Ford Cosworth 1:49.39 1:50.93 1:50.62 +1.02s
Ronnie Peterson Lotus-Ford Cosworth 1:49.45 1:50.64 1:49.64 +1.08s
Denny Hulme McLaren-Ford Cosworth 1:49.65T 1:49.68 1:50.08 +1.31s
Jean-Pierre Jarier March-Ford Cosworth 1:51.06 1:51.79 1:50.69 +2.32s
Carlos Reutemann Brabham-Ford Cosworth 1:53.45 1:50.75 1:50.88 +2.38s
Clay Regazzoni BRM 1:53.94 1:50.99 1:52.34 +2.62s
Arturo Merzario Ferrari 1:51.54 1:51.17 1:51.48 +2.80s
Mike Hailwood Surtees-Ford Cosworth 1:53.21 1:53.01 1:51.17 +2.80s
Jacky Ickx Ferrari 1:51.44 1:51.70 1:51.48 +3.07s
Andrea de Adamich Brabham-Ford Cosworth 1:51.53 1:52.21 1:51.65 +3.16s
James Hunt March-Ford Cosworth 1:51.63 1:51.81 1:52.94 +3.26s
Jean-Pierre Beltoise BRM 1:52.66 1:52.67 1:51.67 +3.30s
Graham Hill Shadow-Ford Cosworth 1:53.19 1:52.41 1:51.70 +3.33s
Niki Lauda BRM 1:52.15 1:51.78 1:52.70 +3.41s
Carlos Pace Surtees-Ford Cosworth 1:51.88 1:52.92 1:53.62T +3.51s
Wilson Fittipaldi Brabham-Ford Cosworth 1:52.14 1:52.43 1:52.07 +3.70s
George Follmer Shadow-Ford Cosworth 1:52.30 1:53.42 1:53.59 +3.93s
Jackie Oliver Shadow-Ford Cosworth 1:52.94 1:53.10 1:53.69 +4.57s
Reine Wisell March-Ford Cosworth 1:54.84 1:54.16 1:53.20 +4.83s
Henri Pescarolo Iso-Marlboro-Ford Cosworth 1:53.56 1:55.58 1:55.05 +5.19s
Howden Ganley Iso-Marlboro-Ford Cosworth 1:53.87 1:54.15 1:54.18 +5.50s
Rikky von Opel Ensign-Ford Cosworth 1:56.61 1:55.55 1:55.86 +7.18s
David Purley March-Ford Cosworth Withdrawn
Chris Amon Tecno Withdrawn
John Surtees Surtees-Ford Cosworth Withdrawn
______________ 1
______________ 2 Jackie Stewart
3 Jody Scheckter
5 François Cevert
______________ 7 Denny Hulme
8 Jean-Pierre Jarier
10 Clay Regazzoni
______________ 11
______________ 12 Mike Hailwood
13 Jacky Ickx
15 James Hunt
______________ 17 Graham Hill
18 Niki Lauda
20 Wilson Fittipaldi
______________ 22 Jackie Oliver
23 Reine Wisell
25 Howden Ganley
Raceday dawned bright and warm, with temperatures hitting new heights ahead of the 3:00pm start time, with a huge crowd swarming to the circuit with the promise of free tickets, although a grand stand seat did cost a fair amount.[2] As for the combatants there were no issues during either the warm-up session or parade laps, before forming on the dummy grid.[2] The field then proceeded to pull onto the grid proper for the start, Arturo Merzario being left behind as he struggled to get his Ferrari restarted, although the Italian did manage to get into a position before the starter's flag fluttered.[2]
There were attempts to try and force the starters hand by a few of the drivers, although those who tried would all be caught flatfooted by the young South African on the front row.[2] Indeed, as Carlos Reutemann marginally jumped the start, Jody Scheckter reacted brilliantly to the drop of the starter's flag and shot into the lead, quickly followed by Ronnie Peterson, who took advantage of the abandoned space in the middle of the front row to slot in behind.[2] Jackie Stewart and Denny Hulme followed him through with Emerson Fittipaldi dropping to fifth, while Reutemann checked himself up as the rest pulled away, meaning he slipped behind François Cevert.[2]
Scheckter was putting together a masterful display out front, the McLaren crossing the line to complete the opening lap with a small advantage over second placed Peterson.[2] Indeed the Swede, and the rest of the top five, were simply trying to keep up with the flying South African youth, while Cevert and Reutemann were already fading into the background.[2] They were left to head the rest of the runners across the line, being hounded by Jacky Ickx and Jean-Pierre Jarier, while Jackie Oliver retired at the very back of the field with a gearbox failure.[2]
After the opening bout the order began to settle, with Peterson and co. edging closer and closer to the back of Scheckter, but were unable to make a move.[2] The lead quintet were continuing to move further and further ahead of the rest, with Cevert forming a bottle neck for the rest of the pack.[2] At the very back came Rikky von Opel in the debuting Ensign, which was proving reliable if nothing else, while Jarier became the second retirement of the day with drive shaft failure.[2]
After seventeen laps it seemed as if nothing was going to change out front, with Scheckter not really being challenged by the pack behind, who were all so close in terms of pace that no one could effectively make a move.[2] Then, Hulme disappeared from the quintet, limping into the pits with a puncture, although the Kiwi decided to switch to a harder set, believing the cause of his issue was excessive tyre wear.[2] He would emerge at the back of the leading quartet a lap later, with many missing the fact that he had lost a lap at all.[2]
Three laps later and there was another change, this time coming when Fittipaldi managed to edge his Lotus up the inside of Stewart at the end of the back straight, promoting him to third.[2] A lap later and Peterson moved aside, a mutual Lotus agreement having been made that the Swede would allow Fittipaldi past to attack Scheckter, whom was proving far more resilient than any predicted.[2] Peterson's decision was also particularly dangerous as it should have allowed Stewart to move past too, but the Scot was suffering from a slow a puncture and would limp back to the pits at the end of the lap.[2] The Scot rejoined down in thirteenth in the midst of a rather spaced out field.
By this stage the lead trio were beginning to lap the tail enders, although even that factor was not enough to throw Scheckter, who continued to swat away the attacks of the two Loti behind.[2] Their progress through the backmarkers was also aiding Hulme, who was still glued to the top three after his stop and knew that every time they blasted past a slower car it dragged him up the order.[2] As this was going on an interesting scrap was developing behind them, with Stewart's charge prompting Ickx to push onto the back of Reutemann, those three now battling for the tail end of the points.[2]
Half distance flew past with Scheckter still in the lead, and as the laps ticked past it seemed as if the South African racer was destined for victory.[2] Then, on the 42nd lap the #8 McLaren pilot finally made a mistake, hesitating while attempting to lap the BRM of Jean-Pierre Beltoise.[2] Having caught the Frenchman at the entry to the final corner, Scheckter decided to follow him through at the cost of some pace, prompting Fittipaldi to throw his car up the inside of the pair of them.[2]
Unfortunately the South African was just coming across to the inside of the corner, hoping power out of the corner and take the BRM on the exit, a move which carried him straight into the path of the lunging Brazilian.[2] Fittipaldi's front left duly slammed into the side of Scheckter's cockpit before their wheels interlocked, the latter contact enough to throw the McLaren into the air.[2] Amid a cloud of dust Scheckter crashed back to earth of the curb, an impact that proved terminal for his front suspension mountings, while Fittipaldi skidded to a stop on the exit with a ruined front left corner.[2]
Shooting through the dust cloud would be Hulme, suddenly on the lead lap after the accident, with Peterson right on his tail, the Swede inheriting the lead.[2] Realising this, and with a monumental advantage over the now second placed Cevert, Peterson eased his pace, allowing Hulme to roar off into the distance.[2] Scheckter briefly entertained hopes of catching him before realising that his car was fatally wounded from the accident, with the rather dejected South African racer pulling into the pits at the end of the lap.[2]
With that interest in the lead of the race all but disappeared, although a dispute between Lotus and McLaren in the pitlane quickly descended into name calling and set piece statements, much to the amusement of those not involved.[2] On track the attention instead focused on the developing Reutemann/Ickx/Stewart fight, with the Belgian catching the Argentine, while the Scot closed in on both.[2] As this was going on James Hunt quietly entered the top six, the Brit's March running strong and avoiding the chaos ahead, although Hulme was rapidly closing in on the top ten as the race entered its final throes.[2]
Back with the third place battle and with three laps to go Stewart was on Ickx's tail, sending a his Tyrrell down the inside of the Ferrari into turn one, much to the Belgian's frustration.[2] The move left the Scot right on the tail of Reutemann's Brabham, although the Argentine racer was enjoying himself, despite a self induced spin earlier in the race.[2] Stewart would proceed to throw everything at him as the trio started the final lap, aided by the fact that Ickx had decided to simply wait for an opportunity rather than make one for himself.[2]
Yet, outfront, Peterson was cruising, and duly collected a surprise, and rather anti-climatic maiden victory, forty seconds clear of an equally lonely Cevert.[2] Third place then went to Reutemann, who fended off a late dive by Stewart into the final corner, the Scot falling shy of the podium by just half a second, while Ickx trailed the pair by two seconds.[2] A thirty second wait then followed before a jubilant Hunt crossed the line in the Hesketh Racing March, claiming his first Championship point, with Hulme crossing the line a few moments later in eighth, just behind Merzario.[2]
Niki Lauda was the last of those to finish on the lead lap in ninth, with Graham Hill getting a season best finish of tenth, ahead of the other BRMs of Beltoise and Clay Regazzoni.[2] They were followed by a lowly Carlos Pace, his race having been destroyed by two visits to the pits for fresh tyres, while Howden Ganley had limped his Iso-Marlboro home in fourteenth.[2] Fifteenth went to the joint debutantes von Opel and Ensign, both shocked to finish their maiden race, while Wilson Fittipaldi was classified in sixteenth, despite a late gearbox failure.[2]
Ronnie Peterson Lotus-Ford Cosworth 54 1:41:36.52 5
François Cevert Tyrrell-Ford Cosworth 54 +40.92s 4
Carlos Reutemann Brabham-Ford Cosworth 54 +46.48s 8
Jackie Stewart Tyrrell-Ford Cosworth 54 +46.93s 1
Jacky Ickx Ferrari 54 +48.90s 12
James Hunt March-Ford Cosworth 54 +1:22.54 14
Arturo Merzario Ferrari 54 +1:29.19 10
Denny Hulme McLaren-Ford Cosworth 54 +1:29.53 6
Niki Lauda BRM 54 +1:45.76 17
Graham Hill Shadow-Ford Cosworth 53 +1 Lap 16
Jean-Pierre Beltoise BRM 53 +1 Lap 15
Clay Regazzoni BRM 53 +1 Lap 9
Carlos Pace Surtees-Ford Cosworth 51 +3 Laps 18
Howden Ganley Iso-Marlboro-Ford Cosworth 51 +3 Laps 24
Rikky von Opel Ensign-Ford Cosworth 51 +3 Laps 25
Wilson Fittipaldi Brabham-Ford Cosworth 50 Fuel injection 19
Jody Scheckter McLaren-Ford Cosworth 43 Accident 2
Emerson Fittipaldi Lotus-Ford Cosworth 41 Accident 3
Mike Hailwood Surtees-Ford Cosworth 30 Oil leak 11
Andrea de Adamich Brabham-Ford Cosworth 28 Transmission 13
Reine Wisell March-Ford Cosworth 20 Overheating 22
George Follmer Shadow-Ford Cosworth 16 Fuel leak 20
Henri Pescarolo Iso-Marlboro-Ford Cosworth 16 Overheating 23
Jean-Pierre Jarier March-Ford Cosworth 7 Transmission 7
Jackie Oliver Shadow-Ford Cosworth 0 Clutch 21
David Purley March-Ford Cosworth
Chris Amon Tecno
John Surtees Surtees-Ford Cosworth
* Wilson Fittipaldi was still classified as despite retiring before the final lap.
Debut for Team Ensign as an entrant and constructor.
Rikky von Opel made his Grand Prix debut.
von Opel also became the first (and so far only) World Championship starter from Liechtenstein.
Maiden win for Ronnie Peterson.
Lotus earned their 51st victory as a constructor.
Engine partners Ford Cosworth claimed their 59th win.
Carlos Reutemann claimed a maiden podium finish.
First points finish for James Hunt.
Jackie Stewart moved to the top of the standings with his fourth placed finish, overhauling the fuming Emerson Fittipaldi who had led the Championship since the start of the season. François Cevert continued to cement himself in third ahead of Ronnie Peterson, who climbed ahead of Denny Hulme with his maiden victory. Elsewhere, a sixth place finish put James Hunt on the board after just two races, the Brit becoming the seventeenth scorer of 1973.
Lotus-Ford Cosworth returned to the top of the International Cup for Manufacturers' standings after Peterson's victory, completing the first half of the season with a one point advantage over Tyrrell-Ford Cosworth when dropped scores were applied. McLaren-Ford Cosworth were a lonely third at the halfway stage, the only other team to have tasted victory in 1973, while Ferrari just held onto their advantage over Brabham-Ford Cosworth for fourth. At the foot of the table, meanwhile, Tecno were overhauled by March-Ford Cosworth, courtesy of the former marque's better form throughout the season.
Jackie Stewart 42 ▲1
Emerson Fittipaldi 41 ▼1
François Cevert 31 —
Ronnie Peterson 19 ▲2
Denny Hulme 19 ▼1
Peter Revson 11 ▼1
Jacky Ickx 8 ▲1
Carlos Reutemann 7 ▲2
Arturo Merzario 6 ▼2
George Follmer 5 ▼1
Andrea de Adamich 3 —
Jean-Pierre Beltoise 2 —
Niki Lauda 2 —
Clay Regazzoni 1 —
Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior 1 —
Chris Amon 1 —
James Hunt 1 ▲1
International Cup for Manufacturers
Lotus-Ford Cosworth 52 (56) ▲1
Tyrrell-Ford Cosworth 51 (55) ▼1
McLaren-Ford Cosworth 26 —
Brabham-Ford Cosworth 11 —
Shadow-Ford Cosworth 5 —
BRM 5 —
March-Ford Cosworth 1 ▲1
Tecno 1 ▼1
↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 'GRAND PRIX RESULTS: FRENCH GP, 1973', grandprix.com, (Inside F1 Inc., 2016), http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr228.html, (Accessed 03/03/2017)
↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 2.39 2.40 2.41 2.42 2.43 2.44 2.45 2.46 2.47 2.48 2.49 2.50 2.51 2.52 2.53 2.54 2.55 2.56 2.57 2.58 2.59 2.60 2.61 2.62 2.63 2.64 2.65 2.66 D.S.J., 'The Grand Prix of France: A shake-up for Formula One', motorsportmagazine.com, (Motor Sport, 01/08/1973), http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/august-1973/35/grand-prix-france, (Accessed 03/03/2017)
↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 '8: La France - 1973', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), http://www.statsf1.com/en/1973/france.aspx, (Accessed 03/03/2017)
↑ 'France 1973: Entrants', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), http://www.statsf1.com/en/1973/france/engages.aspx, (Accessed 03/03/2017)
↑ 'France 1973: Qualifications', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), http://www.statsf1.com/en/1973/france/qualification.aspx, (Accessed 04/03/2017)
↑ 'France 1973: Results', statsf1.com, (Stats F1, 2016), http://www.statsf1.com/en/1973/france/classement.aspx, (Accessed 05/03/2017)
Brabham • BRM • Ensign • Ferrari • Iso-Marlboro • Lotus • March • McLaren • Shadow • Surtees • Tecno • Tyrrell
BRM • Ferrari • Ford Cosworth • Tecno
de Adamich • Amon • Belsø • Beltoise • Beuttler • Bueno • Cevert • Charlton • E. Fittipaldi • W. Fittipaldi • Follmer • Galli • Ganley • Gethin • Hailwood • Hill • Hulme • Hunt • Ickx • Jarier • Keizan • Lauda • van Lennep • Mass • McRae • Merzario • Oliver • von Opel • Pace • Pescarolo • Peterson • Pretorius • Purley • Redman • Regazzoni • Reutemann • Revson • J. Scheckter • Schenken • Stewart • Stommelen • Watson • Williamson • Wisell
Brabham BT37 • Brabham BT42 • BRM P160C • BRM P160D • BRM P160E • Ensign N173 • Ferrari 312B3 • Iso-Marlboro FX3B • Iso-Marlboro IR • Lotus 72D • Lotus 72E • March 721G • March 731 • McLaren M19A • McLaren M19C • McLaren M23 • Shadow DN1 • Surtees TS9B • Surtees TS14A • Tecno PA123 • Tyrrell 004 • Tyrrell 005 • Tyrrell 006
Firestone • Goodyear
Argentina • Brazil • South Africa • Spain • Belgium • Monaco • Sweden • France • Britain • Netherlands • Germany • Austria • Italy • Canada • United States
Race of Champions • International Trophy
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Township of Shamong, NJ
Ch 7 Cemetery Advisory Board
Ch 8 Claims, Approval of
Ch 11 Court, Municipal
Ch 21 Fire Companies, Volunteer
Ch 28 Interest Retained for Administrative Expenses
Ch 31 Length of Service Awards Program
Ch 38 Political Fund-Raising
Ch 42 Retirement
Ch 58 Background Checks
Ch 60 Brush, Weeds and Debris
Ch 63 Buildings, Numbering of; Naming of Streets
Ch 65 Cemetery
Ch 68 Certificate of Conformity
Ch 71 Construction Codes, Uniform
Ch 73 Contracts
Ch 83 Drug-Free School Zones
Ch 87 Fire
Ch 98 Genetically Engineered Microorganisms
Ch 100 Grading and Drainage
Ch 110 Land Development
Ch 112 Landfills
Ch 120 Mobile Home Parks
Ch 128 Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Areas
Ch 134 Portable Home Storage Units
Ch 135 Postretirement Health-Care Benefits
Ch 137 Property, Vacant and Abandoned
Ch 138 Sex Offender Residency Restrictions
Ch 140 Soil Removal
Ch 144 Special Events
Ch 150 Swimming Pools
§ 150-1 Title.
§ 150-2 Definitions.
§ 150-3 Private swimming pool permits.
§ 150-4 Construction and maintenance.
§ 150-5 Enclosure of swimming pools.
§ 150-6 Lighting.
§ 150-7 Location.
§ 150-8 Abatement of nuisances; accessory buildings.
§ 150-9 Enforcement; inspection.
§ 150-10 Violations and penalties.
Ch 152 Tax Abatements
Part III, Board of Health Legislation
Ch 169 General Provisions, Board of Health
Ch 175 Food Establishments, Retail
Ch 183 Nuisances, Public Health
Ch 190 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual Subsurface
Township of Shamong, NJ / Part II, General Legislation
Chapter 150 Swimming Pools
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Shamong 7-2-1974 by Ord. No. 1974-5. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Uniform construction codes — See Ch. 71.
Land development — See Ch. 110.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Swimming Pool Ordinance of the Township of Shamong."
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein:
PERMANENT SWIMMING POOL
Any private swimming pool which remains in a particular location at times other than during the calendar months between May 1 and October 1, whether or not disassembly or movement of such pool is feasible or possible.
PORTABLE SWIMMING POOL
Any private swimming pool of a type entirely above ground surface with a capacity not exceeding a depth of two feet, not stationary or fixed and capable of being moved or removed for storage at will.
Includes any body of water in an artificial receptacle or other container, whether located indoors or outdoors, designed to be used, intended to be used or in fact utilized for swimming purposes by an individual for use by his household and guests without fees. Further, it shall mean and include flow-through and recirculation pools which are artificially constructed to provide recreational facilities for swimming, bathing or wading and all buildings, equipment and appurtenances thereto, but does not include natural lakes, rivers or ponds.
TEMPORARY SWIMMING POOL
A private swimming pool which is removed from the area in which it is used or available for use and stored for a period not less than six months during each year.
Application for permits for the installation, construction, placement or maintenance of any private swimming pool other than a portable swimming pool shall be made to the Construction Code Official by the owner of the property on which it is to be constructed or by the contractor who will construct the same. The application shall be accompanied by duplicate sets of plans, specifications and plot plans of the property. The plot plan shall show the accurate location of the proposed pool on the property, together with any proposed accessory buildings. The plot plan shall also show the location height and type of all existing fencing or walks on the boundary lines of the property, together with the height and type of fencing or enclosure as may be required by this chapter.
Permit fees. A permit fee shall be paid to the Township for the permit to erect any private swimming pool other than a portable swimming pool, which permit fee shall be exclusive of any permit fee required for the construction of any accessory structure to be used in connection with such swimming pool, in the following amounts:
Permanent swimming pool:
Cost of Pool
Temporary swimming pool: All fees shall be $10.
No permit for a private swimming pool shall be issued by the Construction Code Official until the plans, specifications and plot plan have been reviewed by the Zoning Officer and the Plumbing Inspector.
Swimming pool walls and floors shall be constructed of any impervious material which will provide a tight tank with light-colored finish and easily cleaned surfaces.
Private swimming pools shall be designed to withstand water pressure from within and to resist the pressure of the earth when the pool is empty to a pressure of 2,200 pounds per square foot.
Pools shall be so designed and constructed as to facilitate emptying and cleaning and shall be maintained and operated in such a manner as to be clean and sanitary at any time when any such pool shall be in use or at such times as the same shall be subject to use. Sand or earth bottoms shall not be used.
There shall be no physical connection between a potable water supply system and any private swimming pool, below the maximum water line of the pool or to a recirculating or heating system of a pool. The piping system shall be designed to circulate the pool water through filtering equipment.
The installation, repair and control of plumbing facilities shall comply with the Plumbing Code of the Township.[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 186, Plumbing.
Private swimming pools with a water depth of more than two feet hereinafter constructed or installed within the Township shall be provided with the necessary equipment to completely pump out or empty the pool or shall be emptied by providing one drainage outlet, to be installed at the lowest point of the pool, not in excess of three inches in diameter extending from the pool to either a storm sewer, storm sewer catch basin, lawn watering system, adequate dry well or sand filtering pit on the premises on which the pool is located. Discharge of water from such pool into a storm sewer shall be permitted only where the capacity, as determined by the Township Engineer, is adequate to accept said discharge. Pool water may not be discharged at the curb or on the surface of any street.
In each permanent or temporary swimming pool at least one skimming device shall be provided for each 800 square feet of surface area or fraction thereof, which skimming device shall adequately remove floated oils and waste, and be supplied with an easily removable and cleanable basket or screen through which overflow water must pass to trap large solids.
Recirculation system for permanent and temporary swimming pools.
The swimming pools' recirculation systems shall consist of pumping equipment, hair and lint catcher, filters, together with the necessary pipe connections to the pool inlets and outlets, facilities and pipe connections necessary for backwashing filters, and facilities and equipment for disinfecting the pool water.
The recirculating system shall have an hourly capacity equal to the pool volume divided by eight.
The pump used for back-washing filters shall have sufficient capacity to provide a filter backwash rate of at least 12 gallons per minute per square foot of filter area.
All permanent or temporary swimming pools shall be provided with equipment for the disinfection of all pool water. Any disinfection method using materials other than chlorine compounds shall be subject to the approval of the Construction Code Official. Disinfection equipment installed for the use of chlorine compounds shall have sufficient capacity to maintain a minimum free chlorine residual of 0.5 part per million. The disinfectant shall be introduced into the recirculation system ahead of the filters. The Board of Health is hereby authorized to take samples to insure compliance with these requirements.
All private swimming pools now existing or hereafter constructed, with the exception of portable swimming pools, shall be completely and continuously surrounded by a permanent durable wall, fence or other structure not less than four feet nor more than six feet in height, above grade, with no opening, mesh, hole or gap larger than four inches in any dimension, except for doors or gates, which doors or gates shall be equipped with a self-closing and self-latching device for keeping such door or gate closed at all times when not in actual use.
All doors or gates shall be of such size as to completely fill any opening in the fence or wall and shall conform to the specifications above as to height and dimension of opening of holes or gaps. The owner or person in possession of the premises upon which such swimming pool exists shall keep such door closed and securely latched at all times when such pool is not in use.
No fence or other structure shall be required of a private swimming pool extending four or more feet above grade, provided that the stairs or other means of access to the pool is effectively closed with a gate as provided above, which shall be closed and securely latched at all times when such pool is not in use.
Portable pools (wading pools) shall be enclosed by a durable wall or fence as described above unless one of the following regulations is carried out:
The pool is emptied when not in use or unattended.
The pool is covered with a suitable, strong protective covering, securely fastened or locked in place when not in use or unattended. A cover shall be considered to be of sufficient strength and securely fastened or locked in place if, when fastened or locked in place, it will support a minimum dead weight of 100 pounds.
Lighting used to illuminate any private swimming pool shall be so arranged and shaded as to reflect light away from adjoining premises. No unshaded lighting shall be permitted, nor shall any lighting be so arranged as to be a nuisance or any annoyance to neighboring properties.
No permanent or temporary swimming pool or accessory building shall be erected or placed nearer to a street property line or nearer to a side or rear property line than would be allowed for auxiliary buildings in the various zoning districts of the Township.
Any nuisance which may exist or develop in or in consequence of or in connection with any private swimming pool shall be abated and/or removed by the owners, as the case may be.
Any accessory buildings such as bath houses, shower rooms, locker rooms, runways or other physical facilities or equipment incident to the maintenance and operation of any of the above described shall be in conformance with the rules, regulations and ordinances of the Township Committee and the Board of Health.
It shall be the duty of the Construction Code Official and the Secretary of the Board of Health to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
The owner or operator of any private swimming pool within the Township shall allow the Construction Code Official or the Secretary of the Board of Health or their agents access to any private swimming pool and appurtenances thereto for the purpose of inspection to ascertain compliance with this chapter and all other pertinent Township ordinances at all reasonable times.
[Amended 5-6-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-005]
Any person, firm, corporation, association or legal party whatsoever who or which shall violate, or authorize or procure a violation, or cause to be violated, any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article II, General Penalty, § 1-15, governing general penalty provisions.
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Article I Noise Prohibition Generally
The following acts, among others, are declared to be prima facie evidence of a violation of this chapter and declared to be unnecessary noises prohibited herein, and any lists or enumerations herein shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
The distinct and full sounding of any horn or signal instrument on any automobile, bus, boat, recreational vehicle, other device or vehicle except as a warning of danger or distress.
The operation of any audio device which produces sound, or use of any musical instrument or drum(s) in such manner or with such volume so as to disturb, as provided herein, due to structure-borne sound transmission from an individual abutting dwelling space, particularly between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., and all available precautions are taken to prevent airborne sound transmission from an individual abutting dwelling space.
The keeping of any animal or bird in such manner as to cause frequent or long continued noise which shall disturb, as provided herein, Chapter 101, Animals, of the Town Code, notwithstanding.
The operating of heavy equipment (i.e., tractor, bulldozer) for the purpose of erection, excavation, demolition and alteration or repairs involved in any building or construction project other than between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except in case of urgent necessity in the interest of public safety, and then only with a special permit from the Building Department, which permit may be renewed for a period of three days or less while the emergency continues; and/or subject to the undue hardship provisions under Article III, § 230-5.
Manual labor and the customary use of hand tools, in excess of 50 dB(A), for the purpose of erection, excavation, demolition and major alteration and repairs involved in any building or construction project other than between the period of sunrise to sunset, and then only subject to a building permit.
The operation of equipment with noise emission that affects the outdoor atmosphere, (i.e., generator, fan, pump) exceeding the dB(A) tables in Article II (including impact noises as from a business or commercial establishment), except when operated at the equipment manufacturer's approved efficiency and sound level, and operated with necessary noise-suppression equipment, sound barriers, sound-absorbing screens and devices commensurate with the state of the art as may be determined and recommended by an officially accepted sound engineering consultant:
Noise emission increase of existing equipment that affects the outdoor atmosphere and/or new or additional units of equipment that may substantially increase the sound level, except when properly evaluated for overall noise control and special permission of the Town Board.
Impact-discharge noise from firearms, except as provided in Chapter 148, Firearms, of the Town Code.
The operation of any machinery or equipment in such continuous manner as to create noise levels exceeding those under § 230-3, Table 2, of this chapter.
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Washington Kastles will play home matches on rooftop at Union Market this summer
Washington Post, April 2019 | The rooftop stadium will host the Kastles' 2019 seasonUnion Market DistrictRead More ›
As Published in the Washington Post | April 12, 2019
After five seasons of indoor tennis at George Washington’s Smith Center, the Washington Kastles are heading back outside. The six-time World Team Tennis champions are migrating again for the upcoming season, this time to the roof of Union Market.
EDENS, the company that owns and developed Union Market, is constructing a specially designed rooftop venue to host seven home matches from July 15 to 27. The stadium’s 700-seat capacity is a downsize for the Kastles — who played in venues with capacities ranging from 2,200 to 3,500 in previous seasons — but it will retain luxury seating options, including VIP dinner tables and courtside boxes.
The benefits of the smaller locale, Kastles owner Mark Ein said, lie in the fan experience. Spectators will be able to drink and dine at Union Market’s food vendors downstairs, and fans will sit closer to the action than they did at Smith Center.
“The biggest downside of doing it here is how many fewer people that are going to be able to come, but I think for the people who are here, it’s going to be electric because it’s just going to be that intimate,” Ein said at a news conference Friday. “Literally, the last row, I think, is eight rows away from Venus Williams and Nick Kyrgios.”
The Union Market venue will be the Kastles’ fourth home since their inaugural season in 2008. The team played its first three seasons where the former Washington Convention Center stood, then moved in 2011 to a temporary home on the southwest waterfront before redevelopment of the Wharf began in earnest. Since 2014, the Kastles have played indoors at Smith Center.
Ein said the Kastles are hoping to make Union Market their home for the foreseeable future.
“We think this is our new home, we’re putting a reasonably big investment to make this work, and the hope is that we’re going to be able to be here for a long time,” Ein said. “We think it’s a sports venue unlike anything anyone’s seen anywhere in the world, and we want to come back here year after year . . . [The contract] is on a year-by-year basis with the intention that it’s long term. There’s a clear mutual intention that it’ll be long term.”
In addition to constructing what EDENS CEO Jodie McLean calls a “pop-up stadium” during the World Team Tennis season, Edens is awaiting zoning commission approval to turn the Union Market building rooftop into a year-round park and entertainment venue with food and beverage options as well as an array of community programming.
Also new for WTT this year is a multiyear TV deal that will see 15 matches across the league broadcast on CBS Sports Network, including some Kastles matches.
Washington brings an exciting lineup to the new venue this season: Australian Open quarterfinalist and area native Frances Tiafoe will play in the stadium’s inaugural matches with a three-match homestand starting July 15, and former world No. 1 Williams returns to the team July 25. Former world No. 13 Kyrgios is also set to play, as are reigning Citi Open doubles champion Bruno Soares and rising star Yoshihito Nishioka.
Read more about Washington Kastles at Union Market:
| Venus Williams Will Play Tennis on the Roof of Union Market This Summer
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| DC loves rooftops so much, its putting a new tennis stadium on one
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American recording artist; rock-and-roll guitarist, singer, songwriter
Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old.
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (18 October 1926 – 18 March 2017) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, and a pioneer of rock and roll music.
1.1 Song lyrics
2 Quotes about Chuck Berry
You know, my temperature's risin'
and the jukebox blows a fuse
My heart's beatin' rhythm
and my soul keeps on singin' the blues
Roll Over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news
We was reelin' and a rockin'
Rollin' till the break of dawn
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying "Johnny B. Goode tonight."
Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee
Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me
Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low
All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow
No particular place to go,
So we parked way out on the Kokomo
Chuck Berry is the greatest of the rock and rollers. ~ Robert Christgau
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry. ~ John Lennon
I wanted to write about school because most of my audience at the particular time was of a school element.
Introducing "School Days" on The History of Rock and Roll, (1978), Hour 1: "The Birth of Rock & Roll"
You can smell my fart!
Pissing on you, that's what I'm doing, pissing all over you!
Drink my piss!
Dry yourself off, clean yourself off!
You drank my piss!
Did I piss in your eyes? I'm sorry!
Piss all over your neck!
Baby, I can't kiss you, your face smells like piss!
Clean yourself off, take a shower!
Give my ass a little kiss, kiss it!
Did I fart in your face? I like to do that!
Song lyricsEdit
Baby I'm gonna see that you be back home in thirty days
Gonna put a false charge again ya
That'll be the very thing that'll send ya
I'm gonna see that you be back home in thirty=-= days
"Thirty Days" (1955)
As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a Coup de Ville
A Cadillac arollin' on the open road
Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford
The Cadillac doin' about ninety-five
She's bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side
"Maybellene" (1955); this song was also credited by the record company to other "co-composers", in what has been generally accepted as a form of "payola".
"Roll Over Beethoven" (1956) · Live performance
Workin' in the fillin' station - too many tasks.
Wipe the windows - check the tires - check the oil - dollar gas!
Too much monkey business. Too much monkey business.
Don't want your botheration, get away, leave me!
Too much monkey business for me!
"Too Much Monkey Business" (1956)
I bought a brand-new air-mobile
It custom-made, 'twas a Flight De Ville
With a pow'ful motor and some hideaway wings
Push in on the button and you can hear her sing
Now you can't catch me, baby you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close, you know I'm gone like a cool breeze
"You Can't Catch Me" (1956)
Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold.
Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.
"School Days" (1957), Pop Chronicles Show 6 - Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway. Part 2
Me still alone, me sip on the rum
Me wonder when the boat she come
To bring me love, oh sweet little thing
She rock 'n' roll, she dance and sing
She hold me tight, she touch me lips
Me eyes they close, me heart she flip
Havana moon, Havana moon
"Havana Moon" (1957)
Baby doll!
When bells ring out the summer free
Oh baby doll!
Will it end for you and me?
We'll sing our old Alma Mater
And think of things that used to be
"Oh Baby Doll" (1957)
Way down South they gave a jubilee
Them Georgia folks they had a jamboree
They’re drinking home brew from a wooden cup
The folks dancing there got all shook up.
"Rock and Roll Music" (1957)
Hey, the band was rockin'
Goin' around and around
Well, reelin' and a rockin'
What a crazy sound
Well, they never stopped rockin'
Till the moon went down
"Around and Around" (1957)
Milo Venus was a beautiful lass,
She had the world in the palm of her hand.
But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match,
To get a brown eyed handsome man.
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (1958), Pop Chronicles Show 5 - Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway. Part 1.
Well I looked at my watch, it was 9:54
I said, "Dance ballerina girl, go go go!"
And we rolled, reelin' and a rockin'
"Reelin' and Rockin"' (1958)
She’s got the grownup blues
Tight dresses and lipstick
She’s sportin’ high-heeled shoes
Oh but tomorrow morning
She’ll have to change her trend
And be sweet sixteen
And back in class again.
"Sweet Little Sixteen" (1958)
Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell.
Go, go,
Go, Johnny go...
"Johnny B. Goode" (1958) · Live performance (1958)
His mother told him, "Someday you will be a man,
And you will be the leader of a big old band.
Many people coming from miles around
To hear you play your music when the sun go down.
Saying 'Johnny B. Goode tonight'."
"Johnny B. Goode" (1958)
Oh Carol, don't let him steal your heart away
I'm gonna learn to dance if it takes me all night and day
"Carol" (1958)
Just like a bolt of thunder and a streak of heat
Leo covered Jo Jo with all four feet
Jo Jo was screamin' with tears in his eyes
Said," Please Mr. Leo, I apologize"
"Joe Joe Gun" (1958)( aka "Jo Jo Gunne") *traditional, new lyrics by Chuck Berry
Beautiful Delilah, dressed in the latest style
Swingin' like a pendulum, walkin' down the aisle
Deep romantic eyes, speak so low in miles
Maybe she will settle down and marry after a while
"Beautiful Delilah" (1958)
Sweet little rock and roller, sweet little rock and roller
Her daddy don’t have to scold her, her mother can’t hardly hold her
She never gets any older, sweet little rock and roller
"Sweet Little Rock and Roller" (1958)
She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call
'Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall
"Memphis, Tennessee" (1959)( aka "Memphis")
Tell me who's the queen standin' over by the record machine
Lookin' like a model on the cover of the magazine
She's too cute to be a minute over seventeen
Mean while I was still thinkin'
If it's a slow song we'll omit it
If it's a rocker, that we'll get it
And if it's good, she'll admit it
C'mon Queenie, let's get with it
"Little Queenie" (1959)
Yeah 'n' I'm doin' all right in school.
They ain't said I broke no rule.
I ain't never been in Dutch.
I don't browse around too much
Don't bother me leave me alone
Anyway I'm almost grown
"Almost Grown" (1959)
Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway?
From the coast of California to the shores of The Delaware Bay
You can bet your life I did, till I got back in the U.S.A.
"Back in the U.S.A." (1959)
Sitting in a teepee built right on the tracks
Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back
Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about
We've got an off-schedule train comin' two miles out
"Let It Rock" (1960)
She remembered taking money out from gathering crop
And buying Johnnys guitar at the broker shop
As long as he would play it by the railroad side
And wouldn't get in trouble, he was satisfied
But never thought that there would come a day like this
When she would have to give her son a goodbye kiss
Going bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye Johnny
Bye, bye Johnny B. Goode
"Bye Bye Johnny" (1960)
Thunderbird saw the Jaguar gainin' speed
And waved "Goodbye, Jaguar" and pulled in the lead
Jaguar said, "You ain't won the race yet"
And pulled back around the Bird like a sabre jet
Sheriff's front bumper was a yard behind
When the T-Bird, Jaguar crossed the line
"Jaguar and Thunderbird" (1960)
Let me tell you 'bout a girl I know
I met her walkin' down a uptown street
She's so fine you know I wished she was mine
I get shook up every time we meet
"I'm Talking About You" (1961)
So come on, I wanna see you baby, come on
I don't mean maybe, come on
I'm tryin' to make you see
That I belong to you and you belong to me
"Come On" (1961)
Nadine, honey is that you?
Oh, Nadine, honey is that you?
Seems like every time I see you
Darling, you got something else to do
"Nadine (Is It You?)" (1964)
The little girl's creative, a repertoire that rings,
And Hollywood is waiting, to see the way she swings.
She'll be graduating, goin' on to higher things,
The little girl from Central is gonna take on wings.
"Little Girl from Central" (1964)
The night was young and the moon was bold
So we both decided to take a stroll
Can you imagine the way I felt?
I couldn't unfasten her safety belt!
"No Particular Place to Go" (1964)
They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast
Seven hundred little records,
all rock, rhythm and jazz
But when the sun went down,
"C'est la vie", say the old folks,
"You Never Can Tell" (1964)
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia
Tidewater four ten o nine
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line
"Promised Land" (1964)
Well Dad, send the money,
See what I can see,
Try to find a Cadillac,
A Sixty-two or three.
Just something that won't worry us
To keep it on the road.
Sincerely, your beloved son,
Henry Junior Ford
"Dear Dad" (1965)
So let me be your driver, let me be your driver
I would love to ride you, I would love to ride you downtown
Drive you so slow and easy you won't wanna put me down
"I Want to Be Your Driver" (1965)
Tulane and Johnny opened a novelty shop
Back under the counter was the cream of the crop
Everything was clickin’ and the business was good
Till one day, lo and behold, an officer stood
Johnny jumped the counter but he stumbled and fell
But Tulane made it over Johnny just as he yelled
Go head on, Tulane, he can’t catch up with you
Go Tulane, he ain’t man enough for you
Go Tulane, use all the speed you got
Go Tulane, you know you need a lot
Go Tulane, he’s laggin’ behind
Go head on, Tulane
"Tulane" (1970)
Ow! Have mercy on my little Tulane
She's too alive to try to live alone
And I know her needs
And although she loves me
She's gonna try to make it
While the poor boy's gone
Somebody should tell her to live
And I'll understand it
And even love her more
When I come back home
"Have Mercy Judge" (1970)
Can’t help it, but I love it
Stand here, sing to you
Brings back so many memories
Many things we used to do
‘Till I see you here again
Take care, good luck to you
"Bio" (1973)
Soon I'll be with you watching your sunset in the evening
Movies and show plays, beaches and free ways
California, from my home I'll be leaving
"California" (1979)
I was looking for joy
Yes, yes, yes, yes
When I was little bitty boy
If I would have known what makes a world go 'round
I would have known what goes up must come down
If you love me like I love you
Mademoiselle, je vous aime, voulez-vous?
"Big Boys" (2017)
I feel good, like it's party time, don't you know
And it blew my mind when she smiled and said hello
But it broke my heart when she told me it's time to go
"Wonderful Woman" (2017)
She followed him around where he played his guitar
Till he got so popular they made him a star
Then she could only see him on a TV screen
And hoped someday that he'd come back to New Orleans
Everybody liked her and was knocking on wood
But soon there came a baby for Lady B. Goode
"Lady B. Goode" (2017)
Quotes about Chuck BerryEdit
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I learned more from Chuck Berry about America than I could have from the U.S. Information Service in London.
Eric Burdon, Pop Chronicles Show 5 - Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway. Part 1, interview recorded 11.20.1967
Chuck Berry is the greatest of the rock and rollers. Elvis competes with Frank Sinatra, Little Richard camps his way to self-negation, Fats Domino looks old, and Jerry Lee Lewis looks down his noble honker at all those who refuse to understand that Jerry Lee has chosen to become a great country singer.
Robert Christgau, in "Chuck Berry" in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll (1976) edited by Jim Miller
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.
John Lennon, on The Mike Douglas Show in 1972; also quoted in John Lennon: In His Own Words (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 107
Send more Chuck Berry.
Steve Martin's character, a psychic named Cocuwa, predicting that the cover of Time Magazine for the upcoming week will show these four words, which supposedly had been sent to Earth the week before from extraterrestrials, after they had listened to a Voyager Golden Record, in a Saturday Night Live segment ("Next Week in Review") in episode 64, during the show's third season.
While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together.
"Today in Rock: Chuck Berry is Born (October 18)" at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, RockHall.com
In his 1958 masterpiece “Johnny B. Goode,” Berry created the ultimate rock-and-roll folk hero in just a few snappy verses. As we all know, Goode wasn’t pounding a piano, singing into a microphone, or blowing a sax. In his choice of the electric guitar, something sleek and of the moment, the fictional character of Goode would forge an image of the archetypal rocker, doing as much to shape the history of the instrument as any real-life figure ever has. The song’s opening riff is a clarion call — perhaps the greatest intro in rock-and-roll history. It was played by Berry on an electric Gibson ES-350T, and it indeed sounded “just like a-ringin’ a bell.”
Brad Tolinski and Alan Di Perna, in Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound & Revolution of the Electric Guitar (2016); also excerpted in "How Chuck Berry Wrote “Johnny B. Goode” and Created the First Rock and Roll Guitar Hero" in Guitar World (18 March 2017)
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1864?–1943, American agricultural chemist, b. Diamond, Mo., grad. Iowa State College (now Iowa State Univ.; B.S., 1894; M.A. 1896). Born a slave, he later, as a free man, earned his college degree. In 1896 he joined the staff of Tuskegee Institute as director of the department of agricultural research, retaining that post the rest of his life. His work won him international repute. Carver's efforts to improve the economy of the South (he dedicated himself especially to bettering the position of African Americans) included the teaching of soil improvement and of diversification of crops. He discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut, the sweet potato, and the soybean and thus stimulated the culture of these crops. He devised many products from cotton waste and extracted blue, purple, and red pigments from local clay. From 1935 he was a collaborator of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Carver contributed his life savings to a foundation for research at Tuskegee. In 1953 his birthplace was made a national monument.
See biographies by R. Holt (rev. ed. 1966) and L. Elliott (1966).
(c. 1861–1943) agricultural chemist, educator, botanist; born near Diamond Grove, Mo. Born to slave parents, he began his education at age 14 and earned a B.S. and M.S. in agriculture (1894, 1896) from Iowa State College. He directed the agricultural research department at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama (1896–1943), teaching and pioneering an extension program of "movable schools" to train black farmers in agriculture and home economics. Aiming to revitalize and conserve depleted soil, Carver influenced the southern shift from single-crop to diversified agriculture by developing hundreds of products made from peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other crops, many of them commercially viable. He developed a hybrid cotton and was a noted collector of fungi. Working with severely limited resources outside the white scientific establishment, Carver published little more than his 44 Tuskegee Experiment Station bulletins (1898–1942) and, wishing his work to be widely available, obtained only three patents; nevertheless he became a researcher of international stature. He chose not to challenge the system of segregation that existed during his lifetime, but he became one of the chief models of what African-Americans could accomplish.
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Meet the "Peanut Scientist," George Washington Carver, the inventor and professor who made over 325 products out of peanuts.
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Perhaps chief among these was one of the few genuine antecedents of the modern ecological agriculture movement: George Washington Carver, the Tuskegee scientist, whose emergence in the 1920s as the iconic Peanut Man obscures his earlier agricultural and environmental thought.
The new environmental politics and its antecedents: lessons from the early twentieth century South
In the spirit of George Washington Carver, who turned peanuts into a major crop, Jay and I are on a mission to turn duckweed into a new industrial crop, providing an innovative approach to alternative fuel production."
Tiny super-plant can clean up hog farms and be used for ethanol production
George Washington Carver. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2008.41 pp.
Famous African American scientists: recommended books for young people
A man for all seasons: The life of George Washington Carver. Stephen Krensky.
Perhaps no work more famously exemplifies this tactic than Colescott's oft-reproduced George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook, 1975.
Truth to power: Huey Copeland on Robert Colescott (1925-2009)
ENERGY RESOURCE-23 March 2009-BIO Opens Nominations for Annual George Washington Carver Award(C)2009 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com
BIO Opens Nominations for Annual George Washington Carver Award
Project: HVAC Renovation at George Washington Carver Elementary School No.
At that point, most representation of blacks in history books was only in reference to the low social position they held as slaves and their descendants, with the exception of George Washington Carver.
A wheelchair view of diversity
Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, George Washington Carver Center, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, Maryland 20705.
High-tech cowboys
A sampling of names ranges from the less familiar, such as Beulah Louise Henry, known as Lady Edison, to such giants as Niels Bohr, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Peter Cooper Hewitt, Ben Moreell, and George Washington Carver, to name but a few.
A Biographical Dictionary of People in Engineering: From Earliest Records Until 2000
Many people today know George Washington Carver (1861-1943) largely from the myths that have grown around him.
George Washington Carver: a mighty vision beyond peanuts: "we are the architects of our own fortune and the hewers out of our own destiny."
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housefly,
common name of the flyfly,
name commonly used for any of a variety of winged insects, but properly restricted to members of the order Diptera, the true flies, which includes the housefly, gnat, midge, mosquito, and tsetse fly.
..... Click the link for more information. Musca domestica, found in most parts of the world. The housefly, a scavenger, does not bite living animals but is dangerous because it carries bacteria and protozoans that cause many serious diseases, e.g., typhoid fevertyphoid fever
acute, generalized infection caused by Salmonella typhi. The main sources of infection are contaminated water or milk and, especially in urban communities, food handlers who are carriers.
..... Click the link for more information. , choleracholera
or Asiatic cholera,
acute infectious disease caused by strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae that have been infected by bacteriophages. The bacteria, which are found in fecal-contaminated food and water and in raw or undercooked seafood, produce a
..... Click the link for more information. , and dysenterydysentery
, inflammation of the intestine characterized by the frequent passage of feces, usually with blood and mucus. The two most common causes of dysentery are infection with a bacillus (see bacteria) of the Shigella group, and infestation by an ameba,
..... Click the link for more information. . The housefly feeds by depositing a drop of digestive liquid on its food, which may be garbage, dead animals, excrement, or other filth. Although most of the liquid drop is sucked back again through the insect's tubelike lower lip, or labium, a residue remains that may contain disease-causing organisms from previous meals. Disease is also transmitted on the fly's sticky foot pads and hairy body. Each female lays from 100 to 200 eggs in the garbage or manure on which the white larvae feed. With favorable temperatures, one generation or more per month may be produced. Metamorphosismetamorphosis
[Gr.,=transformation], in zoology, term used to describe a form of development from egg to adult in which there is a series of distinct stages. Many insects, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, and fishes undergo metamorphosis, which may involve a change in habitat,
..... Click the link for more information. is complete, i.e., development is in four stages. The housefly is classified in the phylum ArthropodaArthropoda
[Gr.,=jointed feet], largest and most diverse animal phylum. The arthropods include crustaceans, insects, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, scorpions, and the extinct trilobites.
..... Click the link for more information. , class Insecta, order Diptera, family Muscidae. For methods of control see bulletins of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
(Musca domestica), an insect of the family Muscidae. The body length is 6–8 mm. There are two forms, or subspecies. The subspecies Musca domestica domestica is distributed in temperate zones throughout the world. In the USSR it is found primarily in the steppe, forest-steppe, and forest zones. The subspecies Musca domestica vicina is distributed in the southern latitudes of the temperate zone, the subtropics, and the tropics. In the USSR it is found in Transcaucasia, Middle Asia, and Southern Primor’e.
At one laying a female deposits an average of 120 eggs, each measuring 1–1.2 mm long; in its lifetime it lays 900 eggs. The egg develops in eight to 50 hours. The larvae, which measure up to 13 mm long and are white, develop for three to 25 days and then metamorphose into a pupa, forming a puparium. The pupal phase lasts from three days to several months (when there is overwintering). In temperate latitudes the housefly may produce up to nine generations each year; in the subtropics and tropics, up to 15 generations. It winters in the larval or pupal phases; fertilized females winter in the adult phase.
The housefly is widespread in areas of human habitation. It is the carrier of a number of infectious diseases, particularly intestinal infections; it also transmits the ova of worms.
Prophylactic measures include keeping manure and sewage in tightly covered containers, removal of refuse every three or four days, and cleanliness in dwellings and stockyards. Extermination measures include the monthly treatment of toilets, refuse containers, stockyards, and food-preparation machinery with Dipterex preparations; the use of sweet attractants mixed with Dipterex or Formalin, and the hanging of strips of flypaper. To destroy the eggs and larvae of houseflies, breeding places are treated with preparations of malathion, Creolin, or naphtha solvent.
Sukhova, M. N. Sinantropnye mukhi (Mukhi, obitaiushchie v mestakh prozhivaniia cheloveka). Moscow, 1951.
Derbeneva-Ukhova, V. P. Mukhi i ikh epidemiologicheskoe znachenie. Moscow, 1952.
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Musca domestica. A dipteran insect with lapping mouthparts commonly found near human habitations; a vector in the transmission of many disease pathogens.
a common dipterous fly, Musca domestica, that frequents human habitations, spreads disease, and lays its eggs in carrion, decaying vegetables, etc.: family Muscidae
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In this study, we examined both physiological and behavioral resistance of a wild house fly population from southern California to imidacloprid, the active ingredient found in one of the most commonly used fly baits in the United States during the last 5 years.
Behavioral resistance of house flies, Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) to imidacloprid
Manure-inhabiting Macrochelidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata) predaceous on the house fly. Advances in Acarology 1:55-59.
Ectoparasitic effects on host survival and reproduction: the Drosophila-Macrocheles association
Resistance to new chemical insecticides in the house fly, Musca domestica L., from dairies in Punjab, Pakistan.
Monitoring Susceptibility to Spinosad in Three Major Stored-Product Insect Species from Punjab, Pakistan
This study did not aim to differentiate between bacteria carried externally or internally by the house fly.
Wild Florida house flies (Musca domestica) as carriers of pathogenic bacteria
Biological activities of some plant materials against the house fly Musca domestica.
Combined Effects of Beauveria bassiana (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) and Insecticide Mixtures on Biological Parameters of Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae)
Development of Spalangia cameroni and Muscidifurax raptor (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) on live house fly (Diptera: Muscidae) pupae and pupae killed by heat shock, irradiation, and cold.
Development of Spalangia cameroni and Muscidifurax raptor (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) on live and freeze-killed house fly (Diptera: Muscidae) pupae
Now, keeping the same beat, change to HOUSE fly. Clap only on the word HOUSE.
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And whose attention, soon after I arrive, is on a house fly.
Writer finds fans for life's simple values
THERE is nothing short of a Biblical plague of the common house fly this summer in many parts of Cheshire.
Letter: House fly menace
Key words: House fly, imidacloprid, acetamiprid, nitenpyram, pyriproxyfen, cyromazine, lufenuron, methoxyfenozide.
Resistance Status of Musca domestica L. Populations to Neonicotinoids and Insect Growth Regulators in Pakistan Poultry Facilities
He and Yoko asked New York actress Virginia Lust to lie down naked while they filmed a house fly exploring her body.
YOKO'S BACK; And she's even ruder
attenuata is from the same insect family as the common house fly (Muscidae) and is similar in appearance.
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(zhäk ātyĕn`zhôzĕf` älĕksäN`drə mäkdônäl`), 1765–1840, marshal of France, of Scottish descent. He distinguished himself in the French Revolutionary Wars, particularly in Italy, but was defeated by Russian forces under Aleksandr SuvorovSuvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich
, 1729–1800, Russian field marshal. Suvorov entered the army as a youth and rose rapidly through the ranks. He fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–74, helped suppress the peasant rebellion led by Pugachev in 1775, and was created
..... Click the link for more information. at the battle of Trebbia (June, 1799). He aided Napoleon's coup of 18 Brumaire (1799). Temporarily in disgrace for defending Jean Victor MoreauMoreau, Jean Victor
, 1763–1813, French general in the French Revolutionary Wars. Despite his successes on the Rhine and in Germany (1796–97), he was dismissed for withholding compromising information about General Pichegru after the coup of 18 Fructidor (1797); he
..... Click the link for more information. , he returned to favor, was created duke of Taranto, and played an important part in the battle of Wagram (1809), the Peninsular War, and the Russian campaign. In the Hundred Days he was loyal to King Louis XVIII.
Macdonald, Jacques Etienne Joseph Alexandre
Born Nov. 17, 1765, in Sedan, Ardennes Department; died Sept. 25, 1840, in Courcelles-le-Roi, Seine-et-Oise Department. Marshal of France (1809); duke of Taranto (1809). A Scot by nationality. The son of an emigre who was a partisan of the deposed Stuart dynasty.
Macdonald was in the French Army from 1784. He joined the revolutionary army during the Great French Revolution, was promoted to general of brigade in 1793 and general of division in 1796, and won several victories over the interventionists. After occupying Rome in 1798, Macdonald was made military governor of the papal enclave and of Rome. In 1799, while commanding the Neapolitan Army, he was defeated by A. V. Suvorov on the Trebbia River. He was commander of the French troops in Switzerland in 1800 and 1801. He was ambassador to Denmark from 1801 to 1803. In 1804 he was dismissed from military service for his connections with the convicted general J. V. Moreau, but he returned to service in 1809 and distinguished himself at Wagram as the commander of a corps. In 1810-11, Macdonald commanded a corps in Spain; in 1812 he commanded the Prussian-French X Corps, which laid siege to Riga. He also participated in the campaigns of 1813-14. After Napoleon’s abdication in 1814, Macdonald entered the service of Louis XVIII and was made a peer of France (1814). He remained on the side of the Bourbons during the Hundred Days. Macdonald was grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor from 1816 to 1830.
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Nikolai Arsenevich Pozharov | Article about Nikolai Arsenevich Pozharov by The Free Dictionary
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Nikolai Arsenevich Pozharov
Pozharov, Nikolai Arsen’evich
Born Nov. 25 (Dec. 7), 1895, in the village of Zolotkovo, now in Vladimir Oblast; died June 20, 1928, in Smolensk. Participant in the revolutionary movement in Russia. Member of the Communist Party from 1916. Son of a peasant.
In 1914, Pozharov was a worker in Petrograd. The following year he became a sailor in the Baltic Fleet. He was arrested for engaging in revolutionary propaganda in 1916. After the February Revolution of 1917, he served as a member of the executive committee of the Kronstadt soviet. In June he became a member of Tsentroflot (Central Committee of the All-Russian Navy) and then served on the Kronstadt committee of the RSDLP (Bolshevik) and the military technical commission of the executive committee of the Kronstadt soviet. During the Kornilovshchina he was commissar of the Kronstadt harbors.
In September 1917, Pozharov was sent by the Central Committee of the RSDLP(B) to Sevastopol’, where he was elected secretary of the party committee. In December he served as chairman of the Sevastopol’ soviet, a member of the military revolutionary committee, and defense commissar of the fortress and city. In 1918 he was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Tauride Republic and a member of the provincial committee of the party and later served in the Naval Commissariat in Moscow. From June 1918, Pozharov was chairman of the Yaroslavl district executive committee, provincial military revolutionary committee, and provincial committee of the RCP (Bolshevik). In the same year he also participated in the suppression of the counterrevolutionary mutiny in Yaroslavl.
In 1919–20, Pozharov was commissar of the staff headquarters of the Northern Front and chairman of the revolutionary tribunal of the Sixteenth Army and then of the Sixth Army. From 1921 he worked for organs of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka) and then for organs of the State Political Directorate (GPU). From 1923 he was involved in party and managerial work.
Chizhov, I. G. N. Pozharov. Moscow, 1955.
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common name for wild and domestic waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and swans. It is hunted and bred for its meat, eggs, and feathers. Strictly speaking, duck refers to the female and drake to the male. Ducks are usually divided into three groups: the surface-feeding ducks—such as the mallard, wood duck, black duck, and teal—which frequent ponds, marshes, and other quiet waters; the diving ducks—such as the canvasback, scaup, scoter, eider, and redhead—found on bays, rivers, and lakes; and the fish-eating ducks, the mergansers, with slender, serrated bills, which also prefer open water. The surface feeders take wing straight up, while the divers patter along the water's surface in taking off. Ducks make long migratory flights. At the time of the postnuptial molt, the power of flight is temporarily lost, and most of the Northern Hemisphere drakes assume "eclipse" plumage similar to that of the female. The ancestor of all domestic breeds (see poultrypoultry,
domesticated fowl kept primarily for meat and eggs; including birds of the order Galliformes, e.g., the chicken, turkey, guinea fowl, pheasant, quail, and peacock; and natatorial (swimming) birds, e.g., the duck and goose.
..... Click the link for more information. ), except the Muscovy of South American origin, is the mallard, Anas boscas, which is found in Europe, Asia, and North America. In the mallard drake a white ring separates the bright-green head and neck from the chestnut breast, the back is grayish brown, the tail white, and the wings have blue patches. The wood duck, Aix sponsa, smaller than the mallard, nests in hollow trees; the drake is a varicolored, iridescent ornament to lakes and ponds. The blue-winged, green-winged, and European teals (genus Querquedula) are small ducks that fly with great speed. The canvasback, Fuligula vallisneria, is hunted widely for its palatable flesh. It has a chestnut head and neck, black bill and chest, and whitish back and underparts. A swift flier, it is also an expert swimmer and diver. It breeds from the Dakotas and Minnesota north and winters on the coastal waters along the entire continent. In northern countries a portion of the down with which the eider ducks line their nests is systematically collected, as are some of the eggs; since the eiders lay throughout the season, these are soon replaced. The mergansers, genus Mergus, also called sheldrakes or sawbills, are usually crested. They include the goosander and the smaller red-breasted merganser, both circumpolar in distribution, and the North American hooded merganser, similar to the Old World smew. Because their fish diet gives their flesh a rank taste, they are called by sportsmen "trash ducks." Ducks are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Anseriformes, family Anatidae.
any one of a heterogeneous group of birds of the family Anatidae of the order Anseriformes. Ducks, which weigh anywhere from 300 to 1,700 g, are distributed throughout the world.
Ducks are divided according to structure, biology, and commercial importance into true ducks, pochards, and mergansers. True, or river or surface-swimming, ducks cannot dive. They feed in the shallows or on dry land, eating plants and animals. Their flesh is of the highest quality. The most valuable commercial species are the mallard (Anas platyrynchos), pintail (A. acuta), widgeon (A. penelope), gadwall (A. strepera), and various teals, such as the true teal (A. creced) and the Baikal teal (A formosd). All ducks are migratory, most flying south in winter; only a few winter in the north, on the sea or on bodies of water that remain unfrozen. Of the 35 species in the USSR, the majority winter along the southern part of the Caspian Sea.
The domestic duck (A. domestica) is descended from the wild mallard, which was domesticated approximately 1000 B.C. in Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America. Sexual maturity occurs at the age of six or seven months. During a single egg-laying cycle, which lasts five to six months, a single duck lays anywhere from 90 to 130 eggs. Molting occurs between cycles. It lasts about four months in a natural environment and about two months under artificial light conditions. Each egg weighs 85 to 90 g. The incubation period is 27 or 28 days. The adult male weighs 3 to 4 kg, and the adult female, 2 to 3½ kg.
Ducks are classified according to their purpose as meat-type ducks (Pekin, Gray Ukrainian, Black Whitebreasted), dual-purpose ducks (Khaki Campbell, Speculum), and egg-type ducks (Indian Runner). Ducks are raised primarily for meat. More than 90 percent of all ducks raised at kolkhozes and sovkhozes are Pekin ducks and their crosses. Meat-type ducks are raised mainly on specialized farms using advanced techniques. For example, the breeding stock is developed from two or three strains. Molting is artificially accelerated to prolong egg-laying periods, and the useful period of eggs layers is extended by various means. With such methods, a single duck of the breeding stock can yield up to 250 eggs per year. Ducks are commercially bred in batteries or in poultry houses, with or without limited ranging. The distribution of food and water is mechanized, as is the cleaning of cages. The microclimate is artificially controlled. The ducks are fed mixed feeds. Meat-type ducks are slaughtered 50 to 55 days after hatching, when they weigh 2½ kg or more.
Ducks are raised on ponds on some fish farms (see FISH-AND-DUCK FARM).
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Abakumov, V. Utkovodstvo v spetsializirovannom khoziaistve. Moscow, 1968.
Proizvodstvo miasa utok napromyshlennoi osnove. Moscow, 1973.
Bozhko, P. E. Proizvodstvo iaits i miasa ptitsy na promyshlennoi osnove, 2nd ed. Leningrad, 1975.
Pigarev, N. V., and T. A. Stolliar. Tekhnologiia proizvodstva produktov ptitsevodstva na promyshlennoi osnove. Moscow, 1975.
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What does it mean when you dream about a duck?
Ducks fall under the larger meaning of birds, especially if one dreams of them flying through the air. Ducks are also marine creatures, however, and submerge in water, the realm of the emotions and the unconscious. Thus, a diving duck indicates probing the emotions or the unconscious mind. Bringing something up from the depths may represent the surfacing of unconscious material.
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Close-woven, heavy fabric made of cotton and used for liquid filtration in the process industries, as well as for making sails, tents, and clothing.
(vertebrate zoology)
The common name for a number of small waterfowl in the family Anatidae, having short legs, a broad, flat bill, and a dorsoventrally flattened body.
mouse, duck
A lead weight on a string; used to pull a sash cord over a sash pulley, to clear a blocked pipe, etc.
from ingeniousness of duck in .eluding enemies. [Heraldry: Halberts, 26]
See: Resourcefulness
1. any of various small aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, typically having short legs, webbed feet, and a broad blunt bill: order Anseriformes
2. the female of such a bird, as opposed to the male (drake)
3. any other bird of the family Anatidae, including geese, and swans
4. Cricket a score of nothing by a batsman
a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave, used for clothing, tents, etc.
(dreams)
A duck is a very interesting bird and the message it conveys is generally positive. Ducks are well adapted to navigate and survive on land and in the water. They can swim, walk, and fly. Ducks are flexible and multi-talented. Dreaming about this bird suggests that you or someone else in your life is very flexible and can competently deal with emotional issues. Superstition-based dream interpretations say that ducks are very good omens and that you will “float” away from your current difficulty.
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An Overview of Panzoasia and the Ultimate West
Campaign Setting, fantasy, old school, OSR
The Ultimate West of Panzoasia
This is the second part of a series outlining a new, “all-ages” fantasy setting for Old-School gaming. If you’ve come to the blog for Ghastly Affair material, don’t worry – I’ve definitely not turned my back on Gothic Romance! I’m just stretching my creative legs a little. Perhaps this will turn into something more serious down the line, perhaps not. Right now I’m just enjoying myself.
Read part one in the series to learn what precipitated my current foray back into fantasy.
What follows are four lists that I provided to the players in my new Old School campaign, printed on the fronts and backs of two blank, 4″ x 6″ index cards. Also, each player was given their own map of The Ultimate West (shown above). The condensed, index-card format was well-received by the players, and I recommend it to all GMs. The idea of a “Top Ten” list is already quite well established, and in my experience information provided in that format tends to generate immediate interest. Also, I think the the physically small size of the index card helps to make whatever information is on it feel more manageable.
Ten Things to Know About Panzoasia
200 years ago the Five Peoples of Panzoasia lived as tribes and clans who had not yet learned to make steel, had only the most basic forms of magic, and had built only a few cities.
The lands of the Five Peoples were colonized by Monsters that invaded from the Underworld and Wasteland. They relentlessly plundered, and despoiled nature.
At the time of the Great Invasion, many of the intelligent Monsters (especially the Hobgoblins) possessed better technology than the Five Peoples .
While the Monsters reigned, they were aided by Clerics of evil Chaos called “Depredators”.
The Reign of Monsters continued for two generations before the Immortal Heroes and Heroines were born. They discovered better technology and magic (which they spread throughout Panzoasia), and led the Five Peoples to eventually overthrow the Depredators and Monsters.
The Immortal Heroes and Heroines are referred to by poetic titles – never by the names they bore before becoming Light.
Panzoasia is situated “at the ends of the Earth”. It is possible to deliberately travel between it and Earth (and even more fantastic lands), by sailing the Ocean in the correct direction, in the correct manner, and at the correct time. Objects and people from Earth are sometimes lost in Panzoasia – and vice versa.
The realms of Panzoasia are grouped into four regions: The Ultimate West, The Ultimate East, The Ultimate North, and The Ultimate South. Each was liberated by a different group of Immortal Heroes and Heroines.
Each region of Panzoasia has its own Common Tongue created by the Immortals. A person from Corthis can understand someone from Ydez, but neither can understand someone from the Ultimate East.
Even now, colonies of evil Monsters and Depredators persist in many places – especially the Underworld and Wasteland. The treasures they have stolen wait to be reclaimed.
Ten Things to Know About the Five Peoples of Panzoasia
The universal symbol of the Five Peoples is a pentagram with the point upwards, while the upside-down pentagram symbolizes the evil Monsters and Depredators.
The Five Peoples (Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, and Gnomes) originated in the Terrestrial Paradise, but left it for Panzoasia thousands of years before the Monsters came.
Humans native to The Ultimate West usually have pale to olive complexions, with any color hair and eyes. Northerners tend to have pale complexions, with light hair and eyes. Southerners usually have complexions ranging from dark brown to tan, with eyes and hair that tend towards dark colors. Easterners tend to have complexions that range from pale amber to deep tan, also with a tendency to dark eyes and hair. Many Easterners have uncreased, almond-shaped eyes (especially in Amikura, Hian, and Xidu), as do some Southerners (especially in Tezaca).
Because they are all one race and freely immigrate, Humans from any region of Panzoasia can actually have any possible complexion, eye, and hair color.
The Elves of Panzoasia can have hair, skin, and eyes in any shade of any hue – including pink, purple, green, and blue.
While Elves can live for a thousand years or more, they can only remember the last 70 years (or so) of their own life.
Dwarves tend to share skin and hair tones with nearby Humans, but use body paint made from clay earth pigments, chalk, animal fat, and charcoal on their skin and hair. Their jewel-like irises can be the color of any gemstone.
Because of their eye colors and body paint, there is a popular rumor/joke that Dwarves are made of earth and stone.
Halflings tend to have the same skin, eye, and hair colors as the majority of the local Human population, although their complexions tend to be ruddier in all cases.
All Gnomes tend to have deeply tanned complexions, with gray or white hair; and blue, green, or gray eyes.
Ten Things to Know About alignment & Religion
In addition to being Lawful, Neutral, or Chaotic, Players can also choose to indicate if their PCs are also Good or Evil, by writing it in parentheses after their main Alignment.
Most people pray to the Immortal Hero who freed their realm, but there are ten greater powers who are actual Gods.
The cosmic patrons of those who are purely Lawful are the Lord and Lady of Destiny, who are King and Queen of the Archons, and reside in the The Perfection of the Celestial Spheres.
The cosmic patrons of those who are purely Chaotic are the Lord and Lady of Chance, who are King and Queen of the Daimons, and reside in The Whirl of Limbo.
The cosmic patrons of those who are Lawful (good), Neutral (good) and Chaotic (good) are the Lord and Lady of Light, who are King and Queen of the Angels, and reside in The Refuge of Heaven.
The cosmic patrons of those who are Lawful (evil), Neutral (evil) and Chaotic (evil) are the Lord and Lady of Darkness, who are King and Queen of Demons and Devils, and reside in The Outer Darkness of Hell. Note that the Chaotic Demons and Lawful Devils hate each other.
The cosmic patrons of those who are purely Neutral are the Lord and Lady of Life, who are King and Queen of the Fairy Folk, and reside in The Harmony of the Summerland.
The Immortal Heroes and Heroines who freed the Realms of the Five Peoples were all Good and served Heaven. Most were Lawful (and aided by Destiny), but The Clever Lady was Chaotic (and succeeded by Chance).
In the Ultimate West, the holy place of pilgrimage for those who are (or aspire to be) good is The Sacred Isle of Albelon, while The Cursed Island of Nerolan is the most unholy site for the Depredators (and other evil beings).
The Depredators who aided the Monsters were aligned with evil (rather than pure) Chaos, and served the Outer Darkness.
Ten Rules Modifications
Magic Users start play with their choice of either a random minor potion, or a scroll of one random, 1st level spell.
Magic Users can make an Intelligence check to know some bit of arcane knowledge, identify a Monster or obscure creature, translate a scrap of lost language, or discern a general idea of what a magic item does.
Fighters can make an Intelligence check to identify a strange weapon or piece of armor, discern the workmanship of arms & armor, or identify their materials.
Thief Abilities are all 66% at 1st Level. They increase by 1% each Level. Alternately, the character instead receives 8 additional percentage points each Level, to be allocated among their Thief Abilities as desired.
Thieves can make an Intelligence Check to quickly appraise items, or know how many coins are in a hoard without needing to count them.
Thieves who successfully appraise will be told the information privately – they can choose to lie, or honestly share what they know.
Clerics can make an Intelligence Check to remember lore relating to the Immortals, the Gods, or the entities that serve them.
Clerics can promote Law, Chaos, or Neutrality as abstract concepts, instead of serving a specific spiritual entity.
Druids are all Neutral in Alignment, but they can be Neutral (good), and be aided by the Angels of Heaven; pure Neutral, and be allied with the Fairies of the Summerland, or Neutral (evil), and serve the powers of Hell.
Gnomes are a playable Class.
Tomorrow, I’ll begin posting the lists of “Ten Things to Know” for each realm shown on the map of The Ultimate West.
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