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Concert Review: Justin Timberlake’s Man Of The Woods Tour — Toronto 2nd Night
Curtis Morgan
Events & Festivals, Music, Promo, Reviews
Justin Timberlake kicked off his Man Of The Woods tour in Toronto last week. Click here for our full review and exclusive video on Mobtoronto.com.
The stage design was unlike one I’ve ever seen before. The mainstage was at one end of the arena. The floor of the arena had a long almost “S” shape runway that ran the entire length of the basketball court from one end of the arena to the other with a mini stage in the middle, and a slightly bigger one at the far end. The inner curves of the S are filled with fans who paid over $500 a ticket. There are faux trees alongside the edges of the runway. Vertical screens that would project video images of what was happening on stage as well as mood-setting motifs like forests and fireflies, and a sky full of stars was projected over these screens that were raised and lowered whenever needed.
concertJustin TimberlakeLiveMan Of The Woods
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Seoul Transcends at M for Montreal
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Archive for the tag “Royal Progress”
Richard III enters York
Richard III and his royal progress in York
Richard, Anne and Edward Prince of Wales in York 8th September 1483
It is not that easy to find a city connected to King Richard III as York is. During his life, he visited the capital of Yorkshire many times and after he accepted the crown and became king, he left London for the Royal progress and stayed in York for three weeks.
We are lucky enough to have records of his staying in the city and of his triumphant arrival on 29th August 1483 in the capital of Yorkshire. The description of this event is not very detailed abut gives us the perfect idea of what happened that day in York.
It is significant that Richard entered York through Micklegate Bar.
Micklegate Bar
He probably decided to do so in 1460 his father’s head had been displayed there as he was declared a traitor. Richard Duke of York was actually eligible to be King himself so we can consider Richard’s choice as a remark that both him and his father were legitimate heirs to the throne. We can also imagine that he wanted to redeem his father entering in triumph from the same gate his father had been so badly humiliated and treated as a traitor.
We have an account of the royal progress in York thanks to the Extracts from the Municipal Records of the City of York. I adapted from the medieval version to the modern to be more understandable.
“He took his journey towards the county of York where the people abused his lawful favour (as he both favoured and trusted them in his heart) had of late presumed to attempt diverse routes and riots contrary to his laws and enfranging of his peace and upon hope of his maintenance were so elated that no lord were he never of so great power could either pacify or rule them till the King himself came personally thether to set a concorde and a unity in that country and to bridel and rule the rude and rustical and blustering bold people of that region and so he by long journeying came to the city of York were the citizens received him with great pomp and triumph according to the qualities of their education and quantity of their substance and abiity and make diverse days, plays and pageantry and token joy and solace.
York Minster: Wherefore King Richard magnified and applauded by the north nation and also to show himself appearing before them in royal habit and sceptre in laude and diadem on his head, made proclamation that all people should resort to York, on the day of ascension of our Lord, where all men should both behold and see him, his queen and prince in their high estates and degrees, and also for their good will, should receive many thanks, large benefits and munificent rewards. At the day appointed, the whole clergy assembled in copes richly revested and so with a reverent ceremony went about the city in procession; after whom followed the king with his crown and sceptre, appeared in his circot robe royal accompanied with no small number of the nobility of his realm: after whom marched in order queen Anne his wife, likewise crowned leading on her left hand prince Edward her son having on his head a demi crown appointed for the degree of a prince. The king was held in that triumph in such honour and the common people of the North so rejoyed that they extolled and praised him far above the stars.”
The Archbishop’s Palace in York
On the 8th September, Richard invested his son Edward Prince of Wales and made knight his illegitimate son (John of Gloucester) in the Archbishop’s Palace in York. He also gave to York many presents especially to the Minster. There is an inventory of all the beautiful items he donated to the Minster of York. None of these seems to have survived.
Something personal
The Hotel opened by the present Duke of Gloucester
Richard entered the city of York as a King on 29th August. For an incredible coincidence, the day I officially landed in England to remain was 29th August as well. We stayed for 25 days in a hotel in the city centre that had been opened by HRH Richard Duke of Gloucester. A sign of my future affiliation to the RIII Society?
Posted by ladychaol in anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion, sources and tagged Anne Neville, Archbishop's Palace York, diadem, Edward of Middleham, John of Gloucester, Micklegate Bar, Municipal Records, regalia, Richard Duke of Gloucester, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Richard III Society, Royal Progress, sceptre, Wakefield, York, York Minster | Leave a comment
Tales of a Ricardian Traveler – Part Two: Rievaulx Abbey and Helmsley Castle
Lady on Horseback, mid-15th c., British Museum
My previous Travel Tales blog talked about the Forest of Bowland and Skipton. Today, we’re going to two places that sometimes get forgotten by the traveler who is interested in visiting places having some Richard III connections: Rievaulx Abbey and Helmsley Castle.
Rievaulx Abbey – Refectory and undercroft
From our temporary homebase in Ripon-Masham, we drove 30 miles to visit one of the gems of English medieval history. Like Fountains and Byland Abbeys, Rievaulx was one of the great Cistercian monasteries of medieval Europe, and its ruins are said to be the “most complete” of any of the dissolved religious houses in England. It has one of the most spectacular natural settings within a deep valley in the North York Moors National Park; however, to take a photograph from the best vantage point one has to pay an admission price of…
Posted by white lily in buildings, travel and tagged Black Death, Byland, Edward II, Edward IV, Helmsley Castle, Hexham, Magna Carta, monastery, National Park, Rhoda Edwards, Richard III, Rievaulx Abbey, Royal Progress, Scarborough, travel, Yorkshire | Leave a comment
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I need help to understand chord intervals (not single note intervals)
I understand intervals between notes. Each number of steps between two notes has a particular name. Like this:
But some times I see people refering to intervals between chords, not single notes. Like this: I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi and vii.
theory chords intervals roman-numerals
Dom♦
André PenaAndré Pena
See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_function – Ulf Åkerstedt Oct 19 '13 at 17:30
Counting semi tones is the lazy way to do inversions. A half step up could also be a Augmented Unison. C to D# is also not a Minor Third (Although it is three semitones up.) – Neil Meyer Nov 1 '13 at 7:10
@NeilMeyer Lazy? I'll agree that it's not always accurate, but surely you can't be arguing that it's less work?! Also, those aren't inversions either. – user45266 Apr 11 '19 at 17:41
Take a major scale. There are seven different notes in it, so starting from the root note of the scale, number each note (In C major, you'd have C=1, D=2, etc). If you build a chord off of any of those notes, you can give it the number of whichever root note you chose (In C major again, Cmaj would be 1, Dm would be 2, etc). When Roman numerals are used, they indicate the type of the chord -- capital letters are major chords, lowercase letters are minor chords. With a major scale, the chords you build off of each note are going to follow the pattern of major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, diminished or I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi and vii (vii should properly be followed by a degree sign to indicate it's diminished, not minor).
When people are discussing a chord progression, you they might write something like I-vi-IV-V. This means for whatever key the song is in (or whatever key you want), play the Major 1 chord, followed by the Minor 6 chord, then the Major 4 and the Major 5 chords. This system is used because it lets you know the structure of a song independent of the key it's in, making it easy to transpose.
JoelJoel
Joel. Thank you very much. Just to clarify a thing: In the case of the G Major Scale, we have these notes: G, A, B, C, D, E, F#. I understand that to build a chord progression I need to find chords of G, A and B and so forth that uses only these notes. So it would be a G, a Am, a Bm and so forth. But how can I build a chord of F of any kind with these chords? I need a F to build any kind of F chord, don't I? But I only have a F# :(. What do I do? – Anonymous May 22 '11 at 17:26
Figured that out myself. Actually I won't ever build an F chord, but a F#. Thank you so much – Anonymous May 22 '11 at 17:34
You can do an F somehow. It wouldn't fit these established rules of harmony, but there are lots of songs that don't do that. – Dave Jacoby May 22 '11 at 23:30
@André, you could change from G to C/Am. (Shouldn't be an issue) And there you go, now you can use the F :) You just need to fiddle around a bit with the cords to make it smooth. @Joel, you are awesome ;) – Anonymous May 23 '11 at 7:30
Take a major scale.. What's it like with a minor scale? What is the convetion here? Let's say we describe a song written in A minor. How would I reference the chord progresson a,F,E? Would iv,IV,III be valid? To me this feels more natural than saying i,VI, V. If it has to be the latter, what about a mixture-song where you cannot really determine if it's major/minor? How can you be sure the other one know what you're talking about? – Baa Jan 1 '17 at 20:26
This is the notation used in music theory to indicate specific chords in a key.
I - Tonic - Major
i - Tonic - minor
II - Super Tonic - Major
ii - Super Tonic - minor
III - Mediant - Major
iii - Mediant - Minor
iv - Sub Dominant - Minor
IV - Sub Dominant - Major
V - Dominant - Major
v - Dominant - minor - Very rare
vi - Submediant - minor
VI - Submediant - Major
vii - Leading Tone - minor
VII - Leading Tone - Major
○ indicates an diminished chord (Minor third / Diminished fifth)
A plus sign indicates an augmented chord (Major third / Augmented fifth)
5 3 (or none) next to a triad indicates root position so for instance If your chord is C/E/G the see would in this case be bottom.
6 means first inversion. So this case it would be E/G/C or E/C/G.
6 4 means second inversion. So in this case it would be G/E/C or G/C/E
Neil MeyerNeil Meyer
The confusion here stems from the fact that theorists use roman numerals to describe a chord's position in a scale, and specific intervals for any two notes.
Your chart is specific intervals. These consist of a generic interval (the number) and a quality (major, minor, perfect, augmented, diminished, etc.). Note that most of the time, those charts are listed in half-steps; I've never seen anyone refer to an octave as six steps.
THe roman numerals you mention are different. Those refer to chords' diatonic functions. They also consist of a number and a quality, but they mean the chord. For example, in C major, iii means the chord is built on the third of the key (E) and since the iii is lowercase, it's a minor chord, so it means Em.
Chords consist of intervals. However, the way we describe the two are different. Intervals use specific interval naming, like m6, and chords often use Roman Numeral Analysis, like V.
Thanks for contributing an answer to Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange!
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Kristoffer Gansing: Transversal Media Practices: Media Archaeology, Art and Technological Development (2013)
9 May 2013, dusan
Filed under thesis | Tags: · art, artistic research, imagination, media archeology, media art, new media, overhead projector, remediation, technology, television, transversality
Transversal Media Practices work across specific situations of technological development, critically examining and redefining the terms of production in different media by bringing heterogeneous histories, institutions, actors and materialities into play with one another. This dissertation is all about trying out and refining the methodologies of such transversal media practices, in the end outlining a conceptual set of tools for further development.
Following the technological hype of the “digital revolution” of the mid-1990s, the field of new media studies gained popularity over a ten year period. This dissertation takes its cue from a historical turn in new media theory, and argues that it is time leave behind strict polarisations between old and new as well as analogue and digital. The study unfolds through two case-studies. The first, “The World’s Last Television Studio”, looks at tv-tv, an art and media-activist project that negotiates the sociocultural and material changes of the “old” and institutionalised mass medium of television. In the second case study, “The Art of the Overhead”, another old medium is engaged: the overhead projector – a quintessential 20th century institutional medium here presented as a device for rethinking the new through the old. The problematic of technological development, i.e. dealing with questions of how (media) technologies develop over time, forms the background to these two case studies. A key issue being how cultural and artistic practices dealing with the interaction of old and new media invite us to conceptualise technological development in new ways.
The emerging field of media archaeology is employed as a methodology in media studies and cultural production, comprising a theoretical and applied analysis of media history, materiality and practice. This transversal approach allows media archaeologists to deal with the relation between the old and the new in a non-linear way as well as to pay attention to the technical materiality of media. It is argued that the transversality of the media-archaeological approach should be seen in contrast to other conceptions of media history and technological development, such as progressivist, mono-medial and evolutionary ones. In this study, the author tries out the potential of media archaeology to reform our conception of media technologies, and eventually formulates a set of concepts for thinking and doing media archaeology as a transversal media practice. These tools are about the imaginary, residual and renewable dimensions of media technologies and are meant to assist in the opening up and intervening into processes of standardised media development.
On a general level the resulting set of tools for transversal media practices builds a bridge between theory and practice: they can be used for further research and cultural analysis where objects of study speak back to analytical concepts. At the same time these are tools for transversality that expand this form of cultural analysis in that the travelling between disciplines here also means a travelling between theory and practice. On a specific level, the tools enable this travel between theory and practice in media- and communication studies, and as such they contribute to the development of new practice-based methodologies in media research.
Doctoral dissertation in Media and Communications Studies
School of Arts and Communication, K3; Faculty of Culture and Society; Malmö University
Dissertation series in New Media, Public Spheres and Forms of Expression
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License
public defense of dissertation (17 May 2013, Malmö)
Media archaeology at Monoskop wiki (incl. source bibliography)
Richard Grusin: Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11 (2010)
22 October 2012, dusan
Filed under book | Tags: · affect, mass media, media, mediality, memory, preemption, remediation, security
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 have been called the world’s first live global media event. Responding to the immediacy and collective shock produced by live coverage of the collapse of the Twin Towers, print, televisual, and networked media have become obsessed with the pre-mediation of potential futures.
In an era of heightened securitization, US and global media have attempted to prevent a recurrence of such media trauma by ensuring that no future will be able to emerge into the present that has not already been premeditated in the past. Socially networked US and global media work to premediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity, while also perpetuating low levels of apprehension or fear.
Following up on the groundbreaking work of media theory Remediation: Understanding New Media, Grusin develops the logic of premediation in terms of such concepts as mediality, the affective life of media, and the anticipation of security.
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
review (Jussi Parikka, Leonardo)
Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin: Remediation: Understanding New Media (1999)
25 April 2011, dusan
Filed under book | Tags: · computer games, digital art, film, media, new media, painting, photography, radio, remediation, self, technology, television, ubiquitous computing, virtual reality, web
Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning “remediation,” and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.
Publisher: MIT Press, 1999
ISBN: 0262024527, 9780262024525
PDF (CHM; updated on 2012-9-3)
PDF (low quality PDF; added on 2012-9-3)
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MNAs stage joint walkout from NA
Imran Mukhtar And Mushtaq Mughal
ISLAMABAD - Majority of legislators in the National Assembly on Thursday urged the government to constitute a judicial commission as well as parliamentary committee to probe into the incidents of target killings and terrorism including the tragic killing of Minister for Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti All the parliamentary parties including PML-Q, PML-N, JUI-F and the ruling PPP staged a token walkout of the House except ANP as a protest on the killing of the cabinet members before it started a debate on the incident. Naveed Qamar, Minister of Privatisation, had moved a motion that the House might initiate a debate on the tragic killing of Shahbaz Bhatti and the law and order situation in the country on the proposal given by the Prime Minister the other day. Asia Nasir, one of the minority members of JUI-F, was the first who, along with other parliamentarian belonging to minorities, staged a token walkout from the House. She strongly condemned the incident and objected that the House even did not dare to pray for the departed soul of Shahbaz Bhatti. PML-Q joined the walkout along with the minority members, and PML-N also jumped into the bandwagon on the request of Makhdoom Javed Hashmi along with other parties sitting in the House. Later, the ruling PPP also joined the protest that was later criticised by ANP. PPP came under severe criticism by one of the members of his coalition partners, Pervez Khan of ANP, for joining the protest. He said that what kind of drama PPP was playing as it was the ruling party and it should answer all the questions and concerns raised by the parliamentarians instead of protesting on the incident. The parliamentarian while paying rich tributes to Shahbaz Bhatti, said his killing was not the murder of a person but the killing of a thought. The legislators urged the need to promote tolerance and inter-faith harmony in the society by giving rights to the minorities. They suspected that the world wanted to destabilise Pakistan only for the reason that it was a nuclear state. They said that Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah established Pakistan for all religions and not for a specific religion. Some legislators also demanded of the government to launch an operation in Punjab to purge it from militants. They floated an idea to constitute a parliamentary committee as well as a judicial commission that could find the reasons and causes behind the killing of Bhatti and other incidents of terrorism taken place so far in the country. Some member also co-related the incident with the killing of two Pakistanis allegedly by a CIA under cover agent Raymond Davis to put a pressure on the Pakistani government for his release. While others differed this point of view of the parliamentarians saying that they could not blame others for the evils present in the country and correlating issue with Davis was tantamount to supporting murderers. They said that highest-level resignations should come from the government while a few criticised the performance of Interior Minister Rehman Malik demanding his resignation and terming the incident a serious security lapse. Media also came under criticism and what the parliamentarian said that it is giving a lot of space to those who were godfathers of militancy and terrorism. They termed it a criminal silence of the government on the assassination of Salman Taseer that led to this incident. The legislators said that target killing was not only being done on religious basis but also on ethnic basis. Some were of the view that the killing of Bhatti should not be understood as attack on minorities as many Muslims had also been targeted in the past including Hamid Saeed Kazmi, former Minister for Religious Affairs. During the debate, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani announced to observe three-day mourning on the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti. Akram Mesih Gil informed the House that Shahbaz Bhatti was facing security threats and he had demanded a bulletproof vehicle from the Ministry of Interior a number of times. He demanded to constitute a judicial commission to probe the matter and requested the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take a suo motu notice on the issue. Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said that if a person like Bhatti having balanced thought had not the right to live, then they were moving towards collective suicide. He said that it was a clear security lapse adding that the country was moving towards devastation. Dr Nelson Azeem and Yasmin Rehman demanded of the government to constitute a parliamentary committee that would find reasons and causes of such incidents. Maulana Ata-ur-Rehamn also condemned the incident of behalf of JUI-F while holding the government responsible for such incidents. The presence of a terrorist like US in the country is the main reason of poor law and order situation in the country, he said. He said that the government had to review its defence, interior and foreign polices on new lines in the light of the resolution passed by the House after an in-camera briefing to control this menace. He claimed that the government wanted to give immunity to Ramyond Davis but was unable to do so under the public pressure. Riaz Pirzada suggested to constitute a judicial commission under the supervision of Chief Justice of Pakistan to trace the hands who nourished these terrorists. He alleged that Lybian President Moammar Qaddafi and former President of Iraq Saddam Hussain had financed terrorism in this region on the dictation of US. Raza Rabbani, Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination, said that preamble of the Constitution, Objectives Resolution and Principles of the Policy given in the Constitution provided all the rights to the minorities along with their basic rights. Pakistan is bleeding and causing shadows over its reflection, he added. He said that this is the time of inner reflection for all forces whether liberal or conservative and left or right to put aside all their personal agenda as well as personal vendetta to gather on national agenda. Bushra Gohar of ANP made a very logical speech on the issue saying how could those become equal with others for whose this House could not pray for. She said that the Constitution itself was discriminatory when it said that no one could be the Prime Minister and President of Pakistan except a Muslim. She termed the incident as serious intelligence failure adding that the intelligence agencies would have to be accountable. She said that no minister resigned from the government on this tragic incident suggesting that material consisting hatred should be excluded from the curriculum. Lal Chand said that minorities would feel deprived if the killers of Shahbaz Bhatti were not exposed and titled Bhatti as Shaheed-I- Aqliat. Mahmood Riaz Tochi was of the view that the country should be cleared from the persons like Raymond Davis to attain peace in the country before the House was adjourned to met again on Friday at 10am. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday presented preliminary inquiry report of the killing of Minister for Minorities Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti, to Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani. According to a press release issued by the ministry of interior, the PM said the government would safeguard the lives and properties of all citizens of the country by making foolproof arrangements. The PM also said that anti-state elements were trying to target important personalities in the country to fulfil their evil designs. Meanwhile, despite the lapse of 48 hours and dissatisfaction expressed by cabinet members over the performance of law enforcement agencies, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in the murder of Federal Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, headed by SSP Islamabad and also comprising Intelligence Bureau (IB), Military Intelligence (MI), Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Crime Investigation Department (CID) and Special Branch (SB), has been unable to reach any clue for the terrorists, sources informed TheNation on Thursday. Intelligence sources confirmed that spy agencies had expanded the volume of investigation to the terrorist groups operating in tribal areas of Pakistan. The agencies are exploring the possibilities of involvement of foreign hands particularly US-CIA behind the killing of minister, they revealed. Since the incident has distorted the image of Pakistan internationally, it is being investigated as to who is the ultimate beneficiary of the episode. All the available resources are being used by the said agencies for screening the banned outfits and terrorist groups to reach the real culprits. Sources in police told this scribe that a high-level meeting was held in Inspector General Police (IGP) office to discuss the concern of cabinet members over the performance of Islamabad police and to devise a strong coordination mechanism with the intelligence agencies till any breakthrough in the above-said case. The IGP also expressed concern over the police performance for not ensuring effective search in surrounding areas and for responding late to the incident in the heart of capital territory. DIG Operations Banni Amin, DIG Headquarters Kamal Tipu, AIGs, SSPs and SPs of all the zones were present in the meeting. At the police headquarters, DIG Security Division Dr Majeebur Rehman gave detailed presentation to the IGP on security of VVIPs and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to be followed by the ministers. The report submitted to the interior minister by the Islamabad police was also discussed wherein the IGP stressed on the change of security arrangements. Meanwhile, the Islamabad police interrogated six Frontier Corps officials in the security escort and official drivers of the slain minister, recorded their statements, obtained calls record and took their cell phone into custody for further investigation, sources informed TheNation. The police interrogated Salamat Masih, the official driver of the federal minister for minorities, and six FC personnel including the driver of escort vehicle. Salamat said in his statement that Sher Gul was private driver and performed pick and drop duties for Shahbaz Bhatti to his mothers house situated in sector I-8/3. As usual late night on March 1, the slain minister voluntarily gave leave to the security escort and asked to pick him up from the public office in sector 1-8/4 instead of his private residence. He said he was ready at I-8/4 office to take Bhatti to the Green Trust Tower ministry office and then to cabinet meeting along with the security escort, sources quoted him as having said. The other six personal also recorded identical statements that Shabbat Bhatti never used security escort for movement to his mothers house. All the six officials were set free after interrogation. The police took their cell phones into custody, the sources said. The detectives are suspicious about the possibility of FC officials involvement for providing information about the movement of the Shahbaz Bhatti to terrorist. This is being done as lesson learnt from the attack made on UN office in 2008. Earlier on Wednesday late night, the Islamabad police recorded the statements of six Islamabad police officials on the security escort of Bhatti. Their telephonic record has been obtained and is being verified. The police called Bhattis private driver Sher Gul more than five times to fix whether or not the attackers dragged him out of the car during the attack. Though the eye witnessed said the attackers dragged the driver out and then started firing, he remained firm to his stance that he hid himself under the dashboard. The communication record of the driver was also being verified, the sources further revealed.
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Watch This Amazing Video of the Final SR-71 Blackbird Flight of Mach 3.2!
July 17, 2019 Topic: Security Region: Americas Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: SR-71SR-71 BlackbirdVideo Of BlackbirdMach 3.2Spy PlaneU.S. Air Force
Super fast.
by Dario Leone
The Habu then descended over Edwards for three flypasts before landing for the very last time in her history.
Taken on Saturday Oct. 9, 1999 at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) the short movie in this post shows the last ever flight of an SR-71 Blackbird.
This flight took place at the Edwards AFB Open House Airshow.
30 minutes after the take off the SR-71 had climbed to 80,100ft and was travelling at a speed of Mach 3.2 (which equates to 2,430 mph!).
In order for the crowd to spot her, she dumped a trail of fuel in anticipation for the sonic boom.
So from Oct. 9, 1999 she never flew again.
For a quarter-century, Lockheed’s Mach 3 SR-71A Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft dominated the skies as no other. As SR-71 pilot and author Brian Shul once noted, more people have stood atop Mt. Everest than have flown what remains the world’s fastest, highest-flying jet.
A total of 32 aircraft were built.
The secrets of the SR-71’s ground breaking technology were so highly prized by foreign operatives that, in 1968, Lockheed was ordered by the government to destroy all tooling used to create and build the Blackbird.
According to Airman Magazine, the SR-71 was also the world’s first stealth aircraft.
To become nearly undetectable the aircraft had to take on a unique shape. The wings were blended into the body and the long blade-like surfaces along the forward fuselage, known as chines, aided in deflecting incoming radar waves.
The inward-angled twin fins over the engines and the pointed engine cones also decreased the Blackbird’s radar cross-section. The lower fuselage was nearly flat giving the 107-foot SR-71 its sleek and futuristic spear look.
The SR-71 was finished in a black ferrite (iron) radar absorbing paint. The paint made the aircraft even more difficult to target and aided in thermal protection due to 600-degree external temperatures caused by friction during flight.
The black paint also provided the spy plane the look for its official Air Force name, Blackbird.
This article by Dario Leone originally appeared on The Aviation Geek Club in 2019.
Image: Department of Defense.
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Advancing National Service
How Paper Airplanes Paid for a Veteran’s Trip to Washington, D.C.
by Jenny Shank
Members of a military veteran group pose for a group picture as they visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., Oct. 2, 2013. A 7-year-old Indiana boy is raising funds to help more veterans visit the site. Alex Wong/Getty Images
This 7-year-old turned paper folding into a successful fundraiser.
While learning about D-Day in his homeschool lessons, Jagger, a 7-year-old from Hamilton, Ind., was struck by the soldiers’ bravery. Inspired, Jagger wanted to do something to honor a World War II veteran.
So he came up with the idea of raising $800 — enough to send one veteran on a trip to Washington, D.C. through Northeast Indiana Honor Flight, a nonprofit that has four flights scheduled for 2015 to bring groups of veterans to see the World War II memorial.
“He loves folding paper airplanes and with it being the honor flight we thought that would be a really neat thing that he could give back to the people who are helping him reach his goal,” Jagger’s mother Chante Hurraw tells WANE-TV.
So Jagger began folding airplanes and built a display explaining his project. He took it and his paper-airplane-folding prowess to several dinners at American Legions and told the attendees that if they made a donation, he’d give them an airplane.
Jagger ended up raising $1,058.25, enough to send one veteran to our nation’s capital, plus extra to start saving up for a second veteran’s trip. Jagger plans to keep up his fundraising and paper airplane mission indefinitely.
“We couldn’t be prouder,” his mom says. “He’s a great person. He’s a great kid, but he is a great person. He has a big heart. That’s important to us.”
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Autor LAFFERTY, Mur
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Dimensiuni 17.5 x 10.5 cm
Format Paperback, A
This thrilling adaptation of Solo: A Star Wars Story expands on the film to include scenes from alternate versions of the script and other additional content, giving deeper insights into Han Solo’s years in the Imperial Navy, Qi’ra’s past, and the beginnings of the rebellion.
Though Han Solo has thrilled Star Wars fans for decades, the notorious wisecracking scoundrel was chasing adventure and dodging trouble long before he walked into the cantina at Mos Eisley spaceport.
Young Han dreams of someday soaring into space at the helm of his own starship and leaving his home, the gritty industrial planet Corellia, far behind. But as long as he’s trapped in a life of poverty and crime―and under the thumb of the sinister Lady Proxima and her brutal street gang―reaching the distant stars seems impossible. When Han tries to escape with his girlfriend and partner-in-crime, Qi’ra, he makes it out―but she doesn’t. Desperate for a way to find his own offworld vessel and free her, Han enlists in the Imperial Navy―the last place for a rebellious loner who doesn’t play well with others.
When the Empire clips his wings, Han goes rogue and plunges into the shady world of smugglers, gamblers, and con artists. There he meets the charming and cunning high roller Lando Calrissian, makes an unlikely friend in a cantankerous Wookiee called Chewbacca, and first lays eyes on the Millennium Falcon. To snag his piece of the outlaw pie, Han joins a crew of pirates to pull off a risky heist. The stakes are high, the danger is great, and the odds are slim. But never tell Han Solo the odds.
"The book does something that adaptations so rarely do – take a classic adventure (written by Lawrence Kasdan no less) and make it that bit better. Welcome to the galaxy Mur Lafferty" (Fantha Tracks)
"This is a novelisation that needs to be experienced, better yet to be felt." (Phil Roberts in The Future of the Force)
"Slick and playful" (Star Wars Aficionado)
"The book stands alone as its own work of art that simply can’t be compared (extensively) to the script from which it was derived" (Dork Side of the Force)
"Definitely recommended for fans and people who want more depth in the story" (Star Wars Awakens)
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Fish snack on microplastics
Microplastics are being fed to snapper, New Zealand’s most popular recreational fish species, at NIWA’s aquaculture research facility near Whangarei in a bid to establish some baseline data about how fish are being affected.
Auckland University masters student Veronica Rotman, under the supervision of NIWA fisheries scientist Dr Darren Parsons, is undertaking a two-part experiment to understand how one of the world’s most pervasive pollutants is affecting fish in New Zealand waters.
Ms Rotman says little research has been done in this area and she saw an opportunity to undertake some work that was relevant to New Zealand.
“It’s critical to find out what’s going on with plastic in our ecosystems—I want to see whether the plastic is egested, remains in the gut or migrates to other parts of the fish, including the flesh we eat.”
Using some coloured polystyrene—one of the ocean’s top five plastic polluters - and a blender to generate microplastics between 50 microns and 2mm in size, Ms Rotman then soaked some samples in the Waitemata Harbour for just over a month to mimic similar conditions fishes experience in the environment.
“Plastic acts a sponge for pollutants, soaking up harbour waste—industrial chemicals, pesticides, heavy metals and bacteria, so I wanted a relevant environmental treatment.”
The polystyrene is then fed in varying amounts to 160 juvenile snapper, New Zealand’s most popular recreational fish species, held in 20 aquaculture tanks at NIWA’s Northland Marine Research Centre at Bream Bay along with their regular diet.
After 10 weeks of treatment the snapper will be dissected to determine how much the fish have retained, any effects on growth or condition, whether it has done any damage to their gastrointestinal tract, and whether the microplastics translocated into the liver and muscular tissue.
“What I’m really interested in is the levels of toxicity caused by microplastics accumulating in the digestive tract. The snapper experiment should shed some light on whether microplastics can translocate into the flesh we eat and how exposure may impact their physiology, reproduction and fitness.”
The second part of the experiment will see the focus shift to hoki—New Zealand’s most commercially valuable finfish species. Hoki are a deep-sea fish and Ms Rotman will examine specimens from Cook Strait, the West Coast and the Chatham Rise to investigate any plastic incidence in the gut.
“It will be very interesting to see whether hoki are consuming microplastics and if there are any variations between the different sample locations due to proximity to human settlement and sources of pollution. “
This work will contribute to Ms Rotman’s Masters thesis and she is intending to submit a paper on the results to a scientific journal for publication.
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Veronica Rotman – Auckland University student feeding microplastics to fish.
Snapper feeding in the Bream Bay Tank.
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Home » News » Performance / Tour
Jazz Bridge Presents Odean Pope at the Cheltenham Art Center on February 2nd
SOURCE: SUZANNE CLOUD
Appearing at the Cheltenham Art Center, 439 Ashbourne Rd, Cheltenham, PA on February 2nd 2011 will be saxophonist Odean Pope with his band featuring pianist George Burton, bassist Lee Smith, and drummer Craig McIver. One show: 7:30-9PM. Tickets: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. Free Refreshments! For info: 215-517-8337
Saxophonist Odean Pope, after integrating several musical influences during his youth in Philadelphia such as the church choir, jazz and R&B of the 50's and classical woodwind chamber music, helped form Catalyst in the 1970s, a jazz fusion band of musicians (including Tyrone Brown and Freddie Green) who were making music way ahead of their time. Even though the band was critically acclaimed then, the music failed to catch on with a wider audience. But, in 1999, a two-CD set was reissued by Muse called “Catalyst: The Funkiest Band You Never Heard" and their musical vision gained a whole new listenership. In 1979, Odean joined the Max Roach Quartet as a regular member for more than two decades. It was with Max Roach that Odean perfected the techniques of circular breathing and multiphonics, both allowing him to stretch his solo improvisations from dazzling elevations to the throbbing, husky sounds for which he is so well known, to all kinds of delicacy in getting from one to the other. Odean won acclaim from Australia to Japan, even winning “Best Tenor Saxophone Player" at the North Sea Jazz Festival. Odean works with his trio, (Lee Smith, Craig McIver) quartet and his famous saxophone choir. The saxophone choir is formatted with nine saxophones, and was established by Odean in 1977 and premiered in 1985 with a Soul Note album called “The Saxophone Shop." The saxophone choir has been the realization of his southern legacy; a medium for creating the richly textured harmonic sound that has permeated his musical soul since childhood. Even though he plays clarinet, oboe, piccolo, flute and piano, Odean feels an affinity for the tenor saxophone because it most closely mimics the human voice. He constructs layers of melodic sound by playing within the fourth system in different tone scales using multiphonics, achieving several pitches together, for which he is well known. The choir reaches a stunning intensity that is simultaneously one voice and is also, as described by Francis Davis, “harmonically engorged."
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Michaël Attias' Renku Coming Aug. 30th on Playscape
LONGMEADOW, MA -- On August 30th, Playscape Recordings will release Renku (PSR#080504), the debut recording from New York-based saxophonist/composer Michaël Attias' two-year old working trio of the same name, featuring bassist John Hebert and drummer Satoshi Takeishi. Named after a style of Japanese linked poetry, this trio documents an intense but intricate and diversely cultivated sound befitting both its name and the eclectic background of its leader, an Israeli-born son of Moroccan parents who was raised in Paris and the American midwest. Renku features seven Attias compositions, as well as selections by Hebert, collectively composed works by the trio and Thelonious Monk's “Work," though the group prides itself on blurring the lines between notated music and improvisation. The trio will celebrate the release of their debut recording at Cornelia Street Cafe in New York on September 2nd.
“Like the best of his peers," writes Brooklyn-based journalist/author Steve Dollar in the liner notes, “Attias projects the sound of a man busy thinking. He exposes the process by which that sound is organized into music, using his breath to illustrate a kinetic sonic architecture of bone and pulse, concept and rhythm, thought and execution...[Renku] is all about that exposure. Evoking the spare angularity that prime reedsmen have always found in the trio—the pleasures of Ornette Coleman's classic 1960s three-for-all come to mind, as do the gimlet-eyed rigors of Tim Berne's latter-day outfit Paraphrase—Attias is mindful of composerly trigonometry. He senses how the strengths and signatures of each musician define a coherent structure, and how that structure must constantly shift and circle to the bob and bustle of bass and drums."
Critics write that Attias “blows with great authority and passion" (AllAboutJazz.com), recognizing his trio's “knottily vibrant compositions" (Time Out-New York) and “perpetually shifting tunes, richness of timbre, and a singular personality" (Village Voice). A former student of Pat Moriarty, Lee Konitz, Alan Silva, and Anthony Braxton, Attias has performed around the world with musicians including Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Mark Helias, Jim Pugliese, Nasheet Waits, Matt Wilson, Mat Maneri, Ellery Eskelin, and Tom Rainey. After beginning his professional career in Paris, he has spent the last decade living in New York working as a sideman, leading/co-leading Shuffle Boil and the Michaël Attias Sextet, and composing scores for theater, dance and silent film. His compositions can also be heard on recordings such as Coleman's Morenica (Tzadik) and Fred Lonberg-Holm's In Zenith (Miguel). Attias is a 2000 Artists' Fellowship Recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a founding member of Dangerous Ground Productions, and curator of the weekly Night of the Ravished Limbs concert series at Barbés in Brooklyn.
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Green Card Backlog Unlikely to Get Senate Hearing, Durbin Says
By Genevieve Douglas
Nov. 7, 2019, 7:38 PM
Democrats’ hearing request not likely to happen
Path forward on addressing green card backlog unclear
Democratic lawmakers pushing for a hearing on several proposals to address the backlog of high-skill employment visas doubt they’ll get what they want.
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters Nov. 7 that discussions are underway with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), the sponsor of a bipartisan measure to eliminate per-country caps on employment-based green cards. But the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary’s Border Security and Immigration Subcommittee said he doesn’t anticipate a broader debate of immigration proposals from Lee or those introduced by several Democrats.
“He refuses a hearing,” Durbin said after speaking at an event hosted by the National Immigration Forum. “This is so unusual for a senator to say, ‘I don’t want a hearing on my bill.’ We should have one, because I think there are some areas where we could find agreement, there are some areas of real disagreement.”
Democrats on the subcommittee sent a letter to Chairman John Cornyn (R-Texas) Oct. 30 asking to hear from “experts and impacted communities” on legislation that “meaningfully and thoughtfully addresses green card backlogs.” The letter followed several attempts by Lee to hold a vote on his bill (S. 386). Lee’s latest attempt at a floor vote was blocked Oct. 17 by Durbin, who a day earlier had introduced his own bill (S. 2603) to tackle the backlog.
“I’ve objected to it, but I’m not the only one—there are Republican senators objecting as well,” Durbin said. “It comes down to the basic question of whether we raise the number of legal immigrants who would be allowed to get green cards each year. It’s 140,000 now, and that’s not adequate.”
A spokesman for Cornyn said discussions continue, but “if Senator Durbin truly wants to solve this problem he’ll stop blocking the sensible, bipartisan bill cosponsored by 15 of his fellow Democrats,” referring to Lee’s bill.
Path Forward Unclear
Advocates for Lee’s more narrow proposal say it’s a matter of fairness to the immigrants who otherwise might not see green cards in their lifetime solely because of their place of birth. The narrow scope of the legislation presents the best chance of making it through Congress.
Lee’s measure would provide a faster path to a green card for thousands of mostly Indian skilled workers who’ve been stuck in a visa backlog that’s projected to last decades.
A representative from Lee’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Opponents say the bill would unfairly impact non-Indian immigrants, and that it would be better to increase green card numbers so that nobody has to wait years to receive one.
Durbin’s Relief Act would raise the cap, instead of eliminating country caps altogether, “so that we will have more people come in, with green cards, each year,” he said. About 800,000 individuals are awaiting green cards, and 500,000 of them are Indian, he added.
Durbin said he’s blocking the vote on Lee’s measure because while the legislation will take care of the backlog for immigrants from India, it does so “at the expense of every other country.”
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Robots in Disguise Cast List and Voice Actors for the first 13 episodes
Posted on January 2, 2015 at 6:06 pm by Sol Fury under Robots in Disguise 201x
The good stuff keeps rolling in for the new Transformers show, Robots in Disguise! Via TFClub and TFW2005 member Freccia, we have the complete cast listings for the first 13 episodes of the show. As well as the core cast, who we learned of at the New York Comic Con, we know that Roger Craig Smith will be lending his voice talents to several characters, along with Frank Stallone (that’s the brother of Sylvester Stallone) as Thunderhoof, and Jim Cummings as Clampdown. Surprisingly, while Peter Cullen reprises his role as Optimus Prime, he is only credited in a handful of episodes – looks like all of you who wished for a “Prime and Megatron free series” may be getting your wish, at least for these 13 episodes.
We’ve posted the full cast list – along with the episodes that they are credited for where appropriate – after the break. Naturally, this information has a fair few spoilers – proceed with caution! Autobots
Bumblebee – Will Friedle
Strongarm – Constance Zimmer
Sideswipe – Darren Criss
Fixit – Mitchell Whitfield
Grimlock – Khary Payton
Optimus Prime – Peter Cullen (episode 1, 2, 5)
Jazz – Arif S. Kinchen (episode 10)
Drift – Eric Bauza (episode 12)
Jetstorm – Roger Craig Smith (episode 12. One of Drift’s Mini-cons)
Slipstream – Roger Craig Smith (episode 12. One of Drift’s Mini-cons)
Recurring Human Allies (there are a lot of incidental background voices as well – check out the attached captures of the cast listings for the full breakdown)
Denny Clay – Ted McGinley
Russell Clay – Stuart Allan
Underbite – Liam O’Brien (episode 1, 2, 13)
Steeljaw – Troy Baker (Episode 3, 8, 13)
Hammerstrike – David Kaye (Episode 3)
Bisk – Khary Payton (Episode 4)
Chop Shop – David Hunt (Episode 4)
Terrashock – Kevin Michael Richardson (Episode 5)
Thunderhoof – Frank Stallone (Episode 6, 13)
Filch – Constance Zimmer (Episode 7)
Springload – John Steven Rocha (Episode 9)
Ped – Eddie Deezen (Episode 10)
Quillfire – Andy Milder (Episode 11)
Fracture – Kevin Pollak (Episode 12, 13)
Airazor – Roger Craig Smith (Episode 12, 13)
Divebomb – Khary Payton (Episode 12)
Clampdown – Jim Cummings (Episode 13)
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LegendAntihero
Well he already was voicing in Rescue Bots as Taylor.
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Cool. He should go to a BotCon sometime
eagc7
we there can be many people with the same name, why cant there be multipl transformers with the same name, why cant there be 2 Slipstreams?
You are correct. Certainly wouldn't be the first time there are two separate characters with the same name in the same universe.
As for the sub topic more female characters I am 100% for it.
Soundpulse
GoldenJohn7
Well, Very good actors. But no Megatron. That is quite disappointing, I was hoping see Megatron return in this series since Optimus has. It seems, that's what I heard after all.
Optimus has only returned via a hologram from what we've seen.
Megatron might return in the later episodes, either to return as a Decepticon, or to stop them himself.
Primus Productions
ROGER CRAIG SMITH!?
EZIO AUDITORE DA FIRENZE IS VOICING TRANSFORMERS?!
…I'm in heaven. Sign me up for this show!
Starscream NZ
But eh, it's continuity and Hasbro, Aligned was never going to work properly.
jamarmiller
Technostorm98
You do realize that IDW's G1 comic series only used G1 characters up until recently. Most G1 characters were male. Hasbro wants Transformers to be a boy brand, so it makes sense that a lot of characters are the same gender as the target audience.
You obviously care very much about this topic. Have you ever tried contacting Hasbro and giving them your thoughts?
I wish she would, I want more fembots because my daughter keeps asking me for girl transformers
She really wants Elita 1 , firestar, and Moonracer to start
DOTM Bumblebee
Beast Wars Megatron's(/Animated Optimus Prime's/Animated Grimlock's/Lugnut's) and Prime Bulkhead's voice actors are returning!!!
January 3rd 2015, 11:47 pm
femmebotfangirl
It's aimed at young boys when it should be aimed at children in general.
It's a boy brand because they choose for it to be, the whole point of this is having gendered franchises is problematic. They shouldn't be aimed at any specific gender, they should be aimed at anyone who is interested in them.
MLP has a male audience and Hasbro spends considerable time reassuring them it's fine for boys to like it. Meanwhile the female TF fandom gets largely ignored. They shouldn't cater to boys more because boys ALREADY GET 90% OF TV PROTAGONISTS.
Arcee was the token fembot, an entire gender being 'thrown a bone' is not acceptable. That's the whole fucking point. Boys get everything, girls have to make do with scraps and then put up with entitled, privileged over represented little shits telling us we should be fucking grateful.
And what do those franchises all have in common? They are extremely feminine, pink and girly. Nothing wrong with that, but it leaves the girls who aren't interested in that or who are interested in MORE than that with NOTHING. Not to mention that Disney princesses nearly all have their princes and most Disney princess films have more male characters than female characters who often do more to further the plot that the princesses who are quite passive, with some exceptions.
People don't go nuts over it because they still have many male characters, and they are very much the exceptions in a popular culture that is dominated by male driven franchises and primarily male characters. Most tv and Hollywood protagonists are male, most speaking roles are had by males, most background non speaking roles are male.
Franchises which are popular with girls but don't fall into the traditional 'girly' bracket continue to actively exclude girls and women, and when men try and defend it all they are saying is 'you can't have what I have' and that is not acceptable.
Yes, it is all about the kids, which is why kids should be able to choose what they like and be represented in what they like without having the older men who produce all of this stuff force gender roles on them.
40% of the TF fandom is female, yet apparently because it makes your six year old son happy we are supposed to put up with being completely ignored and marginalised by Transformers and every other non-girly girl franchise out there. Fuck that.
We have four fucking fembots in IDW, compared to, what, a hundred male bots. The fact that is a record is simple indicative of how atrocious the Transformers fandom is with female representtion
Edit: This whole argument amounts to:
'Even though females make up 40% of the fandom, they don't deserve to have that recognised or be represented in it because they aren't as important as the boys Hasbro has decided it is aimed at'
If you can't see how utterly offensive and misogynist that is you are a deeply troubled person.
Humanity was just established that way, Men were built physically (But not necessarily mentally.) Superior to women.
That's a matter of opinion. Men are naturally stronger. But can we create life? No.
two tokens won't get me shit at chuck e cheese.
Can I use this in my sig?
MaxxieOD
Also female here, and I have a similar mind set. Tho I don't watch TFs so much for the battles but more for the characters & stories. I couldn't care less what someone's gender is really, especially in an asexual species (tho l found IDW's original take on femmes absolutely atrocious).
Would it be nice to have more femmes? Sure! But l really don't think it's absolutely needed in this brand.
Budgiebird
Frankly I just want to see giant robots beat the crap out of each other and cool toys.
Also hi I'm new.
That's what got me into the franchise when I was kid.
Also, hello. Welcome to TFW2005.
"Me being entertained is the only thing that matters" says the guy who can watch entertainment products without being constantly reminded that their gender is under represented and marginalised and not deemed worthy of being included in entertainment products"
I wouldn't say females are as under represented as they once were. In Transformers at least, we've gotten four new females characters in toy form in one year. Their are females in the new show, so that's a start. James Roberts has shown Nautica to be a strong female lead, so there's that.
I can't say I completely agree. While Transformers was intended for boys, and is still marketed mostly for boys, it could be marketed towards girls to an extent.
You do hit the nail on the head when it comes to MLP and LPS though.
It's not marketed toward girls though. When I was growing up in the 80's, I had tons of He-Man figures. Then She-Ra came out and my sister got those. Same continuity, different toy lines. She-Ra had a much better show but probably because Hordak's cronies were much cooler than Skeletor's.
Maybe they could have a line of Transformers aimed at girls, someday. *shrug*
NotRamjet97
*sigh* This is for young BOYS. Under ten years old, probably. It's that age when boys rule and girls drool. Transformers is INTENDED for boys, always has been, always will be.
Littlest Pet Shop is a brand for girls. There's like 12 or more female characters and, like, three guy characters. It's not meant for boys. It's meant for girls.
My Little Pony; girls brand. There's six main female characters and one male character. Plus there's females in roles of government, and they probably outnumber males two-to-one. CUZ IT'S FOR GIRLS.
GWolfv2
CripNite
Who asks for an Optimus and Megatron-free series? That's just ridiculous. This show looks to be worse than Animated was.
Ooooh oooh! Me! I asked for that. a lot. Cause good lord has Optimus gotten stale in the last few years. S'why they were so minimal in the first year of the phase 2 comics.
If this show was animated levels of good…well we'll see.
For some reason when I saw this thread, I thought Shout Factory was going to redub the first RiD series. I can't help but think naming this new show RiD is a kick to the old show's nuts
Ok, so I reread my posts and I apologize if I sounded like a sexist pig. I'm really not. At Botcon 2008 we were told that the adult fans only make up less than 10% of sales. I'm not sure what the number is, but if 40% of adult Transformers fans are female, then that's only about 4% of sales. Also being a fan doesn't mean you're buying the toys either, so that 4% is only if all 40% of female fans are buying toys. So it's a really low number that Hasbro really shouldn't be catering to as it would be financial suicide. They need to cater to those young boys.
I don't have true numbers. I don't have access to charts and graphs sales estimates based on anything. I'm just going by what little info we have been told by Hasbro reps in the past.
Now I need to see what my wife is gonna make me for dinner…
(Kidding.. I do most of the cooking at home)
So anywho, it looks like we're gonna have a static cast at first, and a "Decepticon of the day" type thing… Hopefully there's an overarching story that gathers up some of these cons…
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Reduce the Risk of Eectrical Shock with CombiTac Connectors
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Make Data Centers More Energy Efficient with Low Contact Resistance Connectors from Stäubli
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CombiTac Light Housing is made of polyamide material.
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Automatic Power Charger targets electric buses.
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Stäubli, SSA Marine and Tritium Team to Create Largest Automated Electric Vehicle Charging Port Program in the United States
The Port of Long Beach will receive high-power, automatic charging stations to power 33 of its terminal tractors WINDSOR, CA (July 22, 2019) – Stäubli Electrical Connectors, a leading manufacturer of electrical connector solutions, has signed an agreement with SSA Marine to provide automatic charging stations for 33 terminal tractors at the Port of Long Beach. This project will create the...
Quality and Innovation as a Driving Force for 125 Years
In 1892, a company was founded in a small workshop that developed into a leading industrial partner for high-quality mechatronic solutions and technologies in three dedicated activities: Connectors, Robotics and Textile. In 2017, the Stäubli Group celebrates its 125th anniversary. In order to appropriately underline this special event, the Stäubli Group, featuring business units in 29...
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LaVar Ball calls Lonzo 'damaged goods,' continues to be great at this parenting thing
Jack Baer
Yahoo Sports September 16, 2019
LaVar Ball has no interest in changing the name of Big Baller Brand. (Photo by James Devaney/Getty Images)
Don’t let the apparent failure of Big Baller Brand and Lonzo Ball’s big move to the New Orleans Pelicans fool you. LaVar Ball still think he knows the way forward.
The Ball family addressed former business partner Alan Foster’s alleged seven-figure embezzlement and the family’s struggles with BBB in the latest episode of “Ball in the Family.” One of the big topics was whether the name of the brand should be changed.
Unsurprisingly, the eldest Ball was uninterested in renaming a business known for, alleged embezzlement aside, recently finding itself on clearance racks, receiving an “F” from the Better Business Bureau and making shoes that fell apart in minutes on the court.
When Lonzo — who happens to reportedly own a majority of the company — challenged his father on that position, LaVar defended himself with a ... questionable analogy.
The exchange can be seen around the 16-minute mark:
“I’m just saying, BBB is always going to be the name on the fact that it also stands for the three Ball brothers. I’m not changing that s--- at all,” Ball said (h/t to LonzoWire).
“When I come out with a name and then somebody tells me to change it, that’s like me telling me to change your name. That’s like people saying ‘Oh, hey, change Lonzo’s name to Alfonzo on the fact that he been damaged goods for the last two years.’”
The “damaged goods” line is no doubt a reference to the large amount of injuries Lonzo has experienced in his first two years in the league, limiting him to fewer than 50 games per season so far. Or it could just be a reference to Lonzo joining the Pelicans, who knows?
Poking at your son’s injuries is an interesting way of stating your case when the son also literally owns the business, but we’re also talking about a man who thinks the best way to turn around a failing business is to change nothing.
What followed was an exchange already seen in a “Ball in the Family” trailer, with Lonzo getting real with LaVar about the brand and Foster:
LONZO: The brand is demolished right now.
LAVAR: That’s how you feel, “The brand is demolished.”
LONZO: That’s how everybody feels.
LAVAR: Who’s everybody?
LONZO: The world. The consumers.
LAVAR: The world? That’s the consumers you’ve talked to?
LONZO: Yeah, it’s all messed up right now.
LAVAR: Why is it messed up? Because one person did something bad?
LONZO: He was the main person.
LAVAR: He wasn’t the main person.
LONZO: He ran everything.
Clearly, BBB is doing just fine, you guys.
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4 December 2018 - 19h30
Cinema RITCS
Noel Marshall
USA, 1981, 102', VO ST ANG OND
“No animals were harmed in the making of this film… 70 cast and crew members were.”
Noel Marshall spent up to 11 years on this special movie known as one of the most dangerous ever. Not only did he take place in the director's chair, but he also plays zoologist Hank who lives among the bloodthirsty wild animals in Africa. When Hank's family joins him on his estate, they'll discover the dangers of staying among lions, tigers, pumas, jaguars, and elephants.
The blood on the screen is real. Noel Marshall was bitten and developed gangrene. Cinematographer Jan de Bont was scalped by a lion and needed almost 200 stitches. Actress Tippi Hedren had an encounter with an elephant and broke her leg.
Roar has often been called the «Jaws of the jungle». Except that Spielberg has never dared to work with real sharks.
With an introduction by international cult film specialist Ernst Mathijs
Roar Official Re-Release Trailer 1 (2015) - Melanie Griffith Movie HD
Video of Roar Official Re-Release Trailer 1 (2015) - Melanie Griffith Movie HD
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Resistance of mRNAs with AUG-proximal nonsense mutations to nonsense-mediated decay reflects variables of mRNA structure and translational activity
Francisco J C Pereira, Alexandre R. S. Teixeira, Jian Kong, Cristina Barbosa, Ana Luísa Silva, Ana Marques-Ramos, Stephen A. Liebhaber, Luísa Romão
NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (NMS|FCM)
Centro de Investigação em Genética Molecular Humana (CIGMH)
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a surveillance pathway that recognizes and selectively degrades mRNAs carrying premature termination codons (PTCs). The level of sensitivity of a PTC-containing mRNA to NMD is multifactorial. We have previously shown that human β-globin mRNAs carrying PTCs in close proximity to the translation initiation AUG codon escape NMD. This was called the 'AUG-proximity effect'. The present analysis of nonsense codons in the human α-globin mRNA illustrates that the determinants of the AUG-proximity effect are in fact quite complex, reflecting the ability of the ribosome to re-initiate translation 3′ to the PTC and the specific sequence and secondary structure of the translated ORF. These data support a model in which the time taken to translate the short ORF, impacted by distance, sequence, and structure, not only modulates translation re-initiation, but also impacts on the exact boundary of AUG-proximity protection from NMD.
https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv588
Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay
Nonsense Codon
Open Reading Frames
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Pereira, F. J. C., Teixeira, A. R. S., Kong, J., Barbosa, C., Silva, A. L., Marques-Ramos, A., ... Romão, L. (2015). Resistance of mRNAs with AUG-proximal nonsense mutations to nonsense-mediated decay reflects variables of mRNA structure and translational activity. Nucleic Acids Research, 43(13), 6528-6544. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv588
Pereira, Francisco J C ; Teixeira, Alexandre R. S. ; Kong, Jian ; Barbosa, Cristina ; Silva, Ana Luísa ; Marques-Ramos, Ana ; Liebhaber, Stephen A. ; Romão, Luísa. / Resistance of mRNAs with AUG-proximal nonsense mutations to nonsense-mediated decay reflects variables of mRNA structure and translational activity. In: Nucleic Acids Research. 2015 ; Vol. 43, No. 13. pp. 6528-6544.
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Nursing Clio’s Best of 2015!
By Nursing Clio • January 4, 2016
With acknowledgments to our friends at Tropics of Meta who thought of the idea first, here are Nursing Clio’s “best of” the year.
Lauren MacIvor Thompson
I got nothin’. #dissertationproblems
Lara Freidenfelds
Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking, by Erik Parens. Parens is wise, humble, insightful, and pleasingly clear. He writes within bioethics, but I think his insights are widely applicable.
Leah Reis-Dennis
Divinity School, by Alicia Jo Rabins. Beautiful, engaging, and surprising poetry.
Sarah Handley-Cousins
I have a hard time keeping up with new releases, but I can tell you the best book I read this year: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. A sci-fi/mystery page-turner with an ingenious take on gender. Can’t wait to read the rest of the series!
Elizabeth Reis
This is a YA novel, but worth reading! It’s called None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio. It features a young woman with an intersex condition. The author is a urologist, and she also “gets” what being intersex is all about. Highly recommend for anyone age 13 and up.
Austin McCoy
Between the World and Me
Jacqueline Antonovich
Sex in a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings and YOU. Yes, it’s not a history book and it’s not a book for grownups, but I have an 8-year-old daughter and we recently had to have “the talk” and this graphic novel helped guide our discussions. The best part about it is it’s sensitive to the ways in which similar books often portray “the body” in ableist, homophobic, and trans-exclusive language. The authors’ aim is to highlight and respect the diversity and beauty of all bodies. I can think of a few GOP candidates who should probably read it.
Well, it’s from 2014 but I read it in 2015. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie.
Secret Loves of Geek Girls (Bedside Press, 2015)
Sarah Pripas
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (fiction)
Ginny Engholm
The Martian, Andy Weir. The science nerd in me totally geeked out about all the science in it.
Ian Lekus
Hmmm, looking at my shelves & my Kindle, I sure started a lot of books this year, but finished them? Not so much. Of books actually published in 2015, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora was a great read, but overall, the most gripping read this year was Octavia Butler’s Kindred. Up next in non-fiction: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me and Tom Gjelten’s A Nation of Nations (on immigration here in Fairfax County). Also, given our readers, I have to make a shout out to Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members: A Novel (2014), a story told entirely through recommendation letters.
Carrie Adkins
I’m the worst. I’ve got piles of books I’m excited to read — the new Sarah Vowell, the new Toni Morrison, the Carrie Brownstein memoir, Girl Waits with Gun — but have gotten to none of them. I need to re-allocate some of this TV, movie, and podcast time.
Favorite Album
Ryan Adams’ cover of Taylor Swift’s “1989.” On repeat on my iTunes.
I mostly encounter music as a dancer, and I have found Travis Scott, Rodeo, affecting and compelling in dance class this year. (Clean version for me). Related, of course, is best class: advanced contemporary with Oliver Steele at Steps on Broadway and Gibney Studios.
Cheers to the Fall — Andra Day’s debut album. Her voice, her style, her songs… I can’t stop listening. The perfect combination of jazz, R&B, soul, and pop.
The soundtrack to the musical Hamilton. I mean, really. How could I not fall in love with a musical that features Alexander Hamilton rapping about economics?
Adele’s new album: 25.
I have two, one personal, one political: Joey Bada$$, B4.Da.$$. This album is part throwback to the mid-1990s and part current. The best (mostly) political album is Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly.
Erykah Badu’s But you Caint use my Phone. Badu. Enough said.
Beauty Behind the Madness, The Weeknd.
Sleater-Kinney, No Cities to Love on Sub Pop (and of course, the Sleater-Kinney–Bob’s Burgers collab on the “A New Wave” video).
The soundtrack for Hamilton
Father John Misty, I Love You, Honeybear. Amazing live too.
Fun Home, Original Cast Recording. Technically released in 2014, but 2015 was the year that I, & pretty much everyone else discovered the sheer genius that is Lisa Kron’s adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s amazing graphic novel. Honorable mentions go to the Drive-By Truckers’ It’s Great to Be Alive!, which reminded us that live albums can be magical experiences rather than revenue-generating fodder in between studio albums, and Blitzen Trapper’s All Across This Land, a terrific homage to American rock from this Portland (OR) band. Also, I just downloaded the cast recording to Hamilton, so ask me about that in a few weeks.
Favorite TV Show
Outlander. Men in kilts and the women who lurrrrve them. While time-traveling!
I don’t watch TV. It’s all about live performance for me. How about, Best Dance Concert: Steeledance, Strictly Personal, presented Nov 4-5 2015 in a beautiful brick-walled performance space in Brooklyn.
Transparent. No question.
I should say Grace and Frankie or Master of None (both were wonderful, really!) but I was distracted by all the kilts. Outlander. Sigh.
I agree with Leah Reis-Dennis: Transparent, hands down!
Broad City made me laugh the most. The Americans was my favorite drama.
The Leftovers on HBO is amazing. Season 2’s “International Assassin” has some of the most innovative TV writing I’ve ever seen. It shouldn’t work AT ALL, but it does — and it’s beautiful, haunting, and hilarious all at once.
Broad City and Transparent.
Jessica Jones. (Steve Sands/GC Images)
Jessica Jones seriously bowled me over in 2015. For continuing shows, I’m still thoroughly in love with Doctor Who, in spite of being very skeptical about the reboot oh-so-many seasons ago.
Jessica Jones.
Fargo. The only anthology series so far that has a second season that either matches or even exceeds the brilliance of the first one.
Doctor Who. Peter Capaldi faced plenty of ageism following Matt Smith as The Doctor, but this year, he really showed why he deserves to be ranked among the very best Doctors of all time (so to speak).
Impossible to choose. Transparent, Master of None, Last Week Tonight with Jon Oliver, and also the Netflix documentary series, Making a Murderer.
Pitch Perfect 2.
See Best TV Show.
Inside Out. An animated movie that all ages can enjoy is a rare treat.
I’m with Leah — definitely Inside Out. A funny, adorable, and simultaneously heart-breaking movie. (Listen, I wasn’t crying, it was a dusty theater.)
I thought The Big Short was surprisingly compelling even though I didn’t really understand the economic intricacies. It doesn’t matter though; it’s still good.
Selma & Straight Outta Compton, in spite of its warts.
Star Wars, obvs. (Note: I’m writing a dissertation and have children so going to the movies is a rare, exotic adventure.)
Ummmm. MAGIC MIKE XXL. GREATEST.OF.ALL.TIME
What We Do in the Shadows and What Happened, Miss Simone? (which, like so many things, has some important flaws but remains powerful).
I honestly haven’t seen enough to make a definitive judgment, but I saw Trumbo last week and really enjoyed it. And it had historical content.
I’m gonna cheat and have a three-way tie between Trainwreck, Inside Out, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Not coincidentally, all three movies feature complex, nuanced, and real female protagonists.
Tie between Mad Max: Fury Road and The Martian. Both are masterpieces of visual storytelling, set in terrain where survival defies all odds. One features the resilience of strong women in a post-apocalyptic society; the other is a love note to science & logical thinking in an age where the war on science threatens us with environmental catastrophe.
Also impossible to choose. Miscellaneous collection of stuff I enjoyed: Inside Out, What We Do in the Shadows, Trainwreck, Grandma, Tangerine, Carol.
Best Podcast
Invisibilia and Season 2 of Serial. Also, did you know that Sarah Handley-Cousin and her Buffalo comrades have a cool new podcast called The History Buffs? You’re welcome, America.
I’m still addicted to Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me and Only a Game. Just listened to the first three episodes of Season 2 of Serial, and I’m definitely intrigued, though not quite as much as I was immediately captivated by Season 1. Now let’s see where my plans to develop my own podcast go… watch this space!
How Did This Get Made, Nate Corddry Presents Reading Aloud, Sawbones, Serial (Season 2 is amazing so far!).
Welcome to Nightvale, Good Job Brain, and a +1 to How Did This Get Made. I also want to throw in the Welcome to Nightvale Live Show, because it’s overwhelmingly good and wonderful.
Best Historical Call Back
When Obergefell was issued in June, and the amicus curiae briefs from historians like Nancy Cott basically schooled the entire country on what role marriage has played in relationship to the state and the individual in American history. Hint — it ain’t only about men and women having babies.
I described life in my NJ suburb, and a friend exclaimed, The Feminine Mystique lives! Indeed.
As a Civil War historian, I have to say the national conversation that took place this summer over the place of the Confederate flag in today’s society. Historians have long argued that the flag is a symbol of racial terror and white supremacy, so it was really wonderful to see much of the rest of the nation have the same “lightbulb” moment.
Some of the best writing this year has been on the #blacklivesmatter movement and its connections to and differences from the classic Civil Rights Movement. It’s been especially exciting to see all of the syllabi and teach-ins devoted to the long histories of oppression and racial justice activism in this country.
The Planned Parenthood fetal tissue circus (shameless plug to my post, Baby Parts for Sale).
I second all the good historical discussions around the Obergefell case.
Normally I wouldn’t want to repeat myself, but it has to be Lin-Manuel Miranda’s creative re-imagining of the American Revolution and political battles of the early American republic, Hamilton.
I agree with Lauren that the Obergefell decision and the amicus curiae briefs from historians like Nancy Cotton on the history of marriage were great.
Pretty much everyone fighting the good fight by telling America’s 200+ year history of anti-immigrant culture (from “No Irish Need Apply” to the Japanese American internment camps) that contextualizes the surge of Islamophobia and the cynical manufacturing of anti-refugee hysteria.
Favorite News Story
(Scluzay for Wu-Tang Clan/Mashable)
The Feds arresting Martin Shkreli and everyone wondering whether or not they could seize the secret Wu Tang Clan album he bought for $2 million.
New Horizon’s beautiful pictures of Pluto. Breathtaking. #TeamPluto
Favorite Discovery
Grocery delivery from Instacart. The “sharing economy” gives you milk and bread in under 2 hours! Yay?
Whole-wheat raisin walnut bread from Levain Bakery, NYC.
Pickled eggs.
Polar Seltzer. How did I ever live without it? (Especially grapefruit!)
Camper Shoes (thank you, Leah Reis-Dennis!)
Cold pressed juice from Babo in Ann Arbor.
Omg, I’m officially addicted to subscription box services. I’m a bit embarrassed to say that I love Stitch Fix (clothing), Hello Fresh (food), and Birchbox (makeup). Send help.
That Flo Rida meant Florida.
My new favorite cornbread recipe: Sean Brock’s “Cracklin’ Cornbread” (and everything else in his cookbook, Heritage).
Michelle Wallace’s Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman. The book originally came out in 1978, granted, but I first learned about it this year, and a new edition was printed this year.
Piktochart — a great website for creating infographics and presentations. I use it all the time to create teaching materials.
Teaching a course on social justice in metro Washington, DC brought me a much deeper understanding of the fascinating cultural tapestry & webs of power relations in this region.
Favorite Public Institution
I got the chance to visit and do research at the New York Historical Society earlier in the year. Their library is great. And best minestrone soup in the café. I would go again just for the soup.
The Museum of Math, NYC. Great for geeky families like mine. All-day entertainment (i.e., math puzzles).
My local public elementary school and its bake sales.
Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian American Art Museum. (/Flickr | CC BY-SA)
The National Gallery. I can’t visit Washington, DC without taking some time to visit.
The New York Public Library. I took my students there this semester and learned all about the building’s history.
All public libraries.
The Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy Department. Friendly staff, exciting collections, beautiful reading room, and all things American West. What else could you possibly want?
The Parks Departments across the country. Yay open spaces!
The Southern Foodways Alliance, for all its amazing work to document, study, and share the diverse past and present of the American south through food. Public history at its best.
Any botanical gardens.
We have a phenomenal main library in Baton Rouge. The caliber of its design and resources is akin to what you’d find in New York, Boston, or Chicago.
WAMU public radio, hands down. Having moved up & down the East Coast, I’ve been very fortunate to live around some terrific NPR stations (WUNC in Chapel Hill; WGBH, & WBUR in Boston), but hands down, WAMU is my favorite. The blend of outstanding reporting on metro DC and its national and global programming has been the key to keeping me (relatively) sane on the endless hours spent commuting on the Beltway & beyond.
Favorite Frivolous Enjoyment (once referred to as a guilty pleasure)
OUTLANDER IS NOT FRIVOLOUS, OK?
Cappuccino at Birch Cafe (the one at 7th Ave and 14th St., NYC). The staff is as nice as the coffee, and it has a hang-out-and-chat vibe (no Internet).
Netflix and Chill?
Okay, I’ll admit it. Adult coloring books. What can I say, those things are soothing.
I like the adult coloring books too, Sarah. They keep me awake when I’m watching anything other than Transparent, which actually demands close attention.
Probably watching TV and most things concerning Watergate. It’s weird.
Did you see the thing above about subscription boxes? They curate lovely things, put them in a pretty box… and mail them to you!
I think no enjoyment should be considered frivolous. But I love watching lots and lots of TV while knitting.
Rekindling my love of games with the beautifully remastered Grim Fandango (originally published by LucasArts in 1998) by Double Fine. A favorite from my younger years. (And thanks to GOG and the community there, for providing a haven for DRM-free classic games.)
Watching Project Runway.
Netflix TV shows: Jessica Jones, Orange is the New Black, Master of None, etc.
Instagram. I plead completely guilty to being part of the selfie culture (though I rarely Instagram my food & I will never own a selfie stick).
Best liveblog exchange of the day captured by @stephh. Justice Ginsburg arrives @ #scotus via unicorn. pic.twitter.com/6JFvKVPFDI
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Confused John Travolta.
MRW no one tells me the class is canceled. (Imgur)
When you get lost on Endor and all you want is to ask for directions. (Imgur)
Lionel calls Adele to say Hello
I’m counting “Still Did Her Job” and #NextToKimDavis as one meme
Very Honorable mentions go to Left Shark, Pizza Rat, and Raptor Squad.
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The collection assembled by H. J. Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910), a Dutch physician, and presented to the Library by Mrs. Henry Draper in 1911, consists in its entirety of over 32,000 pictures, from many sources, mounted in 762 scrapbooks. (The digital presentation will ultimately include them all.) The collection is remarkably diverse, depicting costume as various as the rough wool garments of Bronze age Etruscan warriors, the robes of Ottoman Turk court officials, and the elaborate uniforms of the preening armies of 19th-century Europe, the collection's special strength. The aesthetic quality of the images varies. There are prints seemingly cut from 17th-century festival books along with 19th-century chromolithographs, original watercolor compositions of some artistic merit, crude pencil drawings, and occasional photographs. Dr. Vinkhuijzen's usual strategy was to extract plates from illustrated books and magazines. He colored some of the printed images, and when printed images were lacking, drew others by hand. Some of the unsigned watercolors found in the collection may also be by him. He arranged his collection as loose images in boxes according to his own classification system; this organization is retained for browsing the digital collection. (Mounting the plates in scrapbooks was apparently accomplished by others after Dr. Vinkhuijzen's death.) The New York Public Library comprises simultaneously a set of scholarly research collections and a network of community libraries, and its intellectual and cultural range is both global and local, while singularly attuned to New York City. That combination lends to the Library an extraordinary richness. It is special also in being historically a privately managed, nonprofit corporation with a public mission, operating with both private and public financing in a century-old, still evolving private-public partnership. Last year, over 16 million New Yorkers visited the library, and over 25 million used its website. The NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 640,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including not just photographs but illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and more. Digital projects and partnerships at NYPL are managed by the Digital Experience Group, a 21-person team of programmers, designers and producers dedicated to expanding and enhancing all points of computer and Web-mediated interaction with the library's collections, services and staff.
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Vinkhuijzen collection of military uniforms, NYPL
The collection assembled by H. J. Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910), a Dutch physician, consists in its entirety of over 32,000 pictures, from many sources, mounted in 762 scrapbooks.
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by Geoff on June 13, 2016 in General
FOOB and the Auckland Council Unitary Plan
This summer a most pressing issue facing our fragile bush and its wildlife has occupied much of your executives time. On the northern boundary Weiti Station, at present a wilderness of exotic and invasive weeds has been approved as the site of at least 1200 houses. The fate of the green fields on the southern bank of the Okura estuary, which the Todd development company wants to urbanise, will be known in August when Auckland Council announces its response to the conclusions of the Unitary Plan’s commissioners. It is hard to underestimate the effects of suburban populations with their pets and cars and their recreational needs on a precious piece of reviving forest with its centuries-old kauri and puriri, its returning gecko, and recovering forest bird population. The estuary and beaches are the home to more than fifteen species of wading, nesting, and migratory birds, which developers have already written off as collateral damage.
This is why FOOB president Lezette Reid, supported by the executive committee, has played a significant role in the Unitary Plan hearings, alongside members of the Okura Environment Group, the Long Bay Okura Great Park Society and the Dacre Cottage Management Committee. It is also why FOOB has donated $7750 towards the cost of the hearings – costs that remain to be covered for payment to expert witnesses and lawyers. Donations, most gratefully received, can be made via the FOOB website or by cheque.
Issues with DOC Upgrade Plans for the Okura Bush
Another major issue that has preoccupied your executive is their disagreement with the Department of Conservation over its plans for upgrading this much-used track. FOOB is concerned that DOCs insistence on the use of plastic-based webbing (GeoWeb, http://www.geofabrics.co.nz/media/2119/geoweb-brochure-m056.pdf) will be short-term and lead to continuing and long term damage to roots.
FOOB’s research leads them to believe that boardwalks are the only long term remedy for the spread of kauri die-back disease and offer the only permanent protection of roots. To this end they engaged a specialist, Stephen King, whose lengthy and detailed report can be read on the website. (He kindly donated his time).
It is appreciated that the cost of boardwalk, an estimated 1.6km to protect kauri, will require substantial fundraising. Boardwalks come in several materials: treated wood (the most common), plastic or concrete. DOC has always promoted boardwalks as the gold standard for the protection of the forest from the effects of walkers and disease. The discussion with DOC is ongoing and involves local iwi with whom FOOB has developed a fruitful relationship. The three iwi with historical connections to the area are Te Kawerau a Maki, Ngati Manuhiri and Ngati Whatua o Kaipara. Note that: if the track upgrade does go ahead the Walkway will be closed for several months during that period.
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Doc has recently put another drone up to photograph the forest to look for unhealthy kauri but are not satisfied with the results. And so the ongoing and arduous mission to get approval from DOC to lay a few more trap-lines through the forest is yet again delayed. DOC was meeting with the Ministry of Primary Industries to construct a decision making process for a final decision to be made. We will report the results once available.
Quiz: Is this a stoat or a weasel? Have a guess and then consult the helpful hints below.
Stoats (Mustela ermina) have a brown back and pale belly, and bushy tail with a black tip. They are 34–40 cm long including tail. Stoats will live in any habitat in which they can find prey. In New Zealand they can be found from beaches to remote high country, at any altitude, up to and beyond the tree-line; in any kind of forest –exotic or native; in scrub, dunes, tussock, and farm pastures, and near human settlements.
Weasels (Mustela nivalis) are 20–25 cm long, coloured a deep brown to light tan, with a short tail. Little is known about weasels but their impact on native birds and lizards is likely to be similar to stoats, although on a smaller scale. Weasels were originally introduced in larger numbers than stoats but have not thrived.
Answer: A weasel. And this one?
4 From January to April the Okura Bush trappers have caught:
27 Stoats or weasels (Mustelids)
37 Possums
195 Rats
May is proving to be a very productive month, which follows the patterns of previous years – April and May having the most catches of the year. This is thought to be because of the seeds available on the forest floor until then, and this year kahikatea have been ‘masting’ prolifically. We are pleased to catch as many as possible of these animals before they turn to prey on birds, geckos, and insects.
Meanwhile, the day-to-day issues of weed and predator control continue to absorb the energies of both committee members and volunteers. A Hibiscus and Bays council Local Board grant of $16,500 has gone towards establishing a weed management plan and to pay contractors to carry out the initial stage. The effects of the reduction in possum numbers are beginning to show – rare native fuschia or kotukutuku is regenerating on a section of the track. Weeding days are on the 2nd Sunday of the month. Join us for our Planting day on Sunday 31st July at 9.30am at Stillwater.
Fuchsia excorticata Photo: Geoff Reid
FOOB can only continue to implement its various strategies for the Okura Bush and environs if it has enough money. If volunteer time is valued at $20/hr. then we would have tens of thousands of dollars in the bank by now. But equipment costs a lot, especially traps. So we are especially grateful to an anonymous donor who has donated 60 of the new Kamate traps for our use. This donor used to enjoy the walkway for years but is now no longer able to manage it. But he still wanted to help by donating traps.
If YOU can donate even just a few dollars to keep the birds in the bush and on the shore, to get rid of weeds, to monitor birds and geckos, and to do all possible to look after the bush – please do so!
Autumn is here, come for a walk, count the birds, catch a rat, a possum, a stoat…
Please join us for our: AGM on the 7th August at 3pm in the Okura Hall: Guest Speaker – Stephen King and/or our next FOOB meeting on 20th June at 7.30pm. If you are willing to help out, we’d love to have you on board.
Thank you to our lovely treasurer, Sonja Brown for her commitment since our inaugural meeting. She is now stepping down and we are in need of a new treasurer, and also someone to handle our membership.
Weeding Days are the 2nd Sunday of the month.
Next Planting Day is 31st July at 9.30am at Stillwater.
President: Lezette Reid: 021 872222: info@okurabush.org.nz
Volunteer trapline coordinator: Jonathan Baskett: jpbaskett@xtra.co.nz
Bird Monitoring: Gina Wilson:gina.wilsonrw@gmail.com
Weeding: Julia O’Brien:jmobrien@hotmail.co.nz
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Balancing wildlife and wildfire in revised forest plans
By Kendra Chamberlain | September 30, 2019
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Aspens in the Santa Fe National Forest.
The U.S. Forest Service is in the middle of a major update to forest management plans. Four National Forests in New Mexico — the Santa Fe, Carson, Cibola and Gila national forests — are now in various stages of the multi-year process to update management plans from the 1980s.
The Forest Service has the difficult task of balancing its management plan for a host of diverse uses, ranging from resource management, recreational use, wildlife conservation and wildfire management.
There has been a recent push by conservation groups to protect wildlife corridors and habitat connectivity by designating more portions of the National Forest as wilderness. But the discussion on how best to protect habitat has shone a light on another important component of forest management — one that’s a bit more controversial among residents: wildfire.
Earlier this summer, the Santa Fe National Forest released the Santa Fe Mountains Landscape Resiliency Project, a vegetation management project proposal designed to improve ecosystem resiliency to wildfire. The plan called for mechanical and hand-thinning treatments on up to 21,000 acres of land in what’s known as the Greater Santa Fe Fireshed.
At a time of mass extinction, global deforestation and climate change, the idea of timber removal and prescribed burns rub some residents the wrong way. The proposal received pushback from residents and Santa Fe city council members, who were concerned about how many trees would be removed and how prescribed burns may impact wildlife.
Similar sentiments have emerged in discussions around the proposed forest management plans. But Jennifer Cramer, who’s leading the revision process for the Santa Fe National Forest, says the two goals are not at odds with one another.
“The way that our draft plan addresses wildlife connectivity is through quality habitat for wildlife. The way we achieve that is through managing for vegetation types, which includes the appropriate amount of fire,” she told NM Political Report.
“There are parts of the forest that aren’t ideal right now, but using mechanical thinning and adding fire back, we’re going to improve wildlife habitat, and that will in turn improve wildlife connectivity,” she said.
Managing forests for wildfire
In forests across much of the West, fire acts as a regulator. Natural cycles of dry seasons and lightning storms, for example, serve to keep forests in good shape by periodically burning available fuel.
For the past century, the Forest Service has engaged in a management style that was focused on fire suppression. That approach has led to huge swaths of Forest Service land becoming overgrown, with lots of low branches, dead bushes, felled trees and other vegetation. This turned what should be fire-resilient ecosystems into larger tinderboxes. Overgrown forests are more vulnerable to the type of mega-wildfires that have become commonplace across the West in the past decade. Climate change-driven changes in seasonal weather patterns have only exacerbated the issue.
“These systems were maintained by fire from lighting and in over half of the forest, it would have occurred at a pretty frequent interval,” Cramer said. “A lot of the forests we have now — if it hasn’t had fire, and we introduce fire, that’s the kind of fire that can burn too hot, and could get bigger than we want it to be.”
To get the National Forests into better shape, the Forest Service must remove all the built-up debris and fire fuel. “That’s why we go in and do that timber extraction,” Cramer said. “We thin it out so that it can handle the fire in a safe way.”
The Santa Fe National Forest has proposed four different plans for forest management. Its preferred plan, referred to as alternative 2, incorporates both mechanical treatments for removing timber and using fire to get the forests back into healthy shape.
“That’s what we think is the most efficient way to get these vegetation systems back to where they need to be,” Cramer said.
Conserving habitat connectivity
The public, meanwhile, has been very interested in preserving habitat connectivity for wildlife, according to Karl Malcolm, regional wildlife ecologist for the southwestern region of U.S. Forest Service.
“The way the community has voiced a strong desire to see wildlife values highlighted in these forest plans is commendable,” Malcolm said during a presentation on the revision process last month in Taos. “One of the great things about our National Forest system is that those polygons on the landscape often serve as some of the largest and most-intact blocks of wildlife habitat that we have at our disposal,” he said.
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Forest managers have incorporated that feedback into the draft plans, and have tried to accommodate more protections for wildlife and habitat while also managing for other land uses.
Groups like New Mexico Wilderness Alliance are advocating for plans that protect more habitat through designations such as “wilderness,” “recommended wilderness” or “inventoried roadless.” Such designations preserve habitat by limiting road construction and some forest management activities to protect the wildlife, according to New Mexico Wilderness Alliance attorney Logan Glasenapp.
“Of the alternatives, we definitely prefer the wilderness alternative,” Glasenapp said, referring to one of the Santa Fe National Forest draft plans that would protect more land for wildlife. “It meets more of what we think those lands actually provide in terms of value use,” he said.
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But wilderness designations have important consequences for how the Forest Service can manage for fire. The Forest Service limits the use of mechanical and motorized equipment for tree thinning in wilderness areas, for example, which impacts how much fire fuel can be removed from those areas.
“Our treatments are done more with fire than mechanical thinning,” Cramer said, referring to the wilderness alternative. “There are some consequences for the landscape based on that, and there would be consequences for wildlife connectivity as well.”
More wilderness designations could also mean larger wildfires in the future, Cramer said. “There are greater risks of those fires,” she said. “If we can’t go in there and take out some of the fuel, then that fire is harder to control.”
Cramer added that the draft plans are all designed to protect wildlife habitat.
“Those plan components that address wildlife habitat are woven throughout the plan. They’re found in vegetation, they’re found in wildlife, in range [management] and fences,” she said. “There are many different types of plan components that really help us ensure that we appropriate wildlife connectivity.”
The Forest Service is still gathering comments from the public on its draft plans. Residents have until November 7 to submit their comments.
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NM Environment Review: Fires, WIPP, bears and more
The big news this morning is the Ute Park Fire in northern New Mexico near Ute Park and Cimarron, which blew up overnight to 8,000 acres. According to the New Mexico State Forestry update at 7:30 this morning, 12 structures at Philmont Scout Ranch were destroyed, and 150 other structures are threatened.
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I have a special New Year’s present for you, the readers. In the run up to the year’s end I had two serious pieces I was going to write, but given the way things are going I figured they’d bring everybody down. That’s why I figured today’s post should be something uplifting. Something absurd. It’s time for another load of insane Russian sci-fi covers!
For those of you who haven’t caught my earlier pieces on this topic, you can follow this link to the original, and this one for the second installment. But before we begin I have a couple things to get out of the way.
First, while these book covers can be found on Russian online book retailers, I am very grateful to the people behind the Vkontakte group “Batshit Covers of Russian Science-Fiction” for gathering the best of the worst, so to speak.
Also, during this time I’ve spent collecting these book covers and writing about them, I was reminded of an episode from my early childhood that might explain my affinity for over-the-top cover art. Sure, I could just chalk it up to the 1980’s, but this one episode stands out. Dear readers, take a gander at this book cover (it’s the best image I could find online).
Contrary to what you might think, this is supposedly not a novel. It was supposed to be a memoir (I’ve since found info that says its veracity is questionable). Back when I was 4, maybe 5, my mother saw this guy speak at her church and she brought the book home. Obviously it was a bit above my reading level back then but that didn’t matter because LOOK AT THAT COVER!
That boat’s getting shot to pieces. There’s brass and shattered glass all over the deck. The .50 cal gunner’s dead and bleeding all over the deck. Bloody footprints- serious attention to detail! And all the while you’ve got what I assume was supposed to be the author, decked out in tiger-stripe camo and blasting away at Mr. Charlie with “the pig.” I was too young to watch Rambo back then, but who cares? I had this book cover and my childhood imagination. And did I not already mention that this was being sold in a church? Since then churches are the place where they can take the story of a guy getting crucified and stuck in the side with a spear and make it lame and “family-friendly.” That’s why young people are running off to go join ISIS (which is illegal in the Russian Federation!). But I digress.
Someone forgot the disclaimer about ISIS being illegal in the Russian Federation.
I’m just sharing that anecdote because it shows how resonant awesome cover art can be. In the 21st century heroes are practically invincible until the script says they need to get injured or hurt to hit a story beat. Back in the 1980’s, we liked our action heroes beaten to hell and back, struggling against the excruciating pain and overwhelming odds to prevail in the end, John McClane style.
Alright, enough of me yelling at a cloud. Let’s look at some insane book covers!
I don’t care if it’s the 5th century – TRIGGER DISCIPLINE!
Okay let’s see. Judging by the helmets I’d say we’re in late Roman Britain, but I’m going to take a stab in the dark and suggest that the authors may not have been too overly concerned with historical authenticity. Going with my original hypothesis, I’m guessing some Picts or invading Germanic tribes are going to have a nasty surprise when they attempt to conquer Britannia. In any case, Briton king Vortigern will have no need for the Saxons Hengist and Horsa to do his fighting for him so long as the ammunition doesn’t run out. He’s more likely to have them shot straight in their Saxon faces.
Look to our own defenses? Got it sorted, mate.
All you need there is a flock of doves flying out from behind them and you’ve got a John Woo film made for the Russian market. Okay let’s unpack this. It appears to be Soviet NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria teaming up with what looks like White Guard leader Admiral Kolchak. Do I even need to point out what’s wrong with that? No? Good.
Also here’s a little tip about dual wielding handguns. First of all- you won’t hit anything and it just looks cool. But if you must look cool, be sure to dual wield handguns that can be easily reloaded. Revolvers can’t for obvious reasons, and neither can that Mauser broom handle, which loaded from a stripper clip fed from above. But then again, given the style of the image I’m sure when they run out of bullets they resort to Matrix-like martial arts skills.
Whatever the case, I’m sure this book is worth reading if only for the long political debates it must surely contain.
As if it weren’t enough that this guy clearly has some kind of automatic weapon with him, he was apparently lucky enough to fall into a fantasy world with a Ka-52 attack chopper to back him up. Anyway the Mongol-looking guy looks quite pleased with his new friendship.
The wizard is another matter. It looks like he’s conjuring that little ball of light because he’s intimidated by all these new magical devices he’s witnessing. It’s as if he’s saying “Sure, his mechanical flying dragon just blasted half your army into little pieces, but can it light your path in the deep dark caverns of the Globlin King Ulug-Thalak? I don’t think so!”
So this is called Schrodinger’s Raccoon and it’s listed as “anti-science fiction.” They’ve certainly got that part down. Now you might be asking why it’s a raccoon and not a cat. Well guess what…
There you go. Schrodinger’s cat. Schrodinger’s Soviet, heavily armed space cat. This is both insane and not insane at the same time until we open the book and observe its content.
This fellow looks like he bounced through several different time periods on his way into this fantasy world. The clothes are modern, but the weapon is the WWII-vintage PPS-43. The woman’s wearing something that looks like it’s out of ancient Egypt, but she’s armed with a flintlock musket, meaning they can’t share ammunition. On the plus side, there’s a Zeppelin in this fantasy world, and if you follow me on Twitter you know I’m a big advocate of bringing Zeppelins back as a mode of air travel.
Perhaps this fantasy dimension is a place where random shit from other time periods gets dumped. That would explain all the anachronisms. Either that or the authors were trying to make their own Final Fantasy VI ripoff.
It’s called Knight in The Grey Greatcoat, and that’s exactly what we see. What tactical advantage an old Russian police greatcoat would afford a knight in battle is beyond me though. Perhaps he plans to waylay other knights along the road, tell them that the violated some trivial law of the realm, and suggest that they may be forgiven if they would only pay a small fine here and now. It’s either that, or, as one would expect from these popadantsy novels, he uses his gun to cheat in the royal tournament.
All I can say about this is that apparently some graphic designers in Russia accept payment in LSD.
For the non war-nerds out there, the ZSU-23-4 Shilka is a radar-guided anti-aircraft gun system with four 23mm cannons. They have also been used in a ground attack role, often in combat. They do not, however, fly. At least they don’t in boring reality.
Honestly though I think whoever designed the cover of Aviashilka was clearly just trolling. I sure hope so.
Remember earlier when I said sometimes the people who design covers are paid in LSD? Well sometimes that applies to the authors as well. Here we have an example of vatnik fap fiction, only this time instead of defeating the Third Reich, Russia has defeated NATO. How they would do this with no allies and a much weaker country than the USSR is hopefully explained in the book.
There’s not much going on here but I’m including it because I want to get on my political soapbox for a bit. Our hero is so mesmerized by his flaming katana that he’s not even paying attention to that awesome futuristic Zeppelin that’s looming not too far away. Isn’t that a metaphor for our world these days? We’re so preoccupied with war and conflict that we forget about the vast benefits that could be had if we only brought back airship travel. Think about it.
Let’s see- Germans defeated at Brest Fortress. Anyone here ever play that old game Close Combat III: The Russian Front? I remember getting good enough at it to the point where I could stop the Germans on the border and basically ruin Operation: Barbarossa. And you know what? I didn’t need a tricked out AK-12 to do it.
Yes. Throw a knife in a world where you get attacked by people wearing plate armor. No need to use…like…a fully automatic assault rifle or anything! In any case our naval infantry hero probably won’t have time to regret his mistake since that armored guy is clearly sneaking up behind him.
Okay let’s see here- our heroes are a modern-day Russian spetsnaz guy who’s teamed up with a Wehrmacht soldier of the Third Reich. They’ve destroyed an American Sherman tank in London.
But remember, kids, all Ukrainians are Banderite Nazis!
Another exemplar of the sub-sub-sub genre known as “Britain sucks.” Here we’ve got yet another British soldier totally outclassed arms-wise and getting shot in the face as a result. You know I can’t think of many nations that still hold a grudge about the Seven Years War.
This one’s called Popadantsy of the Caribbean. You might ask whether or not they are pirates. Well you see, modern Russian pirates are a little different than what you may be used to. Here’s a video that explains that difference (possibly NSFW, depends on where you work I guess). May that video be seared into your brain and recalled every time you hear a Russian politician talking about Russia’s deep traditional values.
Apparently there’s fap fiction for Ukrainian nationalists as well, at least judging from the cover. Given their long history of piracy and raids against the Ottoman Empire, it’s interesting to imagine what would happen if they attacked the Ottomans in an unexpected place. Egypt’s kind of pushing it.
That being said, did they really need modern weapons like an 82mm mortar? The problem with all these “alternate history” novels that involve modern artillery is that I suspect they leave out key details such as how the forward observers are communicating with the gunners to adjust their fire. I’m sorry but that just totally takes me out of the story and I can no longer suspend my disbelief.
The image of a pro-Putin youth from the 21st century battling vikings might be confusing, but I think it’s a metaphor. See, he’s gone back in time and found himself in Kyivian Rus. As such, he has determined that these warriors are clearly minions of the Nazi Banderite junta in Kyiv. “Take that! Azov scum!” he shouts as he hews down another Rus warrior, not realizing that his slavish devotion to Vladimir Putin is literally destroying the Russian nation at its root. Just like in real life!
I predict adventure- sexy adventure! Seriously though, it’s worth noting that the title here, And the Gods There are Quiet, is a play on words based on the title of a famous Soviet film (based on a novel) that has been remade many times.
“A last alliance of Men and Elves marched against the armies of Germany. Just when it seemed all was lost, Quel’tha’aa’aas picked up the enchanted scoped G-43 rifle from a fallen Waffen SS “Charlemagne” Division soldier and picked off the Hitlerjugend boys who had been hiding in shell holes, brandishing Panzerfausts. With them out of the way, the magic T-34-85s were finally able to advance down the block and pour overwhelming firepower from their 85mm main guns into the facade of the Reich Chancellery, where the Dark Lord Hitler was hiding.”
–Lord Lothar Dragonscale, Chronicle of the Realm Vol. XIII
First I should probably point out that what this “jihadi” girl is doing is definitely banned in the territory of the Russian Federation. You should not do that. I’m guessing the man with the American flag cuff link is supposed to be Obama, because Russia. And if that is Obama, it means the girl is probably Ukrainian. UKRAINA AKBAR!!!
That’s 7.62×39 and you don’t even have the stock on your shoulder? That thing’s going to wind up straight in your face, son! Sure, have a laugh, but it’s possible that these books are designed to prepare the Russian population for the conscription of child soldiers in the near future. The Russian army hasn’t been hitting its contract goals lately.
Once again we have a novel that looks like it was meant to appeal to Ukrainian nationalists. Interesting to note that our kozak hero doesn’t seem to have any modern weapons, but that’s based only on what we can see. For all we know the rest of the Polish hussars were wiped out by the new Ukrainian Dozor-B armored car.
Also here’s a little tip. If you want to upset a Polish nationalist or Polonophile in nine simple words, just say the following- Polish hussars probably didn’t wear their wings in combat.
What book cover bonanza would be complete without Novorossiya fap fiction? Here vatniks can imagine that they’ll conquer Kyiv once they somehow get a modern air force. Sure, there’s always that pesky fact that virtually every conceivable location for an airfield within the separatist territory is within range of Ukrainian artillery or rockets, but that’s why it’s fantasy, right?
And of course, the modern Russian uniforms they’re wearing, plus the Russian Mi-28 helicopters in the background, were purchased at Ukrainian military surplus stores. Ukraine has the best military surplus stores in the world.
Seriously though, they should really stop printing these Novorossiya novels. The more Russians think about Novorossiya, the more they’ll be reminded that their dictatorial government whipped them into a fervor in support of this pseudo-state and then basically all but abandoned it because sanctions hurt their ability to fork over more stolen money into Western banks and luxury real estate.
This looks like the poster for the worst buddy-cop comedy movie ever.
Pro-Russian separatist: When I’m driving, we listen to my music! Not that Banderite Nazi crap! *switches radio to Soviet retro station*
Ukrainian nationalist: It’s my car! So I choose the music! *switches radio again*
Pro-Russian separatist: Damn you Banderite! *switches dial to a third station*
Pro-Russian separatist: …
Ukrainian nationalist: …
Both together: This hit, that ice cold Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold. This one for them hood girls Them good girls straight masterpieces. Stylin’, whilen, livin’ it up in the city. Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent! Got kiss myself, I’m so pretty!
Pig chariot. No further comment needed.
More “anti-fascism,” as you can see from this cover. I guess Space Soviets team up with Space Nazis to destroy Space Liberals or something.
This is another sub-genre of popadanyets novels, known as pimpadanyets. When he’s not making that sweet green he’s gunning down Nazis. Extra points for removing the DT machine gun from the tank.
Yes, Western leftists. The country where popular literature involves the Red Army traveling back in time to help the slave-owning Confederacy win the Civil War is definitely the global headquarters of anti-fascism. Keep up the anti-imperialist struggle!
Well there you have it folks. Have a happy New Year and get ready to start talking about how 2017 is “like, the worst year ever!”
P.S. Donating money to good causes is guaranteed to make your New Year’s wishes come true!*
*Not a guarantee.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2016 by Jim Kovpak.
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37 thoughts on “An Awesome New Year”
AndyT December 31, 2016 at 4:23 pm
You know those days, when you feel frustrated because you cannot read wonderful books written in a foreign language?
Well, today’s not one of those days 😛
(Reasonably) Happy 2017!
Jim Kovpak Post author December 31, 2016 at 4:44 pm
Luckily these are the books you can judge by their cover.
gbd_crwx December 31, 2016 at 5:23 pm
Happy new year Jim
AndyT January 1, 2017 at 3:32 pm
I wonder how people might look back at this stuff in around 2050…
Sohryu_L December 31, 2016 at 6:24 pm
>Ukraine has the best military surplus stores in the world.
HOW DID YOU KNOW
I’m still eyeing that totally sweet Bundesmarine greatcoat for the 2017 demiseason you know
Jim Kovpak Post author December 31, 2016 at 11:44 pm
Why not an actual German U-Boat to go with that? I’m sure they sell those too.
Mr. Hack January 1, 2017 at 6:00 am
You’re obviously a real fashionista, and therefore I’m puzzled as to your reverse coat of arms?
Happy New Year’s to all, especially to the housekeeper of this blog!
Jim Kovpak Post author January 1, 2017 at 9:05 am
I believe it’s Ivan Mazepa’s.
An anonymous Ukrainian-American December 31, 2016 at 8:58 pm
Bonus points for some of those using defaced versions of Order of Patriotic War and Order of Red Banner to brand their anti-fascist masterpieces.
gunlord500 January 1, 2017 at 4:26 am
Haha, American rebs would be so pissed off at that one book cover. They tend to hate commies more than anything else, they often compare Abe Lincoln to Stalin and stuff. I almost wish there was a translation of that to see what the “DEO VINDICE” crowd would think.
ex culo (@threearows) January 1, 2017 at 10:38 am
I have seen book with spetsnaz and jihadist side by side shooting at somebody. Cant find it now.
I you feel like reading the book where red army defeats NATO&EU in 1945 here is ebook(russian) http://bookz.ru/authors/turin-aleksandr/sva6enna_111.html
Mr. Hack January 1, 2017 at 2:31 pm
‘Since then churches are the place where they can take the story of a guy getting crucified and stuck in the side with a spear and make it lame and “family-friendly.”
Your description of Christianity is rather lame in itself? It’s obvious that you were brought up in some sort of protestant church environment, which seems to cut against your profile of a person of Ukrainian descent? I can assure you that the same sort of church environment that you write of was actively promoting the film ‘The Passion of the Christ’ just a few years back, where any pretense of ‘family friendliness’ was squarely left at the entrance doors of movie theaters around the word.
Jim Kovpak Post author January 1, 2017 at 5:30 pm
Perhaps you didn’t notice but this post was intended to be humorous.
Also I’m by no means of full Ukrainian descent and wasn’t raised by that side of the family. I’ve said before that side is murky and I totally admit that my Ukrainian identity more adopted than concrete pedigree. Ukrainian by choice as I call it.
But since you bring that up the side of the family that did raise me was Catholic up until I was born. America’s freedom of religion is a wonderful thing.
Mr. Hack January 1, 2017 at 11:41 pm
After I submitted my reply, I actually thought that maybe you had been brought up Catholic, rather than Protestant (but of the Roman variety, not Eastern). Some things are better left alone. I have an interest in those brought up in a Ukrainian-American background and can appreciate your situation. There’s a whole wing of my family, living in another state, that have
completely assimilated into the great melting pot. The first of my family’s relations, the patriarch of the clan, immigrated in the early 20th century. I don’t think that they even know that they love to eat pierogis. Being Ukrainian by choice is far better that by pedigree, if you ask me.
As you may remember, I’m a big fan of this kind of parody of current Russian books. Here’s the kicker though, there must be some Russians that actually read this kind of stuff and believe in it too! 🙂
Jim Kovpak Post author January 1, 2017 at 11:48 pm
I’ve actually talked to authors and sci-fi fans about that, and they say it typically appeals to ex-military types or cops. Of the former, that usually means they’re security guards now. Obviously they have a lot of time to read. But hey- at least they’re reading, right?
And as ridiculous and disturbing as these novels are, there’s also this sort of unpretentiousness to them as well. It’s like they’re saying- we both know your life sucks, so why not have some good old fashioned wish fulfillment escapism?
How ‘murky’ can it really be? Look at the popular American novelist of partial Ukrainian descent, Chuck Palahniuk (‘Fight Club’ fame), whose family history on his Ukrainian side has been described:
‘his grandfather shot and killed his grandmother after an argument over the cost of a sewing machine. Chuck’s father, who was three at the time, watched from under a bed as Nick Palahniuk searched the house for additional victims, before turning the gun on himself. In the article, Chuck is quoted as saying, “My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe.”
And what ever happened to Chuck’s father:
‘In May 1999, Palahniuk’s father was murdered, together with a woman he was dating, by the woman’s ex-partner. Palahniuk was later asked to help determine the sentence for the man who killed his father; he asked for the death penalty.[41]’
The truth of the matter is that many Ukrainian-American families have totally ‘normal’ disfunctional structures. What could possibly be so ‘murky’ anyway?? 🙂
Mykhailo January 1, 2017 at 5:36 pm
Aviashilka is not a real book, but was made to parody such covers. Got bit too successful there.
Hetman – wat, what? I’ve never seen ukrainian popadanets novels. I think that’s also troll image, but I would need to google that.
Esaul – ukrainian cossacks didn’t had those, so it’s like Don cossack in 1612 or something.
I suspected that was the case with Aviashilka. Good trolling.
But with that cossack novel I think the BIGGEST inaccuracy is that Polish hussar having his wings in combat.
Found info on cossack novels. Both are from same series, but it’s typical “Khmelnytsky totaly wanted to reunify” stuff, so not much on nationalism.
Also, perhaps Aviashilka SHOULD be a real book.
Actually, the highest ranking cossack class from which Hetmans were often taken from was the
‘osaul’:
‘In Ukraine of 17th and 18th centuries osaul was a military and administrative official performing the duties of aide-de-camp.[2] The head of state, hetman, would appoint up to two osauls known as a General Osaul. There also was a Regimental Osaul as well as Company Osaul, with each regular cossack regiment and company except artillery having two of each. Beside them there were osauls under special assignments one of them serving for General Obozny (quartermaster) who performed duties of a chief executive and was the second in importance after Hetman…Other duties consisted of being a hetman’s envoy, supervised matters of internal security, conducted annual regimental musters and inspections. Among the notorious osauls were Petro Doroshenko, Demian Mnohohrishny, Ivan Mazepa, and Ivan Skoropadsky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesaul
I’m still trying to get our resident Mazepenec, Sohryu_L, to explain his backwards crest…
Ivan Sorensen January 1, 2017 at 5:54 pm
My life is empty now that soviet cat space marine exists and I cannot have him.
Mr. Hack January 2, 2017 at 12:06 am
‘It’s like they’re saying- we both know your life sucks, so why not have some good old fashioned wish fulfillment escapism?’
Well, I’ve often felt that reading, amongst other things, was a form of escapism. It must be all about how seriously you take your ‘escapism’? 🙂 🙂
gbd_crwx January 2, 2017 at 10:58 am
well, as you americans say: Truth is stranger than fiction:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/01/moderate-insurgency-2017-labour-party#img-2
Bogdan January 4, 2017 at 8:25 am
You had some interesting reading habits as a kid. Books which glorified an act of aggression perpetrated by brigands like the “hero” depicted in this “cover art”.
I’m sure you have since learned of the “awesome” carnage wrought by these terrorist “pigs” against “Mr. Charlie” (not to mention his wife and children) and his country.
They give these books to children in your country and you have the nerve to talk about Russia?.
Maybe you deal with this stuff by making jokes, but, how often have you guys in USA laughed this stuff off only to repeat it again some years on?. Perhaps it’s time to get serious.
I don’t think such “awesome” books are widely read in Russia. It is more likely that you “expatishly” present them as an exotic example of how “bat-shit” crazy Russians are (or maybe you read them). Whatever is the case it is childish behavior.
I read that expats experience a “second adolescence” while in their host countries and much of what you write bears out this assertion (this being a prime example).
You claim the high title of a Marxist and slander the CPRF. They know more about the situation in their country than do you because they have regular contact with the kind of people who don’t generally speak to expats (those who you, with the petit bourgeois arrogance so typical of American “leftists”, refer to as “vatniki”). I think you need to know your role (also, it wouldn’t hurt to throw some comradely respect their way once in a while!).
Please excuse my frankness as many of your (serious) articles show real talent, but, playtime is over, you had your fun, now I think you should go home. You’re of no use to the Russian people, nor do I think you have any great insight in to how they live. You’re not a Kuzbas miner, a bargeman on the Lena, or even an Uzbek marshrutka driver. To these people you are just another parasite who lives in Moscow and attends PARNAS rallies.
You need to wipe the snot off your nose, grow up, go home, get a real job and get active in your trade union, and I wish you luck against the new President because it will be an ugly four years for the American workers.
С новым годом “товарищ”.
Obviously you were born without a sense of humor or irony. I feel sorry for you. But just as an early Christmas present, I’ll answer your allegations.
“Books which glorified an act of aggression perpetrated by brigands like the “hero” depicted in this “cover art”.
Did you not read the part where I said I was FOUR or FIVE? And no, the book was not “given” to me since there was no way I could read or understand a book of that level at that age. I was simply looking at the cover.
It was the 1980’s, such over-the-top bullshit was common then.
I’m well aware of the horrors of the Vietnam War and I’ve spent years since then reading about it- including the works of Vo Nguyen Giap.
Again, no, they don’t. That book was meant for adults.
Don’t even go down this path because all you have to do is watch how Russia against around 9 May to see how war is trivialized and marketed to children. Little kids barely old enough to walk are dressed up in little Red Army outfits. What ought to be a solemn day of mourning and respect is more commercialized than July 4th.
“It is more likely that you “expatishly” present them as an exotic example of how “bat-shit” crazy Russians are (or maybe you read them). Whatever is the case it is childish behavior.”
Did you miss the part where the term “batshit” was used in the title of a RUSSIAN Vkontakte group dedicated to such covers? Russian/Ukrainian jokes about these novels and their covers have existed since before I even started blogging. I am merely exposing a foreign audience to this.
I’m sorry you find any expression of humor “childish.”
“You claim the high title of a Marxist and slander the CPRF.”
The CPRF is a phony opposition party which repudiates some of the most basic tenets of Marxism. They express right-wing reactionary ideas and make common cause with fascists and imperialists. The criticism is justified.
“You’re of no use to the Russian people, nor do I think you have any great insight in to how they live.”
Incorrect. Over the years as an English teacher I’ve provided countless Russians with a service in high demand. That is evident by the prices Russians were willing to pay for my services (up to $100 an hour in some cases).
And that’s just English teaching. That doesn’t include translation, proofreading, voice acting, regular acting, etc. All paid for, by Russians, who needed a native speaker or specifically and American native speaker.
And they pay a lot more for that than they do some Uzbek marhrutka driver.
So you can whine and cry all you want about what I write, but money talks, and for years I was raking in a lot even while working far fewer than 40 hours.
“To these people you are just another parasite who lives in Moscow and attends PARNAS rallies.”
Do you even know what “parasite” means? Not only have my employers paid taxes, but I don’t use Russian government services (on the rare occasions I do, I pay directly). That means I’m much less of a “parasite” than an ordinary Russian citizen. And of course I’m FAR less of a parasite than the Russian ruling class, who rob their own people to the tune of billions. High level corruption in Russia may even account for as much as a quarter of the annual GDP.
I also don’t “attend PARNAS rallies.” I have been to some rallies where PARNAS was present, and at most of those, the CPRF was also present as well. In fact, I’ve been to far more rallies organized by the CPRF than any other group. Funny how those rallies always include Nazbol fascists and monarchists.
“You need to wipe the snot off your nose, grow up, go home, get a real job and get active in your trade union, ”
First of all, you’d do well to stuff your prolier-than-thou attitude. For all I know you’re just some office plankton. I’ve been working since the age of 14, and that includes manual labor. Sure, writing might not be very gritty, but when I worked in construction I never had to go visit an active war zone. If you’re so concerned about the plight of the Russian working class, maybe you should ask why about 80% of Russia’s wealth is concentrated in Moscow.
And trade unions? In America? You need to keep abreast of developments there.
” I wish you luck against the new President because it will be an ugly four years for the American workers.”
Finally you start making some sense.
Now stop being so sensitive just because I made fun of something that hundreds of Russians have made fun of. These novels aren’t Dostoevsky.
Also if you’re so appalled by the carnage of the Vietnam War, which ended decades ago, I hope you’re equally outspoken about Russia’s brigands in Ukraine and Syria.
Also if you knew anything about me, I’m a huge fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Red Letter Media’s Best of the Worst, and all kinds of media about horrible movies, nearly all produced by Hollywood.
But you saw a post about crappy pulp literature that happens to be Russian (and which is made fun of by plenty of Russians including actual Russian sci-fi authors), and out of some idiotic misguided sense of “patriotism” you threw a tantrum and wrote this nonsensical comment.
Maybe think ahead more.
Respected Mr. Kovpak,
Although I still think books about raccoon astronauts are childish, I realize so too was my comment and I apologize. I did not use tact, it would be better to say simply “I don’t get your sense of humor”.
Alas, I can not reconcile the set of circumstances that brought people like you to Russia (the end of soviet power and so on),but, you had nothing to do with that and I should not have been so rude, I apologize. Find your “American Dream” in Moscow or where ever you want and I wish you victory in your affairs!.
I can not agree with your opinion of the CPRF, but, I will respect it (I don’t like the reactionary trends either), nevertheless, for me, it is the party of Lenin and Stalin and all that and I’m a stupid idealist and so do not wish to leave it’s side.
You’re a good dude Yasha!. Forgive me for sending such a rude message!.
I wish you a good new year with health prosperity and success!.
-B.
The one who can admit being wrong on the internet is rare and deserving of the utmost respect.
In any case, I’m afraid necessity has forced me to leave Russia soon in any case.
May you also have a good new year.
Oops, I think that comrade Bogdan barked up the wrong street, and ended up looking quite foolish! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Tell me about it. He should go tell this guy that he’s acting childish and ought to “go home,”since he’s also making fun of popadanets novels.
http://jakobin1793.livejournal.com/269046.html
Oh wait- that guy is Russian. I guess he is home.
Hell in the intro to the story it clearly links to a Russian/Ukrainian made VK group where Russians submit their photos and jokes about such covers.
I guess they’re all petit-bourgeois too.
Callum C January 5, 2017 at 1:17 am
I really don’t get the “fencer from the future” one. Like, OK, if you were transported to the past and got to bring a gun or a tank or an infantry platoon, then I could understand why you’d be something special. But this is just a dude with no armour and a slightly different sword. Actually it’s not even that different a sword; katanas and migration-era European swords were both pattern welded.
And really, if I had to fight a dude in mail with an axe and shield, a katana and a patriotic T-shirt would not be my first choice.
Does the author think that migration-era peoples who fought with swords all the time would be impressed by a Kendo practitioner whose biggest real fight was over the last “Krim Nash” shirt at the voentorg…?
Is he one of those people who thinks the Katana was folded a billion times and could cut through a tank? Or does he think our fechtovalshchik will be protected from axe heads by the sheer audacity of his polite people shirt?
Wait- are you suggesting that the katana ISN’T the greatest melee weapon of all time? NANDE YANEN?!
Dude- FOLDED steal! 1 BILLION LAYERS! Japanese officers could cut through tanks with the katana. One pilot at Pearl Harbor ejected from his stricken zero and sawed the USS Arizona in half with his katana!
Callum C January 5, 2017 at 8:43 pm
I won’t deny that I would probably read a book about a modern HEMA fencer who goes back in time and spars with Johannes Liechtenauer. Don’t judge me.
HikingMike January 26, 2017 at 5:02 am
I just have to comment to say these are amazing. Thank you. And I second Ivan’s sentiments about soviet cat space marine.
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Trimethoprim use in early pregnancy and the risk of miscarriage: a register-based nationwide cohort study
J T Andersen
M Petersen
E Jimenez-Solem
K Broedbaek
Andersen, Elisabeth Anne Wreford
N L Andersen
Shoaib Afzal
C Torp-Pedersen
Keiding, Niels
Poulsen, Henrik Enghusen
SUMMARY The antibiotic trimethoprim acts as a folate antagonist. Since trophoblasts are very sensitive to drugs that interfere with the folic acid cycle and thereby inhibit DNA synthesis, use of trimethoprim during the first trimester could be associated with miscarriage. A nationwide cohort study including all women in Denmark with a registered pregnancy between 1997 and 2005 was conducted. We used nationwide registers to identify all women giving birth, having a record of miscarriage or induced abortion. Data on exposure to trimethoprim were obtained from the National Prescription Register. Cox proportional hazard regression analysis with exposure to trimethoprim as a time-dependent variable was used to estimate the risk of miscarriage. The adjusted hazard ratio of having a miscarriage after exposure to trimethoprim in the first trimester compared to non-exposure was 2·04 (95% confidence interval 1·43-2·91). Our results indicate that trimethoprim exposure in the first trimester is associated with a doubling of the hazard of miscarriage.
Epidemiology and Infection
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Book Review: The New Nomads
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Review written by Brennan Conaway | Micro Structures
Filled to bursting with bicycle trailers, high-concept campers, floating homes and domesticated shipping containers, “The New Nomads” is a great big picture book for architectural adventurers and a celebration of “temporary spaces and a life on the move.”
More than an art book, a series of essays defines the “new nomad” as someone who “opts out of the conventional” and “wants to exploit a historically unprecedented degree of personal freedom.” Do you value experiences over material wealth? Work in the so-called gig economy? Dream of living on a houseboat on the Columbia, a mountain hut in the Cascades, a tiny home on wheels, all your possessions in one backpack? Are you keeping it weird? You’re a new nomad.
Confirming that Oregon is a hunting ground for these new nomads, the suddenly ubiquitous cartop tent (Le Tente) by local Portland “camp stuff” company Poler is featured, “like a snail that carries it’s home on its back...”
“The New Nomads” has other examples of West Coast transience, from Andrea Zittel’s ‘Wagon Stations down in Joshua Tree to Jay Nelson’s Camper Boat, last seen in a San Francisco surf shop. But much of this book focuses on European new nomads and what they’re making.
All these structures, inventions and creations are fun and inspiring. They’re the tangible expressions of our freedom of movement, our freedom of expression and our curiosity about the world beyond.
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The Future of Housing
We Went Shopping for Your Home of the Future
Building Smaller and Smarter
Apartment and Condos: Learning to Fit In
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Name: Chris Lamb (PJR group leader)
• How long have you been running/ coaching?
I have been running since the age of 12 so about 17 years now. I started coaching as soon as I passed the British Athletics Leadership in Running Fitness course in 2012 setting up Parkland Jog and Run almost straight away.
• How/ why did u begin running?
As a child my main sport was always football but through playing that I knew I had a pretty good level of running speed and endurance. My first ever middle distance race was an 800m in a PE lesson in middle school aged 12. I won that and the school sports day a few weeks later. I then won the county 1500m in my first ever race on a running track and the town cross county race later that year against people a full school year older than me. From then on a kept racing and kept winning while still playing football too. A few years later I joined the town’s athletics club and am still a member to this day.
• What are your biggest achievements in running?
At under 20 and under 23 age group level I ran the national standard time in the 800m, ranked in the top 20 in the country, made the national final and represented the Midlands in a home international event. As a senior I have won the Midlands 800m title and most recently qualified for the obstacle course race world championships.
• What’s been your favourite race to date?
Endure 24. A 24 hour trail race in Aldermaston near Reading that I have competed in with a team in 2013, winning the event setting a course record and as a soloist in 2014 when I covered 80 miles.
• What’s your favourite training session?
On the track I’ve always enjoyed a pyramid session. Something like 200m/ 300m/ 400m/ 300m/ 200m at race pace or quicker. Since taking up obstacle course racing I like doing the workouts that replicate race day situations by just getting out and running on the wettest, muddiest, hilliest terrain I can find and doing all sorts during the run. Exercises, climbing, carrying objects, crawling etc.
• What are your Personal Bests? (List all distances & best times you’ve achieved)
400m: 50.7, 800m: 1.52.86, 1500m: 3.58.5, 3k: 8.53, 5k: 16.09, 10k: 33.45, Half marathon: 75.08, Marathon: 2.48.59, 12 hours: 90k, 24 hours: 80 miles
• What is your short term fitness target(s)?
To become one of the UK’s top obstacle course racers and to test myself over a whole host of different events.
• What’s your long term fitness target(s)?
To represent England and a Great Britain at European and world level competitions in masters athletics.
Name: Fiona Fisher
• How long have you been running?
I did a Race for Life and then a friend bet me he could beat me at a triathlon. It spiralled from there.
• How long have you been a PJR member?
My first session was in the thick snow in Jan 2013.
My first ultra distance event was a massive achievement.
Tough question, as many races have different merits- Jurassic Coastal was epic: 3 marathons over 3 days, well run, good food and good company.
I like pyramids and have a love/hate relationship with hills.
5k: 24.12
10k: 50.00
Half marathon: 1.55.56
Marathon: 4.16
30 miles: 6 hours 45
50 miles: 14 hours 20
To be able to walk the next day after a race.
To run as many beautiful races as possible. To push my body to a limit and find out what I am made of.
Name: Adam Pope
Someone at work asked me if I wanted a charity place in the London Marathon and I said yes. I hadn’t run since I was a teenager. I managed to get round and enjoyed the sense of achievement. A few months later I found out about Parkrun and started going every week. I met some great people there and found myself getting fitter and faster. Running gave me time to think and relax.
I first attended about 18 months ago and have been a regular member for the last year.
Completing that first London Marathon was an achievement as I had no experience or training. This year I managed a back to back Ultra Marathon which pushed me to my limits. My Parkrun PB is also a big achievement for me.
My favourite race was the Christmas 2013 Mud, Sweat and Beer OCR. Four of us ran as a team and all crossed the finish line together, it was a challenge but great fun as well.
Hill running session.
35 mile Ultra – 6:20:37
Marathon – 3:33:22
Half Marathon – 1:35:34
5K – 19:21
Mile – 6:08
To break 19 minutes for 5K and 6mins for mile.
To break 3:30 for Marathon and 1:35 for Half.
Name: Claire Holland
I’ve been running on and off since the age of 13.
After a school cross country race, a student teacher thought I had talent so told me about the local athletics club: Northampton Phoenix. I went down and met with a group, joining in the session. I worked so hard to keep up that I made myself feel ill and it took me two weeks to pluck up the courage to go back again! I quickly realised that I liked challenging myself in the sessions but this was nothing compared with racing which I truly loved.
I stopped running when my coach moved away about ten years ago and, despite trying hard to get back into it several times, nothing seemed to stick. However, a year and a half ago I finally plucked up the courage to go to a PJR session and have never looked back.
-I was twice 800m midland champion. The first title saw me achieve my 800m pb of 2.18.2 which still stands (aged 14 at the time).
– qualifying for the Northamptonshire English schools team twice.
– completing a half marathon recently which is the furthest distance I’ve ever run.
– Being part of the PJR winning team at Endure 24 in 2014
– My favourite race was a 800m race at Watford on a Wednesday evening. I was going for a pb and led the race for the first 500m but was taken over by a lady at this point. She opened up an extensive lead but I worked hard in the final 200m and ended up overtaking her then pulling away on the home straight. I got a pb of 2.20 which qualified me for the English schools team.
I loved 8x200m with 2min rec on the track. My favourite PJR session is the pyramid.
400m: 59.7
800m: 2.18.2
1500m: 4.52.4
Half marathon: 1hr49.30
To run under 21.30 for 5k. Increase weekly mileage and keep this consistently over 80miles per month.
To race on the track again and run PBS over 800 and 1500m (and hopefully 400m too!)
Name: Lee Chilvers
On and off 6.5 years but consistently for last 2 years.
Always wanted to run, but historically I was a lot heavier, now 6 stone lighter, I am using it to support the management of type 2 Diabetes.
I first joined a couple of months after they formed but then stopped when winter came, which I regretted but I’ve now been back regularly for nearly 2 years.
Breaking my 10k PB & the 1 hour barrier in my hometown of Kings Lynn
Kings Lynn 10k. It’s extremely flat and I knew several faces in the crowd to cheer me on.
I prefer Fartlek or Pyramid sessions
10K- 59:45
5K- 27:32
1 mile- 7.35
To break 7 mins for the mile and 26:30 in 5k parkrun.
Finish half Marathon in Peterborough in October in under 2hr:15
Name: Gary Shaw
•How long have you been running?
I ran the Nottingham half marathon in 1998 and 2000 but didn’t continue running after either race. Started running regularly in April 2012.
•How/why did you begin running?
After ballooning to 20 stone I knew I had to do something before my health began to suffer. Lost 3 stone and started to run/walk to help with the weight loss. Northampton Parkrun started 6 or so weeks later and that really spurred me on to continue and build my fitness. Entered the Nottingham half as a goal with a target of 2 hours and despite picking up an injury 3 weeks before the race finished in 2:03.
•How long have you been a PJR member?
I joined PJR in January 2013.
Losing 6 stone in weight, completing the Nottingham half without walking for the first time, continuing to run – after injuries I still look forward to getting back training, competing in Endure 24 (a 24 hour event) and having the confidence to attempt to do it solo next year.
• What’s your favourite race?
Definitely Endure 24. The atmosphere, camaraderie and sense of achievement is unrivalled by any other event I have attended. A special mention also to The Suffering OCR, not your traditional running event but one of the best obstacle events out there.
I love the PJR OCR sessions
• What are your Personal Bests?
1 mile – 7.44
10k – 1 hr 15 (injured calf at 7k so doesn’t really count)
half marathon – 2:03
24 hr race – 20 miles (as a part of a team of 8)
Completing the Leicester marathon in October in under 4:30.
Compete in Endure 24 as a solo in 2015 with a target of completing 75 miles.
Name: Peter Currington
I started running when I was 9 or 10 with Northampton phoenix athletics club. However I stopped in 2001 when I hit a rough patch in my life. I didn’t start again until 2012 when I was in my late 20’s
I began running because I enjoyed it. I wanted to run everywhere as a kid. I got back into it to help bring me out of depression and improve my state of mind with it did.
Reaching the English Schools as a junior is probably my biggest achievement in running on paper. Also to have got back to a competitive level from where I was a couple of years ago I regard as an achievement in another way.
My first 800 since my comeback on the track in the London indoor games at Lea valley. It was such a buzz to realise I still knew how to race especially over that distance, the adrenaline, pre race nerves and everything. Although it was a small race it felt huge!
I don’t have one favourite in particular but I like the faster more intense sessions on the track that hurt the most as they are also the most rewarding!
400m- 51.0
600m- 1:26.0
800m- 1:57:6
1500m- 4:15.7
3k- 9:30
HM- 1:21:08
To break my 1500m PB
To try to get as close as I can to where I was as a junior on the track and to be competitive at county and midland level. Taking into account my age and the loss of some degree of speed I also want to run decent times over longer distances.
Name: Lianne Norfolk
Since Feb 2013 (18 months)
I only took up running so I could complete a Tough Mudder. Studying my Masters Degree was taking it’s toll on me and I needed a new focus, I’d seen some friends complete Tough Mudder in 2012 and decided I wanted to have a go. It was only going to be a one-off thing, but now I’m hooked.
Since October 2013, my fellow Tough Mudders stopped running after the 2013 event and I got fed up of running by myself all the time. I’m so glad I joined PJR, I’ve achieved a lot in a short space of time and made some great friends.
Completing Tough Mudder on two consecutive days, and winning Endure 24 as part of a team of 8.
I couldn’t choose between Endure24 and Tough Mudder.
I don’t have a favourite, as long as I’m running I’m happy!
1 Mile: 6.46
To complete my first half marathon at Birmingham in October 2014 under 2 hours
Competing in a team if 5 at Endure 24 in June 2015 & I’d like to run a full marathon at some point. Otherwise just to carry on enjoying running and obstacle races.
Name: Stephen Croft
I started running regularly in January 2014
If I’m honest I never had any interest in running. I was football crazy from a very young age but sadly in May 2012 I tore my right anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament and damaged my right medial meniscus. Even though I’m still having treatment to my knee it’s now strong enough for me to run. I started by doing short runs by myself but found it hard to get motivated. I was then found out about PJR and started to attend their sessions. From the very first session I felt welcome and really enjoyed it, also found my fitness levels improved dramatically after a few weeks, felt I had more energy during the day and found that running relaxed me.
Started in January 2014
I completed the London Marathon in April 2012 in a time of 4hours 34mins 5 seconds. It was something I’d always wanted to do and thought I’d have no worries completing it due to my fitness level form football. How wrong I was!!! Felt ok until mile 18 where I stopped for a toilet break. After this my whole body had shut down. Since joining PJR I’m proud to have entered many different events and I was lucky enough to finish first in Mud Sweat and Beer 5k OCR. Also being part of a team at Endure 24 was a big achievement for me.
My favourite race was Endure 24. Felt great being part of a team, seeing everyone helping out wherever they could and the support was awesome.
It has to be the PJR OCR sessions. Who doesn’t enjoy running through dirty smelly water, crawling through mud, jumping over trees and collecting little ducks from the pond?
5k : 21.05
10k : 48.20
Marathon : 4h 34m 05 seconds
By the end of 2014 I’d like to improve all my PBs and get a half marathon done in under 2 hours
Attempt another marathon in 2015 and be under 3 hours 40mins. Do Endure 24 in a 5 person team ready for a solo attempt the following year.
Name: Steve Cory
I joined a friend (Mick Conroy) on a run while on holiday in Tenerife in September 2012
I joined in April 2014
Completing the Edinburgh marathon in under 3 hours 30 and running 90k as part of a pairs team at TR 24 hour run.
Tapering!!!
1 mile- 6:13
Half marathon- 1:38:00
30k- 2:26:51
Marathon- 3:27:54
24 hours- 90k
To run 5k sub 19:22 (Mick’s PB)
To do a parkrun the first Saturday after my 100th Birthday………faster than Mick!
Name: Julie Currington
I started by joining a gym and doing some light running just to lose weight.
My husband Peter joined and told me that the training sessions would be something I’d enjoy. I was a little nervous to begin with as I hadn’t really ran as part of a group before but I really enjoyed it. I have now been a member for around a year and a half
Completing the Stanwick lakes 10k. It’s the furthest I have ran and finished in 64 mins.
Rock solid race. It was my first ever obstacle run and I had so many mixed emotions about it but there was no greater feeling then crossing the finish knowing I had got through it. Plus I loved the t- shirt.
The PJR OCR training sessions really are fun and they help you to prepare for those tough obstacle races so they are my favourite. Plus you get a bit muddy and a bit wet and its great fun
10k- 64 mins
5k- 27.51
Continue training hard so I can complete the Birmingham half marathon in October. This will be the longest I have ever ran so im nervous and excited.
To continue to train with PJR as training with the group has given me the confidence to complete races I never thought I could do. I have met amazing people who have encouraged me to complete the races i’ve ran so in time, I’d love to complete a full marathon!
Name: Martin Gooding
I began running with the intention of getting fit and losing some weight and was talked into joining the United trades road runners by some of my work mates and loved the race day buzz but I stopped racing 15 years ago until recently when I started doing Northampton parkrun and joined PJR.
I started training with PJR in February 2014.
Most recently it’s running sub 20 mins for the Northampton parkrun and being part of the PJR Endure 24 team. The younger me achieved regular sub 6.00 minute mile pace for my favourite race distance of ten miles.
Endure 24 in 2014
With PJR it’s the sprint relays/ shuttle runs session. On my own my it’s 5-10 mile fartlek running a hilly course.
• What are your personal bests times?
Marathon: 2 hrs 58 mins
Half marathon: 1 hr 22 mins
10 miles: 57.00
5 miles 28.00
5k 17.55
Run under 19 minutes for the parkrun
I would like reach my full potential as I slightly regret not doing so when I was younger.
Name: Steve Heighway
I have been running since 1980
I Started running because I was bored so my mum told me I should take a run around the block. A friend in the village who was also a runner encouraged me to start running with him. After a while I joined United Trades Road Runners before moving to Northampton Phoenix to run with a few people I knew who ran there.
I’ve been a member of PJR since June 2012 when chris encouraged me to join whilst coming back from an ITB injury. He has since been coaching me full time.
Running for 24 hours solo at Endure 24 I regard as my biggest achievement followed by the 12 hour Lightning run both in 2014. I am also very proud of my 1.16 half marathon.
The Crest a Turbines Northampton Phoenix mile races were great tactical races where I always gave a good account of myself.
400m/ 600m x 3 (200m/ 400m jog recovery) Hitting the 400’s hard and 600’s relaxed. I like the change of pace during this session.
400m – 58 secs
800m – 2:09
1500m – 4:09
3k – 9.05
10k – 34:03
10 mile – 58:30
Half marathon – 76:30
Marathon – 3:18
To recover from my current rib injury, regain my fitness & remain fit & injury free.
To get some speed back over 5k and 10k before moving up to the half marathon again & to attempt to run 100 miles in 24 hours.
Name: Becky Dixey
About 3 years, after losing quite a bit of weight, and it was an interest shared with my daughter
I began running when my aerobic/fat club class closed down and I wanted to keep the weight off. (it was also cheaper than the gym)
I joined in Feb 2013, time flies when your having fun!
Completing my 100th parkrun.
I would have to say Rock Solid Race. It was my first obstacle course race and the most memorable.
I love the PJR OCR training, and I like the Monday fartlek sessions.
5k – 30 mins 19 seconds
10k – 68 minutes
To get below the damm 30 minute barrier for parkrun
I am hoping to complete my first half marathon in October 2014 and be part of the PJR Endure 24 team in 2015.
Name: Vicki Baker
I ran cross country at school and but I didn’t keep it up after I left. I started running again around five years ago.
• How/ why did you begin running?
I started going to gym classes when I was caring for a terminally ill family member. I joined as a way of helping me deal with things emotionally and as I got fitter I felt I wanted to take up running again. I don’t go to the gym anymore but I’ve kept up with the running and found it has so many benefits.
Since February 2014
I was really pleased to run my second ever half marathon this year at Milton Keynes in just under two hours.
It’s not so much a race but I loved running the 5k Parkrun at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire a few months back. The course is set in the grounds of a National Trust property and made a nice change despite the rain (and hangover).
I would have said I enjoy all the PJR training sessions but I’ve not done the hill training session with them yet. Maybe that will be my favourite!
1 mile – 7:05
10k – 50.09
half marathon 1:59:19
I’d like to run 10k in under 50 minutes.
To run the Northampton parkrun in under 21 minutes. I’m also looking forward to running as part of a team in the Endure24 race next year.
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December 2017 - January 2018 | Issue 2612 - 2613
Trying Trident
Disarmers acquitted (Feature)
Editorial: How to destroy our own movements (Comment)
Peace prize given to peace group (News)
Greenpeace 10 found ‘not guilty’ after blocking PNR fracking site entrance (News)
Thousands demand climate justice in Bonn (News)
Three Scots stop warhead convoy (News)
Refugee voices in the halls of power (News)
Remembrance Day (News)
From Holloway to housing (News)
Joseph Rotblat is held up against the wall in London (News)
Assault charge dropped against DSEI activist (News)
Mud, mud, inglorious mud (News)
Che Guevara’s daughter visits Wales (News)
Rubbish, Alun (News)
They’re watching you... (News)
Taking a stand against bullying and censorship (Feature)
Two of the three leaflets that started it all (Feature)
Bookfair herstory (Feature)
‘These leaflets are a form of violence that you must stop’ (Feature)
‘We don’t ban people just because we disagree with them’ (Feature)
‘We’re tired of being told what to do’ (Feature)
Evan Sleeping at Camp 18 (Feature)
Encircling China (Feature)
‘Nonviolence works!’ (Feature)
Bruce Kent: As I please (Feature)
Hostage Catalonia (Comment)
Obituary: Helen John: 30 September 1937 – 5 November 2017 (Comment)
Diary: Options beyond the hamster wheel (Comment)
The Personal Column: Confessions of a teenage narcissus (Comment)
'I think it’s time to meet another way' (Comment)
Diversity is Beautiful (Comment)
Case study: Sweden 1931 (Comment)
Jo Littler, Against Meritocracy: Culture, power and myths of mobility (Review)
Kate Evans, Threads: From the Refugee Crisis (Review)
Sara Pascoe, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body (Review)
Stephen Armstrong, The New Poverty (Review)
Alison Ronan ed, The Women’s Peace Crusade 1917–1918: Crusading Women in Manchester and East Lancashire (Review)
Ward Churchill & Michael Ryan, Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America (Review)
Max Hertzberg, Spectre at the Feast (Review)
Telford (Cartoon)
Roouminations (Cartoon)
News in Brief (9)
News by Catherine Tauriello
Attorney General declines to prosecute Theresa May over Trident
After two years, ‘Public Interest Case Against Trident’ (PICAT) finally received a decision from the UK attorney general in late November on whether it had permission to prosecute the prime minister and the defence secretary for war crimes in relation to Britain’s nuclear weapons. Britain’s only nuclear weapons are Trident missiles – which are carried on Trident nuclear submarines.
PICAT is an initiative of the Trident Ploughshares direct action network. The project was begun by peace activist Angie Zelter, the late George Farebrother, and Robbie Manson, lawyer and author of Pax Legalis.
The groups that make up PICAT have applied to their local courts all over England and Wales for prosecutions of the UK defence secretary – and been refused.
Too much death
The first effort began in October 2015. PICAT saw the decision of local courts not to prosecute as an opportunity to press the attorney general. The attorney general’s consent is required to prosecute anyone for war crimes under the International Criminal Court Act 2001.
The war crime that the prime minister and defence secretary are said to have committed is conspiring to cause excessive incidental death, injury or damage contrary to Article 8(2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
By ‘excessive’, international law means that the death and injury to civilians, and the damage to civilian objects and to the natural environment, would be ‘excessive’ in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage of the nuclear attack.
The PICAT website has evidence to support this position.
Delay and decision
Scottish peace activist David Mackenzie states, in a letter available on PICAT’s website: ‘it [the prosecution] is focussed on English and Welsh courts, the project has sharp relevance for Trident-opposing Scots.’
Five of the groups associated with PICAT each submitted separate requests to prosecute. The attorney general informed them in August 2016 that because they were associated with the same organisation that it would be treated as a single request.
In July of this year, a formal complaint was submitted to the attorney general about the delay in his response.
On 10 November, the office of the attorney general finally replied with a decision. Julia Crouch, deputy director of the public law and litigation team, wrote to Angie Zelter: ‘In the Attorney General’s view, the material provided by the PICAT Project is insufficient to show that any offence has been committed. Accordingly, the Attorney General has declined to give his consent to the proposed prosecution.’
The PICAT project is considering its next move.
More info on PICAT: www.picat.online
Catherine Tauriello is a US student journalist working with Peace News in London.
Topics: Nuclear Weapons
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Life Outside The Book of Mormon Belt
with Lisa Torcasso Downing (L.T. Downing)
READ Get That Gold!
READ Island of the Stone Boy
READ The Pilfered Papers
Power and the New Class of Sinners
On October 9, 2017 October 10, 2017 By lisatorcassodowningIn authority, General Conference, Inclusion, LGBT, Outreach, Priesthood
Like most progressive Mormons engaging in the discussion about inclusion levels of the LGBTQIA community within the Church, I’ve argued in favor of love—that love is a behavior, that Christlike love practices empathy and inclusion. There is no concrete opposition to that, since love is an abstraction, so what I hear from “opposing” voices sounds a lot like, “We do love; we want to include” followed by a caveat. In truth, most orthodox, mainstream LDS are sincere in their desire to love and include, but they both justify and endorse policies of exclusion without hesitation. It’s a baffling dichotomy. But this weekend, at General Conference, the fog lifted for me. I’ve had it all wrong. This isn’t about a lack of love. It’s about power and submission. It’s about the corruption of ethics and ideals and how we’ve exchanged them for easily quantifiable “standards” that bind a subservient class to the will of its leadership. It’s about control.
The fog lifted during Elder Oaks’ Saturday morning General Conference talk, which may be one of the Quorum of the Twelve’s most divisive public addresses. I won’t discuss most of what he said (review “The Plan and the Proclamation” here), but will focus on one effect of the address.
Elder Oaks’ position on same-sex marriage is in line with the Church’s position. He probably had more to do with establishing that position than anyone else and seems more invested in promoting it than other apostles. However, his Saturday message is an audacious reversal of previous statements by General Authorities that have acknowledged faithful Mormons are safe to differ in their view. Instead, Elder Oaks creates a new class of sinners out of Mormons who support legal same-sex marriage.
He does this by beginning his talk with scripture passages and quotations from other church authorities that delineate between the righteous and unrighteous, those of God and of the world. In this way, he constructs a thought track designed to bring his audience to a point of agreement. This is a technique used by all great speakers, but it is, nonetheless, manipulative.
After capitalizing on the commonly held idea that evil opposes God, Elder Oaks lowers the ax by claiming “converted Latter-day Saints believe that the proclamation” demands alignment with his stance since supporting gay marriage equates to rejecting and fighting God. I won’t discuss his particulars about the proclamation today. However, I want my readers to notice that he divides faithful, practicing Latter-day Saints into either a converted group or an unconverted group, based not on their testimony of Christ nor of the restoration, but on their agreement with his view that same sex marriage is evil and an attack on families and the plan of salvation. He effectively makes sinners of practicing Latter-day Saints who value the rights of others, respect agency, and believe that God is greater than it sometimes seems Elder Oaks remembers. Because of the influence he wields as a senior apostle at the General Conference podium, the effect is potentially stunning.
Of course, he would likely assert that he said nothing of the sort, but meaning is found both in the words that are used and behind their organization. Interestingly, his organization dismisses grievances against him by labeling opposition as “of the world.” This is gas lighting.
The question is, why does he divide faithful saints?
There is one recurrent, historical reason for a leader to create enemies where none exist, or to pass laws and edicts that make good people into bad people—and that thing is power, either a thirst for it or a fear of losing it. It’s no secret that members, especially the young, are abandoning the formal church. Any institution that loses membership also loses power. The authority and influence of its leadership, then, are diminished in the eyes of the very world that Elder Oaks condemns. Historically, leaders create enemies to bind stalwarts to them and to encourage a sense of superiority in their people. That superiority, in turn, permits otherwise good people to look the other way as the leaders expel, or worse, the inferior among them. (Remember our own history.) No human being—no matter his calling—is immune to the seductions of power. If this were the case, we wouldn’t have the caution we receive in D&C 121:39. But we do have it. Sometimes sustaining a leader means calling him out.
On Saturday morning, Elder Oaks emphasized our need for standards, but he did not emphasize our need for integrity. One cannot advocate for integrity at the same time one calls on another to forsake it. This controversy is no longer limited to whether or not to include, or how to include, or under what conditions to include those who are Other in their sexual orientation or gender identity. It’s now also about marginalizing those with the courage to do exactly what we’ve been taught—to stand, in spite of insults, for something good, namely for freedom, mental health, inclusion, and a myriad of other related values that should be prized in the church.
Whether intentionally or not, the highest leadership has been dividing us by creating rules and regulations—policies and standards—that exceed the message of the Savior and effectively compel us to judge one another. Because of their position, we seek their approval in much the same way they accuse some among us of seeking the approbation of the world. They cannot see that they are our world. Or perhaps they can, and they use that to maintain power.
Chances are, as you’ve read this, the thought has flashed through your mind that I better be careful, or that I’m going to get myself in trouble. Your thought validates my point. The exclusion controversy we face in the LDS church is not about whether or not we love. I love. I encourage love. I love my leaders, and I love the people sitting with me in the pews. I love the people who have left. But devout Mormons never contradict authority, even though those in power sometimes contradict one another. If we do, we risk our good standing, be that in the eyes of our peers or the institution. That is the fall from grace that should trouble us all. ~~
“I admire men and women who have developed the questing spirit, who are unafraid of new ideas as stepping stones to progress. We should, of course, respect the opinions of others, but we should also be unafraid to dissent–if we are informed. Thoughts and expressions compete in the marketplace of thought, and in that competition truth emerges triumphant. Only error fears freedom of expression… This free exchange of ideas is not to be deplored as long as men and women remain humble and teachable. Neither fear of consequence or any kind of coercion should ever be used to secure uniformity of thought in the church. People should express their problems and opinions and be unafraid to think without fear of ill consequences. … We must preserve freedom of the mind in the church and resist all efforts to suppress it.” — Hugh B. Brown
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Happy Hubby
Where you in construction before? You sure hit the nail on the head.
lisatorcassodowning
I haven’t heard a line that corny since my days at BYU. 🙂 Thank you.
Right on! This sort of “converted/not-converted” divisiveness based on external behavior – falling in line with a political document or you must not really be converted – is so dangerous to us ever becoming of one heart. It instructs us to shut others out of our hearts, which is pride: it puts a love of policy before love of people. Thank you for your post!
Seriously. What happened to following Jesus, Love God & Love Your Neighbor, don’t judge others. They are acutely afraid of losing their power, and have no idea how much they have already lost.
Maybe you missed something here….
Marriage is between a man and a woman.
Kristine N
Or a man and a woman and a woman and a woman and…
Reb A L
And another woman. And another woman. And…. Uh huh. Yeah.Claiming that it has been this way for thousands of years just makes us look incredibly silly.
effervescentfrancois
I appreciate Elder Hugh B Brown very much. I heard him speak live at BYU and met him at an important time in my life. He treated questioning students with great respect and encouragement. Interestingly, he is quoted in one of his biographies as saying he did not recall anyone speaking of “likened unto murder” types of arguments against abortion in Council of the 12 circles–the main concern expressed in formulating LDS policy about abortion was concern that members would get casual and use abortion as a form of birth control. I think it is vital that we allow ourselves to soften some of the harsher admonitions and pray for how we, individually, can be faithful in loving and forgiving ways. I believe it was President Brown who as a Church leader in Canada called men to Elders Quorum presidencies who were still smoking, and encouraged them to invite “smokers” back to Church and made them feel welcome while they struggled with their habits. Wow!!
It seems like Oaks is more attached to a political position more than revelation. Joseph was sealed to men and women many times over to help them secure salvation, obviously without the intent to produce posterity every time, so why can’t ANY two be sealed? Is not that like completing the connecting chain to Joseph? Isn’t monogamy and commitment better than silently dwindling in a lifetime of loneliness? And, if God really does want hetero-only marriages in the next life, why can’t we just serve the needs of loving couples now and let God take care of the rest later, like we say about so many other tangled issues?
I agree with most of your article, however, I disagree with the declaration, “But devout Mormons never contradict authority…” Perhaps you were trying to say that sentiment is what Elder Oaks is intimating. One of the things I appreciate most about this church is that we are encouraged to find out the truth/validity of everything for ourselves. Each principle and revelation should be studied out and deliberated on by each individual. The final quote by Elder Brown highlights this. Does Elder Oaks talk go against this? I would agree that it does seem to draw a line in the sand. However, in completing the quote I started above, you recognize that this is not new, “…even though those in power sometimes contradict one another.” There is dissent and disagreement even among the 15 and that seems to go back to the beginning of the restoration. People have always wanted to say, well if x is true, then the whole thing is true; or if y is false then it all falls apart, but that kind of all or nothing reasoning is generally only applicable in math. What makes this life challenging is that it *isn’t* a matter of all or nothing. We must consider, gauge, reflect, decide, act, reevaluate, adjust, and try again. We do not believe that ‘inspired’ is a synonym for ‘infallible.’ Receiving inspiration (or even revelation) doesn’t make us immune to pride, fear, selfishness, or vanity. But, with a willingness to examine oneself and moments of clarity, it can address and seek to correct those things. Thank you for your thoughtfulness and willingness to take the time to share.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment, Vanessa. Ideally, you are correct. My experience, however, is that, should someone do as you say and thoughtfully, prayerfully seek an answer from God about something (as we are, indeed, encouraged to do), and receive an answer that contradicts the approved answer, that person’s sincerity is suspect. As a church culture, we draw near until what Brown says with our lips, but our hearts are far from it. I whole-heartedly agree with Brown’s statement, but I don’t think most orthodox LDS live by it. What has happened is that an apostle speaks something and the orthodox assume that, if they do pray, the answer will return in line with those in authority. The result is less prayer, less personal revelation, and less of an individual relationship with Christ, all because faith is placed in the authority ahead of God. On controversial issues, the testimony I usually hear applied is a testimony of the call of the authority, not a testimony of his stance.
Even if you have a testimony of Jesus Christ, the Book of Mormon, all the Joseph Smith said, but do not publically agree the the current or past “prophets” you will be in trouble. They do not care about anything except loyalty.
Morris Thurston
Thanks, Lisa. It seems that Elder Oaks is intent on making “obedience” the first principle of the gospel. One has the sense that he feels the war against same-sex marriage is his most important legacy and is concerned about how that legacy will be seen fifty years from now. By excommunicating those who enter into such marriages, and marginalizing their children, he hopes the rank-and-file Mormons will never have to mix with them because, if they do, they might conclude that such families are every bit as valid as opposite sex families. And he further strengthens his legacy by driving a wedge between “obedient” members and those who question the wisdom and morality of his position. They become marginalized and many simply leave. Those who remain, for the most part, continue to revere him.
Wynn Sparks
It has been a while since I have read your blog but this was very insightful and spot on as the British would say. It is Trumpian for Oaks, and his fellow leaders, to invoke the phrase “traditional marriage” when attempting to justify their reactionary and prejudicial views. I challenge anyone to read In Sacred Loneliness and tell me what is traditional about those marital practices. It is what is known in our contemporary society as alternative facts. Then, some of these same leaders go on to say that this standard will never change. Really? How very considerate of these leaders to limit deity with their small mindedness. So much for the much ballyhooed tenet of continued revelation.
Lisa – an interesting article. Thank you. Yet it reflects a misunderstanding of the prophetic voice in the Church. The role of a prophet and apostle is not only to expound on the unbounded love of Christ but also on the consequences of our own personal decisions and the collective decisions of the societies in which we live, For example, on the subject of same sex marriage, which Elder Oaks eloquently addressed, it is entirely impossible for a Church leader to talk about Christ’s love for those who have same-sex attraction without also describing the consequences to society (and the Church) if same sex marriage becomes the societal norm.
In my own country, we are in the midst of a divisive debate over same sex marriage. Clearly, as shown by the often violent and abusive reactions to their opponents by LGBT lobbyists, should it be approved here there will be significant consequences for religious freedom, the teaching of sexuality in high schools, the capacity of traditionally-oriented parents to instill in their children a love of the natural family, and the right of a child to the influence of both a mother and a father.
Ironically, given their actions during our debate, the LGBT community emphasizes that all this is about is the need for them to receive equal treatment under the law, to not suffer abuse and bullying. These are noble sentiments, However, they ignore the consequences of such a massive change as same sex marriage. For a fuller exposition on what happens when SSM is accepted by a society, see this article: https://www.spectator.com.au/2017/09/whats-changed-in-britain-since-same-sex-marriage/.
Ultimately, I predict that faith leaders will be required by law to marry same sex couples, even if it is against their own personal views or the doctrines of their churches. So, for Elder Oaks to speak with a sure sound of the trumpet, without equivocation, merely reflects the work of prophets over thousands of years. Those faiths which have ceased to speak with such a clear sound are dwindling, losing adherents and falling into the miasma of the society around them. Those that are speaking with clarity and doctrinal purity are those that are growing, vibrant and strong,
There is no misunderstanding. Happy November 5th.
Thanks for your response, Lisa. In that case, are you willing to put up with the kinds of consequences, such as extreme gender ideology indoctrination in schools, that will result as society implements the full spectrum of changes associated with same sex marriage? Again, look at the link I shared above.
The Church is not willing to accept those societal changes, nor can it accept them within its own institution.
I am presently in the United Kingdom and have been so for the last 12 months. Here, the amount of confusion among teens over their sexual identity is alarming. As schools teach young people (including elementary-grade children) that gender is entirely fluid and they can choose whatever gender they want, and also engage them explicitly in how to sexually express themselves, the results are tragic to behold.
The hypersexualization of children from early childhood will eventually bring our society undone, something the prophets are warning you and me about. It’s not just about the love and acceptance of the LGBT+ community. It’s about consequences.
Oaks sounds to me like the leaders of the church talking about blacks a few decades ago.
I respect that you can have a different opinion. I ask that you respect mine as well.
And I would say that I would be cautious about equating the church growing = the true church. The largest and fastest growing religious affiliation is the Nones (spiritual, but not affiliated with any organized religion). The next time the famous Pew survey does their 10 year polling it is likely to show the US Mormon population decreasing and the Nones continuing to grow at a fast rate. And Europe is even farther down that path with a reported 800 wards closing there.
See my response above to Lisa.
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The Royal Ballet in Balanchine’s Jewels, live transmission at Phoenix Picturehouse Tuesdays 11th & 18th April 2017
Posted by susiecrow under What's happening | Tags: ballet, cinema transmission, Diamonds, Emeralds, Gabriel Fauré, George Balanchine, Igor Stravinsky, Jean-Marc Puissant, Jewels, Phoenix Picturehouse Oxford, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Rubies, The Royal Ballet |
The Royal Ballet present George Balanchine’s brilliant evocation of the sparkle of emeralds, rubies and diamonds in his full length ballet Jewels at the Royal Opera House, showing in live transmission at Oxford’s Phoenix Picturehouse.
Balanchine’s glittering ballet was inspired by the beauty of the gem stones he saw in the New York store of jewellers Van Cleef & Arpels. He went on to make history with this, the first abstract three-act ballet, first performed in 1967 by New York City Ballet. Jewels was performed in full by The Royal Ballet for the first time in 2007, using costume designs from the original NYCB production and new set designs by Jean-Marc Puissant.
Each of the three movements draws on a different stone for its inspiration and a different composer for its sound. The French Romantic music of Fauré provides the impetus for the lyricism of Emeralds. The fire of Rubies comes from Stravinsky and the jazz-age energy of New York. Grandeur and elegance complete the ballet in Diamonds, with the splendour of Imperial Russia and Tchaikovsky’s opulent Third Symphony. Each section salutes a different era in classical ballet’s history as well as a distinct period in Balanchine’s own life. Through it all, Balanchine displays his genius for combining music with visionary choreography. Jewels is a masterclass in the many luminous facets of classical ballet and indeed of The Royal Ballet itself, the intensity of the soloists and the precision of the entire Company.
Performances: Tuesday 11th April 7.15pm, and Encore repeat showing Tuesday 18th April 12.00
Venue: Phoenix Picturehouse, 57 Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6AE
Tickets: Tuesday 11th screening Adult £22, Child £10, Student or Retired £17.50, Family x4 £64
Tuesday 18th screening Adult £17.50, Child £10, Student or Retired £15, Family x4 £55
Book online for Tuesday 11th screening here and Tuesday 18th screening here
Flesh and Screen: Royal Ballet quadruple bill, Sasha Waltz and Guests – Susie Crow reviews
Posted by susiecrow under reviews | Tags: Afternoon of a Faun, Bolshoi Ballet, Carlos Acosta, Carmen, Emeralds, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Jewels, L’Après-midi d’un faune, Liam Scarlett, Sacre, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Sasha Waltz and Guests, Scène d’Amour, Tchaikovsky pas de deux, The Royal Ballet, Viscera |
An interesting mix of performances in the flesh and on the screen last week with two cinema visits for 20th century classics and new works transmitted by the Bolshoi and the Royal Ballet framing live performance of German contemporary dance from Sasha Waltz and Guests at Sadler’s Wells. If I dislike the cinema transmissions’ overhyped introductory promos and some excessively effusive commentary, I do enjoy seeing the interiors of other theatres, and some of the informative interview and documentary material provided. Close-ups highlight intriguing details of the dance, although sometimes at a price of losing their relationship with the wider stage environment; differing camera angles risk obscuring spatial design and choreographic architecture.
The Royal Ballet’s first transmission of a mixed bill marked the final farewell of much loved Carlos Acosta from the Covent Garden main stage starring as Don Jose in his own new version of Carmen. (more…)
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Senators Vitter and Inhofe to Secretary Salazar: “On three occasions in 2009, while the Jarvis nomination was being vetted, Dr. Corey Goodman, an elected NAS member, submitted three letters to you detailing a case of serial scientific misconduct by Jon Jarvis and NPS officials and scientists under his direct supervision…We are in possession of the three letters dates April 27, 2009, May 10, 2009 and May 16,2009. That a distinguished member of the NAS would need to send such letters of concern to you directly is distressing. Even more distressing is the fact that you have failed to respond.”
For the full statement click on this link:
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Letter from Senators Vitter and Inhofe to Salazar 02-13-12 http://1.usa.gov/wQIK4G
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Posted by Jane Gyorgy on February 13, 2012
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/us-senate-committee-on-environment-and-public-works-02-13-12/
12-23-11 in the National Parks Traveler reports today on language inserted into an appropriations bill calling for the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate the [POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE’S] agency’s science. For the full article, click the link below.
12-23-11 NPT article “Congress Wants NAS to Review Studies at PRNS
by Jane Gyorgy on December 23, 2011 • Permalink
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Posted by Jane Gyorgy on December 23, 2011
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/12-23-11-natl-parks-traveler-congress-wants-nas-to-review-studies/
12-18-2011 Gary P. Nabhan and Jeffrey A. Creque in SF Gate.com article”The intent guiding the Point Reyes National Seashore General Management Plan makes “potential wilderness, agriculture, ranching and mariculture all co-equal management objectives.” Tragically, for the past eight years, the Park Service has attempted to obfuscate the clear intent of Congress: to establish Point Reyes National Seashore as a cultural landscape where dairy farms, ranches and shellfish aquaculture would demonstrate to the American public that conservation and sustainable food production are indeed compatible.
The Park Service now asserts that the oyster farm is not compatible with wilderness and must be removed. Can memory loss within the Park Service be reversed? It can and must, given the Park Service’s near-decade of denial of the original operating instructions for Point Reyes National Seashore.”
For the full article Click this link: 12-18-2011 Drakes Bay Oyster Operation – a Natural Fit
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/12-18-11-drakes-estero-oyster-farm-a-natural-fit/
NorCal Oyster Farm Dispute Spreads to Capitol Hill
By JASON DEAREN Associated Press
POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, Calif. December 10, 2011 (AP)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/norcal-oyster-farm-dispute-spreads-capitol-hill-15128432
Posted in Articles & Letters, Bi-Partisan Efforts, News
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/norcal-oyster-farm-dispute-spreads-to-capitol-hill/
Marin Voice: Former assemblyman says original legislation favors oyster farm
By Bill Bagley
Guest op-ed column
http://www.marinij.com/opinion/ci_19512853
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/former-assemblyman-says-original-legislation-favors-oyster-farm/
12-07-2011 University of Ca Agriculture & Natural Resources
On 12/07/2011 Ellie Rilla, Community Development Advisor and Lisa Bush, Agricultural Ombudsman with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Cooperative Extension, Marin County sent the following letter to the Superintendent of Point Reyes National Seashore and cc’d Senator Dianne Feinstein in support of the Oyster Farm.
UofC Extension 12-07-2011
by Jane Gyorgy on December 8, 2011 • Permalink
Posted by Jane Gyorgy on December 8, 2011
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/12-07-2011-university-of-ca-agriculture-natural-resources/
12/08/2011 Drakes Bay Oyster Company Submits Comments to NPS EIS on behalf of 7,700 Seashore Visitors from 47 States and 29 Countries
20111208 DBOC 7700 letters to PRNS
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/998/
“Marin County’s agriculture and open space, whether publicly or privately held, are inextricably interconnected. The balance is tenuous, and it’s not unfathomable that all of it—the park, open space, organic food, agritourism—could rapidly evaporate. Once Drake’s Bay Oyster Company gets forced out, there will be a clear road map for eliminating the rest of agriculture in the Point Reyes National Seashore. As the farming dominos fall, so will critical mass of agricultural infrastructure, making the future of Marin agriculture increasingly uncertain, putting at risk all of our hard-won gains. In short, productive farming is critical to preserving open space.”
For the full article, click on the link below:
http://www.michaelstraus.org/2011/12/06/ellen-oysters-and-agriculture/
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/co-founders-of-marin-agricultural-land-trust-weigh-in/
The Twelve dEIS Comments (that you can make)
City, State, and Zip Code are the ONLY requirements when posting comments and
you can post multiple comments.
Below are twelve comments you can make, just copy a comment and paste it into the comment area at
http://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?parkID=333&projectID=33043&documentID=43390
Then go back and do it again, until you have added all twelve.
I support a renewable Special Use Permit for Drakes Bay Oyster Company
I support the Collaborative Management Alternative proposed by Drakes Bay Oyster Company.
DBOC must be allowed to continue the existing uses under the existing California Department of Fish and Game leases and regulatory authority.
Potential impact on wildlife is not properly assessed.
The dEIS claims that removing the oyster farm would benefit harbor seals; that claim is false. Drakes Estero is currently home to one of the largest harbor seal populations on the California coast and the harbor seal population has remained constant for decades, according to Dr. Sarah Allen’s Annual report on Harbor Seals at Drakes Estero.
I support a renewable Special Use Permit for Drakes Bay Oyster Company, especially the Collaborative Management Alternative proposed by Drakes Bay Oyster Company.
The dEIS includes much discussion about special-status species
It concludes that the oyster farm could potentially negatively impact these species
NONE OF THE SEVEN Endangered species mentioned in the dEIS live in the project area!
§ NO Myrtle Silverspot Butterfly live IN project area they make their habitat nearby, but not IN the project area (dEIS pg 187)
§ NO Red-legged frogs live in the project area: salt water kills them
§ NO Ca Coho Salmon live in project area (dEIS pg 189)
§ NO Central Ca Steelhead live in project area (dEIS pg 190)
§ NO Leatherback Turtles live in project area (dEIS pg 191)
§ NO Western Snowy Plovers live in project area (dEIS pg 192)
§ NO Ca Least Terns live in project area (dEIS pg 192)
The dEIS fails to provide an accurate assessment of the oyster farm’s proven ability to operate without harming wildlife or wildlife habitat.
The final document should reconsider all wildlife issues and provide a data based assessment.
Environmental benefits are misrepresented and/or missing.
PRNS has been rebuked for misrepresenting the facts about the environmental benefits of oyster farming yet, the dEIS misrepresents those facts again, calling the removal of the oyster farm the “environmentally preferable” alternative.
The dEIS fails to address the important ecological services provided by oysters, including filtering water and reducing nitrogen in the water. Drakes Estero is one of the most pristine estuaries IN THE COUNTRY DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF THE OYSTERS.
The dEIS fails to address the environmental impacts of the following:
§ Replacing a local, sustainable food source with 35,000 pounds of oysters that would have to be flown in from Asia each week to compensate
§ Comparisons of the carbon footprint of the existing food source with the replacement food source must be analyzed in the dEIS.
§ The dEIS fails to consider world population food needs.
o 1960 world population 3 BILLION PEOPLE
o 2011 world population 7 BILLION PEOPLE, 2.33 times greater in 51 years
Economic impacts are not adequately addressed.
The dEIS states, removing the oyster farm would cause “major, long-term, adverse effects to the California shellfish market” but
§ The dEIS does not provide a complete analysis of these MAJOR, LONG-TERM, ADVERSE IMPACTS!
§ The dEIS does not include these impacts in the overall analysis.
§ The dEIS does not analyze the impacts of eliminating one of the largest employers in West Marin.
The dEIS must assess and address the economic impacts of eliminating the production of nearly 40% of California’s oysters and the subsequent impact on the economy.
Socioeconomic impacts are not properly addressed furthermore the analysis is flawed.
Geographic parameters used throughout this chapter
§ Switch back and forth from Inverness proper, to greater West Marin, to Marin in general, to Multi-County, to Statewide, and even to Nationwide.
§ This switching of parameters is used to argue that the job losses would be minimal.
Considered properly:
§ DBOC is one of the largest employers in the area.
§ West Marin is a community isolated 20 miles away from the main population of the county by farms, ranches, open space and parkland therefore, these job losses would be anything but minimal
The analysis presented here is insufficient.
This section should be reformulated and corrected for the dEIS.
Impacts to local habitat restoration efforts and endangered species are not addressed
§ The oyster shell byproduct from the Drakes Bay Oyster Farm cannery is the sole, critical resource for reestablishing native oyster beds, and for restoring CA Least Tern and Western Snowy Plover habitat, in San Francisco Bay.
§ The California Least Tern is a U.S. federally listed endangered species
§ The Snowy Plover is in decline due to habitat loss.
§ If Drakes Bay Oyster farm were shut down, the restoration operations could also be shut down.
§ The d EIS does not address the impacts to wildlife or the environmental issues surrounding the loss of these restoration efforts.
§ The dEIS should correct these flaws.
The historic cultural role of the oyster farm in West Marin is not adequately addressed. The EIS must assess
§ The cultural impacts of eliminating an institution that has been in operation for generations
§ The importance to
§ Park visitors
§ Local restaurants
§ Local food shed
Existing management policies are not considered.
§ The current General Management Plan for Point Reyes National Seashore, adopted in 1980, strongly supports the continued operation of the oyster farm, as do all of the relevant Marin County planning documents.
§ The d EIS does not include any reasons for, or discussion of, this decision to bypass
§ The existing General Management Plan and
§ Marin County’s planning processes
The existing management policies must be considered and addressed.
National aquaculture policies are ignored.
Shellfish aquaculture is widely recognized nationally, and globally, as having a valuable role in the protection of wild fish resources.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is encouraging aquaculture for this and many other reasons.
The dEIS should consider these policies.
None of the alternatives is appropriate. While the NEPA process mandates the consideration of a “no-action alternative,” there are no alternatives presented in the dEIS that qualify as “no-action.”
§ Alternative A forces DBOC out of business next year,
§ The other alternatives force it to shut down in 10 years.
§ The DEIS fails to provide a valid status-quo baseline.
§ A new set of alternatives must be created that meet the actual criteria for this process.
DRAKES BAY OYSTER COMPANY SPECIAL USE PERMIT:
Collaborative Management Alternative
COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVE: A Ten-Year Special Use Permit with Option for Extension; Rehabilitation of Existing Facilities; and Construction of New Processing Facilities
This alternative permits DBOC to continue to utilize onshore facilities within the Seashore (PRNS) pastoral zone to support shellfish cultivation in Drakes Estero pursuant to its leases from the California Department of Fish and Game [CDFG]. DBOC would pay “fair market value” for use of the on-shore facilities, which would take into account the value of interpretive services provided and the investment needed to rehabilitate existing facilities and construct new processing facilities. The rehabilitation and construction work would be as described in the discussion of Alternative D.
Under this alternative, DBOC will collaborate with relevant organizations, including but not limited to the NPS, the CDFG, the UC SeaGrant program, and other educational and research agencies and in developing interpretive programs and scientifically valid research projects as recommended by the NRC and MMC. This alternative provides educational opportunities for people of all ages, including Seashore visitors, students, and researchers, relating to estuarine ecology and mariculture.
This alternative is consistent with the “national interest” expressed in President Clinton’s May 26, 2000 Executive Order 13158 directing the Departments of Commerce (DOC) and Interior to expand and strengthen the “Nation’s system of marine protected areas.” It respects the California Fish and Game Commission designation, effective May 2010, of Drakes Estero as a State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA), a protected area in which recreational clam digging and shellfish cultivation pursuant to CDFG leases are permitted. DBOC’s operation within a SMCA and PRNS presents a unique opportunity for collaborative research that supports the policies of the National Shellfish Initiative [Initiative] announced by NOAA and DOC in June 2011, and responds directly and positively to NRC and MMC recommendations regarding collaborative efforts to inform adaptive management of Drakes Estero.
This alternative supports the goals of the Initiative, which are to increase domestic seafood production, create sustainable jobs, and restore marine habitats. It provides opportunities for research as called for by the Initiative, “….on the interactions between shellfish and the environment in terms of climate change, ocean acidification, naturally occurring pathogens and parasites, and other factors . . .” This alternative supports DBOC’s efforts to restore native oysters in Drakes Estero and to study the potential for native oysters to withstand the effects of global ocean acidification now beginning to affect all Pacific coast shellfish.
This alternative sustainably supports the local economy by continuing to attract thousands of ethnically diverse visitors to West Marin every year and continuing to provide over half of the San Francisco Bay Area’s sustainably farmed shellfish. It protects desperately needed affordable housing for farm workers on remote Point Reyes ranches.
Under this alternative, DBOC will continue to provide essential oyster shell for environmental programs, such as the San Francisco Bay Native Oyster Restoration Project, the SF Bay Bird Observatory Snowy Plover Habitat Enhancement Project and the California Department of Fish and Game Least Tern Habitat Enhancement Project.
This alternative supports a landscape that is ecologically and economically sustainable. It is consistent with the natural resource management provisions in the PRNS General Management Plan, and enables the Seashore to collaboratively integrate ecosystem science and natural and cultural resource management to better understand and manage relationships among the physical, biological, and cultural elements of a working land and seascape, while maintaining its distinctive “sense of place and character.”
Posted in Commentary
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/the-twelve-deis-comments-you-can-make/
Under this alternative, DBOC will collaborate with relevant organizations, including but not limited to the NPS, the CDFG, the UC SeaGrant program and other educational and research agencies and in developing interpretive programs and scientifically valid research projects as recommended by the NRC and MMC. This alternative provides educational opportunities for people of all ages, including Seashore visitors, students and researchers, relating to estuarine ecology and mariculture.
This alternative supports the goals of the Initiative, which are to increase domestic seafood production, create sustainable jobs and restore marine habitats. It provides opportunities for research as called for by the Initiative, “….on the interactions between shellfish and the environment in terms of climate change, ocean acidification, naturally occurring pathogens and parasites, and other factors . . .” This alternative supports DBOC’s efforts to restore native oysters in Drakes Estero and to study the potential for native oysters to withstand the effects of global ocean acidification now beginning to affect all Pacific coast shellfish.
This alternative sustainably supports the local economy by continuing to attract thousands of ethnically diverse visitors to West Marin every year and continuing to provide over half of the San Francisco Bay Area’s sustainably farmed shellfish. It protects desperately needed affordable housing for farmworkers on remotePoint Reyesranches.
Posted in Commentary, DBOC
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/collaborative-management-alternative-respond-to-the-deis-on-their-website/
The Coming Green Wave: Ocean Farming to Fight Climate Change
Excerpt (link below):
Oysters also absorb carbon, but their real talent is filtering nitrogen out of the water column. Nitrogen is the greenhouse gas you don’t pay attention to — it is nearly 300 times as potent as carbon dioxide, and according to the journal Nature, the second worst in terms of having already exceeded a maximum “planetary boundary.” Like carbon, nitrogen is an essential part of life — plants, animals, and bacteria all need it to survive — but too much has a devastating effect on our land and ocean ecosystems.
The main nitrogen polluter is agricultural fertilizer runoff. All told, the production of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides contributes more than one trillion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere globally each year. That’s the same amount of emissions that are generated by 88 million passenger cars each year.
Much of this nitrogen from fertilizers ends up in our oceans, where nitrogen is now 50 percent above normal levels. According to the journal Science, excess nitrogen “depletes essential oxygen levels in the water and has significant effects on climate, food production, and ecosystems all over the world.”
Oysters to the rescue. One oyster filters 30-50 gallons of water a day — and in the process filters nitrogen out of the water column. Recent work done by Roger Newell of the University of Maryland shows that a healthy oyster habitat can reduce total added nitrogen by up to 20 percent. A three-acre oyster farm filters out the equivalent nitrogen load produced by 35 coastal inhabitants (PDF).
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/11/the-coming-green-wave-ocean-farming-to-fight-climate-change/248750/1/
ReTweet with #dboyster
by Jane Gyorgy on November 30, 2011 • Permalink
Posted by Jane Gyorgy on November 30, 2011
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11/22/2011 MMC Report and Appendix F
11-22-2011 MMC Drakes Estero Report Mariculture and Harbor Seals in Drakes Estero, California
We recommend you read Appendix F prior to reading the full report which can be summed up by the MMC statement on page iii of the Executive Summary here:
The Marine Mammal Commission believes that the data supporting the … analyses are scant and have been stretched to their limit. Nevertheless, the analyses in Becker et al. (2011) provide some support for the conclusion that harbor seal habitat-use patterns and mariculture activities in Drakes Estero are at least correlated. However, the data and analyses are not sufficient to demonstrate a causal relationship.
Appendix F appendix_f
MMC Report drakes_estero_report
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11/22/2011 MMC Report Overlooked Key Studies and Testimony of Dr. Allen
The MMC report, page 57, item (3) states
“The tolerance of seals for disturbance and the biological significance of such disturbance should be evaluated. At present, indicators of disturbance are defined as ranging from head alerts to flushing into the water. The existing information is not sufficient to describe the biological consequences or reactions at either end of this continuum.”
In 2005 and 2006, Dr. Sarah Allen, herself an NPS scientist and co-author of all of the Becker reports investigated by the National Academy of Sciences and the Department of the Interior as well as the more recent Becker Reports used by the MMC, published two extensive and key reports on just that subject matter. Furthermore, Dr. Allen testified in a court case in San Diego about that topic.
Report #1, 7 year 4 month study
“Monitoring the Potential Impact of the Seismic Retrofit Construction Activities at the Richmond San Rafael Bridge on Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina): May 1, 1998 – September 15, 2005”http://bit.ly/rpKpRu Dr. Sarah Allen found the following:
1. “Construction-related disturbances [as close as 20 yards from haul-out sites]… were attributed to two main factors; watercraft … and construction activities such as jack-hammering, rivet work, hammering and the movement of cranes on barges near the haul-out site … the total number of seals hauling out … did not decrease.”
2. Harbor seals habituated to much more serious disturbances at much closer distances.
2.1. The tiny outboard motor boats operated by Drakes Bay Oyster Company come no closer than 600 yards to the one seal haul-out in the estero; that is 6 football fields away.
2.2. According to the dEIS section on sound-scapes, at 500 FEET the decibel level is 51 – equivalent to a quiet urban area at daytime.
2.3. At 600 yards (1800 feet), the minimum distance of the motor boats from the one seal haul-out site, and the decibel level is reduced substantially.
2.4. If reduced only by 10 decibels to 40 decibels that would equate to a bird call http://bit.ly/sC86dY
Report #2
“Harbor Seal Monitoring at Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Annual Report 2005”, http://bit.ly/sLTUHU Dr. Allen found
1. “Causes for [harbor seal] disturbance at Drakes Estero … birds most frequent cause, followed by non-motor boats [kayakers], humans [hikers], aircraft.” in conclusion she finds “
2. The number of disturbances … remains similar to previous years and
3. No trends are detected….
4. Hikers and boaters remain the two most frequent sources of disturbance ….”
2005 San Diego Court Decision:
“Dr. Allen testified that seals habituate (or anthropomorphizing) to disturbance sources that are determined not to be a threat.” http://bit.ly/rpKpRu
(Author’s comments:
Turning Drakes Estero into “Wilderness” will not change the most frequent causes of disturbances. The birds, kayakers, hikers, and aircraft will continue to frequent the area – 2,500,000 people on avaerage visit the area every year according to the NPS website.
It will however, remove the filtering system that makes Drakes Estero one of the most pristine estuarine systems in the country. Eel grass has double in ten years. It is not only a home for one of the largest populations of harbor seals on the coast but also, provides a safe harbor in years of trouble. Much has been made of “disturbances” however the greatest on record was in 2003 and 2004 when an elephant seal killed 40 harbor seals.
Removal of the oyster farm would however cause a major reduction in filtering of the waters putting the estuary in jeopardy of becoming polluted by the accumulation of seal feces as noted by three of the original panel of experts in the first MMC report. The dEIS does note this as a MAJOR NEGATIVE IMPACT however, does not study the subject.)
After the Gavin Frost of Department of the Interior (Frost Report) found “violations of scientific and scholarly conduct”, and the National Academy of Sciences found “the National Park Service selectively presented, over interpreted, or misrepresented available sicentific information on Drakes Bay Oyster Company”, the Sierra Club and National Parks Conservation Association wrote to the Marine Mammal Commission asking it to reject the NAS report and do its own investigation. Jon Jarvis promoted Dr. Sarah Allen to the Pacific West Regional Office with the title “Ocean Steward”.)
Neither of Dr. Allen’s 2006 – 7 year study, nor her 2005 Annual Report, nor her court testimony is mentioned in the MMC report or listed in the bibliography on page 61.
Decide for yourself what is going on and make your comments known about the draft EIS on the the National Park Service Website by following this link:
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/mmc-report-overlooked-key-studies-and-testimony-of-dr-allen/
11/22/2011 Wilderness? North America is 38% wilderness, Africa is 28% wilderness
North America – 38% wilderness
Africa – 28% wilderness
http://anse.rs/stG5Bv
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Briefly, the following three points, as stated by Dr. Corey Goodman, sum up the MMC report.
1. The NPS data are too thin, and too highly leveraged by a stochastic event in 2003, to be able to support the NPS correlation between harbor seals and oyster activity. Moreover, the NPS data are inadequate for MMC to affirm the NPS claim of a correlation between harbor seals and oyster activity.
2. What was called a long-term displacement OUT of Drakes Estero was actually a short-term displacement INTO Drakes Estero caused by events at Double Point. There is no evidence for long-term spatial displacement of seals and pups OUT of Drakes Estero that can be related to shellfish aquaculture.
3. The MMC mistakes could have been avoided had the MMC proceeded with their original open process rather than the insular closed process they conducted. Open dialogue, open discussion, and open exchange could have helped avoid these mistakes. Unfortunately, the closed process led to a flawed MMC Report.
For the Summary of MMC I and MMC II, click here: Summary of Analysis of MMC Reports I and II.CG&DL
For the Analysis of MMC Report I, click here: Analysis of MMC Report I. acceptance of NPS correlation.CG&DL
For the Analysis of MMC Report II, click here: Analysis of MMC Report II. rejection of Goodman.pdf models.CG&DL
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/analysis-of-mmc-report-by-dr-corey-goodman/
11-16-11 Ca Historical Society – Reception Invitation
Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Oyster Farm Opening Reception
Free Event at the California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
Join artist Evvy Eisen at the California Historical Society for a reception celebrating the new exhibit, Oyster Farm. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served. RSVP to 415.357.1848, ext. 229 or rsvp@calhist.org.
To see the photos click here: http://www.oysterfarmphotos.com/
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https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/ca-historical-society-reception-invitation/
ABC TV, 4 Years of Coverage of DBOC on “Assignment 7”, Ken Miguel Producer
ABC7, “Assignment 7” has been reporting on this story for over four years. Use this link to get to all their segments up to and including September 12, 2011
Video feed: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/assignment_7&id=8351748
Posted in Video, Slides & News Links
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/abc-tv-4-years-of-coverage-of-dboc-on-assignment-7-ken-miguel-producer/
12-31-05 Dr. Sarah Allen, Harbor Seal Annual Report 2005
Harbor Seal Report 2005
Posted in Reports & Investigations, Scientists Weigh In
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/harbor-seal-report-2005/
12-18-2007 Dr. Corey Goodman Letter to NAS
Dr Goodman to NAS 12-18-07
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/dr-corey-goodman-letter-to-nas-12-18-2007/
01-18-09 Dr. Corey Goodman Letter to NAS
Dr Goodman to NAS 01-18-09The 2009 Nat’l Academies of Sciences Report
02-03-09 DBOC Letter to NAS
DBOC letter to NAS 02-03-09
Posted in Articles & Letters, DBOC
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/dboc-letter-to-nas-02-03-2009/
03-22-11 Frost Report
Frost report 03-22-2011
Posted in Reports & Investigations
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/frost-report-03-22-2011/
11-10-11 THINGS DON’T ALWAYS GO BETTER WITH COKE — Did Corporate Donation Sway Reversal of Grand Canyon Plastic Water Bottle Ban?
11-10-11 PEER report: “Washington, DC — Just days before Grand Canyon National Park instituted a ban on sale of individual plastic water bottles, the ban was indefinitely suspended on orders from the Director of the National Park Service (NPS). After receiving reports that this abrupt about-face was tied to large donations from the Coca Cola Company, which sells bottled water, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) today filed a lawsuit to obtain records on this policy u-turn after NPS declined to surrender them. ”
For the full article click here: http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1533
Posted in Questionable Dealings
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/11-10-11-things-dont-always-go-better-with-coke-did-corporate-donation-sway-reversal-of-grand-canyon-plastic-water-bottle-ban/
11-03-11 NPS forces Indian Trader out of business in Arizona
11-03-11: Indian Country Today, National Park Service Gone Rogue: A Whistleblower Speaks
“The laundry list of unethical acts and abuses of Malone by corrupt and incompetent agents, administrators and employees make one’s blood boil. The one person in this mess, aside from Berkowitz, who maintains a modicum of respect and trust in others is Malone, even as the very people charged with protecting his basic rights plot to destroy them. This inside look at how a great American institution actually undermines its own public image is as disturbing as it is necessary reading.”
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/11/national-park-service-gone-rogue-a-whistleblower-speaks/#ixzz1dK6dHiAT
by Jane Gyorgy on November 3, 2011 • Permalink
Posted by Jane Gyorgy on November 3, 2011
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/11-03-11-scandal-involving-nps-wnps-at-hubbell-trading-post/
10/31/2011 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility asks for your support (reports conflicts of interest by Jon Jarvis)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/823/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1229321
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/peer-asks-for-your-support-reports-conflicts-of-interest-by-jon-jarvis/
The Case of the Indian Trader review
‘The Case of the Indian Trader’ illuminates the case of the oyster grower
By Dave Mitchell
In trying to make a case for the federal government’s not renewing the lease of Drakes Bay Oyster Company in 2012, former Point Reyes National Seashore Supt. Don Neubacher and park science advisor Sarah Allen disseminated false data.
Those were among the findings critical of the two when the Interior Department’s Inspector General’s Office issued a report in 2008. The report followed a year-long investigation, which began after company owner Kevin Lunny complained that he was being treated unfairly and slandered by the park.
Neubacher’s boss was Jon Jarvis, then director of the Western Regional Office of the Park Service, and conveniently for Neubacher, his wife Patti worked closely with Jarvis as the assistant director. So how did the regional office respond?
The report vindicated the Park Service, the regional office insisted, because there had been no finding that Neubacher and Allen had tried to close the oyster company before its lease expired. The Inspector General’s investigation, however, had focused on scientific misrepresentations by Allen and Supt. Neubacher — not on whether they were trying to close the oyster company before 2012 — so the regional office was merely indulging in an exotic spin job.
The National Seashore’s exotic toadies immediately created a chorus of chirping. “By my count the ball game was won 14-1 by the Park Service,” Gordon Bennett, then spokesman for the Marin Chapter of the Sierra Club, told The Marin Independent Journal.
And what did the Interior Department do to punish Neubacher for his misrepresentations? It made him superintendent of Yosemite National Park two years later and made Jarvis, his boss and defender, director of the National Park Service (NPS).
A nationwide problem
Bizarre as those events seemed — given the clean-cut image the Park Service cultivates — this sort of thing is happening nationwide within the agency, as is documented by a new book, The Case of the Indian Trader: Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post.
In his book, author Paul Berkowitz, a retired criminal investigator for the National Park Service, describes the cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and political pressures that shape NPS and Department of the Interior management.
The Case of the Indian Trader tells the true story (heavily documented with law enforcement reports) of a respected, honest, longtime trader who was falsely accused of fraud and other crimes.
The trading post in federally administered Navajo country is owned by the Western National Parks Association (WNPA), which normally provides information in parks and makes financial contributions to them — much like the Point Reyes National Seashore Association, which sells books at the Visitor Center.
In 2003, LeAnn Simpson became executive director of the WNPA and was immediately horrified by Malone’s traditional bookkeeping, which often consisted of verbal agreements with the rug weavers and jewelry makers on the reservation, some of whom could not read or write. With no evidence to back her up, she assumed Malone must have stolen millions of dollars from the trading post.
At her request, the Park Service in 2004 launched an aggressive investigation of Malone, seizing his personal property while WNPA evicted him from the trading post.
Two years went by before Malone was finally allowed to prove the property was his and recover it. He is now suing the Park Service, WNPA, and 10 past and present members of each.
In 2005, special agent Berkowitz had been assigned to direct the trading post investigation. In doing so, he found repeated instances of investigators and their supervisors being dishonest, withholding exculpatory evidence, and circumventing the law to satisfy the WNPA and Park Service.
There is a name for officials who put themselves above the law in this way, writes Berkowitz, who previously taught law enforcement classes. “Police administrators and psychologists have coined the term ‘noble cause corruption.’” Among his other observations:
• “The NPS has evolved into a very insulated, provincial and sometimes cult-like organization…. The demand for loyalty insinuates itself into virtually every aspect of the NPS…. Over time these excesses come to affect many employees’ sense of what is and is not acceptable behavior, as they assimilate into the culture, often acting with near-blind obedience as they surrender their own better judgment to that prescribed by their employer.”
• “An example of how extreme this indoctrination can be is that both new and transferring employees in many park areas have been required to swear a distinct oath of allegiance to the NPS at the very same time they swear to support and defend the US Constitution.”
• “Information about NPS activities is regulated and restricted through carefully crafted press releases that often spin facts and fabricate accounts…. To allow a problem to surface into the public arena is an unforgivable act that could embarrass the agency.”
• “NPS managers and employees themselves were found to have engaged in serious criminal activities while on duty, for which they were never officially investigated or prosecuted [by the Interior Department].… In one notorious instance, a ranger even obtained a government step (pay) increase while sitting in jail on local charges related to voyeurism,” he writes.
“The same employee had repeatedly been caught under similar circumstances in various parks to which he was assigned but was continually moved and promoted through the ranks (including chief park ranger) after each incident until reaching the position of assistant superintendent at a national recreation area where he continued to oversee law enforcement activities.”
In yet another case, Berkowitz’s own supervisor would later admit to theft of public money but would receive no jail time and be allowed to retire with a full Park Service pension of nearly $100,000 per year.
Is the book fair?
Skeptics may question whether the book is fair to the Interior Department and its Park Service, but Berkowitz repeatedly acknowledges there are “extraordinarily talented rangers and special agents who do work for the agency and individually strive for high standards.”
Nonetheless, West Marin should beware the warning: “Short of crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior.” That observation, which is quoted by Berkowitz, did not originate with him but with Inspector General Earl Devany testifying in Congress.
— The Case of the Indian Trader, 354 pages, University of New Mexico Press
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10-30-11 Paul D. Berkowitz & Pete McCloskey In Conversation
On October 30, 2011 Paul D. Berkowitz, retired NPS Criminal Investigator, whistle-blower turned author of The Case of the Indian Trader, Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at the Hubbell Trading Post May, 2011, gave a talk in Point Reyes with Pete McCloskey (originator of Earth Day, author of the Point Reyes Wilderness Act and former Senator). A link to the YouTube presentation will be available soon. Until then you may check out the slides from the Power Point Presentation here (this is an extremely large file and takes approximately 15 minutes to open): Berkowitz 10-30-11 ppp
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/paul-d-berkowitz-pete-mccloskey-in-conversation-103011/
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House Oversight Committee Looking Into Point Reyes National Seashore’s Handling Of Oyster Farm Future
Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on October 28, 2011 – 8:45am
Questionable actions the staff of Point Reyes National Seashore has taken towards the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. have drawn the attention of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which is launching an investigation into the fate of the oyster company.
“Since 2007, the NPS has been advocating that the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. cease operations at Point Reyes National Seashore because — according to NPS — the oyster farm is harming the local harbor seal population,” the committee’s chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, wrote to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on October 20.
“Allegations that NPS knowingly relied on flawed science to support that conclusion as part of an effort to remove DBOC have come from a wide range of stakeholders and disinterested parties. If true, the NPS, a bureau of the Department of Interior, will have closed the doors on a family-owned small business without a valid scientific basis.”
The battle over the future of the oyster company has been ongoing for a number of years. When the company’s owner, Kenny Lunny, bought the operation from the Johnson Oyster Co. in 2007, it came with a 40-year lease that expires in November 2012. And since the oyster farm is located in an area of the seashore, Drakes Estero, that has been targeted for official wilderness designation, his ability to gain a lease extension has been impeded.
At issue is whether the oyster farm is adversely impacting Drakes Estero and its marinelife, particularly harbor seals. The estero long has been viewed for designation as official wilderness — the 1976 legislation that set aside 25,370 acres of the seashore as wilderness cited another 8,003 acres that would be “essentially managed as wilderness, to the extent possible, with efforts to steadily continue to remove all obstacles to the eventual conversion of these lands and waters to wilderness status” — and the oyster operation is seen as being incompatible with such a designation.
But the Park Service’s handling of the oyster company’s future has been both contentious and embarassing for the agency. While a Park Service report on the oyster operation concluded that it was impacting harbor seals, the report at times has withered under scrutiny. In 2009 the National Research Council said the NPS report was skewed, “selectively” manipulated in several areas, and inconclusive overall.
A year later, the Interior’s Solicitor’s Office conducted an investigation into whether the staff at Point Reyes had intentionally mishandled research data it collected to determine the oyster farm’s impacts, if any, on harbor seals during pupping season. That probe cleared the staff of any criminal behavior or criminal misconduct in the matter, a finding that itself has drawn criticism.
Part of the investigation centered around charges that Park Service staff “suppressed” more than 250,000 photographs the Point Reyes staff captured with a secret camera from 2007 to 2010 to determine whether farm operations were disturbing harbor seals during the pupping season. Those photos, proponents of the oyster farm say, failed to show any disturbance of harbor seals by farm employees. Interviews conducted by the Solicitor’s Office, however, indicated that on at least five occasions the farm’s workers caused disturbances of seals during pupping season.
Now Rep. Issa, R-California, wants his committee to look into the matter, and has asked Secretary Salazar to order the Park Service to turn over reams of documents — correspondence, reports, drafts of reports, emails — and to make staff, including Park Service Director Jon Jarvis, available for “transcribed interviews” set to begin the week of November 7.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein intervened on behalf of Mr. Lunny, asking Interior Secretary Salazar to extend the oyster company’s lease. That request led the seashore staff to prepare a draft environmental impact statement examining the oyster farm’s impacts on the estero.
Earlier this fall the seashore released a draft environmental impact statement. It offered four alternatives — a no action option, which would uphold the lease retirement next year, and three other options that would allow the oyster farm to remain, albeit at three different levels of operation. The document currently is open to public comment through November 29.
https://oysterzone.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/national-parks-traveler-article-on-house-oversight-committee-investigation-10282011/
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Anti-science mania is sweeping parts of the United States. This isn’t new — there is a long history of irrational, pseudoscientific, or downright anti-scientific thinking and political culture here — ironic, given how much our founding fathers like Benjamin Franklin valued science. Examples include creationism, moon-landing denialism, claims linking vaccines to autism, denials that tobacco causes cancer long after the science was in, and especially the denial of climate change and global warming. This anti-science mentality is especially discouraging given how vital America’s scientific and technological strengths are to our economic and political strengths.
For reasons that a political scientist or sociologist would have to explore, this is a problem especially of the Republican right. For example, it is most evident in the lockstep, ideological denial of the realities of climate change by nearly all of the Republican presidential candidates and congressional representatives. The highly respected scientific journal Nature called Congressional inactions on climate “fundamentally anti-science” and an example of “willful ignorance,” and said:
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the US Congress has entered the intellectual wilderness, a sad state of affairs in a country that has led the world in many scientific arenas for so long.
In another example that would be amusing if it weren’t so bizarre, the theory of relativity is rejected in Conservapedia (a kind of Wikipedia for ideologues on the right who want their facts and definitions to line up with their political beliefs) because “It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world.” Whew! (And check out the entry that argues that atheists are more likely to be obese. But please, skip the entry on “evolution” — it will make a rational person’s head explode.)
But it isn’t only conservatives who use bad science to push political agendas.
In the past couple of years, a debate in the Bay Area over wilderness protection, sustainable agriculture, and the integrity of science has spiraled into the dirt. The fight is over whether to continue to permit a small privately managed oyster farm, the Drakes Bay Oyster Company, to continue to operate inside the Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County, California. The oyster operation predates the Park, having been in Drakes Estero for nearly a century but the Estero is now eligible for wilderness status. Supporters of wilderness believe the oyster farm is an incompatible use and should be closed when its current lease expires in 2012. Supporters of local sustainable agriculture believe the farm should stay.
Wilderness versus local sustainable agricultural? The decision hinges on choosing among conflicting societal preferences and highly subjective factors — precisely the things that make public discourse, discussion, and debate important. But this fight has pitted neighbor versus neighbor, environmentalist versus environmentalist, and in this fairly liberal community, progressive versus progressive.
Good science can play a key role here in evaluating the impacts of the oyster farm. But we’re not getting good science. Instead, the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior (DoI), and some local environmental supporters (with whom I usually have strong common cause) have manipulated science in their efforts to close the farm. A series of reports have been issued with bad, incomplete, misleading, or cherry-picked evidence of impacts to seagrasses, water quality, fish diversity, and especially seals. These reports have been highly criticized by independent scientists, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. And data that contradicts their own studies have been withheld by the Park Service, including over 200,000 photographs from hidden cameras they set up to monitor disturbances caused by the oyster farm, but which now reportedly show no evidence of such disturbances.
An internal DoI report (the “Frost Report“) on this debacle was released earlier this year. That report acknowledged that the scientific arguments of damage from the oyster farm were false, and criticized withholding and cherry-picking data in public reports; writing journal articles with incomplete or wrong data; failing to present complete materials, data, and scientific observations to a National Academy of Sciences Committee, even after multiple requests; and issuing repeatedly false public statements. The Report found a “willingness to allow subjective beliefs and values to guide scientific conclusions,” the use of “subjective conclusions, vague temporal and geographic references, and questionable mathematical calculations,” and “misconduct [that] arose from incomplete and biased evaluation and from blurring the line between exploration and advocacy through research.” A separate National Academy of Sciences review found that the Park Service “selectively presented, over-interpreted, or misrepresented the available science on the potential impacts of the oyster mariculture operation.” Senator Dianne Feinstein, to her credit, has weighed in demanding a return to scientific integrity.
Yet a recently released draft Environmental Impact Statement on the farm repeats and expands upon these false claims. For example, the NPS is still claiming that the oyster farm is harming the seals in Pt. Reyes, but their only evidence is a highly disputed statistical study that has been debunked in major review by a group of leading scientists and statisticians, including Dr. Corey Goodman — a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and an outspoken local resident. (I have read Goodman’s review and find it compelling.) What has been the response? The Park Service and the Marine Mammal Commission have so far refused to review the scientific criticisms or participate in public discussions about the issues, and local advocates of wilderness have launched a series of blistering, personal ad hominem attacks on Dr. Goodman.
Science is not democratic or republican. Scientific integrity, logic, reason, and the scientific method are core to the strength of our nation. We may disagree among ourselves about matters of opinion and policy, but we (and our elected representatives) must not misuse, hide, or misrepresent science and fact in service of our political wars.
[Dr. Peter Gleick considers himself a scientist, an environmentalist, and a liberal Democrat. He doesn’t eat oysters and he likes wilderness. But he likes science more.]
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Last weekend, Stratolaunch Systems performed high-speed taxi tests of the world’s largest aircraft by wingspan. The tests represent continued progress towards the maiden flight of the plane. The Stratolaunch carrier aircraft will serve as a mobile launch platform for rockets including Orbital ATK’s Pegasus XL.
Stratolaunch was founded in 2011 by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen, with the goal of increasing access to Low Earth Orbit. The system uses an aircraft to launch rockets instead of the traditional launch pad.
Air-launch comes with a few key advantages. For example, the launch vehicle has to fly through significantly less atmosphere. Also, weather delays are not as common, as the rocket is released from an altitude above most weather systems.
Initially, Stratolaunch planned to work with SpaceX to develop a launch vehicle. The goal was to build a four or five engine variant of the Falcon rocket designed for air-launch. However, work between the companies ended in 2012, after SpaceX determined that too many modifications were required.
As a result, Orbital Sciences (now Orbital ATK) was selected to replace SpaceX. Unlike SpaceX, Orbital already had a proven air-launch vehicle in the Pegasus – a rocket with 29 successful launches in a row.
Orbital ATK’s Stargazer carrier aircraft releases a Pegasus XL rocket carrying NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System. Image by NASA.
While Orbital ATK prepares to begin operations with Stratolaunch, the fate is unclear for launches from Orbital’s Stargazeraircraft – the current carrier for Pegasus. There is only one Stargazer based launch remaining on the Pegasus manifest – the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission for NASA. Therefore, it is possible that all Pegasus missions will transition to Stratolaunch after ICON launches in 2018.
Stratolaunch will carry the Pegasus from a carbon fiber aircraft designed by Scaled Composites – the same company that built WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) for Virgin Galactic. Like WK2, the Stratolaunch plane features a dual fuselage design.
While both fuselages on the carrier have windows, the three-person crew will fly in the right fuselage. The left fuselage is not human rated and thus will only house electronics.
The plane is propelled by six jet engines which have been salvaged from two 747s. Additional components from the 747s were also utilized, including landing gear, windows, avionics, and actuators.
The Stratolaunch aircraft features three 747 jet engines on each side. Photo by Stratolaunch.
The wingspan of the carrier aircraft is a world record breaking 385 feet (117 meters) – long enough for the Wright brothers to complete their historic flight three times. Additionally, it also makes the carrier wider than the Saturn V rocket is tall.
In addition to the massive wingspan, Stratolaunch has a carrying capacity of 549,290 pounds (249,153 kilograms) and a 1,000 nautical mile mission radius. These metrics will enable up to three Pegasus rockets to be launched in a single flight. They also create the potential for larger launch vehicles to be launched from the aircraft, as the plane is not exclusively designed for Pegasus.
A Stratolaunch visualization of their aircraft carrying three Pegasus rockets.
In May 2017, the Stratolaunch plane rolled out of its hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port for the first time to begin fuel tests.
In the fall, Stratolaunch moved into stationary engine tests. These were incremental, with the engine’s power gradually increasing over time.
Around the same period, Stratolaunch also announced that it had conducted “prerequisite testing of the electrical, pneumatic, and fire detection systems.”
Finally, in December Stratolaunch capped off the year with a successful low-speed taxi test. During the taxi, the vehicle reached a top speed of 28 miles per hour (45 kilometers per hour) as it headed down the runway.
Following the test, Aircraft Program Manager George Brugg stated, “This was another exciting milestone for our team and the program. Our crew was able to demonstrate ground directional control with nose gear steering, and our brake systems were exercised successfully on the runway. Our first low-speed taxi test is a very important step toward first flight.”
Last weekend, Sratolaunch kicked off 2018 with two days of additional taxi tests. Most notably, the tests included reaching the maximum taxi speed of 40 knots (46 miles per hour). According to Allen, these tests allowed the team to “verify control responses.”
After that, the path remains unclear. Stratolaunch likes to keep a low-profile in terms of scheduling. However, as of last year 2019 was the target for the first launch.
During commercial operations, the aircraft will be capable of performing approximately one mission per week. Stratolaunch will primarily fly out of its base at the Mojave Air and Space Port. However, other airports can be utilized, as long as they can handle the large wingspan.
Initially, Stratolaunch will carry one launch vehicle at a time. Flights with multiple rockets will occur once operations ramp up. Release will occur at approximately 35,000 feet (10,668 meters).
Quelle: NS
Update: 1.03.2018
Stratolaunch Lumbers on Toward First Flight
Recent taxi tests ramp up the speed of the world’s largest aircraft.
Mojave, California-based Stratolaunch Systems Corp has released a video showing good progress in the extensive taxi testing that precedes the upcoming first flight of the largest aircraft in the world by wingspan. The dual-fuselage, six-engine jet reached speeds up to 40 knots while cruising down Mojave Air and Space Port’s runway 30.
“The team verified control responses, building on the first taxi tests conducted in December,” said Stratolaunch’s founder Paul Allen in a tweet on Monday.
The runway is 12,503 feet long, providing plenty of space for the massive airplane to accelerate and decelerate during the testing. However, the wings of the Stratolaunch span way beyond the 200-foot wide runway. The Stratolaunch boasts a wingspan of 385 feet, nearly twice the width of the runway.
Quelle: FLYING
Why is Paul Allen building the world’s largest airplane? Perhaps to launch a space shuttle called Black Ice.
A massive airplane being built by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen moved a step closer to flight last week, when it crept out of its hangar in Mojave, Calif., and practiced rolling down the runway, hitting a top speed of 46 mph.
Known as Stratolaunch, the plane has a wingspan even greater than that of business mogul Howard Hughes’s famed Spruce Goose and is designed to carry as many as three rockets, tethered to its belly, to about 35,000 feet. Once aloft, the rockets would drop, then fire their engines and deliver satellites to orbit.
But Allen has even bigger ambitions for Stratolaunch and is considering pairing it with a new space shuttle that’s known inside the company as Black Ice.
In exclusive interviews last summer, Allen and Jean Floyd, Stratolaunch System's chief executive, laid out the company’s plans for the giant plane, providing an answer to why anyone would want to build an aircraft that has 28 wheels, six 747 jet engines and a wingspan longer than a football field.
“I would love to see us have a full reusable system and have weekly, if not more often, airport-style, repeatable operations going,” Allen said in an interview in his Seattle office.
The Black Ice space plane — should it be built — would be about as big as the former space shuttle developed by NASA and capable of staying up for at least three days. It could be launched from virtually anywhere in the world, as long as the runway could accommodate Stratolaunch’s size. And it would be capable of flying to the International Space Station, taking satellites and experiments to orbit, and maybe one day even people — though there are no plans for that in the near-term.
Then it would land back on the runway, ready to fly again.
“You make your rocket a plane,” Floyd said. “So, you have an airplane carrying a plane that’s fully reusable. You don’t throw anything away ever. Only fuel.”
For now, the company is focused on the maiden flight of Stratolaunch, which could come later this year. Then it would decide whether to pursue Black Ice.
Returning to human spaceflight could be a possibility sometime in the future, said Allen, the billionaire entrepreneur, who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and now owns the Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle Seahawks.
“If you caught the bug back in the Mercury era, of course it’s in the back of your mind,” he said. “But I think you’re seeing right now, other than [space station] resupply missions, most spaceflights are about launching satellites. That’s the reality. And they are extremely important for everything from television to data all over the world. You can get data in the Kalahari Desert because there’s a satellite up there.”
Stratolaunch has generated all sorts of interest, a curiosity that for years was being built in secret inside a hangar so big that the contractor fashioning it, Scaled Composites, needed special permits just for the construction scaffolding.
Vice President Pence has visited the plane in its hangar and walked across its wingspan. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has dropped by to see it as well, writing on Twitter that she had “the chance to see firsthand how Stratolaunch is developing an air-launch platform to make space more accessible.”
Allen made history in 2004, when he hired Scaled Composites to build another spacecraft called SpaceShipOne that won the Ansari X Prize when it became the first nongovernmental vehicle to reach the edge of space. Allen ultimately licensed the technology behind the spacecraft to Richard Branson, whose Virgin Galactic is now pursuing its own plan to fly tourists to space aboard yet another new space plane, known as SpaceShipTwo.
“Flying test pilots, I understand,” Allen said. “But paying-man-on-the-street-type passengers, I wanted to leave that to someone else.”
After bowing out of the space business, Allen eventually returned to pursue one of his greatest passions, and in 2011 announced that he was building Stratolaunch. “You have a certain number of dreams in your life you want to fulfill,” he said at the time. “And this is a dream that I’m very excited about.”
Allen, a connoisseur of antique planes, has amassed a collection of World War II relics that he had painstakingly refurbished. He recovered them from old battlefields — a Messerschmitt, a German fighter plane, was dug out of a sand dune on a French beach where it had been buried for decades; an Ilyushin IL-2M3 Shturmovik was pieced together from the wreckage of four planes recovered in northwest Russia.
To showcase his collection, Allen created a museum, the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum in Everett, Wash., which features a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat and a B-25 Bomber, among others.
As a child, Allen knew all the names of the Mercury 7 astronauts, as if they were the players of his favorite baseball team, and he wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. But then in the sixth grade, he no longer could see the blackboard, even from his front-row seat. His nearsightedness meant “my dreams of being an astronaut were over,” he said. “Somehow I knew you had to have perfect eyesight to be a test pilot, and so that was it for my astronaut career.”
He once tried to launch the arm of an aluminum chair by packing it with powdered zinc and sulfur and firing it from a coffeepot, he recalled in his memoir, “Idea Man.” It didn’t work.
“Turns out the melting point of aluminum was lower than I understood,” he said.
As an adult, his passion for space continued. In 1981, he went to the Kennedy Space Center to watch the first shuttle launch. “The sound was unbelievable,” he recalled. “The air was vibrating, and you could feel compression waves going into your chest. … You could feel the heat from the engines on your face.” Allen watched it alongside the thousands who had packed the Florida coastline, many yelling: “Go! Go! Go!” “It was so inspiring,” he said.
In a post on Stratolaunch’s website, Allen said he has long been “enthralled by the idea of space exploration. … But I would have never imagined that, more than 50 years later, access to low Earth orbit would still be costly, complex and difficult. I am determined to change this to help maximize the potential of space to improve life here on Earth.”
A fully reusable shuttle would go a long way toward doing that, especially if it were capable of deploying constellations of small satellites. In the interview, Allen said he was keenly interested in that technology.
“The capabilities of these small satellites is something that’s really interesting and fascinating, both for communications, where a lot of people are putting up constellations of satellites for monitoring the challenged health of our planet,” he said. He’d become particularly interested in how space could be used to keeping an eye on “things like illegal fishing in the ocean, which is an increasing problem.”
Quelle: The Washington Post
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May 28, 2012 Mustang.Koji 159 Comments
It was Monday, Valentines’ Day 2001. My wife was five months pregnant at the time we moved into this wonderful neighborhood smothered in US Naval glory. After I came back from work the next day, she told me a kind old man stopped her as she was wheeling out the trash bin. She said he hobbled from across our quiet street lined with peppercorn trees then kindly wheeled them out for her.
I found out the “old man” was a World War II combat vet. Worse yet, he was a sailor in the Pacific – he fought the Japanese in World War II.
“Holy crap,” flashed through my mind, “What if he finds out we’re Japanese?”
Twelve years later, I was honored to have been a pallbearer at his funeral.
I was so far off base about my first thoughts on Old Man Jack that even George Burns could have picked me off without being called for a balk…and this while he was in his grave.
I felt so ashamed.
I snapped this picture of a happy Jack Garrett when we went to the Chino Planes of Fame in 2003.
“Young man, get over here and plant your butt in that chair,” barked old man Jack from his cluttered garage across the street. Having lived in that house since 1953, it was filled with his life history.
“But I have my stogie going, Jack,” said I.
“Well, I can see it and I sure as hell can smell it. Now shut up and sit down. I want to tell you something.”
That was Old Man Jack, my dear neighbor who lived across the street. I like to think we were close.
He was 87 years old by that summer’s day in 2010 when he called me over. While he had become feeble, his barrel chest was still prominent. He was a rabble-rouser in his youth. He was always “mixing it up” throughout his young years… Well, he was mixing it up even while working at Northrup in the 50’s. That makes me grin.
His handshake was always firm and warm; you didn’t need to be psychic to sense his insight and outlook on life. He always spoke his mind. He earned that right having been shot at, strafed, and bombed on “those stinkin’ islands” in the Southwest Pacific as he so often said during a most bitter war.
Taken on Father’s Day 2010
I had invited Jack to Father’s Day dinner that summer just two years ago; my Dad who was 91 was coming as well.
Jack knew my dad was US Army but I fretted over what they would say to each other when they first met. Or how they would react to one another. It was more than just a concern over the centuries old rivalry between Army and Navy. It was the bitter war.
Dad was in the front room when Jack rang the bell – right on time as always. Jack had on his favorite blue plaid shirt; he wore it often as it had a pocket for his glasses. I often wondered how often he washed it, though. Jack and Dad are shown here on Father’s Day 2010.
“Dad,” I said, “This is Jack, US Navy, Aviation Machinist’s Mate, First Class, the Pacific.”
“Jack, this is my Dad. US 8th Army, sergeant, Military Intelligence Service.”
Although not as agile as they once were, they immediately saluted each other.
You didn’t need a sound system to hear them. Dad and Jack are both hard of hearing.
It was easy to hear Jack ask Dad what he did in the Army. During the Occupation of Japan, Dad said he went into a room once a week that reeked of dry cleaning to retrieve a crate. (The crates contained documents, photos and other personal items such as war diaries written by Japanese soldiers. They were removed from a WWII battlefield – read on.) He would then translate the contents for military intelligence (below).
Dad translating captured war documents in the U.S. 8th Army HQ’s, Yokohama, Japan. 1947.
I had to tend to cooking so I lost track of the conversation. It was regretful I didn’t keep tuned in.
So back to being called over by Jack on that summer’s day.
He was sitting in his favorite blue wheelchair. He didn’t need it but it belonged to his beloved wife Carol who passed away ten years before. They married during the waning days of the war. They had been married for 55 strong years.
“So what did you want to tell me, Jack?” I asked.
He then went into his trance – one signaling evident anguish and wretched remembrances. When he went into these trances, he always started by staring at his hands while picking at his right thumbnail with his left ring finger. He would lift his once thick eyebrows now turned snow white with age, then begin talking in a slow, deliberate pace, never taking his eyes off his hands.
“I went on ID patrol…” Jack rasply whispered while ever so slightly drawing out his words.
“ID patrol? What is that?” I asked.
He ignored me. It was as if I wasn’t sitting next to him… He had already left the present. He had stepped foot onto that violent SW Pacific jungle of 70 years ago. I’m sure its smell was as vivid to him in his tormented subconscious as it was seven decades ago.
“They would issue six of us white caps M1’s with bayonets… Then we’d follow two Marines on a patrol into the jungle.”
“Patrol? You? You were ground crew, Jack,” I remarked.
“Ain’t enough of them (Marines) to go around on those stinkin’ islands so we got picked,” he said, still speaking in a lifeless yet pained monotone. He added, “If you got killed, you rotted real quick in that jungle heat. And if you got killed with shit in your pants, you got buried with shit in your pants.”
His stare doesn’t change. His eyes have glassed over. He is in a different world now – one of 70 years ago in a stifling jungle, his youthful, sweaty hands trying to grip onto his Garand rifle while wearing a smelly steel helmet… Listening in terror for any sound that may signal a Japanese soldier concealed in ambush knowing that the enemy was just there shortly before. A world that only combat veterans understand. Thankfully, you and I never will. Never.
“The Marines had two bags – one small one and a big one. When we found one, the two Marines would stand guard. We’d hold the rifle by the butt end and use the fixed bayonet to fish out the tags.”
It was then when I realized what he was painfully regurgitating.
This is what he meant by “I.D. patrol”. They were going back into the jungle to locate the dead Marines they had to leave behind after a “tussle” with the enemy as Jack liked to say – a life or death firefight. Old Man Jack was only 20 years old. The Marines were likely younger. Ponder that thought.
“We weren’t allowed to touch the dead (Marine) as the Japs would booby-trap ‘em. We’d hand over the tags hanging on the the end of the bayonet to one of the Marines who would put a tag in the small bag. They marked a map for the graves registration guys to come back later.”
Jack’s anguished delivery dimmed even further. “But we’d come across a dead Jap. Nobody cared about them so they rotted where they were. But we’d have to stick the bayonet into the rotting goo and try to fish stuff out. The prize was a pouch or a satchel. Those would go into the big duffel bag just as they were, covered with rot and maggots. We headed back to CP and that’s the last I saw of those bags,” he said.
He abruptly ended but his unconscious stare didn’t change. He was still in the jungle, scared out of his wits. He was still picking at his thumbnail all this time. His head hardly moved while he sat in the blue wheelchair that belonged to his beloved wife.
I thought to myself, “Is that the end, Jack? That’s it? Why did you tell me this?” I knew not to pry any more so I kept the thoughts to myself. He was in torment already. Seventy years had passed but he was reliving the awfulness of a brutal war. Nevertheless, I wondered why he chose that time to tell me about this horrific recall of something he experienced so very young.
It bugged me for several weeks.
About a month later, I understood why Jack told me the story after I communicated with Mr. Grant Ichikawa, a more well known veteran of the famed US Army’s Military Intelligence Service and combat veteran himself. Apparently, the items they recovered from Japanese corpses were dry cleaned to remove the rotting body fluids. After getting dry cleaned, they ended up in the crates that were in the room my Dad went into once a week when he was in the Military Intelligence Service…and why the room reeked of dry cleaning.
The brief chat with my dad on Father’s Day sparked that vile memory back to life. It had been eating at Old Man Jack since that day. He wanted to get it off his once mightily barreled chest.
I lament to this day that an invitation to a Father’s Day dinner had resulted in an unwanted recall of horror Jack was very much trying to forget. More so, I lament he relived such horrors each night for the last 70 years of his life. Seventy years.
Jack was a great man to have endured combat in the Pacific during World War II. He was an immeasurable giant in learning to forgive – although he was never able to forget.
I miss him greatly. I thanked him for all we have when I visited him today at his grave on this glorious Memorial Day.
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The Letter from 1945
May 18, 2012 Mustang.Koji 45 Comments
February 19, 1945 – Men with names like Kuwahara and Koyanagi were with the US Marines on the sands of Iwo Jima.
No, not the Japanese soldiers within the concrete fortifications led by General Tadamichi Kuribayashi of the Japanese Imperial Army. These were Americans of Japanese descent, or Japanese-Americans. Nisei. And to make matters worse, they were in the uniforms of the US Army. GI Joes. The Japanese were trying to kill them, too.
Sorry, Marines. It wasn’t all your show – lightheatedly, of course. (One of the greatest US Marines, John Basilone, CMH, Navy Cross gave his life on those black talcum powder-like sands.)
Having said that, ever watch the iconic B&W World War II classic, “The Sands of Iwo Jima”? John Wayne might just be turning over in his grave. But to his credit, the movie is one of my faves. It’s theme song, “The Marine’s Hymm”, gives me goosebumps even to this day.
The envelope immediately caught my attention. Aside from a crease, the envelope looked pristine. It was addressed to my Dad while he was in Minidoka, an Idaho prison camp where he and over 10,000 Japanese-Americans were imprisoned by FDR. It was postmarked September 2, 1945 – just about seven months after the bloody fight for Iwo Jima. The return address was the “War Department”.
If you’ll get past the lawyer speak, the letter says Dad is now free to go about America as he chooses.
Because of secrecy, photos of Japanese-Americans in the US Army’s MIS are rare. This one shows Nisei on the sands of Iwo Jima.
About one thousand young Nisei men volunteered for the US Army while their families remained imprisoned in Minidoka. That’s about ten percent of the total camp’s population. Most who volunteered were from my Dad’s home state, Washington. While Dad was not one of those volunteers, 71 of these young men from Minidoka were killed fighting for the red, white and blue. Two were bestowed the Medal of Honor – posthumously. Silent patriots to this day.
“Kibei” were amongst those 1,000 men. Kibei’s were a sub-set of Nisei’s as a whole. A Kibei is a Japanese-American who actually spent time being raised in Japan. One result was they were absolutely fluent in Japanese – read, write, speak. Even slang and dirty words. No land-locked Nisei could come close. Dad was a Kibei.
During the war, over 6,000 Nisei became part of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS). The MIS were top secret. They were largely all volunteers.
But the Kibei – they formed the crucial core of the group. The most fluent. The decisive secret weapon. As luck would have it, many of these Kibei were from Hiroshima. Their fathers came to Hawaii or Washington in droves from Hiroshima for a better life – just like my Grandfather Hisakichi. (Dad is pictured here standing next to his Hiroshima home in 1947.)
MIS Kibei were the ones who intercepted and swiftly translated the Japanese Imperial Navy radio transmissions that led to the shoot down of Admiral Yamamoto’s transport. Kibei also swiftly and accurately translated captured critical secret military plans written in Japanese (“Z-Plan“) for the defense of the Marianas Islands and the Philippines; this led to the lopsided American naval victory called the “Marianas Turkey Shoot” in 1944 – as well as to the death of my Seattle-born Uncle Suetaro. My dad’s youngest brother.
Interestingly, due to continuing suspicions, the US Navy and the Marine Corps refused to enlist the Nisei. Their loss.
Actual “Z-Plan” report translated by Nisei of the top secret MIS.
The cloak and dagger actions of the MIS were only declassified in the 1972 by Executive Order 11652. That’s a long time. And true to their oaths, these Nisei kept their heroics to themselves for all those decades. They sought no honor or recognition.
But back to the letter of 1945 – mailed to my Dad just seven months after the vicious fight for Iwo Jima. While my father finally volunteered for duty in February 1947 and became part of the famed MIS, his silent and patriotic Nisei brothers that preceded him hastened the end of war and saved millions of casualties – for both sides.
In recognition for their patriotism, sacrifices and loyalty, Congress bestowed upon the MIS and other Nisei who fought for the US in 2010 the Congressional Gold Medal. Two of my uncles were recipients although they had passed away.
By the way, the first recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal was George Washington. I believe the Nisei are in pretty good company.
No credit is being taken from the young Marines who fought and died for Iwo Jima. The Marines did take Iwo Jima with their blood…but they were not alone. About 50 Nisei MIS’ers landed in the first assault waves alongside the Marines.
Just ask Mineo Yamagata, a MIS veteran of Saipan and Tinian. He accompanied the 28th Marines to the summit of Mt. Suribachi and witnessed the flag raising.
Oh… He was from Hawaii.
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Masako savoring her Spam Musubi Kailua. Her daughter Izumi looks on.
It was a small yet precious family reunion. My 78 year old cousin Masako Kanemoto, who flew in from Hiroshima, took a bite out of a “Spam™ musubi” while we were taking a snack break in Kailua, Hawai’i. It’s a slice of Spam sandwiched in between some rice and wrapped in seaweed. “How mundane,” I thought.
Masako then beamed. “We had very little food for so many years. After the war, your father brought us food and clothing when he was in the US Army…” My dad was part of the US 8th Army’s Military Intelligence Service.
She continued, “He brought us much as he could carry. I was so hungry and I will always remember that first bite. I couldn’t believe how something could be so delicious.” She was referring to something my father had brought along with him 65 years ago – Spam.
Emotions tore through me and my eyes welled rapidly. I felt so selfish and ignorant for taking the Spam for granted. I fumbled but snapped the photo of Masako enjoying the Spam musubi.
My grandfather Hisakichi Kanemoto immigrated from Hiroshima to Seattle in the late 1890’s. My grandmother Kono Kanemoto was a true picture bride for my grandfather. Grandmother gave birth to a total of seven children of which my father was the fifth; all but one was born in Seattle – they were US citizens.
My grandparents struggled to survive; the family lived in the Fujii Hotel in downtown Seattle. They worked a basement barber shop in the hotel with Grandfather cutting the hair and Grandmother expertly working the straight razor. A cousin said Grandmother made the customers feel appreciated and made them feel at ease with her people skills. It certainly wasn’t Grandfather – if there were a Japanese Marine, he could have been their poster boy. “By the book”, as they say.
As was customary during that time, many Japanese-American children (“Nisei”) were rotated back to Hiroshima by ship to learn the Japanese language and customs when they were about eight years old. It was no easy cruise has they were crammed into the cargo hold for the lowest fares. They spent about ten years in Hiroshima then returned by themselves when they turned 18. Dad was no exception.
By around 1930, the grandparents and five of the siblings were in Hiroshima; the oldest (Uncle Yutaka) was forced to live in America alone at a young age. I understand he was sad and frightened about that. Their second son, Hisao, passed away in Seattle from encephalitis when he was only about two.
Now fluent in Japanese, dad returned to Seattle on his own in 1937 at 18 years of age, preceded by an older sister Shizue in 1934. Dad was apparently very bright as he graduated from Hiroshima’s Nichuu High School – it was for the higher achievers. He excelled in mathematics as well as in track and swimming. He helped dig the school’s pool. No union labor back then.
Dad is standing, third from left in this rare family portrait taken in front of his family’s new Hiroshima home, circa 1929.
After dad returned to Seattle, Grandmother made the decision to remain in Hiroshima. It was a fateful decision.
In the 1930’s, Japan had already began their invasions of China, Manchuria and Burma; they were on their quest to secure raw materials for their industries and ultimately for their military. National pride was at its peak; military conquests filled the news and the world was taking notice with great consternation. When Japan was condemned for their aggressions by the League of Nations, she withdrew and shocked the world.
The threat of war with America loomed. Anti-Japanese sentiment grew – Americans in Seattle routinely harassed or even attacked Japanese in public. Unfortunately, many of the “Japanese” they harassed were American citizens like my dad, uncles and aunts. Some young Nisei girls were also groped, molested or raped. Folks knew where Hawai’i was at this time but Pearl Harbor was Timbuktu.
They all had the misfortune of looking Japanese, similar to how some Americans look upon Muslims today.
My Grandmother was not exempt from the harassment. She was called “Jap” many times. She was even egged. While she was a fighter, she decided the threats and discrimination were too much.
My dad was close to his youngest brother, Suetaro. They farmed the mushroom property Grandfather owned in Hiroshima; the special mushroom delicacy called “matsutake” grew only during a brief season. Dad, Uncle Suetaro and perhaps three other boys strapped on woven baskets onto their backs and filled them with the precious matsutake. Grandmother would sell them as quickly and as best she could – they had no refrigeration. The earnings would make up the bulk of their income for the year.
While dad had returned to Seattle in 1937, Uncle Suetaro was anxiously awaiting his turn to go back to Seattle. He was to turn 18 in 1939. However, Dad’s youngest sister Mieko died earlier in 1939 of a kidney infection; she was about 15 years old. By that time, Grandmother knew Grandfather was suffering from stomach cancer. His older sister (and the only one not born in the United States) Michie had married and had given birth to a daughter – Masako, my cousin. They lived in another village called “Tomo” some distance away.
Having decided to remain in Japan due to the harassment and threats she experienced, Grandmother then made the fateful decision to not allow Uncle Suetaro to return to Seattle. After all, there was no other Kanemoto left to inherit the house and land. Uncle Suetaro was dejected and very upset but obeyed Grandmother. He was a loyal son.
Grandfather died the next year. With Mieko also gone, only Grandmother and Uncle Suetaro remained in the house.
Uncle Suetaro was drafted into the Japanese Imperial Army. His regiment was training in Fukuyama, Hiroshima. Aunt Michie with her nine year old daughter (and my cousin) Masako in tow went to visit Uncle Suetaro when they could. She remembers a couple of trips. It was not easy travel in war-torn Japan. For one trip, Aunt Michie managed to take sashimi – in this time of little food, it was a tremendous treat and gift.
On that trip, Masako remembers her mother stealthily sliding over to Uncle Suetaro the wrapped sashimi. He was being stared at by many of his fellow soldiers – they were not well fed either. She remembers Uncle slowly turning so that the others could not see and quickly devoured the treat.
Masako also knows Uncle was well respected by his fellow soldiers due to his knowledge of English in a wicked twist of fate as my father’s top secret US Army unit used their knowledge of Japanese to kill as many of the enemy and to save American lives.
Uncle Suetaro (sitting on the sofa arm) received his orders to ship out to Leyte Gulf in the Philippines; the family recalls it to be 1944. As tradition called, they had a farewell celebration. In such celebrations, the soldier who was facing certain death received a Japanese flag signed by relatives and friends to carry into battle.
Uncle Suetaro was to ship out the next day. Grandmother was like any other mother – she was anguished. More so, she knew that soldiers sent off to war rarely returned unless maimed. Her decision to not allow her youngest son to return to Seattle in 1939 now deeply stabbed at her heart…so much so that she suffered her first stroke the next day.
Grandmother only had use of her right arm; Masako said she would pull herself around the now empty house with that one good arm. Aunt Michie – after working a grueling day at her husband’s farm – would likely have walked several miles to Grandmother’s house to tend to her needs which included feeding her as well as changing and washing her diapers.
This was war time; they used old clothing for diapers. Tide laundry soap? They didn’t have any soap to speak off. A washing machine? They didn’t have one let alone electricity. Aunt Michie washed them by hand with well water on a washboard. She then walked miles back to her farm only to get up a few hours later before dawn to work the farm.
Transport Kashii Maru under attack at Ormoc Bay 1944
No one truly knows how Uncle Suetaro died.
Perhaps he was killed during one of the numerous Allied artillery barrages or bombings, or was cut down in a futile banzai charge. Perhaps he died in a cave from starvation or illness – or from committing suicide.
Perhaps he never made it ashore and met his death when he was on a troopship being strafed or sunk by airplanes from land-based US Marine Corsairs or carrier-launched US Navy F6F Hellcats or a US Army Air Force P-38 Lightning. The Allies ruled the skies and wrecked havoc on Japanese ships.
Tragically, he was American. While his oldest siblings were imprisoned in US concentration camps for “looking Japanese”, Uncle was thrust into desperate circumstances and was clothed in the uniform of the 14th Japanese Imperial Army, 41st Infantry Regiment… Eerily similar to his mother who was egged and called a Jap while in Seattle, his own countrymen were now trying to kill him with 75mm shells launched from miles away or .50 caliber machine gun rounds in a closer encounter. Not eggs this time.
It is more troubling knowing Ike was of German ancestry and MacArthur’s right hand man General Willoughby was of ROYAL German lineage and spoke fluent German but English with a pronounced accent. His birth name was Weidenbach; imagine if they were imprisoned in Tule Lake with my Dad for “looking German”. No political comment being made; its just historical fact.
Uncle Suetaro’s 41st Infantry Regiment – likely including the other young men who watched him stealthily eat sashimi – was annihilated by the US Army on Leyte. His body was never recovered. Ironically, when I used to watch the B&W news reels of the war on TV or see combat photos of dead Japanese soldiers, I would see them with purely American eyes. Now, I earnestly review them in hopes of seeing a glimpse of Uncle Suetaro…as my Aunt Shizue did for many, many years. She still does at 95 years of age near Downtown, LA.
Eleven year old Masako was sitting in her classroom on August 6, 1945; her school was partially behind Mt. Suzugamine just west of Hiroshima’s center. Some windows were opened as it was in the middle of summer.
There was an indescribable, blinding white flash. There was no noise except for some of the girls screaming, Masako recalls. They all left their seats and ran towards the windows to see what had happened. Masako ended up standing behind a couple of girls at an open window.
It was like an invisible wrecking ball slammed into their school. All of her classmates that ran to a closed window to look were pierced by shards of shattered window glass as the shock wave hit, she said. All were hurled backwards by the force. Even the girls in front of Masako were pierced by debris being hurled at supersonic speeds…
This wall is what remains of Dad’s high school in Hiroshima. It is inscribed with the names of the students who ceased to exist on Aug. 6, 1945.
As she looked through openings that were once windows to her classroom, they were now windows to a demonic swirling dark mass of blackness. Ironically, she described it as a “matsutake no kumo”, or “matsutake cloud”… The same mushroom my father and uncle had picked as children.
Now, the same hill they picked matsutake from saved Masako’s life. It provided the school partial shielding from the atomic blast. There was nothing left of Hiroshima just around the bend. All that was left of my father’s beloved “Nichuu High School” was a short span of a wall. It was about 1,500 meters from the hypocenter (left).
Masako saw horribly disfigured bodies over the next few days. They had aimlessly wandered from around the bend after the blast. They perished where their bodies laid. Masako was also covered in a thin oily, sticky substance called black rain.
From before the blast, ten year old Masako was tending to the care of Grandmother; by war’s end, there were only shreds of material left that could be used for diapers. It was brown under her fingernails from having to wash her soiled diapers by hand.
While Grandmother had made a partial recovery, she still only had use of her right arm. Then sometime after war’s end, a representative of the Japanese military came to visit Grandmother. Uncle Suetaro would not be returning home. Masako says her anguished scream was one only a mother can own, made horribly worse knowing she forbid Uncle Suetaro returning to Seattle. She suffered her second stroke.
Dad and the rest of the imprisoned siblings and the grandchildren of Grandmother and Grandfather were released from camp in September 1945. A year after, Dad found out he was going to be drafted by the same government that took his passport, fingerprinted him, put him and his family behind barbed wire and made him keep on his person all the time a draft card (on the left) that classified him as an Enemy Alien (4C). There were also guard towers manned by soldiers with Browning machine guns.
According to Masako and other family members, his oldest brother Yutaka (and now heading up the remaining family) then nearly begged him to volunteer for the Military Intelligence Service so he could check up on Grandmother. Dad tells me, “Well, if I get drafted, I’ll be a buck private. If I volunteer, I can be a sergeant – more pay.”
I tend to believe my other family members.
Dad arrived in Yokohama on December 7, 1947 and was assigned to the 8th US Army’s G-2, 166th Language Detachment; this was the Military Intelligence Service. It was kept top secret during the war; nearly all of them were Japanese-Americans. The accomplishments and heroics of his predecessors were not declassified until the 1970’s. Dad was one of the early graduates of the Army’s language school (“DLI”) in the Presidio. He was a Technical Sergeant, 3rd Grade – I’m sure the young Japanese ladies thought his chevrons were captain’s bars.
Dad and Masako in 1948. Itsukushima Shrine, Hiroshima. Dad remembers this was taken by a photography vendor.
At his first opportunity, he took a train down to Hiroshima then somehow made it to Grandmother’s home. Masako was a young girl 14 years of age by then. He carried two large Army duffle bags full of food and clothing – including the Spam. They are in the photo on the left.
None of the surviving Kanemoto family members from that time period know how Dad learned of the news of Uncle Suetaro’s death. Regardless, the death of his favorite brother scarred his mind and heart for eternity. Even today, when I see him, he asks, “How is Suetaro?” He never asks of his other siblings.
Masako and I finish our Spam musubi. She tells me of how kind my father was to her, Grandmother and Aunt Michie. My dad does remember how indebted they all were to Masako for giving up a lot of her youth to care for Grandmother.
Masako enjoys Spam even to this day.
On a side street in Kailua, Oahu, Spam had also become a cherished delicacy for me.
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Female Force – Exhibition Opening Day
Female Force is the title given to a selection of photographs taken of statues by Najma Hush. These images been manipulated by the process of multi-layering, to modernise and re-present, a few and various neoclassical and classical sculptures, from the fresh perspective of a digital age. Currently exhibiting at Urban Coffee Company (Church Street, Birmingham, B3 2NP. UK. ), from April 6th – May 3rd 2014).
Urban Coffee Company is a rather sophisticated cafe in the metropolis of Birmingham. Not only do they boast great coffee, good enough to sate any coffee snobs passion, but they also hold many different live events. Furthermore, their cosy upstairs arena , consistently rotates fine art and photography by artist from the city, which is organised by Alexandria Art, who provide exhibiting platforms for emerging artist in various location around the city.
With the exhibition open day for Female Force, held last Saturday (12th April’ 14), Najma Hush hosted her very own launch event, having invited Poets and Musicians to also platform their own skills and celebrate her latest solo exhibition. Here is a short review, recording the events proceedings, including photographs of the poets and musicians who came to support this event with further links to their works, to make it easier for you to find them.
As the guests gathered.
The event started off with a small crowd and moved at a slow pace, fairly early for any Saturday morning, but as the event proceeded more and more people joined to contribute a buzz to the initial relaxed atmosphere. The show commenced, with a brief introduction from the artist about herself and the concept behind the exhibition, before she passed over the duty of hosting to Andrea Shorrick, a local poet and performer herself, who introduced the first public speaker, Kathryn Day from Women’s Networking Hub. This organisation had shown much support for Hush’s exhibition open day, by promoting it through a lot of their internal sources, due to the close work they do with all kind of women in enterprise, connecting women with other women and essentially building a strong network of associations. They also work closely with Malala Yousafzai to gain funds for her projects to eradicate social/gender inequality and so Hush invited them to invite the women present, to join their network.
Poet and Photographer, Najma Hush at the exhibition opening of Female Force.
The first poet to perform was Dani Papamaximou from Greece, who recited her own touching poems, translated from her native tongue to English. With some dark overtones, her work was mainly refreshing and light sharing personal experiences as a women.
Next up, a very talented poet and artist from Walsall, Neth Brown who shared a melancholy poem about her mother and experiences on the theme of gender traditions and female sexuality from the point of view of a young lesbian.
Nina Lewis, was the following act, a Worcestershire poet who had actually written poems especially to go with Hush’s images. Her poems were as impressive as usual as showed her dexterous skill with language.
Next up was Sammy Joe, who humorously insisted on taking her coffee on stage, swigging and spilling it in a sleepy haze. But even before she had finished reciting her very short, blunt and feisty poem, in a fashion that was no less than fierce, she had trotted off again, sleepily leaving the audience wide awake and hungry for more.
The crowd was then greeted by the colourful personality of Saleha Begum, a poet and artist decisively stating that she would be reading her most intense works, from her book, Raptures and Fragments, which she did!
As the crowd deserved ‘A Pick Me Up’ after such intensity, that’s exactly what they got with Aysha Begum’s poem, ‘Just a Little Pick Me Up’, a poem which is also an entry in this years round two of Pangaea Poetry Slam.
And just before the interval, Andrea Shorrick left the crowd holding their breath during her performance, when she began to undress, stripping away her clothes solemnly, wrapping herself up in a street no entry banners and smearing her face with yellow paint as she recited her poem on domestic abuse.
Najma Hush – Meeting and Greeting Guests
During the interval it seemed that a lot more people had woken up and the place became more alive with people. The atmosphere was buzzing as the crowd was led back into the second half, where Najma Hush opened the show, reciting her own epic poem on social equality for women, just before she introduced the musical act for the event a very talented young singer song writer, Jane James. Her voice is emotive and she can switch her pitch going from smooth to boom!
Jaden Larker, otherwise known as Seasick Fist, who was also a speaker for TEDxBrum on International Women’s day (2014), was the only man who had been brave enough to perform his views on women, with his confident delivery, he certainly knows how to keep the crowds attention.
With a hard act to follow, next up was Andrea Shorrick, only this time as her ultra ego, Swingerella, with stories from her bed, which included chocolate hearts, pink bunnies, vodka in a tea pot and box of sugar puffs, to name…just a few things. It was meant to be funny, but again, the audience were holding their breath…
It was also a great pleasure to see and hear, Jasmin Gardosi perform her poem sultry poem on lesbian love and love bites. Gardosi is also a TEDxBrum speaker (2014) and she runs the official Poets Place.
And to close the show in class one of the final special guest was, Charlie Jordan, Birmingham Poet Laureate (2007 ) – representing our city – with some groping poetry, in a style, solely unique to her. The event then came to a close with the first ever Female poet laureate of Birmingham, Julie Boden and current Poet in residence at Symphony Hall who wowed the crowed with 10 minutes of such beautiful poetic magic.
Here are the photographs of all the above performers:
Kathryn Day speaking on behalf of Women’s Networking Hub who showed great support for this event.
Co-presenting with the lovely, Andrea Shorrick
Reciting poetry translated from her mother tongue Greek, Dani Papamaximou
Beautiful poetry recitations from young woman with an old soul , Neth Brown.
All the way from Worcestershire with consistently great Poetry, Nina Lewis.
Keeping it short, sweet and with a powerful shot of caffeine, Sammy Joe.
Reading from her amazing poetry and art book, Raptures and Fragments, Saleha Begum.
Powerful and provocative poetry performance, Andrea Shorrick.
And her words are as beautiful as her exterior, performance Poet, Aysha Begum.
The only man brave enough to voice his thoughts on women…Respect to poet Seasick Fist.
Powerful voice and soothing at the same time, she provided some gorgeous music, Jane James.
In bed with Swingerella , a pink Bunny and a box of sugar puffs!
Some juicy poetry to sink your teeth into courtesy of the fearless, Jasmin Gadosi.
With a voice as smooth as silk and poetry to match, Charlie Jordan.
Engaging and thought provoking words of power, Julie Boden.
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Female Force
Female Force is the title given to a selection of photographs taken of statues. These images have been manipulated by the process of multi layering, to modernise and re-present a few and various neoclassical and classical sculptures, from the fresh perspective of a digital age.
Although this set has not been created in any attempt to be authentic in its artistic content, it appreciates beauty making accessible elite works in art, otherwise unobtainable as the ideological emphasis is upon ‘possession’ (based upon John Bergers theories in his book Way’s of Seeing (1972) ).
Each piece displays a keen interest to celebrate femininity and the female form, as Najma Hush offers a short interpretation on womanhood through the study of sculptures and in doing so, she presents the female archetypes that have inspired artists to create; images that have been repeated again and again and ones we still see and know in our society. What’s most interesting about Female Force is that these archetypes are still recognisable and ideals that we in society, still aspire to posses.
Female Force is only on exhibition at Urban Coffee Company from the 6th April to the 5th May 2014 in association with Alexandria Exhibitions. All prints are limited editions, as no more than 25 will be produced of each one. Also, each piece comes with a unique certificate of authenticity signed, numbered and dated by the artist. For further info or to purchase, please email Najma on photogiraffe@live.co.uk.
The official open day for the exhibition will be held at Urban Coffee Company on Saturday 12th April at 11am – 1.30 pm with live performances from poets and musicians, so stay tuned here to read more about that event …
Tags: Art, Artist, asian arts, Birmingham, Britain, british, Emerging, Events, Exhbitionism, Exhibition, Exhibitionist, female, Female Force, John Berger, Limited Edition, Live art, Music, Najma Hush, New Media, Photogiraffe, Photography, Poetry, Possession, Prints, Shows, Statues, Uk, Urban Coffee Company, ways of seeing, woman, women
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Community, NEWS, Pride
PERTH DRAG QUEEN TAKES THE SALTIRE DOWN UNDER IN PRIDE SHOW
A Perthshire drag queen is to swap the River Tay for the big city ‘down under’, flying over 9,000 miles to Perth, Australia as she performs to thousands as part of their Pride celebration.
Scarlet Skylar Rae will perform at Pride Western Australia, held in the namesake of her hometown of Perth, Scotland. She’ll take part in a mini tour of the state, with appearances at the official Pride after-party, local scene venues and will be representing Scotland in the Pride march.
She’ll appear onstage with BarbieQ at the oldest gay club in the Southern Hemisphere, ‘Connections’ nightclub, with a number of the events sponsored by local leading LGBT+ businesses ‘The Venue’ and ‘Charlie Taylor’.
She told us:
Scarlet Skylar Rae
“I am elated to have the opportunity to perform at Pride Western Australia! I loved the idea of doing a Perth-to-Perth tour with 9,122 miles between the shows and I can’t believe it’s actually happening!”
“I’m really thankful for everyone’s efforts in putting this show together and I cant wait to bring some Scottish drag down under!”
The visit is the first in what the performer hopes will be a new link between the cities, with both organisations responsible for organising Pride locally keen to establish a new ‘Pride twinning’ arrangement.
Perthshire Pride was established in 2018 as part of a community consultation run by Pink Saltire. The charity has since gone from strength to strength, this year attracting over 7,500 people to Perth city centre, boosting visibility of LGBT people and also the local economy, with an estimated boost for businesses over £200,000.
Aria Welsh, board member for Perthshire Pride, and the reigning Miss Transgender UK 2019″ welcomed the link and wished Scarlet well:
“We are all so proud of Scarlet Skylar Rae and are thrilled to be working with Pride Western Australia.”
“Scarlet is a drag queen extraordinaire who graces Perth with her eclectic looks and killer performances. She has made history by not only hosting Perth’s first ever LGBT+ club night, but by continuing to strive for more inclusivity in the city.”
“Not only does she ‘educate the children’ she also reads books to actual children, I am so proud of her to be flying all the way to Australia to host their Pride – I know she’ll kill it!”
“I’m lucky enough to call Scarlet one of my very best friends and so happy that she’s bringing Perthshire Pride to the international scene.”
This year Pride Western Australia celebrates 30 years of activism and protest in the city as well as a huge PrideFEST, bringing together thousands of people who support LGBT+ rights and to celebrate equality for all. The event runs from 2nd to 30th November, with the Pride march on the final day.
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PIN–UP Book Club
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BOOK CLUB: Rene Gonzalez Architects, Not Lost in Translation
By Sean Santiago
Book cover of Not Lost in Translation by Rene Gonzalez Architects.
Emblematic of heat and glamour, beach bodies and Art Basel bling, Miami isn’t exactly known for its timidity. Yet Cuban-born Miamian Rene Gonzalez is very much the antithesis of those things: the soft-spoken architect chooses his words deliberately and without embellishment. His new book, Rene Gonzalez Architects: Not Lost In Translation, is a quiet reflection on a body of work that does its best to meld and mesh with the surrounding city in ways that show a cohesion and sense of place all too often lacking in South Florida real estate.
Prairie Avenue Residence, Miami Beach (completed 2017).
Biscayne Bay Residence, Miami Beach (completed 2010).
North Beach Oceanfront Center, Miami Beach (completed 2014).
A substantial volume at 288 pages, Not Lost In Translation provides a testament to Gonzalez’s 20-plus years as the founder and principal of Rene Gonzalez Architects (RGA), covering a diverse range of 14 projects. The title refers to both Gonzalez’s Cuban background as well as his skill as an architect in translating his clients’ hopes and desires into built form. Prefaced by a thoughtful Q&A with fellow architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, the book grounds Gonzalez’s work firmly in the context of art and culture, highlighting his role as a go-to architect for Miami’s small but powerful art scene (he counts the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation among his clients, and even runs his own itinerant art and culture showcase, RGA Rocket).
"Roots: Little Havana," a photo essay by Cecilia Hernandez, Mauricio Del Valle, and Rene Gonzalez.
"Persianas, Portales, and Patios," essay by Beth Dunlop.
"Dreams: Stiltsville," a photo essay by Rene Gonzalez.
But RGA also masters Miami’s unique and dense vegetation and finds solutions for the city’s inevitable predicament as a place that is literally losing ground to climate change. Suspended 10 feet above the floodable soil and conceived with natural climate-control methods, RGA’s Prairie Residence (2017) is described in Caroline Roux’s foreword as a potential “blueprint for future designs,” reframing holistic living as luxury in a house that was partly inspired by the Florida Seminole tribe’s chickee huts.
Indian Creek Residence, Miami Beach (completed 2010).
GLASS Residential Tower, Miami Beach (completed 2015).
Where producing the book was concerned, Gonzalez describes the process with art director Omar Sosa as “similar to building a building.” “He loved it from the get-go,” says Gonzalez of Sosa’s reaction to the book’s title. “We spoke a lot about how my interests and work could be represented in the book physically.” As a result there is a focus on peripheral vision in the firm’s oeuvre, a spotlight on the unseen rhythms that create the texture of a project. Inserts printed on creamy bible paper feature Gonzalez’s own photography of Stiltsville — a group of elevated shacks on a South Florida salt marsh — and the architectural idiosyncrasies of Miami’s Little Havana. Acting as “interruptions” that are intended to push the reader to refocus and re-contextualize the firm’s commercial and residential work, they also highlight the social fabric that informs it. “I see the work we’re doing as having global impact,” says Gonzalez. The book’s own objecthood speaks to the experiential nature of his practice. “You start to want to engage with the textures and finishes — the materiality became very important; it makes the book something you ideally want to have.”
Text by Sean Santiago
Taken from PIN–UP 25 Fall Winter 2018/19
Rene Gonzalez Architects: Not Lost In Translation by Rene Gonzalez et al. (Monacelli Press, 2018)
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'Grey's Anatomy' Star Caterina Scorsone Reveals Pregnancy With 'Addams Family'-Themed Halloween Photo
By Jose Bastidas - November 2, 2019 12:39 am EDT
Caterina Scorsone has a matching baby bump with her Grey's Anatomy character. The actress behind Amelia Shepherd announced she is pregnant with her third child in a stunning Halloween family photo. Scorsone took to Instagram to share a photo of herself cradling her bump, husband and singer-songwriter Rob Giles, 7-year-old daughter Eliza and 2-year-old daughter Pippa in their best Addams Family costumes.
"Our Family’s about to get even kookier. #pumpkinintheoven," the actress wrote in the caption of the post.
Co-star Camilla Luddington took to the comments section to celebrate the big news writing, "Omg this is GREAT!!!!!!!!" Co-star Alex Blue Davis also wrote, "This is amazing."
A post shared by Caterina Scorsone (@caterinascorsone) on Nov 1, 2019 at 4:25pm PDT
The pregnancy announcement comes soon after the ABC medical drama series revealed Amelia was pregnant with her very new boyfriend Link's (Chris Carmack) baby. It was not revealed if the actress' real-life pregnancy might have played a part in the crafting of the show's storyline.
Since Scorsone welcomed her second child, Pippa, in 2016, the actress has been an outspoken advocate for those diagnosed with Down Syndrome, E! News writes.
"A lot of parents who find out their new baby has Down syndrome worry about what the impact of having a child with differences will be on their other kids," she recently wrote on Instagram along with a video of her daughters dancing. "They haven't seen it modeled so they are afraid of it. I wish I could show everyone the joy and sweetness and love that has expanded and grown in our family since Pippa was born."
A post shared by Caterina Scorsone (@caterinascorsone) on Oct 30, 2019 at 2:29pm PDT
Caterina continued, "There is no book, or movie, or conversation that I could have with my older daughter that would have taught her the love and perspective that having a sister with differences has. The two of them are crazy about each other and the differences give rise to a kind of tenderness I could only have wished for between typical siblings. Pippa is truly the greatest gift I could have given her big sister and I am so deeply grateful that she chose our family to shake up and wake up with her light."
Congratulations to the Grey's Anatomy star and her family! The show airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
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Princess Diana's Friend Rosa Monckton Tweets Old Photo 'Farewell' to Prince Harry
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2020 Alumni Achievement Awards nominations are now open
Alumni Profile: Susan Hannah
Multidisciplinary career profile: Barbara Hopewell
Alumni Profile: Charlotte Anderson
Volunteers needed for “Enabling Occupation with Older Adults” course
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Messages from the Departmental Chairs
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Alumni Reunion 2019
THELMA CARDWELL LECTURE
Arbor Award
Alumni Achievement Award
The Above and Beyond Award
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OS & OT Student Association
PT Graduate Student Association
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By Wendy Campbell:
Concussions are much in the news lately. They’re being recognized now as a major issue in sports, vehicle accidents and falls – often going undiagnosed in the face of other traumas. The immediate effects, depending on severity, can impede function for weeks or months, and in the long term may include dementia. Changes in approach to the treatment of concussions are evolving as a result of its prevalence and recognition, and in the forefront of innovation is Toronto physiotherapist Charlotte Anderson.
Charlotte has established a significant professional presence since graduating from the University of Toronto with an MSc in Physical Therapy in 2012. Her experience working with young people both before and after graduation fostered an interest in head injury related conditions in that age group and she started and continues to supervise a student led concussion clinic at Bloorview Children’s Hospital. Her thesis topic for her recently completed PhD was: Cervical Spine Dysfunction and Concussion. More about that later, but first, let’s explore her other involvements in providing physiotherapy to a larger population.
With a keen eye for business, Charlotte is the founder of Alpha Health Services, a private rehabilitation facility with three locations in Toronto and Muskoka employing a range of health care professionals. She also founded PhysioLogic PLUS, a private rehabilitation service located within Bridgepoint Active Healthcare. As well, she provides physiotherapy locum services throughout the year in Whitehorse, Yukon. She sits as the education lead on the private practice division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association and teaches physiotherapy students at UofT and McMaster.
In January 2020, she will begin post doctoral studies in an interdisciplinary setting at McMaster University to search for improved ways to treat young people with concussions and prevent the loss of valuable time in their development. She will also advocate for including concussion management in physiotherapy curriculums.
Charlotte opened her first clinic a year after graduating and has continued to expand both clinically and academically in the seven years since. In 2018 she was awarded the Physical Therapy Practioner Exceptional Achievement Award. A curious mind and a love for innovation have marked her career so far and she’s just begun!
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Having stood out from others most of her life due to her exceptional character, Misato Kurihara has lived without neither the joy of having close friends nor the experience of having a regular life. However, after a sudden death, she was transported to a divine realm to be reincarnated—and granted one wish to top it off. Thinking about the ordinary life that she had always wanted, she wished to be born as a normal person, with abilities that are average for the world she will resurrect in.
Reborn as Adele von Ascham—the daughter of a noble—she possesses magic powers completely exceeding what one would label average. Still desiring to carry out the life she wanted, she leaves her home and enrolls at a hunter school in a faraway kingdom using "Mile" as an alias. However, try as she might to hide her overpowering potential, attaining her goal will be difficult—especially when facing against the crazy situations that ensue!
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Adaptation: Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne!
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von Ascham, Adele
Waki, Azumi
Tokui, Sora
Tazawa, Masumi
von Austien, Mavis
Uchimura, Fumiko
Hatano, Wataru
Kawase, Maki
Kouno, Hiyori
Toujou, Hisako
Yasuno, Kiyono
Oota, Masahiko
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"Smile Skill = Suki Skill! (スマイルスキル＝スキスキル！)" by Akaki Chikai (赤き誓い)
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"Genzai↑ Banzai↑ (ゲンザイ↑バンザイ↑)" by Mile (Azumi Waki)
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Stark700 (All reviews)
FUNA’s anime adaptation follows a common trend in recent years with the flood of fantasy isekai. Abilities Average (the shortened title I’ll be referring to) doesn’t demand much on the creative side as we witness the transformation of a teenage girl into an overpowered adventurer. Joining main female protagonist Mile includes Reina, Pauline, and Reina. Are you ready to watch an adventure with these four goofballs?
Clocking in at 12 episodes, the early warning flag raised is the faithfulness of the anime adaptation. Unfortunately, it’s easy to say the anime decided to condense the material in order to maintain a flow of the overall series. Rather than following a faithful roadmap, the anime omits Mile's days at academy and instead puts her right into the 4-girls group as we are most familiar with. Needless to say, that cuts value into Mile's character as the audience will have a lesser time understanding her. As the novels consists of over 300 chapters, this decision didn’t take me by storm. Thankfully, Abilities Average make time to bring a comedic filled adventure.
The Crimson Vow. Remember those words well because this entire show is about them and their adventures. Mile may be the central protagonist but she retains the common interest of an otaku that being her love of anime, manga, and video games. Applying this knowledge to her adventures and battles, the show is made effectively self-aware of its standards. Even Mile herself is aware of her personality that is addressed by her own narratives. Joining her in these adventures is Reina, the crimson mage with a dark past but became a Hunter. As a crimson mage skilled with fire techniques, she plays the role of a tactical fighter and is invaluable to the party; think of her as the mage class in one of those classic WOW raids. Reina herself does have a background story that takes the show into a more emotional direction. If you care about her as a person, you will likely feel some sympathy of Reina when told from her personal perspective. Entering the familiar isekai party tropes, we also meet Mavis von Austein, the skilled knight with a noble persona. In any fantasy stories, a knight is almost like a necessity to make its series credible. Hence, we have Mavis although the show pokes fun of her character. For instance, she often gets teary eyed by sad stories despite her masculine appearance. Finally, Crimson Vow has another mage named Pauline who occasionally shows her “dangerous side” when least expected. Brace yourself for this group because they are the embodiment, heart, and soul of Abilities Average.
It makes sense that Abilities Average follows these four characters exclusively rather than developing other characters. After all, Crimson Vow is essentially the collective party of the poster characters. Even though Mile is the central protagonist, the others are featured just as much as her. FUNA’s writng of these characters puts emphasis on their personality than development. Watching their character chemistry and embracing who they are as characters is essential to enjoying the show. The more I watch these characters, the more I feel connected to them. However, I will say the show is aiming for lighthearted humor the majority of the time. There’s also satirical humor with character behaviors such as Mile’s lack of common sense at times. In other words, Abilities Life is more of a deconstruction of the fantasy isekai genre. It’s not an entirely a unique concept but does give a breath of fresh air for the Fall 2019, a season that seems to have an unusual amount of isekai.
The closest Abilities Life gets to with an antagonist is the life adventure itself. The anime adaptation doesn’t truly have a Big Bad but does introduce obstacles for Crimson Vow to overcome. This includes the battle tournament these girls participates early in the show to later facing off against an Elder Dragon. We have to remember that these are still teenage girls who have yet to step into the adult world. However, all these characters are portrayed as adorable badasses. The best way to describe them would be “dynamite come in little packages”. It’s when their opponents are caught off guard and realizes it's too little, too late. Mile’s request to be “average” still turns her into an overpowered character by the Creator. By average, she didn’t expect that her own abilities far outclasses others in this new world. The word ‘average’ itself losses its meaning when you think of the Average Joe. But in essence, it’s still fun to watch their adventure to see how they overcome their obstacles.
Project No.9’s transformed the light novel into anime by making it full of charms. It’s adorably cute with the characters made into teenage girls. If you look at first glance, there’s little reason to fear them until it’s too late. Character expressions is portrayed with a cartoony style of expressions with a vast majority of the time being humorous. On rare occasions, there’s more emotional reactions such as with Reina’s anger or Pauline’s sadism. The world setting is also decorated with light touches of fantasy such as the mystical and fairy tale-like creatures. Of course, dwarves, elves, and goblins exist because it’s part of the Isekai 101 formula. On a lesser scale, the battle cinematics is clean and crisp although looks average in style. Don’t go into this show looking into some high level caliber of animation quality because you won’t find it.
I’d normally discard the voice acting of a cast of teenage girls because most often time or not, they all sound the same. However, I do want to mention that the character voice mannerism of Average Life is more effective than some of the other isekai shows I’ve seen. This is due to how close the character connections are with each other. It’s collected together as a union of personalities coming from different backgrounds but united as Crimson Vow. Plus, who can forget the theme song of the show? When you have an adorable cast posing in ridiculous manners and catchy lyrics, it’s hard not to get into the rhythm.
Average Life always seemed like a series that would eventually get an anime and it indeed did. Here, we have an anime about a cast of goofballs poking fun of the idea of an isekai adventure. However, I do want the audience to be aware of the faithfulness of the show. Average Life is guilty of falling short on expectations when it comes to adaptation. There’s much more in the light novels that you can understand the characters better. But for an anime show of itself, Average Life is much more than just average.
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I despise this series, it has everything that I hate in a comedy series, and even being the iseaki trash I am I can't justify this. The jokes are repetitive and not funny, there were close to no moments that I generally liked, and I hate myself for watching this.
Firstly I wanna say what I did like, that one episode where they were around the campfire sharing stories it was wholesome and I did enjoy that, I love the OP even though I wish I didn't, and a few of the anime references the put in. That's about it.
Firstly the comedy is dreadful. It's mainly about Adele being like, "I just wanna be average", and she gets her wish just not the way she wanted. She "tries" not to show her power to anyone, but whenever someone says flat, she turns into a rage like, "YOU CALLED ME FLAT, NA-NANI, BAKANA" and then proceeds to use her OP abilities and crush her opponent and at the end be like, "OH, I did that? Teehe", like bitch that shit annoys me so much. It wasn't funny the first time and wasn't funny after the 50th time either. Also when Adele tries to use her power but not in an OP way but still does without knowing that also irritates me, I have seen that so many times in so many different ways and that joke being like the main source of comedy really just grinds my gears. it also tries to play at being to meta and it fails a lot of the time and is generally not funny (and I love me some meta humor).
The characters are bad as well. None of them stick out in anyway, never enjoyed watching them interact. They had their good moments obviously, for example, I liked Pauline just being a sadist, Mavis being a dumbass, but I didn't like anything about Adele or Reina. Even with Reina tragic backstory and understanding were her motivation comes from still didn't make me like her at all. Now because there is not much to say about the animation other than it's complete garbage and hurt my eyes to look at, I'm not gonna make it it's own paragraph.
Overall, complete garbage show, I can see why people like it and if you like parody, reference filled loli shows than I would recommend this show to you. If you don't however skip this show completely you will not find enjoyment in it whatsoever.
simplydru (All reviews)
Sound 10
Enjoyment 10
"You can attack me as many times as you like - I'll heal up every single time, and then bring this staff down upon the head of the person who insulted my friends." - Pauline, very cutely, and with the cutest smile. I think you can see where this is going...
My feelings about 'Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!' (Noukin) can be summed up with four simple words: I LOVE this show! That's right, I fucking said it: I. FUCKING. LOVE. THIS. SHOW. You got a problem with that? And what do you mean "you people?" HUH? Yeah, fuck all y'all, I do what I want.
Anyways, here is a friendly disclaimer for those who fancy themselves as "high-brow" and use a wine glass to savor the aroma of their own farts:
- Yes, it's another isekai anime.
- Yes, there are plenty of tropes.
- Yes, it probably doesn't follow the source material to the letter.
- Yes, there is a beach episode... well, half-episode. And a bath scene or two.
- Yes, there are quite a few boob jokes.
- And yes, the plot is not 100% original.
If the aforementioned jostles a stick up your ass, then you will probably hate this show. Go watch 'Your Lie in April' or some other puke of a series that pretends to be all deep and shit. We don't want you sitting at our table anyways!
And now, for the rest of you:
Simply put, Noukin is ADORABLE! Seriously, everything about it makes you want to let out one of those "aw, look at the cute puppy" sighs and hug a giant teddy bear. The MC is just the most precious thing you've ever seen, and the rest of her party is a basket of cute-itude, with varying degrees of damage. And the pop culture references? Fucking golden! There were 'Dragon Ball' and 'Terminator 2' references that had me in literal tears - shit, if I were tripping on mushrooms when I saw them, I might have died of laughter. Oh, and that OP is just cute with a capital Q-T! Noukin truly is a delightful surprise that is drenched in fun & cute, and is probably my favorite show of the year.
So, about dem scores:
Story: 7
Art: 8
Sound: 10
Enjoyment: 10
Overall: *9/10*
In the future, I may expand this to delve into every category more thoroughly; in the meantime, though, here is my list of the notable pros & cons:
- Noukin knows exactly what it is: A cute & self-aware quasi-spoof on its own genre, but without neglecting the character development or story progression.
- The main characters are just delightful in every respect. The designs are somewhat familiar, yet each character still displays a refreshing uniqueness. Not only that, they flesh out each character's personality & backstory quite well, and none of the characters feel sidelined in any respect... oh, and did I mention their cuteness?
- From start to finish, this show is fucking HILARIOUS! I was caught completely off-guard by the humor, and I couldn't be happier about it. There is plenty of meta-humor, well-executed references to other works, situational comedy and even a bit of black humor here and there. Every single episode had me in stitches at some point, even if "some heavy shit was going down," as you hip kids love to say.
- The production quality is solid, including both the animation and sound design. None of the corner-cutting seen in other recent isekai releases, such as 'Arifureta' or 'Demon Lord, Retry!', is present in this series. From the very first scenes, you can tell that all sorts of well-animated cuteness is in store for you.
- Romance is rarely even mentioned in the show, and sex itself is discussed even less than that, which is incredibly welcomed. While there is some pervy-ish humor and light fanservice, it is fairly benign and not at all gratuitous, which could have easily ruined this show. At no point are the girls portrayed as mere sex objects, nor are they ever overly-sexualized. Only one character ever inspires open expressions of lust from men, due to her large bosom, but those moments are few & far between and in no way define her as a character. There is a beach half-episode, a few short bath scenes and some boob jokes strewn throughout, but the execution is more tasteful than most and always seemed appropriate: the bath scenes are pretty tame; the boob jokes are usually related to the MC's "breast envy," which actually makes sense in this case, since the MC was a young adult when she died; and much of this humor in the series comes in part from the MC's actions inadvertently clashing with the societal ignorance & modesty of her new world... plus cuteness.
- Perhaps the best part of the "sexual mildness," though, is that the girls are never subjected to any rapey behavior, much less rapey behavior presented as "goofy antics," as is the case in dumpster fires like 'How Not to Summon a Douche Lord.' Enough said. it's nice to watch something a little more on the "innocent" end of the spectrum once in a while no? And cute, too.
- Oh, and before I forget: NO PANTY SHOTS!
- None of the girls' voices are annoyingly shrill or squeaky. Thank fucking god.
- CGI is used both sparingly and appropriately. THANK. FUCKING. GOD.
- That fucking OP, though! ^_^
CONS (maybe):
- Some of the mood shifts are a bit jarring, which is usually intentional, and the humor can seem inappropriate for the situation(s) at hand. Oftentimes, there are hilarious moments in the midst of dramatic situations, which can be incongruous with the overall mood of the scene. I myself enjoyed this aspect of the series, but I can see how it would be off-putting to some.
- The show is somewhat episodic and the overall story may be a little thin. I don't personally find this an issue because the story is really about the friendship & first adventures of these four girls and doesn't need to be anything more than that; however, I can understand if someone desires more suspense or a more defined plot, so it bears mentioning nonetheless.
IN SUMMATION: If you are looking for a cute, fun and accessible isekai anime about powerful magical girls that aren't glorified sex toys going on adventures in a Medieval-esque fantasy world, then you have hit the motherfuckin' jackpot with Noukin! At its core, this is a heartwarming tale of a young girl's second chance at life and the friends she makes along the way, and it tells the story without relying on cheap gimmicks or crossing into ecchi territory. Noukin is a refreshingly adorable & guilt-free comedy about four strong female characters that has wide appeal without alienating typical anime fans, and should not be overlooked simply because it happens to be another isekai about an overpowered MC.
Come for the cute, stay for the funny!
KANLen09 (All reviews)
The ever expanding world of Isekai light novels just keep getting bigger and bigger with all kinds of similar but weird concepts, but what if I told you that a change will actually cast some new light onto these stories and shed an entirely new function that is still a good watch? That's the result of "Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne!", with the main MC being reincarnated (for reasons obvious) with a wish of wanting to be average in the next world (but who cares, the Isekai gods aren't wavering, so they STILL made her look OP instead).
But as-is with the elephant in the room, I have to address this serious problem: "Do changes outside of the source materials make or break them?" This is always an ongoing issue that we have experienced time and time again, and you can say that the results of all that are quite diverse but mixed. Especially for readers of the LN (because that's where the anime mainly looks at for source adaptation), it was quite a harrowing experience to find out that the director of this show, Masahiko Oota, wanted this show to be completely "original" in ideas while still lifting off the atmosphere and essence of the LN, which actually created a rift between anime-onlys and LN readers calling it out as a butchered adaptation. To be fair and give some due credit, the "Himouto Umaru-chan" and "Yuru Yuri" director has done the same treatment to those shows and others he directed, and though it may seem that the damage is written on the wall, no one saw the adverse effect coming, that no matter how vastly different the source material may be, the anime can still prove to be as good on its own, mostly as a niche. The same it was then, and the same can be said for this show with the backlash in the very beginning, but turned out to be quite the experience at the very end. You say: "How does this experience affect the rest of the show then?" Keep on reading to find out.
In such a story like this where the CGDCT x Isekai genres have taken flight, the characters are an integral part in making all this possible, mainly the 4 girls of the Crimson Vow:
Originally Misato Kurihara, hit by Truck-kun and reincarnated as Adele von Ascham a.k.a Mile, the "seemingly average" girl, but borne with the blessing of the Isekai gods to harbor OP powers DESPITE her absolute wish to be just like everyone else in another world, to live a normal life. In order to learn and discover the Isekai world as it is, she fused herself with an alias for a royalty name to not be a sore thumb Along the way with the mysterious cat-looking creature and guide known as Nano, she comes into a consensus as she found a school to mingle with like-minded people, and the Crimson Vow was born.
Reina a.k.a Crimson Reina, the daughter of a merchant, her specialty with fire magic has made her a capable mage, but not without the fact that due to the loss of her father to evildoers in her growing-up stages of life, she has an immense hatred towards bandits. She too is the Crimson Vow's "dictionary" when it comes to practical knowledge and experience.
Mavis a.k.a Mavis von Austien, the daughter of royalty, and a swordswoman. And you know the familiarities of royal families all too well when she ran way from home against the will of family members not wanting specific children to follow in the exact footsteps (because of gender bias against her father and brothers) to shame the family of a girl being another swordsman. How depressing is that.
Pauline a.k.a Pauline Beckett (the family name isn't so much of a confirmation), also the daughter of a merchant, but the heritage of her family is quite distorted with what can be described as a façade to utilize the family in backend trading hostage, so she isn't spared from trouble as well. But despite her gentle appearance and demeanor, don't take that for granted as her ruthlessness sets her in quick so fast it's terrifying (but all in good fun).
All in all, these 4 girls truly are the fascinating points of the anime amidst their difference in personalities and goodwill to carry on their usual adventures. While Mile constantly dishes out references to the Isekai tropes that the 3 other girls will NEVER understand, it certainly was some good old-fashioned comedic banter that created a hell lot of laughs, especially towards small girls having BIG boobs and flat chests for 14/15-year olds.
In the visual department, another Project No. 9 show and an Isekai one at that, the 2nd one this season pumped out alongside "Choujin Koukousei-tachi wa Isekai demo Yoyuu de Ikinuku you desu!", but this anime is presented way better than that horrible show, while the art and animation themselves are sparse at best, as expected of the low-budget quality from the studio. The same can be said towards the music, which is mostly a mix of the usual fantasy-esque ones that we'd hear in RPGs. The OST is quite the LICC though as both the OP and ED are happy-go-lucky ones, especially the OP with that whole "WAHO! WAHA!" sequence from the Crimson Vow. Both songs are greatly enjoyable, you just can't afford to skip them!
Indeed, this anime's "origins" are basically meta reference jokes with some 4th wall-breaking from the MC that at first can be quite off-putting with the tame story and character development, and as it progresses, the entire show somehow came into a consensus all on its own, and as an anime-only (while briefly following the manga adaptation based off the LN) for the most part, I can say that it while it was nothing to scoff at from the initial settings, the development was there and soon I found myself enjoying the anime for what it is. It is self-conscious of its own environment, that's for sure.
Amidst the backdrop of a somewhat different execution, this anime is full-on lightheartedness and it's easy on the palate for so much fun. The humor is subjective though, but that doesn't detract from the experience overall. If you need an Isekai with none of the bells and whistles of overused tropes, this is no perfect show, but a good one to just relax to, not amazing but not bad either.
*In the Fall 2019 Isekai genre, the 3rd position of enjoyment right behind Cautious Hero and Ascendance of a Bookworm.*
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What color car is the most dangerous?
That being said, black has been ranked the most dangerous car colors because of how often the cars are involved in accidents Beware if your Ford Focus is black.
What is the most recent news about a fatal car accident that you have heard about?
On March 27, 2013 there was a fatal car accident in Missouri. Two people were killed in this accident Wednesday morning. The driver of a semitrailer was charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Which vehicles have the most comfortable seats?
10 Cars with the Most Comfortable Seats 2019 Nissan Altima. The Nissan Altima is a mid-size sedan with a comfortable and spacious interior. 2018 Lincoln Continental. 2019 Toyota Avalon. 2018 Chrysler Pacifica. 2018 Kia Cadenza. 2019 Buick LaCrosse. 2019 Nissan Rogue. 2019 Chrysler 300.
What state has the most car accidents?
What city has the most car accidents?
According to Allstate data, the city in the US with the highest accident rate is Washington, D.C. Second highest is Baltimore. Third highest is Glendale, CA.
What car gets in the most accidents?
Sitting atop the list is the subcompact Mitsubishi Mirage, with a fatal accident rate of 10.2 cars per billion vehicle miles, followed by the venerable Chevrolet Corvette with 9.8 cars per billion vehicle miles.The average among all vehicles is 2.6 fatalities per billion vehicle miles.
What age has the most car accidents?
The risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among 16-19-year-olds than among any other age group.In fact, per mile driven, teen drivers ages 16 to 19 are nearly three times more likely than drivers aged 20 and older to be in a fatal crash.
What color car gets stopped the most?
Urban legend says that red is the color that gets pulled over more often, but red actually came in second place in this study.The top color is white, with gray and silver coming in third and fourth place, respectively.It seems like flashy-colored cars don't get pulled over as often as we think.
What is the most unpopular car color?
In a world full of color, most people prefer black and white—at least when it comes to cars.For a second consecutive year, white is the most popular color for new cars, according to the 2012 DuPont Automotive Color Popularity Report.Black, silver, gray and red round out the top five.
What color car gets stolen the most?
According to the FBI's 2012 Theft Statistics, a vehicle was stolen every 44 seconds. In 2012, the FBI says the most frequently stolen passenger vehicles were: Honda Accord – 58,596. Honda Civic – 47,037. #4 – Gold Honda Accord.Honda Civic.Toyota Camry.Toyota Corolla.Chevy Silverado.
What is the most popular car color?
White is the most popular color of a car because most people prefer white than anything else. Especially in hot places.In the US, it's White, Black then Silver.Worldwide, it's Silver, Black then White (according to DuPont Automotive Coatings)-------------------------------It isn't always that peo...
What is the most hazardous color car?
black. because it can get very hot on sunny days. so when you touch the door it will burn your hand a little, it depends how hot it is outside though because if it is really hot out maybe put your black car in shade or your garage.
What color cars get the most tickets?
What color car gets in the least accidents?
What colors are associated with the lowest rates of accidents? White vehicles. The safest car color is white. Yellow vehicles. Yellow is also another safe color for vehicles. Orange vehicles. Like yellow and white vehicles, orange cars have a reduced accident risk. Gold vehicles.
What is the most popular color car?
there is no real answer to that as the color of someones car is their opinion so its a biased question
What is the most uncommon car color?
For example, silver was the most popular color around the world in 2009, but in North America, white was the most popular for SUVs, followed by silver, black, red and gray.Some colors are rarer on the roads, including blue, green and yellow.
Which color car gets sold the least?
the light green car is the car that gets sold the least because it just to bright but really is a nice color
Which car color fades the fastest?
Regardless of UV intensity, some color paints are more susceptible to fading, with red paint usually losing its color the fastest.
Which color of the car is best?
Why do most car accidents happen?
Distracted driving is the most common cause of road accidents in the United States, resulting in more crashes every year than speeding, drunk driving, and other major accident causes.Drivers can become distracted behind the wheel for a variety of reasons.
What season do most car accidents occur?
Which season has the most car accidents? Most people would think that because of the slick conditions, during the cold months of winter, that winter season win.According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, August, at the end of the summer, is when the most auto accidents occur.
What is the most expensive color car to insure?
According to an Insure.com survey done last year, 46 percent of 2,000 licensed drivers believed that red cars are more expensive to insure because they are pulled over more often. The top colors were: Black: 19.5 percent.Silver: 18.5 percent.White: 16.2 percent.Blue: 12.5 percent.Red: 8.5 pe...
What is the most popular car color for 2018?
Silver and black round out the top three color choices and medium/dark gray advanced 5% last year to take fifth place. White - 19.3%Silver - 18%Black - 12.4%Med. Dark Blue - 11.4%Med. Dark Gray - 7.5%Med. Red - 7.1%Med. Dark Green - 6.7%Light Brown - 5.1%
What color car paint is the most expensive?
5 Of The Most Expensive Automotive Painting Options Cadillac Black Diamond Edition Tri-Coat: An Automotive Painting Gem. Mercedes-Benz Alubeam: A Gleaming Auto Body Finish. BMW Frozen M3s: An Auto Body Finish That Requires Careful Maintenance. Bugatti Veyron Custom: Automotive Painting at ...
What season do car accidents occur the most?
I would have to say summer because people are out more and drink a lot more at night and have parties.
Where can someone watch the most shocking car accidents online?
With the usage of on board cameras, many people are now posting shocking car accidents on sites like Youtube. Other sites that broadcast news will also have some of the worst accidents that have been caught on film.
What is the most common cause of car accidents?
What are the most common causes of fatal car accidents?
Top 25 Causes of Car Accidents Distracted Driving. The number one cause of car accidents is not a criminal that drove drunk, sped or ran a red light. Speeding. You've seen them on the highway. Drunk Driving. Reckless Driving. Rain. Running Red Lights. Running Stop Signs. Teenage Drivers.
What is the most cause of car accidents?
What age group has the most car accidents?
Drivers ages 16-17 continue to have the highest rates of crash involvement, injuries to themselves and others and deaths of others in crashes in which they are involved.Drivers age 80 and older have the highest rates of driver deaths.Drivers ages 60-69 were the safest drivers by most measures exa...
What is the most common injury in a car accident?
Probably the most well known car accident injury is whiplash.Sudden movement of the head and neck (such as from a rear-end collision) can cause serious neck muscle and ligament damage.Whiplash injuries can differ from person to person, depending on the accident and the health of the person involv...
What brand car gets in the most accidents?
Which car brands have the highest number of accidents? By analyzing data from the Belgian road safety institute (IBSR/BIVV) and car importers federation FEBIAC, according to newspaper La Dernière Heure it looks like Seat, Volkswagen and Ford drivers tend to have more crashes on Belgian roads than...
Do most car accidents happen on the highway?
Though cramped city driving is known to whiten our knuckles, it's not city roads that feature in the scenes of most fatal accidents.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that, in 2013, nearly 3,000 more fatal car accidents happened on rural roads than on busy urban st...
Which pickup trucks have the most room for a family?
If you're thinking about a full-size truck that can fit the whole family, you're probably interested in interior dimensions.The current class leader in rear legroom is the Ford F-150 SuperCrew, followed closely by the Toyota Tundra CrewMax.
Which car color is safest?
Of the two car colors, however, white exceeds silver in its safety ratings, according to past research done by Monash University's Accident Research Centre.In accordance with the study, white cars are 12 percent less likely to get into an accident than black cars are, regardless of the time of day.
What color car gets pulled over the most?
What color car is the most expensive to insure?
Silver and white are still the most popular choice at 28 percent and 12 percent respectively.Black and medium dark blue round out the top five colors in this category.Fourteen percent of new cars are convertibles and coupes.
What causes most fatal car accidents?
Are most car accidents caused by speeding?
Car Accidents Caused by Speeding.Speeding is a leading cause of car accidents that greatly increases the risk of death or injury for motorists in Texas.According to the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), speeding is a major factor in approximately a third of all traffic fatalities.
Where do car accidents happen most?
According to the data, only 15 percent of fatal car accidents occur near intersections — the other 85 percent occur on the open road.On the flip side, the vast majority of nonfatal car accidents occur within 25 miles of home.
Where do most car accidents occur?
Here are four of the most common places where car accidents take place: Parking Lots. While accidents in parking lots aren't likely to be as serious, they're quite common. Stop Signs. Stop signs are another common place for car accidents. Rural Highways. Two-Lane Roads.
What color car runs a red light the most?
white ones with fluorescent stripes down the sides and blue flashing lights ontop.in second place it is mostly large red trucks
What color car do cops pull over the most?
What is the most popular color of car?
According to an analysis by a major vehicle paint manufacturer, the most popular vehicle colors among new car buyers are silver, at 23 percent of all cars, white, at 15 percent, and black, at 12 percent.
What is the most popular color for new cars?
silver or white silver or white
What is the most dangerous color car to drive?
well if its during the night black, sandy area yellow, ocean, blue and so on
What are the most popular car colors 2018?
What color is the most popular in cars?
When we excluded the top four colors — black, white, silver, and gray — two hues moved to the top of our list.Blue and red cars are by far the most popular of the remaining colors.
What is the most popular car color in 2019?
What was the most popular car color in 2008?
yellow.actually it was white
What is the most used color on a car?
Black,white,red, and yellow probably
What color is the most popular for new cars?
Silver is king with 26% of the market share with black second with 24%. according to Dupont.
Which color fades the fastest?
Which Color Fades the Fastest? Under most circumstances, red fades the fastest of all visible colors.Short-wavelength light such as blue or violet has greater energy than lower-wavelength light, and red has the longest wavelength of visible colors.
What color car do most people drive?
This varies by how sporty, luxury, compact (economy) the car is or if the vehicle is an SUV or truck etc. The auto makers always provide the following options as basic: white, black, red, and some type of silver then add one or two trendy colors for the target market such as blue for SUV or truck...
What vehicle causes the most accidents?
What age group has the most accidents?
What is the most depressing color?
Of those who did, Yellow 14 was the most popular choice, with about 20 percent of the votes.Meanwhile, about 30 percent of people with anxietypicked a shade of gray, as did more than half of depressed volunteers.
Which car company sells the most cars?
These are the biggest and best car companies in the world. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (FCAU): $36.6 billion. Nissan: $41.4 billion. Ford Motor Co. ( Tesla: $48.1 billion. General Motors Co. ( Honda Motor Co. ( BMW: $71.1 billion.
What color vehicle gets the most tickets?
Urban legend says that red is the color that gets pulled over more often, but red actually came in second place in this study.The top color is white, with gray and silver coming in third and fourth place, respectively.
Which companies offer car accident insurance?
There are numerous companies that offer car accident insurance, and some of them are more popular than others. Two very commonly used companies are State Farm and All State.
Which car insurance has accident forgiveness?
"Accident forgiveness" is one of the car insurance discounts that not everyone may be familiar with or fully understand.Most major insurers - including Allstate, GEICO, The Hartford, Liberty Mutual, Nationwide, Progressive and State Farm, among others -- offer it to their best customers.
Which is the worlds most fastest car?
Road legal, stiock car, i believe a Bugatti Veyron
Which American car has the most horsepower?
it is the UKthrust ssc(super sonic car) with two John spey 202 jet engines powering it which broke the sound barrier at a speed of 736.666 mph with 110,ooo horsepower and it burns 4.48 us gallons of fuel and needs 250,ooo gallons of it to fill it's tank The question was AMERICAN CAR.
Which is the world's most costliest car?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$it costs more than 18CR INDIAN RS COSTS $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Which country produces the most cars?
As of 2011, China produces the most cars of any nation with over 18,000,000 automobiles created that year.
Which car has the most horsepower?
Currently it's the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport with 1200 hp and a top speed of 267 mph
Which brand sells the most cars?
According to data compiled by Business Insider and Kelley Blue Book, the automotive research company, more than 8.5 million cars have been sold in the first half of 2018. 1. Ford F-Series: 451,138. +4.9% Cars.Trucks.SUVs.Ford.Chevrolet.Honda.Toyota.Jeep.
Which car is the most dangerous?
Kia Rio. Most deaths. Nissan Versa. Most deaths. Hyundai Accent. Most deaths. Chevrolet Aveo. Most deaths. Chevrolet Camaro. Most deaths. Chevrolet Silverado. Most deaths. Honda Civic. Most deaths. Ford Focus. Most deaths.
Which electric car is the most reliable?
The Nissan LEAF tops our list of best-selling electric cars again this year, probably because of its great reputation and solid vehicle range.The BMW and Mercedes EVs appear for the first time.
Which country has the most convertible cars?
The united states of America does
Which state produces the most cars?
Michigan produces the most cars in the United States.
Which car company has the most crashes?
honda, because they havn't sell't allot of cars
Which country buys the most cars?
i think in the present situation in all countries almost same level for using of car's.its only my opinion today every house have at least one vehicle.in a common person have at least a scooter or bike.i think US is the country most using of car's
Which is the Most beautiful car?
The most beautiful car is sublective at best. Remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To me one of the most beautiful sports cars is the 1966 Shelby Cobra, tied with the 1962 Chevrolet Corvette. Both cars look fast standing still, and as such are beautiful to me.More candidates for the tit...
Which country has the most cars?
Top 10 countries with the highest number of vehicles USA: The country which has the most number of vehicles is United States of America.Japan: Japan is one of the most developed countries in south Asia. Germany: Germany is one of the most developed countries with a large number of population...
Which sport car is the most expensive?
The most expensive sports car for the years 2012 - 2013 is the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. The cost of this car is a staggering $2,400,000.00. This is the high end version of the base Veyron which starts at $1,700,000.00.
Which car is the most expensive?
The 20 Most Expensive Cars in the World Bugatti Veyron by Mansory Vivere – $3.3 million. Lykan Hypersport – $3.4 million. McLaren P1 LM – $3.6 million. Lamborghini Veneno Roadster – $4.5 million. Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita – $4.8 million. Bugatti Divo – $5.8 million. Mercedes Benz Maybach ...
Which car company makes the most money?
Which car has the most powerful engine?
If you mean by speed and wether or not it is a production car, then it is the bugatti veyron super sport, it has a 16 cylinder engine with 4 turbo chargers. It produces 1001 bhp and an air brake witch is very powerful
Which is the most luxuriest car?
Honda accord andCiviclolzz
Which country manufactures the most sports cars?
Germany because Germany maufactures BMW, Mercedes Benz, Porsche.
Which state produces the 2nd most cars?
Tokyo. Mexico as well.
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Quotations list about indefinitely, abeyance and ceaselessly captions citing Jane McGonigal, Henry David Thoreau and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin sayings.
A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.
— Jane McGonigal
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
— Henry David Thoreau indefinitely quote
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.
— Georges Bataille
Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit.
I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
— Gary Johnson
In a presidential campaign, you can't lie.
You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.
— Nicolas Sarkozy
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
— Joseph Addison
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
— C. S. Lewis
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
— Hannes Alfven
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
— Henry Cantwell Wallace
But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.
— Allen Weinstein
But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
— Eduard Shevardnadze
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.
— Kevin Rollins
That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
— Nassau William Senior
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Catholic school funding 5
Continued from here
Jans' post of:
I would be very interested in reading of this individual's
intergration work in Ireland. I too am interested in what is happening
to Prue.
At this point , what Prue has advocated is to allow the membership
to debate this policy idea. I think it is very democratic of him and
shows leadership. It also makes me realize that some on the executive
are concerned that it might well get wide support and thus the
prevention of allowing this to come to the floor for debate in the last
4 conventions. That's very sad for a political party to prides itself
on grassroots democracy.
is a good place to start a new thread, as the exploring of why would the executive block it coming to the convention floor for debate is needed, IMV.
Where is Scott Piatkowski when we need him? He could shed some light.
The roots of discord over religious schools
"... Irish beggars are to be met everywhere, and they are as ignorant and vicious as they are poor. They are lazy, improvident and unthankful; they fill our poorhouses and our prisons, and are as brutish in their superstition as Hindoos."– Newspaper editor George Brown
In 1844, Egerton Ryerson, an English-born Methodist, became chief superintendent of schools for Upper Canada (Ontario), charged with setting up a system of "common" or public schools. By public, read Protestant. A few Catholic schools run by the church and paid for by the community would be allowed on the side.
Ryerson promised that a public system would prevent a "pestilence of social insubordination and disorder" being spread by the "untaught and idle pauper immigration."
Ignorant old bastards they were. The halls of power needed cleaning out long ago.
janfromthebruce
Thanks goodness we are living in the 21st century.
Our kids live together and play together in their communities, let's have them learn together too!
janfromthebruce wrote:
It's not obvious from reading these threads.
I thought so, too. Old politicks were made new again in Ontario for the last week of an election campaign. And a nineteenth century electoral system gave us a 22 percent dictatorship. Good things grow in old Ontario. So does child poverty.
peterjcassidy
There are ways to get a resolution to the floor, just as there are ways to block tf. The left has to be smart to win. Yes, We can.
Since when do convention resolutions dictate party policy? Times must have changed since I left the NDP over that very issue. I'll see it when I believe it.
Inviting the priests to leave the public schools doesn't require a convention debate. It just requires a slim dose of courage, clearly lacking in all the likely candidates for party leader.
The more things change, eh? Maybe old Egerton Ryerson was right:
"Ireland plans to impose tough new penalties on beggars for the first time since the Potato Famine 160 years ago.Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says the measure is necessary because of the growth of professional begging gangs who harass pedestrians. Children often are involved.
Now can we leave the Irish out of this, please? This is distracting nonsense. There is only one religion which has its indoctrination funded by the public purse. It is neither exclusively nor predominantly Irish today.
riffraffrenegade
Regarding Prue, sorry, Jan, I should have said ONDP executive I guess, not membership. Yes, it is worrisome that the executive doesn't want this issue to be debated. And yes Prue should be commended.
I think that the Catholic trustees and teachers associations know that if any of the three major political parties put this in their platform, it will be game over. The Catholic trustees and teachers association don't want anybody talking about Catholic school funding or one school system. I'm sure every politician and Priest in the province is watching Prue and the ONDP executive to see what happens.
They know that a lot has changed since 1844 and 1984. Ontarians have seen what declining birth rates and four school systems has meant to the quality of public education and the viability of many communities. A lot changed with the 2007 campaign. Now more people realize its not just Catholic ratepayers who pay for Catholic schools. Now a greater number of voters realize that amalgamation could actually happen and that number is growing daily. People know that Newfoundland & Quebec have paved the way. School boards and individual school councils are passing motions in favour of one school system. Catholic parents sit on these councils.
The people of this province will make education funding a major issue in the next municipal and provincial elections whether the ONDP executive or McGuinty, Wynn & Co want it or not. And it's not going to be easy and it's not going to be pretty sometimes. I am just hoping that a few of our political leaders can see that we should be informed by Canada's history, not bound by it. I hope they recognize that we shouldn't prop up or bailout one of our many failing traditional Christian churches due to misplaced political correctness.
I, like you Jan, realize the critical nature of this issue and its many ramifications. I think the demise of the publicly funded Catholic school system is inevitable. The problem is that if we let this go even one more generation, we will be destroying communities and have nothing left to the public system.
And that is my concern for all the children in our public education system and also the children who are not but might be if we put quality programming as the focus for excellence in education.
I sit in budget deliberations and know that I have to make decisions that effect what happens in my local communities, students and parents. This is about both social and economic policy and they are not separate silos but intertwined.
In a thread else where today, Lord Turn. (sp) linked to this thread from May 2007 -
A related thread. It's not just the private schools that are two-tiered.
So for Wynne "fundraising becomes an important skill." If one rereads that link, babblers were all talking about the amount of fundraising Parent Councils are doing. When parent councils were first formed their objective was not fundraising, now that is still mainly what they do. This is not about frills.
There seems to be a disconnect between the economics of funding education and what folks want. I actually think we have lots of money in education but it is being spent inefficiently - we need to get rid of the silos. I think in my school area that every kid should be able to go to the outdoor education centre for "free" (in other words paid by the school board) rather than costing say, $75.00 per child. Planned educational class trips and bringing in speakers should also be a part of the education as it broadens children's outlook.
I guess I'm of the mind of doing the most of what we have. I can tell you all now, no matter who is in power provincially, allocating of tax dollars is a problem that requires thinking beyond the past ways. I can remember when my kids were very young in the early late 80s and through the Harris years, how tough it was to come with the money to pay these "user fees" that just continue to grow. I cannot image what will happen as we enter the depression of 21st century. Talk to the kids, and they appear a lot brighter about this and they can clearly articuate what is important to them.
Lost in Bruce County
riffraffrenegade wrote:
I think that the Catholic trustees and teachers associations know that if any of the three major political parties put this in their platform, it will be game over.
Recently, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that shutting down Catholic schools is something Catholic teachers would support! If we stopped paying for the administration and maintenance costs of the Catholic system a lot of money would be freed up, and I mean A LOT. Thus, more jobs for teachers, more funding for students, lower student to teacher ratios, etc. Everybody wins! But the big seller is JOBS.... oh and quality education (sadly this is least considered in many debates). For most Catholic teachers there's no question if it comes down to Jobs or praying to God you had a job.... though I gotta wonder, what would Jesus do?
Did this used to be in your signature line and with the new interface it just looks like part of your post?
Because everytime I read it, I just think of the reverend's wife in the Simpsons yelling "Won't someone please think of the children?!" IMHO It reduces your post to a catchphrase, makes you sound repetitive and minimizes the effect of whatever you are trying to say.
IMHO I disagree. Jan has made invaluable contributions to the subject matter of these threads, and her signature line is a tasteful and non-adversarial summation of the basic thrust of her argument (with which I happen to agree).
Speaking of the subject matter of these threads, did you have any opinions about that, Summer?
Summer wrote:
Hi Summer, it's part of my profile but I need to figure out how to
change it so that folks see that is what it is. The new interface of
babble has me somewhat baffled (and many others share that sentiment). Thanks for your opinion
Completely off topic now, but I would like to contribute by saying Jan, one way I have seen other babbalers make their slogan appear as such is to make a line with your dash key above the quote eg/
Our kids live together and play together....
thanks little lost in Bruce County - those youth they think they are so smart-alec (sp?)
Catholics flee Liberals in droves ...
but choose conservatives as an alternative
The most frightening thing about that article isn't the stats, but the comments that follow.
They're not bad people really, just a little misinformed and clinging to tradition. As much as I'd like to see them use their heads with issues surrounding SSM, I'd like for "Christians" in Canada to examine the two old line parties' records in power and how it's affected their god damned communal values and such. Stupid bastards anyway.
I can well understand the thought that the patriarchal Conservatives are the 'family' oriented party for a Christian traditionalist, but how they ever claim that the Conservatives aren't complete sell-outs to corporate interests just boggles the brain...
And it's why I think there is little the NDP could do to appeal to those voters - that 22 percent of registered Canadian voters who elected Harper nationally and 22 percent in Ontario who elected McGuinty. I think even if we did have someone named Jesus Christ leading the ONDP, it'd still be a tossup with this whacky electoral system steering a lunatic fringe of voters to vote old line party religiously.
So it's best that the NDP represent 78% who do not and that means offering folks a non-denominational platforms where everybody is welcome
Platforms with policies that reflect universal accessible opportunities for all regardless of folks ethnic, racial or cultural backgrounds, social or economic status, individual exceptionality, or religious preference.
And it means providing a education system that does just that.
There were non-Catholics attending the same Catholic school I did. No room for them in the all public system then. They werent forced to pray or anything so oppressive.
What did they do while the Catholic kids prayed?
They usually went to the library down the hall.
In my town of 5,800 we have a secular elementary school, a Catholic elementary school and a secular high school. The secular PS is over 100 years old and two years ago got funding to repair and paint the exterior stucco. About 7 years ago, even though they were facing declining enrollment, St. Joe's elementary got funding to do away with a few portables, fully renovate and further expand their school.
Today St. Joe's student population is half non-Catholic....they're the ones that when trotted off to Mass during school hours cross their arms over their chest and receive a blessing from the priest rather than the sacrament. The teachers there report that only one child per class goes to Mass on a regular basis. They know because they take up the Homily every Monday morning with the whole class. They say about 10 of the Catholic kids go to Mass at Christmas and Easter, the rest just don't go. In grade 8, parents of St. Joe's students, Catholic and non are told that if their children are academically inclined, they should go to the bright shiny renovated and expanded Catholic SS in the city. If they are not academically inclined, they should stay in town and go to the secular SS. Parents do as they're told figuring that the local SS can't meet their child's needs. Our PS principal gets parents coming in asking whether they should send their kids to the Catholic city school or our community SS. Non-Catholic and Catholic high school students are on buses three hours a day but hey it's one way to keep your kids out of trouble. About 150 students leave our area every school day for the city. Most go to the Catholic school, some are going for French immersion others go to private schools.
Teachers at the two elementary schools compare notes, it's a small town. Their opinion is that the secular school has more kids with more pronounced learning disabilities, have less resources but do more for those kids. Our high school does more for the "non-academically inclined" students than St. Joe's every did. David Thomas, the director of education for the Upper Canada DSB says that our board has become the go-to board for kids with special needs. The less PC among us would suggest that it is a dumping ground.
Were it not for the library, our secular PS could close its second floor. We have a student population of about 246. St. Joe's has about 450 students. Our high school has about 525 students. The board is trying to sustain the highschools so has decided that grades 7 and 8 will be moved to the high schools as enrollment declines. This will put our PS under the magic number (200) and it will be slated for closure or will become a "community hub" or be absorbed into the highschool as well and become a JK to Grade 12 facility. We already have one of those in our board and a few more are already in the works.
Stop the insanity.
George Victor
On the evidence presented by riffraff, the secular institutions are suffering (increasingly) from having to care for the school area's most intellectually disadvanteged.
This would lead to stigmatization of its graduates, and is in itself justification for combining the two systems. But within the combined school system, there would also be a sorting process, a "streaming".
Would you care to further discuss your school district's dilemma from this micro perspective, riffraff. What do teachers say about streaming and stigmatization - whatever the structural situation. A very human and limiting part of the problem.
Or have I focused on only a small - and not so important - piece of the overall problem as you see it?
George, I think this is a critical issue. Disabled people remain the poorest of the poor. I fully support integration of children with disabilities. I see this as no different an issue than racial or religious integration. I do not have a child with an identified disability. But I worked as an occupational therapist for 20 years in the community, as adjunct faculty at Queen's and in research with colleagues in the Canadian Independent Living Movement and Disabled Peoples International. So I am not your average parent (in that regard only!) Since deciding to be at home with my kids, I am behind on the literature. I have never worked as an OT in the school system so can only comment as an active parent volunteer within one secular public school.
IMHO where integration of children with disabilities is failing miserably is in the first few years of school. There is inadequate funding for timely assessment/ diagnosis and intervention/support. To get an EA in the classroom, a child must have pretty severe physical limitations or behavioural issues. Your average child with a learning disability or those children who come from very socially disadvantage families don't get an EA. Naturally, parents take a look at the disruption taking place in their children's classrooms and wonder how it's affecting their child's learning experience. Some look for a way out.
But teachers teach differently than when we were kids. My eldest son has been in split classes all along. Within our small school, there are three classes with grade 4 students where kids are streamed according to academic and social abilities. Yes, the kids in the lower streams risk stigmatization but they also get to take on leadership roles that they would never have had in a single grade classroom. Besides splitting the classes, in grade 2 they had my son spend the mornings with the grade 3 / 4 class for reading. This did not involve the hounding of an overbearing parent, we didn't find out about it til a month in. In grade 3, his science teacher saw that he handled the grade 3 science curriculum with ease so he was encouraged to go beyond that (within his own class) and mastered the grade 6 science curriculum for the same module. He's in Gr 4 (a 4/5 split) right now and is tackling grade 7 spelling. He's doing this all within a classroom where older kids with pretty involved learning disabilities are also thriving. He doesn't think twice about the fact that John needs a computer to write or Jack only reads at a grade 2 level because of inadequate ESL. (He does wonder why Jack isn't getting more help.) These kids happen to be two of his favourite playmates..... And on top of all that, in this small community, his two very best friends are Muslim and Buddhist.
A society can't legislate a change in parental attitude or prejudice toward disability, race, or religion. It can't force parents to care as deeply about their neighbours' children as their own. But Ontario can reduce duplication and inefficiencies, provide caring teachers with adequate resources, and integrate children so they can do what comes naturally.
Another way too long post. Sorry!
As a retired guy with a B Ed. and a son-in-law actively teaching, and husband of a retired teacher, I stand in awe of your knowledge and commitment. Your analysis is bang on.
Now, it is a question of funding - which isn't going to blossom forth in this depressed economy. But I spent two years helping my ever-loving give an adequate reading program to her Grade 2s (and, yes, if they're not sailing by the end of primary, it all gets very struggly) and felt that old retired farts from outside the system could be just the assist needed in the reading program. Guided reading for sure, in ability groupings (if not the phonics instruction). Just think, phonics is "in" again.
I stand in awe of the new techniques mastered by the son-in-law, the individual-centered instruction. The no nonsense in the room expectations creating a reasonably quiet atmosphere for learning (at senior gaaaaa elementary level).
There used to be streaming, entering a vocational or academic course stream at grade 9. And it is becoming evident that the people learning trade skills and entering apprenticeships will have it made in the shade of the evolving service economy.
Public school systems must again become trusted to do the job by performance. And while the McGinty group have upped spending on education, we are still trying to overcome the rot of the common sense mobsters.
Maybe the unfolding crises will make integration necessary?
So has Paul Miller, MPP in the heavily Catholic riding of Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, just committed political suicide for supporitng that dangerous radical Michael Prue?
[url=Low">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/low-birth-rates-put-hundred... birth rates put hundreds of Ontario schools at risk of closing[/url]
I love this story:
[url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/jobless-non-religio..., non-religious teachers turn to Catholicism in attempt for employment[/url]
With the Vatican falling on hard times, this may be just the kind of good-news story they need!
It's interesting how "goofy" this all is.
- Children must be Catholic (supported by a baptismal cert) to attend Catholic elementary schools ( unless they are lucky enough to apply to an under enrolled school where they will accepted regardless of their religion because of the holy enrolment grant that comes with them)
- Teachers at that school must be Catholic supported by a baptismal cert and/or faith portfolio
- in high school, all children must be accepted regardless of religion, but teachers in those Cath high school must be Catholic.
- to run as a Catholic trustee you must legally be Catholic, supported by nothing but a check mark in the right box
- therefore...your non catholic children could legally be attending a Cath high school but you can't run for a position on the board because you are not Catholic unless of course you lie about being catholic...but then you could be forgiven for lying...next Sunday.....what!
- we should all run for a position on the catholic school board, on a one school system platform, in the up coming municipal election and really mess with them....here's the how to manual http://cripeweb.org:80/A_run_for_the_Catholic_Board_1.html
[url=http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/education/article/1115602--funding-fo... for Ontario Catholic schools under fire in court challenge[/url]
Ontario has been there done that got the T-shirt. Move on nothing to see here.
M. Spector
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What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
It means that there has already been two Court cases on this matter, both have already gone to the Supreme Court of Canada and the constitutionality of Catholic school funding was upheld. And private religious school funding was denied on a constitutional basis. That is " what the fuck" it means.
Fidel, the Church may need an expert witness.
Reva Landau wrote:
Today, she argues, almost all education funding comes from general public funds - but should revert to the 1867 guarantees.
Her court challenge also says she is "forced to fund ... a particular religious education system which propagates policies of which she does not approve."
1867? Hey why not revert to the health care funding formula as per Constitution of 1867 while we're on a roll?
Why not reach back even further to, say, Greco-Roman funding rules for education and health care?
Better yet Hammurabi's code of ancient Babylon. Now we're cookin' with gas.
Is this about money again per chance?
[url=http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/10/17/catholic-school-funding-unconsti... school funding unconstitutional, woman argues in court challenge[/url]
Catholic Schools get As.
LOL - the author of that phony study is the same Professor David Johnson who did [url=http://postmediavancouversun.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/ebrief_74.pdf]a... "study"[/url] showing the harm done to children (especially, oh, the poor children) by teachers' strikes. In case the McGuinty Liberals, great champions of workers' rights, didn't go to a top-notch Catholic school and couldn't understand the good professor's subtle message, he spelled it out for them:
School work stoppages lower the pass rate on EQAO assessments. The result is much larger in Grade 6 than in Grade 3, much larger on mathematics assessments than on reading and writing assessments and much larger in schools with students who tend to face more serious challenges achieving academic success. Impacts are likely to be similar across other provinces. Thus, this research shows very clearly that in elementary schools the most disadvantaged in society are those hurt most by work stoppages.
Measuring the impact of work stoppages, as done in this study, will provide sobering perspective to all parties in labour disputes in the education system as well as valuable information to government decisionmakers about when and whether to intervene in them.
Got any more two-bit phony scholars to prove the inestimable value of Catholic schools, Fidel?
Isn't it despicable that people have to resort to this in a modern democracy -- especially one that likes to point out other countries failings.
Your rights are determined by the "colour" of your faith, with those of the preferred faith getting more even though they suffer no disadvantage that might warrant their special treatment.
I attended Church regularly when my kids were young (some people take personal responsibility for the spiritual education of their children rather than abdicating that responsibility to the state). I actually considered conversion to Catholicism to get the kids into the local Catholic school in order to escape an extreme overcrowding situation at my local public school. My non-Catholic/heathen kids were rejected, forcing us to pay for a private school for two years. Our Catholic neighbours could escape that overcrowding situation for free by virtue of their superior rights and choices under Ontario law.
What other countries and jurisdictions favour one faith over all others in law? Saudi Arabia? Israel? Indonesia? Pakistan? Afghanistan? ... and Ontario, Canada.
We should be proud, shouldn't we?
If you go back and look at the Supreme Court cases of the 1980s, you'll see they only ruled that Ontario had the authority to fund Catholic high schools, not that it was compelled to do so. That's what the case was about. They based their decision largely on the existence of a "constitutional compromise/deal" that saw denominational school rights granted to religious minorities in both Quebec and Ontario. Quebec eliminated public funding for denominational schools over a decade ago, which means that the "deal" has now been ripped up by one of the parties. Thus the legal basis for the Supreme Courts 1980s decisions no longer holds. Conditions are ripe for another challenge. The challenge for the justices of the Supreme Court will be to come up with another excuse for Ontario Catholics to have greater civil rights (in education) than anyone else. They'll need to come up with a new excuse for non-fundamental and exclusively Catholic denominational school "rights" to trump everyone else's fundamental right to equality.
That is certainly a big part of it. How can Ontario justify funding massive duplication and waste in the school system when it cannot properly fund our truly essential programs?
In Ontario, almost without exception, the smaller the school board and the more geographically dispersed its schools and students, the higher the per pupil funding. This pattern certainly holds in Ottawa:
School board funding for Ottawa school boards, 2012-13 Ministry figures (projected):
Source: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/funding/1213/funding12.pdf
School board Total funding Total enrolment Cost per pupil
English public (EP) $724,207,148 66,926 $10,821
English Catholic (EC) $403,135,523 35,510 $11,352 (EP + $531)
French Catholic (FC) $250,070,875 18,914 $13,221
French public (FP) $162,860,654 10,887 $14,959 (FC + $1738)
Per pupil funding for the English Catholic, French Catholic, and French public school boards is respectively 4.9%, 22.2%, and 38.2% higher than for the English public board. The smaller French public school board receives 13.1% more per pupil than its French Catholic counterpart.
This is not favouritism. This is the Ministry of Education recognizing – right in the funding formula – that smaller school boards are unable to realize the same efficiencies and economies as their larger counterparts in the same area. It is proof that our smaller school boards cost significantly more money to run.
Under one school system, the per pupil cost in each system would certainly be no higher than the lower cost on each of the English and the French sides. Thus the savings from going to one school system in Ottawa on the English side alone total at least $531 x 35,510 English Catholic students = $18,855,810 per year. On the French side, at least $1,738 x 10,887 French public students = $18,921,606 would be saved.
The total savings would actually be even higher, however, as the geographic densities of schools and students in the larger English and French boards are also not as high as they would be under one system. The cost to deliver education of the same quality as now under one school system is certainly less than the current $10,821 on the English side (as even the English public board is not as efficient as it would be under one school system) and less than $13,221 on the French side. The savings could be reinvested into improving education for all children.
Public-Catholic board mergers would also allow Ontario to neatly rationalize the hundreds of thousands of excess pupil places in Ontario schools – many of these in severely under enrolled schools that are less cost effective to operate than full schools. While merging overlapping school boards, the successor boards could combine adjacent, under enrolled public and Catholic schools while cherry picking the best schools from each of the predecessor boards’ inventories. The lower operating costs realized by shedding the oldest and most costly properties would provide a system wide savings that would last for decades. It would also create more cost effective full schools in many communities where two more costly half empty schools existed previously. The combination of under enrolled schools would also significantly reduce the prevalence of split grade classes as the splits in adjacent under enrolled schools were combined in one school.
Not all of the benefits of merging our school systems are financial. By combining adjacent under enrolled schools, schools that now cannot achieve the critical mass for many programs and courses would do so, broadening academic opportunities for all students. In its reports, People for Education consistently bemoans the disadvantages faced by smaller schools in terms of programming, but the fact is many of these disadvantages are a direct consequence of our school system’s crazy, unnecessarily fractured organization.
First they came for our social programs. Then they attacked separate school funding. We wouldn't be talking about money and "Catholic school funding" had our corrupt stooges not handed off the remaining powers of money creation to private and foreign bankers by 1991.
We say "Catholic school funding" now, but the bastards really don't like public funding of any worthy cause. Feast your eyes on the teachers unions reports and on what GATS is all about over the long haul. The neolib bastards eventually want to end public funding of schools in general.
Yes there is a dead rat under the floorboards long time in this country. The country has experienced a prolonged period of deindustrialization at a frenzied pace ever since.
And this just in from the absentee corporate landlords running Ontario into the ground report:
Oshawa loses 1000 manufacturing jobs to Michigan (and 9 spinoff jobs for every manufacturing job to follow)
More job losses and potentially even more disgruntled voters.
Does anyone actually believe that stopping public funding of separate schools will somehow fix the whopping annual budget deficit in Ontario? Not a snowball's chance!
I have never supported the argument that we should eliminate public funding of religious schools to save money.
If getting rid of religious public schools cost more than leaving them be, it would still be worth it.
Good, because you wouldn't have much of an argument with people like me who understand the deliberate attempts to strangle public funding in general for political reasons in this and other countries.
I'm for leaving them be. So whatever it is that's "worth it" must be good enough for you regardless of everything else that matters.
There are very many things that are broken in the province of Ontario besides a lack of school funding. So many issues and going concerns it's not even funny anymore. Curious as to why youre so hot to trot on defunding something that actually does work. Is it down to something that a Church worker did to some kids 40 years ago? Is it because of that house/palace arrest of Galileo on the Church payroll way back when? What? Why should we defund a style of education that works and namely in the here and now, in your opinion?
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Rimon, P.C. is pleased to announce that Partner John Isaza has been appointed Co-Chair of the Social Media Subcommittee of the ABA Business Law Section’s Cyberspace Law Committee. Along with co-chair Valerie Surgenor, a renowned privacy attorney in Europe from the law firm MacRoberts LLP out of Scotland, he has been tasked with developing recommended policies for social media that balance the interests of the employer and the employee, as well as examining the threat of cyber security to corporate governance and corporate strategy, including areas such as corporate advertising and astroturfing in social media, chasing social media driven securities fraud, and how to address, in a practical setting, the impact of social media on reputational matters, potential financial consequences and investor confidence whether as prevention or after the event.
Mr. Isaza heads the Information Governance and Records Management practice at Rimon. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in the field. He has developed information governance and records retention programs for some of the most highly regulated Global 1000 companies, including related regulatory research opinions, needs assessments, and policy development.
Mr. Isaza is very active with the ABA, serving on committees including the Cyberspace Law Committee and the E-Discovery and Digital Evidence Committee. He was a contributing author to the 2012 ABA’s Internet Law for Business Lawyers 2nd Edition. He is a past president of the Hispanic Bar Association of Orange County and served as a board member of the Orange County Bar Association.
Mr. Isaza additionally served as President of the Los Angeles ARMA Chapter and as a member of the Board of Directors of ARMA International. He was the 2008 recipient of ARMA's Britt Literary Award, and in 2011 he was inducted as a Fellow of ARMA International, the highest award and recognition bestowed amongst records and information management professionals. Mr. Isaza is co-author of 7 Steps for Legal Holds of ESI & Other Documents.
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What Determines the Lifespan of a Solar Panel?
There's an old maxim that nothing lasts forever, and solar panels are no exception. But why do solar panels die? And how can you ensure your panels have a long, useful life?
Solar panels don't typically die in the way that batteries or other appliances do. Instead, they remain operable but stop producing the same amount of power that they did back when they were first installed. The slow, steady decline in a solar panel's energy production level is known as its degradation rate. A high degradation rate means a panel will quickly lose its ability to produce energy, while a low degradation rate implies the opposite.
A solar panel with a degradation rate of 1% per year will produce only 99% of its original power production level after one year. After 10 years, it will produce 90% of its original power output.
Most experts consider a panel dead or failed when it declines to less than 80% of its original power-generating capacity. But even this standard is up for debate, since high-efficiency panels might be capable of producing more energy than a panel of lower efficiency, even if the panel with the lower efficiency is newer and less degraded.
Choices in Solar Panel Manufacturing Techniques
Degradation rates vary considerably between panel manufacturers. Under some experimental conditions, degradation rates reached highs of 35% and lows of 1%. Overall, degradation rates have steadily declined since solar panels were first developed. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the average panel degrades at a rate of 0.8% annually. But back in the late 1980s, degradation rates were "significantly higher" than 1% per year.
The type of solar cells inside your panels can affect the panels' lifetime. Monocrystalline cells － which, as their name suggests, are crafted from a single silicon crystal － are thought to have longer lifetimes than polycrystalline and microcrystalline cells, which are created from multiple silicon crystals. And if your panels have solar cells made of amorphous silicon, cadmium telluride, or another thin-film material, they'll be even less efficient, which will shorten their lifetimes.
Manufacturing flaws are among the major causes of solar panel failure. Weak soldering joints could lead to accelerated degradation rates. Micro-cracks, present in the panel when it was installed or shipped, could also harm your panel's power generation capabilities and encourage corrosion. About 1-2% of all modules fail at the time of installation. But manufacturing flaws could linger for months or years, steadily getting worse, before causing total module failure. You can learn much more about the pros and cons of solar at PowerScout.
The choice of encapsulant also plays a role in how fast a panel will degrade. Solar encapsulants are laminate materials that increase panel efficiency and durability in harsh outdoor environments. Research shows that silicone encapsulants are associated with lower degradation rates than polyvinyl butyral and EVA encapsulants.
Solar panels that are designed for durability will have a better shot at surviving shipping, installation, and harsh weather. Panels that utilize thin solar cells that use less silicon and thin frames that use less aluminum are more prone to bend and break than panels with thicker cells and sturdier frames. Thin-frame panels and thin solar cells might allow you and the manufacturer to save money, but in the long run, these design choices could cost you.
As many panels remain at or above their original energy rating for decades after installation and both improvements in solar technology and reductions in degradation rates have made their way into PV panel manufacturing, manufacturers have responded by extending their warranties and coverage periods. Back in 1990, the average solar module warranty lasted for just 10 years. Today, the typical warranty covers panels for 25 years.
Solar Cell Degradation in Practical Applications
Once installed and operating, there isn't much you can do to extend your panels' useful lifetime. But there is some evidence that brushing your panels to remove snow can make them last longer, since the pressure from snow and ice can cause panels to bend, introducing cracks that damage the sensitive internal components.
The more serious concern with any solar energy system is not the panels themselves but the related hardware like inverters. Most inverters need to be replaced every 10 to 15 years, though microinverters may last as long as your solar panels themselves.
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Finally, the conditions under which solar panels operate can extend or slash their useful lifespans. Panels are manufactured to operate at or slightly below 25° Celsius. Panels in exceedingly hot and humid conditions will suffer from lower efficiency rates. Likewise, the expansion and contraction of the panels due to seasonal weather changes can lead to corrosion and micro-cracks. And exposure to strong winds can also increase your panels' degradation rates (presumably because the winds whip grit, rocks, and dirt against the panels with significant force).
More than 85% of all solar panels worldwide were installed after 2010, so our knowledge of what makes a long-lasting solar panel is still developing. As a result, new or experimental panel designs tend to have failure rates that are far higher than those of mature brands and models. As both rooftop and utility-scale solar panels become more common (and as new solar cell and panel types gain more time in real-world settings), manufacturers will be able to better understand how to produce panels that last even longer than those used today.
But don't let this talk of degradation stop you from installing solar panels. Improvements in module efficiency in the near future are expected to be modest, and the increased length of manufacturer warranties and performance guarantees are evidence that established PV manufacturers are confident in their manufacturing and quality control processes. In short, there's no reason to wait if you're thinking about going solar!
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Seven-time former champion and home favourite Roger Federer takes on eccentric but talented Frenchman Benoit Paire in the second round in Basel. Federer is still in the hunt for the year end #1 ranking after picking up another title in Shanghai. That was his third Masters 1000 crown of a year which also saw him raise his Major tally to 19. Paire, meanwhile, has had a typically inconsistent year making the fourth round at Wimbledon and the final in Moselle but failing to improve much on his ranking which is currently at #40. But there is no denying his talent and he likes the big stage. Can he upset the great Swiss?
Federer and Paire have met four times over the course of their careers, and Federer is yet to taste defeat. Indeed, he has not even dropped a set. Their first meeting came back in 2012 at Basel in the quarterfinals when Federer dismissed the Frenchman 6-2 6-2. In their second meeting, at the Australian Open in 2013, Paire was scarcely anymore competitive. He fell 2-6 4-6 1-6 to a clinical Federer performance. Their most competitive match came later that same year in Rome on the clay. Paire pushed Federer hard, but ultimately the Swiss came through 7-6 6-4 in the semifinals. Their most recent meeting was earlier this year in Dubai where Federer again put Paire to the sword, winning 6-3 6-1 in the first round.
Path to the second round
Federer, the top seed in Basel after Nadal’s withdrawal, began against America’s Frances Tiafoe. The teenager gave Federer a stern test when they met last, at the US Open in the first round. Federer was extended to five sets by a spirited Tiafoe performance. The American served excellently throughout that match and was able to dictate with his forehand. Ultimately, Federer had too much for him, but many expected the young gun to push Federer again. It wasn’t to be, as Federer dismantled his service game, breaking four times whilst winning every point on his own first serve. It was a dominant performance, and the scoreline reflected that as Federer ran out a 6-3 6-1 winner.
Paire began his campaign against another American, Steve Johnson. Paire began the match brightly, taking advantage of Johnson’s difficulty in coming over the backhand to take the first set by a single break, 6-3. The second set was more competitive, with both players serving well throughout. Ultimately it was decided by a tiebreak, and Paire playing better in the pressure moments. He won the tiebreak seven points to four to set up the clash with Federer.
How do they match up?
Federer is blessed with variety, and is possibly the best example of all-court attacking tennis that can be seen in the modern era. His volleys are superb, understandably so since he arrived on Tour during an era dominated by serve-and-volleyers. However, Federer is also an excellent baseliner, and it is that combination of styles that has allowed him so much success. Key to his baseline play is his forehand, which is amongst the best in the world. Federer’s topspin backhand has also improved dramatically this year, giving him another weapon offensively. He also takes the ball incredibly early, which can rush his opponents and may well be a problem for Paire.
The reason for that is the Frenchman’s groundstrokes have long takebacks. Particularly his backhand, the swing of which is perhaps best described as exaggerated. However, it is also a real weapon when he is able to get on top of it, and one for Federer to watch out for. Paire is also a fine mover, and his unorthodox style which is typically replete with a liberal use of the drop shot can be difficult to build a rhythm against. The match, however, will likely be decided by the serving contest. One can expect Federer to deliver a fine serving performance as ever, with a high first serve percentage and pinpoint accuracy. Paire has a powerful first serve, but can be plagued by inaccuracy and a high number of double faults. If those struggles continue against Federer, it is hard to see a path to victory for him.
Federer should win this match. He has the backing of his home crowd, a good history against Paire and is clearly comfortable at the St Jakobshalle. He also demonstrated he is in good form with his destruction of Tiafoe in the first round. Paire played well enough against Johnson but offered little to suggest he could seriously trouble Federer. The Swiss to win through in straight sets.
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San Fran Locals Hate Tourists, Frustrated That Bus Ban Doesn't Work
Zenon Evans | 5.8.2014 12:00 PM
San Francisco is a beautiful and strange city, and the locals want to keep it all to themselves. Last year they banned tour buses from driving around Alamo Square where the famous Victorian "Painted Lady" houses are located. Confronted with the fact that the ban is a failure, residents are now literally kicking and screaming.
"We try to block them, but they knock us out of the way," boasted Heidi Knodle to the San Francisco Chronicle. "I egged one bus. We're marking them. I was kicking a bus the other day, and neighbors were cheering along."
"There's still drivers coming through the neighborhood, and they're still as aggressive as ever," Knodle's boyfriend and homeowner Kelly Edwards fumed without a hint of irony. "They still think it's a thoroughfare. It makes me mad as hell." He proudly hangs a sign in his window that demands, "Get off your big, fat tour bus and experience San Francisco."
"This is primarily a safety issue," assured local ban fan Gus Hernandez. "The residential streets in San Francisco are too small to accommodate large tour buses." He breathlessly estimates that "in peak season… upward of 50 buses cruised through the neighborhood each day."
Despite Hernandez's claims, there doesn't seem to exist any proof that these buses are more hazardous than the rest of the 4.5 million metro residents trying to navigate San Francisco's serpentine roads. To the contrary, since people are going to look at the pretty houses one way or another, it seems like busing is the safer and more environmentally friendly option, as it cuts down on the number of vehicles on the road. And, it may be the only option for elderly people who want to sightsee.
The Chronicle notes that the police hardly enforce the bus ban because, frankly, it's almost impossible to do so and they have far larger problems than stopping a couple dozen people who earn their pay by chauffeuring others around.
Residents should take note, chill out, and maybe even embrace the fact that these kinds of services can rake billions of dollars into a local economy.
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Zenon Evans is a former Reason staff writer and editor.
San Francisco Bans Buses Police Regulation
May.8.2014 at 8:05 am
…””This is primarily a safety issue,” assured local ban fan Gus Hernandez”…
It’s always primarily a safety issue, especially when it plainly isn’t.
Unless it’s FOR THE CHILDRUNZZZZZ!
lap83
May.8.2014 at 11:18 am
“This is primarily a safety issue” = “if we don’t get what we want, we’ll be concerned for your safety because we’re nice like that”
~Knarf Yenrab~
Live by the public roads, die by the public roads.
“I egged one bus. We’re marking them. I was kicking a bus the other day, and neighbors were cheering along.”
Every once in a while I can understand why progressives once openly promoted eugenics.
KY, the local press occasionally covers another set of self-deluded twits; they bought homes on the twisty block of Lombard Street and now they’re griping about the tourists.
Yes, always with Teh Roadz they are.
Folks like this are exactly why I left that hateful place – I lived there one year and couldn’t stand it.
ElevenOnly
I thought they were all peace-loving hippies out there? They seem awfully angry and upset
Progressive = We celebrate all kinds of diversity except the kinds we don’t like.
Obvious solution is for Heidi Knodle to get her neighbors to agree to form a HOA and then let them buy the street.
^This, this, a thousand times this. I’d love to see her sputter in apoplexy if someone suggested that to her.
Who knows, maybe they’d be able to think of a way to reconcile it with their progressivism.
Throw in some meaningless “affordable housing” requirement – they seem to like that.
PapayaSF
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Not near where they live!
And, it may be the only option for elderly people who want to sightsee.
Check your able-bodied privilege, San Franciscans.
110 Lean
I was in Ess Eff Easter weekend. It’s just one big food court with shitty streets and drivers.
Are the bums still allowed to defacate right out in public on the streets and sidewalks like they were several years ago?
This sounds like a dreadfully boring tour.
“On your left, you’ll see a row of modest, well-kept, single-family houses. And oh, look! It’s a fine example of the full-throated, warbling leftist snoot! They’re native to the area, and I think it’s a female of the species. She’s really in a state that we’re in her nesting grounds. The neon yoga outfit is a territorial warning display.”
“Due to the environmental policies governing this preserve, these modest single family dwellings do run upwards of $1.5 million. Also, you may recognize them from such nature documentaries as Full House. In light of this you can understand the full-throated warbling leftist snoot’s desire to protect her indigenous environment. She’s even careful not to upset the local ecology. She actively preserves every species within this ecological environment by subsidizing the indiginous drunken homeless layabouts whose mating calls of yelling agry jibberish add to the ethos of community here. In exchange for her money, the drunken homeless layabouts mark the whole of San Francisco with their highly alcoholic urine, a sign to predators to avoid this area.”
Of course all of this should be read in your heads with the voice of David Attenborough narrating.
I think it may be a climate change issue. All these buses are emitting fumes that are interfering with the locals ability to smell their own farts.
So now the people on the tour get to see the city and liberal hissy fits – good deal.
Fr?ulein Nikki
I’m completely confused as Muni buses go by the same area, so seriously, wtf?
That’s completely different! Those busses lose money!
These are the same types who hate Google buses too. In their view, everyone should be forced to cram into the corner of a Muni bus that reeks of the bum passed out near the driver.
Invisible Finger
May.8.2014 at 12:22 pm
Would be great if there were competing muni buses in SF, one priced lower than the other. Would be interesting to see which one the bums would take: the low-cost one to save money or the higher cost one because the panhandling pays better. Would also be interesting to see which ones the proggies would take.
Of course, we already know the proggies use Uber instead of the city taxis.
Silly Finger. Progs don’t take muni buses. Those are for the little people.
In my experience the bums were just always passed out on the bus, not panhandling. Buses aren’t really good for panhandling anyway.
jmomls
Sounds like it’s about time for another massive earthquake.
Don’t come crying for my tax dollars to help dig yourselves out this time, either, pals.
JJinSF
Most of the problems the homeowners face in this neighborhood are buses blocking their driveways and streets with idling buses for 30 minutes to an hour while the tour group gets out to take pictures. I can’t think of anybody who would like a huge diesel engine pumping exhaust right into their homes but don’t let that stop your hate on SF.
How about SF homeowners constantly parking on the sidewalks. God I fucking hated that.
Chill out? San Francisco “locals”? Not likely. Seems like most of them are underemployed but vocal about their “rights,” especially versus people with good jobs and tourists. Not much time for self-examination, though–no questions like “why did I major in ethno-gender-bicyclelane studies rather than something that would pay a decent salary?”
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BULGARIA: KING SIMEON II MAKES AN EMOTIONAL RETURN TO BULGARIA AFTER FIFTY YEARS IN EXILE
Title: BULGARIA: KING SIMEON II MAKES AN EMOTIONAL RETURN TO BULGARIA AFTER FIFTY YEARS IN EXILE
Date: 25th May 1996
Summary: BULGARIA, SOFIA (MAY 25, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: LARGE CROWDS IN SOFIA WAITING TO SEE KING (2 SHOTS) 0.35 2. GV: KING ENTERS ROOM/ MEDIA (5 SHOTS) 0.51 3. GV: KING WAVING TO CROWDS LINING THE STREETS/ KING'S MOTORCADE (3 SHOTS) 1.10 4. GV: CROWDS GATHERED OUTSIDE CATHEDRAL 1.19 5. GV: KING ENTERS PRESS CONFERENCE 1.31 6 MCU: KING SPEAKING TO PRESS (ENGLISH)/ CUTAWAYS (5 SHOTS) 2.29 -------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 6: KING SIMEON: "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. I AM APOLOGISING FOR THE DELAY. FORTUNATELY THIS DELAY WAS DUE TO, I WOULD SAY, EXCEPTIONALLY MOVING CIRCUMSTANCES. ALL I CAN SAY FOR OUR FOREIGN FRIENDS HERE IS THAT I HAVED LIVED TO SEE WHAT I SAW TODAY, AND BE IN FRONT OF YOU RIGHT NOW, IS THANKS TO THE FACT THAT OUR COUNTRY IS A DEMOCRACY, THAT WE RESPECT OUR INSTITUTIONS AND LAWS AND WE FEEL DEEPLY AND SINCERELY CONVINCED THAT WE ARE ONE MORE EUROPEAN COUNTRY." -------------------------------------------------------------------- Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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Country: Bulgaria
Story Text: INTRO: Bulgaria's King Simeon II came home after 50 years of exile on Saturday to a rapturous welcome from royalist crowds and a cold-shoulder from the socialist government.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Tens of thousands of Bulgarians turned out waving flags and banners to welcome the 58-year-old king, who works as a business consultant in Madrid, after a 50-year absence.
The socialist government, made up of former communists, is treating Simeon as a private citizen and sent nobody to greet him at the airport.
State television did not film his arrival and state radio made only a fleeting reference to Simeon Coburgotski, the name his Bulgarian passport bears.
Royalist fever had mounted before his long-awaited return but few Bulgarians appear to want him back as king.
A survey published in the daily Standart showed a majority regarded Simeon as a cultivated man but only 16 percent backed a restoration of the monarchy.
A Saxe-Coburg, Simeon is related to many European monarchs, including Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
Simeon and his wife are expected to stay in Bulgaria for about three weeks. They will travel around the country to see how the people live.
Simeon has not ruled out running for president at some point in the future and has made clear he wants to make a contribution as Bulgaria makes its tortuous transition to a more open and prosperous society after four decades of communism.
Tens of thousands of people lined the route from the airport into the capital, many holding portraits of the balding, bearded monarch who last saw his homeland as a child.
"This is a moment of great excitement for us all," Sofia Mayor Stefan Sofianski, a prominent monarchist, told Reuters after welcoming Simeon and his aristocratic Spanish wife Margarita at the airport.
Excited monarchists packed into the VIP lounge chanted "Simeon" and "We want our king back".
"Spring has arrived in Bulgaria. The country will benefit from Simeon's presence, whether it treats him as just a private citizen or as the king," said businessman Augustin Peichinov, a member of the welcoming party.
In the VIP lounge were Orthodox priests in flowing robes and women in national costume. Girls welcomed the couple bread and salt in accordance with Slavic traditions of hospitality.
A beaming Simeon, clearly choked with emotion and unable to make any statement to the waiting press, was steered to a dark blue Mercedes by guards of a private security firm employed to protect him and his wife.
The police are deploying extra officers to maintain order but not taking responsibility for the king's safety.
Many streets were closed to traffic and mounted policemen patrolled the route Simeon's cortege took.
Some 15,000 people gathered before Saint Alexander Nevski, Sofia's huge gold-domed cathedral where they waved the Bulgarian red, green and white tricolor flag and clutched geraniums, a symbol of goodwill in the Balkan country.
Adding to the festive atmosphere, the cathedral bells rang.
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Shanghai Kiss
Directors: David Ren and Kern Konwiser
Film buffs will remember the following paraphrased joke from Annie Hall: a guy goes to the doctor to report that his brother thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor asks why the man doesn’t turn him in and his reply is, “I would but I need the eggs.” Woody Allen used this quip in the epilogue of Hall in expressing his feeling that despite the agony and pain, there’s much joy to be had in relationships and we keep on giving love a chance because frankly we need the eggs. The same can be said for the films of Woody Allen which get released once a year and despite the fluctuation in quality over the past decade, one thing is for certain and that is the unrivaled and unquestionable influence he’s had on filmmakers around the globe. Everyone from major directors and celebrated auteurs of today to up and coming independent filmmakers seem to have drawn inspiration from his work and although the resulting movies range in their cinematic success, the man’s life and movies are utilized to strong effect in the unfortunately named debut film from directors David Ren and Kern Konwiser, Shanghai Kiss. Before she became the cheerleader to be saved in order to save the world in TV’s Heroes, teen actress Hayden Panettiere shot the role in Shanghai that later earned her an award for Best Actress in a Feature Film from the 2007 Newport Beach Film Festival. In the film she plays the sixteen year old Adelaide or “Adi” for short—a bubbly, artistically talented, mature yet childish, free-spirited self-proclaimed natural genius who latches onto Liam Liu (Ken Leung), a hapless twenty-eight year old Chinese American out of work actor struggling to get past both Tinsletown and his own self-loathing Asian stereotypes in landing a role. Serving as Liam’s unlikely ally, Adi harbors a major crush on her new friend. Although, in the tradition of those who have escaped from their culture out of anger, Liam must learn to get a better sense of self and his place in the world and accept himself before he is good for anyone, let alone a younger female sidekick whom he prefers to accompany to harmless outings to movies, Laundromats, coffee and car rides so that she doesn’t have to ride the L.A. bus to and from her Beverly Hills high school alone. When he isn’t spending time with Adi, Liam devotes his time to the occasional one-night stand and complaining about his situation to good friend Joel David Moore in Allen styled witty, self-deprecating dialogue. After the grandmother he’s never met dies and leaves him the ancestral home in Shanghai, Liam impulsively goes to China where he falls for the polar-opposite of Adi in Kelly Hu’s Micki, a sophisticated grown woman who makes Liam realize he may want to return to his cultural roots and permanently move to the foreign land with a language he doesn’t speak. Of course, that’s when he must stop running and start facing not only his friends in California but also the father from whom he’s been estranged back in New York to address the reason for his bitterness. Leung makes the most of a difficult role with a character who uses humor to disguise his every emotion, coming off as a callous creep at times and a wounded soul in others in a fully realized portrayal which also earned him a Special Mention for his Breakout Performance from the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival where the film premiered. While it definitely calls to mind Manhattan in the romantic triangle between an age appropriate woman and a young artistically talented girl with a man undergoing a self-identity crisis, not to mention using some direct quotes from Allen and paying homage to numerous films in other scenes (in one deleted example on the DVD there’s a hybrid of two famous speeches from Annie Hall and Manhattan), Shanghai Kiss is still a wonderful little find and deserves a better audience than its direct to DVD fate. Although burdened by a title that doesn’t really apply, the poster of the film which features Panattiere should instantly attract fans of Heroes but don’t let the youth-appeal of the box fool you—it’s a film that plays best to adults (especially the twenty or thirty-something crowd) rather than teenagers thanks to the intellectual script of David Ren.
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Editor's Letter: The Chávez Effect
Long, long ago before I ever saw the skyscrapers of Caracas, long before I ever fished for cachama in Barinas with Pedro and Aída, long before I ever dreamed of ReVista, let alone an issue on Venezuela, I heard a song.
“Que triste vive mi gente en sus casas de cartón,” my Dominican friends played over and over again on their phonographs in our New York barrio. “How sadly live my people in their cardboard houses.”
I soon learned the song was by Venezuelan singer-composer Ali Primera, and the words stuck in my head as I traveled Central America, the Caribbean and Colombia as a budding journalist in the mid-70s. The song became a wrenching songtrack as I witnessed poverty and inequality throughout the region.
When I went to Caracas for the first time in 1979, I was startled. I was living at the time in Colombia, where new cars and televisions were a luxury—even among the middle-class, where children slept on the streets with dogs and rags to keep them warm. In Caracas, the new cars whizzed by me; imported goods of all types were sold in the stores and hawked in the streets; bookstores and cultural centers burst with energy derived from the Venezuelan oil boom.
Since then, I’ve visited Venezuela three times, the latest earlier this year in preparation for this issue of ReVista. Each time, I saw the skyscrapers, only later noticing the ring of cardboard houses on the hillsides, the houses Ali Primera so eloquently sang about. And each time, hearing about the immense wealth generated by oil, I hoped the inequality would disappear. “Hoy es lo mismo que ayer,” wrote Ali Primera. “Es un mundo sin mañana.” (“Today is the same as yesterday. It is a world without a tomorrow.”)
On this last trip, I saw Venezuela through an editor’s lens. What was the effect of Hugo Chávez’s government and what difference was it making in the lives of those who lived in those cardboard boxes? Was there indeed a world “with tomorrow”? I came away with more questions than answers. Despite the tremendous hospitality of my many and diverse hosts, despite the endless conversations—or perhaps because of them—I began to feel like the blind man touching the elephant in the famous parable in which each man touches a different part of the elephant’s body and comes to a different conclusion of just what an elephant looks like.
The language of hope, the language of despair, shortages and conspicuous consumption, empowerment and inequality, democracy and disenfranchisement, all mix together in a heady and dangerous brew of polarization.
I never could have done this issue by myself. Today’s Venezuela is extremely complicated and conflicted; to achieve a multi-voiced forum, I needed a team. Four wise and talented experts on Venezuela have guided me through this process from beginning to end: Fernando Coronil, Jeffrey Cedeño, Jonathan Eastwood and Vicente Lecuna.
Former DRCLAS Cisneros Visiting Scholar Fernando Coronil is Presidential Professor at CUNY’s Graduate Center and author of The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela; Jeffrey Cedeño is Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures in the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas; Jonathan Eastwood, a former Lecturer for Harvard’s Committee on Social Studies, is Assistant Professor at Washington and Lee University in Virginia and author of The Rise of Nationalism in Venezuela; Vicente Lecuna is Chair of the Department of Literature at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
In this issue, we’ve hear many voices interpreting what’s going on in Venezuela in anticipation of next month’s elections. We’ve covered a variety of themes, ranging from oil and revolution to international relations, and also remembering that Venezuela is more than just the Chávez effect; it’s orchids and architecture and music and art.
As I write these words at my comfortable desk in Cambridge, rereading Arachu Castro’s powerful piece on her experience in the missions, I pause to reflect that it’s really not about us and our words, after all. Again, the lyrics and melody of Ali Primera’s song float through my brain and I remember only a few months ago looking up on a dark Caracas night at the twinkling of the cardboard houses that are still on the hillsides. The question perhaps is, for the poor in Venezuela and for us all, is today the same as yesterday? And is there now a tomorrow?
See also: Editor's Letter
Venezuela: The Chávez Effect (Fall 2008)
Chávez's Venezuela
Democracy and 21st Century Socialism
After the Referendum (English version)
Venezuela pos referendum (Spanish version)
The Politics of Identity (English version)
Invenciones Identitarias Bajo el Gobierno de Chávez (Spanish version)
Elections and Political Power (English version)
Elecciones y Poder Politico (Spanish version)
A "Revolutionary Process" Unfolds
Venezuela's Student Movement
Oil and Revolution
It's the Oil, Stupid!!!
Oil and Revolution: Viewpoints Edited
Poverty Reduction in Venezuela
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Between Militarization and Compassion (English version)
Políticas de la Dignidad en Tiempos de Revolución Bolivariana (Spanish version)
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The Social Policy of the Bolivarian Revolution (English version)
Misión Truco (Spanish version)
Venezuela: Leading a New Trend in Latin America?
Misunderstanding Hugo?
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Between Ideological Affinity and Economic Convenience
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Fluctuation Electron Microscopy of Amorphous and Polycrystalline Materials
Fluctuation Electron Microscopy (FEM) has become an effective materials' structure characterization technique, capable of probing medium-range order (MRO) that may be present in amorphous materials. Although its sensitivity to MRO has been exercised in numerous studies, FEM is not yet a quantitative technique. The holdup has been the discrepancy between the computed kinematical variance and the experimental variance, which previously was attributed to source incoherence. Although high-brightness, high coherence, electron guns are now routinely available in modern electron microscopes, they have not eliminated this discrepancy between theory and experiment. The main objective of this thesis was to explore, and to …
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Characterization of Oxide Thin Films and Interfaces Using Transmission Electron Microscopy
Multifunctional oxide thin-films grown on silicon and several oxide substrates have been characterized using High Resolution (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM), Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX), and Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy (EELS). Oxide thin films grown on SrTiO3/Si pseudo-substrate showed the presence of amorphised SrTiO3 (STO) at the STO/Si interface. Oxide/oxide interfaces were observed to be atomically clean with very few defects. Al-doped SrTiO3 thin films grown on Si were of high crystalline quality. The Ti/O ratio estimated from EELS line scans revealed that substitution of Ti by Al created associated O vacancies. The strength of the crystal field in STO was …
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The impact of novel slurry application techniques on ammonia emissions, silage quality and sward acceptance by grazing cattle.
Chadwick, D. R. and Laws, J. A. 2002. The impact of novel slurry application techniques on ammonia emissions, silage quality and sward acceptance by grazing cattle. Iger Innovations. 6, pp. 42-45.
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Nitrification represents the bottle-neck of sheep urine patch N2O emissions from extensively grazed organic soils
Marsden, K. A., Holmberg, J. A., Jones, D. L., Charteris, A. F., Cardenas, L. M. and Chadwick, D. R. 2019. Nitrification represents the bottle-neck of sheep urine patch N2O emissions from extensively grazed organic soils. Science of the Total Environment. 695, p. 133786.
Enhanced-efficiency fertilizers are not a panacea for resolving the nitrogen problem
Li, T., Zhang, W., Yin, J., Chadwick, D. R., Norse, D., Lu, Y., Liu, X., Chen, X., Zhang, F., Powlson, D. S. and Dou, Z. 2018. Enhanced-efficiency fertilizers are not a panacea for resolving the nitrogen problem. Global Change Biology. 24 (2), pp. e511-e521.
Runoff- and erosion-driven transport of cattle slurry: linking molecular tracers to hydrological processes
Lloyd, C. E. M., Michaelides, K., Chadwick, D. R., Dungait, J. A. J. and Evershed, R. P. 2016. Runoff- and erosion-driven transport of cattle slurry: linking molecular tracers to hydrological processes. Biogeosciences. 13 (2), pp. 551-566.
Effect of the application of cattle urine with or without the nitrification inhibitor DCD, and dung on greenhouse gas emissions from a UK grassland soil
Cardenas, L. M., Misselbrook, T. H., Hodgson, C. J., Donovan, N., Gilhespy, S. L., Smith, K. A., Dhanoa, M. S. and Chadwick, D. R. 2016. Effect of the application of cattle urine with or without the nitrification inhibitor DCD, and dung on greenhouse gas emissions from a UK grassland soil. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 235 (1 November), pp. 229-241.
A method-centric 'User Manual' for the mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture
Cuttle, S. P., Newell-Price, J. P., Harris, D., Chadwick, D. R., Shepherd, M. A., Anthony, S. G. A., Macleod, C. J. A., Haygarth, P. M. and Chambers, B. J. 2016. A method-centric 'User Manual' for the mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture. Soil Use and Management. 32 (S1), pp. 162-171.
How do emission rates and emission factors for nitrous oxide and ammonia vary with manure type and time of application in a Scottish farmland?
Bell, M. J., Hinton, N. J., Cloy, J. M., Topp, C. F. E., Rees, R. M., Williams, J. R., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2016. How do emission rates and emission factors for nitrous oxide and ammonia vary with manure type and time of application in a Scottish farmland? Geoderma. 264, pp. 81-93.
Short-term biotic removal of dissolved organic nitrogen( DON) compounds from soil solution and subsequent mineralisation in contrasting grassland soils
Carswell, A. M., Hill, P. W., Jones, D. L., Blackwell, M. S. A., Johnes, P. and Chadwick, D. R. 2016. Short-term biotic removal of dissolved organic nitrogen( DON) compounds from soil solution and subsequent mineralisation in contrasting grassland soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 96, pp. 82-85.
Seasonal persistence of faecal indicator organisms in soil following dairy slurry application to land by surface broadcasting and shallow injection
Hodgson, C. J., Oliver, D. M., Fish, R. D., Bulmer, N. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Winter, M. and Chadwick, D. R. 2016. Seasonal persistence of faecal indicator organisms in soil following dairy slurry application to land by surface broadcasting and shallow injection. Journal of Environmental Management. 183 (1), pp. 325-332.
Assessment of bioavailable organic phosphorus in tropical forest soils by organic acid extraction and phosphatase hydrolysis
Darch, T., Blackwell, M. S. A., Chadwick, D. R., Haygarth, P. M., Hawkins, J. M. B. and Turner, B. L. 2016. Assessment of bioavailable organic phosphorus in tropical forest soils by organic acid extraction and phosphatase hydrolysis. Geoderma. 284 (15 December), pp. 93-102.
The potential for land sparing to offset greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
Lamb, A., Green, R., Bateman, I., Broadmeadow, M., Bruce, T. J. A., Burney, J., Carey, P., Chadwick, D. R., Crane, E., Field, R., Goulding, K. W. T., Griffiths, H., Hastings, A., Kasoar, T., Kindred, D., Phalan, B., Pickett, J. A., Smith, P., Wall, E., Zu Ermgassen, E. K. H. J. and Balmford, A. 2016. The potential for land sparing to offset greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Nature Climate Change. 6, pp. 488-492.
Nitrous oxide emissions from livestock urine and dung
Chadwick, D. R., Cardenas, L. M., Donovan, N., Misselbrook, T. H., Williams, J., Thorman, R., Mcgeough, K., Watson, C., Bell, M., Anthony, S. and Rees, R. M. 2016. Nitrous oxide emissions from livestock urine and dung. Abstracts 6th Greenhouse Gas and Animal Agriculture Conference, Melbourne, 14-18 February 2016 .
Grazing behaviour, urine composition and soil properties are key drivers of nitrous oxide emissions from livestock urine in the uplands (Uplands - N2O)
Cardenas, L. M., Perotto-Baldivieso, H., Whellan, M., Wilson, R. and Chadwick, D. R. 2016. Grazing behaviour, urine composition and soil properties are key drivers of nitrous oxide emissions from livestock urine in the uplands (Uplands - N2O). Abstracts International Conference on Steps to Sustainable Livestock, Bristol, 12-15 January 2016 .
Nitrous oxide emissions from fertilised UK arable soils: fluxes, emission factors and mitigation
Bell, M. J., Hinton, N., Cloy, J. M., Topp, C. F. E., Rees, R. M., Cardenas, L. M., Scott, T., Webster, C. P., Ashton, R. W., Whitmore, A. P., Williams, J. R., Balshaw, H., Paine, F., Goulding, K. W. T. and Chadwick, D. R. 2015. Nitrous oxide emissions from fertilised UK arable soils: fluxes, emission factors and mitigation. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 212, pp. 134-147.
Modelling the cost-effectiveness of mitigation methods for multiple pollutants at farm scale
Gooday, R. D., Anthony, S. G., Chadwick, D. R., Newell-Price, P., Harris, D., Duethmann, D., Fish, R., Collins, A. L. and Winter, M. 2014. Modelling the cost-effectiveness of mitigation methods for multiple pollutants at farm scale. Science of the Total Environment. 468-469, pp. 1198-1209.
A meta-analysis of organic and inorganic phosphorus in organic fertilizers, soils and water: implications for water quality
Darch, T., Blackwell, M. S. A., Hawkins, J. M. B., Haygarth, P. M. and Chadwick, D. R. 2014. A meta-analysis of organic and inorganic phosphorus in organic fertilizers, soils and water: implications for water quality. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. 44, pp. 2172-2202.
Impact of nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide (DCD) on N2O emissions from urine applied to UK grassland
Cardenas, L. M., Camp, V., Donovan, N., Hodgson, C. J., Misselbrook, T. H., Mcgeough, K., Mcneill, G., Laughlin, R., Watson, C., Bell, M., Rees, R. and Chadwick, D. R. 2014. Impact of nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide (DCD) on N2O emissions from urine applied to UK grassland. Cordovil, C. M. d. S. (ed.) Abstracts 18th Nitrogen Workshop, Lisbon, 30 June- 3 July 2014 . pp. 387-388
Nitrous oxide emissions from fertilised UK arable soils: quantification and mitigation
Bell, M., Winning, M., Cloy, J., Rees, B., Cardenas, L. M., Donovan, N., Scott, T., Webster, C. P., Whitmore, A. P., Williams, J., Balshaw, H., Paine, F. and Chadwick, D. R. 2014. Nitrous oxide emissions from fertilised UK arable soils: quantification and mitigation. Cordovil, C. M. d. S. (ed.) Abstracts 18th Nitrogen Workshop, Lisbon, 30 June- 3 July 2014 . pp. 375-376
Factors controlling the efficacy of DCD to reduce N2O emissions and improve NUE in agriculture: evidence from field and laboratory studies
Chadwick, D. R., Williams, J. R., Cardenas, L. M., Rees, R. M., Vallejo, A., Scowan, M., Marsden, K., Jones, D. L. and Watson, C. J. 2014. Factors controlling the efficacy of DCD to reduce N2O emissions and improve NUE in agriculture: evidence from field and laboratory studies. Abstracts 4th International Conference on C Sequestration and Climate Change Mitigation in Agriculture, Yangling, 21-24 September 2014 .
Ranking factors affecting emissions of GHG from incubated agricultural soils
Garcia-Marco, S., Ravella, S. R., Chadwick, D. R., Vallejo, A., Gregory, A. S. and Cardenas, L. M. 2014. Ranking factors affecting emissions of GHG from incubated agricultural soils. European Journal of Soil Science. 65 (4), pp. 573-583.
Contribution of improved nitrogen fertilizer use to development of a low carbon economy in China
Powlson, D. S., Norse, D., Chadwick, D. R., Lu, Y., Zhang, W., Zhang, F., Huang, J. and Jia, X. 2014. Contribution of improved nitrogen fertilizer use to development of a low carbon economy in China. World Agriculture. 4 (2), pp. 10-18.
First 20 years of DNDC: model evolution and GRAMP
Gilhespy, S. L., Anthony, S. G., Cardenas, L. M., Chadwick, D. R., Del Prado, A., Li, C., Misselbrook, T. H., Rees, R., Salas, W., Sanz-Cobena, A., Smith, P., Tilston, E. L., Topp, K., Vetter, S. H. and Yeluripati, J. 2014. First 20 years of DNDC: model evolution and GRAMP. Cordovil, C. M. d. S. (ed.) Abstracts 18th Nitrogen Workshop, Lisbon, 30 June- 3 July 2014 . pp. 100-103
Effect of cattle urine addition on the surface emissions and subsurface concentrations of greenhouse gases in a UK peat grassland
Boon, A., Robinson, J. S., Chadwick, D. R. and Cardenas, L. M. 2014. Effect of cattle urine addition on the surface emissions and subsurface concentrations of greenhouse gases in a UK peat grassland. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 186, pp. 23-32.
Effect of cattle urine addition on the surface emissions and subsurface concentrations of greenhouse gases from a UK lowland peatland
Boon, A., Robinson, S., Chadwick, D. R. and Cardenas, L. M. 2014. Effect of cattle urine addition on the surface emissions and subsurface concentrations of greenhouse gases from a UK lowland peatland. EGU.
Optimizing chamber methods for measuring nitrous oxide emissions from plot-based agricultural experiments
Chadwick, D. R., Cardenas, L. M., Misselbrook, T. H., Smith, K. A., Rees, R. M., Watson, C. J., Mcgeough, K. L., Williams, J. R., Cloy, J. M., Thorman, R. E. and Dhanoa, M. S. 2014. Optimizing chamber methods for measuring nitrous oxide emissions from plot-based agricultural experiments. European Journal of Soil Science. 65 (2), pp. 295-307.
Employing the citizens' jury technique to elicit reasoned public judgments about environmental risk: insights from an inquiry into the governance of microbial water pollution
Fish, R. D., Winter, M., Oliver, D. M., Chadwick, D. R., Hodgson, C. J. and Heathwaite, A. L. 2014. Employing the citizens' jury technique to elicit reasoned public judgments about environmental risk: insights from an inquiry into the governance of microbial water pollution. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 57 (2), pp. 233-253.
Global Research Alliance Modelling Platform (GRAMP): an open web platform for modelling greenhouse gas emissions from terrestrial ecosystems
Yeluripati, J. B., Del Prado, A., Rees, R., Li, C., Chadwick, D. R., Tilston, E., Topp, K., Cardenas, L. M., Ingraham, P., Gilhespy, S. L., Anthony, S., Vetter, S. H., Misselbrook, T. H., Salas, W. and Smith, P. 2013. Global Research Alliance Modelling Platform (GRAMP): an open web platform for modelling greenhouse gas emissions from terrestrial ecosystems. Abstracts Conference of the Global DNDC Network, Beijing, 14-19 September 2013 .
An enhanced software tool to support better use of manure nutrients: MANNER- NPK
Nicholson, F. A., Bhogal, A., Chadwick, D. R., Gill, E., Gooday, R. D., Lord, E., Misselbrook, T. H., Rollett, A. J., Sagoo, E., Smith, K. A., Thorman, R. E., Williams, J. R. and Chambers, B. J. 2013. An enhanced software tool to support better use of manure nutrients: MANNER- NPK. Soil Use and Management. 29 (4), pp. 473-484.
Opportunities for reducing environmental emissions from forage-based dairy farms
Misselbrook, T. H., Del Prado, A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2013. Opportunities for reducing environmental emissions from forage-based dairy farms. Agricultural and Food Science. 22 (1), pp. 93-107.
Determination of the gas diffusion coefficient of a peat grassland soil
Boon, A., Robinson, J. S., Nightingale, P. D., Cardenas, L. M., Chadwick, D. R. and Verhoef, A. 2013. Determination of the gas diffusion coefficient of a peat grassland soil. European Journal of Soil Science. 64 (5), pp. 681-687.
New technologies reduce greenhouse gas emissions from nitrogenous fertilizer in China
Zhang, W-F., Dou, Z-X., He, P., Ju, X-T., Powlson, D. S., Chadwick, D. R., Norse, D., Lu, Y-L., Zhang, Y., Wu, Liang, Chen, X-P., Cassman, K. G. and Zhang, F-S. 2013. New technologies reduce greenhouse gas emissions from nitrogenous fertilizer in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS. 110 (21), pp. 8375-8380.
Nitrous oxide mitigation in UK agriculture
Rees, R. M., Baddeley, J. A., Bhogal, A., Ball, B. C., Chadwick, D. R., Macleod, M., Lilly, A., Pappa, V. A., Thorman, R. E., Watson, C. A. and Williams, J. R. 2013. Nitrous oxide mitigation in UK agriculture. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. 59, pp. 3-15.
Impact of hydrology and effluent quality on the management of woodchip pads for overwintering cattle. II. Effluent analysis and nutrient balance
Jackson, D. R., Chadwick, D. R., Crookes, M., Sagoo, E. and Smith, K. A. 2013. Impact of hydrology and effluent quality on the management of woodchip pads for overwintering cattle. II. Effluent analysis and nutrient balance. The Journal of Agricultural Science. 151, pp. 279-286.
Global Research Alliance Modelling Platform (GRAMP): developing a unified modelling approach in the context of climate change
Yeluripati, J., Rees, B., Li, C., Chadwick, D. R., Tilston, E., Topp, K., Cardenas, L. M., Gilhespy, S. L., Anthony, S., Salas, W. and Smith, P. 2013. Global Research Alliance Modelling Platform (GRAMP): developing a unified modelling approach in the context of climate change. Abstracts Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture (GGAA) Conference, Dublin, 23-26 June 2013 .
Fate of nitrogen following shallow injection of livestock slurry to grassland
Williams, J., Thorman, R., Chambers, B., Sagoo, L., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2013. Fate of nitrogen following shallow injection of livestock slurry to grassland. Abstracts RAMIRAN 2013: 15th International Conference on Recycling of Organic Residues for Agriculture - from Waste Management to Ecosystem Services, Versailles, 3-5 June 2013 .
Shallow injection of livestock slurry to grassland: effects on the balance of nitrous oxide and ammonia
Williams, J., Sagoo, L., Chambers, B., Thorman, R., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2013. Shallow injection of livestock slurry to grassland: effects on the balance of nitrous oxide and ammonia. Abstracts Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture (GGAA) Conference, Dublin, 23-26 June 2013 .
The importance of direct and indirect nitrous oxide emissions from contrasting cattle slurry application timings
Williams, J., Chambers, B., Thorman, R., Sagoo, L., Chadwick, D. R. and Misselbrook, T. H. 2013. The importance of direct and indirect nitrous oxide emissions from contrasting cattle slurry application timings. Abstracts Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture (GGAA) Conference, Dublin, 23-26 June 2013 .
How do N2O fluxes determined using five static closed chambers and an auto-sampler compare?
Cardenas, L. M., Misselbrook, T. H., Donovan, N., Norris, S., Murray, R. L., Cancer-Berroya, E., Hodgson, C. J. and Chadwick, D. R. 2013. How do N2O fluxes determined using five static closed chambers and an auto-sampler compare? Abstracts Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture (GGAA) Conference, Dublin, 23-26 June 2013 .
Nitrogen losses to air and water following cattle slurry applications to a drained clay arable soil
Sagoo, E., Thorman, R., Williams, J., Chambers, B., Hodgkinson, R., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2013. Nitrogen losses to air and water following cattle slurry applications to a drained clay arable soil. Abstracts RAMIRAN 2013: 15th International Conference on Recycling of Organic Residues for Agriculture - from Waste Management to Ecosystem Services, Versailles, 3-5 June 2013 .
Nitrous oxide emissions following cattle slurry applications to grassland on drained and undrained clay soil at different times of year
Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Donovan, N., Camp, V., Chambers, B., Williams, J. and Thorman, R. 2013. Nitrous oxide emissions following cattle slurry applications to grassland on drained and undrained clay soil at different times of year. Abstracts Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture (GGAA) Conference, Dublin, 23-26 June 2013 .
Effect of season of application on N2O emissions from urine patches
Cardenas, L. M., Donovan, N., Hodgson, C. J., Norris, S., Murray, R., Cancer-Berroya, E., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2013. Effect of season of application on N2O emissions from urine patches. Abstracts Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture (GGAA) Conference, Dublin, 23-26 June 2013 .
Subsurface concentrations and surface emissions of greenhouse gases from a seasonally waterlogged peatland in the UK
Boon, A., Robinson, S., Cardenas, L. M., Chadwick, D. R. and Verhoef, A. 2013. Subsurface concentrations and surface emissions of greenhouse gases from a seasonally waterlogged peatland in the UK. Abstracts European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013, Vienna, 7-12 April 2013 .
Overuse of nitrogen: insights from the Chinese experience
Norse, D., Powlson, D. S., Zhang, F., Zhang, W., Huang, J., Chadwick, D. R. and Lu, Y. 2012. Overuse of nitrogen: insights from the Chinese experience. Abstracts Plant under Pressure 2012: New Knowledge Towards Solutions, London, 26-29 March 2012 .
A software tool for estimating the capacity of agricultural land in England and Wales for recycling organic materials (ALOWANCE)
Nicholson, F. A., Humphries, S., Anthony, S. G., Smith, S. R., Chadwick, D. R. and Chambers, B. J. 2012. A software tool for estimating the capacity of agricultural land in England and Wales for recycling organic materials (ALOWANCE). Soil Use and Management. 28, pp. 307-317.
Misselbrook, T. H., Del Prado, A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2012. Opportunities for reducing environmental emissions from forage-based dairy farms. Vanhatalo, A., Kuoppala, K. and Rinne, M. (ed.) Proceedings 16th International Silage Conference, Hameenlinna, Finland, 2-4 July 2012 . MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Helsinki. pp. 113-125
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from soils amended with digestate derived from anaerobic treatment of food waste
Pezzolla, D., Bol, R., Gigliotti, G., Sawamoto, T., Lopez, A. L., Cardenas, L. M. and Chadwick, D. R. 2012. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from soils amended with digestate derived from anaerobic treatment of food waste. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 26 (20), pp. 2422-2430.
Advances in the understanding of nutrient dynamics and management in UK agriculture
Dungait, J. A. J., Cardenas, L. M., Blackwell, M. S. A., Wu, L., Withers, P. J. A., Chadwick, D. R., Bol, R., Murray, P. J., Macdonald, A. J., Whitmore, A. P. and Goulding, K. W. T. 2012. Advances in the understanding of nutrient dynamics and management in UK agriculture. Science of the Total Environment. 434 (15 September), pp. 39-50.
Effluent quality and ammonia emissions from out-wintering pads in England, Wales and Ireland
Dumont, P. A., Chadwick, D. R., Misselbrook, T. H., Robinson, J. S., Smith, K. A., Sagoo, E., Camp, V., Murray, R., French, P., Hill, R. A. and Scott, A. 2012. Effluent quality and ammonia emissions from out-wintering pads in England, Wales and Ireland. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 160, pp. 82-90.
The effect of N fertilizer forms on nitrous oxide emissions from UK arable land and grassland
Smith, K. A., Dobbie, K. E., Thorman, R., Watson, C. J., Chadwick, D. R., Yamulki, S. and Ball, B. C. 2012. The effect of N fertilizer forms on nitrous oxide emissions from UK arable land and grassland. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 93, pp. 127-149.
N and C transformations in stored cattle farmyard manure, including direct estimates of N2 emission
Moral, R., Bustamante, M. A., Chadwick, D. R., Camp, V. and Misselbrook, T. H. 2012. N and C transformations in stored cattle farmyard manure, including direct estimates of N2 emission. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 63, pp. 35-42.
UK emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide
Skiba, U., Jones, S. K., Dragosits, U., Drewer, J., Fowler, D., Rees, R. M., Pappa, V. A., Cardenas, L. M., Chadwick, D. R., Yamulki, S. and Manning, A. J. 2012. UK emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 367, pp. 1175-1185.
Valuing local knowledge as a source of expert data: farmer engagement and the design of decision support systems
Oliver, D. M., Fish, R. D., Winter, M., Hodgson, C. J., Heathwaite, A. L. and Chadwick, D. R. 2012. Valuing local knowledge as a source of expert data: farmer engagement and the design of decision support systems. Environmental Modelling and Software. 36, pp. 76-85.
Tracing the flow-driven vertical transport of livestock-derived organic matter through soil using biomarkers
Lloyd, C. E. M., Michaelides, K., Chadwick, D. R., Dungait, J. A. J. and Evershed, R. P. 2012. Tracing the flow-driven vertical transport of livestock-derived organic matter through soil using biomarkers. Organic Geochemistry. 43 (February), pp. 56-66.
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with nitrogen fertiliser - lessons from a situation of nitrogen excess in China
Powlson, D. S., Zhang, F., Zhang, W., Huang, J., Chadwick, D. R., Lu, Y. and Norse, D. 2011. Greenhouse gas emissions associated with nitrogen fertiliser - lessons from a situation of nitrogen excess in China. Abstracts Royal Society Meeting on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture, London, 28 February-1 March 2011 .
Surface emissions and subsurface concentrations of greenhouse gases in a peat grassland respond to addition of cattle urine
Boon, A., Robinson, J. S., Chadwick, D. R., Cardenas, L. M. and Verhoef, A. 2011. Surface emissions and subsurface concentrations of greenhouse gases in a peat grassland respond to addition of cattle urine. Abstracts British Grassland Society 10th Research Conference, Belfast, 20-21 September 2011 .
Ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from slatted and solid floors in dairy cattle houses: a scale model study
Pereira, J., Fangueiro, D., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Coutinho, J. and Trindade, H. 2011. Ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from slatted and solid floors in dairy cattle houses: a scale model study. Biosystems Engineering. 109, pp. 148-157.
Long-term release of carbon from grassland soil amended with different slurry particle size fractions: a laboratory incubation study
Grilo, J., Bol, R., Dixon, E. R., Chadwick, D. R. and Fangueiro, D. 2011. Long-term release of carbon from grassland soil amended with different slurry particle size fractions: a laboratory incubation study. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 25 (11), pp. 1514-1520.
SIMSDAIRY: a modelling framework to identify sustainable dairy farms in the UK. Framework description and test for organic systems and N fertiliser optimisation
Del Prado, A., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Hopkins, A., Dewhirst, R. J., Davison, P., Butler, A., Schroder, J. and Scholefield, D. 2011. SIMSDAIRY: a modelling framework to identify sustainable dairy farms in the UK. Framework description and test for organic systems and N fertiliser optimisation. Science of the Total Environment. 409, pp. 3993-4009.
The relationship between direct soil nitrous oxide emissions and nitrogen fertiliser rate to winter cereals in England
Smith, K. E., Cardenas, L. M., Thorman, R. E., Scholefield, D., Chadwick, D. R., Butler, M., Donovan, N., Bennett, G., Collis, H. R., Kingston, H. and Chambers, B. J. 2011. The relationship between direct soil nitrous oxide emissions and nitrogen fertiliser rate to winter cereals in England. Abstracts Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting on Nitrous Oxide, the Forgotten Greenhouse Gas, Chicheley, 23-24 .
A review of quantitative tools for assessing the diffuse pollution response to farmer adaptations and mitigation methods under climate change
Shepherd, A., Wu, L., Chadwick, D. R. and Bol, R. 2011. A review of quantitative tools for assessing the diffuse pollution response to farmer adaptations and mitigation methods under climate change. Advances in Agronomy. 112, pp. 1-54.
Microbial losses to water from 'cracking clay' grassland soils under contrasting manure management strategies
Hodgson, C. J., Bulmer, N., Murray, R., Stone, A. C., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Sagoo, L., Williams, J. and Chambers, B. 2011. Microbial losses to water from 'cracking clay' grassland soils under contrasting manure management strategies. Abstracts Faecal Indicators: Problem or Solution? (FIPS 2011), Edinburgh, 6-8 June 2011 .
Use of the Taguchi methodology to rank the importance of factors affecting emissions of N2O from incubated agricultural soils
Cardenas, L. M., Garcia-Marco, S., Rao Ravella, S., Chadwick, D. R., Hobbs, P. J., Gregory, A. S. and Vallejo, A. 2011. Use of the Taguchi methodology to rank the importance of factors affecting emissions of N2O from incubated agricultural soils. European Geosciences Union (EGU).
The relationship between lay and technical views of Escherichia coli 0157 risk
Strachan, N. J. C., Hunter, C. J., Jones, C. D. R., Wilson, R. S., Ethelberg, S., Cross, P., Williams, A. P., Macritchie, L., Rotariu, O. and Chadwick, D. R. 2011. The relationship between lay and technical views of Escherichia coli 0157 risk. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 366, pp. 1999-2009.
Skiba, U., Fowler, D., Drewer, J., Jones, S., Dragosits, U., Chadwick, D. R. and Rees, R. 2011. UK emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. Abstracts Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting on Nitrous Oxide, the Forgotten Greenhouse Gas, Chicheley, 23-24 May 2011 .
Manure management: implications for greenhouse gas emissions
Chadwick, D. R., Sommer, S., Thorman, R., Fangueiro, D., Cardenas, L. M., Amon, B. and Misselbrook, T. H. 2011. Manure management: implications for greenhouse gas emissions. Animal Feed Science and Technology. 166-167, pp. 514-531.
Quantify response of crop systems to future climate change using SPACSYS model
Wu, L., Shepherd, A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2011. Quantify response of crop systems to future climate change using SPACSYS model. Systems Approaches to Crop Improvement. Aspects of Applied Biology 107 . pp. 57-62
Catchments, sub-catchments and private spaces: scale and process in managing microbial pollution from source to sea
Winter, M., Oliver, D. M., Fish, R., Heathwaite, A. L., Chadwick, D. R. and Hodgson, C. J. 2011. Catchments, sub-catchments and private spaces: scale and process in managing microbial pollution from source to sea. Environmental Science & Policy. 14, pp. 315-326.
Key unknowns in estimating atmospheric emissions from UK land management
Misselbrook, T. H., Cape, J. N., Cardenas, L. M., Chadwick, D. R., Dragosits, U., Hobbs, P. J., Nemitz, E., Reis, S., Skiba, U. and Sutton, M. A. 2011. Key unknowns in estimating atmospheric emissions from UK land management. Atmospheric Environment. 45, pp. 1067-1074.
Tracing the rate and extent of N and C flow from 13C,15N-glycine and glutamate into individual de novo synthesised soil amino acids
Knowles, T. D. J., Chadwick, D. R., Bol, R. and Evershed, R. P. 2010. Tracing the rate and extent of N and C flow from 13C,15N-glycine and glutamate into individual de novo synthesised soil amino acids. Organic Geochemistry. 41, pp. 1259-1268.
Desarrollo de una herramienta de simulacion sistemica para evaluar el uso mas eficiente de los residuos provenientes de la ganaderia
Del Prado, A., Martin-Ortega, J., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2010. Desarrollo de una herramienta de simulacion sistemica para evaluar el uso mas eficiente de los residuos provenientes de la ganaderia. Abstracts II Jornadas y IV Reunion de la Red Espanola de Compostaje: Compostaje de Residuos Organicos y Seguridad Medioambiental, Burgos-Palencia, 1-4 June 2010 .
Interactions among agricultural production and other ecosystem services delivered from European temperate grassland systems
Pilgrim, E. S., Macleod, C. J. A., Blackwell, M. S. A., Bol, R., Hogan, D. V., Chadwick, D. R., Cardenas, L. M., Misselbrook, T. H., Haygarth, P. M., Brazier, R. E., Hobbs, P., Hodgson, C. J., Jarvis, S., Dungait, J. A. J., Murray, P. J. and Firbank, L. G. 2010. Interactions among agricultural production and other ecosystem services delivered from European temperate grassland systems. Advances in Agronomy. 109, pp. 117-154.
Microbial water pollution: a screening tool for initial catchment-scale assessment and source apportionment
Kay, D., Anthony, S., Crowther, J., Chambers, B. J., Nicholson, F. A., Chadwick, D. R., Stapleton, C. M. and Wyer, M. D. 2010. Microbial water pollution: a screening tool for initial catchment-scale assessment and source apportionment. Science of the Total Environment. 408, pp. 5649-5656.
Effect of solid and slatted floors and temperature on ammonia and GHG emissions in a scale model of dairy cattle houses
Pereira, J., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Coutinho, J. and Trindade, H. 2010. Effect of solid and slatted floors and temperature on ammonia and GHG emissions in a scale model of dairy cattle houses. Abstracts 14th Ramiran International Conference, Lisbon, 12-15 September 2010 .
Effects of temperature and dairy cattle excreta characteristics on ammonia emissions from a simulated concrete floor
Pereira, J., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Coutinho, J. and Trindade, H. 2010. Effects of temperature and dairy cattle excreta characteristics on ammonia emissions from a simulated concrete floor. Abstracts 14th Ramiran International Conference, Lisbon, 12-15 September 2010 .
MANNER- NPK
Nicholson, F. A., Rollett, A. J., Bhogal, A., Lord, E., Thorman, R. E., Williams, J. R., Smith, K. A., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R. and Chambers, B. J. 2010. MANNER- NPK. Proceeedings SAC and SEPA Biennial Conference: Agriculture and the Environment VIII. Climate, Water and Soil: Science, Policy and Practice, Edinburgh, 31 March-1 April 2010 . pp. 328-333
C transformations during storage of farmyard manure
Moral, R., Bustamante, M. A., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Camp, V. and Donovan, N. 2010. C transformations during storage of farmyard manure. Abstracts 14th Ramiran International Conference, Lisbon, 12-15 September 2010 .
Ammonia emissions from woodchip pads used for out-wintering cattle
Misselbrook, T. H., Camp, V., Murray, R., Dumont, P. A., Chadwick, D. R., Smith, K. A., Sagoo, E., Hill, R. A. and Scott, A. 2010. Ammonia emissions from woodchip pads used for out-wintering cattle. Abstracts 14th Ramiran International Conference, Lisbon, 12-15 September 2010 .
Roadmaps integrating RTD in developing realistic GHG mitigation options from agricluture up to 2030
Macleod, M., Mcvittie, A., Rees, R., Wall, E., Topp, K., Moran, D., Eory, V., Barnes, A., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Moxey, A. and Smith, P. 2010. Roadmaps integrating RTD in developing realistic GHG mitigation options from agricluture up to 2030. Proceeedings SAC and SEPA Biennial Conference: Agriculture and the Environment VIII. Climate, Water and Soil: Science, Policy and Practice, Edinburgh, 31 March-1 April 2010 . pp. 307-308
Survival of E. coli within farmyard manure heaps
Hodgson, C. J., Bulmer, N., Chadwick, D. R., Sagoo, E., Williams, J. and Chambers, B. 2010. Survival of E. coli within farmyard manure heaps. Abstracts 14th Ramiran International Conference, Lisbon, 12-15 September 2010 . pp. 95
Field scale observations from slurry applications to grassland following a freeze thaw event of faecal indicator organisms in drainage water
Hodgson, C. J., Bulmer, N. and Chadwick, D. R. 2010. Field scale observations from slurry applications to grassland following a freeze thaw event of faecal indicator organisms in drainage water. Abstracts 14th Ramiran International Conference, Lisbon, 12-15 September 2010 .
Management of spent timber residue from out-wintering pads
Dumont, P. A., Chadwick, D. R., Sagoo, E. and Smith, K. A. 2010. Management of spent timber residue from out-wintering pads. Abstracts 14th Ramiran International Conference, Lisbon, 12-15 September 2010 .
Engaging with the water sector for public health benefits: waterborne pathogens and diseases in developed countries
Bridge, J. W., Oliver, D. M., Chadwick, D. R., Godfray, H. C. J., Heathwaite, A. L., Kay, D., Maheswaran, R., Mcgonigle, D. F., Nichols, G., Pickup, R., Porter, J., Wastling, J. and Banwart, S. A. 2010. Engaging with the water sector for public health benefits: waterborne pathogens and diseases in developed countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation - BWHO. 88, pp. 873-875.
Short term N2O, CH4 and CO2 production from soil sampled at different depths and amended with a fine sized slurry fraction1
Fangueiro, D., Chadwick, D. R., Dixon, E. R., Grilo, J., Walter, N. and Bol, R. 2010. Short term N2O, CH4 and CO2 production from soil sampled at different depths and amended with a fine sized slurry fraction1. Chemosphere. 81 (1), pp. 100-108.
Effects of diet protein level and forage source on energy and nitrogen balance and methane and nitrogen excretion in lactating dairy cows
Reynolds, C. K., Crompton, L. A., Mills, J. A. N., Humphries, D. J., Kirton, P., Relling, A. E., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R. and Givens, D. I. 2010. Effects of diet protein level and forage source on energy and nitrogen balance and methane and nitrogen excretion in lactating dairy cows. Abstracts 3rd EAAP International Symposium on Energy and Protein Metabolism and Nutrition, Parma, 6-10 September 2010 . pp. 463-464
Erratum to 'Quantifying annual N2O emission fluxes from grazed grassland under a range of inorganic fertiliser nitrogen inputs' [Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 136(2010) 218-226]
Cardenas, L. M., Thorman, R., Ashlee, N., Butler, M., Chadwick, D. R., Chambers, B., Cuttle, S., Donovan, N., Kingston, H., Lane, S., Dhanoa, M. S. and Scholefield, D. 2010. Erratum to 'Quantifying annual N2O emission fluxes from grazed grassland under a range of inorganic fertiliser nitrogen inputs' [Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 136(2010) 218-226]. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 138, p. 356.
Ammonia emissions from naturally ventilated dairy cattle buildings and outdoor concrete yards in Portugal
Pereira, J., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Coutinho, J. and Trindade, H. 2010. Ammonia emissions from naturally ventilated dairy cattle buildings and outdoor concrete yards in Portugal. Atmospheric Environment. 44, pp. 3413-3421.
Effect of cattle slurry pre-treatment by separation and addition of nitrification inhibitors on gaseous emissions and N dynamics: a laboratory study
Pereira, J., Fangueiro, D., Chadwick, D. R., Misselbrook, T. H., Coutinho, J. and Trindade, H. 2010. Effect of cattle slurry pre-treatment by separation and addition of nitrification inhibitors on gaseous emissions and N dynamics: a laboratory study. Chemosphere. 79 (6), pp. 620-627.
Nitrous oxide emissions from small-scale farmland features of UK livestock farming systems
Matthews, R. A., Chadwick, D. R., Retter, A. L., Blackwell, M. S. A. and Yamulki, S. 2010. Nitrous oxide emissions from small-scale farmland features of UK livestock farming systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 136, pp. 192-198.
Exploring systems responses to mitigation of GHG in UK dairy farms
Del Prado, A., Chadwick, D. R., Cardenas, L. M., Misselbrook, T. H., Scholefield, D. and Merino, P. 2010. Exploring systems responses to mitigation of GHG in UK dairy farms. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 136, pp. 318-332.
Quantifying annual N2O emission fluxes from grazed grassland under a range of inorganic fertiliser nitrogen inputs
Cardenas, L. M., Thorman, R., Ashlee, N., Butler, M., Chadwick, D. R., Chambers, B., Cuttle, S., Donovan, N., Kingston, H., Lane, S., Dhanoa, M. S. and Scholefield, D. 2010. Quantifying annual N2O emission fluxes from grazed grassland under a range of inorganic fertiliser nitrogen inputs. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 136, pp. 218-226.
Applications of stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry in cattle dung carbon cycling studies
Dungait, J. A. J., Bol, R., Lopez-Capel, E., Bull, I. D., Chadwick, D. R., Amelung, W., Granger, S. J., Manning, D. A. C. and Evershed, R. P. 2010. Applications of stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry in cattle dung carbon cycling studies. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 24, pp. 495-500.
Development and testing of a risk indexing framework to determine field-scale critical source areas of faecal bacteria on grassland
Oliver, D. M., Page, T., Hodgson, C. J., Heathwaite, A. L., Chadwick, D. R., Fish, R. D. and Winter, M. 2010. Development and testing of a risk indexing framework to determine field-scale critical source areas of faecal bacteria on grassland. Environmental Modelling and Software. 25, pp. 503-512.
Unruly pathogens: eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge
Fish, R., Winter, M., Oliver, D. M., Chadwick, D. R., Selfa, T., Heathwaite, A. L. and Hodgson, C. J. 2009. Unruly pathogens: eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge. Environmental Science & Policy. 12, pp. 281-296.
Relationship between cattle stocking density and NH3 emissions from cattle housing
Camp, V., Gilhespy, S. L., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2009. Relationship between cattle stocking density and NH3 emissions from cattle housing. Ecology and Future: Bulgarian Journal of Ecological Science. 8, pp. 25-27.
Environmental aspects of out-wintering cattle on woodchip pads
Chadwick, D. R., Dumont, P., Sagoo, L. and Smith, K. 2009. Environmental aspects of out-wintering cattle on woodchip pads. Proceedings European Forum on Livestock Housing for the Future, Lille, 22-23 October 2009 . pp. 39-43
Greenhouse gas emissions related to livestock in the UK inventory
Cardenas, L. M., Gilhespy, S. L., Chadwick, D. R. and Misselbrook, T. H. 2009. Greenhouse gas emissions related to livestock in the UK inventory. Abstracts Workshop on Life Cycle Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ruminant Agriculture, Birmingham, 7 October 2009 . pp. 10-11
Nitrous oxide emission from arable land in England
Thorman, R. E., Cardenas, L. M., Scholefield, D., Chadwick, D. R., Butler, M., Bennett, G., Collis, H. R., Kingston, H. and Chambers, B. J. 2009. Nitrous oxide emission from arable land in England. Abstracts 16th Nitrogen Workshop, Turin, 28 June-1 July 2009 . pp. 217-218
The survival of Escherichia coli in soil, following dairy slurry application to land by surface broadcasting and shallow injection
Hodgson, C. J., Bulmer, N. and Chadwick, D. R. 2009. The survival of Escherichia coli in soil, following dairy slurry application to land by surface broadcasting and shallow injection. Abstracts Veterinary Laboratories Agency Conference, London, 2-4 September 2009 .
Scale appropriate modelling of diffuse microbial pollution from agriculture
Oliver, D. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Fish, R. D., Chadwick, D. R., Hodgson, C. J., Winter, M. and Butler, A. J. 2009. Scale appropriate modelling of diffuse microbial pollution from agriculture. Progress In Physical Geography. 33, pp. 358-377.
Desktop review of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Report on project no. F08/019 to DairyCo)
Crompton, L. A., Mills, J. A. N., Reynolds, C. K., Juniper, D. T., Chadwick, D. R., Misselbrook, T. H., Chambers, B. J., Bhogal, A., Cottrill, B. R., Harris, D. and Phillips, K. A. 2009. Desktop review of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Report on project no. F08/019 to DairyCo).
Establishing relative release kinetics of faecal indicator organisms from different faecal matrices
Hodgson, C. J., Bulmer, N., Chadwick, D. R., Oliver, D. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Fish, R. D. and Winter, M. 2009. Establishing relative release kinetics of faecal indicator organisms from different faecal matrices. Letters in Applied Microbiology. 49, pp. 124-130.
A cross-disciplinary toolkit to assess the risk of faecal indicator loss from grassland farm systems to surface waters
Oliver, D. M., Fish, R. D., Hodgson, C. J., Heathwaite, A. L., Chadwick, D. R. and Winter, M. 2009. A cross-disciplinary toolkit to assess the risk of faecal indicator loss from grassland farm systems to surface waters. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 129, pp. 401-412.
Will additional straw bedding in buildings housing cattle and pigs reduce ammonia emissions?
Gilhespy, S. L., Webb, J., Chadwick, D. R., Misselbrook, T. H., Kay, R., Camp, V., Retter, A. L. and Bason, A. 2009. Will additional straw bedding in buildings housing cattle and pigs reduce ammonia emissions? Biosystems Engineering. 102, pp. 180-189.
Agricultural nitrous oxide and methane emissions from Cornwall and potential mitigation. Report for Cornwall Agri-food Development Team
Chadwick, D. R. 2008. Agricultural nitrous oxide and methane emissions from Cornwall and potential mitigation. Report for Cornwall Agri-food Development Team.
Scenario building to test and inform the development of a BSI method for assessing greenhouse gas emissions from food (Technical Annex to final report on Defra Project No. FO0404)
Wiltshire, J., Wynn, S., Clarke, J., Chambers, B., Cottrill, B., Drakes, D., Gittins, J., Nicholson, C., Phillips, K., Thorman, R., Tiffin, D., Walker, O., Tucker, G., Thorn, R., Green, A., Fendler, A., Williams, A., Bellamy, P., Audsley, E., Chatterton, J., Chadwick, D. R. and Foster, C. 2008. Scenario building to test and inform the development of a BSI method for assessing greenhouse gas emissions from food (Technical Annex to final report on Defra Project No. FO0404).
Safe recycling of livestock manures (RELU Policy and Practice Note No. 4)
Chadwick, D. R. 2008. Safe recycling of livestock manures (RELU Policy and Practice Note No. 4).
Effect of cattle slurry separation on greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions during storage
Fangueiro, D., Coutinho, J., Chadwick, D. R., Moreira, N. and Trindade, H. 2008. Effect of cattle slurry separation on greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions during storage. Journal of Environmental Quality. 37, pp. 2322-2331.
Laboratory assessment of the effect of cattle slurry pre-treatment on organic N degradation after soil application and N2O and N2 emissions
Fangueiro, D., Pereira, J., Chadwick, D. R., Coutinho, J., Moreira, N. and Trindade, H. 2008. Laboratory assessment of the effect of cattle slurry pre-treatment on organic N degradation after soil application and N2O and N2 emissions. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 80, pp. 107-120.
Assessment of the potential N mineralization of different particle-size fractions in two dairy cattle slurries
Fangueiro, D., Chadwick, D. R. and Bol, R. 2008. Assessment of the potential N mineralization of different particle-size fractions in two dairy cattle slurries. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. 171, pp. 313-315.
Cattle slurry treatment by screw press separation and chemically enhanced settling: effect on greenhouse gas emissions after land spreading and grass yield
Fangueiro, D., Senbayran, M., Trindade, H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2008. Cattle slurry treatment by screw press separation and chemically enhanced settling: effect on greenhouse gas emissions after land spreading and grass yield. Bioresource Technology. 99, pp. 7132-7142.
Management of livestock and their manure to reduce the risk of microbial transfers to water - the case for an interdisciplinary approach
Chadwick, D. R., Fish, R., Oliver, D. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Hodgson, C. J. and Winter, M. 2008. Management of livestock and their manure to reduce the risk of microbial transfers to water - the case for an interdisciplinary approach. Trends in Food Science and Technology. 19 (Special Issue - RELU - sustainable food chains), pp. 240-247.
New integrated dairy production systems: specification, practical feasibility and ways of implementation (Final report to Defra on Project IS0214)
Chadwick, D. R. 2007. New integrated dairy production systems: specification, practical feasibility and ways of implementation (Final report to Defra on Project IS0214).
Prioritising mitigation methods for diffuse pollution from agriculture by estimating cost and effectiveness at the national scale
Haygarth, P. M., Macleod, C. J. A., Chadwick, D. R., Anthony, S. G., Shephard, M. A. and Withers, P. J. A. 2007. Prioritising mitigation methods for diffuse pollution from agriculture by estimating cost and effectiveness at the national scale. Heckrath, G., Rubaek, G. H. and Kronvang, B. (ed.) Diffuse Phosphorus Loss: Risk Assessment, Mitigation Options and Ecological Effects in River Basins. 5th International Phosphorus Workshop (IPW5), Silkeborg, Denmark, 3-7 September 2007. pp. 53-55
A review of research to identify best practice for reducing greenhouse gases from agriculture and land management
Moorby, J. M., Chadwick, D. R., Scholefield, D., Chambers, B. J. and Williams, J. R. 2007. A review of research to identify best practice for reducing greenhouse gases from agriculture and land management.
The survival of FIOs in soil, following dairy cattle slurry application to land by surface broadcasting and shallow injection
Bulmer, N., Hodgson, C. J. and Chadwick, D. R. 2007. The survival of FIOs in soil, following dairy cattle slurry application to land by surface broadcasting and shallow injection. 161st meeting of the Society of General Microbiology (SGM), University of Edinburgh, 2-6 September 2007.
Assessing the impact of farm management practices on stream FIO loads using an evidence based approach
Hodgson, C. J., Oliver, D. M., Fish, R. D., Heathwaite, A. L., Winter, D. M. and Chadwick, D. R. 2007. Assessing the impact of farm management practices on stream FIO loads using an evidence based approach. 15th International Environmental Bioindicators Conference, City University of Hong Kong, 7-9 June 2007.
Rate of nitrogen and carbon flux from and within the amino acid pool in a grassland soil
Knowles, T. D. J., Evershed, R. P., Bol, R. and Chadwick, D. R. 2007. Rate of nitrogen and carbon flux from and within the amino acid pool in a grassland soil. Farrimond, P. (ed.) 23rd International meeting on organic geochemistry, Torquay, 9-14 September 2007. pp. 945-946
The impacts of livestock derived organic matter in grassland soils
Bol, R., Dungait, J. A. J., Evershed, R. P., Lopez-Capel, E., Amelung, W. and Chadwick, D. R. 2007. The impacts of livestock derived organic matter in grassland soils. 3rd Conference on Mechanisms of Organic Matter Stabilisation and Destabilisation in Soils and Sediments, Adelaide, Australia 23-26 September 2007.
Minimising diffuse pollution from livestock manures - the challenges ahead
Williams, J. R., Chambers, B. J., Smith, K. A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2007. Minimising diffuse pollution from livestock manures - the challenges ahead. BSAS Annual Conference, Southport Theatre and Floral Hall Complex, Southport, 2-4 April 2007. pp. 264
The effect of slurry application rate on ammonia losses from bandspread and shallow injected applications
Sagoo, E., Williams, J. R., Chambers, B. J., Collis, H., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2007. The effect of slurry application rate on ammonia losses from bandspread and shallow injected applications. Monteny, G. J. and Hartung, E. (ed.) Ammonia emissions in agriculture. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands. pp. 199-200
The impact on ammonia emissions of strategies to reduce nitrate leaching losses following cattle slurry applications to land
Williams, J. R., Sagoo, E., Chambers, B. J., Smith, K. A., Laws, J. A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2007. The impact on ammonia emissions of strategies to reduce nitrate leaching losses following cattle slurry applications to land. Monteny, G. J. and Hartung, E. (ed.) Ammonia emissions in agriculture. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands. pp. 261-262
The implications of farm-scale methane mitigation measures for long-term national methane emissions
Chadwick, D. R., Del Prado, A., Scholefield, D., Mills, J., Compton, L. and Dragosits, U. 2007. The implications of farm-scale methane mitigation measures for long-term national methane emissions.
Characterization of dairy slurry in southern Chile farms
Salazar, F., Dumont, J., Chadwick, D. R., Daldana, R. and Santana, M. 2007. Characterization of dairy slurry in southern Chile farms. Agricultura Tecnica (Chile). 67 (2), pp. 155-162.
Integrated management practices to minimise losses and maximise the crop nitrogen value of broiler litter
Sagoo, E., Williams, J. R., Chambers, B. J., Boyles, L. O., Matthews, R. A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2007. Integrated management practices to minimise losses and maximise the crop nitrogen value of broiler litter. Biosystems Engineering. 97 (4), pp. 512-519.
Forage brassica for out-wintering stock - Review of literature
Chadwick, D. R., Marshall, A. H., Del Prado, A., Scholefield, D., Weller, R. F., Hyslop, J., Bell, J. and Morgan, C. 2007. Forage brassica for out-wintering stock - Review of literature.
Optimal timing of shallow injected slurry applications to grassland to minimise N losses
Laws, J. A., Misselbrook, T. H., Yamulki, S., Chadwick, D. R., Sagoo, E., Thorman, R. E., Williams, J. R. and Chambers, B. J. 2007. Optimal timing of shallow injected slurry applications to grassland to minimise N losses. Hopkins, J. J., Duncan, A. J., McCracken, D. I., Peel, S. and Tallowin, J. R. B. (ed.) 'High Value Grassland: providing biodiversity, a clean environment and premium products': Proceedings BGS/BES/BSAS Conference, Keele University, Staffs, 17-19 April 2007. British Grassland Society Occasional Symposium, 38. pp. 88-93
Quantification of priming and CO2 emission sources following the application of different slurry particle size fractions to a grassland soil
Fangueiro, D., Chadwick, D. R., Dixon, E. R. and Bol, R. 2007. Quantification of priming and CO2 emission sources following the application of different slurry particle size fractions to a grassland soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 39 (10), pp. 2608-2620.
The effect of N2O emissions of storage conditions and rapid incorporation of pig and cattle farmyard manure into tillage land
Thorman, R. E., Chadwick, D. R., Harrison, R., Boyles, L. O. and Matthews, R. A. 2007. The effect of N2O emissions of storage conditions and rapid incorporation of pig and cattle farmyard manure into tillage land. Biosystems Engineering. 97 (4), pp. 501-511.
Mitigation and current management attempts to limit pathogen survival and movement within farmed grassland
Oliver, D. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Hodgson, C. J. and Chadwick, D. R. 2007. Mitigation and current management attempts to limit pathogen survival and movement within farmed grassland. Advances in Agronomy. 93, pp. 95-152.
The effect of diet manipulation on nitrous oxide and methane emissions from manure application to grassland soils
Cardenas, L. M., Chadwick, D. R., Scholefield, D., Fychan, A. R., Marley, C. L., Jones, R., Bol, R., Well, R. and Vallejo, A. 2007. The effect of diet manipulation on nitrous oxide and methane emissions from manure application to grassland soils. Atmospheric Environment. 41 (33), pp. 7096-7107.
Optimising slurry application timings to minimise nitrogen losses: OPTI-N. Final report to Defra on Project no. ES0115
Chadwick, D. R. 2006. Optimising slurry application timings to minimise nitrogen losses: OPTI-N. Final report to Defra on Project no. ES0115.
Strategies to reduce diffuse pollution from cattle slurry applications
Williams, J. R., Sagoo, E., Chambers, B. J., Lapworth, J., Chadwick, D. R. and Laws, J. A. 2006. Strategies to reduce diffuse pollution from cattle slurry applications. Proceedings of 12th RAMIRAN International Conference, 'Technology for Recycling of Manure and Organic Residues in a Whole-Farm Perspective', Aarhus, Denmark 11-13 September 2006.
SIMSDAIRY - a modelling framework to identify new integrated diary production systems
J - Computer programs
Del Prado, A., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Hopkins, A., Dewhurst, R. J., Davison, P., Butler, A., Turner, M., Schroder, J. and Scholefield, D. 2006. SIMSDAIRY - a modelling framework to identify new integrated diary production systems.
Managing dirty water to reduce slurry volumes on UK dairy farms
Laws, J. A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2006. Managing dirty water to reduce slurry volumes on UK dairy farms. Petersen, S. O. (ed.) Proceedings of 12th RAMIRAN International Conference, 'Technology for Recycling of Manure and Organic Residues in a Whole-Farm Perspective. DIAS Report No. 123, Vol. II, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Tjele, 11-13 September 2006. pp. 17-19
Nitrous oxide and methane emissions from unmanaged wet areas of intensive dairy systems
Matthews, R. A., Yamulki, S., Retter, A. L., Donovan, N., Chadwick, D. R. and Jarvis, S. C. 2006. Nitrous oxide and methane emissions from unmanaged wet areas of intensive dairy systems. Petersen, S. O. (ed.) Proceedings of 12th RAMIRAN International Conference, 'Technology for Recycling of Manure and Organic Residues in a Whole-Farm Perspective. DIAS Report No. 123, Vol. II, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Tjele, 11-13 September 2006. pp. 225-228
Agronomic use of fish sludge
Chadwick, D. R., Laws, J. A., Donaldson, G. and Brookman, S. L. 2006. Agronomic use of fish sludge. Petersen, S. O. (ed.) Proceedings of 12th RAMIRAN International Conference, 'Technology for Recycling of Manure and Organic Residues in a Whole-Farm Perspective. DIAS Report No. 123, Vol. II, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Tjele, 11-13 September 2006. pp. 325-328
A measure-centric approach to diffuse pollution modelling and cost curve analysis of mitigation measures
Chadwick, D. R., Chambers, B. J., Anthony, S. G., Granger, S. J., Haygarth, P. M., Harris, D. and Smith, K. A. 2006. A measure-centric approach to diffuse pollution modelling and cost curve analysis of mitigation measures. Agriculture and the Environment VI - managing Rural Diffuse Pollution. Proceedings of the SAC and Biennial Conference, Edinburgh, 5-6 April 2006. pp. 93-99
Economic implications of minimising diffuse nitrogen pollution from livestock manures
Chambers, B. J., Williams, J. R., Sagoo, E., Smith, K. A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2006. Economic implications of minimising diffuse nitrogen pollution from livestock manures. Agriculture and the Environment VI - managing Rural Diffuse Pollution. Proceedings of the SAC and Biennial Conference, Edinburgh, 5-6 April 2006. pp. 84-92
Assessing the cost-effectiveness of integrated measures to decrease loss of nitrate, phosphorus and faecal indicator organisms
Shepherd, M. A., Anthony, S. G., Haygarth, P. M., Harris, D., Newell-Price, P., Cuttle, S. P., Chambers, B. J. and Chadwick, D. R. 2006. Assessing the cost-effectiveness of integrated measures to decrease loss of nitrate, phosphorus and faecal indicator organisms. Agriculture and the Environment VI - managing Rural Diffuse Pollution. Proceedings of the SAC and Biennial Conference, Edinburgh, 5-6 April 2006. pp. 77-83
Further evaluation of ammonia mitigation options
Chadwick, D. R. 2006. Further evaluation of ammonia mitigation options.
Benefits and pollution swapping: cross-cutting issues for catchment sensitive farming policy
Chadwick, D. R., Crabtree, R., Chambers, B. J. and Anthony, S. G. 2006. Benefits and pollution swapping: cross-cutting issues for catchment sensitive farming policy.
The fate of proteinaceous materials in soil
Knowles, T. D. J., Mottram, H. R., Evershed, R. P., Bol, R. and Chadwick, D. R. 2006. The fate of proteinaceous materials in soil. 5th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies, Belfast, 13-18 August 2006. pp. p15
Nitrous oxide emissions during storage of broiler litter and following application to arable land
Thorman, R. E., Chadwick, D. R., Boyles, L. O., Matthews, R. A., Sagoo, E. and Harrison, R. 2006. Nitrous oxide emissions during storage of broiler litter and following application to arable land. International Congress Series. 1293, pp. 355-358.
Improving environmental quality
Murray, P. J., Chadwick, D. R., Del Prado, A., Hopkins, A., Macleod, C. J. A., Misselbrook, T. H. and Scholefield, D. 2006. Improving environmental quality. Iger Innovations. 10, p. 38.
Optimising organic resources
Chadwick, D. R., Hobbs, P. J., Laws, J. A., Misselbrook, T. H. and Yamulki, S. 2006. Optimising organic resources. Iger Innovations. 10, pp. 30-35.
A modelling framework to identify new integrated dairy production systems
Del Prado, A., Scholefield, D., Chadwick, D. R., Misselbrook, T. H., Haygarth, P. M., Hopkins, A., Dewhurst, R. J., Jones, R., Moorby, J. M., Davison, P., Lord, E. I., Turner, M., Aikman, P. and Schroder, J. 2006. A modelling framework to identify new integrated dairy production systems. Lloveras, J., Gonzalez-Rodriguez, A., Vazquez-Yanez, O., Pineiro, J., Santamaria, O., Olea, L. and Poblaciones, M. J. (ed.) Sustainable Grassland Productivity [Proceedings of the 21st General Meeting of the European Grassland Federation, Badajoz, Spain, 3-6 April 2006].
Dependence of ammonia emissions from housing on the time cattle spent inside
Gilhespy, S. L., Webb, J., Retter, A. L. and Chadwick, D. R. 2006. Dependence of ammonia emissions from housing on the time cattle spent inside. Journal of Environmental Quality. 35 (5), pp. 1659-1667.
Diffuse pollution from agriculture (DWPA): User Manual
Cuttle, S. P., Haygarth, P. M., Chadwick, D. R., Newell-Price, P., Harris, D., Shepherd, M. A., Chambers, B. J. and Humphrey, R. 2006. Diffuse pollution from agriculture (DWPA): User Manual.
Algorithms determining ammonia emissions from buildings housing cattle and pigs and from manure stores
Sommer, S. G., Zhang, G. Q., Oenema, O., Chadwick, D. R., Misselbrook, T. H., Harrison, R., Hutchings, N. J., Menzi, H., Monteny, G. J., Ni, J. Q. and Webb, J. 2006. Algorithms determining ammonia emissions from buildings housing cattle and pigs and from manure stores. Advances in Agronomy. 89, pp. 261-335.
Greenhouse gas abatement strategies for animal husbandry
Monteny, Gert-Jan, Bannink, A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2006. Greenhouse gas abatement strategies for animal husbandry. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 112 (2-3), pp. 163-170.
Chadwick, D. R. 2005. Risk. 3 (December), p. p5.
Sustainable agriculture - Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme
Chadwick, D. R. 2005. Sustainable agriculture - Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme.
Do nitrogen balances for solid farmyard manure suggest di-nitrogen (N2) emission?
Chadwick, D. R., Matthews, R. A., Sagoo, E., Williams, J. R., Thorman, R. E. and Chambers, B. J. 2005. Do nitrogen balances for solid farmyard manure suggest di-nitrogen (N2) emission? 'N management in agrosystems in rleation to the Water Framework Directive', 14th N-Workshop, Maastricht, Netherlands, 24-26 October 2005.
Cost-Cube: A measure centric model for characterisation of diffuse pollution
Anthony, S. G., Chadwick, D. R., Granger, S. J., Haygarth, P. M., Harris, D., Chambers, B. J. and Smith, K. A. 2005. Cost-Cube: A measure centric model for characterisation of diffuse pollution. 'N management in agrosystems in relation to the Water Framework Directive', 14th N-Workshop, Maastricht, Netherlands, 24-26 October 2005.
The effect of storage and rapid incorporation on N2O emissions following the application of pig and cattle FYM to land
Thorman, R. E., Harrison, R., Boyles, L. O., Chadwick, D. R. and Matthews, R. A. 2005. The effect of storage and rapid incorporation on N2O emissions following the application of pig and cattle FYM to land. Bernal, M. P., Moral, R., Clemente, C. and Paredes, C. (ed.) 11th International Conference of the FAO ESCORENA Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture (RAMIRAN): "Sustainable Organic Waste Management for Environmental Protection and Food Safety", Murcia, Spain, 6-9 October 2004. pp. 329-332
Nitrous oxide emissions during storage of solid manure and following application to arable land
Thorman, R. E., Chadwick, D. R., Boyles, L. O., Matthews, R. A., Sagoo, E. and Harrison, R. 2005. Nitrous oxide emissions during storage of solid manure and following application to arable land. Soliva, C. R., Takahashi, J. and Kreuzer, M. (ed.) 2nd International Conference on Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture (GGAA), Zurich, Switzerland, 20-24 September 2005. pp. 278-281
A review of current and impending legislation, guidelines and ready reckoners concerning manure management practices on dairy farms in the UK
Laws, J. A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2005. A review of current and impending legislation, guidelines and ready reckoners concerning manure management practices on dairy farms in the UK.
Maximising slurry crop available nitrogen utilisation in grassland systems
Williams, J. R., Sagoo, E., Chambers, B. J., Laws, J. A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2005. Maximising slurry crop available nitrogen utilisation in grassland systems. Jarvis, S. C., Murray, P. J. and Roker, J. A. (ed.) Optimisation of nutrient cycling and soil quality for sustainable grasslands. Proceedings of XX International Grassland Congress, 3-6 July 2005.
Modelling methane mitigation at the National scale
Scholefield, D. and Chadwick, D. R. 2005. Modelling methane mitigation at the National scale. 14 (August), pp. 9-10.
Manures and farm resources
Chadwick, D. R., Hobbs, P. J., Laws, J. A., Misselbrook, T. H. and Yamulki, S. S. 2005. Manures and farm resources. Iger Innovations. 9, pp. 60-63.
Evaluation of targeted or additional straw use as a means of reducing ammonia emissions from buildings for housing pigs and cattle
Chadwick, D. R. 2005. Evaluation of targeted or additional straw use as a means of reducing ammonia emissions from buildings for housing pigs and cattle.
The impact of dairy intensification on manure management
Laws, J. A. and Chadwick, D. R. 2005. The impact of dairy intensification on manure management.
Reviewing the potential for reductions of nitrogen and phosphorus inputs in current farm systems
Haygarth, P. M., Scholefield, D., Chadwick, D. R., Cardenas, L. M., Butler, P. J., Shepherd, M. A., Goodlass, G., Withers, P. J. A., Chambers, B. J., Lord, E. I., Cottrill, B. R., Smith, K. A., Harris, D., Ferrier, R., Stutter, M., Carvalho, L., Anderson, J., White, P., Cuttle, S. P., Dewhurst, R. J., Heathwaite, L. and Johnes, P. 2005. Reviewing the potential for reductions of nitrogen and phosphorus inputs in current farm systems.
Laboratory study of the effects of two nitrification inhibitors on greenhouse gas emissions from a slurry-treated arable soil : impact of diurnal temperature cycle
Hatch, D. J., Trindade, H., Cardenas, L. M., Carneiro, J., Hawkins, J. M. B., Scholefield, D. and Chadwick, D. R. 2005. Laboratory study of the effects of two nitrification inhibitors on greenhouse gas emissions from a slurry-treated arable soil : impact of diurnal temperature cycle. Biology And Fertility Of Soils. 41 (4), pp. 225-232.
Nitrogen budgets for three cropping systems fertilised with cattle manure
Salazar, F. J., Chadwick, D. R., Pain, B. F., Hatch, D. J. and Owen, E. 2005. Nitrogen budgets for three cropping systems fertilised with cattle manure. Bioresource Technology. 96 (2), pp. 235-245.
Lysimeter experiments to determine the ability of soil to reduce concentrations of BOD, available P and inorganic N in dirty water
Brookman, S. K. E., Chadwick, D. R. and Retter, A. L. 2005. Lysimeter experiments to determine the ability of soil to reduce concentrations of BOD, available P and inorganic N in dirty water. Environmental Technology. 26, pp. 1189-1204.
Emissions of ammonia, nitrous oxide and methane from cattle manure heaps: effect of compaction and covering
Chadwick, D. R. 2005. Emissions of ammonia, nitrous oxide and methane from cattle manure heaps: effect of compaction and covering. Atmospheric Environment. 39 (4), pp. 787-799.
Manure nutrient evaluation routine (MANNER - NPK) (Final report to Defra on project no. KT0105)
Chadwick, D. R. 2004. Manure nutrient evaluation routine (MANNER - NPK) (Final report to Defra on project no. KT0105).
Investigation of the routes by which pathogens associated with livestock slurries and manure may be transferred from the farm to the wider environment
Avery, S., Haygarth, P. M., Hobbs, P. J., Chadwick, D. R., Anthony, S. G., Smith, K. A. and Williams, J. 2004. Investigation of the routes by which pathogens associated with livestock slurries and manure may be transferred from the farm to the wider environment. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
Manure management and the environment
Chadwick, D. R., Misselbrook, T. H., Yamulki, S. and Laws, J. A. 2004. Manure management and the environment. Proceedings of the European Institute of Agricultural Engineering, 13-15 September 2004.
Trends in nitrogen use in agriculture
Chadwick, D. R. and Scholefield, D. 2004. Trends in nitrogen use in agriculture. Lichens in a changing pollution environment, English Nature Report.
Investigating additives for controlling odour from stored centrifuged digested sludge (biosolids)
Lovell, M. J., Hobbs, P. J., Williams, J. S., Chadwick, D. R. and Smith, R. S. 2004. Investigating additives for controlling odour from stored centrifuged digested sludge (biosolids). Environmental Odour Management, Cologne, Germany. 17-19 November 2004.
Effects of solid manure incorporation methodson NH3 and N2O emissions
Yamulki, S., Thorman, R., Webb, J. and Chadwick, D. R. 2004. Effects of solid manure incorporation methodson NH3 and N2O emissions. The Third International Nitrogen Conference, impact of population growth and Economic Development on the Nitrogen Cycle: Consequences and Mitigation at Local, Regional and Global Scales. 12-16 October 2004, Nanjing Hilton Hotel, Nanjing, China, Session 19-3 "N2O emissions and mitigation options".. pp. 190
On-farm quick tests for manure
Chadwick, D. R., Brookman, S. K. E., Williams, J. R., Smith, K. A., Chambers, B. J., Scotford, I. M. and Cumby, T. R. 2004. On-farm quick tests for manure. in: Advanced Silage Corn Management: Nutrient Management pp. 42-44
Nitrogen losses during storage and following the land spreading of poultry manure
Thorman, R. E., Chambers, B. J., Harrison, R., Chadwick, D. R., Matthews, R. A. and Nicholson, R. J. 2004. Nitrogen losses during storage and following the land spreading of poultry manure. Hatch, D. J., Chadwick, D., Jarvis, S. C. and Roker, J. A. (ed.) 'Controlling N Flows and Losses'. Proceedings 12th Nitrogen Workshop, University of Exeter, 21-24 September 2003. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands. pp. 363-364
The effect of agricultural ammonia deposition on nitrous oxide production by soils under coniferous and deciduous woodland cover
Morrissey, T., Ineson, P. and Chadwick, D. R. 2004. The effect of agricultural ammonia deposition on nitrous oxide production by soils under coniferous and deciduous woodland cover. Hatch, D. J., Chadwick, D., Jarvis, S. C. and Roker, J. A. (ed.) 'Controlling N Flows and Losses'. Proceedings 12th Nitrogen Workshop, University of Exeter, 21-24 September 2003. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands. pp. 345-346
Evaluation of targeted or additional straw use as a means of reducing ammonia emissions from buildings for housing cattle and pigs
Chadwick, D. R. 2004. Evaluation of targeted or additional straw use as a means of reducing ammonia emissions from buildings for housing cattle and pigs.
A conceptual model for the characterisation of diffuse pollutants
Granger, S. J., Haygarth, P. M., Chadwick, D. R., Smith, K. A., Anthony, S. G., Chambers, B. J. and Harris, D. 2004. A conceptual model for the characterisation of diffuse pollutants. IWA (International Water Association) 8th International Conference on Diffuse/Nonpoint Pollution, Kyoto, Japan, 24-29 October 2004.
Emissions of ammonia and nitrous oxide following incorporation into the soil of farmyard manures stored at different densities
Webb, J., Chadwick, D. R. and Ellis, S. 2004. Emissions of ammonia and nitrous oxide following incorporation into the soil of farmyard manures stored at different densities. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 70 (1), pp. 67-76.
Greenhouse gas emission reduction measures and technologies
Chadwick, D. R. and Jarvis, S. C. 2004. Greenhouse gas emission reduction measures and technologies. Weiske, A. (ed.) Proceedings International Conference 'Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture - Mitigation Options and Strategies', Leipzig, Germany, 10-12 February 2004. pp. 69-74
Use of a 2-pool model to evaluate the effect of fertiliser application on nitrogen emissions from grassland soils
Cardenas, L. M., Hawkins, J. M. B., Chadwick, D. R. and Scholefield, D. 2004. Use of a 2-pool model to evaluate the effect of fertiliser application on nitrogen emissions from grassland soils. Hatch, D. J., Chadwick, D., Jarvis, S. C. and Roker, J. A. (ed.) 'Controlling N Flows and Losses'. Proceedings 12th Nitrogen Workshop, University of Exeter, 21-24 September 2003. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands. pp. 303-305
Ammonium-N losses from agriculture
Hatch, D. J., Chadwick, D. R., Smith, K. A. and Chambers, B. J. 2004. Ammonium-N losses from agriculture. Lewis, D. and Gairns, L. (ed.) Proceedings 'Agriculture and the Environment,Water Framework Directive and Agriculture'. SEPA/SAC Biennial Conference, Edinburgh, 24-25 March 2004. pp. 165-173
Controlling nitrogen flows and losses
Hatch, D. J., Chadwick, D. R. and Jarvis, S. C. Roker, J. A. (ed.) 2004. Controlling nitrogen flows and losses. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands.
Novel laboratory and field techniques to improve understanding of the denitrification process and enable the development of a new model
Cardenas, L. M., Hawkins. J. M. B., Chadwick, D. R. and Scholefield, D. 2003. Novel laboratory and field techniques to improve understanding of the denitrification process and enable the development of a new model.
Ammonium - N losses from agriculture
Chadwick, D. R., Hatch, D. J. and Smith, K. A. 2003. Ammonium - N losses from agriculture.
Thorman, R., Chambers, B. J., Harrison, R., Chadwick, D. R., Matthews, R. A. and Nicholson, N. 2003. Nitrogen losses during storage and following the land spreading of poultry manure. Abstracts 12th N Workshop, Controlling N flows and losses, Exeter, Devon, UK, 21-24 September 2003.
The effect of agricultural ammonium deposition on nitrous oxide production by soils under coniferous and deciduous woodland cover
Morrissey, T., Chadwick, D. R. and Ineson, P. 2003. The effect of agricultural ammonium deposition on nitrous oxide production by soils under coniferous and deciduous woodland cover. Abstracts 12th N Workshop, Controlling N flows and losses, Exeter, Devon, UK, 21-24 September 2003.
Cardenas, L. M., Hawkins, J. M. B., Chadwick, D. R. and Scholefield, D. 2003. Use of a 2-pool model to evaluate the effect of fertiliser application on nitrogen emissions from grassland soils. Controlling N flows and losses. Abstracts 12th Nitrogen Workshop, Exeter, 21-24 September 2003.
A survey of dairy effluent management in the south of Chile
Salazar, F. J., Dumont, J. C., Santana, M. A., Pain, B. F., Chadwick, D. R. and Owen, E. 2003. A survey of dairy effluent management in the south of Chile. Archivos de Medicina Veterinaria (Valdivia, Chile). 35 (2), pp. 215-225.
Improving slurry nutrient utilisation on grassland farms
Williams, J. R., Chambers, B. J., Lapworth, J., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2003. Improving slurry nutrient utilisation on grassland farms. BGS Organising Committee (ed.) Proceedings 7th British Grassland Society (BGS) Research Conference, Aberystwyth, 1-3 September 2003. pp. 11-12
Farm manures - a source of organic nitrogen
Williams, J. R. and Chadwick, D. R. 2003. Farm manures - a source of organic nitrogen. (June), p. p3.
The effect of FYM storage conditions and land practices on N2O emissions
Chadwick, D. R. 2003. The effect of FYM storage conditions and land practices on N2O emissions.
Investigation of how ammonia emissions from buildings housing cattle vary with the time cattle spend inside those buildings
Webb, J., Balsdon, S. and Chadwick, D. R. 2003. Investigation of how ammonia emissions from buildings housing cattle vary with the time cattle spend inside those buildings. Van den Weghe, S. (ed.) 'Construction, Technology and Environment in Livestock Farming'. 6th International Conference, KTBL, Vechta, Germany, 25-27 March 2003. pp. 303-310
Updating the inventory of ammonia emissions from UK agriculture for the years 2000 and 2001
Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Chambers, B. J., Smith, K. A., Webb, J., Demmers, T. and Sneath, R. W. 2003. Updating the inventory of ammonia emissions from UK agriculture for the years 2000 and 2001.
Nitrate leaching from grassland and maize cropping systems fertilised with cattle manures
Salazar, F. J., Hatch, D. J., Chadwick, D. R., Pain, B. F. and Owen, E. 2002. Nitrate leaching from grassland and maize cropping systems fertilised with cattle manures. Abstract, 'Soils and Environmental Quality'. British Society of Soil Science Conference, University of Plymouth, Seale-Hayne Campus, 8-11 September 2002.
The use of 15N to trace plant uptake of labelled dairy slurry injected into the soil: influence of the new nitrification inhibitor, DMPP
Hatch, D. J., Chadwick, D. R., Bol, R. and King, R. 2002. The use of 15N to trace plant uptake of labelled dairy slurry injected into the soil: influence of the new nitrification inhibitor, DMPP. Annual Meeting of the Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Users Group, Belfast, UK, 17-18 January 2002.
Evaluation of increased straw use as a means of reducing ammonia emission from housed cattle and pigs
Balsdon, S. L., Chadwick, D. R., Webb, J. and Day, J. 2002. Evaluation of increased straw use as a means of reducing ammonia emission from housed cattle and pigs. Venglovsky, J. and Greserova, G. (ed.) Proceedings 10th International Conference of the FAO (Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture Network) RAMIRAN 2002 on 'Hygiene Safety', Strbske Pleso, High Tatras, Slovak Republic, 14-18 May 2002. pp. 291-292
Effect of carbon availability on N2 and N2O emissions
Cardenas, L. M., Hawkins, J. M. B., Martinez, J., Chadwick, D. R. and Scholefield, D. 2002. Effect of carbon availability on N2 and N2O emissions. Abstracts. CEMAGREF Workshop, Rennes, France, 10-12 June 2001.
Study of denitrification in grassland soils in relation to carbon application
Cardenas, L. M., Hawkins, J. M. B., Chadwick, D. R. and Scholefield, D. 2002. Study of denitrification in grassland soils in relation to carbon application. Poster BIOGEMON 2002. 4th International Symposium on Ecosystem Behaviour, University of Reading, 17-21 August 2002.
Nitrogen flows and losses in dairy farms in New Zealand and the UK: effects of grazing management
Chadwick, D. R., Ledgard, S. F. and Brown, L. 2002. Nitrogen flows and losses in dairy farms in New Zealand and the UK: effects of grazing management. Abstracts. Workshop on Dairy Farm Soil Management, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 13-14 February 2002. pp. 319-331
Integration of animal manures in crop and livestock farming systems: nutrient demonstration farms
Chambers, B. J., Williams, J. R., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2002. Integration of animal manures in crop and livestock farming systems: nutrient demonstration farms.
Mineralisation of organic nitrogen from farm manure applications
Chambers, B. J., Williams, J. R. and Chadwick, D. R. 2002. Mineralisation of organic nitrogen from farm manure applications.
Implications of potential measures to control pathogens associated with livestock manure management
Nicholson, R. J., Chambers, B. J., Gibbs, P. and Chadwick, D. R. 2002. Implications of potential measures to control pathogens associated with livestock manure management.
Managing manure to reduce pollution
Chadwick, D. R. 2002. Managing manure to reduce pollution.
Use of additional straw to reduce ammonia emissions from housed livestock
Balsdon, S. L., Webb, J., Chadwick, D. R., Retter, A. L. and Day, J. 2002. Use of additional straw to reduce ammonia emissions from housed livestock. Poster 10th International Conference of the European cooperative network on recycling of agricultural, municipal and industrial residues in agriculture (RAMIRAN), Strbske Pleso, High Tatras, Slovak Republic, 14-18 May 2002.
Nitrous oxide emissions from slurry- and straw-based systems for cattle and pigs in relation to emissions of ammonia
Chadwick, D. R., Burston, M., Balsdon, S., Ellis, S., Harrison, R. and Thorman, R. 2002. Nitrous oxide emissions from slurry- and straw-based systems for cattle and pigs in relation to emissions of ammonia. Abstracts SAC/SEPA Conference: Agriculture, Waste and the Environment, Edinburgh, UK, 25-28 March 2002.
Salazar, F. J., Chadwick, D. R., Pain, B. F., Hatch, D. J. and Owen, E. 2002. Nitrogen budgets for three cropping systems fertilised with cattle manure. Venglovsky, J. and Greserova, G. (ed.) Proceedings 10th International Conference of the FAO (Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture Network) RAMIRAN 2002 on 'Hygiene Safety', Strbske Pleso, High Tatras, Slovak Republic, 14-18 May 2002. pp. 157-160
Management practices to reduce ammonia emissions from pig and cattle manure stores
Chadwick, D. R., Matthews, R. A., Nicholson, R. J., Chambers, B. J. and Boyles, L. O. 2002. Management practices to reduce ammonia emissions from pig and cattle manure stores. Venglosky, J. and Greserova, G. (ed.) Proceedings 10th International Conference of the FAO (Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture Network) RAMIRAN 2002 on 'Hygiene Safety', Strbske Pleso, High Tatras, Slovak Republic, 14-18 May 2002. pp. 219-222
Ammonia losses from contrasting cattle and pig manure management systems
Chambers, B. J., Williams, J. R., Cooke, S. D., Kay, R. M., Chadwick, D. R. and Balsdon, S. L. 2002. Ammonia losses from contrasting cattle and pig manure management systems. Proceedings Scottish Agricultural Colleges / Scottish Environmental Protection Agency Agriculture and Waste II Conference, Edinburgh, March 2002. pp. p14
Construction of disturbed and intact soil blocks to develop percolating soil based treatment systems for dirty water from dairy farms
Brookman, S. K. E., Chadwick, D. R. and Headon, D. M. 2002. Construction of disturbed and intact soil blocks to develop percolating soil based treatment systems for dirty water from dairy farms. Environmental Technology. 23 (3), pp. 331-343.
Chadwick, D. R. and Chen, S. 2002. Manures. in: Haygarth, P. M. and Jarvis, S. C. (ed.) Agriculture, Hydrology and Water Quality CABI International, Wallingford, Oxon (CABI). pp. 57-82
Nitrous oxide emissions from injected 15N-labelled cattle slurry into grassland soil as affected by DMPP nitrification inhibitor
Dittert, K., Bol, R., Chadwick, D. R. and Hatch, D. J. 2001. Nitrous oxide emissions from injected 15N-labelled cattle slurry into grassland soil as affected by DMPP nitrification inhibitor. Horst, W. J., Schenk, M. K., Burkert, A., Claassen, N., Flessa, H., Frommer, W. B., Goldbach, H. E. and Et Al (ed.) Plant nutrition: food security and sustainability of agro-ecosystems through basic and applied research. 14th International Plant Nutrition Colloquium, Hannover, Germany. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands. pp. 768-769
Organic nitrogen release from farm manures
Williams, J. R., Chambers, B. J., Chadwick, D. R., Bhogal, A. and King, J. A. 2001. Organic nitrogen release from farm manures. Poster 11th Nitrogen Workshop, Reims, France, 9-12 September 2001.
Nitrogen mineralisation from dairy cattle manures with different dry matter contents
Salazar, F. J., Chadwick, D. R., Hatch, D. J., Pain, B. F. and Owen, E. 2001. Nitrogen mineralisation from dairy cattle manures with different dry matter contents. Poster 11th Nitrogen Workshop, Reims, France, 9-12 September 2001. pp. 197-198
Nitrous oxide emission after injection of 15N labelled dairy slurry injected into soil
Bol, R., Dittert, K., King, R., Chadwick, D. R. and Hatch, D. J. 2001. Nitrous oxide emission after injection of 15N labelled dairy slurry injected into soil. Abstract SIMSUG 2001. Annual Meeting of the Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Users' Group, Glasgow, UK, January 2001.
Dairy slurry effects on phosphate retention and release in four UK grassland soils
Whitehead, P., Chadwick, D. R. and Robinson, J. S. 2001. Dairy slurry effects on phosphate retention and release in four UK grassland soils. Haygarth, P. M., Condron, L. M., Butler, P. J. and Chisholm, J. S. (ed.) Connecting phosphorus transfer from agriculture to impacts in surface waters. Proceedings International Phosphorus Transfer Workshop, 28 August - 1 September 2001, Plymouth, Devon, UK. pp. 65
A survey of dairy effluent management in the south of Chile: an effective tool to determine farmers' and research requirements
Salazar, F. J., Dumont, J. C., Santana, M., Pain, B. F., Chadwick, D. R. and Owen, E. 2001. A survey of dairy effluent management in the south of Chile: an effective tool to determine farmers' and research requirements. Sangiorgi, F. (ed.) Technology Transfer - RAMIRAN 2000. Proceedings 9th International Conference of the FAO ESCORENA Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture, Gargnano, Italy, 6-9 September 2000. pp. 301-306
Nitrogen losses and uptake in a ryegrass and clover sward and maize/rye rotations fertilised with cattle manures with different dry matter contents
Salazar, F. J., Pain, B. F., Chadwick, D. R. and Owen, E. 2001. Nitrogen losses and uptake in a ryegrass and clover sward and maize/rye rotations fertilised with cattle manures with different dry matter contents. Sangiorgi, F. (ed.) Technology Transfer - RAMIRAN 2000. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the FAO ESCORENA Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture, Gargnano, Italy, 6-9 September 2000. pp. 505-507
Ammonia fluxes from solid and liquid manure management systems for beef cattle and pigs
Balsdon, S. L., Williams, J. R., Southwood, N. J., Chadwick, D. R. and Pain, B. F. 2001. Ammonia fluxes from solid and liquid manure management systems for beef cattle and pigs. Sangiorgi, F. (ed.) Technology Transfer - RAMIRAN 2000. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the FAO ESCORENA Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture, Gargnano, Italy, 6-9 September 2000. pp. 115-120
Application of an improved technique to evaluate controls on nitrous (N2O) emissions from grassland soils
Cardenas, L. M., Hawkins, J. M. B., Chadwick, D. R. and Scholefield, D. 2001. Application of an improved technique to evaluate controls on nitrous (N2O) emissions from grassland soils. Proceedings of an International Workshop on Emissions of Chemical Species and Aerosols into the Atmosphere, Paris, France, 19-22 June 2001.
Use of a novel nitrification inhibitor to reduce nitrous oxide emission from 15N-labelled slurry injected into soil
Dittert, K., Bol, R., King, Rosalind, Chadwick, D. R. and Hatch, D. J. 2001. Use of a novel nitrification inhibitor to reduce nitrous oxide emission from 15N-labelled slurry injected into soil. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 15 (15), pp. 1291-1296.
Integration of farm manure nitrogen supply within commercial farming systems
Williams, J. R., Chambers, B. J., Ellis, S., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2001. Integration of farm manure nitrogen supply within commercial farming systems. Sangiorgi, F. (ed.) Technology Transfer - RAMIRAN 2000. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the FAO ESCORENA Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture, Gargnano, Italy, 6-9 September 2000. pp. 263-268
Gaseous emissions from outdoor concrete yards used by livestock
Misselbrook, T. H., Webb, J., Chadwick, D. R., Ellis, S. and Pain, B. F. 2001. Gaseous emissions from outdoor concrete yards used by livestock. Atmospheric Environment. 35 (31), pp. 5331-5338.
Emission of ammonia (NH3), nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) from a dairy hardstanding in the UK
Ellis, S., Webb, J., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2001. Emission of ammonia (NH3), nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) from a dairy hardstanding in the UK. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 60 (1-3), pp. 115-122.
Nitrogen transformations and ammonia loss following injection and surface application of pig slurry: a laboratory experiment using slurry labelled with 15N-ammonium
Chadwick, D. R., Martinez, J., Marol, C. and Beline, F. 2001. Nitrogen transformations and ammonia loss following injection and surface application of pig slurry: a laboratory experiment using slurry labelled with 15N-ammonium. The Journal of Agricultural Science. 136, pp. 231-240.
Dairy farm waste management: future requirements
Chadwick, D. R., Laws, J. A. and Jarvis, S. C. 2000. Dairy farm waste management: future requirements.
Soil based treatments systems for dirty water
Chadwick, D. R. 2000. Soil based treatments systems for dirty water.
Soil based treatment systems for dirty water
Brookman, S. K. E., Chadwick, D. R., Pain, B. F., Harrod, T. R. and Retter, A. L. 2000. Soil based treatment systems for dirty water. Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research IGER, North Wyke Okehampton.
Evaluating the boundary line approach for predicting N2O and denitrification losses following manure applications to agricultural land
Harrison, R. and Chadwick, D. R. 2000. Evaluating the boundary line approach for predicting N2O and denitrification losses following manure applications to agricultural land.
Emissions of N2O and denitrification following new slurry application techniques to reduce ammonia emissions
Chadwick, D. R., Harrison, R. and Pain, B. F. 2000. Emissions of N2O and denitrification following new slurry application techniques to reduce ammonia emissions.
Chadwick, D. R., Brookman, S. K. E., Leeds-Harrison, P., Tyrrel, S., Cumby, T. R. and Harrod, T. 2000. Soil based treatment systems for dirty water.
Emissions of N2O from beef cattle housed in slurry and straw-bedded systems
Chadwick, D. R. 2000. Emissions of N2O from beef cattle housed in slurry and straw-bedded systems.
Nitrogen transformations and ammonia loss following injection and surface applications of pig slurry: a laboratory experiment using slurry labelled with 15N-ammonium
Chadwick, D. R., Martinez, J., Beline, F. and Peu, P. 2000. Nitrogen transformations and ammonia loss following injection and surface applications of pig slurry: a laboratory experiment using slurry labelled with 15N-ammonium. SIMSUG 2000. Annual Meeting of the Stable Isotope Mass Spectometry Users Group, ITE Merlewood, Grange over Sands, 18-19 January 2000.
Anaerobic manure storage to reduce ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions
Webb, J., Chadwick, D. R. and Ellis, S. 2000. Anaerobic manure storage to reduce ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions. Proceedings 6th British Grassland Society Research Conference, Aberdeen, 11-13 September 2000. British Grassland Society (BGS) Hurley. pp. 15-16
Ammonia fluxes from solid and liquid based manure management systems for beef cattle
Balsdon, S. L., Southwood, N. J., Chadwick, D. R. and Pain, B. F. 2000. Ammonia fluxes from solid and liquid based manure management systems for beef cattle. Proceedings 6th British Grassland Society Research Conference, Aberdeen, 11-13 September 2000. British Grassland Society (BGS) Hurley. pp. 13-14
Nitrogen losses and utilisation in a ryegrass and clover sward and maize / rye rotations fertilised with different cattle manures
Salazar, F., Pain, B. F., Chadwick, D. R. and Owen, E. 2000. Nitrogen losses and utilisation in a ryegrass and clover sward and maize / rye rotations fertilised with different cattle manures. Proceedings 6th British Grassland Society Research Conference, Aberdeen, 11-13 September 2000. British Grassland Society (BGS) Hurley. pp. 11-12
Evidence of sequential decay in recycled paper sludge and pig manure mixtures
Hobbs, P. J., Johnson, R. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 2000. Evidence of sequential decay in recycled paper sludge and pig manure mixtures. Proceedings 8th International Symposium on Animal, Agricultural and Food Processing Wastes (ISAAFPW), Des Moines, Iowa, 9-11 October 2000. Americal Society of Animal Science. pp. 321-328
Is Europe reducing its ammonia emissions at the expense of the global environment?
Chadwick, D. R., Misselbrook, T. H. and Pain, B. F. 2000. Is Europe reducing its ammonia emissions at the expense of the global environment? Air Pollution from Agricultural Operations, Proceedings 2nd International Conference, October 9-11, 2000, Des Moines, Iowa. American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE), St Joseph, Michigan. pp. 1-9
Chadwick, D. R., Brookman, S. K. E., Leeds-Harrison, P., Tyrrel, S., Fleming, S. and Pain, B. F. 2000. Soil based treatment systems for dirty water. Moore, J. A. (ed.) Animal, Agricultural and Food Processing Wastes, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium, Des Moines, Iowa, 9-11 October 2000. American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE), St Joseph, Michigan. pp. 728-735
Plant uptake of nitrogen from the organic nitrogen fraction of animal manures: a laboratory experiment
Chadwick, D. R., John, F., Pain, B. F., Chambers, B. J. and Williams, J. R. 2000. Plant uptake of nitrogen from the organic nitrogen fraction of animal manures: a laboratory experiment. The Journal of Agricultural Science. 134, pp. 159-168.
Nitrous oxide and methane emissions following application of animal manures to grassland
Chadwick, D. R., Pain, B. F. and Brookman, S. K. E. 2000. Nitrous oxide and methane emissions following application of animal manures to grassland. Journal of Environmental Quality. 29 (1), pp. 277-287.
Run-off and emissions from hard-standings
Misselbrook, T. H., Webb, J., Chadwick, D. R., Ellis, S. and Pain, B. F. 1999. Run-off and emissions from hard-standings.
Field studies of farm manure organic nitrogen mineralisation
Williams, J. R., Chambers, B. J., Bhogal, A., Chadwick, D. R. and Pain, B. F. 1999. Field studies of farm manure organic nitrogen mineralisation. Martinez, Jose and Maudet, Marie-Noelle (ed.) RAMIRAN 98. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the FAO ESCORENA Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture Rennes, France, 26-29 May 1998. pp. 101-111
Emissions of ammonia, methane and nitrous oxide from farm hardstandings in the UK
Ellis, S., Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R. and Webb, J. 1999. Emissions of ammonia, methane and nitrous oxide from farm hardstandings in the UK. Biogenic Emissions of Greenhouse Gases Caused by Arable and Animal Agriculture - Processes, Inventories, Mitigation. Proceedings of a Meeting, Stuttgart, Germany, 13-15 October 1999.
Potential for reducing gaseous N emissions from high input agriculture
Chadwick, D. R., Misselbrook, T. H. and Pain, B. F. 1999. Potential for reducing gaseous N emissions from high input agriculture. Proceedings 10th Nitrogen Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, 23-26 August 1999.
Gaseous emissions from dairy cattle collecting yards
Misselbrook, T. H., Pain, B. F., Chadwick, D. R. and Headon, D. M. 1999. Gaseous emissions from dairy cattle collecting yards. Martinez, Jose and Maudet, Marie-Noelle (ed.) RAMIRAN 98. Management Strategies for Organic Waste Use in Agriculture. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the FAO ESCORENA Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture, Rennes, France, 26-29 May 1998 Volume 1. FAO / CEMAGREF, Rennes. pp. 257-267
Williams, J. R., Chambers, B. J., Chadwick, D. R. and Pain, B. F. 1999. Mineralisation of organic nitrogen from farm manure applications. Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research IGER, North Wyke Okehampton.
Williams, J. R., Chambers, B. J., Bhogal, A., Chadwick, D. R. and Pain, B. F. 1999. Field studies of farm manure organic nitrogen mineralisation. Martinez, J. and Maudet, M. N. (ed.) Proceedings 8th International Conference of the FAO ESCORENA Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture (RAMIRAN 98) Rennes, France, 26-29 May 1998. FAO / CEMAGREF, Paris. pp. 101-111
Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from UK agricultural livestock
Chadwick, D. R., Sneath, R. W., Phillips, V. R. and Pain, B. F. 1999. Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from UK agricultural livestock. Martinez, J. and Maudet, M. N. (ed.) Proceedings 8th International Conference of the FAO ESCORENA Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture (RAMIRAN 98), Rennes, France, 26-29 May 1998. FAO / CEMAGREF, Paris. pp. 279-292
Trace gas emissions from livestock systems
Yamulki, S., Murray, P. J., Jarvis, S. C. and Chadwick, D. R. 1999. Trace gas emissions from livestock systems. GCTE International Conference on Effect of Agricultural Intensification on Trace Gas Emissions, University of Reading, UK, 23 September 1999.
Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
Jarvis, S. C. and Chadwick, D. R. 1999. Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research IGER, North Wyke Okehampton.
Rapid methods for the analysis of readily available nitrogen in manure
Williams, J. R., Hurst, C. L., Chambers, B. J., Brookman, S. K. E. and Chadwick, D. R. 1999. Rapid methods for the analysis of readily available nitrogen in manure. Corrall, A. J. (ed.) Accounting for Nutrients: A Challenge for Grassland Farmers in the 21st Century, British Grassland Society Occasional Symposium No 33, BGS Conference, Great Malvern, UK, 22-23 November 1999. British Grassland Society (BGS) Hurley. pp. 171-172
Practical management of manure to reduce phosphorus accumulation in soils
Whitehead, P., Chadwick, D. R., Haygarth, P. M. and Robinson, J. S. 1999. Practical management of manure to reduce phosphorus accumulation in soils. Corrall, A. J. (ed.) Accounting for Nutrients: A Challenge for Grassland Farmers in the 21st Century, British Grassland Society Occasional Symposium No 33, BGS Conference, Great Malvern, UK, 22-23 November 1999. British Grassland Society (BGS) Hurley. pp. 169-70
Controlling losses of nitrogen as ammonia from manures
Pain, B. F., Misselbrook, T. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 1999. Controlling losses of nitrogen as ammonia from manures. Corrall, A. J. (ed.) Accounting for Nutrients: A Challenge for Grassland Farmers in the 21st Century, British Grassland Society Occasional Symposium No 33, BGS Conference, Great Malvern, UK, 22-23 November 1999. British Grassland Society (BGS) Hurley. pp. 93-98
Transport of nutrients and organic material following applications of animal wastes to grassland soils
Chadwick, D. R. and Pain, B. F. 1999. Transport of nutrients and organic material following applications of animal wastes to grassland soils. Corrall, A. J. (ed.) Accounting for Nutrients: A Challenge for Grassland Farmers in the 21st Century, British Grassland Society Occasional Symposium No 33, BGS Conference, Great Malvern, UK, 22-23 November 1999. British Grassland Society (BGS) Hurley. pp. 87-92
The four villages soil trail for kids
Bol, R., Donaghy, D. T., Ostle, N. J., Chadwick, D. R., McTiernan, K. B., Haygarth, P. M. and Ross, C. A. 1999. The four villages soil trail for kids.
Stable isotopes as a means of investigating decay processes in organic wastes
Hobbs, P. J., Johnson, R. A. and Chadwick, D. R. 1999. Stable isotopes as a means of investigating decay processes in organic wastes. SIMSUG 1999, Book of Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Users Group, Exeter, UK, 19-20 January 1999 (R Bol, SC Jarvis & LR Mytton, organisers). Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research IGER, North Wyke Okehampton. pp. 52
Isotopic detection of possible organic-N uptake by Lolium perenne (L.)
Chadwick, D. R. and Ostle, N. J. 1999. Isotopic detection of possible organic-N uptake by Lolium perenne (L.). SIMSUG 1999, Book of Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Users Group, Exeter, UK, 19-20 January 1999 (R Bol, SC Jarvis & LR Mytton, organisers). Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research IGER, North Wyke Okehampton. pp. 39-40
Factors affecting nitrogen transformations and related nitrous oxide emissions from aerobically treated piggery slurry
Beline, F., Martinez, J., Chadwick, D. R., Guiziou, F. and Coste, C. M. 1999. Factors affecting nitrogen transformations and related nitrous oxide emissions from aerobically treated piggery slurry. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research. 73 (3), pp. 235-243.
A UK inventory of nitrous oxide emissions from farmed livestock
Chadwick, D. R., Sneath, R. W., Phillips, V. R. and Pain, B. F. 1999. A UK inventory of nitrous oxide emissions from farmed livestock. Atmospheric Environment. 33, pp. 3345-3354.
A novel technique to determine organic processes in pig wastes
Hobbs, P. J., Johnson, R. H. and Chadwick, D. R. 1999. A novel technique to determine organic processes in pig wastes. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 79 (2), pp. 199-205.
Prospects for the recovery of phosphorus from animal manures: a review
Greaves, J. B., Hobbs, P. J., Chadwick, D. R. and Haygarth, P. M. 1999. Prospects for the recovery of phosphorus from animal manures: a review. Environmental Technology. 20 (7), pp. 697-708.
Use of a novel incubation technique to measure N2O/N2 following surface or injected application of slurry
Scholefield, D., Chadwick, D. R. and Hawkins, J. M. B. 1999. Use of a novel incubation technique to measure N2O/N2 following surface or injected application of slurry. Buchanan-Smith, J. G., Bailey, L. D. and McCaughey, P. (ed.) Grasslands 2000, Proceedings of the XVIII International Grassland Congress, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 8-17 June 1997 (Vol 2). Canadian Forage Council, Can Soc Agron, Can Soc Anim Sci. pp. 20-3 - 20-4
Evaluation and development of rapid nitrogen tests for slurries and solid manures
Williams, J., Chadwick, D. R., Chambers, B. J. and Pain, B. F. 1998. Evaluation and development of rapid nitrogen tests for slurries and solid manures.
Fate of organic nitrogen from manures
Williams, J., Chadwick, D. R., Chambers, B. J. and Pain, B. F. 1998. Fate of organic nitrogen from manures.
Gaseous emissions from a beef systems housed on straw
Asteraki, E. J., Chadwick, D. R., Pain, B. F. and Matthews, R. A. 1998. Gaseous emissions from a beef systems housed on straw.
The fate of aqueous pollutant in runoff and interflow following applications of dirty water to grassland
Chadwick, D. R., Brookman, S. K. E. and Pain, B. F. 1998. The fate of aqueous pollutant in runoff and interflow following applications of dirty water to grassland.
Transport of nutrients and organic material in soils following applications of animal wastes
Chadwick, D. R. and Pain, B. F. 1998. Transport of nutrients and organic material in soils following applications of animal wastes. Matsunaka, T. (ed.) Environmentally Friendly Management of Farm Animal Waste, Proceedings of International Workshop, Sapporo, Japan, 25-29 November 1997. Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan. pp. 103-107
Stable isotopes to investigate decay processes in farm wastes
Hobbs, P. J., Chadwick, D. R. and Johnson, R. H. 1998. Stable isotopes to investigate decay processes in farm wastes. Eighth International Conference of the European Cooperative Research Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture, Rennes, France, 26-29 May 1998.
Nitrogen transformations and losses following pig slurry applications to a natural soil filter system (Solepur process) in Brittany, France
Chadwick, D. R., Van der Weerden, T. J., Martinez, J. and Pain, B. F. 1998. Nitrogen transformations and losses following pig slurry applications to a natural soil filter system (Solepur process) in Brittany, France. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research. 69, pp. 85-93.
Chadwick, D. R. 1998. Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from UK agricultural livestock. Eighth International Conference of the European Cooperative Research Network on Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture, Rennes, France, 26-29 May 1998.
Dietary manipulation as a means of decreasing N losses and methane emissions and improving herbage N uptake following application of pig slurry to grassland
Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Pain, B. F. and Headon, D. M. 1998. Dietary manipulation as a means of decreasing N losses and methane emissions and improving herbage N uptake following application of pig slurry to grassland. The Journal of Agricultural Science. 130 (2), pp. 183-191.
Design criteria for effective buffer zones
Scholefield, D., Chadwick, D. R. and Macey, N. 1998. Design criteria for effective buffer zones. in: Nagy, G. and Peto, K. (ed.) Ecological Aspects of Grassland Management, Proceedings of the 17th General Meeting of the European Grassland Federation, Debrecen Agricultural University, Debrecen, Hungary, 18-21 May 1998 British Grassland Society (BGS) Hurley. pp. 587-590
Decomposition of Pinus sylvestris litter in litter bags: influence of underlying native litter layer
Chadwick, D. R., Ineson, P., Woods, C. and Piearce, T. G. 1998. Decomposition of Pinus sylvestris litter in litter bags: influence of underlying native litter layer. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 30 (1), pp. 47-55.
The fate of nitrogen from organic manures
Chambers, B. J., Williams, J. R., Smith, K. A., Chadwick, D. R., John, C. and Pain, B. F. 1997. The fate of nitrogen from organic manures.
The development of user friendly systems for on-farm estimation of the available nitrogen content in solid manures and slurries
Williams, J. R., Chambers, B. J., Smith, K. A., Brookman, S. K. E., Chadwick, D. R. and Pain, B. F. 1997. The development of user friendly systems for on-farm estimation of the available nitrogen content in solid manures and slurries.
Rapid methods for slurry nitrogen analysis
Williams, J. R., Chambers, B. J., Smith, K. A. and Chadwick, D. R. 1997. Rapid methods for slurry nitrogen analysis. British Society of Soil Science Meeting, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions from grassland following applications of slurry: potential abatement practices
Chadwick, D. R. 1997. Nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions from grassland following applications of slurry: potential abatement practices. in: Jarvis, S. C. and Pain, B. F. (ed.) Gaseous Nitrogen Emissions from Grasslands Wallingford, Oxon CAB International (CABI). pp. 257-264
Mineralisation of organic nitrogen from animal manures
Chadwick, D. R., John, F., Pain, B. F., Chambers, B. J. and Williams, J. R. 1997. Mineralisation of organic nitrogen from animal manures. Fertilization for Sustainable Plant Production and Soil Fertility, 11th World Fertilizer Congress of CIEC, Gent, Belgium, 7-13 September 1997.
Methane and nitrous oxide emissions following applications of manures to grassland
Chadwick, D. R. and Pain, B. F. 1997. Methane and nitrous oxide emissions following applications of manures to grassland.
Control by dietary manipulation of emissions from pig slurry following landspreading
Misselbrook, T. H., Chadwick, D. R., Hobbs, P. J. and Pain, B. F. 1997. Control by dietary manipulation of emissions from pig slurry following landspreading. in: Voermans, J. A. M. and Monteny, G. J. (ed.) Ammonia and Odour Control from Animal Production Facilities NVTL, Rosmalen, the Netherlands. pp. 261-266
Animal manure management and nitrogen supply
Chadwick, D. R. 1997. Animal manure management and nitrogen supply. Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) Research Day, Wortley Hall, Sheffield, 27 August 1997.
Emission of greenhouse gases and ammonia from grassland following the application of pig slurry: effect of diet
Chadwick, D. R., Van der Weerden, T. J. and Misselbrook, T. H. 1996. Emission of greenhouse gases and ammonia from grassland following the application of pig slurry: effect of diet. SCI Meeting "Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture", 16 January 1996.
The fate of biochemical oxygen demand following application of farm wastes to soils
Brookman, S. K. E., Chadwick, D. R. and Pain, B. F. 1996. The fate of biochemical oxygen demand following application of farm wastes to soils.
The impact of enhanced ultraviolet-B radiation on litter quality and decomposition processes in Vaccinium leaves from the Subarctic
Gehrke, C., Johanson, U., Gallaghan, T. V., Chadwick, D. R. and Robinson, C. H. 1995. The impact of enhanced ultraviolet-B radiation on litter quality and decomposition processes in Vaccinium leaves from the Subarctic. Oikos. 72 (2), pp. 213-222.
Determination of phospholipid- and lipopolysaccharide-derived fatty acids as an estimate of microbial biomass and community structures in soils
Zelles, L., Bai, Q. Y., Rackwitz, R., Chadwick, D. R. and Beese, F. 1995. Determination of phospholipid- and lipopolysaccharide-derived fatty acids as an estimate of microbial biomass and community structures in soils. Biology And Fertility Of Soils. 19, pp. 115-123.
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The Windows 2000 access control model
This excerpt from "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" describes the difference between a privilege and permission, and how and why they're used.
Get a glimpse inside Paul Cooke's e-book "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" with this series of book excerpts, courtesy of Realtimepublishers.com. This excerpt is from Chapter 5, "Configuring access control." Click for the book excerpt series or get the full e-book.
Before delving in, I want to point out that Windows 2000's access control model isn't a whole lot different than the model implemented in Windows NT 4.0. As a result, you might already have a basic comprehension of how to do things such as assign user privileges and set permissions. But do you really know what the difference is between a privilege and permission, how the operating system (OS) uses them, or even why they're necessary?
If you answered no to any of these questions, read on; by the time you've finished this chapter, you should know the answer to these and many other questions. In addition, you'll have a thorough understanding of how Windows 2000 uses both authorization and access control. Even if you answered yes to all three questions, I encourage you to read on because I'll provide the answers to many more questions about the Windows 2000 access control model.
The five principles of access control
To understand how Windows 2000 performs access control, you'll benefit from looking at the five overriding principles that Microsoft used to design the access control mechanisms in Windows 2000. Combined, these principles provide an overview of the basic characteristics of Windows 2000's access control model. Figure 5.1 illustrates the following principles:
User-based authorizations
Inheritance of permissions
Administrative privileges
Auditing of system events
Figure 5.1: The access control model of Windows 2000.
In this chapter, I'll delve well past these principles into many of the constructs that implement this access control model. No matter how complicated some of the details may seem the basic model of access control is predicated on these five simple concepts, which you can always go back to.
The access control model in Windows 2000 begins with user-based authorizations. Thus, applications that run on your behalf run with the same set of permissions, authorizations and privileges that you've been granted. As a result, these applications can do only what you're allowed to do. Think for a second about what happens when you run an application such as the Windows Explorer shell. You can access only those files on the system that you're authorized to access, and other users can access only the files on the system that they're authorized to access. Access to an application is controlled by the permissions of the user who is running the application, not the application itself. This setup is advantageous because we know that the OS is in control of enforcing authorizations rather than each and every application developer out there!
The next aspect of the Windows 2000 access control model is the use of discretionary access control (DAC). DAC lets users control the permissions on objects that they own. This concept should be pretty familiar to anyone who has ever changed the permissions on a file that he or she wanted to share with someone else. With DAC, you control who has access to the folders, files and other objects that you own.
Maybe the most powerful of Windows 2000's access control model principles is inheritance of permissions. When you create a new object, you can control the permissions on it by allowing inheritable permissions on the container object. While the previous sentence sounds a little vague, think about what naturally happens when you create a new file in your My Documents folder: The new file takes on the permissions of the folder, and anyone who can access your My Documents folder can also access the new file. This access is possible because by default new objects inherit the permissions of their parents. (I'll talk more about how inheritances are propagated; see "ACE Inheritance.")
Another aspect of the Windows 2000 access control model is the concept of administrative privileges. Windows 2000 allows control over which users and/or groups have the right to perform a number of administrative functions or take actions that affect all of a system's resources. Using administrative privileges, you can give one group of users the ability to back up a system and give another group the ability to restore folders and files. If you think this process sounds a lot like user rights assignment, you're correct; Windows 2000 implements administrative privileges as user rights. (I'll cover this aspect of access control in "User Rights Assignments" later in this chapter.)
Auditing of system events is the final aspect of Windows 2000's access control model. It allows you to monitor for attempts to circumvent authorizations on resources in your environment and perform actions such as create an audit trail of actions taken by administrators. Microsoft considers the auditing of system events part of the access control model, and I agree. However, it's really a topic unto itself. So although I'll touch on auditing in this chapter when necessary, I'll save the bulk of the discussion until Chapter 6, which I'll devote entirely to auditing.
Click for the next excerpt in this series: How access control works
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New Ivanti CEO plans to stay close to the customer
New Ivanti CEO Jim Schaper is no stranger to the C-suite of an IT company. And he's got a plan to push the company forward.
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New Phishing Scam Uses Fraudulent PDF Files
January 9, 2017 @ 12:10 PM
Security researcher John Bambenek disclosed a new kind of phishing scam on the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) InfoSec Forum last week. Bambenek described an email purportedly sent from VetMeds with the subject line “Assessment document.” The body of the email contains a single, phony PDF attachment created with Microsoft Word that appears to be locked. The email contains a link that purportedly unlocks the PDF content.
How the Phishing Scam Works
When a victim clicks the link, the default PDF viewer is invoked. The embedded link in the document points to chai[.]myjino[.]ru. If Adobe Acrobat is invoked, it prompts the victim that the document is trying to redirect to another site and offers an option to accept or decline. SANS handlers noted that this does not occur in Microsoft Edge, which is the default PDF viewer for Windows 10.
Once the victim arrives at the site, a dialog box appears above the PDF that allegedly needs to be opened. This box prompts the victim to enter an email address and password. This data is forwarded to the spammer, no matter what the victim enters into the fake unlocking mechanism.
If the document is opened, it appears to be a Russian Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) banking transaction. Why this particular document appears is a mystery.
Targeting Joe Cubicle
“This is an untargeted phishing campaign,” Bambenek told Threatpost. “They are not going after the most sophisticated users. They are going after Joe Cubicle that may not think twice about entering credentials to unlock a PDF.”
The SANS post offers no information about the scope of this attack. Bambenek said, however, that SANS has been forwarded a number of these particular emails in the past few days from across the country.
Users should be careful not to open emails from unfamiliar domains. Additionally, remember that encrypted PDF documents are not typically locked behind a login screen.
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NASS siege: Oshiomhole now a gangster, nuisance in Nigeria – Ihedioha
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Former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha has also condemned yesterday’s invasion of the National Assembly complex by a team of DSS operatives. Ihedioha, who said the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, was behind the whole saga, warned that the country was too big for any individual or group to hold ransom.
Speaking through his Media Aide, Mr. Chibuike Onyeukwu, Ihedioha described the NASS invasion as a sacrilege and slap on Nigerians. He said: “I wish to alert Nigerians that the APC National Chairman, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, and his band of notorious gangsters have become a nuisance and an increasing threat to our democracy, and must not be allowed to truncate our hard-earned democratic government.
“The legislature is the fulcrum of democratic practice, consequently, the assault on the people’s House, an institution that symbolises our democracy and has, indeed, entrenched its culture, is, to say the least, a failed coup, abuse of power and, indeed, smacks of dictatorship.” Ihedioha described the dismissal of the Director General of the DSS, Lawal Daura as an after thought by the Presidency and alleged that “the APC government is bent on scuttling the hard-fought democracy by their anti democratic posture.”
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Saint Francis celebrates adoptive families
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The Board of Sedgwick County Commissioners helped Saint Francis kick off our annual celebration of adoptive families with what has become something of a tradition over the last several years.
Last week, Commissioners signed a proclamation declaring November National Adoption Month. Commissioner Dave Unruh read the Proclamation during the Commission’s Wednesday meeting.
Commissioner David Dennis listens as Commissioner Dave Unruh reads the Proclamation declaring November National Adoption Month in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
This Saturday, more than 30 children will formally receive “forever families” during Saint Francis’ annual National Adoption Day celebration at Exploration Place in Wichita. Saint Francis staff, along with judges, attorneys, and clerks from the 18th Judicial District, will gather with adoptive parents and children to finalize adoptions and celebrate adoptive families.
Another friend of adoptive children and families, former KAKE News anchor and adoption advocate Susan Peters will be the featured speaker at the event, which will also include a special blessing for children and adoptive families performed by Saint Francis chaplain The Rev. Canon Phyllis Flory.
The adoptions of about dozen Saint Francis kids were finalized earlier this month in Salina, and more will be adopted at events in Great Bend on Friday and in Hutchinson on Saturday.
As you can see, we get excited when children and families come together.
Over the last four years, the adoptions of more than 200 Saint Francis children have been finalized at the Wichita event alone.
But that’s just part of the story.
Since last year’s National Adoption Day celebration, nearly 300 children have found their forever families through Saint Francis.
Yet, we serve more than 208 children in Kansas alone who still need adoptive families. Thankfully, some of those are on their way to adoption. But many others are not.
Right now, you can find children on the Adopt Kansas Kids website who desperately need parents and a family to call their own.
As it says, “You don’t have to be perfect to be a perfect parent.”
From left, Sarah Robinson, senior advisor for community relations; Chris Garnica, adoption supervisor; and Kristie MacMeeken, director of adoption; with the Sedgwick County Commission’s National Adoption Month Proclamation.
Perhaps you’ve considered adoption, but you want to explore it more. You can learn a lot about adoption through Saint Francis here. We’re happy to answer any questions you might have.
Do you have an adoption story you’d like to share? Let us know. Your story might be the one that inspires another to adopt.
Lots of children need permanent homes and loving families just like yours. They’re out there, waiting.
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Welcome to Salnikov Cup 2019! Join us from 19-22, December in St. Petersburg. Please, send your applications to info@salnikovcup.ru
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Shadow of the Demon Lord: Revisions
Shadow of the Demon Lord Core Book: List of Revisions
As many of you probably know, we took Shadow of the Demon Lord back to print and used the chance to hammer down a few nails that had gotten loose. While you can enjoy the game without updated the book, many of you have asked for a list of changes so they can be current on the rules. Well, here you go. Thanks so much for your continued support and keep on fighting the Demon Lord!
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Introducing Occult Philosophy
If you haven’t yet heard, I’m launching a Kickstarter campaign in November (the 12th) to crowdsource the production for a new and sexy supplement for Shadow of the Demon Lord. So far, I’ve been able to produce a slew of high-quality digital products that shine lights on various ancestries and spots on the map, reveal details about terrifying creatures, to say nothing of the many adventures available for the game. However, Occult Philosophy is a different sort of beast.
Clocking in at around 192 pages with about 800 spells, a dozen or so critters, plus twenty to thirty paths, it’s the biggest release for the game since Shadowcame out around three years ago. A book of this size has a pile of expenses, including art, editing, proofing, layout, and graphic design. And, if the campaign does well enough, we’ll do an off-set print run too.
I’m going to make up a few general questions and answer them. In future installments, I’ll get into the nuts and bolts of the book.
Eight hundred spells? Have they been tested?
Yes. I ran a limited playtest with tons of respondents who took the spells out for a spin in their games. From the feedback along with the testers’ insights, I adjusted the design to ensure that they fit the game and work well alongside other spells.
Do spells cover ranks 0 to 5? Do they go higher?
Yep! One of my earliest goals for this book was to reveal magic’s true extent in the setting. Each tradition receives expansions to the basic rank 0 to 5 spells, but also includes a pair of rank 6 spells along with one of each for ranks 7 through 10.
Do we get any new traditions?
For sure. I included one new tradition to bring the tradition count up to 42 (the most important number of all). Madness joins the other traditions, offering ways for you to harness your Insanity and weave it into magic to produce spectacular effects. There’s an Elder Gods vibe to these spells too, and, as a result, raises a few new questions about the game’s cosmology.
How about paths?
Of course! We’re including some guidance for playing characters beyond level 10 (building on the method described in Forbidden Rules). I’m also including a slew of expert and master paths. Expert paths, as usual, ground characters in the setting but also speak to specific traditions or pairs of traditions. Master paths offer alternative takes to mastering the various forms of magic, while also offering options to players who concern themselves with the methods of casting—implements for example.
What about relics and enchanted objects?
I had planned to include a chapter on each, but I ran out of room. I have a product in mind called The Vault of the Demon Lord, which includes new options for enchanted objects, relics, and trinkets. This book gets unlocked as a stretch goal.
What’s your favorite spell in Occult Philosophy?
Hmm. That’s a tough one. I’m pretty partial to them all. Here’s a cool one from the Battle tradition.
God of War Battle Utility 10
Magical power flows into you, transforming you into a god of war. You become bigger, stronger, and far more menacing. Your eyes glow with malice and blood paints your body. Any creature that can see you when you transform must get a success on a Will challenge roll with 3 banes or gain 1d3 Insanity. Until the spell ends, gain the following benefits:
You gain a +50 bonus to Health
You cannot gain Insanity
You make attack rolls with 3 boons
Your attacks with weapons deal 5d6 extra damage
You impose 3 banes on the attack rolls made by creatures against you
At the end of each round, each creature you choose within your reach takes 3d6 damage
Aftereffect You must make a Will challenge roll with 5 banes. On a failure, you gain 3d6 Insanity and take a –1d6 penalty to Power that lasts for 1 week and 1 day. If you would go mad as a result of this Insanity gain, you suffer Battle Madness (see Shadow, page 118) as normal, but the madness ends only on a roll of a 6 and you take 2d6 damage at the end of each round until the madness ends.
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OneBookShelf – Disciples of the Demon Lord
Welcome to Disciples of the Demon Lord! This new program offers a digital platform for people to create adventures for Shadow of the Demon Lord. Have a great adventure idea? You can now publish it. Everything you need to produce the adventure is available at DriveThruRPG. With the tools we have provided, you can unleash the full horror of your creativity onto the world. We’re thrilled to open up Shadow of the Demon Lord to the community who has embraced the game. And, we can’t wait to see what you come up with to speed Urth to its end. You can find out more information about the Disciples program here and here.
The first releases for the Disciples of the Demon Lord program include Salt and Sacrifice by Jerry LeNeave and Ben Menard, a tight light adventure that features carnivorous fish people and human sacrifice. Also, we have Cold Wind to Valhalla by Nat Webb, an investigation into the murder of a notable citizen. Going with the release, Webb has also dropped the City of Lorden Gazetteer, which details the city.
March 23, 2018 /by Schwalb Entertainment
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Shadow of the Demon Lord: Wyrd Edizioni
Our friends at Wyrd Edizioni are launching the Kickstarter campaign for the Italian edition of our favorite game on September 15th! More importantly, they’re turning the book into a gorgeous boxed set, loaded with content. Even better, if you covet the box, and I know you do, you can grab an English version box to store dice, maps, print outs, and supplements to keep all your Demon Lord goodies in one place. Be sure to check out the campaign when it launches! For more information, check out the Wyrd website, here!
September 7, 2017 /by Schwalb Entertainment
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June 1, 2017 /by Schwalb Entertainment
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Analysis of stolen CRU emails by NZ blogger shows tawdry manipulation of facts — Poneke’s credibility now in tatters
By Gareth Renowden • 19/01/2010 This post was syndicated from Hot Topic » Gareth - View original source
This may be one of the least important posts I’ve ever written. It’s only 1,100 words (including quotes), but that’s all that was necessary. When a blogger makes as many simple mistakes, and indulges in so much gross distortion of the truth as seen in the last two posts by Poneke (aka former journalist David McLoughlin), then it really doesn’t take long to show him to be incapable of a fair-minded assessment of climate science, or the emails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK. This is how he begins his first post on the subject of the stolen emails:
Having now read all the Climategate emails, I can conclusively say they demonstrate a level of scientific chicanery of the most appalling kind that deserves the widest possible public exposure.
Oh really? Let’s parse that post…
The emails reveal that the entire global warming debate and the IPCC process is controlled by a small cabal of climate specialists in England and North America.
Rubbish. That’s not only untrue, it’s unfair to the cabal of NZ climate scientists who have played a key role in the IPCC process.
This cabal, who call themselves ’the Team,’ bully and smear any critics.
They were dubbed “The Team” by blogger Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit, as a reference to McIntyre’s persistent, but failed, attempts to discredit the so-called “hockey stick” graph of temperature over the last 2,000 years.
They control the ’peer review’ process for research in the field and use their power to prevent contrary research being published.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, this is simply not feasible. Poneke clearly has no idea how many journals publish climate-related material, or how the peer review process works. Grant at Code For Life does.
They falsely claim there is a scientific ’consensus’ that the ’science is settled,’ by getting lists of scientists to sign petitions claiming there is such a consensus.
Pardon? That’s what the deniers do to assert there’s no consensus — with their Oregon Petition. Perhaps Poneke is getting confused about the statements on climate change by all the world’s leading scientific bodies. But of course, they’re all controlled by Michael Mann and Phil Jones, even the Glorious Scientific Academy of the People’s Republic of Kazakhstan.
They have fought for years to conceal the actual shonky data they have used to wrongly claim there has been unprecedented global warming this past 50 years.
…followed by a considerable misunderstanding of ten year old discussions about paleoclimate studies.
They show Team members becoming alarmed and despondent at global temperatures peaking in 1998, then slowly falling to the present, while publicly trying to hide the fact that there was a peak and now a decline.
But… 1998 is only the warmest year in the CRU record, and they’re The Team who’ve been fiddling the data, so we can’t trust them can we? But never mind, it doesn’t matter which temperature record you choose, the first decade of the 21st century was warmer than the last decade of the 20th.
The Climategate emails (and accompanying computer data) were almost certainly leaked by a whistleblower inside the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (the ’CRU’ – the supplier of much key IPCC historic climate data), not hacked from there by an outsider, as initially thought.
He provides no evidence for that assertion, beyond wishful thinking. The computer forensic specialists of the UK’s National Domestic Extremism Unit are helping the East Anglia police with their investigation into the theft. The CRU servers were hacked at least twice, and the entire email database was stolen, my sources tell me. The released emails are a carefully edited selection of that database. An investigative journalist might ask who did the selection, and who stood to gain from their release? Poneke can’t be bothered.
McLoughlin then gets the Chris de Freitas/Climate Research story exactly the wrong way round (it was CdF perverting peer review to get shonky papers published, not “The Team” trying to prevent it – see Mediamatters report), further demonstrates his misunderstanding of the “hockey stick” controversy (not dropped by IPCC reports (it’s on p467, WG1, Chapter 6), explicitly endorsed by the US National Research Council review), and misrepresents what NZ scientist Kevin Trenberth meant by his comment on “cooling”. You can find out what Trenberth was talking about, in his own words, here. It was published before McLoughlin’s ill-advised and ill-educated rant.
To this outsider (I know no more about “Poneke” than can be gleaned by reading his blog), it looks as though McLoughlin has approached the stolen emails with a set of preconceptions — or perhaps knowledge of what what was being said in climate crank circles — and then managed to find his preconceptions confirmed. A modicum of research, of looking into what the scientists he so freely maligns have to say might have made for a less embarrassing article.
If any journalist produced a shoddy report like this — and claimed it to be the most important thing they’d written — any self-respecting editor would fire them on the spot.
Meanwhile, unhappy with being told he’s wrong by scientists who happen to blog at Sciblogs, he’s busy attacking the messenger:
…I really do question their using taxpayer’s money to push what looks suspiciously like shrill propaganda in support of their cause.
The only shrill propaganda in this sorry little episode is coming from a once-respected writer who has forgotten what looking at both sides of a story really involves.
[NB: Before DM complains, Hot Topic is syndicated to Sciblogs, not hosted there. I hold no brief for the SMC. They can look after themselves.]
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Lomborg in Oz
By gregladen on April 23, 2015.
I've written here about some of Bjorn Lomborg's work, generally critical of it. But the Abbot Government in Australia apparently likes what Lomborg is doing well enough to have earmarked $4 million (in some currency or another) to ensconce a version of his academically questionable enterprise right in the middle of Australian academics.
I would like to write this up for you so you can learn all you need to learn about it, but Graham Readfearn has already done an excellent job reporting this. I strongly urge you to go and read: Australian taxpayers funding climate contrarian's methods with $4m Bjørn Lomborg centre.
What are you doing here, you are supposed to have left by now to read this. Go.
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Golly, it's deja vu all over again. First Soviet Lamarckism, now Aussie Lomborgism.
By Desertphile (not verified) on 23 Apr 2015 #permalink
And here I was thinking, "Abbott and Costello"...
'cept t'ain't funny, McGee!
By Brainstorms (not verified) on 23 Apr 2015 #permalink
Fake government is drawn to fake solutions.
By Nick (not verified) on 23 Apr 2015 #permalink
On the plus side, Assbott will not be in office much longer. On the negative side he must cause as much damage as he can before booted out.
In reply to by Nick (not verified)
I played golf in the Philly area today in 45 degree blustery "spring" weather. I sure as hell hope global warming starts soon.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/04/23/…
By See Noevo (not verified) on 23 Apr 2015 #permalink
... today in 45 degree blustery “spring” weather.
It was 25 degrees in my food freezer this morning. It's like spring never came.
In reply to by See Noevo (not verified)
Yet another example showing that regardless of how demonstrably wrong someone has been in the past (e.g. his book The Skeptical Environmentalist) someone will still want to throw money at them as if they have a stellar track record of accuracy.
All you need to do is just give them the message they want to hear---as I count my pennies (thanks to our anti-environmental gov't screwing us out of science jobs) I figure I could probably make a great deal more money if I started telling select think-tanks that the warming of the far north and Arctic (where I do much of my work...when I have it) isn't nearly that bad, and is good for the people up there.
These tanks would be delighted to have a biologist on board with their message. While I'm at it, I could say how good the tar sands will be for wildlife, and that polar bears aren't in danger at all. Sigh. Damn conscience. Damn passion for my work.
By Dan Andrews (not verified) on 23 Apr 2015 #permalink
There was also a very good interview with Tim Flannery on the Aussie ABC news show Lateline about this too with video and transcript here :
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2015/s4221859.htm
NB. It starts off with discussing recent severe flooding in New South Wales -Sydney and Newcastle area - scroll down for the section about Lomberg.
@5. Desertphile : I really hope you are right. The harm his govt is causing every day in so many areas is just horrifying.
By Astrostevo (not verified) on 23 Apr 2015 #permalink
What Abbott has done is a carbon copy of what happened in Denmark, and illustrates the importance of our political choices. In 2001 the parties on the right won the parliamentary election, and one of the first things the new government did was to decimate the strong environmental ministry that had been built up by the Social Democratic minister Sven Auken. It was the new government, led by Anders Fogh Rasmussen who also fawningly supported George W. Bush's war in Iraq, that supported and encouraged Lomborg. In 2011 the center-left opposition won the election, and in 2012 Lomborg lost his government funding. Soon, a new election will be called, and a recent statement from a leading member of Rasmussen's party was ominous:
“»Vi hilser det velkommen, hvis Bjørn Lomborg vender tilbage. Vi har brug for flere stemmer i klimadebatten. Den er for ensidig og lidt for elitær, og det er vigtigt, at vi bliver politisk udfordret,« siger V-ordføreren.
»Hvor meget og hvordan, vi kan støtte Lomborgs tænketank, må vi se på. I første omgang vil jeg tage initiativ til et møde med ham,« siger Lars Christian Lilleholt.
http://www.b.dk/globalt/venstre-vil-stoette-lomborgs-taenketank
(“ 'We would welcome it if Bjørn Lomborg returned. We need more voices in the climate debate. It's too one-sided and a little too elitist, and it's important that we're challenged politically,' says the Venstre spokesman.
'How much and how we can support Lomborg's think tank (is something) we'll have to look at. First I'll take the initiative to have a meeting with him,' says Lars Christian Lilleholt.”)
Fortunately, from the perspective of Danish self-respect, this is less probable now (though this does indicate how destructive a new right-wing government would be), but Denmark's gain is Australia's pain. Abbott has followed the Danish playbook by first decimating the Climate Commission and then supporting a denialist celebrity who argues against taking action to stop fossil fuel emissions. Something similar has happened in Canada under Harper, and, if the Republicans had their way, it would happen in the U.S.
By cosmicomics (not verified) on 23 Apr 2015 #permalink
Changed my mind. Laden links to Readfearn who links to Laden. CONSPIRACY!
“What we are doing is economics, not science,” Lomborg told ABC Radio earlier this week, with no hint of irony.
No irony, but the "not science" part is certainly true when he is involved.
The UWA must be a little slow in updating their site. They list him as giving a talk on March 11, but he doesn't show up (yet) in searches of people, either restricted to staff or in general. (I am assuming that they list adjuncts during their time of appointment, as least in department level rosters: that might not be the case.)
By dean (not verified) on 24 Apr 2015 #permalink
We are the Lomborg. Lower your standards and surrender your science. We will add your financial and reputational Australian-ness to our own. You will* adapt to climate change. Mitigation is futile.
[*Or not...]
By Bernard J. (not verified) on 24 Apr 2015 #permalink
Re. #8
Denmark now has a right-wing government. Three of the parties behind it wanted to provide Lomborg with government funding, but the Conservatives refused.
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In Review: Conan the Slayer #9
Ancient ruins, beautiful women, and unimaginable terrors make this Conan tale outstanding.
by Patrick Hayes May 31, 2017
The cover: With his back to a rocky cliff, Conan ascends some stairs, his long sword held in his right hand to vanquish any foes that have the stupidity to challenge him. He looks up intently, as the wind that slams the waves against the mountainside move his hair and cape about violently. This cover by Phroilan Gardner makes the Cimmerian look great, with his muscular arms, chest, and legs looking strong. The setting is also strong, with terrific work done on the mountainside, as well as the outstanding waves behind him. Excellent cover. Overall grade: A
The story: Though this is Part 3 of “The Devil In Iron,” this is an excellent issue to begin reading the comic book adventures of Robert E. Howard’s greatest creation. There’s a summary on the inside front cover, under the credits but writer Cullen Bunn’s story is easy enough to follow without it. Conan is making his way through the jungles of the island of Xapur in search of the beautiful Octavia. He arrives at massive stone wall that gives him pause: he had been on the island less than a month ago and there were no structures like this at the time. He considers leaving, realizing that something foul has built this citadel, but he spies a rag hanging from a tree. He bring the torn item close to his face and smells the girl’s perfume. This is all he needs to continue his quest. Taking a few steps, he spies footprints. “These tracks…made by a man…and a brute at that! Could it be? Was he carrying the girl?” He dashes to the wall, feeling that time is now important, reaches the top of the wall, and is greeted by something equally surprising. What is it? You’ll have to read the issue for yourself! Needless to say, Conan has his sword ready as the makes his way through the citadel. On Page 8 he has a surprising encounter, with the character giving him some information, as well as offering Conan something he’s fond of. There’s a nice conclusion by Conan on 12 to explain what’s happened, yet the barbarian proceeds deeper into the structure. Beginning on 14, Bunn uses a very slick device for Conan to receive a flashback, which leads to a sensational reveal on 20. If a reader wants some more direct action for the title character, this is where it begins and it does not disappoint. The final page has a great, surprising action sequence, with some hilarious, yet appropriate, dialogue between Conan and Octavia. The fight’s not finished and will continue into next issue. This was perfect Conan reading. Overall grade: A
The art: There are certain expectations for an artist that illustrates a Conan tale. The barbarian has got to be buff, the women have to be beautiful, the settings have to be epic, and the creatures have to be monsters. Sergio Davila meets and exceeds each of these elements wonderfully. The first page has him creating the buff character going through a dense jungle. It also includes an incredible image of Octavia that would make any man rush to find her. The final image on the page undoubtedly mirrors the reader’s eyes looking upon the woman, though the Cimmerian’s eyes are bulging at what’s revealed on the next page. The stone wall is perfect — monstrous and aged. Davila places the point of view behind and just a little below Conan to make the structure even bigger and it works. Plus, check out the muscles on Conan — Wow! Page 5 shows him getting up the wall and Davila captures his movements extremely well, with his landing at the bottom of the page excellent. What the barbarian sees on 6 is epic. The reveal on 8 is equally well done, though the characters could have been placed higher in the panel: it appears that Davila was expecting some text to be placed above the characters in the first panel. The top of 12 has an outstanding point of view panel that shows everything in a chamber. The title character’s reaction in the fourth panel on 15 is a perfect match for the text. It’s on 20 that Davila has the classic elements of a Conan page in full motion, with every character looking fantastic before the fray. There’s little dialogue on 21, as the story is told well enough through the visuals, and the first two panels on 22 are sensational. The visuals on this book are perfect for a Conan tale. Overall grade: A
The colors: The lush greens of the jungle that Conan is plodding through begin Michael Atiyeh’s work this issue. Every shade of emerald is used to show how healthy this environment is, which could drastically change by the close of this saga. Naturally, Octavia’s skin is deliciously tan, with her pale blue eyes drawing in the reader. The wall and the structures it hides are gorgeously aged with mossy greens and splatterings of brown. When Conan enters the structure on 8, take note how Atiyeh darkens every character’s flesh to show that the action is now away from the sun. The new character emerges from a violet curtain and is clothed in the same colors to give the individual an initially royal flavor. The brilliant emeralds on 13 caught my attention, frightening me as much as they did Conan. The sound on 14 is given a strong pale blue to really make it resound off the page. The skin colors of the character that first appears on 16 are a wonderful rust, which is a color that some people could attain, yet different enough to make the individual stand apart from others. Atiyeh’s work is a strong component of this book. Overall grade: A
The letters: Richard Starkings and Comicraft provide this issue’s text, which includes narration, dialogue, sounds, yells, and the tease for the next chapter. The narration for this book, which has been present since its first issue, is unique among all the comics I read and looks incredible. It creates a tone for the reader and gives an air of authority to the proceedings. One sound is very important to this story and it will ring through the reader’s head much as it does to Conan. As important as this is, it’s the sound on the final page I’ll remember because of what its result brings. Again, strong work on this book. Overall grade: A
The Adventures of Two-Gun Bob: This one pager showcases a night of adventure for Robert E. Howard and two of his friends. Created by Jim & Ruth Keegan, this captures three young men out and about, doing things that most haven’t. The illustrations capture a lot of movement smoothly, through several settings, culminating in the true goal for this trio. Nicely done. Overall grade: A
The final line: Ancient ruins, beautiful women, and unimaginable terrors make this Conan tale outstanding. High adventure is alive and well with Conan the Slayer. Overall grade: A
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‘Extra motivation’: Danilo excited to re-join former Real Madrid teammate Ronaldo at Juventus
Danilo, who was at Real Madrid two years ago, was signed by Juventus from Manchester City.
Aug 14, 2019 · 08:23 am
Cristiano Ronaldo and Danilo during their Real Madrid days | AFP
Brazilian full-back Danilo said Tuesday the chance to play again alongside former Real Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo had been a motivating factor in his move to Juventus.
The 28-year-old has been signed by the Italian champions from Manchester City with Portuguese international right-back Joao Cancelo heading in the opposition direction.
“I spoke to Ronaldo before coming here,” Danilo told a press conference in Turin.
“He spoke very highly of Juventus and to play with him will be an extra motivation.”
The Brazilian won two Champions League titles alongside the five-time Ballon d’Or winner at Real Madrid before moving to England.
“I jokingly said to him that I wanted to take the number seven jersey, but it was already taken,” added the Brazilian, who will wear the number 13.
Danilo was part of the City squad that has won five domestic trophies in the past two seasons, but has played second fiddle to Kyle Walker at right-back.
And he believes the move to Italy to play under former Napoli and Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri has come at the right time.
“Sarri has a very particular style, he likes to command play. We saw him in England with Chelsea and also Napoli.
“It is always difficult to play against his teams but it has a style of play that I like.
“Sarri and (Pep) Guardiola are similar in style and for what they ask during the game, they both love to control the game and for me it is a very positive thing.
“There were already discussions with Juventus in the past, but I believe that this is the right moment to be here.”
Meanwhile the Brazilian warned that the Champions League must not become an obsession as Juventus chase a first European trophy since 1996.
“I know what the Champions League means for the players, it’s a competition that gives you a special thrill.
“But we have to face every game and every competition with the same seriousness. “
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Is the sword moss (Bryoxiphium) a preglacial Tertiary relict?
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Patiño J., Goffinet B., Sim-Sim M., Vanderpoorten A.
1095-9513 (Electronic)
The disjunction of floras between East Asia, Southeast North America, West North America, and Southwest Eurasia has been interpreted in terms of the fragmentation of a once continuous mixed mesophytic forest that occurred throughout the Northern Hemisphere due to the climatic and geological changes during the late Tertiary. The sword moss, Bryoxiphium, exhibits a distribution that strikingly resembles that of the mesophytic forest elements such as Liriodendron and is considered as the only living member of an early Tertiary flora in Iceland. These hypotheses are tested here using molecular dating analyses and ancestral area estimations. The results suggest that the extant range of Bryoxiphium results from the fragmentation of a formerly wider range encompassing North America and Southeast Asia about 10 million years ago. The split of continental ancestral populations is too recent to match with a continental drift scenario but is spatially and temporally remarkably congruent with that observed in Tertiary angiosperm relict species. The timing of the colonization of Iceland from Macaronesian ancestors, about two million years ago, is, however, incompatible with the hypothesis that Bryoxiphium is the only living member of an early Tertiary flora of the island. Alaska was recurrently colonized from East Asia. The ability of Bryoxiphium to overcome large oceanic barriers is further evidenced by its occurrence on remote oceanic archipelagos. In particular, Madeira was colonized twice independently from American and East Asian ancestors, respectively. The striking range disjunction of Bryoxiphium is interpreted in terms of its mating system, as the taxon exhibits a very singular pattern of spatial segregation of the sexes.
Ancestral area estimation, East Asia, Extinction, Iceland, Long-distance dispersal, North America
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10.1016/j.ympev.2015.12.004
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A Talk With CØNSEPT
April 30, 2018 April 30, 2018 / ShoreLyrics
By: Pat Walsh
At what point did you find yourself interested in music? What was the “break out” or realization moment.
” Music played a huge role in my life before I ever actually started making it myself. I’m not one of those artists that can say “I started writing songs when I was 4 years old” and yada yada. But, music had a huge impact on me as a kid. It was this magical and powerful outlet that had the ability to change my mood, my perspective, and attitude towards life in general almost instantaneously. Hip-hop in particular grabbed my heart from a young age and I it has been the soundtrack to my life ever since. As far as making music myself, that did not really start until I was 16 years old. In my sophomore year of high school I would get stoned and freestyle with my friends. One day someone was like “Yo you are actually pretty good you should try and write and record!” And that is where my love affair with making music myself began. I had a USB desktop microphone that I would record in my closet with into Garage Band. Within a month or two I linked with Indy and soon after started recording with my engineer Marco at Shorefire Recording Studios. I just kept going and going and growing as an artist with Marco’s help. It has now been 6 years and I haven’t looked back since.”
Who are your top 3 influences and how do you see your self in them?
“I always find this question to be the most difficult to answer as an artist, for a few reasons. My musical influences change from week to week, and I honestly never can really tell which artists are influencing me and leaking into my sound. When I was young it was Lil Wayne, T.I., Jurassic 5, 50 Cent, and all the OG’s you always hear in typical answers. (I don’t feel the need to write the OBVIOUS Biggie and Pac, you should already know.) As I made my way into high school I was definitely getting more into the young stoner rap, listening to Wiz a lot and Mac Miller religiously. I was also diving deep into Kendrick and Cole and Big Krit as they grew. I will say the artists I listen to that kill my writer’s block and inspire me to write are Frank Ocean, Lil Peep, Future Islands, Tame Impala, BROCKHAMPTON, and a bunch of different artists that do not put themselves in any sort of box from a creative standpoint. Writing can start to feel repetitive if you don’t challenge yourself to explore new sounds and use your voice in different ways. Also thinking beyond the idea of labeling myself as a rapper/singer and detaching from the idea of genres in general helps me to remain creative and grow as a writer. That’s what keeps it fresh for me. I don’t know if I answered the question lol but take from it what you will.”
How does your connection to Sony benefit your career as an artist and in 5 years do you see your self independent or signed to a major?
” I signed with an indie label called Black 17, who is distributed through Sony/The Orchard. It has been a huge benefit to my career in many ways. First and foremost, 5 years into my career finally having the cosign of a label with a dedicated team that shares my vision has been game changing and reassuring to say the least. Being that they work out of the Sony offices in Manhattan has been incredible, bumping shoulders with artists and managers and really getting a behind the scenes look into the game has taught me a lot. I pinch myself every time I leave a label meeting and it helps me be grateful for how far I’ve come. I can’t say whether 5 years from now I will be independent or signed to a major. I think that there is a lot of stigma attached to signing with a major and a little naivety when it comes to remaining independent. I think a lot of artists close themselves off from potential opportunities by being totally anti-label. If the deal sucks, don’t sign. Keep working, and grinding independently and growing as an artist! If the deal is good for both parties, find a lawyer to guide you through the bullshit paperwork so you don’t get fucked over and move forward with it. There are a million stories of major labels starving artists, and I am not ignorant of the downside major labels can have on a career. But there is also a lot of stress involved with doing things independently, and for someone like myself who only wants to think about the music, having a team is super beneficial.
At what point in your career would you feel you’ve made it ?
“It was always to pay the bills from music and not have to work a shitty job. I am getting closer to that becoming a reality every month, but honestly once I have that I made it. After that we can start dreaming of plaques, but one thing at a time.”
What is your biggest motivation that keeps your pushing through the hard times as an artist. How do you overcome the struggle and keep the fire fueling?
“When I’m going through a rough patch, losing faith in the grind and feeling uninterested in writing, I take a step away from it for a week or two and clear my mind. I just live life. I try not to think about music at all. Sometimes, being a hungry artist, you put every second of thought and energy into trying to get to that next level and you burn yourself out. I also detach from the results of what I am doing and try and get back into the place of why I started making music in the first place: For the love of it. It is my therapy. It is my place to go and express myself without judgment, from myself or others. It is my one true love. When I can remember that, and remember that as a career or not, I will be making music for the rest of my life, I can relax and breathe. So pour some coffee, roll up whatever you prefer, and get lost in the music.”
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Four-part Feature Film: Audi Sport triumphant at the Spa 24 Hours
I’m a great believer in the power of online video for telling a story, but also in reaching an audience beyond that which the written word can achieve. Consider how moving pictures can transcend the language barrier – even without subtitles.
We’ve also been observing the differing levels of engagement with videos on SkiddPlayer especially for the less-obvious viewers, such as women or those people in their golden years (50-70 year olds).
I’ve written before about why these groups are more valuable than many marketers realise, but to quickly recap – women are most influential in the final buying decision of a car, but often passive and disengaged in the early stages, this makes them harder to reach because you’re unlikely to find them with their nose in a car magazine or voicing their opinions on an enthusiast forum but very valuable nonetheless.
Meanwhile core enthusiasts tend to hold pretty firm opinions on which brands they like and it can prove quite expensive to challenge those preconceptions, the floating buyers (i.e. those without a fixed affiliation) on the other hand are unlikely to spend much time thinking about a car brand until such time as they choose to buy.
That’s where video comes in and for car makers such as Audi seeking to grow their customer base, it’s a great medium through which to influence these undecided buyers.
What’s this got to do with Audi Sport at the Spa 24 Hours?
Well, perhaps the best answer is to watch the videos below. Although motorsport is a specialist subject, many millions of us enjoy watching it – however most written coverage can feel intimidating to the casual viewer, hence the increased popularity of online video.
The following series of 4 videos tell the story of the Audi Sport Team WRT as they prepare and then compete in the Spa 24 Hours – we reckon they’re some of the best content we’ve seen from a car maker with a great balance of humour, passion and drama.
A quick update on the Spa 24 Hours before you watch the videos. Audi were victorious against GT cars from twelve other manufacturers, underpinned by their top DTM drivers Mattias Ekström and Timo Scheider. Audi led 22 of the 24 hours, with the winning #33 R8 LMS capturing the lead at the start of the tenth hour and holding it until the chequered flag. Just after midnight three R8 LMS actually occupied the first three positions, but due to incidents during the night the other two factory cars finished up 4th and 14th.
We’re getting used to seeing Audi’s Head of Audi Motorsport, Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich, in an emotional state at the end of each Le Mans 24 Hours and you’ll witness the same display of emotions in Episode #2 of the race coverage below. If you get a spare 20 mins to watch them all, then they’re well worth the effort.
Audi: The 24 hours of Spa – Qualifying
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Audi: The 24 hours of Spa – The Race Part 1
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If watching these has whetted your appetite, then subject to scraping together sufficient funds it could be you in the driving seat next year. The Audi Race Experience offers customers the opportunity to contest races with the Audi R8 LMS themselves – and on request even accompany professional race drivers.
The vehicles are prepared and fielded by one of the world’s most successful sports car teams: 6-time Le Mans winners Reinhold Joest and races include the VLN feature round at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. If you’d like to find out more, visit the Audi Driving Experience website.
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2020 Yukon Denali. Under the hood of the large GMC Yukon 2020, there is a 5.3 liter engine that sends power back or all wheels. A six-speed automatic transmission for this engine. The alternative is the GM-8 unit with a capacity of 6.2 liters. With this great power, the Yukon SUV gets an extra 70 horsepower. The basic model offers 355 hp, while the highest cutting levels can be up to 420 hp. In addition, there is a difference in torque level. The 5.3L engine is capable of producing 383 lb-ft, while the 6.2-liter can produce 460 lb / ft. There is also a 6-speed automatic transmission and 2WD / 4WD options for the larger engine.
One of the rumors about the new SUV is the mention of the new model. We already have the XL and Denali versions, but the Yuk Yukon 2020 is something that no one expected. Well, some fans may want to do that, and they seem to get what they want. With the new 1500 Silverado truck that comes with a diesel engine, the Yukon SUV can borrow the same transmission set. Well, the engineers did the same with gasoline units.
The Chevy Silverado 1500 new diesel and the GMC Sierra 1500 get the Duramax unit that can produce 250 horsepower and 420 pounds of torque. This is enough power and converted to diesel GMC Yukon 2020, so this idea seems very possible.
Even if the diesel fuel reaches the SUV in 2020, the main theater is dedicated to the Denali model. There is no doubt that this version will steal the program again with many distinct features. Not only inside this model is full of the latest accessories, many of them unnecessary, but also the exterior offers some interesting features. Unique wheels and large wheels will be impressive. The dark color GMC Yukon Denali 2020 makes it stylish and bold. This release date will be later than the base model.
We have already mentioned that the GMC Yukon XL 2020 will come with a longer body. Currently, the SUV is 222 inches long. This is 20 inches more than the standard model. Yukon XL 2020 can add a few inches more, but not more than 3-4 inches. The width and height are the same model for both models.
The extra length will be placed on the back of the car. However, designers have more space to enhance everything. First, the download space gets more room for larger items. On the other hand, a new interior design can be used for more space between rows. The concept is simple. In addition, the new diesel engine will certainly come in both the XL and the basic SUV.
GMC will offer Yukon 2020 early next year. For the new Sierra 1500 truck, they organized a solo event for its first show. This can be the case in Yukon SUV, where he will be a star next season. In any case, buyers will not see it directly in the dealership. The Yukon and Yukon XL 2020 cars will be available at the end of 2019. Denali joins his brothers. GM may first unveil the concept of diesel SUVs.
We can not take the Chevy Tahoe as a competitor to GMC Yukon 2020. But, on the other hand, some buyers will be taken away. The most dangerous Protestants come from archirival company: Ford Expedition. Denali model will fight the Lincoln Navigator. From Japanese automakers, there are Nissan Armada and Toyota Sequoia.
The GMC Yukon 2020 concept will surprise all fans with the changes it brings. The normal model will not only be redesigned, but also Denali and Yukon XL. Rumors say that the diesel engine is also a possibility. In addition, there are pictures of spies to make sure that Yukon 2020 will arrive soon. In addition, we will be watching what happens with Chevy Tahoe in 2020, as these twins will share the same platforms and engines again.
Fans are very excited to redesign. This is the first time Yukon has introduced new features and methods after 2015. At that time, the SUV entered a new generation. Since then we have not been able to see any important updates. With the growth of this category very quickly, it is time to see the new GMC Yukon 2020 design.
That’s not all. Fans are already asking for the GMC Yukon Denali 2020, and the higher version of the band will also experience changes abroad. However, designers will set up new sets of colors and materials for luxury SUVs. Finally, the latest version of this model is 2020 Yukon XL. The extended body will add extra space to the third row. Well, you will suffer the overall impression of leadership. But if the size is not important to you, then everyone recommends using the XL model because of its advantages.
The number of changes will be significant. At least, we can deduce well from spy images. Test mule carries heavy casings that hide most of the body. This means that the GMC Yukon 2020 will offer something new. However, work on the nose can change the appearance. However, the size and overall shape is still the same.
It is rumored that the new GMC Yukon XL 2020 may be longer than before. This is one of the possible configurations for this release. However, there are no spy images of the XL model to give us more suggestions. For the Yukon Denali 2020 model, the company has amazing features and styles, as always. But it’s hard to get details, no matter how strong GM contacts.
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Relatives of passengers killed in Boeing crash protest in DC
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Associated Press 11 September 2019
Boeing Plane
Beza Alemu, left, from Ethiopia, along with other demonstrators, holds pictures of his brother Mulusew Alemu, who died in the plane crash, during a vigil on the six-month anniversary of the crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8, killing 157 people, in Ethiopia on March 10, which has resulted in the grounding hundreds of the planes worldwide, outside of the Department of Transportation, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Families of the passengers who died in one of the Boeing 737 Max crashes lobbied Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Tuesday to slow what they consider a rush to let the plane fly again.
Two of the relatives who took part in the two-hour meeting in Washington said Chao promised that the government will take as long as necessary to ensure that the plane is safe but stopped short of agreeing to an entirely new, top-to-bottom review.
A spokesman for Chao said the department and the Federal Aviation Administration have taken unprecedented steps to understand the accidents and the FAA's certification of the plane in 2017. One of those steps, he said, included Chao's appointment of a special committee to review the FAA's process of certifying planes.
After the meeting, several dozen relatives held a vigil on the steps of the Transportation Department headquarters to mark the six-month anniversary of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302.
They carried pictures of many of the 157 people who died. Another 189 died in the October 2018 crash of a Max jet operated by Indonesia's Lion Air.
Separately, Boeing disclosed Tuesday that it delivered just 18 airliners in August, putting the company on pace for its worst showing since 2013. With Max deliveries halted since March, Boeing gave customers 276 planes through August, down from 481 in the same period last year.
Chicago-based Boeing has said it expects FAA approval for the Max to fly again early in the fourth quarter. U.S. airlines don't expect to use the plane until at least December, and the wait could be longer in other countries because of signs that international regulators will take a slower approach than FAA.
A group of 11 family members asked Chao to direct the FAA to conduct a completely new review of the Max instead of mainly examining changes Boeing made to flight-control software called MCAS, which was implicated in both crashes. FAA is part of her department.
Chao did not commit to full re-certification but said the FAA will wait for recommendations from a technical review board before it lets the plane fly, according to a department spokesman. The department is also being advised by a review panel that includes international regulators and by the special committee that Chao appointed, but the FAA won't wait for those reports before deciding whether to approve the Max for flight, the spokesman said.
Michael Stumo, whose daughter Samya died in the Ethiopian crash, said those panels and foreign regulators "can go far beyond just reviewing MCAS. Time will tell, but we were encouraged by the meeting."
European officials have said they will insist on test flights during extreme maneuvers — both with Boeing's new software and with MCAS turned off — to judge the stability of the plane.
The families also want pilots to train on flight simulators before airlines can resume using the plane. Boeing, which wants to avoid further delays, believes that computer training is adequate for now, with simulator sessions later.
People in the meeting said Chao pointed to the small number of Max simulators, making immediate simulator training less feasible.
For about half the meeting, Chao and several deputies listened to family members describe the passengers who died in the Ethiopian crash.
"It was very emotional," said Paul Njoroge, whose wife, three young children and mother-in-law died in the crash. The family members described their losses "and how their life has been ever since the crash," he said.
The relatives are planning their next steps.
"We are not going to go away until the correct processes are being followed in ungrounding the plane, if it's ever ungrounded," Njoroge said.
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Before Module 1 (June 5th to 7th)
You will complete this assignment by visiting the Before We Begin section of ShannonWeb.
Review syllabus, calendar, deliverables and this schedule
Respond to the Slack invitation and set up your profile
Complete the “Introduce Yourself” post in Slack
Complete the “Learning Contract” post in Slack
Request access to course materials (see Required Course Materials)
Begin your review of the course materials available in the course wiki
If you are unfamiliar with any of the platforms we will use for this course, visit Slack and Blackboard to review their tutorials.
Module 1 (June 8th to 22nd)
Unit 1: Global Perspectives, Unit 2: Culture, Politics and Risk & Unit 5: Issues in Comparative Business
Understanding the major factors contributing to globalization and to explain the “plusses” and “minus” of the process;
Describe the various business models/form under which international business is conducted and foreign markets are penetrated;
Describe the various measures of economic performance (including debt) well as the major categories employed by the World Bank (and others) in classifying economies;
Describe the elements of economic transition;
Describe the major indicia of sovereignty and how globalization impacts on this important concept;
Identify the major components of culture as they affect international business;
Understand the risks inherent in international business relating to currency issues, property seizures, corruption, bribe paying, and the necessity of compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Reading Materials:
Course Wiki
Unit 1: Global Perspectives
Unit 2: Culture, Politics and Risk
Unit 5: Issues in Comparative Business
“A Focus on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA): Siemens and Halliburton Revisited As Indicators of Corporate Culture”, by Hunter, Jr., Richard J.; Mest, David and Shannon, John H., Atlantic Law Journal, 2011, Volume 13, pp. 60-69
“Culture as a Driver and Key Component of International Business“, by Hunter, Jr., Richard J. and Hector R. Lozada, Journal of Society and Communication, Volume 2012, pp. 329-358
“The New Backlash Against Globalization“, by Harold James, Project Syndicate, June 7, 2016
Additional Video Resources (optional)
Aspects of International Relations: International Political Economy
What Is Political Risk?
How Can Companies Navigate Political Risk?
Assignment:
Complete POV #1
POV available on Sunday, June 11th no later than 10a
Submit initial response in Slack channel no later than Wednesday, June 14th at 11p
Comment period in Slack channel is available through Thursday, June 22nd at 11p
Module 2 (June 23rd to July 7th)
Unit 3: Legal Considerations in International Business & Unit 4: International Intellectual Property Issues
Identify the four major international legal systems with emphasis on identifying the major “legal player” in each system;
Distinguish between private and public international law and the major sources of international law under article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice;
Identify and discuss at least two aspects of customary international law relating to Sustainable Development (CERES) and US efforts at breaking the apartheid system in South Africa;
Understand the operations of the institutions created under the Breton Woods regime: The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as the basic organization and structure of the United Nations;
Identify the major types of intellectual property: patents, copyrights, and trademarks and the major sources of international treaty protections;
Identify particular aspects of American intellectual property protections under the Lanham Act and the “fair use” doctrine;
Identify the major forms of violations of intellectual property rights and the countries responsible for these violations
NB: Unit 3 learning objectives are designed to underscore several important ethical implications related to international business.
Unit 3: Legal Considerations in International Business
Unit 4: International Intellectual Property Issues
International Law (Intro)
Sources of International Law Explained
Public Law and Private Law
Intellectual Property (Intro)
International IP Law
WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization – Intellectual Property Basics
POV available on Monday, June 26th no later than 10a
Submit initial response in Slack channel no later than Thursday, June 29th at 11p
Comment period is available in Slack channel through Friday, July 7th at 11p
Module 3 (July 8th to 22nd)
Unit 6: Introduction to International Trade & Unit 7: Foreign Direct Investment
Identify the major tariff and non tariff barriers to international trade;
Identify the major aspects of the GATT system and understand the nature of “most favored nations” principle;
Identify the four major issues relating to international trade: classification, valuation, country of origin, and compliance with safety/sanitary requirements;
Understand the twin issues of “dumping” and “subsidization” from the point of view of the United States;
Describe the factors that led to the creation of the World Trade Organization and its concept of “normal trade relations”;
Distinguish between portfolio investment and direct investment;
Distinguish between strategies involved with “Greenfield” and “Brownfield” activities;
Identify the major economic, financial and legal factors leading to successful or unsuccessful FDI operations;
Identify why countries engage in FDI activities;
Identify pitfalls and opportunities in FDI operations;
Identify major “negative aspects” associated with FDI activities.
Unit 6: Introduction to International Trade
Unit 7: Foreign Direct Investment
“A Primer on Issues in International Trade“, by Hunter, Jr., Richard J. and Lozada, Hector R., International Journal of Finance and Economics, Issue 47, pp. 99-110 (September 2010)
“Presidential Trade Promotion Authority“, by Hunter, Jr., Richard J.; Shannon, John H. and Lozada, Hector R., Mustang Journal of Law and Legal Studies, 2013, Vol. 4, pp. 75-86
International Trade Introduction
WTO Explained
The World Trade Organization (WTO) • Explained With Maps
Most-Favoured Nation (MFN)
FDI: Introduction and Overview
FDI: Advantages of Foreign Direct Investment
FDI: Disavantages of Foreign Direct Investment
POV available on Tuesday, July 11th no later than 10a
Submit initial response in Slack channel no later than Friday, July 14th at 11p
Comment period is available in Slack channel through Saturday, July 22nd at 11p
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The Most Durable Smartwatches
The ultimate list of smartwatches that will survive it all
Smartwatches are everywhere. People wear them to the gym, to the office, on a hike, in the water. Everywhere. So wouldn’t it be nice if you had a smartwatch that was durable enough to get you through anything?
Wearable tech has come a long way since smartwatches first made their debut. Now you no longer have to treat your smartwatch like a fragile accessory. From heavy duty battery life to supreme waterproofing to all elements protection. We’ve rounded up some of the most durable smartwatches on the market.
Nixon Mission – The Best Smartwatch To Beat Waves & Snow
The Nixon Mission is absolutely enormous. Which, in this case, means it’s also exceptionally tough. It’s truly designed to conquer the great outdoors. With a 316L stainless steel bezel and shock-proof roll cage. It runs Wear OS so has access to all your favorite apps, has GPS, and boasts a 10ATM water resistance rating with patented MicLock technology.
The display is protected by Gorilla Glass and the shock resistant polycarbonate case is designed to withstand a good smash. Uniquely, the Nixon Mission works hand-in-hand with Surfline, the world’s largest reporter of surfing conditions. It offers real-time surf and snow updates, making it perfect for adventure holidays. The Mission is available in a few different colors and is 48mm in size. It’s an excellent rugged smartwatch.
Huawei Watch GT – The Longest Battery Life For A Smartwatch
Rugged features of the Huawei Watch GT include a ceramic bezel that is six times stronger than stainless steel, a stainless steel shell, DLC coating, and 50-meter water resistance. The Huawei Watch GT is a capable fitness smartwatch with a built-in HR (heart rate) monitor, GPS, and training apps for running, cycling, and swimming. The built-in compass, altimeter, and barometer are useful sensors for trekking. The Bluetooth connection allows the watch to display alerts for phone calls, messages, alarms, and reminders. The Watch GT has 1.39″ 454×454 AMOLED color touchscreen and gets up to two weeks of battery life.
The Watch GT Classic edition is not suitable for swimming due to its leather strap, so the Sport edition is recommended for swimmers.
Polar M600 – The Sturdy Smart Watch With Top of The Line Waterproofing
Looking for a rugged smartwatch that isn’t round? Check out the Polar M600. Its operating system is called Wear OS, which comes pre-loaded with some of the best fitness-focused applications on the market. It also gives you access to Polar Smart Coaching, known as one of the best smart trainers.
This is Polar’s flagship smartwatch so comes with everything. Including GPS, GLONASS, HR tracking and 4GB of onboard storage for maps. The integrated GPS and GLONASS are very accurate too. In terms of ruggedness, the Polar M600 has IPX8 water resistance, so it is suitable for continuous immersion in water. The 240×240 1.3” display is protected by Gorilla Glass 3. Boastings a good level of shock resistance too.
TicWatch S2 – The Strongest Smartwatch On A Budget
The TicWatch S2 is waterproof (up to 5 ATM), which means that it can go down to 165ft without suffering any damage. In terms of sensors, the rugged smartwatch features an accelerometer, a HR sensor, a gyroscope, a low latency off-body sensor, GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo.
On the front, there’s a 1.39-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 400 x 400 pixels and it’s actually more than decent. Featuring vibrant colors and good brightness levels to ensure that the smartwatch’s display will remain visible in all scenarios.
It includes TicHealth, which counts your step and tracks your exercise, TicPulse, which has the role of monitoring your HR for 24 hours, and TicMotion, which tries to detect the type of physical activity that you’re undergoing, so you don’t have to manually switch between activity types.
Suunto Ambit3 Peak – The Smartwatch With An Accurate GPS
The Suunto Ambit3 Peak is a decent rugged smartwatch. It offers high-accuracy GPS, HR tracking and altitude tracking. It can also combine GPS and barometric data for even greater altitude accuracy. It’s water resistant to 10ATM and has a steel bezel with a polyamide case, a combination that offers decent shock protection.
You can purchase the Suunto Ambit3 Peak smartwatch with or without a HR belt. The caveat is that if you buy it without, you can’t track your HR because it requires that separate device to do so. If HR tracking doesn’t matter to you, save some money and buy it without. Regardless of your preferences, the Ambit3 Peak is a good choice. It runs Suunto’s proprietary software, which is easy to use but lacks an app ecosystem.
Samsung Galaxy Watch – The Toughest High-end Smart Watch
The Galaxy Watch can be submerged down to 165 feet (5 ATM). Furthermore, besides being waterproof, the Galaxy Watch is also dust-proof (IP68 certified) and it is MIL-STD-810G rated: it has survived 10 specific conditions, which include low pressure, high altitude, drops from 4.9 feet, vibration and shock and extreme temperatures.
Samsung has equipped the Galaxy Watch with a 1.3-inches Super AMOLED capacitive touch-screen display (just like the S3 Frontier), but the smaller version comes with a 1.2-inch screen. Both displays feature 16 million colors, have a resolution of 360 x 360 pixels and a pixel density of 278 PPI. The Galaxy Watch is also equipped with a non-removable 472-mAh battery (the 46mm version) or a 270-mAh battery (on the 42mm version), which Samsung claims should last for up to seven days.
Fitbit Charge 3 – The Powerful Smartwatch & Fitness Tracker Combo
The Fitbit Charge 3’s water rating is at IP68 or 5ATM. Making it waterproof until 50 meters deep immersed in water. Unlike with the previous Fitbit Charge version which is only water resistant. Meaning it can only take it to the shower. While this time, you can actually take your Fitbit Charge 3 for a swim in the pool and when you come out, it’s going to work fine.
Although it is not a full-color display screen, at least it’s no longer black and white. The Charge 3 has a grayscale display and better-defined graphics. Maintaining its built quality and replaceable bands, you still can’t consider it as a tough watch. It is designed for casual use and for discreet fitness tracking.
On the flip side, the Fitbit Charge 3 is packed with fitness tracking features. Such as daily steps, calories, distance, floors climbed, HR and sleep. Unfortunately, step counting can be generous to the actual steps you make, but it’s more about keeping yourself monitored and updated on your daily activity.
Garmin Fenix 5X – The Durable Smart Watch For Navigation
The Garmin Fenix 5X is a top-tier rugged smartwatch. It’s got GPS with built-in Garmin European mapping, a 10ATM water resistance rating, and is available in 42mm, 47mm, and 51mm case sizes to suit any wrist. Exceptionally durable with a forged steel case back and sapphire crystal. It’s also shock resistant with a fiber-reinforced polymer case.
Battery life of the Garmin Fenix 5x is another strong point. You’ll get 20-hours of use with GPS turned on, or up to 12 days in smartwatch mode. The 1.2” 240×240 display with transflective technology isn’t as vibrant as the Casio’s, but it’s just as easy to read outdoors. The Fenix 5 runs Garmin’s proprietary OS so doesn’t have the app ecosystem of the Casio. But the built-in applications are excellent and include everything you need for an active lifestyle.
Casio WSD-F20A – The Most Rugged Smart Watch On The Market
The Casio WSD-F20A is for all you serious explorers out there. It’s a PRO TREK smartwatch with military-grade 810G shock resistance. It’s water-resistant up to 50 meters and is preloaded with a huge range of features. Simply press the ‘Tool’ button and you get access to a compass, altimeter, barometer and much more.
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The Job Bias Nobody Discusses
Are Female Leaders Held to Different Standards?
I read an interesting article by Joan C. Williams in a recent issue of the Harvard Business Review titled “Hacking Tech’s Diversity Problem,” which talks about the challenges Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Facebook are having employing female talent. This summer, all four companies disclosed their “woefully low levels of female employment.”
The numbers they shared were surprising to me, considering that women are graduating at higher rates from college and graduate school than men. However, the article shared some concerning data that appears to demonstrate the problems the tech industry problems is having when trying to recruit women:
In 1985, 37% of computer science degrees were awarded to women, compared to only 18% in 2012.
41% of women leave tech companies after 10 years, as opposed to 17% of men.
That said, tech companies today are in an interesting place – they’ve identified the problem and are working to make improvements, through metric-based approaches rather than the standard “patchwork” we see so often.
The Gender Bias Discussion — and How it Influences the Future
Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In, took the gender discussion to a new level as she shared the challenges women continue to face trying to advance their careers. The fact remains that top female talent is scarce at higher levels across all industries, not just the technology industry.
Researchers suggest — and data proves — that gender diversity is one key factor companies need to seriously consider when evaluating corporate performance. Over the past five years, while consulting and working with companies on gender diversity, I have discovered that most companies have different definitions of this term. Each business system is unique in its processes and policies, so it makes sense that diversity means something different as well.
Case in point: traveling home from Europe recently, I was sitting in the Chicago O’Hare airport and had the opportunity to talk to a couple returning from a two-week trip in India. They own a large global insurance company that employs hundreds in that country.
I asked the husband his thoughts about gender and cultural diversity. Interestingly, he said, “I don’t see diversity as a problem in my company; in fact, until last year the majority of my C-suite were women. We have made a conscious decision to recruit and promote women over the years.” I asked him, “Why?” In response, he said “Quite frankly, I enjoy working with women more than men, women are straightforward and not full of bull. At times I have been accused by the men of reverse discrimination.”
He explained that his passion on the topic comes from raising two girls, whom he believes are the next generation for female talent. He also believes it will take years and several generations to force cultural change when it comes to the issue of gender bias, but he hopes that the challenges will be eliminated for his daughters’ — and future — generations. Change will not happen overnight, but strong leaders — male and female — need to take responsibility when making important business decisions to ensure gender bias isn’t a part of the equation.
Time to Take Action
When I was reading Williams’ HBR article, as she highlighted the facts surrounding gender bias, I couldn’t help but reflect on my own experiences surrounding the topic. Over the past five years, I have met with hundreds of companies who find gender bias to be the core problem in their diversity and inclusion efforts. So what can they be doing about it? Williams outlines three in-depth steps to “interrupt bias.”
Determine whether there is a problem
Identify key metrics [KPI’s – Key Performance Indicators to track against]
Experiment, measure success – and then keep trying
I agree with the metrics-based approach and applaud those who are taking action in this way. Several of the companies I’ve spoken with recently have started on the right track by launching awareness campaigns and conducting educational forums for their senior leaders to educate them. Others are engaging with consultants to help them set up new metrics and procedures to help “interrupt” biases.
All of these are good places to start. However, I encourage senior leaders to evaluate the system as a whole, with these simple steps:
Identify the roadblocks, challenges, and behaviors that are holding top female talent from advancing.
Then look at the evaluation process and performance reviews.
A partner of ours recently shared a gap that they have identified, which they described as “potential vs. experience” promotions. They’ve noticed that men seem to get promoted based on their potential to lead and their capacity to succeed. On the other hand, women are promoted based on past experience alone. With that knowledge at the senior level, they can experiment until they find a way to interrupt that from happening.
Prove-It-Again Bias – and My Personal Story
The gender difference between criteria for promotion, described above, is an example of what is called “prove-it-again” bias: when women have to provide more evidence of competence than men to be seen as equally capable.
I experienced this early on in my career. As a natural competitor and hard worker, after a few years as a young Sales Rep, I found myself the most recognized sales performer in the company’s history. After the first year, I was promoted to Field Sales Trainer, and again won multiple performance awards. However, the culture of gender bias forced a “prove-it-again and again” mentality. For three years, I watched men, whose track records never came close to mine, get promoted over me.
I asked for feedback regularly, listened as my boss shared my areas for improvement, and made sure not to make the same mistakes twice. It still took several more years, relocation, and some blatant verbal harassment until I finally got that next promotion.
It is experiences like that in my own career that drive me to do what I do every day in working to support women in business.
Maternal Bias
Maternal bias is another form that Williams points out in HBR. This one also hits a nerve for me and it is one that has come up in my conversations recently. Last month I was talking with one of our corporate partners as she discussed the challenges and fears younger women are expressing about becoming parents. They are asking questions like, “How will it affect my career if I get pregnant?” and, “Will it derail my career path?”
A bias triggered by motherhood is a real issue in the workplace. My decision to “lean in” when I was that young, high-achieving Sales Rep didn’t come without challenges. Men would say ignorant things to me about being pregnant and they often questioned my ability to be effective in my work. They made comments like:
“You aren’t capable of taking on more responsibilities while you are pregnant.” My response was, “WHY NOT?” They didn’t have an answer.
“No way can you be relocated with a new born baby.” My response: “TRY ME”…which they did. My now 20-year-old daughter was 15 months old when I was promoted and relocated to Dallas, TX.
“What if you decide not to come back?” My response: “That isn’t my plan or an option. I am committed to the company and to my career.”
Years later, pregnant with my second and third children, I experienced similar challenges and tolerated similar comments from my male bosses and senior leaders. They expressed concern about my ability to travel while leading my team. Yet, all three times I was pregnant, my teams finished number one.
Maternal bias shows up in many different ways, and companies need to address the biases that pertain specifically to their organization. The bottom line for me is this: maternal bias is evident when career decisions are made for women based on assumptions without having a conversation with the women themselves. As the saying goes: “Seek first to understand.”
Metric Before Rhetoric
I’m glad Joan Williams points out that companies are beginning to move past the rhetoric and building measurable metrics to solve gender issues. We’ve heard the message for years – “Gender bias exists!” We’ve also heard, “Men and women lead differently” and that “More women at the top improves the bottom line.”
I believe this is not only a responsibility for everybody, it is also just good business. I work with organizations to help them improve – and they do. However, some of the stories I just shared were from thirty years ago and we are still seeing these issues today – and, unfortunately, still having these conversations. There is much more work to be done.
How to Get it Right
Here are three ways companies are getting it right when it comes to eliminating bias in their work.
1) Awareness & education on gender bias
2) Making paradigm shifts and transforming old models
3) Tying together metrics, goals & compensation
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Locals are being urged to support the Plumstead Make Merry in a public vote which could see the festival secure £25,000 in funding as part of a national campaign searching for Britain’s most deserving local volunteers.
The festival has been shortlisted as ‘Regional Community Initiative of the Year’ as part of the ‘Britain Has Spirit‘ initiative, which aims to re-evoke a sense of community pride and honour those who volunteer to make their communities and neighbourhoods better.
Locals have 30 days to support the festival in a daily public vote. If the Make Merry wins the regional round, it will go through to the next round of public voting to compete for a national prize of £25,000.
Sarah Harper, Chair of the Make Merry Committee, said: “We are delighted to have been shortlisted. £25,000 will help secure the Make Merry’s future for the next few years but we need the support of the local community to make this happen. I’d like to thank everyone who has already rallied round to support us and urge everybody to please use their daily vote to ensure the Make Merry wins. Your local community festival needs you!”
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23 Ottobre, 2019 Pokénerd
Satoshipedia is based solely on what is demonstrated in the series that constituite the original timeline of the Pokémon anime. All other series, with related films, are alternative timelines.
→What is the original Pokémon anime timeline?
“Original timeline” DOES NOT mean “the others are not Pokémon” or “the others are disgusting”. By “original timeline” (which derives from “origin”) we mean the timeline that progressed Ash Ketchum starting from the first series, objectifying the growth and maturation of the character.
The original timeline was interrupted for the first time in 2010, at the end of the Diamond&Pearl series. In fact, the aforementioned series ends with Ash moving away from the back, without mentioning any reference to the subsequent Black&White series.
The original timeline seems to resume in 2013 with the XY series, in which Ash demonstrates a physical and psychological progression with the Diamond&Pearl series. Not surprisingly, the XY / XYZ series do not mention in any way the events of Black&White (despite the presence of Alexia, which in fact is never explained during XY), nor the events of the next Sun&Moon series.
Another factor that demonstrates the discontinuity between Black&White and XY is the timeline: the Black&White series ends in early autumn (Episode: “Me and Butterfree”), while the XY series begins in late spring.
Exactly like Diamond&Pearl, XYZ also ends with Ash shown from his back. In fact, the original timeline is interrupted again in 2016, but despite the generational change of 2019 it is not yet resumed.
A tweet from the anime’s sound director, Masafumi Mima, literally says: “Sun&Moon is NOT a continuation of XYZ” confirming the discontinuity between XYZ and Sun&Moon timelines.
Anyway someone might ask «And what if XY is a series not connected but alternative as well?»
We don’t have proof that XY is the sequel of Diamond&Pearl, so we’ll still call “original series” the episodes untill the end of Diamond&Pearl. But as already said, in XY Ash shows a psychological progression which is cohoerent to the original series. This, united to the fact that Ash’s age was never mentiones, permits us to include XY and XYZ in the encyclopedia.
Series that constituite the original timeline
Original title: “Pocket Monsters”
Seasons in english: “Pokémon” ; “Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands” ; “Pokémon: The Johto Journeys” ; “Pokémon: Johto League Champions” ; “Pokémon The Master Quest”
Regions: Kanto ; Orange Islands ; Johto
Age of Ash Ketchum: From almost 11 years old to almost 13
Pokémon Advanced
Original title: “Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation”
Seasons in english: “Pokémon Advanced” ; “Pokémon Advanced Challenge” ; “Pokémon Advanced Battle” ; “Pokémon Battle Frontier”
Regions: Hoenn ; Kanto
Age of Ash Ketchum: From almost 13 years old to 14 and a half.
Pokémon Diamond&Pearl
Original title: “Pocket Monsters Diamond&Pearl”
Seasons in english: “Diamond&Pearl” ; “DP Battle Dimension” ; “DP Galactic Battles” ; “DP Sinnoh League Victors”
Regions: Sinnoh
Age of Ash Ketchum: From 14 and a half years old to 15
Pokémon XY / XYZ
Original title: “Pocket Monsters XY” ; “Pocket Monsters XY&Z”
Seasons in english: “XY” ; “XY Kalos Quest” ; “XYZ”
Regions: Kalos
Age of Ash Ketchum: From 16 years old to almost 17
XYZ is currently considered the latest series of the Pokémon anime. For more information, please consult this FAQ.
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22 Settembre, 2019 Pokénerd
A new hoax is focused on Ash Ketchum, whom is even seen becoming Pokémon Master this time! As much as we are sorry to have to deny that Ash reached his goal, the reality is far different.
“Ash Ketchum win for the first time the Pokémon League and finally becomes Pokémon Master!”
This is what even the most renowed online newspapers say… but how much of all of this is true? Once again, we of Satoshipedia end up dressing the role of the “prudes”, to clarify the fact that developed exaggerated connotations!
Let’s start from a precondition: it’s true that the protagonist of the “Pokémon Sun&Moon” series won the regional Alola League tournament. However, the value of that success is definitely lower compared to what has been proclaimed with much clamor.
But let’s start from the main hoax:
“Ash finally has become Pokémon Master!”
This has never been stated in the episode in question. Whoever follow the Pokémon anime since a lot of time knows this well, it’s not enought to win a regional tournament to become Pokémon Master. A regional league represents a springboard, that confers to the winner (besides the trophy) the right to challenge the Elite Four. This is needed to archieve the possibility to challenge the current regional champion. But being just a regional champion this doesn’t mean it will be enough to reach the summit!
“The road to become Pokémon Master is still long!”
This is what Rica Matsumoto twitted (the japanese voice actor of Ash). This concept was also reiterated into an interview released for “Corocoro”.
Now let’s talk about the alolan league format of the anime: nothing is required to partecipate, not even gym badges, so this means that anyone could give it a try, facing simplified rounds based on a maximum of 3 vs 3 matches (instead than 6 vs 6). It’s also necessary to point out that Sun&Moon is set into an alternative universe, of which the timeline is not linked to the previous series.
What value can have this kind of league in the main story? Nothing, this also because the main character of Sun&Moon is an alternative Ash, so NOT the original protagonist that we met 20 years ago.
Conclusive scenes of Diamond&Pearl and XYZ series, with the original Ash who is framed from behind while he moves away from the viewer, symbolizing the start of a new timeline
It’s not a case that in Sun&Moon is never mentioned the first league that effectively won by Ash in the original series: the Orange League.
> "The challenger wins the match! The challenger wins the match!"> "He did it!"> "Ash wins the match, the winner's trophy and a rightful place in the Orange Island's League Hall of Fame!"The year was 1999 (Japanese broadcast) and #AshKetchum won his FIRST Pokémon League tournament!Where was the #CNN when Ash won this tournament? In the same place as three years ago, when Ash ranked, for the first time, in the final of a major league!We are ironic, of course; but we recommend, especially to younger fans, to rewatch these episodes… also to verify with their own eyes the differences as for difficulty between this competition and the Alola League.We also remind you that SM constitutes an ALTERNATIVE timeline.> "The road to becoming a Pokémon Master is still long"This was just tweeted by Rica Matsumoto (Ash's Japanese voice) hinting that the value of the Alola League, in the plot, will be comparable to the one that he received the Orange League.#PerNonDimenticare #anipoke #PokemonAnime
Gepostet von Ash Ketchum Fanpage am Montag, 16. September 2019
So, a real mockery of the original Ash. During the anime he faced challenges and tournaments way more difficult, in which sometimes he was denied the victory, in absolute incoherent ways.
The most recent example is the Kalos League, the memory is still 3 years fresh. That has been the first standard tournament of the Pokémon League (Basically, regulated by the requirement of 8 gym badges, structured in rounds that includes “full challenges” of 6 vs 6 Pokémon) in which Ash finally reached the final, acclaimed by the stuadium audience and the veteran fans of the anime… who, for the occasion, started following again Pokémon, after almost 20 years! Beyond description is then the disappointment for the unjustified loss, where favoured Ash-Greninja was beaten in a incoherent way by an already seriously damaged and exhausted Mega-Charizard X.
At this point, the question is natural: what sense could have denying the victory to Ash in XYZ, where he was perfectly developed and ready for a triumph, to then give it to a rebooted Ash only 3 years later?
It comes obvious to think about is as a judgemental call, because both Ash’s Kalos Leage loss and the announcement of Sun&Moon aggravated even more the critical decrease of ratings of the anime. During the Alola Legue the japanese ratings decreased to 1%.
For any doubt or curiosity you can read our FAQ article.
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Focus,Who is Ash Ketchum
22 Maggio, 2016 Pokénerd
Everybody knows Ash Ketchum as a skillful Pokémon trainer, but the Pokémon anime has also shown his innate peculiarities and quirks several times.
The Chosen One (Pokémon: The Movie 2000)
In this movie we find out that Ash is the chosen one of an ancient prophecy of the Shamouti Island. It recites, amongst the many verses: “A Great controller shall calm the God’s anger“.
Intially, when all the inhabitants were celebrating, unaware of the imminent tragedy, Ash is elected as ‘chosen’ simply because of his abilities as a trainer (he can “control” his Pokémons, as old Tobias said). During the festival Ash was asked to demonstrate that he was the chosen one by a ritual, that consisted in collecting three treasures located in some small temples consecreted to the three Legendary Birds: in the Fire Islands, Ice Islands and Lightning Islands.
Ash found two of the three treasures by accident and managed to take those away. This showed that he really was the chosen one, the only one to find the last treasure and save the world.
In our version the prophecy refers to him because of the name “Ash”. In the english version the prophecy actually says “Thus the Earth shall turn to Ash”.
Aura Guardian
In the eighth movie “Lucario and the Mystery of Mew” we find out that Ash has a particular gift: he has the same Aura as Lucario.
There are some special people in the Pokémon world that have a well developed Aura, like Lucario’s. In a distant time, these people were called “Aura Guardians“.
Aura is an energy emitted by every living thing; in japanese is also called “Ki“. Aura Guardians can sense it, and with the right training, control it.
As far as Ash is concerned, many episodes show he has this ability. For example in the episodes “Pokémon Ranger and the Kidnapped Riolu” Ash could locate and comunicate with Riolu (Lucario’s pre-evolution), anywhere it was thanks to the aura. His ability has proven useful to Ranger Kellyn in order to rescue the Pokémon.
In the episode “The Keystone Pops!” Ash saves a village from the fury of a Spiritomb. A locald elderly woman states that Ash is a Aura Guardian, like the hero that saved the village centuries ago from the same Spiritomb. Ash then answers that he only wants to become a Pokémon Master and he’s not interestes in training his aura.
King of the Sea
In the movie “Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea” Ash is elected King of the Sea because he saved the temple by putting the Sea Crown in its place. The legend (in the original version of the movie) says: “Thee who holds the Sea Crown shall become the true King of the Sea ” so, because Ash has protected the crown he has also become its owner. He has also used it in order to save his friends from the threat represented by Phantom.
Ash, The Being of Willpower
In Diamond & Parl series it turns out that Ash, Dawn and Brock are connected to three pokémon: Azelf, Mesprit and Uxie. They are respectively defined as “The Being of Willpower“, “The Being of Emotion” and “The Being of Knowledge“. Moreover, these beings perfectly reflecting the personality of the three trainers aforementioned.
Azelf chose to connect to Ash because he has always used his strong willpower to protect Pokémon.
There is a strong bond between the two. As a matter of fact, Ash is able to feel the pain of Azelf. The latter, instead, can contact Ash in his dreams and can even “summon” him, teleporting him everytime it needed him.
Ash encountered Azelf for the first time in the episode “Pruning a Passel of Pals!“. Unable to sleep, he decided to take a walk at Lake Valor and once being there, as previously happened to Dawn, he saw the spirit of Azelf which came out of the water and then dove back.
It wouldn’t be until “The Needs of the Three!“ that Ash would see Azelf in its true form. Azelf contacted Ash in a dream and warned him of the destruction of the world, because of Team Galactic.
When Pokémon Hunter J awakened Azelf from its sleep throwing a bomb in Lake Valor, Ash felt a severe pain at his head because of his connection to Azelf. Later, when Azelf was kidnapped and taken to Team Galactic headquarters together with Mesprit and Uxie, Azelf convened Ash and teleported him there, where it was, at the Team Galactic headquarters.
Ash rescued Azelf from Team Galactic. Later, Ash and Azelf, through their connection, managed to help Palkia and Dialga calm and by doing so they also saved the world from destruction.
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Delia Ketchum – The Super Mom
Delia Ketchum / Hanako
In his novels “Pocket Monsters the Animation”, Takeshi Shudo dwelt very much upon Delia Ketchum, often repeating, during the narration, that reading this information would help us learn more about Ash and his future events.
Ash has inherited the character from his mother Delia Ketchum (Hanako in Japanese), who in fact we are used to see always smiling and carefree. Even as a mother, she has always been a strong and courageous woman, despite the enormous sufferings she had to endure in her life.
Delia is in fact very young and the relationship between Ash and her is much more like the one between brother and sister, rather than the one between mother and son. At the beginning of the anime, Delia still was under her 30s, even though she already had an 11-year old child. So, the day when Ash left for his trip, while wiping away her tears, she thought:
«… Tears, huh… I’m still young but, although my young age, I’m already the mother of a fully-fledged adult… As his mother, I’ve had to prove to be brave… I remember all the past ten years, ten months and ten days with Ash… All the adversities… All the painful moments in which it seemed impossible to go on… The period of motherhood was really tough… But it was worth it.»
Since Ash’s father left home, she did not shed a single tear for a farewell any longer, although she generally was a person who tended to cry like a baby or have exaggerated reactions, even for a simple splinter stuck in a finger.
It all started when Delia was only 18 years old and her mother was still alive. A young aspiring Pokémon trainer was staying in her inn, the “Pallet House“. Delia immediately fell in love with him and their relationship quickly became stronger, so much that they got married in a heartbeat. But right after Ash’s birth, the young man left the town and never came back. To make matters worse, Delia’s mother soon got ill and passed away, leaving her daughter alone with the Pallet House and the new-born Ash.
At that point, Delia had no choice but to be strong. Even if her husband had come back home, after leaving her alone for over ten years, she would have completely ignored him. If someone asked her: «Do you still love him?» her answer would be a clear «No!».
Despite this, Delia rejected all the proposals she received from other men, because she actually never wanted to divorce from Ash’s father. There were even a few rumors of her relationships with other men, but none of them was true.
Until the day Ash left home to travel and become a Pokémon Trainer, Delia managed to go on on her own. «It’s natural…» she thought to herself. Ash is her beloved son and she would take care of him until the day of his departure. It was her responsibility.
The relationship between Ash and Delia
As already said, there is a very unique relationship between Delia and Ash, very similar to the one existing between a couple of friends or brothers. Sometimes Ash wondered if some of Delia’s behaviors were the same of a typical mother and wanted her to be more like a normal adult woman. He often accused her of “pulling the mom card” only when it was convenient.
As a matter of fact, on the day of Ash’s departure Delia began to fantasize a bit. She was sad but at the same time she felt like a student who is about to start his summer holidays without any homework to do: starting from the following day she would have returned to be a free woman. Given that she still was so young, she could devote herself to many things. But until the next morning she still had to be the mother of Ash.
Shudo explains that being a mother is already a very hard job. However, despite her situation, Delia has never perceived her motherhood as something tough. After all it was better than remaining completely alone, after her husband had left home.
Of course it has never been so easy for her… Despite that, every once in a while Delia felt the need to say «Thanks baby» to Ash.
Just to give an example, Ash became rebellious for the first time around the age of three. He combined a prank after another and, in order to keep him quiet, Delia often pretended to cry:
«Having such a rebellious son makes me the most unfortunate beauty in the world… Sniff, sniff. Waaah, waaaah»
However, as usual at her age, girls should go out and have fun rather than working as single mothers. That’s why Delia felt so unfortunate. At the beginning, she started to pretend to cry, but her tears soon became real when she started to stop and think of her life situation.
Ash was caught off guard when seeing his mother crying, so he immediately stopped making trouble. Then he approached her with a very sweet expression and asked: «Mom, what’s wrong? Are you ok? ». This gesture consoled Delia and made her feel the need to express her gratitude to his son.
Delia and the fathers of the bullies
When the bullies picked on Ash at the kindergarten and then to school, he’d get the teachers or the bullies fathers to tell them off. Or else, if the fathers of the bullies didn’t rebuke them, he would made sure the teacher did.
These bullies were children who at home didn’t breath an atmosphere of serenity. They were often children of single fathers or of husbands who were kicked out of the house after a marital dispute. If these men were looking for something to eat they had two options: a bento from the only convenience store of the village or going to the Pallet House (being the only restaurant in Pallet Town).
Delia, just like Ash, has the ability to always find the right words to help someone in need, so when these family men decided to eat at the Pallet House, she scolded them:
«Children need a mother and a father! Especially a father! You can’t underestimate the importance of a father! A father can’t just be working all the time! He has to spend time at home!»
Delia knew well what she was saying, she had the experience of both her father (Ash’s grandfather) and her husband: both left the family to become Pokémon trainers and never returned.
Thus, the men would remain silent and let her talk. In exchange, if you can call it like that, Delia would listen to their problems with their wives.
The mothers in the country, therefore, never complained the fact that their husbands came home late at night saying they were at the Pallet House. On the contrary, they would consider it a relief, because talking with Delia would inspire the fathers of Pallet Town to do their best for the home and their children. This helped to improve the mood of mothers in the town. So, with both parents in a good mood, children would breath a climate of serenity and bullying against Ash ceased. Being no longer picked on, Ash was delighted to be able to focus only on its pranks. He loved to play around and cause mischief. Delia rebuked him when he was causing too many problems, but she never forced him to focus on his studies.
Delia’s wish
Delia has always wanted to convey optimism and serenity to Ash, therefore, also thanks to his strong character, he was never deeply shocked by the absence of his father, however as a child, he used to ask about him to his mom. He wanted to know what kind of person he was and what he was doing. He addressed to her the same questions also about his grandfather. Delia initially replied that they were two very special pokémon trainers. However, when Ash was five years old, she decided to reveal him the truth: though they left to become pokémon trainers, no one has heard anything about them. There is no evidence that they really became trainers.
Whether his father and grandfather were or were not good trainers made no difference in his desire to become a Pokémon trainer. However, if Ash had found out on the internet or when he grew up, it may have come as a shock.
Paradoxically, having the weight of his father and grandfather failures on him was a kind of weird encouragement for Ash:
«I’m not going to end up like dad or grandpa!»
Said Ash to his mother, the night before leaving for his trip. But Delia thought, within herself:
«If he was anything like his father, he may never be back »
It was natural that Ash would have ended up dreaming of becoming a Pokémon trainer. Delia herself sometimes muttered: «Your dad and grandpa are out there somewhere trying to become Pokémon Trainers… Must be nice out there…»
She would say that only occasionaly but, in over ten years, this sentence ended to reach Ash’s ears many times, triggering in him the desire to become a Pokémon trainer.
Delia herself loved Pokémon and also wanted to become a trainer.
If she didn’t had to take over the Pallet House, being the only child of her family, Delia would have ignored any opposition of her mother and once she became ten she would have left home to become a Pokémon trainer, just like Ash.
The Voltorb shaped alarm clock
The alarm clock shaped like a Voltorb was donated to Ash by Delia for his tenth birthday.
Pokémon themed goods are always a best seller, so you can’t get them in a small village like Pallet Town. Consequently to get that clock, Delia had to leave her busy schedule for three days and go to a department store in the metropolis of Cerulean City, where she waited five hours in line to buy it.
For Delia, that Voltorb clock held more significance than just a birthday present for his son: it was an expression of motherly love for Ash to take on his journey. His birthday was only a suitable opportunity to give it to him.
See also: Focus – Ash’s Childhood
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Focus: Ash’s house and the history of Pallet Town
Ash Ketchum is native of Pallet Town, a little rural village located in the south-west of the Kanto region. It’s inspired by Shimoda Town, an existing city in Japan.
It’s called Pallet Town because of the typical white houses all over the village; however, in the Japanese version, it’s called Masara Village (though in the anime it’s named Masara Town).
Masara Village was named after a legendary hero, called Masara Ookido. He lived in the village about a century before the anime starts. He was showered with honors for being the only trainer in town ranking at the 921st position on the list of the best 10 thousands Pokémon trainers. Because of this, a monument in the central plaza was erected in his honor, and the village’s name was changed from Masshiro Village to Masara Village.
Masara Ookido was Professor Oak’s grandfather (Yukinari Ookido). Talking about Oak’s family, the professor has two older brothers: the middle one is Pallet’s postal office’s chief, while the older brother was the mayor at the time of the first series, and in fact he was the one who hired Gary’s cheerleaders.
At the time of the Advanced series the mayor was Gilbert’s father (a character appeared in Pokémon Chronicles).
Ash’s house
Ash lives in one of Pallet’s typical white houses, and it’s very spacious and cozy. It’s on two floors, and on the exterior it’s surrounded by a garden, which in some places was turned into a kitchen garden by Delia, given her passion for gardening.
Takeshi Shudo in his novels “Pocket Monsters the Animation” hinted that Ash’s house is also the “Pallet House” inn, in which Delia works.
Pallet House is the only restaurant in Pallet Town, and on the second floor it’s also a guest-house. It was run by Delia’s parents, however she was forced to inherit it when her mother (Ash’s grandmother) died of illness, a little after Ash’s birth.
Delia runs the inn admirably, so much so that her cooking skills were mentioned in the book “Unexplored Regions: The best food in the little villages”.
The restaurant is located on the ground level, supposedly behind the house (communicating, obviously, with the kitchen), in which can be seen the little inn, visible only with a careful observation of some shots.
Regarding the remaining interiors, we know every single corner of the first floor, while on the second floor were shown just two rooms: Ash’s and Delia’s bedrooms. On the other side are located the guest-house’s rooms.
Ash’s room shown in some official sketches:
Ash’s room in detail
Ash’s Room (angle 1)
Fun fact: In Pallet Town also lives Mrs Masae, a “nice” lady who loves to gossip through her personal radio show!
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サトシ (Satoshi)
May 22 [age in each series]
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Pallet Town
Mother (Delia Ketchum), Father (unknown), Maternal Grandmother (defunct), Maternal Grandfather (missing)
“Pokémon – I Choose You!”
Veronica Taylor (until episode AG145), Sarah Natochenny (since episode AG146 and on), Kayzie Rogers (The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon)
Other voice actors
Ash Ketchum is the main character of the Pokémon Anime. He is based on Red, the protagonist of the first generation games (Pokémon). The original name Satoshi means “Wisdom” (a quality that Ash has gradually gained throughout the series) and comes directly from the Pokémon creator, Satoshi Tajiri, which, in many interviews, claimed to be reflected in the character. In the games Pokémon Red and Blue, and Pokémon Yellow, Ash is one of the default name which the player can choose. His surname “Ketchum” comes from the slogan “gotta catch ‘em all”, but it is also a real and existing surname. It’s possible that it has been choosen due to the number of movements of the mouth made, in the anime, to pronunce the protagonist ‘s original name, in order to make the dubbing easier since “Satoshi” has two more syllables than “Ash”.
As many others shōnen characters, he would like to achieve a very difficult goal. In this case, Ash wants to become a Pokémon Master. For this reason, he travels around the world challenging Gym Leaders and competing in Pokémon Leagues, similarly to the protagonist of the videogames.
Though being a character with the typical shōnen hero peculiar features, Ash has some specific qualities which highlight an even more articulated personality. In particular it stands out his exceptional ability to comfort and encourage those who need a helping hand, making use of his empathy. This makes him a landmark for most of his fans, so that in the book “The Japanification of Children’s Popular Culture” Ash is cited as an example of cultural identification. Additionally it emphasized the character’s growth and development as the anime series progressed.
Ash is particularly unselfish, empathetic and kind, but at the same time he also has other peculiar characteristics, like his courage and determination. Ash is indeed extremely stubborn and he never gives up, despite difficulties. His motto is “saigo made akirameru na” (literally: “never give up until it’s over“). As mentioned above, he shows a particular empathy, thanks to which he always manages to find the right words to cheer up those who need it. Thanks to this particular trait, friends consider him a sort of psychologist in the group, often making use of his own teachings on how to face life and its difficulties.
But when he is having a problem, he prefers to keep everything inside and can become grumpy against anyone who tries to help him. Ash established a relationship based on trust and mutual respect with his Pokémon: he wants his team to feel part of a big family. Moreover, as explained by Takeshi Shudo, Ash also has super-strong feelings thanks to which nothing can traumatize him, so that he has never been deeply shocked by the absence of his father. In fact this has strengthened his character.
Focus: Ash’s sunny and positive personality
Focus: Ash’s psichological profile
Physical appearance:
Ash appears as a boy of short stature (165 centimeters) and thin, but at the same time very athletic and vigorous (as a matter of fact, he is known for his great agility).
He is used to wear a red hat on his thick and messy hair, while, as far as his hands are concerned, he wears some fingerless gloves. He prefers to wear jackets with short sleeves and long pants (probably for convenience and practicality while travelling).
On the 1st of April, after his 10th birthday, Ash left his hometown Pallet Town, along with three other trainers, including Gary Oak, his rival since childhood.
But that morning he overslept and met Gary, professor Oak’s grandson, from whom he already received his first Pokémon. Once he reached the professor laboratory, Ash found out that all the starters (Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle) had already been taken, so he decided to take an exemplary of Pikachu, the only remaining creature, together with the Pokédex provided by the professor (called Dexter). However, Pikachu hates Poké Balls, which is the reason why it still follows Ash as if it was a “free” Pokémon. Initially, it caused some problems to its trainer by not respecting him, but when Ash risked his life to protect the little Pokémon injured by some Spearow, the two became inseparable friends. At the end of this adventure, Ash and his Pikachu saw a peculiar Pokémon. During a video-call with professor Oak, Ash realized that it was the legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh, but nobody believed him. He was, in fact, the first to have seen Ho-Oh in the last three centuries.
Since Pikachu is able to generate powerful electrical attacks, it is often the target of Jessie, James and Meowth (members of Team Rocket) plans, that often consist on trying to steal the Pokémon and bringing him to their boss Giovanni. At the beginning, Ash was accompanied by Misty, who followed him to get her bike back, taken by Ash to save Pikachu and destroyed by the Thundershock it used to help Ash. Having to win eight badges in different Gyms to partecipate in the Pokémon League, he fought Brock, the Gym Leader of Pewter City, who joined the team after being defeated. In the second season of the anime (according to the western numeration), Ash finally participated in the Kanto League, situated in the Indigo Plateau, where he was defeated by his friend Richie and finishing in the top sixteen positions.
Subsequently, Ash traveled through the Orange Islands alongside Misty and Tracey Sketchit to win the Orange League. In the episode “Enter The Dragonite” he defeated Drake and obtained the trophy. Ash’s next journey took place in the Johto region, where, once again, he was followed by Misty and Brock. In the Johto League, Ash finally defeats his rival Gary, but is then beaten by Harrison finishing in the first eight positions.
In the Advanced Generation series, Ash had to separate from Misty and Brock, which made him feel very sad. However, Brock came back and joined again Ash and his new friends: May and Max. This time, a more mature and experienced Ash acted as if he was a mentor for the young new trainer, May. In this region Ash had to defeat again 8 Gym Leaders in order to enter the Hoenn League, where he also fought his friend and rival Morrison. Ash finished alongside the eight best trainers. Next, he separated from his friends again and came back home. However, he found them right there, in Pallet town, a place in which they decided to set off again for another journey altogether. This time, Ash’s main objective was the Battle Frontier. Ash defeated all the Frontier Brains, gaining the Champion title in the episode “Pace – The Final Frontier!“, during which he managed to win against Baldo. At the end of his second journey through the Kanto region, Ash saw for the first time Gary’s Electivire, experience that lead him to decide to visit the Sinnoh region, where he met again his friend Brock.
In Twinleaf Town, the two met Dawn and with her they started a new journey during which Ash not only faced matches in Gyms, but also, with her new friend, joined two Pokémon Contests. During this series Ash, has become an experienced trainer, specialized in creating new and spectacular fighting strategies, so much that Dawn developed a great admiration for him. However, more than once Ash has been under pressure because of his new rival, Paul, who is used to train his pokémon with completely different methods from the ones used by Ash. Paul, in order to make his pokémon stronger, doesn’t even worry about them. His methods, for this very reason, are stricts and heedless. After many difficulties, Ash finally managed to defeat Paul in the most spectacular match of his life, arriving at the semifinals of the Sinnoh league but being defeated by Tobias and his legendary Pokémon.
However, Ash was the only trainer who managed to defeat not only Tobias’s Darkrai, but even his Latios, this way becoming the moral winner of the Sinnoh league. Once the competion ended, Ash separated from Dawn and Brock. In the end the latter wouldn’t come back to travel with Ash because he decided to study very hard to become a doctor.
The events of Unova region are NOT mentioned nor in the Diamond&Pearl Series, nor in the XY One. Satoshipedia is based solely on what is demonstrated in the series that constituite the original timeline of the Pokémon anime. So the lenght of the Black&White series constitues a hole in the timeline.
The time hole starts from Ash’s return at home in the last episode of Diamond&Pearl (autumn) to Ash’s arrival in Kalos (late spring of the following year). So, we continue counting the timeline by adding an year.
Original Timeline of Pokémon Anime.
Focus on Black&White series.
Sun&Moon is not a continuation of XYZ.
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The XY series, in fact, sees a return of Ash as we had left him in the Sinnoh region: mature and extraordinarily skilled in Pokémon battles. In a short period of time, Ash has improved a lot his trainer skills and during the XYZ series he also discovers a power that binds him to his Greninja. Thanks to it, Ash reaches a level never seen before and is ranked finalist in the League of Kalos. His travel friends were Clemont, Bonnie and Serena. The latter is in love with Ash after he, as a child, helped her in a forest where she had lost. Upon arrival in Kalos, Serena recognizes Ash seeing him on television and decided to travel with him.
Focus: how has Ash changed and matured over the years
Age in each series
someone might ask «And what if XY is a series not connected but alternative as well?»
Ash as a child
The reason for which Ash’s parents are separated is that his father, a person whom information are ignored, abandoned the family a little while later Ash’s birth, leaving a young 19-year old Delia alone. We only know that he is a pokémon trainer (who doesn’t appear in the membership list of the World Pokémon trainers Association) currently travelling in a far land. As for Ash’s maternal grandparents, Delia’s mother died because of a disease, while her father had a behavior very similar to that of her husband: he also left home to become a trainer.
Ash’s family
Focus: Ash’s childhood
Ash’s Pokémon:
Moves marked in dark blue are the ones currently known or used recently by the Pokémon.
Pokémon series (click on spoiler to view):
Pikachu ♂ – Type: Electric
Pikachu is the initial Pokémon of Ash, obtained from Professor Oak in the episode “Pokémon – I Choose You!“.
Moves: Thundershock, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Agility, Double-Edge, Quick Attack, Tail Whip (used sporadically without command, as in the Vermilion Gym), Tackle, Leer (used only in the episode “Hour of the Houndour“), Iron Tail (teached by Ash in the episode “All Things Bright and Beautifly!“), Locomovolt (learned in the episode “May’s Egg-Cellent Adventure“), Electro Ball (learned in the episode “Dancing With the Ducklett Trio!” (Black&White series).
Bulbasaur ♂ – Type: Grass/Poison
Given to Ash in the episode “Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village“.
Moves: Razor Leaf, Vine Whip, Sleep Powder, Take Down, Leech Seed, Solar Beam (learned in the episode “Bulbasaur’s Mysterious Garden“), Whirlwind, Tickle, Dig.
Charizard ♂ – Type: Fire/Flying
Evolution of his Charmeleon, which evolved from Charmander. This Pokémon was caught by Ash in the episode “Charmander the Stray Pokémon“. Charizard is training in the Charicific Valley. However, in case of necessity, Ash can ask Liza to use it temporarily.
Moves: Flamethrower, Leer, Ember, Fire Spin, Skull Bash (used only in the episode “Pokémon Scent-sation!“), Seismic Toss (learned after evolving), Tackle, Mega Punch, Submission, Take Down, Rage, Dragon Rage, Dragon Breath, Whirlwind, Overheat (learned in the Charicific Valley), Steel Wing (learned in the Charicific Valley before the episode “Gathering the Gang of Four!“), Wing Attack, Slash, Dragon Tail.
Kingler – Type: Water
Evolution of Ash’s Krabby, one of his first Pokémon and caught by Ash in the episode “Mystery at the Lighthouse“.
Moves: Crabhammer, Harden, Leer, Bubble, Water Gun, Hyper Beam, Vice Grip, Stomp.
Muk – Type: Poison
Caught in the episode “Sparks Fly for Magnemite“.
Moves: Body Slam, Poison Gas, Sludge Bomb.
Tauros ♂ – Type: Normal
Caught at the Safari Zone in the banned episode “The Legend of Dratini“, together with 29 other Tauros. Indeed, Ash has 30 Tauros.
Moves: Fissure, Take Down, Horn Attack, Double Team (used for the first time in the episode “Second Time’s the Charm!“)
Snorlax – Type: Normal
Caught at the Orange Islands, during the episode “Snack Attack“.
Moves: Tackle, Body Slam, Hyper Beam, Ice Punch, Mega Punch, Mega Kick, Protect, Rest, Headbutt.
Heracross – Type: Bug/ Fighting
Caught in the episode “A Sappy Ending“.
Moves: Tackle, Take Down, Leer, Fury Attack, Megahorn, Horn Attack, Endure, Sleep Talk (shown in the episode “League Unleashed!“), Focus Punch (shown in the episode “League Unleashed!“), Hyper Beam (shown in the episode “The Semi-Final Frontier!“).
Bayleef ♀ – Type: Grass
Evolution of his Chikorita, a Pokémon healed by Ash, after the struggle with his Charizard in the episode “The Chikorita rescue“.
Moves: Tackle, Razor Leaf, Vine Whip, Sweet Scent (which has been used only in the episode “Gettin’ The Bugs Out”), Body Slam (learned right after evolving into Bayleef), Headbutt (used only in the episode “Playing with Fire!“).
Quilava – Type: Fire
Evolution of his Cyndaquil, caught in the episode “Good ‘Quil Hunting“.
Moves: Tackle, Flamethrower, Quick Attack, Agility, Smokescreen, Swift, Flame Wheel (shown in the episode “An old Family Blend!“), Eruption (learned right after evolving into Quilava in the episode “An old Family Blend!“), Aerial Ace (shown in the episode “League Unleashed!“).
Totodile ♂ – Type: Water
Caught in the episode “The Totodile Duel“.
Moves: Scratch, Water Gun, Bite, Slash (used only in the episode “Just Add Water“), Headbutt, Skull Bash, Scary Face, Leer (used only in the episode “Playing with Fire!“), Tail Whip (used only during the second phase of the Silver Conference after the command ” Finish it!”).
Noctowl – Type: Normal/Flying
The only shiny Pokémon caught by Ash, during the episode “Fowl Play!“.
Moves: Tackle, Whirlwind, Peck, Foresight, Hypnosis, Confusion (learned in the episode “From Ghost to Ghost“), Air Slash (shown in the episode “Working on a Right Move!“), Sky Attack (shown in the episode “Working on a Right Move!“), Extrasensory (shown in the episode “Working on a Right Move!“).
Donphan – Type: Ground
Evolution of his Phanpy, born from an egg received in the episode “Extreme Pokémon!” and hatched in the episode “Hatching a Plan!“.
Moves: Tackle, Take Down, Rollout, Earthquake, Defense Curl, Hidden Power (used for the first time in the episode “Hooked on Onix“), Hyper Beam (learned right after evolving into Donphan in the episode “Reversing the Charges“).
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Pokémon Advanced series (click on spoiler to view):
Swellow – Type: Normal/Flying
Evolution of his Taillow, caught in the episode “You Never Can Taillow“.
Moves: Quick Attack, Wing Attack, Double Team (learned right after evolving into Swellow in the episode “Solid as a Solrock“), Aerial Ace (taught by Ash in the episode “Lessons in Lilycove!“).
Sceptile ♂ – Type: Grass
Evolution of his Grovyle, which evolved from Treecko, caught in the episode “Tree’s a Crowd“.
Moves: Quick Attack, Pound, Slam, Agility, Bullet Seed (taught by ash during the episode “What You Seed is What You Get“), Leaf Blade (learned right after evolving into Grovyle in the episode “Exploud and Clear!“), Solar Beam (learned during the match with Spenser), Verdebufera (shown in the episode “The Semi-Final Frontier!“).
Corphish – Type: Water
Caught in the episode “Gone Corphishin’“.
Moves: Crabhammer, Bubble Beam, Bubble, Harden, Vice Grip, Dig.
Torkoal – Type: Fire
Caught in the Valley of Steel, during the episode “All Torkoal, No Play“.
Moves: Flamethrower, Overheat, Iron Defense, Body Slam, Heat Wave (learned before the episode “Overjoyed!“).
Glalie – Type: Ice
Evolution of his Snorunt, caught in the episode “Let it snow, let it snow, let it Snorunt!“
Moves: Ice Beam, Ice Windy, Powder Snow, Double Team, Headbutt.
Pokémon Diamond&Pearl series (click on spoiler to view):
Staraptor ♂ – Type: Normal/Flying
Evolution of his Staravia, which evolved from Starly, caught in the episode “Two Degrees of Separation!“.
Moves: Wing Attack, Quick Attack, Gust, Aerial Ace (learned right after evolving into Staravia in the episode “A Staravia is Born!“), Brave Bird (taught by Ash in the episode “Crossing the Battle Line!“), Close Combat (learned right after evolving into Staraptor in the episode “Pursuing a Lofty Goal!“).
Torterra – Type: Grass/Ground
Evolution of his Grotle, which evolved from Turtwig, caught in the episode “Gettin’ Twiggy With It!“.
Moves: Tackle, Razor Leaf, Synthesis, Bite, Energy Ball (taught by Ash in the episode “Tanks for the Memories!“), Rock Climb (learned in the episode “The lonely Snover“), Leaf Storm (learned right after evolving into Torterra in the episode “The Fleeing Tower of Sunyshore!“).
Infernape – Type: Fire/Fighting
Evolution of his Monferno, which evolved from Chimchar. This Pokémon, has been abandoned by its previous trainer, Paul. So, Ash decided to ask it to join his team in the episode “Smells Like Team Spirit!“.
Moves: Flame Wheel, Ember, Dig, Fire Spin, Scratch, Flamethrower, Mach Punch (learned right after evolving into Monferno in the episode “Evolving Strategies!“), Flare Blitz (learned in the episode “Working on a Right Move!“).
Buizel ♂ – Type: Water
Previously owned by Dawn. Ash recevied it from her with a trade thanks to which Dawn obtained Ash’s Aipom, in the episode “Throwing the Track Switch“
Moves: Water Gun, Aqua Jet, Sonic Boom, Water Pulse (used for the first time in the Veilstone Gym), Ice Punch (taught by Ash in the episode “Short and To the Punch!“).
Gliscor – Type: Ground/Flying
Evolution of his Gligar, caught in the episode “Riding the Winds of Change!“.
Moves: Sand-Attack, X-Scissor, Steel Wing, Screech, Fire Fang (learned in the episode “A Breed Stampede!“), Giga Impact (learned in the episode “Mastering Current Events!“), Stone Edge (shown in the episode “A Real Rival Rouser!“).
Gible ♂ – Type: Dragon/Ground
Caught in the episode “Gotta Get a Gible!“.
Moves: Dig, Draco Meteor, Dragon Pulse, Rock Smash.
Pokémon XY/Z series (click on spoiler to view):
Greninja ♂ – Type: Water/Dark
Evolution of his Frogadier, which evolved from Froakie, caught by Ash during the episode “Lumiose City Pursuit!“.
Moves: Water Pulse, Bubble, Pound, Double Team (learned in the episode “A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!“), Cut (learned during the episode “Forging Forest Friendships!“), Aerial Ace (learned after evolving into Frogadier), Water Shuriken (learned right after evolving into Greninja).
Check also: Ash Greninja
Talonflame – Type: Fire/Flying
Evolution of his Fletchinder, which evolved from Fletchling, caught by Ash during the episode “A Battle of Aerial Mobility!“
Moves: Double Team, Peck, Razord Wind, Steel Wing, Nitro Charge (learned after evolving into Fletchinder), Brave Bird (learned after evolving into Talonflame).
Hawlucha – Type: Fighting/Flying
Caught by Ash during the episode “The Forest Champion!“.
Moves: Karate Chop, High Jump Kick, Flying Press, X-Scissor (used for the first in the Laverre Gym).
Noivern ♂ – Type: Flying/Dragon
Evolution of his Noibat, hatched from an egg found by Ash’s Hawlucha during the episode “A Not-So-Flying Start!“.
Moves: Supersonic, Tackle (learned during the episode “Terminus Cave! The Mystery of Z is Set in Motion!!”), Acrobatics (learned during the episode “Onbat and Flaette! An Encounter in the Wind!!“), Boomburst (learned during the episode “Thunder and Onvern! The Lightning of Anger!!“), Dragon Claw
(learned during the episode “Rival Showdown! Satoshi VS Shōta!!”).
In training (click on spoiler to view):
Primeape – Type: Fighting
Caught by Ash, after that his pre-evolution (Mankey) had stolen the boy’s hat, in the episode “Primeape Goes Bananas“. Next, he donates it to a fighting type Pokémon trainer, Antony, in the episode “The Punchy Pokémon“.
Moves: Trash, Scratch, Mega Kick, Seismic Toss.
Squirtle – Type: Water
Joined Ash in the episode “Here Comes the Squirtle Squad“. It works in a firefighters team formed by different Squirtle and their evolutions.
Moves: Water Gun, Bubble Beam, Withdraw, Skull Bash, Hydro Pump (learned in the episode “Misty Meets Her Match“), Rapid Spin (learned along with the Squirtle squad), Bubble.
Released (click on spoiler to view):
Butterfree ♂ – Type: Bug/Flying
Evolution of his Metapod, which evolved from Caterpie, caught in the episode “Ash Catches a Pokémonl“. Released in the episode “Bye Bye Butterfree“ because it fell in love with another Butterfree.
Moves: String Shot, Tackle, Harden, Sleep Powder, Whirlwind, Stun Spore, Double-Edge.
Pidgeot – Type: Normal/Flying
Evolution of his Pidgeotto, caught in the episode “Ash catches a Pokémon“. Released in the episode “Pallet Party Panic” to protect a group of Pidgey and Pidgeotto from the attacks of a Fearow, the evolution of the same Spearow which attacked Ash and Pikachu at the beginning of the first series.
Moves: Gust, Quick Attack, Sand Attack, Whirlwind, Wind Attack, Double-Edge.
Lapras – Type: Water/Ice
Saved by Ash when it was young in “The Lost Lapras“, used as a ferry in the Orange Islands, released once it found its family at the end of the journey, in the episode “Viva Las Lapras“.
Moves: Ice Beam, Water Gun.
Goodra – Type: Dragon
Evolution of his Sliggoo, which evolved from Goomy, caught in the episode “A Slippery Encounter!“. Ash helped it to become stronger, so that it could protect its friends. It returned to live with them in the episode “Beyond the Rainbow!“.Moves: Rain Dance, Bide, Dragon Breath, Dragon Pulse, Ice Beam.
Traded away (click on spoiler to view):
Raticate – Type: Normal
Ash received it from a trade on the St. Anne, in the episode “Battle Aboard the St. Anne“, for his Butterfree. However he later traded it away in order to get his Butterfree back.
Moves: Jump Kick, Super Fang, Hyper Fang.
Aipom ♀ – Type: Normal
Caught at the end of the Kanto Gran Festival, in the episode “Channeling the Battle Zone!“, subsequently traded with Lucinda in the episode “Throwing the Track Switch” because it preferred Pokémon Contests to Gym battles.
Moves: (when traded): Scratch, Swift, Focus Punch, Double Team.
Given away (click on spoiler to view):
Beedrill – Type: Bug/Poison
Caught by Ash and given to Casey in the episode “The Bug Stops Here“.
Moves: Twineedle.
Unofficial (click on spoiler to view):
Haunter – Type: Ghost/Poison
Caught by Ash in Lavender Town during the episode “The Tower of Terror“ and given to the Gym Leader Sabrina in “Haunter versus Kadabra“.
Moves: Lick.
Larvitar – Type: Rock/Ground
Born from an egg given to Ash by Professor Elm in the episode “Lapras of Luxury“. Ash finds its mother and gives her the Pokémon in the episode “Mother of Alls Battles“.
Moves: Screech, Hidden Power, Harden, Bite, Strength.
Obtained Badges:
Kanto League
Boulder Badge (Episode “Showdown in Pewter City“)
Cascade Badge (Episode “The Water Flowers of Cerulean Cityl“)
Thunder Badge (Episode “Electric Shock Showdown“)
Marsh Badge (Episode “Haunter versus Kadabra“)
Rainbow Badge (Episode “Pokémon Scent-sation!“)
Soul Badge (Episode “The Ninja Poké-Showdown“)
Volcano Badge (Episode “Volcanic Panic“)
Earth Badge (Episode: “The Battle of the Badge“)
Orange League
Coral-Eye Badge (Episode “Fit to be Tide“
Sea Ruby Badge (Episode “Navel Maneuvers“)
Spike Shell Badge (Episode “Misty Meets Her Match“)
Jade Star Badge (Episode “Pokémon Double Trouble“)
Johto League
Zephyr Badge (Episode “Fighting Flyer with Fire“)
Hive Badge (Episode “Gettin’ The Bugs Out“)
Plain Badge (Episode “Dairy Tale Ending“)
Fog Badge (Episode “From Ghost to Ghost“)
Storm Badge (Episode “Machoke, Machoke Man!“)
Mineral Badge (Episode “Nerves of Steelix!“)
Glacier Badge (Episode “Nice Pryce, Baby!“)
Rising Badge (Episode “Better Eight Than Never“)
Hoenn League
Stone Badge (Episode “The Winner By a Nosepass!“)
Knuckle Badge (Episode “Just One of the Geysers“)
Dynamo Badge (Episode “Watt’s with Wattson?“)
Heat Badge (Episode “Going, Going, Yawn!“)
Balance Badge (Episode “Balance of Power“)
Feather Badge (Episode “Sky High Gym Battle!“)
Mind Badge (Episode “Solid as a Solrock“)
Rain Badge (Episode “Eight Ain’t Enough!“)
Battle Frontier
Knowledge Symbol (Episode “The Symbol Life“)
Guts Symbol (Episode “Wheel… of Frontiera!“)
Tactics Symbol (Episode “Tactics Theatrics!!“)
Luck Symbol (Episode “Queen of the Serpentine!“)
Spirit Symbol (Episode “Ka Boom with a View!“)
Ability Symbol (Episode “Second Time’s the Charm!“)
Brave Symbol (Episode: “Pace – The Final Frontier!“)
Sinnoh League
Coal Badge (Episode “O’er the Rampardos we Watched!“)
Forest Badge (Episode “The Grass Menagerie!“)
Cobble Badge (Episode “A Triple Fighting Chance!“)
Fen Badge (Episode “A Crasher Course in Power!“)
Relic Badge (Episode “Shield with a Twist!“
Mine Badge (Episode “Dealing With Defensive Types!“
Icicle Badge (Episode “Sliding Into Seventh!“)
Beacon Badge (Episode “The Eighth Wonder of the Sinnoh World!“)
Kalos League
Bug Badge (Episode “Battling on Thin Ice!“)
Cliff Badge (Episode “Climbing the Walls!!“)
Rumble Badge (Episode “Showdown at the Shalour Gym!“)
Plant Badge (Episode “The Green, Green Grass Types of Home!“)
Voltage Badge (Episode “The Moment of Lumiose Truth!“)
Fairy Badge (Episode “Fairy-Type Trickery!“)
Psychic Badge (Episode “All Eyes on the Future!“)
Iceberg Badge (Episode “A Real Icebreaker!“
Pokémon League ranking:
Indigo Plateau Conference (Top 16)
Silver Conference (Top 8)
Ever Grande Conference (Top 8)
Lily of the Valley Conference (Top 4)
Lumiose Conference (Runner-Up)
Won titles:
Ash’s Others classifications
The initial project for Ash’s hat, in the original series, was similar to that of Red (in the first generation). Subsequently, it was modified until its final design.
When the english voice actor Veronica Taylor was interviewed in the documentary “Adventures in Voice Acting”, she revealed that, during the period of Ash’s voice auditions, the protagonist was known as Casey.
Rica Matsumoto (his japanese voice actor), during an interview said: “Satoshi always comes up with funny phrases, like pajama wa jama (japanese pun that more or less means ‘pajamas are a threat’) or jokes. This is what drew me to him as a character”.
Just as said by Rica Matsumoto, Ash is also known for his jokes with puns (it is famous, in the american dub, the phrase “I’m an apple for a day and I need a doctor right away“). Especially when he mutters, he often comes up with funny-sarcastic phrases.
Ash loves apples. Among his favorite food we also find: fried chicken, spaghetti and custard as dessert. Ash eats everything and he also likes every kinds of vegetables. It seems that the only thing he doesn’t appreciate is the type of hazelnut which grows on Grotle.
In the episode “Up Close and Personable!” it is shown that Ash is good at drawing.
Ash’s drawing of a Dewgong
Ash is particularly good at climbing, also because he used to do it often as a child, playing on his own (as he mentioned in the episode “The Screen Actor’s Guilt“).
As seen in some episodes, Ash seems interested in catching a Dunsparce.
Ash is not by any mean tech-savvy.
The marking pen that Jigglypuff always kept with it actually belonged to Ash. The Pokémon had stolen it from his backpack.
Ash is really good at Physics: during battles (and in other situation too) he always creates tactics based on levers, calculation of forces, forces and accelerations, combination of natural elements, ecc.
The Master Ball-shaped ball, recurrently seen in the anime, belongs to Ash.
Ash has the same aura of Lucario and is the so-called “Aura Guardian“, however, at the moment, he is not interested in developing this particular ability.
Ash doesn’t like wearing pajamas, in fact, as a child, he often went sleeping without changing, making his mother angry.
Other Ash’s preparatory sketches:
the contents of Ash’s backpack
Sources and external links:
EPISODES OF THE POKEMON ANIME
Takeshi Shudo books (it contains links to sources too)
“Pokémon Mania” Magazine (fun fact about Rica Matsumoto)
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“Pokemon: The Animation” – Official informations about Ash’s father
Who is Ash’s Father?
Takeshi Shudo, creator of the Pokémon anime, published in 1997 and in 1999 two books titled Pocket Monsters: The Animation Volume 1 and 2, in which he revealed some of the greatest mysteries of the Pokemon series.
CLICK HERE for more information about these books!
This is the chapter in which there are official information about Ash’s father:
“—I can’t sleep.” Satoshi said.
Hanako said with striking Satoshi’s pillow.
“Sure, I can understand your feeling. All the people of 10 years old and over are aiming to be a pokemon trainer in this town. Your dad, your grandpa —and yourself—.” When she said about Satoshi’s dad and grandpa, the pillow was like a punching bag.
A memory when Satoshi was five years old flashed across his mind.
It was the day when a PC was given to him for the first time.
Hanako said with staring at a brand-new PC.
“Hey, my son. I must say to you. —Your father and grandpa are great pokemon trainers. Aren’t they?”
Of course, Satoshi was believed so.
“Hey mom, tell me! What is my dad like? What sort of a man is my grandpa?”
When little Satoshi asked Hanako, she always gave the same answer.
“Your dad and grandpa are sooo surreal trainers who surpass the hero Ohkido Masara— possibly.”
“Surreal?” It wasn’t a familiar word for him.
“Surrealistic— super-realistic”
“They are superior men, you meant.”
“It’s something like that.”
But the day when the PC was delivered, superior dad and grandpa have been transformed into different persons. This is how it happened—
Hanako bobbed her head to little Satoshi.
“Sorry, dear. I told you a falsehood.” Hanako said to Satoshi with his mouth wide open.
“Falsehood—.”
“Surrealistic trainers. Surrealistic is super-realistic, super-realistic means to stand aloof from the reality—in other words, it’s a nonsense. Give me a break!”
A break should have been given to Satoshi more than her.
Hanako asked.
“Satoshi, when you begin to use a PC, you get into on-line communication, —don’t you?”
“Yeah” Satoshi nodded.
“Then, you access to pokemon-related web pages, and maybe you want to know more about your dad and grandpa.”
“Yeah, sure.”
“But maybe you won’t be able to know it. ”
“Why? ”
“‘Cause I told a pack of lies—.”
“It’s not a lie what your dad and grandpa aimed to be a pokemontrainer—it’s a fact—they are away on a journey, it’s an obvious fact, too.”
“But they became full-fledged trainers—”
“It is a lie, probably”
“A lie?”
“You have never seen the report your dad and grandpa were elected to the ten thousand best trainers in a magazine or a journal.”
“Yeah, I’ve never seen it.”
“But you are utterly indifferent to it because only the participants of the League Tournament of the year are put on the best ten thousand list. The great trainer called Pokemon Master don’t compete in Pokemon League—there are many great trainers even if the one aren’t put on the list.”
“But if you check out www I’ll be completely at a loss for a reply.
“www?”
“Yeah, you can get easily on www the membership list of the World Pokemontrainers Association—all official trainers are on the list—I hear the names of official trainers are a billion including the deceased in the list.”
“The membership list? That’s the first I’ve heard of it.”
“You can get it. Then you can search easily for your dad and grandpa’s names by PC even if there are a billion official trainers. So— I say before you search for it.—you can’t find the names of your dad and grandpa.”
“Your dad and grandpa aren’t authorized yet. In other words, they don’t become quite official trainers yet.”
Long silence hung between Hanako and Satoshi for some time.
“What are they doing now? Dad and grandpa?” Satoshi asked.
Hanako shrugged her shoulders.
“I don’t knoooow. Even if they are aiming a trainer—their names had never been put on the list—it’s so fruitless—”
“It’s so fruitless—”
Satoshi repeated Hanako’s words.
Because Hanako hate gloomy mood, she said it as if it were nothing important.
“But, it doesn’t mean your efforts are fruitless. Don’t mind about your dad and grandpa, from now on. It is up to you whether you become a trainer or not, Satoshi.”
“Drat! Uncool!”
“Yeah, uncool. Sooo uncool.”
Hanako smiled.
It was a relief to her to realize that Satoshi wasn’t a deeply shocked.
Satoshi’s feeling was as his word—“Uncool!”.
His dad and grandpa are not always here closely but he had seen them only by photographs.
To five-year-old Satoshi, it doesn’t seem real story.
Whether his father and grandfather are great trainers or not, he didn’t change his mind to want to be a pokemontrainer.
But she murmured occasionally.
“Satoshi’s dad and grandpa are still now on a journey somewhere with the aim of becoming a pokemontrainer—How I envy them!”
Even if she murmured occasionally, he heard it so many times because it reached his ears until the time he become ten.
It was only natural that Satoshi dreams of becoming a pokemontrainer.
But Hanako didn’t mutter because she was anxious for their safety.
Because Hanako loves pokemons, she herself wished to be a pokemontrainer.
If Hanako wasn’t the successor of her mother’s restaurant, she would have gone on a journey at 10 years old to training for pokemontrainer like Satoshi even if she steamrollered her mother’s opposition.
They said that it had better go into training while young to become a good trainer.
But I’m my teens, so enough for it.
If someone who succeeds my mother’s restaurant appears, I will leave it to the one and start on a journey immediately.
Hanako wasn’t given up.
It was one day when she was 18 years old—Hanako’s mother was still living.
She fell in love with a traveler wanted to be a pokemontrainer who stayed at her mother’s inn at first sight. She went into rapture that she felt absurd for herself, instantly got married to him.
But he set out on a journey, and he never again return home.
To make matters worse, her mother instantly passed away of a disease, Hanako inherited the inn and a newborn baby.
“Do you love him even now?” If she is asked, she will reply “No, sure!”.
If a woman like Hanako was abandoned and her husband return home after 10 years shamelessly, she will ignore him because It is too absurd to get angry.
Hanako made up her mind to bring up Satoshi until he starts on a journey with the aim of becoming a pokemontrainer by herself.
It is natural—Hanako thinks so.
Ash's FatherAsh's GrandfatherAsh's GrandmotherDelia KetchumPocket Monsters The AnimationPokémon AnimeTakeshi Shudo
The gift of infusing courage and happiness
Ash is extremely stubborn and brave: these are the two features that distinguish him more than any other. When he sticks to do something or to achieve a certain goal, nothing and nobody can stop him, also because, thanks to his courage, he manages to overcome every type of fear, especially when he has to help someone who is in trouble or in danger.
Since he was a child, his motto has always been “Saigo made akirameru na” (literally: “Don’t give up until it’s over” and it doesn’t refer only to Pokémon Battles, but, above all, to life. Ash always repeats this to his friends, especially to those who don’t want to face difficulties, ecouraging them to try and stick to their guns. Then, he usually says: “See? You made it, didn’t you?”
All these characteristics lead him to always be sunny and positive, so much that he becomes able to infuse bravery, confidence, and joy to those around him.
This also because Ash, thanks to his empathy, has the extraordinary gift of always finding the right words to say and cheer up those who feel sad or discouraged. Actually, in his group of friends, he always covers the role of “psychologist” and encourager: every time someone has a problem, he immediately notices, as a sorts of a sixth sense. Then, without a second thought, he sits next to them and after asking what’s wrong, he helps them find a solution.
Daijobu: That’s OK!
Ash often uses the word “Daijobu!” which traslates to: “everything is OK!”, even if he’s the one to get hurt, so as not to worry those who are beside him, smiling and saying everything’s all right, even if it isn’t true.
Ash has super strong feelings, and thanks to this extraordinary characteristic, nothing can scare him, as stated in the books written by Takeshi Shudo (the creator of the Anime): even the absence of his father couldn’t shock him (which made Delia feel really relieved). Shudo also explains that probably Ash’s Character now would be different if he had known his father.
Obviously, like everyone, Ash has got problems and insecurities. This was both revealed in some verses of the Japanese theme song (“[…] I smile, but with some tears […]“, or “[…] Even though I have memories of a few painful things I don’t even notice them, as if they fell from a hole in my backpack […]“) and by Ash himself on some occasions in the episodes. However Ash, in order not to worry the people who travels with him, doesn’t manifest his worries and always keeps smiling.
For example, Ash hates loneliness, presumably because he spent his childhood playing on his own. When he is alone, in fact, he tends to sadden.
It happened a few times that Ash got heavily demotivated as a result of bad defeats. The first time was when he lost the battle of the Indigo league. It was his first time there and he was so disappointed he hid in his room, not wanting to eat anything. As always, fortunately, these bad moments don’t last long thanks to the support of his friends.
The second time was in the episode: “Evolving strategies!” of the DP Galactic Battles series, when he got heavily defeated by Paul in the battle organized by Reggie. Though he wouldn’t admit it, Ash was slightly intimidated by Paul.
In fact, every time Ash battled against him or in his presence, he lost his head, ending up being defeated. This time Ash was very confident in defeating Paul in that battle at Lake Acuity and prove him that Pokémons can become even stronger if you treat them with kindness.
Ash couldn’t focus properly on the battle and he suffered a devastating defeat 4 – 0, that demotivated him to the point of closing himsels off. Ash’s mood has been accentuated by the frames in which Ash’s eyes are not shown during the whole final of the episode.
Obviously Ash has recovered his usual cheerful mood, even if (in the rest of the DP series), he tended to be concerned or saddened every time someone mentioned Paul, until the episode in which Ash defeats him.
Ash’s gentle nature
Although Ash is extremely brave and often proves to be very severe in his role as a trainer, he normally has a kind, gentle and caring personality. These are features that are not often seen in boys, and this makes him even more special on a humane level to such an extent that his fans have considered him much more than the simple character of an animated series.
This side of Ash’s character comes out even in his work with his Pokémons. In his opinion, the Pokémon team must be a big family and he says it constantly, creating an atmosphere of happiness and solidarity. This method has found application during Chimchar’s training: a very shy and insecure Pokémon, who couldn’t do its best because of Paul’s intimidating and rigid nature, but once it joined Ash’s team, who always praised and reassured it, the little Pokémon, thanks to the love of his trainer, became increasingly stronger. It evolved into Monferno, then into Infernape, and then, in his final battle, it managed to defeat the one who frightened and scared it the most.
(To analyze in depth Ash’s training methods go to THIS LINK)
More about Ash’s personality at THIS LINK!
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At that point, Bail Organa offered to adopt baby Leia, as he and his wife were childless and longing for a daughter. The Jedi agreed, and the infant boy Luke was sent to live on Tatooine with his fathers stepbrother Owen Lars and his wife Beru. As promised, Leia was adopted and raised by Bail Organa and his wife, Queen. Breha Organa,2 who had been friends of Amidala during the antecedent conflict known as the Clone Wars. Through adoption, Leia Amidala Skywalker became known as Leia Organa, Princess of Alderaan. Nineteen years would pass before the twins saw each other again. Adoption into the House of OrganaI had a very happy, stable childhood. Two parents who were very much in love with each other. I was raised on politics, but it never harmed the family. Resisting the Empire never seemed to conflict with storytime, or trips together as a family, or. Or wonderful, sunlit afternoons spent riding my thranta. Leia OrganasrcBaby Leia with her adoptive parents, Breha and Bail Organa. The Game Compton Story on this page. Leia, the orphaned daughter of the Naboo Senator and the fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, was given a loving home within the House of Organa,2 one of the galaxys so called Ancient Houses. Her adoptive parents could not have children of their own,2. Leia became the crown princess,1 and, as such, was formally referred to as the Princess Leia Organa, of the Royal House of Alderaan. Although the Organas were not trying to hide the fact that Leia was adopted,1 they never informed the Princess of her parentage, nor did they reveal the existence of her twin brother. However, during the short time between her birth and her mothers death,2 Leia gained a faint memory of her mother as a beautiful and kind, yet sad woman. Leia had a large extended family to take part in her upbringing. It included Silya Shessaun, a mentor and friend of Amidala,2. Queen Brehas sister Deara,2. Bail Organas three sisters Tia, Rouge, and Celly, whom Leia later described as three redoubtable dowagers that made her girlhood an intermittent burden. Even though Leia was rather advanced for her age, having learned to speak and walk before the age of one, she did not show any signs of Force potentialmuch to the relief of her adoptive father, who knew that being a Force sensitive in Palpatines Empire would be a heavy burden. However, she had inherited her biological fathers gift, which surfaced for the first time in 1. BBY when her caregiver Memily was about to lean on a weakened railing overlooking a cliff. By throwing a laserball at it, Leia alerted Memily and saved her life. Because of the incident, Leia became a target of the Galactic Empire for the first, but certainly not the last time. Word of a child with extraordinary reflexes had reached the galactic capital of Coruscant, and Inquisitors. Ferus Olin and Hydra were sent to investigate.
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For the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club charter, see Eureka Charter.
Brett Conrad
"Fix" "Smite"
"Eureka" is the fourth episode of the second season of the FX original series Sons of Anarchy, and the series' seventeenth episode overall.
Tensions between Jax and Clay escalate when they disagree over strategy for rescuing Tig after he's captured by bounty hunters on a gun-running mission. Back in Charming, Gemma is rattled by a graphic reminder of her attack, and she sets out to do something about it.
The Charming charter of SAMCRO is readying to join the rest of their club on a charity motorcycle run. Clay's hands are still arthritic, and Gemma helps him inject cortisone into them. The pummeling Clay gave to Gemma's car probably didn't help either. Since he'll be away, he hopes the time apart will help Gemma deal with whatever it is she seems to be dealing with.
Meanwhile, before Jax joins up with the ride, he gets a little taste of the home life as he talks to Tara. She suddenly realizes that the relationship has progressed so far that she could be considered Jax's "old lady." They're amused by that and Jax goes to tend to his son. Bobby chooses a broken down old bike to do the run in, and the rest tease him about it. Half-Sack, who is about to get a new testicle once his insurance allows for it, is also getting teased. Piney stays behind in Charming, where Clay asks him to look after things. Piney promises he'll keep an eye on Gemma too, but Clay says he shouldn't do that. Zobelle watches SAMCRO leave the town.
The Charming branch of SAMCRO break off from the rest of the club and wind their way to a military surplus store, run by Cameron and Edmund Hayes, the Irish gun dealers. The charity run turns out to be a front for SAMCRO's gun-running. Edmund happens to mention that some of his bosses might be coming to the US, which concerns Chibs.
Back in Charming, Gemma receives a package: one of the masks worn by her attackers. Since the mask was wrapped in a bag from the Sherman's Men's Store, she heads over to that store's former location in Charming, which is where Zobelle has set up his current business. Zobelle brushes her off but then Gemma runs into Weston, whom she recognizes as one of her attackers because of his neck tattoo. She keeps watch on the store, even when a woman tries to get her to move out of her parking spot. Gemma pulls a gun on the woman.
Bobby's bike starts to spew out black smoke, which causes Tig to lose control of his bike and crash. At the hospital, the club is told that Tig will have to be moved to another hospital because of problems with his insurance. A nurse calls someone up in order to run a background check on Tig.
Unser goes to check on Gemma after a report comes in about a woman with a gun. Gemma says that she didn't do anything to hurt the other woman, but Unser takes her gun just to be sure. Gemma explains about the package and the mask. Unser offers to accompany her back home, but when she spots Weston, she refuses Unser's help. Later, Unser talks to Zobelle and basically threatens him. People who don't belong in Charming tend to disappear.
Tig is kidnapped from the hospital by bounty hunters who grab him for an outstanding warrant in Oregon. Bobby and Half-Sack try to give chase, but Bobby's bike won't start, leaving Half-Sack to go after the bounty hunters alone. Clay finds out that Tig has been taken, but he wants to finish the gun run before going after Tig. Jax counters that they should go after Tig first. They argue, and an angry Clay tries to leave, but his bike tips over and he can't move it with his aching hands. Opie tries to talk to him and convince him that they should go after Tig and warns him that the continuing fights with Jax are starting to affect the club.
Unser tells Tara that he's worried about Gemma and thinks that she'll actually hurt someone sooner or later. He then tells Tara that she and Gemma aren't so different from one another. Tara worries that a doctor and a biker wouldn't make a good match, but Unser says that as long as they're both enjoying the relationship, anything is acceptable. Gemma tracks Weston down to a building site, where he's speaking to members of the Aryan gang.
Tig figures out that the bounty hunters need to keep him injury free and alive, so he starts to taunt them. The bounty hunters beat him down and then they must make a stop in order to patch him up. Half-Sack gives this info to the rest of SAMCRO, which causes Clay and Jax to butt heads once again. Clay wants to wait until after sundown to grab Tig, because they'd be able to get more manpower. Jax wants to get Tig right away because who knows if he's still going to be there later. Bobby breaks up the ensuing scuffle, and Piney arrives with a truck, which he was going to use to carry Tig's broken bike. Piney, Jax, Half-Sack, Chibs and Happy go to the motel to rescue Tig. The flatbed of the truck crashes into the motel room where Tig is being kept, and he makes his escape.
Gemma keeps watch on Weston, and she finds him at a vulnerable moment, at one of the port-a-potties at the building site. She pulls a gun out and aims directly at him, but then Weston receives a call from his kid. Gemma suddenly can't go through with pulling the trigger. Later Unser returns the gun he took from Gemma, telling her that he's going to protect her.
The great SAMCRO gun exchange happens, and at the after-party, the crew worries about the growing rift between Clay and Jax, and whether the two can ever see eye to eye without beating each other senseless. Clay approaches Jax and again confronts him about questioning his orders. Jax then tells Clay that he needs to fix his mistake: killing Donna when he was supposed to go for Opie. Clay threatens Jax with death if he ever brings up Donna again.
Johnny Lewis as Kip 'Half-Sack' Epps
Theo Rossi as Juan Carlos 'Juice' Ortiz (credit only)
Adam Arkin as Ethan Zobelle
Dayton Callie as Chief Wayne Unser
Jamie McShane as Cameron Hayes
Callard Harris as Edmond Hayes
Henry Rollins as AJ Weston
Cassandra Braden as Admitting Nurse
David Aranovich as ER Doctor
Joe Rose as SOA Oregon Leader
Josh Latzer as Bounty Hunter
Caroline Choi as Young Clerical
Notable Quotes Edit
Unser: Charming is a special town. Not many folks take to it. I like to think the town chooses its occupants. The right ones stay…wrong ones disappear.
Clay: Where does this go, tomorrow? Next week?
Jax: Where's what go?
Clay: Your need to undermine my every play.
Jax: I got no need to undermine you. Things I call out are about the club.
Clay: Nah, about you and me.
Jax: Yeah. Maybe they are. Guess I gotta get right with you-what you did.
Clay: Yeah. You do.
Jax: Well, you got decades of experience. Why don't you tell me how I do that? How I get right with you tryin' to kill a brother behind the club's back and your little trigger boy blowin' an innocent woman's head off?
Clay: Well, you're gonna have to figure that out for yourself son. But, I'd do it soon. Cause if you mention Donna or the incident again, I'll kill ya.
(There were no meetings during this episode)
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Starbase 27 was a United Federation of Planets facility active in the 23rd century. It was located on Trylias (Orion Press: The Daystrom Project), a class M planet near Omicron Ceti III (TOS: "This Side of Paradise") and the Organian Treaty Zone.
Puffin-class fightercraft, deployed by the Swordfish-class carrier USS Narwhal, engaged a D4-class ship operated by rogue Klingon elements in 2224. Outmatched, Narwhal made a strategic withdrawal to Starbase 27, whence two Kestrel-class light cruisers -- Mononykus and Shrike -- were dispatched to deal with the Klingons. (The Starfleet Museum: 23rd-Century Carriers and Fighters)
In 2275, prior to a Klingon attack, the starbase had a population of half a million. It was destroyed by a Klingon vessel but rebuilt later that year. (The Daystrom Project)
USS Auriga and its surviving crew were taken to the starbase following an attack on that ship by Romulans in October, 2287. (Star Trek: Avenger: "By Honor Bound")
Task Force 18, which included USS Ki Rin, was homeported at Starbase 27 in the early 2290s. ("The USS Ki Rin: A New Twist on the Strike Cruiser Concept")
In October 2294, following the crippling of Starbase 29 in an attack by an energy creature, Commodore Barry Johnson was moved to the starbase medical facilities for recovery. (Star Trek: Avenger: "Aftermath")
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Talk: Tropix island
Is this not something that is capitalized? I would have though an island to be a proper noun, i.e. Tropix Island. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Well, I used the small "i" because it was never capitalized in Republic Commando: True Colors. Crystorix 04:24, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering about that. Couldn't be considered a typo though? -- Riffsyphon1024 04:39, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
No, sorry. Every time the book returns to that group, it's written in the chapter header as "Tropix island." Crystorix 04:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
It's not quite that consistent: it's written "Tropix Island Resort" the first time it's used (page 191); the next time (page 220), it's written "Tropix island resort," as it generally is thereafter. So the book is wrong, with one form or the other; which you believe in, I suppose, depends on whether you put more emphasis on primacy or majority. :-) Asithol 10:54, December 19, 2011 (UTC)
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Appendix Testes Torsion
AJ Pomajzl
Torsion of the testicular appendages is considered to be the most common cause of acute scrotal pain in prepubertal children and may even be the single most prevalent cause of pediatric orchalgia. [1] It should, therefore, be included in the differential for any male presenting with an acute scrotum but especially in the pediatric age group.[1] There are two testicular appendages that can twist and become symptomatic: the appendix testis and the appendix epididymis.
The appendix testis, sometimes called hydatid of Morgagni, is a vestigial remnant of the Mullerian duct and is present in 76% to 83% of testes.[2] When present, it is located on the superior pole of the testicle between the testis and epididymis and is the most common testicular appendage to undergo torsion. It is homologous to the fimbriated end of the Fallopian tube in the female.
The appendix epididymis is a vestigial Wolffian (mesonephric) duct remnant and is present in 22% to 28% of the testes.[2] When present, it occurs along the head of the epididymis. It is sometimes considered to be a detached efferent epididymal duct.
Both testicular appendages are commonly pedunculated, predisposing them to torsion.[3] Beyond this, the actual cause of torsion is unknown but may be related to trauma and/or prepubertal enlargement, which would explain the peak age of occurrence being in 7 to 12-year-old boys. Some authors have proposed a seasonal etiology for both spermatic cord (testicular) and testicular appendage torsion with low temperatures during the winter leading to more episodes of torsion.[4][5]
The peak age of occurrence is 7-12 years, although it can occur at any age. More than 50% of boys presenting with acute scrotal pain will have torsion of a testicular appendage.[1][6] In one study of 238 boys aged 19 years and younger who presented to a children's hospital with acute scrotal pain, 46% were ultimately found to have torsion of the appendix testis, while 35% had epididymitis and only 16% demonstrated testicular torsion.[6]
The initial diagnosis is made clinically, although this can be challenging as the presentation is variable, and it is easy to misdiagnose, with 45% of general practitioners making an incorrect initial diagnosis.[7] This frequent misdiagnosis is why imaging is the recommendation for all cases of acute scrotal pain.
Torsion of either testicular appendage commonly produces pain similar to that experienced with testicular torsion, although the onset is usually more gradual. Often, the pain is more localized to the upper pole of the testis or epididymis and does not usually correlate with any urinary symptoms nor with systemic signs such as fever, nausea, or vomiting.
On initial physical examination of the condition, tenderness can often be localized to the upper pole of the testis or epididymis. There may be a palpable, localized mass in the area of maximum tenderness. The scrotum usually appears normal, and the cremasteric reflex is typically intact. With a normal cremasteric reflex, there would not be any "angel wing or bell clapper deformity" of the opposite testicle. The "angel wing deformity" is formed when a testicle lies horizontally rather than the usual vertical position, which widens the scrotum inferiorly creating the "angel wing" appearance which is typically caused by inadequate fixation by the gubernaculum of the inferior pole of the testicle to the tunica vaginalis which predisposes to testicular torsion.
A "blue dot sign" may also be present as a para-testicular nodule noted on the superior aspect of the testicle; this can be identified by stretching the scrotal skin overlying the superior pole of the testicle and is representative of an ischemic testicular appendage. While worth knowing, the "blue dot sign" is only present in about 21% (0 to 52%) of all torsed testicular appendages, and a false positive "blue dot sign" has been reported in the literature in a patient with testicular torsion.[8]
As the condition progresses, worsening inflammation may make physical exam findings less specific. These findings can include scrotal erythema and edema, as well as nonspecific tenderness of the entire testicle and epididymis.
Color doppler ultrasonography is the imaging modality of choice for the evaluation of the acute scrotum in all age groups. It has been found to be superior to radionuclide imaging, is readily available on an emergency basis, and can be done more quickly. Rarely will ultrasound identify an appendage itself, but it will typically show normal blood flow to the testicle on the affected side--ruling out testicular torsion--and usually shows hyperperfusion of the associated epididymis. If the appendage does show up on ultrasound, a normal appendix testis will be less than 5.6 mm in size. In contrast, a torsed testicular appendage will be over 5.6 mm and, depending upon the duration of torsion, may appear as an ovoid hypoechoic nodule in boys presenting before 24 hours compared to a hyperechoic or heterogeneous nodule after 24 hours.[9][10] A large torsed appendage may even give the sonographic appearance of a pyocele, making the clinical history and physical examination even more important.[11]
The normal ultrasonic appearance of a testicular appendage will typically show little or no vascular flow.[12][13]
The affected testicle is often found to be "high riding" in testicular torsion but not in a torsed testicular appendage.
Radionuclide imaging of the scrotum would demonstrate a "hot dot" sign at the site of the torsed testicular appendage but is useful only if the symptoms and torsion have been present for at least 5 hours. Even after 5 hours, this sign is only found in about 45% of patients ultimately found to have a torsed testicular appendage.[14] For these reasons, ultrasound imaging is usually the preferred option for the initial evaluation of all acute scrotal pathologies.[15]
If the patient is having voiding symptoms such as dysuria, urgency, or frequency, it will also be important to obtain a urinalysis with culture.
Torsion of a testicular appendage is generally a self-limiting condition and, as such, most cases receive conservative therapy. Conservative management includes bed rest, scrotal elevation, ice, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and analgesics. The inflammation and pain usually resolve within one week.
Surgery is rarely indicated for a torsed testicular appendage. A scrotal exploration should only be performed if it is difficult to differentiate from testicular torsion, if the pain is severe and uncontrollable by analgesics or if the pain is prolonged or recurrent. If there is any reasonable doubt about the diagnosis, a scrotal exploration should take place to exclude testicular torsion definitively. If surgery is ultimately the outcome for a torsed testicular appendage, there is no need to explore the opposite side as is typically done for testicular torsions.
In a patient presentation of acute scrotal pain, the differential includes ischemia (testicular torsion, torsion of a testicular appendage), infection (acute epididymo-orchitis), or trauma (scrotal contusion, testis rupture). However, the acute scrotum should be considered a surgical emergency until a testicular torsion is ruled out due to the potential catastrophic loss of a testicle. Testicular salvage is time-dependent, and most testicles remain viable if they are surgically detorsed within 6 hours of the onset of symptoms.
Testicular torsion usually has a more acute onset than torsion of an appendage, but this is variable. The cremasteric reflex is almost always absent on the affected side, and on physical exam, an abnormal transverse lie of the unaffected testicle may present. Lifting the affected testicle does not usually relieve pain (negative Prehn sign), but this is not considered a reliable indicator. Doppler ultrasound will show arterial flow to the affected testicle to be absent or minimal. Interestingly, onset during sleep has been found to be an indicator of testicular torsion.[15] The affected testicle is often found to be "high riding" in testicular torsion but not in a torsed testicular appendage.
Epididymo-orchitis, like torsion of a testicular appendage, will show hyperemia to the affected epididymis on color Doppler ultrasound but is likely to be more pronounced. There will often be associated with voiding symptoms such as dysuria, frequency and urgency, and possibly a history of urinary tract infections. Patients may also present with systemic signs and symptoms of fever, nausea, or vomiting. On physical exam, the epididymis and/or testis on the affected side will usually be enlarged and diffusely tender. Occasionally, elevating the affected testicle will relieve pain (positive Prehn sign). No "angel wing or bell clapper deformity" will be present.[13]
In doubtful cases, it is essential to perform an emergency scrotal exploration rather than wait and risk losing the testicle.[16]
The prognosis is good for torsion of either testicular appendage as they are both vestigial remnants with no known function. The pain and inflammation associated with the torsion are self-limiting, and the condition typically resolves within one week without the need for surgical intervention.
The primary complication of torsion of a testicular appendage is a misdiagnosis resulting in the loss of testis due to a missed testicular torsion. Ultrasonography can help avoid such misdiagnosis and is, therefore, the recommended diagnostic approach in all cases of acute scrotal emergencies.
Pearls and Other Issues
The "blue dot sign" is a classic physical exam finding unique to testicular appendix torsion. However, it is often absent in the setting of testicular appendix torsion and can be falsely positive in cases of true testicular torsion.
Because of their lack of function and potential to torse, the appendix testes and epididymal appendix are commonly removed if encountered during an elective scrotal exploration for other purposes.
Often, testicular appendage torsion in prepubertal boys gets misdiagnosed as epididymitis based on scrotal ultrasound imaging, as both can demonstrate epididymal hypervascularity. Epididymitis should be considered highly unlikely in a pre-sexual boy with no urologic abnormalities, recent catheterization, or history of UTIs.
If a testicular appendage is more than 5.6 mm on ultrasound, it should be considered suspicious for torsion of the appendage.
Patients with testicular appendage torsion are likely to be younger than those with testicular torsion. They also will lack the "angel wing deformity" and not demonstrate the "high riding" testicle position usually associated with testicular torsion.[15]
Rare causes of an acute scrotum can include incarcerated hernias and traumatic testicular ruptures.
There have been reported cases of simultaneous testicular torsion with testicular appendage torsion.
It is possible to have torsion of a testicular appendage in an undescended testicle.
Management of the acute scrotum is a surgical emergency until proven otherwise. As patients with this condition usually present to the emergency department, the first person to encounter the patient is a triage nurse who must be cognizant of the urgency potential testicular torsion demands and immediately contact the clinical interprofessional team. The patient should be placed in a room promptly, and the physician alerted of the patient's presence and chief complaint. Early history and physical exam should give the physician some guidance and direction, usually necessitating a color Doppler ultrasound and promptly read by a radiologist.
Once testicular torsion can safely be ruled out, other potential causes of acute scrotal pain, including testicular appendage torsion, can come under consideration and the patient appropriately treated.
Management of pre-pubescent scrotal pain requires a coordinated interprofessional effort between physicians, specialists, and nursing staff to lead to accurate and prompt diagnosis resulting in appropriately directed treatment. [Level V]
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By Olumide Anifowose January 14, 2019
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Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Jimi Agbaje of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Owolabi Salis of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), and
Babatunde Gbadamosi of the Action Democratic Party (ADP).
Sanwo-Olu commended Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for his development stride in the Epe area of the state, but added that there were a lot more to be achieved. He also promised to tackle the Apapa gridlock within his first 100 days in office.
In a letter from our Editor-in-Chief Bayo Olupohunda None of the candidates categorically said he would only govern the state for four years, but they all agreed that they had great names to protect and that if their promises are not kept, the residents should send them out of the Government House. Answering a question that he was relatively unknown until now and whether he had an independent mind to govern the state, Sanwo-Olu told the panelists that he had been in government since 2002.
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He also spoke of some of his achievements since being in the Lagos government service saying that in an instance, he worked without collecting a dime from the state. He further said his achievements in government were made possible because he was never influenced by any godfather adding that he has a name to keep. “As commissioner for establishment, I was training a thousand teachers a year. We are going to be looking at capacity development for our primary school teachers,” he said. On his part, Agbaje denied going under after the 2015 general elections saying he had made several public appearances since then.
Admitting that he could be camera shy, Agbaje recalled contesting for the position of the national chairman of the PDP to show that he has remained in political limelight before he finally decided to pick the ticket of the party to contest as governor. He noted that “technology is critical to the education of our children. We need more success stories like Andelas, Irokos and Flutterwave. We will connect all our public primary schools when we get into government.
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“We have heard that Google wanted to give us free Internet, but they keep putting blockage for vested interests and that is what we are going to correct.” Gbadamosi, on the other hand, said he had been successfully providing the basic necessities for a popular estate he developed in Lagos without any borrowing from any financial house. He also boasted of never being a government contractor.
According to him, he had provided uninterrupted electricity and water for the estate since eight years ago. Gbadamosi promised to turn the state to a technological hub and ensure Lagos competes favourably with some other countries. He further promised to constantly publish the breakdown of the annual budget of the state saying Lagos state is run with some level of secrecy. According to him, the state ranks one of the lowest in accountability. Owolabi Salis said he was determined to “take the commonwealth to the people of Lagos state.”
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Jimi Agbaje earlier stated on Tuesday, December 18, said that he had high hope of becoming the next governor of the Lagos state. Agbaje, a guest at the 2018 the Future Awards Africa in Lagos, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that he had all it takes to displace the incumbent administration from the office.
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Angel Valve Vienna wins Rudolf Sallinger Fund S&B Award
MedUni Vienna spin-off has developed implant for correcting leaky mitral valves
– University, People of the MedUni Vienna
(Vienna, 27 June 2019) Angel Valve Vienna (AVVie), a MedUni Vienna spin-off, has won the S&B Award from the Rudolf Sallinger Fund for "Mitral Butterfly", a device implanted in a minimally invasive procedure to correct leaky mitral valves. The concept is based on a patent developed at MedUni Vienna’s Department of Surgery.
Werner Mohl from the Department of Surgery of the Medical University of Vienna (and who worked as a surgeon until 2015) has been working intensively for several years now on minimally invasive solutions for correcting specific heart valve defects. With the Angel Valve concept, he and his team have successfully developed a new type of implant (Mitral Butterfly), which has already undergone the first successful animal experiments conducted in the USA. Its first clinical use is planned for 2021/2022.
Common heart valve disease
The mitral valve is one of four valves in the heart: and it is not always leak-tight. A mitral valve prolapse, a particular form of serious valve malfunction is by far the commonest heart valve disease in the world. It affects up to a million people in Germany. Normally, it requires a serious open-heart operation, which is simply not an option for many patients, because of their age or their comorbidities. The minimally invasive catheter-based procedure is therefore a promising option for the future. Minimally invasive surgery and the use of valves that can be gently implanted into patients is a new concept and helps patients to recover quickly. Up until now, there hasn't been a reliable technique for catheter-based valve repair for mitral valve prolapse.
"Mitral Butterfly" spreads its wings
AVVie has called its new implant the "Mitral Butterfly" because of the wings that the stent spreads out in the valve. This technique is used if a tendinous chord of the mitral valve tears away and a section of the valve is no longer able to withstand the pressure in the heart cavity, prolapses into the atrium and allows blood to flow back into the lung unchecked.
Bild: Angel Valve Vienna
Normally this problem is repaired with the heart stopped, during heart surgery. "Our innovative concept is now aimed at an implant that can be inserted into the heart via a catheter," explains Werner Mohl. "This patented implant and the special method of insertion has the advantage over other alternative methods that the entire section of the valve that is struggling can be returned to its correct position, thereby making the valve tight again." Another important advantage is the hook that holds the artificial tendinous chords, rendering any additional fixation to the heart muscle unnecessary.Patent application filed by MedUni ViennaImplementation of the "AngelValve concept" started in 2015 as part of the PRIZE programme (AWS) at MedUni Vienna under the lead of Werner Mohl. Following a pre-seed phase (AWS funding) from 2015 to 2018, AVVie GmbH was founded in October 2018. Investors have already been found for the concept and it has won several prizes and funding grants. “Nothing should stand in the way of rapid further development," says Werner Mohl, who is delighted to have won the award, which brings him a step closer to his goal of being able to offer patients a safer, simpler and time-saving implant in the future. The winning team represented by Werner Mohl, Martin Bernroitner, Zuza Malecka and Johanna Ticar are justifiably delighted to have won the S&B prize money.
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Southaven and DeSoto Central second-half football preview
October 4, 2013 by GNGF 1 Comment
As a proud Southaven, Mississippi business, we take pride in our community and all the schools in DeSoto County.
With the kids back in school for some time now, and the leaves changing in Mississippi, the greatest sport in the South is well under way—football.
The Southaven High School Chargers are midway through the season, so we thought we’d give you a preview of what the second half will bring:
Oct. 4: Southaven will host fellow DeSoto County district school Hernando at 7 p.m.
Oct. 11: The Chargers will travel down U.S. 78 to Tupelo to face the Golden Waves.
Oct. 18: Grenada drives north to face Southaven at 7 p.m.
Oct. 25: South Panola visits the Chargers at 7 p.m.
Nov. 1: The Chargers travel across town to DeSoto Central to see who’s the best in Southaven.
Nov. 8: In the final home game of the year, Southaven hosts Horn Lake at 7 p.m.
DeSoto Central will finish out the season with the following schedule:
Oct. 4: DeSoto Central battles Horn Lake as the Eagles come to Southaven at 7 p.m.
Oct. 11: The Jaguars travel to Olive Branch for another district showdown.
Oct. 18: Hernando tries its luck on DeSoto Central home turf at 7 p.m.
Oct. 25: The Jaguars head southeast for a showdown with Tupelo.
Nov. 1: The battle for Southaven begins at 7 p.m. as the Chargers head across town.
Nov. 7: South Panola travels to DeSoto Central for the Jaguars final 2013 home game.
From everyone at The Stroud Law Firm, we encourage you to support DeSoto County high school sports, wherever you allegiance may lie!
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18 injured when car rams through wall of Fort Myers church
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FORT MYERS, FL –
An Easter Sunday service at a Fort Myers church was violently interrupted when a driver slammed their car into the building, injuring 18 – including some who were trapped under the vehicle.
It happened just before 8 p.m. at Second Haitian Baptist Church on Central Avenue.
As of Monday evening, 11 of the injured had been treated and released. Those still in the hospital were listed in either fair or good condition.
Police say the driver, 31-year-old Marie Masson of Fort Myers, told them she drove her Lexus into the parking lot and the brakes failed. The car then plowed into the building, which was holding 200 people at the time.
Pastor Desmours Leontes was feet away when the car plowed through the front of his church before a concert.
“A short ‘BOOM!'” Leontes described.
“I opened the door and tried to help the people pull the car off the people. They say go outside so I went and sat on a curb,” Masson said.
Thirteen-year-old Kimberly Cherilus was injured when the car hit the pew she was in. She snapped some photos before the incident, and said the service is one she usually looks forward to.
“We usually do an Easter concert for the choir,” the teen said.
She suffered a broken nose when she says either the pew, or something off the car, hit her in the face – but she was able to walk away.
“People were screaming, people were going crazy. We thought it was the end of the world. For a second, I thought I was dying,” the Cypress Lake seventh grader said.
In the chaos, her older brother couldn’t find her.
“I was just trying to find my mom and my little sister. It was pretty scary,” Kevin Antoine said.
Cherilus’ grandmother was pinned underneath the car. She suffered a number of injuries, but is expected to make a full recovery.
Witnesses used jacks and brute force to lift the vehicle off the victims, police said.
Three children were among the injured, including Masson’s child, who was in the car with her.
“I’ve got a shirt, it has so much blood from so many people I tried to help,” the pastor said.
The victims were taken to three different area hospitals.
Cherilus’ family knows the night could have played out much differently. And while it’s not the Easter they had hoped for, it’s probably the most meaningful – because they say they all learned just how precious life really is.
“That’s what I would call it, an ‘Easter miracle,’ because no one died. Everyone was ok. God was watching over them the entire time,” said family friend Jonathan Danger.
“I don’t really know what’s going to happen next because tomorrow isn’t promised,” Cherilus said.
The teen says that while she won’t stop going to church, she may think twice about where she sits.
Meanwhile, Masson spent Monday apologizing to church members and asking that they pray for the victims.
Police are still investigating the incident.
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Vinnie McGhee
Men’s basketball: Matadors finish off miserable season with loss at Fullerton
Guard Vinnie McGhee dribbles during his team’s 87-76 loss at Cal State Fullerton Wednesday night. McGhee had eight points in his last game as a Matador. Photo Credit: Mariela Molina / Photo Editor
Gilberto Manzano
FULLERTON – With a nine-point deficit and only 1:45 remaining in the Matadors’ season, senior guard Vinnie McGhee shot a 3-pointer hoping it could possibly spark a comeback and maybe a fairy tale ending to his CSUN career.
Instead, McGhee threw up an airball to add misery to an already tough 2011-12 season.
“I’m a competitor and we were losing and I just wanted to make a three,” McGhee said.
The senior continued competing, shooting another 3-pointer 40 seconds later, but still no luck.
That summed up Northridge’s disappointing season as it fell 87-76 to Cal State Fullerton at Titan Gym Wednesday night.
The Matadors finished the year with an overall record of 7-21 and 3-13 Big West record. It was the lowest amount of wins head coach Bobby Braswell has had in his 16-year tenure. The last time CSUN finished with only seven wins or less was 1995-96, the year before Braswell was hired.
A reason the Matadors struggled this season was their youth, having the youngest roster in the nation.
Braswell doesn’t want that to be an excuse next year.
“We have to get in the weight room and get bigger and stronger, all (the) young guys (have) no excuses,” he said. “You’ve played freshman year and sophomore year and now you know you need to get bigger and stronger or you’re going to get pushed around.”
CSUN was pushed around by the bigger and stronger Titans, who knocked down seven 3-pointers in the second half.
Kwame Vaughn caused the most fits for the Matadors, scoring a game-high 24 points and converting on five baskets from long range.
The Matadors were able to cut the Titans’ advantage to four points with 7:22 left in regulation, but baskets by Vaughn and DJ Seeley, who scored 24 points, increased the deficit to 12 points.
“They (Fullerton) had a lot of fire power and have a good chance to do really well in this tournament,” said Braswell, referring to next week’s Big West Tournament.
CSUN is ineligible to participate in the league tournament after the NCAA banned them for grade violations.
That was the start to the Matadors’ dreadful season.
“I never tried to focus on it (playoff ban) too much and just teach everyday,” Braswell said. “These guys are young and it had to be somewhere in the back of their mind. There wasn’t much they were playing for, in regards for a postseason.”
With McGhee leaving, the Matadors will turn to Josh Greene, Stephan Hicks and Stephen Maxwell for a turnaround season in 2012-13.
“I told them to let this season be their fuel for next season,” said McGhee, who plans on playing overseas and maybe one day coaching. “I want them to learn from this.”
Greene, who scored 19 points, wants to see some changes for next year.
“I feel sometimes we didn’t really play as hard as we could or play as confident as we should,” Greene said.
CSUN plans on getting better for the future, but for now they have no March basketball and no tournament madness either.
“It’s going to be hard watching the NCAA Tournament for a while, but now it’s time for all of us to get in the lab,” McGhee said. “I need to get ready for my next journey and they need to get ready for next year.”
Gilberto Manzano, Author
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Noo-Noo (operated by Mark Dean in the original series and Victoria Jane and Olly Taylor in the new series) is the Teletubbies' sky blue pet. He lives in Teletubbyland as a vacuum cleaner. Noo-Noo never leaves the house in the original series. He doesn't speak as the Teletubbies can; he makes sucking and slurping noises. He has a long elephant
-like nose which he uses for tidying up. He also has a big pink light at the back of him. At times, Noo-Noo gets annoyed with the Teletubbies' antics or gets too excited and, therefore, can tidy up their food or favourite things. The Teletubbies shout 'Naughty Noo-Noo.' and chase him around the house. The chase usually ends with a Big Hug. Noo-Noo has a brush on top of him that is also detachable. It is extremely rare for his brush to be detached. It is only seen detached in the episode Swans and the video Big Hug!.
In the new series, Noo-Noo is no longer blue. He is now orange, pink and gold. The reason behind it was because the show was using Blue Screen; therefore, only some parts of him would be shown. Other than the colour change, Noo-Noo's appearance remains the same.
In the new series, Noo-Noo isn't as naughty as he was in the original series. In fact, the only episode where he is naughty is Packing.
In the new series episode, Fixing Things, Noo-Noo goes outside for the first time.
According to some rare concept art pictures, Noo-Noo was originally going to look like a space robot with tread wheels and a trunk. (See pic below)
Early concept art of Noo-Noo.
Noo-Noo in the episode "Haymaking"
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Synechron
Synechron opens new FinLab in Singapore
This comes after the appointment of a new APAC Head for Synechron, Mihir ShahETtech | November 01, 2018, 11:57 IST
In HSBC's annual Expat Explorer, Singapore topped the ranking as best place to live and work for a fourth straight year, beating New Zealand, Germany and Canada. "Singapore packs everything a budding expat could want into one of the world's smallest territories," HSBC said.
IT consulting firm Synechron today announced that it has launched a new office and Financial Innovation Lab (FinLab) in Singapore. The new facility will help build Synechron’s offering in the APAC region and partner with clients on interactive workshops related to key digital strategies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, data analytics and RegTech.
This comes after the appointment of a new APAC Head for Synechron, Mihir Shah. Shah brings extensive capital markets, innovation, and technology experience to the Singapore office, coming from Synechron’s London office. The Singapore office with help strengthen the company’s capabilities in in serving the APAC financial services market. The company will use this as a hub to support clients in the region. Mihir Shah, Head of Synechron APAC, said: “The APAC region is a huge center for financial services innovation, and with our new FinLab, we will be able to accelerate banks’ digital transformation journeys to include even more emerging technologies with AI and data science, machine learning, Blockchain, and more, and create new solutions and further innovation to areas like banking, user experience, and wealth management.”
The FinLab will allow clients to have direct interaction with the latest technology and prototypes in the market, including the company’s Data Science Accelerators. This is Synechron’s 12th FinLab globally. Faisal Husain, Co-founder and CEO of Synechron, said, “Innovation and emerging technologies, and particularly their use in financial services, are evolving every day, and digital services are a large part of that. We are committed to expanding our global footprint to accelerate the digital transformation journey for banks and financial services firms, and our expansion to the APAC region is a strategic one. Our FinLab in Singapore will allow us to innovate with banks and will play a vital role in Synechron’s Accelerating Digital strategy to be the leading digital FS consultancy.” The company would also be increasing its head count in the region across Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Manila, it said in a statement.
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DSMC2 Gemini 5K
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23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 47.95, 48, 50, 59.94, 60 fps, all resolutions
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5K Full Format (5120 × 2700), 2:1, 2.4:1, 16:9, 4:1, 8:1, and Ana 2x, 1.3x
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DNxHD HQ, SQ and LB (1920 × 1080) 8-bit up to 120 fps
3.35 lbs (BRAIN with Integrated Media Bay)
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Variable number of 3D LUT outputs with DSMC2 expander module
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Tetrahedral interpolation, 16-bit processing
Integrated dual channel digital stereo microphones, uncompressed, 24-bit 48 kHz
Optional 2 additional channels with DSMC2 expander module, uncompressed, 24-bit 48 kHz
Integrated R.C.P. WiFi antenna
Ethernet, RS232, and GPI Trigger with DSMC2 expander module
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RED Touch 9.0″ LCD, RED Touch 7.0″ LCD, RED Touch 5.0″ LCD, RED PRO 7″ LCD, DSMC2 Touch 7.0″ Ultra-Brite LCD, BOMB EVF (OLED) and BOMB EVF (LCOS) compatible with DSMC2 LCD/EVF Adaptor A or DSMC2 LCD/EVF Adaptor D, and LCD/EVF cable.
REDCINE-X PRO
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Tech specs reflect both current and projected information. Everything is subject to change.
1. REDCODE values and max frame rates may vary based on selected acquisition format, aspect ratio, project time base, Lookaround setting, and SSD. For more information on available REDCODE compression settings for all formats, see the DSMC Media Operation Guide.
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3. Avid DNxHD/HR Codecs recording support added to DSMC2 firmware v6.3 or later.
4. Third-party non-linear editing (NLE) applications may have limited compatibility with R3D files.
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@HenMazzig It’s heartbreaking, she was way too young. We need to be more accepting of everyone. Our society is supp… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 minutes ago
Israel Political Brief March 14, 2012: Rick Santorum’s Southern sweep mars Mitt Romney’s front-runner status
Santorum’s Southern sweep mars Romney’s front-runner status
Rick Santorum swept two Southern states in Republican primaries, complicating Mitt Romney’s status as front-runner and all but burying Newt Gingrich’s chance for the nomination.
Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who emerged from last place in polling as recently as December to become the conservative challenger to Romney, scored 33 percent of the vote in Mississippi and nearly 35 percent in Alabama. Gingrich, the former U.S. House of Representatives speaker, finished second in both states, with 31 percent in Mississippi and 29 percent in Alabama. Romney was third with 30 percent in Mississippi and 29 percent in Alabama.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) came in a distant fourth in both races after barely campaigning in either state.
Romney, who during the campaign has tried to shuck his reputation as a moderate, had campaigned hard in a bid to prove he could win in conservative Southern states. The former Massachusetts governor is leading substantially in delegates, but his path to the nomination has been far from smooth as conservative candidates continue to mount substantive challenges….READ MORE
Posted in American Politics, GOP Candidates 2012, Jewish Vote -- US Elections
Tagged Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Primaries, Republican Presidential Nomination, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul
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Israel Political Brief March 13, 2012: As rocket attacks ease on Southern Israel, PM Netanyahu reiterates his Gaza policy
Israel Political Brief March 14, 2012: Israeli retaliatory strikes hit Gaza amid cease-fire
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Maths and Sport
Key Stage 1+2
Gearing up for gold
What do the track bikes used by Olympic and Paralympic athletes have in common with the earliest penny farthing bicycles? Rachel Thomas explores the relationship between gear ratios and speed in cycling in this article aimed at older students and general readers.
Spinning the perfect serve
While it might be a little far-fetched to imagine top-rank tennis players performing calculations on the baseline, Dr Nick Ovenden has done just that to come up with a mathematical analysis of winning serves. He talks to Rachel Thomas about how spin's the thing in this short article aimed at general readers and older students.
By the skin of their suits
Much has been made of the swimming events for London 2012 because the previous 2008 Beijing Olympics saw an unprecedented number of new world records, due to the use of controversial swimsuits. So how do these suits improve performance? Marc West investigates in this article aimed at general readers and older students.
A fly walks round a football...
What makes a perfect football? Anyone who plays or watches the game can tell you that the ball must be round, retain its shape, be bouncy but not too lively and, most importantly, be capable of impressive speeds. This last point is all down to the ball's surface, and Ken Bray explores how mathematics contributes to understanding this ultimate goal in ball design.
Sports such as hockey, football, basketball and tennis use balls of different sizes. Can you arrange a selection of different balls in a line each touching the next to make the shortest line? This activity offers opportunities for creative thinking and problem solving and helps pupils to understand the properties of circles. It can be presented using your school's own sports equipment and is aimed at primary school pupils (Key Stage 2).
If you can't bend it, model it
How can mathematical models help us understand the beautiful game? Playing ball games often involves modifying the ball's flight to gain tactical advantage by hitting or kicking it in a particular way. Ken Bray investigates aerodynamics in football in this article, aimed at older students and the general public.
Making gold for 2012
For this article Plus, our free online maths magazine, interviewed leading researchers in sports technology and engineering to learn more about their work with Olympic and Paralympic athletes in a range of sports. Improvements to equipment or clothing may save only a few hundredths of a second, but that can mean the difference between a silver or gold medal.
Making a racket: the science of tennis
As London is heading for the 2012 Olympics, it's not just athletes who are gearing up for action. Engineers, too, are working hard to produce the cutting-edge sporting equipment that guarantees record performances. If you're a tennis player, your most important piece of equipment is your racket. Over recent decades new materials have made tennis rackets ever bigger, lighter and more powerful. So what kind of science goes into designing new rackets?
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World Cup: Australia Probable Playing XI, Bangladesh Probable Playing XI
Stuart Binny Says World Cup Exposure Made him a Better-Thinking Cricketer
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World Cup 2015: A 'Doosra' Look at Australia's Record Triumph
Sourav Ganguly Feels World Cup Experience Will Help India Become a Better Side
Updated: 22 April 2015 10:28 IST
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly said the experience garnered from the recently concluded World Cup in Australia should help the Indians become a better side.
Written by Indo-Asian News Service
India bowed out in semis of the World Cup. © AFP
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday said the experience garnered from the recently concluded World Cup in Australia should help the Indians become a better side.
Ganguly was the skipper when India reached the finals in 2003, but lost to Australia at Johannesburg.
"I think they were good (the Indian team in the World Cup). They got better as the tour went on and learned a lot in Australia. Hopefully, they will learn from it and become a better side," Ganguly told IANS on the sidelines of an event for Coca-Cola India, NDTV and UN-Habitat's Support My School programme, which he has lent support to. (India Should Persist With Same Side Till Next World Cup: Gaekwad)
Asked about the present Indian side, Ganguly said it was a young team.
"There are some good players and we will be a good side if we are properly managed and looked after well." (Team India Should Start Preparing for World Cup 2019: Chandu Borde)
Asked to compare the three Australian World Cup winning sides of 2003, 2007 and 2015, he replied: "We can't really compare sides. You don't compare eras."
"Australia is a great cricketing nation. They won the World Cup in 2007 and they had a blip in 2011 when they were not one of the best sides.
"But the best thing for them is that they recovered in a four years time to win another World Cup. That's what good cricketing sides are. You just don't leave it with one win or a couple of wins," said the 42-year-old.
Topics mentioned in this article Sourav Ganguly India Cricket Team Cricket World Cup 2015
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Tag: Savannah
She wore a white cloth diaper with lots of safety pins stuck through it on her head, wrapped like a turbin surrounding her stubby areas of black hair that still remained., other areas with no hair. The thick glasses were handed down from the local eye bank or probably my father and she finally got a telephone in her wooden shanty when she was 90 years of age. Time stood still in Cameron SC and it still does.
Daisy imprinted herself on me as a baby, from the time our eyes locked, having lived over 70 years and counting when she came to be our “Mammy”. In the south, they were not housekeepers or babysitters but lovingly called Mammy’s. Today, even fourty years plus later, Mammy is not an appropriate term or considered politically correct when speaking of the hired “help.” She was not that, she was so much more. She was a boo boo kisser, a spanker when it called for it, a bean shucker, a flu shot giver, and a hugger, the most important quality of any good Mammy, a hugger.
To me Daisy was not hired help but my family. No matter what the white folks thought of her or how they treated her, she still was like my second mother and I am white, she was Black, but I am not describing the difference in our colors, rather the important difference in the mindsets that shaped these derogatory cultures that spawned slavery. A dreaded curse for the south and having to relive it whenever I say I am from the South, that is the first thing that people think of. I get asked so many times, “Have you seen the movie the help?” Yes, and Yes to what you are going to ask me.
There are fond memories of her sitting on the living room couch, or chair watching tv with a corn cob pipe in her mouth, the hair wrap, and her very thick coke bottle bottom glases, shelling beans or peas while we played with our toys. The moth ball smell never came out of her clothes and she had the “black smell” that only particular older blacks from the South had. It was in her skin and such a distinct smell that if she were to come around me now, I could pick her out of a hundred souls because of her skin’s smell.
I was known as the boy baby. Not because I am a boy, but rather a tom boy among girls. I had all the bumps and bruises on my body that my baby brother should of had. I was rough and tumble, tree climing, bush hogging female. So with that kind of nature, I was very accident prone. Mama threatened to name me Grace. That was how my parents and especially Daisy could tell me apart from my very feminine twin sister Amy, was that I was the wearer of plastic bandaids and the bearer of deep scars.
She never learned to read or write always signing her name with an x when asked. Picking cotton in the fields of South Carolina were left to the blacks starting at the age of of a child, and no one ever knew how old she really was when the good Lord called her home because they did not give birth certificates to slaves or children of slaves. Daisy’s mother and father were what history books speak about, the chained African American’s of long ago, sold openly on the slave market in cities such as Charleston and she was one of many children in her family that grew up and lived in Cameron SC.
Married at age 13, Daisy had 9 children, some not making it out of the womb, or maybe she was 9 years of age when she married and had 13 children. I simply can’t remember that part. When she died, her alcoholic son Thomas, was there but most had already gone on to be with their Lord. Why did the almighty let her live so long? Daddy thought she was well, well over 100 years of age when she died but sadly, there was no way to prove it.
When Mama and Daddy had bridge club nights out, all of us children, four in total would line up on the couch and watch Daisy sleep in the leather chair. Her body would jump violently and we would start crying and screaming, never waking her up. She slept like the dead when she closed her eyes. We were afraid she was having a heart attack in her sleep or feared the worst, she was dead. Sometimes she did it to pull a prank on us. Doctors kids know everything about everything and we swore she was dying. Mama and Daddy would eventually come rushing home to find everything normal as it should have been and Daisy still alive.
When Daddy died, I gave Daisy Daddy’s wheel chair. I wheeled her upfront to be with the family, and covered her up with his blanket. She was family. She was my cherished Daisy and no one was going to tell me otherwise. Color didn’t matter to me. It never did. Even when the community of Cameron SC made my father build a waiting room onto his medical clinic for the coloreds, the blacks in the 1970’s or 1980’s, because they smelled funny, I never saw color.
Being the outcast, rebel and instigator, I enrolled in the Miss Black Orangeburg pageant. I did it to cut the stigma between colors. The audience gasped when I walked out on stage. It was to prove a point at age 15. I did exactly that. Even though it was not the right kind of point to make, maybe it coming from a teenager who hated the segregation even in modern times, might have touched someone. I did it. I did it to prove there is no difference in color of a human being. I can still hear that loud gasp from the hundred or so patrons and some certain members of the audience saying, “What in the hell is that crazy Lawton girl thinking?”
Today, my soul says go home, just go home Mary to the piece of history that few know about. To that special place that doesn’t exist today. I will, eventually, but I don’t think the time is right. The sad part is seeing what the South still believes in. If I could have given Daisy more, I would have because she gave me so much. She gave me the biggest hug of my life.
Copyrighted, TM 2000 from my book
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May 31, 2018 June 7, 2018 Tom Shakely Life
To Bismarck
Flying through Chicago to Bismarck for a few days. Great view of the Chicago lakeshore on approach to O’Hare, and patriotic view as I walked through the terminal.
I’ll be visiting the University of Mary in Bismarck for a few days of bioethics study. It’ll be my first time back in the Dakotas in a while. I passed through Minot, North Dakota on Amtrak’s “Empire Builder” route from Chicago to Seattle in 2011, and later that year drove from Denver to the Black Hills in South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore.
Looking forward to being in Bismarck, and hopefully seeing some of the city in between seminar sessions. It’ll be good to spend meaningful time in North Dakota and take in the sights of the Mighty Missouri and the prairie.
Although you cannot bless
A pretty day in Philadelphia, preparing for upcoming travel. Here’s Auden’s
“As I Walked Out One Evening,” because “life remains a blessing, although you cannot bless…”
As I walked out one evening,
Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
Were fields of harvest wheat.
And down by the brimming river
I heard a lover sing
Under an arch of the railway:
‘Love has no ending.
‘I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
‘I’ll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
‘The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.’
But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
‘O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.
‘In the burrows of the Nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
And coughs when you would kiss.
‘In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or to-day.
‘Into many a green valley
Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
And the diver’s brilliant bow.
‘O plunge your hands in water,
Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
And wonder what you’ve missed.
‘The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.
‘Where the beggars raffle the banknotes
And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,
And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,
And Jill goes down on her back.
‘O look, look in the mirror,
O look in your distress:
Life remains a blessing
Although you cannot bless.
‘O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart.’
It was late, late in the evening,
The lovers they were gone;
The clocks had ceased their chiming,
And the deep river ran on.
May 29, 2018 June 7, 2018 Tom Shakely Community
In Bonaventure Cemetery
In John Muir’s “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf” he shares his experience “camping among the tombs” of Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery:
October 9. After going again to the express office and post office, and wandering about the streets, I found a road which led me to the Bonaventure graveyard. If that burying-ground across the Sea of Galilee, mentioned in Scripture, was half as beautiful as Bonaventure, I do not wonder that a man should dwell among the tombs. It is only three or four miles from Savannah, and is reached by a smooth white shell road.
There is but little to be seen on the way in land, water, or sky, that would lead one to hope for the glories of Bonaventure. The ragged desolate fields, on both sides of the road, are overrun with coarse rank weeds, and show scarce a trace of cultivation. But soon all is changed. Rickety log huts, broken fences, and the last patch of weedy rice-stubble are left behind. You come to beds of purple liatris and living wild-wood trees. You hear the song of birds, cross a small stream, and are with Nature in the grand old forest graveyard, so beautiful that almost any sensible person would choose to dwell here with the dead rather than with the lazy, disorderly living.
Part of the grounds was cultivated and planted with live-oak, about a hundred years ago, by a wealthy gentleman who had his country residence here. But much the greater part is undisturbed. Even those spots which are disordered by art, Nature is ever at work to reclaim, and to make them look as if the foot of man had never known them. Only a small plot of ground is occupied with graves and the old mansion is in ruins.
The most conspicuous glory of Bonaventure is its noble avenue of live-oaks. They are the most magnificent planted trees I have ever seen, about fifty feet high and perhaps three or four feet in diameter, with broad spreading leafy heads. The main branches reach out horizontally until they come together over the driveway, embowering it throughout its entire length, while each branch is adorned like a garden with ferns, flowers, grasses, and dwarf palmettos.
But of all the plants of these curious tree-gardens the most striking and characteristic is the so-called Long Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). It drapes all the branches from top to bottom, hanging in long silvery-gray skeins, reaching a length of not less than eight or ten feet, and when slowly waving in the wind they produce a solemn funereal effect singularly impressive.
There are also thousands of smaller trees and clustered bushes, covered almost from sight in the glorious brightness of their own light. The place is half surrounded by the salt marshes and islands of the river, their reeds and sedges making a delightful fringe. Many bald eagles roost among the trees along the side of the marsh. Their screams are heard every morning, joined with the noise of crows and the songs of countless warblers, hidden deep in their dwellings of leafy bowers. Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. The whole place seems like a center of life. The dead do not reign there alone.
Bonaventure to me is one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met. I was fresh from the Western prairies, the garden-like openings of Wisconsin, the beech and maple and oak woods of Indiana and Kentucky, the dark mysterious Savannah cypress forests; but never since I was allowed to walk the woods have I found so impressive a company of trees as the tillandsia-draped oaks of Bonaventure.
I gazed awe-stricken as one new-arrived from another world. Bonaventure is called a graveyard, a town of the dead, but the few graves are powerless in such a depth of life. The rippling of living waters, the song of birds, the joyous confidence of flowers, the calm, undisturbable grandeur of the oaks, mark this place of graves as one of the Lord’s most favored abodes of life and light.
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. Instead of the sympathy, the friendly union, of life and death so apparent in Nature, we are taught that death is an accident, a deplorable punishment for the oldest sin, the arch-enemy of life, etc. Town children, especially, are steeped in this death orthodoxy, for the natural beauties of death are seldom seen or taught in towns.
Of death among our own species, to say nothing of the thousand styles and modes of murder, our best memories, even among happy deaths, yield groans and tears, mingled with morbid exultation; burial companies, black in cloth and countenance; and, last of all, a black box burial in an ill-omened place, haunted by imaginary glooms and ghosts of every degree. Thus death becomes fearful, and the most notable and incredible thing heard around a death-bed is, “I fear not to die.”
But let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony.
Most of the few graves of Bonaventure are planted with flowers. There is generally a magnolia at the head, near the strictly erect marble, a rose-bush or two at the foot, and some violets and showy exotics along the sides or on the tops. All is enclosed by a black iron railing, composed of rigid bars that might have been spears or bludgeons from a battlefield in Pandemonium.
It is interesting to observe how assiduously Nature seeks to remedy these labored art blunders. She corrodes the iron and marble, and gradually levels the hill which is always heaped up, as if a sufficiently heavy quantity of clods could not be laid on the dead. Arching grasses come one by one; seeds come flying on downy wings, silent as fate, to give life’s dearest beauty for the ashes of art; and strong evergreen arms laden with ferns and tillandsia drapery are spread over all—Life at work everywhere, obliterating all memory of the confusion of man.
“Death is stingless indeed…”
May 28, 2018 May 27, 2018 Tom Shakely Life
Progress in philosophy
Agnes Callard engages with Tyler Cowen’s question, “Has there been progress in philosophy?” Here’s a bit of her response:
But if philosophical thinking is getting better and better—more precise, truthful, articulate, deep—why should we still read Aristotle or Maimonides? The reason we need to do the history of philosophy is precisely that philosophy has made massive amounts of progress in Tyler’s sense of the word: it has filtered into, shaped and organized commonsense, ordinary thought. Indeed, it constitutes much of that thought. Recently a historian of philosophy named Wolfgang Mann wrote a book called The Discovery of Things. He argues, just as the title of his book suggests, that Aristotle discovered things. It’s a bookabout the distinction between subject and predicate in Aristotle’s Categories—between what is and how it is. You may not have realized this but: someone had to come up with that! Many of the things that seem obvious to you—that human beings have basic rights, that knowledge requires justification, that modus ponens is a valid syllogistic form, that the world is filled with things—people had to come up with those ideas. And the people who came up with them were philosophers.
So you are pretty much constantly thinking thoughts that, in one way or another, you inherited from philosophers. You don’t see it, because philosophical exports are the kinds of thing that, once you internalize them, just seem like the way things are. So the reason to read Aristotle isn’t (just) that he’s a great philosopher, but that he’s colonized large parts of your mind. Not everyone is interested in learning about the history of philosophy. But if you are the kind of person who is not happy about having delegated some of your most fundamental thinking to other people; if you want to go back and retrace those steps to make sure you are on board; if you want to take full ownership of your own mind, well, in that case the history of philosophy might be for you. …
We don’t demand progress in the fields of fashion or literature, because these things please us. Philosophy, by contrast, is bitter, and we want to know what good it will do us, and when, finally, it will be over. It is not pleasant to be told that maybe you don’t know who you are, or how to treat your friends, or how to be happy. It’s not pleasant to have it pointed out to you that maybe nothing you have ever done matters, or that, for all you know, there is nothing out there at all. …
It is not the point of philosophy to end philosophy, to ‘solve’ the deep questions so that people can stop thinking about them. It is the point of people to think about these questions, and the job of philosophers to rub their faces in that fact. Of all of philosophy’s achievements, perhaps the greatest one is just sticking around in the face of the fact that, from day one, anyone who has plumbed the depths of our ambitions has either joined us or … tried to silence, stop or kill us.
“You are pretty much constantly thinking thoughts that, in one way or another, you inherited from philosophers.”
May 27, 2018 Tom Shakely Life
‘We’ve lost our engine’
Murray Lundberg’s recounting of his ill-fated July 30, 1987 flight north of Vancouver is riveting from its end to its beginning. Here’s a bit:
Finally we were passing the lights of Vancouver. All that remained were 12 minutes over the cold waters of the Gulf of Georgia, on this night an inky, threatening void. Half-way across, the tension started to ease. I switched the radio to Boundary Bay Airport frequency as the beacon guided us to safety. For the first time that night, I noticed how incredibly bright the stars were.
Disbelief was the first feeling. “I’ve gone deaf!” Then there was an overpowering, sickening feeling as the nose of the plane dipped slowly, silently, toward the blackness below.
Reminiscing now, I still don’t really understand what happened next, but I thank the patron saint of fools and pilots that it did. After a flash of terror, I became totally calm, totally focussed. This was merely another practice forced-landing, with an instructor beside me and a farmer’s field below. Fuel switches, primer, magnetos, electrical; the emergency checklist was quickly run through, but showed no reason for the engine to quit without warning. Best rate-of-glide speed, 80 mph. Check. Time to call the cavalry. “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. This is Cessna 172 Charlie Golf India Papa Papa, 10 miles west, descending through 5,000. We’ve lost our engine!”
The reaction from the control tower at Boundary Bay was the same as my first reaction; “India Papa Papa, please say again?” A restatement of my problem brought the controller’s calm night to an abrupt end. “Roger, India Papa Papa. Understood. Hang on, I’ll be away from the radio while I call Vancouver SAR (Search and Rescue Unit).”
David and his buddies had responded perfectly to my initial answer to their questions: “I don’t know what’s wrong yet! Shut up and leave me alone for a minute!” Now I gave them what little information I could, all the while flipping switches, adjusting speed and descent rates, resetting anything that might have any vague chance of helping our desperate situation. “Can you get it restarted?” “No.” “Are we going to make it to the airport?” “No.” “Will we make it to the shore?” “I don’t know yet. Maybe.” “Shall we start throwing out the luggage?” “That only works in the movies. Don’t bother.” West Coast fishermen are a hardy breed, and their calm over the next few minutes would help save their lives. “How long can we stay up?” “About 4 minutes now.”
I wonder if electric planes will reduce the risk of engine failure.
May 26, 2018 May 26, 2018 Tom Shakely Causes
Pursuing what seems good
Ireland has voted to repeal the 8th Amendment to its constitution, which was passed in September 1983 to strengthen its existing law to “recognise the equal right to life of the mother and the unborn.” The specific language:
The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.
In practice, this amendment was designed to ensure that the principle of equality of human life was recognized at the highest level, and wouldn’t be threatened by judicial or legislative actions. In practice, this meant abortion was permitted only in situations where a mother’s life was in jeopardy. The language above recognizing basic equality passed in 1983 with 67 percent of the vote, and the rejection of basic equality just passed with what looks like 67 percent of the vote. The Save the 8th campaigners on the referendum result:
The 8th amendment did not create a right to life for the unborn child—it merely acknowledged that such a right exists, has always existed, and will always exist.
What Irish voters did yesterday is a tragedy of historic proportions. However, a wrong does not become right simply because a majority support it.
We are so proud of all of those who stood with us in this campaign—our supporters, our donors, our families, and our loved ones. This campaign took a huge personal toll on all of us who were involved, and we have been so grateful for their support.
The unborn child no longer has a right to life recognised by the Irish state. Shortly, legislation will be introduced that will allow babies to be killed in our country. We will oppose that legislation. If and when abortion clinics are opened in Ireland, because of the inability of the Government to keep their promise about a GP led service, we will oppose that as well. Every time an unborn child has his or her life ended in Ireland, we will oppose that, and make our voices known.
Abortion was wrong yesterday. It remains wrong today. The constitution has changed, but the facts have not.
We naturally pursue what we believe is the good, so Ireland’s swing on this particular issue in the space of a quarter century, as it related to what its people define as “the good”, is incredible. It suggests, to me, a continuing triumph of a particular sort of libertarianism, and probably continuing problems in Western nations as people try to sort out whether justice is ultimately a contingent and relative thing, or whether any universal or natural justice exists that reason and law should endorse.
Stone and glass
Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church sits just across the street from the Marriott Marquis, where yesterday’s National Catholic Prayer Breakfast took place. The contrast between old and new Washington could hardly be better captured than in these scenes:
National Catholic Prayer Breakfast
I attended the 2018 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast this morning. In its 14th year, it features a few notable speakers each year and is modeled to some degree after the National Prayer Breakfast. An incredibly well-run breakfast that ended exactly one minute before it was scheduled to conclude, it was tough to be disappointed. Held at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Washington, across the street from Cato Institute. Speakers this year: Speaker Paul Ryan, Ambassador Sam Brownback, and Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City.
Afterwards I stopped in for the first session of National Review Institute’s Forum on Foster Care, led by Kathryn Jean Lopez:
Over the past four years there has been a spike in the number of children entering in to foster care. The need for partnership and a renewed sense of urgency is critical – particularly when it comes to faith-based communities. In order to shine a light on these needs, National Review Institute will assemble leaders in faith, government, and policy communities to raise awareness, identify some of the key challenges, establish new relationships, and highlight resources and solutions.
What I heard was powerful and personal witness from a panel featuring Charmaine Yoest, Randy Hicks, Natalie Goodnow, and Lisa Ann Wheeler. Their panel name was “The Urgency of Faith Based Leadership in Foster Care and Adoption,” but in practice it was a compelling set of testimonies on the experiences and benefits of fostering.
After that session I had to step out and get to Union Station to get back to Philadelphia.
Logan Circle, spring view
It’s been a while since I shared a view from the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network office above Logan Circle. We’re 11 stories up, but it doesn’t quite look like that. Beautiful spring day, heading to Washington later this morning for tomorrow’s National Catholic Prayer Breakfast and tonight’s pre-breakfast reception.
Leisure as activity undertaken for its own sake
Gracy Olmstead on properly understanding leisure:
As Elizabeth Bruenig recently wrote for the Washington Post, “There’s a balance to be struck where it comes to work and rest, but in the United States, values and laws are already slanted drastically in favor of work.” …
But ancient philosophers argued that the good life involved leisure: periods of contemplation and celebration set apart from—or perhaps, more correctly, superseding—“the daily grind.” As Aristotle put it: “The first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.” It’s hard to imagine someone arguing in America today that leisure is better than work. For the average U.S. worker—even if only on a subconscious level—leisure is seen not as the end of occupation but rather as its drudge: its job is to refresh us just enough to enable our return to work. Rest, in America, facilitates more busyness. And if the ancient philosophers were right, this means we’ve mixed up our means and ends.
It’s important to note, however, that our “work” and “leisure” are both profoundly different than the types of occupation and rest that the ancients would have experienced. Plato did not sit in a cubicle for forty hours a week, responding to emails and attending meetings. Aristotle could not have imagined an era in which people sat on subways and in cars for hours on end to commute to and from their work space. In their time, work was most often manual and headquartered in one’s own home or neighborhood: tradesmen, farmers, and laborers spent their time handling physical tools, creating and selling physical goods, interacting in real time with real people.
In addition, “leisure” as the ancients defined it would never have encompassed today’s consumptive and passive forms of recreation and respite. Whereas we spend our downtime watching Netflix shows or scrolling through our Facebook feeds, the ancients’ word for “leisure” was the Greek word σχολή, from which we get our word “school.” As Roger Kimball writes in his New Criterion article “Josef Pieper: Leisure and Its Discontents,” the ancients’ conception of leisure was “not idleness, but activity undertaken for its own sake: philosophy, aesthetic delectation, and religious worship are models.”
What’s more, true leisure required virtue, according to Aristotle: we are only free to pursue the good life and the bounties of contemplation when we are unshackled from the slavish desires of the flesh. Plato, similarly, compared man’s threefold self—mind, spirit, and flesh—to a man skillfully driving a chariot, keeping his horses in check. If the man cannot tame his inner self, he cannot live virtuously.
Leisure shouldn’t be escapism from the professional world, or from the responsibilities of your everyday life, in other words. It can, rather, be a means of discovering the inner stillness that allows for contemplation, for true togetherness with friends, for the mental or physical or emotional or whatever space necessary to hear the inner voice of conscience that answers deep questions with which one might be wrestling, etc. To the extent that leisure is just frivolity, it makes sense to avoid it and simpler work more. But it can be more than that.
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