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Sunset Kids
Album Review of Sunset Kids by Jesse Malin.
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Release Date: Aug 30, 2019
Record label: Wicked Cool
Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Sunset Kids - Very Good, Based on 1 Critics
At some point along the way, Jesse Malin stopped being a punk on the make and became a rock & roll troubadour. In the 21st century, old rock & rollers eventually wind their way toward Americana territory. Malin first got there in the early 2000s, spending time with Ryan Adams but eventually striking up a lasting friendship with Lucinda Williams. He wrote a song about her in 2007 and they found common ground in a shared love of Lou Reed and the Stones, a connection that eventually led to Williams producing 2019's Sunset Kids.
'Sunset Kids'
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Time For City Council Districts in Everett?
Everett’s Charter is getting its 10 year review.
City Council Districts by geography have been implemented in several Puget Sound cities and now the City of Everett Charter Review Committee is taking a look. The committee recently heard from only three people at its public hearing but that was enough to get the process moving. Last September one of the people now serving on the committee, Megan Dunn, proposed to the city council a plan to have five separate districts by geography with two districts at large. You can see that proposal and a suggested district map below.
Everett Districts with Streets (1)
Proposal-District Elections in Everett-final (2)
At the city council presentation on September 30th, council members voiced their desire to have the charter review committee consider city council districts. Dunn will be presenting her proposal to the Charter Review Committee at a future meeting.
It has also been suggested that council districts be determined by income bracket to better represent all of Everett with 1 district having a household income under $25,000.00 a year, 2 districts, $25,000 – $50,000 a year, 3 districts $50,000 – $100,000 a year and 1 district $100,000+.
Whatever the Charter Review Committee decides, it is only an advisory board and the city council does not have to implement any recommendations.
Other things the committee is expected to look at in the coming weeks include changing the name of those who serve on the city council to councilperson instead of councilman and removing the requirement that there has to be a city council meeting every week.
You can learn more about what the charter review committee is doing and give your input by clicking here.
Their next meeting is set for this Thursday at 4:30 PM in the Wall Street building.
charter review, Everett charter, redistricting
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2 Responses to “Time For City Council Districts in Everett?”
Division by income, fascinating idea but I’m not sure it’s a good one. Low income people are usually less active in politics to start with, and many of them are low income because of poor choices they make – and do we need more poor choices in Everett? I like the geographic options though.
What problems can’t more city beauracracy solve?
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Norman…Is That You? (1976)
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Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5. USA, 1976. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Screenplay by Ron Clark, Sam Bobrick, George Schlatter, based on the play by Ron Clark, Sam Bobrick. Cinematography by Gayne Rescher. Produced by George Schlatter. Music by William Goldstein. Production Design by Stephen Myles Berger. Costume Design by Michael Travis. Film Editing by George Folsey Jr.. Podcast: Bad Gay Movies.
Tamara Dobson and Redd Foxx in Norman Is That You.
Redd Foxx leaves Tucson and shows up at his son’s Los Angeles apartment unannounced, shocked by what he finds: a man in his boy’s bed! Grappling with the news that his son is gay, Foxx goes on a soul search that includes buying a stack of books from a local bookstore and hiring a prostitute (Tamara Dobson) to put his son on the right path. He also has to deal with the reason he showed up in the first place, that his wife (a divine Pearl Bailey) has left him for his brother, while son Michael Warren takes comfort in the arms of his best friend Vernee Watson for what I assume is a challenge to his identity but which is never actually addressed. This lightweight adaptation of the Broadway play has a sitcom television look and feel, right down to the no-fourth-wall set; Foxx is terrific and delivers his funniest lines with finesse, but the multi-camera filming (done to save money) looks subpar and the script, in trying to be sensitive to all viewpoints, is mediocre and lacks dramatic power. As is often the case with films that pretend to have gay characters at their centre (Happy Birthday Gemini comes to mind), it’s actually about straight people dealing with their issues of tolerance while gay people sit in the background, rarely getting to explore their own fears and desires (like the fact that Warren’s relationship with Dennis Dugan hits a crisis that is also not really dealt with).
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Widstedt (Anvil Creek)
Prospect, Active?
Au; Sb
arsenopyrite; gold; pyrite; stibnite
The Widstedt prospect is at an elevation of about 250 feet in a small drainage on the south flank of Bonanza Hill (elevation 640 feet) and about 500 feet due west of the Snake River road. It is locality 20 of Hummel (1962 [MF 247]) and included in locality 48 of Cobb (1972 [MF 463], 1978 [OFR 78-93]). The map loction is just inside the west-central boundary of section 36, T. 10 S., R. 34 W., Kateel River Meridian.
The Widstedt prospect lies within or near the Anvil Creek fault and related shear zones that are as much as 120 feet wide. The deposit consists of quartz-calcite veins that contain arsenopyrite, pyrite, and locally stibnite.
The veins commonly cut schist or are localized in shear zones (Collier and others, 1908; Brooks, 1916; Mertie, 1918 [B 662-I, p. 425-449]; Cathcart, 1922). Pyrite and arsenopyrite also are disseminated in schist adjacent to the veins, and some sulfide-rich zones are as much as 15 feet wide. Stibnite lenses with little quartz occur at this prospect and some stibnite ore has reportedly been produced (Mertie, 1918 [B 662-I, p. 425-449]; Cathcart, 1922). Material from a dump next to a water-filled shaft consisted of finely crystalline stibnite associated with pyrite and arsenopyrite in small veinlets cutting quartz and schist. An open cut exposed a 12 foot-wide zone of quartz stringers cut by veinlets of finely crystalline stibnite.
The Anvil Creek fault is a through-going high-angle structure that inthis area juxtaposes different types of graphitic schist and dark graphitic quartzite in this area (Hummel, 1962 [MF 247]). Bedrock is mostly graphitic schist, probably of early Paleozoic protolith age (Hummel, 1962 [MF 247]; Sainsbury, Hummel, and Hudson, 1972 [OFR 72-326]; Till and Dumoulin, 1994; Bundtzen and others, 1994).
Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a) and/or possibly simple Sb deposits (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 27d).
36a, 27d?
Mid-Cretaceous; vein cuts schist metamorphosed during the mid-Cretaceous; see NM207.
An exploration shaft was filled with water by 1920; some open-cut surface workings are also present (Cathcart, 1922). In 1916, the total length of underground workings on lode gold prospects in Anvil Creek valley was several hundred feet (Mertie, 1918 [B 662-I, p. 425-449]).
Yes; small
A small amount of antimony ore is reported to have been mined from the Widstedt prospect (Mertie, 1918 [B 662-I. p. 425-449]).
Brooks, A.H., 1916, Antimony deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 649, 67 p.
Bundtzen, T.K., Reger, R.D., Laird, G.M., Pinney, D.S., Clautice, K.H., Liss, S.A., and Cruse, G.R., 1994, Progress report on the geology and mineral resources of the Nome mining district: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Public Data-File 94-39, 21 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
Cathcart, S.H., 1922, Metalliferous lodes in southern Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 722-F, p. 163-261.
Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 78-93, 213 p.
Collier, A.J., Hess, F.L., Smith, P.S., and Brooks, A.H., 1908, The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 328, 343 p.
Hummel, C.L., 1962, Preliminary geologic map of the Nome C-1 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-247, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1918, Lode mining and prospecting on Seward Peninsula, in Brooks, A.H., and others, Mineral resources of Alaska, report on progress of investigations in 1916: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 662, p. 425-449.
Sainsbury, C.L., Hummel, C.L., and Hudson, Travis, 1972, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Nome quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 72-326, 28 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Till, A.B., and Dumoulin, J.A, 1994, Geology of Seward Peninsula and St. Lawrence Island, in Plafker, G., and Berg, H.C., eds., The Geology of Alaska: Geological Society of America, DNAG, The Geology of North America, v. G-1, p. 141-152.
C.C. Hawley and Travis L. Hudson
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The Hungry Island
In early February, the Singapore government announced its plans to eventually support and sustain 6.5 million people on our little island. Right now we're already the 2nd most crowded country in the world.
Blogger Alex Au (aka Yawning Bread) was not too concerned about this. In his analysis, he considered three broad areas - housing, transport and leisure. Alex gave examples of how it could or would be possible to create adequate space in Singapore for 6.5 million people. For example, build taller flats; build more train lines; build more linkways between buildings; build taller shopping centres and cineplexes.
All his suggestions share one common element - build. Perhaps that's what has recently terrified Indonesia. Construction requires concrete, and concrete requires sand, and Singapore has little of its own. So we must get what we need from our neighbours.
According to the Times article below, in 1965 Singapore was 581 sq km (224 sq miles); but by 2007, it had grown to 650 sq km and also plans to acquire another 100 sq km in the next 30 years. Furthermore it is not merely that our surface area is expanding; we are also building underground (eg more and more MRT lines) and upwards (taller and taller buildings) and all these activities require natural resources.
When we see things in this light, we may begin to realise that Indonesia may have genuine environmental concerns about Singapore grabbing its sand. Sometimes we may be overly inclined to think of Singapore as the poor whipping boy of its big, nasty neighbours. We might also see the recent sand ban as Singapore's latest whipping. But if you were Indonesia, wouldn't it be legitimate for you to be a little concerned about your vanishing islands?
TIMES March 17, 2007
Singapore accused of land grab as islands disappear by boatload
Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor
With more than 17,000 islands — from the jungly expanses of Borneo and Sumatra to unnamed rocks jutting out of the sea — you may think that Indonesia would not mind if a few of them went missing. But the huge South-East Asian nation has become caught up in a furious dispute with Singapore, its tiny neighbour, which is accused of literally making off with its territory.
Indonesia has banned the export of sand and imposed strict controls on shipments of gravel, after fears that its islands were being loaded on to ships and carried away to Singapore. In its thirst for building materials and landfill to reclaim new territory from the sea, Indonesians allege, Singapore has been stealing the land beneath their feet.
The dispute reached a climax this week after 24 tugs and barges, carrying granite chips, were intercepted by the Indonesian authorities as they sailed home to Singapore. Jakarta announced that future exports would be allowed only if the granite could be certified as environmentally friendly.
Since Indonesia announced its ban on sand in February, the price of a cubic metre of it has increased more than seven times, from S$6.5 (£2.18) to S$50. The Indonesian Navy has mobilised 18 ships to intercept gravel pirates and sand bandits.
“Some of these islands are reduced to islets, and could even disappear below the surface,” Hendropriyono, Indonesia’s former intelligence chief, has said. “This could theoretically lead to a cartographic zero-sum game in which Singapore’s gain could be at Indonesia’s territorial loss.”
Relations between Singapore and its neighbours have been tense since the city state became independent from Malaysia in 1965, and disagreements often arise over natural resources. The Singaporean achievement was to create an affluent, highly educated society in a swampy, jungly, malarial island with a population of 4.5 million people at the tip of the Malaysian peninsula.
Singapore’s reliance on its neighbours gives them powerful leverage over it — in the past Malaysia, with whom relations are particularly prickly, has threatened to cut off water supplies across the Straits of Johor. But the sand sanctions are equally threatening.
After years of stagnation, Singapore is undergoing a construction boom, with an increased demand for sand for the manufacture of concrete. The island also has long-term plans to ease its overcrowding by reclaiming land from the sea.
At independence, Singapore was 581 sq km (224 sq miles); now it is 650 sq km and plans to acquire another 100 sq km in the next 30 years. It gets through 1.5 billion cubic metres (2 billion cubic yards) of dredged silica a year — 333 cubic metres for each man, woman and child. The Government has been forced to draw on its strategic sand reserve, which Singapore hoards as other nations keep stocks of oil and food.
There may be more to Indonesia’s position than a sudden rush of environmental conscientiousness. If Indonesia really does lose islands, it also risks losing the rights to the ocean surrounding them. “The Convention on the Law of the Sea dictates that national territory is traced according to the coastal base line, and if islands near Singapore disappear, then the base line is pulled closer to the mainland,” says Mr Hendropriyono. “As it now stands, Singapore is only 20 kilometres from Nipah island, which has been especially eroded by the loss of sand.”
le radical galoisien said...
I wish the Times wouldn't capitalise "government". The Straits Times does it regularly (in a sort of reverence for the Great Leaders) but it doesn't mean the ang mo papers should do it too!
I think Indonesia is making a bit of an excuse. How many islands (probably uninhabited) can we destroy? We're an island in itself. Indonesia has forest fires that destroy millions and millions of acres and suddenly it worries about a few islands.
I think Indonesia is more concerned about us expanding and increasing our power than it is about losing their territorial integrity.
And I think most people should concur with Alex Au anyway - the only real reason why we're so crowded is that naturally not too many countries are city-states.
I totally don't buy the argument that Singapore's purchase of sand will erode Indonesia territorial rights. If there is a concern, the sand can be from inland sources, and hence there will be no change to coastlines.
Furthermore I think construction sand is river sand, and not the sand we get on the beach.
If there is a concern on environment, then why are the Indons not spending the same effort they use in the sand ban to control illegal burning of forests? When did Indon govt become tree huggers?
This is a clear case of bully politics.
Wuuu...Insidious.
In singapore blogosphere now only like this mah. Brotherhood press or nothing lah. So we all have to wait for them to write lah. It is really quite sad brotherhood press or brotherhood press.
In between nothing lah, kosong so we have to wait lah, I am sure they will explain, they always do lah
Ned Stark said...
Hmmmm...with regards to the sand issue and the haze...
Assuming that Indonesia does not suffer from the effects of the forest fires as much as her neighbours, then perhaps on Indonesia's part the sand mining, for lack of a better word, will cause more harm to the environment than haze. I mean if the wind blows the haze to other countries than its the other countries who bear the brunt; while the mining of sand will cause soil erosion and all give rise to all those environmental problems. So the question is, does the haze have a severe effect on indonesia?
When has ever the Indonesian leaders been so patriotic and concerned for their country & the environment. If they really love their country so much, they should really refrain from any form of corruption if they realise that they are causing so much harm and poverty to their fellow indonesians.
From what that's reported in the media, I agree with Alex's blog that it is just an issue of internal politics that the various leaders or factions are trying to outdo each other in order to gain polical mileage all in the name of seeking to protect their own interests.
For those in the construction industry, it is common knowledge that sea sand cannot be used for mixing concrete because its high salt content would corrode the steel bars that are used to strengthen the reinforced concrete.
So if the Indonesian govt is clever enough, they should investigate & find out whether their sand from their shorelines are being mined & exported. If this is their case, then the ban is justified. But OTOH, if this is not the case, then there would be no issue of their shrinking shorelines and the export of sand would merely boils down to a matter of supply & sale of a commodity. This would effectively mean their reasons given are mere excuses as there is no need to ban the export of sand as it brings in the much needed revenue ("or bribes") for their country ("and their leaders").
Ultimately, I still believe GREED is the main reason for the ban and it is a very sad thing for their country and their countrymen.
Our neighbours are learning how to use leverage.
Makes you wonder who leads in this leveraging game.....
UNCLOS legislation dictates that ownership of surrounding waters is determined by a perimeter that's a certain distance from the coastline.
Surely their internal market for sand in construction far exceeds the external market?
Is there a ban on sand excavation from the islands in Indonesia, in addition to the ban on export?
Actually, the sand ban made me ask a few questions:
Why is it 'bully politics'? Because Singapore *needs* the sand. There are many countries that are not Indonesia have sand, so why are the sanctions so threatening? Because we have to pay more (MUCH, much more) to import from them. Why is sand so expensive from say, Australia? Because sand-mining is much more strictly controlled there. Why is it controlled? Because of environmental concerns, even if the sand is from inland sources(ask Google). Is Indonesia's concern the environment? They did say it was one of their concerns. Is it their main concern? Only they themselves will know.
I wonder what if Indonesia said something like "Cheap sand is a privilege and not a right. A transaction should only take place if both parties benefit. You cannot expect us to sell you something if we do not benefit and in fact suffer from the continued sale. It is not our fault that Singapore has not considered the impact of increased prices in sand. Nyah nyah nyah." Would it have been more diplomatic than the current stance?
A side note: I don't think the sand used for Singapore's reclaimed land is river sand. I have seen and collected sea shells in reclaimed land-- so I wouldn't doubt the sand is of a coastal origin.
You've got to be kidding me, Mr Wang. Indonesia is worried about us buying its sand??? Their reasoning is absolutely ridiculous. Gigantic Indonesia vs super extra tiny red dot Singapore...? What, they're worried that we are even going to approach 0.0000000001% of their land mass??? LOL!!! That's like a T-Rex shrieking about a fly on its toenail.
C'mon man, the Indonesians just want more bribes. They don't give a rat's arse about the environment. Some Javanese bigshot just wants an extra "gift" and doesn't want it highlighted by just asking for a price increase in the straight forward way.
What next? The Indonesians are going to demand a special tribute from us for keeping the air clean??? Don't laugh, they might do it.
rse: an interesting affair ... I want to see your collection. :p
"UNCLOS legislation dictates that ownership of surrounding waters is determined by a perimeter that's a certain distance from the coastline."
This is the key. Indonesia doesn't want us to expand our domestic waters, potentially into their territory.
I saw on National Geographic about the effect on the tsunami. Some islands in Indon grew as a result of the massive earthquake, pushing seabed up to form new land. So why are they still worried?
"sand bandits" and "sand pirates"? oh PUL-LEAZE, the majority of the bandits and pirates in the malacca strait are the indonesian navy themselves.
Hmmm, this is gotta do with the national soil or 'Tanah Air' as we say in Indonesian. The government had been selling away our national soil to another country and that is ridiculous. It's time to protect our own soil. Other agendas hidden behind it, no one can assume.
Well, Singapore can always source for new sand supplier. Why so adamant in getting the sand from Indonesia?
Singaporeans are really quite a bunch of whiners and spoilt brats.
If a seller refuses to sell for whatever reasons, he has every right to do so.
Just like any girl who refuses your date, she can tell you any kind of lame excuses she wants to.
In fact, she may be letting you off gently on that.
Grow up ... if Singapore is reportedly so darn rich and successful, it should not exploit its neighbours for cheap resources. Opportunistic, as usual and crying like a baby when the game backfired.
It's really is a question of demand and supply isn't it? It's not as if Indonesia is reneging on a contract is it? If Singapore demands more sand, then it should be paying more.
Yea, what a bunch of whiny babies, singaporeans. Perhaps, instead of whining, you should go out on the streets and protest outside Indonesian Embassy, burn the effigy of that minister or something.
The higher the tone of the whining, the higher the value of its(sand) importance.
1. I understand that Singapore has been making off Nipah Island, one of the outlying islands of Indonesia. This would have the effect of reducing Indonesia's territorial scope, according to the Convention on the Law of the Sea.
2. People who think that "Oh Indonesia is so big, why should it be concerned about losing a little sand" should recognise that it's not a short-term little problem that Indonesia is facing, but a long-term bug problem. Singapore via URA has just announced its long-term construction plans, to support 6.5 million people, up from 4.5 million - that's going to be a lot of sand.
3. Note that Indonesia doesn't actually have any moral obligation to supply sand to Singapore anyway.
I think it was someboday is this blog who said that it was actually better for Singapore when there were authoritarian regimes in our neighbouring countries as our leaders have it easier when doing business with them.
Spot on comment. When Indonesia was under President Soeharto, our leaders really only needed to deal with him as everything Soeharto says goes even though his subordinates might not like it. Things were simpler then (for us that is).
Now things are more 'wayang kulit' (the traditional Javanese shadow puppet play) where the Indonesian players don't say what they mean, and also don't mean what they say. To be fair, I think Singapore is also guilty of this.
But the fact is the premise of any commercial transaction is that there must be a willing buyer and a willing seller. Now, we don't have a willing seller and all our remonstrations against Indonesia will not do any good.
So the question is how do we make the seller willing again. Do we extradite the Chinese Indonesian businessmen wanted by Indonesian authorities along with their billions safe-harboured in Singapore? Or perhaps we can say to Indonesia - you can have your men, we don't care, but we keep the billions.
Also how would this impact on the other billionaires from other parts of the world whose wealth we want to attract to Singapore to manage. So perhaps sand is not so critical after all, we're just have to pay more to buy from other sources and live with the consequences.
Frankly we have no moral high ground here, because we're not actually prosecuting any Indonesian businessmen in Singapore on corruption charges. We just let them stay here and do as they please. Meanwhile, the Indonesia government wants to sign an extradition treaty so that we will send these suspected Indonesians home - but we refuse?
"The government had been selling away our national soil to another country and that is ridiculous. "
How so? I disagree that it's a zero sum game.
"Singapore via URA has just announced its long-term construction plans, to support 6.5 million people, up from 4.5 million - that's going to be a lot of sand."
Not really. Reclaiming 100 sq. km is not really much, which is what I see as necessary for the accomodation of 2 million more people (the ratio of carrying capacity to the amount of territory is not a linear relationship).
"It's really is a question of demand and supply isn't it? It's not as if Indonesia is reneging on a contract is it? If Singapore demands more sand, then it should be paying more."
But the issue is still plenty of sand and perhaps some increased demand.
From the fact that there are "black market" transports shows that the private industry in Indonesia seems to be content with the prices for them to run the blockade anyhow.
It's the government who is implementing the protectionist measures on the commerce.
"it should not exploit its neighbours for cheap resources."
Exploit? Really? Not many other countries buy sand because they don't need it. Are any villages perishing because of the taking of sand?
Peak Oil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Oil) might pose some problems for Singapore...we'll have to rely more on our neighbours for all necessities than before.
Better foster better relations with them. We'll need them. Signs are begining to show that we either peaked in 2005, or will peak before 2010 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Oil#Peak_oil_production.E2.80.94has_it_happened_already.3F).
Considering we import virtually all our food, and have no natural resources of our own, the effects of Peak Oil can be quite devastating. Financial system might unravel also. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Oil#Implications_of_an_unmitigated_world_peak)
Considering most of us are blissfully unaware of this, let's work it into the equation here...
"Reclaiming 100 sq. km is not really much, which is what I see as necessary for the accomodation of 2 million more people (the ratio of carrying capacity to the amount of territory is not a linear relationship)."
1. Why is it Indonesia's duty to help you?
2. Apart from surface area expansion, what about upward expansion and underground expansion in Singapore?
3. Do you not think that projects like the Integrated Resorts; the new Marina Bay Business District; Changi Airport Terminal 3; the MRT Circle Line; the Downtown Line; and the 40-storey HDB flats add up to a lot of sand?
Scarcity of commodities is a problem for many countries, not just Singapore. For instance, China is also struggling to find enough steel for its construction. Peak Oil is going to be a problem for all non-oil-producing countries. Water is already a problem for many countries, not just Singapore.
Scarcity of natural commodities is a worldwide problem, don't be so quick to cry "Bully politics! Bully politics!"
I have encountered an interesting article from an Indonesian perspective (that doesn't involve territorial disputes), there are many facts and figures I have not encountered elsewhere. It is unfortunately written in Indonesian, but I'll try to summarise with my limited command of Indonesian.
TITLE: Periuk Nasi Daerah Terkuras
(District's Rice Bowl Threatened(?))
The ban of export on land sand (this is the first time I have seen the reference to the ban as land sand ban rather than just 'sand') is causing worries to producers and the government in Riau. The 10s of million rupiah industry of sand export is gone. Jobs threatened yada. yada. Numbers involving amount of money and sand in the export. One or two sentences to the effect of environmental damage outweighs whatever benefits.
That's not he interesting part. The article claims that there is a tendency for Singaporean importers to (organize/arrange/influence? word: diatur) the price of sand until the price is depressed. It also claims that Singaporean importers are providing capital for mining equipment, further depressing prices. Somewhere in the article it states only 10 percent of miners are entirely self-financed.
Before ban, sand was 15 dollars per tonne, After ban: sand price increased to 60 dollars per tonne. It states that the Singaporean government is currently subsidizing sand at 250 million SGD, thus the price of sand is 34 dollars per tonne. Despite this, importers refuse to adjust the prices upwards to 34, which is closer to the price of Chinese sand (27-30 dollars cost of freight/insurance?). The low price of Indonesian sand because of dependence of exporters Singapore.
My Indonesian is not good enough to understand the rest of the article, but I believe it says there are other (local) concerns than just haggling over price but concerns with regulation and usage of funds. There is some talk about possibility of negotiation involving shares and assets at the end.
http://www.kompas.com/kompas-cetak/0703/17/Fokus/3393450.htm
Thus, the issue involves some dimension of 'exploitation' (or perception of) as well. So much for the moral high ground.
P.S Small sea shells could be found at Punggol in some undeveloped fields! You might find (harmless) snakes and huge lizards also. :p
Since people are fighting over numbers, here are some fun numbers (from article above, which they attribute to an anonymous importer):
Number of ships importing sand and granite (per day): 150 ships
Last year (ships per day): 50 ships
Sand/granite per ship: 2.500 metric tonnes - 3.000 metric tonnes.
Carry on. I also learned that Indonesian newspapers are much more fun to read than Malaysian of Singapore ones. I'll be reading them if anyone needs me.
Indonesia has no duty to help Singapore, but I don't think its bully politics. It's Realpolitik. What do you think the rest of the world is doing to each other?
The use of environmental cover is just part of our Asian tradition of avoiding bald statements about what you REALY want.
Seems to me that the amount of sand that we take per day has TRIPLED:
between last year and this year.
Now if we had only been taking as much sand as we used to, this probably wouldn't have been a problem. But it seems now that we are taking sand as quickly as we are importing foreign talent.
Alex Au forgot one thing we need to build. We need a bigger shit-hole as well. A friendly neighbourhood, environmentally friendly big shit-hole.
I once e-mailed Lau Goh about how we even need to buy water (water also need to buy ah!). He was not happy.
Now what we need is a big shit-hole. Buy or build? Alex Au very expert on shit-holes.
I have read the article and your English translation of the article is quite good.
It's right that in the article it mentioned "...eksportir pasir darat selama ini cenderung diatur oleh importir dari Singapura sehingga harga pun ditekan..." which means that all this time, the sand exporters were more likely to be controlled by Singapore's importer.
And then it went on to say that the exporters' capital was only to arrange for the license and prepare for the area to be dig up. The capital for the equipment to dig the sand was supplied by the same importers that the exporters sold the sand to. That's why the selling price was brought down.
In another article found titled 'Jangan Jual Tanah Air!', the writer claimed that initially Singapore was only willing to offer SGD3/m3. The price was definitely not proportionate to the price of sand sold locally. When the earthquake rocked Yogyakarta, the people has to buy the sand at Rp 100000/m3, which was equivalent to SGD16/m3 to build their houses!
le radical galoisien,
You said that it's not a zero sum game. What about the environmental damage suffered and the high opportunity cost to develop the area? As the result of selling the sand in Nipah Island, Indonesian government has to spend RP 250 million (abt SGD 42 mil, compare this to the revenue from the sale of the sand, which is only ard SGD 3 mil pa) to reclaim the land to prevent it from sinking into sea. What about other cost for other sinking islands?
And you can't just assume that because there is plenty of sand in Indonesia and some increased demand in Singapore, the Indonesian has to give in to the demand. If we do not start controlling the sand export, one by one all the island will just disappear.
Yes, there is plenty of sand in the world, not just in Indonesia. China is offering cheaper price at the moment. :-)
"Exploit? Really?" Oh yes, really.
First, the importers pressed down the price. They know that the exporters has no means to get the equipment so they supplied the equipment in return for a low price. How nice.
Second, after digging up the land, they just go and enjoy without concerning about the sinking land and let the Indonesian government worry and clean up the mess.
If we were to extradite every Indonesian (or ex-Indonesian) who have ever engaged in corrupt practices in Indonesia during the Suharto era, our property market would probably collapse.
onekell said...
Since buildings are demolished so frequently (eg. en-bloc redevelopments), I wonder if we could recycle more of the materials required for construction, so that we could be more self-sufficient.
"If we were to extradite every Indonesian (or ex-Indonesian) who have ever engaged in corrupt practices in Indonesia during the Suharto era, our property market would probably collapse."
Property market for bungalows...
And who would suffer in the process? Singapore's rich. Let them suffer, anyway. It's them who are artificially elevating the private housing prices.
"And you can't just assume that because there is plenty of sand in Indonesia and some increased demand in Singapore, the Indonesian has to give in to the demand. If we do not start controlling the sand export, one by one all the island will just disappear."
No, Indonesia is not obligated to help us. But what I see for example is the Indonesian government placing a *government control* (e.g. not free market) on a private industry.
We don't have to reclaim from islands; furthermore, I was unaware they intended to develop those islands.
To me, it's the fact that if those islands sink into the ocean (through a process of erosion, I assume), then domestic water territory is at stake.
I really doubt the Indonesian government is doing it for "environmental" reasons, given its slow reaction to the haze fires. It's only stepping in because it doesn't want Singapore's territory to expand and its water boundaries with it.
The Indonesian
Before you start flaying at the price, the key issue who supplied everything, in this case, hence, of course the pricing will depend on the actual cost of production,
Let me also remind that all mines must be owned in the majority by Indonesians.
Further, all sand dredgers need to be licensed by the govt of indonesia as well as with the local authorities as they operate in Indonesian waters. Further such shipping companies needs to be majority owned by Indonesian shareholders.
Further, under Indonesian law, all sand mines or or sand exporters pay an environmental tax of S$5 per MT, so the question should be refered back to, where is the funds being used for all the large quantities being exported/mined.
So please look to the officials first before referring to the environment.
Whatever Indonesia's intentions, it has its prerogatives.
Singapore is just getting its fair desserts....
I am Singaporean but I don't feel the partriotic need to defend ourselves blindly.
Either give what they want or look another way. I thought that's why we pay ministers millions to find solutions?
Perhaps, it is a blessing in disguise because the elites are starting to realise Singapore is really a tiny red dot without anything except loads of foreign trash.
"But if you were Indonesia, wouldn't it be legitimate for you to be a little concerned about your vanishing islands?"
I could possibly be convinced if they had showed more concern about their vanishing forests going up in foul, smoky haze almost ritually every year.
If anyone believes the sand ban is truly based on environmental concerns, there is a bridge in the Arizona Desert I wish to sell you.
Well, then. Answer these questions:
1. Do you think that the sand ban is environmentally beneficial to Indonesia?
2. If so, should Singaporeans feel angry that the Indonesian government is doing something environmentally beneficial for their country>
Indonesia should perhaps ban the sale of island sand, if that's causing such a huge problem.
But there's no reason to ban the sale of sand from other sources. Singapore levelled Redhill to reclaim land, as I recall.
And it's also the fact that it's a market control.
1. Do you think that clean air is environmentally beneficial to Singapore and Malaysia?
2. If so, should Singaporeans and Malaysians not feel angry that the very environmentally concious Indonesian government is not doing much to stop forest fires that create very unhealthy hazes in neighbouring countries?
The bottomline is the Indonesian government is clearly doing the sand ban for political than environmental reasons. Hence arguments focusing on the environment are largely rthethorical in nature.
I feel that Indonesia most certainly have the right to withdraw the sale of sand, or granite even. But the ban coming at such a time will most certainly be accompanied by the intention to hurt Singapore - possibily to leverage on other issues like the extradition treaty.
As the Minister George Yeo mentioned, Singapore must never ever bow to external pressure, because doing so will most certainly invite even more pressure. By resorting to the sand ban the Indonesian government may possibly have doomed the extradition treaty.
We should totally sacrifice susu island or ubin for our sand shortage.
Oh... I forgot... if we do that.. it will affect our territorial scope.
Really? The country that allows blatant ritualistic destruction of its forests and whores its trees for paper, the country that causes SEA to be enveloped in a carcenogenic haze, is CONCERNED ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT???
We TAKE their sand? I'm pretty sure we pay for it.
You've belabored the point about being an investment banking lawyer, but your logic really fails me. Fault us for having lousy press freedom or welcoming too much foreign labor by all means, you'd have some valid points, but anyone who takes Indonesia's side on this issue is a fool.
Singapore also has some pretty lame excuses lah, like increasing GST to help the poor. LOL
I don't see potential tourists making a big hoo-hah over our GST increase.
"We TAKE their sand? I'm pretty sure we pay for it."
Sure we do. And if they refuse to sell, we have a right to be angry? Are you sure?
Don't waste time with the enviromental excuse. Don't waste your energy on it.
The real issue is simply politics and corruption - Spore refused to sign an extradiction treaty that would see the repatriation of millions and billion of $ and thier owners back to Indonesia for some obvious and not so obvious reasons.
Secondly, Spore has obviously refused to pay what must have been a massive bribe demanded in lieu of this from the Indons.
Environmental issues, border concern, etc are just very convenient reasons trotted out for the Indons to justify their actions.
Please, lah. Singapore is not coming very clean on this either.
Initially Singapore claimed that the reason why it couldn't sign the extradition treaty yet was because Indonesia is a civil law country and Singapore is a common law system and the differences in the legal systems make the treaty tricky to work.
What a lame excuse. Two-thirds of the countries in the world are civil law; one-third are common law; I don't see any other country in the way saying that they can't sign treaties because the other country has a different legal system.
Oh, but after that, Singapore suddenly changed reasons and said: "If you sign my defence treaty, I'll sign your extradition treaty."
Now, who started giving lame excuses first.
Of cos we have a right to be angry with a country whose bizmen poured in billions of ill-gotten gains into our economy in the 80s and 90s.
I noticed that many Singaporeans tend to have the following traits in response to the current sand situation.
1) Because we have a shortfall, you have to be sympathetic and sell it to us.
- The same with the water issue and now the same with the sand issue. Our neighbors may be resource rich, but that does that mean they are obliged to sell their resource to us at our convenience/demand? Imagine your neighbor asking to share your car while paying only for the petrol he uses, just because you own a car and he does not.
2) Because we are more affluent and can afford to pay, you must sell it to us.
- No doubt the money we pay for importing these resources will go to aid the exporting nation. But just because we are willing to pay justifies the need for them to sell? Sadly, we think it is very normal to do so. Just look at the number of more affluent foreigners buying up the limited property area in up-market locations locally. I am quite alarmed as a Singaporean. Indonesia is lamenting about loss of territorial space, well at least they are complaining! Singaporeans may have to live in “affordable” public housing in the future while a huge majority of private exclusive freehold (or perceived better) housing belongs to the elite foreigners whom the ruling party is so desperately trying to court. Now, I call that loss of territory.
3) Decimation of your resource is ok, because you are less decimated.
- The developed nations have often used this excuse when approving for their industries to dump toxic wastes in developing countries, just because they are “less polluted”. To many, this is even commendable as it helps the developing country earns revenue it would otherwise not have received! Just because Indonesia is doing a hell of a lousy job controlling their forest fires, it makes it ok for us to decimated their islands? Whether or not their ban is politically driven, it makes me sick to think that we justify it this way. Maybe your neighbor shouldn’t flush after using your toilet, hell your floors aint that clean anyway!
4) We are the victims here.
- Actually there is nothing wrong with this statement. I just feel that the nation may be directing their anger at the wrong party. Assuming that the ban is politically driven as the ruling party & the media so expertly tries to make it appear; wouldn’t it be targeting at the policies set by the ruling party? I believe that the ruling party will protect the interest of our nation by not giving in to unfavorable demands but the speed and efficiency at which they work will directly affect the well-being of the citizens. The ban currently affects the building contractors’ profitability. As alternative sources of sand or other building materials are sought in the future, the prices of construction would increase correspondingly. The prices of housing and rental of commercial area would also increase, adding to the burden of the locals. Even if the government were to subsidize the cost, this will still comes from the taxpayers and in the form of higher taxes (GST?). Of course if wages were to rise at least proportionately to meet this higher cost of living, it would not be such a big problem but we all know its not gonna happen.
How much of this is imbedded in us as a Singaporean culture and how much is triggered by the biased reporting of the local media? What has happened had happened, so lets get on with it. We pay the ruling party millions of dollars a year and we should demand that they provide what they are paid for – solutions for the people. Stop making you look like the victim here, engage the affected parties and solve the problem.
"What has happened had happened, so lets get on with it..."
We are. Our Govt is trying to encourage construction using steel and glass- and other products.
Meanwhile don't you find it appallingly ridiculous that Indonesia, yes the same nation that burns enough trees to cause a regional haze pollution, is banning the sale of sand to Singapore for "environmental regions"? Indonesia, that nation which is about a billion times larger than Singapore, is actually complaining about the sale of sand???? And the elephant said to the ant, "Please get off my back, you're too heavy!!!!"
Haahahahaha... ROFL!!!!
Well u could say that, but if the haze does not affect indon as much as the sand mining then its no wonder that they are banning sand.
Another thought, what if the environmental cost of sand mining outweighs the benefits of sand trade?
The forest burnings were not for fun or to irritate others> They were done for economic reasons
It's damn satisfying to see Singapore get beaten at its own game, to get a wrench thrown into its grandiose machinery of plans.
6.5 million - those materials will be needed to make space for accomodation, either more land reclamation, or taller buildings and smaller residential spaces (you're seeing them now).
Tough shit Singapore. Those are Indonesia's raw materials; it can decide whether to sell or not. Sucks being a small country run like a family business eh?
And patriotic SG crybabies "Singapore can do no wrong!" crying foul, accusing envy/ingratitude and screaming revenge - come on now... tit-for-tat is fairly common in diplomatic dealings. No extradition treaty, no construction materials. Add bargaining power, up the ante. If you can. Simple as that.
Anyhow, wasn't Singapore the one that claimed striving for self-sufficiency as a worthy goal? That's why Newater was born. Lessens reliance on others. Okay, how about Newsand or Newstone? Because SHIT HAPPENS sometimes and the construction industry unwittingly gets raped in the process.
Go, little red dot, go! Show them what you got. \o/ ;;|;;
To the anonymous friend who posted the last comment on Mar 24:
Yes, we may be a small nation run like a family business with largely ourselves to blame for the latter. Yes, we may be full of crybabies who wail when we don't get what we want. Add to that any number of our obnoxious traits.
But these don't come close to explaining the level of hate behind your vitriol and what I assume to be choice symbolism with which you closed your comment
Somehow, we're burning you up with hate and without much effort on our part - why, without even noticing it. Compare this: I don't hate you and that's not because I'm such a great humanist. It's really because me and the next million Singaporeans ( patriots or traitors ) don't give a shit-hole about whether you even exist, let alone your hate.
In this trade-off, you are welcome to stack all the vitriol you can manage but it's clear you're THE LOSER !
LOL. This is the first time that I've seen an ant irritate an elephant. Why don't Indonesians get off their lazy arses and stop relying on corruption and handouts and do an honest days work. Indonesia has plenty of natural resources. You'd think that they would be a world power with that much natural wealth. Obviously it goes to show that they're pretty damn dumb.
Is Indonesia really the only source o f sand? What about China or other sources?
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5 Dems to Stand Trial for Slashing GOP Tires
beardedbruce 16 Feb 05 - 04:01 AM
GUEST,Charley Noble 16 Feb 05 - 08:53 AM
GUEST,Rapaire 16 Feb 05 - 08:57 AM
GUEST 16 Feb 05 - 09:06 AM
GUEST,Azizi 16 Feb 05 - 09:19 AM
GUEST,Amos 16 Feb 05 - 09:57 AM
Peace 16 Feb 05 - 10:26 AM
GUEST,SRS 16 Feb 05 - 10:31 AM
SINSULL 16 Feb 05 - 10:34 AM
Jerry Rasmussen 16 Feb 05 - 10:36 AM
rumanci 16 Feb 05 - 10:42 AM
Alaska Mike 16 Feb 05 - 10:43 AM
khandu 16 Feb 05 - 10:49 AM
Áine 16 Feb 05 - 10:55 AM
Amos 16 Feb 05 - 11:18 AM
Stilly River Sage 16 Feb 05 - 11:21 AM
GUEST,Giok 16 Feb 05 - 11:23 AM
Little Hawk 16 Feb 05 - 11:26 AM
Once Famous 16 Feb 05 - 11:43 AM
Azizi 16 Feb 05 - 11:47 AM
hesperis 16 Feb 05 - 11:54 AM
Don Firth 16 Feb 05 - 12:28 PM
GUEST,~S~ 16 Feb 05 - 12:33 PM
Bert 16 Feb 05 - 12:41 PM
kendall 16 Feb 05 - 12:48 PM
Rapparee 16 Feb 05 - 12:49 PM
jimmyt 16 Feb 05 - 12:51 PM
Ebbie 16 Feb 05 - 01:13 PM
Bill D 16 Feb 05 - 01:25 PM
jacqui.c 16 Feb 05 - 01:38 PM
SINSULL 16 Feb 05 - 02:05 PM
Bobert 16 Feb 05 - 03:16 PM
Amos 16 Feb 05 - 04:14 PM
PoppaGator 16 Feb 05 - 04:25 PM
Once Famous 16 Feb 05 - 04:33 PM
Charley Noble 16 Feb 05 - 05:25 PM
curmudgeon 16 Feb 05 - 05:31 PM
Joe Offer 16 Feb 05 - 05:36 PM
akenaton 16 Feb 05 - 07:47 PM
Ebbie 17 Feb 05 - 02:29 AM
akenaton 17 Feb 05 - 03:38 AM
Teresa 17 Feb 05 - 03:49 AM
GUEST,McGrath of Harlow 17 Feb 05 - 05:36 AM
DougR 17 Feb 05 - 05:57 PM
McGrath of Harlow 18 Feb 05 - 04:44 AM
Nerd 18 Feb 05 - 02:17 PM
Auggie 18 Feb 05 - 02:41 PM
Subject: BS: Friends of Amos?
From: beardedbruce
MILWAUKEE — Five Democratic campaign staffers — including the sons of a congresswoman and a former city official — were ordered Tuesday to stand trial for allegedly vandalizing Republican get-out-the-vote vans on Election Day.
The five are accused of slashing the tires of 25 vans rented by the state GOP to drive voters and monitors to the polls. The felony charge carries a maximum punishment of 3 1/2 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Arraignment was set for March 4.
The defendants include the sons of Wisconsin Rep. Gwen Moore (search) and former acting Mayor Marvin Pratt (search).
At a preliminary hearing, Levar Stoney and Opel Simmons, two Democratic presidential campaign workers sent to Wisconsin in the final weeks of the campaign, testified they were in the Milwaukee headquarters when the five left just after 3 a.m. Election Day and returned shortly after.
"They seemed to be excited, excitable, kind of gleeful, laughing and kind of joking," Simmons said.
Stoney said Michael Pratt (search), the former acting mayor's son, talked about slashing a couple of tires, and Moore's son, Sowande Omokunde, also talked about the vandalism. He said at least one had a knife; he could not recall which one.
Defense attorneys suggested Stoney and Simmons were also part of an alleged plan to plaster the GOP office and property with Kerry-Edwards (search) signs and bumper stickers before polls opened. Prosecutors contend the five defendants came up with the tire-slashing plan after a security guard was posted at the GOP office.
I changed the thread title. The previous title was "Friends of Amos," which made the thread appear to be a personal attack.
-Joe Offer-
Subject: RE: BS: Friends of Amos?
From: GUEST,Charley Noble
Well, I for one hope they are all hanged.
Charley Noble
From: GUEST,Rapaire
I hope that they are all hanged, drawn, and quartered and their remains burnt and thrown into Lake Michigan, after which all records of their existence are expunged and anyone who knew them brainwashed.
This isn't new news....
Yeah, and they should punish the kids that slashed the tires, too!!!
From: GUEST,Azizi
Oh, yes, let's take one person's word and hope that the accused persons "are all hanged, drawn, and quartered and their remains burnt and thrown into Lake Michigan, after which all records of their existence are expunged and anyone who knew them brainwashed."
???!!!
Isn't that a tad EXCESSIVE for this ALLEGED crime?
Are you advocating a return of the American custom of LYNCHING?? Maybe you have forgotten or never knew that sometimes after lynching bodies were mutilated such as you described.
Furthermore, what happened to the treasured American standard of justice that a person is INNOCENT until proven guilty.
Is this what America has come to???
And what in the world does this have to do with Amos??!
I am disappointed and FURIOUS that in 2005 some people are still promoting the act of hanging, drawing, quartering, burning remains, and throwing them away like excess garbage..
This is not a racial thing.
This is a HUMAN thing.
If this thread was started with the intent of light Republican vs Democrat humor and ribbing, I for one am not laughing.
Ms. Azizi
From: GUEST,Amos
I asked Joe to delete this thread as a personal attack. It is too late, I suppose.
But BBruce, I am disappointed. This was beneath you, and if this is representative of your logical processes, I need offer no further comment.
I expect you will come to your senses about it, though. I hope so.
I have many friends here. I have many friends in real space as well.
None of them are anything like the people you have written about in your post. None of them would expect that sort of caper from me or any of my friends. You should know better, and I am sorry you did not.
You are for sure one broke-dick mammalucca.
I agree with Amos. This thread title is totally inappropriate. And B.Bruce, you're slow on the attack anyway, this is an OLD story.
"Bad winners" is what folks like BeardedBruce are being called these days. No one has cornered the market on virtue, or on crime. Many of us are not naive enough to think that our own party is perfect, or that everyone will behave well. BB trying to hang Amos in the immature behavior of some folks in Wisconsin is a petty, mean-spirited move. Not that this is out of character for BBruce, but it is something that needs to be cleaned up.
Amos is a man I am honoured to consider a good friend. This thread is shit, IMO. Thought you were better than that, BB. Guess not.
Azizi, Rapaire is one of the craziest, kindest and more intelligent people on the 'cat. His remarks were tongue in cheek.
From: GUEST,SRS
It is enough to see that name "Rapaire" to know that you must broaden your settings and consider several possibilities when interpreting his posts (the BS factor is high on the list, followed by sarcastic wit, then ironic intent, but do not forget the scholarly reference librarian underpinning).
He wouldn't really want to see all of those things happen. Worst he'd call for is to maybe put them to a little hard labor, digging those chest freezers out from under his back porch. . .
I think, however, that there should be a middle ground between the punishments suggested by Charley Noble and Rapaire. Is there a way we could work rusty nails into their punishment?
From: SINSULL
Oh dear - a joke gone bad. Amos, you know I love you. Trust me when I say the Bearded One meant this as a friendly jibe. How about we let it drop and I will help you plan some appropriate prank for the Getaway? Nair maybe or a gentle waxing? OK with you, Bruce?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
I read this thread differently.
I am a friend of Amos.
You talkin' about me?
From: rumanci
I'd hate to be the subject of an "unfriendly jibe" from you BB - and nor should my friends have to receive them
rumanci
From: Alaska Mike
I count Amos among my list of friends as well.
From: khandu
I don't know the bearded one; never have shared posting with him. I assumed upon reading his post that it was meant as friendly barb...howbeit, an odd one.
I have let my humor get a bit over the line in the Cafe a few times & thought Bb had done the same. If it was meant viciously, it will become apparent soon enough.
Dear Rapaire in fine form , was showing the ignorance of certain mentalities by taken them to the extreme.
Friends of Amos? Practically all of Mudcat holds him in high esteem & would delight in having him as a friend!
Amos is a friend of mine, too. You got a problem with that? Wanna step outside? Guns, fists, knives, swords, or just a good old fashioned cursing contest -- real curses, not namby-pamby namecalling...your choice.
From: Áine
If this were a joke, it ain't funny.
Amos is my next-best friend of the male persuasion (my first best, of course, being my husband). I can understand how this kind of joke could seem funny in one's head; however, I think it should have stayed there.
But aren't we all guilty of some mighty, mighty faux pas at one time or another in our lives? Goodness knows I'm not going to be the first one in line to throw stones -- I've got enough cracks in my glass house already!
-- Áine
From: Amos
OK, Sins, I'll consider it dropped. I'll bring the Nair. :)
You guys are the best. Thanks very, very much; your posts mean a lot to me.
It's Bb's history of annoying, ill-thought-out posts that has me reading this as a dig, not a gentle gibe or a teasing riposte. I too opened it originally thinking it was some homage to Amos. Instead here was an article about some Democratic pranksters who didn't have the good sense to leave the Republican election folks alone, and they'll pay for their crimes. It's the "guilt by association" dig that Bb was aiming at (though he may protest the matter now--anyone who has been at Mudcat over the last year knows how Bb does business, and it usually is a poorly-formed argument and countless rebuttals).
I don't think we need a thread that attempts to shackle Amos with the poor-spirited acts of the dunces in Wisconsin. And we don't need an endictment of Beardedbruce thread either, though this is likely to evolve into one if it doesn't go away pretty soon.
And I will bring the hot wax! heh heh Another prank hatched. And it was so easy to suck Amos into it.
From: GUEST,Giok
We loves ya baby.
From: Little Hawk
Yes! I am a friend of Amos. Amos is great. He is a man who should serve as an inspiration to all of us. Thanks for thinking of this worthy subject and bringing together the many friends of Amos, Bearded Bruce. :-)
From: Once Famous
OK, forget about Amos.
what do you other radicals think of this that BB posted? If it was the other way around, I am sure you would be doing the usual howling.
From: Azizi
Brucie, thanks for the head's up.
Rapaire, I'm sorry for taking literally your words upthread that were written in sarcasm. Please accept my apology for misunderstanding your intent.
I've mentioned before that sometimes I'm slow on the uptake when it comes to wit and humor. I gotta work on that...
IMO, the problem isn't slashed tires, per se; it is, rather, people who hang around on the streets carrying knives. Frankly, I don't see things like Watergate as being specifically Republican peculiarities. They are human and definitely stupid. Stupidity isn't confined to a specific part of the political spectrum.
From: hesperis
Well, I do know that in Indiana, cars with "vote kerry"-type stickers on them often had the stickers taken off again and again. I hadn't heard of any specific vandalism but there were several people worried that their car would be vandalized if they put a kerry sticker on it. I didn't hear any worries about bush stickers.
But what the actions of people on the lunatic fringe willing to obstruct democracy by vandalizing vehicles involved in the process have to do with either party, or with Amos, is rather beyond me. Isn't it just plain stupid to obstruct those with different beliefs, no matter what your beliefs are? Would you be happy that someone vandalized cars, as long as they were the "enemy" cars?
I'm a friend of Amos. And being a friend of his has nothing to do with my political beliefs.
I don't know Amos personally, but from his posts, I know him to be thoughtful and well-informed. He has the courage and incentive to advocate his views strongly, along with plenty of citations and documentation to back up what he says—something that not everybody seems to be able to do. Some people here on Mudcat who don't share that viewpoint, or perhaps especially Amos's backing up what he posts with documentation, seem to feel impelled to attack him as a person rather than attempt to present rational, well-documented arguments of their own. This is the sort of thing one expects from those who operate on their gut-reactions rather than from positions arrived at through a rigorous thought process.
That was a cheap shot.
From: GUEST,~S~
I think this qualifies as the Official Opening of Silly Season-- that annual season at Mudcat when we do the dumbest things for the silliest reasons, and spark off a round of upset among all the rest of the gang-- it's really cabin fever laced with a little SAD and CRS! It's usually best (in Silly Season) to just roll one's eyes and let "it" (whatever the manifestation) just go.
C'mon, old regulars-- admit it. It's Silly Season! No avoiding it.
From: Bert
Martin, how can we forget about Amos, he's our buddy.
That's why everyone is a bit miffed at beardedbruce.
When I first read the thread, I didn't take it as a specific dig against Amos. I felt that it could easily have been any of our Democrat posters.
As for the tire slashing. A mean spirited act of vandalism. And that is what everyone is saying when they rush to the defence of Amos.
From: kendall
First, Amos is a friend of mine.
Second, IF that charge of vandalism is true they should be punished in a manner that fits the crime. What they did hardly rises to the level of what the republicans did in Florida, driving blacks away from the polls, removing their names from the voting lists etc.
Martin, slashing tires is vandalism. I'm against that and think that WHOEVER does it should be punished. Maybe not hung, drawn and quartered, but punished. And I don't care if it were Howard Dean, Jena Bush, or Ralph Nader.
From: jimmyt
I enjoy Amos around here and have nothing against BB, but honestly, I sort of took the whole thing tongue in cheek and would be surprised if there was more of an agenda than just that. If I am wrong, you can just say,"well there is another obtuse Conservative."
Whomever did this act of vandalism is a vandal. Wrong is wrong, whether it is one party or the other.
But, back to the thread title, Bearded Bruce, if it was a joke, why not just say so and everyone will put away the brass knuckles and get back to normal?
From: Ebbie
There is one major difference between the 'liberal' Democrats and the 'conservative' Republicans. Liberals make no bones or excuses about the legality or appropriateness of vandalizing cars for whatever reason. I suspect that if it were the conservatives responding to one of their own, we'd hear totally different reasoning.
I too hope that this thread was meant as a goodnatured jab to the ribs. Anything else would be nastier than usual. Judging by what outrages him, Amos is a thoughtful and articulate good man.
From: Bill D
vandalism is vandalism, no matter whose tires were slashed......
but even suggesting that one of our members might approve of such idiocy is bad taste or careless phrasing.
Drat! I was just coming in to put my name on the long list and here it is a bad joke.
In my day, a long time ago, those "kids" would've been brought by their ears to their parents and Dad would kick their ass and make them pay for the damage and apologize.
Today, we put them in jail. That will make them better persons. (tongue in cheek) Yes, they should be strongly punished, but I have my doubts that prison would be the best teacher.
Along with all the others, I love you too, Amos.
Annamill
From: jacqui.c
I'll go with LH - this thread has shown the high esteem in which Amos is held on this site.
Sins - include me in on the Getaway mischief here. More victims!
Ebbie, Dear Lady. You say "I suspect that if it were the conservatives responding to one of their own, we'd hear totally different reasoning." Have you forgotten Watergate?
And we're off...
Actually "Friends of Amos" has a great ring to it. Sort of Old Testament Vigilantes. John Brown style, with a wild-eyes prophet bringing on the Day of Wrath...
Evidently I have forgotten Watergate, Sins. Are you saying that it was the Republicans who were outraged at the stupidity of the breakin and the Democrats who said, Oh, that's OK?
The problem is that crime is crime and not the exclusive 'property' of any given political group. The Reps had Nixon and the Dems had Clinton. Yippee. What a joy is democracy and appealing to the lowest common denominator.
I dunno about "common denominator" but it sure appeals to the lowest sometimes.
From: Bobert
Well, I told Amos that if he was gonna slash them tires that it'd come back to bite him, but would he listen to me???
Heck no, and now he's payin' the price...
Bad, Amos, bad...
Now repent and slash no more...
Rev. Bobert
Ebbie, other way around. When the Republicans broke into Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Hotel and the Democrats howled about it, it was the Republicans who tried to stonewall, hush it up, and generally make it sound like a minor prank.
Subject: RE: 5 Dems to Stand Trial for Slashing GOP Tires
I have promised Joe I would go to the Getaway and make friends with BBruce.
Thanks, guys. I love you too.
From: PoppaGator
When some idiots commit this kind of prank/crime, isn't it worse when you learn they're from one's own "side"?
I, for one, enjoy news of this kind much more when I can blame it on "those other guys." I'm sure that's how BB was feeling when he so belatedly found this bit of old news.
Why single out Amos, though? Why not, for instance, me? I feel left out...
I suppose it because Amos is not only persistent but also so thorough and diligent in assembling evidence and documentation for his arguments ~ can't get to him via reasoned debate, so only a cheap shot will do.
That's because Amos lives for this place.
this is his life, folks.
anyone who takes all of the time and trouble as he does shows how narrow an Internet life can be.
So he assembles loads of documentation proving a point here.
I'd rather just fuck around, have a good time, and do some other stuff that's life enhancing while he's trying to prove a point that will be an old topic tomorrow and no one will care.
Ah, the ENTERTAINMENT of it all.
BBruce is an amiable guy, Amos, as I know you are..*grin*....I don't 'think' I'll need to referee....besides, you both disagree with ME on lotsa stuff.
Martin:
I don't live for the Mudcat.
But I have friends here, so I try to treat their slice of cyberspace with a bit of courtesy and respect, and, ya know, not pee in the soup.
You LIVE on peed-in soup.
From: Charley Noble
And I for one think we ought to hang together!
Cheerily,
From: curmudgeon
Or we shall surely hang separately -- Tom (thanks to B. Franklin)
OK, so we have Amos going to the Getaway.
Now, if we could get Martin Gibson to go, we could smother him with warm fuzzies and turn him into a bleeding-heart liberal....
Well, come to think of it, warm fuzzies make me gag. As penance for suggesting such a thing, maybe I'd better go out and slash some tires.
I know, Don Firth. That is why I wondered what Sinsull was referring to.
Marvin, in another thread you mentioned the time-honored humo(u)r Jews have always used. You might consider the fact that their humor is famously self-deprecating. You don't seem to have internalized it.
My point was that the Democrats in this case stood up and were willing to testify against the accused criminals despite party affiliation. Under the Nixon administration lying to protect the accused burglars and their keepers tainted the very presidency.
That and 18 minutes of tape.
Ah. We're of the same opinion, which is what I thought.
I obviously did not make a clear statement with "There is one major difference between the 'liberal' Democrats and the 'conservative' Republicans. Liberals make no bones or excuses about the legality or appropriateness of vandalizing cars for whatever reason. I suspect that if it were the conservatives responding to one of their own, we'd hear totally different reasoning."
I meant that the liberals/Democrats are agreeing with the conservatives/Republicans as to the wrongness of the vandalism, and then further implying that the cons/Reps might not have the same reaction had it been Republican vandals.
From: akenaton
I just don't understand American thinking.
Is it some sort of insult to be referred to as "friends" of the people who slashed the tyres?
These people were protesting against an administration which instigated an "illegal" war for spurious reasons against a virtually unarmed sovereign nation ,resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.....and you're horrified about a few tyres?
Now thats what I call CONDITIONING!! Pathetic...Ake
They used to talk of the inhabitants of communist countries as being "brainwashed"
Dont you people realise that if you don't start kicking back soon it will be too late.
I would say to Bearded Bruce that these people would certainly be my friends, and the question he poses, asks more of himself than of Amos.
akenaton, you're missing the message big time. The allegation is that aides/volunteers/whatever of the Democratic Party went out and slashed tires of vehicles that were meant to take registered Republicans to the polls the next day. In every election both sides want to get out the vote; dirty tricks to keep the other side home is definitely NOT part of the democratic process.
Dirty tricks in elections have been discovered from time to time- notably in Nixon's time - but we, the people, frown on it. Not to mention that if one side does it, the other side will do something worse and it escalates from there.
Ebbie....I didn't really miss the message.
My point is that we DONT have a democratic process.
In the UK and USA, people have stayed in their "democratic" boxes too long. Why do the ordinary people always have to play fair ,while those who rule us do the opposite.
There used to be an argument which said that any protest only makes matters worse,but both our societies are now set on a course which must be protested against ,regardless of the consequences.
From: Teresa
Yes, indeed, Akenaton, those are revolution words, and I have to say I agree with them. I don't think most people do, however. It'll take some travelling into much harder times, I'm afraid, before folks start protesting on a grand scale.
That said, I was going to post here that I think this and the other thread, which I accidentally posted my comment on, are silly sniping, and we don't need it.
I want to meet both these 'catters at the getaway. :)
From: GUEST,McGrath of Harlow
Gesture politics like that isn't "revolution", it's just a way of playing. Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man" stuff.
MG said That's because Amos lives for this place.
The pot is calling the kettle black these days, eh?
McGrath...Like yourself , I marched with the hundreds of thousands against the war.
We marched in an orderly manner to the rallying point, where we heard a few speaches from a few politicians,then in an orderly manner, we went home for our tea.
The end of the 15th Feb Anti War march was a complete anti- climax.
We had so much raw emotion amongst the crowd, and we squandered it, the government continued to lie and manipulate, in fact they completely ignored us.
Looking back on the demonstrations of the past, the ones that made the difference were those where force was used, damage caused ,and a signal given that the people would fight for what they believe in.
Our rulers are quite happy to keep us fooled that we can achieve anything by "democratic means".
They dont like it when we jump out of the box..Ake
I can't remember it working like that, akenaten. Tokenism isn't really that effective, and that's what that kind of thing is. Now, if we'd been able just to stop where we were in Whitehall, and refuse to go home, that might have got things moving, but the kind of symbolic street heroics that just trashes the place is a waste of time, and presents no kind of problem to the authorities.
They know how to deal with that stuff. In fact, it's what they want to see happen. It's not jumping out of the box, it's jumping into the box.
From: DougR
The tires were on vehicles that the local GOP had rented to transport voters who needed a ride to the polls. Because they were not available on election day, many people were deprived of being able to vote.
The Kerry lovers on the Mudcat have ranted and raved about Democrats who were allegedly deprived of voting for one reason or another (not enough voting machines, not enough time, not enough ballots, etc.) Why don't we hear those same people ranting and raving about this injustice?
Because, Mister Bright Bulb, "raving and ranting" is not productive. We spoke against it- isn't that good enough? You want us to go out and slash some of our own tires?
One reason for the different scale of reaction might be the different scale of the offence.
When people interfere with elections - either in this daft way, or in the organised and coordinated way it is sometimes done, where tens of thousands of peole are deprived of the vote by corrupt officials - that is an offence to all honest citizens, regardless of their voting preferance.
I would quite agree with Doug that, if people see that kind of thing as excusable or unimportant, just because their own side might benefit, that is disgraceful. In fact, when it their own side that benefits, that is the time an honourable citizen will get most angry. Don't you agree, Doug? Wasn't that why you were so vociferous in denouncing that kind of thing, for example in regards to what happened in Florida in 2000?
McGrath I think most people know that we are well and trully in the box, mainly through economic reasons.
Many people I know are working up to 80hr weeks to pay credit bill ,morgage payments and living expenses.
In all my life I'v never seen so many people with two or even three jobs.
Oh yes we're in the box all right,and the way out isn't the one marked "democracy".
If we want a better life for our people in the future, we'll have to kick that bloody box to pieces..Ake
Yes, McGrath, I agree with you (where that leaves Ebbie, I'm not quite sure). Dirty tricks committed by either party to prevent people from exercising their voting right is wrong.
"Dirty tricks committed by either party to prevent people from exercising their voting right is wrong."
That is a principle to hold on to like a lifebelt. For example if there is ever again something like Florida 2000 - by either party.
Hear, hear, hear, DougR.
Why you ask, Doug? Simple. Because that incident involved a handful of people. What the republicans did in Florida was a much bigger issue, they screwed thousands out of their right to vote.
The thing is (and I agree with Doug that what they did is dead wrong) it seems like most people just pay lip service to the dirty deed IF it is the other party, and if it's THEIR party, they go nuts!
In other words, sure he's a scoudrel, but he's OUR scoundrel. Classic case of, it makes a difference whose ox is gored.
From: Nerd
DougR says:
Any evidence of this, DougR? Are you sure the GOP didn't just go and rent some more vans?
From: Auggie
Numerous articles in the somewhat liberal, definately not Republican Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal newspaper support Doug R's contention.
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Employment Opportunity: Community & Facilities Manager
By Danielle Lim
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Employment Type: Full-time, salaried
Reporting to: Managing Director
Level: Management
January: February 9, 2019
MOCA Toronto reopened in its new 55,000 square foot home in the Junction Triangle on September 22, 2018. The new MOCA Toronto is a place of conversation, exchange and exploration where visitors of all ages and backgrounds can be part of a global creative moment.
MOCA welcomes visitors to three phases of exhibitions a year featuring work from Canadian and world-recognized artists that explores the themes of our time. Located on Sterling Road, in the culturally rich Junction Triangle community, the museum is housed in the historic Tower Automotive Building, a former aluminium factory known for its unique architecture.
The evolution of the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada is made possible through a unique alliance with Castle Point Greybrook Sterling Inc., public sector funders, private donors, members, sponsors and a network of cross-sectoral partners.
The Community & Facilities Manager is responsible for the general operations and maintenance of MOCA’s new home on Sterling Road and will act as caretaker of relationships with the museum’s sub-tenants.
Under the direction of the Managing Director, the Community & Facilities Manager will be the key relationship holder role in bridging relationships between MOCA and its sub-tenant community, including four retail and cultural partners, ensuring their operations and business objectives are supported. They will also liaise with the Automotive Building’s Facility Management company representative and external suppliers to maintain the physical condition and operation of the museum’s five floors, including the ensuring working order of security, elevators, HVAC, electrical, etc.
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Report of the Task Force on US-Korea Policy
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Report on US-DPRK Policy Options
Republican National Committee, 2003.
Master Plan to Deal with North Korea
Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution, 2003.
Report on US policy Toward a Unified Korea
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2002.
Analysis of US interests and Long-term Goals on the Korean Peninsula
Leon Sigal, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, 2003.
Testing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
Charles Pritchard, Brookings Institution, 2003.
Outline of US Policy and the DPRK Nuclear Challenge
Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford, 2003.
Players On Korea Policy In Washington, D.C.
Chris Nelson, The Nelson Report, June 22, 2005
Legacy of Missed Opportunities
Mitchell Reiss, Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., Remarks to the Heritage Foundation, March 12, 2004.
Report to former President Clinton on US Policy toward North Korea
Former Defense Secretary William Perry, 1999.
Report Critical of Clinton’s DPRK Policy
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, 1999.
Report on the Future of ROK-DPRK Relations
Pacific Council, 2001.
Representative Curt Weldon’s DPRK Trip
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Home > Discover Nedlands > Faces of Nedlands
The Faces of Nedlands project was conceived to bring to life the many people who have contributed to the community in Nedlands in various fields.This is a community focused project about people who make Nedlands a great place to live. Over 2015 - 2016, we will profile 12 faces - some familiar, some not so familiar.
Murray McHenry
Pubs and football – great community meeting places and tribal gatherings. Both create a sense of belonging to a place and a group of like-minded people.
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Doug Arrowsmith - A Tireless Veteran
Doug Arrowsmith has spent a lifetime dedicated to serving his country and local community.
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Blair Morgan - Your Local Grocer
Blair Morgan places bags of groceries into the boot of a woman’s car on a bright winter’s day. They’re on first-name terms and he chats awhile, asking after her family and pets. He takes the shopping trolley and tells her not to worry, he’ll wheel it back to the shop.
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Bevan Lawrence - a sense of belonging through sport
He’s been a prominent barrister and lawyer and a City of Nedlands councillor, but it’s Bevan Lawrence’s contribution to the sport of hockey and to the local community that have occupied much of his spare time over many years.
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Judy’s here to help
Judy Denton, Senior Customer Services Officer at the City of Nedlands, is often inundated with chocolates from appreciative residents.
Judy has worked at the City of Nedlands for almost 20 years and in that time has become the familiar face of the City for many people. In her time, she has seen people grow up, grow old, move out of Nedlands and move back again.
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Dame Mary Durack – Gifted writer and patron of the arts
When Dame Mary Durack moved to Nedlands in 1939, her property on Bellevue Avenue, in what is now called Dalkeith, sat among the native trees and shrubs on the many vacant blocks in the area.
This bush setting suited her well, given her love of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, from which she drew inspiration.
Dame Mary Durack was a gifted writer and historian whose books have become Australian classics.
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Trish Hewson - Urban bushland warrior
When Karrakatta Cemetery decided to build a crematorium on the bushland at Hollywood Reserve, Trish Hewson sprung into action.
With the community up in arms about the possible loss of the 6.41 hectare site, bounded by Karrakatta Cemetery, Smyth Rd, Karella St and Dalkeith Rd in Nedlands, Trish Hewson and her husband David mobilised the community, enlisting children of all ages to write letters and draw pictures to send to the state government, organising protests, and arranged to show the minister of the day around the bushland.
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Paul Murray - Veteran journalist unafraid to take on the powerful, finds sense of community by walking the dog
Respected journalist Paul Murray barely knew his neighbours around Allen Park in Swanbourne for years, working long hours as he did as editor of The West Australian.
He was in and out his front gate, leaving early, returning late. He didn’t see his neighbours, they didn’t see him. Then he and his wife Grace got a dog named Oscar.
“It changed everything,” he said.
“It changed our appreciation of the area dramatically. It completely changed our way of life actually.”
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Branching out with sustainability blossoms for Mt Claremont resident
Sustainability is a basic common sense way of living – it always has been and always will be.
That’s the message from founding member and former Mayo Community Garden President Gail Stubber, also a member of the Nedlands Sustainable Committee.
She is a strong advocate for sustainable living and has been heavily involved with the Mayo Community Garden in Swanbourne over the past four years.
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For a long time it seemed like Disney where going to mess this one up, with talks of a possible white lead and other possible changes, people where obviously furious. Well Disney listened to the fans righteous fury and have instead aimed to release a much more “faithful” adaptation of Mulan. I am saying faithful realizing there are multiple versions of the story and I am hoping this film is going to be based on one of the more upbeat versions.
This new version of the film will follow a lot of the same beats as the animated one and will see Mulan, played by Tzi Ma, forced to go to war in order to keep her father safe. Along the way she will encounter Donnie Yen, Ip Man & Rogue One, as Commander Tung, Yoson An \, The Meg & Mortal Engines, as Cheng Honghui, Gong Li, Memoirs of a Geisha & Raise the Red Lantern, who plays Xianniang, a character not seen in the original animated film, and finally Jet Li will play the benevolent Emperor.
We also know that Mulan’s Dragon and Cricket companions are due to appear too, though details about them are currently scarce.
From watching the trailer you would think that it was one of the classics if Asian cinema, which means that Disney are at least trying to do it justice. With some very artistic cinematography, a fantastic cast and a budget that could feed a small country I really do have high hopes for this one.
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Health and fitness apps are now a phenomenon, gaining popularity across app stores. The global fitness app market size is expected to reach over $14.7 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 23% through 2017-2023.
There are a number of categories of these apps ranging from yoga and running apps, to gym and audio workouts. With new brands entering the arena every day, users are spoilt for choice.
At Smartech, we’ve kept a close watch on this rapidly growing app category and curated a list of the top 6 health and fitness apps (in no particular order) that continue to take the Indian audience by storm:
HealthifyMeWith over 5 million downloads, a 4.6 star average rating, and over 75 thousand reviews, this India-based app is creating ripples in the health and fitness app category. This user-friendly, all-in-one app has also been the winner of the “Best App Award” for 3 years on Google Play, and is featured under the Editor’s Choice list. Key Features:
A tutorial database of over 1500 exercises, and an on-demand access to certified diet, fitness, and yoga coaches, whose expertise is available to the users, 24/7!
A unique one-tap Calorie Counter feature that houses the largest food database in India, with more than 55,000 regional food items. Users simply have to tap their choices from the list, and the app automatically calculates the nutritional and calorific values in real-time. This key feature creates a habit-forming aspect, converting sporadic users into power users over a period of time
Seamless sync with users’ wearable technology based activity trackers. Services like Google Fit, YUFIT, Fitbit and others can be easily integrated with HealthifyMe, to let users personally monitor their own fitness levels and goals
Although the facilities of coaches and trainers is available only to the premium customers, there are a whole lot of features available in the free plan, that can gradually nudge freemium users to become paid customers.
HealthifyMe also boasts of Ria, the world’s first AI-powered virtual nutrition assistant.
Price: Free with in-app purchases | Availability: Android, iOS and web
MyFitnessPalWith an average rating of 4.6, and over 50 million downloads, MyFitnessPal is arguably one of the world’s most favoured fitness apps. Available as a mobile app and also through a website over desktops, this app packs in a lot of features like food tracking, weight goal setting, exercise, and activity logs.It also has an extremely supportive community that creates a sense of belonging for users who are on their respective health and fitness journeys.
Diet and exercise tracker to ascertain optimal nutrient and calorific intake. The app uses gamification principles and customisable goal setting tools to engage and motivate users about their own fitness
Food tracking houses an evolving database of more than 11 million food items. Users can also conveniently import nutritional information for the recipes that they cook at home. They can even log food items from the menu of their favourite restaurants. The users also get the features of a macro-nutrient counter and in depth insights about the food they consume
Goal setting or weight loss/gain and activity tracker to monitor the activities
Easy syncing with 50+ apps and devices including Fitbit, Jawbone, Garmin, Runtastic, and many others
These features make it a complete fitness app that is highly user friendly and adds consistent value through a wide-variety of features.
The highly effective marketing strategies that this brand follows, is a huge contributor towards its growing success.
Price: Free with in-app purchases | Availability: Android, iOS, and Web
AaptivAaptiv allows users to work out when they want, where they want, and the way they want. This is an audio-based app which has hit more than 1 million downloads on Google Play and has an average user rating of 3.6 stars.Delivering on its philosophy of “Personal Training for Everyone”, the mobile app has more than 9000 positive user reviews that endorse it.
Unlimited access to professional audio-based fitness sessions led by certified personal trainers and coaches. Users can also exercise with specifically curated music playlists featuring popular and well-loved artists
Flexibility to choose from hundreds of workouts and diverse activities like running, elliptical, strength training, Yoga, and one of the most effective forms of exercise – the High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). For runners, there are speciality conditioning programs for 10k and 5k runs
More than 30 new programs are added to their impressive list every week
Thousands of trainer-led and music-accompanied workouts, structured weekly and monthly programs, and classes for every level of fitness are some of the features that make this app very popular for users who prefer working out at home, rather than a gym.
Recently, Aaptiv even opened a pop-up gym, to extend its digital offering to physical spaces.
SworkitWith an average rating of 4.5 stars and downloaded on more than 5 million smartphones, Sworkit has been consistently rising as one of the most favoured apps in the health and fitness industry. This fact is endorsed by more than 1,10,000 reviews, earning it a place on the Editor’s Choice list on Google Play.Moreover, Sworkit has been rated as the #1 app (in the fitness section) on several parameters such as safety, stretching, progression, etc. by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). The developers also claim to have delivered more than 50 million workouts spanning all fitness levels.
Designed specifically for busy people with a need for a no-nonsense solution for raising their own fitness standards
Huge database of bodyweight exercises for beginners, intermediate, and advanced fitness levels. Their 6-week programme is geared towards getting the users leaner, fitter or stronger, or all three if they wish
More than 400 guided video workouts and exercises
Customisable workout options. This app enables the users to not be dependent on equipment or the internet for exercising regimes
The app developers intend for their app to be utilised by health and wellness coaches, personal trainers, and physical therapists as an adjunctive training tool.
7 Minutes Workout (by Simple Design Ltd.)This is yet another heavyweight app in the fitness sector, with more than 10 million downloads and an average rating of 4.6 stars with more than 400,000 reviews on Google Play.Winner of several awards like the Best of 2016 App, Top Trending App and Best Self-Improvement App, it has also featured on the Editor’s Choice list on Google Play.
A 7-minute workout plan based on High Intensity Circuit Training (HICT). HICT has been scientifically proven to be the most effective and safest way to lose weight, and improve the overall fitness of users
The app can be highly customised to include the user’s desired needs, from HIIT routines to just fat burning exercises. The shorter workout time is one of the key reasons why more and more people are gravitating towards this app
Beautiful character and UI design, Google Fit support, and voice guidance
There are many apps on the Play Store with the same or similar name that might leave you confused, so you might want to do a little more reading yourself!
Price: Free with in-app purchases | Availability: Android
Down DogThe more than 1 million downloads, an impressive 4.9 stars rating and +35000 reviews solidify Down Dog’s claims of being the #1 app for practising Yoga at home. With “Great Yoga Anywhere” as its tagline, the app features excellent audio/video tutorials of Yoga exercises for people of varying fitness standards.Its impressive track record makes it the only Yoga app featured in this list.
Highly customisable. For instance, users can choose from 7 different instructor voices and also the background music to personalise their app usage experience
Seamless syncing with multiple devices and wearables. Users also have the option to go offline
The “Boost” feature that focuses on 12 different practice such as flexibility, core strength, etc.
With over 30,000 different configurations, Down Dog makes practising Yoga a thoroughly fresh and enjoyable experience every time.
Mobile Marketing for Health and Fitness Apps
The health and fitness app category is growing by leaps and bounds, and the future continues to grow brighter. In this highly competitive market, every step, starting from spreading awareness till preventing uninstalls, is a challenge.
Only an extremely solid mobile marketing strategy powered by user behavioural data, enriched with the power of Machine Learning, can determine greater chances of success. Given the nature of industry, continuous (but, not overbearing) user engagement is of utmost importance. Only a well-engaged and happy customer base can propel such apps towards expanding their horizons into corporate partnerships and brand alliances.
The beauty of this app category is the seamless way in which higher adoption becomes a function of habit. App stickiness can only be driven up by delivering value consistently through a great UI/UX and a personalised mobile marketing strategy through the use of high-conversion channels such as push notifications and in-app messages.
In my next post, I’m going to highlight key mobile marketing best practices that apps can benefit from in this category!
Do you use a health and fitness app? What has your experience been like? We’d love to hear from you!
And, if you happen to be a mobile marketer, we’d be thrilled to help you chart out your own app’s data-driven mobile marketing strategy – just like these apps – to help you scale your mobile app business!
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Michael Pettis, The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy
Princeton University Press: Princeton 2013
Ho-fung Hung
China’s Rise Stalled?
It was perhaps predictable that China’s initial sharp rebound from the global financial crisis would serve to entrench widespread perceptions that the prc represents an alternative and, on some readings, superior model of capitalist development.footnote1 Desperate pleas by Hillary Clinton and Tim Geithner for Beijing to continue its purchase of us Treasuries in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 meltdown seemed to confirm that China was indeed displacing the us, the alleged culprit of the crisis, and becoming a new centre of the global economy. Yet the celebrations of China’s rise at the expense of the us evoked more sceptical responses too. Michael Pettis’s provocative and well-informed new book, The Great Rebalancing, presents a more critical view. It contends that countries that run a persistent trade surplus, like China, are at least as responsible for the global financial crisis as those running deficits, like the us. In his view, the outcome of the crisis will put an end to the ‘economic miracles’ of the surplus countries and may lead them into Japan-style lost decades. The only way out would require a profound rebalancing of the surplus countries’ economies. I will argue that a third scenario could be derived from the book’s analysis, beyond Pettis’s alternatives of a prolonged, deepening crisis or smooth, coordinated rebalancing. But first let us examine The Great Rebalancing’s account.
Pettis is a professor of finance at Peking University and a veteran Wall Street wheeler-dealer specializing in ‘emerging markets’, initially in Latin America. His first book, The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse, appeared in 2001, and since then his contrarian views have become well known through his widely cited blog, ‘China Financial Markets’. Drawing diverse theoretical insights from Keynes and, surprisingly, Hobson, Lenin and David Harvey, The Great Rebalancing is a systematic elaboration of Pettis’s diagnosis of the origins of the financial crisis and suggestions for its remedy. He sees the global trade and capital-flow imbalances underlying the crisis as primarily a consequence of the consumption-repressing growth model adopted by the surplus countries, most notably China and Germany.
The Great Rebalancing sets out the principles at stake, in the form of ‘accounting identities’. Where consumption is repressed relative to production, the result is a rise in saving. If domestic savings exceed domestic investment, then in an open economy the excess saving will flow abroad to other countries, in the form of net capital export. China’s purchase of us Treasury bonds and Germany’s lending to Spain and Greece are examples of such exports. Similarly, for a country that imports capital from abroad, investment will exceed saving. It follows that the amount of net capital outflow or inflow will be equal to the difference between savings and investment; the difference will also be equal to the country’s trade balance. (Formally put, if y is national product, c is total consumption, g is government spending, i is total investment, (x–m) is trade balance and s is saving, we have y=c+g+i+(x–m), which leads to y–c–g–i=s–i=(x–m), since, by definition, y–c–g=s.) Therefore, an economy’s trade surplus/deficit will be equal to that economy’s net capital outflow/inflow, which in turn is equal to its saving less investment. As open economies are linked to one another through trade and investment, capital export and trade surplus originating from one country’s under-consumption must be balanced by capital imports, trade deficit and over-consumption in another country. In other words, domestic imbalances of trading partners will mirror each other, generating global imbalances.
Examining how these principles have operated in the concrete case of China’s domestic imbalance, Pettis, like many other authors, finds that the prc’s model of repressed-consumption growth is not new, but is an extended replication of the Japanese model. As Pettis emphasizes throughout the book, a country’s consumption levels and savings rate have nothing to do with its culture and the habits of its people: China’s high saving and low consumption are consequences of explicit policies: wage repression, an undervalued currency and financial repression. Since the 1990s, the vast supply of rural migrant labour, whose rights and access to services where they worked were denied under the hukou system, in addition to what Pettis describes as ‘government-sponsored unions that more often see things from the point of view of employers than from that of workers’, ensured that wages grew much more slowly than productivity, hence repressing the growth of workers’ income and consumption relative to the growth of production. At the same time, China’s central bank intervened in the currency market to prevent the yuan from appreciating alongside the growth of the trade surplus. The undervalued currency benefited exporters, but made domestic consumption more expensive; the policy has therefore operated as a hidden tax on household consumers, which is transferred to exporters. The low interest rates maintained by state banks for both depositors and borrowers have also constituted a hidden tax on households: while ordinary depositors have had to put up with meagre or even negative real interest rates, state enterprises and government units could borrow at give-away rates to fuel the orgies of real-estate and infrastructural construction. This again is tantamount to a subsidy to the state sector paid by financially repressed depositors.
This model of development brought about miraculous economic growth rates, rapidly improving infrastructure and an internationally competitive manufacturing sector. Paradoxically, though the growth rate has attracted high investment, the financial repression involved also pushes saving—here, mostly corporate and government rather than household saving—to an even higher level. As such, the excess saving of China has to be exported overseas in exchange for external demand for its manufactured products. Given the size of the us market and the high liquidity of us assets, Treasury securities in particular, most of China’s excess saving ends up heading to the us. To Pettis, the Chinese purchase of dollar assets is a trade policy, ‘aimed at generating trade surpluses and higher domestic employment’. For the American economy, such large-scale capital imports are ‘usually harmful’, as the us has ‘no choice but to respond to the growing net inflows [of capital] with higher investment, higher unemployment, or higher consumption’. With capital inflows pushing up the dollar, cheapening manufactured imports and penalizing us manufacturers, ‘there was little incentive for American businesses to borrow and expand production domestically’. Instead, the massive inflows of capital fuelled the expanding real-estate bubble and debt-financed consumption. Pettis concludes that the us consumption spree and trade deficit was caused by excessive foreign (Chinese) investment in dollar assets that ‘force Americans to consume beyond their means’.
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Estonian foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu (Isamaa). Source: Jarno Kuusinen/Prime Minister's Office, Finland
The Estonian media is ill-disposed towards leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States, Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Reinsalu said on social media.
"Our media has a distinctly biased and ill-disposed attitude against the present leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States," Reinsalu (Isamaa) wrote. "This likely has two reasons. One of them relates to one's world view. While they come from different backgrounds, both are colorful leaders with a conservative agenda and the speakers' effective ideological aversion [to them] is reflected in the media.
"Secondly, in many cases, particularly when it comes to news stories, their domestic media, which has critical preconceptions about them, is used [by Estonian media]. In any case, the result is hardly objective in my opinion," Reinsalu said.
"These two states are irreplaceable when it comes to ensuring our security. And in all fairness, both of these men have honored it in word and deed," Reinsalu said, referring to US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. "Knee-jerk spite towards Boris Johnson is completely uncalled for, particularly on the day of [his] special visit."
Reinsalu added that heads of state and government are generally given an overview of local media coverage of their high-level visits.
"Therefore there is no sense in constructing provocation at all cost," Reinsalu said, referring to a critical opinion piece published in Eesti Ekspress by the newspaper's chief editor Erik Moora.
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Philips Introduces Advanced Imaging, Simulation and Treatment Planning Solutions at ASTRO 2015
Philips Semiconductors Div., Royal Philips Electronics Oct 19, 2015
Fully integrated approach to radiation oncology imaging and treatment planning designed to increase efficiency, consistency and accuracy in the treatment of cancer
ANDOVER, Mass. – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG AEX: PHIA) today announced the new tools and services for integrated imaging and treatment planning for radiation oncology that will be highlighted at ASTRO's 57th Annual Meeting in San Antonio on Oct. 18 through Oct. 21. This new portfolio is designed to help clinicians treat cancer with the efficiency and accuracy needed for confident cancer care.
"Philips has a rich history of innovations that redefine how personalized care is delivered. Our commitment to provide integrated solutions in radiation oncology helps to put more control in the hands of the clinician, with the intent to improve workflow, procedure accuracy and ultimately patient care," said Rob Cascella, CEO Imaging Business Groups, Philips.
The Philips booth (#1350) at ASTRO 2015 will showcase the company's growing contributions to radiation oncology with a suite of new and updated solutions to help clinicians make informed decisions to enhance the quality of cancer care.
At ASTRO, Philips will unveil O-MAR(2) metal artifact reduction for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which can improve visualization of more tissue in the near vicinity of MR conditional orthopedic implants((1)). Higher quality imaging is increasingly important as it allows a more detailed look at the affected area, which leads to better treatment. Philips will also announce that its MR-only simulation(2) is 510(k) pending, an upgrade to the Ingenia MR-RT platform intended to provide electron density and anatomical information for prostate dose calculations quickly and efficiently in one MR imaging session.
Philips will also highlight the following key product updates at the event:
-- Pinnacle³ 14 with Tumor LOC v4.2 - Enhanced with a new user interface
and patient marking workflow, Pinnacle(3) 14 with Tumor LOC v4.2,
combines tools for patient marking with Computed Tomography (CT)
simulation to increase clinician productivity.
-- iPatient Platform - Upgraded to include new, patient-specific methods to
facilitate optimal((3)) management of both image quality and radiation
dose, iPatient automatically reduces scan times in some cases up to
24%((4)), increases clinician confidence and improves image consistency
from scan to scan.
-- Ingenia MR-RT -Upgraded with an integrated, thin couch top and easy to
use coil support for positioning freedom and enhanced imaging quality,
Ingenia MR-RT provides soft tissue contrast to help clinicians view
targets and organs at risk, allowing them to design the best possible
treatment plans. The demonstration will include a dedicated head and
neck coil solution for RT imaging for treatment planning, and a
ready-to-use geometric quality assurance package for easy monitoring of
the system's performance.
For more information on Philips' presence at ASTRO, including the full suite of Philips radiation oncology technology and solutions, please visit: http://www.usa.philips.com/healthcare/about/events-calendar/astro-2015.
Philips' radiation oncology solutions will also be showcased in booth #6736 at the upcoming Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting, Nov. 29 - Dec. 4, in Chicago, Ill. Follow @PhilipsLiveFrom or visit www.philips.com/rsna for more information on Philips' presence at #RSNA15.
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Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving people's lives through meaningful innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips posted 2014 sales of EUR 21.4 billion and employs approximately 106,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. The company is a leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as male shaving and grooming and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.
((1) )Only for use with MR Safe or MR Conditional Implants by strictly following the Instructions For Use.
((2)) 510(k) pending and not available in the U.S.
((3) )"Optimal" refers to the use of strategies and techniques that facilitate the management and control of both image quality and dose.
((4)) In a study done using multiphasic liver CT exams the iPatient software platform reduced time-to-results by 24% and clicks per exam by 66%. Impact of workflow tools in reducing total exam and user interaction time - 4 phase liver computed tomography exams. Nicholas Ardley - Southern Health, Kevin Buchan - Philips Healthcare, Ekta Dharaiya - Philips Healthcare.
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Five Signs Your Story Is Sexist
February 5th, 2016 by Chris Winkle
In Dune, a Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit tortures the main character.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if making a story sexism-free was as easy as not being a misogynist jerk? Unfortunately, living in a patriarchal society means that sexism feels normal to most of us. If you want to prevent sexist tropes from getting into your work, you have to learn about them. You can start with these common signs of sexism against women.
1. Powerful Women Are Threatening to Men
Many people mistakenly assume that if a story depicts powerful women, then it empowers them. While depicting strong women can certainly help a work, what message that work sends about powerful women is more important. In your story, do female leaders feel normal, or are they a threatening deviation from the natural order?
The Wheel of Time and Dune both depict the latter. Each one has a powerful order that is exclusively women. In each story, this order is a menacing presence the male Chosen One must face. Dune opens as Paul is pulled out of bed to be tortured by a powerful Bene Gesserit member. In The Wheel of Time, the largest group within the Aes Sedai is the Red Ajah. The members of this group are often portrayed as man-hating lesbians bent on hunting down the hero. While neither order is 100% bad, they reinforce the stereotype that women are manipulative. Ultimately, this sends the message that women should not be leaders.
That doesn’t mean that having powerful female villains or incompetent female leaders is always sexist. For instance, in season three and four of The Legend of Korra, the tyrannical queen of the Earth Kingdom is replaced by a tyrannical female dictator. This isn’t problematic at all. That’s partly because The Legend of Korra has a well-rounded cast with plenty of positive female figures, but it’s mostly because the power and villainy of these tyrants isn’t tied to womanhood.
The Wheel of Time and Dune do just the opposite. In The Wheel of Time, magical energy is segregated by gender. Whereas men gain magic by metaphysically grappling with it, women fill themselves with magic by surrendering to it. Of course, their power is weaker than male magic. During the time of the story, male magic has been poisoned, so only women can use magic and join the Aes Sedai. In Dune, the Bene Gesserit are a breeding cult: their goal is to breed the perfect man who will surpass them. Your depiction might not be so overtly sexist, but if you tie an antagonist’s traits to their gender, you’re signing up to send sexist messages, whether you want to or not.
Powerful and threatening women also appear in these common tropes:
The overbearing wife: Have you noticed stories often have hen-pecked husbands but not hen-pecked wives? That’s because when the husband leads, it’s considered normal. Labeling concerns or direction from women as “nagging” is just another way of casting women who aren’t submissive in a negative light.
The femme fatale: Like the Aes Sedai and Bene Gesserit, the femme fatale is a villain with threatening traits that are tied to womanhood. These characters are usually designed to be attractive to a male audience.
Punitive matriarchal leaders: In speculative fiction, matriarchies often have comically exaggerated attitudes towards men. Yes, a matriarchy is not a fair system, and men would suffer. However, think of all the medieval fantasy stories you’ve read with male leadership. Were some of the kings depicted as good leaders despite being part of a sexist system? Did they constantly talk about how women are lowly, or did they simply assume that women would do as they asked? Don’t make your matriarchy over the top. If you do, you’re sending the message that female leadership is scary.
If you want to add positive depictions of powerful women, your female characters should be powerful on their own terms. Princesses are technically powerful, but that power is usually granted by their father, the king. Glorifying their role as princess also glorifies patriarchy.
2. Male Heroes Talk Down to Women
In The Princess Bride, the hero not only accuses his love of lying but also threatens to hit her if she does it again. Yes, Wesley is mad at Buttercup at the time, but do you really think it’s acceptable for men to threaten violence against their wives, girlfriends, or ex-girlfriends when they’re angry?
You might think your male heroes are innocent, but your idea of what is appropriate for men to say to women is probably skewed by, again, patriarchy. For instance, let’s take a typical scene with the aforementioned overbearing wife and her hen-pecked husband; The Princess Bride even has a pair. In scenes like these, it’s likely the husband will say something like:
“Leave me be, woman.”
This exchange will be presented as the cute bickering of an old couple. But that’s not cute; that’s misogyny. If you doubt me, read that line again and ask yourself what tone of voice the word “woman” is in. Or ask yourself if you’ve ever heard a line like this:
“Leave me be, man.”
Unlikely. What you might have heard is this:
“Leave me be, boy.”
That’s because calling someone a “man” isn’t derogatory, but calling them a “woman” or “boy” is. The husband says it because he’s trying to put his wife in her place.
It can get much worse. In Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, every male character (except the Martian, because he was raised on Mars) refers to the female lead with names like “dimples,” “honey lamb,” and “baby girl.” Those are endearments when addressed to a character’s love interest or child, but condescending when addressed to any other woman.
Luckily the use of pet names has mostly passed out of today’s fiction. But we still have an epidemic of male heroes casually giving women orders. Once you pay attention, you’ll be surprised at how often male characters tell women what do to. While storytellers make most characters with authority male, it happens even when the male character has no official authority or even special expertise to offer. For instance, take this innocent-looking snippet from The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare.
Suddenly all business, Simon squared his shoulders. “I’ll get one of the security guards. You stay here.” He strode away, pushing through the crowd.
Simon is the heroine’s best friend. I think Clare intended to depict Simon as socially awkward but probably not domineering or sexist.
Unfortunately, this dynamic also rears its head in romances. Too many romances feature a male character who knows what’s best for the female lead. These stories portray his commands, manipulation, or even kidnapping in a positive light. By contrast, we rarely see a serious romantic pairing between an experienced woman and an inexperienced man.
3. Female Bodies Are Casually Violated
In the show Angel, pregnancy is forced on female characters no less than three times, and two out of three are even fatal to the character. Often known as the “mystical pregnancy,” this damaging trope is most common in speculative fiction. In real life, forcing pregnancy on someone usually involves rape. But when there’s magic, storytellers can use it to skip the rape and just go right to the involuntary pregnancy. In Angel, the vampire Darla gets pregnant after having consensual sex with another vampire. Vampires are infertile; she had no reason to think sex would result in pregnancy. Not only does a mysterious force ensure that she gets pregnant, it also forces her to bring the anomalous vampire offspring to term.
Forced pregnancy is a sickening violation of a person’s body. If your story is not dark enough to include rape, then it is not dark enough for this. But in almost every case, forced pregnancies are not treated as the horrors they are. Shows using the trope ignore the lasting trauma that anyone would experience after having control of their body taken away from them. In some cases, such as with Darla’s violation, it’s even framed as a good thing.
Too many stories have some form of sexual coercion or assault thrown in casually. Rape isn’t necessary to prove that a character is a villain or to put a damsel in distress; storytellers can use many other harmful behaviors. Inserting sexual assault where it isn’t needed is not only insensitive to real people who have dealt with it, but it also normalizes the behavior. That’s why even small instances of inappropriate grabbing or unwanted kisses should be left out. Even a theoretical mention of sexual assault isn’t something to insert in your story without a good reason. Take this line from Ron L. Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth:
Terl could not have produced a more profound effect had he thrown a meat girl naked into the middle of a room.
The implied abuse in this sentence has no purpose other than flavor. Hubbard seems to think that being stripped naked and put on display is something to joke about. Readers who’ve had anything like that happen to them probably disagree.
Sexual assault can be appropriate in fiction. But unless you’re willing to invest in researching all the thorny issues surrounding it and its appearance in stories, I recommend just leaving it out.
4. Women Live to Serve Others
Spoiler Notice: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
In Warbreaker, two princesses named Siri and Vivenna are thrust in the center of an escalating conflict between their home kingdom and a powerful neighbor. As two of the three primary characters, they’ll save the day, right? Nope. Siri is married off to the puppet ruler of the powerful kingdom. She tries to save him but only messes up. Instead, he saves her and the kingdom. Vivenna makes an even bigger mistake than Siri, but luckily for her, a male character I’ll call Stealth Mary Sue takes her in and gets her straightened out. He saves the day even more, and Vivenna fetches his sword for him. As the story ends, both princesses dedicate their lives to their respective men.
One of the most common stereotypes used by well-intentioned storytellers is that of the female nurturer. Examine your female characters: Are they best characterized as mothers, wives, nurses, or supportive lovers and friends? Are the women who don’t fit this role shamed or villainized? In Warbreaker, the next most important female character is an independent thinker who *gasp* wants to have sex for her own pleasure. Like the other women, the story reveals she was tricked by the villains, and she also gets a pointless death.
Mother characters suffer the most under the nurturing stereotype. In countless stories, they are long dead. The storyteller assumes that if they were alive, they would provide emotional support that the main character shouldn’t have. Dead mothers are invariably described as “beautiful,” “loving,” and “kind.” Pleasing other people with their attractive appearance and caring behavior was their entire life. They were not an inspiring leader, they were not of the chosen lineage, and they did not invent a mysterious machine no one knows how to operate. They were just kind and pretty.
Mothers are rarely allowed to be distant and judgmental the way fathers are. When they are, they’re considered terrible people. Fathers are allowed to be flawed parents without being condemned. Everyone assumes men just don’t get all that child-rearing stuff, because why not be sexist against guys too?
5. Women Are Missing
In Underworld, all vampires, werewolves, and other immortals are descended from Alexander Corvinus. He had three sons: a vampire, a werewolf, and a mortal. Did this family with four dudes include any women? If so, the writers didn’t think it was worth mentioning.
During the story, a werewolf scientist tracks the mortal descendants of the Corvinus line, hoping to find a human that has a special dormant gene. However, in tracking the family lineage, he somehow forgets that women exist. His cork board shows no matrilineal descendants and no female cousins, sisters, or aunts of the chosen Michael Corvin. Sure, this could have a scientific explanation: the gene is on the Y chromosome. But the only reason to make inheritance work that way is to exclude women.
I’m not even done with this movie yet. The vampires have three important elders – rulers that alternate between sleeping and leading. The first elder, Viktor, is the antagonist of the film and has a big battle against the protagonists for the film’s climax. Marcus, the second, is one of the original three sons of Alexander Corvinus. He’s left as the antagonist of the next film. Last is Amelia, the only female elder. The movie has one brief shot of her being in danger and another brief shot of her being held down and drained of her blood. Then she’s just dead. If she had an epic fight, it was off screen.
Patriarchy conditions us to think of men as normal and women as special exotic creatures. That’s why in many stories, particularly stories written by men, characters are only women if the storyteller thinks they have to be. In other words, only love interests are women. That’s why the main character of Underworld is a woman. She’s the love interest of Michael, the audience stand-in. She’s clearly designed to be attractive to a male audience.
Women are even more absent when the characters are of a species that is considered masculine. Underworld shows us female vampires in the background but not a single female werewolf.
Because most of us have a very skewed sense of what ratio of men to women is normal, the only way to ensure equal representation is to actually count them up and tally the total. Then you have to rate each character’s presence in the story in order to make sure your male characters aren’t disproportionately important. It’s okay if most of the characters you invent are male to start with; what matters is that you change their gender as you develop your story.
One of the best tests of gender depiction is to think through a gender reversal. Imagine all the men in your story are women and vice versa. What if that order of female, breeding cultists was an order of male-only, breeding cultists? What if a kind and beautiful mother was a kind and beautiful father? If your characters feel funny or weird once you change their gender, ask yourself why.
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Sean Brodrick
Strongly disagree with point #1. So women can’t be batsh*t-crazy villains or femme fatales? Right … another word for the book you want is boring.
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Omestes
I don’t think this is an issue of “can’t”, but of “overused”. These are overused tropes. Also, they can be sexist, and people should be aware of this before they use them. Often people inject things like this just because they can be cool tropes, without thinking of what they actually say.
That said, I think that using the Bene Gesserit and ” attractive to a male audience” in the same sentence is a bit off. Herbert did gender a bit better than most of his peers (with Heinlein being the certified misogynist pig, writing thinly veiled Libertarian manifestos… he would have fit into Reddit culture just fine). While the Bene Gesserit did use sex to control, they were rather complex. They weren’t just about that. And being a female order, and being manipulative, while being a sexist trope in most books, wasn’t in Dune. Since EVERY group was equally manipulative and vile. Also, sex was pretty much a means to the end (space eugenics), it wasn’t their only form of power, it was merely a single tool in a giant box.
Jessica falls into the nurturing trap though. As does, later on, Chani.
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Chris Winkle
I meant that the femme fatale is designed to be attractive to men, not the Bene Gesserit. Although, in actually the Bene Gesserit is designed to make male readers happy, just in a completely different way. They validate the superiority of the male hero.
I am deeply amused by the idea that any work that doesn’t specifically include a crazy female villain (which I don’t recall mentioning) or a femme fatale is boring.
Reply to Chris Winkle
I’m still not sure, since the Bene Gesserit is about the same as every other faction in the Dune universe. I suppose I can see where you’re coming from a bit though, since they are the most gendered of all of them.
Putting some thought into this, your point would be much strong if you used the Honored Matres… They very much embody sexist tropes far better than the Bene Gesserit.
Darryl R Taylor
Using your suggestion of reversing the gender in Dune, it would make the Bene Gesserit more horrifying and the protagonist more to be empathized with.
The psychically gifted men who have been breeding for the perfect woman for generations have a member of their order creep into the room of the young woman who may be the one that they seek in order to “test” her by making her prove that she is human?
She is forced to flee with her father after the family nurse betrays them as part of a scheme by the paranoid Empress colluding to supplant their family’s position with the vile and corpulent Baroness Harkonnen, and her niece (who is also a product of the Bene Gesserit breeding program and would have been bred to Pauline Muad’ib if she had been born a male as had been planned).
I’m not going to take the reversal to ridiculous extremes, but within the context of what has already been outlined, the hero’s dominance and subsequent riding of the sand worms would be a Freudian nightmare, and every feminist in North America would likely have been calling for the public emasculation of Herbert shortly after the release of the novel.
Reply to Darryl R Taylor
I agree. The Bene Gesserit are nothing but a bunch of wasted potential. They’re really cool, but they were introduced poorly, and just as they’re finally get to do their stuff, they’re overshadowed by Paul’s Traumatic Super power Awakening and their entire plot line got derailed. Plus it doesn’t help that the three Bene Gesserit introduced are a bitchy old woman, an offscreen damsel in distress, and a smart mom with an idiotic back story
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Brenden1k
I think the point is crazy people can be quite fun in fiction, I am not sure female fatale works as well as a guy which may be a sign of sexism but saying batshit crazy villains have to be guys is kind of sexism. A good rule for avoiding sexism is do not do anything more to women than you do to guys without a good explanation why. The joker or master villains work no matter what gender they are. Do you hear the sound of drums.
Reply to Brenden1k
Femme Fatale works for the same reason the bad boy works, it is the combination of fear and taboo in a safe fantasy. The fact that this article is so gender myopic is telling.
Unquabain
Was Herbert much better than his peers?
Remember in Dune Messiah, he replaces the Bene Gesserit with the Tleilaxu who want the same thing as the Bene Gesserit. They’re basically interchangeable with the Bene Gesserit, but they’re more formidable villains because they aren’t tempted by Paul’s manly manness to become his mother/wife. Basically, women aren’t scary enough, so he replaces them with transgendered villains.
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SamBeringer
Firstly, while I agree there can be batshit-crazy female villains (only because there are batshit-crazy male villains), I disagree with the notion about femme fatales. Because when`s the last time you saw a male villain who relied on their sex appeal to get what they wanted?
Secondly, your statement implies that the only interesting female villains are batshit-crazy or femme fatales. To which I would point out that Azula from the Last Airbender is neither (well, until the end at least. But her mental degradation makes her less of a threat rather than more). And yet many fans find her compelling and more interesting of a villain than the Fire Lord himself.
Finally, while the two categories you mentioned aren`t bad in of themselves (Harley Quinn is my favorite DC villainess, even though she qualifies as batshit-crazy. And while Madalena from Galavant is an excellent villain and a great subversion of the damsel in distress archetype, she definitely has shades of the femme fatale), it becomes a problem when those are the only options offered for female villains. Male villains can be cunning, intimidating, monstrous, and/or loads of other things. Female villains, meanwhile, must either be insane or rely on sex appeal, reducing the potential for more interesting female villains and excluding great villainesses like Azula or Nurse Ratched (and just to give an idea of how rare this is, I spent half an hour sitting here and thinking through the notable female villains I know of who weren`t femme fatales or crazy aside from Azula). That, to me, is truly boring.
Reply to SamBeringer
That isn’t the point at all. It’s not that all depictions of things like femme fatales are bad, its more bad when most of the female characters fall into roles opposing the hero in that fashion and there is little diversity. It also comes down to how said femme fatale manipulates those around her. For two interesting examples, look at Nikita(2010) or Leverage. While the various characters on those two shows frequently dressed in revealing outfits and used sex appeal to their advantage, it was never portrayed as the only means through which they could get results. Sophie on Leverage was extremely manipulative in every possible way, as were the heroines of Nikita. On the antagonist side, Amanda on Nikita was manipulative through almost every means other than sexual.
For an even better example, Veronica Mars entirely gender inverts the concept with Logan fulfilling the role and not really having a female character fit said role. Nikita also had secondary protagonist Alex also seduced by a male character. It helps when stories also have women as viewpoint characters, as was the case in both of those scenarios.
As for the crazy point, where was that mentioned?
Onto the actual blog post, the issue with princesses is another that is somewhat problematic. One of the only heroic queens I can think of in fiction is Amidala in the Star Wars prequels, and she was elected(not to mention wholly falling into the mother role). Leia even described her using exactly the same adjectives you did.
What is ironic about #5 is that maternal DNA that is only passed by mothers is far easier to track than paternal bloodlines. Interestingly parasitic cuckoo birds do something like you mention, but that the Y chromosome is female rather than male(as it is in all birds). The knowledge of how to lay their eggs in the nests of other birds is on the Y chromosome, such that a female cuckoo bird will lay her eggs in the same type of nest she was born into.
That idea of reversing gender with my characters is something I do somewhat frequently. As a side note, I have a much easier time coming up with names for female characters than male, not really sure why. Though this then leads to another issue, that of the Ms. male character. That is a character that has no traits that are associated with femininity, the idea that showing emotion and compassion rather than stoicism and aggression is less effective.
There is another related issue that I have been wondering about lately. Should stories deal with the physical strength divide between men and women? Is it better to just ignore it, as the overwhelming majority of action stories do, or is it better to address it in some fashion while still having women in such roles? There actually was an interesting moment in the first Avengers movie that almost portrayed this. After Banner Hulked out, he chased Black Widow through the helicarrier and she was saved by Thor. While the demigod and unstoppable rage monster fought, she was largely helpless.
Reply to Adam Reynolds
That’s a good question about physical strength. First, keep in mind that the difference is only on average and isn’t as big as we often assume. Any individual woman could still be stronger than an individual guy she comes across, particularly if she’s had physical training. If you incorporate superpowers, the superpowers are definitely the bigger factor. For that reason, if you want to just forget it you can. However, if you want to dig into the details there, you can incorporate how female and male bodies are different, the key is not to focus on the simplistic stronger vs weaker theme. I was at a panel at a con with woman veterans, and here’s what one of them, Ana Visneski, said:
“It does come up that men’s and women’s bodies are different. That is absolutely correct; our bodies are different. The way they carry weight is different. The ways we do things is different. That does not mean a woman is incapable of carrying a 70lb rocket. It means she balances different while she does it.”
Jack Kaplan
I would offer that it’s less important whether or not you explicitly address strength differences than how you portray strength in general. What I mean by that is that strength is intimately tied to body mass. If you are a stronger person you are going to have a larger body and, generally, the larger person is the stronger person. A huge portrayal problem, especially in film, is that women who are suppose to be strong and physically capable are given bodies that are more akin to runway models.
Black Widow in the Avengers movie is a perfect example of how not to do physically capable women. The actress Scarlett Johansson is a tiny woman in her Black Widow roll, yet she is seen overpowering men three times her size. If you are going to have a women beat the shit out of a bunch of men you are going to need to close that size gap substantially, either make her much larger and more muscular or make them much smaller and more lean. That doesn’t mean that the men have to be paper thin wimps or that the women has to be a burly beefcake. If Scar Jo had marginally more muscle tone and had beat the shit out of a bunch of guys of Hawkeye’s build that would make a tremendous amount more sense.
Reply to Jack Kaplan
speaking from half a decade of wing tsun practice, it is not absolutely necessary to close the gap in size and weight you mention. There are martial arts, that do not rely on strength – e.g., aikido – or offer relatively “flexible” options, if the opponent is stronger than oneself. Think of it as: “That punch is too strong to block? Well, give way.” or as the difference between fire and water bending in the Avatar series. That does not mean, that the more flexible style is weaker or stronger, it simply is adapted to the person that performs it.
Furthermore – in my experience – strength is the crucial factor, only if two people have the same experience and equally good technique. If that is not the case, the person with better technique and more experience will usually win. (I know, the latter was not your point, but I wanted to mention it for the sake of completeness.)
Coming back to big productions there are usually two problems with the fighting scenes:
1) The actors are not martial artists, which makes the scene look quite unrealistic per se. If you are interested in the difference, you may have a look at “Forbidden Kingdom”, which features both.
2) The fighting style is – as far as I know – not too much a “proper” style, but rather a mixture of “looks good” and “makes the actor look good”.
So, in my opinion, it is not so much about strength or in the broadest sense body type, but rather the technique. As far as I remember Rodriguez and Jovovich did a good job in Resident Evil, even though Jovovich actually is a model.
Nonetheless, I would very much like to see other body types cast.
Reply to Katja
There are several videos (elevator cams, other regular cameras) of men who tried to steal from or assault slender, girlish women who got the shit beaten out of them by their intended victim, because the victim happened to know martial arts. My favourite one so far was of a young woman in hijab who beat up two men in an elevator at the same time after they tried to steal her purse.
Kara Harkins
I was perplexed by the same thing. The simple test I use is whether a scene would be the same if you changed the gender of anyone in it. I can pretty much guarantee that *anyone* would be threatened by *anyone* holding a gom jabar to their neck unless they experienced pain without trying to get away from it.
Reply to Kara Harkins
Only a minor point, but at the end of #1, you mention a princess as being empowered through her father, the king. Both history and fiction also allow for her to be powered through her mother, the queen, which would then mean she’s not empowered by patriarchy, but merely by being a member of a ruling bloodline. There have been a lot of ruling queens not ruling because of a system of matriarchy, but simply because their husband was missing, dead, or in war … or because the succession laws allow for the oldest daughter to take the throne.
I agree there’s a lot of sexist topics in fiction and it’s hard to find a female villain who is not either depicted as crazy or as someone using their sexuality to gain power. This is itself a sexist topic: women can use their sexuality and their looks, because they are judged by how sexually attractive they seem. This is the true reason why there’s no homme fatal, only a femme fatale.
#5 is what is wrong with Lord of the Rings. Barely any women at all. It is a world full of men and very little women. Even as a child I could never like the series because it was all boys, boys, boys. To this day I still feel the same way. Awful lot of men, very little women.
Reply to Me
LoTR was written as a tribute, or a memorial to Tolkien’s experiences on World War 1.
Not a lot of women in the trenches, but a lot of male camaraderie in the face of horror.
The female characters he did include were powerful, respected, and wise. Good traits for anyone and not gender based at all.
If you think about that argument for a moment, you’ll find it doesn’t make any sense. There weren’t many hobbits, dwarves, elves, or Wring Wraiths in WWI either. Tolkien certainly wasn’t terrible on the representation front, considering the time he wrote in, but if someone feels like there weren’t enough women in it for them to enjoy, saying it’s because there weren’t many women in the source material doesn’t make sense.
It makes 100% sense. The book was a fantasy fictionalization of how Tolkien viewed his experiences and how he viewed the industrialization of war. It’s an entirely valid observation, and it does nothing to speak against why someone else doesn’t like a thing. It only clarifies why something is the way that it is.
So Tolkien could reimagine the people in the trenches as dwarves, hobbits, elves, etc. but imagining them as women was a step too far?
I’m afraid not, Jack. I very much doubt Tolkien viewed his war experience as being filled with elves and and hobbits. He added those later, either because he thought it would make the story more interesting or to distance himself from the actual experience, we’ll never know.
It does the man a disservice to assume his imagination was incapable of including women in his fantasy scenario. Instead, he was held back by social views of a woman’s place that permeated his culture and to a certain extent still permeate ours.
3Comrades
I saw this and had to add that Tolkien was very adamant that his story was NOT about his war experiences and once said that if it was, both sides would use Hobbitts, and would compete over how much damage they could do with the ring.
As much as Buffy or Rey are enjoyable characters, the problem I have with portraying female characters just as physically strong is that it thus seems to claim that women should act like men with different anatomy as opposed to having different ways of dealing with problems. Ways that are often superior when used in reality. This then gets into the issue you point out with the Heroine’s Journey. Which of course does offer interesting story possibilities.
It was an issue that Anita Sarkeesian pointed out in her review of True Grit, that having a female character that excels in a male dominated world doesn’t make her a feminist icon. Showing the feminine perspectives of cooperation and emotional expression as equal or superior to stoicism and aggression would be a far better feminist icon that a young woman who adopts to the male standard rather than challenging it.
The other issue is with regard to populations and overall numbers. While there are women more than capable of handling themselves in situations like combat, as has been shown in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan(and in a smaller example, the mixed gender crew of the USS Cole was more than adequate when it came to damage control, despite the fact that naval fire fighting was often considered something women would have been inferior at), there will always be far less women who are both capable and interested of trying to compete in those areas. As a reasonable example, the US Army’s Sapper school has had women directly competing with men, with a failure rate no higher. Though that is with the percentage of women entering the course less than 10%.
So that would imply that the percentage of women in such a role be extremely small.
I think it is essential have to female heroes that retain feminine characteristics AND have female heroes that adopt masculine characteristics (not to mention heroes that do both). The former is to raise the status of feminine roles, and the later is to break down gendered stereotypes and allow people to exist outside the gender binary if they want to. I think Anita is right that there is a disproportionate amount of “strong female characters” adopting masculine roles, but to some level we need that. If you want to show how non-violence is better at solving problems, consider writing a male hero that fills a very feminine role. How often do we see that?
I don’t think it’s fair to say “there will always be far less women who are both capable and interested of trying to compete in those areas” – we don’t know that yet. Everything from exposure to women in various occupations, to encouragement or discouragement from family, to wanting to be among similar people, affects a person’s choice about career. All the little ways society discourages woman from entering traditionally male professions adds up to a huge impact. If we ever lose our gender binary, then we will know if women are naturally less inclined toward combat roles. Right now, we don’t.
That’s a good point you raise, Adam. You immediately made me think of the differences I had noticed in female authored crime novels vs male authored crime novels. Recently I read one that had a male protagonist, but his boss was female. She had a network of friends who would call on one another to grease wheels on an investigation. In male authored crime novels the protagonist is just about always a loner and may have trouble with getting favours.
We should be thinking about skill-sets and differences that could be adventitious, as well as interesting from a narrative perspective.
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Charles Olson
A good book to read is “The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and The Real Gender Gap” by Susan Pinker. It is a fascinating, well-written book that includes a lot of analysis of solid statistical research studies on what career choices women make when they have the option to choose. While it does anything BUT confirm the idea that women all gravitate toward certain roles, it DOES establish that there are certain tendencies that differ between the sexes, tendencies that Pinker hypothesizes as having some foundations in average testable differences (such as empathy. Women, on average, have higher empathy than men, and Pinker hypothesizes that this, on average, leads to different choices). While some of her conclusions or theories may offend some, she backs them up with facts, and she isn’t advancing roles. In other words, she is far more descriptive than prescriptive. If I was to sum up the feel of the book it would be: “On the whole, men and women ARE a little different from each other, and this is a good thing.”
The book also has some equally fascinating information on traits like dyslexia and autism, which are far more common in men than in women, which would be of use to anyone trying to get a better picture of how THOSE function and express in the population and in individuals.
Reply to Charles Olson
Point of order: It’s actually quite difficult to say for certain what the sex bias of conditions like dyslexia and autism might be, because women with those conditions are almost certainly under-diagnosed. I don’t know if Pinker accounts for that in her book.
I would also caution that we not read to much into the broad trends that books like hers talk about. While some of them may be true (and I say may because its really difficult to completely isolate biological factors from social ones), they are only broad trends. Broad trends don’t tend to matter very much at the individual level.
Example: In broad trends, men make more money than women, but it would hardly be unbelievable to have a female character in your story who’s richer than the male characters.
Whenever someone tells me about this awesome non-fiction book that provides research proving X, I always think, “So, couldn’t stand up to peer review hey?”
Anyway, I haven’t read Susan Pinker’s work, but from what I understand it is the usual pop-psychobabble that you see in all of these sorts of books. They have a conclusion and offer up a polemic of cherry picked and misrepresented evidence to convince the reader their conclusion is correct. In other words, unscientific rubbish. Martin Gladwell has gotten famous and rich doing this crap.
This review has a brief summary of what I’m talking about: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/mar/30/society.politics
An example of the erroneous claims Pinker is making there (yes, I’m being presumptuous since I haven’t read it) is that autism rates in men are higher. Well, that’s not necessarily the case. We don’t actually know what the autism rate is in girls because they are usually undiagnosed or misdiagnosed because they tend to have different symptoms.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/why-autism-spectrum-disorders-are-under-diagnosed-in-women/6570896
And besides all of that, it still doesn’t get past the point that the researchers on the gender pay gap have accounted for a lot of things and there still exists a gap. Sure, the larger gap has lots of factors involved, but there is still discrimination playing a part. It is also not a very compelling argument that social conditioning explains it, therefore no big deal. Changing that social conditioning is part of the wider discrimination reversal needed.
Oh heh, I knew I recognized the name Pinker from somewhere. I head her bother, Steven Pinker’s book a while back, and while it had some good stuff in, it largely assumed that because discrimination is mostly illegal now, social pressures aren’t really a very big deal.
Anon Adderlan
I’m actually surprised Dune doesn’t get more flack in this political climate. In addition to the issue you mention, there’s also superiority through eugenics and faux-muslim jihadists. The reason I think it gets away with it is because of the depth of execution, and were it the product of a lesser writer it would have already been skewered by now.
As for science…
“Sure, this could have a scientific explanation: the gene is on the Y chromosome. But the only reason to make inheritance work that way is to exclude women.”
So if the trait was passed down through mitochondria, the only reason would be to exclude men?
Can we just stop with the ‘scientific explanations in fiction have a political agenda’ thing? Science in the real world has no agenda, regardless of how many people use it to validate their political leanings. It can only answer questions about empirical true and false, not ethical right and wrong, and it isn’t always ‘fair’, because fair is an ETHICAL concept.
So why should science in fictional settings be any different, especially when based (however tenuously) on real world phenomena?
Reply to Anon Adderlan
I feel you’re rather missing the point here.
The issue isn’t with science *as science*, or as a concept.
Story science – when made up for the story – is NOT real world science. It’s made up for the benefit of the narrative. And it’s subject to critique, on the grounds of sexism or any other grounds, in the same way as anything else the author made up.
If the author made, for example, magic only usable by men – that’s a choice. It’s subject to critique on the grounds of sexism. And saying something like “but there’s solid science in the world for that – it’s Y-chromosome-linked” is sadly extremely common – but it’s *not* a defence. This isn’t the real world, where the author was constrained by actual facts – they *made up* the Y-chromosome-link. They could equally easily have invented something different.
There’s a pretty hideous example of this in the latest Metal Gear, where the game designer insisted “no, there’s a really good reason why the female sniper is nearly naked all the time”, and triumphantly revealed: “she’s a lab project who breathes through her skin”.
The trouble is – that’s a pathetic excuse. The *effect* is still that the female character is near-naked and the male ones are fully clothed, and that was a choice by the author. The fact that the author bothered to come up with an in-universe excuse afterwards doesn’t change the fact that the did it *because he wanted an excuse for the female character to have no clothes on*. It doesn’t free him from responsibility for the choice.
So no, fictional science (when invented for narrative reasons) is not immune to critique, any more than fictional sociology or geography is.
Reply to Daniel Taylor
The Metal Gear reference is particularly amusing because they’ve had a character who did something similar before, a wrinkly old man. And yet he never went around in a tiny bathing suit on combat missions.
I’m rather sure I know the reason for that…
You see the same one in every MMO RPG … male armour is meant to make the wearer look more imposing and intimidating, all hugh shoulder pieces, big boots, and sculpted breastplates. Female armour is usually as few pieces of metal as are possible. Practically speaking, all those female characters should be dead within five minutes into their first mission.
And of course, the males of a fantasy race look like big, imposing monsters, the females look like sexy human women with a color swap.
Except the Tauren. Tauren are cool.
Amniote
You say that having a character be naked all the time, being justified by that character breathing through their skin, is bad. What if that that character was had frog powers, but also had frog weaknesses, such as finding it hard to lift their legs?
Reply to Amniote
One big problem with this character is that there’s a second character with the same trait in the game, only this one is an old man and, surprise, never seen in skimpy clothing. If we were talking ‘planet of people who breathe through the skin,’ things would be different.
I’m not sure about the frog powers, but I don’t see where finding it hard to lift a leg is sexist.
I meant that the person I replied to said justifying nakedness with the excuse that the character breathes through skin is bad, because the writer made up the skin breathing. I was asking if that justification would be better, if the character was based on a real creature that breathed through skin, as the writer would be choosing whether to use the fact, rather than creating it.
‘She breathes through her skin’ was precisely the justification given for the character’s skimpy clothes, but, as I pointed out, it didn’t even hold in-game, because another character who also breathed through the skin, but was an old man, was clad normally. That is what makes it sexist to say ‘this well-shaped female characters is almost naked, because she breathes through her skin.’ Because it’s obviously just an excuse to have this character in little clothing to be oggled. Had the old guy dressed in a similar way, it would still have been weird, but it would have at least be logical in-game.
Lizard with Hat
I think it is important to establish early and clearly that Worldbuilding is the reason why your fantasy-Folks choice of cloth – but still: skimpy cloth might have a reason but the society we live in has a clear view on naked skin as sexy and that is very hard to work around.
I think it can and should be done, because the western sense of modesty isn’t universal but it often is used as a weak excuse and so even genuine example might be seen as that.
I hope this makes some sense ^^’
Reply to Lizard with Hat
Mitochondrial DNA wouldn’t exclude men; men do have mitochondrial DNA. It would only mean that heridity was matrilineal.
Kiden
I question whether you actually READ the Wheel of Time series, because frankly, if you did, you sure as hell read a different version than the ones sitting on my bookshelf. You see, in the ones -I- read, the Aes Sedai are a powerful force in the world, and many of them actually HELP the hero, including some of the red ajah. There is a faction among the aes sedai, namely the BLACK ajah, aka the ones who are EVIL who want to hunt him down. There are also some among the red who want to control him, but not because he’s a man, but because they think that that’s the only way they can see to protect the world. This is what’s known as ‘character development’. One more thing…where, EXACTLY, did you get the idea that they were all man hating lesbians? There is not a single character in the ENTIRE SERIES that is described as gay or straight. They have relationships, and that’s it. Some have relationships with men, others with women, and still others with both. That goes for both men and women. As for man hating…no. In fact, the line used in the book is that because the red ajah’s job is to hunt men who can channel, for good reason, they tend to become jaded against all men. You know, kind of like cops tend to become jaded against anybody who has ever been arrested, regardless of whether or not they have turned their life around. There are even members of the red ajah that are quite friendly with men, including actually wanting warders. So, before you bitch about a series, how about you actually READ IT? And not just looking for things to prove your points, but looking at everything as a whole.
Reply to Kiden
I found the Wheel of Time books very sexist. The male perspective parts were written wonderfully. The three main males were complex, interesting, and just really fun to adventure with. The women were just flat out terrible for the most part. While the women could be powerful, most of the women (with the original author) were one of two type of women
– the gentle lady who did what the men wanted
– the bitch who told the men they were doing the wrong thing, then the men ignore them
When you were reading the books, did you ever just skip through the women’s point of view chapters? Ask yourself why, when the men’s were written so beautifully.
Reply to Ginny
I found myself wanting to a few times, no question. You and I had similar thoughts, Ginny.
Those two categories are not remotely a description of any significant character in Wheel of Time. Of the three main characters, one, Elayne, MIGHT be construed as “the gentle lady who did what the men wanted” except she never, ever does what a man wants. Mostly she worries about what her female superiors want. She is not really gentle, but she prefers diplomacy & conflict resolution to arguing and demanding her way, and yet the other characters, including her friends, think of her as possessing a haughty demeanor. She also, in spite of her diplomatic proclivities, proves a capable military leader when necessary. Her relationships with men consist of her love interest, towards whom she is somewhat deferential at the beginning of their relationship, but only as a seduction tactic, and later it is inferred that her own reticence causes him to misapprehend her investment, so it’s not like the narrative is rewarding the demure approach. She has a hard deadline for the time they have together, because she has a mission coming up, and when her friends wonder which commitment will take priority, she says the job, no question. Later, when she takes a position of political power, Elayne finds her constituency opposed to her love interest’s political influence, and she promptly publically repudiates him. He hears the news and is hurt and assumes it means she’s also rejecting him personally, while a mutual female friend mocks him for his hurt feelings and insists he talk to her in person instead of sulking. When they do meet face to face, he comes out of the encounter having accepted Elayne’s perspective on the situation, and withdraws his involvement from her sphere of action. In Elayne’s stream of consciousness, she is very much in love with him, and makes a lot of counter-intuitive life choices based on that love, but it’s not ever because of what he wants, it’s in response to circumstances. She also has an avuncular relationship with one of her mother’s former lovers, whom she recalls from when she was a toddler, and he helps her education in political intrigue, but when they are traveling and working together, she is the one in charge, in spite of his efforts to protect her, and it is repeatedly made clear that her powers mean she really is more capable than he (he has white hair and a physical disability and no preternatural powers, but still thinks he should be protecting her).
The other two main characters, while capable of gentility, are not remotely interested in doing anything a man wants, even when in a few cases, the man is right. Neither are they portrayed as “bitches.” The cases where the men ignore them are because of character reasons, and sometimes sexism on the men’s parts, but not because the narrative says ignoring women is the right call or that men should not have to listen to women. For one thing, the messianic hero protagonist’s inner circle consists almost entirely of female advisors, most of whom have their own agendas, and are advising him because his position dictates that’s the best way to serve their vocations or agendas.
Another main male character, Perrin’s arc consists in large part of learning to listen to his wife. He’s a commoner, she’s a runaway noblewoman, and when he is thrust into a leadership position, she becomes frustrated with his unwillingness to perform in his role. Part of it on his part, is sexist or classist assumptions that his wife can’t possibly understand how the commoners think or feel better than he himself, until he starts receiving independent confirmation, and also learns that his deference to his wife is considered condescending in her culture and he should treat her like an equal and like a soldier, rather than put her on a pedestal, and he also has to start following her lessons, because people are relying on his leadership. She becomes a prisoner of war, and while Perrin’s part of the story is his efforts to rescue her, in the meantime, she is rallying a resistance movement among her fellow enslaved refugees, and extricates herself just as he arrives, and promptly takes charge of the situation, including rebuking her husband’s desire to personally punish a traitor, by showing that the traitor belongs in the jurisdiction of the (female) White Tower.
Anyway, back to the other two female protagonists, Egwene & Nynaeve. They seldom “tell the men they are doing the wrong thing” because their stories do not revolve around their interactions with men, but rather navigating the politics of an organization (Hogwarts as an all-female Vatican). Their differences of opinion with various men are just that, and while sometimes they are wrong, it’s because they are human, not bitches. Well, Egwene’s an awful person, but it’s not in a gendered way, it’s because of her ambitions and selfishness and narrow-minded focus on herself over everything else. She is often in conflict with the main character, but that is built up to a head as the climatic conflict between the good guys prior to the ultimate battle with the forces of evil, and is portrayed as a consistent issue between the two of them. Very often, Egwene is shown up by her female companions or associates who do better at persuading men, not by submissiveness or docility, but by positive approaches, rather than negative. By demanding reciprocity and holding people to standards, rather than “I want” or “you’re stupid”. Nynaeve, generally perceived as the most abrasive, has established and demonstrated reasons for coming on strong all the time. As she grows in strength and power, she learns to perform conventional femininity in many ways she had previously cut herself off from, but becomes no less intimidating to other point of view characters, does not soften or become “nicer”.
Reply to Cannoli
Ben Atherton-Zeman
Thank you so much for this wonderful article! As a lifelong fantasy fan and reader approaching his 50th year, this is the piece I’ve been waiting for without realizing it.
I especially love point #3. I’ve spend my adult life working to stop men’s violence against women – having sexual violence casually thrown in ruins a book for me.
Reply to Ben Atherton-Zeman
Have to disagree with the reference to Angel. Spoilers.
The picture you have of Cordy is of an episode where (and I freely admit it has been a while since I’ve seen it) the men are shown as predators serving a demon. She is never questioned about wanting to sleep with the attractive man. She is asked if she used protection but that was just in the gathering of facts. No one questions it or anything like that.
She is shown as distraught and her male friends are nothing other than supportive in every way shape and form they can be.
Darla was a rapist over her centuries and to her the biggest violation was that the, human, baby had a soul and so she started to feel remorse and love.
And I think Cordy’s second pregnancy had as much to do with Charisma Carpenter’s real life pregnancy and the show runners working with that.
The reason why this seems okay to you is that you are underestimating the seriousness of forced pregnancy. As I said, it is a sickening violation along the likes of rape, and only a patriarchal culture makes people think differently. The show writers clearly weren’t okay with having Cordy or Darla raped in either of those situations (I’m not getting into the origins of Cordy’s other forced pregnancy) so clearly a forced pregnancy was inappropriate for the tone of their show.
Sure, Cordy is unhappy for all of one episode. We don’t watch her deal with PTSD or other serious emotional consequences for the rest of the season, and that’s the least that this demanded.
Regardless of what Darla did in the past, violating her body in that manner is clearly an inappropriate punishment. You wouldn’t watch in vindictive joy if she got raped as punishment for past crimes, would you?
Please remember that being forced into becoming pregnant and then being forced to carry that pregnancy term is a real thing that real people suffer through. Not treating it with the seriousness it deserves adds both insult and injury.
Not to mention that the ultimate consequence of Darla’s pregnancy was to be killed off so that the worst character in the series could be born. That rape pregnancy sucked from start to finish.
With Darla it was almost like it is supposed to be a horrible world with horrible people in it? And Connor ended up being a nice, nomalish person.
I disagree that she got over it. She just wasn’t played as being overly emotional about it. It subverted a sexist sterotype. But, she does date a lot before that and very little after. That betrayal of trust did damage part of her nature.
The writers (although this was on Buffy) also included two instances of women raping men. Faith raping Xander and Buffy raping Spike.
In Angel, Connor was raped by Jasmine (as Cordy) and a pregnancy was the result of that. She was also abusive to the point you could argue he had stockholme syndrome.
I’m not saying the mystical pregnancy to avoid rape isn’t a thing and it isn’t a problem. You just really picked the wrong TV series and writers.
It does not make you sexist if you hit a woman. It makes you sexist to think it is sexist to hit a woman. Now whether or not you are a prick who solves problems with violence is a different matter.
Reply to Dennis
NelC
If one is also hitting men, and the context for hitting men and women is the same, then, no, that’s not sexist violence.
If you’re hitting the men because they’re trying to hit you, and you’re hitting the women because, say, they didn’t make your dinner to your satisfaction, then I think a case may be made for sexism.
Reply to NelC
So just let me start by saying I think Point #3 is the best point and absolutely spot on. Too much use of women’s bodies to further a story is an issue we have not yet solved as storytellers both male, female, and across the gender spectrum.
Point 0 – The article only scratches the surface of any of these points and uses specific examples that paint a picture (and not always an accurate picture) of writing without taking writing in general as a whole. Additionally all of these examples have some age on them, except the Sanderson book. Could one not find more contemporary literature that exhibits these examples? I think you could. Also, where are the examples of literature or movies or television done right or is the point that no entertainment has yet managed to do it?
#1. This is just an example of picking out very specific examples to prove your point, but I think you chose very poorly. You completely ignore the Council of Women and the other Aes Sedai, the Aiel, and a number of female rulers who are written with great agency. You also do not point out that the subtext commentary on men is that “Men cannot be trusted with power”. So perhaps if there is specific commentary, it is leveled at both of the sexes/genders? In Dune the Bene Gesserit are a powerful and complex society who have developed in opposition to a male dominated group of rivals. You also ignore Chani, Irulan, and Jessica and that is just the characters in Dune, the first book. You may find individuals or individual groups to be offensive or tropes, but that does not make the writing or the work as a whole sexist.
#2 Let me address romances, as I am friends with several (erotic) romance writers who are feminist and whose judgement I have always found to be sound. They have taught me a little bit about the genre and in their own way are trying to change some of the tropes involved. Still a great many romance readers desire this kind of writing, whether it be sexist or not and since it is mostly women (not entirely) writing for mostly women (though not entirely) I think it is important to examine the genre and judge it on that point. If the readership enjoys it and the writers write it, does that make them all sexist? Is there an acceptable level of sexism? Can male lead dynamics in romance be stories be written in a non sexist way, while still retaining the thing that makes them what the readers want? I suspect the answer is yes.
Do I think its acceptable for men to threaten violence? No of course not, but should we only write things that are “acceptable”. Wesley threatens to strike her, but doesn’t and in reality Buttercup is not at all intimidated by this man. It is a scene that should make us feel uncomfortable. Are scenes like that overused? Of course they are and overuse robs it of its potency and doesn’t make us think about it critically like we should.
#4 Here again, this argument does not seem to hold up under scrutiny. You pick and choose and generalize all in the same set of paragraphs. I have not read the book in question and cannot speak about it, but by way of example I can point out any number of books where the male only lives to serve or is forced to serve or manipulated into serving. So many male characters lack agency that I would characterize this as poor writing as opposed to sexist writing. I also worry that you are creating a no win scenario for any writer or movie maker or fan there of, by narrowing down the possible female character types to a few or one. That is not realistic or good writing, for writing not to be sexist it has to create a menagerie of female characters, some good, some bad, and some who fit stereotypes.
I personally love the Belgariad and I love Polgara, but I also hate Polgara. She almost, but not quite, comes off as the typical woman who is always right because men are stupid boys trope. What redeems her is that Polgara is the only one who takes this stuff as seriously as it should be taken. She runs a tight ship, maybe sometimes too tight, and still manages to fall in love with a black smith who adores her. The series is not perfect in regard to women, but I feel like it makes great strides in that regard.
#5. I think the point of Underworld OR perhaps the point we can take away is that these bad people, while complex, are indeed narrow minded and very sexist. To their extreme detriment and indeed, to their own destruction. A layer of mothers, sisters, and wives with agency would have saved them no doubt, but they were too busy being jerks to notice. I think that is intentional, though not knowing the mind of the writers and directors I cannot say for sure. It comes off to me as intentional.
But let’s talk about bad writing again. How often is the father absent in stories? If he died that seems to be the kindest cut. More often than not he is emotionally distant, abusive – sometimes sexually, and / or a liar and cheat. Or Drunk. The list goes on and I admit that angle is over used, though I think it mirrors our society’s obsession with blaming it on our parents.
And why does every story need women? Is a story about Waterloo improved if we make up some kind of love interest or woman with agency? Will that explain Napoleon’s poor decision making or the timing of Blucher’s arrival? In fact, adding a love story to the movie Pearl Harbor was a detriment to the film, not an improvement. Does that make me sexist? Honestly I think just the opposite as both that character and Arwen in the LoTR movies (and the inclusion of a non existent female elf in the Hobbit movies) is just pandering to female viewers. They are poor attempts to shoe horn characters into a story just to “get women to come to the movie”. That to me actually seems VERY sexist. Women were going to go see LoTR and The Hobbit anyway. Both have huge female audiences.
Again though perhaps this is a no win situation: jamming a female character into a story just to have her there is sexist, but not having one is also sexist. I find that kind of thinking counter productive at best, anti intellectual at worst.
So I suppose I really have an issue not so much with the points but how they are presented. There is also no mention of people getting it right, authors both male and female who are shining examples of how to write a female character. I also find some of it disingenuous. You are a Buffy fan, so where was the Buffy critique? One could make a cogent argument that Buffy )the show) not only emasculates its male characters, but also its female characters are dull sexist tropes. Including the main character who needs a man, Xander, Giles, Angel, and of course Spike, to save her time and again either literally or emotionally or figuratively. Also, where was Buffy’s dad? Oh the deadbeat? That’s not a stereotype, at all.
Except for #3, which as I stated is spot on and brilliant, I do not find much else compelling, complete, or necessarily accurate.
Reply to Sean
Not having any female werewolves, although there are female vampires, is telling, though. Werewolves can propagate normally, unlike vampires who are dead and thus infertile. Logic dictates the pack should have about as many females as it has males. Yet since the 1990s, there have barely been any female werewolves in movies or fiction (safe for the three Ginger Snaps movies). The 1980s had the “Howling” series which included female werewolves.
The werewolf is more brutal than the vampire and thus the writers obviously feel very uncomfortable with portraying female werewolves hunting and killing like their male counterparts. Female vampires are more commonly accepted, although most don’t act like Selene, but rely on seduction instead. Underworld could have and should have provided a female equivalent of her among the werewolves, especially as the human male lead turns into a werewolf first and into a vampire second. What about an alpha female of the pack taking up the mantle after the alpha male is killed? That would have made sense.
justadunefan
“What if that order of female, breeding cultists was an order of male-only, breeding cultists?”
Yeah, they are called the Bene Tleilax.
Maybe you should read the books.
Reply to justadunefan
They don’t have time to actually read,just skimming for sexism.
Jencendiary
It’s not our fault your critical thinking and analysis is turned off by default.
Reply to Jencendiary
Steve Turnbull
I know you mean well (and are not wrong to mention these things) but, for example, quotes are taken out of context with no reference to the nature of the narrator.
If the narrator is misogynist (or indeed alien) they’re going to express things in misogynistic (or alien) ways. You cannot demand all characters are “PC”, ‘cos people just ain’t.
Also judging past works by the standards of today is always a flawed approach.
The gender reversal trick might not work for my books – all those female characters becoming male … does that make me sexist?
Reply to Steve Turnbull
Is it really judging past works, or simply looking at them with a critical eye? You can love books/series and admit they have flaws.
Yes, you can demand that all characters are treated with respect and dignity. That’s all “PC” is.
Also, you *can* judge past works by the standards of today. That line of argument prevents people from making any judgements about works that don’t exist in the present day. People-average readers or historians-judge historical works all the time. No, what you’re saying is ‘don’t judge historical works through the lens you’re using’. That’s not reasonable either. The standards of today that you’re decrying also existed back then.
Reply to Tony
I was done when I heard the explanation of the Bene Gesserit. Their goal was NOT to breed a perfect man. There was a prophecy that a man would be born to their order, which is why they didn’t want Jessica to marry the duke and why they were super pissed that she didn’t destroy the child as soon as she found out she would give birth to a son. Paul was their undoing and the Reverend Mother knew it. Just…wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
And guess what: women can, in fact, be manipulative just like men.
The goal of the Bene Gesserit was to breed the super being, and it was Jessicas ambition to bare it. The reverend mother’s reason for reproving Jessica for her arrogance, was that with a male child, there would now be no way of sealing the two seperate, refined bloodlines, namely to marry an Atreides daugther to a Harkonnen son and thus ensuring another more refined generation, one that would have a much higher likelihood of being the quisatz haderach.
Reply to Martin
You know you are all arguing over non sense that dosnt matter,right?
This is a horrible article.
A sexist character does not make a book sexist. There are horrible people and horrible things in the real world and writing a story that is all unicorns and happy fun candy is a damn lie to the reader. There are also good people that do bad things and bad people that do good things. Including characters like this in a story can make it more interesting.
All this being said anything written into a story needs to have a reason to be there, or it’s just wasted ink on paper. If I’m going to have a horrible woman hating man in my story, there is going to be a reason for it. You, as the reader, may not like the character. And if that happens, … good. I succeeded in stirring your emotions.
Reply to joe
The positive portrait of one or more sexist characters, though, makes a story sexist. Just as having a villain in a story doesn’t make the story evil, it’s a matter of context for sexism or racism, too.
If you have a sexist superior who makes the female lead’s life harder than it has to be … like a sexist editor who gives all the good stories to male reporters and sends out the female one to cover gossip stories or fashion shows, although she asks for different assignments … then you don’t have a sexist story. You put a sexist character up as an obstacle for the protagonist to overcome. She will sneak her way into the murder investigation or manage to interview the new superhero in town or come up with the top story about the newest political scandal and nothing her boss does can stop her.
If you write a story where the male lead commands the female lead around, although she is just as competent as he is and never show it as something wrong, then your story might just be sexist. If you reduce the female lead to mere arm-candy, even though she’s a scientist with two different doctorates, or make her so utterly stupid she obviously has never heard of common sense, your story is sexist, unless you have a very, very, very, very good reason.
You should credit that use of the painting by Dan Dos Santos, the one used to illustrate point #4. http://www.dandossantos.com/extras/wallpaper_dds_warbreaker.jpg
Reply to Kelley
This is the most ridiculous article I’ve ever read.
As a woman, I find it completely offensive that you’d even consider the idea of censoring real story because “powerful women are threatening to men” and matriarchies are scary. Matriarchies ARE scary, just like patriarchies.
ANY extreme is bound to cause a reaction, and pandering to audiences who can’t deal with that is wrong.
Femme fatales? I never felt undermined whilst encountering a story where a woman was portrayed in that role.
What you’re suggesting here is fascism in storytelling. Awful.
I think you forgot to actually “think” while reading the article, T…. also your logic is flawed: being yourself a woman doesn’t make you the ultimate judge of what is sexist and what isn’t. You need actual argumentation. You never felt undermined by femmes fatales? Big deal ! You need to give some thoughts on the topic. A femme fatale who is only an empty shell of attractiveness with no other agenda, is sexist.
Reply to Rally
A couple of points to the recurrent questions I hear when these things come up:
0. No, you aren’t legally required to have perfectly gender representation in every work of fiction you write. Things like this are thought provoking questions, not orders from the Matriarchs of Lyrane.
1. If you’re writing a fantasy story and are starting to talk about some biotruths about how women couldn’t be knights or whatever, stop yourself for a moment. It’s a FANTASY story. You’re making things up. In my opinion you should ask yourself “How come I’m including sexism in a situation where it is not necessary?” If the sexism isn’t doing anything for your fantasy story, how come it’s there? (If it’s the point, then fair enough, and don’t beat yourself up over small unexamined things that slip in – everyone’s living in this ambience.)
2. Same deal with science fiction.
3. If you’re writing historical fiction, know your period. There were probably more important women around than you think. Even if you’re writing something set in a situation where there wouldn’t be many women around (a tall ship a la Master and Commander, a Civil War regiment) there would be SOME, and you should treat these characters with thoughtful respect and avoid stereotyping. The matriarchs of Lyrane will not appear and make you include 50% women in disguise in your Civil War company. (Though you can if you want.)
Out of curiosity M, are the Matriarchs of Lyrane product of your own imagination for from a work I haven’t read?
They’re from EE Smith’s Lensman series, a really old space opera, and a really quite sexist work altogether.
The Matriarchy of Lyrane are a race of more-or-less normal human aliens that the protagonist has to work with at some point. They are 99% female, 1% male, and the female Lyranians hold the males in utter contempt, and by extension all males everywhere. Still, the Matriarch (ruler of Lyrane) eventually comes to admit that maybe the protagonist is worthwhile, for a man.
The other notable sexism of the series is that there’s a magical psychic booster called the Lens, which enables telepathy and other powers, but only to the truly worthy. For some reason, only men are ever awarded them, until late in the series, when the protagonist’s girlfriend gets one.
There’s a whole bunch of WTFery in the series, though, and might be worth reading if you want to have that whole “the past is a foreign country” experience. Also, there’s some great space battles. (Maybe start with Galactic Patrol, skipping the first couple of books, which were published later.)
Good article, it has many painfully true insights about Wheel of Time and Warbreaker. (These are the only works I’m familiar with from the examples.)
Reply to Vilya
Since I’m fresh off a re-read of the Wheel Of Time series, I’ll comment on that much at least; there are a huge number of times at which a character of one gender dismisses the entirety of the other gender as ‘soft’ (in both directions) or generalizes them as ‘dangerous’. Ultimately, though,
one of the primary revelations which builds up through the series and is inescapable at its culmination is that neither one can stand alone, and they must be in balance, working together, in order to win the day. Most of the characters – whether strong male or strong female characters, since the series has both aplenty – who fail to realize this fact also do not survive the series.
If anything, I would argue that one of the predominant subtexts of the series is the changing of those biases for the better. As such, that series is a particularly poor example of what you attempt to illustrate.
Nevertheless, there is certainly value in a lot of the points you make – but as things which should be considered for ways which will best serve the plot, not as things which should be avoided for fear of being ‘sexist’.
I would strongly urge writers to consider all of these points, but ultimately to do what feels right for any given character, because the attitudes of particular characters can be important story elements for the subsequent development of those characters. Likewise, there is no value added to a story by introducing a character of another race or gender just so as to have one in there; I don’t want to have a ‘token female’ in a scene which doesn’t actually benefit from having a female character; I would rather have other scenes in which female characters play a valuable role.
If it doesn’t feel right to the creative process, don’t force it. Write what feels right for the story that’s unfolding in your head.
Reply to Oliver
Sometimes great literature transcends any particular “ism.” Imagine reading sanitized, revised versions of Tom Sawyer, Anna Karenina, or Taming of the Shrew.
We cannot deny who we were any more than we can deny who we are now.
Reply to Beekeeper
Devlin Blake
I hate sexism in fiction too, but we do live in a sexist world. Wesley’s world was based off of real middle ages England, like most sword and sorcery is. (at least, back then)
Since he never DID hit Buttercup, he might have said it because he grew up in a world where he thought he was SUPPOSED to say it. People aren’t perfect, and characters should never be. Pretending the world he lived in wasn’t sexist (Humperdink basically wanted Buttercup for a pawn and trophy after all,) isn’t doing justice to the story.
I LOVED Buffy, and thought it was VERY empowering for women. Yes, Cordy gets a forced pregnancy (or nearly) in every season, and that got kind of old. However, many stories in Buffy were about not being in control of your own body or mind. The men went through it too, just in a different way.
One of my favorite scenes in Buffy was the night of the prom and she had to go off and fight the Master. She spent a good part of the night worried about her dress. Yes, it’s a little vain, but I thought it also showed you didn’t have to give up ‘being a girl’ to be strong.
That’s what I always hated about Xena. She was just a guy in a woman’s body.
And if you’re looking for great female villains, read Gone Girl. Amazing Amy could beat even the early season Azula.
Reply to Devlin Blake
Another thing that was notable about Gone Girl was just how many women were featured in it. Nick as the protagonist was surrounded by women in various roles. So even with a female character in a villainous role, there were enough diverse roles that it didn’t feel representative.
Well said Devlin.
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Tuckerscreator
He did hit Buttercup in the book, though. Interesting thing, though, is that the author seems to be aware that Wesley’s behavior was unkind. In a later postscript to the book where he interviews the characters, he asks Buttercup if she thinks his treatment of her (not just the hitting, but also insulting comments) like that was abusive (she dismisses it with “love isn’t alway pretty”, but he isn’t entirely convinced.) There’s also a Study Guide section with questions written by him that ask the reader if they think Wesley’s treatment of Buttercup was abusive. It’s unclear whether this aspect is something Goldman always intended to be anti-heroic or if it’s something he’s retroactively come to regret, but it’s at least good that he’s not content with just dismissing it and inviting the readers to question the story.
Reply to Tuckerscreator
POVisPOV
To you, perhaps, and you are certainly entitled to your POV. However, to many of us who are actually women, she definitely came across as authentically female. Oh! – Perhaps I have been terribly mistaken; somehow failing to realize that *I* am also “a guy in a woman’s body”! Certainly this would be news to my husband and kids… :p
Reply to POVisPOV
I agree. Xena was a very realistic woman in her job … for a fantasy series that is. A female soldier or even war leader would be supposed to be on the taller side and definitely look athletic. After all, we talk about a time when fighting with swords or spears was still standard. She was very strong, yes, but we’re talking about a spin-off to a series called “Hercules.” The whole series wasn’t that grounded in reality, but it did its female leads, both Xena and Gabriella extremely well.
Lynx Firenze
You unironically used the word patriarchy several times. I’m heavily disinclined to take you seriously as a result. That aside you seem to be pushing for arbitrary quotas which is never good.
Reply to Lynx Firenze
So it is an arbitrary quota to have roughly equal representation for half of the members of our species?
It’s funny in the one instance that women are excluded in genealogical research – the matrilinial lines are excluded – and the search was for a Y chromosome.
The irony here is that the Y chromosome has very few genes on it, and the majority of male characteristics (if I remember correctly) are on the X chromosome to be expressed. Most likely a sex – linked trait is on the X chromosome, and it is essential to check the female lines to find heterozygous alleles on the two X chromosomes.
For instance, sickle cell anemia appears in two ways:as full – blown anemia, and as sickle cell trait. The difference is whether you have one or two of the same allele (homozygous expressions of a gene) or only one gene with that allele (heterozygous) and the other gene has the normal allele or characteristic. The heterozygous person has sickle cell trait, and she or he might never show anemia at all. But they still pass the gene in to the next generation.
Same with sex – linked genes. A normal allele paired with the sought – for allele may both appear in the genes, and the normal allele might interfere with expression of the one you seek: by recessiveness or by relative repeated copies of the gene (in both cases you had BETTER look in the female lines) or by the presence of a gene very close to the normal gene on the chromosome that suppresses the expression of the gene you look for. In all of these cases, the chromosome you seek should have no more that 25% chance of expression in the next generation, and in the case of having a close suppressor gene, perhaps not even one percent, because the genes would be almost impossible to separate during meiosis. (The closer the genes are to each other, the less chance they will be separated when chromosomes exchange genes.)
Reply to Virginia
Ram L
#1 is the one I struggle with the most. I was a boy raised in a lesbian separatist and Dianic Wiccan household. As I grew older, the local neopagan community nominally became more gender neutral- but the power structures were still largely vestiges of the womyn’s spirituality movement of the 80s/90s, so my masculinity made me a threat to some of the leadership.
I try to temper my tough women with moral ambiguity, and they range anywhere from villains to heroes, but almost all of them have axes to grind… and tend to be more domineering than the men.
The one bit that’d I’d interject about the article is in response to the samples in #1:
One of the main reasons we don’t see the hen-pecked wives more is because when the same ‘nagging’ behavior is inflicted on women, we are better able to identify it as being abusive. It feels like a separate category when it’s against men because we minimize its severity: the author is right in that it *is* a trope that can be used to dismiss the agency of non-submissive women, but it can equally be used to minimize violence against men. That particular sword that cuts both ways.
Reply to Ram L
Sam Victors
Thank you for this. Its great.
I recently ordered a book by a Valerie Estelle Frankel, called “From Girl to Goddess; The Heroine’s Journey through Myth and Legend” I find it a much better and, IMO, an updated version of Maureen Murdock’s Heroine’s Journey (I thought it was a little dated). I would strongly recommend it as it shows that the Heroine does not always need a sword or any phallic weapon, but usually normal or magical talismans/tools of perception and information. Though some weapons that are considered feminine are the bow, whip, distance weapons, etc. The book also explains that the Heroine is on a battle for identity and security, to rescue her loved one, to confront the patriarchy, to venture into the Underworld to face her Shadow Self in the form of the Ruthless Mother figure, and to have power over life and death. Her archetypes consist of Maiden, Mother, Crone, Seductress, Queer woman, Warrior woman, Trickster, Destroyer, Spirit Guardian, etc.
I would strongly recommend this book.
Sorry for the spoilers
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Brigitta M.
I sometimes wonder why people comment on articles at the exact moment they’re riled up. I then I ponder the phrase “ego defense mechanisms” and mutter something about “trolls will be trolls.” A lot of hate for a five point article. Some basic advice to be had, some points to re-ponder, but nothing world-changing… just one author’s advice to other authors on how to potentially avoid sexism.
Kinda. Sorta. Because sexism is a dual-edged sword (as was touched on in this article) and really, it hurts everyone. But fighting against it isn’t easy.
Because, y’see, one thing that I consistently see underappreciated in our society is the single father. Sure, he might be well-represented in sheer numbers, but fathers in general, in our society are often presented as distant or doofuses. Incompetent compared to their female counterparts.
So, I take a character-type and base my story around it. In this case, the half-demon child. Subvert the trope of the mother was raped (ick… honestly, because I don’t wanna write it or about it) and make the mom the demon. Oh brother…now I’ve stumbled into evil and powerful woman. Whatever, I’ve got a cool guy, he’s pretty laid back, takes stuff in stride, socially awkward, but hey, this half-demon girl becomes his world. He literally transforms his life around her.
Dads can be self-sacrificing too and it’s much more than “parent sacrificing for kid” because kid has powers…. like teleportation from 5yo… and an aversion to all things biblical.
Is she evil? No. Takes after dad. No angsty stuff either. Another trope subverted.
But… still… hanging over my head is that the most powerful female in my book is also the most evil creature in the book.
Are there other demons? Yeah, but the half-demon gal I spoke of is the main character and she never really gets to know them. Are there females in power in the book? Kind of, but “in power” in this case is “supervisor at a homeless shelter” the highest rank any human has from the narrator’s perspective.
Oh, did I forget to mention that my narrator is a male, and being 100% human, he’s not reacting well when he finds out that his bff (the half-demon gal) is loaded to the gills with powers he doesn’t understand? Yeah, he comes to term with them, and who she is as a character of agency in her own right (including being ace…that’s one thing I didn’t decide about her, she told me) but when he first finds out he’s a bit of a jerk about it.
Because he’s human.
Not that she’s much better. She literally vanishes right after she tells him. Because she is, in the end, more human than anything else.
And while I may have slammed into tropes and cliches while trying to avoid others, what it comes down to is that we have to tell real stories and not avoid what really happens between people because sexist things do happen we just have to hope the larger story is seen but….
Chances are it will be nitpicked.
And that, oddly enough, is a good thing.
Reply to Brigitta M.
While I agree with most of what you said, I don’t agree with the exclusiveness of it all. If these principles are abused, then sure, you get a sexist angle, like that horrid Wheel of Time where the author had to die for me not to read about his sexual obsession with spanking braided women anymore. But if we indeed live in a patriarchal society, it would be downright weird to try to appeal to your readers by eliminating what is natural to them. Not unless you want to get free publicity for your work from the feminist forums.
For example for your first point, you seem to consider sexist when women are displayed as powerful, yet threatening, but that is a very quality of power: it threatens. It may be sexist if it threatens males only, but that can hardly be said about Dune. Poor Jessica got the wrong end of the stick and by the end of the books there was full on war between female factions. Incidentally, they were looking down on men, as inferior untrained puppies that can be easily manipulated and/or seduced. It feels strange to call that sexism directed toward women.
An observation that I want to make is that even if we consider sexism bad and political correctness good nowadays, it is by no means a guarantee that this will hold for the future or that the bias won’t go either way. I can well imagine futures where one sex is generally abused by another and see no relevance between that fiction and your current feelings about reality. You want to see a bad implementation of trying to seem progressive and failing miserably, try the Ancillary series, by Ann Leckie. Moderation in all things, is my point.
Reply to Siderite
Lost me at “IF we indeed live in a patriarchal society”….
Next you’ll be trying to convince people we don’t breathe oxygen.
If I had a braid, I’d yank it pointedly and raise my chin at you.
No, but seriously, this post made me laugh. Robert Jordan was obsessed with spankings and awkward, girl-on-girl “pillow friends.” There’s no two ways around this. There was the occasional nod to the idea that this form of discipline was merely something favored by the White Tower (e.g. IIRC, there is a scene in Book IV where one of the novices threatens to inform on Gawain and Galad, to see if Siuan’s warder “has a strong an arm as the Mistress of Novices,” or some such nonsense.) But you get it everywhere: men spanking women, women with braids spanking boys, women with braids being spanked, women with braids spanking women, women in power…well, you get the idea.
I loved the Wheel of Time. I loved it so much I could rationalize away a lot of the focus on lesbian relationships as indicative of an exclusively female institution paralleling similar institutions which were exclusively male. But if I’m being honest (feel free to stop reading here because I used the word “if”), the author literally had to die before we saw even one gay male character so much as mentioned to the readers, and the man had a peculiar spanking fetish that often leaked through his work at the worst moments.
I still loved it, though. I gave my heart to that series, and the ending left a bad taste in my mouth, but at least we got an ending.
Reply to Lucid
Theophania
It is important to remember that sexism goes both ways – and nobody wins.
It’s sexist when:
1. Your male characters were at the front of the queue when washboard abs were handed out, but behind the door when it was time to issue the personality. “Arrogant jerk” is not a personality, when every male character is exactly the same.
2. Your female characters are always nicer, smarter, more diplomatic, etc, than your male characters (and/or your male characters are one step above Ug the Barbarian). Not all women are nice, or diplomatic. My husband does the being-nice-to-people-diplomatic stuff; I do algebra. This works much better than the other way around. I wanted to be Xena when I was a girl. Does that make me a man in a woman’s body? Or, maybe, I’m just a person with her own opinions and tastes.
3. The phrase “all women are A” or “men are all B” could be used to describe all or most of your characters. People are individuals. Thinking of a person as gender first, person second, is a good way to introduce sexism.
4. All your male characters instantly fall in love/lust with your female protagonist. The male brain IS situated in the cranium; it’s demeaning to the male characters to make them do their thinking with their genitalia, and it’s demeaning to the female character to be lusted after by people who don’t know her as a person. Or, of course, the other way around. Objectification is objectification, no matter who’s doing it to whom.
5. The reader can reproduce the tick-list you have used to get your “diversity credentials” with a minimum of effort. Done properly, including a variety of characters is good because you get different perspectives, which can increase conflict and tension. Done badly, it just comes off as silly or unbelievable – and as if you were working down a list, without considering what each character would bring to the story. It’s worth considering that in normal life, people group together either by common origin (family, culture) or common purpose (job, hobby). Why and how did your bunch of people end up together, if they’re all very different? That alone could make a good story. This also avoids “token X” problems.
It all comes back to treating your characters as individuals, rather than as representatives of a gender. If you think, “X is angry, so X will…” you’re more likely to avoid unfortunate isms than if you start “X is female/male, so X will…”
To go back to one of the examples above, about Wesley and Buttercup in the Princess Bride: the incident alluded to is actually sexist to both characters. Buttercup is stuck being the weak woman being dominated by her man, but Wesley is equally stereotyped as the borderline-abusive male.
Reply to Theophania
I think you’re terribly off base with the Wheel of Time. The Red Ajah are *perceived* as “man-hating lesbians,” but once you actually read from the perspectives of women who belong to the Red, it’s pretty clear that this is a deliberately false characterization. They are women, just like every other member of the Aes Sedai, with fears and hopes and dreams.
The segregated nature of magic in the Wheel of Time was part of what made the setting so wildly fascinating. Here you have a world where women have political influence similar in scope and nature to that of the Catholic Church. Women are *generally* weaker, but they’re also *generally* more capable of weaving complex magic. Those rare men who were cursed with the One Power cannot link, yet women can exponentially increase their power by banding together.
It quickly becomes clear to the reader that the One Power was never meant to be used explicitly by one gender, because the greatest achievements of the Age of Legends were performed in tandem. Men are cursed because of the Dragon’s pride, in turn a result of the inability of men and women to cooperate. Had it not been for the Aes Sedai, the world would have been broken beyond repair. Hell, you could even argue that the “taint” of the male half is a kind of analog for “toxic masculinity.”
The Wheel of Time holds a special place in my heart. It was my intro to fantasy. The gendered nature of its magic and the authors perceptions regarding the fundamental differences between men and women, all while paralleling fictional women to historical men, was a significant part of what made it so rich and enjoyable growing up.
M. D. Ireman
The premise that authors ought to be building ideal worlds as opposed to realistic ones is flawed.
Reply to M. D. Ireman
Given that wasn’t the premise at all, your point is moot.
Also, your example of a banned book is poor. Book challenges have always been an issue in society, especially society with groups of religion influenced loudmouths. To Kill A Mockingbird was originally challenged in 1977 for the use of the words “damn” and “whore lady”. Again in 1980 for being a “filthy trash novel”. It has been challenged for using profanity, as well as racial slurs, as well as being racist.
This article isn’t the sort of thinking that leads books to be banned at all. It is lazy thinking like yours that does.
By your own admission, To Kill a Mockingbird was challenged as being racist. The fact that it was also challenged for other reasons by different groups of people, equally authoritarian and ignorant, is irrelevant.
Any charge that To Kill a Mockingbird is racist is laughable and sad. The root cause of that type of idiocy is the inability to distinguish between content and condonation. Just because a book is chock-full racist or sexist content does not mean the book is racist or sexist. The inability to understand that does not make one a powerful thinker.
Ahh, I’m seeing your problem, you keep missing the point. Which only emphasises my point about lazy thinking.
S.D. Miller
Actually, building ideal worlds does seem to be the point. This is opening sentence of Chris’ essay: “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if making a story sexism-free was as easy as not being a misogynist jerk?”
Really? Sexism-free? Her second sentence: “Unfortunately, living in a patriarchal society means that sexism feels normal to most of us.”
No argument there. Chris is spot on. Her third sentence: “If you want to prevent sexist tropes from getting into your work, you have to learn about them.”
I will argue that sexist tropes do belong in our stories. It’s not a matter of preventing them, but controlling them. Chris’ fourth sentence closes out her opening paragraph and leads us into the remainder of her essay: “You can start with these common signs of sexism against women.”
Perhaps Chris didn’t mean that stories should be free of sexism, but that is what she wrote.
Sexism, racism, and other -isms do belong in our stories. Those -isms are a part of the human condition. The problem comes about when we authors become blind to them in our writing because, as Chris pointed out in her second sentence, the society we live in has desensitized us. We need to recognize the -isms and take control of them.
Reply to S.D. Miller
When I write articles like these, I don’t put including bigotry in your world in the same bucket as having a story that is actually sexist. The difference is that the former is aware that it portrays bigotry and depicts it as harmful, while the latter often does not intend to portray bigotry and packages harmful behavior as constructive. This second thing is what I meant when I said “sexist tropes.” It will always be valuable to have stories that comment on the problems we face in real life. Though right now, I also think we need more stories that show us a world without bigotry.
Excellent. I’d hoped that was the case.
Because of a lifetime of living in a particular society, we pick up the biases of that society. It’s good to step back from our own writing and examine if the biases have crept in.
I hope you’re not proposing we use “sexism” (or “racism”) to mean an accidental bias, and “bigotry” to mean a purposeful bias. That is too confusing to the uninitiated. Besides, sexism has a specific meaning while bigotry does not, meaning you’ll need adjectives anyway. I prefer “accidental sexism” and “purposeful sexism” (or “the character’s sexism”) rather than “sexism” and “sexist bigotry” (confusing to new readers).
So how about that John Norman fellow? (Author of the “Planet of Gor” series.) Wiki implies the attitude displayed in his novels is not accidental: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Norman#Themes I was exposed to Gorean ideas several years ago and was astounded that anyone could believe that 50% of the human population might be so weak and/or emotionally underdeveloped as to exist in a permanent child-like state. Bees or anglerfish maybe, but not humans.
Take care, and keep writing.
And it is the type of thinking that leads to books like To Kill a Mockingbird being banned as racist.
Yes, female characters ought to play a significant role in the plot, and be more than love interests, however, that doesn’t mean Moby Dick is sexist. Well, except for the title, of course…
Trish Mercer
Thanks for these insights! As a middle-aged woman, I’m always looking for female characters playing untypical parts. They’re hard to find.
I’ve been writing a book series where a mother is the most dangerous woman in the world, setting into motion the downfall of an oppressive government because she won’t conform. She’s also a school teacher, and while her husband is the colonel of the village, her quest for truth–and her inability to keep her mouth shut in public–eventually leads to a civil war. It’s been great fun to write, because I don’t see anyone else doing this with motherly characters.
Her finale, at the end of the series (book 8; book 5 will be coming out soon) is one that I’m so excited to get out there. As a sweet, great-grandmother, she’s gonna be shocking!
Reply to Trish Mercer
That sounds wonderful. Good for you!
Some of these points can only be made by the context of the story. Writers sometimes use these points but in reverse. Men are sometimes depicted as dumb ass, beautiful surfer boys or simply asses who are handsome while the woman was ordinary but the protagonist. To sum things up in such a general way doesn’t work. Some I do agree fullheartedly (about the rape topic and the carelessness authors use when broaching the idea), and that is important to educate others about.
Reply to Romy
I don’t agree with some viewpoints in this post. All fiction requires honesty and women are placed in many roles and situations that are unwanted, harmful, and even devastatingly painful. Writing can and should reveal truths thay are still prevalent all over the world today. You can’t erase reality over someone else’s over-sensitivity. Fiction depicts all types of characters that are based on real personalities, disorders, struggles, major character flaws, and strengths, as it should. Abuse happens…to women, children, men, animals in real life. It is not sexism to portray real life, even when they are ugly truths.
Sophie the Jedi Knight
One thing that I laughed about in this post was #2 – the one about a man hitting a woman. I completely agree with you; that is abuse plain and simple. And the fact that it seems okay is worse.
But what was comical to me was that when a man hits a woman, it’s assault and sexist and terrible. When a WOMAN hits a MAN, it’s suddenly being sent all over Facebook as the greatest gif of our time and everyone is calling it “A punch in the face of patriarchy.”
Take the Hermione-Draco punch in the Harry Potter movie Prisoner of Azkaban. (In the book it’s a slap, which I think was more appropriate.) Basically, Draco is making some mean jokes and is responsible for the death of a hippogriff. Hermione then punches him in the face, causing him to bleed and run off. Harry and Ron praise Hermione for “standing up to” Draco, and all over Pottermore are raving about the punch. IT’S BULLYING! Draco never even physically lays a hand on any of them; and why do all the detail about “never dropping down to a villain’s level” in Order of the Pheonix when that rule was already abandoned? I hate the punch so much, but everyone else loves it. It’s bullying. Can we stop acting like this gender-swapped punch is so cool? Please?
Reply to Sophie the Jedi Knight
I think in case of Hermione and Draco, a few important points are
1) female teenagers also sometimes lose against their hormones, so Hermione simply lost the fight against her better side and hit him (I agree the slap in the novel is far more appropriate and far more like Hermione than an outright punch)
2) Draco has constantly bullied Hermione for years at that point, simply because she’s both a know-it-all and a muggle-born – it’s not too hard to construe this as a reaction not just to what he did at that moment, but as a culmination of all things she had to endure because of him (also see point 1 for this)
3) Hermione cares a lot for Buckbeak (she’s on a ‘protect magical creatures’ crusade for quite some of her teenage years) and it’s 100% Draco’s fault Buckbeak is supposed to die – he was warned to approach the hippogriff respectfully, but didn’t do so – and at that point, he’s even joking about the death of another being
I do agree, however, that a punch is never cool, no matter whether a man punches a woman or the other way around. There are situations, though, in which the circumstances can lead to a hit or a punch.
Responding to Cay Reet:
I can understand where you’re coming from, I just still see it as bullying. Yes, Draco bullied them, but aren’t the good guys supposed to go above that? Especially outright punching them. My main problem is how glorified it is because Hermione did it. If Harry or Ron had punched Draco, it would have gone over much worse.
Though I understand how much he deserved it with Buckbeak, I love the slap much better. I love imagining Hermione slapping Draco and just yelling vague insults at him in the book. It’s just that the punch did seem too extreme. If Hermione had actually broken Draco’s nose, she could’ve gotten expelled. Remember when Ron got angry at Draco for insulting Molly Weasley, and McGonagall told Ron that there was no excuse for violence? In the book world, Hermione would have gotten some punishment for the punch. In the movie world, it’s “brilliant.” Though Draco deserved something, I think that the punch seemed too extreme. Imagine a kid today doing that to someone in school.
If swapping the genders or modernizing a situation makes it not okay, then it is not okay. That’s my rule of thumb for most situations.
Were you ever bullied in your life? In your teens? Because I was and I often dreamed of getting one up the people who tormented me.
I said the punch wasn’t like Hermione in my book, either and that I don’t think women hitting men is any better than men hitting women, but it can happen.
“When a WOMAN hits a MAN, it’s suddenly being sent all over Facebook as the greatest gif of our time and everyone is calling it “A punch in the face of patriarchy.”” and then “I hate the punch so much, but everyone else loves it. It’s bullying.”
I take issue with this statement. As Cay Reet outlines in their post, Hermione has been bullied by Draco for years. When you look at our society, and particularly domestic violence, the street is pretty much one-way. So oppression and physical violence of women (and minority groups) is the norm throughout much of history. This means that Hermione’s punch/slap, and any push-backs against male violence, are the exact opposite of “bullying”.
Responding to Tyson Adams:
I understand what you’re saying. It’s not that I have a problem with a woman standing up to a man, it’s that I have a problem with the woman doing something to a man that would be bad if he did it to her. If Harry or Ron punched Draco, it would all go to hell.
Here’s a better example I like in literature of a woman standing up to a man. I love the Legend trilogy by Marie Lu. One of the protagonists in it is June Iparis, and she is very smart. When she is 12, she attends a 16+ school. On her first day, an older boy purposely pushes her around. She stands up for herself and then criticizes him amazingly – by saying how his hair looks “too long to pass inspection.” (She’s a great observer.) He tries to punch her, but June dodges his punches until a teacher breaks them up and threatens to punish June as well. June stands up for herself and says she never threw a punch. The teacher is so impressed she recommends June for a higher class. That’s the kind of woman-against-man interaction I like.
Sophie, your example from the Legend trilogy (I confess I haven’t read that series), actually has a few issues. The first issue is that while the character stood her ground and was a strong character, it didn’t counter or stop the abuse. That required an external force. Which brings me to the second problem, it means the character lacked ownership of the situation. Sure, she benefited from her stance, but it wasn’t through her actions alone that she overcame the foe.
I get that you are derided violence. I like James SA Corey’s quote on violence being the thing we do when we run out of good ideas. But we are also talking about manifesting conflict in a novel (or whatever) and overt displays of physical violence are ways to do this.
Tyson has a point in his answer. In the first novel I wrote, I have my main character (who is female) taking down a guy with words, ridiculing him in front of his friends and others from the same level of society, so it will be through gossip for quite a while. But for my character, there’s a choice. She’s a female secret agent and could just as well have beaten him up. She chooses not to, because it wouldn’t be the right way to handle the situation, since the guy didn’t physically attack, either. That doesn’t mean she wouldn’t beat someone up who physically attacked her first.
What you describe here only works because an outside force comes to her assistance … that can work, but it’s not an answer in the long run with bullies. Sooner or later, you have to draw the line into the sand yourself and, if the bully is relying on physical powers, that might require getting physical yourself to prove you’re not an easy target.
Perhaps #2 should rather be ‘violence against a weaker person’ instead of ‘man beating woman’ … even though women usually are the weaker ones in such a constellation.
I really enjoy all the feedback coming from my post. I admit I was rude in stating my views.
My singular problem with the punch is this: would you still admire it if Ron had punched Draco?
@Sophie
Ron punching Draco would have fallen into the same basic situation, since he is bullied for being poor and from a line of ‘blood-traitors’ by Draco as well. Honestly, by the way Draco is usually acting (at least up to book 5, his situation changes gravely in 6 and 7), everyone who punches Draco could be admired.
Within the narrative, however, two boys of probably equal strength getting into a fight is something else than the usually sensible girl suddenly getting furious and punching the guy who made her life hell. Ron and Draco face off before, too (in the second book when Ron tries to curse Draco and that curse backfires on him because of the broken wand).
we don’t live in a patriarchy.
Reply to randell
In Star Trek, at least in the ’09 reboot, as a kid, Spock is bullied for being half-human and half-alien. Although Kirk did that to be captain, he’s not really a racist since he’s flirted w/ a green alien lady AND Uhura. Heck, he even stared at a naked Carol Marcus in the second movie, Into Darkness.
Reply to Carly
Is this comment on the right Article?
Oops. You can move that comment. Kirk is pretty flirtatious, but he’s not racist. And Uhura IS, after all, a kickass Starfleet Officer. She’s a lieutenant AND communications officer. Beat. That.
Vazak
This was a fantastic article, insightful and well written its given me some really great ways to describe certain persistent issues I have encountered that I lacked the language or examples to to previously convey.
Reply to Vazak
This post is very silly. Things happen to women all the time in real life, all the things you enumerated here. There are no rules that this or that thing must not be depicted in a novel or it’s “sexist”. Seriously, Dune is “sexist” now? That’s just as ridiculous as when Tom Sawyer was censored for the use of the word “nigger”. That’s just hypocrisy, One can write a novel about Nazis ruling the world (see Man in the High Castle) and nobody will be harmed in any way.
Reply to tomcat
Yes, horrible things happen to women all the time – because they seem so normal. But think about it: do you want the same things to happen to you? And do you see the same things listed here happening to men? Because if some stuff only happens to one gender, because they’re that gender, then it’s what we call ‘sexist’, you see.
When Tom Sawyer was written, the word was perfectly normal to use, but language evolves (and the word was never a positive one). Yes, they could have gone another way and instead added a 200 page essay to the novel to explain the use of the word then and why we don’t use it today (unless we’re racist).
And you might have realized that Man in the High Castle is more about the negative aspects of the Nazis ruling the world for everyone who is not a Nazi, which is what the story is all about.
And, honestly, comparing those two things to the list here is far from being logical.
Sedivak
The article gives many interesting ideas to think about – but I cannot agree about Warbreaker.
The failures (if they can even be caled failures) of the two viewpoint characters are not a result of them being female or exhibiting female stereotypes but their extremely sheltered life prior to the events of the book. And the one female who dies is really a case of Bad Things Happen To Good People Too – and is narrated as a tragedy.
If we changed the genders in the whole story it would still work.
Reply to Sedivak
Sometimes it’s in the little details. The following examples stick in my mind a lot:
Return of the Jedi: Luke is rescuing Leia from Jabba’s sail barge. Before they leave, Luke tells Leia to use the cannon to destroy the barge. The scene would have been better if it were Leia’s idea.
Star Trek (original series) Episode “Mirror Mirror”: Evil Bearded Spock is Mopping up Kirk, Scotty and friends in a fistfight. Lt Uhura hands Kirk a vase and he smashes it over Evil Spock’s head, finishing the fight. The scene would have been better if Lt Uhura did the smashing herself.
Neither of these things would have been difficult to implement.
Elias Spain
Thank you for another excellent article. Where else could anybody get that type of information in such an ideal way of writing? I’ve a presentation next week, and I am on the look for such info.
Reply to Elias Spain
LiliesAndRoses
I also wonder about shape-shifting. What do you think of idea of male character turning into female one? (voluntarily/involuntarily, reversible/irreversible)
Reply to LiliesAndRoses
By itself, there is nothing wrong with this concept. However, if using it in a story you’ll have to be careful because the need to dramatize it could lead you into problematic territory. Someone changing biological sex or gender shouldn’t be a big deal. But writers who do this often make the character become a gender stereotype after the change – because they get more novelty and tension out of the transition by doing that. For instance, DS9 has an incredibly trans-misogynistic episode where Quark is temporarily changed into a female. Quark gets all “hormonal” and it’s supposed to be funny when another character tries to sexually assault Quark.
In addition, it’s critical to avoid language that equates the biology of the character with their gender identity. I recommend looking for some genderfluid people you can hire to consult with you in early stages and then later look over your draft. If done right, a character like that could feel like positive representation for them.
SD Miller
Chris, I noticed you used Quark’s name after the switch rather than a personal pronoun. Of course to switch gender on the pronouns for such a short bit of text would have been confusing.
I’ve been kicking around a scene where my youngish heroine (Blackfeet, northwest Montana) is introduced to a two-spirit named Robyn from the Blood tribe (south-central Alberta). The heroine is confused and intrigued by Robyn but doesn’t know what to call him/her. She eventually asks and Robyn suggests “they”.
I got a chance to visit with Steve B who (at the time) was the head of the Montana Two-Spirit Society. Steve was adamant that “Gay is gay and two-spirit is something else.” This is in contrast to some native Americans on YouTube who define two-spirit as any queer Indian (queer is a poor sort of word; it’s come mean so many different things to different people that it doesn’t mean much of anything at all). Anyway, I liked Steve’s definition: A two-spirit is a person who contains both male and female spirits, which gives them a special insight into human understanding.
So “they” as a personal pronoun for Robyn is perfect. And it satisfies my heroine. Robyn’s sex isn’t apparent from dress, mannerisms, or appearance. Eventually the heroine is comfortable enough to ask. They reply, “Do you wish to become my lover?” Of course the heroine is embarrassed and agrees that she went too far. What’s between Robyn’s legs is irrelevant.
After Robyn’s assessment of the heroine they proclaim that she has the body of a woman, the appetite of a woman, the spirit of a woman, but the heart of a man. This upsets the heroine who cries, “I’m not gay!” Robyn has to explain that what they meant is that she has the heart of a warrior, manly rather than tenderhearted.
Well, to get it right, balanced, and not too wordy is tough. I’ve let the scene percolate for a few weeks. I should go back for another editing pass.
Reply to SD Miller
Hi, so I don’t know a super lot about most of what you said, but there was one thing which struck me wrong:
“After Robyn’s assessment of the heroine they proclaim that she has the body of a woman, the appetite of a woman, the spirit of a woman, but the heart of a man. This upsets the heroine who cries, ‘I’m not gay!’ Robyn has to explain that what they meant is that she has the heart of a warrior, manly rather than tenderhearted.”
I would call this sexism, because it states that a woman needs to have a “man’s heart” to be brave or be a warrior, and implies that a man needs a “woman’s heart” to be tenderhearted. In other words, it says that men are naturally brave warriors and women are naturally tenderhearted. Which plays into some icky gender roles – like women being confined to the household because they’re more “suited to it” or something, or not being allowed to fight because of their gender, and males being naturally cold and unable to emote, or being required to prove themselves through shows of strength (which is a concept that feeds heavily into toxic masculinity). These roles leave very little wiggle room.
And saying that a woman who wants to fight has a “man’s heart” isn’t much better, because it’s making it so that a woman can’t fight as a woman, she has to have something about her that’s “manly.” Likewise, a man who doesn’t want to fight can’t be a man who doesn’t want to fight, he has to have something about him that’s “womanly.” And these concepts are damaging for the reasons listed above.
Men and women are not “naturally” one way or another. That’s important. Can’t your character say she’s got a “strong” heart or a “bold” heart? Now, I don’t know a lot about your story, or the circumstances in which it takes place, or whether you’ve addressed this already. So I’m just putting this out there.
Reply to Bunny
The phrase “heart of a man” or “heart of a woman” is not meant to be a precise psychological assessment, but a shorthand description for one of many aspects of personality. Where I’ve failed is in my brief explanation of what that phrase might mean.
The phrase “heart of a woman” comes from a late 19th-century story written by a white man who was living with the Blackfeet at that time. While on a hunting trip with 2 of his Blackfeet buddies he witnessed an old buffalo bull being devoured alive by a pack of wolves. He chased the wolves away and shot the bull in the head. When he returned to his companions one of them looked him in the eye and proclaimed, “You have the heart of a woman.”
So, when Robyn says that the heroine (a 21st century 17-year-old girl, who grew up in the white mans world, and has lived the last year on the reservation) has the heart of a man. He means she has a warrior’s sensibility to do what must be done, without thought or hesitation, to protect herself or those she loves. Yes she loves, she nurtures, she prefers peace, but she can also kill in the blink of an eye. This warrior sensibility is inherent to who she is.
The Bloods and Blackfeet are 2 of a 4-member alliance of tribes collectively known today as the Blackfoot. They share a common language, customs, history, spiritual beliefs, freely intermarry, and have fought side-by-side in war. The reservation system has separated them and widely scattered them across Alberta and Montana.
Aw darn. I messed up a personal pronoun for Robyn. Binary thinking is hard to escape.
Yeah, because of the problems with the episode and confusion it could cause, it was just safer to skip pronouns that time.
I’m not an expert in two-spirit, but from what I understand that term is an English translation that is meant to encompass all the varying terms each tribe has. So I would research whatever terms the Blood tribe your character is from used, and go with that definition.
As Bunny mentioned, equating having a man’s heart with being a warrior does sound like gender stereotyping, but if that’s something the Blood tribe really says than I might go with it anyway.
Every Native American tribe is different, when depicting Native characters it’s important to be tribe-specific.
I also wonder about voluntary unrestricted shapeshifting. What piece of advice would you give for writing unrestricted shapeshifters (assuming they have no “default” form) so it wouldn’t be sexist?
How can a being not have a default form, even if it is ‘a cloud of particles?’
Overall, it comes very much down how you handle a shift, I’d say. Do you work with stereotypes for one (or more) genders? Do you make it clear that the character stays the same, no matter what shape they’re in (even if a shape can give specific skills, I’d imagine)? Or does your character become someone completely different every time they shift – a stereotype?
silverscar
I think that example from the TMI is a bit of an exaggeration,Clary is constantly saying is almost like a brother to her, being a year older than her (or 2 can’t remember) he’s simply being the protective best friend that he’s supposed to be. If the roles were switched and he said that saw 2 men caring knives in a crowded club, Clary would do same for him
Love the article, I just don’t think this example deserved to be here
Reply to silverscar
This is a helpful article. I will go back over a scene that came to mind while reading and make it clearer that it is not because she is a female that her suggestions are quickly discarded, but that she is a person doubtfully posessing any actual battle strategy experience. Which is true for all with exception of the proto, and he has other issues besides.
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Азалия Смарагдова
What advice could you give for portraying genderless characters, like in Houseki no Kuni? How to avoid sexism if characters have no gender (and maybe don’t understand what it is)?
Reply to Азалия Смарагдова
Can you even be sexist in a work where gender is not a thing?
Theoretically, yes. I think someone pointed out that even if gender is not supposed to exist in your world, if the characters are nevertheless are “coded” as a certain gender and act in stereotypical ways, that counts as a sexist work. So avoid that – for instance, don’t have everyone who wears a skirt be entirely emotional rather than logical in your story, among other things. Also, arguably even worse is portraying a naturally genderless species as being worse off for their lack of gender and wanting to have genders. Not only is it offensive to real-life people who don’t identify with a gender, it also doesn’t make much sense because a species that naturally doesn’t have a gender would find that state entirely normal. It would be like, say, humans wishing that they had hundreds of mating types like some fungi do, which no one (or at least incredibly few people) does.
Reply to Bubbles
“Princesses are technically powerful, but that power is usually granted by their father, the king. Glorifying their role as princess also glorifies patriarchy.”
Also, wonder about “The Land of the Lustrous” (yes, again!). The main characters, the Gemstones, are genderless, but female-coded, and their society is governed by male-coded Kongo-sensei, who is extremely powerful and nearly unbreakable. Later in manga it is revealed that Kongo-sensei isn’t Gemstone. Can such gender-coding of characters be problematic?
Tifa
That’s a very good question. I’ve never thought of it before.
Reply to Tifa
Bram de Lorijn
Paul isn’t tortured by the Reverend Mother but tested if he is capable of controlling himself.
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Y Mi
Can anyone recommend a book, movie or TV show that features a strong, independent, female leader who is moral (for example, doesn’t condone torture)?
Reply to Y Mi
Star Trek Voyager.
Of cause, independence is frequently overrated.
You don’t have to read too far into your bible (Genesis chapter 2) to find that God says “It is not good for man to be alone.”
So the fact that Captain Janeway has a crew under her should not automatically make her seem like she fails to be independent enough.
Allistair Reynolds, Pushing Ice (novel) – And she is the main character as well. A great book btw.
Other examples are not 100% but perhaps Star Wars (Amidala) or Allistair Reynolds’ Revelation Space saga (Volyokova)
Star Wars (Leia)
“Into the garbage chute, fly-boy.”
Another example of a female leader main character could be in Chrales Stross, The Annihilation Score (novel) but while I liked the other books in the series, I did not like this one all that much. Also it’s the n-th book in a series of otherwise male-protagonist-centered books.
I’ve heard good things about David Weber’s Honor Harrington series but I haven’t read it myself, so I don’t know if it fits.
Stargate Atlantis had a female leader for the first three seasons but in my opinion she did not get that much focus.
Hellsing (anime) had a strong female leader – not as a main character – but it’s debatable if she was moral (I’d say she was).
Kill six billion demons (webcomics) has a strong female main character (after much much character development) but It’s debatable if she is a leader. Same with e.g. Prague Race (webcomics).
Frankly, I was surprised how few of the works I know would fit all the criteria. Really, the only one where I’m certain it fully meets all you have asked for is Pushing Ice as I wrote above.
On the whole, I’d rate Integra (the female leader in Hellsing) as moral. Not necessarily nice to people, but moral.
I would probably rate her so as well overall, but in some cases it’s really on the edge – like the “do anything necessary” order in the engagement between Allucard and the Dandy Man that lead to heavy human casualties on the side of the local police. It could be argued that there was a more important goal to be achieved and that the leaders of the police force were corrupt, but still…
Integra does make hard choices – which is something a lot of leaders have to do and which is often supposed to be the weakness of women (because they are too emotional, to cite your regular ‘women can’t lead’ person). There are borderline cases, in which she has to weight the possible outcomes of her decision and, sometimes, that means risking the lives of people (in that case not innocent ones). Had she made the same choice withthe human victims being kindergarten kids, it would have been different. Destroying powerful vampires ranks higher for her, because they present a long-time danger to humanity. I still think she would not make the choice to sacrifice real innocents to the cause – otherwise, she might have insisted that Seras has to be killed, because she became a vampire. But since Seras had no choice in the matter and had not killed humans so far, she was allowed to stay.
You are probably right.
2. Butterup does use violence, though. She could have killed him.
[“In Angel, the vampire Darla gets pregnant after having consensual sex with another vampire.”]
It was Angel who had impregnated her.
Reply to Lee Jones
I’ll be sure to check each of these points, thanks.
Although some of them are obvious.
Reply to Quentin
Warbreaker isn’t sexist. The simplified summary is an easy way to label it as such, but It never casts the situations in question in a light that suggests at all that it happened because of gender. Siri and Vivenna are both realistic characters.
Aside from the original point, Vasher isn’t a Mary Sue unless you categorize any surprisingly powerful character as such.
Reply to Valknut
MoonLaughter
I wonder about male damsel in distress (or “distressed dude”) trope — can it be sexist, and how?
I’m thinking of adding this trope to my work, but I also think of not just having the heroine save the captured character by herself, but with collaboration with capture (she reaches him and then shares some of her magical powers with him to fight the villain). What do you think about it?
Reply to MoonLaughter
The classic damsel character is someone with no agency who could, technically, be replaced with an object without much rewriting. Not every character who gets themselves caught is a damsel, therefore.
A lot of characters, like friends or relatives of the hero/heroine, can be captured at some point. If your distressed dude has an agency and follows it, he’s not a male damsel in the classic sense and you can have him in your story. I would like to know, however, why she has to share some of her power with him. Can’t he fight on his own? Is her power so immense she can’t control all of it? In the second case, I can see it working, but in the first case, he shouldn’t be in a fight and you might want to change his skill sets slightly. Even a fighter can be captured and locked away so well they can’t get out by themselves (just don’t let your henchwomen guard a guy named Lancelot – doesn’t work, trust me).
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Posted on March 1, 2017 by onespoiledcat
It’s Time To Tell!!!!
We thought we had ya with yesterday’s Teaser…………….it was an old photo – kind of blurry and the color was all faded and we figured nobody would guess! We were WRONG……….but first things first of course as always…….bright and early and right off the mark when we went live we had our FIRST COMMENTER and it was:
Oliver and Calvin ! from Facebook
WELL DONE DOODS – HERE’S YOUR PRIZE!
Now let me show you the photo from yesterday one last time before we spill the beans………
Remember that this photo was taken in the 60s…….and it was taken by my Mom’s Mom while on a trip to Portugal. This is the Fatima Cathedral in Fatima, Portugal and that big tree is known as “The Tree of Visions”…… this website talks a bit about this sacred place (**NOTE** there is a pop-up ad before you get the site – just click SKIP THIS AD to go to the site!).
My Mom’s Mom was there with people from her office – she was a civilian employee of the US Department of the Army and her office went there for a conference and got to do some sight-seeing while there.
If you look VERY CAREFULLY and CLOSELY at that little building that everyone is walking towards you might see a few people on their knees – a lady in white and behind her two other people – they are on their knees as they approach the shrine paying homage.
SO – who was the FIRST to guess correctly?????? Well, that little honor goes to Da Phenny and his Staff – we think Angel Easy might have had a paw in it too – as you remember he was known as the KING OF TEASERS!
A couple of others guessed it too – those of you who DID, get this:
AND OF COURSE – last but not least – we have the GREENIE BRIGADE! Didn’t know or guessed wrong? Here’s your badge!
So that’s it for another exciting Teaser week………please remember, if your humans think they have a good photo for the Teaser – tell them to send it to us! We need some challenging photos for our “stash” of possible Teasers! It’s fun when you KNOW where it is to watch the guesses roll in!
Until next week – Study Hard! Otherwise Sarge might get after you! (EEEEEEEEEEK)
Hugs from your Dynamic Duo
Angel Professor Sam and Assistant Prof Teddy
Filed under Angel Cat, Cat Blog, Funny Cat Blog, Life With Cats, Vacation Snapshots and tagged fatima, guess where, Portugal | 40 Comments
Clowie on March 1, 2017 at 3:01 AM said:
Hi Sammy!
onespoiledcat on March 1, 2017 at 6:34 AM said:
Hi Beautiful Clowie!! ❤
I’m pleased to collect another Greenie.
Remind me, why isn’t there a badge for first comment on Tell-All day?
Gosh – PRESSURE PRESSURE……..maybe one day we’ll have 87 badges for “last guesser”, “half way through the day guesser”………and who knows – maybe even “craziest guess EVER” !!
Love, Angel Sam
Sounds good to me!! 😀 😀
Tails Around the Ranch on March 1, 2017 at 2:40 PM said:
Ooh, ooh…if there was a prize for being last (and incorrect), I’d win that every week. LOL Late to the pawty again, sweet Teddy and Sammy. Congrats to the winners; we are most happy for them!
Phenny is the pup that never sleeps – he’s always right there no matter WHEN the Teaser goes up – AND same for a few others who are always RIGHT THERE – believe me – we aren’t always RIGHT THERE – we try to be but when we schedule a time for the blog to go live sometimes Mom is BUSY and not there to see who’s first or who’s right! Anyway, KEEP ON TRYING!
Love, Angel Sam and Teddy
easyweimaraner on March 1, 2017 at 3:12 AM said:
concats oliver&calvin and concats da phenny hehehehe ;o) I love the last photo… it is the 100% evidence that teddy was sent by an angel…
Oh I agree – Teddy most certainly WAS sent by an Angel……..and we love BOTH of them to bits.
Hugs, Pam
CONCATULATIONS ON FIRST RIGHT GUESSER!!
Animalcouriers on March 1, 2017 at 3:40 AM said:
Well done Da Phenny and his Mom!
We agree – totally!!!
Love, Angel Sam and Ted
Photofinland by Rantasalot on March 1, 2017 at 5:22 AM said:
The last photo is great, as easyweimaraner said.
Just like two peas in a pod……interesting how Teddy and his Guardian Angel look a lot alike!
katsrus on March 1, 2017 at 6:33 AM said:
Congrats to the winners. I get a greenie. Have a great day.
Enjoy your BIT of GREEN!
MrJackFreckles/Pipo & Minko on March 1, 2017 at 8:45 AM said:
Whoot! Only thing we were right in was that pawppy was not right,MOL!!!
We will grab the greenie and let petcretary run off to do all her not-kitty things…
By the way,green is a great color for March!
And congrats to Phenny!!
15andmeowinge on March 1, 2017 at 9:02 AM said:
Congrats to Oliver, Calvin and Phenny! I was way off, I thought the photo was taken in the US. XO
Piglove on March 1, 2017 at 9:10 AM said:
Gosh darn it. What an awesome place. Shakes head. This little piggy has to get out more – snorts with piggy laughter. Happy Wednesday! XOXO – Bacon
Kismet on March 1, 2017 at 9:43 AM said:
Poland, Portugal-they’re close in the encyclopedia and they’re both Europe to me.
Under the Oaks on March 1, 2017 at 9:59 AM said:
Congratulations to all the winners! It is a beautiful cathedral!
kittiesblue on March 1, 2017 at 10:38 AM said:
They really are the dynamic duo. Mom is getting very excited for the 4th…not too sure about Mau. CM continues to try to play with him but nothing goes further than smacky paws until Mauricio finally hisses. Cooper, however, is persistent. We believe he will eventually wear Mauricio down. Sending lots of love to all. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May Giulietta, Angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo and Cooper Murphy
Two French Bulldogs on March 1, 2017 at 11:02 AM said:
Whooa! Good guess. We were definitely in the wrong part of the world
Brian on March 1, 2017 at 11:37 AM said:
That is an amazing place boys. Way to go Phenny!!!
onespoiledcat on March 1, 2017 at 12:25 PM said:
YAY FOR DA PHENNY!!!!!! 🙂
Molly and my Mom @ The Fast and the Furriest on March 1, 2017 at 11:39 AM said:
Congrats to the winners!! What an amazing place to have visited!!
My Mom never mentioned visiting there at all – in the mid-60s I was out living on my own and my parents were divorcing – it was only after my Mom passed away that I got her photo albums and discovered all the traveling she’d done! Thankfully she had written on the back of the photos where they were taken! It was a fun TEASER…….
cecilia07 on March 1, 2017 at 11:53 AM said:
Da Phenny and Angel Easy are a duo to be reckoned with for sure.
WE might have the WordPress problem fixed. We’ll see tomorrow
Millie and Walter’s Mom sent a message to word press they suggestions which Mom followed:
1) check spam folder, 2) check to see if we show up in following blog list, we did; however, we did select comments and found that somehow a check was on “block emails to me from wordpress”! Of course mom changed that lickety split.
But she was getting some WordPress notices even with that checked. We’ll see tomorrow
Oh I’m glad at least there’s HOPE that you’ll start getting your notices!!!! Today WE are having problems commenting on Blogger blogs! Don’t recognize our WordPress ID………what’s up in the blogosphere? Strange happenings!
Love, Angel Sammy and Teddy
Dianna on March 1, 2017 at 12:52 PM said:
Concats to the winners. Well done, you two ginger guys!
The Florida Furkids on March 1, 2017 at 1:55 PM said:
ConCatulations to the winners. We love that last photo!!! Two Peas in a Pod for SURE!!!
onespoiledcat on March 1, 2017 at 2:05 PM said:
That’s us – the GINGER TWINS………!!
The Swiss Cats on March 1, 2017 at 3:48 PM said:
Amazing ! Concatulations to the winners ! Purrs
Frankie and Ernie on March 1, 2017 at 5:15 PM said:
We think that Da Phenny is Blogville’s Official EARLY BIRD.
The Island Cats on March 1, 2017 at 5:42 PM said:
We never would have guessed Portugal. Congrats to all that knew.
Flynn on March 1, 2017 at 6:01 PM said:
Concats to Da Phenny! My mum has never been to that part of Portugal but says she might get there one day.
Concats to Oliver and Calvin too.
Flynn my Mom hasn’t been there either but I imagine it’s quite a well-visited spot in Portugal! Hugs to you all!
Love, Angel Sam, Teddy and Mom
Hailey and Zaphod on March 1, 2017 at 7:27 PM said:
Your family is so well traveled Teddy and Sammy.
The Canadian Cats on March 1, 2017 at 9:47 PM said:
Oh wow…Never been there….heck I haven’t been anywhere! A beautiful picture though.
Old photo but interesting place!
Hugs, Angel Sammy
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50 Excellent RN and Nursing Groups on Facebook
By Site Admin // July 22, 2010
Facebook offers many opportunities for nurses and RNs to join groups for work-related support, for organizing and for peer-based support. This list of 50 excellent RN and nursing groups found on Facebook are but a fraction of the total number of groups you can join to further your career or your interests. While most of the groups listed below are public and you can view them when you are not logged into Facebook, a few require requests and cannot be viewed unless you are a Facebook member.
Work-Related RN and Nursing Groups
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists: This group is for CRNAs who are seeking new opportunities for employment.
CRNA Direct: This is a group for all the CRNAs on Facebook.
Demystifying Community/Public Health Nurses: This group was started to explain the roles of the community and public health nurse.
Emerg-Plus Health Care Services — RNs: Emerg-Plus Health Care seeks RNs, RPNs, and PSWs for short- and long-term assignments in area hospitals.
Forensic Nurse Examiners of Louisiana, Inc.: You must request to join this group comprised of nurses who provide forensic nursing care to all victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
I’m a Labor and Delivery nurse: This group focuses on maternal child nursing.
Mental Health Nursing: This is a group for mental health practitioners, nurses and students to discuss and review topics of interest.
Nurse Educators Group: The Nurse Educator’s Group was formed for registered nurses that work in staff development, clinical education or academic settings.
Nurses/Legal Consultants: This group consists of nurses who work as legal consultants, who assist attorneys, insurance companies, etc.
Registered Nurse: Jobs are posted, information provided, notes are posted to other nurses and the group is open to the general public.
Registered Nurses: You must request to join this private Facebook group, which currently has just over 4,000 members.
Registered Veterinary Nurse: Members must hold the title of RVN, AHT, RVT, RAHT and must be registered in good standing within the respective Provincial Association in which she/he practices.
Rutledge Recruitment and Training: This recruitment agency offers temporary and permanent jobs in nursing and healthcare fields.
Stalwart Staffing: This business specializes in providing temporary, temp-to-perm and direct hire staffing services to healthcare facilities.
Traveling Medical Professionals: This group is designed for Medical Professionals who travel or do “contract” work.
U.S. Military Nurses: This is a social networking group for Army, Navy, and Air Force Registered Nurse officers.
All Species Nurse, LLC: This is an organization that brings together professionals in human and veterinary medicine.
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants: The AALNC is dedicated to the professional enhancement and growth of registered nurses practicing in the specialty of legal nurse consulting.
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC): This group promotes the professional development of nurses involved in the delivery of health care to persons infected or affected by HIV and AIDS.
Campaign for Statutory Minimum Nurse Patient Ratios: This group supports a statutory minimum ratio of nurses to patients on hospital wards, with penalties for NHS trusts that fail to achieve those ratios.
Certified Emergency Nurses: Although there are CENs throughout the world, the CEN exam is based on emergency nursing practice in the United States.
Nurse and Healthcare Worker Protection S1788: Senate Bill S 1788 would provide standards that would help mitigate potential injuries related to patient handling.
Reflections of Woman: Encouraging wellness for women with eating issues: Three nursing students began this group to raise awareness and to offer support for individuals with eating problems.
Registered Nurses are Not Paid Enough! According to this group, RNs are “grossly underpaid,” and they want to gain support for RN job security.
RNFA, Registered Nurse First Assistants: This Facebook group page serves as a discussion area for RNFA interests.
Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist SRNA/CRNA Anesthesia Association: This group is open to the nursing student, Registered Nurse, Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist SRNA, Nurse Anesthetist CRNA, or Anesthesiologist MD.
Support Underpaid Nurses: This group seeks to let the world know about nurses’ wages, and hopes to gain the government’s interest.
Nurses Outside the U.S.
CPDme.com Online Development for Nurses, Midwives & Health Care Assistants: CPDme are a group of academic health and social work professionals who work across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Indonesian Registered Nurse Association (IRNI): This organization supports RNs who work in Indonesia.
International MedLink, Inc.: IML is an international nurse recruiting, placement and education company based in Nashville, Tennessee and with offices in Manila and Cebu, Philippines.
Nigerian Registered Nurses (NRN): This Facebook group is a social and supportive group for nurses who practice in Nigeria.
Nurses against extortionate annual registration fees: This UK nurses’ group is gaining support against nurse registration fees that seem exorbitant.
Nursing Jobs in Australia: Join this group if you want to tap into Healthscope, a leading Australian private healthcare provider.
Philippine Nurses: Members include student nurses, registered nurses and other medical fields.
Registered Nurse in the Philippines: Any RN who is from the Philippines can join this Facebook group.
Registered Nurse’s Society of the Philippines: This is a group of Registered Nurses of the Philippines practicing the the profession physically, mentally, morally, spiritually through the guide of Philippine Nursing Act of 2002.
Registered Nurses: This is a social group for nurses and student nurses to share feelings and to “discuss apartheid between male and female RNs.” This group is based in the Middle East.
Save the Nurses: This group is out of Ontario, Canada, where it appears that healthcare facilities are cutting RN jobs and reducing the hours of nursing care.
Support Groups for Nurses and RNs
Are you man enough to be a nurse? Male nursing is becoming more and more popular and for good reason — there are many opportunities and good pay.
Chicken Soup for the Nurse’s Soul: Share your stories, you feelings and your compassion with this Facebook group, which focuses on the joy and trials of nursing.
I Am a Registered Nurse: Share your stories, ask questions, look for guidance and support from this Facebook group geared toward RNs.
I’m a Registered Nurse: This group is for any RN living or working anywhere in the world.
I’m watching HawthoRNe and Nurse Jackie — AND I’m a nurse! This group is participating in a discussion on whether these two television shows accurately reflect the RN profession.
I Love Being A Registered Nurse!!! This group is for anyone who currently is, or is going through college to be a Registered Nurse.
My Wife is a Registered Nurse: This group supports those who support registered nurses when they return home.
Nurse Citizen: This group focuses on the RN who is multifunctional in any nursing service setting.
Nurses Roc!! This group is for health care professionals and those seeking to enter the career of nursing.
Remind me why I want to become a nurse: You must request a membership to this group, comprised of student and practicing nurses who want to vent and who need support.
RN Connect: Connect with registered nurses all over the world sharing a common interest of delivering quality patient care to patients.
RPN’s Group (Registered Practical Nurse’s Group): All RPNs are welcome to join this group, which is a forum to share the joys and accomplishments of practical nursing.
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Jimma University, Ethiopia
The impact of functional adult literacy on women economic empowerment the case of Limu Seqa Woreda, Jimma zone
Guluma _ June _ 2014.pdf
Guluma _ June _ 2014.pdf (58.11Mb)
Guluma, Neima
The study evaluated the role and contribution of Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) for women economic empowerment through assessing its impact on women's access to and control over assets, increased women participation in decision making process at household level, improvement of women's culture on saving and credit management and women's ability to enhance their income and income generating activities in the study areas of five kebeles of Limmu Seqa Woreda in Jimma zone of Oromia region. Data was collected form a total of 210 F'Al=program member and 189 non-members in Limmu Seqa wereda. Non-members were selected from non-program kebeles. In the study both primary and secondary sources of data have been used. Questionnaire and Focus group discussions were the main tools of data collection. Descriptive statistics, econometric analysis and thematic analysis were carried out to accomplish the above-mentioned tasks. The results of the study indicated that the F'Al.-program has a positive impact on women's economic empowerment as measured by the increased participation of women in household decision-making, and improvement in living conditions of its members. Compared to the nonmembers, F'Al-rnembers have improved their household incomes, asset possession levels, and savings and credit habit. The maximum likely hood logit model revealed that being member of FAL program, asset ownership, and existence of personal saving, being head of the household and participating in community based organizations are significantly and positively related to women's control over decision making on their economic resources and opportunities. Whereas, educational status, age of respondents and household size are found to be statistically insignificant in determining women's control over decision making on their economic resources and opportunities. The policy implication of this study is that, Functional Adult literacy is a forum for empowering women to build strong groups of diligent and committed women. It should therefore be encouraged and reinforced by a favourable policy framework that will create an enabling environment in which women will contribute to the economic growth of the nation.
Guluma, N. (2014) The impact of functional adult literacy on women economic empowerment the case of Limu Seqa Woreda, Jimma zone. Jimma University 120. Jimma: Jimma University.
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March - came in like a lion and left like a lion
The first few days of March were a bit of a white out, the whole country getting snowed in. Of course I was in Prague and so missed most of the drama, returning home on Sunday. By Monday the railway was getting back to normal but with plenty of trains in the wrong place, which provided an opportunity for a couple of pictures of trains which normally run overnight, but which had been delayed by the weather.
On Saturday 10th UK Railtours ran the Valley of the Witch from Paddington to Llanelli and back via Tondu, Ogmore Vale, Swansea Burrows sidings, Onllwyn, Cwmgwrach and the Swansea District Line. The weather in the morning was wretched but better was promised (and delivered) in the afternoon when Onllwyn and Cwmgwrach were visited. Coal from Cwmgwrach finished about six years ago, so this was a real opportunity to see a train on a part of the network which is almost moribund.
On Friday 16th I had to go to London at short notice. I drove as I was stopping the night with my father in law in Marlborough, Wiltshire before returning home on Saturday, when the next fall of snow was forecast! On Friday I walked down the Archway Road without a coat, 24 hours later I was huddled in four layers at Wootton Rivers! Is this Putin's revenge :-)
The following week saw temperatures recover and the snow retreat, on Monday it was still apparent along the climb to Llanvihangel, by Tuesday it had almost all gone.
A weekend being a tourist in London gave me the opportunity of revisiting the Goblin and North London Lines on Thursday and Saturday morning.
Monday 26th found me down in Newport at Courtybella Sidings and ADJ Yard for the 6Z12 Newport to Trostre which was in the capable hands of 60100.
Final couple of the days of the month were cold and dreary. I tried to meke the best of it with a visit to Cwmbargoed on Good Friday for 4V01 from Earles and 6C93 to Grange Sidings (Port Talbot). The rain held off until a few minutes before 6C93 appeared round the corner at Bedlinog some 90 minutes early. No 6M86 on Friday, it terminated short at Llanwern but 6V75 on Saturday was an impressively long train. Worth the wait in the cold, raw wind.
March 7th, Pandy
Yesterday the 1V91 had the DVT leading and a full complement of TSOs, today the set has been reversed and is one TSO short.
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Open Gazettes Data Liberation
Get access to your government gazette online - for free
We've made official government gazettes available online and searchable, so you no longer have to sift through them to source important, public information.
by Lenina Rassool, 5 October 2016
We’ve launched a new website, opengazettes.org.za, which makes the official government gazettes available online and for the first time, searchable, for free. This means you no longer have to sift through or download heaps of publications to source legal notices, calls for comments on national and provincial matters, and updates on civic issues.
The project is a collaboration between OpenUp, the Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII), and the African Networks of Centers for Investigative Reporting, with support from The Indigo Trust and Code for Africa. The initiative aims to promote citizen access to government information and increase civic participation in government processes.
According to Parliament’s website, “Government uses [the Gazette] to publish acts and bills, regulations and notices in terms of acts, changes of names, company registrations and deregistrations, financial statements, land restitution notices, liquor license applications and transport permits. Board and legal notices are also published in the Gazette; these cover insolvencies, liquidation and estate notices.”
In a nutshell, this includes everything the government is doing that citizens should know about.
While government gazettes have always been made available somewhere, access to the information is not as easy or straightforward as it sounds, especially for regular citizens. This is especially worrying when the onus is on the public to “keep up to date with all legislation published in the government gazette, according to the Official Publications Depository Manual, which hosts guidelines for setting up depositories for official publications across South Africa.
Currently, there are several ways in which citizens can access government gazettes:
Physical copies are available at Thusong Service Centres and at certain libraries throughout the country;
digital copies of national and most provincial gazettes, from 2012 onwards, are available from the government’s official printers;
Western Cape gazettes are available on their website; and
the Free State charges R11,70 for a single provincial gazette.
Considering that national and provincial copies are printed weekly, along with separate copies for liquor licenses, tender bulletins and legal notices, and urgent notices in separate copies throughout the month, it is incredibly hard to source a specific notice without being specifically pointed at it.
In addition, search functionality and access to digital copies prior to 2012 have a price tag attached as commercial providers charge for this service. Since the government gazette dates back to the Union of South Africa, this prevents the majority of South Africans from benefitting from an important record of the history of South Africa.
As the official mouthpiece of government, the Government Gazette is the one platform that citizens can use to make sure that government is acting in our best interests. But we can only do this if we can access it.
Join us in building the biggest collection of freely available and searchable government gazettes. We are looking for gazettes, national and provincial, from before 2012.
If you have any government gazettes, in any format (hard copy, PDF, scan, etc), contribute them to our public collection and become a part of the #GazetteLiberation campaign. Encourage and challenge everyone you know to take part too.
The collection is freely available for anyone to use. Gazettes are available on opengazettes.org.za, individually and in bulk.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further queries or if you would like to contribute government gazettes.
Partner contacts:
OpenUp
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Amanda Strydom - [email protected]
Open Gazettes: We'd really appreciate some help.
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How we built opengazettes.org.za
Cape Agulhas's by-laws are now easier to find, read and share
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Why Wilimovsky Should Win Golden Goggles
Photos courtesy of Giorgio Scala of Deepbluemedia. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. USA Swimming announced the nominees for its Golden Goggles Awards. The nominees included the long-time heroes of USA Swimming including Michael [...]
Golden Goggles…And The Nominees Are…
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. USA Swimming announced the nominees for its Golden Goggles Awards. The nominees included the usual heroes and heroines of USA Swimming: Katie Ledecky, Missy Franklin, Michael Phelps, and Ryan [...]
#CoachesAre…
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kara Raney of USA Swimming is organizing the second annual #CoachesAre month. "This digital campaign is aimed at showing the positive impact our 18,000+ coaches are making across the [...]
The Doctor Is In, Quietly Confident Around The Water
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cecil Gordon M.D. (standing on boat in middle of 3 officials on left) has a quiet, professional demeanor that is well-suited for his role as one of the leading [...]
When Early Olympic Swimming Was In The Open Water
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Although sleek, modern, architecturally significant pools currently dominate the global media coverage of swimming, mankind has been swimming in the open bodies of water for millennium. Historically speaking, pool [...]
Synchronized Swimming In The Open Water
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. How close can the finish be at competitive open water swimming races? Check out the women's finish at the 2014 USA Swimming 5 km National Open Water Swimming Championship [...]
USA Swimming National 5 km Open Water Champs Today
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2014 USA Swimming 5 km National Open Water Swimming Championships will be held this morning in Castaic Lake, California. The men's race will begin at 8 am and [...]
There’s A Mann Amongst The Women
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The youngest lady among the lead pack at tomorrow's USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Southern California will undoubtedly be a Mann. As in 16-year-old Becca Mann [...]
Friday The 13th, Bad News For Some Swimmers
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Castaic Lake will be the site to watch next Friday, the 13th. The always competitive 10 km USA Swimming Open Water National Championship race will serve as the 2014 [...]
Ashley Twichell Wins Inaugural Crippen Cup
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. USA Swimming reported that Ashley Twichell had the fastest touch in a photo-finish among Christine Jennings and Emily Brunemann at yesterday's Crippen Cup in Fort Myers, Florida. The American [...]
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Telegraph Bloodbath: Ian MacGregor ‘Not’ Demoted
Telegraph editor Chris Evans has been described as “the most hated man on Fleet Street”, “horrifically rude” and “the biggest bastard at the Telegraph”. Yesterday he addressed the paper’s remaining staff, telling them “it’s been a difficult week, I’m here to talk about the future”. The changes are wholesale…
Evans told the newsroom the paper would be streamlined so it consists of just five departments, answerable directly to him. The home and foreign news teams – historically both hugely respected in their own right – will now be merged into one department. Personal finance, traditionally one of the most important sections of the paper, will be merged with the City and Tech pages into a Money department. Lifestyle, Motoring and Gardening will become another department. Weekend editor Ian MacGregor – long loathed by Evans – is now the Culture editor as well, the fourth department. This is not a demotion says the TMG press office. The fifth department is Sport. Evans tried to spin senior job losses as meaning hacks would have to deal with “fewer chiefs”…
‘Digital media director’ Malcolm Coles has been given a new desk in the middle of the newsroom – he will be in charge of “innovation and search engine optimisation” and answer to the editor. Evans said Coles will be “at the heart of the new strategy and the new newsroom”. As you can see from his Twitter, Coles’ main interests lie in ‘viral content’, gifs and animal pictures.
During the half-hour address Evans is said to have lost the room. At one point a disgruntled journalist confronted him and asked: “How are we supposed to produce quality journalism if we keep firing people?”. Evans replied: “By doing everything I’ve just explained to you”. He will go down as the editor who changed the Telegraph beyond all recognition, from the paper of Bill Deedes and Charles Moore to cheap clickbait about child pole dancers…
UPDATE: The Telegraph Media Group’s press office write: “We have not merged departments.” Our newsroom source says “they definitely have”.
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Partial Durations
A collaboration between RealTime Arts and Matthew Lorenzon.
BIFEM Writers’ Workshop
BIFEM: Opening Concert, Argonaut Strings
September 8, 2014 ReviewsClaude Vivier, David Chisholm, Francisco Huguet, Jean Barraqué, Liza Lim, Marielle Grovenmatthewlorenzon
Opening Concert
Argonaut Strings
The Capital Theatre
Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music
8:00pm, 5 September
Given that so little new music for strings is performed in Australia, a major concert dedicated to the genre was well overdue. BIFEM’s private stash of instrumentalists, the Argonaut Ensemble, was gradually augmented as the concert progressed from a violin solo to a work for thirteen players. This poetic gesture was coupled with a progressive exploration of the range of sounds and techniques available on the instruments, ranging from simple timbral studies to expansive works combining the wide range of colours of the string orchestra with thematic writing.
The concert opened with the oldest piece in the festival, Jean Barraqué’s Sonate pour violon seul from 1949. With trance-like serenity, Graeme Jennings brought the sonata to the stage of the Bendio Capital Theatre like an apparition from the past. Written in the composer’s early serialist style, the piece seems to speak a long-lost language of attacks and articulations. Though composed while Barraqué was a student of Olivier Messiaen, it was thought to have been lost until its rediscovery in 2009 making it a paradoxically contemporary work. The festival was dotted with such curiosities that helped one take stock of the breadth of the last century of music that we still like to call “contemporary” or “new.”
Back to the twenty-first century and Francisco Huguet’s Damora was the first of many “one-idea” pieces that would become a point of contention in Saturday’s discussion panel “Duration and Durability.” Like Barraqué’s sonata, Damora‘s inclusion has a certain pedagogical intent. The piece distils the two extremes of bow pressure that dominate contemporary string writing: shimmering, whispering light bowing and creaking, crunching heavy bowing. To begin with, the double bass and violin duo trill while scrubbing back and forth across the strings, producing a complex warbling effect. This sound transitions into a more strident chordal texture including many chiming harmonics. The overall effect is dirty and fragile, full of the fruity bow sound that the nineteenth century worked so hard to conceal and that composers revel in today.
The almost inaudible scraping of bow on string or grinding pressure would become familiar introductory sequences throughout the festival and Marielle Groven’s trio Je ne vois qu’infini par toutes les fenêtres [I see only infinity through all of the windows] was no exception. Groven explored the techniques up and down the strings, from the fingerboard to the bridge. Three little flutters in unison in the middle of the piece provided a focal point around which the complex of sound coalesced.
Expanding the ensemble’s forces to a septet, the Parisian conductor Maxime Pascal (recently lauded by a chocolate company in Salzburg) entered to conduct David Chisholm’s Jonestown Threnody. Jonestown Threnody is one of the composer’s many “requiem” pieces, though rarely does a requiem depict in quite so chilling a manner the death of its subject. The initial chaos of moans and squeals from the strings is shockingly similar—possibly even more shocking in its aesthetic amplification of the sounds—to the existing recordings of the mass suicide (many would say mass murder) of 918 people in 1978. Chisholm’s morbid fascination with the sound leads to variations with wide vibrato, disintegrating descending lines and some thematic imitation.
Liza Lim’s Gothic follows nicely from Chisholm’s because both composers use melodic material as one of many techniques in their incredibly dense musical environments. Lim is without doubt the contemporary master of declamatory, melodic invention. Pascal brought out the dynamic shapes Lim uses to bring her lines to life, giving the ensemble more than enough to work with in terms of physical gesture.
Then came the standout work of the concert, perhaps even of the festival: Claude Vivier’s Zipangu. As Pascal explained to the audience, the piece is characteristic of Vivier’s work with its ceremonial or ritualistic form, its exploration of colour and its development from a single melody (a technique adopted from Stockhausen, one of Vivier’s teachers). Zipangu was one of the names for Japan at the time of Marco Polo and the string orchestra is divided into two sides, who take turns invoking (Pascal mused) the spirit of Marco Polo with their incantations coloured by varieties of bow pressure and position. The addition of violinist Rada Hadjikostova-Schleuter seemed to have an electrifying effect on the orchestra, especially when she would launch into her muscular rendition of the piece’s recurring violin solo.
You can listen back to the whole concert online thanks to ABC Classic FM.
Partial Durations is a Matthew Lorenzon/RealTime joint project.
About matthewlorenzon
I'm a Melbourne-based musicologist and music-writer interested in contemporary music, music theory and philosophy. View all posts by matthewlorenzon →
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Partial Durations is a joint project between RealTime Arts and Matthew Lorenzon. The blog provides reviews and commentary on contemporary art music, with a focus on Australian works and composers. We aim for two reviews and a feature article or podcast per month. If you are interested in contributing, please get in touch.
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Special Benefit Event:
Khalil Shaheed
and the Mo’Rockin Project
with Take 5!
The Stanford Jazz Workshop will be honoring Jazz Legend Khalil Shaheed with a Tribute and FUNraiser at his performance at the Festival on July 19, 2010 at 7:30 pm. Khalil will be honored by the U. S. Congress, State of California, City of Oakland, and Masjidul Waritheen.
Khalil will perform at the Festival with his group “Mo’Rockin Project” Featuring: Bouchaib Abdelhadi, vocals/dembek; Yassir Chadly- Imam at Masjid al-Iman Oakland, vocals/gembre/oud; Richard Howell, saxophone; Khalil Shaheed, trumpet; Glen Pearson, piano; Ron Belcher, bass; Deszon Claiborne, drums.
The event is being arranged by Gabrielle Wilson and Associates with the Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation where recently KPFA Host Doug Edwards and Ms. Wilson hosted Khalil Shaheed on “Music of the World”. You can link to an archived version of the program here:http://kpfa.org/archive/id/61697 . There’s also a “Thank You” to the “Justice for Ali” campaign during the program as a sponsor.
Come out to honor and support Khalil Monday, July 19, 2010 at| 7:30 PM at Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Tickets: $24 general | $14 students | Also appearing TAKE 5!
Win Free Stanford Jazz Festival tix to Khalil Shaheed on July 19;
Ruth Davies’ Blues Night with Special Guest Keb’ Mo’on July 25;
Khalil directs the Oaktown Jazz Workshop two afternoons a week, runs the instrumental music program at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, serves as an artist-in-residence at the Oakland School of Music, and rehearsing and performing with three ensembles: the Khalil Shaheed Quartet (often including his daughter, Savannah Harris, 16, on drums), the jazz-meets-Moroccan music group cleverly named Mo’Rockin Project, and Redwood Brass, a four-trumpet, one-trombone quintet that mixes jazz and classical music.
The first time Bay Area trumpet master Khalil Shaheed listened to cassettes of North African melodies given to him by Moroccan singer and multi-instrumentalist Yassir Chadly, he had a sudden insight: “They ain’t playin’ nothin’ but the blues!” This revelation showed Shaheed the common ground that his own roots in jazz and blues shared with the soulful, ancient musical traditions of North Africa.
No matter where it comes from, great music can fortify the soul and bring people together. In the Mo’Rockin’ Project, a septet co-led by Shaheed and Chadly, the excitement of a funky horn section and heartfelt jazz improvisation unite with the sublime sounds of Islamic devotional music and traditional Arabic and African instruments. The result is a remarkable fusion that captures the essence of two cultures and delivers the best of both worlds, conjuring up “how Marvin Gaye might have sounded fronting Abdullah Ibrahim’s band” according to East Bay Express.
Without being overtly political, the energetic, funky music they create dispels misconceptions about American and Islamic traditions, and exemplifies the beauty that can be created when two cultures come together in the spirit of celebration, communication, and love. Describing the Mo’Rockin’ Project’s sound, bluesman Taj Mahal said it best: “There isn’t a vehicle made by man on Earth or space that can give you this beautiful a ride!”
Profile about Khalil on SFGATE
Khalil Shaheed and the Mo’Rockin Project at Yoshi’s, 2009
Khalil Shaheed and the Mo’Rockin Project’s CD release party, 2006
2010 Stanford Jazz Festival At A Glance
June 16 An Evening with Dick Hyman
*June 25 A Night of Brazilian Jazz!
Luciana Souza/Romero Lubambo; plus Alegritude
June 26 A History of African Rhythms & Jazz
*June 26 Randy Weston’s African Rhythms Trio
June 27 Freddy Cole Quartet
July 2 The Music of Billy Strayhorn
July 3 Early Bird Jazz for Kids: Jim Nadel & Friends
July 3 Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio
July 9 Fred Hersch: Jobim and More
July 10 Early Bird Latin Jazz for Kids: John Santos Sextet
July 10 Tuck & Patti
July 11 Ella Fitzgerald: America’s First Lady of Song
*July 16 Mose Allison Trio
July 17 Claudia Villela Band
July 18 John Santos Sextet
*July 19 Khalil Shaheed & the Mo’Rockin Project
July 20 Gerald Clayton Trio
July 21 Kristen Strom Quintet
July 22 The Music of Dave Brubeck Presented by Victor Lin
July 24 Giants of Jazz: Charles McPherson, Junior Mance & Tootie Heath
*July 25 Ruth Davies’ Blues Night with Special Guest Keb’ Mo’
July 26 Dena DeRose Trio
July 27 Junior Mance Trio
July 28 100 Years of Django with Julian Lage, Victor Lin & Jorge Roeder
July 29 Visions: The Stevie Wonder Songbook
July 31 Rebecca Martin featuring Larry Grenadier, Steve Cardenas & Larry Goldings
Aug 1 Dave Douglas Quintet Plus
Aug 2 George Cables Trio
Aug 3 Nicholas Payton with the Taylor Eigsti Trio
Aug 4 Joshua Redman Trio
Aug 6 SJW All-Star Jam Session
Aug 7 Taylor Eigsti Group featuring Becca Stevens
Stanford Jazz Workshop / P.O. Box 20454 Stanford, CA 94309 / Tel: 650.736.0324 / info@stanfordjazz.org
CELEBRATING FATHER’S DAY
1330 Filmore St.
San Francisco, CA. , 94115
Free tix to Friday 10:00 PM Show
8pm show $30
10pm show $22
8pm & 10pm shows $30
5pm matinee: Kids $5/Parents with Children $20/ General $30
Chicago-born R&B song stylist Lalah Hathaway first put the music world on notice with the release of her self-titled 1990 Virgin Records debut, which yielded four singles (including the #3 chart entry “Heaven Knows.” She’s since recorded four more albums, three solo and the other was the critically acclaimed collaboration with pianist Joe Sample, The Song Lives On. Her newest record, Self Portrait, came out in 2008 on the legendary Stax records. Not only has Lalah accumulated a long list of major credits with artists such as Marcus Miller, David Sanborn, Meshell Ndegeocello, Gerald Albright, and Wayman Tisdale but she has also achieved a #1 single with the Grammy-nominated tribute to Luther Vandross, “Forever, For Always, For Love.” In the spirit of giving back, She is the celebrity Ambassador for the Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation to combat breast cancer. Lalah has accomplished so much and will continue to inspire many.
http://www.lalahhathaway.com/
510 Embarcadero West
Free tix to Sunday 7:00 PM Show
Jun 19-Jun 20, 2010
Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson became one of the top jazz singers of the ’90s, a vocalist blessed with a distinctive and flexible voice who is not afraid to take chances. She began playing piano and guitar when she was nine and was working as a vocalist by the mid-’70s, singing a wide variety of material. She is a self-confessed restless spirit always eager to move on to the next project, the next sound. In a string of acclaimed, best-selling albums, she has expanded the boundaries of jazz by incorporating everything from blues legend Robert Johnson to Neil Young, James Taylor and the Monkees (“Last Train to Clarksville,” off her lauded “New Moon Daughter” CD in 1996).
Free tix to Tuesday 8:00 PM Show
Tierney Sutton Band
8pm shows $18
During its 15 years together, the Tierney Sutton Band has received 2 Grammy Nominations for Best Vocal Jazz Album, a JazzWeek Award for Vocalist of the Year, consecutive nominations for Jazz Journalist Association Awards, recorded several CDs that made the #1 spot on jazz radio playlists, and garnered critical praise throughout the world. Comprised of vocalist Tierney Sutton and instrumental virtuosos Christian Jacob, Trey Henry, Kevin Axt and Ray Brinker, the band has headlined in recent years at Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl and Jazz at Lincoln Center and has appeared at the Monterey, Marciac and Umbria jazz festivals. To date they have recorded seven CDs, each resulting in increasing recognition and acclaim. The band’s most recent disc, “On the Other Side”, was released in February ’07 and was hailed by Business Week “A Masterpiece…eloquent, honest and magnificently sung and played.” Still, the band’s greatest accomplishment is its continuing commitment to unity, excellence and creative collaboration. All musical arrangements as well as business decisions are made by the band members as full partners. A concert by the Tierney Sutton Band is an experience of rare and powerful harmony achieved by humble performers at the top of their game. Critics agree that the reason this band endures can be found in it’s music: “Phenomenal rapport”…”the chemistry is palpable”…”telepathic give and take”…”a serious artist who takes the whole enterprise to another level”…”top-flight one and all”…”total connection”…”a seamless blend with superlative bandmates”…”an uncanny display of spirit and unity.”
www.myspace.com/thetierneysuttonband
Radio Station KPFA has begun airing the Prospect Sierra 8th grade students station promo’s in rotation! They are SUPERSTARS!
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June 17, 2010, Oakland, CA:
Sign this petition Now to stand against Corruption; Governmental, Legal and Police Misconduct; White Collar Crime; Unfair Employment and Business Practices; Consumer Fraud; Islamophobia and Xenophobia and show YOUR SUPPORT for Government Transparency; Accountability; Civic Reform; Enforcing Ethical Standards; Civil Rights and Religious Freedom!
Abdul-Jalil al-Hakim has over 30,000 signatures and implore you to click on any one of the links and sign the Petition To The Honorables President Barack Obama and United States Attorney General Eric Holder to raise it’s investigation of corruption involving Attorney General Jerry Brown, Oakland City Attorney John Russo, former Oakland and current San Leandro City Attorney Jayne Williams, former District Attorney Tom Orloff, and current District Attorney Nancy E. O’Malley.
On June 7, 2010 Abdul-Jalil al-Hakim filed and served a 200 page Corruption, Extrinsic Fraud, Criminal Misconduct, Ethics and “Whistle-Blower” Complaint complete with audio CD on Congresswoman Barbara Lee, State Assemblyman Sandre Swanson, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, Alameda County Presiding Court Judge Jon R. Rolefson, Alameda County Supervisor Kieth Carson, Oakland California Mayor Ron Dellums, Oakland City Administrator Dan Lindheim, Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby, Oakland City Councilpersons Desley Brooks and Larry Reid’s offices, and is being submitted to the Alameda County Grand Jury while California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office refused service of their complaint! You can read and/or download the Complaint and the exhibits here if you choose or go to the website for complete coverage here http://nowtruth.org/city-attorneys-russo-williams-complaint-for-corruption-extrinsic-fraud-ethics/The Complaint is against:
1. Parties to Charges:
Oakland City Attorney John Russo, Mark Morodomi, Randy Hall, Janie Wong, Anita Hong, Sophia Li, Demetruis Shelton- current President of the National Bar Association, Elizabeth Allen, Erica Harrold, Michele Abney, Eliada Perez and the Oakland City Attorney’s Office; former Oakland and current San Leandro City Attorney Jayne Williams; former City of Oakland employee Pat Smith; Stephan Barber and others of the law firm Ropers, Majeski; Ronald J. Cook, Randy Willoughby, Alex Stuart, Annette Bening’s brother Bradley Bening and others of the law firm Willoughby, Stuart & Bening; William Jemmott now of the law firm Wilson Elser; Todd Jones and the law firm Archer Norris; Daniel Crowley of the law firm Daniel Crowley & Assoc.; Fletcher Alford, Joel K. Liberson and the law firm Gordon & Rees; Sean Robert O’Halloran now of the law firm Crone Rozynko; Anne Brooks Harrigan now of the law firm Grancell, Lebovitz, Stander, Barnes & Reubens; Yolanda Marnell Jackson- San Francisco BAR Assoc., now of the law firm Jackson Alternative Dispute Resolution; the law firm of Caven, Cleaveland, Murray; the former law firm of Jackson Harrigan; John Ratto and Dean K. Beyer, of ASU Group (formerly D. L. Glaze); defendants Rescue Rooter and Bay Area Carpet Cleaning; and retired Judges David Lee, Michael Ballachey, and Richard Hodge; and others.
2. The Charges:
The Parties have committed CORRUPTION, COLLUSION, CONSPIRACY, EXTRINSIC FRAUD, FRAUD UPON THE STATE, SUBORNATION AND SOLICITATION OF PERJURIOUS TESTIMONY, PROVIDING LITIGATION CASE FILES AND EVIDENCE TO DEFENDANTS, SPOLIATION OF EVIDENCE, FABRICATING EVIDENCE AND PLANTING FABRICATED EVIDENCE IN LITIGATION CASE FILES , ATTEMPTING TO DECEIVE THE PUBLIC IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS LITIGATION THEORY, CALUMNY DECEIT by giving the case files to defendant Stephan Barber and others of the law firm Ropers, Majeski, and Ronald J. Cook, Randy Willoughby, Alex Stuart, Bradley Bening and others of the law firm Willoughby, Stuart & Bening for nearly a year; then clearly constructed fraudulent fabricated evidence in 1999 and planted that evidence favorable to the defendants in the files SIX years AFTER the case was closed; engaged in spoliation of remaining evidence in the court files from 1991; and fostered witness testimony based on this planted evidence in the al-Hakim v CSAA and the underlying Rescue Rooter case that was created thru EXTRINSIC FRAUD with accompanying testimony procured thru admitted suborned and solicited perjurious acts by John Russo and others, they engaged in actions to destroy the litigation of al-Hakim’s legal case; they engaged in actions to coverup their unlawful acts; they committed, aided and abetted this criminal activity with this unpardonable breach in the chain of custody of the court files to accommodate the defendants litigation strategy in both the CSAA and the underlying Rescue Rooter case.
John Russo, former Oakland and current San Leandro City Attorney Jayne Williams and the Oakland City Attorney office staffs’ criminal violations of the Civil Code, Business and Professions Code, the Rules of Professional Conduct, and the California Cannons strikes at the heart of al-Hakim’s fundamental civil and human rights, and the right to due process under the law guaranteed by the United States Constitution Amendments and the California Constitution. These actions qualify as a Hate Crime under the Unruh Rights Act, the Ralph Civil Rights Act and the Bane Act, while they are clear crimes of religious bigotry and intolerance, as such, this conduct rose to the level of consideration for a Federal Crime and a Civil Rights violation because the City Attorney’s Office operates “under the color of law” and certainly the violation of anyone’s civil rights is a federal crime. This deprivation of al-Hakim’s civil, human and due process rights by the law enforcement body of the City Attorneys’ office of Oakland “rise to the level of criminal activity and misconduct” by local and federal law enforcement officials. These criminal actions by Russo and his staff demand they be issued court ordered subpoena to testify.
3. The Liability and Damages:
The Parties have all failed and refused to provide the information sought by al-Hakim, and further failed and refused to appear under court ordered subpoena for deposition testimony twice and under court ordered subpoena for trial testimony and have caused al-Hakim and family to be forced from their $1 million plus home and office, foreclosed from an over $20 million law suit, and multi million business for 13 years thru the City Attorneys’ violation of the business and professional codes, extrinsic fraud, subornation of perjurious testimony, committing these acts under the color of law with unclean hands, and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
You can read and/or download the Complaint and the exhibits here if you choose or go to the website for complete coverage here http://nowtruth.org/city-attorneys-russo-williams-complaint-for-corruption-ex…
4. City Attorney, Defendants Perjurious Claim of Innocence
Since 1999 Oakland City Attorney John Russo, Mark Morodomi, Randy Hall, Janie Wong, Anita Hong, Sophia Li, Demetruis Shelton- current President of the National Bar Association, Elizabeth Allen, Erica Harrold, Michele Abney, Eliada Perez and the Oakland City Attorney’s Office has always maintained that the City of Oakland case file in the Abdul-Jalil al-Hakim vs. The City of Oakland matter from the 1991 backup were missing and were last requested for viewing by defendant Ron Cook.
For over eight (8) years CSAA defense counsel Stephan Barber had denied that he had anything to do with the handling, disappearance, transportation, having possession, copying or returning of the City of Oakland case file in the al-Hakim matter from the 1991 backup. He has repeatedly stated that he “never touched the file” and “knew nothing about it”.
In August 1, 2007 al-Hakim had the court issuance of trial subpoenas served on Retired Judges Lee, Michael Ballachey, and Richard Hodge, John Russo, Janie Wong and Anita Hong to submit to trial testimony beginning September 7, 2007 regarding the handling of the City file. (See Exhibit C) Demetruis Shelton, current President of the National Bar Association and City Attorney employee left a voicemail message for al-Hakim acknowledging that Russo had in fact received the Trial Subpoenas! A copy of that voice mail here. http://www.box.net/shared/88g62hzaky
The requested depositions and investigation concerns trial Judge David C. Lee’s allowance of the illegal product of fabricated and planted evidence, spoliated evidence and unclean hands by defendant/hostile intervener AAA Insurance; Cook and Willoughby, Stuart & Bening; defense counsel Steve Barber and the law firm of Ropers Majeski; the other underlying defendants; and the Oakland City Attorney’s Office run by John Russo to be admitted as evidence, subjected to testimony, and fostered it’s use to prejudice the jury. During the trial, testimony revealed that there were numerous documents and photos of a very damning nature to the defense and AAA as the hostile intervener, that were missing, altered, or incomplete. Retired Judges Lee, Michael Ballachey, and Richard Hodge, though they live in three different counties, all coincidentally hired the same Oakland defense firm run by former Oakland and current San Leandro City Attorney Jayne Williams whom was responsible for providing the files to the defendants initially that was then given to her client Judge Lee for trial by John Russo.
As a protective measure for his co-defendants, Judge Jon Tigar had ruled that Barber would have to testify and answer al-Hakim’s charges of spoliation of evidence and subornation of perjurious testimony stemming from his handling of the City file if there was more than one case file. If there was ever more than one case file, they were ALL missing and that fact was attributed to CSAA’s attorneys by the City Attorney. Clearly, Mr. Barber now has to leave the seat as defense counsel and take the stand as a witness and defendant! You can see video of Tigar’s ruling!
Cook and Barber’s admissions now corroborates the story that was told to al-Hakim and his attorneys Mike Michel and Jeff Fackler in July 2000 by Oakland City Attorney’s Janie Wong and Anita Hong. However, since 1999 Janie Wong, Anita Hong and Russo have always maintained that the files were missing and were last requested for viewing by defendant Ron Cook. This statement is also perjurious and deceitful as we now know that the December 1, 2005 written statement by Oakland City Attorney John Russo about Anita Hong leaving the case files at the office counter and no one coming to review them is willfully and intentionally perjurious, deceitful and fraudulent.
The City Attorney has failed and refused to effectively respond and such a non response, to ignore the fact that they have been caught in these illegal transgressions, reveals that John Russo and the City Attorney’s office was an accomplice to the breaking of the chain of custody of the evidence that was spoliated by the unclean hands of the hostile intervener, allowed the court to make the file a part of the record, and presented the fabricated evidence planted in the case files and spoliated evidence at trial. al-Hakim asserts that Russo’s and the City Attorney’s Office and the hostile intervener’s misconduct in connection with the Rescue case qualified for “unclean hands” as their actions meet the requirement that, to be considered as unclean hands, a party’s misbehavior must relate to the transaction in suit and to the adversary party.
You can read and/or download the Complaint and the exhibits here if you choose or go to the website for complete coverage here http://nowtruth.org/city-attorneys-russo-williams-complaint-for-corruption-extrinsic-fraud-ethics/
5. Judge John Tigar’s Admission of Fabricated Evidence, Planted in Case Files Tainted, and Spoiled by the Hostile Intervener and the Oakland City Attorney
6. THE AUGUST 1999 CITY NOTE
During a review of Cooks files in the court room while trial was recessed for a week, al-Hakim found a document in Ron Cook’s copies of the City of Oakland files which was a note entitled “Al-Hakim v. C/O (92416)” with two bates stamp numbers 001323 and 000002 (See one page note under Exhibit C) that was discovered on April 2, 2008 during trial subject to subpoena. This document apparently states a list of “documents not provided to council requesting file”, and further mentions “Attorney-Client and work product documents”. These notes clearly address:1) conversations between and a one page memo from EFA (City Attorney Elizabeth Allen) to RWH (City Attorney Randy Hall) and former City Attorney employee Pat Smith on August 27, 1999- SIX YEARS AFTER Smith was fired by the City;
Deputy defense-counsel Judge Jon Tigar had ruled in pre-trail conference that Pat Smith’s notes would be admitted as evidence despite the fact that he noted that Judge David Lee had ruled them inadmissible in the Rescue trial. This is inconsistent with his ruling of all the previous orders of other judges relative to this case, no matter how remote, would prevail in this case and remain in full effect as he ruled on them and cited the prior judges ruling. Perhaps more revealing is that ALL those orders that he ruled on with the alleged support of previous judges orders were ALL against al-Hakim’s interest. During pre-trial conference al-Hakim had stated to the court that the defendants could not and would not produce any of the witnesses from the Rescue trial and none would appear at this trial because they all were known to have committed perjury. During the trial Defense counsel Barber stated to the court that he had tried to locate Pat Smith at the City of San Francisco but she no longer worked there and requested of the court that Pat Smith be allowed to testify through her notes and the Rescue transcript. al-Hakim raised the issue that the defendants had not provided any proof of their efforts to locate and serve Smith and alleging that they merely tried to reach her at her former place of employment was not enough. Tigar stated that he had read the Rescue trial testimony and notes of Pat Smith and would allow the transcript and her notes to be admitted as evidence if there was agreement that she would not appear as a witness. There was never any agreement between the parties on her not appearing as a witness and though Tigar knew there was no such agreement, Tigar admitted her testimony and notes into evidence at trial on August 6, 2008 while al-Hakim was absent attending a funeral for a second death during the trial.
7. Oakland City Attorney Was Aware At All Times Whom Had The Files And Why
Oakland City File Note Refutes Defendants Recision Claim!
8. Jayne W. Williams
Retired Judges Lee, Michael Ballachey, and Richard Hodge, though they live in three different counties, all coincidentally hired the same Oakland defense firm, Meyers Nave, run by former Oakland and current San Leandro City Attorney Jayne Williams whom was responsible for providing the files to the defendants initially that was then given to her client Judge Lee for trial by John Russo. (See July 26, 2006 letter from Kim Colwell under Exhibit B)
Jayne Williams is the managing principal of Meyers Nave and the current City Attorney for the City of San Leandro. While at Meyers Nave, Jayne has served as City Attorney to the City of Suisun City and as Interim City Attorney for the Cities of Stockton and Merced.
Recently, Ms. Williams was retained as part of the Meyers Nave team selected by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) to conduct a confidential internal affairs investigation of the officer-involved shooting death of Oscar Grant. This New Year’s Day incident gained public attention throughout the Bay Area and the nation, and sparked protests that extended for a number of weeks following the shooting. The investigation reviewed the actions of the police officers who were involved in the incident to determine any potential misconduct.
As reported in The San Jose Business Journal’s, Jayne Williams, and Meyers Nave were retained by San Jose Evergreen Community College District Board of Trustees to conduct an independent investigation into the allegations of financial and administrative improprieties by Chancellor Rosa Perez. In November 2009 these allegations were reported in three KGO news telecasts and a San Jose Mercury News article. Because of the significant public interest and attention generated by these news reports, the District Board decided that an independent investigation should be conducted and that the investigation report should be made available to the public, to the extent legally permissible. The investigation team, led by Jayne Williams, conducted a five-month investigation into the various allegations and produced a comprehensive report with findings, recommendations and conclusions that was released by the District to the public at a news conference on May 21, 2010.
Their website proudly boasts “Meyers Nave routinely represents public agencies in high profile internal investigations such as this investigation for San Jose Evergreen Community College District and the investigation conducted by attorneys Jayne Williams and Kimberly Colwell on behalf of BART into the actions of all the officers present during the New Year’s Day shooting death of Oscar Grant. For more information on this investigation or for assistance with internal investigations, please contact Jayne Williams at 800.464.3559.”
“Attorneys at Meyers Nave understand these pressures. In fact, we have earned our reputation by helping public officials find creative solutions to financial, regulatory and legal issues. Our extensive knowledge of all areas of municipal law — coupled with hands-on experience in negotiating and litigating — allows us to cut to the core of most issues and resolve them quickly.”
“Our clients include a number of California’s most forward thinking cities, towns, counties and redevelopment agencies. Our attorneys work closely with public officials — council members, city managers, planning directors, public works directors, finance directors and risk managers — to help manage and optimize programs and initiatives.”
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Attorney General Jerry Brown Covers Superior and State Court Corruption, D A Tom Orloff, Oakland City Attorney John Russo Extrinsic Fraud Upon the Court!
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August 7, 2009, Oakland, CA:
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California Attorney General Jerry Brown, responsible for carrying out investigation of Alameda County Superior Court and State Appeals Court judges, District Attorney Tom Orloff, Oakland City Attorney John Russo and various corporate defendants is himself defending some of the criminals and covering up the very same corruption he is supposed to be investigating and prosecuting! Full Story with Videos and Documents on this blog or at http://tinyurl.com/ljk8av
Abdul-Jalil al-Hakim, the Uber-successful sports and entertainment agent with Superstar Management, filed a federal complaint with the United States Attorney General, Department of Justice, of a hate crime of Islamophobia and Xenophobia committed against him during a trial in Superior Court of Alameda County, California. More on al-Hakim on his Profile Page on this blog or at http://SuperstarManagement.WordPress.com/
The complaint, drafted and filed by al-Hakim in pro per, has broad based support from Democrats and Republicans, was submitted by Congresswoman Barbara Lee with the offices of Congressmen John Conyers, and Charles Rangel, reviewed by several legal experts, with advocacy by former Republican Senator J. C. Watts, a client of al-Hakim’s, is moving forward with the investigation and charges of criminal extrinsic fraud upon the court of the State of California, fabricating and planting fabricated evidence, spoliation of evidence, and the doctrine “unclean hands” against defendants/hostile intervener AAA Insurance; Ronald J. Cook, Randy Willoughby, Alex Stuart, Bradley Bening and others of the law firm Willoughby, Stuart & Bening; Stephan Barber and others of the law firm Ropers, Majeski; and many others.
The complaint addresses concern that Superior Court Judges’, defendants, defense counsels and others conduct rose to the level of consideration for a Federal Crime and a Civil Rights violation because the bench upon which the judge rules is “under the color of law” and certainly the violation of anyone’s civil rights is a federal crime, perhaps even more importantly, not only requested Merrily Friedlander, Chief of the Civil Rights Division, to make an investigation of a judicial hate crime, but also the many other civil rights and due process violations of judicial misconduct, and attorney extrinsic fraud upon the court and law that are themselves directly the matters complained.
After review in the U. S. A. G. Office, the case was thought of as being so egregious that even the infamous Bradley Schlozman, whom is now fired and facing Federal indictment with resigned former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez for removing Democratic attorneys from the U. S. Attorneys Generals offices nationwide, sent al-Hakim a letter referring the matter (because of jurisdictional limitations) to the California State Attorney General, California State Bar Association, the California State Judicial Council, and California State Insurance Commissioner for investigation and prosecution. And these were Republican Judges and attorney’s being complained of! Full Story with Videos and Documents on this blog or at http://tinyurl.com/ljk8av
The requested depositions and investigation concerns trial Judge David C. Lee’s allowance of the illegal product of fabricated and planted evidence, spoliated evidence and unclean hands by defendant/hostile intervener AAA Insurance; Cook and Willoughby, Stuart & Bening; defense counsel Steve Barber and the law firm of Ropers Majeski; the other underlying defendants; and the Oakland City Attorney’s Office run by John Russo to be admitted as evidence, subjected to testimony, and fostered it’s use to prejudice the jury. During the trial, testimony revealed that there were numerous documents and photos of a very damning nature to the defense and AAA as the hostile intervener, that were missing, altered, or incomplete.
Now, however, the very same California State Attorney General, Jerry Brown, responsible for carrying out the investigation of these crimes is himself defending these and other criminals and covering up the very same corruption he is supposed to be investigating and prosecuting!
Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff’s Extrinsic Fraud Upon the Court, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Willful and Malicious Prosecution, Conflict of Interest, Obstruction of Justice, Denial of Due Process, Willful and Intentional Fabrication and Authoring False Evidence; Misrepresentation and Concealment of Material Facts
al-Hakim had to file an action against Tom Orloff and the Alameda County District Attorney’s (DA) and the Alameda County Department of Child Support Services (ACDCSS) because for over 15 years they repeatedly failed and refused to enforce the courts own orders for the fair and proper application and accounting of payments al-Hakim made in trust to the DA in their fiduciary capacity for the minor al-Hakim child depriving al-Hakim and the minor child of over $2,000 of monies paid, thus creating a “mythical” arrearage and open account in al-Hakim’s name and on his behalf owed to the minor child, then illegally charging al-Hakim with the crime of violating the child support statute for nonpayment, reporting the alleged violation to the State of California for Collection and the State Department of Motor Vehicles for suspension of his driving privilege for nonpayment and illegally tossing al-Hakim into “debtors prison”, suspending his drivers license, revoking his passport, and ruining his credit. ACDCSS actions and claimed “right” to perform in this manner are not contained in any State or Federal statute, regulation, or other legislative act and therefore, do not have the force of law and renders it constitutionally infirm and no court officer can merely “grant” a ruling in their favor to cover getting caught having done so. Full Story with Videos and Documents on this blog or at http://tinyurl.com/ljk8av
Attorney General of The State of California Substituted In for DA Tom Orloff
On January 22, 2008 Attorney General Jerry Brown and the Office of The Attorney General of The State of California substituted in as attorney of record in this case for the Alameda County Department of Child Support Services allegedly “in the interest of justice”. What justice is there in the Attorney General defending, concealing and thereby further complicitly committing the admitted willful and intentional extrinsic fraud upon the court; prosecutorial misconduct; willful and malicious prosecution; misconduct; conflict of interest; obstruction of justice; denial of due process under the law; willful and intentional fabrication and authoring false evidence; misstating and mischaracterizing evidence; misrepresentation and concealment of material facts with knowledge of the truth with the intent to induce the court’s act or reliance; harassment; and intimidation on behalf of District Attorney Tom Orloff, Maureen Lenahan, Valgeria Harvey, counselors L. Lavagetto, Ms. K. Pendergrass, Ms. Adler, Kris Ferre, and accountant Mr. Lovelady and others unnamed in the DA’s office and Commissioner Oleon’s abuse of discretion, willful misconduct, conduct prejudicial, illegal ex-parte communications and bias that resulted in error.
This was done to excuse and protect the Alameda County Department of Child Support Services from their ongoing conflict of interest in their alleging to represent the interest of Joette Hall, whom they had defrauded along with al-Hakim of the funds paid to the DCSS in trust for their minor child.
The Alameda County Department of Child Support Services was never representing the al-Hakim Hall family, they were defending and covering up their extrinsic fraud upon the state and the families. The Alameda County Department of Child Support Services wanted to conceal their attempted coercion of al-Hakim to pay the arrearage they created in his name.
al-Hakim and his family had complained many times each year about the misapplication of the funds tendered to the Department of Child Support Services in trust for the al-Hakim Hall family.
Now Brown………
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On the informational content of advice: A theoretical and experimental study
Yaw Nyarko, Andrew Schotter, Barry Sopher
This paper examines the market for advice and the underlying perception that advice is useful and informative. We do this by first providing a theoretical examination of the informational content of advice and then by setting up a series of experimental markets where this advice is sold. In these markets we provide bidders with a demographic profile of the "experts" offering advice. The results of our experiment generate several interesting findings. The raw bid data suggest that subjects bid significantly more for data than they do for advice. Second, in the market for advice there appears to be no consensus as to who are the best advisors although on average economists demand the highest mean price and women suffer a discount. In addition, we find that whether a subject suffers from a representativeness bias in the way he or she processes data has an impact on how he or she bids for advice and on his or her willingness to follow it once offered. Finally, we find that on average people impute a low level of informativeness onto advice, consistent with their bidding behavior for data versus advice.
Bidding behavior
Informativeness
Experimental markets
Nyarko, Y., Schotter, A., & Sopher, B. (2006). On the informational content of advice: A theoretical and experimental study. Economic Theory, 29(2), 433-452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-005-0037-7
On the informational content of advice : A theoretical and experimental study. / Nyarko, Yaw; Schotter, Andrew; Sopher, Barry.
In: Economic Theory, Vol. 29, No. 2, 10.2006, p. 433-452.
Nyarko, Y, Schotter, A & Sopher, B 2006, 'On the informational content of advice: A theoretical and experimental study', Economic Theory, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 433-452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-005-0037-7
Nyarko Y, Schotter A, Sopher B. On the informational content of advice: A theoretical and experimental study. Economic Theory. 2006 Oct;29(2):433-452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-005-0037-7
Nyarko, Yaw ; Schotter, Andrew ; Sopher, Barry. / On the informational content of advice : A theoretical and experimental study. In: Economic Theory. 2006 ; Vol. 29, No. 2. pp. 433-452.
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15 Rutherford Place
New York Yearly Meeting News
Number 2 The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) March 2015
Editor, Steven Davison
Theme Features: Quakers and Other Faiths
Quakers Listen, by Terence Ward
The Treasure We Hold: Quakers in the Body of Christ, by Roger Dreisbach-Williams
Quakers & Other Denominations, by Rene Lape
Hope, Despair, and Interspiritual Dialogue, by Robert (Sunfire) Kazmayer
Quakerism and Buddhism, by Hanbom Lee
Worship Soup, by Lynn Butcher
"All Are Welcome": Quakers Open to Other Faiths, by Mary A. Williams
Being Quaker and Buddhist, by Kathy Slattery
Around Our Yearly Meeting—Yearly Meeting news
ARCH Visitor Training—March 20-22
ARCH (Aging Resources, Consultation and Help) Visitor training is coming up—March 20-22 at Christ the King Retreat Center in Syracuse, NY. This session will be facilitated by Callie Janoff and Anita Paul.
NYYM is growing in awareness and ministry to aging adults and people with disabilities. Prison visitation is a growing ministry. Share this opportunity with young adults, too. We have several ARCH Visitors who are finding a valuable role within their meeting by taking this training. Hospitality is available. Please send all inquiries and applications to Barbara Spring, [email protected], 518-441-6405. You can download an application from www.nyym.org/sites/default/files/ARCHVisitorTraining_2015-03.doc.
Free One-day Clerking Workshop
with Arthur Larrabee, Farmington Friends Meeting, Saturday, April 18, 2015
Please register by March 31 by email to [email protected]. Breakfast and lunch provided.
Play readings at Fifteenth Street Meeting
Fifteenth Street Meeting's Arts Committee is planning a series of readings of new plays by members of our community at the meetinghouse, 15 Rutherford Place. If you're interested in reading, please meet us at 1:30 pm after meeting on March 22 so we can hear you. On March 29, we will have a rehearsal. On April 5 the 15th Street Arts Committee will perform four Charles Sirey plays at the meetinghouse. Please come. All are welcomed.
Stoking the Fire—A Gathering in the Power of Christ
May 22-25, 2015 Jesuit Spiritual Center, Milford Ohio, May 22-25, 2015
Cost: $350 before March 16. $375 until May 1. Late registration, $400.
Registration is now open. Visit www.fum.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Conference-Details1.pdf for details.
An Invitation to Apply for Funds from the NYYM Barrington Dunbar Fund for Black Development
The Black Development Fund was established in 1969 as the response of New York Yearly Meeting to the needs of the Black and Puerto Rican communities within the area of the Yearly Meeting. It was provided that the fund would be administered by a committee of Friends, the majority of whom would be Black. The name was changed in 1978 to recognize the work of Barrington Dunbar for the Yearly Meeting. In addition, the charge now includes all Latinos in the NYYM area, not just those of Puerto Rican descent.
The Committee tries to educate Friends on the needs of the Black and Latino sectors of the community and tries to foster Friends' concern and cooperation in responding to the needs of those communities.
The committee has granted funds to maintain or expand programs for Black and Latino communities, including development projects that help preschool children, youth, and the aged who are victimized by the adverse conditions of poverty and racism; projects that help with re-entry challenges of formerly incarcerated individuals; scholarships for disadvantaged students at the high school and college level; and many other programs of a like nature. Please send requests to [email protected] with Barrington Dunbar in the subject line and indicate your monthly meeting or worship group.
Young Adult Field Secretary back from maternity leave
I am back to work after my maternity leave. Isaac Heron Bailey Savory was born on October 31, 2014. He was born at a healthy 8 pounds, 15 ounces. He is doing great and Maddie, Jon, and I are enjoying him and getting to know him better. Isaac is looking forward to meeting his extended Quaker family as we travel throughout NY Yearly Meeting. My travel schedule is evolving and may change, but you can follow it on nyym.org under Quicklinks at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar.
I am eager to visit monthly meetings, and also schedule mini retreats. If your meeting would like me to visit, and/or host a mini retreat, please let me know! My email is [email protected].
Gabrielle Savory Bailey
Shrewsbury Meeting invests in outreach tools
Shrewsbury meeting has created a 3' by 8' vinyl banner to display in front of the meetinghouse, and used the same design for several other items: as a bumper sticker, as a banner ad in the local weekly paper for four weeks in April, as bookmarks and tent cards (these latter were homemade). The meeting ran an ad last fall featuring William Penn's "true godliness" quote: "True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it." (Too bad William predates modern liberal gender consciousness.) They also are currently running an ad based on the Quaker SPICES. They put lawn signs out on weekends giving Sunday activity times and have created two new table-top drapes for booths at events with just one word: Quakers.
Syracuse Meeting hosts Earthcare Working Group program
On February 1, Liseli Haines spoke to Syracuse Meeting's Witness Committee about the history, activities, and goals of New York Yearly Meeting's Earthcare Working Group.
Come Sing!
If you love to sing, come join with others who love it too! Nightingales, an a cappella singing group that meets twice a year, will meet the fourth weekend in April, near Poplar Ridge, NY. It certainly should be Spring by then, so come sing with us around a campfire in a lovely rural setting. You do not have to be a great, or even a good singer to participate. If you can talk, you can sing. We gather not to perform, but to share the joy of fellowship and the love of singing.
You don't have to come for the whole weekend to participate. There will be opportunities to sing Friday evening, Saturday morning, Saturday late afternoon, and Saturday after dinner. Those that stay overnight Saturday will warm up the Poplar Ridge meetinghouse with song before worship on Sunday. Some will sleep in tents, but there are beds on site and in nearby homes as well.
Bring a pot-luck offering, a blanket or chair to sit on if you stay for the campfire, a flashlight, and copies of Worship in Song and/or Rise Up Singing.
Shuttle service from the Syracuse Amtrak station is a possibility. Children are most welcome, though those not wanting to participate in the singing are the responsibility of their parents. Whether you want to camp or stay in a bed, we can accommodate you.
Dates: April 24-26, 2015
Place: Craig Kukuk and A.T. Miller's farm near Scipio Center, NY, and at Poplar Ridge Monthly Meeting.
Suggested fee: $10.
Registration or more information: Contact Bronwyn Mohlke, [email protected], 607-277-4183.
We need to know how many to plan for, who needs a bed, and what food you plan to share!
Poughkeepsie Meeting recommits to its meetinghouse and seeks a tenant
Poughkeepsie Meeting decided in December 2014 to withdraw its property from the market and stay in place, renewing our commitment to our much-loved 87-year-old meetinghouse as one of our ministries to the community. Regular users besides ourselves include two Alcoholics Anonymous groups, a foster parents organization, and a philatelic club. For the past two years an African-American congregation has warmed our largest spaces each Sunday afternoon with its enthusiastic and amplified worship services. But this building, too large for our own needs, had caused concern about our finances and our limited "person power."
Poughkeepsie Meeting lost almost half of its annual income a year ago when the Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse moved elsewhere, after twenty years in our former "parsonage." Knowing this to be imminent, the meeting tried vainly for over three years to sell its property. Now, it is committed to improving it. The "parsonage," with newly refinished floors and repainted rooms, stands empty, and we are looking for a renter. Zoning permits use as a residence, an office for a non-profit organization, or an office for a professional person who also resides in the building. If you know of people planning to move to Poughkeepsie, you might call to their attention the website www.poughkeepsiequakers.org, which has pictures, a floor plan, and details about the available building.
Friends Give $40,000 in Support of New York Yearly Meeting
After Friends found unity at summer sessions in the priorities witnessed and articulated by the Priorities Working Group, one couple in the yearly meeting was moved to make a substantial contribution to support that work. They pledged $40,000 over the next five years, an extraordinarily generous gift. I asked them to share with the yearly meeting why they were led to do so. Deb responded for both of them:
For almost three decades, Ted and I have claimed our membership in New York Yearly Meeting secure in the knowledge that the gathered witness of NYYM Friends stands with us, accompanies us and encourages us wherever we are.
NYYM's recent time of extended discernment and the emergence of its renewed and vigorous spirit reminded us that the Spirit-driven work, inward and outward, must be nourished both by that which is eternal and that which is more temporal. We hope that our contribution will do much in support of the temporal needs of this Spirit-driven work. Witness needs wheels under it to travel in the world, and—Friends witness being no different—we sought and found clearness in offering our resources to NYYM for its nurture of the work of the Spirit, as it arises.
We rest easy in NYYM's capacity for both stewardship and for generous use of its resources in the service of Friends testimonies. We cannot know whose life will be transformed because of access to needed resources, but we do know that lives will be transformed. And, while we cannot predict where or by how much, there will be some small added evidence of the power of our testimony of love for one another. To know that we are contributing to the transformation of others, and to the demonstration of our love for each other, is a blessing for us.
The Yearly Meeting's Development Committee wishes to express its profound gratitude to Deb and Ted for their trust and support. Their gift is making a huge difference in the Yearly Meeting's capacity to pursue the vision articulated in the Statement of Leadings and Priorities. In subsequent conversations with Deb and Ted, they made it clear that they also hope that their contribution will serve as an inspiration for others to make similar multi-year sizable contributions to the Yearly Meeting, in order to support and sustain the work of the Spirit among us. The Development Committee shares this hope, and invites Friends to consider similar commitments. If you are so led, please contact a member of the Development Committee.
Christopher Sammond, General Secretary
Joseph John Crotty IV – Westbury
Marie Hoguet – Brooklyn
Leela Le Noury – Brooklyn
Violet V. Le Noury-Stewart – Brooklyn
Chris Stewart – Brooklyn
Louis Sontin – Brooklyn
Sally, Demeice, and Daniel Garepis-Holland, from Scarsdale to Purchase
Edd Fenner, member of Morningside, on February 7, 2015
Jean Reid, member of Easton, on February 25, 2015
Nancy Sorel, member of Bulls Head-Oswego, on February 5, 2015
Memorial: Fifteenth Street Meeting, 2 pm, May 23, 2015; 15 Rutherford Pl., New York, NY
Gertrude E. Ward, member of Adirondack, on December 22, 2014
Emily Walsh and Eli Gwynn, members of Brooklyn Meeting, on January 1, 2015, under the care of the meeting.
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Celebrating Ottawa's Sporting Heritage
Top Ottawa Sports Moments
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Robert ‘Bob’ Rathwell
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Year Inducted: 2008
Date of Birth: June 23rd, 1929
Born in: Lachine, Quebec
Robert ‘Rob’ Rathwell (deceased) had a lifelong commitment to community sports. He served two terms as an Executive member of Ottawa’s RA Centre where he was instrumental in the creation of the Riverside Drive playing fields. In 1970, Rathwell began his association with soccer; serving as President of the Lynwood Minor Soccer Association before becoming involved at the district level.
Beginning in 1975, Rathwell served as Chairperson, Secretary and Statistician of the Ottawa-Carleton Soccer League as well as President and Secretary of the Eastern Ontario District Soccer Association. He was also the Director of the Ontario Soccer Association for 8 years.
Rathwell has used his knowledge as a computer systems analyst/consultant to develop a computerized sport record-keeping system for soccer that is in common use today.
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Test Drive: 2010 Volkswagen GTI
Palo Alto, Calif. — A Volkswagen representative met me at the airport and rather than being driven to the hotel, I was dropped into the driver?s seat of the new GTI and handed directions to the hotel ? the long way.
What a great way to be introduced to Volkswagen?s latest iteration of the hot hatchback.? Pulling south onto the infamous Highway 101 is always a challenge with five lanes of traffic moving up to about 75 mph ?– it?s organized chaos. ? I was ready for the challenge and the new GTI didn?t disappoint, accelerating quickly up to the speed of traffic. Volkswagen says this new version dashes to 60 mph in 6.7 seconds, with the top speed limited to 130 mph.
My route to the hotel meandered through the Santa Cruz Mountains on roads less traveled,? wrapping through the hills and valleys.? It was a perfect display of the fantastic GTI handling.? Pushing hard at times, the GTI doesn?t scream at corners; it carves them with skier-like precision.? Even though the GTI is a puller (front-wheel drive), there was only a hint of torque steer.
Volkswagen?s award winning 200-hp, turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine is under the hood, with a choice of standard six-speed manual transmission or the quick shifting DSG twin clutch six-speed automatic with Tiptronic and paddle shifters. ?With the efficient DSG transmission, the GTI gets an EPA fuel economy rating of 24 mpg city and 32 mpg.? The manual transmission is rated at 21/32 mpg.
I like the look and the new GTI.? It is about a simple and clean as they come.? Available in a two- and four-door hatchback the new GTI, which is labeled Mk VI for the sixth generation, takes styling cues from the Mk I and later models with the simple lines, small rear spoiler and aggressive front stance.? Because of the special nature of this model, the GTI has an extensive list of standard features like cruise, air conditioning, power windows and locks, 17-inch alloy wheels along with all the performance enhancements.
Pricing starts at $23,990, including the destination charge, for the two-door with a manual transmission. ?The four-door is $600 more and the DSG transmission adds $1,100. Significant option packages include the Autobahn package (leather seating, power sunroof and sport seats) — $2,795; 18-inch alloy wheels with summer tires — $890; Bi-Xenon headlights — $700; navigation — $1,750 and Dynaudio premium audio — $476.? A fully loaded the GTI four-door DSG price peaks at about $32,000.
[Rating:9/10]
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Nik Miles Hyundai Sonata WRAL Fox 50
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You searched for +publisher:"Rochester Institute of Technology" +contributor:("Rieger, Neville"). Showing records 1 – 7 of 7 total matches.
1. Sisson, J. L. Large Deflection of Thick Elastic Belts.
Degree: Mechanical Engineering, 1976, Rochester Institute of Technology
URL: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7240
Not listed. Advisors/Committee Members: Rieger, Neville.
Subjects/Keywords: Schedules; Punishment in crime deterrence – New York (State) – Rochester.; Gangs – New York (State) – Rochester.; Law enforcement – New York (State) – Rochester.; Ceasefire operation; Focused deterrence; Gang me
Sisson, J. L. (1976). Large Deflection of Thick Elastic Belts . (Thesis). Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7240
Sisson, J L. “Large Deflection of Thick Elastic Belts.” 1976. Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed January 20, 2020. https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7240.
Sisson, J L. “Large Deflection of Thick Elastic Belts.” 1976. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Sisson JL. Large Deflection of Thick Elastic Belts. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1976. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7240.
Sisson JL. Large Deflection of Thick Elastic Belts. [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1976. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7240
2. Biller, Victor. Application of the finite element method to the solution of maximum fillet stresses in loaded projections.
This thesis analyzes a geometric configuration under a loaded condition and establishes location and magnitude of the maximum fillet stress by the use of the Finite Element Method. Results are compared to Heywood's published study. Advisors/Committee Members: Rieger, Neville.
Subjects/Keywords: Finite element method; Maximum fillet stress; Mechanical engineering; Thesis
Biller, V. (1976). Application of the finite element method to the solution of maximum fillet stresses in loaded projections . (Thesis). Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7447
Biller, Victor. “Application of the finite element method to the solution of maximum fillet stresses in loaded projections.” 1976. Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed January 20, 2020. https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7447.
Biller, Victor. “Application of the finite element method to the solution of maximum fillet stresses in loaded projections.” 1976. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Biller V. Application of the finite element method to the solution of maximum fillet stresses in loaded projections. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1976. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7447.
Biller V. Application of the finite element method to the solution of maximum fillet stresses in loaded projections. [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1976. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7447
3. Janucik, F. X. Development and applications of a quadratic isoparametric finite element for axisymmetric stress and deflection analysis.
► The theory and computer program for an axisymmetric finite element for static stress and deflection analysis is presented. The element is an eight noded isoparametric… (more)
▼ The theory and computer program for an axisymmetric finite element for static stress and deflection analysis is presented. The element is an eight noded isoparametric quadrilateral based on the displacement method which is capable of representing quadratic variation of element boundaries and displacements. Element stiffness properties are developed for linear elastic small displacement theory using homogeneous isotropic material. Test cases are compared with theoretical solutions from the theory of elasticity to identify program capabilities and limitations. Ability to analyse axisymmetric problems and to represent curved element boundaries has been demonstrated. Example problems including a cylindrical pressure vessel, a disk of uniform thickness subjected to centrifugal body force, and stress concentrations in a cylindrical rod due to a spherical inclusion are presented. In each of these cases program predicted deflection and stress values were within 2% of theoretical values. Limitations which have been identified include the prediction of discontinuous stresses at adjacent element boundaries, failure to match original element boundary stress conditions in substructure analyses, and the necessity of double precision calculations to correctly analyse problems whose theoretical solutions obey small displacement plate theory. Analysis of a spherical pressure vessel resulted in predicted displacements within 4% of theoretical values while stresses on element boundaries varied by 60% from theoretical values. Substructure analysis for the spherical inclusion problem resulted in prediction of boundary stresses which were incompatible with those originally obtained. Techniques to overcome this difficulty are proposed but are not tested. The inability to obtain reasonable results for flexural problems was found to be due to round off error in the single precision technique used for solving the structure equilibrium relations. Use of double precision calculations resulted in displacements and stresses within .25% and 4.% respectively of theory for the case of a clamped circular plate loaded by a uniform pressure normal to its surface. Advisors/Committee Members: Rieger, Neville.
Subjects/Keywords: Deflection analysis; Mechanical engineering; Small displacement plate theory; Thesis
Janucik, F. X. (1974). Development and applications of a quadratic isoparametric finite element for axisymmetric stress and deflection analysis . (Thesis). Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7383
Janucik, F X. “Development and applications of a quadratic isoparametric finite element for axisymmetric stress and deflection analysis.” 1974. Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed January 20, 2020. https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7383.
Janucik, F X. “Development and applications of a quadratic isoparametric finite element for axisymmetric stress and deflection analysis.” 1974. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Janucik FX. Development and applications of a quadratic isoparametric finite element for axisymmetric stress and deflection analysis. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1974. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7383.
Janucik FX. Development and applications of a quadratic isoparametric finite element for axisymmetric stress and deflection analysis. [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1974. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7383
4. Beck, Curtis. Evaluation of Turbine Blade Root Damping.
► A test program has been conducted to measure the vibration damping of three designs of steam turbine blades. These blades were tested in their root… (more)
▼ A test program has been conducted to measure the vibration damping of three designs of steam turbine blades. These blades were tested in their root attachments, sectioned from retired rotors. Blade loading was accomplished in a new type of blade damping test rig and damping was evaluated in the lowest tangential and axial blade modes. The test environment was room temperature air. The damping rig concept and development is presented in detail as well as results of an intensive test program. The blade designs are designated as Types A, B, and C, where Types A and B were of a fir tree root design and Type C was a ball and shank design. A total of 86 blades were tested and the influence of vibration amplitude, applied axial (simulated centrifugal) load, and vibration mode on damping logarithmic decrement was studied. For the designs studied, the most important findings were: a) Logarithmic decrement was inversely related to blade centrifugal load. High centrifugal loads resulted in low damping ratios. b) Logarithmic decrements varied in an almost linear manner with vibration amplitude for most tests. Constant logarithmic decrement conditions were not observed. c) The damping test rig worked well in this test series. Long LP blades may cause problems without some design changes. d) Results were highly reproducable per each blade group tested. Typical scatter was observed when comparing the results of one blade group to another. e) Changing the initial excitation amplitude did not cause any changes in the vibration decay. There is one characteristic decay trace for each centrifugal load. Test data was reduced by hand, which caused some difficulty as the damping ratio approached 1.0. An error in the third decimal place could greatly effect the logarithmic decrement value. It is recommended that a micro-processor be used in future tests. Advisors/Committee Members: Rieger, Neville, Nye, Alan, Illegible signature.
Subjects/Keywords: Skis and skiing – Equipment and supplies – Design; Lake (N.Y. and Ont.); Great Lakes (North America); Water levels; Mechanical engineering
Beck, C. (1979). Evaluation of Turbine Blade Root Damping . (Thesis). Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7124
Beck, Curtis. “Evaluation of Turbine Blade Root Damping.” 1979. Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed January 20, 2020. https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7124.
Beck, Curtis. “Evaluation of Turbine Blade Root Damping.” 1979. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Beck C. Evaluation of Turbine Blade Root Damping. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1979. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7124.
Beck C. Evaluation of Turbine Blade Root Damping. [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1979. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7124
5. Steele, Jeffrey. Finite Element Analysis and Program for Stokes Fluid Flow.
► The theory and computer program for finite element analysis of Stokes (creeping) fluid flow is presented. The element is an eight node, two dimensional isoparametric… (more)
▼ The theory and computer program for finite element analysis of Stokes (creeping) fluid flow is presented. The element is an eight node, two dimensional isoparametric quadrillateral. The element is formulated directly from the Stokes equations of motion, a special case of the Navier-Stokes equations where inertia terms are dropped, using the method of weighted residuals with Galerkin's criterion applied. Velocities in two directions are solved for at all eight nodes while pressure is solved simultaneously at the four corner nodes only. Several test cases have been run with the program. Very good accuracy was achieved in modeling velocity profiles for Couette and Poiseulle flow and for pressure distribution of two lubrication models. In these four cases error was less than 2.5%. Limitations have been pointed out for the types of flow which may be successfully modeled. Flow between two concentric cylinders had an error of 31% between the finite element and exact solutions. Cascades of cylinders and turbine blades are modeled by modeling only one cylinder or blade. The cascade of turbine blades serves to illustrate the potential uses of this technique. Advisors/Committee Members: Sherman, Martin, Rieger, Neville, Illegible signature.
Subjects/Keywords: Freight and freightage – Environmental aspects – West (U.S.); Boots – Design and construction – Mathematical models; Skiing injuries; Alpine ski boot; Boot design; Design stiffness; Dynamic model
Steele, J. (1977). Finite Element Analysis and Program for Stokes Fluid Flow . (Thesis). Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7384
Steele, Jeffrey. “Finite Element Analysis and Program for Stokes Fluid Flow.” 1977. Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed January 20, 2020. https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7384.
Steele, Jeffrey. “Finite Element Analysis and Program for Stokes Fluid Flow.” 1977. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Steele J. Finite Element Analysis and Program for Stokes Fluid Flow. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1977. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7384.
Steele J. Finite Element Analysis and Program for Stokes Fluid Flow. [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1977. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7384
6. Gray, John. The CQDRNG8 - a quadratic, isoparametric, axisymmetric finite element for the NASTRAN computer program.
► The development of an axisymmetric ring finite element is presented and FORTRAN subroutines for implementing the capability into the MSC/NASTRAN finite element program are given.… (more)
▼ The development of an axisymmetric ring finite element is presented and FORTRAN subroutines for implementing the capability into the MSC/NASTRAN finite element program are given. The element is an eightnoded isoparametric quadrilateral of quadratic order. The following matrices and capabilities are developed: 1. stiffness matrix for homogeneous isotropic materials, 2. thermal conductance matrix for homogeneous isotropic materials, 3. calculation of equivalent nodal forces due to temperature loads, 4. calculation of stresses, and 5. plotting of undeformed and deformed structures. Several classical thermal and structural problems are solved to demonstrate these capabilities. In all cases, the element results compare well with theory. Comparisons are made to existing MSC/NASTRAN axisymmetric finite elements. The new element shows increased accuracy compared to the existing elements. Convergence of the element is shown. Advisors/Committee Members: Walters, Wayne, Karlekar, Bhalchandra, Rieger, Neville.
Subjects/Keywords: Axisymmetric elements; Isotropic materials; Mechanical engineering; Thesis
Gray, J. (1977). The CQDRNG8 - a quadratic, isoparametric, axisymmetric finite element for the NASTRAN computer program . (Thesis). Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7305
Gray, John. “The CQDRNG8 - a quadratic, isoparametric, axisymmetric finite element for the NASTRAN computer program.” 1977. Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed January 20, 2020. https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7305.
Gray, John. “The CQDRNG8 - a quadratic, isoparametric, axisymmetric finite element for the NASTRAN computer program.” 1977. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Gray J. The CQDRNG8 - a quadratic, isoparametric, axisymmetric finite element for the NASTRAN computer program. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1977. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7305.
Gray J. The CQDRNG8 - a quadratic, isoparametric, axisymmetric finite element for the NASTRAN computer program. [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1977. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7305
7. Kline, Patrick J. Three dimensional resonant vibrations and stresses in turbine blade groups.
► This thesis describes an efficient procedure for calculating three dimensional resonant vibrations and stresses in intermediate and high pressure turbine blade groups. This procedure is… (more)
▼ This thesis describes an efficient procedure for calculating three dimensional resonant vibrations and stresses in intermediate and high pressure turbine blade groups. This procedure is capable of calculating all the natural frequencies, mode shapes, and bending stresses in the tangential, axial, and coupled modes of vibration. Simple beam theory is applied to develop a dynamic stiffness matrix. The solutions to this matrix give the natural frequencies and mode shapes for the blade group. Prohl's energy method is used to determine the amplitude of the forced vibrations and the dynamic stresses. A Goodman diagram fatigue criterion is applied to evaluate the probability of blade group failure. Comparing this procedure's numerical results with experimental results for a rectangular beam structure, the largest difference for the first five tangential natural frequencies is 1.2 percent. This method of analysis is simple and can be applied in twenty hours. Sample calculations and results are given for a typical blade group, and the advantages and limitations of this method are discussed. Advisors/Committee Members: Rieger, Neville, Halbleib, William, Walter, Wayne.
Subjects/Keywords: Turbine blades
Kline, P. J. (1981). Three dimensional resonant vibrations and stresses in turbine blade groups . (Thesis). Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7449
Kline, Patrick J. “Three dimensional resonant vibrations and stresses in turbine blade groups.” 1981. Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed January 20, 2020. https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7449.
Kline, Patrick J. “Three dimensional resonant vibrations and stresses in turbine blade groups.” 1981. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Kline PJ. Three dimensional resonant vibrations and stresses in turbine blade groups. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1981. [cited 2020 Jan 20]. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7449.
Kline PJ. Three dimensional resonant vibrations and stresses in turbine blade groups. [Thesis]. Rochester Institute of Technology; 1981. Available from: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/7449
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Supporting the Ocean Means Supporting the National Ocean Policy
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Emily Woglom
Emily Woglom,
national ocean policy,
How are you celebrating the first official day of summer? Some lawmakers in Washington are doing so by actually fighting against vital protections for our ocean, including the National Ocean Policy.
The National Ocean Policy coordinates the activities of more than 20 federal agencies. Most of these vital services already exist, like preventing and cleaning up ocean trash. Particularly now, with West Coast states’ concerns with tsunami debris, coordination is as important as ever. This ocean policy is a way to untangle and streamline the web of existing ocean regulations – more than 140 laws – in order to protect coastal communities and the economy.
But some lawmakers continue attempts to block implementation of the National Ocean Policy. Their latest move is to include language barring funds for the National Ocean Policy in the House Interior and Environment Appropriations bill – among other hits to our nation’s environmental protections. This is an extreme move considering the possible implications. Prohibiting the Policy could hinder much of the day-to-day information and services that your states and local communities have come to rely on.
On these latest efforts to block the National Ocean Policy, Ocean Conservancy’s Emily Woglom, director of government relations, said:
“It is unfortunate that critics are playing knee-jerk politics with an ocean policy that’s about saving time, money and the source of livelihood for millions of Americans. This is about ensuring that our natural resources are used efficiently and effectively so our coastal economies, now and in the future, flourish.
“Attacks on ocean protections are hyperbolic at best, hysterical at worst. Blocking funding now will jeopardize existing jobs and important services.”
Emily has been spreading the word on how the National Ocean Policy helps both the economy and your local community. She’s not alone – even the New York Times editorial board weighed in. But if this is the first you’re hearing of the Policy, you’re not alone.
If you support the ocean, you should support the National Ocean Policy. It’s a common sense plan that’s good for the American economy, jobs and communities.
Smart ocean planning helps coastal communities to develop strong, sustainable local economies that can live alongside healthy ocean ecosystems and wildlife.
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Home Adventure 7 Things to Do Near NYC This Valentine’s Day
For most people, Valentine’s Day can be one of two things: a time to show someone special you care about them through holiday-themed acts, or a dreaded time of year where everything you see on social media, the internet and in the supermarket reminds you of how lonely you are.
But regardless of which end of the spectrum you fall on, Valentine’s Day can actually be fun. Cupid’s holiday, like so many others, is an excuse to treat ourselves and/or our partners to an overpriced but delicious meal, eat way too much artificial sugar or simply go out and explore somewhere new.
Photo courtesy of Erin McGinn
Escape to a coastal New England town
Newport, Rhode Island is an iconic and walkable New England harbor town, home to a variety of restaurants and boutiques. And during Valentine’s Day, many restaurants and inns are taking advantage by offering various romantic packages and events. The Newport Cliff Walk’s only hotel — The Chanler — is a vintage mansion turned luxury boutique hotel that will be debuting a romantic package that includes a bubble bath and complimentary bottle of wine. The recently opened Cara at the Chanler Cliff Walk will be offering a seven-course tasting menu for Valentine’s Day.
Get here: Ride the Peter Pan bus to Providence from Port Authority or take Amtrak from Penn Station. Once in Providence, you can hop bus number 60 run by RIPTA from Kennedy Plaza towards Newport. Get off at the last stop at Newport Gateway Center at 23 America’s Cup Avenue. The ride from Providence takes just over an hour.
Spend Valentine’s Day with The Smiths
Last year’s Valentine’s Day consisted of rose petals and champagne. The year before that — a mountain town retreat. This year, you’ve made the promise to do something unique. Something different from the usual stereotypical Valentine’s Day thing. Luckily, you don’t have to search beyond the five boroughs to find it. For its eighth consecutive year, The Bellhouse will be hosting the annual “Valentine’s Day With The Smiths” event, put on by the Rolling Stones’ Rob Sheffield. The Sons and Heirs will be performing classics from Morrissey and The Smiths all night.
Get here: The Bellhouse is accessed by the F, G or R subway lines.
Photo Courtesy of Mohonk Mountain House
Relax in upstate New York
New York’s Catskills region is great for outdoor recreation. Every year, outdoor enthusiasts gather to hike, climb, ski and sleep under the stars in this pristine mountain destination. But you don’t have to be a top-notch climber — or even like the outdoors at all — to enjoy the solitude and beauty of New York State. Located on the Shawangunk Ridge and surrounded by 40,000 acres of forest, the Mohonk Mountain House is a Victorian Castle Resort perfect for an escape from the city. During Valentine’s Day week, the resort will be offering a variety of events such as Sip’N’Paint and Live Music: Day Dreaming of Disney and Broadway.
Get here: New Paltz is a 90 minute bus ride from New York City. Trailways departs from Port Authority numerous times daily. Ask the hotel to arrange a taxi to pick you up on arrival.
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Head to Times Square to see a design exhibition
For the month of February, the 11th annual Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition will be featuring a sculpture by Reddymade Architecture and Design. The 18-foot tall aluminum “X” is a physical representation of interpersonal and civic love. The structure has openings that take the form of hearts when viewed from specific angles. Get your annual Times Square visit out of the way and reframe the chaos as a place where people from around the globe cross paths.
Get here: It’s Times Square.
Embrace singles life — by partying hard
If getting all lovey dovey with your partner is not your idea of a good time or you are currently focusing (maybe involuntarily) on self-love, there are still ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day. And some may argue the alternate options are way better than rose petals and jacuzzis in a fancy room. For those who just want to say “F” it and give the middle finger to chocolates, gifts and consumerism as a whole, head to the House of Yes in Brooklyn for their “Fuck Love” dance party. Go alone, bring your partner, or do whatever you want. As long as it includes dancing and partying hard.
Get here: House of Yes is within walking distance from the Jefferson stop on the “L” train.
Explore the Hudson Valley’s wine region
If you’re the type who likes to justify your drinking habits by pulling out the “educational experience” card, then Emerson Resort’s Wine Excursion may be the perfect Valentine’s Day activity. Enjoy a 7-hour private chauffeured winery tour, a picnic lunch for two, massage sessions and a bottle of Emerson Private Label wine. At the end of the day, unwind with a relaxing walk around one of the property’s many hiking trails.
Get here: Emerson Resort is accessible from NYC by taking the Trailways bus to Mt. Tremper or Amtrak to the Rhinecliff Station. With advance coordination, the resort can offer transportation to and from the stops.
Photo Courtesy of Q&A Residential Hotel
Embark on a “staycation” at the Q&A Residential Hotel
Located in the iconic 70 Pine in Lower Manhattan, the Q&A Residential Hotel is encouraging New Yorkers to go on a “staycation” for Valentine’s Day this year. The modern decór in this downtown hotel often caters to extended-stay business travelers, but this year they are offering a “Stay Romantic” package perfect for locals and visitors looking for an escape from daily life without having to leave the city. For an additional $75 per night, couples enjoy a bottle of champagne and a bed of roses upon arrival, daily chocolate truffles, a room upgrade if available and 1pm late checkout.
Get here: The hotel is accessed by the 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J and Z subway lines.
Feature image courtesy of Mahkeo via Unsplash.
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Australia’s iconic rock Uluru, sacred to Indigenous population, scaled for final time
ULURU, Australia — Nature seemed to be siding with indigenous Australians’ demand for Uluru to be respected as a sacred site on Friday when high winds threatened to prematurely end the generations-old tradition of climbing the sandstone monolith.Rangers warned hundreds of anxious tourists who gathered at the base of the iconic rock before dawn that they would miss their last opportunity to ever scale its 1,140-foot summit unless blustery conditions subsided.But the winds calmed and the first of around 1,000 climbers began their ascent at a chain handhold up the steep western face three hours later than scheduled. An indigenous onlooker booed them.
The ascent was permanently closed to climbers late in the afternoon, while those already on the rock had until unset to find their way down. A potential medical problem was reported with a climber but authorities could not immediately provide details.Janet Ishikawa flew from her Hawaiian home to central Australia to make the climb on the final possible day. She likened the Uluru controversy to a furor over plans to build a giant telescope on Hawaii’s highest peak, which protesters consider sacred.”It’s a total overreaction. All of a sudden they want to take ownership of all this stuff,” Ishikawa said. “They say you shouldn’t climb because of all this sacred stuff. I can still respect it and climb it.”The ban was a unanimous decision made two years ago by 12 members of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Board of Management. But it’s an outcome that has divided both indigenous Australians as well as the wider world.The polarity of opinions has been highlighted in recent months as thousands of visitors converged on one of Australia’s most famous landmarks to make a final trek to the top. Tourists have been illegally camping on roadsides for miles because the local camping ground and accommodation were booked.Sammy Wilson, who chaired the board that banned the climb, described the prohibition as a cause for celebration. Wilson is member of the Anangu tribe who are Uluru’s traditional owners.”If I travel to another country and there is a sacred site, an area of restricted access, I don’t enter or climb it, I respect it,” Wilson said. “It is the same here for Anangu. We welcome tourists here. We are not stopping tourism, just this activity.”There has long been tension within the indigenous population around the money that climbers bring and the rock’s significance as a sacred site.”I am happy and sad, two ways,” said Kevin Cooley, a resident of the Mutitjulu indigenous community in the rock’s shadow who collects the Uluru tourists’ garbage. He fears that tourist numbers and the local economy will decline.The biggest drop in foreign visitors could be the Japanese who have proven to be the most committed climbers. Signs around the rock have long discouraged climbing, describing Uluru as a “place of great knowledge” and noting that Anangu traditional law prohibits climbing.
The proportion of visitors who climb has been steadily declining, with more than four in five respecting the Anangu’s wishes in recent years.The Anangu refer to tourists as “munga,” or ants. The analogy was clearest in recent weeks with lines forming long before the climb opens at 7 a.m. each day at the base of the rock’s steep western face. From there, an eclectic mix of climbers begin their ascents in narrow columns.Prominent indigenous academic Marcia Langton reacted to the stream of climbers with a tweet: “A curse will fall on all of them.””They will remember how they defiled this sacred place until they die & history will record their contempt for Aboriginal culture,” Langton added.
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Rob Kalajian January 4, 2017 review Leave a Comment
Santorini hit Kickstarter like a storm, raising over CA$ 700,000 and blasting through its stretch goals. It’s a game focused on strategy but comes packed with beautiful 3D components and amazing artwork that elevate what used to be a purely abstract game into the thematic masterpiece. A wonderful update to an excellent game. Here’s my Santorini Review.
Roxley’s subtext for Santorini has been “Learn it in 30 seconds. Play it for life.” This holds true for the very basic playing of the game. There are only 3 basic rules to the game:
Move – Move one of your two builders to a neighboring space either orthogonally or diagonally. A builder can move up one level, or down any number of levels.
Build – After moving you may build in any space next to the moved builder. There’s 3 levels to a building plus a domed cap.
Win – If you can get either of your builders up to the 3rd level of a building, you win! A builder cannot move on top of a domed building.
Of course, there’s more to it than that if you want a bit more depth. There’s a stack of God cards that can be used to provide tons of variation to how builders are moved, buildings are built, and more. The youngest player chooses as many God cards as there are players, and then the players choose which God cards they want. The power granted from that card is used throughout the game.
Want a bit more than that? There’s also the Golden Fleece Expansion which adds more God cards, Hero cards with powers that can only be used once per game, and a Golden Fleece token that changes the way God cards are used.
When using the Golden Fleece, the token is placed on the board by the first player to place a builder. A single God card is chosen, then the player who placed their workers second takes the first turn. Whenever a builder is placed next to the Golden Fleece token that player can use the God power listed on the chosen card.
Santorini works best with two players, but there are rules for playing with 3-4.
Everything in Santorini’s box screams quality. The first thing you’ll be presented with upon opening the game is a softcover children’s story explaining how the game of Santorini came to be✝. The book is beautifully illustrated and excellently crafted.
After the rulebook and the bottom of the board. Underneath that are the bags of building pieces, the builders, and the rest of the board.
Outstanding components.
The board is amazing, with the play space elevated a few inches off the table. The builder miniatures are finely sculpted and cast in a sturdy plastic. The building pieces are lightweight, yet strong, and fit together in a way that’s incredibly satisfying. The cardstock is thick, yet the cards are easily shuffled. As for the artwork and design, it’s all top notch through and through.
Santorini has some of the best components I’ve been in a while.
One of the things that I really love about Santorini is how accessible it is. Not only is it a great strategy game, but it’s packaged in a way that makes it friendly and approachable. While the game stands perfectly on its own mechanically, the updated design brings it light years ahead in the appeal department.
The previous version of Santorini looked like this:
Santorini Review – Old Board
An older, unthemed Santorini board.
I’m a fan of abstract strategy games, as is my oldest son. Getting my 6-year-old to play a game that looks like the one above may have been a bit of a challenge. Getting him to play Roxley’s version took no coaxing at all.
Speaking of my 6-year-old, he was the first person to play Santorini with me. We spent some time reading the book and going over all the pieces in the box before playing our first game. Just as Roxley promises, it only took about 30 seconds to explain the rules to him and we were off. A few games later we had incorporated the God cards and he went from barely scraping by to besting his old man.
That’s one of the other things I love about Santorini. While it’s highly strategic, the rules couldn’t be simpler. Even when adding in the God cards, and even the Golden Fleece expansion, the game remains simple enough for my whole family to enjoy. To me, that’s the mark of a quality game.
Santorini has already seen a lot of play in our home in the short amount of time that we’ve owned it, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. This is one I’d love to bring to work for some lunchtime gaming with co-workers as it’s simple, attractive and something we could fit multiple games in the time we have. Unfortunately I don’t think my kids are going to let me take it out of the house.
This is one I’d say is a must-have for any gamer’s collection. It’s a serious strategy game that’s family friendly, easily accessible, and looks absolutely amazing.
A copy of Santorini was provided free for review by Roxley.
✝ The softcover storybook is a Kickstarter exclusive, and will not be included in the retail version of Santorini.
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Letter From London by Eve Grubin
A view of London from Greenwich
When I moved to London from New York City over a year ago, I approached the British poetry world with some hesitancy. Having been the programs director at the Poetry Society of America for five years and a professor of poetry at The New School for even more years, I was aware that I needed a break. And, anyway, I had moved here for love. Poetry could wait. Luckily for me, I married someone who loves poetry almost as much as I do (a medievalist, my husband is a scholar of Anglo Saxon and Middle English poetry, but he is happy to jump a few centuries forward to the present). So poetry didn’t have to wait long.
I began attending poetry events and reading Todd Swift’s blogzine and his blog on young British poets. And at the Poetry Cafe (the Poetry Society’s venue), I met with Martha Kapos, a fantastic poet who is an editor at Poetry London, which publishes the work of contemporary British poets and lists poetry events in London.
This week my medievalist and I attended a reading at King’s College by Irish poets Sinead Morrissey and Michael Longley. We had heard Morrissey read at the T.S. Eliot Prize Reading in the winter of 2010 – my first British poetry event. Her book Through the Square Window had been nominated for the Eliot prize, the most prestigious and financially generous poetry award in the United Kingdom. Attending a reading in a space named Queen Elizabeth Hall on the Southbank of London beside the Thames made the 92nd St. Y seem like a café in a provincial town.
T.S. Eliot with his second wife, Valerie.
An unconscious and near brush with fame occurred at this event. I ran into Kathryn Maris (a wonderful expatriate American poet living in London) outside the bathroom who notified me that Valerie Eliot (the poet’s widow) had been in the bathroom at the same time as me. Although I was mildly intrigued by this, the truly astonishing moment of the evening was when Sinead Morrissey—petite, dark, with a quirky sense of humor and a voice sweet and grave—read her poem “Vanity Fair.” The poem is written from the point of view of Amelia Sedley, the earnest and simple-minded “goody-goody” who serves as a foil to the amoral Becky Sharp, the anti-herione of Thackery’s nineteenth-century novel. Morrissey’s poem takes the form of a letter to the constant, stable, and quietly passionate William Dobbin who loves and courts Amelia. Despite Dobbin’s love, she marries the cad George who had always treated her with meanness and neglect. George dies a couple of weeks into the Napoleonic wars. In the novel, after George’s death, Amelia writes a letter to Dobbin; he returns to her, and they marry. Thackery does not reveal the contents of the letter. Morrissey does. She excavates the novel’s psychology, unearthing Amelia’s words in her poem.
Sinead Morrissey
Morrissey’s epistolary poem is one of the most moving I have heard at a reading. The poet read from inside the poem—her connection to the language and rhythms, palpable; she was Amelia. The young woman in the poem makes a plea—intense and elegant—in a moment of rare unsentimental self-insight, the kind of revelation that is often found in great nineteenth-century English novels and rarely in contemporary literature. The poem’s tone balances humility and self-confidence, fervour and reticence, and a very British civility veiling a burning and regretful heart. It’s the letter we all want to write at least once in our lives: “come back. Like everything else we do / in our mingled, muddy lives, this letter is overdue. / Forgive me if my love arrives belatedly” (lines 37-39). A poem like this has the ability to change us, to ice-axe the frozen sea within us, to open up potential in our “muddy lives”, to lead to a dwelling in possibility before it’s too late, to make something happen.
I had never followed contemporary British poetry carefully before—perhaps my American snobbishness about the British interest in form was an obstacle. Before I moved to England, Saskia Hamilton had warned me that American poets sometimes do not open up to British poetry – we assume that traditional form is backwards. We have Walt Whitman! Why return to Wordsworth and Pope? But Saskia suggested that the contemporary poets in the UK bear the burden of the great British poets and struggle with that tradition in ways that American poets can learn to appreciate. I thought about Saskia’s warnings when I noticed that Morrissey wrote “Vanity Fair” in rhymed couplets. I only noticed the form after looking at the poem carefully: the rhymes are so organic that they sink into the page, the music from them vibrating with an invisible and unconscious grace.
At the King’s College reading this week, among several other delicately intellectual and ardent poems, Morrissey read the poem again. I expected her to. How could she not read it? Again, it moved us in the same way. After the reading, I spoke with her about the poem. And she said that writing it was a challenge for her because she so dislikes Amelia. Then how, I asked, did you manage to make her sound so appealing? Because, she replied, I have always been in love with William Dobbin.
Here is the poem:
Dearest William—
I could begin by hoping you are well in England
(and I do!) now that the — th regiment has returned
to Chatham; or I could begin by telling you
that reports of worsening weather here are true;
that Georgie thinks you wicked and unkind
for leaving him; that your former servants pine;
or that father, though no better, is no worse, etc.
But this is not a weather-talk sort of letter.
It is after three. The whole house sleeps
(even Becky) and I am kept awake six weeks
by your crippling absence: an irony, I confess,
since for all your years of passionate presence
I failed to cherish you… Now that you’re gone,
Becky (and you were right about her all along)
keeps dreadful company: boorish men who jest
and drink and flirt and she isn’t in the slightest
shocked by any of it. I keep to my room.
I have placed the portrait of George face down
on the dresser. I have folded the gloves you left
in an innermost drawer, as though they were a gift.
Since you spoke of my incapacity for love
I have come to see how my own fierce widowhood
was a shell against the world, a kind of carapace
made up of pride, stupidity and cowardice,
a stay, if you will, against ‘the kind of attachment’
such as yours for me deserved. Poor shredded raiment—
for if it did not keep me warm, it kept me safe,
safe against you and safe against myself.
Last year, at the opera (it was Dido and Aeneas),
I wished to take your hand—in a sudden, artless,
harmless way that would not give you pause—
then didn’t. I think I must have sensed the charge
built up from a decade’s loving in your fingers
(though there you sat, as solid as an anchor)
and feared that touching it would knock me flat.
Now I’m scared I shall die without it.
Dear Dobbin, come back. Like everything else we do
in our mingled, muddy lives, this letter is overdue.
Forgive me if my love arrives belatedly,
but there is a ship can get you here by Friday
and, come all the rain in Christdendom,
I shall be waiting for you by the viewing platform.
Dearest William, put out to sea.
Yours, Amelia Sedley.
This post was written by Eve Grubin.
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Wow! This poem made me cry! (And I’m a hardened 45 year old man). Thanks. PS: I’ve read her latest book and it’s just as good!
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Herbal “Flavor” vs. “Taste”: What’s the Difference?
Herbal “Flavor” vs. “Taste”: What’s…
While many people may think that taste and flavor are the same, they are actually different. Here’s why:
Taste refers to the senses in the mouth and has to do with how the tongue and mouth interact with food and drink. The tongue has two types of receptors: one is for taste, determined by your tastebuds found all over the tongue, while the other is for “mouthfeel,” or the free nerve endings located throughout the inside of the mouth and all over the tongue. There are five tastes: acrid, sweet, bitter, sour, and salty, although Ayurvedic medicine calls “astringent” a taste and now some chefs include “umami” (a Japanese word meaning “delicious”), a new taste described as meaty, savory, and earthy.
Flavor, on the other hand, is a combination of sensory stimuli that includes taste (gustatory) along with smell (olfactory), touch (tactile), and temperature (thermal). For example, spicy is not just a taste, but can also be painful.
In terms of herbs, taste is the sensorial effect on the mouth and tongue while flavor represents how an herb works. For instance, ginseng is acrid and sweet in flavor but not in taste (ginseng sweet is hardly what most people think of as sweet, like blueberry pie sweet!). But there are other meanings and influences of tastes and flavors. Basing an herb’s properties on flavors was a way that herbalists identified what today are biochemical constituents. For example, alkaloids are generally bitter while glycosides are typically sweet.
The major breakthrough in my book, Planetary Herbology, was learning that flavors (or what was called tastes back at the time I was writing the book) was not only denoting a flavor but also an action. For instance, echinacea could be described as having a strong spicy taste but because it stimulates the immune system by summoning white blood cells, it could be described as having a bitter flavor.[1] This further complicates the situation so that both flavors/tastes and actions/uses need be considered together and perhaps occasionally with recognition of an herb’s major biochemical constituents (for instance, berberine is always bitter and detoxifying).
Even more, the actions of flavors according to whatever energetic system is used also need to be considered. For instance, the Chinese Five Phases defines flavors according to the elements involved, as do the Ayurvedic humor classifications. These are ancient cosmological systems that represent the whole of nature and suggest that everything contains all tastes and flavors. Taken by itself, this can be confusing and limiting. For instance, while Ayurveda describes “astringent” as a flavor, TCM does not. Some have tried to equate the flavor sour with astringent but both flavors have different chemistries and actions. On the other hand, cinnamon is an astringent used for diarrhea in Central America and yet it is not specified as such in the TCM materia medica where it’s categorized as an herb that stimulates metabolism and circulation, which is not an astringent-type action.
As another example, tinospora is considered to have a cold energy and bitter flavor in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) while Ayurveda states tinospora (guduchi) has a warm energy and bitter and astringent flavor with a post digestive effect of sweet. The difference in the TCM and Chinese use of the same herb is that Ayurveda recognizes tinaspora as having a tonic effect as well as being a detoxifying herb.
Herbalism is different today than ancient times and yet herbal theories need to continue evolving. I imagine that flavors and energies will have an ongoing usefulness in understanding clinical applications and bio-chemical constituents. It is the flavor and its actions, however, that are of primary when considering the use of an herb.
[1] (On another note, I don’t think echinacea actually detoxifies like an herb containing berberine, which stimulates liver function to detoxify the body, but instead has a detoxifying effect through neutralizing the hyaluronadase enzyme, which blocks the germ growth process that develops infections.)
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Our Current 2019-2020 Season:
Keeping It Gay: Director Michael Smith Leads “Bees”
Cast and crew of As Bees in Honey Drown, with director Michael Smith (front row, second from left)
In your typical romantic comedy, the usual storyline is boy meets girl, boy loses girl, and then realizing the error of his ways, boy regains girl just in time for a happy, sappy ending. By contrast, As Bees In Honey Drown (coming to the Farmington Players February 8-23) is not your typical rom-com. As director Michael Smith explains, “It’s more boy tastes fame, boy gets screwed by fame, and boy accepts that fame is not what he really wants! It’s topical and will seem very current given the thirst Americans have for social media and twitter hits and Instagram followers. As one character says, ‘the new becomes old before we find a newer new.’”
As the director of Bees, Michael definitely relates to the play’s themes and characters: “This play includes several well-written gay characters which — as a gay man and a writer — I find particularly gratifying. The main character — Evan Wyler — is both a writer and gay, and is in a particular place in his development as a gay man that every gay man will recognize: the ‘sleep around’ phase. It happens to all of us. You come out, you accept who you are (at some level or another) and you play the field. Every gay man does it and, if they don’t, they will not develop properly in my view. It’s a required release of sorts. Most move on from there into healthy relationships.”
When we first meet Evan, he has shelved his romantic side in favor of his art — his writing. Michael explains the importance of this: “When Evan finally tastes fame — the buzz, the hype — it seduces him. Fame in this case is played by Alexa, the femme fatale. So the gay man is seduced by a woman, then loses his identity completely. When he finds it again, he is changed and ready to accept who he is.” In his own life, Michael can relate to Evan’s decisions “to a point. I’ve been with my husband Frank for 28 years, and embarked on a writing career about seven years ago. I did not put my relationship on hold — rather, I embraced and cherished it. … I chose my romantic life over my artistic life and I did so with zero regrets.”
In directing Bees, Michael focuses on character development, saying, “this script is incredibly well-written: funny, engaging and with multi-layered characters. It’s often easy for an actor to play the character on the surface — what he does, his emotions — but it takes a real actor to play that AND the subtext beneath it. Every character — every person — has subtext to what they do. … Douglass Carter Beane, the playwright, infused many of these characters with deep subtext. Fortunately, we have the actors to play them!”
“The single most gratifying thing about doing this show is knowing that I have a huge pool of screamingly talented people to help me. That is the benefit of working with the Farmington Players. You have a vision, you put the vision out there, and everyone embraces it and makes it happen. It’s a lot of work, but the finished product will be tremendous — and totally impossible to accomplish without everyone who helped!”
Michael grew up in ultra-conservative Midland, Michigan, which he calls “a great place to go to public school but you want to get the heck out of there once you graduate. It’s no place to be gay. I studied graphic design at Western Michigan, so I learned to be collaborative on projects early. It’s a skill that makes directing easier and much more rewarding.” Seven years ago, he quit his design career to focus on writing: “I discovered that I have an affinity for it. I love creating anything, and forming characters, situations — even whole worlds — from nothing has been the greatest challenge of my life.”
As Bees in Honey Drown has three remaining performances at the Farmington Players Barn Theater from February 21 – 23. The show is proudly sponsored by Ameritax Plus. Tickets are available online at farmingtonplayers.org or by emailing boxoffice@farmingtonplayers.org or calling the Barn box office at 248-553-2955.
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Don’t Let Hosanna Phillips Con You: It’s Good to Be Bad
Hosanna Phillips as the conniving Alexa Vere de Vere
works her charms on writer Evan Wyler (Joshua Lisiecki)
PHOTO: Jan Cartwright
Alexa Vere de Vere is a flashy con artist. She seduces her victims with the prospect of fame and fortune, or as she puts it, “the hum, the buzz, the hype, the flash, the fame”. One Variety reviewer called her “the absolutely fabulous whirlwind who blows through the delightful, pointed comedy As Bees in Honey Drown…. Alexa is a smart and very funny vivisection of the greed for fame, glamour and the good life (or at least a new life).”
In the Farmington Players production of Bees, Hosanna Phillips plays Alexa, who she describes as “a fantastic character because, whether you want to hate her, love her, or pity her by the end of the show, she will have made you think about something. As an artist, that is all you can really hope for in a character.” Hosanna loves playing an antagonist character and discovering the real person inside, saying, “Almost always, you will find that they started off as a victim of something (even if their victim status is only in their own mind). Any well-developed character is in some way a relatable human being, and I love to discover what it is about a character that drives them to be how they are.” For example, Alexa justifies conning artists because she can’t respect an art world that values its creators only once they’re dead.
Hosanna loves Bee’s theme of “fame and fortune vs. substance and how our culture often places image over achievement. It makes you think about what really has value in life, and why it is that we place value on the things we do. Many times, what is mainstream is not what is meaningful, yet it is so easy to get sucked into [the hype]. This show has challenged me as an artist to examine the things that I invest my time and money on. … While fame is not intrinsically bad, chasing only the limelight will often leave you empty.”
The show also examines the question of “What Is Art”? Hosanna asks, “What makes something art? Is art for the consumer, or the creator? Is art eternal, or fleeting? What is the value of art (monetarily, and otherwise)? As an artist myself, this theme is especially relevant. Many of Alexa’s negative points about the art world are sadly valid: the industry can chew up and spit out its creators. Artists and critics can be cut-throat, critical and back-stabbing. … On the other hand, art is expression, it can be beautiful and healing. When you have the true drive to create, there is nothing that compares... Artists and their work will continue to be valued subjectively, but the more we open our eyes, the more we will see.”
Hosanna grew up in West Michigan and recently moved here with her husband. She previously worked at Zeeland Christian school where she cultivated her passion for working with youth. In addition to theater, her loves include her two toy dogs, and learning crafts such as the knitting loom. As Bees in Honey Drown is Hosanna’s first Barn experience: “I have been grateful to meet more people in the area since I haven’t been living here long, and the whole cast and crew have been amazing to work with. I am grateful to be able to stretch and use my acting muscles after neglecting them for so long, and I have been blessed with a great group to do so with.”
As Bees in Honey Drown has nine performances at the Farmington Players Barn Theater from February 8 – 23. The show is proudly sponsored by Ameritax Plus. Tickets are available online at farmingtonplayers.org or by emailing boxoffice@farmingtonplayers.org or calling the Barn box office at 248-553-2955.
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by Pistol Pete | March 15, 2017 · 11:00 am
Butch Maddow Serves Nothingburgers
This is already being compared to the infamous Whorealdo and the Al Capone vault.
Let’s try to start from the beginning:
Clinton ally offers $5M reward in exchange for Trump tax returns
Hillary Clinton ally David Brock is once again offering a reward to anyone who releases President Trump’s tax returns.
Following the White House’s release of Trump’s tax information from 2005 on Tuesday evening ahead of a report from MSNBC, Brock tweeted that he would give $5 million to anyone who would provide Trump’s “complete, legally obtained tax returns.”
NY Times Reporter Tells Deep State to Leak Trump Tax Returns – It Took Them ONE WEEK to Leak Them to Maddow
Last week New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof urged Deep State employees in the IRS to leak President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
Responding to a remark by a far left Vox editor that “the IRS never leaks,” Nicholas Kristof tweeted, “But, if you’re in the IRS and have a certain president’s tax return that you’d like to leak…”
Tonight Rachel Maddow is going to release President Donald Trump’s tax returns on the air.
Deep State leaked the documents to Maddow.
It took them one week to leak the tax returns to the liberal press.
Rachel Maddow Goes for Ratings Hit by Releasing Trump Taxes… Massively BACKFIRES Instead
It was hyped for hours by the entire liberal fake media complex… MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had obtained a leaked copy of Donald J. Trump’s tax returns — and would reveal them live on the air Tuesday night. This was it! At last this would be the end for Trump, Democrats buzzed with anticipation like kids on Christmas morning.
But meanwhile the White House had left Maddow looking like a blabbering fool by releasing President Trump’s 2005 tax information before she could leak it.
(The fact he paid income tax at a rate of 4% was blared on the news this morning as: ‘He paid a lower rate than half of America.The fact remains half of America DON’T PAY TAXES! They either don’t make enough or they don’t work, so they just push out kids to collect their EITC.)
David Cay Johnston Is The Reporter Who Received Donald Trump’s Tax Returns
“I was in Palm Beach on the sand looking at Mar-a-Lago, reporting on my next book which is about Trump, when one of my eight grown children informed me of what had come in the mail to my home in Rochester,” Johnston told The Daily Caller in an email Wednesday.
THERE IS STRONG SPECULATION THAT THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE MAILED HIM THE 1040 FORMS TO PRE-EMPT ANY PHONY EVIDENCE
Rachel Maddow’s career committed suicide live on national TV tonight
Big Trump tax returns “Scoop” flopped, bigly.
TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THAT FACE!
Rachel Maddow has a history of claiming big scoops which then flop.
There was the debunked 2012 big scoop about supposed GOP wrongdoing in Michigan. And the 2014 big scoop that the Koch Brothers were behind Florida groups pushing drug testing for welfare recipients, which was not true. We covered the Florida non-scoop big scoop, Rachel Maddow’s come undone with Koch Derangement Syndrome
THE MOMENT THEY ALL WAITED FOR:
White House Reporter Tweets on Trump’s Tax Return and Beclowns Herself; Lacks Basic Economics Skills
The forms showed that the President made $138 million in 2005 and paid $38 million in taxes that year.
Apparently some in the White House Press Corps are not familiar with taxes or economics. When the forms were released, White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Radio Networks, April Ryan, tweeted:So in 2005 @POTUS was not a Billionaire. He made in 2005 over 100 million dollars.
IF THIS RACIST WHORE WAS WHITE SHE’D BE WORKING AT SEARS
The fact that the President reported over $100 million in one tax year in the 2000’s has no bearing on his net worth. As a matter of fact, there is no information in a tax form 1040 that give you any indication of an individual’s net worth. How could she possibly make this assertion with the information provided?
Also, Ms. Ryan somewhat contradicts herself by noting that the President made over $100 million in 2005. On the one hand she surmises that he’s less than a billionaire but on the other hand she claims he’s gaudy rich making more than $100 million. Which one is it?
AS YOU COULD EXPECT, BUTCH STEPPING ON HER OWN PENIS HAD THE MEME FACTORY WORKING OVERTIME.
There are times the president is truly blessed by the enemies he has. Their blind hatred obstructs their ability to see they are being totally played.
Filed under Donald Trump, News Media, Rachel Maddow, Taxes
by chrissythehyphenated | March 15, 2017 · 7:56 am
Every snowflake should be forced to watch this
This is hard. You may need some tissues.
Filed under North Korea
EPIC WHINE: Senator Cory Booker is whining about Republicans shoving their health insurance bill “down our throats.” Senator Booker, sir, have you forgotten about that time when you Democrats shoved YOUR health insurance bill OUR throats?
EPIC FAIL: Rachel Maddow reported that she had obtained two pages from Trump’s 2005 return. Viewers hoping to hear some dirt on Trump were disappointed, since the pages showed he had paid 25% of his income in taxes that year. Barack Obama paid 18.7% in 2015. Bernie Sanders paid 13.5% in 2014. BTW, it is totally illegal to publish someone’s tax return without his permission.
EPIC VILE: Some feminists, who have apparently misplaced whatever once passed as their souls, staged a mock abortion in front of a church in Argentina. A woman dressed as the Virgin Mary spread her legs and pumped her fist as two other women spilled fake blood and body parts on to the pavement.
EPIC DOLT: An old surveillance video has been released showing Ferguson police shooting victim Michael Brown overseeing a drug deal. CNN New Day host Chris Cuomo insisted that just because Brown was seen dealing drugs didn’t mean he was a drug dealer. Uhh, yes, Chris. It kinda does.
http://www.gocomics.com/mike-du-jour/2017/03/09
http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/03/13/karma-cory-booker-whines-about-health-bill-being-forced-down-his-throat-gop-laughs/
https://lynx.media/2017/03/14/msnbc-bust-maddows-trump-tax-release-reveals-president-paid-lower-rate-obama-sanders/
http://www.mrctv.org/blog/feminists-stage-mock-abortion-front-argentine-church
Comments Off on Epic
Filed under Cory Booker, Donald Trump, Feminism, Ferguson, Rachel Maddow
President Obama scrapped the space shuttle program and directed NASA to focus on Muslim outreach and Global Warming. By the time he left office, we were paying the Russian space agency $424 million for six Soyuz seats.
President Trump has made it clear that NASA is going to get back to the real business of space exploration. In his State of the Union speech, he said, “American footprints on distant worlds are not too big a dream.” And now some of his advisers are signaling that we might go to the moon again.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/197680/muslim-self-esteem%E2%80%A6-or-stars-daniel-greenfield
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266093/trumps-nasa-muslim-self-esteem-moon-daniel-greenfield
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Trump orders top-to-bottom audit to save money, improve services
Candidate Obama criticized President Bush for wasting tax dollars and promised he would make the government leaner and more efficient.
Then, the minute he got into office, he increased spending by hundreds of billions. By the time he left, our debt was DOUBLE what he inherited from Bush.
Candidate Trump promised to cut federal spending and is actually going to do it.
On Monday, March 13, 2017, he ordered an audit of every department and agency to be led by the Office of Management and Budget and include public input.
The goal will be to make every agency leaner and more effective by eliminating redundancies and dropping programs that don’t serve the people.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/13/trump-signs-executive-order-to-make-fed-agencies-lean-more-accountable.html
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No, it’s NOT in my head!
New research shows that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and the related Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), are PHYSICAL disorders. This is massive!
https://www.sciencealert.com/one-of-the-biggest-myths-about-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-just-got-destroyed
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by chrissythehyphenated | March 15, 2017 · 12:15 am
Keeping Poor People Poor
When I was in high school, New York was known for its excellent schools. Wave bye-bye to that, at least in the poor schools where Democrat leadership and people of color predominate.
The state’s Board of Regents is expected to ditch the Academic Literacy Skills Test soon.
Why in bloody blue blazes would they even talk about eliminating a requirement for prospective teachers to pass a basic reading and writing literacy exam?!?!
It’s simple. Black and Hispanic teaching candidates have a harder time passing it than white candidates.
Just 41% of black teaching candidates and 46% of Hispanics passed the test on their first try, compared to 64% of white candidates.
Hells bells! If 64% of the white candidates can’t even pass it, then let’s take a long hard look at the schools, shall we?!
But nooooo. If people of color are lower than whites then of course we don’t TUTOR the losers until they can pass the test, we SCRAP the test. Because RAAACISM!
I mean … why should we worry that TEACHERS ARE ILLITERATE?! Right?! Give the dumb ones a participation award and set them loose in the ghetto classrooms!
New York is run by far left Democrats. IMHO, the fact they’re even discussing this is another sign that the elitist Progressive Left really does want to keep poor people stupid, unemployed, and IN THEIR GHETTOS where they can be maintained as dependent Democrat voters.
H/t Pistol Pete
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/12/new-york-to-scrap-literacy-test-for-teachers-in-the-name-of-diversity/#ixzz4bJGv2sAR
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Court delays Obamacare contraception mandate for 2 nonprofits
Updated 2:51 p.m. ET, 1/1/2014
(CNN) - The Supreme Court has temporarily delayed key requirements of the Affordable Care Act impacting religious-affiliated groups, accelerating another high-stakes legal test for the sweeping law championed by President Barack Obama.
In a surprising twist just hours before the start of the New Year when most major rules of Obamacare were set to take effect, Justice Sonia Sotomayor exempted two Catholic Church-affiliated nonprofits from having to provide contraceptive coverage to employees of face fines for non-compliance.
Filed under: Obamacare • Supreme Court
Chief Justice laments budget, sequester impact on federal courts
CNN Supreme Court Producer Bill Mears
Washington (CNN) - Lamenting he is ringing in the new year with an old concern, Chief Justice John Roberts is again warning leaders in the other two branches of government that continuing budget shortfalls and sequestration cuts will create a "bleak" future for the fair administration of justice in the nation's federal courts.
In his annual year-end report on the judiciary, Roberts on Tuesday said the courts have already made significant unilateral cuts in funding, adding a prolonged reduction by Congress would be extremely hard to overcome.
Filed under: John Roberts • Supreme Court
Video: Congress moves on after forgettable 2013
CNN's Dana Bash talks to U.S. senators about the past year's political gridlock on Capitol Hill
Filed under: 2013 • Congress • TV-The Situation Room
Catholic groups ask Supreme Court to delay Obamacare mandate
Updated 6:23 p.m. ET, 12/31/2013
Washington (CNN) - A group of Catholic organizations, in an emergency appeal on Tuesday, asked the Supreme Court to delay the Obamacare requirement that certain religious-affiliated groups provide contraception and "abortion-inducing drug" coverage to their workers.
Archdioceses in Washington, D.C., Tennessee and Michigan - along with affiliated groups that include Catholic University - asked Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan to block enforcement of the employer mandates under the Affordable Care Act set to take effect on Wednesday.
Filed under: Faith • Health care • Obamacare
Hillary Clinton urges extending benefits for jobless
CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser
(CNN) - Hillary Clinton is weighing in on an issue that's a top priority right now for the White House and congressional Democrats: Unemployment insurance.
"10 years ago I was proud to begin working on bipartisan efforts to save unemployment insurance. Let's do it again quickly in this new year," the former Secretary of State and potential Democratic presidential contender tweeted Tuesday.
Utah asks Supreme Court to block same-sex marriage
(CNN) - Utah officials have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to immediately block enforcement of a federal judge's ruling allowing same-sex couples to be legally married in the state.
An emergency appeal was filed on Tuesday with Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who could rule herself or ask the rest of the court to weigh in.
Filed under: Same-sex marriage • Supreme Court • Utah
Arkansas governor Mike Beebe looks on during a Martin Luther King Jr. service in Little Rock, Arkansas in this January 15, 2013 Governor's office handout photo.
Arkansas governor asks for lieutenant governor's resignation
CNN's Dan Merica
Washington (CNN) – Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, a Democrat, has asked Republican Lieutenant Gov. Mark Darr, the state's second in command, to resign over campaign finance impropriety.
Beebe called Darr on Tuesday to ask for his resignation, according to a spokesman for Beebe, after an Arkansas ethics commission ruled that Darr had broken 11 campaign finance laws since 2010.
Filed under: Arkansas
More than two million enrolled in Obamacare
CNN's Jim Acosta and Tom Cohen
Washington (CNN) - More than two million people will have health insurance under Obamacare at the start of 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday.
The figure made public in a department statement includes people who have signed up through federal and state marketplaces set up under the politically charged health care reforms championed by President Barack Obama.
Filed under: Health care • Obamacare
The top 12 campaign questions of 2014
(CNN) - Voters head to the polls next November for midterm elections and there's a ton at stake: Possible shifts in control of the U.S. Senate and House and some very interesting gubernatorial races with potential national implications. There is also Hillary Clinton – what will she do about 2016? Ditto for Chris Christie and a bunch of other Republicans who may hold White House ambitions. What impact will Obamacare and the economy have on the electorate?
Here's a rundown on the key political questions for 2014:
2014: How are you going to say it?
Washington (CNN) – Say this out loud: 2014.
How did you say it? "Twenty fourteen" or two-thousand and fourteen?"
Filed under: 2014 • CNN/ORC International poll • Polls
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Burke passes on public appearance with Obama - again
CNN Political Producer Alan Silverleib
(CNN) - Mary Burke, Wisconsin's Democratic nominee for governor, will not appear in public with Barack Obama when the President travels to Milwaukee on Monday to mark Labor Day in the key 2014 battleground state.
The President and Burke are both scheduled to attend Milwaukee's annual "Laborfest" celebration, a gathering of union activists that play a critical organizing role in Democratic politics.
Filed under: Mary Burke • President Obama • Wisconsin
Walker, Burke all tied up in new poll
CNN's Sean Kennedy
(CNN) – Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker can’t seem to shake Democrat Mary Burke, the Trek bicycle executive, in her bid to unseat in him November's election.
The latest polling shows the race statistically tied.
Filed under: Scott Walker • Wisconsin
Walker's bargaining rights law upheld by state Supreme Court
(CNN) - Republican Gov. Scott Walker scored a big victory Thursday after the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the collective bargaining rights law that angered public employees but rocketed Walker into national GOP fame.
The court also ruled in favor of the state's voter ID law, which the governor signed in 2011 and requires voters to present a photo ID.
Obama administration expands push against voter laws
Washington (CNN) –– The Obama administration is expanding its push to stop what it calls "restrictive state laws" over the ability of voters to cast ballots.
The Justice Department said it was filing legal briefs in support of separate, private lawsuits against Wisconsin and Ohio.
Filed under: Obama administration • Voter Problems • Wisconsin
Walker not focus of fundraising probe, prosecutor says
(CNN) - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is not currently the focus of an investigation into allegations of illegally coordinated fundraising efforts between the governor's campaign and outside conservative groups in the midst of a heated 2012 recall campaign, according to a statement released Thursday by a lawyer representing the special prosecutor heading the probe.
That probe is currently on hold, pending a legal challenge from the Wisconsin Club for Growth, one of the conservative groups in question.
Filed under: 2016 • Scott Walker • Wisconsin
Prosecutors allege Wisconsin governor at center of 'criminal scheme'
updated Friday 8:20 am ET
(CNN) - Prosecutors claim that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was at the center of an illegal effort to coordinate fundraising between his campaign and outside conservative groups as he battled for his political life in a 2012 recall election.
The possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate is pushing back against the allegations.
In documents released Thursday, local prosecutors in Wisconsin alleged wrongdoing by Walker, a Republican, and two top aides. They said the three took part in a "criminal scheme" to bypass state election laws that prohibit such coordination to help his campaign and those GOP state lawmakers also facing recalls.
All tied up in Wisconsin gubernatorial race
CNN's Dana Davidsen
(CNN) - Republican Scott Walker appears to have lost his lead in this year's gubernatorial race, according to a new survey of Wisconsin voters.
A Marquette University Law School survey released Wednesday indicated the contest all tied up between the incumbent and Democratic challenger Mary Burke at 46%. That's a significant change from March when the same poll showed Walker up 7 points.
GOP congressman to announce retirement
CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser and CNN Senior Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh
Washington (CNN) - Add Rep. Tom Petri to the growing list of House members who are retiring at the end of the year rather than running for re-election.
The Wisconsin Republican's office put out a statement Friday that the 17-term congressman will make a statement on Monday at a town hall in Neenah, Wisconsin, "announcing that he will not be a candidate for reelection to Congress."
Filed under: 2014 • Wisconsin
Scott Walker: College degree not a 'requirement' for higher office
(CNN) - Scott Walker suggested it's not necessary for a presidential candidate to have a college degree - after all, he didn't need one to become governor of Wisconsin.
Walker, who's a possible 2016 Republican presidential contender, was asked at an event Wednesday if he thinks someone seeking the Oval Office should have a college degree.
Walker brushes off document release as ‘old news’
CNN's Steve Brusk
Washington (CNN) - Facing controversy back home over documents from a 2010 investigation, at the National Governors Association in Washington, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has decided the best defense is a good offense.
After initially being criticized by reporters in Wisconsin for not answering questions following Wednesday’s release of the records and e-mails, Walker has kept a high profile during the conference. He has made himself available to reporters several times, sat down with The Washington Post and taken part in a national television interview Sunday morning.
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Children in conflict: “There is hope”
Posted on 23 September 2015 by Laetitia in Child Reporters, Violence with No Comments on Children in conflict: “There is hope”
“It is immoral that adults should want children to fight their wars for them. There is simply no excuse, no acceptable argument for arming children,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The eastern region of our country remains the most affected by repeated warfare, caused by armed forces and rebel armed groups. During these conflicts in North Kivu, many child rights violations are visible and palpable: children remain the main victims of armed conflict because they are killed, orphaned, maimed, forcibly recruited, deprived of an education and health care, all of which lead to very deep psychological problems.
Girls face additional risks by serving as sex slaves and suffer particularly from sexual violence. Recently, during a Young Reporter’s visit to the Children’s Day Centre in Rutshuru, I talked to a girl who had been sexually exploited by an armed group and left traumatised. “During that time, my life was ruined.”
A proverb says “What you do for me, but without me, is against me.”
In Kinshasa from 23 to 27 July 2015, I participated, along with 19 other children from Goma, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, in the national evaluation workshop on the monitoring and reporting mechanism (MRM) for serious violations of children’s rights in the DRC.
The adults chose not to celebrate 10 years of this mechanism alone; they wanted us to participate so that, together, we could review the situation, celebrate the advances, commit to prevention and achieve an end to all serious violations committed against children during conflict.
Certainly many advances have been made to end this and it gives us hope that children who are in armed groups will soon be disarmed, demobilized and reintegrated into the community. When that day comes, we hope that the entire population of the DRC, particularly children, will be celebrating our country’s removal from the UN Secretary-General’s blacklist.
During the workshop, we communicated our messages in different ways: a TV show with some targeted decision makers, a sketch, a song, an advocacy message and an action plan. The action plan listed the remaining activities that we will conduct on every level, both provincial and national, to end the serious violation of children’s rights during armed conflict.
We do not expect to live in a country that respects our rights in the distant future, but want to live in the near, even immediate, future because we all represent this country’s future.
Read all our other articles about this special workshop!
○ Giving children a voice: Serge is passionate about his work at UNICEF DRC
○ Hoping that better days are not too far away
○ The children of Kinshasa united for children’s rights during armed conflict
○ UNICEF stands by its commitment to putting an end to serious violations to children’s rights in armed conflict
Check out the sketch that the children made a film out of during the workshop. It’s in French, but the acting speaks for itself:
©UNICEF DRC/2015/Batumike
Kindly translated from French by Victoria Steele
Laetitia a 14 ans et elle est enfant reporter de la ville de Goma ainsi que présidente de la commission Education Jeux Culture et Loisirs du Parlement d'enfants. Défendre les droits de ses semblables est l'une de ses plus grandes passions. Plus tard, Laetitia aimerait devenir une grande journaliste sans s'écarter du domaine de la défense des droits des enfants pour changer le monde. Son credo: « L'enfance congolaise est une arme de construction massive »
Laetitia is 14 and a young reporter from Goma, as well as Chair of the Committee for Education, Games, Culture and Entertainment in the Children's Parliament. Defending the rights of her peers is one of her greatest passions. When she is older, Laetitia would like to become a great journalist, maintaining her dedication to the defense of children's rights to change the world. Her credo: "Congolese children are a weapon of mass construction."
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Children in conflict: “There is hope” - 23 September 2015
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« The beginning of the new school year didn’t go unnoticed in Goma!
Young Reporters from Bandundu raise awareness among students on the rights of the child »
An office for the Young Reporters of Haut-Uélé
My appeal for better learning conditions in Kwilu
Children’s health threatened by the cholera epidemic in Goma
Children mobilised in creating branch offices of the Civil Registry
Birth certificate protects me and makes me a citizen of my country
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Photo Descriptions
Row 1:
01 Conducting the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in rehearsal for the premiere of Ellis Island: The Dream of America, The Bushnell (2002)
02 At Abbey Road Studios for debut recording with the London Symphony Orchestra (2001). Photo by Keith Saunders
03 Conducting the London Symphony Orchestra for debut recording, Abbey Road Studios (2001). Photo by Keith Saunders
06 Producer Michael Fine and engineer Arne Akselberg in the Abbey Road Studio 1 control room (2001). Photo by Keith Saunders
08 With producer Michael Fine in the control room at Abbey Road Studio 1, LSO sessions (2001). Photo by Keith Saunders
09 Bows for Kalamazoo Symphony premiere of New Beginnings, with conductor Raymond Harvey (2000). Photo by John Lacko
10 With Bill Conti at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, One World of Peace Through Music concert (1998)
11 With Elmer Bernstein at a performance of Toccata for Toy Trains conducted by PB (1997)
12 Conducting the premiere of Celebration Overture with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Long Beach (1997)
13 Receiving the BMI Student Composer Award (the first of two) from Milton Babbitt and Frances Preston, New York City 1994)
14 Conducting the premiere of REQUIEM, first major composition, at Rhode Island College, age 20 (1990)
16 Receiving the All USA College Academic Team Award from USA TODAY publisher Cathie Black (1990)
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IU Public Safety policies and procedures
Public Safety policies at Indiana University address such issues as firearm possession, child safety, video and electronic surveillance, and drones. Included below are policies in use at all the Indiana University Police Department campus divisions concerning such policing issues as jurisdiction and vehicle operations during pursuits.
More policies will be added as standard approaches to public safety issues are developed at IU.
Programs Involving Children Policy
The PIC policy was created to protect children attending programs and activities at IU. The PIC policy does this in different ways, including background checks, registering programs involving children, mandating individual guidelines for these programs and emphasizing legal duties to report child abuse.
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Possession of Firearms and Weapons Policy
Possession of a firearm on Indiana University property is prohibited, regardless of any permit to carry a firearm. The prohibition does not apply to law enforcement officers authorized to possess a firearm, either on or off duty, by the employing law enforcement agency.
Tobacco-Free Policy
The use or sale of tobacco, tobacco products, and smoking-related products is prohibited in university-owned university-operated, or university-leased vehicles.
See the policy Visit the Tobacco-Free IU Website
Unmanned Aircraft (drones and model aircraft) Policy
Approval from IU and the FAA is required before anyone can operate an unmanned aircraft on or above IU property.
See the policy additional procedures
Video and Electronic Surveillance Policy
Video and electronic surveillance systems may be installed and operated following prior review and written approval by the designated campus authority and only as outlined in this policy and procedures.
Policy for the Exercise of Extended Jurisdiction by IUPD Officers
Indiana University Police Department officers are authorized to use their police powers throughout the state of Indiana, not just on Indiana University campuses.
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Protein Plus LLC To Exhibit At Naturally Fit Games
PROTEIN PLUS LLC TO EXHIBIT AT
NATURALLY FIT GAMES
JUNE 3 IN AUSTIN TEXAS
Athletes and attendees can sample and purchase products and
meet IFFBB Professional Bodybuilder Ko Chandetka in booths 901 and 902
AUSTIN, Texas – May 19, 2017 – Protein Plus, LLC, a leading producer of peanut and peanut-based products for the food and confectionary industries, is pleased to announce that it will exhibit at the Naturally Fit Games on Saturday, June 3 at the Austin Convention Center. Athletes and attendees are encouraged to stop by booths 901 and 902 to see the complete line of Protein Plus products including the recently introduced Protein Energy Power®, a great tasting, all natural peanut protein powder drink. IFBB Professional Bodybuilder, Mr. Olympia competitor, and Protein Plus sponsored athlete Ko Chandetka will also be present to sign autographs and take pictures with event attendees.
“We are excited to showcase our complete line of products at the Naturally Fit Games. Our Protein Energy Power is great option for health-conscious individuals that want a delicious, plant-based protein without the sugar, cholesterol and artificial ingredients found in many other protein powders,” said Allen Conger Jr., President of Protein Plus, LLC. “We will also be showing our Peanut Flour for those interested in a roasted peanut protein that is completely natural with no additional ingredients. We encourage attendees to stop by our booths for free samples and a chance to meet Ko Chandetka.”
Protein Energy Power contains 17 grams of protein per serving, is high in fiber, low in sodium, and cholesterol free. It also contains 25 essential vitamins and minerals, as well as a probiotic blend to aid with digestion. It is genetically modified organism (GMO) free and contains no artificial colors, no artificial flavors, and no artificial sweeteners. Protein Energy Power comes in four flavors including original, chocolate, honey and banana, and is currently available in 1.81 pound containers offering 20 servings.
Both Protein Energy Power and Protein Plus’ Peanut Flour are available online at Amazon.com. Protein Energy Power can also be purchased through the company website, www.proteinplusflour.com and select retailers including Publix stores. Be sure to follow Protein Plus on Facebook® at www.Facebook.com/proteinplusllc, or Twitter at www.twitter.com/proteinplusllc for product information, recipes, and giveaways.
The Naturally Fit Games is an annual event featuring multiple live sporting competitions and local and national vendors under one roof. The 2017 Naturally Fit Games will be Texas’ ultimate celebration of health and fitness with 150+ vendor village, 1,500+ athletes, and 10,000+ spectators. There will be 10 premier sports competitions this year featuring athletes from all walks of life. For more information, go to www.naturallyfitgames.com.
About Protein Plus, LLC
Headquartered in Fitzgerald, Georgia, Protein Plus, LLC is a producer of top quality peanut flour, peanut butter powder, Protein Energy Power™, and premium roasted aromatic peanut oil for the food and confectionary industries. More information about Protein Plus can be found at www.proteinplusflour.com or by calling (229)423-5528.
Protein Energy Powers is a registered trademark of Protein Plus, LLC. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are properties of their respective companies.
David Gutierrez, Dresner Corporate Services, (312)780-7204,
Lia Antonetti, Dresner Corporate Services, (312)780-7218,
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The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust- Non-executive Director
NHS Improvement
Appointing Department:
Charity & Public Sector, Health
Applicants should live in or have strong connections with the Wolverhampton area
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The remuneration payable for this role is £6,157 per annum
Time Requirements:
On average this role will require a time commitment equivalent to 2 to 3 days a month
An announcement has been made on the outcome of this appointment.
NHS Improvement is pleased to announce the appointment of Jacqueline Small from 1 August 2017 to 31 July 2019 as Non-executive Director of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. She is entitled to receive a remuneration of £6,157 per annum. Further information may be available at http://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/
Competition Launched
20/04/2017 at 11:00
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Vacancy Description
Ref: M1408
We are recruiting a non-executive director for The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. The Trust has recently had a governance review and as a result is seeking to strengthen the non-executive challenge on the Board. This is an exceptional opportunity to share your talents and expertise to make a positive difference to the lives of people in your community.
Essential criteria
You will need to have a genuine commitment to patients and the promotion of excellent health care services. You will need to have board/senior level clinical experience preferably gained in a secondary care setting.
Board level behaviours
The NHS Leadership model describes nine behaviours which together contribute towards strong and effective NHS leaders. If you are invited to interview, you will also need to demonstrate the range of behaviours required to contribute effectively in this board level role:
inspiring shared purpose – create a shared purpose for diverse individuals doing different work, inspiring them to believe in shared values so that they deliver benefits for patients, their families and the community
leading with care – understand the underlying emotions that affect their team, and care for team members as individuals, helping them to manage unsettling feelings so they can focus their energy on delivering a great service that results in care for patients and other service users
evaluating information – are open and alert to information, investigating what is happening now so that they can think in an informed way about how to develop proposals for improvement
connecting our service – understand how things are done in different teams and organisations; they recognise the implications of different structures, goals, values and cultures so that they can make links, share risks and collaborate effectively
sharing vision – convey a vivid and attractive picture of what everyone is working towards in a clear, consistent and honest way, so that they inspire hope and help others to see how their work fits in
engaging the team – promote teamwork and a feeling of pride by valuing individuals’ contributions and ideas; this creates an atmosphere of staff engagement where desirable behaviour, such as mutual respect, compassionate care and attention to detail, are reinforced by all team members
holding to account – create clarity about their expectations and what success looks like in order to focus people’s energy, give them the freedom to self-manage within the demands of their job, and deliver improving standards of care and service
developing capability – champion learning and capability development so that they and others gain the skills, knowledge and experience they need to meet the future needs of the service, develop their own potential, and learn from both success and failure
influencing for results – are sensitive to the concerns and needs of different individuals, groups and organisations, and use this to build networks of influence and plan how to reach agreement about priorities, allocation of resources or approaches to service delivery
It is also essential that any director champions the standards of public life – by upholding the highest standards of conduct and displaying the principles of selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty, and leadership
More information at the NHS Leadership Academy’s Healthcare Leadership Model
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all and appointments made on merit. We believe that the best boards are those that reflect the communities they serve.
We particularly welcome applications from women, people from the local black and minority ethnic communities, and disabled people who we know are under-represented in chair and non-executive roles.
For information about the Trust, such as business plans, annual reports, and services, visit their website
With the Trust – for an informal and confidential discussion with Jeremy Vanes, Chair of the Trust regarding the role, please contact his PA Gayle Nightingale on 01902 695950 or by emailing gayle.nightingale@nhs.net
With NHS Improvement – for general enquiries contact Sharon Davies on 0300 123 2068 or by emailing sharon.davies19@nhs.net
If you wish to be considered for this role please provide:
a CV that includes your address and contact details, highlighting and explaining any gaps in your employment history
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Terrestrial Ecosystems of the Conterminous United States
Scientific Investigations Map 3106
Prepared in collaboration with NatureServe
By: Roger G. Sayre, Patrick Comer, Jill Cress, and Harumi Warner
https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3106
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), with support from NatureServe, has modeled the potential distribution of 419 terrestrial ecosystems for the conterminous United States using a comprehensive biophysical stratification approach that identifies distinct biophysical environments and associates them with known vegetation distributions (Sayre and others, 2009). This standardized ecosystem mapping effort used an ecosystems classification developed by NatureServe (Comer and others, 2003). The ecosystem mapping methodology was developed for South America (Sayre and others, 2008) and is now being implemented globally (Sayre and others, 2007). The biophysical stratification approach is based on mapping the major structural components of ecosystems (land surface forms, topographic moisture potential, surficial lithology, isobioclimates and biogeographic regions) and then spatially combining them to produce a set of unique biophysical environments. These physically distinct areas are considered as the fundamental structural units ('building blocks') of ecosystems, and are subsequently aggregated and labeled using the NatureServe classification. The structural footprints were developed from the geospatial union of several base layers including biogeographic regions, isobioclimates (Cress and others, 2009a), land surface forms (Cress and others, 2009b), topographic moisture potential (Cress and others, 2009c), and surficial lithology (Cress and others, in press). Among the 49,168 unique structural footprint classes that resulted from the union, 13,482 classes met a minimum pixel count threshold (20,000 pixels) and were aggregated into 419 NatureServe ecosystems using a semiautomated labeling process based on rule-set formulations for attribution of each ecosystem. The resulting ecosystems are those that are expected to occur based on the combination of the bioclimate, biogeography, and geomorphology. Where land use by humans has not altered land cover, natural vegetation assemblages are expected to occur, and these are described in the ecosystems classification. The map does not show the distribution of urban and agricultural areas - these will be masked out in subsequent analyses to depict the current land cover in addition to the potential distribution of natural ecosystems. This map depicts the smoothed and generalized image of the terrestrial ecosystems dataset. Additional information about this map and any data developed for the ecosystems modeling of the conterminous United States is available online at: http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/ecosystems/.
Scientific Investigations Map
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Cleveland Orchestra reaches ecstasy in Tristan und Isolde
On April 24, 2018 April 29, 2018 By Sam JacobsonIn cleveland4 Comments
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Gerhard Siegel, tenor (Tristan)
Nina Stemme, soprano (Isolde)
Okka von der Damerau, mezzo-soprano (Brangäne)
Ain Anger, bass (King Marke)
Alan Held, bass-baritone (Kurwenal)
Sean Michael Plumb, baritone (Melot)
Matthew Plenk, tenor (Young Sailor/Shepherd)
Francisco X. Prado, baritone (Steersman)
Men of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
Lisa Wong, acting director
If there is one thing for which Franz Welser-Möst’s tenure in Cleveland is to be remembered, surely it should be his steadfast commitment to opera – hardly surprising for someone who has held music directorships at the major opera houses of Vienna and Zurich. This reached an apex Saturday night with the first of three performances of Wagner’s monumental and incomparable masterpiece Tristan und Isolde. Inclusive of two intermissions, total performance time fell just short of the five hour mark, yet the intensity never waned (although, regrettably, the number of empty seats noticeably increased following each intermission). A platform for the singers above the orchestra was erected at the back of the stage allowing the focal point to shift between the excellent cast and the orchestra. The opera was presented strictly in concert, sans staging, allowing one to be enraptured by the sheer beauty and power of the music undiluted.
Gerhard Siegel (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), and Okka von der Damerau (Brangäne) with Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra, all photos © Roger Mastroianni, Courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra
The justly famous prelude hovered on the edge of audibility, barely a few seconds in before the first statement of the dissonant Tristan chord that would remain unresolved until the very end. Welser-Möst’s fluid conducting gave the arching melodic lines an inexorable if unfulfilled sense of yearning. In spite of the star-studded cast of singers, one was reminded time and again that the orchestra was perhaps the evening’s biggest standout, sounding like the most seasoned of operatic ensembles. Tenor Matthew Plenk had the first vocal appearance in the role of the Young Sailor, singing unaccompanied from offstage – as effective here as he was in his other minor role of the Shepherd. The extraordinary Swedish soprano Nina Stemme served as Isolde, and much of the first act was centered on her dialogue with her maidservant Brangäne, given by Okka von der Damerau, whose darker-hued mezzo served as an ideal complement to Stemme.
Bass-baritone Alan Held was an imposing Kurwenal, providing a voice of reason amidst the surrounding passion. Gerhard Siegel was a fine if uneven Tristan, his first exchange with Isolde quickly shifting from confrontation to love song. The first act closed with courtly and glorious brass hailing the return of King Marke, to whom Isolde was to wed – an unsettling display of victory given the inevitability of tragedy. Also of note on the instrumentalist front were the solo passages of principal viola Wesley Collins, along with the plangent clarinet and sinuous English horn, the latter of which has unusual prominence in this work.
Siegel (Tristan) and Stemme (Isolde) with Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra
The magical second act was centered on the two lovers, opening with a passionate prelude, with now distant horn calls signaling Marke’s departure for the evening. Stemme all but conquered the superhuman demands of her role, slicing through the even the densest orchestral passages, the immediacy and power this preeminent Isolde of our time extraordinary to witness. Siegel, though still arresting and convincing, wasn’t quite an even match as his delivery seemed to fall short of that of a true Heldentenor. Isolde lamented being a slave of the day, introducing the opera’s central duality of light versus dark – it is in the darkness of night where passions can run free and the pair celebrated in triumphant bliss, freed from the boundaries of daylight. A particularly affecting duet took a melody first developed in Wagner’s earlier song Träume from the Wesendonck Lieder. Mathilde Wesendonck, the song cycle’s namesake, was a married woman with whom Wagner was romantically entangled, that is to say, the plot of Tristan had analogs in the composer’s own biography (and parenthetically, local audiences had the recent chance to hear the lieder during a City Music concert this past December).
Damerau’s Brangäne warned of Marke’s impending return, a nearly surreal moment coming from offstage as the couple reached a state of transcendence together. Tristan introduced the passionate rapture motif, and a steadfast pull towards resolution of dissonance was abruptly halted by the appearance of the king, as true resolution could only happen in death. The Estonian bass Ain Anger supplied the role of Marke with sonorous and stentorian resound, aided by some fine playing in the bass clarinet. The somber prelude to the final act was a remarkable expression of pain (it too having roots in the Wesendonck Lieder). A shepherd was accompanied by a lone English horn, which Welser-Möst opted not to conduct, instead allowing the soloist rhapsodic, free-form delivery. Siegel had his finest moments here in Act III, with Tristan giving an impassioned monologue even while mortally wounded. The cellos yearned as Tristan and Isolde were briefly reunited, and Stemme’s closing Mild und leise was utterly rapturous, with the long-anticipated resolution finally arriving, and gloriously so. The shimmering, lustrous final chord left the audience in an almost trance-like state, and closed a performance that will persist in memory for years to come.
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Home » News » Business » SmartWater Continues Working with Network Rail to Combat Crime
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Crime on the UKs rail network
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SmartWater Continues Working with Network Rail to Combat Crime
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Network Rail has renewed their 5 year contract with SmartWater, a crime forensic specialist, to help with the companies crime prevention strategy. The renewed contract is a continuation of the longstanding, innovative partnership between SmartWater and Network Rail, which previously successfully lowered cable theft on a critical section of the UKs rail network by 54.7%.
The introduction of the SmartWater Strategy created a powerful crime deterrent on the LNW line, and over a three year period live cable thefts fell by 54.7%, increasing to 63.4% following the introduction of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013. During the same period, delayed minutes to train services on the LNW line were cut by 54.9%, providing a better service to commuters and increasing their confidence in the rail network. Under CP5 Network Rail will be able to continue with the progress already made, using SmartWaters branded signage at strategic points along the railway line, which has already proven to deter thieves.
Network Rail will also be able to continue to collaborate with SmartWater on community awareness programmes, covert operations and scrap metal dealer visits as well as use of the forensic liquid for further cable marking.
Commenting on the new contract Phil Cleary, CEO of SmartWater, said: We are delighted to be continuing our partnership with Network Rail. Helping the rail industry to innovate its approach to crime reduction has widespread impact, going beyond cable theft to having a positive impact on trespassing and vandalism. Collectively, this makes the railway safer for passengers, employees and the wider public. As the railway modernises and expands, then projects like this, which help protect the network, are ever more essential.
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Pastor Tim Kim (center), members and guests of Root & Branch Church gather for a "dinner church" service Aug. 25, 2019, in Palmer Square Park in Chicago. RNS photo by Emily McFarlan Miller
Dinner church movement sets the table for food, faith and friendships
CHICAGO (RNS) — On a near-perfect late summer evening, about a dozen people gathered on a picnic blanket in Chicago’s Palmer Square Park, spread between kids playing on playground equipment and young adults throwing a Frisbee disc on the lawn.
Accompanied by the crunch of joggers’ footsteps on the gravel path circling the narrow strip of green in the city’s trendy Logan Square neighborhood and the rumbling of a passing El train, one of the picnickers took a piece of pita bread and broke it in half.
Members and guests of Root & Branch Church gather for a "dinner church" service Aug. 25, 2019, in Palmer Square Park in Chicago. RNS photo by Emily McFarlan Miller
“This is our body,” he said, passing it to the person sitting next to him. Each person repeated the gesture before digging into a spread of food from a nearby restaurant.
This gathering wasn’t just another group of friends soaking up the last days of summer outside.
It was church.
Root & Branch Church calls this service the Welcome Table. It's part of a growing trend of dinner churches popping up across the country in churches in a number of denominations, conservative and progressive, urban and rural and everything in between.
The dinner church movement sees gathering together for a meal itself as worship, rather than just another church potluck after worship.
“It’s also really important to recognize that dinner churches are not a fundamentally new thing, this is not just like the latest cool iteration of church, and that eating together has been central to the church for the entirety of the church's life,” said Kendall Vanderslice, author of “We Will Feast: Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God.”
Food and faith have gone together since God formed humans from the soil to enjoy all God made, according to Vanderslice.
For Christians, the two also echo the Last Supper that Jesus shared with his disciples and the example of the early church.
“The story of Jesus' ministry is a ministry that takes place through meals,” she said. “It's not just about sustenance, it's about delight and it's about joy. And it's about forming community.”
Still, there are a number of reasons Vanderslice believes the dinner church movement is growing now, particularly among millennials craving relationships and meaning. For one, she said, it fills a "profound need for community."
“I think really that loneliness pervades every generation, and I think that loneliness is in part because the church has lost its focus on community," she said.
Vanderslice began studying dinner churches in 2015 while in a graduate program in food studies at Boston University.
She spent three months attending Thursday night dinner church gatherings at Simple Church outside Boston. By the time she finished writing her thesis, she'd learned about 30 similar gatherings.
Pretty soon, she said, she lost count of the dinner churches starting every week, each unique to the needs of a specific community and context.
"I think there's no one-size-fits-all model that can be sort of plopped down into any context and work,” she said.
Members and guests of Root & Branch Church pause for a moment of reflection during a "dinner church" service Aug. 25, 2019, in Palmer Square Park in Chicago. RNS photo by Emily McFarlan Miller
Some dinner churches meet in restaurants. Others in gardens, growing the food they’ll eat together.
Nearly all the dinner churches Vanderslice has encountered were inspired by St. Lydia’s in Brooklyn, a decade-old congregation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The Rev. Emily Scott founded the church after noticing how rarely New Yorkers gathered for a home-cooked meal, according to the Rev. Elsa Marty, who now pastors at St. Lydia's.
Believing that's where connections are made, Scott started structuring services around a meal.
First, St. Lydia's met in an apartment. Then, it moved to an ELCA church building and a Zen center, before eventually landing in a storefront.
Along the way, the church has shared its experience with other congregations around the country.
"It's just lovely to see how it's blossoming in many different places around the country,” Marty said.
These days, she said, St. Lydia’s twice-weekly dinner church services stretch over two hours. Those gatherings include singing and chanting, time for conversation “built into the heart of the service” over dinner, a brief sermon and responses from participants.
They end with everybody cleaning up together.
The church also has added monthly waffle church services geared toward families with children and some contemplative prayer services, according to the pastor.
Some people come to dinner church because they are looking for something different from the church services they attended growing up. Others are interested in a service that engages all their senses. And some, Marty said, are attracted by the opportunity to be an active participant in the service.
“You can't sit in the back pew. ... It's a really engaged kind of service," Marty said. "I think especially for young millennials that are so into their screens, this is real human interaction.”
Members and guests of Root & Branch Church use their phones to read Scripture during part of a "dinner church" service Aug. 25, 2019, in Palmer Square Park in Chicago. RNS photo by Emily McFarlan Miller
Chicago’s Root & Branch, part of the Christian Church Disciples of Christ denomination, was inspired by St. Lydia’s when it started about six years ago, according to Pastor Tim Kim.
As the congregation began to grow, Kim said, the church needed to find ways to make sure people still were able to share openly and get to know one another.
It began alternating what it calls “All Together Church” in a community art space with Welcome Table services every other week, breaking into smaller groups and meeting in people’s homes.
Kim said the congregation is composed of millennials who “often describe ourselves as church outsiders — people who wouldn’t feel like they fit or at home or belong in other church settings.”
Some grew up in churches that taught harmful theologies or that hurt or rejected them for who they were, he said. Some just aren’t drawn to the structure or culture of more traditional church services. And some don't necessarily call themselves Christian, but they’re interested in exploring big questions in community.
To Kim, God is like a “mosaic of people.”
“We see pieces of God in every face that we encounter, and that mosaic makes up a whole of who God is to us,” he said.
Lauran Quist listens to the discussion during Root & Branch Church's "dinner church" service Aug. 25, 2019, in Palmer Square Park in Chicago. RNS photo by Emily McFarlan Miller
Lauran Quist, who attended the gathering Sunday (Aug. 25) in Palmer Square Park, grew up going to church. But she didn't always feel at home.
The first time Quist attended a service at Root & Branch, she said, things were different. There was wine and food and no one was a stranger.
And she liked that all were drawn into a discussion, rather than listening to a sermon.
“When somebody is telling you how to have a faith, you may feel some guilt or some need to be like that, but it's really not going to be authentic and it's not going to be able to take real root in your life,” Quist said.
Dorian Sitkoski, who has attended Root & Branch for five years, said those discussions appealed to her, too, because it “acknowledges that not everything is easy to understand."
“Sometimes you need to process through them and explore it and let your understanding evolve over time,” she said.
Over dinner on Sunday, the group from Root & Branch chatted about upcoming travel, about apartment life, about their jobs.
Later, group members pulled out their smartphones to read a Gospel passage from their screens about one of Jesus’ healing miracles and shared their responses. Finally, they passed around a bottle of wine and filled their cups, bookending the service with the elements of Communion.
Before the meal and discussion began, however, they prayed.
“For friends in a city where many walk alone, we give thanks.”
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Emeritus Professor Jenny Strong
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
j.strong@uq.edu.au
Jenny was appointed Professor of Occupational Therapy in 1997. At the end of 2015, Jenny took early retirement from UQ. In January 2016, she was awarded the title of Emeritus Professor of The University of Queensland. Jenny is now using her time to facilitate and enable a new generation of clinical occupational therapists to appraise and utilise research evidence in their practice, and to conduct clinical research and generate new evidence to inform practice. In addition, she continues to guide a growing group of research higher degree students, while focusing more time upon her own research in the area of chronic pain.
Her research has primarily focused upon the impact which chronic pain has upon a person's life; the attendant measurement of that pain, and the efficacy of different treatment approaches. Jenny was recognised as a Distinguished Member of the Australian Pain Society in 2014, for her contribution to pain management education and research in Australia.
Chronic pain, rehabilitation, acquired brain injury, clinical practice, clinical supervision,
Research Impacts
Emeritus Professor Jenny Strong's work into the psychosocial aspects of chronic pain is important. In the mid-1980's, she realised that while the biolgical aspects of pain were being increasingly well-researched, the psych-social aspects of pain were, at best, being mis-understood.
PhD (Psychology), The University of Queensland
Master of Occupational Therapy, The University of Queensland
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy, The University of Queensland
Journal Article: Non-adherence with compression garment wear in adult burns patients: a systematic review and meta-ethnography
Crofton, E., Meredith, P., Gray, P., O'Reilly, S. and Strong, J. (2019) Non-adherence with compression garment wear in adult burns patients: a systematic review and meta-ethnography. Burns, . doi:10.1016/j.burns.2019.08.011
Journal Article: The experience of wearing compression garments after burn injury: “On the inside it is still me”
Coghlan, Nicole, Copley, Jodie, Aplin, Tammy and Strong, Jenny (2019) The experience of wearing compression garments after burn injury: “On the inside it is still me”. Burns, . doi:10.1016/j.burns.2018.08.014
Journal Article: "It's very hard to change yourself": an exploration of overactivity in people with chronic pain using an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Andrews, Nicole Emma, Strong, Jenny, Meredith, Pamela Joy, Gordon, Kellie and Bagraith, Karl Singh (2015) "It's very hard to change yourself": an exploration of overactivity in people with chronic pain using an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Pain, 156 7: 1215-1231. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000161
Work-based assessment of teamwork: an interprofessional approach
(2012–2014) OLT Innovation and Development Grants
Approach to activity and determinants of daily function in patients with chronic pain
(2011–2012) Occupational Therapists Board of Queensland
Research into Clinical Educator Preparation and Support Project
(2011) Queensland Health
Is sensory sensitivity a factor for non-adherence with pressure garments post-burn?
Dar a luz: an applied ethnolinguistic study of English and Spanish birth pain narratives
An Exploration of Overactivity in Adults with Chronic Pain
(2015) Doctor Philosophy
"It's very hard to change yourself": an exploration of overactivity in people with chronic pain using an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Pain: a textbook for health professionals
Pain: a textbook for health professionals 2nd ed. Edited by Hubert Van Griensven, Jenny Strong and Anita M. Unruh Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone, 2014.
Pain: A Textbook for Therapists
Strong, Jennifer, Unruh, Anita, Wright, Anthony and Baxter, Gregory Pain: A Textbook for Therapists. Edited by Jenny Strong and et al. United Kingdom: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, 2002.
Chronic pain: The occupational therapist's perspective
Strong, Jennifer Chronic pain: The occupational therapist's perspective. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingston, 1996.
Bennett, Sally, Geoffrey, Mitchell and Strong, Jenny (2014). Cancer pain. In Hubert van Griensven, Jenny Strong and Anita M. Unruh (Ed.), Pain: a textbook for health professionals 2nd ed. (pp. 313-327) London, United Kingdom: Elsevier.
Conclusions: the future
van Griensven, Hubert, Strong, Jenny and Unruh, Anita M. (2014). Conclusions: the future. In Hubert Van Griensven, Jenny Strong and Anita M. Unruh (Ed.), Pain: a textbook for health professionals 2nd ed. (pp. 409-411) London, United Kingdom: Elsevier.
Introduction to pain
Unruh, Anita M., Strong, Jenny and van Griensven, Hubert (2014). Introduction to pain. In Hubert Van Griensven, Jenny Strong and Anita M. Unruh (Ed.), Pain: a textbook for health professionals 2nd ed. (pp. 1-7) London, United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone.
Living with HIV infection: insights into occupational markers of health and occupational adaptation
Molineux, Matthew, Strong, Jenny and Rickard, Wendy (2014). Living with HIV infection: insights into occupational markers of health and occupational adaptation. In Doris Pierce (Ed.), Occupational science for occupational therapy (pp. 121-132) Thorofare, NJ, United States: Slack.
Pain assessment and measurement
Strong, Jenny, van Griensven, H. and Vincenzino, Bill (2014). Pain assessment and measurement. In Hubert van Griensven, Jenny Strong and Anita M. Unruh (Ed.), Pain: a textbook for health professionals 2nd ed. (pp. 91-113) London, United Kindom: Elsevier.
Participating in life roles
Strong, Jenny (2014). Participating in life roles. In Hubert van Griensven, Jenny Strong and Anita M. Unruh (Ed.), Pain: a textbook for health professionals 2nd ed. (pp. 361-368) London, United Kingdom: Elsevier.
Rehabilitation and the World Health Organization's classification of functioning, disability and health
Balgraith, Karl and Strong , Jenny (2014). Rehabilitation and the World Health Organization's classification of functioning, disability and health. In Hubert van Griensven, Jenny Strong and Anita M. Unruh (Ed.), Pain: a textbook for health professionals 2nd ed. (pp. 339-360) London, United Kingdom: Elsevier.
Workplace rehabilitation
Libby, Gibson and Jenny, Strong (2014). Workplace rehabilitation. In Hubert van Griensven, Jenny Strong and Anita M. Unruh (Ed.), Pain: a textbook for health professionals 2nd ed. (pp. 253-268) London, United Kingdom: Elsevier.
Clinical Supervision Skills
Strong, Jennifer (2009). Clinical Supervision Skills. In Edward A. S. Duncan (Ed.), Skills for Practice in Occupational Therapy (pp. 338-348) Edinburgh, Scotland: Elsevier.
Self-review in higher education: Experience from the University of Queensland
Foster, J., Matthews, K. E., Mattick, L. E., McManus, M. E. and Strong, J. (2008). Self-review in higher education: Experience from the University of Queensland. In Self-review for Higher Education Institutions (pp. 47-70) Melbourne, Vic.: AUQA (Australian Universities Quality Agency).
Strong, Jenny and Bennett, Sally (2002). Cancer pain. In Jenny Strong, Anita M. Unruh, Anthony Wright, G. David Baxter and Patrick D. Wall (Ed.), Pain: A Textbook for Therapists (pp. 411-423) Edinburgh, U. K.: Churchill Livingstone.
Chronic pain and psychiatric problems
Large, R. G., New, F., Strong, J. and Unruh, A. (2002). Chronic pain and psychiatric problems. In Jenny Strong, Anita M. Unruh, Anthony Wright, G. David Baxter and Patrick D. Wall (Ed.), Pain: A Textbook for Therapists 1st ed. (pp. 425-442) Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Chronic pain problems
Strong, J. (2002). Chronic pain problems. In Jenny Strong, Anita M. Unruh, Anthony Wright, G. David Baxter and Patrick D. Wall (Ed.), Pain: A Textbook for Therapists 1st ed. (pp. 397-410) Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Unruh, A., Strong, J. and Wright, A. (2002). Introduction to Pain. In Jenny Strong, Anita M. Unruh, Anthony Wright, G. David Baxter and Patrick D. Wall (Ed.), Pain: A Textbook for Therapists 1st ed. (pp. 3-10) Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Strong, J. (2002). Lifestyle management. In Jenny Strong, Anita M. Unruh, Anthony Wright, G. David Baxter and Patrick D. Wall (Ed.), Pain: A Textbook for Therapists 1st ed. (pp. 289-306) Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Strong, Jenny, Sturgess, Jennifer, Unruh, Anita M. and Vicenzino, Bill (2002). Pain assessment and measurement. In Jenny Strong, Anita M. Unruh, Anthony Wright and G. David Baxter (Ed.), Pain: A Textbook for Therapists 1st ed. (pp. 123-147) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone.
Psychologically based pain management strategies
Strong, J. and Unruh, A. (2002). Psychologically based pain management strategies. In Jenny Strong, Anita M. Unruh, Anthony Wright, G. David Baxter and Patrick D. Wall (Ed.), Pain: A Textbook for Therapists 1st ed. (pp. 169-185) Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Re-integration into work
Gibson, Libby, Allen, Shelley and Strong, Jenny (2002). Re-integration into work. In Jenny Strong, Anita M. Unruh, Anthony Wright and G. David Baxter (Ed.), Pain: A Textbook for Therapists 1st ed. (pp. 267-287) Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Non-adherence with compression garment wear in adult burns patients: a systematic review and meta-ethnography
The experience of wearing compression garments after burn injury: “On the inside it is still me”
How to improve compression garment wear after burns: patient and therapist perspectives
Coghlan, Nicole, Copley, Jodie, Aplin, Tammy and Strong, Jenny (2019) How to improve compression garment wear after burns: patient and therapist perspectives. Burns, . doi:10.1016/j.burns.2019.04.018
Sensory sensitivity and its relationship with adult attachment and parenting styles
Branjerdporn, Grace, Meredith, Pamela, Strong, Jenny and Green, Mandy (2019) Sensory sensitivity and its relationship with adult attachment and parenting styles. PLoS One, 14 1: e0209555. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0209555
Case formulation in persistent pain in children and adolescents: th eapplication of the nonlinear dynamic systems perspective
Sinclair, Cate, Meredith, Pamela and Strong, Jenny (2018) Case formulation in persistent pain in children and adolescents: th eapplication of the nonlinear dynamic systems perspective. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, . doi:10.1177/0308022618802722
Effects of long-term opioid analgesics on cognitive performance and plasma cytokine concentrations in patients with chronic low back pain : a cross-sectional pilot study
Richards, Georgia C., Lluka, Lesley J., Smith, Maree T., Haslam, Catherine, Moore, Brendan, OʼCallaghan, James and Strong, Jenny (2018) Effects of long-term opioid analgesics on cognitive performance and plasma cytokine concentrations in patients with chronic low back pain : a cross-sectional pilot study. PAIN Reports, 3 4: e669. doi:10.1097/pr9.0000000000000669
Attachment and Chronic Illness
Meredith, P. J. and Strong, Jennifer (2018) Attachment and Chronic Illness. Current Opinion in Psychology, 25 132-138. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.04.018
What do clinicians consider when assessing chronic low back pain? A content analysis of multidisciplinary pain centre team assessments of functioning, disability, and health
Bagraith, Karl S., Strong, Jenny, Meredith, Pamela J. and McPhail, Steven M. (2018) What do clinicians consider when assessing chronic low back pain? A content analysis of multidisciplinary pain centre team assessments of functioning, disability, and health. PAIN, 159 10: 1-2136. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001285
Approach to activity engagement and differences in activity participation in chronic pain: A five-day observational study
Andrews, Nicole E., Strong, Jenny, Meredith, Pamela J. and Branjerdporn, Grace S. (2018) Approach to activity engagement and differences in activity participation in chronic pain: A five-day observational study. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, . doi:10.1111/1440-1630.12516
Seeking virtual social support through blogging: a content analysis of published blog posts written by people with chronic pain
Tsai, Samuel, Crawford, Emma and Strong, Jenny (2018) Seeking virtual social support through blogging: a content analysis of published blog posts written by people with chronic pain. Digital Health, 4 1-10. doi:10.1177/2055207618772669
A critical and interpretive literature review of birthing women's non-elicited pain language
Power, Stephanie, Bogossian, Fiona, Sussex, Roland and Strong, Jenny (2017) A critical and interpretive literature review of birthing women's non-elicited pain language. Women and Birth, 30 5: E227-E241. doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2017.02.001
The Personal and Contextual Factors Affecting the Functional Ability of Children and Adolescents With Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review (vol 37, pg 327, 2016)
Sinclair, C. M., Meredith, P. and Strong, J. (2017) The Personal and Contextual Factors Affecting the Functional Ability of Children and Adolescents With Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review (vol 37, pg 327, 2016). Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 38 3: 180-180. doi:10.1097/DBP.0000000000000442
Letter to The Editor re article "Cognitive performance in women with fibromyalgia' by de Heredia-Torres and colleagues
Strong, Jenny (2017) Letter to The Editor re article "Cognitive performance in women with fibromyalgia' by de Heredia-Torres and colleagues. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 64 1: 83-84. doi:10.1111/1440-1630.12354
Patient experience of wearing compression garments post burn injury: a review of the literature
Coghlan, Nicole, Copley, Jodie, Aplin, Tammy and Strong, Jenny (2017) Patient experience of wearing compression garments post burn injury: a review of the literature. Journal of Burn Care and Research, 38 4: 260-268. doi:10.1097/BCR.0000000000000506
Rasch analysis supported the construct validity of self-report measures of activity and participation derived from patient ratings of the ICF low back pain core set
Bagraith, Karl S., Strong, Jenny, Meredith, Pamela J. and McPhail, Steven M. (2017) Rasch analysis supported the construct validity of self-report measures of activity and participation derived from patient ratings of the ICF low back pain core set. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 84 161-172. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.12.016
Self-reported disability according to the international classification of functioning, disability and health low back pain core set: test-retest agreement and reliability
Bagraith, Karl S., Strong, Jenny, Meredith, Pamela J. and McPhail, Steven M. (2017) Self-reported disability according to the international classification of functioning, disability and health low back pain core set: test-retest agreement and reliability. Disability and Health Journal, 10 4: 621-626. doi:10.1016/j.dhjo.2017.01.001
"Not just a normal mum": a qualitative investigation of a support service for women who are pregnant subsequent to perinatal loss
Meredith, Pamela, Wilson, Trish, Branjerdporn, Grace, Strong, Jenny and Desha, Laura (2017) "Not just a normal mum": a qualitative investigation of a support service for women who are pregnant subsequent to perinatal loss. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 17 1: 6. doi:10.1186/s12884-016-1200-9
Establishment of cutpoints to categorize the severity of chronic pain using composite ratings with Rasch analysis
Chien, C. -W., Bagraith, K. S., Khan, A., Deen, M., Syu, J. -J. and Strong, J. (2017) Establishment of cutpoints to categorize the severity of chronic pain using composite ratings with Rasch analysis. European Journal of Pain, 21 1: 82-91. doi:10.1002/ejp.906
Examining the nexus of labour pain and culture using an applied social science framework Examinando el nexo del dolor de parto y la cultura usando un marco de ciencia social aplicada
Power, Stephanie, Bogossian, Fiona E., Sussex, Roland and Strong, Jenny (2017) Examining the nexus of labour pain and culture using an applied social science framework Examinando el nexo del dolor de parto y la cultura usando un marco de ciencia social aplicada. Revista Horizonte de Enfermería, 28 2: 53-78. doi:10.7764/Horiz_Enferm.28.2.53
A critical analysis of women's descriptions of labor pain based on the McGill Pain Questionnaire
Power, Stephanie, Bogossian, Fiona E.;, Strong, Jenny and Sussex, Roland (2016) A critical analysis of women's descriptions of labor pain based on the McGill Pain Questionnaire. International Journal of Childbirth, 6 4: 223-233. doi:10.1891/2156-5287.6.4.223
Erratum to: Associations between adult attachment and: oral health-related quality of life, oral health behaviour, and self-rated oral health
Meredith, Pamela, Strong, Jenny, Ford, Pauline and Branjerdporn, Grace (2016) Erratum to: Associations between adult attachment and: oral health-related quality of life, oral health behaviour, and self-rated oral health. Quality of Life Research, 26 1: 1-2. doi:10.1007/s11136-016-1463-7
Associations between maternal-foetal attachment and infant developmental outcomes: a systematic review
Branjerdporn, Grace, Meredith, Pamela, Strong, Jenny and Garcia, Jenniffer (2016) Associations between maternal-foetal attachment and infant developmental outcomes: a systematic review. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 21 3: 1-14. doi:10.1007/s10995-016-2138-2
Personal and contextual factors affecting the functional ability of children and adolescents with chronic pain: a systematic review
Sinclair, Cate M, Meredith, Pamela, Strong, Jenny and Feeney, Rachel (2016) Personal and contextual factors affecting the functional ability of children and adolescents with chronic pain: a systematic review. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 37 4: 327-342. doi:10.1097/DBP.0000000000000300
The elicited verbal pain language of childbirth: a closer look at pain assessment through a critical and interpretive review of the literature
Power, Stephanie, Bogossian, Fiona, Strong, Jenny and Sussex, Roland (2016) The elicited verbal pain language of childbirth: a closer look at pain assessment through a critical and interpretive review of the literature. International Journal of Childbirth, 6 3: 134-148. doi:10.1891/2156-5287.6.3.134
The relationship between opioid use and overactivity in chronic pain: a five day observational study
Andrews, Nicole Emma, Strong, Jenny, Meredith, Pamela Joy and Fleming, Julia Ann (2016) The relationship between opioid use and overactivity in chronic pain: a five day observational study. Pain, 157 2: 466-474. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000384
Adult attachment, sensory processing, and distress in healthy adults
Meredith, Pamela J., Bailey, Kirsty J., Strong, Jenny and Rappel, Georgia (2015) Adult attachment, sensory processing, and distress in healthy adults. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70 1: 129-137. doi:10.5014/ajot.2016.017376
Associations between adult attachment and: oral health-related quality of life, oral health behaviour, and self-rated oral health
Meredith, Pamela, Strong, Jenny, Ford, Pauline and Branjerdporn, Grace (2015) Associations between adult attachment and: oral health-related quality of life, oral health behaviour, and self-rated oral health. Quality of Life Research, 25 2: 423-433. doi:10.1007/s11136-015-1089-1
Sensory sensitivity and strategies for coping with pain
Meredith, Pamela J, Rappel, Georgia, Strong, Jenny and Bailey, Kirsty J (2015) Sensory sensitivity and strategies for coping with pain. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 69 4: 6904240010. doi:10.5014/ajot.2015.014621
Implementing a self-management intervention for people with a chronic compensable musculoskeletal injury in a workers compensation context: a process evaluation
Sheppard, Dianne M., Gargett, Susan, MacKenzie, Alison, Jull, Gwendolen, Johnston, Venerina, Strong, Jennifer, Battersby, Malcolm and Ellis, Niki (2015) Implementing a self-management intervention for people with a chronic compensable musculoskeletal injury in a workers compensation context: a process evaluation. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 25 2: 412-422. doi:10.1007/s10926-014-9551-4
Quiet about pain: experiences of Aboriginal people in two rural communities
Strong, Jenny, Nielsen, Mandy, Williams, Michael, Huggins, Jackie and Sussex, Roland (2015) Quiet about pain: experiences of Aboriginal people in two rural communities. Australian Journal of Rural Healthx, 23 3: 181-184. doi:10.1111/ajr.12185
Associations among gender, coping patterns and functioning for individuals with chronic pain: a systematic review
El-Shormilisy, Nina, Strong, Jenny and Meredith, Pamela J. (2015) Associations among gender, coping patterns and functioning for individuals with chronic pain: a systematic review. Pain Research and Management, 20 1: 48-55. doi:10.1155/2015/490610
Health Professions as Distinct Cultures in Interprofessional, Intercultural Clinical Placements: A Pilot Study Exploring Implications for Interprofessional Supervision
Eley, Diann S., McAllister, Lindy, Chipchase, Lucy, Strong, Jenny, Allen, Shelley and Davidson, Bronwyn (2015) Health Professions as Distinct Cultures in Interprofessional, Intercultural Clinical Placements: A Pilot Study Exploring Implications for Interprofessional Supervision. International Journal of Practice-based Learning in Health and Social Care, 3 1: 108-118.
Overactivity: is it a valid construct?
Andrews, Nicole Emma, Strong, Jenny and Meredith, Pamela Joy (2015) Overactivity: is it a valid construct?. PAIN, 156 10: 1991-2000. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000259
The relationship between approach to activity engagement, specific aspects of physical function, and pain duration in chronic pain
Andrews, Nicole E., Strong, Jenny and Meredith, Pamela J. (2015) The relationship between approach to activity engagement, specific aspects of physical function, and pain duration in chronic pain. The Clinical Journal of Pain, 32 1: 20-31. doi:10.1097/AJP.0000000000000226
Avoidance or incapacitation: a discussion on definition and validity of objective measures of avoidance, persistence and overactivity
Andrews, Nicole E., Strong, Jenny and Meredith, Pamela J. (2014) Avoidance or incapacitation: a discussion on definition and validity of objective measures of avoidance, persistence and overactivity. Clinical Journal of Pain, 31 7: 670-672. doi:10.1097/AJP.0000000000000121
Adult attachment and approaches to activity engagement in chronic pain
Andrews, Nicole E., Meredith, Pamela J., Strong, Jenny and Donohue, Genevieve F. (2014) Adult attachment and approaches to activity engagement in chronic pain. Pain research and management, 19 5: 317-327. doi:10.1155/2014/838954
Interprofessional learning during an international fieldwork placement
Strong, J., Chipchase, L., Allen, S., Eley, D. S., McAllister, L. and Davidson, B. (2014) Interprofessional learning during an international fieldwork placement. International Journal of Practice-based Learning in Health and Social Care, 2 2: 27-39. doi:10.11120/pblh.2014.00032
Associations between physical activity and sleep in adults with chronic pain: a momentary, within-persons perspective
Andrews, Nicole E., Strong, Jenny, Meredith, Pamela J. and D'Arrigo, Rachel G. (2014) Associations between physical activity and sleep in adults with chronic pain: a momentary, within-persons perspective. Physical Therapy, 94 4: 499-510. doi:10.2522/ptj.20130302
Perceptions of assessment among undergraduate and postgraduate students of four health science disciplines
Wilson, Wayne J., Bennison, Anne, Arnott, Wendy, Hughes, Clair, Isles, Rosemary and Strong, Jenny (2014) Perceptions of assessment among undergraduate and postgraduate students of four health science disciplines. Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 12 2: 1-8.
Readiness for work injury management and prevention: Important attributes for early graduate occupational therapists and physiotherapists
Adam, Kerry, Strong, Jenny and Chipchase, Lucy (2014) Readiness for work injury management and prevention: Important attributes for early graduate occupational therapists and physiotherapists. Work, 48 4: 567-578. doi:10.3233/WOR-141912
Comparative responsiveness of verbal and numerical rating scales to measure pain intensity in patients with chronic pain
Chien, Chi-Wen, Bagraith, Karl S., Khan, Asaduzzaman, Deen, Michael and Strong, Jenny (2013) Comparative responsiveness of verbal and numerical rating scales to measure pain intensity in patients with chronic pain. Journal of Pain, 14 12: 1653-1662. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2013.08.006
Enhancing the vocational outcomes of people with chronic disabilities caused by a musculoskeletal condition: development and evaluation of content of self-management training modules
Johnston, V., Strong, J., Gargett, S., Jull, G. and Ellis, N. (2013) Enhancing the vocational outcomes of people with chronic disabilities caused by a musculoskeletal condition: development and evaluation of content of self-management training modules. Work, Pre-Press 3: 1-14. doi:10.3233/WOR-131722
Mapping patient goals to the international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF): examining the content validity of the low back pain core sets
Bagraith, Karl S., Hayes, Julia and Strong, Jenny (2013) Mapping patient goals to the international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF): examining the content validity of the low back pain core sets. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 45 5: 481-487. doi:10.2340/16501977-1134
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) can be used to describe multidisciplinary clinical assessments of people with chronic musculoskeletal conditions
Bagraith, Karl S. and Strong, Jenny (2013) The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) can be used to describe multidisciplinary clinical assessments of people with chronic musculoskeletal conditions. Clinical Rheumatology, 32 3: 383-389. doi:10.1007/s10067-012-2130-1
Foundations for work-related practice: occupational therapy and physiotherapy entry-level curricula
Adam, Kerry, Strong, Jenny and Chipchase, Lucy (2013) Foundations for work-related practice: occupational therapy and physiotherapy entry-level curricula. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 20 2: 91-100.
Developing computer competencies for eWorkers within call centres
Kirk, Elizabeth, Strong, Jenny and Burgess-Limerick, Robin (2013) Developing computer competencies for eWorkers within call centres. Work, 46 3: 283-295. doi:10.3233/WOR-121533
Patients’ expectations of acute low back pain management: implications for evidence uptake
Hoffmann, Tammy C., Del Mar, Chris B., Strong, Jenny and Mai, Juliana (2013) Patients’ expectations of acute low back pain management: implications for evidence uptake. BMC Family Practice, 14 7.1-7.6. doi:10.1186/1471-2296-14-7
Preparing occupational therapists and physiotherapists students for work-related practice: a clinical education iniative at one Australian university
Adam, Kerry, Strong, Jenny and Chipchase, Lucinda (2013) Preparing occupational therapists and physiotherapists students for work-related practice: a clinical education iniative at one Australian university. Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 11 1: 1-9.
Activity pacing, avoidance, endurance, and associations with patient functioning in chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Andrews, Nicole E., Strong, Jennifer and Meredith, Pamela J. (2012) Activity pacing, avoidance, endurance, and associations with patient functioning in chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 93 11: 2109-2121. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2012.05.029
Perceptions of feedback among undergraduate and postgraduate students of four health science disciplines
Strong, Jenny, Hughes, Clair, Wilson, Wayne, Arnott, Wendy, Isles, Rosemary and Bennison, Anne (2012) Perceptions of feedback among undergraduate and postgraduate students of four health science disciplines. Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 10 4: 1-7.
'Talk to us like we're people, not an X-ray': the experience of receiving care for chronic pain
Nielsen, Mandy, Foster, Michele, Henman, Paul and Strong, Jenny (2012) 'Talk to us like we're people, not an X-ray': the experience of receiving care for chronic pain. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 19 2: 138-143. doi:10.1071/PY11154
Disentangling disability in the fear avoidance model: More than pain interference alone
Bagraith, Karl S., Strong, Jenny and Sussex, Roland (2012) Disentangling disability in the fear avoidance model: More than pain interference alone. Clinical Journal of Pain, 28 3: 273-274. doi:10.1097/AJP.0b013e3182273e47
Interprofessional supervision in an intercultural context: a qualitative study
Chipchase, Lucy, Allen, Shelley, Eley, Diann, McAllister, Lindy and Strong, Jenny (2012) Interprofessional supervision in an intercultural context: a qualitative study. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 26 6: 465-471. doi:10.3109/13561820.2012.718813
Preparing novice occupational therapists and physiotherapists for work-related practice: what attributes are required?
Adam, K., Strong, J., Gibson, E., Lyle, A. and Chipchase, L. (2012) Preparing novice occupational therapists and physiotherapists for work-related practice: what attributes are required?. Journal of Health Safety and Environment, 28 2: 191-204.
Adult attachment and reports of pain in experimentally-induced pain
Andrews, Nicole Emma, Meredith, Pamela Joy and Strong, Jenny (2011) Adult attachment and reports of pain in experimentally-induced pain. European Journal of Pain, 15 5: 523-530. doi:10.1016/j.ejpain.2010.10.004
A randomized controlled trial of prospective memory rehabilitation in adults with traumatic brain injury
Shum, David, Fleming, Jennifer, Gill, Hannah, Gullo, Matthew J. and Strong, Jenny (2011) A randomized controlled trial of prospective memory rehabilitation in adults with traumatic brain injury. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 43 3: 216-223. doi:10.2340/16501977-0647
Knowledge, skills and professional behaviours needed for occupational therapists and physiotherapists new to work-related practice
Adam, Kerry, Gibson, Elizabeth, Strong, Jenny and Lyle, Alexandra (2011) Knowledge, skills and professional behaviours needed for occupational therapists and physiotherapists new to work-related practice. Work, 38 4: 309-318. doi:10.3233/WOR-2011-1134
Does self-management for return to work increase the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation for chronic compensated musculoskeletal disorders? - Protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Ellis, Niki, Johnston, Venerina, Gargett, Susan, MacKenzie, Alison, Strong, Jennifer, Battersby, Malcolm, McLeod, Rebecca, Adam, Keith and Jull, Gwendolen (2010) Does self-management for return to work increase the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation for chronic compensated musculoskeletal disorders? - Protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 11 115. doi:10.1186/1471-2474-11-115
Occupational therapists as expert witnesses on work capacity
Allen, Shelly, Ownsworth, Tamara, Carlson, Glenys and Strong, Jenny (2010) Occupational therapists as expert witnesses on work capacity. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 57 2: 88-94. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1630.2009.00834.x
Management of eWork health issues: A new perspective on an old problem
Kirk, Elizabeth and Strong, Jenny (2010) Management of eWork health issues: A new perspective on an old problem. Work: A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation, 35 2: 173-181. doi:10.3233/WOR-2010-0969
Test-retest reliability of the GAPP functional capacity evaluation in healthy adults
Gibson, Libby A., Dang, Monica, Strong, Jenny and Khan, Asad (2010) Test-retest reliability of the GAPP functional capacity evaluation in healthy adults. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 77 1: 38-48. doi:10.2182/cjot.2010.77.1.6
Development of roles for occupational therapists and physiotherapists in work related practice: An Australian perspective
Adam, Kerry, Gibson, Elizabeth, Lyle, Alexandra and Strong, Jenny (2010) Development of roles for occupational therapists and physiotherapists in work related practice: An Australian perspective. Work, 36 3: 263-272. doi:10.3233/WOR-2010-1028
Professional supervision in the work rehabilitation arena in one Australian State
Boland, Niamh, Strong, Jenny and Gibson, Libby (2010) Professional supervision in the work rehabilitation arena in one Australian State. Work-a Journal of Prevention Assessment and Rehabilitation, 37 2: 155-165. doi:10.3233/WOR-2010-1066
Pain language and gender differences when describing a past pain event
Strong, J., Mathews, T., Sussex, R., New, F., Hoey, S. and Mitchell, G. (2009) Pain language and gender differences when describing a past pain event. Pain, 145 1-2: 86-95. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2009.05.018
Predictors of prospective memory in adults with traumatic brain injury
Fleming, Jennifer, Riley, Lee, Gill, Hannah, Gullo, Matthew J., Strong, Jenny and Shum, David (2008) Predictors of prospective memory in adults with traumatic brain injury. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 14 5: 823-831. doi:10.1017/S1355617708080971
A review of the evidence linking adult attachment theory and chronic pain: Presenting a conceptual model
Meredith, P., Ownsworth, T. and Strong, J. (2008) A review of the evidence linking adult attachment theory and chronic pain: Presenting a conceptual model. Clinical Psychology Review, 28 3: 407-429. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2007.07.009
Comparison of individual, group and combined intervention formats in a randomized controlled trial for facilitating goal attainment and improving psychosocial function following acquired brain injury
Ownsworth, T., Fleming, J., Shum, D., Kuipers, P. and Strong, J. (2008) Comparison of individual, group and combined intervention formats in a randomized controlled trial for facilitating goal attainment and improving psychosocial function following acquired brain injury. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 40 2: 81-88. doi:10.2340/16501977-0124
Outcome of training in supervision: Randomised controlled trial
Kavanagh, David J., Spence, Susan, Sturk, Heidi, Strong, Jenny, Wilson, Jill, Worrall, Linda, Crow, Natasha and Skerrett, Robyn (2008) Outcome of training in supervision: Randomised controlled trial. Australian Psychologist, 43 2: 96-104. doi:10.1080/00050060802056534
Evidence for Occupational Therapy Interventions: Effectiveness Research Indexed in the OTseeker Database
Bennett, Sally, McKenna, Kryss, McCluskey, Annie, Tooth, Leigh, Hoffmann, Tammy and Strong, Jenny (2007) Evidence for Occupational Therapy Interventions: Effectiveness Research Indexed in the OTseeker Database. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70 10: 426-430. doi:10.1177/030802260707001003
Supervision for occupational therapists
Strong, Jenny (2007) Supervision for occupational therapists. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 54 1: 82-82. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1630.2007.00667.x
Adult attachment variables predict depression before and after treatment for chronic pain
Meredith, P. J., Strong, J. and Feeney, J. A. (2007) Adult attachment variables predict depression before and after treatment for chronic pain. European Journal of Pain, 11 2: 164-170. doi:10.1016/j.ejpain.2006.01.004
Awareness typologies, long-term emotional adjustment and psychosocial outcomes following acquired brain injury
Ownsworth, Tamara, Fleming, Jenny, Strong, Jenny, Radel, Michael, Chan, Wilbur and Clare, Linda (2007) Awareness typologies, long-term emotional adjustment and psychosocial outcomes following acquired brain injury. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 17 2: 129-150. doi:10.1080/09602010600615506
Differences in Adult Attachment Style, Career Choice and Career Satisfaction for Occupational Therapy and Commerce Students
Meredith, P., Merson, Kerisity and Strong, J. (2007) Differences in Adult Attachment Style, Career Choice and Career Satisfaction for Occupational Therapy and Commerce Students. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70 6: 235-242. doi:10.1177/030802260707000603
The value of an evidence database for occupational therapists: An international online survey
Bennett, S, McKenna, K, Hoffmann, T, Tooth, L, McCluskey, A and Strong, J (2007) The value of an evidence database for occupational therapists: An international online survey. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 76 7: 507-513. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.02.005
A framework for systematically improving occupational therapy expert opinions on work capacity
Allen, M. M., Carlson, G. M., Ownsworth, T. and Strong, J (2006) A framework for systematically improving occupational therapy expert opinions on work capacity. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 53 4: 293-301. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1630.2006.00582.x
Letter to the editor (authors' response) [2]
Gibson, Libby and Strong, Jenny (2006) Letter to the editor (authors' response) [2]. Work, 26 2: 231-233.
Evidence-based occupational therapy [2]
McCluskey, A., McKenna, K., Bennett, S., Hoffmann, T., Tooth, L. and Strong, J. (2006) Evidence-based occupational therapy [2]. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 69 3: 144-145.
The associations among self-awareness, emotional well-being, and employment outcome following acquired brain injury: A 12-month longitudinal study
Ownsworth, Tamara, Desbois, Jennifer, Grant, Eliza, Fleming, Jennifer and Strong, Jenny (2006) The associations among self-awareness, emotional well-being, and employment outcome following acquired brain injury: A 12-month longitudinal study. Rehabilitation Psychology, 51 1: 50-59. doi:10.1037/0090-5550.51.1.50
A metacognitive contextual intervention to enhance error awareness and functional outcome following traumatic brain injury: A single-case experimental design
Ownsworth, Tamara, Fleming, Jenny, Desbois, Jenny, Strong, Jenny and Kuipers, Pim (2006) A metacognitive contextual intervention to enhance error awareness and functional outcome following traumatic brain injury: A single-case experimental design. Journal of The International Neuropsychological Society, 12 1: 54-63. doi:10.1017/S135561770606005X
Adult attachment, anxiety, and pain self-efficacy as predictors of pain intensity and disability
Meredith, P., Strong, J. and Feeney, J. A. (2006) Adult attachment, anxiety, and pain self-efficacy as predictors of pain intensity and disability. Pain, 123 1-2: 146-154. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2006.02.025
Factors that predict the post-discharge use of recommended assistive technology (AT)
Weilandt, Trish, McKenna, Kryss, Tooth, Leigh and Strong, Jenny (2006) Factors that predict the post-discharge use of recommended assistive technology (AT). Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive technology, 1 1-2: 29-40. doi:10.1080/09638280500167159
Searches and content of the OTseeker database: Informing research priorities
Bennett, S, McKenna, K, Tooth, L, Hoffmann, T, McCluskey, A and Strong, J (2006) Searches and content of the OTseeker database: Informing research priorities. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 60 5: 524-530. doi:10.5014/ajot.60.5.524
The relationship of adult attachment to emotion, catastrophizing, control, threshold and tolerance, in experimentally-induced pain
Meredith, P. J., Strong, J. and Feeney, J. A. (2006) The relationship of adult attachment to emotion, catastrophizing, control, threshold and tolerance, in experimentally-induced pain. Pain, 120 1-2: 44-52. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2005.10.008
Self-report and pain behaviour among patients with chronic pain
McCahon, Stephanie, Strong, Jenny, Sharry, Renee and Cramond, Tess (2005) Self-report and pain behaviour among patients with chronic pain. Clinical Journal of Pain, 21 3: 223-231. doi:10.1097/00002508-200505000-00005
Evidence of a relationship between adult attachment variables and appraisals of chronic pain
Meredith, P., Strong, J. and Feeney, J. A. (2005) Evidence of a relationship between adult attachment variables and appraisals of chronic pain. Pain Research and Management, 10 4: 191-200. doi:10.1155/2005/745650
Functional capacity evaluation as a performance measure - Evidence for a new approach for clients with chronic back pain
Gibson, L., Strong, J. and Wallace, A. (2005) Functional capacity evaluation as a performance measure - Evidence for a new approach for clients with chronic back pain. Clinical Journal of Pain, 21 3: 207-215. doi:10.1097/00002508-200505000-00003
Item validity of the physical demands from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles for the functional capacity evaluation of clients with chronic back pain
Kersnovske, S., Gibson, L. and Strong, J. (2005) Item validity of the physical demands from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles for the functional capacity evaluation of clients with chronic back pain. Work, 24 2: 157-169.
Prospective memory rehabilitation for adults with traumatic brain injury: A compensatory training programme
Fleming, Jennifer M., Shum, David, Strong, Jenny and Lightbody, Sue (2005) Prospective memory rehabilitation for adults with traumatic brain injury: A compensatory training programme. Brain Injury, 19 1: 1-10. doi:10.1080/02699050410001720059
Safety issues in functional capacity evaluation: Findings from a trial of a new approach for evaluating clients with chronic back pain
Gibson, L and Strong, J (2005) Safety issues in functional capacity evaluation: Findings from a trial of a new approach for evaluating clients with chronic back pain. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 15 2: 237-251. doi:10.1007/s10926-005-1222-z
In search of evidence for occupational therapy: A new tool
Bennett, S., McKenna, K., Hoffman, T., McCluskey, A., Tooth, L. and Strong, J. (2004) In search of evidence for occupational therapy: A new tool. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 11 9: 406-406. doi:10.12968/ijtr.2004.11.9.19586
OTseeker: Facilitating evidence-based practice in occupational therapy
McKenna, K. T., Bennett, S. L., Hoffmann, T. C., McCluskey, A., Strong, J. and Tooth, L. R. (2004) OTseeker: Facilitating evidence-based practice in occupational therapy. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 51 2: 102-105. doi:10.1046/j.1440-1630.2004.00421.x
Attachment styles and factors affecting career choice of occupational therapy students
Roney, A., Meredith, P. J. and Strong, J. (2004) Attachment styles and factors affecting career choice of occupational therapy students. The British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 67 3: 133-141. doi:10.1177/030802260406700307
Supervision practices in allied mental health: Relationships of supervision characteristics to perceived impact and job satisfaction
Kavanagh, David J., Spence, Susan H., Strong, Jenny, Wilson, Jill, Sturk, Heidi and Crow, Natasha (2003) Supervision practices in allied mental health: Relationships of supervision characteristics to perceived impact and job satisfaction. Mental Health Services Research, 5 4: 187-195. doi:10.1023/A:1026223517172
Seeing beyond the clouds: Best practice occupational therapy
Strong, J. (2003) Seeing beyond the clouds: Best practice occupational therapy. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70 4: 197-202. doi:10.1177/000841740307000401
Clinical Research: Room for all?
Rodger, Sylvia, Mickan, Sharon, Tooth,Leigh and Strong, Jenny (2003) Clinical Research: Room for all?. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 50 1: 40-43. doi:10.1046/j.1440-1630.2003.00354.x
Perceptions of evidence-based practice: A survey of Australian occupational therapists
Bennett, Sally, Tooth, Leigh R., McKenna, Kryss T., Rodger, Sylvia A., Strong, Jenny, Ziviani, Jenny M., Mickan, Sharon and Gibson, Libby (2003) Perceptions of evidence-based practice: A survey of Australian occupational therapists. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 50 1: 13-22. doi:10.1046/j.1440-1630.2003.00341.x
A Conceptual framework of functional capacity evaluation for occupational therapy in work rehabilitation
Gibson, L. and Strong, J. (2003) A Conceptual framework of functional capacity evaluation for occupational therapy in work rehabilitation. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 50 2: 64-71. doi:10.1046/j.1440-1630.2003.00323.x
Does participation in a pain course based on the international association for the study of pain's curricula guidelines change student knowledge about pain?
Strong, J., Meredith, P.J., Darnell, R. E., Chong, M. and Roche, P.A. (2003) Does participation in a pain course based on the international association for the study of pain's curricula guidelines change student knowledge about pain?. Pain research and management, 8 3: 137-142. doi:10.1155/2003/263802
Supervision Practice for Allied Health Professionals Within a Large Mental Health Service: Exploring the Phenomenon
Strong, Jenny, Kavanagh, David, Wilson, Jill, Spence, Susan H., Worrall, Linda and Crow, Natash (2003) Supervision Practice for Allied Health Professionals Within a Large Mental Health Service: Exploring the Phenomenon. The Clinical Supervisor - the journal of supervision in psychotherapy & mental health, 22 1: 191-210. doi:10.1300/J001v22n01_13
Voir au-delà des nuages : La meilleure pratique en ergothérapie
Strong, Jenny (2003) Voir au-delà des nuages : La meilleure pratique en ergothérapie. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70 4: 199-201. doi:10.1177/000841740307000402
A comparison of adjustment and self-awareness in adults after traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury: The transition from hospital to community
Fleming, J. M., Tooth, L. R., Connell, J. W. and Strong, J. (2002) A comparison of adjustment and self-awareness in adults after traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury: The transition from hospital to community. The Journal of Cognitive Rehabilitation, 20 3: 28-36.
A survey of occupational therapy in Australian work practice
Deen, M., Gibson, L. and Strong, J. (2002) A survey of occupational therapy in Australian work practice. Work: a journal of prevention, assessment & rehabilitation, 19 3: 219-230.
Expert review of an approach to functional capacity evaluation
Gibson, Libby and Strong, Jenny (2002) Expert review of an approach to functional capacity evaluation. Work, 19 3: 231-242.
Graduate-entry master's degrees: Benefits to clients? Letter to the editors: Response
Allen, M. M., Strong, J. and Polatajko, H. (2002) Graduate-entry master's degrees: Benefits to clients? Letter to the editors: Response. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65 1: 17-17.
Pain Control: An open learning program
Strong, J. (2002) Pain Control: An open learning program. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 49 217-217.
Post Discharge Use of Bathing Equipment Prescribed by Occupational Therapists: What Lessons to Be Learned?
Wielandt, Trish, McKenna, Kryss, Tooth, Leigh and Strong, Jenny (2002) Post Discharge Use of Bathing Equipment Prescribed by Occupational Therapists: What Lessons to Be Learned?. Physical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, 19 3: 49-65. doi:10.1080/J148v19n03_04
Predicting discharge outcomes for stroke patients in Australia
McKenna, Kryss, Tooth, Leigh, Strong, Jenny, Ottenbacher, Kenneth, Connell, Julie and Cleary, Michael (2002) Predicting discharge outcomes for stroke patients in Australia. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 81 1: 47-56. doi:10.1097/00002060-200201000-00009
The current status of pain curricula for selected health professionals in Australia and New Zealand
Gough, L. J., Strong, J. and New, F. (2002) The current status of pain curricula for selected health professionals in Australia and New Zealand. Focus on Health Professional Education: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal, 4 2: 57-69.
Treatment outcome in individuals with chronic pain: is the Pain Stages of Change Questionnaire (PSOCQ) a useful tool? Jenny StrongCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, a, Kym Westburya, Glen Smithb, Ian McKenziec and W
Strong, Jenny, Westbury, Kym, Smith, Glen, McKenzie, Ian and Ryan, William (2002) Treatment outcome in individuals with chronic pain: is the Pain Stages of Change Questionnaire (PSOCQ) a useful tool? Jenny StrongCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, a, Kym Westburya, Glen Smithb, Ian McKenziec and W. Pain, 97 1-2: 65-73. doi:10.1016/S0304-3959(01)00493-6
Clinical supervision in four mental health professions: A review of the evidence
Spence, Susan H., Wilson, Jill, Kavanagh, David, Strong, Jenny and Worrall, Linda (2001) Clinical supervision in four mental health professions: A review of the evidence. Behaviour Change, 18 3: 135-155. doi:10.1375/bech.18.3.135
Development, reliability, and concurrent validity of the modified inventory of potential reconstructive needs
Fisher, I, Strong, J and Tyack, Z (2001) Development, reliability, and concurrent validity of the modified inventory of potential reconstructive needs. Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation, 22 2: 154-162. doi:10.1097/00004630-200103000-00013
Graduate-Entry Master's Degrees: Launchpad for Occupational Therapy in this millennium?
Allen, S.M.M., Strong, J. and Polatajko, H. J. (2001) Graduate-Entry Master's Degrees: Launchpad for Occupational Therapy in this millennium?. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 64 11: 572-576. doi:10.1177/030802260106401109
Wielandt, P. M., McKenna, K. T., Tooth, L. R. and Strong, J. (2001) Post discharge use of bathing equipment prescribed by occupational therapists: What lessons to be learned?. Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, 19 3: 47-63.
Rehabilitation outcomes for brain injured patients in Australia: functional status, length of stay and discharge destination
Tooth, L, McKenna, K, Strong, J, Ottenbacher, K, Connell, J and Cleary, M (2001) Rehabilitation outcomes for brain injured patients in Australia: functional status, length of stay and discharge destination. Brain Injury, 15 7: 613-631. doi:10.1080/02699050010013923
Compliance with Prescribed Adaptive Equipment: A literature review
Wielandt, Trish and Strong, Jenny (2000) Compliance with Prescribed Adaptive Equipment: A literature review. The British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 63 2: 65-75. doi:10.1177/030802260006300204
Clinical Placement in Mental Health: Effects on the Attitudes of Students
Gilbert, J. and Strong, J. (2000) Clinical Placement in Mental Health: Effects on the Attitudes of Students. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 16 2: 45-58. doi:10.1300/J004v16n02_04
Factors determining quality of life: which are most important to patients?
Bennett, S. L., Strong, J., Najman, J. and Mason, B. (2000) Factors determining quality of life: which are most important to patients?. Psycho-oncology, 9 5: S39-S39.
A longitudinal study of self-awareness: Functional deficits underestimated by persons with brain injury
Fleming, J. M. and Strong, J. (1999) A longitudinal study of self-awareness: Functional deficits underestimated by persons with brain injury. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 19 1: 3-17. doi:10.1177/153944929901900101
Assessment of pain perception in clinical practice
Strong, J. (1999) Assessment of pain perception in clinical practice. Manual Therapy, 4 4: 216-220. doi:10.1054/math.1999.0205
Coping with chronic pain: A response to Haythornthwaite et al., 'Pain coping strategies predict perceived control over pain'
Strong, J. and Large, R. (1999) Coping with chronic pain: A response to Haythornthwaite et al., 'Pain coping strategies predict perceived control over pain'. Pain, 82 1: 110-110. doi:10.1016/S0304-3959(98)00078-5
Knowledge about pain among newly graduated occcupational therapists: Relevence for curriculum development
Strong, J., Tooth, L. R. and Unruh, A. (1999) Knowledge about pain among newly graduated occcupational therapists: Relevence for curriculum development. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 66 5: 221-228.
Knowledge about pain among newly graduated occupational therapists: Relevance for curriculum development
Strong, Jenny, Tooth, Leigh and Unruh, Anita (1999) Knowledge about pain among newly graduated occupational therapists: Relevance for curriculum development. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 66 5: 221-228. doi:10.1177/000841749906600505
Assessment of Psychosocial Factors in Functional Capacity Evaluation of Clients with Chronic Back Pain
Gibson L. and Strong J. (1998) Assessment of Psychosocial Factors in Functional Capacity Evaluation of Clients with Chronic Back Pain. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 61 9: 399-404. doi:10.1177/030802269806100905
Cluster analysis of self-awareness levels in adults with traumatic brain injury and relationship to outcome
Fleming, JM, Strong, J and Ashton, R (1998) Cluster analysis of self-awareness levels in adults with traumatic brain injury and relationship to outcome. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 13 5: 39-51. doi:10.1097/00001199-199810000-00006
Incorporating cognitive-behavioral therapy with occupational therapy: A comparative study with patients with low back pain
Strong, J (1998) Incorporating cognitive-behavioral therapy with occupational therapy: A comparative study with patients with low back pain. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 8 1: 61-71. doi:10.1023/A:1023008632131
Pain and Multiple Sclerosis
Gilmore, Rosemary and Strong, Jenny (1998) Pain and Multiple Sclerosis. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 61 4: 169-172. doi:10.1177/030802269806100410
The concept of well-being in a rural setting: understanding health and illness
Elliot-Schmidt, R. and Strong, J. (1997) The concept of well-being in a rural setting: understanding health and illness. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 5 2: 59-63. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1584.1997.tb00239.x
(1997) Letter to the editor
Moran, M. and Strong, J. (1997) (1997) Letter to the editor. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 60 90-90.
A 1-year longitudinal study of severe traumatic brain injury in Australia using the Sickness Impact Profile
Fleming, JM, Strong, J, Ashton, R and Hassell, M (1997) A 1-year longitudinal study of severe traumatic brain injury in Australia using the Sickness Impact Profile. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 12 3: 27-40. doi:10.1097/00001199-199706000-00004
A review of functional capacity evaluation practice
Gibson L. and Strong J. (1997) A review of functional capacity evaluation practice. Work, 9 1: 3-11. doi:10.3233/WOR-1997-9102
Australian Occupational Therapy Students: Attitudes towards and Knowledge about Psychiatry
Gilbert J. and Strong J. (1997) Australian Occupational Therapy Students: Attitudes towards and Knowledge about Psychiatry. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 60 1: 12-16. doi:10.1177/030802269706000105
Caring for someone with dementia in a rural town .1. Family and friends
OReilly, MT and Strong, J (1997) Caring for someone with dementia in a rural town .1. Family and friends. Australian Journal On Ageing, 16 4: 190-193. doi:10.1111/j.1741-6612.1997.tb01050.x
Caring for someone with dementia in a rural town .2. Services
OReilly, MT and Strong, J (1997) Caring for someone with dementia in a rural town .2. Services. Australian Journal On Ageing, 16 4: 194-197. doi:10.1111/j.1741-6612.1997.tb01051.x
The Development of Insight following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Three Case Studies
Fleming, J. M. and Strong, J. (1997) The Development of Insight following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Three Case Studies. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 60 7: 295-300. doi:10.1177/030802269706000703
The personal constructs of coping with chronic low back pain: is coping a necessary evil?
Large, R and Strong, J (1997) The personal constructs of coping with chronic low back pain: is coping a necessary evil?. Pain, 73 2: 245-252. doi:10.1016/S0304-3959(97)00100-0
The reliability and validity of a measure of perceived functional capacity for work in chronic back pain
Gibson, Libby and Strong, Jenny (1996) The reliability and validity of a measure of perceived functional capacity for work in chronic back pain. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 6 3: 159-175. doi:10.1007/BF02110753
Self-awareness of deficits in adults with traumatic brain injury: how best to measure?
Fleming, J. M., Strong, J. and Ashton, R. (1996) Self-awareness of deficits in adults with traumatic brain injury: how best to measure?. Brain Injury, 10 1: 1-15. doi:10.1080/026990596124674
A New Zealand replication of the IPAM clustering model for low back patients
Strong, J., Large, R. G., Ashton, R. and Stewart, A. (1995) A New Zealand replication of the IPAM clustering model for low back patients. Clinical Journal of Pain, 11 4: 296-306. doi:10.1097/00002508-199512000-00007
Coping with chronic low back pain: an idiographic exploration through focus groups
Strong, J. and Large, R. G. (1995) Coping with chronic low back pain: an idiographic exploration through focus groups. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 25 4: 371-387. doi:10.2190/H4P9-U5NB-2KJU-4TBN
Expert Clinicians and students' views on clinical reasoning in occupational therapy
Strong, J., Gilbert, J., Cassidy, S. and Bennett, S . (1995) Expert Clinicians and students' views on clinical reasoning in occupational therapy. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 58 3: 119-123.
Outcomes of rehabilitation programme for patients with chronic back pain
Moran, M. and Strong, J. (1995) Outcomes of rehabilitation programme for patients with chronic back pain. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 58 35-43.
Rural occupational therapy practice: A survey of rural practice and clinical supervision in rural Queensland and northern New South Wales
Elliot Schmidt, Rachael and Strong, Jenny (1995) Rural occupational therapy practice: A survey of rural practice and clinical supervision in rural Queensland and northern New South Wales. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 3 3: 122-131. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1584.1995.tb00164.x
Chronic low back pain: toward an integrated psychosocial assessment model
Strong, J., Ashton, R. and Stewart, A. (1994) Chronic low back pain: toward an integrated psychosocial assessment model. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 62 5: 1058-1063. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.62.5.1058
Function and the patient with chronic low back pain
Strong, Jenny, Ashton, Roderick and Large, Robert G. (1994) Function and the patient with chronic low back pain. Clinical Journal of Pain, 10 3: 191-196. doi:10.1097/00002508-199409000-00004
Verbal strategies used by occupational therapists in direct client encounters
Allison, H. and Strong, J. (1994) Verbal strategies used by occupational therapists in direct client encounters. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 14 2: 112-129. doi:10.1177/153944929401400204
Dependence and Independence in the Hostel
Groves, M., Strong, J., Camamile, C. and White, A. (1994) Dependence and Independence in the Hostel. Australian Journal on Ageing, 13 2: 60-63. doi:10.1111/j.1741-6612.1994.tb00642.x
Measurement of activity levels in patients with chronic pain
White, J. and Strong, J. (1992) Measurement of activity levels in patients with chronic pain. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 12 4: 217-228. doi:10.1177/153944929201200402
The measurement of attitudes towards and beliefs about pain
Strong, Jenny, Ashton, Roderick and Chant, David (1992) The measurement of attitudes towards and beliefs about pain. Pain, 48 2: 227-236. doi:10.1016/0304-3959(92)90062-G
Pain intensity measurement in chronic low back pain
Strong, Jenny, Ashton, Roderick and Chant, David (1991) Pain intensity measurement in chronic low back pain. Clinical Journal of Pain, 7 3: 209-218. doi:10.1097/00002508-199109000-00007
Adaptive equipment: Its effectiveness for people with chronic lower back pain
Tyson, R. and Strong, J. (1990) Adaptive equipment: Its effectiveness for people with chronic lower back pain. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 10 2: 111-121. doi:10.1177/153944929001000206
Adaptive equipment: its effectiveness for people with chronic lower back pain: response to commentary
Strong, J. (1990) Adaptive equipment: its effectiveness for people with chronic lower back pain: response to commentary. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 10 2: 126-128. doi:10.1177/153944929001000208
Pain intensity, attitude and function in back pain patients
Strong J., Ashton R., Cramond T. and Chant D. (1990) Pain intensity, attitude and function in back pain patients. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 37 4: 179-183.
The effectiveness of relaxation techniques with patients who have chronic low back pain
Strong, J., Cramond, T. and Maas, F. (1989) The effectiveness of relaxation techniques with patients who have chronic low back pain. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 9 3: 184-192. doi:10.1177/153944928900900305
Sensory modulation: an important piece of the disability puzzle for adolescents with persistent pain
Sinclair, Cate, Meredith, Pamela, Strong, Jenny and Chalkiadis, George A (2018) Sensory modulation: an important piece of the disability puzzle for adolescents with persistent pain. The Clinical Journal of Pain, 1. doi:10.1097/AJP.0000000000000663
Assessment for learning: The Individual Teamwork Observation and Feedback Tool (iTOFT) and Resource Pack
Dallest, Kathy, Thistlethwaite, Jill, Bogossian, Fiona, Dunston, Roger, Eley, Diann, Forman, Dawn, Moran, Monica, Roberts, Chris and Strong, Jenny (2016). Assessment for learning: The Individual Teamwork Observation and Feedback Tool (iTOFT) and Resource Pack. In: ANZAHPE 2016, Perth Australia, (). 19-23 March 2016.
Online learning platforms to support student reflections regarding working across cultures and critical thinking regarding practice contexts.
Campbell, E., Strong, J., Copley, J., Caine, A-M and Davila, W. (2015). Online learning platforms to support student reflections regarding working across cultures and critical thinking regarding practice contexts.. In: Occupational Therapy Australia 26th National Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, (34-667). 1 July, 2015.
Why does pain language matter? The elicited and non-elicited verbal pain language of labour
Power, Stephanie, Bogossian, Fiona E., Strong, Jenny and Sussex, Roland (2015). Why does pain language matter? The elicited and non-elicited verbal pain language of labour. In: The Passage of Motherhood Conference , Brisbane, Australia, (). 7-9 May, 2015.
Birth Talk, Birth Culture: What do mothers say and do during labour? A workshop on the language of labour pain
Power, S., Bogossian, F., Strong, J. and Sussex, R. (2014). Birth Talk, Birth Culture: What do mothers say and do during labour? A workshop on the language of labour pain. In: 30th Triennial Congress, International Confederation of Midwives, Prague, Czech Republic, (). 1-5 June 2014.
Cross-cultural pain semantics: an applied multidisciplinary approach to understanding the pain of childbirth
Power, Stephanie, Bogossian, Fiona E., Strong, Jenny and Sussex, Roland (2014). Cross-cultural pain semantics: an applied multidisciplinary approach to understanding the pain of childbirth. In: AILA World Congress, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, (). 10-15 August 2014.
Dar a luz 'To bring to the light' a pilot study of English and Spanish birth pain narratives
Power, Stephanie, Bogossian, Fiona, Strong, Jennifer and Sussex, Roland (2013). Dar a luz 'To bring to the light' a pilot study of English and Spanish birth pain narratives. In: -, -, (S36-S36). -. doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2013.08.206
Power, Stephanie, Bogossian, Fiona E., Strong, Jennifer and Sussex, Roland D. (2013). Dar a luz 'To bring to the light' a pilot study of English and Spanish birth pain narratives. In: Kathleen Fahy, Australian College of Midwives 18th Biennial Conference 2013: Abstracts. ACM2013: Australian College of Midwives 18th Biennial Conference, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (S36-S36). 30 September - 3 October 2013. doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2013.08.206
Using the ICF to Examine the Content Coverage and Clinical Utility of the PROMIS Pain Interference Scale (CP)
Bagrath, Karl and Strong, Jenny (2012). Using the ICF to Examine the Content Coverage and Clinical Utility of the PROMIS Pain Interference Scale (CP). In: Quality of Life Research. unknown, unknown, (47-48). unknown.
'Closing the loop' on assessment feedback in four health science disciplines
Arnott, W., Bennison, A., Hughes, C., Isles, R., Strong, J. and Wilson, W. (2009). 'Closing the loop' on assessment feedback in four health science disciplines. In: Assessment in different dimensions. A conference on teaching and learning in tertiary education. Conference program and abstracts. Australian Technology Network Assessment Conference 2009. Assessment in different dimensions. A conference on teaching and learning in tertiary education, Melbourne, Australia, (31-31). 19-20 November 2009.
The language of pain: reassessing the use of the MPQ adjectives by healthy university students
Strong, J., Sussex, R., Murray, J., Darnell, R., Mitchell, G. and Hoey, S. (2008). The language of pain: reassessing the use of the MPQ adjectives by healthy university students. In: 28th Annual Scientific Meeting Of The Australian Pain Society, Perth, Western Australia, (). 30 March - 2 April 2008.
Goals for rehabilitation of patients with chronic pain
Strong, J., Presnell, S. and Henriksson, C. (2006). Goals for rehabilitation of patients with chronic pain. In: H. Flor, E. Kalso and J.O. Dostrovsky, Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Pain. 11th World Congress on Pain, Seattle, (813-822). 2006.
Interprofessional pain education: Models, issues and possiblities
Watt-Watson, J., Seers, K. and Strong, J. (2006). Interprofessional pain education: Models, issues and possiblities. In: H. Flor, E. Kalso, J.O. Dostrovsky and International Association for the Study of Pain, Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Pain. 11th World Congress on Pain, Sydney , Australia, (29-40). 21-26 August 2005.
Which occupational therapy interventions are perceived as the most important research priorities by occupational therapists?
Bennett, S., McKenna, K., Hoffmann, T., Tooth, L., McCluskey, A. and Strong, J. (2006). Which occupational therapy interventions are perceived as the most important research priorities by occupational therapists?. In: Proceedings of: 14th Congress of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists. 14th Congress of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists, Sydney, Australia, (). 23-28 July 2006.
OTseeker: A New Occupational Therapy Evidence Database
Bennett, S., McKenna, K., Hoffmann, T., McCluskey, A., Tooth, L. and Strong, J. (2004). OTseeker: A New Occupational Therapy Evidence Database. In: Provisional Program of the 28th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the College of Occupational Therapists. 28th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the College of Occupational Therapists, Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate, UK, (24). 9-11 June 2004.
Introducing OTseeker (Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence): A new evidence database for occupational therapists
Bennett, Sally, Hoffmann, Tammy, McCluskey, Annie, McKenna, Kryss, Strong, Jennifer and Tooth, Leigh (2003) Introducing OTseeker (Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence): A new evidence database for occupational therapists. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 57 6: 635-638. doi:10.5014/ajot.57.6.635
Rehabilitation of the injured worker: Measurement, management and evidence
Wittink, H., Strong, J., Nordin, M. and van Tulder, M. (2003). Rehabilitation of the injured worker: Measurement, management and evidence. In: Jonathan O. Dostrovsky, Daniel B. Carr and Martin Koltzenburg, Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Pain. 10th World Conference on Pain, San Diego, California, (879-892). 17th - 22nd August, 2002.
The extent and quality of evidence on the effectiveness of injury prevention & management: An analysis of the OTseeker database
McCluskey, A., Lovarini, M., McKenna, K., Bennett, S., Tooth, L., Strong, J. and Hoffmann, T. (2003). The extent and quality of evidence on the effectiveness of injury prevention & management: An analysis of the OTseeker database. In: Proceedings of the OT Australia NSW conference. The extent and quality of evidence on the effectiveness of injury prevention & management: An analysis of the OTseeker database, Brighton-le-Sands, Sydney, (). 5 September 2003.
A controlled trial of training in supervision
Crow, N., Kavanagh, D., Wilson, J., Sturk, H., Spence, S., Strong, J., Worrall, L. and Skerrett, R. (2002). A controlled trial of training in supervision. In: Australian Journal of Psychology. -, -, (20-20). 2002.
A survey of current supervision practices of allied health staff in mental health services
Kavanagh, D, Strong, J, Wilson, J, Worrall, L, Sturk, H and Crow, N (2002). A survey of current supervision practices of allied health staff in mental health services. In: Australian Journal of Psychology. -, -, (37-38). 2002.
Complexities in living with chronic pain
Strong, J., Moran, M., Gibson, L. and Presnell, S. R. (2002). Complexities in living with chronic pain. In: Proceedings of the13th World Congress of Occupational Therapists. 13th World Congress of Occupational Therapists, Stockholm, Sweden, (). June 23-28, 2002.
Evaluating the outcomes of multidisciplinary pain rehabilitation: Why, what and how
Nicholas, M., Strong, J. and Turk, D. C. (2002). Evaluating the outcomes of multidisciplinary pain rehabilitation: Why, what and how. In: Dostrovsky J O, Basbaum A I and Carr D B et al, 10th World Conference on Pain. 10th World Conference on Pain, San Diego, California, (474-474). 17th - 22nd August, 2002.
Factors affecting use of prescribed adaptive equipment
Wielandt, P. M., McKenna, K. T., Tooth, L. R. and Strong, J. (2002). Factors affecting use of prescribed adaptive equipment. In: Occupational Therapy 7th State Conference. Occupational Therapy 7th State Conference, Townsville, Australia, (). 20-21 September, 2002.
Looking at how we do business: Evidence based review of a multidisciplinary pain centre
Sharry, R. M., Strong, J. and Cramond, T. R. (2002). Looking at how we do business: Evidence based review of a multidisciplinary pain centre. In: Australian Pain Society 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting. Beyond the Horn, Sydney, Australia, (41-41). 24-27 March, 2002.
Pain education: The who and the how
Strong, J. (2002). Pain education: The who and the how. In: Dostrovsky J O, Basbaum A I and Carr D B et al, 10th World Conference on Pain. 10th World Conference on Pain, San Diego, California, (). 17th - 22nd August, 2002.
Adjustment and self-awareness in adults after traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury: The transition from hospital to community
Fleming, J. M., Tooth, L. R., Connell, J. W. and Strong, J. (2001). Adjustment and self-awareness in adults after traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury: The transition from hospital to community. In: Proceedings 21st National Conference of OT Australia. 21st National Conference of OT Australia, Brisbane, (90-91). 1-4 April 2001.
An occupational performance model of functional capacity evaluation
Gibson, E. and Strong, J. (2001). An occupational performance model of functional capacity evaluation. In: OT21 Continuing Professional Excellence. OT Australia 21st National Conference, Sheraton, Brisbane, (157-158). 1-4 April, 2001.
Evidence Based Occupational Therapy
Bennett, S., Strong, J., Rodger, S. A. and McKenna, K. T. (2001). Evidence Based Occupational Therapy. In: OT 21 Continuing Professional Excellence. OT Australia 21st National Conference, Sheraton, Brisbane, (133-134). 1-4 April, 2001.
Factors influencing post-discharge use of prescribed adaptive equipment
Wielandt, P., Strong, J. and McKenna, K. T. (2001). Factors influencing post-discharge use of prescribed adaptive equipment. In: OT21 Continuing Professional Excellence. OT Australia 21st National Conference, Sheraton, Brisbane, (139-140). 1-4 April, 2001.
Occupational therapists perceptions of evidence-based practice: A survey
Bennett, S., Strong, J., Rodger, S. A., McKenna, K. T., Tooth, L. R., Mickan, S., Ziviani, J. M. and Gibson, E. (2001). Occupational therapists perceptions of evidence-based practice: A survey. In: Proceedings 21st National Conference of OT in Australia. 21st National Conference of OT Australia, Brisbane, (133-134). 1-4 April 2001.
Quality of life measurement: An individualised approach
Bennett, S., Strong, J. and Najman, J. M. (2001). Quality of life measurement: An individualised approach. In: OT Australia 21st National Conference. Continuing Professional Excellence, Sheraton, Brisbane, (121-122). 1-4 April, 2001.
Adaptive Equipment Prescription: A New Practice Model
Wielandt, P. and Strong, J. (2000). Adaptive Equipment Prescription: A New Practice Model. In: OT Australia - Qld 6th State Conference Proceedings: Evolution Evaluation and Evidence. OT Australia - Qld 6th State Conference, Toowoomba, (69-69). 7th - 8th April, 2000.
An integrated model of functional capacity evaluation for rehabilitation clients with chronic back pain
Gibson, E. and Strong, J. (2000). An integrated model of functional capacity evaluation for rehabilitation clients with chronic back pain. In: 8th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine AFRM (RACP). Rehabilitation: the New Millennium, Hilton on the Park Hotel, Melbourne, (65-65). 18-19th August, 2000.
Best practice, whose practice? Is there a recipe for success?
Strong, J. (2000). Best practice, whose practice? Is there a recipe for success?. In: OT Australia : WA Western Australia Biennial Conference. Occupational therapy into the next Millennium, Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, (). 4-5 August, 2000.
Conducting Clinical Research in Pain
Strong, J., Moran, M. C., Nicholas, M., McGrath, P. and Unruh, A. (2000). Conducting Clinical Research in Pain. In: The Progress of Pain: Before, Betwixt & Beyond. Australain Pain Society 21st Annual Scientific Meeting, Hotel Sofitel - Melbourne, (47-47). 19-23 March, 2000.
Educating about pain: what do OT's need to know?
Strong, J. and Unruh, A. (2000). Educating about pain: what do OT's need to know?. In: OT Australia: WA Western Australia Biennial Conference. Occupational Therapy into the next Millennium, Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, (). 4-5 August, 2000.
Bennett, S., Strong, J., Najman, J. M. and Mason, B. (2000). Factors determining quality of life: which are most important to patients?. In: Psycho-oncology: Abstracts of the 5th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology. 5th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, Melbourne, Australia, (S39-S39). 3rd - 7th September, 2000.
Graduate-Entry Masters Courses in Occupational Therapy: Launch Pad into the New Millennium
Strong, J., Polatajko, H. J. and Allen, S. M. M. (2000). Graduate-Entry Masters Courses in Occupational Therapy: Launch Pad into the New Millennium. In: OT Australia - Qld 6th State Conference Proceedings: Evolution, Evaluation and Evidence. OT Australia - Qld 6th State Conference, Toowoomba, (3-3). 7th - 8th April, 2000.
Teaching undergraduate students about pain
Strong, J., Adams, M. M. and Roche, P. A. (2000). Teaching undergraduate students about pain. In: The Progress of Pain: Before, Betwixt & Beyond. Australian Pain Society 21st Annual Scientific Meeting, Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne, (). 19-23 March, 2000.
The clinical utility of the Integrated Psychosocial Assessment Model (IPAM) - A realibility study
Tornatore, G. I., Cramond, T. R., New, F., Williams, B., Strong, J. and Tooth, L. R. (2000). The clinical utility of the Integrated Psychosocial Assessment Model (IPAM) - A realibility study. In: OT Australia - Qld 6th State Conference Proceedings: Evolution, Evaluation and Evidence. OT Australia - Qld 6th State Conference, Toowoomba, (68-68). 7th - 8th April, 2000.
Evidence based practice: Will occupational therapy survive?
Strong, J. (1999). Evidence based practice: Will occupational therapy survive?. In: OT Australia 20th National Conference: Program and Abstracts. OT Australia 20th National Conference, Canberra, Australia, (114-114). 25-28 April 1999.
Predictors of disability in patients with chronic low back pain
Adams, M. M. and Strong, J. (1999). Predictors of disability in patients with chronic low back pain. In: Balancing The Art & The Science. Australian Pain Society Scientific Meeting, Esplande Hotel, Freemantle, (46-47). 21-25 April 1999.
The clinical utility of the integrated psychosocial assessment model (IPAM) - a reliability study
Tornatore, G. I., Tooth, L. R. and Strong, J. (1999). The clinical utility of the integrated psychosocial assessment model (IPAM) - a reliability study. In: Balancing The Art & The Science. Australian Pain Society Scientific Meeting, Esplande Hotel, Freemantle, (50-51). 21-25 April 1999.
The development & reliablity of a new approach to functional capacity evaluation
Gibson, E. and Strong, J. (1999). The development & reliablity of a new approach to functional capacity evaluation. In: Third National Conference on Injury Prevention & Control. Third National Conference on Injury Prevention & Control, Carlton Crest Hotel, Brisbane, (42-42). 9-12 May 1999.
Work rehabilitation: The role of fear-avoidance
Gibson, E. and Strong, J. (1999). Work rehabilitation: The role of fear-avoidance. In: OT Australia 20th National Conference; Program and Abstracts. OT Australia 20th National Conference, Canberra, Australia, (43-43). 25-28 April 1999.
Self-efficacy and the patient with chronic pain
Strong, J. (1995). Self-efficacy and the patient with chronic pain. In: Michael O. Shacklock, Moving in on pain. Moving in on Pain Conference, Adelaide, SA, Australia, (97-102). 18-21 April 1995.
Development of an occupational therapy evidence database: OTseeker
Bennett, S. L., McKenna, K. T., McCluskey, A., Strong, J. and Tooth, L. R. (2004) Development of an occupational therapy evidence database: OTseeker St Lucia, Brisbane: Univ Qld
Prediction of length of stay for rehabilitation patients using the Australian National Sub-acute and Non-acute Patient (AN-SNAP) system
McKenna, K., Tooth, L., Strong, J., Ottenbacher, K., Connell, J. and Cleary, M. (2002) Prediction of length of stay for rehabilitation patients using the Australian National Sub-acute and Non-acute Patient (AN-SNAP) system :
Report 1 Supervision Practices in the Allied Mental Health Professions: How much do we know? A Research Evaluation of Professional Supervision and Mentoring of Allied Health Professionals in the Mental Health Service.
Spence, S. H., Kavanagh, D. J., Worrall, L.E., Strong, J., Wilson, J. E. and Krasny, J. (2001) Report 1 Supervision Practices in the Allied Mental Health Professions: How much do we know? A Research Evaluation of Professional Supervision and Mentoring of Allied Health Professionals in the Mental Health Service. Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland Health
Report 2. Supervision Practice within a Large Allied Mental Health Workforce: Exploring the Phenomenon. A Research Evaluation of Professional Supervision and Mentoring of Allied Health Professionals in the Mental Health Service.
Strong, J., Kavanagh, D. J., Wilson, J. E., Spence, S. H., Worrall, L.E. and Crow, N. (2001) Report 2. Supervision Practice within a Large Allied Mental Health Workforce: Exploring the Phenomenon. A Research Evaluation of Professional Supervision and Mentoring of Allied Health Professionals in the Mental Health Service. Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland Health
Report 3. Survey of Allied Health Staff of Mental Health Services in Queensland: Charting the Territory. A Research Evaluation of Professional Supervision and Mentoring of Allied Health Professionals in the Mental Health Service
Kavanagh, D. J., Worrall, L. E., Spence, S. H., Strong, J., Wilson, J. E., Sturk, H. and Crow, N. (2001) Report 3. Survey of Allied Health Staff of Mental Health Services in Queensland: Charting the Territory. A Research Evaluation of Professional Supervision and Mentoring of Allied Health Professionals in the Mental Health Service Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland Health
Report 7. Three-Month Outcomes of Training in Supervision: A Randomised Controlled Trial. A Research Evaluation of Professional Supervision and Mentoring of Allied Health Professionals in the Mental Health Service
Kavanagh, D. J., Spence, S. H., Sturk, H., Strong, J., Wilson, J. E., Worrall, L. E., Crow, N. and Skerrett, R. (2001) Report 7. Three-Month Outcomes of Training in Supervision: A Randomised Controlled Trial. A Research Evaluation of Professional Supervision and Mentoring of Allied Health Professionals in the Mental Health Service Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland Health
Does Self Management Increase The Effectiveness Of Vocational Rehabilitation For Chronic Compensated Disorders?
(2009–2012) ARC Linkage Projects
Adding self management to workplace rehabilitation: an RCT
(2008–2009) UQ FirstLink Scheme
The Language of Pain
The language of pain: is the pain lexicon of the 1970s relevant to the new millenium?
(2007–2008) Therapy Solutions Group Pty Ltd
A RCT of two metacognitive contextual interventions for individuals with acquired brain injury in the Community
(2005–2006) Centre of Nat. Res. on Disability & Rehab Medicine
Cultural and Linguistic Factors in Pain Communication of Non-English-Speaking-Background Clients Referred to the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service
Development of an occupational therapy evidence database 'OT-SEEker'
(2002–2004) Motor Accidents Authority of New South Wales
Development of an occupational therapy database: OT-SEEker
(2002–2003) Occupational Therapy Australia
Inter-rater Releability and Predictive Validity of a New Functional Capacity Evaluation for Chronic Back Pain
(2001–2003) NHMRC Project Grant
A Research Evaluation of Professional Supervision and Mentoring of Allied Health Professsionals in the Mental Health Service
(2000–2003) Queensland Health
Rehabilitation of prospective memory problems in individuals with traumatic brain injury
(2000–2001) Griffith University
Functional outcomes, health status and community reintegration of patients six months post-stroke
(1999) Brain Research Fund
An investigation of prospective memory function in adults with traumatic brain injury
Occupational therapy driver assessment training and rehabilitation research
(1998–1999) Motor Accident Insurance Commission
Post Acute Rehablitation Following Acquired Brain Injury: A Multidisciplinary Allied Health Approach
(1998) UQ External Support Enabling Grant
Prediction of length of stay for rehabilitation patients using the Function Independence Measure - Function-related Groups (FIM-FRG) system
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Associate Professor Paul Gray
Associate Professor Fiona Bogossian
Socio-cultural and contextual variables in medical encounters between a doctor, an elderly patient, and the patient's companion in Vietnam
Dr Tammy Aplin
Dr Emma Crawford
Attachment security before and after birth in mothers who have experienced a previous pregnancy loss
Investigating the use of elastic based tapes for management of hypertrophic scar formation to the trunk post burn injury
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Professor Jenny Ziviani
Completed Supervision
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Building Safe Computer Use Skills Training as a Management Strategy for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Computer Users
Professor Robin Burgess-Limerick
Knowledge, skills and professional behavioursl required by new graduate occupational therapists and physiotherapists for effective transition to employment in work-related practice
THE IMPACT OF PAIN COGNITIONS ON PERCEIVED DISABILITY IN PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC PAIN
(2007) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
IMPLICATIONS OF ADULT ATTACHMENT THEORY FOR CHRONIC PAIN
THE OCCUPATIONAL CAREERS OF MEN LIVING WITH HIV INFECTION: INSIGHTS INTO ENGAGING IN AND ORCHESTRATING OCCUPATIONS
ENABLING EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
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IDENTIFICATION OF FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE POST-DISCHARGE USE OF EQUIPMENT
QUALITY OF LIFE FOR CARERS OF PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA: A COMPARISON BETWEEN RURAL AND METROPOLITAN COMMUNITIES
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THE NEED FOR PERIODIC RE-EDUCATION SESSIONS FOR CHRONIC BACK PAIN PATIENTS WHO HAVE ATTENDED PAIN MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES
The experience of wearing compression garments post-burn injury: A qualitative study of patient perspectives and recommendations for practice
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Adaptive functioning of children and adolescents with persistent pain: associations with sensory modulation and attachment
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Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health to describe the clinical assessment and measurement of outcomes in patients with Chronic Low Back Pain
Associations between gender, coping patterns and functioning for people with chronic pain
The Language of Pain in Vietnamese
Retirement of Older Taxi Drivers in Singapore: An exploration of experience and needs and the development of a support program
Dr Jacki Liddle
It's a whole lot more than just about my pain: Understanding and responding to the social dimension of living with chronic pain
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Planes at Lowry and Train History in Strasburg, CO
I found myself with time on my hands today as I had gone over the authorized 40 hours of billable time on my present contract. What to do, what to do?
As you probably guessed, I went riding. Another beautifully sunny day here in Colorado and I decided it was Yoshie's turn for some exercise. Yoshie, is my 2006 Suzuki DL1000 V-Strom/Dauntless Sidecar Rig aka "Hirohito's Revenge", a name given to her by Mr Jack Riepe of Twisted Roads fame.
The original thought in my brain was to cruise over to Harbor Freight to peruse their tools and gadgets but upon nearing the destination, Yoshie spoke to me and we continued past this purveyor of cheap tools and equipment and continued on towards the old site of Lowry Air Force Base.
I cruised about the gentrified and still new looking housing and apartment complexes that have sprung up in the land once used by the air force and also the old Denver airport. It's quite nice actually, they've done a nice job of spiffing up the place.
Located in one of the two large remaining aircraft hangars left over from the air force days, is the Wings over the Rockies Aircraft Museum. This museum is quite well stocked with vintage aircraft displays and a great way to spend a few hours when in Denver. I'd visited this museum before with my sons, and today it was just a brief stop for some pictures of the B-52 Stratofortress Bomber located outside the museum's main entrance.
Yoshie looks quite diminutive next to this huge aircraft
I wandered the area around the two hangars, one being the part of the museum as I'd mentioned before and the other now converted to commercial storage facilities. Located next to the air museum though, were three glider trailers, one of which was uncovered to reveal this glider in "travel mode".
Pretty cool way to take one's glider "on the road" don't you think?
Next, Yoshie continued speaking to me, urging me slightly west of Lowry where we'd seen the golden dome of the Greek Orthodox Church on previous transits of the area near the intersection of Alameda and Leetsdale.
Greek Orthodox Church Dome
After the church, Yoshie decided we should head east now towards the small town of Strasburg, CO. It's located near the I-70 Super Slab east of the Denver Metro Area. Yoshie and I avoided the super slab by using CO36 which parallels the slab beginning just east of the E-470/I-70 junction.
The objective at Strasburg was to located and photograph the memorial marker where according to the Comanche Crossing Historical Society and Museum:
On August 15, 1870, the last 10¼ miles of track were laid by two crews, one working from the east and one from the west in a record-breaking nine hours.
Fifteen months earlier, the golden spike ceremony had been held in Utah, to note the joining by rail of the eastern United States with the west. But the tracks joined at Promontory Summit connected only Omaha and Sacramento in a continuous chain.
With the completion of the rails at Strasburg it became possible, at last, to board a train in New York and travel all the way to San Francisco by rail.
So there, in spite of what you were told from the history books, the real joining of the country by a continuous railroad line was at a barely marked point in the little town of Strasburg, Colorado!
I first stopped at the museum on the west side of Strasburg, thinking the marker would be there, given its historical significance. Nope, but there were several displays of old railroad equipment and such to be had even though the museum buildings themselves were closed. Turns out the museum is only open July through August.
Ye Olde train station in Strasburg, located on the site
of the museum complex of buildings.
You'd think the above sign would be next to the marker
wouldn't you? Nope, it was further east.
After wandering through town a bit, I finally stumbled onto a street called Railroad Street. "I bet..." said Yoshie: "that the marker is somewhere around here". Dutifully, I turned her onto railroad street. We first spotted this abandoned rail car on a side rail spur:
The railcar has seen better days, signs of vandalism were evident.
Continuing west on Railroad Street, past what looked like an old maintenance yard for the U&P and some old stores and a motel, Yoshie and I happened on Lyons Park and found the marker!
At Lyons Park in Strasburg, CO
Quite the unremarkable marker don't you think? I guess its an indicator of how the more publicized and reported event at Promontory Summit in Utah overshadowed the event that is part of Strasburg's history.
Riding once again past the U&P Railroad Maintenance Yard, Yoshie had me stop for a picture of this old train equipment towing engine:
Being in an old train maintenance yard, I assume it's something used to pull
railroad equipment. For all I know though, it's just an old tractor.
I left quaint old Strasburg and its train history behind me as Yoshie led the way home via county roads both paved and unpaved. There were times she was "feeling her oats" as we motored smoothly along dirt roads at higher speeds than what I am used to on the Ural, leaving a big plume of dust in our wake.
Got home shortly before the rest of the family came home from school. A good day of mild wandering, with Yoshie speaking to me as we went. In case you're wondering about all this conversations I was having with my sidecar rig, check out Jack Riepe's new book: "Conversations with a Motorcycle", you'll then understand.
I was fortunate to get an early review copy of this book, my review is here: LINK
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Gary France said...
Great pictures of the planes Dom. Your reporting of conversations with your motorcycle made me sit back, look out of my office window at my detached garage, to where the Leading Ladies are currently sleeping. Despite their grandeur and elegant ways, I am sure they would be saying to me "It's friggin' freezing out here, turn the damn heating on!"
Yet again I applaud you for getting out on your bike, while the rest of us in the northern hemisphere fail to ride once again due to the weather.
Thanks Gary but its been so warm here and such a dearth of snow, it's no challenge to ride here at present....
Planes at Lowry and Train History in Strasburg, CO...
Meandering along the South Platte River Road
Track N Go for Trucks.....
Ural's Yamal - Limited Edition Sidecar Rig
Riding home with our Far-Ranging Uralista
Carb Sync Tech Day
Far-Ranging Uralista is coming home to Colorado
The Royal Gorge Bridge
Sunset Ride with Brigitta
Yoshie does a camera search and rescue
A Four Mountain Pass Ride
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What is Spousal Privilege in Maryland?
I don’t want to testify against my spouse in his/her criminal case?
That is a common statement made by many spouses in Maryland. Most common in assault or domestic violence cases. But we hear that in various other criminal prosecutions in Maryland.
Can you be forced to testify against your spouse? The answer is generally: No. This doesn’t mean the case goes away or the State can’t overcome their burden before a Judge or jury. This only means the State does not have the spouse’s testimony to present as evidence. But they could offer other statements as evidence the spouse made a 911 phone call or provided a written statement.
Spousal Privilege – Maryland Law
Maryland Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Annotated § 9-106 provides the rule for invoking one’s spousal privilege in Maryland. It states in part:
(a) In general. — The spouse of a person on trial for a crime may not be compelled to testify as an adverse witness unless the charge involves:
(1) The abuse of a child under 18; or
(2) Assault in any degree in which the spouse is a victim if:
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(ii) The spouse was sworn to testify at the previous trial; and
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There are two exceptions to using or invoking your marital privilege in Maryland. 1) You cannot invoke your marital privilege if the Defendant is facing charges for abuse of a minor. 2) You cannot invoke your marital privilege for a second or subsequent assault if the spouse has previously invoked their marital privilege for an assault or assault and batter of the spouse.
I Don’t Want to Testify Against My Spouse?
How does it work in Court? The person charged with the crime will have to plead “not guilty” and elect a trial before the Judge or jury. Any person that is considering spousal privilege in Maryland should consult a Baltimore criminal defense lawyer to understand the ramifications and procedures. As discussed earlier, even if the spouse invokes their marital privilege, the State could still try and prove the case by other evidence or statements.
What happens if I invoke my marital privilege in Maryland?
If a spouse invokes their marital privilege, then the State cannot force them to testify. If the spouse/witness is the only evidence the State has, then the verdict in the case will more likely than not be “not guilty” after the State’s case, this is typical when the defense attorney makes a Motion for Judgment of Acquittal.
However, if the State has other evidence, invocation of the marital privilege may not end the case and the State may try to proceed without the testimony of the spouse. This can occur if the State has additional witnesses or evidence that is admissible during the trial.
Can I invoke my marital privilege more than once in Maryland?
In most cases, yes, but for assault and assault and batter cases, you cannot invoke your spousal privilege more than once in Maryland. The Court keeps a record of spouses and defendants that have had cases where the spouse invoked their marital privilege. This information is not expunged and will be kept in the Court system accessible by the Court, the State’s Attorneys and defense attorneys for future criminal cases involving the same defendant.
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Optimization of the prescription isodose line for Gamma Knife radiosurgery using the shot within shot technique
Perry B. Johnson ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6040-82171,
Maria I. Monterroso2,
Fei Yang2 &
Eric Mellon2
Radiation Oncology volume 12, Article number: 187 (2017) Cite this article
This work explores how the choice of prescription isodose line (IDL) affects the dose gradient, target coverage, and treatment time for Gamma Knife radiosurgery when a smaller shot is encompassed within a larger shot at the same stereotactic coordinates (shot within shot technique).
Beam profiles for the 4, 8, and 16 mm collimator settings were extracted from the treatment planning system and characterized using Gaussian fits. The characterized data were used to create over 10,000 shot within shot configurations by systematically changing collimator weighting and choice of prescription IDL. Each configuration was quantified in terms of the dose gradient, target coverage, and beam-on time. By analyzing these configurations, it was found that there are regions of overlap in target size where a higher prescription IDL provides equivalent dose fall-off to a plan prescribed at the 50% IDL. Furthermore, the data indicate that treatment times within these regions can be reduced by up to 40%. An optimization strategy was devised to realize these gains. The strategy was tested for seven patients treated for 1–4 brain metastases (20 lesions total).
For a single collimator setting, the gradient in the axial plane was steepest when prescribed to the 56–63% (4 mm), 62–70% (8 mm), and 77–84% (16 mm) IDL, respectively. Through utilization of the optimization technique, beam-on time was reduced by more than 15% in 16/20 lesions. The volume of normal brain receiving 12 Gy or above also decreased in many cases, and in only one instance increased by more than 0.5 cm3.
This work demonstrates that IDL optimization using the shot within shot technique can reduce treatment times without degrading treatment plan quality.
A sharp penumbra is a well-known hallmark of Gamma Knife (GK) radiosurgery. When combined with a highly accurate positioning and immobilization system, the modality is capable of treating lesions directly abutting critical structures while minimizing the volume of normal brain receiving high dose. For any radiotherapy device, the width of the penumbra is defined by a variety of factors. Physically, the design of the source and collimation define a geometric component while the energy of the beam along with the composition of the transport medium defines a radiological component. When multiple beams intersect the penumbra is affected by beam overlap, and for certain systems transmission through the tertiary collimator creates a modifying effect. These factors in combination determine the distance between relative isodose lines (IDL) along the target periphery (see Table 1 for description of terms and metrics used throughout the manuscript).
In terms of absolute dose, the penumbra is also affected by the choice of prescription IDL where it is advantageous to prescribe to a line that lies within the dose gradient. For GK based delivery, the 50% IDL is by far the most common selection – largely based on historical precedent and the assumption that prescribing to the 50% IDL provides the steepest dose fall-off outside the target. In previous versions of the Gamma Knife (Model C/4C), this assumption was explored with the authors finding the gradient index optimized at prescription IDLs ranging from 38 to 68% for a single shot plan [1]. The data was presented in a figure with the gradient index placed along the vertical axis and the prescription isodose diameter placed along the horizontal axis. The prescription isodose diameter in the axial plane is governed by collimator size and the choice of prescription IDL. Increasing the collimator size or prescribing to a lower IDL increases the prescription isodose diameter, allowing for the coverage of larger targets. In the aforementioned figure, each of the four collimator sizes available in the previous versions of the GK were plotted by altering the prescription IDL, thus changing the width of the prescription isodose diameter. Interestingly, the plots overlap within certain ranges of isodose (i.e. target) diameters, suggesting that more than one collimator size can adequately conform to a simple target but provide a potentially different gradient index.
While the previous work discussed this point within the context of a single shot plan, the current versions of the Gamma Knife (Perfexion/Icon) provide a fast, automated platform for changing collimator size. This feature enables easy use of the shot within shot technique where two shots having different collimator sizes are assigned the same stereotactic coordinates. By varying the fraction of beam on time allotted for each shot, the width of the prescription isodose diameter can be changed at sub-millimeter increments. In seeking a plan that optimizes both target coverage and conformity, the use of the shot within shot technique greatly expands the solution space. This is due to the fact that shot weighting can be combined with the selection of the prescription IDL in order to best match the width of the prescription isodose diameter with the width of the target. For simple targets, each solution represents a unique plan that achieves the appropriate target coverage and conformity, but may vary in terms of the steepness of the dose gradient and the amount of beam-on time. The relationship between these latter two aspects is currently unknown and represents a type of optimization yet to be fully explored for GK radiosurgery.
In this study these questions are answered through the comparison of over 10,000 shot within shot configurations, each created from profiles extracted from the planning system and characterized using Gaussian fits. The beam configurations fill a multi-dimensional solution space parameterized according to the dose gradient, prescription isodose diameter, prescription IDL, and beam-on time. A strategy is presented for utilizing this space to optimize the planning process. The objective of the optimization is to reduce treatment time while maintaining acceptable plan quality. The optimization relies upon the use of the shot within shot technique to treat small to medium sized lesions using prescription IDLs other than the 50% IDL. The strategy is demonstrated for a number of real cases representing patients treated for metastatic disease in the brain.
Beam configurations
Data was collected using Leksell Gamma Plan version 10.0 configured for the Gamma Knife Perfexion (Elekta Instruments, Stockholm, Sweden). The Perfexion has three collimator settings (4, 8, and 16 mm) which can be set independently for any one of eight sectors. For this work, only uniform sector settings were applied. In order to generate treatment plans, a digital phantom was created using 80 mm for all measurements associated with the skull scaling instrument. The phantom mimicked the shape of a human head with a depth of 8 cm to the center. For each collimator setting, a single shot plan was generated and visualized in the three principal axes. Dosimetric profiles in the left/right (X which is symmetric with Y) and superior/inferior (Z) directions were manually extracted using the line measurement tool. The tool provided the stereotactic coordinates and relative IDL of any point selected along the line. Roughly 70 data points were sampled from each profile and imported into the curve fitting toolbox available within Matlab R2014b (MathWorks, Natick, MA). The data was fit using a combination of Gaussian curves (see Additional file 1: Figure S1).
With each profile parameterized, a series of scripts were written to quantify the prescription isodose diameter and the dose gradient. For the purposes of this work, the gradient was defined as the distance between two relative isodose lines. The first line was always represented by the prescription IDL which could range from 40 to 90% depending on how the plan was prescribed. The second line was selected by multiplying the prescription IDL by a factor ranging from 0.2–0.9. As an example, if the plan was prescribed to the 50% IDL the gradient could be quantified as the distance between the 50% IDL and the 25% IDL (factor = 0.5) or the 50% IDL and the 10% IDL (factor = 0.2). This definition is convenient in that when translated to absolute dose, the gradient distance is calculated between the same dose levels regardless how the plan is prescribed. Using a factor of 0.5 and a prescription dose of 20 Gy, the gradient distance will always be calculated to the 10 Gy IDL.
Using this definition, the gradient distance was tabulated for 153 different beam configurations representing each collimator setting (3 in total) prescribed at IDLs ranging from 40 to 90% (51 in total). In order to expand the work to include the shot within shot technique, the parameterized data was combined to create composite profiles. Variation in beam on time was achieved by using a weighted average to combine the data from two different collimator settings. The weighting was changed at increments of 0.01 which provided 201 unique combinations of the 4/8 mm and 8/16 mm collimator settings. Each combination was prescribed at IDLs ranging from 40 to 90% which increased the overall number of beam configurations to 10,251 (51 IDLs X 201 collimator settings). The composite profiles were validated by comparing the calculated prescription isodose diameter and gradient distance (factor = 0.5) with measurements made directly in the planning system.
Optimization strategy
A strategy was developed to optimize the selection of collimator weighting and prescription IDL when utilizing the shot within shot technique. The goal was to minimize beam-on time while maintaining an acceptable dose gradient. As 50% is the standard choice for the prescription IDL, the gradient distance (factor = 0.5) for plans prescribed in this manner was set as the baseline for acceptability. Given a new target, the first step was to create a plan utilizing the shot within shot technique prescribed at the 50% IDL (SS50%). The collimator weighting was balanced such that the prescription isodose diameter closely matched the width of the target in the axial dimensions. In the next step, a script was written to search the 10,000+ shot within shot configurations for all plans that produced a prescription isodose diameter in phantom that matched to within 50 μm of the same metric when prescribed at the 50% IDL. From these plans the data was culled, selecting only those plans that produced a gradient distance (factor = 0.5) in the axial dimensions which was no more than 3% greater than that produced by the 50% IDL plan. The final step was to choose from this list the plan with the minimum beam-on time (SSopt). This strategy was tested for a number of institutional review board approved patients who were previously treated at the local institution for metastatic disease in the brain using the Gamma Knife Perfexion.
Verification of the data parameterization was performed for 18 different shot within shot configurations. The percent difference between manual and calculated metrics (prescription isodose diameter and gradient distance w/ factor = 0.5) was less than 3% (see Additional file 2: Profile validation for complete results). This agreement is very good considering that manual measurements made within Gamma Plan can only be recorded to the nearest tenth of a millimeter. Utilizing the parameterized data, Fig. 1 illustrates the dose gradient for the 8 mm collimator setting. The data are plotted according to prescription IDL where the colored lines represent the gradient distance when calculated using different factors ranging from 0.2–0.8. The figures show the gradient steepest in the superior/inferior direction where it is constantly decreasing and minimized at extremely low prescription IDLs. For the axial dimensions, the prescription IDL which provides the steepest dose gradient depends upon how the gradient is defined. Using a factor of 0.5, the shortest gradient distance for a single 8 mm shot occurs when prescribed somewhere between the 62–70% IDLs. For the 4 mm and 16 mm collimator settings these ranges were 56–63% and 77–84%, respectively. When utilizing the shot within shot technique, the shape of these curves can change drastically with the optimal prescription IDL fluctuating between 40% (the lowest calculated for this study) and 84%. Additional figures highlighting these findings are provided in the Additional file 1: Figures S2 – S4.
Dose gradient for the X/Y (left figure) and Z (right figure) dimensions, 8 mm collimator setting
Scatter plots of 10,251 shot within shot configurations are shown in Fig. 2a and b. For each plot, the gradient distance (factor = 0.5) in the axial dimensions is plotted versus the prescription isodose diameter. Figure 2a color codes each point by prescription IDL, while Fig. 2b color codes each point according to beam-on time. The latter calculation assumes a 20 Gy prescription, 2.5 Gy/min dose rate, and standard output factors of 0.8140 (4 mm) and 0.9005 (8 mm). As noted during the introduction, the prescription isodose diameter can be increased by decreasing the prescription IDL or increasing collimator size. This is clearly seen in the figures where two large jumps in the gradient distance represent transition zones moving from the 4–8 mm and 8–16 mm collimator settings. These transitions occur earlier when prescribing at higher IDLs. An overlap region exists around 8–11 mm where the gradient distance for plans prescribed at a higher IDL actually drops below the gradient distance for plans prescribed at a lower IDL. The region is expanded in Fig. 3 to show the overlap. Other areas of interest include the region prior to 6 mm where a higher IDL must be prescribed to match the diameter of smaller targets, and the region beyond 15 mm where the data converge. In comparing Fig. 2a and b for these regions, it can be seen that a marginal increase in the prescription IDL can reduce beam-on time while maintaining a sharp dose gradient. The reduction is nearly proportional to the ratio between two IDLs but slightly better knowing that prescribing to a higher IDL also means utilizing a higher weighting of the 8 mm and 16 mm collimator settings.
Graphical representation of the optimization space provided by the 10,000+ beam configurations using the shot within shot technique plotted with colors indicating (a) prescription IDL or (b) treatment time
Overlap region where prescribing to a higher IDL maintains the same prescription isodose diameter in the axial plane but decreases the distance between the prescription and half-prescription line
Figure 2a and b can also be used to visualize the optimization method described in section IIB. First, consider each figure as a grid where each location along the X axis defines a column. Only one plan can be chosen from within each column. The strategy used to minimize beam-on time for a given column is to first start with the Y location that represents the plan prescribed at the 50% IDL. From there all plans immediately above (within 3%) or below are considered, and the plan with the minimum beam-on time is chosen. An alternative optimization strategy would be to minimize the dose gradient by choosing the plan from within each column that has the smallest Y value. The two strategies produce similar results except within the transition zones where prescription IDLs less than 50% lead to markedly steeper gradients with associated increases in beam-on time and maximum target dose (see Additional file 1: Figure S5 and S6).
In order to quantify the reduction in beam-on time when applying shot within shot optimization, each configuration prescribed at the 50% IDL (SS50% – 201 unique plans) was compared to the corresponding optimal configuration (SSopt – again 201 unique plans) using both shot weighting and IDL optimization. One way to think of this is as a comparison between two plans within each column as described above. The optimal configuration provided an equivalent diameter of the prescription IDL in the axial plane, a gradient distance (factor = 0.5) no worse than 3% from the original, and a minimized beam-on time. The results are shown in Fig. 4 where the reduction in beam-on time can be visualized as twin peaks centered between 8 and 10 mm and 16–20 mm. The largest gains (~40%) occur immediately after the transition zones and reflect the use of prescription IDLs ranging from 50 to 80%. The size of the peaks can be altered by relaxing the similarity constraint for the gradient distance. A figure highlighting these changes can be found in the Additional file 1: Figure S7.
Twin peaks representing the time savings predicted when using shot within shot optimization. The comparison is made between shot within shot plans prescribed at the 50% IDL (SS50%) and shot within shot plans optimized using collimator weighting and different selections of the prescription IDL (SSopt). The optimal plan provided an equivalent diameter of the prescription IDL in the axial plane, a gradient distance (factor = 0.5) no worse than 3% from the original, and a minimized beam-on time
The optimization strategy was tested on seven patients previously treated for 1–4 brain metastasis (20 lesions total). Results are shown in Table 2 where a comparison is made between the actual treated plan, a re-plan using the shot within shot technique prescribed at the 50% IDL (SS50%), and a re-plan using the shot within shot technique prescribed at the optimal IDL (SSopt). The previously treated plans were prescribed almost exclusively to the 50% IDL and often involved the use of multiple shots with different stereotactic coordinates and composite sector weighting (14/20 treated with a multiple shots, 12/20 treated with multiple stereotactic coordinate locations). For the re-plans using the shot within shot technique, all shots maintained the same stereotactic coordinates and were weighted such that the same target coverage as the original plan was achieved. A complete description of the original plan settings and the shot weighting used for the re-plans can be found in the Additional file 2: patient data. For Table 2, the common GK metrics of selectivity and gradient index are included as well as the volume of normal brain receiving 12 Gy or above (V12Gy). The latter metric is widely used as a measure of radiation necrosis where the constraint is typically less than 5–10 cm3 [2, 3]. The reduction in beam-on time is shown in a comparison between the treated plan and the shot within shot re-plans (ΔT1), and in a comparison between the SS50% plan and the optimized plan (ΔT2). In looking at the results, the optimization strategy reduced beam-on time by more than 15% in 16/20 lesions when compared to the treated plan, and in 12/20 lesions when compared to the SS50% plan. For the latter comparison, the largest reductions were in line with expectations of ~40% (see Fig. 4), though the centers of the twin peaks were slightly shifted when plotted using an equivalent spherical diameter calculated from target volume (see Additional file 1: Figure S8). Remembering that the gradient distance was used as a similarity constraint, it is interesting to see how this metric tracks with the more familiar gradient index. Of the 20 lesions, 6 had a gradient index exceed a 3% difference, though only two were greater than 3.5%. The gradient index was actually smaller than the original plan in 3/20 lesions. In most cases the differences between V12Gy were exceedingly small and were practically negligible when comparing the two shot within shot re-plans (max difference of 0.17 cm3).
Table 1 Description of terms and metrics used throughout the manuscript
In the first part of this work, the dose gradient was characterized for all three collimator settings available on the Gamma Knife Pefexion. The penumbra for this system has previously been reported, but only in terms of relative dose [4]. As GK plans are actually prescribed to IDLs within this region, the measurement provides little practical significance. By instead characterizing the gradient as a distance from the prescription IDL, the resulting data can be used to better assess the feasibility of certain treatments. Consider the following scenarios:
Scenario 1 – The treating physician would like to deliver 20 Gy to a lesion that lies 2 mm posterior to the brainstem. They would like to know if a maximum dose of 12 Gy to the brainstem can be achieved. In a best case scenario the answer is yes; using a factor of 0.6 and a prescription IDL of 50%, the distance to the 12 Gy line in the axial plane is 0.935 mm (4 mm collimator) or 1.336 mm (8 mm collimator).
Scenario 2 – The treating physician would like to deliver 14 Gy to a lesion 1 mm superior to the cochlea. They would like to know if a maximum dose of 4 Gy to the cochlea can be achieved. No, using a factor of 0.3 and a prescription IDL of 50%, the distance to the 14 Gy line in the sup/inf direction is 1.02 mm (4mm collimator) or 1.6 mm (8 mm collimator).
In the second part of this work, the data was expanded to incorporate the shot within shot technique. While this technique is familiar to GK users, it is surprisingly absent in the literature. With the introduction of sector collimation and automated couch movement, it is likely that users have migrated towards multi-shot, composite planning, particularly for asymmetric lesions and those that lie within close proximity to critical structures (meningioma, acoustic neuroma, pituitary adenoma, etc.) [5]. For brain metastases, however, a strong case can be made for the utilization of the shot within shot technique, even when lesions are not completely spherical. Two primary considerations for treating brain metastases located in non-eloquent regions are target coverage and V12Gy of normal brain. As seen in Table 2, V12Gy is already very small for the small to moderately sized metastases analyzed in this study. Using the shot within shot technique, these volumes were reduced in many cases, and in only one instance increased by more than 0.5 cm3. In terms of conformity, the selectivity was understandably better in many cases planned using multiple composite shots. However, this appears to be a tertiary concern when treating far from critical structures as conformity has been shown in previous studies to have no correlation with symptomatic radiation necrosis [2, 6, 7].
Going further, the shot within shot technique allows for optimization based on different selections of the prescription IDL and collimator weighting. For this work, beam-on time was selected as the parameter to minimize as it appeared to benefit the most from optimization. The method appears valid, particularly for lesions that fall within specific size ranges as seen in Fig. 4 and Additional file 1: Figure S8, and are not too peripheral in location (>1–2 cm from skull boundary based on visual assessment of phantom data). The reduction in beam-on time is real and represents value for all parties involved. From a patient standpoint, a faster delivery means less time spent in a potentially uncomfortable situation, and also less sedation if it is part of the treatment process. From a staffing standpoint, a reduction in beam-on time means less time at the machine for the authorized user and authorized medical physicist who must provide personal supervision per NRC regulations [8]. The treatment of multiple metastases can be lengthy, particularly on the GK as the Cobalt-60 sources decay. As such, the value of optimization is constantly increasing. Using patient case 4 as an example, the optimized plan is projected to reduce beam-on time from 78 to 44 min immediately post install (ΔT = 34 min), and 150 to 86 min at the 5 year mark (ΔT = 64 min).
In order to achieve the time savings observed in this work through the use of shot within shot optimization, there must be willingness to accept a decrease in the maximum target dose. There is evidence that this tradeoff is acceptable considering that both standard linac and robotic radiosurgery are commonly prescribed in the 65–90% IDL range without clear evidence of worsened outcomes [9,10,11]. A number of recent studies have further explored the rationale for GK based delivery. In one study, the authors found no association between the homogeneity index (max dose/peripheral dose) and local failure or radiation necrosis for 1–3 brain metastases treated with GK [12]. In a second study, the results actually suggested improved local control when prescribing at higher IDLs, particularly for small to moderately sized lesions [13]. With these studies in mind, the expectation when using shot within shot optimization is that neither local control nor radiation necrosis will be any worse than plans prescribed at the 50% IDL based upon similar target coverage and levels of V12Gy.
Conventional wisdom assumes prescribing to the 50% IDL provides the steepest dose gradient for GK radiosurgery. The results of this study show that this is not always the case and that there are opportunities to increase the prescription IDL by using shot within shot optimization. In these cases beam-on times can be reduced by up to 40% while maintaining equivalent target coverage and V12Gy of normal brain. Therefore, the proposed method can be used to reduce treatment times for patients without any expected decrement in tumor control or toxicity. Further research aims to prove this technique prospectively and compare to other GK planning strategies.
Table 2 Comparison between the actual treated plan (prescribed almost exclusively at the 50% IDL), a re-plan using the shot within shot technique prescribed at the 50% IDL (SS50%), and a re-plan using the shot within shot technique prescribed at the optimal IDL (SSopt)
GK:
IDL:
Isodose line
SS50% :
Re-plan using shot within shot technique prescribed at the 50% isodose line
SSopt :
Re-plan using shot within shot technique prescribed at the optimized isodose line
V12Gy :
Volume of normal brain receiving at least 12 Gy
ΔT1:
Reduction in beam-on time in comparison to the original treated plan when using optimization
Reduction in beam-on time in comparison to the shot within shot plan prescribed at the 50% isodose line when using optimization
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The authors did not receive specific funding for this study. All data collection and analysis was performed as part of the routine clinical practice at the academic facility.
The datasets used and analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Radiation Oncology / Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, 1475 NW 12th Ave, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
Perry B. Johnson
Radiation Oncology, University of Miami, 1475 NW 12th Ave, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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PJ designed the concept of the study, collected and analyzed the data, and drafted the manuscript. MM helped with data collection and critically reviewed and revised the manuscript. FY helped with data collection and critically reviewed and revised the manuscript. EM critically reviewed and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Perry B. Johnson.
This work was performed with approval from the University of Miami – IRB B, exempt review.
Additional file 1: Figures S1.
Multi-Gaussian fit of the data sampled from the planning system for the 8 mm collimator setting (X/Y axis above, Z axis below). Roughly 70 points were sampled for each collimator setting and direction using the line measurement tool available in the planning system. Figure S2. Dose gradient for the X/Y and Z dimensions, 16 mm collimator setting. Figure S3. Dose gradient for the X/Y and Z dimensions, 4 mm collimator setting. Figure S4. Gradient distance (factor = 0.5) in the axial plane when utilizing the shot within shot technique. Figure S5. Dose profiles in the axial dimension when using different shot within shot combinations to produce plans with the same prescription isodose diameter and similar dose gradients. The three numbers associated with each area plot are the weighting of the 4 mm, 8 mm, and 16 mm collimator settings. Figure S6. Curves representing shot within shot plans prescribed at the 50%IDL (blue) and those optimized for beam-on time (orange) and gradient distance (red). Notice the difference in the curves within the transition zones where prescribing to IDLs less than 50% minimizes the gradient distance. Because the optimization of beam-on time was designed to provide a similar gradient distance as plans prescribed at the 50% IDL, the blue and orange curves are very similar, though different in terms of beam-on time, prescription IDL, and maximum target dose. Figure S7. Twin peaks representing the time savings predicted when using shot within shot optimization. The different colors represent different similarity constraints for the gradient distance (factor = 0.5) ranging from 1 to 10%. Figure S8. Beam-on time saved using shot within shot optimization on 7 actual patients (20 lesions). The shape of the data is similar to that predicted based on phantom simulation. (DOCX 3977 kb)
Profile validation and patient data. (XLSX 35 kb)
Johnson, P.B., Monterroso, M.I., Yang, F. et al. Optimization of the prescription isodose line for Gamma Knife radiosurgery using the shot within shot technique. Radiat Oncol 12, 187 (2017) doi:10.1186/s13014-017-0919-4
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Slideshow: Idaho and Wyoming
Barely a Taste
The Great Divide slices off only a sliver of Idaho—less than 80 miles. Mountain bikes are not permitted off road in National Parks, so the Trail couldn’t go through either Yellowstone or Grand Teton. Fortunately, between the two, there’s a small area of protected land called the John Rockefeller Parkway and to thread the gap between the two parks, the Great Divide Trail slips into Idaho.
There was an other-worldly change in landscape crossing Red Rock Pass. From high desert wilderness, largely empty of people, on the Montana side to verdant valley with the early morning dew lifting off the grass and bushes as the sun rose, on the Idaho side. A few old homesteads were in the upper valley, but they soon gave way to second homes plopped in the middle of old hay fields with all the architectural finesse of a palm tree in Juneau.
Horses, horse-trailers, big pick-ups, and the smell of bacon, steak, and homefries greeted me at the bottom of the valley. The cowboys, mostly with Utah plates on their rigs, were dressed in blue jeans, pearled shirts, and chipped and scuffed cowboy boots with two inch under slung heals. None waved, , much less invited me to join them for breakfast, perhaps instinctively knowing that some outfitted in lycra with a diapered crotch wasn’t one of them. I whizzed by and headed up the other side.
And missed the turn back onto the Trail. By the time I realized it, I was a mile or so down the road and not interested in turning back. I followed the paved road out of the valley and into the next, far broader valley until I cut the Trail again. There was a convenience store at the gas station and I loaded up with groceries. The owner, ringing me up, was well familiar with bikers. He warned me that the trail down an old railroad bed to Warm River Campground was riven with soft, nearly impassable volcanic sand. This the guide book corroborated—and, to avoid it, Adventure Cycling had plotted an alternative route 18 miles longer than the Trail.
Guidebooks tend to amp up dicey situations, making them sound more dangerous or more arduous than they really are, perhaps worried about liability suits or bad Amazon ratings. After a close reading of a guidebook, you can start a day wondering if you’re going to be alive at the end of it, only to get to the end of it wondering where the dicey part was. Years ago, I learned never to let an inexperienced person read the guidebook before starting a trip, otherwise it would panic my companion and it’d take forever to talk them back into their senses.
That said, soft sand had started rising on my list of biking horrors and, to my later disgust, I opted for the detour. The detour took me up a waterless ridge forested with widely spaced lodge pole pines. I spent the night camped just off the road. The next morning, the sky was leaden with the undifferentiated grey so well known to those of us who live in rainforests. Rain was imminent and I got back on the road skipping breakfast just as the water poured from the sky. It was a fast cold ride down off the ridge to the Warm River Campground, set in a narrow valley with the Warm River rushing by it.
I fed and watered under a peaked roof that sheltered some picnic tables. The campground was quiet; the few people there hunkered down in their RVs wisely huddled around their heaters and TVs. I was chewing trail mix when the camp host drove up in his SUV. Camp hosts are wondrous folks. The Forest Service and many state parks “hire” people each summer to maintain the park, take fees, and generally the campers. The hosts live in their own RVs on site. Warm River was a large campground with many facilities, and Lynn, the host, was paid only $1000 a month—basically his and his wife’s expenses to work far more than 8 hours a day keeping the camp ground running. It’s a labor of love, the joy of meeting good people, and spending the summer in a beautiful spot that attracts the hosts. Lynn and his wife had been doing if for years in different parts of the country, tho in recent years, grandkids and pulled them back to parks within easy driving distance of home.
Lynn had been over the RR bed, I’d detoured around, in a 4-wheeler and scoffed at any problem. The soft sand stretches, he said were from here to there, pointing to a tree 150 feet away. Otherwise, it’s easy. I was distressed that I’d let myself be intimidated by a guidebook.
Lynn was trained as an accountant and after he retired had worked for H & R Block, “Tho I hated finding government money in people’s returns that they didn’t deserve.” Later, he drove long distance truck, until his grandkids came along and then he stayed closer to home. He hoped Sarah Palin would be president someday. When he got on the city council, the first thing he was going to do was get rid of the community golf course: The taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for people’s golf games. Bikers, tho, he enjoyed. Because the $25 fee was too high to charge a single biker, he’d let them camp on the patch of grass surrounding his RV, excited to see his grandkids meeting strange people with strange accents.
Bundled in warm clothes and rain gear, I followed the road as it climbed out of the valley up into a broad plain planted in wheat and potatoes. Just 40 miles westward was a desert no potato could have survived in. I headed down backcountry roads toward the Grand Tetons buried in low grey clouds, chased by dogs. I learned I can’t out-pedal them.
The road turned to wet gravel and the mud sucked at my tires. I pushed on, wanting to get to a good campsite before the sun disappeared. I was some miles into the Caribou-Targee National Forest when a dirt bike overtook me. In the saddle was John Williamson, an air quality researcher from Seattle. Fifty-seven, with grey close cropped hair, he was hungry for conversation and we two sat astride our rigs chatting for an hour or so. Apparently, some dirt bike group had posted all the GPS coordinates to the Great Divide Trail up on the web. John had downloaded them into his GPS and was following the Trail as far south as Colorado, where he would leave it and head back home across Utah and Nevada.
It sounded like a big trip, looping the entire northwest of the U.S., but he said it would take him only three weeks. “I started in Lima, this morning,” he said, “And will stay the night in Pinedale.” Lima, Montana to Pinedale, Wyoming was 400 odd miles by the Trail and would take me 8 days, biking every day but the half-day I cowered out of the rain in Red Rock. It takes some small effort to bike four hundred miles on dirt roads and into headwinds and that he could do it in a day rocked me—and brought home the great assist we get from petroleum. Eight days of great effort collapsed into eight hours without threat to heart-rate or paunch.
John buzzed off, disappearing quickly at the next bend of the road, although I would follow his tracks for the rest of the day. One barrel of oil is the equivalent to two years of manual labor. The average American utilizes 11 barrels of oil annually, or the equivalent or 22 years of manual labor. It is impossible to imagine life without that subsidy. Even as I biked on, following John’s waffled trail, I helped myself to that subsidy: the roads, my food and clothes, the entire machinery of society which generated the wealth that enabled me to live for months on the stored fat of my labor all depended on the energy assist of petroleum.
The road narrowed and deteriorated as I climbed the northern flank of the Tetons. The transmission popped and crackled as it ground the mud and gravel clogging my chain and gears. Somewhere, deep in the forest, I passed from Idaho into Wyoming and, although there was still light left in the day, I worried at the damage I was doing to Succotash. I stopped early by a little stream, set up camp and took brush, rag, and chain oil to the chain and gears.
That night it snowed.
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3 Massive Statue Heads Unearthed At Cambodian Temple
Friday, 21 November 2014.
Last weekend, three massive Angkorian-era statue heads at Banteay Chhmar temple in Banteay Meanchey Province were unearthed.
The sandstone heads were found under a meter of soil and according to preservation official, Mao Sy, this depth saved them from the hands of looters:
“If they had not been buried deep into the ground, they would have been cut off, looted and sold. It is very fortunate these statues did not end up getting sold abroad,” he said.
“The heads were part of a causeway depicting the stirring of the Ocean of Milk, an ancient Hindu fable under which gods and demons worked together to churn the seas by wrapping a serpent around a mountain and rotating it,” according to the Phnom Penh Post.
A bas-relief at Angkor Wat depicts the devas and asuras working together to stir up the Ocean of Milk in an attempt to free the elixir of immortality called amrita. Source: Wikimedia.
Sy said that the of the three heads, which date back to the12th-century reign of Jayavarman VII, two were found intact while one suffered some major breaks.
The pieces will be put in storage until more parts are found, at which point the statues will be reassembled.
[Phnom Penh Post]
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Sailing to the Pacific in a Bristol 40
About Antares
Antares is a Bristol 40, hull #118, designed by Ted Hood. For those who do not know the builder (Bristol Yatchs) you can tell from the picture that she is a “classic,” relatively heavy boat (17,580 lbs), with discrete and elegant curves that give her deep over-hangs and a low-free board. These are important features for an ocean boat as they provide stability and allow for a more comfortable and rhythmic movement over the waves. She has a full-keel, a full-skeg rudder, and a propeller in between –which reduces the chances of wrapping a line, crab pots, or simply marine weed (like the sargaso invading these days the caribbean sea).
Also contributing to her seaworthiness is a narrow beam (10’9”) which makes accommodations inside rather frugal — at least in comparison with modern designs. She has only one private cabin, forward, with a V-berth. In the main cabin you find two settees and the quarter berth. The port settee can be extended to sleep two and the starboard settee accepts a pipe cot berth on top. So, in principle, Antares can sleep 7 people; a principle that will be tested over Christmas when we plan to cruise the Bahamas with Natalia, the girls, my parents and at some point my son. The main cabin also has a folding dining table, the galley and fridge, and the navigation table. All the construction, inside, is made of teak. Outside, the oversized wheel, gunwales, hatches, and dorade boxes are also made of teak. Maintenance is, of course, a problem….
The starboard side. Sofia making her bed
The port side. Marina having dinner
The folding table
Sofia in the cockpit
Natalia in the galley
Antares is a sloop — it has a single mast and a single head-sail. I have installed, however, an inner-stay with running back-stays. Her wardrobe thus includes a furling genoa, a stay-sail that when needed plays the role of a storm jib, a fully battened main sail, a storm try-sail with independent tracks on the mast, and the speenaker.
In terms of electronics and safety-equipment, Antares has a fix VHF radio, an old radar, a sat phone (iGO from Iridium), a class B AIS transponder (AMEC Camino 108) to “see” (and be “seen” by) other boats at night, a small tracking device (Spot), and a 400 Hz EPIRB. All navigation is done with an IPad (INavX), paper charts, and a hand-held GPS (no chart-plotters). There is an autopilot but it can only handle mild conditions, the real self-steering system is a Monitor wind-vane. I carry a life-raft for 4 people (Revere Offshore Commander) and a Jordan Series Drogue that I hope I will never use. From a review of the literature on off-boat controls (drogues and parachutes) it seems to me that the Jordan series is the most effective device to stabilize the boat with the stern facing the waves and without having to steer. The crew can then go down to the safety of the cabin, shut the companion way, and wait for things to calm down. Retrieval of the rogue though seems to be an exhausting task.
I bought Antares in September 2013; a great decision. She was at the time in a marina in Brandford Connecticut. My son Juan David and my friend Richard Hinz sailed her down to the Chesapeake in early April 2014. I’ll write about that trip and current preparations (and short cruises) for the the next leg (Whitehall Bay to Marsh harbor) in future posts.
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Spotlight on: Agnes
November 1, 2019 sanctanomina Spotlight Catholic baby names
Happy All Saints’ Day!! How about a name spotlight?!
Agnes was requested a couple months ago and I’m happy to be finally getting to it, as Agnes has always been the epitome of a sweet name to me, based entirely on a picture from a book of saints I had as a child of a sweet-looking young woman holding a sweet little lamb. (It might have been this picture, and I think this was the book, which my boys also love, and which I can’t currently find.)
Other than that, however, it was entirely off my radar as a feasible possibility for today’s little girls — being SUCH a grandmother name — until actress Elisabeth Shue named her daughter Agnes Charles back in 2006 (and let’s just sit for a moment with little Agnes’ siblings’ names: Miles William and Stella Street. There’s no evidence that I can find that Elisabeth Shue is Catholic, but her kids sure have some Catholichic names!) (Also, Agnes paired with Charles! I’d never seen such a thing before then, and thought Elisabeth and her husband were SO creative).
Anyway, since then I’ve seen Agnes pop up here and there, including two more celebrity babies (daughter of actors Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany in 2011 [who, weirdly, has a brother named Stellan — so similar to Elisabeth Shue’s daughters Agnes and Stella!] and Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ daughter Inez in 2016 [an English form of Inés, which is the Spanish form of Agnes]) and among Sancta Nomina families (though only as a middle name or under variants like Anessa and Inessa). But it still remains really rare, having dropped out of the top 1000 in 1972. Between 2000 and 2010 there were between 57 and 81 girls named Agnes each year, and between 2011 and 2018 there were between 97 and 232 girls so named (with 232 [2016] being the clear peak — more than thirty more than the next highest); 2018 saw 195 baby girls named Agnes.
I think the jump in 2011 is probably due to the first Despicable Me movie (2010) — adorable sisters Margo, Edith, and Agnes did wonders for their names! (The second came out in 2013 [2014 saw another jump for Agnes from 123 to 191] and the third in 2017 [which, funnily enough, saw a drop from 232 to 196].) Do you agree? Do you know what might have caused the jump from 190 in 2015 to 232 in 2017?
Anyway. Agnes is a Catholicky Catholic name. She’s like Agatha, but younger-feeling to me — do you agree? She’s in the Canon of the Mass. I associate the name quite a bit with my mom, as she attended the Sisters of St. Joseph-run St. Agnes Seminary in Brooklyn from Kindergarten through Grade 12, so a lot of her childhood stories involve the name of St. Agnes.
The similarity of Agnes to the Latin for “lamb” — agnus — has created a connection between St. Agnes and lambs that’s in all her artwork though, according to behindthename, her name actually means “chaste” (which is also lovely). The “lamb” connection is so strong that the Irish name Úna/Oona(gh), which means “lamb,” has sometimes been translated into English as Agnes. And one of you readers came up with the brilliant first+middle combo of Agnes Daisy to mimic the sound of Agnus Dei: “Lamb of God.” I love that!
Nicknames for Agnes include, of course, the adorable Aggie (which I know has its own problems for those who don’t want to associate with Texas A&M!), as well as Ness/Nessa/Nessie and Tag/Taggy. Some of its variants can lead to nicknames for Agnes too — I can see the Welsh Nesta serving as a nickname for Agnes, as well as the old English variant Annis/Annes. Speaking of old variants, I think Annis, Annas, Annatt, and Annison — all of which are English surnames deriving from Agnes per Reaney & Wilson — could be great ways to name a little girl after an Agnes without using Agnes, if that was important to the parents (and the nickname Annie could be used).
What do you all think of Agnes? Would you consider naming a daughter Agnes or any of its variants, or have you? Do you know any Agneses, and how old are they? Do they go by a nickname? Happy Friday!
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Spotlight on: Agatha
August 16, 2019 sanctanomina Spotlight Catholic baby names, Nicknames, Spotlight
One of you readers asked me to spotlight Agatha, specifically nicknames for it. You know that nicknames are my jam! And I’ve seen Agatha being considered and used more and more, so I’m sure that one reader wasn’t the only one who has wondered about this.
So! St. Agatha is a great saint! She (St. Agatha of Sicily, to be precise) was a martyr who’s listed in the Canon of the Mass, and has a brave but terrible story, as martyrdom stories tend to go. (I will never understand why some people think women are weak.) (I know the terrible martyrdom stories put some people off of naming after those saints — fortunately, there are a bunch of other holy Agathas! And some other really interesting historical Agathas, which Abby from Appellation Mountain discusses in her post on the name.)
Many people think of it as an old name, and it’s not just their perception:
Screenshot from the Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager tool
Here’s a different version of the same info:
Screenshot from the SSA’s Popularity of a Name tool
It was never very popular — it peaked at no. 392 in 1913, and fell out of the top 1000 altogether in 1945. 1945! That’s why it feels like an old name — it has a “stuck in the early part of the 1900s” feel because it was exponentially more popular then than has been since.
But! It never totally disappeared, and is coming back a little bit! Here’s how it’s looked since 2000:
2018: 102 girls named Agatha
Since 2013, it’s been on an upswing! Which is good for those who don’t like names that have an outdated feel, but it’s still got rare enough usage that those who prefer uncommon names won’t be disappointed either.
So how about those nicknames? Aggie is the obvious — it’s adorable, with the same sounds as the super popular Maggie, but the lack of that initial M makes a big difference. And I think a lot of people who might consider Agatha would be thrilled to have such a sweet, spunky nickname for their girl to use on an everyday basis. However, the mama who asked for the Agatha spotlight specifically said that Aggie is a no-go for her because the Texas A&M association is “way too strong”! I do know some people who love that association and consider Aggie because of it (alumni maybe?), but for others, especially those from Texas, I can see Aggie being problematic.
One of the nickname ideas I found in my research that I thought had promise is Gatha. Maybe? I also saw Agatine — I thought that could be cute — nicknames/diminutives aren’t necessary shorter, after all (e.g., John/Jack, Thomas/Tommy, Mary/Molly, Ann/Nancy). And I could see Agatine becoming something like Tina as time goes on, and then people would be like, “Why does your sister Agatha go by Tina?” and you can send them this post. 😂
There was actually a thread on Nameberry with this exact dilemma (Texan family who likes Agatha but doesn’t like the A&M association), and some of the suggestions were brilliant:
“I have considered Hattie or the even rarer, cuter Hatsy! I think it works cuz you have the name ending in “ha” and you sort of just transmute the t and there you go!“
Hattie and Hatsy are cuuuute! Others that commenters listed included
Aga, Ags
Ath, Atha
Gats, Gatsby
Gatta, Gattie
Tag, Tags, Taggy
I think Taggy’s brilliant — it’s an old nickname for Agnes, I totally should have thought of that!
What do you all think of Agatha? Would you consider naming a daughter Agatha, or have you? What nickname would you use, if any? Do you know any Agathas in real life? Do they go by a nickname? Happy Friday!!
Spotlight on: Cosima
August 6, 2019 sanctanomina Spotlight Catholic baby names, Italian names, Naming twins
A reader asked for a spotlight on Cosima, what a cool name! This was extra fun to work on because I didn’t really know anything about it until starting to do the research — how neat to discover it’s a feminine form of Cosmas! Like the twin saints, Cosmas and Damian!
In fact, let’s talk about Cosmas for a sec — I love that it’s a Catholicky Catholic name (in the Canon of the Mass, even!), and I love that it’s tailor-made for a twin (along with Cosmas’ actual twin, Damian — this mama did an awesome job incorporating both saints into her twin boys’ names! — and also Thomas, which means “twin”). I even love that Cosmo is one of its variants — who knew that Kramer has such a saintly name?? 😀
But of all the Cosmas variants — Kosmas, Cosmo, Kuzman, Cosimo, Côme, Cosma, Cosme, Cosmin, Kuzma — there’s only one feminine variant, isn’t that interesting?
Cosima is an Italian name, but I don’t think it comes across as overly Italian, do you? I mean, I think a family with no Italian heritage could consider it without raising eyebrows, do you agree? (Not that I think eyebrow-raising names are a bad thing!) In fact, Nameberry says it’s “the kind of elegant and exotic name the British upper classes love to use for their daughters” and that it’s “well used in Germany, Italy and Greece.”
Behind the Name says its pronunciation is KAW-zee-ma, but commenters said they’ve heard KO-zi-muh, KO-see-ma, ka-see-MAH, and cho-SEE-ma — if you’ve heard it in real life, what pronunciation(s) have you heard?
Based on those pronunciations, I can see Cosi (cozy), Cosi (kaw-zee), and Sima being doable as nicknames — can you think of others?
There are a few celebrity babies named Cosima, including the daughters of chef Nigella Lawson and filmmaker Sofia Coppola, as well as the daughter of supermodel Claudia Schiffer, who deserves a special shout-out because of the whole sibling set: Cosima Violet, Clementine de Vere, and Caspar Matthew. Ohhhhh my! ❤ ❤ ❤
I also saw several references to Cosima as a character’s name on the show Orphan Black, which I’m not familiar with, and the daughter of composer Franz Liszt; that Cosima was also the wife of composer Richard Wagner. I didn’t find any saints named Cosima, however.
What do you all think of Cosima? Would you consider it for a daughter? Do you know any Cosimas, and if so, do they like their name? Do they go by a nickname?
Spotlight on: Shepherd
July 14, 2018 July 14, 2018 sanctanomina Spotlight Catholic baby names, Catholic surnames, Word names
Happy feast of St. Kateri! I did a spotlight on her name back when I first started the blog, and she’s the first entry in my Sibling Project. I’ve also mentioned the Auriesville Shrine a few times, which is where St. Isaac Jogues and companions were martyred, and where it is believed St. Kateri was born — the Shrine is close to where I live, and I grew up going there and have brought my boys many times. And also, today’s my brother’s birthday and the birthday of my best childhood friend! A great day!
Given all this, it’s funny that I should be doing a post today that doesn’t have anything to do with Kateri! But I promised a spotlight on the name Shepherd to Theresa ages ago, and I woke up this morning full of determination to finally get it done, so here we are. A spotlight on Shepherd on the feast of St. Kateri. 😀
I’ve been digging word names recently, and Shepherd is one of the best for Catholic namers! We can use it to refer, of course, to Jesus the Good Shepherd. Shepherd and its variant Shep(p)ard literally mean “shepherd, sheep herder,” and the Good Shepherd is one of my favorite portrayals of Jesus. Jesus Himself said, “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep” (John 10:11) and “My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27) — such a strong and comforting reassurance! In addition, as far as a feast day goes, Good Shepherd Sunday is the fourth Sunday after Easter, and in “1963, Pope Paul VI designated Good Shepherd Sunday as World Day of Prayer for Vocations as those called to the priesthood are shepherds of the faithful” (source). I love that! There’s also a pretty great list of patrons of shepherds, if you’d rather go that route to find a feast day.
In addition to being a word name, it’s also a surname, so it can fit in with other saintly surnames (incidentally, speaking of St. Kateri and St. Isaac, Jogues is on that list of saintly surnames!) — this family has three boys with names in this style, including Shepherd — I love them!
Shep is one of the best nicknames too! It’s good for a boy and a man, and it has that friendly vibe that I always like so much in nicknames. I could also see Sheppy, which is a-dorable, and I’m not opposed to Herd as a nickname either, if Shep(py) isn’t quite right — it reminds me of Hart, which I see from time to time and like quite a bit, and in fact the surname Herd appears to be a variant of Hart, which I don’t know quite what to do with but it’s too interesting to not include! (Note that the first link to Hart is for its use as a nickname for Gerhardt, which is a variant of Gerard, and in that case means “hardy,” while the latter link to Hart as a variant of Herd refers to its meaning as a male deer [stag]. Both of them cool meanings, but neither refer to sheep!).
What do you think of the name Shepherd? Would you consider it for a son, or have you? Do you know anyone named Shepherd? Does he go by a nickname? Happy feast day to all the little Kateris that are part of the Sancta Nomina community!
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Spotlight on: Helena
May 18, 2018 sanctanomina Spotlight Powerful patrons, Spotlight
A reader has requested a spotlight on Helena, which I’ve been trying to get to for weeks … ta da! Here it is!
I’m always interested when variants of the same name all have different feels, and this is definitely one of those names. Helen has an older feel to me, like vintage chic, while Helena feels a bit more on trend and Helene feels mostly out of fashion, but the SSA data doesn’t totally agree with me: Helen is most popular at no. 418, followed by Helena at 516, and Helene at 943. What are your gut reactions about each name?
Then there are the non-H variants: Ellen, Elena, Elaine, Eleni, Ileana, Yelena, and Olena. And maybe Eleanor (which opens up some more variants, like Elea, Nora(h), and Lenora/Lenore). So many gorgeous names! So many ways of choosing a name in this family that suits your taste! I love the nicknames too: Ellie, Nell(ie), Lena, Leni (let’s not forget Dwija’s little Helen Margaret who got called Nellie Peg for a while in the beginning [and maybe still?]. Nellie Peg! So cute! [I can’t find the link to where I read that though!])
But back to Helena for a minute — for the mama who asked for the consultation, and for others I’ve encountered who would like to consider the name or who are, pronunciation can be an issue. There are three that seem to have fairly decent use: HEL-en-na, hel-LAY-na, and hel-LEEN-na. For those who don’t like when names have different acceptable pronunciations, that can be a problem! I did a name poll on Twitter to see if one pronunciation really rose to the surface, and there really was (though admittedly the same size was quite small):
So at least among the Sancta Nomina Twitter followers, HEL-en-na wins the day! How do you all say it?
St. Helena of Constantinople is the first holy Helen(a) to come to mind when I hear the name, and is usually the one parents tell me they’re using as patron (as well as the Eleanors), but there are others with the name or a variant as either a birth name or religious name — do any of you have devotions to any of them?
I’ve also seen people really love the meaning, which Behind the Name gives as either “torch,” “corposant” (a new word to me, but how cool!), or “moon,” and the DMNES says its origin is uncertain.
What do you all think of Helena and/or its variants? Would you consider any of them for a daughter, or have you? Do you know any little ones named Helena, and do they go by a nickname?
Spotlight on: Faustina (and another announcement!)
April 6, 2018 sanctanomina Spotlight Appellation Mountain, Catholic baby names, Divine Mercy, Marians of the Immaculate Conception, Spotlight
These past few weeks have been so exciting for me, being able to share with you all the news of my baby and my book! So many of you immediately asked about names we’re considering for the baby, and some of you even offered to help! You’re all wonderful. ❤ I’d had the same thought myself — about seeking ideas and suggestions, including from all of you — and had reached out to the amazing Abby from Appellation Mountain to see if she had room to do a consultation for me! Abby offers name help at Nameberry as the Name Sage, and weekly on her blog with her Name Help posts, and I’ve long been completely impressed by her name knowledge and her thoughtful suggestions for expectant parents. (She’s also been a wonderful mentor to me as a name writer, and gave me an amazing endorsement for my book!)
I’m thrilled to share that Abby has indeed put together some ideas for me, and will post it on her blog tomorrow! Eek! I’m so excited! I’ll definitely post the link here once she has it up, and I hope you all weigh in with your ideas/thoughts/suggestions! Many of you also asked if we’d be finding out the gender ahead of time — we never have, and aren’t planning to do so with this baby, but even so we only need help with boy names (our girl name has been the same throughout). It’ll be a little tricky since, as you know, my husband feels strongly about not sharing our boys’ names online, so you’ll just have to give me your best and favorite ideas. 🙂 I’ve given Abby some details and clues about our style that we’re okay with her sharing in her post — I know she’ll lay it all out nicely and will give you good direction for your suggestions.
If all that isn’t exciting enough, I’m extra excited that Abby’s posting it on Divine Mercy weekend! The Divine Mercy devotion is such a special one, both because of its power and because of our beloved St. John Paul’s connection to it. And also, the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception are the ones who are publishing my book, and they’ve been given the gift and task of spreading devotion to the Divine Mercy — they run the National Shrine of Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, MA, they are *the* publishers of St. Faustina’s diary, and one of their Fathers was the vice-postulator for the cause for canonization of St. Faustina.
So I thought today was the perfect day to post a spotlight on Faustina!
Many of those who I’ve done consultations for have shared that they’ve considered Faustina as a first or middle name for their daughters, and I had the privilege of posting birth announcements for two little girls given Faustina as a first name (here, here), and one with Faustina as a middle. Two of my best friends took Faustina as their Confirmation names, and one gave Faustina to her daughter as her middle name. I love seeing it!
Behind the Name says Faustina is the feminine form of Faustinus, which was the name of several saints, and derives from Faustus meaning “auspicious, lucky” in Latin; Faustus itself is the name of several saints as well. (I think he’s well known enough that I can’t not mention Faust, renamed Doctor Faustus in at least one of the story’s reinterpretations — a literary character who makes a deal with the devil — but I don’t personally think Faustina is [or should be] at all tainted by this association.) Faustine is the French variant of Faustina, which I think is lovely as well. There are actually several Sts. Faustina, and the St. Faustina we’re familiar with (St. Faustina Kowalska) took the name as her religious name (Sr. Maria Faustina) — I’d love to know why! Was it after one of those other Sts. Faustina? Or perhaps because of its meaning?
Faustina strikes me as similar to Christina, with its “stina” ending, and it can take Tina as a nickname as well. I’ve heard it said FAW-stina, rhyming with “paw,” and I’ve heard it said FOW-stina, rhyming with “cow,” so that could be a turn off for those who prefer one straightforward pronunciation, though a minor one I think. I’ve never seen anyone use a nickname for it — other than Tina, perhaps Fia and Fina could work? If you did Maria Faustina, that opens up some more nickname options like Mia, Mina, and even something like Muffy.
I love that Faustina is, like Kolbe, Kateri, Gianna, Jacinta, John Paul, and others, a modern-day Catholicky Catholic name — its certainly got roots, but St. Faustina is a saint of and for our times.
What do you all think of Faustina? Would you use it for a daughter, or have you? Do you know anyone named Faustina, and if so, does she like her name? Does she go by a nickname?
(Find out more about Divine Mercy Sunday here, and here‘s how to say the Divine Mercy Chaplet.) (And don’t forget to check in tomorrow to offer your name ideas for my littlest one! 🙂 )
Spotlight on: Cecilia
January 20, 2018 sanctanomina Spotlight Catholic baby names, Musical names, Powerful patrons
Cecilia! You’re breaking my heart! You’re name meaning’s causing some problems! 🎶🎶🎶
Not for everyone, certainly — Cecilia’s definitely one of those names that’s generally favored by parents wanting an obvious saintly name (I included it my list of unmistakably Catholic girl names), and I know lots of Catholic families with little Cecilias. St. Cecilia was a martyr for refusing to sacrifice to false gods; she was the first incorruptible saint; she’s in the Canon of the Mass; and she’s the patroness of music, musicians, musical instrument makers, and singers (among other things), which makes her name perfect for a music-loving couple to consider for their daughter. She was a strong, holy woman, and her name is lovely and feminine. There’s a lot to recommend Cecilia! But I’ve heard from multiple parents who have a hard time getting past its definition of “blind.”
One reader emailed recently about this issue — she would very much like to consider the name, but said, “I just cannot get past the meaning of ‘blind.’ A positive meaning is a must for me … I was just thinking that knowing more about the origins of Cecilia might change my heart a bit.” Of course! Let’s get to the root of the problem! We know it derives from the Latin for “blind,” but why? Who was the first to be named “blind,” and why were they?
Based on my research, I’m going to argue that the definition of “blind” no longer applies to this family of given names. From what I can gather, Cecilia is the feminine form of a Roman gens (or “clan”) name, which originally — in ancient days — was taken from a mythological figure, Caeculus, who was a king mentioned in the Aeneid, and his name was indeed intended to mean “little blind one” (from the Latin word for blind) because part of his mythology was that he showed mastery over fire (and in fact his mother was said to have been impregnated by a spark of fire), but the smoke did affect his eyes, hence the name of “little blind one.” He was really a figure of divinity and strength, and I’m sure the Roman clan didn’t fuss about the meaning of “blind” (otherwise they would have changed their name, right? Or not chosen Caeculus as their “ancestor” in the first place?). (I’m getting this info from Wikipedia, hoping that it’s accurate! I also read this.)
So really, I think the name originally persisted because of that clan, and that family doesn’t mean “blind,” they mean whatever would come to mind when those who were familiar with them would hear their name, you know? Like, my last name is Towne, but I’m sure when people see or hear my name they don’t think “town, village, enclosure,” which is what the name originally meant. Or if they do, it’s a fleeting thought that’s quickly replaced by whatever comes to mind when they think of *me.* This is all what I tried to articulate in the article I wrote about name “definitions” vs. name “meanings”.
So if the original people with this name were able to look past the meaning of “blind,” and be powerful despite their name’s origin (and there’s even a goddess [of sorts] known as Caia Caecilia), even more so can those who have no connection to them or their origins (mythological or otherwise), and in fact have new connotations that are intimately tied up in the name Cecilia. Because I’m sure it’s only name nerds (and Latin ones too, I suppose) who know that Cecilia means “blind” — other Catholics know that it means “patroness of musicians,” and non-Catholics might know that there’s a musical connection, or they might just know it as a pretty name.
Now that I’ve convinced you all that blindness has nothing to do with St. Cecilia, in an interesting twist I just read this post that says St. Cecilia was born blind, and this post, which says, “The name Cecilia means blind and so, although we don’t know if she herself couldn’t see, she is also the Catholic patron saint of the blind.” None of this info (her being blind, or her being patroness of those who are blind) is included anywhere on CatholicSaints.info (which is where I usually turn for my saint info). In fact, I’d assumed that she’s known as Cecilia because she was a member of that Roman gens, and The Catholic Encylopedia at New Advent seems to support that hypothesis when it refers to “the family of St. Cecilia (Gens Caecilia).”
Back to being able to look past the “definition of the name,” I love that Behind the Name argues, “Due to the popularity of the saint, the name became common in the Christian world during the Middle Ages.” It’s ultimately because of St. Cecilia, and no other bearer of the name (nor, of course, its meaning), that the name has the popularity it has had and continues to have! So great!
As for the name itself, isn’t Cecilia so sweet? So soft and lilting. It can be spelled Caecilia (like this family) or Cecelia, and has some great variants like Cecily, Cicely, and even Sheila! Sheila is an anglicization of Síle, which is the Irish form of Cecilia. I love the Russian Tsetsiliya, the Polish Cecylia, and the fact that Cecil and Cecilio are male variants — so cool! And lots of fun diminutives and nicknames, including the familiar Cece, as well as Lia, Celia (which can also stand on its own with separate origins), Cissy, Cila, Cilla, Cilka, Silke, Silja, and Zilla. Who knew?!
What do you all think of Cecilia? Have you, too, been bothered by the meaning? Has this post helped? Would you consider naming your daughter Cecilia, or have you? What do the Cecilias that you know go by?
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James Dexter: "If the music is on point, then I'm open to get involved"
In Interviews tagged with Mihai popoviciu James dexter Interview Inermu records House Gruuv Featured Exclusive Ep Deep Bondage music London
Having spent several years immersed in the London underground House music scene James Dexter is a name now recognized by most. James has released music with a number of well-respected & highly influential labels including the likes of Poker Flat Recording, Dessous Recordings, Cyclic Records, Bondage Music & Little Helpers just to name a few.
These productions have earned James regular features & chart success on the industries leading sites including numerous Beatport & Traxsource Top 100ʼs spots. With a solid production and label catalogue, James has gained support from some of the industries leading artists including the likes of Steve Bug, Damian Lazarus, Marco Carola, Joseph Capriati, Sidney Charles, Ian Pooley just to name a few.
Staying true to the sounds that have influenced James along the way, his productions & DJ sets are a well-rounded combination of groove driven, low bass, deep underground sounds, a proven formula to keep the dance floor grooving away till the early hours. With his latest project, a label “Inermu”, James is able to showcase not only his own productions but the sound of upcoming talent and help provide them with a platform to be heard.
Hi, James. Since December is normally quite a busy month for DJ’s, what have you been up to lately?
Hi guys, Happy New Year! I actually like to take a couple of weeks off in December, around Christmas time & New Years, to give myself a break from the studio and gigs. But before that, I was very busy in the studio finishing up projects for the New Year, and I also had some great gigs. A stand out one for me was in Budapest at the beginning of the December, it was a really cool intimate party in a private/secret room of a big club, the sound system was spot on, the crowd were really there for the music and the promoters were top guys. I had a great time!
Do you remember your first electronic music experience? What made you produce music in the first place?
To be honest, I'm not sure I actually remember my first electronic music experience, but I was DJ'ing for a couple of years before I started making music, so I fell into music production that way.
Looking back at your release catalogue, we can see that you’ve worked with many different labels, some known and some lesser known ones. Would you say that this is a “standard” path that every producer needs to go through?
I think every producer's path is always going to be different in some form or another, it is quite natural though that when you start releasing music as a producer you may release on a lesser-known label as they could be easier to reach out to and more open to listening to newer artists than the bigger labels. But for me, if the music fits, that is the most important thing. I’m always open to working with a lesser known label if the music is on point and the ethos of the label is right then I’m open to getting involved.
You label Inermu Records. Where, when and why did you start this project?
I started the label back in 2015. The main reason for starting Inermu was so I could take a bit more control when it came to releasing my own music. I wanted to be able to put out tracks as and when I wanted without having to fit in with another labels release schedule etc. It's been great running the label and I've loved working with new artists on certain releases and building up a new family of label artists.
2017 has slowly faded out and it was quite a year for James Dexter. With a strong list of releases (Cyclic, Dessous, Rebellion and Bondage just to name a few) and with even more international gigs, can you share some of your favourite 2017 highlights?
2017 was definitely a great year for me. Doing my first South America Tour was a massive highlight; it was amazing to see first hand how far my music is reaching. Another big highlight for me was playing the Bondage Music Showcase at Warehouse in Mallorca. I ended playing for around 7hours, the atmosphere in that place was something else. It was seriously good
In one of your oldest interviews (rare ones), we read that around 95% of your productions are software written. Has your process of creating music changed over the years? Do you use more hardware now?
Over the last few years, I have been incorporating a lot more hardware into my productions. Now I use a mixture of drum machines and synths combined with software synths and samples, and most tracks I make are a nice mix of these. I would still say the way I approach making a track is very similar to when I was just using the software. I try not to have any rules and always start with a blank template in Logic. 99% of the time I start with drums, find the right groove and build from there. I'm very conscious of making sure that every track/release is different from the last so I try not to reuse the same sounds.
Since we've already entered 2018 is, can you share some of your upcoming projects with us? We know you’re releasing music on Gruuv with Mihai Popoviciu on the remix duties, but we want to hear more!
I've got lots lined up for 2018 already, particularly at the start of the year. I have a nice mix of digital & vinyl releases coming on the likes of Gruuv, Inermu, Bondage Music, Tuccillo's Label 'Unblock Music', Jack's House, Decay Records and a few others.
Let's finish this lovely talk with a bit deeper thought. What would you say is the biggest challenge for yourself when it comes to music?
I used to struggle with music theory and playing the keyboard etc. I had no music theory knowledge what so ever, which made writing certain styles that much more challenging. However, I have been learning piano for well over a year now and it has really helped to improve my work-flow when in the studio.
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His Substitute Wife (Stand-In Brides #1) by Dorothy Clark
On 28/12/2016 18/06/2017 By Sonya HeaneyIn Books, History, Romance
A Convenient Marriage
Blake Latherop needs a wife in order to keep his business, and his betrothed has apparently eloped with another man. So when his fiancée’s sister, Audrey Prescott, steps off the train in Whisper Creek offering to be his bride, he’s in no position to refuse. But it’s hardly the marriage he had in mind.
Audrey knows she shouldn’t have answered Blake’s letters in her sister’s name…but she couldn’t bring herself to tell him of his fiancée’s betrayal. Now the only way to fix things is through a temporary marriage. But as she comes to love her new life in the West, Audrey dreads the day Blake finds another solution to their situation. Because what started as a marriage of convenience has become so much more for her…
There really is a lot of good here. It might be the best-researched book I’ve read from this line. I sometimes have a problem with these Love Inspired Historical books because they are set in such small, isolated locations and because of that sometimes they drag – but this one never did.
However… this book reads like it was written in the 1950s! The misogyny. The dozens of nasty references to fair-haired women (in fact, the moment the sister is introduced, her blonde hair is used as a shortcut to tell us she is a nasty, scheming, slut). The sister who does not have a SINGLE redeeming quality – she is just horrid from start to finish, and in every way. However, the hero keeps kissing the sister even after he has been married to the heroine for ages, because the sister’s “feminine wiles” keep trapping him.
I do think this was a generational thing, and while it’s not fair to say all books in the past were more misogynistic and stereotyped more than they are now, the slutty other woman should be a relic of the past, and I found it offensive. For a character who didn’t appear until the end of the book, the sister sure was discussed and insulted a lot.
I feel like there are two books here: the fantastic piece of historical fiction, and the outdated one with the judgemental, sexist stereotyping. I was VERY confused how the heroine was just going to leave her marriage and let her sister take over. Divorce had massive stigma attached to it a century after this book is set; it was unrealistic to think hero and heroine could end their marriage with no issues or social repercussions.
It was an odd thing, as the rest of the research was so good, and the author added lots of little touches about everyday life that really brought the setting to life.
One other thing that bothered me was how many times “blinked” was used as a character reaction. It started making ME want to blink (which was driving me nuts).
So… When the characters aren’t going on about the evil sister, this is a wonderfully-researched and interesting book. I wish there’d been more of that and less of the other!
Review copy provided by NetGalley.
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Tag: Anarchistic Undertones
The DIY Roots of Manchester Punk Festival
Sarah speaks to organiser Andy Davies about MPF’s dedication to the DIY approach, five years on from the festival’s humble beginnings.
Written by Sarah Williams, with contributions from Andy Davies. Photos by Cold Front Photography.
Manchester Punk Festival has grown significantly since its beginning five years ago. As one of the biggest punk festivals the UK has to offer, it remains fervently independent, affordable and free from corporate sponsorship.
Now that MPF is booking massive international headliners, increasing its capacity with new venues and still selling out of tickets (in 2018, there’s a handful left for 2019); it’s easy to forget the DIY roots of the festival… but the organisers definitely haven’t.
The festival is coordinated by a collective composed of three distinct Manchester promoters: TNSrecords, Anarchistic Undertones and Moving North. Outside of MPF, AU and Moving North are still putting on small DIY shows at least once a month, while TNSrecords are working hard championing and releasing records from up-and-coming punk rock bands. All three groups work to promote independent music, tirelessly and with no expectation of financial gain, and they apply the same mentality to Manchester Punk Festival.
Darko smashing it at Gorilla at MPF2018. Cred: Josh Sumner
Origins of Manchester Punk Festival
Things all kicked off in 2013 with TNSrecords’ 10 Year Anniversary all-dayer; the biggest event they’d run by themselves. They’d had a stage at Strummercamp for a number of years, which contributed to their desire to run a bigger festival. In the year before, they’d seen a gap for a collaboration in the Manchester scene, which led to them calling a meeting of like-minded promoters.
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Author Shout LouderPosted on March 30, 2019 Categories Articles, Gig Reviews, InterviewsTags Anarchistic Undertones, Andy Davies, manchester punk festival, Moving North, TNSrecordsLeave a comment on The DIY Roots of Manchester Punk Festival
Podcast: Tree from Manchester Punk Festival
We talk DIY, dogs and new music with Manchester’s tallest promoter.
As DIY giants Manchester Punk Festival have just announced the first installment of their 2019 line-up, we thought it was time for Ian ‘Tree’ Robinson to join us on the podcast.
Tree’s a staple of the Northern punk scene, known for booking regular gigs through the Anarchistic Undertones collective and tours via AU Tour Booking. He’s got years of experience in DIY bookings, plus a Northern attitude that makes him quite an entertaining guest.
We discuss Manchester Punk Festival’s changes, what he’s learned from 10 years of booking punk shows and some of our current favourite bands and labels. We also talk about Propagandhi. A lot.
P.S. The star of tonight’s show is our cover model, Bernie, who you can follow on Instagram @dci_burnside.
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Author Shout LouderPosted on October 20, 2018 Categories PodcastTags A Wilhelm Scream, Anarchistic Undertones, Fair Do's, Incisions, Main Line 10, manchester punk festival, Misantropic, Misgivings, Podcast, Sarah Williams, Skate punk, Wolfrik3 Comments on Podcast: Tree from Manchester Punk Festival
Spotify Playlist: Manchester’s Best Punk Gigs
Follow our playlist to discover up-and-coming punk bands who are playing near Manchester.
Although we’re often on the road for gigs, Shout Louder’s proud to have its HQ in Manchester, UK. It’s a city with a vibrant music culture that embraces the DIY ethic at the core of our community, with an abundance of punk shows to choose from every single week.
On the fence about going to a show? Not sure whether you’ll like the support acts? Want to know about all the latest gigs? We’ve made this playlist to help you with that, and we’ll be updating it with new gigs as they’re announced.
Follow the playlist to keep up to date with the bands we’re most excited to see in Manchester in the next two months, in approximately chronological order (first on the list are bands playing this weekend). Anything we haven’t added? Let us know.
P.S.: We’ve included a few shows that are a short train ride out of town; fuck the borders.
Special credit to Anarchistic Undertones, Moving North, Horn & Hoof, Under The Bridge, Evil Music and The Old Town House for consistently booking excellent shows. You’ve got to appreciate people working tirelessly behind the scenes to bring music right to your doorstep, without them this scene would be nothing.
Author Shout LouderPosted on September 7, 2018 September 7, 2018 Categories PlaylistTags Anarchistic Undertones, Evil Music, Gig Guide, Horn & Hoof Records, manchester, Moving North, Playlist, Spotify Playlist, The Old Town House, Under The Bridge, WarringtonLeave a comment on Spotify Playlist: Manchester’s Best Punk Gigs
Gig Review: Consumed @ Aatma, Manchester [13/07/2018]
Consumed rip through their Northern album launch show, with support from Don Blake, Triple Sundae and Hoof.
Article by Sarah Williams. Photos by Cold Front Photography.
We’ve been waiting for 16 years, but it’s finally here. Nineties UK skate-punk legends Consumed have chosen today to drop their EP Decade of No into our laps, after a long hiatus. Every chord, every note and every lyric is just as vibrant, exciting and relevant as their earlier releases and I’m supremely excited to celebrate the launch with them tonight.
The troopers at Anarchistic Undertones have organised tonight’s album release party at Aatma in Manchester, with a varied line up of supports in the form of Don Blake, Triple Sundae and Hoof. What better way to finish of your working week?
I’m gonna get straight out there are say it: I bloody love Hoof. They don’t seem to have the big furore around them that you occasionally get with DIY bands, but there’s an understated charm to them and what they play is just very, very good. They fall into the camp of 90’s EpiFat-era skate-punk (and I’d hazard a guess Consumed are a big influence on them), producing a sound that’s comfortingly familiar and exceptionally well executed.
In the interest of building anticipation, they break a string approximately five notes into the set, leading to a lengthy re-stringing break before the show’s even started. Fortunately these guys are the masters of off-hand stage banter, and at least it didn’t halt the set halfway through.
Back up and running again they rip through Epitaph and Petty Thieves, the title track from their relatively recent EP. It’s fast, hard punk rock with a strong grasp of melody and a tight technical edge, particularly on the snappy drum fills and odd twiddly riffs. They’re firmly in the class of bands incapable of playing less than breakneck speed, ideal for kicking off a show. Continue reading “Gig Review: Consumed @ Aatma, Manchester [13/07/2018]”
Author Shout LouderPosted on August 2, 2018 Categories Gig ReviewsTags Anarchistic Undertones, Cold Front Photography, Consumed, Don Blake, Gig Review, HOOF, manchester, Sarah Williams, Triple Sundae1 Comment on Gig Review: Consumed @ Aatma, Manchester [13/07/2018]
Podcast #8: Crawl-of-Death, Bribery, Masturbation and Unfulfilled Promises
Tune into the next instalment of the Shout Louder punk podcast! Tunes from Eat Defeat, SKIV, Wolfrik and Hummer.
Podcast #8 sees the return of everyone’s favourite: Mark Bell! This episode is all excitable Mark and Sarah music banter – we cover a huge range of topics, including all the gigs and punk rock antics we’ve experienced lately. We’ve play tunes from Eat Defeat, Wolfrik, SKIV and Hummer.
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We midly lay into Jimbob from Pizzatramp in a tale that involves a crawl-of-death, public masturbation, bribery and unfulfilled promises. We lament the passing of MySpace as a medium, Mark asks Sarah to dissect some poorly auto-tuned rap lyrics and Sarah shares Personal Worst story from Podstock 2 involving pratfalls, poo and pints.
Mark gives us the gossip on Hell Hath No Fury Fest, with Bolshy, Natterers and Brassick. Sarah chats about gigs she’s been to in Manchester, including Tim Loud, Custody, Holiday, Bear Trap and Incisions. Continue reading “Podcast #8: Crawl-of-Death, Bribery, Masturbation and Unfulfilled Promises”
Author Shout LouderPosted on June 23, 2018 Categories PodcastTags Anarchistic Undertones, Bear Trap, Bolshy, Brassick, Custody, Denver Harbor, Eat Defeat, Fenix TX, Hell Hath No Fury, Holiday, Hummer, Incisions, Mark Bell, MySpace, Natterers, Pizzatramp, Podcast, Sarah Williams, SKIV, WolfrikLeave a comment on Podcast #8: Crawl-of-Death, Bribery, Masturbation and Unfulfilled Promises
Fair Do’s: No One’s Going To Set Standards For You [Interview]
Manchester’s finest talk working-class roots, quality-control and how hard it is to learn your own songs sometimes!
Interview by Sarah Williams. Live photos by Alia Thomas.
Manchester’s melodic hardcore shredders, Fair Do’s, have just announced that they’ll be releasing their first full album Leopards on July 27th, through Lockjaw Records. I have been begging for this album since 2014 and I can’t believe it’s finally happening.
There are few bands that combine hardcore punk with metal in the way Fair Do’s manage to, and they back it up with a hard-earned technical prowess that makes them stand out from the crowd. They formed in 2009 and released an impressive EP Trying Times in 2014, going on to kill it on stage all over Europe, playing with the likes of A Wilhelm Scream, After The Fall, The Decline and H20, including major festivals like Punk Rock Holiday.
I caught up with vocalist/guitarist Danny Cummings and drummer John Holt over a pint, to learn about the hard work they’ve put into Leopards, their working-class sensibilities and why you might hear hints of Beyonce in Danny’s choruses.
You’re releasing a new album: Leopards! That’s exciting. What took you so long?
John Holt: Oh, Jesus.
Danny Cummings: It took a while recording it, because we did it over weekends.
John: I tracked the drums in September 2016.
Danny: It was a different beast to the EP. The EP was thrown together: recording guitar at one studio, drums at another. We made a vocal booth in the corner of Josh’s flat for that. Whereas this we’ve done it properly, tracked everything.
Quality is clearly a major focus for Fair Do’s – it has to be to produce something so wonderfully technical. How do you keep the bar set so high?
John: There’s no one there to set standards for you; you can’t expect anyone to go, “You should be better than that.” It’s your job to do that for yourself. No one’s going to care that you had a bad show apart from you.
Danny: And the three people stood next to you.
John: When people see Fair Do’s as a band stood next to each other, they think we’re going to kill each other. You have to be able to say things and just move onto the next business. Harsh things need to be said occasionally, so sometimes you have to have a shouty, sweary match.
Do you argue with each other a lot, then?
John: One of the pitfalls of Fair Do’s is that we produce tunes before we can play them. The songs are written and composed but we can’t actually play them.
Danny: We can play them at that we demo them, or try some midi drums. We make sure we’re writing stuff that we can play.
John: Yeah, we’re not faking playing stuff, but we’ll come up with ideas that are not obtainable until after many moons of practice.
Danny: Dave’s alright, but for the rest of us it’s the sort of stuff we have to sit down and spend an hour a night working on it for six weeks to be able to nail it.
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Author Shout LouderPosted on June 21, 2018 June 21, 2018 Categories InterviewsTags Anarchistic Undertones, Captain Trips, Fair Do's, Interview, Lockjaw Records, manchester, Melodic Hardcore, Sarah Williams3 Comments on Fair Do’s: No One’s Going To Set Standards For You [Interview]
Top 10 Moments of Manchester Punk Festival 2018
MPF 2018 was a special weekend for reasons beyond just the music. Sarah’s rounded up her personal highlights from the festival.
Article by Sarah Williams. Photos from Mark Richards, Jimbob Taylor, Josh Sumner and Marc Gaertner.
Now widely known as Manchester Pals Fest, MPF 2018 has been even more of a blinder than previous years. I guess we knew that it would be from the moment the line-up was first announced, with Propagandhi topping it. In a landslide of Facebook posts, messages and hugs once the weekend was over, the word out there is that it’s the best festival in the UK. The three-day weekender in the Rainy City is drawing like-minded punk rock fans from all around the world.
The festival is special both as a personal and a collective experience. If you attended, you would have been amazed by the number of familiar faces in crowd. I barely had time to chat to someone properly before running into the next person. With that many dedicated, creative and intelligent people surrounding you, it’s easy to see that the UK scene is thriving at the moment. Although it felt like we were all sharing this one great, special experience, as the weekend is split between five venues around town, it’s possible that you could have had a completely different experience to a friend who also attended.
With that in mind, these are my personal Top 10 experiences of the weekend. What were yours?
Ducking Punches closing Thursday’s show with Smoking Spot
“This is about how punk has taught us all our ethics; this is for all of you,” Dan Allen says between songs, instantly capturing the spirit of the festival. While most of my friends were queueing to get into Random Hand and getting turned away, I opted to catch Ducking Punches at Rebellion on Thursday night and I really don’t regret it.
Earlier in the day, Danny from Fair Do’s had said, “Look around you. This is what a beautiful, intelligent and ethical punk community looks like.” Both are examples of how appreciative the bands are of the event they’re attending. Far from being a big fest where you turn up, play and fuck off, Ducking Punches were around for the whole weekend, partying and enjoying the music like the rest of us. I had a transcendent moment during somewhere between Sobriety and Big Brown Pills from Lynn where I remembered that all my friends in the world are in this city with me, enjoying an incredible time. There is an overwhelming sense of community that I’ve not felt elsewhere – partly from the punk scene and partly from Manchester, a city with a strong sense of identity.
Closing on Smoking Spot was the perfect move from Ducking Punches, who’ve really grown with their new album Alamort. “This is a song about having the best time with your best friends,” Dan says. Perfect.
Here’s a photo of Random Hand for good measure. Photo: Jimbob Taylor.
Watching my friends’ bands playing to sold out rooms
For many bands it’s their first time at the festival (and their first time in Manchester), but every act played to a huge crowd. Through general gigging and through this website I’ve become friends with some of my favourite bands, so I’m absolutely bubbling with pride when I see them getting an enthusiastic reaction from a big audience.
Darko. Photo: Jimbob Taylor.
On Thursday, No Matter opened the festival to an almost full room at Rebellion. Following them were Captain Trips, a skate-punk group from the South Coast that I have a massive soft-spot for. I’ve been trying to get as many people to hear about them as possible, so to see Rebellion full for their set was incredible. Not only was the venue rammed – the crowd were dancing, moshing and generally enthusiastic about seeing them. It made my heart melt a little bit. Continue reading “Top 10 Moments of Manchester Punk Festival 2018”
Author Shout LouderPosted on May 7, 2018 Categories Gig ReviewsTags Aerial Salad, Anarchistic Undertones, Beat The Red Light, Captain Trips, Darko, Ducking Punches, Fair Do's, Lightyear, manchester punk festival, Moving North, No Matter, PMX, Revenge Of The Psychotronic Man, Sarah Williams, TNS Records, Top 10, Uniforms, Waterweed3 Comments on Top 10 Moments of Manchester Punk Festival 2018
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Misgivings: Isolation, For Better Or For Worse [Interview]
Southsea gruff punks Misgivings discuss the inspirations for their new album ‘Hermitage’.
Interview by Sarah Williams.
Portsmouth’s Misgivings are one of the best gruff, melodic punk bands the UK currently has to offer. Think Iron Chic, Leatherface, Samiam, Osker and you’re on the right track.
We love Misgivings’ intricately melodic, emotive songs and their coarse vocals. Following a string of EPs, they’re due to release their debut album Hermitage via Lockjaw Records and Charlie’s Big Raygun Records in December.
We spoke to vocalist/guitarist Will Pearce to learn more.
Hi Will! I’m madly in love with your new single Call It Off. Do you think this marks a big milestone for the band?
Hi! Thank you and yes it surely does, it’s our first ever video and our first single for Lockjaw which is very special. We made the video in one day and wanted to capture what a typical Misgivings rehearsal looks like.
I’ve had a bit of a sneak preview your new album Hermitage and I’ve fallen in love with it. How long has the album been in the works? You must be excited to share it with the world?
We recorded the album at the end of 2017 with Tim Greaves at Southsea Sound and finished mixing at the beginning of this year. The songs were mostly written in the years since Rob (drums) joined the band, although Shameless dates back to 2013 around the time we first started! Continue reading “Misgivings: Isolation, For Better Or For Worse [Interview]”
Author Shout LouderPosted on October 30, 2018 October 30, 2018 Categories InterviewsTags Charlie's Big Ray Gun Records, Gruff Punk, Interview, Lockjaw Records, Misgivings, Portsmouth, Sarah Williams1 Comment on Misgivings: Isolation, For Better Or For Worse [Interview]
Track-by-Track: Captain Trips – Stand By
Rich Mayor, frontman of Portsmouth skate-punks Captain Trips, gives a detailed insight into the their EP ‘Stand By’.
Captain Trips released their new EP Stand By via Umlaut Records on October 5 2018. We’re in love with it and we think you will be too, so we asked singer and guitarist Rich Mayor to give us a detailed breakdown of the inspiration for each song.
We started writing some of these songs months and years ago, a process not so unusual in Captain Trips. All of our songs come from jamming together, so it can take a while for us to come up with them sometimes. That’s not supposed to sound like an arduous process; it’s a very enjoyable experience and how we’ve come up with our, ahem, ‘sound’.
I remember our writing process for one of the tracks on the first EP. We decided it needed to go off into a different direction (I think it even went kind of ska at one point), but after about four weeks of adding sections, we chopped it all and kept the song as it was before all those tangents.
Anyway, we gone done a new record, called Stand By. It has songs on it to listen to with your ears. Here’s what they’re about.
Bottom Of The River
Right, Bottom of the River. The Stephen King keenos among you will know that Captain Trips is the name of the man-made virus in his book The Stand, and the Stephen King appreciation club keeps on rolling here. Bottom of the River is about his rite of passage novel/movie Stand By Me. It harks back to simpler times, something we reminisce about often, since we’re all in that weird generation of going from ‘completely f*ck all internet’ to ‘everything the world has ever known in your pocket’. You know, back when you couldn’t scam your way through the pub quiz for that sweet, sweet bottle of blue Aftershock.
The name of the movie is also quite blatantly the title of the new EP, save for a couple of letters. More about that later.
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Author Shout LouderPosted on October 23, 2018 October 24, 2018 Categories InterviewsTags Captain Trips, Portsmouth, Track-By-Track, Umlaut Records1 Comment on Track-by-Track: Captain Trips – Stand By
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Once a small, fishing village Torremolinos was redeveloped in the Sixties to become one of Spain’s first fully-fledged beach resorts. While having retained much of it’s original charm, holidays to Torremolinos are ideal for those who want all they could possibly need, right on the doorstep. The sun-bleached beaches and nearby waterparks provide perfect entertainment if you’re travelling with children, while the quiet coves and exciting array of restaurants that line the coast are the perfect backdrop for couples wanting to spend some quality time together. If you like things a little livelier, the marina offers a superb choice of water sports and the town centre comes alive at night with a buzzing bar scene. There’s even a selection of outstanding golf courses, nearby for fans of the five-iron who want to keep on top of their game. With so much to see and do, you can make your Nerja holidays exactly what you want them to be!
Torremolinos is best for…
Families: There’s plenty to do if you’re here with the kids. The local beaches offer gently-shelving shores and shallow waters for little ones to splash around in safety, while the high-octane rides and slides at Aqualand waterpark are ideal for older children and grown-ups who ought to know better!
Night owls: Watch the sun set from the beach at a local chiringuito, then go for dinner and drinks on Calle San Miguel.
Beach lovers: Wander along the bustling promenade to pick from seven beautiful beaches, each with dark golden sand and a superb choice of white-knuckle water sports.
Torremolinos Weather and Climate
Temperature: 25-29°C in summer.
Best time to visit: May for slightly cooler temperatures.
Dedicated sun-worshippers should book their breaks between July and August, when the temperatures peak in the low thirties °C and you can bask in up to 12 hours of sunshine a day. For slightly cooler conditions and fewer crowds, spring offers temperatures in the low twenties.
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By bus: Torremolinos has an excellent bus service that runs approximately every 30 minutes throughout summer. The bus provides transport within the resort as well as out to nearby towns like Marbella.
By car: Hiring a car is useful for visitors keen to explore Andalucía and who want the freedom to travel in their own time. There are many international hire car companies in the area and at Malaga Airport.
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Beaches: Torremolinos’ coastline stretches through seven sandy beaches, linked by a sunny palm-lined promenade famous for its beach café-bars, known as chiringuitos. The main beach, La Carihuela, is popular for it’s central location, with sun beds and brightly-coloured beach umbrellas speckling the dark golden sand. La Carihuela has the best beach activities in Torremolinos, with pedal boats for hire and opportunities to try something new, like windsurfing. Wander east along the promenade and you’ll discover some quieter beaches, like the smaller Playa Los Alamos, a peaceful part of the coast that’s perfect for a relaxing day.
Attractions: Whether you’re travelling with the family, your better half, or a group of friends, there’s plenty to see and do in the area. Hit the high seas in a yacht and cruise the coast, or jump aboard a power-boat and go dolphin-spotting. For children, Aqualand is just a 10-minute walk from the centre of the resort, offering rides and slides, chutes and flumes and dedicated pools and water playgrounds for younger children. If you’re a keen golfer, head to Parador Malaga de Golf, one of Andalucía’s first and finest golf courses.
Nightlife: From romantic dinners in atmospheric restaurants, to nights filled with neon lights and top tunes, the nightlife in Torremolinos has something for everyone. Head to the waterfront and you’ll find an excellent selection of restaurants serving outstanding seafood and authentic Spanish cuisine. To fuel up before a big night out, the beach bars, known locally as chiringuitos, are a major part of the nightlife, where you can grab a snack or drinks in the evening and listen to live music. When you’re ready to kick your heels up, head to Calle San Miguel, home to some superb bars and pubs. For hardcore club-heads, the nightlife capital, Benalmadena, is a 15-minute cab ride away.
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Dr. Beth Dorn describes her journey to concierge medicine
As a hospitalist, Dr. Beth Dorn was very busy seeing patients and practicing medicine however she admits she was never able to take the time to get to know her patients. The internal medicine physician from Torrance, California, knew she want to start an outpatient practice and, after reviewing her options, decided that the concierge model was right for her.
After transitioning to concierge medicine with the help of Specialdocs Consultants, Dr. Dorn says her days run much more smoothly and her work is much more rewarding.
“Our practice is such a supportive, friendly, environment. Patients love the intimacy. They want to know about me and my background and I ask the same about them, but it goes a lot deeper than that, particularly when you are taking care of families, which is my favorite thing to do,” says Dr. Dorn. It’s a real gift.”
Dr. Dorn says Specialdocs in particular helped Dr. Dorn decide what she wanted to offer to her patients in addition to just being available to them.
“I really enjoy being a doctor again. I can’t imagine going back or doing anything else,” she says.
Watch Dr. Dorn’s full story below.
Revolutionary Journeys to Concierge Medicine is a video series, presented by Specialdocs Consultants, depicting the paths of several physicians who’ve transitioned from traditional practice to a concierge model practice.
In their own words, the physicians illustrate the continuing challenges of the traditional practice model and how they were able to make a successful transition to concierge medicine.
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Inside Nature’s Giants
The BAFTA-winning series that gets under the skin of the largest animals on the planet and reveals the anatomy of some of nature's most impressive creatures - from the Great White shark to the giant squid; Nile crocodile to giraffe; lions, tigers and bears and more. This is the inside story of how animals work, with many never-before-seen glimpses into nature's anatomical design brilliance. How do you make a dead lion roar? Or count the hidden layers of teeth in a shark's mouth? And just how heavy is a beached whale?
The evolution of nature is explored by a renowned team of biologists who literally get their hands dirty to uncover incredible facts - such as - just how powerful the Great White's bite really is, how pythons swallow whole prey as large as alligators and why male lions have their distinctive manes.
Inside Nature's Giants - Giraffe
Veterinary scientist Mark Evans acts as guide as a team of experts investigate the inner workings of the giraffe.
Creationists question how this extraordinary creature could have evolved such a long neck, but for Professor Richard Dawkins the anatomy of the world's tallest animal provides some of the best arguments in favour of Darwinian natural selection.
Inside Nature's Giants - Big Cats
This episode the experts look at two big cats – the lion and the tiger. As well as dissecting the two species at the Royal Veterinary College, they travel to South Africa to see lions in the wild.
Inside Nature's Giant - Camel
In this Inside Nature’s Giants episode Mark Evans and Joy Reidenberg brave the baking desert to dissect a camel. They uncover the secret of the camel’s hump and investigate how its elastic legs, stretchy lips and pedestal (a strange bump on its chest) are among the many surprising adaptations that enable the camel to thrive in such a dry and hostile environment.
Inside Nature's Giants - Dino Bird
The Cassowary has earned its nickname, Dinosaur Bird, due to fearsome tales of slaying men with their five inch talons. Normally subdued the large Cassowary Bird, unless feeling threatened will strut around quietly in the jungle and occasionally take a trip to the coast.
The team investigates this mysterious bird and some of its curious behaviours, such as its deep resonant mating call and how it evolved to have killer talons but stunted wings.
Inside Nature's Giants - Leatherback Turtle
The Inside Nature's Giants team uncover the evolutionary mystery of how turtles developed shells to protect themselves from some of the sharpest-toothed predators on the planet.
Inside Nature's Giants - Racehorse
The thoroughbred racehorse is one of the greatest athletes on the planet – galloping with incredible speed and stamina - for such a large animal. It is the result of unnatural selection, and exists on a knife edge between glory and catastrophic failure.
Inside Nature's Giants - Giant Squid
In a special dissection laboratory in Wellington, New Zealand, the team uses a swimming pool to thaw the giant squid before delving into its three hearts, razor sharp beak, tooth covered tentacles and bizarre reproductive system.
Inside Nature's Giants - Polar Bear
On a remote peninsula off the east coast of Greenland the Inside Nature’s Giants team join hunters and scientists waiting for polar bears to come in from the sea ice. They brave driving blizzards and freezing seas to find out how the ice bear survives such harsh conditions, where temperatures can plummet to -70º.
For the first time, the Inside Nature’s Giants team joins an international scientific expedition investigating the plight of polar bears in this region.
Inside Nature's Giants - Sperm Whale
In this Inside Nature’s Giants Special, the BAFTA-winning team battle through the night against a rising tide to explore the mysteries of the largest predator on Earth - the Sperm Whale.
Inside Nature's Giants - Rouge Baboon
Mark Evans and Joy Reidenberg travel to South Africa to dissect the first primate in the series - a huge alpha male baboon that led a band of baboons on a rampage through a Cape-town suburb - until the authorities were forced to euthanise him as he grew increasingly violent.
Inside Nature's Giants - Hippo
The hippopotamus is among the most dangerous animals in the world as it is highly aggressive and unpredictable. To help protect themselves from the canines of rival hippo’s they have developed inch thick skin; which proves to be a challenge for the Inside Nature’s Giants team.
Inside Nature's Giants - The Jungle
The team launch into a large-scale investigation of the jungle. Deep in the rainforest of Borneo they erect a high-tech dissection laboratory to investigate giant bugs and titan trees, and to reveal why the Jungle is home to the most diverse collection of living things on our planet.
Inside Nature's Giants - The Great White Shark
In a dramatic costal setting Joy Reidenberg leads the team in the dissection of the notorious Great White Shark. The team reveal how the inside of this carcharodon carcharias led it to be one biggest fishes in the world?
Series Title : Inside Nature's Giants
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Come join Sony Innovation Studios at CES! Located within the Sony booth, Central Hall #17300, Sony Innovation Studios will be demonstrating Atom View and the future of virtual motion picture production.
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Sony Pictures Accquires Virtual Production Software Company Nurulize
Advanced Software Technology Expands Possibilities For Entertainment Experiences
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) today announced that Sony Innovation Studios Inc., a division of SPE, recently acquired Nurulize, a software development house which specializes in delivering creative realism and enabling virtual production of content. Nurulize will now be part of Sony Innovation Studios, a state-of-the-art facility that launched last year on the Sony Pictures Studios lot. The advanced software technology from Nurulize will further strengthen Sony Innovation Studios’ virtual production workflow for film, television, gaming and other platforms across Sony companies – and the broader industry – to help create a variety of immersive entertainment experiences.
December 19, 2018 | Culver City, CA
Innovation Studios Creates Virtual Shark Tank Set
In Its 10th Season, ABC's ‘Shark Tank' Debuts Innovation Behind The Scenes
Innovation Studios, Sony Entertainment & Technology, is pleased to debut its advanced technology on the iconic "Shark Tank" television show this season. "Shark Tank," the critically acclaimed and multi-Emmy® Award-winning entrepreneurial-themed reality series, is known for showcasing innovative products and ideas. Behind the scenes, the same is true. Now in its 10th season, when not enough stage capacity was available to handle current production needs, "Shark Tank" producers turned to a radically new solution provided by Innovation Studios.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Launches Innovation Studios
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Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) today announced the establishment of Innovation Studios, Sony Entertainment & Technology, a state-of-the-art facility housed in a 7,000 square-feet sound stage on the Sony Pictures Studios lot. The space, which will be overseen by Glenn Gainor, President, Innovation Studios, and President, Physical Production, Screen Gems, will feature the latest in research and development from Sony Corporation and others in areas including volumetric video and customizable set scanning to help storytellers around the world create content for the future. Innovation Studios will work with engineers from throughout Sony Corporation and pursue business development opportunities for its proprietary technology in motion pictures, television, music and gaming.
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DeChambeau first back-to-back winner on PGA Tour this year
September 3, 2018, 11:17 PM UTC
(Reuters) - Physics major Bryson DeChambeau solved all the equations and became the first player to win consecutive tournaments on the PGA Tour this season with a two-stroke victory over Justin Rose at the Dell Technologies Championship on Monday.
DeChambeau jumped clear with three consecutive birdies from the seventh hole en route to a four-under-par 67 at TPC Boston in Massachusetts.
The American finished at 16-under 268, while fast-finishing Englishman Rose birdied four of the final six holes to claim second place with a 68.
DeChambeau's victory in the second PGA Tour playoff event, following his previous win at the Northern Trust, increased his lead in the FedExCup standings with two tournaments left.
The 24-year-old will be named a captain's pick on Tuesday as part of the United States team for this month's Ryder Cup in Paris. He had previously narrowly failed to clinch an automatic berth.
DeChambeau, uniquely on tour, plays with irons that all have shafts of the same length, which allows him to make pretty much the same swing no matter what club he chooses to hit.
"Consistency has been a big thing for me," he said in a greenside interview after joining compatriots Justin Thomas, Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson as three-times winners this season.
"I've been trying to get that week in and week out and I was able to figure something out last week on the putting green and that's kind of progressed me to move forward in the right way."
CROWDED LEADERBOARD
DeChambeau was part of a crowded leaderboard early in the final round, with 17 players at one stage bunched within two shots.
He built a four-shot lead early on the back nine, before Australian Cameron Smith made it interesting, cutting the margin to one shot with two quick birdies.
"I was leaking oil a little bit," said DeChambeau, who after bogeying the 13th steadied the ship by sinking a five-footer to save par at the next.
"Once I was able to make that putt on 14 it pushed me forward. I made birdie on the next and it was smooth sailing."
Smith subsequently hit his second shot into a hazard at the par-five 18th and made bogey to finish third, three shots behind.
Overnight leader Abraham Ancer of Mexico putted poorly and shot 73 to finish five shots off the pace.
He barely scraped into the field for the BMW Championship starting outside Philadelphia on Thursday, where the top 70 in the standings will tee it up.
Only 30 will advance to the season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta, where DeChambeau is assured of starting as top seed in the race for the $10 million bonus awarded to the FedExCup champion.
"If I keep doing the numbers right and keep executing the right shots I can't do much more than that," he said.
"If I keep going that route I'll be hard to beat."
(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; editing by Ken Ferris)
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Why I can’t jump on the Vegas bandwagon
By MIKE HERNDON Everybody remembers the new kid in class. He’s a little nervous at first, unsure of where he fits in. Let’s help him feel at home, the teacher said. He doesn’t know anyone; he’s new. And most of… Read More ›
We love LeBron now — how will we feel after a 3-6 Finals Record?
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By COLE ARCHER LeBron James has just further established himself as an all-time great after defeating the Boston Celtics with arguably his worst championship roster yet (I am looking at you Daniel Gibson and Anderson Varejao) We rave on and… Read More ›
The cruel reality of NBA playoff basketball
The Toronto Raptors were one of the best teams during the 2017-18 regular season. Their head coach won Coach of Year, guided the team to more wins than any other past Raptors team, and claimed the Eastern Conference’s number one… Read More ›
2018 NFL draft: The 5 biggest head-scratchers
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Russian Lawmakers to Summon Google, Facebook to Prevent Violations of Russian Election Laws
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Earlier, Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) fined Google about $1,560 for overspreading illegal ads for financial services.
Lawmakers from the upper house of the Russian legislature plan to contact an investigative committee and to summon Google and Facebook to prevent violations of Russian election laws, the Head of the Federation Council's Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty, Andrei Klimov, has said.
The Russian Federation Council's Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty has materials on the preparation of riots in Moscow during elections, commission head Andrey Klimov said.
"Our studies show that there were attempts to interfere in the election process in the Russian Federation, but the final results were not the ones that the organizers had expected," the lawmaker said.
He said the commission "has materials on the preparation of mass riots in Moscow during the election period."
On 8 September, Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said that it had discovered political ads on Google and Facebook websites, in violation of the Russian law, and considered it an intervention into Russia's domestic affairs.
Russia held regional elections on 8 September, including elections to the Moscow's city legislature. Some 57 nominees out of 233 were denied registration due to an insufficient number of valid signatures of eligible voters required for admittance to run in the race.
The opposition candidates described the denials as an alleged infringement on electoral rights, staging authorized and unauthorized protests in the Russian capital this summer.
Facebook Quietly Changes Ad Rules, Allowing Politicians to Lie in Campaign Material
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Three Things Nicko McBrain Doesn’t Like About Iron Maiden Tour
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Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain recently discussed the band’s dramatic Legacy of the Beast stage show, noting that three elements have left him less than happy during some performances.
He said he ran into trouble with the near full-size inflatable Spitfire warplane, one of the Eddie puppets and singer Bruce Dickinson’s flamethrower pack while he was trying to focus on playing the shows.
“Definitely this is the biggest-ever produced show that Maiden have done,” McBrain told Cosmo Music in a new interview. He noted that they “pride ourselves on the fact that we’ve always put a great stage show together,” but explained they have specific aims in mind. “We keep the artists’ backdrops [of album and single covers] – they’re all hand-painted. People go, ‘Why aren’t you using video screens?’ Well, we’re old-school. We want it to be theater.”
You can watch the interview below.
On the subject of the Spitfire, he said, “It’s blown up by air, and the way the propeller moves is the air escaping – we have to have a way of the air to come out at a certain pressure. It’s a stroke of genius.” He added that the inflatable sometimes came too close for comfort: “This thing pops up behind me … [and] some nights, if the ceiling is a little bit too low, the tail is literally [on top of me] and I can push it.”
Multiple versions of the band’s mascot are seen during the Legacy show, which explores Iron Maiden’s history via themes based on their Legacy of the Beast video game. “Lots of nasty Eddies appearing,” McBrain said. “Oh my God, the guy that pops up behind me in [the song] ‘Iron Maiden’ – I can’t even look at it. Freaks me out – I won’t have anything to do with that image, believe me. It’s like The Exorcist when I first saw that movie.”
Asked if Dickinson has learned to manage the flamethrower he uses during “Flight of Icarus,” McBrain said no, and recalled how the singer said, “I know what! … I’m gonna get some flamethrowers, and I’ll have a pack on my back, nobody will see it and I’ll blow out these flames.” “Yeah, great idea, mate!" the drummer said. "Halfway through the first fucking leg of the tour, he comes up … and every night he’d get a little bit closer, and he’d fire this fucking flamethrower at me. … What the fuck? Fuck off, Bruce!”
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1. What was the pen name used by the author of this essay?
2. One of the author’s reasons for opposing the new government is that, according to him,
John Adams has studied every government known to man, but has never found what?
3. The author gives two reasons why this form of government works better in England than
it would in America. What are those two reasons?
4. He states that a republican form of government can only exist under what conditions?
5. The author claims that this new constitution is the most daring attempt to do what?
6. Each representative was to represent how many people under the proposed government?
Does the author feel this is adequate?
7. What are his first two complaints regarding the Senate?
8. By the nature of what the author writes regarding the Senate, would the author support,
or be opposed to the concept of ‘term limits’?
9. He argues that the President would merely be a figurehead, unless he did what?
10. In his concluding remarks, the author suggests that the chief improvement to
government, in modern times, has been what?
Reading Through History
A single instance of such a government
They have a powerful hereditary nobility, and real distinctions of rank and interests
If the body of the people are virtuous, and property is equally divided
Establish a despotic aristocracy among freemen, that the world has ever witnessed....
30,000; No, he feels that there will be too few representatives.
The smallest states have equal power as the biggest states; the Senate will have too much
influence over the Executive branch.
8. He would be in favor of term limits.
9. Unless he coincided with the views of the Senate.
10. The separation of powers (placing legislative powers in different hands than those that
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Sue Larsen, Singer-Songwriter
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Sue Larsen is a veteran to the stage as an entertainer, singer, songwriter and musician. She is in her 40th year of performing her material and she also specializes in music that is familiar to all which spans 100 years. With her experience and background, she is able to tailor her shows to her audiences. She started as a soloist playing guitar and singing her own tunes in N.Y.C. clubs and cabarets. She has written the music and lyrics for the musical comedy “Children of Stage Craft”, co-wrote with Dorothy Ennis “Cocaine Joe & Whiskey Sue” which was acknowledged by Nancy Reagan in her efforts against drug addiction, wrote a campaign song for senatorial candidate Bill Woodward and the theme song for “The Billy Shears Hairy Comedy Show”.
Ms. Larsen has performed at these Manhattan venues and many more locations throughout the five boroughs and surrounding areas: The Other End, Chilies, Tramps, Good Times, Catch a Rising Star, Mickey’s 2nd Floor, Sybil’s, Kenny’s Castaways, Fat Cats, and J.P’s.
She has had shows in the Catskills, the Poconos, Long Beach Island New Jersey, Vero Beach Florida, Augsbourg Germany, Townshend Vermont and Nashville Tennessee.
She has also performed at colleges and universities: Pace University, West Point Military Academy, Mount St. Vincent College, Marymount College, Mercy College, Iona College, and Fordam University.
High School Programs: Blind Brook, Port Chester, Rye
Ms. Larsen has been a featured artist in the following publications:
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“Sights and Sounds”, Don Levy producer “PM Magazine” WJZ-TV13 Baltimore, Gae Morris, assoc. producer “Go For It”, Ricky Wolfe, producer “Commercials, Commercials, and More Commercials”, John King, producer “The Guitar Show” Mike Byrnes, producer “Cappy’s Casino Corner” CTN-NJ Fred Capitani, producer
Vocal Training over one dozen years with Maestro Carlo Menotti. His students included Diana Ross, Harry Belefonte, Tony Bennett, and Laura Branigan.
“On Camera Technique” course under the direction of Sharon Obeck for commercial work, media training, public interviews, and audition preparation.
Barbizon Modeling and Acting Studio for stage presence, runway presentations, photo shoot preparation, on camera makeup, hair, photo posing, audition and interviewing techniques.
Ms. Larsen has also provided sound reinforcement and engineering at concerts for other recording artists, most notably, Grammy nominated Barbara Higbie. Ms. Larsen currently provides this service for local artists and organizations. Ms. Larsen has an extensive history of providing music programs in therapeutic milieus, from children with special needs, seniors, and inpatient and outpatient behavioral health facilities. Please click the button for that bio/resume.
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Michael Doncses Sr.
Michael Doncses Sr. NAZARETH Michael Doncses Sr., 62, of Nazareth, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, in his home. Born July 30, 1957, in Bethlehem, he was the son of the late John Doncses and Mae (Edelman) Kreykenbohm. Michael was a delivery driver for Napa Auto of Wind Gap. He was a hard worker, a NY Giants fan, and an avid quoit player. Michael loved his grandsons. He enjoyed making people laugh, and was always the life of the party. He is deeply missed by children, Michael Doncses Jr. and wife Karleena of Bath, Malissa Doncses of Nazareth; grandsons, Landon and Sylas Doncses; siblings, Priscilla Huston and companion Austin Strohl of Walnutport, David Doncses of Bethlehem, Linda Voigt and husband Nicholas of Pen Argyl; half-sisters, Marian Yany of Nazareth, Tara Doncses of Bath, Sandy Smith of Northampton; half-brother, Timothy Doncses of Seemsville; adopted sister, Tammy Bartholomew of Tamaqua. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, at 6 p.m. in the Joseph F. Reichel Funeral Home Inc., 220 Washington Park, Nazareth, PA 18064. Calling hours will take place on Sunday in the funeral home from 4 to 6 p.m. Burial is private. Online condolences may be offered at www.jfreichelfuneralhome.com . Joseph F. Reichel Funeral Home Inc. 220 Washington Park Nazareth, P A 18064 (610) 759-0160
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ReverCare: How Technology Can Support Family Caregivers
Health Tech, Startup Studio, Startups, Students
Caring for sick or elderly family members can be a stressful and emotional experience. A team of graduate students in Startup Studio applied their skills as technologists to help support caregivers during this challenging time.
ReverCare, a web platform, connects family caregivers to care coaches who help them craft a personalized long-term care plan. Kiyan Rajabi and Utsav Vakil, both Technion-Cornell Dual Master’s Degrees in Health Tech ’18, and Darya Moldavskaya, Master in Computer Science ’18, were motivated to develop ReverCare after seeing their own families struggle with the challenges of caregiving.
When Rajabi’s 88-year-old grandmother had a stroke, his whole family was affected — but it was his mother who took the hardest hit. “My mom emerged as this really selfless caregiver,” he explains. While discussing ideas for their Startup Studio project, it soon became clear that Moldavskaya and Vakil shared Rajabi’s experiences and concerns.
“We all have elderly grandparents and we saw how much time our parents spent; all the stress that they had to go through; all the confusion,” says Rajabi. Caregivers have so many questions, adds Moldavskaya: “How do I get my mother fed? How do I make sure she finds the right doctor? How do I make sure that I know how to pay the bill when it comes?”
Building a Solution in Response to Caregivers Real-life Needs
According to the National Alliance for Caregiving, there are nearly 44 million family caregivers in the U.S. — almost 20 percent of the adult population. To ensure that their solution matched users’ needs, the team carried out extensive research and talked to dozens of caregivers.
“We asked them, ‘What are your problems? Can you tell us what you find most challenging?’ Many struggled with the fact that all the resources are all over the place and feeling emotionally isolated,” says Moldavskaya.
The team found that while there is no shortage of products and services to support caregivers, but people often don’t know how to access them. With ReverCare, care coaches draw on their professional resources and provide practical solutions to problems, which can range from day-to-day logistics likes coordinating the collection or delivery of prescriptions, to helping with stressful situations like unexpected or high medical bills.
“The care coach is familiar with your insurance plan and understands what should be covered, what shouldn’t be covered. They can figure it out and see if there’s been a mistake,” explains Moldavskaya.
Not only does ReverCare allow caregivers to communicate directly with care coaches, it also centralizes information, “We also have a very robust database of resources, so we essentially match people up to things that they’re eligible for. We do all the vetting of the companies. We identify the costs for them,” says Rajabi.
Responding to their target users’ concerns, the team ensured that access to emotional support is a key component of the platform. ReverCare connects each caregiver to a single care coach who can offer empathy and provide a seamless experience, “You see one person, so you don’t have to re-explain your situation. You don’t have to say, ‘I’m caring for my mom, she’s 89 and she has Alzheimer’s’. They already know that’,” explains Moldavskaya.
From Startup Studio to Company Launch
The entrepreneurial spirit at Cornell Tech allowed them to refine and expand their technical skills while developing business expertise, such as learning how to start a company, and how to fund and sell a product.
“We feel very prepared for creating this company because of all the experiences we’ve had; we’ve presented at least dozens of times,” says Rajabi.
ReverCare is launching its initial private beta in New York City, but aims to roll the platform out across the US, and perhaps beyond. Their ambition and sense of purpose are palpable; perhaps this is because the team is so clearly motivated by personal experience. “We see the effect that caregiving had on our parents,” says Rajabi, “It’s our mission to ensure that others don’t have to go through as harrowing an experience. We want it to be a joyful experience for everyone, so we can maximize the loving time that they spend with their families.”
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Kimberly-Clark wins FSC's 2018 Leadership Award for its "Heart Your Planet" collaboration with WWF
Posted in: Tissue 12/03/2018 - 05:44
NEENAH, WI, Dec. 3, 2018 (PRNewswire) -Kimberly-Clark, along with its partners from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), were honored by the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) with a 2018 Leadership Award for Kimberly-Clark and WWF's "Heart Your Planet" collaboration. The program was unanimously selected for the Uncommon Partnership award for its success in engaging consumers to look for the WWF Panda logo and FSC® label on product packaging to support responsible forest management.
Cascades to invest $58 million to modernize and add new tissue converting equipment at Wagram, NC, plant
WAGRAM, NC , Nov. 27, 2018 (PRNewswire) -Cascades Inc., a leader in the recovery and manufacturing of green packaging and tissue products, is pleased to announce an investment of US$58 million in its Wagram plant in North Carolina that will modernize the plant and add new tissue converting equipment. These project investments are part of the capital expenditure envelope previously announced by the Company.
KP Tissue closes financing transactions for $575 million TAD2 Project in Sherbrooke, QC
MISSISSAUGA, ON , Nov. 19, 2018 (Globe Newswire) -KP Tissue Inc. (KPT) reports today that Kruger Products L.P. (KPLP) and certain of its subsidiaries have closed financing transactions (the Financings) to fund the previously announced TAD2 Project of $575 million in the Brompton area of Sherbrooke, Quebec, to build a new, state-of-the-art tissue plant featuring Canada’s largest and most modern TAD paper machine along with related converting equipment and infrastructure.
Essity wins ‘Technical Innovation of the Year’ and ‘Best Practice - Sustainability’ awards at 2018 European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 16, 2018 (Press Release) -Essity has won the awards ‘Technical Innovation of the Year’ for Tork EasyCube® and ‘Best Practice - Sustainability’ at the 2018 European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards. The awards were announced on November 15 in Berlin.
Solaris Paper receives 2018 DEAL Award from Sustainability Dashboard Tools at ISSA North America Show in Dallas, TX
ATLANTA, GA, Nov. 16, 2018 (Press Release) -Solaris Paper is a proud recipient of the 2018 DEAL Award. Sustainability Dashboard Tools, LLC recognized Solaris Paper for its leadership in sustainability.
Sustainability Dashboard Tools, LLC presented the DEAL Awards October 30, 2018, at the ISSA North America Show in Dallas, TX. The awards recognize the outstanding performance, contributions, and leadership of organizations that participate in the DEAL program.
Cascades launches new Era of Clean tissue product line at ISSA Show North America 2018 in Dallas, TX
CANDIAC, QC, Oct. 30, 2018 (CNW) -Cascades PRO, a leader in the manufacturing of towel and tissue products, is proud to announce the launch of the New Era of Clean at the ISSA Show North America 2018 in Dallas, Texas.
A.Celli supplies two new iDEAL YD to Yibin Paper's facility in China
LUCCA, ITALY, Oct. 30, 2018 (Press Release) -The Italian company confirms its position as a technological and productive leader in the Yankee Dryer market, supplying iDEAL YD both for new tissue machines and in replacement of cast iron Yankees
Two sets of 18 ft. iDEAL steel Yankees, manufactured by A.Celli Paper, have been successfully sent to Yibin Paper Industry Co., Ltd and are expected to be installed on site in early November 2018.
Sofidel presents "Ecology, Economy and Politics for Sustainable Societies" e-book by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation
PORCARI, Italy , Oct. 30, 2018 (Press Release) -The e-book, available in Italian only as a free download from the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation website, features contributions from some of the leading experts on natural asset protection.
Emtec Electronic to showcase its measuring instruments for pulp, paper and board industry at ACOTEPAC 2020 in Cali, Colombia, from Feb. 12-14
Metsä Tissue restarts production on Düren mill's PM 5 following fire
A.Celli Paper announces participation in Tissue World Miami 2020, March 11-13
OMET introduces new ASV Storm Line range of automatic interfolded towel and facial tissue
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By: Taiwan Scene 2017-08-14 2019-05-27
Action, Sports & Adventure, ActivitiesEvent, Taipei
10 Questions about the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan
For the past several months there’s been a buzz around Taiwan about The Universiade. Saturday, August 19th marks the first day of the event. But what is The Universiade about?And what’s the deal with “Chinese Taipei”?
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Q1. What is “The Universiade”?
The Universiade is a biannual international sporting event organized for university level athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). It’s kind of like the Olympics, but for university level athletes.
Q2. Where does the word “Universiade” come from?
Universiade is a combination of the words “University” and “Olympiad”. It’s also known as the the World University Games or World Student Games.
Q3. What are the events?
Ranging from Archery to Wushu, Universiade competitions include a number of aquatic events, basketball, fencing, football, gymnastics and more. Martial arts include Wushu, Taekwondo and Judo. There will also be some demonstration events as well.
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Q4. Where will they happen?
Events are spread out over the course of 13 days and 79 venues all over northern Taiwan (mostly Taipei, though a few events will be held in Taoyuan and Hsinchu). The opening and closing ceremonies will be held at Taipei Stadium. Check out the full schedule here.
Q5. Why is this a big deal for Taiwan?
Between participants (including athletes, delegates, and their families) and spectators, Taiwan is looking forward to welcoming up to 30,000 visitors. This alone is a pretty big deal. For Taipei, the Universiade presents an unparalleled opportunity to show off the capital city’s amazing infrastructure and unique charm.
Q6. What’s this “Chinese Taipei” thing about?
Due to political considerations stemming from Taiwan’s complicated relations with the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan has agreed to compete under the name “Chinese Taipei,” and use the moniker “Chinese Taipei” rather than “Taiwan” for many official purposes pertaining to the game.
Q7. Has this appeased the Chinese government?
Of course! Beijing has encouraged its athletes to compete in all events in the name of sportsmanship, international harmony, and goodwill.
Q8.You’re kidding, right?
Yes. This article from Forbes.com sums up China’s actual response quite well : China Pushes Taiwan Relations To A New Low With Sporting Event Boycott.
Q.9 Enough about politics. What else is going on in Taiwan during the event?
Taiwan’s travel industry has been working overtime for months to ensure our international guests have plenty to do outside of the games themselves. MyTaiwanTour is offering a series of special tours (complimentary for visiting delegates, referees and others connected to the event) for the duration of the Universiade.
Q10. Can members of the general public also go on tours?
Absolutely. We’re also offering a few specially scheduled single day tours for the general public. Click here to see what’s going on, or head over to our www.mytaiwantour.com to check out the other tours we offer.
See you at the games!
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When I arrived, the crowd was still waiting for Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth to walk the carpet for their movie. I found a place behind some Colin Firth fan-ladies (all in their 50's & 60's) because I assumed they'd leave after Colin did. They were pleasant but there was a professional paparazzi standing with us who I did not like. A teenage girl got very excited for actor Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and was calling for him to come over. The Pap told her to stop because he wanted a pathway clear for Kidman. Well, the Colin Firth fan ladies were NOT having that and started to shout "Jeremy!" too.
When Firth arrived, he did not walk our section of the carpet & I was astonished how bitter a few people got about that, taking it really personally. "I don't like him now." Really?
I made it to the fence & held my spot for the next 2 hours, as the Tom/Zac Efron fans arrived for Parkland, I liked the teenaged fans better - they were sweet & enthusiastic - and the paparazzi left so that was nice. But was amused how excited they got by anyone walking down the red carpet. When this lady came out, the kid next to me practically burst himself calling for her to come over. "PHOTO! PLEASEEEEEE!" So she came over. Afterwards I asked if he knew who she was. Kid: "No. Who is she?!" (It was Bitsie Tulloch form "Grimm.")
Colin Hanks posed for the professional photographers but didn't walk around. The crowd growled a bit but you figure, someone who grew up with a famous dad has had enough of paps & autograph seekers to last a lifetime.
Tom arrived in the second last limo and walked around for quite a long time. I was impressed with Mr. Reclusive! He looked a little bemused "Really? All this?" but he gave the fans what they wanted. The lighting was terrible & most of my pics were blurry or show the back of his head. But he towered over everyone so was easy to spot.
The crowd was shouting "TOMTOMTOM!" This vid gives a taste of the frenzy. I like the boy who says "We love you!" with such fervour at 2.19. Link Vid via tariel22
This is the best picture I managed. He looked great in that suit.
Once Tom went in, I was ready to go. But I was unable to extricate myself because the next car pulled up and the crowd surged forward "ZACZACZAC!" I thought the fence was going to come down. It wasn't an aggressive crowd - lots of "excuse me" and "I'm sorry" - just a tidal wave of fan excitement. The guards had to run forward to hold up the barricade. The kid next to me burst himself screaming "ZAC!" and got a photo, while Mr. Efron, unknowingly, stepped on my foot.
ZE looks like he has a mohawk in this photo because the crowd behind was pressing on me and literally vibrating with excitement, hence wobbly camera.
I did manage to get free while Zac was still roaming. But the fans behind me were too polite to let me out at first. "Are you sure?" He might come back here." I had to repeat several times I was fine & please go ahead, take my spot, get your best picture. Didn't want to be rude & say I was only there for Tom.
The shrieks were still echoing for the next 3 blocks as I walked to the train.
In conclusion: I would only do a red carpet again for Tom or Michael. Even though the crowd was well-behaved, I wasn't really comfortable in that environment. If the red carpet is like the jungle, Cons are like petting zoos. And Michael is always willing to be petted. (Metaphorically!) I wish Tom would do a Con.
Last weekend, I went canoeing & we kept disturbing this same heron. He'd fly away and land a little ways up the river, we'd paddle up and startle him again. He was pretty & leggy & shy: Tom in bird form.
Ottawa has a collection of bad-ass sculptures. I like sculptures that look like they belong in Dr. Who:
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My trip to see Tom on the red carpet
Tom's new movie Parkland was playing at the Toronto International Film Fest last night. I wasn't able to get tickets but decided to go down and stake out the red carpet. This would not normally be my sort of thing - I don't mind crowds when they're organized, as at Cons, but am not fond of crowds in general.
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How IT Support providers in Long Island Can Help You Avoid Complicated Phishing Scams
IT support providers in Long Island remain prescient. Here’s the situation: there are always new security threats and that trend isn’t going to change because technology is always advancing. What was once an ironclad protection soon becomes exploited by varying levels of cyber attacks until it is again a point of vulnerability. It’s a cyclical thing, and there is no vacuum of operations which can avoid this reality. In fact, an organization that doesn’t regularly update its security parameters is more apt to be hacked in one way or another through phishing, a DDoS attack, some Trojan malware, spyware, adware, or social engineering. The most sophisticated hacking comes from cybercriminals who use combined techniques like a digital crowbar to upend the manhole of your cybersecurity. This can clog up your system’s digital plumbing.
The most recent casualty is encrypted “HTTPS” websites. This started cropping up recently. URLs used to start with HTTP almost exclusively. As sites became hacked and dummy sites were put up in order to act as fronts for cybercriminal enterprise, it became apparent that an encrypted solution was necessary. So, HTTPS came along. The “S” at the end indicates that a site has been encrypted for user security. Now, phishing scams have simply encrypted their dummy sites, so they appear with an HTTPS designation at the beginning. Sure, they’re encrypted, but the users operating them are doing so in bad faith and still phishing as much as they can.
Strategic Protection Solutions
An IT support provider in Long Island can help you avoid being taken in by such scams through providing educational materials to your business pertaining to cybercrime trends. Additionally, such support solutions can help apply the latest security solutions to your business so that you can always be on the cutting edge of security. Technology transitions such that you’re going to need new systems at five-year intervals, and that’s if you managed to “milk” your legacy systems as much as possible. Older systems exist and are in operation today, but for many businesses, this isn’t viable because it slows down regular operations and reduces competitive ability.
As you get new systems, they’re naturally going to come with new vulnerabilities. It’s just part of the business. You’re always going to need to change the oil in your car and you’re always going to need to update security. To combat phishing scams, which use encryption to shroud their underhanded activity, the right tech organization will institute policies like:
Periodic best practices advisement
Automatic patching and security updates
Continuous monitoring and support
When you’ve got advisories pertaining to the best operational practices supported by automatic updates, you’re likely to have a more secure network. That’s definitely advisable in a world where the cybercrime enterprise will soon be between 25% and 33% of the current US GDP.
Safeguarding Operations
IT support in Long Island through Total Technology Solutions can help you avoid common areas of incursion even as they develop in waves of cybercrime trends. Contact us for the latest protection solutions. If you want your systems to be secure, you’re going to need the latest cybersecurity.
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The sophistry and revisionist history in Skeptoid Brian Dunning's statement
August 10, 2014 Jason Thibeaultasshats, Brian Dunning, computers, cookie-stuffing, cookies, fraud, prison, pseudoscience, skepticism, Skeptoid18 Comments
My understanding of Brian Dunning’s cookie-stuffing scheme is fairly thorough at this point. I’ve read the articles in major news organizations about Dunning and Shawn Hogan’s scheme, and I happen to understand to a very high degree of fidelity the workings of the World Wide Web and cookies. So when I read the statement that he wouldn’t allow copying-and-pasting on, I balked. Not only at the lies, misdirection and obvious con-man level sophistry going on in the post, but that anyone who claims to have pulled off such a job might think that what they claim to have done is actually plausible.
Rebecca Watson has done a thorough job at deconstructing the statement for what it is: a great ball of chaff thrown up to confuse the radars of so-called skeptics who are evidently unable to recognize such tactics. But there’s some nuance I’d like to add, specifically because there are parts that appear to directly reference something I blogged about recently, which has bubbled up to very near the top of search results on the terms “Skeptoid” or “Brian Dunning”.
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Why won't you "skeptics" let Skeptoid's Brian Dunning put his misdeeds into the memory hole!?
August 9, 2014 Jason ThibeaultBrian Dunning, cookie stuffing scheme, cookies, eBay, fraud, humanism, law, skepticism, Skeptoid18 Comments
Brian Dunning issued a statement about his criminal acts and how everyone’s getting things wrong about him. However, people might find it difficult to copy and paste in order to rebut, or even to disseminate, because he included a little snippet of javascript that automatically kills your ability to select, copy or paste.
So, I’m going to paste the entire thing here where it’s more easily copiable by folks who might have a mind to do so who might not be technically inclined to be able to disable Javascript and/or edit from source.
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The virtual radio silence on Brian Dunning's fraud
August 5, 2014 Jason Thibeaultasshats, blogosphere, Brian Dunning, computers, eBay, fraud, movement skepticism, pseudoscience, skepticism, social justice33 Comments
Today, Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast and brand, blogger at SkepticBlog, was sentenced to 15 months prison and three years supervised release.
Barely anyone’s talking about it, though (except, obviously, us Social Justice Bullies who will inevitably be accused of crowing about this news).
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Fraudster skeptic Brian Dunning's shell game
March 4, 2014 Jason ThibeaultBrian Dunning, computers, cookie-stuffing, eBay, fraud, internet, movement skepticism, pseudoscience, skepticism, Skeptoid, Skeptoid Media69 Comments
It’s been known for quite some time that Brian Dunning is dirty. From 2006 to 2007, he and his brother set up their joint venture Kessler’s Flying Circus as part of the eBay affiliates program wherein you get commission from every sale if someone purchased something after clicking on a banner ad on your site. Two of Dunning’s other websites, WhoLinked.com and ProfileMaps.info were configured to “stuff cookies” for eBay — that is, to create persistent cookies in your web browser such that if you visited one of those sites, the next time you visited eBay it would imagine that you’d clicked on one of those banner ads. Basically, by going to the site, without knowing it, you were treated as though you’d clicked on the Dunning brothers’ ad campaign even if you’d never even seen that ad. And the cookie would persist such that all your purchases looked as though they came from that ad campaign.
He’d figured out to do this by reverse-engineering Shawn Hogan’s tools — Shawn Hogan being the top-most eBay affiliate, who had himself defrauded eBay of $30+ million USD.
In 2008, eBay filed a lawsuit alleging that Dunning and Dunning had defrauded them of $5,300,000 USD. Though not as big a fraud as Hogan’s case, the Dunnings were the number two affiliate, and this was not chump change. eBay was definitely not getting the advertising bang for their buck. In 2010, a federal grand jury indicted him on five counts of wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. The FBI issued a press release in April 2013 showing that Brian Dunning had pled guilty. He faces 20 years jail time for his crimes.
Given that his general defense to the FBI was that eBay had been “stupid” in the way they set up the program, it’s fairly self-evident he was not repentant of his crimes and thought he could fight the suits in a sort of characteristically Libertarian “if you can do it, then it’s okay to do” defense. Now that he’s pled guilty, it’s fairly evident that he could not fight this case with that method of thinking.
Dunning’s legacy, his skeptical podcast Skeptoid, has long been known to be a cash cow as well — with its own advertisements, and a kitsch store with huge markups on t-shirts and mugs and the likes. However, now that Dunning has pled guilty and is awaiting sentencing, Skeptoid’s fate is in question.
In May of 2012, Dunning filed to convert the Skeptoid Media, Inc into a 501(c)3 non-profit charity, removing the ads from the podcast and site. This is mere months after he’d been forced to publicly admit that the lawsuits were ongoing.
This is a screenshot of the filing for non-profit status from the Department of Justice website.
It’s an easy leap to believe that this was done to protect it from fallout from his fraud; it’s an easier leap to believe that all he has to do to protect the money he stole is to donate it all to Skeptoid as soon as the non-profit status comes through. I am under the impression that Dunning is presently setting up a board for this non-profit entity prior to the status actually changing. I don’t think it’s possible, at this point, to consider the brand anything but spent and destroyed — any efforts made by any members of our community toward rehabilitating its image and disassociating Skeptoid the brand from Brian Dunning the imprisoned felon are, in my mind, wasted and themselves tainted efforts.
I’m certain that the FBI will not allow this shell game to happen, especially not with the scrutiny that’s levelled at Brian Dunning presently. But on the off chance that it does happen, that Skeptoid is allowed to use funds from the eBay fraud, and that it doesn’t die on the vine thanks to the ongoing support I see from numerous big-name skeptics in our community, at least it won’t have happened because everyone stayed silent.
I do not consent to the skeptical “brand”, insofar as there is one, being represented by malicious con-men and other ne’er-do-wells. The skeptical way of thinking is a toolset that supplements a person’s identity. Not every person’s identity toolset is complete — many people lack empathy or a strong moral compass, among other numerous lacks. The skeptical toolset has too long been associated with amoral Libertarian con-artists that comprise the big-name skeptics, like Dunning, and I’d very much like that to end now. We have enough of an image problem with so-called “honest liars”; no need to prop up dishonest con-artists as part of a package deal.
Speak up. Repudiate any efforts to resurrect the Skeptoid brand. Dissociate yourselves from it if you have ties. Dunning is an unrepentant con-man and none of us need to go down with his ship.
I say that as someone who got into movement skepticism with Skeptoid being the first podcast I ever listened to.
Jose Luis de Jesus: Canada’s own Harold Camping
May 7, 2012 Jason Thibeault666, antichrist, apocalyptic propecies, asshats, Cardboard Man suit, Christianity, cults, failed predictions, fraud, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, religion, superheroes, superpowers9 Comments
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Brace yourselves, fellow Canucks, for the day of reckoning is nigh! The National Post covers how, on June 30, 2012, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda and his followers will bodily transform into superhumans with X-Men-like powers, while the rest of us mere mortals will suffer from the worldwide collapse of currencies and governments and the rise of the “new government of the 666”.
[…] Mr. de Jesus also predicts that the “transformation” will endow him, and his loyal followers, with superpowers, such as the ability to fly and walk through walls, said Axel Cooley, the bishop’s daughter.
“[We can] run and not get tired. Go through fire and not get burned…. I could be talking to you right now, and then I could go through that wall. So, you’ll know there is a difference,” Cooley said.
This sounds pretty much like a supervillain origin story to me. I’d better get to work on my Iron Man suit post-haste. Of course, thanks to corner-cutting owing to a lack of funds, so far the best I’ve managed is a Cardboard Man suit. Offensive technologies include throwing toilet paper tubes, and for a mega-attack, a paper towel tube. Yeah, I know, it needs work. But someone’s gotta stand up to the New World Order of religious practitioners suddenly endowed with No Clipping reality-hacks.
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When you fail this often, may as well quit while you’re ahead. $75 Mil ahead.
November 1, 2011 Jason Thibeaultapocalyptic propecies, Christianity, failed predictions, fraud, Harold Camping, rapture, religion15 Comments
Harold Camping has retired as head of FamilyRadio.com, and the radio website has pulled all mention of the failed apocalyptic predictions, according to the Christian Post.
The move comes soon after Brandon Tauszik, a documentarian who has been attending Camping’s Oakland, Calif., church for eight months, confirmed with The Christian Post in an exclusive interview that the Bible preacher has informed those close to him that he will effectively retire.
Additionally, Tauszik told CP that Camping has changed his views about the possibility that one can know the exact date of the end of the world, a notion that Camping has maintained for at least 20 years; the doomsday prophet made his first public end of the world prediction in 1992, claiming the world would end in 1994.
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August 31, 2015 Tony ThompsonBen Carson, Donald Trump, media, racism, Scott Walker, xenophobia
By now, most USAmericans who pay attention to politics are probably aware of The Donald’s inane idea to build a wall between the U.S./Mexico border. Ya know, to keep out all those rapists, murderers, and drug dealers that he’s worried are pouring into this country (a belief he holds and has no qualms about sharing despite his failure to produce supporting evidence):
Donald Trump said he would force the people of Mexico to build his vowed border wall to keep immigrants out of the United States, warning that if his order was not fulfilled, he would do something “severe.”
When asked how he might force the country to build this wall, Trump said in an interview that aired on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, “you force them because we give them a fortune. Mexico makes a fortune because of us. A wall is a tiny little peanut compared to that. I would do something very severe unless they contributed or gave us the money to build the wall.”
The 2016 presidential candidate added: “I’d build it. I’d build it very nicely. I’m very good at building things.”
I wonder-scale of 1 to 10…how big is his ego? Hell, it’s probably so big it breaks the scale. In any case, the idea has been called moronic, unrealistic and costly, and ridiculous. Trump has given no consideration to the difficulties in constructing a wall more than 1,900 miles long*, across a varied topography, and through a fair amount of private land. But that’s not what he’s concerned about. No, for him, the important thing is preserving the United States for “us” by keeping “them” out. Trump’s frothy mix of xenophobia and racism has found purchase with some of the brightest stars among the dregs of humanity including:
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Ben Carson lies again, film at 11
July 28, 2015 Tony Thompsonabortion, Ben Carson, Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson (one of the many GOP presidential candidates vying for the Republican nomination for the presidency) is once again filling the airwaves with his unique brand of ignorance. You’ll remember Carson as the guy who said that being gay is a choice because straight people who leave jail are gay, that white liberals are the most racist people there are, that the Affordable Care Act is the worst thing that has happened to the United States since slavery, and compared supporters of President Obama to Nazi’s. In response to the heavily edited anti-choice propaganda videos recently released by the Center for Medical Progress, Carson told Iowa radio talk show host Jan Mickelson:
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A humble Mo Farah, Great Britain, on the podium with a giant gold medal symbol displayed on the stadium screen behind him as he receives his Gold Medal for his win in the Men's 5000m Final at the Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, during the London 2012 Olympic games. London, UK. 11th August 2012. Photo Tim Clayton
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At the tribute led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, PISTON honorary chair Medardo Roda made a dramatic visit to his friend. Upon reaching the casket and seeing his old friend, Ka Roda wept. The strong bond between the two former taxi drivers who became leaders of their respective organizations was palpable. Ka Roda even tried […]
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Trade unionists and activists are in mourning today following the death of Crispin Beltran. Fondly called “Ka Bel” by colleagues and the public, Beltran’s service to his people spanned several decades. He championed the Filipino worker in the streets, in Congress and the international scene. Please read this official profile released by from the Kilusang […]
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Top Ten Popular Outdoor Games for Kids
Playing outdoor games continues to be one of the favorite past times of kids, in spite of all the play stations and Xboxes that are flooding living rooms across the globe. This list looks at the top 10 most popular games that continue to be favorites among kids.
1. Freeze Tag
An informal playground game, Freeze Tag involves one or more players who have to try to “tag” other players by touching them with their hands. It is a simple game which requires no sports equipment, scores, or teams. However the game can be made complex with various rule modifications. The game is mostly played in informal areas such as backyards and play grounds.
2. Horse – Shooting Game in Basketball
You get a letter for every missed shop in this game. The first player to spell the word “horse” loses. In H-O-R-S-E, the object is to be the last to accrue the five letters, H-O-R-S-E. The shots in the game of H-O-R-S-E are mostly lucky shots or trick shots aimed to make the other person miss. The game is played by two or more persons.
3. Red Light, Green Light
Facing the opposite direction, the commander calls out green light which is the command to walk and forward or red light which is the command to stop. You are out if you are caught moving by the commander when the command is to stop.
4. Shadow Tag
In this game, the idea is to tag someone by moving to their shadow. The child must first of all find his or her shadow. You can see what happens to the shadow by moving around and changing directions. You can chase as well as lose the shadow. Whoever is “it” must try to step on another shadow.
Hide-and-seek is a game where several hide themselves in the environment and will be found by one or more seekers. You can find several variants of the game worldwide. This is an old favorite among children’ games.
6. Flashlight Tag
Played at night mostly, the game mixes the popular games, hide and seek with tag. When other players hide, the person who is “it” waits at the “jail” counting to a high number. The person armed with a flashlight searches for other players who may be changing hiding spots. The flashlight must remain on at all times and may not be covered. The game is played during the night.
7. Hopscotch
This game is fairly simple and can be played alone or with several players. It is generally played on playgrounds by children. There is a course for playing this game whose designs vary. The course comprises of many linear squares interspersed with blocks of two lateral squares. Traditionally the course ends with a “safe” or “home” base in which the player may turn before completing the reverse trip.
8. Kick the Can
Kick the can similar to the game of tag is played outdoors, with three to a few dozen players, usually children. In this game, one person designated as “it” and a can or similar object is placed in the open. The other players conceal themselves while “it” covers his or her eyes and counts to a pre decided number. You must try and kick a ball or can over the other teams end line.
9. Catching Fireflies
Children also enjoy catching fireflies on a warm summer evening which is an enjoyable pass time. All you need is a dark field or forest, a flashlight and a jar!
10. Handball
This game is played against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands or against walled apace. There are various versions of the game which is played by kids outdoors.
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It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: "Mac and Dennis: Manhunters" and "The Gang Solves The Gas Crisis"
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"Mac and Dennis: Manhunters" and "The Gang Solves The Gas Crisis" / "Mac and Dennis: Manhunters" and "The Gang Solves The Gas Crisis"
"Mac and Dennis: Manhunters" and "The Gang Solves The Gas Crisis"
Sunny is back!
In case you weren't here earlier this week, Noel interviewed Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day. Because the show has such a what-the-hell feel, it's amusing to hear the creators talk about craft and acting and character. But isn't that always the way? The more spontaneous it looks, the harder you have to work to make sure it comes out right. Because a guerrilla sensibility is fragile — there's no net. There are no conventions to fall back on except the ones you create yourself.
But enough about comedic philosophy. We're here for the funny. And there's some good funny here, especially in episode 2. So let's take the last bit first.
"The Gang Solves The Gas Crisis"
Mac decides that the reason that the trio of dudes isn't more effective as a team is that they aren't adhering to the tried-and-true fictional team paradigm: brains, looks, wildcard. As the brains, he comes up with a plan to get a bank loan, buy gas, and sell it for a profit. As the looks, Dennis creates a poster featuring busty women and a line graph to convince the presumably male loan officers to fund their scheme. And as the wildcard, Charlies looks and acts unpredictable. Meanwhile Dee comes up with a plan to frame Bruce for some crime and prevent him from giving away the inheritance money she considers to be rightfully hers to terrorists, and Frank brings his experience in covert ops and child safety equipment to the table as backup.
Here Sunny is playing to its strengths: using pop culture conventions to provide a jumping-off point for meta-riffs on their implausibility. My personal favorite part was the tossed-off idea of a spy van (aka rape van) with windows tinted on the inside. When the camera shoots a dim street from inside while Dee and Frank try to make out what's happening, the joke moves into silent movie territory, elevated out of the rapid-fire dialogue on which so much of Sunny's appeal rests.
But the bank pitch is an instant classic, with Dennis trying to seduce the loan officer by unbuttoning his shirt and then having Charlie and Mac both jump all over his play. "You can't pull a wildcard if my shirt's already off!" Dennis complains to Charlie, then suggests to Mac, "That should be a rule."
"Mac And Dennis: Manhunters"
The season premiere finds Mac and Charlie united in the belief that the only true sport is to hunt something that could hunt you back. Man is the only creature that fits the bill, so they lure Rickety Cricket down to the bar to be their target, load up on beer and camo, and sit on the street in a cardboard man-blind discussing the teabagging that will occur when they catch Cricket. Meanwhile, Frank has decided to teach Dee and Charlie a lesson for stealing venison out of his fridge; he tells them they've eaten human meat. But the two develop a craving for human flesh and start plotting to find more.
"Manhunters" is just a smidge too manic and not random enough to be Grade A premium corn-fed beef. It's overplanned — the sense of spontaneity that I mentioned above isn't the dominant note. Nevertheless, you can't underestimate the improvisational timing of the players. When Dee proposes a place to get human meat to Charlie — "The morgue. Now hear me out —" he cuts her off with "Sold." And you could extract the long discussions of how to raise the bar on the garden-variety teabaggings they've been giving to Cricket since they were kids, culminating of course in the evidence of both gorilla-masking and ink-teabagging each other, and put it in a tutorial to explain what Sunny is all about to a novice.
FX is going to do the whole two-at-a-time rollout again this season, and I hope somebody in the comments can explain the thinking behind this move. It's a 13-episode season, and last year it lasted all of two months. Why do we need our Sunny in hour-long packages? Personally, it's a bit too much for me; the flat-out pace is exhausting at an hour, but invigorating in shorter bursts. Did Dane Cook demand it?
I await your wisdom.
Grade: "Manhunters," B; "Gas Crisis," A-
- Frank tends to conflate the plot of First Blood with his own past. "That's not the first time you've described your life in the ways of John Rambo," Dennis observes after Frank has described being hunted by cops after returning from the Nam.
- It's bad enough being a cannibal, but being a racist cannibal would really put a dent in your will to live.
- The gang finally gets their personae sorted out just before blowing up the rape van. If you're keeping score at home, Mac is the brains, Dennis is the looks, Charlie is the wildcard, Frank is the muscle, and Dee is the useless chick. (I don't remember there being that many Ghostbusters, and who was the looks in that outfit, Ernie Hudson?)
- "It's just like our normal lives, except at the end of it we get to put our nuts in some guy's mouth."
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Program offers a riveting chronicle of the Libyan Dictator’s tyrannical regime, but ignores the corruption of the West
By Ray Hanania
English: The leader de facto of Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi. Português: O líder de facto da Líbia, Muammar al-Gaddafi. Deutsch: Libyens de facto Staatsoberhaupt Muammar al-Gaddafi. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Everyone knew that Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi was a psycho, but no one could do anything about it. Gaddafi embraced good causes that swept through the emotions of the Arab World, and was often cheered on as a champion of civil rights.
In the 1970s, Gaddafi donated millions to strengthen the Black Muslim movement in Chicago and build mosques to spread Islam in America, probably one of the only real public relations strategies ever implemented to improve the image of Arabs in America. But it was never sustained.
The Libyan leader was for a time blacklisted because of his anti-Israel criticism by the United States and targeted in bombings led by former President Ronald Reagan. Reagan murdered Gaddafi’s young child during one attack against the Libyan leader’s home.
It was injustice after injustice that the United States heaped on Libya as it did through much of the Arab World.
Yet behind the veil of injustice, we see that Gaddafi was no better nor no worse than Reagan or all of the hypocritical tyrants who cloak themselves in Democracy, pretending to be fair.
Gaddafi was a maniac. Like many American politicians, he engaged in immoral conduct. The difference is that in the World of Arab dictators, their true lives are not as exposed as the corruption of the American politicians in a Democracy. Libya was not a Democracy but a dictatorship, led by a dictator who used injustice to distract the eyes and minds of his people, and people in the oppressed Arab World, to other things they could hate, like the hypcrisy in America.
But then the people of Libya finally did stand up to his insanity and he was overthrown and killed himself, in the same brutal manner that his regime no doubt eliminated his critics. Two injustices do not make a right. Killing and murder are wrong. Yet apparently, in the West, some murders and killings are accepted when the targets are others.
The depravity of Gaddafi’s life has finally been exploited by the West. Showtime, which thrives on anti-Arab portrayals and discriminates against Arabs and Muslims, will broadcast a program that pulls the veil off of Gaddafi’s corrupt life and immoral regime. Showtime will relish exposing the Arabs in such a negative way because that is what the American news and entertainment media does best. They love to pillage Arabs and bury immoral and unprincipled conduct by Americans, with some exception only.
Showtime’s press release touting the new show that airs April 11 on Friday night at 9 pm EST, noting that Mad Dog: Inside the Secret World of Muammar Gaddafi will offer an in-depth and provocative look into the tyrannical regime of one of the world’s most infamous dictators. The 90-minute documentary will premiere on SHOWTIME on Friday, April 11th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Protest In Dublin: “Gaddafi Is A Murderer” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Showtime expose on Gaddafi’s life promises to take viewers on a worldwide journey, gaining exclusive access and interviews with palace insiders and those who gave shape to Gaddafi’s dark dreams. They include a fugitive from US justice who helped Gaddafi kill his enemies worldwide, and was a major supplier for the dictator’s international terror enterprise; Valerie Plame, the famous CIA counter-proliferation operative; the widow of the Libyan foreign minister whose body Gaddafi kept in a freezer; the American businessman who supplied Gaddafi with lethal poisons; a female bodyguard who adored him until she saw teenagers raped and executed; as well as Gaddafi’s German rocket designer and sometime confidante. Their collective stories represent a unique and rare close-up glimpse of a brutal and contradictory, yet sometimes vulnerable dictator – a dictator who kept the world continually fascinated for the more than 40 years he occupied the international stage. Muammar Gaddafi’s story is a study in the exercise of absolute power, told not by politicians but by those who directly served the late Libyan leader who at the height of his reign was earning more than 1 billion dollars a week in oil revenues. Ronald Reagan called him a mad dog; his story is stranger than fiction.
MAD DOG: INSIDE THE SECRET WORLD OF MUAMMAR GADDAFI was produced by Fresh One Productions for SHOWTIME. The film was directed, produced and filmed by award-winning filmmaker Christopher Olgiati.Roy Ackerman served as Executive Producer and the film was co-produced by Michael Chrisman.
Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CBS Corporation, owns and operates the premium television networks SHOWTIME®, THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ and FLIX®, as well as the multiplex channels SHOWTIME 2™, SHOWTIME® SHOWCASE, SHOWTIME EXTREME®, SHOWTIME BEYOND®, SHOWTIME NEXT®, SHOWTIME WOMEN®, SHOWTIME FAMILY ZONE® and THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ XTRA. SNI also offers SHOWTIME HD™, THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ HD, SHOWTIME ON DEMAND®, FLIX ON DEMAND® and THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ ON DEMAND, and the network’s authentication service SHOWTIME ANYTIME®. SNI also manages Smithsonian Networks™, a joint venture between SNI and the Smithsonian Institution, which offers Smithsonian Channel™. All SNI feeds provide enhanced sound using Dolby Digital 5.1. SNI markets and distributes sports and entertainment events for exhibition to subscribers on a pay-per-view basis through SHOWTIME PPV®.
Like most Amerian news and entertainment media, Showtime certainly is enjoying exposing the seedier, darker side of the Arab World. They will not hold back, as they do when stories address the corruption of American favored causes, regimes and politics. There is clearly a hypocrisy.
No one is defending Gaddafi or the tyrannical and immoral conduct that was his lifestyle. But we do wish that the same treatment would be given to the hypocrisy and racism that exists in the biased mainstream American News Media, a cabal of hypocrites, liars, cheats and racists who hide behind the fact that they can expose worse things in the Arab World to distract the world from their own misconduct.
Yes, in a real way, the mainstream American news media is doing exactly what the dictators int he Arab World do, putting spotlights on the “enemy” to distract their people from the depths of the depravity that is American media.
Maybe one day we’ll get to see a “TV Special” called something like “Inside the American Media: Sex, Lies, Corruption and even Murder.” And that’s not even doing justice to the seediness and immorality that is the American Fourth Estate and the corrupt politics it veils. Pull the veil off of that one, one day.
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RAY HANANIA — Columnist
Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
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HomeMiddle EastPrince Charles and Camilla on state visit to UAE – in pictures
Prince Charles and Camilla on state visit to UAE – in pictures
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, receives Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, at the launch of the UK-UAE Year of Culture at Al Jahili Fort. Ryan Carter / Crown Prince’s Court – Abu Dhabi
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, watches as calligrapher Mohamed Mandi writes Prince Charles’s name at the launch of the UK-UAE Year of Cultural Collaboration at Al Jahili Fort in Al Ain. Ryan Carter / Crown Prince Court – Abu Dhabi
Students from the Centre for Musical Arts perform at the launch along with violinist Anna Smith and cellist Michael Atkinson, from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Ryan Carter / Crown Prince Court – Abu Dhabi
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed speaks with Prince Charles during the launch of the UK-UAE Year of Cultural Collaboration. Ryan Carter / Crown Prince Court – Abu Dhabi
Britain’s Prince Charles with Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Chairman of Masdar, on a visit to Masdar City. He was given a guided tour of the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology before meeting its students. Reuters
Prince Charles visits the Bu Tinah archipelago. The sanctuary for endangered species such as the dugong and hawksbill turtle, and a UN-recognised heritage site is located about 150 km from Abu Dhabi. AP Photo.
Prince Charles at the Bu Tinah archipelago with Dr Shakha Salem al Dhahen, Director of Marine Biodiversity. Prince Charles and Camilla are on a Royal tour of the Middle East starting with Oman, then the UAE and finally Bahrain. Getty Images
Camilla visited the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital on the second day of her UAE tour with Prince Charles. Getty Images
Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Chairman of Masdar, and Shamma Al Mazrui, Minister of State for Youth Affairs, welcome Britain’s Prince Charles to Masdar City in Abu Dhabi as part of the royal’s state visit to the country. Reuters
Camilla is shown a sedated falcon at the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital. Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Prince Charles on a tour of Masdar City. AP Photo
Camilla met a group of prominent UAE women at a Women’s Empowerment Lunch, where she was greeted by Dr Noura Al Kaabi, Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs. The duchess met senior government officials, business leaders and Armed Forces officers during the event. With Camilla are Dr Noura Al Kaabi, front row fourth right, Najla Al Awar, Minister of Community Development, front row sixth right, Dr Maha Tayseer Barakat, Director General of the Health Authority – Abu Dhabi (Haad), back row second left, among others. Sharina Lootah / Crown Prince Court – Abu Dhabi
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