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The 310-pound touchdown that set the tone for the Boise State-BYU series
By Dave Southorn Oct 18, 2019 9
Albertsons Stadium is far from the biggest stadium in the country, but it can get loud. And it may have never gotten louder than it did on the third play of the second half of Boise State’s Sept. 21, 2012 game against BYU .
Following a scoreless first half, the home team got on the board first in the most beautiful of ways: a “fat guy touchdown,” a proto-Piesman Trophy performance, a rumbling-bumbling-stumbling big man score courtesy of Boise State nose tackle Michael Atkinson.
After having played at about 330 pounds, Atkinson had slimmed down to a svelte 310 before the 2012 season. He showed it off against BYU, gliding into quarterback Riley Nelson’s passing lane to intercept a throw heading for an uncovered receiver five yards down the field.
Then the Windsor, Ontario, native took off, with nothing but glorious open space ahead of him. Nicknamed “Canadian Bacon,” Atkinson played some fullback in high school and was more nimble than...
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Does the in-season coaching change really work in the NHL?
By Corey Masisak Dec 13, 2019 12
The 2017-18 season was a unique time in NHL history. For the first time since the league expanded beyond six teams six decades prior, no coaches were fired during the campaign.
That brief period of serenity did not last. The NHL again is a league where the coaching carousel always feels like a five-game losing streak away from spinning again.
Teams have different reasons for changing coaches. In season, it’s almost always because the club is not meeting expectations and management thinks a new voice could propel the players to better performances. The Blues changed coaches in November 2018, and seven months later they were Stanley Cup champions.
How often does firing the coach during the season actually work? Everyone remembers the big success stories, but what about the moves that didn’t spur the team to a fairytale run?
The Athletic sifted through every in-season coaching change since the 2004-05 lockout ushered in the salary cap era.
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‘ Tis the season: Retail rush under way
By Phil Castle on November 20, 2012 Comments Off on ‘ Tis the season: Retail rush under way
Many downtown Grand Junction merchants have installed window displays to add to the holiday atmosphere. One of the most elaborate displays can be found at Unique Expressions on Main Street. (Business Times photo by Phil Castle)
Phil Castle, The Business Times
Holiday shoppers eager to bag Black Friday bargains will find an accommodating venue at the Mesa Mall in Grand Junction.
Most of the merchants at the mall are scheduled to open at the stroke of midnight on Nov. 23. But Black Friday starts on a Thursday this year when Sears opens at 8 p.m. and Target opens at 9 p.m. Nov. 22.
The early launch is just one of factors that encourage Chelsi Reimer to predict to a strong holiday shopping season. Equally encouraging is the fact all of the more than 100 spaces at the mall have been leased, says Reimer, director of marketing and business development there. “We feel real positive.”
Meanwhile, in downtown Grand Junction, merchants there expect a series of events as well as the ambiance of a business district decked out for the holidays to attract shoppers as well.
“Everybody just seems real upbeat,” says Kathy Dirks, marketing and communications director for the Downtown Partnership.
Diane Schwenke, president and chief executive director of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce, expects holiday sales to increase, but economic and labor conditions to hamper a more robust shopping season. “There’ll be a little bit of an uptick, but not huge,” she predicts.
At the same time, though, Grand Junction remains a regional retail hub for Western Colorado and Eastern Utah.
And that’s a tide of holiday shoppers that continues to lift all boats, Schwenke adds. “That is a big, big deal.”
From a national perspective, the outlook for the holiday shopping season is mostly upbeat. The National Retail Federation forecasts a 4.1 percent increase in overall holiday sales, while Shop.org projects a 12 percent gain in online holiday sales.
The latest measure of consumer confidence climbed to its highest level of the year on more optimistic assessments of business and labor conditions.
The Conference Board, the same business research and membership group that tracks consumer confidence, also surveys consumers about their holiday shopping plans. According to the latest results of that annual survey, U.S. households will spend an average of $521 on gifts this holiday season. Nearly
10 percent of consumers responding to the survey said they plan to spend more on gifts this year, up from 7 percent last year.
“As the holiday approaches, consumers appear to be in better spirits than last year,” says Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators for the Conference Board. “Our survey results show a slight boost in holiday spending intentions. Retailers are cautiously optimistic that this holiday shopping season will be better than last.”
At the Mesa Mall, Reimer says shoppers and retailers alike are anxious for that season to begin in earnest. The mall has been fielding calls for weeks from shoppers wondering when stores will open for Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that marks the traditional start of the season, Reimer says. “We’re already getting a lot of buzz.”
While Sears and Target both will open late on Thanksgiving night, most of the stores in the mall will open at midnight, Reimer says.
To further accommodate shoppers, the mall also will open what’s called a rejuvenation station with a large seating area and free energy drinks and massages, Reimer says. Special giveaways of merchandise, coupons and gift cards are planned for 4 and 6 a.m. on Black Friday.
Several new stores have opened at the mall in time for the holiday shopping season, Reimer says, among them the Crazy 8 and Turbo clothing stores and Cool N Fun toy store. That’s not to mention the stores and kiosks that open just for holidays.
In downtown Grand Junction, a number of merchants are joining in Small Business Saturday, Dirks says. The national initiative kicks off the holiday shopping season for independent retailers and restaurateurs on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
A series of holiday celebrations already has begun with the lighting of a large Christmas tree near Fourth and Main streets.
The Parade of Lights is set for 5 p.m. Dec. 1. More than 100 entries are expected for one of the largest parade of the year in Western Colorado, Dirks says. Still other events include the Spirit of Christmas Walk set for 5:30 to 9 p.m. Dec. 7.
Free carriage rides, the appearance of Santa and Mrs. Claus and holiday music are scheduled for noon to 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays from Nov. 24 through Dec. 23, she says.
The City of Grand Junction offers free parking downtown between Nov. 22 and Jan. 1, covering meters with red plastic bags that read “season’s greetings.”
In addition to the Christmas tree, holiday lighting has been installed along Main Street in downtown Grand Junction. And many merchants feature holiday displays in their windows.
The events and decorations are all part of an effort to create an atmosphere that brings holiday shoppers downtown and into the more than 130 stores and restaurants in the business district, Dirks says. “We want the downtown area to be a destination for the holidays.”
Schwenke says the mall, downtown and Grand Valley remain a destination for holiday shoppers from around the region. That’s important because retailers can count on a customer base not only of residents, but also visitors from a large chunk of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah.
Reimer says Mesa Mall advertises throughout the region to take build awareness and draw in shoppers from West Slope communities. “We’re doing our best to get the word out.”
‘ Tis the season: Retail rush under way added by Phil Castle on November 20, 2012
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About Phil Castle
Phil Castle is editor of the Grand Valley Business Times, a twice-monthly business journal published in Grand Junction. Castle brings to his duties nearly 30 years of experience in editorial management positions with Western Colorado newspapers. In addition, his free-lance work has appeared in a variety of publications, including the Washington Post. He holds a bachelor's degree in technical journalism from Colorado State University.
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1) Colin Kaepernick’s 2011 signed combined waiver began circulating throughout several media outlets yesterday. Now, virtually all major news outlets have access to it, sent out by the NFL as part as an offensive to get its message out. I made a few calls.
2) The differences fall along three key areas: the first is in the first paragraph of the NFL waiver for Saturday’s workout specifically mentions the workout for the purpose of employment, where the NFL’s standard combine language does not.
3) The standard combine waiver covers the attendance of a player for a specified set of days (e.g., March 1-5). Because Saturday's waiver covers employment, in addition to injury, it was important for the language to be precise, given the distrust between the two sides.
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1) And I understand Stephen A’s POV. There is a game we all must play, especially at a completely disadvantageous position. Kap doesn’t have the leverage to antagonize, but I ask the counter question: why is benign black individualism “antagonistic?” It’s *just* a t-shirt.
2) People wear Che Guevara t-shirts all the time, and the CIA murdered him. They wear Mao shirts. They wear Chinese communist party worker caps. They wear gear with Iron Crosses, hammers and sickles. But add “black” to it - cornrows or Afro, Roots t-shirt - and it’s disrespectful
3) This is the level of exhaustion with not simply whiteness, but anti-blackness. Now Kunta Kinte, a fictional character who is taught in schools (yes, we watched Roots in seventh grade) symbolizes a great offense. Anti-blackness is treating Kap’s support Saturday as invisible.
Been thinking a lot about this morning and afternoon exchanges and how one hastily, poorly organized workout is being allowed to obscure three years of animosity, silence, litigation. Then I just read Jerry Jones quote below 👇🏾and had to make a few calls...
2) To sources, From the “get-go” feels indicting of Roger Goodell b/c it was the NFL that initiated the entire haphazard process. It struck me that if the process was going to be legitimate, the teams would already have to be on board before the phone to Kaepernick was ever made.
3) It is within this framework that the personnel list controversy takes on some significance. Last Tuesday, the NFL said it would provide the Kaepernick team a list of which teams and which executives of those teams would attend. The next day, it denied making the overture.
1) Back to the start: I ask a NFLPA source, since they are supposed to be working with the league, if the NFL had a responsibility to include the PA in the loop on something so high-profile.
“‘Responsibility’ is too strong.”
“Courtesy?”
“Yes, better. No we didn’t get one.”
2) “In fact, we didn’t get a courtesy heads-up then, and still haven’t received one.” After the Saturday workout, Kaepernick agent Jeff Nalley said, “Not one of the 32 teams asked for this. This came from the League office.”
3) So, to date: the NFL contacted the Kaepernick team without consulting the NFLPA or its teams. The number of teams with confirmed attendance for the workout was not eight, but seven: SF, PHI, KC, TEN, WAS, NYJ, DET.
Update: spoke with numerous sources today to clarify some points: Kaepernick team heard from the NFL on Tuesday, 11/12 and was told of Saturday’s workout. They weren't given 36 hours to consider the offer. They were given two, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Take it or leave it.
2) Kaepernick’s team told the NFL there were “too many issues” to resolve with such short notice and proposed the following Tuesday, which was also a work day, allowing teams’ top decision makers to attend, and buy the negotiation more time. The NFL said no.
3) Kap atty: “If Saturday was such a magical day, I said let's move it to the following Saturday. They said no." That left Kaepernick to agree to the tryout before Hue Jackson and Joe Philbin knew they were running it or teams knew a workout was even happening.
The goal was transparency in dealing with a hostile force. The NFL had not spoken to the Kaepernick camp since Feb., then sprung a surprise workout on him that was not requested by any individual team, all of which could have done so for the last 30 months and did not.
https://twitter.com/chadaaronmarlow/status/1196132202704199683
2) To minimize being asked to sign a draconian waiver of rights as merely “some contract provisions” reveals a lack of understanding of how deep a divide exists between the two sides. He was given a 36-hour take it or leave it offer with bad conditions. His team sought balance.
3) If he rejected the terms when he received them, he would have been painted as someone who didn’t want to play. The only option his team felt it had was to negotiate with the league while formulating a backup plan. (And yes, I was there, and in contact with all parties).
The weekend timeline, from my sources: Kap has been here since Thursday preparing for today’s workout that was supposed to take place at the Falcons’ facility in Flowery Branch, GA. The already shaky relationship was immediately in jeopardy.
1) The Kaepernick camp was upset that the NFL told them about the tryout on such short notice, that it was occurring on a Saturday, instead of a customary Tuesday when workouts usually take place. A Saturday tryout would guarantee no high-level personnel would attend.
2) The Kaepernick team and the NFL had not formally spoken since February, after the two sides had agreed to settle his and Eric Reid’s collusion lawsuit, so to have a sudden Saturday workout did not ease the trust issues.
White owners
White coaches
White season ticket holders
White media
Black players
This is the reality of the sports economy. The labor force may be majority black, but the consumers of the product are not. Therefore, the game reflects the consumer, not the workforce.
2) As the industry makes efforts to hire “diversely,” the formula usually collapses into hiring white women, replacing black male journalists with black male ex-players, and excluding black women, whose diversity status is already fulfilled by the previous two categories.*
*- the perilous dynamic of black journalists is the same for women’s sports, where the black female presence is also an ex-player. White women = diversity. In my 28 years in the business, I’ve had 2 black women editors, Alexa Steele, WaPost and briefly, Monique Jones at ESPN
1) It’s not a pro-China take. Nor a pro-corporate one. It’s a response to how this is unfolding for the players *before* even getting to the events over there. People who want the players to leap into this long-standing international fight often didn’t back them here.
https://twitter.com/graigfravel/status/1183005720343646208
2) I’m not looking at this through the lens of absolutism, i.e., “injustice is injustice, therefore we all must fight it.” While this is true to a certain moral extent, the first front of that battle is with the US govt and it’s corporations who routinely do biz with autocrats.
3) The Olympics, the ATP/WTA are there, the WTA year-end finals are there. The World Cup went to Qatar, the Olympics to Sochi. There are too many examples of business out-prioritizing human rights without a single word of large-scale opposition or player expectations.
1) So, I’ve been a little preoccupied the last few days, but...I finally saw the @marcelluswiley FS1 clip on Jay-Z, Kap, Eric and Nessa and in between my Oxy haze, well, I have thoughts...
2) It’s important to do something TV is terrible at, and that is discuss different strains of the same subject. There’s just no time on TV to switch gears on complicated subjects. On the “Who’s really black” part. It’s tired and old, and incorrect.
3) He cited his inner-city, two-black parent bona fides as license to judge Kap’s inauthenticity and Nessa’s Egyptian lines as weaknessess in the “movement,” that they weren’t “black enough” to feel the “full weight” of the issues.
1) Historians consider 1919 part of one of the most violent and racist periods in American history. Any white scholar or pundit making the Owens on non-Fox air would be discredited and prob fired. Because it now comes from a black woman as a reason to engage is beyond insulting.
2) What is equally disturbing is the surrender on the part of so many people, who have succumbed to decades of anti-intellectualism and now want to consider this “healthy debate,” which it is not. It’s a further assault on the humanities, no different from anti-science.
3) Worse is the transparency in its political, monetary and celebrity motivations, the reinforcement of anti-learning. One afternoon at a library or bookstore or Google search would do it, if learning was the goal. It isn’t. The goal is to undermine learning with opinion.
1) I have thoughts...
I mention the sports structure - white owners, white coaches, white media, white season ticket holders, black players - for two main reasons. The first is to break down the major layers of the game and how people can be fooled by a heavily black workforce.
2) Sports receives dispensation for diversity, meritocracy, fairness, and hope that other industries do not have simply because the workforce is a) black and b) ridiculously well compensated. This, the public often concludes, is proof that sports provides an antiracist blueprint.
3) Looking at the individual components of each, though, produces the opposite effect: a reinforcement of mainstream whiteness and latent and sometimes hostile anti blackness. The owners are as closed a club today as they were 50 years ago.
Some @RedSox thoughts
1) They failed on their White House visit. John Henry and Tom Werner showed no leadership, especially Werner, who embarrassed himself, undermined the players and coaches who did not attend and enabled the racial ignorance the Sox say they abhor
2) The choice to attend or not attend the WH is a personal one. Most Americans never step foot on the WH grounds never mind receive an invite or meet a sitting President. This is a big deal for an individual person and may be too attractive to pass up regardless of who is POTUS
3) I went to the White House when W was president and standing near him was, well, not awesome, but it was an odd, interesting experience being on a guest list at the White House for a function. So, certainly if you’re a citizen, it is no small thing, esp. after winning a title.
MCU, THREAD I 1) OK, just watched the latest Spider-Man: Far from Home trailer, and...it’s time...I think to truly understand and appreciate the scope of what the MCU just completed with Avengers: Endgame, it’s important to leave the fantasy world for a bit and stay in real life.
2) 1999, Marvel’s stock price was .50. That’s fifty cents. They had been reeling from the 1995 $150m purchase of SkyBox to expand its space in the trading card market. They filed for bankruptcy the next year and laid off a third of their employees
3) They sold FF, X-Men and Spider-Man. As a diehard Make Mine Marvel guy since the early 1970s, Iron Man was a frontline Avenger, but his own comic never moved me. His greatest villains, Modok, The Mandarin, were meh. #Endgame was a bouquet to Robert Downey, Jr. cuz he saved them
1) Long-lost friend read me in the @nytimes, heard me on @NPR, calls to say “Congrats” on The Heritage. He wants to join The Glamorous Life. He then says, “Imma need to write a book. I need that money.” I said, “What money?”
I told him I had thoughts...1/8
2) Let’s suppose you get a really good first-book advance: $50,000 (which is, like, 5-10 times more than what you’ll probably get).
- 15 pct agent fee (42,500)
- state/fed tax (prob. 10k, 32,500)
- permissions (use of photos, etc)
- Life (bills, rent, food, etc)
3) Suppose it takes two years to write the book, so you earned $16,250/year not including expenses, and the payments are often spread out over 1) signing, 2) delivery, 3) acceptance, 4) publication and sometimes 5) paperback, which takes another year. That’s like, $10k/year.
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The Boxcar Children Great Adventure: Journey on a Runaway Train
April 29, 2017 / Three Show Saturday / Leave a comment
The Boxcar Children Great Adventure: Journey on a Runaway Train (2017, Albert Whitman & Company, Chapter Book/Lower Middle-Grade)
From the Publisher:
In this all-new very special mini-series, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations—all around the world! After finding a painted turtle figurine, the Aldens are introduced to the Silverton family and Reddimus Society, a secret guild whose mission is to return lost artifacts and treasures to the sites they were taken from. The Aldens board a private train to New Mexico to return the turtle to its original home, and they encounter enemies of Reddimus along the way! The trip is a success… but instead of returning home, there’s a last-minute change in plans. The Boxcar Children must continue the mission for the society and deliver more things, all around the globe!
The Boxcar Children were first introduced to young readers 75 years ago. To commemorate the popular, and enduring series, Albert Whitman & Company (the original publishing house for The Boxcar Children) is releasing a special five book series of new Boxcar Children Adventures. Inspired and holding true to the original characters created by Gertrude Chandler Warner, the new books are written by Dee Garetson and JM Lee and illustrated by Anthony VanArsdale.
As an avid fan of the Boxcar Children growing up, I was excited to see how the series would be carried on. Journey on a Runaway Train, finds our heroic children much unchanged from the original series, they are still adventurous, mystery-seekers living with their grandfather, and they have not aged.
Old and new fans will be pleased with this new edition. The writing is consistent with the early books, while only slight updates have been made to keep up with modern day. The children now have access to laptops and cell phones which young readers will relate to. The title is slightly misleading, as there is not runaway train, but the children do get to ride a fancy old train and that is quite interesting. At its core, the book is still about young people being independent and problem solving with little or no assistance from the adults in their lives. With new illustrations, and new, exciting adventures, a whole new generation will be introduced to the Boxcar Children.
Highly recommended for children ages 7 to 12.
5 stars, one for each of the children and, of course, their dog 🙂
Thank you to Albert Whitman & Company for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Book Review: The Sheep Who Hatched An Egg
The Sheep Who Hatched An Egg (2017, Albert Whitman & Company, Picture Book)
Lola the sheep has the most extraordinary wool. It’s soft and silky and is her pride and joy! But down on the farm, when the sun comes out, the wool comes off! Poor Lola is so upset by her haircut that she runs away to the far side of the farm where she sits all alone, waiting for it to grow back. And when it does, it’s no longer silky, it’s completely wild! But with it comes a wonderful surprise…
Thanks to a tiny chick, this self-obsessed sheep learns an important life lesson; that great friendships are more important than simply having great hair.
The Sheep Who Hatched An Egg, written and illustrated by Gemma Merino, is a playful tale of accepting yourself as you are and being thankful for what makes you different. Lola takes great pride in her wool, and works hard to keep it silky smooth, but when her wool grows back curly and tangled, she doesn’t know what to do. Then she discovers her new messy, wool has one tiny advantage over her previous look, and she embraces her new self. This is a cute tale, and the illustrations are fantastic, but the storyline might perplex adults.
Lola worked hard to keep her hair smooth before her haircut, but then for some reason she can’t work hard again and get the same results after it grows back. Children might not wonder on this, but I found it a bit annoying. For the story to move along, and the lesson to be learned, Lola must have tangled hair, but it seems there could have been a better way to cause her tangled hair. Overall, a fun, Spring story, with lots of great sheep illustrations and cute, entertaining scenes. Recommended for children ages 3 to 6.
Book Review: Full Moon Lore
April 18, 2017 September 28, 2017 / Three Show Saturday / Leave a comment
Full Moon Lore (2017, Sleeping Bear Press, Non-Fiction Picture Book)
Every month has a full moon, and every full moon has a story. Full Moon Lore explores the origins of each full moon’s name, from the Strawberry Moon to the Wolf Moon and beyond. Told in rolling prose with delightful nighttime illustrations, this story is a sweet look at nature, seasons, and the mystery of the full moon. Includes Moon Facts and additional backmatter.
Full Moon Lore, written by Ellen Wahi and illustrated by Ashley Stewart, has great information for children and adults. The illustrations are beautiful and have a mystic quality to them, perfect for a book about moon lore. Each month, the moon has a different name, drawing on the seasons and old tales. Readers, young and old, are certain to learn something new. Absolutely beautiful book that would be at home in any library. Highly recommended!
5 stars to shine on a bright, full-moon night
Thank you to Sleeping Bear Press for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Dino Riders Reviews
April 13, 2017 April 29, 2017 / Three Show Saturday / Leave a comment
Welcome to another exciting book review day on the blog! Today I bring you two books in the new Dino Riders series, as well as a giveaway and an excerpt 🙂 Happy reading!
How to Tame a Triceratops
by Will Dare
Series: Dino Riders #1
Welcome to The Lost Plains!
A wild west frontier where dinosaurs never went extinct.
Josh Sanders wants to be the next great dinosaur cowboy! Ropin’ raptors and ridin’ bucking brontosauruses just like his hero Terrordactyl Bill.
Too bad he’s stuck working on his family’s Iguanodon ranch, riding his ancient dino, Plodder. The closest Josh has ever been to a T-Rex is reading about them in his Dino Cowboy Handbook.
To prove he has what it takes, Josh is determined to win the annual Settlement Race. But he’s gonna need one fast dino to stand a chance. With the help of his friends Sam and Abi, Josh will need to tame a wild Triceratops!
This wildly entertaining new chapter book series for ages 7 and up features exciting illustrations and real dino facts! A great way to get kids reading. And don’t miss the next book in the series: How to Rope a Giganotosaurus.
Two bundles of the first two Dino Riders books – How to Tame Your Triceratops & How to Rope a Giganotosaurus
How to Tame a Triceratops (2017, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, Chapter Book)
How to Tame a Triceratops, written and illustrated by Will Dare, is the first book in a ferocious new chapter book series. I say this a lot, but it is difficult to find an engaging and original chapter book series. There are a few good ones out there, but more often than not, the chapter book field leaves something to be desired. Then comes this new series and I am completely captivated!
Dinosaurs, a race through the desert, and a wild west theme. What more could a reader ask for?
Dinosaur stories are always fun and this one is sure to be a hit with both young readers and their parents. Josh is a likeable character and he lives an exciting life as he wrangles dinosaurs. There’s a nice combination of crazy dinosaur-roping antics and typical kid stuff, with school and friends.
The pacing is well done and allows for a decent story arc while still keeping the book length short and not sacrificing character development or plot. This is a story adults will enjoy reading with children and they won’t be bored with simple sentences or a dull plot. As a bonus, there are great illustrations sprinkled throughout as well as dinosaur facts.
Highly recommended for children ages 7 and up.
How to Rope a Gigantosaurus (2017, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, Chapter Book)
Book two in Will Dare’s Dino Riders series follows in the dino footprints of book one. How To Rope a Gigantosaurus takes readers on another fun dino-adventure with Josh and friends. With bigger dinosaurs and riskier adventures, this book does not disappoint.
Josh’s friends get more page-time and overall the characters are more developed as the series continues. Again, the plot is engaging and entertaining, and young readers won’t be able to put this book down until they have read it all.
Another fantastic addition to any home or school library. Highly recommended for children ages 7 and up.
Josh sat up in bed and rubbed his eyes. He’d just been dreaming about riding through the Roaring Jaws Valley when he was woken by a loud screeching noise outside. “What the…?”
It was pitch-dark—the middle of the night— but he was sure he’d heard…
Kaaaark!
“Pterodactyl!” Josh cried. He’d know that sound anywhere.
He raced to the window and looked out just in time to see one of the winged beasts swoop down low over the barn, where some newly born iguanodons were being kept. It clattered against the roof, tearing at the wood with its claws. If that thing got in the barn, those baby guanos were done for.
He leaped out of bed and jumped straight out of his window, racing for Plodder’s pen. Nothing and no one was going to snatch up one of his family’s iguanodons. There was no time to lose. The old gallimimus roared with surprise as Josh jumped on his back, then they raced out into the open, across to the barn.
“Get away from there!” Josh cried, waving his arms above his head and readying his lasso. The pterodactyl swooped down low and stretched its claws in his direction. In an instant, Plodder reared up in fright, throwing Josh off his back.
Josh hit the ground hard, knocking the wind from him. He could just make out the terrified cries of Plodder as he ran back to his pen.
“Plod!” he said and groaned. “Come back!” But it was no use. As he looked up into the sky, his eyes went wide with fear. The pterodactyl was plunging from the sky toward him. Its claws sliced through the air like knife blades.
And Josh had nowhere to run. He braced himself for impact…
Suddenly, a roar went up from his side, and a huge shadow passed over him. Three pointed horns stabbed upward at the pterodactyl.
“Charge!” Josh gasped.
The huge triceratops roared angrily as he swiped and slashed at the sky, forcing the winged dinosaur to flap higher into the air.
Josh jumped up, keeping a close eye on the ’dactyl. He felt something brush against his legs and looked down to see a large horn rising up from the ground toward him. Josh yelped in fright as he tumbled backward and then landed heavily on a pair of muscular shoulders.
Beneath him, Charge snorted, as if telling Josh to hold on. Josh grabbed the young dino’s horns just as it kicked into top gear. The ground rolled by in a blur as Charge raced after the fleeing pterodactyl—with Plodder charging back in the other direction toward the ranch.
“I guess you don’t like ’dactyls much,” Josh said and laughed, barely able to believe it. He’d hoped if he’d found something Charge liked, the triceratops would let Josh ride him. He hadn’t thought about trying to find something he didn’t like!
Up in the air, the ’dactyl took one look at the charging triceratops and flapped faster. To Josh’s amazement, Charge lowered his head and quickly began to close the gap.
“Faster than a bullet in a hurricane!” Josh cheered.
Panicked, the ’dactyl turned and tried to swipe at them with its claws, but Charge reared up onto his hind legs, stabbing at the sky with his horns.
Josh whooped excitedly and held on tight. The pterodactyl gave an angry squawk, then flew straight up into the clouds.
“You did it!” Josh called. But as the flying dino took to the skies, Charge didn’t stop charging. Now that he was all excited, he was zooming around like a dinosaur possessed—just as Mr. Sanders came running down from the house.
“Uh-oh,” Josh said, but it was no use. Charge was heading right for the barn.
Luckily, Josh knew exactly what to do.
In an instant, he jumped up to standing on Charge’s back, just like he’d done with Plodder. This time though, he took his lasso and looped it around Charge’s huge central horn. With a yank of the rope, he shifted the dinosaur’s head to the left. Just as he was about to crash into the side of the barn, the charging dino gave a roar and came to a shuddering stop. His dad looked on wide-eyed, face-to-face with the heaving, eager dino.
“Dad! Charge saved the guanos!” Josh cheered.
“And, look, I got him under control too.” Charge gave an impatient snort. “Well, kinda!”
Mr. Sanders watched Josh, openmouthed. Eventually though, he gave him a wry smile. “Well, son, in all the years of dino wrangling, I’ve never seen anyone ride a trihorn like that. I guess you got yourself the new dino you were after,” he said.
“Does that mean I get to race him?” Josh asked. “I suppose it does,” his dad began. “But on one condition—”
“Anything!” Josh said.
His dad cast an eye over what Josh was wearing. “No racing in your pajamas!”
Thank you to Sourcebooks Jabberwocky for a reading copy of these books in exchange for my honest review.
Book Review: Revenge of the Star Survivors
My site has a new look and I have a new book for you all today 🙂 It’s been driving me crazy having to wait to share this one with you. I LOVED this book. One of the best middle-grade books I’ve read in a while. It’s smart, funny, painfully awkward and I couldn’t put it down.
Revenge of the Star Survivors (2017, Holiday House, Middle-Grade Contemporary Fiction)
Clark Sherman has the unfortunate opportunity to finish out his eighth-grade year at a new school. Festus Middle School to be exact, where the natives don’t take kindly to geeky, sci-fi obsessed newcomers. Armed with only his freshly purchased, “forest ranger-green thermo-protective parka” and love of the Star Survivors, Clark is intent on finding his way in this hostile environment without the aid of his commanders, i.e. his parents. But as the stress and attacks from bullies become too much, Clark is grateful for the friendship of the librarian and two other unlikely allies. With the help of his new friends, Clark will discover an evil plot at Festus that could affect him and the school for years to come.
Revenge of the Star Survivors, written by Michael Merschel, is quirky and fun and everything a middle-grade book should be. Clark is endearing and smart, and painfully awkward in a wonderful way. I couldn’t put this book down as I was drawn into Clark’s world and loved his character. The plot is clever and puts a new twist on the old tale of middle school bullies.
It did take a moment to orient myself with the book as it is told from Clark’s point of view and he narrates as if he is on a space expedition for much of the story. At first, it can make the narration a bit hard to follow, but it’s an engaging style of story-telling and I think it will appeal to boys especially.
Overall, I loved this book. The narration and the characters are wonderful and unique. Middle-grade readers will relate to Clark as he attempts to fit in and fails. I also love how the book confronts the issues with bullies and the sense of powerlessness children often feel as they don’t know who to turn to.
There are a few references to lewd jokes and gestures, but the descriptions are vague and leave room for interpretation so young readers might not understand the insinuations. Highly recommended for ages 10 and up.
5 stars for the intrepid star survivors
Thank you to Holiday House for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Book Review: Please Please the Bees
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At last it feels like Spring again! Here is a fun springtime read for the aspiring bee-keeper or bear in your life 🙂
Please Please the Bees (2017, Albert Whitman & Company, Picture Book)
Benedict has a pretty sweet life for a bear. Every morning the bees leave a jar of honey on his doorstep, and every day he has honey for breakfast and honey in his tea. It’s an important part of his day. But all that changes when the bees go on strike. Now it’s up to Benedict to listen to the bees, and he realizes there’s a lot more he could be doing to help them. So he fixes up the hive and learns to be a better beekeeper. Will the bees be pleased?
Please Please the Bees, written and illustrated by Gerald Kelley, is a cute reminder for children to both take care of nature, and not take others for granted. Benedict learns his lesson as the bees have basically been doing everything to keep him supplied with honey and he has done nothing in return. Parents might appreciate the message for their children, though whether children will make the connection between Benedict and the bees and their own relationship with their parents remains to be seen.
The title might lead one to think there will be more word play throughout, but the text is generally very straightforward, which was slightly disappointing. Overall this is a wonderfully illustrated, easy read that will be enjoyed by many young readers and is a perfect Spring-themed read.
Please Please the Bees hits shelves April 11, 2017
Thank you to Albert and Whitman and Company for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World
Women’s history month might be over, but this book can be enjoyed anytime!
Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World (2017, Holiday House, Non-Fiction Middle-Grade)
What a fantastic new selection from Holiday House. I am so excited to share this new non-fiction book for younger readers with you all. I’d say the intended age range is 9 to 12 years old, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book and learned so many new things. I think anyone, whether you have a young reader in your house or not, can appreciate this book.
Super Women celebrates the scientific as well as the social significance of six incredible women who broke new ground with their research, busted through glass ceilings with their careers, and advanced humanity’s understanding of our world in the process. These amazing women defied prejudice to succeed in the sciences using genius, ambition, and perseverance.
ALA Notable Book author Laurie Lawlor deftly paints portraits of each of these pioneers who refused to take no for an answer, pursuing their passions through fieldwork, observations, laboratories, and research vessels in the face of sexism. This diverse group of women, all with awe-inspiring accomplishments, were active mentors and determined people who wouldn’t take no for an answer.
Super Women, written by Laurie Lawlor, tells the incredible stories of six different female scientists. The book is divided into six sections with each section being a mini-biography of a woman. The biographies include key discoveries, scientific merits, as well as interesting personal stories for each scientist. The text is accompanied by black and white photographs of the women as well as appropriate photographs or diagrams pertaining to their work.
Scientists featured include Katherine Coleman Johnson, a mathematician who calculated trajectories for NASA flights; Eugenie Clark, an ichthyologist who swam with sharks; Marie Tharp, a cartographer who mapped the ocean floor; Florence Hawley Ellis, an anthropologist who made significant progress in tree-ring dating; Gertrude Elion, a pharmacologist who developed treatments for deadly illnesses; Margaret Burbidge, an astrophysicist who helped create the Hubble telescope.
These women have been carefully selected for their scientific and historical importance, as well as the fact that their names might not be as well-known as other women scientists such as Marie Curie or Sally Ride. Children and adults will find the biographies engaging, interesting and eye-opening. The work these women pioneered was incredible and they were all independent, adventurous souls who make for fascinating reads.
While this book is similar in format to a non-fiction picture book, the complexity and layout of the content makes it more appropriate for children ages 9 and up. Younger children might be bored with the long biographies but there’s no reason a parent couldn’t summarize the passages for younger children while they look at the photographs.
Overall, an excellent addition to any home or school library, and a fantastic non-fiction read for anyone, whether they have a passion for science or not.
5 stars for science!
Super Women will be released April 26, 2017 and is available for pre-order now at Amazon
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Several attacks in and around Baghdad on Sunday killed at least 10 and left dozens wounded.
A parked car rigged with bombs exploded near a local council building in Mahmudiyah, followed by another at a market not far away. The two attacks killed six and wounded 15 in the city south of Baghdad, which was part of the restive “Triangle of Death” during much of the American occupation. Another explosives-filled car detonated in a northern Baghdad neighborhood, according to early reports, killing four and wounding eleven.
The violence in and around Iraq’s capital continues as the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki battles insurgents in parts of western Anbar Province. Government forces have been battling alongside Sunni militias to drive militants out of Fallujah and Ramadi for several weeks.
According to some tallies, the death toll topped 1,000 in Iraq in January, the deadliest month in the country in six years.
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Anton Reicha: Complete String Quartets, Volume Two
The Czech-born composer Anton Reicha (1770-1836) was an exact contemporary of Beethoven, and his close friend from their mid-teens. The music of each man demonstrates an awareness of what the other was doing: they showed each other their compositions-in-progress. But although Reicha was closely associated with one of the best-known names in western culture, his own music has been grievously neglected: only his woodwind quintets have achieved any currency. Of his vast cycle of almost forty string quartets just one had been recorded before — an omission this ambitious project intends to put right, thereby revealing one of the most inventive and engaging spirits in classical music.
Kreutzer Quartet, string quartet
String Quartet in C minor, Op. 49, No. 1 (1803–4)
https://d3i77y9w5vf4up.cloudfront.net/TOCC0040/TOCC0040t01.mp3
I Allegro assai
II Adagio, sempre piano e sostenuto
III Menuetto (Allegro)
IV Allegro
String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 48, No. 3 (1802–3)
I Allegro moderato
II Largo
III Menuetto (Allegro assai)
IV Allegro vivace
Anton Reicha: Complete String Quartets, Volume Two quantity
Composer: Anton Reicha
Artists: Kreutzer Quartet
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4 reviews for Anton Reicha: Complete String Quartets, Volume Two
Norman Lebrecht :
“…This is – I say it rarely – essential listening. …Recorded here for the first time, they take Beethoven’s classical language and push it through the Romantic barrier – so much so that you might be listening to an early draft of Beethoven’s Razumovsky quartets. In other words, Reicha’s music sounds like the missing link between early and middle period Beethoven… These two quartets are indispensable entry points into Beethoven’s inner world.” Sinfini Music
Byzantion :
“… We hear another eloquently provocative batch of interpretations by the Kreutzer Quartet in good audio. The accompanying notes are peerless in their quality. … The quartets do indeed originate chronologically between Beethoven’s op.18 and his ‘Razumovsky’ quartets, and there are elements of both sound-worlds mirrored in Reicha. Yet he was no slavish borrower of his friend’s ideas, and whilst he was as melodically fertile as Beethoven, he happily ‘out-dissonates’ him in his fearless experimentation. This is self-evident as far as the breathtakingly imaginative C minor quartet is concerned. Reicha himself referred to his ‘great penchant for doing the unusual in composition’, which comes out, in Drummond’s words, ‘as if Reicha in his string quartets overheard late Beethoven and late Schubert, overheard Schumann and Brahms and Dvořák, overheard Bartók and modern jazz.’” MusicWeb International
Greg Pagel :
“…They are excellent works, quite daring and full of surprises. Reicha was a friend of Beethoven, and they drew inspiration from each other. Like the previous volume, this release is full of great music. The best word to describe these works is perhaps “unpredictable”. You never know what’s coming, and I find myself smiling and sometimes chuckling as I listen.” American Record Guide
“… The earlier quartet in E♭Major was written between 1802 and 1803 and pays homage not to Beethoven but to Mozart, whose K 428 Quartet was the third of his set of six dedicated to Haydn. There is also the matter of its length. At 17 minutes in this performance it is gargantuan, possibly the longest quartet movement yet written, and it’s a tribute to the Kreutzer Quartet that is projects Reicha’s absorption of and extrapolation on his model so cohesively. … There are certainly opportunities here to explore Reicha’s wilder side; in the Minuet and Trio traces of his sheer oddity are to be noted, and one feels the players straining every sinew to explore those exaggerations, as in the finale one hears them mining the brief, almost cudgeling, insistence of the music amidst the fugue. … If his chamber music is anything to go by, Reicha must have been a florid, even incessant conversationalist. The music is in constant motion, even across long spans, vivid, dramatic, and often theatrical. The later quartet, programmed first, offers more evidence of his inventive, often non-linear writing. There is a cussed quality to much of this quartet, insistent and even raw, that makes it sonically especially appealing. At points it evokes Mozart and Beethoven’s op.18 sets, but Reicha casts his net wider still in the slow movement. Here he turns back to the Baroque, with writing of great yearning and intimacy. … Reicha’s quartets confound expectation. Their nervous, sometimes brittle quality emphasizes the non-conformist element, whilst homage situates them in the direct lineage of (though very different from) Haydn and Mozart and as a second cousin of Beethoven. They are of considerable historical and musical value and have been admirably served here.” Fanfare
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Don’t Miss This! Vol. X: The Guacamole Rap Edition
Band Submissions, Listmania, Not Metal, Opinion
By Guacamole Jim
It’s been a little while since we’ve run a Don’t Miss This. It’s been even longer since I’ve run one (I’ve never run one), but I’m back in this motherfucker to provide your aural cavities with only the most succulent of jams. Hip-hop has been covered before on this here blog (didn’t we used to be about heavy metal or something?), so I know some of you cats can dig it. Our very own guru of all things gangsta, Edward who is Breegrodamus, put me onto the trillest of the trill, Run the Jewels, so I think it’s about time I returned the favour. Fix your hat, sag those pants until your ass shows (and possibly slap some hoes), and let’s get jiggy wit it.
#1: HOPSIN
You haven’t heard of Hopsin? The underground, independent sensation sweeping the nation? C’mon son. I first heard Hopsin when he featured on the Tech N9ne song “Am I a Psycho” and killed it. Considering the other conspirators on the song were none other than B.O.B. and Tech N9ne himself, the lyrical bar had been set pretty high before pen even touched paper, but Hopsin brought his A-game to the table and outshone them both. I immediately delved into his back catalogue and was captivated by his unique brand of tongue-in-cheek, self-aware humour. Not long after I devoured everything he had to offer, he dropped a brand new installation in his incredibly popular Ill Mind of Hopsin series — an offering that blew just about every rap song I’ve ever heard out of the water. “Ill Mind of Hopsin 5” tackled everything from Hopsin’s personal love/hate relationship with rap music to black culture to smoking weed. Every time I listen to it I glean something new. In my very important opinion, it’s one of the best hip-hop songs ever written, musically and lyrically.
Like Hopsin on Facebook and follow him on Twitter.
#2: WEERD SCIENCE
I know what you’re thinking: weed isn’t that bad. Hopsin don’t know about the real hard shit. Well, you crazy motherfuckers, let me introduce you to Xzibit #2: Weerd Science. What’s he all about? Heroin. No lie. Ever hear of the little band Coheed & Cambria? Weerd Science is the moniker for the hip-hop endeavours of Josh Eppard, the drummer for said little band. About midway through their career, Eppard got hooked on smack and was consequently fired. Eventually he cleaned his life up and rejoined, but not before dropping several albums about how bad your life is when you’re addicted to heroin. His music is infectious and his lyrics, mostly based on how terrible his life has been, are equal parts dark and hilarious.
Find Weerd Science at his website and on Bandcamp. Like him on Facebook. Follow him on Twitter.
#3: NUJABES
Shit’s getting too intense; I can sense it. You need something to sooth you, to calm your soul. Well, friends, let’s proceed to Xzibit #3: Nujaves. Nujaves was (R.I.P.) a Japanese neo-jazz hip-hop producer, probably best known in North America for his work with the anime Samurai Champloo. Expertly combining layers of funk grooves with jazz samples, Nujabes’ music is chill, fresh, and relaxing. I defy you to not bob your head to this. Grab a pack of smokes, a pint of beer, a couple of good friends, and jam.
Give Nujabes a posthumous like on Facebook.
#4: YASIIN BEY aka. MOS DEF
Now that we’ve taken a step back from the intensity and you’ve reoriented yourself to who you are as a person in the wholeness that only Nujaves can provide, it’s time to get artsy. Yasiin Bey (the artist formerly known as Mos Def) was known to me only as an actor for many years. It’s probable that I was aware of his rap career, but dismissed it out of hand as another Will Smith. In hindsight, I can see how stupid I was to do so, and if you haven’t checked out this cat, you’re stupid too. Emerging into the public eye with fellow Brooklyn native Talib Kweli as the groundbreaking hip-hop duo Black Star, Bey solidified himself as a wordsmith ranking with the greatest names hip-hop has offered. Over the course of his solo career his rapping style has evolved from an agressive, socially conscious bark to a more relaxed, artsy mumble, culminating in his most recent effort to date, The Ecstatic. Bey’s behind-the-beat, lazy style of rapping combined with out-of-the-box sampling may not appeal to all folks, but there’s something significant happening in this album that speaks to the listener beyond what the words have to offer, and it’s tied into Bey’s attitude. His love of life, Allah, and music are so prominently displayed in his entire demeanour you can’t help but feel drawn to it. If this album doesn’t grab you on the first listen, I highly recommend taking more time with it — it’s an album that, like all great albums, isn’t immediately gratifying; but such is the way of the greatest things life has to offer.
Like Yasiin Bey on Facebook. Follow on Twitter.
And that’s it for me, for now. Maybe one day I’ll actually write about metal, but until that time, stay trill.
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Three Cheers for Zombie Army Trilogy
I recently bought Zombie Army Trilogy (henceforth ZAT) and am wonderfully surprised by it. It always looked interesting back as a standalone DLC for Sniper Elite V2, but I was not prepared for just how fun and interesting it is. They have taken something which in recent years become more of a gag and actually made it terrifying. Admittedly, I have tried to play it solo, and there is a real sense of fear there because there are no second chances, but even when I finally do get a friend to play with me I doubt the game will get any lass scary. From the music, character design and environment, everything just screams at you “Death is inevitable, why fight it?” Doesn’t help that the Zombies literally scream at you too. Even though most of the Zombies are slow and cumbersome, they still send shivers done your spine as the absorb bullet after bullet, and seem to care about loosing a limb about as much as the Black Knight (Monty Python reference achievement unlocked!).
But that’s not all ZAT does well, and nor is this meant to be a review, because I don’t really do reviews. Rebellion have added a cast of female characters to the game, and done them really well. New to this remastered version of the game are four ladies, who are brilliantly both believable and varied. From the American War Artist to the presumably Polish Woman out for revenge, each has a different story to tell. Admittedly these stories meaningless in the actual game, but do add a bit of personality to the characters which we don’t see through game-play. They all also fit the period and world in which ZAT takes place, and don’t seem forced or ridiculous. The mentioned possibly Polish woman Hanna Schulz back story is perhaps the most interesting and pushed, but still makes sense. An orphan, her family meant everything to her. A German officer killed them, and so she presumably killed him as she wears his uniform. Now she fights to save others from this tragedy, getting caught up in the Zombie apocalypse with the others. I guess she is polish, possibly even Jewish because of the name and story, one short paragraph gives me more of a feel for her than many Triple A games managed to do with an entire trilogy. But the interesting stories are not all, they also look the part.
The Student Turned Sniper
The War Artist
The French Resistance Fighter
I could find an image of Hanna, but above you can see Anya Bochkareva, Beth Coleman and Marie Chevalier respectively. Notice something? Whilst definitely attractive, they aren’t you typical eye candy action girl. The are fully covered and look like they are in a war zone, no heels here. Considering what some games try to get away with I actually think this is an incredibly brave move on the part of Rebellion. Most game pander to a male audience, so there characters cater from them. While here I would happily play as and indeed BE any of these characters, well maybe that’s not quite true in Hanna’s case due to her story, but the point is these ladies are wonderful role models. The display courage, independence and are more than eye candy for men.
So yeah, well done Rebellion, ZAT has not only rekindled my love of Zombies, but also shown me a Triple A company can doe female characters I enjoy and even look up too.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2015 by Emily.
Magic, The Gathering just got a lot more awesome for me.
I have always been interested in Magic, The Gathering. I even played a little of the video games to gain some understanding of it. The variety of possible play styles, and the fun ways of making cards interact was more interesting to me than Pokemon or Yu Gi Oh. I actually considered starting a deck, but had no one to really play with. Now however, they have added a card and character to their Mythos that makes me think I shall find people to play with.
I love this image, it looks awesome
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. Cool name, but its how she gets the name that is awesome. She is Magic’s first Trans character, born into a clan that favors glory in battle, she had no name until she gained her first kill. Seen as a young boy, she calls herself after her grandmother, and no questions are raised. Here is an excerpt of when she claims herself.
“It had been a day like this, a battle very much like this, when Alesha won the right to name herself. With blood running down her back where the dragon’s claws had raked her flesh, she pulled a spear from a dead man’s back and plunged it into the beast’s mouth, up into its brain. The spear shaft splintered, but the dragon died in an instant. She didn’t remember if she had been afraid as the monstrous head lunged at her.
What she remembered was the panic that came after. Earning her war name had been her only goal. When the fight was over, she stood silently among the other young ones who were boasting of their accomplishments and the bold, grisly names they would choose. Headsmasher. Skullcleaver. Wingbreaker—Gedruk had been among them. Some of them, mostly orcs, boasted of their ancestors’ deeds and spoke of their pride in adopting those ancestors’ names. She had been so different—only sixteen, a boy in everyone’s eyes but her own, about to choose and declare her name before the khan and all the Mardu.
The khan had walked among the warriors, hearing the tales of their glorious deeds. One by one, they declared their new war names, and each time, the khan shouted the names for all to hear. Each time, the horde shouted the name as one, shaking the earth.
Then the khan came to Alesha. She stood before him, snakes coiling in the pit of her stomach, and told how she had slain her first dragon. The khan nodded and asked her name.
“Alesha,” she said, as loudly as she could. Just Alesha, her grandmother’s name.
“Alesha!” the khan shouted, without a moment’s pause.
And the whole gathered horde shouted “Alesha!” in reply. The warriors of the Mardu shouted her name.
In that moment, if anyone had told her that in three years’ time she would be khan, she just might have dared to believe it.”
Notice something? Even though this bit is at a stage where she would have been seen as a young boy, the writer kept the correct pronouns. Its more than can be said of most media, which often ascribe Pre-Transition accomplishments to our dead names (our names given to us that we stop using) and use the wrong pronouns for anything Pre-Transition. The whole thing is very well written, and perfectly places issues with identity into a fantasy setting. Indeed, Alesha deals with one Orc’s own issues with his identity, but in another way. Said Orc originally leers at Alesha for berating him for failing to kill a dragon and not gaining a chance to claim his name and who he is. The Orc tells her “You tell me this? A human boy who thinks he’s a woman?” Its harsh, but the story expertly plays upon it.
Alesha surprises the Orc with her ferocity, smiling as she single handedly takes down a Dragon, allowing her to point out to him she knows who she is.Through out the battle, Alesha watches the Orc and sees while he never went for a killing blow, he saved others and provided openings for them. By the end she calls on the Orc tell his battle story, but he claims to have none, and hence no name to claim. So Alesha asks those around him, who all talk about his bravery in saving them from certain death, or providing openings for a killing blow, whilst never actually killing something himself. She scolds him again for not knowing who he is and reminds him she knows she is no boy. The Orc then comes forward and calls her Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. Read the full thing here.
Its a brilliant story, that helps to show the importance of self determination, and even deals with how societies ideas of what identity is meaningful conflicts some people. Alesha and the Orc are Opposites. Alesha knows who she is and claims regardless of the views of others, the Orc probably knows who he is as well, but is conflicted as it goes against the Clans ideals. He strives not to be the killer, but to aid his friends, meaning by their laws he would never gain glory. Yet he is as glorious as the others. It is a well played story that deals with identity well by actually removing the issues of self determination from the Trans person. Frankly, I think its amazing.
This entry was posted in Opinion and tagged Affirming, Awesome, Card Game, Character, good, Identity, Identity Issues, Magic, Magic The Gathering, Story, Transgender on January 29, 2015 by Emily.
A game has been chosen!
That’s right! After a little while of waiting, I have decided upon what game I plan to make from my previous blog post.
And the winner is: Sea of Monsters!
With an amazing 100% of the votes (with a total of 2) this one hands down in the poll. Ok, so I didn’t get as much feedback as I expected, but the fact is I liked this idea, and have some grounding to base it off of. A friend of mine has done research into Classical cultures views of Trans People, so has a lot of knowledge and references I can pull on. Some things will need to b drummed up though, like a fully fledged story, and a new name (Curse you Percy Jackson!), but it all shows promise.
Unfortunately I will be moving out soon, so I may be away for a while, but when I return hopefully I will have a grounding to base a game from.
This entry was posted in Development and tagged design, development, future, game on January 25, 2015 by Emily.
So many games, what one do I make?
So time for my small community to give something back to me. “But what?” you ask all horrified and scared. Just your souls that’s all… insert evil laugh here. Ok, you probably guessed from the posts title, but I need help selecting the Trans Inclusive game to build. There is no point in me building one no one wants, so getting an idea of what people like would be good. So I am going to outline a bunch of concepts, and see if I can set up a poll for people to give feedback on what they would like to see. Bear in mind these are all concepts, and some don’t even have real names. Got a better idea? Fire it into the comments, I won’t be offended and if everyone likes it and I go and make it, I’ll even give you credit!
1: The Trans Horror Game
Simply look over some of my posts and you get the jist of this. A game looking at issues plaguing Trans Folk today in a horror context. Designed for anyone to play and meant in a more serious manner as a form of understanding, it would be fun to challenge myself to build a game in a genre I can’t play. Honestly I can’t play horrors, I get too scarred. Anyway some issues I understand is the potential triggering of the game for Trans People as it could dig up some harsh memories.
2: Sea of Monsters
I fell in love with the navel side of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, and would love to see more stuff in a similar style.So that’s where this game comes in. As the Trans captain aboard a ship, you raid ships and fight monsters in a world themed around the ancient Mediterranean with groups based on Romans, Greeks and Egyptians.The game itself doesn’t use Trans issues as a theme, merely designed to show people we aren’t things to be gawked at by placing us in a anti-hero role working to save the world from monsters. So while the character is Trans, it is not an issue for anyone in the game world, partially why the setting is ancient because that was a time of greater tolerance for Trans People.
3: Finding Me
A more serious game which explores the journey of a Trans Person through coming out and Transition, but unlike every other story focuses on some one young, a teen most likely. Through out the game the players would perform actions that we all go through, buying clothes, seeing doctors, and coming out, and some which the player can decide how to proceed, such as HRT and Surgeries. The games end would be to build the players confidence bar to the max, done through various actions like seeing doctors and making decisions about the Transition they were undertaken. It would also involve turn based Conversation “Battles” where the player had to keep their self esteem up while being talked to by curious children, concerned family or even random passers by, almost like a Pokemon game. Selecting correct responses would be key to such battles, and as confidence increased, more difficult conversations could be had.
4: Of People and Demons
hat title needs work. Anyway this is an old concept that has evolved a bit over the years. A young Trans Girl, probably 18, makes a deal with the King of Demons to be herself in exchange for a soul. The Demon King agrees and she is turned into a girl, but her sisters soul is taken, not hers. This leads her on a journey to track down the Demon King and rescue her sister. Over the course of the game the Trans girl becomes more confident and by the end is able to return to her old self to undergo a real world Transition than a magical one. Really this game is all about overcoming adversity and gaining confidence with a Trans spin on things.
5: Spaced Out
Dreamed of a silly space adventure romp in which you woke up 500 years in the future due to a failed colony mission? If so this is the game for you! A really zany space game where the player wakes up from cryogenic freezing on a sub light ship only to find humanity has advance to Faster Than Light in the time you took to travel between stars, so your mission was pointless. I planed to let people play who they want but incorporate some of the ideas Mitch discusses here to allow people to play Trans characters. Again no Trans themes beyond “Look, we can be heroes in games too!”
So there you go, just five really quick ideas, I’ll set up a poll so you can give your thoughts, or just leave a comment with you own. Peace out!
This entry was posted in Development and tagged Games, Ideas, poll on January 9, 2015 by Emily.
If you are wondering what happened to the next part of my look into a Trans Horror Game, well I have decided to actually make one, so I am holding off on it until a get a more focused image.
Anyway, onto today’s subject, where I will be looking at harassment, a recent “movement” focused on it, and the crazy defence of it. For those who don’t know, my title is in reference to one of the common defences of digital harassment. You see, people who harass others online are often referred to as Trolls. The common or garden Troll will often leap in randomly to conversation and offer either dissenting opinions or bring up random topics. Their aim is often to de-rail the conversation, for any number of reasons like boredom or wanting the winning side of a conversation to lose. They can be harmless morons, wasting what little time they have in this life, but they can also be dangerous and zealot like in their attacks.
In the latter case they cease being Trolls, and instead turn into Demons, the Demons of society. You want to see the issues still prevalent in society, look where anonymity is preserved. Right now that is the digital world. Across the internet and gaming worlds, open harassment happens on a daily basis to anyone who is unfortunate enough to not be “normal.” I know, as I have experienced it. Last year, I was really into Star Trek Online (no I am not a Trekkie, but I do love the Trek Universe, and the combination of tactical RPG style ground and space combat was really good in my opinion). At one point, while wandering round the social area that is the Space Station above Earth (forget its name) I was invited to join a Fleet, essentially a Clan for questing and so forth. It was the Star Fleet LGBT CORPS (or something similar). I decided to join as, hey, I am Trans and I had written a Trans backstory for my character (visible only to friends). What I wasn’t prepared for was the backlash for having my LGBT status visible online. I had to deal with a lot insults for walking around, raids could only be done with my fleet or I would face ridicule. I eventually left the fleet and the game, which I miss dearly as I felt that it was pretty cool.
This is the thing, harassment can quickly push people away, and now people have caught onto the idea and are using it. Just look at the GamerGate “movement,” if it can even be called that. Some claim that its originators where looking for ethics in video game journalism but I personally find that a little hard to swallow. The only people I have seen using that story are GamerGaters and apologists, mainly as ways of negating the horrible nature of the GamerGaters. And trust me, GamerGate is horrible, and if you truly believe in video game ethics, stay away. I have avoided talking about this for some time, as I fear the implications for my little indie blog. Though never encountering a GamerGate crowd, my post to the creators of Warface, which I recently saw, is as close as I ever got. It confirmed to me that I didn’t want to play that game, considering its fan base.
Anyway, this harassment is being used to push people away from games and discussing games. So far the GamerGaters have pushed three women to flee their homes for safety fears, and cancel talks to protect the public. It has nothing to do with ethics, even if it did “start” that way (as said, I’m not convinced). It is being used to silence those that challenge the status quo of games, which put the white cis het dudes on top. Sure advances are being made by some companies, Bioware has included a Trans Man in its most recent Dragon Aga game (which I just bought, so expect to see something on it in a while), but as long as Gamers still hold these ideas, and most games fail to challenge them, things are grim for me and many of my friends.
And here is the real kicker, apologists and defenders. Why the fuck would someone defend actions and words that have scared people to death? Forced them to run away and sleep on friends couches just in case someone decides to follow through on a threat? I mean what the actual fuck? Commen defences include “It’s just words,” “Don’t feed the Trolls,” and “Just turn it off and go away.” They generally fall into two categories, ignoring the harassment or implying the harassed person is the one with fault. Ignoring the harassment is probably the most common, and certainly done at a political scale. To this day the disproportionately high levels of violence against woman and LGBT people is ignored to the point we need to scream and shout to be heard. Indeed, when I have pointed out Transphobic language on Facebook, they ignore it (then they started blocking Trans peoples accounts for not using their birth names, so I wonder where their allegiances lie?). It is horrible and dehumanizing. Ignoring it is indeed a defence because it allows it to go on. For years people ignored the Anti-Semitism the Nazi party displayed, and what happened? Attempted genocide. Now I am not saying all those who have taken part in the GamerGate are new Hitlers and Himmlers, merely that they are beginning to climb the same ladders they did.
The other group of defenders are worse than the ignorers, because they twist it round to be the victims fault. It is unfortunately very prevalent in our society to blame victims, just look toward rape. “Why where you wearing that?” Why didn’t you come forward sooner?” “Why didn’t you fight back or scream?” These all cast doubt on the victim, and cause almost as much scaring as the incident itself. In games, it is thankfully not as bad, but still plagues us. We are often told we are too sensitive and need to grow thicker skins. Bullshit. It is easy to claim someone is oversensitive, but hard to look at why. You don’t know what has happened in their life that means that something upsets them. Let’s give an example, two in fact. I occasionally use the T word (don’t know what it is? Ask Ru-Paul) in a mocking sense on myself, but a couple of Trans friends mentioned really not liking the word. So I stopped. My Dad kept using the R word (annoyingly it is considered a medical term in America as far as I can gather) and I asked him to stop as my Head Mistress had called me it at school. So he stopped (one of his more decent moves, the Transphobic Bigot (he doesn’t let me wear what I want or call me Emily as well as apparently trying to get my Mother to Detransition me, so I can call him what I like here)). You need to accept that people get hurt by things, and change according to who is around you. On the internet of course anyone could be around you, so even greater care is needed. Merely telling them to switch of or go away for being offended does not improve them or yourselves. In fact it can drive people away from what they enjoy (look at me and Star Trek: Online). By shutting out the voices of others you loose the ability to learn. That is what GamerGate is all about, not ethics, shutting out the voices of others because they don’t want to learn just how horrible things are.
So yeah, I think this was one of my longer posts, but I have been holding this back a bit.
This entry was posted in Opinion and tagged GamerGate, Games, Harrassment, Hate, Online, Opinion, Transphobic, Trolls on December 15, 2014 by Emily.
Unfortunately, no Jammin Today
After being a little excited to do something, I have received no word about the Jam. Just as well, not feeling to great today. Come back on Monday where I will continue my discussion on my Trans Horror game, this time looking at monsters or villains.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on November 15, 2014 by Emily.
Gonna do Some Jammin!
No I am not a Muscian, I will be Game Jammin. A Game Jam for those who don’t know is where game developers, both big and small, ranging from art to programming, get together to make games under a common theme. This one day Jam is the Love Jam. It is a response to Gamer Gate to basically bring back some inclusion and love into the games world after the general shittyness of it.
My Trans Horror game will not be what I run with, as the focus is on love and inclusiveness. However I will try to create a game centred on Trans people, probably with bright colours and rainbows and plenty of that really overdone butterfly symbolism. Ok, maybe that over the top, but I’ll try to explore the positive sides of coming out and things. My blog will also showupdates as I do things, and likely I’ll plant some images of what I do here too. It starts tomorrow, so stay tuned!
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Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx In TV One Django: Unchained Special
By Ariel C. James
TV One is airing the special, “Django Unchained: The TV One Special,” which is a look into the controversial new movie by Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained. The movie tells the story of Django, a freed slave (played by Jamie Foxx), who teams up with a bounty hunter to save his wife (played by Kerry Washington) from the evil slaveowner (Leonardo DiCaprio).
The film and its stars have already caught a lot of flack surround the release (the movie comes out December 25). It all started with Jamie Foxx hosting Saturday Night Live, and many viewers were upset by his opening monologue.
“I got a new movie coming out, Django, check it out…Django Unchained, I play a slave. How black is that? In the movie, I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t be worried about it, because I get out the chains, I save my wife, and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that? And how black is that?”
Check the monologue out here.
Not only that, Tarantino has said that the 1977 TV miniseries Roots was a false storytelling of slavery. Sir?? Oh, and let’s not forget Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report who went on an N-word spree in his response to the movie.
Cathy Hughes sits down with the film’s stars to give a revealing look and Tarantino explains why about why he wrote and directed this particular film. Will their explanations coax you into watching the movie?
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Retelling the Stories of : ROOTS, Madame C.J. Walker (#BlackHistoryMonth)
February 22, 2016 Tosinger Leave a comment
There are stories that need to be told over and over again. Havard Business School has just released an audio commentary of the story of the entrepreneurship and progressive success of the historical hair business icon and philanthropist, Madame C.J. Walker aptly titled The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs
Culled: Though not everyone may know her name, Madam C.J. Walker helped invent what have become staples of our modern country and economy: national sales forces, corporate social responsibility, and, yes, even basic hair care. Orphaned at age 8, married at 14, and widowed at 20 with a daughter to raise, Walker went on to become a millionaire entrepreneur in the Deep South at the turn of the century, against all odds. Professor Nancy Koehn describes Walker’s inspiring real life story of making good on her own unique American dream.
ROOTS, The MiniSeries
I remember watching and re-watching Roots in the earlier years on Nigerian TV, truly drawn in and deeply empathetic and affected by the horrific experiences of the primary character Kunta Kinte (played by LeVar Burton) and his kin.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the U.S. down to Haley (via Wiki).
“Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past.” – Publisher’s Weekly
PBS states that Roots is one of the most-watched miniseries of all time, Roots captivated its audience over eight consecutive nights in January 1977. The award winning series followed the multi-generational account of author Alex Haley’s family line from enslavement to liberaton. For the first time, America witnessed on film the horrors of slave ships, the mistreatment of slaves and human cost of slavery. Roots has since become a part of American cinematic history and cultural consciousness.
Fast forward to 2016, Roots has been remade. IT PROVES SOME STORIES ARE WORTH TELLING AGAIN, ISTORY® premieres “Roots” on Memorial Day 2016, airing over four consecutive nights at 9 p.m. beginning Monday, May 30, 2016. The four-night, eight-hour event series developed by HISTORY, from A+E Studios, is a historical portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family and their will to survive and ultimately carry on their legacy despite hardship.
“Roots” will be simulcast on A&E and Lifetime, in addition to HISTORY. The stellar cast includes Academy Award® winners Forest Whitaker (“Fiddler”) and Anna Paquin (“Nancy Holt”); Academy Award® nominee and Emmy Award® winner Laurence Fishburne (“Alex Haley”); Golden Globe Award® winning and Emmy Award® nominated actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“Tom Lea”); Tony Award® winner Anika Noni Rose (“Kizzy”); Grammy Award® winner Tip “T.I.” Harris (“Cyrus”); Emayatzy Corinealdi (“Belle”); Matthew Goode (“Dr. William Waller”); Mekhi Phifer (“Jerusalem”); James Purefoy (“John Waller”) and introduces Regé-Jean Page (“Chicken George”) and Malachi Kirby (“Kunta Kinte”).
Watch the trailer and stay tuned for the series::
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Here Comes The African Emojis :-)
April 1, 2014 Tosinger 1 Comment
Talk about diversity in the digital world as a company called OjuAfrica launches Afro Emoticons aka Emojis of the negroid race 🙂 OjuAfrica is a division of an African mobile manufacturer called Mi-Fone. Mi-Fone is said to be the FIRST AFRICAN Mobile Devices Brand, and has been reinventing the mobile market in Africa since 2008. They believe that it is a necessity, and not a privilege that the people of the African continent have access to education and technology thus the tag line of the company goes:
“Together we can create Aspiration…Within Reach.”
More on MiFone at http://www.mi-fone.mobi/
Emoji; is the Japanese term for the ideograms or smileys used mostly in Japanese electronic messages and webpages. These small images are starting to appear more and more outside Japan. Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji literally means “picture” + “letter”. .Wiki
It started off with this conversation : What Does Apple Think About The Lack Of Diversity In Emojis?
An article by MTV journalist Joey Parker, who flagged the fact that there are no (or barely any) non-white emojis in the basic range within most text-message apps used by Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Parker contacted Apple’s CEO Tim Cook about the issue and, remarkably, received a reply. It wasn’t from Cook himself but from Katie Cotton, VP of worldwide corporate communications for Apple.- arstechnica.com/
Now we are here. I guess this idea is simile to the evolving case of barbie dolls and little brown girls. Human beings with more melanin will be able to also relate to these smileys and feel more “at home” using them in chat spaces? Feel free to leave a comment, when you see the original smileys, do you see race?
Take a look at the first set of the Afro Emoticons by #OJUAfrica (OJU means “Face” in Yoruba, Nigeria, West Africa). The new black emojis have been designed for Android, but they will also be released on iOS. Search ‘Oju Emoticon App’ on Google Play. What do you think? 😀
Creative director Eserick Fouché says, “We follow global trends but we are differentiated by our authentic African voice. So as a brand we wanted to do something that only Africa could pull off, something that could become so iconic that it would have the world talking. I believe what we have created will ensure that every African on the planet won’t be able to help but love it!” – wired.co.uk interview
Winking backachtya LOL 😀
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Planar channelling of relativistic electrons in half-wave silicon crystal and corresponding radiation
Y. Takabayashi, V. G. Bagrov, O. V. Bogdanov, Yu L. Pivovarov, T. A. Tukhfatullin
Division for Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Division for Natural Sciences
New experimental data on planar channeling of 255 MeV electrons in a 0.74 μm Si Half-Wave Crystal (HWC) obtained at SAGA-LS facility are presented. The computer simulation showed that the angular distribution of electrons after penetration through the HWC revealed the number of unknown before peculiarities is connected with specific electron trajectories in HWC. These specific trajectories lead to specific radiation, the properties of which are analyzed.
electron trajectories
angular distribution
Takabayashi, Y., Bagrov, V. G., Bogdanov, O. V., Pivovarov, Y. L., & Tukhfatullin, T. A. (2016). Planar channelling of relativistic electrons in half-wave silicon crystal and corresponding radiation. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 732(1), [012036]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/732/1/012036
Planar channelling of relativistic electrons in half-wave silicon crystal and corresponding radiation. / Takabayashi, Y.; Bagrov, V. G.; Bogdanov, O. V.; Pivovarov, Yu L.; Tukhfatullin, T. A.
In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 732, No. 1, 012036, 03.08.2016.
Takabayashi, Y, Bagrov, VG, Bogdanov, OV, Pivovarov, YL & Tukhfatullin, TA 2016, 'Planar channelling of relativistic electrons in half-wave silicon crystal and corresponding radiation', Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 732, no. 1, 012036. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/732/1/012036
Takabayashi Y, Bagrov VG, Bogdanov OV, Pivovarov YL, Tukhfatullin TA. Planar channelling of relativistic electrons in half-wave silicon crystal and corresponding radiation. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2016 Aug 3;732(1). 012036. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/732/1/012036
Takabayashi, Y. ; Bagrov, V. G. ; Bogdanov, O. V. ; Pivovarov, Yu L. ; Tukhfatullin, T. A. / Planar channelling of relativistic electrons in half-wave silicon crystal and corresponding radiation. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2016 ; Vol. 732, No. 1.
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Ghana v USA, Monday 16th June 2014, 7pm
It’s that time again. The World Cup. As I’m someone who finds it hard to drive past a kickabout by the side of the road without stopping, the only place for me to be this time of year was Brazil.
My flight from Johannesburg departed just as the tournament was kicking off and by waiting until the final boarding call I was able to watch the first half of the Brazil against Croatia game in an airport bar. I suppose, with the flight going to Sao Paulo, I shouldn’t have been surprised when there was a collective groan as Marcelo scored his own goal to put the hosts behind. Understandably there was a more positive reaction on the plane when the pilot eventually revealed the final score.
My onward destination was Rio, where I met up with Paul. He doesn’t watch much football these days, but he knows a good time when he sees one and a World Cup tends to fit the bill.
We didn’t have any live matches scheduled for Rio and even failed to make it to the Fanfest on the Copacabana Beach, choosing just to watch the games in a bar instead.
The first of many.
We did have a wander along the Copacabana before the football started and a brief paddle in the sea.
Just like Ronnie Biggs.
In the early morning at the beach there are still people sleeping rough on the sand. The police didn’t seem interested in moving anyone on and in addition to those who looked like they regularly spent the night outside there were many more who were probably new in town for the football.
There were also plenty of sea-front joggers, getting their training in before it got too warm. I was a little surprised to see Stuart Pearce run past me, although not as surprised as I was when he calmly overtook anyone who got in his way rather than scything them down from behind.
That saves a hundred and fifty quid a night.
Paul reckoned that you can’t visit Rio without going to see that big Jesus statue. Surprising really, as he already had a very good view of it from his top floor hotel room. As I’d been allocated a room with a view of a storage yard I was quite happy to head out and have a look before the football started.
It’s a complicated process to get all the way to the top, involving three separate buses or taxis and two different ticket offices. We lost patience before the end and so viewed it from a distance. It was close enough.
A rare view from behind.
Our first live game, Ghana v America, took place on a Monday night in Natal and so on Sunday afternoon we took the three-hour flight north. Natal didn’t look very impressive as we were driven through it after dark in a taxi, but that was okay as we were actually staying a little further along the coast at the seaside resort of Porta Negra.
The surrounding area had been affected by torrential rain over the previous few days, resulting in landslides, sinkholes and the cancellation of the Natal Fanfest. We didn’t see any of that though in Porta Negra, mainly because we spent the early part of Monday watching football on the telly in a bar.
A different bar.
Our hotel had organised a shuttle to the game. I didn’t see any Ghanaians on it but there were plenty of USA supporters. I’m fine with Americans. I’m even married to one. Maybe I’ve just got lucky though as the ones on the bus spent the majority of the journey whooping and hollering.
They even cheered as the bus set off and applauded when it arrived in the drop-off car park. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such excitable adults. If they ever win the World Cup I imagine a few of them might spontaneously combust. It would probably have been kinder to all concerned if someone had put eyeless hoods over their heads until we got there to try to calm them down.
We had a ten minute walk to the stadium, past a couple of busy bars. There wasn’t much in the way of security forces, certainly nothing like the presence that the UK media had focused upon. There rarely is though. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a football tournament that wasn’t preceded by the suggestion that we were all likely to be murdered or locked up. Or both.
Natal security.
Admission to the stadium was well organised, with a barriered queuing system funneling people towards the gates. The game was sold out but there were fans outside trying to offload spare tickets. I didn’t see anyone buying but I got the impression that prices wouldn’t be high. They looked like fans trying to get rid of extra tickets they had been stuck with rather than touts after a profit.
Whilst I might have been a little less than impressed with the hoo-ha on the bus, I couldn’t fault the USA fans for their enthusiasm for dressing up. Most were in team colours, the exceptions tending to be those in fancy dress, notably a top quality Vegas-period Elvis.
The Arena das Dunas.
It seemed like there was rain in the air and after witnessing the downpour on the telly during one of the earlier games at this stadium I was quite worried about the potential for drowning during the game. The tickets that we had were only Category 3 and so I wasn’t too confident that we’d be under cover.
The stadium has a roof, of sorts, but it appears to be more for show than for the benefit of the fans. If you were in the back few rows then I dare say you’d be fine, but most other places and you’d be in trouble. It looked okay in the poshest section where the roof will have covered the FIFA delegation and media seats.
We got lucky with our cheap seats, if you can call ninety dollars cheap. We were behind a goal but right up in the top corner. If it were to rain and providing the rain just came vertically down then we’d just about get away with it.
For those who like looking at tickets.
I’m amused at how much the rain bothers me these days. It wasn’t always like that. I remember going to watch the Boro at Oldham in the eighties and it pouring down all game. I was stood in the uncovered terracing behind the goal wearing a sheepskin jacket that may just have been briefly fashionable in certain circles, albeit fifteen years previously. That coat must have gained about three stones in weight by the time I got back to my car and when I removed it from the boot the following day it had dried solid and could stand up by itself.
Our seats were part of what looked like a temporary stand and so I assume that they will be removed after the World Cup to give Natal a stadium of a size appropriate for its needs. That’s fair enough. A full smaller stadium always beats a half-empty larger stadium for me.
View from the top corner.
As you may have seen on the telly the US took a very early lead. I did wonder how the fans from our bus will have reacted. Less than a minute into the World Cup and they’d already scored. Maybe they thought the scoring in football might turn out like basketball after all.
Ghana struggled to get back into the game until someone finally realised that what they needed was a Middlesbrough player on the pitch. With twelve minutes to go they unleashed Albert Adomah. Four minutes later Ghana had equalised.
“Boro Boys, we are here”
I like it when I see a Middlesbrough player at the World Cup. Paul and I were there when Stewie Downing come on as a sub against Trinidad and Tobago in Germany and then again when Chris Killen (remember him? Thought not) turned out for New Zealand four years ago.
Unfortunately Albert’s influence was fleeting as America went straight back up the other end and scored the winner. Typical Boro.
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I super enjoyed this post Craig, I felt close to the pitch – very interesting and enjoyable reading ! I have been loving this Fifa World Cup 2014. So the world wait’s in anticipation for the 8th and 9th of July to see which two teams will play in the final on the 13th ? Brazil, Germany, The Netherlands, Argentina ? ole, ole, ole, ole.
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Thanks Tracy, hope you and Rob are still having a good time in Seoul. I’m going to go for a Germany v Argentina final, with Argentina just sneaking it. So it will probably be Brazil then.
Your prediction is right Craig, a Germany v Argentina final ! I think Germany will win. Enjoy your time in Brazil. We are enjoying the combination of Seoul and Burlington, Canada this year due to Robs work. Looks like you both are enjoying South Africa from fb pics. 🙂
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Conservacíon de la conectividad: Algunas lecciones de pumas en el sur de California
: Conserving connectivity: Some lessons from mountain Lions in Southern California
Scott A. Morrison, Walter M Boyce
Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Habitat corridors can be essential for persistence of wildlife populations in fragmented landscapes. Although much research has focused on identifying species and places critical for conservation action, the conservation literature contains surprisingly few examples of corridors that actually have been protected and so provides little guidance for moving from planning through implementation. We examined a case study from southern California that combines monitoring of radio-collared mountain lions (Puma concolor) with an assessment of land-protection efforts to illustrate lessons learned while attempting to maintain ecological connectivity in a rapidly urbanizing landscape. As in many places, conservation scientists have provided science-based maps of where conservation efforts should focus. But implementing corridors is a business decision based not solely on ecological information but also on cost, opportunity cost, investment risk, and other feasibility considerations. Here, the type and pattern of development is such that key connections will be lost unless they are explicitly protected. Keeping pace with conversion, however, has been difficult, especially because conservation efforts have been limited to traditional parcel-by-parcel land-protection techniques. The challenges of and trade-offs in implementation make it clear that in southern California, connectivity cannot be bought one parcel at a time. Effective land-use plans and policies that incorporate conservation principles, such as California's Natural Communities Conservation Planning program, are needed to support the retention of landscape permeability. Lessons from this study have broad application, especially as a precautionary tale for places where such extensive and intensive development has not yet occurred. Given how limiting resources are for biodiversity conservation, conservationists must be disciplined about where and how they attempt corridor protection: in rapidly fragmenting landscapes, the opportunity for success can be surprisingly fleeting.
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AB - Habitat corridors can be essential for persistence of wildlife populations in fragmented landscapes. Although much research has focused on identifying species and places critical for conservation action, the conservation literature contains surprisingly few examples of corridors that actually have been protected and so provides little guidance for moving from planning through implementation. We examined a case study from southern California that combines monitoring of radio-collared mountain lions (Puma concolor) with an assessment of land-protection efforts to illustrate lessons learned while attempting to maintain ecological connectivity in a rapidly urbanizing landscape. As in many places, conservation scientists have provided science-based maps of where conservation efforts should focus. But implementing corridors is a business decision based not solely on ecological information but also on cost, opportunity cost, investment risk, and other feasibility considerations. Here, the type and pattern of development is such that key connections will be lost unless they are explicitly protected. Keeping pace with conversion, however, has been difficult, especially because conservation efforts have been limited to traditional parcel-by-parcel land-protection techniques. The challenges of and trade-offs in implementation make it clear that in southern California, connectivity cannot be bought one parcel at a time. Effective land-use plans and policies that incorporate conservation principles, such as California's Natural Communities Conservation Planning program, are needed to support the retention of landscape permeability. Lessons from this study have broad application, especially as a precautionary tale for places where such extensive and intensive development has not yet occurred. Given how limiting resources are for biodiversity conservation, conservationists must be disciplined about where and how they attempt corridor protection: in rapidly fragmenting landscapes, the opportunity for success can be surprisingly fleeting.
KW - Concorde fallacy
KW - Conservation policy
KW - Corridor implementation
KW - Habitat fragmentation
KW - Land-use plan
KW - Puma concolor
KW - Urbanization
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Decellularized rhesus monkey kidney as a three-dimensional scaffold for renal tissue engineering
Karina H. Nakayama, Cynthia A. Batchelder, Charles C Lee, Alice F Tarantal
Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, and General
The goal of this study was the production of a decellularized kidney scaffold with structural, mechanical, and physiological properties necessary for engineering basic renal structures in vitro. Fetal, infant, juvenile, and adult rhesus monkey kidney sections were treated with either 1% (v/v) sodium dodecyl sulfate or Triton X-100 followed by quantitative and qualitative analysis. Comparison of decellularization agents and incubation temperatures demonstrated sodium dodecyl sulfate at 4°C to be most effective in preserving the native architecture. Hematoxylin and eosin staining confirmed the removal of cellular material, and immunohistochemistry demonstrated preservation of native expression patterns of extracellular matrix proteins, including heparan sulfate proteoglycan, fibronectin, collagen types I and IV, and laminin. Biomechanical testing revealed a decrease in the compressive modulus of decellularized compared to fresh kidneys. Layering of fetal kidney explants on age-matched decellularized kidney scaffolds demonstrated the capacity of the scaffold to support Pax2+/vimentin+ cell attachment and migration to recellularize the scaffold. These findings demonstrate that decellularized kidney sections retain critical structural and functional properties necessary for use as a three-dimensional scaffold and promote cellular repopulation. Further, this study provides the initial steps in developing new regenerative medicine strategies for renal tissue engineering and repair.
Tissue Engineering - Part A
https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0602
Scaffolds (biology)
Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans
Collagen Type IV
Extracellular Matrix Proteins
Octoxynol
Laminin
Vimentin
Hematoxylin
Eosine Yellowish-(YS)
Collagen Type I
Fibronectins
Nakayama, K. H., Batchelder, C. A., Lee, C. C., & Tarantal, A. F. (2010). Decellularized rhesus monkey kidney as a three-dimensional scaffold for renal tissue engineering. Tissue Engineering - Part A, 16(7), 2207-2216. https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0602
Decellularized rhesus monkey kidney as a three-dimensional scaffold for renal tissue engineering. / Nakayama, Karina H.; Batchelder, Cynthia A.; Lee, Charles C; Tarantal, Alice F.
In: Tissue Engineering - Part A, Vol. 16, No. 7, 01.07.2010, p. 2207-2216.
Nakayama, KH, Batchelder, CA, Lee, CC & Tarantal, AF 2010, 'Decellularized rhesus monkey kidney as a three-dimensional scaffold for renal tissue engineering', Tissue Engineering - Part A, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 2207-2216. https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0602
Nakayama KH, Batchelder CA, Lee CC, Tarantal AF. Decellularized rhesus monkey kidney as a three-dimensional scaffold for renal tissue engineering. Tissue Engineering - Part A. 2010 Jul 1;16(7):2207-2216. https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0602
Nakayama, Karina H. ; Batchelder, Cynthia A. ; Lee, Charles C ; Tarantal, Alice F. / Decellularized rhesus monkey kidney as a three-dimensional scaffold for renal tissue engineering. In: Tissue Engineering - Part A. 2010 ; Vol. 16, No. 7. pp. 2207-2216.
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UK Anime Network - Manga - Gentlemen's Alliance Cross Vol. 1-2
Author: Ross Liversidge
Ross founded the UK Anime Network back in 1995 and works in and around the anime world, while also working across asia as an export ambassador for the UK textile industry.
Gentlemen's Alliance Cross Vol. 1-2
This is the first manga I've read by Arina Tanemura, and I can't say I was expecting much from it, but I have to say - this is great stuff!
The story centres around Haine, a young girl whose past is pretty tragic to say the least. As a young girl, her father sold her to a business contact to try to rescue his ailing company, and now Haine lives with the Otomiya family. Whilst her adoptive parents are supportive and caring, she hasn't seen her real mother since.
As an act of rebellion, Haine became a Yanki (a delinquent who typically wear long coats and start fights in the streets). Despite her diminutive frame, she's extremely tough and has a well deserved reputation.
However, when we're first introduced to Haine, she's a reformed character, and no longer lives a Yanki lifestyle. Demure and hard working, we only occasionally see her wilder side, but even though she suffers from heartache over the school's Emperor, Shizumasa Togu, she's certainly no victim.
That said, there are obstacles to her love. Firstly, she only ranks Bronze in a school that's divided by points and wealth into Gold, Silver and Bronze. Only the Emperor can be Gold, and that leaves Haine with some serious competition to beat to gain his attention.
Incredibly enough, events soon pick up at an almost unbelievable pace - by the end of the first book she's in an enviable position in the student hierarchy and her dreams may have a shot at becoming reality.
Apart from being a case that should really have been handled by social services, Gentlemen's Alliance Cross successfully creates a compelling social hierarchy and effortlessly works so much character and detail that I could scarcely believe it. At no point did I feel lost or bored, and the author has paced things so well that by the end of book two it feels like volume 10.
The artwork is also first rate, with plenty of screentone and detail to give the artwork depth. The character designs are attractive and distinctive, and the flow of the panels is spot on.
Fans of Shojo should grab this as soon as possible, as its a prime example of the genre. Along with Viz's other release this month, Nana, shojo fanatics have much to thank Viz for.
Highly entertaining and full of offbeat charm.
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PCMag UK | Opinions | News
UK Police Need to Put the Brakes on Facial Recognition
13 Jul 2019, 2 p.m.
Police in the UK, backed by the government, are testing a facial-recognition system that is 20 percent accurate and treating those who avoid its gaze as potential suspects.
Britain has a close relationship with security cameras. London alone has one of the highest ratios of surveillance cameras per citizen in the developed world. Estimates from 2002 put the number of surveillance cameras in Greater London at more than 500,000; around 110 are used by the City of London Police, according to data obtained through a 2018 Freedom of Information request.
Being recorded apparently is not enough; London's Metropolitan Police Service has been testing the use of facial-recognition cameras, and the effort has the support of Home Secretary Sajid Javid—who oversees immigration, citizenship, the police force, and the security service. "I think it's right they look at that," he said, according to the BBC.
Although the upcoming election will decide the new leader of the Conservative Party, who will also become Prime Minister, it is unlikely that government attitudes toward facial recognition will change. Javid might move to another part of the government, but the civil libertarian side of the Conservative Party has been relatively quiet of late.
SEE ALSO: London Underground to Get 4G Connection by 2020
The problem is, facial recognition—as it currently stands—is often inaccurate. London police have been using facial recognition since 2016, but an independent report revealed last week showed that four out of five people identified by facial recognition as possible suspects were actually innocent—a distinct failing in the machine learning used to train the system.
Professor Pete Fussey and Dr. Daragh Murray, from the University of Essex, analyzed the accuracy of six out of 10 police trials. Of 42 matches, only eight were correct, and four of those 42 were never identified because of crowding.
Nevertheless, the Metropolitan Police see the trials as a success and was "disappointed with the negative and unbalanced tone of this report," a deputy assistant commissioner told Sky News. The Met measures accuracy by comparing successful and unsuccessful matches to the total number of faces processed; by this rubric, the error rate was only 0.1 percent.
That was not the only error, however. The database used by the police was not current, and therefore identified people whose cases had already been closed. There is also "significant ambiguity" over the criteria around what puts a person onto the watchlist, the report states.
The Metropolitan Police informed citizens about the trials by handing out leaflets and tweeting, but the report deems this insufficient. "The information provided transparency regarding the time and location of the [live facial recognition] test deployments yet there was less clarity over the purpose of the deployment, who was likely to be the subject of surveillance, and how additional information could be ascertained," the reports says. Moreover, treating those who tried to avoid cameras "as suspicious...undermines the premise of informed consent."
The report concludes that it's "highly possible [the trial] would be held unlawful if challenged before the courts." The implicit legal authority "coupled with the absence of publicly available, clear, online guidance is likely inadequate" when compared to human rights law, which requires that interference with individuals' human rights be "in accordance with the law, pursue a legitimate aim, and be 'necessary in a democratic society.'"
Controversy Across the Pond
The United Kingdom isn't the only country struggling with this problem. In the United States, facial-recognition algorithms have been criticized after research by the Government Accountability Office found that the systems used by the FBI were inaccurate 14 percent of the time. Moreover, that number does not take into account "the accompanying false-positive rate presents an incomplete view of the system's accuracy," which can adversely affect minorities due to systemic bias.
Microsoft also rejected a request by California law enforcement to use its facial-recognition system in police cars and body cameras, because of concerns that its algorithm was not sophisticated enough. "Anytime they pulled anyone over, they wanted to run a face scan," Microsoft President Brad Smith said. "We said this technology is not your answer."
A number of cities have rejected it; San Francisco outlawed facial-recognition technologies for government use, and Somerville, Massachusetts, voted unanimously to pass anti-facial-recognition legislation because of its potential to "chill" protected free speech.
And while the United Kingdom's government can be much more compliant regarding potentially opressive technology—from internet regulation to stop malicious content on social media to a near-ban on pornography—its citizens should be careful letting it propogate.
Even if its accuracy improves, the difficulty in knowing when, where, and how facial-recognition software is being used means that it is difficult for citizens to give adequate consent to being constantly recorded and identified. There are too many warranted concerns about the data the algorithm is being trained on, the spaces being surveilled, and the effect it will have on our civil liberties for people let facial-recognition interfere with their right to a private life.
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Posted on April 29, 2013 March 19, 2019 by Veronica Sicoe
The 3 Types of Character Arc – Change, Growth and Fall
The main reason I disagree with people who claim every story fits the hero’s journey, is that it’s not the only character arc out there, and it really doesn’t fit every story. While I wasn’t sure why exactly my story doesn’t fit the description when I wrote the post on The Hero’s Journey – My Pros and Cons, my late yet intense study of Story Structure made things much clearer to me. So I’m excited to share my conclusions with you!
Character arcs. A character starts out as some guy, then stuff happens and he does some pretty crazy shit, which in turn changes who he is so he becomes a different guy. The end.
In all honesty, character arcs are so easy to explain because we’ve all experienced them. None of us is still the person we were with three years of age, or thirteen, or thirty. We all change, some for the better, some for the worse, and some change sideways. Hey, it’s alright, as long as we move on. It’s the same with characters, they move on as the story progresses, but the WAY in which they move on usually falls into one of three major categories.
Here be definitions.
The Change Arc — this is our good old “hero’s journey”, which basically has the protagonist change from an unlikely fellow into a savior and hero. This transformation is quite radical, and despite some inner strength that was “always within him”, pretty much all else about the protagonist changes drastically by the end of the story.
The Growth Arc — in this character arc, the protagonist overcomes an internal opposition (weakness, fear, the past etc.) while he faces an external opposition, and as a result he becomes a fuller, better person. He’s still pretty much who he was, just upgraded to Protagonist 2.0.
A common yet often overlooked variant of the Growth Arc is The Shift Arc — here, the protagonist changes his perspective, learns different skills, or gains a different role. The end-result is not “better” or more than the starting point, just different. The protagonist has not overcome a grand inner resistence or anything, he simply gained a new set of skills or assumed a new position, maybe discovered a talent he forgot he had, or a different vocation.
The Fall Arc — commonly known as a “tragedy”, the Fall Arc follows the protagonist as he dooms himself and/or others, and declines into insanity, immorality or death.
That’s it, three very different character arcs. And before anyone starts on semantics, yeah, I know growth implies change and change implies growth and bla-be-di-bla-blah. The point is to understand the different degrees and types of personal change, not to find out who’s vocabulary is bigger and harder, right? 😉
So we’ve got three major types of character arcs. How come so many people confuse them all for the “hero’s journey”? Well, I think it’s because the hero’s journey shows the most dramatic character change, and it’s the most common. It’s fairly easy to mistake it’s structure for THE character arc structure, instead of recognizing that it simply shares the same basic elements of character-driven story structure with other types of character arcs. It’s the story structure beneath it that’s universal, not the “hero’s journey” itself.
*sips some water*
*chokes on it and looks like a dork*
So which type of character arc should we pick for our story? That’s also easy to find out. All we have to do is to answer two questions:
1. What do we want our character to be like when the story reaches its glorious conclusion?
2. What do we want our character to start out as?
par example — If we want him to become the leader of a group of people, and we want him to start out as just any other member of that group, then we’re writing a Change Arc (everything else will fall flat and fail to make the ending believable).
But if he starts out as the leader of a rivaling group of people, then we have three possibilities:
– a Growth Arc if the rivaling group are the “bad guys” and our protagonist learns the error of his ways;
– a Shift Arc if the rivaling group are also “good guys” but with opposing interests;
– and a Fall Arc if the rivaling group are the actual “good guys” and our protagonist ends up leading the powers of darkness.
Knowing where we want our character to be at the resolution of the story, and knowing how they start out, gives us the kind of character arc we will need to develop. That’s important, because knowing what that arc is early on, will help us figure out what kind of scenes to write, what their impact will have to be on the character and what types of decisions they will have to make along the way. Not in detail, not exactly what they will decide and do, but what kind of personal attitude and strength (or weakness) they must bring to the table in which part of the story.
Now we know the starting point of our character and who we want them to be when the story reaches its finale. What we also need to know is the basic story structure that lives underneath every coherent, successful story. If you’ve read Larry Brooks’ awesome writing advice, heard Dan Wells’ funny lecture, or read Les Edgerton’s brilliant insights, then you know where I’m headed. If not, here’s my very quick definition of story structure, mixing these three perspectives with my own:
1. Set up
– showing the protagonist in his accustomed environment or role
– inciting incident — something stirs the waters, creates a surface problem to be solved, or promises trouble in the future
– first plot point — the true story problem is revealed, the core conflict that drives the story; everything changes from now on, it’s a point of no return
2. Reaction
– the protagonist refuses to face his new problem or pursue the new goal; he reacts to the change with denial, refusal or flight
– first pinch point — pinch points are used to create tension and apply pressure to the protagonist; the first pinch point is usually where the antagonist is revealed, or the gravity of the new situation is made clear
– mid-point — a critical piece of information is introduced which changes everything again — the protagonist’s (and readers’) understanding of the nature of the problem is altered; also, the protagonist decides he must stop running and act
3. Attack
– the protagonist becomes proactive, and starts to attack the villain or tackle his problem; however, he fails or worsens the situation (try/fail cycles that increase tension)
– second pinch point — the antagonist (or opposing force) reveals their full strength, and all seems hopeless and lost; the protagonist reaches his lowest point
– second plot point — the last piece of critical information is introduced, and now the protagonist understands how to defeat the antagonist, or what to do in order to solve his problem (it can be an external piece of the puzzle, or the realization that the “power is within him”)
4. Resolution
– everything we’ve set in motion comes together now; no new information or characters are introduced
– climax — the actual show-down between protagonist and antagonist (or opposing force), in which the story promise is fulfilled (more on that in a future post)
– denouement — the protagonist assumes his new position, and major loose ends are tied up; also, if need be, the hook for the sequel is introduced or hinted at
All clear?
So how does story structure look when it comes to the different types of character arc?
The Change Arc Story Structure
1. Setup
Old order: the protagonist in his natural environment, with his old role and familiar problems; usually the opposite of what he will end up.
– inciting incident = the hero is ripped out of his normal life and environment by a change
– first plot point = the hero learns or decides he must embark on a new journey
– first pinch point = the nature of the opposing force is revealed; the hero reacts (flees, hides, refuses to take responsibility, tries to escape or break-off the journey, etc.)
– mid-point = something happens which makes the hero realize he must assume his new role and grow into it, and take the fight to the villain
– second pinch point = the villain gains the upper hand (either the hero’s allies fall to the villain, or the villain is shown in full strength, dominating the field); it seems as though the hero has no chance, and he reaches his lowest point
– second plot point = the last piece of information is delivered or discovered, and now the hero knows exactly how to defeat the villain; by this point he has also grown into his new role, and can use his new skills
– climax = show-down between hero and villain, where the hero uses all he’s learned, and even more (a daring move, a genius tactic, or simply a previously untried combination of skills) to emerge victorious
– denouement = the hero returns to his old environment as a new person, and is now accepted and praised for his new role.
Sounds very familiar, right?
Now here’s the structure of a Growth or Shift character arc. Either one is frequently found in romance novels, thrillers, horror, adventure, even science-fiction.
The Growth & Shift Arc Story Structure
Old order: the protagonist is pursuing some semi-interesting goal that he thinks is the most important thing for him; or he’s just going about his merry life
– inciting incident = a change happens, which hints that what he thinks he wants (his old goal) might not be what he should be pursuing, or not what he really needs; or he meets someone who makes him question his perspective on things. Note: in Growth & Shift arcs, the inciting incident is usually very subtle, and in fast-paced thrillers it can even coincide with the first plot point
– first plot point = the protagonist does something that sets him on an entirely different path (can be a perceived mistake, a misunderstanding, etc.); or something happens to the protagonist that forces him to change his direction, and he sets a new goal; or he is simply given the opportunity to do something that has nothing to do with his old goal, but which turns out to be just the challenge he needs to get out of his rut
– first pinch point = the new path brings only trouble to the protagonist, and he tries to drop the new goal, flee from the new problem, force his way back into his old life, or simply tackle it the way he’s always tackled things in his life (it obviously needs to fail); the first pinch point is the moment the protagonist meets true opposition, hardship or failure
– mid-point = a crucial piece of information is revealed that changes the protagonist’s perspective on the whole situation, and thus his understanding and his tactics; it can be the transition from reaction to action, or simply a radical change of approach in fixing the problem he’s facing
– second pinch point = the protagonist’s first attempt to do things right this time, but he screws things up even more; or the opposing force (must not always be a “bad guy”, it can be an abstract problem, a mystery, the odds mounting against the couple coming together, whatever) pulls the rug from under the protagonist’s feet leaving him hopeless and devastated
– second plot point = the last bit of information is discovered (or the last straw falls on the camel’s back), that helps the protagonist take the difficult decision or make the right move to reach his goal
– climax = the protagonist faces his problem head-on, and succeeds
– denouement = the protagonist gets to fully enjoy the fruits of his hard work (gets the love of his life, defeats the mafia, etc.)
And finally, we have the structure of the Fall character arc, commonly known as a tragedy in literary circles.
The Fall Arc Story Structure
Old order: protagonist is happy, safe and fulfilled
– inciting incident = something interferes with the protagonist’s happiness; this can either be a suspicion, the past coming to haunt him, a new person interfering with his life, etc.
– first plot point = the moment when the new disturbance causes old personal demons to show their ugly faces, or when it directly endangers the protagonist’s way of life; from now on, it’s clear that not all is well in paradise, and that something must be done
– first pinch point = because Fall character arcs typically have an internal plot (even if it’s garnished with external conflicts and transitory antagonists), the first pinch point is the moment when the protagonist finds the first undoubtable evidence that something is wrong with him, with someone close to him, or with everyone else (humanity, the world, etc.)
– mid-point = the protagonist confronts his suspicions or the person he believes to be the cause of the disturbances, and realizes the situation is much worse than expected; this can take many shapes, from confronting a suspected loved one for having an affair, or confronting the shady coworker for conspiring against him, down to confronting imagined (or delusion-induced) antagonists in unfavorable circumstances, which only lead to the protagonist becoming convinced of an even greater evil going on
– second pinch point = this is where the protagonist does the first truly horrendous thing (to protect himself or others); it’s a point of no return for him in his transition from normalcy to despair, decay or immorality. Instead of an outside antagonist proving his power, we have the protagonist do something that would have previously been considered uncharacteristic, something born out of fear, jealousy, hatred or delusion, which will set the avalanche of character failure in motion
– second plot point = the last piece of critical information comes into play, and it devastates the protagonist; it can be proof that he was wrong the entire time but now it’s too late to make good on his actions, or it can be the last piece of the puzzle he’s trying to solve which reveals the only possible action left to take — and it’s not a positive one
– climax = the protagonist takes that final action which seals the deal; he dies, kills someone, loses his sanity, dooms a great number of people, or something equally tragic
– denouement = if there even is a denouement (in case the protagonist dies, especially if he’s also the narrator, then the story ends at the climax); now the protagonist is shown in the new context, doomed by suffering or displaying the characteristics of a villain
That’s about it. Three different types of character arcs, all based on the same underlying story structure.
In the case of my story—which I’m currently reworking on a “detailed outline” level (to give you awesomely supportive guys a little update)—the protagonist follows a Growth Arc. She does not change fundamentally as the story progresses, but she changes her role and defeats internal opposition as she faces external odds. She evolves and grows, but she doesn’t become a hero, savior, role model or anything like that. It’s most definitely not a hero’s journey, but it definitely is a character arc with all the necessary elements that show innner conflict and change. I bet if you haven’t written such a story, you can at least think of one you’ve read, which has a strong character arc but no “journey” to heroism. Right?
Oh, and one more important thing.
I strongly believe there are no laws in fiction, only guidelines. There are exceptions to every rule, black sheep in every herd and a genius in every generation. But I think it’s safer—for me—to assume that I am not the exception, the black sheep or genius among all others, until actual real experience proves otherwise. I find it better to start out following a proven structure, and try to shine with my concept and characters, than to break rules haphazardly in hopes of creating something unique.
We need to take a good look at the needs of our individual stories and respect them, not force them into a mold or experiment on them like we’re Mengele’s apprentices. 😉
So what type of character arc have you written in your latest story? I’m curious!
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Caitlin Millar says:
Hi Veronica! Thank you for such a helpful article! This completely frees me from my worry that the protagonist’s character development has to be one of simple Growth where they overcome inner fears and struggles, as is very popular in a wide variety of novels. I currently have a protagonist who doesn’t have a Growth Arc development as I have her written so that she’s already overcome her internal struggles before the setting of the story (as many of my supporting characters do have quite prominent Growth Arcs and I wanted her to be different), and as such I was struggling with her development for the setting of the story. Thanks to your article I’ve now realised that I had already subconsciously set my protagonist on the path of the Shift Arc, as she goes from being a wanderer who always works on her own because of her skills and is away from her guild for great lengths of time to having the mantle of Guild Leader thrust upon her and she has to learn to adapt and shift her priorities while trying to be a good Guild Master. It’s not the Change Arc, because she’s not the hero at the climax, just the person ensuring that the heroes of the story can get back up and fight.
So again, my thanks for this article! Three years of positive comments and it’s still providing us all needed and welcome help!
Veronica Sicoe says:
Hi, Caitlin! I’m thrilled my post was able to set your mind at ease about your character’s arc. There’s always more than one way to do something right in fiction, and it’s important to know you have options. I’m really glad to have been of help in shedding some light on the many ways a character arc can be done right. Yours certainly sounds like a classic shift arc, the story of a character who is already strong, and just needs to wield her strength in a new, bigger way, to evolve from an individual to a leader.
I wish you the best of luck with your story, and the many more to come. 🙂
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joan ramirez says:
This is just what I needed for my romantic suspense. Do you have a newsletter?
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Madge Warnke says:
Hi Vero! I’m so glad I’ve come across this post!
Right now, I have a story I have a project of a story that was embodied in an independent film, is about a young woman who is as invisible to her family, practice Rugby, has a life of debauchery, and during the story the young woman is seen having momentary pleasures but really rises Every day looking contemptuously at herself.
At the end of the story shows the young woman in the bathroom crying and reveals that she is aborting, finally puts the fetus in a bag and the scene ends with her lying down and alone.
My question would be how could I give an impact turn to these scenes in a trailer, according to the structures?
I really considered using the Fall Arc Story Structure, but the character does not have moments of happiness, since he suffers internally, the climax of the movie would be abortion but at the suggestion of the board, he would like to show the decadence of the character without revealing much about the movie.
I am a little confused.
I would appreciate your feedback too much.
Right now, I have a project of a story that was embodied in an independent film, is about a young woman who is invisible to her family, practice Rugby, has a life of debauchery, and during the story the young woman is seen having momentary pleasures but really rises.Every day looking contemptuously at herself.
I really considered using the Fall Arc Story Structure, but the character doesnt have moments of happiness, since she suffers internally, the climax of the movie would be abortion but at the suggestion of the director, she would like to show the decadence of the character without revealing much about the movie.
Thanks for this. Working on a story.
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Larry Cockerham says:
I would say that my protagonist’s journey would be considered a “fall”. Over the span of the four novels in my sci-fi series, she has become stronger, yet more immoral in her quest for supremacy. I didn’t start out to do this on purpose; it just evolved into this over time.
Thanks for the article as it gives me one more piece of the writing puzzle to chew on.
Thanks for commenting, Larry. I’m glad you found my post useful. Good luck!
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Great article but I still have a question. Can an arc be both a shift arc and a fall arc? My current protagonist falls for most of the book, repeatedly making horrific decisions in the name of saving his people. By the time he realizes what he has done, it’s too late but he has a redemption moment. Does this work? I’m having trouble fitting it into any particular arc. Thanks
Hey Abbie,
The arc you just described sounds awesome. Don’t worry about naming the puppy, as long as it wags its tail and makes people happy (erm, you know, as long the arc is engaginc and makes sense) you’re good.
Have fun tormeting your protag! 😉
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Linda Berger says:
You are an amazing teacher! I found your blog post at just the right time. Thank you for sharing this.
Do you have thoughts on causes of transformations? I can think of epiphany and initiation but there must be more. I’m not even sure if the vocabulary for this.
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SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 25 February 2019 - Redefining insurance is no easy task, but the investors behind Sunday, an under-the-radar startup, believe that the InsurTech has the right model and is set for massive growth in Southeast Asia. This firm has successfully raised USD 10 million in its Series A funding round led by Vertex Ventures SEA and India. Beyond that, an insurance group also owns a stake in the business and has contributed the use of its general insurance license to the Thailand-based InsurTech which transforms the startup into a full-blown insurance company.
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New Delhi (3 MIN READ): If you have always been fascinated by the idea of flying a fighter aircraft on a combat mission for the Indian Air Force (IAF), you can do it right from the comfort of your living room now.
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#MobileGame : Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee & the Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa launched IAF’s latest 3D Mobile gaming application ‘Indian Air Force: A Cut Above’ on Air Combat at National Bal Bhawan, New Delhi, today.@SpokespersonMoD @PIB_India pic.twitter.com/9JlsGFxybv
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Varthaman was captured and later released by Pakistan after his aircraft was shot down in an aerial dogfight soon after the Balakot airstrikes.
The missions on the app are dramatic. Take the surgical strike mission for example. Inspection of a damaged dam reveals that it was sabotaged by a terrorist group from a neighbouring country. India’s diplomatic engagements with the neighbouring country to mete out justice to the terrorist group fails. You go on a surgical strike mission to strike deep into the enemy camp with precision weapons.
You choose a multi-role Mirage 2000 aircraft armed to the teeth with weapons such as the MICA, Griffin LGB, Spice 2000 bombs and 30 mm autocannons.
With these, you drop laser guided bombs on the enemy camps, provide support to a team of ‘Garud’ commandos and also provide it cover to exfiltrate from the area.
The game, which has been launched with a single-player version, includes nine other combat missions of similar nature.
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A player is required to carry out a combat air patrol and intercept incoming enemy fighters and bombers in ‘air defence ops’.
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Five condescending compliments nobody should really want to hear
theguyliner November 2, 2013 Single survivalDILFfetishgay stereotypeshot gingernot entirely serious life coachingstraight actingno comment
Think you’re being nice with your throwaway accolades? Think again, baby cakes. Call me over-sensitive (if you dare), but I could really do without some of these more patronising praises.
Hot ginge
When I was first born, my mother looked at me in the overbearing light of the hospital ward and thought she detected a hint of ginger in my hair. It wouldn’t be totally unsurprising – two of her siblings are redheads.
“Shit,” she thought.
Not because red hair is unattractive, but because ginger people are the focus of teasing and bullying at school and beyond. Plus they burn very easily in the sun and my mother is a sun-worshipper in excelsis. In the end, it was just the lights playing gingery tricks, and I spent my childhood blond before turning to mousey, then brown and now ‘salt and pepper’ or whatever the hell this current shade is.
So I’ll never know the ‘thrill’ of being defined as a ‘hot ginge’, but if I were ever called it, I would have to seriously think about putting something nasty in my detractor’s tea.
People who say ‘hot ginge’ think they’re being funny or ‘ironic’ but they’re insulting and stupid. Their throwaway ‘compliment’ suggests it is somewhat unusual for a redhead to be attractive, fetishising them into nothing more than a sexual curiosity.
It’s no better than the old chants of ‘Fanta Pubes’ we’d hear on the school bus. What, I’m ginger but you still think I’m attractive? I am so honoured. Thank you!
The male version of the horrible frat boy platitude “Mum I’d Like To Fuck” pretends it is meant in good spirits. It appeals to our inner vanity: somebody wants to have sex with us! How thrilling! My dried up husk of a body will has the ability to arouse.
And yet it is a promise made with crossed fingers, a kiss on the cheek while winking at somebody standing behind you.
‘DILF’ tells you that despite your greying hair, nascent jowls and crinkly eyes the shade of faded denim, you’re still a ‘honey’. This young person, who has yet to stare down in horror and desperation at their swelling belly and seriously debate whether it’s time to go up a size in their underwear, is validating you by saying “Hey, you’re an old dog but I’d still teach you a new trick or two”.
The compliment is utterly false, by the way. Make an experienced, efficient move on this pullet and you’ll get only wild-eyed panic and an awkward laugh. Sure, they would do you, but they don’t need to – they’re still young with infinite smooth-skinned options available to them.
If you’re secretly pleased at being branded a DILF then good for you, but you’re essentially saying you’re happy to be a fetish. You’re a Bournemouth bondage weekend in chinos. Hallelujah.
You look good for your age
Don’t even start. Anyone who enjoys this compliment is prostituting their dignity in exchange for a cheap thrill. What does a 40-year-old look like anyway?
“You look good for your age” says that despite being an ancient, animated cadaver in actual years, you are somehow managing to deceive everyone well enough to pretend you’re younger. You’re well preserved, in other words. Great, you’re a jar of pickled onions.
I don’t look good ‘for my age’; I just look good. Fucking good.
I’d never get away with wearing that
Translation: You’re dressed like a twat. I wouldn’t have the balls to ‘rock’ that look because I like having friends and not being stared at in pubs. But, yeah, you go girl.
Be suspicious of anyone who says you look “amazing” when you’re officially ‘not sure’ about your outfit. Check for side-eye.
You’d never guess you were gay
Well, this is exciting. Somehow my compulsion never to leave the house without a butt plug swinging from one end and a man’s tongue jammed in the other has gone unnoticed. I have snuck under the radar and fully assimilated.
People say things like this to you because they imagine gay people don’t want to be identified as gay. In a way, they’re right: it’s just shagging after all. But this compliment isn’t presented in a way that says “I just see you as a person, not defined by your sexuality” – it is saying you don’t fit the gay stereotype, or their idea of one. And they feel they should congratulate you.
If you’re a gay guy and get this backhanded bouquet, it usually means you’re not screamingly camp, which of course would be social death because being a bit of a nancy boy is the very worst thing in the world. Never mind that Soho and its global equivalents are chock-full of this kind of guy – the true gay man ideal is to be just like a straight guy.
Lesbians who get this are usually assured they’re not man-hating bull-dykes in dungarees. “Oh my gosh you wear lipstick and high heels and aren’t burning your underwear on Greenham Common! Well done you!”
I know men who would be secretly thrilled to be told people can’t tell they’re gay and I feel a little bit sorry for them. When it has been said to me – and it has, quite often, GO ME – I usually reply with a glib “Give me five minutes with your boyfriend and you’d soon be able to tell, believe me”.
Saying you can’t guess my sexuality by looking at me isn’t a compliment – you’re trying to reassure me that I’m just like everybody else. But I already knew that.
What’s your least favourite backhanded compliment? Tweet me or whatever.
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DILF is clearly a stupid word but I don’t think people who use it are using it to say it’s a pity fuck. Quite a few people are turned on by sleeping with guys significantly older than them, and it’s BECAUSE of the age gap, not despite it. Why this is – maybe it’s “daddy issues”, maybe it’s them narcissistically objectifying themselves (‘oh look at me i’m soo young and i’m being ravished by a man twice my age’ or what have you) … dunno I don’t think ‘DILF’ is only used in a hypothetical sense about who you would fuck … i’ve heard people proudly recounting experiences with DILFS.
iamamro says:
Brilliant writing, as ever, Mr Liner.
Great piece. Smart and clever.
Yeah these compliments are usually rare to hear but once you do, it truly puts you off! 🙂
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Nice topic here i also have a “not to say list ” wanted to share 🙂
“Then I guess we shouldn’t be dating!” “Why can’t you be more/less like my ex?” “I’m just too tired from working all day to help you with that.” Let’s go grave digging!” “Do as I say, not as I do!”
“You’re a lousy lover!” “You knew I was this way when you met me!” “No comment.”
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Keke says:
Great article. I have red hair and although no one has called me a “hot” or “not hot” ginger to my face, I have dated guys who after we break up, I come across their old girlfriend on FB or see them and a new girl in public and low and behold l, they ALSO have red hair. We look nothing alike, except for the hair. It’s an odd feeling to realize they just saw you as a fetish. Also, I’ve had people say “Oh! You look just like [insert any female celebrity with red hair]!” Um, no I don’t. We have totally different face shape/structure, noses, eyes/eye color, height, weight, body shape, and even sometimes ethnicity. But ya we look exactly alike!
Thank you! And, God, yes, the fetishising of physical attributes, or even AGE in my case, drives me mad.
I seem to get for some reason quite often, “you’re smarter than you look” which i never really deal with very well TBH….not sure if they’re saying I look dumb and that I’ve surprised them with average levels of smart looking knowledge or that I look average smartness and I’ve dazzled them with a over average smart levels
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With bounce, swagger and syncs, Confidence Man take their show to the world
By Lars Brandle
Shout Lars Brandle a coffee
Sync or swim? Why not have both.
Today, Sync can mean so much more than a bonus stream of ancillary income or a sugar hit. The right record twinned with the right campaign can turbo-charge a song, an album, and an artist’s catalog. Sometimes, a raft of sync campaigns can power-up an act, lifting them to festival heavyweight status, and into far-flung markets. Confidence Man has the right tracks, the right campaigns and their story is blowing up.
When a plan comes together, the right response might be to just sit back and marvel. Stu McCullough has played a key part in the border-crossing story that is Confidence Man, who join The Jungle Giants and others on the books for his company Amplifire, the Brisbane-based artist management and label services company.
Last week, McCullough could’ve been excused for letting it all soak in. A grueling 12-week tour of Europe paused briefly at London’s Scala, a sellout for Confidence Man’s last show in the capital this year. The group, featuring Janet Planet, Sugar Bones, Reggie Goodchild and Clarence McGuffie, had the crowd of 950 jumping for a few hours.
“They were climbing anything that resembled a dance floor,” McCullough recounted on social media. Just two months earlier, ConMan played – and sold out – London’s Village Underground.
Confidence Man rock the Scala
Next stop: festival slots in Italy, Cornwall, Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands and France for the last two weeks of the tour before Listen Out shows in Australia in September. “It’s been quite the adventure really,” McCullough tells TIO. “The offers keep coming in and we have to turn down a lot because we can’t fit them all in.”
All the ingredients are in the mix with this particular Australian success story. Talent, tunes, a live show, hard-work, and a professional network that extends across the globe. That team extends across Europe, where Confidence Man enjoys the support of independent music company PIAS (parent of Australia’s Inertia Music), and into the world of synchronisation, or “sync” in shorthand, through an arrangement with U.S. based music licensing and publishing firm ZYNC, a specialist in placing music into visual media, from TV to film, ads and games.
Confidence Man is hard to pigeonhole. They’re dancey, but not EDM. It’s pop, but not as you know it. There’s a touch of Groove Armada, but they answer to nobody. And you know their stuff, even if you didn’t realise it.
The live shows are the driver of ConMan’s breakthrough in Europe. Syncs are hitting a groove, turning things up a notch. Without fanfare, their music has powered campaigns for the world’s biggest companies, including four spots for Apple, the No. 1 company by market cap and the first trillion-dollar business, the flat-pack furniture king IKEA has launched big-spend campaigns with ConMan’s Music, including the clever “dancing aprons” spot, which features “Boyfriend,” lifted from the group’s 2018 album Confident Music For Confident People.
For Australia, the IKEA campaigns were particularly intensive, with full TV radio and online pushes, the immediate impact of which can be felt in digital consumption.
“We’ve seen songs sitting at No. 25 in our all-time streaming catalogue into the top 10 off the back of a very good campaign,” notes McCullough. For Confidence Man, “there’ve been syncs from day one, across multiple tracks. I’m sure there will be more. We’ve had some very good wins straight off the bat.”
The conventional wisdom would have it that syncs are essentially promotional devices. And unless you’re managing the copyrights of The Beatles (the producers of Mad Men reportedly coughed up $250,000 for the user of a master recording of “Tomorrow Never Knows”), the cash will clang in our pockets. Not so. “I do think syncs pay well,” explains McCullough. “It’s the nature of each deal, you‘ve got to look at it and the scale and whether music drives it. You do have to keep that mindset of, is this a good campaign to be a part of? We still turn down syncs that aren’t 100% appropriate.”
In another signal of the growing appetite for ConMan’s music, the Aussie act last month signed to ZYNC Powered by Round Hill Music, a newly-formed joint venture of ZYNC and Round Hill Music, the music rights company, an arrangement that promises to mine more opportunities, more sync gold.
“Their music catches your attention within the first 5 seconds,” explains ZYNC co-founder Sanne Hagelsten. “It’s colorful and unique so it stands out amongst the thousands of other songs supervisors, TV networks, film studios and trailer houses are being sent.”
So, what works on screen? “We always need songs in the ad world with a good tempo, drive, that feel bright, punchy and fun, not to mention it helps if songs are incredibly catchy,” says Hagelsten. “In our work we are always looking for upbeat, rhythmic music that makes people feel good. confidence man does exactly that.”
Also, Hagelsten notes, ConMan’s songs give a supervisor or editor dynamics to play with when cutting to picture and moments where they can grab short lyrical soundbites. “It’s rare you find an album like this one where almost every song has those characteristics.”
The band’s success had already been on a few key European tastemakers’ radar ahead of their signing to the U.K.’s Heavenly (off the back of “Boyfriend”), but it really escalated after their performance at The Great Escape in May last year, recalls Vincent Fenice, Director of International at PIAS, who shared the ConMan story from the stage of the Indie-Con in Adelaide.
Watch Confidence Man perform ‘Boyfriend’ live at Splendour In The Grass 2017:
The U.K., France and Germany are climbing on board. “Their style of their music, the energy of their performance and their mindset of not taking everything too seriously was something we had been missing from the music industry in quite a while – and they managed to fill that gap.”
ConMan’s sync story is still in its early days, especially in North America, explains Hagelsten. “We have just started rolling out the music worldwide,” she says.
“We’re on the constant hunt for the perfect places where each song can fit. For us, there will be years of syncs for this album and we will spend the next year hyper focused on rolling out their music on a song by song basis for specific projects and high profile opportunities across ads, film, trailers, TV and video games. We love this band.”
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Reality Winner Was Not Told She Had the Right to Remain Silent
Trevor Timm
September 1 2017, 3:15 p.m.
At a court hearing on Wednesday, a federal judge agreed to delay accused leaker Reality Winner’s trial until March. The delay will allow Winner’s lawyers and expert witnesses to acquire the required security clearances needed to access classified information the government may use against her in court.
A potentially critical pretrial battle, however, is brewing right now, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Winner — the 25-year-old Air Force veteran and ex-National Security Administration contractor indicted under the Espionage Act for allegedly leaking a top-secret document — has accused the FBI of violating her Miranda rights. Winner’s lawyers are arguing that any alleged confession should be barred from a jury trial.
“Because Winner was not read her Miranda rights prior to law enforcement questioning,” Winner’s lawyers said in a memo supporting their motion, “any statements elicited by law enforcement from Winner during the encounter must be suppressed, as should any evidence obtained as a result of those statements.”
Winner is accused of having leaked an NSA document that was the basis of a story published by The Intercept on June 5, though The Intercept has no knowledge of the source’s identity. (The Intercept’s parent company, First Look Media, has taken steps to provide independent support for Winner’s legal defense through the Press Freedom Defense Fund. First Look also contributed $50,000 in matching funds to the Stand With Reality campaign, which I co-founded.)
Winner was denied bail shortly after her arrest and is currently in jail awaiting trial. Her case is the first leak prosecution the Trump administration has brought under the Espionage Act, as part of a wider crackdown on leaks. Winner’s case is widely seen as having enormous implications for both whistleblowers and the press. The Miranda rights argument made by her defense adds a potentially significant early wrinkle in what is almost sure to be a complex case.
In the Justice Department’s June 5 complaint, an FBI agent claimed that when Winner was questioned at her house two days earlier, she voluntarily confessed to being the source of the leak.
In the Tuesday filing, Winner described, for the first time in her own words, the events that transpired when the FBI raided her home in June.
In a four-page written declaration, Winner told the court that 10 armed, male FBI agents came to her house with a warrant to search the premises and her person. While there, she said, agents pressured her into consenting to an interview, giving her the impression she did not have a choice to leave. “During the entirety of my encounter with law enforcement on June 3, 2017, prior to being arrested, I was never provided any Miranda warnings,” Winner wrote.
In other words, the FBI didn’t inform her that she had the right to refuse to answer questions or cut the interview short, or that anything she said could be used against her in court, or that she had the right to an attorney — all constitutional requirements, thanks to the famed Miranda v. Arizona Supreme Court case.
Winner wrote that when agents started searching her house, two of them “told me that they wanted to speak with me and asked if I would rather speak with them in my house or at the FBI office.” They then directed her to a cramped, unfurnished backroom in her home, despite her initial protests that she did not want to talk to them in the “creepy” and “weird” 7-by-9-foot room. Once there, she sat with her back to the wall, with the door almost all the way shut, as agents stood in front of her “physically blocking the exit to the room.”
According to Winner, while agents told her the interview was “voluntary,” they did not inform her that she could leave and refused to give her a direct answer when she asked if she was being arrested. After the interview concluded, the agents directed her to stand in her yard. Then, two female FBI agents showed up and arrested her.
Miranda rights are not limited to interrogations that occur after a suspect is arrested. Suspects are supposed to be apprised of their rights during any “custodial interrogation,” essentially any place where a suspect feels that they are not allowed to leave.
Miranda cases, however, are often “messy,” University of Texas School of Law professor Steve Vladeck told me, because the exact definition of a custodial interrogation can be murky. Courts undertake a balancing test — comprised of over a half-dozen factors — when determining whether a questioning is considered a custodial interrogation.
Winner’s case may meet that definition, Vladeck said. “I have to say, if everything happens the way she claims, it’s a pretty good argument,” he said. “The circumstances weigh pretty heavily in favor of concluding that this was a custodial interrogation.”
That’s because, as Winner’s lawyers noted, many of the factors federal courts have looked at in other cases point to a conclusion that agents should have been required read Winner her Miranda rights before they conducted any interview. The Tuesday filing cited previous cases’ examinations of “whether law enforcement ‘unambiguously advised’ the suspect she was free to leave and not in custody”; “whether the suspect was separated from others during the questioning”; “whether law enforcement had a search warrant for the person of the suspect”; “the number of law enforcement agents at the scene”; and “the physical characteristics of the interview location.”
University of California, Davis law professor Elizabeth Joh came to a similar conclusion about Winner’s case. “She certainly could have a valid argument,” Joh told me on Tuesday. “While she wasn’t arrested at the time of her questioning, Miranda requirements kick in any time there is a situation of custodial interrogation. That includes formal arrest, but can also include situations that amount to a coercive atmosphere that looks and feels like the equivalent of an arrest.”
“I’m surprised that her rights weren’t read to her.”
Both Vladeck and Joh emphasized, though, that these types of Miranda claims are always decided on a case-by-case basis — and because there’s no hard and fast rule, it’s ultimately up to the trial judge to look at the entirety of the “circumstances surrounding the interrogation” and the “broader picture” of the scene, as the Supreme Court puts it.
Joh added that she would have expected more diligence from law enforcement officials in such a high-profile case. “I’m surprised that her rights weren’t read to her,” Joh said. The allegation “that she provided documents to The Intercept made immediate national news, so it was clear that this was a case people would pay attention to. And most defendants end up waiving their rights and talk. The government may ultimately win on the ‘no custody’ argument, but it’s a complication for them for the moment.”
Top photo: Accused leaker Reality Winner leaves the U.S. District Courthouse in Augusta, Ga., following a bond hearing on June 8, 2017.
Trevor Timm[email protected]freedom.press@trevortimm
September 13 2017, 8:38 p.m.
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Anyway, I hope will have a fair trial, that is all is asking for, and I hope wins.
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I hope you receive the correct solution to soon.
Doesn’t matter — she’s still toast. There’s still a lot of evidence even in the unlikely event that her confession gets tossed.
Leakers like this one need to be made an example of. Raked very hard over the coals.
September 5 2017, 9:06 a.m.
Will Jeremy Scahill ever update his pod cast?
Andrea Dworkins Daughter
Speaking of “white women can’t STFU”…
https://www.damemagazine.com/2014/12/15/white-women-please-dont-expect-me-wipe-away-your-tears
She should just plead insanity. After all, she is a white female, and those beeyotches are biologically incapable of STFU. It;s in their jeans, just dying to get out.
*white womans tears*
And LOADS of insulting privilege.
And that statue in Wall Street- the one by Ariel Levy, the other white meat? You know-the little white girl looking the WS Bull square in the eye? Try that as a black or Hispanic girl.
Um. Yeah. them white beeyotches can’t shut up and get off the stage-ever. AND, when they take a political leak instead of a principled one FOR ALL PEOPLE, even THAT is cherished.
The only whistle’s women like that are blowing are the Anti Defamation League’s gnarly, maimed putzes, and all them bushy headed cannibals from the desert tribes who hate real Jews jus can’t get enough white female psychobabble.
They’re so easy to program.
These guys and their shiksa whores should stick to spying instead of pimping shiksa’s all the time. Oh wait! Why not run two industries at once! Swallows of a feather…..
NSA/FBI/DEA/ADL mass surveillance and spying started here:
https://www.nsfwcorp.com/feature/relax-everything-will-be-fine/
bayoujac45
Do you think the Federal Government cares if rights were violated? Hell Edward Snowden would be in America again.Who’s rights are being violated, the governments or the people’s?
Mudbone111
Telling government secrets ,,,,,,, tch,,,,,tch !!!
Since they are paying her legal fees, articles are going to be bias , especially after admitting one of their reporters fabricated stories and quotes discovering a deception pattern , also being arrested in march 3 2017 in connection with a string of bomb threats made against Jewish centers , indicated on federal cyberstalking
J Hughes
What’s with Americans arrested by the law?
Each month there are hundreds of TV shows where you hear the phrases “I want a lawyer”, “Miranda Rights”, etc.
How come all these arrestees – in real life – don’t make like TV arrestees and “demand their rights”.
Or they could grab medication then claim they were unfit to be questions.
Cops have to wear cameras – perhaps the FBI should be forced to wear them or audio recorders, too. It’s accepted fact that Cops lie (aka ‘alternative truth’, ‘vivid imagination’).
Perhaps The Intercept should reduce all incoming documents such as these to plain text using Courier New. Security people are known to use butchered fonts – easily assigned to individuals – in order to track printer usage.
The Intercept, the beneficiary of the alleged leak, should b doing more for the woman.
TheScaleman
Set Reality free on bail.
Put Trump in jail.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-ran-congress-911-investigation-the-intelligence-committees-today-cant-handle-russia/2017/09/01/665f0d04-8c31-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
September 3 2017, 12:17 p.m.
I really hope The Intercept provides us with some kind of explanation about what the hell is going on with the Russian embassies. I mean, the way the news reads it sounds like the U.S. practically barged in there with a surprise search warrant while the Russians were frantically burning their secret documents like they were in 1970s Tehran. Has the idea of diplomatic facilities gone the way of the dodo and domain name/search engine neutrality? How many weeks does Assange have left before the British come in to get him, and will they bother sending him to Sweden first?
Bowiepoet
I think the ‘above the law’, lawless nature of our police departments & specifically here..with the FBI is apparent. They should have been told to dot every i, would have known this would be challenged under federal Whistleblower protection laws..so ten agents and not one remembers Miranda rights?
By the way, who investigates the FBI? DOJ? I really don’t know, law isn’t my field. So if Loretta Lynch can break the law to protect her job & her party, her boss… is there any hope for justice now?
The FBI is denying they have Seth Riches laptop, why? Who will stand for justice there?
September 3 2017, 12:34 a.m.
Sounds like Mr Trump’s lawless thugs FUBAR.
I hope this is an auspicious beginning…and let this be a lesson to all law enforcement, in 2017.
Please consider providing a physical mailing address to facilitate sending paper letters of support to Ms Winner. Thanks.
Dick yeah
Oh yeah, I forgot, the assholes at the NSA are above the law.
John Carr
If the NSA hires losers like this lady, all the secrets are out in the public. Give me one reason to trust these NSA punks?
William Bednarz
First – I would have clammed up the minute they said search warrant….
Next before allowing them to search I want a lawyer to read the warrant..
(warrants have to state what they are searching for – otherwise its a free for whatever they find)
IF you are SEARCHING FOR A KNIFE – and find a gun not listed on the warrant it is not admissible (I’m a little shaky about the workings so again – WHERE’s the lawyer …..)
Kevi
I thought we did away with the necessity
I thought we did away with the necessity to read the Miranda rights years ago?
Paddy Kevin
I believe that’s only in terror or support for terror questioning? I wouldn’t say it was explained to me but, in the face of material support alegations you can apparently be rendered?
gezzerx
Just more proof of the Government breaking the law to enforce the laws it wants to enforce, while ignoring the Constitution. This has been going on for decades ! ! !
To be honest with you even without her admitting guilt they already have a paper trail of her doing it, this is ridiculous to delay the inevitable she still going to get tried for leaking classified information
Glint BG
It’s just her lawyers grasping at straws and maximizing billable hours — especially now that organizations like the one in the URL line are throwing money at them. Plus the Intercept feels guilty and is trying to make it up with glowing, one sided, coverage.
This woman is an idiot. She reminds me of those dummies on the tv show Cops. She might have a legal case that she was not read her Miranda rights, but not knowing that she didn’t need to talk to investigators is moronic; especially considering the seriousness of her crimes.
She calls a room in her own house “weird” and “creepy”?!?!? LOL!!!
I love whistleblowers, but I have no sympathy for this one. She was a reckless, partisan hack; not someone trying to do good for the country. She’s obviously not very intelligent either.
Clark Bryan
She is not a “whistleblower.”
She was trying to promote a story which is supported by the
agency where she worked. She did not adhere to their rules about
how their propaganda should be distributed. A whistleblower
would be working against the propaganda instead of promoting it.
William Bednarz Bryan
Calling her an idiot is foolish. It is not her place to know – that they are “required” to read her – her rights….. If anything they are the idiots trying to pull a fast one – it is part of their training to know to read her – her rights……NOW everything is tainted – throw it out and start from scratch……and I’m willing to bet all of it is tainted. That’s a problem they created for themselves
wayoutwest William Bednarz
Winner is an air-head because of the stupid worthless crime she committed for idiotic political reasons. Her bragging about her crime to the FBI while not being in custody just shows her malady may be incurable.
She has destroyed her career and lost her freedom but maybe she can pick up some life tips from the stupid criminals she meets in prison.
It’ll be her word vs the FBI that raided her on the Miranda thing. If there are no witnesses there she’s out of luck at any chance for a motion to suppress, the court will side with law enforcement generally. She faces an institution that has statistically a 99% conviction rate, if she fights this in court she’ll almost certainly lose and get several times what the plea bargain offered will be. http://justicedenied.org/wordpress/archives/3190
wayoutwest Wayne
Winner should get a couple of years in prison to digest her stupid actions but she is following the lead of these opportunist lawyers and will pay for it. Her statement about the FBI interview reeks of coaching verging on lying.
I read that she stated to her interviewer that the information in the documents she released had already been leaked and reported on which is true. She apparently thought this made her document release no big deal which is criminally stupid. What was in the documents was not the crime releasing the documents, any classified documents, is a crime.
Wayne wayoutwest
I get that, but none of those facts truly matters in Federal Court, they will convict her, no matter what the facts are. Please read the link I posted above look and study the acquittal statistics. I know firsthand from experience serving time in a Federal private run facility exactly how the court works, there’s a 99.8% chance she’ll be convicted and serve time in prison. That’s all I’m saying, if they point the finger at you for instance, you’re going down, and if you don’t go along with their plan and take the plea they’ll even possibly involve a family member or business aquantance, if you fight it you’ll serve multiple times the sentence they proposed. She will serve time.
I hope she spends the rest of her life behind bars.
The lawyers are over-arguing this. The mere possession of a warrant to search her person establishes she was in custody and not free to leave. Since the agents proceeded to exploit this detention to interrogate her – it’s a custodial interrogation. Notice that in the case law they cite there is no example where the agents had a warrant to search person.
Reality Winner is/was a government agent who was promoting
a story about SUPPOSED Russian manipulations
which have NEVER been proven.
If you think she is some heroic “whistleblower,” then you are
easily manipulated.
The eagerness of some at the Intercept to try to invest in her
as if she is anything more than a suspiciously gullible agent
is pathetic.
This whole thing smells suspiciously like a planned manipulation.
The FBI may have been doing the right thing here. It is in the best interest of the nation that this information be made public. It in no way threatens national security. Only threatens Trump. The laws are obviously flawed and need to be rewritten. Only a matter of time and the FBI will be reading Trump his Maranda rights.
Art JC
Presuming you’re liberal / progressive / against fascism / against stupidity, you’d better well hope that the FBI doesn’t read Trump his maranda rights while he’s POTUS; that would guarantee an even WORSE outcome for the country: president Pence with BOTH houses of congress in R hands.
Trump is, at least, an incompetent executive, while Pence would be very effective at following through… Better be careful what you wish for; you might get it.
They don’t need her confession. Now they just have to work harder. She won’t be bragging about this at the gym any time soon
Mark Warner Bob
What a grounded and logical comment to make. I’m sure you feel super awesome about whistleblowers facing serious prison time. And WTF do you know about whether she ever did or would ever brag?
Nyasha Bob
Work harder? As in, eat more jelly donuts?
I forgot which case, but it was held because someone merely remained silent after being arrested, but didn’t specifically invoke the 5th amendment rights, that silence could be used as evidence of guilt.
There are videos about “Never talk to the police”. Beyond all the crypto and other things (and don’t show them actual printouts) the Intercept does a disservice by not mentioning how to clearly and specifically invoke constitutional rights. 1. Record if possible every interaction. 2. invoke your rights and shut up.
Truth Seeker tz
“Let’s go see the magistrate right now” works really well.
The cops don’t know what to do. They just know they can’t intimidate anymore because you’re ASKING to see the judge… pronto.
The statement is actually means you want “preliminary /probably cause hearing” before an actual judge (aka magistrate) instead of the the redneck with a badge standing in front of you waving his pecker in your face.
If the govt. wanted to put her away that badly, who’s fault is their stupidity w/no Miranda reading? Remember, former CIA Director Petraeus deliberately gave CLASSIFIED information to his now ex-lover. Then he lied about it to the FBI in HIS interview. These are felonies. If you’re convicted, this means lots of jail time. Then (unless your pardoned), try doing lots of things w/a felony conviction on your record. Find a job. A place to live. Vote.
What happened to him? His attorney (Hillary’s attorney and one of the most expensive and powerful in DC) got him off w/a fine. Just because of his money, power and connections. Meanwhile Winner? Roast her alive. Can we put her to death under the Espionage Act?
wayoutwest
If Winner pleaded guilty claiming Trumpophobia caused her temporary insanity she might avoid a long sentence. Allowing her opportunist lawyers to convince her to lie about her interview that took place before her arrest may cause the judge to come down hard on her at sentencing.
The young woman is a dummy caught in a politically motivated leak that she proudly defended when questioned by the FBI, this is not in any way related to whistleblowing.
Mr S wayoutwest
She has never claimed she was the leaker and neither has The Intercept. The FBI is the only one claiming she is the leaker.
wayoutwest Mr S
Winner has claimed responsibility for the leak and the Intercept helped the FBI directly trace the leak to her due to their incompetence. Releasing classified documents is a crime and the FBI investigates this type of crime while the DOJ is prosecuting Winner for the crime of leaking what she knew were classified documents.
Nyasha wayoutwest
I would say Reality is the winner here, which has nothing to do with the total nonsense your trying to push. Talking about liars, do you work for the FBI?
thank you for this report Mr. Timm.
The erosion of American rights is what the criminal minds that run the US gov need to promote wars, WMD, and wallstreet theives who are prepping for the next big robbery.
This disrespect of Americans is a mindset that one adopts in order to support the will of the criminals running the gov.
HOWEVER… Suppose police pull over a car with 2wm seen near a home burglary. The officer sees a set of kitchen plates and linen in the back seat. Can the officer ask “How much time did it take you to steal that stuff in the back seat?” without reading him his rights?
Homer Formby Gladio
In actual practice you don’t get Mirandized until they ask you to put stuff in writing THEN they give you a form that says you’ve been advised of your rights.
If this could be explained to me. Why is it that information that the Russian Federation hacked into American voting machines an American military secret classified as top secret? It almost makes one think that the Russian Federation spies and hackers were working for (or with) the US military in trying to impact the outcome of the American election.
I would like another explanation that makes sense. Is it not important that the makers of voting machines and local election authorities throughout the nation should know that there had been attempts, successful or not, by foreign hackers to subvert the outcomes of elections in their jurisdictions.
Having Winner go to jail for this is foul and disgusting. The people in the federal government hiding this information from election authorities are the real criminals. They are conspiring with foreigners to throw an election.
stars hollow Agamemnon
Why is it that information that the Russian Federation hacked into American voting machines
That was never suggested even by anyone in the intelligence community.
Agememnon stars hollow
From the original Intercept article:
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/
“Sure enough, VR Systems advertises the fact that its EViD computer polling station equipment line is connected to the internet, and that on Election Day “a voter’s voting history is transmitted immediately to the county database” on a continuous basis. A computer attack can thus spread quickly and invisibly through networked components of a system like germs through a handshake.”
VR Systems, the Florida company alleged to be hacked into by the NSA document disclosed to the Intercept, makes part of the “voting machinery,” the software that communicates the votes from the machines to the county or state office that tabulates votes.
Homer Formby Agamemnon
It’s classified so the Russians don’t find out that they hacked the election!
This seems like an awfully stupid thing for FBI agents to forget.
That said, what difference does it make? I thought they had damning evidence before any conversation.
The “leak” was so trivial, its prosecution so rapid, that from the beginning I’ve suspected some kind of set-up. For Winner to do hard time though seemed a disproof, because how did they get her to go along with it? (She’d have had to, or else she’d have provided a more thorough leak) So if she manages to go scot-free or nearly so, then the set-up theory is back on the menu. Question then is … who is being set up and how? It could be a bunch of spies trying to justify their own spying by their own criteria according to some obsessive compulsive paranoid schizophrenic logic almost unknowable to ordinary men. Or maybe something more obvious not started yet against The Intercept. I don’t know why the numbers don’t add up.
Benito Mussolini Wnt
I think you are essentially correct. The FBI probably believes their case is so strong, they didn’t need her confession to be admissible in court. They probably figured they could learn more about potential co-conspirators without a lawyer present. Lawyers often advise their clients not to say anything, unless a plea deal is offered.
Wnt Benito Mussolini
You tell me I’m essentially correct, then come up with a mundane explanation to demolish my conspiracy theory. Always a kidder, Duce.
I wasn’t trying to demolish your theory. Something doesn’t add up, but we don’t have a lot to work with.
We now have one small additional fact – the FBI didn’t tell Ms. Winner she had the right to remain silent. The FBI is not some local cop who forgets to read the suspect their rights. Therefore it is almost certain they made a conscious decision to interrogate her without a lawyer being present.
Assuming the FBI knew that Reality Winner was the leaker, (as she had confessed), their next question would have been did she act alone? The information she leaked does not appear to be material associated with her own job. Therefore either someone gave it to her, or she happened to find it. If someone gave it to her, presumably it was because they knew she identified with The Resistance and would possibly leak it. If so, they are the real leaker and Ms. Winner was just a patsy. So why haven’t they been charged? Either there is no second person, or that person’s actions were approved by the CIA.
If that’s person’s actions were approved by the CIA, then Ms. Winner was merely carrying out the wishes of the CIA, which is what she was paid to do as an employee.
MLK's Cointelpro
If we have “Equal Justice Under Law”, where nobody is above the law, not even a president, wouldn’t we also have to criminally prosecute several members of the Bush Administration?
Former Qwest Communications CEO, Joseph Nacchio, claims that the Bush Administration asked his company to participate in the felony crime of warrantless wiretapping in the “winter” of 2001 – this was before 9/11 had happened so there was no wartime reason or emergency circumstance. When Nacchio refused to participate in the felony crime, the Bush DOJ found a reason to indict and convict him, then threw him in prison.
Even if think Nacchio should have gone to prison – the fact remains that the Bush Administration did commit felony crimes by forcing other telecoms to warrantless wiretap. There was no 9/11 and no War on a Tactic in the winter of 2001.
Reality Winner should have “Equal Justice under Law” as the Bush Administration. Remember Richard Nixon also claimed presidents were above the law.
Homer Formby MLK's Cointelpro
Uh, 9/11 happened in September 2001, so “in the ‘winter’ of 2001″ would be AFTER. Be smarter, won’t you? Seriously, if you can’t keep basic facts straight what good are you?
Jay-Ottawa Homer Formby
Joeseph Nacchio was approached by the NSA for his customers’ data in February 2001. That year, September came after the cold months of January and February.
Exactly where “Winter” sits on the calendar can be confusing for people who don’t follow the NHL Hockey Season. Up here in True North––and increasingly south of the border where our best players are lured away by big money––the windup of the regular season on ice takes place in Jan-Feb-March, well before any day of September of that same year.
The Stanley Cup playoffs fill the months of April, May and June. That leaves July, August and September, which are set aside for player visits to orthopedic surgeons and the structural repair of hockey rinks.
Winter resumes with the first face-off of the season in early October and continues through December. In summary, winter is split over nine months, whether played under firs or palms, and bookends the month of September in most years.
Northwestwoods Jay-Ottawa
Bravo , Jay :)
America’s Justice System is out-of-order. When the DOJ criminally prosecutes the DOJ lawyers that approved torture, blacklisting and warrantless wiretapping (felony crime) – then they will have the integrity to go after the “little people”. The abuse of the Espionage Act of 1917 is also criminal in the way it has been exploited in a fraudulent manner to silence legal whistleblowers.
None of these DOJ lawyers have been indicted or held responsible for violating Ronald Reagan’s Convention Against Torture. One was promoted to a federal judge. There is harm when America’s Justice System starts resembling those of despotic regimes and practices used by former enemies.
Bryan MLK's Cointelpro
It is truly amazing the horrible things powerful people get away with in America.
HippoDave
Good grief, for the past few days whenever I want to scroll down to read good comments it instead scrolls to other articles. Maybe I’m the only one with this problem? It’s annoying. A billion dollar website that can’t function.
On topic: Miranda rights even despite court rulings aren’t absolute I think. And I sure hope The Intercept is paying all legal fees for her, since their utter incompetence (along with hers) outed her.
UseRecoveryKeyForMirandaRights HippoDave
It’s annoying. A billion dollar website that can’t function.
Yes, outside of Federally Approved Healthcare sites, it’s shocking! Just shocking!
firstpersoninfinite HippoDave
Nope, it’s happening to me too when I click on comments. It goes to other articles immediately. Annoying. And I have a pop-up blocker.
Kitt HippoDave
And I sure hope The Intercept is paying all legal fees for her,
Did you not bother to read the article? And, if you did bother, did you not bother to open the link which was noted with the words “taken steps?”
a href=”https://theintercept.com/2017/07/11/first-look-to-support-defense-of-reality-winner-in-espionage-act-prosecution/”>taken steps
HippoDave Kitt
Uh. Yeah. “Taken steps”.
So no, they aren’t paying all legal fees for her. They are “taking steps” to have others not them donate in order to do so, with “matching funds” as some kind of honorable thing. Utterly pathetic. THIS SITE OUTED HER. NO ONE ELSE SHOULD PAY FOR HER DEFENSE.
That The Intercept set up a kick-start like fund to raise money for her defense rather than doing it themselves is just one more vomitous moment of this particular tale. A blight. A stain.
You’re too much of an idiot to read the link. Consequently, you don’t what you’re talking about. You’re just being an asshole in order to delight in being an asshole.
-Mona- Kitt
Dave is more right than I am willing to discuss here. You have my email address if you would like to know the information not included in Trevor Timm’s piece that, in my strong view, should be.
JD -Mona-
You have my email address if you would like to know the information not included in Trevor Timm’s piece that, in my strong view, should be.
I don’t have your email address, Mona, but I would like to know the rest of the story.
I’ve noted some of your previous comments excoriating The Intercept for failing in its duty of care for their alleged source, and iirc at least one of the reporters for T.I. had some role in compromising John Kiriakou and getting him sent upriver on a 30mos. trip.
Did you bother to note your precious link also doesn’t say that The Intercept will not actually pay all her legal fees out of their own pockets? A whole lot of words and then a “general fund”. Eye-roll worthy.
Point me to an article here or elsewhere where “The Intercept will pay for all of Reality Winner’s Legal Fees”.
Show me such or admit that you are a liar. Or an ignorant. If the latter, it can get better. You might become aware. Seek objectivity. Stop lying.
HippoDave HippoDave
Just even binary logic: 1 or 0. Yes or no. Does The Intercept fund all legal fees for Reality Winner? No. Duh. End of logic and discussion.
Sorry for being an asshole. I’d blame my alcoholism but that’s not an excuse. Live well and prosper, everyone!!!
john anderson HippoDave
Did you bother to note your precious link also doesn’t say that The Intercept will not actually pay all her legal fees out of their own pockets?
as Winner’s CIA handler on the retail side, TI needs to establish an intermediary regarding the $$$
I never stated that The Intercept said they were going to pay all of her legal bills, so fuck you and your inability to read. What I did do was point out that your claim that they are only supporting part of a general fund is not half of the story. Details, or whatever detail The Intercept felt they could provide without doing damage her case, are at the link I suggested.
You see, the thing is there is no way that I can know exactly what all The Intercept is doing in regard to her defense or her legal fees. The same, although you’re inanity won’t allow you to admit it, holds true for you. But yet you insist on making demands based on your ignorance. And then you go on to call anyone (me) who doesn’t agree with your demands or with your ignorance a liar.
Joshua88 HippoDave
Do you *open* the comments section first?
JD HippoDave
I had the same experience today and it so annoyed me that I complained via email to various Intercept/FL employees, who will of course ignore the feedback.
Tom Scharf
She also had the right to be stupid, and fully engaged in that right. She did the crime, she should do the time.
Even if you escaped on this legal technicality all the other damning evidence is enough. For example, a certain news organization sent the government enough to track her down.
WLTW Tom Scharf
I cant tell if your against whistleblowers and/or find them annoying because they reveal how corrupt the US GOV can be. I find it interesting how folks get more annoyed with the leaker instead of the actual findings and discoveries. ITs counterproductive and keeps the oligarchy or plutocratic system we live under intact.
stars hollow WLTW
She’s suspected of petulantly leaking internal documentation that originated from somewhere that suggested that over a dozen agencies claimed Russians had undue influence over the election, so she could prove Trump is the bad man and undeserving of a win she thought Bernie was.
A real whistleblower.
Mark Warner stars hollow
Interesting. I’ve never read the federal criminal code, but I wouldn’t have thought that the degree of petulance associated with a given crime was knowable without intimate knowledge of the defendant or that it was a qualifier for the types of charges they ultimately face.
stars hollow Mark Warner
It’s in the guidelines.
Rod Coleman WLTW
Reality Leigh Winner revealed how corrupt the US government can be? How?
Don Midwest USA
Why was the FBI in such a hurry?
Again the factor of intimidation is clear. 10 FBI agents vs. 1 woman?
They wanted to hit the press with the story right away.
And prove that they are protecting “national security”
An important piece today tweeted by Glenn Greenwald about the claim that the DNC hack was an inside job. An article published by VIPS is contested by other members of VIPS. Long comments on technical issues of the alleged hack of DNC by the Russians.
Since this allegation could in an extreme case lead to Nuclear War, one would think that responsible agencies would actually make their evidence public.
A Leak or a Hack? A Forum on the VIPS Memo
A letter from dissenting members of VIPS, a reply from VIPS, and the results of our independent review.
And we still have the stories out there from Kim Dotcom that he was in contact with Seth Rich who was the possible source of DNC emails.
The DNC was not concerned enough to have the FBI do a forensic analysis of their system but they cheer on the arrest of a potential whistleblower.
stars hollow Don Midwest USA
Kim Dotcom is noise. I believe nothing he says about Seth Rich.
firstpersoninfinite Don Midwest USA
Thanks for those links. At least minds are on the actual details, and not just on the propaganda side. Seems to me the dissenters to the original VIPS memo have been gotten to. They actually use the Washington Post as part of their argument! The reply by the original VIPS memo writers shows the intent to deceive pretty clearly in the dissenters.
avelna2001
I would hope that the courts side with her, but even it they do, the PTB will probably have not problem ignoring the findings. We haven’t really lived in a representative democracy with checks and balances for a very long time now.
rrheard avelna2001
Well the real problem is that even without Ms. Winner’s confession or any proof of her guilt they obtained as fruit of that confession, and even if suppressed, it likely will not have bearing on the rest of the proof that the government likely has from independent methods of collection pursuant to valid warrants–assuming Ms. Winner was the leaker.
rrheard
In a fair US system of criminal justice, Ms. Winner would win this suppression motion easily but for the fact the US Supreme Court has basically gutted the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution over the last 40 years in the name of fear and law and order.
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Quinnipiac Poll Finds 93% of U.S. Voters Support Legalizing Medical Marijuana
February 23, 2017 by Anthony Martinelli
A new Quinnipiac University Poll has found that the vast majority of American voters believe that marijuana should be legal, and that the federal government should respect states’ rights.
According to the poll, an overwhelming 93% of U.S. voters believe that marijuana should be legal for medical purposes. A strong, though obviously smaller majority (59%) is in support of legalizing cannabis for all purposes.
The survey also found that 71% of voters (including a majority of Republicans, Democrats, independents, and every age group) oppose the federal government enforcing federal marijuana laws in states where the plant has been legalized.
Read moreQuinnipiac Poll Finds 93% of U.S. Voters Support Legalizing Medical Marijuana
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World’s Largest Cannabis Policy Group (MPP) Endorses Gary Johnson for President
June 15, 2016 by Anthony Martinelli
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson (photo: thelibertarianrepublic.com).
The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the largest cannabis policy group in the world, has officially endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson for president of the United States. Johnson is the former governor of New Mexico (1995 – 2003).
“Of the three presidential candidates who will appear on the ballot in all 50 states and D.C., Gary Johnson clearly has the best position on marijuana policy”, says MPP Executive Director Rob Kampia. “When he first advocated for legalization in 1999, he was the highest-ranking public official in the U.S. to do so — as the sitting Republican governor of New Mexico, no less.”
Read moreWorld’s Largest Cannabis Policy Group (MPP) Endorses Gary Johnson for President
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MPP Updates Cannabis Scorecard for Presidential Candidates, Includes Third-Party Nominees
May 31, 2016 by Anthony Martinelli
The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the nation’s largest cannabis policy organization, has released their updated presidential candidate voter guide for the general election, which now includes third-party candidates. The full guide can be found by clicking here.
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, who was nominated Sunday by the Libertarian Party, and physician Jill Stein, the presumptive Green Party nominee, were both added to the voter guide, and both received “A+” grades. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump received a “C+” – primarily based on his past support for legalizing medical cannabis – and the two remaining Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, received a “B” and an “A,” respectively (though in all honesty, we here at TheJointBlog do take issue with Clinton receiving a “B”, when all she supports is rescheduling cannabis to schedule 2 alongside drugs such as cocaine; and even this she didn’t support until the current election cycle).
Read moreMPP Updates Cannabis Scorecard for Presidential Candidates, Includes Third-Party Nominees
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The Top 10 Cannabis Policy Victories of 2015
December 23, 2015 December 23, 2015 by Anthony Martinelli
By Rob Kampia, Marijuana Policy Project
In 2015, state legislators considered bills to legalize marijuana in 21 states, decriminalize marijuana possession in 17 states, and legalize medical marijuana in 19 states.
Most of the action in 2015 was aimed at achieving substantial victories in 2016, which is slated to be the most successful year in the history of the movement to end marijuana prohibition.
With this in mind, the Marijuana Policy Project is hereby releasing its top 10 list for 2015. I’m excluding international and scientific developments, instead focusing on policy developments in the United States.
Read moreThe Top 10 Cannabis Policy Victories of 2015
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Oregon: Legal Cannabis Sales Begin Tomorrow
September 30, 2015 by Anthony Martinelli
Legal cannabis sales are set to begin in Oregon tomorrow, October 1st, making it the third state in the nation to allow such sales.
Adults 21 years of age and older will be able to legally purchase up to a quarter-ounce of cannabis and up to four cannabis seedlings from certain medical cannabis dispensaries. This allowance, approved by the legislature in July and signed by Governor Kate Brown the same month, gives adults a legal means of purchasing cannabis while the state develops a regulatory structure that will eventually govern the recreational cannabis market. That system is expected to be implemented sometime next year and will be overseen by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
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Categories News Tags governor kate brown, lauren vazquez, legal cannabis sales, legal marijuana sales, Marijuana Policy Project, MPP, oregon cannabis sales, oregon liquor control commission, oregon marijuana sales, oregonoregon Leave a comment
World’s Largest Cannabis Organization Names ‘Top 50 Most Influential Marijuana Consumers’
August 28, 2015 August 28, 2015 by Anthony Martinelli
Earlier this week the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) released its annual list of the “Top 50 Most Influential Marijuana Consumers” in the United States, with President Barack Obama topping the list.
The list is available below and by clicking here.
“About one out of every two Americans has used marijuana, including a whole lot of very successful people,” said Mason Tvert, MPP’s director of communications. “There are a lot more out there that we don’t know about because it is illegal. Marijuana is a less harmful substance than alcohol. Adults who use it responsibly should not have to choose between keeping it a secret or admitting to a crime.”
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Massachusetts Legalization Campaign to be Led by Former Assistant Attorney General
July 15, 2015 by Anthony Martinelli
The Massachusetts Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol announced Wednesday that former assistant attorney general Will Luzier will lead
the campaign in support of a 2016 ballot initiative to end cannabis prohibition in Massachusetts.
In addition to serving as assistant attorney general of Massachusetts, Luzier served as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Interagency Council on Substance Abuse and Prevention from 2008 until April 2015.
Read moreMassachusetts Legalization Campaign to be Led by Former Assistant Attorney General
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Nation’s Largest Cannabis Policy Organization Launches Voter Guide to 2016 Presidential Race
June 26, 2015 June 26, 2015 by Anthony Martinelli
Rand Paul earns the top spot on the list of 22 presidential hopefuls graded by the Marijuana Policy Project; Chris Christie and Rick Santorum receive lowest grades
The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the nation’s largest organization working to change cannabis laws, has launched a voter guide to the 2016 presidential race, detailing the candidates’ positions on cannabis policy and assigning them grades based on where they stand.
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Categories Miscellaneous, News Tags 2016 presidential election, 2016 voter guide, chris christie, Marijuana Policy Project, mason tvert, MPP, mpp voter guide, presidential candidates, rand paul, Rick Santorum 2 Comments
Happy 4/20!
April 20, 2015 April 20, 2015 by Anthony Martinelli
at TheJointBlog would like to tell all of our readers – and anyone else who may have stumbled upon this article – Happy 4/20!
This 4/20, we encourage you to keep a few things in mind:
Progress!
Huge advancements in the cause to end cannabis prohibition have been made since the last 4/20. These advancements not only include two states – Alaska and Oregon – legalizing recreational cannabis through voter-approved initiatives, it also includes the nation’s capital legalizing cannabis, and several states legalizing cannabis for medical purposes.
Read moreHappy 4/20!
Categories News Tags 420, alaska, change.org, d.c., Marijuana Policy Project, MPP, norml, oregon, progress, real time, real time with bill maher, thejointblog 2 Comments
Initiative to Legalize Recreational Cannabis Filed in Arizona
April 17, 2015 by Anthony Martinelli
An initiative
to legalize cannabis, titled the Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act, was filed today in Arizona.
The proposal was filed with the Arizona Secretary of State by representatives of the Marijuana Policy Project, Safer Arizona and Arizona’s cannabis business community.
“It was a long and deliberative drafting process involving a diverse group of stakeholders,” says Carlos Alfaro, Arizona political director for the Marijuana Policy Project. “There were some bumps in the road, but in the end everyone came together to produce the best possible law for Arizona. We are united in this effort to end marijuana prohibition and replace it with a system in which marijuana is regulated and taxed similarly to alcohol.”
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Movies starring Wallace Macdonald
The Range Feud (1931)
64 mins Western
Back in 1931 when "The Range Feud" was made it would have been Buck Jones who would have drawn audiences to watch yet now over 80 years later the attraction is John Wayne. But like so many of early John Wayne movies this is j...
Two-Fisted Law (1932)
"Two-Fisted Law" is billed as a John Wayne movie and to be honest I can understand why as whilst Wayne only has a supporting role it is his name which will attract people to watch far more than its star Tim McCoy. But this is...
Texas Cyclone (1932)
In my book John Wayne was the biggest western star of all time but there was a time when even The Duke wasn't the first name on the credits and "Texas Cyclone" is one of those times. Instead it is Tim McCoy and his ridiculous...
* This is purely a list of reviews on The Movie Scene featuring the name Wallace Macdonald as one of the principle cast members.
Simple list of Wallace Macdonald movies
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Buy used cars in Montgomery – Know the Lemon Law
Those who wish to buy used cars can do so easily in Montgomery. You can buy used and cheap cars at seized car auctions or repo auctions. You can make your cheap car purchase by selecting from a range of cars such as sports vehicles, BMW’s, Suv’s and other vehicles. You can also bid for cheap cars online. Everyday new confiscated cars come up for sale at these auction sites and you can buy your car easily. The public can participate in such auctions and find and bid on a car of their choice. You must also know about the lemon law existing for used cars in Montgomery where you will be entitled to get an express written warranty with the vehicle. The express written warranty can take the form of a separate limited warranty issued by the dealer, the period remaining in the manufacturer’s warranty or an extended service contract or warranty that can be purchased from the dealer when you buy the vehicle. In case you possess such a warranty, the new lemon laws would be applicable in your case.
Consumer protection statues also exist in some states which prevent unlawful practices in the sale of used cars. Such law also stipulates that the car dealer respond to queries in an honest way. The dealership also has to reveal other facts such as whether the used car was salvaged, a rental or used for demonstration purposes etc.
The government and banks also take steps to dispose the cars under their hold through the used car auction in Montgomery. These cars are disposed by such institutions quickly because they become a great burden on the financial resources of banks as they have to be maintained properly. Seized vehicles also find a place in these auctions. The vehicles get seized because of being used for illegal purposes or owing to mortgage default. Hence you can easily buy cheap cars in Montgomery from the government auction or live public auction. Cheap cars, pre-owned cars, repo cars, seized cars etc can be bought easily through such auctions.
By browsing through the newspapers and other automotive magazines, you can know more about such auctions easily. You can also know the process of auction and details about how to participate in auctions. The banks and government agencies also can guide you regarding the auction process and also help with loans for car purchase. You can know about the arrival of new vehicles so that you can make your decision accordingly. You can also get all relevant information required by you online. You can also come across used car deals in areas near to Montgomery from the car listing available online. You can make arrangements for the pick up of the car from the auction site after the completion of the auction process. You must also possess other relevant documents such as license so that the entire process can be simplified further.
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John A. Segur Wildlife Refuge
December 28, 2019 December 28, 2019 ~ lmachayes ~ 2 Comments
I never had the good fortune to meet John A. Segur, but I’ve given him thanks repeatedly over the years. You see, Mr. Segur left a bequest to the Greater Lovell Land Trust to preserve habitat so that native wildlife might thrive.
It was my choice today to check on how that was playing out as I circumnavigated the John A. Segur Wildlife Refuge from Farrington Pond Road. Since the parking lot isn’t plowed for the winter, I pulled off at the cul-de-sac at the end of the road, which actually was a better spot because I didn’t want to be enticed to follow the trails.
A wise decision it was, for as I tramped along the property line on a northeasterly route to start, a grin immediately emerged. It was the downhill slide that made me instantly happy for I knew that rather recently an otter had also visited the refuge. As it should.
The bottom of the slide ended at the shore of Farrington Pond, a view those of us who visit the refuge rarely see for there is no path to it. But I rather like it that way for bushwhacking allows for new discoveries that aren’t as sterile as a maintained trail. And I suspected Mr. Segur would have felt the same. Plus, his vision was all about a wildlife corridor.
He also would have smiled when he realized that the beavers by Farrington had been active at some point in the fall. Unfortunately, (or as I’m sure some neighbors feel: fortunately) I didn’t see any other “fresh” beaver works, though I didn’t walk all the way around the pond, so I’m not sure of their status in this locale.
But, they had visited in the past including at least ten years ago, based on the growth rings on display around the wound. It’s my understanding that Eastern Hemlock is not a favorite species of beavers and they will often girdle a tree by eating the bark and cambium layer all the way around the trunk, perhaps in hopes it will die. I’ve heard a few theories on this including that beavers do such so that their preferred species will have a chance to grow where the hemlock once provided so much shade that no other trees could set root. But here’s another to throw onto the table: what if the beaver starts to dine and then realizes the flavor is not to his liking? And so he moves on to another tree. Hey, it’s just a theory.
Another thing about beavers is that sometimes they chop down trees that don’t exactly fall as planned. In this case, the entire upper portion dangles from another in the form of a widow maker–as in, don’t stand, or in this case sit, below it.
While studying the tree and thinking about the beaver, I looked down to the pond and saw more mammal sign. Can you spot the otter slide?
Eventually my bushwhack led me toward a stream crossing where the ice wasn’t exactly solid. But the bubbles that had formed within it were like little round spirals that reminded me of the inside of abalone shells. Or perhaps snails.
Suddenly, leaf cracklings filled the air that had been silent except for the sound of wind whooshing at a higher elevation. It took my eyes a few moments to discover the source of the noise, and then I realized I was near a flock of robins. My movement disturbed them, but they didn’t fly far and so we each spent a few moments contemplating our next moves.
As I stood there, I noticed a small tuft of feathers stuck to a hemlock branch, which reminded me that I need to stand still more often for it’s in those moments that things make themselves visible.
Finally I carried on, pausing again, however, when an old, old Yellow Birch showed off the stilts upon which it grew. From their height, I could just imagine the long rotted trunk that once served as its nurse tree, allowing its seed to germinate and set down roots.
Nearby was another ancient, this one a hemlock that preferred to begin life in the same manner as the Yellow Birch. I was sure it had stories to tell and know I’ll return one day soon to spend some time enwrapped by those roots as I listen.
The trees led the way to the wetland and I really, really wanted to explore it, but because I was alone (well, not exactly alone for Mr. Segur was with me kinda sorta, not really) I thought that that too should wait for another day.
If you peer closely at the snow-covered ice beginning from the lower right hand corner and moving toward the shrubs, you may spy the track of another mammal. Do you recognize the pattern? Once you learn patterns, you don’t always have to see the prints up close to know the creators.
Finally, I decided to turn away from Farrington Pond for there was another wetland on the property that I wanted to visit. But first, I found an old beaver dam. Given the lower level of water behind it, I knew that it was not in use, but it looked like a mighty sturdy structure.
Across the landscape I made my way, noting tracks of a million wild animals. Well, maybe not a million, but certainly many including coyote, fox, deer, raccoon, squirrel, vole, mouse, hare, weasel, and fisher. Some were fresh, while others a bit diluted from fluctuating temperatures. This was a place where the mammals wander freely as Mr. Segur intended.
In so doing, I also spied some puff balls that reminded me of applehead dolls with their weathered faces.
There were others who also offered a different take on their natural form–one might call this the star steeple for aster seeds had landed upon the woody structure of steeplebush capsules.
And then in a field I made a “new to the property” discovery: Tamarack trees. I love the nubs that once supported their leaves (aka needles) and the upright cones. Cones remain on the trees for about two years. I wondered about them being upright, but I suppose that as the scales open to release the winged seeds, they catch the breeze and rather than merely rain down below their parent, they are uplifted to a new location.
Continuing my bushwhack, I also continued to keep a keen eye on the world.
But there were a couple of locations I wanted to check on before my time with Mr. Segur ended. At last I reached Sucker Brook and again I chose not to venture onto the ice. One of these days.
From there, it was on to another place more secret than the last that I had my sights set upon. First, however, I stopped to look at the marcescent beech leaves, some like this one that were mere skeletons of themselves so thoroughly had they been munched. It was almost like all that was left was the backbone and rib cage.
Seeing this reminded me of a spring day on this property about four years ago: A Perfect Beech Day. On that day I’d been wowed by the unfurling beech leaves and noticed how hairy they were. In my book, the hairs are meant to keep insects at bay, and yet beech leaves are attacked by many, many little bugs. On that day I also made a bunch of other cool discoveries. You really should click the link above and read about it.
Speaking of little bugs, I also found a pupating ladybug beetle, its form so unique. If I hadn’t known, I never would have guessed it was a ladybug.
At last I reached that spot that I think of as the secret garden. There isn’t an official trail to it, but over the years many have had the opportunity to discover it on their own and been wowed. That’s how I think Mr. Segur would have liked it. We don’t need trails bisecting every inch of a property. We just need more curious people.
This is a spot where three beaver lodges are located as one gazes north.
In the distance to the south there are two more, but you’ll have to visit the secret spot in order to see them.
While you are there, don’t forget to honor the Rhodora, which is slowly preparing to wow all of us in the spring.
And if you choose to bushwhack out, eventually you might stumble upon the inflated capsule of Indian Tobacco. (Hint: it’s near the edge of an opening)
A little more than three hours and over three miles after beginning, my time wandering the property with Mr. Segur had drawn to a close.
I gave thanks to him for showing me all the stars within and surrounding the circle.
Giving Thanks Beside Sucker Brook
November 10, 2019 November 10, 2019 ~ lmachayes ~ 4 Comments
Since it’s deer hunting season in the Maine woods, we decided to host a walk one Sunday in November on a Greater Lovell Land Trust property because hunting is prohibited on this day. And today happened to be that Sunday. But first, this story begins with a few other events. On Friday, I had the honor of participating in a late afternoon program at New Suncook School. Before the young girls in the program, their leaders, and I stepped outside, one of them struggled with a Hannaford bag that was splitting apart because it was full of canned and boxed food. I helped her get the bag into her backpack before she dropped all its contents and the act drove home the need to make sure my guy and I attended the second event.
The second event was the Second Annual Bowls and Brews Chili and Chowder Challenge and Beer Tasting held at the Lovell VFW Hall last night.
The land trust was well represented by participants, including Executive Director Erika Rowland who created a delicious Black Bear Chipotle Chili.
Erika’s chili didn’t win, but she and GLLT’s Office Manager Alice Bragg were still all smiles.
The real winners of the event were the kids like the young girl I helped on Friday. For what she was trying to hold was a bag full of food as is provided to her family by the Sunshine Backpack Food Program. And the Bowls and Brews event was a fundraiser to support that program. Throughout the school district, elementary students in need go home with nutritious, non-perishable, easy-to-prepare food every Friday. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the fundraiser support the program.
That brings me to this afternoon’s walk first advertised as Sunday Beside Sucker Brook. Months ago I wrote this description: Let’s get a head start on Thanksgiving, and journey the trail at John A. Segur East where we’ll take in the afternoon views of Sucker Brook, its plants in their winter forms, beaver lodges, and mountain views.
And so we did. First we stepped off the trail and took in the view to the south where Sucker Brook empties into Kezar Lake’s Lower Bay.
And then we looked north to admired the hills that are reflected by three beaver lodges situated in a triangle. The one to the right had some mud on it and so we trusted the beavers had been adding insulation to the homestead.
It’s a good thing because a thin layer of ice had formed around the edges of the brook and we realized the next season is on the horizon.
Even within the Pitcher Plant leaves ice had formed. Some of today’s participants touched the downward pointing hairs that draw insects into this carnivorous plant, noting the difference between the easy slide down and much bristlier texture one encounters trying to climb back out.
Continuing along the green-blazed trail, one among us spied a Bald-faced Hornet’s nest. When we noticed part of it on the forest floor, we had to step off the trail and check it out.
In the summer we avoid these nests for fear of being stung by the aggressive workers who defend their territory. But by now the workers have all died and the queen has found a snug spot to overwinter under tree bark.
Being able to examine the nest drew our awe as we noted the individual hexagonal cells created by the queen who had collected wood and plant fibers, chewed them into a papery pulp mixed with her saliva, and built brood chambers into which she placed eggs. To enclose the chambers that housed her girls she then constructed a thin papery envelope. The fact that the cells were the same size and shape was worth our wonder as we thought about the queen’s degree in mechanical engineering.
Within the outer envelope, several suspended combs contained chambers for larvae. A two-tiered section had fallen to the ground and Miriam picked it up for further examination. Her findings: brood chambers were papery and the darker gray that glued the combs together was much firmer.
Pam gave the piece the sniff test. Her findings: the combs smelled like hay, but the glue offered a much more offensive odor.
Our examination also revealed a few grub-like larvae that didn’t have an opportunity to cycle through life.
After kinda, sorta, not really bee-lining to finish before darkness fell, we reached the scenic view that again included the brook and mountains beyond.
There was even more ice in our vision. Ripples made it look like the water flowed from south to north, but we knew it to actually be the opposite. The wind blew from the southwest and thus caused the current oxymoron.
Quietly we stood for a minute and then shared “thanksgivings” for the land, the air, the water, the people, and the place.
Before turning around, a short bushwhack revealed another beaver lodge in the offing.
It, too, was covered in the beavers’ form of Typar: mud. And topped with fresh wood. Construction continues.
With one final view of the brook, the clouds shifted and revealed the Baldface Mountains in Evans Notch.
On the way out, we paused for moths as we’d done on the way in. Linda’s eagle eyes spotted this tiny one: Bog Bibarrambla Moth.
All along we’d noticed male moths flying about, but again on the return trip one among us noticed a few males in one area. If we’re correct in our identification, they were Bruce Spanworms, but what was even more important was the realization that the female is wingless. Yes, these two are canoodling.
One last stop to make before continuing our “bee-line” to the parking lot was a bit of a scavenger hunt: A Bear-claw Tree Scavenger Hunt. Bingo. Brian made the discovery and everyone gathered ’round for a closer examination.
As I said earlier, when I first wrote the description for the walk, I said we’d get a head start on Thanksgiving, but I didn’t really define what that meant. And then a brainstorm a week ago revealed a plan. To offer thanks as we did by the brook, but also . . . to bring food for the Sweden Food Pantry, which serves Lovell, Sweden, Stow, Stoneham, Waterford, Fryeburg, and Bridgton. Our numbers were small today as nine of us traveled the trail at John A. Segur Wildlife Refuge, but our givings big (and we had some items from a few others who couldn’t join us.) We were equally glad to have Linda Bradley (she’s wearing the blaze-orange vest), president of the food pantry, along for the journey.
We’re grateful to all who either joined us or contributed to our offerings as we gave thanks beside Sucker Brook and helped fill the shelves in Sweden.
As we departed we made plans to repeat this event, but choose the following weekend next year so we don’t complete with the Third Annual Bowls and Brews fundraiser.
Something Special Beside Sucker Brook
November 3, 2019 November 8, 2019 ~ lmachayes ~ 2 Comments
My friend, Marita, joined me today for a walk along the trails at the Greater Lovell Land Trust’s John A. Segur Wildlife Refuge on Farrington Pond Road.
Though we moved rather quickly, frequently picking up sticks and branches that had fallen as a result of last week’s nor’easter (Marita deserves trail crew credit), we did stop occasionally to appreciate the world around us. Our first point of wonder occurred when she noted a burl of sorts on a beech tree. A closer look and we spotted shiny black spots that turned out to be five or six black ladybird beetles, their red spots offering a contrast. I’ve since learned they are Twice-stabbed Ladybeetle bugs, and beneficial as they feed on scale insects, aphids, and mealybugs, including Beech Scale Insects.
Maple-leaf Viburnum, still holding onto its leaves and fruits called our attention next. Only last week, we were finding its magenta fall coloration decorating the woods, but when the calendar turned to November, it seemed the world transformed and took on its late autumn look.
Via a spur not marked, we ventured forth and stood in admiration of the colors before us as we looked out toward the Lower Bay of Kezar Lake.
And then we looked in the opposite direction and embraced the view toward the north where hills formed the backdrop . . .
and found their reflection in beaver lodges. Though we never saw any sign of recent beaver works, it appeared that at least one of the lodges was being mudded for winter, a beaver’s form of insulating the house.
Our route back to the trail was circuitous for I wanted to show her the Pitcher Plants that grow in the edge between the land and water.
No matter how many times I see this plant’s urn-shaped leaf, I am in awe and today was no exception. The hairs on the leaf’s “landing pad” stood out on a younger version as well as its aging elder.
We weren’t the only ones curious about the plant for the snow fleas, aka spring tails, had also discovered it. And it them. How many snow fleas does it take to create a meal? Many I would think given their teeny tiny size, but . . . many found their way down the hairs and into the plant’s digestive fluid.
Back on the green-blazed trail we finally continued, and a display of mushrooms begged for a Kodak moment. As I often do with mushrooms, I’m going out on a limb and calling these Late Fall Oysters (Panellus serotinus), which aren’t oysters at all but the rippled edge did remind me of the shells I used to pick up as a kid. What really sang out about this moment though was the fact that the fungus grew on a beech tree and the husk of a beech nut had stabbed into the fruit, giving the entire display a layered cake look with a candle on top.
We also discovered a Red-belted Polypore, Fomitopsis pinicola if I’m correct, the size of a dinner plate.
Onward, we swished the dried leaves, hit a few mucky spots, and continued to pick up sticks. At last we reached a second scenic view that again provided colors demarking this month.
All along we’d tramped beside Sucker Brook, though we couldn’t always see it. But that’s what made the scenic views even more spectacular.
Our journey was quick and we covered over two miles and followed the blue-blazed trail back, but it was the waypoint that I marked at Marita’s suggestion, which was our final find of the day.
Well, really, it was her final find for I made her hunt for it. I gave her a general area to scan and after a few moments of looking, we turned it into a hot/cold game. At last her eyes cued in on the bear claw marks upon a beech tree.
You, too, may spy some of the same for next Sunday the GLLT will host a walk at John A. Segur East (as we refer to this part of the wildlife refuge). We’re offering something a bit different for this hike.
Sunday Beside Sucker Brook
Let's get a head start on Thanksgiving, and journey the trail at John A. Segur East where we'll take in the afternoon views of Sucker Brook, its plants in their winter forms, beaver lodges, and mountain vistas.
In honor of the upcoming holiday, we'll think of our neighbors as we gather. Please bring one or more items to give to the Sweden Food Pantry, which serves the towns of Sweden, Lovell, Fryeburg, Stow, Stoneham, Waterford and Bridgton.
Popular Items:
Tuna Fish
Peanut Butter and Jam
Hearty Soups like Progresso
Staples other than pasta
Gluten Free items
Canned Beans (NOT vegetarian) and Canned Beets
Also: Be thinking about something or someone for which you'd like to offer up thanks, either silently or verbally.
Location: John A. Segur East, Farrington Pond Road, off Timber Shores Road, Lovell
Degree of Difficulty: Easy/Moderate
I hope you’ll join us for something special beside Sucker Brook.
Framed by the Trees
March 13, 2019 March 13, 2019 ~ lmachayes ~ 4 Comments
Our journey took us off the beaten path today as we climbed over a snowbank at the end of Farrington Pond Road and onto the Greater Lovell Land Trust’s John A. Segur Wildlife Refuge East. We began at a piece of the parcel neither Pam Marshall or I had ever explored before, which added to the fun. At first, we followed the tracks of a giant, and eventually decided they might have belonged to another human being. Might have. Always wonder.
And then we were stopped in our tracks as we looked up and recognized a Great Blue Heron–or so it seemed in the dead snag that towered over the edge of Farrington Pond. Except for one tiny area of water, the pond is still very much ice covered so it will be a while before this ancestor of the Greats sees her relatives return.
Standing beside the bird-like structure was another that helped us find beauty and life in death.
We peered in, and down, and up, and all around. With each glance, our understandings increased. So did our questions.
There were holes that became windows looking out to the forest beyond.
But those same windows helped us realize they were framed by the results of their injuries. You see, it appeared that a pileated woodpecker had dined on the many insects who had mined the inner workings of the tree. After being so wounded by the birds, the tree attempted to heal its scars as evidenced by the thick growth ring structure that surrounded each hole. Or at least, that’s what we think happened.
To back up our story, we looked from the outside in and saw the same.
We also noted the corky bark with its diamond shapes formed where one chunk met another.
And much to our surprise, we found one compound leaf still dangling. No, this is not a marcescent tree, one of those known to hold its withering leaves to the end of time (or beginning of the next leaf year). But instead, this old sage is one of the first to drop its leaves. So why did one outlast the race? Perhaps to provide a lesson about leaves and leaflets, the latter being the components of the compound structure.
Adding to the identification, we realized we were treated to several saplings growing at the base of the one dying above. By its bud shape and opposite orientation we named it Ash. By its notched leaf scars and lack of hairs, we named it White. White Ash.
Because we were looking, Pam also found a sign of life within. We suspected a caterpillar had taken advantage of the sheltered location, but didn’t know which one.
About simultaneously, our research once we arrived at our respective homes, suggested a hickory tussock moth. Can you see the black setae within the hair?
Pam took the research one step further and sent this: “I read that the female lays eggs on top of the cocoon and then makes a kind of foam that hardens over them so they can survive the winter. How cool is that?” Wicked Cool, Indeed!
We probably spent close to an hour with that tree, getting to know it from every possible angle.
And then it was time to stop looking through the window and to instead step into the great beyond.
We did just that, and found another set of mammal tracks to follow. Tracking conditions were hardly ideal and we followed the set for a long way, never quite deciding if it was a fisher or a bobcat, or one animal traveling one way and another the opposite but within the same path.
Eventually, we gave up on the shifty mammal and made our way into the upland portion of the property where I knew a bear claw tree stood. Pam’s task was to locate it and so she set off, checking all the beech trees in the forest.
Bingo! Her bear paw tree eyes were formed.
It was a beauty of a specimen that reminded us of all the wonders of this place.
From that tree, we continued off-trail, zigzagging from tree to tree, but never found another. That doesn’t mean we visited every tree in the refuge and so we’ll just have to return and look some more.
We did, however, find some scratch marks on a paper birch.
They were too close together to have been created by even a young bear, but we did consider squirrel. Wiping off the rosy-white chalk that coated the bark, we did find actual scrapes below. Now we’ll have to remember to check that tree again in a year or so and see what we might see.
What we finally saw before making our best bee-line out (don’t worry, our Nature Distraction Disorder still slowed us down) was the view of Sucker Brook and the mountains beyond.
At last we pulled ourselves away, but gave great thanks for that ash tree that framed our day and our focus and for all that we saw within it and beyond.
A’pondering We Will Go
August 3, 2018 August 3, 2018 ~ lmachayes ~ 1 Comment
August 3, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
A’pondering We Will Go: Get inspired by the beauty along the trail at the John A. Segur Wildlife Refuge East. This will be a stop-and-go walk as we pause frequently to sketch, photograph, and/or write about our observations, or simply ponder each time we stop. Location: John A. Segur Wildlife Refuge East, Farrington Pond Road, Lovell.
Degree of Difficulty: Easy.
That was our advertisement for this morning’s Greater Lovell Land Trust walk, but we weren’t sure the weather would cooperate. Docent Pam and I emailed back and forth as we looked at various forecasts and decided to take our chances. As it turned it, it did sprinkle occasionally, but we didn’t feel the rain until we finished up and even then, it wasn’t much. Instead, the sound of the plinking against the leaves in the canopy was a rather pleasant accompaniment to such a delightful morning. Our group was small–just right actually for it was an intimate group and we made a new friend and had a wonder-filled time stopping to sit and ponder and then move along again and were surprised by tiny frogs and toads who thought the weather couldn’t get any better, as well as other great finds. Here, a pickerel frog showed off its rectangular spots for all of us to enjoy.
After a first 20-minute pause in the woods, we continued on until we reached Sucker Brook.
Each of us settled into a place to listen . . .
photograph . . .
and write.
I have no idea how much time had passed, but suddenly we all stirred a bit and then someone who was noticing (I think it was Ann) redirected our attention.
We were encouraged to focus on another who was also paying attention.
And narrowing in . . .
on lunch.
When the young heron flapped its wings, we were all sure the meal was meant “to go.”
But thankfully, the bird stayed.
And played with its food.
Ever so slowly, the fish was maneuvered into its mouth.
And swallowed.
Down the throat it slid.
And then the feathers were ruffled–rather like a chill passing through its body.
Wing motion followed.
But still, the Great Blue Heron stayed.
And stalked some more.
We continued to watch until we knew we had to pull ourselves away.
If we didn’t have other obligations, we might still be there. Gathered with me from left to right: Judy, Colleen, Isaiah, Pam, Ann, and Bob.
On our way back, again we made some interesting discoveries that we’d somehow missed on the way in, including White Baneberry, aka Doll’s Eye, a bone we couldn’t ID, Indian Pipe, and this owl pellet smooshed, but full of tiny bones–vole-sized bones.
We stopped one more time, to share our morning’s observations.
Reading aloud is never easy, but because our group was small and we’d quickly developed a sense of camaraderie and trust, the comfort level was high.
Sketches were also shared, including this one of the landscape that Ann drew–including the heron that entered the scene just before she quietly called our attention to it.
And my attempts–the first of a tree stump from our woodland stop, and then a lichen when we were by Sucker Brook.
A’pondering We Did Go–and came away richer for the experience. Thanks to all who came, to Pam and Ann for leading, and to Isaiah for his fine eye at spotting interesting things along the way.
Flying With John A. Segur
July 5, 2018 July 5, 2018 ~ lmachayes ~ 4 Comments
I never had the honor of meeting Mr. Segur, but it was my honor to be his eyes for a short time today as I wandered down the short trail off New Road in Lovell at the Greater Lovell Land Trust’s John A. Segur Wildlife Refuge. Upon his death, a bequest in his name was left to the land trust to preserve habitat for native wildlife to thrive.
The JAS Wildlife Refuge actually encompasses 592 acres and I only explored the .3 mile trail on the western section of the property, but on an extremely hot summer day my finds were enough. Follow me and I think you’ll see what I mean.
First off, you need to locate the small undefined parking lot. It’s about a mile beyond Foxboro Road, but I don’t pay attention to that. Rather, I look for the “No Thru Trucks” sign and turn on my left-hand blinker as soon as I spot it.
Just beyond a couple of boulders placed to keep vehicles from driving down the old skidder trail, stands the kiosk where you can take a look at the trail map and check out some other GLLT materials.
As I said, this is just a small part of the overall refuge, but it’s well worth an exploration, especially if you don’t have much time (though some of us have been known to spend at least three hours making our way down and back).
Recently, the GLLT’s Associate Team and Intern mowed the trail, making it passable and not quite so tick-infested. But . . . still take precautions. Always! The trail is rather level, so it’s an easy one to travel.
This is a place where you’ll find the ordinary, like a daisy. And trying to decide if “he loves me, he loves me not,” you might see a small crab spider.
This is also the land of the extraordinary–in the form of the carnivorous Round-leaved Sundews. Check out the glistening droplets at the ends of the hair-like tendrils that extend from each round leaf. The droplets are actually quite sticky. Just like a spider sensing a bug on its web, the tendrils detect the presence of prey and then curl inward, thus trapping the prey. The whole leaf will eventually wrap around the insect and in the process of digesting it, the plant will absorb the bug’s nutrients. Sundews tend to grow in areas that lack sufficient nutrients, so this is the plant’s way of supplementing its diet. And if that wasn’t enough–it was just plain beautiful.
All that being said, this is a tiny plant and right now preparing to flower. So, if you travel this way, about a tenth of a mile into your journey, look down at your feet for these minute gems, take a closer look, and then walk with care.
Further along the trail you’ll see a few species of ferns, as well as the fern that isn’t a fern. Sweet-fern is so named for it’s fern-like appearance, but it has a woody stem and is actually a shrub. It’s yellowish green flowers that first appeared in spring were giving way to greenish brown, burr-like nutlets. In any season, this shrub has such variation to offer, that like hobblebush, I can’t resist honoring it with a million photographs.
One of the sweet joys of this trail is that because of previous logging, early succession is taking place in terms of the plants and trees that grow beside the trail, including blackberries not quite ripe and these raspberries already offering a delightful reprieve on a humid summer day.
Eventually, the trail leads to the turn-around point, the old log landing, which also displayed signs of forest succession, for its there that some wildflowers and sweet-ferns grow in the center. At the perimeter, white pines, gray birch and blackberries crowd each other.
And on the edge, the dragonflies fly. And dine. This Four-spotted Dragonfly settled on a dead red pine to consume an insect.
Ever so slowly . . .
the body disappeared into its mouth.
While it was busy eating, I was busied myself in getting as close as possible to enjoy all of its nuances, from the four spots on its wings, to the basal display on the hind wings to the placement of its eyes and colors on its thorax and abdomen. All of those details help in ID.
And then into the field I went, with a memory of a winter expedition when we noticed that a shrike had deposited a mouse in a tree. Today’s finds included a pile of old coyote scat probably also deposited this past winter that indicated a territory repeatedly marked.
I also spied lots of recently made depressions. While one might suspect dust baths by a turkey or grouse, feathers are usually left behind in the process. Instead, the ground was more disturbed and because the landing is close to Bradley Brook, I determined I was looking at recently dug holes made by turtles. Snappers and painted turtles have been depositing eggs recently and these may be the incubation nurseries for their offspring.
As I turned back toward the trail, I noticed a dragonfly seeking shade, for so hot was it. Notice the bright green eyes of the Racket-tailed Emerald. Thank goodness for those emerald eyes that always help in narrowing down the choices.
I found it a bit more difficult to ID the sphinx moth that paid a visit to the Dewberries. There are only 1,450 species in the Sphingidae family, but my leaning was toward Nessus Sphinx, though I could be totally off on that one.
I was much more confident about my ID of the native Northern-bush Honeysuckle with its greenish-yellowish-orangish flowers. The plant is actually a shrub with a woody stem, and one that moose and deer like. I’ve yet to see a moose print along this piece of the property, but I know its part of a deer yard.
Also springing forth with yellow blossoms was Spotted St. John’s-wort, with its translucent spots on the leaves and tiny black dots outlining its petals.
And not to be overlooked, the Whorled Yellow-Loosestrife with its cheery flowers extended in a whorl from the stem by long petioles.
My journey wasn’t long, but with all that I saw, I was thankful for the spirit of Mr. Segur that flies over this place.
Just possibly, he graced me with his presence today . . . in the form of Spangled Skimmer.
Tracker Tales
January 2, 2018 January 2, 2018 ~ lmachayes ~ 2 Comments
When I pulled into the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library parking lot this morning I didn’t expect any of the Greater Lovell Land Trust’s Tuesday Trackers to be waiting for me given that the temperature was at least -20˚. But, Jo Radner was ready and waiting. She joined me for the drive to the John A. Segur West property on New Road.
Standing in the small parking lot was Stephen Lewis, another diehard participant. And as Jo and I fiddled with our snowshoes, Heinrich Wurm pulled in.
And so, we four intrepid trampers took off over the snowbank and immediately met some tracks. A little back tracking and attention to details helped us determine a bobcat had crossed the trail. There were red and later gray squirrel tracks, deer, and mice. Most were old for the animals, especially the squirrels and mice seemed to be hunkered down in their holes–certainly a good choice.
By the time we reached the old log landing at the end of the trail, we noticed lots of junco tracks and their small wing impressions. Seeds aplenty were scattered across the snow. Our conversation soon turned from the little birds to an experience I had this past week when a saw-whet owl flew into a thick stand of hemlocks I was crashing through like a bull in a china shop. I had just finished saying that much to my surprise the bird flew in as I broke through the branches when one would expect a bird to quickly depart, when Steve pointed at something in our midst.
We all moved in for a closer look.
A dead mouse splayed on the branch of a gray birch. My brain played with that sight over and over again. Yes, we’d seen numerous crazy mouse tracks left behind by either deer or white-footed mice–it’s difficult to determine which, for both have long tails that leave drag marks between their footprints. Jumping mice hibernate so they could be ruled out. Jo asked if I could tell which of the other two it might be. I’m happy to say that even well-respected tracker Paul Rezendes, author of Tracking and the Art of Seeing, has this to say, “There are more than 120 different species of North American mice, and about half of them fall under the general rubric ‘white-footed mouse.’ The deer mouse is a type of white-footed mouse, and to me there is not perceptible difference in tracks. There are several anatomical differences, but these change from habitat to habitat. The white-footed mouse measures up to about seven and a half inches long (including its three-and-a-half inch tail) and weighs one-half to one ounce. Its color is gray or light brown to dull orange-brown above, with a white belly, throat, and, as its name implies, feet. The deer mouse is gray to reddish brown on its upper parts, including its tail, and white below, with longer hind feet and a tail usually longer than its body. Both animals have bicolored a bicolored tail.”
Our next question was, “How did it get there?” My mind immediately went to a December 13 entry on page 419 in Mary Holland’s Naturally Curious Day by Day about butcher birds overwintering. Mary discusses how northern shrikes preferred food sources are other birds, mammals and insects. “This tundra-nesting bird comes as far south as New England in the winter, where it preys mainly on mice, voles, and small birds.” She goes on to explain that the bird often kills more than it can consume and leaves some food in the freezer for future feeding adventures. “The manner in which it stores this extra food is what gives it the nickname ‘butcher bird.’ It often impales prey on a thorn, broken branch, or even barbed wire, or it wedges prey into narrow V-shaped forks of branches, where it hangs until reclaimed by the shrike.”
Bingo! I think we figured out what we were seeing and in Mary Holland’s book we have my dear friend, mentor and former LEA and GLLT Education Director, Bridie McGreavy, PhD, to thank for the photo.
We could have turned around then, so thrilled were we, but we hadn’t even reached the wetland. And so, a quick check to make sure everyone was comfortable and on we trekked.
When we found more deer tracks, we decided to follow them in search of beds. At that point we found no bedding areas, but did see that the deer had crossed Bradley Brook.
It was the first time I’d ever seen the brook frozen over and we took advantage by making our way to the other side.
We continued looking for tracks, but found other things as well, including dried lungwort. I mentioned that lungwort, like other bryophytes, will immediately photosynthesize when water is added. Jo wanted proof and so I had her pull out my water bottle and pour it over the leafy structure.
Within minutes . . .
As we crossed the wetland, we searched high and low for evidence of wildlife. Up high, chickadees and goldfinches sang from treetops. Down low–not a single track. We did find a few examples of beaver works.
And we thought perhaps the lodges were active.
We hoped.
But our hope was dashed.
No vent hole above and no evidence of life anywhere nearby. Perhaps they’d abandoned this for a second one we spied.
Only thing is that the second one also supported no mammal life at the moment, for it turned out not to be a lodge after all, but a boulder covered with snow.
Just beyond the boulder lodge, however, we found the old dam, which still stood strong.
Our smiles were equally strong as we acknowledge what a fine day it had been and this would make the perfect turn around point.
Jo and Steve took one last look at the brook below and Heiner turned his eyes skyward.
Heading back, we all did the same for we heard military planes flying overhead and could see their contrails.
But it was the cloud formation that really drew our attention.
Steve mentioned lenticular clouds and it seemed the perfect explanation given that these lens-shaped structures probably formed after the flow of air encountered Mount Washington.
Our journey back found us going off trail again, and we did find a couple of deer beds, but what will stand out in our brains for this day’s tramp–the mouse with the very long tail and tiny white feet. How it got there, we don’t know for sure, though the shrike story does make sense. What I am sure of is that it will become part of our tracker tales.
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Brighton Complete Signing of KRC Genk Winger Leandro Trossard on 4-Year Deal
Chris Deeley 26 Jun 2019
Brighton and Hove Albion have completed the signing of Belgian winger Leandro Trossard, the 24-year-old arriving from Genk on a four-year deal.
Trossard scored 14 times in the Belgian side's recent title-winning campaign, adding an impressive eight goals in the Europa League in his best season as a professional.
The deal is believed to be worth around £15m.
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Seagulls boss Graham Potter told the club's website: “We are delighted to welcome Leandro to the club and excited about the impact he can have for us. He’s an attack-minded player who had a very impressive season last year in helping Genk win the league title.
“He was influential in the side’s success last term and scored a lot of goals, as well as creating chances for others. At 24 he also brings good experience, having captained the side and also featured many times in the Europa League.”
The Seagulls were one of four teams to score at a rate of less than one goal per game in the Premier League last season – with the other three all being relegated.
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Dragons fullback Josh Dugan considers NFL move
By Danny Weidler • Sports Reporter
6:43am Sep 10, 2015
Dragons fullback Josh Dugan says he is considering following Jarryd Hayne to the US to have a crack at breaking into the NFL.
A passionate NFL supporter, Dugan believes he has the talent to replicate Hayne's successful code-hop to the San Francisco 49ers and has already discussed the idea with his manager.
"If I was going to defer to any game I'd like to go to the NFL, but at the moment it's just a dream at the back of my mind," Dugan told Channel Nine.
Dugan took Hayne's No.1 jersey for NSW this year after the former Eels star's move to America and admits he has been inspired by the success of the new 49ers' signing.
A powerful ball runner and regarded as one of the hardest players to tackle in the NRL, Dugan plays a similar style to Hayne and is confident he could make a success of NFL if an opportunity arose.
The Dragons star is also an avid NFL fan and studies the game.
"It's awesome that Haynesy's achieved his dream and he's doing good things over there and he's opened up the door for a lot of other people as well," Dugan said.
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"It just goes to show how much of a freak athlete he is. He's a special player and person.
"If I had an opportunity to do it I'd give it a crack. I feel like I could make an impact over there as well.
"We have similar sort of games. He's a special player and I like to see myself as a similar sort of player.
"I feel like I could definitely do some of the things he's doing over there."
Dugan's revelation comes after Kangaroos fullback Billy Slater this week suggested up to a dozen current NRL stars had the ability to make it in the NFL.
Hayne's coach Jim Tomsula has also suggested the code could look at other players and urged anyone interested to try their luck.
Dugan said like Hayne he has the self belief to back himself to succeed.
"I've always been confident in my ability and if I was thrown the challenge I'd like to think that I could handle it," he said.
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New law to stop WA MPs sexually harassing staff
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The WA State Government is moving to introduce laws that expressly prohibit Members of Parliament from sexually harassing staff.
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Attorney General Jim McGinty said the new laws were needed because there was often no direct employment relationship between MPs and staff, which made it difficult to establish that sexual harassment had occurred.
Not adequately protected
McGinty said recent events at Parliament had revealed staff were not adequately protected from such abuse.
‘Sexual harassment in the workplace by people in positions of authority is not acceptable,’ he said.
‘Staff at Parliament House should be protected from sexual harassment by MPs, who are clearly in a position of power.'
Employment context
‘Under the current Equal Opportunity Act’s sexual harassment laws, it is necessary to show that a staff member is concerned that refusing or objecting to the other person’s behaviour would have a negative impact on their career. In other words, the sexual harassment must occur in an employment context.'
‘Because there is often no direct employment relationship between MPs and staff, this is difficult to establish. Under the new law, staff won’t be required to feel that their employment is threatened by complaining of workplace sexual harassment.’
McGinty said the new legislation will ensure staff working at Parliament will be protected from unwanted sexual advances, innuendo or other actions by MPs.
The proposed amendment would make it unlawful for an MP to sexually harass:
an officer working for the MP; or
an officer working for another MP; or
an officer or member of the staff of Parliament; or
any other person who in the course of employment performs duties at the Parliament or at a place where either House, or a committee of either or both Houses meets.
McGinty said the amendments are based upon provisions of the South Australian Equal Opportunity Act, where similar problems have been encountered.
Under the new law, MPs could be subject to an allegation of sexual harassment if they:
make an unwelcome sexual advance; or
make an unwelcome request for sexual favours; or
engage in other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature.
McGinty said that in most cases the complainant would be dealt with by the Equal Opportunity Commissioner, who could refer the matter to the State Administrative Tribunal, which could award compensation of up to $40,000 to victims.
Matters that could impinge on parliamentary privilege would be dealt with by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly or the President of the Legislative Council, rather than the Equal Opportunity Commissioner.
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House-buyers seeking a bargain amid the wreckage of Australia's mining boom might want to get in quick.
Port Hedland, a shipping hub for the Pilbara iron ore region in Western Australia, saw house prices collapse nearly 70 per cent in the past four years as workers lost their jobs and left amid the end of a resources investment boom. But prices there have reached a bottom and are now even rising.
"We're starting to get multiple offers on properties," said Peter Dunning, a real estate agent at Ray White Group, who says local values have risen about $50,000 in the past six months. Photo: Erin Jonasson
"We're starting to get multiple offers on properties," said Peter Dunning, a real estate agent at Ray White Group in Port Hedland, who says local values have risen about $50,000 in the past six months. "People realised that prices had got so cheap, they probably weren't going to get any cheaper. So they started buying."
Brighter spots in housing is one of three chunks of evidence adding to a growing sense that resource-based state economies are improving. The RBA's liaison with businesses and its data analysis show emerging signs that the Queensland and WA slowdowns are coming to an end, it said earlier this month. The regions' jobs markets, meanwhile, showed a healthy pickup in April.
The recent commodities rally has laid a foundation for recovery. While the price of iron ore — the country's biggest export — has slipped after unexpectedly rebounding toward the end of last year, it remains well above the lows beneath $US40 seen in late 2015. Still, there is potential for the steel-making metal to fall further as No 1 trading partner China stockpiles its holdings.
Port Hedland last month approved BHP Billiton's request to boost the amount of iron ore it ships through the port by 5 million tonnes to 275 million tonnes a year, after the miner initially sought an increase to 290 million tonnes. Coal-mining Queensland, meanwhile, is starting to reap benefits from large-scale liquefied natural gas projects coming on stream.
No boom seen
A CoreLogic report earlier this month found that many mining towns across the country were seeing sales volumes of houses lift and the rate of price declines starting to slow. But it's still a far cry from the good times, when median prices in the fly-ridden, cyclone-prone outpost of Karratha, the Pilbara's biggest town, topped Sydney's by 49 per cent.
Nobody's expecting a return to the boom years, when mining workers with no degrees were commanding salaries akin to that of Wall Street bankers. The bonanza lasted for much of the decade though 2012. But recent green shoots bolster the RBA's case that the unwinding of the mining investment boom is almost done, as the central bank seeks to diversify the economy toward services industries.
Drivers of growth in mining states appear to be broader-based than just commodities. WA is getting a $2.3 billion overhaul of its roads and rails, with a new 60,000-seat stadium also under construction, while works are well underway on the Gold Coast in preparation for the city hosting next year's Commonwealth Games.
Queensland "has got a pretty good spread of industries, for example tourism and education, so once the worst of this mining pullback is done, then the prospects are pretty good", said Steven Milch, chief economist at Suncorp Corporate Services.
'Slowly picking up'
Deloitte Access Economics is also optimistic about Queensland. It forecasts the north-east state to grow 4.5 per cent in fiscal 2018, outstripping NSW's 3 per cent and Victoria's 3.4 per cent. Growth in WA, the state hardest hit by the mining downturn, is tipped to accelerate from 0.2 per cent in fiscal 2018 to 2.2 per cent the next year.
ANZ Bank gave a tempered assessment in a May survey: "While activity in Western Australia continues to expand well below trend pace, the weight of the downturn is lifting." The bank's Queensland index also improved, but it said that labour-market slack was still a drag on economic activity.
April data showed improvement in the resource states' job markets. Queensland added a net 62,100 roles in the six months through April, the most of any state during the period. WA's jobless rate dropped 0.6 per centage points to 5.9 per cent, the biggest decline in almost two years.
"It is busy over here," said Guy Fulcher, a recruitment consultant at Zenith Search agency in Perth. "It's been slowly picking up in the past 12 months. It's still nowhere near where it was in the boom time, but compared with how quiet it was, it's a lot better."
'Skull and crossbones'
With soaring property prices in Sydney and Melbourne far out of reach for many workers, some economists also expect to see northward migration to Queensland increase. That might go some way to easing an apartment supply glut in Brisbane, which the RBA has identified as a significant restraint on prices in the state's biggest city.
It's still a stretch to suggest that resurgent mining states can pick up Australia's growth baton should east-coast property markets stutter.
Back in Port Hedland's real estate market, Dunning said he's also seen a sharp drop in rental vacancies, usually a sign that employers are in hiring mode, while buyer demand is almost entirely from owner-occupiers. He says the real gains won't come until a different type of bargain hunter reappears.
"Nothing will happen dramatically until the investors start to come back," said Dunning. "For investors, Port Hedland has got a skull and crossbones on it."
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 vs. Apple iPad Air: Can the new Tab unseat a favorite?
Julian Chokkattu / Digital Trends
Samsung has kicked off a season of reveals by unveiling the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 — an updated and modern Android tablet with a sleek design, a powerful flagship processor, and some great productivity-focused features. But Android hasn’t been the go-to for tablets in some time, and Apple’s range of iPads are what most people think of when they think of the best tablets. While it’s not the most powerful entry in the range, the iPad Air is powerful, sleek, and affordable.
A clash between the two is inevitable. So which is the better choice for you? We put the two tablets head-to-head to find out.
244.5 x 159.5 x 5.7mm (9.62 x 6.28 x 0.22 inches)
248.9 x 172.7 x 6.1mm (9.8 x 6.8 x 0.24 inches)
420 grams (14.8oz)
464 grams (16.37 ounces)
10.5-inch Super AMOLED
10.5-inch LCD display
2,560 x 1,600 pixels (287 pixels-per-inch)
64GB, 256GB
MicroSD Card slot
Yes, up to 512GB
Tap-to-pay services
6GB, 8GB
13MP and 5MP rear, 8MP front
8MP rear, 7MP front
4K at up to 30fps
1,080p at 30fps
Yes, in-display
7,040mAh
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon
Mountain Gray, Cloud Blue, Rose Blush
Silver, Space Gray, Gold
Performance, battery life, and charging
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One of our longest-running bugbears with Android tablets has been fixed in the Galaxy Tab S6 — it finally comes with a flagship processor. The Snapdragon 855 powers Samsung’s new tablet, and it’s sure to provide snappy performance. But is it the equal of the iPad Air’s A12 Bionic processor? Benchmarks say no, with the A12 Bionic having a slight edge on the Snapdragon 855, but it’s certainly close.
Well, what about the battery? The iPad has a large advantage over the Tab S6 with a significantly larger capacity, but it’s not yet known whether that will translate to a strong overall battery life. Apple claims 10 hours of battery life for the iPad Air, while Samsung says you’ll manage an impressive 15 hours on a single charge of the Tab S6. But there’s a bigger gulf in charging speed. With a USB-C port, the Tab S6 offers faster charging right out of the gate, while you’ll need to buy a fast-charging kit for the iPad Air.
While there are indications of superiority on both sides, there’s not enough of a gulf for us to call this one yet.
Winner: Tie
Design and durability
While the Tab S6’s bezels are undeniably modern — echoing the iPad Pro — the iPad Air is something of a throwback to an older time, with thick bezels and somewhat dull design. It has its benefits, like Touch ID, but overall we prefer the more modern look of the Galaxy Tab S6. Samsung’s tablet is also lighter than the Air, and thanks to the reduced bezels, it’s smaller too. There’s an in-display fingerprint scanner, even if it isn’t an ultrasonic scanner like the Galaxy S10. There’s even an area to magnetically store your S Pen.
There’s no water-resistance on either device, so be careful while you’re by the pool. But both have metal builds, which should prove quite durable. Opposite Day has apparently come early, as you’ll find a headphone jack on the Apple device, but not on the Samsung device.
Despite the missing headphone jack, the Samsung tablet is undeniably better looking than the iPad.
Winner: Samsung Galaxy Tab S6
Both tablets sport 10.5-inch displays, but the underlying tech is rather different. The iPad Air’s LCD runs a 2,224 x 1,668-pixel resolution that translates to 265 pixels-per-inch. It’s a good display, and it looks great. But is it as good as the Tab S6’s panel? The Tab S6 uses one of Samsung’s own Super AMOLED displays, with a 2,560 x 1,600-pixel resolution with a crispness of 287 pixels-per-inch. That’s not too far from the iPad Air, but it’s Samsung’s underlying tech that proves superior. The Super AMOLED display outputs far deeper blacks and stronger colors than most LCDs can manage. The Tab S6 wins out here.
We didn’t think most people used the dreaded “tea tray of doom” to take pictures, but apparently, we’re wrong. Samsung claims 86% of Tab S4 owners used their tablet’s camera daily, which means it’s taking the camera a little more seriously. That may be why the Tab S6 has a dual-lens camera suite comprised of a 13-megapixel lens with a 5-megapixel 123-degree wide-angle lens. There’s an 8-megapixel selfie lens around the front.
The iPad Air only has a single 8-megapixel lens around the back and a 5-megapixel selfie lens. It does well enough, but it’s no match for a good camera phone. But does it match the Tab S6’s dual-lens setup? We haven’t had much time with it yet, so we can’t declare either way.
The iPad Air currently runs iOS 12, but it will soon be running Apple’s new iPadOS, which boosts the productivity abilities of your iPad significantly, adding better multi-app support, a floating keyboard, and more. The Galaxy Tab S6 runs the latest version of Android 9.0 Pie, with Samsung’s One UI interface running over the top. It’s not as well built for tablets as iPadOS, but that’s more than made up for by the inclusion of several special features — which we’ll get into later.
The choice between iOS and Android often comes down to personal preference — but it’s not a matter of opinion which gets faster updates. The iPad Air will get new iOS releases within days of them being made available, while Samsung often takes upwards of six months to filter a new Android version to its devices. The iPad wins on the strength of Apple’s update schedule.
Winner: Apple iPad Air
There are plenty of special features to be had here. The iPad Air comes with support for ARKit, Face ID facial recognition, the Apple Pencil, and all the new features granted by iPadOS. But it’s the Samsung tablet that wins out, with the Dex desktop mode, an in-display fingerprint scanner, an included S Pen, and a trackpad on its keyboard case. These features really help to make the Tab S6 function more like a laptop, and that’s a real winner.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 costs $650 for the base model with the S Pen. If you want the upgraded model, then it’ll set you back $730. An LTE model is expected later in the year. The keyboard cover is not included and costs $179. The iPad Air has a more reasonable base price of $500, but you’ll need to fork out an additional $99 for the Apple Pencil, and $159 for the keyboard — it doesn’t support the second-generation Apple Pencil, just the original. There’s also an LTE model starting from $629.
Overall winner: Samsung Galaxy Tab S6
The results don’t lie — the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 comes out on top in a majority of categories. It’s a powerful and good looking tablet with the right stuff to see it used as a great productivity tool and relaxation aid alike.
However, the Tab S6’s lead is slim and it could easily be toppled by a number of factors. Don’t care about the keyboard with a trackpad or the included stylus? Then save yourself money and grab the Apple iPad Air instead of the basic Galaxy Tab S6. However, if productivity is the game and money is no object, then the Galaxy Tab S6 has the iPad Air beaten. There’s still the iPad Pro to consider though, and the Galaxy Tab S6 won’t have such an easy time against that.
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Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, center, walks with President Donald Trump, right, and Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga) as Trump arrives for a rally Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018, in Macon, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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Battleground Georgia: The questions that will shape state politics in 2020
Greg Bluestein
A presidential election rocked by the impeachment of President Donald Trump. A little-known U.S. senator taking the reins from retiring Republican Johnny Isakson. Twin U.S. Senate contests and a sweep of competitive down-ticket races.
As 2020 dawns, Georgia faces another wild election year full of fascinating personalities and consequential debates.
Gov. Brian Kemp enters his second year in Georgia’s top job with a steep agenda – and a reputation on the line with Kelly Loeffler as his pick for the U.S. Senate. His top Democratic rival, Stacey Abrams, has positioned herself as a potential 2020 presidential running mate.
Republicans who showed a willingness to engage in partisan battles last year could hit the gas in 2020 to energize their base ahead of the election, or they could try to broaden their appeal to the center. Meanwhile, revved-up Democrats hope to consolidate their suburban gains and finally flip Georgia after a long stretch of futility.
Here are some of the biggest questions in Georgia politics that your Atlanta Journal-Constitution team will be watching this year:
(And check out our answers to questions from 2018 and 2019.)
Georgia Speaker of the House David Ralston addresses the House of Representatives during the legislative session at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, January 18, 2018. (REANN HUBER/REANN.HUBER@AJC.COM)
Photo: REANN HUBER
Will Republicans hold the Georgia House?
After carving a blue path through Atlanta’s suburbs in 2018, Democrats are closer to recapturing the Georgia House than they have been in years. The party needs to flip at least 16 seats to gain control of the chamber – a lofty, but not impossible, goal.
Democratic leaders hope to transform outrage over stiff new anti-abortion restrictions and frustration with Kemp and Trump into major gains at the ballot box. Republicans are confident that their conservative policies will keep Georgia in the GOP fold.
The battle over legislative control won’t garner as many headlines as other elections, but it could be the most consequential. It’s why both parties have pledged to spend millions of dollars in 2020 fighting over down-ticket races.
If Democrats take the chamber, they will secure a larger role in crafting policies and shaping the state budget with a GOP-controlled Senate and Republican governor. And they will have a seat at the table as lawmakers redraw Georgia’s political maps after the U.S. census in 2020.
Photo: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Will Stacey Abrams emerge as a vice presidential contender?
Abrams managed to raise her national profile higher than ever in 2019, turning her narrow defeat to Kemp in 2018 into a springboard to bigger things.
She drew sell-out crowds on an international book tour, courted presidential candidates and snapped a tradition of lackluster responses with her rebuttal to the State of the Union.
In between, she expanded her Fair Fight voting rights group to 19 other states, launched a group aimed at an accurate U.S. census count and started a think tank to push liberal policies across the South.
After deciding not to run for the U.S. Senate in April, she’s still made it clear she has lofty political ambitions that might go beyond a 2022 rematch against Kemp.
By year’s end, headlines bubbled up every week mentioning her as a potential running mate to top Democratic White House hopefuls, and she was seen as a certainty to be on plenty of shortlists.
Even Abrams has marveled at the heights of her political celebrity, quipping to a crowd of Vanderbilt University students last year: “I’m a really good loser.”
The Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger talks to the media in front of old voting machines while waiting for the largest shipment of Georgia’s new secure paper-ballot voting machines at the Dekalb County Voter Registration & Elections offices in Avondale Estates on Monday December 30th, 2019. 2839 units are to be delivered for Dekalb County. (Photo by Phil Skinner).
How will Georgia's rollout of new voting machines go?
Georgia enters the new year with more scrutiny than ever into its voting system following the razor-thin contest between Kemp, who as secretary of state shaped Georgia’s voting policies, and Abrams, who accused the Republican of using his position to tilt the balance in his favor.
In his first months as governor, Kemp signed a bill that replaces Georgia’s outdated voting machines, extends the time before registrations are canceled and prohibits precinct closures within 60 days of elections. But the debate infuriated critics who, among other problems, see the machines as inherently insecure.
State officials face a court-ordered deadline to get rid of the state’s 18-year-old paperless voting system before ballots are cast in 2020, and they are scrambling to set up more than 33,000 new voting machines that feature touchscreen voting with printed ballots by the March 24 presidential primary.
Pending litigation could force more changes, including a far-reaching lawsuit filed by Abrams’ voting rights group that seeks to halt voter registration cancellations, prevent ballot rejections and keep polling places open.
U.S. Rep. John Lewis announced Sunday that doctors have diagnosed him with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The Atlanta Democrat is expected to stay in Washington for treatment, and he pledged to attend votes in the U.S. House when his treatment schedules permits it. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
How will Georgia’s congressional delegation change?
Georgia’s contingent in Washington has not faced this level of potential upheaval in more than a decade.
The senior-most Republican in Georgia’s House delegation, Tom Graves, abruptly announced his retirement in early December. The senior-most Democrat in Georgia’s House delegation, John Lewis, revealed he had late-stage pancreatic cancer a few weeks later.
An unpredictable free-for-all formed in the race to replace another retiring Republican, U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall, in a Gwinnett County-based district that’s become one of the most competitive in the nation.
And Democratic U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath faces a 2020 rematch against Republican Karen Handel after she flipped the seat straddling Atlanta’s northern suburbs in 2018.
There’s also a distinct possibility of another vacancy as U.S. Rep. Doug Collins flirts with a Senate run against Loeffler, possibly with the support of the White House.
The Senate delegation is in just as much flux.
Isakson’s decision to retire because of mounting health issues ended his 45-year career in politics and left Georgia without one of the state’s most seasoned and respected lawmakers. His successor, Loeffler, is a financial executive who is little-known even to top Republican officials.
And U.S. Sen. David Perdue faces his own challenges as he runs for what he’s said is his final term. At least four well-known Democrats have lined up to face the former Fortune 500 executive.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said in a written statement Thursday that improved transparency will result from a rule proposed by the state agency responsible for oversight of assisted living and personal care homes.
Photo: Alyssa Pointer/alyssa.pointer@ajc.com
How will Gov. Brian Kemp handle his second year in office?
The first lifelong Republican elected as Georgia governor since Reconstruction, Kemp spent his first year in the office pursuing a range of policies his predecessors avoided.
He signed anti-abortion restrictions that triggered threats of a Hollywood boycott and backed a health care overhaul that would add tens of thousands of low-income Georgians to the Medicaid rolls but stops short of the full expansion sought by Democrats and some Republicans.
And he forced tough fiscal negotiations with a call for budget cuts of 4% and 6% over the next two years that could lead to hundreds of unfilled positions and a reduction in services.
He’ll begin 2020 with a call for tougher crackdowns on violent criminals and gang activity, veering from the eight-year effort by his predecessor, Nathan Deal, to overhaul the criminal justice system by reducing penalties for low-level offenders.
The governor will also have new chances for high-profile appointments after surprising even his critics with a drove of selections to top political and judicial posts that culminated with his selection of Loeffler to the U.S. Senate seat.
And he’ll be under pressure from conservatives who fueled his victory to fulfill his campaign promises to crack down on illegal immigration, expand gun rights and adopt a “religious liberty” proposal in an election year.
12/04/2019 -- Atlanta, Georgia -- Newly appointed U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler waves toward supporters following a press conference in the Governor's office at the Georgia State Capitol Building, Wednesday, December 4, 2019. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp appointed Kelly Loeffler to the U.S. Senate to take the place of U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, who is stepping down for health reasons. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
How will Kelly Loeffler perform in the U.S. Senate?
When Loeffler applied for the open U.S. Senate seat in November, there was an immediate stir from her fellow Republicans: Who is this financial executive, and what did she stand for?
A wave of apprehension from conservative activists followed as her critics pored through her financial records, raised concerns about potential ethical issues over her corporate ties and questioned whether she was a closet moderate.
The governor’s decision to tap her for the seat defied Trump’s pleas for Kemp to appoint Collins or another politically tested conservative to the post. Loeffler’s tried to calm those fears with promises to back Trump’s agenda and reach out to grassroots activists.
Still, her appointment has sparked rifts within the Georgia GOP that will be hard to heal. Many local Republican leaders have pointedly not offered her an endorsement, instead taking a wait-and-see approach to how she handles her first months on the job.
And as she prepares to take office in early January, she faces the possibility of a challenge from Collins or another GOP rival, even as Democrats try to unite behind their own contender – whoever that may be -- for the November special election.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - NOVEMBER 20: Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) , Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Andrew Yang, and Tom Steyer participate in the fifth Democratic Presidential Debate at Tyler Perry Studios November 20, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls were chosen from the larger field of candidates to participate in the debate hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Can Democrats flip Georgia and win its two U.S. Senate seats?
Not since Bill Clinton’s 1992 victory has a Democratic presidential candidate carried the state. And no Democrat has won a statewide contest in Georgia since 2006.
Just about every cycle since then, the same question has been asked: “Is this the election that turns Georgia into a battleground state?”
The answer was clear in years gone by, when national Democrats largely avoided Georgia and state candidates steered clear of national figures. But the tight 2018 election offered a different lesson, one that even top Republicans dubbed a “wake-up call” for their party.
Democratic White House hopefuls swarmed the state with Georgia-centric appeals and lavished praise on Abrams, who warned it would be “political malpractice” to ignore the state. And local Democrats seized the chance to use November’s presidential candidates debate in Georgia as a chance to showcase the party’s 2020 strategy.
Still, the Georgia GOP opens the year with huge advantages. Top Republican candidates have built lofty campaign accounts, hold all the levers of power in Georgia and will look to turn the Democratic-led impeachment of Trump into a campaign battle cry.
Meanwhile, Democrats end the year with no clear front-runners in either Senate contest after Abrams and other prominent leaders passed on the chance to run. And many top party figures have yet to pick a side in the presidential race as concerns grow about a drawn-out battle for the nomination.
Greg Bluestein is a political reporter who covers the governor's office and state politics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Pathways to Syria
Isabel Bramsen, Òscar Coromina, Carolin Gerlitz, Michele Mauri, Sabine Niederer, Carlo, Jacob Groshek.
Tracing escalation
The general idea of the project was to study in how far the conflict escalation in Syria can be traced over time by looking at facebook data.
In a first step we tried to identify the most relevant pages and groups in regards to the conflict in Syria. It quickly became clear that the vast majority of relevant pages and groups are in Arabic, which subsequently posed a number of challenges and constraints on the way in which we were able to analyze the data. The few English pages/groups we were able to identify proved too small or inactive to serve our purposes. Therefore we decided to work with Arabic but limit our study to a micro-analysis of only two weeks of the conflict and only the major fb page.
The Syrian Revolution 2011 was the first big page to declare revolution against Assad. It currently has around 870,000 like (2014-01-14). It was founded on January 18, 2011. For our first exploration, we have chosen to focus on 15 days that where central in mobilization: March 5-20. These dates are chosen to capture the important events that sparked the Syrian revolution. March 6 is a decisive day for the revolution, it was here Assad responded with strong repression against schoolboys who had written the people want to overthrow the regime onto a wall.
How can conflict escalation be traced via facebook (fb) data?
- Can we detect a correlation between the intensity with which users are active in certain fb groups or on fb pages and offline activism?
- Is there a correlation between offline escalation and certain keywords in fb communication?
Netvizz: extraction of posts from the page (March 5-20)
Extracting all the data would have taken 48 hours in Netvizz. Therefore we (1) used the numbers of posts from Netwizz and coded them in Excel to see the progress numbers of posts and 2) chose only to look at the posts from the page
Gephi: visualization of Netvizz data over time
Discovertext: harvesting of fb data on Boko Haram case (newspaper page); visualization of keyword mentioning over time
SentiStrength: not used, due to Arabic limitations
Intensity of communication:
The first graph shows the number of posts from the users and the page during the period between the 8th of March and the 18th of March. It becomes visible that the activity peaked at the 15th and the 18th of March. This correlates not surprisingly with the two demonstrations the 15th and 18th of March. However, one would expect that the activity started to go up already up to the 15th but on the graph it indicates that the activity started on that day.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m0srybekrsdlzq3/isabel%20syria.pdf
The visualization indicates that around the 6-14th of March only a few users at the Syrian Revolution 2011 page were active (comments and like). Around the 15th many more users started to engage and there is great activity (posting and commenting). Hereafter the activity decreased again and raised significantly the 18th.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/19cmj2w312e8k5x/bbbbbbbbbbbbb.pdf
The final graph shows how escalation key words evolves over time in posts on the side.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qoskcb732c8dboo/aaaaaaa.pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rcs32khzszaq34j/Escalation%20Movie.mov
Radicalised profiles
We looked for recruitment networks on twitter by searching for the words mujahidin (fighter) and "isis" but we found radicalised profiles mainly of fighters on syrian war and also some propaganda networks. Those timelines were crowded with "uncomfortable content" but we thought that the user profile information could be the starting path to a postdemographic approach to those fighters.
Can we actually create radicalised profiles based upon twitter's profile information?
Can we identify european fighters of the syrian war?
We queried twitter for "mujahidin" and "isis" and we found some "uncomfortable timelines", we also found that these users were listed by other users and decided to extract the users of some of the lists focusing on the ones were the names were explicitly refering to fighters or to propaganda networks.
Those were the lists:
Mujahidin
Islamic Fighting
Pro Isis
News about mujahidin
Jehad Media Center
We extracted the users of the list using a script that works on a google spreadsheet and we gathered all the information available on the profiles of 485 fighters.
We used the creation date of the profile, interface language, publishing platform and followers metrics to build a visualization.
Also we used last tweet published content for hashtag counting and geolocated the profile url.
Main Visualization
The vast majority of the profiles were created after the syrian war so it seems to confirm the assumption that those profiles were created at the same time as those users became fighters. A further question related to the layout of the visualization is if we can look at this profile creation date as involvement waves in the conflict.
Most of the interfaces languages were in arabic (331 out of 485), followed by english (137 out of 485) and other europan languages (13). The profile name alfabet were mostly arabic (439) and only 39 used latin alfabet. A possible explanation to these would be that they prefer to use twitter in english but to we presented in arabic.
Most of the hashtags found on the sample were related to specific factions so maybe our sample had some bias therefore we cannot asume that it is enough representative.
Publishing platforms (1%)
Profile url location (websites)
Another question that we didn't find the time to approach properly would be if we can detect also fallen soldier profiles by looking at the creation date of the last tweet.
Do we have any spies on this set of users?
Gerlitz, C., Rieder B. Mining one percent twitter.
Personal Journeys to radicalisation
It has been often reported that the speed by which young muslims radicalise and decide to go to Syria, Iraq or other warzones to join the Jihad is increasing dramatically. Young Muslims (be they recently converted or Muslim from a young age) can be radicalized in such short time frames as two to three months (source), turning from moderate Muslims to actually traveling to for instance Syria to join radical groups. In Europe, organizations such as Sharia4Holland, Sharia4Belgium, etc. play an important role in actually getting these youngsters to Syria, where the route via Germany and Turkey seems to be one often travelled. There war in Syria currently has as many as 50,000 people fighting for Jihadists groups, of which at least 1,700 have come from Europe (Lowells and Mulhall 2013:50). Two fighting groups are very prominent, namely Al Nusra (started in January 2013 as an al-Qaeda supporting group of Syria veterans, and Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, which literally means Army of Emigrants and Helpers, and is composed almost entirely of foreign fighters (Lowells and Mulhall 2012:50).
Map with numbers of European fighters in Syria. (Lowles and Mulhall 2012:51)
Lowles, N. and J. Mulhall (2013). Anjem Choudary and the al-Muhajiroun network. London: Hope not Hate.
In this project we follow two young rappers from two different European countries, and track their personal journeys of radicalisation. We selected these cases as both rappers made a radical turnaround, from producing rap music focused on material goods and success with women to becoming increasingly strict muslims and then joining military groups in Syria. In the course of their radicalisation, both continued to use their music to communicate their new values. Despite these similarities, both rappers radicalise at rather different speed and take on different roles in their newly acquired networks.
Taking the example of two young European rappers who are known to have radicalized recently and are currently in Syria, we ask:
What is the speed by which they radicalized?
What are the events that are markers or drivers of radicalization?
What can we identify as radicalisation objects, by which we may?
Close reading Twitter accounts, Facebook profiles and news coverage, finding traces of radicalisation.
Journey 1: Marouane Boulahyani, also known by his stage name Maru-One from rap group Team Liefde
Journey 2: Denis Mamadou Gerhard Cuspert, also known by his stage name Deso Dogg, his converted name Abou Maleeq and his Jihadist name Abu Talha Al-Almani.
For Marouane Boulahyany, we took his Facebook account and his Twitter account as the starting points. We created a timeline which we annotated with the help of news coverage on his specific case. Both the news coverage and social media content pointed us towards the social media accounts of related actors, Marouanes close friend Robbin and his mother, who pleas repeatedly in the news media for her son to return. As Marouane, since his travels to Syria, only posts on Facebook through Twitter, Twitter data became central to his account.
Denis Cuspert did not have active social media accounts, so the research focused on reconstructing his radication through various news sources, drawing on social media content provided by other actors. As Cuspert developed to into a public spokesperson for the German jihadi scene, we drew on his various public appearances which were published by German Islamist pr networks like the Globale Islamische Medienfront (GIMF) and Shamcentre.
Radicalisation Journey One: Marouane Boulahyani, from rap group Team Liefde
https://twitter.com/M_Boulahyani
https://www.facebook.com/MaruOne026/
Marouane journey: https://www.dropbox.com/s/92ujpzau7pbpmpb/maru-one_cleanup.pdf
Marouane animated gif:
As a 16-year old rapper, Marouane Boulahyani from Arnhem, with his rappers name Maru-One, recorded a short rap video which was uploaded to YouTube in 2011. Here, we see a young boy hanging out with his friends, rapping about his neighbourhood and sex. In april of 2012, Marouane Tweets about his Moroccan descent, and for the first time mentions his being Muslim.
In July of 2012, his best friend and fellow rap group member Robbin converts to the Islam and changes his name to Ibrahim. He posts this to ask.fm (a Q&A platform).
On July5th, their rap group Team Liefde releases a new single Ramadan, in which they sing cheerfully about the best month of the year (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtXP_9nv1d0).
During the Ramadan, Marouane, Robbin and their friend Hakim attend Salafist lectures at Al Fath mosque in Arnhem. Marouane tweets some Ramadan tips and tricks, and increasingly tweets about the Islam around this time. The chemical attacks of August 2013 make a lasting impression on both Marouane and his friend Robbin. They have reportedly been exposed to many images of the victims of this attack.
In October, two men from Arnhem, one of whom is Hakim, are arrested in Kleef, Germany. They are carrying fighting gear, cash money, new iPhones and sim cards and are supposedly on their way to Syria. (http://nieuwsuur.nl/onderwerp/565107-arnhemse-syriegangers-opgepakt)
On 5 November, Marouane tweets about books he has bought from Islamproducten.nl, referring to them as answers to lifes questions and encouraging others to do the same.
On the 11th of november, Robbin is reported missing.On the 16th of November, his mother writes an emotional appeal on her FB page, asking anyone who has seen him or heard from him to contact her. On the 15th, however, Marouane has already posted a Tweet with a picture from him in Turkey. Sitting next to him on the bus is Robbin. On the 17th, newspapers report that Robbin has left the Netherlands with a friend whose phone was traced back to Turkey.
On the 19th of November, Hollands Got Talent contestant Anouar Tahadi, Marouanes cousin and fellow rapper, Tweets to wish Marouane and Robbin the best of luck in Syria.
From then onward, Marouane posts images from Syria, and debates with his followers about the Islam and the Jihad. In december he changes his profile picture to one in which he carries fighting gear. His latest posts include images of warriors who have died in battle.
His journey can be characterised as one happening very rapidly, some time between July and November, where an increased interest in the islam and the conversion of a Dutch friend first can be pinpointed with a song serenading the Ramadan. During the Ramadan of 2013, the boys seem to undergo a collective process of further radicalization, fed by attending Salafist lectures in the Al Fath mosque in Arnhem. (Their family has mentioned how Marouane and Robbin would get together and would watch online videos of victims of the chemical attacks. In his later tweets, Marouane often refers to Assad gassing babies and raping women. )
In October, Hakim travels to Syria but is arrested in Germany. In November, Robbin and Marouane travel to Syria.
Radicalisation Journey Two
Denis Cuspert aka Deso Dogg aka Abou Maleeq aka Abu Talha Al-Almani.
The Jihadi Poster Boy
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x5m4bcbbg2myv6g/Denis%20Cuspert%20with%20pics-1_final.pdf
The German Denis Mamadou Gerhard Cuspert, born 1975 grew up in Berlin and took on the artist name Deso Dog in 2002 when working as a rapper. His radicalisation starts in 2010 with his conversion to Islam, following from a near death experience following a car crash and his contact with the German Islamist Preacher Pierre Vogel. He continues to work as singer and produced new music embracing radicalist positions, showing off with weapons and getting involved with various Islamist PR networks like Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) and Shamcentre. He and other continuously document his radicalisation and due to his previous popularity, he increasingly turns into a German jihadi spokes figure. In March 2011, Arid Uka, Muslim Kosovo Albanian shot 2 US Airforce soldiers and wounded several other ones at Frankfurt Airport. Uka was a friend and fan of Cuspert on Facebook and reported that his acts were majorly influenced by him. In 2012, Cuspert flees Germany to Egypt, being involved in the building of a German Jihadi Colony. Now he directly addresses German mainstream media, sending thread videos to the public broadcaster ZDF. In spring 2013, first reports appear that he is fighting for Al Nusra in Syria and continues to promote his cause. In late 2013, he is shot and reported dead, but reappears in public interview material, calling German Muslims to join the jihad, at home, in Syria, alone or with their families.
Syria on Twitter Mobile vs. Web
Mobile communication has intersected with online and social media in such a way that has made these spaces anything but separate. However, just as communicating face-to-face facilitates conversations unique (Baym, Zhang, & Lin, 2004) from those over electronic media (whether analog or digital and audio-only or video-enabled) there are crucial but often overlooked questions of content creation on mobile versus stationary devices.
1. Is there a difference in the use of escalation words between mobile and web-based (static) users when tweeting about Syria? In other words, where can we expect people to be speaking with more escalative terms?
2. In what ways is the difference of interface (mobile/web) and space evident in most commonly used phrases when networked across groups?
Here, public content on Twitter that mentioned "Syria" was harvested from the last three months into a corpus of approximately 5.25 million Tweets. And random sample of 524,520 (10%) was extracted to attempt to understand what was being said in this space, as it may have differentiated from those Tweeting from mobile or (relatively) static devices.
This analysis provides some additional insights on the basis of considerations of mobility, and how being on-the-go may well shape not only what is said but also the intrinsic features of that communication.
Critical markers of topic (what is being discussed) were compared and contrasted with QAP correlations (see Vargo et al., 2013) to produce statistical as well as visual representations of differences in these communicative networks. The QAP coefficients were signficant (p = .005) but the overall relationship between these two matrices very weak (r = .063).
Hashtag network for tweets send from the web http://jgroshek.com/syria_web/
Hashtag network for tweets send from mobile devices http://jgroshek.com/syria_mobile/
Key finding for rq1: The difference is notable, and from the escalation words derived for our group inquiry, web-based posts contain more escalation words by proportion. Some central words from each list.
Keyword Mobile Web
Weapons .4% .8%
Killing .7% 1.1%
Terrorist 0% .7%
Bomb 0% .2%
Rebel .4% 1%
Though this list is not exhaustive, it is reasonably clear that static web-based users were raising words and topics that escalated moreso than mobile posters, who mentioned these words far less, and in some cases, not at all.
Key finding for rq2: Network conversations change whether mobile or web based. This can be seen visually as well as by QAP correlation measure, which shows almost no similarity between how phrases were used and connected to other phrases within users' posts.
Interestingly, neither corpus contained many escalation words, though the distributions and co-occurences both suggest certain mobilizating information. Also somewhat surprisingly, the mobile posts were more "newsy" with more observable references to news organizations.
Baym, N., Zhang, Y. B., & Lin, M. (2004). Social Interactions across Media: Interpersonal Communication on the Internet, Telephone, and Face-to-Face. New Media & Society, 6(3), 299-318.
Vargo, C., Guo, L., Shaw, D., & McCombs, M. (2013). Network Issue Agendas on Twitter during the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. Paper presented at the Political Communication Division of the AEJMC annual conference, Washington, D.C., August.
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Author: Matt O'Brien
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Updated: 5 days ago
The National Security Agency has discovered a major security flaw in Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system that could let hackers intercept seemingly secure communications.
But rather than exploit the flaw for its own intelligence needs, the NSA tipped off Microsoft so that it can fix the system for everyone.
Microsoft released a free software patch to fix the flaw Tuesday and credited the intelligence agency for discovering it. The company said it has not seen any evidence that hackers have used the technique.
Amit Yoran, CEO of security firm Tenable, said it is “exceptionally rare if not unprecedented” for the U.S. government to share its discovery of such a critical vulnerability with a company.
Yoran, who was a founding director of the Department of Homeland Security's computer emergency readiness team, urged all organizations to prioritize patching their systems quickly.
An advisory sent by the NSA on Tuesday said “the consequences of not patching the vulnerability are severe and widespread.”
Microsoft said an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by spoofing a code-signing certificate so it looked like a file came from a trusted source.
"The user would have no way of knowing the file was malicious, because the digital signature would appear to be from a trusted provider," the company said.
If successfully exploited, attackers would have been able to conduct "man-in-the-middle attacks" and decrypt confidential information they intercept on user connections, the company said.
“The biggest risk is to secure communications,” said Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence for security firm CrowdStrike.
Some computers will get the fix automatically, if they have the automatic update option turned on. Others can get it manually by going to Windows Update in the computer's settings.
Microsoft typically releases security and other updates once a month and waited until Tuesday to disclose the flaw and the NSA's involvement. Microsoft and the NSA both declined to say when the agency privately notified the company.
The agency shared the vulnerability with Microsoft “quickly and responsibly,” Neal Ziring, technical director of the NSA's cybersecurity directorate, said in a blog post Tuesday.
Priscilla Moriuchi, who retired from the NSA in 2017 after running its East Asia and Pacific operations, said this is a good example of the “constructive role” that the NSA can play in improving global information security. Moriuchi, now an analyst at the U.S. cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, said it’s likely a reflection of changes made in 2017 to how the U.S. determines whether to disclose a major vulnerability or exploit it for intelligence purposes.
The revamping of what’s known as the “Vulnerability Equities Process” put more emphasis on disclosing vulnerabilities whenever possible to protect core internet systems and the U.S. economy and general public.
Those changes happened after a mysterious group calling itself the “Shadow Brokers” released a trove of high-level hacking tools stolen from the NSA, forcing companies including Microsoft to repair their systems. The U.S. believes that North Korea and Russia were able to capitalize on those stolen hacking tools to unleash devastating global cyberattacks.
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Cancun/Riviera Maya
Viceroy Riviera Maya
Playa Xcalacoco Frac 7, Riviera Maya, 77710 Playa del Carmen, Q.R., Mexico
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Swanky Resort on the Riviera Maya
The Viceroy Riviera Maya is a 41- villa resort set on the sugary-white-sand beach along the Riviera Maya.
Surrounded by a lush jungle ambiance dotted with dense with ferns, palms and guava trees, it offers a luxurious retreat for guests 16 and older.
Guests are treated to an ancient Maya blessing, performed by the onsite shaman - guaranteed to transform worries into a relaxed mindset to mesh with the tranquil resort.
The spa employs Maya healing techniques and traditions, while a lagoon pool, fine-dining restaurant, seaside grill, private pier, fitness center and a library lounge are some of the many guest amenities.
A menu of artisanal soaps offers a choice of scents. Once the selection is made, the Soap Concierge slices personalized bars from large blocks of soap for their use.
Pet packages are available and include a blessing from the shaman, personalized, hand-made portable pet palapas and personalized menus designed by resort chefs.
By Michelle da Silva Richmond , AFAR Local Expert
Savi and Vid
A Sumptuous Romantic Getaway in Mexico
There is no better place to get away from it all than Viceroy Riviera Maya. The luxurious hotel is tucked away in a little corner of Playa Del Carmen. Despite its proximity to Cancun International Airport, it offers an intimate and private experience.
This idyllic romantic getaway is perfect for an anniversary or honeymoon because private villas are equipped with plunge pools, jungle showers, large balconies, and hammocks. It's hard to tear oneself away from the villas but the hotel boasts of an expansive beach as well. Make sure you pick up a kayak at the hotel and go kayaking in the jewelled waters of the Caribbean Sea.
The spa boasts of a variety of treatments, including archetypal Mexican experiences such as Mayan massages and Sweat Lodges. Getting a massage at Viceroy Riviera Maya is truly relaxing but you could step it up a notch for a special occasion. We'd suggest paying the minor surcharge ($15) for an open-air massage on the pier - in that case, you'll get the spa 'room' in this photo.
Michelle da Silva Richmond
Viceroy Riviera Maya's Enhanced Temazcál Ceremony
The ancient tribes of Mexico have been absorbing the multiple physical and spiritual benefits of the temazcál for centuries, unveiling a ritual which has become very popular for visitors to the area.
While there are many places where you can experience this, the luxurious Viceroy Riviera Maya has an improved version with a larger, improved "sweat hut," the use of fresh medicinal herbs and a skilled “temazcálero.”
Their enhanced Temazcál Ritual promises a powerful and intensive detox and purification experience.
The ceremony takes place in an igloo-like stone structure, which participants enter forming a circle around a rock pit. Hot stones with rosemary, mint and rue are placed in the pit different four times, representing the four elements of water, earth, air and fire. Hot water, infused with the same medicinal herbs, is poured over the heated stones to create steam.
Throughout the 90-minute ritual, the temazcálero invokes positive energy by chanting and herb tea and fruit are offered to prevent dehydration. At the end of the ritual, participants depart with a sense of calmness, renewal, and energy restoration.
The ceremony is believed to cleanse the respiratory and digestive tracts, tone the skin, reduce stress, improve blood circulation and offers many other benefits.
Spiritually, it is said to help induce a state of relaxation, provide a safe place for letting go, open the heart to the universe, and cleanse the mind and spirit.
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'One-sided and unfair': China hardens rhetoric against Scott Morrison
Andrew TillettPolitical Correspondent
China is hardening its rhetoric against Scott Morrison's push to reclassify it is as a developed country, describing the Prime Minister's proposal as "one-sided and unfair" and accusing Australia of simply repeating US grievances over China's trade practices.
The Chinese embassy in Canberra issued a statement reiterating the gap between rich and poor was still too great for China to lose trade concessions the World Trade Organisation bestows on developing nations.
China has accused Australia of repeating US grievances over China's trade practices. SMH
"The assertion of China being a 'newly developed economy' by the Australian side doesn’t hold much water. It is both one-sided and unfair. And it is basically an echo of what the US has claimed," the embassy's statement said.
"It is true that China, through its own efforts, has made remarkable achievements in economic and social development over the past decades and become the world's second largest economy.
"However, there is still a big gap between China and the developed countries in terms of overall development level. China still has a long way to go to achieve full modernisation."
The embassy said China's gross domestic product per capita was less than $10,000 - equivalent to 15.6 per cent of that of the US and 17 per cent of Australia's per capita GDP - leaving it ranked 70th in the world.
"We are still facing the challenge of unbalanced development and underdevelopment. The problems of low development quality and low efficiency remain unsolved," the statement said.
"In a comprehensive analysis, China is still a developing country, which is widely acknowledged by the international community.
"As the biggest developing country, China will continue to actively assume its international obligations commensurate with its level of development and economic capability, and will as always help other developing countries to achieve common development."
The embassy's statement is noticeably sharper than comments issued Wednesday by China's Foreign Ministry to The Australian Financial Review or spoken at its regular news briefing, where they stopped short of rebuking Mr Morrison directly.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne also met her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this week following Mr Morrison's speech and said they had had a "positive" meeting.
Speaking on Wednesday afternoon before leaving New York, Mr Morrison brushed off any suggestion of Chinese criticism, saying his comments on issues were guided on what was in Australia's national interest.
"But I’m very enthused and encouraged by the foreign minister’s comments in the last 24 hours, which have recognised, I think, the way that Australia has been sensibly addressing the broader relationship issues around our comprehensive strategic partnership.
"There’s even editorials in the People’s Daily that say similar things. So I think there are far too many data points now that are out there to ignore, that Australia is actually managing our great and powerful friends very well, both, through our significant and long-standing alliances as well as our strategic and comprehensive partnerships."
Mr Morrison stoked fresh tensions in the relationship between Canberra and Beijing this week when he gave a keynote speech urging an updating of the WTO's rules on how developing nations should be classified.
While Mr Morrison emphasised China's economic development should be celebrated, it was time for China to lose developing nation status and assume greater global responsibilities as a superpower.
"China's economic growth is welcomed by Australia and we recognise the economic maturity that it has now realised as a newly-developed economy. This was the point of the world’s economic engagement with China," Mr Morrison told the Chicago Institute for Global Affairs.
As part of his trade war with Beijing, President Donald Trump has also campaigned for China to be stripped of the trade concessions it and other developing nations receive.
Under WTO rules, countries can declare themselves developing nations, entitling them to benefits such as environmental or labour concessions, increased ability to erect trade barriers or longer timelines to implement agreements.
Most notably, China and other developing nations are allowed to increase their carbon emissions under the Paris climate pact, putting the burden on developed nations to deliver reductions.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese accused Mr Morrison of using a "loud hailer" to criticise Australia's largest trading partner on foreign soil.
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Andrew Tillett writes on politics, foreign affairs, defence and security from the Canberra press gallery. Connect with Andrew on Facebook and Twitter. Email Andrew at andrew.tillett@afr.com
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Mad About You: The Complete Series DVD
Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt won America's hearts as recently wed, endearingly neurotic Paul and Jamie Buchman in this long-running romantic comedy. Coping with marriage, mood swings, love and life in New York City, interacting with celebrity guests including Lisa Kudrow, Carl Reiner, Carol Burnett, Jerry Seinfeld, and Cyndi Lauper, they kept us watching for 7 seasons. This set includes every episode of the multiple Golden Globe and Emmy®-winning series, plus many bonus features. 164 episodes, 64 hrs, 14 DVDs.
All 164 episodes are included in this collection.
Packaging: Boxed set
Run Time: 3833 minutes
Number of discs: 14
Subtitles: No
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: No
Region Code: 1
Audio Format: Stereo
Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt, Anne Ramsay, Leila Kenzle, John Pankow, Cynthia Harris, Maui, Louis Zorich, Robin Bartlett, Richard Kind, Judy Geeson, Lisa Kudrow, Suzie Plakson, Hank Azaria, Jeff Garlin, Mo Gaffney, Tommy Hinkley, Jerry Adler, Carol Burnett, George Petrie, Paxton Whitehead, Jim Piddock
Charming - Common Sense Media
Mad About You is the recipient of 89 industry award nominations and 40 industry award wins including Golden Globes, Primetime Emmy Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the prestigious Peabody Award.
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First actor agency website
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Many thanks to Chris Ryman who put me in touch with his agent Eamonn Bedford, who has just set up his own actors agency in Covent Garden. With a list of forty clients and growing, Eamonn wanted a site that was simple and clean, whilst obviously up to date and functional. Using WordPress as a basis, we created a site that boasts just that. The site is also html5 based so should be good for the next few years for sure! Though designed more for desktop, it appears to behaving well on a few mobile devices including iPad too. Each actor also needed their showreels embedding. Using mp4, the video should stream at variable rate allowing for better picture quality on faster connections.
Not the only site I’ve been working on of late, but more news of that to follow.
Keighley Antiques
It’s not always actors websites that I design. I have recently completed one for a friend who sells antiques as a hobby. They wanted to be able to showcase their collection and receive contact from anyone who was interested in purchasing said antiques. Using WordPress as a template, I helped set up this site on their own dedicated server space so that they could add, amend, update, delete antiques in their collection, in the appropriate categories despite having little experience with maintaining databases. Et voila. Simple but functional with, I hope you agree, a dash of elegance and sophistication to give a website that looks great and serves it purpose not just for the person running the site but for visitors too.
So remember, you don’t necessarily have to be an actor to use our service!
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Epsilon Productions
I already did the professional website of actress Angela Bull when she approached me to redesign her theatre production company’s website. They have a new show coming out in early 2011 and so were keen to ensure that not only was the website up and presentable but also that logistics were in place for mailouts, feedback and updates. The new site not only boasts a great new original look and logo for the company which will be used through future media outputs, but also the ability to update the site for themselves from remote locations such as mobile phones and communal computers, and have those updates relate to their other online presences such as Facebook.
Check out the site at www.epsilonproductions.co.uk
Recently revamped a site for actor David Kerby Kendall using WordPress as a base. Among some of its advantages it means that David can now access his site from any computer and leave posts and pictures on the site (rather like this one I’m leaving now) Visitors to his site can also leave comments. The site also uses a mixture of php, html, javascript and flash which gives it maximum versatility and compatibility not only across browsers and computer displays (ie notebooks, iPads, iPhones etc…) but the site can also include live updates from other presences you may have such as Facebook or Twitter!
ActorCV has created a personalised design for David’s site, but he can change the design anytime from a choice of thousands of free templates that are available already online. Whilst this may seem to make ActorCV redundant, it couldn’t be more further from the truth. ActorCV remains in the background to administer the site on his behalf and can customize existing code to suit his site needs.
The Twilight Ballrooms
You’d be forgiven for thinking that whilst this new site takes form, other sites lie idle. Well, you’d be wrong. The new look Twilight Ballrooms website has recently been relaunched. The new look website has involved all my creative juices including not only great Flash design, but original orchestrated music, 3d graphics, animated page transitions, animated backgrounds, flickering lightbulbs…wow just everything. I hope you like it. Writing for a new short film for the site will begin in 2011. There are also four LIVE shows in Londons Piccadilly this November 2010 featuring real magic from magician Malcolm Marvelle – Master of Mystery and the lovely Rita. To book tickets and for more information visit www.thetwilightballrooms.co.uk . You can also follow the projects’ progress at my film making website Tranquility Base Presents, which is also sporting a brand new layout.
Check out these other sites by ActorCV
Angela Bull – Actress
Eva Alexander – Actress
Simon Poole – Voiceover Artist
Bill Homewood – Actor
Cory English – Actor
Tranquility Base Presents – Short Film Projects
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Volume 62, Issue 3 /
O’Hare’s Last Flight
The author took part in the first night combat with Japanese bombers. In that dramatic action, he witnessed the loss of Butch O'Hare, the famous World War II ace for whom O’Hare Airport was named.
Alvin Kernan
By 1943, the war was moving fast—new carriers, new airplane squadrons—and in November our air group, commanded by Lt. Comdr. Edward “Butch” O’Hare, was loaded aboard ship for the Pacific Theater. O’Hare was a hero of the early war, having shot down five Japanese planes in one day and probably saving the carrier Lexington at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Butch O'Hare won the Medal of Honor for single-handedly shooting down five Japanese planes and probably saving the carrier Lexington.
Our task force was sent to the Gilbert Islands, where the Marines were in a bloody fight at Tarawa. The Japanese had big airfields several hundred miles to the north in the Marshalls out of which they were flying medium bombers, known as “Bettys.” Loaded with torpedoes, they would fly down and try to find the American fleet, hoping to sink a carrier or two. It was decided to do something about them, and Adm. Arthur Radford, commanding the task force on the carrier Enterprise, in consultation with Butch O’Hare and our squadron commander, Lt. Commander John Phillips, devised the first ever night-fighter operation off carriers, code-named “Black Panther.”
A few small airborne radar sets had been issued to the fleet a year before, but they were not yet in general use. Primitive instruments with a small green screen about five by seven inches, they had a sweeping arm that briefly lit up as it crossed the location of other planes—terribly difficult to read—with a maximum range of about ten miles, and precise only much closer. Still, having seen nothing like them before, they impressed us mightily. When lost, you could also find your way back to a ship with one of these, instead of flying into the empty ocean until you ran out of gas. Sets had been installed into two of our torpedo planes by a specialist, Lt. (junior grade) Hazen Rand, who had worked in the development of the airborne naval radar sets at M.I.T. After a crash course in operating the rear gun, Rand replaced our navigator for the Black Panther Operation.
On November 24 at about 0500, while we were circling looking for targets, there was a huge flash of light off to the east, like the sun rising, which we later learned was the escort carrier Liscombe Bay blowing up when hit by a Japanese submarine torpedo. She was a light carrier with pitifully little protection, and everything in her—gasoline, bombs, torpedoes—blew up at once. She went down instantly, with the loss of more than six hundred men.
O’Hare and our squadron commander devised the first ever night-fighter operation off carriers.
Then, on the night of the twenty-sixth, the new night-fighting scheme was put into action again using two fighters and a torpedo plane. One of the fighters was to be flown by Butch O’Hare and the other by his wingman Ensign Warren Skon. The torpedo plane was inevitably flown by Phillips as squadron commander. Rand was in the tunnel again, while I remained, somewhat unsure about all this, as the gunner in the turret. The fighters and the torpedo plane were to go off together, early in the evening if the Japanese appeared then, and—here was a big risk—we would all have to land on the carrier deck in darkness, without lights. The barely secured landing field at Tarawa had been requested to receive us if we could not get back to the carrier.
Japanese snoopers were already in probing the fleet before sunset, and fighters from the Belleau Wood shot down one Betty. Sitting in the ready room below the flight deck, we wore red goggles to keep from being blinded when we went into the dark. As dusk was falling, the public address system told us that a large number of Bettys had been picked up on radar on a bearing that would lead them to the ships. A few moments later came that stirring command, “Pilots, man your planes,” and the two fighter pilots, Phillips, Rand and I made our way up to the flight deck and into our planes. I checked and double-checked all the guns on the torpedo plane.
O'Hare can be seen in the fighter on the right, a Grumman Wildcat like the one he flew on his last mission.
The two fighters went off first, at 1800, fired from the catapult, and disappeared into the distance, small diminishing blue lights just visible from their exhaust flares. We went off next. Heavily laden torpedo planes always sank below the deck when fired from the catapult, and looking from the backward-facing turret. I could see the huge black deck rise above us and feel the tug of the waves below. But the engine at full power pulled us up and away, and as the wheels and flaps came up we mined altitude in the darkness and began to move away from the white wakes and bow waves of the task force while waiting for the fighters to join up on our wings.
From the beginning, the fighters were far ahead of us, hoping to catch a snooper before dark closed in, and we fell farther and farther behind. Since we depended on the fighters for protective firepower, I assumed we would go back to the ship once we lost them.
But Phillips was an aggressive naval aviator, and after a time he decided to strike out for himself. We flew about for a time while the fighter director officer tried to get all our planes together, but still no fighters. Then Rand called out that he had a contact on his radar. Four, five, ten, then twelve. Two parallel rows of six Bettys each. We swung in behind them, and Rand began calling out the range: three miles, two, one, a thousand yards. Then, at two hundred yards, the pilot confirmed, “I have them in sight. Attacking.”
This seemed madness to me, our lightly armed, clumsy, slow torpedo plane attacking twelve bombers in a tight mutually supporting formation, each with five guns—front, rear, top, two in the waist—but nobody asked for a vote, and the plane banked up and to port, then swung in high on an angle toward the rear Betty in the starboard line. The two .50-caliber guns firing in the wings felt like they were tearing the plane apart.
It seemed madness to me that our slow, lightly armed torpedo plane would attack twelve Japanese bombers, each with five guns...
It all developed so fast that training took over from thinking. As we tilted up and away from our firing run on the first plane, I could look back and see the surprised enemy opening up from his top turret, his blister gun, and his tail, the heaviest and most accurate fire coming from the 20-mm in the tail. Fire flared out from his wing where the gas tanks were, and I began firing at the flames. He blew up all at once. A long trail of fire went down and down into the blackness of the ocean below, where it kept burning, a red smear on the black water.
The Japanese were totally confused. Night fighters off carriers were as unknown to them as they were to us, and the night was filled with so many tracer beams it was impossible for them to tell where the attacking plane was. In their excitement the Japanese gunners were firing into their own planes in the opposite line.
The Japanese firing was disorganized but not entirely harmless. We turned away from the burning plane and started into a firing run on another. I fired back into the first plane as it glided down toward the water to crash and burn. Just then, Rand called out on the intercom. “I’m hit.”
I unlatched the armor plate below me and crawled into the bucketing plane to sit on the green aluminum bench beside Rand. A pale, thin-faced man anyway, his face in the ghoulish green light of the radar screen was now a skull. A single bullet had come through the plane just forward of the armor on the floor where his foot had braced while he peered into the radar scope, and it had torn off the side of his shoe and foot. It wasn’t a mortal wound, unless he bled to death, but it was sure a painful mess. I called Phillips on the intercom. “Shall I give him an injection of morphine?” (We carried Syrettes in the medical kit.) The answer shocked me. “No, we will need the radar again.” The logic was obvious, though I didn’t think Rand was going to do much more work that night.
The author served as a gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber, the first Navy plane to carry airborne radar. He fired from the rear-facing turret.
The ship’s radar could see both us and the fighters, and the fighter director officer was trying to move us together. At this point Phillips—at O’Hare’s request—turned on our running lights, and the fighters, all lighted up themselves like Christmas trees, slid suddenly in, coming down across our tail from below and aft, O’Hare on our starboard side wing one or two hundred feet away somewhat below, Skon on the port, bright blue in the flare of their exhausts, six guns jutting out of their wings, quite scary. For one brief moment Butch O’Hare’s face was sharply illuminated by his canopy light, goggles up, yellow Mae West life jacket, khaki shirt, and helmet. He was seated aggressively forward, riding the plane hard, looking like the tough American ace, Medal of Honor recipient he was.
It was at that point that, attracted by our lights, one of the Bettys, as confused and blinded as we were, tried to join up on the American formation. Looking to my right, I saw a long black cigar shape climb up from below and aft of Skon and swing into formation above us on our starboard side, behind and slightly above O’Hare. Realizing his fatal mistake, he began firing. “Butch, this is Phil. There’s a Jap on your tail. Kernan, open fire.” The intercom went dead as I began shooting back at the Betty to our rear, which, as the tracers arced toward him, broke away across our group to disappear in the darkness behind Skon.
Rand in pain but staring out of the tunnel window, had a good view of the exchange of fire, but he missed O’Hare’s plane slipping under us, just forward of Skon, and away into the dark. I thought I saw O’Hare reappear off to port, for the briefest glimpse, and then he was gone. Something whitish-gray appeared above the water, his parachute or the splash of the plane going in. Skon slid away instantly to follow O’Hare, and then returned to join up on us again when he could not find him.
I thought I saw O’Hare reappear for the briefest glimpse, and then he was gone. Something whitish-gray appeared above the water, his parachute or the splash of the plane going in.
Phillips took us down to drag the surface for another long half-hour before giving up and making our way at about 2100 back to the Enterprise. Skon landed first without any trouble. But for us the evening was by no means over. We still had to make a landing on an unlighted carrier at night.
If it had been done before, it was certainly not standard procedure, and Phillips, despite having thousands of hours as an instrument instructor, had never done it, even in practice. We homed in on the white wake that marked the ship in the water, but there was no light anywhere on deck except the fluorescent wands of the landing signal officer standing on the end of the flight deck.
The Enterprise captain, Matt Gardner, must have known we would never make it back with the cumbersome plane in the dark, the pilot tensed to the snapping point, so he courageously turned on the shaded lights that marked out the flight deck for the crucial moment. They could only be seen from low and aft by a plane approaching for a landing, so they didn’t reveal the ship very much for very long to a submarine or the Bettys still flying about. This time it worked. We dropped heavily onto the deck.
My first encounter with media arrogance came while I was still standing at the urinal. “What happened?” a reporter asked. “Where were they? How many? Where is O’Hare? How many did you shoot down?”
The tone was hoarsely aggressive, and I felt the night flight was a complicated and deeply personal thing. I certainly didn’t feel like talking about it to anyone as abrasive and unpleasant as this man. He bored right in though, and began to try to construct the scandal he wanted. “How far away from O’Hare were you when he was hit? Were you shooting too?” And then, there it was: “Did you hit him?” I walked away shouting. “Get the hell away from me.”
He went off muttering about reporting me to the officers, but I suppose the public relations officer got hold of him and in the end he wrote a number of stories for magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, describing O’Hare going down amid a blaze of enemy gunfire while saving the entire fleet, with bouquets to everyone else involved, including me.
A few weeks later, The New York Times ran a story on the pilot that President Roosevelt termed “one of the greatest combat fliers of all time.” Our navigator, Lt. Rand, was quoted as saying, “I saw the fourth plane’s guns blinking red and he was shooting at Butch while our gunner, Kernan, was shooting at the Jap. I overhead Kernan tell Commander Phillips that he was opening fire and Phil in turn told Butch, ‘Butch, there’s a Jap plane coming into your tail.’”
“Then Butch’s lights went off. I looked again and he was gone.”
Copyright © The Naval Institute Press. Reprinted by permission.
Butch O'Hare
War in the Pacific
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Living off the Land in an Alaskan Iñupiaq Community | INDIE ALASKA
Valerie Kern
About 60 miles North of the Arctic Circle is the small village of Noatak. The majority of the residents there, including Lonnie Arnold, still live a traditional subsistence lifestyle and rely on the wild plants and animals to feed their families. During the summer, almost everyone in the Iñupiaq community is fishing for salmon and picking blueberries, raspberries, and aqpiks (cloudberries) to stock their freezers and pantries for the long winter ahead.
Video and Story by Valerie Kern
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UN in Philippines flood aid appeal
Humanitarian chief calls for $74m in aid in wake of two deadly storms.
Hundreds of thousands of flood survivors have sought refuge in emergency shelters [EPA]
More than a week later several districts of the city remain awash with filthy water, raising the fears of outbreaks of diseases such as cholera and diarrhoea.
Typhoons: Asia's mega-storms
A week later the second storm, Typhoon Parma, brought more heavy rains to the region, killing another 16 people.
That storm has gathered strength again as it lingers off the northern coast of the Philippines, with forecasters saying further rains are expected in the coming days.
Announcing the UN appeal, John Holmes, the world body's emergency relief coordinator, said he had authorised an immediate allocation of $7m from the UN's Central Emergency Response Fund.
With more than 40,000 homes destroyed or badly damaged by the storms, he said the $74m the agency was seeking would cover the immediate needs of a million people for three months.
'No stranger to disasters'
Relief agencies say survivors have little access to basic necessities like clean water [Reuters]
"This is the largest flash appeal I think we've ever launched for the Philippines which is no stranger to disasters, and certainly no stranger to floods," Holmes told reporters.
According to relief groups about 400,000 people around Manila have fled to emergency shelters and cannot return to their homes until floodwaters subside.
Many survivors have had to wade through neck-high water to collect emergency food rations.
According to the UN, the flooding has also destroyed crops including rice worth an estimated $117m.
Also on Tuesday the World Food Programme said it was providing helicopters and dinghies to relief efforts in the Philippines.
"Many needy people live in areas that still remain inaccessible because of the widespread flooding," Stephen Anderson, the WFP's director in the Philippines said in a statement from the agency's Rome headquarters.
The WFP said it has released some 10,000 tonnes of food for flood hit areas but has estimated the need at some 26,000 tonnes.
The Philippines often bears the brunt of the powerful tropical storms that develop over the northwestern Pacific Ocean during the annual typhoon season that lasts approximately between May and November each year.
On average about 20 typhoons and tropical storms lash the archipelago annually.
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St Michael's Church, Enniskillen
Armatile’s project team worked closely with the Architect and Client to identify, source and combine the exact products that would translate their creative vision into reality.
Current: St Michael's Church, Enniskillen
The Church of St Michael, situated in the heart of historic Enniskillen Town, dates back to 1875. Its significance to the area and region was highlighted in recent years when it became the first ever Roman Catholic Church in Ireland (either north or south) to be visited by Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II. The original architect, John O’Neill, was inspired by French Gothic Revival Styles and had previously built St Peter’s Cathedral in Belfast and St Patrick’s Church in Downpatrick.
Project Architect Kieran Mullarkey wished to restore some of the original French Gothic features to the beautiful church building that had been either lost over time or previously removed in earlier renovation works. He took inspiration from the Edward Welby Pugin designed St Augustine & St John Church in Dublin which was built in 1874. Pugin, regarded as one of England’s greatest architects, was an advocate of French Gothic Revival styles and was responsible for over 100 churches including Shrewsbury Cathedral and Euxton Hall Chapel in Lancashire.
Kieran wanted to use traditional materials and production methods of the period to create a lasting mosaic feature that reflected the church’s rich history and underlined the building’s original architectural influences.
Designing the Surface
Armatile’s project team worked closely with the Architect and Client to identify, source and combine the exact products that would translate their creative vision into reality. In total the area had six different design elements including;
A Vine Leaf Interlocking Border
Two different Decorative Corner Designs
Five Individual In-lay Features including Lamb of God and Chi Rho panels
Framing Mosaic in square pieces around the altar stone and reredos
Granite Steps and Risers to match existing original granite features
Fan Shaped Mosaics for the main surface areas
This process involved making numerous sample swatches of mosaics and mood boards with different colour combinations to find the perfect blends of colour, tone, finish and design for the project. It was at this stage that it was realised the final grout colour would impact significantly on the finished floor and Armatile worked closely with TTA partners at Mapei to provide a range of choices.
Creating Bespoke Tile Surfaces
Armatile’s manufacturing team meticulously and painstakingly hand cut each individual piece of natural stone to make the fan mosaic designs, swirling vine leaf panels and individual design features. These were then pre-assembled on interlocking mesh mounted mosaic sheets in the factory production room before being dry laid and quality checked in preparation for dispatch to site. This time-consuming intricate process by Armatile’s highly skilled team was carried out with finite details ensured the final surface would restore the historic building’s original French Gothic Revival heritage.
For the steps and risers required for the restoration, the project team extensively searched for and sourced the perfect slab of Juperana Granite to match the existing stone floors in the building. Then Armatile’s manufacturing team cut the individual pieces to size from the slab using waterjet machinery operating at 50,000psi, bullnosed the facing edge of the steps and polished the surfaces to match the existing finishes.
Fitting Bespoke Tile Surfaces
Armatile’s innovative manufacturing processes of producing all designs on mesh mounted panels off-site also impacted significantly on the project as it reduced fitting time (and of course associated labour costs). The entire fitting process took only three days thus minimising any disruption to the everyday life of the church, its congregation and visitors.
Armatile has a reputation for working on heritage projects. With a sympathetic approach to restoration its team expertly interprets design needs and translates each client’s creative vision into reality. This project is a great example of how Armatile works in partnership with all project stakeholders, including the client, architect and users. For St Michael’s Church it utilised its specialist tile cutting and traditional hand assembly techniques to a create bespoke, tailored surface solution that not only met but exceeded the clients brief for this Heritage Restoration Project.
The completely refitted floor looks like it was installed during the original construction period in the 1870s. The care and attention given to each single piece of mosaic during the manufacturing process has ensured the new floor restores the design heritage of St Michael’s Church, perfectly preserving the history of the building’s original inspirations and styles. It is an example of how Armatile’s entire team utilises its vast experience and knowledge in the heritage sector to help clients preserve the integrity of beautiful, historic buildings for present and future generations to enjoy.
Right Reverend Monsignor Peter O’Reilly
Darling Street, Enniskillen
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Anglo-Saxon Island Discovered in England
March 8, 2016 Science & Technology + Space Exploration Tags: Discovery, History
A Lidar survey of the Little Carleton site in England showing a dark splotch of raised land where the site sits (left) and a Lidar visualization of what the site may have looked like in the Middle Anglo-Saxon period with marshland surrounding a little island. Credit: University of Sheffield
A newly discovered Anglo-Saxon settlement in England is surrounded by dry land today, but once was an island oasis amidst marshland. And at least some of its inhabitants were literate.
The long-ago island was inhabited continuously between at least A.D. 680 and A.D. 850, during the Middle Anglo-Saxon era, archaeologists from the University of Sheffield report in the April 2016 issue of Current Archaeology. Among the tantalizing discoveries in the area were 16 silver styluses for writing and a tablet inscribed with the female name “Cudberg” — perhaps a coffin plaque for a long-ago resident.
The site is in Lincolnshire parish near the village of Little Carlton, an area of grassy fields, marshes and small forests. The first hint that something intriguing might be buried in this bucolic setting came in 2011, when a metal detector hobbyist named Graham Vickers discovered a silver writing stylus featuring decorative carvings. Archaeologists dated the utensil to the eighth century. [See Photos of the Newfound Island Site and Its Treasures]
Additional searches near the ground surface turned up more treasures: loom weights, whetstones, glass fragments and pottery pieces. One little glass piece was crisscrossed with decorative, intertwined glass strands. These finds hint at a settlement with access to life’s little luxuries.
The flow of artifacts from the site caught the attention of University of Sheffield archaeologist Hugh Willmott and doctoral student Pete Townend, who conducted geophysical surveys and Lidar scans of the area. Lidar uses laser pulses to measure and map out surface features. The data can be used to create models that show the shape of the Earth with all its vegetation stripped away.
These surveys revealed a slight rise in the land around the area richest in artifacts. As the archaeologists moved south, where fewer artifacts were found, they noticed that the land dipped. A survey of the historical field names of the area turned up monikers like “Little Fen,” suggesting a marshy history. All of this data added up to a picture of the site as a long-ago island in a marsh, which has since been drained and converted into agricultural fields.
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Top 10 artists proving genres are a thing of the past
What is a genre anyways?
Collin Goeman
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It’s easy for artists to be pigeonholed into genres by music elitists in the modern era of collaboration and blurred lines. At the end of the day, though, if the songs sound good, they should be listened to without the threat of some snarky critic explaining the difference between metal and hardcore.
Here are 10 artists who are proving that genres are fading away.
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1. YUNGBLUD
It’s only fitting to begin this list with one of the strongest up-and-comers at the moment, making it all the more impressive that YUNGBLUD is leading his very own genre revolution. Not only does Dom Harrison rep his taste for punk on his sleeve (literally), the singer has infused the grittiness and “fuck you” attitude of the underground into his meteoric rise to the top.
2. Bring Me The Horizon
Refusing to rest on past successes, Bring Me The Horizon were slightly ahead of the curve when it came to mixing the booming genres of electronica and metal with their latest record, amo. While some say it’s a far cry from their previous work, BMTH stay true through their crushing intensity while flaunting versatility with a flair of EDM.
3. Machine Gun Kelly
Machine Gun Kelly was repping the rock star lifestyle far before he portrayed hair-metal legend Tommy Lee in the recent Mötley Crüe biopic. Kells has always fused a flair of alternative with his early releases such as Lace Up, but his recent efforts leading up to Hotel Diablo have been dripping with punk. His list of collaborators is seemingly endless, spanning genres. He’s worked with the aforementioned YUNGBLUD, punk icon Travis Barker, Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale, Tech N9ne, and Bebe Rexha—just to name a few. Needless to say, MGK has his chips all in on rock ’n’ roll.
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4. twenty one pilots
Trying to identify a genre to label twenty one pilots would be a futile effort. Not quite rap, not quite pop and not quite anything else, the unpredictable instrumentals are truly one of a kind. Even fans who filled out the band’s Wikipedia page are at a loss for descriptors, listing them as a “musical duo.” There simply isn’t another act like them, and at this point it looks like there never will be.
5. Vic Mensa
Initially penciled in as your run-of-the-mill rap artist, Vic Mensa’s recent endeavors have given him serious cred within the scene. The rapper is hell-bent on plugging underground culture as of late with his 93PUNX project. The new initiative has Mensa rubbing elbows with Travis Barker and Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden, creating a punk-inspired clothing line and working on a tried-and-true punk album under the same name. It looks like Mensa is ready to embrace the alternative.
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6. FEVER 333
Another rock collaborator for Mensa, FEVER 333 are breaking down barriers all their own. Melding a hip-hop flair to their sucker-punch brand of metal, the most intriguing aspect is the heavy social messages infused into their rap-rock delivered lyrics. These political targets and a deafening vocals inflection are making Jason Aalon Butler look more and more like this generation’s version of Rage Against The Machine’s Zack de la Rocha.
7. Afterlife
Reviving the soul of ’90s rock, Afterlife are changing the definition of nü metal. The band stay true to their roots while juggling a myriad of vocal styles. Whether rapped, screamed or sang, the lyrics are anything but surface level. Covering mental health, politics and anything else that truly matters, Afterlife look to make an in-your-space statement with every word.
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8. Poppy
Setting the stage with ominous instrumentals and creepy music videos, it just wouldn’t be right to file Poppy under your everyday alt-pop. Flexing her metal roots enough to impress FEVER 333, the songstress continues to garner a large following through her melding of pop, industrial and horror movie soundtracks. All the while, we could see her helping with the new The Shining sequel tunes.
9. Crossfaith
Bringing their own strange brew of metalcore from Japan, Crossfaith are mixing electronic influences into their breakdowns seamlessly. With nods to industrial, dubstep and nü metal, the former cover band have made waves with their stabbing synths and brutal composition. Is it a drop or a breakdown? We don’t care. It’s awesome.
10. RAT BOY
Another punk/rap Frankenstein hailing from across the pond, RAT BOY’s potential is already being recognized by legends. Initially basing his sound on supergroup Transplants, his first record was enough to catch the eye of Tim Armstrong, who took him under his wing for a strong sophomore showing. The influences are clear in his rough mix of screeching guitars and hard-hitting bars, bringing unmatched energy and consistent rebel attitude.
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AMA demands a fair go for GPs with pathology collection arrangements
Home > News & Media > Media Releases > News > AMA demands a fair go for GPs with pathology collection arrangements
Thursday 6 October 2016
Federal AMA President Dr Michael Gannon has made a direct plea to Health Minister Sussan Ley to scrap Government plans to change rental rules for pathology collection centres located in general practices and other medical facilities.
The Government announced a sudden and unexpected deal with Pathology Australia during this year’s Federal election campaign to impose tighter rules on collection centre rental arrangements in exchange for the pathology companies dropping their high profile campaign against the Government’s Medicare bulk billing policies.
Dr Gannon said today that the AMA is demanding the Government immediately drop its deal with Pathology Australia.
“The Government wants to implement a blunt cap on the rents paid by pathology companies for pathology collection centre space in general practices and other medical suites,” Dr Gannon said.
“This policy was reached without any proper consultation with general practice groups or other providers of collection centres outside the major pathology companies.
“It was also reached without acknowledgement of previous consultations and what stakeholders thought was a clear plan to address any inappropriate rental arrangements.
“While the AMA totally supports efforts to stamp out rental or other arrangements that might seek to influence the referral patterns of GPs and other specialists, the Government’s proposed changes go too far.
“The changes are being reported as saving pathology companies around $150 million a year, with most of this money being taken out of general practice.
“GPs are already heavily burdened by a range of funding cuts, most notably the extended freeze on Medicare patient rebates – and there is no sign of any new significant Government support or investment for hardworking GPs across the nation.
“Rather than address concerns about funding for pathology services, the Government has chosen to implement a divisive policy that takes funds out of one deserving part of the health sector and gives it to another part of the health sector.
“The Government’s policy proposal is causing significant distress, particularly for general practice.
“GPs see this policy as an attack on small business, which essentially delivers a windfall gain to two major listed companies at the expense of GPs working hard to keep their small businesses afloat.
“General practices have made business decisions based on projected rental streams, including investment in infrastructure and staffing, and now face the prospect of the rules being changed at significant financial cost to them,” Dr Gannon said.
Prior to the shock election deal announcement, the Government had assured stakeholders that it would tackle inappropriate rental arrangements by developing a compliance strategy that would improve transparency and strengthen compliance and enforcement activities under the existing regulatory framework.
The AMA strongly supported this approach, having consistently called for more effort in these areas.
Pathology companies have made commercial decisions that place a high value on co-located collection centre space, driven largely by competition between pathology companies for market share. Past advice from the Department of Health assured the AMA that there is no evidence of unusual growth in pathology requests.
The Department of Human Services has previously told stakeholders it has been unable to find evidence of inappropriate behaviour emerging from the compliance activities it has conducted to date.
Dr Gannon said the Government simply needs to review and improve the current arrangements in consultation with all stakeholders.
“There is no justification for a new policy that will have such a widespread and dramatic impact on general practices across the country – in many cases threatening their viability,” Dr Gannon said.
“The AMA will support policy measures that are genuinely designed to address inappropriate arrangements, as these are not good for the profession or our patients.
“We are willing to work with the Government to come up with a suite of policy changes to address this, but this will require the Government to rethink its current policy prescription, consult with general practice, and a adopt a more balanced approach that is consistent with discussions that were held prior to the surprise election announcement,” he said.
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Fall 2018 English Professor Extracts Biological Clues from Ancient Books
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NC State English professor Tim Stinson is working with scientists to extract biological clues embedded in old books.
Teaming up with bioarchaeologists, Stinson has collected structural proteins and DNA from the pages of medieval manuscripts. Tests of the samples reveal what animal skins bookmakers used to furnish parchment, the primary material used for writing in the Middle Ages. They also provide insight into ancient manufacturing practices, economic models, animal husbandry and more, Stinson says.
“Potentially written in the genetic record is evidence of selective breeding or clues to how events like plagues affected livestock and impacted the availability, the price, or the desirability of parchment,” Stinson says. “These tests might allow me to answer questions from my own area of specialization, such as when and where these texts were produced, whereas scientists and archaeologists might be able to answer questions related to animal husbandry or the manufacture of parchment.
English professor Tim Stinson rubs a plastic eraser against parchment paper from a 12th-century manuscript. The friction generates an electrostatic charge that drags loose strands of collagen, the main structural protein in skin, from the material.
“It’s also this truly interdisciplinary nexus. Just as it was when these books were made, where you have scholars, you have religious writers, you have folks raising the animals, you have folks selling the parchment, preparing it, all these things, so it is today, a sort of nexus of interdisciplinary inquiry.”
In his most recent project, Stinson tested a 12th-century English copy of Moralia Gregorii from Duke University Libraries. To obtain samples from the book, Stinson followed a testing procedure developed by Sarah Fiddyment, a scientist at the University of York in England who works in a lab headed by renowned bioarchaeologist Michael Collins.
It starts with gently rubbing a small plastic eraser on the parchment pages. The friction generates an electrostatic charge that drags loose strands of collagen, the main structural protein in skin, from the material. These strands get wrapped up in small eraser fragments, which Stinson collects and sends to Fiddyment and her team for analysis.
“This process has the advantage of not damaging the parchment and doesn’t leave any marks at all,” Stinson says.
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Test results show that the Duke manuscript was made mostly of sheepskin and possibly some goat, which Stinson says adds additional context for the practice of creating manuscripts. However, beyond the findings for this individual book, the test provides more evidence that this new technique actually works.
“This is only the second time ever that a complete book has been tested like this,” Stinson says. “So we’re getting proof of concept and also adding a new method to the toolbox when you have a research question.”
Stinson and Collins hope to share their work with other scholars at an upcoming biocodicology workshop they’re organizing at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Note: The research project featured in the video above is a collaboration between NC State, Duke University and the University of York, England. Special thanks to Duke University Libraries and the Verne and Tanya Roberts Conservation Lab, where portions of this video were filmed. Testing techniques featured in the film were developed by Sarah Fiddyment at the University of York, and analysis was conducted in collaboration with Fiddyment and Michael Collins. Additional images courtesy of the British Library. Music courtesy of Free Music Archive and used in accordance with Creative Commons License.
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Thanks to Bunnings, annecto’s Learning Hub gets a makeover
Bunnings’ is well known for their long history of supporting the communities in which they operate.
Most of us would have experienced a hot dog outside our local Bunnings on any given Saturday or Sunday.
Each week Bunnings helps local community groups across Australia raise money through the sausage sizzle at each of its stores.
You may not be aware that Bunnings has been supporting other activities for local community groups across Australia and New Zealand, since 2004.
Over the course of 2016 alone, Bunnings participated in, contributed to or raised money for over 22,000 activities helping to raise and contribute $9million to local causes.
Bunnings in West Footscray had visited annecto's Learning Hub, David House a couple of years ago and did a few small projects such as installing a chicken coup and tidying up gardens as part of their supporting local communities programs.
It was during this visit that the Bunnings Organiser decided to put forward a request to help improve the gardens more.
Bunnings West Footscray runs three major projects a year and over 30+ smaller jobs, for Bunnings Area 5 in Metropolitan Melbourne.
On the 20 September 2017 a Bunnings team of 35 – 40 people from 10 stores in Area 5 will be giving annecto David House a makeover.
The project consists of approximately $5000 worth of soil, bark, pavers and plants, to make path ways, clean up and restore the garden beds, make new bench seating and establish a welcoming and presentable entrance for the Learning Hub.
“The Bunnings team have been tremendous in the past and helped us establish the chicken coup and some garden areas,” says annecto’s David House Manager, Joan Cooney.
“Over the last 60 years David House has helped hundreds of people, learn to be more independent and build skills such as caring for themselves, and others. We’ve traditionally had a lot of concrete around the place, but this project is going to change the entire feel of the place. It’s already full of fabulous people, and now they’ll have the surroundings to match,” says Joan.
annecto David House is a Learning Hub for people with disability to increase their life skills and learn to be more independent.
It offers a wide range of activities and courses designed to support people with disability to connect with and be more involved in their community.
annecto David House has been supporting people with disability for over 60 years.
The Learning Hub is part of annecto, a not-for-profit community-inclusion organisation, committed to connecting people with disability, older people and families with communities, so they can be better placed to pursue what is important to them.
In addition to the Bunnings team, annecto David House will have another team of 30+ people all keen to help out on the day and make the communal areas more green and inviting.
Read more about annecto’s Learning Hub, David House, here.
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Facts about Pizarro
On meeting with Pizarro, the associates decided to continue sailing south on the recommendations of Ruiz's Indian interpreters.
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A third son of Pizarro, Francisco, by a relative of Atahualpa, who was never legitimized, died shortly after reaching Spain.
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Pizarro's Piloto Mayor (main pilot), Bartolomй Ruiz, continued sailing south and, after crossing the equator, found and captured a balsa raft of natives from Tumbes who were supervising the area.
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The Spanish also saw, for the first time, the Peruvian llama, which Pizarro called the "little camels."
The king, who was soon to leave for Italy, was impressed at the accounts of Pizarro and promised to give his support for the conquest of Peru.
Pizarro, meanwhile, continued receiving the same accounts of a powerful monarch who ruled over the land they were exploring.
Pizarro, Almagro and Luque afterwards renewed their compact in a more solemn and explicit manner, agreeing to conquer and divide equally among themselves the opulent empire they hoped to reach.
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In 1532, Pizarro once again landed in the coasts near Ecuador, where some gold, silver, and emeralds were procured and then dispatched to Almagro, who had stayed in Panama to gather more recruits.
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Pizarro was also offered a native or two himself, one of which was later baptized as Felipillo and served as an important interpreter, the equivalent of Cortйs' La Malinche of Mexico.
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Pizarro's third and final expedition left Panama for Peru on December 27, 1530.
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Of Pizarro's early years hardly anything is known, but he appears to have been poorly cared for, and his education was neglected, leaving him illiterate.
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One of the conditions of the grant was that within six months Pizarro should raise a sufficiently equipped force of 250 men, of whom one hundred might be drawn from the colonies.
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Pizarro had been appointed governor of Peru before the country was even conquered—testimony to European arrogance.
Historians have often compared Pizarro and Cortйs' conquests in North and South America as very similar in style and career.
After planning to study law, Freud joined the medical faculty at University of Vienna to study under Darwinist Karl Claus.
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Both Almagro and Luque quickly grasped the opportunity and left Panama (this time without new recruits) for la Isla Gorgona to once again join Pizarro.
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Francisca eventually married her uncle, Hernando Pizarro, in Spain, on October 10, 1537.
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Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475 – June 26, 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Civilization and founder of the city of Lima, the modern-day capital of Peru.
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Soon after arriving the party separated, with Pizarro staying to explore the new and often perilous territory off the swampy Colombian coasts, while the expedition's second-in-command, Almagro, was sent back to Panama for reinforcements.
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The findings and excellent news from Ruiz along with Almagro's new reinforcements cheered Pizarro and his tired followers.
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Pizarro sailed from Panama for Spain in the spring of 1528, reaching Seville in early summer.
Francisco was the eldest brother of Gonzalo Pizarro, Jr., Juan Pizarro II, and Hernando Pizarro.
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Two more of his brothers, Juan Pizarro II and Gonzalo Pizarro, would later decide to also join him.
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Diego de Almagro was left behind to recruit more men and gather more supplies with the intent of soon joining Pizarro.
Two years after the first unsuccessful expedition, Pizarro, Almagro, and Luque started the arrangements for a second expedition with permission from Pedro Arias Dбvila.
After the final effort of the Inca to recover Cusco had been defeated by Diego de Almagro, a dispute occurred between him and Pizarro respecting the limits of their jurisdiction.
The opening of the New World gave men such as Pizarro, with limited abilities, unexpected opportunities to succeed.
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After at least 18 months away, Pizarro and his followers anchored off the coasts of Panama to prepare for the last and final expedition.
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Fearing subsequent hostile encounters like the Battle of Punta Quemada, Pizarro chose to end his first tentative expedition and returned, without any luck, to Panama.
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Pizarro was born in 1471 (other sources may differ, 1475-1478, unknown) in Trujillo (Extremadura), Spain.
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A year later, Pizarro invaded Cuzco with indigenous troops and with it sealed the conquest of Peru.
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Back in Panama, Pedro de los Rios (after much convincing by Luque) had finally acquiesced to the requests for another ship, but only to bring Pizarro back within six months and completely abandon the expedition.
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Pizarro sent de Soto, friar Vicente de Valverde and native interpreter Felipillo to approach Atahualpa at Cajamarca's central plaza.
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Ruiz also left in one of the ships with the intention of joining Almagro and Luque in their efforts to gather more reinforcements and eventually return to aid Pizarro.
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On their return towards Panama, Pizarro briefly stopped at Tumbes, where two of his men had decided to stay to learn the customs and language of the natives.
Pizarro, however, faced the Incas with a smaller army and fewer resources than Cortйs and at a much greater distance from the Spanish Caribbean outposts that could easily support him.
After marching for almost two months towards Cajamarca, Pizarro and his force of just 180 soldiers and 27 horses arrived and initiated proceedings for a meeting with Atahualpa.
In 1524, while still in Panama, Pizarro entered into a partnership with a priest named Hernando de Luque and a soldier named Diego de Almagro, for purposes of exploration and conquest towards the south.
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Dementia Stopped Peter Max From Painting. For Some, That Spelled a Lucrative Opportunity.
Better to burn out that to fade away. Noted psychedelic artist Peter Max slips into dementia as retinue battles over his estate.
The scene played out for years. Twice a week, in the late afternoon, above the Shun Lee Chinese restaurant on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a creaky elevator would open, and out would step an elderly man. Thin as a rail, with a sparse mustache, he would sometimes have little idea about where or who he was. A pair of security doors would buzz unlocked once surveillance cameras identified him as the artist Peter Max.
Inside, he would see painters — some of them recruited off the street and paid minimum wage — churning out art in the Max aesthetic: cheery, polychrome, wide-brushstroke kaleidoscopes on canvas. Mr. Max would be instructed to hold out his hand, and for hours, he would sign the art as if it were his own, grasping a brush and scrawling Max. The arrangement, which continued until earlier this year, was described to The New York Times by seven people who witnessed it.
To read more on The New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/business/peter-max-dementia-cruise-ship-auctions.html
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Tommy Ingberg is a Swedish photographer working primarily in black and white who is fond of creating surrealistic montages. His artistic style is simple, scaled back compositions with few elements, where every part adds to the story, but where there are still gaps for the viewer to fill, many of which produce a “surrealist” end result.
Tommy explains the work by saying, “For me, surrealism is about trying to explain something abstract like a feeling or a thought, expressing the subconscious with a picture. The Reality Rearranged series is my first try at describing reality trough surrealism. During the two and a half years I have worked on the series I have used my own inner life, thoughts and feelings as seeds to my pictures. In that sense the work is very personal, almost like a visual diary. Despite this subjectiveness in the process I hope that the work can engage the viewer in hers or his own terms. I want the viewer to produce hers or his own questions and answers when looking at the pictures, my own interpretations are really irrelevant in this context.”
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Chris Avellone Has Been Working on Respawn's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Hints at Even Bigger News to Drop Soon
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Legendary games writer and designer, Chris Avellone, whose works include the seminal Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, Fallout 2, Fallout New Vegas and the upcoming Dying Light 2, has just effectively revealed that he's also been working on Respawn's upcoming single-player Star Wars entry: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order while also hinting at another big project yet to be announced.
I can't say 100% b/c of NDAs, but the ones I can say: I just finished up work with Jedi: The Fallen Order - and beyond that, there's another big bomb dropping in a month! Er, I mean, maybe. Ahem.
— Chris Avellone (@ChrisAvellone) March 1, 2019
<script></script>PC Gamer reports that a look at Avellone's LinkedIn confirms he's been working on Respawn's Star Wars project and also suggests based on other evidence that the hushed project he's hinting about could be Vampire: The Masquerade from Paradox, a game that hasn't even been confirmed to be in development (though plenty of rumours suggest that it is). The fact that he's also implying a big information drop on what else he's been working on is just a month away has us salivating.
And as usual, as soon as we hear what it is, we'll let you know.
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Home » Quattroruote News » Ford Mustang Mach-e: Preview
Ford Mustang Mach-e: Preview
By Quattroruote | on January 11, 2020
The Mustang Mach-e is Ford’s first electric vehicle. And while it is a nod to the iconic pony car, its soul definitely belongs to the Silicon Valley.
True, it’s not the most harmonious thing that you’ll ever see. Honestly, it looks a bit odd, curiously strange, given its proportions. But when you look at the numbers, the Ford Mustang Mach-e, which is expected to hit the market in less than a year’s time, things suddenly start making sense.
It’s 4,710mm long, which makes it about the same length as a BMW X3. But, at the same time, it has a wheelbase of 2,980mm – a little more than a Mercedes Benz E-Class and a little less than an S-Class. So, what’s the outcome? A side-profile that seems infinite, thanks to a low height of 1,600mm, which is 20mm less than the BMW X4.
The result of all this is something that can’t be explained. You simply have to look at it and decide for yourself. However, despite its unique and very subjective reinterpretation of automotive proportions, the Mach-e also tells you something familiar. Some of its stylistic accents are strongly reminiscent of the Mustang. But, on the Mach-e, which is above all a car that looks to the future, these accents have been retained to give it a distinctive character – something that will not allow it to blend into the avalanche of zero-emission vehicles that are likely to flood the market soon.
To achieve this, explains the head of design, Amko Leenarts, designers carried out ‘ethnographic and psychological research,’ which allowed them to outline the portrait of a typical client. And guess what? It has nothing to do with the Budweiser redneck profile of traditional Mustang lovers – folks who love eight cylinders and stripes on the bonnet.
‘We have defined our target group as the new world idealists,’ continues Leenarts. Those who prefer a MacBook Pro to an aftermarket exhaust, and beer, yes, but small, not ice-cold, and possibly organic, thank you.
So, what was the point of including style accents inspired by the Mustang? ‘It’s still our most iconic model, and its name still brings credibility’. Because, claims Leenarts, even though it’s ‘guiltfree,’ meaning that you don’t feel guilty when you sink your right foot, it doesn’t lack performance.
As already mentioned, it has plenty of stylistic cues that remind you of the Mustang, even in the cockpit, which you enter by pressing a button on the B-pillar, which looks a bit like a smartphone.
Something Unpredictable
One of the first things that will surprise you is the abundance of space for rear passengers. Now, here’s the trick played by Leenarts and co. – to mask the visual encumbrance of the roof, there’s a nice big black band to make the car look more fastback, more Mustang-like, than it really is.
‘An unexpected feeling, a surprise, something that the potential customer of the Mach-e would really like,’ the designer explains. ‘According to our research, the availability of space and the impression of being in a familiar environment are the most important aspects for them.’
Smells of Tesla
What about the second surprise? ‘Sexy technology,’ he replies. Without beating around the bush, he comes to the point and says that the idea was to create the same ‘wow’ effect that you experience when you enter a Tesla. And that mainly comes from the vertical panoramic tablet, which, for a lot of people, has become synonymous with the future.
The screen is great, with 3D navigation and ‘drag & drop’ customization of pages and swipe controls for air conditioning. Bold? Sure, why not? There are no home or back buttons, just two touch buttons – ‘car’ for all vehicle settings and ‘you,’ which can be used to access all your devices and preferences.
All this is monitored by artificial intelligence, of which Darren Palmer of Edison Team, the internal task force to which Ford has entrusted the development of new electrical and connected technologies, is particularly proud.
‘The Mach-e learns your habits. If, for example, you call a certain contact every time you get into the car, after a while the system learns this and asks you if you want to start the call. So, you don't have to deal with routine operations, and you can focus on driving.’ Right. But this ‘thing here’ is still called the Mustang – so, let’s drive! Well, sometime in 2020 perhaps…
We can’t help but get excited when we see an exclusive preview model – especially, when a car like this is waiting for you. The Mustang Mach-e first surprises you, and then you can’t seem to get it out of your head! It goes on sale in the US from November 2020 onwards.
From top left, clockwise: the grille to cool the batteries; plenty of space for rear seat passengers; touch-based hidden door handles; and a minimalist interior. The big picture – notice the Tesla-style tablet, with the volume knob at the bottom, the only remaining physical control.
The platform IS NOT DISPOSABLE
The Mustang Mach-e, explained Darren Palmer, will have new technologies, connectivity and two battery variants. The first has a capacity of 75kWh, weighs 477kgs, and is powered by an electric powertrain that produces 258bhp (with an estimated range in the WLTP cycle of 450kms for the rear-wheel-drive variant and 420kms for the all-wheel-drive variant). The second has a capacity of 99kWh and weighs 596kgs – in the rear-wheel drive version, with 285bhp, it has range-topping autonomy of 600kms on the WLTP cycle, and, in the all-wheel-drive version, with 337bhp and 582Nm, it offers a range of 540kms. In terms of performance, its 0 to 100km/h acceleration, according to Ford, will be less than that of the Porsche Macan Turbo. Weight? The claimed values range from 1,993kgs to 2,218kgs. Despite Ford’s agreement with Volkswagen, which will provide its MEB electric vehicle architecture to the Blue Oval, the architecture of Mach-e will form the basis of an electric variant of the F-150 pickup, and possibly even more models in future.
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Nachtjagd War Diaries volume 1: September 1939 - March 1944 (re-print) (Wingleader 9781908757005)
Version : Hard cover
Category Aviation Books, Subcategory WW2 Germany, ISBN/Box 9781908757005, Publisher/Brand Wingleader, Author Theo Boiten, Format a4, No. Pages 396, Version Hard cover, Language English
The result of over twenty years of meticulous research, this first volume in an exemplary set will transform our knowledge of the Luftwaffe's battle to defend the cities of the Reich from night attack. It has previously been assumed that no detailed history of the night battles could ever be compiled because too much information had been lost at the end of the war, but Dr. Boiten has succeeded where others failed.
During his research Dr. Boiten has analysed and cross referenced many sources, mostly unpublished, and some from private collections never seen by researchers before. For the first time a picture of each major raid has been compiled as seen from both the Luftwaffe and RAF view, each night's activity is detailed, and each of the more than 6,000 night fighter claims listed. Most importantly, it has finally been possible to conclusively identify all the victors and victims of the majority of combats, a thing previously considered impossible in all but a few cases.
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Apolo Ohno Quotes - Page 2
Cars Character Dad Decisions Fathers Goals Positivity Regret Running Speed Sports Winning
I know that BMW is now a sponsor of the USOC - of the United States Olympic Committee - so they offer the use of their aerodynamic speed-tunnel for testing and such for the athletes, which is a great advantage. But to be honest with you, I'd rather have a free car!
Apolo Ohno
Athlete, Bmw, Tunnels
I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.
Football, Dad, Team
My 'go to' workout is called the Asylum from Beach Body. It's intense training with lots of intervals, core work. It's hard! I travel a lot, so I can take it on the road with me and do it in a hotel room.
Beach, Workout, Intense Training
U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.
Past, Careers, Issues
"Apolo Anton Ohno closes door on 2014 comeback". Interview with Kelly Whiteside, www.usatoday.com. April 24, 2013.
Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.
Growing Up, Cities, Competition
When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.
Gun, Levels, Pressure
Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.
I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.
Focus, Body, Symmetrical
Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?
Dream, Winter, Helping Others
12 Copy quote
Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.
Who Cares, Care, Ifs
I think that Subway has shown their own personal commitment as a company and how they believe in healthy choices.
Believe, Commitment, Thinking
My dad's great. He's my biggest supporter. He's always told me that whatever I choose to do, I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it.
Dad, Mind, I Can Do It
Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.
Michael Phelps is a good friend of mine, so I'm very supportive of him.
Good Friend, Supportive, Mines
It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.
Soul, Sound, Kind
In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.
School, Marketing, International Business
If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.
Sports, Dad, Father
I've been an athlete most of my life and on a disciplined schedule. Working out for me is just part of my every day.
Athlete, Work Out, Schedules
I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.
Avid, Age, Swimmer
My girlfriend has been the ice.
Girlfriend, Ice, My Girlfriend
I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.
Running, Kind, Muscles
I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.
Ice, Elements, Knows
Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.
Morning, New York, Believe
All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.'
Nice, Italian, Men
For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.
Art, Car, Rolling
It's important to be driven and have goals. You want an independent woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. It's attractive to me when a woman is doing what she loves. It makes me want to know more.
Independent, Goal, Important
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Latest quotes from interviews
"When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft."
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J. R. Celski Short Track Speed Skater
Julianne Hough Professional Dancer
Karina Smirnoff Professional Dancer
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Born: May 22, 1982
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Stand-Up Comedy On Netflix
Jimmy Carr & The Funniest Stand-Up On Netflix
Michael Hogan
Jimmy Carr became the first British comedian to release an original stand-up special on Netflix this week (18 March), with hour-long gig Jimmy Carr: Funny Business. But where does it figure in our countdown of the top 10 stand-up specials on the streaming service?
Zach Galifianakis – Live At The Purple Onion
Four years before The Hangover films made him a household name, this 2005 comedy special-cum-tour documentary shows the dry, self-deprecating, beardy North Carolina funnyman at the peak of his stand-up career. It flits between his intimate, semi-improvised set at the celebrated San Francisco basement club (after introducing himself, he adds "I hope I've pronounced that right”) and footage of Galifianakis travelling and goofing around.
Sample gag: "When you have sex on a Greyhound bus, it's called the 36-inch High Club.”
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Demetri Martin – Live (At The Time)
The nerdy New Yorker, an Edinburgh Festival award-winner and former contributor to The Daily Show, performs a 2015 set at Washington DC’s Lincoln Theater which mixes deadpan one-liners with flights of fancy and the odd musical interlude. Don’t worry, though – it’s not pretentious, just keenly observed and infectiously hilarious as Martin pokes fun at dating, cheese, hipsters, pets, road signs and social faux pas.
Sample gag: “I have an L-shaped sofa – lower case.”
Jim Gaffigan – Beyond The Pale
The pale, schlubby, deceptively skillful stand-up’s first special, shot in 2005 at The Vic Theatre in his hometown of Chicago, showcased his sarky, deadpan observational style and obsession with food – the “Hot Pocket” segment has become a cult classic. As a father-of-five (and the youngest of six children himself), Gaffigan’s especially good on fatherhood and family life. And laziness. And cake. And steak. And bacon.
Sample gag: “Birthday gifts are tricky. ‘Oh, a robe. Wow, I hope I get the flu so I can wear it. What are we, about to shoot a porno?’ ‘Hey thanks, you got me a candle. You know I have electricity, right? Look if my place smells, just let me know.’”
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Jim Jefferies – Bare
Seasoned Aussie comic and “equal opportunities offender” Jefferies struck a nerve in the US with this 2014 special filmed at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre, due to the funnier-than-it-might-sound material about gun control. He compared American reaction to recent mass shootings with the response to a similar massacre in his home country, which proved both incisive and timely. But it’s not all weaponry-based lolz – there’s also near-the-knuckle riffs on fatherhood, male friendship, sex and celebrity.
Sample gag: “Do you think pandas know they’re Chinese and are taking the one-child policy a bit too seriously?”
John Mulaney – The Comeback Kid
Boyishly gawky in his snappy suit, Mulaney’s 2015 spesh at the Chicago Theater has that title because he left SNL to get his own much-hyped sitcom vehicle on Fox. It flopped and was cancelled, hence this return to stand-up. But the career blip’s no reflection on Mulaney’s slickly witty, endearingly self-deprecating style, as he confidently riffs on Back To The Future, McDonald’s, Catholicism, dogs, dads, estate agents, marriage and meeting Bill Clinton.
Sample gag: “I’m married now, so I get to say ‘my wife’, which is exciting. It’s fun to say ‘my wife’. I’m looking forward to saying it a lot. ‘Get away from my wife!’ ‘No one talk to my wife!’ ‘I didn’t kill my wife!’”
Bill Burr – I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
The blue-collar ginger Bostonian is best known here for playing Patrick Kuby, one of Saul Goodman’s hired hands in Breaking Bad, but his day job is as a ranty, perma-enraged stand-up, with a persona like the loud drunk dude in a bar. Burr specialises in crass, crude, contrarian diatribes shot through with moments of wise clarity and he’s especially strong on sexism, racism, religion, romcoms and zombies. He’s been called “a thoughtful troll” and “a self-aware YouTube comment”. This 2014 set, shot in black-and-white at the Atlanta Tabernacle, is unflinching, fresh and devastatingly funny.
Sample gag: “Any other town you go to, there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice. You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, 'Smoke some crack!' 'Get a hooker!'"
Anthony Jeselnik – Thoughts & Prayers
The acid-tongued former Jimmy Fallon writer and ex of Amy Schumer is nicknamed “the dark prince of comedy”. With his arrogant stage persona and amoral stance, the deadpan Pittsburgh stand-up specialises in blackly funny one-liners and uncomfortable truths that you feel guilty about giggling at. This 2015 special filmed at The Fillmore in San Francisco, sees him tackle taboo topics and national tragedies – before slyly revealing the secrets behind his edgy, provocative style.
Sample gag: “My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person... so I can get a better girlfriend.”
Jimmy Carr – Funny Business
Filmed in front of a sellout audience at Hammersmith Apollo, this is something of a landmark show, as it’s the first stand-up special by a Brit comic on the streaming service’s US-dominated selection. Eyebrow permanently arched, tongue firmly in cheek, James Anthony Patrick Carr rattles through his cleverly constructed one-liners (150 of them, to be precise), remorselessly deals with hecklers and somehow manages to offend everybody – while making them laugh so much, they don’t really care.
Sample gag: "I talked to an African woman for hours, in her own language. We just clicked."
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Sample gag: “Texting dick pics. What a bizarre thing to become so commonplace. Thirty years ago, if I went up to a woman and said, ‘Hi, I recently took some photos of my penis and just got them developed. Could I get your mailing address so I can send you a few copies?’ I’d get thrown in jail and the headline would read ‘Polaroid dick bandit busted’.
Louis C.K. – Live At the Beacon Theater
Self-financed, self-distributed and remarkably low-key – bare stage, grubby T-shirt and jeans – this 2011 New York gig shows Louis at the absolute top of his game. Who needs gimmicks or fancy lighting when your material’s this strong? He’s conversational and infectiously silly as he tackles sex, sweets, drugs, death, driving, elevator etiquette and air travel, in a style that’s cynical yet heartfelt. It won an Emmy, while Louis donated the proceeds to charity.
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Report on Corporate Clients of GrameenPhone Ltd
Subject: Marketing Topic: Report
Executive Summery:
GrameenPhone is Bangladesh’s leading mobile operator with a customer base of 6.3 million. Among these 1.5 million customers, a small segment is the corporate clients. Even though the segment is very small yet it is a very important one since more than 40% of the revenue if generated from them every month.
GrameenPhone has always thrived to provide newer and better service to its customers. In the process of continuous improvement of its network, it adds more value added services like mobile fax, mobile e-mail, data services, SMS plus and etc. Moreover GrameenPhone always gives special focus to its corporate clients to make them satisfy fully and help them run their business effectively and efficiently by providing them dedicated telecommunication services.
Every businessman wants to earn more profit and run his business efficiently. GrameenPhone understand that passion and by understanding their needs, it designs its products and services. With the major service which is telecommunication, it combines some other related services which are also very much important for running business smoothly. And that’s the reason; GrameenPhone successfully earned and holds more than 70% of the total corporate clients.
Origin of the report:
GrameenPhone conducted a survey to understand the nature of corporate segment of Bangladesh. The survey was conducted on the corporate prospects of visiting different organization. The report represents various features and dimensions of corporate segments. It also reflects various customer preferences of corporate segment.
GrameenPhone (GP) launched its mobile phone services on March 26, 1997 and since then has become the largest mobile phone operator in the country. Its number of subscribers has grown rapidly, as has its coverage throughout the country. The aim of GrameenPhone is to provide affordable mobile telephone facilities in urban and rural areas of the country. As a part of continuous market development strategy, GrameenPhone needs a comprehensive study on the telecom sector and cellular industry that will help in better understanding the industry in which it is operating.
In Bangladesh SME’s are gradually improving. And these Organizations mostly use land and mobile phone. They communicate with clients, supplier, business partner and employee working inside or outside of the office.SME’s does mainly office based activity and partial field based operations, Field based operations are mainly done through mobiles.
Before starting it can be said that SME’s are large customer base market, which is still untouched. And this is the right time to cover the market with GP network- after gathering accurate information.Accordingly, GP is contemplating on commissioning a research that would cover both the telecom sector and cellular industry to identify and analyze the technology, trend, change, growth, market share and competition in the cellular industry.
Problem statement:
At present there are five mobile phone operators and one state-run fixed line operator providing telecommunication service in Bangladesh. Operators have used different strategies to penetrate in to this huge unmet market. Little research study on the telecom sector with particular emphasis on the corporate clients has been carried out so far that can provide substantial market information about this rapidly growing industry. The market intelligence of respective operator companies reaches out to gather relevant information, which remains highly confidential and exclusive from one another. Under the above circumstances, the problem statement would be “GrameenPhone wants to know about the current market scenario and future growth prospect of the corporate clients in the telecom sector of Bangladesh”.
The broad and over all objective of this report is to provide with an over view of the learning as an internee at Grameen Phone Ltd.
This report aims to achieve the following specific objectives:
To understand their nature of business.
To identify the need of the segment.
To understand the usage pattern of the segment
To understand the Corporate customer’s preference
To evaluate their satisfaction level
Scope of the study:
This report renders a close analytical look at the corporate sector of Bangladesh with main focus and emphasis on the cellular industry, its growth and development since its inception. It also sheds light on the future outlook of the corporate segment and its growth prospects and potentials. The report is written from the point of view of Grameen Phone, as this report is expected to augment the market intelligence and knowledge base of the Sales and Marketing department of GrameenPhone Ltd.
Type of business research used in this report is of descriptive nature. Through descriptive research this report seeks to determine the answers to who, what, where and how questions of the SME business operations. Secondary data analysis was selected as the basic research method.
Data for this report has been extracted from primary sources, as the descriptive nature of the study to prepare this report calls in for existing facts and information compilation.
Source of Primary Data:
Majority of the primary data was obtained from the Market survey, information obtained from the Internet, augmented this report to take a comprehensive shape.
Data collection Instrument:
In-depth interviews were conducted with the contact persons from sample 10 Companies to obtain ideas about the market, current happenings, developments, competition, problems, hazards and challenges faced by them in their communication purposes.
Data processing and analysis:
Collected information was processed with the aid of MS Excel computer software. Detailed analysis, working variables, future projections and working definitions are incorporated in the report.
Following are some of the limitations of the study,
The study was conducted only within Dhaka Zone.
Time and length of the study.
Wrong information from the market which sometimes misled the survey.
Corporations are the most common form of business organization, and one which is chartered by a state and given many legal rights as an entity separate from its owners. This form of business is characterized by the limited liability of its owners, the issuance of shares of easily transferable stock, and existence as a going concern. The process of becoming a corporation, call incorporation, gives the company separate legal standing from its owners and protects those owners from being personally liable in the event that the company is sued (a condition known as limited liability). Incorporation also provides companies with a more flexible way to manage their ownership structure. In addition, there are different tax implications for corporations, although these can be both advantageous and disadvantageous. In these respects, corporations differ from sole proprietorships and limited partnerships.
A corporation is a business or organization formed by a group of people, and it has rights and liabilities separate from those of the individuals involved. It may be a nonprofit organization engaged in activities for the public good; a municipal corporation, such as a city or town; or a private corporation (the subject of this article), which has been organized to make a profit.
In the eyes of the law, a corporation has many of the same rights and responsibilities as a person. It may buy, sell, and own property; enter into leases and contracts; and bring lawsuits. It pays taxes. It can be prosecuted and punished (often with fines) if it violates the law. The chief advantages are that it can exist indefinitely, beyond the lifetime of any one member or founder, and that it offers its owners the protection of limited personal liability.
The people who are working at different corporate organizations are the main corporate clients of GrameenPhone. GrameenPhone categorized three major types of corporate clients. These are,
Signed Corporate Clients.
Potential Corporate Clients.
Strategic Clients.
Signed Corporate Clients:
Signed Corporate clients are the clients with whom GrameenPhone have MOU signed or Corporate agreement about providing telecommunication services. These types of clients are enjoying most of the facilities of GrameenPhone. They enjoy monthly line rent weaver, unbar facilities, close user group facilities, international roaming facilities, fax and data services and etc.
Potential Corporate Clients:
These corporate clients are from those companies with whom GrameenPhone do not have any legal agreement or MOU signed to provide telecommunication services, but they are using GrameenPhone’s services for their business purpose. These types of clients are also very much important to GrameenPhone because they are potential to be corporate clients and they are still their clients as they are using GrameenPhone’s services. They are not provided all the facilities those the signed corporate clients are enjoying, but they are enjoying few facilities which is depending on their mode of operation and market goodwill.
Strategic Clients:
Strategic clients are the clients who work in different governmental offices or at foreign missions like embassy or UN organizations. Almost all the ministries of Bangladesh government are using GrameenPhone’s services. More than 90 embassies are also using GrameenPhone’s services.
An Overview of the Survey:
Findings: In this survey GP conducted with the organizations. There is around 44 sample Organizations surveyed, and most of them are private ltd Co.
Findings: As found in the study the survey is conducted in various type of business, among them manufacturing business is large in number.
Findings: As per the survey it can be seen that as the organization is small, but most of the organization have more than 25 employees.
Findings: It has been seen that mostly the mid level employees constitute the organization. It also been proof that the business operation is conducted by midlevel employee in small business, and the top level employees make decision.
Level of Satisfaction using a 5 point scale with current operator
Overall Satisfaction Variable Overall Satisfaction Level
Network Coverage Very satisfied
Network Quality Very satisfied
Innovation Somewhat Satisfied
Tariff Somewhat Dissatisfied
VAS Somewhat Satisfied
Call centre servives Somewhat Satisfied
Customer Realations Centre Services Somewhat Satisfied
Billing Somewhat Satisfied
Advertisements Very satisfied
Keeping Customer Inmormed
1st minute pulse Very satisfied
Very satisfiedFeatures Somewhat Dissatisfied
Findings: People are more concern with packages and prices when they go for new connection.
Negative Comments:
Positive Comments
About GrameenPhone
GrameenPhone Ltd. has been established to provide high-quality GSM cellular service at affordable prices. GrameenPhone has a dual purpose:
Ø To receive an economic return on its investment
Ø To contribute to the economic development of Bangladesh where telecommunications can play a critical role.
Historical Background:
GrameenPhone Ltd. was offered a cellular license in Bangladesh by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on November 28, 1996. The Company launched its service on March 26, 1997, on the Independence Day of Bangladesh.
In 1996, Bangladesh was preparing to auction off private cell phone licenses to four companies. So at the behest of Dr. Muhammad Yunus (Grameen Bank’s founder) but completely independent of Grameen Bank, a not-for-profit private company called Grameen Telecom was created. Grameen Telecom, in turn, created a for-profit company called GrameenPhone Ltd., found a foreign partner, and put in a bid; GrameenPhone received one of the four licenses. GrameenPhone’s total capitalization was US$120,000,000, including around US$50 million from IFC/CDC, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It also received US$60 million in equity from the four GrameenPhone private partners. These were the Norwegian Telenor with a 51% share, Marubeni of Japan with a 9.5% share, and the American Gonophone at 4.5%. GrameenPhone’s fourth partner is Grameen Telecom (with 35%), and Grameen Telecom borrowed US$10.6 million from the Open Society Institute to set up Village Phone.
GrameenPhone launched service in urban Dhaka on March 26, 1997. It makes its profits by serving wealthier urban customers. But from the point of view of the Grameen family and its strong anti-poverty mission, the for-profit, urban-only GrameenPhone exists for only one reason: To fund, with its profits, the extension of cell phones into rural Bangladesh in order to provide entrepreneurial opportunity to Grameen Bank members through Village Phone. As Dr. Yunus puts it, “GrameenPhone is merely what we need to do Grameen Telecom’s Village Phone.”
“GrameenPhone” might have been born in Bangladesh, but soon it is likely to join the international cellular jargon. GSM MOU Association at GSM World Congress in Cannes where many villagers made their first-ever call using pre-paid, recently rewarded rural cellular marketing, by Vodaphone in South Africa. “GrameenPhone,” the unique cellular operator from Bangladesh, also made an impressive presentation at Cannes.
Founding Partners of GrameenPhone
GrameenPhone is a joint venture company comprising of:
Telenor – A state-owned telecommunication company from Norway. It has a long history of successful cooperation with other operators in Russia, Hungary, Montenegro, Ireland, Bangladesh, Greece, Germany, Germany, Australia, Malaysia etc.
Grameen Telecom – A sister concern of Grameen Bank. It was established by Grameen Bank to organize and assist those Grameen bank borrowers who wish to retail telephone services in the rural areas.
Marubeni Corporation – A leading investment and trading company from Japan.
Gonofone Development Corporation – A New York-based telecommunication development company having investments in many companies in USA, Russia.
These four companies owned shares of GrameenPhone in the following manner:
Company Percentage of share (%)
Grameen Telecom
Marubeni Corporation
Gonofone
But recently the share structure has changed as two minor shareholders sold their shares to other two major shareholders.
TelenorAS, is the leading Telecommunications Company of Norway listed in the Oslo and NASDAQ Stock Exchanges. Right now it owns 62% shares of GrameenPhone Ltd.
Grameen Telecom, which owns 38% of the shares of GrameenPhone, is a not-for-profit company and works in close collaboration with Grameen Bank.
The shareholders of GrameenPhone contribute their unique, in-depth experience in both telecommunications and development. The international shareholder brings technological and business management expertise while the local shareholder provides a presence throughout Bangladesh and a deep understanding of its economy. Both are dedicated to Bangladesh and its struggle for economic progress and have a deep commitment to GrameenPhone and its mission to provide affordable telephony to the entire population of Bangladesh.
Telenor has played a pioneering role in development of cellular communications. It has substantial international operations in mobile telephony, satellite operations and pay Television services. In addition to Norway and Bangladesh, Telenor owns GSM companies in Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Montenegro, Thailand and Malaysia. It has recently started a mobile phone operation in Pakistan. Telenor uses the expertise it has gained in its home and international markets for the development of emerging markets like Bangladesh.
Grameen Bank, the internationally reputed bank for the poor, has the most extensive rural banking network and expertise in microfinance. It understands the economic needs of the rural population, in particular the women from the poorest households. Grameen Telecom, with the help of Grameen Bank, administers the Village Phone Program, through which GrameenPhone provides its services to the fast growing rural customers. Grameen Telecom trains the operators, supplies them with handsets and handles all service-related issues. Grameen Bank currently covers more than 51,000 villages which are serviced by 1326 bank branches (December 04) all over the countryside. At the end of the year, the bank had 3.78 million borrowers, 95 percent of whom were women. Grameen Telecom’s objectives are to provide easy access to GSM cellular services in rural Bangladesh, creating new opportunities for income generation through self- employment by providing villagers with access to modern information and communication based technologies.
Mission, Vision, Objectives & Strategies of GrameenPhone
Company Vision:
“To be the leading provider of telecom services all over Bangladesh with satisfied customers, shareholders and enthusiastic employees”.
Company Mission:
GrameenPhone Ltd. aims at providing reliable, widespread, convenient mobile and cost effective telephone services to the people in Bangladesh irrespective of where they live. Such services will also help Bangladesh keep pace with other countries including those in South Africa region and reduce her existing disparity in telecom services between urban and rural areas.
Objectives of GrameenPhone
GrameenPhone’s basic strategy is coverage of both urban and rural areas. The Company has devised its strategies so that it earns healthy returns for its shareholders and at the same time, contributes to genuine development of the country. In short, it pursues a dual strategy of good business and good development.
Serving the mass market is one of GrameenPhone’s primary goals. By serving the general public as opposed to niche markets, the Company plans to achieve economies of scale and healthy profits. At the same time, service to the general public means connectivity to a wider population and general economic development of the country. In contrast to the “island” strategy followed by some companies, which involves connecting isolated islands of urban coverage through transmission links, GrameenPhone builds continuous coverage, cell after cell. While the intensity of coverage may vary from area to area depending on market conditions, the basic strategy of cell-to-cell coverage is applied throughout GrameenPhone’s network. In addition, GrameenPhone has positioned itself to capitalize on the declining prices of handsets, making its goal to serve the general public realistic.
Company Strategy:
GrameenPhone’s basic strategy is coverage of both urban and rural areas. GrameenPhone builds continuous coverage, cell after cell. While the intensity of coverage may vary from area to area depending on market conditions, the basic strategy of cell-to-cell coverage is applied throughout GrameenPhone’s network.
Company Service:
GrameenPhone believes in service, a service that leads to good business and good development. Telephony helps people work together, raising their productivity. This gain in productivity is development, which in turn enables them to afford a telephone service, generating a good business. Thus development and business go together.
Service for the Rural Poor:
Establishing a nation wide network gives fair access to all geographical areas. From a business point of view, this strategy serves both the long distances as well as the rural markets. This emphasis on rural coverage brings a much-needed infrastructure in the underdeveloped rural areas. In collaboration with Grameen Bank, which provides micro-credit only to the rural poor, GrameenPhone utilizes the bank borrowers to retail telecom services in the rural areas. Leveraging on Grameen Bank borrowers reduces the distribution costs of GrameenPhone’s rural services, contributing to the profitability of this segment.
By bringing electronic connectivity to rural Bangladesh, GrameenPhone is bringing the digital revolution to the doorsteps of the rural poor and unconnected.
Organization Structure of GrameenPhone Ltd.
Village Phone Program:
The Village Phone Program has continued its rapid growth. This Program began from a social commitment made by the shareholders of GrameenPhone that “good development is good business”. The program is implemented by Grameen Telecom (GTC) in cooperation with Grameen Bank, the internationally renowned micro- credit lending institution.
The program facilitates women borrowers of Grameen Bank to the GSM technology through the village phones. They become effectively mobile public call offices. This not only provides rural poor with new, exciting income-generating opportunities, but it also helps to enhance the social status of women from poor rural households.
Village Phone works as an owner-operated pay phone. It allows the rural poor who cannot afford to become a regular subscriber, to avail of the service with loans from Grameen Bank. The loan usually is for BDT 12,000 and pays for a handset, the subscription and incidental expenses. The Village Phone operator receives training from Grameen Telecom about mode of operation, user charges etc.
Initiated in 1997, the Village Phone Program has continued to grow at a robust pace over the years. As of August 2005, there are more than 165,000 Village Phone subscribers.
The average revenue per user (ARPU) of Village Phone subscribers is doubles that of the average GrameenPhone business user. The revenue growth has been significant over the years. Beginning with BDT 0.53 million in 1997, the figure has risen to BDT 1,114 million in 2002 and to BDT 2,070 million at the end of 2003.
The Village Phones in operation now provide access to telecommunications facilities to more than 60 million people living in rural areas of Bangladesh.
This unique venture has gained widespread global recognition and has been featured extensively in international media. The success of the program won it the “GSM in the Community Award” given by the GSM Association in 2000. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton also lauded the innovative Village Phone Program during his visit to Bangladesh in the same year. According to some research studies, the introduction of Village Phone has made a tremendous social and economic impact in the rural areas, creating a “substantial consumer surplus” for the users.
One of the studies was jointly conducted by JahangirnagarUniversity and the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn in Germany. The other study was conducted by the TeleCommons Development Group (TDG) of Canada for the Canadian International Development Agency. “The Village Phone Program yields significant positive social and economic impacts, including relatively large consumer surplus and immeasurable quality of life benefits, The consumer surplus from a single phone call to Dhaka, a call that replaces the physical trip to the city, ranges from 264 percent to 9.8 percent of the mean monthly household income. The cost of a trip to the city ranges from 2 to 8 times the cost of a single phone call, meaning real savings for poor rural people of between BDT 132 to BDT 490 (USD 2.70 to USD 10) for individual calls,” noted the TDG multi-media case study on the Village Phone Program.”
Contribution to Society:
GrameenPhone believes that good business leads to good development, since high level of productivity is development. The activities of GP contribute to the socio-economic development of Bangladesh in many different ways.
In addition to employing nearly 1500 people, more than 100,000 people are directly dependent on GP for their livelihood, including the people working for the dealers, agents, contractors, suppliers, and a major portion of that figure includes the Village Phone operators.According to the International Telecommunications Union, the Geneva-based UN body, the addition of each new telephone in a developing country like Bangladesh, adds USD 2,500 to the country’s GDP.
The Village Phone Program of GrameenPhone is a unique initiative which provides access to telecommunications facilities in remote rural areas where no such service was available before. The Program enables mostly poor village women to own a Village Phone subscription and retail the phone service to her fellow villagers while providing them with a good income-earning opportunity. It is administered by Grameen Telecom in cooperation with Grameen Bank, the internationally renowned micro-credit lending institution.
Set up in 1997, the Village Phone Program has continued to grow at a robust pace over the years. By the end of 2004, the number of Village Phone subscriptions stood at 95,000, in 61 districts. The average earning of a Village Phone Operator is about BDT 5000 per month, which is more than twice the per capita income.
GrameenPhone also actively participates in promoting different socio-cultural activities and sports events in the country. It sponsored many activities over the years including the Zainul-Quamrul International Children’s Art Competition, the 11th Asian Art Biennale, publication and launching of an anthology of contemporary Bangladeshi paintings, the Independence Day ’04 Photography & Painting Exhibition, and many other activities.
Moreover, GP has also restored the exterior of the historic OldRailwayStationBuilding in Chittagong as per its original architectural design. It has sponsored a scholarship fund for the poor and meritorious students of the Finance and Banking Department of Dhaka University in cooperation with the Finance and Banking Alumni Association. GP has also donated 16 computers to two schools for underprivileged children.
In the sports arena, GP is currently sponsoring the Bangladesh National Cricket Team for a period of two years through 2003-2005, and also sponsored the National Under-19 and Under-17 cricket teams. It was also one of the main sponsors of the Live telecast of “ICC World Cup Cricket 2003. GP also sponsored the President Cup Golf Tournament, and sponsors the visits of newspaper reporters abroad to cover major sports events.
Coverage Map:
Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat of GrameenPhone Ltd.
GrameenPhone covers 61 districts, which is 59% of the total Bangladesh land area
GrameenPhone’s growth rate is over 100%/ year.
GrameenPhone covers 63% of the market share which is the highest among the operators
Good Owner Structure
Availability of Backbone Network (Optical fiber)
Financial Soundness
Brand Name / Grameen Image
Skilled Human Resource
Largest Geographical Coverage
Good Human Resource and Infrastructure Installation all over the country through Bangladesh Railway and Grameen Bank.
Access to the widest rural distribution network through Grameen Bank
High Ethical Standard
Lack of co-ordination is used as an excuse not to solve problems
Too much inside out thinking in the company
Different departments not working together
Inadequate interconnection with BTTB
Public relations not up to the mark
Complicated tariff structure
Billing System can’t handle sophisticated billing
No long-term Distribution/Channel strategy
SMS platform has insufficient capacity
High employee turnover
Advertising is not too creative
Economic growth of Bangladesh.
New and better interconnection agreement
Huge need for telecom services
Increased intentional activities in Bangladesh
Declining prices for handsets
Future privatization of the fixed network
New international gateway
Demand for inter-city communication
Growth in other operator will give more connection
Tele density is still low comparing to other countries
Threats:
More rigid government regulations
More influence of competitors on the fixed network
Change of government might lead to competitors having more clout
Devaluation of Taka
National catastrophes
Sabotage of installation
Non-co-operation of government and fixed PSTN (Public Service Telephone Network).
Risk of fire in GRAMEENPHONE’s Installations
Price war
Non-availability of funds
BTTB has limited capacity for interconnections
BTTB and two foreign cellular phone companies (Airtel and Reliance India Mobile) are launching their mobile phone operation in Bangladesh.
Competitive Environment:
GrameenPhone is to compete mainly with three other mobile operators. Of them Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Ltd. (City Cell) uses the CDMA technology while AKTEL and Sheba Telecom are competing with same technology (GSM) as GrameenPhone. The competitive environment that GrameenPhone is placed into is shown in the following tables:
Operator Technology
Date of Launching
No. of Subscribers
(Early 2006)City CellCDMAAugust-9350%-pacific Group
50%-Far EastTelecomMotorola6,50,000GrameenPhoneGSMApril-9751%- Telenor 35%-Grameen Telecom
9.5%Marubeni
4.5%- GonofoneEricsson61,00,000AKTELGSMNovember -9760%-Telcom
40%- AktelAlkatel14,00,000Bangla LinkGMS2000Orascom TelecomHawaii15,00,000TeleTalkGMS2005—
Mobile operators of Bangladesh at a glance
At present, GrameenPhone has got 62% of the total market share; which is expected to increase at the end of 2006. The numbers of subscribers of GrameenPhone are expecting to be doubled or 11 million by 2006.
Figure: The BCG growth-share Matrix:
As GrameenPhone is holding the highest market share and it also has the highest increase rate then any other competitors. That’s why we can say that GrameenPhone is a star now; with it’s large market share and rapid growth rate.
Figure: Product life Cycle of GRAMEENPHONE:
Though it is said that GrameenPhone in it is maturity level. But as we know the target market still not yet fulfilled so we can say that it has position somewhere in between growth and maturity level.
Integrated Marketing Communication:
Like every other company it also has a target market. But the target market has changed time to time according to the growth of the company. When Grameen was introduced to the Mobile market in the country, people use to have a different perception about mobile phone. They thought it was meant to serve the higher class of the society. But Gradually Grameen has changed the preconception of cell phone, as it introduced the service with a fraction of a cost of the competitor.
GrameenPhone basically segmented the market on the basis of demography. At first when it was introduced, it targeted the higher income and upper middle class of the society. It has implemented two of the components of Demographic segmentation to extract its customers from the mass population. Even after all these years, GRAMEENPHONE still follows the two components of demographic segmentation to cover the whole market.
It must be mentioned here that, GRAMEENPHONE has launched various types of packages to reach different types of customers. As for example, it is using GRAMEENPHONE Regular Package to target the people of higher income level and the upper middle class of the society. Prepaid service was introduced to serve the mass population regardless of their age, location and income level.
Initiation:
GrameenPhone Ltd. is a multinational cellular mobile telecommunication company engaged in an ambitious project of bringing the whole Bangladesh under its coverage area by the year 2003. The company is first to introduce GSM technology in Bangladesh. GSM that stands for Global System for Mobile Communication is a fully digital system standardized only in 1992. Here the term digital system means the data in air interface representing control signal and voice signal are in digital form.GrameenPhone was awarded license to operate as a mobile telecommunication service provider in Bangladesh on 28th of November 1996. It officially launched its network on 26th of March 1997 and went into commercial operation on 15th of April of that year with 7 based stations on air.
Products of GrameenPhone:
The products of GrameenPhone can be characterized as:
Post Paid
Post Paid:
GP Regular is a post-paid product with BTTB (Local, NWD and ISD) connectivity. User can connect to all mobiles and BTTB lines. It has network mobility feature, with which user can move around throughout the country with GP mobile phone (within GP coverage). The activation time for the new GP Regular subscription is 72 hours (minimum). The ISD facility is activated only after address verification by GP authority (mentioned in the subscription form).
Tariffs and Charges:
All tariffs are subject to change without assigning any reason
15% VAT applicable to all Airtime charges, monthly fees & BTTB charges
Friends & Family (24 Hrs.)
Mobile to Mobile
Mobile to BTTB
8am-8pmOff- Peak
8pm -11 pmSuper off-peak
11pm -8amPeak
11pm -8amFrom MobileFrom BTTBTk. 1.5/min. for 3 GP nos.Tk. 350Tk. 4Tk. 3Tk.2Tk. 4/min. + BTTB Local/ NWD/ ISD chargeTk. 3/min. + BTTB Local/ NWD/ ISD chargeTk. 2/min. + BTTB Local/ NWD/ ISD chargeFree1st 5 min. free & Tk. 1/min. from 6th min. onwards
30 sec pulse in the 1st min
15 sec pulse after 1st min
During Friday, 24 hours Off-Peak rate applicable
For ISD & NWD calls: BTTB’s Peak (8am – 10pm) & Off-peak (10pm – 8am) rate will be applicable for BTTB charge
GP National is a post-paid product with mobile-to-mobile connectivity and BTTB incoming facility. User can make and receive calls to and from all mobiles (within GP coverage area). It has network mobility feature, with which user can move around the country with GP mobile phone (within GP coverage area). The activation time for the new GP Regular subscription is 72 hours (minimum). The ISD facility is activated only after address verification by GP authority (mentioned in the subscription form).
(24 Hrs.)
GP – Any mobile
Off- Peak
8pm -11 pm
Super off-peak
11pm -8am
From mobiles
From BTTB
Tk. 4/min.
1st 5 min. free & Tk. 1/min. from 6th min. onwards
Tk. 1.5/min to 3 GP nos.
‘Anytime 500’ is a post-paid product with BTTB (Local/NWD/ISD) connectivity. Anytime 500 offers a monthly 500 minutes (billed duration) of talk-time free of charge. It has the network mobility feature, with which user can move around the country with GP mobile phone (within GP coverage). The activation time for the new Anytime 500 subscription is 72 (minimum) hours. The ISD facility is activated only after address verification by GP authority (mentioned in the subscription form).
Monthly Bundle Fee
GP to any mobile after first 500 min Mobile to BTTB
Within 1st 500 mins After 1st 500 mins From Mobile From BTTB
Tk. 1,500 Tk. 3/min Tk. 0/min + BTTB Local/ NWD/ ISD charge Tk. 3/min + BTTB Local/ NWD/ ISD charge Free 1st 5 min. free & Tk. 1/min. from 6th min. onwards
No Monthly Access fee
1 sec pulse from the 1st min
During Friday, 24 hours Off-Peak rate applicable (after 1st free 500 mins.)
Benefits of Anytime 500
Enjoy first 500 minutes (billed duration) of talk-time per month free of charge.
1 second pulse from the very first minute.
No monthly access charge
This phone offers the subscribers to call any phone within the country as well as all over the world. This subscription has BTTB connectivity, NWD & ISD where first 1600 minutes (Billed Duration) per month FREE (Outgoing voice calls only). Within first 1600 minutes, if any subscriber calls to any B.T.T.B. number, then GRAMEENPHONE’s airtime charge will be FREE, but the subscriber has to pay the BTTB charges. There are monthly bundle fee of Tk. 5000 and monthly access fee.
GP to any mobile after first 1600 min Mobile to BTTB
Within 1st 1600 mins After 1st 1600 mins From Mobile From BTTB
Tk. 4,000.00 Tk. 3/min Tk. 0/min + BTTB Local/ NWD/ ISD charge Tk. 3/min + BTTB Local/ NWD/ ISD charge Free 1st 5 min. free & Tk. 1/min. from 6th min. onwards
During Friday, 24 hours Off-Peak rate applicable (after 1st free 1600 mins.)
This phone offers the subscribers to call any phone within the country. This package is designed for the users who need good network support and all time quality airtime. GrameenPhone adds a mini BTS support for this package. Each package includes 96 connections and the price of each connection if BDT 30,000.00. The monthly minimum payment for each connection should be BDT 25,000.00 and if the uses cross the minimum amount, then the higher amount is to be paid by the user.
Billing rate is negotiable,
The Business Solutions will offer a suite of specialized products and services providing complete communication solutions for professionals, small to medium-sized enterprises and large corporations, enabling them to increase their efficiency, productivity and gain a competitive edge. This package includes
Voice Calls.
International Roaming.
Close User Group (CUG).
Friends and Family Package.
Call conferencing.
Call Diverting.
Call Baring.
Call waiting.
SMS.
SMS Plus.
Voice SMS.
Voice Mail.
MMS.
Cell E-mail.
SMS Banking.
SMS Information Service.
Mobile Phone Profiling.
Mobile Data Service.
Mobile Fax.
Mobile Internet.
E-Phone.
Dedicated Customer Service and Etc.
Business Solutions is a high quality and fully integrated telecommunications service from GrameenPhone, especially designed for the business entities of Bangladesh. As the largest and most customer centric telecommunication service provider in the country, it provides customer oriented and customized telecommunications solutions through a highly consultative approach.
International Roaming: It will enable user to make and receive calls using the same GP-Regular number, while user are outside the country (Visit roaming page for detail information).
Friends & Family: It will enable user to call up to three GP numbers (activated as Friends & Family) for only Tk.1.5/min for 24 hrs.
Caller ID*: It allows GP subscribers to view the caller’s ID before answering the call.
Call Waiting: It enables user to receive a second call while users are online with another call. When call waiting feature is activated (on handset), user will be usually notified by a short beep sound. User can then either reject the second call or put the first caller on hold, talk to the second caller and then return to the first call.
Call Conference: It allows user to make up to 5 calls (max) at a time and connect all the calls to make a conference call. This feature is handset dependent.
Call Divert: It allows user to divert the incoming calls to any mobile number or BTTB number.
Call Barring: It allows user to restrict any unauthorized use of mobile phone by imposing restrictions on certain types of calls (incoming and outgoing). This feature is handset dependent.
Value Added Services:
SMS (Short Message Service): With this service, user can receive and send Text Messages (a maximum of 160 characters per message) to any other GP or CityCell mobile and to foreign operators’ (international) mobiles as well (conditions apply).
How to activate SMS: The GP Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) number is +88 017 0000 600 and it is by default stored in SIM card. If handset is configured with any other SMSC number, then please reset SMSC number as +88 017 0000 600.
SMS Push-Pull Services: With Push-Pull service, user can enjoy more than 160 contents (Ex: Usage Info, Payment Status of last bill, Sports news, Emergency numbers, Restaurants, Airline and Railway timing, travel info etc.).
For example, to know the contact numbers of taxi cab companies:
Go to the message option of handset
Write ‘taxi’.
Send the SMS to 2000.
User will receive the list of taxi cab company numbers in return.
Voice Mail Service (VMS): VMS works like an answering machine. When user is not available or outside the coverage area or simply busy, the caller can leave a message in voice mail box, which user may listen or retrieve at convenience.
How to Activate VMS:
Please call GP Customer Relations Hotline 122 (24 hrs) to activate Voice Mail Service.
After activation (min 72 hrs), user may divert the incoming calls to 100 (voice mail box number).
To listen or retrieve voice mail, dial 101 from mobile phone.
User can also record customized welcome message. For details, please call GP Customer Relations Hotline (122) from mobile phone or follow the instructions by dialing 101.
Fax and Data: This service enables a GrameenPhone subscriber to send/receive fax and data through their handsets by connecting to a PC/Laptop. Currently, this service is offered to corporate clients only.
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP): This is a tool to access WAP-enabled information from the Internet through GP mobile phones. User can also access yahoo e-mail account through GP WAP service.
How to Activate WAP:
Visit GP Customer Relations Center with the subscription form (Subscribers Copy).
Sign the GP-WAP form.
Customer Relations Division will activate SIM card with Data Facility (minimum 72 hours).
Require a WAP enabled handset to avail the service.
News Service (2221/2222): This is a news broadcasting service jointly provided by Prothom Alo and The Daily Star. A subscriber can call 2221 (Bengali)/2222 (English) from his/her GP mobile phone and listen to the latest news highlights.
Channel-I Program Schedule (2525): 2525 is a Channel -I Program schedule service. A subscriber can dial 2525 from his/her GP mobile phone and listen to Channel I program (daily) highlights.
Channel-I GP Information Services (2626): 2626 is Channel -I and GP information service whereby a subscriber can avail information on news, events of the day, transport schedule and horoscope.
Event Based Sports Update (2002): This is an event based Sports Update service. In respect to special sport’s events (For ex. international and national Cricket events). GrameenPhone updates the latest news, which can be accessed by dialing 2002.
Iftar and Sehri Timing (1515): During the month of Ramadan, a subscriber can listen to the timing of Iftar and Sehri in Dhaka and adjacent areas.
Pre Paid:
Easy Gold is a pre-paid product with BTTB (Local, NWD and ISD) connectivity. User can connect to all mobiles and BTTB lines. It has the network mobility feature, with which user can move around the country with GP mobile phone (within the GP coverage area). Easy Gold Prepaid SIM card is by default activated. To start using the phone, at first, charge GP Easy Gold Prepaid account with an Easy Scratch Card.
Incoming My EASY
(24 Hrs.) My Time
Mobile to
Peak 6am-12am Easy Hour 12am-6am
GP to GP GP to other mobiles BTTB Local/ISD BTTB NWD
Peak 8am-12am Easy Hour 12am-6am Peak 8am-12am Easy Hour 12am-6am From Mobile From BTTB
Tk. 4.40 Tk. 4.80 Tk. 3 Tk. 4.80/min. + BTTB charge Tk. 3/min. + BTTB charge Tk. 4.80/min. + BTTB charge Tk. 3/min. + Tk. 3/min. (Flat) Free Tk. 2/min. from 2nd min. onwards Tk. 3/min. to 1 GP no.Tk. 3/min. to 1 GP no. Tk. 3/min. to any GP no.
20 sec pulse after 1st min. (for mobile to mobile)
For BTTB outgoing (ISD) the pulse is 30 sec after the 1st minute. For NWD calls pulse is 60 sec.after 1st min.
For ISD calls: BTTB’s Peak (8am – 10pm) /Off-peak (10pm – 8am) rate will be applicable for BTTB charge.Easy Pre-paid is a pre-paid product with mobile-to-mobile connectivity. User can make and receive calls to and from all mobiles (within GP coverage) using EASY Pre-paid. It has network mobility feature, with which user can move around the country with GP mobile phone (within GP coverage). : Easy Prepaid SIM card is by default activated. To start using the phone, at first, charge GP Easy prepaid account with an Easy Scratch Card.
My EASY
6am-12am Easy Hour
12am – 6am
GP to GP GP to other mobiles
Tk. 4.40 Tk. 4.80 Tk. 3 Free Tk. 3/min.
to 1 GP no. Tk. 3/min.
to any GP no.
djuice is a pre-paid mobile to mobile product. In addition to the basic cellular options, it has some additional lifestyle benefits, specially tailored for the target segment.
Tk 0.80/pulse
With 20 sec pulse throughout djuice offers improved affordability
Call any djuice number during Peak hours only @ Tk 0.80/pulse
Call any mobile during Peak hours only @ Tk 1.55 /pulse
Call any mobile during Off-Peak hours only @ Tk 0.66 /pulse.
Peak hours – 6 am to 12 am, Off-peak hours – 12 am to 6 am
SMS only @ Tk.1
djuice to djuice or djuice to GP @ Tk 1/SMS
Push Pull content- Tk 1.5/SMS
Premium Content- Ringtone and Logo @ Tk 10
Aktel, CityCell & Banglalink @ Tk 1.5/SMS
Also enjoy first 50 SMS to any djuice or GP number absolutely free.
15% VAT applicable to all charges
My Easy (will enable user to call one GP number for only Tk.3/min for 24 hrs).
My Time (will enable user to call any GP number for only Tk.3/min form 6 am to 9 am or 1 pm to 4 pm))
My Choice Will enable user to call any GP number for only Tk. 4.50/min.
Free Supplementary Features:
Caller ID: (It allows GP subscriber’s to view the caller’s ID before answering the call).
Call Divert: It allows user to divert the incoming calls to voice mail box.
Call Conference: This feature allows user to connect 10 people within a single conference call. The participants can be living miles apart, they may have different types of phones, but call conferencing will bring them together. One person can add a maximum of four people in a conference call.
Call Waiting: It enables user to receive a second call while user is online with another call. When Call Waiting feature is activated (on handset), user will be usually notified by a short beep sound. User can then either rejects the second call or put the first caller on hold, talk to the second caller and then return to the first call. User can keep a maximum of three callers on hold while making another call.
Call Forwarding: It allows user to forward the incoming calls to any mobile number if user is not within the GP coverage area or do not want to receive the call.
Call Barring: This feature gives user the option of restricting different types of calls. User can choose to bar all incoming calls, all outgoing calls, or all international calls. Using this feature, user can protect cell phone from unwanted usage.
SMS (Short Message Service): With this service, user can receive and send Text Messages ( with a maximum of 160 characters per message) to any other GP mobile and to foreign operators’ (international) mobiles as well (conditions apply).
How to activate SMS
The GP Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) number is +88 017 0000 600 and it is by default stored in SIM card. If handset is configured with any other SMSC number, then please reset SMSC number as +88 017 0000 600.
SMS Push-Pull Services: With Push-Pull service, user can enjoy more than 160 contents (Ex: Sports news, Emergency numbers, Restaurants, Airline and Railway timing, travel info etc.).
Write ‘taxi’
Send the SMS to 2000
User will receive the list of taxi cab numbers in return
Voice Mail Service (VMS): VMS works like an answering machine. When user is not available or outside the GP coverage area or simply busy, the caller can leave a message in Voice Mail box, which user may listen to or retrieve at convenience.
How to Activate VMS
Please call at GP Customer Relations Hotline 121 (24 hrs) to activate Voice Mail Service
After activation (minimum 72 hrs), user may divert the incoming calls to 100 (Voice Mail box number)
To listen or retrieve voice mail, dial 101 from mobile phone
User can also record customized welcome message. For details, please call GP Customer Relations Hotline (121) from mobile phone
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP): It is an advanced intelligent messaging service for digital mobile phones which allows the user to browse the Internet in text format to get access to useful information and other services. User can also access YAHOO e-mail account through GP WAP service.
How to Activate WAP
Visit GP Customer Relations Center with the subscription form (subscribers copy)
Sign the GP-WAP form
Customer Relations Division will activate the SIM card with Data Facility (minimum 72 hours)
Requires a WAP-enabled handset to avail the service
Channel-I Program Schedule (2525): 2525 is a Channel -I Program schedule service. A subscriber can dial 2525 from his/her GP mobile phone and listen to Channel I daily program highlights.
Channel-I/GP Information Services (2626): 2626 is Channel -I and GP information service whereby a subscriber can avail information on news, events of the day, transport schedule and horoscope.
Event Based Sports Update (2002): This is an event-based Sports Update service. In respect to special sport’s events, for example, international and national Cricket events. GrameenPhone updates the latest scores, which can be accessed by dialing 2002.
Iftar and Sehri Timings (1515): During the month of Ramadan, a subscriber can listen to the timings of Iftar and Sehri in Dhaka and adjacent areas by dialing this number
Cell E-mail: Cell E-mail is a state-of the art Technology which offers e-mail service through SMS. It possesses almost all the aspects of standard webmail and most importantly it is compatible with almost all GSM handset. Thus providing a way to use email to the subscribers who don’t have access to Internet. Inforev Limited a local ICT solution Provider company is providing the solution on behalf of GrameenPhone Ltd. Experience the ultimate email service with Cell E-mail on cell phone:
Send email to any email account on this earth using very own GP cell phone.
Be a proud owner of a globally accessible identity yourname@cellemail.net user will be able to retrieve email(s) sent to Cellemail address from anywhere on the globe.
Mail inbox check & management facility.
Mail read facility (maximum 3 x 160 characters).
VIP email ID facility with automated notification of email arrival.
Block email ID or Domain extension
Reply/forwarding facility.
Address book.
Signature.
My Choice:
Type of call
Peak Hour(8am to 12 am )
EASY Hour(12 am to 8am)
GP to GP calls
GP to other mobile operator calls
Incoming from mobile
GP to BTTB local and ISD
4.8 + BTTB charges
3+ BTTB charges
GP to BTTB NWD
4.8 + flat 3/min
3+ flat 3/min
Incoming from BTTB
Sub-leasing of GP Fiber Optic Network capacity:
GrameenPhone Ltd. sub-leases the Transmission Capacity of its Fiber Optic Network, leased from Bangladesh Railway, commercially to the prospective business units/clients.
Policy of Capacity Sale:
FON Division (GP) will sub-lease capacity at E1 PCM level only and would not provide last mile connectivity. The Division (GP) shall refer all clients of channel level requirement either to Its Strategic Joint Venture (X-Net) or the Dealer /Agent (Ranks ITT).
GP (FON) would determine the selling price (highest) and the rate of discount to be given on the basis of volume and duration of contract of the E1 PCM.
X-Net and Ranks-ITT would sell capacity at channel level only providing Last Mile Connectivity (LMC). Choice of LMC provision and the price for the last mile connectivity shall be determined by X-Net and Ranks ITT.
Price of selling an E1 PCM shall be cheaper than selling at channel level.
FON (GP) shall arrange a common point of termination beside the GP Installations for E1 PCM customers, including X-Net and Ranks ITT.
FON (GP) would provide DC supply to FON customers subject to availability at a cost determined by GP for such power.
Features of GP Fiber Optic:
Nationwide coverage
Robust network
Minimum downtime for non-protective circuits
Redundant Network option
Right of way in the Bangladesh Railway Network
Public but yet private enough to give best negotiated prices
Best possible option available
Who can avail the service?
Small and Medium Enterprises, Industries
Bandwidth on Demand (SME, Corporate Houses, SOHO).
Dial up mobile Internet (Nationwide ISP)
Cable TV (Entertainment/ Education etc.)
Telemedicine (NGO, Medical & Healthcare Entrepreneur).
Terrestrial Video Broadcasting (Private TV Broadcasters).
Internet Exchange (ISP and VoIP licensees).
CallCenter (GSM, PSTN subscribers, Telco).
International Roaming:
International Roaming (IR) service enables a subscriber to use his/her own mobile number in foreign operators’ networks and to enjoy the same facilities those operators provide to their own subscribers.
* Subject to International Roaming agreement between the Home operators and that particular Foreign operators.
About GP International Roaming
GrameenPhone has been offering International Roaming facility to its subscribers since March 1999. GrameenPhone is the first Cellular Operator providing this premium service to its valued subscribers and till today it is the only company offering International Roaming Service in Bangladesh.
While traveling abroad, a GP IR subscriber can use and enjoy all the operators’ network coverage and other facilities (with whom GP has International Roaming Agreement). Subscribers of those Roaming Partner Operators’ can also enjoy network coverage and facilities of GrameenPhone while visiting Bangladesh.
Currently GrameenPhone has 267 International Roaming partners with networks spread across 105 countries in 6 continents as of December 2005.GrameenPhone is a GSM 900/1800 network and most of its Roaming Partners have GSM 900 or 1800 networks. However GrameenPhone also has some GSM 1900, CDMA, 2.5G, 3G and other types of operators as Roaming Partners.
Outbound Roamer :
GrameenPhone International Roaming facility:
Same mobile number for roaming in all the partner networks abroad
Roaming facility with over 200 operators’ networks in more than 70 countries of six Continents.
No additional monthly access fee for availing IR service
Access to own Voice Mail box from abroad
Sending and receiving SMS
Different types of call restriction facilities
Free Itemized Bill
While roaming, user will be able to avail all the services that user enjoy in GP network; provided that the visited network operator offers those services to its own subscribers, and is specified in the roaming agreement.
After Sales Service:
GrameenPhone have the following After Sales Service for valued EASY Pre-Paid and EASY Gold subscribers at present:
In case a Phone/SIM card Lost or stolen
Reconnection (if the Lost or stolen phone/SIM card is found)
SIM Replacement
WAP facility
It is necessary to submit the original subscription form (subscriber’s copy) to avail the After Sales Service for EASY Pre-Paid and EASY Gold subscription. Therefore, preserve the subscription form (subscriber’s copy) in a confidential and secure place.
Special Services for corporate clients:
Business Solution: The Partner in Business
What it offers, is a suite of specialized products and services covering all communication needs for professionals, small, medium-sized enterprises to large companies.
Comprising of modern mobile telecommunications services for any business needs, it provides voice services, messaging services and mobile data and internet services. It also provides a complete Mobile Office solution, including mobile e-mail, mobile high speed data access, internet access, mobile fax and more, giving user the freedom to work from anywhere they want to. People prefers Business Solutions because,
High Quality Network and Infrastructure :
Business Solutions operates on the GrameenPhone infrastructure which ensures high quality, high capacity, and highly reliable services. Combined with microwave and fiber optics, their network spans across Bangladesh ensuring the widest coverage and best quality transmission. In fact, they provide the best quality network service in the country for delivering voice and data services.
Dedicated Customer Care:
Grameen Phone has fully dedicated Customer Care service strives to look after customer’s very specific needs. This means that their professional customer care team is available to help the business people seven days a week, 365 days of the year – whether for general queries, or to assist them with any problems they may possibly face.
Market Leadership – Trust and Reliability:
Grameen Phone is the Bangladesh’s leading and largest telecommunications service provider. This achievement has been earned by being consistent in what GrameenPhone does, being customer-focused, offering the market what is exactly required and being available in the market when and where people want them.
They have also been totally focused on delivering on their promises to their existing and new customers. In short, they bring the benefits of market-leadership to their business customers.
Technological Know-how and Competence:
They have achieved market leadership because they have invested heavily in technology and maximized the efficiencies from its usage and delivery of services to their customers. They have also invested heavily in employing some of the best talents in Bangladesh to work in the various business units within the company. Combining the technology with their people, they’ve developed the expertise and know-how to effectively and efficiently serve their customers – in addition to enhancing the total telecom market.
Paving the road ahead:
Grameen Phone aims to take business to new heights. It helps user work smarter, faster and more efficiently than ever before. Business Solutions for professionals, entrepreneurs, small and medium sized companies.
Innovation for ever increasing competition:
Grameen Phone aims to help the business people turn-the-tide in business. It tries to give them the competitive edge to compete on equal ground with their competitors as well as the country’s larger corporations. It also tries to give them more tools to enhance business providing greater efficiency and effectiveness in what they do. Finally it tries to give them opportunities to make more profits, faster.
Voice Services:
GrameenPhone offer the best of reliable, high quality and professional voice communications services allowing user to keep in touch from anywhere and anytime in Bangladesh. With comprehensive network coverage and the wealth of technical expertise and experience user will be assured that business moves as fast as user want to.
Anytime Connectivity: All mobile numbers, fixed phone numbers and international numbers
International Roaming: Receive and call while traveling abroad
Closed User Group (CUG): Special tariffs for talking among company employees
Friends & Family (F&F): Special tariffs for 3 selected numbers
Call Conferencing: Connects up to 5 calls at a time
Caller ID: Shows who is calling user
Call Divert: Forwards call to any selected number
Call Barring: Bars incoming and/or outgoing calls to protect unauthorized use
Call Waiting: Holds three calls on wait while user is busy with a call
Be available and be able to communicate wherever and whenever user is. With network covering the entire country, user can be connected to all mobile phones and fixed phone numbers. User can also call and receive international calls anytime, anyplace. Designed for frequent travelers, the international roaming services extend the reach of mobile phone to over 100 countries. With agreements with over 260 overseas GSM networks, GrameenPhone will ensure user is never far from business or customers.
Cost-effective Tariffs:
Call to any mobile at cost-effective tariffs. Price plans are specially made for business users utilising low business hour tariffs
Enjoy savings while calling numbers within company with the CUG service. Special lower tariffs for company employees provide discount when user make calls within a defined company group.
Enjoy special tariffs for 3 special numbers (F&F) of choice 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Call Management Services:
Get the advantage of complete call management services. Call waiting features will ensure user never miss a call and, the call barring feature will also give user the option of restricting different types of calls. User can choose to bar all incoming calls, all outgoing calls, or all international call.
Participate in meetings wherever user may be through call conferencing. This service allows user to connect with 5 people at the same time with either a mobile phone or fixed phone into a conference call for efficient communication and time management.
Messaging service:
GrameenPhone offers different messaging services for smarter, faster and more efficient use of information and communication. Advanced and cost-effective messaging services will help user to communicate instantly on the go and in an affordable way.
Others Features:
SMS (Short Message Service): Send short text messages with up to 160 characters to any mobile phone
Voice SMS: Send voice messages from mobile phone to mobile phone (up to 30 seconds duration)
Voice Mail Service (VMS): Stores up to 10 voice messages for 72 hours when user are unable to take the call, including voice mail alert via SMS
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service): Customise message with pictures, animation, music, video clips and text messages (up to 100 KB)
Cell E-mail: Send and receive e-mail through SMS among GP users and PC
SMS Plus: Receive and update information with SMS reporting tool from group of employees
SMS Banking: Updated information of bank account from Standards Chartered Bank, BRAC Bank, Bank Asia and Lanka Bangla
SMS Information Services: Updated news, currency updates, directory services and more.
Mobile phone profiling: Download Corporate Logo, ring tones and Wall papers
Make communication fast and affordable with short message service (SMS). User can send an SMS to any mobile phone in Bangladesh and also send international SMS to the GSM subscribers in more than 100 countries. Send personalised voice messages through voice SMS to other GrameenPhone numbers at low cost. Let mobile phone attend to the call when user is busy. The voice mail service stores the voice messages of incoming calls in personal mail box when user is either unable to take the call, busy on another call or the phone is turned off. User will get an alert message and can listen to the voice mail when user is ready. Enjoy the exciting way of sharing messages. With MMS user can customize message with a variety of content like pictures, audio and video clips, animation, music and text. User can also instantly share audiovisual business information like (e.g. flowchart) with MMS.
Enjoy the flexibility to send and receive e-mails through SMS to other mobile phones or PC
Benefits of advanced messaging services
Use SMS Plus to view and update official report everyday.
Enhance corporate profile by installing company logo and corporate tunes as ring-tone on all employees’ phones.
Be updated – anywhere, anytime with SMS Information Service. Access the latest news, bank account information or mobile bill updates through mobile phone. Use directory services to find the phone number user wants, the company address of different companies, hospitals and taxi services.
Internet and data services:
GrameenPhone offers a selection of Mobile Office data and internet services ranging from high speed data access (enabling fast access to the Internet), e-mail services and other data services through computer or mobile phone. With Mobile Office user can enjoy the freedom to work anywhere with access to e-mail and information wherever user is.
EDGE Connectivity: An advanced mobile technology which enables high-speed data access over the mobile network
Mobile Data Services: Transfer/share data over mobile network, access remote servers, access Internet from PC.
Mobile E-mail: Send and receive e-mail, attachments and files and update calendar entries through mobile phone
Mobile Fax: Send and receive faxes through any remote fax machine using mobile phone.
Mobile Internet: Access mobile internet sites for fast information updates.
Business people can have the freedom to work anywhere user likes. The Mobile Office solution comprises of mobile e-mail, mobile data access, Internet and mobile fax services which gives user the flexibility to move the office with user!
Stay connected anytime, anywhere by having access to all information using EDGE.
Connect computer to the mobile network and remotely access office systems and browse the Internet. Link computer to the mobile network via a data-cable, Bluetooth or Infrared to enjoy unprecedented flexibility in information transfer.
Connect computer to the mobile network using an EDGE data card to have seamless data access, wherever user is.
With mobile data services user can download files during meetings, get online when user is on the go, or e-mail reports from a hotel room
Enjoy the freedom to work anywhere with mobile e-mail. User can send and receive e-mail, attachments and files through mobile phone, and also manage meeting and calendar entries.
Send and receive faxes through any remote fax machine by using mobile phone. This service provides user with a mobile fax number where user can receive faxes which can be retrieved from any available fax machine.
Access a number of mobile internet sites such as Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Google, MSN, News Services, Travel Information, Sports Updates plus many more. User can also receive telephone calls even while browsing the mobile internet.
Dedicated customer care services:
GrameenPhone strives to take care of all telecommunications needs. The dedicated relationship managers are assigned to provide personalized service right from the beginning of the relationship.
Product migration: Migration of existing subscriptions over to Business Solutions
Itemised billing: Call details including information such as date, time, duration and charge of any voice calls made
Pre-paid invoice: Itemised bills for pre-paid subscriber accounts
Number reservation: Provides flexibility to reserve phone numbers from a particular series for current and future employees (quantity dependent)
Customer support team will assist user with the following services:
Provide company with overview of all company’s subscriptions and mobile users.
Provide user with an overview of all mobile usage and decide billing options (e.g. itemised billing, pre-paid invoicing)
Make all the necessary arrangement to subscribe service/s (without physical presence in the customer service centre.
Add new users to account or create new Closed User Group (CUG) for special call rates.
Set up of additional features such as mobile data access, mobile e-mail etc.
Take care of any specific queries user may have, or responding to any special needs for assistance.
The Business Solutions Customer Services aims to provide quality customer service to the country’s preferential business customers. A professionally trained team is dedicated to provide After Sales Services and Solutions customized to the need of the business customers and initiate pro-active visits as a part of routine contact to look into the needs with an aim to build long-term professional relationships.
Business Solutions is a high quality and fully integrated telecommunication service from GrameenPhone, especially designed for Bangladesh’s business customers. GrameenPhone offers various service packages as a complete business solution to fulfill the various communication needs of business entities.
Business Solutions dedicated Customer Care service strives to look after very specific needs. This means that professional customer care team is available to help user seven days a week, 365 days of the year – whether for general queries, or to assist user with any problems user may possibly face. The dedicated relationship managers are assigned to provide personalized service right from the beginning of the relationship.
The Corporate segment has been given identified as a potential sector to flourish in the Bangladesh economy. Like other countries of the world, this segment is also becoming very important in contributing to national income. The country basically depends on this sector to provide enough power in the national economy to run at a minimum level.
Recognizing this powerful sector, which represents most of the business enterprises of the country, GrameenPhone has put enough emphasis to cater this segment by dividing them in business sectors. Among this segment, the Corporate Clients has been defined as the prime group having comparatively the highest buying power.GP will provide some certain benefits and follow some structured process to tap this segment. If done successfully, GP will ensure a more loyal customer base, with a higher number of sales and ARPU with the maximum number of mobile phone concentration per organization. It will also put a positive impact on reducing bad debt by introducing bank guarantee system. The most important point for GP would be that effectively utilizing this segment will enable GP to maintain and increase the current market share in the mobile telecommunication market.To cater the Preferred Client segment, GP will develop the newly recruited human resources along with the current personnel by equipping them with proper training and working tools and will be placed in different zones according to plan. They will be offered attractive incentive package apart from the regular remuneration to ensure maximum performance.GP is heading towards a brighter future by targeting the preferred clients along their glorious path of meeting the telecommunication need of the corporate business segment of Bangladesh. This endeavor will open up a new prospect for the company as this segment represents a huge number of premium business customers of the country.
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Scotland’s Sky in May, 2019
Giant world Jupiter becoming obvious in May’s twilit nights
The maps show the sky at 01:00 BST on the 1st, midnight on the 16th and 23:00 on the 31st. (Click on map to enlarge)
With its lengthening days and increasingly twilit nights, May is hardly a vintage month for stargazing from Scotland’s latitudes. Official (nautical) darkness for Edinburgh lasts for more than five hours around midnight as the month begins but dwindles to nothing by the start of June and does not return until 12 July
Edinburgh’s sunrise/sunset times change from 05:30/20:51 on the 1st to 04:37/21:45 on the 31st, while the Moon is new on the 4th, at first quarter on the 12th, full on the 18th and at last quarter on the 26th.
Our charts show Leo diving westwards as the Summer Triangle formed by Vega, Altair and Deneb is climbing in the east. After the Moon, our most obvious nighttime object is the planet Jupiter which rises in the south-east 30 minutes before our map times and reaches less than 12° high in the south before dawn. In fact, look for the Moon above-right of Jupiter on the night of the 19th and closer to the planet’s left on the 20th.
The giant world is now edging westwards against the stars of southern Ophiuchus and brightens from magnitude -2.4 to -2.6 as its distance falls from 678 million to 644 million km. The Jovian globe spans 45 arcseconds in mid-May and telescopes show that it is crossed by bands of cloud that lie parallel to its equator. The four principal moons of Jupiter are also easy targets, though sometimes one or more hide from view as they pass in front of, or behind, the disk or are eclipsed in Jupiter’s shadow.
Saturn trails almost two hours behind Jupiter but is fainter at magnitude 0.5 to 0.3. It lies in Sagittarius, below the Teaspoon asterism, where it stands above the Moon but low down in the south-south-east before dawn on the 23rd. Always an impressive sight through a telescope, though not helped by its low altitude, its disk appears 18 arcseconds wide at mid-month, circled by rings that measure 40 by 16 arcseconds.
Mercury and Venus are too deep in the morning twilight to be seen at present, though Mercury slips around the Sun’s far side on the 21st. The morning twilight also hinders views of the Eta-Aquarids meteor shower which peaks around the 6th-7th and brings swift meteors that stream from a point which hovers low in our east-south-eastern sky for two hours before sunrise.
Mars sets a few minutes before our star map times and may be hard to spot low down in our west-north-western evening sky. It stands between the horns of Taurus on the 1st and shines at magnitude 1.6 to rival the star Elnath, which lies 5° above Mars and marks the tip of the Bull’s northern horn.
Mars’ pinkish-orange hue is best appreciated through binoculars as the planet dims further to magnitude 1.8 and speeds 20° eastwards during May, crossing into Gemini at mid-month and sweeping only 0.2° north of the star cluster M35 (use binoculars) on the 19th. It recedes from 335 million to 363 million km during May but, at a mere 4 arcseconds in diameter, is too small to be of telescopic interest. Catch Mars above the slim earthlit Moon on the 7th.
NASA’s InSight lander used its sensitive French-built seismometer to detect its first likely marsquake on 6 April. The faint vibrations are now being studied for clues as to Mars’ interior. Another instrument, a German heat probe designed to drill up to five metres into the surface, seems to have encountered a rock and is currently stalled well short of its target depth.
The Plough looms directly overhead at nightfall and stands high in the west by our map times. If we extend a curving line along its handle, we reach the prominent star Arcturus which, at magnitude -0.05, is the brightest of all the stars in the sky’s northern hemisphere and, after Sirius, the second brightest (nighttime) star visible from Scotland, although both Vega and Capella come close.
Classed officially as a red giant star, though more yellow-orange in hue, Arcturus is slightly more massive than our Sun and perhaps 50% older. As such, it has depleted the hydrogen used to power its core through nuclear fusion, progressed to fusing helium instead and inflated to 25 times the Sun’s radius and 170 times its luminosity. Eventually, after shedding its outer layers, it will settle down as a dim white dwarf star comparable in size to the Earth.
At present, though, we admire it as the leading star in the constellation of Bootes which has been likened to a pale imitation of Orion or even an ice-cream cone. Bootes takes its name from the Greek for herdsman or plowman, apparently in relation to the seven stars of the Plough which were also known as the “Seven Oxen” in early times.
Arcturus’ own name comes from the Greek for “guardian of the bear”, another reference to its role in following Ursa Major across the sky. In truth, it is something of a temporary guardian since it is rushing past our solar system at 122 km per second at a distance of 36.7 light years and will likely fade from naked-eye view within (only) half a million years as it tracks south-westwards in the direction of Virgo and the bright star Spica.
It is in the north of Virgo, and roughly coincident with the “D” of the label for Denebola on our south star map, that we find the galaxy M87, the owner of the supermassive black hole whose image was released a few weeks ago. M87 is 54 million light years away and visible as a smudge in small telescopes.
Diary for 2019 May
Times are BST
5th 00h New moon
6th 15h Peak of Eta-Aquarids meteor shower
6th 23h Moon 2.3° N of Aldebaran
8th 01h Moon 3° S of Mars
11th 03h Moon 0.3° N of Praesepe
12th 02h First quarter
12th 16h Moon 3° N of Regulus
18th 22h Full moon
19th 18h Mars 0.2° N of star cluster M35 in Gemini
20th 18h Moon 1.7° N of Jupiter
21st 14h Mercury in superior conjunction
22nd 23h Moon 0.5° S of Saturn
26th 18h Last quarter
Alan Pickup
This is a slightly revised version, with added diary, of Alan’s article published in The Scotsman on April 30th 2019, with thanks to the newspaper for permission to republish here.
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Urgent warning: Do not swim at Leigh beach due to levels of bacteria found
Warning not to swim at Bell Wharf beach in Leigh
By Christine Sexton
Bell Wharf - bathers warned against swimming at the Leigh beach
Southend Council is warning bathers not to use a Leigh beach after raised levels of dangerous bacteria was found.
Water at Bell Wharf water has been reclassified as “poor” following test results which revealed the presence of E-coli and intestinal enterocci, most commonly found in faeces.
Sampling of the bathing water quality at Leigh Bell Wharf in 2018 had shown an overall improvement against the previous year. However, as bathing waters are classified according to the average sampling results over a four-year period, the latest result means that Leigh Bell Wharf now falls below the level required for a “sufficient” rating.
In the coming days, Southend Council officers will erect signs bearing the words "advice against bathing" at the beach. Similar advice will also be given on the council’s and the Visit Southend website.
Since raised levels of bacteria were identified in samples, Southend Council, The Environment Agency and Anglian Water have been working closely together to tackle potential sources of contamination and help the beach regain a rating of “sufficient” or higher.
Scott Dolling, director of culture, tourism and property at Southend Council, said: “Clearly, it is very disappointing that the bathing waters at Leigh Bell Wharf have been reclassified, despite the improved water quality last year.
“However, we have a duty to ensure that the public is able to make informed choices about whether or not to swim in our coastal waters and that is exactly what we are doing.
“Over the past months, we have been working hard with the Environment Agency and Anglian Water, who own the sewage system, to identify possible sources of contamination and take action. Together, we aim to improve the bathing water quality, improve future sampling results and see the beach reclassified as at least “sufficient” in future years. However, until then, we advise the public not to bathe there.”
Anna Burns, Area Environment Manager at the Environment Agency said: “Despite the deterioration in the overall classification, we were encouraged to see the improvement in last year’s bathing water results for Leigh. We are committed to continuing our work with Anglian Water and Southend Council to eliminate pollution sources and improve water quality again this season.
An Anglian Water spokesperson said: “We have invested over £150,000 towards understanding the issues affecting Leigh Bell Wharf bathing waters. Together with Southend Council and the Environment Agency, we are using state-of-the-art technology including CCTV, dye tracing, sampling and on-foot surveys of the coastal area surrounding the bathing water to understand what is causing the issue.
“We also continue to monitor our equipment to ensure it is working as well as it should. Although it is likely to be the result of several sources of environmental pollution having a combined detrimental effect, we remain committed to working together to improve the bathing water for beach-goers in Southend.”
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Paralympics 2012: David Weir driven by ghosts of Games past
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Weir coy on Paralympic gold medals
2012 Paralympics
Wednesday, 29 August to Sunday 9 September
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David Weir's view on the 2000 Paralympics was very different to the one he will have as a star of the London Games.
Instead of a racing chair seat at the centre of the action, Weir was settled on his sofa thousands of miles away when the action began in Sydney 12 years ago.
It proved uncomfortable viewing for the Londoner.
"I sat down to watch the Paralympics in Sydney, saw Tanni Grey-Thompson winning all her medals and regretted every minute of the previous four years," he told BBC Sport.
"I had been to the Games in Atlanta in 1996 as a young lad of 17 but when I got there it wasn't what I had expected.
Weir's Paralympics
London 2012: T54 800m, T54 1500m, T54 5000m, Marathon
Beijing 2008: T54 800m (Gold), T54 1500m (Gold), T54 400m (Silver), T54 5000m (Bronze)
Athens 2004: T54 100m (Silver), T53 200m (Bronze), T54 400m (Heats)
Sydney 2000: Did not compete
Atlanta 1996: 100m (7th), 4x100m relay (4th)
"I could count about five people in the crowd at times. It disheartened me a little bit because I had missed my teenage years of growing up and being with my friends to compete at a Paralympics.
"I fell out of love with the sport and when I got back I just didn't want to do it any more. At that age, I just wanted to go out clubbing and do what normal teenagers do.
"But watching Sydney, I wished I was there. I may have been in medal contention, you never know, but that experience just drove me on.
"After that I said to myself that I would never let myself down."
The London Games' aim of inspiring a generation is one that has been subject to heavy scrutiny.
But Weir's achievements since 2000 show the effects that even a distant Paralympics can have.
Since being spurred on by events Down Under, Weir has won a total of six Paralympic medals, including two golds in Beijing, and this April equalled Thompson's record six wins in the London marathon.
As a man already awarded the freedom of his home town of Sutton in Surrey, a triumphant return to London would represent a neat conclusion to Weir's career.
"I think I am at that age where my tick list of things to do is pretty much minimal," says the 33-year-old.
"I have won the races that I have wanted to win, the last big one was the New York marathon and then I wanted to equal Tanni's record for the London marathon and now this is it really, this is the big one, the final push."
One of the few things left for Weir is to see how things might have turned out with a little more luck four years ago.
Hopefully I can fulfil my dream and play in Ibiza one time
David Weir on his future plans
Weir went to Beijing tipped as a man who could win all five of the events he was selected for.
In the end two golds represented a personal triumph as he found himself taking on, not just the best the rest of the world had to offer, but also a local virus that forced him to drop the marathon from his schedule.
Perhaps burned by the experience, he sees his four events in London as more of an insurance policy rather than an opportunity to sweep the board.
"I am lucky that I can do four events and am talented enough to cover those four events," he added.
"The reason is that if something doesn't go right in the first couple, like in Beijing, then I still have the chance to win one or two in the other events. That is the reason I am doing those events, not because I think I can win four gold medals.
"I just want one gold medal. If I get more it is a bonus and if it doesn't happen and I have got one then I will be happy."
For Weir, with two young children and a third on the way, London could well be a last hurrah.
Although he admits he is tempted by the prospect of Rio, another party capital that could have lured him away in the intervening four years.
His break from sport in the wake of Atlanta fuelled his love of house music and by 2016 it may be the Balearics rather than the Paralympics that fill his diary.
"My little project for after my sports career is to get more into my music," he said.
"My CD decks are still up in the front room. I have contacts in the DJ-ing world so hopefully I can fulfil my dream and play in Ibiza one time. I think that is the Mecca of every DJ."
Before he starts spinning any tracks though, Weir is raring for at least one more spin on the track.
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1970 Quinta do Noval Nacional
Red | Ready, but will keep | Quinta do Noval | Code: 909888 | 1970 | Port Wine > Vintage Port | Port Blend | Full Bodied, Sweet | 20.0 % alcohol
Amazingly, the importer still has tiny stocks of such legendary ports as the 1970, 1963, and 1962 Nacionals. In most vintages the production of Quinta do Noval Nacional is no more than 250-275 cases. The 1970,1963,1962 and 1994 are candidates to achieve perfect scores. The 1970 Nacional remains a young, unevolved wine, as well as the lightest and least intense of the 1970, 1963 and 1962. That is not to suggest it is a wimpish wine as it is a powerful vintage port, but it is unbelievably graceful, youthful, and complex. The huge nose of licorice, smoke, jammy black-cherry and cassis fruit is followed by a wine of seamless components, all super-packed with gorgeously pure fruit, yet the wine is not heavy or overbearing. There is a real sense of elegance to this spectacular, young Quinta do Noval Nacional. My best guess is that it might be worth opening a bottle to celebrate the new century, but this wine will not hit its peak until around 2010; it will last until 2030.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 31/10/1996
Scores and Reviews
96+/100
Jancis
The Wine Advocate - Amazingly, the importer still has tiny stocks of such legendary ports as the 1970, 1963, and 1962 Nacionals. In most vintages the production of Quinta do Noval Nacional is no more than 250-275 cases. The 1970,1963,1962 and 1994 are candidates to achieve perfect scores. The 1970 Nacional remains a young, unevolved wine, as well as the lightest and least intense of the 1970, 1963 and 1962. That is not to suggest it is a wimpish wine as it is a powerful vintage port, but it is unbelievably graceful, youthful, and complex. The huge nose of licorice, smoke, jammy black-cherry and cassis fruit is followed by a wine of seamless components, all super-packed with gorgeously pure fruit, yet the wine is not heavy or overbearing. There is a real sense of elegance to this spectacular, young Quinta do Noval Nacional. My best guess is that it might be worth opening a bottle to celebrate the new century, but this wine will not hit its peak until around 2010; it will last until 2030. Importer: William Grant & Sons, Edison, NJ; tel. (908) 225-9000
Jancis - Mid to deep fox red. Wild note with rich chocolate-raisin note. Lots of vigour here. Very nice raciness and balance. Lots of sweet concentration. Then a little dry and tough on the end but this should carry on developing for many a long year. My palate feels tanned…
Jancis Robinson, jancisrobinson.com (December 2013)
Quinta do Noval was first owned, for more than a century, by the Rebello Valente family who were given it by the Marquês do Pombal, Portugal’s Prime Minister. It was later owned by the Van Zeller family who had to rebuild following a catastrophic fire in 1981. Finally Quinta do Noval was sold to AXA insurance group in May 1993.
Quinta do Noval is one of the most evocative of names and the maker of the most famous of all Vintage Ports - Naçional.
The scourge of European vineyards in the late 19th century, the phylloxera aphid was thwarted at Noval's best vineyard by intense fumigation and, rather than grafting the vines on to American root-stocks, which was the usual practice, they managed to survive using Portuguese stock - hence "Naçional".
Noval made its reputation with the declaration of 1931. Due to world recession and vast shipment of 27’s, it was one of only three shippers declared in 1931. Noval introduced the first stenciled bottles and in 1958 the first house to introduce a Late Bottled Vintage.
The Quinta do Noval itself lies perfectly situated along a steep hillside in the heart of the Douro Valley where the vines flourish and produce the highest-grade fruit.
Noval today appears to be thriving under the ownership of insurance group AXA with Managing Director Christian Seely, ensuring that their Vintage Port remains one of the most sought-after wines. AXA is a group which already includes a string of leading Bordeaux châteaux.
There are around 40 different grape varieties permitted in the production of Port - however the vast majority of Ports are produced from a blend of 5 grapes - Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesca, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz, and Tinto Cão.
Touriga Nacional produces small, dark-skinned grapes that produce opaque black wines of great extract and high tannins - it gives grip, body, and structure to the blend.
Touriga Franca has a thinner skin and consequently produces wines lighter in colour and tannins than Touriga Nacional. It contributes fruit, aroma, suppleness and roundness.
Tinta Roriz is the Portuguese name for Tempranillo and its high sugar content and low acidity contribute colour and fruit.
Tinta Barroca which is normally grown at highish altitudes and on north-facing slopes, is prized for producing wines of delicacy, finesse and with smooth, velvety fruit. It brings elegance and sweet, ripe fruit to the final blend.
Finally Tinto Cão produces fine and complex wines, though it is probably the least important of the 5 grapes as its painfully small yields have reduced plantings to almost insignificant levels.
Vintage Port accounts for only a small percentage of the total Port production - which includes Tawny, Ruby, Late Bottled Vintage, Single Quinta Vintage styles, among others - but is the finest, longest-lived and most expensive style that is produced. The best are as good as any wine in existence.
With the exception of legendary vineyards like Quinta do Noval Nacional and Quinta do Vesuvio, Vintage Port is made from a blend of wines from a producer's finest plots. It is aged for around 18 months in wooden casks before bottling; from then on the watch-word is patience. At least 15 years ageing – and for the top wines it will be significantly longer – is required before the tannins, spirit and fruit are fully integrated. Indeed, the finest examples can last well over 50 years.
Vintage Port is only made in exceptional years (normally around three times per decade) with considerable stylistic variation between different years and shippers. However, they all share a sweet, warming, spicy richness, power and complexity. In other good but not great vintages, many shippers produce a Single Quinta Vintage Port from their finest vineyard. These are made in the same way and have the same style as Vintage Port but tend to mature faster and are less profound. All Vintage Port throws a sediment as it matures, and thus requires decanting.
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BC Games Alumni Recognized at the 2019 Premier’s Awards for Indigenous Youth Excellence in Sport
Author: BC Games Society/Thursday, November 28, 2019/Categories: Front Page, News, 2019 News, Sport System, Partners
The 2019 Premier’s Awards for Indigenous Youth Excellence in Sport recognized 36 recipients during the month of October and November. The Province of British Columbia and the Indigenous Sport, Physical Activity & Recreation Council (I·SPARC) established the Premier’s Awards to celebrate the outstanding achievements of Indigenous youth athletes throughout the province who have achieved excellence in sport and demonstrate leadership qualities.
Among the recipients were 10 BC Games alumni:
· Connor Kaboni, Lacrosse, Nipissing First Nation
· Kanani Coon, Basketball, Enoch Cree Nation
· Emma Guertin, Trampoline Gymnastics, Sprint Kayak, Métis Nation BC
· Grace Currie, Swimming, Softball, Métis Nation BC
· Tessa Sturgeon, Hockey, Softball, Métis Nation BC
· Corey Cunningham, Hockey, Métis Nation BC
· Chelsei Gray, Canoe, Kayak, Scowlitz First Nation
· Jaiden Terry, Lacrosse, Tsal’alh First Nation
· Aedan Crocker, Road & Track Cycling, Penelakut Tribe
· Nicola Smith, Rugby, Peguis First Nation
With the expansion of the BC Games Society’s Indigenous Participation Program, more and more Indigenous athletes will get the opportunity to compete in the Games and be recognized by awards like this one.
“It is so important to gather our communities to celebrate our youth athletes and their successes. The Premier’s Awards recognize young leaders who are giving back to their sport and communities in a big way,” said Ken Edzerza, Northeast Regional Lead for I·SPARC.
The recipients were selected out of 130 nominees from across BC who qualified as Indigenous athletes less than 25 years of age. The selection criteria include sport achievements leading towards podium placements at provincial, national and international competitions; leadership qualities such as coachability, strong work ethic and demonstrating fair play both on and off the field; a commitment to academic studies and continued education; cultural awareness, pride in Indigenous ancestry and cultural activism; and demonstrating how their experience in sport is shaping their future.
“It is a true honour to be selected with all of these amazing student athletes,” said Tessa Sturgeon, 2019 Northeast Regional Premier’s Awards Recipient and BC alumnus. “We will continue to represent all of the values of the Premier’s Awards in our communities and in our sport.”
The 36 recipients automatically serve as nominees for the Provincial Awards which will be selected in early 2020. For more information on the Premier’s Awards please visit: https://isparc.ca/grants-recognition/premiersawards/.
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Pam’s Reviews
The Libertine (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
The Libertine (Theatre Royal, Haymarket, until December 3rd)
Anyone salivating over the salacious poster promoting The Libertine at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, is in for a big disappointment.
Apart from a lewd and largely irrelevant song at the opening of Act Two, this production delivers little of the sauciness it teases. Stephen Jeffreys’ 1994 faux-Restoration romp (which he has been rewriting ever since, according to a worrying programme note) totters between bawdy humour and a dark edge that sometimes feels like a film noir director is experimenting with a Carry On movie.
A swaggering prologue sees the rakish John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, addressing the audience and promising, “You will not like me.” As the story unfolds we are introduced to both sides of this undoubtedly colourful yet complex character: the witty and intelligent poet favoured by the king and the debauched and self-destructive rebel banished from royal presence and for whom it is hard to have any real sympathy.
Tim Shortall’s elegant but crumbling at the edges theatrical set with a back-wall gold frame artistically capturing projected scenes is a reminder of the major themes: the cruel decadence of Charles II’s court creating a society of excess and the absurd artificiality of art at odds with real life. However, the Haymarket seems too grand a venue for a reflective piece that would surely have more of an impact in a smaller, in your face setting.
At the heart of this Carry On Carolean effort is Dominic Cooper, making a welcome return to the stage as the boorish Wilmot, himself the inspiration for George Etherege’s flamboyant Dorimant in the 1676 hit The Man of Mode. Cooper’s Earl glowers seductively and makes the downward spiral of his life interesting, yet his commanding stage presence is not well served by the play’s inability to be certain whether this brooding anti-hero is an unlovable rogue or free-thinking intellectual responsible for his own downfall.
His self-serving relationships with three contrasting women symbolise the excesses and contradictions of his desire – a comfortable home life with understanding country wife Elizabeth (Alice Bailey Johnson), the illusory pleasures of theatre with rising star Elizabeth Barry (a feisty Ophelia Lovibond), or the hedonistic carelessness exemplified by prostitute Jane (Nina Toussaint-White). One wishes for more of the other main female character, the down to earth stage manager Molly, of whom Lizzie Roper makes the most.
Jasper Britton’s crotchety Charles II embodies the capricious heart of the play, a merry but mercurial monarch bored with both bawd and bard, while Cornelius Booth serves up some delicious slices of ham as the stuttering actor who scores success playing the dramatised version of the licentious Earl.
Wilmot’s cronies (as adoring of the smooth reprobate as Falstaff and the gang following Prince Hal) are exceptionally well-portrayed; Mark Hadfield as playwright Etherege, Richard Teverson as the powdered epitome of the Restoration era Sackville, Will Merrick as the easily led young spark Billy and Will Barton as the far from subservient serving man Alcock.
Terry Johnson’s direction certainly tries to rev up the pace and pick out the light and shade of both characters and plot, yet it’s often a losing battle with a meandering script. It’s a shame, as after the uninteresting frolicsome froth of the first half the second act has considerably more depth and becomes darker, but there is too little time to explore the detail of what has been opened up.
Ultimately it’s a fair production of a play which fails to live up to its pre-show hype or its titillating prologue and in which there is a feeling of too much energy wasted.
David Guest
(A version of this review originally appeared on The Reviews Hub http://www.thereviewshub.com/)
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Bangladesh: 5 Years Later, Police Have Not Revealed Findings in Killing of Journalists
Pulack Ghatack
Journalists Sagar Sarowar (center) and Meherun Runi appear with their son, Mahir Sarwar Megh, in an undated photo.
Star Mail file photo
Saturday marks the fifth anniversary of the stabbing deaths of two journalists in Dhaka – among 22 killings of Bangladeshi reporters that remain unsolved over two decades – as the local press demands answers and justice for their slain colleagues.
Police still have not revealed a motive or released an investigation report into the Feb. 11, 2012, killings of husband and wife Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi although six suspects have been in custody for at least four years without charges filed against them in the case.
“At this moment, I have no knowledge on progress of the investigation,” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told journalists on Thursday.
Those in custody have been identified as Enam Ahmed (alias Humayun Kabir), a guard who worked in the apartment building where Sarowar and Runi were killed; Rafiqul Islam, Bakul Mia, Mintu (alias Masum Mintu), Kamrul Hasan Arun and Abu Sayeed.
Two others, Tanvir Rahman and apartment guard Palash Rudra Paul have been released on bail. Ahmed was arrested Feb. 9, 2013, while the others were arrested in October 2012.
Judges have extended the deadline 48 times – most recently on Wednesday – for submitting an investigation report, but lead investigators for Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) failed to produce a final report, angering the journalism community and others.
The Bangladesh Federal Journalists Union, Dhaka Journalists Union, Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) and other groups have been calling for authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.
“We will be continuing the protest until the trial of the killers is done,” Sakhawat Hossain Badasha, president of DRU, told BenarNews.
‘The case has been dumped’
On the morning of Feb. 11, 2012, Sagar, the news editor of the Maasranga TV station, and Runi, a senior correspondent at TV station ATN Bangla, were found dead inside their fourth floor apartment in the West Rajabazar neighborhood of Dhaka.
Their 6-year-old son, Mahir Sarwar Megh, was found unhurt.
In November 2012, international press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) questioned why RAB interrogated the couple’s son for hours months after their deaths, citing concerns that such interrogation could cause psychological and physical harm.
On the day of the killings, then-Home Minister Shahara Khatun told reporters that the killers would be arrested within 48 hours. While the six suspects have been jailed for at least four years, RAB investigators have not identified the killers or their motives.
“The case has been dumped in a planned way,” Runi’s brother, Nawsher Ali Roman, told BenarNews. “They just suggest we have patience.”
During a court appearance on Wednesday, investigating officer and RAB assistant director Wares Ali Mia failed to produce information regarding progress during a court appearance.
Metropolitan Magistrate Judge Mazharul Islam granted another six weeks for RAB to submit a report on progress, ordering investigators to appear on March 21.
In the past, High Court and magistrate court judges have expressed anger at the investigation’s slow pace.
22 unsolved killings
The couple is among 22 journalists killed in Bangladesh since 1996.
The list of others include Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, Saiful Alam Mukul, Mir Eias Hossain, Shamsur Rahman, Nahor Ali, Harunur Rashid, Shukur Hossain, Syed Faruq Ahmed, Manik Saha, Humayun Kabir, Kamal Hossain, Dipankar Chakravarty, Shahid Anwar, Sheikh Belal Uddin, Golam Mahfuz, Gautam Das, Belal Hossain Dafadar, Jamal Uddin, Talhad Ahmed Kabid and Sadrul Alam.
“Many journalists were killed in the last decade, but there have been no trials against their killers,” Omor Faruk, president of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, told BenarNews.
Last week in Sirajganj district, a correspondent for the Bangla daily Samakal, Abdul Hakim Shimul, was shot and killed by the local mayor. Investigators have said it is unclear whether Shimul was targeted or killed by accident during a confrontation between opposing political groups, according to reports.
Faruk demanded a trial for Shimul’s killer.
Perils of the job
Reporters Without Border last year spoke out about the dangers faced by Bangladeshi journalists.
“In Bangladesh, it is a bad idea to criticize the constitution or Islam, the state religion. Journalists and bloggers who refuse to submit to censorship or to censor themselves on these subjects risk life imprisonment or the death penalty,” RSF said while releasing its press freedom report in April 2016.
“Outspoken secularists are also targeted by Islamist militants. The media are nonetheless quite diverse and fairly outspoken on less sensitive issues,” it said.
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2018-11-13 2018-11-13 Thomas Thalhofer of "Law Firm of the Year" winner Noerr discusses his Digital Business practice group. Best Lawyers
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Thomas Thalhofer of Noerr on the Future of German IT Law
Best Lawyers / Best Lawyers November 13, 2018 3:18 PM
Thomas Thalhofer, who leads Noerr’s Digital Business practice group, looks at the ways cybersecurity and data protection policies have evolved in Germany and predicts their future impact in an interview with Best Lawyers CEO Phillip Greer.
What inspired you to focus on information technology law?
I was always fascinated by computers—I even did some software programming when I was a teenager. But I was also interested in law and economics. In the end, I found I was better suited to legal work than mathematics. For me, information technology and law was the perfect combination.
What encouraged you to join this firm?
After finishing my studies I talked to a couple of law firms. Noerr drew me in from the very beginning. The firm already had an excellent reputation at the time for its information technology practice. Noerr also has both German roots and a very international reach with its clients, international offices, and powerful international networks. That was an enticing combination for me and, in the end, it turned out to be the right decision.
What achievements from this past year contributed to your firm receiving the "Law Firm of the Year" award?
A few years ago, we recognized the trend toward economic digitalization and became something of a pioneer in that regard. The market recognized our observations and early action and it gave us a strong footprint. Information technology was a niche area for many years. Now, digitalization and newer digital issues are a focus for many enterprises, big corporations and medium-sized businesses alike, and the digital economy is growing fast. We are seizing this momentum by working together with the German federation of industries, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, and assessing all matters of digitalization law. We have also been invited to consult politicians throughout the European Union, and my partner Peter Bräutigam even advised the EU commission. Our consultations with these groups really showed that we had developed our expertise in the right fields.
Can you tell me about one or two landmark cases that you are especially proud to have been a part of?
There are two that I would like to mention. Just recently, we were part of the Bayer-Monsanto transaction. Bayer asked us to support them in their sale of digital farming activities. I consider this a landmark case for us because the Bayer-Monsanto deal was the largest transaction a German company ever did, and we had the chance to work on the technology-focused part of the transaction. Bayer chose us because of our outstanding experience and knowledge of information technology and software licensing law. Clearly, these transactions and technical abilities are becoming more and more important for law firms, and are a real differentiator between us and our competitors, also in the area of M&A and even in transactions where there is no or little German law.
The second case I would like to mention involved Deutsche Börse AG, the leading stock exchange provider in Germany. The organization also has a technology branch, which they used to establish an exchange for power, and was created to trade electricity for all of Europe, in real time, via their IT platform. For example, if there is demand in Northern Europe or in Germany for the solar power produced in Spain, it is no longer required to activate the nuclear power plant to create that energy; Instead you can use the software platform to purchase the energy from renewable sources and transmit it through the grid to where it is really needed.
That was a deal that made a difference for the environment and for society. For me, it demonstrated that lawyers can have important and interesting deals and also make an impact beyond the scope of the everyday.
How do you see IT law changing in Germany in the coming years?
As we’ve discussed, digitalization leads to a growing demand in our practice area. Software and technology have become much more important in commercial contracts also, which is also the reason why we at Noerr have created the digital business practice group that I lead together with my partner, Karl Rauser. We believe that contracting will contain more and more technology-focused legal questions in the coming years. Additionally, there are new areas of law and questions coming up around increasing technology usage, and technological development. For example, liability for artificial intelligence and software agents, the rights to machine and sensory data, autonomous driving, and other interesting topics like that.
Have there been any important policy changes locally or globally that have impacted your firm's work in IT law?
I think the most notable change is without any doubt introduction of the general data protection regulation. The GDPR has been a great opportunity for our firm because of its harmonization throughout Europe, which enables us to work for clients Europe-wide, and it gives us greater reach as a law firm. Still, for our clients, it also poses a massive challenge, because the rules are very strict. There are very high fines in the GDPR for breaches, and there has been a lot of anxiety and concern amongst our clients in the last several months. This has increased the demand for data protection advice and we have responded to this demand by creating a special data protection group, which is now headed by my partner Daniel Rücker.
How does your firm stay agile against competitors in IT law?
A focus on consistent, high-quality work for our clients is important to us. And I think this is something that we are known for in the market. Additionally, we have an extreme service attitude and responsiveness that we provide. So we have developed a system to make sure that really every client we have gets the best service that we can offer. We always stay on track with what our clients are working on to understand their business models. We see what the developments in their space are. And we keep our focus on the innovations that are now coming to the legal market like legal tech tools. The opportunities for growth are always there.
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RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS' FLEA Marries Fashion Designer MELODY EHSANI
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS bassist Flea married fashion designer Melody Ehsani over the weekend.
The 57-year-old rocker, whose real name is Michael Balzary, shared a photo from the wedding on Instagram, writing in an accompanying message: "My life has changed forever and I am eternally humble and grateful. The person who sees all of me and knows who I am. My wife @melodyehsani."
Ehsani posted a different wedding photo on her Instagram, captioning it: "This weekend I got to marry my best friend. Surely, my best collaboration to date. You're my whole heart @flea333."
According to E! News, Flea and Ehsani were only engaged for close to a month before walking down the aisle.
This is Flea's second marriage. He was previously married to Loesha Zeviar, with whom he shares 31-year-old daughter, Clara Balzary. The bassist also has a 13-year-old daughter, Sunny Bebop Balzary, from his relationship with model Frankie Rayder.
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My life has changed forever and I am eternally humble and grateful. The person who sees all of me and knows who I am. My wife @melodyehsani ❤️❤️❤️
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This weekend I got to marry my best friend. Surely, my best collaboration to date ?☺️you’re my whole heart @flea333 ?♥️?
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by Jon Rappoport
from JonRappoport Website
The Surveillance State has created an apparatus whose implications are staggering.
It’s a different world now. And sometimes it takes a writer of fiction to flesh out the larger landscape.
Brad Thor’s new novel, Black List, posits the existence of a monster corporation, ATS (Adaptive Technology Solutions), that stands along side the NSA in collecting information on every move we make.
ATS’ intelligence-gathering capability is unmatched anywhere in the world.
At his site, the author lists some of the open-source material he discovered that formed the basis for Black List. The material, as well as the novel, is worth reading (read "Review - “Black List” by Brad Thor".)
On pages 117-118 of Black List, Thor makes a stunning inference that, on reflection, is as obvious as the fingers on your hand:
“For years ATS had been using its technological superiority to conduct massive insider trading. Since the early 1980s, the company had spied on anyone and everyone in the financial world.
They listened in on phone calls, intercepted faxes, and evolved right along with the technology, hacking internal computer networks and e-mail accounts. They created mountains of ‘black dollars’ for themselves, which they washed through various programs they were running under secret contract, far from the prying eyes of financial regulators.
“Those black dollars were invested into hard assets around the world, as well as in the stock market, through sham, offshore corporations. They also funneled the money into reams of promising R&D projects, which eventually would be turned around and sold to the Pentagon or the CIA.
“In short, ATS had created its own license to print money and had assured itself a place beyond examination or reproach.”
In real life, whether the prime criminal source is one monster corporation or a consortium of companies, or elite banks, or the NSA itself, the outcome would be the same.
It would be as Thor describes it.
We think about total surveillance as being directed at private citizens, but the capability has unlimited payoffs when it targets financial markets and the people who have intimate knowledge of them.
“Total security awareness” programs of surveillance are ideal spying ops in the financial arena, designed to suck up millions of bits of inside information, then utilizing them to make investments and suck up billions (trillions?) of dollars.
It gives new meaning to “the rich get richer.”
Taking the overall scheme to another level, consider this: those same heavy hitters who have unfettered access to financial information can also choose, at opportune moments, to expose certain scandals and crimes (not their own, of course).
In this way, they can, at their whim, cripple governments, banks, and corporations. They can cripple investment houses, insurance companies, and hedge funds. Or, alternatively, they can merely blackmail these organizations.
We think we know how scandals are exposed by the press, but actually we don’t. Tips are given to people who give them to other people. Usually, the first clue that starts the ball rolling comes from a source who remains in the shadows.
What we are talking about here is the creation and managing of realities on all sides, including the choice of when and where and how to provide a glimpse of a crime or scandal.
It’s likely that the probe Ron Paul has been pushing - audit the Federal Reserve - has already been done by those who control unlimited global surveillance. They already know far more than any Congressional investigation will uncover. If they know the deepest truths, they can use them to blackmail, manipulate, and control the Fed itself.
The information matrix can be tapped into and plumbed, and it can also be used to dispense choice clusters of data that end up constituting the media reality of painted pictures which, every day, tell billions of people “what’s news.”
In this global-surveillance world, we need to ask new questions and think along different lines now.
How long before the mortgage-derivative crisis hit did the Masters of Surveillance know, from spying on bank records, that insupportable debt was accumulating at a lethal pace?
What did they do with that information?
When did they know that at least a trillion dollars was missing from Pentagon accounting books (as Donald Rumsfeld eventually admitted), and what did they do with that information?
Did they discover precisely where the trillion dollars went?
Did they discover where billions of dollars, in cash, shipped to post-war Iraq, disappeared to?
When did they know the details of the Libor rate-fixing scandal? Press reports indicate that Barclays was trying to rig interest rates as early as January 2005.
Have they tracked, in detail, the men responsible for recruiting hired mercenaries and terrorists, who eventually wound up in Syria pretending to be an authentic rebel force?
Have they discovered the truth about how close or how far away Iran is from producing a nuclear weapon?
Have they collected detailed accounts of the most private plans of Bilderberg, CFR, and Trilateral Commission leaders?
For global surveillance kings, what we think of as the future is, in many respects the present and the past. It’s a new world...
These overseers of universal information-detection can enter and probe the most secret caches of data, collect, collate, cross reference, and assemble them into vital bottom-lines.
By comparison, an operation like Wikileaks is an old Model-T Ford puttering down a country road, and Julian Assange, reviled as a terrorist, is a mere piker.
Previously, we thought we needed to look over the shoulders of the men who were committing major crimes out of public view. But now, if we want to be up to date, we also have to factor in the men who are spying on those criminals, who are gathering up those secrets and using them to commit their own brand of meta-crime.
And in the financial arena, that means we think of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan as perpetrators, yes, but we also think about the men who already know everything about GS and Morgan, and are using this knowledge to steal sums that might make GS and Morgan blush with envy.
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The automotive industry is experiencing a period of massive change towards the "Automotive Endgame" driven by major disruptive trends, which we summarize as "5 RACES":
Real customer focus: Automotive and mobility leaders will put the customer and her needs at the center of their business and provide customer-centric propositions and processes on the same level as leading technology players do today. This is nothing short of a fundamental cultural change for the traditionally engineering- and product-oriented automotive industry.
Autonomous driving will form the foundation for completely new mobility solutions in urban mobility with self-driving robo-cabs over the next few years. In addition, autonomous driving will become available as an option in Premium and Luxury vehicles.
Connectivity/Digitalization: All cars will be connected to the internet and essentially become digitally enabled devices on wheels. Increasing connectivity and digitalization will lead to new service offerings, but also impact the multi-channel customer journey.
Electric powertrains will grow steeply to meet emission standards; once price parity is reached, customer-driven momentum will push this trend further.
Shared mobility services will result in new solutions for urban mobility.
All traditional manufacturers and suppliers will need to develop their own answers and strategies to cope with the 5 RACES and to be well set up for the "Automotive Endgame". Each of the RACES will require massive investments and the development of often new capabilities, including software. Given the magnitude of the challenge, we believe that no player will be able to implement proprietary solutions for all 5 RACES without strong partnerships.
The speed and trajectory for each of these trends will depend on many factors. Adoption of electric vehicles, for instance, depends heavily on regulations at the national and even city level, further cost reductions for batteries and cells, the availability of competitive products including range and charging time, the availability of charging infrastructure in cities and highways, and more. We have built and are continually refining our proprietary data models for the 5 RACES, which are scenario-based and forecast the tipping points in the adoption S-Curves under specific premises.
The 5 RACES will have a massive impact on profit pools over the next decade and beyond. In some key urban areas mobility will likely be revolutionized by shared electric self-driving robo-cabs. As major trends such as autonomous driving and new mobility services allow for platform economics, the early movers—at least, those who make the right moves—may have an opportunity to build highly profitable and prohibitive business models. In contrast, companies who take a wait-and-see approach may either miss the chance to participate in certain profit pools or be forced to make huge investments to catch up.
Leading OEMs and suppliers will:
Pick their battles and drive for leadership position in selected RACES. This will often require substantial investments in M&A and certain capabilities that are often outside of traditional automotive strongholds. It will be critical for these companies to provide a differentiated omni-channel customer interface, bringing brand values to life and establishing a unique eco-system that sticks.
Establish smart partnerships with leading technology companies or even with competitors for other RACES. With limited resources available, winning OEMs and suppliers will work with their partners on establishing industry-wide standards and platforms to exploit broader synergies and even lock-in effects, e.g., for autonomous driving capabilities. It will be critical for these companies to provide a differentiated omni-channel customer interface, bringing brand values to life and establishing a unique eco-system that sticks.
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Dealer is jailed after drugs death of girl (18)
Ryan Best
Published: 11:05 Friday 24 November 2017
A Donacloney man has been jailed for four years after being found guilty of being involved in supplying drugs which were then passed to a teenager who later died.
Ryan Best, aged 22, from Tudor Brae in Donacloney, was found guilty of supplying Class A drug MDMA when he appeared at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday.
Best, with co-accused Jack Malloy (20) were both found guilty of supplying drugs and jailed for a total of five years after the death of 18-year-old Ellie Knowles on November 6 last year.
She had been at the Shindig event at Hoults Yard venue in Byker on Saturday, November 5, when she collapsed.
The court was told how Malloy had been with Ellie and her friends at an address in Sandyford earlier in the day when he contacted Ryan Best and arranged the delivery of a quantity of MDMA.
Best attended the address later on that day and delivered the drugs to the occupants.
The group, some of whom were students in the city, took the drugs at the address before heading to the event at the club in Hoults Yard.
A court was also told how Ellie began to feel unwell and eventually collapsed. She was taken to hospital by paramedics but sadly passed away.
Police launched an investigation and detectives working in Central CID analysed phone records that traced the drugs back to Best.
Ellie’s cause of death has yet to be determined but an inquest will now take place following the sentencing.
Best admitted a charge of supplying Class A drugs and Malloy admitted a charge of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs.
After sentencing, Inspector Mal Stratton said the custodial sentences reflected how serious authorities take this type of offending.
He said: “We would urge anyone who involves themselves in this kind of behaviour to look at these jail terms and think twice about getting involved in the supply of Class A drugs.”
During the sentence a victim impact statement from Ellie’s mother Natalie was read out by the prosecution in court.
In it, she said: “The impact of Ellie’s death on me is insurmountable. Ellie and I shared a very tight mum and daughter bond and she truly was my best friend.
“Beautiful on the inside and out, I ache to hear her laugh one more time, to see her face and smell her but I am left with a void that no one can fill and an image of a hospital mortuary.
“Each time I go into her bedroom I pray it’s all been a terrible nightmare and she will still be warm and snuggled up in bed but instead we are left with a room that remains unchanged since her death, clothes and make-up still visible but with no one in there.
“I still have her on speed dial and in my favourites but never again can I call her and hear her voice just for a quick natter or listen to her tell me all the latest gossip from her friends and boyfriends.
“I sob, scream and torture myself with the what might have been and am left empty now with what will never will be. What has been taken away from us will never be replaced, I will never watch my daughter grow up, get married and have her own children which was a life we often chatted about.
“I will never have the planned girlie weekends, shopping trips or any other cherished time nor will I see her blossom into the wonderful woman I know she would have become.
“They say time is a great healer but I disagree, as time passes it gets no easier and no less painful. Family, friends and work colleagues have helped me get by one day at a time and they are sympathetic when I simply sit there and cry.
“My only sanctuary in this whole nightmare is that my last words to her were ‘I Love You My Darling’ to which she replied ‘I Love You too Mum, Forever’.”
Ryan Best, of Donaghcloney, was jailed for four years, while Jack Malloy, of an address in Doncaster, was jailed for one year. The case took place at Newcastle Crown Court, sitting at Newcastle Moot Hall, last Monday afternoon. An inquest into Ellie Knowles’ death was opened in March this year and had been adjourned pending the result of the court case.
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Accident kills worker preparing for Moscow rally
May 06, 2013, 6:57 AM EDT
(AP Photo/Mitya Aleshkovskiy)
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow police say a man helping construct the stage for a major protest rally has died after a column of sound equipment collapsed.
The accident at midday Monday came just a few hours before opponents of President Vladimir Putin were to gather for a demonstration. The rally marks the one-year anniversary of a protest on the eve of Putin's inauguration that ended in clashes between police and demonstrators.
About two dozen people face charges stemming from the clashes; most remain in jail a year after the protest.
The Interfax news agency said the man killed Monday was a 25-year-old opposition supporter.
A city safety official was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying investigators were inspecting the accident site at Bolotnaya Square, on an island near the Kremlin.
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Going from evidence to...
Going from evidence to recommendations
Analysis Rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations
BMJ 2008; 336 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39493.646875.AE (Published 08 May 2008) Cite this as: BMJ 2008;336:1049
Errata - June 19, 2008
Gordon H Guyatt, professor1,
Andrew D Oxman, researcher2,
Regina Kunz, associate professor3,
Yngve Falck-Ytter, assistant professor4,
Gunn E Vist, researcher2,
Alessandro Liberati, associate professor5,
Holger J Schünemann, associate professor6
for the GRADE Working Group
1CLARITY Research Group, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 3Z5
2Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway
3Basel Institute of Clinical Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
4Division of Gastroenterology, Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
5University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Agenzia Sanitaria Regionale, Bologna, Italy
6Department of Epidemiology, CLARITY Research Group, Italian National Cancer Institute Regina Elena, Rome, Italy
Correspondence to: G H Guyatt guyatt{at}mcmaster.ca
The GRADE system classifies recommendations made in guidelines as either strong or weak. This article explores the meaning of these descriptions and their implications for patients, clinicians, and policy makers
Summary points
The strength of a recommendation reflects the extent to which we can be confident that desirable effects of an intervention outweigh undesirable effects
GRADE classifies recommendations as strong or weak
Strong recommendations mean that most informed patients would choose the recommended management and that clinicians can structure their interactions with patients accordingly
Weak recommendations mean that patients’ choices will vary according to their values and preferences, and clinicians must ensure that patients’ care is in keeping with their values and preferences
Strength of recommendation is determined by the balance between desirable and undesirable consequences of alternative management strategies, quality of evidence, variability in values and preferences, and resource use
This is the third of a series of five articles describing the GRADE approach to developing and presenting recommendations for management of patients. In it, we deal with how GRADE suggests clinicians should interpret the strength of a recommendation.
What do we mean by strength of recommendation?
The strength of a recommendation reflects the extent to which we can, across the range of patients for whom the recommendations are intended, be confident that the desirable effects of an intervention outweigh the undesirable effects. Alternatively, in considering two or more possible management strategies, a recommendation’s strength represents our confidence that the net benefit clearly favours one alternative or another.
Desirable effects of an intervention include reduction in morbidity and mortality, improvement in quality of life, reduction in the burden of treatment (such as having to take drugs or the inconvenience of having blood tests or going to the doctor’s office for monitoring), and reduced resource expenditures. Undesirable consequences include adverse effects that may have a deleterious impact on morbidity, mortality, or quality of life or increase use of resources.
Previous grading systems have sometimes used complex systems of recommendations with up to nine categories of strength of recommendations.1 GRADE has taken a very different approach, with only two categories. Although in this article we will characterise these as strong and weak, guideline panels may choose different words to characterise the two categories of strength. When using GRADE, panels make strong recommendations when they are confident that the desirable effects of adherence to a recommendation outweigh the undesirable effects. When they make a weak recommendation, the panel has concluded that the desirable effects of adherence to a recommendation probably outweigh the undesirable effects, but it is not confident. Another way to state the significance of a weak recommendation is to say that most patients will be better off if clinicians follow the recommendation, but many other patients will not.
Strong and weak recommendations provide specific guidance
The great merit of GRADE’s binary classification of strength of recommendations is that it provides clear direction to patients, clinicians, and policy makers. The implications of a strong recommendation are:
For patients—most people in your situation would want the recommended course of action and only a small proportion would not; request discussion if the intervention is not offered
For clinicians—most patients should receive the recommended course of action
For policy makers—the recommendation can be adopted as a policy in most situations.
The implications of a weak recommendation are:
For patients—most people in your situation would want the recommended course of action, but many would not
For clinicians—you should recognise that different choices will be appropriate for different patients and that you must help each patient to arrive at a management decision consistent with her or his values and preferences
For policy makers—policy making will require substantial debate and involvement of many stakeholders.
As clinicians are becoming more aware of variability in patients’ values and preferences, and how differences in values and preferences influence management decisions, they are increasingly turning to structured decision aids to facilitate the decision making process.2 A strong recommendation indicates that use of a decision aid is unnecessary and may be an inefficient use of time and energy—almost all informed patients will make the same choice. A weak recommendation indicates that a decision aid, if available, could be useful.
Managers of healthcare systems worldwide are becoming more interested in taking measures to ensure the quality of care. The United States is the site of the most aggressive approach: the physician voluntary reporting program seems to presage “pay for performance” initiatives. Practices based on high quality evidence in which desirable consequences far exceed undesirable consequences constitute appropriate candidates for quality of care criteria. When evidence is lower quality, or desirable and undesirable consequences are more closely balanced, variable management is reasonable and management practices should be considered discretionary and not candidates for quality assessment. Guidelines should provide guidance to differentiate these two situations. GRADE provides the clearest possible statement on these matters: the management options associated with strong, but not with weak, recommendations are candidates for quality criteria. When a recommendation is weak, discussing with patients and families the relative merits of the alternative management strategies may become a quality criterion.
Four key factors determine the strength of a recommendation
Balance between desirable and undesirable effects
The first key determinant of the strength of a recommendation is the balance between the desirable and undesirable consequences of the alternative management strategies, on the basis of the best estimates of those consequences (table⇓). Consider, for instance, the use of antenatal steroids in women destined to deliver an infant prematurely. High quality evidence shows that administration of steroids to mothers decreases the risk of infant respiratory distress syndrome with minimal side effects, inconvenience, and costs. The advantages of administration of steroids hugely outweigh the disadvantages, indicating the appropriateness of a strong recommendation.
Determinants of strength of recommendation
When advantages and disadvantages are closely balanced, a weak recommendation becomes appropriate. Consider, for instance, patients with atrial fibrillation at low risk of stroke. Warfarin can reduce that low risk even further but adds inconvenience and an increased risk of bleeding. The right choice under such circumstances is not self evident and is likely to differ between patients.
As with all other aspects of a grading system, a tension exists between the important goal of simplicity and the danger of oversimplification. We have presented the trade-off between advantages and disadvantages as a dichotomy: clear difference versus a close call. Of course, the reality is a continuum between these extremes. Nevertheless, the forced dichotomisation allows simplification of a process that many people already find complex and may enhance the transparency of decision making.
Quality of evidence
The second factor that determines the strength of a recommendation is the quality of the evidence. If we are uncertain of the magnitude of the benefits and harms of an intervention, making a strong recommendation for or against that intervention becomes problematic. Thus, even when an apparent large gradient exists in the balance of advantages and disadvantages, guideline developers will be appropriately reluctant to offer a strong recommendation if the quality of the evidence is low.
For instance, graduated compression stockings have an apparent large effect in reducing deep venous thrombosis in people making long plane journeys. The randomised trials from which the estimate of effect comes were, however, seriously flawed—randomisation was unconcealed, the techniques for measuring deep venous thrombosis were not reproducible, and the studies were not blinded. Despite the apparent large benefit, and the only major disadvantage being inconvenience, use of stockings warrants only a weak recommendation.3
Values and preferences
The third determinant of the strength of recommendation is uncertainty about, or variability in, values and preferences. Given that alternative management strategies will always have advantages and disadvantages, and thus a trade-off will occur, how a guideline panel values benefits, risks, and inconvenience is critical to any recommendation and the strength of the recommendation. One could argue that, given the very limited study the subject has received, large uncertainty always exists about values and preferences. On the other hand, some systematic study of values and preferences has been completed, and clinicians’ experience with patients provides additional insight.
Consider, for instance, prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation. Warfarin, relative to no antithrombotic treatment, reduces the risk of stroke—in relative terms—by approximately 65%, but at an appreciable increased risk of severe gastrointestinal bleeding. Devereaux and colleagues asked 63 physicians and 61 patients how many serious gastrointestinal bleeds they would tolerate in 100 patients and still be willing to prescribe or take warfarin to prevent eight strokes (four minor and four major) in 100 patients.4 Figure 1⇓ shows the results. Whereas physicians gave a wide diversity of responses, most patients placed a high value on avoiding a stroke and were ready to accept a bleeding risk of 22% to reduce their chances of having a stroke by 8%. Even among patients, however, diversity in values and preferences was apparent; a few patients were ready to accept only a small risk of bleeding to reduce their stroke risk by 8%. These data suggest that only in patients at high risk of stroke would a strong recommendation for warfarin be warranted.
Fig 1 Varying thresholds of major gastrointestinal bleeding found acceptable by patients and physicians for prevention of eight strokes in 100 patients
Contrast this with the decision faced by pregnant women with deep venous thrombosis. Warfarin therapy between the sixth and 12th week of pregnancy puts women’s unborn infants at risk of relatively minor developmental abnormalities. The alternative, heparin, eliminates the risk to the child. This benefit, however, comes with disadvantages of pain (heparin injections), inconvenience, and cost. Nevertheless, clinicians’ experience is that women overwhelmingly place a very high value on preventing fetal complications. As a result, a strong recommendation for substitution of heparin is warranted.
Given the paucity of empirical examinations of patients’ values and preferences, well resourced guideline panels will usually have to rely on consultation with individual patients and patients’ groups to gain insight into patients’ values. Less well resourced panels must rely on their intuitive impressions of these values. In either case, when a recommendation is particularly dependent on values and preferences, panels must state the values underlying their decision. For instance, the following assumption provided the basis for recommendations in a guideline for antithrombotic treatment in pregnant women: “While we are unaware of any research specifically addressing women’s preferences regarding antithrombotic therapy in pregnancy, anecdotal evidence suggests that many, though not all women, give higher priority to the impact of any treatment on the health of their unborn baby than to effects on themselves.”5
The final determinant of the strength of a recommendation is cost. One could consider cost as one of the outcomes when weighing up the advantages and disadvantages of competing management strategies. Cost, however, is much more variable over time, geographical areas, and implications than are other outcomes. Drug costs tend to plummet when patents expire, and charges for the same drug differ widely across jurisdictions. In addition, the resource implications vary widely. For instance, a year’s prescription of the same expensive drug may pay for a single nurse’s salary in the United States, six nurses’ salaries in Poland, and 30 nurses’ salaries in China.
Thus, although higher costs will reduce the likelihood of a strong recommendation in favour of a particular intervention, the context of the recommendation will be critical. In considering resource allocation, guideline panels must thus be very specific about the setting to which a recommendation applies and the perspective that is used—that is, which costs were considered. Furthermore, recommendations that are heavily influenced by costs are likely to change over time as resource implications evolve.
Strong recommendations may not be important from all perspectives
If the consequences of the choice are relatively unimportant, some patients may not bother with even strong recommendations. This is particularly likely if they are faced with many new drugs or many suggestions to change their lifestyle.
Because governments and public health officials must consider several factors beyond the strength of a recommendation, they may consider that some strong recommendations that are important for individual patients have low priority. These factors—generally of little relevance to recommendations directed at clinicians—include the prevalence of the health problem (higher priority for more prevalent conditions), considerations of equity (higher priority for interventions that tackle health equities by targeting disadvantaged populations), total cost to society (lower priority for interventions with very high total costs), and the potential for improvement in quality of care (higher priority for underused interventions). Thus, if guideline panels are addressing funders or health system managers, they must make transparent the manner in which factors related to prevalence, equity, cost, and improving quality of care influence their recommendations.
Recommendations to use interventions in research context may be appropriate
Guideline panels may face decisions about promising interventions associated with appreciable harms or costs and with insufficient evidence of benefit to support their use. They may be reluctant to close the door on such an intervention or inappropriately provide a weak recommendation for its use—a course of action that may lead to wide dissemination and resulting harm. Consider, for instance, the impact of recommendations in favour of hormone replacement therapy to prevent cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women. When interventions are expensive, an additional problem with premature recommendations in favour of an intervention is the risk of irretrievable allocation of resources that would be better spent elsewhere. Nevertheless, a guideline panel’s fears will be realised if the appropriate strong, or even weak, recommendation against use of the intervention in clinical practice has the effect of stifling further investigation.
Recommendations for use of an intervention only in the context of research may ameliorate these problems. Furthermore, such a recommendation may provide an important boost to efforts to answer important research questions, thus resolving uncertainty about optimal patient management.
Recommendations for use of interventions exclusively in the context of research will be appropriate when two conditions are met. Firstly, insufficient evidence must exist for a panel to suggest using or not using an intervention. Secondly, further research must have a large potential for reducing uncertainty about the effects of the intervention and for doing so at a reasonable cost. Guideline panels that do not have the skills and knowledge to set or apply criteria for research priorities should refrain from making recommendations about the use of interventions exclusively in the context of research. Organisations such as the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence may be well equipped to make such judgments: Of its first 95 technology appraisals, eight led to recommendations for use in the context of research.
Various presentations of quality of evidence and strength of recommendations may be appropriate
Most guideline panels have used letters and numbers to summarise their recommendations. Because of highly variable use of numbers and letters—for instance, some organisations have chosen letters for quality of evidence and numbers for strength of recommendations, and some the reverse—the situation is potentially very confusing.5
Symbolic representations of quality of evidence and strength of recommendations are appealing in that they are free of this history. On the other hand, organisations may have good reasons for choosing letters and numbers. Clinicians seem to be very comfortable with numbers and letters, and these are particularly suitable for verbal communication.
GRADE has decided to offer preferred symbolic representations and, for organisations that wish to use numbers and letters, a preferred number/letter representation for quality of evidence and grades of recommendation (fig 2⇓).6
Fig 2 Representations of quality of evidence and strength of recommendations
Analysis, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39490.551019.BE
Analysis, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39489.470347.AD
This is the third in a series of five articles that explain the GRADE system for rating the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations
The members of the GRADE Working Group are Phil Alderson, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Jeff Andrews, David Atkins, Hilda Bastian, Hans de Beer, Jan Brozek, Francoise Cluzeau, Jonathan Craig, Ben Djulbegovic, Yngve Falck-Ytter, Beatrice Fervers, Signe Flottorp, Paul Glasziou, Gordon H Guyatt, Robin Harbour, Margaret Haugh, Mark Helfand, Sue Hill, Roman Jaeschke, Katharine Jones, Ilkka Kunnamo, Regina Kunz, Alessandro Liberati, Merce Marzo, James Mason, Jacek Mrukowics, Andrew D Oxman, Susan Norris, Vivian Robinson, Holger J Schünemann, Tessa Tan Torres, David Tovey, Peter Tugwell, Mariska Tuut, Helena Varonen, Gunn E Vist, Craig Wittington, John Williams, and James Woodcock.
Contributors: All listed authors, and other members of the GRADE working group, contributed to the development of the ideas in the manuscript and read and approved the manuscript. GHG wrote the first draft and collated comments from authors and reviewers for subsequent iterations. All other listed authors contributed ideas about structure and content, provided examples, and reviewed successive drafts of the manuscript and provided feedback. GHG is the guarantor.
Funding: None.
Competing interests: All authors are involved in the dissemination of GRADE, and GRADE’s success has a positive influence on their academic careers. Authors listed on the byline have received travel reimbursement and honoraria for presentations that included a review of GRADE’s approach to rating quality of evidence and grading recommendations. GHG acts as a consultant to UpToDate; his work includes helping UpToDate in their use of GRADE. HJS is documents editor and methodologist for the American Thoracic Society; one of his roles in these positions is helping implement the use of GRADE. HJS is supported by “The human factor, mobility and Marie Curie Actions Scientist Reintegration European Commission Grant: IGR 42192—GRADE.” AL is helping the use of GRADE by different institutions in the Italian health service, and in this role he has implemented GRADE to produce clinical recommendations in oncology through Grant No 249 (2005-7), Bando Ricerca Finalizzata, Ministero della Salute, Roma, Italy.
Provenance and peer review: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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BMW 2002 and BMW Neue Klasse Registry
By wojo
By wojo • August 8, 2019
Model: BMW 2002
Manufactured Date: 05/07/1974
Original Color:
Current Color: Inka
Current Owner: wojo
Location: Chapin, South Carolina, 29036
Last Sold: 11/22/1978
I bought my car from Peter Gregg MB/BMW in Jacksonville, Fla in November, 1978. I'm the third owner. The second owner, Jim, was one of their mechanics who only owned it for about 6 months, selling it when he left working there. My Dad met Jim at Robert Overby's shop in Jacksonville and he told me all about the car. What had been done to it and what it needed. He also told me that he'd teach me particulars about the car.
It was originally a daily driver, then in '81, it became a second car when I got a company car. It has remained as my fun car ever since.
Being a '74, it burned oil. Jim had moved to the dealership in Tallahassee and rather than rebuilding it, he suggested an exchange motor in 1981. Also the original paint wasn't great, so in '82, just before moving to South Carolina, it was repainted. A 5 speed was added in 1983. In '85, it suffered some body damage, so all of the Florida salt air rust damage was repaired and/or replaced and it was painted again. Since then, it's lived in a garage, had regular maintenance and various upgrades.
Like many others, I had some frame rail rust around the gas tank. And the 30 year old paint was showing its age plus there were some dings and dents, so I decided it was time to tackle the job. Of course, paint and some rust repair has turned out to be a several year restoration process. When the job is done, it'll be way over budget but worth it.
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Digital Keywords EBOOK Tooltip Ebooks kunnen worden gelezen op uw computer en op daarvoor geschikte e-readers. A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture
Uitgever: Princeton University Press
How the digital revolution has shaped our language
In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology. Digital Keywords examines and critiques the rich lexicon animating the emerging field of digital studies.
This collection broadens our understanding of how we talk about the modern world, particularly of the vocabulary at work in information technologies. Contributors scrutinize each keyword independently: for example, the recent pairing of digital and analog is separated, while classic terms such as community, culture, event, memory, and democracy are treated in light of their historical and intellectual importance. Metaphors of the cloud in cloud computing and the mirror in data mirroring combine with recent and radical uses of terms such as information, sharing, gaming, algorithm, and internet to reveal previously hidden insights into contemporary life. Bookended by a critical introduction and a list of over two hundred other digital keywords, these essays provide concise, compelling arguments about our current mediated condition.
Digital Keywords delves into what language does in today's information revolution and why it matters.
[A] new and revolutionary publication... Digital Keywords serves as an in-depth interrogation of the meaning and development of digitised language... Those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the modern, digital world we all inhabit would be well advised to begin by taking a look at this book. Just as Keywords made its way firmly onto reference shelves in the 1970s, so too will Digital Keywords today. --Jade Fell, Engineering and Technology This a good springboard to spark a discussion about the cultural and social significance of a select set of words in the context of a computer-mediated society and culture. --Choice
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Wanted: one lady friend for a handsome pheasant - Diary of a Sussex Newbie
Marah Winn
Published: 08:36 Friday 13 July 2018
He’s a real dandy; a bit of a stunner in fact and always immaculately turned out. He’s been here since we moved in.
At first he kept his distance. But gradually he’s become more comfortable with his new neighbours and spends a lot of his time chillaxing at the bottom of the garden.
He’s had a few names because we can’t quite decide which one suits him best.
I called him Phoenix, because of his stunning red and burgundy plumage, but everyone else tends to now refer to him as Phil. He seems a down to earth sort of chap and if the majority rules then I suppose Phil it shall be. Phil the Pheasant.
His favourite spot is in Devoted Doctor’s little bit of wilderness way down at the bottom of the garden. It’s a fairly big patch under a cluster of huge old maple trees, which is left un-mowed, where wild grasses and flowers stretch up to a couple of feet in height.
If we’re pottering around we often catch a glimpse of Phil’s tail feathers darting into the tangle of green.
The best sight though is his Olympic dash from one side of the garden to the other. If he’s caught by surprise over by the bonfire, or by The Admiral’s terrace, there’s a sudden comedic, slightly lop-sided turbo-sprint, as he careers towards the wilderness corner, squawking as he goes.
Most mornings when I look out of the window there he is, perched on top of an old wooden bench under a pine tree about halfway down the garden. It’s a good spot for a bit of r&r. Quite a lot of preening goes on and some mornings an awful lot of screeching as well.
Our household’s main pre-occupation at the moment is whether or not Phil’s ‘attached’. Dear Daughter is convinced that the screeching is his plaintiff call for company and she worries that he’s lonely and in need of female company. But maybe he’s chosen the single life?
Our friend, who’s much more knowledgeable about these sorts of things then we are, thinks there’s probably a shy her-indoors somewhere, perhaps on nesting duty. But we’ve never seen a female, and Phil hangs around here pretty much all the time.
Apparently there’s a male pheasant who roams around another property fairly close by, who has not just one, but a bevy of ladies, who all follow him around - a few feet behind, or to the side. This has worried everyone even more. How unfair that this feathery chap should have several ladies for company and Phil seems to have no one.
Perhaps we can set up some sort of Pheasant introductory service? Handsome pheasant offers one-on-one companionship plus 2.8 acres of grounds? But no time wasters please. Phil is a chap of integrity. Oh, and they must be willing to tolerate the odd encounter with two-legged folks, particularly of the teenage variety...
Marah Winn is a former London resident who has recently settled in Sussex.
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Education Forum in South Africa
Image Details: (From Left to Right)- Rt Hon Baroness Scotland and the Deputy Minister for Higher Education and Training, Mr Mduduzi Manana.
The British Council is excited to announce the establishment of the Leadership Exchange Programme (LEP). The LEP was officially launched at the SA-UK Education Forum which took place in Pretoria on the 11th of September 2014. Attendees included the Deputy Minister for Higher Education and Training, Mr. Mduduzi Manana and the UK Prime Minister’s Special Trade Envoy to South Africa Baroness Scotland.
The Leadership Exchange Programme (LEP), which falls under British Council’s Skills for Employability (SfE) programme, is one of the initiatives designed to enhance well-functioning colleges. LEP does this through an exchange programme between Senior Managers including Principals of TVET Colleges in South Africa and UK. This programme is similar to the Tirisano project which the British Council ran in South Africa between 2001 and 2004.
The LEP will target a total of twenty Principals or Senior Managers of TVET Colleges between the two countries. Ten of which will be from the already existing five SA/UK International Skills Partnerships (ISP) under the Skills for Employability project namely; Gert Sibande/ Highbury College, Orbit/ Harrow College, Sedibeng College/ Harrow College, Northlink College/ Coleg Gwent and Eastcape Midlands College/ Walsall College. An additional ten will be drawn from a new pool of SA and UK TVET colleges outside the ISP.
This will facilitate learning from one another, sharing of knowledge, ideas and best practice between the two countries. Through this programme, leaders will be empowered to be more critical, and innovative around the holistic management and future development of their institutions. The exchange programme aligns with existing policies, strategies and initiatives led by the Department for Higher Education and Training (DHET) speaking specifically to commitment eight of the National Skills Accord.
The British Council South Africa Country Director, Colm McGivern said;
“The Leadership Exchange Programme supports the SA Government’s National Skills Accord in improving the performance of TVET colleges. The British Council believes that by developing the top leaders in SA’s TVET sector we can support colleges to produce more employable graduates”.
Drawing on British Council’s Skills for Employability programme to enhance employability; the LEP realizes that the success of TVET Colleges is largely dependent on effective and quality leadership. It further acknowledges that, although South Africa has made great strides in promoting gender equality, there is still more work to be done at the Senior Management level. In view of this, the exchange programme seeks to attract females in leadership; over and above the existing leadership structures in TVET Colleges. All public TVET Colleges in South Africa are eligible to apply for this programme.
For further inquiries please contact the British Council
Email: ssa.enquiries@britishcouncil.org
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John Kander and Fred Ebb from Christopher Isherwood
Bill Kenwright Ltd
Festival Theatre, Malvern
19 to 23 November 2019
It’s seedy, it’s sordid, it’s grotesquely offensive, it’s degenerate art of the most deplorable kind. It’s everything your mother warned you against. It’s terrific.
If ever a nightspot deserved the title of flesh-pot, it’s Christopher Isherwood’s Kit Kat Club of 1930s Berlin. There are boobs and buttocks in abundance, with a lot of bumpsy daisy and much to maintain the interest of casual crotch-watchers.
Yet knowing what lies ahead transforms this classy, but decidedly low dive into the last chance saloon, the tantalisingly distasteful into pugnacious defiance. And no-one could have epitomised this better than John Partridge as Emcee, star both of the club and this wow of a show.
Partridge emerges in the prescription boots and leather leotard, but makes the part his own, a strut like a peacock and a voice that varies from a strangled goose to a scream. It’s like being offered the drinks menu by The Joker.
His opening number, "Wilkommen", might be described as a showstopper, except that the show rarely stops, with great hits to come including "Tomorrow Belongs To Me"—the first hint of rising Nazism as Emcee plays puppet-master to fellow artistes, and "The Money Song".
For emotional impact, he is nearly matched by Kara Lily Hayworth as the naïve dancer Sally Bowles. “A typewriter!” she cries visiting writer Cliff’s room. “How creative!” Empty-headed she might be, but her heart is full and Hayworth uses immaculate timing to stretch every contrasting nuance from songs like "Mein Herr" and "Maybe This Time".
In the second half, the political mood grows darker as it approaches its terrible, black climax. When the plot sags briefly in the first, it is soon picked up when Charles Hagerty as Cliff takes up with Hayworth "Perfectly Marvellous", a wonderful, neglected duet of very English, Noël Cowardly irony.
That’s the other side of this rich musical, which is not just lust in lederhosen. For there’s an old world genteelness too in the relationship of Anita Harris’s Fräulein Schneider and the Herr Schultz of James Paterson.
The singing is good throughout the show, if not perfect. The dynamic production by Rufus Norris cannot however be faulted, with arresting design by Katrina Lindsay and the tremendous choreography of Javier De Frutos, from the inventive routines of the Kit Kat to a ritualised ballet for the Nazi thugs.
Comparisons will inevitably be made between the stage show and the Oscar-winning 1972 film by Bob Fosse. For all the glitziness of the latter, this more than holds its own, with nothing quite to equal the impact of seeing it live in the theatre.
Reviewer: Colin Davison
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PTP/NYC to Present Living Room Series With Snoo Wilson Tribute and More, 3/22-23
PTP/NYC (Potomac Theatre Project) will present their inaugural Living Room reading series on Sunday, March 22 and Monday, March 23, 2015 at 416 West 42nd Street between 9th Avenue and Dyer Avenue in New York City.
PTP/NYC's Living Room reading series ushers in a new era in the company's commitment to expanding the theatrical conversation. With its focus on new voices and texts that speak to the current moment, the series allows PTP/NYC to present this exciting work in a judgment-free setting without the responsibilities of a full production. The annual series will also feature special events, such as this year's tribute to the late, great Snoo Wilson.
All events are free. Seating is limited and reservations are required. To reserve email ptpnyc.livingroom@gmail.com. For info on PTP/NYC visit PotomacTheatreProject.org. Follow them on Twitter at @ptpnyc.
A TRIBUTE TO SNOO WILSON: THE SURREAL, THE FARCICAL, THE SMART
Sunday, March 22 in the South Studio at 2:30pm
The program will include scenes and songs from Wilson's Lovesong of the Electric Bear, The Everest Hotel, Vampire and reminiscences from some of his collaborators, including actors Alex Draper, Tara Giordano and director/composer Jim Petosa. Also appearing are Jay Dunn, Sarah Lusche, Chelsea Melone, Lilli Stein, Lily Balsen, Adam Milano, Nicholas Hemerling, Meghan Leathers and Matt Ball. Directed by Cheryl Faraone with Musical Director Jim Petosa.
The Guardian's Simon Callow said, "There never will be and never was anyone like him. His collected plays constitute a glorious corybantic frieze...filtered through an imagination that took in anthropology, history, physics, alchemy, mathematics, painting, the occult. He was political, but in the way that Aristophanes was political - rude, lewd, uproarious, anarchic."
PTP/NYC had a very special relationship with Snoo Wilson. Since 1977 the company, first as the New York Theatre Studio, subsequently as PTP/NYC, produced seven of Wilson's works, all American premieres, and several more than once.
A READING OF HOWARD BARKER'S NO END OF BLAME
Barker's lacerating and humorous work about the travails of a political cartoonist. With Alex Draper, David Barlow, Alex Cranmer, Stephanie Janssen, Bill Army, Jimmy Ryan, Jay Dunn, Adam Ludwig, Noah Berman, Christo Grabowski, Julia Proctor, Cori Hundt and Mari Vial-Golden. The reading will be accompanied by slides created for the original production by the noted contemporary cartoonist Gerald Scarfe.
"I am a cartoonist. I believe the cartoon to be the lowest form of art. I also believe it to be the most important form of art. I decided in my 24th year that I would rather be important than great. I decided this because I have always preferred shouting to whispering and humanity more than myself." (from No End of Blame)
Howard Barker is perhaps the signature writer of PTP/NYC; the summer of 2016 will see the 13th production of the writer's challenging and exhilarating work mounted by the company under the direction of Richard Romagnoli.
A READING OF DAN O'BRIEN'S THE HOUSE IN SCARSDALE
Monday, March 23 in the North Studio at 2:30pm
Dan searches for the key to unlock the secrets of his past. A ghost story about a splintered and inexplicable family. With Alex Draper and Danny Wolohan. Directed by Elizabeth Williamson.
Dan O'Brien's The Body of an American received the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play in 2014, and will be produced by Primary Stages in their 2015-2016 season.
The Quietus said, "O'Brien's skill is that his most emotionally-charged images never seem histrionic because they are never allowed to become everything."
A READING OF JOHN KOLVENBACH'S SISTER PLAY
Two sisters, haunted by the memory of their dead father, encounter hope and heartache in a mysterious stranger. With Tara Giordano, Jonathan Tindle, Jennifer Van Dyck and Quincy Dunn-Baker. Directed by Andrew Pastides.
John Kolvenbach's plays are produced regularly in London's West End and across the country. Love Song was nominated for an Olivier Award and has had over 50 productions worldwide. Sister Play opens at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in April 2015. The Boston Globe called Sister Play "fresh and potent." The New York Times said his play The Gravity of Means (produced by MCC) was full of "witty dialogue."
PTP/NYC (Potomac Theatre Project) continues to redefine political theatre for the 21st century with an annual repertory season. The company's mandate is the presentation of highly theatrical and thought-provoking work of contemporary social and cultural relevance. In its 28 seasons the voices of PTP's writers have addressed art, pornography, AIDS, homelessness, censorship, totalitarianism, apartheid and gender wars.
PTP was founded in 1987 by the artistic team of Cheryl Faraone, Jim Petosa and Richard Romagnoli. The company's Associate Artistic Director is Alex Draper. Since moving to New York in 2007, PTP/NYC has produced 19 main stage productions and numerous late evening readings, workshops and experimental theatre pieces in their After Dark series. PTP/NYC's productions of Howard Barker's The Castle and Barker's Scenes From An Execution each earned Jan Maxwell a Drama Desk Award nomination. The company won a New York Innovative Theatre Award (Megan Byrne for Best Actress in Barker's No End of Blame) and has been the recipient of 5 New York Innovative Theatre Award nominations.
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8 Lesbian Web Series You Should Have On Your Radar
Because we all need something to binge-watch this weekend.
Posted on September 07, 2013, 14:34 GMT
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Created by Leyla Perez and her girlfriend Christine Ng, this series attempts to debunk the stereotypes of lesbian relationships. As you watch this couple attempt to get out of their comfort zone you will be reminded that ALL couples are a little crazy. It's not just you and your girlfriend.
Bonus? The two stars, Lindsay Hicks and Amy Jackson Lewis, are actually a real couple.
Feel the beautiful honest-to-goodness chemistry!
3-Bits
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Don't cringe when you read that it's a "Girls-esque series" about young queers in Brooklyn, because it's a lot more than that. The episodes are divvied up by the three main characters, so you can see the story unfold from different points of view. According to the creators the show's main themes include “Sex, Love, Booze, Drugs, Friendship, Family and Amazing Acts of Stupidity.” Amazing acts of stupidity? Sounds like something everyone should be on board to watch.
Bonus? Enjoy this mash-up of all the times characters utter the word "pussy."
View this video on YouTube
This series hasn't quite gotten off the ground yet, as episodes are still in production — but it looks quite promising. The main characters all meet through an iPhone app and convene at their local bar, SCISSR, where adventure starts. The creators want to establish "a more realistic world, where gay women come in a multitude of colors, shapes, and sizes." Oddly enough, in the teaser we can really only see one "type" of girl — but we won't be too harsh yet. Not a lot to see but graffiti and girls in hipster outfits, but hey, sign us up.
Bonus? If all else fails, the opening credits could double as an Urban Outfitters commercial.
Watch the teaser:
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The series, which has such top-notch production value you'd think it was a television show, follows a runaway named Olivia. She leaves home after her mother threatens to send her to a conversion therapy camp for some intense de-gaying. The downside to this series is that you have to pay to watch the episodes. The upside? It's genuinely one of the best series that has come out in a long time. It doesn't shy away from topics such as LGBT homelessness and drug use. It launched last summer, but is still available for viewing here.
This Is Kelsey
Like most wonderful stories, this one begins with a break-up (read "huge dumping") as the bubbly, awkward, and completely lost Kelsey attempts to figure her life out. Thankfully she has her trusty best friends: Samantha, Tyrone, and Rowan. With their help, she hopes that even a weirdo like herself can find love again.
Bonus? Star Nichole Yannetty is a total doppelgänger for Maya Rudolph.
Can you even tell which is which?
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The N&N Files
You know how Rizzoli And Isles is a lesbian cop drama, but only in subtext? This is actually a lesbian cop drama, no subtext needed. You get to watch two private investigators deal with their personal lives, as well as crime in the city of New Orleans. Originally the concept was made for network television, but the pilot never aired. Now, nine years later, the creator of that pilot Nancylee Myatt is back to bring you this web series After raising over $60,000 we will have to wait for the episodes to air — but the pilot is here to get you excited.
Bonus? Hot cops and more hot cops.
F To The 7th
Coined as a "homoneurotic web series" you get to watch one woman's hilarious descent into middle age. Ingrid is struggling to find herself —as most characters in web series are these days — in a world where sexuality and gender are more confusing than ever. You can watch all eight episodes right here.
Bonus? The series kills it with their guest stars.
Why yes, that is Gabby Hoffman — aka your favorite character from Now And Then.
Warning: This show is painfully awkward, in the best way possible. Creator and star Amy Rubin takes you into the day-to-day struggles of a 28-year-old self-indulgent lesbian. If you have ever sobbed in public, been caught masturbating, or simply love dark comedies, you have found your new favorite series.
Bonus? All the episodes are free and easy to watch on YouTube, so you have no excuse not to binge watch it right now:
What are you waiting for? You should have plenty to watch this weekend.
We won't judge.
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Hooks to honor longtime president with ceremony, bobblehead giveaway
The Corpus Christi Hooks will recognize longtime club executive and president Ken Schrom with a ceremony and bobblehead giveaway in September.
Hooks to honor longtime president with ceremony, bobblehead giveaway The Corpus Christi Hooks will recognize longtime club executive and president Ken Schrom with a ceremony and bobblehead giveaway in September. Check out this story on caller.com: https://www.caller.com/story/sports/local/baseball/corpus-christi-hooks/2019/07/30/ken-schrom-commemorated-ceremony-and-bobblehead-giveaway-corpus-christi-hooks/1867642001/
Ashlee Burns, Corpus Christi Caller Times Published 12:14 p.m. CT July 30, 2019
The Corpus Christi Hooks will recognize the contributions of longtime club executive and president Ken Schrom in September with a ceremony and bobblehead giveaway to the first 1,500 fans at Whataburger Field.
Credit Olivia Rook/Corpus Christi Hooks. Image: ValueBank Texas President and CEO Scott Heitkamp (left) with Ken Schrom (right) holding his bobblehead. (Photo: Olivia Rook)
Schrom, 64, announced his intention to retire at the beginning of the 2019 season, his 11th year as president and his 43rd year in professional baseball.
Schrom was named the Texas League Executive of the Year in 2005, the Hooks' inaugural season, and was inducted into the league's Hall of Fame in 2016.
“His character, vision and dedication helped shape what this organization and stadium has come to mean to the community, and his influence will continue to resonate in those he has impacted during his tenure," Hooks General Manager Wes Weigle said in a news release. "Though his imprint on baseball and the Corpus Christi community can’t be measured, we want to give him this parting gift with a celebration of his career at Whataburger Field.”
Hooks will be giving out Ken Schrom bobbleheads to honor longtime president's retirement. (Photo: Olivia Rook)
The Hooks will be giving away a first-of-its-kind Ken Schrom Bobblehead on Sept. 1 modeling Schrom’s likeness from his playing days, including a “real hair” mustache that mimics his signature look from the 1980s.
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See Corpus Christi Hooks fans celebrate Christmas in July
Visitors had a chance to sled down a snowy slide at the Corpus Christi Hooks' Christmas in July-themed game on Friday, July 19, 2019. Meagan Falcon/Caller-Times
Teens and kids had a chance to sled down a snowy slide at the Corpus Christi Hooks' Christmas in July-themed game on Friday, July 19, 2019. Meagan Falcon/Caller-Times
The Corpus Christi Hooks gave out Christmas-themed socks at the Christmas in July game on Friday, July 20, 2019. Meagan Falcon/Caller-Times
Corpus Christi Hooks fans stand in line to enter Whataburger Field for the Christmas in July game on Friday, July 19, 2019. Meagan Falcon/Caller-Times
Kids and teens had a chance to sled down a snowy slide at the Corpus Christi Hooks' Christmas in July-themed game on Friday, July 19, 2019. Meagan Falcon/Caller-Times
Christmas carolers sing songs at the Corpus Christi Hooks' Christmas in July game on Friday, July 19, 2019. Meagan Falcon/Caller-Times
Bell ringers play Christmas music at the Corpus Christi Hooks' Christmas in July game on Friday, July 19, 2019. Meagan Falcon/Caller-Times
Santa Claus wearing summer vacation clothes was at the Corpus Christi Hooks' Christmas in July game on Friday, July 19, 2019. Meagan Falcon/Caller-Times
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Tuesday 5 November 2019 – three all-new BMW Motorrad models have made their hotly-anticipated debut at the internationally-significant ‘EICMA 2019’ motor show in Milan.
CHASE NEW HORIZONS: S 1000 XR.
The new S 1000 XR combines athleticism and long-distance performance in perfect form – radically lighter, faster, and more versatile than before. Combining the powerful qualities and versatility of the BMW adventure range with exceptional sports performance, this dynamic fusion creates an energetic yet versatile riding experience.
Derived from the S 1000 RR superbike engine, the inline-four packs a strong mid-range punch, producing an extremely linear torque curve for better rideability. With four riding modes as standard, a 6.5-inch TFT display and full connectivity, the new S 1000 XR delivers cutting-edge technology, comfort, and performance.
THE DYNAMIC ROADSTER: F 900 R.
Launched as the enhanced successor to the F 800 R, the latest model is the new sports roadster on the block, offering precise, dynamic and authentic riding pleasure.
With greater emphasis on sports styling and aggressive design, plus substantial torque and 105 hp of linear power, the F 900 R boasts the capability to tackle everyday riding for sports riders and newcomers alike.
Setting a technological benchmark in the middle-weight segment, the all-new F 900 R is available with a host of high-quality equipment including; Adaptive Cornering Light, Dynamic ESA, Riding Modes Pro, Shift Assistant Pro and Keyless Ride.
HIGHER, FASTER, FURTHER: F 900 XR.
The new F 900 XR is an adrenaline rush in touring form. Demonstrating completely unique performance, ‘XR’ stands for an uncompromising mix of sportiness and touring capability. Mastering the Adventure Sport segment’s key qualities, the XR offers unrivalled riding dynamics with comfortable GS-like ergonomics.
The 895 cc parallel-twin engine produces a high-level of torque and, paired with a new underslung exhaust system, produces a resonant twin-cylinder rumble.
Also available in an A2-licence variant, the F 900 XR is poised to bring the best of the sports, adventure and touring segments together in an exciting new motorcycle.
To sign up for further updates on these new models ahead of the official launch, please complete the enquiry form on this page or call our sales team on 01772 767300.
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Niall Mackenzie and Neil Hodgson brought comedy, behind the scenes gossip and hilarious stories of old to Bowker Motorrad on Tuesday 20th August 2019.
Over 300 guests enjoyed an evening with Niall Mackenzie and Neil Hodgson where they heard all the inside gossip from the world of MotoGP, BSB and WSBK, plus glory days stories.
Questions included, “What’s it like watching your sons racing?”,,,,,,”Is the MotoGP paddock as glamorous as it seems?”,,,,,, at the our open mic Q&A session.
We also had the PR Racing 2019 BMW S 1000 RR Superbike on display and refreshments available in return for a small charity donation to the North West Blood Bikes.
Join us for a UK premiere! The first ever Baron Von Grumble Tour is coming to Bowker Motorrad.
Join us on Wednesday 27th March for an evening with online motorcycle journalist and BMW enthusiast, Chris Eades, AKA “Baron Von Grumble“!
Hear about all the crazy things he gets up to whilst creating his unique social content and we’ll be firing up the Bowker BBQ!
Only 200 tickets available, don’t miss out! Register for your FREE tickets here: http://bit.ly/BowkerBVGTour
Bowker Motorrad has raised over £1,000 for North West Blood Bikes from a Seasonal Social attended by over 100 local riders.
The fundraising raffle offered the chance to win British Superbikes Tickets, Lunch at Northcote and other prizes from Booths, Pirelli, Bell Helmets, ACF50, Bike Tyrestore and Datatool UK.
Whilst the auction included one-off money-can’t-buy items donated by PR Racing and Czech superbike rider Jakub Smrz who donated his race leathers to the cause.
For Bowker Motorrad, John Nichol said: “Thank you to everyone who supported our Seasonal Social. The showroom was packed. And everyone gave generously to North West Blood Bikes.”
Bowker Motorrad and North West blood Bikes enjoy a close relationship. The charity’s volunteers receive exclusive preferential rates and a speedy booking service for bike maintenance. In addition, Bowker Motorrad offers a courtesy motorcycle, liveried in North West Blood Bike branding, available to volunteers whilst their motorcycles are being serviced.
With over 300 riders, North West Blood Bikes is the largest hospital delivery charity in the world. They receive over 1,000 calls each month. Each call represents an urgent, potentially life-saving, request for a delivery to or from a North West hospital.
Lee Townsend for North West Blood Bikes said: “This was a wonderful event and a generous gesture from the team and customers at Bowker Motorrad. Every donation, no matter how small or large, makes a massive difference to the service we can provide, and the local lives we save.”
The latest evolution of the GS success story – the new BMW R 1250 GS!
Discover a new generation of the iconic Boxer engine with the new BMW R 1250 GS – a motorbike designed to cope with any challenge.
Bowker Motorrad will be launching the new model with three versions of the R 1250 GS on display. Experience its power and dynamism firsthand by booking your test ride with a member of the sales team.
With the new BMW Shift Cam engine at its heart, you’ll experience your smoothest ever ride. And with its all-round capability and exclusive new-style HP, you’ll be set for adventure whether it’s off-road in the wilderness or on the open road.
Plus, visit Bowker Motorrad on Saturday 13th October and enjoy savings throughout the store on new & approved used motorcycles as well as RiderWear clothing with up to 50% off.
Czech contender Jakub Smrz will return to the British Superbike Championship grid in 2018 with the PR Racing LLoyd & Jones Bowker Motorrad BMW team, aiming to build on his previous season with the Liverpool-based squad.
Smrz was a consistent points scorer last season with the highlight of the year coming at Silverstone when he scored the team a top five finish.
“I’m very happy to be staying with PR Racing for another year so I need to say thank you to John and Julian for the opportunity. Last season we started from zero but improved throughout the season and scored some good results and I felt very happy and comfortable with the team,” said Smrz.
“Last year we had some highs and lows, but we found a lot of areas we can work on and it’s great to stay on the same bike and build on our experiences. We had a very positive test in December so we have already started to develop and improve some of those areas and I can’t wait to get back to Spain and get our 2018 season started.”
The team will also have a double pronged attack of the Pirelli National Superstock 1000 Championship with Sam Coventry and Luke Hedger joining the team’s 2018 line-up.
Coventry said: “I’m really excited about staying with PR Racing for this upcoming season, can’t thank John and Julian enough for supporting me and giving me this opportunity to continue working with this experienced and professional team, can’t wait to get back on the Bowker Motorrad BMW for testing. In terms of myself I’ve up my game this year in terms of diet and fitness and I can’t wait to challenge at the front of Superstock 1000, the class is always extremely competitive but there’s no reason I can’t be a front runner with PR Racing on the Bowker Motorrad BMW.”
Hedger added: “I’m really excited to finally announce my plans for this year. I can’t wait to get the season started with PR Racing on the Bowker Motorrad BMW. I’m thrilled that John has given me this opportunity. I believe with a year of experience under my belt in the Superstock 1000 class, and in a well established team I can battle for the 2018 championship.
“I am excited to get to Spain and get some laps in on the BMW ready for the first round at Donington Park. I would like to say a massive thank you to John from PR Racing, Bowker Motorrad BMW, and all my sponsors for getting me to this point.”
212 BHP, Carbon fibre frame, wheels, fairings, plus Ohlins, Brembo and just 171 KGs!…….Sound good?
BMW Motorrad present the production version of their carbon fibre framed concept bike – the HP4 RACE!
Ok, let’s start with the good, well just look at it. Your eyes are overwhelmed by top of the range technology, styling and craftsmanship, all brought together in carbon fibre gift wrap!
The BMW HP4 Race produces 212 BHP from a World Superbike spec engine with the bike claiming slimmer of the year, coming in on the scales at less than a factory SBK Superbike.
The factory rider experience continues with electronic controls viewed and controlled through the 2D dash, with data logger included. Dynamic Traction Control, Engine Braking and Wheelie Control can be programmed for each gear, according to rider preference.
Right, the bad bit, because nothing about this bike can be deemed bad, in any way, we will call this section, the “compromise”. The compromise is that it is a single use machine, this is a track-only bike, and not homologated for road use. So although you won’t be able to show off the Launch Control leaving Devils Bridge or Knott End you do get the absolute ultimate in limited edition factory spec race bike.
Here at Bowker Motorrad we are counting down the sleeps until ours arrives. We have an extremely lucky customer waiting to collect one of only 750 HP4 Race that will be made by BMW.
If you want to own one of these landmark motorcycles, contact the sales team today on 01772 767300.
BMW HP4 RACE highlights
Carbon fibre main frame in monocoque construction weighing just 7.8 kilograms
212bhp @ 13,900 rpm and 88.5lbft @ 10 000 rpm
Self-supporting carbon fibre rear frame with three-stage height adjustment function.
Carbon fibre wheels
Öhlins FGR 300 fork
Öhlins TTX 36 GP shock
Brembo GP4 PR monoblock brake calipers
Close-ratio racing gearbox
2D dashboard and 2D data recording including logger
Dynamic Traction Control DTC (programmable for selected gears at 15 levels)
Engine Brake EBR (programmable for selected gears at 15 levels)
Wheelie Control (programmable for selected gears)
Launch Control & Pit Lane Limiter
Paint finish in BMW HP Motorsport colours
Production run of 750 units, each individually crafted
UK price of £68,000.
A Preston motorcycle dealership has donated a 1200cc boxer engine to test motorsport students technical skills on real life engineering.
Bowker Motorrad on the docks in Preston sourced the engine from a 2014 water-cooled BMW R 1200 GS. The engine that powered the R 1200 GS model to its iconic status and made it a group leading motorcycle.
Belinda Oldham, head of motorsport at Myerscough said: “Our partnerships with local businesses are very important to us. And this donation by Bowker Motorrad is a wonderful example. Our students enjoy the very best of theoretical and practical training. But nothing can compare with getting your hands on the real thing.”
“We’re building a strong reputation with our motorsport courses. It’s the perfect first step to an exciting career for our students. And the partnerships help us make the course experience even better.”
Myerscough took their first cohort of motorcycle students into the new purpose built Motorsports Centre last year. The current group began a City & Guilds Level 2 study programme in Motorcycle Maintenance and Repair Principles. From September, the course will run at both Level 2 as well as a Level 3 diploma.
The course is designed to give students skills and knowledge in diagnosing and repairing any type of motorcycles in a safe manner including competition motorcycles.
Myerscough has tailored the course to incorporate motorsport activities and resources to provide progression into the motorsports industry.
Mark Cottom, Bowker’s Group eCommerce and motorcycle marketing manager said:
“Throughout the Bowker Motor Group our relationships with local colleges are very important to us. The engine we donated will show students some of the latest performance engineering technology. And a deeper understanding can only help any ambitious young motorsport engineer.”
A couple of months ago, Bowker Motorrad confirmed its first-ever partnership with a British Superbike Championship racing team. Bowker Motorrad will partner with PR Racing for the 2017 season. The Motorrad deal comes as PR Racing unveiled their riders for the season which begins on the 31st March 2017 at Donington Park.
Former World Superbike rider Jakub ‘Kuba’ Smrz joins PR Racing to contend the British Superbike Championship. Kuba’s younger brother, Matej will spearhead the team’s return to the National Superstock 1000cc class. It’s the first time they’ve ridden in the same team for over 10 years.
Bowker Motorrad in Preston has confirmed its first-ever partnership with a British Superbike Championship racing team.
Bowker Motorrad will partner with PR Racing for the 2017 season.
The Motorrad deal comes as PR Racing unveiled their riders for the season which begins on the 31st March 2017 at Donington Park.
Former World Superbike rider Jakub ‘Kuba’ Smrz joins PR Racing to contend the British Superbike Championship. Kuba’s younger brother, Matej will spearhead the team’s return to the National Superstock 1000cc class.
It’s the first time they’ve ridden in the same team for over 10 years.
John Nichol, Bowker Motorrad Head of Business, said: “Bowker Motorrad, and the Bowker Motor group to which we belong, has a track record of supporting sporting endeavour at all levels: from grassroots youth level through to international Olympians.
“Our new exciting partnership with PR Racing sees us link up with two of the the fastest motorcycling brothers on the planet. The Smrz brother’s and The PR Racing team partnership boasts a powerful combination of skill and ambition. We can’t wait for the new season and we’re looking forward to being part of the journey.”
On signing the Czech bothers, John Jameson, Team Principal said: “Kuba is a top rider with many years’ experience at all levels. His attitude and commitment to racing is second to none and this fits PR Racing’s work ethic. It‘s a massive plus for the team to be able to work with a rider of his calibre, as we move forward and take the next step in the championship.”
Jakub Smrz said: “I am really pleased to be joining Matej at PR Racing. Having spent a season learning the BMW, I am looking forward to sharing that knowledge with PR and growing with the team, in what will be a very competitive format.
“We have already met as a group last week to plan everything and PR Racing have started preparing the BMWs so we can start testing as soon as possible. I feel very good about 2017. Can’t wait to get on the bike soon and go racing!”
On returning to the team, Matej said: “I’m feeling confident even after my difficult start last year. Luckily in my first year in BSB I joined a great team. John with his partners have given me another opportunity to continue in 2017 and I would like to show everyone it wasn’t a poor decision.
“Having my brother in the team after more than fifteen years is like a dream and he will be a great asset. I can gain from his experience of the BMW, as well as the circuits. We work well together and I am looking forward to the possibilities this partnership will bring.”
Sponsorship Boost For New Lancashire Youth Football Team Determined to Make Bawling Touchline Parents a Thing of the Past
A new Lancashire youth football team has launched with an innovative club culture that aims to make parental touchline bawling a thing of the past.
Lancashire Attack FC, based in Lytham St Annes, does not permit relatives of players to be coaches. However, every player must have a parental representative on the club committee. And each parent has a clearly-defined role and a direct influence on how the club is run.
Lancashire Attack FC was formed in the summer and has one under 11’s team in the Poulton and District Primary League.
Already local businesses Bowker Motorrad in Preston, Ultra Property in Lytham St Annes and Bite Club UK in Lytham have backed the club’s innovative grassroots football vision with kit sponsorship deals.
The team has been founded and facilitated through a partnership with Orange Soccer.
For Orange Soccer Orrin Benford said: “The idea came about through a discussion with a group of young coaches. We wanted to combine our passion for football with a better way for everyone to enjoy the sport. We wanted to avoid starting yet another club that parents saw as glorified babysitters – before screaming from the touchline on matchday.
“Parents are crucial to the success of the Lancashire Attack team. They are all involved and, in that way, buy in to the unique aims of the club. But we don’t believe it helps if they coach their own children. By distancing them from coaching decisions we think we can minimise the chances of conflict. And we can just let the kids play!”
The club is also piloting other initiatives. Its inclusive culture has a clear focus on player attitude. Players that put the team first – and demonstrate a determination to listen, learn and improve – are rewarded with game time.
Many of the players who have joined so far were not getting as much game time as they had hoped in their previous teams. There are already plans to extend the club’s teams in different age groups for next season after requests from local coaches and players.
For new shirt sponsor Bowker Motorrad, John Nichol, said: “We love the way Lancashire Attack are trying to change things for the better. Sport is a valuable way to teach young people important values. We wish Lancashire Attack every success in their campaign. It would be wonderful to think that, in years to come, the lessons they learn might inspire other teams too.”
Munich/Cernobbio. 80 years ago, BMW presented the BMW R 5 to the international public – an exciting new technological development that was to influence motorcycle construction right through to the 1950s. Inspired by the 500 cc factory racing machine of 1935, it was one of the groundbreaking sports motorbikes of the late 1930s with its newly designed light frame. To mark the 80th anniversary of the BMW R 5, BMW Motorrad is honouring this icon at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2016 with a special model: the BMW R 5 Hommage.
The BMW R 5 Hommage translates the essence of motorcycling into the modern era, combining the world of historical motorcycle design with the modern world of custom bikes.
“At its debut, the R 5 was not only a masterpiece of engineering, the clarity of its lines and the elegance of its proportions also made it stand out clearly from the masses. To this day, the R 5 remains one of the most aesthetically appealing motorcycles in BMW history in my view,” says Edgar Heinrich, Head of Design BMW Motorrad. “In my opinion, its fascinating and unique beauty lies in its sheer simplicity,” adds Ola Stenegard, Head of Vehicle Design and Creative Director Heritage BMW Motorrad. “In today’s world it is very simple to keep it complicated, but very complicated to keep it simple. And the BMW R 5 captures the very essence of a motorcycle. Our aim was to transport its clarity and elegant aesthetic appeal to the modern era – creating a respectful combination of old-school and high-tech with a dash of high performance.”
Vintage meets custom.
The BMW R 5 Hommage shows just how well the world of historical motorcycles and the custom scene harmonise. At the core there is an original 500 cc Two-cylinder engine provided by motorcycle enthusiast Sebastian Gutsch. This boxer engine was damaged in a race and provided the starting point for creating the BMW R 5 Hommage.
As befits a custom bike, the homage bike was elaborately hand-crafted from scratch. Ronny and Benny Noren were called upon to produce the parts according to the specifications of the BMW Motorrad Design Team: the two brothers have been building tailor-made customer bikes for more than 30 years.
Historical core …
The Two-cylinder 4-stroke boxer engine of the R 5 was completely newly designed at the time and had an output of 24 bhp at 5,500 rpm. The valve drive was taken care of by two camshafts powered by a timing chain. Thanks to the likewise newly designed frame made of electrically welded oval tubing, the light R 5 reached a top speed of 135 km/h, making it almost as fast as R 17 with 33 bhp 750 cc – which is one of the reasons it was so frequently used for racing, just like the engine selected for the BMW R 5 Hommage, which was damaged during a race. For the homage bike, numerous components such as the valve cover and the breastplate of the boxer engine were machined from billet aluminium based on sketches: they give the historical core a dash of modern flair.
… in a tailor-made custom outfit.
Two doyens of the custom bike scene, Ronny and Benny Noren, were the perfect partners for the BMW R 5 Hommage project when it came to providing a fitting outward appearance for the historical core and producing the missing parts for the engine and gearbox. The remaining parts gradually took shape in the Noren brothers’ workshop based on sketches by the BMW Motorrad Design Team. All parts such as the frame, fuel tank and rearfender are unique, elaborately hand-crafted components – making this a genuine custom bike. And most important of all: the newly fashioned parts clearly transport the original purist character of the R 5.
Timelessly elegant: the proportions.
The result is impressive: even from a distance the proportions convey the timeless beauty of a consistent reduction to the essentials – entirely true to the spirit of the R 5 – and translate this idea into the modern age. The frame and fuel tank echo the elegant drop shape of the original, though in a more modern, streamlined interpretation. The steering head is slightly more tilted, for example, so as to give the R 5 Hommage greater presence and expressive stance while at the same time underscore the fact that it belongs to the customer bike world. As far as the frame is concerned, the focus here was on the oval shaped tubes which were such a striking feature of the original. Together the frame and fuel tank draw a continuous line from the steering head to the rear wheel hub, giving the side view a touch of elegance. The hand-made steel rearfender perpetuates the minimalistic layout.
A modern interpretation of historical details.
A particularly defining feature in terms of the appearance of the original R 5 was the telescopic fork – new at the time – whose characteristic fork covers were aerodynamically shaped at the level of the headlamp. The BMW R 5 Hommage invokes this element and interprets it in modern style based on the custom made fork. The leading edge of the forkcovers echoes the “crease” on the breastplate and valve covers with a suggested interpretation of the typical “R 5 rib”. The brake and clutch levers activated from the bar-end likewise blend the past with state-of-the-art technology: these custom-made components combine the look of historical reversed levers with the adjustment options of modern controls.
Exquisite custom craftsmanship: supercharger, exhaustpipes and suspension.
The heart of the BMW R 5 rests within the minimalist proportions of the homage bike. The technical highlight of the engine is the specially developed supercharger, which in the BMW R 5 Hommage now significantly boosts the output of the original 500 cc power unit of 26 bhp to achieve a contemporary accurate level.
A completely newly built stainless steel exhaust system ensures that this increase in power is appropriately reflected in terms of sound.
Other contemporary accents are provided by the new rear wheel suspension, the modern piston brake system and the elaborately designed front and rear wheel hub. The latter combines the brake system and spoke mount in a single formal unit – a detailed reflection of the minimalistic concept embodied by the BMW R 5 Hommage.
The colour: classic BMW style yet still a true custom bike.
The BMW R 5 Hommage is presented in classic style when it comes to colour. The basic theme is typical BMW – black with white pinstripes, though interpreted in contemporary style of course. In addition to the opaquely finished surfaces, the so-called smoke finish on the fuel tank and rearfender allow the steel underneath to partially show through. In addition to the white pinstripes, the black finish on the fuel tank and rearfender especially comes into its own right, in perfect custom style, due to the metallic finish and a slight flake effect. The engine cases and gearbox in glass bead aluminium provide the perfect stage for the polished aluminium parts such as the machined breastplate and the valve covers with its “R 5 crease”. The soft lustre of the polished aluminium is especially reminiscent of the BMW R 5 originals. The overall image is rounded off with a handstitched leather seat with high-quality embossing.
The team will contest British Superbikes, Superstock 1000 and International Road Races including the North West 200, Isle of Man TT and the Ulster GP in 2015.
Guy Martin and William Dunlop will be riding the BMW S 1000 RR on the roads, with Alastair Seeley also competing in the North West 200.
Michael Laverty and Tommy Bridewell will line up to challenge in British Superbike Championship – with Alastair Seeley also racing in the National Superstock 1000 support series.
Guy Martin:
“Moving to BMW machinery is the reason I’m still racing next year and not retiring. I’ll always give it my all and to be with a quality manufacturer like BMW is mega. I’m looking forward to getting on the bikes as soon as possible. It’s a new bike and I’ve never ridden it before, but we all know its pedigree. TAS are the best team I’ve ever ridden for; they get me and I get them and we meet in the middle, which is why we’ve been successful and this new venture with BMW is just what we need going into next season.”
William Dunlop:
“Moving to BMW is an exciting change and one I’m looking forward to. We all saw what the BMW S 1000 RR was capable of achieving this season, so with the expertise of the guys at TAS Racing, I’m pretty sure we can do a good job in 2015. I got my first international Superbike win last year and I’d really like more next year as it’s the class to do it in. We have a top team and I’m happy to be working with Guy again at the TT, where I think together we can be even stronger with this exciting new package.”
Michael Laverty:
“I’m delighted to be back in the TAS Racing fold for 2015; this time with a new manufacturer in BMW behind us. It’s a very exciting time for both myself and the team: we are both new to the BMW S 1000 RR but it is a bike built for the race track and I believe we have all the ingredients required to deliver the BSB title.
“I’m very motivated about my move back to BSB. I’ve spent the last two seasons in MotoGP and feel I’m a much stronger rider thanks to that experience, both on the riding and the technical side. I’ve really missed not being on a machine capable of delivering wins and podiums, so I’m already daydreaming about the battles head with Shakey and Co. next season.”
Tommy Bridewell:
“I’m really excited to be joining Tyco BMW for next season. I’ve met the team and they are a great bunch of guys and having ridden the BMW before, and watched what Kiyo was able to do on it this season, I know we will have as competitive a package as anyone on the BSB grid in 2015. In 2012 I put a standard BMW into the top six, so with factory support and the help of everyone at Tyco BMW, the goal is to be challenging regularly at the front and winning more races. I’m also looking forward to working with Michael [Laverty] as he has a lot of experience both in BSB and with the team. So I’m now counting down the days to the first test.”
Alastair Seeley:
“It’s great to be back with TAS Racing and to be part of the whole Tyco BMW set-up for next year. With factory support and what I believe to be the best machinery for both the Superstock class and the North West 200, I really can’t wait to get started. TAS Racing gave me the opportunity to win two British championships so the goal this year is to repay them and hopefully make that three. I’m also happy to be back in the Superstock class as I feel the BMW S 1000 RR will give me a great chance to win the championship and I’ve already started doing my homework for next season.”
Lee Nicholls, BMW Motorrad Marketing and PR Manager, said:
It is with great pleasure that we can finally announce BMW Motorrad’s support of the TAS Racing team for the 2015 British Superbike and Road Racing season.
“In 2014, BMW Motorrad had its most successful season of racing ever in the UK, which has enabled us to increase our support to both the British Superbike and Road Racing paddocks for 2015. The TAS Racing team will spearhead our assault on track, and on the roads, and will receive the full technical support from BMW Motorrad Motorsport in Munich within the framework of the BMW Customer Racing Strategy.
“As a company we are very much looking forward to working with Philip and his team and we are confident that together with the all-new S 1000 RR we will challenge for podiums and wins across the UK and Ireland next year.”
Phil Dashey, Vice President & General Manager at Tyco Security Products concluded:
“We’ve had a great working relationship with TAS; our brand has grown significantly as a result, so to renew with them, but work with a new manufacturer under the Tyco BMW banner is a very exciting prospect”
“We’ve enjoyed success on various platforms in a number of guises and liveries with the TAS team, but I’m sure I will echo everyone’s sentiments when I say our major goals for 2015 are to lift the British Superbike title and a coveted Isle of Man TT top step.”
Philip Neill – Team Manager:
“It really is a great honour for TAS Racing to be chosen by BMW to spearhead their racing efforts in 2015, and everyone involved has been very supportive in helping us put the correct package together.
“Although our agreement is with BMW Motorrad in the UK, the support we have received from BMW in Germany is already very encouraging. We will have full support from the factory both technically and personnel wise next season to help us achieve our goals.”
“We put a lot of thought into our rider line up for 2015 and as always the goal is to win races both in British championship and also at International level on the roads. We fully expect to be championship contenders in British Superbike and the National Superstock class next season racing BMW’s S 1000 RR, and on the roads I’ve every confidence that William and Guy will also benefit from riding top class Tyco BMW machinery.”
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The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma
What Is an Emotion? William James’s Revolutionary 1884 Theory of How Our Bodies Affect Our Feelings
An Evolutionary Anatomy of Affect: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on How and Why We Feel What We Feel
How your memories impact your immune system, why moving is one of the most stressful life-events, and what your parents have to do with your predisposition to PTSD.
I had lived thirty good years before enduring my first food poisoning — odds quite fortunate in the grand scheme of things, but miserably unfortunate in the immediate experience of it. I found myself completely incapacitated to erect the pillars of my daily life — too cognitively foggy to read and write, too physically weak to work out or even meditate. The temporary disability soon elevated the assault on my mind and body to a new height of anguish: an intense experience of stress. Even as I consoled myself with Nabokov’s exceptionally florid account of food poisoning, I couldn’t shake the overwhelming malaise that had engulfed me — somehow, a physical illness had completely colored my psychoemotional reality.
This experience, of course, is far from uncommon. Long before scientists began shedding light on how our minds and bodies actually affect one another, an intuitive understanding of this dialogue between the body and the emotions, or feelings, emerged and permeated our very language: We use “feeling sick” as a grab-bag term for both the sensory symptoms — fever, fatigue, nausea — and the psychological malaise, woven of emotions like sadness and apathy.
Pre-modern medicine, in fact, has recognized this link between disease and emotion for millennia. Ancient Greek, Roman, and Indian Ayurvedic physicians all enlisted the theory of the four humors — blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm — in their healing practices, believing that imbalances in these four visible secretions of the body caused disease and were themselves often caused by the emotions. These beliefs are fossilized in our present language — melancholy comes from the Latin words for “black” (melan) and “bitter bile” (choler), and we think of a melancholic person as gloomy or embittered; a phlegmatic person is languid and impassive, for phlegm makes one lethargic.
Chart of the four humors from a 1495 medical textbook by Johannes de Ketham
And then French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes came along in the seventeenth century, taking it upon himself to eradicate the superstitions that fueled the religious wars of the era by planting the seed of rationalism. But the very tenets that laid the foundation of modern science — the idea that truth comes only from what can be visibly ascertained and proven beyond doubt — severed this link between the physical body and the emotions; those mysterious and fleeting forces, the biological basis of which the tools of modern neuroscience are only just beginning to understand, seemed to exist entirely outside the realm of what could be examined with the tools of rationalism.
For nearly three centuries, the idea that our emotions could impact our physical health remained scientific taboo — setting out to fight one type of dogma, Descartes had inadvertently created another, which we’re only just beginning to shake off. It was only in the 1950s that Austrian-Canadian physician and physiologist Hans Selye pioneered the notion of stress as we now know it today, drawing the scientific community’s attention to the effects of stress on physical health and popularizing the concept around the world. (In addition to his scientific dedication, Selye also understood the branding component of any successful movement and worked tirelessly to include the word itself in dictionaries around the world; today, “stress” is perhaps the word pronounced most similarly in the greatest number of major languages.)
But no researcher has done more to illuminate the invisible threads that weave mind and body together than Dr. Esther Sternberg. Her groundbreaking work on the link between the central nervous system and the immune system, exploring how immune molecules made in the blood can trigger brain function that profoundly affects our emotions, has revolutionized our understanding of the integrated being we call a human self. In the immeasurably revelatory The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions (public library), Sternberg examines the interplay of our emotions and our physical health, mediated by that seemingly nebulous yet, it turns out, remarkably concrete experience called stress.
Esther Sternberg by Steve Barrett
With an eye to modern medicine’s advances in cellular and molecular biology, which have made it possible to measure how our nervous system and our hormones affect our susceptibility to diseases as varied as depression, arthritis, AIDS, and chronic fatigue syndrome, Sternberg writes:
By parsing these chemical intermediaries, we can begin to understand the biological underpinnings of how emotions affect diseases…
The same parts of the brain that control the stress response … play an important role in susceptibility and resistance to inflammatory diseases such as arthritis. And since it is these parts of the brain that also play a role in depression, we can begin to understand why it is that many patients with inflammatory diseases may also experience depression at different times in their lives… Rather than seeing the psyche as the source of such illnesses, we are discovering that while feelings don’t directly cause or cure disease, the biological mechanisms underlying them may cause or contribute to disease. Thus, many of the nerve pathways and molecules underlying both psychological responses and inflammatory disease are the same, making predisposition to one set of illnesses likely to go along with predisposition to the other. The questions need to be rephrased, therefore, to ask which of the many components that work together to create emotions also affect that other constellation of biological events, immune responses, which come together to fight or to cause disease. Rather than asking if depressing thoughts can cause an illness of the body, we need to ask what the molecules and nerve pathways are that cause depressing thoughts. And then we need to ask whether these affect the cells and molecules that cause disease.
We are even beginning to sort out how emotional memories reach the parts of the brain that control the hormonal stress response, and how such emotions can ultimately affect the workings of the immune system and thus affect illnesses as disparate as arthritis and cancer. We are also beginning to piece together how signals from the immune system can affect the brain and the emotional and physical responses it controls: the molecular basis of feeling sick. In all this, the boundaries between mind and body are beginning to blur.
Indeed, the relationship between memory, emotion, and stress is perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Sternberg’s work. She considers how we deal with the constant swirl of inputs and outputs as we move through the world, barraged by a stream of stimuli and sensations:
Every minute of the day and night we feel thousands of sensations that might trigger a positive emotion such as happiness, or a negative emotion such as sadness, or no emotion at all: a trace of perfume, a light touch, a fleeting shadow, a strain of music. And there are thousands of physiological responses, such as palpitations or sweating, that can equally accompany positive emotions such as love, or negative emotions such as fear, or can happen without any emotional tinge at all. What makes these sensory inputs and physiological outputs emotions is the charge that gets added to them somehow, somewhere in our brains. Emotions in their fullest sense comprise all of these components. Each can lead into the black box and produce an emotional experience, or something in the black box can lead out to an emotional response that seems to come from nowhere.
Illustration from ‘Neurocomic,’ a graphic novel about how the brain works. Click image for more.
Memory, it turns out, is one of the major factors mediating the dialogue between sensation and emotional experience. Our memories of past experience become encoded into triggers that act as switchers on the rail of psychoemotional response, directing the incoming train of present experience in the direction of one emotional destination or another.
Sternberg writes:
Mood is not homogeneous like cream soup. It is more like Swiss cheese, filled with holes. The triggers are highly specific, tripped by sudden trails of memory: a faint fragrance, a few bars of a tune, a vague silhouette that tapped into a sad memory buried deep, but not completely erased. These sensory inputs from the moment float through layers of time in the parts of the brain that control memory, and they pull out with them not only reminders of sense but also trails of the emotions that were first connected to the memory. These memories become connected to emotions, which are processed in other parts of the brain: the amygdala for fear, the nucleus accumbens for pleasure — those same parts that the anatomists had named for their shapes. And these emotional brain centers are linked by nerve pathways to the sensory parts of the brain and to the frontal lobe and hippocampus — the coordinating centers of thought and memory.
The same sensory input can trigger a negative emotion or a positive one, depending on the memories associated with it.
Illustration by Maurice Sendak from Open House for Butterflies by Ruth Krauss
This is where stress comes in — much like memory mediates how we interpret and respond to various experiences, a complex set of biological and psychological factors determine how we respond to stress. Some types of stress can be stimulating and invigorating, mobilizing us into action and creative potency; others can be draining and incapacitating, leaving us frustrated and hopeless. This dichotomy of good vs. bad stress, Sternberg notes, is determined by the biology undergirding our feelings — by the dose and duration of the stress hormones secreted by the body in response to the stressful stimulus. She explains the neurobiological machinery behind this response:
As soon as the stressful event occurs, it triggers the release of the cascade of hypothalamic, pituitary, and adrenal hormones — the brain’s stress response. It also triggers the adrenal glands to release epinephrine, or adrenaline, and the sympathetic nerves to squirt out the adrenaline-like chemical norepinephrine all over the body: nerves that wire the heart, and gut, and skin. So, the heart is driven to beat faster, the fine hairs of your skin stand up, you sweat, you may feel nausea or the urge to defecate. But your attention is focused, your vision becomes crystal clear, a surge of power helps you run — these same chemicals released from nerves make blood flow to your muscles, preparing you to sprint.
All this occurs quickly. If you were to measure the stress hormones in your blood or saliva, they would already be increased within three minutes of the event. In experimental psychology tests, playing a fast-paced video game will make salivary cortisol increase and norepinephrine spill over into venous blood almost as soon as the virtual battle begins. But if you prolong the stress, by being unable to control it or by making it too potent or long-lived, and these hormones and chemicals still continue to pump out from nerves and glands, then the same molecules that mobilized you for the short haul now debilitate you.
These effects of stress exist on a bell curve — that is, some is good, but too much becomes bad: As the nervous system secretes more and more stress hormones, performance increases, but up to a point; after that tipping point, performance begins to suffer as the hormones continue to flow. What makes stress “bad” — that is, what makes it render us more pervious to disease — is the disparity between the nervous system and immune system’s respective pace. Sternberg explains:
The nervous system and the hormonal stress response react to a stimulus in milliseconds, seconds, or minutes. The immune system takes parts of hours or days. It takes much longer than two minutes for immune cells to mobilize and respond to an invader, so it is unlikely that a single, even powerful, short-lived stress on the order of moments could have much of an effect on immune responses. However, when the stress turns chronic, immune defenses begin to be impaired. As the stressful stimulus hammers on, stress hormones and chemicals continue to pump out. Immune cells floating in this milieu in blood, or passing through the spleen, or growing up in thymic nurseries never have a chance to recover from the unabated rush of cortisol. Since cortisol shuts down immune cells’ responses, shifting them to a muted form, less able to react to foreign triggers, in the context of continued stress we are less able to defend and fight when faced with new invaders. And so, if you are exposed to, say, a flu or common cold virus when you are chronically stressed out, your immune system is less able to react and you become more susceptible to that infection.
Illustration from ‘Donald and the…’ by Edward Gorey. Click image for more.
Extended exposure to stress, especially to a variety of stressors at the same time — any combination from the vast existential menu of life-events like moving, divorce, a demanding job, the loss of a loved one, and even ongoing childcare — adds up a state of extreme exhaustion that leads to what we call burnout.
Members of certain professions are more prone to burnout than others — nurses and teachers, for example, are among those at highest risk. These professionals are faced daily with caregiving situations in their work lives, often with inadequate pay, inadequate help in their jobs, and with too many patients or students in their charge. Some studies are beginning to show that burnt-out patients may have not only psychological burnout, but also physiological burnout: a flattened cortisol response and inability to respond to any stress with even a slight burst of cortisol. In other words, chronic unrelenting stress can change the stress response itself. And it can change other hormone systems in the body as well.
One of the most profound such changes affects the reproductive system — extended periods of stress can shut down the secretion of reproductive hormones in both men and women, resulting in lower fertility. But the effects are especially perilous for women — recurring and extended episodes of depression result in permanent changes in bone structure, increasing the risk of osteoporosis. In other words, we register stress literally in our bones.
Art from ‘Evolution’ by Patrick Gries and Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu. Click image for more.
But stress isn’t a direct causal function of the circumstances we’re in — what either amplifies or ameliorates our experience of stress is, once again, memory. Sternberg writes:
Our perception of stress, and therefore our response to it, is an ever-changing thing that depends a great deal on the circumstances and settings in which we find ourselves. It depends on previous experience and knowledge, as well as on the actual event that has occurred. And it depends on memory, too.
The most acute manifestation of how memory modulates stress is post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. For striking evidence of how memory encodes past experience into triggers, which then catalyze present experience, Sternberg points to research by psychologist Rachel Yehuda, who found both Holocaust survivors and their first-degree relatives — that is, children and siblings — exhibited a similar hormonal stress response.
This, Sternberg points out, could be a combination of nature and nurture — the survivors, as young parents for whom the trauma was still fresh, may well have subconsciously taught their children a common style of stress-responsiveness; but it’s also possible that these automatic hormonal stress responses permanently changed the parents’ biology and were transmitted via DNA to their children. Once again, memory encodes stress into our very bodies. Sternberg considers the broader implications:
Stress need not be on the order of war, rape, or the Holocaust to trigger at least some elements of PTSD. Common stresses that we all experience can trigger the emotional memory of a stressful circumstance — and all its accompanying physiological responses. Prolonged stress — such as divorce, a hostile workplace, the end of a relationship, or the death of a loved one — can all trigger elements of PTSD.
Among the major stressors — which include life-events expected to be on the list, such as divorce and the death of a loved one — is also one somewhat unexpected situation, at least to those who haven’t undergone it: moving. Sternberg considers the commonalities between something as devastating as death and something as mundane as moving:
One is certainly loss — the loss of someone or something familiar. Another is novelty — finding oneself in a new and unfamiliar place because of the loss. Together these amount to change: moving away from something one knows and toward something one doesn’t.
An unfamiliar environment is a universal stressor to nearly all species, no matter how developed or undeveloped.
In the remainder of the thoroughly illuminating The Balance Within, Sternberg goes on to explore the role of interpersonal relationships in both contributing to stress and shielding us from it, how the immune system changes our moods, and what we can do to harness these neurobiological insights in alleviating our experience of the stressors with which every human life is strewn.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/20/esther-sternberg-balance-within-stress-emotion/
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Cass Sculpture Foundation Announces Major Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Sculpture
19th June 2015 by Cass Art
The Cass Sculpture Foundation has just announced details of an ambitious exhibition scheduled for July 2016. A Beautiful Disorder is set to be the first major UK exhibition of newly commissioned outdoor sculpture by contemporary Chinese artists.
From May to November next year, 15 large-scale sculptures, made in a variety of mediums including wood, stone steel and bronze, will go on display throughout the foundation’s extensive grounds in Chichester, West Sussex, just south of London.
The historical relationship between English and Chinese landscape aesthetics is what has inspired these contemporary Chinese and Greater Chinese artists. The title of the exhibition, A Beautiful Disorder, is a quote from a letter written by the Jesuit missionary and artist Jean-Denis Attiret in 1743, which in turn had a huge impact on English garden culture. Attiret described the ability of the Chinese garden to provoke violent and often opposing sensations in the viewer through a series of theatrical framing devices.
The exhibition at Cass Sculpture Foundation will ask viewers to reflect on China's past, present and future relationship with the world at large, providing important insight into the state of Chinese culture, politics and society today from the perspective of some of its most dynamic and engaging artists.
Clare Hindle, the Executive Director of Cass Sculpture Foundation, says:
“To date, Cass Sculpture Foundation has commissioned over 400 works – A Beautiful Disorder is a landmark moment for the Foundation as it is the first time we are commissioning works for a major exhibition by international artists. The exhibition will showcase contemporary Chinese sculpture by some of the leading Chinese artists.”
The confirmed participating artists include Bi Rongrong, Cao Fei, Cheng Ran, Cui Jie, Jennifer Ma Wen, Li Jinghu, Lu Pingyuan, Made in Company, Rania Ho, Song Ta, Tu Wei-Cheng, Wang Sishun, Wang Wei, Wang Yuyang, Zhang Ruyi, Zheng Bo and Zhao Yao.
Cass Art is linked to the Cass Sculpture Foundation as the Founder of the Foundation, Wilfred Cass, is the father of Mark Cass, CEO & Founder of Cass Art. Read more about the family ties here.
Image Credit: Yang Wuang, Identity, Courtesy of Cass Sculpture Foundation
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Sgt. Derek Mellor resigns amidst numerous sex-related charges
A Hamilton police officer facing numerous sexual misconduct charges, who always hoped to keep his job, has resigned.
CBC News · Posted: Sep 29, 2014 11:10 AM ET | Last Updated: September 29, 2014
Sgt. Derek Mellor was a 14-year veteran of the service who was once the lead of Hamilton Police’s anti-human trafficking initiative dubbed “Project Rescue. He sent a letter of resignation to Chief Glenn De Caire last. (Terry Asma/CBC)
A Hamilton police officer facing a host of sexual misconduct charges involving women connected to his job has resigned.
Though he had said he always wanted to keep his job, Sgt. Derek Mellor, who headed up Hamilton Police Service's human trafficking initiative, sent in a letter of resignation to police Chief Glenn De Caire last week. The resignation was made public at a police act hearing Monday morning. Since he will no longer be a police officer, the resignation means the end of any prosecution of Mellor under the Police Act.
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“The chief has received an irrevocable letter of resignation from Sgt. Mellor, with the effective date being Nov. 3," said police prosecutor Marco Visentini.
Hamilton police spokesperson Catherine Martin would not answer questions about why the chief accepted Mellor's resignation for November instead of effective immediately, or if Mellor staying on the police payroll for an extra four weeks allowed him to acquire pension-related benefits.
"The Service will be providing no further comment as Sgt. Mellor remains under investigation by the Province’s Special Investigations Unit," Martin said in an email.
Mellor, a 14-year veteran of the service, pleaded guilty earlier this year to nine Police Services Act charges after engaging in sexual acts and sending lewd messages as well as photos and videos of his penis to sex workers and colleagues. Monday's hearing was supposed to be the start of the sentencing stage of the hearing. It was set to include testimony from Det. Const. David Hartless — who worked with Mellor on the police service's human trafficking unit dubbed "project rescue."
Several women had notified Hartless of Mellor's advances. Hartless was at the police station Monday, but was not part of the hearing. “The testimony of Const. Hartless is not needed now as a result of the resignation," Visentini said.
All of the police act charges against Mellor will be stayed at his next appearance on Nov. 3. Visentini said he would have "further comment" then. Mellor's legal representative Leo Kinahan didn't comment during the proceedings. Mellor did not appear at the hearing.
Pleaded guilty to PSA charges of sex with sex worker, witness
As part of an agreed statement of facts presented earlier this year, Mellor admitted to undertaking a sexual relationship with the mother of a woman whose human trafficking case he was working on. He admitted to engaging in sexual activity with her on the side of a rural road, sending her pictures of his penis and a three-second video of him masturbating.
He also pleaded guilty to sending sexual photos and texts to two women who worked with the human trafficking volunteer organization “Walk With Me,” and pursuing sexual relationships with two sex workers. Mellor also pleaded guilty to having sex with a woman who was a sex worker and a potential witness in a human trafficking case.
More charges surfaced against Mellor last month, alleging a sexual relationship with a woman who was a potential witness in a domestic violence case.
The charges stem from two separate incidents between August, 2000 and November, 2000.
SIU Investigation continues
According to police act documents, it’s alleged that between August 27 and November 30, Mellor was sleeping with a woman who was a witness or a potential witness in a domestic violence case he was investigating.
A second charge alleges that in that same timeframe, Mellor went to the same woman’s home, and acted in a “disorderly manner.” Those charges will also be dropped in November when his resignation becomes official.
A provincial Special Investigations Unit investigation into his conduct, however, will continue. The province’s police overseer launched an investigation earlier this month.
According to the SIU, Hamilton police did not notify them about the charges — even though local police are mandated to do so in Ontario. The SIU is mandated to conduct criminal investigations into serious injury and death incidents as well as allegations of sexual assault in cases involving police in Ontario.
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Sky Blues face West Brom at The Hawthorns on 28th July...
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Ticket details have been confirmed for Coventry City fans attending the Cyrille Regis Memorial Trophy game against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns.
The match takes place on Saturday 28th July, just a week before the League One season gets underway, with kick-off at 3pm against the Albion.
The inaugural Cyrille Regis Memorial Trophy fixture in tribute to the football great, who starred for both clubs. He played 238 games and scored 47 goals for the Sky Blues and was a key part of the FA Cup winning squad in 1987.
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Latest Express Entry draw invites 3,900 candidates to apply for Canadian permanent residence
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Canada held an Express Entry draw on October 2, issuing a total of 3,900 invitations to apply for Canadian permanent residence.
Candidates in the Express Entry pool needed a Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 464 and above to be selected in this round.
The latest draw was an increase of 300 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) over the previous draw on September 18. The last time Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) invited 3,900 Express Entry candidates to apply for Canadian permanent residence was on January 23, 2019.
The Express Entry system is Canada’s main source of skilled foreign workers. Eligible candidates enter the Express Entry pool and are issued a Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score based on their age, education, skilled work experience and proficiency in English or French, among other factors.
A job offer is not required to enter or be selected from the Express Entry pool.
The highest-ranked candidates are invited to apply for Canadian permanent residence during regular draws from the pool.
In order to enter the Express Entry pool, candidates must first meet the eligibility requirements for one of Canada’s three Federal High Skilled economic-class immigration categories —the Federal Skilled Worker Class, Federal Skilled Trades Class, and Canadian Experience Class.
Since the last Express Entry draw on September 18, there have been a number of provincial selection rounds that targeted Express Entry candidates.
British Columbia’s latest draw invited 402 candidates to apply for a provincial nomination on October 1; 109 invitations of those were sent to people with Express Entry profiles.
Saskatchewan invited 404 candidates to apply for a provincial nomination on September 26.
Manitoba also held a draw inviting 15 Express Entry candidates to apply for a provincial nomination on September 25.
Alberta held a draw aligned with Express Entry on September 18, inviting candidates with CRS scores of 350 and up. Earlier this month, on September 11, Alberta issued invitations to candidates with scores as low as 302.
Nova Scotia selected 22 carpenters out of the Express Entry pool through the Nova Scotia Labour Market Priorities Stream.
Prince Edward Island issued 122 invitations through its Express Entry aligned program, as well as its Labour Impact and Business Work Permit streams. The province did not provide a breakdown of how many were Express Entry, nor what the score requirement was.
The first step towards pursuing many of Canada’s Express Entry aligned provincial nomination streams is to submit an Express Entry profile.
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Hershey helps remote Peruvian village rebuild through cocoa farming
Chocolate maker funds cocoa infrastructure for indigenous community.
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Women from San Juan de Cheni remove cocoa beans from pods growing in the village. Photo provided by Hershey.
Back in 2008, The Hershey Co. was introduced to a village of indigenous people tucked deep in the mountains of the Junín region of Peru.
This village — San Juan de Cheni — had been devastated by years of guerilla warfare, and was attempting to rebuild with cocoa farming. The community chose cocoa as its primary crop hoping to help restore its economy, position it for the future and preserve the traditional values of farming embedded in the culture.
Hershey decided to support the community, and committed to help fund the infrastructure needed for the village to be successful in cocoa farming. The chocolate maker also committed to buying cocoa grown in this area.
San Juan de Cheni grows a unique variety of cocoa with a distinct flavor, and Hershey uses the village’s cocoa in its high-end artisan chocolate products.
“From the day we learned of San Juan de Cheni, we knew this village was something special,” says Ray Major, senior manager of sustainability initiatives. “The people in this community are intensely driven to rebuild their community through cocoa farming and it has been rewarding to watch the village improve its fortunes with a little help and support.”
Prior to Hershey’s support, San Juan de Cheni cocoa farms had approximately 500 trees per hectare and cocoa farming had been negatively impacted by guerilla activity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Hershey’s goal in supporting San Juan de Cheni was to more than double the amount of trees per hectare producing cocoa.
Starting in 2010, Hershey, its sourcing partners and the community farmers focused on increasing the number of trees that produced the best quality and highest quantity of cocoa pods.
With Hershey’s support, the community built a nursery to increase tree stock and Hershey funded the training and tools needed to improve the productivity of the cocoa farms.
The training included grafting methods to populate the farms using the community’s best trees. Today, more than 50 farms have more than 1,100 thriving cocoa trees per hectare, while tree stock and yields continue to improve.
During the second year of the project, Hershey aided in building a fermentation center to enable the village to produce higher-quality cocoa as well as a septic system to control waste. Hershey also helped fund the construction of a cocoa warehouse and a community computer center, which now serves as the village’s first public meeting facility.
After more than two years of investments by The Hershey Co., San Juan de Cheni has rebuilt its community, stabilized village life and established a successful cocoa economy through the sale of its premium cocoa.
“Today we see how this relatively small investment has made a big difference in the lives of everyone in this community. It’s great to see how the community’s hard work has paid off,” Major says.
Hershey has implemented the San Juan de Cheni initiative with the help of its sourcing partners Romex and Mitsubishi.
Romex, one of the largest agricultural trading companies in Peru, has helped supply agricultural extension services, technical support, materials for the fermentation equipment, farm equipment and agricultural inputs. Mitsubishi helps with project implementation and oversees exporting the village’s cocoa beans from Peru to the United States.
Purchasing sustainably grown cocoa sourced from the village of San Juan de Cheni is one of many ways Hershey positively supports cocoa communities around the world. This initiative is part of Hershey’s 21stCentury Cocoa Sustainability Strategy, a comprehensive plan to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers and communities that depend on cocoa. The cocoa grown in San Juan de Cheni is third-party certified and contributes to the company’s commitment to source 100-percent certified cocoa in all of its products by 2020.
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We Never Owned a Franchise, but We Saw the Need
Written by Bill Fishburne
Ernie and Brenda Konkoli had never owned a franchise until they bought into the Homewatch CareGivers System. Today they are beyond pleased with their decision and most of all, are delighting in being in the home health care business.
Homewatch CareGivers of WNC has clients in hundreds of homes across Buncombe, Henderson, Madison and Transylvania Counties. Wherever there is a need they often can provide a qualified person or persons to meet it. The company is managed from offices on Hendersonville Rd., on the second floor, at the busy Spring St. intersection near T.C. Roberson High School. The business has grown faster than school traffic at 3:30, and Ernie Konkoli said the franchiser’s online continuing education program was a major factor in their decision to go with Homewatch.
“We believe in education,” Ernie Konkoli explained. “Homewatch University enables us to provide an enormous amount of medical education for our clients and to the family care givers that we serve. Homewatch CareGivers is the only home care agency that has a fully accredited online university in health care. When we coupled that with the other attributes of the franchise, Brenda and I knew this was what we wanted to do with the rest of our lives.”
Konkoli came to the mountains to live after a successful career in engineering and business management.
“I had started a mechanical engineering degree from Kent State University and landed a first job with TRW. In the following 34 years, we were relocated at least seven times as I went up the corporate ladder to plant manager and corporate executive. This time, when we retired, we wanted to pick the place we lived and we wanted to provide services that were needed by the members of the community. We saw this as our last move, to start a business we could love, and to do it in an area we both loved.”
Along the way, Konkoli was involved in the sale of six companies. It gave him a true picture of how the business world works.
“Six of the companies were sold, spun off or formed into joint ventures. I was a reluctant participant in those. I was a part of selling two U.S. companies to German owners, one joint venture with an Israeli company, and one with an American company. When a corporation decides to buy or sell there is tremendous restructuring going on. They achieve huge economies in order to justify the purchase price.
“It was a difficult 34 years. I’m a team builder. I love to train people. I did this everywhere I went, and I sold that concept to the buyers. The last company I was with, unfortunately, wanted us to out source operations to a foreign entity. That was against my values. When you have a foreign owned company in the U.S., they have very little allegiance to American workers.”
[quote]“As I went through that, I determined Brenda and I would do something completely different when we retired—something with people as the focus, not numbers.”[/quote]
His last stop was in Avon, Connecticut, where he ran a company that made high-precision plastic components for medical instruments. Connecticut was beautiful but the Konkoli’s knew they didn’t want to continue to live in the Northeast.
“We had vacationed in the mountains of Western North Carolina for over 25 years. We knew if we could create the right opportunity that this was the place we wanted to live.
Taking a year off before making the plunge into a new business gave the Konkoli’s time to think, investigate and plan. “We studied all kinds of business opportunities and looked specifically in senior services. We came to the realization that our strengths lay in home health care. Neither my wife or I were licensed health care professionals, but Brenda has been a care giver in many capacities throughout her life. From raising our children to volunteering in hospitals to working in and managing group homes, she has always been a care giver in some capacity.
“It’s a business and it’s a calling. And I’m gaining the calling because you fall in love with your clients and the care givers who have been doing this most of their careers. I’m doing my part working to teach them some of the business side. It’s a small business and you wear many hats.”
In addition to the climate and lifestyle appeal of the mountains, Western North Carolina’s demographics gave the region extra appeal.
“When we studied the demographics in this country and realized just how quickly the population in America and in all the Western nations has grayed, we knew there would be an exploding need for senior services,” Konkoli said.
“You will see over the next 15 to 20 years not just an explosion of new senior services but a re-marketing of existing services toward the senior market. In the mountains our senior citizen population is at least 50 percent higher than the state average. Senior population is defined as those over 65. The nationwide average is 13 percent of the population. In our area it is 50 percent higher. In Buncombe County we’re at 20 percent. In Hendersonville it is 22 percent and in Brevard it is 24 percent, nearly double the state average. And all this is before the boomers come along.”
Boomers and Consumers
“The crazy thing about society today is that since January, baby boomers have started turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day,” Konkoli said. “That will continue for the next 18 years. Senior percentages are going to double over the next 18 years across the entire country.
“What a lot of people don’t realize is that the fastest growing population we address are the parents of the Boomers. These people are 75 to 90 years old and are the first generation that has benefitted from the major advances in medical technology. Vaccinations, immunizations, antibiotics, advanced disease prevention and treatment, joint replacement, heart surgery and even dental care. These were things that cut lives short in previous generations. There will be a huge need for home care over the next 20 years. The majority of our clientele are folks in the 80 to 95 year old age group, the parents of the Boomers.”
Konkoli said they chose the Homewatch CareGivers franchise as their new business “because you don’t have to have medical experience. The franchise enables us to learn existing systems and they have a great support system. Their full resources at your disposal anytime you need their help.
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Yes, Your Sidewalk Etiquette Could Be Better
Rachel Pincus
A primer on the rules of the pedestrian road.
City dwellers are able to live by unwritten rules. Though we don’t often think about it, we’re constantly making tiny decisions that coordinate with others’, especially when we walk around. We try to behave like people who know what we’re doing, not like atoms bouncing frenetically off of one another.
It should be pretty easy to pull off. But it isn’t.
As bikes have complicated the pedestrian/car binary in many cities, there’s been more analysis of how we share—or hog—space. Many municipalities have started collecting data on where we walk, and how quickly. The average walking speed in New York City is about 4.27 feet per second, found a 2006 study from the Department of City Planning. (Tourists stroll 11 percent slower.)
The intricate dynamics of pedestrian behaviors have even spurred new types of jobs. For example, a new breed of crossing guard called pedestrian/traffic managers direct foot traffic in high-stakes, tourist-packed areas such as Lower Manhattan.
When we take to the sidewalks, our manners kind of fizzle out. Hence the need for snarky faux infrastructure like the “texting lane. Here’s how to be better at sharing the space.
Stick to your right
In an odd imitation of car traffic, people quietly decided that it was ideal if everyone agreed on one side of the street—their relative right—as the direction of travel.
Sure, it might not make a ton of sense. But unless you want to unleash sidewalk chaos, don’t be the guy who tries to subvert convention by strolling on the wild (left) side.
Keep your ears open
Sound cues play a subtle but surprisingly important role in helping you anticipate the movement of others around you. Overheard chatter and even the little movements of air around you really helps you establish your position in space.
Keep a good speed
Pedestrian traffic has a rhythm. Fall behind, and you'll soon find that someone is tailgating you. If you have to move more slowly, stick to the margins—and pull over to text or rummage in your bag, unless you don’t mind careening into a pothole or one of those scary flights of underground steps.
Look where you’re going!
Multitasking, even if you think you’re pretty good at it, makes you a less attentive pedestrian. You’re less tapped in to your environment whenever you divert your eyes from the street. A study published in Psychology and Aging found that this effect was particularly exacerbated as we get older.
Even if the sidewalk is sparsely populated, that doesn’t give you free license to cut around corners and charge headlong into the streets—after all, quiet blocks have speeding cars, too.
No vehicles, please
Bikes have their own lanes, but now a bonanza of other person-powered vehicles are also trying to squeeze into the precious pedestrian space. (Think: scooters, roller skates, skateboards.) Are you a speed walker, or a very lightweight motorist? If it has wheels and can go as fast as a bike, you are probably terrorizing other people on the sidewalk—best to ride in the fast lane and take the bike lane instead.
Don’t walk with a posse
You know the people who stroll four or five in a row, gawking at buildings. A study published in PLoS One found that groups of people tend toward either side-by-side movement or an outward-opening V-shape, which isn’t great for making room for others. Groups probably don’t intend to clog up the traffic flow, but they snag the pattern, big time. Even wide sidewalks are ill-suited to a gathering of more than two people. Catch up with your crew at the next intersection.
And, for your own good, beware of stopping to snap a photo on a crowded sidewalk. Even if you manage to get a picture without tons of peoples’ torsos in it, they’ll give you the stink eye for blocking the way.
Nathan Pyle
Put the kibosh on sidewalk rage
In some cities, there is a half-joking culture of commiserating about these habits. Imagine if pedestrians were taken to task for a litany of offenses, such as hitting people with bulky bags, slow walking, or clogging up prime jaywalking territory. As Sarah Goodyear reported for CityLab, a facetious memo circulated around New York City’s East Village, envisioning a fantasy world in which all visitors would have to pass an exam to earn a permit from the Department of Pedestrian Etiquette. Violations included:
Blocking the sidewalk or any public area in a large group or just standing like an idiot in the middle of pedestrian traffic. Also referred to as “Clumping.”
Weaving from side to side oblivious to busy New Yorkers trying to get the hell around you.
Walking with your face in a map or mobile device.
Excessive arm swinging or bag swinging.
Stopping on a bike path with a big group to take pictures of squirrels.
It’s fun to be snarky about it, but actually seething over annoying sidewalk behavior can trigger something akin to road rage. Dr. Leon James, psychology professor at the University of Hawaii, developed a Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome Scale. You’re edging into this territory when you exhibit behaviors like muttering or bumping into others. When venting about such behaviors are encouraged, it can set off conditions like “intermittent explosive disorder.”
“If you feel yourself getting angry, change the way you think,” says Dr. Shonda Lackey, a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York. “Tap into your sense of humor.”
Use data to avoid crowds
And of course, you can always try to avoid crowds altogether. Startups like Placemeter, which uses sensors to “quantif[y] the movement of modern cities, at scale,” have also collected quantitative and qualitative information about walking habits.
The company studied pedestrian traffic in highly congested Times Square to see whether there were ideal times to go to skirt the sidewalk madness.
Placemeter
They discovered that there were blissful lulls on weekdays between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Those hoping to avoid sardine-style travel conditions should leave a wide berth on the weekends.
“We’ve found that each block has an individual personality—an individual profile—that is determined by how people interact with and travel through it,” says Placemeter co-founder Florent Peyre. “In Philadelphia, we’ve been working with the Center City District to understand how people use the new public plaza, Dilworth Park, in front of City Hall. We’re looking at the volume of pedestrian traffic as well as patterns in pedestrian flow within the park.”
As the movement of people in public spaces continues to attract the attention of intrepid startups and civic organizations, we’ll no doubt start to learn more ways that we can all move around together without driving each other crazy.
Top image: ymgerman/Shutterstock.com.
Rachel Pincus was born and raised in New York City, where she still lives. She has written about architecture and design for PSFK.
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Most of us probably think of America as being settled by British, Protestant colonists who fought the Indians, tamed the wilderness, and brought "democracy"-or at least a representative republic-to North America. To the contrary, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman's research indicates the earliest settlers were of Mediterranean extraction, and of a Jewish or Muslim religious persuasion. Sometimes called "Melungeons," these early settlers were among the earliest nonnative "Americans" to live in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. For fear of discrimination-since Muslims, Jews, "Indians," and other "persons of color" were often disenfranchised and abused-the Melungeons were reticent regarding their heritage. In fact, over time, many of the Melungeons themselves "forgot" where they came from. Hence, today, the Melungeons remain the "last lost tribe in America," even to themselves. Yet, Hirschman, supported by DNA testing, genealogies, and a variety of historical documents, suggests that the Melungeons included such notable early Americans as Daniel Boone, John Sevier, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Andrew Jackson. Once lost, but now, forgotten no more.
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Published: November 21, 2019, 12:10 pm
Tags: 4Frenzy, Sports, Football, Henry Ford II
Spotlight: Henry Ford II’s ‘Favorite Quarterback’ Joshua Byers
Josh completes his pass for a Fan Choice Award
Henry Ford H.S Football Team Josh Byers #8 (2019)
DETROIT – Favorite School Subject: Math
Favorite Place: Partridge Creek in Clinton Twp.
Favorite Artist: J. Cole
Role Model: Baker Mayfield
Favorite Person to Spend the Day With: His Cousin Jeremy
Josh Byers (right) (2019)
Joshua Byers is a junior at Henry Ford II, and he’s no newbie to football. He says that he was born into a football family and has played since the age of five. However, this is the first time that he has won one of Local 4′s 4Frenzy Fan Choice Awards.
It would be safe to say that Joshua’s favorite sport is football. He says that he has a close connection to family and friends through the sport, which started with father. Josh’s father coached football and played during his time in college. However, it doesn’t stop just there - Josh’s cousins play, too.
Joshua made a new family when he started playing for Henry Ford II. He says he immediately bonded with his teammates. In total, Josh will have four families this year - he plays basketball, as well as football, and plans to join the track team come springtime.
Josh Byers #8 (2019)
You Can "Snap Count" on Josh
Josh says that football has helped him conquer his personal adversity. “Sometimes I’m really hard on stuff when things go the wrong way. I’ve really worked this season on keeping positive and keeping my team positive.”
At the end of the day, academics still hold priority over everything else. As Josh puts it, “School is going to take me where I want to go in life.” He says that for anyone who wants to get into football while in school, “Focus on academics first and the sport will come after.” Josh is confidant that dedication will lead to future success.
Being a winner himself, that’s some sage advice from Joshua! Congratulations on your “Favorite Quarterback” Fan Choice Award!
We want to thank our 4Frenzy sponsors for their support! DMC Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine, Hungry Howie’s, Meijer, Southeast Michigan Ford Dealers, and Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation (Project Play: Southeast Michigan).
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Clydebank man lodges petition to record vaping-related illnesses and death figures
A CLYDEBANK man is aiming to encourage the Scottish Government to record figures relating to vaping-related illnesses and deaths.
Craig Edward has lodged a petition on the matter to the Scottish Parliament which will be considered by the Public Petitions Committee at its meeting on Thursday, January 16.
Craig, 30, from Radnor Park, told the Post: “The main reason I started this petition is because of the numerous people I see around Clydebank with ‘flavoured’ vaping oils and tobacco products such as bubblegum and chocolate which clearly are marketed at younger age groups which I think is irresponsible.
“After some research, I found that vaping related deaths and illnesses are not recorded in Scotland, like traditional cigarettes are.
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“Monitoring of vaping is also not done with expectant mothers, which is a missed health intervention opportunity.
“I am not saying that vaping is good, bad or indifferent. What I am trying to achieve is the Scottish Government enforcing health boards to record vaping data to enable evidence-based research and data gathering.
“We know very little about the long term health outcomes of vaping, and we already have terrible health outcomes in the west of Scotland.
“This is a sensible public health approach that will benefit many people for years to come.”
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