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Thread: Royal flush
by Chris Derrick
Spokane’s season comes to an end after sweep by Victoria
The Victoria Royals made certain that their breakthrough in the WHL playoffs would be memorable.
Austin Carroll and Logan Nelson teamed up for third-period goals Thursday night as the Royals captured their first postseason series in franchise history with a 4-2 win at the Arena that capped a 4-0 sweep.
“The monkey’s finally off the back,” said Royals overage player Jordan Fransoo, who scored the team’s first goal and assisted on the second.
Victoria advanced to the second round despite being outshot 34-21, including 16-5 in the deciding third period. The Royals, as the Western Conference’s third seed, will most likely play No. 2 Portland, the defending league champion. Victoria was 3-1 against Portland during the regular season.
The Chiefs were outscored 16-7 in the series but were competitive in every game except Wednesday’s Game 3, a 6-1 Royals blowout.
“It’s sad the year’s over, but I’m proud of the guys,” Chiefs coach Don Nachbaur said. “We could have rolled over and said, ‘Here’s the fourth win,’ but we fought to the end.”
Spokane has lost eight consecutive playoff games since a 3-1 win over Tri-City on March 30, 2013.
The Chiefs gave the fans hope early in the third period when Connor Chartier scored to tie the game at 2. Spokane held a 9-2 advantage in shots through 8 minutes of the third.
But the Royals got the winner on a 2-on-1 play in which Ryan Gagnon made a perfect pass to Carroll alone on the left side at 10:06.
Carroll assisted on the insurance goal, at 15:41, when Nelson waited a beat and deked goalie Eric Williams, who made 17 saves in his final game with the Chiefs. Williams’ Royals counterpart, Patrik Polivka, completed his outstanding series with 32 saves.
WHL scoring champion Mitch Holmberg and Mike Aviani also played their final games with Spokane. The two, who combined for 100 goals and 199 points during the regular season, were held to a combined three assists in the playoffs.
“They say good players find holes and I didn’t find them this series,” said Holmberg, who had one assist in the four games. “It’s going to haunt me for a while, that’s for sure.”
“We obviously knew some of their key players and who we had to key on,” said Fransoo, who was traded from Brandon two years ago.
“I think if we look back on this series, maybe it was like our year,” Nachbaur said. “We needed our best players to be our best players and if you look at the points, there are some guys who are noticeable who aren’t at the top of the list.”
The bright spot for Spokane was 16-year-old defenseman Tyson Helgesen, who scored his first goal as a Chief with 58 seconds left in the first period for a brief 1-all tie. Helgesen also assisted on Chartier’s goal.
Spokane’s series leaders were Jason Fram with three points and Liam Stewart with two goals. Carroll, Nelson and Ben Walker had three goals apiece for the Royals, and Brandon Magee had six assists and seven points.
“We made some mistakes and that’s hockey,” Nachbaur said. “We got beat by a pretty good team. They were the better team in the series and they deserved to win.”
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Kaiju Kavalcade BONUS: Godzilla –The Album (1998)
TRAVIS:
1998 was certainly an exciting year to be a G-fan. The big guy was set to make his American debut in the Hollywood blockbuster GODZILLA, and to capitalize on the hype, stores were stuffed with more G-merchandise than ever before. Old titles were quickly reissued on VHS, books ranging from children's storybooks to cinema essays spotlighted the King of the Monsters, and there were aisles filled with TOYS TOYS TOYS of Godzilla, Mothra, and the rest of the gang. Of course, Sony wanted to prime audiences for this new version of G coming to theaters, and the tagline “Size Doesn't Matter” could be found plastered on posters, billboards, bus ads, and even your local Taco Bell! The countdown to this modern day Zilla came with all the usual trappings of big movie marketing: t-shirts, action figures, collectible cups.... and the pop soundtrack album.
Now, everyone's pretty familiar with what movie soundtracks are, yet it seems like the pop soundtrack album is being slowly phased out these days. To more clearly define it, the pop soundtrack album is a collection of contemporary songs that were featured in a particular movie. It's typically anchored by one or two radio-ready singles from big name artists, and the rest of the running time is usually supplemented by B-sides of other popular musicians or throwaway stuff from under-the-bubble bands. There's generally no rhyme or meaning to the structure of the playlist. It's just meant to invoke the general tone of the movie. Actions films had rock albums, romantic comedies had light adult compilations, horror flicks had metal records, and so on. Even though they were just another piece of marketing to support the movie, they could dominate the music charts as its own entity with huge sales comparable to top selling performers. These days however, this brand of soundtrack albums has become something of a rarity compared to their dominating heyday from the 1970s to early 2000s. Soundtracks generally today are for instrumental scores or collections of retro tracks (such as Wes Anderson's films or the massively successful AWESOME MIX from GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY). Now if a pop song is created for a film's promotion, it's typically released as a single unattached to an album. Heck, even pop singles aren't as commonplace in movie marketing as they used to be.
For me personally, the pop soundtrack album is a nostalgic relic from my film watching youth. My GHOSTBUSTERS-loving self bought the CD to have the Ray Parker Jr. song, but I listened to the tracks from the Bus Boys, the Thompson Twins, and other 80s artists so much that they're just as identifiable to the movie to me as the iconic “Who Ya Gonna Call” theme. Many more CDs were added to my collection (MEN IN BLACK, SPACE JAM, NINJA TURTLES), and of course I had to purchase Sony's GODZILLA: THE ALBUM in anticipation for big G's blockbuster release. Like many 90s action flicks, its pop soundtrack had a general rock & roll feel and came packaged with not one but FOUR radio singles: the Wallflowers' cover of David Bowie's “Heroes”, Puff Daddy's “Come with Me” (which sampled Led Zeppelin's “Kashmir” and featured lead guitarist Jimmy Page), Jamiroquai's “Deeper Underground”, and Rage Against the Machine's “No Shelter”. Of course, me as the young G-fan listened to the album over and over again because hey, it's got Godzilla on it! I'm gonna love it! Woo hoo! Relistening to it today though, I recognize it as the empty piece of promotion it is. A mish mash of over-baked songs and bizarre oddities (and a good song here or there) that leaves no other impression than “well, that was the soundtrack to GODZILLA”. It's as soulless and commercial as the Roland Emmerich movie, but since it's supposed to be a commercial for GODZILLA anyway, does it seem even more empty? Luca, what can you make of the soundscape of 1998 and the Year Godzilla Tried to Rock?
Oh man, I too have some very concrete (if not always fond) memories of pop soundtracks. If you've stuck with us through this entire series without scrubbing your reading device clean of our filth, you'll probably have a pretty good sense of where we're both coming from on the pop culture front. Here, however, is where I must reveal my utter ignorance on all things musical. I grew up in a family that considered the only worthwhile music purchases things that were called "[Artist's] Greatest Hits" or "[Genre] Classics of the [Decade]". The few albums I bought as a kid were usually quickly skipped through once I found that I didn't like any of the songs as much as the radio single that prompted me to want this disk. And so, I quickly quit buying albums! Why spend all that money if you're just gonna listen to one, maybe two songs? For some EXTRA LUCA TRIVIA: I think the most successful soundtrack I ever bought (as in, I listened to at least five, six songs regularly) was SHAFT (2000). Note that I'm specifically talking about these pop song soundtracks as you described, Travis! Scores and musical albums were a whole different ballpark.
After a few listens in 2015, I'm pretty sure I would have disliked the GODZILLA: THE ALBUM as a 13 year old in 1998! The amazing Diddy song "Come With Me" captivated my imagination for months, whipping my young self up into such a frenzy that I was convinced I liked the movie for years afterward! None of the songs come close to the bombastic decadent energy so particular to Sean Combs at the height of his Bad Boy powers. I probably would have been slightly annoyed that, for some reason, the producers deemed "Heroes" by the Wallflowers worthy of the album opener position rather than Diddy, so that I'd have to pop in the disc and skip to #2 if I wanted a fix of YEAH... UH HUH! Now, I'm sure plenty of 1998 kids hadn't heard of "Kashmir", the song "Come with Me" was sampled from, but I'll do ya one better ont he musical illiteracy front, Travis! I had only the vaguest clue of the existence of a man named David Bowie, so "Heroes" being a cover only came to me years and years later. Heck, let me pile up the heresies here. "Come with Me" is SO ingrained into my mind that whenever I hear "Kashmir", it just sounds wrong to me. Where's the ad-libs? Where's the Godzilla roars?
Oh yeah, I hope you like Godzilla roars! Almost every single track on this album had its producers try and be cute, and mix Godzilla roars over certain phrases. Good to see that the wit and originality so typical of the cinematic incarnation carries over to its musical scion. The Wallflowers one-up all the rest, though, by also adding in some stompin' Godzilla sounds. Their video is hliarious too, with Jakob Dylan pouting and preening like a retro Edward Cullen, making sex eyes at a girl in a red hoodie who aimlessly (yet soulfully) wanders the streets of a G-terrorized New York in search of... something to drink? Which she then gets from a convenience store deserted by its owner in light of the kaiju kavalcade running rampant over the Big Apple? Hilarious sidenote: she still goes through the effort of dropping some change on the counter. Was this a producer note? "Sexy wet cleavage hoodie girl shouldn't be a filthy LOOTER in this great city's hour of need", some moral music producer says. Now, Sean Combs, a New Yorker born and bred, takes the fight to the G-man himself. After being woken up from a pleasant dream in which he was mackin' on a honey to the tunes of Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa" by a giant iguana wrecking his block, Diddy does his civic duty as a true Noo Yoahkuh and just flips his shit at Godzilla UNTIL HE DIES FROM IT AND HIS GHOST HAS A GODZILLA DEFYING PERFORMANCE IN TIMES SQUARE. This was probably the best thing that ever came out of 1998's manufactured American Zilla craze and, I daresay, probably the biggest exposure to ANY kind of Godzilla for a generation. Even if you didn't go see the movie, man, MTV played that video a LOT. With our current day pop culture as fractured and compartmentalized as it is, Travis, do you think this album (or, more specifically, its videos) may actually have reached more people than even 2014's GODZILLA did?
Talkin’ about pale imitations of the original: here’s Bob Dylan’s son!
It's very possible that the ancillary stuff supporting '98 Zilla infiltrated the collective consciousness of the public more than the 2014 film since it was such a juggernaut of advertising. Heck, I even remember eating the special Eddy's ice cream flavor that came with Godzilla cookie crumbles (mmmm...). Comparing the marketing between the two films reveals how the times have changed. The promotions for the Gareth Edwards film were mostly dignified (except for that delightful Snickers commercial where G partied with some college bros), and its soundtrack release only contained the score by Alexandre Desplat. Roland Emmerich's flick was clearly trying to hit as many demographics as possible, including those hip, cool kids who love Jamiroquai! Like the videos from the Wallflowers and Puff Daddy, Jamiroquai's video for their song “Deeper Underground” has the artist in the middle of the big monster's rampage. In this case, he's trapped in a movie theater (that's showing GODZILLA! Meta!) as it collapses around him from the destruction of Zilla. The theater floods with water as cars and helicopters crash into the seats, but that doesn't stop ol' Jay Kay (the funny hat-wearin' guy) from dancing! It's as though they couldn't figure out how to do a Jamiroquai video without him dancing, so why not have him do his foot shuffling around panicked audience members and crushed taxi cabs? At least Puff Daddy was brave enough to stand up to that bully of a beast!
As peculiar as the sight of the Jamiroquai dude bouncing around Michael Bay-like levels of destruction is, it may not be quite as odd as a few of the other tracks found on GODZILLA: THE ALBUM. The fourth radio single came from counter culture rockers Rage Against the Machine, and it's pretty hilarious how they didn't change their tone at all for this commercial venture. In fact, the video for their song “No Shelter” doesn't have them facing off with Zilla at all! It's your average abstract RATM joint filled with totalitarian imagery for the sake of political satire. Not every 90s blockbuster can claim they have a music video that visually references the case of the Scottsboro boys (where nine African American teens were wrongfully accused of rape and sentenced to jail by a racist justice system)! The only shout out to Sony's monster in the song is with the lyric “Godzilla pure motherfuckin' filler/get your eyes on the real killer!” Stop watching the lizard adventures of Matthew Broderick and Maria Pitallo, ya sheeple, 'cuz Big Brother's actually watching YOU!
I could go on more about other out of place tracks on this soundtrack (who at Sony thought that Silverchair's reflection on anorexia and depression “Untitled” was a good inclusion?), but I need to wrap up with some of the songs I actually liked! I'm a fan of Ben Folds Five, and their track “Air” is a nice respite from the general hard rock feel of the album. Foo Fighters' “A320” is also good and shows signs of the more melodic tone that would be prevalent on their 1999 album THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE. And of all the oddity filler that makes up the back half of the CD, I gotta admit that Fuzzbubble's pop punk ode to aliens and UFOs “Out There” ended up on my play rotation more than some of the other tracks during the writing of this review. It's catchy, and if you wanna stretch it, you can pretend it's about Ghidorah or Gigan or whatever space kaiju you can think of! Lastly, of the few genuine nice things you can say about '98 GODZILLA, the two excerpts from David Arnold's score that are included on the album are good pieces of music that deserved a better movie. Luca, any other favorite tunes or bizarre novelties you wanna talk about before we put down the headphones?
Could do with some extra didgeridoo!
Yes, I would also like to point out the strange lounge-jazzy pop-rock song "Undercover" by one Joey Deluxe (who is only represented on Spotify by his presence on this here very OST). IMDb however also credits him as contributing to the EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS soundtrack with a song called "Itsy Bitsy Spider"... who is this mysterious gimmick man of the late 90s??? "Undercover" talks about the tough yet sexy lives of secret agents and detectives. I certainly don't recall the song popping up in the movie anywhere, and even though it's somewhat more appropriate to the tone and content of GODZILLA than something like "No Shelter" and "Untitled", its inclusion on the album as an organic whole is hilarious after all the bombast and bravado of the tracks preceding it. To make it even funnier, it's the final pop song before the two selected David Arnold score excerpts that cap off the album. Ponder if your life could mayhaps be a Mickey Spillane book hmmm? Okay, you done? Now please consider the majesty of the tragic hubris of man as exemplified by the short-lived Zilla species. Ironically, I think "Undercover" wouldn't be out of place in a Showa movie, especially a Jun Fukuda directed one with score by Masaru Sato*. You know what they say about monkeys and typewriters... somehow, somewhere in the pre-production to this massive Godzilla onslaught of the late 90s, someone managed to vaguely strike a chord that made an infinitesimal aspect of this media juggernaut be somewhat in the spirit of the property they were nominally adapting. Now, if only they could have had Jean Reno and his comedy bumbling spies infiltrate an army facility to this song!
Ze American music is as terrible as their coffee!!
*If you're following this series without ever having seen any Toho Godzillas, know that the song also very might have been on the OST to a mid-90s Mike Myers comedy, so please consider this strange intersectionality.
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Merrill Shatzman received her B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work as an abstract printmaker includes images in relief, silkscreen, lithography, bookmaking and digital media. Over the past fifteen years her prints have been exhibited in ninety solo, invitational, group and juried shows throughout the United States and internationally, including a solo exhibitions at the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (April 2009), Roanoke College (2008). Shatzman's award winning prints are found in numerous museum and corporate collections in the United States including: the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Boston Public Library, The Fogg Museum, UCLA's Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Art, California State University Long Beach, Museum of Art, Texas Tech University, National Museum of American Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution. Her abundantly detailed woodcuts explore the "universal language" created by signs, writing systems, symbols and pre-imagined images (such as maps, charts, photographs, texts and written language). Inspired by her passion for written forms from multiple cultures, including Middle Eastern, Far Eastern and Mesoamerican, her black-and-white relief images are rich with calligraphic marks, camouflage, patterning and symbols, which allude to signs and letters, condensed and illegible. Her symbolic interpretations of the visual letterforms respond to the rich cultural history of the civilizations from which they are inspired, contemplating ideas of relics and interweaving the domains of philosophy, religion, mysticism, linguistics and humanistic inquiry. Her most recent prints combine digital imaging and silkscreen printing, uniquely highlighting the similarities between these different media through her abstract, highly patterned written forms.
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Merril Shatzman: Exhibitions, 2000 | Millennial Biennial: National Works on Paper Exhibition at Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia. (2000)
Merril Shatzman: Exhibitions, 2000 | Printwork ‘2K at Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York. (2000)
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Word Maps Grid #4 -- The Printed Image 4 | The Printed Image 4 at Mulvane Art Museum , Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, KS.
9th Biennale Internationale D’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres | 9th Biennale Internationale D’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres at Quebec, Canada.
International Print Triennial Krakow 2015 | International Print Triennial Krakow 2015 at Contemporary Art, Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland.
Alphabetic Excursions, Corridor Gallery, Duke University | at Corridor Gallery, Duke University.
Word Maps #1,5,3 -- The 2012 Harnett Biennial of American Prints | The 2012 Harnett Biennial of American Prints at Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums.
In Practice, Duke University Faculty Exhibition | In Practice, Duke University Faculty Exhibition at Power Point Gallery, American Tobacco, Durham, NC.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: another Obama disaster for the working class, a heaven-sent for multinationals
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President Barack Obama speaks about trade policy during his visit to Nike’s headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, on Friday. | AFP-JIJI
WASHINGTON – Things are not quite square in Washington when the biggest backer of President Barack Obama’s current legislative priority is the Senate’s top Republican and its archfoe is the Democratic leader.
Yet that is the scenario in the U.S. Senate, which is set to hold a test vote Tuesday on whether to consider giving Obama fast-track trade promotion authority (TPA) to complete a massive trade deal with 11 other Pacific rim countries.
Senate Republicans mostly support the measure, which will allow Obama to present a trade deal to Congress for an up or down vote, but with lawmakers forfeiting rights to make changes.
Several members of Obama’s Democratic Party are highly critical of TPA because it will let the president ram through a pact that they argue will siphon American jobs to places like Vietnam and fails to include enforceable language on preventing currency manipulation.
As a result, Obama has been doing his most serious political arm-twisting since the Affordable Care Act of 2010, lobbying dozens of skeptical lawmakers.
“The president has been in frequent conversations with members of Congress, mostly Democrats, but some Republicans,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
Senate Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid, who is against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), said he opposes debating TPA until the Senate addresses more pressing issues, such as the June 1 expiration of bulk-data collection authority by the National Security Agency.
As for the trade deal, while it is being negotiated in secret, Reid said the White House has kept him at least somewhat informed.
“I know how bad it is,” Reid sneered.
Such is Reid’s command over Senate Democrats that many of them are expected to back his delay tactics.
“It’s going to be a very close vote,” a senior Democratic aide said.
Senate Republicans will need at least six Democrats, but perhaps twice that, to reach the required 60 votes in the 100-member chamber.
Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, perhaps not wanting to appear too comfortable working hand in glove with Obama, described his close TPA work with the White House as “almost an out-of-body experience.”
He warned Monday that it will be a “big mistake” to block TPA, but sounded less than certain about its success.
Asked whether he feels the measure has enough votes, McConnell said, “We’ll find out tomorrow, won’t we?”
Securing passage in the House of Representatives, also led by Republicans, is likely to prove even more difficult.
Some 60 Republicans, most of them aligned with the ultra-conservative tea party movement that is reluctant to provide Obama with a major victory, are reportedly expected to balk at voting for TPA, despite a full-court press by popular GOP figures like Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.
That will mean the support of dozens of Democrats would be needed.
Committee spokesman Brendan Buck said leadership is holding “listening sessions” and other outreach to bring skeptics on board.
“We remain confident we will provide a strong number, but, as always, will need Democrats to deliver as well,” Buck said.
In a late TPA push, Obama traveled last week to Nike’s Oregon headquarters to highlight how the shoe giant could create 10,000 new jobs if the Asia-Pacific trade pact comes into being.
“Just do it,” Obama said, repeating the company’s trademark slogan.
But critics, including some of Obama’s closest supporters on most other issues, lashed out at the deal as bad for American workers.
“If it passes, TPP will encourage Nike’s exploitative business model in the largest trade agreement in history,” tweeted House Democrat Rosa DeLauro, using the hashtag #JustDontDoIt.
Liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren warned that TPA could roll back rules governing Wall Street banks after the 2008 financial crisis.
Obama rejected Warren’s claims, telling Yahoo News that his longtime ally’s “arguments don’t stand the test of fact and scrutiny.”
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Residents say high cancer rate caused by nearby rail yard
By Erica Simon
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Residents of Kashmere Gardens in Fifth Ward say they have been dealing with a detrimental problem for years.
"All our neighbors are dead. We have one, two, three, four original people. Everyone else has died off from cancer," a concerned neighbor Sandra Edwards shared.
Edwards believes her beloved neighborhood has had a cancer problem for years due to the Union Pacific Railroad yard nearby.
In August 2019, a report was released by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
The group IMPACT, which was formed by neighbors and is assisted by Lone Star Legal, believes it backs up what it discovered years ago: that neighbors are right in the middle of a cancer cluster.
According to IMPACT, the wood preserving chemical creosote once seeped into the neighborhood's soil, creating a hazardous plume that moved beneath at least 110 homes and churches. The chemicals also contaminated groundwater.
In the report, the state identified 10 areas within Fifth Ward with a high number of cases of adult cancers of the lung, esophagus and throat.
Neighbor Richard Hudson says his family was personally affected by the contaminates.
"My mom died from ovarian cancer, my brother from stomach cancer," he said. "I don't think it's a coincidence."
Although the study does not determine the exact cause of the cancers, the EPA does associate them with exposure to chemicals found in the groundwater plume.
What's next for neighbors? Well, they'll continue their IMPACT group. They also most likely move forward with legal action. "They have proved we were right all along. We are humans. We bleed just like everybody else. We breathe just like everybody else. Why can't we live in clear air and clean neighborhoods like everybody else," Edwards asked.
In response, Union Pacific released this statement: "Union Pacific understands the community is concerned and is reaching out to the Texas Department of Health for more information about its findings."
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Berna Perles debuts in Teatro de la Zarzuela
by ACM Concerts | 7 Nov, 2018 | News
Soprano Berna Perles debuts at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in the role of Angustias de La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Miquel Ortega, conducted by the composer himself, together with Rubén Fernández-Aguirre and directed by Bárbara Lluch, which will be performed on the 10th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 20th and 22nd of November. She shares the limelight with Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Bernarda Alba), Carmen Romeu (Adela), Luis Cansino (Poncia), Carol García (Martirio), Marifé Nogales (Amelia), Belén Elvira (Magdalena), Milagros Martín (Maid) and the recent Premio Nacional de Teatro prizewiner Julieta Serrano as María Josefa.
The best of the night was Berna Perles, a delicate, lyrical and emotional Micaela, with an impeccable singing voice and great expressive sensitivity (Andrés Moreno, Diario de Sevilla)
The best voice of the night was the Micaela of the Malagueña Berna Perles: delicate, emotional, expressive and with clean projection (José Luis López, ABC de Sevilla)
Berna Perles was born in Malaga, where she obtained a Título Superior de Canto en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga con Matrícula de Honor y Premio Extraordinario Fin de Carrera – the highest awards. She studied a postgraduate course at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and completed her training at the “Santa Cecilia” Opera Studio of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. She then studied in Vienna with Glenys Linos, a disciple of Elvira Hidalgo. She has received master classes from Renata Scotto, Mirella Freni, Mariella Devia, Teresa Berganza, Monserrat Caballé, Isabel Rey and Carlos Álvarez.
Berna has been awarded prizes in numerous singing competitions (First Prize, “Muestra de Jóvenes Intérpretes de Málaga”, First Prize, “Juventudes Musicales de España”, First Prize “Nuevas Voces Ciudad de Sevilla”, First Prize “Concurso Internacional Mozart de Granada”, First Prize “Concurso Internacional de Canto de Logroño”) and finalist in many others (“Concurso Internacional de Canto de Toulouse”, “Concorso Lirico Internazionale Umberto Giordano“ “Concurso Internacional de Canto Manuel Ausensi”, “Concurso Internacional de Canto Villa de Colmenar Viejo”, “Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino”). In 2016 she received the award for Best Musical Work of the Year in her hometown of Malaga.
His professional career has led him to perform, both in opera and zarzuela productions and in lyrical recitals, in theatres such as Teatro dell´opera (Rome), Auditorio Santa Cecilia (Rome), Konzerthaus (Vienna), Teatro Comunale (Bologna), Teatro Garibaldi (Lucera), Royal Opera (Versailles), Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse), Opera de Massy, Le pin galant (Mérignac), Théâtre de Sète, Teatro Avenida (Buenos Aires), Le pin galant (Mérignac), Théâtre de Sète, Teatro Avenida (Buenos Aires).
He has sung under the baton of John Axelrod, Andrea Marcon, Giarcarlo Andretta, Dominique Rouis, Martin Mázik, Lorenzo Mariani, Edmon Colomer, Santiago Serrate, Pablo González, Mario Menicagli or Manuel Hernández-Silva and under the stage direction of Lindsay Kemp, Emilio Sagi, William Orlandi or Riccardo Canessa. Berna has played, among others, the roles of First Lady and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Contessa and Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Bastienne (Bastien und Bastienne), Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Gilda (Rigoletto), Anna Bolena (Anna Bolena), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Musetta y Mimì (La Bohème), Liù (Turandot), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Micaela (Carmen), Costanza (L’isola disabitata), Sandrina (Un avvertimento ai gelosi).
In zarzuela Berna has also played the roles of Ascensión (La del manojo de rosas), Carolina (Luisa Fernanda), Katiuska (Katiuska) and Marola (La tabernera del puerto). In the field of symphonic and oratorio, she has performed, among others, The Messiah (Handel), Stabat Mater (Pergolesi), Requiem (Fauré), Requiem (Mozart), Requiem (Verdi), Elijah (Mendelssohn), Ninth Symphony (Beethoven), Coronation Mass (Mozart), Miserere (Ocón) and Carmina Burana (Orff). Among her recent commitments are: Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte, Teatro Cervantes de Málaga), several recitals with the ROSS, OCG, RFG, OSN and OFM, and interesting debuts at the Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid) in La casa de Bernarda Alba by Miquel Ortega, at the Teatro Campoamor, Teatro del Liceu and Teatro Real. She has participated in the recording of a CD of duets, together with baritone Carlos Álvarez, on the DNRecords label. (Translation: John Eastham)
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Driving our Campaign
Deciding your fate
Why is Eastleigh Borough Council planning to build nearly 2,000 more houses than it needs?
ADD UPDATE, 11 December 2017: This evening, 11 December, Eastleigh Borough Council will be asked to vote on its Local Plan to 2036. As our supporters know, the council’s leader, Keith House, is pressing councillors to vote in favour of a Plan that includes 5,200 new houses and an expensive new link road north of Bishopstoke and Fair Oak (its options B and C). The council has two clear alternatives to deliver a major new housing development – what it calls a Strategic Growth Option (SGO). The plan north of Bishopstoke and Fair Oak has always been House’s favourite, though there is little evidence to support his case.
Over the last few years, many myths about Eastleigh’s Local Plan have been planted and allowed to take hold. One of these is that the council’s SGO needs to deliver over 5,000 houses. This was the case but because of recent planning approvals is no longer so. Whilst ADD has been aware of this for a couple of months, buried in the papers for this meeting, the council now concedes the point too. Are all councillors aware of this?
The meeting papers state that within the Plan period, which is to 2036, Eastleigh actually needs to find the means to deliver a further 3,350 houses. Not 5,200 – but 3,350. Indeed, the papers make clear that the 5,200 number is merely an aspirational one to 2046! It’s therefore irrelevant.
Why, therefore, is the council fixated on finding land for 5,200 houses? The reason, of course, is that Cllr House knows that without this number of houses the developer would be unable to meet the cost of the proposed road in options B and C. He needs this excessive number of houses to support his case.
The Plan that councillors are being asked to vote on this evening also includes space for 30,000 square metres of employment-related development to accompany the new houses. But this, too, is development that Eastleigh does not need. The borough already has the potential to deliver much more than this at better locations, at the former railway works and Eastleigh Riverside. We don’t need 30,000 square metres of employment space, and certainly not on green fields to the north of the borough.
Nobody doubts that new development is needed, but Cllr House seems intent on building more than required and locating houses in an area where there is the least likelihood of the developer building the kind of housing the borough most needs – i.e., affordable and social housing. Moreover, other councils seem to be catching on to this idea of spare capacity. We have it on good authority that a letter has been sent to Eastleigh by New Forest Borough Council asking Eastleigh to build extra houses to make up for the New Forest’s shortfall!
Does Eastleigh really want to build more houses to accommodate the needs of others – beyond, of course, what it is already doing? Don’t forget Eastleigh is already helping Southampton. Whilst Cllr House may see this as an opportunity to rake in more council tax revenues, is it really in the best interests of Eastleigh residents?
Several councillors say that options B and C is the only SGO that can deliver the required development. This is simply NOT true – not at 5,200 houses, and certainly not at 3,350 houses! Even with Cllr House’s recent, and rather convenient, stipulation that there must be a 1 kilometre gap between settlements within the alternative SGO, options D and E, Eastleigh has two very clear alternatives which could deliver the balance of housing it requires to 2036.
Should the council ignore this fact, and choose Cllr House’s preferred plan without properly comparing both options B/C and D/E, we have legal opinion to suggest that there is a strong possibility it would ultimately fail the planning inspector’s test. Now that is not a myth.
If you – like thousands of others – want an evidence-based Local Plan for Eastleigh, PLEASE, PLEASE TURN UP TO TONIGHT’S COUNCIL MEETING. BRING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS TOO: 7PM, TONIGHT, MONDAY 11 DECEMBER, AT THE HILTON AT THE AGEAS BOWL (SO30 3XH).
There is masses of parking, so don’t let that put you off. If you need a lift, just contact us!
Next year an independent planning inspector will scrutinise Eastleigh’s Local Plan submission. Whilst it will already be clear to the inspector (whoever he or she may be) that the council’s decision-making is totally unsound, we must emphasise this point again on 11 December by showing up in large numbers.
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Criteo Gets A New CEO; Sorrell Fill-In Mark Read Speaks
by AdExchanger // Thursday, April 26th, 2018 – 12:03 am
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Criteo Swaps Out CEO
With the GDPR compliance deadline bearing down, Criteo has restored its former CEO to the corner office. JB Rudelle will once again take the reins at the company, as Eric Eichmann steps into an advisory role prior to transferring out of the company. "I sincerely thank Eric for his high integrity, great leadership and commitment in growing our business over the last five years," Rudelle said in a statement. "After being away from the day to day operations of the business for two years, I am honored and excited to return to the company that I love." The company reports earnings next week. Press release.
Read And Listen
Former Wunderman CEO Mark Read sat down for his first interview as co-COO of WPP since CEO Sir Martin Sorrell left the company earlier this month. Along with his colleague Andrew Scott, who will focus on the financial and operational aspects of the group, Read will concentrate on helping clients through the transition as WPP fights to get back to growth. So far, “Not one client has said to me that, despite being sad to see Martin go, they will make any change to how they work with WPP,” Read told the Financial Times. Still, WPP is facing a rough review period, with flagship clients like Ford, HSBC, Mars and Marriott pitching away their business. Despite the challenges ahead, Read is ready to throw his hat in the ring for the top job. “I assume I’ll be considered,” he said. “Yes, I’d like the job.” More.
Agencies are pushing for server-to-server header bidding integrations with top publishers, Mike Shields reports for Business Insider. Taking a page from Amazon, which launched a header bidding solution that plugs directly into publisher sites, agencies like GroupM, Dentsu and Omnicom hope to cut out ad tech middlemen and reestablish the buying clout they benefit from in the TV market. Most of these integrations so far are experimental, and not all publishers are willing to let agencies into their stacks (or believe they have the technical chops to do it). Still, caught in a battle between disruption and declining trust, agencies need to find a way to bring value to their clients. "As agencies, we need to make it clear: This is what we're good at, this is why we're valuable," Steve Katelman, EVP of global digital partnerships at Annalect, said. "We're going hard at this idea." More.
Upvote Native
Reddit rolled out native ads in its Android Apps on Wednesday. The ads will have all the functionality of a regular Reddit post, including the ability to upvote, downvote and comment. The announcement comes a little over a month after Reddit released native ads for iOS. Regardless of the operating system, the idea is to increase engagement with promoted posts, which are vying for attention in the feed with organic content. It’s hard to compete with hilarious cats and bizarre news bites, but the early indications are good. Reddit said in a blog post that it’s seen a more than 300% increase in clickthrough rates after the launch of Promoted Posts on iOS.
FTC Finally?
And then there were five … almost. The Senate Commerce Committee gave its blessing to Democratic FTC nominee Rebecca Slaughter on Wednesday. An aid to United States Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Slaughter now joins the quartet of other Trump FTC commissioners waiting to get to work. Four nominees – Joseph Simons, Noah Phillips, Christine Wilson and Rohit Chopra – were all confirmed in February, but they’re still waiting for final confirmation through a vote by the full Senate. That should happen soon, according to committee chairman John Thune. It’s a good thing, too, because the current FTC is running on fumes. Acting chairman Maureen Ohlhausen was nominated for a judgeship, and the only other commissioner who’s still there, Terrell McSweeny, is leaving by the end of the month. More in Broadcasting & Cable.
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The Trade Desk Share Price Surges In IPO Debut
by James Hercher // Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 – 12:08 pm
Now trading on NASDAQ: The Trade Desk.
The demand-side platform officially IPO'd on Wednesday morning, with shares trading between $28 and $30, smashing the company’s $16-to-$18-per-share projection (which it amended upward from $14 to $16 the day before its IPO).
The stock price as of approximately 3 p.m. Eastern placed the company's market cap close to $1 billion.
The IPO likely puts $90 million or more in The Trade Desk’s coffers, and the company plans to make oversized investments in international growth – China in particular – and in programmatic TV buying, said Chief Client Officer Brian Stempeck.
Going public also exposes CEO Jeff Green and company to the harrowing roller coaster of investor relations, as well as the challenge of managing customer relationships in an environment of regulated transparency.
“The Trade Desk is a solid company, but they’ve got a lot of risks that won’t be fully appreciated by most investors because in general investors don’t tend to understand the space,” said Brian Wieser, a senior analyst at Pivotal Research Group.
Its biggest challenges include keeping pace with technology innovation and fee pressure.
“Even if your company’s premise is to be transparent, it doesn’t mean your customers know how profitable you are,” Wieser added.
The Trade Desk’s concentration of revenue among big agencies adds to the risk of compressed fees, according to Wieser. The holding company agencies where The Trade Desk turns its strongest profit are themselves subject to margin pressure in the form of unending fee reductions.
Stempeck said The Trade Desk’s model is distinct from others on the market in ways that make it “a very defensible position.” For instance, no other publicly traded ad tech company has executed the software-as-a-service platform model, he said.
Stempeck said there are others, specifically AppNexus, with a platform approach, but that The Trade Desk’s exclusively demand-side focus is a differentiating feature for holding companies and global agencies.
“We think it’s going to be difficult at end state to make the case for being on both sides of the industry,” said Stempeck, who actively partners with SSPs and inventory sources but counts only agencies as clients. “Because when it comes down to it, are you trying to get the best rate for the buyer or are you trying to get the best yield for the publisher?”
The whole public ad tech sector has had weak performance, “which creates something of an overhang,” said Wieser. He doesn’t expect other ad tech businesses to line up to IPO regardless of The Trade Desk’s performance – except for perennial IPO contender AppNexus – but said startups, agencies and investors do hope a hit IPO could move the industry forward.
“I think the reaction you’re seeing from the market is people saying, ‘hey, let’s have another look at the ad tech category,’” said Stempeck. “Investors had gotten away from an industry they used to love, but the fundamentals are still there when you consider what percent of global ad spend is bought programmatically today versus what will be programmatic five or ten years from now.”
And indeed, many industry stakeholders are pulling for The Trade Desk to buck the general ad tech stock trend (which is to say down).
Sam Nunez (PulsePoint) September 21, 2016
Interesting as TTD stresses their exclusive focus on the demand side, whereas most other players try to become "end to end network"....
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Ad Targeting Firm Semcasting Rolls Out Tool To Connect Online And Offline Data
by Judith Aquino // Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 – 12:05 am
Moving between online and offline environments has become the norm for most consumers, but many marketers have yet to catch up. Semcasting, a MA-based multi-channel audience targeting provider, has launched a new self-service platform, the Semcasting Marketing Appliance, that promises to help marketers by connecting online and offline consumer touchpoints for targeted advertising.
The Appliance is powered by the company’s Smart Zones technology, which segments audiences based on demographic, socioeconomic, geographic and interest-based information. Marketers match their data against Semcasting’s data to create lookalike audiences to expand their reach.
The idea behind the Appliance is to “do microtargeting at a broadcast level,” according to Semcasting CEO Ray Kingman. “Customers are leaving pieces of information at numerous touch points that are like bread crumbs and marketers are struggling to make sense of them,” Kingman said. “What the Appliance does is take those touch points, compare them with IP addresses, email addresses and zip codes and help agencies or CRM managers connect them at a demographic level.”
From there, the Appliance creates audience lists that can be matched with more than 500 data points from approximately 250 million US consumers or 18 million US businesses and create profiles. These profiles are based on affluence, life stages, product ownership and even political affiliations. Semcasting has also partnered with various ad tech companies like AppNexus, Tapad and Accordant Media.
The four-year-old company competes with numerous firms that offer a wide range of cross-channel ad targeting services, however. The data behemoth Acxiom recently added cross-device tracking features to its platform and Experian just bought a company that includes a cross-device ad tracking technology. Cross-device ad targeting company Drawbridge has also teamed up with analytics provider eXelate.
For one of Semcasting’s beta testers, the Appliance’s differentiating points are its ease of use and reporting features. Grant Johnson, founder and CEO of the WI-based Johnson Direct & Digital marketing agency has used the platform with several clients.
“One of our clients is a regional bank that wanted to target younger and presumably more affluent customers for its checking account,” Johnson said. “So we indexed the market and with the Marketing Appliance’s data created a campaign that uses direct mail and mobile ads.”
Previously the bank did not have a strong mobile presence, but within thirty days, according to Johnson, it started seeing the majority of its click-through-rates coming from mobile devices and a lift in new checking accounts. “Our client is elated with the results,” Johnson said. “The reports show us what’s happening in real time, so we can continue making adjustments to get even greater results.”
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The Wire: Best TV Series Ever?
The greatest TV in history is being made right now. The worst TV in history is being made right now.
Best. Show. Evar?
You're goddamn right it is, nothing else touches it
It's good, but I wouldn't go overboard with the praise, buddy
Run-of-the-mill stuff
Just another shitty cop show
Re: The Wire: Best TV Series Ever?
by Pacino86845 on Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:57 am
Fans of the show shouldn't even think twice... but too bad it's only a 24-hour deal, otherwise I'd tell you to rent the first season or "something," 'cause if you enjoy the first season (I think it has 12 1-hour episodes) then the rest of the series is pretty consistent, with the highlight, IMO, being season 4.
by John-Locke on Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:16 am
Pacino86845 wrote: If you like realistic police procedural films/shows, you will love The Wire... otherwise there's still a good chance that you'll love it, but ya never know. That's an amazing deal for those DVDs.
I was at Best Buy yesterday afternoon, and I had the 1st Season Set in my hands for about 15 minutes (for 35 bucks). But I ultimately put it back... still, as cheap as 100 bucks is for 4 seasons, I just can't bring my self to do it!
Do It, it takes a while to get into but once you have there is no going back.
I can't imagine anyone who's got past the first couple of episodes has ever given up on this show. At $100 it's an absolute bargain.
John-Locke
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by anthonymous on Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:46 pm
I considered trying take up the deal (and risking import tax and expensive postage etc.) but I already have Seasons 2 and 3 on DVD
whatever trevor.
anthonymous
by Evil Hobbit on Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:06 pm
I just ordered the Amazon set. It's like 70 euro's including shipment. These sets are 40 euro's a piece in Holland! So even with tax charge (adds 16 euro's) it's a great deal! I wonder if this is also a sign for a Blu-ray release in the near future... if that's the case I'll probably end up regretting the purchase. But -- they'll probably release the complete Sopranos and Rome on Blu first. And the blu-ray set for the wire will probably be like 70 euro's a piece.
Evil Hobbit
by John-Locke on Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:32 pm
It was never even shot in HD or Widescreen so I highly doubt there will ever be a Blu-Ray release which would be vastly better in quality.
by Evil Hobbit on Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:05 am
John-Locke wrote: It was never even shot in HD or Widescreen so I highly doubt there will ever be a Blu-Ray release which would be vastly better in quality.
It was shot on film. So the resolution for a HD release is there. More on the Wire's cinematography can be found here.
by DaleTremont on Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:10 am
Well after three different people whose opinion I respect recommended this show I finally checked it out. About 5 episodes into the 1st season and I'm loving it.
I have to say so far some of my favorite moments are just D'angelo, Wallace, and the other local pawns talking in the pit.
Now I'm getting the fuck out of this thread to avoid any spoilers.
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by stereosforgeeks on Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:58 am
DaleTremont wrote: Well after three different people whose opinion I respect recommended this show I finally checked it out. About 5 episodes into the 1st season and I'm loving it.
Glad to hear your digging it Dale!
I remember it taking about that many episodes to really get into it but if your already loving it your on the fast track to fandom.
by anthonymous on Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:06 pm
Yeah, if you're liking it at that point then you'll end up proclaiming it to be the greatest show ever by the end of Season 3 at the very least.
Some people have said to me that they found the beginning of Season 2 a bit jarring though which I suppose I agree with. Nevertheless, I re-watched it recently and it was much better than I remember. It's virtually impossible to rank the seasons IMO - altho I would say that Season 4 probably edges it. 1-3 & 5 I can't rank though!
by DaleTremont on Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:54 pm
Well I won't lie- there are still some characters whose names I'm a little fuzzy on! I mean the sheer volume of information they threw at you in the first couple episodes was pretty daunting, but even if you don't have all the facts sorted it's just such amazing writing.
I have a bunch of time to kill now too so I'll probably be at season 3 in the next week or so
by Pacino86845 on Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:23 pm
The entire series can be seen as one long story really, but particularly from season 3 onwards... you could play the last three seasons as one long super-season IMO, and it's friggin' awesome!! Season 2 is nice 'cause it really stands out from the rest of the show, more so than the fifth season I'd say, and yet is just as rewarding as the other seasons... with the exception of the fourth, which is among the best seasons of any show EVAR!
by papalazeru on Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:20 pm
Was talking to an editor from a magazine called 'man about town'...she did an interview with one of the cast.Said it was the best series ever.
Still have to see.
by DaleTremont on Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:28 am
I just finished season 1 and I can't believe those fuckers shot Wallace! I loved Wallace.
What amazes me about this show is how well little things are set up episodes and episodes before they end up being played out. Like McNulty grinning after Rawls asks him where he doesn't want to be placed or Greggs' girlfriend touching that spot of blue highlight on her couch. It's all just so perfectly constructed but still so organic.
Okay...I'll stop popping in to go down on this show. I'm coming wayyy too late to the party
by instant_karma on Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:00 pm
DaleTremont wrote: I just finished season 1 and I can't believe those fuckers shot Wallace! I loved Wallace.
I was a latecomer too. I only started watching it as the final season started showing. And I totally agree about well they handle small details. I think my favourite instance of them doing it was in season three (or maybe four), but I can't say what it was yet 'cause I don't want to spoil it.
by Leckomaniac on Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:55 pm
Ok I haven't read a single post in this thread, but i just started watching Season 1 of The Wire and I see the light.
I had previously watched Season 1 and thought to myself: "What is the big deal?" But now rewatching it...I see it. I see the layers and textured storytelling.
I can't wait to watch more.
by Evil Hobbit on Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:52 am
Yee, the amazon set arrived today! No customs -- SHOCK -- that never happends with sets above a 33 dollar value. But anyways, started season 1 again. Right from the first minute it's as brilliant as ever. Now I gotta convert some friends who still see the sopranos as the holy grail of television, this show easily equals it -- hell surpasses it imho.
by VegasRon on Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:46 am
I just finished S3.
Hyperbole be damned, that was the best season of a tv show I've ever watched. Period.
You can't take the sky from me...
VegasRon
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by stereosforgeeks on Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:17 am
VegasRon wrote: I just finished S3.
Your 1 season short. Season 4 is the best season of television ever.
by VegasRon on Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:33 am
You were absolutely correct.
by stereosforgeeks on Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:04 am
VegasRon wrote:
10 out of 10 people whove wathed The Wire agree, season 4 is the bees knees (or something like that anyway).
by VegasRon on Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:00 am
stereosforgeeks wrote: 10 out of 10 people whove wathed The Wire agree, season 4 is the bees knees (or something like that anyway).
I'd rank them S4, S3, S1, S2 and S5, which was a bit of a dissapointment for me.
Still, this is my all-time favorite series now. I can't believe it not only never won an emmy, I think it was only nominated once. Once? Really? Yet that crappy ass John Adams miniseries wins anything at all?
by DaleTremont on Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:50 am
instant_karma wrote:
So out of curiosity, was it when Bodie got killed by Marlow's people for being a snitch...the set up being the fact that he and Poot had been the ones to kill Wallace for the same reason in season 1? Because that was one fucking amazing instance of how all things come full circle in the show...
by MasterWhedon on Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:19 pm
I watched this entire series over the course of about six weeks and I think it's safe to say, yes, The Wire is the best television show ever made. And not just by a little.
I can't even speak about the show without getting all hopped-up and drifting into hyperbole, because I think it's about 99.5% perfect television. The acting. The casting. The locations. The restrained-yet-precise direction. And holy shit, the motherfucking writing. This thing is brilliant, top to bottom, and I think it should be studied in schools. In Engligh. In History. In Civics and Economics; in Psychology and Sociology. This show is a masterwork about who were are as a people in this time and this place, and to say it was eye-opening to me, a guy of relative privilege, doesn't even begin to tell the tale. I've seen "down and out" stories about a wounded American Dream, but this was the first time I ever got it.
I could blather on for hours about what an accomplishment the whole thing is, but if you've seen the show you know and if you haven't you owe it to yourself to find out. I know I'm the 10,000th person to say this, but I truly believe The Wire is The Great American Novel.
MasterWhedon
KEEPER OF THE PURSE
by Pacino86845 on Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:14 pm
I dunno how many eyes will graze this post today...
but ATTENTION FELLOW CANUCKS!!!!
Amazon.ca is selling The Wire: The Complete Series for $102.99 "today only"!! I just ordered my copy... if you're a fan of the show, this is by far the best deal you're gonna get on the complete series in Canada for a while.
by Retardo_Montalban on Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:14 pm
Dar!
Thanks for fueling my impulse buying, Pacino
Retardo_Montalban
doubleplusungood
by Pacino86845 on Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:37 am
by DaleTremont on Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:04 pm
This is the first time in my life I've ever been jealous not to be Canadian.
by Pacino86845 on Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:35 pm
Around Christmas time Amazon in the US was selling the series for 90 bucks, I think I remember Herc posting about it on the main page. But I don't think that makes you feel any better...
by Gerald Fried on Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:57 am
The BBC start showing it tonight (BBC2 11:20pm - yeah good scheduling there BBC well done)
I am moderately happy about this because Royal Mail lost my DVDs of The Wire.
by CeeBeeUK on Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:16 am
Gerald Fried wrote: The BBC start showing it tonight (BBC2 11:20pm - yeah good scheduling there BBC well done)
I'd probably watch this, if it wasn't on every night. That's going to fill up the Tivo pretty quick!
Especially if they are going to show all 5 series stripped!
CeeBeeUK
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by papalazeru on Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:19 am
I'm DEFINATELY UP FOR THIS!!!!!
It's been recommended by everyone on the board so I'm going to give it its viewing statistics.
by TonyWilson on Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:58 am
Excellent work, Papa.
You know I'm rather convinced by the argument that BBC2 and that bloody arsehole Ben Stephenson scheduled The Wire at a time that will doom it to a tiny share of the audience thereby giving Stephenson et al some evidence for their argument that viewers just aren't interested in truly quality drama. Which is patently bullshit but the fucktarded execs can then recommission Holby City and Mistresses and claim it's what the people want.
So yes, Papalazeru, please tune into all the eps you possibly can and if it's a success perhaps the beeb might just be forced to take on more really groundbreaking and important drama.
by Gerald Fried on Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:21 am
TonyWilson wrote: Excellent work, Papa.
The BBC's Seinfeld Slot is usually a sign that someone in the chain of command probably doesn't really have confidence in it.
...despite pretty every review of it using some form of the phrase "best TV show ever".
Surprised they didn't dump it on to BBC Three after "Snog, Marry Avoid" and the nth repeat of Two Pints.
by papalazeru on Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:40 am
Considering I own a viewing statistics box, my dog and cat are counting as 2 people and I'm always going to be having friends round about then.
Maybe we can get a better time. I don't want them to do what they did with Arrested Development.
by John-Locke on Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:51 am
Few things to consider Papa:
Don't miss an Episode or leave the room briefly, if you do you wont have a clue what's going on at a latter date, sometimes missing the smallest thing can leave you confused seasons later.
Don't give up after the first episode, it takes 2 or 3 episodes to get what the show is about.
Prepare to become obsessed.
by Fried Gold on Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:07 pm
And guess what should happen to be delivered an hour ago - the replacement set for the one Royal Mail lost.
by Seppuku on Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:20 pm
I know I'm a minority on this one, but I do think Season One's the best. It seemed to get a little dissipated and lose some of that realism that made it stand out so much to begin with when it kept on stepping it up a gear with the later seasons. Then again, I guess I would say that with Clockers being my favourite Spike Lee joint and D'Angelo being my favourite character. :(
That being said, every season is indispensable. If the BBC keeps this up, I might just forgive them for smothering Jade Goody's pig face all over prime time a couple of weeks ago.
by RaulMonkey on Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:00 pm
I'm curious: would the language, violence etc. have any role in BBC2's decision to air the show as late as they are? Would they be compelled to make edits if they showed it any earlier? What are the broadcast standards like in the UK?
CTV started showing The Sopranos unedited at 9p back in 2000, which caused some controversy, but ultimately they were only censured for not featuring warnings following every commercial break, instead of merely at the beginning of the show.
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council's full decision on the matter makes for some pretty interesting reading.
by Fried Gold on Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:08 pm
The "watershed" on our channels is 9pm - anything shown from that time onwards is not for children.
It does seem to depend on the context though, as the main soaps seem to get away with more adult themed content before the watershed (because they claim it adresses the "issues") I think Channel4 showed the Sopranos at about 10pm here.
I see. They mention 9pm as a significant time in the decision above too, but it's very unusual for network (versus cable) TV to go into R-rated territory at any time in Canada. The Sopranos case was pretty unique, and nobody including CTV has taken advantage of the breakthrough since. Global started airing Big Love during the writer's strike, but what little I saw of the first episode led me to believe they were editing. (I swear they blurred out Bill's ass as he jumped into bed with Margene, but it happened really fast.)
Of course if, say, NBC took it upon themselves to air The Sopranos unedited, even at 11pm, the FCC would probably commandeer tanks from the National Guard and start razing affiliates.
by papalazeru on Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:58 pm
RaulMonkey wrote: I see. They mention 9pm as a significant time in the decision above too, but it's very unusual for network (versus cable) TV to go into R-rated territory at any time in Canada. The Sopranos case was pretty unique, and nobody including CTV has taken advantage of the breakthrough since. Global started airing Big Love during the writer's strike, but what little I saw of the first episode led me to believe they were editing. (I swear they blurred out Bill's ass as he jumped into bed with Margene, but it happened really fast.)
Heroes goes out after 9 and it's cut to shit, more than if it had met Michael J Fox dressed as Freddy Kruger.
by travis-dane on Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:48 pm
So, German Cable TV decided to air The Wire......and to cancel it after season two.....
Great show.
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by ONeillSG1 on Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:48 pm
travis-dane wrote: So, German Cable TV decided to air The Wire......and to cancel it after season two.....
Get a region free DVD player and the US box sets from Amazon. You won't regret it.
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by Pacino86845 on Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:38 pm
I've been gradually rewatching The Wire through my pretty-beautiful cheaply (relatively) bought complete series box set...
The second time around, season 1 still holds up as television nigh perfection. Getting through the second season though, some parts made me quizzically raise up an eyebrow as logic was at times tossed aside for dramatic effect. Notably I'm thinking of the end when Sobotka, a key witness that our favorite wire-tappers should've been keen on protecting, is sent waltzing off... and we all know what happens then.
I remember getting a real kick out of the second season the first time around, but this time it felt a bit uneven at times, particularly how they sort of kept the Barksdale arc going in parallel to the docks... however I still appreciate that the show creators chose to go this route.
Now onto season 3, which had felt a little plodding during my first viewing... this is all relatively speaking of course, as even the show's weaker seasons are far superior to those of other series(es).
by Gerald Fried on Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:27 am
John-Locke wrote: Don't give up after the first episode, it takes 2 or 3 episodes to get what the show is about.
You're right.
Once I'd watched "The Buys" it all clicked into place.
by Cpt Kirks 2pay on Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:59 pm
Watched about 1/2 an hour of this but all I could hear was JL's voice in my ear saying 'Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!Best TV Series Ever!!!'. So I just looked at every single clip of this movie waiting for something explosive to happen that was not like anything else I had ever seen in the history of the universe that would show me why it is the Best TV Series Ever!!! - but just got impatient and bored so I switched over to watch Party Girls on the party channel. Sorry, but at least I tried. Wow! Lola is on wearing leather boots. She's my favourite!
Cpt Kirks 2pay
by John-Locke on Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:21 pm
But whatever man, you are the one missing out, not me. I think if you gave it a chance you'd agree with the majority of those who've seen it and proclaim it the best piece of TV EVER, some (like me) would even go so far as to call it the greatest piece of fiction ever (which means better than any Film or Book too).
by Pacino86845 on Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:39 am
LOL, read more books!
by Cpt Kirks 2pay on Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:56 pm
Currently watching The Wire on TV right now but I can't shake off JL's voice in my head saying that it is 'The best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!The best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!The best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!The best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!The best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!The best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!The best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!The best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!The best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!The best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!The best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I just looked at every single clip of this movie waiting for something to make my cock to explode wide open and incriminate all rats inside my apartment as what I was watching was not like anything else I had ever seen in the history of the universe that would show me why it is the the best piece of fiction of ALL mediums (deep breath) EVAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! - but just got impatient and bored so I switched over to watch 2 Fast 2 Furious, but then went back to playing Shania Twain singing Forever and For Always on my Ipod. She's my favourite!
by Fried Gold on Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:00 am
...I don't know how so many of you managed to watch this one episode a week over five years. I've watched the whole first season in over days and want the next one.
"The Hunt" - Before this Major Rawls is shown to be a bit of an dick, mismanaging his department but getting by because of talented detectives. Then during the aftermatch to Greggs' shooting, he actually shows character and leadership, seemingly taking good control of the situation and managing his staff well.
What do you think caused this? Is his usual conduct just a consequence of being stuck in middle-management role?
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Heart failure and levels of other comorbidities in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a Swedish population: a register-based study
Elzbieta Kaszuba1,2,
Håkan Odeberg2,
Lennart Råstam2 &
Anders Halling2,3
Despite the fact that heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often exist together and have serious clinical and economic implications, they have mostly been studied separately. Our aim was to study prevalence of coexisting heart failure and COPD in a Swedish population. A further goal was to describe levels of other comorbidity and investigate where the patients received care: primary, secondary care or both.
We conducted a register-based, cross-sectional study. The population included all people older than 19 years, living in Östergötland County in Sweden. The data were obtained from the Care Data Warehouse register from the year 2006. The diagnosis-based Adjusted Clinical Groups Case-Mix System 7.1 was used to describe the comorbidity level.
The prevalence of the diagnosis of heart failure in patients with COPD was 18.8 % while it was 1.6 % in patients without COPD. Age standardized prevalence was 9.9 and 1.5 %, respectively. Standardized relative risk for the diagnosis of heart failure in patients with COPD was 6.6. The levels of other comorbidity were significantly higher in patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD compared to patients with either heart failure or COPD alone. Primary care was the only care provider for 36.2 % of patients with the diagnosis of heart failure and 20.7 % of patients with coexisting diagnoses of heart failure and COPD. Primary care participated furthermore in shared care of 21.5 % of patients with the diagnosis of heart failure and 21.7 % of patients with coexisting diagnoses of heart failure and COPD. The share of care between primary and secondary care varied depending on levels of comorbidity both in patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD and patients with heart failure alone.
Patients with coexisting diagnoses of heart failure and COPD are common in the Swedish population. Patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD have higher levels of other comorbidity than patients with heart failure or COPD alone. Primary care in Sweden participates to a great extent in care of patients with diagnoses of heart failure alone and coexisting heart failure and COPD.
Worldwide, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common chronic diseases with overall prevalence of 7.6 % [1] and a heavy economic burden [2]. Patients with COPD are a group where chronic cardiovascular diseases including heart failure occur more frequently than in the general population [3]. The risk of developing heart failure in patients with COPD is 4.5 times higher than in age-matched controls [4]. Coexisting heart failure and COPD can be overlooked due to similarities in symptoms and signs, which is an important clinical implication. The main clinical manifestation of COPD and heart failure is dyspnea, which in turn is one of the most common causes of consultations in both primary and secondary care, especially among elderly patients [5].
The prevalence of undiagnosed heart failure in patients with COPD older than 65 years in primary care is approximately 20 % [6]. A review of previous studies showed that the prevalence of heart failure in patients with COPD varied between 10 and 46 % [7].
The prevalence of COPD in patients with heart failure is also about 20 % [8, 9]. The prevalence and burden of heart failure and COPD correlate with an aging population. The proportion of elderly in Sweden is the highest in the world with 17.4 % of persons aged ≥65 years and is expected to increase until the year 2020 [10]. Management of heart failure and COPD is going to be a challenge in both primary and secondary care. Despite the fact that heart failure and COPD often occur together and have serious clinical and economic implications, both diseases have so far been mostly studied separately, especially on the population level. There is no Swedish data about prevalence of coexisting heart failure and COPD.
The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of the diagnosis of heart failure in patients with the diagnosis of COPD in the Swedish population. A further aim was to describe the levels of other comorbidities and investigate where patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD receive care: primary, secondary care or both.
This was a register-based, cross-sectional study. All the study population included people older than 19 years, living in Östergötland County in Sweden. The data used for the study was not openly available and was obtained after permission from the Östergötland County council. We used data from the Care Data Warehouse register [11]. The register collects data concerning consultation and diagnosis transferred every month from all public and private health care units in both primary and secondary care. Diagnoses were recorded according to the Swedish Version of International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems version 10 (ICD 10). We used data from the year 2006. We identified an individual as having heart failure or COPD if the diagnosis code I50 or J44 was recorded on at least one consultation in primary or secondary care including hospitalization.
The code I50 covers: I50.0-chronic heart failure including congestive heart failure, right heart failure secondary to left heart failure, I50.1-left ventricular failure with or without lung oedema and asthma cardiale, I50.9 heart failure, unspecified.
The code J44 comprised the following: J44 chronic obstructive lung disease, J44.0 chronic obstructive lung disease with acute infection in lower airways, J44.1 chronic obstructive lung disease with acute exacerbation, unspecified, J44.8 other specified chronic obstructive lung disease including chronic bronchitis with emphysema.
The diagnosis-based Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) Case-Mix System 7.1 was used to describe comorbidity [12, 13]. Comorbidity on an individual level was measured when the diagnoses I50 and J44 were excluded and it is referred to as the level of other comorbidity.
Each individual was assigned one of six comorbidity levels called resource utilization bands (RUB) graded from 0 to 5.
When identifying the place where patients received care we used information where the diagnosis of heart failure and COPD was made: primary, secondary care or both.
Data were analyzed in the STATA version 10 (Stata Corporation, Texas, USA). Descriptive data were presented in tables. Differences in proportions between the groups were tested using the Chi square test. A p < 0.05 was considered significant. Results for prevalence of heart failure and COPD are given for the whole study population. Thereafter direct standardizing for age was made. Individuals aged 60 and above were chosen arbitrarily as a standard population.
The study has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee at Linköping University No 147/05 and 29/06.
The study population consisted of 313,977 individuals. The diagnosis of heart failure was registered in 1.8 % and the diagnosis of COPD was registered in 1.2 % of the study population. The mean age in patients with the diagnosis of heart failure was 78.4 years (CI 78.0–78.7). The mean age of patients with the diagnosis of COPD was 70.5 years (CI 70.2–70.9). The prevalence of both diagnoses increased with age (Table 1). The prevalence of the diagnosis of heart failure in patients with the diagnosis of COPD was 18.8 and 1.6 % in patients without COPD. After standardizing for age the prevalence was 9.9 and 1.5 %, respectively. Standardized relative risk for the diagnosis of heart failure in patients with COPD was 6.6.
Table 1 Prevalence of diagnoses COPD, heart failure and coexisting COPD and heart failure in the study population
The prevalence of the diagnosis of heart failure increased with age in women and men in both groups and reached 35.7 % in men with COPD ≥80 years (Fig. 1). The prevalence of the diagnosis of heart failure was significantly higher in both women and men with COPD comparing to women and men without COPD in all age groups apart from the age group 20–39 years.
Prevalence of the diagnosis of heart failure in female (a) and male (b) patients with and without coexisting COPD in different age groups
The most common comorbid condition in all three groups of patients: heart failure alone, COPD alone and coexisting heart failure and COPD was essential (primary) hypertension coded with either I10 or I10.9. The latter code is used only in secondary care. The comorbid diagnoses are summarized in Table 2.
Table 2 Summarizing of the most common diagnostic codes
The levels of other comorbidity were significantly higher in patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD comparing to patients with heart failure or COPD alone (Table 3).
Table 3 Distribution of levels of other comorbidity measured by RUB (resource utilization band) in the study population
The proportion of individuals with higher levels of other comorbidity (RUB 3–5) was 95 % in the group with coexisting heart failure and COPD, while in the group with heart failure alone it was 90.7 % and in the group with COPD alone it was 73.3 %.
Primary care was the only care provider to 36.2 % of patients with the diagnosis of heart failure and 20.7 % of patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD. Furthermore, primary care participated in shared care of 21.5 % of patients with the diagnosis of heart failure alone and 21.7 % of patients with coexisting diagnoses of heart failure and COPD.
The share of care given by primary and secondary care varied depending on levels of other comorbidity both in patients with heart failure without COPD and patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD (Fig. 2). The higher the level of other comorbidity the larger the participation of secondary health care was. Among patients with the highest level of other comorbidity (RUB 5) in the group with coexisting heart failure and COPD 11 % received care only in primary care, 29 % received shared care and 60 % received care only in secondary care.
Share of care in patients with heart failure without (a) and with (b) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. PHC primary health care, SHC secondary health care, RUB resource utilization band
We found that the prevalence of the diagnosis of heart failure in patients with the diagnosis of COPD was significantly higher than in patients without COPD. The levels of other comorbidity were significantly higher in patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD comparing with patients with heart failure or COPD alone. Primary care alone delivered care to 20.7 % of patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD and to a further 21.7 % who simultaneously received care from primary and secondary care.
Completeness and accuracy of data
The Care Data Warehouse Register comprised data from the whole population in the Östergötland County, which is the strength of our study. All consultations were recorded in electronic charts and the diagnosis was required at each consultation. We analyzed data from both primary and secondary care. A previous study showed usefulness of data from the Care Data Warehouse register in Östergötland in estimating the prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, asthma and COPD and showed that the longer period of analysis corresponded to better capturing of cases [14]. The limitation of our study is a short period we analyzed. Our choice was anchored in Swedish clinical practice. In Swedish primary care patients with chronic diseases are actively checked at least once a year. Patients with COPD are summoned for a nurse-led follow-up and the presence of a specially educated asthma/COPD nurse is a requirement for each primary health care centre.
Nurse-led follow up of patients with heart failure is common in Swedish secondary care [15]. Östergötland was the leading county in Sweden in structured heart failure management in primary care [16].
A previous study showed that the diagnosis of COPD from a register in Sweden has an acceptable validity for being used in epidemiological research [17]. COPD in Sweden is usually diagnosed in primary care according to the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) criteria [18]. Spirometry as a gold standard in diagnosing COPD is widely available in primary care [19, 20]. Echocardiography as a gold standard in diagnosing heart failure is not as much accessible to general practitioners as spirometry and requires referral to specialized care. A previous Swedish study showed that echocardiography was performed only in about 30 % of patients with suspected heart failure [21]. Östergötland County was a leader in Sweden in use of natriuretic peptides in patients with suspected heart failure in primary care [22]. The limitation of our study was that, due to ethical reasons, we could not validate recorded diagnoses against the original medical records. At the same time we have no premises to suspect that the diagnoses registered in the Care Data Warehouse were non-accurate.
Interpretation of the results
We found that the diagnosis of heart failure occurred in 1.8 % of the study population.
This is exactly the same as the crude prevalence reported in a recently published Swedish register study [23]. According to this study the estimated prevalence of heart failure in Sweden was 2.2 % in year 2010. Estimation made about 15 years ago was 2.5 % [24].
The prevalence of the diagnosis of COPD was 1.2 %. Our result is considerably lower than prevalence of COPD in the general population in Sweden estimated at about 6 % [25]. The discrepancy was expected because epidemiological studies regarding COPD used to be performed in individuals aged at least 40 years due to the onset of the illness, while we included individuals aged 20 and older in order to study the whole adult population. After excluding younger patients aged ≤40 years the prevalence of COPD was 1.7 %, which did not change our results considerably.
We searched only for the diagnostic code J44, while in studies from other countries chronic bronchitis and emphysema J40–J43 were also included [26]. By that choice we wanted to decrease a risk of the non-accurate COPD diagnosis. In view of present guidelines for the diagnosis of COPD in Sweden the diagnostic code J44 is expected to be used for patients with COPD after doing the spirometry. This code is expected even in patients with emphysema caused by COPD. We think that prevalence of COPD in our study was underestimated due to poor registering of the diagnosis code in medical records.
Prevalence of the diagnosis of heart failure increased with age in patients without and with COPD as reported in previous studies [27, 28]. In our study the prevalence of the diagnosis of heart failure in individuals ≥80 years in the general population was approximately 11 % and was comparable with previously reported data from epidemiological studies, but differed from the recent Swedish register study where it was about 19 % [23]. A difference between genders was reported in a Swedish epidemiological study. A report from 2001 [29] showed that heart failure was more prevalent in men up to 80 years of age, thereafter, heart failure was more prevalent in women. Our data from 2006 showed no significant difference between women and men even aged ≥80 years. The newer study [23] with data collection up to 2010 showed, in contrast to the first study, that prevalence was higher in men in groups 80–89 and 90–99.
Women dominated slightly in the group ≥100 years. The populations in all three studies were large enough to venture to assert that the age limit for healthy survivals has moved during one decade to centenarians, probably thanks to improved strategies in heart failure management in Sweden.
The diagnosis of heart failure occurred in 18.8 % of patients with COPD while in patients without COPD it occurred in 1.6 %. Due to differences in age between groups with and without COPD standardizing for age was made and standardized prevalence was 9.9 % in patients with COPD and 1.5 % in patients without COPD. Previously reported prevalence of heart failure in patients with COPD varied between 10 and 46 % [7]. These data were obtained in different settings and different procedures were used to make the diagnosis of heart failure, ranging from clinical symptoms, standardized chronic heart failure score, the use of natriuretic peptides for assessment of left and right ventricle function by ventriculography or echocardiography. The highest prevalence was reported in emergency setting among patients with symptomatic dyspnea [30]. The diagnosis of heart failure in this study was established by assessment of left and right ventricle function by radionuclide ventriculography. The prevalence of the diagnosis of heart failure found in our study (18.8 %) is in agreement with the prevalence of heart failure in patients with COPD (20.5 %) found in the Dutch study conducted in primary health care setting [6]. The diagnosis of heart failure in that study was made by using echocardiography. In our register-based study we could not trace how the diagnosis of heart failure was made.
Differences in frequency of the diagnosis of heart failure between individuals with and without COPD were significant in all age groups except the age 20–39. Calculations in this age group were affected by 0 % prevalence of heart failure diagnosis in individuals with COPD.
Comorbidity in patients with heart failure and COPD is well-known and widely reported [31–37]. The most common comorbid condition in all three groups of patients in our study: COPD alone, heart failure alone and coexisting heart failure and COPD was essential (primary) hypertension coded with either I10 or I10.9. The latter code is used only in secondary care.
The next common diagnosis code in all three groups was Z03.9 Observation for suspected disease or condition, unspecified. This code does not allow identifying of disorder. If the register data should be available as a source of research e.g. prevalence studies, more specific diagnosis codes are desirable. Comorbidity should be considered as an important factor when analyzing needs for health care resources. ACG Case Mix is able to describe comorbidity in a quantitative way and is used in the Swedish health care system for calculation of payment rates. When analyzing comorbidity levels we excluded the main diagnoses of heart failure and COPD. This was done in order to study the importance of other comorbidity that otherwise would be hidden by the heavy burden connected with the diagnosis of heart failure or COPD. The levels of other comorbidity calculated in this way were significantly higher in patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD. That implies a greater need for health care and more extensive resource utilization than in patients with only heart failure or COPD.
The delivery of care to patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD has not been studied previously. When presenting our results in Fig. 2 we omitted groups with the lowest levels of other comorbidity (RUB 0 and 1) due to a small number of patients in those groups. As expected, the higher the levels of other comorbidity the greater participation of secondary care. We did not trace what kind of care patients got in secondary health care units. It might be hospitalizations or consultations in specialized outpatient clinics. Taking into consideration the heavy burden of both heart failure and COPD the participation of primary care was large in our opinion. Half of the patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD and lower levels of other comorbidity (RUB 2) received care only in primary care. In the group with the highest level of other comorbidity (RUB 5) and coexisting heart failure and COPD primary care was involved in almost 40 % of patients, either alone or together with secondary care. In the case of patients with heart failure without COPD the percentage was even higher (74 %). Shared care can be explained by organization of the Swedish health care system and established co-operation between primary and secondary care units concerning chronic diseases.
It is noteworthy that a considerable part of patients with the highest level of other comorbidity (RUB 5) received care only in primary care. A possible explanation might be that the patients were optimally treated and requirement of secondary care was unnecessary during one year period we analyzed. It might also be a matter of the terminal phase of illness and palliative care where primary care plays a central role.
Our study showed that the prevalence of the diagnosis of heart failure in patients with the diagnosis of COPD is common in the Swedish population. Patients with coexisting heart failure and COPD have higher levels of other comorbidity than patients with heart failure or COPD alone. Primary care in Sweden participates to a great extent in care of patients with heart failure and coexisting COPD as well as without COPD.
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EK participated in the design of the study, statistical analysis, data interpretation and drafted the manuscript. HO and LR helped draft the manuscript. AH designed the study, performed the statistical analysis, handled the data set, interpreted the data and participated in drafting the manuscript. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The study was supported by Blekinge County Council.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests. We do not have any financial relation with the commercial identities mentioned in the paper.
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Youngest Contestant Brynn Cartelli on Season 14 of ‘The Voice’ Wows in Knockouts
She may be only 14 years old—we're talking not even old enough to drive, here, folks—but The Voice's Brynn Cartelli managed to own Tuesday night's (Apr. 3) Knockout Rounds, putting forth a beautiful Rascal Flatts cover that did Team Kelly Clarkson proud.
(A briefer: We're now finishing up the Knockout Rounds for this season of The Voice. For the first time ever, former season winners will serve as mentors to help team members prepare their performances; Clarkson enlisted Season 3 winner Cassadee Pope to help out.)
When Cartelli prepped for her rendition of the Flatts' "Here Comes Goodbye," it seemed like a difficult choice for such a young singer to tackle. The song is a heartrending and frankly depressing ode to the pain of ending a serious relationship, a situation the teen hopefully hasn't experienced yet in her short life. In other words, this is not a song that can be dialed in.
Regardless, she handled the performance with extraordinary heart and soul, getting rousing cheers from the audience—and an "Aw, yeah," from her coach—the minute she hit the (gender-flipped) line "He usually comes right in." From there, she added an appealing and mature mix of slight hoarseness and an unusual vibrato technique to overall wow the entire panel of coaches.
The teen's competition was the slightly older Jamella, who also chose a country favorite: "Girl Crush," by Little Big Town. Although she did the song proud (Coach Blake Shelton praised her for making it her own), she was unfortunately eliminated.
We'll be keeping an eye on Season 14's doings every Monday and Tuesday. And, we'll be moving on to the Live Playoffs next week! So be sure to check in to see how your picks are shaping up.
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Sullivan: Clint Dempsey gives U.S.soccer a chance
TARA SULLIVANJune 21, 2016 GMT
WHIPPANY – There was Clint Dempsey, rising above the crowd in front of the Ecuador goal, whipping his head with authority, depositing the soccer ball hard, deep in the Ecuadorian net, pushing his U.S. men’s national team toward an improbable Copa America quarterfinal victory.
The goal was the payoff of a beautiful soccer sequence, the end result of a Bobby Woods to Jermaine Jones to Dempsey series of passes that underscored everything we should know about the 33-year-old forward from Texas. Dempsey, who had scarcely touched the ball across the game’s opening 20 minutes, was more than ready when the clock moved into the 22nd.
And there was Sacha Kljestan, watching at home on his television, nodding his head in knowing confirmation. The Red Bulls midfielder and former Seton Hall star saw plenty of those goals when playing with Dempsey on the national team.
“[Goalkeeper] Luis Robles and I were texting and as soon as Dempsey scored that first goal — I texted him ‘instincts,’Ÿ” Kljestan said. “Clint has it, that fight, that grit. That was a typical Clint Dempsey goal. He could have been frustrated after the first 20 minutes when he didn’t touch the ball very much. But when you put the ball in the box he always has the instinct to go up and win it. What a beautiful header.”
That daring strike would give the U.S. a 1-0 lead in an eventual 2-1 win, and Dempsey did his part on the second goal too, when Gyasi Zardi redirected Dempsey’s speeding, angled shot inside the far post.
It was a monumental victory heard round the American soccer world, one that put the U.S. into tonight’s Copa semifinal, or one more improbable win away from playing for the title Saturday night at MetLife Stadium. Of course that would require a win over world No. 1 Argentina tonight in Houston, a game that presents much taller odds than those toppled against No. 13 Ecuador. But if Argentina’s Lionel Messi will unquestionably be the best player on the field, it would be unfair to Dempsey to ignore how much he means to the U.S. side.
With an attitude forged in a lean, unprivileged Texas youth, with a game molded by the fearless street-playing immigrants around him, with a heart hardened by the untimely death of his similarly athletically gifted sister, Dempsey has made the unlikely climb to the top of the American soccer world, and he is determined to stay there. When critics came out of the opening group stage loss to Colombia with their knives ready to cut Dempsey’s aging legs from under him, he responded the only way he knows how, using two transcendent performances to prove all slights, real or imagined, wrong.
“Clint is not always the easiest personality to get to know every day, because he’s rather guarded in how much he gives of himself. But the one thing you know, when you play on a team with him, that he is going to be a cutthroat kind of player that’s going to want to make the play every game, and that he loves the biggest moments,” Red Bulls coach Jesse Marsch said, remembering his days playing alongside Dempsey with the national team or coaching him as an assistant with the U.S. program.
“When you see these games and see Clint showing up, it’s fun to watch,” Marsch said. “It’s like a street fight, and that’s Clint. He’s a street fighter. He’s never going to back down. He’s going to throw the first punch every game, every time and he’ll always be ready for whatever you throw at him. The way I describe Clint sometimes … that out of the corner of his eye he’s always watching people just in case that they might take a swing at him. And he’ll duck out of the way and counter punch and knock out. That’s who he is. This is how he lives his life — he grew up in a tough situation — and it’s really defined who he is, not just a player, but as a person.”
Dempsey’s path to stardom began on the tiny streets of Nacogdoches, a 30,000-person town in East Texas, a place so small it didn’t register on the radar of national team scouts. So while contemporaries like Landon Donovan were being invited to the original residency camps for development toward the national team, Dempsey’s parents were driving him six hours roundtrip to play for a club team in Dallas. Doing that three times a week put plenty of strain on already tight finances, as Clint was the fourth of the Dempseys’ five kids. That they lost one of those children – rising tennis star Jennifer was just 16 when she died of a brain aneurysm — only served to toughen the shell around an already tight family.
The soccer field became his outlet, where no words are needed to express your feelings, where the motivation boiling inside can be released through action on the field, where Dempsey’s 52 goals for the U.S. team now stand only five away from Donovan’s all-time record.
“The thing about Clint is that he came from nothing, really,” Kljestan said. “He talks about it and you can tell about him that he doesn’t take anything for granted. He’s the type of guy who I think always dreamed about being where he is right now but never really expected it and knew he’d have to outwork everybody to get there. So you can see that that comes out when he plays, that he really find his joy when he plays, that excitement when he scores. He’s really one of the biggest competitors I know. It comes back to instincts, crazy instincts in the box that nobody else has.”
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Campus undergoes renovations for centennial celebration
September 14, 2016 by Noel Marquis
Recent renovations to AU’s campus have not gone unnoticed by students returning for another semester of classes. After more than three months of summer vacation, students arrived to a newly-paved valley and a renovated residence hall, among many more changes that together significantly improved the appearance of campus. More renovations, like those currently underway outside of Decker Hall, are to come in the near future.
“[President Pistole] speaks to excellence in all things, and our campus needs to strive to reflect that excellence,” said Dean of Students Chris Confer, speaking to the reasoning behind renovations this year.
Although the construction project immediately outside of Decker Hall may be an obstacle for those heading to class or chapel, it will result in much-needed improvements to the grounds once finished. The renovations include replacing uneven bricks on the walkway with concrete that will still appear to be brick, but is a more cost-effective material than brick. The plan to add greenery will also improve the aesthetic appeal of the area.
“[The area outside of Decker] is the front door to our campus,” said Confer. “These renovations will improve its appeal and eliminate the hazard of broken and uneven bricks that can be difficult to walk on and can possibly cause injury, especially in bad weather.”
Other changes that are currently underway include a complete renovation of Morrison House, the center of counseling services at AU. Once the project is finished, the building will sport brand new flooring and bathrooms, as well as a new kitchenette, roof and landscaping. The end date of the project is currently unknown, but students can continue to request counseling appointments by visiting health services while Morrison House is under construction.
Many of the renovations to AU’s campus occurred during the summer, when the majority of students were not present to witness them. The renovation of Myers Hall was one of those major projects.
Over the course of the summer, Myers Hall received new carpeting and furniture, as well as a renovated lobby that gives a welcoming and pleasant atmosphere. Some renovations to the residence hall, which houses upperclassmen female students, are still underway. Confer stated that these muchneeded renovations will succeed in “creating a more enjoyable living experience” for residents.
Some seemingly small but major renovations that may have gone overlooked by returning students include the trimming and removal of dead trees for safety and aesthetic purposes and the fresh coats of paint on Helios and benches in the valley.
In addition, walkways in the valley were freshly paved, giving the campus a more fresh and clean appearance.
Certain departments on campus have recently changed location and received renovations as well. For instance, the Sociology and Social Work Departments, which were formerly located in Decker Hall, have now been moved to Hartung Hall.
Even AU faculty and staff got involved in campus renovations over the summer. “One day during the summer, faculty and staff were asked to pull on gloves and pick up a paint brush,” recalled Confer. “Together, about 80 or 90 people painted benches, trimmed up the grounds and improved the looks of campus.” Their work helped to prepare campus for the crowds that arrived for the annual Colts Camp while also readying AU the upcoming school year.
The recent renovation projects to AU’s campus were made possible by three major monetary gifts granted to the university by anonymous donors over the summer. The gifts allowed the university to finally move forward with renovation plans that have been set aside for some time due to a lack of financial means.
Another notable change on campus is the emptiness of Rice Hall. Plans for Rice have yet to be finalized. However, according to Confer, meetings concerning the fate of the residence hall have been scheduled and it is possible that plans may arise within a few months.
“There has been miscommunication regarding when Rice Hall will be taken down,” said Confer. “As of now, it is unknown when the building will be coming down. In fact, if another donor steps forward to make it possible, we may be able to completely renovate it and open it up again for residents.” The possibility of renovation remains uncertain at this time.
More renovations to AU’s campus are currently being planned, but have not yet been made public.
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In the first Raven Watch of the semester, Jordan Yaney recaps basketball highlights.
In this week’s Raven Watch, Jordan Yaney discusses sports highlights.
Jeeninga Museum reopening: Professor Tai Lipan and Dr. David Murphy
Professor Tai Lipan and Dr. David Murphy discuss the reopening of AU’s Jeeninga Museum. [transcript]
Featured Faculty: Dr. Caroline Baker
Amalia Arms chats with Dr. Caroline Baker about her journey to becoming a professor. [transcript]
Featured Faculty: Tai Lipan
Kylie Osborne talks with Tai Lipan, director of galleries and permanent collections and assistant professor of art. [transcript]
Featured Faculty: Dr. Wayne Priest
Jordan Yaney meets with Dr. Wayne Priest, professor of psychology and chair of the psychology department at Anderson University. [transcript]
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Maine among those claiming fabled hero
The origin of Paul Bunyan has perplexed writers, folklore experts and storytellers for years. Readers young and old have wondered about the origin of the fabled hero. Was he from Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, California or perhaps the Canadian provinces of Quebec or Ontario. Some new insights about the tales have surfaced, and a new book says all of those localities played a part in Bunyan’s creation.
Bunyan is based on a real lumberjack, a brawny brawler who tamed the woods with his axe and saloon bullies with his fists. With hands like meat hooks, a powerful jaw with a double row of teeth and an iron-thick skull, he was King of the Lumberjacks until his fateful murder in 1875.
Author D. Laurence Rogers traces Bunyan’s lineage in old newspaper stories, poems, and articles in magazines and books that made Bunyan the premier folklore figure in America.
“The tales began with Native American and lumberjack storytellers and date to the 1860s,” says Rogers. “But the Paul Bunyan tales we know today began in a newspaper in 1906 and grew to a giant size in countless imaginative versions afterward. Almost every place where timber was cut got in on the Bunyan story.”
H.L. Mencken popularized Bunyan with fantastic stories in his American Mercury magazine and books. Poets Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg and musical composers glorified Paul Bunyan in their works.
“If you think Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox are totally imaginary, you’re in for a surprise: Both are based in reality,” writes Jon Kartman in Booklist for American Library Association. “It’s all very worthwhile for those seeking the roots of our country’s greatest tree feller,” he writes, rating the book good reading for both adults and young adults.
Readers curious about just where Bunyan came from and who he is based on may order the book, Paul Bunyan: How a Terrible Timber Feller Became a Legend (Historical Press).
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The Indian Progressive Writers’ Manifesto as an Introduction to Anglophone World Literature
Students in my “English 316K: Survey of World Literature” classes explore a variety of traditions in Anglophone literature, from Afro-Caribbean intellectualism, to Irish literary nationalism, to Indian social realism. Although we also study works in translation, our focus is often on writers who make a deliberate choice to write and publish in English. This allows us to tap into the rich history of English-language world literature as intimately tied to legacies and contexts of British imperialism.
On the first day of class, I distribute copies of the Manifesto of the Indian Progressive Writers’ Association, published in the February 1936 issue of the London-based literary-political periodical The Left Review.
The Left Review won the dubious distinction of George Orwell’s disdain. In The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), he complained of “the ‘proletarian’ cant from which we now suffer. Everyone knows, or ought to know by this time, how it runs:… bourgeois culture is bankrupt, bourgeois ‘values’ are despicable, and so on and so forth; if you want examples, see any number of the Left Review.” Orwell’s pithy criticisms notwithstanding, The Left Review did important work to distribute the work of Indian writers to a British readership.
The main research library at UT-Austin has a complete collection (in re-print form) of this periodical, which was published monthly between October 1934 and May 1938. The Manifesto was first brought to my attention by Mia Carter, a faculty member of the English department here at UT-Austin. Her recently published Modernism and Literature: An Introduction and Reader, co-edited with Alan Friedman, includes yet another foundational statement of the goals of social realism in Indian literature: Munshi Premchand’s “The Aim of Literature,” translated from the Hindustani and originally presented at the inaugural All-India Progressive Writers’ Conference in Lucknow, India, in 1936. Like Premchand’s speech, the Progressive Writers’ Manifesto exhorts Indian writers to reject romanticism in favor of representing the material conditions of life in India. According to the Manifesto, “the new literature of India must deal with the basic problems of our existence to-day–the problems of hunger and poverty, social backwardness and political subjection.”
Indian writers like Mulk Raj Anand, who drafted the Manifesto, hoped that social realist literature would contribute to ongoing movements in India to resist British imperialism on one hand and religious orthodoxy on the other. Anand’s evocatively (or provocatively?) titled novels Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936) feature young protagonists marginalized by the Hindu caste system and British colonial economic policy, respectively. In Untouchable, the socially ambitious Bakha repeatedly tries and fails to transcend his caste identity; in Coolie, Munoo, an intrepid itinerant laborer, works tirelessly to integrate himself into the colonial economy. (You guessed it: neither story has a particularly happy ending.) What would compel a writer like Anand to pen these novels in English? And what does it mean that the Manifesto of the Indian Progressive Writers’ Association was published in English in a London-based periodical? Questions like these drive our discussion in E316K.
For a first-day discussion, the Manifesto does a great job of setting up the central question of the course: how has English-language literature historically been used as a tool of imperial assimilation and as a tool of anti-imperial resistance? Before asking students to read this historic document for the points of context it supplies in a preliminary discussion of Anglophone world literature, I contextualize the Manifesto itself. For example, I provide some background on Angaaray, the polemical collection of Urdu short stories that challenged both Islamic conservatism and British imperialism.
The first English-language version of Angaaray, translated by Snehal Shingavi, is forthcoming this spring from Penguin Classics. (Image credit: Snehal Shingavi)
The collection was burned and banned upon it publication in 1932, and the controversy catalyzed the Indian progressive writers’ movement. Sajjad Zaheer and Ahmed Ali, two of Angaaray‘s contributors, would emerge as influential figures in the movement.
To further contextualize the Progressive Writers’ Manifesto, I note the proliferation of international leftist conventions during the 1920s and 30s: the World Congress Against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism, associated with the Communist International (or Comintern), met in Brussels in 1927; in 1932, the World Congress Against Fascism and War was held in Amsterdam; 1935 saw both the International Conference of Writers in Paris and the formation of the Anti-Imperialist United Front, also affiliated with the Comintern; and the International Writers’ Association Congress was held in London in 1936 and Madrid in 1937. Anand and other members of the Progressive Writers’ Association were in attendance at several such conventions. (Incidentally, a talk Anand gave at the 1936 Conference of the International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture in London is reported in the July 1936 issue of The Left Review.)
I invite the students to spend about 10 minutes carefully observing the visual and textual details of the Manifesto as it appears in The Left Review. Then, we have a conversation in response to this series of questions:
What strikes you about the graphic art of the cover of The Left Review? What can you discern about the identity of the periodical based on the visuals and text you observe here?
What do you notice about the advertising that appears alongside the Manifesto? What does it tell you about the identity of The Left Review? How do the features and details of the advertising influence your reading or understanding of the Manifesto?
Let’s turn to the text of the Manifesto. Where was it written? How is it organized? To what audience or audiences is it addressed, and how can you tell? Can you identify any underlying assumptions or premises in this document? What social and political problems are identified in the Manifesto? What general values emerge? What strikes you about the specifics of the language? What do you note about tone and patterns in phrasing?
The Manifesto is succinct and its style straightforward, so the document allows for an inclusive discussion on the first day of class–most students feel comfortable sharing their thoughts and observations. In addition to introducing students to the task of archival analysis, reading the Manifesto together is a useful way to open up the semester’s conversation about the social and political implications of world Anglophone literature. A month into the semester, the Manifesto remains a touchstone. Whether we’re analyzing Indian poetry, Irish plays, or Trinidadian essays, we continually refer back to the issues and values laid out in the Manifesto. As I secure permission from students, I look forward to sharing some of their fantastic insights in a piece I’m contributing to an ARIEL special section on “Global Pedagogy,” forthcoming in spring 2015. Stay tuned!
Tags English 316K: Survey of World Literature, Global Pedagogy
Global Pedagogy article to appear in Spring 2015 ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature
J.E. Casely Hayford and The African Times and Orient Review: “Militantly” Anti-Imperial?
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Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope: The First Modern Excavator of the Holy Land.
Lady Stanhope dressed in men’s Turkish garb. Image via Wikicommons.
There is so much that has been written about this incredibly stunning woman. I’m not even going to try to and repeat it all, rather I’ll just link you to one of the better posts about her which is Elizabeth Kerri Mahon‘s post over at Scandalous Women. She gives a very thorough recounting of Stanhope’s life.
Briefly though, Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope was born of a fine pedigree in 1776, one of three daughters born to Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, by his first wife, Lady Hester Pitt. She was educated and outspoken. She flaunted convention in her life, never married, but took several lovers, and traveled extensively. She made a home for herself in the middle east, obtaining the title of Queen not through marriage but through presence and guile. In her height of power she maintained an army to rival any of her male contemporaries. She was a colorful individual in life and in death, and there is one aspect of this life that I want to focus on here.
In 1815, at roughly the age of 40, Stanhope led an expedition to Ashkelon which constituted the first modern archaeological excavation in Palestine.
Roman ruins at Ashkelon national park, Israel. Image via WIkicommons.
First let’s get the bad out-of-the-way, because, there appears to be a lot of bad in this at first glance. Stanhope’s supposed motivation for digging in Ashkelon (aka Tel Ashkelon, aka Ascalon) was to find a horde of gold coins supposedly buried there in the Middle Ages (Silberman 1984). She never found gold, and the only artifact recovered was a large marble statue, that she then had smashed into a thousand pieces and scattered into the sea (Silberman 1984).
Before we go further here, I want to make a few personal observations about this story. Stanhope’s supposed reasons for digging and subsequent treatment of the artifact she found seems abhorrent in a vacuum; assuming greed was her motivation and then the elimination of the one thing she found. However, a few things are being overlooked here and are being unfairly focused on in Stanhope’s case and ignored in others. For starts, many of the Victorian era expeditions were little more than snatch-and-grab jobs, where the European museums, especially the British and French, were funding expeditions to go find cool stuff, dig it out as fast as possible, and bring it back for display, basically for bragging rights. They didn’t care about the technique so much, or the local people, or the local governments. They often destroyed much more than they recovered and preserved, and honestly, they don’t get as much grief as they should for it. Schlieman, comes to mind when I think of this. Not only did he manage to dig a huge hole straight through Troy but he grossly misidentified the artifacts he did find, and then stole all the gold and valuable artifacts he recovered. History still calls him pioneer in Archeology, some refer to him as a Father of the field. I argue, if Schlieman gets this distinction, than Stanhope deserves it as well.
The start to Stanhope’s excavation began when she came into possession of a “curious document”, which was a supposed medieval Italian manuscript that described the location of a hidden treasure buried under mosque in Ashkelon by Christians (Silberman 1984). Apparently, the manuscript was very detailed and Ashkelon was well-known as the ruins of an ancient port city (Silberman 1984). Stanhope didn’t merely march into Ashkelon and begin ripping the place apart. She submitted a request to the Ottoman government for permission and was granted the right to excavate the area (Silberman 1984).
Keep in mind that Stanhope didn’t keep the gold a secret from the Sultan. Rather, she proposed that the gold was to become the property of the Ottoman government after its discovery (Silberman 1984). The Sultan took the prospect of this treasure seriously, and sent a representative from his household to ‘help’ in the search (Silberman 1984). However, the singular significance of this moment should not be lost. The Ottoman’s had never given permission for any westerner to excavate in Palestine (Silberman 1984). For Stanhope to be given this chance should speak volumes for her standing with the Sultan and her perceived abilities.
To really appreciate how early this excavation was occurring, the most definitive book on the history of antiquity at the time, J. J. Winckelmann’s (an advocate for the scientific study of archaeology) book, History of the Art of Antiquity, had only been published in 1764 and Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers (the founder of modern archaeological methods) wouldn’t be born for another 12 years.
From the history of area given in Charles Meryon’s biography of Stanhope’s dealing with the excavation, Stanhope did some amount of research before digging at Ashkelon. Learning the history of the place and looking over older French accounts of the place from 1659 (Meryon 2012:154). Meryon keeps a daily record of the excavation, detailing the trials of getting to Ashkelon, setting up camp, hiring men to work, and surveying the site. Stanhope played the most important part in all of these steps, overseeing the men and the whole of the excavation.
Just judging from the descriptions that Meryon left behind, there was a good deal of planning to the dig. Attention was paid to the remains of the building and the observations on its construction. Conclusions were made based on these observations about the sequence of construction and time periods the different layers of the excavation belonged too (Meryon 2012:154-169). These descriptions were unusually detailed with observations that were quite accurate, certainly not the hack job Stanhope is so frequently accused of (Silberman 1984, Meryon 2012:154-169). In the end however, no gold was found, and only the mostly complete statue of a man was recovered. It’s the fate of this statute where Stanhope gets the worst wrap, but I argue her actions were for a very good reason that I think sets her above other archaeologists of her time.
Muhammad Aga, the governor of Jaffa and the one overseeing Stanhope’s excavation, suspected her from the beginning of being just another English antiquarian out on a relic finding mission (Silberman 1984). He expected her to take off with any relics she found and rush them back to Britain without concern for the Turks or the Sultan (Silberman 1984). When the statute first emerged he began to act suspiciously and it was deduced that he was planning on using the discovery of the statute as a way of blackmailing Stanhope and ruining her reputation with the Sultan (Meryon 2012:154-169). So as a way of showing him otherwise, Stanhope ordered the whole thing destroyed and thrown into the sea (Meryon 2012:154-169).
It’s interesting that the slander against Stanhope can be traced back to the apparently jealous Muhammad Aga, who resented Stanhope for her gender, her authority over him, and her interruption of his own plundering of the ruins of Ashkelon for stone and granite (Meryon 2012:154-169). After Stanhope ordered the statue destroyed, Muhammad Aga became so enraged at this loss of a tool against her that he turned around and started spreading the rumor that she had broken the statue to get the gold inside it, and then split the gold with his other superior, the Pasha of Acre (Silberman 1984). None of which was true however.
Stanhope, in her own words and the recounting of Meryon destroyed the statue to prove that she was not one of these antiquarian relic seekers, and that her only intention had always been to recover the treasure for the Sultan and Turkish people (Meryon 2012:154-169).
An extreme measure? Sure. Effective? Quite.
After the excavation Stanhold enjoyed a great deal of fame and respect from the people Syria and the Sultan (Silberman 1984, Meryon 2012:154-169), even if she received condemnation from her home country of Britain. One has to wonder though, if she had sent the statue back, if her reception at home would have been a bit warmer? Would history have treated her a little kinder if she had secured her place in the archaeological record by pillaging an excavation in the name of Britain ?
What is truly so interesting about Stanhope’s excavation at Ashkelon is how accurate she was in her observations. She and Meryon correctly analyzed the history of the structure in Ashkelon before methods of modern archaeological analyses were known or used. Silberman points out:
“In 1921, the British School of Archaeology at Jerusalem, beginning its own excavations at Ashkelon, was drawn by the very same columns and semi-circular wall that had attracted Lady Hester’s attention 106 years before.27 They likewise discovered “traces of a temple or other public building”28 which they, with the benefit of more modern archaeological techniques, began to dig.
The earliest structure, containing Corinthian columns and a row of pedestals, was dated to the time of Herod, and in this level, the foot and arm of a huge marble statue were found. By 1921, there was a much greater fund of archaeological knowledge than in Lady Hester’s time, and through comparisons with similar Roman structures at Samaria and Gerasa, the British excavators identified it as the “Bouleuterion” or municipal council hall.29 A Late Roman rebuilding above it was noted, and as for the structure’s subsequent history, “a close study of the floor levels and constructive changes over the whole area seems to indicate that the last stage saw one of the famous mosques of Askalon rising upon this historic position.”30
So Lady Hester Stanhope and Dr. Meryon were not so far wrong. They had correctly analyzed the history of the structure at a time when pure archaeological analyses were unknown. Unfortunately, the later excavators did not recognize Lady Hester’s achievements, which Dr. Meryon’s detailed yet overlooked description could have supplied. Professor John Garstang, the director of the later Ashkelon dig, ascribed to Lady Hester only “a number of stout granite columns,” calling her excavation “cursory” and not recognizing that the structure that he himself had excavated was actually hers.31”
So what can we learn from Lady Stanhope’s excavation of Ashkelon in 1815? Well, unlike what so many sources would have us believe, Stanhope was not digging the ruins in Ashkelon for her own personal greed and gain. She appeared to be doing so in order to elevate the region of the world she had come to call home, looking to return the gold to the Ottoman Sultan. Also, the destruction of the statue was done in order to prove her devotion and disprove the idea that she was just trying to pillage Palestine for Britain. Likewise, her excavations were quite methodical, well recorded for the time, and the statue was documented before it’s destruction. All of these things were unusual techniques for the time, and thus makes Stanhope’s excavation unique and valuable to history. I quite agree with Silberman’s conclusion that Stanhope’s excavation “might be rightfully called the first modern excavation in the history of archaeological exploration of the Holy Land.”
Honestly, a great deal of damage has been done to Stanhope’s reputation, especially in the area of her archeological contributions. It’s painful to me to see her work and her efforts be dismissed on the rumors that surrounded her work, and not judged on the strength of the records left behind. If we insist on calling someone like Schlieman a pioneer in the field of archaeology, and continue to teach him as a founder in our classes, then why are we ignoring someone like Stanhope, whose methods were far advanced of her time, and her reasons for digging far more noble than Schlieman’s will ever be.
Meryon, Charles Lewis
2012 Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope: Forming the Completion of Her Memoirs Volume 3. Cambridge University Press. Digital Edition. http://books.google.com/books?id=4X90oSz0H40C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Retrieved 1/5/14
Silberman, Neil Asher
1984 Restoring the Reputation of Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, BAR 10:04, Jul/Aug 1984. http://cojs.org/cojswiki/Restoring_the_Reputation_of_Lady_Hester_Lucy_Stanhope,_Neil_Asher_Silberman,_BAR_10:04,_Jul/Aug_1984. Retrieved 1/5/14
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Where the Vikings Weren’t – Wrap Up.
When the Chinese Didn’t Discover America.
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Episodes, Supergirl episodes, Season 1 (Supergirl)
Childish Things
"Do you know that even with all the amazing toys I've built, you're the best thing I ever made. You're just like me."
—Winslow Schott Sr. to Winn Schott.
Season 1 » Episode 10
Original airdate
Yahlin Chang
Teleplay by:
Anna Musky-Goldwyn
James DeWille
Jamie Babbit
Peter Facinelli as Maxwell Lord (special guest star)
Jenna Dewan-Tatum as Lucy Lane (special guest star)
Henry Czerny as Winslow Schott Sr./Toyman
Emma Caulfield as Cameron Chase
Hope Lauren as Jane Doe
Tristin Mays as Paulina
"Childish Things" is the tenth episode of the first season of Supergirl, and the tenth episode overall. It aired on January 18, 2016.
Kara does her best to support Winn when his father, the supervillain Toyman, breaks out of prison and seeks out his son for unknown reasons. Also, Cat offers Lucy a job at CatCo and Alex asks Hank to use his powers to help uncover Maxwell Lord’s plans.[1]
At the Maximum Security Prison, a pair of guards check on Winslow "Toyman" Schott Sr. while they bring him a meal. When they open his cell they assume that he is sick and in need of medical attention, but soon discover a talking doll on his bed and become his victims of a trap as a yo-yo with blades kills the guards. Taking one of the guard's uniforms, he then attacks another pair of guards, killing them with the same device.
During a flight together, Kara convinces J'onn to embrace his powers and reveal himself to the world, but J'onn refuses to do that, saying he likes his current identity as Hank. They are joined by Alex as the three come up with a plan to find out what Maxwell is hiding at Lord Technologies. Later on at CatCo, Cat offers Lucy a job despite a conflict of interest because of James, but is convinced to take the offer. As James and Winn asks Kara to listen in on the conversation, the news reports of Winn's father becomes the top story and Winn wants nothing to do with it, and when agent Cameron Chase arrived to talk to Winn about his father's whereabouts, Winn tells her that he has not seen his father and wants nothing to do with him. Kara then confronts Winn, who admits that his father, who was a toy designer, was responsible for the death of six people at the company he worked for after his boss took credit for his father's designs, although his boss, the intended target, survived. Winn then shows Kara a doll he received on his desk, indicating that Winslow Sr. wants to meet him at their favorite place, and goes to Cameron to tell her.
Back at the DEO, Alex attempts to convince J'onn to use his powers to infiltrate Lord Industries but J'onn is refusing because it would make him relive his past as the Martian Manhunter. However, Alex does call Maxwell out for a date, giving J'onn time to sneak in and get the information. That evening, as Alex and Maxwell have their dinner (that turns into a conversation over their "association" with Supergirl), J'onn posing as Maxwell sneaks in and finds the mystery woman. When J'onn trips over the alarm a guard shows up but J'onn erases his memory and tells the woman he'll be back. When Maxwell returns, he discovers the guard has no memory of anything, including his own family. Meanwhile, Kara questions Cat's reason for hiring Lucy, only to have Cat accuse Kara of making eyes at James. James later discovers Lucy in his office, but he's reluctant to have her working at the company. Lucy wants the job and is upset that he does not support her.
At an arcade, Winn finds his father, who despite his dislike for Winslow Sr., the elder reminds his son that they are much alike. However, as Cameron and her agents closes in on Winslow Sr., they are tricked by a wall of mirrors and tells Winn Jr. to leave as the mirrors collapse. A cloud of gas appears ready to take out the agents but Kara as Supergirl arrived to inhale the gas and disperse it into the air. Cameron tells Winn Jr. that she is not convinced that he wants nothing to do with Winslow Sr., leading to Winn Jr. to believe that Cameron wants to have his father killed. Kara tells a reluctant Winn Jr. that she will find his father. Back at CatCo, Winn Jr. realizes that his father must be hiding in an abandoned factory that he use to own and Kara flies off to capture him before the FBI does.
When she arrives at the factory Kara is trapped in quicksand and hears a girls voice from an overhead box that is about to be dropped into a shredder. She escapes but discovers a Supergirl doll in the box, allowing Winslow Sr. to escape. At Kara's Apartment, Winn Jr. wants to call Cameron, but Kara talks him out of it and convinces him not go down the same path as his father. After being encouraged by Kara, Winn Jr. tried to kiss Kara but Winn Jr. is rejected by Kara, and he leaves upset. He is then kidnapped by Winslow Sr. and is taken to a warehouse. He reveals that his whole plan is for Winn to kill his former boss, Chester Dunholz so that they can be together in prison. To ensure his compliance Winslow Sr. says that he has hidden ten bombs in random toys at the convention and he will set them off if Winn does not go through with it.
The following day, Cameron shows up at CatCo, where she and Cat are combing for clues to find out if Winn Jr. is working for his father. As Chester Dunholz, makes his speech, Winn Jr. arrives with the weapon (disguised as a plastic gun). As Winn fires the gun into the air Cameron and the FBI agents shoot to kill him, but Supergirl stops them, and uses her x-ray vision to see Winslow Sr. set the bombs on a timer. She opens the sprinklers to create a frozen shield that foils Winslow Sr.'s plans and then subdues him. Afterwards at CatCo, James admits to Lucy that he wasn't enthusiastic about working alongside her but they kiss and make up.
After Kara sees this, she tries to apologize to Winn, who in turn apologized for kissing her but because of his feelings for her is not so sure at this point. Later that evening Kara, flies in with her Supergirl outfit on into her apartment, confiding to Alex about Winn's feelings for her and admits she felt guilty about it. Alex then admits to Kara that she convinced J'onn to infiltrate Lord Technologies, which Kara had reservations but Alex believes he can do it. Unaware to the sisters, Maxwell had planted a recording device in Alex's purse, confirming his suspicions that they're sisters.
Supergirl 1x10 promo "Childish Things" (HD)
Supergirl - Childish Thing (Sneak Peek 1)
This episode includes multiple references to other Toymans. Winslow Schott uses a doll that resembles the Toyman of Superman: The Animated Series, and another one that looks like the Toyman of Super Friends.
Cameron Chase is introduced as a member of the FBI. In the comics, she was actually a member of the D.E.O. In fact, the D.E.O. were created for her stories. However, as seen in "How Does She Do It?", D.E.O. agents are known to masquerade as FBI agents, as Alex Danvers demonstrates.
J'onn choosing to erase someone's memories and his subsequent remorse is similar to the controversial mindwipes performed by super-heroes in Identity Crisis.
↑ KARA DOES HER BEST TO SUPPORT WINN WHEN HIS FATHER, THE SUPERVILLAIN TOYMAN, BREAKS OUT OF PRISON, ON “SUPERGIRL,” MONDAY, JAN. 18 - CBS Entertainment
Supergirl season 1
"Pilot" • "Stronger Together" • "Fight or Flight" • "Livewire" • "How Does She Do It?" • "Red Faced" • "Human For a Day" • "Hostile Takeover" • "Blood Bonds" • "Childish Things" • "Strange Visitor From Another Planet" • "Bizarro" • "For the Girl Who Has Everything" • "Truth, Justice and the American Way" • "Solitude" • "Falling" • "Manhunter" • "Worlds Finest" • "Myriad" • "Better Angels"
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After a five-month delay, the $2,000 Galaxy Fold arrives in the US on Friday
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NetMage
Ars Scholae Palatinae
Mungus the Unhyphenated wrote:
It starts with a bi-fold phone. Then, once that's working well, somebody will come out with a tri-folding phone. Then 4-way and six-way folding-screen devices because EVEN BIGGER!
And so, eventually, an entirely new generation will have to re-learn how to fold something like a paper road map all over again.
Just jump to the end of the series and make the Global.
ewelch
Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
et Subscriptor
Tribus: Carlsbad, CA
Registered: Jul 31, 2000
Damnicus
Ars Centurion
Man, I thought that headline said $2000 Ford Galaxy
Registered: Feb 20, 1999
Unless they can prove that their foldable plastic screen can survive thousands of bends/unbends with no distress, this is a ridiculous concept.
thegrommit
Ars Legatus Legionis
Tribus: YYZ
NetMage wrote:
thegrommit wrote:
At $2,000, you should probably not buy a Galaxy Fold
.. or any other phone that will only last 2-3 years before the declining battery life makes it impractical to use.
You have some evidence the battery won't be replaceable for a small fee in a few years?
Complaining about the likelihood of Android updates would seem more to the point.
If I'm paying $2000 for a phone, I would not expect to have to pay a "small fee" for it to be taken apart by someone just to replace the battery.
ZippyPeanut
Ars Tribunus Militum
Registered: Jan 13, 2015
Oh, come on, grommit! Phone manufacturers not only manufacture phones, they also manufacture collective cultural expectations. Where have you been? Samsung, Apple, et al. have manufactured our expectation that batteries should not be easily replaceable and purchasing a new phone is required when the battery dies. This is expected and accepted. Resistance is futile.
Enochrewt
Registered: Jul 6, 2012
My biggest fear is that this thing flops and all of the big phone makers say "The public doesn't want foldeable screens." We do! Just not compromise screens rushed to market.
Damnicus wrote:
...with which the battery is easily replaceable by the user.
Hezio
LuDux wrote:
Or, I could get an iPad and iPhone for less than that and have both. Hell, throw in an Apple Watch. Doesn't have to be new.
New top of the line of used for all of it?
Because if used, I can quantify this in just about anything.
You could buy a really old car for that price too.
Or 2,000 used DVDs.
IntellectualThug
The screen won't last long enough for it to matter, anyway.
Frennzy
Tribus: entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
In this latest round of a Texas Hold 'Em faceoff for the consumer dollar...Samsung Folds.
You're touching folding it wrong.
faustshausuk
Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Tribus: Chicago, IL
Zero interest in this specific device, but when they finally nail how to make these devices reliable and resilient, I'll happily buy a phone that converts to a tablet. Extra screen real estate is useful in a lot of situations.
solomonrex
Tribus: Alexandria, VA
Registered: Apr 5, 2006
Anadromous wrote:
I transited through Singapore's Changi Airport about a week back, and spent some time in The Jewel attached to Terminal 1. For context, it's essentially an enormous circular shopping mall with a funky park in the middle.
Samsung had a store front open where you could make a booking to come have a 'Fold Experience', carefully guided by a group of six or so certified 'Fold Ambassadors' who were all standing there wearing white gloves. They were standing there, but no members of the public were in sight within the special Fold area.
One floor up there is an Apple store, which was bursting at the seams as all Apple stores seem to be.
Just a chance observation, but I'm wondering just how well this augurs for the Fold's success in the market.
I can't defend the Fold, but most people in Apple stores are waiting for service. It's not like the old days when no one had seen the new design yet or a special accessory or couldn't do an online order. It's just impatient unhappy people.
Enochrewt wrote:
Right! This is just the first concept, like the first iphone or MBA, compromised and expensive because it has to be.
I don't think it will be an issue though, both Huawei and Moto are working on this.
icwhatudidthere
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:08 pm
macduff wrote:
When it originally debuted, it looked like this was one of the only tests they actually ran. They had a video of a robot opening and close the Fold something like 100,000 times.
effgee
mewmew wrote:
"... Have there been any good reviews yet on the new and improved model?"
Nope. This one from JerryRigEverything is my favorite so far – "The world's most expensive salt shaker". Cringe-worthy, horrifying and oddly satisfying, all at the same time.
hurricane4911
Are we expecting a different result using essentially the same technology?
Thought so.
EBone
Ars Praetorian
Registered: Feb 7, 2011
To everyone saying "I'll wait for the 4th or 5th generation before I buy one," THIS IS THE WAY YOU GET TO THAT STAGE. There's got to be a Gen 1 that gets released out in the wild, followed by a Gen 2, etc. Be happy some people are willing to buy this version.
Think of this as Samsung crowd sourcing the capital and beta testers to develop a more fully-realized, working product in a few years.
lewax00
Ars Praefectus
EBone wrote:
No shit? I don't think anyone's saying "I'm going to wait until a later generation, but in the meantime, this generation just shouldn't exist".
mrrooster
Smack-Fu Master, in training
I’m confused. The ‘cheap’ out of warranty screen replacement is for a year from purchase. How long is the actual warranty on this super expensive phone??
Operative Me
Tribus: Apx 1.496 x 10 ^8 kilometers NW of Sol
jdale wrote:
Half-baked and the concerns about reliability are fair concerns, and I think it's overpriced based on those concerns. But writing off the screen size as a "status symbol" is nonsense.
Good thing I didn't say the screen size was what made it a "status symbol" then, I guess.
What I said was that the device is a niche product that is better as a status symbol than a primary device for most people. I stand by that assessment. It is a niche product. It's wildly expensive. Thus, it works better as a "look I can spend $2,000 on this device" product than a "everyone and their grandma is going to want one" device.
This isn't that hard to understand, so I'm not sure why you're inserting something I didn't say (that the status symbol status is connected to the screen size) and fighting against that.
It's an immediately usable feature.
That is only likely to motivate a very niche group of people in the immediate future, especially given the well-publicized issues with this device.
I'm not sure the concern about tight-fitting clothes even makes sense, given that you would be hard-pressed to pocket a lot of flagship phones these days. Is it thick when folded? Yes, but it's thinner than an iPhone in an Otterbox Defender (17.8mm) so obviously people find that size acceptable,
This is...just bad logic. I asserted that it's too thick for a certain kind of clothing. You assert that a vague category of other devices are equally hard to pocket which...isn't really the case in my experience (as 6 or 7 day a week suit wearer). You then assert that because a case exists that is also thick, "people find that size acceptable".
There are multiple contortions of logic there. First, the fact that some people use those cases doesn't prove they are they norm, so by making it "people" in the general sense, you're stretching well beyond what your data actually says. You're then ignoring the specific group of people I was referring to: people wearing suits and other tight fitting clothing. The existence of a thick Otterbox doesn't mean that's what "people find acceptable", nor does it mean that people wearing specific subset of clothing I was discussing are using that Otterbox.
Nobody in the area of the firm I work in has an Otterbox. Roughly half have naked phones. Most of those people (including me) appear in courtroom and wear a lot of suits/dresses where a bulky device isn't really a good idea.
I am certain that some people will not mind the heft of the Fold, just as I am certain that some people don't mind an Otterbox. But I feel fairly confident in saying that a person in a custom suit is not going to want to ruin the lines of their suit with either of those options if they can avoid it by getting a suitably slim phone/case.
and the need for a case is reduced since the screen is completely protected when folded shut.
I'd be cautious with that. It's already susceptible to dust because of the hinge, and it still has an exposed outer screen that's no more or less protected than an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy s10. Anyone who needs an Otterbox to protect a single-screen phone will also need one for this device, or risk shattering the outer screen the same way they do for any other device. Which will, of course, add bulk.
TL;DRAs has been repeated multiple times here: I am well aware that everyone has different needs and that there are certainly people for whom the Fold is the ideal device. I love the concept. But I also do not want a phone that's going to make me look sloppy because it's distorting my suit, and I work with people for whom that is also a concern. The existence of a case that is also bulky doesn't really change that reality. The device is expensive and has a tiny market. It's a better fit as a status symbol than an everyday purchase for most people.
I wouldn't worry about that too much. If there actually is a demand for them (done right), someone will make a device for it that's done better than this. Maybe Samsung, but if not, my money would be on Apple or Microsoft. Microsoft has made a point of jump-starting the 2-in-1 trend and Apple is, well...Apple.
Whether you view it as a good (they wait until the technology is mature) or bad (their customers will celebrate getting the same tech years later), it would hardly be a surprise to see Apple sit out the birthing years on this concept and wait until they have something polished and have it sell like gangbusters. At which point, it will become hip again and lots of people will move to make similar devices.
OrsonX
I don't want a large phone that becomes gigantic, I want a small phone that becomes a large phone!
KeyboardWeeb
SPCagigas wrote:
KeyboardWeeb wrote:
ZhanMing057 wrote:
Kruskal-Szekeres wrote:
Comparing one comically expensive purchase to another isn’t really useful, you have to be a bit dim to spend $1600 on a phone.
And how it is dim or "comically expensive" to spend a decent bit of money on something that you use for multiple hours a day, seven days a week?
If you don't want to pay for a flagship phone, that's totally fine, and there are lots of good phones at different price points these days. But at the end of the day, an iPhone 11 Pro or a Note 10+ is a really, really good phone, and some of us are happy to pay for that premium.
Some of us don't spend multiple hours a day with our phones. I spend maybe 30-40 minutes, tops, using my phone per day.
That's counting the time spent watching a video while on the treadmill. If I discount that I use my phone maybe ten minutes a day, assuming I remember to do my DuoLingo practice.
Hence, I'm not about to spend even one thousand dollars, much less two, on a phone.
And some people live in cities with great mass transit so they don't need to own a car. That's not a useful argument that no one should own a car. Nor is the fact that most people drive only on roads a useful argument against off-road vehicles.
Let's all say it together now, kids: MY USE CASE IS NOT THE ONLY USE CASE!
Where did I say that? Please do point it out. I'm not making that argument.
Sounds like you certainly are making the argument right there.
Yes, because "Some of us don't" and "I" are equivalent to "Nobody does" and "Everyone".
How you got "My use case is the only use case" out of that is beyond me. It's the only one relevant to me, for sure.
I'm not alone in not being glued to my phone, so my use case is relevant to others. To the specific poster I quoted, not so much. I never even disparaged his use case, simply said that it wasn't mine, and illustrated mine as an example.
That's why there's a variety of phones on the market. Some of which I, and people who use their phones like I do, simply aren't interested in buying at such prices. That's fine. I'm part of an even smaller niche sporting keyboard-equipped phones. My use case is definitely not the majority.
LosAngelesPandas
Tribus: The California Republic
Registered: Oct 9, 2017
You thought replacing an iPhone battery was expensive. That's nothing compared to one of these things.
eldakka
Registered: Jun 3, 2006
lewax00 wrote:
clarityoffline wrote:
I'll pass on the 1st gen but i enjoy seeing innovation... *puts back on 3D TV glasses*
I mean, technically the first gen failed right out the gate, this isn't quite first gen, but it's not second gen yet either...maybe like, 1.5 gen?
Hope they do better this time around. The tech is interesting, but I'm not interested at that price, nor am I interested until they've proven it's durable enough for real world use.
Version 1.0 RC2 (Release Candidate 2).
D10genes
Seniorius Lurkius
Registered: Jan 6, 2010
I'm done paying more than $200 for any phone. I am fine with 2-3 year old technology in phones and just wait until the previous 600 + phone is cheaper and use it for another 2-3 years.
ProverbialMatt
$149 to replace the screen if [read: when] it breaks... doesn't exactly scream confidence on their part, does it?
Free screen replacement, now that might be a bit more convincing. Put your money where you mouth is, etc...
iquanyin
Tribus: Oregon
Old_one wrote:
This device is sold at more than the combined price of a high-end phone and a high-end tablet. If it breaks, you lose both functionalities. I just don't get it.
i a;so don’t get how they could work on it for six years and not know the dead phone thing. and how did they fix that in five months?
jacobdrj
OrsonX wrote:
Motorola's phone is coming...
informationsuperhighway
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2019 11:04 am
Male sure you watch the 30min training video it explains that operating in an atmosphere that contains oxidizing elements could void your warranty.
Reports of broken screens already. 😂
informationsuperhighway wrote:
Anybody surprised? I thought not.
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New source review (NSR) for sources and portable sources.
(1) Applicability.
(a) WAC 173-400-110, 173-400-111, 173-400-112, and 173-400-113 apply statewide except where a permitting authority has adopted its own new source review regulations.
(b) This section applies to new sources and stationary sources as defined in RCW 70.94.030, and WAC 173-400-030, but does not include nonroad engines.
(i) "Establishment" means to begin actual construction;
(ii) "New source" includes:
(A) A modification to an existing stationary source, as "modification" is defined in WAC 173-400-030:
(B) The construction, modification, or relocation of a portable source as defined in WAC 173-400-030, except those relocating in compliance with WAC 173-400-036;
(C) The establishment of a new or modified toxic air pollutant source, as defined in WAC 173-460-020; and
(D) A major modification to an existing major stationary source, as defined in WAC 173-400-710 and 173-400-810.
(d) New source review of a modification is limited to the emission unit or units proposed to be modified and the air contaminants whose emissions would increase as a result of the modification. Review of a major modification must comply with WAC 173-400-700 through 173-400-750 or 173-400-800 through 173-400-860, as applicable.
(e) The procedural requirements pertaining to NOC applications and orders of approval for new sources that are not major stationary sources, as defined in WAC 173-400-710 and 173-400-810, shall not apply to any person conducting a remedial action at a facility pursuant to a consent decree, order, or agreed order issued pursuant to chapter 70.105D RCW, Model Toxics Control Act, or to the department of ecology when it conducts a remedial action under chapter 70.105D RCW. The department of ecology shall ensure compliance with the substantive requirements of this chapter through the consent decree, order, or agreed order issued pursuant to chapter 70.105D RCW using the procedures outlined in WAC 173-340-710(9) or during a department-conducted remedial action, through the procedures outlined in WAC 173-340-710(9).
(2) Preconstruction approval requirements. The applicant must evaluate the proposed project and submit an application addressing all applicable new source review requirements of this chapter.
(a) A notice of construction application must be filed and an order of approval must be issued by the permitting authority prior to the establishment of any new source or modification except for those new sources or modifications exempt from permitting under subsections (4), (5), and (6) of this section.
(b) If the proposed project is a new major stationary source or a major modification, located in a designated nonattainment area, and if the project emits the air pollutant or precursors of the air pollutant for which the area is designated nonattainment, and the project meets the applicability criteria in WAC 173-400-820, then the project is subject to the permitting requirements of WAC 173-400-800 through 173-400-860.
(c) If the proposed project is a new major stationary source or a major modification that meets the applicability criteria of WAC 173-400-720, then the project is subject to the PSD permitting requirements of WAC 173-400-700 through 173-400-750.
(d) If the proposed project will increase emissions of toxic air pollutants regulated under chapter 173-460 WAC, then the project must meet all applicable requirements of that program.
(3) Modifications.
New source review is required for any modification to a stationary source that requires:
(a) An increase in a plant-wide cap; or
(b) An increase in an emission unit or activity specific emission limit.
(4) Emission unit and activity exemptions.
The construction or modification of emission units or an activity in one of the categories listed below is exempt from new source review, provided that the modified unit continues to fall within one of the listed categories. The construction or modification of an emission unit or an activity exempt under this subsection does not require the filing of a notice of construction application.
(a) Maintenance/construction:
(i) Cleaning and sweeping of streets and paved surfaces;
(ii) Concrete application, and installation;
(iii) Dredging wet spoils handling and placement;
(iv) Paving application and maintenance. This provision does not exempt asphalt plants from this chapter;
(v) Plant maintenance and upkeep activities (grounds keeping, general repairs, house keeping, plant painting, welding, cutting, brazing, soldering, plumbing, retarring roofs, etc.);
(vi) Plumbing installation, plumbing protective coating application and maintenance activities;
(vii) Roofing application and maintenance;
(viii) Insulation application and maintenance;
(ix) Janitorial services and consumer use of janitorial products;
(x) Construction activities that do not result in new or modified stationary sources or portable stationary sources.
(b) Storage tanks:
It can be difficult to determine requirements for storage tanks. Ecology strongly recommends that an owner or operator contact the permitting authority to determine the exemption status of storage tanks prior to their installation.
(i) Lubricating oil storage tanks. This provision does not exempt wholesale distributors of lubricating oils from this chapter;
(ii) Polymer tanks and storage devices and associated pumping and handling equipment, used for solids dewatering and flocculation;
(iii) Storage tanks, reservoirs, pumping and handling equipment of any size containing soaps, vegetable oil, grease, animal fat, and nonvolatile aqueous salt solutions;
(iv) Process and white water storage tanks;
(v) Operation, loading and unloading of storage tanks and storage vessels, with lids or other appropriate closure and less than 260-gallon capacity (35 cubic feet);
(vi) Operation, loading and unloading of storage tanks, ≤ 1100 gallon capacity, with lids or other appropriate closure, not for use with materials containing toxic air pollutants, as listed in chapter 173-460 WAC, max. VP 550 mm mercury at 21°C;
(vii) Operation, loading and unloading storage of butane, propane, or liquefied petroleum gas with a vessel capacity less than 40,000 gallons;
(viii) Tanks, vessels and pumping equipment, with lids or other appropriate closure for storage or dispensing of aqueous solutions of inorganic salts, bases and acids.
(c) New or modified emission units with combined aggregate heat inputs to combustion units (excluding emergency engines exempted by subsection (4)(h)(xxxix) of this section), less than or equal to all of the following, as applicable:
(i) ≤ 500,000 Btu/hr using coal with ≤ 0.5% sulfur or other solid fuels with ≤ 0.5% sulfur;
(ii) ≤ 500,000 Btu/hr using used oil, per the requirements of RCW 70.94.610;
(iii) ≤ 400,000 Btu/hr using wood waste or paper;
(iv) ≤ 1,000,000 Btu/hr using gasoline, kerosene, #1, or #2 fuel oil and with ≤0.05% sulfur;
(v) ≤ 4,000,000 Btu/hr using natural gas, propane, or LPG.
(d) Material handling:
(i) Continuous digester chip feeders;
(ii) Grain elevators not licensed as warehouses or dealers by either the Washington state department of agriculture or the U.S. Department of Agriculture;
(iii) Storage and handling of water based lubricants for metal working where organic content of the lubricant is ≤ 10%;
(iv) Equipment used exclusively to pump, load, unload, or store high boiling point organic material in tanks less than one million gallon, material with initial atmospheric boiling point not less than 150°C or vapor pressure not more than 5 mm mercury at 21°C, with lids or other appropriate closure.
(e) Water treatment:
(i) Septic sewer systems, not including active wastewater treatment facilities;
(ii) NPDES permitted ponds and lagoons used solely for the purpose of settling suspended solids and skimming of oil and grease;
(iii) De-aeration (oxygen scavenging) of water where toxic air pollutants as defined in chapter 173-460 WAC are not emitted;
(iv) Process water filtration system and demineralizer vents;
(v) Sewer manholes, junction boxes, sumps and lift stations associated with wastewater treatment systems;
(vi) Demineralizer tanks;
(vii) Alum tanks;
(viii) Clean water condensate tanks.
(f) Environmental chambers and laboratory equipment:
(i) Environmental chambers and humidity chambers using only gases that are not toxic air pollutants listed in chapter 173-460 WAC;
(ii) Gas cabinets using only gases that are not toxic air pollutants regulated under chapter 173-460 WAC;
(iii) Installation or modification of a single laboratory fume hood;
(iv) Laboratory research, experimentation, analysis and testing at sources whose primary purpose and activity is research or education. To be exempt, these sources must not engage in the production of products, or in providing commercial services, for sale or exchange for commercial profit except in a de minimis manner. Pilot-plants or pilot scale processes at these sources are not exempt.
(v) Laboratory calibration and maintenance equipment.
(g) Monitoring/quality assurance/testing:
(i) Equipment and instrumentation used for quality control/assurance or inspection purpose;
(ii) Hydraulic and hydrostatic testing equipment;
(iii) Sample gathering, preparation and management;
(iv) Vents from emission monitors and other analyzers.
(h) Miscellaneous:
(i) Single-family residences and duplexes;
(ii) Plastic pipe welding;
(iii) Primary agricultural production activities including soil preparation, planting, fertilizing, weed and pest control, and harvesting;
(iv) Comfort air conditioning;
(v) Flares used to indicate danger to the public;
(vi) Natural and forced air vents and stacks for bathroom/toilet activities;
(vii) Personal care activities;
(viii) Recreational fireplaces including the use of barbecues, campfires, and ceremonial fires;
(ix) Tobacco smoking rooms and areas;
(x) Noncommercial smokehouses;
(xi) Blacksmith forges for single forges;
(xii) Vehicle maintenance activities, not including vehicle surface coating;
(xiii) Vehicle or equipment washing (see (c) of this subsection for threshold for boilers);
(xiv) Wax application;
(xv) Oxygen, nitrogen, or rare gas extraction and liquefaction equipment not including internal and external combustion equipment;
(xvi) Ozone generators and ozonation equipment;
(xvii) Solar simulators;
(xviii) Ultraviolet curing processes, to the extent that toxic air pollutant gases as defined in chapter 173-460 WAC are not emitted;
(xix) Electrical circuit breakers, transformers, or switching equipment installation or operation;
(xx) Pulse capacitors;
(xxi) Pneumatically operated equipment, including tools and hand held applicator equipment for hot melt adhesives;
(xxii) Fire suppression equipment;
(xxiii) Recovery boiler blow-down tank;
(xxiv) Screw press vents;
(xxv) Drop hammers or hydraulic presses for forging or metal working;
(xxvi) Production of foundry sand molds, unheated and using binders less than 0.25% free phenol by sand weight;
(xxvii) Kraft lime mud storage tanks and process vessels;
(xxviii) Lime grits washers, filters and handling;
(xxix) Lime mud filtrate tanks;
(xxx) Lime mud water;
(xxxi) Stock cleaning and pressurized pulp washing down process of the brown stock washer;
(xxxii) Natural gas pressure regulator vents, excluding venting at oil and gas production facilities and transportation marketing facilities;
(xxxiii) Solvent cleaners less than 10 square feet air-vapor interface with solvent vapor pressure not more than 30 mm mercury at 21°C where no toxic air pollutants as listed under chapter 173-460 WAC are emitted;
(xxxiv) Surface coating, aqueous solution or suspension containing ≤ 1% (by weight) VOCs, or ≤ 1% (by weight) toxic air pollutants as listed in chapter 173-460 WAC;
(xxxv) Cleaning and stripping activities and equipment using solutions having ≤ 1% VOCs (by weight) or ≤ 1% (by weight) toxic air pollutants. Acid solutions used on metallic substances are not exempt;
(xxxvi) Dip coating operations, using materials less than 1% VOCs (by weight) or ≤ 1% (by weight) toxic air pollutants as listed in chapter 173-460 WAC.
(xxxvii) Abrasive blasting performed inside a booth or hangar designed to capture the blast grit or overspray.
(xxxviii) For structures or items too large to be reasonably handled indoors, abrasive blasting performed outdoors that employs control measures such as curtailment during windy periods and enclosure of the area being blasted with tarps and uses either steel shot or an abrasive containing less than one percent (by mass) which would pass through a No. 200 sieve.
(xxxix) Stationary emergency internal combustion engines with an aggregate brake horsepower that is less than or equal to 500 brake horsepower.
(xl) Gasoline dispensing facilities with annual gasoline throughputs less than those specified in WAC 173-491-040 (4)(a). Gasoline dispensing facilities subject to chapter 173-491 WAC are exempt from toxic air pollutant analysis pursuant to chapter 173-460 WAC.
(5) Exemptions based on emissions.
(a) Except as provided in this subsection:
(i) Construction of a new emissions unit that has a potential to emit below each of the levels listed in Table 110(5) Exemption levels is exempt from new source review.
(ii) A modification to an existing emissions unit that increases the unit's actual emissions by less than each of the threshold levels listed in Table 110(5) Exemption levels of this subsection is exempt from new source review.
(b) Greenhouse gas emissions are exempt from new source review requirements except to the extent required under WAC 173-400-720, prevention of significant deterioration. The owner or operator of a source or emission unit, may request that the permitting authority impose emission limits and/or operation limitations for greenhouse gas in any new source review order of approval.
Table 110(5) Exemption levels:
level (tons
per year)
Total suspended particulates
Volatile Organic Compounds, total
Ozone Depleting Substances, total
Toxic Air Pollutants
The de minimis emission rate specified for each TAP in WAC 173-460-150.
(6) Portable source with order of approval. A portable source is authorized to operate without obtaining a site-specific or a permitting authority specific approval order to relocate if the portable source complies with the provisions of WAC 173-400-036.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.94 RCW. WSR 12-24-027 (Order 11-10), § 173-400-110, filed 11/28/12, effective 12/29/12; WSR 11-06-060 (Order 09-01), § 173-400-110, filed 3/1/11, effective 4/1/11. Statutory Authority: Washington Clean Air Act, RCW 70.94.152. WSR 09-11-131 (Order 05-19), § 173-400-110, filed 5/20/09, effective 6/20/09. Statutory Authority: RCW 70.94.395 and 70.94.331. WSR 07-11-039 (Order 06-03), § 173-400-110, filed 5/8/07, effective 6/8/07. Statutory Authority: RCW 70.94.152. WSR 05-03-033 (Order 03-07), § 173-400-110, filed 1/10/05, effective 2/10/05. Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.94 RCW, RCW 70.94.141, [70.94.]152, [70.94.]331, [70.94.]510 and 43.21A.080. WSR 01-17-062 (Order 99-06), § 173-400-110, filed 8/15/01, effective 9/15/01. Statutory Authority: RCW 70.94.860, 70.94.510 and 70.94.331. WSR 98-15-129 (Order 98-04), § 173-400-110, filed 7/21/98, effective 8/21/98. Statutory Authority: RCW 70.94.152. WSR 98-01-183 (Order 96-01), § 173-400-110, filed 12/23/97, effective 1/23/98. Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.94 RCW. WSR 93-18-007 (Order 93-03), § 173-400-110, filed 8/20/93, effective 9/20/93; WSR 91-05-064 (Order 90-06), § 173-400-110, filed 2/19/91, effective 3/22/91. Statutory Authority: Chapters 43.21A and 70.94 RCW. WSR 83-09-036 (Order DE 83-13), § 173-400-110, filed 4/15/83. Statutory Authority: RCW 70.94.331, 70.94.510, and 70.94.785. WSR 81-03-002 (Order DE 80-53), § 173-400-110, filed 1/8/81. Statutory Authority: RCW 70.94.331. WSR 80-11-059 (Order DE 80-14), § 173-400-110, filed 8/20/80. Statutory Authority: RCW 43.21A.080 and 70.94.331. WSR 79-06-012 (Order DE 78-21), § 173-400-110, filed 5/8/79; Order DE 76-38, § 173-400-110, filed 12/21/76. Formerly WAC 18-04-110.]
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Nissan nabs exclusive automotive iAd rights for iTunes Radio rollout
Monday, September 23, 2013, 03:20 pm PT (06:20 pm ET)
Nissan on Monday announced that it will be the exclusive automotive launch partner for Apple's iTunes Radio through 2013, giving the car maker a few month's worth of uncontested ad content for the streaming music service.
With the release of iOS 7, Apple introduced iTunes Radio, which is now accessible on iOS devices, Apple TV, iTunes for Windows and Mac. Supported by the iAd platform, the service is a fledgling market for advertisers that want to get in on the ground floor, and Nissan has just secured first-year partnership rights for exclusive automotive content.
The Japanese car company plans to roll out custom iTunes Radio ads for the 2014 model year Versa Note and electric Nissan LEAF, while the 2014 Rogue and Nissan Heisman House Tour will get special "newsworthy moments" content.
Marketing materials will come in both audio and video flavors, though it is unclear how the company plans to present the content to iTunes Radio listeners. Presumably, video will be reserved for Apple TV and possibly iTunes, while audio will be played in between songs on iOS devices.
iTunes Radio is ad supported, though subscribers of Apple's iTunes Match service are able to take advantage of the streaming system ad-free and with unlimited song skipping.
Nissan has a long history with Apple's iAd platform, being one of the first to adopt the medium for the initial push of its LEAF electric car in 2012.
iTunes,
iAd,
Background App Refresh in iOS 7 reportedly causing login issues for some apps
Apple TV software returns one day after being pulled
Rumor: 'iPhone 12' will look like a slimmer, taller iPhone 11 ~1 hour ago
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The SFR Market: Tech and Big Data
By Betsy Kim
Big data expedites SFR sales, especially for large volume buyers.
Emotional intelligence or the human touch is still essential in real estate deals.
Single-family rental data still needs to be better organized.
Tech and big data used in selling property go beyond what most people can comprehend or process. However, real estate purchasers readily use information digested and organized by artificial intelligence and machine learning. At an industry talk, Jack Ryan, CEO at Rex, said his company bypasses the MLS, using big data, artificial intelligence and social media to connect buyers to property. Rex lists properties online on sites such as Zillow and Trulia. Today, 90% of home shoppers start their searches on the internet. But there’s still an emotional element to real estate. Just think about the homes where you’ve lived—and putting a price tag on them. So, what are the appropriate roles for AI and people in real estate transactions these days?
The Efficiency of Technology
Big data is driving up ROI. Real estate decisions rely upon millions of data points, Ryan commented. As one example, he noted with property sales, “In Texas, near the highway is a good thing to say. In California, it’s a bad thing to say.” Artificial intelligence can rapidly assess facts and figures that lead to accurate financial determinations. Algorithms can process vast amounts of data to compute the economic value of a home. Computers can crunch data far more efficiently than humans.
“You can’t do it from the human perspective,” Ryan said. “Human intuition will usually get overwhelmed by big data.”
Sean Tierney is the vice president of sales at Entera. Based in San Francisco, his company is a residential real estate platform that relies on machine learning. Currently, they are focusing on institutional investors. Tierney emphasized when a client is looking to buy 1,000 homes a year, time is of essence. “You have to be very laser-focused when you’re buying thousands and thousands of homes,” he said.
But he added transactions depend on who are the buyers and the sellers.
People Skills in Behavioral Finance
Machine learning can pick up quantitative facts about populations. Nonetheless, humans with emotional intelligence are still a crucial part of the equation. Unlike algorithms, humans can get to know the people who live in close proximity to the property.
Soft skills in understanding behavioral finance are still critical in the family housing industry. Residential deals can be emotionally fraught transactions for buyers or sellers, Ryan noted. “Oftentimes, people need to hold their hands. And that’s what humans do best.”
Tierney said transactions can have psychological associations. For example, just say 40 years ago, a father gifted stock to his son. As an adult, the son may now find it emotionally difficult to sell the stocks. However, with financial economics, one would instead focus on profits and losses.
A computer can calculate what property is worth down to the penny. However, an owner could fear losing money. Ryan described how a property owner could feel limits on options, being nervous about an uncertain job situation. That’s when humans with negotiation skills come into play. All companies need people to work together, regardless of individuals’ capabilities and the value of tech and big data.
Single-Family Rental Tech Challenges
The multifamily industry has more than 60 years of experience and data. George Aplicano, the owner of CashNowHomes, stated there needs to be greater collaboration in the single-family rental sector. The National Home Rental Council has acknowledged this, promoting greater compatibility in real estate technology.
Specifically, experts agree the industry lacks standardization of data points. There are challenges in defining acquisitions. Even some basic terms, including cap rates, can differ in definitions. Plus, tech companies store data in multiple ways to suit clients’ separate needs.
Companies could agree to organize certain pieces of basic information in consistent ways. For example, with IRS W-2 forms, each box is allocated to the same type of data. Establishing this type of standardized, structured data would increase the ease and efficiency in deals, lowering consumer prices.
The panel discussion, “Acquisitions & Dispositions: When to Use Technology and When to Use Property” was part of the IMN SFR Forum (West), held in December in Scottsdale, AZ. Listen to Arbor’s audio interviews on the conference. The first Q&A features a discussion of the conference highlights including SFR trends and investment opportunities. The second recording is a post-event wrap-up, covering the fix-and-flip market, bridge financing and more proptech. You can also contact Arbor today to learn more about SFR portfolio solutions and Arbor’s SFR portfolio loans.
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Åland 2009 - Natwest Island Games XIII
Gotland 21 11 23
Åland 16 19 18
Bermuda 14 6 12
Saaremaa 6 9 10
Women's 200m Individual Medley
Mon 17 Aug - 03:39.28
Compound Head to Head Team Knockout
Bronze Match
Mon 20 Jul - 09:25.34
Recurve Head to Head Team Knockout
Men's Recurve Head to Head Knockout
Women's Recurve Head to Head Knockout
Men's Compound Head to Head Knockout
Home > Islands > Jersey > Sports > Swimming > Men's 100m Breaststroke
- Men's 100m Breaststroke
Heat: Final
1st 4 Ian Black Jersey 1:03.29 Gold
Last Result: 29/06/2009 18:27:14 Status: Confirmed 29/06/2009 18:28:28
Heat: Prelims
1st 1 Ian Black Jersey 1:05.11
Schedule for Men's 100m Breaststroke:
Mon 29 Jun 10:15 Prelims Alands Idrottscenter, Godby
Mon 29 Jun 17:30 Final Alands Idrottscenter, Godby
Record/s for Men's 100m Breaststroke:
Men's 100m Breaststroke 1.02.99 Darren Mew Isle of Wight 1997
Other Swimming Events:
Men's 1500m Freestyle View View View View 29/06/2009 18:02:02
Women's 400m Individual Medley View View View View 29/06/2009 18:10:20
Women's 100m Butterfly View View View View 29/06/2009 18:23:22
Men's 100m Breaststroke View View View View 29/06/2009 18:27:14
Women's 50m Breaststroke View View View View 29/06/2009 18:37:42
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Women's 200m Freestyle View View View View 29/06/2009 18:50:14
Men's 200m Individual Medley View View View View 29/06/2009 18:56:46
Women's 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay View View View View 29/06/2009 19:11:47
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Women's 50m Backstroke View View View View 02/07/2009 18:03:44
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Posts Tagged ‘Federal Reserve’
Donald Trump, Federal Reserve
Fed chair: Not much Fed can do right now to help world economy
In Economy, Financial competency on 25/08/2019 at 10:55 am
In addition to the Fed’s focus on balancing inflation against employment, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is dealing with two other sources of stress. Investors have been critical of how he communicates policy and The Donald has been demanding, more aggressive by the day, for more monetary accommodation via interest rate cuts and quantitative easing.
Powell has juz given Trump the finger.
Powell has now called the current era of Fed history the “emerging new normal”, and said it offered three challenges: low inflation, financial risks, and how the Fed can support economic growth when interest rates are already so low. The Fed, he added, “faces heightened risks of lengthy, difficult-to-escape periods in which our policy interest rate is pinned near zero.”
How to support economic growth when interest rates are already so low is an important question for central bankers all over the world. They had gathered in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to among other things, discuss whether policy rates have any effect on the real economy.
With his historical timeline, Mr Powell offered an answer to both. The current era of slower growth, downward pressure on inflation, and lower interest rates is the consequence of long-term trends. And there is not much the Fed can do right now to help.
It’s a very pessimistic (and hawkish: nothing much can be done) speech.
Here’s how the Economist put it
He spoke of the difficulty the Fed faced in assessing and responding to Mr Trump’s trade war. And he mentioned that if interest rates globally remain near zero, then central banks may need new policies. But on the subject of the moment—what the Fed will do next—he gave little away. “We will act as appropriate to sustain the expansion, with a strong labour market and inflation near its symmetric 2% objective,” he said.
Mr Powell may have felt he could say little more, given the disagreement within the Fed. But both the recent minutes and the speech today devoted more words to the possibility that low rates might contribute to financial instability than has recently been the norm in the Fed’s discussions. That may be a sign of more determined opposition to additional easing than recognised hitherto.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/08/23/now-donald-trump-calls-the-feds-chairman-an-enemy
And btw, Trump’s not that dumb
At least one observer felt the hawkish overtones of the speech to be crystal clear. “As usual, the Fed did NOTHING!” Mr Trump tweeted after Mr Powell’s remarks. “My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?” The president thus cast a longer shadow than the Tetons over the day’s events.
How all this impacts us:
S’pore: the canary in the coalmine/ Is the ground sweet for the PAP?
Latest “bad” economic data is really “gd” news for PAP
“Only cold spell coming, but not Winter,” says Heng
Ground is not sweet economically/ Authorities may have to do something but no gd options
Trump is bad news for S’porean mortgagors and property prices
In Economy, Financial competency, Property on 08/12/2016 at 4:36 am
As stated here, The Donald’s warning to US companies to manufacture in the US will only help accentuate two interconnected secular trends that are no good for S’pore’s growth prospects: slower global trade caused in part by onshoring (companies making more products locally).
Slow growth not good for property prices.
Next, Trump wants US cos to repatriate their money overseas (US$1trn is a conservative estimate) to make America Great Again. He’ll offer tax concessions in return.
According to a FT report, the repatriation of billions of dollars of overseas corporate deposits could rattle the global money market, where they constitute an important part of the offshore funding base: think Libor and Sibor.
This will affect S$ interest rates, causiing them to rise further then expected because of Fed actions.
Finally, with a fiscal stimulus in the US, Fed be more prepared to raise US rates. This will affect S$ interest rates, causiing them to rise.
So the vultures are circling and the Singkies with housing loans up to their eyeballs (if car loans and personal loans are included, up to their eyebrows) had better watch out. We’ll be joining Perth.
Will the 70% still vote PAP?
Fed to market: “Go ahead, make my day”
In Currencies on 30/08/2016 at 3:05 pm
The Fed is itching to pull the trigger like Dirty Harry was ready to use .44 Magnum revolver
NYT Dealbook reports:
The Case for an Interest Rate Increase
The Federal Reserve looks like it will probably raise rates in the coming months. “In light of the continued solid performance of the labor market and our outlook for economic activity and inflation, I believe the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened in recent months,” said Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, said after last week’s annual policy conference at Jackson Hole.
Although the Fed is likely to consider a move at the next meeting, in September, many expect action to come in December, after the presidential election.
Some officials remain nervous about fragile growth, and there are questions about how the Fed could combat downturns in the future. If interest rates are not raised as much as during other periods of growth, they cannot be cut as much during downturns. Officials also remain skeptical about using negative rates.
“Central banks still have arrows in their quiver [although] they may not be as effective as they were before the crisis,” Randall Kroszner, a former Fed governor,told The Financial Times. But, he pointed out, “central banks can’t simply create growth.”
Still, perhaps they will take the advice they received from Christopher A. Sims, a Nobel laureate in economic science. What is that? Stop. You’re making things worse.
Mr. Sims argues that central banks need to say publicly that more government spending is required to stimulate economies. “So long as the legislature thinks it has no role in this problem, nothing is going to get done,” he said.”
What are the biggest risks to financial markets?
In China, Commodities, Financial competency on 23/05/2016 at 10:52 am
Or “China kua kee”. See that deflation is also a major concern. Commodity price movements are “peanuts”
But notice was missing? Nothing on that gorilla in eoom? The Fed.
In Currencies, Emerging markets on 19/05/2016 at 6:01 pm
Fed Is Seriously Considering Raising Interest Rates in June, Meeting Minutes Say The central bank sent an unusually frank message to Wall Street, delivered in the official account of the Fed’s April meeting.
NYT » | AFTERNOON REPORT: STOCKS SWOON ON SIGNAL OF FED RATE INCREASE
When China went to the Fed for help
Goh Meng Seng and Uncle Redbean will never tell u this: even China needs the Fed’s help.
NYT Dealbook reports
How China Asked the Fed for Its Stock Crash Playbook Confronted with a plunge in its stock markets last year, China’s central bank reached out to the Federal Reserve, asking it to share its playbook for dealing with Wall Street’s “Black Monday” crash of 1987.
FED SLOWS PLANS FOR INTEREST RATE INCREASES
In Uncategorized on 21/03/2016 at 9:55 am
According to NYT Dearbook only 0.5% on the cars, not 1%. Mortgagors and property developers can relax. Interest rates will remain lowish.
The Federal Reserve voted not to raise its benchmark interest rate because weakness in the global economy could affect domestic growth, Binyamin Appelbaum reports in DealBook.
It had been expected to increase this month, but instead pulled away from its December prediction that the rate would go up by one percentage point this year. Fed officials now expect to raise rates by just half a percentage point this year.
Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, maintained that the central bank remained relatively optimistic about the economy, in which there were no signs of damage from the wobbles of financial markets in the rest of that world.
Ms. Yellen did note that continued weakness in global growth and aggressivestimulus campaigns from other central banks could weigh on domestic growth, for example by strengthening the dollar. She added that financial markets are doing some of the Fed’s work, with tighter financial conditions like increased borrowing costs for corporations.
Why markets are panicking
In Financial competency on 12/02/2016 at 12:24 pm
They now assume that central banks don’t have a clue on how to save the world
What we are seeing, I think, are safe-haven flows. What is causing them, I believe, are central bank actions that undermine market confidence in the belief that central banks will do “whatever it takes”, in Mario Draghi’s phrase, to prevent economic collapse. The loss of faith is clearest in Europe, where Mr Draghi felt pressure to speak publicly on several occasions after the December meeting, in order to clarify that it did not represent a step in a less interventionist or more hawkish direction, and was not an indication of internal dissent over the course of policy. Crucially, those statements did not reverse the damage done by the December meeting. …
The Fed seems to have done something similar to its own standing, through the simple act of moving to tighten while both inflation and inflation expectations remained well below target. Just as Mr Draghi’s saying “whatever it takes” again cannot generate the same boost to confidence as it did the first time around, a simple reversal of the Fed’s December rate increase would not restore the market’s faith in the Fed to where it was a year ago. The Fed would need to do more, just as other central banks that raised rates away from zero prematurely found themselves subsequently cutting rates to levels below where they had stood before. Likewise, the Bank of Japan’s sudden pivot to negative rates raises the possibility that the central bank doesn’t actually know what it is doing.
Faith in central banks is of critical importance now because conventional policy is exhausted. To provide additional monetary stimulus, central banks can only turn to negative rates, to quantitative easing, or to jawboning of markets. It seems to me that, as a result of central-bank missteps, markets are losing confidence that central banks know what they’re doing, and are losing confidence that central banks are prepared to do what it takes to convince sceptical investors otherwise. Unless and until there are adequate demonstrations, it is possible this market panic will continue.
What is especially worrying is that not too much needs to go wrong in the real economy for things to begin breaking …
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2016/02/markets-lose-faith
Fed officials hawkish abt Dec rate rise
In Economy on 17/11/2015 at 1:34 pm
SEVERAL FED OFFICIALS READY TO RAISE RATES Federal Reserve officials are turning from the question of whether to act to how quickly to raise rates afterward, Binyamin Appelbaum reports in The New York Times.
William C. Dudley, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, had been hesitant about raising rates, but said on Thursday that there was a stronger case for moving ahead. Stanley Fischer, the Fed’s vice chairman, also suggested there was no reason to keep holding rates down.
Mr. Dudley is an influential adviser to Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, and his shift reflected the tentative consensus among Fed officials that the time has come to raise the benchmark rate.
Investors and analysts now consider an increase in December all but certain. Borrowing costs have already started to rise in anticipation.
Stocks in the United States fell the most in six weeks as investors braced for the expected rate rise. The fall was also driven by a rout in commodities, which put energy and raw-materials providers under pressure.
The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index and the Dow Jones industrial average both slipped 1.4 percent, while the Nasdaq composite index was down 1.2 percent, Bloomberg reports.
Commodity prices tumbled as the stronger dollar and a persistent slump in demand from China dampened a rebound after the summer. Brent crude closed below $45 a barrel on Thursday, while West Texas intermediate slipped below $42 after OPEC warned about the growing oil glut. Copper hit its lowest price since July 2009.
Europe and Asia joined the slide as European equities slipped to three-week low, The Financial Times reports. The FTSE Eurofirst 300 opened 0.3 per cent lower after the Shanghai composite dipped 1.4 percent, Australia’s resources-heavy S.&P./ASX 200 index dropped 1.5 percent and the Nikkei 225 slipped 0.5 percent.
Ms. Yellen has said that she expected to raise rates by about one percentage point a year, but forecasts submitted by Fed officials indicate a divergence in predictions for the benchmark rate at the end of 2016 varying from -0.1 percent to 2.9 percent.
Charles L. Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said he was focused on pressing for rates to rise slowly, while Jeffrey M. Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, said he would prefer a slightly rapider rate of increase than one percentage point a year.
Federal Reserve, interest rates
Tighten yr belts mortgagors
In Economy, Financial competency on 05/11/2015 at 1:20 pm
Enjoy Deepavali but be prepared to suffer during Christmas, New Year and CNY. Interest rates are likely to go up.
Just over a week ago when I wrote this, interest rate futures implied less than a 3o% chance of a tise by the Fed in December (markets didn’t think the Fed would raise), whereas the odds were close to even (could go either way) yesterday morning our time. Then in NY time, interest rate futures moved to price in a 58% possibility of rate “lift-off” occurring in December, up from 50% earlier in the day. Chairman of Fed said December would be a “live possibility” for a rate rise if incoming data supported that expectation.
Fed is the real hegemon/ How Chinese problems impact the US
In China on 21/09/2015 at 1:07 pm
Officials in China and Indonesia criticised the Fed for keeping the world guessing about its next move after it delayed raising rates.
Fed juz showing China that it’s the world’s hegemon just before Xi visits the US:
NYT Dealbook reported that the Fed stressed that it needs a little more reassurance from the United States economy and “What we can’t know for sure is how much concerns about the global economic outlook are drivers of those developments,”
Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, took care to point out that the Fed was not just responding to a few rough weeks for the stock market, Neil Irwin writes in The Upshot. It needs a little more reassurance from the United States economy. “What we can’t know for sure is how much concerns about the global economic outlook are drivers of those developments,” she said.
The challenge now is that 2015 may end without providing answers to the questions that the policy committee has. It can take many months for financial swings to ripple through the economy.
Stanley Fischer, the Fed vice chairman, said last month that if the Fed waits until it is absolutely certain it is time to raise rates, it will probably be too late. Fed officials will still have to make a decision based on their own forecasts, rather than hard evidence.
This is also from NYT Dealbook (some time) back explaining why problems in China affect the US.
FAULT LINES REACH THE U.S. ECONOMYAs investors scramble to make sense of these swings, financial experts said there have been signs of an equity crisis for more than a year now, Landon Thomas Jr. reports in DealBook. They argue that the United States would only be able to avoid for so long the deflationary forces that have taken root in China.
More and more analysts now see the problems in China and other markets as a real threat to the United States economy. The fears about the economy have some investors betting that the Federal Reserve will not raise rates this year, though that may well be premature, as Binyamin Appelbaum reports.
“The global G.D.P. pie is shrinking,” said Raoul Pal, who produces a monthly financial report catered to hedge funds and other sophisticated investors. The most crucial indicator, in his view, has been the surge of the dollar against emerging market currencies.
Historically, the party has ended when the dollar takes off against emerging market currencies, as it did in Latin American in the 1980s and Southeast Asia in the 1990s. Suddenly, loans in relatively cheap dollars that financed real estate and consumption booms were no longer available and theultimate result was always a growth slowdown.
Through the year ending on Aug. 19, some of the worst-performing investments in dollar terms were Brazilian equities, Russian bonds, Indonesian equities, and Turkish equities.
During the same period, United States equities returned 8.7 percent – the fourth best return delivered by any major class of assets. In effect,investors in the United States miscalculated, thinking that what happened in Russia, Turkey and Indonesia need not have any effect on stocks of companies based in the United States. The slowdown in China was driving weakness in these countries, as it bought less steel from Brazil, less mineral fuel and oil from Indonesia.
Albert Edwards, a strategist at Société Générale in London, said the government’s naked support of the stock market bubble was a clear sign for him. “One you encourage an equity bubble, it will collapse – and then you are really in trouble,” Mr. Edwards said. “This is utter madness.”
For Jeffrey Sherman, a portfolio manager at the bond investment firm DoubleLine, the correction in the high-yield corporate bond market was an alarm bell. In summer 2014, as stocks of United States companies continued to push upward, the yields on risky corporations started to spike. The fact that these bonds were entering their own bear market should have been seen by equity investors as a warning sign, Mr. Sherman said.
David A. Stockman, a former budget director under Ronald Reagan, has spent the last three years closely examining the excesses of the Chinese investment boom and warning of their consequences. He points out that in the late 1990s, China had the capacity to manufacture 100 million tons of steel. That figure today is 1.1 billion tons – almost twice the amount of annual demand for steel in China.
This steelmaking boom sent the price for iron ore shooting up. Like all commodity prices, it has fallen sharply, a correction that creates problems for iron ore-producing countries like Australia, which made huge investments to keep supplying these raw materials to China.
The bottom line though, is that investors in American stocks recognized too late in the game that a global contraction was sneaking up on them, Mr. Thomas writes.
Keep keep on worrying
In Currencies, Economy on 18/09/2015 at 1:28 pm
So the Fed didn’t raise rates: Rather than looking simply at the domestic economy, the Fed is now taking notice of global developments. But that makes it harder for investors to assess which data to monitor and when the Fed will consider the global backdrop has improved. Further volatility is probably ahead.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2015/09/markets-and-economics
The good news for mortgagees is that a weaker US$ against S$ may ease the pressure on interest rates. But don’t count on interest rates coming off significantly fast or soon. The trend for SIBOR etc is still upwards.
A hike is still on the table before the end of the year. Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen said that was still the majority view of the Federal Open Market Committee members – the group responsible for setting US interest rates.
Will mortgagees be repenting? Property prices will fall further
In Economy, Property on 17/09/2015 at 4:55 am
On Monday SIBOR rate was up to 1.131%, a seven yr high, up 5.3% up on the week before abd 147% since 2 January before.
Rising borrowing costs and a weaker currency bode ill for Singapore’s home prices amid their longest slide in more than a decade.
The three-month Singapore interbank offered rate has more than doubled in a year to the highest since 2008. The main benchmark for housing loans is seen rising further as it narrows the gap with the swap offer rate, a measure of borrowing costs influenced mainly by exchange-rate expectations. The spread reached the widest since 2009 as the Singapore dollar slumped 6.3 percent this year.
“If the Sibor catches up with the SOR in the next three to six months, that premium may be eroded and we will get further softening in property prices,” said Vishnu Varathan, a Singapore-based economist at Mizuho Bank Ltd. “Buyers are going to factor in rate increases, so a further price correction is difficult to avoid.”
House prices may drop as much as 5 percent this year, set for the biggest decline since 2001, according to brokerage Knight Frank LLP. Developers are already grappling with falling values and lower sales after the government began introducing curbs on residential transactions as low rates and demand from foreigners prompted concerns that the property market was overheating.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-08/no-end-in-sight-for-slide-in-singapore-home-prices-as-rates-rise (Note the Bloomberg report was last week but the analysis for property prices and interest rates still stands.
SOR which is used for commerial property loans was up to 1,561% also the highest since lat 2008; 108% up since 2 Jan 2008.
Pricier money could also be bad both for indebted companies, Reits (they are leveraged more than the average cat, and stocks in general.
And this is all because there’s a 28% chance the Fed will raise rates later today.
So if the Fed raises rates there could be serious problems as a probability becomes a fact:
Even if the Fed has been shouting to the world that rates will rise soon, it cannot be certain that evasive prophylactic action has been taken from Brazil, to Turkey, South Africa and Malaysia. Accidents will happen on the fateful day that the target for Fed Funds rate is lifted, if only by a smidgeon.
And there is no market oracle who can be wholly confident these accidents will be small whoopsies rather than clanging calamities.
One more thing – psychology matters.
As Haldane of the Bank of England has pointed out, we all still bear the emotional scars of the 2008 financial and economic catastrophe.
Who knows quite how anxious we will feel when confronted with the harsh reality that interest rates can rise as well as fall?
Why these fears of accidents, psychological damage?
.. a huge amount of cheap credit poured into economies all over the world. It has fuelled investment by businesses. It has been used to buy properties and shares. And it has spurred growth and significant – perhaps excessive – rises in the price of assets.
And of this $9.6tn, more than $3tn had been borrowed by companies and other institutions in emerging economies.
So here is the vice squeezing the half of the global economy represented by emerging economies.
On the one hand, the fall in commodity prices and the slowdown in China is undermining their growth. On the other, the cost of servicing their dollar-denominated debts is rising, because the dollar is strengthening on the expectation that interest rates will rise.
And more than that, the tap of cheap dollar funding is gradually being turned off, which means that the flow of money to these economies has been cut – and by more than just the value of reduced dollar lending, because dollar loans often sit on balance sheets and in banks, and are used to make additional local-currency loans.
But even if the Fed doesn’t raise rates, interest rates will trend higher because the Fed wants to raise rates. Come Nov, Dec, we will have the same uncertainity. Best if it raises rates, and tells us that it’s all over for the time being?
Note this post has been edited since first posting.
Why a Fed rate hike tom is so feared
In Currencies, Economy, ETFs on 16/09/2015 at 10:27 am
The rise in inter-bank rates (which impacts mortgage rates) here is part of the chain effect of fear of a Fed hike. The mkt believes that there is a 28% chance that the Fed rate will go up i.e, 70%8 believes it won’t be raised tom. So if it goes up and markets tank read this
Why financial markets are nervous about Fed’s decision tom (from NYT Dealbook).
INVESTORS HOPE FOR SMALL RIPPLES AHEAD OF FED RATE DECISION On Thursday, the Federal Reserve could increase interest rates for the first time in more than nine years. It may still hold after a violent downturn in global stock markets last month, but this moment has long been dreaded on Wall Street, and investors are hoping it won’t unleash too much turmoil, Peter Eavis writes in DealBook.
History shows that booms financed with cheap money often leave the financial system weaker, not stronger, and the fault lines become obvious when the Fed starts to tighten monetary policy.
In theory, a small increase in interest rates should not be enough to wreak havoc, but some analysts have a darker view of the weak links in the system. They say financial markets have funneled trillions of dollars intoinvestments that will prove unsustainable when interest rates go up.
And the signs of excess are everywhere. Technology companies have been able to raise huge sums even before they tap into the public markets. Debt markets have appeared overly eager to lend. Low interest rates mean investors more willing to buy stocks at historically high valuations and companies are able to borrow money cheaply to buy back their own shares and bolster earnings.
Doomsayers think these activities have continued for so long that companies are more vulnerable to a slight increase in interest rates.
However, even gloomier analysts have predicted a great reckoning for years and it has not yet happened, Mr. Eavis notes. The new restraints on Wall Street and the housing market have so far prevented a resurgence in the toxic real estate lending that occurred a decade ago.
Corporations’ borrowing costs are no cheaper when accounting for inflation. Since the end of 2008, the average, inflation-adjusted yield on corporate bonds of moderate credit risk has been 4.1 percent, compared with 3.94 percent for most of the postwar period.
The Fed’s policies also appear to have prompted a surge in lending that is more stable than the securities markets under higher interest rates. Buybacks are not certain to become less attractive, but if they do, it might prompt executives to invest spare capital in operations in an effort to increase productivity.
Yet fears about the markets themselves remain. High-frequency trading has ballooned over the last decade. Firms using automated trading account for about half of all trades in the market for Treasury Securities. Exchange-traded funds are a major force in the stock market.
E.T.F.s, whose shares are supposed to be closely tied to the value of their underlying assets, have created concerns recently. On Aug. 24, shares in some funds briefly fell to prices well below the value that they would have commanded had they stayed in line with the fund’s underlying holdings. An investor selling at that discount might take an unnecessary loss.
If heavy selling is widespread across many markets, the smooth functioning of these products and markets may be tested.
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Posted on 09/11/2010 03:04
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A NEW STUDY FINDS THAT HEAVY DRINKERS OUTLIVE TEETOTALERS AND MODERATE DRINKERS LIVE LONGEST OF ALL.
One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as tee-totalers in such research are actually former hard-core drunks who had already incurred health problems associated with drinking.
But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism:Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that for reasons that aren't entirely clear, abstaining from alcohol does tend to shorten life expectancy, even when former problem drinkers are accounted for. The most shocking finding: teetotalers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.
Moderate drinking, which is defined as one to three drinks per day, is associated in alcohol studies with the lowest mortality rates. Moderate alcohol use is thought to improve heart health, circulation and sociability, which can be important because people who are isolated don't have contact with as many family members and friends who can notice and help get treatment for health problems.
But why would abstaining from alcohol lead to a shorter life? The authors of the paper note that those who abstain from alcohol tend to be from lower socioeconomic classes and less able to afford the expense of drinking. And people of lower socioeconomic status have more life stressors -- job and childcare worries that might not only keep them from the bottle but also over long periods lead to stress-related illnesses. (And they don't get the stress-reducing benefits of a drink or two after work.)
But even after controlling for nearly all imaginable variable--existing health problems, socioeconomic stat¨s, level of physical activity, number of close friends, quality of social support and so on--the researchers, a six-member team led by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin, found that over a 20-year period, mortality rates were highest for those who were not current drinkers, regardless of whether they used to be alcoholics, second highestt for heavy drinkers and lowest for moderated drinkers.
The 1824 participants ranged fro 55 to 65 at the beginning of the study. (One drawback of the sample: a disproportionate number, 3%, were men.) Just over 69% of the teetotalers dies during the 20 years, 60% of the heavy drinkers did, and only 41% of the moderated drinkers.
These are remarkable statistics. Even though heavy drinking is associated with a higher rist for cirrhosis and several types of cancer, particularly of the mouth and esophagus, heavy drinkers are likely to live longer that those who don't drink. And important reason is that for heavy drinkers as well as moderate ones, alcohol lubricates many social interactions, which are vital for maintaining physical and metal health. People who don't drink show greater signs of depression that those who allow themselves to join the party.
The authors of the new paper are careful to note that even though drinking is associated with longer life, it can be dangerous: it can severely impair your memory and lead to nonlethal falls and other painful mishaps. There's also the dependency issue: becoming addicted to alcohol can screw up your marriage and many other aspects of your life.
That said, the new study provides the strongest evidence yet that moderate drinking is not only fun but good for you! Cheers!
"Edited because it is mandatory for a piece this large."
"And the article also supports my avatar! And signature line!"
"And it probably gives an indication of my current state of sobriety, also."
Umm, is it too late to retract that last sentence??? . . . Rats!
Edited by derF on 09/11/2010 03:20
I'll drink to that. Or anything else for that matter.
I need to drink more.
"The world is my country, and do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine
Wow, I really had the wrong idea about the topic of this thread.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
Theory_Execution
Alcohol really messes with memory I totally agree there.
And I can see how the increased social interaction and relaxing effects of alcohol can make people happier.
And theyre not wrong there, alcohol does ruin the memory.
I forgot what the thread's topic was.
I'm convinced. I'll drink to all of it.
That's why I like to have a drink of wine every so often. And I really don't trust people who don't drink, with one exception: An ex-coworker of mine whose father was a really bad alcoholic.
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Navy denies Red Sox prospect's request to delay service time so he could play baseball
Yahoo Sports 17 December 2019
The Boston Red Sox may lose one of their most promising young pitchers for the next two seasons. Prospect Noah Song attempted to obtain a waiver that would allow him to delay his military service time so he could pursue a career in baseball. The Navy denied that request, according to Bill Wagner of the Capital Gazette.
If that ruling holds, the 22-year-old Song will spend the next two years in active service. Song is planning to report to flight school in Pensacola and will not be able to re-apply for a waiver until those two years are up.
Song had hoped to delay that service after President Trump pushed the Department of Defense to create new guidelines that would allow athletes at military academies to play professionally after they graduate.
Trump argued that athletes only have a limited amount of time “during which playing professional sports is realistically possible.” Under the new guidelines, military athletes would either have to eventually fulfill their active service obligations in the future, or pay back the cost of their education, according to the Gazette.
Those new guidelines, however, did not apply to Song. They were set to go into effect for the class of 2020. Song graduated in 2019. Song hoped he could convince the Navy to retroactively apply that waiver to his situation, but that strategy did not work.
The Red Sox selected Song in the fourth round of the 2019 MLB draft. In his brief taste of professional baseball, Song posted a 1.06 ERA in 17 innings in Short-Season A ball.
While Song is planning to report to flight school in January, there’s a chance the ruling could be overturned, according to Alex Speier of the Boston Globe.
I’ve heard from elsewhere that the Secretary of the Navy and then Secretary of Defense *could* still review Song’s case and decide to grant a petition to treat Song like those students covered by the new policy.
— Alex Speier (@alexspeier) December 17, 2019
Should Song return to the Red Sox in 2020, he would likely be placed in the lower levels of the minors. Song ranks as the team’s No. 15 prospect according to MLB.com.
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Abducted mother finds new hope in Finland, but yearns to unite with children
Via WN
Nakout sits at a kitchen table in Finland, pen in hand, pondering what to write to the daughter she has not seen for more than 15 years. Her phone is beside her, to help check spelling. Her daughter and two sons are in Uganda, 7,000 kilometres away.
“Hello my lovely only daughter,” she writes in well-spaced blue pen. “Be strong, mummy loves you so much. You have to talk to mummy, please.”
Nakout once lived with her husband Akollo and three young children on the outskirts of Soroti, a small, quiet town in eastern Uganda.
Akollo built their home out of mud and sticks, with a corrugated iron roof. They would argue about football or the usual household things, but life was good.
When she had spare money, Nakout would don her prized Arsenal soccer jersey and head to the local bar to watch a match with other fans over a few beers.
Then life changed - forever.
One night in October 2003, at around midnight, the front door of their small house was suddenly kicked in by armed men from one of Africa’s most brutal rebel groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
The soldiers bound Akollo’s arms behind his back. They then executed him with a machete.
Nakout’s baby daughter, Ruth, was wrenched from her back and thrown against their house. Her two sons, Baker and Joseph, hid under the bed.
Nakout was marched off into the darkness. Life stopped.
Joseph Kony founded the LRA in 1986 with the professed goal of governing Uganda according to his version of the Bible’s Ten Commandments.
In reality, the group was little more than a group bunch of marauding bandits with a creative taste for cruelty and a reputation for abducting tens of thousands of children.
Nakout spent the next dozen years as a sex slave, roaming the remote borderlands of central Africa.
Unable to contact her family, Nakout she discovered that the only way to survive the sexual abuse and long marches was to take leave of her emotions, to put them on ice, and abandon the thought of ever seeing her children again.
On several occasions she was forced to take part in occult ceremonies, a central part of Kony’s gruesome brand of mysticism.
If Had she had refused, she would have been killed. Ultra-violence, sexual abuse, assault and death became a part of everyday life.
During her enslavement, she witnessed brutal attacks on LRA victims and became HIV positive[CR3] .
She herself became a favourite play thing of Kony, the group’s enigmatic leader, eventually bearing him a child. He named the child Joseph Kony, like the dozens of other boys sired by him. Soon after his birth, her son was taken away. She never saw him again.
“I was taken when you were seven months old,” Nakout wrote to her daughter. “Captured in the bush for 12 years, I managed to escape to Europe and am now safe, living in Finland.”
Having secured residency in April, Nakout has just moved into her very own apartment in Vaasa, a small city on the west coast of Finland. She’s bought a pair of sofas and a bed.
After so long on the move, she’s settling in and making friends.
Vaasa is home to hundreds of people who have fled the wars and conflicts raging across[CR4] east and central Africa over the last few decades.
Just a mile up the road is a Lutheran Church where Father Stephanos, a refugee from the Nuba mountains in Sudan, leads a weekly service e. Every Sunday, where Nakout sings and sways with [CR5] the congregation.
Opposite the church is a community centre where Nakout she teaches English to a handful of female refugees, revealing her newfound strength and assertiveness.
“Practice, don’t be shy. There is nobody who is perfect here,” she chides her pupils affectionately. Afterwards they share cake and coffee, served with giggles.
Most mornings she takes a long jog through the silver birch woods and joins friends for frisbee golf, or disc golf as it is also called, a popular game in Finland during the long summer evenings.
“They always beat me because I’m still new in the game, but I’ll not give up. I promise them that next summer I’ll be the one to beat them,” she said strolling through the arboretum after one game. “I don’t give up, I will never, never. I never give up, no matter what.”
Her life is finally stable and her health is improving. But her journey is far from over.
Not long after she arrived in Europe, Nakout was able to make contact with her sons, Ruth’s older brothers.
They were incredulous. They wouldn’t believe it until they could see their mother in the flesh.
Following the initial shock, Baker and Joseph have begun the process of rebuilding a family over the telephone. Speaking to them once a week is both cathartic and painful.
Every conversation that strengthens trust also exposes Nakout’s anguish at feeling that she failed her children. She suffers from victim’s survivor’s [CR6] guilt and shares their sense of abandonment.
“I know you have been through a lot in life…. I have not been a good mother to you all, my children,” she writes carefully on the thick pink card. “I didn’t want it like that, but I promise we will meet again.”
Nakout is writing a letter because her daughter still refuses to pick up the phone.
For Ruth, her mother died fifteen years ago. This woman who emerged from the jungles of central Africa is somebody else. In some way, she is right. The old Nakout has gone.
But Nakout hopes the letter will begin to explain where she has been, a catalyst that might allow Ruth to understand, and perhaps forgive and finally lead to reconciliation.
“I promise we shall meet again,” she writes. “Mummy is still alive.”
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INSIDER named Finland the best place to visit in 2019. The Scandinavian country is full of great food, next-level accommodations and breathtaking nature, so consider adding it to your bucket list this year. Traditional foods include reindeer meat and juicy cloudberries. Stay in glass igloos to expe
Don\'t move to Finland! While Finland is a great country, it not mean for everyone and that\'s why I will introduce you 8 reasons, why moving to Finland is not a great idea. Think these as things you need to carefully think and assess before making any decisions. Sources mentioned in the video: http
Helsinki is one of the coolest little capitals of Europe, and we wasted no time in exploring it\'s best bits. From mixology bars to farm-to-table food and \"upcycled\" fashion, we show you what makes Helsinki so hip. VAGABROTHERS: We\'re Alex and Marko Ayling, brothers, vagabonds, and vloggers on a mi
Finland has been declared the happiest country in the world for the second year in a row. On Wednesday, the United Nations released its annual World Happiness Report and confirmed the Nordic country as the reigning champion of joy. But in many ways, the land of frigid temperatures and dark winter d
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We have arrived in Finland for the very first time and we are so excited to kick start our winter Christmas European getaway with 48 hours right here in Helsinki! Day 1 of Jess epic European Christmas she has dreamt of as a kid begins with hot chocolates, roasting sausages by the fire in a red trad
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Our Young Artists experience programming through ArtWorks that humanize their healthcare experience.
ArtWorks Cocktail Benefit 2018
This past fall, more than 150 of our friends came together to raise $150,000 so that we can bring arts programming to children and young adults facing illness. We were humbled by the generosity and dedication of our supporters and look forward to changing lives in 2019.
Express Yourself 2018!
Thank you to everyone who attended Express Yourself 2018 this past Sunday and made it a roaring success! Over 100 artworks were exhibited in our gallery and the performance showcase featured 15 performances each with distinct meaning and emotion. It was an honor to celebrate the amazing talent and spirit of all the Young Artists and over 150 guests!
Sneak Peek of Express Yourself 2018!
A preview of all the fabulous pieces that made their way to the NYU Kimmel Center for Express Yourself 2018, our 29th Express Yourself event!
Carrie at Express Yourself 2017!
Carrie has been performing at Express Yourself since 2011! This essay was written by Carrie and she chose to recite it at Express Yourself because she wanted to share her experience with a friendship “Roller Coaster.”
Stefanie at Express Yourself 2017!
This was Stefanie’s first Express Yourself performance and she sang with ArtWorks Teaching Artist, Gwenevere Sisco. Together, they performed a crowd favorite, “Over The Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz.
Julio at Express Yourself 2017!
Julio is the sibling of ArtWorks Young Artist, Melysa. He has been involved with ArtWorks since 2010! Julio performed “No Promises” by Cheat Codes feat. Demi Lovato!
We had a blast! Thank you so much to everyone who came to Express Yourself and made our 28th event such a success! We had over 150 paintings hanging on our gallery walls, over 10 uniquely designed sculptures and more than 10 performances taking the stage! We celebrated the amazing talent and spirit of all our Young Artists along side 250 guests! Express Yourself would not be possible without all of our generous framers who donated their resources and time into each piece of artwork. We would also like to thank all of our fantastic volunteers who spent their days making sure our event ran smoothly! We are so incredibly grateful to everyone who made it all possible!
What is Express Yourself?
Express Yourself is a visual and performing arts exhibition inviting our Young Artists to take part in a program of awe-inspiring performances and a gallery exhibition! By working with ArtWorks Teaching Artists as well as hospital staff including Child Life Specialists, our participants prepare months in advance for this celebratory day.
ArchForKids at Express Yourself 2017!
We were so excited to have the workshop, Build A Village, led by ArchForKids at Express Yourself 2017! ArchForKids provides young people with dynamic, hands-on learning experiences grounded in architecture, engineering, urban planning and design.
Express Yourself 2017 Preview!
We are pleased to invite you to attend ArtWorks’ 28th Express Yourself Show! Our Young Artists facing chronic and life-limiting illness and their families, will take part in a gallery exhibition and awe-inspiring performances on Sunday, Nov 12, 2017! We can’t wait for all of our New York and New Jersey Young Artists to come together for Express Yourself 2017! Here is a quick preview of some of the pieces that will be featured in our gallery showcase!
Beatboxing and Graffiti Workshop at Children's Hospital at Montefiore
On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 our Young Artists, along with the Made Visible Foundation and our Teaching Artists Soul Inscribed, had a day that was full of beat-boxing and graffiti art-making fun at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. Videographer: Sammy Levine
About ArtWorks 2017
The mission of ArtWorks, The Naomi Cohain Foundation is to improve the healthcare experience of pediatric patients by providing programs in the creative and performing arts. ArtWorks provides children and young adults facing chronic and life-limiting illnesses, and their families, access to empowering and expressive art programs!
Express Yourself is a visual and performing arts exhibition inviting our Young Artists to take part in a program of awe-inspiring performances and a gallery exhibition! By working with ArtWorks Teaching Artists as well as hospital staff including Child Life Specialists,, our participants prepare months in advance for this celebratory day.
On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 our Young Artists, along with the Made Visible Foundation and our Teaching Artists Soul Inscribed, had a day that was full of beatboxing and graffiti art-making fun at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. Videographer: Sammy Levine.
ArtWorks Annual Art Auction and Benefit 2016
Our Live Art Benefit was a HUGE success! With over 200 guests in attendance, ArtWorks was able to raise over of $140,000! All funds will go towards ArtWorks’ creative and performing arts programs. Thank you to everyone who came out for the evening and joined us for this celebratory night! Videographer: Reiley Wooten.
ArtWorks at Mount Sinai's KZTV Studio!
Mount Sinai’s Child Life’s KidZone TV is a state of the art, interactive production and internal broadcast studio within our children’s hospital. KidZone TV produces live programming three times a day, seven days a week, for pediatric patients and families throughout the medical center on a dedicated channel. ArtWorks will be making regular studio appearances throughout the year, stay tuned!
Express Yourself 2017
We had a blast! Thank you so much to everyone who came to Express Yourself and made our 28th event such a success! We had over 150 paintings hanging on our gallery walls, over 10 uniquely designed sculptures and more than 10 performances taking the stage! We celebrated the amazing talent and spirit of all our Young Artists along side 250 guests!
Express Yourself would not be possible without all of our generous framers who donated their resources and time into each piece of artwork. We would also like to thank all of our fantastic volunteers who spent their days making sure our event ran smoothly! We are so incredibly grateful to everyone who made it all possible!
Express Yourself New York 2016
Express Yourself-New York is a visual and performing arts exhibition inviting our Young Artists to take part in a program of awe-inspiring performances and a gallery exhibition!
Express Yourself New York 2016 Trailer
Express Yourself New York is a visual and performing arts exhibition inviting our Young Artists to take part in a program of awe-inspiring performances and a gallery exhibition! Here is a snippet of last year’s show!
Beyond Medicine- docyourstory
This is a clip from “Beyond Medicine” a documentary produced by docyourstory. This highlights the Child Life field and the impact on pediatric patients who face chronic and life-limiting illness. Dr. Michael Harris of Hackensack University Medical Center is an important contributing member to the creation of ArtWorks and a strong supporter of Child Life since the beginning.
Henry Viscardi School Assembly 2016
An inspiring day for both ArtWorks and the students at the Henry Viscardi School as ArtWorks Teaching Artists Baba, Yako, and Duv of Soul Inscribed led an incredible workshop in beat-boxing and graffiti art!
The Laser Painting Program
Here is an introductory video of ArtWorks Art Facilitator, Deborah Dawson and the Laser Painting Program!
About ArtWorks
This video is an overview of the non-profit organization ArtWorks. ArtWorks provides children and young adults suffering from chronic and life-limiting illness, and their siblings, access to creative and performing arts programs that encourage the use of the creative process as a vehicle for healing, communication, self-expression, and personal development. ArtWorks seeks to empower, validate and honor these children by offering them the hands-on experience and materials with which to create, as well as the opportunity to publicly share their artistic accomplishments.
ArtWorks Foundation on CNN
The Glenn Beck Show on CNN Headlines profiles ArtWorks, The Naomi Cohain Foundation. ArtWorks provides children and young adults with chronic and life-limiting illness with the tools and forum for creative artistic expression.
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Augments may apply at the upper tiers of guild progression.[1]
This applies to guilds that have opted for the non-expansive member route.[1]
It benefits guild members with a classification of officer or knight.[1]
Guild size can be traded off for guild progression.[1][4]
The higher the guild's member cap, the fewer available skill options will be available to that guild.[5]
Guild alliances may be a key part in creating a larger "guild".[4]
As you're leveling up the guild and you're getting these points to either allocate towards expanding the guilds member count or allocate towards adding certain passive abilities that your guild members can gain by being guild members. You're also going to see as you're leveling up the guild through different type of quest-based, participation-based, node-based, organization-based systems and ways that those quests hook into the world. You're also going to see perhaps some augment abilities at the upper tiers of the guild levels become unlocked for certain members that have a classification of officer or knight, will have access to those different types of augment abilities that might get unlocked should you go down the non expansive member lane; and the idea there is to offer these benefits to smaller groups.[1] – Steven Sharif
It's not always going to be combat. You could have an economic focus guild. You could have a trade oriented guild; and there's all sorts of things that you can kind of put together and kind of give your guild its own identity.[1] – Jeffrey Bard
1 Guild size
2 Guild formation
3 Guild membership
4 Patron guilds
5 Guild reputation
6 Guild alliances
6.1 Affiliations
7 Guild benefits
8 Guild housing
9 Guild halls
9.1 Benefits
10 Guild castles
10.1 Benefits
10.2 Castle sieges
10.2.1 Alpha-1
11 Guild fortresses
12 Guild wars
12.1 Guild war mechanics
13 Zergs
14 Leadership tools
14.1 Guild emblems
15 Crowdfunding guild rewards
16 Sharemarkets
Guild size
Guild size of 300 is currently the maximum cap that can be attained by leveling the guild and selecting the path of size as opposed to the path of guild skills.[5]
The maximum size for a guild that chooses all available skill options will be between 30 and 50.[6]
Q: What’s the minimum guild size to really have a meaningful impact on the realm?
A: This is a tough question to answer. Single individuals can have a large impact on the realm without guild support, in the form of mayorships, Artisanship, economic opportunities, etc. We’re also balancing guilds through guild levels, where guilds must choose between size and effectiveness - smaller guilds will have an opportunity to get a leg up through abilities that larger guilds can’t afford to take. At the end of the day, having clear goals and organizational structure will likely matter more than raw numbers.[7] – Sarah Flanagan
There are mechanics that are geared towards larger and smaller guilds.[4]
Larger guilds can siege fortresses.[4]
Larger guilds won’t have access to power boosting guild ability slots.[4]
Small groups can do some things better than larger groups.[4]
Sieges will have things that smaller groups have an advantage in.[4]
It's important to note that the 300 is the maximum cap that is attained by leveling the guild and selecting the path of size as opposed to the path of guild skills. So the larger you choose to allow for members to join your guild, increasing that member cap, the less focused and honed the available skill options will be from a guild level up perspective for guild members. So the way that kind of works is it plays as a balance/counterbalance to larger guilds versus smaller more honed and focused guilds. It kind of gives them an equitable edge of participation.[5] – Steven Sharif
If you have more objective based combat that revolves around high mobility and agility strong focus, organization I would expect the smaller guild to outperform the larger guild with regards to that. If you're speaking purely a numbers game and they're meeting on the field then I would expect the larger guild to perform in that. The balance comes in our play scenarios. Do we offer solely a field based combat system where you show up with the numbers you have in which case you lean heavily towards zergs or do you implement designs that feature both components of objective based combat that involves organizational rule as opposed to just having that field presence; and we intend to offer both.[5] – Steven Sharif
There are absolutely guilds out there that have a large following and good organizational leadership and can structure their raids well; and I think those will be the most performing in the game obviously; and that's where then guild sizes come to play you know creating the opportunity for division in the game to allow for you know this subterfuge to play a role and politics and stuff like that. But our focus is making a place for smaller guilds to be competitive with larger guilds as well.[8] – Steven Sharif
Guild formation
There are prerequisites for guild formation.[9]
Minimum member count of around five individuals.[9]
Material and currency cost.[9]
Completing a quest line.[9]
Minimum level requirement.[9]
Players may be able to form guilds in starting areas if minimum requirements are met.[10]
Guild membership
A character may only be a member of a single guild.[11]
Alts on the same account can join different guilds.
Intrigue, espionage and intelligence gathering is a legitimate aspect of the game.
A guild may only have a single guild leader.[12]
Transfer of guild leadership is possible, but mechanics on transferring leadership if a guild leader has abandoned the guild have not been finalized.[13]
Guild masters can issue payouts to guild members.[14]
Patron guilds
Whether an organization is the patron of their node means it contributes the most amount of work to the node from its members.[15]
Any number of guilds can be in a node, but the number of patron guilds within a node is limited by node stage.[16]
Villages and lower do not have patron guilds.[16]
Towns can have up to 1 patron guild.[16]
Cities can have up to 2 patron guilds.[16]
Metropolises can have up to 3 patron guilds.[16]
Guild reputation
Guilds may be able to allocate points to increase their reputation with the node that houses their guild hall. This will affect:[17]
NPCs.[17]
Quests.[17]
Merchant services.[17]
Another thing we were talking about I remember early on with regards to guilds is not just that but also having a reputation score; and being able to allocate points to increase that reputation perhaps with a specific node that you may have your guild hall in; and that reputation will interact with the way that NPCs interact with you. It might interact with the way that quests are given in that particular node or merchant services that are present.[17] – Steven Sharif
Guild alliances
Guild leaders can create an alliance at a certain level by completing a quest.[18]
Once created, the leader can invite up to three other guilds to this alliance.[18]
There is no member cap in an alliance, only a maximum of four guilds.[18]
Guild leaders will be able to pool resources into a guild alliance bank.[19]
There will be alliance specific quest lines.[19][20]
Alliance members will share a common chat channel.[19][20]
Alliances will have affiliations and gear that can be attained.[19]
Guilds may enter into trade agreements.[20]
You can only invite a number of guilds to the alliance before you must form a new alliance; and then those alliance can have a de facto friendship but they won't have any game component of connection. What the alliance system would allow is pooling of resources into by guild leaders into an alliance guild alliance bank. Will allow certain participation in different quest lines. It will allow common area chat for members and it will allow affiliations and gear that can be attained as well.[19] – Steven Sharif
We have a specific system that relates to being able to invite another guild into an alliance that sets a flag on those characters with regards to being able to combat them, being able to share a chat system with them, being able to participate in specific types of quests and/or alliance warehouses and guild homes; with regards to the relationship of castle sieges and participating in node warfare and node activities. If you're not in an alliance with someone, you're in a neutral state so to speak. You can have trade agreements between different guilds and then you can also have Guild Wars which shows a state of war between you guys. I think that's the baseline of how we're going to develop interaction between guilds.[20] – Steven Sharif
Due to the lack of fast travel, guilds will need to plan to have people in the right place at the right time. Alliances with other guilds will help enable that.[4]
There's going to be some mechanics at play that could have even Alliance Wars so to speak: A war between guilds and a war between alliances maybe. When we delve into the blog about Guild Wars we're going to talk about alliances.[21] – Steven Sharif
Ashes of Creation may have specific content that revolves around Alliances.[22]
Progression pathways within alliances.[22]
Guilds sharing common services with alliance members.[22]
Alliances can toggle relationships with nodes.[22]
Content that revolves around alliances specifically and progression within the development of that alliance; and the ability to share some common services between guilds that are part of that alliance. I think that additionally allowing alliances to toggle certain relationships with nodes as an interaction is beneficial. That's going to provide an interesting dynamic for players who are either members of the particular node that has the relationship established or members of the Alliance. So I think that obviously building systems is is about creating the channels by which these players can form bonds and the more layers you have around those you know channels of bonding between the different guilds or players, the more sustainable that relationship.[22] – Steven Sharif
An affiliation tree is under development that determines which entities can participate in attacks against other entities within its hierarchy.[23]
Alliances.[23]
Citizenship.[23]
Guilds.[23]
Parties.[23]
Raids.[23]
Religion.[23]
Society.[23]
There is guild affiliation, there's party affiliation, there's a raid affiliation, alliance affiliation, there's a citizenship affiliation, there's society affiliation, there's religious affiliation. All of these things have some hierarchy; and within that hierarchy there's the ability to participate within certain systems. So for example, if you have a node that has fallen under your vassal state and you're a citizen of the parent node, then you could participate in a siege against the vassal node but if you're a citizen of the vassal node you could not participate as an attacker against the parent node; so there's a hierarchy, unless you were to renounce your citizenship.[23] – Steven Sharif
Guild benefits
Guild benefits that are being considered by the developers:[24]
Guild activities.[24]
Passives.[24]
Questlines.[24]
Guild halls.[24]
Guild castles.[24]
Name of guild displayed next to character name.[25]
Guild tabards.[25]
Guild mounts.[25]
Guild coats.[25]
Guild barding.[25]
Guild housing
The term "guild housing" refers to guild buildings and not guild owned player housing.[26]
Guild fortresses
Guild castles
Summer guildhall appearance cosmetic concept art.[27]
Guild halls serve as a focal point for a guild, offering a host of benefits and customization options.[28]
A guild hall only houses a single guild.[29]
Guild halls are objectives in guild wars.[30]
Guild halls may be placed on freeholds.[31]
Guildhalls are the ultimate expression of a guild's power! In Ashes these structures will serve as focal points for a guild, offering any guilds who construct them a whole host of benefits as well as customization options.[28]
Guild halls unlock actions a guild can perform within a node.[32]
Allow guilds to participate in the shareholder system.
With five Castles in the world, and each having been owned by different civilizations from the far-flung past of Verra, you can expect that each Castle has its own character. Different terrains and different layouts will result in each Castle having its own advantages and disadvantages. Just because you have managed to take one Castle will not mean that your strategies will pan out in the next. Commanders will have to take into consideration the lay of the land, time of day, weather, and even seasons into account when forming their battle plans.[33]
These Castles are occupied when players arrive on Verra, and their current inhabitants will have to be removed before any player can claim them. Castles will be dangerous and high-level raid zones until they can be cleared, and the first group of players to do so will gain the Castle as their reward.[33]
Five guild castles exist in Ashes of Creation.[33][34] Castles will initially be occupied by an NPC adversary. These are the primary antagonists in the storyline.[35]
Guilds have a period of time to level up in order to siege these castles.
These castles will be very difficult to take from the NPCs.
Castle nodes around NPC run castles will not be present.
Guild castle concept art.
Guild castles exert influence over nodes within their domain, including:[36]
Levying taxes for the purposes of defense (additional to taxes already imposed by node governments).
Activating events and abilities that progress node citizens.
Unlocking additional types of buildings in nodes.
Most benefits and features of a guild castle will be housed solely to the members of the guild that controls it.[37]
There are levers and dials that are present to both the owners of Castles as well as the elected officials of Nodes that during their administration they have the ability to impact and influence the region around them.[38] – Steven Sharif
Castle Sieges are intended to be massive events with hundreds of people involved in a single Siege. One of the reasons that Ashes of Creation Apocalypse exists is so we can address the challenges in ramping up the number of bodies that we can handle simultaneously. With our latest test hitting over 200 simultaneous players, we’re ready to push that number even further. Our goal is to have the largest organized PVP battles of any MMORPG.[33]
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/File:CastleSiege.mp4
Pre-alpha Castle siege playthrough.[39]
Guilds participate in Castle sieges in an effort to capture and occupy one of the five guild castles in Ashes of Creation.[34]
Sieges occur once a month.[34]
The minimum goal is for 250x250 players to be on a single battlefield. It is hoped that this can be increased to 500x500 over time.[40]
A guild that captures a castle will own that castle for a month before it is sieged again.[35]
In the first three weeks that a guild occupies a castle they will need to level up each of their castle nodes to Village stage through questing.[35]
The fourth week is declaration week, where other guilds have the opportunity to lay down their declaration flag or to sign up as a defender of the castle.[35]
Depending on how well the guild defends the castle nodes results in better defenses for the castle.[41]
Different siege weaponry will grant the attackers the ability to destroy walls, doors and sections of the castle in order to gain access to the inner keep area.[42]
When castles change hands (following a siege), some taxes stay with the castle and some stay with the guild.[43]
There will be benefits to attracting people... even if they're not in your guild or alliance – kind of a feudal like system, where you can attract other players who are just independent of this whole politic. They will have things to do there - benefits to receive - and there will be a reciprocal relationship between who you can attract, what they do for you; and how that benefits you and them.[35] – Steven Sharif
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/File:Castle_Siege_Gameplay,_8_March_2019.mp4
Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle siege gameplay.[44]
Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges tech demonstration.[45]
Alpha-1 castle siege combat.[46]
Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges are an Ashes of Creation Apocalypse testing mode that aims to test castle siege mechanics.[47]
Takes place in and around large destructible castles.[48]
Matches are expected to last thirty to thirty-five minutes. This duration can be modified by control points captured during the match.[49]
There will be 200 players in a match (100 v 100).[50][47]
Invite up to 20 guildmates to a match.[48]
Class kits come into play during the testing of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges.[51]
The ability to host a session and challenge an opponent or guild may be present post-launch of castle siege mode.[52]
The Castle Siege mode is another example of a playable slice of the MMORPG that Apocalypse is providing early testing for. While it’s a somewhat smaller scale experience than the one you’ll have in the MMO, the overall flow of taking and defending a castle will remain similar. There’s some additional systems you’ll see in the final product, like the influence of Nodes over the available defensive emplacements, the crafting and deploying of custom siege weapons, and the summoning of siege monsters. These are all things that we’ll be adding on top of this mode upon our release of Ashes of Creation.[49] – Margaret Krohn
Guild fortresses are siegable guild halls within Ashes of Creation. These are different from nodes and castles.[53]
Guild fortresses are objectives in guild wars.[30]
Guild war features are currently still in the design stage, but the overall goal is for guild wars to be objective-based with great risk for each side.[30]
Guild war objectives are designed to be more fluid than castle siege objectives.[31]
I can't really define exactly what those features are yet because that design stage is still up in the air from a discussion standpoint. There's a lot of different ideas that relates to how those two can come into play, but I will say that in every MMO I've ever played guild wars are very binary. They're very like 'Okay you've declared, you have a number of kills to deaths and the guild war's over, thank you...' My objective to kind of change that dynamic is to include greater risk for the sides to initiate the war and also to make it more objective-based than just a binary kill death ratio; and the fortresses and guild halls come into that type of facilitating that change.[30] – Steven Sharif
Objectives spawn in the world based on the level of the guild war and the assets available to the guilds, whether it be a guild hall or guild fortress.[30] There will be default objectives and then there'll be objectives that relate to the activities that a Guild has participated in.[31]
For example, if a guild has recently become owners of a guild hall on a freehold, objectives might be related to capturing a quest item in or around the guild hall that is only visible to the warring guild. Capturing this objective may require channeling time.[31]
There might be objectives to steal one of the quest items that that the guild may have received from completing a raid.[31]
There may be bounty objectives to kill a particular guild member. The target may have increased damage mitigation and/or health against the warring guild and can call for help.[31]
If you have a guild hall and a certain type of guild war is declared that is maybe a higher stakes kind of war, some of those objectives will be centralized either at your guild hall, at the opponent's guild hall; could be a progression step towards the guild hall. It might be a specific a period of time that accumulates into into a central battle at the guild hall for an objective.[30] – Steven Sharif
Guild war mechanics
Guild war mechanics include.[54]
A war declaration period.[54]
Objective based components.[54]
Victory and surrender conditions.[55]
Guilds may war multiple guilds/alliances at a time.[55]
Guild wars operate outside the PvP flagging system.[55]
We're taking guild politics to a whole new direction in regards to playing those conflicts out.[56] – Steven Sharif
Zergs
For every play, there should be a counterplay. We often see Castle Sieges turn into zerg-fests, which really doesn’t capture the epic, back-and-forth battles we wish to see in Ashes of Creation. One of our key pillars is that Choice Matters[57], and that applies to tactics and strategy as well. A well-formulated battle plan should win out over stat sheets and bodies. Zergs will generally be difficult to pull off, and will be eminently counterable through siege weapons, traps, and other battlefield tricks.[33]
Zergs are empowered by fast-travel. Meaningful travel times are intended to prevent zerg play from being so much of an influence.[4]
Encounters are designed to have meaning in terms of how boss skills and abilities relate to group compositions, tactics and strategies. Zerging is not experiencing content.[58]
Raid and dungeon bosses have specific mechanics that players need to learn and react to. Zergs that are not aware of these mechanics or react to them appropriately will be wiped.
There is a give-and-take for guilds that want to see a larger number of members as opposed to a more focused group that may be a part of an alliance.[59]
We're very cognizant of the fact that we don't want to see zerging be a mechanic that's utilized by guilds to accomplish content or just to steamroll over sieges... There are specific mechanics that we are working on that will be seen through the testing phases that relate to a degree of understanding of certain systems that can't just be overrun with numbers.[59] – Steven Sharif
Mechanics that encourage political intrigue will play a role in destabilizing zergs.[60]
The best way that I found in games I played previously to take down a zerg is to cause drama from within... It's that conflict inside of the politicking that happens in that big organization. If we provide opportunities for division to occur then it also provides stability to keep a server healthy away from that zerg mentality also... If we approach the castle siege and we've destroyed the walls and we're in the throne room and we're about to cast on the penultimate thing and I at this time am just so excited from what's happening that I'm like "screw it I'm gonna go for it". It's gonna be mine. I'm gonna take the taxes for the next month. I'm gonna take all the gear from the castle. I'm gonna take everything... We kind of want that political intrigue to be present in the game.[60] – Steven Sharif
Objective-based game play helps to balance the zerg mentality.[8]
I always feel that if you balance based on groups that in your balance focus is to incorporate features that play well from a player versus player perspective as well as a player versus environment perspective: Having support classes, having DPS and tanks that can obstruct movement and/or create you know bottlenecks on the field and stuff like that. I think a well-rounded raid it will perform better against a non well-rounded raid, however then you incorporate the second aspect of numbers; and that's where again mobility, organization, leadership tactics. Having objectives in gameplay that make those important helps to balance the zerg mentality that a lot of guilds can tend to have.[8] – Steven Sharif
The developers are considering the following guild tools:[24][61]
Recruitment tools.
Management tools.
Delegation tools.
Motivational systems.
Communication tools.
Guild alerts.
Board messages.
In game chat.
Calendar.
Roster.
Guild emblems
Guild banner concept art.[33]
The user interface will allow emblems, logos and symbols to be designed in-game.[62][63][64]
Guild emblems.[63]
Flags.[62]
Mount barding.[65]
Sails.[62]
Shields.[62]
Cloaks.[62]
Armor attachments.[65]
The developers are now considering including image import functionality.[66] This was previously not under consideration.[62]
I know previously we had spoken about not allowing custom user images in the game, however I think we're leaning more now in the direction of allowing for custom user images. Absolutely well what it will be is the fact that we're a subscription game and if you want to jeopardize your account by doing the wrong thing with regards to custom users [images] then by all means you may do so and we'll have stringent practices in place to prevent that from actually being an issue.[66] – Steven Sharif
Emblem editor functionality is tentatively planned for Alpha-2.[64]
Crowdfunding guild rewards
Guild themed character cloaks were cosmetic rewards for backing at the Leader of Men level or higher in the Kickstarter and Summer crowdfunding campaigns.[67]
Kickstarter/Summer crowdfunding guild rewards[28] are assigned to a guild by the owner of the reward.[68]
Once assigned, the reward becomes an asset of that guild.
Guild members that leave the guild no longer have access to the unique items of that guild.
Sharemarkets
As nodes develop, player governments may open a Stock exchange (also called Stock markets and Sharemarkets) where players can buy and sell shares in Nodes, Guilds and Social organizations.[69][70]
The value of stocks is influenced by world events and the performance of nodes, Social organizations or guilds.[71]
Hard metrics, such as quest lines, nearby resources, citizen progression, and purchases of local real estate, will determine the value of purchasable shares.[70]
Sieges will halt trading of shares in a node. This opens up potential for economic sabotage.[69]
There is no regulatory commission to restrict the purchase and sale of stocks.[71]
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↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 33.5 Blog: 10 facts about castle sieges in the MMORPG.
↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 Podcast, 23 April 2018 (21:55).
↑ Interview, 11 May 2018 (47:27).
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DICE, don't forget that the prequels were disliked by many people.
ATE_ARMS
I feel like this needed to be said as there are a lot of over exuberant fans who would happily see this become a prequel only game. I know people grew up with those films, nostalgia and all that, but they ranged from very poor to decent and aren't the centre of the star wars universe some people would have you believe.
Tbh I was certain there would be no cw/pt era in the game. I'm glad there is, it was definitely the right move for numerous reasons and I really hope we get general grievous.
I keep seeing cw era fans pushing though, for heroes such as that shocka Tandy girl, kid fister and commander cod. Nobody really knows who these people are, and unless you have unlimited resources, I reckon your time is better spent elsewhere
In fact, regardless of resources, nobody should want to see shocka Tandy fighting, vader, or whatever, so let's dead that now and possibly resurrect it in ten years time or something. Same with anakin, who's performance in the films was awful and who's inclusion in this game would actually detract from it.
Anyway, the game looks like its shaping up very nicely, so happy easter all
You don't want anakin. That is laughable. You must accept these characters are a loved part of the universe.
You may not enjoy the films, but can't deny they present far cooler features for a battlefront game.
TheARCtroop3r
ATE_ARMS wrote: »
And a lot of people do love the prequels. And especially with TV series such as the Clone Wars and Rebels, it creates new opportunities for exciting new characters. I don't think anyone is saying to cut down on the Original Trilogy content, but since we have already had a game focused on that, I don't know if there is as much there to talk about. Besides, the Clone Wars era was much more focused on the all out war aspect that the game seems to be designed around, whereas the Original Trilogy was more about a small group of characters fighting a guerrilla war, and so we are excited about all the new possibilities that this opens up and we want to see taken advantage of. Also, as for "nobody really knows who these people are"? Well, they included Rogue One characters as DLC in the last game, and they have had less screen time than many of these characters who were a large focus of AN ENTIRE TV SERIES, and who certainly had much less personality and were much less well-developed characters (if you can even call half of them characters). Anyway, I didn't mean to get ranty, but if you attack other people for their opinions and harmlessly presenting what they would like to see in the game, as well as insult these movies and TV shows that MANY of us love, then you can BET that I am going to Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3 Episode 19 you.
al72094
I for one loved the prequels. I love each era because of the uniqueness and difference between the three eras. In my opinion, using all of the eras is important for a game like this because of the depth it could provide.
al72094 wrote: »
Agreed. I feel that DICE would actually be disadvantaging themselves by not fully taking advantage of all the depth that using the multiple (all exciting, and I too loved the Prequels-I love all the Star Wars films) eras provides them with
It's a weird one, but I've come to accept it. When everyone hated the prequels we never gave a thought to the millions of kids enjoying the dvds. It's like living in some kind of bizarro alternate history now because they're all adults and anyone over 30 feels like we're on some crazy alternate plane of reality while a multitude of voices all enthusiastically talk about battle droids.
It's like waking up from a coma and finding that musicians and scholars the world over hail Justin Beiber as the greatest poet of our time. That's how weird it feels.
I get it though, there are movies and shows I loved that my fiancée (27) is like 'eeeeh, not feeling it' and I'm like BUT WHY THO. It's generational and it depends what captures your imagination as a kid. Basically OP you're not going to win, I fought it too. I remember when the whole world agreed that they were awful. They were obviously awful and we could all see it, but there were children sitting in front of screens loving it. You're telling a whole generation their childhood's wrong and there's nothing to gain from it.
For me personally, when I think Star Wars I think Jedi and Clones, and when are the Jedi most prevalent, the Prequels
ACRenegade88
Millions of starwars fans love the prequels
TMachine97
The quality of the movies has no effect on their inclusion into the game. Why is that so hard to understand? It doesn't matter if the acting was wooden, there's going to be little to no acting during online matches. It doesn't matter if the CGI was terrible, everything looks beautiful in the Frostbite engine. It doesn't matter if the majority of the film was boring to you because there'll only be constant action.
I understand not everyone likes those movies, but we've just had an OT game. We're still getting OT content in this game. The inclusion of PT content will not negatively impact the OT content. Please just let us enjoy it without trying to think of ways it's going to ruin the game. It won't.
Master_Cunha wrote: »
The anakin point was a bit of a low blow tbh, but if they had just got a better actor for his part then the prequels would be improved a million fold. As it is i dislike even thinking about Hayden Christensen in relation to Vader, that's how bad he was.
2000sGuy
You will not be forced to play in the prequels, so stop complaining. By calling Ashoka "shocka tandy" makes your post look worst.
TMachine97 wrote: »
Hey Man.
chaosnavely
Look, I'm one of the all time heavy-weight champs at PT hating. I think the films are some of the biggest letdowns in all of cinema, mostly because of the legendarily high bar that was set before them. Most of the drama is laughable, the fight scenes are tokyo nightlife disco battles. The heroes and villains are near caricatures of their former selves, but...
As others have said, "The films are not the game". As Sam said (much more eloquently) "You can't crap on someone's childhood". As I'm saying, "There's a lot of fun content to be had".
Let's see how much fun it is to play before we start dissing how fun it is to play. Yeah?
We hope that we can choose what era we play in.
I don't want to be put into mixed era playlists.
Haha! It is weird, but I was actually one of the people who anticipated this happening. Its like the lunatics have taken over at times though. I suppose its jarring to see people obsess over what are questionable quality films at best, but I did expect it, maybe not to this degree.
I'm not fighting against the prequels though, they have their place and their good points...for what its worth I think they got a new lease of life due to TFA being such a retread (which seems quite a common opinion)
I just don't want this game going overboard with PT due to the shouting of the 'lunatics' though, as much as i accept their position in the universe they were often poor and beyond cheesy and a lot of it is best left in the past..or at least until we get the massive era spanning game that we all want, and can pick and choose what we play.
It all boggles the mind. Those movies are so bad overall. The counterpoint is that, maybe, just maybe, games like this could redeem some of their lore BECAUSE of what was good about, or could have been good about those films. We could get really excellent battles that the films dropped the ball on. We could get great characterizations and expanded looks at characters that got shafted the first time around (Maul). We might even find ourselves enjoying some of the PT content in this game more than some that we know and love.
If they do it right.
Its not even just the acting mate, I find a lot of the era to be on the wrong side of cartoonish. The clone designs are awful, for example, and the droids are more cute than anything
Then you have people like anakin and padme who just bring bad memories.
I for one was too young to realize how bad the acting was. That being said and being a fully grown adult, I still love them because they were my childhood. Cant wait to have that era in the game. I totally understand what you are saying thought!
I think the Clone armour looks amazing and also way more intimidating than Stormtrooper armour
GreyzaBadger
Best way to look at it is how much the prequel era added to Pandemic's Battlefront games.
I always thought that playing as Clones and Droids added so much because of the additional things they brought to the gameplay such as weapons and vehicles.
I'm sure they will add similar things back to Dice's second bite of the cherry.
I know episode 1 & 2 were pretty bad but i still like them BUT episode 3 was epic no lie dialogue pf course was still rocky BUT the dialogue was better it improved. Were the prequels poorly executed? YES! Are there fans that hate them? YES! Hell yes! But are there fans that love them? YES! Yessir! Do ppl like the clone wars? Duh.
Ppl like fhe clome wars alot its no way around it lol but i still respect those who prefer the OT they have legitimate reason. but at the same time at least you have the option not to play Prequel content in the game if you feel so strongly about it and thats the beauty about the game, you can play however you want
chaosnavely wrote: »
Yeah, I mean, I know I don't love maul anywhere near as much as some people. As you say, he got shafted...but he's got everything that could make him a favourite character of mine in this game.
Dooku and grievous too.
I'm fact can we just have them three? and they can keep the rest lol
My brother, it's a horrorshow of terrible filmmaking. Believe me when I tell you I abhor it's very existence. "Cringe-tastic Failure" doesn't even begin to cover it. I straight HATE those movies for very nearly sucking all the greatness out of Star Wars through the sheer scale of their spectacular awfulness.
This game won't have a PT narrative to screw up. It won't have a love story to shoehorn into place where it shouldn't exist at all. It won't have to force push characters into their respective shoeprints to be in place when the next trilogy begins. It simply has to let me destroy as many of those limp wristed laser toting roger roger robots as I possibly can, and give me points for doing it. And if they screw it up... well... we were right all along.
I'm not saying you have to like Anakin or Hayden, but I think Hayden Christensen certainly can act. I suggest watching him in "Shattered Glass", I really felt myself feeling for him in that one (even if he wasn't a hero, the character he played was certainly a complex one and Hayden pulled it off expertly)
TheARCtroop3r wrote: »
Hayden is a good actor, not the greatest, but he can act really well. The Prequels just had bad scripts, not actors or content
Let's not go crazy here. Have you seen Jumper? It's abysmal as well, and a lot of it is his acting.
Shattered Glass was written really well, and he's cast to type. Shy, awkward, smart but a little too egotistical with introvertive tendencies. That's not acting. that's just being Hayden.
BrushedBrass
Well the prequels had cool villains, hope they add Count Dooku and Grievous, there is also a lot of Jedi to choose from, Destroyer droids and magna guards are very cool imo
BrushedBrass wrote: »
I feel like that's the general adjective I see used most often by Prequel fans. That it was "cool". I guess we used a different adjective when the OT was around and I was a kid, but I can't recall one at the moment.
Yeah man I would never crap on peoples childhood, still a big kid at heart as we all no doubt are, don't even really wanna mess with you boys, youve got numbers
Just some perspective due to the clamour for a heavy influence of PT in this game, and a slight overreaction on my part, but still...
Fight me.
I remember the moment I realised, on this forum, that we had become the minority. The old overwhelming majority consensus, the people who hate the prequels, which was basically everybody, are now a minority of active posters. It was like putting on the sunglasses in They Live.
Hahaha! Fricken roger rogers man, I have no love for them things at all. Great post.
I suppose what im asking for here is the obvious, that we take the best of the universe and put it in this game, and the best generally lies outside those films.
DarkPotatoe
This topic reminds me of why I dislike OT purists. The deluded sense of entitlement.
DarkPotatoe wrote: »
Show me an unfair, entitled comment that I've made that wasn't backed up with reason.
BattleFront is a war game. I can understand not liking the movies, but how could you not want to fight the Clone Wars, which are mentioned in ANH.
It would be minimal for me, but some people love clones. Let them have their fun.
Stop saying no to content. We want more, not less.
Just accept it at this point. Deep breath, suck it up, think 'maybe it'll be fun.' A lot of fans want it, they got it, and they're hype about it, the time to argue against it was during the early calls for CW content, and I did that often along with a few others. Then the voices in support of it got louder and DICE went with the majority, and they were right to.
Look at it this way, you get to actually go into the movies Lucas ruined for you and wreck all the parts you hated.
Fair comment man, I just don't want the game being heavily PT focused as the whole era was poor, its nothing personal to anyone, and all IMO, of course.
Probably the part where think the pt shouldn't be in due to the mere fact that it triggers you. It doesn't matter how many overzealous tirades you go on, if people want it in the company will answer them. So you're not left with much "reason" but senseless whining.
Man, your movie based references are solid gold saturday night.
meshugene89
How many times do people have to be told: it's not about the films, IT'S ABOUT THE CONTENT!! Yes, the acting was awful. Yes, there was too much CGI. Yes, Jar Jar Binks is the most abhorrent thing in Star Wars just narrowly beating out the Star Wars Christmas special for the top spot. But, the Clone Wars, which is a major focal point of the these films, is golden as far as content for a shooter game such as this. Planets, soldier variations, weapons, vehicles, heroes, villains, it has it all. Just because these films aren't popular to a lot people doesn't mean that the content and the time period aren't, especially when the CW TV series is immensely popular across a broad range of Star Wars fans and really helped endear people to that time period.
To me, the biggest problem on these forums is not people "over-inflating" the popularity of the PT as you seem to think they, but rather its people who think that just because it's somewhat unpopular that it should be ignored. If that were line of thinking were true, then shouldn't include the St either since a lot of people are still not entirely sold on it either.
Also, regardless of whether they'll be included, I think it's really rich of you to say that characters like Ahsoka Tano and Commander Cody are "unknown" to a lot of people. Granted, the average fan/player who doesn't delve to deeply into Star Wars lore won't know them, but I'd say between 70-90% of the people who will play this game will be the hardcore fanbase who follow nearly every aspect of Star Wars and not only know perfectly well who these characters are, but can't wait to play as them.
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shaundobson
I'm more worried about it being heavily ST focused than PT focused.
meshugene89 wrote: »
Yes, Jar Jar Binks is the most abhorrent thing in Star Wars just narrowly beating out the Star Wars Christmas special for the top spot.
#LumpyForBF2
Ironic as you are the one instantly triggered and whining due to somebody's opinion.
Did I ever say..other than some offhand, lighthearted comments, that there should be no PT?
I agree, cos if they had it their way, I'd say not to include the Sequel era because the TFA was utter crap
Theres still hope for them though.
You may need to look up the definition of whining because addressing why your "reasoning" is wrong ain't close to it.
Perhaps you don't remember but I can clearly read in your first post that certain characters shouldn't be in because they do indeed trigger you.
i don't think we have to worry about that. Most likely the only planets we'll get from st are the three from tfa, maybe last jedi as DLC but that's not likely.
The OT was mostly covered in the last game (albeit poorly)
And they still have multiple planets to delve into from the pt
2000sGuy wrote: »
They aren't trying to sell the OT or PT, they want the focus on the ST era.
It is understandable, Disney wants the focus on their vision of Star Wars.
Show me, specifically, where I said there should be no PT.
Strogg1980
My advice to OP...skip prequal maps
If only the devs would have a sense of humor and give Anakin an 'I hate sand!' emote.
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Singing Bird Nature Center, a smaller lodge building, is used for programs sponsored by the Citizens to Preserve Black Hawk Park Foundation. The si...
Carl Sandburg Historic Site
Galesburg, IL
The Carl Sandburg Historic Site is supported by the State of Illinois and the nonprofit Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association. The Association sp...
Celebration River Cruises
2501 River Drive
Celebration River Cruises is a family owned and operated business. The Schadler family is involved in every aspect of the boat’s day to day o...
Discovery Depot Children's Museum
128 South Chambers Street
The Discovery Depot museum provides an engaging atmosphere in which children and families explore, learn, and have fun together. Since 1999, we hav...
Galesburg Historical Society Chocolate Festival
156 East on the corner of Main and Prairie Street
Annual festival featuring homemade and commercially made chocolate treats. It is an endless buffet of tortes, cakes, pies, cookies, candies, bevera...
Galesburg Railroad Museum
211 South Seminary Street
History: The Galesburg Railroad Museum is a not for profit corporation established to promote the research, exploration and discovery of the histo...
I Wireless Center
John Deere Pavilion
About Us:Working the land. It's what we've been doing at John Deere for more than 175 years. And there's no better way to experience it than a trip...
2191 East Knox Street
This 50+ acre community park includes a horse show arena, lighted softball field, multi purpose recreational trail, an 18-hole disc golf course, tw...
Niabi Zoological Society
13010 Niabi Zoo Road
Coal Valley, IL
Mission Statement The mission of the Niabi Zoological Society is to constantly improve the educational value of the Zoo through continuous expans...
Playcrafters Barn Theatre
History: Playcrafters history traces it's roots back to the office of Mel Hodges, Director of the Rock Island Illinois Playground and Recreation C...
Quad Cities Hot Air Balloon Festival
4200 Archer Drive
A hot air balloon is held in place or tethered to the ground. Ropes are attached to the balloon and it is allowed to go up only as far as the ropes...
Skateranch
300 10th Avenue West
Milan, IL
The Orpheum Theatre
57 South Kellogg Street
Mission:To ensure Galesburg's historic Orpheum Theatre is authentically restored and maintained through general community support and private fundi...
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Billy Ray Chitwood
Bio and Books
Never knew what it was in life that I really wanted to do...guess that had something to do with my Appalachian roots in East Tennessee, a broken family, and so much mobility. Saw a lot of cowboy movies as a kid and thought about acting for awhile. Loved to sing and thought about being a singer. Being an actor or a singer meant there would be audiences, and I was a bashful boy who wasn't too comfortable in crowds. Wanted to be a fireman. Wanted to be a cop. A professional golfer. A tennis pro. The 'want list' just kept changing.
You likely know where I'm going with this opening bio brevity. My dreams were fleeting because I was a fickle fellow whose roots never got too deep anywhere, any time. So. when those Tennessee hills were behind me and that big adult world opened up to me, well, it kind of overwhelmed me. There were so many Appalachian and bible belt emotions conflicting inside my heart and mind that made me easy and ready to make a lot of mistakes. Make them, surely did, too many to enumerate, and my guess is I've been blaming old Appalachia, the hills of Tennessee, the broken family, the mobility, all the emotions laid upon me, for this rather wanderlust life that I've been living. Guess I've always been chasing that something that was missing in those long ago days.
Now, don't get me wrong. With the mistakes, which you can read about later, there were successes and honorable service to my country in the US Navy. The successes, in my way of thinking, were: a college BA degree with a major in English; high school teaching; sales and marketing management positions with some of our top educational publishers; my own business; and, after several attempts, a wonderful wife and extended family. The most exhilarating success has been my writing thirteen books. The writing has allowed me to purposefully wander through some simple plot lines and characters' lives to explore my own dimensions, to discover some things about myself I never really considered. Up front, I'll state too brashly for some, my books are good, well written, and easy to read. Sure, the critics, even I, will still find the occasional errata that most writers disdain. There is nothing, however, that has given me more pleasure than turning a phrase that says everything I want it to say, to re-read a passage that brings back some emotional echoes.
So, you have a short bio glimpse of Billy Ray Chitwood, an Appalachian kid who ate some emotional soup and spent a lifetime trying to digest it all. For one more bio sketch, please go to http://about.me/brchitwood.
Are Billy Ray's books worthy of a read? My vote doesn't count. Only you can tell me with any certainty... On to the books.
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NEW - PUBLISHED OCT. 15, 2015 - NEW
It is a sunny Sunday afternoon in May.
A mother and her fourteen-year-old daughter walk three miles to a country store for cigarettes and ice cream...it is a walk taken often by the Paulson family. They are teasing each other, happily kicking pebbles along the way.
They make it to the store, trade pleasantries with the customers and owners...the daughter flirts briefly with a boy from her school.
They leave the store in their joyful mood, finger-painting their faces with ice cream.
They never make it home...
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Former sleuth Bailey Crane and lovely wife Wendy are enjoying their penthouse pleasures until a cartel sting operation at their Mexican resort brings chaos and emotional uncertainty into a blurry reality.
Wendy is kidnapped, and Bailey faces the demons running loose in his mind as he struggles with his choices.
Also President of the resort's HOA, Bailey has not only kidnapping and murders with which to contend, but other problems which add to this suspenseful chapter in his life.
The surprising end point brings back to Bailey and Wendy those memories better left in the memory vault.
An exciting, intense thriller in the sand and cacti of Mexico's Sonoran desert by the beautiful Sea of Cortez.
This is the final Book 6 of 'The Bailey Crane Mystery Series'.
Joe Public's Political Perspective by Billy Ray Chitwood
We read the comments of political analysts and pundits about the state of our union. We see them on television espousing their views. They are informative and worthwhile.
Take a look at the words of this 'Joe Public'. He writes about the true state of our union - as he sees it. He writes about a variety of government issues, leaving civility at the door and saying exactly what he feels. He has comments about the United States Economy, Education, the new Affordable Healthcare Act, Terrorism, Gun Control, Religion and Religious Fanatics, the Criminal Justice system, Capitalism and the Free Enterprise system, Security, the Secular Mindset, and more.
Will his voice matter? Likely not, but he gets a lot off his chest, losing friends and making friends. He writes his words with candor and with clarity.
Agree or disagree, this Joe Public gets a lot off his chest.
What is your political perspective? What is your vision for this great country of ours? Where do you want to go from here?
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- "The Reluctant Savage" embraces the genres of Mystery, Suspense, and Romance -
- THE STORY:
High school sweethearts, Billy Jay Campbell and Marcie Dangino reunite after many years apart. They discover the fire of their young love still glows brightly. With the Air Force behind him, Billy now works as an investigator for a law firm,
Two problems threaten to spoil his homecoming. Marcie is now married to a junior partner at Clarkson and Dangino, a firm that has occasionally employed him for their investigative work. The second problem occurs when Billy's close friend and boss is murdered.
The Reluctant Savage follows a mystery that connects murder, romance, and a love triangle.
Don’t miss this fast-paced, gritty novel!
- See 5-Star Review on amazon US http://goo.gl/FmEAc0
- Enjoy...
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Short description of: "What Happens Next? A Life's True Tale" --- JUST PUBLISHED September, 2012.
A non-fictional memoir that covers the author's time in East Tennessee and his whirlwind education in the big world of neon lights, gin mills, pretty ladies, acting, television, stage, film, and the ultimate allignment with his faith.
It is also a book that takes a remarkably honest look at some mistakes and triumphs. It is a story that has depth beneath the glitter of shiny piano bars and lovely women, beneath a family disconnect and sorrowful musings.
The book reveals the author's relationships in his life, the lamenting moments of despair and loneliness, the never-ending search for meaning, his faith, and the brutal assessments of who he really is. It has the family disconnect, even murder and suicide, and there is always a candor that is both refreshing and shocking in its self-analyses.
Each person's life is made up of all the debris of memory, the bad and the good, but it must also be made up of some elements within the mind and soul that determines how we handle those memories, how we deal with the aspects of everyday living, the long tunnels of thought that lead us to decisions that predispose the events that will ultimately shape our being.
This book goes through those tunnels of thought, and the reader can render her/his own unique judgement.
In the end, it is likely a bio not so different from everyman... just changes in circumstance and event.
"The Cracked Mirror - Reflections of an Appalachian Son" is about a Tennessee boy who ate some emotional soup and spent a lifetime trying to digest it. It is the story of a young man leaving east Tennessee and going in search of himself,
unprepared for the adult world he is about to enter. Behind him, and, within him, is the emotional debris of his childhood: abuse, broken family, and a substantial part of his soul. Searching for his identity in 'isms' and bars, he
stumbles, gets up, only to find in the end that legacy and meaning are elusive, a 'white buffalo' always somewhere in the shadows.
"The Cracked Mirror - Reflections of an Appalachian Son" is largely a true story of the author's own life, a mirror of his past, cracked with the stress of all his memories: a family broken apart by their Appalachian circumstances and the
'great depression;' a childhood tainted by a father's abusive nature; an impetuous marriage and a sorrowful divorce; a subsequent search of 'isms,' for love and meaning in California and Arizona gin mills; a tableau of horrible events, including a senseless family murder, suicide, and a desert survival.
"The Cracked Mirror - Reflections of an Appalachian Son," is the story of fictional Prentice Paul Hiller, his life, his heritage, his mistakes, the events that have come to shape him, and the demons within that he cannot dispel. Along the way, he gives his passionate and provocative views on criminal justice, love, politics, religion, war, and his favorite writers. In the end he finds a new love, some hope for redemption, some semblance of meaning and legacy.
The author's own family roots trace back to the eleventh century in Chetwode, a lovely hamlet north of London.
EXCERPT FROM THE PROLOGUE:
“Help me! Please help me!”
It is a piteous whimper, lost in the black void of the narrow closet. The weak and eerie sound of her own voice chills her more fiercely than the cold. The thought brings an aberrant amusement. Her own small voice frightens her!
A sound! A creaking sound. Far off. A footfall! Is it? No. It is not a footfall. It's just one of the strange noises that comes in the night.
Is it night?
Time is lost. Time is gone from her world like a chunk of youth. The black hole draws her toward an uncertain vortex. She must close her eyes. But, not so tightly... With eyes open, the blackness comes alive with trickery...
Inspired by a California newspaper account some years ago, this novel has truth along with the author's story line. It is dark and ugly, like the black closet used for punishment by a malevolent mother whose heart and mind can only know evil. It is poignant and sad in the penning, to know that such cruelty and debasement can exist in one family.
From the black closet to fiery murder in the high Sierras, this shocking tale will scar the soul.
A lightning strike brings two people together to fall in love. Jason Prince and Jenny Mason know their hearts are in tune, but fate has always a card to play in the game of romance. This titillating love story provides some dips along the road: a brother's deception, a gambling habit gone too far, and a grandmother's painful secret. It will take a death, a matriarch's great will, an Arizona dust storm, and a long wandering desert rebirth to bring the love story to its 'old fashioned' happy ending. Treat yourself to a poignant and uplifting heart warmer.
(A FEW LINES FROM CHAPTER ONE) - The hard ground was cold. She began to shiver, felt the urge to rise, but was somehow constricted. Her mind made some adjustments and she suddenly knew where she was, how she had gotten there.
Finally, she slowly opened her eyes with a fluttery acceptance of her immediate environment. A man’s face came into focus, hovering two feet above her own. She felt pinned down and quickly discovered that the man was astride her. There was a momentary sense of panic but something about the man’s face made her relax.
A light rain fell, and she was conscious of wet hair matted to her face and forehead. The sky was a dull gray, and skinny treetops came to her peripherally as some surreal apparitions. The man’s concerned face gave her a final focus. She remembered what had happened.
The lightning! She recalled an awful clap of thunder, so jarring and harsh, so totally upon her, instantaneously enveloping her in its loud and splintered brightness.
AN ARIZONA TRAGEDY - A BAILEY CRANE MYSTERY (Book 1)
Meet Bailey Crane, a transplanted son of the south with Cherokee blood and some emotional baggage. Bailey is an auxiliary detective, has a manufacturing rep business that brings in easy money, and he's a part-time actor. Bailey's got golf, love, money, friends, and a great life style. He has an amusing personality. He's a rowdy good looking rogue who wears his feelings in his eyes and on his lips, not at all reluctant to share his world.
A lovely young model and mother is brutally murdered in the Arizona desert northeast of Phoenix. The lady was Bailey's friend and her homicide begins an adventure for our sleuth that will take him down the halls of our nation's capital where he will discover that fact and fiction are strange bedfellows. Chased by an unknown stalker with a gun, Bailey is a marked man. Wounded, his body battered and bruised, his anger pushes him onward until the puzzle pieces begin to form a picture. The exciting climax has a unique twist, and our musing son of the south does not quite know it but the ending is also a beginning.
The book was inspired by the actual murder many years ago of the author's friend and fellow actor.
It should be noted that the 'Bailey Crane Mystery Series' of six books can be read independently and out of sequence. There is, however, throughout the succeeding books an evolution to the Bailey Crane character, the changes in his life, both romantically and otherwise.
SATAN'S SONG - A BAILEY CRANE MYSTERY (Book 2)
A young woman is murdered in a most gruesome way. The authorities have no viable leads. Bailey Crane is sought out by the victim's desperate mother who must know the awful truth of her daughter's death, who must come to some gauzy closure. Homicides of young women in other states arouse Bailey's interest and provide a trail that will lead him to physical and psychological challenges that shake and rearrange his relatively sane world. The bizarre ending comes in a small mountain town in Colorado. Our always musing southern sleuth will find a very personal and sacred part of his life coming to it's own end point. There is emotional pain and there is a new beginning for our endearing Tennessee Sherlock with the Cherokee blood.
(EXCERPT FROM THE PROLOGUE)...
It appeared she had the bike path all to herself. She relaxed. She sat and pedaled easily. Occasionally she just coasted. She was almost back to 19th Avenue. There was approximately one quarter mile left. She had covered nearly four miles in very fast time, and she was coming to the final turn before she hit a straightaway to 19th Avenue. She was just coming parallel on her right with a long row of eucalyptus trees. She heard again the sounds of the lake off to her left and the steady shriek of crickets.
She saw a black blur of movement about fifty yards ahead. Someone was standing next to a tall palm tree, or leaning against it. It appeared to be someone in bulky clothes, someone wearing a large overcoat. That someone was stepping out onto the path in front of her.
THE BRUTUS GATE - A BAILEY CRANE MYSTERY (Book 3)
This tale begins with a raging warehouse fire that nearly consumes our southern sleuth with the Cherokee blood. A suspect arrested in connection to the fire is overheard muttering a cryptic phrase, 'beware The Brutus Gate.' The fire and the phrase is the start point of this story about drugs, murder, rape, and political corruption at government's elite levels. Bailey Crane and his Phoenix PD buddies have a chuckle about the pithy 'Brutus Gate' remark and the adventure begins. Our Sherlock hero gets bounced around by the criminal elements and by his own personal demons of guilt and remorse --- all standard fare for the Tennessee man of endless mind queries about his emotions and the state of his life. The action is keen, and the climax comes at an old ranch on the Mexican border just south of Yuma, Arizona. This is likely a romp you don't want to miss.
(A FEW LINES FROM CHAPTER ONE)... Just when you think you've got all systems going in harmonious sync, that's the time old Chicken Little's doomsday utterance settles a might too snugly into the conscience: The sky is falling!
Well, my sky was falling, literally, inexorably, and with undue haste! Not to mix metaphors, but the falling sky was becoming a raging hell!
The very large warehouse roof was collapsing bit by fiery bit, and the bad guys were winning.
The bad guys were also getting away..
A MURDER IN PUEBLO DEL MAR - A BAILEY CRANE MYSTERY (Book 4)
An Arizona wife and mother is murdered while on holiday in Mexico, and her three children find her brutally beaten and slashed body. Bailey Crane, an auxiliary member of the Phoenix PD is visiting close friends in Pueblo del Mar, and is asked by the local police chief to assist him in building his case against the transsexual lover of the victim's husband. Bailey's Cherokee blood comes to an emotional boil when family and friends get caught up in the web of corruption, drugs and sex. The highly intense climax comes in a 'Whale Shack' on the scrub brush and sand near the Sea of Cortez. This tale has the always soulful musings of our southern Sherlock, a chance encounter with a mysterious mystic who shares his thoughts on Time and Place and fragile nerves that get edgy and frayed. This tale was inspired by an actual murder some years ago, and you don't want to miss it.
(HERE ARE A FEW LINES FROM THE PROLOGUE)...
Although he had an ominous expectation of what he would find, he could not have prepared himself for the scene in front of him, six feet from the door.
Bob Geraint tightly closed his eyes but he could still see the woman sprawled sideways across the king size bed, deep bloody indentations along her hairline, her right hand palm upward as though pitifully pleading for a mercy denied her. The left arm and hand, at an odd limp angle, rested on a naked breast. The chest was punctured savagely, oozing the dark red viscid juices that had been her life...
A SOUL DEFILED - A BAILEY CRANE MYSTERY (Book 5)
Bailey Crane is thinking long term fun and sun on the Sea of Cortez, but an old friend and HOA president puts those thoughts on hold by enlisting our southern sleuth to help solve a case of missing money and murder. Bailey is kidnapped twice, beaten twice, and his anger management is nowhere to be found. With the help of Pueblo del Mar's police chief, another old friend, Bailey begins to connect the dots. He meets a most unusual man of intrigue, discovers the intricacies of money laundering in the posh resort communities along the sea, and makes it through to a most bizarre ending. The climax of this mystery leaves Bailey emotionally drained as he contemplates the true essence of friendship and life's strange twists of fate. It's all here: disloyalty, greed, love, money manipulation, murder. All the action takes place along a most lovely stretch of cobalt sea and an unrelenting desert of cacti, sage, and sand.
(A FEW LINES FROM THE PROLOGUE)...
When he fell to the sand on his knees Fernando Cervantes thought for a brief moment he had gone down from a sharp chest cramp. His unsold serapes were involuntarily flung outward onto the beach. He felt liquid flowing through his fingers, saw the liquid when he pulled his hand from his left rib cage. He saw that it was his blood. As he collapsed on his side in the sand, his life presented itself to him in a few gasping breaths. As he slowly rolled onto his back, his half-closed eyes looked upward toward a diminishing blue sky. There was so much he wanted to tell Father Umberto, so much he yet wished to share with his family, but all he could weakly mutter in his last moment was, “Mi Dios, por favor me perdona para he pecado!" Clusters of sea gulls gathered near the lifeless body of Fernando Cervantes, indifferent, unimpeded in their ageless habits.
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At the Movies in LA
October 15, 2015 October 15, 2015 / Richard Senior / Leave a comment
All of LA’s a set and all the men and women in it merely actors.
Everything seems a cliché from the movies. The pap-pa-pap-pap of impatient drivers. The apocalyptic howl of the siren on a ladder truck. The Harpo Marx horn on the fire truck behind it. The cops congregating in the coffee shop. Their angular black and white cars with chirping sirens and “To protect and to serve” on the doors.
There is, in the hills, the establishing shot from numberless movies – the stock symbol of the movie business – a seventies replica of a twenties advert for a housing development: forty-five foot letters erratically spaced to spell HO LLY W OOD.
‘Hollywood’ is an anachronistic shorthand now, like ‘Fleet Street’ for the London press. Of the old majors from Hollywood’s Golden Age, roughly between Warner’s The Jazz Singer in 1927 and Universal’s The Birds in 1963, only Paramount remains. The rest of what is now the Big Six long ago moved out into Los Angeles County.
Hollywood Boulevard has the much-photographed, much-parodied Walk of Fame with its 2,500 pink stars embossed with the names of the biggest stars in this city of stars; it has Grauman’s Chinese Theater with the hand and footprints of more big stars, and the Dolby Theater where another constellation of stars assembles each year for the Oscars. But it soon fades to the west into soulless suburbia and to the east into discount stores and beyond to Thai Town and Little Armenia. Drop two blocks south and you are on the legendary Sunset Boulevard, but east of the Strip, it is a characterless stretch of gas stations and orthodontists.
Universal Studios is not technically in LA, because it stands on a 415 acre plot of unincorporated land within the city boundary. Los Angeles firemen have access to it but Los Angeles taxmen do not. It is part working studio, part theme park, and all tourist trap. But it is as good a way as any to pass an afternoon in LA, if you check your pretensions in at the door.
A tram takes you through generic sets which you have seen in dozens of movies: a Wild West town, a Mexican village, the business district of every city in the world with skyscrapers which stop at third floor level and a square of townhouses which can be anywhere from eighteenth century Vienna to Hell’s Kitchen last week. It passes through the sets of War of the Worlds, with a real Jumbo Jet chopped into pieces among ruined houses, Jaws, where ‘Bruce’ the mechanical shark breaks out of the water as the tram approaches, and Psycho where an actor dressed as Norman Bates dumps Marion’s body in the trunk of the Ford and stumps towards you with a knife.
There is a simulated flash flood and a simulated earthquake, in which the tram shakes and everything around it disintegrates; there is a collection of cars from the movies, a demonstration of special effects, a room of memorabilia, and movie-themed roller coasters.
It is crassly commercial, of course; it is as cheesy as a family-sized quattro formaggi pizza. But you can hardly attack it for that. Might as well attack an elephant for being big and having a trunk.
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Annual Review 2019 and Forecast for 2020
Lukashenko offers to release political prisoners to resume a dialogue with the West
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At a press conference for the Belarusian national and regional media on 17 June President Lukashenko declared his readiness to release political prisoners, provided the amnesty procedures were observed.
Belarusian President proposed to the West to bargain for “political prisoners in exchange for the resumption of relations”. First of all, Lukashenko is prepared to restore a dialogue with Poland by mentioning the leading role of Poland in the Eastern Europe.
Bearing in mind it is the second proposal of Lukashenko in the course of the past two weeks (reference to the meeting of judges on 3 June) the Belarusian leadership is doing its best to avoid economic reforms. The main recipients of these statements are member states of the IMF, its mission worked in Minsk on 1-13 June.
Given the lack of positive result of the IMF mission and that the conditions put forward for Belarus are not feasible and detrimental to the “created” welfare state and to the popularity of the President, the Belarusian authorities are trying to get away from implementing economic reforms and try to resolve the crisis with “small blood”: by releasing political prisoners. This option suits Minsk perfectly it has been tested in the summer of 2008, when a former Presidential candidate Alexander Kozulin and other political prisoners were released.
Minsk attempts to make up for image losses from military exercises by opening to Western values
Image: Catholic.by
The Belarusian authorities regard the Catholic conference as yet another international event to promote Minsk as a global negotiating platform. Minsk’s proposal to organise a meeting between the Roman-Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church is rather an image-making undertaking than a serious intention. However, the authorities could somewhat extend the opportunities for the Roman-Catholic Church in Belarus due to developing contacts with the Catholic world.
Minsk is attempting to lay out a mosaic from various international religious, political and sportive events to shape a positive image of Belarus for promoting the Helsinki 2.0 idea.
Belarus’ invitation to the head of the Holy See for a meeting with the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church should be regarded as a continuation of her foreign policy efforts in shaping Minsk’s peacekeeping image and enhancing Belarus’ international weight. The Belarusian authorities are aware that their initiative is unlikely to find supporters among the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. In Russia, isolationist sentiments prevail.
In addition, for domestic audiences, the authorities make up for the lack of tangible economic growth with demonstrations of growth in Minsk’s authority at international level through providing a platform for religious, sportive and other dialogues.
The announced redistribution of powers in Russia is likely to devalue the Union State for it
Belarus and Russia started 2020 without an oil agreement and blurred agreements on gas.
Minsk ponders about oil deliveries from the West
Amidst difficult talks with Russia, Belarus is looking for alternative routes for energy imports, including in the West.
Media pressure on the authorities appears to be effective
Relatives of those convicted for economic violations attempt to adopt the good practice established by the Mothers 328 movement and those...
2020 may set up a landmark in Belarusian-Serbian defence cooperation
Belarus and Serbia appear to be willing to develop comprehensive military cooperation and in 2020 Belarusian-Serbian relations may reach a...
Authorities resume repressions; the president declares no changes in the economic policy
Law enforcers en masse persecuted participants in public rallies for Belarus’ independence and against deeper integration with Russia.
2019 Review: heightened conflict amidst new attempts to enforce "deeper integration"
Amid numerous escalations in 2019, Belarus and Russia failed to find a compromise on bilateral trade issues.
2019 Review: significant progress in normalizing relations with the EU and the United States
In 2019, Belarus made significant progress in normalizing relations with the West.
2019 Review: political parties and civil society succeeded in promoting their initiatives
It is not that civil society and political parties significantly strengthened their positions in 2019, however, their influence enhanced.
2019 Review: the security situation was relatively stable
Belarus’ overall security situation in 2019 remained stable.
2019 Review: significant setback in the election administration and modest economic transformations
The Belarusian authorities’ policy in 2019 rested on the “change without change” principle.
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9.20 – Audacity
Einarr paced up and down the beach of the tiny island where they had been forced aground. Less than a full day after the capture of the women, more ships had come to harry them. It was almost as though the Usurper knew where they were going to be. Father had not given himself over to pacing, but Einarr could see the restlessness in his face. Out there, on the water, half a dozen ships circled like sharks, waiting for the three beached boats to make a run for it. Waiting for sport.
The men were building lean-tos on the beach. They hadn’t been ordered to, but none of the Captains saw fit to gainsay them. Better to have the shelter, Einarr thought, than to be stuck in the elements should it decide to pour before they were ready. Soon or late, there would be a plan. They had already wasted too much time here, though, to Einarr’s way of thinking. The longer they waited, the more ships would join that hungry pack.
An idea came to him. “Hrug! Jorir!”
Einarr looked about: neither of his friends was in view. Grumbling, he went in search of them. There were very few places on this island they might be, and he only had to check two of them before he discovered the svartdvergr sharpening swords in the company of the mute.
“Just the two I was looking for!”
Jorir looked up, startled, but did not cease grinding Irding’s chipped axe bit. Hrug waved a relaxed greeting, not looking up from the diagram he had sketched in the sand.
Einarr folded his legs to sit on the sand with them. Now that he got a better look at it, he thought Hrug was tinkering with the pattern they would need to destroy the Weaving. With a grunt, he looked back up. “How much do you two know about disrupting Weavings?”
Hrug gave him a sour look.
“No, not that one. We’ve all grumbled about how they seem to know exactly where to find us. We also know for a fact that they have a Weaver on their side. I suppose its possible she’s not working her Art to keep her son in power, but I doubt it.”
“And you’re thinking that you and Hrug might be able to do something about it?” Jorir sounded skeptical. He kept his attention firmly on Irding’s blade: Einarr was sure it must have been sharpened since they returned from the Isle of the Forgotten, but it didn’t really look like it.
“Possibly. You have the most experience with Weavers out of all of us, Jorir, and as a blacksmith you must have at least some experience with Runes. Between you, me, and Hrug, we ought to be able to come up with something.”
Jorir frowned. “Maybe. But my knowledge of runes is all theoretical. Thanks to my own curse, I can’t even see runes, let alone read them.”
Einarr blinked. “So you are cursed.” His father had suspected that Jorir was under some sort of curse of his own, but it had never actually come up before now.
“And when, exactly, were you intending to ask me to do something about this?”
“When your own affairs had been tidied, not before.”
Einarr hummed. For all that the svartdvergr had a reputation nearly as bad as the svartalfr’s, Einarr had found no fault with Jorir as a retainer: while it would have been nice to know of the handicap earlier, he could not truly fault the dwarf. “All right. That won’t stop you from pondering runes with Hrug and I. Now. Our odds of being able to affect whatever spell Urdr’s woven directly are vanishingly small. So how do we use runes to hide from fate?”
Stigander brightened briefly when Einarr told him of the plan he’d hammered out with Hrug and Jorir, but then slumped back down into a bored despond. “That’s wonderful, son – once we’re off this island. But how do we get past them?” He gestured emphatically out over the water at the drakken lying in wait.
Einarr could not quite suppress a grin. “Audaciously, Father. How else?”
Stigander quirked an eyebrow and stayed silent.
“In all seriousness, Father, isn’t that what you and Kormund and I need to figure out? Or perhaps the three of us and our Mates?”
The last fire of daylight had vanished from the sky when the three ships slipped from the shore of their tiny refuge island out onto the open ocean, where a pack of the Wolf’s ships circled hungrily.
Einarr, standing under the mast, stared out over the black water and the indigo, pinpricked sky. A small smile played on his mouth. The answer he had sought from Jorir and Hrug had actually came from Sivid, in the end. “The Norns always correct their weave,” he had muttered darkly, rolling dice between his fingers.
The Norns always correct their weave. It was so simple, Einarr had nearly missed it. Across the yardarms of all three ships, they had written in runes the words “cursebreaker” and “reweaver,” and every man aboard had said a prayer that the Norns would help them in their task. Even Sivid. If Urdr was abusing her power the way Einarr expected, then surely the weavers of Fate would aid them in their task.
Now all they had to do was break past Ulfr’s trained hounds without putting any more blood in the water then they had to. That was why they were sailing dark now: it would never get them past the enemy encirclement, but it just might let the Vidofnir and her sister ships make good use of a little shock-and-awe.
The air hung still over their boats. The only sound was the lapping of water against the hulls and the occasional gentle swish of the oars. At each man’s feet, in a tiny rock oven, a torch smoldered. It was almost time.
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Financial Collapse 2013
CarlosMurphy Markets, U.S 2013, celente, collapse, economy, financial, global, jim rickards, jim willie, john williams, marc faber, max keiser, michael kreiger, Peter Schiff Comments Off on Financial Collapse 2013
Many economists and analysts have been warning of a Global Financial collapse is just up ahead. As 2012 draws to a close a number of those well known names have risked their reputations and predicted what lies ahead in 2013. I have pieced together some of those predictions.
[1]Jim Willie writes of a Gold Standard as a solution to the crisis nations find themselves in as the system collapses.
The arrival of the Gold Standard as the solution is being slowly manifested in the form of a gold-core trade settlement system, which will drive a global Gold Standard. The new system will dictate bank reserves practices, and render the USTBond as a rejected toxic paper relic. It should arrive early in 2013. In the process, the Western nations will become impoverished, as they desperately cling to the failed system. Anger will rise. Disorder will prevail. The USDollars inside the United States will be trapped, then devalued as the public watches in shock. The power will shift East inevitably, with the shipment of Gold. A new era will begin.
BusinessInsider wrote of [2]Geralde Celente’s (23 Dec 2012) view ahead.
Gerald Celente, the popular trends forecaster of Trends Research, cites the work of a former Treasury official and warns that the bonds are in a massive bubble that will burst in 2013 in what will be a financial collapse like nothing we’ve seen before.
He recently spoke about it in an interview with King World News:
“This piece is being penned by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, the former Assistant Treasury Secretary under Ronald Reagan. And he is convinced that the bond bubble is about to burst. This cannot continue to go on the way it is. Everyone knows that the whole game is rigged, and so is this….
The whole game is rigged. It’s ready to go down, and Dr. Paul Craig Roberts believes it’s ‘Bonds Away’ in 2013 as the bond bubble explodes and brings about a financial disaster even worse than the Great Depression.
Because the whole world is being propped up by these phony bonds and it’s going to collapse. It has to happen. Interest rates are going to start going up, and when they do the bond bubble explodes. You cannot keep interest rates at zero for this amount of time and expect anything other than disaster to follow.”
[3]Jim Rogers expects based on the US having a recession every 4 years and the existing debt is so high that 2013 is going to be a disaster and for everybody to be very worried. For interview on MoneyNews click here.
be very worried about 2013 be very worried about 2014, because that’s when the next slowdown comes. In 2002 we had a recession in 2008, it was worse because the debt was so much higher, it is going to be even worse because the debt is so staggeringly high now. So if you are not worried about 2013, please get worried
Max Keiser on an interview (Aug 2012) on the Alex Jones show gave a timeframe of April 2013 at the latest.
April 2013 at the very latest when those tax receipts in the US will be spectacularly short.
. Goto 32 min
[4] Marc Faber sees 100% chance of Global Recession.
Dr. Marc Faber the Swiss fund manager and Gloom Boom & Doom editor is still expecting a global recession in 2013 when the economies of the world could take a hit from negative developments.
Speaking to CNBC‘s Closing Bell on Thursday, Faber still sees a 100% chance the world heads into recession, echoing a call he made in May, as he simply can’t see where growth will come from.
“If you look at the world, essentially Europe, the US, China and emerging economies that depend heavily on China, Europe is already in recession, the German economy is still growing slightly but likely to go into recession, the other economies are already in recession. The US has decelerated and I don’t see much growth in the next 6-12 months,” he said.
When taken in concert, all the economies of the world could take a hit from these negative developments, he reckons. “I think we could have a global recession either in Q4 or early 2013.” When asked what were the odds, Faber replied, “100%.”
Is there anything the Fed or the Treasury can do, i.e. more quantitative easing?
“If you look at the injections of liquidity and the interventions by the Fed and also by the Treasury with fiscal measures over the last 15 years, [the measures] have actually already impoverished the U.S. economy,” he said.
John Williams (shadowstats.com) sees hyperinflation by 2013/2014
the economy is not going to recover. They are going to have to buy increasingly more and more as it does so the treasuries actually add to the increase of the money supply and that adds to the inflation pressures from there. where i see the risk and where i see the trigger here from moving into a hyperinflationary circumstance in the next year or two. By 2014 is the outside timing I put on it. Very simply is a panic decline in the dollar.
See 12:40 min
[5]Peter Schiff has been bullish on gold and has been proved right down through the years. Schiff has also be very vocal in criticising the state of the US economy and has predicted a US Treasury collapse in 2013.
Market-Crushing Treasury Collapse To Hit Around 2013 , Peter Schiff expects the coming crisis to blow the 2008-9 financial crisis out of the water.“The more you delay it,(The FED’s ultra-loose monetary policy ) the bigger it will be,” “so we need to raise interest rates during the recession to confront the inefficiencies.” Peter Schiff told Forbes in a phone interview – via Forbes
[6]Michael Kreiger in an article on ZeroHedge (Oct 2012) believes 2013 is when the US finally experiences similar problems to the EU as the fiat dollar ponzi system comes to a boiling point.
As Nixon’s Treasury Secretary John Connelly said when confronted by a group of European Finance Ministers: “it’s our currency, but your problem.” At the time he was correct, as we were at the very beginning of the fiat dollar standard. 41 years later the system is in its final days and our currency is about to become our problem as well.
There were always going to be massive consequences to keeping this ponzi alive. What is extremely unfortunate is the small number of U.S. citizens that actually understand specifically that the root of every problem we face right now is the fiat dollar monetary system, because it gives all the power in the country to the Federal Reserve and the TBTF banks that tell Banana Ben Bernanke what to do. Since 2008, many of the consequences of the fraud called American Crony Capitalism Inc. have been clear, but it has yet to hit the boiling point. I believe that the boiling point will be hit sometime within the next six months, and 2013 will see the streets of America beginning to look a lot like the streets of Spain and Greece.
Nobody sums it up better than this interview of Nicole Foss (Automatic Earth) on interest.co.nz of what lies ahead.
Potential Collapse scenario 1
Potential Collapse scenario 2 (Jim Rickards)
[1] SilverDoctors,
[2] BusinessInsider,
[3] Jim Rogers,
[4] Lewrockwell,
[5] peterschiffchannel.blogspot.ie,
[6] ZeroHedge
Marc Faber: Reset of Global Financial System Will Happen
CarlosMurphy Markets collapse, financial, global, marc faber, reset, system Comments Off on Marc Faber: Reset of Global Financial System Will Happen
Marc Faber on CNBC
We have too much debt in the West that needs to be paid down or no growth.
We lived beyond our means since the 80s now its payback period.
There will be an eventual “reset” of the Global Financial System.
The Governments will avoid instigating he “reset” and will happen because of either currency collapsing or markets imploding.
When it does we will be lucky to have 50% of the asset values that we have today.
Wall St Rumor: Major Financial Institution To Crash. Could It Be Morgan Stanley?
CarlosMurphy U.S 2008, bear sterns, collapse, crash, financial, institute, major, morgan stanley, rumor, U.S, wall st Comments Off on Wall St Rumor: Major Financial Institution To Crash. Could It Be Morgan Stanley?
Its beginning to sound like 2008, with Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers all over again. The signs all there, and a report from Beacon Equity Research suggests that Morgan Stanley could be the one to watch.
Recently we had the following reports.
Big money flows out of financial stocks by key financiers like George Soros and John Paulson were reported just last week and tens of billions of dollars have been withdrawn from the European banking system since Spring. The government for its part, has taken steps to lock down the banking system so that not only can customers no longer withdraw funds from money market accounts in the middle of a panic, but a recent federal court case set a new precedent that has essentially given the go ahead for banks and investment firms to use segregated customer deposit accounts to engage in highly risky trading strategies without the threat of ever being prosecuted.
..but Beacon Equity Research which analyises Wall Street chatter has pointed the figure at Morgan Stanley as possibly being on the verge of pulling a Bear Sterns.
Now, a report from analysis firm Beacon Equity Research suggests that there is an unusually high amount of chatter on Wall Street surrounding the possibility of another major financial collapse in the making. When the Department of Homeland Security or other intelligence services hear chatter they often raise the terror alert level, deploy federal SWAT teams and go on complete lock-down.
Thus, we should consider this latest piece of intel from those with their fingers on the pulse of Wall Street as a potential game changer:
Here is a piece from Beacon’s report:
With the stock price of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) inches from its Armageddon lows of Oct. 2008, whispers of the imminent overnight collapse of this U.S. broker-dealer begin to surface. Client funds, again, are at risk.
“I’m hearing rumors that another major financial house is going to implode,” says TruNews host Rick Wiles. In fact, the name I’ve been given is Morgan Stanley . . .
“It’s going to be put on the sacrificial alter by the financial elite.”
Beyond the evidence of a teetering stock price—Morgan Stanley’s troubles may never go away—leading to bankruptcy, if traders can glean anything from the financial activities of front-running insider George Soros, the man who warned in Jun. 2010 that the global financial crisis has entered “act II.”
Adding to the speculation of a Morgan Stanley collapse, Bloomberg coincidentally pens an article on Aug. 23—the following day of the TruNews broadcast—in which the author Bradley Keoun recounts the dark days of Morgan Stanley at the height of act I of the financial crisis in 2008.
“At the peak of Morgan Stanley’s Fed borrowings, on Sept. 29, 2008, the firm reported that liquidity was ‘strong,’ without mentioning how dependent its cash stores had become on the government lifeline. . .” states Keoun.
But here’s where strong advice from Trends Research Institute founder Gerald Celente and former commodities broker Ann Barnhardt should be heeded. Both consumer-friendly analysts implore investors and savers, alike, to withdraw from the financial system, warning that allocated brokerage accounts are not truly allocated.
Regulators were asleep at the switch in the cases of MF Global and PFG Best, both filing bankruptcy post 2008, taking customer funds with them to the financial grave. Why not Morgan Stanley?
“They don’t give you the information to be able to decipher whether they have changed anything,” adds Hurwich.
Why an establishment cheerleader such as Michael Bloomberg would allow an article which serves to remind investors of Morgan Stanley’s financial problems at this time may lend some credence to Rick Wile’s sources, who hear chatter about the impending doom of Morgan Stanley.
The timing of the Bloomberg article is no coincidence. Michael Bloomberg is only doing his part for the global banking cartel by tipping off that Morgan Stanley is ready for the “sacrificial alter.” Get your money out.
Source: Beacon Equity
Via: Woodpile Report, Steve Quayle
The following point is well made. Although rumours can be damaging and irresponsible, you also need to protect yourselves as the people you have charged to do this role have constantly disappointed.
We can make predictions or forecasts based on rumors and news, and often times we’ll be berated for acting to protect ourselves based on this information. Often, even rumors and chatter have been responsible for driving a particular stock or market up or down, so the very news itself, whether true or not, may set the ball in motion.
But, the fact of the matter is that neither the SEC nor Ben Bernanke nor Tim Geithner nor the White House nor mainstream financial pundits nor Wall Street insiders will ever tell us ahead of time that billions of dollars of our wealth is about to be wiped out.
We will only find out after the fact.
You’ve now heard the rumor. You’ve been following the news. The decision is in your hands.
Source: shftplan.com
Related Post: Jim Willie – Morgan Stanley Faces IMMINENT FAILURE & RUIN, May See 1st Private Stock Account Thefts
Death March To New Financial System
CarlosMurphy U.S collapse, death march, dollar, financial, gold, market, report, system, thunder road Comments Off on Death March To New Financial System
ZeroHedge wrote a piece on the latest Thunder Road Report regarding our march towards the new financial system. After all, the signs are there as outlined below.
the two remaining “sacred cows” preserving the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency are:
The belief that the Chinese will continue to buy US Treasuries; and
The US dollar will maintain its monopoly on world trade.
Regarding number one, the Chinese have been sellers since the end of July 2011 (note the date). With regard to number two, have you noticed how China has set up currency swaps with nearly all of its trading partners? Have you noticed how Iran has been excluded from the SWIFT system and has begun selling oil to some countries in currencies other than dollars?
China has been preparing for dollar devaluation for nearly a year now, but hardly anybody has noticed. While everybody frets about the Euro, the dismantling of the US dollar’s reserve currency status is occurring within plain sight. I think a deal was done between the US and China in late Summer or early Autumn of last year. Have you also noticed how Ben Bernanke has used just about every unconventional method of monetary policy he’d discussed in his earlier writings on preventing deflation…bar one big one? Dollar devaluation. Let me repeat that, dollar devaluation.
We are heading into a truly mega-financial crisis. This is (another) classic “I hope I’m wrong, but…” report. I think the crisis is going to result in the transition to a new financial system as the current one implodes. Best guess is that it will be either happening, or perfectly obvious that it’s going to happen, within 6-12 months, i.e. within our investing time horizon.
This report connects a lot of dots and analyses each one of them. The dots include:
Dot – Loss of US AAA credit rating in August 2011
Dot – China lashes out at US “addiction to debt”
Dot – Peak in Chinese holdings of US Treasuries
Dot – China starts selling US Treasuries
Dot – Surge in the gold price in August 2011 followed by steep decline
Dot – Lock down of the gold price (using “paper gold”) ever since
Dot – Movement of large quantities of physical gold from London to Asia (notably China)
Dot – Collapse of MF Global
Dot – Radio silence on China being a currency manipulator
Dot – Exter’s Pyramid playing out in front of our eyes
Dot – Iran excluded from SWIFT system
Dot – BRICS countries signed the Master Agreement on Extending Credit Facility in Local Currency and the Multilateral Letter of Credit Confirmation Facility Agreement
Dot – US granted China a 6-month extension on sanctions for buying Iranian oil (India already had one)
Dot – Revisiting Bernanke’s old speeches on deflation
Dot – Operation Twist
Dot – Comments by World Bank President, Robert Zoellick
Dot – BIS proposal to upgrade gold to a zero risk weighted asset in line with sovereign debt as part of Basel III
Dot – Comments by Robert Rubin (“consigliere” to the elite)
Dot – Recent meeting between Kissinger and Wen Jiabao
Dot – Why debt deflation now would paradoxically precipitate hyper-inflation
Dot – Demise of the middle class (theme)
Dot – Putting all of the above in the context of the fourth (and ongoing) price upwave of the last 1,000 years
Dot – How each of the three earlier price upwaves came to an end.
What Happens When Fiat Currency Dies?
CarlosMurphy money collapse, currency., die, end, fiat, financial, happens, market, money, next, shares, stock Comments Off on What Happens When Fiat Currency Dies?
Nice article on ZeroHedge explaining the steps of a fiat currency dying.Funny ting is, the pattern has remained the same for the last 4000 years. Why would it be any different this time?
This is today’s reality. It can happen here, it probably will happen here. And frankly, it’s all unfolding almost exactly as it has so many times before throughout history:
1. A nation rises to greatness and becomes wealthy based on sound principles and the hard work of initial generations.
2. Eventually, being wealthy becomes the natural expectation… an entitlement, rather than a goal to work hard for and achieve.
3. A nation begins living beyond its means to maintain the high life without the hard work, leveraging its credibility to trade tomorrow’s production for today’s consumption.
4. Living beyond its means eventually becomes unsustainable. Government begins to slowly, then staggeringly, devalue its currency.
5. The market (i.e. people) finally wake up to the fraud being perpetrated.
6. Financial repression usually follows– high taxes which steal from the productive, negative real interest rates which steal from the savers, etc.
7. Capital flight comes next. People take their money and run.
8. Governments implement capital controls, border controls, price and wage controls, and anything else they can do to maintain the status quo. People find out who the police are really there to protect and serve.
9. Capitulation (default) is the endgame; the system resets itself and begins anew.
This is nothing new. From the 3rd Dynasty of Ur (2000 BC) to Medieval Venice to the familiar stories of Rome and the Ottoman Empire, the world is full of monuments to the past greatness of failed civilizations.
We’re seeing the same pattern unfolding now. And sure, anything’s possible. Maybe the skies open up and the unicorns come out to play and the whole world manages to fix itself without skipping a beat.
But let’s live in reality: there are consequences when nations go bankrupt. And nearly every western nation on the planet is insolvent. That is a fact.
Certainly, the lies from our political leaders are entertaining. But how many more revolutions, riots, defaults, bank runs, stimulus packages, nationalizations, tax increases, pension grabs, etc. will it take to acknowledge what’s happening?
Can anyone afford to keep ignoring reality? Can you?
EU Has Worst Case Contingency Plans For Greece Leaving
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With the Greek elections on the 17 June, the EU is preparing worst case plans in the event that Greece would leave the euro. These include limiting ATM withdrawals and capital controls etc.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European finance officials have discussed as a worst-case scenario limiting the size of withdrawals from ATM machines, imposing border checks and introducing capital controls in at least Greece should Athens decide to leave the euro.
EU officials have told Reuters the ideas are part of a range of contingency plans. They emphasized that the discussions were merely about being prepared for any eventuality rather than planning for something they expect to happen – no one Reuters has spoken to expects Greece to leave the single currency area.
Belgium’s finance minister, Steve Vanackere, said at the end of May that it was a basic function of each euro zone member state to be prepared for problems. These discussions appear to be in that vein.
But with increased political uncertainty in Greece following the inconclusive election on May 6 and ahead of a second election on June 17, there is now an increased need to have contingencies in place, the EU sources said.
The discussions have taken place in conference calls over the past six weeks, as concerns have grown that a radical-left coalition, SYRIZA, may win the second election, increasing the risk that Greece could renege on its EU/IMF bailout and therefore move closer to abandoning the currency.
Even limiting travel is proposed.
As well as limiting cash withdrawals and imposing capital controls, they have discussed the possibility of suspending the Schengen agreement, which allows for visa-free travel among 26 countries, including most of the European Union.
Another source confirmed the discussions, including that the suspension of Schengen was among the options raised.
“These are not political discussions, these are discussions among finance experts who need to be prepared for any eventuality,” the second source said. “It is sensible planning, that is all, planning for the worst-case scenario.”
The first official said it was still being examined whether there was a legal basis for such extreme measures.
But the Greek people are still in love with the euro, rather how an alcoholic craves whats bad for it.
The vast majority of Greeks – some surveys have indicated 75 to 80 percent – like the euro and want to retain the currency, something Greek politicians are aware of and which may dissuade them from pushing the country too close to the brink.
However, SYRIZA is expected to win or come a strong second on June 17. Alexis Tsipras, the party’s 37-year-old leader, has said he plans to tear up or heavily renegotiate the 130-billion-euro bailout agreed with the EU and IMF. The EU and IMF have said they are not prepared to renegotiate.
If those differences cannot be resolved, the threat of the country leaving or being forced out of the euro will remain, and hence the need for contingencies to be in place.
Switzerland said last month it was considering introducing capital controls if the euro falls apart.
In a conference call on May 21, the Eurogroup Working Group told euro zone member states that they should each have a plan in place if Greece were to leave the currency.
Belgium’s Vanackere said two days after that call that it was a basic function of each euro zone member state to be prepared for any eventuality.
It’s all been well prepared for(check out older post from last December on the UK) , but we will be the last to know.
Argentina Bank Runs
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Reuters has reported of up to $100 million per day been withdrawn from deposits in Argentina. All the focus is on Europe and Spain at the moment but Argentina is struggling and a series of capital controls introduced by the government has prompted this action. Of course they have been through it before and know what to expect. Up to 1/3 of dollar deposits have been withdrawn.
BUENOS AIRES, June 8 (Reuters) – Argentine banks have seen a third of their U.S. dollar deposits withdrawn since November as savers chase greenbacks in response to stiffening foreign exchange restrictions, local banking sources said on Friday.
Depositors withdrew a total of about $100 million per day over the last month in a safe-haven bid fueled by uncertainty over policies that might be adopted as pressure grows to keep U.S. currency in the country.
It appears to stem from fear in a Government clampdown as it struggles with the economy and is on the verge of monetary restrictions.
The chase for dollars is motivated by fear that the government may further toughen its clamp down on access to the U.S. currency as high inflation and lack of faith in government policy erode the local peso.
“Deposits keep going down,” said one foreign exchange broker who asked not to be named. “There is a disparity among banks, but in total it’s about $80 million to $120 million per day.”
Its getting harder for ordinary people to get their hands on dollars as there is a distinct preference over pesos.
The near-impossibility of buying dollars at the official rate is driving some savers and investors to pay a hefty premium in the black market.
Many are taking what dollars they can get their hands on and stashing them under the mattress or in safety deposit boxes, fearing moves by the government to forcibly “de-dollarize” the economy. Officials have strongly denied any such plan.
The president’s battle to slow capital flight and fatten the central bank reserves needed to pay the public debt has prompted even tighter controls in recent weeks, making it almost impossible to buy dollars at the official rate. The effects have been felt throughout the South American country’s economy.
For example. Argentines, who normally pay for new homes with stacks of dollar bills, have been struggling to get their hands on U.S. currency since Fernandez started imposing stringent controls on dollar buying late last year. [ ID :nL1E8H6EZ8]
She wants Argentines to end their love affair with the greenback and start saving in pesos despite inflation clocked by private economists at about 25 percent per year.
Fear from the recent past has driven this behaviour but its understandable.
But savers in crisis-prone Argentina are notoriously jittery. Memories of tight limits on bank withdrawals and a sharp currency devaluation remain fresh a decade after the country’s massive sovereign debt default.
“There is a lot of fear, considering everything that has happened before,” another foreign exchange broker said. “Confronted by risk, whatever kind of doubt, depositors pull their dollars out of the bank and wait to see what happens.
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"This will be my last political campaign, no matter what. I've got nothing else to run for."
President Obama, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, yesterday. The "I've got nothing else to run for" is a response to a sad "oh" that follows the "last campaign" remark.
Via Drudge, which is continuing its black-and-white theme, now with Putin top and center — crouching and exposing his muscular arms — above a smiling Romney and an eye-blacked Drew Brees. The picture of Obama is, as it was yesterday, in the right-hand column. Today, it's a photograph — a nice photograph, with a hint of a smile. Also in Obama's column, Chinese ideograms above a link "China Ascends to No. 2 on FORTUNE 500..." Maybe the ideograms say "We're #2" (or "We try harder"). The stack of links between Obama's image and the Chinese writing reads:
'This Will Be My Last Political Campaign No Matter What'...
GALLUP: APPROVE SLIPS TO 44%...
Women outnumber men on US Olympic team...
Swedish billionaire's son arrested as U.S.-born wife found dead...
I'm getting a decline-of-Western-civilization theme out of Drudge's new black-and-white trend. There's Putin on top, looking hyper-masculine. The Chinese are rising up (economically). And Obama's all used up. Nowhere to go. We talked about that back in April, after I received email from his campaign saying "In a few days, I'll be hitting the trail for my last campaign." I said:
The man is 50 years old. His career is young. He's packing it in so early? This troubles me. Why no more stamina in the political arena?
I mean, what if he loses in November? He could run again. He could let 3 presidential terms pass and come back and only be as old as Romney is right now!
But even if he wins, what's he going to do? He can't run for President again, but there are other elective offices. Look at John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, and Andrew Johnson. All of them went on to seek other elective office and to win....
Why doesn't Obama have more gumption? It makes him seem too weak even now as he seeks reelection. Last campaign. That's annoying.
By contrast, Putin has gumption. Stamina. Staying power. And, by the way, he's sending warships to Syria.
But what's in Drudge's column 1? The only photograph of a person is Obama's brother — George Obama — the one who lives in a hut. (Rush Limbaugh's been riffing about that for years.) The other Obama is being used in some right-wing propaganda film. Easy pickings. The man needs some money.
The top photograph in column 1 is Saturn. (Yesterday's Drudge had us worrying about the sun.) There's a "Strange Vortex Discovered on Saturn Moon...." Just above Saturn is "Wasserman Schultz: 'It Would Be Nice If We Had Candidate for President Who Was Committed To America'..." Yes, yes, let's stick with the strange vortex that is the American presidential election. For some reason, the Wasserman Schultz line is the only thing Drudge italicizes. Perhaps that's a prompt to read the quote sarcastically.
Clicking through, I see that Wasserman Schultz has radically changed her hairstyle since her appearance on Fox News Sunday (June 8). Did someone decide she needed to look more conservative/conventional/feminine?
Wasserman Schultz point, in this new clip, in this new hair, is about Mitt Romney stashing money outside of the United States:
Mitt Romney needs to come clean and release multiple years of his tax returns so we can see why he invested in a Bermuda corporation and transferred it to his wife's name the day before he became Governor of Massachusetts.
So we can see why he's invested in Swiss bank accounts and accounts in the Cayman Islands. And you know, we also need to know why does -- what is the allure of investments out of the country. When he headed up Bain Capital, he was a pioneer in outsourcing and shipped jobs overseas.
It would be nice if we had a candidate for president who was committed to America. Mitt Romney is committed to making sure that either he makes the most money as humanly possible, or his investors do.
Imagine a man who tried to make as much money as possible! The Democratic Party is hoping Americans have been trained to think of that as a bad thing.
It's the decline of Western civilization, when we no longer flex muscles, we give up and let China take over. There's nothing else to run for.
We can always run for... cover.
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Ann's Daily Drudge Dissection
It's a trap! :)
I think its meant to immunize him from criticism of his disastrous administration. People will hold their fire because a) he's black and b) "its his last campaign" so why expend energy criticizing him?
Just like Anthony Weiner, who was "finished" but is now trying to insert himself back into the world of politics.
Obama is not done. Don't fall for it.
Lawyer Mom said...
Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered. I wonder if this old adage will be true for Obama. He is so certain he'll win that he didn't take the surest path to massive power: stand down, let Hillary take the nomination this go-round, and insure his own seat on the Supreme Court.
And China is about to have its own Bubble Bursting Meltdown. Too bad we're not positioned to take advantage of it. In fact, it will likely hurt us as much as it does them.
Re China, it does not help the DEMS when President Obama, Dopey Biden and Transportation Secretary LaHood each talk dreamily about how great it would be if we were like China. If they love China so much, maybe they should create some shovel ready jobs and dig themselves a hole to China like we did as kids on the beach.
And what a great TV AD Romney could run showing those 3 nitwits waxing fondly about China.
It is astonishing that a woman as utterly imbecilic as Debbie Wasserman-Test is actually allowed to repeatedly beclown herself on national television. Does she really think we don't know about her own overseas (including Swiss) investments, or does she think the Romney campaign won't bring that inconvenient fact up?
A pity our grandfathers weren't vouchsafed a vision of DWS; they'd have passed a constitutional amendment barring women from voting so fast, your head would spin.
I agree with Fen- Obama would love to stay in politics in some cushy job. He could bloviate from the Senate like Drunken Teddy Kennedy did for years. They will refer to him as the "Lying of the Senate".
Yes, because you cannot take after tax dollars and pretend they are your dollars and invest them in a place that is not under our control. Your after tax dollars are really ours waiting to be conviscated. The idea that money doesnt belong to the Govt. Is what offends the progressives. Does Canada, by the way, count as offshore? Costa Rica?
AJ Lynch wrote: If they love China so much, maybe they should create some shovel ready jobs and dig themselves a hole to China like we did as kids on the beach.
That hole is a great metaphor for the deficit.
It's like saying Jimmy Carter could run again after he lost in 1980.
John Kerry could run again. So could Walter Mondale. How about that guy with the Greek surname - is he still alive?
Paul Kirchner said...
"And he’s particularly interesting because he lives in rubble on a few dollars a day while his powerful, multimillionaire brother doesn’t lift a finger to help him.”
It's who he is. Even though it would be politically advantageous to offer help to the grossly impoverished family members he featured in the autobiography that earned him millions, he doesn't.
Pocket change, greens fees, Michelle's shoe money could significantly improve his brother's life. But no.
He's a small, small man.
Drudge has had Putim photos up for a couple of days, starting with one of him peering over his sunglasses with the caption, "The West is in Decline." Maybe so, but Russia is in decline faster. The birth rate among ethnic Russians is 1.2, a virtual death spiral. Its population peaked in 1991 and is expected to drop 30 percent by 2050. The only element of its people reproducing at a significant rate are the Muslims.
Russia has the world's third highest rate of heroin addiction and one of the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics. Outside of weapons, raw materials, and supermodels, it produces nothing it can export.
So have fun smirking, flexing your biceps, and posing with guns, Vladimir.
Indices for decline of America? Try the headline that women outnumber men on the US Olympic team. Title IX has all but DESTROYED mens minor collegiate sports like gymnastics, swimming, wrestling, and at some small schools track as well--the continued feminization of America..
The Narcissist-in-Chief so desperately wants to control his image that he is continually playing the I am a victim card now.
He wants us to see him as a fading away now, but always well meaning, hero that used himself up in a fight against unfair private business successes. He alone has destroyed them with Czars and Orders as our eternal Hero of the Great Redistribution.
Hey come on, Blameless Barry is taking care of the First Mother-in-Law!
It will be his last public campaign. He will campaign quietly for a Supreme Court seat, so he can have the ultimate power to define words and laws as he sees fit.
cassandra lite said...
It's going to be hard to walk around as the coolest guy on the planet after this. The Euro-preenies, where Bill Clinton gets a lot of his juice, won't be so enamored with him.
roesch/voltaire said...
After Althouse's attempt at a critical, cultural reading of pop propagandist Drudge, we come to the core of the conservative conviction and defense with this line: "Imagine a man who tried to make as much money as possible! "
Just make the money and run or stash it in off-shore Cayman phony Cayman accounts. Just make the money, no distinction between venture capitalist who actually support innovation and job growth vs. financial manipulation that feeds off of companies through high fees while they sink into bankruptcy, or ship manufacturing jobs off shore. It is this broken social contract with America exemplified by Ronney's children who have avoided any service to the country, and his avoidance of paying taxes that also leads to our decline.
Sob sob rip rip sob...**
Me weeping copious tears while tearing out hair and renting garments.... or is that rending garments....
Oh no, Obama's playing hard to get! No, no. It's a going out of business sale! Act now, while supplies last.
Hey, that's supply and demand. A basic rule of capitalism! He's learning! Stupid dumb fucker.
Little Debbie, what an idiot. She unfortunately is my congresswoman. She ought to disclose her tax returns (she refuses) and her foreign investments.
As for Romney and his Swiss accounts: a man smart enough to protect his wealth is smart enough to protect out nation's wealth.
What democrat hacks don't say is that most foreign banks don't want US nationals or residents opening accounts. Most turn away Americans. Too much regulatory and reporting hassles. Try contacting a foreign bank with the intent to open an account and most will tell you sorry, we don't take American's as clients. Stealth capital controls is what the democrats are instituting.
As for the reason for opening a foreign account, the reason is capital preservation. Setting an interest income aside simply look at the exchange rates for the Australian,Canadian Dollars and the Swiss Frank on January 20th 2009 and look at the exchange rate today. Simply stated if you had the means to open a foreign account in those currencies on that date and had done so, nothing fancy, just a plain vanilla certificate of deposit, the increase in the values of those currencies alone will have yielded you a greater return than anything you could have gotten on Wall Street. And with no risk at all other than the exchange risk. Incidentally non of the world's safest big banks are American. But Swiss, Canadian and Australian banks are on that list. It isn't that those countries have done such an outstanding job of managing their economies (by and large they have been pretty good on that) but rather how disastrous the democrats have been in managing ours.
As for Obama, after the train wreck of his Administration, he is right. He has no political future.
It is this broken social contract with America exemplified by Romney's children who have avoided any service to the country. . .
Proof, please? And while you're at it, delineate for us your "service to the country." As well, what have Obama's or Biden's spawn done in "service to the country?" Take your time. I'll wait.
. . .and his avoidance of paying taxes that also leads to our decline.
Again, proof. Which taxes has Romney "avoided," and, if you, please, distinguish between avoiding and taking advantage of legitimate deductions and loopholes. As well, let's hear about you. Do you take any deductions on your taxes? Do you return any more than the bare minimum back to the government, in line with your philosophy that the more you beggar yourself, the more patriotic you are?
Angry, envious and fatuous is no way to go through life, R/V.
RKearns said...
First, my first stop after Drudge is now Althouse.
Second, I think the line up on the left with Chavez, Saturn, the brother, et al, represent the out-of-this-world issues brought to us courtesy of the left.
Third, below Obama's photo is the disaster of the cruise ship which hit the rocks.
Finally, Breese is looking confident reaching the role of top dog in the NFL. He is lined up with a confident looking Romney (who is giving his look of confidence to Putin, who is flexing Russian muscle).
Okay, now I'm thinking about this way too much. Help!
SeanF said...
The Chinese characters mean "peace" ("hépíng" in Mandarin)
RV speaks like someone who has no money but demands that he have say on how others invest theirs.
A partner that wants to share in the profit but not the loss and without contributing any capital. In other words, a progressive.
I'm sure he has no problem with the kennedy clan that has for decades kept the bulk of their wealth in offshore trusts.
RV may not be aware that US nationals and residents are required by law to list all of their foreign bank accounts and report al of their foreign earnings and the reporting is rather detailed. Inconvenient facts for democrats, getting in the way of their narrative. .
@ R/V: It is this broken social contract with America exemplified by Ronney's children who have avoided any service to the country
Romney and his children have avoided no such thing. They have simply not chosen to serve in the military, which is their right as US citizens.
Bill Clinton, on the other hand, demonstrably did avoid serving in the military. No problem with that, right, R/V?
They have, however, served in overseas missions doing good works, which I'm told by leftists should be considered another form of "service." Or did I get that wrong, R/V? The only notion of service is military service, after all?
Around two tenths of one percent of the population of this country is currently serving in in the military. Your statement is, as per your usual drivel, asinine and stupid.
Chris of course we will not know what taxes Romney avoid as he does not want to reveal all his tax returns. Joe Biden's son served in Iraq, but not one Romney child has done so. Percentage wise I probably pay more than most millionaires on my taxes, but I am not angry, instead I am one of those happy liberal/ moderates who live quite comfortably on income and investments.
I predict Obama will spend his post-presidential "career" speaking to blacks and blaming whites for everything. He's no Bill Clinton.
James Pawlak said...
It is more likely that he will RUN FROM JUSTICE (To Kenya or Indonesia) when the truths about his treason and high crimes come out.
Real American said...
it will be his last campaign. if Obama somehow "loses" he'll have Mitt Romney arrested as an enemy of the state, congress will be declared illegal and martial law will be instituted. Then he won't have to worry about elections anymore. That's how dictators do it, right? And you can't complain or you're a raaaaaaaacist.
"Everything Barack Obama says has an expiration date"
- Rush Limbaugh, 2008.
It is this broken social contract with America exemplified by Ronney's children who have avoided any service to the country, and his avoidance of paying taxes that also leads to our decline.
Last I looked, the same can be said of Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm.
"Blogger roesch/voltaire said...
Chris of course we will not know what taxes Romney avoid as he does not want to reveal all his tax returns. Joe Biden's son served in Iraq, but not one Romney child has done so.............."
Biden's son was a JAG officer at a well protected base camp. Probably buffing his resume for future political office. Meanwhile,McCain's son served as a Marine rifleman and Sarah Palin's son served in an Army infantry unit..........I don't remember you commending either.
re: black and white,
Printer ran out of color cartridge
Visually everything is equal
Chef of course service to the country can include more than military service, there are such things as Teach for America, working in hospitals etc.-- to get an idea of what I mean I suggest reading Tom E. Ricks article linked here;www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/opinion/lets-draft-our-kids.html?_r=1-- and as far as I know the Romney kids have not done service to the country, but yes they have taken on the Mormon missionary service required of its youth. Of course I understand that conservative pols like to pay lip service to the military, while avoiding any contact except through pork barrel contracts that is.
I still think Japan is going to crush America, as I read a lot of convincing material by convincing people saying just that thing in the late 1980's. They had them some fine reasons by God.
Also, China seems to appear to possibly have some areas where an ideal level of societal control won't be easily attainable when the Red Plague comes.
"It is this broken social contract with America exemplified by Romney's children who have avoided any service to the country. . ."
It is always funny to hear liberals and progressive Jews of the Democrat Party talking about various Republicans, or their family's "failure to serve in the military".
Sort of like Republicans berating certain liberal and progressive Jewish Democrat politicians and media puppetmasters , and their families, for failure to be actively involved and foursquare behind the gay agenda and critical race theory on college campuses.
Pollster going to a campus rally for the rights of transgendered to adopt, use whatever restroom they prefer, and free reassignative surgery:
"OK, now I need a show of hands of all the Young Republicans and evangelicals showing up here in support"
"Ummm, anyone??"
Pollster at Bahgram Air Base in Kabul:
"Great to be here! Now that I counted all you native Americans, Mexican immigrants, Texans at this meeting with 850 soldiers...lets see a show of hands of patriotic liberals and progressive Jews who are stalwart Democrats and serving in uniform here!"
"Anyone"?
"Oh, you three in the back? No, you didn't understand me. I was asking for soldiers here who are liberals or progressive jews, not hands raised by journalists covering the Narrative of the meeting of 850 soldiers.."
Lars, in this thread I thought we were talking about Romney, so what is your point?
And American what country do you live in-- paranoia? to somehow believe that one black president controls the pentagon, the CIA etc and can order the end of our democracy is beyond satire.
It is only bad if you're a Republican or prominent conservative.
Bill Clinton making $100 million + since leaving office goes without comment.
Romney's wealth is bad though.
He doesn't have to report his returns to you but he sure as hell does to the IRS. And they don't screw around when the reporting is fishy. As for you paying a higher percentage of your income than the average millionaire, what a joke. Most millionaires earn ordinary income and pay taxes at the ordinary income tax rate. Add state and local income taxes and your average millionaire pays closer to 50% of AGI than the paltry percentage you pay. But they only get one vote, just like you and the same as the welfare deadbeats that pay no taxes at all.
Of course I understand that conservative pols like to pay lip service to the military, while avoiding any contact except through pork barrel contracts that is.
Idiot:
Col Allen West & John McCain disagree with you.
Seriously, could you be any dumber?
I think Obama's statement is very revealing. It shows a man who wanted to become president, not be president. This was all about ego and thank God for that. Had Obama actually understood how to wield power (like Putin) and had so desired, he would have caused much more damage to this country.
rv - you are a hateful bigot.
Of course we will not know what taxes Romney avoided as he does not want to reveal all his tax returns.
Shifting the goalposts, eh? Funny how only a few posts above, you were certain Romney was avoiding taxes. Now you retreat behind a cloud of ignorance.
Joe Biden's son served in Iraq, but not one Romney child has done so.
As we don't have a draft, your point is nonsense. But I do like how serving in Bush's evil war for oil is now proof positive of one's patriotism for the left.
I am one of those happy liberal / moderates who live quite comfortably on income and investments.
"Investments" are now evil, R/V. Update your Newspeak dictionary accordingly.
rv - fuck the high horse you rode in on.
Gee, I seem to recall one of FDR's sons was a Marine Raider in WWII and Harry Hopkins' son was KIA.
I guess everybody on the Left abrogated that part of the social contract, too.
Congressman John P. Kline (R-MN-2) is a retired Colonel and Combat Veteran who served his country in the US Marine Corps for 25 years, disagrees with you, you effing pansy.
Chef of course service to the country can include more than military service, there are such things as Teach for America, working in hospitals etc...".
..or serving as a Congressional page, a community organizer, an SEIU official, an OFA telephone solicitor, a board member of a nonprofit historical society, a park ranger...yeh, I get it 'service to the country'. Heehee
You've never been in the military and Barack Obama is a chickenhawk.
PS: Pete Hegseth is running as an R for US Senate in Minnesota. He did multiple tours in Iraq & Afghanistan. You pussy.
Oh, look here:
Valerie Jarrett has credit line from a Bermuda insurance company valued between $100,000 & $250,000
I'm shocked!
Stunned!
sch/voltaire said...
Chef of course service to the country can include more than military service, there are such things as Teach for America, working in hospitals etcand as far as I know the Romney kids have not done service to the country
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Ben Romney is a Doctor of Internal Medicine you ignorant clown.
Mitt Romney: Believe in Ameri, er Luxembourg, the Caymans, and Switzerland!
Debbie Wasserman Schultz & Valerie Jarrett & countless Obama bundlers: Believe in Ameri, er Luxembourg, the Caymans, and Switzerland!
FIFY, garage!
Garbage vomits: Believe in Ameri, er Luxembourg, the Caymans and Switzerland!
Disclosure forms reveal that in 2010, Wasserman Schultz invested between $1001 - $15000 in a 401K retirement fund run by Davis Financial Fund. As the fund discloses, it is invested in the Julius Baer Group Ltd and the State Bank of India GDR Ltd, as well as other financial institutions. . .
Similarly, according to disclosure forms from 2004, Wasserman Schultz had holdings in the Fidelity Advisor Overseas Fund. That fund is invested in HSBC Bank (a British financial institution), Hengdeli Holdings (a Hong Kong watch company), Novo Nordisk (a Danish drug company), Volkswagen (a German auto company), Rakuten (a Japanese shipping business), Richemont Cie Financiere (a Swiss luxury goods company) and many others.
Oh, and just as the cherry on top, for R/V/s benefit - she won't release her tax returns, either.
Go back to masturbating over the any minute now! Walker indictment, you witless windbag.
Ruth Anne Adams said...
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz' last appearance on Fox was a mere three days ago, July 8, not June 8. I don't think her hair has been 'radically changed' so much as professionally styled. It doesn't look like a new cut or new highlights.
Her usual go-to look is the big wet-look curls and today, it looks like she's had it professionally washed and maybe even hot-rolled. I think she did it to look less ethnic, not more feminine. Oh, hell, it might just be that there's less humidity in DC now that the heat wave broke.
"Perhaps that's a prompt to read the quote sarcastically."
Wait. Wasn't this supposed to be a multiple choice test?
Alex, I think that I am less of a bigot than say Joe Walsh, the Tea Party hero, who mocks the service of Tammy Duckworth, and I do not mean to suggest that all political conservatives avoid the military, but if you compare the number of Republicans in congress who served vs the number of Democrats who did, you begin to get a sense of what I meant. And of course I am trying to reflect the style of this blog which like to indulge in hyperbole.
@RV
....but if you compare the number of Republicans in congress who served vs the number of Democrats who did, you begin to get a sense of what I meant..."
Why don't you look at the actual numbers and get back to us?
Alex, I think that I am less of a bigot than say Joe Walsh, the Tea Party hero, who mocks the service of Tammy Duckworth
Joe Walsh did no such thing, you lying pile of garbage.
but if you compare the number of Republicans in congress who served vs the number of Democrats who did, you begin to get a sense of what I meant.
You have not the foggiest clue what such a comparison would show.
You have beclowned yourself to a level that would prevent anyone with a brain from commenting further.
But you'll be back with more lies and idiocy.
Hahaha. DWS isn't running for president, is she?
As if $1001-$15000 is remotely comparable anyways?
Romney's money goes on better vacations than 99% of Americans. I'm thinking this might be a campaign issue.
rv - are you seriously implying that more Democrats serve in the military then Republicans? LMAO!!!
Imagine a man who tried to make as much money as possible!
I read a statement like that and think, wow - you were the folks who welcomed snake oil salesmen into town before, having been thoroughly fleeced, you demand SOMEBODY chase them out of town.
Mitt's been a scam artist and will stay a scam artist.
You all his ignorant people with "problems" and will stay ignorant people with "problems."
You deserve each other,...
He can't really run for anything else, because he never had any skills in this arena to begin with, and the last 4 years has proved that beyond a doubt.
He is an experiment that (hopefully) has failed. A college prank courtesy of the Ayres, Dorn and all the ghosts of the ol' Weathermen gang.
"I'm going to be President!"
Yes. And then your term will end and that will be that. Life will go on and adults will again be, to some degree at least, in charge.
gm - sure make class warfare a campaign issue,, let's gin up the hatred of the rich.
Oh, so only people running for President have to release their tax returns.
Gee, I wonder why you're suggesting that?
Just like the investigations of Walker were?
Seriously dipshit, given your track record, you may want to refrain from what is or are not valid "campaign issues"
Then roesch might want to get the facts.
Walsh contends Duckworth is trying to skate into office on her record alone.
If that's all he's saying, it's a valid point.
BTW How many non-Democrat vets has roesch defended?
I actually come here first now. Drudge is just too tabloid-y and depressing sometimes.
Bu bu bu bbbbb but what about __________???????
Hahaha. Going to be a fun race.
Romney's money goes on better vacations than 99% of Americans.
Hmm. Didn't know money could go on vacation, it - like you - not being a sentient being. But I doubt it goes on better vacations than your Little Black Jesus.
I'm thinking this might be a campaign issue.
I'm sure you do. Just like you thought Walker was going to lose.
Going to be a fun race.
Perhaps. I'm looking forward to your disappearing in a bitchy sulk after the SCOAMF gets his walking papers, just like you did when Walker won.
"Just make the money and run or stash it in off-shore Cayman phony Cayman accounts. Just make the money, no distinction between venture capitalist who actually support innovation and job growth vs. financial manipulation that feeds off of companies through high fees while they sink into bankruptcy, or ship manufacturing jobs off shore."
It's clear you have no idea what you are talking about. Did you ever take an economics class ? If you took a recent one, it was probably Marxist anyway but you really sound ignorant here.
"Romney's money goes on better vacations than 99% of Americans. I'm thinking this might be a campaign issue."
The idiots who passed the FATCA law have screwed up relations for all Americans with the Swiss. Americans who live in Switzerland are now having Swiss banks close their accounts and tell them to go elsewhere. Have you ever heard of the Smoot- Hawley tariff ? That example of stupid xenophobia did us a lot of good. This will have a similar effect until the GOP Congress can repeal it.
David R. Graham said...
"I'm getting a decline-of-Western-civilization theme out of Drudge's new black-and-white trend."
Yes, it's what everyone is feeling because that's what they're seeing, "Western Civilization" (more accurately denoted as the Latin Church) being fundamentally transformed into chaos. The de facto Executive Authority of the USA at this time is the Muslim Brotherhood.
The "my last political campaign" bit is the truth as best he sees it: there won't be more elections, so he won't have to campaign politically again. Other types of campaign, foreign and domestic, there will be.
Needs an "Obama is like Nixon" tag.
heyboom said...
Anytime I see the name John Tyler I am reminded of the most amazing bit of trivia I have ever seen:
John Tyler, who died in 1862 has two living grandchildren, Lyon Tyler (b. 1924)and Lyon Tyler (b. 1928).
Mind boggling to think about.
Currently Drudge has a pic of Putin doing a squat with muscles bulging. Atop that is a pic of Saturn. I get an Atlas vibe, but Putin, with his ships to Syria is not shrugging, is he?
... thank God! And I hope he keeps his pie-hole shut after he is kicked out of office, unlike his co-failure-in-chief Jimmy Carter.
Romney's money goes on better vacations than 99% of Americans. I'm thinking this might be a campaign issue."
Let's hope so. Obama and his spendthrift wife have spent tens of millions of not his money, but our's, on vacations.
Obama's a wuss. He's used to being affirmative actioned rather than actually working.
You forgot Taft, who became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Tell me, Garage, what percentage of Americans go on better vacations than Michelle's Spain vacation, or spend like her on of her shopping sprees? Romney earned his money. Why do you presume to tell him how to spend it? Why don't you go out and make the big bucks and spread it around to the downtrodden? Too lazy or too stupid?
Romney earned his money. Why do yuo presume to tell him how to spend it?
Because shut up, that's why.
Honestly, DADvocate, I hope you aren't expecting anything close to an answer from the insensate broccoli imagining itself to be a pithy commenter.
Why do you presume to tell him how to spend it?
I'm not telling Romney to do anything. I'm saying he is monumentally stupid for not seeing this as a campaign issue when he's been running for years. Oh well.
LoafingOaf said...
I paused AdBlock on Chrome to see if Drudge's ads are in black and white. They aren't. The site looks much cooler with the ads blocked.
And the tagline on Drudge's Twitter account is "Black and white and read all over."
So, I think the switch is because Drudge wanted the new answer to the old newspaper riddle ("What's black and white and read all over?") to be The Drudge Report.
notice garage has nothing to say about the racist BOOers against Romney at the NAALCP.
""This will be my last political campaign, no matter what. I've got nothing else to run for.""
I'm sure that like all Obama promises, this one comes with an expiration date.
And drudge is going black and white to increase the impression of looking at a newspaper.
I'm wondering what years there were that Romney didn't release his tax forms.
By saying he must release his tax forms, Wasserman implies that he hasn't done so. And I don't know how it's possible to have run for President a couple of times and been a governor without releasing tax records.
Besides which, she apparently knows where his money is, so how did she find out if it wasn't because he released the information?
The Swiss sure as hell won't tell anyone. That's their *thing*.
I had to snicker when some Democratic twit -- Reid, maybe, I forget -- made the remark that you only put money in Swiss bank accounts if you "have something to hide" or "think the Swiss franc is stronger than the dollar". We'll ignore the false dichotomy for now. The funny bit: the Swiss franc IS stronger than the dollar. In February of '09 a franc was only worth 86 cents. Now it's worth $1.03.
It'll still probably be effective campaign rhetoric, of course. Resentment politics works.
"Of course I understand that conservative pols like to pay lip service to the military, while avoiding any contact except through pork barrel contracts that is."
I always thought that was John Murtha.
Also, shouldn't that be, the son was arrested after the wife was found dead?
Or were the events actually simultaneous?
Holy Fred, Revenant!!
My wife and I are skiers, and back in the day we'd ski in Europe. Back then it was actually cheaper than CO. And back then, mid late 90s, you could get 3 or even 4 Swiss francs to the buck. Now you tell me the $ is underwater compared to the cf? Wow, I guess we're not going back anytime soon!
Because I'm supposed to care more about how Romney spends his money than how the President spends mine.
SO suddenly liberals don't care about Obama's extravagant vacations?
They never cared about Obama's extravagant vacations.
They're liberals.
Because I'm supposed to care more about how Romney spends his money than how the President spends mine
Romney said he didn't know where he was spending his money. Oh well!
Old RPM Daddy said...
@Heyboom: "John Tyler, who died in 1862 has two living grandchildren, Lyon Tyler (b. 1924)and Lyon Tyler (b. 1928)."
What about Steven? Isn't he about that old?
"Romney said he didn't know where he was spending his money. Oh well!"
Reading liberal speak this means... when Romney entered public office he moved his investments to a fund that will purposely keep him from knowing where the money is so that he can be scrupulous about avoiding conflict of interest.
Am I close?
I know that politicians often do that sort of thing.
I had thought it was one of those obvious sorts of practices that everyone could agree was a good thing to do, no matter what side of the political spectrum they were on.
Guess I was wrong.
From the Russian fleet to Syria article:
Russia has occasionally sent naval vessels on maneuvers in the eastern Mediterranean, and it dispatched an aircraft-carrying battleship, the Admiral Kuznetsov, there for maneuvers with a few other vessels from December 2011 to February 2012.
A what? An "aircraft-carrying battleship"? It's called an "aircraft carrier", guys. I see history isn't a required subject in school any more.
"Because I'm supposed to care more about how Romney spends his money than how the President spends mine"
It is kind of cute that garage views that as a cutting rebuttal. :)
Seems like Drudge picks up on the underdog superhero persona (political Batman) that Obama began to create with fiction about his father and grandfather in the Dreams book. Obama created the non-white, underdog hero ("magic negro") who will champion the cause of "his people" against "the (white male) establishment." He turns the election into a racial and class war that pits the Obama Hero Cult against the Anybody But Obama Demons. It is black and white in most every way, and it makes quite a narrative.
ampersand said...
Eh. Obama can always fall back on papa's citizenship/s. He can run for president of Kenya or declare himself Queen of England, and since Europe loves him so much they can just crown him the new Unholy Roman Emperor. He's got opportunities in Jakarta as well.
Well, why should he run again? Most of his work is already done.
Garage, wtf happened to you during that recall cpaogm bitch?
Um campaign. I mean that was one of the most disgraceful, pussiest disappearances in the history of the Internet.
I'm noticing what light weight surrogates obama has to do his fighting for him on the campaign trail. Robert Gibbs came out of the ground like a dung beetle to spin a big glob of shit this way and that. Debbe Whatername Bitch who has been already been canned by the DNC garbles the same talking points. Not a deep bench at all. I guess the stench of failure is that over powering. At least good old, slow Joe Biden will be there by his side
A what? An "aircraft-carrying battleship"? It's called an "aircraft carrier", guys.
Actually it's a combination. The Russians call it a "heavy aircraft carrying missile cruiser"
In other words, it's an aircraft carrier with 24 cruise missiles (and it appears to be a pile of junk, like so many soviet surface ships.)
Shorter Dem line of attack:
Mitt Romney makes more money and lives in a nicer house than I do. I HATE him. You should, too.
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Liberal websites absorb/process the Al Franken news, part 5: The Nation.
The front page of The Nation is ready to impeach Donald Trump but eager to help Al Franken:
The Franken article, by Joan Walsh, is, "What Should Democrats Do About Al Franken?/With work, Franken can and should survive this story of his past bad behavior. But if there are more tales like this, he’s probably history." Walsh obviously loves Franken, and she's open about it. She "loved" his "hilarious" book and says it made her want him to run for President. She admits to having a "huge double standard":
I believed Moore’s accusers right away—especially given all the detail in their accounts, and all the corroborating witnesses. I confess: I spent at least 30 minutes looking for proof that Franken didn’t do what he’s accused of.
That's how the human mind works. Good to admit it!
I reached out to women who are close to Franken, and at least two say they don’t know enough to confirm or deny it, but they’re devastated. I don’t know him well enough to be devastated, but I’m enormously sad.... This... really hurts....
She does not want Franken to resign:
Franken has been an excellent senator; you can’t just trade him for a player to be named later. It’s one allegation, albeit an ugly one, and he’s apologized for it. If more come out, we can reexamine this question. But Republicans have persevered through much worse than this....
Franken has been an excellent senator, a committed feminist, a brilliant Trump foil, and the rare Democrat with a sense for the dramatic and the entertaining. We shouldn’t disown him just because Republicans want a scapegoat. We will have to, though, if these stories multiply, as they have with Trump and Moore. My fingers are crossed that they will not.
She's just rooting for her side, openly and nicely.
Meanwhile, 8 minutes after the Walsh piece went up, The Nation gave us "It Is Time to Impeach the President" by John Nichols. That's the balance at The Nation. Unlike Walsh, Nichols doesn't explain the urge to oust Trump in terms of his own personal emotional journey. He takes the lofty rational tone and says things like "The grounds for impeachment are sufficient, and they are well established" and who knows what a roiling cauldron of emotion Nichols is on the inside?
Tags: emotional politics, impeachment, Joan Walsh, John Nichols, The Nation, Trump troubles
I way prefer honest partisanship to the pretense of objectivity.
Here let me save Inga some bandwidth:
Until Trumpists and rightists call for the resignation of Moore and Trump along with Franken they have no moral high ground upon which to stand. Trump admits to sexually assaulting women, a picture exists of Franken doing so and there are multiple allegations against Moore (as there are against Trump).
A Republican is condemned and shamed, a Democrat is excused and ignored. After the fact. The act has the same effect on the victim.
There is a picture of Franken and he gave an apology, so we have pretty firm knoledge that he did the acts he is accused of. Trump bragged that he could engage in boorish behavior and get away with it because the women (victims) were willing. As for Moore, we have no proof at all that he did any of the things he is accused of.
The left is happy to convict an punish conservatives on the basis of accusation, but their fellow leftists get a pass, even when there is no doubt about their guilt.
Joan Walsh? Hmmm. Didn't we just hear from her about how she casually slept with her bosses based on the excitement factor?
Then I think about a couple of consensual experiences with men hugely my superiors. The come-ons took me by surprise, and flattered me, and seemed real. Like, of course I deserve this attention! I’m great! Or at least pretty great, right? In none of these instances was I chasing a job, or an affair either. I was flattered by the unexpected attention of a powerful man I respected. I knew I could learn from them; I enjoyed spending time with them. Also, by the way, they were married, so it was safe, right? I confidently spent time alone with them, believing they were interested in my mind and my work. Who wouldn’t be?
They weren’t. I would eventually learn that there was no actual relationship offer on the table, and no professional benefit either. And again I felt like: I am a fucking fool.
Yes, Joan, you were and still are a fucking fool -- at least on politics. You may be a great chef or something. Who knows?
I spent at least 30 minutes looking for proof that Franken didn’t do what he’s accused of.
That's how it works as an interpersonal problem rather than a public problem.
You can even see how it works as courtship. She looks for the good side of the guy.
Comanche Voter said...
Ahh-that Al Franken! What a kidder! As for Inga I don't know that Trump "admitted" to sexually assaulting women; he claimed he could just "grab their pussy". OTOH, good old Al, the no talent, not very funny "comedian" presents us with photographic evidence of the act. Nobody ever said Al Franken was the sharpest pencil in the box.
Meanwhile let's get back to the "Jeff Sessions lied to the Senate meme". The supposed lie occurred in response to an extremely convoluted, not to say incoherent, question from our boy Al. Had that been a deposition, and I Sessions' lawyer, I would have instructed him not to answer the question, until (ha ha--fat chance of that occurring) Franken could frame a proper question.
Franken has done a lot of damage in his Senate (and earlier) careers. But at least he's given our host fodder for half a dozen or more posts this weekend, so there is that.
There's something very fascinating here and it's not about the overtly biased lefty media sites.
I'm thinking, the media didn't find Bill Clinton victims. This is how Drudge got his start. Because the media looked away.
The media didn't find the John Edwards story either. They mocked the National Enquirer as a gossip rag. They looked away.
The media didn't find the story on Anthony Weiner either. Refused to believe it and even doxxed the guy who dared expose him. Andrew Breitbart pretty much exposed Weiner.
Again and again it seems our nation's media protects Democrats. Which is bad. But worse? Well....
The Roy Moore accusers didn't come out for the last 40 years looking for someone to tell their story. The media went out and found them, somehow. We don't even know how yet.
Oh, and the media didn't find the Franken accuser either, nor will they bother to look for more. And, a message is already being sent to any further accusers. Have you seen some of the talk about how his current accuser is a slutty playboy model who was asking for it? Doesn't really encourage any more coming out parties.
Maybe this is just my perception.
However, it seems again and again the media spends time and resources to find people to accuse Republicans while simultaneously spending time and resources to undermine Democrat accusers.
As happy as I would be to see the last of Franken, I kind of hope he doesn't resign, because I agree with Scott Adams that it would increase Moore's chances of getting in. The hypocrisy of the Senate leadership would be so obvious to Alabama voters.
I don't care about Moore. I don't care if they don't seat him and the governor appoints another Republican. I don't want that seat to go Dem.
Roy Moore's Law: America's capacity for hypocrisy doubles every two weeks.
-Burge
Trump bragged that he could engage in boorish behavior and get away with it because the women (victims) were willing
The operative word, of course, being could.
The subjunctive: it can be your friend.
Ken B said...
Trump is indeed guilty of not being Hillary Clinton.
Franken needs to switch Parties. He would make a really great RINO, and then the GOP would gladly cover for his small peccadilloes. John McCain would introduce him around to this Deep State Buds, and all would be harmony again.
Iowahawk wins the internet, again.
Moore exposed the danger of the feminist Slut Walk that threatens to obscure the underage/consent divide. Fortunately, he cut the courtship short following discovery.
Trump exposed the weird and depraved underbelly of social liberalism and specifically "friendship with benefits" (e.g. "casting couch" relationships) that threaten the equal status of women in the workplace and polite society.
Franken demonstrated the vulnerability of an unconscious woman to violation of her personal space and dignity. A lesser woman would have been paralyzed with that revelation.
traditionalguy
Are you referring to how the GOP bailed on Moore instantaneously?
Althouse rocking the Sexual Holocaust with a Frankenpalooza! Here in Eastern Europe the unenlightened Post-socialists enjoy much broader personal freedom.
Now, I am not an American woman, so I have little idea of the actual state of emotion on this stuff (disgust?). But the whole wave of outrage about sexual abuse seems it is devolving from genuine surprise into a mix of entertainment (a soap opera), a comedy, and a religious rite.
Fun plus sanctity. Its a very odd thing.
Another surprise is that the National Enquirer is not leading and breaking stories. I suspect they were seen to after the John Edwards business.
Gospace said...
"I believed Moore’s accusers right away—especially given all the detail in their accounts, and all the corroborating witnesses."
The US, in other words, may now, finally, be turning into Italy.
It almost did, post Clinton, if the Democrats hadn't turned up the "rape culture" propaganda after 2010.
Andrew Breitbart pretty much exposed Weiner.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought it was Weiner that exposed wiener.
"Franken has been an excellent senator, a committed feminist, a brilliant Trump foil, and the rare Democrat with a sense for the dramatic and the entertaining."
Translation: I like him, he's a liberal, he hates Trump, and he makes me laugh.
It's high school all over again.
John Nowak said...
>The operative word, of course, being could.
I'd suggest the operative word is willing.
If Franken leaves the US Senate, the level of civility there can only rise.
Whenever I have seen his questioning of witnesses in committee hearings, he has been extraordinarily obnoxious and insulting.
He himself does not deserve any civility or grace in his situation.
He should be treated just as meanly as he himself treats other people.
Its always high school.
When people grow up they just get better at justifying it, and making money out of it.
Its hard to be too cynical.
I wonder if The Nation was working on this in their latest cruise to Cuba or Russia. I guess Russia is out since the end of the Cold War. Maybe Venezuela next season.
They have Kamala Harris now, so there's your annoying questioner. Franken may be redundant.
Wait, hmmm.
I feel sad for people so invested in politics that a Senator Franken makes their heart race. I thought our childhood days of the Boy Orator of the Platte and the Happy Warrior were over.
lgv said...
So, as much as I loathe Franken (more so than Trump), I don't get it.
He did things he shouldn't have before he became a senator. Schumer and McConnell want an ethics probe? Seriously? Now we are quoting him from 1976. We
We have now coflated boorish sexist behavior, flirtation, sexual harassment with sexual assault. The net is now sufficiently big, considering we place no statute of limitations on bad behavior. It is time to throw Clinton, JFK, and LBJ into the pile, Let's remove all memory of these horrible men. Change all names and remove all statue of sexist men.
BTW, I'm starting a statue removal business. I see growth potential every week.
mccullough said...
Walsh is asking other Franken accusers not to come forward.
Bilwick said...
The heresy of Antinomianism rears it's ugly head once again!
Perhaps a witch hunt to offset the Democratic baby hunt that is now in its fourth trimester.
Diogenes of Sinope said...
"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up." Lily Tomlin.
Crazy Jane said...
All politics is tribal.
Infinite Monkeys said...
It’s one allegation, albeit an ugly one, and he’s apologized for it. If more come out, we can reexamine this question.
What's the magic number? Two women? Three?
But Republicans have persevered through much worse than this....
Right? They persevered through listening to the excuses for Ted Kennedy, the excuses for Bill Clinton, the excuses for John Edwards, the excuses for Anthony Weiner....
especially given all the detail in their accounts, and all the corroborating witnesses.
Yeah, "witnesses." People they told yesterday about what happened forty years ago.
the press = democrat operatives.
Californio_6th_ gen said...
We wouldn't want to lose a comedian in the U.S. Senate......ponder that.
For the record Mother Jones is still ALL IN on Trump-Russia Scandaling. The froglike Senator from Minnesota is relegated to More Top Stories, where he gets second billing in a three-character play:
"Trump Slams Al Franken for “Really Bad” Groping Photo, Remains Silent on Roy Moore"
This way to egress.
It would be interesting if Moore wins, will his lawyers sue for release of the Senator's names whose behavior resulted in payments and nondisclosure contracts during his ethics hearings.
"She admits to having a "huge double standard"" She "admits," does she. Do progs have any other kind?
Is there any instance of an actual prog consistently applying a common prog standard impartially to all sides?
Hypothesis: If the sexual harassment witch hunt makes it happen, it will be the first time.
Committed feminist? Seriously?
Are we still stuck on the "sexually harasses women but votes for Planned Parenthood" version of feminism?
Maybe Feminst Franken should call Nina Burleigh for a blow job.
You don't see that word very often, at least I don't.
I too have seen plenty of "defenses" along the lines of, "she's right-wing and a slut, so the hell with her." But apparently that is not victim blaming or slut shaming, because shut-up. And people saying they don't believe the accusation. There is an actual photograph of the groping and he has apologized, so what it there to not believe? That she didn't really feel bad about being groped? Because she is a slut you know.
Does the MSM not realize that they no longer have a monopoly on mass communications? That in the next few years (I'm talking five years, max) the media landscape will be totally unlike anything you see today? That the very concept of a broadcast "network" will be an anachronism, along with the "network" news? That the idea of "cable channels" will also be obsolete? Maybe they do, and that is why they are so desperate to retain control, so that they can implement measures to regain their monopoly. Did you know that people are being arrested for Twitter and Facebook postings in Great Britain.?
A man was arrested in Great Britain for persistently talking to a woman.
I've never been to London, and I have always wanted to see it. But I'm wary of visiting a police state.
Franken has been an excellent senator
This assertion forever condemns Joan Walsh to the ranks of the dingbats.
Did you know that people are being arrested for Twitter and Facebook postings in Great Britain.?
Nobody can be more terrified of the changing media landscape than the BBC. The Beeb is PBS on steroids.
I'm glad I was there in the '80's.
To be fair, at least in his first term Franken kept his head down, did the work, and was excellent at constituent service. One day he visited the large food company where I worked, for my sins. I tried to get him to autograph a box of Frankenberry cereal, but a company big shot told me it wouldn't be tactful.
The current trend toward elimination of statutes of limitation for sexual crimes will do a lot of damage. We know that eye witness reports are often wrong but imagine how wrong they are after a few decades go by. In this mob, though, we are bound to believe any and all accusations or be labeled pro-rape.
>A man was arrested in Great Britain for persistently talking to a woman.
Depending on what he was saying and how he was doing it? Could easily be legitimate. If he was telling her he wanted to screw her, over and over, I'd want him arrested too.
Back in the 60s and 70s predictions concerning the future of communications were being made by respectable mainstream sources such as network news associations, probably picked up from various think tanks. Here is a link to one with Walter Cronkite made in 1967 presenting the home office of the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DSu3IfRlo
They actually got a lot of it right considering the technology they had. One thing I notice in the predictions however, is that there is not much thought given to the end users using the technology to communicate to a mass audience. Something like that just wasn't on their radar.
Hmm. Is this true? I've heard that in Italy, married professional men are allowed to have a mistress on the side, as long as it's done discreetly, without embarrassment to the wife.
If true, all this consensual sex would ease tensions and greatly reduce the risk of unwanted sexual groping.
Nobody gropes, if they are getting laid, right?
I will check with Bay Area Gal on this important societal development, and whether Sophia Loren is still around.
Something like that just wasn't on their radar.
The future was going to be just like the present, but with more technology, and maybe funny clothes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6jonPY9D6A
Skip ahead to 15:35, they got the purple hair right.
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change has submerged the feminist narrative, creating social refugees who will not experience Slut Walks in the future.
Note to immature men and clowns everywhere: don't violate the personal space and dignity of unconscious women, even in jest.
An attractive woman will get her ass pinched black and blue on the streets of Rome.
One thing I notice in the predictions however, is that there is not much thought given to the end users using the technology to communicate to a mass audience. Something like that just wasn't on their radar.
That is the hubris of the elite. They never expect that normal, everyday people will want to say things back. They could never imagine that regular folks would want to actually create their own content, form their own opinions, or actually participate in debate and discussion of their own accord. They're just mindless drones that just consume whatever is presented to them without objection.
Of course in reality, once the various barriers are removed it turns out that human beings tend to not behave in the ways that the enlightened imagined they would. They tend to have these annoying opinions and questions for some reason.
"a committed feminist"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ekki_YH2g
That is the hubris of the elite. They never expect that normal, everyday people will want to say things back.
Why should the Technocrats care what normal people say? From their perspective society needs to be managed by experts who have the expertise to determine what is best, with what is best somehow, by coincidence I'm sure, turning out to be beneficial for the experts. Its pure chance, really.
What used to happen to (some) gentlemen who disgraced themselves -
Major Valentine Baker (Baker Pasha) - Soldier, explorer, and, in the end, mercenary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Baker
"... Colonel Baker's career in the British army came to an untimely end. He was arrested on a charge of indecent assault upon a young woman in a railway carriage. Baker offered no defence, and was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fine. He was then dismissed from the service.[1] The case led to the introduction of corridors on trains; previously compartments only had doors to the outside."
"Two years later, having meanwhile left England, he entered the service of the Ottoman Army in the war with Russia."
"He remained in command of the Egyptian police until his death in 1887"
A useful and very adventurous life.
As with Kipling's "gentlemen rankers", there was a way off into the empires and a new start -
"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
Kipling, Mandalay
"I confess: I spent at least 30 minutes looking for proof that Franken didn’t do what he’s accused of."
Interesting. There is no proof at all that he stuck his tongue in her mouth, just she-said without any he-said. So what is she talking about? She looked for proof that wasn't him in the photos? No, "I reached out to women who are close to Franken, and at least two say they don’t know enough to confirm or deny it, but they’re devastated."
So, you see. She asked some women. There you go. Case closed, mission accomplished. Al Franken is now convicted of holding his hands near the breasts of a sleeping woman. Shall we just shoot him and get it over with, or does he deserve worse?
Democrats are so awesome, they can rape and pillage and grope all they want.
@Jupiter, he deserves worse, of course.
Keeping in mind, that the woman whose virtue he impugned had previously posed naked, in order to facilitate the production of a masturbation aid. There are some nice boob shots circulating, and I suspect that copies of that issue are seeing a modest increase in value. I guess when you have sold off a substantial chunk of your virtue, you need to protect the remaining store all the more fiercely. Maybe Al should be forced to have his picture taken while he's sleeping, in a humiliating pose. A fate worse than Death!
"Shall we just shoot him and get it over with, or does he deserve worse?"
If this is a serious violation of prevailing customs, then he should be held to the same standard as any other such violator of current taboos and suffer the same consequences. If he is not, neither should anyone else.
Fairness is the real issue here, not the value of the standard.
The point of standards is that they are arbitrary.
These are human things after all, not some law of God.
Prediction: Franken will skate and Scott Adams will be right -- it will help Moore in Alabama. The Democrats have made the tactical assessment that Franken being allowed to skate won't help Moore enough to tilt the election away from Jones.
"Keeping in mind, that the woman whose virtue he impugned had previously posed naked"
So also had various victims of Mr. Weinstein, etc.
These customary standards are arbitrary, that is their nature.
Oh please, Lord, don't let a meteorite fall on the La Costa Resort, near Carlsbad, CA where the Left is holding the secret The Democracy Alliance conference with George Soros.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/resistance-royalty-pelosi-soros-headline-lefts-biggest-dark-money-conference/
Meanwhile in satire:
Evangelicals Announce They Will Withdraw Support For Roy Moore Should Three Or Four Dozen More Women Come Forward
Something like that, yeah.
Bad Lieutenant said...
The Democrats have made the tactical assessment that Franken being allowed to skate won't help Moore enough to tilt the election away from Jones.
How has no one found any dirt on this Jones?
"So also had various victims of Mr. Weinstein, etc. "
If all Weinstein were accused of was having his photograph taken with his hands near Rose McGowan's kevlar-encased breasts, I suspect he would have managed to weather the storm.
My hope is that this generalized witch hunt will ultimately result in so-called "feminists" evaluating where their movement has gotten the relationship of men and women today. I trust Ann to be level headed and fair, but my impression of the feminist "movement " today is that it is out of control and that there are no consistent standards to judge any man's behavior. The goal posts seem to move with each occasion and the political preference of the current sinner. Vendetta is one word that comes to mind for the "movements'" current approach to male/female interaction. ( I realize that a lot of this is a coastal phenomenon and that men and women in flyover country still seem to get along reasonably well.)
Yeah. He cheers the death of 60 million babies and supports the rest of the Leftist agenda.
Let us all be honest about what kind of country Joan Walsh and John Nichols want us to live in.
-They want a country where rich liberals can prey upon the poor masses above the law. They want a country where predators like Bill Clinton can rape women and remain in power so long as they serve the greater good. They want a country where Hillary can sell government influence to Russia.
-The greater good is sending the federal government after political dissidents. Anyone who disagrees with the party in power if fined, goes to ail, or is killed.
-It is gun confiscation and eliminating the right to self defense.
-It is wealth redistribution. Not from rich to poor. From favored corporations getting taxpayer subsidy and everyone else being taxed and regulated out of business. From people who try to be self sufficient to people whose votes can be bought.
They are openly admitting they are disgusting human beings.
If Mr. Weinstein had been caught in flagrante rape-culturo as this, I have no doubt he would be suffering very nearly the same problems. Note that he was kicked off his company board, Weinsten Co. is likely to go bankrupt, projects are cancelled, and etc.
A huge hit to his net worth and future income, not to mention all his professional and political influence.
All Franken risks is being removed from public office.
"They are openly admitting they are disgusting human beings."
It is typical for totalitarians to seek impunity.
Usually they have better. or maybe just broader, arguments for it.
And over much less petty things.
Lenin was good at that.
Father may I ask you a question in private?
Certainly, my son, certainly. Is there something troubling you, my son? Don't be shy to speak up. Remember, I know all the urges that can trouble young men deprived of the society of women here in the Senate.
No Father. It's nothing like that, Father. It's about this new thing they're all talking about. About this new treatment that gets you out of the news in no time at all and makes sure you never get back in again.
Where did you hear about this? Whose been talking about these things?
These things get around, Father. Two Senators talk as it might be, and somebody can't help overhearing what they say. Then somebody picks up a scrap of newspaper in the cloakroom and the newspaper tells all about it. How about putting me in for this new treatment, Father?
I take it you are referring to the Senate Ethics Committee?
I don't know what it's called, Father, all I know is that it gets you out quickly and makes sure that you never get in again.
That's not proven, Senator 655321. In fact, it is only in the experimental stage at this moment.
But it is being used, isn't it, Father?
It has not been used yet in this Congress. The major party donors have grave doubts about it and I have heard that there are very serious dangers involved.
I don't care about the danger, Father. I just want to be good. I want for the rest of my life to be one act of goodness.
The question is weather or not this technique really makes a man good. Goodness comes from within. Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
I don't understand about the whys and wherefores, Father. I only know I want to be good.
Be patient, my son, and put your trust in the media.
Note also that in the Weinstein fiasco the losers aren't just Weinstein but his family (brother, wife, children, brothers wife & kids), business partners, investors, employees, all of THEIR families, and etc. and etc.
Franken?
Man, I like La Costa! I went there 10 years ago for a nice week with family.
Did you know that La Costa was built by Moe Dalitz and mob loans from the Teamsters Pension Fund?
Fuck George Soros.
"Franken has been an excellent senator; you can’t just trade him for a player to be named later."
-- So, then no. The Senate isn't a zero tolerance zone for sexual assault. Good to know.
"Franken has been an excellent senator, a committed feminist, a brilliant Trump foil."
-- Except for the whole joking about raping them and groping them -- a totally committed feminist.
David Baker said...
If you looked like Al Franken, what would you do?
Rumpletweezer said...
Pavlov is missing a lot of dogs.
"Trump bragged that he could engage in boorish behavior and get away with it because the women (victims) were willing
The operative word, of course, being could."
-- Is it really boorish behavior if it is consensual?
William Chadwick said...
Heresy? Actually it is a plank in the democrat party platform.
Flasparty said...
Curious George said, "Trump admits to sexually assaulting women"
No, In a 12 years ago moment when he thought he was alone with another man, he talked about consensual contact (They let you ...) in general terms that, based on Trump's speech patterns, is generally understood to refer to himself.
Here's the deal: Franken stays, Moore goes.
And remember, it's a one-party system.
"He did things he shouldn't have before he became a senator. Schumer and McConnell want an ethics probe? Seriously? Now we are quoting him from 1976."
-- So is the cut off on old things being used against someone 1977?
Watch porn and masturbate a lot or go find fat/ugly chicks at the bar.
Although it seems that there are plenty of willing leftist women out there who like him. It seems with Franken it is more that he is just an asshole. He has physically threatened and assaulted more than one person in public.
"Trump bragged that he could engage in boorish behavior and get away with it because the women (victims) were willing"
Trump is plainly guilty in word and thought, if not in deed. It's like Jimmy Carter lusting in his heart.
I wonder if McConell knows he has made this crystal fucking clear. The republicans in this fiasco are worse than the democrats.
"Keeping in mind, that the woman whose virtue he impugned had previously posed naked, in order to facilitate the production of a masturbation aid."
-- Ah, there we are. Who had "A little bit nutty, a little bit slutty" for sexual harassment bingo?
His own violence whores could be bought to work against him.
In a preemptive strike, Democratic Gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, Bill O'Neil boasts about bedding 50 attractive females.
Good on ya, Bro.
As to the Moore situation, I have a solution:
1. Sessions resigns AG (worthless and clueless, anyway).
2. Write in Sessions for Alabama Gov Race, to beat Moore.
3. Appoint Sheriff David Clarke from Milwaukee as new AG.
Should be Alabama Senate race, sorry.
If Moore had run this ad, he'd be absolutely sunk by MSM and righteous Republican hypocrites:
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/alabama-democrat-jones-senate-nominee-celebrates-bravery-confederate-solders-tv-ad/
And this didn't occur a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. This happened after Democrats all lined up to approve the tearing down of inappropriate- in their eyes - statues and memorials to Confederate soldiers and bravery.
I feel like I’m seeing how sausage is made — by feminists.
I note that it seems the new defense is a bunch of women Franken didn't grope are coming out to defend him.
The media didn't care about all of the women Trump didn't grope who stood up for him, or the women who stood up for Moore.
So. Yeah. Don't care.
Washington Post asks handwriting expert (former FBI) to evaluate yearbook entry:
“Looking at the yearbook entry,” he said, “it looks pretty spontaneously prepared” — that is, it doesn’t look like the writer stopped and restarted, as though someone were tentative in writing perhaps because they were trying to imitate another writer. “It looks very fluid. I don’t see any indications of unnatural writing.”
“The writing seems consistent with one writer,” he added, though he pointed out that “Old Hickory House” and the second date appear to be different stylistically — though he’d need to see examples of Moore’s hand-printed writing to be able to determine whether it’s authentic. (Moore’s lawyers didn’t provide any examples of non-script writing that might show an inconsistency.)
Songer, the former FBI agent, was applying a different standard of proof to the question than did Hannity. Songer wanted to know whether he could demonstrate without question that the handwriting might or might not be Moore’s. Hannity, and many other Moore defenders, are content with the existence of doubt. (end WaPo quote)
The only thing I'll add is that you, as the handwriting expert, work with what you have. And what you have is rarely ideal. Nevertheless, I'd love to examine that yearbook.
Maybe, as Senators, Al Franken will grope Roy Moore.
I learn something new every day. I always thought feminists hated sausage.
I'm sure that Mr. Nichols was one of the scream-at-the-sky contingent on the anniversary of Trump's election.
Nyamujal said...
Schumer is Jewish.
Except for the whole joking about raping them and groping them -- a totally committed feminist.
Not just joking about raping and groping, but, at the very least, enacting them with an unconscious woman. The photographic evidence may not establish which base Franken stole; but, it does without question establish that he with exultation violated her space, with the intent to either threaten or humiliate her.
It is getting more and more difficult to be genuinely cynical, and the Left is killing satire and parody by turning it into reality.
Al Franken will grope Roy Moore.
Hopefully, Franken will do it while Moore is conscious, then Moore will address Franken's female (i.e. competitive) or male (i.e. misogynistic) chauvinism at 10 paces.
See today's "Bleat" (humorist James Lilek's blog) for an interesting rumination on Franken. My favorite part is Lileks calling Franken a "toad," which is how I've thought of him since he switched from comedy (I actually liked the Stuart Smalley movie) to State-shtupping.
Spiros said...
Al Franken's accuser is an extremely attractive woman. No doubt about it. Usually, it's men that find attractive women untrustworthy. This is known as the "too hot to trust" theory. But in this case, Ms. Walsh adopted the sort of macho attitude that douche-bags have about good looking women on the prowl. In seeking to empower women, Ms. Walsh has adopted traditional gender attitudes! Really sad stuff!
@William: thanks for the heads up.
What we have here is the Droit de Signeur trying to come back: our so-called "betters" i.e. the Democrats and GOPe have rights to rape and harass and do whatever, before we peasants have any rights.
And why? Because they are our betters. Just ask them. As with the kings and aristocracy of old, they get to prey on people and it's just their privilege to do so.
Where is Washington and Jefferson now?
RE: If you looked like Al Franken, what would you do?
Achilles said..."Watch porn and masturbate a lot or go find fat/ugly chicks at the bar. Although it seems that there are plenty of willing leftist women out there who like him."
The only leftist woman that I can think of who'd be willing to put out for the cause - is Ashley Judd. But even here I'm sure there'd be conditions, including a severe time limit.
Moore still has a chance to save himself (politically). He can still play the Kevin Spacey card:
"Fellow Alabamans. With respect to the charges against me, I was simply too drunk to remember what happened with those 14 year old girls in the 70s. Was drinking a lotta Wild Turkey back then. However, I do believe 14 was the age of consent, 16 for first cousins. Also, as of this day forward, I am announcing that I am a Gay Dixiecrat. Freebird!"
I love that the lefties have "gathered themselves" and have faithfully returned to full blown defense mode of Franken, putting the lie to EVERYTHING the lefties have been saying about sexual assaults.
Not to worry though. The Lefty Outrage Click has been set to go off in just 20 years when suddenly the lefties will admit publicly that Franken should have resigned.
Just 20 years to go for Lefty Principles Rediscovery!
David Baker,
I more or less think Roy Moore did sign the year book during the Christmas holiday in 1977- the writing is fluid and the "Roy" part of it does look like the way Moore signed other documents that are genuine. If that part is a forgery, it is an excellent one. However, I think every word and number after "Roy" was added in just the last week- the change in color, the change in the numbers, and the "DA" part. I think someone, probably Nelson herself, wanted to make sure no one questioned whether or not "Roy" was Roy Moore, and she forged the rest of the document using the court document she got in 1999 from Moore's office with his signature and his clerk's initials.
Tampa Bay QB Jameis Winston accused of groping a female Uber driver.
Will this groping madness never end?
The one 14-year-old turned out to be 16 in 1979. She remembered everything except how to do math. Moore says he never heard of her. The yearbook liar was 17 and the others were 17 and 18. Sixteen was the age of consent in 1979. Since Allred was controlling the actual yearbook, what did that ex-FBI agent look at, a photocopy?
"The US, in other words, may now, finally, be turning into Italy."
I was reading about Italian politics in the '70's and '80's last night and the same thing occurred to me. What's going on now isn't the end of the world. It's the way of the world. A plutocracy overlaid with silliness.
The "DA" part was when he was a judge and his assistant added his initials when he signed documents--much later than when she said. Somebody got his signature as a judge and added it to the yearbook from an earlier time. Moore was a deputy DA in 1977 and 1979.
@Darrell, math is hard if you're a Democrat.
@Darrell, where did you see the yearbook signature?
Yancey Ward said..."I think every word and number after "Roy" was added in just the last week- the change in color, the change in the numbers, and the "DA" part."
I have to disagree since the "Moore" part also looks authentic. The "DA," however, may have been added by someone else. Nevertheless, I'd focus on the authenticity of the preceding signature and inscription. And frankly, I don't understand why Moore's lawyer denies the writing is not his client's. While the "entry" may not be authentic, the writing appears to be genuine based on the evidence currently available (which is plenty).
Meanwhile, I've seen references here - including your own - regarding the change in ink colors, which "I" have not seen. I suspect this assertion is bogus, especially since no independent party has examined the yearbook entry firsthand. Nonetheless, I'd like to see the "multi-color" copy myself, if you could provide a link.
I guess I'm asking what David Baker is asking for, but with a bit less skepticism (remembering the crude forgery that Dan Rather and other lefties fell for).
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/11/17/exclusive-roy-moores-former-longtime-secretary-dont-believe/
Delbra Adams, Roy Moore’s former longtime secretary and judicial assistant, says that in 13 years of working for the senatorial candidate she never saw or experienced any inappropriate conduct toward women.
Adams was working in Moore’s law office during the period that a new accuser claims that he groped her in the same office in 1991 after a meeting. Her desk was right outside his office door at the time.
“I think he is a good man,” Adams told Breitbart News in an interview. “I don’t believe any of this. I don’t believe it until somebody actually proves it to me. But I never saw anything like that out of him.”
Asked whether she saw or experienced any inappropriate conduct on the part of Moore at any time, Adams replied, “No. None.”
She further stated that she is surprised by the allegations against her former boss.
Adams started working for Moore in 1987 while he was in private practice. She followed him to his new stint as an Etowah County Circuit Judge and continued to work for Moore as a judicial assistant until he was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in January 2001.
Adams’ initials – D.A. – have become part of the story involving the allegations against Moore. Adams signed her initials alongside a stamp of Moore’s signature on the 1999 divorce document for Moore accuser Beverly Young Nelson.
Actually, I think I do understand why Moore's lawyer is denying his client wrote that inscription - since in the eyes of the public, to admit one is tantamount to admitting all. I think he also understands that there's little likelihood Gloria Allred will allow an independent examination anytime soon, if ever.
So, better to deny - up to obtaining access to the yearbook itself.
https://i.redd.it/sky87hi4byxz.jpg
Color photo and B+W photo of the inscription.
I provided the link 3 days ago for you. Right after you posted:
Leigh said..."The inscription and the "Love, Roy" are written in one color of ink. The "Moore, DA" and "Olde Hickory ...." are added in different ink, written by a different person."
"Wrong."
Tough having an internet that can remember things. If you didn't look, which you apparently didn't, you can't see the two different colors. I have a friend who can't see the two different colors. But he's color bind. What's your excuse?
MountainJohn said...
Another example of the superior nature of traditional ways. A couple of generations back, anyone who groped, mistreated, or harassed a woman could expect a swift, sudden, and very violent visit from her father, brother, husband, boyfriend, or uncle.
Sung to the tune of "How do you solve a problem like Maria" From the sound of Music:
He'll ram his tongue right down your throat,
When supposed to fake a kiss.
His fingers like to roam and rush
When your in sleeping bliss,
And when you call him on it,
He'll answer just like this:
Why can't you take a joke your just so silly!
How do solve a problem like Al Franken?
How do you make it all go away?
The media likes to say,
Al really ought to stay,
We can't have him damage our Democrat brand:
How do solve a problem like Al Franken!
...How do you keep his senate seat,
In our hands...
Franken has daddy issues.
The latest, from Ohio, is about a state Supreme Court Justice who is running for governor as a Democrat. His response to the Franken kerfuffle, posted on Facebook, began: "Now that the dogs of war are calling for the head of Senator Al Franken, I believe it is time to speak up on behalf of all heterosexual males." He then said that he would save his primary opponents the opposition research and then claimed that over the past fifty years, he's been intimately involved with about fifty attractive women, and also said in an interview with Cleveland.com that while Judge Roy Moore "apparently seems to be a challenged individual when it comes to morality," that Moore deserves due process, rather than having the media decide a Senate race. Needless to say, the response from most has been negative. Personally, while it's been against my policy since 2001 to vote for any Democrat, in his case I might have made an exception if I was an Ohioan.
Gospace,
Without seeing the original entry, how can you claim, well, anything. Also, weren't you relying on third-party information?
The Ohio Supreme Court Justice is Bill O'Neill, by the way. You go, Justice!
Beverly Young Nelson--or someone, perhaps someone working for Allred, took the stamp of Moore’s signature on the 1999 Beverly Young Nelson's divorce document and transfered it, copied it, to the yearbook, which was supposed to have been signed in 1977. They thought the DA was "district attorney," not realizing it was his assistant's --Delbra Adams--initials. Since she started working for Moore in 1987, the yearbook signature can't be valid.
It's worse. Two boors behavings boorishly equal twice the boorishness.
The Godfather said...
We have this thing in America called democracy. Franken was duly (at least the 2d time) elected by the voters of Minn. Nobody, not "the Democrats" or the Senate or the media, has the right to remove him from office before the end of his term because they don't like his behavior years before he came a Senator.
There's also democracy in Alabama. If the people of that State elect Moore to the Senate, nobody, not even Mitch McConnell, has the right to remove him from office before the end of his term because they don't like his behavior decades before he became a Senate candidate. And if he's defeated in the election, and it's later proved that the charges against him were false, nobody will have the right to seat him in the Senate until and unless he's elected there. Not even Mitch McConnell.
Okay, I looked at your link. If true and authentic, looks incriminating (superimposed).
Godfather nails it at 5:15.
@Althouse: I know the Franken and Moore stuff is driving traffic, and you're getting Yuu-uge! volumes of comments and (I hope) Amazon business, can't we go back to non-grope-related stories?
Just askin'.
President Toilet Paper Shoe's Perfect Phone Call said...
He takes the lofty rational tone and says things like "The grounds for impeachment are sufficient, and they are well established" and who knows what a roiling cauldron of emotion Nichols is on the inside?
One that doesn't like being so egregiously lied to?
...can't we go back to non-grope-related stories?
It's the Al Franken Decade.
Lies with adverbs are the worst.
It is getting pretty clear that this person is a liar.
The other person is lying about her age.
This is looking like a smear job from the start. I want to know if McConell put them up to it. The reactions to the allegations from the swamp look choreographed.
As with whether one "should" or "shouldn't" agree to consent itself, these are all social judgement calls, as well. Look at Roy Moore's defenders. People see what they want to see and the fact is that we should stop seeking to criminalize awkward advances/flirting. Signals will be missed. Franken doesn't have a history of this stuff. His case is also extremely mitigated by the fact that as a comedian/performer, a single instance of possibly taking a scene "too far" really doesn't say all that much. The photo is a little more incriminating, at least if there was touching involved and especially at his age. If not, then I don't see it as much worse than posing in a goofy or threatening way in relation to an effigy. Pranks are pulled on the sleeping. Making it a sexualized prank though was stupid.
Moderates will see all this because they understand humor. Whether lefties do depends on whether they believe moreso in the false god of PC identity politics. And the right will fail to get any of this altogether because they don't know what humor or performance (i.e. make-believe) even is.
The Toothless Revolutionary said...
I agree. The fake Russian Collusion story Hillary and Obama concocted to justify spying on a political opponent and hide the rigging of the democrat primary is disgusting.
Libs and Dems being crafty at checkers. They have no more use for the Clintons, and Franken's seat is safe, so they throw them both under the bus of righteousness and then apply it to Trump. Moore is just a happy little tree and a timely bonus tool.
""Trump bragged that he could engage in boorish behavior and get away with it because the women (victims) were willing
-- Is it really boorish behavior if it is consensual?""
I guess it would be boorish if you get slapped and brash if you don't--Brash, because you could have been slapped.
As with whether one "should" or "shouldn't" agree to consent itself, these are all social judgement calls, as well. Look at Roy Moore's defenders. People see what they want to see and the fact is that we should stop seeking to criminalize awkward advances/flirting.
Sorry. Too rational. Get out. You are no longer welcome in the new Puritanical Progressive Movement or the old Puritanical Conservative Movement.
The Huffington Post has a piece describing both Clinton and Sanders campaign workers alleging sexual harassment. No groping alleged, though.
Trump said he asked the benevolent Mr. Putin, very nicely, please please please with sugar on top, to admit to whether or not he interfered with the U.S. election. And then got repeated denials that Trump doesn't think are worth being skeptical about or investigating further.
Anyone who thinks that Trump's behavior in this regard is patriotic needs to be carted off to Siberia or poisoned with polonium. And if they're American and they believe that (because no one else in the rest of the world is dumb enough to) then they're no patriot. They're either idiotically naive or just downright treasonous.
@Gospace, much obliged.
Meanwhile there are strange noises coming from under the bus.
Men try to find out what you will and will not do - which is OK. But then there are people like Weinstein and Al Franken, The FrankenSteiners, who grab when they have been told, no and trample. They sort of manipulate situations to make you look stupid for for saying no - just exactly as Al Franken is described as doing. They start malicious slut stories - as is happening to this woman. If they have any power, they use it to try to degrade your life. As FrankenStein defenders are doing. All this does happen and women hate it. And so, in my opinion, there's no way for Weinstein or Franken or their defenders to make their type of behavior acceptable because all women have all been through the same thing to some extent and recognize it.
How will this end? I hope Weinstein is prosecuted and the Clinton. I hope people see through Al Franken - The Democratic Senator is a mean abusive guy supported by feminists as usual because he is a Democrat. "Vote Democrat in 2020 - the party run by sexual predators for sexual predators should not perish from the earth. I'm Gloria Already to Support Any Democrat and I approve of the message this sends to little girls."
I hope customs change. It's my opinion that the rape culture and the hook-up culture are the same phenomenon but at different times - a sort of before and after picture.
The point is Trump didn't work with the Russians to get elected. Patriotic has nothing to do with it. He is doing his job.
Hillary and Obama did collude with Russia. They both paid Fusion GPS to work with Russia. Hillary took $145 million dollars in bribes from Russia. Obama was caught on video tape promising to sell the US out. And he promptly did.
Hillary and Obama are traitors. Flat out. You are supporting traitors. There is not a shred of evidence Trump is doing anything for Russia or ever worked with them during the campaign.
In fact the russian lawyer who was in the country only because the Obama administration made a special provision for her to stay met with Fusion GPS before and after her meeting with Don jr while Fusion GPS was being paid by both Clinton and Obama. The whole thing was a setup by the democrats from the start.
There will be a reckoning.
The Republican President is a mean abusive guy supported by rightists as usual because he is a Rightist. "Vote Republican in 2020 - the party run by sexual predators for sexual predators should not perish from the earth. I'm ready to support any Republican and I approve of the message this sends to little girls.
Details are easy. Alleging prior statements to relatives and bedmates is biased self-corroboration, not independent corroboration.
In the memorable words of James Comey, no "self-respecting prosecutor would file these charges." They are, however, good enough for Democrats, the GOPe, the leftmedia and their dupes.
"Anyone who thinks that Trump's behavior in this regard is patriotic needs to be carted off to Siberia or poisoned with polonium. And if they're American and they believe that (because no one else in the rest of the world is dumb enough to) then they're no patriot. They're either idiotically naive or just downright treasonous."
Treasonous like taking $145 million in bribes or treasonous like a mysterious Gypsy woman telling you Trump paid her to piss on Obama's bed?
" The Republican President is a mean abusive guy supported by rightists as usual because he is a Rightist. "Vote Republican in 2020 - the party run by sexual predators for sexual predators should not perish from the earth. I'm ready to support any Republican and I approve of the message this sends to little girls."
And to Juanita Broaddrick.
The Left isn't even really trying anymore.
I wonder if the Toothless State-fellator was as anti-Russian during the Cold War.
FrankenPRETENDED to grab the nudes model's boobies while she slept, big deal. It was a joke. It wasn't clever, but it was funny, unless we've decided that no jokes are funny anymore. After all, jokes are most about making people lose their dignity in some way, so I guess if you think all joke are bullying tactics, none of them are funny.
Trump is being rolled by the Russians. It's pathetic and disgraceful. Bush "looked into his eyes, his soul..." etc. or some such. Trump the Gump is just as gullible - plus the fact that it's more than 15 years later. Any American with a shred of power and knowledge at his disposal knows that Putin's a killer and a thug and wastrel of Russian nationalism. He hasn't done shit for his country, but he creates a lot of drama and distraction and chaos in everyone else's. Which is apparently something you're ok with.
Go kiss the man. Go ride on a horse with him with your shirts off. You two are like birds of a feather. Just totally pathetic how incapable you are for seeing a tyrant (who wants to USE and suck off the US) for what he really is.
Yeah, yeah yea. This masturbation fantasy of yours rears its ugly little head at least once per thread. It shows how warped your sense of reality is. But then, you don't know how the uranium market works or how the U.S. regulates it. People like you could be poisoned by Putin with polonium and not even know it. How wonderful that there are people like you in the world; tyrants need you. So easily lied to and manipulated.
BTW, how are those science courses of yours coming along? Did you get to the section on how radiation works, yet?
This is the left. They are terrible people who care nothing for the truth or fairness or the rule of law. It is all about power and the purpose of that power is to hurt others and obtain more power.
This blog space is better without you.
Ritmo and Inga make a nice pair.
Soon we can expect Greek demigod to proclaim: POLONIUM POISONING IS A HOAX! IT'S A BENIGN SUBSTANCE, LIKE CO2!
I was thinking the other night about Jesse Jackson "counseling" WJC after the Lewinsky thing blew up. I would have loved to have heard that conversation! Easily the most laughably and transparently cynical political ploy of my lifetime.
Think of something intelligent to say for a change, Dr. Michael Mengele Kennedy KKK. I know you are incapable of participating in a thread that isn't just the standard kiss-ass canon to the right-wing bullshit machine, but do try. Geezers like you are supposed to get less easily distracted, not moreso.
"Ritmo and Inga make a nice pair."
Every court needs it's jesters.
That's weak sauce TTR. All assertions and no supporting evidence.
Meanwhile it looks like Hillary and Obama paid Fusion GPS to set Don jr. up.
"The network reported that Veselnitskaya met before and after the Trump Tower conclave with Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and founding partner of Fusion. Simpson was in charge of both the dossier project and the opposition research on Browder. He attended a Manhattan court hearing with Veselnitskaya prior to her visit to the Trump building.
The contact between Simpson and Veselnitskaya has already fueled speculation that the Trump Tower meeting was a setup."
Your wife and kids would be better off without you. You’re unstable, an extremist and always seem like your ready to strap on a suicide vest to go blow up some liberals. When you finally do go off the deep end, I feel so sorry for your family, how ashamed they will be to have been associated with you.
Added: Achilles also would benefit from some conspiracy theory addiction rehab.
Every blog needs people to call bullshit when they see it. Obviously you folks don’t like it. Too bad.
All assertions and no supporting evidence.
If you need supporting evidence to know what polonium does or how Putin uses it then I suggest you emigrate to Russia, make a ruckus insulting him, and try the stuff on for yourself.
Where is your supporting evidence that Clinton and Obama made a deal simply to give Russia a nuclear advantage over us? You don't even know who decides what when it comes to regulating the uranium market, I can bet. Or how much of it America had.
Achilles also would benefit from some conspiracy theory addiction rehab.
Inga and TTR's comments always have a palpable air of desperation. I appreciate the laughs.
“...comments always have a palpable air of desperation.”
You have no idea how this makes me laugh. Your party and your President are in deep shit, it’s only a matter of time before you realize it. There is no desperation on the left, but there is great anticipation.
Wile E. Coyote always had great anticipation, too. Never panned out.
Let me get this straight. Now that conservative republican Trump supporters think what Stuart Smalley did was sexual assault, then they now must agree with the radical turd-wave feminist progressives that college campuses are cesspits of rape culture.
"FrankenPRETENDED to grab the nudes model's boobies while she slept, big deal. It was a joke. It wasn't clever, but it was funny, unless we've decided that no jokes are funny anymore. After all, jokes are most about making people lose their dignity in some way, so I guess if you think all joke are bullying tactics, none of them are funny."
As much as I dislike Al Franken there is a lot of truth to this. Although I would add that Franken was probably aware of the revulsion she had for him and the photo was more 'revenge humor' rather than just a joke.
The Toothless Revolutionary said...Soon we can expect Greek demigod to proclaim: POLONIUM POISONING IS A HOAX! IT'S A BENIGN SUBSTANCE, LIKE CO2!
There is no known curie for Po poisoning. It must be extracted with chemical claws.
You can't "set up" an honest man, Achilles.
JackWayne said...
What I like about all this is that Franken is probably one of the stupidest Senators we have and yet, that’s not a topic of conversation.
Let's face it: She is an enabler who excuses and exonerates the creepy and assault actions of HER men.
Meanwhile she hates the 'enemy' men.
How was this piece allowed to be published by a reputable...oh the NATION. Sorry...my mistake.
Speaking of a Masturbatory Aid, Jupiter, that is one for the Left. And it doesn't even need boobs.
Has anyone published a book yet called "The Death of Humor"? Seems like a few canaries have already died.
Perhaps we need to go through a phase in history where all this pent-up hatred for straight white males can be vented. Let's lead more men to the guillotine to deprive them of "membership" in civil society.
If TTR and Inga bumped uglies, we would know, they would both stop posting for 5 minutes.
A conservative standup festival would be the death of humor.
Blogger Rt1 Rebel said... If TTR and Inga bumped uglies, we would know, they would both stop posting for 5 minutes.
Please refrain from verbalizing what you keep in your spank-bank
You've been great, I'll be here all week.
Jesus, you are stupid. After all the times Trump has played you idiots with a lie, you continue to fall for it. What Trump said was "Russian interference is a bullshit story and everybody knows it" Used different words to fuck with people like you, and it worked, just like every single other time he yanks you chain. What a doofus.
We'll look back on this brief bloody period of white cis male dismemberment as Hillary's Revenge™.
Speaking of humor, will Althouse review the vaunted Bill Maher's take on all this?
Al Franken was 55 years old while on the USO trip, he should have pleaded arrested development. I think his idea of the SNL Leslie Stahl date rape drug skit was in his 40s, which would support the pleading.
The point of this exercise is not in actual expectation that Inga or Jupiter show consistency. They haven't on Clinton or Trump.
It is, instead, to show to the vast middle of the road Americans what kind of 'fairness' they can expect from Inga and her ilk. Would I/my brother/my son/my father/ be treated with the willful blindness and exculpatory spin that Weinstein, Clinton, Epstein, Wiener, Edwards, and the Kennedys get?
For most of us, the answer is 'no'.
Not to mention the sheer toxicity of their ideology. The Left is unfair, inconsistent, and mendacious to a glaring hypocritical fault.
This is why you get more Trump. Because everyone acted like a fool and an ass a time or two. Even Ms. Althouse may have shown an immodest ankle (consensually) at some point in her youth.
Trump says it is not criminal to have acted a fool on occasion. Steinem will try to nail your ass for something 30 years ago...if you are a Republican or have 'incorrect' leanings (i.e. not a feminist)
Yup. We are going Alinsky on the Left and holding them to their own weaponized standards. They are screaming bloody murder about that fact, which is rich considering how they have been giggling through the rest of the nation's screams so far.
Pain in instructive.
Chardonnay can help white cis-males get through this brief bloody period.
Michael K said...Ritmo and Inga make a nice pair.
Balls or boobs?
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David Bowie – “Heroes” – Classic Music Review
By altrockchick on August 24, 2017
Let’s begin by cutting through the mythological crap.
Music critics of all stripes have completely bought, sold and swallowed the myth of a “Berlin Trilogy,” the series of late-70’s releases that includes Low, “Heroes,” and Lodger. I originally bought into the myth as well, planning to review all three albums together, assuming that they formed a coherent artistic statement synthesizing David Bowie’s personal sense of alienation arising from his nightmare experience in L. A. with the real-world alienation of a divided Berlin. I read several pieces by Bowie thought-leaders on the trilogy, and most emphasized the symbolic importance of Berlin and the influence of its unique zeitgeist on Bowie’s music during this period. West Berlin, the symbol of democratic-capitalist freedom, and East Berlin, the symbol of ideological, state-sponsored tyranny, formed a perfect milieu of opposing forces: good vs. evil, freedom of thought vs. communist dogma, the openly erotic vs. drab sexlessness. Since one of the positive outcomes of conflict is its ability to clarify individual identity and priorities, Berlin would have seemed like a good destination for a man who felt he had lost his direction in the cocaine-fed swirl of La-La Land and in the assumed identity of The Thin White Duke. Given Bowie’s gender-bending tendencies and theatricality, it certainly didn’t hurt that Berlin was also a universal symbol of decadence, a notion that had been reinforced in the minds of common folk with the release of the film version of the musical Cabaret in 1972.
As is true of all myths, there is some truth in the myth of a Berlin Trilogy and more than a little salesmanship. In a piece on Lodger that appeared on Quietus, Ben Graham comments:
Thirty years on, still no-one is quite sure where to place Lodger. In a way, that’s appropriate: as the title suggests, it’s a record that doesn’t quite belong anywhere. In fact, the only way to really appreciate Lodger is to remove it from the trilogy which, arguably, doesn’t even exist in the first place. The whole ‘Berlin Triptych’ idea was in many ways a deliberately pretentious marketing gimmick that Bowie cooked up after the fact, probably because he had no other notion of how to sell such an offbeat and disjointed collection of songs as Lodger to the public. It’s all part of the bigger picture, he assured them, and you need this one to complete the set; but it was a set he almost certainly didn’t have in mind when he began recording Low back in September 1976 — not in Berlin, but at the Chateau D’ Herouville just outside Paris, where he’d also been working with Iggy Pop on The Idiot throughout the previous summer.
Of the three releases, only “Heroes” was recorded entirely in Berlin. As noted above, most of the recording sessions for Low took place in France. Lodger was recorded in Montreux, Switzerland and New York City. So while I think it’s fair to say that Berlin certainly gave Bowie valuable breathing space, more intimate exposure to the Krautrock of Kraftwerk and Neu! and a chance to immerse himself in the vibes of a city like no other city on Earth, only “Heroes” qualifies as a true Berlin experience.
After immersing myself in all three albums this year, I’ve developed a case of righteous anger over the whole concept of a Berlin Trilogy because it falsely elevates a human experience to the distant status of artistic pretense. David Bowie was many things—the intensely theatrical performer, the fashionable subject of avant-garde photography, an accomplished musician and songwriter—but what made him special was his fundamental humanity. His life and career are filled with stories of how he helped other musicians who were down on their luck, and his best songs are memorable because they deal with core human experiences. His ability to put himself in another person’s shoes (or character, if you prefer) was exceptional, and while some may dismiss his various persona as “an act,” those people forget that great actors are people who move us, people who have the ability to evoke feelings in us that are often suppressed by the cold logic of daily existence.
Seen through that lens, the three albums take on greater meaning and genuine significance. Low is the record of a man dealing with depression, withdrawal and self-doubt, considering various aspects of his persona through stark lyrics, tentative thoughts and the wordless, evocative power of musical themes. Lodger is the man who has survived the crucible and is dying to move in a new direction.
“Heroes” is the healing experience.
When David Bowie left Los Angeles in the second half of 1976, he headed not for Berlin, but for Switzerland. Apparently he only spent a few days there before heading to Paris to produce Iggy Pop’s The Idiot (recorded in Chateau D’ Herouville, Munich and Berlin). Late that summer, he and Iggy took up residence in Berlin, forming a private mutual-assistance group of two in the quest to rid themselves of drug habits. Why Berlin? I’ve read that Bowie saw it is as a sanctuary city, a place where he could stroll about in relative anonymity. While that certainly rings true, producer Tony Visconti attributed it to the unique offerings of a divided city in an interview with Uncut magazine:
I think David just liked living in Berlin. There was so much of it, in those days, that was fantastic, fantasy-like, that didn’t exist anywhere else in the world. The impending danger of the divided military zones, the bizarre nightlife, the extremely traditional restaurants with aproned servers, reminders of Hitler’s not too distant presence, a recording studio 500 yards from the Wall. You could’ve been on the set of The Prisoner.
The dual impact of the passage of time and the liberating experience of being a relative nobody in the divided city reveals itself on the first track, “Beauty and the Beast.” The first ten seconds have a casual off-hand feel, more like a sound check than a carefully-composed introduction. Once we hear the piano shift to an insistent pounding rhythm, the music begins to form an edgy, ominous build as the band gradually ratchets up the tension around the overwhelming beat. When Bowie enters with an extended “oooh” (thank fuck they didn’t use a synthesizer there), the mood takes on a Halloweenish tint and the kind of thrill we get is that of a well-executed set-up in a good horror film. Meanwhile, deep in the dark background, Dennis Davis is gradually raising the volume on the drum kit, culminating in double-time thunder that forms the cue for a perfect transition to the first verse.
The lyrics to “Beauty and the Beast” have one dominant theme: the juxtaposition of opposites (night/day, beauty/beast, good/evil, real me/not me). The metaphor of the beauty and the beast captures our attraction to the inherent tension of opposites, experiences that promise both reward and a delicious sense of danger—“You can’t say no to the beauty and the best.” On a personal level, the metaphor describes David Bowie’s experience in L. A., the glamour capital of the world, where along with the beautiful and rich he indulged in the dangerous attraction of cocaine. The symbol also works when applied to life in Berlin, a living study in contrast and division—not simply between East and West, but also the divisions that invariably exist in wealthy cities (Bowie lived in a Berlin working-class neighborhood with a high percentage of Turkish immigrants).
From a musical perspective, “Beauty and the Beast” is a sharp departure from the largely introverted aura of Low. The muscular beat that drives the song sets up a raucous soundscape interspersing the something-evil-this-way-comes sound of Robert Fripp’s best-in-class lead guitar with Carlos Alomar’s crunchy rhythm guitar, Antonia Maass’ spot background vocals and Brian Eno’s varied contributions on the synthesizer. As an opening track, “Beauty and the Beast” has it all—strong performances from the band, lyrics you could probe for days on end and a refreshingly commanding vocal from David Bowie.
Further evidence of a mood change comes in the form of “Joe the Lion,” a wild, modernist cabaret number best-described as part tribute to performance artist Chris Burden (who did in fact have himself nailed to a Volkswagen) and part self-reflection on the feeling of numbness Bowie experienced as he kicked the cocaine habit. What really knocks me out about this piece in addition to the loose, playful feel are Robert Fripp’s fabulous lead guitar (he sure doesn’t sound like a guy who took three years off) and Dennis Davis’ drums. God DAMN those drums sound great! The Davis-Visconti combination received rave reviews for the pitch-shifting drum sounds on Low and “Heroes,” a sound that many have attempted to reproduce over the years with mixed success. While a good engineer might be able to reproduce the technical settings, nothing can or ever will replace the sounds of a live human being behind the kit—and Dennis Davis was a great drummer.
The title track, which remains one of the most moving works in David Bowie’s catalog, began life as a Bowie-Eno instrumental. The powerful background music, a result of oscillating detuned droning from the synthesizer and Robert Fripp’s pitched guitar feedback riding over a steady basic rhythm track, creates a palpable grandeur somewhat reminiscent of the Wall of Sound style. Tony Visconti’s ingenuity did not stop there, however, for once Bowie created the lyrics and melodic line, he upped the ante by setting up a system where the microphones were placed at different distances, and turned on and off as the song progressed. This forced Bowie to sing louder as the song moved forward, leading to the stunning emotional power of his exit lines.
The song is a story of lovers from each side of the Wall; the backstory is that the song was inspired by Bowie looking out the studio window to see Tony Visconti and Antonia Maass kissing in close proximity to the Wall. As Visconti was married to singer Mary Hopkin at the time, the affectionate but illicit couple represented a different kind of wall—the wall of social custom and obligation.
The Berlin Wall was more than a symbol of Cold War madness. It was the result of a game of chess between two leaders whose countries were geographically and spiritually far removed from the reality of daily life in Berlin. The wall did more than separate West from East—it divided families, friends, colleagues and lovers. For Kennedy and Khrushchev, those were trivial concerns. The people of Berlin were pawns in the larger global strategy game; they were unfortunate in that they lived in the one European city most prized by the Allies, one that took on significance far beyond its strategic importance. The building of the Berlin Wall was an act of state-sponsored inhumanity; its continuing existence a monument to human absurdity.
By placing two powerless people at the site of the Wall—people who were so powerless they could never count on seeing one another again—David Bowie imbued the grotesque scene of brick and barbed wire with the blessed spirit of human defiance, manifested in the form of a simple act of love. The opening lines express both the defiance and the overwhelming sense of powerlessness, balanced only by the existential urge to claim some kind of human victory in the face of human debasement:
I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be heroes, just for one day
The next verse can throw people off, as it depicts our lovers as less-than-perfect people. I believe that was the point—these are people who have been denied the right to be human, the right to make mistakes, the right to fuck the whole thing up. The situation they face is so dire that even fantasies about becoming dysfunctional people has a certain ironic attraction:
And you, you can be mean
And I, I’ll drink all the time
‘Cause we’re lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we’re lovers, and that is that
Though nothing, will keep us together
We could steal time, just for one day
We can be heroes, forever and ever
What d’ya say?
The male half then fantasizes about swimming like dolphins, a picture of freedom-as-play. In contrast, the lines “Though nothing, nothing will keep us together” and “Though nothing will drive them away” tell us that the couple is fully aware of the impossibility of their dreams—but isn’t that so very, very human? Hope is one of the most curious and endearing qualities of the human race, and though our hopes may be constantly dashed, we know that without hope we cannot survive. The repetition of “just for one day” now becomes more poignant than ever, as it seems so little to ask.
In the stirring peroration, David climbs an octave and strains his voice to reach the distant studio microphone. His tone captures frantic despair and frantic hope, the refusal to believe that something so harmless as love can be a threat to the state and the reluctant acceptance of grim reality. Lyric and voice combine to create one of the most moving passages in music history, a moment where passion overcomes reason and the power of the kiss overwhelms the power of the gun:
I, I can remember
Standing, by the wall
And the guns, shot above our heads
And we kissed as though nothing could fall
And the shame was on the other side
Oh, we can beat them, forever and ever
Then we could be heroes, just for one day
“And the shame was on the other side” is a tantalizing line, indicating that perhaps our hero caught a glimpse of an East German soldier turning away in the self-loathing that comes from following cruel orders passed down the chain of command. Another interesting line in the fade is “We’re nothing and nothing will help us/Maybe we’re lying, then you better not stay,” indicating the return of ever-present fear. Our hero then shakes himself out of it with a wish (“But we could be safer just for one day), then fades on the plaintive “oh . . . just for one day.” “Heroes” is simply one of the most powerful songs in rock history, a timeless work of genius from a man with supreme human compassion.
Nothing could follow “Heroes,” so perhaps it’s fortunate that the weakest track on the album comes next. While the other tracks on “Heroes” were largely the result of in-studio improvisation, “Sons of the Silent Age” was written beforehand, and it does feel a bit too scripted in comparison. It also feels like glam-era Bowie; perhaps if it had appeared on Aladdin Sane it might have worked. Much better is the psycho-industrial sound of “Blackout,” with its caroming imagery whirling over what is by far the strongest rhythmic performance on the album. The blackouts in question seem to cover power outages, impotence and drug-induced comas, but I’ve never been able to land on a full interpretation that works. I do know one thing—this song is fucking hot and it appears frequently on my fuck playlists to support the more intense BDSM moments of a scene.
Cigarette!
Like Low, “Heroes” is structured into two sections: the vocals in the first half and the instrumentals in the second. Bowie does violate that structure here by inserting the vocal “The Secret Life of Arabia” at the end of the album (we’ll deal with that questionable choice later in our program), so let me put it another way: Bowie should have stuck to the vocal-instrumental script, as things would have turned out better in the end.
“V-2 Schneider” comes first, a Bowie-only composition with strong bass and a breezy feel that is allegedly a tribute to Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk, the man who in my mind took my main instrument (the flute) and ingeniously transformed it into . . . well, whatever the hell he wanted! His most notable accomplishment was to make the flute a bass instrument, a concept that still blows me away (but does explain the strong bass presence in “V-2 Schneider”). Bowie’s sax is fabulous here, a sort of phased growling on a counter-rhythm that sounds both industrial and beefy.
“Sense of Doubt” is also a Bowie-only work, an ominous and compelling piece built around a four-note descending piano motif reinforced in stereo and set in contrast to a variety of synthesized sounds ranging from movie-house organ to orchestral to vibraphone. The sounds of someone gasping for breath or dying of thirst appear occasionally in the quieter moments of synthesized wave sounds, adding to the eerie feel. The piece ends with the sound of a wind tunnel, fading into the Bowie-Eno collaboration “Moss Garden.”
Featuring David Bowie on koto, “Moss Garden” is a very tranquil, soothing piece that could easily accompany your aromatherapy massage, or appear as a bonus track on any New Age sampler album. Personally, New Age music drives me up the fucking wall, so I generally do my nails during this piece and wait for it to pass into oblivion.
Actually, it passes seamlessly into “Neuköln,” a very well-constructed mood piece designed to depict the feel of life in the Berlin neighborhood Neukölln, a place heavily populated by Turkish immigrants. While not composed in a Turkish makam scale, Bowie’s sax occasionally sounds more like a zurna than a sax, particularly on the long wailing passage towards the end of the piece. That passage also calls to mind Miles Davis’ work on Sketches of Spain, particularly his heart-stopping solo on “Saeta.” The feelings this piece evokes in me range from stranger-in-a-strange-land to a touch of fear, similar to what one might feel on a dark street at night when the rain forms a slippery mist. In the context of an album dealing in large part with human separation and alienation, “Neukölln” is a brilliant closing act.
Oh, that it were so. Unfortunately, “Heroes” ends with “The Secret Life of Arabia,” an off-hand, humorous piece that could have found a nice place in the vocal section but doesn’t fucking belong here. Bowie biographer David Buckley points out that “its position on the album spoils the dramatic effect,” to which I respond, “Bingo!” It’s very comforting to hear David Bowie in great spirits after his battle with depression, but I wish they would have placed it directly after “Heroes” and sent “Sons of the Silent Age” off to bonus-track land.
“Heroes” has the feel of the artist resurrected, an oral history of a part of David Bowie’s life where he yanked himself out of self-doubt and found himself in touch with the world again. He was aided in this quest by a brilliant producer in Tony Visconti, a remarkably capable group of musicians and by the oddly romantic aura of Cold War Berlin. The result was an album for the ages, one that had no need of a Berlin Trilogy to ensure its enduring value.
Posted in: 1970's, Classic Music Reviews, David Bowie, Rock, Punk, Alternative, Garage | Tagged: "Heroes", Antonia Maass, Carlos Alomar, David Bowie, Dennis Davis, female music blogger, music review, Robert Fripp, The Beauty and the Beast, Tony Visconti
hotfox63 August 24, 2017 at 8:36 am | Reply
The narcissist looks at himself, his person is his face.
Greg Cleary August 24, 2017 at 7:17 pm | Reply
Thanks for the great review. I had never questioned the legitimacy of the “Berlin Trilogy,” though I’ve always thought that Lodger was pretty different from Low and “Heroes.” Maybe the three albums should be referred to as the “Eno Trilogy.” I’m glad that you gave props to the drummer, Dennis Davis. I always thought that the Dennis Davis/George Murray rhythm section on these albums was really special.
The song “Heroes” is truly a work of genius. There is nothing else like it, even in Bowie’s own catalog. I hadn’t heard about the microphone trick. That’s brilliant. “Beauty And The Beast” is another favorite of mine. It has such a heavy rhythm, like all of the instruments are lurching back and forth in unison rather than interlocking as one would expect. Whatever it is they’re doing, it’s very strange, and more importantly, it works!
I differ from you in liking “Sons Of The Silent Age” just fine, while the three instrumental tracks in the middle of side two all kind of test my patience. I’m relieved when he sings on the last track, even if it doesn’t really fit the mood, as you say. I think “Heroes” is the strongest overall of this so-called trilogy, although side one of Low is the most perfect song sequence.
altrockchick September 1, 2017 at 8:43 pm | Reply
I agree with you on Low and the side one song sequence. Bowie isn’t known for restraint but his emotional exhaustion had the positive effect of reining in some of the excess—and the songs are emotionally powerful. I’ll get to it someday—right now trying to catch up with the 21st century and it’s pretty slim pickin’s!
Matheus Bezerra de Lima August 30, 2017 at 9:02 am | Reply
You surely know how to write convincing reviews and argue very well when you want. Anyway, with so much praise about Bowie, I am sad that I never listened to him. I don’t have much time these days, but Bowie is an artist that always got my curiousity. Someday, I’ll listen to him and I would like you to give me advice saying what of his albums is better for a starter as myself.
Another thing: I am curious about when will you write the reviews of Sinatra’s classic albums “In The Wee Small Hours”, “Songs For Swingin’ Lovers!” and “Frank Sinatra Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely”. It would be interestin also talk about how Sinatra drastically reivented himself in Capitol. The Sinatra of the 40s decade was an almost completely different singer and artist compared with the Sinatra of the 50s decade. His voice, style, target public and artistry changed significantly in SO MANY ways.
I won’t get to Ol’ Blue Eyes this year as I’m trying to add more 21st century reviews to the list. I’ll be shifting to jazz later in the year, but instrumental jazz instead of vocal.
bazzabaz August 30, 2017 at 2:18 pm | Reply
Interesting review – as always and I think yer right in saying this is Bowie’s “healing” album. I don’t dislike the album but I do have to be in a certain mood to listen to it and then I find it’s a bit like “Scary Monsters” – side one is excellent and side two is not and that’s a problem I tend to find with Bowie’s albums, as if he put most of the best ideas on side one and side two’s tend to be more uneven in feel and quality as was definitely the case here and on “Low” as heck… you want to hear the guy sing, not noodle about on instrumentals which aren’t that interesting.
The “Berlin Trilogy” nonsense has always bugged me as well but you know how people like to simplify and compartmentalise things as the band, Visconti and Eno are present across the three albums. And guess what? My personal fave of the three is “Lodger” – again, it’s a bit patchy but a very diverse album looking in many different directions for a path forward and side one of “Scary Monsters” complete with those insane Robert Fripp solos is Bowie at his very best.
I think the only place the side one-side two effect is reversed is Ziggy Stardust. The Bowie-Eno stuff really isn’t much more than your average bloke could conjure up today on Garage Band with a cheap synth and thirty minutes to spare. I think its importance is related to the healing process—finding his way by spending time in places outside of his usual range.
keithosaunders August 30, 2017 at 3:01 pm | Reply
Thanks for posting the clip of Beauty and the Beast – one of my favorite Bowie songs. I love the sense of foreboding created by the intro and then BAM his lower-register voice. The way he back phrases on the bridge is tremendous. He uses this effect throughout his career.
I seem to remember reading an article about Bowie in the mid 70s (possibly in Rolling stone) in which Bowie said he had been very influenced by Sinatra’s phrasing. Apparently, between Diamond Dogs & Young Americans Bowie had actually taken some vocal lessons to enhance the quality of his voice. Again I’m going from memory on this, but when you hear Bowie’s thin quality on Diamond Dogs and the David Live record, and even on parts of Young Americans, it’s not a stretch to think that he made some technical changes. By Station to Station he’s in great voice and then away he goes. (Station to Station may be my favorite Bowie record)
The thing I love most about the Berlin era is the band. In my opinion the Davis/Murray/Alomar combo is by far and away his greatest band. Their beat (as well as Bowie’s vocals) is so wide you can drive a mack truck through it.
My other favorite song from that era is What in the World from Low. Hard for me to hear that one and not get the chills. Oh yeah, and Breaking Glass too. (Don’t look at the carpet, Dick Cavett!)
I did not know that Bowie’s phrasing was influenced by Sinatra, but I can tell that Jim Morrison considered Sinatra his golden standard and inspiration about phrasing. Jim Morrison was a big Sinatra fan in general.
A curiousity: Bowie wrote a song for Sinatra in the late 60s decade, but was rejected. Also, Brian Wilson was heavily influenced by Nelson Riddle arrangements.
altrockchick September 1, 2017 at 8:51 pm
I don’t know how one can consider themselves a serious singer unless they’ve studied Sinatra and Billie Holiday in particular, no matter what the genre.
You’re right—David Bowie was an early self-improvement fanatic! Sinatra influenced a lot of singers across genres, though it’s important to remember that he attributed his excellent phrasing to his study of Billie Holiday. I’ll get to Low later in the year or early next—the emotional layering on Low is absolutely fascinating to me.
I would like also that you give me advice for me begin to listen The Kinks. What album is better for a starter like I? What are his best albums? Should I begin with a compilation instead? I am very curious about your answer, altrockchick.
Tough question. If you go with a compilation, The Kink Kronikles is the best choice, covering the “golden period” from 1966 to 1970. If you go “concept album,” I would go with Lola vs. The Powerman and the Moneygoround (others would disagree); and if you go the Gilbert-and-Sullivan period, Soap Opera is my personal favorite. Note that I am not in sync with many Kinks fans on what’s best.
Matheus Bezerra de Lima September 3, 2017 at 4:49 am
Thanks for the answer. You got me interested in The Kinks.
Dean September 3, 2019 at 1:05 pm
Agree on Kink Kronikles for sure. For theme, Face to Face or Muswell Hillbillies. None of the “rock opera” albums really appeals to my soul, though I own them all.
zsfmusicreviews September 1, 2017 at 4:21 pm | Reply
Beautiful, exemplary review. This inspired me! Take care.
– Zach
Thank you! Enjoy the inspiration!
zsfmusicreviews September 1, 2017 at 8:33 pm
Sure thing! How long have you been writing reviews for? I can tell a lot of time and dedication goes into them. I’m currently looking through your reviews, and am enjoying myself.
Thank you! I started the blog in late 2011, primarily focusing on contemporary indie bands. I gave that up after a hiatus because I couldn’t find much contemporary music worth the trouble!
I wholeheartedly understand. Never been a huge fan of contemporary music, although there are some great bands out there.
Classic rock has always appealed to me ever since I was a little kid. As such, that’s what I have the most fun reviewing (at one point, however, I was a huge fan of punk music and proto-punk).
Anyways, I’m loving your reviews!
-Zach
bazzabaz September 2, 2017 at 4:36 am
I’ve been following ARC for 4 or 5 years and was gutted – but perfectly understanding and acceptable – when she undertook her hiatus. There’s TONS to enjoy here… a lot of albums and bands I dislike but the reviews are always entertaining, insightful and intelligent.
Most definitely! I’m enjoying them!
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Joe January 6, 2019 at 3:51 am | Reply
Great review, as ever. ‘Heroes’ is an outstanding track, but I think Bowie improved on it when he sang it in German: “Helden”. It’s easy enough to find it posted on YouTube.
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Stream Rodney Crowell’s new album featuring Steve Earle
Rodney Crowell’s new album ‘Texas’ is a 11-track release out in the UK today on Crowell’s RC1 Records imprint, which finds the legendary singer-songwriter enlisting the help of several fellow Texans, including Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Ronnie Dunn, Randy Rogers, Lee Ann Womack and Steve Earle, Ringo Starr and Vince Gill. Continue reading “Stream Rodney Crowell’s new album featuring Steve Earle”
Author Mark WhitfieldPosted on August 16, 2019 August 16, 2019 Categories NewsTags Rodney Crowell1 Comment on Stream Rodney Crowell’s new album featuring Steve Earle
Buddy Miller’s Crib: Studio Tour – Watch
We leave you this weekend dear reader with a nice little clip of Buddy Miller showing Aaron Lee Tasjan around his fairly amazing studio. Kind of like a musical grotto. Earlier this week, Buddy and Julie Miller took the stage Wednesday night at Nashville’s City Winery, backed by a small group of musicians including Colin Linden on guitar for a swift but blissful 45-minute set. You can read more over at RS Country here if they’re your bag, man. Have a good one.
Author Mark WhitfieldPosted on June 28, 2019 June 28, 2019 Categories VideosTags Rodney CrowellLeave a comment on Buddy Miller’s Crib: Studio Tour – Watch
Steve Earle, Emmylou and Crowell “Old Friends” – Listen
For the last few weeks, we’ve been covering the forthcoming Guy Clark covers album which Steve Earle and his Dukes will be releasing at the end of this month, and today we come to Clark’s 1988 album ‘Old Friends’, for which he enlisted a veritable feast of musician friends including Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. The latter two appear on Earle’s new version of the album’s title track, which RS describes as “a solemn prayer, with Harris harmonizing with Earle on the opening verse… Crowell, Jerry Jeff Walker, Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen also join in here, offering various spoken-word lines that underscore the timeless camaraderie of the songwriters.” ‘Guy’ is out March 29th.
Author Mark WhitfieldPosted on March 6, 2019 Categories TracksTags Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Steve EarleLeave a comment on Steve Earle, Emmylou and Crowell “Old Friends” – Listen
Rodney Crowell “Christmas Everywhere” (New West, 2018)
At last, a grown up Christmas album which acknowledges the conflicting demands of the season, how to weather the commercial blitzkrieg, keep the kids happy and keep oneself sane. Rodney Crowell’s Christmas album has been some years in the making with the man himself admitting that it’s not his favourite time of the year but that he’d always indulged his kids by making up “silly little Christmas songs that we’d sing around the house.” It was hearing Hayes Carll’s ‘Grateful For Christmas’, back in 2011, which “tweaked my creative curiosity. I began mulling over the idea of writing an album’s worth of original Christmas songs.” And so here we have Crowell’s contribution to the season’s excesses although it has to be said this is lean and nutritious, food for thought indeed as he peeks behind the tinsel. Continue reading “Rodney Crowell “Christmas Everywhere” (New West, 2018)”
Author Paul KerrPosted on December 14, 2018 December 14, 2018 Categories Album ReviewsTags Rodney Crowell1 Comment on Rodney Crowell “Christmas Everywhere” (New West, 2018)
Southern Fried Festival, Perth, Scotland, 26-29th July 2018
Eleven years old this year Southern Fried continues to occupy its position as the best Americana and roots music festival in Scotland and perhaps the best of its kind in the UK (although there are three contenders who might challenge that assumption). The festival doesn’t rest on its laurels however and this year saw its headline shows expanded to include the Thursday night while there was the welcome return of the renovated Perth Theatre to the roster of venues as it hosted ticketed and free events. What doesn’t change however is the mixture of world famous acts, the cream of international and UK roots music and a generous helping of more local musicians all adding up to four days of joyous music concentrated within the centre of one of Scotland’s most beautiful cities. Continue reading “Southern Fried Festival, Perth, Scotland, 26-29th July 2018”
Author Paul KerrPosted on August 8, 2018 August 8, 2018 Categories Live ReviewsTags AMAUK, Anton & The Colts, Blue Rose Code, Dean Owens, Eli West, Graham Nash, Gretchen Peters, Iris Dement, James Edwyn & The Borrowed Band, Martha L Healy, Rodney Crowell, Son of the Chief, Southern Fried Festival, The Strange Blue Dreams, The Worry Dolls, Wesley Randolph Eader, Yola CarterLeave a comment on Southern Fried Festival, Perth, Scotland, 26-29th July 2018
New Rodney Crowell album due July
Rodney Crowell has been around for a while now – he would often kick around a football made of tripe wrapped in muslin with Clement Attlee – and today he’s announced the forthcoming arrival of his nineteenth album Acoustic Classics which is due out on July 13th and features new versions of some of his best-recognised songs. RS report: “The writer of 15 Number One country hits, including “Making Memories of Us” and “Please Remember Me,” cut by Keith Urban and Tim McGraw respectively, Crowell presents stripped-down versions of these songs on the LP. Continue reading “New Rodney Crowell album due July”
Author Mark WhitfieldPosted on May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018 Categories NewsTags Rodney CrowellLeave a comment on New Rodney Crowell album due July
Van Morrison joins Americana Awards 2017 line-up
If we could afford to cover this in person we would, although you do avoid Van on a bad day biting your head off (sorry, lazy journalism there). Rolling Stone Country reports: “Eclectic UK rock legends Van Morrison and Graham Nash, both of whom have been directly influenced by American music will both take the stage to perform at the Americana Honors & Awards Show on September 13th at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Continue reading “Van Morrison joins Americana Awards 2017 line-up”
Author Mark WhitfieldPosted on August 29, 2017 August 29, 2017 Categories NewsTags Billy Bragg, Jason Isbell, John Prine, OCMS, Rodney Crowell, Sam Outlaw, The Lumineers, Van MorrisonLeave a comment on Van Morrison joins Americana Awards 2017 line-up
Interview: Rodney Crowell
Houston-born singer-songwriter and longtime Nashville resident Rodney Crowell continues to lift his game as a songwriter, and his latest album ‘Close Ties’ (New West) qualifies as the most honest set of work he has ever done. Crowell has seen his songs recorded by countless people, ranging from his old boss, Emmylou Harris to Johnny Cash by way of blues legend Etta James, Bob Seger, George Strait, Steve Young, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Van Morrison, Keith Urban and Tim McGraw, and of course a man he co-wrote a few jewels with, Guy Clark. With Clark’s death in 2016 still very much in the mind of the singer-songwriter community, Crowell was keen to share his admiration with Maurice Hope. Continue reading “Interview: Rodney Crowell”
Author Maurice HopePosted on July 31, 2017 Categories InterviewsTags Rodney CrowellLeave a comment on Interview: Rodney Crowell
Crowell, Cash and John Paul White pay homage to Guy Clark – Watch
This is lurvely (and not blocked for UK viewing for once) with a great sentiment behind it. Rolling Stone report: “Rodney Crowell was joined by Rosanne Cash and John Paul White to recreate the trio’s rendition of “It Ain’t Over Yet,” the lead single from Crowell’s new album, Close Ties. The song was just one of several highlights during Crowell’s album-release show Thursday, March 30th at New York’s City Winery, which also included Crowell and Cash duetting on both 1979’s “No Memories Hangin’ Round” and Crowell’s signature song, “Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight.” Watch the performance of “It Ain’t Over Yet” [below]. Continue reading “Crowell, Cash and John Paul White pay homage to Guy Clark – Watch”
Author Mark WhitfieldPosted on April 4, 2017 Categories NewsTags John Paul White, Rodney Crowell, Rosanne CashLeave a comment on Crowell, Cash and John Paul White pay homage to Guy Clark – Watch
Rodney Crowell talks about Guy Clark in new podcast
Imagine having this many friends. Rolling Stone reports: “Rodney Crowell has been Guy Clark’s buddy, Emmylou Harris’ bandmate and one of country music’s biggest hitmakers, and this week he’s Chris Shiflett’s guest on the latest episode of the Walking the Floor podcast. Crowell’s interview is sprinkled not only with anecdotes about his upcoming album, Close Ties, but of memories from Nashville’s golden years. “It had a lot more street cred back then,” he says of the Tennessee capital, where he moved in 1972. As a songwriter and sideman, Crowell spent the next decade landing hits for other artists and rubbing shoulders with up-and-comers like Steve Earle and Vince Gill. Later, he struck gold with his own Diamonds & Dirt,the late-Eighties album that spun off five Number One hits. During the years since, he’s charted his own course, becoming an Americana icon along the way. Continue reading “Rodney Crowell talks about Guy Clark in new podcast”
Author Mark WhitfieldPosted on March 28, 2017 Categories NewsTags Rodney Crowell1 Comment on Rodney Crowell talks about Guy Clark in new podcast
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Shifu Michael’s Journal Entry – 04.24.16
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I just finished reading a second book by Professor Monica Esposito. Prof. Esposito was a prominent researcher and author in the field of Daoist studies. The two books I read are very different than other books on Daoist history that I have read. First, their titles are Creative Daoism, and the one I just finished reading is Facets of Qing Daoism. I don’t intend to go into the differences, but perhaps, to only say that Professor Esposito’s books are very dense and you almost need a background in understanding general Daoist history before attempting to read her approach to the history of Daoism. Her books are also more focused on specific time periods and topics. For instance, the book, Facets of Qing Daoism restricts itself to the Qing dynasty of 1644 to 1911. And the reason it was of utmost relevance to me was because it featured the Longmen school of Daoism, the tradition I was ordained into in 2003.
Before I move onto the main reasons for including these books in my journal, I want to say that it was very rewarding to learn about the origins of the Longmen lineage. It was not a clear-cut progression of one lineage holder passing on the rites to the next lineage holder. Professor Esposito made it quite clear that the Longmen history, and thus the history of the Quanzhen tradition of Daoism, was full of controversy. Sometimes history was invented or re-invented to satisfy objectives, which had their own reasons to be. I’m not going any further on this issue. Read the book if this sparks your curiosity.
Before I go into a brief look at the Longmen history, it is important for me to ask myself, what’s my own motive for this historical venture anyway? It seems so contrary to the majority of my journal entries. I guess my motivation is that every once in awhile someone asks me about my Daoist lineage or my qigong lineage. My response is that my claims to the Longmen lineage is through my ordination by Longmen priest, Ji Zhe Tong, a 21st generation Longmen priest. And on a more personal note, during the ordination ceremony when Priest Ji anointed my forehead and stared deeply into my eyes, I experienced a powerful radiance of energy, which connected me not only to Priest Ji, but also to all the ancestors of the Longmen lineage.
Another fact of my lineage connection occurred after my ordination in Beijing. I was brought to the White Cloud Temple, Baiyun guan, the headquarters of the Quanzhen Longmen school of Daoism, and presented to the vice-president of the China Daoist Association, the Venerable Huang Xin Yang. I especially remember the words of Master Huang, saying that he highly respected Priest Ji, who even served as one of his teachers when he was younger. That made me feel good.
Back to history. The point I want to make now is that this whole idea of a continuous lineage, in the Longmen tradition was a fabrication and not until the mid-seventeenth century was there any real continuity. Here’s Professor Esposito on this:
But when did this Longmen lineage arise? This is difficult to pinpoint, but by way of analysis of epigraphic and hagiographic materials one can see that the Longmen patriarchal tradition was probably a construction of the end of the Ming and that in its “incubation” period it was linked with the Zhengyi. At the outset it was the product of hermits who, influenced by the ancient ideal of Quanzhen, devoted themselves to ascetic training without being necessarily affiliated with the Quanzhen order.
However, the emergence of the Longmen as a school complete with a well-defined patriarchal lineage seems to have come about only from the mid-seventeenth century and the advent of Wang Changyue at Baiyun guan. The fundamental source of the early history and lineage of Longmen is the Bojian (Examination of the Bowl), a lost or possibly fictitious work attributed to Wang Changyue. (Esposito 2014, 56)
I guess I shouldn’t feel defensive about my own lineage history when the early history of the Longmen lineage is up for question, in itself. And now onto another topic which is very important for me as a Daoist practitioner in the Longmen tradition. Unfortunately, it to is clouded with mystery and it just goes to show that if you really want to follow or learn from any of these ancient traditions, the final criteria is still your own sincerity in following your heart.
What are the original Longmen teachings on self-cultivation practices and theory? There seems to be a clear definition of it in Esposito’s book:
As a consequence, Wang regarded the cultivation of innate Nature as the fundamental practice of the Incomparable and Supreme Great Vehicle and saw this vehicle as congruent with the original meaning of Quanzhen, an orthodox meditative path that regards “purity, tranquility and non-action” to be the key to self-cultivation. Compared to this, various alchemical techniques are seen as belonging to the “small vehicle” or the “small path” as they fail to provide insight into one’s own Nature. Wang criticized alchemical methods and their language because they are prone to be misunderstood by masters and adepts who take their symbols as reality. Rather, before devoting oneself to a practice, one must let go of the deluded mind, and before sitting in meditation one must reflect on one’s affective attachments; otherwise, one will persist in “cultivating without insight and engaging in blind sitting.” (2014, 152-153)
I wish I could now present some actual techniques or methods of cultivation presented in Esposito’s book on Longmen. That would be nice. I believe I did mention in a much earlier journal entry about one of the early Longmen patriarchs who practiced zuowang meditation. See entry XXXX. For now, let’s be content with this final quote:
All different methods can thus be used according to practitioners’ affinities, but they are only skillful means for understanding the true meaning of the joint cultivation of Nature and Vital Force, that is the encompassing non-duality of mind and body. (2014, 172)
In an attempt to bring this topic to a close in my journal, I feel the need to wrap up a few loose ends. The first one is the lineage question. It is pretty certain to say that the original founder of the Longmen-Dragon Gate sect was Qiu Chuji (sobriquet, Changchun, 1148-1227). Qiu Chuji was one of the “Seven Realized Ones” a direct disciple of Quanzhen founder Wang Zhe (sobriquet, Chongyang, 1113-1170) (Eskildsen 2004, 3). And then the second important fact to realize was that there was a major revival within the Longmen sect with Wang Changyue (?-1680) becoming the seventh Longmen patriarch and the first Longmen abbot of the White Cloud Temple (Baiyun guan) in 1656 (Esposito 2014, 13).
I wish I were done but unfortunately, I have two more issues to mention. The first is that another major upheaval occurred in the history of the Longmen lineages. The eighth Longmen patriarch Tao Jing’an (1612-1673) who was ordained by Wang Changyue in 1658 founded another subsect known as the Longmen Yunchao branch of Mount Jingai (2014, 162). The only reason I am mentioning all this is because this new Longmen branch promoted a different orientation to practice than the teachings of the reformer Wang Changyue. As a Lu Dongbin follower, Tao Jing’an introduced the teachings of the Secret Of the Golden Flower, among other alchemical and magic rituals, much like the other Daoist traditions favoring excessive rituals and esoteric practices. This was a major change from the path of meditative practices favoring calmness, purity and non-action promoted by Wang Changyue.
And so once again, why am I bringing all of this information into my journal on modern day practices of a western Daoist. Be prepared. There are many contemporary Daoist teachers who are promoting their views on Daoist practices as if their practices and views are the only legitimate ways of being a Daoist. All you have to do is research the controversial history of Daoism and you’ll find out that there is no one true story of Daoism. Perhaps the history of Daoism is more akin to the popular belief that to be a Daoist you just have to go with the flow.
I have finally come to my last point. And thankfully so, as this last point takes me out of this discourse on the history of Daoism and Longmen lineage and brings us back to the practice of qigong and circle walking.
In Prof. Esposito’s explanations on the subsects of the Longmen, she opens up a discussion on the meridian channels and the Eight extraordinary vessels. She quotes from a doctrine which “points to a supplementary channel inside the body as a superior tract for a sudden alchemical transformation.” It is “located between the Control Channel (dumai) and the Function Channel (renmai), this Yellow Path becomes a key-word of the Longmen branch of Mount Jingai. Thanks to it, one can in a flash realize the genuine principle of inner alchemy” (2014, 174). Thus, through certain practices, the Governing and Conception vessels are opened and with the addition of the Central vessel opened and transformed the opportunity for immortality arises. Prof. Esposito quotes the source: “For that reason it is officially labeled ‘the path of the immortals’”(2014, 176). I am leaving out some of the discussion here; it even touches on the topic of Anterior Heaven, one of my favorite Daoist concepts. But this is the jumping point back into my on-going talks on circle walking and the benefits of the different postures.
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The Goo-Goo Chorus of Silence
George Soros just donated another $6 million to Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s Super Political Action Committee, raising the total the billionaire has contributed thus far to her 2016 campaign to $7 million. Continue Reading...
Nuns’ Bus a Trojan Horse
More groups are beginning to notice the hypocrisy of nuns advocating for progressive causes, including and especially their stumping for campaign finance disclosure. Over at Juicy Ecumenism, the blog published by the Institute of Religion & Democracy, guest writer T.J. Continue Reading...
Religious Left Takes Vow of Silence on Left-Wing ‘Dark Money’
When it comes to political and lobbying spending, it’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world, to quote the Kinks’ Ray Davies. Leftist organizations such as the Center for Political Accountability, the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility, and As You Sow seemingly check the closets and under the beds each night to ensure corporations aren’t exercising their First Amendment rights to freely engage in the political process. Continue Reading...
Where Is All That ‘Dark Money’ Coming From?
Your writer possesses well-meaning friends forever vigilant in my best interests. Most recently, one such kind soul sent an email alerting me to the dangers of so-called “dark money” in the political process. Continue Reading...
Religious Left’s Mendacious, Deceptive, Astro-Turfing Kabuki Dance at the SEC
The Securities and Exchange Commission conducted a hearing Wednesday to determine whether it should promulgate new disclosure rules for public companies. On hand was Laura Berry, executive director, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a New York-based watchdog group. Continue Reading...
Shareholders United in Shutting Down Political Speech
Readers following my series of blog posts on shareholder proxy resolutions submitted by religious groups such as As You Sow and the Interfaith Council of Corporate Responsibility already know these resolutions have little to do with issues of faith. Continue Reading...
Religious Shareholder Activists: Soros Gets a Free Pass
Reading the 2013 results of proxy shareholder resolutions orchestrated by various leftist organizations affiliated with “religiously” oriented investment groups, a colorfully descriptive phrase came to mind to describe both: Whatever its derivation, useful idiots is employed as “a pejorative term for people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause.” Continue Reading...
The Social Muddle at Sojourners
My recent piece in The American Spectator took the left to task for its misuse of the terms justice and social justice. The piece was more than a debate over semantics. Continue Reading...
Religions’ reactions to financial realities
John Baden, chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment in Bozeman, Mont., wrote a column for the August 19 Bozeman Daily Chronicle about the Circle of Protection and Christians for a Sustainable Economy and how each has formulated a very different faith witness on the federal budget and debt debate. Continue Reading...
Rev. Sirico: The Church as the Bride of Caesar
From the “What Would Jesus Cut” campaign to the Circle of Protection, Jim Wallis’s liberal activism rooted in his “religious witness” has grabbed headlines across the nation . Wallis advocates for the “protection” of the poor and vulnerable by pushing for expansive government welfare programs. Continue Reading...
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Animal-like Embryos Evolved Before Animals
By Mike| 2020-01-13T09:23:01+00:00 January 9th, 2020|Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal News Stories, Main Page, Photos/Pictures of Fossils|0 Comments
Animal-like Embryos Evolved Before the First Animals Appear in the Fossil Record
Catching up with our reading, examining university press releases and having a little time to review some scientific literature enabled team members at Everything Dinosaur to get to grips with this research. A new paper has been published in the journal “Current Biology” that sheds light on how the Animalia evolved. Researchers led by scientists from the University of Bristol and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (Nanjing, China), have discovered that animal-like embryos evolved long before the first animals appear in the fossil record.
The study centred around a multicellular organism found in 609-million-year-old-rocks in Guizhou Province. The organism is called Caveasphaera and it blurs the definition as to what is and what is not an animal. However, analysis of tiny embryonic fossils suggests that as Caveasphaera developed it went from a single-cell stage to a multi-cellular stage and that it developed distinct, specialist cells and tissues.
Remarkable Fossils Reveal Ancient Organism May Have Set the Blueprint for Animal Body Plans
Embryology of 609 million-year old Caveasphaera.
Picture Credit: Philip Donoghue and Zongjun Yin
Animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, subsequently, the Animalia diversified into thirty or forty body plans. How and when animal ancestors made this evolutionary transition from a microbial state into complex multicellular creatures has been discussed and debated for many years. The researchers, using sophisticated X-ray computer tomography, analysed tiny fossils from southern China and identified that a key step in this major step in the story of life on our planet occurred long before complex animals appear in the fossil record, in the fossilised embryos that resemble multicellular stages in the life cycle of single-celled relatives of animals.
X-ray Microscopy – Fossils on the Cellular Level
Analysis of the Ediacaran fossils preserved in the strata, revealed that the tiny 0.5 mm in diameter Caveasphaera material had been preserved all the way down to their component cells.
Co-author of the study paper, Kelly Vargas (Bristol University), commented:
“X-Ray tomographic microscopy works like a medical CT scanner, but allows us to see features that are less than a thousandth of a millimetre in size. We were able to sort the fossils into growth stages, reconstructing the embryology of Caveasphaera.”
Fellow co-author Zongjun Yin, (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology), added:
“Our results show that Caveasphaera sorted its cells during embryo development, in just the same way as living animals, including humans, but we have no evidence that these embryos developed into more complex organisms.”
Scanning Electron Microscope Image of Caveasphaera Showing Cell Division
A Caveasphaera embryo showing cellular structure and the growing tips where cells are dividing to increase their numbers.
A Life Cycle that Mirrors the Development of Animals
The researchers concluded that Caveasphaera had a life cycle very close to the life cycle of animals which alternate between single-celled and multicellular stages, however, Caveasphaera goes one step further, reorganising those cells during embryology. This is the earliest fossil evidence found to date that shows such development and the setting up of more complex distinct tissue layers and organs.
Whether the enigmatic, Caveasphaera is a member of the Animalia remains open to debate. It resembles the embryos of some starfish and corals but no adult forms are known as they may not have been easily fossilised.
Professor Philip Donoghue from the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences, stated:
“Caveasphaera shows features that look both like microbial relatives of animals and early embryo stages of primitive animals. We’re still searching for more fossils that may help us to decide. Either way, fossils of Caveasphaera tell us that animal-like embryonic development evolved long before the oldest definitive animals appear in the fossil record.”
Sequential Development of Caveasphaera Mirrors the Development Seen in the Animalia
Embryology of 609 million-year old Caveasphaera. Computer models based on X-ray tomographic microscopy of the fossils, showing the successive stages of development.
The scientific paper: “The early Ediacaran Caveasphaera foreshadows the evolutionary origin of animal-like embryology” by Z. Yin, K. Vargas, J. Cunningham, S. Bengtson, M. Zhu, F. Marone and P. Donoghue published in Current Biology.
Everything Dinosaur acknowledges the assistance of a press release from Bristol University in the compilation of this article.
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Ix these days, by the instigation of the partisans of the duke of Burgundy, some wicked persons of the lower ranks in the town of Rouen ro*e in rebellion. The leader was one Alain Blanc-hart, who was afterward governor of the town. They first went armed, and with staves, to the house of the king's bailiff, sir Raoul de Gaucourt*. knight, at whose door they knocked loudly, and said to those within (although it was about ten o'clock at night), u We want to speak to my lord the bailiff, to deliver up to him a traitor whom we have just arrested in the town;" the servants bade them detain their prisoner in safe custody until the morrow: however, in consequence of their importunity and violence, the door was opened to them. The bailiff instantly arose from his bed, and. having wrapped himself np in a large cloak, came to speak to them ; but he had no sooner made his appearance, than some of the party, who had disguised their faces, cruelly murdered him. They then left the house, and went to that of his lieutenant, John Leger, whom they also put to death, and thence to different parts of the town, and killed ten other persons; but many of the municipal officers, such as the viscount and receiver-general, having had information of what was passing, fled to the castle, into which they were admitted by sir James de Bourbon the governor.
On the morrow morning, the commonalty again assembled in great numbers, and marched in arms to the castle, with the intent of forcing an entrance, but were prevented by the governor, who had under his command one hundred of the king's troops to defend it. At length, after many parleys, it was agreed that sixteen of the most notable citizens should be admitted, to remonstrate with the governor on some matters that much concerned him. Upon their admittance, they offered many excuses for the murder of the bailiff and of the others, declaring that the whole commonalty of the town would be rejoiced if the perpetrators could be discovered and punished. They were greatly alarmed as to the conduct of the king and the dauphin when they should hear of these deaths, and requested the governor would permit them to have the guard of the castle, but it was refused. They then required that the gate which led to the country should be shut up, which was also refused. Upon this they declared, that should the king and the dauphin attempt to enter their town with an army, admittance should be denied.—at the same time beseeching the governor to apologise for them to the king and the dauphin. The governor replied, that he would make excuses for them in proper time and place, provided they did not refuse to admit them into the town should they come thither.
After this conversation, the citizens returned home; and, a few days after, what they dreaded came to pas*,—for the dauphin marched two thousand men out of Paris to Pont-de1'Arctic, whence he sent the archbishop of Rouen, brother to the count dc Harcourt, to that town, to exhort the inhabitants to a due sense of obedience.
On the archbishop's arrival at Rouen, he found several of the canons of the cathedral church under arms, and intermixed with the citizens, to whom he displayed the proclamation of the dauphin. They in answer said, that it had been unanimously decreed that he should not enter the town with his army; but that if he would come with few attendants, and engage to pay his expenses, they would agree to it, but not otherwise. The archbishop, seeinc he could not conclude anything satisfactory, returned to the dauphin, and related all he had seen and heard. Upon this the dauphin sent for sir James de Bourhon, and fixed his quarters at St. Catherine's on tlic hill. On the arrival on sir James he said, " Cousin, return to your castle, and admit by the gate leading to the country two hundred men-atarms, and as many archers, whom we will send thither." The townsmen were greatly
* Raoul V., lord de fJaiicourt. His ion, Raoul VI., was grandmaster of France.
Cathedral Op Xotrf.-pame, Roitn.—Murder of the Bailiff.—From an original drawing.
enraged on hearing of this reinforcement being admitted into the castle; however, within three days, the dauphin, by negotiation, entered Rouen with his whole army; he rode straight to the cathedral to offer up his prayers, and thence to the castle, where he was lodged.
In the course of eight days, a treaty was made with the townsmen, which confirmed them in their obedience,—for all that had passed was pardoned, with the exception of tho actual murderers of the bailiff. The dauphin, having paid his expenses, departed for Paris with his army, where he appointed the lord de Gamaches *, bailiff of Rouen, with orders to inflict exemplary punishment on such of the murderers as should be duly convicted. Some of them were punished; but Alain Blanchart absented himself for some time; and when he returned to the town he enjoyed great authority and power, as shall hereafter be related.
• John de Roualt, lord of Gamache and Boismenard.
CXLYIII. TnE DEATH OP LOCIS KING OF SICILY. TIIE CONDUCT OP THE LEADERS OF
COMPANIES. TIIE OVERTHROW OF RAYMO.NNET DE LA GUERRE. THE DESTRUCTION
OF THE TOWN OF ACMALE.
In these days, king Louis, father-in-law to the dauphin, died, leaving three sons and two daughters,—Louis*, who succeeded to his crown, Rene, afterward duke of Barj", and Charles J. One of his daughters was married to the dauphin §, and the other, named Yolande||, was hut two years old. By his death the dauphin lost an ahle counsellor and friend; the more to be lamented, as the greatest confusion now reigned in many parts of France, and justice was trampled under foot.
The foreigners also that were attached to the party of the duke of Burgundy, such as Gastcllimas Quigny, and others before-named, robbed and plundered all the countries they marched through, and every person, noble or not, even such as were of the same party as themselves. Infinite mischiefs were done by them to poor countrymen, who were grievously oppressed. These foreign companies bent their march toward the Boulonois, intending to treat it as they had done other districts; but some of the inhabitants assembled during the night, under the command of Butor, bastard of Croy, and made an attack on the quarters of the lieutenant of John de Clau, named Laurens Rose, whom they put to death, with several of his men: the rest were robbed of all they had. In revenge for this insult, the bastard de Thian, one of the captains of these companies, seized a very proper gentleman called Gadifer de Collehaut, whom he hanged on a tree. However, these strangers, seeing they were likely to be strongly opposed, speedily retreated from the Boulonois, and, shortly after took the town and castle of Davencourt belonging to the heirs of the lord de Hangcst. "When they had rifled it of its furniture, they set it on fire, so that it was totally destroyed, and thence marched to lay siege to Neuf-chatcl sur Eusne.
Sir Raymonnct dc la Guerre, and sir Thomas de Lersies bailiff of the Vermandois, collected a considerable force in the king's name to raise the siege, and to overpower these foreigners; but as their intentions were known, the besiegers marched to meet them, and in the end completely put them to the rout, taking and killing full eight-score: the remainder, with Raymonnct and sir Thomas de Lersies, saved themselves by flight, and took refuge in such of the strong towns belonging to the king as they could first gain. After this defeat, those of Neuf-chatel surrendered the town, which the foreigners, having plundered it of its valuables, set on fire, and then departed for the Cambresis, where they did infinite mischiefs.
At this same period, but in another part of the kingdom, John de Fosseux ^[, Daviod de Poix, Ferry de Mailly, sir Lonis de Thiembronne, Louis de Varigines, Guerrard bastard de Brimeu, and some other captains of companies attached to the duke of Burgundy, crossed the Somme near to Blanchetaquc, with full twelve hundred combatants, and, passing through Oisemont, went to Aumale, belonging to the count de Harcourt. They quartered themselves in the town, and then made a sharp assault on the castle; but it was so well defended by the garrison, that very many of the assailants were dreadfully wounded. When they were retreating, and during the night, they, through mischief or otherwise, set fire to the town, which, with the church, was completely burnt. It was a great pity, for it was a town that carried on a very considerable commerce. John de Fosseux and his accomplices then marched away to quarter themselves in the town of Hornoy, and in the adjacent villages in the county of Vimeu, which district they totally plundered; and after three days, they conducted their prisoners, with the cattle, sheep and pigs, across the Somme, at the place where they had before passed.
* Louis III., eldest son of Louis II., king of Sicily, || Yoland, married to Francis, duke of Bretagnc, in
&c, by Yoland, daughter of John I., king of Arragon 1431.
and Yoland de Bar. Louis III. was born in 1403; % Although the reader would, from the manner in
adopted by Jane II., queen of Naples; married Margaret which Monstrelet relates the actions of these captains, be
of Savoy; and died in 1434, without issue. led to believe that they were acting solely on their own
f Rene, born in 1408, duke of Lorraine, in right of account, as was too often the custom of the "Free Com
his wife Isabel, daughter of Charles the Hold; and of panics," yet there can be little doubt that they were acting
Bar, in right of his grandmother, Yoland of Arragon. under the orders of the duke of Burgundy, since we find
J Charles, count of Maine, &c., born in 1414. that John de Fosseux was very shortly after employed by
5 Mary, married to Charles, dauphin of France, in him as his ambassador to the French towns.—En. 1422.
In like manner similar excursions were made into the countries of the Beauvoisis, Vermandois, Santerre, Amiennois, and other districts under the king's government,—in all of which the inhabitants were grievously oppressed.
CHAPTER CLXIX. THE KING S GARRISON IN PERONNE CARRIES ON A SEVERE WAR AGAINST
THE COUNTRIES ATTACHED TO THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY.
During these times, the town of Peronne, situated on the river Somme, was strongly garrisoned by forces sent thither by the constable of France in the king's name, under the command of sir Robert de Loyre. They consisted of one hundred men-at-arms well appointed, one hundred Genoese cross-bowmen, and the same number of other combatants; and they made very frequent excursions, day and night, over the countries attached to the duke of Burgundy and his allies, bringing to their garrison considerable plunder of cattle and other effects. In like manner did the garrison of the castle du Main, belonging to sir Collart de Calville, make war in the king's name on all the allies and supporters of the duke of Burgundy.
The towns of Corbie and Amiens suffered much from these continued attacks; and the inhabitants of the latter town, by command of the duke of Burgundy, were forced to banish sir Robert d'Eusne the king's bailiff, Hugh de Buys the king's advocate, and some others, because they had acted with too much vigour, and contrary to his good pleasure, against several of his adherents. He had even declared, that he would make war on them if they pretended to support them against his will. They consequently left the town and went to Paris, where they made heavy complaints against the duke to the king and council, who were very far from being satisfied with the conduct of the duke, who was urging on matters from bad to worse.
CHAPTER CLXX. — THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY SENDS AMBASSADORS TO MANY OF THE KING'S
PRINCIPAL TOWNS TO FORM ALLIANCES WITH THEM. THE OATHS THAT WERE MADE ON
THE OCCASION.
The duke of Burgundy sent the lords de Fosseux, do Humbcrcourt, and master Philip de Morviller, as ambassadors, to several of the king's principal towns, with letters-patent from the duke, addressed to the magistrates and commonalty. They first went to Montreuil, which instantly assented to his proposals, then to St. Riquier, Abbeville, Amiens and Donrlens; and at each place they had their letters publicly read to the commonalty; after which master Philip do Morviller notably harangued them on the good intentions of the duke to provide for the public welfare, and with such effect that all the above towns formed alliances with the ambassadors, which they solemnly swore to maintain, and mutually exchanged the acts drawn up for this purpose.
The tenour of that of the town of Dourlens was as follows.
"To all those to whom these presents shall come; John de Fosseux lord de Fosseux and de Nivelle, David de Brimeu lord of Humbcrcourt, knights, and Philip de Morviller, counsellors and ambassadors from the very high and puissant prince, our much redoubted lord the duke of Burgundy, on the one part, and the governor, mayor, sheriffs, and resident burghers of the town of Dourlens on the other part, greeting. We make known, that we have entered into and formed a treaty of concord and amity, the terms of which are as follow.
"First, the said governor, mayor, sheriffs, and resident burghers, will aid and support tho said duke of Burgundy in his endeavours to restore the king our lord to the full enjoyment of his power and liberty, so that his realm may have uninterrupted justice, and commerce an unrestrained course.—Item, they will assist the said duke to the utmost of their power, that the king and his realm may be wisely and well governed, and secured against all enemies. They will admit him and his army into their town, allowing him to have a superiority of force, and they will, for money, supply him and his men with whatever provisions or Vol. i. 11 B
necessaries they may require, tliey taking on themselves the guard and defence of the town,, and permitting all merchants, as well of the town as otherwise, to bring into it, without molestation, whatever merchandises they may please.—Item, during the time the said duke shall remain in possession of the town of Dourlens, he shall not arrest, or cause to be arres'.ed, any of the inhabitants, of whatever rank or condition, without a judicial inquiry having previously been held; and should any of the officers of the said duke commit an injury or insult on the inhabitants, he or thev shall be severely punished by those to whom the cognizance of such cases belongs.—Item, the townsmen of Dourlens, of every degree, shall have free liberty to repair to the countries of the said duke on their affairs, without let or hindrance, either personally or otherwise.—Item, my lord the duke will support and defend the townsmen of Dourlens against all who may attempt to injure them, for having entered into this treaty in favour of the king and our aforesaid lord.—Item, it is not the intention of our said lord the duke to place any garrison in Dourlens, nor to claim any right of dominion over the said town; but he is contented that the town shall be governed in the king's name, as it has heretofore been, to the honour of the said town, and to the advantage of the public weal.
"The said town engages, on the other hand, never to admit any garrison from the party in opposition to the said duke.—Item, should there be any persons in the said town of Dourlens who may any way injure and attempt to retard the operations of the said duke, by speech or action, and the same be proved by legal evidence, they will cause such person or persons to be most rigorously punished as it behoves them to do.—Item, since the said town has been of late heavily oppressed in its agriculture, more especially in the harvest of this present month of August; and since many cattle have been carried away by men-at-arms avowing themselves of the Burgundian party, by which the labourers and the poor people are much distressed, and unless a remedy be speedily applied, must quit their habitations. We, therefore, the inhabitants of Dourlens, most humbly supplicate you, my lords ambassadors, that you would, out of your goodness and discretion, remonstrate with the duke on these matters, that such remedies may be applied as the urgency of the case requires, and the people of Dourlens will pray for your present and future welfare.—Item, for the more effectual security of the aforesaid articles, and of each of them, the said ambassadors and the said governor, sheriffs, and resident burghers of the town of Dourlens have exchanged the said articles, scaled with their seals, and signed by the sworn clerk of the shrievalty of the said town.
"AVe the said ambassadors, by the powers vested in us by our very redoubted lord, and we the governor, mayor, &c, have promised, sworn, and agreed, and by these presents do punctually promise, swear, and agree, to preserve every article of this treaty, without any way the least infringing of it, under penalty of confiscation of our goods, without the smallest diminution. In testimony of which we have affixed our seals to these presents, in the town of Dourlens, the 7th day of August in the year of Grace 1417-"
CHAPTER CLXXI. KINO HENRY OF ENGLAND RETURNS TO FRANCE WITII A LARGE ARMY,
AND TAKES MANY TOWNS AND FORTRESSES. TUE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE, WHERE
POPE MARTIN IS ELECTED HEAD OF THE CHURCH.
Kino Henry of England, accompanied by his brothers the dukes of Clarence and Gloucester, a number of other nobles, and a numerous army, landed at the port of Touques in Normandy, with the intent to conquer the whole of that duchy. The royal castle at Touques was speedily invested on all sides, which caused the governor, sir John d'Engennes, to surrender it within four days, on condition that he and the garrison should depart with their offects. Within a short time afterwards, the following towns and castles surrendered to king Henry without making any resistance: Harcourt, Beaumont-le-Roger, Evreux, and several others, in which he placed numerous garrisons. He then opened negociations for the surrender of the towns of Rouen and Louviors. The other towns in the duchy were astonished at the facility of king Henry's conquests, for scarcely any place made a defence.
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Seniors pose for individual portraits
Mason Cooney
Senior Pilar Ballesteros-Cordero poses for her senior portrait in the Belvedere. Due to the rain, the pictures were moved inside from the Cortile.
Jordan Russell, Senior Reporter
WEB EXCLUSIVE Photographers filled the Belvedere section of the Main Hall today as the Senior Class took their senior portraits.
“This year we [used] professional photographers from [Mugsyclicks],” yearbook Editor-in-chief Giulia Oltranti said. “They try to use architectural aspects of the school to take photos so that’s why we are doing them in the Main Hall.”
The photographers instructed the seniors, dressed in business casual clothing, to stand in an assortment of poses.
“I like the variety of different poses,” senior Starnesia Hooper said. “I think the close-ups look nice, but the full body [photos] really capture the senior aspect of the portrait.”
For seniors such as Katie Thomis, the portraits are a way to commemorate their time at Convent.
“It’s nice to do this as seniors because it’s a great way to celebrate the last four years,” Thomis said. “It’s also [fun] to look back at the freshmen photos and see the difference.”
In addition to the photo’s incorporation in the yearbook, they will also be available for families to purchase later on in the year, according to Oltranti.
“The portraits are just a unique way to document the seniors throughout the years,” Oltranti said. “And it’s something that they can have with them forever.”
Adele Fratesi
Celeste Salvadori-Roam
Celeste Salvadori-Roam is a first-year reporter for the Broadview. Outside of school, she enjoys pottery, gardening and spending time with friends and family.
Students attend dance
Students donate blood
Sophomores prepare for Costa Rica trip
‘Memeing’ into the new year
Teenagers can choose to donate, but don’t
Students take on finals
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Ukexclusive
Britain's Brexit culture is hurting London's tech-leader status
Jill Petzinger
Jill Petzinger, Germany Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK
Yahoo Finance UK December 17, 2019
(l-r) Glenn Shoosmith, Bindi Karia, Volker Hirsch, and moderator Mike Butcher at Techcrunch Disrupt Berlin
The UK general election may be over but the clock is now ticking down to Britain leaving the European Union, and the question of what Brexit will mean for the startup community was high on the agenda at Techcrunch Disrupt in Berlin.
Volker Hirsch, partner at Amadeus Capital, startup-and-investor adviser Bindi Karia, and Glenn Shoosmith, founder of JRNI said they are already seeing negative effects of Brexit on the UK’s status as the place to be for European and other foreign startup founders.
They told the Disrupt audience on 11 December that they believe London’s magnetic pull will weaken significantly once the UK is no longer part of the EU.
“There are some people that can’t raise money any more from institutions like the European Investment Fund (EIF), which is responsible for about 30% of all venture capital deployed in the UK,” Hirsch said.
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Since then, prime minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative party won 365 seats. This is way above the 326 seats needed in parliament to form a government. With this comfortable majority of 80 seats, Johnson can push through a Brexit deal and start reshaping trade and relations in the way he wants, without worrying too much about getting support from external politicians.
Overnight on 16 December, Johnson made the move to make it illegal for parliament to delay a Brexit transition beyond 31 December 2020 — seemingly pushing to make Brexit inevitable.
London has always been miles ahead of other European cities with it came to startup investment, but that will could suffer if the British government does not take serious action to back the startup sector to ensure it stays attractive to founders and VCs, the panel said.
The British Business Bank is stepping up, but “it’s not going to be the level of capital required to make up the shortfall from the EIF and others.”
“What’s going to be more impacted is new companies moving to the UK,” Bindi Karia said. “For them, the real decision now is ‘do we set up somewhere like Paris or Stockholm or Berlin versus London?’ whereas before it was about London and only London.”
Traditionally, the British capital has been the launchpad to the US and also where the greatest concentration of investors are. Karia believes that London-based founders will probably stay put and be okay, but noted that the government urgently needs to set up some sort of Brexit subsidy to support small early-stage startups: “Of course, they are not going to, but one can dream.”
A new, unwelcoming culture
The British union flag and the EU flag are seen hanging outside of a building near a traffic direction sign in London. Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville
For Shoosmith, the UK’s change of atmosphere and attitude since the Brexit referendum has been saddening.
“The great thing about London was that developers came from all over the world, it was this amazing place to live and work and had a hugely open accepting culture — that has changed,” Shoosmith said.
“People don’t feel welcome and that’s an embarrassment for my country, that people don’t feel welcome,” he added. “The indecision of Brexit is hurting it so badly.”
Uncertainty coupled with feeling unwelcome is already impacting academics, according to Hirsch. Amadeus Capital Partners invests largely in startups coming out of universities, and Hirsch said that scientists are feeling hesitant or even deterred to move to the UK because the message from the prime minister is that Britain is not your home.
“There are scientists who don’t really want to move [to the UK] anymore because they don’t feel welcome,” Hirsch said. “UK universities are world class, and if that would drop we would feel that quite quickly.”
“Talent flow into and out of universities… is something that is of concern,” Hirsch told Yahoo Finance UK on the sidelines of the conference. “You had usually 30,000 to 40,000 students a year coming from the EU and studying in Britain despite the high tuition fees because the research in Britain is world class. Now this number has literally gone down to almost zero,” he said.
View of the Oxford University campus from above. Photo: Getty
One big worry for those considering UK universities, is that, unlike say in Germany where further education is largely free, tuition at British universities can run to £40,000 ($52,805), and after Brexit, “you just don’t know that by the time you get your degree that it will still be recognised,” Hirsch said.
“If you have a medical degree from Oxford and there is a hard crash you will not be able to practice as a doctor in Germany, because it is not a recognised degree: it is a formality.”
Brexit is a talent drain not just in terms of attracting the best minds into British universities, but could very well push the best brains in the UK out of the country, because, as Hirsch notes, if you are a top-notch scientist you can work pretty much anywhere.
“We used to be cool Britannia, and an openness and welcoming nature was very much part of this, and that is going away,” Hirsch said.
On the positive side, the investment partner believes that the tech scene will be more resilient to Brexit that other sectors of the economy. What will continue to remain in London’s favour for a long time is the sheer size of its tech ecosystem, the volume of investment and the large numbers of VCs. It has always been less bureaucratically complicated that its feisty challenger Berlin, that may continue to be the case.
“You know, we could before this panel ends, have incorporated company in Britain on an iPhone —try that in Germany,” Hirsch said.
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Cutex — Blues Fest (Care + Color Nail Color) Swatch & Review
Collection: Cutex 2017 Spring, Care + Color Nail Color [Launch]
When Revlon—who also own SinfulColors—acquired classic nail brand Cutex from Coty late last year, it was only a matter of time that new nail colors would be released.
Cutex the brand dates back to 1911, when it was founded in Stamford, CT, USA.
Nowadays, Cutex is best known for its nail polish remover, but it’s had a long history of producing nail polish, too. In the company’s first few years, it developed a liquid nail polish based on auto paint. Prior to this, nail color generally came in powders and pastes; by 1925, virtually all nail polish sold had taken on liquid form. Three years later, Cutex started to sell acetone polish remover, and the rest is history.
Cutex vintage gold nail polish.
Faaaaancy!
Cutex vintage cosmetic ad.
They made lipstick, too!
Cutex vintage nail polish ad.
Check out the Art Deco styling. Circa 1920s? Depression era?
Cutex vintage nail polish ad
Cutex ’90s (?) nail polishes.
I even remember the Knox Gelatin line! Hehehe.
Cutex ’90s (?) nail polish. Image: Polish, Plants & More.
Back in the 90s, even I owned one or two Cutex polishes! They came in a bottle just like the pink Cutex bottle in the second-last photo above, except mine didn’t say “Fresh Colors”…I don’t think. One was a browned pinky-mauve, the standard 90s mauve, and one was a sheer off-white shimmer; the formulas were awful! The last decade or two, however, I haven’t seen a Cutex color polish at all.
Earlier this year, Cutex launched a new line of nail polish remover, nail treatments, and, yes, nail colors! The color line is called Care + Color Nail Color. Personally, I’m a little surprised that they’ve priced the new line, at least in Canada, similar to, or even higher than, Revlon’s own nail line. I never think of Cutex as a prestige brand in the drugstore. I’d have pegged it as somewhere between SinfulColors and Revlon.
The color selection is pretty safe and straightforward—nothing too crazy!
There were 15 shades available in the display I saw at my local Rexall, though the
[Edit: sorry, I miscounted. There were indeed 21 shades in the display!]
The Cutex press release says there are 21 shades.
I waited for a sale (sorry Revlon, not paying CA$9.99 for a Cutex polish), and while a $2 discount’s not great, it’s better than nothing! I was tempted to go old school with a mauve, but decided to choose one of the “wilder” shades instead: Blues Fest (200), a soft cornflower blue pastel cream.
Cutex Care + Color Nail Color in Blues Fest
While the bottle’s styling is decidedly snoozy and, well, kind of ’90s-looking, the quality is good. The bottle has a good heft in the hand, and though the plastic cap’s texture doesn’t have much grip, it is at least a little squared-off on the top.
The brush stem is long (due to the bottle’s height) and rectangular, which I hate because it holds too much polish. The brush itself is long, on the slim side, and slightly flattened. The end is squared off, but at a very slight angle which makes me think it just wasn’t cut well. The bristles are very pliable, which does make application a bit smoother.
I’m of two minds about this polish. One one hand, the formula is too thin and not quite pigmented enough for an opaque shade. I used three coats to get full and mostly even coverage. To be fair, the formula is pretty easy to apply, even with a slightly wonky brush, so requiring three coats was not a total killer.
Cutex Care + Color Nail Color in Blues Fest, swatch
On the positive side, the color is pretty darn swell. It’s not just a pretty blue—it also has “invisible” monochromatic, pearly shimmer in it that gives the finish a really gorgeous glow. The polish also dries to a perfectly glossy, glassy finish!
So, I’m a little torn. I’m tempted to try another one or two shades to see how they compare, but I also am not happy about the thin formula and the subpar brush. In addition, the price is about even with Essie and L’Oréal Vernis à l’Huile, which I feel are superior products.
For now, I’ll just say that the formula and brush could be better, but the color is pretty nice and this is still worth getting if you really like the color and can’t find a dupe in a different line. That invisible shimmer, though—ooooh.
I didn’t see any information online about the formula being free of certain toxins, but I checked the ingredient label on the bottom of the bottle and saw that it did not contain toluene, formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, camphor, and dibutyl phthalate (DBP). Incidentally, the polish also contains oil from the seed of the isatis flower, a.k.a. woad, which has a rather interesting history as a dyeing agent.
Cutex Care + Color Nail Color in Blues Fest, label
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Cutex Care + Color Nail Color contains 0.46 fl oz / 13.6 mL and retails for US$6.99 / CA$9.99. The formula is free from toluene, formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, camphor, and dibutyl phthalate (DBP). It is made in Mexico.
Cutex was founded in 1911 by Northam Warren Co., based in Stamford, CT, USA. The company played an important role in the development of liquid nail polish and acetone-based polish remover. For much of Cutex’s early history, it was the world’s best-selling nail brand. Over the years, the brand has changed hands several times. Most recently, in 2016, Cutex was sold by Coty Inc. to Revlon Inc., based in New York, NY, USA.
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🇺🇸Company based in USA
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Rachael Styles - Helpless Whilst Drying says:
this is such a pretty blue, shame that the formula isn’t amazing, but atleast it’s workable! The old bottles are really interesting, Gold Sequins looks like something that was made quite unique for it’s time.
I’m keeping my eye peeled for these, they haven’t emerged here yet, more specifically that lilac coloured one that was next to the blue on the stand!
Rachael http://helplessswhilstdrying.com
Oooh that vintage Cutex bottle is gorgeous! The shade too…
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer those skinny handles of the old bottles…
I’ve never owned a Cutex polish but I am definitely looking to try the new line – let’s see if there’s inconsistency between the shades / formula.
I agree the pricing doesn’t align with the brand. I’d say they should be priced similar to the Sally Hansen because that’s how I view Cutex – as a peer to SH.
Loving that bright blue,. so perfect for spring!
I don’t even know if Cutex is popular in Malaysia but for the longest of time, the ladies in my family called nail polish, cutex, and I always thought that was what nail polish was called! Hahaha!
Haha, that’s amazing! Maybe at some point, Cutex was the only nail polish available (or one of the only)? They do have a long history. Reminds me of all the brand names we use nowadays in that way (at least in North America): Kleenex for facial tissue, Xerox for photocopies, though I think that’s less common these days, Q-Tip for cotton buds. I only recently learned that Dumpster and Escalator are actually brand names, too. :O
Escalator is a brand for????
Originally a brand name trademarked by the Otis Elevator co.! Other escalator-makers couldn’t use the name, LOL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalator
Wow, really? It’s a word now!!! WT….!!!!
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FS News - March 2018
Hi everyone, this is Wahn again with the Flexible Survival News for March 2018.
As a note about the patreon polls, there are 5 sundays this month (something that happens 4 times a year), which means that April 1st falls outside of the regularly sceduled polls. We will have the expected number of polls this month, starting with two polls on the 8th.
Diana: You can now meet Diana for a second time in the inner mall. Learn more about the history of the cute hybrid girl, and possibly have a bit of fun with her too.
Dr. Moffatt: Wishing to expand on her research methods, Dr Moffat now proposes an 'alternative therapy' in the form of hypnosis sessions. Mind the secondary effects.
Feral Pets: Snips, Dinah, Hobo, and Chirpy have been made into NPCs as well as pets, with Snips being given a new special talk option to help increase humanity. Others to come soon.
Glory: A distraught half-equine woman comes stumbling into the Mall. Will you care about what happens to her and guide her to a new fate?
Gorillas: You can now aquire football pad armor and a football helmet from joining the gorilla team.
Gryphons Plot: This has now been edited to acknowledge a player with gryphon apperance upon choosing to help the gyphons overtake the soliders during the event.
Hitching Post: You can now find the hitching post at the Park in the Picnic area for a bit of submissive fun. Four scenes to encounter.
Honey: She has now been made into a NPC that will live in the garden after saving her. She will also heavily influence the garden's appearance, which will affect future scenes.
Korvin: He has now been made into a NPC that will live in the rec-room after recruiting him. He will also bring into play a pool table and poker cards that will be expanded in a future update.
Library Expansion part 1: The Library has been reworked to have more rooms, which reflect their inhabitants. Some characters have also been moved to more appropriate locations(if you bring anyone into the Library).
Microwave: You now have a microwave in the Library's break room. To activate it, you must restore power to the Library.
Nermine: If you had tamed the sorceress as the jackalman and had her serve a bunch of mall rats in a bukkake scene, Nermine will have some plans to get her revenge from at least one of the rats - by turning him into a girl and having some fun with her together with the player.
Otto Fuchs: The first two events introducing Doctor Otto Fuchs can be encountered Outside. Meet a doctor that isn't a sex-crazed fiend.
Ryousei: The tiger's friendly encounters with Eric can now build up to an intimate conclusion, complete with an entry in the game endings. There's more content for Ryo to come next update too.
Serenity: A series of non-fatal vore scenes has been added to the naga hybrid, complete with a bound state and a not-so-bad-end.
Sonny: You can now go much further in the romance line with the sheep boy! This involves going on a search for a way to bring home to him!
Tobias: You can now encounter Tobias, a doberman who trains other anthros as pets, in the mall parking lot.
Werewolf encounter: While wandering the Urban Forest at night, you may be stalked by a vicious predator. Be cautious not to let your guard down... like resting in the forest at night. That just may be the moment this feral she-wolf strikes.
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Boots Boats Bikes
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February 26, 2016 Doug and Cathy Hull Boots, California, USA 8 comments
Chug, chug, toot, toot, off we go by train to Los Angeles to celebrate some significant birthdays. Doug is 75 this month – three-quarters of a century – and our youngest grandchild moves up to double-digits, age ten. Mansions and slums, chauffeured limousine and not-so-rapid public transit, Fruit Loops and frijoles: what contrasts we experienced along the USA’s Left Coast!
Victoria Clipper ferry to Seattle
Clickety-clack, clickety-clack went the wheels of our suitcases as we rolled them down the street to the Victoria Clipper passenger ferry on Valentine’s Day. The boarding process was a free-for-all, but three hours later we arrived safely in Seattle to spend the night at the adorable Arctic Club Hotel, built in 1914 with an explorers’ club motif. In the morning we walked through a gritty urban area to Seattle’s King Street Station (tip: if you are timid, take a taxi in this part of town).
Lorna welcomed us aboard the Coast Starlight, the Amtrak train that runs 1,337 miles from Seattle, Washington to Los Angeles, California. (Map) The trip takes thirty-six hours, so we opted for first class: a one-bedroom compartment in the sleeping car. The private lavatory and shower require some agility, but if you have ever lived in a truck-camper like we did, you will feel right at home here.
The Dining Car has tables for four, providing an opportunity to meet fellow passengers as scenery glides by the window. Our tablemates included couples celebrating anniversaries or visiting children, a 1960s rock band member (he once played in Doug’s home town), a London, UK resident who tells us cycling is booming downtown (maybe we’ll try cycling there in April), a Chinese philosopher travelling to a swim meet, and a seven-year-old boy and his mother who travelled from Denmark to visit Universal Studios.
The NRA would approve
More than one thousand train songs are listed on Wikipedia. We aren’t train buffs, but we recognize most of the song titles. Do you have a favourite train song? Doug is partial to the Arlo Guthrie version of the nostalgic City of New Orleans, while Cathy likes Chattanooga Choo Choo and This Train is Bound for Glory. To our grandchildren: did you know that Grandpa’s first job was on the railroad? For one summer during high school he tamped gravel under ties in the railway trackbed. This is what he learned from that job: manual labour is not easy.
A chauffeur named Joe collected us at Union Station in Los Angeles, whisking us away in his black Lincoln Town Car. La Habra Heights, on the border of LA and Orange Counties, was our destination. This classy canyon community is where our son (who sent the chauffeur) lives with his wife and three children.
The children make noise, but the neighbourhood is dignified, rural, and whisper-quiet, except for coyotes and owls at night and gardeners who trim palm trees, buzz-cut flowering vines, and mow lawns on appointed days.
During our week in La Habra Heights we hiked in Powder Canyon and celebrated Robin’s tenth birthday. What does a ten-year-old girl like? Taylor Swift, Nancy Drew, and Lego Friends (pink and purple boxes of Lego “for girls and their world”). Doug resuscitated a moribund computer, fixed speakers, hooked up a new television, and helped build the Lego. We learned new card games called Egyptian War and Trash. As always, we enjoyed Angie’s cooking, which included birria (a slow-cooked Mexican spicy stew), posole (a tradition hominy stew), and avocados from a tree in the back yard.
Disneyland? Who needs it? The Los Angeles transit system provides our California Adventure, and it costs just 35 cents (senior rate). Green Line, Blue Line, Red Line: three trains and almost two hours to travel from Norwalk (where Angie dropped us) to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. This is not a user-friendly transit system, but fellow passengers helped us through it. A team of pistol-packing security guards boarded the train in Watts, site of the 1965 Watts Riots. Yikes, it was scary, because we didn’t know what prompted the invasion. Perhaps it was routine, because we hadn’t noted any suspicious activity – just a panhandler or two and someone selling soft drinks. After verifying everyone’s tickets and searching parcels, the guards moved on to the next car.
Fruit Loops at the breakfast bar, paper-thin walls, and a bail bondsman on-site. It doesn’t sound attractive, but our hotel was actually clean, friendly, and convenient – across the street from the train station and on the edge of Chinatown, a three-block-square area. Chinatown is rather lacking in curb appeal, although this improves at night, while Union Station is glamorous. Opened in 1939, it was the last of the great American rail stations to be built.
Lorna, our sleeping car attendant, remembered us when we boarded Coast Starlight for the return trip to Seattle. Old hands now, we know what to do, such as reserve early meal times (some menu items sell out) and use internet if and when it works. Pacific Ocean beaches, sand dunes, artichoke farms and vineyards, gentle valleys, snowy mountain ranges: the scenery and conversation are just as pleasant as the train travels northbound.
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ljcaro says:
Sounds like fun, taking Amtrak to California. I’ve taken it from Vancouver to Portland, but farther south would be nice. Happy milestone birthday, Doug!
Doug and Cathy Hull says:
It was fun. You missed out on the sleeping experience, getting off in Portland. Too bad – ha,ha.
Anna Mallin says:
Sounds like a lovely and interesting excursion! Thanks for sharing….
Gotta keep moving, as you know…
You sure know how to create a fabulous blog. Please show me how one of these days!
Thanks for the compliment. We’d be happy to help. Cathy tells me the secret is “less is more”, whatever that means.
dorothy curtiss says:
Happy Birthday, Doug, and Happy Trails to the whole family. Thanks for the interesting update — makes me want to get up and hop a train or two.
Thanks Dorothy. Like Paul says, one more year on the right side of the grass.😀 And if you take the overnight, don’t forget the sleeping pills.
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January 29, 2015 Bruce Allen Morning Links
Hugh Millen Drops A Bomb. No One Reacts.
On the Dennis and Callahan show this morning they had former Patriots quarterback Hugh Millen on as a guest to talk about the Super Bowl matchup, as Millen is working in the Seattle as an analyst of the Seahawks and Washington Huskies.
While they were discussing the inflation of the footballs, Millen dropped that he played for a coach with two Super Bowl wins who put together a huge scheme to install speakers inside the helmets of the offensive linemen so they could be given instructions remotely. He said they had it in place and working.
I played for a team, the coach has two Super Bowl wins, and there was an elaborate scheme to put speakers into the offensive lineman’s ears, and they had these custom made speakers, it was a covert operation, they would install it in a back room in the locker room on the road and what have you, and they did that week after week and presumably in the Super Bowl.
He also said the same team had offensive linemen who were caught with a substance on their jerseys and that the coach just shrugged when they were caught.
Millen declined to actually name the coach, but he played for Mike Shanahan in Denver in 1995. Three of Shanahan’s linemen were caught with Vaseline on their jerseys during a 1998 playoff game against the Chiefs.
Millen did also have a brief stint with the Jimmy Johnson-coached Cowboys, (the Patriots traded him there following the 1993 season) so it’s possible, he was referring to Johnson, but Gerry Callahan made a “beedy eyes” reference to Shanahan and it seemed like Millen went along with it.
We know that the Broncos were also caught cheating the salary cap those Super Bowl seasons. So here are two confirmed and one alleged (very serious) cheating incidents that the media and public will never pay attention to.
Can you imagine the uproar if any of these incidents happened with the Patriots? We’re on week two of the world going insane over allegations that the footballs the Patriots used were a tick under regulation inflation.
WEEI Audio – Former Patriot Hugh Millen on deflating footballs and the Seahawks 1-29-15
85 thoughts on “Hugh Millen Drops A Bomb. No One Reacts.”
StoJa says:
The national media has already jumped on a NEW scandal, of course involving the Patriots. Somehow LaGarrett Blount orchestrated his release from the Steelers knowing he would end up on the Patriots. So says some broad who allegedly writes a sports blog for the Washington Post. And here is the most mind boggling part of the story….REPUTABLE sports sites are picking up the story. Sites that should know that Blount had to clear waivers for 30 other teams before the Patriots had a shot at him. Something this lady neglected to report and something other sites also don’t report and 10000% should know.
Chattygal says:
I’m sorry, what is the relevancy of the reporter being female – I’m sorry, “some broad”?
Cindy Boren’s experience including reporting stints at the Kansas City Star, the New York Daily News, the Sporting News and the Washington Post. I suspect her CV is far more impressive than anything on yours.
Um, it’s just as relevant as when somebody says “some guy from…”. So we can call male reporters every name in the name book, but calling her a “broad”…well, holy cow. We can’t have that!! Just stop. You’re trying way to hard to try and find something to be offended about. Grow a pair.
Secondly, impressive resume. But still has NO IDEA how the NFL waiver wire works. Would rather spew some conspiratorial bullsh!t instead. And make veiled innuendo and accusations.
But please. Keep fighting the good fight on behalf of ignorance disguised as journalism.
Learn how to properly use ellipses and punctuation, little boy. You won’t sound like any less of a moron when you post comments, but at least you’ll look like less of a moron writing them.
Oh, the grammar nazi routine. SO just to recap…you can call me a moron and a little boy…BUT, I can’t refer to a woman as a broad. Cool. Good to know the rules of the game.
Roger Bournival says:
Fucking broads…
NS Webster says:
You can do anything you want – but why don’t you just call her a moron, if that’s what you think she is?
It’s like white guys throwing around the n-word. That’s the best you got? What’s someone gender or race got to do with anything? Hate people for the content of their character.
It’s funny. I’ve never once seen you complain when we all call Michael Felger an a-hole or a douchbag. Or the names we refer to Mazz, Tanguay, etc as.
But call a woman a “broad” and it’s pitchforks and torches. Get the f— out of here with that crap. Is this like how black guys can call each other the “n-word” and nobody else can? Women can call each other “b!tch” and so forth but if a man says something, let’s act all outraged and indignant!
Well not to put too fine a point on it, little one, but this is the first time I’ve been to this site. And given that the biggest loudmouth in the comments section (hint: you) seem sto be personification of Tawmmy from Quinzee, it will probably be the last.
By the way, “some broad” is not the equivalent of “some guy.”
Also, are you aware there’s an edit function so you can append a comment, rather than responding multiple times? Or did your remedial Internet class at Bunker Hill skip that lesson plan?
Toodles, ignoramus.
Aw, well we’ll miss ya sweetie. Toodles.
I love how you try and take the high road and insult me at the same time. Careful. The fence post you’re sitting on can’t be comfortable.
Tony time says:
Is it safe to post anything on this site without being attacked by a insane menstrual broad . Hey you’re ruining my super bowl
Charlotte Marks says:
Agree that her gender has no relevance, but the question is – if her CV is so impressive, why would she publish something that moronic? Anyone who knows anything about pro sports knows you can’t “conspire” to get a player through waivers, unless every GM in the league is in on it.
Rather than trusting the dubious reporting skills of StoJa, I will link you directly to Boren’s piece so that you can read what was actually published.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/01/29/legarrette-blount-is-at-the-center-of-latest-patriots-conspiracy-theory/
Annnnnd….?? I’ve read it three times. Please try and tell me this was tongue-in-cheek. Please. Defend this trash blog.
Go back to keying cars, Tawmmy. It’s more suited to your limited life skill set.
OK, I read it. It’s shit. She throws out allegation upon allegation, and very late, slips in a line about waivers, like someone quickly reciting a disclaimer in a car ad.
Lousy column dancing on the edge of libel that never should have come close to being published.
“The edge of libel”? Only if the edge is North Rim of the Grand Canyon and the libel is on the South. U.S. Libel law is more complicated than “columnist wrote something I don’t like!” and has a very high threshold; Boren is nowhere near the line of demarcation.
I’ve been an editor for more than 30 years, but thanks for the lesson.
No, she smartly throws in a CYA disclaimer, so of course it’s not libel. But the column is a purposefully shit-stirring load of bull, and will be – IS being – used as more tinder in the “culture of cheating” bonfire.
I would have spiked it and given the writer an earful. My old journalism 101 prof would have rolled up the copy and smacked the writer upside the head. Unfortunately times have changed. It’s all about page clicks and sensationalism, accuracy and verification be damned. I can’t wait to retire.
Ah, make hyperbolic claim – walk it back. That’s very Joe Morgan of you; it almost makes me miss him on SNB.
I see you’re not disputing that the column is a pile of crap.
The question remains – if this columnist has such an “impressive CV” – why is she writing such bullshit? She’s obviously not interested in the truth; she’s going for sensationalism and page clicks. Like just about everyone adding fuel to the fire in this whole sordid, ridiculous affair.
I’m pointing out you talked a big game about something and when called on it, walked it back as if of course you knew better, like most blowhards tend to do.
Boren is doing what columnists do, reporting what’s being talked about. Like it, don’t like it, but don’t lie and act like the Patriots didn’t bring a lot of the scrutiny onto themselves with their shady behavior in the past and the present. You can plug your ears and only listen to the echo chamber of WEEI and their ilk, but facts are facts. This sort of fuckery feeds the frenzy; this team, like any other, is not a bunch of innocent naifs and anyone who pretends differently has their head up their ass.
Maybe you should branch out and listen to what sports reporters – not the ones on ESPN, not the loudmouths on the radio – are writing about. It might broaden your horizons, something that seems to be an urgent need in these parts.
WHAT “shady behavior,” exactly?
And how do you know what or whom I do or don’t listen to? I’ve made every effort to focus on this stupid column (“report what’s being talked about”? Then why not write a column detailing how brainless such talk is?) and not you, but you certainly are determined to make this personal. Here’s a hint – to make a point, concentrate on the subject, not on personal insults.
What shady behavior? You can’t be serious. How about the big one that everyone points out as the landmark between our winning Super Bowls and – after its discovery and halt – our losing them?
LOL you can’t be serious.
Since “spygate,” the Patriots’ winning percentage has *improved.* Look it up. And they lost two Super Bowls the same way they won three – on a handful of key plays (or one, if you count that Tyree catch).
But OK, Spygate. Now, please detail all those other instances of “shady behavior in the past and the present.”
Ever notice when you ask for specifics on the “history of shady behavior” the trolls disappear?
Tony C says:
Those are the people who take every sour grapes-related allegation made by other teams at face value, as if they were established fact. For example, in an article in which he basically “exonerated” the Pats over Deflate-gate last week, Mike Westoff (ex-Jets S/T coach), never the less, went on a crazy rant about all of the “other” things the Patriots do that are either outside or barely inside the rules. Of course, he gave zero examples, and if he had given examples, my guess is that most of his accusations would have been drive by pure paranoia, and the others would have been found to be completely legal—-remember, John Harbaugh was crying about “deceptive” formations after the AFC divisional round because he simply didn’t understand the rule and he hadn’t done his homework as well as BB (if he had, he’d have known that Detroit used a similar formation earlier in the year). Pure Hatorade.
Exactly. They can’t provide examples because they don’t exist. I’ve challenged several trolls the past week and all they can do is rant, “Cheaterz…. blafhdkehdnyhghh…” before running away with their tails between their legs.
Charlotte you have been right on through this whole thread. They can’t cite real examples but they “feel” like the Pats must be cheating because …well …um… well… because…they must be cheating.
Thanks. It’s certainly not difficult. 😉
Welcome to the board…I hope you stay a while. I promise to only call you sweetie, missy, honey, sugar or pumpkin…but I am magnanimous…you can pick which pet name you would like us to call you 🙂
LOL, thanks anyway. 😉
Pyper says:
Lets be fair. The roster that won three Super Bowls was completely different from the teams after Spygate.
Consider that in comparing the starting roster and key contributors from 2004 to 2009 only four starters were the same on offense and only two on defense. Of the four starters on offense it was Brady and three offensive linemen. The RB’s, WR’s, and TE’s were all different. On defense, the strength of the championship teams was the LB’s and not a single one remained in 2009. The same was true of the secondary.
Like every other team in the league, the Patriots had to rebuild their roster. The difference is that while every other team demonstrates a significant dip in wins while rebuilding, the Patriots were able to rebuild their team without ever falling below the 10 win plateau.
That point is that while the “team” may wear the same uniforms, they are, in fact, a completely different team. Such is life in the NFL. Players get old. They retire, become free agents, or get traded. The only constant is constant change.
QuantumMechanic says:
Hey Ms. Boren — you’re only making yourself look like even more a stupid whiner.
I disagree with your take on Boren. She’s feeding the lowest element. Its a cheap tactic. Its manipulating facts to create a story that will get clicks. It reeks of a high school mentality. She’s catering to the popular kids at the expense of the kid nobody likes. Its bullying. It’ll go over great if your one of those bystanders laughing at the victim but its a disservice to what quality reporting should be. Having said that, the lack of ethics in today’s media is commonplace so I suppose that just makes her common. Not extraordinary. Not talented. Not unique in an appreciable way. Just a typical follower like all the rest.
Let me ask you a question Chattygal. Do you believe in due process? At its core, that is the complaint Patriots fans have with this fabricated controversy as well as Spygate. In both instances, false information was reported, speculated on, and then amazingly accepted as fact. Sensationalistic headlines get created and the accused are tried and convicted in the court of public opinion before the facts come out. Then when the facts start sprinkling out, only those that support the version of the story created by the media are acknowledged. The ones that don’t are ignored. Before long you have a mass hysteria that is based more on ignorance than anything else. Its dangerous and irresponsible and when you see it happening from the perspective of someone standing outside of the mainstream, the ugliness and inappropriateness becomes all the more obvious. Unfortunately, for those caught inside of it, they just can’t see it. They’re blinded by the excitement of the “big story” and often incapable of understanding the proper context of all the layers of complexity within that story. As such the story is mistold and misunderstood. The end result is a public that is not enlightened by the truth but instead stupidified by the entire process.
Oswee Larvey Hald says:
Broad City is my favorite TV show. Just sayin’
Hey, I always give my regards to Broadway 🙂
Because it adds insult to injury. She already needs to work harder to prove she belongs. When she does shoddy work she adds to the stereotype that she should not be in the business because she is a girl.
“because she is a girl”
Cindy Boren is not a tween. She’s an accomplished journalist. Learn the word “woman.”
Oh please. She is a girl. Read the spew she puts forth as journalism. Unsubstantiated drivel. Arguments less sophisticated than the average 10 year old girl. I have called John Tomasse, Bert Breer, Mike Felger, Tony Mazzeroti and Mike Holley far worse than girl. Pick and choose your battles. You really want to go to bat for a no talent hack because she is the same gender as you? If so you are just as dumb as she is.
If you truly want equality, which I doubt because you seem to be too narrow minded to listen to what we are all telling you…then you will learn that when media hacks say stupid things we use whatever insult is available to characterize their stupidity. No one cares what gender Boren is…all we are showing is she incompetent. So we insult her by calling her a broad, a girl or whatever other demeaning term is available. It is no different than when I call Mike Felger an insufferably 8 year old boy (something I did last year).
Lastly, get over your crusade. If I wanted to argue the merits of Andrea Dworkin thought police policies I would go back to academia. Boren is a professional journalist and a bad one. If she can’t handle criticism she should get out of the kitchen. If you feel obligated to defend her because of your shared gender then you represent all that is wrong with post Virginia Wolfe feminism. You are stuck fighting a battle you do not believe in to prove a point that no one cares about all in the name of gender equity.
Okay, little girl. Maybe you and Tawmmy should go get a couple of Twisted Teas together.
Nice one missy. You know what the problem with you coopted feminists is…you can’t think. You are so busy feeling that things should be a certain way that you toss logic and reason and replace them with nonsense.
Go play with people who agree with your perverted politics. As far as I can tell you have added nothing to the conversation on this board other than blind defense of a poor writer because you are the same gender. Come back when you have legitimate sports arguments rather than ruffled feathers because someone used the term “girl” when describing a talentless moron.
Okay, little girl. I think it’s past your bedtime. You must be tired from looking up all those big words to use today!
You guys really have lived up to the
Tawmmy from Quinzee persona. “EVERYONE IS JUST JEALOUS OF US MEMBERS OF GREATRIOT NATION! LIBEL! I MEAN NOT REALLY LIBEL BUT CLOSE ENOUGH! UNFAIR!!!”
A person couldn’t have asked for a better, more predictable response.
Enjoy your Twisted Tea, darlin’.
Child…I find you amusing. Quick to insult but not really sophisticated in your thinking. Thanks for the good laugh. Winding you up and watching you expose your silly arguments and while you retreat into name calling because several of us called you on your bullshit pseudo feminism has been a welcome respite from deflategate.
Take it to the dart board at Sullys, girl. You’re a waste of space and a brain cell killer.
Toodles and good luck in pursuit of that Associates degree at Bunker Hill!
I think we now know what happens when the comments sections on Jezebel and FoxNews.com finally meet.
She doesn’t need to work harder to prove she belongs – she needs to work harder to overcome ignorant stereotyping and outdated, absurd beliefs.
The people who fall back on stereotypes like that are the people I would stereotype as “morons.”
If she’s wrong than she’s “an idiot moron journalist.” Not an idiot moron woman journalist. Just an idiot moron journalist.
My point is she is both. Look…very few people on this board insult Jackie Mac because she is a woman. She has proven she is a competent journalist (at least when she talks hoops…not so much when she talks football). As such no one looks at her gender. On the other hand Shalise Manza Young is so bad its hard not to look at the fact that she is a girl trying to make it in a man’s professional especially when she complains how hard the Pats make her job when they do not give her access. Those days she sounds like the whiney little girl she is.
People want equality of opportunity…and they have it. That does not mean they then do not deserve equality of criticism/ venom when they say and do stupid things. All things are on the table. Even their gender.
Well, I don’t agree with that, but it’s a fair explanation. So yeah, I get it.
But you would never make a “Felger’s a white male so he thinks a certain way…” kind of comment. It’s ONLY women/non-white people who get these insults directed at them.
I just think it’s lazy – if all anyone’s got is to pull the gender/race card, then there must not be much weight to the argument.
Now, you’re rebuttal could easily be “hey, she’s not worth my effort – so I’m going with the easiest insult I can think of,” which again, is lazy and irrelevant, but I think we’ve all been there.
You are wrong. One of my favorite phrases is “never underestimate the stupidity of the average white well adjusted middle class white person.” I would say that about Felger if it made sense in context of what he is writing/saying. The good thing about Felger is there are so many ways to insult him and the caricature he has become that I have not needed to insult his ethnicity yet. I have mocked his yiddish on occasion but that was more because it sounds so forced.
That’s fair – but I still would argue that gender/race is low-hanging fruit. A moron’s a moron’s a moron. Haha
Sure…but if the argument warrants it use it. For example I never call Mike Holley the product of affirmative action because insulting his race is too simple when describing how bad he really is. I used the example of Jackie Mac before. Another one would be Karen G…when she does something stupid we call her dumb…not a dumb woman because she has earned our respect. I think the quality or lack there of determines how much time and energy I need to spend finding the correct insult. There is much science to being a successful blog post commenter! Its not like I rolled out of bed this witty and sardonic.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Pats had to wait for Blount to clear waivers, or at least have to wait until something like 25 other teams passed on him before they could sign him, no? How could there be a “conspiracy” in play to get him back to the Pats if two dozen other NFL teams had a perfectly legal chance to sign him first? This one simply doesn’t pass even the initial smell test IMO.
You are correct. All 32 teams could have claimed Blount off waivers. None did. (Though admittedly, if they had they would have had to honor his existing contract. The moment he cleared waivers his contract ceased to exist.)
JamesAllen says:
What does the sex of the blogger have to do with validity of the opinion? And, do you refer to your wife or mother as a “broad”?
Hmmm…if true, that implicates Mark Schlereth. Schlereth who currently works for ESPN, was an offensive linemen for Shanahan in Denver. Schlereth also was extremely harsh in his coverage for ESPN during the Spygate incident. Having said that, outside of his misguided impressions on Spygate, Schlereth has always struck me as a likable guy. Therefore I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt as I’ve seen firsthand how awful it is when people rush to judgement unfairly. And therein lies the truth regarding what I call Belichick-Gate. None of the public and media outcry has ever been about the trumped up allegations on the New England coach. Instead they’ve merely been a pathetic attempt by the media to tear down the man who restricts their access and warm and fuzzy with them. He isn’t personable with them and they use their positions to influence the public to hate the man as much as they do. Thats what deflate gate is about and thats what spygate was about as well. Revenge.
The_Pip says:
If the Seahawks were facing even half the scrutiny, I’m sure a scandal much worse than deflated balls would come out. But nope, they get not a second glance. Despite that Coach’s track record.
And yet the NFL tested Earl Thomas for HGH after he declared he felt 100%.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2014/story/_/id/12248954/seattle-seahawks-miffed-hgh-tests
Its not like 10 Seahawks were not suspended or fined last year for PED violations. But hey…lets not chase real stories.
Wnna have your head explode? Like, brain matter splattered all over the walls? Go listen to the ultimate @ssclown troll of them all, Gregg Doyle with D&C&M. WOW. I sat in stunned silence when it was over. The guy who said the AFC-CG should be replayed, that Belichick and Brady should be fired and suspended from the Super Bowl…..he puked up an all-timer today.
Ready for it? He said the 2014 DeflateGate is the biggest, ugliest sports scandal since the 1919 Black Sox. Doyle is a EPIC troll but I actually believe HE believes this. Now, I’ve heard it all in relation to this story.
Mind. F##king. Blown.
Isn’t there a petition in Indy, signed by over 70k people, to replay the game?
mediablowhards says:
Cue the civil suits against Kraft, B.B. and Brady for ruining their last fifteen Winters.
Doyle is just plagiarizing from Greggggggg Easterbrook, who, in one of his typical, insane and unhinged rants over “Spygate”, also compared it to the 1919 Black Sox scandal more than 7 years ago. Of course, these mediots wouldn’t be interested in knowing, or caring, about the fact that the 1919 White Sox were consorting with gamblers with major underworld ties (Arnold Rothstein went to the grave because he ended up on the wrong end of a pistol); and so equating these minor infractions (if there even was ball deflating going on — we still don’t know that for a fact) to the Black Sox scandal is ignorant and moronic, at best, and slanderous, at worst.
The fact that you had to explain how they two are not analogous speaks volumes about how dumb certain “professional” mediots are. I think the bigger scandal is that there are outlets that still employ these morons. Free Speech does not mean it has to be endorsed by being given a platform. Remember the good old days when there were journalistic standards and ethics? Oh wait Journalists have always been holier than thou.
LTD: I may have to steal this one from you: “Free speech does not mean it has to be endorsed by being given a platform.” Great line, and very spot-on.
Tony…you can use anything I write always. Heck steal it and don’t give me credit. We are all part of the BSMW family, bro (I had to…don’t hate ;-))
If only individuals were less civil on internet discussion boards. I don’t know about all of you, but I get real bored when people try to share thoughtful insights. What we really need are good old fashioned flame wars between internet tough guys and tough gals. Nothing exemplifies ones intelligence more than the ability insult another by pressing keys on their computers under some anonymous identity. I am so impressed!!!
It is sad when many boards/threads follow Godwin’s Law or just devolve into troll/spam fests.
bullock says:
Yeah, this board used to be so much better when it was just me making 90s wrestling references that three people on here appreciated. #ShockMaster
IM OFFENDED BY THOSE
Suck it!
Your dissenting opinion may be more measured, more rhetorically sound, but it’s still just an opinion. And you shake it like a finger, while other, less eloquent, posters extend their comments like a finger.
Lamenting poor form on the interwebs is lame. Grow up.
Thank you for your advice and wonderful analysis. Have a great weekend and enjoy the game!
There’s a game Sunday?
Aaron Schatz over @ FO does a nice breakdown of the game:
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/game-previews/2015/super-bowl-xlix-preview
Blandino said the Colts balls were checked at halftime, too. But again, the PSI is only approved or disapproved.
— Jeff Howe (@jeffphowe) January 29, 2015
Oops. NFL kinda just killed their own investigation. One of the prime “Ballgazi” truthers also kinda stepped in it this morning:
https://twitter.com/barthubbuch/status/560870562239496192
This Bart dude is dumb enough to be a paid columnist! What does it mean? It means exactly what it says, moron.
Funny screencap via the F&M simulcast. Zolak eating pizza in the background while they’re addressing.. what else..
Gotta love @scottzolak eating pizza on the @FelgerAndMazz simulcast on CSNNE. #PizzaGate pic.twitter.com/duGIbOwZFB
— Evan Walsh (@Evan__Walsh) January 29, 2015
You are absolutely correct. Every single team in the NFL had the chance to claim Blount off waivers (though admittedly, if they did they would have had to honor his existing contract). No one did.
Wow! Mike Reiss had his Wheaties today!
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/boston/chat/_/id/51566
“I’ll add a few more thoughts in this chat. I think it stinks. If anyone has ever felt piled-on before, and a target of something that they deem unfair, we know how helpless of a feeling that can be. You just ask whoever is doing it to be fair and balanced, and let the process play out. But this has been an absolute avalanche in many circles and the general lack of personal empathy stands out to me. Words like “jealousy” and “nasty” come to the forefront of my thoughts when I recap how this whole thing has gone down.”
“…here’s the bottom line: It doesn’t matter because the damage has already been done. Opinions are already formed/shaped. Reputations have been damaged and legacies potentially affected. It’s like the correction to a mistake in a newspaper story (I had plenty of those) — everyone remembers the story, not the correction. This is part of why the whole situation just stinks from my view. I’m not sparing the Patriots accountability; if they were found to manipulate the footballs, they should face a penalty. But the fact it has gotten to this point — without any hard-core evidence — is just crazy and makes me question the direction and leadership of the league office.”
The Gold Standard.
I could live without the “Could you imagine!!??” question at the end of these posts. Yes, we could imagine – that’s why we’re here.
Bob Kravitz is on D+C right now. Reacts to his little hunt not going so well.
Basically says that he doesn’t trust the NFL to “do the right thing’ and find the Patriots guilty. Why doesn’t he trust them? Because they didn’t do it with Ray Rice.
Ok, so you don’t trust the NFL because how bad they bungled the Ray Rice investigation but you do trust them when they find something against the Patriots?
Got it. Many continue to use this logic. This is before we get into the rest of it, but I still find this laughable.
And, I love how he dismisses everyone who disagrees with him as “fanbois”, “bloggers” or “passionate fans”.
He loves it – he can run his mouth all day and all night, and click after click after click.
daver says:
The only thing proven so far in Deflategate is that Bob Kravitz is a braying jackass.
That is the troll’s (Columnist) cute way of saying that he knows knows the NFL has nothing on the Pats.
re: “Basically says that he doesn’t trust the NFL to “do the right thing'”
He dismisses his opponents as “fanbois”, “bloggers” and “passionate” fans, but his own opinion on the story is that the NFL and Kraft are operating a conspiracy!
Trolls loathe to admit to being wrong about anything.
Paying_Attention says:
Kravitz dismisses those criticizing him as “fanboys.” He’s also stated that when you become a media member, rooting interests go out the window.
That’s fine, but I think he forgets that part of being a fan is not just rooting for your team. You also root against your team’s rivals.
I bring this up because, on the 19th, Kravitz was explaining why he ran with his story. It wasn’t only because it came from a source he trusted. He also mentioned that it was because it involved Belichick and the Patriots. To me, that means if it was, for example, the Bengals, he might have looked into it more or sought another source before reporting it. It was his fanboy-ish dislike for the Patriots that influenced his decision.
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Exam Malpractice: NECO delists Oyo, Katsina, Kebbi schools
The National Examinations Council has delisted three schools in Katsina, Kebbi and Oyo states for two years over their alleged involvement in mass cheating.
The council said on Tuesday it recorded cases of examination malpractices such as “collusion by supervisors, teachers and school administrators, who ought to be part of the army in fighting the scourge.”
In its recent June and July 2019 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, the council put the cases of malpractices at over 40,000.
The acting NECO Registrar, Mr Abubakar Gana, disclosed these in Abuja in a brief submitted to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on the mandate and achievements of the council between May 2018 and September 2019.
The registrar called on the government to prioritise security of examinations and officials just as the Independent National Electoral Commission is provided with security during elections.
Gana noted that NECO acquired 8,000 biometric verification machines before the conduct of its 2019 SSCE, adding that the council needed more biometric verification devices to serve its over 16,000 centres.
He said, “The Council successfully conducted the 2019 June/July SSCE with a total of 1,163,194 candidates registered for the examination. A total of 40,630 candidates were involved in the various forms of malpractice; 18 supervisors were blacklisted for poor supervision, aiding, abetting and connivance with candidates to perpetrate examination malpractice.
“Three schools, one each in Katsina, Kebbi and Oyo states, were de-recognised for two years for their involvement in collusion and mass cheating.”
The registrar said the council had tried to block financial leakages and increased prudence in the management of resources.
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The cannabidiol industry is set towards an impressive expansion. According to a research firm forecast, CBD sales could reach $20B by 2024, almost tenfold from 2018’s sales of $1.8B. It could be attributed to upward trends in the industry, and as well as the great reception to CBD being a safe option compared to marijuana due to its low tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content. THC is the substance responsible for the high in weed.
However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning recently that stated how some CBD-based products could cause serious health problems. This statement might affect one of the leading CBD companies in the US, Charlotte’s Web Holdings.
CBD may not always be healthy
In a consumer update published by the FDA regarding CBD product use, the agency stressed that cannabidiol might be the cause for various health issues such as liver injury, change in mood, and alertness. CBD used with other depressants and alcohol may also cause drowsiness. The FDA added that the said side effects could happen even without the user noticing.
The agency also reiterated that the alleged therapeutic benefits of cannabidiol are mostly unproven, despite several sellers highlighting their products as having several health benefits such as anti-cancer and pain-relieving properties.
The FDA also reminded the public that there is still a lack of data as CBD’s effects on the body in the long term. It is something consumers should ponder about according to the agency.
Is Charlotte’s Web Affected?
Charlotte’s Web is one of the most well-known US-based cannabidiol companies in the country and abroad. It sells a variety of CBD-containing products such as capsules and oil. It claims the biggest US market share in the CBD industry, with its products selling at nearly 10,000 stores nationwide. Its strong retail presence aids in the expansion of the company’s market share. Can the FDA warning affect their numbers?
Most likely not, and Charlotte’s Web can still maintain its top market position. The FDA has sent out warning letters to companies selling CBD products with false promotional claims, but Charlotte’s Web was not included. In a conference call of Charlotte’s Web CEO Deanie Elsner regarding their third-quarter earnings, he specified that the company fully supports the FDA’s stance on unfounded claims and are working with their business partners to maintain the effort.
Elsner also mentioned that while the FDA has little issuance on regulations, Charlotte’s Web is ready to adapt as soon as new directives from the agency are released. He said that the company is currently progressing on its expansion plan, getting its infrastructure and capacity to catch up with its growth.
The company is rooting for the FDA to set a clear regulatory framework, especially for dietary supplements. Charlotte’s Web is positive that its product portfolio and distribution channels will expand as soon as it happens.
The CBD industry looks to persist despite the warnings, and the supply of products will unlikely dwindle. Charlotte’s Web and its growth will remain unaffected. For investors, it might be wise to keep in mind that the CBD legal landscape is still an unfinished course, so evaluating whether a company is worth purchasing shares from is important.
China Cashes in on Cannabis Boom Despite Being Illegal in the Country
Marijuana is a dangerous narcotic in China, and being caught possessing it incurs a grave offense. However, this does not hamper the booming production of cannabis products in the region.
China has been growing hemp for textile and alternative medicine for many centuries and remains to be one of the largest top producers in the world. The giant’s footing in the cannabis industry has given producers an edge in the booming CBD craze. CBD or cannabidiol is a derivative of the cannabis plant that is now infused in virtually anything, from pet products to skincare serums.
The heart of the production
Yunnan, a province in China’s southwestern region, is the first to make industrial cannabis legal. The farm plots in the area are filled with tall hemp fields that span miles. The plant’s flowers and leaves are harvested by hand during the fall, sun-dried, and then turned into export quality CBD oil and powder. Yang Liu, manager of some hemp fields in Qujing, Yunnan, said that the cannabis industry looks to bring great benefit to him and the farmers in the future.
China holds 11% of the $800M worldwide CBD market last year, trailing after the US and Europe.
The industry is still maturing, but manufacturers and other key players in the CBD market are investing in land to increase hemp production. It may have existed for thousands of years, but hemp growing wasn’t adequately regulated until recently, with the government now being intimately involved in the development of the CBD industry.
Henri Sant-Cassia, a CBD advocate representing Cannabis Fund who tours Asia to find new CBD enterprises, exclaimed that China is moving into the cannabidiol industry at the speed of light.
Unbending regulations
Farmers in the US are also upping their hemp cultivation to cope with the rising CBD demand. This cannabis derivative is said to relieve anxiety and pain without causing a high that marijuana gives. The Brightfield Group predicts the CBD market to grow to a $23.7B industry by 2023.
Despite the astounding numbers, China’s stance on marijuana is unlikely to bend. If anyone is found to be harboring tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-based products, they can be charged with a life sentence or worse, the death penalty. National Narcotics Control Commission deputy director Liu Yuejin said last April that China would strictly supervise industrial cannabis production amid its legalization in many countries.
Ingestible CBD is also regulated in China, which means that almost all hemp harvested and processed in China is sent overseas. It competes with other major hemp producers like Canada and the US for CBD market share.
CBD industry in China
The second province to legalize industrial cannabis farming is Heilongjiang, which is located along the Siberian border in the country’s northeastern area. Neighboring province Jilin is also poised to follow in their footsteps. Government officials are starting to encourage growers to consider hemp production, citing additional income and crop diversification as the benefits.
An influx of new companies entered China’s CBD industry recently, which Hanma Investment Group Co. Co-Founder Tan Xin believes will make it harder for newcomers to gain profit.
Since HMI started their cannabis venture in 2013, a kilo of CBD was valued at $50,000 when sold in the US, as stated by Tan Xin. In 2018, it fell to $6,000 and would most likely drop to $1,000 per kilo in 2020, according to him.
Nevertheless, Tan is positive that they can still cash in, provided that the price does not fall below the $300 mark since processing and labor cost less in China.
Untested CBD-infused Products Could Pose Health Risks as Market Grows Stronger
Cannabidiol products have recently spiked in sales and availability, granted by its popularity as an alternative cure to anxiety and pain. However, medical authorities warn about the potential health hazards of CBD and the many unproven therapeutic claims of the said substance.
Cronos, a Canadian company, recently bought a $300M CBD company, 7-Eleven stores now have CBD-dispensing robots, and HempAmericana Inc. started a live e-commerce portal to foster online CBD sales.
Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, director of the University of Wisconsin’s Doctor of Medicine-Master of Public Health Program, stated that cannabidiol might have numerous benefits, but most of these claims have not been tested for accuracy.
He cited the clinical trials of CBD for intractable seizures as the only benefit proven to be true. Intractable epilepsy is a kind of seizure that does not respond to therapy or any treatment. The CBD-containing drug, Epidiolex, is the only FDA-approved cannabidiol medication given for such cases.
Navsaria reiterated that several claims lack strong evidence for them to count.
Earlier this year, the FDA gave out warning letters to companies that sell new yet unapproved drugs that allegedly have CBD. Three of these firms are located in Florida.
CBD is widely available in stores and online, including big retailers like Walgreens.
Navsaria pointed out the lack of guarantee in terms of a product’s purity, and its active ingredients are what make it hard for medical practitioners to say yes to patients asking whether they can try CBD. It’s is the same dilemma they face for homeopathic remedies and herbal supplements, Navsaria added.
Research on CBD
Forbes revealed cases of people testing positive in urine drug tests from using CBD. This situation poses a risk for people whose jobs stipulate routine drug testing.
Natalie Schmitz, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, studied the labeling accuracy for CBD products in her research. She stated that the literature related to CBD is limited and cannot support the claims of effectiveness.
She added that further research should be done to support all claims, including the benefits of CBD for pain and anxiety so that a conclusive statement can be made.
Some studies show how CBD can cause liver problems. There is also evidence of the substance causing several side effects like irritability, fatigue, and nausea.
Schmitz further stated that there is a need for FDA-approved guidelines for standardization and state-proposed quality measurements to help ensure that CBD products do not pose health hazards for the public.
Navsaria said that people should question products that are claiming to have several benefits without proper evidence. He cited profit motive as a drive for the proliferating CBD market. He believes that sellers are taking advantage of the trend to maximize sales, making it questionable whether these products are actually made to help people.
He further added that claims could easily be made, but there is little to no support over its factual value.
Heads Up: TSA Officers Might Not Like Your CBD Oil
Cannabidiol or CBD is the wonder cure that the world is gradually noticing; Forbes reported a forecast of the industry growing to $5B this year. However, various rules and regulations in the United States question the absolute legality of the substance.
According to Dr. Peter Grinspoon from the Harvard Medical School, the confusion regarding CBD stems from it being a derivative of marijuana’s cousin plant variety, the industrial hemp. CBD is also an essential component of medical marijuana but does not cause the “high” from use.
Many agencies have changed their stance regarding the substance, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), that previously disallowed travelers from carrying CBD on board. Last May, the TSA remarked that CBD is allowed provided that it does not contain more than 0.3% THC or tetrahydrocannabinol, the compound responsible for marijuana’s high.
Questions about TSA’s New Rule
The public raised important questions about the new rules on CBD that TSA is currently implementing. For instance, people wonder how enforcers will check the THC content of a product, so they know if it contains the right amount or not. This situation, however, can hold lines and cause disturbance for other travelers, which also leads to many issues concerning CBD.
For another, state laws and regulations are varied and hold no consistency regarding the matter. Hemp and hemp-derived products may be legal in almost all states, but cannabis purchase and use are still primarily frowned upon across the country.
What might be wise to do at this point is to evaluate the product carefully and ensure that it meets all the TSA qualifications. As a personal care product, it’s far from being a harmful item that officers watch out for, such as weapons, explosives, and other destructive equipment.
Minchul An, doctor of pharmacy for CBD seller Buzzn, suggests carrying a certificate of analysis to clarify the product’s ingredients, which could help supplement the information found on the labeling. However, this document may only be available upon request.
Varying degrees of state rules and regulations
In the United States, laws and regulations for CBD differ from state to state.
Travis Rexroad, Weedmaps public relations director, stated that there are nuances to consider when flying with CBD on hand. He added that although the federal government has made its move to legalize CBD derived from hemp, there are still states that implement stricter laws on the substance. This could lead to travelers facing the consequences if they are found to have CBD with them.
NBC Miami reported the case of a 69-year0old lady who was arrested at Disney World Florida last April when authorities found CBD in her purse. They detained her for 15 hours for carrying what she said was a doctor-recommended product for her arthritis.
CO-Head William Garvin of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, a law firm that advocates for the cannabis industry, said that CBD is nothing like the usual consumer products. He made an example of Diet Coke, which one can buy in Missouri and carry all the way to Montana. This case is not acceptable to CBD due to conflicting laws between states.
Experts and advocates like An and Garvin do not advise traveling with CBD due to the risks. Expensive CBD products could be confiscated, or worse, the traveler could miss their flight. All of these problems are dependent on the destination and the laws on CBD that the state implements.
Garvin added that it’s more practical to buy CBD oil from wherever the traveler is going to since it is widely available across many states. Ultimately, it is up to the person carrying CBD if they are amenable to facing the risks of traveling with the product.
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Not reaching the goal ring...
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by akessel92 » Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:17 pm
I had a conversation with a fellow bumblemember outside and he brought a few points that really make me question Ian's writing. What he said was that there is no thesis statement to this comic. No aim to the story. The freedom fighters are not challenged as individuals and have no goals of their own. Also, the past and concepts are not explored further but rather just acknowledges that it exists. He stressed that the story is aimless. Granted the pacing is in many places, but it's not a disciplined March but a stampede as story pacing goes. All these concepts unfocused and uncared for driving headlong.
I guess this why some fans (even once dear friends) who now left the comic feel that the reboot has done nothing but route the quality and the integrity this comic series had and the massacre of their childhoods. Granted the last part maybe overdramatize but a good number feel that way.
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Re: Not reaching the goal ring...
by Mavrickindigo » Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:46 pm
AFter Worlds Unite, I think there's a chance for the comic to pick itself up again. It seemd pretty bogged down by editorial mandates by the end of it, and, at least right now, the current editor seems to be letting things go the course without pushing things. Who knows, maybe arcs wont' be constrained to four issues after awhile, either? Probably not the case for SOnic Universe, but maybe the main comic will have more freedom?
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by BlazeHeatnix » Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:00 pm
I'm so tired of pre vs pro reboot debates. Just stop. Stop.
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by Penguin God » Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:01 pm
It's a kids' action/adventure story about Sonic the Hedgehog, super fast blue hedgehog who gets into scraps with Dr. Eggman, mad scientist manchild. That's the thesis statement. It's a serialized ongoing adventure book, of course it's not always going to be some steady march towards a single goal. It never did.
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by Mobotropolis » Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:05 pm
I'd argue that the same could be said for the Sonic Franchise as a whole.
It's Sonic and his assortment of friends having adventures with Eggman serving as a force of semi-resistance. This statement applies to almost every incarnation of the Sonic series. The only real goal of it all is for Sonic and Friends to emerge victorious against the threat of the day as expected and mandated. In that sense it isn't only a problem with Ian or the writing but a concern with the series as a whole.
A valid one? Not sure. The Mario Series is immensely successful and mostly aimless. The Kirby Series is also notable for being a near-utopia where the characters only do things reactively before going back to doing nothing notable.
Moving onto the book. Note that I am talking post-reboot.
I believe some of his comments have merit. The Freedom Fighters don't appear to have much of a life outside of their fight for freedom. Moreso now than before the reboot are they members of a team meant to serve a specific purpose and not much else. I do hope that things get fleshed out a bit after the Shattered World Crisis is over -- but now we're reaching the three year mark and it's not doing much but affirming my opinion.
I also agree that there seems to be a power imbalance in the book. Specifically, that the side of evil is wholly under-powered and ill-equipped to handle the Freedom Fighters. Eggman has twelve armies and the best they can do is inconvenience them slightly. Eclipse is close to a challenge but was nearly killed and barely escaped in his first appearance. Again, I hope that this is something that will be fixed once Shattered World Crisis is over.
I think a sore point for many people is that there is hope for improvement " after Shattered World Crisis is over " but we still have about another year before we see the end of the tunnel. It seems a growing number are tired of waiting.
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by Tylinos » Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:45 pm
Mobotropolis wrote: The only real goal of it all is for Sonic and Friends to emerge victorious against the threat of the day as expected and mandated. In that sense it isn't only a problem with Ian or the writing but a concern with the series as a whole.
This. It's how it was for the series pre-reboot as well. Eggman's trying to take over the world and do villainous things along the way, and Sonic and co. have to stop him. Apart from the brief stint after Endgame, stopping him has always been the goal in the series. Even when the occasional distraction such as Naugus would come along, Eggman would always been the bigger, looming threat.
If you're looking from an out-of-story perspective of the goal, that's been even more static. Even in the early, silly days of the comic, it focused on Sonic and his friends helping people and doing the right thing. That hasn't changed. They did that at the start, in the middle, and even now. Even if the characters, places, and even backstory in the series have changed, the one thing that hasn't changed is the story's aim.
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by OncleSam » Fri Oct 16, 2015 3:27 am
BlazeHeatnix wrote: I'm so tired of pre vs pro reboot debates. Just stop. Stop.
IMO all debates are moot and pointless. We the " masses " have little to no control at all on what can happens in these comics. The creators make it, we read it. If we like it, good, if we don't, too bad, we move on.
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by MetalSkulkBane » Fri Oct 16, 2015 4:01 am
"There is no thesis statement to the comics"? Ok, someone explains all of this? I see accusations, but with no context or comparison.
Does Superman has any "aim for the story" other then "keep world safe"? Do Ninja Turtles are being "challenged as individuals" in a way that Freedom Fighters weren't? Ok, so maybe there wasn't that much of character focus, but Sweet Chaos, give Flynn break. His first priority now is filling the universe with new characters like Meropis, Breezie or Egg Bosses. Also, Nicole had "Spark of life" and Rotor found out his father work for Eggman. Is that doesn't count as anything?
Also I don't know what "the past and concepts are not explored further but rather just acknowledges that it exists" means. Throw me some examples and I might agree with that (I have my own problems with comic), but I don't want to jump into conclusions.
OncleSam wrote:
Oh no, we're debating Sonic comic on Sonic Comic Forum. What a stupid thing to do.
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MetalSkulkBane wrote: "There is no thesis statement to the comics"? Ok, someone explains all of this? I see accusations, but with no context or comparison.
I meant that it's pretty useless to go bat-crap crazy everytime someone says something that irritates you ( like now :) ) It's a good think to share opinions but to react like a 12 year old kid is actually pretty dumb.
Oh, ok :P
by Mavrickindigo » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:24 am
Actually, if a large enough group of pepole stop buying/reading the comics because of something, the company might be forced to either 1.) change the comic to bring the fans back or 2.) cancel it. It would require something happening that enough pepoole would actually want to see the comic die for before any sort of change like that could happen,t though
and for me, the comic was neverTHAT bad, excpet in the pre reboot, post Genesis era when Pendering Shenanigans actively ruined the quality of stories
by Mordum » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:36 am
Penguin God wrote: It's a kids' action/adventure story about Sonic the Hedgehog, super fast blue hedgehog who gets into scraps with Dr. Eggman, mad scientist manchild. That's the thesis statement. It's a serialized ongoing adventure book, of course it's not always going to be some steady march towards a single goal. It never did.
This guy knows what's up.
Comics like Sonic forever exist in the second act. The thesis statement is a story-to-story thing.
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by Mr.Unsmiley » Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:27 am
Mordum wrote:
have to wonder if these people have ever seen like... any cartoons from the 80s
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by Mordum » Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:00 am
Mr.Unsmiley wrote:
Episodic storytelling is painfully underrated.
by Vampfox » Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:29 pm
Just because it's a comic about a blue hedgehog who battles an egg shaped mad scientist doesn't mean that it can't deal with more mature themes. Oh and Robotnik isn't a manchild or at least he isn't suppose to be a manchild. Sadly Sega has ruined Robotnik as a villain, but that's more of a discussion for another topic.
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Posted On 10/15/2016 09/15/2019 By idarklight
Stay calm and just repeat after me – one two three, two two three, three two three
I used to make excuses for dramas that dub, citing restrictions on accents, technology, and all that good-stuff. Unfortunately, I’ve since realized that’s not really true. The only real reason? That lovely little thing called self-interest.
The voices you hear in a TV show came through one of the three ways:
Dubbed by a dubbing team – ex. all of Empresses in the Palace,
Dubbed original voices – ex. some leads of Nirvana in Fire.
On-site Recording – ex. Ode to Joy, The Interpreters
Dubbing methods often vary character-to-character, and dramas can use a mix of all three.
Let’s go down the list of excuses I used to believe :
China doesn’t allow accents
The TV regulators at SARFT specifically said they do not object to the use of accents. Just look at First Love 柠檬初上, where Hawick Lau speaks with a Hong Kong accent, their daughter with a Taiwanese accent, and Gulnazar in listless whispers.
In fact, several recent dramas have actually asked the actors to learn accents to fit their characters (ex. Tong Liya and Yuan Hong in A Simple World)
2. Too many Chinese accents are distracting.
Accent coaches. They’re great, more people should use them.
Tong Liya is one of the few younger actresses who’s learned an accent for a role.
3. Big Brother is listening
Primetime airing requires screening, and getting final approval may require multiple edits. For example, Ode to Joy had to dub over a Qu Xiaoxiao line that used a line from a nature documentary to suggest it’s time for mating, although not one referring to Dr. Zhao as viagra for women. But most shows only have to change a few lines which shouldn’t take more than a day to dub. Surely you can spare a day for your poor, voiceless character?
Even if it’s something drastic like changing the name of the leads (which is rare and only occurs if it’s an important historical figure, someone complains, and you are Yu Zheng/Tangren), recording shouldn’t take more than a week. Plus, you would think by the number of times Yu Zheng had to go to court for plagiarism, he would have a good enough lawyer to write requirements for re-recording into the contract.
If Wang Kai can learn Taiwanese accents for 20 minutes of screentime, you can learn mandarin for your lead role
4. Noise-control is expensive
This is the only semi-legit reason for historical dramas.
Yes, Hengdian probably gets more visitors than the average drama gets viewers, and noise-control can be difficult. Dubbing a whole drama takes a minimum of a week, which is a lot of money in actor time.
But The Three Heroes and Five Gallants, which used Chen Xiao’s on-site recorded voice, sounded perfectly fine despite not even trying too hard since they had originally planned to dub it. That drama was filmed at Wuxi Studios, which is also flooded with tourists.
Why dub?
Actors get paid really well in China, and their time is measured in gold. Compare the upwards of 100k per day A-listers receive for a variety show to a few thousands for dubbing, and it’s not hard to see why neither actors nor production teams are incentivized to get the actors in the studio.
And it takes time to prepare lines. It’s hard to imagine the leads remembering all their lines for a 70-episode show filmed in 30 days, not to mention say it with the right emotions. That’s why you get reports of actors just counting instead of saying their lines or having their assistants tele-prompt them while filming.
Dear actors:
We know you’re very busy, we know your work’s important,
but if you can’t do your job then please just quit.
Another growing reason is the large number of non-mainland actors/producers/directors. Many of the hottest Chinese idols have strong accents and haven’t bothered to get an accent coach, and producers often chose their fame and face over the drawback of dubbing. On top of the fact that most historical idol drama directors are currently from Hong Kong, there’s an increasing number of Korean companies investing in Chinese dramas, often with the requirement that the production teams and many of the leads being Korean. This means that actors who can read their own lines are often simply not valued by many teams, and it’s not like the rest of the team can tell the difference anyways.
Is there any hope?!
Luckily, with increased competition for dramas and airing, production speed has become important. Almost all of Hunan TV’s Sunday dramas, including many I almost wish were dubbed, have so far used mostly on-site recording. These dramas often are filmed while airing, with no time for dubbing.
In 2010, exactly zero of the top idol dramas from the mainland used the actors original voices. Although to be fair, only two modern idol dramas from the mainland had over 1% in viewership (Meteor Shower 2 and Strands of Love). I’m ignoring rom-coms like Ugly Wudi and iPartment.
With a surge in mainland idol dramas and mainland idol actors, we’re seeing more and more dramas using either on-set recording or getting its leads to dub themselves. In 2015, two of the most acclaimed dramas, The Disguiser and Nirvana in Fire, suddenly made no-dubbing cool. 2016 has already seen The Love of Happiness, The Interpreters, So Young, Ode to Joy, Love O2O, etc. Upcoming, we have Hu Ge’s Hunting Ground, Wang Kai’s When a Snail Fall in Love, and the epic Storms of Prophecy to look forward to. And for the first time, Yu Zheng had the leads dub themselves for Memories Lost.
You can tell it’s now cool for actors to dub themselves when even Yu Zheng is doing it.
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Dubbing really bothers me but it is seriously horrible when Korean actors speak Korean for their lines and the dubbing doesn’t match at all. Many a drama have been ruined by Korean actors, I for one am glad they’re not allowed on Chinese tv anymore.
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luxiro says:
I hate dubbing so much >.> Like ok, if it has to be done, at least do it well. But most of the time, they just use the same group of people to dub the same dramas over and over. And those dubbers dont sound or even enunciate like actors. I think the worst is when they try to dub a child’s voice, but its obviously an adults voice, made to sound “cute.” /cringe
Also, the way the the dubbed voices sound, its as if just bc it is sound controlled, they dont have to worry if they sound as if they are speaking into a microphone or anything. That microphone sound ugh. I mean you almost think with all the effort put into making a drama, it sounds as if they are making it harder for themselves doing all that extra work…
Extra but, just a disclaimer, I listen to audiobooks so I have a higher standard when it comes to these things. Also, when it comes to dubs, imo japanese voice actors are at a completely different level. I watched a bit of the disguiser, and I have to say, when the japanese dub comes on, its like, so this is how it could have been…
Coming from a production point of view here. Several weeks ago, we had to film an outdoor scene. The park was beautiful and crowd control was manageable. But lo and behold, a police helicopter flew in to circle above us. Not too sure who they were looking for…we joked that the person on the run probably blended in with our background performers. Anyway, 50 cast and crew (plus countless background) waited over an hour to resume filming. Daylight hours are precious too, even though we usually film 10 – 12 hours a day! Yes, that’s an exception and not an example, but outdoor scenes are insanely unpredictable. Indoor sets aren’t that great either. On another show, they bought the largest studio space that money could buy. The only problem was that because it was so cavernous, it produced a lot of echo. Face-palm. The 1st A.D. is constantly yelling, “Quiet on set!” Let’s talk about the actors now. It’s not easy to deliver the lines with the same fake accent, take after take. You’re bound to make mistakes, especially if it’s take 39047509790. To err is human, right? Sometimes, the foreign (Aussie, Kiwi, etc.) actor delivered a kick-ass performance, American accent and all, but the director may insist that a different and sub-par take be printed, one that showcased the lead actor’s acting. Since some shows *keuf sci-fi keuf* require sound effects and special effects to be added in post-production, why not take that opportunity to dub voices? Do you think the audience is looking for authentic accents when they’re bombarded with outrageous special effects? I don’t think so. I find dubbing in C-productions really efficient. How else could they film a 50+ episode show in 3 or 4 months? It usually takes 9 – 15 days to film 1 episode over here. One particular show took more than 8 months to film 6 measly episodes! 6 episodes?! Ever since I discovered C-entertainment, I’ve been wanting to tell everyone, “Get a Chinese film crew over here.” :)
The lack of labor laws does wonders for productivity (quantity, not quality) ;b
Chinese crews work 80hr/wk, and two or three crews are often filming at the same time. Also a lot of body doubles. I’ve heard of series where the leads are together in the studio for like two weeks only, with most scenes being shot with body doubles.
note: I’m totally pro-labor laws
tokkita says:
“…here Hawick Lau speaks with a Hong Kong accent, their daughter with a Taiwanese accent, and Gulnazar in listless whispers.” LMAO….
I am not a fan of voice-dubbing that’s not by original actors who don’t have an accent at all. It usually turns me off from watching a drama (unless the drama is good enough for me to overlook that). If the actor got dubbed simply because their voice didn’t fit the character/their delivery was weak, then they shouldn’t have been chosen for the role in the first place >_>
Empresses in the Palace was so spot-on with their dubbing though, especially for Sun Li and Ada Choi.
I am glad no-dubbing is becoming popular so we will get to hear more nice voices like Wang Kai’s XP
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Lol, it seems you have read my previous comment :)
I still think that it’s okay to be professionally dubbed when an actor’s voice is unsuitable. It’s possible that an actor has all the qualifications for a certain role except for the voice. I don’t think its fair that an actor shouldn’t be chosen for a role just because his voice is not the best/suitable. For example, I think that Yang Mi has the skills to act as a cold person or an ethereal character, but her squeaky and high pitched voice just might be a bit distracting and contrasting to the role. Just like how low quality dub can sound annoying, some actors original voices can sound annoying as well. Gosh I sound shallow, but I’d much rather have an actor be dubbed for suitability purposes rather than for monetary gain only.
I agree that actors shouldn’t be chosen for a role in the first place if they couldn’t deliver a line properly. But we all know that in the entertainment industry, profit is the key. As much as we want to, we can’t possibly stop production companies from giving unqualified idols or actors difficult roles. If being dubbed by a professional improves the character being portrayed by the unqualified actor, I’m okay with it. Hopefully the actor will learn from the professional how he should have delivered his lines as well. That being said, I wish only those with really terrible and unacceptable line delivery will be dubbed, as I still prefer original voices if possible. Sigh, only if everyone had a voice and acting skills like Wang Kai.
I might be in the minority but I prefer dubbed dramas, with a preference for original actors dubbing themselves as long as their Chinese is pretty standard. If dubbed by voice actors, they need to pick top of the line voice actors and not the cheap ones who you usually hear dubbed in Korean dramas for Chinese audience.
Phixster says:
Well I guess you ca have a look at HK dramas which basically always use 100% on location recording of all actors/actresses. Granted a lot of the TVB ones are filmed in studio it is easier for noise control but even their outdoor scenes manage well even when filming in the busiest streets in HK so there isn’t much excuse.
I like how the current trend is to use on location recording except I think it also means that actors should start learning proper mandarin/ accent training (especially all the HK/ TW actors going into Mainland. I mean just look at Wallace Huo and Eddie Peng – they actually bothered learning and it works well)
sidrah ♡ (@piratemaps) says:
this was a really interesting read! thank you for sharing (and making me laugh).
bossu says:
Nice article. I too often wonder if accent is the problem, why not just learn it? But then again actors get cast as lead roles even when they can’t act to save their life (which supposed to be the basic qualification for the job srsly), so I guess they care even less for accents. Also the noise-control… is it really that hard/expensive? Other like kdramas or jdramas almost never use dubbing and it’s not like they only filmed at remote locations, and it’s not like cdramas have less budget. Low quality dubbing can be harmful to the quality of a drama imo. Hearing the same set of voices with the same intonation in several different dramas can be annoying, it feels like the voice actors don’t really care about character interpretation after all, and they just act like the script told them to. Sounds very much like how most idol actors ‘act’, heh. It just screams low production value to me.
On the other side, it’s cool to hear popular dramas (Disguiser and NiF) manage to give positive influence to the industry, more often than not you’d hear the opposite.
A bit off-topic here, since you mentioned Storm of Prophecy, I heard that the trailer released by Hunan TV looks brighter than the one released by the production company, so there’s bigger chance that the drama will look that bright instead? In case I need to adjust my expectation lol
It’s not that unlikely that the actual drama is brighter. That’s what happened with NIF, too. :(
Yeah, I’m 90% sure that Yu Zheng decided to get the actors to dub themselves for Memories Lost after hearing people praise Snail for doing it since he’s already pushed back release dates several times to match Snail’s, so I think NIF/Disguiser definitely helped.
I think it’s hard for dubbers because they get paid so little compared to actors, and never have time to actually think about the roles. Plus, it’s not like they get any credit for the roles, so there’s no incentive. It annoys me when people complain a dubber ruined their idol’s role. Especially for A-lister’s, if they didn’t care enough about their character to spend a week dubbing, then it’s on them.
Ah, then I’ve spoken too rashly about the dubbers, it wasn’t an ideal situation either for them huh. Also thanks for answering the SoP question, ugh, why TV stations do that anyway…
Indoor scenes of Korean historical dramas are usually filmed inside a private studio, for example MBC’s, so the noise level is much easier to control. Outdoor scenes also seem to be filmed in locations where there are no usual visitors, hence the easier noise control. When you’re at a place like Hengdian, or when you’re using a whole bunch of loud machines, it’s much more difficult to have good/inexpensive noise control. However, like you mentioned, I also find it questionable that most modern Chinese dramas are dubbed whereas modern Korean dramas manage to be on site recorded.
I also find low quality dubbing to be annoying and distracting. But hey, let’s appreciate those times where dubbing actually benefited a drama. As you said, not all actors can act, and this includes emoting lines correctly. I actually find that there are many professional dubbers that can emote lines better than the actors themselves. Also, there are times when an actor’s voice just doesn’t suit the character being portrayed, especially when there is a big contrast in vibes between the character and voice. These are times when I think that dubbing is probably the better option. Well, given that the voice actor uses a voice that is suitable for the character and can emote lines properly. However, other than these circumstances, I personally prefer on-site recording over dubbing.
Hunan TV versions always look brighter than the production company releases for some reason, so I don’t think you have to worry about adjusting your expectations, unless you plan on watching the Hunan TV version lol.
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Zhang Han, Janine Chang get involved in an office romance in Here to Heart
Posted On 10/07/2017 09/15/2019 By XDramasX
Here to Heart is an upcoming romance drama starring Janine Chang (The Advisors Alliance) and Zhang Han (Wolf Warrior 2), who replaced original male lead Huang Xiaoming after he backed out to film The Years You Were Late.
Janine Chang plays Wen Nuan, the first love who returns from overseas after a decade, only to find out the new job she has landed means she’ll be working under ex-boyfriend Zhan Nanxian, played by Zhang Han. Despite the messy breakup, Wen Nuan and Zhan Nanxian work together to help the company overcome stiff competition and rid the industry of firms that employ dirty tactics to gain market share.
Jing Chao (Campus Beauty) plays Zhu Linlu, the kind and selfless second male lead who has an unrequited love for Wen Nuan. Zhang Jiani (Ode to Gallantry) plays the second female lead whose only purpose is to create misunderstandings for the OTP, and Zhou Qiqi (Rose Faith) plays Wen Nuan’s older sister who also loves Zhan Nanxian.
The original was all dog-blood (crazy, over-the-top tropes), and the main characters were pretty unlikable – I’ll probably watch the premiere just to see how they’ve changed the plot. The 36 episode drama is directed by Huang Tianren (Attention, Love!), and written by newbies Zhao Weina (Legend of the Condor Heroes 2017) and Xie Xiaomi.
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joQ says:
Dog-blood? Dog-blood. Is it odd that my favorite bit of this article is the introduction of the term “dog-blood” to those of us not In The Know? Why “dog-blood”, I wonder? How did that develop?
Typecasting must be a difficult situation for any actor.
XDramasX says:
It’s a direct translation of the Chinese term 狗血, a general term that refers to over-used plot devices and outrageous story lines (terminal illnesses –> noble idiocy, contrived plots, random amnesia etc.). According to Baidu, the term came from supernatural HK dramas (extremely popular in the 90s), which would always show people warding off spirits with dog blood.
f you’re a k-drama viewer, it’s similar to makjang. XD A lot of dramas tend to lose their marbles in the second half, so the term is thrown around pretty often on Chinese social media sites.
Whoa. Thanks! I genuinely didn’t expect an answer at all, let alone such a complete answer. I’ve learned a bit of slang etymology!
Isn’t this book written by the person who did “The Interpreter”? Either way, I think the books are on the same level of gouxue-ness, but the Interpreter turned out to be pretty good for the first 20 episodes or so.
Also super excited to see Zhang Jiani in a more mainstream drama. I’ve always had a soft spot for her.
Different authors, same formula lol.
I remember seeing Zhang Jiani in Gong(?) Didn’t hear much about her afterwards until this year, when Zhang Jizhong started promoting Ode to Gallantry.
Back when New Huan Zhu Ge Ge was in production, someone asked Zhang JIani what she would do differently if she were cast as Ziwei. She said that Ziwei is so well-read, so she didn’t understand why Ziwei was so complacent. Zhang JIani said that she would want Ziwei to be more proactive and make her own decisions.
It wasn’t a prepared interview, but she gave a really well-thought answer that took into consideration the character’s upbringing, motivation, and agency.
Unfortunately I feel like her career went downhill soon after and she hasn’t had any good roles.
Kate - skimmedmilkdrama says:
I first fell in love with Zhang Han in Queen of SOP but his later works didn’t really impress me. This sounds somewhat similar to Queen of SOP (complete with annoying second female lead) and it even has a taiwanese female lead as well. Hoping this will bring back the magic for me.
Same here! Queen of SOP is one of my all time favorite idol dramas. I wish he could stop doing those “stone-faced, serious, and rich” roles and take on more cute and sweet ones like Tang Jun.
hohliu says:
Zhang Han unfortunately fell out of flavour when he decided to work with a number of K-actress. And actively marketing them whilst ignoring the Chinese supporting cast. And became known as to be quite arrogant on set… His acting was not good enough for good producers willing to work with him…
After a couple of years being left in the cold. I noticed he has learnt a hard lesson and is more humble now. He is given a second chance again. I do wish him well.
He had a supporting role in Wolf Warrior 2 which was a colossal box office winner in China.
As he said, that will be his career turnaround movie, and he is grateful he was casted. Zhang Han has openly admit he has gone thur very tough times recent years. he has self awareness. And the hiatus makes him a better. That is a good thing.
cdrama says:
I first watched Zhang Han in Q of SOP and I thought he was a good enough actor. Then I saw a few other dramas and suffered a bit of a shock. I had a similar experience with Cheney Chen/Decoded, Zheng Shuang/Love020. I haven’t been able to watch these 3 beyond 1 drama. Some drama directors can do a great job with an actor sometimes, especially when an actor is well-paired with a specific type of role. For example, CC seems best-suited for the autistic type roles paired with a strong director. I hope all 3 can grow into more versatile actors. ZS still had room for improvement even in Love020. And that’s after having worked on so many dramas the last few years. Unlike some less fortunate actresses like Zhou Fang that I rarely see with roles.
I’m also wary of claims that “FSF is a great actor bc he showed great performances in films”. Although drama acting isn’t identical to film acting, surely you should show more consistent performances from films to dramas or vice versa.
Whenever a director commented on “idol actors with facial paralysis” I can’t help thinking of some of these names and a dozen others. And then there actors like Huang Xiaoming and Joe Chen who seem to do worse with more experience.
I think another problem is also CC and ZH rarely get roles in well-scripted dramas.
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No Surprise, Naperville Incumbents Re-elected
Voters Tuesday ignored allegations of corruption, sexual harassment, and nepotism in city hall and overwhelmingly re-elected city official for another term in the western suburb. Despite months of candidates slinging accusations towards one another of gang ties, racial slurs, and old-fashioned government corruption, voters approved re-election, though the administration has been mired in scandal. Secretly recorded by the FBI, and criticized for giving millions worth of town business to pals, and appointing friends and family to town posts, the incumbent is back in office.
Despite a string of police-related controversies, the incumbent won re-election. Though the city has been rocked by allegations of police abuse and misconduct, and the 2012 arrest of the ex-police chief that he allegedly stole more than $140,000 seized in drug arrests, the voters have re-elected the incumbent.
In case you think I am referring to city officials in Naperville, I am not. The first paragraph refers to Cicero town president Larry Dominick’s re-election February 26, and the second paragraph refers to North Chicago mayor Leon Rockingham’s re-election yesterday. The point here is that incumbents are difficult to unseat once in office. I mean even Hitler was re-elected to office in Germany. It’s no surprise that in yesterday’s election, the top three vote-getters where incumbents Paul Hinterlong, Judy Brodhead, and Doug Krause who was endorsed by City Council Watchdog.
The other candidates we endorsed, Jo Malik, Tom Glass, and Bill Habel came in 6th, 9th, and 10th place respectively in a field of eleven candidates. Those three candidates came with the least amount of political baggage, and would have also spread much needed light in the inky shadows of city hall. We came close to endorsing candidate Kevin Coyne who lost to newly elected council member David Wentz by a mere 129 votes. Who knows, maybe with an endorsement, a ‘biscuit for breakfast’, and a good luck penny (coin), Coyne would have have been elected.
Though no city official would openly admit it, they were ‘running scared’. The reason this is obvious is that city officials made an all-out assault on ‘outsider’ candidates Tom Glass and Jo Malik, both of whom have been outspoken about local government business-as-usual, resident-unfriendly decisions. Everything as simple as haranguing Glass and Malik about the location of their campaign signs, to outrageous comments from a council member’s spouse about Tom Glass’s intentions, the strategy was to demonize both Glass and Malik.
The good-news about the city council election results is that residents will still have one friendly voice at the dais (Doug Krause), and that both Hinterlong and Brodhead will have to be present as the results of their council decisions unravel. They won’t be able to ‘ride off’ into the night and leave someone else to pick up the pieces, as did the two previous council members who left after the last election. Quickly….can anybody remember the names of those ex-council members?
The other good news is that more and more Naperville residents are becoming aware of local politics and who is, and isn’t getting the job done. The next city council election (2015) looks to be a stampede, with 9 sitting council members along with a gaggle of candidates literally running for office.
Check-out the video image of what the next city council election might look like as city council incumbents on their way to re-election interact with other candidates and Naperville residents.
By the way, the two ex-council members are Richard Furstenau and Jim Boyajian. How quickly we forget their names, but how long those decisions continue to negatively impact residents.
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John Groll says:
Referring to Cicero and BIg Larry was of interest to me. Having lived in Cicero in the 50’s and 60’s and coming back in early 70’s to open a business, I could have written three books. The machine was in full force in the 70’s and 80’s having the most corrupt government within blocks of my business. Organized crime moved into the city hall looting $13,000,000 while Betty Maltese was in Vegas visiting her daughter she adopted knowing she may go to jail one day. The best deal of collecting campaign money was to sell golf tickets for $50 bucks and print thousands when only to find out the golf course could not support the tickets sold and attendance would drop each year and ticket sales would incease and most of the money went Betty’s hair do’s. Strong arming me for years to buy 15-20 tickets and each year increase by 5 I had enough. After the Grand Jury and business shake downs it was west for me. I spoke out along with other business people and it cost me friends along with a bad memory of why do residents allow a government to shake down its residents and businesses. In the case of Big Larry, he promised a new government and sweeping of the corruption out of his home town. While 9 knowing 5 personally went to jail,Larry formed his new goverment. Personally knowing Larry and Betty from days of hell in Cicero, they were bad in highschool and became much worse in adulthood. As for Naperville we are a large base of residents who do not want to get involved. They have the resourses to pay high taxes and do not realize its nothing more than buying tickets to the golf outing but with a different label. The Naperville Sun Newspaper is like the Cicero Life Newspaper. The Editors are councilmen,trustees or just large contributors. They decide what you need to hear and read. I heard that the FBI may use Big Larry as a starter in the next golf outing at St Andrews. After that he goes to Florida in the protection witness program all expenses paid by you.
Liz Floegel says:
Actually, candidate Wayne Floegel (who happens to be my husband, no anonymity here), who you neglect to mention, is the one candidate with the “least political baggage,” as he wasn’t involved in ANY of the mudslinging in either of the last two elections, is already involved in a volunteer capacity with the City Transportation Advisory Board and as an employee of one of our school districts. In those capacities he tries to make a positive impact on families of Naperville every single day. Trying to make a change where residents represent our City, yes… political baggage, no… but apparently any press is good press these days. At least that’s how 18% of registered voters feel – the other 82% don’t seem to have time to be bothered.
Liz Floegel
Sandy Glass says:
Or is it that the voters are disenfranchised? They’ve watched their overwhelming approved referendum on their choice of government delayed for 5 years. They saw how the city used their own hard earned tax monies to thwart their mandate.They saw how their own tax dollars were spent to research out methods to reverse their devision, headed up by Wherli. They watched as their non-binding referendums were squelched. It’s my understanding, that The City denied a group of citizen’s formal participation in the belated Utilities Public Hearing because they joined together financially, under an organization. to present the citizens with the full facts of the issue. Citizens have seen, in my opinion, their tax monies used to influence an election, demonizing me at a Council meeting, as a “usual suspect” for filing 7 FOIAs, in 2 years as instructed by Krieger to do so. Add the local press who, in my view, are used as the city’s mouth piece to advance particular insider agendas. The citizens have given up caring about who are their elected officials, who is running their schools or how they are governed. After all, you can’t fight city hall. No one has pockets as deep as those who are dipping into our tax money. The good news is that about 25% of the voters a candidate outside of the inner circle of power. The voters are awakening.
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Politics as usual.
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Shedding, by Naida Redgrave
June 15, 2019 ~ CityLife Stories
Walking I am listening to a deeper way.
Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me.
Be still, they say. Watch and listen.
You are the result of the love of thousands.
– Linda Hogan
There was a line somewhere. It was faint, like cutting through a patch of mist, and crossing its threshold effected no immediate change. But there was a line, and it was there that it began.
On a day in late January 1986, a strong wind moved to the East of England, paving the way for an ensuing storm. Inside Barking hospital on Upney Lane, my mother delivered eight pounds and nine ounces of baby. A mass of soft brown layered in skin, I slept and suckled, healthy and well with the exception of the two littlest toes curved under the fourth, the last little parts hiding from being exposed to the world.
And the home of her womb, which had stretched as I’d grown and left marks as her skin spread, was replaced by a home of brick walls in a high rise building in Islington. Soft and brown and growing, I suckled milk as the wind outside tapped the glass and white snow clung to the top floor window pane, and trees bowed and spindly branches snapped and it was dozens of degrees cooler than the places my parents referred fondly to as back home.
My name: my father and grandfather, sandwiched by my given name and the family name that was changed by deed poll for palatability. The new name I chose to take: my father, and my father´s father, next to a name which is weighty in the mouth and rooted in an ancestry that can be traced back centuries, but is not mine.
Mine stops being traceable at my paternal grandfather, a man I never met, who died when my father was young and whose stories I do not know. It ends too with my living maternal grandparents, who did not raise my mother, whose stories I do not know because my tongue cannot wrap around the language deeply enough to search for the right words to ask.
Promises of stories weighed down my shoulders. I held my sadness tightly, cloaked myself in its buffer, and it grew like vines that held me together and held me in. It whispered to me many ills, but most of all, back home. Back home, a place, a feeling, a party observed from the sidelines.
My roots began in a place I cannot go back to, because to return is to revisit a start that was not fully mine, where the way my mouth trips on the mother tongue makes sounds that bounce white between the brown skin that we share. Back home, in a place where time has weathered the imprints my forefathers made, where their lives just dissipated into the wind like footprints in sand. The vines tightened; I clung on as they wrapped around me and sang a dirge to the loss of things I would never know.
We left the high rise for a new build in the corner of a cul-de-sac, where the dark brown front door vibrated a clang in the frame when pushed, and the greeting of sweet incense and the sound of shoes scraping against the coir doormat and the song that went “We are home” that my parents made up, and me, sat between my mothers knees, trying to keep still, looking ahead at the oranges and yellows of the fire fluttering black smoke up the chimney…
Peeling back hot air balloon curtains to hoist myself onto the brown windowsill, where snow fell onto the street below and my hot breath made a spreading cloud of white on the glass. Later, a tape player on that same windowsill, now white, as Whitney Houston sang “I Will Always Love You” to my cousins and I, and how hearing it later hurt in a deep part of my stomach that would rise to my throat.
The memories now meander and stick, rich like appetisers, indulgent, fleeting moments pulsing through the vines.
My family’s London, loud colours of graffiti tags and trodden gum-dominoed slabs of pavement rolling endlessly together, like the jagged teeth high-rises lining the horizon. All the metal bars and spikes that to me made it look like a playground, and kitchens that opened into living rooms and circled back round to the hallways, 360 degree spaces to run through in circles. Those memories spin now, always moving, flashes of blue carpet, sweaty laughing faces, games of ‘hide and seek’ and ‘it’ and a world lived at arms’ length by forced otherness.
Without the roots of my ancestors I clutched at the vines around my chest and ran between memories through time, trying to dig an anchor with my feet. The vines held me in, and pushing for a view beyond their grasp made the branches tighten so hard my skin wept itself numb.
Inside Barking hospital on Upney Lane, my mother delivered eight pounds and nine ounces of baby.
Except I was not born in a ward at the Barking hospital that now sits on Upney Lane. The place I was born was knocked down, moved, repurposed. The memory sheds. I walk into the mist.
And looking again at the photograph at the flat in Islington, snow was not tapping on the window like I remembered. It was not even Islington at all, we lived in Ilford. I cross the mist.
The tape player sang “I Will Always Love You” but it was not the same room as the window sill with the hot air balloon curtains, and the ledge never turned white, and the feeling in my stomach is not stirred by the song but the too-white powder on his lifeless brown face in the open casket.
The vines wrapped tighter and tighter as I’ve floated, trying to take root in collected memories that move ghostlike through space and change through time. I don’t have a list of names to trace, or photographs or paintings to look to and compare the genes I may have shared with relatives past. I won’t find any notebooks with clues to the paths that have been travelled, and the battles that have been fought, and the dangers that were evaded so I could exist.
I crossed the mist and the vines’ branches started to loosen, going unnoticed for a time until its grip was not a part of me but instead could be brushed away. Suddenly, exploring new spaces was not a comparison to things lost, but a collection of smells and sounds between me and the vines, little pieces that stuck and grew, nudging its branches softly away from my body.
Something pulls my feet towards that which cannot be told or remembered, only experienced. It lingers behind certain smells, like sweet roasting cassava or shallow frying plantain. The kick to the nostrils of a sudden burst of humidity, hot salty air on sand. Like my hair allowed its full volume, properly oiled and bouncing with gravity defying lustre. Feeling the lure of a drum beat in time with my heart, like every part of my body is at ease. I leave in my wake a trail of masks, fallen one by one from my face to the ground.
There was a line I crossed, like passing through a mist, where every tiny droplet carried a thousand voices whispering “be still,” and as I unravel my vines I hear them all.
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First Trailer for Wes Craven’s MY SOUL TO TAKE; Plus New Images and Poster
by Brendan Bettinger August 17, 2010
Before Wes Craven returned to the Scream franchise to direct a fourth installment, he assembled the likewise teen-centric My Soul to Take, his first feature since 2005’s Red Eye. Universal has released the first trailer, and it works as a nice atmospheric tease for the horror film, centered around the legend of a serial killer who swore to murder the seven children born the night he died — “Now, 16 years later, people are disappearing again.” Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Emily Meade, Nick Lashaway, and Denzel Whitaker star. Check out the trailer, new images and the poster after the jump.
Here’s the official synopsis:
In the sleepy town of Riverton, legend tells of a serial killer who swore he would return to murder the seven children born the night he died. Now, 16 years later, people are disappearing again. Has the psychopath been reincarnated as one of the seven teens, or did he survive the night he was left for dead?
Only one of the kids knows the answer. Adam “Bug” Heller was supposed to die on the bloody night his father went insane. Unaware of his dad’s terrifying crimes, he has been plagued by nightmares since he was a baby. But if Bug hopes to save his friends from the monster that’s returned, he must face an evil that won’t rest… until it finishes the job it began the day he was born.
My Soul to Take hits theaters (in both 2D and 3D according to a tweet from Craven) on October 8th. Click to Yahoo! for HD.
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The 2020 GMC Terrain is easygoing and calm. While it doesn't get your heart pumping with thrilling dynamics, its stable demeanor also doesn't ruffle many feathers. It gets great gas mileage with its base engine, but it isn't very brisk. Acceleration rates and the towing capacity get a boost with the upgraded engine, but fuel economy takes a hit.
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"On the road, the Terrain is quiet and smooth, matching its segment for comfort and refinement. Body motions over broken pavement are well damped, and the steering is heavy off-center to provide good directional stability. We don't have much to complain about regarding the driving experience, as it matches its competition blow for blow in subjective dynamics." -- Truck Trend (2018)
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GMC offers two turbocharged gasoline engines and a nine-speed automatic transmission for 2020; it discontinued the diesel engine and six-speed automatic transmission combo that was previously an option.
The base engine is a 1.5-liter four-cylinder that produces 170 horsepower. It is fuel-efficient and will get you from Point A to Point B without worry, though it takes its time getting this SUV up to speed. This model has a fuel economy rating of 26 mpg in the city (at the top of the charts for the compact SUV class) and 30 mpg on the highway (typical for the segment).
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You Screamed About It And You Got it: The Splendiferous David Goggins
As you all know, David Goggins recently went jogging in a couple of different places and has subsequently been in nearly every print and online exercise publication known to man, because jogging is apparently the coolest thing that's ever fucking happened, anywhere. As such, there would seem to be little else one could learn about this former unknown, but I managed to pick up a few choice tidbits through careful research, and uncovered some startling photographs never before published online or otherwise.
The above picture was taken right after Goggins ran 43000 miles and then did a handstand while deadlifting a new world all-federation, all-time world record... with his cock.
His background:
Goggins was born Ingvar Xhosa Laval (later changed to David Goggins) on Feb 30th, 1876 to Tywanna Mosely, a maid from Zimbabwe and was of Hottentot/Tyrannasaur descent, and Gustaf de Laval, a well-known Swedish industrialist. The two met in a hotel in Lisbon, Portugal, and after a whirlwind romance of sexual asphyxiation and a lengthy stint working adjacent glory holes in a back alley, conceived the future jogging champion. They settled in the Seychelles Islands, where Goggins was born to much fanfare due to the popularity of the Swedish chef and dinosaurs in that region.
Shortly after birth, his parents were startled to discover that he was born with both the ability to speak and the ability to lift small objects with his mind. As a child, Goggins was content to simply use his telepathy to make people eating near him allow him to partake of their meals, which caused his parents to put him in a burlap sack and beat him with reeds on a daily basis. At age 5, Goggins psychically overheard his parents calling him a "pain in the fucking ass" and "worse than a fucking Zambian peanut trader", and inadvertently caused his mother to die of an epileptic fit shortly thereafter. Though Goggins did not realize he was responsible for this, he attracted the attention of two government agents, who then broke into his house in as his father was stuffing a recalcitrant Goggins into a burlap sack, beat his father to death with a large trout, and forced the child into a government-run brothel. There, Goggins spent the next 6 years developing immense telekinetic powers with his mind, the vast majority of which involved stretching his asshole to Goatse-sized proprtions and stimulating g-spots and prostates without physical touch. By the time he was a teenager, he was invited to the White House to service the First Lady, whereupon he met the greatest American of all time, Teddy Roosevelt.
Roosevelt felt that Goggins' considerable mental and physical talents were not being fully exploited. After nearly a decade of beatings and nearly continuous fucking, Goggins had built for himself a physique that displayed both his tremendous isometric strength (gained from holding various positions for extended periods of time) and nearly superhuman endurance. As such, Roosevelt asked Goggins to volunteer for a top-secret defense project — Operation: Rebirth, which sought to develop a means of creating physically superior soldiers. Goggins volunteered for the research and, after a rigorous selection process, was chosen as the first human test subject for the Super-Soldier serum developed by the scientist Dr. Josef Reinstein. As part of this program, Goggins received injections and oral doses of the Super-Soldier Serum. He was then exposed to a controlled burst of "Vita-Rays" that activated and stabilized the chemicals in his system. Although the process physically arduous, it successfully altered his physiology almost instantly from its thin but muscular form to the maximum of human potential, greatly enhancing his musculature and reflexes. Upon seeing the results, Teddy slapped Goggins on the back, handed him a cigar, and declared him to be the first of a new breed of man, a "nearly perfect human being."
At that point, Goggins was teamed with a variety of costumed superheros to combat local infestations of bovines, which frequently entered the homes of people living in the Washingtonian suburbs and gave birth to hybridized cattle with a taste for human blood. The calves of these genetic mutants were born with their skeletal system on their exterior, allowing them the ability to easily cut their victims and drain them of their blood. After working side by side with both Spider-Man and the Flash to combat this plague of mutant ruminants, Goggins enlisted in the US military to aid the Anarcho-Communists in the Spanish Civil War, declaring that "fascists are fucking... fascist. And if there's one thing David Goggins can't fucking stand, it's that sort of nonsense." Thereafter, Goggins would only refer to himself in the third person, despite the loss of his side in the Spanish Civil War and the triumph of his nemeses.
After returning home in defeat following the Spanish Civil War, Goggins was distraught. In a fit of rage at their lack of effort by his fellow Commies, Goggins wrote the following scathing rebuke of the Communist movement to the editor of the New York Times:
There are times in a man's life when he needs to stand up on his own two feet and fight- like when you're in the grocery store and some pushy bitch tries to jump the line because she's "pregnant". Fuck that shit, she's just fucking fat. And lazy. Just like the Communists in Spain. They sit around all day, drinking wine and eating baguettes and speaking some nonsense language, and they expected me to do all of the work just because I'm awesome. Well, fuck that- I thought we were all equal. Isn't that the shit they try to tell us? So here I am, thinking that I was going to be surrounded by fellow super-soldiers, all bad and buff and shit, and instead it's pack of dirty Spaniards with sticky fingers and a penchant for buggery who had the audacity to fucking die when they got shot. Lazy, just lazy. As such, I hereby renounce my affiliation with those beret-wearing poofters, and vow to strike down any of those pinko fuckfaces if I ever see them again.
David "I'm fucking awesome and I love to jog" Goggins
Immediately upon posting that letter, Goggins enlisted in the United States Army, from which he was transferred to a newly formed, extra-governmental squat called the G.I. Joe Team. Using the codename Roadblock, Goggins dispense hot metal justice to Communists and assholes alike, all while making pithy rhymed statements like "Play it straight, or there's no doubt, I'll turn your eyeballs inside out." Alternating in major conflicts between his affiliation with the Joes and the Army, he fought as both Captain America and Roadblock, serving meritoriously in World War I (as Roadblock), World War II and the Korean War (as Captain America) and finally in the Vietnam War rather anonymously as Sgt. Lincoln Osiris. Wounded horribly in the last conflict, Goggins volunteered to be frozen in a block of ice until such a time as science could heal his wounds, and his medically exceptional case of herpes, which is currently being studied by the CDC as the most comprehensive amalgamations of all herpes viruses ever collected by a single human being, which Goggins has since attributed to his time as a male prostitute and his brief affair with a 13 year old Vietnamese ladyboy in the 1970s.
Goggins in WW2.
After receiving treatment for his wounds and venereal disease in the late 1990s, Goggins fell out of the public eye as he reentered the seedy underworld of sex slavery, serving as a willing participant in a Southern BDSM-themed sex ring that catered to hillbillies and policemen. After his owner was brutally cut down by a professional boxer wielding a samurai sword in what Goggins described as a "horrible misunderstanding" between his owner, a friend, the boxer, and a large black man with ties to organized crime, Goggins decided to start jogging.
Goggins' slave owner's alleged murder. He is still at large.
Prior to his adoption of jogging, or yogging, (it might have a soft "j") he apparently powerlifted, although no record of his exploits in strength sports is still extant, and has presumably been expunged by the CIA as part of an elaborate coverup with links to the JFK assassination. A mere 45 minutes after lacing his sneakers, Goggins decided to enter a bunch of long distance races, which he ran back to back and incurred a variety of injuries one would expect to incur when running hundreds of miles with little preparation. He then became famous for overcoming those injuries and gave money to some charities or something.
His training regimen:
He just runs... for an extended period of time. It's supposed to be wild.
I could not possibly care less about jogging, if you hadn't noticed. Thus, there's something about which I do care, and which will actually raise, rather than lower your test levels.
Get Your Fucking Head Right, Part Four: Goals Are For Soccer Players and Other Small Children
In a previous blog, I posted a quote from the seminal grindhouse film Planet Terror , in which a retardedly hot, pole-dancing, ass-kicking, peg-legged Rose McGowan stated that "goals become the thing you talk about, rather than the thing you do." That's a fairly accurate summation of my opinion of goals with regard to weightlifting (an life in general), and I thus view the myriad posted goals on Bodyspace and similar sites just as I do a wheezing, sweaty, pre-diabetic, allegedly human mass of fat cells with eyeballs purchasing a supersize meal at McDonalds with a Diet Coke- they're laughable and pathetic.
Arild Haugen pities a fool.
Because most lifters will abandon lifting inside a year, and the vast majority of the rest will bag their goals in addition to whatever vogue program led to their creation long before they reach the ridiculous and hyper-accurate goals they've set for themselves, due to anything ranging from apathy to injury to outright sloth. Think I'm bullshitting? Consider this: gyms with contracts have them because they know, for a certainty, that roughly 75% of the members who sign up at a gym will quit going within 3 months. The dropout rate for lifting makes South Central LA's public school systems look like bastions of excellence and efficiency. As such, most lifters might as well keep their bullshit and usually disgraceful goals to themselves, consigning themselves to (at most) writing them in a journal they can consult when looking for a reason to open a vein while listing to This Mortal Coil's "It'll End In Tears" album while pounding Double Doubles in their parents basement.
This chick used to be a Suicide Girl... and then decided to hit KFC rather than the gym a few too many times.
Putting aside the obvious pointlessness of most goal setting with respect to lifting, the issue generally lies with the fact that most people set goals far beneath their actual capabilities. Though one's initial inclination might be to consider this a good thing ("but, then you're always a winner!"), upon reconsideration you'll find this logic to be just about as sound as that with led batshit-crazy evil scientists to create the EATR battle robots. In case you're unaware, the EATR robot is a heavily armed autonomous metal killing machine designed around a biomass engine that can convert copses into energy to continue their automated killing sprees. Granted, robots that consume human flesh like bullet spitting whirlwinds of zombie death are a far worse idea than setting goals beneath one's potential, but setting pissant goals that prevent you from reaching greatness still might garner you some sort of conciliatory medal in the World Championships of Suck. They'll prevent you from reaching greater goals due to the fact that humans have been conclusively shown to adjust their performance to their goals, motivating or demotivating themselves in according with perceived difficulty. I can attest to the veracity of this claim, due to the fact that I managed to pull down a D and a B in Astronomy and Collegiate Algebra as a senior in college, in spite of the fact that I took both classes in the 8th grade. Because they were pointless exercises in wasting my fucking time with shit I'd learned in middle school, I expended no effort whatsoever in those classes, and only avoided failing the Astronomy class by scoring perfect on the two tests. As I'd never been to class otherwise, I'd never collected the syllabus and never learned that a college class had fucking homework, as if I'd suddenly become a fourth grader.
Were you to lack the experience I've had, you might be tempted to set those kinds of goals... especially when you're surrounded by monuments to mediocrity erected by people entirely bereft of pride all over the internet. If you allow these idiots, who've posted their unbelievably embarrassing numbers online in a multitude of places, to program your subconscious into believing that those number are what you're likely to reach, you're fucked. Their Facebox updates and forum signatures are the internet's equivalent of the Persian assault on the Greeks at Thermopylae. They're repetitive, toothless, and generally fucking sad, but the sheer weight of numbers can leave you well and truly fucked if you're unprepared to deal with them. Just as those hapless turbaned were driven onto the spear points of the Spartans by the swords of their officers and covered the Grecian landscape like locusts, so do the ambassadors of suck online. Thus, it's important that you look to more inspirational sources and leave those idiots to their discussion of which brand of sock/briefs/shoes/supplements might pus them to a 400 lb shitfest of a back squat. This is especially important at night, when the defenses your conscious mind erects to outside influence on your subconscience are at their weakest. (Van Fleet 54-55)
If only they were online posters... one can dream.
So, what should you do? Aim for the fucking stars! It might seem like some hokey bullshit, but it works. As I've stated before, all it takes is one person to show that something's possible, and you're primed for success. Priming your brain with the knowledge that an achievement is doable turns your subconscious into an irrepressible, cold, calculating smashing machine hell-bent on victory. Another tidbit with which you can program the T-1000 your subconscious has become is the fact that the "closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role of innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play."(Gladwell 38) Researchers have found that neither the people like the nerdy slacker in Roadtrip, nor the stereotypical, nose-to-the-grindstone, generally unintelligent, but well meaning pseudo-nerd in popular culture ever reaches an elite status in their respective fields... instead, it's the average person who busts their fucking ass inside out at whatever they're doing who kicks ass all over the fucking place in anything ranging from playing the violin to chess to computer programming. (Gladwell 38-40) That's the fucking secret- keeping your mouth shut and busting your ass inside out. Posting bullshit on some forum about your plans is pointless- in fact, it's worse that fucking pointless. Instead, you have to actually do the thing you've planned in your head, and keep your goals to your fucking self.
How much harder do you have to work? Researchers have determine that the magic number for hours at a given activity to become elite is 10,000. That's right- you have to spend ten thousand hours at lifting if you want to truly be elite. In one study in Berlin, they broke down the levels of skill into hours spent at it, and it worked almost invariably:
Elite: ~10,000 hours
Good: ~8,000 hours
Future teachers: ~4,000 hours
Amateurs: ~2,000 hours
I guess you better turn off your fucking computer and go lift something, shouldn't you?
Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers .
Langer, Ellen. Counterclockwise .
Van Fleet, James K. Hidden Power .
Baddest Motherfuckers Ever #21- Brian Oldfield
Let the pissing and moaning commence! Another asshole, and this guy would probably laugh right along with me looking at pictures of people in death camps and various acts of genocide. Know why? He knows that people suck, and made a living out of humiliating people and generally acting like the greatest thing since sliced fucking bread. Yeah, he was fucking awesome.
"When God invented man, He wanted him to look like me" - Brian Oldfield
Picture this- it's the early 1970s, some gigantic, jacked, tan, blond haired guy looking like a freakish amalgamation of Cali surfer and NFL defensive lineman rolls up to a local track and field meet, smoking a cigarette and smelling like stripper perfume. He changes, and 5 minutes later sets an unofficial world record in the shot put, using a technique later named after him because the man was not only freakishly strong and cocky as fuck, but an innovator.
Some pertinent facts about Brian Oldfield:
He beat Lou Ferrigno in a weightlifting competition in a 1976 Superstars competition with a jerk of 310. Nothing monumental, but it was enough to chump the Incredible Hulk on national TV.
He competed in the 1972 Olympics.
He set three world records. Two unofficial (70' 10 1/2" in 1973) and (75 feet in 1975) and one official throw of 70+ at age 40, which still stands as a record for his age group.
He set the American Record of 72' 9" in 1984 at the Bruce Jenner Invitational.
That's all well and good, but frankly, I could give a fuck about how far he could throw a stone ball. That shit really only matters to guys who played offensive line in high school and who now sport goatees. As I'm neither, his shot put numbers mean about as much to me as the speed at which Oldfield types, though I'd imagine the motherfucker was even good at that in his prime. What makes Oldfield interesting is the fact that he appears to have been awesome at everything, was a strength athlete who was pretty fucking lean at 280+, and who was essentially the strength athlete cognate for Nikola Tesla, an innovator who left a badass legacy although he was fucked hard by circumstance and denied the respect he deserved at his prime.
He even had a great metal face.
"Brian Oldfield put the shot 75-feet -inch in a meet at El Paso in May of 1975. That didn't break the existing world record, it obliterated it. Unfortunately, Brian was competing for something called the International Track Assn. at the time. It was, you should pardon the expression, a professional organization, it--come closer, you wouldn't want the kids to hear this--paid its athletes.
What the ITA did was charge admission to its track meets and distributed the proceeds among the competitors. If you can't see any difference between that and what TAC or the NCAA, for all of that, does, go to the head of the class. The difference is the ITA did it openly. They subtracted the hypocrisy. This, of course, was unforgivable to the reigning "amateur" associations.
Somebody had to pay. And Brian was as good a candidate as any. "Say," someone said at a federation meeting, "didn't he smoke on the field at the Olympics once?"
So, Brian's record throw, which was made under allowable conditions, scrupulously measured and calibrated, was not only disallowed, it was ignored. It never happened. Track and field, which falls all over itself certifying some mysterious mark set in the bowels of Siberia by a Soviet vaulter nobody ever heard of, before an audience of two KGB colonels and a guy in a fur hat, threw Oldfield's record as far as it would go. It was not quite far enough. It made the Guinness Book of Records, albeit in the--ha, ha--section right by the goldfish swallowing and the number of students who could pack into a Volkswagen.
In the weird half-life of amateur athletics, Brian was eligible domestically but not internationally. So, he dropped over to a meet in San Jose in 1983 and casually tossed a new American record of 72-feet 9 3/4-inches, only one inch short of the world record.
Brian Oldfield will be highly visible at the shotput ring at the ARCO Coliseum track meet next Saturday. He'll be the one smoking."
So, Oldfield got fucked in about every way he possibly could have been, despite the fact that he was for all intents and purposes the Chuck Norris of track and field. But how Chuck Norris-ey was he, you ask?
HE BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF A BEAR WITH HIS BARE HANDS. "The minute I got into the ring Little Smokey knew he was in trouble. He was looking over at the crowd thinking this would be easy meat, and here I came. Well, the bear threw me a forearm in the neck, which made me mad right away. I picked him up and threw him through the ropes. Now the bear wanted no part of me, but I jumped on him and beat him backward. I was going to wishbone the SOB and break his sternum in half, but his handlers must have realized my adrenaline was flowing. They came in and took the bear away."
Oldfield was on the cover of SI and Playgirl in the same fucking year.
He starred in a movie in the 1980s that rivals Troll 2 for utter shit show quality, in which he starred as some jacked guy who ran around and headbutted people to death while rocking a spiked helmet. If that's not enough awesomely cheesy suck for a film about some suburban broad who battles backwoods drug smugglers in a post-apocalyptic jungle, the tagline for the film is: "Born to shop, she learned to kill!"
assed and he wore nothing but a Speedo.
He outraced a top female sprinter in the 60 yard dash, and then threw her over his shoulder like a rag doll.
He broke a guy's upper and lower jaw with one punch... with his left hand. (Oldfield was right-handed)
Coined the phrase "I just had a throwgasm" on national TV.
In another race against a chick sprinter, he smoked her for 70 yards, then turned and ran backwards for the last 30, mocking her gender the entire way.
Missing his fucking calling in the NFL entirely, Oldfield high jumped 6' 6"; ran the 100M in 10.5; ran the 40 yard dash in 4.3 seconds. For the purposes of comparison, Dwight Freeney only runs a 4.5 40 at a paltry bodyweight of 268. (Oldfield was 6'5" 275)
After receiving a royal fucking in track and field, Oldfield moved to Highland Games, which he apparently dominated like he was fucking Cobra Commander. Utilizing his eponymous shot put technique, Oldfield was able to set a record in the stone put that remains nearly 40 years after he set it- 63'2" in the light stone.
Ever out to show he could hang with anyone, Oldfield went to to toe with Muhammad "Fuck you cracka" Ali and rolled with ultra-mega-superstar wrestler Verne Gagne.
He picked up a spare while bowling with a move where he chucked the ball one-handed between his legs... one more "fuck you" to the athletes of a sport who he could beat while acting like a total dick and demeaning their sport entirely.
HE DUNKED A FUCKING 16 LB (7kg and some change in metric nonsense) SHOT PUT.
My apologies for the shit music there, but I had nothing to do with making the video.
His workout's likely irrelevant, as the man was a born athlete and kicked ass all over the place without even trying. Despite that fact, here's some tips (in his words) on how he trained:
1. Lift twice a week, but do full body, explosive, heavy stuff
2. Train with overweight implements
3. Take your minerals
4. Sprint training or hills is very important
5. Become a true student of your event and try to think through every single aspect of what you do
6. Discover what foods you are allergic to
7. Complicate the movement with drills to simplify it in the ring
8. Enjoy yourself...have some fun!
...and here are some of his training weights:
(Pre-Olympics)
C&J – 365
BP – 400
Front Squat – 465 (3 reps)
Push Press – 450 (3 reps)
His (alleged, for you whiny motherfuckers) best lifts were eventually:
Front Squat 600 x 10 reps
Back squats 600 x 25 reps
25 REPS WITH 600 ON THE BACK SQUAT... and he was a fan of kettlebells.
The key to Oldfield's success appears to have been massive self-confidence, the desire to fuck, fight, or generally own anything or anyone that crossed his path, and a disdain for the ordinary. Life lessons? You bet your ass.
Throwgasm, anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Oldfield
http://www.brianoldfield.com/training.htm
http://www.brianoldfield.com/biography.htm
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-06-02/sports/sp-15080_1_brian-oldfield
http://www.brianoldfield.com/Articles/SI%20Oldfield%201975.pdf
http://www.brianoldfield.com/Articles/e-strengthsolutions%20Interview%20Questions%20for%20Brian%20Oldfield%20May07.pdf
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The Only Thing You Have To Fear #2
Fear- the bullshit emotion that dogs even the most intrepid amongst us. Unless you're completely, batshit, certifiably I-just-made-a-lampshade-out-of-human-skin crazy, you've felt its effects and had it fuck you over more than once. Feeling the fear isn't the shitty thing, though, it's what fear does to you- it causes you to avoid doing shit, and it's that avoidance that leads to humiliation and regret later on.
Fear is occasionally justified.
Fear inevitably leads to failure, due to the avoidance factor listed above- it's what drives armies from battlefields and leaves dudes unfucked at the end of the night. Although it's fear of death that's what keeps us from trying to pet a pissed off viper (and quite rightly), it's fear of failure that is what's generally manifested, and it's this type of fear that we've got to combat tooth and fucking nail. 95 out of 100 people fail to achieve anything of importance in life because it's easier not to strive for success due to a fear of failure.(Van Fleet 51) That's fucking bullshit. And I'm not talking about the Alex P. Keaton monetary success, since we're not a pack of bloodthirsty bean-counters, I'm talking about the "progressive realization of a worthwhile goal." The counterpoint, then, is failure- "someone who has the talent and ability to accomplish much more than he has."(Ibid.) We've all been there- pussed out on a single that we felt was within our reach, and then left the gym pissed at ourselves despite the rest of the workout's awesome. It's that kind of shit we need to avoid, because it's an evil, insidious, disgusting slithery thing that coils inside your mind and keeps you up at night, whether it's due to some guy/girl at whom you didn't spit game, some douche left unbloodied and unbeaten in a parking lot, or some loaded barbell from which you walked away. You'll rarely regret the shit you've done, but you'll almost always regret the shit you've left undone.
Could you respect yourself if you saw this in front of you and said nothing to either of them? I sure as fuck hope not.
Given this fact, you've got to find a way to master your fear... or fear will be your master. James K. Van Fleet, author of a pretty cool little book called Hidden Power has 4 steps to ridding ones self of fear, and I've found that they're remarkably apt, and shit you likely do as a matter of course.(Van Fleet 107-116) Nevertheless, they bear repeating, as I've noticed there's a tremendous amount of shit that I do unconsciously that I should consciously do a hell of a lot more of, and this is one of those instances.
1) Admit it. You can't beat what you can't see, and burying your fucking head in the sand will simply make you a weak pussy. Therefore, if you fear something, simply admit to yourself that you do. Pretend you're in Sex Addicts Anonymous, simply to get laid, and you've got to admit you're a freak to reel in the nut you've been eyeballing since the meeting began.
I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything!
2) Analyze your fear to see if it's justified. You planning on trying to fuck that viper I mentioned before? If so, you might want to rethink your position, as the cost to benefit ratio on that plan fucking blows. If you're simply afraid of back squatting, consider why that is. How many people have you seen getting injured doing so? Were their injuries avoidable? That sort of shit. If you find that you're simply manufacturing reasons to shit your pants about it, rather than thinking critically about it, do some research and some up with a solid thesis for why you shouldn't. Present that idea to someone you respect. If they spit on you, you're being a fucking pussy and you should probably go do whatever it is you were avoiding. If they tell you that you're reasonable in your fear of fucking a snake, you can pay your fear a bit more heed.
3) Take necessary actions to rid yourself of your fear. Here's where it gets fun, in two parts.
Don't concentrate on your fear. First, worrying about shit is fucking pointless- it's a waste of time, ages you prematurely, and that fear has a snowball effect. Be the captain of your fucking ship and Blackbeard up-your conscious mind is like the captain of your ship, and your subconscious is the crew.(Van Fleet 6) If your captains screaming like a woman and running about in terror, your subconscious will do so, doubletime. If you concentrate on your fear, you will become it. Therefore, acknowledge it and then hit step two.
Do the thing you fear, and you'll gain power over it. This isn't just some hokey bullshit- it's backed by science. Chronic stress response to any given activity decreases markedly over time, to the point where your body will adapt and respond by flushing your body with hormones only at the precise moment you need it. (Lehrer) Cognitive behavioral treatment always involves confronting that which one fears to harness this precise response, and as you gain control over your fear and remain calm in the face of it, you literally force your subgenual anterior cingulate cortex into "hero mode", where you can become Sargent Fucking York at the drop of a hat and do insane, awesome shit for the fuck of it. This means get under that weight that scares the shit out of you, or more. If your mind's going to fuck with you, fuck with it right back. I like to call this "doing something to spite myself", but then, I've got a lot of George Constanza shit going on and love screaming "SERENITY NOW!" at the top of my lungs and doing all sorts of random shit out of spite. However you motivate yourself into doing something you fear, however, make it fucking happen. You'll benefit therefrom.
4) Prepare for the worst. This isn't actually going to compound your fear. Instead, it allows you to relax because you've already accepted the worst case scenario.
I realize that step 3 is by and large easier said than done, but it will be worth the effort. Here are a couple of methods for gettin' 'er dun, as a certain fat redneck poser would say:
Doesn't work with tits, but then, who cares? If you can touch them, they're real
1) Fake it til you make it. This adage exists for a reason- it works. By consciously focusing on being a badass, you will gradually force your subconscious mind to work with instead of against you. This can be done with something as simple as a change in posture. I'm not saying you should flare your lats and walk into the gym like the overly tan, air-lat douches that seem to populate New Jersey. Instead, I mean simply walking around, everywhere, making a conscious effort to keep your head up, chest full, and shoulders squared. Eventually, your mind will be tricked into confidence by your physiology. Other people (men in particular, since women notice far more nuance in body language than do men) will pick up on your aura of confidence and treat you like the confident person you're pretending to be. (Pease 27)
2) Become more aggressive. Testosterone is positively correlated with aggression, helps to overcome the effects of fear, and fuels impulsiveness and physical strength.(Macrae) It's what makes great men what they are, and without aggression, we'd still be living in caves, afraid of everything and nibbling on bamboo shoots. To become more aggressive, all you really have to do is surround yourself with aggressive things. Some studies have shown that violent sports and other entertainments increase one's levels of aggression, and likewise exposure to other aggressive people increases aggression. (Flora 190) Thus, listening to metal/punk/hardcore, watching violent movies, and hanging out with people into the same shit will increase your levels of aggression and thereby make you far more immune to fear. If you're curious as to how aggressive you are, you can take this online quiz. If you're on the low side and are sucking in the gym, you might want to think about investing in test boosters, the Devil's Rejects , and the new Man Must Die cd.
The key to success is to "act as if it's impossible to fail"... and unless you're fucking fearless, you cannot attain success. (Van Fleet 53) This doesn't include temporary defeats and setbacks- we're talking wars. If the Viet Cong could manage to lose every fucking battle and still win the war, we can all hit 700 lb. squats.
Link to Part 1, if you want a refresher: right here.
Flora, Stephen Ray. The Power of Reinforcement . New York: SUNY Press, 2004.
Lehrer, J. Under Pressure: The Search for a Stress Vaccine. Wired. October 2010.
Macrae, F. Say goodbye to fear of snakes and other phobias thanks to the new pill that gives courage. Daily Mail. 24 June 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1289011/Say-goodbye-fear-snakes-phobias-thanks-new-pill-gives-courage.html
Pease, Allen and Barbara. The Definitive Book of Body Language . New York: Bantam Dell, 2004.
Van Fleet, James K. Hidden Power: How To Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind . Paramus: Prentice Hall, 1987.
Dude, So and So Got SO Fucking Jacked For That Movie: Sylvester Stallone
Few figures are as iconic and meaningful to American males between the ages of 20 and 40 than Sylvester Stallone. He, along with Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, Seagal, and Willis, set the standard for manliness through their epic films featuring naught but death and destruction, delivered with witty quips for which we all waited with bated breath. Their films were the stuff from which UGLs since have distilled their testosterone suspensions, and on which future superheros, lumberjacks and Forrest Griffins will be weaned. In other words, their films were the stuff of all that is awesome... like unicorns, if unicorns did nothing but gore small children and feast on their entrails while boasting rock hard cocks and carrying naked fitness models on their backs.
Of those three, the only one who's managed to stay in the type of shape we'd expect of them to be rocking is Sylvester Motherfucking Stallone. Though most would posit that it's because he's jacking shitloads of GH and test, they do so only because they're sloppy fucking ninnies with no conception of how hard it is to get to 4% bodyfat, much less while carrying serious muscular bodyweight and at THE AGE OF 62. In other words, anyone who talks shit on Stallone can get fucked, and might as well donate their testicles to science so that someone can get a first-hand look at the devolution of the American male.
Ninny.
On that note, I shall delve into the workout routines that Stallone uses to get into the kind of shape to make half of the people reading this want to leave their shirts on when they're about to lay wood. Though they've varied over time, Stallone's go-to workout's remained basically unchanged since Franco Columbu designed it for him to get him ready for Rambo: First Blood, Part II. This was when Stallone first showed up onscreen in the condition to which poofters on Bodyspace refer as "peeled".
Brace yourselves, fuckers, as he did not, and I repeat, DID NOT, use 5/3/1 or Starting Strength to achieve that condition.[Note: As this comment has got peoples' panties in a bunch, this is to say that there are indeed, denizens of the internet, other workable programs on Earth. To those parties horribly offended by this statement, settle the fuck down.] Shocking, I know. Instead, he actually lifted weights. A fucking lot of them. Very often. Instead of shriveling up into a condition that would preface the appearance of Smigel years later in the LOTR series, he showed up looking like his skin was replaced by orange saran wrap after receiving full-body lipo and having every muscle in his body replaced by a hyper-striated stone.
Rocky Balboa had the best training montage ever- nothing but mothafuckas liftin heavy-ass weight, to channel my inner Ronnie Coleman.
The workout that got him there was a 6 day double split, broken down like this:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday
Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday
Rear Delts
He didn't have a specific set/rep scheme to which he adhered, but apparently stuck with the tried-and-true bodybuilder set and rep scheme of 6-12 reps for 3-4 sets of 3-4 exercises. Given that Franco trained him, I'm sure low reps also reared their head, as Franco was a big fan of low reps on the powerlifts (For a refresher, go here.) In addition to that craziness, Stallone did between 500 and 1000 reps of abs a day, giving him the six pack that will forever make the rest of us look like fat fucks, no matter what kind of condition we're in. According to Franco, he "trained four different ab and torso exercises: sit-ups, leg raises, side leg raises, and side bends. We did 50 reps of each, one exercise right after another, and five sets of this cycle. And wait until you see the results. Sly has great abs, intercostals, serratus, everything." With that batshit Sardinian midget nipping at his heels, Sly pretty much emplyed the bull-in-a-china-shop approach we all love so much. He went balls to the fucking wall, every workout, and added sets, reps, and exercises whenever humanly possible.
When he originally utilized that program to prep for Rambo II, "Sylvester gained just about 10 pounds in six and a half weeks," Franco says. "He has great structure, with a waist only about 29 inches. When we started, he had a 44-inch chest. At the end, his chest was almost 50 inches. And his arms went from 16 ½ inches to 18 inches. He was bigger, harder and much more muscular. Wait until you see him in the movie. He's going to shock a lot of people by how good he looks."
When was the last time you broke your ass to add 10 lbs of rip in 6 weeks? I'm betting the 7th of never.
Of course, you're saying to yourself, he must have employed the GOMAD approach. He must've kept entire dairies in business all of his own accord, he was drinking so much milk. Not so much, fuckers. In fact, Stallone ate the way a sane person would if he wanted to get jacked and still be able to be proudly shirtless in public- he ate a shitload of lean meat and veggies, took all of the protein supplements on which he could lay hands, and brooked no fucking nonsense out of anyone.
"Sly is the most disciplined man that you'll ever meet in any walk of life," says his personal bodyguard Gary Compton. "He doesn't eat real late, he doesn't snack, and he doesn't eat much. Pasta? Yes, but not too often, and only when it's made with a special flour. Fish and brown rice are staples. He even eats fish for breakfast. He drinks little alcohol, but occasionally enjoys champagne. Quick energy? Would you believe oatmeal cookies? Of course, without processed sugar of preservatives."
Although he eventually decided the above was the best way to go, and utilized that program for Rocky Balboa and the Expendables, he wasn't above a bit of experimentation, in the most extreme fucking way possible. "When making Rocky III, Sly would begin the day with a two mile jog, then go straight into 18 rounds of sparring, 2 hours of weightlifting and jumping rope. After all this, he would take a nap in the afternoon, then go running again! He would finish the day with a swim." For whatever reason, Stallone decided to get lean first, and then put on a shitload of muscle thereafter for that film, so he dieted down to a ridiculous 155 on nothing but 10 egg whites and a piece of burnt toast a day, and then used a more or less paleo diet to get his bodyweight up to 175 for filming.
Utter fucking lunacy. Though he didn't go in for all of that ridiculous running to prep for Rambo, the sultan of shred decided to do something that sucks far, far more: "I have to live up to the last film. That makes it a little bit harder to get in shape. I have a machine like an escalator with the steps coming down, and I pile 40 to 50 pounds of weight on my back and start climbing those endless steps."
There you have it- all you need to do to get into 62 year old badass shape is to train 12 times a week on an essentially paleo diet ("I follow a high-protein diet: Anything with a face, that’s what I eat, with something green next to it,”) and throw in 1000 reps of abs and weights stairclimbing into the mix. Easy as pie, right?
If a 62 year old man can do it, so can fucking you. Go lift something.
http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/bodybuilding-gossip/67221-body-sylvester-stallone.html
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/jaimefiler2.htm
http://sylvesterstalloneworkout.net/
http://www.askmen.com/sports/bodybuilding/58_fitness_tip.html
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So here's a link utility to download so that you can view pages on the Internet without images. I'm going to throw this into a sidebar as well, so future readers can use this.
Note- I've not tested this utility, since I hate IE and don't use it, but once installed it should block images in IE.
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Parting shot.
Get Your Fucking Head Right, #3- Be Positive, Or You'll Positively Suck
Being that we live in the "Information Age", we're generally buried assneck deep in a massive pile of information, of which the vast majority fucking sucks. Unless you've got an bullshit destroying Israeli killdozer, it's hard to tell fact from fiction, especially with a variety of hacks and general fuckfaces preying upon your doubts and amplifying that shitty little voice in your ear that occasionally tells you that you suck. Everyone has the voice, but it's what you do with and to that voice that determines your lot in life. If you listen to that voice, you end up digging ditches for a living and taking a break from drinking Pabst in your trailer just long enough to knock one of the few remaining teeth in your morbidly obese wife's head onto the floor for mouthing off. If you don't you end up living whatever you consider to be the good life, basically bending life over and assraping it, and then following it with a bit of ATM before you head off to another day of awesome with a predatory grin on your face.
Given the gape there, I think it's a clear-cut case that she was just ATM'd. Good for her.
Due to the span and depth of information to which we're exposed on a daily basis, we generally use a variety of diagnostic labels to lend a bit of clarity to your personal fog of war. Any system of classification up with
which you come, however, is going to have its positives and negatives, based on a wide array of factors and your overall mindset.(Brafman 74-75) Additionally, life itself, or the people therein, will likewise place labels on the things and people around them, and you'll get caught up in that system. This is nothing so organized as the Dewey Decimal System, but is rather a nearly arbitrary system that's by and large predicated upon the astonishing amount of suck most people generate as a matter of course in a given day. Though you know they suck, and that they're opinions are likely (at best) arbitrary, the labels they place upon you can affect you
Hannibal calls "Bullshit."
I'm sure you are at this point screaming "Bullshit!" in your head and vowing never to read this blog again, as I've asserted that everyone on Earth falls prey to the judgement and labels of others, no matter how mentally tough. Even the toughest motherfucker on Earth, however, can have his own personal Alamo. No matter how tightly you seal yourself up in a fortress and massacre the opinions of the teeming unwashed hordes of mealy-mouthed shittalkers walking the Earth, finding yourself covered in gore from stabbing those roly-poly shitbirds to death, you can end up losing. This is because psychologists have shown across the board that even the toughest snake-eating, Carlos Hathcock motherfuckers can lose subconsciously to societal labels, and that being labelled with harsh terms like "bipolar" can reduce formerly chipper students into weepy bitches. Luckily, this shit works both ways, and positive labels like "high-achiever" give you a leg up in life, and generally leads to a much higher success rate on everything from physical to mental tests. (Brafman 98-99) Sounds ridiculous, right? It might, but it's been proven in everything from high schools to the military to the workplace, and works mysteriously both for and against those being labelled. The phenomenon's called the Pygmalian effect when it's positive, and the Golem effect when it's negative, but it all boils down to the same thing- when we brand or label people, they take on the characteristics of the diagnosis. (100-101)
(For those of you who are poorly read, Pygmalion was a sculptor in Greek myth who fell in love with his own statue, and eventually wished it into a live woman (not unlike the movie Mannequin), who he fucked and gave birth to an entire city thereafter. Golems, on the other hand, are unthinking mud-men made by Jewish wizards to do their evil bidding.)
If you wished this thing to life, you'd fuck the hell out of it as well.
In any event, it's enough to make you want to build a fucking hut in the woods and mail nailbombs to people. There's not much you can do against this type of sway, however, as humans are social animals, and our unconscious is programmed to absorb those labels and adapt to them. That is, of course, unless you understand the source and discount it. I, as usual, have more than my personal experience to go on for this. The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer stated that one "must be able to observe that other people are badly disposed towards him, ... [and] straightway ascribe them, ...to the defective knowledge of the speaker." (Pessimism) That's certainly worked for me, and it's easy, because most people are unbelievably stupid cows with little reason and even less knowledge. Additionally, there's really no point sitting around like a bitch and crying into your soup because a pack of lazy, insipid, fat people are trying to will you into being as lazy, fat, and insipid as they are, so you might as well put up a staunch mental defense against the teeming hordes of fuckheads and sally the fuck forth.
"JOIN USSSSSSS!"
The main way society gets over on the average lifter these days is by telling people they suck right from the outset. The main format for the delivery of this is the myth of the "hardgainer". A hardgainer, for those of you who are blissfully unaware, is a person who has trouble putting on size and strength. This, of course, means EVERYONE ON EARTH. This theory is so fucking stupid that it defies description, and really only exists to apply salve to the wounded egos of a bunch of weepy bitches who want everything right now and throw tantrums in their parents' basement because they've been training a whole 6 weeks and don't look like Ronnie Coleman yet. It's the quintessential example of the instant-gratification craze that's swept the modern world, and it's fucking disgusting. To back this load of Stygian stables-sized bullshit is the completely disproven and academically-mocked theory of somatotyping, which is still only clung to by mouth-breathing asshats in the bodybuilding world. Continued adherence to the theory of somatotyping is akin to a continued belief that masturbating will give you hairy palms, or that JFK was actually shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. In other words, you quite literally have to be a waterhead to place any credence in it whatsoever.
Endomorph, or is there something far worse at issue?
If you've got doubts, consider this- pure ectomorphs and endomorphs (if they existed) would comprise 2/100 and 1/100th of a percent of the population, respectively.(Sheldon 30) That means that in the US, there's 6140 and 3070 terminally skinny and terminally fat motherfuckers in the entire United States of America. This fucking nonsense makes me literally want to stab anyone who utters the words endomorph and ectomorph, because even if they existed, it's almost guaranteed the person bitching was not one. Neverthelkess, they don't exist, except in the minds of people who want to sell people a bunch of shit that doesn't work anyway, and then turn around and blame that person's somatotype for their failure. (If you'd like to read more about this fantastic pseudoscience, go here) In other words, if you've classified yourself by somatotype, punch yourself in the fucking face, immediately. Then, remember that when people feel as though they're qualified to make a diagnosis (like after reading a poorly written article about a debunked pseudoscientific theory written by a person who hasn't even read a primary source on the subject), people "become overly confident in [their] predictive abilities", and completely fuck up any progress they might make because "we often ignore all evidence that contradicts what we want to believe." (Brafman 88) Therefore, you'll go off half-cocked with bullshit information, and ignore anything to the contrary, which means you'll go on believing you're a bitch and can't gain any muscle and you're doomed to be fat and have a shitty squat and that you can't get laid.
If someone else told you that you were an endo or an ectomorph, rip off their fucking face, wear it as a mask to gain entry to his girlfriend's house, and then smash the fucking granny out of her in front of her parents during their Sunday dinner. According to the Necronomicon, that's the only way to cleanse yourself of evil magic.
Klaatu, verata, nictu, motherfucker.
To add insult to injury, you might recall that the only reason the hardgainer theory exists is to excuse failure in the weightroom. This is fucking ridiculous- FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. A winner accepts responsibility for himself, rather than pawning responsibility off on others, and immediately takes charge of shit, even when he has absolutely no authority to do so. Even if you've no idea what you're doing, a strong belief in victory will serve you far better than the mealy-mouthed defeatist bullshit coming from anyone who labels you a failure before you've even started. Pessimism is the sole purview of losers, and belief that one's a hardgainer is nothing but pessimism. (Van Fleet 64-66) Though the above quoted philosopher, Schopenhauer, might believe that man lowers himself to a simple member of the animal kingdom by allowing will to triumph over reason, one will never see a lion fail to catch a gazelle because he didn't believe in himself.
Let nothing stand in your fucking way.
Brafman, Ori and Rom Brafman. Sway: The Irresistable Pull of Irrational Behavior. New York: Doubletree, 2008.
Sheldon, William. Atlas of Men : A Guide for Somatotyping the Adult Male at All Ages. New York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1954.
Schopenhauer, Arthur. Studies in Pessimism . 2007. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/pessimism/chapter5.html
Van Fleet, James K. Hidden Power: How To Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind. Paramus: Prentice Hall, 1987.
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A voice disorder occurs when a child has difficulty with the pitch, volume or quality of their voice which distracts a listener from what is being said. Their voice quality is noticeably different from those of their peers. A child with a voice disorder may have difficulties projecting their voice and may also experience pain or discomfort in the throat region. Voice disorders in children can be caused by the following:
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Talking and shouting all of the time.
Lack of water and hydration and talking all of the time.
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There are some very rare medical conditions that may affect the quality of a child’s voice. In these cases it is important to see a doctor if you are concerned.
What are the common features of a voice disorder?
Harsh, hoarse, croaky, strained or rough voice quality.
High or low pitch of voice.
Loud or whispery voice.
Hyper-nasal (i.e. too much air coming through the nose) or hypo-nasal voice quality (i.e. like they have a blocked nose).
Loss of voice during the production of specific sounds.
Periods of time when voice is lost completely.
Common difficulties often (but not always) experienced by the child with a voice disorder?
Can range from mild to severe and may occur in isolation or alongside a speech and/or language delay or disorder. It may have a significant impact on the intelligibility of a child’s speech.
May have an effect on the child’s confidence in speaking situations and affect their social skills and how they relate to others.
May lead to adult voice difficulties, as most adult voice difficulties begin in childhood.
Management strategies that support the child with a voice disorder (at preschool,school and/or home):
Referral to an Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist (ENT) to determine whether the vocal cords have any medical reason for the voice difficulties (e.g. nodules, polyps).
Educate the family and people in the child’s educational setting about the nature of the voice difficulty.
Educate the family and child about how voice is produced and how damage can occur to the vocal cords.
Practice specific exercises, techniques and strategies on how to use the voice effectively.
Reduce shouting and screaming.
Hit a pillow when angry rather than screaming and shouting.
Reduce loud shouting in play.
Speech Therapy approaches and activities that can support the child with a voice disorder and/or their carers include:
Vocal hygiene: Providing information on vocal hygiene and hydration and implementing that into the child’s daily life.
Breathing: Teaching and practicing breathing activities to aid breathing.
Reduce tension: Activities which focus on reducing tension within the body and neck when talking and/or shouting.
Resonance: Looking at resonance and practicing using the voice in the most effective and easy way.
Anger management: Teaching other ways to express anger and frustration to avoid shouting and screaming (e.g. hitting a pillow).
Awareness: Developing awareness in a child about poor voice use.
Liaising with preschool and school staff to implement strategies and ideas into the educational setting.
Why should I seek therapy for my child with a voice disorder?
Diagnosis alone is NOT the solution. It simply opens the door to getting the help that is needed by arming all involved with the relevant information.
The ‘help’ still needs to be provided. The help that is provided (at least from a therapy perspective) will reflect:
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The specific areas that are problematic to the child (which will vary even within children with the same diagnosis).
The capacity of the child’s environments to meet the child’s needs.
If left untreated, the child with voice disorder may have difficulties with:
Learning to talk, speech intelligibility and clarity
Voice Disorders which persist into adulthood.
Self esteem and confidence when they realise their skills do not match their peers.
Bullying when others become more aware of a child’s difficulties.
Anxiety and stress in a variety of situations leading to difficulty reaching their academic potential.
More specific implications of not seeking treatment will be influenced by the common difficulties that are most influencing your individual child.
For more information see the relevant fact sheets under areas of concern or refer to the other relevant resources section below.
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What the course of intervention (medical and/or allied health) might be and what outcome might be expected (prognosis).
What can be done to help the child.
A diagnosis helps the child and their carers (parents, teachers, health professionals, carers) to:
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Communicate the salient features of the child’s challenges to all people involved in the child’s care.
Possibly interpret certain behaviours differently in light of the diagnosis.
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已有 6279 次阅读2012-7-20 08:07 AM |系统分类:拍摄散记| tokina, canon
http://michel.thoby.free.fr/Canon_8-15mm/8-15mm_review.html
Review of the Canon EF 8-15 mm f4 Fisheye Zoom A new tool for the Canonist panorama photographers. Report from tests with a full frame Canon DSLR New (Mar 2012) You may now read a supplement to this page about "What are the competitors?"
Previous other reviews
No-Parallax Point
Focus distance, autofocus and hyperfocal point
Comparison between coverage of images + Data base of Test Images (Downloadable).
Image radial mapping measurement and comparison with selected similar lenses
Expected resolution of the equirectangular panorama output
About Focal Lengths and about Range of focal length.
Angle of view for the different focal lengths: is 2-shot panorama feasible?
The lens cap that loosely fits on the sun hood
The Zoom Limiter Switch
Image Quality:
comparing with other rival lenses
Canon 8-15 mm Vs Tokina 10-17 mm: at fully opened aperture(f/4).
Chromatic aberration
Ghosting and flare
Previous other reviews on the web
This lens is designated by Canon as part of the 'L" series (Pro). It has been made available at the very end of July 2011. Many reviews were issued a few days or a couple of weeks after that. AFAIK the reviewers have been using the new lens for "normal" photography.
I have particularly appreciated and recommend the reader of this article to read the reviews by LensTip.com , Photozone.de and by the-digital-picture.com
A nice overview was posted by Canon USA in November 2010...
My intention is thus to supplement such reports and to give my point of view as a panorama photographer, and not to dupplicate them. I shall focus the report on panorama shooting specific observations when possible. But in addition and since many stitched panorama source images are currently and conveniently shot with a FE (fisheye) or an Ultra-Wide-Angle (UWA) lens, I shall attempt to confront the newest Canon zoom with other lenses that are frequently used by the panorama photographic community.
Canon has designed a product that can be used on a Canon DSLR of any sensor size (APS-c, APS-H and full frame. Read second link above). I have been using the new lens (almost) only on the FF EOS 5D Mk 2 for the moment. Consequently and at this early stage, this article belongs only to this context. I suggest the user of a smaller ("cropped") sensor cameras to read it anyway and to come back later on. I plan to complement ASAP the report with a Part 2 ASAP....
Despite (or because?) nearly 2-3 millimeters of translation of the front group of optical elements when zooming in or zooming out (it is most retracted at around 11 mm of focal length), the NPP (a.k.a. Least Parallax Point) doesn't move when zooming the lens! In practice, the NPP moves so little along the axis that it can be considered as a stationary point. This holds true unless you would attempt to take a "2-shots" or a "3-shots" panorama and with objects very close to the front of the lens. This means that both the Tokina 10-17 mm and the new Canon lens are fisheye zoom lenses that share the nice feature of a "nearly stationary NPP" along the whole focal length range.
Of course and as for all the other fisheye lenses (as well as retro-focus UWA), the NPP location moves along the axis as a function of the selected or required incident angle. In the practice of panorama stitching ,that generally depends on the number of shots to cover 360° around. The shift movement of the NPP extends along a 15 mm distance on the axis of the Canon 8-15 mm lens.
Assuming four images around, the NPP location is illustrated on the picture below by the green dot:
Three other alternate locations are also indicated (in brackets). At 15 mm setting the front element is protruding the most from the lens barrel and it's ~3 mm forward of the position it gets when zooming is set at 11 mm (i.e. the most retracted position). This movement of the front optical group slightly changes the NPP location for two shots and also (but in a lesser extent) for three shots. More than 3 shots around are needed when the focal length is set at 15 mm...
I have found this subject to be the main hurdle when using the lens, especially if one wants to shoot with it wide open (at f/4). Blurring happens more often than not if care isn't taken to properly adjust the focus distance setting. Much less than half a millimeter of shift on the focus distance scale shall put the picture out-of-focus. 0.5 mm corresponds to a rotation of the manual stting ring of about 1 to 1.25 mm only!
The image is homogeneously sharpest when aperture is set at about f/5.6 or f/8. This aperture setting is IMO possibly the best compromise (depth of field, sharpness from center to corner, etc.) for panorama when lighting of the scene and subject motion velocity allows to shut the diaphragm down to such values.
By trials and errors, I have found the hyperfocal point to be best set when the "right edge" of the vertical "leg" of the digit "1" (1 meter) is aligned with the vertical distance indicator on the barrel of the lens. At f/8, everything in the object space located from about 70 cm to infinity from camera is crisp focused on the sensor plane.
1) Quote from the User's instructions Manual: << The infinity position at normal temperature is the point at which the vertical line of the L mark is aligned with the distance index on the distance scale. >> I honestly cannot confirm this affirmation. The infinity position is definitely NOT at this position at "normal temperature", at least on the lens unit that I have in hands. The infinity position is most probably just "slightly before" (i.e. out on the left of) that vertical line of the L mark. This can be easily confirmed by carefully aiming the lens at "infinity" in real object space and in Auto-Focus mode (shutter switch half depressed) and subsequently noting the corresponding distance scale indication. If one puts the mark as Canon suggests, the whole photograph is blurred, including infinty... by out-of-focusing!
2) This observation is important because the distance between the "1" (one meter) and the infinity mark is ONLY about 1 mm on the scale. There isn't a way to manually set the exact distance of focus to a nearby object beyond one meter! That is nevertheless the most frequent shooting situation in panorama photography, isn't it? At this stage, let us quote LensTip.com : << To all intends and purposes a fisheye lens can make do without an autofocus. Working on full frame at 8 mm, even wide open, you can enjoy sharp images in the range from 0.9 of a meter to infinity when you set the distance scale at 1.8 metres. On stopping down the situation becomes even better. >>Hmm... setting the distance scale at 1.8 metres... is a nice suggestion. But, how on earth can you do that accurately? You may have a look on the scale on the picture of the lens right above and tell me how to do...
I dare to think that the LensTip.com suggestion is in practice equivalent to what was suggested above in this paragraph (i.e. "put the rigth edge of the #1 meter aligned with the distance indicator mark"). The 1.8 meter figure is actually the hyperfocal distance relevant to 15 mm of focal. This would also approximate a fit for the whole range of focal lengths but further refinement can be applied for the shorter end of the scale: for instance I thus set the mark aligned with the vertical leg of the "1" when I shoot with 12 mm of focal (my usual way).
3) Some may think otherwise, but I agree with the reviewers of the Canon new lens who say that fortunately, the AutoFocus is very fast and accurate on the new Canon lens (when lighting is sufficient, of course). Note that there are several Autofocus modes to choose from on the camera and that they are in many cases not all equally accurate. The 8-15 mm is a "L + USM" lens (i.e." pro" and "expensive") and the customer is expecting such a treat, isn't he? I then set the Autofocus by aiming at an object that is located ~1.8 meter from the camera and I switch the focus-setting mode back to manual.
4) To compensate for shifting of the infinity focus point that results from changes in temperature, on the Canon 8-15 mm lens there is an Infinity compensation mark (the horizontal leg of the bold "L" shaped mark). This means that one can willingly put the index (that is engraved on the lens barrel) up to about 5 mm beyond the Infinity point! Ironically, we may compare the meager 1.5 mm of distance between "1 meter" and infinity marks to the 6.5 mm distance between the same "1 meter" mark that applies for the very rare case where the infinity has shifted due to VERY wide temperature change... I would have preferred a more balanced proposition:-)
5) If you intend to put some tape stuck to fix the focus setting ring in place after adjustment of the hyperfocal you then must know that it is extremely important to also lock the Auto-focus switch to MANUAL and to put some tape on it. But unlike fisheye lenses that are not fit with piezoelectric actuation, the USM doesn't keep the mechanism really fixed. I have once been fooled by this system during a shot campaign at night and I got a... nicely blurred panorama. BTW I am not certain if masking tape application on the ring and on the switch after focus distance pre-setting (e.g. on the hyperfocal point), shall unsure this setting be kept really fixed if the camera is submitted to some moderately high white random noise vibration level....
REMARK: Canon (US) wrote in this article that is illustrated witth this image: <<For close-up photography at distances of 1.5 meters or less, the lens is designed so the equidistant subject circle (a circle described by an equal subject distance at all angles of view) appears flat in the image plane (see Figure). This allows the photographer to emphasize the center of the photo by focusing on the center and obtaining an attractive fuzzy effect at the edges when shooting a flat subject at close distances. Conversely, it is possible to capture a very clear image with the entire FOV in focus when shooting a subject that surrounds the camera (lens) at a uniform distance. When shooting subjects at distances over 1.5 meters, the lens is essentially pan focus, where nearly everything in the FOV is in focus.>> I have observed that this behavior (that in fact invalidate a frequent misconception) is true for most of the fisheye lenses and at the least for all of those that are dealt whith in this present article.
6) Tip: If, for any reasons, the Autofocus temporary solution -read item #3 hereabove- is not reliable, then viewing the scale of distance of focus (visible through the plastic transparent window) is essential to manually set the lens correctly and thus to get sharp-focused images. If for any reason, it is not visible (for instance if it's hidden inside a clamp ring), one has then to use a workaround to set the lens to the hyperfocal...
One simple way is 1) to push the setting ring manually so that it is mechanically end-stopped at {position >> ∞}and even farther so as to surely overshoot this position (the ring can be moved freely because the de-clutching effect of the USM), then 2) to reverse the rotation from this extreme end positon back to a final known position with respect to visible marks on the barrel. In other words, this final position is attained after rotation of a known fixed distance (i.e. 8.2 mm) from end-stopped state of the ring in order to set exactly the lens at the hyperfocal {H}.
As a matter of fact, this process is simulating a virtual "twin" distance-scale that replaces the obstructed original one. And this "new scale" is made available on another part of the lens barrel: in this effect, I have painted in white with a "white pencil" one groove on the rubber ring (rapid correction TippEx liquid may work equally). After having rotated the ring to overshoot beyond the infinity end stop action (position on the -invisible- scale at the Infinity compensation mark { >> ∞}), I move it back to the left edge of the letter "Z" of the word "ZOOM" and not more; (note that this has yet not changed th actual setting on the hidden scale itself). Then I reverse (again) the rotation and move the white groove to the right edge of the letter "M" of the same ZOOM word. The distance of focus indicator is now at this stage exactly aligned on the right edge of the "1" meter position on the scale and hyperfocal is set.
Remarks: the word "ZOOM"(see image above) is engraved on the front fixed part of the barrel. Any other adequate pair of points of reference on the body (e.g. two marks applied on the red thin ring) could be used as long as they are separated by ~8.2 mm. BTW there is a 5:2 ratio between the rotation of the ring and the synchronized distance scale and that de-facto magnification soothes in a way the difficulty to set accurately the hyperfocal. Voila!
Comparison with other lenses:
The difficulty to manually and correctly set the correct intended distance of focus is probably the cause of some early reporting (on forums) for observation of "softness" in some images that were shot with the new lens right out of the box....
Let's compare what measurement means that we can count on for setting the focus distance on some lenses that I may use for panorama:
Distance on the focus distance scale to the infinity mark...
.... from the "0.5 meter" mark
... from the "1 meter" mark
... from the "3 meters" mark
Sigma 8 mm f4
Samyang 8 mm f3.5
Nikkor 10.5 mm f2.8
Canon 8-15 mm f4
~ 2 mm (best estimate)
Tokina 10-17 mm f3.5-4.5
Samyang 14 mm f2.8
The Sigma 8 mm lens is (like the Canon zoom) also fitted with an Infinity compensation mark (the bold "L" shaped mark) for the same purpose as Canon explained it to be.
Neither the Nikkor 10.5 mm nor the Tokina 10-17 mm could actually be manually and accurately set at the hyperfocal just by using the scale:
The Tokina 10-17 mm lens (the model that I own) must be put at the infinity end (i.e. pushed to the mechanical stop) to get it perfectly set on hyperfocal (!) That's fast and reproducible but that's not what is expected.
The autofocus of the adapted-to-EOS Nikkor lens naturally doesn't work with EOS camera. The ring should be permanently fixed on hyperfocal by a piece of tape after careful calibration with a trial and error process. The distance scale was IMO the World worst-designed by Nikon... but it's now a tie with Canon. BTW compared with the usual "Canon Sandard", the scale is reversed on these two lenses (Tokina and Nikon).
Being lenses originally deprived of Autofocus ability, both the Samyang 8 mm and 14 mm had to be dismounted and mechanically adjusted to get the focus distance scale aligned about right. After this operation, the two lenses are the best and easiest amongst all to accurately and manually set the distance. I am certain that some testers have probably made wrong assessment of the lenses performances and IMO they gave a wrong jugement for instance here about the Samyang UWA lens: Ken contradicts the positive judgement that was reported by most -if not all- other test reviewers. He was probably fooled and did not reckognize the generic defective cause. Weak Quality Control at Samyang facilities is said to be the root cause of this annoyance.
By the way, there is often a misconception by many photographers about the
For close-up photography at distances of 1.5 meters or less, the lens is designed so the equidistant subject circle (a circle described by an equal subject distance at all angles of view) appears flat in the image plane (Figure 5). This allows the photographer to emphasize the center of the photo by focusing on the center and obtaining an attractive fuzzy effect at the edges when shooting a flat subject at close distances. Conversely, it is possible to capture a very clear image with the entire FOV in focus when shooting a subject that surrounds the camera (lens) at a uniform distance. When shooting subjects at distances over 1.5 meters, the lens is essentially pan focus, where nearly everything in the FOV is in focus.
Comparison of the coverage of images that were shot with the Canon zoom fisheye lens with images from other similar lenses 1) For a quick look and to get a subjective appreciation:
This (flash) object movie shows the differences that will exist between the images by different lenses.
Other reviewers have also posted many examples of animated images that illustrate the aspect of the different lens projections and different lens magnifications.
2) For inputting test images in your favorite stitching program(s): a panorama digital image Databank!
Many images from the new Canon lens... may be dowloaded in raw (.CR2) file format!
A table is indexing a large collection of files of full-scale images of the same scene (see thumbnail above). It allows the reader to select and download sets of test images that were shot with the EF 8-15 mm as well as four other fisheye lenses (and alternatively with a UWA lens). I must remind again the reader that all these images were shot with a full-frame Canon DSLR only.
Beware: some of the downloads are particularly bandwidth hungry!
Image radial mapping measurement and comparison with similar lenses
The projection that Canon has adopted for the new lens is.... normal for such a fisheye lens. The curves can be approximately stacked with those of similar fisheyes with Equi-Solid Angle type of projection. A chart demonstrates this feature:
Click on the thumbnail picture to enlarge the view. Or here to download a PDF document.
For the curious reader the experimental process that was used to get the graph is posted here. The radial compression when reaching the edge of the field is a bit less accentuated than most other fisheyes (except the Samyang, of course). It seems that Canon's own design specification was linear scaled: R= f x Theta (i.e. the equidistant projection) and that they finally got close enough to this target. Because of this feature, one may expect to get very small coefficients for image "distortion correction" after optimization in the stitching software.
Update (19 April 2012): Canon has filed in 2011 for various Patents applications at the US Patent and Trade Office that directly concern the 8-15 mm Lens. Two of these applications were published by US PTO early in 2012 that revealed graphs showing relative distortion of the lens when it is set at 8 mm or at 15 mm for the focal length and when simultaneously the focue is respectively set at the closest distanec or at the infinty. I have build an overview of the result computed by Canon:
The image radial mapping is considerably different when the distance of focus is set at 150 mm (i.e. closest available distance of focus) than when it is set at infinity. Beware: these charts drawn by Canon are not taking into account the restriction due to possible cropping by the sensor limited coverage (even on a FF camera): on an actual fulframe camera, the FOV for the longer focal end (i.e14 mm. < L < 15 mm) may be smaller than the value of ω written on the chart.
The range of focal length of the Canon zoom fisheye encompasses probably most of the needs of the panorama photographer when the rendered output is to be viewed on the screen of a computer or a mobile device. Only very high resolution panoramas (often being very large mosaics of images presented in cylindrical or Panini projection) would required a different lens.
Mainly using the resources of the above linked Images Databank, I have collected the data that were computed by the AutoPano Giga and PTGui Pro software when asking to "Create or Render the panorama": the Maximum (No loss of detail) of the possible Optimum size has been selected and the proposed resulting sizes were listed on a table. I admit that these numbers could have been rounded...
Lens model and Focal length
Shooting scheme
Resolution (Optimal & Maximal size in Pixels)
PTGui Pro
Fisheye (no sub-option: => Circular)
Option "Circular"
Option "Full Frame"
Canon 8-15 mm @ 8 mm
3 Horizontal
Canon 8-15 mm @ 10 mm
Nadir + 4H + Zenith
Nadir + 6 Horizontal + Zenith
BTW there are some obvious discrepancies in the results from Kolor's APG: the results above were obtained by using the latest stable official APG version (v 2.5.2). A completely overhauled version including new math models for the lenses (and/or for correction of the distortion) should be released soon (Beta testing is still under way). The results of optimum size computation should then be more accurate and homogenous.
These data can be compared with the size got by stitching images from other fisheyes and from some rectilinear lenses in an other article.
About Focal Lengths and about Range of focal length
The radial mapping chart that is presented in the above paragraph shows the lower end of the range behavior of the Canon zoom being "almost" identical to the Sigma 8 mm mapping near the center of the image. Note that's here (on that chart) the newest (f3.5) Sigma model. Therefore one can assume that the shortest focal length of the Canon zoom is probably 8 mm and this can be verified by a simple trigonotric computation.
The upper end of the range of focal lengths is said by Canon to be 15 mm. However, by comparing images by the EF 8-15 mm @ 15 mm with that by venerable 15 mm f2.8 (also by Canon) and additionnally with some selected focal lengths of the Tokina10-17 mm (i.e. 15 mm and 16 mm respectively) it seems that Canon has designed a 16 mm fisheye lens. The estimation given by PTGui goes for 15.5 mm to... 15.95 mm. Would 8-16 mm be a more exact designation?. This seems however not to be completely confirmed by peering at the edges of the real photographs that were shot to compare Image Quality (later in this article). As a matter of fact, these images tend to prove the accuracy of the Canon designation of 15 mm for the maximum focal length. The absence of positive stops to accurately set the focal length (15, 16 mm...) on the Tokina may have contributed to the possible confusion.
The meaning of << focal length >> of a fisheye is the subject of controversy. It depends on the user's context. For a standard and ideal (rectilinear) lens and limting the study to paraxial Optics, the initial signification linked to the inclination of the tangent to the curves at coordinate (0,0) is fine and unambiguous. This definition of the focal length had in this simplified model a tangible sense for standard undistorted lenses and it can even then be related to the angle of view by a simple mathematical trigonometric function.
However these simplified notions of focal length have been comprehended by the public in a way that can be summarized by a simple saying: "the shorter focal length yields the wider field". Many photographers and many reviewers makes this mental assimilation. The recent introduction of small digital sensor has further accentuated the assimilation by adding the questionable "equivalent focal length" to the list of spec... Today it is nearly totally incongruous to write the words "Focal length" in a sense and in a context that does not implies "Angle of view". The focal length is assumed to be constant over the whole field... Alas! this assumption generally may not be valid at all with (real) lenses that are affected with distortion of any kind: together with the distortion, the focal length may be described as a function of the incident angle and it thus varies in the field (DxO Labs literature). For a fisheye lens this may lead to bizarre graphs where the focal can be zéro and/or distortion can reach infinity on assymptote! While mathematically correct this is practical nonsense especially when the its author insists in using Gaussian optical theory and (undistorted) Standard (rectilinear) lenses for Unique Reference. In wich comprehensible way can a human mind can comprehend what is an infinite distortion?
In short, and to be realistic and to take into account the actual casual use of some of the Optics vocabulary (especially on the Internet), one should not hang to a rigid mathematical definiton. Almost any number that is designated for description of the focal length by the manufacturer of a fisheye lens can be and shall eventually be disputed. And sometimes this is done in a large extent. This has happened and puzzled the customers base when the Samyang 8 mm fisheye was released some months ago: the same lens is sold with a focal length designation ranging literally from 6.5 to 8mm by different re-branding depending apparently only on merchandising law to post a "different label" from the others.
BTW one can again observe that the Samyang 8 mm mapping (representing the projection) looks really different and peculiar on the PDF chart: its curve is the only one that flexes upward when the angle is increasing! That's the direct effect of the stereographic projection!
Angle of view for the different focal lengths: is 2-shot panorama feasible with the new Canon 8 mm fisheye lens?
The Angle of view of the lens on a FulFrame sensor looks very familiar and matches those of similar lenses with about 188 degrees (for cropped circular image). Nevertheless, the Angle of View is severely restricted by hard optical vignetting in the lower part of the focal length range (below ~10 mm). At 8 mm the full circular image doesn't contain useful pixels coming from more than 90 degrees from the axis when the aperture has been shut down to more than f/8. By "useful pixel" I mean those that are really clean from bluish seam. This is IMO sad news and great disappointment to this author. I had been hoping that Canon could have responded to this plea that I posted some years ago:-(
While it is perfectly possible to stitch a 2-shot panorama, I have found impossible to get rid of the seam (it's generally bluish) at the joint between the two hemispheric images. The IQ of the Canon @ 8 mm near the edges is very good (equal or better than for other 8 mm fisheye lenses) but the circle limit is just 3 to 4 degrees to close to the center... frustration{:1_336:}
Note: Setting the zoom at more than 9 mm (and up to12 mm) and shooting two back-to-back photos in landscape mode: that gives the ability to stitch 360° cylindrical panoramas. Spherical VR are also possible to be stitched in this simplified way, but two holes are left apparent at the nadir and at the zenith. In aerial panorama photography, setting the inclination down at say 20° would fill the hole at the nadir (a further shot of the zenith can possibly be added later to complete the whole sphere and to hide the flying vehicle on the bottom of which the camera is mounted on). BTW this can also be done with the Tokina 10-17 mm (@ 10 to 12 mm) and with the Nikkor 10.5 mm.
The retaining device that should maintain the front protective cap by holding it locked by means of two tongues that grip on the mini-grooved lips on the inner side the sun-hood. That's a common feature that is used by many lens makers. But Canon have based their version for the EF 8-15 mm on a plastic made, elastic ring that is supposed to act as a spring firmly pushing on the two tongues. Actually a simple brushing with a finger tip against one of the two buttons and the cap is eventually released... The elastic ring is so poorly dimensioned that it make the cap more prone to fall on the floor than the cap that fits on the venerable EF 15 mm! The users of that venerable prime fisheye lens shall know what I am referring to:-)
I have made two simple metallic blades to make the spring force much stronger. The cap cannot now unwillingly get loose.
two additional spring blades
now the cap won't get loose unwillingly !
The lens hood
Molded from black plastic material, it is removable (by holding down a small button to release the hood baïonette). After a full month of use, I have never yet shot a photograph with the hood left attached on the lens.... though it is a nice and effective protection of the front lens surface from scratches:-).
BTW will someone design and manufacture a simple removable "cap" that would replace the bulky (hood + cap) present assembly? This is obviously feasible and it would save a lot of space in the congested photo bag of those who do not intend to ever use the current removable sun hood when shooting photos....
The Zoom Limiter Switch is not a click-stop or a zoom locking device{:1_336:}
The seasoned panorama photographer shall be disconcerted by this rather strange invention designed by Canon. I personnally have thought at first to be a useless and silly feature, but after a while, I think now that it could be very useful if it was modified and improved as it could become a simple accurate zoom setting feature with e.g. click-stops or any other means to set repeatable and accurate focal length selection. A zoom locking feature would also be a nice add-on...
At present it is possible to do that only when setting the focal length at 8 mm and 15 mm (against mechanical end-stops) and also 10 mm (by using the zoom limitter switch). I personally would love Canon to extend the 10 mm hard limit to... 12 mm.
Many users shall miss an ability to positively mechanically stop the zoom at some specific main positions where we could set the focal length at some specific precise values on a repeatable way so as to use a template for batch stitching without CP optimization. IMO this should not be very hard to implement.
Image Quality: comparing with other rival lenses at medium aperture setting (f/5.6 or f/8)
I have cropped a small area (e.g. 450 x 300 px) just near the corner of the full-scale images (or on the edge of the circle where applicable).
To better peer at the details, I have found that zooming in the cropped image in a graphic editing program (to 300% for instance) strengthens considerably the ability to discriminate the best lens from a lesser performer.
I do not own the venerable prime 15 mm model from Canon. It has been rumored to be totally discontinued by Canon since the EF 8-18 mm introduction in end of July 20011. As a matter of fact it disappeared from the store at Canon Europe even if it is still listed on the catalog (Sept 2011) of the Canon USA and Canon Asia South-East web sites. I had however shot some test photographs with a 15 mm lens that Gilles Vidal lent me early in 2007. I subsequently compared one (shot at f/8) with a recent photos also shot at f/8 with the very same EOS 5D FF (12 Mpix) camera with the new Fisheye zoom that was used four years and a half ago. The camera being different from the others cases, I shall present this case separately from the other..
1- Canon 8-15 mm compared with Canon EF 15 mm f2.8 fisheye (EOS 5D = 2912 x 4368 pixels)
Note: Such a comparison has been made already by the-digital-picture.com for instance.
The fixed focal lens was the only fisheye lens that was sold by Canon before they launched the new zoom lens. The reputation of this lens for clarity, sharpness, contrast and the moderate chromatic aberration (easy to completely correct) was well established. With a moderate retail price and as it is fully compatible with the automatic features of the EOS camera family, it was therefore probably the favorite lens used by Canonists panorama photographers to get high resolution on a 180 x 360 panorama. I personally preferred to use the Samyang 14 mm rectilinear lens for this task despite the higher minimum number of individual images required to be shot (8 and 6 respectively)
EF 15 mm f2.8 (Prime lens) @ f/8
EF 8-15 mm f4L USM (Zoom lens) @ 15m & f/8
100% scaled cropped from original
reduced from original size (2912 x 4368 pixels) reduced from original size (2912 x 4368 pixels)
There is no visible difference or sharpness or contrast at the center of the pictures, but as can be seen on the example above, the new lens is obviously much sharper at the edge of the frame and especially near the corners.
2- Canon 8-15 mm compared with Tokina 10-17 mm zoom (EOS 5D Mk2 = 5616 x 3744 pixels)
The Tokina zoom lens is based on an original design by Asahi-Pentax. As a matter of fact Asahi has been granted several patents for fisheye zoom lenses. These patents were supposed to be applicable to retro-focus lenses mounted on a 35 mm film camera of the mid 90's era. Ironically, Pentax has yet to release a full frame (i.e. 24 x 36 mm) digital camera. So they have designed a "down-scaled" version of their older film era model and this has become the Tokina 10-17 mm that is fully compatible with many APS-C DSLR by Canon, Nikon, Sony and others. A Pentax compatible version is also available and is sold under a Pentax (or Samsung) label. The fixed metallic integrated sun-hood that restricts the field of view can be "shaved" in order to fit perfectly on FF DSLR camera; Hence some Tokina photos presented hereafter.
@ 15 mm f/5.6
Tokina 10-17 mm @ 15 mm @ f/5.6
Canon 8-15 mm @ 15 mm @ f/5.6
The Tokina lens is known to be a bit soft on the peripheral part of the image at the longer end of the focal length range. This is confirmed here. No surprise: the Canon lens surpasses the older Pentax designed lens and it's obvious on this picture samples.
It seems that the image from the Canon lens is just a little crispier than its counterpart from Tokina. Both are excellent though.
2- Canon 8-15 mm compared with Tokina 10-17 mm zoom @ 10 mm and with Nikkor 10.5 mm (EOS 5D Mk2 = 5616 x 3744 pixels) @ f/5.6
Nikkor 10.5 mm @ f/5.6
Exept very near the limit of the circle where the Nikon lens becomes soft (and excessively compressed) all lenses are very sharp. Contrast is obviously lower and unfortunatly some residual chromatic aberration cannot be corrected when the Nikon and the Tokina are concerned.
The image IQ is apparently the same on the important major part of the circular image (that shall still be visible after stitching and blending) on the outputted panorama image. As the peripheral inner part of the circle is not really included into the final panorama, it would be hard to decide in practice what is the sharpest lens between all.
Due to the cleanest overall appearence of the Canon image after CA correction, I tend to prefer the 8-15 mm lens before the two others. Performance at other aperture settings could also be compared in a possible tie-breaker way...
3- Canon 8-15 mm compared with Samyang 8 mm and with Sigma 8 mm f4.0 (EOS 5D Mk2 = 5616 x 3744 pixels) @ f/5.6
Samyang 8 mm @ f/5.6
Sigma 8 mm f4.0 @ f/5.6
Canon 8-15 mm @ 8 mm @ f/5.6
The Sigma lens is obviously the worst performer of all. This lens is clearly outdated (and discontinued in 2006) and it has been replaced by an improved (and of completely dofferent design) model with a wider maximum aperture (Sigma 8 mm f3.5).
The Samyang is of a completely different projection type (Proportional aka Stereographic fisheye). The outer part of the circular image is much less compressed than it is in the other commun cases of fisheye lenses. The resultant effective "magnification" in this region makes the image to appear "softer" but reveals its quality in comparison when magnification is visually equalized: it's then a bit sharper than the Canon lens image.
The image from the Canon lens is anyhow excellent at this focal length.
Canon 8-15 mm Vs Tokina 10-17 mm : two zoom lenses compared at fully opened aperture (f/4).
This stop setting is the widest possible on the Canon lens and on the upper end of the focal length range of the Tokina zoom lens. To better assess the possible IQ, the images have been corrected from CA and light fall-off after proper cropping in ACR5.6 and in contrast with the shooting process that was used in the previous paragraph, the camera has been pivoted by 90 degrees between two shots. The target object stays 1.8 meters (i.e. the hyperfocal @ 15 mm) distant from the sensor during the shooting sequence.
You may view and compare the resulting images at 15 mm, 12 mm and 10 mm on an other page and on a table here.
A moderate level of Chromatic aberration is visible on the images shot with a Canon 8-15 mm lens. Some reviewer have described this aberration as large or very large. At first glance, the amount is less or about the same as on images of most similar and rival fisheye lenses. The exceptional sharpness that extends far from the center of the image and for the whole focal length range of the Canon zoom lens makes in fact the CA to look less pregnant than for other softer similar fisheye lenses, yet it may -as a consequence- strengthen the color saturation of the dreadly fringe and thus it may impress the " CA uneducated" tester.
Unlike for most of the other fisheye lenses cited in this article, Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration is probably absent (or it is in practice negligible). Consequently the correction of the sole Lateral (aka Transverse) Chromatic Aberration is actually feasible all over the whole image (from center to edges) on a reproducible maner and the result is thus more gratifying. This is not the case for example with the Nikkor 10.5 mm and with the Tokina 10-17 mm zoom were a compromise has to be applied in order to leave some level of residual CA near the edges of the circle so as to fully get rid of it on the most important parts around the center of the image. One can observe this on the small cropped images in the above paragraph.
More surprizing from the new Canon lens is the ability by the panoramic photographer to correct the chromatic aberration with a sole setting in his raw converter (e.g. ACR 5 or 6) for the whole focal length range! Only one set of Red/Cyan and Blue/Yellow correction figures for a perfect correction!
Like for all other lens, purple fringing is also present. I suspect that most if its presence is caused by the camera itself (this is disputed by some authors though). I have however found that it can be better corrected on images shot with the new Canon lens. I must reckognize this as being a subjective observation. I would appreciate to know the reader's opinion on this topic...
Recall: you may experiment with some images from the Canon new fisheye zoom lens after download of RAW (.CR2) files from a Test Images Databank.
I was rather sceptical one year ago (on 26 August,2010) when reading the news on dpreviews.com "Canon releases EF 8-15mm f/4 L USM fisheye zoom lens":
<< Ghosting and flare caused by strong light sources can be a particular challenge when shooting at such a wide angle, and, in order to counteract these artifacts, all lens elements have been covered with Canon’s Super Spectra Coating. The inner surface of the front element also features Canon’s SubWavelength Structure Coating (SWC), which uses tiny cone-like structures, shorter than the wavelength of visible light on the surface of the lens element, to gradually slow light down until it is at the same speed as it travels through glass, removing the risk of flare occurring before the light reaches the sensor.>>
This sounded like a pure commercial advertisement. I must admit now that the text that dpreview.com had written a year ago without ever having had the lens in their hands, appears in fact to tell nearly the truth. After more than one month of use and stitching hundreds of panoramas I could not find one occurrence where colored spots of flare could be obviously apparent and annoying, whatever the lighting conditions. Veiling glare near strong lights (e.g. the sun) will of course reduce the contrast (sometimes severely). Some veiling shall happen when shooting in front of a strong source of light such as a large window, but this is considerably less pregnant for this lens than with all the others that I use for panorama photography.
LensTip.com had posted a page that shows some artifacts especially on a photograph taken at 12 mm with a very faint and pale ghost visible on the pavement. This is amazing: all of my "similar" photographs that I shot at the same aperture setting (f/8) never show even a visible trace of flare ghost.
So... I have studied a bit more closely the subject by putting the lens to a test series that should reveal the colored ghosts.
Before performing the test, I knew (or believed) that
The colored artifacts due to flare are generally more visible against a black background: I have thus shot within a somewhat "dark" room or in the night aiming toward the sky.
The colored artifacts due to flare are more visible when the image of the strong light source is over-exposed.
The colored artifacts due to flare are only visible when the strong light source is coming from the edge of the circular coverage or close to that edge. Let's remove the sun hood to favor the flare happening.
I thus used the same LED lighting set-up that was already used successfully to compare some other fisheyes to first shoot in the night toward the sky and got an idea of what to expect (at the two ends of the focal length range):
8-15 mm @ 8 mm
8-15 mm @ 15 mm
Note: The lens front surface was cleaned with a cloth... "as usual"
Note: "Extra care" was used to clean the lens front surface
Click on the picture to enlarge the image.
There is a bright with rainbow ed colors artifact on the circular image @ f=8mm (see red arrow). The color saturation and intensity decrease rapidly when the focal length is increased. It is just barely visible when f > 9.5 mm and invisible when f > 12 mm.
The flare ghosting artifacts that are very small indeed, happen to be visible only at the very low end of the focal range! With a full frame camera, I almost never shoot below 12 mm of focal length. That is why I did not yet see these colored dots on my panoramas!
Lets now see whet happens with night/day photos stil using the LED in the corner of the frame:
8-15 mm @ 8 mm (Night)
8-15 mm @ 8 mm (Day)
The ghosts are again there, but their number is smaller than is visible in complete darkness of the night...
Some ghosts are still visible (red arrows) but only few of them and they are tiny dots...
As a matter of fact, the small artifacts may often not be visible on the panorama because of the tiny size of them or they may become invisible after blending it with another (ghost-free) contiguous image...
In natural outdoor and sun-lit scenes and in specific shooting configuration, the flare artifacts may be visible against a cloud-free sky:
Click on the picture to see the red circled area in a larger scale...
The size of the dreaded dots is small and similar to the artifact that I can see on images from other lenses. That's is generally very easy to clone out with a graphic editing software...
The large colored ghosts caused by the sun and that sometimes spoil the lower part of the image when using the Sigma8 mm, the Samyang 14 mm and in a lesser extent the Samyang 8 mm seems not to be possible to plague the images from the new Canon lens.
Compared to all the fisheye lenses and UWA standard lenses that I have tested or used, the new Canon zoom lens is most probably the best to not be prone to show flare artifacts.
BTW I am still studying another phenomenon that I have spotted once and that probably is a consequence of internal reflections. The problem is to successfully replicate this phenomenon! Please stay tuned: this paragraph shall be completed soon.
Overview and Conclusion
Canon has recurrently bragged that the 8-15 mm zoom range is ideal to suit all the possible requirements for all Canon DSLR users (wanting a fisheye lens) whatever the size of the sensor of the camera. I agree, but I was very frustrated to measure not more than 180 degrees of Angle of View when the focal length is set at 8 mm.
Because of the meager angle of view at the low end of the focal length range of the zoom and because I use almost exclusively a full frame DSLR, I shall certainly very rarely shot with a zoom setting below 12 mm or so and probably never below 10 mm except for some rare test shots.
Designing a prime 8 mm (or less) lens with a larger than 185 degrees of Angle of View is certainly feasible. I must admit however that doing so for a ZOOM lens which range encompasses Fullframe is a real challeng. The excellent general pertinence and balance of the present zoom concept would have been shattered if Canon had tried to enlarge the Angle of view of the un-cropped circular (hemispherical) image on a FF camera: I realize that in order to possibly get a much wider FOV, they would have had to extend considerably the diameter of some glass elements... including the frontal one. Bulkiness, weight and cost (price) would probably have been out of commercially acceptable range.
Despite this IMO negative discovery, I have found that this is the best and more versatile lens for panorama photography that I could put my hands on. The NPP/LPP shift when zooming in (or out) is in practice negligible and the fisheye projection type is rather classical (Equi-Solid angle projection close to being Equidistant) is easily treated by the stiching software.
When it is correctly set to hyperfocal, it is sharp over the whole image and possibly the sharpest of all presently available fisheye lenses for panorama photography. It makes images with incredible high contrast and it is almost immune to flare ghosting. The Transverse ChromaticAberration is homogenous and linearly spread: it can perfectly be corrected by RAW converting software. In all these IQ domains, the zoom lens equals or even betters the sharpest UWA lens that I had in my stable, yet it demands fewer shots to get a full spherical panorama at nearly the same output natural resolution.
There are few minor quirks. The silly lens cap that does not hold strongly enough on the sun hood is an example of poor design. The engraved scale under a plastic transparent window for setting the distance of focus is another flawed feature without to much consequence for panorama shooting though. The funny Zoom limiter switch can be useful to accurately set the zoom at three discrete values (8 mm, 10 mm and 15 mm) but there is no way to set at say 12 mm in a reproducible maner and with precision. (Update note * appended below)
I shall use it for single-row (@12 mm) and/or high resolution (@15 mm) full spherical panorama. In other words, the Canon 8-15 mm f4 "L" as it is now, shall be the sole lens for normal panorama photography to put in the bag from now on. My bag shall therefore be lighten but my wallet has also become lighter because of the steep price that I had to pay for possession and having the pleasure to use it;-)
Michel Thoby
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Thieves and Liars: PTSD Fraud and the VA
A few months ago, a woman sitting next to me on an airplane started a friendly conversation. When she found out I was an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran, she asked about something that was obviously bothering her.
“My daughter’s friend is an Iraq veteran,” she said. “He wasn’t in combat, but he’s disabled by PTSD. He was a medic, and he says the enemy was always trying to capture medics. On missions they wouldn’t let him out of the Humvee because he was in so much danger. He says his PTSD is from being scared of being captured.”
The woman was almost embarrassed to tell the story. Her expression betrayed obvious doubts about this veteran’s “trauma”. But like most of the public, she didn’t feel justified questioning any PTSD claim, from any veteran, for any reason. When I told her I never heard of medics being targeted more than anyone else (especially since they don’t dress or look different than other troops), that riding in a Humvee in Iraq isn’t so scary as to disable someone for life, and that he was probably milking the system for free money, she seemed relieved. She suspected the same thing, but didn’t feel right saying so.
It’s fair to say most of us combat veterans have suspicions about PTSD claims. We’ve been frustrated by stories of horrible, disabling PTSD from people we know were never in combat. We’ve heard of troops coming home from deployments to peaceful countries, never hearing a shot fired, but immediately claiming PTSD. We know that in the War on Terror only a small percentage of troops actually faced an enemy, and many of those relished the experience. We have the nagging feeling most PTSD claims are more about free money than healing and recovery. Some of us have become so skeptical, we automatically throw a mental BS flag when we hear someone talk about having PTSD.
But most of us doubters aren’t psychologists. We’re not trained. We don’t know what transpires between a veteran claiming PTSD and his VA counselor. We know PTSD doesn’t require combat experience, and understand not everyone has the same resistance to trauma, but still wonder if veterans really get disability payments for being yelled at in basic training. We hear assurances that PTSD disability isn’t handed out like candy, that claimed trauma is investigated rather than blindly accepted, and that the “tiny number” of scammers are quickly identified and booted from the system. Maybe our suspicion that the VA PTSD system is corrupt and overrun with liars, scammers and thieves is off base.
If our suspicions were confirmed, that would be pretty depressing. Know what would be even more depressing? Being told by two VA psychologists that the system is even more corrupt and full of liars, scammers and thieves than we thought.
Not long ago I wrote an article about two “combat” vets and their attempts to paint veterans as pitiful victims of PTSD. A VA psychologist read the article and contacted me. He can’t speak publicly because he still works at a large VA center, but I verified his identity and work. I’ll call him John.
John has treated over 700 veterans for PTSD. He estimates 75% of his patients are either outright fabricating trauma, or twisting benign experiences into supposed trauma in order to qualify for disability benefits. “Of all patients referred to me in 2015 for PTSD evaluation, 25% (estimated generously) had a real trauma-related condition,” John wrote. “And the majority of the remainder were obviously feigning PTSD symptoms.”
Few of John’s patients were actual combat veterans. “Only 10% had documentation (CIB/CAB/CAR/Purple Heart/Bronze Star, etc.) indicating substantial combat exposure,” John said. “Yet just over half were receiving VA disability payments for PTSD. All who weren’t yet on disability for PTSD were applying for it, and most on disability were appealing to increase their disability rating.”
Read the rest at BreachBangClear.com.
Chris Hernandez is a 20 year police officer, former Marine and currently serving National Guard soldier with over 25 years of military service. He is a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan and also served 18 months as a United Nations police officer in Kosovo. He writes for BreachBangClear.com and Iron Mike magazine and has published three military fiction novels, Proof of Our Resolve, Line in the Valley and Safe From the War through Tactical16 Publishing. He can be reached at chris_hernandez_author@yahoo.com or on his Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ProofofOurResolve).
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74 Responses to “Thieves and Liars: PTSD Fraud and the VA”
1 Don on February 24, 2016 said:
Preach on Brother Chris!! I experienced PTSD symptoms after coming back from Iraq in 2005. I had been mortared a couple of times, saw guys get shot and dealt with a lot of detainees. I didn’t seek payment when we got back to Demob at Fort Lewis, I explained that I was have night sweats, nightmares, trouble sleeping, I was told that I could stay at Fort Lewis and speak to metal health but the garrison support unit didn’t have the resources to support anyone staying back after our unit left and thanksgiving weekend was coming up so we would be stuck on North Fort in Shitty WWII barracks with no transportation for five days. I opted to handle it through the VA and when home. It took six months to get an initial appointment with the VA and when I did get an appointment, it was an initial screening for other issues, not mental health. I continued to have trouble sleeping, which I treated myself through self medication with alcohol. Eventually, I did start talking to someone and the symptoms went away over time and with treatment. I have deployed since and know my body and mind so I knew what to look for, I did have so symptoms return after my Afghan deployment and address them with my doctor; I am a firm believer that PTSD is treatable. PTSD should not be used to join the check of the month club or to raise your rate of disability. Attendance in counseling should be mandatory for benefit payment and it should be reassessed every couple of years. Guys claiming PTSD from Desert Storm or earlier should highly scrutinized, especially if claims are made well after separation; except in the case of sexual assault but in those cases, there should be medical records to support those incidents.
2 chrishernandezauthor on February 24, 2016 said:
I experienced depression when I came back from Afghanistan (I don’t even know what to call all the pent-up anger and frustration I had after Iraq), and I worked it out. I don’t think it was wrong, I don’t think it was a “disorder”; it was a natural response to the adrenaline-charged environment I lived in for almost a year, and the transition from constant life-and-death danger to being a regular family guy worried about taxes and lawn care. All it took to get better was time and counseling. Money wasn’t a cure, and every VA psychologist knows that. But money still gets handed out like candy.
3 Danny on November 17, 2016 said:
I don’t get what you mean about your statement about Desert Storm or earlier Veterans need to be highly scrutinized ???? What exactly do you mean sir??? I’m a Desert Storm Vet and people did die and the danger was there.. Are you saying no one in this conflict should have PTSD??? A lot of claims are being filed long after separation because PTSD gets worse after time.. I have been diagnosed with PTSD and I totally disagree with what your saying. We should not judge anyone unless you have walked a mile in their shoes….
4 TerI on February 22, 2017 said:
Me thinks thou does protest too much! PTSD is overexaggerated in the military! Yes, there are many things which can cause it but let’s get real! PTSD is a real thing and people need to get help to overcome it. Yes, it can be overcome or at least made better, but who wants to lose that money the VA is handing out for claiming it??? So many vets I have met who have PTSD do not want to lose their VA benefits if and when they get better. With that in mind, the recovery rate is much slower than it should be. So many of us did get PTSD from things other than being over there fighting. Many of us were abused by those we trusted, physically, emotionally, etc. I truly believe PTSD can be treated but to find vets who want to be made 100% better and lose their benefits is low. Our society has become one which we feel we really deserve it because we volunteered ourselves to be put in harm’s way therefore the rest of the country owes us. I agree, people who truly have PTSD need to get help, and quickly to help them get better. It is not ok to encourage them to drag it out though. Some really do not get 100% better it’s true, but that number is so low in reality. We need a way to help these people without burdening them to maintain their PTSD.
5 Kenneth Gunn on September 7, 2019 said:
PTSD cant be proven or disproven. Vets look for a easy way out in life, Such a low live scam. How do these liars look in the mirror everyday? There spouse and kids know the truth.
6 mike on April 18, 2018 said:
I am sure he doesn’t mean all vets from that time but I can tell you I know vets who brag about their ptsd payments and are ripping off the tax payers of this country. The ones I know are from Vietnam era and are actually obnoxious about their Vietnam war service. The same people are quick to condemn people on welfare, wic, and other government programs. I am a 26 year navy and reserve veteran who gets less on retirement than they do on disability, and they brag about it. That is why he thinks they should be highly scrutinized.
I have hunting buddies that climb mountains with heavy backpacks during deer season but after deer season they go home and grab their canes and walkers. Such low lives. You say something and they all come unglued on you and tell you how much of a scumbag your are.
8 GERALD PARRY on July 24, 2019 said:
I knew a PTSD SCAMMER FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS. He admitted to me that he really didn’t have ant mental issues but 30 years after serving in a non-combat environment in the Navy he heard how easy it was to fake PTSD from another scammer in his DWI court order rehab. This so called friend also tried to talk me into making a fraudgelent claim because I was in the Air Force. Strange how he didn’t notice that he nor did the VA not see he was 100% mentally disabled for 30 years. But ever since they stopped requiring the Vet to prove a stressor, every loser that ever served is trying to rip off tax payers for $3400/month take home for being a scumbag. Oh he is doing much better now that we secured his early retirement and bought him a nice fixer upper house. Now this 100% mentally disabled and I almost forgot he is 100% physically disabled Vet (for his unproven back issues that he has no operation on therapy on.) Yea he stays home drinks, smokes and does illegal and legal drugs all day while us taxpayers work our asses off making 1/4 of what he makes. It is disgusting, I reporting him several times and they refuse to investigate. Besides ripping off the taxpayers he is ripping off really injured vets who really need the help. I seen congress stating that a Vet can collect over 1.5 million in payments If he made a claim while he was young, which will end up costing the tax payers over $300 trillion and we are worried about our national debt??????? HOW DO TTHEY JUSTIFY THE AMOUNT THESE SCAMMERS GET? THIS IDIOT I KNOW SAID THE MOST HE EVER MADE WAS $8.50/HR. HE IS NOT AN OFFICER. HE HAS NO INJURY AND IS PERFECTLY FUNCTIONAL, SO WHY IS HE MAKING MORE THAN SOME GUY WHO SERVED 16 YEARS IN COMBAT AND HAD HIS LEGS BLOWN OFF???? STRANGE HOW HONEST PEOPLE CAN GET OVER PTSD WITH TREATMENT AND THIS DRUNK LOSER WILL HAVE HAS LONG AS THE CHECKS KEEP COMING. LETS GET REAL
9 Ariel Nievera on January 30, 2019 said:
The veterans fight should be for all forms of toxic exposure. The diseases are all the same. Exposure to asbestos. Hydraulic fluids. Fuels. PCB. AFFF. Burn Pits. If you are sick with those diseases pre approved for Agent Orange and were exposed to toxins you should be approved
I have AL Amyloidosis and my claim is on appeal. I even have a letter from my Stanford doctor. Most probably caused by toxic exposure
10 Redblues on February 24, 2016 said:
One of my siblings returned from multiple combat zone deployments with PTSD, supposedly 90% disabled. For almost 2 years, this individual, along with spouse and 3 children, lived with me and my spouse. It did not take long to see that my sibling’s biggest problems was bottle fatigue, not battle fatigue, along with fundamental laziness. The same individual too traumatized to work could play violent, combat-themed, online games all day long but couldn’t clean the bathroom. This could not afford to contribute to the household expenses (which doubled) but could mysteriously afford half a gallon of gin and a case of beer a week, as well as the latest computer toys. Eventually they all moved out of state for a special, all-expenses-paid, graduate degree on the Federal dime. Oddly, they did not become homeless when the scholarship ended. Any physical disability also must have gone away as well, because the 90% disabled PTSD victim is suddenly capable of full time work while collecting lifetime disability payments and free educations for the children.
“Disabled” my foot!
I want my tax money back.
Not. Shocking. At. All.
Bummer. 😦
12 Pamela on March 6, 2016 said:
I’m dealing with a similar situation… concerning my ex husband. His manipulation and dilberate defrauding of the government was quite a simple task, even for him… as he was coached (from a former military buddy) on what exactly to say and what to do, in order to recieve full 100% disability. My ex served a short stint in Iraq for less than 6 months, as a part of the Navy SeeBees. He was never subjected to any extenuating war circumstances — meaning he built a few bridges and roads… of course after infantry units disarmed and cleared these specific sites. He never carried a gun or shot one. According to him, he never encountered any Iraqi civilians or soldiers. But, regardless of this war-time stint, lets fly ahead 4 years later, when I had filed for divorce. He made it clear, that A.) he would not pay child support and B.) he would drag this out for years, to financially cripple me. Within days after recieving court papers (summuning him for my request to divorce), he volunteeringly placed himself into an inpatient PTSD program — that lasted short of 4 months. He continued to milk and report every negative symptom or injury he could muster up. Knee pain, back pain, headaches…anxiety, depression, nightmares…anything and everything. None of these issues or symptoms were ever brought to my attention during our 7 years of marriage. We played on co-ed softball leagues during the summer months. We remodeled and decorated a home. He mowed our grass, shoveled our sidewalks and went hunting constantly. Yet, when questioned by the VA, he insisted that his imaginary symptoms had progressivly gotten worse throughout the past years. Today? 100% disability. Close to $5000/mo between his service related disability and social security. He claims he cannot work, due to all these symptoms and ailments related to both physical problems and PTSD symptoms. BUT, he can deer hunt. That’s right! A soldier who suffers from war related PTSD can carry a gun and participate in extra cirrecular activities such as hunting animals. He can walk for miles and miles into the woods and climb 50 feet into a deer stand . He can snowmobile and go white-water rafting! How you ask?!? Who knows….! Rafting requires a fit body, its a difficult activity. But, I’m no done yet, he still is able to work on vehicles too! He has replaced brakes and brake pads for mutual friends, he has rebuilt a transmission, he has fixed a drive shaft and radiator. He is also “currently” refinishing a basement. Construction work! He is framing in bedrooms, hanging drywall, mudding and taping. All of it. He is a disgrace to our armed service men and women. Makes me sick knowing that so many true heros lost their lives and fought for a country and a purpose they believed in. In my opinion, he doesn’t get to consider himself a veteran or militray member. He’s whats wrong in this country, EVERYTHING he did, he did for only himself.
13 WendyHatesALLthisFRAUD on March 6, 2016 said:
Wow Pamela! Your ex sounds a lot like a person I know in-depth personally! He received injuries doing extracurricular activities and some kind of way lead the VA to believe they were a result of war injuries. He even went as far as allowing several operations to happen on these “extracurricular injuries” in order to solidify his “war injuries” claims. He was coached and kept going back to the VA until he was awarded with 100%. This is absolutely fraud and he constantly brags about it. I wonder if he will be investigated one day.
14 John Smithman on May 2, 2017 said:
You sound like you are letting your personal feelings into this. Yeah, you’re getting a divorce. It sucks. How do you know that he’s faking PTSD? Are you a doctor? No. Do you have evidence? No. Sorry, but it’s time to move on.
15 Bob Wrong on August 24, 2016 said:
David Ballengee
https://twitter.com/dave4unity
Enjoying PTSD VA Disability
Acting in movies and enjoying vacations on your tax dollar
Military Record Never left the U.S.
16 chrishernandezauthor on August 25, 2016 said:
You know anything about the injury that led to his alleged PTSD?
17 Jim on August 25, 2016 said:
According to this article, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/3/david-ballengee-former-marine-kicked-out-of-new-or/, he “spent four years in the Marine Corps before suffering a traumatic brain injury in training, was diagnosed with PTSD and convulsive vomiting syndrome.” I believe this is the same guy.
18 Maya Bohnhoff (@kaath09) on February 24, 2016 said:
I never saw combat; but my dad—Chief Master Sergeant Henry T. Harber, did. But his deployment to Viet Nam had nothing to do with my developing PTSD.
In retrospect, I can tell you the very moment that it began. November 12, 1969. I was home alone and my Mom was at the base commissary. A blue, official Air Force car pulled up in front of our house and two men in uniform got out. They rang our doorbell and I answered. They introduced themselves as the base chaplain and a Colonel something or other. They asked if my mother was home. I explained where she was and they said they’d wait for her in their car. I went to my room and shut the door. My mind was at zero kelvin—no movement. I knew why they were there.
Mom came home and invited them in. I heard their voices. Then I heard my mother make a sound that I hope never to hear again as long as I live.
And that was the moment. The moment I knew my father was never coming home. We had 30 days to get off the base. Find some place to go. They flew his body to California. He was buried with full honors and a 21 gun salute. I still have the flag that covered his coffin. I shut down emotionally. I became rock like. My nickname in high school was Gibraltar.
Years later, married and with a little boy, out of nowhere, I experienced a moment in which the sight of a man in a blue Air Force uniform on TV reduced me to a quivering, unthinking mass. Up until that episode, I’d had only hints of what drove parts of my personality. But it explained a lot of things about my young adulthood. But here’s the thing: I had a great job, a wonderful relationship with the love of my life and a child that was a sheer joy. I was a budding science fiction writer and had a warm, supportive faith community. And I had those things in spite of bouts of senseless depression, anxiety attacks, and a personality that tilted back and forth between kicking butt and taking names and quivering uncertainty. Thanks to both my parents, I had a strong enough sense of self and self-awareness to be able to understand what was happening and control it. Not everyone has those resources and they need external help.
Here’s my point: PTSD is real. And different people react to it and experience it in different ways. It is not something that affects only people who have been in combat. It can be sustained as the result of any traumatic loss—not just of loved ones, but of self, of reality, of identity.
And Chris is right: when people cynically use PTSD to make a buck, grab their 15 minutes of fame, or prop up their sense of self, it makes it harder for those who are really suffering confusion and loss to get help if and when they need it. But when they do need it, getting help should be easy and non-traumatic, because God knows, sometimes realizing you need help is hard.
I’ve been told many times that I have to have many, many bad memories bottled up, and eventually they will come out whether I want them to or not. Maybe that’ll happen, maybe not. If they do, you’re right, I need an easy path to get help. But I won’t need money, and I have no idea why we decided as a nation that a monthly check equals “help”.
20 Griswold on February 16, 2017 said:
Send every VA fraud, no matter their age or fat body status, back to a FRONT line and leave them, until they truly can have the daily fears, hopelessness and constant voice talking them through every encounter of the simple task of “Fight or Flight”. As for true United States soldiers we do not seek to play victim and will selflessly give way to the next soldier in line, in order for them to receive aid/help first, no matter our own pain. It is our ethos that make us the strongest fighters in the world and we can not let a few, or many, blue falcons/buddy fuckers/__(insert here)__, shift our focus from maintaining the worlds most efficient force. Support the men and women who’ve sacrificed and who continue to sacrifice. Do not let the $tat$ dishearten you. Know that the dishonorable ones must answer again to God or Country!
21 Nick42 on February 24, 2016 said:
I’m trying to reconcile this with reports that active duty soldiers are being kicked out for misconduct that’s related to mental health issues that the Army is not effectively treating.
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/28/451146230/missed-treatment-soldiers-with-mental-health-issues-dismissed-for-misconduct
Do you think these are also malingerers or are we really kicking out soldiers trying to get help while enabling fakers after they leave the service?
It’s probably some of both, with many more malingerers than real mental health cases. Anyone in the Army who does something stupid and gets caught can then claim “it’s because of untreated PTSD”, which has in effect become a valuable get-out-of-jail-free card.
23 askdrfootball on February 24, 2016 said:
Nice article So tell me CHRIS, why do these guys “get over”but I don’t get a Dime?? I Know why….
Sent from my ATT iPhone
Not sure how I would know that….
25 RandyGC on February 24, 2016 said:
Good article Chris. Very good write up and a sound logical path to solving the issue. Which means of course that it will never be implemented by the system designed (as are all bureaucracies) to first of all sustain itself.
I’m fortunate to not have any issues despite some Very Bad Days while I was on active duty. And in my experience with those who served with me and vets I know today, the hairier the stuff they were in, the quieter, more subdued they are about their experiences. The trick is to make sure they are taken care of when they need it without expending limited resources on the posers and wanna-bes.
Keep up the good fight
I had some bad days too. I wouldn’t give them up, as I’m sure you wouldn’t give up even the worst days.
I had issues when I came home from both Iraq and Afghanistan. Those issues were normal responses to the environment I had just lived in for close to a year, and with time and counseling I got them under control.
I fear the VA PTSD system doesn’t even pretend to help most vets anymore. I think the few who get better are the outliers, while the vast majority are just showing up to enrich themselves. That sucks, and I think we can change it. At least, I hope we can.
27 Brad on November 1, 2016 said:
I’d give up the days I was on duty and found suicides in my barracks. That’s just me being weak right?
28 chrishernandezauthor on November 1, 2016 said:
I think you misunderstood. I said I wouldn’t give those days up, as in I wouldn’t choose to forget them.
Look through every article I’ve ever written about PTSD, and try to find one time I accused someone of being weak.
29 SeldomSeenSmith on February 24, 2016 said:
Gee, I’m a lot like the guy in the picture: I was never a SEAL, wasn’t in combat, and probably don’t have PTSD (though I suppose I should keep that option open). I wasn’t even in the military. Can I have a quarter of a million dollars, please?
You know what? If you went to the VA and talked about *anything* that bothered you, you probably could get a quarter million dollars.
I just learned of one female veteran who received PTSD disability because she had an affair with a married service member, got pregnant, had an abortion, and then felt traumatized.
FML.
31 anotherwarriorpoet on April 13, 2016 said:
Pfft… That’s BS. I know a female Navy vet 80% for anger issues…
Never stepped foot on foreign soil. (I get half that, mind you ) The system never did make sense.
Today I received this email from someone who’d like to remain anonymous.
“I’m an attorney. I’m certified to practice before the VA and the Court of Appeals for Veteran’s Claims. I do neither forms of work anymore.
It’s not just GWOT veterans. I’ve seen Cold War vets who have claimed to have PTSD from things that never happened or, if they did, it was proven that they weren’t there. I’ve seen Vietnam vets try to file claims for residual injuries from events they were not even in the same hemisphere for.
I know that I’m supposed to just represent these guys, argue their cases and if they win, take my cut. But I can’t. I’m a vet, as well, and it just gripes me no end that these goldbricks are trying to game the system and collect benefits that they are not eligible for.
If it were just one or two, I wouldn’t mind. But it’s not.
Nothing I can do about it, but refuse to play.
And, before you wonder if it’s just me, it’s not. I know other VA claims attorneys who have gotten out of the field for the same reasons.
Keep fighting the good fight, Chris.”
When lawyers are turning down easy money because they’re so disgusted with the frauds and liars, you know there’s a problem.
33 Ed on February 26, 2016 said:
Thanks for the article and thanks for your service. That is an article that only a veteran himself could have written. It must indeed must be frustrating for those who have been in combat to see conduct like this.
Having never been in combat, or seen military service apart from a stint in the National Guard, I have nevertheless inferred a fairly safe principle for application to ex-military people I run into in civilian life: the promptness with which an ex-military person acquaints new friends with his background, the insistence on using “macho” military lingo in all conversations, and the extent of “swagger” generally, are all in inverse proportion to the likelihood that the ex-military person ever saw combat.
Those with real combat experience are loathe to brag–but I imagine you knew that already.
I think you’re spot-on with your assessment. If someone interjects stories of heroism/bravery/medals into a conversation for no reason, I get suspicious as hell. As we speak I’m getting reports from a good friend, his wife is having work-related interaction with a guy who claims a Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, sniper, etc. And as far as I can tell, all this came up in a conversation about something completely unrelated.
35 Jim on February 28, 2016 said:
I find that annoying as well. The ones who tick me off are those who otherwise served honorably but feel the need to embellish what they did. If you were a company clerk with the 345th Mess Kit Repair Company in Long Binh, that’s fine. You go where they send you. Don’t tell folks you were SF. I did my tour in ’69-’70. Combat arms. Nope. I was in transportation. Shot at? Yeah, rockets and small arms, and it scared the hell out of me. PTSD? Nope. I’m fine. I do run into pretenders now and then. They’re usually easy to pick out. If you were that company clerk, be satisfied with that, and knowing you did your job well.
I was in the military 15 years before I heard a shot fired in anger. While I was in the Marine Corps I watched Desert Storm on TV. Before I went to war I bitched a lot about never doing anything in the military, but I never once claimed to have done anything other than my peacetime job in the US.
Thanks for your service. In Iraq I saw graffiti in a restroom stall: “Truck drivers – the Army’s new infantry”.
Another anonymous comment, from the child of a Vietnam veteran, about VA treatment. The part about the “war-ravaged romance novel heartthrob” is absolutely true, and is used so often in modern romance novels it’s become a cliche.
“My dad has PTSD from being in Vietnam. I think it got worse because he didn’t want to admit that anything was wrong.
At one point when I was a young child, he went hunting with a couple of my cousins who were teenagers at the time. After they were in the woods, something about the situation reminded him of Vietnam, and he had a really strong urge to shoot them. He unloaded his gun, made them unload theirs, then made them leave the woods and go home. He went to a local family doctor who gave him what my parents referred to as “nerve pills”. I don’t know what they were, but I guess they worked since he never shot anyone.
He finally went to the VA in his late 40’s. Apparently mid-life hormonal changes (who knew men had them?) were making his symptoms worse. He’s gotten better, but I don’t know if he’s cured.
He didn’t used to talk about what he did in Vietnam, but he started talking about it after he started therapy. He spent months in the jungle without even being able to bathe, constantly either fighting or knowing they could be attacked any minute. He participated in missions where they would go into a hostile village and kill anything that moved, men, women, children, animals, it didn’t matter.
There was one incident where they were seen by a young woman who tried to run and somehow ended up with a broken arm. They radioed back for instructions on what to do with her, and were told to shoot her. One of the other guys did it, but it clearly still bothered Dad. He also says that they had to shoot children at times because even some of the children would try to kill American soldiers.
I can see how those experiences would traumatize someone. In fact, I don’t like even to hear about it. But when he went to the VA, the therapist told him he’d basically never be cured. They could help him, but he’d be disabled for the rest of his life.
My dad took me with him one time to meet his therapist. She was flirting with my dad like crazy! I couldn’t believe her behavior. Kinda makes you wonder if she didn’t really want vets’ PTSD taken care of properly because the idea of big, tough ex-soldiers struggling with PTSD turned her on. (This isn’t far-fetched; it’s a fantasy that shows up in romance novels and erotica marketed to women. The guy’s symptoms magically improve after he gets to put his d*** in her very special p****. In a “clean” romance, it’s the strength of her love that cures him.)
Dad didn’t go to the VA to try to get disability. He went to get help for his PTSD. This therapist woman was the one who told him he should apply for veteran’s disability. IIRC, she did the paperwork for him, coached him through how he should present things to get the maximum benefits, and basically managed his end of the process.
He didn’t think anything of that because she presented it as though everyone else there was against veterans and trying to cheat them out of what they were supposed to get, while she was the only one standing up for them. She was fired a little after that, but the other employees at the VA location Dad goes to didn’t suddenly start trying to screw him over without her there to stop them. She was just full of it.
This isn’t politically correct, but maybe they should only have men working with male combat veterans. Preferably those men should have been in combat themselves. That might take care of some of the problems.”
38 mrgarabaldi on March 7, 2016 said:
Hey Chris;
I am a Desert Storm vet, I get just 10% for my hearing and I am fine with that. I was told that I could get the PTSD award and I flat out refused. I have PTSD but I also know that PTSD award gets you put in a gov’t list that they can use “mental issues” to go after your 2nd amendment rights. Perhaps that is far fetched, but it is believed by many vets including myself and we refuse to talk to the VA. I have a jandiced eye when I see all these people claiming “PTSD”. To them it is “free” money and I see an integrity issue with it. I am proud of what I did, even going through the bad stuff…I would do it all over again. I read a statistic that 1 of 10 people during the WWII era did the VA, now it is almost everybody.
Garibaldi,
Just to clarify, I don’t blame anyone for getting help or disability if they have a real problem and really deserve it. I’ve gone to VA counseling, and I’m glad I did. Real vets getting help for real issues isn’t the problem. It’s all those rat bastards making crap up for money who are the problem.
And yeah, I’ve also read that the average WW2 vet filed maybe one claim, today’s vets are filing an average of 8 or 9.
I also get your concern about winding up on a list. I agree, that’s a valid concern.
40 Greg Lyons on April 1, 2016 said:
Bing West has an essay up at the Hoover Institution that I think you’ll appreciate. He talks of how we’ve prosecuted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, compared to wars in the past, and the repercussions we’re experiencing today . Tangentially, towards the end of the piece, he touches on the VA. I found it to be a sober, disquieting and thoughtful analysis. I think you’ll find it well worth your time.
http://www.hoover.org/research/america-weak
On another unrelated note there’s a little bit of talk going about the internet of drafting General James Mattis for POTUS. If that were to happen he’d be my first choice and would likely turn out to be one of our greatest, most accomplished and most beloved presidents.
Good article, brother. I appreciated reading it.
42 Realworld on May 23, 2016 said:
Hello, female of US Army been out since 2012. Diagnose of Panic disorder my. First round as i was told at out processing briefs to go to file claims for everything you saw a doctor for. I filled for depression and back pain and flat foot conditon. Everything i thought was what they needed for service connection or related Not for free money!!! Because the check i got isnt no where near a get rich scam. Fastforward 2016. I have been seen at the Va hospital for my anxiety panic and depression. Mental health not knowing i was diagnosed with PTSD. I had jobs and go to school plus ex husband that is retired military. My family is taken care of. So i get to school. And all are soldiers telling me go get upgrades for my PTSD. I didnt even know i was diagnosed. I no i have anxiety and anger issues that i try to control. But no amount of scam money is going to replace what happen to me while serving my country. But this article was an eye opener and i feel im being investigated for people thinking im making up stuff. I never even thought about having PTSD. Or thought i could get paid for what im going thru now. I hide my flaws but now seems like the whole world knows my pain and some even making fun of me. So how does one combat this war of fakers.
43 Doug73 on June 8, 2016 said:
Unfortunately, it’s very politically incorrect these days to DARE suggest that many of our “brave, poor under-appreciated vets” are indeed milking VA disability for everything it’s worth.
I ETS’d years ago from Ft. Lewis (1996). And even back then, during out processing the civilian counsellors encouraged everyone to file a disability claim…regardless of whether or not you had anything wrong with you. Fast forward to today, and many soldiers see a disability check as something you’re simply entitled to after a few years of service. I read that about 50% of exiting soldiers are now being classified as “disabled”, most with a PTSD rating too. Except the vast majority of them never saw combat, nor had any other unusually traumatizing event happen. But oh, the lure of “free money for life”. It’s funny how the IDF (Israel) has GREAT, but uncompensated, treatment for soldiers with PTSD. And they have about a 2% claim rate. The US on the other hand has mediocre, but compensated, treatment. Our claim rate? 50%. THAT is how powerful an incentive money is to commit fraud.
Like many, I know a few “disabled” vets. And every single one, to a man, is either greatly exaggerating or flat-out faking their “disability”. One of these guys even admitted this to me, but then went on to explain how he didn’t feel bad about it at all because he thought he was entitled to it since “everyone else is doing the same thing.”
What can be done to fix this huge, under-reported problem? I have some ideas:
1. REQUIRE weekly or monthly counseling for anyone with a PTSD claim. For as long as they’re being compensated. Anyone who TRULY has PTSD shouldn’t mind this one bit. In fact, they should welcome the help. The winers will be the people who know they don’t have PTSD, who will then have to go to the VA every week or month to keep the gravy train rolling.
2. The VA should routinely audit almost all disability claims every other year, with an emphasis on those who are receiving disability for PTSD, back pain, sleep apnea, tinnitus and the other usual suspects when it comes to disability fraud.
3. Congress should launch an independent investigation (free from political pressure) to determine the real extent of the fraud. I fear this will never happen however, because it’s pretty much an open secret that VA disability fraud is much larger than any politician cares to admit.
4. Fund the VA to hire a small army of investigators for disability fraud. Make some high profile arrests, and get the word out that the VA is actively and aggressively looking for fraudsters. Make sure disability recipients know that if they are malingering, it’s just a matter of time before they’re caught. And after they are caught, make them pay back every dime they’ve stolen.
5. Make all new claimants submit to a lie detector test. Then watch as the amount of new claimants mysteriously drops like a rock. Because malingerers who know they’re likely to be caught will never file a claim in the first place.
44 Jonathan on July 14, 2016 said:
A childhood friend of mine was a light wheel mechanic and then a recruiter in the US Army. He never saw action but is being paid out for PTSD. He told me “I gave them 14 years, they can afford to pay me for the rest of my life”. I won’t say the name that I called him at that point.
45 Keith Fosmire on August 10, 2016 said:
This is just another example of everyone wanting to be special. I have completed 6 deployments for my country since 2001, and spent a year in Korea. Seriously, who cares! I served as an Infantryman for OEF and OIF, and yes I saw and did some pretty crazy stuff. Do I think about it? Of course. Does it affect my daily life? Sure it does. But then again, so does every other event in ones life.
With that being said, I want to point out some “warriors”, and I use that term loosely!!! I know a girl, PROUD MARINE, who caught the PTSD while serving in Afghanistan on a FOB where she scheduled maintenance for aircraft. Pretty hardcore, I must confess. Well, when she hears a firecracker she dives under tables and begins to cry. Hmmm, uhhh…I think her reaction to small arms fire is very unMarine like. Oh yeah, don’t wear a mask around her, she can’t handle that either.
If she was in my Squad I would have kicked her teeth down her throat and place her on feces burning details with the rest of the cowards, because yes, that is a cowards act. And being a coward is punishable under UCMJ action, yet rewarded by the VA!
A great warrior SFC Espinosa said it best, “You make your Mama proud and your Father sick to his stomach!”
Yeah, I might not be the best house guest, or the best shoulder to cry on, but I will tell you exactly what I think. “SUCK IT UP BUTTERCUP!”
Infantrymen don’t get PTSD, we give it to the enemy!
PTSD vist David Bellengee at David Ballengee @ Dave4unity . injoying VA disability money . WHAT A FAKE. TALK TO HIM ONCE. Never left the United States
47 bonbon on August 21, 2016 said:
i know what ptsd is i do have it and i dont get any help with it , I have flash backs and i lived with it with no problems for yrs. but i have also bad legs and ankles and back issue but i deal with it as well , if i dont go an try to do something i just be wheel chair bound an i know it is coming soon i have over done a few things and regret it very much but i got the job done an task then i sit back and recover a few days or weeks and duck tape my self back together, I had a issue in ks where a stalker broke into my home and put a gun to my head and my training kicked in the gun hammer came down on my left hand cutting it leaving a scare and i also was arrested for some one breaking the front door down and attempting to kill me for running a illegal contractor out of my place with bad bad wiring and drilling out the outlets and the sparks like a team of welders in attic so ya i ran him off while i was getting robbed from someone else and unknown persons at the time but back to stalker his best friend works for smith county ks sheriff department and the guy has 16 page rape sheet of B & E and known to pull guns on people, I got to be tossed in jail for 5 days covered in blood , no food for 2 days, no blanket for 3 days, an in drunk tank for 5 days with a 100 ft. drop cord, and 1/2 of my allergy pills and meds i needed from dust in air, no medical attention towards my beat up hand and cut on neck from gun oh front door busted up glasses lossed, and no shower for 5 days ,
this guy pulls gun on me again at the gas station and no show of cops, went to down to police office to file report but seen police car at cafe and dam it was not the 3 officer that was 300 lbs over weight and they admitting to me that there best friends and go to a mens club cult group with mr. bill watson of lebanon ks, on the way to court he try to run me down with his car on main street in smith center ks, then i go to court way pass 321 days an force to sign plea agreement by gun point, remind you i am having my identity stolen as well, I found out who it was some time later , after i kicked him out of my place found ebay receipts and paypal receipts and i not got justice at all from ks so i have house destroyed by thief and destroyed by robber. an they refuse to do anything about it . an on top of it death threats and some kind of sickness i am to get as well as burning my place down in other location, No running water where i live but i deal with it an i have given by force on jobs 189,000.00 for a hospital project but now i am completely clean out. an i pick up a little work here an there to pay insurance and taxes. but recovery from this is something i dont think i will recover from. an yes i have proof of all facts.
i where wrist strap and elbow straps and knee braces and gut belt to help keep them in but i hurt bad and health is not good at times even got smoke damage due to illigal burning copper wire catching creek on fire took while to recover from that.
48 somanyminutes on October 28, 2016 said:
This makes me both furious and sad. My husband, an Army vet; has TWO Purple Hearts and a Bronze star. He has been fighting the VA for a long time. He has PTSD, TBI’s, among other things. I, myself am a vet with a diagnosis of PTSD/MST. I did not see combat, but was continually assaulted by more than one, for a long time. I also know a jackass that was in the Air Force reserves, and is faking ALL his shit. He tried to commit suicide on his way to his weekend duty. He lied to everyone. He gets 100% PLUS social security disability. My husband has been fighting for YEARS just to get what he EARNED. We have vets faking it, and providers in the VA that don’t really care about any of us(from my experience). From what I understand, therapy is mandatory to file a claim. By-the-way; sexual assault in the military goes unreported, more often than not. I reported; went through hell, nothing happened to perpetrator.
49 Danny on November 17, 2016 said:
And veterans continue to kill themselves everyday because they don’t get the help they need… Why don’t we talk about the refugees who come here and automatically get benefits… I think that should be a priority over this,, PTSD has to be diagnosed , with a stressor which caused the PTSD to begin with… I do not think there are a large number of vets faking this or they would not get the disabilty to begin with. Tell me I don’t have PTSD and I will knock you ass out!!!! I wish I didn’t have it, but I know if I didn’t get help when I did, I would be dead…
50 Triple C on November 25, 2016 said:
I’m with you Danny, stupid ass Brother in law running his mouth about me faking my PTSD. I served 3 tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa as a flight nurse. No one can tell me the stuff I dealt with was easy. Balad AB. was attacked many times a day, the off loading and loading off patients was 50 yards from the wall separating us from the civilian street on the other side. Get off a helo or c-130 and count bullet holes after unloading patients will get you pumped. All the while after my first deployment we weren’t aloud to carry loaded weapons, reassuring not the least. I could go on but for f***s sake it wouldn’t matter people form opinions and you can’t control them. Walk in my shoes ass****s then we can talk. Oh by the way lost my nursing license and drivers license due to head injury so I’m unable to work as a nurse anymore after 28 years. F**k everyone, I’m not working at any old job when I spent the money and time on education (8 years total) to be a nurse and advance practice only to lose it because of injury and forced medical discharge. I didn’t ask for any of this s**t. I remain active at home and with a few “new friends” doing things that I enjoy but what am I supposed to do. Not bath, be a dic* to the world be a drunk, take to Crack so people might believe me in my quote unquote diagnosis of PTSD. F**k you all who have an opinion. Be better off keeping it to yourself.
51 James Walker on January 26, 2017 said:
Line of duty. That is the standard. Combat isn’t the standard. A woman could’ve suffered spousal abuse on active duty and end up with PTSD. That is legitimate line of duty right there. Army recruiting a few years ago had extremely high suicide rates with many soldiers wishing for combat as a relief they said (I knew many). If they received psych evals and were diagnosed with anxiety or other such conditions then those were line of duty as well. I knew a sailor who’s truck slid into a tree in the ice and broke his back. Line of duty. Yes there are scam artists. However- VA compensation is t just for combat related conditions. It is for all line of duty. If you are living your life and not at fault and a thing happens while you are on active duty orders then it is almost certain line of duty.
52 T. Ramos on April 23, 2017 said:
Yea my friends Brother fakes the PTSD and TBI. As usual he has an overweight just huge controlling wife who married him after he was in the military (his former wife and real kids get nothing) everyone in town knows she uses him for his benefits and sits on her a** all day not working looking for every way to collect state money from different sources including the caregiver money. She told one person I really hit the jackpot this time. They bring in close to 20,000 a month scamming the system. I really don’t know how he sleeps at night raising this other woman’s kids while he doesn’t even raise his own or try to fight to see them. I guess when it’s easy money you can trick yourself into going along with the scam thinking Im some hero so I shouldn’t have to work ever again but everyone else should pay for me and work. He’s completely capable of working but why work when you can live off all the tax payers and scam the system. Everyone cringes knowing they pay for their new cars, motorcycles, and free trips etc. I think he actually believes his own lies at this point and really does have something wrong if he can’t see he’s playing house with another mans kids and wife while leaving his own spawn in the dust. There the laughingstock of the town they live in from what I hear. He even tries dressing up playing the war hero as much as possible yet not one medal. They spend all their time trying to keep up with everyone around them because they don’t have jobs and nothing better to do. Huge pansy always bragging and telling war stories that’s the first sign right there that everyone can see hes insecure and really has no life. Especially when we have several family friends and family that were in Vietnam etc and go to work every day and don’t sit around telling war stories and collecting multiple checks. The only respect I have is for a man or woman who gets up and goes to work every day makes there own money and doesn’t live off the taxpayers. Now the people that really do have issues we have people like this taking 20,000+ a month from them and the people that need it can’t get it that’s sad.
53 JJ on October 26, 2017 said:
This article really pisses me off! You’re saying that any VET diagnosed with PTSD, that hasn’t had face to face combat with the enemy, is lying. That’s total bullshit.
I was in Desert Storm (when the term PTSD didn’t exist), and did my job remotely from West Germany in the intelligence field. The base I was stationed at was tasked with finding ALL dangers to NATO personal, and briefing them before something was done. At the time, I was 22, and considered it the best time of my military career, because I was actually doing something worthwhile instead of “monitoring” the enemy. I was always an outgoing person and got along with everyone before the war. Shortly after the war started, I started drinking a lot. My wife at that time said that I started talking in my sleep (which I had never done before). We ended up separating right after the war, and she went back to the states. We just couldn’t get along, because (she said) I had become an asshole.
I left the military shortly after the war and continued to drink heavily. I knew that I had problems with stress and being around people, but just chalked it up to people dealing with stress in different ways. I was always better after getting a few drinks in me. More and more drinks always happened though, and the asshole came out.
I married again in 1999. During that marriage is when I found out that I had an anxiety problem. I was working one day and out of the blue couldn’t breath and felt like I was having a heart attack. Went to the doctor, who put me on Paxil for the anxiety. I ended up having to take the max dose to control the anxiety. Things went pretty good for a few years, so I went off the meds for a couple years, but ended up having to go back on them. I ended up divorcing again in 2013. During this entire time, I NEVER registered with the VA for any medical benefits. I did register a year after my second divorce though, since all the Obama crap was going on. I quit taking the paxil again, but had problems being in crowded situations and talking about the Gulf War.
I went in for my initial checkup and, of coarse, had to answer a ton of questions. I answered pretty vaguely, because the only reason I was there was to have medical whenever I wasn’t employed so that I wouldn’t get fined by the Obama crap. I got through the initial checkup and was registered. YAAA!
The next year though, they asked me more specific questions. I ended up getting diagnosed with PTSD, and was referred to a psych doctor. That doc put me on a different medication and life was good again.
I still drink a lot to escape, but not as often. I have always had sleeping problems since the war, and they still continue. I only sleep 2-4 hours at a time. Never once did I claim PTSD or anything else. The doctors diagnosed me with it after all the years of this crap I’ve been going through, which started during the Gulf War.
Now I’ll tell you what haunts me about my “non-combat” position during Desert Storm… I had to find every threat to our pilots that flew in hostile territory. If the pilot was hit, I wondered if it was because I missed something. I had to provide imagery, annotations, and briefings for every target before we blew it up, and then after we blew it up. I wondered how many innocent people we killed while looking at the aftereffects, and also thought about the military people that were there that were just following that madman’s instructions. Yes, the bunker bombing is still one that hits me hard. I was briefed on the atrocities that Saddam did to his own people during that war, because he was afraid they were working with the Americans. And it was some pretty gruesome shit! All of these were the things that I had nightmares about.
When I read these replies asking about ex-military with “supposed” PTSD playing killing war video games; I can relate. I do the same thing. I don’t know why I like them, but I do. Personally, I think I play them because I’m rewarded if I’m a bad ass killer, which takes my mind away from feeling guilty about what went on during my enlistment.
54 chrishernandezauthor on October 26, 2017 said:
1) “You’re saying that any VET diagnosed with PTSD, that hasn’t had face to face combat with the enemy, is lying. That’s total bullshit.”
I’ve never, in any writing or speaking, said that you can’t have PTSD if you’ve never been in combat. Read everything I’ve ever written. Listen to my interviews. Quote me. I’ve never said that. What I have said, and still say, is that “post trauma” requires trauma. Much of what’s described or claimed as PTSD lacks connection to a traumatic event.
2) “I was in Desert Storm (when the term PTSD didn’t exist), and did my job remotely from West Germany in the intelligence field.”
The term PTSD has been in use and accepted as a psychiatric disorder since 1980, eleven years before Desert Storm.
“In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) added PTSD to the third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) nosologic classification scheme (2). Although controversial when first introduced, the PTSD diagnosis has filled an important gap in psychiatric theory and practice. From an historical perspective, the significant change ushered in by the PTSD concept was the stipulation that the etiological agent was outside the individual (i.e., a traumatic event) rather than an inherent individual weakness (i.e., a traumatic neurosis). The key to understanding the scientific basis and clinical expression of PTSD is the concept of ‘trauma.'”
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/ptsd-overview/ptsd-overview.asp
3) Many people abuse alcohol, act like assholes and get divorces despite the fact that they don’t have PTSD and haven’t experienced trauma.
4) The stressors you’ve described from your military experience (worrying that you missed a threat, feeling guilty about civilians killed) are normal for any service member performing any vital job in an actual war. In my opinion, it’s irrational for you feel guilt over these two in particular because a) no pilot expects an intel guy in Germany to clear the skies of threats over Iraq, and b) no intel guy in Germany has authority to order an air strike in Iraq, especially if you were an enlisted intel guy. I was intel in Afghanistan. We collect information and send it to the decision makers, and in my case I routinely went out with the line units to ensure I had a good understanding of the operating environment. But nobody expects intel to know everything, and if a soldier or pilot in the field is hit during the combat we all know is going to happen nobody says an intel guy in a different country should have known about every possible threat.
5) Whether it’s rational or not, if you feel guilt you should talk to someone and work through it. I felt irrational guilt for an incident in Afghanistan, plus I was angry and depressed because I knew after that deployment that I would never experience anything that intense again. But feeling guilt, or anger, or depression, doesn’t automatically equal having PTSD. Abusing alcohol and being an asshole doesn’t automatically equal PTSD. Everyone has scars, everyone gets affected by the end results of major events they were involved in, but that’s life. It doesn’t mean everyone has PTSD.
6) I don’t think your VA doctors did you any favors. PTSD has been overdiagnosed by the VA for many reasons, and I’m curious what they listed as your qualifying event. What trauma did you experience in Germany during Desert Storm that led to post-traumatic stress that’s lasted 26 years? I’m sure some people will say I shouldn’t second guess the supposed “expert” VA doctors, but they get tricked all the time by blatant liars and also diagnose patients with PTSD based on very little justification or no justification at all. I personally know veterans who told their VA doctors they were never in combat and have no problems or symptoms, yet were still diagnosed with PTSD.
7) I’m not saying you don’t need or deserve VA help, and I’m not saying I don’t respect your service. Everyone, combat soldier or not, does their part. I was in the military for 15 years before I ever heard a shot fired in anger, and had I left the military before going to war I would have had nothing to be ashamed of. I don’t hold anything against you for not being in combat, and I don’t hold anything against you for getting help for issues that obviously negatively affect your life. But I don’t hear anything that sounds like actual trauma, and I don’t trust a PTSD diagnosis just because it came from a VA doctor.
Thanks for your service, and good luck working through your problems.
1) “I’ve never, in any writing or speaking, said that you can’t have PTSD if you’ve never been in combat.”
OK, I can’t QUOTE you saying that, but you have INSINUATED it…
“It’s fair to say most of us combat veterans have suspicions about PTSD claims. We’ve been frustrated by stories of horrible, disabling PTSD from people we know were never in combat.”
2) “The term PTSD has been in use and accepted as a psychiatric disorder since 1980, eleven years before Desert Storm.”
Doesn’t matter when the term came about. PTSD has actually been around since 1761. It’s just been called something different. I can honestly tell you that PTSD was NOT a term used during Desert Storm. It was usually diagnosed as “Displacement Syndrome” at that time.
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/ptsd-overview/basics/history-of-ptsd-vets.asp
https://www.brainline.org/article/posttraumatic-stress-disorder-history-and-critique
3) I, personally, didn’t do this UNTIL I was involved in Desert Storm
4) Just shows how much you don’t know about the higher clearances
a) Talk to any military pilot and ask them how they feel about flying into a “NO INTEL” area.
b) I never said I had the authorization to ORDER anything. I just said that
I was “tasked with finding ALL dangers to NATO personal, and briefing them before something was done.” The ultimate decision, as you’re insinuating towards was up to the superiors. Ground intel is vastly different than air intel. WE were expected to catch EVERYTHING since we had a birds eye view with all known imagery capabilities at that time. If you were working as intel in Afghanistan, then just think for a second how you would feel if someone got blown up in the area that YOU were supposed to be providing intel on. Did you miss something obvious that someone else in your intel unit would have seen?
5) I agree. I was saying the same thing. Different diagnoses for different people.
6) You can second guess the experts all you want. I have. I’m just telling my story that happened with VA doctors.
7) See, that’s where people like you will always fight with people like me. You don’t consider intel as a COMBAT position, even though we were ALL awarded the same medals of service. Without the intel, we would have ALL been going in blind. It was a team effort, period. Hell, even as an “intel guy”, I had a 2x marks ribbon. 😉
Thanks for your service also.
56 JerryA on October 27, 2017 said:
Sorry, but anyone that is receiving/claiming PTSD should be required to have MH treatments and if they refuse they should NOT receive benefits What that tells me is that the per really doesn’t have PTSD at all.
If you truly have PTSD a person would have no problem getting help. If they are faking it like so many veterans (not speaking of you directly), nothing personal.
Yes, I do agree.
FYI, I am NOT receiving any benefits, and AM receiving treatment.
58 Mike on October 30, 2017 said:
JJ – You got PTSD in Germany while providing intel for pilots in Desert Storm!?!? WTF?!? Did you get a paper cut? Did you get a burn from spilling coffee? I spent over 25 months in Iraq and 12 months in Afghanistan. Do you seriously expect people to have any sympathy for you? I would hate to see how you would handle the pressure if you were even sent in theater and living on a huge FOB like Balad. You would probably get an anxiety attack if the Green Beans coffee shop closed.
No, was not looking for sympathy. Was just saying that war effects everyone differently, and that you shouldn’t automatically assume someone is faking PTSD because they weren’t boots on the ground. I handle stressful situations just fine; always have. It’s the down time that messed with me. I’m glad you were able to spend that long there and have no side effects. Although, I wonder if you always acted like a teenager, or if war turned you into the person that posted above. I’ll just quit replying here, because it is evident that this is a post mainly visited by boots on the ground people. People who will never understand the psychological effects of war on intel personnel, drone pilots, war planners, etc.
BTW, I don’t drink coffee.
60 Mike on November 8, 2017 said:
JJ – I was an Army Intelligence Analyst from 1994 to 2017 (35F) and I just retired. Please don’t preach. You said, “People who will never understand the psychological effects of war on intel personnel, drone pilots, war planners, etc.” I know more then you could have possibly imagined.
61 JJ on January 1, 2018 said:
I said I wouldn’t reply again, but just had to reply to this post.
As a 35F, you know exactly where I’m coming from. I’m not preaching anything. As an intel analyst, I’d be willing to bet you’re not the same person as you were when you enlisted. I know I’ve changed a hell of a lot. I would also be willing to bet that you’ve had a few restless nights wondering if you’ve done everything you can to assist the people that you are supposed to be helping.
I just want other military personnel to realize that intel “CAN” have psychological effects from all the bullshit that is going on around the world. It doesn’t take seeing an enemy die through your own eyes to mess your head up. Thinking that your fellow soldier died because you didn’t protect them can have the same effect.
You might know more about the present war on terrorism, but I know more shit about a tyrant that would make most people puke once they read the reports and saw the pics. All of that crap was done because he thought people in his country were working for the enemy. I guess I had too much empathy back then. Something that is definitely not present in me now.
I agree with you in so many ways. The VA needs to be proactive so that scammers aren’t allowed to steal for the government. PTSD is definitely abused and used by veterans. Sorry, but anyone that is receiving/claiming PTSD should be required to have MH treatments and if they refuse they should NOT receive benefits What that tells me is that the per really doesn’t have PTSD at all.
63 Thomas Cook on February 14, 2018 said:
So many haters on this website! You don’t have to be deployed or even be in a combat zone to claim VA Service Connected Disability Compensation. You can serve in the military and be in CONUS for four years and never set a foot outside of the United States and still receive VA SC disability. As long as your ailments are medically documented before you leave the service then you can file and likely receive your claim. Combat doesn’t equate to VA compensation! A lot of you don’t understand that! It’s guaranteed by law. If a Soldier blows out their knee playing softball and is rated 30%, oh well. It’s lawfully and there’s nothing you can do about it!
Please quote where I or anyone else said only combat vets should receive any benefits.
Sure. I will quote one of many comments. Look at comment #36.
It was written from someone named “another warrior poet”.
anotherwarriorpoet on April 13, 2016 said:
Now, the writer “another warrior poet” is implying that since the female Sailor was not in combat then they should not be getting anything.
Comment #48.
“50% of exiting soldiers are now being classified as “disabled”, most with a PTSD rating too. Except the vast majority of them never saw combat.”
Fair enough. So allow me to put it another way: “post trauma” requires “trauma.” The PTSD diagnosis was originally created in response to claimed combat trauma. Now the meaning of “trauma” has been watered down to an essentially meaningless term encompassing anything that bothers anyone. Michael Jackson died while I was in Afghanistan; no matter how I might portray that, it wasn’t traumatic. The anger expressed here is over veterans claiming normal military experiences as traumatic solely because it generates money and other personal benefits.
68 Jack on March 1, 2018 said:
A combat medic, literally the most important person in a infantry platoon. They have giant backpacks, “that’s dressing differently.” You need a part-time job or to go on more plain rides. I was looking For CIB/CAB statistics and I get a hero dicking over a combat medic to be cool in a mom encounter. Any real grunt, would never disrespect a line platoon medic
1) He said he never got out of the humvee, so the enemy wouldn’t have seen his aid bag.
2) Nothing said he was infantry. We had medics in other kinds of units too.
3) Nothing in my essay was an insult against medics. It was an insult against veterans falsely claiming PTSD for money.
4) I have a regular job and two part time jobs, and have been on lots of plane rides. So I’m all good, but thanks for asking.
70 mike on May 10, 2018 said:
It’s amazing how many people think it is ok to rip off the government if you are a vet, but it’s not ok for other people to get government hand outs. Face it, a good percentage of Vietnam vets receiving disability payments don’t deserve it. The latest one I was told by a navy vet is that they are working on getting agent orange disability for those members on ships. would not surprise me if they did. Maybe they should just give everyone that served some kind of payment and if you were anywhere near a war zone, increase it, and if you actually saw action 100 percent. Oh yea, I am a 26 year vet.
71 mike on November 10, 2018 said:
There isn’t a politician out there that has the gonads to challenge the fraud going on by veterans. They have created another group of people who feel entitled because they are “VETERANS”. It is a shame that the WWI, WWII, and Korean vets didn’t get the same deal the Vietnam vets and current vets get.
72 Michael J Mcnulty on February 26, 2019 said:
I was blown up by friendly fire during live fire exersizes. I suffered a foot being blown in half, nerve damage to my leg. Headaches that made me vomit and not be able to function until i am able to get myself together.
I tried getting help from the va and got blown off. Years later i run a busy VSO helping guys to not get screwed by the VA and the country we serve.
The VA is finaly getting around to helping me. I have list function of my leg and foot but i am testing new braces. My headaches were diagnosed as a TBI and that was after being tested. The diagnosis for taumatic brain injury falls under ptsd. My first doctor was a VA shrink. I told her i dont have ptsd. She agreed after speaking with me for an hour and sent me to get my brain checked.
I deal with lots of friends who are combat veterans with records to prove it. We agree there are those who are full of crap. We all volunteered to serve and the VA breeds this environment by not taking care of the issues veterans face right away so they can heal or deal with there issues and get on with there lives.
73 William Joseph Mode on May 9, 2019 said:
I know a kid who went into the Marines, made it through boot camp, went to Louisiana for a short time, then started posting videos on his Facebook page claiming that he was depressed and wanted to go home. He has always been known as a liar and master manipulator, the kind of kid who smiles and nods his head in agreement, but then does the opposite of what he has been told. I told him privately to knock it off or he would be labeled a mental case. I told him to stick it out. Sure enough, he quit, claims to have PTSD, and is now drawing a government check and will not work. So how does one acquire PTSD from simply going to Paris Island? Those who know him, know he is lying. His own dad would like to report him for cheating the system.
The problem, as I was told by a veterans’ advocate, is that “the VA doesn’t judge the trauma, they just assess its effect on the veteran.” Which means the system doesn’t care that going to PI for boot camp shouldn’t mess anyone up for life, they only go down the checklist and see if the traumatized vet in question meets the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis. If the vet’s father has evidence his son lied, he can report that to the VA fraud hotline. But if the vet reported that “The drill instructors were mean and made me do push-ups and now I’m afraid of crowds,” and the VA assessed him as having PTSD because of it, he’s going to get free money for life because the VA system is stupid.
Sorry, wish I had better news for you.
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The Office for Students as the data scientist of the higher education sector
Posted on April 26, 2018 by Ben Williamson
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Data play a huge role in British higher education. The new regulator for the sector, the Office for Students, will escalate data collection and use in HE in years to come. Improving student information and data to ‘help students make informed decisions’ is one of its four key strategic priorities, but it has also raised concerns about its use of student data to increase competition and market pressure. The Labour Party has recently tried to block it in a bid to prevent the further entrenchment of market-oriented higher education policy in the system. However, there remains a need to focus in close detail on how the OfS will use data in its remit as a market regulator.
The cover of the recently published OfS regulatory framework for higher education in England gives some indication of how the new regulator sees itself as a data-centred site of sectoral expertise. It features a scientist peering into a microscope with apparent satisfaction about what she sees. The scientist, naturally, is the OfS, performing experiments and observing the results; the microscope is the technical and methodological apparatus that allows it to see the sector; and (out of shot) is the university, flattened on to glass for inspection–made legible as data to be zoomed in on, scrolled across, examined and compared with other samples from the sector.
The idea of the OfS as a scientist of the sector–or more specifically, as a data scientist of the sector–is intriguing. It smacks of assumptions of scientific rigor, objectivity, and innovation. This form of metric realism, which assumes data tell the truth, is the central epistemology of trends in datafication. The reality of ‘laboratory life’ inside the OfS, like all labs, is doubtless more fraught with disagreement, negotiation and compromise, as STS studies of science practices might note. Nonetheless, the OfS regulatory framework document is a key inscription device that, for the time being at least, gives us the best clues of its planned data activities over the coming years.
As part of ongoing work into the data infrastructure of higher education, I’ve spent some time with the regulatory document, trying to figure out how student data are likely to be used in future years (on uses of research data see the Real-time REF Review project). The OfS is just one of many actors involved in a project to upgrade the core infrastructure for student data collection–a decade-long project that’s been going on 7 years already and is due for national rollout in 2019/2020.
In these notes, I lay out some of the key things the OfS says about ‘data’ in the document. There are 87 uses of the word data in it, so through light-touch discourse analysis I’ve attempted to categorize the various ways the OfS approaches data. I’ve deliberately kept a lot of quotations intact with the addition of a few annotations.
Data as strategy
The first point is that ‘The OfS will develop a data strategy in 2018’ and ‘The information and data the OfS requires to fulfil its functions will be wide-ranging’ (20). This is both mundane and not. The fact that it is developing a data strategy at all–and a wide-ranging one at that–is indicative of how the OfS will make data into a central aspect of HE regulation. As Andy Youell of HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency) has written, the framework represents a shift from ‘data informed to data led’ regulation with data analysts playing an increasingly influential role in HE policy.
The chair of the OfS, of course, is Sir Michael Barber, a long-standing advocate of metrics and performance delivery models in different aspects of government. His most recent role was as education adviser to the global educational company Pearson, where he oversaw its organizational pivot toward big data, predictive learning analytics and adaptive learning. Under his leadership, the OfS too approaches data as a core strategy for fulfilling its mandate.
Regulatory data
The OfS primary remit is to regulate HE, and it is positioning data as a core component to that work:
The use of information, including data and qualitative intelligence, will underpin how the OfS undertakes its regulatory functions. The OfS will take an information-led and proportionate approach to monitoring individual providers, ensuring that students can access reliable information to inform their decisions. (19)
Key terms here include ‘monitoring’, which confirms concerns that the OfS will possess powers of data-led performance measurement. As well as monitoring individual institutions, the OfS will ‘Monitor the sector as a whole, to understand trends and emerging risks at a sector level and work with the sector to address them’ (20). However:
This regulatory framework does not … set out numerical performance targets, or lists of detailed requirements for providers to meet. Instead it sets out the approach that the OfS will take as it makes judgements about individual providers on the basis of data and contextual evidence. (15)
From ‘monitoring’, then, comes ‘judgement’ from data and other evidence. The OfS comes across as a suspicious actor of evidence-based policy.
Another key use of data by the OfS is to ‘Target, evaluate and improve access and participation, and equality and diversity activities’ (20). As such, monitoring and judgement become the basis for targeted improvement plans, with HE institutions specifically singled out if underperformance is detected from the data in specific areas. As is well-known, the OfS will also ‘Operate the TEF’ (20) and take the outcomes of the 2018 statutory TEF review ‘into account as it considers the future scope and shape of the TEF’ (24). As such, it will be the main data-led judge of teaching quality and improvement in the sector.
Student choice data
As the Office for Students, driven by the political rhetoric of ‘putting students as the heart of the system’, a key ambition is to put students themselves in touch with sector data. This includes efforts to ‘improve the quality of information available to students’ (25). Two key quotes from the framework stand out:
Prospective students will be equipped with the means, underpinned by innovative and meaningful datasets and high quality information, to enable them to make informed choices about the courses that are right for them. (10)
[OfS will] ensure students can access reliable and appropriate information to inform their decisions about whether to study for a higher education qualification and, if so, identify which provider and course is most likely to meet their needs and aspirations. (20)
Here the OfS mirrors recently-announced plans by Universities Minister Sam Gyimah to support software developers to develop student-facing apps for price-comparison of university courses. It’s a controversial idea, announced as part of the renewed Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), which requires the use of Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) datasets linking courses to earnings. It’s also controversial because it makes student choice conform with the MoneySupermarket model of product comparison based on value-for-money calculations, and further solidifies the idea of students as consumers and courses as products in a marketplace of comparable choices.
Data alignment
Alongside choice comes constraint. The OfS will ‘publish student outcomes and current and future employer needs as a way of informing student choice’ (17). This short sentence appears to carry two main messages: first, that access to outcomes data from institutions will help shape the choices of prospective students; and second that those choices should also be made through reference to ’employer needs’.
Indeed, the OfS is actively seeking to align HE outcomes to industry requirements, and will ‘Work with employers and with regional and national industry representatives to ensure that student choices are aligned with current and future needs for higher level skills’ (20). This is a very instrumentalized view of HE as part of the employment pipeline for high-skills jobs. Of course, students can choose to ignore this information. But presenting HE data in this way may itself shape the choice environment for students, with certain choices made more attractive than others.
Nudge data
Talking of choice environments, the OfS is ‘taking the latest thinking on behavioural science into account, to consider how best to present this data in a consistent and helpful way to ensure that students have access to an authoritative source of information about higher education’ (25).
Clearly, the idea of intervening in students’ choice through subtle behavioural means is not an accident; the OfS is actively engaging with the psychology of choicemaking to shape and nudge how students decide on their courses. In this sense, the OfS is seeking to instantiate the experimental methods of behavioural public policy in HE, using data to prompt or even persuade students to make ‘desirable’ choices.
But it may over time extend to logic of behavioural science to sectoral nudging at scale. According to one commentary on the regulatory framework, ‘the OfS should be encouraged to further consider behavioural theory and its various insights, such as those contained in “nudge” theory, and thus design interventions that incentivise compliance from the outset.’
Though it is notionally an arms-length agency–geographically, it’s located in the south west, along with all the other HE agencies–the OfS appears to enjoy a remarkably close and mutually reinforcing relationship with government. Not only did it emerge from BIS (now BEIS), but it will also use its expertise in HE data to:
Support the Department for Education, given its overall responsibility for the policy and funding framework in which the sector operates, and other public bodies such as UKRI in the delivery of their prescribed functions.
In contrast the role of a ‘broker‘ between government and the sector performed by HEFCE, the OfS appears to have a much more hand-holding relationship with government–despite being at arms-length, a government minister has the power to give it directions and demand advice or reports–while simultaneously strong-arming the sector into compliance.
Designated data body
In my longer project, I have focused on the work of HESA as a central agency for delivery of the new student data infrastructure for HE. HESA is part of the family of ‘official statistics’ agencies in the UK, and in 2017 applied for the position of ‘designated data body’ (DDB) to work with the OfS, a position conferred on it early in 2018 by central government ‘on the recommendation of the OfS’ (19). As such, the OfS will ‘Work with, and have oversight of, the designated data body (DDB) to coordinate, collect and disseminate information’ (17).
The DDB will collect, make available, and publish appropriate information on behalf of the OfS, and the OfS will be responsible for holding the DDB to account for the performance of those functions. (19)
As this makes clear, HESA is now subordinate to the OfS, acting on its behalf and held to account for its own performance in the statistical delivery of the data required by the OfS. As such, the work of HESA has shifted from statistical reporting to a much more politicized position, ‘play[ing] a key role in supporting and enhancing the competitive strength of the sector.’
Indicator data
Indicators are the principal power source in the OfS machinery. Through indicators, the OfS will ultimately receive regular signals of institutional performance which can then be used to assess risk or to identify need for intervention:
All providers will be monitored using lead indicators, reportable events and other intelligence…. These will be used to identify early, and close to real-time warnings that a provider risks not meeting each of its ongoing conditions of registration. (18)
The OfS will identify a small number of lead indicators that will provide signals of change in a provider’s circumstances or performance. Such change may signal that the OfS needs to consider whether the provider is at increased risk of a breach of one or more it its ongoing conditions of registration. These indicators will be based on regular flows of reliable data and information from providers and additional data sources. (49)
The mention of ‘close to real-time warnings’ is especially important, as it signals a significant acceleration in the temporality of HE data reporting, analysis and action. Under the OfS, universities are to be monitored for performance fluctuations and changes that, like economic spikes and dips, may be presented as informational flows on data dashboards to affect prompt and timely decision-making.
Longitudinal data
In addition to ‘close to real-time’ data, the OfS is seeking to expand and improve the use of longitudinal datasets and analyses:
The OfS will draw on the longitudinal education outcomes (LEO) dataset as an important source of information about graduate outcomes. Its further development will be a priority for the OfS, taking into account both its limitations and its significant potential. (25)
LEO consists of experimental statistics on employment and earnings of higher education graduates using matched data from different government departments, which has controversially been used to suggest that students can choose courses based on future earnings potential. It is also a significant methodological accomplishment, linking datasets about education, personal characteristics, employment and income, and benefits gathered from the departments of education, work and pensions, HESA and HMRC.
The data will also be used comparatively to assess different institutions against each other:
It is anticipated that this data will be largely quantitative and generated as a result of a provider’s existing management functions … allowing for greater consistency, comparability and objectivity when looking across a range of providers. (50-51)
Data-led comparison and benchmarking is of course at the heart of rows over HE marketization, as universities are incited to compete for prospective students and income. It drives institutions to showcase themselves as competitive, high-performing organizations, and is visible in all kinds of HE rankings such as UniStats and Complete University Guide tables.
Anticipatory data
Furthermore, the data used by the OfS will not be merely historical, real-time and comparative–it will be anticipatory too. The OfS will undertake ‘horizon scanning to understand and evaluate the health of the sector’ (17) and will use indicator data ‘to anticipate future events’ (161). In this sense, the OfS is simply mirroring the increasing use of predictive analytics in HE, with institutions in the UK already using data to forecast student progress or identify students at-risk of drop-out or non-completion. The use of predictive data practices by the OfS, however, will be applied to institutions and the sector as a whole–to predict, for example, providers at-risk of underperformance or financial difficulty.
Data burden
All this data collection and analysis activity sounds like it will be a heavy burden on institutions, and the OfS admits:
The implementation of the OfS’s data strategy may initially increase regulatory burden, but the long term aim is to use data to reduce regulatory burden. Such data requirements are not therefore intended as a regulatory burden on providers but to provide the information that allows the OfS to be an effective and proportionate regulator.
Perhaps, however, the heaviest burden will be the threat of punitive action based on constant OfS investigation of institutional data.
Data auditing & investigation
Regimes of audit and inspection are of course familiar across many sectors, and the OfS will make ‘data audits’ a part of the HE landscape:
The OfS will assess, as part of its routine monitoring activities, the quality, reliability and timeliness of information supplied by a provider including through scheduled or ad hoc data audit activity. If the OfS has reason to believe that information received is not reliable, it may choose to investigate the matter. (131)
It may even, in certain cases, ‘require information to be re-audited by a specified auditor, where the OfS has reasonable concern that the audit opinion does not provide the necessary assurance’ (56). It therefore appears that the OfS will demand new forms of meta-auditing of existing audit data.
Targeted action
Finally, the OfS proposes to use data as the basis for taking targeted action on institutions and the sector:
The OfS may also take targeted action if it needs to establish the facts before reaching a judgement about whether there is, or is likely to be, a breach of one or more ongoing conditions of registration.
May require the provider to take particular co-operative action by a specified deadline – these actions may include access to, information (including data), records or people, to enable the OfS to investigate any concerns effectively and efficiently. (56)
All in all, the OfS will instantiate a new regime of data in HE, emphasizing an empiricist faith in the ‘truth-telling’ capacities of digitally generated information. It is positioning itself as a source of data scientific expertise in the sector, treating universities as samples to be observed, students as specimens to be nudged to make choices based on data, and the sector as a whole as a laboratory for its experiment in data-led regulation.
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As enterprises that are ponderous and amenable to the data-discuss-d’oh cycle I reckon such location for truth telling is a good choice; those in charge are there for a long while & pretty much the same. Sadly, like schools, the prize of swirly charts for all might lead to prettier colour supplements but in reality as in sport there are other factors that tip the balance.
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** Sure, Hellen Keller could have chosen a better swimsuit, but after recently having to wear flip-flops for an entire weekend on vacation, I can’t fault her too bad for choosing a bikini top a few sizes too small.
Another often forgotten piece of Kardashian history is that Kim used to work for Paris Hilton.
** While Kim doesn’t exactly look bad here, this outfit is a bit frumpy and one she definitely wouldn’t be seen wearing today.
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*** While the graphic print on her dress clashes with the green straps, something about it suggests it could possibly work in Miami. However, it’s doubtful that she was in Miami, the 102.7 KissFM backdrop strongly suggests this event took place in LA.
Kim’s long lasting love affair with high belts
**While I have no doubt these clothes were expensive, they look cheap. C’mon Kim, we know you can do better!
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***Here she looks like a near replica of Jennifer Lopez. It is certainly not her worst look, but definitely not her best. Outfit aside, she made a good choice of restaurant.
Now Kim has really stepped into the spotlight, determined to declare her arrival.
*Here Kim certainly appears comfortable on the red carpet, which is a good thing. Her choice in dress, however, was not.
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****Improvements have been made! This red carpet look of Kim’s is much more elegant than those she’s worn in the past and has an old Hollywood feel.
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Thaylen City
by Isaac Stewart
Ruled by
Queen Fen Rnamdi
Thaylenah
Roshar
“ A place that was hit hardest of all by the new storms. A place whose military might was severely undermined by the Everstorm. A place with an Oathgate. ”
— Dalinar[1]
Thaylen City is the capital of Thaylenah on Roshar, and the site of the Battle of Thaylen Field.[2][3]
2.1 Landmarks
2.1.1 The Oathgate
2.1.2 Docks
2.1.4 Gemstone Reserve
2.1.5 Court Square
3.1 Heraldic Epochs and Era of Solitude
3.2 The Everstorm
3.3 Alliance with Urithiru
3.4 Battle of Thaylen Field
5 Notable citizens
Geography[edit]
Thaylen City on the map of Thaylenah
Thaylen City is located on the northwestern coast of the largest of the islands forming Thaylenah. It sits on the shores of Longbrow's Straits, a strip of ocean dividing Thaylenah from the Rosharan mainland.[4] The city was built inside a massive natural lait to protect it from highstorms. It's also surrounded by mountains, offering additional protection.[5] While the local climate is warmer than in the Frostlands across the Straits, it's still cold, especially at night.[6][7] Thanks to its location, the city ordinarily suffers only the mildest of stormwinds, but once the True Desolation begins, it's exposed to the full brunt of the Everstorm.[8]
In Shadesmar, Thaylen City can be recognized by the dais of its Oathgate, which sits a little off the shore on the Thaylen Sea. A single bridge allows for accessing the dais from land.[9][10]
“ This poor city. First the Everstorm, and its subsequent returns. The Thaylens had only just started figuring out how to rebuild, and now had to deal with more smashed buildings. ”
— Kaladin[3]
A map of Thaylen City
Thaylen City is built on the mountainside and divided into a number of districts, called Wards. The Ancient Ward, located in the city's center, is Thaylen's oldest section. It's built out of stone and rises slightly above the surrounding ground, with a street layout following a cymatic pattern.[8][11]
From the west, the Ancient Ward is followed by the Low Ward, where numerous businesses and government buildings are located. The Low Ward is bracketed from the west by a long wall going north to south between the mountain slopes. This city wall served as a minor windbreak for those fortunate enough to have lived right by it when the Everstorm arrived.[8] A portion of it was breached during the Battle of Thaylen Field, though the gap was later filled in with Soulcast metal by Jasnah Kholin.[12]
Past the city wall lays the area now known as the Thaylen Field. Prior to the True Desolation, this part of the city was well-developed, with numerous taverns, warehouses and shops. The famous Thaylen docks were located on the shore there, stretching across the southern portion of the peninsula.[5] Unfortunately, the area was not built to withstand violent weather, due to the protection offered by the mountainside. As such, it was swept away by the Everstorm, leaving it ruined and empty.[8]
Surrounding the Ancient Ward from north and south are the North Ward and the South Ward. To the east, the city begins to climb up the mountain slope in a series of tiered terraces called the Loft Wards, which climb up to the Royal Ward. The Royal Ward is the city's representative sector. It includes numerous palaces and mansions, including the Royal Palace, the seat of the Thaylen monarchs, as well as ten temples dedicated to the Heralds of the Almighty. Following the Everstorm, those temples were mainly used to house the numerous wounded and homeless citizens.[8][13]
The city's Oathgate is located on the same level as the Royal Ward, albeit further north, closer to the oceanside cliffs. A small ramp leads up to it from the city proper. To the east, right past the Royal Palace, a trio of roads departs the city, forming Thaylen's only land connection to the rest of the island.[5][8]
In the past, the city had a developed system of aqueducts, cisterns and sewers; however, most of it has been torn apart by the first passing of the Everstorm.[2]
Landmarks[edit]
The Oathgate[edit]
The ancient Thalath Oathgate is located on the northern-eastern edge of Thaylen City, next to the Royal Ward. Back in the Silver Kingdoms Epoch, it would've been beyond the city limits, in contrast to how other major settlement of the era, like Kholinar and Stormseat, were arranged.[5] Presently, it has been turned into a sculpture garden, and provides an excellent view of the city.[8] It's eventually unlocked by Kaladin and Shallan, who fly there after Queen Fen agrees to ally with Dalinar.[14]
While the Oathgate was locked along with all the others, the Thaylens retained some memory of the platform's original purpose. The local folklore refers to it as a "portal of worlds", claiming that only the most Passionate would be able to reopen it. While the story is particularly popular among young girls, the Oathgate holds great religious significance for all the Thaylens.[2]
Docks[edit]
The Thaylen docks had been one of the city's greatest points of pride before the Everstorm swept them away.[8] They lay outside the fortifications, on the southern part of the shore, taking advantage of a natural bay there.[5] They were constructed primarily of wood, which is why they were so easily destroyed.[8]
The area surrounding the docks had developed over time into a market and warehouse district.[8] A notable feature there was the grand bazaar, a marketplace famous even in Alethkar.[13] Unfortunately, as the area was entirely constructed from wood, the Evestorm all but flattened it.[2] This part of the city was eventually renamed to Thaylen Field.[15]
Temples[edit]
by Madison Coyne Renarin seeing the future in the temple of Pailiah
Like most largest cities, Thaylenah has ten major temples, each dedicated to one of the Heralds. The temples are all located in the Royal Ward, and when visiting Thaylen, it's traditional to see all of them, which allows the local ruler to show off both the city and its piety. During the True Desolation, the temples are instead used as makeshift hospitals and shelters for people injured and displaced in the Everstorm.[13]
The most notable temples are:
The Temple of Battah - located in the northwestern part of the Royal Ward, it's the second-oldest temple in the city. It's particularly notable for the Simulacrum of Paralet, a massive statue that once adorned the plaza in front of it. The Simulacrum was knocked over by the Everstorm, sending large chunks of it into the Loft Wards; Dalinar rebuilds it with his Bondsmith powers upon his first visit to the city.[13]
The Temple of Ishi - the oldest temple in the city.[13] It sits in the southern portion of the Royal Ward.[5]
The Temple of Talenelat - located in the central part of the Royal Ward, in a stone plaza dedicated to the Herald. A set of steps leads up to an arched enterance, and both the outer and inner walls are covered in mosaics showing Taln standing fast against the Voidbringers. The temple fared poorly against the Everstorm, with the entire roof having collapsed from a lightning strike, possibly because Odium targeted it deliberately out of vengeance. It's in the temple of Talenelat that Dalinar discovers his ability to mend buildings; as such, it's the first he fixes.[13]
The Temple of Pailiah - located in the north-eastern part of the Royal Ward.[5] It's open, allowing wind to flow through it.[16] Renarin goes there to pray when he begins seeing visions of the Battle of Thaylen Field.[7]
Gemstone Reserve[edit]
For more information, see Thaylen Gemstone Reserve.
The Gemstone Reserve is a national bank of Thaylenah. It's located in the Low Ward, near one of the entrances to the Ancient Ward.[5] The structure is build like a fortress, to protect its contents.[17] It has no windows. Within are numerous vaults storing various gemstones, including some of the largest and most unique ones, like the King's Drop. People can sell and buy their writs of ownership, allowing them to trade large sums easily.[18]
During the Battle of Thaylen Field, the building is destroyed by a thunderclast on orders of Odium, who wants to prevent Dalnar from accessing King's Drop, a perfect gemstone.[19]
Court Square[edit]
The Court Square is a plaza somewhere in the city; it's exact location is unknown, though the name suggests it might be near the Royal Palace. During the Battle of Thaylen Field, it's assaulted by the possessed Amaram soldiers. Initially, it's protected by the highguards Hrdalm and Tshadr, both in Shardplate; eventually, Hdralm departs to combat one of the thunderclasts attacking the city while Tshadr remains to hold the Square.[12]
Heraldic Epochs and Era of Solitude[edit]
The ancient Thaylen City; in the present, this part is known as the Ancient Ward
Thaylen City is one of the oldest settlements on Roshar, though its exact origins are uncertain. The modern history dates it as about four thousand years old; however, the existence of the Oathgate and the cymatic pattern of its appearance suggest that it's much older than that.[2][20] During the Heraldic Epochs, it was located in the Silver Kingdom of Thalath.[21] Its proximity to the Thalath Oathgate indicates that it might've been the capital even back then. At the time, it was a far smaller city, consisting only of the district now known as the Ancient Ward.[8]
The ultimate fate of Thalath and how it became Thaylenah is unknown. Thaylen City, however, retained its high status, and in the Era of Solitude it remained the capital of the newer kingdom, as well as a major shipping and banking hub. It grew far beyond its original constraints, becoming one of the greatest metropoleis of Roshar alongside cities such as Vedenar and Kharbranth.[8] In the closing years of that age, it came to the attention of people researching Dawncities, who investigated it due to the cymatic pattern of the Ancient Ward. Among others, Kabsal used its perfectly symmetrical shape as a proof of the existence of the Almighty.[11]
The Everstorm[edit]
“ We tried to prepare, but a nation cannot upend four millennia worth of tradition at a snap of the fingers. Thaylen City is a shambles, Kholin. ”
— Fen Rnamdi[2]
When the listeners summoned the Everstorm in the Battle of Narak, Dalinar Kholin tried to warn the various cities of the world, including Thaylen, about the upcoming catastrophe.[22] The Thaylens believed him after confirming his information with New Natanan, one of the cities struck earlier, and strove to prepare. There wasn't enough time, though, particularly as Odium targeted the city deliberately, both as a strategically-important location and as the stage for his confrontation with Dalinar.[2][1] The once-extensive docks, along with the entire seaside district, were all but wiped out; most of the city's other Wards were heavily damaged by lightning, strong winds, and even debris falling from the terraces above.[8] The temple of Talenelat in particular was wrecked near-utterly, possibly out of grudge Odium might have against Taln for holding out for as long as he had.[13]
Along with the Everstorm came the awakening of the city's Parshmen population. While the Thaylen were warned of this, they again didn't have enough time to respond properly. As a result, when the Parshmen awoke, they stole the remaining ships, both the military and private vessels, and sailed away, escaping their former captors.[2] They would later become the crews of the Voidbringer fleet.[10]
Alliance with Urithiru[edit]
Dalinar quickly pinpointed Thaylen City as one of the critical locations for the upcoming war.[23] However, when he began to make his overtures of peace to various world leaders, Queen Fen Rnamdi initially rejected him, on the grounds that letting Alethi armies into her capital would essentially surrender her already-weakened country to them.[24] In time, Dalinar managed to convince her to agree, and dispatched Kaladin and Shallan to reopen the Thaylen City Oathgate.[14]
Later, Dalinar visited Thaylen City personally along with Navani and king Taravangian, and was given a tour of it by Queen Fen. It was then that he discovered his Bondsmith ability to mend broken structures, and began to aid in rebuilding the city, earning respect from the Thaylen. Alongside him, Taravangian's surgeons and Renarin likewise assisted with handling Thaylen City's copious wounded, further cementing Thaylenah's position in the alliance.[13] Later, the army of the Sadeas princedom, under command of Meridas Amaram, was sent to the city to assist with the rebuilding.[25]
Battle of Thaylen Field[edit]
For more information, see Battle of Thaylen Field.
by Ashley Coad Dalinar confronting Nergaoul on Thaylen Field
Following the revelations of the Eila Stele, Thaylenah was one of the few countries to remain with Urithiru, mostly because they had no other choice in their weakened state.[26] It was then that the Voidbringer armies, led by Odium himself, arrived on the shores of Thaylen City, having sailed there from the nearby country of Marat. Though the defenders attempted to prepare for battle, things changed dramatically when Odium first summoned a pair of thunderclasts, and then released Nergaoul upon the Amaram troops, turning them against the people they were supposed to protect.[10]
One of the thunderclasts breached the wall and made for the Thaylen Gemstone Reserve, intending to secure the King's Drop, a perfect gemstone that could trap Nergaoul. At the same time, Dalinar went down into the Thaylen Field to face Odium directly.[19] In the ensuing confrontation, Dalinar managed to open Honor's Perpendicularity, providing the Knights Radiant present with much-needed Stormlight.[27]
What resulted was a pitched battle between the defending forces -- mostly the Knights Radiant and Thaylen troops, later reinforced by House Kholin soldiers brought by General Khal through the Oathgate -- and Odium's soldiers, consisting of the two thunderclasts, the Amaram army and the Fused. Much of the city was ruined in the process, although the wall was patched by Jasnah Kholin soulcasting the air in the breach into metal. Ultimately, Nergaoul was trapped in the King's Drop and the remaining Voidbringer forces withdrew.[12]
The battle once more left Thaylen City in shambles, now augmented by the corpse of one of the thunderclasts. Massive surgeon stations were set up in the Low Ward to care for the numerous wounded, and the various alliance members pitched in to aid with the rebuilding.[3][15] However, much work remains to be done, and whether the city can be brought back to its former glory is questionable.
“ Strategically, Thaylen City is far more important than Jah Keved—but at the same time, far worse defended. ”
Thaylen City serves as the center of Thaylen commerce and politics. The reigning monarch resides there; likewise, the various merchant councils, as well as the Thaylen navy, have their headquarters in the city. Its vast port is home to numerous trading and naval vessels. Moreover, the Thaylen Gemstone Reserve holds vast majority of the country's wealth, allowing for long-distance trade via spanreeds.[8][17]
Unfortunately, the city suffered vast losses in the Everstorm, dealing a severe blow its power. The grand docks and warehouses were destroyed; the ships, stolen by the escaping parshmen.[2] The Gemstone Reserve was wrecked in the Battle of Thaylen Field, and though majority of the gems contained within appear to have survived, they were scattered across the city, and it's questionable whether the government can retrieve them all.[19] In the present, Thaylen City is all but reliant on Alethi support to survive the Desolation.[26]
Nonetheless, it remains important. It's one of the few cities with Oathgates controlled by the people opposed to Odium, giving it an instant access to Urithiru and allowing the alliance to project power in the South of Roshar. Moreover, the city's location makes holding it crucial to any strategy in the region. Whoever controls Thaylen City controls the Southern Depths, and can threaten the entire coast, from New Natanan all the way to Shinovar. As such, it's important for the alliance to keep it, which was the main impetus for the Battle of Thaylen Field.[1]
Notable citizens[edit]
Fen Rnamdi, the Queen of Thaylenah, who presumably resides in the Royal Palace.
Kmakl and Kdralk, the Queen's consort and son
Rysn, a master merchant currently employed in the Thaylen Gemstone Reserve
Jochi, a friend of Jasnah's who pretends to be a woman to pursue scholarship, and who owns a pastry shop somewhere in the city
↑ a b c d Oathbringer chapter 107 Summary: Oathbringer/Chapter_107#
↑ a b c d e f g h i Oathbringer chapter 12 Summary: Oathbringer/Chapter_12#
↑ a b c Oathbringer chapter 121 Summary: Oathbringer/Chapter_121#
↑ Map of Roshar
↑ a b c d e f g h Map of Thaylen City
↑ Words of Radiance chapter 1 Summary: Words of Radiance/Chapter_1#
↑ a b Oathbringer chapter 117 Summary: Oathbringer/Chapter_117#
↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Oathbringer chapter 58 Summary: Oathbringer/Chapter_58#
↑ Map of Sea of Lost Lights
↑ a b The Way of Kings chapter 33 Summary: The Way of Kings/Chapter_33#
↑ a b c d e f g h Oathbringer chapter 59 Summary: Oathbringer/Chapter_59#
↑ a b Oathbringer chapter 51 Summary: Oathbringer/Chapter_51#
↑ Oathbringer chapter 118 Summary: Oathbringer/Chapter_118#
↑ Oathbringer interlude I-13 Summary: Oathbringer/Interlude_I-13#
↑ Four Cities
↑ Map of Silver Kingdoms
↑ Words of Radiance chapter 88 Summary: Words of Radiance/Chapter_88#
↑ Oathbringer chapter 1 Summary: Oathbringer/Chapter_1#
↑ Oathbringer chapter 28 Summary: Oathbringer/Chapter_28#
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29 Billion Tax Dollars and the Fed Owns Your Medical Identity
By: Jennifer Kimball Watson, Be.L.
The Obama administration aim’s to create, by sequestration, a federal patient data bank where medical records of individuals will be stored on federally funded Health Information Exchanges. At an estimated cost of 29 billion taxpayer dollars and risk to personal privacy, we must also ask at what impact to doctor-patient “confidentiality” and to the right to maintain personal privacy?
We propose that personal medical data should be treated as an aspect of personal identity. The Pontifical Academy for Life defines personal identity as follows: “the relation of an individual’sunrepeatability and essential core to his being a person (ontological level) and feeling that he is a person (psychological level).” The unique characteristics of personal identity are the unique characteristics of the person. Those characteristics can be observed, itemized and recorded, which is what’s done when personal medical data is secured. But the characteristics are still ofthe person. The handling of personal records will in a morally relevant sense be the handling of the person, not of course ontologically handling them, as if they were physically present to us, but conceptually handling them, in the way we “handle others” when we think or speak well or ill of them. So serious justice issues are at stake when dealing with the handling of personal medical information.
Patient identity, confidentiality in the doctor-patient relationship along with patient consent are placed in peril when taken outside the necessary operations of medicine. Arbitrary sequestering of patient records for non-therapeutic objectives are a violation to patient privacy and to the very nature of the doctor patient norm.
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Jennifer Kimball Watson joined Culture of Life Foundation as Executive Director in November of 2007. She is an Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at the Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, F.L.. Previous to her work with the Culture of Life Foundation Jennifer was a Wilbur Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal located in Michigan. Jennifer earned a Licentiate in Bioethics from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum School of Bioethics in Rome. Her prior undergraduate studies were in International Administration and Government Policy at the Evergreen State College in Washington State.
Jennifer’s areas of specialization include Eugenics in Artificial Reproductive Technologies, Heterologous Adoption and Transfer of Embryos, The Womb in Reproductive Technologies, and the Role and Significance of The Medical Act. She interviews with National Conservative and Christian Radio Syndicates as well as several foreign and secular reporters. Jennifer has spoken on the dignity of women and women’s social issues to various audiences since 1999 and has spent several years in advocacy work with various international organizations in the field of life sciences. From 2000 to 2006 she recruited and coordinated grass-roots social policy efforts that consisted of a public and private sector network of professionals and academics in the fields of Bioethics, Law, Science, Psychology and Media from various countries of Europe, North and South America and Africa to analyze, research and respond to social issues in bilateral and multilateral venues.
Jennifer was Executive Staff Member and International Project Assistant to the Secretary of State of the State of Washington from 1997 to 2000 where she chaired a Host Committee for the third ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization held in Seattle. She also served as research analyst and logistics coordinator for trade and development between the Russia Far East, China and North Korea facilitated by the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Washington jointly with multi-lateral organizations. Jennifer resides in Virginia with her loving husband. jennifer@culture-of-life.org
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Project Soapbox 2020 (grades 6-12)
We are excited to announce our continued partnership with Mikva Challenge and Project Soapbox! The 3rd Annual MMSD Project Soapbox Event will be held at the Overture Center on March 10, 2020. Project Soapbox is a public speaking competition facilitated by Mikva Challenge that calls young people to speak out on issues that affect them and their communities. Last year’s event was very successful with over 120 students representing almost all of our middle and high schools. Learn more about Project Soapbox.
MMoCA’s “Young at Art” gives K-12 students a professional showing
If the “Young at Art” show is any indication, Madison public schools are packed with budding artistic talent. The biennial show in the State Street Gallery of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, open through April 23, features 170 pieces of original visual art from K-12 students enrolled the Madison Metropolitan School District.
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A science night in Spanish at the planetarium
MADISON, Wis. (Last Friday, over 150 Spanish speakers came out for a science night in Spanish at the planetarium of the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD). The evening, hosted by the planetarium and WIPAC through the program “El Universo es Tuyo,” offered an appealing program: a planetarium show about the moon, activities with IceCube, science books in Spanish from the Madison Public Library, and several hands-on activities to learn about moon craters and eclipses run by UW Space Place and MEChA of UW–Madison. There were even some refreshments, through the generous support of Rocky Roccoco, Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream, Woodman’s Markets, and Pick ’n Save.
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Madison schools receive band instrument donations
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) -- Five Madison schools now have some new instruments, thanks to the generosity of Madison Area Music Association. East High School Band Director Mark Saltzman said it has been years since the school received new instruments, until now. A new saxophone was donated to the school, part of five thousand dollars donated by MAMA.
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A Night of Spanish in the Planetarium
Join the MMSD Planetarium for a science night in Spanish, featuring a planetarium show about the Moon, activities by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, stories for kids, and online activities about the universe. We will even take a look at the Moon with telescopes, weather permitting! This is an activity for kids of all ages and their families, with snacks and beverages available—while they last. The program is hosted by the MMSD Planetarium and the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center in collaboration with UW Space Place and Madison Public Library. Food and drinks are sponsored by Rocky Rococo, Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream, Woodman’s Markets, and Pick ’n Save.
When: Friday, March 3, 6:30 PM
Where: MMSD Planetarium, 201 South Gammon Road, Madison, WI 53717
Follow Geoff's experience with updates on the MMSD Planetarium's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/mmsdpltm.fans/) and Twitter account (@mmsdpltm). Read more the Planetarium's science night
MMSD Planetarium Director to fly aboard NASA Telescope
MMSD Planetarium Director, Geoff Holt, is partnering with professional astronomers to participate as the scientists conduct research on board NASA’s flying telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) this week, January 23-27, 2017. SOFIA is the largest airborne observatory in the world, capable of making observations that are impossible for even the largest and highest ground-based telescopes. During its planned 20-year lifetime, SOFIA also will inspire the development of new scientific instrumentation and foster the education of young scientists and engineers. Follow Geoff's experience with updates on the MMSD Planetarium's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/mmsdpltm.fans/) and Twitter account (@mmsdpltm). Read about the SOFIA project
Be their guest: Four elementary schools to take part in Disney/Overture musical theater program
Four Madison elementary schools were selected to participate in the Disney Musicals in Schools Program. The Overture Center received a $100,000 grant from the Disney Theatrical Group to implement theater programming in Madison schools for the next two years. The Overture Center selected Falk, Glendale, Hawthorne, and Mendota elementary schools for the first year of the grant. Overture Center will select up to five more schools to participate in 2018.
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Students sell t-shirts to raise money for scholarship for undocumented students
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) --- A group of Madison East High School students are selling t-shirts to raise money for scholarships for undocumented students. The students are part of the AVID elective course, a class designed for students interested in attending college but face barriers to get there.
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Students turn concern over election into T-shirt fundraiser for scholarships
Emotions ran high the day after the presidential election, prompting Madison East High School teacher Kate Brien to find a way to turn students’ concerns about the future into something positive. “The day after the election was a very powerful day here,” said Brien, who teaches sophomores and is a coordinator in the AVID/TOPS program. “The biggest sentiment was the overwhelming belief that we are together in this.”
Read more about East High's T-shirt fundraiser
MMSD awarded Tri 4 Schools School Fund Grant
MMSD has been awarded with the Tri 4 Schools School Fund grant. This grant is awarded to fund school-based health/wellness, fitness, or nutrition-focused efforts. The funds will be use to purchase new rollerblade protective gear for MMSD K-5 students in Physical Education classes.
Get dazed and confused at the MMSD planetarium's classic rock laser shows
For classic rock aficionados, lasers paired with Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin is basically a fine wine paired with a great meal. That's why laser shows at the Madison Metropolitan School District's planetarium, 201 S. Gammon Road, are back this week by popular demand to raise money for the planetarium.
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Strings are making a comeback for fifth-graders at Sandburg Elementary
The VH1 Save the Music Foundation and Madison-based Musicnotes.com teamed up to provide Sandburg with 36 new instruments, worth about $35,000, to fill gaps in an aged instrument inventory and to provide enough instruments to suit the needs of the children.
Read more about Strings at Sandburg Elementary
NASA Selects Educators to Fly with Astronomers on SOFIA Airborne Observatory
NASA has selected 11 educator teams for its 2016 Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program. The program is a professional development opportunity for educators designed to improve teaching methods and to inspire students. As part of the preparation, the Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors complete a graduate credit astronomy course and are partnered with professional astronomers to participate as the scientists conduct research on board NASA’s flying telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
Read more about the Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors
MMSD Forest Orienteering Program Chosen as Grantee
February 9, 2016, Philadelphia, PA
The Wilson Family, in partnership with Orienteering USA, is pleased to introduce Madison School Forest Orienteering Program (MSFOP) as the winner of the inaugural Wilson Community Growth Grant. This grant seeks to develop and help implement programs that expand access to orienteering for youth. Under the direction of program manager Susie Madden, an orienteering enthusiast and Orienteering USA member, and Madison School & Community Recreation (MSCR) Recreation Specialist Emily Peffer, the MSFOP will create an orienteering map of the School Forest, set two permanent courses there, and create training materials for MSCR staff. The Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) Curriculum and Instruction department and MSCR will also provide resources to support the full cost of the program. Additionally, MSCR will provide equipment and operational support for construction and sustainability of this exciting program.
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MMSD C&I Collaborates with Public Health of Madison and Dane County to Connect Children With Nature
MMSD C&I is collaborating with Public Health of Madison & Dane County and the City of Madison Parks in the national initiative sponsored by the Children & Nature Network and the National League of Cities. Cities Connecting Children to Nature seeks to improve child well-being by improving opportunities for all children to spend time in nature. The aim for this work is to foster collaboration among existing groups, boosting efforts to improve health equity and well-being. Current collaborators include:
Aldo Leopold Nature Center
The Center for Resilient Cities
Centro Hispano
Community Groundworks
Dane County Healthy Kids Collaborative
Earth Partnership for Schools, University of Wisconsin Arboretum
GROW Coalition
Madison Children’s Museum
Madison Gas & Electric/The New Green Challenge
Sustain Dane
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Memorial senior excels in national Google design contest
Wisconsin State Journal - February 4, 2016
Many a weekend night, Memorial High School senior Julianne Griepp can be found sketching on her computer drawing tablet at 2 or 3 in the morning, leading her parents, they said, to constantly yell, "Julianne, go to bed!"
Thursday, that devotion to her art paid off. At a surprise presentation at her school, Griepp was announced as the Wisconsin finalist in a national design contest sponsored by Google. Read more from the Wisconsin State Journal
Memorial High School Students Visit Skynet Telescope in Florida
Geoff Holt traveled with three Memorial High School students to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Florida. They presented a poster on their experiences on the Skynet network of telescopes. These are research-grade telescopes around the world, and the students are able to access these telescopes through their participation in the Skynet Junior Scholars program, funded by the National Science Foundation. The grant not only allows the students to access this network out of school time for free, but also paid for their trip to this professional astronomy meeting to share their experiences. The students chosen to make this trip were Taylor GurrEithun, Nic Litza, and Diana Li. Mr. Holt and the students were chosen to make this trip due to their high level of utilization in the network. Mr. Holt and the students were also able attend astronomy presentations at the meeting by leaders in the field. One of their favorite talks was presented by Alan Stern, the Principle Investigator of the New Horizons mission, who's spacecraft flew past Pluto this past summer. The students also really enjoyed attending the press conferences at the meeting. All of them felt like this was an invaluable experience, giving them a feel for how the professional field of science works, and filling their minds with tantalizing new discoveries.
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The California Budget & Education Funding - Federal Funds
Chapter One: The California Budget & Education Funding: California's Local Control Funding Formula
Chapter Two: Federal Funding for California Education: Federal Funds
Chapter Three: Funding from Local School Facility Bonds
Chapter Four: Funding from State School Facility Bonds Coming Soon!
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Federal Funding for California Schools
In a Nut Shell
In 2018-19 California received $105 billion in funding from the Federal Government. $12 billion went to California's public education system, and of that $7.5 billion went to K-12. The Capistrano Unified School District received $17.6 million in Federal funding.
Average Per Pupil Funding
United States $12,526
California $9,417
Capistrano Unified $9,099
Education Week: Per Pupil Spending, State by State
*Data shows that the California budget has increased by $55 billion since 2007-08 to a record high $201 billion dollars. But, the State has implemented a new education funding formula "LCFF" that limits per pupil funding to 2007-08 levels + inflation, not to be reached until 2021. Going forward the only increases to per pupil funding will be Cost of Living increases. See The Equity Project Chapter I: The California Budget and Education Funding
That caps average per pupil funding at about $9,000 per child into the foreseeable future.
2018-19 Federal Funding
California $105,877,309,000.00 ($106 billion)
Public Education $12,695,275,000.00 ($12.7 billion)
Higher Education $5,175,416,000.00 ($5.2 billion)
K-12 $7,519,859,000.00 ($7.5 billion)
Capistrano Unified $17,613,645.00 ($17.6 million)
Restricted $17,386,568.00 ($17.4 million)
Unrestricted $227,077.00 ($200 thousand)
Year LCFF Source Federal Other State Other Local Total District Revenue Students
2018-19 2018- 19 Data Not Available 53,622
$9,099 per pupil
1. 2018-19 Budget Adoption page 911 Estimated Actuals Total Revenues 2017-18
4. 2015-16 Budget Adoption page ? Estimated Actuals 2014-15
5. 2014-15 Budget Adoption page 46 Estimated Actuals 2013-14
7. 2012-13 Budget Adoption page 4 Estimated Actuals 2011-12
8. 2011-12 Budget Adoption page 18.3 Estimated Actuals 2010-11
9. 2010-11 Budget Adoption Estimated Actuals 2009-10
*Not available online- See Response to Public Records Request Below
10. 2009-10 Budget Adoption page 5 Estimated Actuals 2008-09
11. 2008-09 Budget Adoption Estimated Actuals 2007-08
Year Federal Funds California Total Federal Funds Allocated to Education
Total K-12 Higher Education
2018-191 $105,877,309,000 $7,519,859,000 $5,175,416,000 $12,695,275,000
2016-173 $ 91,899,286,000 $7,324,424,000 $5,028,005,000 $12,352,429,000
The State Implements a new education funding law- The Local Control Funding Formula "LCFF"
2009-1010 $ 61,698,092,000 $6,594,939,000 $5,136,974,000 $11,731,989,000
2008-0911 $ 57,529,793,000 $6,528,803,000 $3,723,041,000 $10,252,095.000
California Department of Finance Historical Budget Publications
1. 2018-19 Governor's Budget Summary Appendix 28 Schedule 9 Comparative Statement of Expenditures
3. 2016- 17 Governor's Budget Summary Appendix 29 Schedule 9 Comparative Statement of Expenditures
10. 2009- 10 Governor's Budget Summary Appendix 37 Schedule 9 Comparative Statement of Expenditures
12. 2007-08 Governor's Budget Summary Schedule 9 Comparative Statement of Expenditures
Federal Funds Allocated to the Capistrano Unified School District
Year Total Federal Funds Allocated to Capistrano Unified School District
Estimated Actuals Unrestricted Restricted Total
2017-18 $227,077.00 $17,386,568.00 $17,613,645.00
2014-15 $30,255.00 $17,783,377.00 $17,818,602.00
2009-10 Data not available on District Web Site -Waiting on Response to Public Records Request
2008-09 $1,004,550.00 $29,916,087.00 $30,920,637.00
2007-08 $1,2003,181.00 $18,050,123.00 $19,253,304.00
Year Federal Expenditures By Account
2017-18 1 page 914 Estimated Actuals
8110 Maintenance & Operations
8181 Special Education Entitlement
$7,407,110.00 $7,407,110.00
8182 Special Education Discretionary Grants $1,584,605.00 $1,584,605.00
8220 Child Nutrition Programs
8221 Donated Food Commodities
8260 Forest Reserve Funds $2,500.00 $2,500.00
8270 Flood Control Funds
8280 Wildlife Reserve Funds
8281 FEMA
8285 Interagency Contracts Between LEAs
8287 Pass-Through Revenues from Federal Sources
8290 Title I, Part A, Basic $5,457,846.00 $5,457,846.00
8290 Title I, Part D, Local Delinquent Programs
8290 Title II, Part A, Educator Quality $920,030.00 $920,030.00
8290 Title III, Part A, Immigrant Education Program $139,722.00 $139,722.00
8290 Title III, Part A, English Learner Program $545,049.00 $545,049.00
8290 Public Charter Schools Grant Program (PCSGP)
8290 Other NCLB / Every Student Succeeds Act
8290 Career and Technical Education $244,788.00 $244,788.00
8290 All Other Federal Revenue $224,577.00 $1,032,322.00 $131,899.00
TOTAL $227,077.00 $17,386,568.00 $17,613,645.00
8290 All Other Federal Revenue $412,322.00 $1,283,230.00 $1,695,552.00
8260 Forest Reserve Funds
8290 NCLB: Title I, Part A, Basic Grants Low- Income and Neglected $5,387,813.00 $5,387,813.00
8290 NCLB: Title I, Part D, Local Delinquent Programs
8290 NCLB: Title II, Part A, Teacher Quality $886,421.00 $886,421.00
8290 NCLB: Title III, Immigrant Education Program $81,351.00 $81,351.00
8290 NCLB: Title III, Limited English Proficient (LEP) Student Program $659,632.00 $659,632.00
8290 NCLB: Title V, Part B, Public Charter Schools Grant Program (PCSGP)
8290 Other No Child Left Behind
8290 Vocational and Applied Technology Education
8290 Safe and Drug Free Schools $287,268.00 $287,268.00
2014-15 4 page 49 Estimated Actuals
8290 NCLB: Title I, Part A, Basic Grants Low- Income and Neglected $5,238.436.00 $5,238.436.00
8290 NCLB: Title III, Immigrant Education Program $119,129.00 $119,129.00
8290 Vocational and Applied Technology Education $288,872,00 $288,872,00
8290 Safe and Drug Free Schools
8290 All Other Federal Revenue $30,255.00 $1,288,334.00 $1,318,559.00
TOTAL $30,255.00 $17,783,377.00 $17,818,602.00
8290 NCLB: Title II, Part A, Teacher Quality $1,053,273.00 $1,053,273.00
8290 Other No Child Left Behind $350,000.00 $350,000.00
8290 Vocational and Applied Technology Education $245.541.00 $245.541.00
8280 Wildlife Reserve Funds $3,631.00 $3,631.00
8290 NCLB: Title III, Immigrant Education Program
8290 Vocational and Applied Technology Education $246,686.00 $246,686.00
2011-12 7 page 4 Estimated Actuals
8280 Wildlife Reserve Funds $273,513.00 $273,513.00
8285 Interagency Contracts Between LEAs $9,636.00 $9,636.00
8290 NCLB/ASA $10,443,579.20 $10,443,579.20
$12,291,001.00 $12,291,001.00
8285 Interagency Contracts Between LEAs $88,957.00 88,957.00
8290 NCLB/ASA (incl ARRA) $10,691,848.00 $10,691,848.00
8290 Safe and Drug Free Schools $62,130.00 $62,130.00
This data is being requested from CUSD
8182 Special Education Discretionary Grants
8290 Title I, Part A, Basic
8290 Title II, Part A, Educator Quality
8290 Title III, Part A, Immigrant Education Program
8290 Title III, Part A, English Learner Program
8290 Career and Technical Education
8290 All Other Federal Revenue
2008-09 10 page 5 Estimated Actuals
8182 Special Education Discretionary Grants $720,808.00 $720,808.00
8285 Interagency Contracts Between LEAs $15,726.00 $15,726.00
8290 All Other Federal Revenue $1,004,550.00 $4,006,127.00 $5,010,677.00
TOTAL $1,004,550.00 $29,916,087.00 $30,920,637.00
This data was received via a Public Records Request- There is not a link - the data is attached after the Footnotes
8290 NCLB/ASA $6,736,229.00 $6,736,229.00
8290 JTPA/WA
8290 Other Federal Revenue $1,200,391.00 $3,155,805.00 $4,356,196.00
TOTAL $1,2003,181.00 $18,050,123.00 $19,253,304.00
8182 Special Education Discretionary Grants $7,11,113.00
8290 JTPA/WIA
TOTAL $1,446,281.00 $18,554,066.000 $20,000,347.00
1. 2018-19 Budget Adoption page 914 Estimated Actuals 2017-18
2007-08 Adopted Budget Estimated Actuals for 2006-07
The California Budget & Education Funding: Federal Funds
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Cyber Love Story - Lyft Lovebirds : Cyber Dating Expert
Cyber Love Story – Lyft Lovebirds
Mobile apps for transportation have caused a huge paradigm shift in the way people are using transportation to airports or just on a party night. With New Year’s Eve, using your mobile app for companies such as Uber, Lyft or Sidecar will help you safely get to your destination.
But what if these mobile apps can actually help you find love from the comfort of one of their cars?
Meet Camille Bates and Ian Osborne, both who are Lyft drivers in San Francisco.
Last New Year’s Eve, Camille was very sad after a holiday season filled with strife. She had ended her relationship with her boyfriend after a year of being together and was feeling down in the dumps. The last thing she wanted to do was to go to a New Year’s party and pretend to be happy. So instead of accepting a party invitation, the social-introvert decided her plan for the evening would be to drive all night to get party goers safely to their destinations.
“I wanted to live vicariously through other peoples’ happiness,” said Bates. “I brought along party favors including glow in the dark wristbands and snacks and was having fun giving out things to my passengers.”
At around 9pm, Camille accepted a ride request from a gentleman named Ian. Coincidentally, Ian was also a Lyft driver on occasion.
Camille had made a New Year’s resolution to follow her intuition and she figured he’d already been background checked by Lyft, so she agreed to join them. As Ian entered the car with his buddies, he instructed her to take them to a house party in the Marina. Ian was sitting in the front of the car next to Camille and his friends were in the back seat. Her passengers were singing songs loudly, and after Camille asked them about the party they would be attending, Ian casually asked Camille if she wanted to join them.
While at the party, Ian’s friends decided to leave to attend another bash, leaving Ian and Camille to themselves at the original party. A few hours and glasses of champagne later, the two headed up to the party host’s roof deck to toast in the New Year. As the clock struck midnight, they shared their first kiss. As they looked over the beach on the Embarcadero in San Francisco, Camille reflected to a month earlier where she was gazing at the same beach when a shooting star appeared. Her wish was to find her soul mate.
Nine magical months later, Ian asked Camille to marry him and they will be getting married in the summer of 2016.
You never know who you’ll meet while using your mobile apps, or how a “pickup” will turn out.
Wishing you much love and joy in cyberspace in 2015, or wherever you may roam.
Julie Spira is America’s Top Online Dating Expert and Digital Matchmaker. She was an early adopter of online dating and is the founder of CyberDatingExpert.com. Julie helps singles find love in the digital age. For dating advice, follow @JulieSpira on Twitter and sign up for the free Cyber-Dating Expert Weekly Flirt newsletter.
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Graduate student examines gibbon conservation through song
By Olivia Mazzucato
Arts, Music
(Claire Sun/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Sept. 24 at 10:52 p.m.
There’s no need for an alarm clock at the Gibbon Conservation Center.
At sunrise every morning, Pepper the gibbon usually begins singing, and many of the 38 other gibbons join together in harmony.
Gibbons are referred to as the “songbirds” of the primate family because of their distinct vocalizations that can carry for miles. These songs and their specific function in conservation efforts are the focus of the research conducted by UCLA ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate Tyler Yamin, who conducts his research at the Gibbon Conservation Center in Santa Clarita. Yamin’s work focuses specifically on the ways in which conservationists listen to gibbons and use their interpretations in their conservation work.
“One of the underlying aspects of my project is that I’m not, as a researcher, trying to say what gibbons are doing,” Yamin said. “What I’m trying to do in my project is not analyze gibbon song according to my own notions of what might be important or not, but trying to learn from the people I’m studying (and) how they hear gibbon song.”
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Yamin’s background is in traditional Indonesian gamelan music – orchestral music played largely on ornate bronze xylophones – and his master’s research project focused on a gamelan group in Bali and the instruments they used. In Balinese culture, the instruments in the orchestra are considered to have a soul, and Yamin researched indigenous cultures’ conceptions of personhood. This research encompassed human-animal studies, and his readings mentioned the gibbon, which is endemic to the same region he specialized in and which he had never heard of before.
Intrigued by the gibbon, Yamin then took an introductory primate behavior class at UCLA, in which he learned about the nearby Gibbon Conservation Center. When he visited, Yamin realized that his ethnomusicology background specially situated him to conduct research on the musical primates. Gibbon song, he said, has two main purposes, though the function is still being debated. One is territorial – gibbon families sing coordinated songs together to vocally negotiate territorial borders with other families, Yamin said. The other is to strengthen relationships among family members, as more cohesive song can often indicate more engaged listening and family organization.
Yamin hopes to expand the boundaries of what is considered to be typical musical practice, as ethnomusicology focuses on the music of different cultures, but has historically broadened to study traditions from around the world, he said. Yamin’s research offers an intriguing way to look at how humans understand gibbons, said professor of ethnomusicology Helen Rees, who is also Yamin’s dissertation advisor.
“Most ethnomusicological research traditionally has been done through fieldwork and through archival research, so (Yamin) is certainly doing plenty of fieldwork,” Rees said. “Obviously, the individuals he is interacting with and whose sonic manifestations he is looking at are not just humans, but other primates.”
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During the daily care of the gibbons, Gabriella Skollar, the director of the Gibbon Conservation Center, and others at the center use auditory cues to assess how the gibbons are feeling, a primary point of interest for Yamin. For example, the gibbons make feeding calls at mealtimes or sound an alarm call if predators, such as snakes, approach the enclosure. When two gibbons are paired for mating, their compatibility as a couple is predicated on their ability to coordinate and sing a duet.
While some in the field might try to assess more physical characteristics, such as the population number or distance between the gibbon families, a caretaker like Skollar might listen for the individual sounds and nuances that define an individual gibbon.
“All these different vocalizations help us understand them, and they are communicating so we know what they are saying,” Skollar said. “They are expressing their emotions and fears, their happiness.”
After Yamin’s study of the practices at the Gibbon Conservation Center, he said his next step will be to work with an environmental conservation nonprofit called the Borneo Nature Foundation in Indonesia, which studies gibbons in their natural habitat. The group is based in the Sabangau Forest, and members of the indigenous Dayak community who work on the field staff use many traditional ways of engaging with the forest to conduct scientific research that Yamin hopes to learn more about.
Yamin said he feels a certain sense of urgency in the project. All the gibbons at the Gibbon Conservation Center are vulnerable or endangered, and the gibbons in the wild face deforestation and encroaching farming desires. Most recently, while fires raged in the Amazon rainforest, even larger fires engulfed the forests of Borneo. At the same time, the Gibbon Conservation Center is under threat from developers who want to push the center out in order to build housing developments, Yamin said.
“You could call it a symmetry … that the gibbon center and that the gibbons here in Southern California are facing the exact same pressures or causes of loss of habitat or location that the gibbons in the wild are, which is consumer capitalism and the desire to turn land to make the most money off land you can,” Yamin said. “Everywhere the gibbons are, there’s money to be made in removing them.”
Yamin said he hopes awareness increases for gibbon conservation efforts, which need more people on the ground protecting and researching gibbons before it’s too late. Humans could also stand to learn from the ways gibbons listen to each other’s songs and the ways scientists and caretakers listen to the vocalizations of the gibbons, he said. In essence, gibbon song exemplifies how audible connection can bridge the divide between entities thought to be in opposition.
“There’s something really valuable in our ears and the approach of listening,” Yamin said. “I hope this project contributes something to environmental justice, showing how important it is to understand what it means to listen to nonhuman animals and engage with them in possibly more productive ways.”
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Want to work for Microsoft? (specifically Channels 8 to 10, Visitmix.com, TechNet Edge)
At times we have some pretty unique roles that appear on the radar, but Duncan Mackenzie just told me of a position vacant in his team.
The position is for an SDE and essentially the role is geared towards helping work on the next generation of features for the online brands - Channel 8, Channel 9, Channel 10 and TechNet Edge.
Now.. before you spam Duncan with some resumes, be sure to outline your skills around being a bit of a "RIA" developer/designer.
What kind of person is Duncan looking?:
Someone who probably fits in the middle (or slightly to the dev side) of your designer vs. developer gradient image…
Someone who does mostly front edge work, but can write .NET code
Someone who, if asked to write a web page that uses AJAX to call a web service, retrieve JSON, render the results in Silverlight and then make the whole thing interactive using JavaScript would be able to say “no problem”
Someone who cares about standards and semantic markup.
Someone who’d like to come to Redmond and work on the next generation of features out of the team that runs Channel 9, Channel 10, Channel 8, VisitMix.com, TechNet Edge and more…
Feel like you're up to the task? ping Duncan an email and tell him I sent you..
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Top 10 Moments To Look Forward To Watch In Avengers: Endgame
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With just under a week until the highly anticipated blockbuster Avengers: Endgame, fans are expecting to see powerful character driven moments. With many reunions due to take place as well as incredible action sequences, this film is sure to provide audiences with multiple memorable moments. In these final days, we at Discussing Film have compiled our 10 most anticipated moments (in no particular order) based on trailer and TV spots that we can’t wait to see up on the big screen next week. Feel free to share your most anticipated Endgame moments with us on our twitter (@DiscussingFilm).
1. Tony and Nebula’s arrival to Earth
This clip is what we think to be some of the remaining Avengers watching Tony and Nebula returning to earth on the Benatar. When this clip of Steve, Bruce, Natasha and Rhodey was released in the second trailer for Endgame, there was a lot of speculation that a character had been taken out of the shot with CGI. We have now seen additional shots in TV spots of Tony embracing Pepper and Carol using her powers in this same setting, so it is safe to assume that either one or both of these character will appear in this shot to welcome Tony and Nebula.
2. Steve and Tony becoming allies again
In the special look trailer, we saw Steve and Tony have their first reunion as allies since their split following the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016). In the clip Tony says ‘Do you trust me?’ and Steve replies with ‘I do’, proving that these characters are overcoming their differences in the wake of the biggest stakes they have ever had to face. There has been speculation based on set photos that this scene will take place when the Avengers time travel back to The Battle of New York, and Cap’s suit has been altered with CGI so that his classic red, white and blue suit doesn’t give away the time travel plot. We are so excited to see the two lead Avengers fight alongside each other, especially if this is to be the last time they do.
3. Rocket and Nebula sharing an emotional moment
In Avengers: Infinity War (2018), The Guardians of The Galaxy were split up into different locations. Rocket ended up being the only Guardian survivor on earth whilst Nebula was the only one on Titan. Therefore, Nebula knows that Gamora had been sacrificed and the rest of the Guardians had fallen victim to the snap. However, Rocket is only aware that Groot dusted away in the snap. This is likely to be the moment that Nebula shares the news that the rest of the Guardians are gone. It was said in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) that this group of unlikely heroes felt like a family to each other, so this will have a clear impact on Rocket. In previous movies, it is arguable that Rocket and Nebula have been the least emotional of all the characters, so for Rocket to reach out and hold Nebula’s hand in this scene is a clear sign that both characters are experiencing some level of emotional vulnerability in this film.
4. The reveal of Ronin
We now know that Clint will take on the mantle of Ronin for some part of the movie after much speculation from set photos. The scene is which he is reunited with his long time friend Natasha is set in a vibrant Asian country, assumed to be Japan. It is likely that in this scene we will discover his motives behind becoming Ronin, which we think to be his family falling victim to the snap.
5. Carol’s dynamic with The Avengers
Carol is the latest to join the constantly expanding Avengers team. We know from the post credit scene in Captain Marvel (2019) that Carol will be joining forces with the remaining Avengers early on in the film. It will be interesting to see how she interacts with other characters, to learn a bit more about what she has been up to in the past two decades and to see how back in action with her powers that derived from the tesseract.
6. Seeing Thanos on his retirement planet and finding out what he has been using the stones for
In the opening of the clip shown on Good Morning America, Natasha says ‘He used the stones again’ and in a recently released TV spot we see the image above which is a wide shot of the same scene. Here we can see Thanos’s retirement planet with a green vortex slowly spreading. Through the colour connotation of green we can assume Thanos is using the time stone here, but for what? Could he be using the time stone to resurrect the black order or restore his planet? This is evidence that the stones are still active and therefore Thanos remains the most powerful being in the universe, keeping the stakes high.
7. Rocket and Captain Marvel taking some of the Avengers to space
Captain Marvel, Rocket and Thor are characters we are use to seeing in space, however, Rhodey, Natasha, Captain America and Hawkeye are not. It will be fun to see their reactions to space and other planets they may visit. In this scene they could be going to space for a rushed initial battle with Thanos, making for another incredible battle like the one on Titan in Infinity War (2018).
8. Seeing Tony and Nebula work together to fix the Benatar
This scene comes across very reminiscent of Tony constructing his first suit whilst being held hostage in Iron Man (2008). This serves as a reminder of Tony’s capacity when it comes to being an inventor. It also looks as though Nebula could be taking a part out of her own hand to assist Tony in fixing the Benatar so that they can return to earth.
9. Hawkeye and potentially other Avengers battling some remaining outriders
In a trailer we see Hawkeye running from an explosion, but in a 3D version we can see that there are what we assume to be outriders in the same frame. The last we knew, there were no outriders left in Wakanda as after Thor’s arrival they stopped attacking. It is possible that this fight scene could be taking place on Thanos’s ship if we assume that there are no outriders left on earth.
10. The Battle against Thanos with the original Avengers
This film will be the first time that we will see Tony, Steve and Thor all battle alongside each other since Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Many people have speculated that this scene will take place in the ruins of the Avengers HQ. It could be the final battle that our original Avengers all face together. If this is the case, it will be the end of at least a few character arcs and for the Avengers team that started it all. This battle may well be the emotional climax of the entire film.
Avengers: Endgame releases in cinemas everywhere on April 26th.
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Independent UK developer and 2000AD publisher Rebellion has released a new Rogue Trooper Redux trailer, comparing the game’s impressive visuals directly with those of the original 2006 game.
The new trailer also reveals the game’s launch date of 17th October 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (from Steam and GOG.com). The Nintendo Switch edition will release soon after.
The detailed new “Graphics Comparison” trailer combines and compares cut scene and gameplay footage from the original Rogue Trooper game released back in 2006 starring the 2000AD character with the new remaster, highlighting the overhaul given to the game by Rebellion’s in-house developers in conjunction with UK studio TickTock Games, including completely remodelled characters, weapons and vehicles.
Rogue Trooper Redux, which will be on show at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, also features remastered cinematics, new special effects, dynamic lighting, and higher fidelity geometry.
Rogue is one of the Genetic Infantrymen (‘GIs’), an army of bio-engineered soldiers, created by Southers to fight their all out war against the colonial Nort regime. Not only can GIs survive the poisonous surface of Nu Earth unharmed, but their enhanced abilities make them a phenomenal force.
And yet, Rogue is the last GI standing following a devastating massacre that all but wipes out his kind. Carrying the consciousnesses of three fallen comrades as biochips implanted in his equipment, enhancing his powers further, Rogue transforms from super soldier into a one-man squad of death and destruction. He knows no allegiance but to his own mission, and he is hell-bent on completing it. That mission is revenge…
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Conservative and liberal capitalists often attack a supposed lack of gratitude among the disaffected. Among the young, among environmentalists, socialists, take your pick. It’s said that they don’t appreciate the pleasures and securities that the modern world affords them. Their dissatisfaction is a mark of lack of awareness.
Music for hyperspatial living rooms
Gyrus / 11 February 2019
I thought it’d be an idea to round up the highlights of the music I’ve either discovered or rediscovered in attempts to soundtrack recent psychedelic explorations.
It goes without saying, YouTube clips are included here for easy reference, but please support the artists — especially independent ones — by buying where possible (follow the links here).
Dale Pendell memorial video
Gyrus / 1 November 2018
On 13th January this year, Dale Pendell died.
On 14th April, his family and friends gathered at the North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Centre to celebrate the life of this gifted writer and explorer. A video of this event has just been posted on YouTube. It features remembrances from his wife Laura, Gary Snyder, Daniel Schulke, Kat Harrison, and a host of others relating their connections to this rich, strange life. With a special appearance by Dale Pendell.
Dale was — and no doubt remains — a treasured Dreamflesh ally. His presence here is missed.
Siren Zine Issue #3
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SIREN are an all-female dance music collective in London, throwing queer parties and promoting women and non-binary artists. This is their third zine, an eclectic embrace of literature, architecture, poetry and photography within the generous matrix of dance culture — and it’s well worth grabbing.
Going veggie again
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One thing Jordan Peterson defenders have right is that he’s provoking some interesting discussions.
I’m fed up of the more heated ones, the ones where everyone’s assuming about everyone else (i.e. most of them), and the fact that it’s all feeding his fame demon. But amongst all that, there’s some important gems popping up.
Remembering Dale Pendell: 1947 - 2018
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We just lost a great explorer, a wonderful writer, one of the most important chroniclers of the mind’s inner treasures and its fertile congress with the plant world. He had a true rascal’s twinkle in his eye and deep, bodhisattvic compassion. He will be missed, and celebrated — a joyfully knowing presence in our moments of poetic ecstasy, a warmth strong enough to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with bitter world-weariness.
Haunted Landscape talk: Saturday 18th November, Conway Hall, London
I’ll be speaking on Pan the goat god in the British landscape – especially Avebury – on Saturday 18th November at Conway Hall, London, at an all-day event, The Haunted Landscape 2017: Folklore, Ghosts and Witchcraft, hosted by the London Fortean Society. Honoured to appear alongside Jeremy Harte, Owen Davies, and other illustrious folklore folk.
Tickets available at Eventbrite.
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I imagine it’s safe to say that I’m not the only one whose life was changed by his publication Rapid Eye. Given the scope of the influence of this explosively fertile creation, together with the seeming difficulty these days of keeping information off the web, it’s astonishing that there is almost no information at all on Dwyer out there. There’s just… Rapid Eye.
There seems to be nothing more astounding in the field of psychology than its scarcity of interesting ideas.
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"Need U (%)" is a song by British musician and DJ Duke Dumont. It features the vocals from British singer A*M*E. It was released as a digital download in the .
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Control of Drosophila imaginal disc development by rotund and roughened eye: differentially expressed transcripts of the same gene encoding functionally distinct zinc finger proteins
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Juan P. Couso
Stefan Thor
The Drosophila rotund gene is required in the wings, antenna, haltere, proboscis and legs. A member of the Rac family of GTPases, denoted the rotund racGAP gene, was previously identified in the rotund region. However, previous studies indicated that rotund racGAP was not responsible for the rotund phenotypes and that the rotund gene had yet to be identified. We have isolated the rotund gene and show that it is a member of the Krüppel family of zinc finger genes. The adjacent roughened eye locus specifically affects the eye and is genetically separable from rotund. However, roughened eye and rotund are tightly linked, and we have therefore also isolated the roughened eye transcript. Intriguingly, we show that roughened eye is part of the rotund gene but is represented by a different transcript. The rotund and roughened eye transcripts result from the utilization of two different promoters that direct expression in non-overlapping domains in the larval imaginal discs. The predicted Rotund and Roughened Eye proteins share the same C-terminal region, including the zinc finger domain, but differ in their N-terminal regions. Each cDNA can rescue only the corresponding mutation and show negative effects when expressed in each others domain of expression. These results indicate that in addition to the differential expression of rotund and roughened eye, their proteins have distinct activities. rotund and roughened eye act downstream of early patterning genes such as dachshund and appear to be involved in Notch signaling by regulating Delta, scabrous and Serrate.
Imaginal disc development
Zinc finger
Dual promoters
rotund
roughened eye
The Drosophila rotund (rn) locus is recessive viable causing male and female sterility as well as defects in adult body structures (Cavener et al., 1986). These include defects in the antennae, wing, haltere and proboscis as well as fusion of all five leg tarsi into one fused tarsal-like segment. Analysis of third instar larvae imaginal discs revealed localized cell death in the regions giving rise to the affected adult structures (Kerridge and Thomas-Cavallin, 1988). The rn locus has previously been molecularly analyzed (Agnel et al., 1989) and a cDNA encoding a member of the Rac family of GTPase-activating proteins (GAP) was isolated from this genomic region (Agnel et al., 1992b). Since this gene was located in the rn genomic region it was denoted the rotund racGAP (rnracGAP), but molecular analysis of multiple rn alleles indicated that the rnracGAP is not responsible for the rn phenotypes (Agnel et al., 1992a). In fact, all studies to date instead point to an uncharacterized larger transcript as the likely candidate for the rn gene (Agnel et al., 1992a; Hoemann et al., 1996).
The closely linked roughened eye (roe) locus affects a late step in the development of the eye, and roe mutants display rough eye morphology and reduction of photoreceptors (Renfranz and Benzer, 1989). The roe gene is genetically separable from rn, but the two genes show complex complementation (Brand and Campos-Ortega, 1990; Kerridge and Thomas-Cavallin, 1988; Ma et al., 1996). This previously led to the suggestion that rn and roe may be ‘two classes of mutation of the same gene, each of them disrupting a subfunction’ (Ma et al., 1996). To address the tight link between these two adjacent loci we have isolated the rn and roe genes. Intriguingly, our results show that roe is part of the rn gene but is represented by a different transcript. These two transcripts encode predicted proteins with an identical C-terminal region, containing a Krüppel-type zinc finger domain, but with different N-terminal regions. rn and roe are expressed in non-overlapping domains in the larval imaginal discs. Each cDNA can rescue only the corresponding mutation and when misexpressed in each others domain of expression has negative effects. Our results indicate that these two loci are genetically separable not only because of their differential expression but also because of distinct activities of the Rn and Roe proteins. By analyzing the expression of a number of markers in the developing imaginal discs, we further show that rn and roe act downstream of early patterning genes such as dachshund, but may act to modulate Notch signaling by regulating expression of Delta, Scabrous and Serrate.
Fly stocks
w1118, roe3, UAS-lacZ, and pp,cu (Bloomington Stock Center); rn89 (Couso and Bishop, 1998) identified as P089 in Flyview stock collection (http//pbio07.uni-muenster.de); rn16, rn19, rn20 (Agnel et al., 1989); sev-GAL4 (A. Bailey and G. M. Rubin); GMR-GAL4 (Hay et al., 1997); UAS-rn#1, UAS-rn#32, UAS-roe#18, UAS-roe#88 and rnGAL4#5 (this study). Mutations were maintained over standard balancers with lacZ or GFP markers.
Isolation of rn and roe cDNAs
Using genomic fragment D (Agnel et al., 1989) (provided by R. Griffin-Shea) as a probe, three Drosophila cDNA libraries were screened for a total of 11 million plaques and colonies. A larval λgt11 cDNA library (Clontech) yielded a 1.3 kilobase pair (kb) positive clone (4H). Comparison of the 4H sequence with Drosophila genomic sequence revealed that the 4H cDNA was truncated on both ends owing to internal EcoRI sites. To obtain the remainder of the cDNA we used PCR to amplify a 700 bp fragment downstream of the 3′ EcoRI site and used this PCR fragment to screen the same larval library. From 4 million plaques a 2.3 kb clone (22-4) was isolated and sequenced. The compiled cDNA sequence (4H/22-4) contained a long open reading frame (ORF) encoding a putative protein of 945 amino acids (aa; GenBank AF395905). There are several putative start codons at the beginning of the ORF, one of which closely matches the Drosophila consensus (Cavener and Ray, 1991). Owing to internal EcoRI sites at the 5′ of clone 4H and the 3′ of clone 22-4, the precise extent of the rn gene was not determined. Immediately 3′ of clone 22-4 the genome sequence reveals a number of polyadenylation sites that likely are used as termination signals.
We used a 3′ fragment from rn clone 22-4 (bp 2714-3658 of GenBank AF395905) as a probe to screen the larval cDNA library used for isolation of the rn cDNA. This yielded 2 positive clones out of 5 million plaques. Both clones contained truncated roe cDNAs, corresponding to bp 332-2856 and 621-2856 (GenBank AF395904). Both inserts crossed the junction between exon 1 and exon 2 of the predicted roe gene, extending past the end of the Roe ORF. Since we did not obtain a full-length roe cDNA, we verified the structure of the roe transcript by amplifying part of it using RT-PCR. For this, RNA from w1118 embryos was isolated and purified using RNAsol (Tel-Test, Inc.) and Qiagen Oligotex (Qiagen). We designed a primer in the predicted first exon, 5′ to stop codons in all three reading frames and followed by the predicted Roe start methionine (TAAAATTGTGCTTGGACCAGTGAA), and 2 primers in exon 2 (ATGCGAGAGCTGCGTGAACTT and TGCGACAGATACGACGAGTTGG). Using these primers, nested PCR was performed and a product of the predicted size was generated. Sequencing of this fragment was in agreement with our prediction for the intron/exon structure of roe (GenBank AF395904).
Generation of UAS-rn and UAS-roe
rn sequences corresponding to position 0-3373 (GenBank AF395905) of rn cDNA, and roe sequences corresponding to 0-2160 of roe cDNA (GenBank AF395904) and 86 bp of upstream genomic DNA, were cloned into the pUAST vector (Brand and Perrimon, 1993). Three independent UAS-rn and eight independent UAS-roe transgenic lines were generated using P-element transformation (Spradling and Rubin, 1982). These lines were tested for expression using GMR-GAL4 and all gave strong phenotypes indicating similar levels of expression.
P-element analysis
The insertion of the rn89 enhancer trap, a P[lArB] insert, was determined using standard plasmid rescue methods. This revealed that P[lArB] is inserted at position –440 bp upstream of the rn cDNA (GenBank AF395905).
Conversion of P[lArB] in rn89 to P[GawB] was carried out as previously described (Sepp and Auld, 1999) with some modifications. Briefly, males of the genotype w1118, elavC155P[GawB];;rn89/D2-3,Sb were crossed to w1118 females and their progeny screened for red-eyed males (indicating that the P[GawB] had mobilized onto the autosomes). These males were crossed singly to UAS-GFP/TM3,Sb and their progeny screened for the rn expression pattern in larvae. From 30 lines screened, 3 independent insertions (rnGAL4#5, rnGAL4#13, rnGAL4#14) expressed GFP in the rn pattern and subsequently failed to complement rn. The site of insertion and the orientation of P[GawB] was determined by PCR amplification and sequencing. In all three cases P[GawB] was inserted in the exact same position as rn89 P[lArB]. For the rescue experiments rnGAL4#5 was used. The three rnGAL4 lines enhance the wing phenotype of Ser1, common to many third chromosome balancer lines (not shown).
To verify that the rn89 and rnGAL4#5 mutant phenotypes were due to the insertion of the P elements, we excised them by standard methods. For rn89, six independent revertants were isolated using their complementation of rn. Two independent revertant lines (rn#1–5 and rn#2–1) were homozygous viable and showed no rn phenotype. They were further analyzed by PCR and sequencing to determine the structure at the P-element insertion site. In both cases the P element had imprecisely excised but left a 30 bp (rn#1–5) and 37 bp (rn#2–1) ‘footprint’ containing the expected direct duplication of the 8 bp P-element target sequence and additional sequences from both ends of the P element. These ‘footprints’ are outside the identified rn exons thus explaining why they reverse the rn phenotype. Additionally, four stronger independent alleles were identified, one of which, rnΔ2–2 was analyzed in more detail. Southern blot analysis using multiple probes, revealed that rnΔ2–2 retained P[lArB] but is deleted for 3′ flanking genomic DNA removing the first and part of the second rn exon (Fig. 1A). For the reversion of rnGAL4#5 a similar strategy was used and we obtained 5 independent revertant lines that complemented multiple rn alleles, and in addition had lost the white marker and GAL4 expression.
(A) Genomic organization of the rn region. Insertion site of the three P elements is denoted by open triangles. The deletion in rnΔ2–2 is denoted by the extended line. Fragment D was isolated in the previous study (Agnel et al., 1989) and used to initiate the screen for rn. Putative promoters are depicted as angled arrows. The rn and roe transcripts are outlined and the ORFs designated by black boxes for both genes. The ZF domain is represented by gray shading. Deletions used in this study are indicated at the bottom and breakpoints, where known, are shown. Data for rn19 and rn20 are based on previous studies (Agnel et al., 1989). rn16 was described as a smaller deletion mapping to the 3′ area (Agnel et al., 1989) but our work shows that it extends further, deleting both the common ZF coding exons and the roe-specific exons (not shown). The roe3 mutation (asterisk), is a glutamine to an amber stop codon. (B) Predicted protein structure of Rn and Roe. The N-termini are unique but the C-termini, containing most of the ZF domain, are identical. The glutamine, serine and alanine stretches are designated Q, S and A, respectively. (C) Comparison of Rn with other ZF proteins. Rn has a few close homologs in Drosophila (D.m.), C. elegans (C.e.) and rat. Numbers in circles are the percentage of identical amino acids between Rn and the other proteins in the ZF domain. Rn, Roe and Drosophila CG5557 further share a C-terminal region of homology not present in the other proteins (gray).
Analysis of roe3
To identify the EMS-induced mutation in roe3, we amplified a 1.5 kb genomic region covering the first exon of roe (primers were ATGCGAGAGCTGCGTGAACTT and CCAAATGGAAGGCCGTCTCA). Three independent PCR fragments using genomic DNA from w1118, roe3/rn20 and ppcu1 were sub-cloned and three clones from each were sequenced (ppcu1 was used as a second control since the roe3 parental chromosome could not be obtained). We found several conservative changes between roe3 and each of the other two lines, but only one non-conservative change between roe3 and both w1118 and ppcu1. This was a nonsense C→T mutation resulting in a glutamine to amber stop codon change at aa position 191 (bp 629 in GenBank AF395904) in the Roe ORF (Fig. 1A). This mutation would truncate the predicted Roe protein and the mutant protein would lack the entire C-terminal region including the ZF domain.
In situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry
Standard in situ protocols were used to examine expression of rn and roe (Tautz and Pfeile, 1989). We used three probes, 4H, containing rn-only sequences (0-1331of GenBank AF395905), roe, containing the first exon of roe (0-785 of GenBank AF395904) and ZF, containing common 3′ sequences including the ZF domain (2016-3373 of GenBank AF395905). Sense probes showed no signal in embryos or larvae. For the roe rescue experiments, adult eyes were cryo-sectioned and immunostained for Elav, a marker for photoreceptors (O’Neill et al., 1994). More than 14 ommatidia from more than four flies per genotype were analyzed and the total number of R1-7 photoreceptors determined. For epistatic analysis, third instar imaginal discs were immunostained using the following primary antibodies: anti-Elav (1:10), anti-Dac (1:25), anti-Boss (1:2000), anti-Sca (1:10), anti-Ser (1:1000), anti-Bab (1:2000) and anti-Dl (1:20).
Isolation of rotund and roughened eye
To isolate the rn cDNA we used genomic fragment D (Fig. 1A), shown to hybridize to the putative rn transcript (Agnel et al., 1989). The cDNA sequence indicates that rn encodes a Krüppel-type zinc finger (ZF) protein and contains six C2H2 ZFs. The predicted Rn protein has a high degree of homology to the predicted protein of Drosophila gene CG5557 (Adams et al., 2000), and to C.elegans Lin-29 (Rougvie and Ambros, 1995). Over the ∼150 aa ZF domain these two proteins display 84-90% identity to Rn (Fig. 1C). Among mammalian proteins, a recently identified rat cDNA, Cas-Interacting Zinc finger (CIZ) (Nakamoto et al., 2000), displays the highest homology (59% in the ZF) to Rn. Rn and CG5557 also share a short C-terminal domain of high homology not found in the other proteins (Fig. 1C). In line with the complex genetics of this area, the alignment of the rn cDNA with the genomic sequence reveals that rn spans ∼50 kb and extends on both sides of the rnracGAP (Fig. 1A).
The roe gene shows complex complementation with rn and a number of roe alleles are also rn (Agnel et al., 1989; Brand and Campos-Ortega, 1990; Kerridge and Thomas-Cavallin, 1988; Ma et al., 1996). The rn gene structure together with previous molecular work on rn alleles gave us some initial insight into the identity of roe. Particularly informative were the rnΔ2–2 and rn19 alleles. The rnΔ2–2 P-element excision allele (materials and methods) contains a deletion in the rn 5′ region removing the first and part of the second exon of rn (Fig. 1A). Complementation analysis of rnΔ2–2 shows that it is a null allele of rn but does not cause roe phenotypes (see below). Furthermore, the rn19 allele, shown to contain a larger deletion in the rn 5′ region (Agnel et al., 1989), acts as a rn null allele and, although it removes at least one other lethal complementation group, does not cause roe phenotypes. These results indicated the existence of roe-specific functions encoded in the genomic region proximal to the breakpoint of rn19 (Fig. 1A). One model could be the existence of roe specific exon(s) that are spliced and utilized specifically in the eye. However, the fact that rn19 extends further distally, uncovering other complementation group(s), but does not produce roe phenotypes argues against eye-specific splicing of a long transcript originating from a promoter in the rn region. Instead, a more likely scenario would be the existence of an eye-specific promoter and exon(s). This notion was further supported by analysis of P-element insertions in the rn 5′ area that result in the rn phenotype and matching expression but not in the roe phenotype or eye disc expression (see below). These results prompted us to look for additional exons that could explain the molecular nature of the roe gene. By screening a larval cDNA library with a rn 3′ probe and by subsequent PCR analysis we isolated the roe cDNA. The roe gene utilizes the same two 3′ exons as rn but contains a different 5′ exon (Fig. 1A). As a result the predicted Roe protein shares the C-terminal region, including the ZF domain except the first finger, with Rn but differs in the N-terminal region (Fig. 1B). It is interesting to note that the rn genomic structure was not revealed by the analysis of the sequences carried out by the Drosophila Genome Project (Adams et al., 2000). Although parts of the rn coding regions were identified (CG14600, CG14601, CG14603 and CG10040), the rn transcript was not predicted, probably because rn has several small exons spread over 50 kb. In contrast, the roe transcript was accurately predicted, short of one aa error in the splice junction between exons 1 and 2 (CG10040). At the submission of this study, the rn and roe cDNAs had not been isolated in the BDGP or RIKEN expressed sequence tag (EST) projects.
Molecular analysis of rotund and roughened eye mutations
The genomic structure of the rn locus that we propose fits well both with previous studies as well as with our molecular analysis of rn and roe alleles. First, rn16 and rn20 are deletions that show both rn and roe phenotypes, while the rn19 deletion only shows rn phenotypes (Agnel et al., 1989). In agreement, rn16 deletes both the common ZF coding exons and roe-specific exons, rn20 deletes the whole region, and rn19 removes most of the rn-specific exons (Fig. 1A). Second, we sequenced roe3, a strong roe-specific allele, and show that it is the result of a nonsense mutation in the roe-specific exon. This mutation does not affect the common 3′ exons and explains why roe3 acts as a roe null allele but does not show rn phenotypes. Third, rn89, a lacZ-containing P-element transposon allele (Couso and Bishop, 1998) was shown to be inserted within the 5′ region of the rn gene. This explains why it only displays rn and not roe phenotypes. In addition, imprecise excision of rn89 yielded rnΔ2–2, which contains a deletion of the first and part of the second rn exon (Fig. 1A). As expected, rnΔ2–2 displays a rn null phenotype (Fig. 3C,I) but no eye phenotype. In agreement with this, in situ hybridization failed to detect any rn transcript in rnΔ2–2 mutant discs (not shown). We further generated rnGAL4#5 by P-element conversion of rn89. rnGAL4#5 displays a stronger leg phenotype than rn89, possibly due to differences in the structure of the P element, but again no aberrant eye phenotype (not shown). Wild-type revertants of rn89 and rnGAL4#5 were generated that complement other rn alleles, verifying that in both cases the rn phenotype was caused by the P-element insertion.
Expression of rotund and roughened eye
We detect expression of rn and roe in developing imaginal discs, as well as in the embryonic and larval CNS. Here we will focus on the expression in the imaginal discs. Expression of rn commences during the early third larval instar in the leg, wing, haltere and antennal part of the eye-antennal imaginal disc (Fig. 2E-H). Expression of rn is observed as a ring in the leg and antenna discs and in the presumptive wing pouch and capitellum of wing and haltere discs respectively. In late third instar, expression of rn in the leg disc is no longer evident, but is maintained in the other discs (Fig. 2G). We also studied the expression of lacZ in both rn89 and in rnGAL4#5/UAS-lacZ larvae to determine rn expression. In both genotypes, expression of lacZ is in agreement with the rn in situ hybridization, except for the persistence of tarsal expression (Fig. 2A-D), but in neither line do we detect expression in the eye disc. Expression of roe commences in the third instar and is confined to the eye part of the eye-antennal imaginal disc in a band of 4-6 cells at the morphogenetic furrow (Fig. 2I,K). We find no evidence of roe expression in other imaginal discs.
Expression of rn and roe in third instar imaginal discs. (A-D) Late third instar rn89 imaginal discs stained with X-gal. Expression is seen as a wide ring in the leg disc (A) and the antennal portion of the eye-antenna disc (B, arrow). Note the lack of detectable expression in the eye portion (B, arrowhead). Expression is also evident in the central region and the notum of the wing disc (C) and in the central region of the haltere disc (D). (E-G) In situ hybridization to wild type using a rn-specific probe in early (E), mid (F), and late (G) third instar discs. Expression of rn is seen in a pattern similar to that of X-gal in rn89. In the leg disc (l), the expression of rn is transient and evident only during 80-96 hours after egg laying. In contrast, the expression of rn in the wing (w) and haltere (h) is found throughout the third instar larval stages. (H-K) In situ hybridization of wild-type eye-antenna discs using rn-specific (H), roe-specific (I,K) and rn/roe common 3′ (J) probes. (H) Expression of rn is found only in the antennal portion (arrow), and (I) roe only in the eye portion of the eye-antennal disc (arrowhead). (J) Using the rn/roe common 3′ probe we detect the combined pattern of rn and roe and both the antennal (arrow) and the eye portion (arrowhead) show expression. (K) Expression of roe is found in a band of 4-6 cells at the morphogenetic furrow.
The expression of rn and roe is in agreement with the observed phenotypes. For instance, rn mutants have defects in wings and halteres, and correspondingly rn is expressed in the appropriate presumptive regions in wing and haltere imaginal discs. In the leg, rn mutants display fusion of all 5 leg tarsi into one fused tarsal-like segment. In agreement with this, rn is expressed in a sub-distal ring that represents the presumptive tarsus, as revealed by the persistent tarsal expression of rn-driven lacZ in late third instar discs. Similarly, roe specifically affects the eye, and mutants have rough eyes and reduced numbers of photoreceptors (Ma et al., 1996). Accordingly, we observe expression of roe in the eye part of the eye-antennal imaginal disc but not in other imaginal discs. The mutually exclusive patterns of expression of rn and roe raised the issue of whether they may in fact negatively regulate each other. To determine this, we analyzed the expression of roe in rn mutant imaginal discs and conversely the expression of rn in roe mutant imaginal discs. These studies revealed no apparent changes in the expression of rn and roe when compared to wild type, indicating that there is no cross-regulation between rn and roe (not shown).
Rescue of rotund
Owing to the complexity of the rn locus we wanted to further verify the authenticity of our rn and roe cDNAs by rescue experiments. For the rn rescue we focused on the leg phenotype and used the rnGAL4#5 line that shows strong leg phenotypes over rn20 (Fig. 3A,D,I). By providing rn function with UAS-rn, we observe rescue of the rnGAL4#5/rn20 leg phenotypes, often to a level indistinguishable from the wild-type leg (Fig. 3F,I, P<0.001). We do not observe any dominant effect in the leg of UAS-rn in a heterozygous background (Fig. 3E,I).
Rescue of the rn leg phenotype. (A-H) Adult male forelegs and (I) quantification of the number of tarsal segments. (A) Wild-type leg with sex comb (s.c.), 5 distinct tarsal segments (T1-5), and a claw at the tip of the 5th tarsus. (B) rn16/rn20, a genetic null. The sex comb is completely missing in all cases and the five tarsi appear fused into one segment. Note, however, that the claw is still present. (C) rnΔ2–2/rn20, which acts as a genetic null. (D) rnGAL4#5/rn20, a hypomorphic allelic combination. The sex comb is present and appears normal. The claw is normal. However, the tarsi are fused into two to three tarsal-like segments. (E) UAS-rn /+;rnGAL4#5/+. UAS-rn causes no obvious disruption of the leg. (F) Rescue of rn mutants in UAS-rn /+;rnGAL4#5/rn20. The rn cDNA, expressed using the GAL4/UAS system, rescues the leg phenotype. (G) UAS-roe/+;rnGAL4#5/+. UAS-roe has negative effects when expressed in the rn pattern. (H) UAS-roe/+;rnGAL4#5/rn20. UAS-roe is unable to rescue rn mutants. (I) Quantification of tarsi in wild type, rn mutants and rescue flies. The apparent number of tarsal segments was determined in rn mutants and rescue flies (>20 flies and >120 legs/genotype). The rescue is statistically significant to P<0.001 using a two-tailed t-test. Error bars represent the standard deviation. Temperature for rescue is 18°C though similar results were observed at 22°C (not shown).
The structure of the rn genomic region and the differential expression in imaginal discs explains why rn and roe can be genetically separated and affect different tissues. However, the rn and roe gene products are also different, and the first ZF is truncated in the Roe protein (Fig. 1B), intriguing given that the first finger of Krüppel-type ZF proteins has been shown to be involved in DNA-binding (Avram et al., 1999; Hamilton et al., 1998). Rn and Roe further differ in the N-terminal regions where they contain stretches of glutamine/serine (Roe) or alanine (Rn), often found in transcriptional activator and repressor domains respectively (Gerber et al., 1994; Lanz et al., 1995; Licht et al., 1994; Madden et al., 1993; Nowling et al., 2000). This raised the possibility that these two proteins may have different activities and may not be interchangeable. To address this issue we misexpressed roe in the leg disc and also attempted to rescue rn with roe. When roe is misexpressed in the developing leg disc using rnGAL4#5, we noticed a negative effect with reduced number of tarsi, similar to rn mutants (Fig. 3G,I). Furthermore, in a rn mutant background (rnGAL4#5/rn20) we observe no evidence of rescue by UAS-roe (Fig. 3H,I).
Rescue of roughened eye
We also wanted to rescue roe mutants using the GAL4/UAS system. The roe rescue was complicated by the fact that we did not have a GAL4 insertion in the roe gene. This is especially relevant given the dynamic pattern of roe expression in the eye disc, with transient expression in a band of approx. 4-6 cells at the morphogenetic furrow (Fig. 2I,K). We were unable to identify a GAL4 line that would express precisely in the roe pattern and instead attempted to rescue roe using GAL4 drivers that would drive in photoreceptors. To this end, we tested several eye disc GAL4 driver lines for ectopic effects. Not surprisingly, strong pan-eye drivers such as GMR-GAL4 lead to dramatic phenotypes with loss of pigment and bristle cells (Fig. 4D). A novel sevenless-GAL4 (sev-GAL4) line that expresses GAL4 in the photoreceptors, cone and mystery cells (Fig. 4A,B) showed little if any sign of rough eye morphology when crossed to UAS-roe (not shown). Using sev-GAL4 crossed to UAS-roe in a roe null mutant background (rn16/rn20) we observe partial rescue of the eye phenotypes with increased eye size and reduced roughness (Fig. 5A-C). To quantify the roe rescue we counted the number of adult R1-7 photoreceptors in wild-type, mutant and rescued flies. These results confirm previous studies (Ma et al., 1996) and show that roe mutants have a reduced number of photoreceptors compared to wild type (Fig. 5E). In line with the apparent morphological rescue we find significantly increased numbers of photoreceptors in rescued flies when compared to mutants (P<0.04, Fig. 5E). Given that we were unable to use a GAL4 driver line that perfectly matched the dynamic expression of roe in eye discs, we believe that this partial rescue supports the proposed identity of the roe gene. As in the rn rescue experiments, we wanted to address whether rn is interchangeable with roe and could provide rescue activity in the eye. First we tested the activity of UAS-rn in the eye by misexpressing it using GMR-GAL4 and sev-GAL4. This leads to severe rough eye phenotypes with GMR-GAL4 (Fig. 4C) and little if any sign of rough eye morphology with sev-GAL4 (not shown). In a roe null mutant background (rn16/rn20) we find no evidence of rescue by adding UAS-rn (Fig. 5B-E).
(A,B) Expression of sev-GAL4, visualized by crossing to UAS-lacZ and staining for anti-β-gal (green), in relation to Elav (red) expression. Expression of sev-GAL4 commences posterior to the morphogenetic furrow in subsets of photoreceptors, as evident by the overlap with Elav. In addition, sev-GAL4 expression is observed in cells adjacent to the developing photoreceptors, most likely corresponding to mystery and cone cells. (C,D) Misexpression of rn (C) in UAS-rn/+;GMR-GAL4/+ and roe (D) UAS-roe/+;GMR-GAL4/+ both lead to disruptions in the morphology and size of the adult eye. These include an apparent loss of pigment cells and bristle cells, as well as the presence of patches of necrotic tissue (black).
Rescue of roe. (A-D) Adult eyes and (E) quantification of photoreceptors. (A) Wild type. (B) rn16/rn20 a roe null combination displays a small and rough eye. (C) UAS-roe can rescue roe. sev-GAL4/UAS-roe;rn16/rn20 have larger and apparently less rough eyes than roe. (D) UAS-rn fails to rescue roe. sev-GAL4/UAS-rn;rn16/rn20 eye shows no sign of rescue, instead an apparent enhancement of the roe phenotype. (E) Quantification of the rescue of roe mutants. Adult eyes were sectioned and the number of Elav-positive cells in each ommatidia was counted. Wild-type ommatidia carry the typical seven (R1-7) photoreceptors (the R8 photoreceptor cell body is located slightly offset and was not included). In roe mutants we find an average of 5.7 photoreceptors, which is rescued to 6.3 by providing roe activity using UAS-roe (P<0.04). Using UAS-rn we find no evidence of rescue and roe ommatidia contain an average of 5.6 photoreceptors per ommatidia. In addition we find ommatidia with 4 or sometimes only 3 photoreceptors, something not observed in the other genotypes, indicating a negative action of UAS-rn.
Molecular context for rotund and roughened eye activity
Previous studies suggested that rn and roe act late during development of their respective tissues, perhaps during terminal differentiation (Godt et al., 1993; Renfranz and Benzer, 1989). To further explore the function of rn and roe during leg and eye development, we have examined the expression of genes that play key roles during development of these tissues. We first studied the leg disc and analyzed genes whose expression abuts or overlaps that of rn. Dachshund (Dac), a nuclear factor required for normal leg development, is expressed at early stages of leg development in a ring pattern that abuts the early rn-expressing ring (M. I. G., S. A. Bishop and J. P. C., unpublished). Bric a brac (Bab), a BTB-domain containing transcription factor, has been suggested to be active late in limb development and is expressed in a similar pattern to rn in the leg (Godt et al., 1993). Furthermore, bab mutants show similar (though not identical) phenotypes to rn mutants in the tarsal segments of the leg (Godt et al., 1993). Interestingly, neither Dac nor Bab appears to be regulated by rn as revealed by staining of third instar leg discs (Fig. 6A,B; not shown). These results suggest that rn might act in parallel to, or downstream of, dac and bab to specify tarsal segment identity. Ser, a ligand for the Notch (N) receptor, is expressed in presumptive joint areas in larvae and pupa leg discs and controls the development of the leg joints (Bishop et al., 1999). In wild-type mid-third instar leg discs, Ser is expressed in the first tarsal fold, which coincides with the rn-expressing ring. In rn, Ser is down-regulated in the tarsal ring but not outside it (Fig. 6C,D). In pupal leg discs, Ser expression, normally present in four stripes within the presumptive tarsal area (Fig. 6E), is present in fewer and less defined stripes in rn (Fig. 6F).
(A-D) Mid third instar larval and (E,F) pupal leg imaginal discs. Expression of Bab in wild-type (A) and rn16/rn20 (B) leg discs show that neither the pattern nor the intensity of Bab staining is affected in rn. Expression of Ser in wild type (C,E) and rn16/rn20 (D,F). In wild-type leg discs (C) Ser expression is observed as a ring in the first tarsal fold (arrow) and in the proximal furrow (arrowhead). In rn16/rn20 leg discs (D) Ser expression is down-regulated in the tarsal fold (arrow) but maintained in the proximal furrow (arrowhead). Similarly, in pupal leg discs Ser appears to be down-regulated in the presumptive tarsal area where rn is normally expressed. Compare bracketed areas in (E) wild type and in (F) rn16/rn20.
The roe rough eye phenotype is reflected in reduced numbers of photoreceptors present in adult ommatidia (Brand and Campos-Ortega, 1990) (this study). To determine whether roe mutants show early patterning defects in the eye-antennal disc, we analyzed expression of Dac, which plays an early role in the eye disc and is expressed in a broad domain spanning both sides of the morphogenetic furrow (MF) (Mardon et al., 1994). Since dac mutants have a more severe eye phenotype than roe we anticipated that Dac would not be regulated by roe, and as expected we observe no change in the pattern of Dac staining in roe when compared to wild type (Fig. 7A,B). Next we analyzed third instar eye-antennal discs with antibodies to Elav and to Bride of Sevenless (Boss), a marker of R8 photoreceptors (Hart et al., 1990). In wild-type eye discs, Elav and Boss are expressed in a stereotyped pattern immediately posterior to the MF (Fig. 7C,E). In roe mutants, expression of Elav and Boss reveals abnormal photoreceptor differentiation with apparent gaps in the expression of both markers posterior to the MF (Fig. 7D,F). Elav expression also indicates that photoreceptor clusters frequently have fewer photoreceptors than normal (Fig. 7E,F). Expression of Elav and Boss further reveals an apparent failure of the MF to progress in a straight line from dorsal to ventral. The MF appears to progress more slowly in some areas, creating a wave-like appearance of developing photoreceptor clusters near the MF (Fig. 7C-F). These results indicate that roe function is centered around the MF, a notion that fits well with the strong but transient roe expression seen at the MF (Fig. 2I,K). We therefore analyzed markers expressed at the MF, and since roe has been shown to interact genetically with the NSpl mutation (Brand and Campos-Ortega, 1990), we examined expression of Delta (Dl), a N ligand (Vassin et al., 1987), and Scabrous (Sca), a secreted glycoprotein implicated in N signaling (Baker et al., 1990). In wild type, Dl and Sca are expressed in clusters of cells at the MF, and expression is maintained posterior to the MF in subsets of cells (Fig. 7G,I). In roe mutants, the punctate expression of Dl and Sca is lost at the MF and replaced by a diffuse band of expression. Posterior to the MF, expression is punctate but appears disorganized (Fig. 7H,J).
Third instar larval eye-antennal discs. (A,C,E,G) Wild-type discs, and (B,D,F,H) rn16/rn20 discs. Expression of Dac in wild type (A) and roe mutant (B) shows that Dac expression is unaffected and that general eye disc patterning appears normal. Dac further appears unchanged in the antennal spot. Expression of Boss (C,D) and Elav (E,F) reveals that the highly ordered array of developing photoreceptors observed in wild type (C,E) is affected in roe (D,F). Boss expression is apparently absent from some developing photoreceptor clusters (arrows in D), and Elav expression reveals clusters with reduced number of photoreceptors (arrows in F). (G,H) Expression of Dl. In wild type (G) Dl expression is observed in clusters at the morphogenetic furrow (arrow) and in subsets of cells posterior to it. In roe (H) the punctate expression of Dl at the furrow is affected and only present as a diffuse band (arrow). Posterior to the furrow, Dl expression is disorganized (H). Expression of Sca in wild type (I) and roe (J) is similar to Dl.
The rn and roe loci are tightly linked and this study reveals the underlying molecular basis for this linkage. Intriguingly, our work shows that roe is part of the rn gene and is represented by a related but distinct transcript. The rescue and misexpression experiments support the notion that rn and roe play different roles during imaginal disc development not only because of their differential expression but also because of distinct activities of the Rn and Roe proteins. These activities could involve different target DNA sequences and/or different transcriptional effects, perhaps based on their different ZF and glutamine/alanine/serine stretches.
Regarding the function of the rnracGAP, both our work and previous studies argue against any involvement of rnracGAP in the rn or roe phenotypes (Agnel et al., 1989; Agnel et al., 1992a; Hoemann et al., 1996). In situ studies indicate that rnracGAP is only expressed at low levels in the imaginal discs during pupal stages (Agnel et al., 1989; Agnel et al., 1992a; Hoemann et al., 1996). In addition, there is no obvious difference in the severity of rn and roe phenotypes whether or not the rnracGAP is simultaneously removed. For instance, we have found no significant difference in the severity of rn leg phenotypes in rn20/rn20 (that removes rn, roe and rnracGAP) compared to rn19/rn20 (rn19 does not remove rnracGAP). Similarly, roe3/rn20 (roe3 has a premature stop codon in the roe-specific exon) displays as severe of an eye phenotype as rn20/rn20 (not shown). Furthermore, we can rescue rn and roe mutants with the rn and roe cDNAs. Recent studies may indicate an involvement of rnracGAP specifically in male fertility, and high levels of rnracGAP expression have been observed in the adult testis (Agnel et al., 1989; Agnel et al., 1992a; Hoemann et al., 1996). The rn89 and rnGAL4#5 P-element insertions described here may provide useful starting materials for the generation of mutations specifically affecting the rnracGAP by local P-element mobilization.
Little is known about the genetic cascades within which roe and rn are acting. The results from eye-antennal imaginal discs indicate that roe acts at the morphogenetic furrow, as evident both from its expression and from the effects on Dl and Sca expression in roe mutants. Both Dl and sca play roles in spacing the array of ommatidial preclusters in the morphogenetic furrow (Baker et al., 1990; Baker and Zitron, 1995; Ellis et al., 1994), and it is interesting to note that the expression of roe at the furrow is not evenly distributed and appears stronger in clusters of cells (Fig. 2I). Genetic screens for modifiers of the Nspl mutation identified roe as an enhancer, and sca and Dl as suppressors of the Nspl eye phenotype (Brand and Campos-Ortega, 1990). Given the dynamics of N signaling, these results support models where Roe acts to either positively or negatively regulate Dl and Sca. A genetic interaction screen for enhancers of glass also identified roe (Ma et al., 1996), an interesting finding given that ectopic expression of roe using GMR-GAL4 leads to a glass-like phenotype with a loss of bristles and pigment cells (Fig. 4E,F).
In the leg, rn expression is the earliest marker known for tarsal development (Couso and Bishop, 1998). rn is required for the development of this region and for its subsequent patterning, as observed by the loss of Ser expression. Thus, the transient expression of rn in the leg might reveal that the intercalation of the presumptive tarsal region between the distal tip and medial leg regions occurs during early third instar.
It is increasingly common, even in invertebrates, to find genes that utilize two or more promoters (Gower et al., 2001; Krishnan et al., 1995; Li et al., 1999; Mevel-Ninio et al., 1995). Although this may lead to the generation of different proteins, it is often unclear whether the proteins have distinct activities. In fact, this issue is not easily resolved by traditional forward genetics and subsequent molecular analysis, since even if a locus can be genetically dissected into different subfunctions, this does not identify whether the different proteins have distinct activities. Perhaps the best way to test whether the variant proteins are interchangeable in vivo, is by cross-rescue in each others domain of expression. The rn gene is a clear example of a locus that utilizes both tissue-specific promoters and functionally distinct proteins to achieve functional diversity, a scenario likely to be observed more and more frequently in the post-genomic era.
We thank J. B. Thomas and P. H. Taghert for advice. We thank A. Bailey and G. M. Rubin for the sev-GAL4 lines, and R. Griffin-Shea for sharing fly lines and DNAs. G. Gloor provided advice on P-element conversion. We thank L. Zipursky, K. Irvine and E. Knust for antibodies. We are grateful to The Bloomington Stock Center for providing fly lines. We thank N. Perrimon, A. Michelson and A. Simcox for critically reading the manuscript. B. Borsari provided excellent technical assistance. This work was supported by grants from NIH (RO1 NS39875-01, T32MH20017) to S. T. and S. E. S. and by The Wellcome Trust (Senior Research Fellowship and supplementary Grant) to J. P. C. and M. I. G.
Accepted November 26, 2001.
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Facebook Movie Ads Can Now Include Premiere Reminders, Showtime Lookups
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Facebook is extending Hollywood studios’ ad buys on the social platform with the official launch of two new features – movie reminders and showtimes.
The new features are available in the U.S. and the U.K., as a standard part of ad campaigns that studios buy for News Feed. Facebook isn’t charging extra for the reminder and showtime features, with ad rates determined based on the targeting parameters marketers set, according to Jen Howard, group director, entertainment, technology and telco for Facebook.
“It’s another foray we’re making into helping people connect with the movies they love on Facebook,” Howard said.
Facebook has already run smaller-scale tests of the reminders and showtime lookups. For example, last year Universal Pictures used the features for Illumination Entertainment’s “The Grinch” animated film, which premiered Nov. 8, 2018. That drove a “significant increase” in showtime lookups and ticket purchases, according to Doug Neil, Universal’s EVP of digital marketing, although he didn’t quantify the extent of the lift.
Moviegoers often discover a film months before its release, with interest typically peaking when the trailer hits. Now Facebook is letting movie fans tap a button on a movie’s ad — labeled “Interested” — and when the movie hits theaters, they’ll receive a notification that provides a link to the movie detail page on Facebook where they can look up showtimes and purchase tickets.
Facebook shared a mock-up of what the movie reminders look like (for a fake movie called “Love, Served”):
In addition, for movies currently playing in theaters, Facebook ads can include a “Get Showtimes” button to go right to the movie detail page to find out where and when to see the film (and buy tickets).
The social network already provides showtime listings through deals with theater chains including AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas. In the U.S., Facebook provides ticketing through partnerships with NBCUniversal’s Fandango and Atom Tickets. In the U.K., users can purchase tickets through the AMC-owned Odeon Cinemas chain.
In partnership with Atom Tickets and AMC, Facebook is currently running a limited-time promo to waive the convenience fees charged by the two partners on movie tickets purchased through the social network.
About 58% of moviegoers discover movies online, with 39% of those specifically finding upcoming releases on mobile, according to Facebook-commissioned research conducted by Accenture released in January 2019.
Howard said Facebook also is considering extending the reminder feature to TV or streaming-video services — and even more broadly, “any industry where a reminder would be helpful,” she said.
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